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January's annual self-improvement campaigns are bringing together a couple of words most of us don't expect to see side-by-side: yoga and injuries.
That's because people think they can't get too much of a good thing, says Vancouver physiotherapist Lindsay McLeod.
"First thing in the year a lot of people jump on bandwagons in general and exercise and fitness tends to be a really big one. Especially with yoga. Yoga is kind of the gateway drug of exercise because it's thought that it's a very benign exercise: it's easy, it's relaxing, it's gentle, anybody can do it," says McLeod of City Sports and Physiotherapy.
"So first thing in the year when people are trying to get on an exercise program ... they want to try out yoga and then we see people coming in with these yoga-type injuries."
A 2009 study published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy found that the most common injuries involved the neck, lower back, shoulders, wrist and knee. Based on responses from 1,336 yoga teachers and therapists, it found certain yoga poses were linked to specific injuries: neck problems from head stands and shoulder stands; wrist and shoulder injuries from plank pose in all its variations and downward-facing dog; lower back strains from forward bends and twisting poses; knee injuries from a variety of bent-legged poses including warrior and its variations, hero, pigeon and lotus positions.
Mcleod says many strains are old injuries that are aggravated when stretches are pushed to the point of pain.
Physiotherapist Kerry Maxwell, owner of Burrard Physiotherapy in downtown Vancouver, says she's seen a variety of muscle and tendon sprains, but only one serious neck injury in the last five years. Women tend to come in with upper-body strains while men injure their lower bodies more, hitting the weakest areas in both sexes.
While she's seen patients of all ages, there seems to be an increase in the over-40 group and she says she has a gut feeling about the reason.
"A lot of people my age - I'm 42 - are starting to take better care of themselves and yoga becomes a part of that. But as we age our tissues are a little bit stiffer and we've probably suffered a few injuries in our youth and we're doing classes with a bunch of ridiculously flexible 20-year-olds, trying to keep up. It's a matter of doing things within your actual physical ability and not how you remember you used to be able to do it."
Knowing your own body and paying attention to what it's saying is a key tenet of yoga, but that's not always part of today's yoga business, says Shivani Wells, an instructor and Phoenix Rising yoga therapist in Vancouver.
She says it's often the 20-somethings in her classes who are cranking themselves to the most advanced variation of poses - whether they're ready for them or not - because they have objectified their bodies.
Whereas Wells says the original intent of yoga is to quiet body and mind in pursuit of stillness and inner freedom, the asanas, or practising postures, have been "turned into something which activates the ego and pulls us away from this goal."
"It should come as no surprise now that people are getting injured, just as people get injured in all forms of competitive sports."
Still, Wells says her early years of dance were much harder on her body. "When I was a dancer I definitely experienced more serious injuries and I would say that's the result of trying to meet the physical demands of that career and not being ever told to listen to your body and do what your body needs.
"And yet when I look at my yoga practice, the only time I've ever experienced injury was last year. I hyperextended my wrist."
One of the reasons physiotherapists are seeing more injuries is merely a reflection of the ballooning interest in yoga, says Lori Charko, founder of North Vancouver's Body Harmony Yoga. "If you're looking at the number of people who are practising yoga, it's exponentially more, so of course everybody's going to see more injuries," she says. "My feeling is that a lot of studios are packing people in and one teacher to 40 students is not a safe way to conduct a class."
The number of Metro Vancouver yoga studios with business telephone listings grew to 88 from 60 over the last five years. That's nearly a 50-per-cent increase and doesn't include all the fitness centres offering yoga as a part of their programs or yoga instructors who don't have separate listings, according to research compiled by analyst Mark Eversfield of Small Business BC.
And while yoga instructor Alex Atherton agrees some tweaked bodies are inevitable when millions of North Americans are turning to yoga, he says the potential for healing far outweighs any risk. He should know. He began to practise yoga about a decade ago in his mid-20s, after suffering concussions and whiplash from skiing and playing university-level soccer.
"I've mostly seen yoga which has taken wrecked bodies and made them whole again or healthy again. That's my personal experience."
As for injuries, he says that happens when "the obsession becomes to create the perfect shape ... that's where the risk lies."
He teaches at the Yyoga chain which has seven studios in the Lower Mainland after three years in business.
Students shouldn't expect to do every posture perfectly, he says. They need to take it slowly and respect their limits.
Advice from Metro Vancouver yoga instructors and physiotherapists aimed at keeping you on your mat and out of the clinic:
. Build your base slowly. If you're new to yoga, start with a beginner's class and master basic breathing and postures before moving on.
. Don't be afraid to use props. Sit up on a block if your hamstrings are tight or use a strap to help get into a bend if you're not very bendy.
. Yoga postures aren't always comfort-able, but they should never be painful. Back off if you can't breathe or sustain the pose. Choose a variation that doesn't hurt.
. Check your alignment and follow instructions. Ask your instructor for advice after the class if you're hurting.
. Learn the difference between a stretching sensation and over-stretching. Sharp pain or numbness mean you've gone way too far.
. The best way to challenge yourself is to work at your edge, where pushing farther would be overzealous and backing off would make you a slacker.
. Hot yoga (classes held in a room heated to the point where everyone's sweating heavily) can be great for some people, but can lead others to push warm muscles to the point of injury.
. Yoga is not a competitive sport. Concentrate on what you're doing, not the guy next to you.
. Check out different instructors and studios. What's their training? Are you comfortable with their methods?
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The study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found that this was consistent in women regardless of their age, socioeconomic level, or whether they were married or had kids. That in itself is shocking: You don't even have to have kids to experience conflicted feelings about your work life balance. The guilt rose as the work increased.
One of the authors commented,
"Initially, we thought women were more distressed by frequent work contact because it interfered with their family responsibilities more so than men. However, this wasn't the case. We found that women are able to juggle their work and family lives just as well as men, but they feel more guilty as a result of being contacted. This guilt seems to be at the heart of their distress."
Bonus points to the first genius who responds, "Duh." But there are several things at play here, including the obvious aspect that women are culturally conditioned to feel guilty about doing exactly what their male counterparts are doing: Earning a living. (Remember the moral of the story in The Devil Wears Prada, in which the protagonist becoming good at her demanding job is conflated with abandoning her values and her boyfriend and friends? In which she watches a woman at the top of her game lose her husband?) We're also constantly expected to make it look effortless, with which a frantic late night call or email tends to interfere.
Another is the fact that though these are characterized in the social science research as "boundary spanning," in an always-reachable age of email and smartphones, compounded with broad job insecurity for the past several years, where exactly are those boundaries?
Boundary-Spanning Work Demands and Their Consequences for Guilt and Psychological Distress [Journal Of Health And Social Behavior]
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The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony.
The awards were established in 1958. Prior to the first live Grammys telecast in 1971 on ABC, a series of taped annual specials in the 1960s called The Best on Record were broadcast on NBC. The first Grammy Award telecast took place on the night of November 29, 1959, as an episode of the NBC anthology series Sunday Showcase, which was normally devoted to plays, original TV dramas, and variety shows. Until 1971, awards ceremonies were held in both New York and Los Angeles, with winners accepting at one of the two. Pierre Cossette bought the rights to broadcast the ceremony from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and organized the first live telecast.[1] CBS bought the rights in 1973 after moving the ceremony to Nashville, Tennessee; the American Music Awards were created for ABC as a result.
The 52nd Grammy Awards (2010) ceremony was held at the Los Angeles' Staples Center, broadcast live on the East Coast and on tape delay on the West Coast.
The actual trophy is manufactured exclusively by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. The trophies are all hand made and assembled. In 1990, the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, and making the trophy bigger and grander.[2] The Grammy is assembled in pieces and finally finished off in gold plating. The actual trophies, with the recipient's name engraved, are not available until after the award announcements, so a series of "stunt" trophies are re-used each year for the broadcast.[3]
As of 2007, 7,578 Grammy trophies have been awarded.[4]
The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by genre.
Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given out for more long-lasting contributions to the music industry.
Record companies and individuals may submit recordings to be nominated. The entries are entered online and then a physical copy of the product must be sent to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Once a work is entered, reviewing sessions are held by over 150 experts from the recording industry. This is done only to determine whether or not a work is eligible or entered into the proper category for official nomination. They won't vote to nominate in the general field (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist) and in no more than nine out of 30 other fields on their ballots. Only five acts can be nominated for each category. Following this process the votes are tabulated. The five recordings that earn the most votes become the nominees. There may be more than five nominees if there is a tie in the nomination process. After the nominations are announced final voting ballots are sent to Recording Academy members. They may then vote in the general field and in no more than eight of the 30 fields. Ballots are tabulated secretly by the major independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.[5] Following the tabulation of votes the winners are announced at the Grammy Awards. The recording with the most votes in a category wins and it is possible to have a tie. Winners are presented with the Grammy Award and those who don't win are given a medal for their nomination. Academy members in the nomination process and final voting process are to vote based upon quality alone. They are not supposed to be influenced by sales, chart performance, personal friendships, regional preferences or company loyalty. The acceptance of gifts is prohibited. Members are urged to vote in a manner that preserves the integrity of the academy. The nomination and final voting processes requires that members vote only in their fields of expertise. The eligibility period for the 2010 Grammy awards was October 1st, 2008 to August 31st, 2009. [6]
With 31 Grammy Awards, Sir Georg Solti is the male artist with the most Grammy wins.[7] Alison Krauss is the biggest winner among female artists with 26 awards.[8] U2, with 22, holds the record among bands,[9] and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra holds the record for any musical group with 60 wins.[9]
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Certain musical artists have voiced personal issues with the nature of the Grammys. Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of progressive metal band Tool, did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of their awards. He explained his reasons:
|I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about.[10]
Additionally, many have criticized the Grammys for distributing more awards than necessary and that a large portion of the ceremony is "filler" to result in a longer engagement. [11]
Bono (U2) was critical of the Grammys early in his career, but later [12] he began to appreciate their inclusiveness:
|It was all there: anger, love, forgiveness, family, community and the deepest sense of history... Here was the full power of American music challenging my arrogance. I watched the rest of the show with new eyes. The Grammys invited jazz, country, rock, soul and classical into the same hall. No regard for demographic studies of what would deliver ratings, no radio call-out research-- a mad amalgam of the profound and the absurd and the creeping realization that one man's Mozart is another man's Vegas.[13]
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The Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Hastily Formed Networks (HFN) Research Group deployed to the Central Philippines, Nov. 18, to support disaster recovery efforts in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
With the number of injured and dead continuing to rise, the need for communications and coordination between disparate non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) professionals, and the Philippine government has taken on increased urgency.
HFN Research Group Director, and NPS Department of Information Sciences Lecturer Brian Steckler deployed to the region in advance of his student team to conduct early communications assessments. The majority of his team is now on the ground and preparing to join him in the Central Philippines.
"I am working with the Marine Corps Pacific Forces Experimentation Center in support of the Third Marine Battalion (3rd MEB). The 3rd MEB is in charge of the initial Marine response to Typhoon Haiyan," said Steckler. "My first step will be to find out where they want to use our communications capabilities and to conduct an assessment to determine local communications needs."
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NPS' HFN team will be using the advanced communications tools at their disposal to create hastily formed networks while Rapid ICT Assessments Teams (RTAT) simultaneously conduct their own activities. If successful, HFN Team constructed networks will fill communications voids and allow for increased disaster relief coordination and emergency response to some of the storm ravaged nation's most desperate locales.
"The communications link is critical, we cannot coordinate if we can't communicate," said NPS student and U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Travis Beeson of Versailles, Ohio. "We will be establishing emergency communications between critical HA/DR centers, hospitals and NGOs.
Onsite in the central Philippines in advance of the student team, NPS Department of Information Sciences Lecturer Brian Steckler begins initial assessments of communications capabilities to ensure the Hastily Formed Networks students head to the locations where they are needed most. Photo courtesy of Brian Steckler.
"A major complication in a situation like this is aid distribution – some areas do not get enough assistance and others get too much. We plan on helping to establish the communications infrastructure that will allow disaster relief professionals to get to the areas where aid is needed most," continued Beeson.
Leveraging his ongoing research with a mobile satellite company, Steckler hopes to utilize the organization's Broadband Global Area Networks (BGAN) service to make this sort of large-scale disaster relief coordination possible. BGAN devices, which are satellite terminals about the size of laptops, can be set up in five minutes to create a 100-meter Wi-Fi cloud connecting users to the Internet for instant e-mail, chat, web, voice and video communications.
Steckler also hopes to establish a series of networks utilizing the HFN Group's meshed Wi-Fi components. Steckler used these devices previously during the Haiti earthquake response, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and in response to the 2004 South East Asian tsunami. The meshed networks can be used to offer near-immediate connectivity for hastily built airstrips, hospitals and command and control centers.
"I thank God for this opportunity to get out there. I've been to the Philippines before, and they are generally a happy and resilient population. Events like this really break your heart," Beeson said. "I am excited to be a part of this international effort, to have the opportunity to work with the NGOs that are on the ground and to work with a major regional ally."
While the HFN group's primary mission is to support the education of military officers, Beeson notes that the group's work also provides real value that goes beyond the halls of academia.
"The Hastily Formed Networks group is not just in it for the academic value. We have deployed to other major disasters where we have provided real support to people in desperate need," said Beeson proudly. Ironically, Beeson was just recently in the Philippines to establish a baseline assessment of the Philippine communications infrastructure in support of a thesis he is writing about communications and disaster relief operations.
Capt. Kevin McMullen of Redding, Pa. is another NPS student deployed with the HFN group.
"I am happy to help out, and to have the opportunity to volunteer. I am a communications officer in the Marine Corps and I am used to setting up equipment in distressed locations," said McMullen.
Argentine Army Col. Anibal Intini is the only international officer in the group. He came to NPS to study Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I).
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San Antonio's most enduring source of news and information has expanded to include specialized publications and magazines and the city's No. 1 website, mySanAntonio.com.
The Beaumont Enterprise, recognized by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee as Southeast Texas' oldest business, has been serving the region since 1880. Since 1998, the Enterprise annually has been recognized as one of the top medium-sized newspapers in Texas and five other states.
The Enterprise is the sixth-largest of 15 daily Hearst newspapers. In addition to the daily newspaper in both print and electronic forms and the website beaumontenterprise.com, the Enterprise produces Southeasttexas.com, the weekly Jasper Newsboy, Hardin County News, as well as a bi-weekly real estate magazine and three monthly magazines, VIP, the EventsBook and Lakecaster.
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The Herald is a multiple winner of both the Sweepstakes Award of the West Texas Press Association and the Panhandle Press Association's General Excellence Award, and has been recognized by the Texas Press Association. Its website, myplainview.com, also has won numerous awards.
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TripAdvisor has announced the winners of its 2013 Travelers' Choice awards for lodging and three Baltimore hotels are among those recognized by the travel website.
The awards are based on millions of reviews and feedback from travelers who rated more than 650,000 hotels in categories of Top Hotels, Luxury, Service, Small Hotels, and B&Bs and Inns.
The Inn at The Black Olive, where TV stars such as Julia Louis Dreyfus reportedly have stayed, was ranked third among U.S. properties in the Small Hotel category. The 12-room Fells Point property owned by the Stelios family and known for its eco-friendly amenities was also no. 14 among U.S. hotels with the best service.
Rachael's Dowry Bed and Breakfast was named among the Top 10 B&Bs in the U.S. The hotel, located in a restored 8,000-square-foot mansion in Ridgely's Delight, was ranked no. 6. Other regional B&Bs at the top of the list include Stony Point B&B in Tyrone, Pa. (no. 3); Albert Stevens Inn in Cape May, N.J. (no. 5) and Piney Hill B&B in Luray, Va. (no. 7). The top B&B was Point Clear Cottages in Fairhope, Ala.
The Four Seasons Baltimore, which opened in late 2011, came in at no. 18 on the list of top U.S. luxury hotels. The Harbor East hotel offers more than 250 lavish rooms, including 45 suites, including The Royal Suite, which is 2,800 square feet, with a marble foyer, office, media room, dressing room and service pantry with stainless-steel appliances. Luxe and lush, indeed.
The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka'upulehu in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, took top honors overall, garnering awards for the top hotel in the U.S. and the world as well as the top luxury hotel.
Overall there were more than 6,000 award-winning properties in 82 countries and in nine regions across the globe. This is the 11th year for TripAdvisor's Traveler Choice Awards.
TripAdvisor has announced the winners of its 2013 Travelers' Choice awards for lodging and three Baltimore hotels are among those recognized by the travel website.


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When I looked at the calendar and realized the topic for this month's article was about the family market, my first reaction was, "What the heck does a single, 38-year-old whose only real 'family time' is an occasional weekend watching nieces and nephews write about in regard to marketing to families?"
Well, the term "families" is actually much broader than children. For some clubs, a full family menu means programs for infants right on up to seniors. And, in addition to age diversification, family marketing also means providing a wide variety of programs ranging from specific sports training to educational courses to social activities. For many clubs that service the family market, this emphasis on age and program diversification makes them a community resource that not only brings families through the doors, but also fuels individual membership growth for the future, because children who grow up in a health club are more likely to join as adults. The bottom line is, although it isn't for every club operator, marketing to families is full of opportunities.
The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association agrees. In its 1999 report, "50 Million by 2010," the "fFamily athletic club opportunity" was identified as one of the 10 mega-opportunities for health clubs. In fact, when you look at the 10 mega-opportunities, a family-oriented fitness facility is ideally suited to tap into all of the segments identified in the report: the 50-plus market, special populations, Gen X'ers, and minorities.
Of course, being ideally positioned for a clientele and wanting to market to that clientele are two different things. Therefore, club operators must decide if they want to market to families at all. Unlike many programming decisions where time and effort are the two biggest factors, marketing to and successfully meeting the needs of families requires an additional element, which is the actual physical space. Let's face it, although you might be able to have a small child care center or offer a few classes in a group fitness room, if you are a small club perator your ability to be everything to everyone is impossible. Therefore, space alone limits the number of clubs that can market to the entire family on a large scale. This isn't to say a small club can't offer special family programs throughout the year to increase revenues — they can — but the typical family-based club is 50,000 square feet or more.
What is offered inside a family club is as varied as any other club. Some of the more common club offerings would include aquatics programs (often with multiple pools), an outdoor center (especially for summer camps), a kids' fitness room, large nursery and child care areas, one or more activity/function rooms, multiple group fitness rooms, court sports and family changing rooms — which is a must. Of course, successful marketing to families really requires a two-pronged approach: first create an image in the consumer's mind that projects a family image; and second, properly advertise and sell each individual program to generate revenues.
When you think of family fitness for many people (me included) one of the first things that comes to mind is the local YMCA. Although many club operators might cringe at the mention of that, it's true. The reason, of course, is that many of today's adults were exposed to their local YMCA as a child — whether it was through the traditional swim lessons, a basketball league or perhaps even Karate lessons. Y's have been around for decades. Yes, you might argue that today's YMCAs aren't servicing the population they originally intended but that doesn't enter into the scope of this conversation. The fact remains that whether it was through conscious marketing or simply branding over the years, the Y's are synonymous with family programs.
Having a consumer think of your club (vs. the local Y or any other club) when they want to find health- and fitness-related activities for their family is the first key to a successful, long-term, marketing strategy. This means that your club's marketing materials will have to reflect a family-friendly attitude and offerings.
In order to do this, consider the following:
Change your media images to reflect family fitness. This means using photos that depict activities for everyone — young and old — as well as an adequate listing of offerings that support those images.
Be sure to match your marketing images with the appropriate advertising mediums, ensuring that your target market is "seeing" you. For example, this could mean advertising in community newsletters, places where parents network, school systems, senior newsletters or centers, as well as pre- and post-natal care providers, just to name a few.
Get involved in your community. I heard a speaker recently who made the following great point. "Marketing is what a business does, branding is what happens in the consumers' mind, not as a result of marketing but because of the businesses actions and reputation." By getting involved in your community you show consumers that you care about their families.
Selling to any specific population always requires some modification. The great thing about selling family memberships, however, is that at least one of the individuals influencing the purchasing decision should fall into the adult fitness profile. This means that salespeople can feel fairly comfortable that certain traditional touring approaches will apply. That said, it is often kids who influence buying decisions when it comes to family memberships. Furthermore, we know that parents will spend a lot more on their kids than they will on themselves. Therefore, ensuring your club provides family-friendly tours is important.
Providing a family-friendly tour begins at the front desk. One way to do this is to make sure your lobby has something of interest for the kids, whether it be a small television playing cartoons, kids reading books or perhaps a toy or two. Remember that if parents can't keep their kids entertained they won't stay for a lengthy sales presentation. Another easy way to make tours more family orientated is by offering the guest the opporunity to leave their child in the childcare or youth fitness room while the adults finish looking at the facility. This is a win-win situation for everyone. The kids would much rather play than be bored listening to adults talk and the parent will feel more comfortable knowing their child is enjoying the facility.
Of course, being family friendly goes farther than just handling the kids. With the aging population, more and more families have parents living with them. This means that your club should consider trial visits for senior and special population programs as well, allowing these individuals to sample a class before having to make a full commitment.
Another great way to lower the barrier to entry for families and increase the comfort level before buying a membership is to regularly run open houses and informational sessions. At an open house, families can bring the entire clan along to get a first-hand experience of the facility. Another added benefit of such events is the enthusiasm that is created, as well as the opportunity to meet other like-minded families.
As it relates to selling new family memberships, one of the most important things a club can do is to offer full memberships and short-term programs. With full memberships some clubs find it advantageous to offer a "one price pays for it all" option, allowing members full access to any activity throughout the club. Yes, the families may pay more but they don't have to worry about add-ons each time a family member wants to participate in something. Of course, clubs that are considering this option need to fully think through the price point before locking themselves into such arrangements.
Short-term programs, on the other hand, allow clubs to drive individual family members through the doors for a specific activity or event at low cost and low commitment. Such short-term programs can really fuel the future family membership base for the club that focuses their marketing efforts on "up-selling." For health clubs, although short-term membership up-sells present one of the best sales opportunities, they also are one of the most challenging because of the organization necessary to complete — requiring proper data collection, entry, and then marketing and follow up.
Finally, salespeople need to actively reach out to existing members with families to cross-sell club programs. For instance, if a family is participating in swim lessons, maybe tennis, Karate or ballet lessons would be of interest. Salespeople can't assume that just because the club offers a program the members know about it.
There has been no better — or worse — time in our history where the need for family-orientated programming is more prevalent. With the rising obesity levels across all age groups, the ever-expanding senior market, the lack of physical education programs in school systems, the demands on time with both parents working (just to name a few), the need for healthy, family activity is greater than ever. Add to that the daily mounting evidence regarding the benefits of regular exercise and clubs are ideally positioned to meet the demands of family memberships.
And, whether a club wishes to offer just a few family-oriented programs or opts to go full-out with large facilities, opportunities abound. By taking the time to clearly define a marketing and programming strategy and adjusting sales efforts appropriately, both small and big clubs can reap the financial benefits of offering services to the family market.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Coming off of arguably the biggest win of the head coach Rod Reed-era, the Tennessee State football team looks to keep its winning streak intact when the squad travels to Martin, Tenn. for a 1 p.m. meeting with the Skyhawks.
TSU (6-1, 3-0 OVC) defeated Jacksonville State, 31-15, for the second time in school history on Saturday for its sixth straight victory.
In that contest, the No. 1 ranked Big Blue defense stole the show with a herculean effort that included halting the Ohio Valley Conference's top rushing offense to a measly 21 yards. The Gamecocks even had problems getting the ball past the line of scrimmage, as TSU recorded a season-best 14 tackles for loss, five of which were quarterback sacks.
JSU's inability to move the ball on the ground forced the offense to resort to going through the air, but the Tigers eventually stopped that too. Junior safety Daniel Fitzpatrick recorded his team-leading fourth interception in the fourth quarter and redshirt sophomore Bernell Brooks iced the game with another pick a few plays later.
TSU has the third-most interception in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) with 12. The Tigers are sixth nationally in takeaways with 18.
While the defense was taking JSU's ground game away, the Tiger offense was running the ball very efficiently. Tim Broughton gained a career-high 190 yards on 26 carries including one of 39 yards in the first quarter that jumpstarted a previously stagnate Tiger attack.
With his breakout performance in the biggest game of his collegiate career, Broughton moved into first place on the OVC rushing list with 739 yards. The senior is averaging an impressive 5.6 yards per carry and 105.6 yards per game.
Redshirt sophomore Telvin Hooks has also helped out in the rushing department, and with his 56 yards in Jacksonville is now fifth in the conference with 437 yards.
The winner of this Saturday's contest against UT Martin (4-2, 2-1 OVC) could end up being the team that runs the ball the best.
Skyhawk ball carrier D.J. McNeal is the only other player in the nine-team league to average more yards per game than Broughton (112.5). Both McNeal and Broughton have 131 attempts on the season and McNeal has nearly matched Broughton's output (5.2 yards per carry).
UT Martin also has Dylan Favre manning the quarterback position and the nephew of the NFL-great Brett has thrown for 792 yards and eight touchdowns this season.
Senior defensive back Camaren Harris had nine tackles, three pass breakups and a key second half interception in the Skyhawks' 28-17 win over Tennessee Tech. Tony Bell added a team-best 10 stops to go along with a pair of sacks. Overall the UTM defense tied or set season-highs with nine tackles-for-loss, five sacks, three forced fumbles and two interceptions.
TSU is 15-7 all-time against UT Martin, but just 1-4 in the last five contests.
The game will be pivotal in the race for the Sgt. York Trophy, given to the team with the highest head-to-head winning percentage between TSU, UT Martin, Austin Peay and Tennessee Tech.
TSU won the Sgt. York in 2007, 2008, 2011 and again last season.


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Decadal Climate and Global Change Research
The Climate Diagnostics Center contributes to understanding the variations in Earth's climate system on decadal to centennial time scales. Research includes process and model simulation studies to elucidate the relation between changes in the atmosphere and those in the ocean. CDC scientists seek to provide physical and dynamical understanding of observed long term climate variations and change through analysis of hierarchies of designed GCM experiments. These include atmospheric models forced by SSTs, ocean models forced by wind stress, and coupled ocean-atmosphere GCMs, including runs forced by greenhouse gases.
Our investigations have focused on determining fundamental processes responsible for decadal climate variability and change, and assessing whether the latter are due to human influences or natural variability. According to the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, it is now very likely that global temperatures during the 1990s were the highest since 1861. The same appears to be true for tropical sea surface temperatures, and the areal coverage of the so-called oceanic warm pool (SSTs > 28.5C) (Fig. 5.1, top). CDC scientists are diagnosing relationships between this tropical ocean warming, the global atmospheric circulation and recent climate change.
CDC is engaged in understanding how slow changes in climate affect interannual variability. One key question is determining whether the warm pool change over the equatorial west Pacific impacts the statistics of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the eastern Pacific. It is evident that the strongest El Niño events in the instrumental record have occurred in recent decades (Fig. 5.1, middle); we are assessing if this is a signature of climate change or merely random fluctuations. The global impacts of ENSO have also changed in recent decades. A fundamental question being pursued at CDC is whether the ENSO teleconnections diagnosed from historical data of the 19th and 20th centuries will be accurate depictions of ENSO impacts in this new, unique century of human induced climate change.
CDC scientists are also studying the origin and climatic impact of midlatitude ocean changes. Most dramatic among these is the multi-decadal variability in SSTs over the Pacific poleward of 30N (Fig. 5.1, bottom), an index of which has been termed the Pacific-Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The apparent long time scale of this oceanic behavior is quite different from that of the ENSO time series. Nonetheless, our analysis shows a strong relation between the two on interannual time scales, and an intriguing question is the extent of their coupling on multi-decadal scales. Likewise, the low frequency variations of North Pacific SSTs since 1950 have atmospheric counterparts, including changes in the oceanic storm track and the strength of the upper tropospheric westerly jet. CDC scientists are studying the nature of air-sea interaction over the North Pacific, and assessing to what extent the diagnostic relations mentioned above entail predictability.


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Brewers "Design a YOUniform" Contest Winner Announced
Yesterday at "Brewers On Deck," Ben Peters, of Richfield, Minnesota was announced as the winner of the Brewers Design a YOUniform contest. Peters' design will be worn by the Brewers in exhibition games on March 22 in Phoenix at Maryvale Baseball Park and on March 30 in Milwaukee at Miller Park. Merchandise including t-shirts and caps featuring the winning design is on sale now at Brewers On Deck and at the Brewers Team Store by Majestic at Miller Park.
As the winner, Peters will receive a trip to Brewers Spring Training 2013 to see the winning design on the field at a game. The hats and uniforms from the winning design will be worn by all Brewers players and coaches at the Friday, March 22 Spring Training game at Maryvale Baseball Park against the Chicago Cubs. Peters will receive airfare for two, tickets to the game in Arizona to see the uniform in action and $1,500 for hotel, ground transportation and other incidentals. He will also have the opportunity to select the jersey and hat worn by one player from that day, plus will receive ten t-shirts and hats made from his design.
In addition, the Brewers the uniforms will also be worn at Miller Park on Saturday, March 30 as the Brewers take on the Chicago White Sox in an exhibition game.
Last fall, Brewers fans were invited to submit their ideas for an alternate Brewers on-field uniform, and the contest resulted in an overwhelming number of fan entries. After receiving nearly 700 submissions for the Design a YOUniform contest, the Brewers announced the three finalists as selected by a panel of judges.
"The fans' response to this promotion was tremendous, both in the number of entries received and the votes during the judging of the finalists," said Brewers Chief Operating Officer Rick Schlesinger. "It was difficult to select a winner as the three finalist entries all had very solid support."
The three finalists – two of whom live outside of Wisconsin – were invited by the Brewers to travel to Milwaukee for Brewers On Deck at the Delta Center where Brewers pitcher John Axford announced Peters as the winner on the Klement's Main Stage. Ron Verrecchio from Catonsville, Maryland and Nicholas Fouts from Madison, Wisconsin were the other two finalists.
In addition to an online fan vote, a panel of voters including Axford, Brewers President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Doug Melvin and Brewers Chief Operating Officer Rick Schlesinger judged the finalists. Other judges included Jill Aronoff, Brewers Senior Director – Merchandise Branding and representatives from Majestic, New Era and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


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Healthy mouths are a great indicator of healthy bodies. Besides maintaining good oral hygiene, you can give back to your dental duo by consuming foods that improve gum and tooth integrity. Here are some tips for eating your way to a healthier and happier mouth:
- Minerals Repair: If you're concerned that your teeth are already damaged, worry not. Rebuilding is only a few bites away. Diets high in calcium and phosphorus may replenish tooth enamel. Get your teeth in shape by including fish, plain yogurt, low-fat ricotta cheese, roasted seeds, nuts and whole grain bread into your meals.
- Pretty in Pink: Gum tissue is very sensitive to everyday free radical damage. Keep your gums pretty in pink by consuming an antioxidant-rich diet and flossing daily. Foods like red peppers, kale, spinach, broccoli and sweet potatoes may help lessen your chances of gum disease.
- Dirty mouth? Clean it with Fiber: Forgot to give your chompers their morning brush and floss? Although a mint or gum will freshen your breath, depending on the variety it may also have negative impacts on oral health. Trade in the bubble gum for an apple or pear and reap the plaque-cleaning benefits of fiber.
- Better Together: Eaten alone, foods like tomatoes, citrus fruits, sugary candies and beverages, and vinegar break down enamel. This process results in increased soft tooth tissue decay and cavities. Consuming acidic foods as part of a balanced meal will help dilute them and protect tooth enamel.
— Allissa Eiser, dietetic intern, and Debra A. Boutin, MS, RD, chair and dietetic internship director, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Science at Bastyr University.


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Every week, iPeace TV features news from Unificationist communities around the world. This weekly update features:
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On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, bound for the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit. Despite their mission's numerical designation, they were the second crew to visit Skylab; in a move guaranteed to generate confusion for decades to come, NASA had designated as Skylab 1 the unmanned Workshop launched on 14 May 1973, and had dubbed the first crew visit Skylab 2.
The Skylab 3 Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) separated from the second stage of its Saturn IB launch vehicle and began maneuvers to catch up with Skylab. During final approach to the Workshop, one of the steering thruster quads on the CSM began to leak nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer. The crew dutifully shut off the quad and used the three quads remaining to complete docking without further incident.
On 2 August, a second quad began to leak, raising fears that tainted nitrogen tetroxide had damaged both quads. If this were true, then the remaining two quads and the CSM's Service Propulsion System (SPS) main engine might also be compromised; though the individual quads and the SPS all had independent propellant systems, all contained oxidizer from the same batch. If the leaks continued, moreover, nitrogen tetroxide might contaminate the inside of the CSM's drum-shaped Service Module, damaging other systems. Within hours, NASA put into motion a variant of a plan Kenneth Kleinknecht, Skylab Program Manager, and Lawrence Williams of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office had described less than a year previously at the Fifth Annual Space Rescue Symposium in Vienna, Austria.
In their paper, Kleinknecht and Williams explained that Skylab would provide the first opportunity for space rescue in the U.S. space program. One-seat Mercury and two-seat Gemini spacecraft had been too small and limited in capability to serve as rescue spacecraft. Apollo lunar CSMs were much more capable; even so, they each carried only a little more breathing oxygen, fuel cell reactants, and food than were needed to support a three-man crew for the duration of a lunar mission (about two weeks). If an Apollo CSM had become stranded in lunar orbit - for example, by an SPS failure - then its crew would almost certainly have perished long before NASA could have attempted a rescue.
If astronauts needed to evacuate the Skylab Orbital Workshop, then they could board their CSM, undock from the Workshop, and splash down on Earth in less than a day. If, on the other hand, a crew's CSM became unusable while it was docked at Skylab's front port, then the astronauts could wait on board Skylab for rescue. Life support reserves on board the Workshop would be sufficient to support a crew even if the last of the three planned Skylab missions needed to be extended to enable a rescue. This was because the Workshop would be launched with enough oxygen, food, water, and other supplies to support three men for eight months, yet the three Skylab visits were planned to last a total of only five months at the time Kleinknecht and Williams presented their paper.
NASA, meanwhile, would prepare and launch a rescue CSM with a crew of two. It would dock at the radial (side-facing) docking port on Skylab's Multiple Docking Adapter. Kleinknecht and Williams proposed that the CSM intended for the next Skylab crew should be made the rescue CSM. This would, presumably, have reduced by one the number of long-duration Skylab missions flown. A fourth CSM, which would serve throughout the Skylab program as the backup CSM, would become the rescue vehicle for the Skylab 4 astronauts, the third and final crew to live on board the Workshop.
Kleinknecht and Williams estimated that stripping out the rescue CSM's aft bulkhead lockers to make room for a "rescue kit" would require about a day. The rescue kit would include a pair of special astronaut couches, connectors and hoses for linking two additional space-suited astronauts to the rescue CSM's life support system, and an experiment-return pallet. The rescue CSM's two-man crew would recline in the left and right couches; the three rescued Skylab crewmen would return to Earth in the center couch and in the two special couches, which would be mounted below the others in place of the lockers.
The rescue kit would also include a special Apollo probe-and-drogue docking unit that would enable the crew inside Skylab to manually undock the crippled CSM. This would clear the Workshop's front port for any future CSM dockings. Kleinknecht and Williams were not specific about what would happen to the unmanned CSM after it was discarded.
Though the time needed to install the rescue kit in the rescue CSM would be minimal, the time needed to refurbish Pad 39B and prepare the rescue CSM and Saturn IB rocket for launch would have been longer and would have varied considerably depending upon when the crew became stranded. After each Skylab Saturn IB launch, ground crews would need about 48 days to refurbish Pad 39B and prepare the next Skylab CSM and Saturn IB. If a rescue were judged to be necessary at the beginning of the 28-day first manned Skylab mission (Skylab 2), then the crew would find their mission extended by 20 days. On the other hand, if a rescue were declared necessary late in the first mission, then preparations for the next Skylab CSM launch would be farther along, but would have begun later. The rescue CSM and Saturn IB would, thus, need 28 days of preparation before they could launch. In either case, the crew would remain on board the Workshop for about twice as long as originally planned.
The second and third Skylab missions (Skylab 3 and Skylab 4) were both planned to last 56 days at the time Kleinknecht and Williams presented their paper. Activation of Skylab rescue capability early in these missions would have permitted a rescue before the return time planned when the crew had left Earth. A failure near the end of the Skylab 3 or Skylab 4 mission would see a rescue CSM launched as few as 10 days after the rescue plan was activated.
The 2 August failure of the second Skylab 3 CSM thruster quad unleashed a storm of activity. NASA elected to prepare the backup Skylab CSM, not the Skylab 4 CSM, as its rescue vehicle, and tapped Skylab 3 backup crewmen Vance Brand and Don Lind to pilot it.
Almost as soon as the rescue plan was activated, however, analysis showed that the nitrogen tetroxide in the Skylab 3 CSM's propulsion system was not tainted, and that the two thruster quad failures lacked a detectable common cause. Tests also showed that the Skylab 3 crew could maneuver their CSM with a single functioning thruster quad. Though rescue preparations continued, by 10 August NASA had cleared the Skylab 3 crew for a 59-day mission on board the Workshop. The astronauts returned to Earth in the Skylab 3 CSM as planned on 25 September 1973.
Skylab Rescue Capability, Kenneth S. Kleinknecht and Lawrence G. Williams; paper presented at the Fifth Annual Space Rescue Symposium Organized by the Space Rescue Studies Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics, 23rd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Vienna, Austria, 9-12 October 1972.


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The website was developed with support from:
- The Arts and Humanities Research Council,
- Central Community Relations unit,
- The Department of the Environment (Northern ireland) and
- Foras na Gaeilge.
- Community Relations Council,
- Esme Mitchell Trust,
- Heritage Lottery Fund,
- Ultach Trust.
The corpus of Northern Ireland place-names includes historical administrative names (6 counties, 60-plus barony and district names, 269 civil parishes, 9,600 townlands) and at least 20,000 non-administrative names (including the names of rivers, lakes, mountains, and other physical features). This database contains a gazetteer of these names which was compiled by the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project from map and other sources. The gazetteer continues to grow; additions are constantly required as new names are coined in urban landscapes and as traditional names (which have previously been unrecorded) are discovered in the field.Since I have ancestors from Northern Ireland, this website will be of use to me personally.
These names originated in a variety of languages: primarily Irish historically (e.g Belfast < Béal Feirste), but with increasing numbers of names in English (Draperstown) and Scots (Glarryford) appearing on record since the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century. There are also names which originated in Old Norse (Strangford) or which indicate contact with, or knowledge of, other languages such as French (Pomeroy). The corpus of historical citations for these names currently stands at approximately 130,000 references in the database; these citations have been abstracted from a wide variety of sources stretching over the best part of two millenia.


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If you like your Mamas Rose to be of the old school — the Ethel Merman type of stage mother, you might say, as distinct from the more nuanced, needy, or psychologically revisionist kinds of Mama — then Klea Blackhurst's classic interpretation of the greatest character in that musical masterpiece "Gypsy" will be your kind of Mama. The orchestra has rarely sounded louder at the Drury Lane Theatre. But neither brass nor wind nor errant cell phones are anything close to a match for Blackhurst's wide pipes, which belt out those Jule Styne tunes and perfect Stephen Sondheim lyrics with enough force, mastery and sheer force of will to blow half the traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway back to the city from which it ventured. Gimmicks are one thing; this kind of technique is another.
Blackhurst's Rose — and let's face it, you're going to "Gypsy" for Rose — does not change much based on those around her. A lot of actresses treat the song "Rose's Turn" as a moment for a breakdown. It would seem such. But Blackhurst does not really care to go there. Her Rose knows how to do one thing, which is to push her kids. Blackhurst leaves her depths unprobed.
Yet, paradoxically, the other striking thing that Blackhurst brings to the big suburban table here is a certain humility — and although this actress is famous for her Merman cabarets and tributes, this part is all Blackhurst. Unlike the recent Broadway Roses, she offers up a minor-league, small-town woman unafraid to be pathetic, and I don't mean grandly pathetic. At one point in Act 2, I was suddenly struck by how well Blackhurst revealed that if Rose was not doing what she cannot help but do, disastrous as it may be for girls and for Herbie, the man who loves her, her life would be unbearably dull. In the last Broadway revival, you saw a glamorous, complex woman who could have been a star herself. In this show, you get Rose with no such possibilities and whose only other choice would kill her spirit. As was the case with Susan Moniz's Sally in the recent "Follies" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, you see the unbearable horrors of the everyday that should turn any of us into a Rose, if we only had the guts. And it makes the show.
Director William Osetek has staged his Broadway-quality (but very much Chicago-style) "Gypsy" as a vaudeville show itself; the dominant scenic element in Martin Andrew's fine design is a spinning gold proscenium. It is not a wholly original idea, but it executed exceptionally well, albeit a tad underpaced in some transitions on Thursday's opening. Thanks especially to the knockout Cheryl Avery, who plays the stripper Mazeppa, and Matthew Crowle, a skilled tapper and a just-selfish-enough Tulsa (the resonant choreography is by Tammy Mader), the famous specialty numbers deliver a great bang for the buck. (A bevy of talented kids also are part of that.)
Yet this is neither a flashy nor a sentimental production; David Kortemeier's very moving Herbie, his stomach ulcer pushed to the fore, is clearly hanging on for his bare life to some possibility of a compromised happiness.
Andrea Prestinario, the hugely talented Chicago actress on a formidable current roll, makes a fascinating, vulnerable Louise. She is a very different kind of actress than Blackhurst — much more in the moment and remarkably able to depict character through her own relationship with her body. You don't see them as chips of the same block, which can work with this show. But Prestinario gets us to the same spot in the end: you see a stripper who never had much talent and who doesn't really enjoy it despite her protestations to the contrary. But what was she going to do? Maybe her square-jawed mama did us all a favor in the end.
When: Through April 1
Where: Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace
Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Tickets: $35-$46 at 630-530-0111 and drurylaneoakbrook.com


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Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell's secretary of health and human services will serve another term to help his new Democratic boss attempt to persuade a divided General Assembly to expand Medicaid.
Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday that he is reappointing Bill Hazel to the Cabinet post. Hazel joins Secretary of Finance Ric Brown as McDonnell holdovers among the seven Cabinet members announced by McAuliffe, who still has five to go.
Hazel enjoys bipartisan support in the legislature, where he will lead McAuliffe's campaign to expand Medicaid to an additional 400,000 low-income Virginians under President Barack Obama's federal health care reform law. Democrats support expansion of the state-federal program while most Republicans - particularly in the GOP-controlled House of Delegates - oppose it because they don't trust the federal government to continue to fund its share of Medicaid in the long term.
McAuliffe, who takes office Jan. 11, made another pitch for expansion at the news conference on Hazel's reappointment.
"He will be an invaluable asset as we work with leaders of both parties to get this done,'' McAuliffe said.
Five Democratic state senators emphasized Medicaid expansion in a letter urging McAuliffe to reappoint Hazel. McAuliffe aides also provided letters from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association, HCA Virginia Health System, the Virginia Poverty Law Center, the Virginia Health Care Foundation and the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards endorsing a second term for Hazel.
The reappointment was not popular, however, among abortion rights advocates who had hoped for a new slate of government health officials after four years of fighting the anti-abortion McDonnell administration. The two most high-profile battles were over mandatory ultrasounds for women seeking an abortion and strict new architectural requirements for both existing and new abortion clinics. McAuliffe has pledged to try to undo to the abortion clinic regulations recently approved by a Virginia Board of Health stacked with McDonnell appointees.
Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said advocates discouraged Hazel's reappointment during meetings with the governor-elect's transition team and offered their own suggestions for the position. She said that while Hazel did not actively promote the ultrasound and clinic measures, he also did not speak out against them.
"You cannot allow politics and ideology to interfere with access to health care,'' Keene said. "We felt there was a disinterest or lack of engagement in the process.''
Asked about those concerns at the news conference, Hazel said he takes his cue from his boss.
"One of the jobs of being a Cabinet secretary is to follow the governor and implement the law,'' Hazel said.
McAuliffe said he has made it clear that he will be a "brick wall'' against abortion restrictions, "and I don't think anybody should have any concerns about that.''
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia "will be watching closely to make sure that Secretary Hazel works to advance the governor's women's health agenda,'' the group's executive director, Cianti Stewart-Reid, said in a written statement.
At the news conference, McAuliffe praised Hazel as "an experienced, talented and dedicated public servant.''
He also said that as an orthopedic surgeon, Hazel brings a helpful practitioner's perspective to health care policy.
Va. Governor-Elect Reappoints Health Secretary
Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell's secretary of health and human services will serve another term to help his new Democratic boss attempt to persuade a divided General Assembly to expand Medicaid.


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Most Internet service providers make no secret of the fact that, when law enforcement comes calling with demands for information or surveillance, they'll cooperate fully. Your information is only private until someone with a badge asks for it.
Now, the former operator of a New York ISP says he's starting a telecommunications firm that won't roll over so easily for the feds. CNet reports on plans by Nicholas Merrill to offer mobile phone and cell service that will reject questionable requests by the government for customer information, as well as offering encrypted communications services.
From reporter Declan McCullough's story:
Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity.
The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers. It would also — and in practice this is likely more important — challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality.
Merrill says he is calling the operation Calyx, and hopes to raise a modest $2 million to launch the service this year. It would utilize Clear's wireless broadband service, encrypted Web browsing and e-mail "stored in encrypted form, so even Calyx can't read it after it arrives".
In other words, only Calyx's customers will be able to decrypt their own communications. If law enforcement demands data, Merrill won't be able to give it to them in readable form. And, according to the CNet article, this will be backed up by another statute, the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which lets ISPs off the hook if they don't have the ability to decrypt customer communications.
The idea was born from Merrill's successful fight against a provision of the Patriot Act:
Merrill is in the unique position of being the first ISP exec to fight back against the Patriot Act's expanded police powers — and win.
In February 2004, the FBI sent Merrill a secret "national security letter" (not an actual court order signed by a judge) asking for confidential information about his customers and forbidding him from disclosing the letter's existence. He enlisted the ACLU to fight the gag order, and won. A federal judge barred the FBI from invoking that portion of the law, ruling it was "an "unconstitutional prior restraint of speech in violation of the First Amendment."
Merrill's identity was kept confidential for years as the litigation continued. In 2007, the Washington Post published his anonymous op-ed which said: "I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government," especially because "I have doubts about the legitimacy of the underlying investigation." He wasn't able to discuss his case publicly until 2010.
Merrill says he's getting all kinds of support and service from privacy advocates in the tech community, who are providing him with software and travel expenses to talk to Silicon Valley venture capital firms. His plan could very well become reality.
But it won't be without its challenges. I suspect the law enforcement community will be quick to test Merrill, and he'll probably find subpoenas in his face soon after he opens for business. If the feds take him to court, will he or his backers have the legal and financial fortitude for protracted legal battles? And how will he determine what constitutes a surveillance request that's "of dubious legality or constitutionality"? Will he allow surveillance of his customers when the request is clearly legit?
And finally, what kind of customers will he attract? Sure, he'll probably have plenty of upstanding citizens who simply don't approve of government snooping on principle. But he's also likely to attract users who come to him specifically because they have something to hide. How will Merrill deal with those situations?
I like the idea on principle of an ISP that won't unthinkingly kowtow to every request for customer data from the authorities, but making that kind of judgment call is not easy. Calyx sounds good on paper – it will be interesting to see if it will work in practice, or how long it will survive.


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Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston, who earned his undergraduate degree in computer science at MIT in 2005 and teamed with then EECS undergraduate student Arash Ferdowsi to found the company, will be the MIT June 7, 2013 Commencement speaker.
Read more in the MIT News Office, Nov. 13, 2012, article by Steve Bradt titled "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston will be MIT's 2013 Commencement speaker MIT alumnus and co-founder of popular file-transfer service will address the Class of 2013 on June 7," also posted below in its entirety.
Drew Houston '05, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the popular Web-based file-transfer service, will deliver the address at MIT's 147th Commencement exercises on Friday, June 7, in Killian Court.
Dropbox lets users easily transport and share photos, documents and videos. Files saved to Dropbox automatically save to a user's computers, phones and tablets, and are backed up on the Dropbox website.
"Drew Houston has made cloud computing available to people everywhere," says MIT President L. Rafael Reif. "His experience offers a powerful example of how a young MIT graduate can give the world something truly useful. I am delighted that he will share his story, and some of the lessons he has learned along the way, with our Class of 2013 and their families and guests."
Houston holds an SB in computer science and engineering from MIT. After graduating, he recognized that people needed a way to bring their files with them without sending e-mail attachments or carrying USB drives. He began writing a solution to this problem in 2007, sharing an early version with Arash Ferdowsi, then an MIT undergraduate. The two then began working on the project that would eventually become Dropbox.
"I've had some of the most formative experiences of my life at MIT," Houston says. "It's where Dropbox started and where I met my co-founder, Arash, so it's an honor to come back and share my story. Technology is at the heart of how we shape our future and confront our challenges, and more than ever the world needs MIT graduates to lead us forward."
Since Dropbox's founding five years ago, Houston has led the company's growth from a simple idea to a service relied upon by millions around the world. Prior to starting Dropbox — and while studying at MIT — he also founded Accolade, an online SAT-prep startup.
"Drew Houston's combination of vision, persistence and commitment to quality transformed a simple idea into the can't-live-without product that Dropbox has become," says Undergraduate Association President Jonté Craighead. "An MIT education prepares students for the unknown and the unimagined, and we are privileged to have him share his entrepreneurial success story with our community."
"Dropbox has become a household name for simple file transfer and convenient collaboration," says Amanda David, president of MIT's Class of 2013. "But beyond the technology, Drew Houston is inspirational as an entrepreneur who leveraged his insights and connections at MIT to identify and solve a problem. I can only imagine that his Commencement speech will remind us to believe in our ability to learn and persevere to pursue our ideas."
"Drew's work with Dropbox has the fingerprints of MIT all over it," says Graduate Student Council President Brian Spatocco. "It suggests to us that MIT is made great not just by the labs in its buildings, but by the connectedness of its people. It reminds us that at MIT, innovation and entrepreneurship can happen anywhere and at any time — even in the most informal of settings. Most importantly, Drew's story inspires us to follow passion, rather than prescription, for careers of true meaning and impact."
Houston conceived of Dropbox on a bus trip from Boston to New York: His hopes to finish some work during the long ride were dashed by the realization that he had left his USB drive on his desk at home, leaving him with nothing to do. Out of frustration he opened his text editor and started writing the first lines of code of what would eventually become Dropbox.
Shortly after, Houston met Ferdowsi through a mutual friend at MIT and showed him an early version of Dropbox. After several meetings, Houston and Ferdowsi decided to jump into the project together; Ferdowsi left MIT and the two started working out of a tiny sublet in Cambridge. They eventually moved to San Francisco and received their first venture capital investment from Sequoia Capital, early investors in Google and Apple.
"At MIT, we teach students to identify problems and propose their solutions," says MIT Chancellor Eric Grimson, who has long served on the Commencement Committee. "Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi took that approach, as many before them have, and turned it into the basis of a business. I'm thrilled that Drew will share his insights and experience with the next wave of MIT's graduates as they go forth and change the world."
Houston joins a notable list of guest speakers at recent MIT Commencements, including Khan Academy founder Sal Khan '98, MEng '98 (2012), Xerox CEO Ursula Burns (2011), Raymond S. Stata '57, chairman and co-founder of Analog Devices Inc. (2010), Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (2009), Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (2008), MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest (2007) and alumnus and Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke (2006).


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MIRA MESA, Calif., March 16 (UPI) -- A California man upset with his bank for disallowing his requested refinance said he decided to pay off his $6,500 credit card bill entirely with pennies.Thierry Cahez of San Diego County rolled 650,000 pennies in plastic, loaded them into crates and drove the lot to his Mira Mesa bank, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, reported.Cahez was turned away by the bank several times but eventually was sent to a branch with a vault large enough to handle the coins.Cahez said he opted to pay his credit card bill with pennies because he was turned down for a refinance and for the amount of charges and fees on his credit card, KABC-TV said Tuesday.
Are they allowed to refuse it, if its legal tender?
how did he get hold of so many pennies?!
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