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Oh, how times change. One year ago (approximately), CBJ fans watched this team fall just one point short of a playoff berth despite an electrifying win in the final game of the season. And now? Well, it's just the opposite. Columbus Blue Jackets players, fans, staff, and anyone else with any kind of investment in the team are all gearing up for a, hopefully quite long, playoff run.
So what's changed in the past year? A few subtle signings here and there, a change in conference, but most importantly, a change in expectations and belief from the fans, staff, and the players themselves. Oh, and that of every NHL fan and player as well.
Last season, the support being poured out from fans of other teams was that of pity. This team had been bottom-feeding for a while, and people kind of cheered them on like they were lesser than their teams. But the CBJ faithful knew and still know, this team is capable of more than anyone else knows.
But this year, it's different. The CBJ are a real threat now, and the Penguins will know that come Wednesday. Gone are the "Aww #Lumbus!" and the "OMG if Columbus wins the cup that would be so adorable" tweets like the Blue Jackets are the little brother of every other team. Now, expectations have changed from the CBJ fanbase outward. Everyone knows these boys are for real.
Of course, the job isn't done yet. But the mark has been made. The Columbus Blue Jackets are among elite company in these 2014 playoffs, and it's not like they're the stragglers, either. They beat THE Detroit Red Wings to earn a spot ahead of them. That's right, the very same Red Wings who are playing in their 23rd straight playoffs. I'd say that earns some respect.
But despite the newfound respect, this season will mostly be remembered by the way the players stepped up. They didn't play like the team that has only been to the playoffs once despite being around for 10+ years. They played like a team who finally realized they have just as much a shot at success as any other team. And that is why we are prepping for playoff hockey in Columbus instead of Toronto. Because this team finally expected better of themselves, and met those expectations.


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About Camaron Surovik
- It's in my blood. I'm a third generation Realtor. My mother, Lindi Braddock, is the owner/broker of Coldwell Banker Properties Unlimited and my grandmother, Yvonne Hastings, was a Realtor for thirty-eight years.
- I got my real estate license at 18 years old and my broker's license at 20. I've been in the business 6 years now, working with buyers and sellers to reach their goals.
- I was born in Houston but I've lived in Brenham since I was four months old. I attended Brenham High School, Blinn College, and the Champions School of Real Estate.
- Since joining Coldwell Banker, I completed Coldwell Banker's Fast Start program as well, which provides its graduates with comprehensive training in legal, Texas contracts, marketing, management, and customer relations.
- I have been active in the community through volunteer outreach programs like Habitat for Humanity (I'm usually selling houses, but this time I helped build one!) and being a student mentor. I've worked at Brenham's own High Cotton Baking Company.
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- Residential Communities, in town and in the country
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2003: FEDERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUDGET Appendixes
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2003: FEDERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUDGET APPENDIX A National Research Council Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education1 Key Findings (Excerpted from Executive Summary) KEY FINDINGS The following findings form the basis for the conclusions and recommendations of this study: Federal research funding in the aggregate turned a corner in FY 1998 after five years of stagnation. Total expenditures were up 4.5 percent in FY 1998 over their level in 1993. A year later, in FY 1999, they were up 11.7 percent over 1993. FY 2000 and FY 2001 saw continued growth in budget authority for research. These increases are accounted for primarily by NIH. Indeed, increases in NIH appropriations kept federal research funding from falling even lower in the mid-1990s and have dominated more recent growth in overall research funding (see Fig. ES-1). Moreover, NIH is slated by the current administration for substantial increases in the next several years while most other agencies would receive flat or reduced funding for research. Although federal research funding began to increase after 1997, the new composition of federal support remained relatively unchanged. In 1999, the life sciences had 46 percent of federal funding for research, compared with 40 percent in 1993. During the same period, physical science and engineering funding went from 37 to 31 percent of the research portfolio. Whereas 12 of the 22 fields examined had suffered a real loss of support in the mid-1990s (four by 20 percent or more), by FY 1999 the number of fields with reduced support was seven. However, five of these—physics, geological sciences, and chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering—were down 20 percent or more from 1993. The fields of chemical and mechanical engineering and geological sciences had less funding in 1999 than in 1997. Funding of some fields—including electrical engineering and physics—improved somewhat from 1997 to 1999 but not enough to raise them back up to their 1993 levels. Other fields that failed to increase or had less funding after 1997 included astronomy, chemistry, and atmospheric sciences. 1 National Research Council, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001. Figures referenced in the "Key Findings" reproduced in this Appendix can be found in the report, available on-line at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10162.html.
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2003: FEDERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUDGET One field that had increased funding in the mid-1990s, materials engineering, experienced declining support at the end of the decade. Its funding was 14.0 percent larger in 1997 than in 1993, but that margin fell to 3.0 percent in 1998 and 1.5 percent in 1999. The fields whose support was up in 1997 and has continued to increase include aeronautical, astronautical, civil, and other engineering, 2 biological and medical sciences; computer sciences; and oceanography. Fields that, like overall research expenditures, turned a corner were environmental biology, agricultural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and psychology. Their funding, which was less in 1997 than in 1993, exceed the 1993 level by 1999 (see Fig. ES-2). More recent actions on federal budgets for research, including the first installments in doubling of the NIH budget over the 5 years ending in FY 2003, will increase the current divergence between the life sciences and other fields unless other fields receive substantially larger increases than proposed. The decline in the support of many of the physical science and engineering fields is partly attributable to the fact that the budgets of their principal sponsoring agencies (e.g., DOD, DOE, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]) did not fare as well as the NIH budget and partly to the fact that the agencies with growing budgets, especially NIH and the National Science Foundation (NSF), did not increase their support of those fields and in some cases reduced it. At the same time, some fields (e.g., computer sciences, oceanography, and aeronautical engineering) experienced substantial growth even though their largest 1993 funders were agencies with shrinking budgets (e.g., DOD and NASA). These fields did so by maintaining their level of funding from agencies with declining budgets and by picking up additional support from other agencies. The patterns in federal funding of basic research and research performed at universities are similar to that for overall funding of research but somewhat more favorable, suggesting that by the late 1990s agencies were tending to protect basic and university research relative to applied research and other performers. Although federal funding of research assistant positions through research grants and contracts is but one factor among many in determining the number of Ph.D.'s produced in a field, graduate enrollments and Ph.D. production were generally down in fields that had less federal funding in 1999 than in 1993. Over the next few years, these declines will contribute to an ongoing reduction in the supply of new talent for positions in governmental/nonprofit organizations, industry, academia, and other employment sectors (see Fig. ES-3). Data on the composition of industry-funded research are classified by sector rather than by field and thus are not directly comparable to those on federal expenditures. The data show that corporations ' spending on research has been increasing but is concentrated in a few sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry and the information technology sector. Electronic components was one industry in which research investment increased as federal support of the most closely related research field, electrical engineering, declined over the decade. Nevertheless, except for a few industries such as pharmaceuticals, only a small fraction (less than 5 percent in computer and semiconductors, for example) of all corporate research and development is basic research. Moreover, private research investment is quite volatile, sometimes subject to wide fluctuation from year to year with or independent of the business cycle. The shifts in federal funding of fields were partly the result of congressional (e.g., biomedical research) and presidential priorities (e.g., high-performance computing research and development); but the funding reductions were substantially the product of decentralized decision making by officials in various departments, agencies, and congressional committees, adjusting resources to agency mission needs in a constrained budget environment. Impacts on the overall composition of the federal research portfolio were not considered until FY 2000, when the administration and Congress began to discuss the balance of funding among fields, and the FY 2001 budget cycle, when for the first time balance became an explicit criterion used by the administration in developing its budget request. 2 Other engineering includes agricultural, bioengineering, biomedical, industrial and management, nuclear, ocean, and systems engineering.


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7 Things Houstonians Don't Care About
By Chris Lane
The Weirdest Texas School Mascots
By Jeff Balke
By Aaron Reiss
By Angelica Leicht
Behind the Doors of the Spy Store
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The Best Things in Houston Pawn Shops
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Ten Underrated Things About Houston
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Pet Products for the Rich and Insane
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He wanted to stay; worked there for about six months, until the arrival of summer. "I was content there. I was eager to wash those windows. It just got too hot."
A program to teach janitorial work on its face sounds like a good idea. But then you find out that for five years before Chevalier entered training, he'd worked as a janitor at night as part of the now-defunct Fairweather Program through the Tri-County Mental Health Authority in Conroe. There, he had performed the same chores that he supposedly was "learning" how to do for little more than a dollar an hour.
The ACT advisory group has pledged to help Mitchell raise money and to petition the legislature for the $250 monthly subsidy. Liberty Island's Johnson hopes it works. "I'd like to see some people try to live on $500 a month for food and board and everything," she says.
Living that close to the bone means the centers that house these people need extra help, Johnson says. The Houston Golf Association just gave Liberty Island $100,000 toward the $360,000 needed to replace the roof and put in new air conditioning, she says. The association told her it hopes this donation will inspire others to contribute.
Johnson says the owner of another personal-care home called her recently to say she was shutting down. She'd taken in nine mentally ill adults, with only their SSI checks. The woman told Johnson that "$4,500 a month isn't enough." She'd been advised she needed a new air-conditioning system, and there was no way she could pay for it, Johnson says. "She felt bad about those people sitting there without air conditioning, so she got them transferred to another home."
Mitchell says wryly: "You hear those stories. There's others in cases like that who don't shut down."
The number of personal-care homes has declined in Houston, Mitchell and Johnson agree. "They're either shutting down or getting worse or reopening up as an unlicensed facility," Mitchell says.
"I thought if I got more numbers, we'd be able to do it, but we can't," Johnson says. "I don't like to turn people away; in fact, if mental illness is their primary diagnosis, I won't. But $500 a month is not enough.
"We need help to maintain this," Johnson says. "We need the support of the community."
Community support and a minimal subsidy seem like much better choices than seeing more people thrown out on the streets, or living in hellholes where their $500 a month doesn't even provide them with a working toilet.


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(verb) To obtain a meal at a friend's home, as an uninvited guest.
I got here as fast as I could, dude, but I didn't have time to eat any lunch. Do you mind if I scruff a munch?
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I am a lurker as you can see by my post count but wondered why no one ever mentions the book Lights Out (Sleep, Sugar and Survival) by TS Wiley
He mentions Dr Atkins in the book but goes much deeper into artificial light, engineered foods and how it is killing us.
I just finished it and it was the first book I read since the Atkins book that blew my mind.
Going on my book list, thanks!
In my opinion, the hypothesis behind the book is intriguing but the book is rather horribly written and edited. Terrible to read and doesn't have much in the way of references.
I would skip the book and just read the research about our evolutionary sleep patterns rather than muddle through this book. Basically we should be trying to get 9 hours of sleep per night in a totally dark room and going by our natural rhythm (go to sleep right after sunset, wake up at sunrise).
The idea is logical and interesting; the presentation of it isn't.
Sounds intriguing - I am putting it on my list also. Thanks for the tip!:D
Already sitting in my stack of books to be read. I'll get to it in due time, there's a few more I want to hit up first.
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