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Twins rally to force extras before falling short
Burton allows decisive homer after replay-aided ninth-inning rally
MINNEAPOLIS -- It was a wild finish that saw the Twins rally for two runs in the ninth inning aided by two critical replay reviews to send the game to extra innings, and both dugouts clearing in the 10th, but it ultimately ended in heartbreak for the Twins in the 11th.
The Twins had a chance to win the game in the ninth but had to settle with going to extra innings, where reliever Jared Burton eventually served up a three-run homer to Derek Norris in the 11th to hand Minnesota a 7-4 loss to the A's on Wednesday afternoon at Target Field.
Burton gave up a leadoff walk to Daric Barton and a single to Alberto Callaspo before surrendering the go-ahead homer to Norris on a 2-1 changeup. The Twins loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the 11th, but Trevor Plouffe lined out to third base to end the game.
"We finally had the chance to put a couple across and win the game in the ninth, which was pretty fun, but then we gave up the big three-run home run," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "But they competed, and got after it pretty doggone good."
Norris' go-ahead blast came after A's closer Jim Johnson gave up two runs in the ninth. It started when he gave up a leadoff single to Jason Kubel before walking Kurt Suzuki, and he got his only out on a failed bunt attempt from Chris Herrmann.
Aaron Hicks followed with a walk to load the bases with one out before Eduardo Escobar dropped in a bloop single to left field to bring home a run. The play was reviewed to see if Suzuki was safe at third as originally ruled, and the play would stand as called.
Johnson was then removed from the game in favor of right-hander Dan Otero, who gave up a sacrifice fly to Brian Dozier to tie the game. Suzuki barely beat the throw home from Josh Reddick, as confirmed by the second replay of the inning.
"He extended the game with two nice slides," Gardenhire said. "He made a nice slide at home, and at third base I don't know what happened there. A big replay. So an interesting trip around the bases. He scored the tying run, but I wish we would've scored the winning run."
Extra innings also saw both benches clear in the 10th after closer Glen Perkins struck out Josh Donaldson to end the inning. Perkins and Donaldson exchanged words after the strikeout, but the incident on the field didn't last long and no ejections were issued.
"There's no disrespect to him, but things happen," Perkins said. "We both could've handled the situation differently, so we'll leave it at that. I talked to him, and then as I was walking away, he yelled, and then the benches cleared. I don't think it got too rowdy."
Right-hander Phil Hughes avoided the loss with the late rally, as he had a rough first inning before settling down in his first start at Target Field since joining the Twins on a three-year, $24 million this offseason.
He walked the first two batters he faced before giving up an RBI double to Donaldson. Brandon Moss followed with a two-run single to left field before scoring on a double from Yoenis Cespedes down the left-field line. Callaspo then laced an RBI single on Hughes' 36th pitch of the inning to give Oakland an early four-run lead.
Hughes didn't record his first out until his 40th pitch of the inning, as he struck out John Jaso on four pitches before getting Reddick to ground into an inning-ending double play.
He got into a groove after the first, allowing just one hit the rest of the way before being removed for left-hander Caleb Thielbar in the sixth inning.
"It was a combination of those jitters and overthrowing and not finding the strike zone," said Hughes, who gave up four runs on five hits over five innings. "I walked the first two guys and from there it kind of unraveled for me. I didn't get the first out until 40 pitches in so it's a tough place to put our hitters."
The Twins were shut down in the early going by right-hander Jesse Chavez, who surrendered just one run on six hits and no walks with nine strikeouts over seven innings. Minnesota scored its lone run against Chavez in the second on a solo shot to right field from Kubel. It was the first homer of the year for Kubel, who tied a career high with four hits.
The Twins scored against reliever Sean Doolittle in the eighth on a solo homer from Dozier to set the stage for their two-run rally in the ninth against Johnson. But the Twins couldn't scratch across another run in the ninth, and Norris' homer ultimately did them in.
"That would've been a real tough one to lose," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "But to be able to come back after a dramatic swing in the ninth inning and keep our wits about us and get some good at-bats was big."
But Perkins said he was proud of his teammates for nearly staging the comeback, and showing passion during the on-field incident.
"I think we need to fight -- we fought back in the game and could've won the game but didn't," Perkins said. "Part of that is just trying to fire up the team and get that going. We need that around here. Some energy and some fight."


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MACON, Ga. (Nov. 21, 2008) - The ETSU volleyball team saw its season come to end Friday night as they were swept by top seeded Lipscomb in the semifinals of the Atlantic Sun tournament at the University Center in Macon, Ga., 3-0 (21-25, 15-25, 22-25).
"Regardless of the outcome we should all be very proud of ourselves," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "We followed our game plan, but when we needed a couple points we came up empty. For us to be able to push through we needed to get those points. It's exciting though because we have the potential to be back here again next year."
The Bucs (12-20, 7-13 A-Sun) were led offensively by Desiree Dyck (Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan) as she totaled ten kills hitting .381 (10-2-21) in the match.
Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) collected 27 assists as she quarterbacked the ETSU attack, while freshman Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) had 17 digs on the night.
"Despite being a young team, we have made great strides." Devine said. "I know as a coaching staff we have really enjoyed working with these girls."
In the first set, the Bisons jumped out to a 6-3 lead, but the Bucs pulled off five straight points to take an 8-6 lead. Lipscomb answered with a 7-3 run to retake the lead 13-11. Play was back and forth until the Bisons extended their advantage to 22-17. ETSU cut the lead to 22-21 after taking four straight points, but Lipscomb was able to hold on to win the set, 25-21.
ETSU came out flat in the second set as the Bisons quickly got out to a 7-1 advantage. The Bucs were able to hang around until Lipscomb went on a 6-2 run to go ahead 20-10. The Bisons took the second set 25-15 and held a 2-0 lead going into the break.
Play was even for much of the third set. With Lipscomb up 15-13, the Bucs went on a 6-1 run to take a 19-16 lead. The Bisons again answered with an 8-2 run on their own to jump back in front 24-21. The match ended on an ETSU attack error to make the final 25-22.
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WBU trustees approve Amarillo property, annual audit
SAN ANTONIO - At their last meeting of the year, trustees for Wayland Baptist University gave formal approval for financing of new property in Amarillo and approved the annual audit report. The board also heard reports of positive trends across the university system.
The meeting was held in San Antonio, where trustees toured the San Antonio campus facility dedicated just three years ago. An update on the campus was also a highlight of the meeting.
Remodeling work is now underway for the new Amarillo campus, which will be relocated to the property on Canyon Drive, off Interstate 27, formerly a Luby's Cafeteria. The signage is already completed on the property and officials said the campus hopes to be completely moved into the facility in the spring. The 12,153-square-foot property will bring added visibility to Wayland's campus in Amarillo and provide needed classroom and parking space.
The board also approved the university's annual audit, brought in a report by Becky Robert of Davis, Kinard and Co. of Abilene. The audit reported increased investments and net assets and a clean report of financial statements.
A report from the enrollment management committee pointed out several positive figures for the university, including an increase in system enrollment and credit hours, and in Plainview, a 13 percent increase in the freshman class, a high 70 percent retention rate and increases in transfer students, incoming students and Pioneer Scholars, students receiving scholarships based on their scores on college entrance exams.
Highlights from the last academic year from the athletics department were also spotlighted, including the university receiving recognition from the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for being ranked 30 th nationwide due to achievements of its sporting teams.
Dr. Jim Antenen, dean of the San Antonio campus, gave a brief update on the campus, which continues to grow in enrollment and programs offered. The campus enjoyed a 4.8 percent enrollment hike this fall over 2002 and is offering classes at three military installations in the city. Educational partnerships are currently in the works with several other entities.
The campus will soon be embarking on several new programs aimed at meeting educational and skills needs in the San Antonio area and career placement for its graduates. Recruiting, awareness and fundraising efforts continue for the campus as it anticipates continued growth.
In his president's report, Dr. Paul Armes related excitement at seeing the great successes at all of Wayland's campuses, especially in terms of reaching those communities for Christ.
"Everywhere I go in the Wayland system, I meet people who have met Jesus in the Wayland campuses," Armes said. "I have not been to a graduation ceremony that I have not been told by someone, 'I found a new life in Christ at Wayland.' I think we are one of the strongest mission outreach endeavors."
In final business, the board elected new officers with terms beginning immediately. Bruce Julian of Perryton was elected chairman of the board, with Dr. Vernon Stokes of Midland elected vice chairman. Sally Shaw of Lockney and Connie McMillian of Lubbock were elected to additional terms as secretary and assistant secretary, respectively.
Julian has served on the board since 1998 and has been vice chairman of the board and a member of the program committee. Stokes has served since 1997 and serves on the finance and program committees.
Armes expressed thanks to outgoing board members, presenting plaques for their service. Those honored included Delbert McDougal of Lubbock, outgoing board chairman who served for the past two years; Thelma Evans of Dallas; and Jack Hathaway of Wichita Falls. McDougal and Hathaway have served since 1994; Evans began serving in 1997.
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When your surgery is over you will stop getting the sleep medicine and you will be moved on a bed with wheels to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. We call it the PACU or sometimes the recovery room. You will begin to wake up and a recovery room nurse will be taking care of you. The nurse will check your temperature, heart, breathing, and blood pressure. You will feel sleepy and maybe a little dizzy. Tell your nurse if anything hurts. Your nurse can give you medicine to help you feel better.
You will probably sleep most of the time while you are in the recovery room. You will not feel like eating or drinking right away. You may have an IV and get fluids and medicine through it. Your family can join you when you are ready to leave this area.
You will then be taken to a room where you will stay until you go home. A nurse will again check your temperature, heart, breathing, and blood pressure and ask you if you are having any pain (We use something called the pain scale). When you feel ready to drink you may have some ice chips, Popsicles, or clear liquids. Tell the nurse how you feel.
You may feel like watching TV or a movie or you may just want to sleep. If you are spending one or more nights, your parents can stay with you.
When you are ready to go home your doctor and nurse will give you instructions about what to eat, what you can do, and medicines you need to help you feel better.


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I know it seems strange, but I've become a "flasher" for breast cancer. Almost every day, each place I go; the gym, a women's restroom, friend's home, clothing store, I disrobe for people I would not normally strip for. I want them to see my new nipples and flat tummy. I know, I know, it's odd. But hear me out. I just want to tell women that if you know someone who has breast cancer or are afraid of getting it yourself, you can have a double mastectomy and still have amazing breasts (made from your stomach), a flat tummy and relatively normal-looking nipples!
In fact, I took it too far the other evening when having dinner (in a private home of a close friend). And when someone asked to see my results six weeks post-op, I flipped off my top before it was even possible for my other friend to tell me that she didn't even like to look at mosquito bites. "There isn't even any blood," I laughed. "And your dad is an OB/GYN!" I didn't know she was surgery-viewing averse.
Plus, I want to promote my amazing surgeons, Dr. Jane Kakkis and Dr. Mark Kobayashi. I want everyone who has to go through this disease to know that it's possible to get excellent care, be happy with your results and have doctors treat you like they would their own family. In fact, I undress for "real" strangers most often at the doctor's office. It seems that every time I am there, a newly diagnosed woman is waiting in the lobby to hear her horrible fate. And the doctor and nurse come in and ask if I would show a woman my new breasts. Of course, I always say okay, but the last woman asked to touch them! I was even proud to do that. My reconstruction feels like real tissue and real breasts - it's warm like normal skin, and I have grown into my humpty dumpty body so well that it feels like it has always been this way - okay, that might be an exaggeration!
It's funny because going back six years ago, I wouldn't even let anyone see my head without my wig when I lost all my hair to chemotherapy (even close friends and family), yet I have no qualms about people seeing my reconstructed breasts.
I guess what this is really about is demanding (or asking politely) for excellent medical care and getting it. It would be my wish that for everyone who wanted or needed it, medical care would at least meet some very high standards, or in my case, exceed it in every way. Thanks to all of you who read this and especially to all of you who have cared for me in one way or another through this ordeal.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Hawaii Cheese Dishes
Ooey, Gooey Cheese: It stretches, it bubbles, it tantalizes you with warm, salty flavors. You know you can't deny yourself the melting goodness of cheese. We found the 18 most irresistible cheese dishes in town. Here's where to indulge.
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By Devany Vickery-Davidson, Lois Ann Ell, John Heckathorn, Tiffany Hill, Christine Hitt, Michael Keany, Kathryn Drury Wagner and Shannon Wianecki
An ooey gooey cheese dish at a Japanese restaurant? While it's a rarity, look no further than Shokudo for its mouthwatering Mochi Cheese Gratin ($7.45). Bite-size mochi cubes are enveloped in mozzarella—lightly browned in the oven—and bathed in a light soy dashi broth. The dish is topped with green onion and nori. "This is one of my favorites—enjoy," said the server as he placed the dish before us. We couldn't agree more: It's hard to tell where the mozzarella begins and the mochi ends. Ala Moana Pacific Center, 1585 Kapiolani Blvd., 941-3701, shokudojapanese.com.
BLT Steak
The name says it all: beer-battered blue cheese-stuffed olives. These treats from the BLT Steak cocktail lounge are served warm and triple tangy. There's the crunchy beer batter on the outside, the bite of big Spanish green olives, and the earthy undertones of the oozy, melted blue cheese. To top it all off, you can dip them in a spicy aioli. A generous portion is only $5 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. daily. Move over, fried mozzarella sticks, the world's greatest cheesy bar snack has arrived. Inside the Trump International Hotel Waikiki, 223 Saratoga Road, 683-7440.
Rumfire has taken the basic quesadilla and upgraded it, local-style. Its seared kalua pulled-pork quesadilla ($12) begins with an improbable amount of kalua pork shoulder, smothered in a generous portion of pepper jack cheese, topped off with caramelized onions and jalapeños, and then toasted until it's crusty on the outside and melty inside. Rumfire serves this with barbecue sauce, a fresh tomato salsa and fresh guacamole. If you're sharing with others, we recommend getting the jump on your friends by skipping the first two toppings and just piling your slices with guac. The pork, warm pepper jack and creamy avocado combination makes for a heavenly mouthful. Inside the Sheraton Waikiki, 2255 Kalakaua Ave., 922-4422, rumfirewaikiki.com.
It's in the appetizer portion of the menu, but Mariposa's Blue Crab Grilled Cheese Stack ($12) is such a generous serving, you could make a light meal out of it. Big hunks of sweet crab marry well with the creamy, melted cheese, and a side dish of spinach-and-artichoke mustard, almost hummuslike in consistency, only adds to the sophistication. Should you feel bad enjoying such a rich, creamy dish, the petite pile of salad greens can assuage your guilt. Inside of Neiman Marcus, 1450 Ala Moana Blvd., 951-3420, neimanmarcushawaii.com.
Formaggio Wine Bar
It was a wet, chilly night when we ducked into Formaggio, but we weren't shivering for long—the classic French onion soup gratinée ($7.99) we ordered arrived at the table looking like a little bubbling cauldron, literally covered with Gruyere cheese. This is wonderfully comforting stuff—one of the best onion soups we've tasted, and the rich broth keeps the cheese melty until the last bite. At our server's suggestion, we paired the gratinée with a glass of 2007 Bodega Lurton pinot gris from Argentina, and, by the time we scraped the last of the cheese from the dish, we didn't care if it rained all night. 2919 Kapiolani Blvd., 739-7719, formaggio808.com.


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I'm Raising A Vegan Baby!
I've been vegan for 13 years (my veganversary is this April, so hold off on buying me congratulatory Go Max Go candy bars… Actually, you can go ahead and send 'em my way!). 😉 Every time I've gotten my blood work done at the dr's office (every few years out of curiosity), I've had normal/awesome results (including B12, vitamin D, iron levels, etc.). I don't mean to toot my own horn, but being vegan has made me a healthy, foin thang without even trying. I seldom take vitamins (I took prenatals while pregs, though), because I know I'm eating wholesome, nutrient-rich foods daily (everything I eat is plant-based). Ironically, many people who wonder how I can even survive on a vegan diet, are ones who frequent fast-food joints and drink soda like it's candy.
I became a mama in July, to a healthy, beautiful, vegan (since conception) baby boy. Again, not to toot my own horn… Actually to toot is quite loudly TOOT TOOT!, I had a super chill, amazing, healthy home birth. I can't help but attribute my wonderful birthing experience, in part, to my being a long-time vegan.
Honey BooBoo is now almost 8 months and is still exclusively breastfed, but not for long. I've already decided his first grub is gonna be a delicious, ripe, organic avocado (I may even use the leftovers for a face mask – we shall see). 😉
Will I ever introduce mushy meaty baby food into my babe's culinary repertoire? Hells to the no times infinity +4! Here's why:
- Meat = murder (I think Morrissey would agree). I wanna take my little man to Farm Sanctuary so he can actually meet cows, pigs, and chickens. I want him to connect with animals and realize they are sentient beings like us.
- Meat contains cholesterol. I don't want my munchkin man consuming bad cholesterol. Duh, right?
- Meat often contains antibiotics, hormones, heavy metals, ammonia, etc. Nn nn, not feeding those to Big D!
- Meat can expose children to nasty, harmful bacteria (e.g. E. coli, listeria, campylobacter, etc.). 😮
- A plant-based diet will help ward off future obesity. It's not like there are vegan fast-food joints everywhere serving up fried nasties. Mah boy's gonna love his greens, I know it!
- Eating meat is bad for the environment. ←Clickity clack!
Are you raising a vegan baby? Are you thinking about going vegan for your pregnancy? Please share your thoughts! xx
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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I came a cross this page while I was looking for any information about conceiving a boy while being vegan.
I recently was diagnosed with arthritis. And I choose the diet option over the medication. However, the diet eliminates all kinds of animal protein including eggs, milk, and cheese. It was so hard for me at the beginning to stick to it. Now I'm having more acceptance of my new life style, especially that i feel healthier, and lighter
I just used to have this notion that a vegan woman will never be able to conceive a boy, because I had a relative who ended up having seven girls in hopes to have a boy. the only connection I made was that she was a vegan. and may be it had to do with it.
And Indian women also are the best example at conceiving more girls due to their religious prohibition of meat consumption.
I don't know how scientific these statements are, all I want is to conceive a boy before I turn 35. I know its crazy, its just a cultural notion that runs in my society.
I'm just wondering what kind of food u used to eat before pregnancy, and if u timed the ovulation or not.
Did u use any b12 supplements a few months before pregnancy?
did u eat a lot of proteins daily?
what was the food u ate the most?
please, answer my questions
i have two super duper healthy vegan babies, age 2 and 4. they love being vegan! my four-year-old tells everyone he is vegan and asks if foods are vegan when anyone offers him anything! my oldest, who is 10 was vegan since conception, but has since decided to be vegetarian while at his dad's.
we actually just booked a cabin at the new york farm sanctuary for early may! the kids are going to love it!
Love this post! I am a vegan mama to 2 adorable kids – both vegan since conception, both born at home! Awesome that there are so many of us out there!
Hey Sunny! We love this post. If you or any of your friends who are raising vegan kids are looking for advice, recipes, nutrition information, and more.. check out myvegankid.com. It's still a work in progress, but we would love your feedback, input and if you would like to do a guest post that would be amazing! Thanks!
http://shazzie.com/life/articles/raw_vegan_children.shtml. I just wanted to share with you this article I read a while ago by a long time vegan mum, to me it seemed extremely important information.
Sunny, I love your attitude and energy! You baby is too cute. You used to have a facebook personal profile. Are you not there anymore? My question is regarding vaccination for your baby. Have you gotten all vaccination for your kid? I am expecting and I want to learn more about that. Also encapsulation of placenta. Did you do that? Just wondering. Any tips will be helpful!! Thanks!
I am in no way trying to tell you how to be a mom because you seem rad and I love that you are vegan, but please be a smart vegan and make sure your baby is getting his b12 and other nutrients amino acids vitamins etc from specific diets that he needs since he will not be eating meat! 🙂 <3 I'm sure you know of all of this hopefully !!!
Go you!! You are such an inspiration to vegan women like me who hope to someday be a mom! So many times I've heard stories of vegan women sacrificing their beliefs/values for what they believe to be for the sake of their health and their baby's health. I have always hoped I wouldn't end up in that category of women, and it's stories like yours that assure me I won't have to be.
I'm glad to see vegans having such excellent results (chill home birth, rarely get sick), but I've been vegan for going on 7 years and I had to get an emergency c-section. I'm really glad I didn't opt for a home birth, because my baby's heart rate dropped with every push. I went through dilating to the full 10 and felt every bit of it! When they gave me the spinal for numbing the c-section it didn't work on me and I had to be put under… So, despite being vegan my baby would have been at risk if I attempted a home birth. If I was against medical intervention my life would have been at risk, as well (I admire women who give birth med-free, but no way could I get major abdominal surgery without meds!). You are very lucky but I don't think it does us vegans any favors to attribute your fortune to veganism, because people who try going vegan because they are sick might not get better and give it up 🙁 That said, my baby is also vegan and exclusively breastfed for now, too. We all do our best 🙂 PS your vegan baby is extremely cute 😀
My daughter wasn't vegan from birth, but we are moving that way now that she's a preschooler. I was only vegetarian when I became pregnant with my daughter. My husband and I switched to a vegan diet after her birth, and we've moved to things like coconut yogurt, hummus for cheese, etc. Avocado is a hit, as is nutritional yeast (she was already eating those things, but those are her favorites). She calls nooch her "special cheese" and loves it on spaghetti or popcorn. The biggest hurdle for us is her preschool. They were really resistant to our packing a separate lunch for her because the other kids wanted what she was eating, not the burgers/fries/quesadillas that her preschool served for lunch.
I know that baby. He is the best dang baby you will ever meet. He is so happy! And I know Sunny. She ain't too bad either.
Sunny-on the rilla-you don't take a B12?
Aw I love this! My (non-vegan) sister asked me if I would quit veganism once if/when I became pregnant and I was like no way Jose! I've gotten much healthier in my three vegan years and I can't imagine anything else for my future kidlets.
Your baby is so adorable! I have two kids, three-and-a-half and 19 months. I became vegan shortly after my son was born (during my pregnancy I ate a little meat, but I've never had much of a taste for it). Both kids are vegan and super-duper healthy. They seem to get sick about a tenth as often as other kids. My older one understands what it means to be vegan and is really enthusiastic about it. He loves what we eat, and when we go to parties, he looks at the junkfood and animals products and tells me how gross they are! The younger one LOVES animals and I think she'll be thrilled about her veganism when she's old enough to understand it, too. My kids know more about nutrition than most adults!


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While these are not re-issues, Mattel did a superb job in bringing that old style of "The World's Greatest Superheroes" back in an updated fashion. It's, how they say... good old-fashioned fun.


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2012 William E. Cedar Memorial Lighted Boat Parade, St. Clair, MI
This annual event never ceases to amaze me and everyone else that attends. It's so much fun and then after the parade down Pine River, there is a wonderful bomb fire, music and lots of food & libations. Thank you for an exciting time.Read More


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VSDIF 126.96.36.199 Makes It Easier To Automatically Select Duplicate Photos
VSDIF is the number one choice for a tool that finds similar and duplicate images for most professional photographers. The multiple scan modes, duplicate photo auto-check, filtering options and settings make it flexible enough to fit even the most specific tasks. Of course the precision of the results provided by Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder makes it stand out from the crowd and is the most important reason why it is the favorite choice of those who want to keep an organized photo collection.
The key new features and fixes in this release include:
New Features In Duplicate Photo List
There are two new menu items in the duplicate image list – "Remove from list" and "Remove group from list". These options are extremely useful while working with large results list in order to remove items and groups that are already processed. The "Delete" menu shortcut is now also updated accordingly and is now assigned the Shift+Del shortcut and the "Remove from list" feature now uses the Del key.
New Auto-check Method For Selecting Duplicate Images
There is a new auto-check selection method based on file name length – "Images with longer file names". This feature is very useful as copied files usually have "copy (x) of" appended by Windows Explorer automatically to their file names. Also edited files usually are stored with some letter or number appended to the file name as "Logo.jpg", "Logo 1.jpg", "Logo 1a.jpg", "Logo new.jpg" and so on.
Duplicate Photo Finder Fixes And Improvements
Some minor fixes and improvements are also included in this release. The multiple images preview wasn't updated with the first found group after the scan was complete. On some systems where the small icon size is different than 16×16 the shell associated icons in the results grid were not loaded properly.
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Another day, another preseason watch list.
Today's watch list is for the Jim Thorpe Award, given annually to college football's best defensive back. There are 48 DBs on this year's preseason watch list spanning all 10 FBS conferences. The Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 lead all leagues with eight representatives, followed by the Mountain West with five.
The list is not considered final and players not on the preseason watch list can be added throughout the year.
Last year's winner was Johnthan Banks of Mississippi State.
As always, you can view the entire list of preseason candidates below. You can now also check out our preseason watch lists repository HERE.
Kenneth Acker, Southern Methodist (CB), Sr.
Ricardo Allen, Purdue (CB), Sr.
Dion Bailey, Southern California (S), Sr.
C.J. Barnett, Ohio State (S), Sr.
Bene Benwikere, San Jose State (S), Sr.
Nat Berhe, San Diego State (S), Sr.
Tre Boston, North Carolina (S), Sr.
Christian Bryant, Ohio State (S), Sr.
Deone Bucannon, Washington State (S), Sr.
Kevin Byard, Middle Tennessee State (S), So.
Carrington Byndom, Texas (CB), Sr.
Ibraheim Campbell, Northwestern (S), Jr.
Sam Carter, Texas Christian (S), Jr.
HaHa Clinton-Dix, Alabama (S), Jr.
Ross Cockrell, Duke (CB), Sr.
Aaron Colvin, Oklahoma (S), Sr.
Alden Darby, Arizona State (S), Sr.
Darqueze Dennard, Michigan State (CB), Sr.
Quandre Diggs, Texas (CB), Jr.
Ahmad Dixon, Baylor (S), Sr.
Jonathan Dowling, Western Kentucky (S), Jr.
Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Oregon (CB), Jr.
Ciante Evans, Nebraska (CB), Sr.
Antone Exum, Virginia Tech (CB), Sr.
Phillip Gaines, Rice (CB), Sr.
Andre Hal, Vanderbilt (S), Sr.
Najja Johnson, Buffalo (S), Sr.
L. J. Jones, Fresno State (S), Sr.
Lamarcus Joyner, Florida State (CB), Sr.
Isaiah Lewis , Michigan State (S), Sr.
Craig Loston, Louisiana State (S), Sr.
Daytawion Lowe, Oklahoma State (S), Sr.
Terrance Mitchell, Oregon (S), Jr.
Marco Nelson, Tulsa (S), Sr.
Isaiah Newsome, Louisiana at Monroe (S), Sr.
Dayonne Nunley, Miami, OH (CB), Sr.
Calvin Pryor, Louisville (S), Jr.
Ed Reynolds, Stanford (S), Sr.
Rashaad Reynolds, Oregon State (CB), Sr.
Jordan Richards, Stanford (S), Jr.
Bradley Roby, Ohio State (CB), Jr.
Derron Smith, Fresno State (S), Jr.
Hakeem Smith, Louisville (S), Sr.
Damian Swann, Georgia (CB), Jr.
Jason Verrett Texas Christian (CB), Sr.
Jimmie Ward, Northern Illinois (S), Sr.
Deron Wilson, Southern Mississippi (S), Sr.
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This species ruled in the Permian Period – the time just before dinosaurs showed up that ended with history's most massive known extinction. Discoveries from this period help answer the question "Where did dinosaurs come from?"
Dimetrodon were 7 to 14 feet long, weighed up to 600 pounds and had 4-foot tall fins on their backs. According to Dr. Bakker, you would not want to meet one in a dark alley – "If they were alive, they would look upon you as a food item."
(c) Robert T. Bakker
Fearsome they may be, but few extinct species are as important than Dimetrodon – its existence represents a key step in earth history. Dimetrodon dominated its world, the largest meat-eater that had ever evolved up to the time. It was strong enough to kill any other land animal.
When Dimetrodon ruled, lizards hadn't evolved yet, nor turtles, nor snakes. There weren't any crocodiles, gators, frogs, salamanders, or even flowers. The only plants around were ferns, horsetails or other primitive conifer with dull green leaves.
Dimetrodon femur found by the team in Seymour, TX. Additional objects present for scale.
In fact, it's so old that Dimetrodon has a special spot in human evolution. The Texas Finback is located very close to the base of the mammalian family tree that includes all 'possums, dogs, and cats, monkeys, apes and humans. So…you can put a portrait of the Texas Finback up on the mantel, next to Grandma and Grandpa.
This plaster jacket covers and protects an associated Dimetrodon skeleton found by the team in Seymour, TX. It has since been removed from the site and taken to the Museum for study.


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Twitter is a real addicting service and I have been using it in and out for quite some time.
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There are various ways in which you can update your status on twitter, but the best I think is updating it directly from the desktop.
If you have not been using a twitter desktop client or are looking for various alternatives, here is the ultimate list of twitter clients which will make updating your status much more easier.
My current favorite, Tweetdeck is a Adobe Air application that has tons of features and is probably one of the best twitter applicaiton you can find.
Thwirl is a Adobe Air application that allows you to update your status from the desktop.
Digsby is a multiprotocol IM tool which provides you with twitter support.
TwitterIM is a solution for MSN and ICQ users. It allows you to update your twitter using MSN or ICQ messengers. Our Review.
Witty is a twitter client made for Windows Vista. Our Review.
OutTwit is a twitter client for Microsoft Outlook, you can directly update your status from within Outlook. Our Review.
Twesseneer is a twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger.
Twadget is a Vista Sidebar Gadget for twitter.
Firefox extension that notifies you about your friends statuses in twitter.
Spaz is a open source desktop twitter client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Twitter Websites
There are lots of websites that help you do different things with your twitter account. You can schedule your twits or turn it into a feed, she what people are linking to and more with them.
Check out the list of websites that you can use with your twitter account.
TwitResponse allows you to schedule your tweets for the future. Our Review.
TweetLater allows you to schedule your tweets for the future.
TwitterBuzz is a website which aggregates content from twitter and shows you what users are linking to.
TwitterFeed allows you to post your blog posts as tweets to twitter over a specified interval of time.
Twitterholic shows you the top 100 users based on the followers they have.
Twittersearch allows you to search tweets.
TwitThis is a service which allows you to add buttons to your website for users to tweet your blog posts.
Twittervision provides you with a real-time geographic visualization of posts made to twitter.
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Why in the world is that Dezman Moses guy not out there. Brad Jones had one super easy sack early on and has been atrocious ever since. I don't care if OLB is not Moses' natural position (not sure what it is), but he can't be worse than Brad Jones.
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For some reason, I have two accounts with Friendster. Oh I know, I forgot the first, made the second, remembered the first, and neglected them both. In any event, I have now made friends with myself (pause) (reflect) (snicker) and decided to get a joint horoscope. This is what it said:
You and Jelani have smooth sailing ahead.
In great orchestras, every musician knows their part and how it contributes to the overall sound. Even if you're not a virtuoso violist and your friend can barely tap out a tune, you'd both do well to take heed of this example right now. The two of you are indispensable players when it comes to something that has important meaning in your lives. The trick is to figure out how exactly you can maximize the beautiful impact you will have without tooting your own horns.
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From this page you can get to references for traffic studies, other ODOT traffic engineering sites and answers to frequently asked questions. There is also some general information about traffic studies in District One of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) including contact information. There is also contact information for the other ODOT Districts.
District One Planning does many studies in this area. Many traffic studies are done at the request of people and agencies outside of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT). Other studies are done due to an ODOT determined need. Traffic studies are made for intersections and non-intersection roadway segments to determine what if any improvements should be made to improve safety and the operation of the road. The need for traffic signals and speed zones are also determined by studies in this area. Various other types of traffic studies, such as for traffic management in work zones, are also performed.
Kylie SiebeneckODOT District 11885 N. McCullough StreetLima, Ohio 45801Email: firstname.lastname@example.com: (419) 999-6885
District One of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) covers Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and Wyandot counties in northwest Ohio.
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Welcome to Research Magazine's Advisor Hall of Fame, now in its 21st year. This eagerly anticipated annual feature has become a benchmark of excellence in our industry and an example to all of the rewards that result from effort and integrity.
Candidates who pass our rigorous screens have served a minimum of 15 years in the industry, have acquired substantial assets under management, demonstrate superior client service and have earned recognition from their peers and the broader community for the honor they reflect on their profession.
Finding the nation's finest financial advisors is made possible by the wisdom and discernment of our panel of three distinguished judges (named on the last page of this article). Their discriminating judgment has enriched our Hall of Fame with five extraordinary new members. With no further ado, here are their stories.
Theresa Chacopulos
Senior Vice President/Wealth Advisor Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group — The Private Bank Wells Fargo Advisors
Career Began: 1990
Home Base: Scottsdale, Ariz.
Civic Affiliations: Fresh Start Women's Foundation, Phoenix Zoo, Autism Speaks
Not long ago, when a client's elderly mother was preparing to move to Arizona, advisor Theresa Chacopulos personally interviewed administrators at three retirement facilities so that she could deliver an appropriate recommendation to the family. Later, she accompanied her client to the closing to make sure everything was done right.
"I love my clients," Chacopulos says. "There's nothing I won't do for them."
The term high touch doesn't begin to describe the 44-year-old Chacopulos, who oversees over $1 billion in assets for 82 multi-generational families. She negotiates car purchases, pays the bills, and refers hairdressers, decorators and in one case, a rehab clinic. Clients tell her when they've proposed to someone before they have even told their own families. When clients plan to divorce, it is often Chacopulos they confide in first. The spouse is second to know. On numerous occasions, Chacopulos has been with clients at their deathbed.
"It really comes down to family. Our clients are ethical, community-involved and I would say all of them are tops in their field. But family is number one. I find the individuals I have now in my book of business are very family-oriented," says Chacopulos, who heads a team in Wells Fargo's private banking group in Scottsdale, Ariz. "I think our practice reflects that."
Chacopulos was still a senior in high school in 1984 when she began working as a bank teller for a predecessor firm of Wells Fargo. Her mother worked for another Wells Fargo branch in the same community for 30 years. "Wells Fargo helped raise me," notes Chacopulos, who went on to work as a loan officer, in the trust department and on the trading desk.
"It still wasn't what I was looking for," she says. "I really wanted customer contact."
In 1990, Chacopulos — who has been listed repeatedly on the Barron's listing of Top 100 Women Financial Advisors — found what she'd been missing. Then an assistant to a financial advisor, Chacopulos inherited her territory when the advisor was promoted to management.
For 10 years, Chacopulos worked in the bank channel covering 12 locations and, ultimately, 3,500 clients. As it turned out, it was too much of a good thing.
"Because I had been here so long, advisors would leave and I would inherit their entire book. It happened several times. One day, I woke up and I had 3,500 clients, I was receiving 100 to 150 calls a day, and I was working seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. trying to keep up with it," she says. "And I didn't know half the people."
Tired of starting every year from scratch, Chacopulos moved from the branches into private banking to start a fee-based business. Her goal: 100 clients with at least $1 million in investable assets. She cut 1,000 clients, then another 1,500. When she got to the final 1,000, she re-profiled every client.
"I told them I wanted to go in-depth with them. If it didn't fit my parameters, I'd transfer the client to another advisor. I got my CFP and CIMA at the same time and I was serious about managing money," she adds. "I wanted to make sure they understood I was truly dedicated to financial planning."
Along the way, Chacopulos adjusted her goal. "I realized 100 clients was too many and $1 million not enough to do what I wanted with these clients." As a result, she moved her minimum to $3 million, and two years ago, she pushed it up to $5 million. Most of her clients are technology entrepreneurs and physicians. Fifteen of the 82 families come from her original book. The rest are referrals from clients, attorneys and accountants.
Over the years, Chacopulos has mentored other women who wish to become advisors. "As a woman in this field, it's tough. We're still the minority," says Chacopulos, who creates a career path for women by bringing them on as an assistant, getting them licensed, supporting them through their training as a certified financial planner and helping create a book for them
At the moment, she is working with three women, including client service consultant Lindsey Martin. "I mirror her a lot. Everything I know about the industry I've learned from Theresa," says Martin, who has worked for her for five years. "She's very open. Everything Theresa does, she has taught me in one aspect or another. And there is this singular focus on the client. We care about every aspect of our clients' lives, which really makes her business unique."
With their son Aaron a business major at Northern Arizona University, Chacopulos and her husband Louis are empty nesters. The plan is for Aaron, now a senior, to get his master's in financial planning and taxes and join his mother as an assistant.
"Going forward, it's really about bringing on the next generation," says Chacopulos. "I have no desire to ever go into management, not at all. I love what I do, and that's helping clients."
Denise Fries
Owner Fries Financial Services Securities America
Career Began: 1984 Home Base: Bryan, Texas
Civic Affiliations: Habitat for Humanity, Brazos Valley Gluten Intolerance Group, assorted children's charities
Where to begin? Her unconventional career start, her out-of-the box thinking or her passion for philanthropy? One thing is for sure. There is nothing cookie cutter about advisor Denise Fries. She's an original.
How original? Fries was the lone (and first) woman in her U.S. Army Reserve engineer brigade when she joined the military in 1981. "No ladies room in the whole building," says Fries. "Thousands of men and me." While still in the Army, she launched a financial planning career by calling on college professors at her alma mater, Texas A&M. Her rationale: Professors were accustomed to dealing with young people and would likely take her more seriously than would business owners. Twenty-seven years later, Fries has the largest amount of retirement assets under management in the A&M system for faculty and staff. As for philanthropy, Fries donates Tuesdays and Thursdays to charities, a full two-fifths of her work week. "The best helping hand you can find is at the end of your own wrist," she says.
Fries, 49, who heads Fries Financial Services in Bryan, Texas, hasn't veered far from her initial marketing strategy. With $200 million in assets under management, 63 percent of her clients either work for A&M or are retired from there. The rest are university spouses, military personnel or veterinarians who graduated from A&M, where Fries — no surprise here — lectured for free about financial planning at the vet school when she first started out. "Plant the acorn and you get an oak tree," says Fries (pronounced freeze.) "Plant grass and you get grass."
Fries works with two other financial advisors, A&M graduates not coincidentally, along with four support staff. While she doesn't exclude any income level from her services, nearly half of her 874 households have a Ph.D. Not only is Fries a top producer at her broker/dealer Securities America, she owns two other businesses: a gluten-free bakery and a property management company that has residential and commercial holdings.
It's a long way to have come for a woman who relied as a young teen on a food bank and children's services, an experience that shaped her own philanthropic impulse. "I'm a person who loves people. I'm not judgmental," says Fries. "Sometimes people think those on charity are lazy or somehow less-than. Very often, it's something completely beyond their control. I've been able to accomplish many things in my lifetime. If I had made a few different decisions as a young person, or not had the help I needed then and there, it would have been different. I really believe in helping people when they are down."
Securities America Advisors president Janine Wertheim calls Fries "a great leader" who knows how to take command of a situation. "She has that bright spot perspective. She knows how to put the right perspective on things and look for the bright side. She connects emotionally with people. You can tell she's generally interested in them," Wertheim adds. "She's authentic."
For her company's 20th and 25th anniversaries, Fries held events that raised more than $250,000 and helped over 18 charities. For her 40th birthday, she challenged 40 individuals and businesses to help build Habitat for Humanity houses. Six were built. And on the two days a week she devotes regularly to charities, Fries lends her management and organizational skills to local non-profits.
"Giving money is wonderful but giving time is the higher and better use of charity. The unfortunate fact is non-profits essentially live paycheck to paycheck. I like to help create and fund endowments. Putting a person in a house is phenomenal. Putting a $400,000 endowment in place and building houses from the interest of that money is astronomically important," says Fries, who two years ago earned a master's-level certificate in non-profit management at the Bush School of Government and Public Service so that she could better serve what she calls "my charities."
Fries, married to a third-generation cattle rancher, is also a fierce advocate for people with gluten intolerance. Her daughter Taylor, now 18, has celiac disease, which requires a lifelong diet free of gluten. Taylor was seriously ill for four years until her eventual diagnosis. As part of the family's odyssey, Fries started a support group, opened the Taylor Made Gluten Free Bakery and successfully campaigned for General Mills to make its Chex cereals gluten-free. Rice Chex is Taylor's favorite cereal.
In all things — whether it's her financial services firm, her charities or her family — Fries openly strives to employ her talents and skills to their best and highest use.
"I think one of the reasons I've been able to accomplish some of the things I've accomplished is I have very high expectations for myself and I try to continue to develop my talents," she says. "Every single day I want to live my life so that if my day that day was reviewed on the five o'clock news I'd be neither embarrassed nor ashamed but proud of what that day was like. So many people have the capacity to do and to be and yet they don't."
Fries keeps a plaque in her office that says: "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." She lives up to those words.
Gregory W. Kasten
Chief Executive Officer Unified Trust Co.
Career Began: 1985
Home Base: Lexington, Ky.
Civic Affiliations: Habitat for Humanity, United Way, Tates Creek Christian Church
When Gregory Kasten was an anesthesiologist in the mid-1980s, he didn't like the advice he was getting on the retirement plan offered through his private practice. It was biased, it was weighted toward high commission-type products, and the advisor appeared undone when Kasten pressed him on fee disclosure.
"I figured nobody cared about my own investments more than I would," says Kasten. "I needed to examine these things myself."
So Kasten, now 56, became a successful do-it-yourselfer who in small talk with other doctors began to realize that there were a whole lot of people who needed just what he was doing — and that they might actually pay a fee for it.
Today, Kasten heads the nationally chartered Unified Trust Co., which got its start as the aptly named Health Financial in Kasten's basement in 1985. With 95 employees and $2.7 billion in assets under management, the company has experienced a single trajectory: up. The recent launch of Kasten's cutting-edge UnifiedPlan — a managed-account platform that creates a pension-like experience for 401(k) plan participants — could take the firm to new heights.
"Obviously, we'd like to grow. We feel we have something extraordinary," says Kasten, the author of Retirement Success. "We want to improve the outcome for more participants. We feel that's our mandate."
First, a number that isn't at all encouraging. According to industry statistics, only 25 percent of retirement plan participants are on track to retire successfully. Over the last four years, Kasten with a team of developers and analysts have fine-tuned a software solution based on actuarial science to beat that number. Early results are promising.
In the first group of existing Unified Trust plans to complete the UnifiedPlan conversion process, the percentage of people on track to retire with adequate funds increased from 33 percent to 66 percent. Participants also experienced improved portfolio outcomes with less portfolio risk and better risk-tolerance matching. Plans new to Unified Trust saw an even bigger bump, from 11 percent to 66 percent.
The goal: to replace 70 percent of a person's annual income in retirement.
"Most people spend more time thinking about what kind of flat screen TV they're going to buy than modeling their retirement," says Kasten, a certified pension consultant who has given hundreds of lectures on fiduciary best practices to pension professionals and federal banking regulators. "We figure out how much your retirement is going to cost along with a solution. By age 66, this method will produce the assets that match your liability."
Every quarter, the program collects 700 data points on each participant. Those are then analyzed to make sure the person has a prudent asset allocation to stay on track. If changes are needed, Unified Trust makes them automatically. UnifiedPlan also combines personalized "intelligent defaults" such as automatic enrollment, savings increases and rebalancing portfolios with fiduciary oversight to improve participant success.
"This is Defined Benefit 101. It's how a pension plan would have run in the '50s or '60s. There's nothing magical about what we're doing," Kasten says. "But there are a lot of moving parts. What we are able to deliver is something advisors can't do for themselves: provide a mass-produced, individualized pension experience."
Kasten's career path has been nothing if not unique. During his first seven years as an advisor, he both practiced medicine full-time and ran his fee-only business out of his home. "I always kid people that my wife said in 1992 that you can have one 60-hour week job, but you can't have two," says Kasten, a former officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. When he left medicine to fully pursue an advisory career, Kasten had 300 clients and $70 million in assets under management. In 1993, he hired receptionist Michele Hardesty. The day she started, they moved to an office space. Currently, 70 percent of Unified Trust's business involves retirement plans; the rest, high-net-worth families.
Hardesty, now the company's chief operations officer, calls Kasten "visionary" and "driven."
"Greg is an incredible leader. Our underpinning is we are doing things the right way for the right reasons," she says. "We're not doing what everybody else does. We're not structured the way everyone else is. We feel it's kept us ahead of the industry."
Next year, Unified Trust will offer UnifiedPlan to all of its 30,000 plan participants. Kasten is also introducing the product — which took more than 40,000 hours to develop — at industry trade shows.
Albert Einstein, Kasten likes to point out, is quoted as saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He believes most 401(k) plans fall into that category.
"Statements may be a different color or a website will change but companies basically are doing the same thing over and over again. There's never been any real change in how many people are able to retire successfully," he says. "This gives a solution. It figures it out. It's not theory. We can show conclusively this works. We're trying to get past that definition of insanity."
Gerard (Gerry) Klingman
President Klingman & Associates Raymond James Financial Services
Career Began: 1983
Home Base: New York
Civic Affiliations: Best Buddies International, Hope's Door, World Vision
For years, industry consultants and other advisors urged Gerry Klingman to focus on a single client market. Senior corporate executives, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, retirees — couldn't he pick just one? Not if you're Gerry Klingman.
"I resisted and I'm grateful. I learn things from my clients all the time. It keeps the business interesting and fresh," says Klingman, who manages over $1 billion for 250 families. "We may have been more profitable if we had just focused on one, but we have a more vibrant practice."
Today, Klingman's New York City-based team of 11 essentially operates as a family office for high-achieving individuals who need sophisticated advice on everything from risk management and legacy planning to employment opportunities and family decision-making. It gets personal.
"Our goal is to make our client's life better and easier. For all practical purposes we will coordinate whatever is necessary to serve a client. We help clients meet their financial goals, whether managing a portfolio or hiring a bookkeeper to pay the bills. If a senior executive goes to a new company, we have them forward the new benefits information to us and we'll summarize for them the decisions they should be making," says Klingman, 50. "Whatever the issue, service is paramount. We do everything — almost everything. We won't walk dogs."
A typical Klingman & Associates client has a net worth in excess of $10 million. As Klingman puts it: "They're generally at the point where money is no longer an issue for them in terms of what they're going to eat, what house they're going to live in or where they are going to travel. These are smart people who want to talk about things that matter to them relative to their money, not about the dollars and cents themselves."
In many ways, Klingman's career has been defined by an independent streak. While still at Princeton University, where he majored in economics, Klingman accepted a job with a large investment bank. "At the orientation, they talked about being an employee and the culture of the firm. The hair on the back of my neck stood up. I started to get a queasy feeling," says Klingman. "The concept of being an employee didn't really jibe. I wanted to work for myself." He quit before he even started.
In 1983, Klingman joined First Albany as an advisor. Three years later, rejecting the retail industry's "smile and dial" philosophy, Klingman broke with tradition and formed his own planning practice. "I just knew financial advice had to be different than that," he says.
From 1987 to 2006, Klingman was affiliated with Northwestern Mutual Life and its broker/dealer affiliate Robert W. Baird. He was Baird's top producer for each of those years. Klingman, in a move to secure greater independence, formed an RIA and joined Raymond James Financial Services in 2006.
It was a big move for him — and for Raymond James.
"When Gerry chose to affiliate with us, he raised the bar in terms of the caliber of advisor we could expect to recruit," notes Richard G. Averitt III, Raymond James Financial Services' chairman and CEO. "He is one of Raymond James' most outstanding advisors. He sets the sort of altruistic example others merely aspire to in his professional performance, his superior ethics and his generous philanthropy."
Klingman and his wife Penney are deeply involved in several charities, including Best Buddies, which Klingman calls a "civil rights movement" for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Klingman has provided financial guidance to the organization for 20 years. When he first became involved, the budget was under $200,000. Today, with an annual budget of $40 million, Best Buddies is the largest non-profit worldwide devoted solely to providing friendship, employment and leadership to the intellectually and developmentally disabled.
Anthony Kennedy Shriver, who founded Best Buddies, calls Klingman "a humble and behind-the-scenes kind of guy" who has become an ardent advocate for people with disabilities. "If only I could find just 10 other Gerry Klingmans, my job would be done on January 1st of each year," adds Shriver.
One of the biggest challenges Klingman faces going forward is to create a firm that outlives him.
"It's about developing the next generation of people in this firm that will help me to continue to help clients. For the next five to 10 years, it's something I'm going to think hard about," he says. "It's not that we have to get to $2 billion or $3 billion. It's: How do we service the clients we have and that will be referred to us?"
Notably, many of Klingman's clients, across a broad range of talents and skills, have advised him on the most efficient way to run a top-level organization.
"The challenge for me always is that I love working with clients and I enjoy dealing with finance and managing money, but you also have to be a business owner," he says. "If I'm blessed to have good health over the next 28 years, this firm will outlive me. The concept of selling my business or retiring is something I can't fathom. My clients have become my closest friends. How do you retire from your closest friends?"
Sheryl (Sherri) Stephens
President Stephens Wealth Management Group Raymond James Financial Services
Career Began: 1975
Home Base: Flint, Mich.
Civic Affiliations: Community Foundation of Greater Flint, McLaren Hospital, Fentura Financial
When Sherri Stephens was a high school senior, legendary advisor John Winton sent a message to her business teacher: "Send me someone who can type, take shorthand and has a reasonable aptitude." That "someone" was Stephens, then on track to get a teaching degree.
Sometimes, it's a good thing when a plan derails. "I kind of hit the jackpot but I didn't know it at the time. He was very visionary, very ethical, a pioneer," says Stephens. "He was a true mentor. Without him, I would have never gone down this path."
Today, the onetime secretary now runs the firm. As president of Stephens Wealth Management Group, a Raymond James Financial Services affiliate in Flint, Mich., Stephens is a diminutive woman who casts a long shadow. With $359 million under management, Stephens, 54, tends to roughly 375 households. Her team — 10 in all — also works with retirement plans, a niche Winton astutely developed in the early 1980s when the area, due to its robust automotive industry, had the second-highest per-capita income rate in the nation. To her credit, Stephens has made repeat appearances on the Barron's listing of "Top 100 Women Financial Advisors," among other rankings.
As RJFS advisor Judith McGee, CEO of Portland, Ore.-based McGee Financial Strategies, puts it: "Like they say, dynamite comes in small packages. She has command presence, which I think is an incredible thing to say about someone whose demeanor is as gracious as hers. She can walk into a room with top-level advisors and she holds the room. It's hers."
No success story — and Stephens' is surely that — comes without growing pains.
After Winton moved to Florida to start a practice there in 1982, Stephens, by then a partner in the firm, stayed on to manage the Michigan office. She will never forget her first solo meeting with a client. "It was a review with a dentist and his attorney. The attorney literally chewed me up and spit me out. I wasn't really prepared," she recalls. "I was humiliated. I always wanted to be taken seriously. After that, I vowed: 'This will never happen to me again.' It didn't. It was a big aha."
In 1994, when Winton died unexpectedly, Stephens faced the greatest challenge of her career. Fortunately, they had a buy-sell agreement. And for the previous five years, Winton in every client meeting had said: "This is Sherri. You can trust her as much as you can trust me." But the reality was a little different.
"He was the face of the company," says Stephens. "When you are in the shadow of someone like that, no one really knows who you are or what you can do. All I knew at the time was I had to be able to make this work. These clients needed reassurance. And his family needed me to be able to maintain this, too. This was his life's work. So I put my head down and did what I knew, which was to go to the relationships, be very transparent, explain what I was doing, and explain how I was doing it so they would feel safe. Basically, it was about helping them understand what I do do and what I do know."
One of the first moves Stephens made was to sell the business in Florida so that she could focus fully on her Michigan clients. Notably, she didn't lose a single account during the transition. "I'm more of a dig into the details kind of person. I have to know myself cold," says Stephens. "My clients today say: 'I raised you since you were 18.' They know me, my family, my upbringing. One thing they also know is that we're in this together."
Over the years, Stephens has invested heavily in staff, including three other advisors who are certified financial planners. Her son Tyler works as an assistant to the firm's analyst. Every year, Stephens, continuing a tradition that started with her, takes on a student from her former high school. College interns are also part of the mix.
During off hours, she devotes time to community engagement. "I love the board work I do," she says. "I enjoy that way of giving back." A member of the Raymond James Chairman's Council and on the board of its Network for Women Advisors, Stephens also gives back to the firm.
As fellow Chairman's Council member Kathy Muldoon, senior vice president of Carter Financial Management in Dallas, notes: "She brings a deep humanity to her involvement with clients, staff and colleagues. And she grows each year, never content with her current accomplishments, ready to stretch and to share what she learns along the way."
Today, Stephens Wealth Management, whose assets have tripled in size under Stephens' tenure as president, is not the firm it was before — and neither is economically stressed Flint. At the moment, Stephens is thinking about building a second practice in Florida, perhaps buying a firm that's a good fit.
"We're doing well for where we are. I'd like to grow, even if we can't do it locally," she says. "The one thing I do know is I don't want to slow down. That's just not me."
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Prudential Securities
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LPL Financial Services
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Edelman Financial Services
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Jay M. Eshbach II
National Planning Corp.
D. Craig Fecel
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Sherry Griffin
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Raymond James Financial Services
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Raymond James Financial Services
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Merrill Lynch
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Merrill Lynch
Kenneth Margolin
Nancy Matta
Merrill Lynch
Edward J. Meeuwsen
Salomon Smith Barney
J. Nathan McCarley Jr.
Interstate/Johnson Lane
Edward F. McGehrin
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Smith Barney
Charles A. Mills III
Anderson & Strudwick
Stanley Milne
Edward Jones
John Mockovciak III
Everen Securities
Joseph Montgomery
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Gerald K. Moore
Royce Nies
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Richard C. Otter
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Eric Park
LPL Financial Services
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Butler, Wick & Co.
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Raymond James Financial Services
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Phillips Securities
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Fareed Siddiq
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Royal Alliance
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Raymond James & Assoc.
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Raymond James Financial Services
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Bryan Sweet
Raymond James Financial Services
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D.E. Frey & Co.
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RONALD L. DELEGGE is the editor of ETFguide.com and has contributed Research magazine's Exchange-Traded Products Reporter since 2004. He worked as an investment advisor for 11 years and lives in Southern California with his wife. His new book is Gents With No Cents: A Closer Look at Wall Street, Its Customers, Financial Regulators, and the Media (Half Full Publishing).
KENNETH L. FISHER is chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, which manages $36 billion in assets. He has been "Portfolio Strategy" columnist at Forbes for 27 years. His latest book is Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money — and Why This Time Isn't Different (Wiley).
JAY NAGDEMAN is president of Suasion Resources (www.suasion.com), a marketing consulting firm to the financial services industry. He is author of The Professional's Guide to Financial Services Marketing: Bite-Sized Insights for Creating Effective Approaches (Wiley).


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The AAVSO online forums, chat room and e-mail discussion groups are available to the public (except where otherwise noted). However, we ask all participants to adhere to the following rules:
We are happy to announce a new series of forums on the AAVSO web site to help support a better online community for our members and observers.
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Need to extract text from a scanned document? Want to view your pictures easily without having to learn a complicated photo program? Chances are you can do these things and more without buying another program. In this tip we explore how to use Microsoft® Office Document Imaging (Office 2003 and Office 2007 ONLY) and Windows® Picture and Fax Viewer, as well as some utilities from our own Solid Capture program.
Do you need to be able to edit a scanned or faxed document? Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) performs text recognition using optical character recognition (OCR) and is free with Office 2003 and Office 2007.
What makes a scanned document different from other documents? A scanned document does not contain actual text, but rather a "snapshot" of text much in the same manner as a digital camera takes a photo.
OCR recognizes characters from images of text and converts them into actual text characters. This process makes it possible to edit that text by sending it to Microsoft Word or to find the file later using a keyword search. The results generally are not perfect, but this process can save considerable time and labor over having to re-create an entire document.
Want to view a quick slideshow of your new set of digital pictures or rotate your images? Windows Picture and Fax Viewer allows you to view, edit, annotate, and share digital photos. You can find this useful tool by selecting one or more photos in Windows Explorer, right-clicking, and selecting Open With....
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer lets you quickly and easily scroll through your photos and choose the ones you need. You can zoom in and out, view pictures in their original resolution, or select the best fit. The Next and Previous buttons allows you to easily view images in the same folder.
This little gem makes it possible to work with multiple images in multiple folders at the same time. You can drag images from Windows Explorer or Microsoft Office Picture Manager directly to the Picture and Fax Viewer. Simply CTRL Click the ones you want to work with and drag them all at once into the viewer.
If you are working with faxes or TIF files, you can also add annotations. The annotation tools allow you to draw freehand or straight lines on images, drop text on top, emphasize areas of an image with an open box or highlighting, or conceal portions of an image with a solid box.
Solid Capture version 3 contains several useful tools for Web designers or others who work with images. Here are just a few:
Window Ruler. Calculating the pixel size of an object doesn't have to be a trial and error process. Solid Capture's built-in ruler provides a way to easily measure the dimensions of an item on the screen. Just click the Ruler button. A ruler will appear on your screen that measures anything on your screen in pixels.
Magnifier. Do you just need a quick close-up of parts of an image? Use Solid Capture's color tool as a magnifying glass for your screen. This enables you to view small screen elements in more detail without having to copy the screen and paste it into an editor. To activate, select the Color (From Screen) button. If you have a mouse with a wheel simply roll the wheel back and forth to zoom in or out while using the magnifier.
Color Tool. Do you want to match your color scheme with a color in your image? With a click of the mouse, you can capture whichever color lies directly under the magnifier's central crosshairs. The color will be saved to your clipboard along with the color value. Capturing the color value means you can easily incorporate your captured colors into your own Web pages to achieve the exact effect you want. You can select the specific color value you want – Hex, RGB, and others – by clicking the Options button and selecting the Color tab.
Solid Capture also provides you with a window resizer (great for Web designers and others who need to view content in different resolutions), text capturing and edit features (another quick way to pull text out of a static image), and numerous ways to work with photos and captures. It's the perfect complement to your Office suite to give you a complete set of document utility tools.


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FAIRHAVEN — Selectmen have announced their support of the $17 million renovation proposed for Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.
FAIRHAVEN — Selectmen have announced their support of the $17 million renovation proposed for Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.
Chairman Brian Bowcock said the board officially announced its support at its Tuesday meeting after listening to a presentation about the renovation from members of the school's board.
"Our students go to that school, so we want to do our part to make sure they receive a quality education," he said.
Fairhaven taxpayers will pay roughly 10 percent of total renovation costs. That percentage is "pro-rated" and fluctuates with the percentage of students attending the regional high school from Fairhaven.
"If next year our enrollment goes down, our cost will go down. If it goes up, it goes up," Fairhaven Executive Secretary Jeffrey Osuch said.
The Massachusetts School Building Authority has approved a multimillion-dollar grant for the renovations.
The project is eligible for state reimbursement of up to 80 percent of the renovation's eligible costs up to a maximum grant of $13.5 million, but the exact amount of the grant is not yet known.
The expansion has been controversial with some members of the Fairhaven School and Finance committees.
"We should have a say in what they are doing since we are paying for it," Finance Committee Chairman John Roderiques said at a meeting of the Economic Study Committee last month. "They should be involving us in the process prior to when we have to approve it."
Students from Fairhaven, New Bedford and Dartmouth attend the regional high school, and all three communities shoulder the cost of renovations, which include a 30,000 square-foot addition, updated science labs and a demonstration kitchen.
In order for construction to begin on the school's renovations, the New Bedford City Council and Dartmouth and Fairhaven Town Meetings must each approve the school borrowing costs.
If one municipality votes the measure down, it cannot proceed.
New Bedford and Dartmouth have already approved the renovations; Fairhaven is set to vote on the project at its Dec. 4 special Town Meeting.