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"Choose You" is a movement created by the American Cancer Society that encourages women to put their own health first in the fight against cancer. It challenges women to make healthier choices and supports them in their commitment to eat right, get active, quit smoking and get regular health checks.
Here at Blue Mountain, we were excited to hear about "Choose You Day" on May 12th. We formed our team, went on line and signed up. You can see in our photos we're all wearing our sneakers to "sneak up on cancer."
As members of the Choose You Movement, we've pledged to make some healthy lifestyle changes. Here are just a few of our stories…
Jana: My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer earlier this year. Lung cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer and it's important for people to know that they can quit smoking.
Pam: My life has been touched by cancer because I volunteer at the Gathering Place, which is a community center for those touched by cancer. I see and speak with those who are receiving cancer treatment and those who care for them. Every time I volunteer, I am reminded how precious life is. I choose to "eat right" as a life style change because I believe that what we eat will help fight cancer.
Caroline: Many years ago, my mother died from colon cancer. We know now, that early detection of this cancer greatly improves the chance of a cure. Since there is a hereditary factor, I get regular screenings, every 5 years, in the hope that I'll be around to meet my grandchildren someday.
M.E.: My Dad had prostate cancer, my brother was diagnosed with throat cancer at age 39 (he is now in remission) and in support of some of my friends who have battled ovarian cancer in their families, I helped start OROC-Outrun Ovarian Cancer in northeast Ohio. The organization is dedicated to raising awareness and funds for research through a 5K Run/Walk held in August. I have been an avid runner for the past 33 years and plan to keep going for another 30.
Kim: I am participating to remind myself to eat right and be more active – so I can share a long, healthy life with my son and husband .
Nicole: I know first-hand how cancer can change lives. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer almost five years ago. It was caught very early at her yearly check up and she has been clear of cancer since. Throughout this experience, I have learned the importance of staying proactive when it comes to your health and keeping up with regular checkups. I now know that those checkups can save your life.
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Performance Network Theatre's Fireside New Play Festival is the perfect opportunity to for audiences to share their opinions about four of the hottest new plays that no one has ever seen on Sunday, July 21 through Wednesday, July 24 at 7pm with works by Martyna Majok, Kirsten Knisely, Sean Christopher Lewis, and Brooke Berman. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and reservations can be made at performancenetwork.org or over the phone at 734-663-0681. Performances are immediately followed by a facilitated talk back to share feedback on the brand new plays!
In its 10-year history, the Fireside New Play Festival has launched over 20 plays to full productions across the country. The Festival consists of a series of staged readings in which the actors have rehearsed reciting from the scripts to present a playwright's brand new work. There is a talk-back held after each performance to gather feedback for the playwright. Staged readings of scripts in development give audiences the first look at promising new American plays, and with post-show feedback sessions after each reading, the comments may even help to shape their future!
Brooke Berman is an acclaimed playwright on the rise. "1300 Lafayette East" by Berman is an emotionally riveting piece about a Motown singer and is in Fireside New Play Festival's July lineup. "It is a dream to be able to develop this play in Ann Arbor with Performance Network. '1300' is about Detroit, based on the apartment building my parents lived in just when they were newlyweds. Their neighbors were the young Supremes and The Temptations. There is no better place for me to build the script and deepen the characters," said Berman.
Fireside New Play Festival March 2013 Lineup:
"Petty Harbour" by Martyna Majok: Sunday, July 21, 7 pm
On the rocky shores of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, a house stands against an approaching storm. One by one, three banished sons return home to discover their fisherman father has turned the house into a church. With the roads flooding, the men are sealed in and the subtle war of sermons, songs, and drinking games begins. Two living ghosts from their past arrive, and salvation takes an unlikely form.
"The Bold Blend" by Kirsten Knisely: Monday, July 22, 7 pm
This delightful blend of kookiness is brightened by fruity top notes and balanced with a hint of sweetness. Best friends Madeline and Alice are trapped in the undergraduate's nightmare. Their day jobs as barista's come complete with the control-freak boss from hell, leering regulars, and a never-ending line of demanding customers. When their plot to escape goes terribly awry, it threatens both their sanity and their friendship.
"Sis" by Sean Christopher Lewis: Tuesday, July 23, 7 pm
A sister is your first friend in life… or your first enemy! When two wildly different sisters, Maia – a staunch conservative, and Church – a zealous feminist, reunite for Maia's wedding, the fur flies as they use each other's disparate values for target practice. From feminazis to family values, everything is fair game, as old hostilities bubble to the surface in this hilarious battle of the sisters.
"1300 Lafayette East" by Brooke Berman: Wednesday, July 24, 7 pm
Detroit, 1967: In the gleaming lobby of the Lafayette Towers, the Supremes are fighting, a young housewife is pining for something new, and Reena Walker – an aspiring Motown singer – is locked out of her apartment in a peignoir set paid for by a married man. As the Motor City streets rumble with pre-riot tension, the two women struggle to understand their individual differences and forge a lasting friendship.


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Click to viewMy experience with R/C toys growing up was limited because it was simply too expensive to take up as a serious hobby. The rich kids had some fancy R/C cars though (damn those rich kids!), and every once in a while I got a chance to take one out for a spin. Needless to say, I loved every second of it. There are countless R/C gadgets on the market these days, but I have put together a list of 10 that are extraordinary, unique, amusing or just plain weird.
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I have this ritual where I yell "I'm done with the fucking Oscars" followed by "and this time I mean it!" This year's epithet-generating travesty is the exclusion of Asif Kipadia's excellent Senna from the Academy's documentary short-list. Jerks.
Despite being awesome and netting a pretty decent $1.6 million, there will be no Senna winning an Oscar unless something insane happens. This is a travesty. It's not just a film about something I care about, it's a great documentary. Period. And I'm a guy who thinks hanging out at the documentary theater for a film festival is a good time.
If there's one silver lining to all of this it's that Senna was snubbed alongside documentaries from Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and freaking Steve James. They also snubbed that documentary our own Ray Wert was in.
This is almost as bad as the time they made Crash best picture or completely left Volver out of the best foreign film category. That's it — I'M DONE WITH THE FUCKING OSCARS!
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Knight Capital surges 60% as trades returnAugust 3, 2012: 5:20 PM ET
Knight Capital Group's stock rallied nearly 60% Friday afternoon, after online brokerage firms TD Ameritrade (AMTD) and Scottrade said they'd resumed routing trades through Knight's system.
TD Ameritrade CEO Fred Tomczyk said the decision to resume trading came after "considerable review and discussion," adding that Knight has "long been a good and trusted partner."
Knight (KCG) was behind a series of bizarre moves in otherwise thinly traded stocks early Wednesday. For 45 minutes after the market opened, a software glitch in Knight's market-making unit affected how shares for some 150 NYSE-listed stocks were routed.
That led to unusual volume spikes in a number of stocks, including Bank of America (BAC), Alcoa (AA) and Caterpillar (CAT), among others.
Early Thursday, Knight said it would face a loss of $440 million from its software glitch. Knight is one of the major so-called market making firms that has the ability to execute trades on both major exchanges -- the Nasdaq (NDAQ) and New York Stock Exchange (NYX).
Investors were quick to punish Knight. In the span of two days, Knight's stock lost 75% of its value.
Questions immediately began swirling around trading floors about how long Knight could survive. The Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that Knight told its clients it had received a line of credit to continue operating through the close of trading. Knight was unavailable for immediate comment.
Shares were hovering just above $4 Friday afternoon, still sharply below the $10 they were trading at before the trading snafu.
Related: Why Knight lost $440 million in 45 minutes
E*Trade, which diverted its orders away from Knight Thursday, will not resume trading with the firm until Monday at the earliest, according to a person familiar with the matter. And Citigroup rerouted some of its order flow Thursday, said a second person familiar with the matter. Both E*Trade (ETFC) and Citigroup (C) declined to comment.
Fidelity, which also stopped routing its trades through Knight Thursday, had not resumed trading as of Friday afternoon, according to a source close the situation.
Related: SEC to high-speed traders: Make sure your technology works
Knight Capital said it is looking to raise capital in a statement released Thursday morning. Knight is scrambling to sell the entire firm, pieces of it, or land a large cash investment before the market opens Monday, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations.
Knight has hired Sandler O'Neill to represent the firm in a sale, according to these people. Representatives from Sandler O'Neill declined to comment.
Potential buyers for Knight are currently weighing whether to buy the firm or to do so after a possible bankruptcy filing, said one of the sources familiar with the sales process.
Without fresh capital or a buyer, it's unlikely that Knight can survive. In a statement released Thursday morning, Knight Capital said "the company's capital base has been severely impacted" by the trading losses.
More buyers were emerging as Sandler helped Knight's executive scramble to hunt for buyers Friday, according to the second source. Private equity firms General Atlantic Partners and Lightyear Capital and competitors Virtu Financial and Citadel are said to be among the list of potential suitors. Representatives from Citadel, Virtu and General Atlantic declined to comment. Lightyear Capital did not return requests for comment.
A more robust auction process could make it less likely the firm files for bankruptcy. Still, buyers could be tempted to wait for Knight to file for Chapter 11 protection to insulate themselves from potential liabilities related to the firm's errant trades on Wednesday, said the first source. Buyers are struggling to understand even how much debt the company holds because Knight's debts include $375 million in so-called convertible debt, the first source said. With this type of debt, Knight's creditors may have the right to force the company to pay them immediately if a deal is struck.


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Green tea, Taoism, acupuncture. Where do you expect to find these hallmarks of traditional Chinese medicine? Shanghai? Guangdong? Maybe some bohemian corner of Paris or Berlin? What about Ramallah? Not so much. But this did not discourage Ousama Habiballah, the first practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Palestine. After completing a rigorous degree in Chinese medicine from Beijing University, Habiballah quickly returned home to use his new skills.
But right from the start, the uniqueness of Habiballah's project created difficulties. "The fact that we don't have Chinese medicine here made it hard," he begins. Before he could practice, Habiballah had to get a licence from the Palestinian authorities.
But because no one had ever requested one before, "they didn't know what to do. 'We don't know anything about Chinese medicine,'" he recalls bemused officials telling him. Only last month, after a year of phone-calls and meetings, did they finally give him one. A timely intervention by the Chinese ambassador sped the process along.
But even after jumping the administrative hurdles, Habiballah still had the Palestinian public to convince. He says his plans to set up shop in Ramallah were met with surprise and a good degree of scepticism.
But traditional Chinese medicine has actually much in common with ancient Arabic medicine, itself borrowed from China via the Silk Road during medieval times.
For instance, the older generation in the Arab world employ 'cupping' – whereby cups are placed on the body to determine blood pressure. Traditional Chinese doctors follow a similar practice.
Chinese and Arabic traditional medicines also put an emphasis on the link between psychological and physical health. "We look at the body as a whole unit," Habiballah explains. "Imagine you say to me, for example: 'my stomach hurts.' I won't just look at your stomach. I'll look at your whole body, your face. I'll check your pulse. Is it a physical problem, or related to stress?"
The importance placed on mental wellbeing is especially relevant to Palestine. "Many of the problems we Palestinians have are with stress, and Chinese medicine helps with this." Indeed, a
by the Palestinian Counselling Centre found that the trauma of the Israeli occupation has resulted in many cases of 'somatization.' This is where people exhibit physical symptoms to psychological illness.
Given that
10% of Palestinians
suffer from ailments like "stomach pains and chronic headaches" as a result of depression or trauma, Habiballah's holistic approach seems especially useful.
is also a problem that Habiballah's methods can combat, given he only uses natural herbal remedies. This is especially crucial given the
of dangerous, unlicensed medication in Palestine.
The condescending attitude of Western-trained doctors hardly helps matters. "They see us as therapists. Some don't even see us as doctors," says Habiballah. He pauses. "But I don't care what they think."
Neither do some Palestinians, apparently. "Palestinians are tired of using western medicine, and want to try something new," claims Habiballah. Certainly, his practice seems to be growing at a steady pace. He treats about six patients a day, most of them Palestinians.
Habiballah is conscious that at the moment, his reach is limited. He works at a hotel in the swanky Masyoun neighbourhood of Ramallah. "The price right now cannot be too low. My patients tend to be upper class."
"This work is only until I get established," Habiballah maintains. He plans to open his own practice, and provide his services cheaply. Working in refugee camps is high on his list.
And there is evidence that Chinese medicine can make a substantial difference to these deprived communities. After all, it has been used successfully in parts of Africa for decades. In
, for instance, there are more than 16,000 Chinese medical doctors.
A big advantage over Western medicine is that Chinese herbal remedies tend to be cheap, and can be grown locally. This is especially important in Palestine,
given the high price
of some medicines.
In other words, despite all the problems he faced actually starting work in Palestine, it seems likely that Habiballah can make a difference in the lives of ordinary people. For his part, though, Habiballah remains modest. "The most important thing is if I can help the sick people, the ill people," he says. "I really wish that I can treat some of the problems they have – that's my only hope."
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Perk Tutor: An open-source training platform for ultrasound-guided needle insertions. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 59, 3475-3481. Ungi2012c.pdf (610.32 KB)(2012).
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Hotel Luar Roof Top View over Praia da Rocha.
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I'm sorry, I know it's been a while since I've posted, but I promise I'll make it up to you.
Things have been hectic at the Sugary Flower household; I've spent so much time over the last week or two preparing for my birthday party that I haven't had time to post about it. I have even been SEWING. Oh, yes. But we are now on the home stretch: the party is tomorrow, and I'm currently in the middle of making... drum roll.... my first ever Mad Hatter (or Topsy-Turvy) cake! You know the ones... gorgeously insane angles on tiers that look as though they will topple over at any moment...?
As of 1:45 this morning (aaurgh!) the carving is done, the cakes (just two for my first attempt - I'm not completely insane) have been coated with ganache, and they now crouch menacingly in my refrigerator, just daring me to try to ice them... I am kinda scared, but also excited, as I love this style of cake and have been dying to try one out. My birthday seemed the perfect excuse. Covering them with sugarpaste is tonight's job... wish me luck!
A funny thing: this cake looks a lot smaller than I was expecting. I guess you chop off quite a few serves during the carving process. Something to think about when you're designing one of these! Anyway, I"m sure it will be still be big enough for my little party, but I'm quite happy now that I decided to make cupcakes too!
No pics today :( but I promise promise promise to make it up to you after the party...
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Friday, April 30, 2010
We're all mad here...
I'm sorry, I know it's been a while since I've posted, but I promise I'll make it up to you.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Happy Easter!
First we baked vanilla cupcakes, trying out Duff Goldman's recipe, as blogged about on I Heart Cuppycakes. Not sure these are my favourite cupcakes ever. My mother described their texture as "sprongy", which I thought described it surprisingly well given that it's not actually a word. The flavour isn't bad, the texture isn't bad, but I didn't find either startling. I think I'll stick to Billy Reece's Vanilla-Vanilla recipe as my go-to for now (btw I use the full 2 tablespoons of baking powder when I bake them, and I've never had the overflowing issue...)
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As VP of product development for DuckCreek Technologies, Michael Witt deals with requirements every day. He recently took time to talk with Dr. Dobb's editor in chief Jon Erickson.
Dr. Dobb's: What is the first step in implementing a requirements strategy?
Witt: A move to either introduce a requirements strategy where none currently exist or implement a different requirements strategy requires careful attention and planning to change management. As a first step it is critical to create a sense of need and urgency throughout the organization that will be affected. People know the difference between a real need and the next "silver bullet". Establish real need in the minds of everyone involved, but don't overlook capturing their hearts as well. Use both statistics & metrics and anecdotes to create a compelling case for change, and involve 20% of your organization in facilitating the change. A core group of knowledgeable and motivated individuals can facilitate change more rapidly than a single leader from a soap box. Finally, include in this opening salvo the training necessary to educate people on requirements development and management. This means that you have made some decision on the requirements model, the goals of your requirements program, the principles and best practices that you want to implement, and have at least narrowed down your tools options to no more than two or three potential vendors.
Dr. Dobb's: Who should be involved in defining and managing requirements?
Witt: The people who are going to use the software built from the requirements. That first sentence cuts to the chase, if you don't have people who will use the software involved in the requirements process then the software will not be fit for the intended business purpose. However, there are multiple skill sets required to create software requirements that are usable themselves. Requirements elicitation is a different skill from requirements engineering. It is generally a good idea to consider an out-facing product manager to be responsible primarily for requirements elicitation and a business analyst to be responsible for requirement engineering and development. The key to success is flexibility. If you have a hard and fast rule that business analysts can never talk to outside stakeholders then you lose opportunities for speed and efficiency. With these two roles covered you cannot overlook the need for the entire team to also participate on some level. If the team doesn't own the requirements, but is merely responsible for reading them and filling the order then you lose ownership and choice. Employee engagement can enable you to do more with fewer resources than an organization who lacks employee engagement. Enabling ownership and choice among the development team in building product can make the difference between getting by and being wildly successful.
Dr. Dobb's: What should a requirements set cover?
Witt: Requirements should provide insight into the major functionality, features, and non-functional characteristics of the system. There are very few companies out there that are trying to build software that human lives depend on, but a lot of companies are building their requirements that way. Requirements should provide a general direction for the software, but software is a creative enterprise. Most organizations begin with requirements out of fear. They struggle to deliver software with business value and the growing disquiet among their user base drives them to determine that developers don't know what they are doing. Implementing requirements management in order to control developers is a mistake.
Requirements management should be implemented in order to drive business value. Keeping the goal of delivering business value as priority one in your requirements effort will get you closer to the right coverage in your requirements set. Stay focused on business requirements, don't be afraid to specify technical requirements, but enable development teams to have a say in all of it.
Dr. Dobb's: Who should write, read and sign off requirements?
Witt: I believe strongly in a team-based approach. I don't think that a single person can make the kinds of decisions required to ensure that a requirements set is right. Having individuals on the team responsible for their area of professional expertise allows you to distribute sign-off responsibilities to people who know. That being said, I have to ask why it is that sign-off is important. Is sign-off a part of your process of ensuring that you are delivering business value or is it a method of protection? As a method of protection requirements sign-off stinks because it is impossible to communicate the nuances present in a massive requirements document. In the end it isn't protection at all because your "customer" still ends up angry if you forget something. If you are using requirements to hold the customer or stakeholders accountable for their decisions then you are doing requirements wrong and for the wrong reasons. It is the job of those eliciting and engineering the requirements to ensure that they capture the business needs. And it is a mistake to use sign-off as a method of holding business owners accountable, all that does is enable the team to have an escape clause. Success in software is delivering products that meet business needs, not in delivering requirements that enable you to enforce a contract.
Dr. Dobb's: Are requirements cast in stone?
Witt: The only alternative path to change is obsolescence. Requirements should reflect the business needs and goals of the software. The easiest way to answer this question is to ask, How often does your business needs for the software change? By asking this question before you begin, software projects can be setup for success. If your business requires software that meets business needs that change monthly or quarterly (Insurance software for Commercial Lines meets this criteria) then your requirements management system must enable the business need for change. Requirements are pointless in and of themselves, they serve only to delivery real software, to real people, in real businesses.


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UnNews:Mambo Zulu again tops Forbes poor list
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22 September 2011
KWA-ZULU-NATAL, South Africa -- Since making UnNews headlines in March 2010 Mambo Zulu has again topped the Forbes list of World's poorest people for 2011.
Zulu held a steady lead despite his efforts to raise money from Zebra herding as an indentured slave. In fact he had an "o" deducted from his name and increased his debt now to sacrifice 3,010 zebras to the god Unkulunkulu in repayment of a 1,701-year-old debt-of-honor to the Tutsi Clan.
Mean while, on the other end of the spectrum, new IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has taken the lead as the world's richest person over Mexican drug lord, El Chapo, who has slowly gained power as cartels fall. Chapo is now at number two near the top of the Forbes rich list.
With assistance of the American CIA in trading arms for drugs El Chapo's wealth grew by $3 zillion to $59 zillion, boosted by his vicious efforts as the retail value of bloody murder and illegal activities steadily rises.
Last years symbolic leaders, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who continued giving their wealth to good causes such as 3rd world eugenics and forced inoculations, dropped $11 trillion to $39 trillion each as the intrinsic worth and importance of human life decreased.
Fellow investor George Soros, who has finally agreed to be named on the list, entered the top 10, with $22 trillion after having received an illegal transfer of digital SDRs from the Federal Reserve Feit Printing Works.
All three investors have been notable in their giving (only) vocal backing to radical middle-of-the-road New World Order policies for the global economy.
The Hungarian-born Mr. Soros is a major donor to the Council on Foreign Relations, and outside the US he sponsors "The Rome Club" that seeks to promote designer-poverty and resulting one world government.
Zulu subsequently gave his approval over the summer to finally taxing high-earning Africans, in particular an increase in the tax rate on capital gains that he claimed allowed the Zebras he herded to eat better food than him. President Obama happily took up the idea in his latest job creation proposal, naming the proposal the "Zulu Rule", much to the consternation of Mambo, who doesn't even own the copyright to his name.
Trailing Zulu on the poor list are brothers Zamjuu and Dooookka (no last name) - joint debtors - who owe $1.10 to someone they have never even heard of and stand no chance of ever meeting, according to Forbes magazine.
Another poor African – former Libyan dictator Pvt. Muammar Gaddhafi - has climbed into the top 10 poor list after losing has arse to NATO and their Al Qaeda mercenaries. And in a related distinction former football star and double-murderer OJ Simpson, who owes his soul to Beelzebub - remains the poorest person in the US prison system.
As usual, the world's real richest tycoons, who jointly own the Forbes list, Hollywood, and virtually all the mass media, remained conspicuously anonymous, like always.
- Staff "Bill Gates stays top of Forbes list of rich Americans". BBC, September 22, 2011


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Link to NFHS article here here: <https://www.nfhs.org...-school-soccer/>
In short:
Previously, an attacking player who was in an offside position at the time that the ball was played by a teammate, could be penalized and ruled offside when the ball was deflected by or rebounded from a defender to the attacking player even though the defender tried to play the ball.
The new rule changes this situation as the attacking player in an offside position when the ball was kicked by a teammate who gets a rebounded or deflected ball after it was deliberately played by the opponent (except from a deliberate save), is no longer offside and is not considered to have gained an advantage.
"An example of this new rule would be if attacking player A1 kicks the ball to teammate A2 who is in the offside position behind defender B, and defender B jumps to play the ball but is unable to control the ball as it touches the top of his/her head and deflects to Player A. In this situation, since B played the ball, A2, although in an offside position, is not offside," Wynns said. "One important point to remember about offside is that being in an offside position does not mean that a player is offside. To be offside, a player must be involved in active play, interfering with play or an opponent, or seeking an advantage."
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The Sinister is a gaming controller...thing currently up on Kickstarter that looks, well, nothing like a gaming mouse.
The idea is similar to that of R.A.T.7, which got an A for effort but a C- for comfort. The Sinister looks to get around that by not being slightly customisable, but entirely customisable.
You can pivot, rotate and slide the major components into any configuration you deem comfortable, and it's also got some fancy inputs that let it mimic either a PC mouse, keyboard controls or Xbox pad. It's also got haptic feedback.
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Guidelines for Honoring the Game
The key to preventing adult misbehavior in youth sports is a youth sports culture in which all involved "Honor the Game." Honoring the Game gets to the ROOTS of the matter and involves respect for the Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates and one's Self. You don't bend the rules to win. You understand that a worthy opponent is a gift that forces you to play to your highest potential. You show respect for officials even when you disagree. You refuse to do anything that embarrasses your team. You live up to your own standards even if others don't. Here are ways that parents can create a positive youth sports culture so that children will have fun and learn positive character traits to last a lifetime.
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Preventing depression in teens can help them avoid social dysfunction, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, suicide, and mental health conditions in adulthood. A study recently published in the online Journal of Medical Internet Research tested whether a "depression prevention intervention for adolescents" delivered via texting could help. This double-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted in high schools in Auckland, New Zealand, from June 2009 through April 2011 using 855 students ranging in age from 13 – 17. Results from follow-up questionnaires showed that participants in the intervention group were more successful and remaining positive and getting rid of negative thoughts than the control group. Changes in clinician-based depression scores of participants are yet to be completed, but if similar in effectiveness, this could provide parents, schools and mental health professionals a new tool for combating teenage depression.
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Champion Drops Steelers' Mendenhall Over Bin Laden Tweets
Steelers Running Back Says Comments Were Misconstrued
Sportswear manufacturer Champion has dropped Rashard Mendenhall as an endorser due to tweets the Pittsburgh Steelers running back made following the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden, according to a USA Today article.
Mendenhall issued a clarification Wednesday afternoon in response to the social media firestorm he created Monday night with tweets referencing bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks on his official Twitter page.
He said his tweets had been misconstrued and he was only trying to encourage open conversation, not to stir controversy.
But that apparently wasn't enough for Champion, which has decided to cut ties with the 23-year-old former first-round NFL Draft pick.
"While we respect Mr. Mendenhall's right to express sincere thoughts regarding potentially controversial topics, we no longer believe that Mr. Mendenhall can appropriately represent Champion," the company said in a statement.
Mendenhall's tweets first began appearing Monday evening when he tweeted, "What kind of person celebrates death? It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side..."
He also tweeted in reference to the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style," Mendenhall wrote in response to a tweet from @dkeller23
Those comments and others drew criticism, even from Steelers President Art Rooney II, who said, "It is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments."
Full statement from Champion, courtesy of USA Today: Champion is a strong supporter of the government's efforts to fight terrorism and is very appreciative of the dedication and commitment of the U.S. Armed Forces. Earlier this week, Rashard Mendenhall, who endorses Champion products, expressed personal comments and opinions regarding Osama bin Laden and the September 11 terrorist attacks that were inconsistent with the values of the Champion brand and with which we strongly disagreed. In light of these comments, Champion was obliged to conduct a business assessment to determine whether Mr. Mendenhall could continue to effectively communicate on behalf of and represent Champion with consumers. While we respect Mr. Mendenhall's right to express sincere thoughts regarding potentially controversial topics, we no longer believe that Mr. Mendenhall can appropriately represent Champion and we have notified Mr. Mendenhall that we are ending our business relationship. Champion has appreciated its association with Mr. Mendenhall during his early professional football career and found him to be a dedicated and conscientious young athlete. We sincerely wish him all the best.


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This show features jazz from mostly french musicians or players/music with a french connection,
- St Germain – Latin Note – Tourist : For his second album, French producer Ludovic Navarre expanded his work around jazz-house music by recruiting a sextet of musicians to solo over his earthy productions.
- Didier Lockwood – Aura – Surya : A rare 1980 album – Surya was the progressive-fusion group formed by Didier Lockwood (violins) and Jean-My Truong (drums) when they left Zao at the beginning of March 1977. The band was beset by many line-up changes and record company problems – notwithstanding that this is a fine album and the best work Lockwood did after leaving Zeuhl giants Magma.
- Dave Douglas, Martial Solal – Body and Soul – Rue De Seine : French pianist Martial Solal is joined by American trumpeter Dave Douglas for this inspired duo session. Solal has long been one of Europe's top pianists, while he has made occasional trips to the U.S. to perform, while Douglas has become a favorite of critics for his diverse recordings.
- Henri Texier – Homme Rouge – Amir : a 1976 album from Texier which is comprised entirely of solo work. Some stunning playing on this track.
- Malcolm Braff – Nyourman – Together : Brazilian-born Braff grew up in Cape Verde and Senegal. In 1991 he founded his first jazz trio (with Pascal Portner and Marcello Giuliani ) and the following year released his first album as a bandleader. In 1997 he founded the quintet COMBO (with Bänz Oester , Olivier Clerc , Yaya Ouattara , Matthieu Michel ), two years later the album Together was released. Released by Blue Note France.
- Erik Truffaz – La Reve D'Eline – Face a Face : Truffaz stretches the boundries of contemporary jazz by incorporating drum'n'bass and hip-hop rhythms, this is a live cut from 2006.
- Claude Bolling – Etude in Blue – Jazz A La Francaise : Pianist, composer, producer, and bandleader Claude Bolling enjoyed his first successes in the mainland European trad jazz movement of the 1950s and '60s. A skilled pianist who was heavily influenced by Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, and Art Tatum, this 1984 album sees him in a trio setting.
- Rita Marcotulli – The Japanese Mistress – Woman Next Door : Italian Marcotulli (not French as I say on the show) pays homage to French film director Francois Truffaut on this 1998 album.
- Franck Ansallem – Running After Eternity – Out A Day : a 1990 album with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart which is highly regarded as one of the most outstanding jazz piano trio recordings ever made.
- Miles Davis – Nuits Sur Les Champs Elysees – Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud : Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as evidenced by the soundtrack of Louis Malle's Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold). This dark and seductive tale is wonderfully accentuated by the late-'50s cool or bop music of Miles Davis, played with French jazzmen — bassist Pierre Michelot, pianist René Urtreger, and tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen — and American expatriate drummer Kenny Clarke.
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Sneaky way to spy on a woman in the bathroom: hide inside her porta potty. Less sneaky: leave your iPhone running propped up on the toilet paper. Congrats, CVS pharmacy, you are today's creepiest place.
The Times Union reports the lame attempt of one pharmacy intern to get pee-shots of his customers. Not only did Vaughn Greene leave his iPhone, recording, in plain view of toilet-sitters—enough that one woman assumed someone had left it by accident—he had zero subtlety. Pro-tip: if you're going to spy on a woman while she's in the bathroom, don't ask to go into the bathroom for no reason when she asks to use it:
While Greene, 26, was working the counter at CVS, the victim asked him if the bathroom was open, Sgt. Robert Donnelly said. Greene then went to the bathroom, placed the phone between two rolls of toilet paper, switched it on record and told the woman the bathroom was "all clear," Donnelly said.
All clear! I've, uh, fixed the bathroom. It was broken before, but now I fixed it, in a few seconds, you see. Go ahead and use it now. Use it naked. Greene said "It's the thrill of not getting caught" that pushed him to capture countless clips of tinkling customers. Now the thrill is gone and he's facing four years in prison.
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Garcia wins Senate District 6 seat
In what was a fierce political battle, former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia won the runoff election Saturday against state Rep. Carol Alvarado for the Senate District 6 seat previously occupied by late state Sen. Mario Gallegos.
Garcia earned 53 percent of the vote, compared to Alvarado's 47 percent, according to preliminary results from the Harris County Clerk's Office, with 95 percent of precincts reporting.
"We're just so happy," Garcia said from her election celebration Saturday night. "The supporters and friends here are just besides themselves."
Predominantly Hispanic, state Senate District 6 includes Houston's East End, as well as parts of Pasadena, Galena Park and Baytown. Gallegos represented the district from 1994 until he died last October from complications related to a liver transplant.
Gallegos' wishes
In the last few days of his life, the late state senator's widow said her husband expressed his wish for Alvarado, a former Houston city councilwoman to succeed him.
Gallegos was elected posthumously in November because the deadline had passed to remove his name from the ballot.
Alvarado and Garcia rose to the top of a January special election, forcing Saturday's runoff. Both candidates spent more than $1 million, and Garcia entered the race with $700,000 in campaign money left over after losing her county commissioner seat to then-political unknown Jack Morman.
Shortly after Saturday's race Alvarado, who currently represents the 145th district in the state House tweeted: "I go back to Austin on Monday, and I won't skip a beat!"
She couldn't be reached for further comment.
Garcia served on the Harris County Commissioners Court from 2002 until 2010, making her the first Hispanic to serve on the county's governing board. Prior to being elected a county commissioner, she served as Houston's presiding municipal court judge and city controller.
She holds a degree in social work from Texas Woman's University and a law degree from Texas Southern.
'Work starts …'
"My priorities have always been about helping people and making a difference," Garcia said. "That's not going to change."
She stressed how hard she and her campaign team worked to get votes by knocking on doors and speaking with voters.
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Correction: Get the date right
Crikey, my neighborhood really is all the rage, isn't it? I was glad to see your real estate maven say nice things about 405 Ridge St. [On the Block, "Challenging: Victorian may repay hard work," October 2, 2003]. However, her piece did include an error that ought to be corrected. She wrote that the house was built in 1925. Actually, it dates to 1891.
I don't doubt that the agent gave her the 1925 date. That's the date on the City assessor's online property card for the place, and all the real estate folks use those cards in property descriptions. Problem is, those cards contain acres of errors, and they're wrongest of all on building dates.
To check "veracity" on this, see the City-produced "Survey of the Ridge Street Historic District and Proposal for Local Designation" of March 1994. The house, also known as the Leathers-Snyder House, appears on pages 23 and 24. (The library should have a copy, as should the Historical Society. Or, you could go to City Hall to see it and, while there, pull the house's very own folder from the street-to-street file.)
To quote a bit: "This house stands on the site of the old Methodist Presiding Elder's house built in 1844. In 1891, after a new parsonage was built just to the north, the church subdivided its property and sold Bettie P. Leathers (Mrs. James A. Leathers) this lot on Ridge Street and an adjoining one on Dice Street behind it and the new parsonage. Tax records show that the Leathers built this house immediately..."
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The Chilean miners were all rescued, free now to breathe in air and have their medical benefits cut off three weeks from now. But screw that: Wuz they jackin' it?
America demands to know. And by America, I mean these three dudes:
Being trapped underground for so long, the Chilean miners must have designated a corner or cave nook for spanking it, right? I know they were distracted by being concerned with their survival and all, but after the first day or two that's a lot of built-up pressure to try to ignore. I bet that those 33 guys created an awfully big pile after 69 days.
Do you think any of those miners tossed beats while trapped in that mine? 33 guys down there for 2 months. Beats had to have been tossed, right?
Now that everyone is out safely, can we discuss how jerking off happened in the Chilean mine? I mean, 33 guys down there for 69 days, there obviously had to be a lot of jacking. When trapped in such a situation, what is the etiquette? How long are you expected to wait before giving into your throbbing biological urges? Or is the situation so unsexy that one would not even think about it?
Okay now, let's get into the logistical aspects of this question. Did the miners have enough space for a designated bathroom area? YES. From Yahoo Answers (I believe all Yahoo Answers):
There was a part of the tunnel that they designated as the bathroom area. The rescue workers sent down chemicals to prevent contamination.
Now, you got yourself a bathroom, ANY bathroom, and you got yourself a place to masturbate. That's just a fact. I could masturbate in a dollhouse bathroom, such is my poise and determination. These guys weren't all crammed together, with no designated place to take a shit. They had ROOM. And they're all shirtless in their pictures, so you know damn well they were generating some serious body heat. Medical science tells you that an increase in body heat results in a direct rise in self-gratification.*
(*Medical science does not tell you this. I don't even know that medical science is a proper term.)
Now, let's assume that some of those miners were super-religious guys who wouldn't dare pleasure themselves, particularly with other men present. These are religious people from Chile. It's not the same as religious people from America, who are all lying fucking hypocrites. Some of these people actually BELIEVE all that Jesus stuff. Still, I find it hard to believe many of the miners held out. You're trapped underground, and there's no guarantee you'll survive. You're going to resort to your basest instincts. Again, medical science tells us those instincts will lead you directly to churning the butter.*
(*See above.)
I bet the guys down there didn't even bother to hide their intentions when they went to the jerkin' tunnel. You're gonna die. May as well toss one out and have a good laugh about it. Shit, I'd even make a game of it. First one to stain the copper gets to leave first! I guarantee there were probably tandem jerks, a la the diving board scene in Y Tu Mama Tambien. Remember, we've already learned that all Domincan men are half-gay. Surely, that wildly inaccurate stereotype can be applied to these men as well.
Which leads us to the next question: Did any of the men trapped down there engage in the buttsecks? ADD THAT TO YOUR QUESTION LIST, OPRAH. I WANT TO KNOW IF ANY ASSMINING WAS DONE DOWN THERE.