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Re : worried about urinating???
One of my friends has this issue with her pregnancies all of the time! Once she gets into her 3rd trimester, she feels like she has to go but only a drop comes out...just like Kara said above, it's due to baby squishing your bladder.
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Alot of times baby is squishing everything including your bladder. So you can have more frequent urges to go, but with nothing to actually pee. If the urine you are getting is really dark, or you aren't going frequently, then it's worth a call to the doc. And it doesn't hurt to call the on call doc just to ease your
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im 38 wks pregnant and up until today i had no problem going to the bathroom i would go alot...now all of a sudden i have the urge to go but when i go little or nothing comes out and im freaking out like there is something wrong with me or the baby.is this common or should i go to l & d???
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And considering the teaching large classes module and the kinds of activity to do with the upper intermediates, i was thinking about a gap filling excercise first regarding travelling and the different types, such as bussiness, leisure, long distance and exploring the concept of travelling and after asking the student to bring along pitcures of places she/he has visited or wants to visit and show interest in her/him in a relaxed conversational manner. Lastly I would maybe ask her to write an essay or prepare a presentation on a trip she/he would like to take or a country of interest, therfore spurring him/her to do research on their own time through the Internet or any other means they choose.
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Secondly, I think it's time to update 3D functionality. Why do I need separate controls to move 3D map? I could do the same with mouse, and even more with the touchpad. Currently touchpad has very limited support in maps. No rotation by moving two fingers around, no zoom in/out by pinching gesture, etc. That all cries to be implemented. Plus one button to return back to the vertical down-to-earth ("flat") view mode, all in the same map window/pane.
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No, Retina should come first, by any means! Windows native? Hm, I'm not very enthusiastic about that, I escaped that "camp" some 7-8 years ago, and have no fond memories. But I can understand it from the business point of view. Voiceover — OK, I deny myself, as Jesus taught, let them have it first! Thank you, Helen! I'll be patient, but I hope that it won't take more than a year or so?
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The Peru Children's Trust is a small Christian charity run by a couple called Manuel and Gay Reynaga. They work in the high Andes of Peru in the city and shantytowns of Huancayo. The main work of the charity is to support 100 of the more disadvantaged children through sponsorship, which pays towards schooling costs. They also support the families of these children with medical and pastoral care and have initiated a number of small business development schemes from carrot farming to brick manufacturing.
In 1997 Manuel and Gay came to our Youth Group (Enigma – St Mary's Maidenhead) to talk about the Peru Children's Trust. Among other things they mentioned the fact that much time and money is spent on collecting firewood and buying gas to cook with. They also mentioned that the sun is very hot during the day and it should be possible to use the sun's energy to cook with.
Being an engineer, this got me thinking, so I did some research and found a number of useful resources. The most inspiring book was Cooking with the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers' by Beth and Dan Halacy.
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Our third model was more stable, simpler to make and more efficient. It is this model that we decided would be best for Peru, so this case study is mainly concerned with the manufacture and use of this solar stove.
In September 1999 a group of seven people from St Mary's went out to Peru to visit the Reynagas and to help with their work in a variety of ways. The seven included David & Gill Coe, Jim & Ali Peck, Quinton & Jody Stowell and Vicky Warren. We spent three days in Lima, did a ten day tour around Peru and spent the remainder of our four week trip with the Reynagas. Apart from visiting many of the sponsored families and passing on gifts from English sponsors, we also organised two 'Fun Days' for the 100 sponsored children. This involved sketches (The Prodigal Son), art and crafts, active games, lots of food, and for some of the older children - building stoves. It was an exhausting few days but very rewarding.
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"You don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordenary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got." –Leslie Dixon
In a summer of Russian spy espionage rings being uncovered in real life while Angelina Jolie single-handedly battles the Cold War sleeper-cell resurgence on the silver screen, it appears secret agents are popping up everywhere. Yet just as the idea of 10 clandestine agents infiltrating our government offices and children's soccer games terrifies us, it also thrills us to no end (SALT grossed over $100 mil in it's opening week). There is a profound tradition of fear and intrigue unleashed the human psyche when it comes to shadow figures, cloaked in the deep veils of undercover, on missions to unravel society's darkest secrets. We love the anonymity of sabotage, the basic conceit that one individual can cause enormous, potentially world-altering change through the ninja reflexes of infiltration and deceit.
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Like many finals before 1914 it matched Paris with the provinces. SCUF, the club founded by Charles Brennus - whose name now adorns the trophy - in 1895, played Aviron Bayonnais. The match attracted a paying crowd of 20,000, a huge crowd in those days, to the Stade Colombes, while Henri Garcia records that a further 2,000 may have got in for free.
Paul Voivenel, one of the most influential chroniclers of the French game, recorded that "The immense stadium was packed. All of the Southerners living in Paris were crowded together. There was singing in the sunshine".
SCUF had more of a record at the top level of the French game. They had been losing finalists in 1911 and five of their players were already French internationals. Among them were Jules Cadenat, destined for a long career in rugby politics which would see him become president of Beziers and a national team selector and the Bayonne-born art dealer Jo Anduran, legendary for winning his single cap for France because the proximity of his gallery to the Gare du Nord made him the easiest substitute when an early squad pitched up one short for the trip to Wales.
Bayonne were, as Voivenel recorded 'unknown only three years earlier'. As their name implied, they were the offshoot of a rowing club, whose members had decided as recently as 1906 that they needed another sporting activity to keep them fit through the winter.
Among those rowers was Fernand Fourges, a national champion in 1905, competitor at the 1908 London Olympics and already a rugby player with neighbouring Biarritz. Together with his younger brothers Jean and Jules he helped establish the new Aviron rugby section and rapidly became ambitious for his club, dreaming, as Richard Escot and Jacques Riviere have put it 'of rugby which was more than just a game for good dribblers'.
Escot and Riviere report that he found the means to this end on a trip to Wales, where he played for Penarth and persuaded local outside-half Harry Owen Roe to return to France with him to play, and to introduce the Welsh style of rugby which currently dominated Europe. That both brother Jules and Roe are listed as ship brokers on the French website devoted to their national finals suggests that Fernand, a motor trader, may have used family connections to provide Roe with a living.
Arriving in 1911 Roe's ideas had an immense impact. Bayonne developed a style described by Escot and Riviere as 'a total rugby, in which everybody participated fully and in which the forwards were as skilled as the backs'.
By the 1912-13 season, they were an all but irresistible force, scoring more than 600 points - an extraordinary number at this time - while conceding fewer than 100. In the qualifiers that took them to their final clash with SCUF, the tally was a still more imposing 171 points to 6.
Nor were the Parisians any more capable of stopping Bayonne than opponents of earlier rounds. They were still just about in contention on the hour, when Bayonne led 13-3, but collapsed in the final quarter when the Basques added four more tries for a final score of 31-8.
True to Fourges's dedication to 15-man rugby, six of the seven tries were scored by forwards - Eugene Elissalde crossing twice while both Jules and Fernand Fourges, Paulin Bascou and Jean Domercq scored, along with winger Victor Labaste. Roe landed four conversions.
The crowd chaired Bayonne's players off the pitch while former French captain Gaston Lane wrote in L'Auto (nowadays L'Equipe) that they had played with 'stunning brio, amazing audacity and, most of all, staggering skill'.
It was, in other words, a foretaste of the way the best French players and teams were to amaze and alarm opposing players and fans over the next century - far from the only French tradition, but the one for which they have been most recognised and admired.
The result was a harbinger in other ways. While provincial dominance had been established over the previous decade, this was a hegemony of the major centres - Bordeaux, Lyon (which won in 1910) and Toulouse (1912). Bayonne were the first, but far from the last, small town winners. SCUF have never been near the final again, and nor was any Parisian team to hoist the Brennus until Racing Club in 1959.
Bayonne reached the quarter-final again in 1914, going down to eventual winners Perpignan in a replay, a few days after a first meeting that would be famously recalled by Voivenel as 'the king of matches'.
By the end of 1914, several of the players from that match were dead. Five of Bayonne's victorious 1913 team died in the First World War, centre Jean Francois Poeydebasque and back rower Emmanuel Iguinitz falling on consecutive days in September 1914. Two SCUF players, including Anduran, died. The unfairness of the fate visited on war casualties can be seen in the way that many of the survivors would still have been around to drink a toast to the 50th anniversary of their final in April 1963. Fernand Fourges lost brother Jean in action in 1918 and Jules in 1919, but himself lived until 1973, adding a national championship in a third sport as a pelota player in 1926, 1927 and 1928 and helping train the Aviron team which brought the Bouclier back to Bayonne in 1934.
Roe was still at the club in 1934 and for the best part of another two decades after that. As Jean-Pierre Bodis noted affectionately :"He came to learn French, and never really did in 40 years".
But his contribution to Bayonne rugby is commemorated in the club's postal address at Rue Owen Roe. A young film-maker, Greg Harris, is working on a film about his life. As a key link in the process by which the Welsh game was transmitted to south-west France, but then transformed by players like Fernand Fourges into something distinctively French, his is a life well worth remembering.
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Cardinal Bernard Francis Law prays during the Eucharistic celebration with the new cardinals on November 21, 2010 at St. Peter's basilica at The Vatican.
A Vatican crackdown launched last month on the largest leadership organization for U.S. nuns reportedly was spurred on by American Catholic officials worried the nuns aren't vocal enough on conservative social issues.
On April 18, after a three-year investigation, the Vatican's doctrine watchdog appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to oversee the nuns' organization and reform its programs to adhere more closely to "the teachings and discipline of the Church."
The issues raised by the Vatican include the nuns' lack of outspokenness on issues such as gay marriage, abortion and contraception. Another concern is related to the conferences organized by the group featuring "a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."
In a statement, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella organization representing 80 percent of the 57,000 nuns in the U.S., said it had been "taken by surprise by the gravity of the mandate."
The Vatican's initiative was triggered by U.S. Archbishop William E. Lori's petition to investigate the nuns, according to the National Catholic Reporter and the British Catholic weekly The Tablet. Lori was recently appointed by the pope to lead the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
According to those same reports, Cardinal Bernard F. Law -- disgraced former archbishop of Boston -- was "the person in Rome most forcefully supporting Bishop Lori's proposal." After media reports revealed he had permitted priests accused of sexually molesting children to continue serving, Law resigned in 2002. Pope John Paul II appointed Law as archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome in 2004, but he resigned from this position in November 2011 when he turned 80, the age most cardinals retire.
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Archbishop William Lori
Other American churchmen in Rome, including Cardinal Raymond Burke and Cardinal James Stafford, reportedly backed the investigation, according to the Religion News Service. The probe was led by former archbishop of San Francisco Cardinal William Levada, who has served on the Vatican's doctrine congregation since 2005.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would not comment on the role of U.S. priests in the investigation into the nuns.
The Americans in Rome wouldn't have had the authority to start the investigation themselves, but they could lobby the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- the Vatican's doctrine watchdog -- for it, religion journalist and Vatican expert David Gibson told msnbc.com. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the head of this congregation before he was elected pope in 2005.
Gibson, a Religion News Service correspondent, said the crackdown shows that concerns about poverty and economic inequality are taking a backseat in the church.
"There's so much riding on the gay marriage battle, and on abortion rights, and on contraception that [bishops] want everybody in the church to be doubling down on those issues and not being distracted by social justice," Gibson told msnbc.com.
Bishops have been playing defense for years in the wake of the church's sexual abuse crisis, and Gibson said they've been looking for issues on which they can reassert their moral authority.
"These issues are ones they think they can do that on, so they really want to show that... they're calling the shots," he added.
The statement issued by the Vatican read that "while there has been a great deal of work on the part of LCWR promoting issues of social justice in harmony with the church's social doctrine, it is silent on the right to life from conception to natural death."
While church leadership traditionally focuses on matters of doctrine, nuns have long been the public face of the church in the United States. They run the schools and hospitals and are concerned with performing the gospel rather than just preaching it from the pulpit, Gibson said.
American Catholics are showing their support for the nuns, organizing vigils all over the country to advocate for the end of the crackdown. The Nun Justice Project is one organization standing with the nuns against what they call "a prime example of how the hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church misuses its power to diminish the voice of women."
An online petition started by Nun Justice had garnered more than 41,000 signatures at the time this story was written. Sister Annmarie Sanders, director of communications for the LCWR, told msnbc.com the organization finds the public support "heartening."
The LCWR will meet starting May 29 to begin its discussion of the Vatican's doctrinal assessment and the implementation plan put forth by the Holy See. The Vatican has the power to remove the official recognition of the LCWR.
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Ryan Reynolds said he's got a superhero "double whammy" on the way.
The star, who is set to play characters from two rival comic book universes – DC's Green Lantern and Marvel's Deadpool – sat down on "The Late Show With Jimmy Fallon" to discuss his super-roles.
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"[We're] four, five months away from beginning shooting," he said of "Green Lantern." "It's the only job I've ever had that I'm not allowed to talk about. I think there's a representative from Warner Bros. who I'm sure is following me around, ready to blow-dart me if I say a single word."
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"A lot of it is a space epic, some of it is on planet Earth," he said, explaining the abilities of his character, Hal Jordan, come from a potential-filled power ring. "The ring can create anything his will or imagination can conjure up."
And with "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" spin-off "Deadpool" in the works as well, Ryan relished in his geek chic.
"At this point, it just makes you like an Internet hero, nothing really more than that," he told Jimmy.
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The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on the opposite of reality. But that is the reality of President Obama today.
Waving a planted press commentary, Obama recently claimed on the campaign stump, "federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any President in almost 60 years."
Peggy Noonan aptly summarized in last weekend's Wall Street Journal the take away by the still holding majority of Americans living in the real world:
"There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration. It became apparent some weeks ago when the President talked on the stump – where else? – about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth [under Obama] is actually lower than that of previous Presidents. This was startling to a lot of people, who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama's Presidency. People sneered: The President was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture! But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That's more alarming, isn't it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender."
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The Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972 on Wednesday, beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 of the finals.
Tim Thomas capped a spectacular playoff run with 37 saves at the Canucks' hostile home arena, and Patrice Bergeron scored two goals as the Bruins earned the only away victory of the two-week series.
Brad Marchand also scored two goals for the Bruins, who disappointed an estimated 100,000 Canadian fans who gathered in downtown Vancouver to celebrate the Canucks' chance at their first championship.
Boston had lost five straight Stanley Cup finals since winning its last championship. The Bruins hadn't even reached the finals since 1990.
Star goalie Roberto Luongo again failed to match Thomas' brilliance, giving up 18 goals in the last five games of the finals.
Mark Messier and the New York Rangers won Game 7 in Vancouver's last finals appearance in 1994. This time, Thomas silenced the NHL's highest-scoring team, erased nearly four decades of Bruins playoff blunders.
Thomas limited the Canucks to eight goals in seven spectacular games in the finals, blanking Vancouver in two of the last four. Boston dropped the first two games in Vancouver but became just the third team since 1966 to overcome that deficit.
Canadian Bergeron added a Stanley Cup ring to his gold medals from the Olympics and the world championships with his biggest game of a quiet series. He scored his first goal of the finals late in the first period on a shot Luongo saw too late, and Marchand added his 10th goal of the postseason in the second before Bergeron's short-handed goal, which inexplicably slid under Luongo.
The Bruins are the first team in NHL history to win a Game 7 three times in the same postseason, and they drew another dose of inspiration from forward Nathan Horton, whose concussion in Game 3 irrevocably changed the series' momentum.
Horton attended Game 7, and he apparently poured a bottle of Boston water onto the ice in front of the Bruins' bench 90 minutes before warmups.
Horton was lost for the series with a concussion on a big hit from Vancouver's Aaron Rome. The Bruins rallied for four wins in five games after Horton's injury.
During a two-week Stanley Cup finals that ranks among the NHL's weirdest in recent years, the only predictable aspect had been the home teams' dominance. Vancouver eked out three one-goal victories at home, while the Bruins won three blowouts in Boston.


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Well i posted this in General Discussion , and haven't gotten many responses, so i thaught i would post it here, becuase this is the game development board.
Is anyone interseted in working on a DirectX(or other lib) game? I have a few ideas for games, 1 being a Streets of Rage/Double Dragon/Simpsons arcade type street brawl game.
I am not so good at artwork, and would like some help with the graphics. But also having other programmers would give more modivation. Anyone interested in teaming up to make a game?
Klinerr1 has said he can help with graphics, but I am wondering if anyone wants to work together on the coding?


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If I had to sum up 2017 in one sentence, 'a change is as good as a rest' would be it. I've changed more this year than I remember doing in the previous. Both personally (moving out and meeting someone) and professionally (getting a new job), the change I've gone through has been nothing short of restorative. The only element of my life it's impacted negatively is my desire to write.
When I started this blog, I didn't have much going on and I didn't know who I was. I only knew I loved to read and I preferred not to really see people. Now, I've found a balance between hiding away and experiencing the outside world, and it's only been a benefit. Where writing filled a void it had suddenly become a chore. And, if I am honest, the more brilliant fiction I've read over the years the harder it is to be impressed.
Where does that leave blogging? I've hardly blogged this year, I've not really wanted to, I've just wanted to read. However, I don't want to stop writing at all. To that end, I'm changing the of Books format to write one good review a month, rather than 1-2 fluff posts a week. A more in-depth review of a book that I might write for somewhere like Shiny New Books. Valuable content, rather than 'oh god, I should write something' content. It also means I won't feel pressured to write about every book I read, and thus, I should read more.
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SHANGHAI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Chinese food safety regulators in the southern city of Shenzhen have found carcinogenic mildew in peanuts and cooking oil, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
The cancer-causing substance, called aflatoxin, triggered public concern this week after milk giant Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd said last weekend its Sichuan plant had destroyed products found by a government quality watchdog to contain it.
Aflatoxin occurs naturally in the environment and is produced by certain common types of fungi. It can cause severe liver damage, including liver cancer.
Xinhua reported that the Shenzhen market supervision bureau had said it found up to 4.3 times of the permitted level of aflatoxin in peanuts sold in two supermarkets and one frozen food store, and up to four times the allowed level of aflatoxin in cooking oil in four restaurants.
Fungi and the aflatoxin they produce can infect crops before harvest or during harvesting and storage. The tainted crops then enter the foodchain either directly, or indirectly via animal feed.
On Thursday, food safety officials recalled cooking oil produced by three companies in the southern Guangdong province because they may contain excessive levels of aflatoxin.
These incidents are the latest in a string of safety scandals to hit China's food industry in recent years.
In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 became ill in China from drinking powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial chemical added to low-quality or diluted milk to give misleadingly high protein readings. (Reporting by Melanie Lee)


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Today is Thursday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2012. There are 25 days left in the year.
Today's highlight:
On Dec. 6, 1922, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which established the Irish Free State, came into force one year to the day after it was signed in London.
On this date:
In 1790, Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York.
In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.
In 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.
In 1907, the worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va.
In 1917, some 2,000 people died when an explosives-laden French cargo ship collided with a Norwegian vessel at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the city.
In 1942, comedian Fred Allen premiered "Allen's Alley," a recurring sketch on his CBS radio show spoofing small town America.
In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.
In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about four feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.
In 1962, 37 coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Robena No. 3 Mine operated by U.S. Steel in Carmichaels, Pa.
In 1971, the original Auto-Train, which carried rail passengers and their motor vehicles from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., went into operation. (Although the privately owned line went out of business in 1981, Amtrak revived the service in 1983.)
In 1982, 11 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed when an Irish National Liberation Army bomb exploded at a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
In 1989, 14 women were shot to death at the University of Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then took his own life.
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David Smith seems to be in on a secret to finding work/life balance. In addition to his demanding role as chief operating officer of the growing Rising Roll Gourmet sandwich chain, Smith has his eye on snagging another prize.
For the past three years, Smith (pictured, right) has beat out thousands of competitors to qualify for the annual Field & Stream Total Outdoorsman Challenge (TOC). Widely regarded as the nation's premier competition for hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts, the TOC puts finalists through a range of outdoor disciplines including angling, archery, and shooting. Smith finished sixth overall last year. Now he's looking to clinch a place on the podium and hopes that success will rub off on the business as the chain is poised to roll out nationally this year.
Competition is par for the course in the C-suite, but Smith maintains that any hobby that pushes someone to personal excellence, whether that's cultivating tomatoes or training for an Ironman Triathalon, can have a positive effect on work. "Some might think I'm silly for spending two weeks trying to hit a target, but the stress is too high if you only care about work," says Smith. Having another focus, he says, is better for the team and makes it easier to get motivated to achieve business goals.
Creating a Culture of Motivation
It starts with hiring. Smith says he never offered a position at Rising Roll Gourmet to anyone who can't answer what they love to do outside of work. It's always the last question in his interviews: "What gets you fired up? I look for someone who can answer that immediately. If they can't I'm not inspired to bring them on board."
Smith considers himself fortunate that his business partner and president of Rising Roll Gourmet Mike Lassiter shares that thinking. "He's a competitive runner, and when it's time for him to go [to a race] I pick up the slack. We support each other.
Likewise, as the father of two young children, he grabs "15 minutes here or an hour there," to train so he can spend the rest of his time at home with his kids. "It makes me happier guy."
Achieving Overall Excellence
Smith explains that the TOC tests competitors on seven different disciplines over the course of a week. Endurance is the name of the game. "Whether you win is not about one event, it's how you score overall," he says.
In his first year of the competition, Smith killed it shooting skeet. He cleared the rack and drew immediate attention from the hosts of the televised show. With the cameras bearing down, Smith's nerves set in. "I tanked, I just blew it thinking I have no chance."
He's kept that in mind as Rising Roll Gourmet launched in 2006 and tried to grow during the darkest days of the recession. "Our efforts were full of setbacks. One week of great news then the next you have challenges such as site selection or loss of a prospect," says Smith.
"I learned that one bad event doesn't put you out. If I miss one target, I still have more chances. Just like if we put a dud product out there, let's get a better one next time. We have to have confidence overall in our brand. All it takes is one big fish to get back in the game."
Faith and Patience
For Smith, that lesson found another way into his work. "You absolutely have to believe in what you're doing. If you know the river is full of big fish, you can fish with confidence," he says, and that helps him keep trying even when a new product isn't well received.
"If at any time I didn't believe the concept was right, then I couldn't have that patience. We just know we have the right offering and that keeps us focused."
Deer Hunting, Brand Building, and Knowing It's Time for Change
Smith says it takes time to build brand equity, and a year seems like a very long time to wait for Rising Roll's expansion plan to be in full effect. But he's just as convinced this is the right thing to do as when he signed on with the company in 2006.
Back then he was senior director of franchising with Heavenly Ham, a job he loved because he "just knew it was the best tasting" ham. But after 15 years with the company, he was tasked with dismantling and converting franchisees to their new owner, Honeybaked Ham, a competitor that didn't win Smith's personal taste test.
During that time, Smith was going to lunch at Rising Roll Gourmet at least twice a week and loving their sandwiches and salads. Even though he had an "awesome" job with a great salary, Smith recalls, "I thought Rising Roll is where I belong."
Making the switch was simple, says Smith, "If you are deer hunting you've got to wait them out all day. If you lose confidence in your place, move to different patch of woods."


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DWTS17 Watchouts And Non-Watchouts: Gabby Douglas, Ross Lynch, Todd Carey, Teri Hatcher?
Things are really heating up now, aren't they?!! To keep your dancing blood flowing even further (lol), below are a few more names to throw out there in the "campaigning/wondering about/watch out and non-watch out" categories!!
First of all, a week or so back, PureDWTS reader Jake was reporting in comments that he had read Teri Hatcher may be dancing in the UK version of Dancing With The Stars. We found this link that confirmed the rumor at the Daily Star. However, Jake also wrote that The Sun was reporting that Teri may switch and dance in the US version of Dancing With The Stars instead. Well, we can put both of those rumors now to rest. In this tweet recently, Teri wrote that as much as she loves it, she wouldn't be doing "any dancing competition".
We are also hearing some rumblings about Olympian Gabby Douglas! We couldn't find a lot to support this rumor except that there is some twitter campaigning and news that she recently moved to Los Angeles. She was also seen in the audience last season supporting Aly Raisman. Also, take a look at this interview at Access Hollywood from last May. She said she could see herself dancing on Dancing With The Stars, but, wouldn't do the show until after the 2016 Olympics since she wants to concentrate on her training. So, has she changed her mind since then? Also, would TPTB ask her to dance after already having two gymnasts dance in two seasons in a row?
We also can't forget how Gabby was part of the Fierce 5 in the Dancing With The Stars All Star Season in an explosive performance with Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough. Afterwards, she said this when asked if she'd dance on Dancing With The Stars. Note how fellow gymnast McKayla Maroney said practically the same.
"Definitely! I love the dynamic of being paired with a partner, just having so much behind the scenes, backstage, and just going out there performing for the fans and the crowd. Why not?"
Gabby is also a yogurt spokesperson as a few of you have mentioned in comments which supports this recent rumor. Now I'm starting to think there is more to support the idea of her dancing on the show this season than I first thought? 😯 ❓
Another huge campaign taking place since June is for Ross Lynch to dance on Dancing With The Stars!! In case you don't know, Ross is best known for portraying Austin Moon on the Disney Channel television series "Austin & Ally". According to wiki, he can sign, act, and dance. What's more, he is Derek Hough's cousin and was briefly mentioned in a new Access Hollywood with Derek Hough yesterday. I wasn't even going to mention Ross until this mention which got my curiosity up. That and the fact that TPTB loves to push Disney stars. What a doll he is too. I'd be totally open to this one.
Lastly, @DWTSgossip wrote to us about singer Todd Carey and how he's following some Dancing With The Stars twitter accounts. If you go to his twitter account, you'll see that he's following several fan accounts as well as Dancing With The Stars judge Carrie Anne Inaba and pro dancer Sasha Farber. Also, @DWTSgossip reports that she only noticed this because he followed her and then un-followed her which in turn raised her suspicions. Was this just something random or has he been asked or is he interested in dancing? Or maybe it means nothing at all and he's just a fan to the show. Hmmm, one thing is for sure….he is a cutie and time will soon tell. 😀
Let's see what Court thinks and you let us know what you think too…..
Courtney: Not gonna lie – had never heard of Ross Lynch or Todd Carey prior to reading this post. So I guess I don't really have on opinion on those two…except that if they do cast this Ross guy and he does well, you know there's going to be accusations of "He's getting pimped because he's Derek's cousin, everything is always Derek's fault, blah blah blah". So for that reason alone, I hope he DOESN'T get cast this season – would just be another kink in the chain that makes our blogging lives more difficult as we deal with the trolls. As for Gabby – she'd be a great get (and I remember thinking last season, as Aly just bored me to tears, "Really wish they had gotten Gabby instead…"), but I think gymnasts 3 seasons in a row might be a bit much…gymnasts might become the new NFL stars on DWTS, and illicit grumbles of "I'm tired of gymnasts! Get some other athletes!" Yes, I do find my opinions on who gets cast these days very much colored by how much whining I expect to hear here at Pure about them 😛 Teri would be fun to watch, but like Jamie Lee Curtis (who would also be a GREAT get), I think she's someone that enjoys the show, but is just content to watch it at home, as opposed to participating in it herself.


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All students will gain online access to our 19 didactic modules that includes all of the lectures and procedural videos for our Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures course. These modules should all be completed prior to your scheduled hands-on skills lab session. As such, you will be able to complete all of the didactic preparation for our course anywhere and anytime and you will be able to review all of the lectures and full-length procedural videos as many times as you would like for a whole year!
After completion of the didactic modules, you will join us for a full 10 hour per day of simulation-based training in ALL of these hospital procedures. This procedural training day is 100% hands-on skills lab training with SIX INSTRUCTORS (a 6:1 student/faculty ratio)! You will receive customized, hands-on training in: landmark-guided and ultrasound-guided central line placement, ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement, intraosseous line placement, arterial line placement, vascular ultrasound, chest ultrasound, spine ultrasound, limited Echocardiography, E-FAST exams, RUSH exams, landmark-guided and ultrasound-guided thoracentesis, paracentesis, and lumbar puncture, needle decompression, chest tube placement, pigtail catheter placement, basic suturing, endotracheal intubation, King tube airway placement, laryngeal mask airway placement, stylet-guided intubations, Glidescope intubation, and options for difficult airway management. Bedside ultrasound training will be conducted on paid ultrasound models.
We are excited to offer our Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures CME course at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. We have secured a fabulous group room rate for rooms if you register at least 4 weeks prior to the start of the course. Mention that you are with Hospital Procedures Consultants to obtain the discounted rate.
April 25, 2019
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel
163 E Walton Pl
Chicago, IL 60611
Every student will receive indefinite online access to our entire lecture syllabus and course handouts including basics of ultrasound and airway management, and an emergency drug reference card. This will allow you to have the entire course at your fingertips whenever you are in the hospital!
We will begin our course on the morning of April 25th with a continental breakfast available at 7:00 AM (class will begin at 7:45AM). Breakfast and lunch will be provided to all students. The course will end at approximately April 25th at 6:00 PM. The hotel will be posting the location of our course locations in the lobby.
Hospital Procedure Consultants is dedicated to providing you with quality, comprehensive, evidence-based procedural education. Our goal is to teach you new skills that will be valuable in your practice and to boost your confidence in those procedures you already perform. This live CME course provides up to 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 creditsTM and 16 hours of Trauma CME credit. The course didactics are viewed through complimentary access to our Online CME course which provides up to 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 creditsTM
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. Millennium Knickerbocker Chicago offers an ideal base for you to explore the many sides of the city. A short walk will lead you to 360 Chicago, an observation deck showcasing panoramic views of the skyline and Lake Michigan. Also nearby is the Museum of Contemporary Art, offering year-round exhibitions, performances and events. Experience the Magnificent Mile, with countless opportunities to shop, dine, drink and appreciate some of the city's most iconic landmarks. Visit the hotel website for details.
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