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Once upon a time there was a Tale of Lager. Not this cheap plastic imitation some folks call "maniac," but a pitcher of dark foamy head waiting at a table for 4 friends to arrive. Well...actually...it wasn't really a story at all, either. It was more of a whisper. No...not even a whisper, more like an assumption between our two heroes Rev. and McLovin. Because every time Rev. and McLovin's paths crossed, this assumption of Lager would appear and then disappear in a matter of hours. This, my children, is one of those tales.
Rev. and McLovin sat idly. The rendezvous was over and they sat waiting, waiting for the Smart Phone to tell them they had friends and that Lager would be assumed that evening. Alas, the Smart Phone was dumb, and Rev. and McLovin sat drumming their fingers on an empty dining room table. The drumming continued for some minutes and soon reached the ears of a rabble of bloodthirsty barbarians: the Hii'mboredagain Raiders:
This horde, being much accustomed to flying under the Rev's banner, quickly assembled at his fingertips. A much-startled Rev turned to McLovin:
"Hey, where did these come from? And all on this empty table no less!"
"I have no idea," said McLovin, "but probably the same place THESE came from!" Rev looked down. There was a contingent of Black Falcon and Forestmen allies before McLovin.
...Nor was the table bare any longer but also held a sparse collection of Brik terrain. "Well," said Rev. "Since we are waiting for the assumption of Lager, shall we?!?!" McLovin nodded. There was a flurry of dice-finding, a pouring of peanut dishes, and the table stood ready for a brik-bath in the name of Lager revelry in the evening to come!
Turn 1
Turn one is always the boringest turn, and McLovin is cursed with it. He bids the Forestmen forces to advance. The most noticeable advancement is to brave outriders skirting the edge of a tower.
They are brave, yet not too smart; they are assaulted by several minotaurs who surge forward from Rev's left flank. The gore begins (if you are wondering where that riders horse is, McLovin has a bad habit of removing his horses from the battefield. In this game...if you see a gore-pile but no obvious casualty nearby, it is probably a sign of McLovin's disappearing horses)
In the center, Rev's marauders and amazons move up; the chariots and beetle walker on the far right flank hold position.
Turn 2
In the center, Forestmen--lead by McLovin's barbarian-vocalist--continue to advance...nothing too exciting until a gallop of hooves and a flash of metal is heard!
Outriders charge and a group of Amazons! However, the forestman quickly learn that a bailing unit can make galloping horses look foolish!
On the left flank, the still-horsed rider takes a poke at a Minotaur, but the minotaurs of the Hii'mboredagain are strong.
And McLovin draws his first casualty. The Forestmen--known for archery though they are--make a pincushion out of one of the amazons.
Rev's retaliation is swift and comes in the form of giant, armored, sweaty, bull-people. Three minotaurs in total are now embroiled outside of the tower, slaying one of the disappearing horses.
The fourth minotaur peels away from the herd and assaults an archer to death.
And in the back of the lines, a Beetle Turret charges the horsemen who failed their charge against the amazons a turn earlier.
Despite the cordial anticipation of rich, thick lager this game, Rev still has some competitive moves up his sleeves, he repositions his chariots on the right flank to make counter charges easier and force McLovin to make tough decisions...
Turn 3
A loud, pained "Moooooo!!!!" is heard across the battlefield!
With spears and bows, the forestmen are able to dispatch two minotaurs! A victory indeed! But the carnage only begins...
A series of charges and archer fire in the center slays two more amazons and the Bestiarius of one of the Beetle Turrets. I should mention now that Hii'mboredagain Scarabs have subjugated half-minds. That means that without a handler they are subject to a bestial frenzy that makes them attack the nearest threatening creation (friend or foe!)
In the wake of such losses, Rev begins to counterattack
The two remaining minotaur slay two forestmen. AND, the minotaur nearest the tower has not moved yet. He, therefore, moves in a straight line...
To crash into a nearby archer. Having used his action, the archer is unable to bail. The resulting crash damage crushes the archer and leaves the minotaur with hardly a scratch.
In the center, things are going poorly; a Beetle Turret attempts to outflank some forestmen archers. Yet, with saved actions, those archers response-fire the driver to death! There are now TWO frenzied Scarabs on the field!
Scarab number one finishes goring a Black Falcon to death...
And the chariots on the right flank finally charge in. You may notice, this charge did very little damage all around
Finally, the Hii'mboredagain's ninja hero decides to jump into (an apparently slain?) Scarab's basket and attempt to fire off the repeater crossbow. To no avail.
Turn 4
The failed charge by the Scarab's on the right flank leads to several Hii'mboredagain casualties.
Back in the center of the field, some cavalry finally charge into the block of marauders. Sadly, this is the only cavalry to cause damage. [not pictured] one or two marauders succumb to archer fire! Marauders angry!
Angry inches and marauder counters lead to the outrider's obliteration.
McLovin's oversight also causes one of his knights to be the nearest target for the frenzied Scarab. Said Scarab begins humping the horse.
Overkill charges bring the second chariot and riders into contact with the Black Falcon contingent.
Farther south, Marauders are still angry and have a pillow fight (no damage) with a dehorsed knight.
A minotaur finally mops up the infantry on Rev's left flank...
Meanwhile, the ninja hero decapitates two unlucky souls as the second minotaur impales yet another forestman archer! This turn was indeed a brik-bath for the Hii'mboredagain! They can taste the Lager coming...
Turn 5
"For the trees and bandits and stuff!"
At the cry of the Black Falcons, they bring devastation on the Scarab and barbarian facing them. With the exception of a single Bestiarius, McLovin's forces have completely owned the right flank!
Several other Black Falcons careen into a Marauder. However, his resilience knows no bounds. ALL OF THEM WHIFF THEIR ATTACKS, and the marauder slays one in response. This, my children, was the most decisive moment of the game...
McLovin's barbarian-vocalist has her way with a marauder (if by have her way, I mean spills his briks on the ground).
Sensing he is not out of the woods yet (...Forestmen pun ...) Rev commissions his final amazon to snipe the lone Forestman cavalry dude. She looks on, impassive and beautiful.
And remember those discussions about armor being good? The Black Falcon knight has successfully dispatched the two marauders who thought they could take him. Now, mind you, Rev had tried a few brilliant stratagems, like trying to knock the knight over and pushing the knight into the pond (to drown), but each failed spectacularly!
Nevertheless, the marauder who had just withstood three charging Black Falcon spearmen soon stands over their lifeless bodies!
Minotaurs continue their reign of brik-terror, shewing little mercy on archers and the vocalist hero alike.
Pfffft. The impassive amazon strikes again.
And with his movement still un-taken...the lone marauder makes an ominous bee-line for the remaining group of Forestmen archers. At this point, forces on both sides are emaciated and thin...
Turn 6
There is an epic pause. McLovin's hero vocalist stares down the towering minotaur foe. Steel flashes, briks drop to the ground. She strikes it. It strikes her. And in the end...
The hero lies still with a massive hoof planted on her chest. She had wounded it, but was unable to bring it to the ground.
The impending marauder finds himself split in twain...
...and then...
...As McLovin's final 3 archers and 2 spearmen brace for the impact of Rev's final 2 minotaurs, 1 ninja, and 1 amazon...
...a smartphone rings...
...and tells Rev. and McLovin that the Tale of Lager will commence at a tavern 15 minutes from now. The minifigs continue to wait for orders...but they hear none. The house is silent. An eerie creeeeak of the door signals their departure. The Forestmen and Hii'mboredagain are left in this horrific Hellish limbo as their creators disappear into the night to enjoy a pitcher between 4 friends.
And that, my children...
...is Rev's Halloween Hellhunt: Tale of Lager
May you revel in the birthday of brikwars
~ Rev.


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SAINT LOUIS, Mo. - The Coe College football team jumped out to a 20-7 lead in the first half and held on for a 20-14 victory over Washington University Saturday. It was the non-conference finale for Coe, as they are now 3-0.
The Kohawk offense made things look easy on the opening drive of the game, as they moved the ball 75 yards on just eight plays in 3:35 for the opening score. Coe faced just one third down on the drive, as they converted the third-and-one situation. On the first play of the game, senior Jared McNutt (Warren, Ill./Warren) completed a 35-yard pass to seniorJared Kuehner (Center Point, Iowa/Center Point-Urbana). On second-and-two from the Washington University 22-yard line, senior Brendan Leiran (Waukon, Iowa/Waukon) took over. In his first action of the year, Leiran rushed for gains of seven and eight before going up the middle for a seven-yard touchdown with 11:25 left in the first quarter.
After a pair of punts from both teams, the Kohawks came up with the first big defensive play of the game. On first-and-10 from the Coe 12-yard line, senior Bryce Sampson (Roland, Iowa/Roland-Story) intercepted Dan Burkett's pass in the end zone. Coe wasn't able to capitalize, as they punted four-plays later.
Following the Kohawk punt, the Bears put together their first scoring drive of the game. An eight-play, 62-yard drive was punctuated by a six-yard touchdown run from Zach Lonnemann with :56 left in the first quarter, tying the game at seven apiece.
Two possessions later, the Kohawks regained the lead on a nine-play, 50-yard drive. With 8:12 to play in the first half, freshman Mark Atwater (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Linn-Mar) plunged in from three-yards out, as Coe took a 13-7 lead after a missed point-after attempt. The Kohawk defense forced another three-and-out from the Bears, as Coe took over at its own 20-yard line.
On second down, Leiran rushed for 13-yards. The Kohawks moved into Bear territory with an 18-yard run fromJacob Workman (Chadwick, Ill./Milledgeville). McNutt found senior Chase Cooling (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Xavier) for an 11-yard gain before Leiran moved the Kohawks to the 26-yard line on a 12-yard gain. A 20-yard pass from McNutt to Kuehner put the Kohawks inside the five-yard line where Atwater scored from three-yards out three plays later. The score, Atwater's second of the game, put Coe up 20-7 with 2:43 left in the first half.
Coe took the ball right back on the next offensive play as junior Antoine Allen-Jackson (Aurora, Ill./Oswego East) intercepted Burkett at the Bear 40-yard line. Coe wasn't able to score, but a punt by Cooling pushed the Bears back to their own 20-yard line. Washington University moved the ball to the Kohawk 47-yard line, but Burkett was intercepted for the third time in the half on the final play, as senior Demetreus Johnson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy) came away with the pick at the 16-yard line.
On the first possession of the second half, Coe stuffed a fake punt from the Bears. After five punts between the two teams, Coe got its fourth interception of the game. This time around, it was Johnson intercepting C. Castelluccio on a halfback pass.
Both teams continued the exchange of punts to start the fourth quarter. On Coe's second punt of the quarter, the Kohawks were called for illegal formation. Coe then played the down over, but this time the Bears fumbled the return with Coe getting on top of the ball. Coe marched down to the three-yard line, where they attempted a 20-yard field goal that was blocked.
The Bears took the next drive 95 yards for a touchdown. On fourth-and-four from the Coe 26-yard line, the Kohawks were called for pass interference, giving the Bears life again. On the next play, Eric Daginella found T. Bartholomew for an 11-yard touchdown with :56 to play.
Coe recovered Washington University's onside kick attempt following the score. After back-to-back carries by Leiran, Coe was able to take a knee for the final play of the game.
The Kohawks outgained the Bears 383-350 in total offense, while holding a 196-96 edge on the ground. The Kohawks also held an advantage with the clock, as they held the ball for 36:20, compared to the Bears 23:40. Coe held the ball for over 10 minutes in the second and fourth quarters.
Leiran led the Kohawk ground attack with 130 yards on 26 carries, including a touchdown. Workman added 37 yards on 39 carries, while junior Gage Mohs (Fredericksburg, Iowa/Sumner-Fredericksburg) had 20 yards on four carries.
McNutt was 16-of-27 for 187 yards. Kuehner led the air attack with 91 yards on six receptions. Junior Keaton Juergens(Elkader, Iowa/Central Elkader) caught three passes for 31 yards, while senior Kris Hopkins (Keokuk, Iowa/Keokuk) caught two passes for 29 yards. Workman had two receptions for 13 yards.
Senior Zach West (Tiffin, Iowa/Clear Creek-Amana) led the defense with eight tackles, all solo. Sampson finished with seven tackles and an interception. Senior Nate Neuhaus (Manchester, Iowa/West Delaware) had four tackles, including two sacks. Johnson added four tackles and two interceptions.
The Kohawks will have next Saturday off before returning home to face Buena Vista on Sept. 29. The Homecoming game against the Beavers will be broadcast on KCRG 9.2 in Eastern Iowa, along with a live video feed and live stats on CoeAthletics.com.


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Im wanting to try and cover all possible issues with the initial meeting to ease the process of structuring this thing out. This is the entire project. This is all I was given:
We have a single-step production process through which all our products must run. Subcomponents arrive to be processed with some variation in interarrival time. The time it takes them in processing also varies.
For each order, a customer provides a best finish time plus a penalty for finishing late and a penalty for finishing early. Given Java.class files to generate order arrivals with their associated properties, we need you to deliver a simulation tool that can calculate our long-term average cost over a large number of simulations under different scheduling policies., e.g. First-Come-First-Served vs. Earliest Due Date First.
We have an operations research consultant that will recommend policies. Your deliverable needs to be able to run and store in a database the detailed results of a large number of repetitions for each combination of conditions and associated cost parameters and policy info. You will also need to report statistics of interest for the simulations. e.g. fraction of late deliveries.
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Microsoft is releasing the first security patches for its Windows 8 operating system and Windows RT Tuesday.
While the company said the security updates are part of its monthly patch cycle, the security fixes were announced just days after a security company reported it had found multiple vulnerabilities in Windows 8 and in Internet Explorer.
On Oct. 30, Vupen, a security company, claimed it found a problem with Windows 8 and with Internet Explorer 10.
Vupen is a unique security company because it finds security vulnerabilities in popular software and then sells its findings to government agencies or companies, but does not share its findings with the actual vendor for free.
"We discovered multiple vulnerabilities mainly caused by memory corruption issues in Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 components which could be exploited via a specially crafted web page," said Chaouki Bekrar, Vupen's CEO and head of research, in a statement to CNBC. "Combining and chaining these flaws allowed us to confirm code execution and bypass security features recently introduced in Windows 8."
Microsoft posted on Nov. 9 that it would be issuing the security patches on Tuesday, less than two weeks after Vupen's reports of security flaws.
The security fixes issued for Tuesday will include three "critical" security vulnerabilities for Windows 8 and one "critical" fix for Windows RT, the OS Microsoft's Surface tablet runs on.
Microsoft did not disclose specific information about what vulnerabilities it would be fixing with the security patch, but the company will host a webcast on Wednesday to answer customers' questions and address an concerns, according to the company's website.
"We are committed to improving the security of all our products. When security updates are released, customers who have Automatic Updates enabled will be protected automatically and do not need take an action," said Dave Forstrom, director of Microsoft's security response center, in a statement to CNBC.
Security firm Bitdefender also reported security problems with Windows 8. The company said that even when Microsoft's anti-spyware called Windows Defender was running, the OS was still vulnerable to about 15 percent of the top 100 malware types that were most used by cybercriminals in 2012.
While some security vulnerabilities have been found in Windows 8 OS, its security measures trump all former versions of Windows OS, according to a Nov. 2 Twitter post by Chaouki Bekrar, Vupen's CEO and head of research.
"It took us a very long time and important resources to find and exploit all these vulnerabilities which confirms that Windows 8 is definitely the most secure Windows version ever," Bekrar said. "It will be very difficult for criminals to create zero-day attacks against it in the short term as the cost would be too high for a small return on investment."
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A proposed downtown hotel took another step closer to becoming a reality Monday night when the Leavenworth Planning Commission took up a rezoning request.
A proposed downtown hotel took another step closer to becoming a reality Monday night when the Leavenworth Planning Commission took up a rezoning request.
The site of the planned Hampton Inn at 405 Choctaw St. is currently zoned for light industrial use. Local businessman John Peterson, who is selling the property to a developer, has requested the site be rezoned to what's known as Central Business District.
The Leavenworth City Commission ultimately will have to approve the rezoning. But members of the Planning Commission voted unanimously Monday to recommend approval of the request.
Plans call for the hotel to be constructed at the site of the former Clark Mechanical business. An old warehouse building at the location would be torn down.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing Monday on the rezoning request. Dana Bowles with Kaw Valley Engineering reviewed design plans for what he said would be a 77-room hotel.
Jim Ecton, president of general contractor Level Builders, said construction of the building should take about 10 months.
Planning Commission Chairman Mike Bogner asked about plans for a red brick building located next to the old warehouse on the Choctaw property.
"It's going to be part of (the hotel)," Ecton said.
He said the smaller brick building will be used for meeting room space.
Following Monday's public hearing, Ecton said construction of the hotel could begin in August or September.
City Planner Ralph Moore said the rezoning request would have to be approved by the Leavenworth City Commission through the passage of an ordinance. He said the matter likely will come before the Leavenworth City Commission July 23. He the ordinance will have to be presented for first consideration before it can be brought back for second consideration and a vote.
In April, members of the Leavenworth Preservation Commission voted not to block a permit to demolish the warehouse at 405 Choctaw St. The Preservation Commission reviewed the request because the building lies within the environs of the Downtown Historic District and the Leavenworth County Courthouse, which are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Another hotel will be constructed at the north end of the city at Fourth Street and Metropolitan Avenue. That hotel is slated to be a 91-room Fairfield Inn and Suites. A groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel was held in May.


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Judes Abboud
Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon
Class Year: LL.M class of 2013
Prior Education:
LLB (Saint Joseph University of Beirut) / MBA (Ecole Superieure des Affaires, Beirut) / Master in Management (ESCP Europe, Paris)
What I Did Before Law School:
I worked as a corporate lawyer in private law firms both in Lebanon and Qatar.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
Because of its small selective LL.M. Class, it is an Ivy league school, has an incredible reputation in the USA and specially in corporate law, it offers many cross disciplinary programs for example the Wharton Business Certificate.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
Academically, benefiting from the wide variety of transactional courses to improve my background in both corporate law and business perspective and having the chance to attend many conferences given by international leading scholars. Personally, being the class president of the LLM and getting to be in touch with the friendly and helpful staff at Penn Law.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
Amazing professors at Penn Law and it is very hard to choose between them but if I had to pick one, I will say Professor McMillen, he was my Islamic finance professor and helped me get a better understanding of many legal and business topics both locally and internationally.
My Favorite Course:
Islamic Finance (McMillen) / Corporate finance (Frank LaMay)
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
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Homotopies as Morphisms
We can think of homotopies between maps as morphisms in a category that has the maps as objects. In terms of the movie analogy, the composition is obvious: run the movie that takes you from map to map , then run the one that takes you from map to map .
In practice, the way we make these intuitive concepts explicit tend to get in the way. For one thing, the naïve approach would be to run the first movie from time to time , and then the second from time to time . But this gives us a function instead of . The usual way to handle this is by rescaling — run the first movie twice as fast from to , then the second movie twice as fast from to .
The problem with this is that it makes associativity weird. Let's say we have homotopies , , and we want to compose. If we write
Then we have
these two are indeed homotopies from to , but they're not the same homotopy! Associativity doesn't seem to work for this composition.
The easy answer is to wave our hands and say they're the same "up to reparameterization". That is, there is some (invertible) function so that
It's not hard to figure it out as an exercise.
The fact that we're talking about two different things being "really the same" is a clue that there's some higher categorical structure here that we're "decategorifying" and forgetting about. In particular, we could flesh out the idea of reparameterizations as morphisms between homotopies, but that will quickly become more complicated than I want to get into.
Still, it's worth pointing out that the reparameterization in the above exercise behaves like an associator, like we talked about in the context of monoidal categories. And, just like in that case, we will find left and right identity reparameterizations.
What's the obvious homotopy to use as the identity on a map ? Clearly it's just , independent of . I'll leave the identity reparameterizations as another exercise. The upshot is that we have identity homotopies — "up to reparameterization" — for each map, which completes the definition of our category.
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Little sod houses on the prairie
It was hard work to build a sod house. Ripping up an acre or more of sod, cutting it into large building-block chunks, and stacking it to form walls was dirty, back-breaking labor.
Then a ridgepole was laid across the top and a wooden framework was built to support the roof -- a sod roof if the builder couldn't afford lumber.
Sod roofs often leaked, and sod houses tended to be dark and dirty. It's easy to imagine why a frame house was preferred.
Sometimes the walls were plastered or stuccoed, inside and out, if suitable materials could be found. This made the house more durable, brightened the interior, helped keep out insects, and decreased the dustiness. Interior walls were often covered with newspaper, if it wasn't possible to plaster them.
A sod house in the family tree
My father was born in a sod house in Brown County, Nebraska. I didn't learn this until I was in my early 40's.
When Daddy passed away a few years later, I helped write a eulogy. I suggested that we mention his birth in a sod house. To my surprise, my mother said she didn't know if my father would want that included. She relented when I said that descendents of the family would like to know that interesting fact.
I think my parents felt that sod houses were lower-class dwellings. By the time they were born in 1923, I suppose that many of the sod houses the homesteaders built had been replaced with frame buildings. Only poor folks lived in sod houses -- like my father's young parents who were struggling to get a start.
Who knows? Maybe the kids at school teased my dad about being born in a soddy.
I don't know when my grandparents became owners of land adjoining Moon Lake (south of Johnstown, NE), but that was the setting of all the stories I know of my father's childhood. The ranch had a two-story frame house that burned to the ground when my father was 12 or so. Fortunately, they had insurance and they were able to rebuild.
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A few sod houses were still being built when my parents were children (the 1920s and 1930s). In a book of South Dakota homesteader history, the following account is given:
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tuttle and family came to Mellette County from Tripp County in 1929. Upon arrival they lived for two years on what was known as the Ivan Nelson ranch, just two miles from where the Tuttles live now. Later they moved onto their own place and lived in a schoolhouse while Mr. Tuttle built a sod house.
He said it was difficult to find good sod in this territory [northwest of Valentine, Nebraska] as it washed so easily one could hardly hold a house together. Mr. Tuttle is rather an expert at building sod houses.
In 1932 the family moved into their new dwelling. It was a comfortable sixteen by thirty-six inside and the walls were two feet thick. Mrs. Tuttle recalls that they kept the house warm the first winter with just a kitchen range.
Source: Mellette County: 1911-1961 published August 15, 1961 by the Mellette County Centennial Committee, White River, South Dakota
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. I don't remember any ruins of sod houses, though there surely had been some in that area at one time. I do remember hearing that one of our neighbors (south of Bassett, Nebraska,) had a sod house enclosed within their frame house.
Here in Kentucky, when a log house has been enclosed within a frame house, they call it a "log room." You could say our Nebraska neighbors had a "sod room."
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WORKMEN have filled in a drainage ditch with a "bizarre" concrete base for a road sign which a councillor fears could cause future flooding.
Councillor David Harrison was aghast to find the ditch filled with a concrete block and earth near the entrance to St Peter's Garden Centre, Norton, Worcester.
Cllr Harrison campaigned for flood defences for Sandford and Severn Stoke after February's devastating floods so the last thing he expected was action that could make the flood situation even worse in Worcestershire.
However, a leader at Worcestershire County Council says the drainage situation at the spot will be closely monitored and pipes in the foundation will allow water to flow through.
Cllr Harrison, a Malvern Hills district councillor for Kempsey including Severn Stoke and Croome D'Abitot, and a former chairman of Kempsey Parish Council, could not believe his eyes when he saw the concrete foundations, an estimated 9ft by 6ft, in the middle of the deep ditch in Broomhall, at the Norton end of Kempsey.
He said: "I have never seen the council fill a ditch when they are trying to stop flooding. A ditch is for water. It's not to fill with concrete.
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It's just too bizarre. With all the flooding problems they have just planted these posts in the middle of the ditch and filled it with concrete.
"I'm very concerned regarding flooding and lobbied successfully with others for the defences in Kempsey and chaired a recent flood meeting in Severn Stoke. Further along (Broomhall and into Norton Road) they have just pushed earth into the ditch.
Where is all the water to go from the cottages in Broomhall?
"It is interfering with the natural drainage."
Cllr Harrison was involved in getting a better deal for constituents after the recent floods. He met farmers and neighbours and chaired a flood crisis meeting in Severn Stoke in March to encourage residents to pull together to get flood defences, as residents had done previously in neighbouring Kempsey.
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In a season with few contenders for the position of hot holiday toy, consumers are filling their carts with revived relics of their youth: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, E.T. and Furby dolls, to name a few.
Anticipating demand, retailers stocked up on many old favorites. The number of tractor-trailer-size shipping containers filled with Power Rangers toys arriving at U.S. ports during the critical August-through-October retailer order window was up 91% this year from the prior year, according to Panjiva, a company that tracks imports on toys made overseas. Helped by this year's relaunch of their TV show on Nickelodeon, Ninja Turtle toy deliveries surged 1,420% this year. Furby — a top seller during the late 1990s — was upgraded and reintroduced this year for the first time since 2007, and has gone from three shipments over the past five years to more than 171 containers' worth, Panjiva says.
"This year, more than any other, we are seeing toys from the 1980s making a comeback," says Adrienne O'Hara, a spokeswoman for Toys "R" Us, which is also selling such '80s favorites as My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake dolls this year. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, she says, are proving to be the most popular. Toy maker Hasbro, which makes many retro toys, including My Little Pony, Furby, Elmo and Star Wars merchandise, is also pushing classic games this year, offering a "buy one, get 50% off" a second select toy deal on old-standbys such as Connect 4, Monopoly, Battleship and Operation.
So why are retailers going back to the future? "They feel retro toys are a safer bet than new ones, which is a sensible strategy in uncertain economic times," says Josh Green, CEO of Panjiva. And retailers have reason to be conservative in their tastes, experts say. The overall number of toys arriving at U.S. ports was 13% lower this year than last year, and 30% lower than in 2007, when Panjiva first began tracking such information. None of this year's most anticipated hot toys reached the 300-shipment mark — historically, the marker of a breakout toy, Green says — and that's left the market wide open for classic toys and games. A few contemporary toys are showing some signs of popularity, however. Leading the pack: Disney's Doc McStuffins, with 154 shipments. The runners-up, Moshi pet monster toys and Fisher-Price's Imaginext Castles, had closer to 100 shipments, Green says.
But retailers aren't alone in appreciating the merits of the classics. In fact, they may be filling a pent-up demand for vintage toys. Some consumers take pride in bypassing newly manufactured versions and seeking out vintage toys from their childhoods. This year, for instance, E.T. talking dolls from 1982 are selling for upwards of $100 on eBay and Amazon.com. One Amazon customer calls it the "E.T. 20th Anniversary Push." Jon-Marc McDonald, a New York City-based publicist, says he's buying Lincoln Logs, Slinkys and sock monkeys for the children in his life this year. "I never want to give something that's the latest fad or technological gadget," he says. Others want to save money. Brian Smith, an environmental campaigner in San Francisco, says his family is planning to celebrate a "recycled Christmas" this year, buying only used toys and gifts, in an effort to avoid waste. As a bonus, he says, it forces family members to put more thought into their gifts.
Tech-savvy children, meanwhile, may be tough to impress with the classics. "When you're 6, you really don't have much truck for nostalgia," says Chris Byrne, content director of TimeToPlayMag.com. Furthermore, kids and parents today have less tolerance for games that seem sexist, racist or otherwise culturally out-of-touch. Case in point: Hasbro's "Guess Who?" — a two-player game with 24 cartoon face cards — was launched in the U.S. in 1982 with five female and 19 male characters. Last month, one mother wrote to the company on behalf of her 6-year-old daughter, who had complained about the lack of female faces in the original edition of the game. Hasbro did not respond to requests for comment, but some recent editions of the game have nine female and 15 male characters; also new games have multiple character sets. To be fair, Hasbro does appear to be moving with the times. The company said Monday it's launching a boy-friendly Easy Bake oven next year, following an online campaign by a New Jersey family.
While some classic toys, like the Pogo Ball of the '80s — now re-envisioned by toy companies as Air Pogo and Pogo Hop — don't need any new bells and whistles, experts say other toys have been re-imagined for a new era. For instance, the new version of Hasbro's Furby — the hamster-owl electronic doll — must face off with a more contemporary rival, Mattel's Fijit robot. "Furby as we knew him in 1998 could not have coexisted with a Fijit from 2012," says Byrne. Back then, Furby was a quaint creature with mechanical eyes. And today? "He is a quantum leap ahead of what he used to be," Byrne says. "When he's in love with you, his pupils turn into little hearts."
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(Dec. 18, 2004) - In a game rattled with a combined 63 turnovers and 53 fouls, the Lady Bucs opened the 2004-05 home conference season with a convincing win over the Wofford Terriers 77-51 this afternoon in Brooks Gymnasium. Led by senior forward Tiffani Mayes (
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A Marine colonel infantry officer, my boss, exclaimed, "Fetzer, you are so � !"
A Marine colonel infantry officer, my boss, exclaimed, "Fetzer, you are so � !," poking me hard in the chest, the volume of his admonition and force of his stabbing finger increasing with each strongly enunciated word. Of course, I have left out the exact expletive that completes the sentence.
Standing at attention but leaning forward into the colonel�s stabs so I wouldn�t stumble backward and break my stance when he hit me, I was being "coached." As the 42-year-old commanding officer of a deployed-at-sea aviation combat element (a squadron) comprised of 28 aircraft and 500-some Marines and sailors, my boss was unhappy with my unit�s performance, and he was showing it.
I can�t say I enjoyed being yelled at, harshly criticized, or poked in the chest. Does anybody?
But frankly, I deserved to be briskly coached, disciplined, and admonished. All of that.
Did I deserve to be poked? Well, that just came with the turf and the time. The colonel was a hard man. And we were Marines. Man to man. Raised and tempered by a throng of disciplinarian men, including my dad, coaches, teachers and drill instructors, I�d been through far worse than the colonel could dish out. And if you can�t handle a dressing down and a few finger stabs in the chest without running off to the powder room sobbing, how the heck will you be able handle the rigors of combat and capture by the enemy or, closer to home, the mental and physical demands of contact sports?
Anyway, I knew the score. As commanding officer, everything that happened or failed to happen in that squadron was ultimately my responsibility. My team had performed poorly. I was responsible for its failures. I deserved what I got from the colonel and the colonel clearly got his point across. I really wasn�t any worse for the wear.
A lot�s changed in 20 years. Not only is physical discipline or touching Marines (in a disciplinary way) frowned upon if not outright forbidden, even simply pointing at Marines with an opened palm and rigid fingers � some call this gesture a "knife hand" � and raising one�s voice to add emphasis may be discouraged.
The Marine Corps Times, which recently reported on changes coming to Marine leadership training in a column titled, "Brass Edict: Mentor More, Intimidate Less," called the knife hand gesture intimidating and "vaguely threatening." At one time, there was nothing vague about Corps discipline. When you got a finger in the chest you darn well knew you were being disciplined and you were intimidated. That was OK. And then it was over and you moved on, no worse for the wear.
Vaguely threatening? Forget real discipline. Now even vague discipline may be on the way out. Amongst our hardened Marine Corps Teufelshunde or Devil Dogs? In what was once known as the world�s toughest, most disciplined fighting force? If so, no wonder discipline as we knew it is endangered in every other aspect of American society.
There�s a feminization of discipline occurring in our society that matches this trend in other areas. At least in the past, when disciplined men generally got crisply "filleted," they learned from it � or not � and moved on, not really dwelling on the experience.
Women, on the other hand, generally get sweetly "counseled" (or mentored) or at least less crisply disciplined and then they ponder � for months � the deeper meaning and feelings of the experience. We�re moving as a society to this kinder and gentler method of discipline � if it can even be called that anymore � with, as of yet, unknown consequences.
Moreover, turning Devil Dogs into Pound Puppies is just one reflection of our cultural shift away from real discipline and toughness. "Spare the rod, spoil the child?" Gone. Discipline in families? Gone. Real discipline in schools? Gone. Tough discipline in sports? Gone.
And now maybe hard discipline in the military is next to go. If the failure to shave U.S. Army officer and accused Fort Hood killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to make him comply with military grooming standards before his long delayed trial is any indication, we�re already there. But all is not yet lost.
That�s because good leaders are situational leaders who have the ability to use different techniques for different times and people. Mentoring and coaching have their place in a leader�s "tool box" to be sure. There�s even a time for "sweet" counseling. But there�s also a time for tough love and to be disciplinarily "flayed" when it�s needed.
We all need real discipline time to time, regardless of our age or status. Leaders, especially military leaders and sports coaches, therefore need the ability and the authority to use every reasonable leadership technique necessary to succeed and win � including a "knife hand," timed screaming and even a few unfeminine pokes in the chest or a slap upside one�s punk�in head when appropriate � without danger of losing their credibility or their jobs.
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11. In 2010, the average annual percentage rate (APR) on a Missouri payday loan was ____%.
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In 2010, the average percentage rate on a Missouri payday loan was 445 percent! Millions of people in need have used payday loans to obtain small amounts of money (usually $100 to $300). Lenders charge extraordinarily high percentage rates, sometimes as high as 2,000 percent. Many people fall into a cycle that seemingly cannot be broken when they are not able to repay the loan on time and must pay a fee (often around $17 per $100) to extend the loan. At this rate, it is easy to see how someone could owe hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars over time.
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Geraw–– Desneiges J., 67, of Glover, VT, passed away on November 27, 2012, at her home surrounded by her loving family. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, 12 Elm Street, Barton, VT, where funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, November 30, 2012, with the Rev. Timothy Naples officiating. Spring interment in Westlook Cemetery in Glover, VT. Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, 1080 Hospital Drive, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819. Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, locally family owned and operated.
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WASHINGTON DC--California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today blasted the United States Environmental Protection Agency's rejection of California's request to impose greenhouse gas emissions limits on motor vehicles.
"It is completely absurd to assert that California does not have a compelling need to fight global warming by curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cars," Brown said. "There is absolutely no legal justification for the Bush administration to deny this request--Governor Schwarzenegger and I are preparing to sue at the earliest possible moment."
Under the Clean Air Act, California can adopt stricter standards by requesting a waiver from EPA and such requests have been approved more than 50 times in the past. California's law requires a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions standards from motor vehicles by 2016.
Sixteen other states-Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington-have adopted, or are in the process of adopting California's emissions standards
Approval of California's waiver would have meant that other states get approval automatically.
Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963 and subsequent amendments in 1967, 1970 and 1977 expressly allowed California to impose stricter environmental regulations in recognition of the state's "compelling and extraordinary conditions," including topography, climate, high number and concentration of vehicles and its pioneering role in vehicle emissions regulation. Brown said Congress intended the state to continue its pioneering efforts at adopting stricter motor vehicle emissions standards, far more advanced than the federal rules.
Section 307 of the Clean Air Act gives California the authority to challenge a waiver decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The state must file a petition to review the EPA's waiver decision within 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register.
Earlier this month the U.S. District Court in Fresno concluded that both California and the United States Environmental Protection Agency are equally empowered under the Clean Air Act to set regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The court also ruled that California regulations do not conflict with federal authority.
Under the Clean Air Act, California can adopt stricter emissions standards than the federal government-thereby allowing other states to also adopt the standards-but the state must first obtain a waiver of federal preemption from the Environmental Protection Agency. California filed its request in December 2005 and has been awaiting a response ever since.
There are 32 million registered vehicles in California, twice the number of any other state. Cars generate 20% of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, and at least 30% of such emissions in California. If California's landmark global warming law-and the corresponding 30% improvement in emissions standards-were adopted nationally, the United States could cut annual oil imports by $100 billion dollars, at $50 per barrel.


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STAMFORD -- A city man declared insane in January and acquitted of trying to rape a woman outside a downtown church -- having part of his tongue bitten off by the woman he attacked -- was committed to a state mental hospital.
At an appearance at state Superior Court in Stamford on Thursday, Gerard Landon, 48, was ordered to spend 25 years at the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown.
Judge Richard Comerford declared that the St. Croix native who formerly lived at 60 Clinton Ave., continues to be a danger to himself and the community.
Public defender Howard Ehring, Landon's attorney during a one-day trial in December, said Landon is being given psychotropic drugs at the hospital.
"He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and he is undergoing medical and psychological evaluation and treatment. We are hoping that with counseling and treatment that his security level will be diminished as time goes on," Ehring said Thursday.
Senior Assistant State's Attorney Maureen Ornowsky said the sentence was appropriate.
"Our concern is the public safety issue, and we wanted to protect the community and our worry is that he is unable to take care of his own mental-health issues," Ornowsky said.
Whiting Forensic Monitor Robert Chase testified during the hearing that Landon had a moderate risk of offending again.
During the trial before Comerford in December, Ornowsky argued that Landon sexually assaulted a middle-aged woman outside the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist on June 23, 2011. The victim testified that Landon approached her as she was leaving the church, questioning what she was doing before asked for a hug. The woman gave Landon a hug, but he would not let go, she said.
The woman said Landon pulled her to the ground and tried to pull her clothing off; when she screamed for help, he kissed her and put his tongue in her mouth. She bit about an inch of his tongue off and spit it out, she testified.
During his trial, Dr. Justin Schechter, a Stamford psychiatrist, said Landon had been put on three anti-psychotic medications but was not taking any of them. As a result, his behavior became more erratic. Schechter testified Landon was "psychotic" at the time of the attack.
In his ruling, Comerford said Landon "lacked the capacity, as a result of his underlying disease and psychotic disorder, to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to control his conduct within the requirements of the law."


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TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Defending Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champion Mount St. Joseph opened the volleyball regular season with a 25-20, 25-19, 18-25, 25-19 win over Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Wednesday at Hulbert Arena.
Nicole Sherpensky led Mount St. Joseph with 18 kills, and Hannah Vanarsdall added 16 kills. Janelle Davis had 21 assists, with Torrie Whitmore contributing 19 assists and a team-high 12 digs.
Senior Casey Levitt (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Westlake) led the Rose-Hulman offense with 13 kills and 13 digs. Freshman Katelyn Race (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge) contributed 11 kills. Freshman Morgan Dreyer (Batesville) and sophomore Sarah Jensen (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Northwest) led the assist performance with 14 each.
Sophomore Claire Raycraft (Decatur, Ill./St. Teresa) had four block assists, and senior Kate Dangel (Upper Arlington, Ohio) tied for team-high honors with 13 digs.
Mount St. Joseph improved to 6-10 overall and 1-0 in HCAC play, while Rose-Hulman stands 9-9 and 0-1 in league play. The Fightin' Engineers travel to Transylvania for matches against the host Pioneers and nationally ranked Wittenberg.


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How is your novel doing? I found your blog via a link on Mr. Konrath's popular post about ebooks.
I'm about to publish a collection of short stories as a Kindle book. I'm tempted to try my two adult fantasy novels too. They've just been sitting on the computer since the whole agent-hunt thing is such a time sink. I sent a grand total of 6 query letters. *g*


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Informational Proceeding on Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts of Power Plants
Docket # 08-GHG OII-01
Committee overseeing this proceeding is:
Presiding Member
Siting Committee
Robert B. Weisenmiller, Commissioner
Associate Member
Siting Committee
The Energy Commission adopted an Order Instituting Informational Proceeding (OII) on October 8, 2008 to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in power plant licensing cases.
- Order Instituting Informational Proceeding (Acrobat PDF file)
Background: The Energy Commission is the lead agency under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for all thermal power plants (50 megawatts or more) that are proposed for construction and operation in the state. The Energy Commission's licensing process is the equivalent of the CEQA environmental impact report process, which has been certified as an equivalent regulatory program.
The Siting Committee believes that as the lead agency in the power plant licensing process, the Energy Commission has a responsibility to determine if these proposed projects have a significant adverse environmental impact resulting from their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and if so, to mitigate such impacts if feasible.
The Siting Committee has proposed to begin an informational investigation, designed to assist the Energy Commission in determining:
- How the GHG emissions of any proposed power plant should be measured.
- How the Energy Commission could determine if a proposed project's GHG emissions from construction and/or operation of the facility will result in any significant environmental impacts.
- What, if any, mitigation is feasible.
- How this determination coordinates with the forthcoming ARB requirements or other programmatic approaches on these proposed power plants.
For more information, please contact:
Matthew Layton
Supervising Engineer
Siting, Transmission, and Environmental Protection Division
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street, MS-46
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-654-3868
E-mail: email@example.com
News media, please call: Media & Public Communications Office - 916-654-4989.


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I HATE Doing Reviews
By Tim Slapnicher, ABOC
Release Date: February, 2013
Expiration Date: February 6, 2018
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
- Implement a team-driven TSBE ("Tizz-bee") review system to achieve desired results and behaviors.
- Develop a plan for collecting authentic employee artifacts to support growth and accountability more frequently.
- Reduce stress for both employer and employee during review periods.
Faculty/Editorial Board:
Tim Slapnicher, ABOC, CPO is currently the practice coordinator at Rivertown Eye Care in Hastings, Minn., where he lives with his family. He uses his experience of teaching kindergarten to bring a fresh perspective to management in the optical industry.
Credit Statement:
This course is approved for one (1) hour of CE credit by the American Board of Opticianry. Course SWJMI500-1.
As a teacher, I LOVED review time. This was my time to shine. For the first three years of my teaching career, I was observed three times each year. I brainstormed all the amazing things I could do to show my administrator I was worth holding onto and was deserving of the elusive "tenure" status. During these reviews, I made sure to be as creative and innovative as possible to show my principal the amazing ways I was teaching and engaging my kindergarten students.
The setup for my observations was very predictable. I received an e-mail stating that my review would be next week. I chose one of three options for the day and time. I also chose the subject and lesson that I would be teaching. My principal and I met two days before the review to go over what I was going to do, and if there was anything specific that I wanted him to observe. Then it was showtime.
On the morning of my review, I looked and smelled real good (thanks to a calculated mist of Aqua di Gio). I wore a "trendy" outfit that portrayed my approachable and sensitive "Mr. Rogers" kindergarten side (conservative khakis and brown slip-on shoes) mixed with an up-and-coming style—a V-neck sweater and hair that was flipped up in front... think "Joey" from the TV show "Friends." I portrayed an image that would entice every parent to request me for their teacher next year. ("I want my kid to be in his class... he seems so nice, yet hip and on the cutting edge of great teaching methods and ideas.") I sat at my desk, took a deep breath and slammed a Red Bull to make sure I had plenty of energy and enthusiasm for the day. I brought my "A-game" and I was going to rock it.
The review would turn out stellar. I would knock it out of the park with my cool science experiment, my groovy guitar song to introduce a new sight word or my humorous puppet show skit to teach subtraction. I would meet with my administrator the next day, and we would talk about how innovative my methods were, and how the kids were grasping the curriculum through my enthusiasm and creativity. I loved it; I knew how to play the game to get a solid review. I was safe to "coast" a bit until my next review.
Of course, I strived to "bring it" all the time, but this was not always the case. There were times I taught sans Red Bull and scraped by to pull together enough energy to make it to lunch. There were times when I wore my faded navy blue Polo shirt and jeans while forgetting to spray on my cologne. And there were times that I stayed up late the previous night and showed a "Winnie the Pooh" video about being a good friend so I could buy 45 minutes to figure out how to teach my math lesson... forget it, I would do a math coloring sheet. I wasn't proud of it, but it happened once in a while. I continued to strive to be the best teacher I could be, but I was not always professional in the way I attacked my planning and delivery on a consistent basis.
I found myself as the office manager at my family's independent optometric clinic. Teaching kindergarten definitely prepared me for my new role. (Don't tell my staff I said that.) I gained skills that taught me how to motivate, encourage and support my team. I love to give my team ownership in their path here and in our direction as a clinic. We try to have fun here and give our patients a red-carpet experience. But I often heard the same question from my team: "When can I have my review?"
How do I give my employees a review? I didn't even understand what they all did. I knew we had patients that would check in, go with a tech to do some tests, see the doctor and then buy glasses or contact lenses. Our staff guided the patients through these processes, and they seemed fairly happy. Things were cool here. That is, until they wanted feedback. I had no idea where to start... so I did what I always do when I don't have a clue—I googled: "How to do reviews."
The Internet is good and bad for the same reason: There is a ton of information. I found lots of templates and review samples that I could cater to my business. I found many options including tips to make it go well and things I should avoid with performance appraisals.
During our monthly team meeting I had an honest conversation with my staff. I wanted to give them feedback and learn about their goals but I was still learning about this industry. I asked them to fill out a standard 1 to 10 scale on basic office-wide procedures and their efforts and attitudes, and asked them to rate themselves. They then handed it into me that Friday, and I scheduled a day and time to meet the following week to go over their "review."
As these self-rated forms trickled in, I realized something. Apparently, I had the best staff ever—10s across the board. We were a well-oiled machine. When I met with them individually, I realized something else. They were definitely playing the ever-familiar review game. They came into their review looking their best: sparkling jewelry, professional suits, thick scented perfume and cologne, and fancy shoes. I went over their self-review form and they proceeded to tell me how great they were and why they deserved at least a $1.00 raise right away. I had no authentic feedback as I had no real clue on how they were doing. I was not measuring any part of their performance. After all, they looked and smelled good, they were 10s, and they had ambitious goals. Why wouldn't I give them at least that much? What did I get myself into? I had a stomachache.
I couldn't give them all a dollar raise, and I couldn't come up with a reason for it. I told them I was going to do my best to meet with them on a weekly basis so I was more in touch with the pulse of our office. This fizzled pretty quickly. I was able to connect with some of them sometimes, but my duties as a manager made it difficult to connect with 15 employees on a weekly basis. I was a bit overambitious and couldn't follow through. It was time to take a step back and figure out how to give them feedback, support their growth and find a way to follow through for them.
I definitely needed to become more familiar with the systems and processes we had in our office before I could give authentic feedback. Becoming certified as a paraop-tometric and an optician would certainly help. I trained hard to become certified in these areas so I had a better understanding of what we were doing and how I could support the growth of my team. In that time, I met with my team members more frequently to get a good pulse on how things were going from their perspective. (See the 3-2-1 formula in the December 2011 CE course "How Teaching Kindergarten Prepared Me to Be a Better Optical Office Manager" at 2020mag.com/CE to see how I did this.)
However, I don't believe that you have to know everything about every position in the office to give feedback. One of my favorite books "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie does a great job describing how Andrew Carnegie viewed his assistants. Carnegie wrote an epitaph for himself on his tombstone which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself." Our job is to put amazing people in a role that allows them to do amazing things. Know enough to help support growth, but get out of the way to let them shine.
While I am able to meet with team members individually a couple times per month to discuss things that are going well, their frustrations, as well as goals, I am finding that it is just as helpful for me to monitor team goals. During an optical team meeting, we discussed creating team goals for shorter spans of time (four to six weeks) so we could really focus on a handful of things to strive for mastery. We brainstormed some of the things we thought we could improve as a team. The following day, we started doing our first TSBE (we pronounce it "Tizz-Bee"): Targeted Skills, Behaviors and Expectations.
The purpose of TSBE: This review is a tool used to provide valuable feedback to employees regarding their ongoing job performance and achievement of pre-established goals and targets.
Even the most skilled opticians have areas where they can fine-tune. For our team, I wanted to see improvement with our adjustments and repairs as well as verbalizing frame quality to our patients. We were seeing a few returning patients complaining about their adjustment just days after the previous one. They were too tight, loose or uneven on their face. Our target was to slow down and give a perfect cus tom fit adjustment.
Adjustments: Adjusts frames to fit patients and instructs patients on wear and care of eyeglasses. Addresses and provides solutions to patient concerns.
Another area where we had room for improvement was with how we speak to our patients about our frames. I would hear phrases such as: "That looks so cute on you" or "That's such a pretty color on you." That wasn't differentiating us enough. We needed to polish up on some "frame-speak."
Verbalizing Frame Quality: How you communicate frames to patients. What is the frame made of, why is it unique, what's the story of the frame company, why should the patient purchase it?
This category is a bit abstract, but it is extremely important to me. How we act, portray our brand and treat one another can be more important than how good an adjustment is. If an optician is technically sound and superior at sales, yet is moody and produces a toxic vibe, it doesn't fly. We are human. We work with the same people every day. We have good days and bad days. However, we need expectations in place with how we treat one another.
Adversity: Displays appropriate attitude and actions when met with adversity. Gives the benefit of the doubt before arriving at a negative conclusion.
Cohesiveness: Are you committed to building a great team with your words and actions? Are you supporting, encouraging and allowing your team members to be successful?
If someone new started tomorrow, what expectations would you have for him or her? Would you want them to come in a few minutes late? Is it fine if they are zeroed in on Facebook while a patient roams the optical floor?
Urgency and Awareness: Are your blinders on? Do you have tunnel vision? Are you assertive and proactive in helping your team and our patients?
Walking with the Patient: Consistently accompanies the patient to their next destination in the office (back to the exam rooms/ to the front of the office) after fulfilling obligation of optical duties.
These are all concepts that were brought up not by me, but by the team. They have 100 percent ownership in our team goals and our focus. We come up with two to three concepts in each section (skills, behavior and expectations), and we are obsessed with them for six weeks. Each optician fills out a self-review form that defines each goal and expectation. They circle where they think they are on a 1 to 5 scale (see below) and write a few sentences stating why they feel that way. I fill out a form for each of them to see if we are on the same page. We meet one-on-one to discuss where they are and what they hope to accomplish in the next several weeks.
What makes this so unique is that they are all focused on the same thing at the same time. Immediately, I observed our team taking more time on adjustments, walking every patient to their next destination and researching www.opticianshandbook.com to get great information on frame-speak. They were also much more aware of creating a positive and supportive work environment. I started seeing lots of smiling faces, and there was a good vibe in the air.
This type of review is meant to be ongoing. It is a piece of the puzzle in the big picture of giving reviews and holding team members accountable. Doing the TSBE helps to create unity, and it battles a lukewarm/ content/average environment. It keeps the team on their toes and on the same page, and they are coming up with the goals, so they seem to care more.
In the grand scheme of authentic feedback, it is important to keep many things in mind. Monitor time cards, absences and observations of how employees treat patients, etc. You can never document too much. Also, track numbers on capture rate, multiple pairs, sun sales, etc. You can have an optical shop filled with happy campers, but that is only part of running a successful optical shop. Finally, do one formal review each year. This is the time to review their ongoing TSBE records, their 3-2-1 meetings and other documented artifacts. This formal review should comply with the language in your policy manual for legal reasons.
Raises aren't necessary or don't have to be, at review time. There are so many things that happen throughout the year. Don't get suckered into "Tim the Teacher" (trendy clothes, guitar music and a smooth talker) as you may be seeing an employee presenting what they want you to see. However, if you are continuously collecting artifacts and giving constant feedback, the formal annual review is not an event to feel sick over. There are no surprises. No one is caught off guard. Give that pay raise on a random day when you have consistently observed how well they have been responding to those TSBEs, and how often you witness that chipper smile. Add that to their growth with multiple pair sales and their willingness to help their team and grow the business. Then everyone is a winner... and without that stomachache.


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A special hour-long edition of the Listening Lounge, a 1955 recording of famed radio-man and award-winning author Studs Terkel. Studs interviews Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy on their art and life – expect lots of banjo, guitar, insight and laughs. (6:30-7:30 on The Listening Lounge page)
Poet and writer IBé has produced "Haikus for Gambia" to debut online and on billboards around town on February 18th. Some of the Twin Cities' most talented poets, from laureates to spoken word artists, have contributed 49 haikus to the project in celebration of the Gambia's independence day.
A tribute to the late Stuart Hall, a founder of Cultural Theory and the documentary subject of "The Stuart Hall Project" by British filmmaker John Akomfrah, which screens at the Walker Art Center on 2/21. Guests are Sheryl Mousley, the Walker's Senior Curator for Film/Video, and independent arts consultant and curator, Reggie Prim.
A discussion of the play, "The Ballad of Emmett Till" by Chicago playwright Ifa Bayeza (also sister of Ntozake Shange!) with actors Sha Cage and Darrick Mosley, on stage at the Penumbra. The story of the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 is thought to be one of the sparks of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Police Called to Local Restaurant
NEWPORT CITY – Police and rescue personnel responded to the area around Habanero's Mexican Grill yesterday. What actually happened is a bit unclear.Newport Ambulance Service responded to the restaurant around 10 a.m., for a report of an unresponsive male in his late 30s. According to scanner reports, the person apparently declined to be transported the hospital. Sources close to the Express state that a local resident found a wallet in a nearby parking lot and turned it over to police. Police are mum on what actually happened, except to say that they had a call at the restaurant."It's an open investigation," said Sgt. Seth DiSanto who becomes Newport's new chief of police Aug. 1. "We did have a call there."


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There will be a special pre-release auction of autographed Tamagotchi Connections and t-shirts starting June 21 on Ebay.com. You can check out the auction HERE. The proceeds for this special round of 10 day auctions will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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Aggies Move Into Tie for 10th PlaceSports Saturday, April 20th, 2013
HOOVER, Ala. – No. 23 Texas A&M moved into a tie for 10th place at the SEC Women's Golf Championships at the Greystone Golf & Country Club Saturday afternoon.
A&M moved up three spots in the standings, shooting 21-over, an improvement of nine strokes from the day before, sitting at 51-over (318-309) at the championships. The 309 from the Aggies tied for the sixth best round from the field of 11 top-50 teams.
"We did a better job today with our attitude beginning at hole one," head coach Trelle McCombs said. "The team still made a couple mistakes that cost us some strokes today. Par is a great score on this course and we need to make sure that we are doing everything we can to card as many pars tomorrow as possible."
No. 2 Alabama (304-293) moved into first place after two rounds, followed by Mississippi State (306-303), No. 18 Georgia (306-305), No. 34 Kentucky (306-308) and No. 31 LSU (303-311) to round out the top-five. No. 40 South Carolina (306-309), No. 8 Vanderbilt (309-309), No. 6 Arkansas (313-308), No. 32 Tennessee (312-309), A&M and No. 43 Auburn (321-306) all reside within the top-10. Missouri (312-321), No. 7 Florida (315-318) and Mississippi (317-321) round out the leaderboard.
Individually, Chelsea Mocio (82-73) made a 39-place jump in the standing moving into a tie for 21st after day-two, Mocio carded a one-over with three birdies on the day. Katerina Ruzickova (80-76) bounced back from a tough first day to shoot just four-over on Saturday and move into a tie for 27th, improving 20 places on the day.
"Chelsea played a vital role our improvement today," McCombs added. "As a team, we really needed her to bounce back and have a great day ad she went out there and did that. I am very proud to see that sort of resilience and how she handled herself today."
Sarah Beth Davis (78-79), Susy Grunden (80-81) and Natalie Reeves (80-84) currently occupy in 31st, 55th and 62nd place respectively to round out the Aggies competing at their first-ever SEC Championship.
Play resumes at the championship Sunday morning at 8 a.m. (CT), the Aggies will tee-off beginning at 8:27 a.m. (CT) from hole No. 10 alongside Tennessee.
Live scoring is available on GolfStat.com.
Story courtesy of Texas A&M Athletics
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