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Think Cleveland is all snow and gloom? Think again. Here are 10 things we love about our city:
The Cleveland International Film Festival is a 10-day festival held in the spring each year that is acknowledged by Time magazine as a "must-see" and by the Academy Awards as an automatic qualifier for short films. Throughout the rest of the year, films from the festival and other independents are screened at the Cedar-Lee Theater in Cleveland Heights, where you can enjoy beer and wine with your movie.
Cost of living is below the national average and commute times are short. As a resident, you can afford to buy a house or condo and still go out regularly to dinner, a concert, a show, or a game.
To the right: Enjoy a night at a Cleveland Indians game.
To the Left: Enjoying the world-class Cleveland Orchestra at a summer concert at Blossom. Bring your own drinks and food and picnic on the lawn, or buy seats within the pavilion.
People from more than 115 ethnic groups call Cleveland home, speaking more than 60 languages and practicing a diverse array of faiths. In addition, Cleveland has a significant LGBT population and culture, spread amongst the near west suburbs and in Cleveland Heights. UH and Case Western Reserve University extend employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners. And on the west side of the city, MetroHealth Medical Center operates the Pride Clinic, one of only 12 health centers in the country devoted to serving the health needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
University Circle is an extraordinary urban neighborhood, home to more than 20 artistic and cultural venues, as well as a host of year-round special events. The Cleveland Museum of Art, a world-renowned art museum, recently underwent a massive expansion project and offers free access to its permanent collection. They also offer affordable membership, which includes access to the popular Friday MIX event for young professionals with themes based on current exhibitions. Severance Hall is home to the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the United States' Big Five orchestras, and they also play at the outdoor Blossom Music Theater in the summer. The Cleveland Botanical Garden includes a greenhouse showcasing two ecosystems: Madagascar desert and Costa Rica cloud forest. The Cleveland Institute of Art, Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Cinematheque, and Sculpture Center are also located in the Circle.
Above: Trekking to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cleveland Metroparks are a system of nature preserves in greater Cleveland that encircle the city. Affectionately known as the "Emerald Necklace," the network of 16 reservations across 22,000 acres includes hundreds of miles of running and bike paths, horse trails, parks, picnic areas, five nature education centers, six golf courses, and abundant fishing holes. In addition, the park district manages the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which houses North America's largest primate collection.
To the Left: Stegosaurus at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Below: The "Emerald Necklace" of Metroparks, where you can do fun activities in any season or just go for a hike with a friend or dog!
For a city of its size, Cleveland has an astounding number of live music venues. And there's something for everyone's taste. Attend the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall. Relax with a live jazz show at Night Town or the Bop Stop. Party with thousands of fans at a mega-concert at The Q or settle into a more intimate crowd at the Beachland Ballroom or House of Blues. For those rock historians, there's also the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Above: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The highlight of Cleveland's theater district is Playhouse Square, the second largest performing arts center in the country (outside of NYC), which draws well over one million visitors annually. The five beautifully restored theaters are home to the opera, ballet, concerts and an impressive Broadway Series and Great Lakes Theater Festival. One can also take advantage of affordable Broadway musical show tickets. Interestingly, Playhouse is also home to the largest outdoor chandelier in the world.
Although Cleveland may be America's most tortured sports city, we guarantee the fans will never stop cheering for our teams.
Cleveland is the city Food Network celebrity chef Michael Symon calls home. He has Lola and Mabel's BBQ (East 4th Street), as well as a burger place called B Spot (many locations). We also have a multitude of other great independently-owned restaurants that share a commitment to their community and a passion for excellence in food and service. The Cleveland Independents group works together to use more locally-grown, fresh produce in their restaurants.
Above: Inside of restaurant Lola, home of Iron Chef Michael Symon, located on East 4th Street.
What is Cleveland's greatest asset? Its people. The friendliness of a Midwestern city is unparalleled and the people you will meet may just turn into your lifelong friends.
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Below: Interns having fun at intern retreat.
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With assets of more than US$215 billion, Bank of America is the third largest bank in the US and a massive repository of consumer data. This made it particularly big news when, in February, the company lost backup tapes containing detailed financial information about an estimated 1.2 million customers of the US Federal Government's SmartPay credit assistance program.
Less financially concerning but equally notorious was the recent security breach at service provider T-Mobile, whose shortcomings let hackers steal the personal information of more than 600 friends of socialite Paris Hilton.
One loss was physical, the other logical - but both underscore the importance of data privacy to companies managing personal information about their customers. When that privacy is breached, the potential consequences run far deeper than simple embarrassment or lost contracts: with information privacy a legislative mandate thanks to the expanded scope of Australia's Privacy Act 1988, companies can be found liable if their privacy policies - or the security tools to enforce them - are found to be deficient.
Introduced in late 2001, the regulations require that private companies, like previously-regulated government departments, subscribe to an industry-specific code of practice or a generic set of 10 National Privacy Principles (NPPs) that direct the handling of data from its collection and storage to its reuse and disposal.
To meet the NPPs companies must design their information systems with enough internal controls to preserve the integrity and security of collected personal information. This challenge has become particularly pointed given that current wisdom in information systems design advocates centralisation of data to improve its quality, consistency, and ease of use. Centralisation does all this, but it also turns ever-expanding databases into potential privacy trouble spots.
Secure by design
The need for privacy was never far from the thoughts of project managers at Toowoomba, Queensland-based Heritage Building Society - Australia's largest building society - which recently modernised ageing document handling processes that threatened to hobble the company's goal of increasing mortgage lending volumes by 370 per cent over four years.
With many processes still based entirely on paper files, meeting that volume would have required unsustainable increases in staff numbers using previous methods. Heritage took the plunge, completely redesigning its internal workflow and implementing a suite of FileNet applications that has automated the capture, internal flow and archiving of more than 7.5 million critical internal documents and images.
From an ROI perspective, the company's investment has paid off: efficiency has increased by more than two-thirds, while Heritage has halved the cost of its internal processes, allowing it to support its rapid growth in transaction volumes without increasing staff numbers.
Subject to a litany of regulatory guidelines, continuous auditing requirements and, in recent years, statutory requirements for information privacy Heritage has been forced to ensure that every aspect of its IT-driven change falls squarely on the cautious side. "We identified security as an important issue early in the project," says John Williams, head of technology and payment systems with Heritage.
"It was always part of the design throughout the project, and that made it easier to implement because it was at the forefront of our minds."
Heritage employs a privacy officer to monitor the company's privacy controls. Employees are continually trained and reminded about the need to preserve customer privacy, and the company has set up contact channels for employees to report suspected privacy breaches. There are also technological protections, ranging from a layered network security infrastructure to write-protection of documents upon creation. Granular usage logging, built right into the FileNet suite, ensures that Heritage has a record of each and every time an employee accesses any of its documents.
"Information security is paramount where these sorts of regulatory and privacy issues must be addressed," Williams says. "We do store a lot of information about our members, and we make sure we've got the right access controls so only the appropriate people can access information. As the technology distribution in most organisations becomes more prevalent, it's an increasing focus for us to be able to provide privacy and security of information for our members."
The layered approach
Growing awareness of privacy imperatives and the general need for security have driven many companies to explore the ways in which layers of security technology can support policies around privacy and other governance requirements.
Long the favourite of remote workers wanting to connect to the network over the internet, virtual private networks (VPNs) have become a popular way of increasing control over access to company networks. Because VPN servers always require remote users to be authenticated before letting them pass onto the network, they can be instrumental in defining the terms of engagement: certain users can, for example, be barred from accessing data stored on particular parts of the network.
VPN servers also keep detailed usage logs, providing another layer of control over information access and helping ensure that any privacy breaches can be quickly traced back to their perpetrator.
Health food maker Sanitarium used the VPN approach when it recently upgraded its remote access environment to allow some 150 travelling users to log onto the network while in the field. Previously limited by banks of slow modems at Sanitarium's 11 offices, internet-connected remote users got a much more capable and flexible method of access using the encrypted VPN.
To further ensure the integrity of its networked information resources, Sanitarium also deployed RSA SecurID hardware tokens to ensure incoming users are who they say they are. Such technologies provide far better control than simple user ID-password combinations, which in turn increases the perceived reliability of network privacy controls.
"We have a corporate privacy policy, which has a section relating to computer networks and information stored on those networks," says Dr Kevin Wallace, IT infrastructure services manager with Sanitarium. "We use the VPN policy to help ensure that the privacy policy is adhered to. We know how users come in, what level of access they have to corporate data, and we can manage that centrally. It adds a degree of certainty over who is accessing the data."
Another technique for controlling access to sensitive information is to shift access away from the company's core servers by using web-based rather than full client/server applications. In this way, users aren't actually connected directly onto the network, but only interact with a web server living at the edge of the network - which in turn acts as a go-between to link the user with the applications running inside the company's network.
Beyond the network
But what happens when the information in question is already outside the network? With the proliferation of wireless and mobile devices, this issue has come to the fore in recent years - particularly given the results of a recent global Pointsec survey of taxi companies that found mobile devices are being lost in epidemic numbers.
During the second half of 2004, in Sydney alone, taxi drivers reported finding 13,280 mobile phones, 1,725 pocket PCs and 977 notebook PCs. Worse still, only 46 per cent of mobile phone owners and just 18 per cent of notebook owners ever saw their lost valuables again.
It may be interesting trivia to most, but such results will send shivers down the spine of any IT executive charged with ensuring the integrity and security of their company's critical information. Mobile devices have their role in many companies, but they present potentially major problems in a regulatory environment where increasing scrutiny of corporate governance has tightened the screws on information management policies. Here, centralisation of data and the dumbing-down of client devices may prove invaluable to rein in potentially catastrophic loss of customer data in the field.
Other risks exposed How much security is enough? "It all comes back to your risk analysis," says Williams. "If you assess the risks [of any new project] appropriately, and apply the right control measures to limit risk to acceptable levels, you should be satisfied."
High-level risk management, however, can be difficult in large organisations with many different types of potential exposures. Business structures rarely map cleanly onto the typical company's decentralised information environment, which can make it difficult to enforce rigorous technological controls over the use of customer information.
That information spends much of its time split between databases, printed out on pages sitting unprotected on desks, copied onto memory keys for use during late-night work, or exposed, unencrypted, on a notebook PC. There are also new and poorly understood risks associated with technologies such as voice over IP (VoIP), whose data-based design could make it another potential source of security breaches unless managed appropriately.
Integrity of privacy controls often suffers from endemic political infighting and issues over data ownership and conflicting business priorities. While the board may recognise the legislative requirement for information privacy, the IT department must balance the restrictions of security tools against the practical efficiency requirements of the workforce. Adding a further wrinkle, the company's marketing organisation may argue for freer access to customer information in order to drive more aggressive customer-focused campaigns.
Privacy mechanisms
Mediation between privacy, security and accessibility concerns is critical when companies construct their privacy policies.
"There's a dynamic tension that exists," says Steve Bittinger, research director with Gartner Pacific. "Privacy, security and customer relationship management are all important, and the picture is changing constantly as a result of changes in technology that allow us to create new security and privacy mechanisms."
Such mechanisms need to be well documented, accountable and effective - but they don't necessarily need to be a burden for companies. Rather, Bittinger says, the right balance can actually become a business asset by increasing customers' perception of a company as being trustworthy.
"You can start to consciously build up your trust with your customers, and build a relationship that's based on excellence of security and how you handle customer information and privacy," he explains. "Increasing trust is like reducing friction in the system." For companies finding information management to be anything less than smooth, that benefit alone justifies taking a new look at how more appropriate security can better support privacy requirements.
Australia's national privacy principles Amendments to the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 subject private enterprises to 10 National Privacy Principles designed to ensure appropriate management of personal information.
These include: Principle 1 - Collection: Only collect personal information that is necessary. Let customers know what you've collected and why. Principle 2 - Use and disclosure: Don't disclose personal information except in certain circumstances including some direct marketing, imminent health or safety threat, exposure of unlawful activity and others. Principle 3 - Data quality: Take "reasonable steps" to ensure personal information is complete, accurate and up to date. Principle 4 - Data security: Protect personal information from unauthorised access and misuse, modification or disclosure. Principle 5 - Openness: Author a formal policy on information management, and allow customers to know what information you hold on them if they so request. Principle 6 - Access and correction: Customers must be able to access the information you hold on them, and arrange for correction of incorrect details. Principle 7 - Identifiers: Use your own identifiers when managing personal information. Principle 8 - Anonymity: Wherever possible, give individuals the option of not identifying themselves when dealing with your company. Principle 9 - Transborder data flows: Data may only be transferred outside the country if the recipient follows similar privacy guidelines, the individual consents to the transfer, or certain other circumstances. Principle 10 - Sensitive information: Sets terms under which a company can collect sensitive information about individuals.


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Why leftists love tyrants and terrorists
New blockbuster 'United in Hate' earns critical acclaim
Critical acclaim is mounting for the newly released "United in Hate: The Left's Romance With Tyranny and Terror," by Jamie Glazov, with President Reagan's national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, calling it a "must-read."
In his book, which assuredly will make so-called "progressives" see red, Glazov describes the unholy alliance between jihadists and people like Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Ted Turner and Noam Chomsky.
He uses the Leftists' own words to reveal their agenda of death, and now a flood of praise is pouring in.
McFarlane said it is "the redefining work for 21st Century readers of an eternal message."
President Reagan's assistant secretary of defense, Richard Perle, said, "Jamie Glazov rolls over left-wing intellectual pretensions with a Mack truck that handles like a Porsche. He rounds them up – and when he's finished, there's nothing left."
Although history allows no doubt Leftist beliefs have spawned mass carnage and misery, and the deaths of millions of people, until now it has been extremely difficult for rational people who value personal freedom to understand the motivation of those who live in comfort, yet embrace monstrous dictators, ideologies and policies that leave only death in their wake.
Rising to the call, Glazov uses the astonishing words of well-known Leftists to explain their love for and deification of totalitarian ideologies with clarity and candor.
R. James Woolsey, former CIA chief, says Glazov's "courageous and illuminating book" calls out the "Nazis and Stalinists' of today."
"What draws Leftists moth-like toward the annihilating fires of unbridled totalitarianism, or drives them to slavishly worship at the feet of dictators?" asks Ben R. Furman, the FBI's former counterterrorism chief.
"Dr. Glazov answers these and other 'head scratching' questions in a court-ready presentation of the Left's mindset that will make forensic psychologists proud."
"This superbly enlightening book should be required reading for the American and European policymakers that are not utterly beholden to the Left, for most of them have yet to come to grips with the Islamic supremacist agenda and its totalitarian imperative – which Glazov ably exposes here," writes Robert Spencer, author of the New York Times best-seller "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)."
Glazov holds a Ph.D. in history with specialities in U.S., Russian and Canadian foreign policy, and is editor of FrontPage Magazine.
Quoting notoriously leftwing British lawmaker George Galloway, "United in Hate" makes the beliefs of today's political Left crystal clear:
"Not only do I think it's possible [a Muslim-leftist alliance] but I think it is vitally necessary and I think it is happening already," explained Galloway. "It is possible because the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries, mainly Muslim countries. They have the same interest in opposing savage capitalist globalization, which is intent upon homogenizing the entire world, turning us basically into factory chickens which can be force-fed the American diet of everything from food to Coca-Cola to movies and TV culture and whose only role in life is to consume the things produced endlessly by the multinational corporations …" You get the idea.
Ronald Radosh at FrontPage notes how today's members of the Left "seek to forge an alliance with America's enemies, once the Communist world, now the forces of radical Islam;" adding, "Glazov traces and seeks to analyze the causes of this movement from the left's support of 'the red flag of proletarian revolution' to that of the 'black flag of Islamic jihad.'
"In many cases, Glazov shows how the same people who once sang the praises of Stalin as an anti-fascist leader now praise Islamic terrorists who seek to attack the West. While many learned from 9/11 that the West had real and very dangerous enemies, major figures of the once pro-Soviet Left apparently felt rejuvenated, viewing the attack on the twin towers as the revenge of the masses for American oppression of the Third World. For these people, Glazov writes, 9/11 was a 'personal vindication,' since they saw 'only poetic justice in American commercial airplanes plunging into American buildings packed with people,'" Radosh says.
Adds Brigitte Gabriel, a renowned terrorism expert and New York Times best-selling author, "'United in Hate' is a must-read for all Americans concerned with the future of America."
"Finally, someone has the courage and the bravery to fully expose a mystery which for years has baffled us. The trutyh is o the cover, but it takes someone like Dr. Glazov to make us see it," says Joan Lachkar, author of "How to Talk to a Narcisssist."
"Any leftist who reads this, and has any honesty left in his mind, must recognize himself in this picture and, hopefully, be ashamed," adds Vladimir Bukovsky, once a leading Soviet dissident and author of "Judgment in Moscow."
Within hours of its release, "United in Hate" was No. 1 among books relating to communism on Amazon.com.
Glazov concludes: "This is where the Western Left and militant Islam (like the Western Left and Communism) intersect: human life must be sacrificed for the sake of the idea. Like Islamists, leftists have a Manichean vision that rigidly distinguishes good from evil. They see themselves as personifications of the former and their opponents as personifications of the latter, who must be slated for ruthless elimination."
Sounds crazy, but how else can one explain the views of famed moviemaker Francis Ford Coppola, who said of one of the world's most notorious dictators: "Fidel, I love you. We both have the same initials. We both have beards. We both have power and want to use it for good purposes."
Or Harry Belafonte, who said: "If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro."
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KayAnna Printed Flannel Pajama Set - Cotton, Long Sleeve (For Women)
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About KayAnna Printed Flannel Pajama Set - Cotton, Long Sleeve (For Women)
Closeouts. It's flannel pajama season, and KayAnna's printed flannel pajamas are a cozy way to celebrate in brushed, extra-smooth cotton flannel.
- Pure cotton flannel is lightly brushed for an extra-smooth hand
- Cut for a roomier, relaxed fit
- Satin piping trim
- Top:
- Long sleeves
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- Satin drawstring tie
- Natural waist
- Straight leg
- Relaxed Fit
- Made in China
Specs about KayAnna Printed Flannel Pajama Set - Cotton, Long Sleeve (For Women)
- Top:
- Fabric: 100% cotton
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- Inseam: 30" (based on size large)
- Leg opening: 20"
- Fabric: 100% cotton
- Care: Machine wash, tumble dry
- Natural waist
- Straight leg
- Relaxed Fit
- Weight: 1 lb. 2 oz.
- Made in China
KayAnna Womens Size Chart
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Mary Barra Marks a Milestone at GM, But Progress Stalls for Corporate Women
General Motors' decision to name Mary Barra as its next chief executive—and the first female auto industry CEO—is being hailed as the latest breakthrough for women at industrial giants.
Ms. Barra joins a host of other women atop formerly male-dominated firms, such as Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson, IBM chief Virginia Rometty and Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman. And in a year that could arguably be called the year of the power woman--Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck snapped up the 85 Broads networking group, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg turned her "Lean In" book into a bestseller and a global movement, and Marissa Mayer took Yahoo's stock to heights not seen since 2006--it's a significant milestone given the history of the auto industry and GM in particular.
But there are still few females in the top spot at Fortune 500 companies. Just 4% of Fortune 500 chief executives are female, and the frequently cited numbers tallied by Catalyst Inc., a nonprofit that tracks women's progress in executive roles, shows women appear to have hit a wall.
Women held 16.9% of board seats at Fortune 500 companies this year, essentially flat from the 16.6% they held in 2012, according to a new study by Catalyst Inc., a nonprofit that aims to expand women's business opportunities. Not only has the number stayed flat during the last two years, it has barely budged over the past eight years.
Thanks in part to "Lean In," company chiefs are talking more about closing the gender gap, but that's not always translating to action when it comes time to pick a new board member or executive.
"In 2013 there's really no excuse," said Deborah Gillis, Catalyst's chief operating officer. "For companies that are not making the advancement of women to leadership a priority, they really should be embarrassed."
Some firms bucked the trend. At beauty companies Estée Lauder Inc. and Avon Products, as well as consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble, nearly half of the directors were female. (At the same time, women tend to be the primary household shoppers; they accounted for 72% of shopping trips to dollar stores and mass merchandisers in 2012, according to data released earlier this year by the Nielsen Company.)
At 10% of Fortune 500 companies –including Charter Communications, Navistar Inc. and Supervalu – not a single woman serves on the board.
Women didn't fare any better in picking up executive officer slots. They held 14.6% of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies in 2013, staying flat for the fourth straight year.
For women trying to pick up board experience, it's a catch-22: When boards have a seat to fill, they want someone with experience on a public-company board. But that stance is limiting.
"We tend to say we want ability but then we promote experience," said Thomas Falk, chief executive of consumer products company Kimberly-Clark "Being willing to take a chance on someone that you think has the ability but may lack a bit of experience, I think has proven to be very successful for us." Three of the company's twelve board members are female.
"We've still got a long way to go," Mr. Falk said, adding that women have been more open about their executive ambitions now that others have charted the course.
Industries including administrative support and waste management and retail trade led the pack on gender diversity. Some 21% of directors were female in administrative support and waste management. In retail, nearly 19% of executive officers were women.
Getting access to more high-profile projects within a company would speed women's progress, according to Catalyst. But earlier research by the group shows men are more likely to land high-profile projects with bigger budgets, more employees and more risk for the company.
When Maggie Wilderotter took the helm of Frontier Communications, there were zero women on the board, she said. Today there are five.
Her advice to companies seeking more female directors: "If you're looking for a woman board member, call me. I know lots of great women," Ms. Wilderotter said.


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The last weeks of school are here, and many parents are beginning to create the checklists that will enable them to send their kids to camp with everything they need to create lasting memories of a healthy, happy summer of activities and friendship… and head lice.
Oops, did I say that out loud?
I guess I did. But only because I care about you.
The truth is that summer camps are a perfect place for head lice to achieve their evolutionary purpose: making more head lice so the species can continue to thrive. When I went to camp, which I did EVERY summer (possibly because my parents found this foolproof annual break from parenting me to be extremely worthwhile), the friendships I forged were closer in a lot of ways than the ones I had at home—and the keyword here is "closer." We lived in close contact at camp—a lot of lying around on each others bunk beds, head-to-head on the same pillow as we giggled, wrote letters home (yes, with paper and envelopes), played games, and engaged in the highly head-lice-relevant activity of mutual hair styling (which usually meant, "let's see how many bows and clips and bands we can put on each others heads to make the most ridiculous-looking head we can!"). You're envisioning the nightmare, aren't you?
What can parents do to prevent the gift-that-keeps-on-giving? Two things. First, add a head lice screening to your camp departure checklist. Screen your child before s/he boards the bus or gets in the car for the trip to camp. If you aren't confident in your ability to do it, find a nurse or a professional service (full disclosure: Lice Happens does camp screenings) that will screen your child. Second, ask your camp director what they're doing to make sure kids are screened upon arrival. Some camps have screening procedures set up, with qualified camp nurses or professional services doing the screening, but many still have high hopes that it just won't happen at their camps, so they wait until there's a problem affecting more than one camper before taking action. And sometimes that action includes sending children home for treatment.
If your camp falls into the latter camp, gently suggest that they might reconsider that tactic and put an arrival screening procedure in place. (More disclosure: Lice Happens sells inexpensive screening kits for camp nurses). It could save your child, and many others, from a summer camp memory they'd rather forget. Summer camps who don't screen are risking a lousy summer, and nobody wants to pony up for that.


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Close Thacher Park? Don't Even Think About It!
It's ironic that standing on top of the overlook at Thacher Park you can see the rising towers of the Empire State Mall complex. This is the same complex that contain the very government officials that are working on closing the park to the public and taking away that view.
Thacher Park is not your average park. The Helderberg Escarpment was formed over 400 million years ago south of the Equator in shallow tropical seas during the Devonian Period.
Helderberg is the Dutch corruption of the German for "Clear Mountain" (early spelling was Hellebergh) named by the Palatine Germans as they trekked west in 1710 from their makeshift dwellings deep in the Albany Pine Bush.
Today those former sea deposits are a series of limestone, sandstone, and shale layers that were gradually uplifted, beginning about 100 million years ago. As weather and water eroded the exposed rock layers, the softer rocks, which lay underneath the harder ones, eroded away quickly and large blocks fell giving us the familiar vertical wall we know and love. Elevations range as high as 1760 feet near Camp Pinnacle and most of the visible cliff face range in elevation from 500 feet at the talus slop to 1300 feet at the edge of the cliff. Moreover if you use your imagination, if you were standing on this escarpment 10,000 years ago you would have been looking out into a glacial lake that filled the entire Hudson Valley up to the 450-foot sea level. It must have been a magnificent site to the Native Americans who roamed the top of escarpment looking for food.
The Thacher Park area has been world famous for its geology for more than a century. Various fossils found in the rocks give evidence of different water conditions that covered the area. One can find brachiopods, bryozoans, trilobites, brachiopods, mollusks, and honeycomb corals. Many of these fossils were first found and described from here. If you are really daring you can go up to the top of the escarpment near Camp Pinnacle and see shale deposits that is the result of a collision between a small continent called Avalon with Proto North America millions of years ago when tectonic plates were moving and bumping into each other during the Middle Devonian.
The range of landscape features seen from Thacher Park is amazing. From atop the escarpment you can see the Mohawk and Hudson River Valleys, the Green Mountains of Vermont, the Taconic Ridge, and the Adirondacks. On a clear day you can even see Mt Greylock in Massachusetts 57 miles away and Mt Equinox in Vermont some 74 miles away. Just down the road from the park is a large coral reef that is evidence of the tropical origins of the region back in the Ordovician Period.
It is a spectacular view of the region we call home. It is by far one of the most breathtaking views anywhere in New York State and your elected officials in Albany want to take that away from you.
The escarpment has a lot of human history associated with it as well.
Here is what NYS says about Thacher Park on its Web site:
"John Boyd Thacher State Park is situated along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world. Even as it safeguards six miles of limestone cliff-face, rock-strewn slopes, woodland and open fields, the park provides a marvelous panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The park has volleyball courts, playgrounds, ball fields and numerous picnic areas with nine reservable shelters. Interpretive programs are offered year-round, including guided tours of the famous Indian Ladder Trail. There are over twelve additional miles of trails for summer hiking and mountain biking, and winter cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and snowmobiling.
The Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center is located 2 miles from the park on Thompson's Lake. The center opened in July 2001 and offers exhibits, interactive displays, trails for hiking and skiing, and educational programs."
The Park was given to NYS by Mrs. Emma Treadwell Thacher, widow of John Boyd Thacher who was Albany Mayor and a Senator, but also a historian. At first the park was controlled by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society but in 1939 deeded over to the NYS Conservation Department. When it was donated then State Paleontologist and Geologist and Director of the New York State Museum, John M. Clarke wrote in Science magazine in 1914 that:
"It's more than 350 acres extends along the escarpment so far as to include all it most striking portions and the new reservation is essentially a geological and scenic park. It was the intention of Mr. Thacher that it should have ultimate disposition. Mr. Thacher, who had a summer home on the Helderbergs, was much in Europe engaged in his historical researches. On one of his returns he told me that he had heard so much of the Helderberg's, their rocks and their fossils, among circles of savants with whim he was thrown that he determined to do his part to preserve this famous cliff from any danger of invasion, because of its natural beauty and extraordinary scientific interest. Impressed by the worth of preserve such natural monuments, Mr. Thacher's high minded purpose has now been made effective."
He also states that the "Helderberg's and the Indian Ladder have the most intimate and ancient association with the history of geology in this state and are really a classic ground in American geological science. Interest not alone for its geology is the original section of the "Helderberg Formation" and its various subdivisions, with their profusion of organic remains, the Indian Ladder is equally commanding as a scenic feature. There is perhaps nothing just like it in original and effectiveness. From the summit of the long sheer limestone cliff the eyes command the panorama of the conjoined Hudson and Mohawk Valleys picturesquely spread out over a vast area bounded at the north by the foothills of the Adirondacks and at the northeast by the Taconic Mountains and the Berkshires. And over this splendid picture generation of geologists have gazed, for the Helderbergs have been the Mecca of geologists for well nigh a century"
Each summer from 1900 to 1909, Gilbert D. Harris, a paleontology professor at Cornell conducted a summer field camp in around the Helderbergs. Students from Cornell would board Harris' boat at Ithaca and head toward Albany by way of Cayuga Lake and the Erie Canal studying the geology exposed along the way. Studying the Mohawk Valley via the Erie Canal was started shortly after the canal opened with Amos Eaton and his students at the Rensselaer School, now RPI in 1824. In fact Troy where Eaton taught rivaled London at the time for the study of geology around the world.
The importance of enjoying and understanding Thacher Park was published as a guide in 1933 by Winifred Goldring (1888-1971), the first female State Paleontologist in New York State. Titled "Guide To The Geology of John Boyd Thacher Park (Indian Ladder Region) And Vicinity," it was the first popular guide to the region. Goldring was also well known for her studies of the Gilboa fossil flora. She was not only the first female State Paleontologist in the United States but also the first in the world. In 1949, she served as president of the Paleontological Society and the following year vice president of the Geological Society of America.
Native Americans used the caves and overhangs for shelter for thousands of years, and when the region was settled by Europeans, the hill towns, as they are called, served as farming communities under the Van Rensselaer Patroonship system – until the famous Anti Rent wars took place in the 19th century. Anyone familiar with the books "Tin Horns and Calico: A decisive episode in the emergence of Democracy" by Henry Christman (1945) and "Old Hellebergh" by Arthur Gregg (1975) know the stories of the struggles of the hill town farmers and their resistance to paying the annual rents to an outdated system. The tenacity of these farmers not only in Albany County but also Rensselaer County put an end to this centuries old system in 1846 when the NY legislature abolished the practice.
During the American Revolution, a cave in the escarpment was the hideout for Jacob Salisbury, a British loyalist (Tory) who led raids on the farmers siding with the patriot cause. He was eventually caught when smoke was seen coming out of the cave and was hung in the cave, which today is known as the "Tory House" or Tory Cave. You can visit the cave along the Indian Ladder trail. There are more than 20 caves within a few miles of each other.
Early archeology around Thompson's Lake by Arthur Parker in the early 1920s and later show that the area was inhabited and used for resources by early Americans as early as 6000 BC.
A Boy Scout Camp at Thompson's Lake in 1920 grew and became a valuable education experience for many kids from the county until it sold its camp to the State in 1987.
The park is also the terminus of The Long Path, a 347+ mile hiking trail that was proposed by one of my friends and mentor Vincent Schaefer in 1929. The trail runs from the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, NJ to Thatcher Park. It was purposely not marked as a trail as he thought it should be a wilderness trail in the truest sense of the word. It is not a continuous trail either but one where you make your own route trying to find certain points of interest. In the 1960s it was revised to become a regular hiking trail and the familiar aqua paint splash (or DEC blue markers) denotes the trail today.
Thacher Park has been used by thousands of visitors since it opened. Most readers of this article have probably had a picnic there, played Frisbee, walked the Indian Ladder trail, and tried to fit into some of the narrow crevices and caves along the way. Many a courtship was had and birthday, anniversary, and just about every kind of reason to party have been enjoyed at Thacher. But being at the park also has a psychological connection.
There have been many studies about the effects of humans commuting with nature. Dr. John Davis from Naropa University writes:
"A strong body of psychological research, supported by widespread anecdotal evidence, confirms the hypothesis that direct contact with nature leads to increased mental health and psychological development. This research helps explain the attraction of nature for city-dwellers and supports the value of increasing contact with nature for children and adults."
An interesting study by Cecily Maller and others at Deakin University in Australia writes:
"Initial findings indicate that nature plays a vital role in human health and well-being, and that parks and nature reserves play a significant role by providing access to nature for individuals. Implications suggest contact with nature may provide an effective population-wide strategy in prevention of mental ill health, with potential application for sub-populations, communities and individuals at higher risk of ill health."
"Not only do natural spaces and public parks protect the essential systems of life and biodiversity, but they also provide a fundamental setting for health promotion and the creation of well-being for urban populations that to date has lacked due recognition. Whilst experience and intuition, along with opportunity and access, may guide some urban-dwelling individuals to seek out gardens, parks and public natural areas for improved health and sense of well-being, significant evidence exists for contact with nature to be considered in the promotion of health and well-being for individuals and communities, and potentially be incorporated within public health strategies for whole populations."
What a number of people do not write about is the socio-economics of this issue. Those with high income can find their connections to nature almost anywhere. However, those on the lower socio economic scale or the middle class cannot and Thacher Park may be the only opportunity for them to enjoy nature, get out of the city, and enjoy a little piece of mind with their friends and families.
What is remarkable is that when the State of New York accepted the gift of Thacher Park, Governor Martin Glynn's testimony was included in the documents of the Assembly of the State of New York (Vol. 35) revealing the very importance of using the park:
"To those who desire to escape for a day from the oven-like city in summer; who wish to enjoy a ramble among romantic cliffs in shady woods, beside cool mountain brooks and waterfalls; to view spots sacred to legends of wild Revolutionary days, of Troy and Indian depredation, naming place, precipice, and mountain; to gather the fossil corals and shells which forming the very soil the farmer tills, cropping out from the sod, are reared as farm walls or burned to lime; to visit and explore known caves and search for new ones possibly existing unknown and unexplored among the cliff ledges, this "Indian Ladder" region of the Helderbergs offers superior inducements."
Dear readers, if the Governor and legislators in 1914 understood the importance of accepting this park and the benefits it would extend to all, then the present legislative body must follow in their footsteps and guarantee that the Helderberg Escarpment must remain open now and for all years to come.
There is no other option.


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States Moving Quickly to Switch Execution Drug
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Nearly two-thirds of the 16 states with active death chambers are switching to an alternative sedative for execution -- even as the drug's manufacturer argues against its use in capital punishment and some European countries push export bans
for such drugs.
Ten states have now switched to pentobarbital or are considering a switch as part of their three-drug methods, according to a survey of all death penalty states by The Associated Press. Among those joining the states that previously switched are Alabama, Louisiana
and Florida. South Carolina also is considering using the drug as it prepares
for an execution next month.
At issue is a shortage of sodium thiopental, a sedative that states used for more than three decades until its only U.S. manufacturer stopped making it in 2009 and then dropped plans to
resume production earlier this year. The shortage forced several states to scramble to find new supplies and executions were temporarily delayed in Arizona, California, Georgia and Oklahoma. States swapped supplies of sodium thiopental or looked overseas, to England, India and even Pakistan.
Both sodium thiopental and pentobarbital are fast-acting barbiturates that in massive intravenous doses will quickly stop a person's breathing and cause death in 10 to 15 minutes.
One difference: pentobarbital is considerably more expensive. Ohio spent $218 for 5 grams of sodium thiopental in February, but spent $2,200 for 5 grams of pentobarbital for a March execution.
Prisons spokesman Carlo LoParo said the state had no alternative. As states scrambled for fresh supplies, several turned to England and obtained doses of sodium thiopental not approved for medical use in this country by the FDA. But that source dried up after the British government banned the drug's export for use in executions and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration began seizing supplies of the drug from Georgia and other states over questions of whether the states broke the law to get it.
Death row inmates in Arizona, California and Tennessee sued over the imported drugs, alleging the FDA knowingly allowed the import of a drug that hadn't been approved by the agency.
Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show the FDA quietly assisted some states in importing sodium thiopental from overseas. The agency has said reviewing death penalty drugs for import falls outside its mission.
South Carolina also obtained its supply of sodium thiopental from England, informed the DEA after the agency began seizing other states' supply, and handed the supply over to the DEA Thursday. South Carolina is exploring pentobarbital, possibly used alone, and other options before the scheduled May 6 execution of Jeffrey Motts, 36, condemned to die for killing his cellmate in 2005 while serving two life sentences for a previous double homicide.
"We're looking at other alternatives, just as other states have done," said South Carolina prisons spokesman John Barkley. The 10 states that have either switched to pentobarbital or are considering a switch are among 16 states that held executions in the past three years or have executions scheduled this year.
Five of those states say they're exploring their options or researching the issue, phrases other states used before announcing the switch. A sixth, Washington, has no plans to change.
Some states without recent executions or any scheduled in the near future are also switching or considering a switch to pentobarbital in case the need arises, including Delaware, Oregon
and Idaho.
"Corrections departments across the country are struggling to find a reliable supply of that drug and we want to give ourselves some flexibility and some options as we go forward," said Idaho
prisons spokesman Jeff Ray. Only two states, Ohio and Oklahoma, have used pentobarbital in
executions. Oklahoma uses it along with drugs that paralyze inmates, then stops their hearts. Ohio uses one single dose of pentobarbital.
Pentobarbital, available for use since 1930, is used by doctors as a sedative in some surgeries, as a hypnotic for short-term treatment of insomnia and to control certain types of seizures,
such as those associated with bouts of cholera, meningitis and an emergency state of epilepsy.
The drug has also been used in legally assisted suicides in Oregon and Washington. Nembutal, a chemically related version of pentobarbital marketed to veterinarians, is used in combination
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Lundbeck, which strongly opposes the use of its drug for capital punishment, says such clauses would be impractical because of the way drugs are distributed.
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Lene Espersen, the foreign minister in Denmark, where the drug is manufactured, said last week she'll urge states using the drug to stop. Britain has also banned the export of pentobarbital and two other execution drugs. Britain's export ban on death penalty drugs means the handful of English companies that make such drugs have to apply for a license
to export the product. The license can be denied if the manufacturer and any intermediaries can't identify all buyers and the intended use for the drug.
These controls are apparently similar to those put in place for certain arms companies to ensure weapons don't fall into the wrong hands. Penalties for companies exporting the drugs without a license would be decided on a case-by-case basis, but would include fines and legal prosecution, said Lucy Sutton, a spokeswoman in Britain's department for business, innovation and skills.
"They would be taken to court and there would be legal repercussions," she said. She also said it is illegal to import drugs used for execution purposes into the U.S. without having a
license from the FDA. For now, the impact of Britain's pentobarbital ban is likely
nominal, since states can easily obtain legal supplies of the FDA-approved U.S. version.
Moreover, any attempt to prohibit pentobarbital's use in executions would be complicated by the way drugs are distributed, as Lundbeck argues.
Once a drug maker sells its initial supplies to wholesalers, the drugs are then re-shipped to a variety of retailers around the country, who then can re-sell them to licensed medical
"The manufacturer has very little control, either in where it's going through the supply chain or how it goes through the supply chain," said Bob Billings, executive director of the Generic
Pharmaceutical Association. "It's in the hands of another at that point."
For example, before Ohio switched to pentobarbital, the state purchased its supply of sodium thiopental from the Southern Ohio Medical Center, a hospital in Lucasville just a few miles from the prison where Ohio puts inmates to death. Texas, with the country's most active death penalty state, obtained all three of its execution drugs from Besse Medical of
suburban Cincinnati, a large pharmaceutical distributor. The company says it has no way to determine what its customers do with its products. It's also not illegal to use drugs for purposes other than their approved use, known as "off-label" use. As long as a company doesn't promote off-label use, it's not responsible for how the drug is used, said Dan Mendelson, a Washington, D.C.-based health care analyst who authored "Follow the Pill," a 2005 study of pharmaceutical distribution for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
However, pressure from European countries can have an effect. In January, the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental said it was discontinuing the drug's production because Italian authorities wanted a guarantee that it wouldn't be used to put inmates to death.
Hospira Inc., of Lake Forest, Ill., said it had decided to switch manufacture of the anesthetic from its North Carolina plant to a Hospira plant in Liscate, outside of Milan, in Italy. But
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Hospira had also urged states not to use its drugs in executions. After discussions with Italian authorities, with Hospira wholesalers and within the corporation, the manufacturer decided it couldn't make that promise


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"Two boys, ages 7 and 9, have admitted to raping a toddler. The 2-year-old victim's brother, age 5, saw the two neighborhood boys abusing his sister and told his mother. The boys initially blamed each other but gave similar details about the Aug. 9 crime, which included penetration. Both boys later admitted to the crime to avoid a trial. During a Shelby County Juvenile Court hearing Monday, Magistrate Dan Michael is scheduled to decide whether to remove the boys from their South Memphis homes. Due to their ages and details of the case, prosecutor Chris Lareau said he will ask the judge to place the boys in state custody for treatment" - commercial appeal
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Luciana Page, a culinary student at Florida International University, has her husband to thank for her newfound fame. According to The Miami Herald, he was the one who suggested she enter her burger recipe to Red Robin's Savory Scholar Contest. Page, who is of Korean heritage, created a BBQ burger with Asian flavors:
"Instead of ketchup or mayonnaise, I spread bean paste and red pepper sauce," the Hollywood resident, 36, explains. "To replicate the crunchy feel that most people expect, I used raw cabbage and pickled cucumbers."
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Tommy Baldwin Racing Signs Ryan Preece for NNS
Tommy Baldwin Racing has hired Ryan Preece, the 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Champion, to run two races in the NASCAR Nationwide series in 2014 in the No. 36 Chevrolet. Preece will make starts at Richmond International Raceway as well as returning to New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Preece, a member of the prestigious NASCAR Next program, has a decorated NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour career under his belt. He made his career debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2013 with Tommy Baldwin Racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In seven years in the NWMT Preece has made 95 career starts including nine wins, 42 top five finishes, 54 top 10 finishes and 11 pole position starts.
East West Marine, based out of Manorville, N.Y., will adorn Preece's No. 36 Chevrolet for both races.
"We are very excited to be able to support Ryan's continued progression through the NASCAR ranks and once again be a partner with Tommy Baldwin Racing," said Brian Slaga, President of East West Marine. "We fully support Ryan's career through the various racing series that he participates in. He is a great ambassador for East West Marine and we are proud to have him wave our flag. We look forward to his continued success for many years to come."
"I can't wait, and I'm very happy to have this chance again. You never know if your first race in a car, could be your last one. Making the best of the opportunity is key. I'm very lucky to have someone like Tommy pushing and supporting me. He has given me a 'true' opportunity that is very hard to come by in todays racing. There aren't very many car owners that will put you in a car like he is doing," said Preece. "I'm looking forward to getting back in a full body car and doing what I love to do. Driving for Tommy is fun because he is from 'modified country', and has the same personality that we all do. Working with all the guys at TBR is fun too, they are all hardcore racers and all have the same goal in mind. Also, I'm very lucky to have a guy like Brian Slaga behind me with East West Marine and his company. He supports me 100% and helps me with whatever is needed to race or be at the track."
Team owner Tommy Baldwin also commented, "Ryan proved himself last year at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and we are looking forward to his return with TBR."


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Arkansas' Powell to enter NBA Draft
Fayetteville, AR – Arkansas forward Marshawn Powell has opted to forego his final year of eligibility and enter the 2013 NBA Draft, though he has not yet hired an agent.
During his career in Fayetteville, Powell averaged 13.6 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while shooting 49.2 percent from the floor.
"I wish Marshawn all the best as he moves on to the next stage of his basketball career," Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson said. "He had a tremendous junior season after recovering from a knee injury and was a big part of the success that we had this season. He is a skilled forward who can stretch the defense because of his ability to shoot."
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BOSTON (AP) — House lawmakers are gearing up to debate a sweeping bill designed to tighten Massachusetts' already tough gun laws.
An updated version of the bill, set for discussion Wednesday, would require police chiefs or other licensing authorities to give reasons for denying gun licenses to individuals seeking them. Those denials would have to be based on public safety and could be appealed in court.
The bill also would create a web-based portal within the state Executive Office of Public Safety to allow for real-time background checks for private gun sales while stiffening penalties for some gun-based crimes and creating a firearms trafficking unit within the State Police.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he met with gun safety advocates and gun owners and believes the bill is fair and comprehensive.
"The bill the House will debate ... represents one of the most effective gun laws in the country," said DeLeo, D-Winthrop, calling the legislation "an important public safety measure that can serve as a model to other states."
Supporters hope to win final passage in both branches at get the legislation to Gov. Deval Patrick before the formal legislative session ends July 31.
Gun rights advocates said they were concerned House lawmakers would have less than 24 hours to read the final version of the bill, which was released Tuesday evening, before it goes to the floor for a vote.
Officials with the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League had previously said they were concerned with what they called the unfettered discretion given to local police chiefs to deny gun licenses.
The bill seeks to improve safety at schools by requiring each district to develop plans to address the mental health needs of students and faculty and to have access to two-way communication devices with police and fire departments for use during emergencies.
Work on the bill began last year after the 2012 mass school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The legislation would also require school districts to provide two hours of suicide awareness and prevention training to school personnel every three years and mandate that the Public Health Department collect and report on suicides in the state.
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— Eliminate the 90-day renewal process for firearm identification cards and licenses to carry, and end the classes of a license to carry, formerly known as class A and class B;
— Require gun license applicants to verify they haven't lost any firearms or had any firearms stolen from them since their last renewal;
— Increase the penalties for failure to report a lost or stolen firearm;
— Increase the punishment for being armed with a firearm while carjacking;
— Increase the punishment for being armed with a firearm while entering without breaking at night or breaking and entering during the day;
— Increase the penalty for carrying a firearm on school premises.
— Establish penalties for unlawfully transporting firearms into the state to use in a crime or to unlawfully distribute.


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Research output and impact metrics derived from commercial citation databases such as Web of Science and Scopus have become commonly used indicators of predominantly English language scholarly performance. Yet it has been pointed out that existing metrics are largely inadequate to reflect scholars' overall peer-mediated performance, especially in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) where publication forms are more diverse. In this paper alternative metrics exploring a variety of communication sources were explored, with the aim of better reflecting SSH scholarship. Data for a group of 16 SSH scholars resident on Taiwan were collected, along with the number of grants and awards received from the chief public grantmaking body for the sciences on the island. Principle component analysis revealed four underlying dimensions represented by the 18 metrics. Multiple-regression analyses were performed to examine how well each of the metrics and dimensions predicted the number of public grants awarded the study cohorts. Differences in the significance of the predictors were found between the social sciences and humanities. The results suggest the need to consider disciplinary differences when evaluating scholarly performance.


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Paula Neubert is optimistic about the future of her club, Greenwood Athletic Club near Denver. Considering that Colorado has the 48th worst economy in the country and membership numbers have been down at Greenwood since 1999, one would think her outlook would be a bit grimmer.
But looking at revenue figures, Neubert has reason to be positive about the club where she is general manager. Greenwood grosses $9 million to $10 million a year and in 2003 ranked fifth on the Club Industry Top 100 list for independent clubs and 58th out of all clubs (the rankings are based on revenue).
Perhaps most surprisingly, only a little more than half that revenue comes from membership dues. Nondues revenue programs constituted 40 percent of revenues for the club last year. This year's budget is for 52 percent to come from membership and 48 percent from nondues programs.
"Our nondues programs have kept our income level maintaining," Neubert says. "With our focus on nondues, we've put ourselves in an optimistic place right now."
Facing a tough economy for several years and increased competition for members, clubs have found revenue from nondues programs to be more important than ever. By bringing in money from several areas of a club, cash flow and profitability are better and a club doesn't have to be as reactive to membership cycles, says consultant Karen Kirby of Health Style Services.
"The truth is, everyone needs to be increasing nondues revenue," says Kirby. "If you aren't thinking about this every day, you are crazy."
Besides the revenue they bring in, the most important part of nondues programs is that they make a facility a club, says Roger Furman, general manager at La Camarilla Racquet and Fitness Club in Scottsdale, AZ, where 60 percent of revenue comes from membership dues, 20 percent to 25 percent come from private and group personal training and tennis lessons while the remaining 15 percent to 20 percent come from alternate revenue sources.
"Everyone has weight machines," Furman says. "We feel we need something here to keep members happy, to develop a long-term relationship with them. All these revenue areas are things that make you a club. If you aren't doing this, you are missing out."
Kirby agrees saying that research shows that the more that members are involved in a club and the more needs a club meets for members, the longer they will stay. And as all club owners know, retaining a member is cheaper than attracting a new one.
However, nondues programs also can attract new members, says Joe Cirulli, owner of Gainesville Health & Fitness Center in Gainesville, FL. If a club's nondues programs or services successfully meet the needs of deconditioned individuals, then the club can attract populations that have never worked out before bringing in additional revenue, Cirulli says. His club has nondues programs to attract people with arthritis and another for people needing help with spinal fitness. Soon, the club will be introducing a nondues weight management program.
Despite those programs, Cirulli's mainstay is his personal training program. Cirulli's club makes $1.4 million to $1.5 million each year on personal training, which is often the biggest nondues revenue generator at a club. However, clubs need more than personal training to rack up the nondues revenue. Not all members can afford the $60 per session for a personal trainer, but they may be willing to hand over some cash for other programs.
- Kids programming
Children's programming may offer the second greatest potential for nondues revenue behind personal training, says Kirby, because parents will spend money on programs for their children that they won't on themselves.
That's certainly the case at Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans. The club developed programming for children partly to negate parental excuses for not working out, says Ken Kachtick, general manager at Elmwood.
Elmwood Fitness Center has a separate 18,000-square-foot, fully staffed Kidsports facility for birthday parties, summer camps, childcare and play areas. Elmwood's Y2Kids program for children between six and 12 years old allows children to work out on children-sized exercise equipment. The program brings in between $5,000 to $6,000 per month.
About 400 children are involved in Elmwood's gymnastics program and 300 children in various swimming programs and lessons. Elmwood is also home to a Tumble and Cheer program, which involves a couple hundred cheerleaders.
"These are programs that don't make mega bucks, but they are better than breaking even," says Kachtick. Even better, children's programming brings in ancillary revenue from parents who hang out at the facility during the programs, eat at the restaurant, buy items at the pro shop or take a class of their own.
Sometimes, parents even participate with the children. The Y2Kids program offers cooking classes that parents must attend with their children. The club's auditorium, which holds 52 people, often is filled for the classes at $10 per person.
Children's programming is also a big hit at La Camarilla. Besides childcare, the club offers a year-round children's fitness program organized by age up to high school. Once a child reaches the high school level, he or she can participate in sports-specific programs.
Summertime sees a demand for the club's three summer camps: summer fitness camp, tennis camp and sports camp. During the school year the fitness camp and tennis camp also keep children busy after school. La Camarilla's new pool allows the club to offer private and group swim lessons through a partnership with a swim instructor who also coaches the club's junior swim team.
At Greenwood, special programs, birthday parties and summer camps net $100,000 per year. Summer camps alone make $65,000 of that.
- Physical therapy
Physical therapy often is another source of nondues revenue for clubs. The Gainesville club offers rehab options, but Cirulli cautions about offering physical therapy in hopes of nabbing the patients as members once they have finished physical therapy. Insurance companies pay for so little physical therapy anymore that few patients are fully rehabilitated by the time their insurance runs out. It's difficult to get a still healing patient to join a health club if the physical therapy they still need isn't covered by insurance.
- Weight management programs
Most people join a health club to lose weight so it's no wonder that they would be willing to pay extra for a weight management program. La Camarilla offers a 10-week weight management program, called Why Weight? that is designed to help members with their weight and fitness goals. The popular program costs $180 for members and $200 for nonmembers.
- Private or small group Pilates
Pilates is still hot and as a nondues revenue source it's even hotter. Greenwood's Pilates studio nets $500,000 a year, which beats its budget by $11,000.
- Tennis lessons
No longer as chic-chic as Pilates, tennis nonetheless can bring in some added revenue at the right club. La Camarilla nets about $400,000 a year in private tennis lessons and programming. One of the club's most popular tennis programs is an inner club tennis program.
"We play against other clubs in town," says Furman. "The relationships that develop within that program are great. The members take a lot of pride in their club. It's not a big money maker, but very seldom does anyone leave our inner club program."
- Scuba and snorkeling classes
Some clubs are turning to more unique sources for nondues revenue. La Camarilla in the desert oasis of Scottsdale, AZ, offers scuba and snorkeling classes in its pool, often accommodating four to six people in the class.
"It's not a big revenue generator, but it's a fun thing and parents can take it with their children," says Furman. The participants take a certifying trip to Mexico once the class is over.
- Tournaments
La Camarilla hosts high school tennis championships. While the club only earns $300 for use of the facility, the exposure the club gets to tennis parents from around Phoenix is beneficial, says Furman.
- Food services
The Elmwood Fitness Center has an indoor and an outdoor restaurant. The restaurants average $100,000 per month with about a 30 percent or more profit, Kachtick says. Elmwood's Kidsports snack bar, which is just a small window by the swimming pool, brings in about $10,000 per month, going up to about $17,000 per month in the summer.
- Leasing
For clubs with extra space, leasing out that space offers another revenue source. Greenwood brings in about $300,000 a year from leases to 11 tenants, says Neubert. Some of the leases are based on a dollar amount per square foot and some on percent of income.
Greenwood leases space to a day spa, a café, two pro shops (one in the fitness building and one in the tennis building), a travel agency, a physical therapy business, a hair salon, a shoeshine service, a company called Muscle Activation Techniques, and a golf company.
La Camarilla also brings in extra cash by leasing space to a hair salon, a nail salon, a massage and skin care company and a sports physical therapy business.
- Advertising panels
In addition to offering access to your space, offering access to your members can prove profitable. 24 Hour Fitness puts up advertisement panels in various areas of the club, such as the restrooms or workout areas. The company has a contract with an outside company to sell the panel space.
"We are making a lot of money off of this," says Bryan Andrus, vice president of information technology/business development at 24 Hour Fitness. "We get advertisers like Starbucks, GM, Proctor and Gamble, ABC Family — very large scale. They are interested in reaching our industry."
Andrus cautions that club owners must research which companies to partner with for these panel agreements because not every company can deliver what they promise over the long term.
The panel company also offers sampling opportunities.
"We get paid money in exchange for the product to be handed out to our members at a minimum of 8 cents to 10 cents per piece handed out," says Andrus, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of samples and a large bundle of cash.
"That gives you a scale of what advertisers are willing to spend in our industry and what you can make," Andrus says. "Even a small operator should be able to make a few hundred a month off of access to their members."
- Social events
Those samples would come in handy at the social events that La Camarilla hosts in its bar and lounge area. Once or twice a year, the club hosts a happy hour for seniors. They also do socials for mixed double tennis events. None of these alone are big money makers, but they make enough that when added together it makes sense, and they keep members busy with events that other clubs may not offer, says Furman.
The club also hosts private parties for various groups, including charities. The club doesn't charge the charities to hold the parties at the facility, but they make money off the bar.
- Election site
La Camarilla also is the neighborhood site for elections, hosting municipal, state and federal voting booths in the lounge area. The election commission pays the club a small fee to use the facility, but the bigger payoff is getting neighbors into the facility to see the inside.
"I've never had an election when someone hasn't asked for more information about the club," says Furman.
- Miscellaneous
Don't overlook the miscellaneous or small things a club can do that bring in money but don't take a lot of effort. La Camarilla offers dance lessons, energy drinks and bars, a soda machine, water, a bar, childcare, racquet restringing services, locker rentals. Elmwood will soon open a testing lab where members or pro athletes can come in to get their fitness level tested.
All these programs are successful to one degree or another for the clubs mentioned, but how do club owners define success? That varies by club. Some define it as keeping members happy and returning without a huge monetary expenditure on the club's part. On the other hand, some define success as seeing profits in the double digits.
"If they can't roll it out at net 20 percent, then why roll it out?" Kirby says of some companies' thinking.
Neubert defines a successful program by the number of participants and the responses on the evaluations handed out at the end of each program.
Elmwood sees success as a program that at least breaks even knowing that it may actually make more money than realized because of revenue brought in by parents or members using the restaurants, pro shops or other services, says Kachtick.
Developing nondues revenue programs beyond personal training can take a lot of time and planning, but the upfront work can be worth it. A club owner should start by talking to and surveying members to find out which programs they want and need rather than latching on to the latest thing at other clubs.
A club owner must then find a champion to take on the program.
"You can get something that you'd swear wouldn't go and you get an enthusiastic person to run it and she'll sign up 100 people," says Kirby.
Before planning the program, the club owner must decide the reason for offering the program — is it to have the best program in the area or is it to simply offer a program that members want? The decision will affect staffing and financial input into the program. Once that has been decided, plan out the program well, being conservative with estimates and being fully aware of overhead and potential, says Kachtick.
Charges come next. Club owners wanting to charge for a special group exercise program, such as Pilates or yoga, must investigate whether that program is already offered in the market, and if so, how much? Kirby cautions against offering these programs for free initially to attract participants because once it's offered for free, a club owner can't ever charge for it in the future.
"You can't go from free to a price," Kirby says. "You can go from $5 to $10, but you can't go from free to a price."
Regardless of how much a club charges for a program, members won't pay it unless the class is unique enough from the free group exercise programs and is taught by an expert, says Kirby.
Once a club owner has the program in place, its success often depends on its promotion. A club needs a well-coordinated ad/promotion/marketing campaign. All the infrastructure must be set up prior to launch so the club can actually deliver what it promises.
Getting staff onboard with the program is vital, says Neubert. Staff must know the specific goal of the program, how to sell the program and what the commission or payment will be for the staff.
"Every staff member has to know about it, be on board with it, promote it and market it," says Neubert.
Regardless of how much effort a club owner puts into a new program, he or she must be willing to give a program time to grow since few programs make money right away, says Kachtick.
"You start out small and you grow it," he says. "You grow your reputation."
And if the club is still in its infancy, nondues programs may be something that should wait until the core business is solid.
"Make sure your core business is as good as it can be," Cirulli says. "[Club owners] start going on these tangents of other things to do before they have their core business nailed down."
Nondues businesses grow by pulling from the membership. If little membership exists from which to pull, nondues revenue programs are a mute point. And that would be something to be very grim about in this competitive day and age.