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Building a 15″ Touchscreen Tablet for £100?
My next project is a wall mountable 15″ touchscreen tablet and I'm pretty sure I can do it for around £100!
For this I'm using an Acer Travelmate 2413 laptop I picked up for just £10 on ebay. The laptop works absolutely fine, though I got it cheap because both the hinges on the lid are broken so the screen is dangling off the base unit.
I wanted to find a laptop that had at least the same spec as my Dell Mini 9. This one didn't but for a tenner I thought it would be worth it! The basic spec of the laptop is :
1.5ghz Celeron M Processor
256mb RAM
60GB Hard Drive
15″ XVGA Screen (1024 x 768)
It came with Windows XP (urg) so first thing I did was install Ubuntu 11.10 on it with Gnome 3 and tint2. It was so painfully slow! I was worried the hard drive may have been the problem, but fortunately I had a spare 1gb of RAM lying around and swapped out the 256mg RAM card and that fixed the speed.
It is actually surprisingly snappy! Though it only has a 1.5ghz processor compared to the 1.6ghz on the Dell Mini, I think it actually runs alot better. In fact, the speed seems to be on par with my desktop computer so I think it's going to work great!
I have it set up for dual boot in case I need to use XP for anything.
One feature it lacked that I needed was WiFi. The Travelmate 2413 has a PCMCIA slot which I could have used to install a WiFi card but I needed that slot for something else so I got a handy USB Wifi Dongle for £12.50. Works out of the box in Ubuntu, though needed to install the drivers for it on XP.
Next up was the touchscreen. There are 15″ touchscreen kits out there. On ebay there are easy peasy resistive touchscreen kits from Hong Kong for about £60 but I don't think I could live with a resistive touchscreen. An alternative was to find a capacitive touchscreen kit but all the ones I could find were around $200! Wasn't willing to pay that much. Luckily I found an IT recycling company near me that has about 25 touchscreens salvaged from the touchscreen game machines you find in pubs. The one I am using is a 15″ General Touch SAW (Standing Acoustic Wave) touchscreen which are very responsive. I got it for only £25 pounds (including the controller) since it was untested. The guys there had no idea how to test it since it didn't come with the cable that attaches the touchscreen controller to a PC. I was pretty sure I could get it working so went home and investigated the controller.
It was labelled as a General Touch 4001 controller, which is confusing since online I can find a 4001u (the USB version) and the 4001s (the serial version) and so I had no idea whether or not this is the USB or the Serial version, or anything else about the controller for that matter. After investigating the pins on the controller with an oscilloscope I had lying around, I was pretty sure this was a serial version.
Sadly, the Travelmate 2413 doesn't have a serial port. I could have possibly used a serial to usb adapter, but have had trouble with those in the past so took the more reliable root of getting a Serial Port that fits into the PCMCIA port. Found one for £5 and installed it and it looks to be recognized in both Ubuntu and XP.
Though I still had no idea how to wire the controller to the serial port. I experimented with a few configurations, and although the indicator light on the controller showed that the touchscreen was communication fine with the controller, I couldn't get the controller to communicate with the serial port. I found a pin out drawing of the controller but still couldn't figure out how it should be wired.
I emailed General Touch and today replied saying they can provide replacement cables for just $3! Good news! No idea how much the postage is going to be but will let you know.
Oh, one issue with the controller I forgot to mention is that it runs on 12 volts. I have it running on a 12v power supply at the moment, but I'm going to have to find a 12v source on the laptop to tap into in the final build. I'm guessing I can find one around the battery terminal.
Now, how to turn all this into a tablet? It would need a new case so I found this 16″ x 12″ display box on ebay for £22.
This should be big enough to hold all the laptop components after I dismantle it.
I've already begun swapping out the glass panel that came with it, and replaced it with the touchscreen panel. Fits nicely.
So far I've spent £10 on the laptop, £25 on the touchscreen, £22 on the display box, £5 on the serial port, and £12.50 on the Wifi Dongle.
Total so far = £74.50
So that's where I am at the moment.
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Wow! This is one cool project mate! Well actually, i'm planning to make one too for myself since I already got the touch screen controller (salvaged from old slot machine monitors lol) and all the old PCs I got here. Btw i'm really thankful I came across your site since I'm having serious problems with the DIN connector that came along with the serial port and your guide pretty much cleared up most of it. Again, Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful project!
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I really didn't have very high hopes about the quality of these pencils because they are not from a high quality brand. However, the colour payoff is impressive and they stay on the lips for such a long time. The pencils are sorta glossy/sorta matte and the glosses are smooth and non-sticky. There are no names on these products, so I photographed them in the same order as the swatches.
I am really tempted now to run out and buy some other brands jumbo lip crayons, but that will have to wait until my no-buy is done. I would love to know which brands and colours of lip crayons are your favourite. Leave them in a comment below so I can add them to my Buy Later List.
UPDATE - Since writing this post I have seen these sets on Sale at multiple Shoppers Drug Marts for $4.99.
|These are swatches of the 2 glosses that came with the kit.

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Like many Americans, I have my cherished Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances from the US retailer Sears. However, how many Americans know that Sears now also sells big data services as well? Sears is a well known US department store that had started off as a successful mail order catalog business in 1888, selling to …
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Forbes "What Can Marketers Do To Manage And Leverage Big Data?"
Kimberly Whitler writes on the Forbes CMO Network "What Can Marketers Do To Manage And Leverage Big Data?" I like this article. Ms Whitler interviewed Tim Suther, the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer for Acxiom, about why Big Data is significant for marketers. Why should marketers care about Big Data? So they can prove the …
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Feb 02
Big Data Top Questions by Marketers and their Kids Infographic 2013
What are the top questions marketers ask about their Big Data and how are they similar to their kids' questions? Here's a tongue-in-cheek look at how their questions are similar. See the below infographic from Infochimps via Visual.ly. Big Data 2013: Why Marketers and Their Kids are Asking the Same Questions infographic I work …
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What Every Marketer Needs to Know About Big Data
Forrester Research says that we are now living in the "Age of the Customer" where "the only sustainable competitive advantage is knowledge of and engagement with customers." Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur writes on Forbes "Why 2013 is the Year of the Marketer" where CMOs are optimistic about the growing relevancy of their marketing organizations because …
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Dome-shaped Architectural Staircase Model, mid-19th century
This is a Architectural Staircase Model. It is dated mid-19th century and we acquired it in 2014. Its medium is carved, planed, joined, inlaid, and turned walnut and beechwood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This maîtrise (masterpiece) in the 17th-century Italian style, is one of the finest examples of the combination of architectural design and structure with staircase modeling.
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Dome-shaped Architectural Staircase Model, mid-19th century; carved, planed, joined, inlaid, and turned walnut and beechwood; H: 61 x W: 67.3 x D: 47 cm (24 x 26 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.); Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw; 2014-11-3
In addition to Models & Prototypes Gallery: Thaw Models, this object was previously on display as part of the exhibition Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces—The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift.


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"Two Vocations" - I Have Been Unable to Post Comments
Gregaria -
In your reading on this subject, have you come across anything that says that some people may not have a vocation?
No. We all have a vocation to love as Christ loves us and the church provides us with specific teaching about living out that vocation according to God's will. Why do you ask if some people might not have a vocation?
I also wondered if you were saying that consecrated non-religious life is a Vocation, too.
I am saying that consecration to Christ is one way to realize one's vocation to love. The consecration is usually formal: consecrated virgins, hermits, the members of communities such as Communion and Liberation's St. Joseph's Fraternity, etc. Both formal and less formal ways of consecrating oneself to Christ should be discussed with one's pastor and/or confessor.
And, also, from your point of view, would sickness be a valid reason to live a consecrated non-religious life?
Of course not – the only reason to consecrate oneself to Christ is in response to a specific calling that is discerned within one's immediate experience of the church – one's confessor, pastor, parish (always essential), lay movement, etc. Depending on its severity, sickness can be an impediment. It can also be part of the discernment process – many have realized that illness has limited them so much that all they could do was be consecrated to Christ and such consecration was, in fact, the realization, the living out of their vocation.
PS – I assume by "non-religious" you mean outside of a religious community/order.
PPS – I will be writing more about illness and ways of living out one's vocation and impediments and obedience and all sorts of issues related to this topic.


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Unity Stamp Company. As you can see my red is more dominant on the left side and my kraft is under the upside down tree and under the layered stamps. Can you guess what I used under the stamps? A coffee filter! I cut out the center of the coffee filter. It was actually the inspiration for my layout when I was making coffee this morning! :) I'll reveal what stamps they are under the next picture. Now for the details of my layout. The patterned 12 x 12" paper is from Pebbles Home For Christmas 12 x 12" Paper Pad as is the fussy cut black strip with Christmas trees in the middle. The title piece- Oh Christmas Tree, the mat under the Christmas tree on the left, and under the border punch at the bottom is from Craft Smith Olde Time Christmas 6 x 6 Paper Pad. Oh Christmas Tree is actually a journaling square, but I hid the left half under the pic to the left of it. I placed everything on this layout before I glued it down to have the right measurements for the mats and so just enough of the background paper is still visible. I love the Christmas tree design on the paper that's why I made it the biggest mat! Another reason is this tree was our Christmas tree last year as the journaling states underneath. The upside down tree was at the front door of Home- a store similar to Home Goods- in Raleigh, NC. I had never seen an upside down tree and wanted to take a picture- yes all 3 pictures were taken with my cell phone and developed with Photo Affections aka Free Prints- all you have to pay is shipping. One of the best apps I have downloaded on my cell phone yet! The mat under that pic is Recollections Kraft 4.5 x 6.5" Cardstock Paper. The bottom picture is of the Christmas trees at Tryon Palace that I helped decorate this past December. The mat under it is from Colorbox Holiday Extravaganza 12 x 12" Designer Paper Pad. The paper reminds me of a live Christmas tree with pine cones in it. The punch is EK Success Ornaments Large Edger Punch. I punched it on Craft Smith Embossed 8.5 x 11" Paper Pad.
Unity Stamp Company Never Ending Love Layers of Life 12/13 kit. I used Color Box Cranberry Archival Ink Pad on the hearts stamp and Versa Fine Onyx Black Fine Pigment Ink Pad on the Never Ending Love stamps. I stamped them on white cardstock. I used Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue Pen to glue everything down. TFL! Please come back on Friday for a LEAP Blog Hop that I'm participating in as you can see in the right margin. It will start with ScrapsByGracie's blog. I'm sure they're will be an awesome prize and I can't wait to share what I have made!


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My novel Blitz was released on 1st May by Desert Breeze Publishing and I started a blog tour on 2nd May also I'm the Spotlight author for Desert Breeze Publishing for this week on the Desert Breeze Blog
Follow my blog tour and be in to win a copy of Blitz. Locations and dates are as follows:
4/29/2011 Release Party at Goddess Fish Party Pavilion
5/2/2011 Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
5/3/2011 Grace Elliot--gripping historical romance
5/4/2011 BK Walker Books Etc.
5/5/2011 Believing is Seeing
5/6/2011 A Chick Who Reads
See you there. Happy reading.


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Sliammon First Nation Treaty
(Coast Salish band near Powell River, BC)
Tla'amin Governing Principles
32. The Tla'amin Government, Tla'amin Public Institutions and their officials will:
(a) be accountable to the Tla'amin Nation;
(b) adhere to this Constitution;
(c) promote the unity and well - being of the Tla'amin Nation;
(d)provide good, effective and accountable government;
(e) cooperate with one another in mutual trust and good faith, consult and inform one another, and coordinate their actions with one another;
(f) make decisions through a consistent, fair and transparent process;
(g) develop and maintain communications with the community;
(h) strive to be effective and professional in their communication and business relationships with other governments;
(i) commit to pie yeh oht tiit shim (always learning) by participating in leadership education initiatives;
(j) foster the development of a collective understanding of and respect for Tla'amin Law;
(k) be required to take an oath of office.
(Cf. Constitution of the Tla'amin Nation)


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|Sharon, Age 3, with Cousin Gloria
A year after being shipped north, I was reunited with my family. Another year later, we moved out of my aunt's basement and into government subsidized housing. Now when we visited my aunt's house, I had to share my grandmother with my siblings. On birthdays and graduations, she created scavenger hunts for us, leaving a trail of written clues. She must have spent hours planning the hints, writing them out in her beautiful calligraphy, and placing them throughout the house.
As I grew older and wrestled with the demons of poverty and abuse, my desire to break away from my home life dwarfed my relationship with my grandmother. Opportunity arrived in the form of a large scholarship to a university in Texas, over a thousand miles away from my mother. During the first semester of my freshman year, my grandmother became ill and died at home at the age of eighty-nine. Claiming that she didn't want to "disrupt" my studies, my mother withheld the knowledge until I came home months later. I was devastated. I never had the chance to say good-bye to the woman who loved me unconditionally.
As I hit my fifth decade, I began to reflect on my life and lack of closure regarding her death. I felt compelled to research my family tree, beginning with my grandmother. My only clues were embedded in childhood memories of kitchen table conversations between my mother and aunt. The family legend, told and re-told, with hand-signed consultations for verification, was that my grandmother was born hearing and healthy to a wealthy family.
"Oh yes, her people were landowners," my aunt said.
"She had pet peacocks," my mother added, "and a pet pig that came when she clapped her hands."
"She came down with spinal meningitis when she was three. If her parents hadn't been so rich, she would have died," my aunt said between puffs on her cigarette.
"Grandma's parents sent her off to a boarding school for ladies," my mother recalled. "She was too wealthy to be with the other girls, so she stayed with the teachers."
As I searched for family records, calling my sister and brother for confirmation, tantalizing tidbits emerged.
"After she graduated, she went to work in Washington, D.C., addressing envelopes for a Congressman because she had such beautiful handwriting," my sister said.
"Grandma and Grandpa were fixed up on a blind date. He was a wild young man with a motorcycle, a graduate of Gallaudet University. He was deaf from scarlet fever." My brother, the oldest child, recalled vividly. "They fell in love and married against her family's wishes. She was supposed to go back to Kentucky and marry a cousin, but she wouldn't leave her gardener."
Oral history wasn't much to go on, but it was a start. It helped that I recalled the name of the town where we'd visited another uncle, aunt, and cousin on the way to Texas: Stanford, Kentucky. Using an online genealogy site, I was able to see U.S. Census records dating as far back as the 1700's. I rooted around in the 1800's with no luck. One night, I received an excited call from my best friend from high school and genealogy genius. By searching in an online National Society Daughters of the American Revolution registry, and entering two of my family names, Engleman and Harris, my friend found my Stanford, Kentucky ancestors and my family lines tracing back to the Revolutionary War. Thanks to the DAR, I had the first clues in my very own family scavenger hunt.
The elusive "ladies' school for the deaf kept me awake at night. More weeks, more digging, more walls. After months of research, I was ready to quit. But I kept feeling as if my grandmother was standing behind me at the computer, smiling and urging me to find her. At last, I found the Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD), in Danville, Kentucky. It was the first public school for the deaf in the United States, originally called the Kentucky Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf & Dumb when it was built in 1823. I emailed the school, asking for information on a possible alumna named Bessie Engleman.
In the meantime, I kept mousing around in the 1900 Census files for Danville and randomly selected Enumeration District 88 (ED 88). When I retrieved the image, I discovered that the majority of people counted in ED 88 were enrolled at the Kentucky Institute for Deaf Mutes. My eyes adjusted to the old-fashioned script of the census taker, and there she was on line 19: Engleman, Bessie, White, Female, born in 1883. Within days of that find, a KSD staff member sent me an email telling me he had found her original admission card.
Bessie Engleman was student number 933 admitted to KSD. The daughter of George and Susan Harris Engleman became deaf from meningitis at sixteen months, not age three, as the family legend told. The middle child in a three girl family, KSD admitted her from Lincoln County, Kentucky when she was eight years old in 1889 and graduated her in 1902 when she was twenty-one years old. Nine years later, she married Carl E. Rhodes on September 20, 1911 and lived in Washington, D.C. in 1918.
I now had enough information to find my great-grandparents, my great-great-grandparents, and beyond, because all my grandmother's "people" lived in Lincoln County, Kentucky—and married their cousins. In some census records, I found Harris and Engleman in-laws, brothers, sisters, and cousins, all living in the same household.
My curiosity was piqued. If the oral history about my grandmother was fairly accurate, why wouldn't the part about my grandfather be true, too? Gallaudet University's alumni office found my grandfather's records on microfilm. According to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, my grandfather, Carl E. Rhodes, was deemed a "…proper person to be received into the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and to be instructed and maintained therein at the expense of the United States…" The same department responsible for the welfare of Native Americans in the 1800's was responsible for my grandfather's education. He attended the Kendall School from 1892 to 1903, but did not attend Gallaudet University, contrary to family stories. And, he wasn't deaf secondary to scarlet fever. Congenitally deaf, a midwife home-delivered the sixth child, Carl E. Rhodes, to a grocer named James H. Rhodes and his wife, Elizabeth Cockrell Rhodes: my great-grandparents.
Despite their incredible obstacles in life, my grandparents attended school, graduated, obtained good jobs, weathered the anger of my grandmother's wealthy family, and raised six hearing and speaking children to become productive members of society. During the depression and beyond, my grandfather was employed by the federal government as a gardener, often tending to the roses and other plantings at the White House. My brother owns a book, handed down from my grandmother, with a photograph of my grandfather working as the Assistant Head Gardener in the U.S. Botanical Gardens.
What predicts who will be disabled in life? What foretells if a disability will cripple an individual emotionally? When I was a little girl and refused to cave in under my mother's abuse, she would say I was stubborn, "just like your grandmother." Instead of being humiliated, I was proud to be linked in some clear way to the woman who raised me, who loved me, and whom I adored. Today, looking back across half a century, I have a few clues to her inner strength and resilience. When I think of her, which is often, I thank her for teaching me that having a disability does not mean inability and for holding me tight and rocking me to sleep with her lullaby of wordless love.


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Ready for the first ride in her stroller.
It has usual three positions. Currently using the sleep position. Later will shift to reclined and sit up right ones.
My criteria for choosing the stroller:
1. Light weight but sturdy. As we live in apartment building with no lifts. I wanted the stroller to be light enough to easily carry around. Yet sturdy to not topple up.
2. Usable till atleast my baby starts walking.This one has varied positions to use from laying down to seeing straight positions
3. Ease of use. Not complicated for my maid to use as well.
P.s. I don't want to get into brands that offer stroller and their comparison in this blog.


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CD album + digital download in high-quality WAV format!
- All There Is ft. Carla Vallet 05:06
- Seventy Three 03:57
- Mood Matters 04:54
- Danse Macabre ft. Bad Jazz Troupe 04:34
- Longing Lingers ft. Carla Vallet & Bartellow 05:42
- It's Time 05:12
- Colors Per Minute 05:11
- Southern Spirits 04:29
- Still Keepin' It Raw 05:00
- Reascend ft. Sam Irl 04:20
- Under The Same Drum 03:45
- Lost In Andalusia 05:10
- Cultura 03:19
- Mozafrique 04:42
"Mood Matters" is a defining illustration of Dusty's musical world. With open eyes and ears, in combination with an insatiable appetite for collaboration and experimention, he has constantly straddles the fine line between tradition and modernity. Several years after his successful debut album "Keep It Raw," the Jazz&Milk label founder hits home with this beautiful record, one that highlights how subtle and talented a producer and musician he is. "Mood Matters" proves that an album need not simply commit itself to a genre or two; and in the process ups the ante considerably by featuring a broad spectrum of musical styles, bringing together Dusty's favourite leanings such as Jazz, Funk, Soul, Afrobeat, Latin, percussive Beats and Deep House rhythms, while seeking a natural balance between accoustic, electronic and traditional sounds through the prism of a club-music oriented approach.
Not only does the album feature some of Munich's finest musicians, such as the members of the Bad Jazz Troupe, Jo Junghanss or Beni Brachtel aka Bartellow but it also impresses via its collaborations with a diverse range of international artists. From the beautiful voice of Carla Vallet (France), the amazing guitar rhythms of Kokolo's Ray Lugo (NYC) and Flamenco musician El Pirata (Granada) to the rich production sounds of Sam Irl (Vienna), the hypnotic percussion of César Granados (Panamá City) and the sweeping horn sections of Todd Simon (Los Angeles) – covering a universe of musical talent in all their different shapes, masterfully capturing the deep musical vision of its main architecht.
Informed by his experienced sampling background, Dusty sets a high value to establishing his own characteristic sounds. For the most part, he avoids sampling on "Mood Matters", and instead creates a sound somewhere between nostalgic sampling and a rich modern aestethic by combining the charm of old recording equipment with the benefits of contemporary production methods. This fusion is brilliantly demonstrated on the title track, one that meshes forward-driven house vibes with organic jazz instrumentation. In addition, tracks like "Danse Macabre", "It's Time", "Reascend" or "Lost in Andalusia" bring together traditional live elements with electronic production, synthesizer sounds and heavy basslines. While a very danceable approach is found on most of the tracks, one also finds tranquil and underscored ones, such as the lovely pieces "All There Is" and "Longing Lingers" which features Carla Vallet's vocal talents or on "Southern Spirits" with its colorful Flamenco guitar and gentle string arrangements.
The Munich-based label, and its associated clubnight "Jazz&Milk", have been a city fixture for the past seven years and represent an integral component of German club culture, having hosted international luminaries such as Mr. Scruff, Quantic, Sofrito Soundsystem, Lefto, Simbad and many others. From his collaborations with and influences from such creative and versatile producers and DJ's, to his live performances with the Bad Jazz Troupe, to his spinning vinyl records, these experiences have all combined to generate the unique sound found in Dusty's productions. As a passionate DJ, he travels the world consistently, having performed for audiences in New York, London, Madrid, Canary Islands, Copenhagen, Saigon, Manila or Singapore. He cleverly manages to move dancefloors with an individual and positive twist, not by submitting to musical clichés, but by always seeking a distinctive sound, one that blends sophisticated old and contempary dance music.
As a do-it-yourself man, Dusty took months to build a full-scale music studio environment out of white cardboard paper, to be used as basis for the title song's music video "Mood Matters," in which a large dancing milk carton programs beats, plays instruments and dances along to the jazz driven House track. Paper drum- and tape machines are brought to life by means of elaborate stop-motion generated sequences; which can also be found on the album's cover art. www.vimeo.com/62128454
If you are already familiar with the eclectic Jazz&Milk cosmos - exemplified by several releases from artists such as Ray Lugo, Sam Irl, Fredericks Brown, The Jivers and Mr. Chop, then you can rightly expect, and not be disappointed by, all the different styles and influences shining through on this album – all held together by THE connecting force in Dusty's music: a whole lotta Rhythm!


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Goodell was greeted Wednesday by a smattering of boos as he walked in. Four minutes later, Brady arrived flanked by four security guards. Both men went through a security sweep like everyone else going to court. You will and can join in the sea of excitement in watching Sean Witherspoon, Julio Jones, Matt Ryan and many others tackle, run and soar to victory. Don't be left behind. Buy your group or season's tickets now before it ran out..
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Back and forth, back and forth, fumbles, hard hits, nobody could predict the outcome. It all came down to the final drive. The 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, took the snap and threw a hard strike meant for Michael Crabtree. He did not kneel at the start of the preseason but resumed his protest following the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month that involved a loosely connected mix of white nationalists, neo Nazis and other far right extremists.Bennett recently released a statement alleging racially motivated excessive force against him by Las Vegas police. The Seattle defensive end sat on the bench during the national anthem before Sunday's game at Green Bay.Bennett sat for the national anthem during the preseason as well, with teammate Justin Britt standing next to him with his hand on his shoulder. Britt again stood next to Bennett during his anthem protest Sunday.
Coach Mike Zimmer said before Thursday game that Coley and Rodney Adams, a fifth round pick from South Florida, had the lead among Minnesota young receivers looking to make the team.With Michael Floyd serving a four game suspension to start the season, there could be two roster spots open at receiver. Coley is off to a great start in trying to nail down one.feel like it was a good performance, but I still have a lot to learn and a lot to go, Coley said. Made a couple of (mental errors) in the game, so I just working in practice, trying to get better and just trying to get focused.
Lynch and the are coming off a tough and physical win at Tennessee in Week 1. Lynch's numbers 18 carries, 76 yards but his energetic and physical style reminded many people of his "Beast Mode" days in Seattle. Quarterback Derek Carr was efficient with two touchdown passes and the Raiders defense gave up yards, but stiffened in the red zone..
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"People's stands are what they want to do and what they want to believe in. Whether you believe in what they do or not, they have the right to do it. Do I agree with it. The New Orleans Saints played good defense, and they still lost cheap nfl jerseys 16 13 to the New York Giants in Week 2. The Saints (0 2) will try to earn their first win when they face the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football, Sept. ET.
Starting to jell, and I think you saw that last Saturday, Goff said of his offensive line. Oakland defensive line is no slouch. They got some dudes over there, and they did a great job keeping them away and giving me a good pocket. Although Urschel, 26, released a statement that didn't mention head injuries, team sources indicated his decision was related to a study published this week on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a debilitating brain disease. The report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed the existence of CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 deceased former NFL players who donated their brains to research. Urschel in the past has discussed the issue of head injuries, including how a 2015 concussion affected his ability to do math problems.
That history includes a team called the (the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball) and a minor league basketball team made up of recovering addicts. As members of the short lived All America Football Conference, the Seahawks played in Burdine Stadium (or as you probably know it, the Orange Bowl) and sported orange and green uniforms similar to those of their co tenants, the Miami Hurricanes. At the time, Miami was a relatively small town and was the smallest market in the AAFC.
Exercising his freedom to speak, league spokesman Joe Lockhart said on a conference call with reporters, I exercising my freedom not to react. About the possibility of the NFL punishing players or league employees for actions during the pregame anthems, Lockhart said: will leave the hypotheticals and the speculation to others. I not going to go down that road.
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Vick signed with Philadelphia on Aug. 13 and played in two preseason games. Goodell's decision means he can return in the Sept. "I chose to get involved to see if I could create change, raise awareness. And I want to make it clear that there is no disrespect to the military or to police officers I'm not about that. I love everyone," said Miami's Jelani Jenkins, one of the Dolphins to kneel.
It has been confirmed in the media that Mark Sanchez, the Jets current quarterback is frustrated with the Jets move to acquire Tebow. However, with the information that Tebow conveyed at his press conference on Monday afternoon, it seems the two quarterbacks are getting along fine. The fact is that Sanchez struggled last season and he has a lot to prove this year.
Kaepernick's crime was second degree social activism. If he were a gifted player who could carry a team to the postseason, he already would be in training camp. But when teams evaluated Kaepernick's value and considered the ruckus he could cause, well, that's when they became uncomfortable and turned their attention elsewhere..
That scares the hell out of me, said former Bills linebacker Darryl Talley, who turned 54 in July. The reality. It crazy. With Butler, Gilmore and Rowe, the Patriots are ready to take on the NFL best offenses. Butler and Gilmore look great. Rowe continues to make strides.
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Wanted to support my African American teammates today who wanted to take a knee. We wanted to draw attention to the fact that there things in this country that still need to change. I myself will be raising children that don look like me. King: Well it's not that important to me, really. I think that they're the best when they stick close to the books because, I don't know, I feel a proprietary interest in that. I always think that some of the adaptations that don't work that well are ones where they buy the concept, the basic concept, but then say well yes but we'll do this, that and the other thing to it.
Said, basically, would not. I have to learn a different offense, a different signal system. I have to change my techniques, and I don want to do that. Racial discrimination damaged the Redskins performance on the field for another reason. Many of the prime draft picks were African Americans, and because the Redskins were perennially bad Marshall often had the first slot in the draft. But year after year he would pass up future Hall of Famers like Jim Brown and Jim Parker for white players.
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Vegas Vic take: Last week, we went against Carolina in this space, and put a Best Bet in the bank. Going back to the well again, and for some of the same reasons. Talked about Cam Newton post shoulder operation, and he just does not look like the same guy.
But give it a little more time. Teams and fans desperate for a quarterback and driven by the desire for wins may yet take a chance on him for this season. In the meantime, Kaepernick is damaged goods, just another guy who wanted to make a point while avoiding negative consequences of making that point..
COACHES: D minus. That was the best Kyle Shanahan could do? The supposed offensive genius who prepared all offseason for the Panthers and had faced them four times the past two seasons couldnt score more than three freaking points? I picked the 49ers to win this game because I thought Shanahan would have the coaching edge over the Panthers. I figured he knew their defensive personnel and schemes better than they knew his.
I'm riding the Jaguars and RB Leonard Fournette because of their impressive Week 1 victory at Houston (29 7). I realize the Texans have been distracted by more important life matters, but I thought they would win handily. Jaguars, 17 16. But let us take a look at another important statistic: Post Season QB rating. Hall of Famer Troy Aikman's postseason QB rating jumps up to 10th All Time with an 88.3 rating. In Tony Romo's 4 Playoff appearances, in 6 years as a starter, net him a 1 3 record and an 80.8 Quarterback Rating (QBR).
Thomas was selected by the New York Jets as the No. 2 overall player in the 1990 NFL Draft. Thomas rushed for 3,301 yards during his Penn State career and became the only player to rush for 1,300 plus yards in two seasons. That left Brady room. After an early holding penalty pushed New England back to its 15, Brady used a 15 yard pass to Rob Gronkowski and 27 yarder to Danny Amendola to the Houston 25. But the Texans had a chance to end the game prior to the Amendola reception when safety Corey Moore dropped an interception on Brady second and 18 pass attempt to Cooks..
Unlike players, general managers rarely work their way up from the minors to the majors, because the skills required are so different. Most major league GMs first occupy talent evaluation positions, such as advance scouting or keeping tabs on internal prospects, since player evaluation and roster management is the main part of their job. Most also work for multiple teams before finally ascending to their first GM position, so be prepared to move across the country as you work your way up the ladder.Right Place, Right TimeBecause there are only 30 general manager positions in the major leagues, getting to that level is as much about putting yourself in position to meet an individual owner's vision for how the franchise should be run as it is about your resume.
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4. Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton will edge Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson to win his second straight NFL MVP Award. The former Auburn star will become the NFL's all time leader for touchdowns scored by a quarterback and break Steve Young's record for most career games with a TD pass and a TD run, adding to the wholesale nfl jerseys spotlight on his performance.
"I think I'm luckier than most, the way I see it. Most recent was the eye popping $254 million, 10 year deal that homer slugging all star Albert Pujols got with the Angels. Fans seethe when they hear these overpaid millionaires asking for more. When the stadium opened, its $40 million HD video board was the largest of its kind in the world. The boards stretch from one 20 yard line to the other 20 yard line. Each of the two screens weighs 1.2 million pounds.
Alshon Jeffery, CHI, vs. Arizona: Jeffery was slowed by a calf injury in training camp, which left his Week 1 status in question in the early part of last week. Now, he's slowed by a hamstring injury that kept him out of practice Friday and raised serious concerns about his Week 2 availability.
This Wilson brother will soon be starring in Showtime's new series, "Roadies," and because he has a few shirtless scenes, the popular actor is back in the gym. "I like jogging, but not every day. I will go to the gym and get some exercise," he said.
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Berman's exit also means expanded roles for Suzy Kolber and Trey Wingo. Kolber, who co hosted "Monday Night Countdown" with Berman, will now be the sole anchor of the program. Wingo, the anchor on ESPN's second and third day coverage of the NFL Draft, will now handle the first round as well..
"That's the part that's completely out of my control," he said. "So, I try not to even think about it or worry about it. If a team falls in love with me and wants to draft me, that's awesome. No one in the AFL suffering depression was calling it depression, because you couldn't see it, or prove it, and it sounded too much like an excuse for poor performance. This year, as Nick departs, the psychological minefield of professional sport has been publicly acknowledged. Already, "mental health" appears like an extension of a club's injury list..
Here we are in the year 2012 and it's time for the NFL playoffs. We got a few teams in that have not been there in the playoffs for a very long time. This is a special time of the year. Mangas' career path on a late October afternoon in 2010. It was just before halftime at North Carolina, and the Tribe faced second and goal from the 9 yard line. The play came in from the sideline, but details were lost..
The No. 1 overall pick should be great. Good size, but he's never likely going to be a hold your ground run defender, and might be best suited as an outside linebacker. "Oh yeah. One hundred percent," Hogan said. "I've been around long enough to know this is something they're going to do every single year.
Nick Foles hasn't played a snap of preseason football. He missed a couple weeks of training camp with a sore elbow, participated in the join practices with the Dolphins earlier in the week and then was out again. PhillyVoice's Jimmy Kempski thinks this is bad for the Eagles.
We'll see. Hopefully he gets picked up and has a chance to still play. A new survey suggests that player led national anthem protests, led by then 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, were a bigger factor than many may have previously believed. Today's settlement involves only the NFL. In January, Schneiderman released a report following a three year investigation in which he said consumers lose ground and money to a flourishing re sale industry for tickets to pro sports contests, concerts and even a visit to New York last year by Pope Francis. The study looked at a range of problems, including price floor policies by the NFL..
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I fear that I must end on an unsatisfactory note. There is no perfect balance to be struck between the presumption of innocence and the need for the NFL and other sports leagues to set a proper example. What we can safely say is that whatever other discipline the commissioner might decide to impose, at this year's draft the league's public image took a hit..
"I just kept looking at my phone, and the next text was, 'You just got traded to Arizona.' " For Peterson,. 13, 2017″ > >Mount Saint Joseph grad Kyle Fuller looking forward to return to Baltimore with BearsEdward LeeKyle Fuller has not played a meaningful football game in Baltimore since his senior year at Mount Saint Joseph in 2009. So it is fair to say that the Chicago Bears cornerback is eager about leading his team into Sunday's game against the Ravens at M Bank Stadium.
If you have reached this point, you must really value what we produce and read us a lot. If you are a subscriber, simply log in for unlimited access. If you are a nonsubscriber, you are limited in how many stories you can read every 30 days. I fear that I must end on an unsatisfactory note. There is no perfect balance to be struck between the presumption of innocence and the need for the NFL and other sports leagues to set a proper example. Carter is a professor of law at Yale University and was a clerk to USSupreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall..
Schroeder sees growth potential, though. About 3 million per week tuned in for parts of games last year, and about 80 per cent of the audience was 34 or younger. In Amazon favour, viewers are used to watching longer shows on Prime than they are on Twitter, and they can get it on their TV apps, game consoles and other devices, as well as tablets and mobile phones..
This years top pick, Solomon Thomas, was invisible most of the game. He generated zero pressure as a pass rusher. The Niners should have drafted someone else with the No. Carolina Panthers at Atlanta: This edition of the Panthers defense is far from invincible and has done little but stay afloat despite an early season schedule that featured Denver, San Francisco and Minnesota. A road trip to Atlanta doesn't present imminent doom, but it does warrant some hesitation in deploying the Panthers, whose young secondary will have its hands full with Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and others. These Falcons still have plenty to prove before avoiding altogether, but so far the offense is showing it can attack opponents in multiple ways with the rise of the Devonta Freeman Tevin Coleman backfield.
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If this is the justification, why doesn't the Seattle Times treat the "R word" like the obscenity that Shelton supposedly believes it is. Rather than just ignoring the offending name, the paper could include a version of it in every report, in the same way that it treats other offensive terms it can't ignore. Identifying the team in this way would recognize the Redskins ownership's stubbornness while also actively registering the paper's disapproval..
The Packers (10 6) closed the regular season with six straight wins, running the table as Rodgers said they could after losing four straight games midway through the season, to win the division for the fifth time in six years. Like his team, Rodgers has been perfect during the streak with 15 TD passes and no interceptions. He will lead fourth seeded Green Bay at home Sunday against the fifth seeded New York Giants in an NFC wild card game..
Kneeling is free speech and expression. Flag burning is free speech and expression. Ku Klux Klan rallies and Confederate flags, as disgraceful as they are, are free speech and expression. The Pats love him on special teams (and he also a great locker room/community guy), but there are still questions about Richards at safety and on defense as a whole. He played some linebacker on Friday in Detroit as the Patriots try to figure out a spot for him, and though he came up with a first quarter fumble, his struggles with tackling continued. Richards couldn lock up Lions running back Dwayne Washington on an 18 yard touchdown in the third quarter, which is kind of important for a player on the bubble..
Everything imaginable is generating funds for our children's sports these days. The local or school leagues genuinely need this money too. Many struggling families in today's economy would be unable to enroll their children in some of the wonderful programs out there.
Carter was coming off a standout junior season where he carried the ball for the 12 0 Lions 198 times for 1,539 yards. The All American selection carried the ball 27 times for 227 yards and five touchdowns against Michigan State. He played seven seasons in the NFL..
The Cougars dropped a spot in the Associated Press poll. Some voters passed along their reasoning behind their votes. Theo also has a story on the basketball commitment. This all came out of my pocket.was spending $10,000 a week to come back, to get out there in hopes of making it to the playoffs. And on it went until the snow practically started falling.Look, no one has ever questioned Peterson work ethic, desire to play or dedication to his teammates, who worshiped the ground he trampled and universally closed ranks around him during his 2014 child abuse scandal.His legacy as a three time rushing champion, 2012 NFL most valuable player and likely hall of famer is secure in Minnesota.No other player has channeled loss and internalized real or imagined skepticism into such raging production. With a hostile running style, Peterson could get downright sadistic on defenses.


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Thought I'd just give you a book reference tonight as my long-lasting virus has now morphed into earache and I'm feeling like pants! Anyway, it's my plan to make a couple of art dolls before Christmas and one of the most amazing and brilliant books I've come across is 'Creative Cloth Doll Collection' by Patti Medaris Culea. As it's also Blogtoberfest, maybe you could pop over to her blog - her blog banner features one of her dolls. There is also a button for Amazon where you could get a peek at her book.
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All those Christmas decor boxes that I pulled out of the attic just a week or so ago have all been stuffed back up there. Every single possible item that could be moved to the side of the garage has been - so that we can send young ones out there, instead of trying to cram them all in here!
There are shields and princess hats ready to be decorated. The Holy Grail has been bought and spray painted, so that it can be hidden, guarded by a friendly dragon, (thank goodness for friends with laid back teenagers!) and eventually discovered by our little adventurers on their quest. The giant cardboard castle was built this afternoon by the two LEAST artistic people in the family. There will be pictures eventually, so keep in mind when you see them that Zion who is not quite four, and I, who have absolutely ZERO artistic talent created it. Just saying....
Homemade rolls and soup and veggie tray are prepped. The lunchmeat and cheese and chips are just open and serve. Paper plates and bowls and napkins have all been bought. Those are not things that are usually in stock around this "green" house.
One of my best friends is making the cake.
The room for the in-laws has been cleaned, and the air-mattress was pulled out of storage. I vacuumed. I teased around at dusting, which is as good as it gets around here.
Why am I still stressed out? Why do I feel like I am forgetting something terribly important?
I guess I will figure it out tomorrow when whatever it is turns up missing!
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Johnny Sexton was frustrated to have to come just before France's match-winning tryIn reality I assume there's a missing "off" before the word "just" there, but like I say I didn't see the game so I couldn't say for sure.
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A bit of unfortunate slapdash photo-captioning in this match summary of France's slightly unexpected 10-9 win over Ireland in the first Six Nations match on Saturday. I didn't see any of it as I was slogging up a mountain in the snow at the time (more on this later) but it sounds like it was a pretty desperate and attritional affair, only livened up - or so I gather from the photo caption below, anyway - by the spectacle of Irish outside-half Jonathan Sexton being furiously "milked" by a bald-headed member of the backroom staff. It's all part of the coaching and motivational routine, and presumably serves to settle the nerves before key place kicks.
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Posted on 17/02/2012
Helping children and young people develop skills to make responsible decisions about safety and risk is the aim of a new alliance, which will hold its first meeting today.
The LASER Alliance, which currently has 215 registered members (individuals and organisations), promotes "learning about safety by experiencing risk". It believes risk taking is an important part of life and that, by learning to manage risks through high quality practical safety education, children and young people will be able to contribute to reducing injuries and have the confidence to lead active lives.
The alliance is hosted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), which has a guiding principle that life should be "as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible".
Today's LASER Alliance Event, being held at the Bristol Lifeskills Centre, will give alliance members an introduction to how they can work together, and workshop sessions will then cover a range of practical safety education topics including: involving young people; assessing and addressing individual needs; working in partnership; developing a safety education film; planning, delivering and evaluating an annual event; safety education for families and early years; and using technology in safety education.
Information will also be available about the "LASER Accreditation" scheme, through which organisations can gain external recognition for their practical safety education programmes, and the importance and uses of evaluation.
Cassius Francis, RoSPA's youth liaison worker and LASER Alliance co-ordinator, said: "For many years, RoSPA and a wide variety of our safety education partners have championed the philosophy that children and young people develop important life skills by having opportunities to experience risks and not by being wrapped in cotton wool.
"It's great for organisations to be able to come together in the LASER Alliance to promote this message in a consistent way across the whole of the UK, hopefully enabling more children to have opportunities for practical safety education."
The LASER Alliance has a network of regional champions based across the UK who promote the Ten Principles of Effective Safety Education, which underpin the alliance's definition of high quality practical safety education, and contribute to the LASER Alliance's policy making process.
The alliance includes members of two former practical safety education projects - CSEC (Child Safety Education Coalition) and LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk) - and it also includes a variety of new members. Organisations working with children and young people that are interested in joining the LASER Alliance should phone Cassius Francis on 0121 248 2025 or email email@example.com. More information is available on the LASER Alliance website - http://www.lasersafety.org.uk/.
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Like all inversions, handstands are wonderful for happiness and confidence. Make sure arms and shoulders are strong enough to support you before attempting. One way to enter the pose is to move from Down Dog, placing fingertips 1-2 inches from the wall, and spread wide. Without moving hands, rotate upper arms out and up. fingers wide. Step into it on R, kick up with L leg, bringing feet together, extending heels to heaven. Lift belly up, connecting abs and legs, keep ribs in line, lower back is long, and weight and energy move out into finger tips, which helps you to not drop into the lower back. Do not drop weight into shoulder girdle and neck. You can either let head hang and set drishti/ focus, at end of mat, or lift head and focus between the hands. This is an easier drishti for balance. Remember~ eyes wide open at all times, breath long and slow.
Stay in the pose as long as arms and shoulders are comfortable, and breathing is normal. When ready to dismount, bring one straight leg down at a time, with as much control as possible. Do the other side, making sure you practice stepping in and kicking up with both legs taking their turn. One side is always much easier than the other. As you become more adept, or you may simply find it easier to jump up from a wide Goddess position, bringing bent knees in toward abdominals, then extending legs up.
Health Notes: Like all inversions, Adho Mukha Vrksasasana is wonderful for changing a point of view, increasing confidence and happiness, helping with stress. Physically, it strengthens wrists, arms and shoulders, and brings greater balance.It should not be practiced if you have high blood pressure, or pregnant. Check with your doc first. And you may be uncomfortable if you are in your period.
For advanced Yoginis, this can be a 'restorative pose.' With heels resting against the wall, it allows the body to connect to the earth via the crown chakra, the Sahasrara~ 'thousand petaled lotus.' When not struggling to maintain the pose, the body is replenished in bringing blood to the brain, promoting circulation massaging the glands located in the head, the pituitary which ifluences other endocrine systems. The pineal gland, placed in the brain, produces melatonin, which helps relax the system. If you can, without stress, remain here for 2-3 minutes.


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Northern Dental Alliance Growth Continues, Adds Dental Staffing Services of Minnesota to Repertoire of Independent Consultants
(1888PressRelease) The NDA welcomes Kim Smythe to its multi-disciplined selection of separate advisors. Her organization, Dental Staffing providers supplies the expertise and efficiencies to assist Northern Dental Alliance user client dentists. Dental Staffing takes control over employment difficulties, temp to permanent, in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI – Kim Smythe, owner of Dental Staffing Services, has actually accompanied the Northern Dental Alliance (NDA). A Minnesota-based business, NDA in addition recommends dentists when you look at the regions of workplace safety, construction, advertising, laboratory solutions, financial, rehearse change, and personal economic methods.
The Northern Dental Alliance provides an extensive system for dentists to plan highly successful and secure businesses, achieve exceptional oral health and look improvement restorations with their clients plus protect and improve their financial future through correct investment and transition planning. Dental Staffing Services significantly advances the level of real information and resources every NDA user could possibly offer their dentist clients.
Dental Staffing Services, created in 1998, locations Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists and Office workforce with different workplaces throughout Minnesota and west Wisconsin. As a Registered Dental Assistant, owner Kim Smythe draws on dental care knowledge and business understanding to hire and put powerful dental care experts on a short-term and permanent foundation.
As with every Northern Dental Alliance users, Dental Staffing Services is an unbiased company. Dentists can choose specific NDA expert users and 'build a group' if desired. Each user is an independent specialist and vigilantly works in best interests associated with the customer.
Aspects of expertise NDA users represent include company banking, equipment/facility financing, laboratory solutions, cosmetic/implant dentistry training, OSHA instruction, infection control, fee-only individual financial/tax planning, pension techniques, brand-new office building/remodeling, practice purchases/sales, dentist transitions, staff recruitment and placement, and advertising and marketing/advertising campaigns.
The Northern Dental Alliance welcomes Kim Smythe as a member, and it is excited to offer the woman expertise and understanding to present and future dentist-clients. The pros of Northern Dental Alliance make use of dentists to enhance their particular businesses, boost their clinical techniques, preserve and enhance group abilities, shield their training and personal investments, and increase their private economic safety.
Kim thinks having a distinct segment concentrate on dental care specialists enables the woman to produce a depth of experience, expertise and connections to solve staffing problems in a prompt, affordable way. She additionally understands the necessity of staffing talented, caring team members with integrity and dedication to providing clients and representing the dentist. To be able to keep these requirements, Dental Staffing providers needs comments following every placement.
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The company philosophy of Dental Staffing providers is dependant on building and keeping close working connections with clients. The prosperity of this viewpoint is proven by the satisfaction of their clients whom consistently make Dental Staffing Services their particular first choice to fill their particular staffing requirements.
Getting the right group is critical to success when you look at the dental business. Kim Smythe assists dentists search for-and find-the correct individual for the job, whether short-term or permanent.
The inclusion of Kim Smythe and Dental Staffing providers is an indication of an increasing industry requirement for teams such as the Northern Dental Alliance. Growth that shortly integrate a part with expertise in Defined advantage programs for retirement.
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NewsWire: "Fellowship" Odds-On Favorite Film for 2001 - The Los Angeles Daily News
"Peter Jackson's got the near-impossible task of translating the 20th century's best-loved fantasy series into three movies -- and from the early footage that New Line's shown, he's on the right track."
2001's movies highly anticipated, but so were this year's films
By Bob Strauss, Film Writer
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Everyone can pretty much agree that the summer of 2000 was a bust, movie-wise. Overhyped disappointments led to bad word-of-mouth which equaled steep second-week attendance falloffs and a general sense that Hollywood, more than unusual, didn't know what it was doing.
With nothing really exciting to go out there and see, then, we thought we'd get overly optimistic and whet your appetite with what the studios plan to unleash a year or so from now. Admittedly, 12 months ago Hollow Man, Loser and Titan A.E. sounded as good in theory as a lot of the big 2001 releases seem now, so we're not guaranteeing any quality in the titles we're about to list.
What we can give you an indication of, however, is the anticipation that's building for certain releases. Some of next year's films are getting more attention than others from the rabid film fans who attend conventions and religiously scroll such movie preview Internet sites as aint-it-cool-news.com, Coming Attractions (corona.bc.ca/films/"), comingsoon.net and darkhorizons.com, where every production hiccup and scrap of data about such anointed projects as Steven Spielberg's A.I. is obsessively examined, debated and blown out of proportion.
Some more obsessively than others.
"There are three films slated for Christmas 2001 that are already making huge waves in the online community," notes Coming Attractions' content director Patrick Sauriol. "Sony's Spider-Man, Warner Bros.' Harry Potter and New Line's first Lord of the Rings movie. Even if the movies themselves are lacking, all three of these are going to open huge, regardless. The buzz, even more than a year away from their release, is already building."
As of this moment in time, The odds-on winner of the 2001 popularity contest is The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three, simultaneously shot screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic Lord of the Rings fantasy trilogy. Filmed in New Zealand by director Peter Jackson (Heavenly Creatures, Dead Alive) and starring Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen, the effects spectacular has gotten high marks for casting and the look of its first trailer, which New Line Cinema put online (lordoftherings.net) to the greatest download response for such a thing in Web history.
"It's anticipated to do for fantasy films what Star Wars did for sci fi," notes Harry Knowles, Ain't It Cool's founder and main movie maven.
"Peter Jackson's got the near-impossible task of translating the 20th century's best-loved fantasy series into three movies -- and from the early footage that New Line's shown, he's on the right track," Sauriol adds. "At conventions, on the Internet, across the Web, the early Rings footage has really jump-started the positive buzz."
Of course, you'll recall that everyone got all psyched by the Phantom Menace trailer George Lucas released half a year prior to the movie's opening, but then everyone found fault with the actual picture. Whether the same fate awaits Fellowship, it's almost inevitable when a property with a huge, built-in audience from a previous incarnation hits the big screen.
This will be a problem many of next year's most anxiously awaited blockbusters will have to surmount. There is optimism for some (widespread approval for the casting of Tobey Maguire as the geeky teen-turned-webslinger in the long-delayed Spider-Man movie, praise for the complex, intelligent script of another comic book-derived project, the Johnny Depp-starring Jack the Ripper gloss From Hell). There is pessimism for others (director Tim Burton is reportedly already clashing with Fox executives about his loose adaptation of Planet of the Apes, The Visitor, over the inclusion of an interspecies sex scene; general displeasure about the casting of Tea Leoni in Jurassic Park 3).
But after only kinda/sorta liking The X-Men, Shaft and The Perfect Storm this summer, fans are taking what might be termed a concerned wait-and-see attitude toward most of next year's derivatives.
Though judgment is being held on whether or not the ultra-expensive, computer-animated film version of the blockbuster video game Final Fantasy (finalfantasy.com) actually works as a narrative, there is pride in Geekdom that the film has apparently proven that virtually generated humans are now convincing enough to co-star in live-action movies, like the just-announced Al Pacino feature Simone.
Hannibal, the gory sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, brings Anthony Hopkins back to his Oscar-winning role of genius man-eater Dr. Lecter. But Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster in the key position of FBI agent Clarice Starling, and that's not all that's going to be different from the lucrative, original Academy Awards darling.
"Clarice is really not the primary character here; she's not supporting, but it's his piece," notes Jeffrey Wells, who writes the Hollywood Confidential insider column for the reel.com Web site and visited the Ridley Scott-directed sequel's Italian location earlier this year. "And it's much darker, which I think makes it kind of cool. But don't tell the suits that."
And while everyone wants to see how Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (www.harrypotter.com) makes the transition from bestselling page to celluloid, few really trust superficial schlockmeister Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Stepmom, Bicentennial Man) to properly plumb the novel's, um, deep inner meaning. And with Haley Joel Osment out of the running, there's angst over who'll be picked to play the junior wizard, too.
Speaking of the creepy Sixth Sense kid, he's the title Artificial Intelligence of A.I. The top-secret production, which the late Stanley Kubrick developed for many years before Spielberg took over, is quite understandably next year's most anticipated feature of a relatively unknown quantity, not least because it's the respected filmmaker's first directing effort since the admired Saving Private Ryan.
But Wells cautions that A.I. may prove more familiar than the cloak of secrecy surrounding its production would indicate.
"It is Pinocchio, basically, or even Bicentennial Kid," he reports.
And the other big "original" on the '01 horizon, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay's ultra-expensive From Here to Eter ... er, that is, Titanic Goes Hawaiian ... wait, we mean, Pearl Harbor, is basically expected to be a slam-bang depiction of the World War II sneak attack with a sappy romantic triangle between Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett woven through it. The only thing you can reasonably expect that you haven't seen before in this one from the Armageddon team is bigger battleship explosions. (An unofficial Web site devoted to the director -- michaelbay.com -- has pictures taken on the set.)
Other selections for films that might float some boats next year include: from AICN's Knowles, Pixar (Toy Story) Animation's Monsters Inc. and the Coen Brothers' untitled black-and-white barber movie starring Billy Bob Thornton; from Coming Attraction's Sauriol, DreamWorks' CGI animated ogre comedy Shrek, Disney's traditionally animated Jules Verne-like Atlantis and the Farrelly Brothers' partially animated Osmosis Jones, in which Chris Rock and David Hyde Pierce magically enter the bloodstream of a virus-infected Bill Murray; and Hollywood Confidential's Wells is looking forward to two adult-skewing crime dramas -- The Mexican with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts and Martin Scorsese's 19th century-set Gangs of New York starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
As for me, I've learned through countless hours of dashed expectations that most movies don't come out as good as they sound on paper, and the best ones are more often than not complete surprises that few anticipated (American Beauty, anyone?). So the only thing I'm promoting for 2001 at this point is 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick's never surpassed, visionary sci fi parable, which Warners is thinking of reissuing around January.
I can confidently assure you that it will be one of the best movies you'll see next year.


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