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While the right health care provider is invaluable for seniors, it's not the only factor in continued health and overall wellness. Libbie's Place has been providing licensed senior adult day care for our community for more than 10 years. More than just basic adult day care, Libbie's Place provides a place for seniors to forge friendships in a nurturing and safe environment. We serve people age 55 and older who are experiencing decreased physical functioning, memory loss, depression or social isolation.
Socialization is now being recognized as an integral part of a senior's overall health. Many seniors that attend Libbie's Place experience positive changes, such as becoming more alert, eating better and becoming more physically active.
The overall structure of Libbie's Place is innovative and adaptable, allowing each individual's needs to be met. It also allows our participants to take part in activities without any stress or fear of not being able to complete an activity, giving each person a sense of accomplishment and boosting their self-esteem. Daily transportation to our program is provided for eligible seniors that live in Galveston and on the mainland.
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Libbie's Place is a nonprofit community outreach mission of Moody Methodist Church and a United Way of Galveston agency. Individuals and groups can support our senior participants through volunteering or making financial donations to our Saints for Seniors fund. All proceeds directly support daily operations at Libbie's Place and help provide financial assistance to qualified applicants. Qualified veterans may also receive assistance through our VA contract.
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It may not feel like it with the current cold temperatures, but 2012 was the warmest year on record for New Jersey.
State climatologist David Robinson says the average temperature was around 55.9 degrees, the highest since record keeping began in 1895.
That's nearly 4 degrees above normal.
Robinson says the increase was largely due to above-normal winter temperatures. February came in 7.4 degrees above normal, and March saw temperatures nearly 10 degrees higher than usual.
November was the only exception - it was colder than normal.
Five of the six warmest years on record have now occurred since 2002.
• Weather agency warns of 'alarming rate' of Arctic ice melt, dramatic climate change
• One for the books: July hottest month on record
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with free breakfast and free airport shuttle
Situated near the beach, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Funky Buddha Brewery, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, and Bonnet House Museum and Gardens. Colohatchee Park and The Pride Center are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
An outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a poolside bar are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a business center, and a meeting room are onsite.
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Ramada Fort Lauderdale Oakland Park features an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. A poolside bar is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 495 square feet (46 square meters). This Fort Lauderdale hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a picnic area. A roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours), a beach shuttle, and a train station pick-up service are complimentary for guests. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Ramada Fort Lauderdale Oakland Park is a smoke-free property.
- Computer station
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 102
- Number of floors - 3
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Free cruise terminal shuttle
- Free beach shuttle
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Picnic area
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1964
- Conference space size (meters) - 46
- Free self parking
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 495
- Free train station pickup
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Long-term parking (surcharge), Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Air conditioning
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Access via exterior corridors
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 9 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 5:30 AM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 10.0 per day.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Breakage deposit: USD 100.00 per stay (for stays between 1 January - 31 December)
- Resort fee
- Breakfast
- Shuttle service
- Internet access
- Self parking
Optional extras
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 10.0 per day
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- Best Western Oakland Inn
- Best Western Oakland Park
- Best Western Oakland Park Fort Lauderdale
- Best Western Oakland Park Inn
- Best Western Oakland Park Inn Fort Lauderdale
- Oakland Park Inn
- Oakland Park Inn Best Western
- Best Western Plus Oakland Park Hotel Fort Lauderdale
- Ramada Fort Lauderdale Oakland Park Hotel
- Ramada Oakland Park Hotel
- Ramada Fort Lauderdale Oakland Park
- Ramada Oakland Park
- Oakland Park Best Western
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This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Meet Your Free-Spending And Freewheeling NYPA
Monday, March 27, 2006 By Michelle Breidenbach
Staff writer
Then he signed the bill that gave birth to the New York Power Authority a state government operation assigned to make cheap hydropower out of the rocky rapids nature created on the St. Lawrence River. FDR said he wanted public power for the "great purpose of bringing more and cheaper electricity into the homes of the state, into the small shops and small industries, into the farms and into the flats."
NYPA still makes cheap hydropower. In most of the state, it saves Mr. and Mrs. Average Voter about $5 a month on their electric bill.
Today's NYPA also serves as an ATM, providing the governor with millions for economic development and energy-efficiency projects. The authority subsidizes the power bills of hundreds of businesses. NYPA also has spent millions on green technology, including a fuel cell for a Bronx Zoo exhibit for lemurs, tortoises and hissing cockroaches. NYPA has handed out 798 electric and hybrid-electric cars, trucks, buses and mowers.
Because the authority needs community support for its power plants, it pays for soccer clubs, music festivals, fireworks and fire departments. Its visitor centers screen "Star Wars" movies and host photo sessions with Santa and the Easter Bunny.
The authority also budgets almost $1 million a year for executives to hand out to charitable causes as they see fit.
NYPA�s six trustees oversee a $2.2 billion budget that accommodates the patronage and pork-barrel spending that come with a state public authority as well as the pampering that comes with a private business. As a state public authority, NYPA�s policies, practices and profits are separate from the rest of New York state government.
Gov. George Pataki, who controls the authority, has put his hometown Peekskill friends in charge of NYPA. They lead a workforce in which 199 employees make more than $100,000. NYPA employees and trustees travel on two private airplanes. In all the rest of state government, only the police and military have airplanes.
The authority�s leaders defend their six-figure salaries, their planes and their donations by saying they are not spending taxpayer money.
While many authorities rely on tax money, NYPA makes its own profits. It makes so much money, it hands $219 million over to the state budget to use for economic development.
NYPA is a branch of state government, but employees call it "the company." They have "corporate" policies, and they are listed among business sponsors like Kodak when they make donations.
"We�re not using taxpayer dollars," President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Carey said. "In fact, we�re generating funds, which go to support economic development in the state of New York." Meet the Power Authority
The people in charge at NYPA often have more experience in the power of politics than electricity.
Chairman Joseph Seymour has worked 30 years in state and local governments. He was the city manager of Peekskill when Pataki was mayor. Pataki, as governor, named Seymour executive deputy commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles and then New York�s commissioner of general services.
Pataki appointed him NYPA chairman in 2001, then a year later made him chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Seymour retired last summer and accepted a new five-year term at NYPA. He asked to be paid only $27,500 of the $90,800 annual salary.
This pattern of service is repeated in the biographies of the senior managers at NYPA.
Carey was a Westchester County legislator when Pataki was the mayor of Peekskill there. He was an operative in Pataki�s campaign for governor and worked in Pataki�s cabinet. Carey became chief executive officer of the Hugh L. Carey Battery City Park Authority and served five years as a NYPA trustee before the board appointed him to be chief operating officer and, five months later, president and chief executive officer.
Vincent Vesce, NYPA�s vice president for corporate services and administration, was another Peekskill mayor. Before Pataki appointed him to a top job at NYPA, he worked his way up in the shoe industry.
They are among 15 NYPA employees who make more money than the governor ($179,000 a year).
"The governor is underpaid," Carey said. "I�ve worked with the governor. I got burned out in two years 24-7. How he�s done it for 11 is beyond me."
Of the authority�s 1,600 employees, 199 make more than $100,000 per year. That�s 12.5 percent, compared to 3.8 percent on the ordinary state payroll, according to the comptroller�s office.
For comparison, a similarly sized public utility owned by the state of South Carolina pays 4.4 percent of its employees more than $100,000 per year, records show. While NYPA is No. 1 in the country in public power sales, Santee Cooper is third.
Santee Cooper does not have airplanes or pilots. It does not have an inspector general � a job held in New York by Pataki�s former body guard. Santee Cooper has 13 vice presidents, compared to NYPA�s 21.
Pataki didn�t invent patronage at NYPA. In 1994, Gov. Mario Cuomo put former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young in charge of the authority after he had served 10 years as the state fair director and eight years as mayor. Young says now he was not qualified to run the agency, so they hired someone else to do the day-to-day operations.
In 1995, Pataki appointed the former Assembly Minority Leader Clarence Rappleyea to be chairman. He also had no experience in the field. NYPA�s air fleet
NYPA�s main office is in White Plains, halfway between Albany and Wall Street.
It operates 18 power plants and at least 1,200 miles of high-voltage transmission lines across the state.
That�s why, the authority said, it needed to use two Beechcraft turbo-prop airplanes and to employ four pilots. The most recent plane purchase, in 2000, cost $5 million. The first plane cost $2.9 million in 1989. It costs NYPA $1,007 an hour to fly, maintain and store one of the planes and $339 per hour to operate the second plane, whose cost is shared with the New York State Police.
"It is hard to overestimate their value as a business and management tool," Michael Saltzman, NYPA�s spokesman, said in an e-mail, "considering the nonproductive time associated with commercial air travel, including expanded post-9/11 security procedures and awaiting airport connections to locations where NYPA has facilities."
Airplane records for the last four years show engineers traveling to Massena. But they also show executives flying short distances between cities connected by ample public transportation.
For example, Eugene Zeltmann, the former NYPA president, flew alone May 31 from New York�s LaGuardia Airport to Albany. That trip took 1.6 hours, including the time it took to send the empty plane to get him. At $1,007 per hour, that�s a $1,600 trip. By comparison, the state has negotiated a rate with Amtrak for $94 round-trip from Albany to New York, according to the state comptroller�s office.
NYPA also uses the aircraft to pick up trustees in Buffalo, Rochester and elsewhere. The plane flew 4.6 hours Sept. 6 to bring Trustees Elise Cusack from Buffalo and Michael Townsend from Rochester to Albany. Pataki and Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue occasionally use the airplanes.
NYPA also spent $92,788 over the last two years to charter planes when its aircraft were in need of repairs, in use or not big enough, Saltzman said. For example, the authority paid Commutair $7,525 to bring 16 people to a trustee meeting in Rochester in October.
Former Comptroller H. Carl McCall criticized the airplane use in a 2001 audit, after NYPA bought its second airplane. He said the new airplane would cost the authority $1.9 million more in travel expenses over 10 years; NYPA had estimated savings of $167,000 over that period.
McCall, a Democrat, also pointed out that the authority bought video conferencing equipment for $625,500, but they do not use it often.
NYPA trustees prefer to meet face-to-face, Saltzman said. Energy savings
NYPA is responsible for about 25 percent of all electricity in New York state. It generates half of the power at its own plants, and � far from its original mission � buys the other half. NYPA�s biggest customers are in Western New York and New York City, but it also sells power to small villages, such as Lake Placid and Solvay.
The federal government requires NYPA to sell a share of its hydropower to help reduce electricity bills for residential customers of National Grid and other private companies. This power is spread thin, saving the 1.4 million residential customers of National Grid about $5 per month.
Those savings do little to offset New York�s energy costs, which are the second-highest in the country.
NYPA�s expansion into new kinds of power generation and new services illustrates, for better or worse, the way the state�s authorities can operate far beyond their original purposes.
Saltzman defends NYPA�s evolution, saying, "generally speaking, we�re happy to be concentrating on such things as energy efficiency and pioneering new clean technologies like fuel cells and solar power, in addition to creating and protecting jobs with lower-cost power."
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi called NYPA "a textbook case of an authority adrift" when he issued a report on cost overruns on the authority�s new power plants. Hevesi�s auditors are conducting two audits of NYPA � one on its contracts and one on operating costs at the Niagara plant.
Hevesi said audits questioning NYPA�s spending on travel and vehicles may reveal a lack of commitment to keep costs down.
Assemblyman Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, has taken NYPA to task over what he says is a lack of policy direction and public accountability. He said it is difficult for the authority to stay on top of every energy issue, from gas prices to diversification of energy resources.
"I think it�s like a whole number of leaders of certain energy approaches, but no one pulling it all together and serving as a traffic cop or a regulator in the sense that this fits the plan or doesn�t fit the plan," Tonko said. "I think it creates this haphazard outcome."
Energy policy used to be handled by a state department, not an authority. But Pataki said during his first campaign for governor that the department was wasteful. As soon as he took office, Pataki abolished the department, moving the work to NYPA and another authority, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. NYSERDA has its own $203 million budget.
Now, both independent authorities sometimes handle the same projects. While NYPA is helping the Olympic Regional Development Authority buy new snow guns, NYSERDA is helping the town of Saugerties make its ice arena more energy efficient. There is no one place to go to learn about energy policy in New York.
NYPA�s mission has changed as the state deregulated the energy market. Deregulation required Con Edison and other privately run companies to sell their power plants. NYPA sold its nuclear power plants, but poured the proceeds into 10 emergency plants in New York City and one on Long Island. NYPA lost about $175 million during the first two years of operating the natural gas-fired plants, according to Hevesi�s auditors.
NYPA said its new plants were not intended to make money but to meet an urgent need for power and avoid blackouts in the summer of 2001. Any talk of the projects� cost should include how much it would have cost New Yorkers if the power went out, Saltzman said. Central New York omitted
NYPA has generally excluded the Syracuse area from its charity spending and energy-efficiency programs.
NYPA said it has been involved in $32 million in projects in Monroe County, saving Rochester-area schools and other government buildings about $2 million each year on power bills. Buildings in Onondaga County got about $9 million in help, saving taxpayers about $690,000 a year, NYPA records show.
Some Onondaga County projects on the list are more than a decade old. Skaneateles, which buys its power from NYPA, received $17,000 for homeowners to have energy audits done in 1987, records show.
Central New York also was left out of the nearly $1 million a year NYPA gives to charities located around its generating plants and recommended by its executives and employees.
"In general, probably New York state needs to do a better job of advertising or getting the word out of the programs that are being offered," said Jason Babbie, the energy expert for the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Tonko suggests another reading of FDR�s words: more and cheaper public power for the farmers and businesses and consumers of New York state.
"It seems like we�ve swayed quite far from that original mission statement," he said. Contact Michelle Breidenbach at 470-3186 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Following in the footsteps of its CAD brethren, Autodesk Inc. is beefing up its story around visualization capabilities—the idea being to drive mass adoption of 3D as a means to share key product and prototype information.
Autodesk completed the acquisition of Opticore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Design Communication, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Opticore offers high-end, real-time visualization software that leaders in the automotive industry, including BMW and Ford, others many others, have been using to illustrate their design intent without having to build costly prototypes. Opticore rounds out Autodesk's visualization offering with a higher end focus, accompanying its existing Showcase tool, which helps industrial designers easily create a representation of their works-in-progress that can be used for presentations and design reviews with non-engineers and CAD specialists.
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DO NOT BUY THIS! I bought this for a small dog as this claims to be good for dogs of 5 to 150 lbs. The instructions state there is no sensitivity setting, but I did see a slider on it and set to lowest setting. My dog was wining and crying in pain. He was rolling on the ground crying. His whines would spark more shocks, and he would cry more. There are no instructions included with this to explain how to set any sensitivity settings. My dog is so afraid of this device that I picket it off the table and he ran away to another room in the house. While I believe a similar device would work well..It needs to have settings and instructions for those settings in order to work. Also a 5 lb dog cannot take the punnishment of a 150 lb dog.
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Penn State's offseason has featured many interesting developments.
**John Butler has replaced Ted Roof as the Nittany Lions' defensive coordinator. Butler, the defensive backfield coach last season, moved up, and Anthony Midget is now working with the defensive backs.
**Steven Bench is no longer in the quarterback picture. The one-time contender saw the writing on the wall after his post-spring meeting with head coach Bill O'Brien (now it's Tyler Ferguson vs. Christian Hackenberg in August).
**There has been a changing of the guard at team doctor, where the tandem of Scott Lynch and Peter Seidenberg has replaced Wayne Sebastianelli.
**Some young players enjoyed strong spring campaigns, notably linebacker Nyeem Wartman and running back Akeel Lynch.
**And some talented veterans have picked up where they left off in 2012. I'm thinking of wide receiver Allen Robinson, guard John Urschel, safety-corner Adrian Amos and linebackers Glenn Carson and Mike Hull.
So what's left to discuss as we begin to move toward late June? The start of Penn State's preseason camp is less than two months away and the rest of the Lions' 2013 freshmen class (the non-January enrollees) is set to hit State College this weekend.
We're getting close to Penn State-Syracuse on Aug. 31.
Well, what about the "rebound" guys?
I'm talking about the veteran players who have the talent to make a significant impact in the fall but, for one reason or another, are not on the first team at the moment.
Rebound guys.
Three names come to mind.
Running back Bill Belton, wide receiver Alex Kenney and cornerback Da'quan Davis.
All three are very talented athletes, their games built around speed and quickness. All three have a chance to help O'Brien and his staff in 2013.
And all three have to overcome some obstacles to do it.
Belton, a junior, began 2012 as the starter but got lost in O'Brien's running back shuffle after suffering an early ankle injury. Zach Zwinak took over and ran for 1,000 yards.
O'Brien later hinted Belton needed to improve his practice field habits but Belton showed glimpses of his ability in PSU's 38-14 Big Ten win at Iowa, running for 103 yards and three touchdowns.
Belton is competing with Zwinak and Akeel Lynch, a redshirt freshman, for playing time.
Kenney, a redshirt junior who was a football and track standout at State College Area High School, caught 17 passes for 172 yards last season. But PSU's main options at receiver were Allen Robinson (77 catches) and Brandon Moseby-Felder (31 catches), who both return.
Another young wideout, redshirt freshman Eugene Lewis, has also impressed PSU's coaching staff. And everyone knows how fond O'Brien is of his impressive collection of tight ends.
There will always be an opportunity for a talent like Kenney because of his speed. He ran a 10.6 100 meters and a 6.8 60 meters in high school. But Kenney has some climbing to do on PSU's depth cart.
Finally, there is Davis, a sophomore who played in every game last season, contributing on special teams and in PSU's third-down defense, moving to corner when corner Adrian Amos slid to safety.
The graduation of corner Stephon Morris created an opening for Davis in the starting lineup but it appears sophomore Jordan Lucas has moved into that role, with converted wideout Trevor Williams, another sophomore, running at the other first-team corner spot, according to the depth chart. (Amos is now a safety.).
So …
Davis is listed as second-team corner.
Belton is the second-team running back behind Zwinak.
Kenney is running third team at one of the receiver spots behind Moseby-Felder and Matt Zanellato.
Three skilled Lions. Three backups.
And all of them have the ability to shake up the PSU depth chart in the fall.


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HP EliteBook 2730p Notebook PC BIOS (HPQFlash) F.0B for Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit Publisher's description
HPQFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS (68POU) - Microsoft Windows-Based
This package creates files that contain the HPQFlash Utility and a binary image of the System BIOS (ROM) for the supported notebook/laptop models with a 68POU Family ROM. The HPQFlash Utility is used to locally flash the System BIOS on PCs
operating in a Microsoft Windows Operating System environment.
NOTE: To determine the ROM revision and ROM date, press F10 on the target notebook/laptop during startup to run the Setup Utility, and then view File/System Information.
- Adds support for the Microsoft Windows 7 Operating Systems.
- Adds the serial number to the Type 2 field in the SMBIOS table. This enables the use of utilities that look for the serial number in this location.
- Fixes an issue where the Type 1 field in the SMBIOS table does not report Wake-on-LAN.
- Fixes an intermittent issue where the notebook/laptop may automatically restart (without user intervenion) when it is in the Standby or Sleep state.
NOTE: This issue is highly intermittent; the failure rate is less than one percent.
1. Download the file by clicking the "Download" or "Obtain Software" button and saving the file to a folder on your hard drive (make a note of the folder where the downloaded file is saved).
2. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions.
It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.
Do not forget to check with our site as often as possible in order to stay updated on the latest drivers, software and games.
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Smaller than we thought, and cordless
This is the second one I purchased. This one was for my mother. She liked mine so I thought she should have one too. Our eye site is not getting better as we age. This is a very helpful item.
a gift for my daughter , said she loves it
Like very much so far.
Not having any cord is a plus, but I thought the mirror would be a bit larger. It does reveal every pore in the face, however.
This is truly a stunning mirror. As elegant as they come. Looks great no matter where it is. Lights up brilliantly too.


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By: Anonymous on January 16, 2012 - 1:19pm - Add new comment
So Jon Huntsman's out. Are you disappointed? Are you suprised he lasted so long? Who benefits from the former Utah governor's departure from the race for the GOP presidential nomination?
And do you think Mitt Romney was helped or hurt by scoring Huntsman's not-so-coveted endorsement? Does it reinforce the "moderate" label Romney has been trying to shed? And is that a useful thing for Romney, now that he has the luxury of looking toward the general election against President Obama?
By: Anonymous on January 16, 2012 - 5:47pm - Add new comment
Sen. Larry Grooms, a Republican from Bonneau, is asking Texas Gov. Rick Perry to quit so that his long-shot candidacy doesn't allow "big government" to win.
"With only days to go before the South Carolina Primary, it is apparent that Governor Perry cannot win and has no viable strategy in moving forward," said Grooms, who had originally endorsed Perry, in a statement.
"Remaining in the race at this point only serves to steer votes away from viable candidates."
By: Anonymous on January 18, 2012 - 5:40pm - Add new comment
Got some special wetlands or riverfront you'd like to unload for a bargain price to the state of South Carolina?
Then a looming legislative deadline for the state conservation bank is something you'll need to watch.
The land-protection program faces what could be its last chance to continue helping landowners reach deals to protect sensitive wetlands, farmlands and forests.
By: Anonymous on January 18, 2012 - 6:06pm - Add new comment
Are you guys getting pumped up about this Saturday's GOP presidential primary? Or is it really only media-types, wonks, campaign hacks, and talking heads?
Either way, here are the busiest precincts in Beaufort County. They were released by Congressman Duncan's office today as part of a list of the state's busiest spots.
By: Anonymous on January 18, 2012 - 9:36pm - Add new comment
Did you catch the governor's speech tonight?
Gov. Nikki Haley gave her state of the state address, and her office sent the transcript to reporters.
Far down in the text you'll see mention made to the explosive decision by the DHEC board to allow the state of Georgia's Savannah harbor deepening to move forward.
By: Anonymous on January 19, 2012 - 1:01pm - Add new comment
So Gov. Rick Perry's out, as many had been predicting for weeks. What still amazes me is his failure to catch fire despite his incredibly winning combination of credentials: populists roots, a record of military service, Lone State swagger and everything that comes with it, just to name a few. Why didn't he do better in South Carolina and in general?
Is this just another case of somone who "looks good on paper," but then disappoints in real life?Wikipedia
By: Anonymous on January 20, 2012 - 11:52pm - Add new comment
We're famously dirty when it comes to eleventh-hour campaign stunts.
And this GOP primary is living up to the legends.
Has anyone gotten any suspicious emails about abortions, affairs, and such?
S.C. House Majority Leader Kenny Bingham is trying to cut through the misinformation.
This email from Bingham just hit reporters' inboxes:
Let me say up front, I personally support Newt Gingrich.
By: Anonymous on January 22, 2012 - 11:01pm - Add new comment
Do you agree with the not-so-subtle message in this Washington Post cover that's making the rounds on social media today?
Is this a ready-made prop for the Romney campaign to brandish on the campaign trail in Florida?
By: Anonymous on January 26, 2012 - 2:55pm - Add new comment
State lawmakers have taken initial steps toward encouraging sweet, back room deals in South Carolina.
And Sheryl Brousseau is poised to take full advantage.
The Edgefield woman admitted she wouldn't mind making a little extra cash. How? By selling the occasional cake out of her home.
Debra Graybeal of Liberty has four kids and a school teacher husband, and she, too, said she could use a new income stream to help her family. Alas, Rebekah Blanton of Conway tried but said the state health agency cracked down on her.
By: Anonymous on January 30, 2012 - 9:57am - Add new comment
The other day I stumbled upon a bill in the Legislature that evoked an image more heartrending than the usual stuff about budget caps and fishing regulations.
First imagine that you're an 80-year-old who - because of some Truman-era farming accident, an unplanned pregnancy when you were already dirt poor, or racial violence in the Deep South - never finished high school.
Life happened. You managed for a few decades. There were no acute globalization pressures to be hyper-educated or even minimally educated.
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Yuda Galis will whip you up a meal - like he did for Avram Grant
Israeli chef Yuda Galis has cooked for Hollywood actors Will Smith, Morgan Freeman and football manager Avram Grant. And now he wants to do so for you.
The 33-year-old, who lives in London, has launched private chef service, Galor. He will come into your home to prepare and create a personalised menu - a kosher one if you so wish.
Mr Galis has worked for some of the world's top chefs, including the award-winning Joel Rubuchon at his two Michelin-starred restaurant L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Paris - as did Gordon Ramsay.
Mr Galis tells People: "It was my dream to be a chef since I was a child. I grew up in that environment as my grandma had a bakery in Jerusalem. She also made a lot of stews."
Mr Galis studied cooking at Hadassah Culinary Arts in Jerusalem and has since worked at Mul Yam in Tel Aviv, one of Israel's top restaurants. "I decided to set up the company because I found there was a need for private chefs to give an alternative to dining out."
Although the company is not certified by the Beth Din, it does provide kosher menus - he once made a kosher meal for Avram Grant.
He particularly enjoys cooking beef bourguignon, fish and chullent - not together one assumes.


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Intercontinental Transport of Air Pollution: Relationship to North American Air Quality. A Review of Federal Resarch and Future Needs
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Plans underway for 22nd Soap Box Derby
MARTINS FERRY – The streets are still covered with ice and snow but members of the Martins Ferry Soap Box Derby committee are hard at work making preparations for the 22nd annual Great Race.
Members met last week to set dates for the 2014 edition. The race itself will be held Sunday, June 8 with a 10 a.m. sharp start time. The National Anthem will officially kick off the day's activities at 9:30 a.m.
The pre-race clinic for drivers and their parents is slated for Wednesday, May 14 at 6 p.m. at the American Legion in town.
The following week, picture day for the drivers will be Wednesday, May 21, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot adjacent to The Times Leader at 200 S. 4th St.
Drivers will need to bring the shell of their car for the picture. Photos will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis and will later be included in the color special section The Times Leader publishes prior to race day. All drivers are encouraged to attend.
Trial runs down Hanover Street will be held the Sunday preceding race day, June 1. The first group of racers will head down the hill at 9 a.m. and the trials will conclude at 1 p.m. Drivers are asked to register for their desired testing hour by calling the Martins Ferry Chamber of Commerce at 740-633-2565.
Car inspections will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3-4 at 5:30 p.m. at the Martins Ferry School District Bus Garage. Inspection times are handed out at half-hour intervals up until 8:30 p.m. each evening.
Drivers are asked to call ahead of time to sign up for their preferred inspection time.
A number of racers are pre-registered, but as in past years, there are sponsors looking for drivers.
"We're still looking for cars and drivers to sign up," said Marion Klier, secretary at the Chamber.
Boys and girls wishing to participate must be at least 8 years old by June 9 and cannot be age 16 on race day.
All drivers must wear the soap box derby helmet which costs $16. The registration fee is $40 per driver, payable by either the driver or the car's sponsor.
This year, the emphasis will be placed on recruiting participants for the Super Kids race. The Super Kids Classic is for physically challenged racers. In addition to racing, the participants receive trophies, and the winner receives a trophy and a very nice prize each year.
The decision was made to allow the winners trophies and a car to be placed inside local schools during the upcoming months to promote the race.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Gov. Robert Bentley on Thursday announced his participation in Scale Back Alabama, a statewide weight loss contest designed to help Alabama fight obesity and encourage Alabamians to develop healthy habits.
Joining Gov. Bentley on his team are Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, State Health Officer Dr. Don Williamson, and Revenue Commissioner Julie Magee.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts, 70 percent of Alabamians are overweight. Bentley says via press release the health of Alabamians is among his top priorities.
"I made a personal commitment to lose 10 pounds and keep it off. Scale Back Alabama is a perfect way to help Alabamians lose weight and develop healthy lifestyle commitments."
"As the owner of a personal fitness facility, I know how vital it is to be fit and healthy," Magee said. "I've not been as diligent with my diet and exercise as I used to be, so joining the governor's team is going to motivate me to get fit."
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Companies in Dubai can fast track ID process
Abu Dhabi: Since many expatriates in Dubai emirate have not yet registered for national ID cards as the May 31 deadline gets closer, the Emirates Identity Authority (Emirates ID) has asked companies to use a special service to fast-track the applications of their employees.
In a desperate attempt to complete the application process and avoid fines from June 1, many applicants in Dubai have reportedly left their passports with crowded typing centres, risking identity theft.
But the companies with at least 500 employees can use a special service to apply for ID cards faster and cheaper without depending on typing centres, a top official told Gulf News on Monday.
"Those companies seeking this special service will be able to file applications of their employees from their own offices through 'emaratech', an [outsourced] company responsible for electronic application process," said Dr Ali Al Khoury, Director General of Emirates ID.
"By not depending on typing centres, they can save a lot of time and save Dh30 typing fee per applicant," he said. An applicant will be charged Dh40 each instead of Dh70 charged by typing centres, Al Khoury said.
He said the authority introduced this service last year for the companies with at least 5,000 employees.
"But considering the rush at typing centres in Dubai due to the impending deadline, we have extended the this service to companies with at least 500 employees since the first week of May," the official said.
He said many expatriates have not registered in Dubai although exact figures were not readily available with him.
"That has been the trend in the country since the introduction of the ID card. Many people wait until the last minute, causing huge rush at typing centres." Al Khoury said.
He requested the companies with more than 500 employees to avail of the special service for their employees.
The deadline for the expatriates in other emirates had already ended. After the deadline, Dh20 per day is the fine which will go up to a maximum of Dh1,000.
Expatriates whose residence visa expires in 2012 in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah have to apply for a new ID card while renewing their visa.
All children under 15 years of age, Emiratis and expatriates, are exempted from the fines until October 1, 2012.
Fewer online applicants
Only 20 per cent of the total ID card applications are submitted online, a top official said. About 80 per cent of the applicants depend on typing centres, Dr Ali Al Khoury, Director General of Emirates ID told Gulf News.
He asked internet-savvy residents to use the online application system on www.emiratesid.ae to save time and money. Those who apply for national ID cards online using a credit card will be able to save the Dh30 typing fee.
Companies wishing to avail of the special service can contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ahmad Zemy bin KamarulzamanMay 22, 2012 11:35
It is very strange as I applied for renewal for myself 1 week before the renewal for my family (early April 2012). The strange thing, my youngest daughter (catetogy Under 15 years) is now ready for collection by for mine and my wife and my eldesr daughter is still pending !!! How can a "Sponsored person" ID is ready whilst the Sponsor one is not ? Where did the mistake comes from ? Calls to EIDA Customer Service number was also not answered and it just creates more questions for EIDA to answer.


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Patti Callahan Henry has had book signings at the Alabama Booksmith before.
But on Wednesday, when she heads to the Homewood shop to sign copies of "Coming Up for Air," it will be a much easier commute.
Say, about 10 minutes.
The New York Times best-selling author, for 25 years a resident of Atlanta, moved to Mountain Brook six weeks ago with her husband, Pat, and three children.
Pat, who grew up here, had been commuting for his job with the Daniel Corp.
"After about a year of him driving back and forth, we started looking seriously," Patti Henry says. "And it was the right time. Our boys were going into the 7th and 10th grades, which is when junior high and high school start, and our daughter was about to head to college."
When: Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Where: The Alabama Booksmith, 2626 19th Place South, Homewood
In the meantime, Henry had a new book coming out. "Coming Up for Air," about a woman in a failing marriage who rekindles an old flame, is on shelves this week, and Alabama Booksmith is one of the first stops on Henry's tour.
Had you asked Henry back in the ¤'80s, when she was a Phi Mu and Tigerette at Auburn University working toward her nursing degree, if she'd ever be sitting at a table signing her eighth novel, she probably would have said no.
She went on to a successful pediatric nursing career, earned her master's degree, and got married in 1991.
Two years later, daughter Meagan was born, and Henry quit nursing to raise her and, eventually, brothers Thomas and Rusk. She also began dabbling in writing, turning to it seriously in 1998.
"The first book I tried to write was about having a baby and raising kids," Henry says. "I thought, 'This is silly; I want to make stuff up and write it down.'"
And so she did.
"I was doing it fervently and with an obsessive nature that I think you have to have to finish eight novels," Henry says. "I didn't take it lightly. I wasn't casually scribbling a few pages at a time."
"Between the Tides," the first book she wrote, eventually became the fourth book she published. "My agent took me on for 'Between the Tides,' and we just weren't getting it right, so my agent told me to put it away," Henry says.
So the first published book became "Losing the Moon," which came out in 2004.
"It's the story of a man and woman who used to be lovers and came back together because his daughter is dating her son," she says. "That was a completely made-up story. I just make it up and write it down."
Except .¤.¤.
"The opening scene is definitely an Auburn tailgating scene," Henry says. "Anybody who reads it thinks it's their college, but it's Auburn. I use things out of my real life, but that situation hasn't happened to me. I like to say that even though the books aren't about me, they are from me, so there's part of me in them."
"Losing the Moon" was successful, and Henry was ready for it.
"It's not like it came out and it was 'The Help,' but I think it was much more of a hit than the publishing house expected," she says. "In many ways it was more overwhelming for my family than for me. I had really become part of the writing community. I sort of felt like I had found my tribe."
Though she loves it, the writing process isn't an easy one for Henry.
"Every book, you begin again," she says. "It doesn't get any easier. You have a little more confidence, but it doesn't get any easier doing the work."
That was especially true with "Coming Up for Air," which took Henry two years to finish, longer than any of her previous books.
The previous books were built around big moments or emotions, including an airplane crash, a family secret, an affair and the death of a child.
"This one was a subtle awakening and the disintegration of a marriage combined, and that is much, much harder to write," Henry says. "It also has overlapping timelines."
"Coming Up for Air" is a big fall hardcover for St. Martin's Press, and Henry will work hard to promote it.
"I don't dread it," she says. "I miss my family, and that's the awfulest part. That's the only awful part.
"I get to meet people who love reading and books as much as I do," Henry adds. "How great is that?"


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I think I forgot to say that I've changed jobs... I now work for a wine merchants, no longer for the farm shop. Hence lack of available food during shifts. I can walk or cycle to work now which is great. I love cycling. Have to remember not to smile with my mouth open while cycling though, or when I cycle home at dusk I get bugs in my teeth. I thought that was a cyclist's joke until it actually happened to me.
No breakfast, no time! I see a trend this week!
2 x smoked back bacon
1/2 sweet potato in latke form (peel, grate, mix with 1/2 egg + tsp coconut flour + cinnamon)
2.5 x scrambled eggs (+ 1/2 from latkes = 3 eggs today)
All cooked in coconut oil + butter
Gardens strawbs with coconut cream + dessicated coconut
Snack: Handful of pecans
Dinner: AWESOME MEAL from my love! He's turned into a great chef. This was ready 5 mins after I walked in the door and I was ravenous.
Sesame tuna steak + chilli lime prawns + green veggie stirfry
Discovered a new favourite wine at work, 2010 Fleurie, delicious plummy farmy nose, and *gorgeous* full and lingering blast of black cherry & cinnamon flavours! I was astonished. Interestingly if I'm wine tasting at work I don't want to actually drink any when I get home. It's a shame to spit it all away each time though! I have found my palate tires after about 4 wines. Everyone uses crackers to neutralise the palate at work, I use water but it's not as effective as I remember crackers to be. Must hunt for another convenient alternative.


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Federal officials announced the recall Saturday morning of nearly 9,000 rotisserie chickens and related products such as soup, chicken salad and leg quarters purchased at Costco's South San Francisco store between Sept. 11 and Sept. 23.
Costco officials couldn't be reached Saturday. A recorded message warns customers to discard or return any leftovers of the Foster Farms chicken products.
The Agricultural Department says health officials traced the salmonella outbreak to the South San Francisco store and its ready-to-eat chicken cooked on the premises.
Investigators have linked three Foster Farms processing plants in Central California to the outbreak, which has a high hospitalization rate.


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Those procrastinating students who figure they have forever to finish their GED had best start cracking the books.
The clock is ticking.
The five-part GED has always offered a pathway for students who dropped out, failed out, or just lost out in their chance to graduate from high school. But starting on Jan. 1, 2014, the nationwide GED test will change to align the test with the new Common Core curricula adopted by most states. That means that anyone who has not passed the old test by that date will have to start all over.
There is also a financial reason to get going. The computer version of the old paper and pencil test will cost $120 – double the price of the old test.
But the real investment is not the extra $60 but the time and energy students have invested in passing part – but not yet all – of the test. For them to start over would present a real hardship especially considering that many of these students are long removed from the academic environment and may be trying to balance their studies with the demands of a family and job. It would be a shame for these students to get most of the way up the graduation hill, only to find themselves at the bottom again.
A GED is often the first rung on the ladder to any kind of decent paying job in today's increasingly technical society. It can provide an entryway to community college and beyond as well. And for those who were incarcerated in their teen years, it can present a chance to start over when they re-enter society.
Each year 700,000 people take the GED exam and more than a million are expected to line up for the exam before the looming deadline, putting added pressure on test sites and availability.
Our advice to would-be graduates: Start studying now, and keep on studying until you can take and pass the test this year.
The old GED train is leaving the station. Make sure you're on board.
Editorial: GED hopefuls better start cracking
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Those procrastinating students who figure they have forever to finish their GED had best start cracking the books.


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PITTSFIELD -- Alan Cooperman, director of religion research at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., and former staffer at the Berkshire Eagle, will talk on a recent controversial Pew survey of Jewish life in America that he oversaw, on March 30 at 2 p.m. at Temple Anshe Amunim.
The free talk will include a question-and-answer period and a reception.
The extensive 2013 survey, conducted by center members with Cooperman as the lead editor, indicates that many Jews in America are less religious than their ancestors.
Considered the most comprehensive nationwide survey of American Jews in more than a decade, the results of the survey have netted both national and international attention in the press, and among Jewish and Israeli organizations.
Cooperman leads the Religion & Public Life Project at the center, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that conducts public opinion polling, demographic studies, media content analysis and other social science research.
Before joining the center in 2009, Cooperman was a national staff reporter and editor for 10 years at the Washington Post. He also served as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Jerusalem for the Associated Press and U.S. News & World Report. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1982, and started in journalism at the Eagle.
He is an author of Pew Research reports on "Mormons in America," "Muslim Americans" and " 'Nones' on the Rise," and he was the primary editor of demographic studies of Global Christianity and the Global Religious Landscape.
He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.
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"all Gay people should be rounded up and handed over to the Health Ministry" hmmmm a Jew proposing the final solution for homosexuals. I find this particularly offensive.
"He then suggested that all gay people should be rounded up and handed over to to the Health Ministry and the police so they can "take care of them."
Yes, this is a completely appropriate sentiment coming from a Jew, a member of a people who has totally never been subjected to similar treatment by a government, ever.
a garden of eden? they sure do have low expectations for gardens of eden over there.
I'll just go the whole hog and say this jew is advising a holocaust against another group of people. Literally exactly the same as the last one, bout 1940ish, may have heard of it.
An important story. It is important for us to remember that Jewish religious fanatics can be just as vicious, bigoted and pig-headed toward gay people as Christian and Muslim homophobes. If this slob had his way he'd transport all gay Israelis to the Gaza Ghetto.
I hear there's an opening in the Tehran police – he should apply.
Well, this sounds familiar. Seem to remember the other religious nutjob saying something familiar.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country,"
"we do not have this phenomenon," he continued. "I do not know who has told you we have it."
@Stache1: In Ahmadinejad's defense though he probably just thought they executed all of them already.
Sure, there are no gay people in his city. That is why he is a dead ringer for Harvey Fierstein. Perhaps, he should look in a mirror.
Ship him to Iran….
apparently this Harvey Fierstein look'n waste of political power fergot to ask the wizard fer a brain! http://getoffmydress.blogspot.com/2013/11/awww-precious.html
Typical (so-called)religious a-hole! he assumes there are no queers there cuz he can't find any1 who wants to screw his billy goat lookin ,dirty hairy A.s.S. lol
I wonder how many of the billions of dollars we send to Israel wind up controlled or in the hands of pigs (pun intended) like him? My tax dollars and yours.


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Canon's official line on their film camera business
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Canon could be pulling out of film camera production
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Since it's officially the middle of winter, according to Punxatawny Phil, we'd like you to take a minute to close your eyes and think of summer in Michigan: crisp blue skies, shimmering lakes, kids running barefoot, Oberon by the poolside, and, yes, road construction.
On any given day in the summer in Michigan, you will most likely hit road construction. You will have no choice but to slow down and watch out for the inevitable roadblocks. Maybe you will unexpectedly have to drive off the road, around a ditch and back onto another path.
And, of course, you have to watch out for those construction workers who are holding those "Drive Slow" or "Detour Ahead" signs with the supposed intent of ultimately making things easier and faster for us.
We can pretty much guarantee that no matter how sunny and warm it is outside, when you approach a construction site, it is no longer "sunny and warm" inside your car. We'll bet your frustration builds as you possibly become late for a meeting or event. You mentally count the dollars and cents as your engine wastes fuel as you idle at a standstill.
And you anxiously tap your toes watching one of those construction workers maneuver a forklift from drive to reverse over and over at about five miles per hour.
Take a second and compare this construction site to your workplace. Have any roadblocks kept your organization from getting stronger, being more productive and going faster? If so, remove them.
While you can't control construction in Michigan, you can control you workplace: Streamline your assembly lines, update your computer systems, and move employees to where they can be most productive. Build an organization where people can innovate 100 percent of the time and fight bureaucracy 0 percent of the time.
Then, see how fast you will be able to drive your organization to success.
In today's high-speed world, technology can make or break you. It can effectively help or roadblock your systems, employees and assembly lines. And if you are still living in the 1960s with the computer language of COBOL, or even in the 1980s with your Commodore 64, you are effectively stuck behind a jack-knifed trailer on I-94.
Long-term performance is contingent on having the best technology available that you can afford. But as a leader, it is your job to balance cost efficiencies with customer engagement. Think of all technology can do for a company:
Performance Metrics – In the short term, meeting quarterly earnings projections is paramount. In the long run, you can't be successful if you don't keep the big picture in mind. But you have to not only set goals; you have to track how you are measuring up. And you need a good system to help you do this.
The Southwest Michigan First team looks at our goals weekly and tracks them against an annual timeline and a five-year plan. Just this past year, we determined in September a potential shortfall in one area and pulled our entire team's resources to focus on the issue. At year end, not only did we meet the goal, we exceeded it.
Automation – An automated phone-answering system can help you handle customer calls and even reduce headcount. Automate whatever you can so your employees can serve your customers better.
Since we like to "walk our talk," let's give you another example from our organization. Each year, we receive an average of 150 requests from companies looking to locate in our region. We have three excellent team members dedicated to putting those proposals together, which means they are very busy. In the past, each individual created their own customized proposal.
This past year, we made it a priority to create one unified packet filled with constantly updated information. It took three months, but we automated the whole process. What used to take a person potentially a full work week now takes 15 minutes. Next year, if we need to fill three times the amount of requests, we can even do it with one team member.
But be careful. If your customers are turned away, automation does nothing for you. Ever call your credit card company with a random question? If it is not about your current balance, your new address or a lost card, you have to be pretty smart to find a menu item that will get you to a customer service representative. How many times have you had to hang up and try again or just plain given up and taken your business elsewhere?
Product or Service Excellence – Machines allow us to assemble parts in a sequential manner using carefully planned systems to create a finished product faster and better than by hand. Human error is taken out of the equation. With the latest technology, your product can be made to the same optimal specification every time as fast as possible for more customers. Research what is out there. Research what your competitors are doing. Then do it better.
The assembly line developed by the Ford Motor Co. between 1908 and 1915 made mass production and the car famous. Toyota perfected the system its way by adding core values to the system in 2001. Again, beware: If machines are relied upon too heavily and humans lose touch with the "line," as Toyota has learned recently, ill effects await you. It is the responsibility of a leader to manage his or her people and systems.
Information, Information, Information — Your company is no better than the information it keeps. If you have out-of-date customer information, eventually you will lose sales. You can't have too much current information. Track everything. Track your sales. Track your top 100 customers. Track your targets. Track their birthdays. Track your sales for the day, month and year. Track each team member's sales.
This really goes back to our No. 1. When you meet a challenge or roadblock, you need to have accurate information immediately. When sales are tight, a birthday card to your No. 1 customer might make a significant impact on your profit margin.
So, let's get back to that construction site. Think of your company as perpetually under construction. You can always find a better way to go faster, sell more and provide better service to your customers. Just make sure you do it without the orange "Drive Slow" and "Go Slow" signs.
Ron Kitchens is president and CEO of Southwest Michigan First. Heather Smith is vice president. They write the First Leadership column exclusively for Business Review/Influence West Michigan.


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MUSKEGON, MI – North Muskegon rode the pitching of Reese McCamant into the Division 4 district baseball finals Saturday.
McCamant allowed two hits and struck out 10 as the Norsemen cruised to a 6-1 win against Wyoming Potter's House.
North Muskegon advances to play host Muskegon Catholic Central for the district title.
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ABC reporter Doris Burke broke the news to Paul Pierce minutes before Rajon Rondo told the rest of the Boston Celtics himself.
Pierce clearly didn't know his teammate had been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. When Burke told him, the elation of a hard-fought double-overtime win over the Miami Heat quickly gave way to concern.
"Oh my God," Pierce said.
Oh my God, indeed – the Celtics losing Rondo for the season was quite unexpected.
He arrived at TD Garden Sunday ready to play, but after warming up hours before the game, Rondo was shuttled to New England Baptist Hospital for testing. An MRI revealed what the Celtics feared: Rondo's injury was worse than originally expected.
A glimpse at him talking to Burke during the second half Sunday showed heartbreak painted across his face. The All-Star point guard thrives in big games, yet there he was wearing a jacket and taking in the action from the sideline, incapable of competing as Boston played in its hugest of games this season – Ray Allen's return with the Heat, the Celtics looking to snap a six-game losing streak against their biggest rival.
At that moment, Rondo's teammates didn't know the extent of his injury. Coach Doc Rivers learned a few minutes before tip-off, but felt it best not to share the bad news prior to meeting the Eastern Conference's best team.
The Celtics went on to one of their best wins this season – Paul Pierce had a triple-double, Kevin Garnett managed to grit through 45 minutes, Jeff Green played phenomenal individual defense on LeBron James and Miami couldn't crack the 100-point barrier even with two extra periods – but the locker-room mood quickly soured when Rondo explained his status.
"I could see it on his face. You didn't know what he was going to say," Courtney Lee said, according to CSNNE. "When he said it, everybody's head just went down. We went from cheering to being sad."
The Celtics' future beyond the trade deadline had already been unclear, but now it's more questionable than ever. Without Rondo, even the greatest optimists have trouble envisioning Boston conjuring another remarkable playoff resurgence.
The Celtics have actually performed better without Rondo for the first time in his career (by 2.8 points per 100 possessions, according to BasketballReference.com), but it's basically impossible to see them drastically turning around this season without their one legitimate All-Star.
There's still plenty of talent, sure, but the Celtics don't have any other natural point guards or even anyone comfortable running an offense. Considering that Pierce and Kevin Garnett have both taken small but noticeable steps back this season, the Celtics will likely seriously miss their greatest playmaker during the first extended absence of his career. Rondo has never missed more than 14 games in a season. Including Sunday, he will miss the final 39 this year.
By the time Rondo returns to health, it's important to keep in mind Pierce and Garnett will be 36 and 37 years old, respectively. They've already begun to slowly fade, and given their ages, the regression should continue until retirement.
Even those who held out hope the Celtics could right the ship and contend this season should admit it: It's unrealistic to expect the aging Pierce and Garnett to team with a recovering Rondo to make another long playoff run next year. Not without major additions this summer, at least, which are highly improbable considering the Celtics project to have no salary-cap space.
At long last, without real argument, the Celtics can be confidently removed from the list of title contenders or even quasi-contenders – not only this year, but until they undergo a serious makeover.
It remains to be seen whether Rondo's injury will help spur a major trade (or major trades), but president of basketball operations Danny Ainge certainly has more reason than ever to focus on the future. Real barriers to moving Boston's veterans for young talent exist, but if Ainge fails to make a bold move before the deadline, it won't be because he expects the Celtics to contend as currently constructed.
Boston already has the beginnings of a promising young nucleus starring Rondo, Avery Bradley and Jared Sullinger. But the present nonetheless looks more unstable than it has since the Garnett acquisition in 2007.
Do the Celtics look to add another point guard in the coming days with one of their two open roster spots? Try to move Pierce and/or Garnett (who has a no-trade clause) for young talent and/or draft picks before the trade deadline? Shop Brandon Bass, Lee, Green and Jason Terry for any assets they can acquire?
Blowing up Boston's roster has never made more sense. But it's not that simple.
"Here's the thing: If I wanted to say, 'Hey, let's play for the future,' that's hard to do," Ainge said, according to Yahoo Sports. "And if I play only for the 'here and now,' that's hard to do."
Based on Rivers' comments following Sunday's game, Rondo played 12 minutes Friday against the Hawks after his injury occurred, accumulating two points, four rebounds and two assists in that time. He thought he had a simple hamstring issue and would have competed against the Heat if team doctor Brian McKeon hadn't requested an examination first.
With a pain threshold apparently on the corner of Insane and Unfathomable, Rondo – the NBA assists leader known for his habit of playing best in big games; bold, stubborn, inconsistent, intelligent and daring; so crucial to Boston's success since Garnett's acquisition – showed up to the Garden ready to play. But he left knowing he won't play there for quite awhile.
"You can write our obituary," Rivers said. "I won't."
But Pierce's "Oh my God" might have been more telling.
Rondo's done for the season.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – Tucker Haymond is ready to make Kalamazoo his new home. He's long been destined to be a Western Michigan University Bronco, it seems.
Haymond, a 6-foot-5, first-team all-Washington state wing from Seattle, signed and submitted his national letter of intent with WMU on Wednesday and will play basketball for the Broncos.
This is not your run-of-the-mill recruiting story, however.
"This story is as strange as it gets," Broncos coach Steve Hawkins said about the bizarre set of circumstances, seemingly marked by fate, that began with him meeting Haymond and his family in Honolulu seven years ago.
"I thought it was kind of crazy – stuff kept happening; just, like, little stuff," Haymond said in a phone interview Wednesday night. "Even when I was on my (official) visit, stuff kept popping up, having like déjà vu-type moments when I was hanging out with the players. It felt like I was already going to go there, like I had been there before.
"When I had got (to Kalamazoo), I had never met Coach (David) Kool or the other two coaches (Clayton Bates and James Holland). I had only met Coach Hawk. When I got there and met the players and coaches, I just felt like I have known them as long as I had known Coach Hawk."
This story begins in December of the Broncos' 2005-06 season. WMU was playing in Hawaii at the Rainbow Classic. That's where the Broncos and Haymond family first crossed paths.
"When we first got there, literally checking in, I noticed a little kid dribbling a basketball through the lobby of the hotel. We're tired, whatever, don't think much of it," Hawkins recalled. "Next day, come back down, and here's this little kid dribbling the ball through the lobby again, just got a basketball, dribbling it everywhere and a couple of our kids are talking to him – and he fits right in. (Joe) Reitz was on the team, (Derek) Fracalossi, (Andrew) Hershberger, (Dan) Hess – they're talking with the little kid. I meet his parents for the first time. 'He loves basketball,' (they said).
"The next day we go down and we're getting ready to go to our practice and same deal – he's got the ball in his hands, he's talking to our guys, and I'm talking with his parents and they said, 'Well, we've been coming here for years. This is where we spend our family vacation. First, it was a lot of fun for (Tucker). Now he's starting to grow out of it. He wants to do something, he loves basketball.'"
Hawkins invited Haymond to a Broncos practice.
"They're like, 'Are you kidding?'" Hawkins said. "'No, he can come to practice with us. He can shoot around, we'll have him pass to the guys, we'll put him to work.' He loved it, they loved it. … Well, he became our unofficial mascot."
The Haymond family attended each of the Broncos' games in the Rainbow Classic, and Tucker hung out with the team the whole time.
"At the end of the tournament, we played our last game, they actually had a flight out that night and so they come to the last game and as we are leaving, we go to get on the bus, they're there and saying goodbye," Hawkins said. "It was one of those moments, he's saying goodbye and I look at him and he's got tears in his eyes as we're on the bus. Well, (the tournament) had just given us all our gifts. The gift for all the players and coaches was a watch – a Rainbow Classic watch. We were getting ready to leave, I say, 'Stop.' I get out and give my watch to (Tucker). And that was it."
The Broncos obviously made a very favorable impression on Haymond. He was a Bronco fan for life.
"I really started following basketball closely right around that age," said Haymond, who is now 18 years old. "I hadn't heard of Western Michigan before then. I was just, like, 'A college basketball team … .' I was kind of shocked that they were talking to me and I was doing my dribbling stuff, trying to show them that I knew how to play basketball. It was just kind of cool that they took me in. Coach Hawk was cool and none of his players were cocky or too arrogant for a little kid.
"After that trip I had, like, a college basketball video game and I would always (play as) Western Michigan because I thought they were my friends. It was just kind of crazy how everything's happened."
After that first meeting in Honolulu between Haymond and the Broncos, his mother, Carrie Haymond, stayed in touch with Hawkins for the next year or so.
After a while, though, they lost touch – that is, until two summers ago during a chance meeting at the Peach Jam AAU tournament, a big recruiting event in Augusta, Ga.
"This lady walks up to me and says, 'Coach, remember me?' I was with a coach at Gonzaga (Ray Giacoletti) at the time. And I'm like, 'No … I don't have it,'" Hawkins said. "She goes, 'Carrie Haymond.' And I say, 'Oh, my gosh – Tucker's mom.' … She walks away and the coach from Gonzaga says, 'That kid's not bad.' And I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Yeah, he's a pretty tough kid.' I watched a half and I'm like, 'Wow.' … That began the recruiting process."
The Haymond family moved to the inner-city of Seattle so Tucker could play against better competition. Hawkins said that somebody broke into their home and many things were stolen, but not the Rainbow Classic watch he'd given Tucker.
"Another strange part, they come on their official visit here to Kalamazoo," Hawkins said. "In Hawaii, they would stay at the same hotel and ask for the same room every year. It was right on a certain floor with a certain view. I don't know what it was, let's call it (room) 407. I had no idea, didn't know any part of this. They come on their official visit here, we put him up in the Radisson, he's in room 407.
"Whatever room number it was in Hawaii, same deal here. He got off the airplane wearing the Rainbow Classic watch. He said, 'Coach, remember this?' I said, 'Yeah.'"
Haymond committed to WMU during the early signing period, but called Hawkins during the process with some reservations or "cold feet," according to the Broncos coach. Hawkins told Haymond he wanted him to be 100 percent sure of his commitment to WMU – Kalamazoo was not going to get any closer to Seattle.
Haymond said Wednesday that he just wanted to be sure about the commitment, since it was such a big decision in his life. Hawkins said that Haymond is Mormon and considered BYU at one time, but Haymond said that his second thoughts had nothing to do with any other school.
The fact that WMU "kept the door open" the whole time left him with a very favorable impression of the Broncos, said Haymond, who had offers from Seattle University, Montana State and Idaho State.
Haymond called Hawkins back during the 2012-13 season and recommitted to WMU. And, now, he's officially a Bronco.
"There were a ton of strange things (in the Haymond/WMU story)," Hawkins said. "They went on a family vacation and Tucker hates to go on these vacations because it takes him away from basketball, but the family made him. They went to the beach, there was a guy and his wife walking their dog, and (the guy is) wearing a Western Michigan University T-shirt. On their only family vacation, they're away from everything, it was pretty desolate, not a lot of folks around, the guy's wearing a Western Michigan T-shirt. (Haymond) tells him, 'Yeah, I'm thinking about going there.' This guy tells him about his experience at Western Michigan, how much he loved it.
"There was a lot of different things that came into play that were really strange, that led to him being here."
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It's no division title, but it really doesn't matter. The Yankees will be playing in October once again.
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- I think David Schnarch's work on marriage and the concept of differentiation in relationships is life transforming. The idea of differentiation is not his, nor is it new. But his work Passionate Marriage has transformed my life in many ways, and continues to transform many of the couples that I work with. As a Christian, there are some nuances for me when it comes to differentiation (check out[...]
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- I've been working with couples for a long time. And one of the most frighteningly, vulnerable moments that I watch most couples experiencing -- is that moment when they have to take the risk and ask their partner for what they need/want/desire in the relationship. They may desire to have more help around the house. They may want more sexual intimacy in the relationship. They might need more hel[...]
Sex, Intimacy and Belonging in Marriage
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- "A sociologist once observed that the prevalence of intimacy themes in mass media, pop psychology, and 'alternative lifestyles' suggests that were driven by hunger for intimate union. It may look like this on the surface, but my clinical work helped me realize that there's actually something else going on. We're driven by something that makes us look like we crave intimacy, but in fact we're after[...]
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- Sometimes I'm hesitant to bring this subject up because in the past it has sometimes been met with resistance and people making comments that I'm talking in generalizations, or anti-technology, some sort of luddite. Truth be told. I'm writing this post more for myself than anyone because I get caught up in technology that interferes in my marriage and parenting. Name it...and it has distracted ([...]
"Marriage Books" That Will Change Your Life!!!
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- With so many marriage books out there, how do you know which books to choose from? Last month I wrote a post asking you about what marriage books changed your life. I mentioned in the post that two and half years ago I wrote a post about the premarital books I recommend to couples.
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- "There lies within the heart of most human beings a deep longing for close companionship with another--one who like us, yet mysteriously and sometimes maddeningly different from us. That heartfelt urge has been there from the beginning, and most of us feel it long before we're aware of our sexuality." (pp. 9) Those are the beautiful words that begin Adam Hamilton's new book, Love to Stay: Sex, Gr[...]
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