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Bob Corson
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I've been with Frontier Toyota for 23 years and I share the same philosophy that our Dealership demands from our staff which is: providing great personal service, great product knowledge and the best value in the business. Our customers come first and we truly believe in building relationships. Over 50% of our business is based on either repeat or referral visits which is far above the national average. If for any reason we have not exceeded your expectations please contact me. Thank You.
Sanjay Gupta
Director of firstname.lastname@example.com
Ron Panzetti
Sales email@example.com
Kabir "KB" Bahroos
Sales firstname.lastname@example.com
Shah Khan
Sales email@example.com
My name is Shah Khan. I believe in giving the best service and product to my customers. That is why I sell Toyota's. I treat all of my customers with respect and integrity. I drive two hours a day just so I can take care of the great people that live in Santa Clarita Valley. We have the best staff and management team. I am proud to work for Frontier and with the people of Santa Clarita.
Yo hablo Español.
Michael Cesario
Customer Relations and Operations email@example.com
Genaro Calzadillas
Fleet firstname.lastname@example.com
Yo hablo Español.
Internet Team
Drew Katigbak
Internet firstname.lastname@example.com
My name is Drew Katigbak and I'm the Internet & Scion Manager for Frontier. I was born and raised in the Santa Clarita Valley and I'm proud to call it home. I've been at the dealership, selling Toyota's and Scion's to Southern Californians, for 11 years and counting. When I'm not working I enjoy spending time with my wife attending live music concerts, sporting events and traveling. My goal is to provide a quick, easy, and enjoyable experience when buying your new vehicle, while also welcoming you to the Frontier family.
Ryan Phillippi
Internet email@example.com
Jeff Johnson
Internet email@example.com
My name is Jeff Johnson. I have been married to my lovely wife for 33 years. I have 3 wonderful children, two girls and one boy. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and now reside in Santa Clarita. I have been with Toyota for over 11 years and with Frontier for almost 3. I could not have picked a better dealer to work for or a better product to sell. I believe in treating every customer how I would want to be treated, with respect and dignity.
Stew Kearin
Internet email@example.com
Marlin White
Internet email@example.com
Romy Multani
Internet firstname.lastname@example.com
Team Teymouri
Martin Teymouri
Assistant Sales email@example.com
I started working at Frontier in 1998. I am married with three beautiful daughters. I have lived in Valencia for the past 15 years and I love what I do. My goal is to provide excellent service for our customers.
Tony Laughton
Sales - Team email@example.com
My name is Tony Laughton and I am the second longest tenured salesman at Frontier. I have been at Frontier for over 20 years and am proud to call it home. I reside in Palmdale, California and have one beautiful daughter. I have been awarded Sales Society by Toyota for every year I've been a salesmen. In 2010 Toyota chose me for their national spotlight commercial and am famous for the phrase "Thank you for standing by us." I look forward helping you and your family on your next new car purchase.
Sebastian Guerra
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Yo hablo Español.
Lucky Desilva
Sales - Team email@example.com
Mark Huss
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Fernando Mendez
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Team Irvin
Greg Irvin
Assistant Sales email@example.com
My name is Greg Irvin and I am an Assistant Sales Manager for Frontier Toyota. I have over 30 years in automotive retail business. I have held every position from service porter to sales manager. I attended Cal State University, Northride and have been a So Cal resident since 1979. My number one goal is creating a rich and transparent purchase experience from start to finish. My hobbies include: hiking, fishing, photography, reading, and Harley Davidson's.
Bien Tarroza
Sales - Team email@example.com
Super friendly, longtime resident of Valencia along with his wife, daughter, and dog Zoey. Having reached Toyota's highest acheivement of Gold Sales Society, he is a Master Certified Sales Rep for 7 consecutive years at Frontier. Born in Manila, Philippines, he speaks fluent Tagalog and English. Parishioner at OLPH and supportive of the YMCA. He is a licensed real estate agent and tax preparer. His experience saves you time and money. As our number one Sales Rep, we encourage an appointment as Bien assists repeat clients and referrals only. Tagalog po ako.
Juan Gomez
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Yo hablo Español.
Angel Lopez
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Jason Portee
Sales - Team email@example.com
My name is Jason Portee. I'm your consummate sales professional who values GREAT service. I have been a professional in the car business for 7 years. I'm a proud father of 2 beautiful girls, and my wife is a professor / head basketball coach at Glendale Community College. We currently reside in beautiful Palmdale, CA. I have a degree in communications from Los Angeles Valley College where I also played football. Ending the negative stigma of a "pushy" car salesman is my number one goal.
Esteban Kugelman
Sales - Team email@example.com
Jessica Covarrubias
Sales - Team email@example.com
Team Calero
Jeff Calero
Assistant Sales firstname.lastname@example.com
My name is Jeff Calero. I am a 31- year old sales manager at Frontier Toyota. I currently reside in Palmdale with my wife and we are expecting our first child in June. As a sales manager I take on the role of leading a sales team. Being a leader I strive for excellence each and every day. In my spare time I enjoy going to the gym, golfing and traveling the world.
Yo hablo Español.
Leon Kimelman
Sales - Team email@example.com
My name is Leon and I am originally from Kiev, Ukraine. I used to own a tailor shop in Florida, making and designing new clothing for men and women. In 2003 I moved to Los Angeles and have been working for Frontier ever since. My wife and I are the proud parents of two sons. They are active athletes in boxing, basketball and tennis. My wife is a RN for West Hills Hospital. We have a little dog named Rocky as well. I enjoy working with my manager Jeff for the last 3 and working for Frontier for the last 12.
Yo hablo Español.
Al Hernandez
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
I was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico but grew up Southern California. I have an active real estate license and have been in sales since 1989. I've been with Frontier for three years.
Yo hablo Español.
Carlos Diaz
Sales - Team email@example.com
Daniel Wynn
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Team Akopyan
Chris Akopyan
I have been working for Frontier Toyota for almost two years. This is the first dealership I have ever worked for and I don't plan on working anywhere else. I have a two year old daughter. During my time off I play hockey and am a huge LA Kings fan! I love meeting new people and sales is my life. Meeting new customers makes this job fun.
Jay Pina
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Eric Torres
Sales - Team email@example.com
Brendon Clancy
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Kristofferson Pelias
Sales - Team email@example.com
Rob Abraham
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Team Salazar
Alma Salazar
Assistant Sales firstname.lastname@example.com
Yo hablo Español.
Robert Talamantez
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
My name is Robert Talamantez. I have been a sales consultant, at Frontier Toyota, for over 23 years. I was born in Monterey, Mexico. I have been married for 23 years and have 2 beautiful kids. My hobbies include fishing and playing basketball with my kids. I love my job and the dealership I work for. I pride myself on the many customers who come back to me time and time again for my great customer service and ability to get along with anybody. Se abla Español 661 219 3793.
Francisco Torres
Sales - Team email@example.com
Yo hablo Español.
Carlos Menjivar
Sales - Team email@example.com
Thomas Pabon
Sales - Team firstname.lastname@example.com
Business Development Center
Zoli Ratkay
Business Development Center firstname.lastname@example.com
Yvonne De Young
Business Development Center email@example.com
Yvonne is a fourth generation Californian. She grew up going to Disneyland when it was being developed. She even remembers the "E-Ticket Ride." She is the proud mother of four grown children and a brand new granddaughter, Audrey Marie, born in August. She brings 6 years of experience working as a car salesperson as well as a business development coordinator. She is currently our lease end coordinator and calls herself a car counselor. She prides herself in putting the customer first in all she does.
Courtney Moore
Business Development Center email@example.com
Tammy Risberg
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Can anything get more magical than unicorns? Or Puffy Paint??? Tulip Puffy Paint is so fun and can be used on so much more than just fabric. Check out how easy it is to make this super cute geometric unicorn canvas art with Puffy Paint!
Adding a crackle paint finish can be a fun, decorative way to add an aged look to any item in your home. Here is a cool glue technique that only requires three steps to get crackled, antiqued effects.
Check out this cool and easy way to add some mermaid flair to your sunnies with beads, jewels and a little bit of glue!
Splattering paint on a pair of jeans might seem like it's a little nerve wracking, but with this fool-proof tutorial, there is really no way to mess up. And the end result is a pair of super chic splatter paint jeans!
Try your luck with these adorable and easy to make St. Patrick's Day inspired window clings! Makes a fun creative activity for the whole family!
What is better than a sparkly Mason Jar? Umm maybe just getting one full of chocolate for Valentine's Day, please and thank you! These super cute glitter mason jars are sure to put smile on your special someone's face.
Cool and trendy patches are so in right now and I honestly can't get enough of them. This bottlecap DIY hack is a cool way to get the patch look with your own custom flair!
Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays; I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it! I love Valentine's Day because I can get crafty and give sweet little gifts to my BFFs.
Henna-inspired designs are so chic right now and can be used to decorate pretty much everything! I love henna because you can experiment with all kinds of patterns to create such beautiful designs.

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|Southbridge Chipset
|Support up to 128GB dual-channel DDR3 up to 2133(OC)/1866/1600/1333/1066 DDR3 SDRAM
|Expansion Slots
|3x PCIe x16 2.0, 2x PCIe x1, 1x PCI
|6x SATA3 via SB950, 2x eSATA3 and 1x uATA via Marvell 9128
|Realtek ALC892 8CH HD Audio
|Dual Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit Ethernet
|I/O Panel Connectivity
|1x PS/2 KB/Mouse, 1x Bluetooth Transceiver, 8x USB2, 2x RJ45, 2x USB3, 2x eSATA3, 1x SPDIF, 5x Audio
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- Rapid 333: Support latest generation USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) and eSATA 3.0 (6Gbps) high-speed interface technologies that meet the high-capacity and high-speed needs of multi-media publishing and PC gaming.
- Clear CMOS Button: One of ECS 4"E" Design which is especially a great plus that brings users remarkable convenience while overclocking or tweaking system performance. ( 4"E" Design : Easy button; DebugLED; Clear CMOS; Right-Angled SATA Slots)
- Mutli-language BIOS: Multi-language BIOS allows you to see and set up the BIOS with your native language. It helps Non-English users to solve the problem of setting up the BIOS and achieve extra system performance easily.
- ECS GUI UEFI BIOS: ECS GUI UEFI BIOS is a convenient tool for tweaking BIOS in Graphical interface. Users can select functions in BIOS with mouse and keyboard. The user-friendly interface with ECS designed wallpaper radically brings users convenience and easy-to-use experience.
- Supports 140W CPU: Mainbords support 140W CPU processors.
- HT3.0: The highly scalable Hyper Transport 3.0 is capable to provide incredible bandwidth of the system bus up to 20.8GB/s which would dramatically elevate the efficiency of computing performance.
- Support 32nm processors: New 32nm architecture enables support for 6 cores (or above) CPUs as well as the multi-chip packages that allow for integrated graphics on the CPU.
- ATI CrossFire X: The technology not only combines multi-GPU and motherboard power that soars into a new dimension of graphics capability, but also delivers the highest image quality and screen resolutions, even with the most demanding 3D titles.
- Dual Channel DDR3 2133 OC: Dual DDR3 2133 O.C. is able to raise processor and RAM clock up to 2133mHz through capable RAM in overclock mode. It assists system to obtain optimal performance to meet the O.C. enthusiast needs.
- PCI EXPRESS 2.0: The exceptionally increased interconnect bit rate from 2.5GT/s up to 5.0GT/s would effectively eliminates the bottle neck of the system performance and brings the most terrific computing experience from the present to the future.
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5: Supports RAID 0(Striped disk array), RAID 1(Mirroring disk array), RAID 0+1(A mirror of stripes), RAID 5(Block Interleaved Distributed Parity). Provides users the performance and protection.
- eSATA 6Gb/s: eSATA III with 6Gb/s data transfer rate can promise substantial performance gain to a new hard drive enclosure. The data transfer rate is double than previous SATA II(3Gb/s) and also supports external HDD hot plug and keyed connector end for fool-proof.
- Content Protection for Blu-Ray: Features Realtek ALC 892 HD Audio Codec with loss-less content protection technology that allows full-rate audio and quality performance for Blu-ray Discs.
- 8 Channel High Definition Audio: Integrated 8-channel HD Audio CODEC delivering advanced multi-channel audio and bringing you the experience of home theater-quality sound.
- Dual Gigabit Lan with teaming: The dual Gigabit LAN with Teaming allows 2 single connections to act as 1 single connection for double bandwidth. In addition, it prevents network downtime by transferring the workload from a failed port to a working port and balances the network traffic load evenly between 2 CPU cores in order to improve performance.
- USB 3.0: The latest generation Super Speed USB 3.0 Card is able to transfer data 10 times faster than USB 2.0. An innovative power management system provide better energy saving and carry more power to recharge more USB rechargeable devices. USB 3.0 Card is compatible with USB 2.0 to add more convenience and excellent performance.
- eBLU - BIOS Live Update Utility: ECS eBLU utility makes updating BIOS fast and easy. eBLU saves time and hassle of searching for BIOS online and avoid complicated flashing steps. With simple and easy steps it checks for new BIOS version on-line and safely guides the user to flash the system BIOS.
- eDLU - Drivers Live Update Utility: ECS eDLU utility makes updating Drivers fast and easy. eDLU Saves time and hassle of searching for Drivers online and avoid complicated steps. With simple and easy steps it checks for new Drivers version on-line and let the user to update the Drivers.
- eSF(ECS Smart Fan Utility): ECS Smart Fan Utility provides smart and user friendly way to adjust fan speed depending on PCs system loading and temperature. It offers five modes to adjust fan speed within safe range without entering BIOS for smart, easy and silent environment.
- eGS (Easy Green Saver): eGS (Easy Green Saver) is a simple and easy-to-use interface for efficient power saving solution. It is based on computer loading to automatically adjust CPU frequency to reduce power consumption. eGS benefits not only by saving personal pocket money but also save environment.
- Norton™ Internet Security: Simple, Easy-to-Use Interface, delivers fast and comprehensive online threat protection, guarding your PC, network, without slowing you down. Giving you greater insight into downloaded applications, whether they can be trusted, and how they may impact your PC's resources and performance Offering users a safer and more convenient environment than ever.ECS recommends the immediate installation of Norton Internet Security of your computer.
- EZ Charger: EZ Charger technology provides 3 times current than general USB port in off mode for USB devices. It's useful and excellent, especially for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices that need a large amount of current for faster recharging within less time.
- Certified For Windows® 7 Windows® 7 platform introduces a number of manageability improvements that can reduce total cost of ownership by helping to increase automation, improve user productivity, and provide flexible administrative control to meet compliance requirements. It is more user-friendly and has been optimized to consume less system resources with Windows® 7 as well. Furthermore, the VT technology is enhanced to support real-time multimedia application including video playback and 3D games.
- AMD Vision Ready Build your PC with VISION Technology from AMD. Combine AMD processors and ATI Radeon TM graphics to see, share and create a more vibrant digital world.
- EUP 2013: ECS Motherboards have been certified by EuP 2013 of European Union. Stand by mode and off mode not to exceed 0.50W consumption to save energy and maintain sustainable environment.
- Bluetooth Technology: Supports Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR technology, which is easier to connect devices to improve the paring experience on Bluetooth and increasing the use and strength of security. Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR also provides faster data transfer and able to reach 3Mbps with reduced power consumption and improved security. It also offers you a better wireless life.
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for your business this past year and wish you and your families a happy and healthy 2018. Our team looks forward to serving you throughout this new year.
It is also at this time of year that we must take a physical count of our inventory. Unfortunately at this time, this operation does require us to be closed for certain days. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Be certain that we will do everything in our power to minimize the impact of this reduction in open hours.
To help you prepare for any advanced deliveries that you may require before these closures, please see below for our modified store hours during this physical inventory process.
Thanks in advance for your understanding, from the team here at Fulfords.
|Thursday, January 4, 2018
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Stargate: Vala Mal Doran #4 (Preview)
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- Dynamite Entertainment
Vala's past has come back to haunt everyone! When everyone's favorite (former) thief is called to the floor to clean up the mess she's made, the SG-1 gang steps up to support her. Old enemies and new friends come together to face a massive threat that is quickly taking root in a dark corner of the universe!


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Are you someone who stashes food in hidden nooks around the house so you can eat in peace? Do you hoard cookies, cakes, chips, and other yummy stuff so you can eat in privacy away from prying eyes? Are you a closet eater?
I was.
At around age twelve I learned to eat in the closet, literally. I adored sweets. Before school I'd fake like I'd eaten a bowl of cereal by putting a few flakes and a dash of milk in the bowl and deposit it in the sink. Then I'd get into my father's Tupperware (tm) cookie container and take 10 Oreos up to my bedroom and savor them privately, in my walk-in closet...with guilt. I was 5'2" 105 pounds. I was athletic, popular, and it never occured to me to throw up. I wanted to lose 5 pounds. But I wasn't about to give up cookies to do it.
What drove me into the closet was shame. Disapproving looks came first. Then words. Early on questions from my parents and relatives like, "Are you sure you want a second helping?" "Do you want to eat that?" "What, another cookie?" turned me into a sneak. I wanted to eat where I could enjoy myself. In private.
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I ate because of the luxurious deliciousness of sugar. I ate for the pleasure of companionship with other girls my age when we bought Ho Hos and Ding Dongs and boxes of Entenmann's cookies and talked for hours together about intimate things. Dessert and confidential conversations became synonymous with the creation of a secret world, the secret world of girls, soft and dreamy, behind locked bedroom doors where we could share our thoughts -- without adult intrusion or snooping. This was short lived.
The intrusion of mothers came by example. One chubby mother would eat a whole box of chocolates and then say, "I hate myself." Another friend's slim mother would smoke cigarettes at the kitchen table lost in thought, easy in our presence, while my friend and I would eat home made bialys smeared with lox and cream cheese happily chattering away.
In time I came to recognize the difference between self destruction and punishment through food and eating food for nourishment and deepening the bonds of intimacy through shared experience and pleasure.
But I still have remnants of the sneak eating. The other day I bought a flourless chocolate cake for my book group meeting at our home. There were a few pieces left over so I put them in the laundry room out of sight so I would only eat a piece if I really wanted it. I found myself waiting until my sweetie left the kitchen to seek out those last morsels. I caught myself feeling the familiar impulse to hide.
So I put the cake back and waited until he returned and then ate a piece while enjoying his company. I'm building new neural pathways in my brain to eradicate the shame. Continuing to associate the pleasure of companionship with the enjoyment of food gives me those same good feelings I had with my girlfriends, filmy, fluid and fun. I even tell my sweetie a secret or two over pudding, lemon curd, or cake, and feel good about it.
Susan Harrow is the author of Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul. She runs a Media Consultancy where she helps everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to celebrity chefs, entrepreneurs to authors grow their business through media coaching and the power of PR. For more


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"The next thundering herd on Wall Street may be the ranks of low-cost portfolio managers such as MarketRiders and Folio Investing, which cater to self-directed investors," observes Bloomberg. "Sites that sell prepackaged portfolios have attracted more than $3 billion in assets over the last three years as more investors leave their full-service brokers."
Despite the headline's allusion to "thundering herd" and the negative connotations anything "herd-like" carries in the context of Wall Street, this is actually not a bad thing. What, would you rather Bank of America's Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the top two full-service brokerages, handle your portfolio? The two brokerages had combined outflows of $1150 billion in 2009, the article notes.
2. Banking Crises around the World: Different Governments, Different Responses
Fed paper surveys past banking crises around the world, from Sweden to Latvia to Argentina. The conclusion? some stuff about the median cost of banking crises and great the U.S. is doing as we "transition out of" the crisis here. Hahaha. Whatever. The more important thing is this is a tidy little historical summary of other banking crises.
3. General Mills Sees 1/3, 1/3, 1/3
From the General Mills (GIS) March 23 conference call:
"Probably I would describe it as a third, a third, a third as we look across the consumer base. I think a third of consumers probably didn't see much of a recession and those may be the consumers that you're referring to and their shopping trips and their activities I think have been in line with what we have seen historically. A third
of consumers are doing okay and they may have changed behavior a little bit and then a third of consumers have been more stressed in the recession with unemployment and all of the concerns that we know about."
4. Stuffed Piles in the Aisles
From the New York Times:
"Historically, the more a store is packed, the more people think of it as value — just as when you walk into a store and there are fewer things on the floor, you tend to think they're expensive," said Paco Underhill, founder and chief executive of Envirosell, who studies shopper behavior. "Wal-Mart (WMT), Dollar General (DG), JC Penney (JCP) and Best Buy (BBY) are cited in the article as using the clutter, clutter everywhere and more stuff, stuff, stuff tactic to coax shoppers to buy more. It's retail psychological warfare. My advice is to avoid the stores and just shop online for the crap you don't really need.
5. Mall Vacancies at Highest Levels in 11 Years
While some stores are busy creating piles of stuff in their aisles for us to buy, the reality of mall vacancies paints a far more grim picture. Figures from real-estate research company Reis Inc. reveal that in the top 80 U.S. markets, the average vacancy rate was 9.1%, up from 8.7%, the highest level in 11 years.
6. Angry Ayn Rand Fans Are Demanding Theaters Show Awful Movie!
It's true. Fans of Ayn Rand, angry that some theaters aren't showing Atlas Shrugged, are petitioning theaters to show this awful movie based on the awful book.
Well, that's one way to do it I suppose.
But wouldn't the right way to do it be to go on strike against the non-participating movie theaters and then, after they collapse, to build your own giant super-duper theater in Canada or somewhere? You could build it out of some amazing metal alloy that is the strongest thing ever in the whole wide world, with chairs covered in the skin of the soul-sucking poor and carpet made of human hair. The government would try to stop you, of course, because look, chairs upholstered in skin? Human hair carpet? Seriously? But what do they know? They are the stupid government with their big stupid fat taxes against businesspeople and if it wasn't for them we would, I don't know, all be sitting around on giant piles of money in fancy office skyscrapers and smoking cigars thinking up new ways to make money by being so much smarter than everyone else.
Here. Use this handy link to send me automatically generated Pro-Rand hate mail.
7. The Cupcake Bubble
Y ahooFinance's Daniel Gross takes a look at the Crumbs $66 million cupcake empire. Crumbs recently agreed to be acquired by 57th St. General Acquisition Corp. for around $66 million, including $27 million in cash and $39 million in stock.


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Table of Contents
Finding Jesus on America's Bible Road.
Bill Mallonee has been called one of the top 100 songwriters in the world, but an audience is hard to find.
Top 5 Books: Character Shapes Belief
Short reviews of Looking Before and After, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and Paradise Lost.
Never confuse access to politicians with influence on policy.
How the strange yet familiar doctrine of theosis can invigorate the Christian life.
An abridged version.
Learning to pray is like playing the violin with virtuosos.
International religious freedom has been too low a priority.
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
What daily lovemaking for a year did for one marriage.
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I read an entertaining article this morning regarding public relations work. A PR professional listed thirteen ominous mentions, which sound cacophonic bells and whistles off within a service provider's head. Is your business currently receiving public relations services or working with an in-house professional? Are you resounding some of the same sentiments mentioned in the article? Is your campaign a bleak, dramatic picture of what it's supposed to be, leaving participants in a state of mystery? Let's explore some things mentioned in the article and better your understanding of what is and isn't under a PR pros control.
Beyond Control
Some things may be beyond your PR professional's control. While the end goal clearly spells 'more exposure,' it is necessary to understand your public relations pro is a part of a larger system and must adhere to regulations and the whims of reporters and editors.
"Can you find what the reporter will ask before the interview?"
"Can I do the interview over email?"
"Why weren't we in this story?"
The above are some things mentioned in the article by disappointed clients. Often the PR pro must defer to the ultimate decisions of reporters and editors. Sometimes reporters may tell your public relations professional one thing, yet an editor makes another executive decision (bumps a story) and unfortunately, your business' exposure suffers for it…
It actually happened to one of our brands a few years ago. Our CEO, Ken Wisnefski, was set to do an interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews. We were all very excited for this opportunity for great exposure. But wait! Who decides to drive his way into the headlines like a free-roaming bronco? None other than OJ Simpson! Unfortunately, Ken's chances to be interviewed were 'taken' by a pressing story and executive decisions, which were out of our control.
You're an Asset
Last Friday, I wrote about a few SEO-related things a business owner should 'know.' It's important to understand, while a service provider is doing a bulk of the work, your input is needed and considered an asset. PR work is sometimes very contingent on sensitivity of time and the participation of business consumers.
"I need this to be done in an hour."
"We need this to be viral."
"We've decided to go in a different direction."
"I want this news embargoed." [when it's not news]
Those are a few things mentioned in the PR professional's article, related to the ongoing participation of the client. Understand public relations providers must have enough time to successfully pitch stories and position your brand to garner great exposure. In many cases, going viral is contingent on other factors besides a penned press release and major news source distribution. The story's content, industry 'influencers,' and the timing of the release also play a major role in the public's reception. Ensure you are giving your public relations professionals all the necessary tools, allowing them to recruit exposure for your brand.


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There are pros and cons to giving birth at home. Here we answer common questions about the advantages and disadvantages of home birth to help you make an informed decision.
This article covers the following FAQs:
Why choose a home birth?
How does giving birth at home compare to other options?
Can I have a home birth?
Do I have a right to have my baby at home?
When is it not advised?
Is my home suitable for a home birth?
Further information
Why choose a home birth?
Women may plan a home birth because they:
- have had a previous positive birth experience in hospital, and now feel confident about birth at home,
- want continuity of care, with a midwife they know attending the birth,
- dislike being in hospital,
- are worried about the effect of a hospital environment on their labour,
- want to keep birth normal and avoid interventions,
- want to reduce the risk of infection,
- don't want to be separated from older children,
- want more than one birth partner,
- want to avoid an overnight hospital stay without their partner,
- hope to use a birth pool and cannot be sure that this will be possible in hospital,
- want privacy,
- want to feel more in control, or
- have had a previous negative experience in hospital, and don't want to repeat this.
Ultimately, the decision to have your baby at home is yours but it always helps to have support and information in making that choice.
How does giving birth at home compare to other options?
In deciding where to have your baby, you may find the results of the Birthplace Study 2011 helpful, as it provides detailed information about the four different places for planning birth. It compares planning to have a home birth with planning for a hospital birth, as well as comparing planning to use a freestanding midwifery unit or birth centre, an alongside midwifery unit or birth centre and planning a hospital birth.
The main focus of the study is outcomes for women who are 'low risk', i.e. those who are healthy, with a straightforward pregnancy and no previous obstetric complications that might affect this pregnancy.
Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), updated in December 2014, also supports your right to be informed about your options and choose where you have your baby - be that in a midwife-led centre, at home or on a hospital labour ward. The NICE guidance advises that planning to give birth at home or in a midwifery?led unit is particularly suitable for women with straightforward pregnancies who have already had a baby. For women with straightforward pregnancies who are expecting their first baby, it is advised that planning to give birth in a midwifery?led unit is particularly suitable, but that there is a small increase in risk for the baby if they plan birth at home.
Can I have a home birth?
It is a good idea to talk to your midwife about the options in your area. All areas provide a home birth service but the extent of the service varies.
Planning for a home birth is a positive option for those who are healthy, with a straightforward pregnancy, and no health conditions or previous obstetric complications that might affect this pregnancy. For those who have previously given birth and had a straightforward labour, planning for care away from the labour ward either at home or in a birth centre is as safe as a planned hospital birth and can often be a very positive experience.
For first-time mothers, home birth can also offer advantages, such as continuity of midwifery care, greater control, and less need for interventions, such as an epidural or an assisted birth. There is, however, a small increase in risk for their baby.
In the following circumstances, evidence-based guidance to the NHS (NICE guidance) suggests that planning to have your baby at home is not recommended in a range of medical and obstetric circumstances. These include women with:
- previous haemorrhage after giving birth,
- previous caesarean section,
- pregnancy over 42 weeks' gestation, when the guidance suggests induction of labour
- pre-eclampsia or raised blood pressure,
- anaemia (low iron count),
- in a sixth or subsequent pregnancy,
- a baby remaining in a breech position (bottom- or feet-first) or
- twins.
Some women with higher risk factors do weigh up the pros and cons of their individual situation and decide to give birth at home. It's always important to make the decision that feels right for you.
Do I have a right to have my baby at home?
There is no simple answer to thisquestion. Certainly nobody can make you go into hospital to have your baby – it is not against any law to have your baby at home. But what most women want to know is whether they have a right to maternity services at home – in other words, does the health authority have an obligation to provide a midwife to attend a home birth?
The Nursing and Midwifery Council in its statement says 'Should a conflict arise between service provision and a woman's choice for place of birth, a midwife has a duty of care to attend. Withdrawal of a home birth service is no less significant to women than withdrawal of services for a hospital birth.'
Your health authority is legally obliged to provide emergency care, although it cannot be forced by law to provide a home based service. If you are finding it difficult to arrange to have your baby at home, get in contact with the community midwifery manager. In most areas, midwives are supportive of a woman's choice to have her baby at home and will try hard to make suitable arrangements.
If a woman gets to the end of pregnancy and has not been able to make arrangements, but has made her intention clear, she should call the hospital labour ward when in labour. The labour ward manager will usually try to provide a midwife to go to her home to care for her. It is preferable though to make arrangements well in advance.
Women considering a home birth might think about using an independent midwife. These are midwives who have chosen to work outside the NHS in a self-employed capacity to provide pregnancy care. Read more about independent midwives.
When is it not advised?
A safe home birth is not possible if you have a full placenta praevia or low lying placenta (placenta covering the cervix), or your baby is in a transverse lie (sideways across the womb) because these births require a caesarean section. Many women also choose to have their baby in a hospital if they have severe health problems, or their baby is likely to need medical attention immediately after she is born, for example, if the baby is premature.
In certain situations, some professionals will suggest that it's best for you to have your baby in a hospital, while others may be willing to support you at home. You might also find our article about the safety of home birth helpful.
If your midwife does not consider you a good candidate for having your child at home, ask her to go through the reasons with you to help you weigh up the pros and cons for yourself. If you have further questions or need additional support, contact the community midwifery manager. You could also contact your local NCT home birth support group by calling 0300 330 0770 or the Association for Improvements in Maternity Services (AIMS) to explore your options.
Is my home suitable for a home birth?
It doesn't matter if your home is small, untidy or in need of decorating. The important thing is that you feel comfortable there. Your midwife can discuss how long it would take an ambulance to reach you in an emergency, and any access concerns. She will also discuss with you what you will need for a home birth.
Further information
NCT's helpline offers practical and emotional support in all areas of pregnancy and early parenthood: 0300 330 0700. We also offer antenatal courses which are a great way to find out more about labour and life with a new baby. We also run local NCT home birth support groups: call 0300 330 0770 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to find one near you.
The Home Birth Reference Site provides information and opinions about having your baby at home, for parents who think that it might be the right choice for them, and for health professionals looking for resources.
Which? and Birth ChoiceUK have developed a tool to help you find out what your choices are for giving birth in your area. This tool combines your preferences with research evidence to show the local options most suited to you.


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VANCOUVER — Maybe it's to be expected.
After watching Ryan Kesler do to the Nashville Predators what Godzilla did to Tokyo, the hockey world is having trouble coming up with a suitable comparison.
One of the talking heads tried Rod Brind'Amour with the Philadelphia Flyers a few years back. Rod Brind'Amour? Really.
Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault referenced Roberto Luongo's goaltending against Anaheim in the 2006-07 Western Conference semi-finals. That was a little closer but it's still apples and oranges.
Teammate Daniel Sedin, for his part, trotted out the play of the Canucks' Mikael Samuelsson against Los Angeles in last year's opening round series and, sorry, that didn't quite capture it either.
No, Kesler's performance was so grand in scope, so epic in design, you have to come with something stronger than Rod Brind'Amour and Mikael Samuelsson. It wasn't just the points, and figuring in on 11 of the Canucks' 14 goals in the series speaks for itself.
But it was the job in the faceoff circle. It was his work against Mike Fisher, the Predators' best forward who had one puny assist in the series. It was even taking the puck to the face in Game 5, spitting out a chiclet, going for stitches and barely missing a shift.
On Tuesday, Kesler stood in front of the media with an angry scar on his jawline, a still-swollen mouth and a welt on his plus-size honker.
You were a good-looking guy before the playoffs started, it was pointed out.
"I think I still am," he said with a smile.
And it was good to see Kesler engaged in the give-and-take with the media following the series-clinching win over Nashville on Monday night. It was good to see him enjoying this moment. Kesler has drawn comparisons to some of the game's legends following the win over the Preds — "humbling," he called it — and they've been richly deserved.
But if you want the most apt parallel to Kesler's performance, we go back to the 2002 Eastern Conference semifinal between Ottawa and Toronto and the play of the Leafs' Gary Roberts.
This, doubtless, will go over well with the Leafs' many fans in the lower mainland but, that year, Roberts was a force of nature against the Sens. The Leafs, who were already without team captain Mats Sundin were blitzed in the first game of the series when Roberts put the team on his back. Over the next six games he scored five goals, added five assists and scored a game-winner in triple overtime as the Leafs came back to win the series, 4-3.
And it wasn't just the offence in this case. Roberts was everywhere, dominating physically and willing his team to victory. Until Kesler came along, it was the best individual performance this agent has seen over the life of a series.
But it also comes with a cautionary tale.
In the Eastern final, Roberts ran out of magic potion. Against an inferior Carolina team, Roberts wasn't the same player which was bad enough, but his teammates had become used to his Superman act and when it didn't materialize, the Leafs were lost. They quickly fell behind 3-1 in games before they were dispatched in six games . . . which brings us back to Kesler.
While the kid from Livonia is quite a bit younger than Roberts was (26 to 36), it's still illogical to think he can do the same thing in the Western final. He can be good. He can even be great. But figuring in on almost 80% of the Canucks' goals while shutting down the other team's best offensive centre and keying a perfect penalty kill?
That doesn't seem possible and, even if it is, the Canucks had better not expect it.
"I think for to move forward and have success, we're going to need other guys elevate their game," Vigneault said.
And for the Canucks, that has to be a primary focus against either Detroit or San Jose. Kesler was great against Nashville but the next series will be a different animal. That means the Sedins can't be minus-players and marginal offensive producers. That means Alex Edler can't be inconsistent. That means Roberto Luongo has to minimize the bad goals. That means contributions from Max Lapierre, Jannik Hansen and Cody Hodgson.
The Canucks didn't receive any of that against the Preds but still won which is a testament to Kesler. But for their sake, it had better be a chapter in a much longer story rather than the highlight of a shorter one.
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I had no intention of updating the guest bedroom until next summer. However, my parents were getting rid of an upholstered headboard, so I snapped it up. It was my dream to refinish an old wooden headboard in a funky color, but beggars can't be choosers. Then while holiday shopping online I came across a sale on a funky comforter with all of the right colors, so I snapped it up.
Here's a photo before my Dad installed Ikea's Maskros Pendant Lamp that I found on craigslist.
Here's the bedroom set I bought spur of the moment thinking the busy pattern and bright colors would make up for the lack of wall hangings and wall color. Now I'm not so sure, but it is a lot more cheerier.
It's a little busy, and not the room of my dreams, but it's better than blah.


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The University of Saskatchewan is offering voluntary buyouts to its administrative staff to help cope with provincial budget cuts.
An internal memo distributed to members of the Administrative and Supervisory Personnel Association on Wednesday said the university had reached an agreement with the union to offer a "voluntary exit incentive program" to employees.
The ASPA represents 1,100 workers at the university.
"The president has been clear that attrition and voluntary options is where we will look first to find savings in salaries and benefits," Assistant Vice President of Human Resources Cheryl Carver wrote, noting staff salaries and benefits made up 70 per cent of the university's budget.
The memo was provided to 650 CKOM by the U of S.
Applications to accept a voluntary buyout are being accepted by the university between June 1 and June 30. Buyout recipients would leave the university by January 31, 2018.
Carver added the university is continuing to work with other unions representing workers to come to an agreement on a voluntary exit program.
"Unfortunately, we have not been able to reach an agreement on voluntary options for our staff in CUPE 1975," she wrote.
"CUPE executive required guarantees that we would not contract out any services as a result of exits. This type of guarantee is too restrictive at a time when the university must find savings."
The U of S is trying to fill a 5.6 per cent budget gap left by the provincial budget in the spring.
Several departments have seen their funding slashed already, including an 11 per cent cut to agriculture and bioresources.
Carver said in the memo they are still in discussions with the USask Faculty Association on extending a reduced appointment program for positions opened up by retiring professors.
No-one at the university was made available for comment Wednesday afternoon.


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Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, "Spring"
About the WorkComposer: Robert Schumann
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In the fall of 1839, about a year before her marriage to Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck noted in her diary that "it would be best if he composed for orchestra; his imagination cannot find sufficient scope on the piano. . . . His compositions are all orchestral in feeling. . . . My highest wish is that he should compose for orchestra—that is his field! May I succeed in bringing him to it!"
And apparently she did. Schumann had composed two movements of a Symphony in G minor as early as 1832. He managed to orchestrate the first movement, which was performed in Zwickau on November 18 of that year, and a revised version was performed in Schneeberg three months later. Neither performance made much of an impression, though, and Schumann neither completed that early effort nor made another attempt at writing for orchestra until after he married Clara. Their wedding took place on September 12, 1840, and his creative efforts in the following year were devoted in large part to orchestral works.
It was Schumann's custom in those years to focus on a single area of composition at a time. In 1840 he concentrated on songs, and 1842 was taken up with chamber music; 1841 was a year for symphonies. In that year he produced his Overture, Scherzo and Finale (a sort of three-movement symphony which he originally called "Symphonette") and the first version of what was eventually to be labeled his Symphony No. 4, as well as the First Symphony, which he sketched in full in just four days, January 23-26. Less than a month later, on February 20, the orchestration was finished, and less than six weeks after that, on March 31, Mendelssohn conducted the work's premiere in Leipzig.
The symphony was undertaken in response to a ballad by Adolph Böttger, to whom Schumann dedicated the work, with "Spring Symphony" as its original title. (Schumann did not set any of Böttger's poems to music, but later in 1841 he called upon him for help in adapting Thomas Moore's text for use in his choral work Das Paradies und die Peri.)
In a letter to his friend Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl, a respected writer on music, Schumann described this symphony as having been "born in a fiery hour." In another letter, to his fellow composer Louis Spohr, who was also active as a conductor, he elaborated: "I wrote the symphony in that rush of spring which carries a man away even in his old age, and comes over him anew every year. Description and painting were not a part of my intention, but I believe that the time in which it came into existence may have influenced its shape and made it what it is. You will not find it too easy, but neither will you find it too difficult."
Still later, on January 10, 1843, Schumann sent a letter to the conductor Wilhelm Taubert, in Berlin, with some technical advice on the proper performance of the work and a further explication of his impetus in composing it: "If only you could breathe into your orchestra, when it plays, that longing for spring! It was my main source of inspiration when I wrote the work in February 1841. I should like the very first trumpet call to sound as though proceeding from on high and like a summons to awaken. In the following section of the introduction, let me say, it might be possible to feel the world turning green; perhaps . . . a butterfly fluttering; and in the Allegro the gradual assemblage of everything that belongs to spring. However, it was only after I had completed the composition that these ideas came to my mind."
In addition to giving the Symphony its title, Schumann originally intended that each of the individual movements should also bear a descriptive heading. Although he discarded these headings before the score was published, they are worth recalling, for they indicate what the composer had in mind for the descriptive content and general mood of the respective movements. The first was to be headed "Spring's Awakening," and the opening trumpet call mentioned in the letter to Taubert was written to fit these lines from the ballad by Böttger that had that had provided the impetus for the work:
O wende, wende deinen Lauf—
Im Thale blüht der Frühling auf!
O turn, O turn and change your course—
In the valley spring blooms forth!
The second movement, originally titled "Evening," is a mellow and typically Schumannesque reverie, not without devotional undertones. It leads without pause into the scherzo, whose rather gruff energy suggested the title "Merry Playfellows." Like several of Schumann's other scherzos, this one has two contrasting trio sections instead of a single one: the first has a somewhat mystical character, while the second, based on a folk tune, is in the nature of an especially vigorous Ländler.
Not another trumpet call, but the equivalent of a fanfare from the strings introduces the final movement, which Schumann called "Spring's Farewell." It is a jolly leave-taking, dancing almost all the way to its jubilant conclusion. Perhaps because the theme itself might seem to border on giddiness, Schumann felt he had to caution Taubert about the interpretation of this finale: "I want to tell you that I would like to describe a farewell to spring, and therefore do not want it to be taken too frivolously."


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The School for Workers works closely with the labor movement at the local, state and national levels. Programming is designed for the rank and file, local leadership, and international union staff. While much of our programming activity occurs in Wisconsin and the Midwest, our faculty frequently travel to states outside the region and to other countries to provide customized programming.
In addition to courses offered in conjunction with specific unions and labor-management committees, the School offers a large number of open enrollment programs designed for union members as well as individual workers and other worker oriented groups.
We run approximately 150 programs each year which involve over 4,000 union representatives, officers, members and employer representatives. We offer a wide range of programs ranging from one hour presentations to evening community classes, two or three day conferences, week-long residential institutes in Madison, to multi-day labor-management facilitations involving a wide range of subjects. Our faculty also provide a wide range of applied research and technical assistance services.


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This exciting initiative is dedicated to identifying and recognizing the best employers in the healthcare industry! If you think your organization has what it takes to be honored on the eleventh annual Best Places to Work in Healthcare list…or if you simply want to learn more about this project …we invite you to explore this website.
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Brinjals (Eggplant, Ceylon Style)
Bruscetta with Eggplant
The vibrant colors of these flowers we picked seem to brighten every day, as well as the smells of freshly picked basil! We're getting some excellent peaches right now. The Muscadine grape season is getting started. Summer favorites are still in season, including okra, melons, beans, and peas.
The Produce Market is open 9:00 - 5:00 Monday - Saturday. We are at the Myrtle Beach Market on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9:00 - 3:00. The Market at the Culinary Institute is on Thursdays from 1:00 - 6:00.
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DECEMBER night. The winter solstice turned four days ago, he remembers. So the days get longer, as his father used to say, but the cold gets stronger.
Plenty cold already, in fact. The first snow, sifting across the New England village green, puffs in flurries around the pool of lantern-light at his feet as he walks. Home soon: Around the corner from the Meeting House he'll see the parsonage.
Strange how, despite the bustle inside, it always looks dark. If he could afford to let her use more than a single candle on the $400 he is paid each year , he would. She loves light - as a good wife should, he thinks, making a mental note for Sunday's sermon.
''And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.'' Luke, Chapter 2: another good mother, and beautiful words. He had read them to his family that morning. Since then, he knew, she would have been at the hearth - stirring onion soup in the kettle hung from the trammel, turning the joint of meat in the reflector oven, tending the Dutch oven where the pie baked. The girls would have been peeling potatoes and carrots, tossing scraps into the wooden piggin. His son, between carrying in wood and water, will have waited impatiently: Game board under his arm, he'll have been after his sisters to play nine men's morris.
They deserve it, he thinks, recalling how they had labored over that wreath. Under their mother's instruction, they wove the grapevine ring, trimming it with hemlock boughs and halves of bright red pomegranates. She even put some sprigs of bittersweet and crisp autumn leaves on the windowsills. That, alas, caused some mumblings in the village.
Well, let them mumble. A village winter is a dark time: And blessed they surely were for the shining redness of cranberries and apples and the amber shades of corn. Bring it all inside. Let the beams hang with the riches of the world's color. She loves color, too, he thought, making another note.m
An old New England Christmas? Certainly. There's only one hitch. When the parson arrived home that Christmas day in 1830, the Meeting House on the hill would have remained dark. There was no Christmas service - none at all. In the New England Congregational Church, Christmas was not a holiday.
If we could have heard his sermon the next Sunday, it might have touched on Christmas. But only, perhaps, to reaffirm the wisdom of his Puritan forefathers , who had fled what they thought of as the ''pagan'' ceremonies of the Church of England.
Only the Sabbath, they taught, was mentioned as a day of worship in the Bible. Christmas, like Easter and the saints' days, was a business day in early New England. On Christmas Day in 1621, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony rebuked a group of recent arrivals who told him that ''it went against their consciences to work.'' As late as 1830, when a mill agent in Mansfield, Mass., rang his bell as usual at 6:05 on Christmas morning, he noted that ''all hands'' showed up.
There were holidays, of course, but of national rather than scriptural origin. Thanksgiving was the occasion (as Christmas is today) for family get-togethers. And the Fourth of July (Independence Day) was filled with cannon firings and speechmaking.
But the refusal to celebrate Christmas persisted past the middle of the 19th century - well after the Congregational Church (which, as the state church of Massachusetts, had been funded by the legislature) was separated from the commonwealth in 1834.
Before then, Episcopalians were the foremost celebrants of New England Christmas. And their services held a fascination even for the Puritans. During her girlhood in a Congregational parsonage in Litchfield, Conn., Harriet Beecher Stowe once visited an Episcopal church on Christmas Eve - decorated with evergreen boughs, candles, and ''a great gold star.'' The service, she later wrote, was ''sweet and beautiful,'' making the onlooker ''regret that the Church of England had ever expelled the Puritan leaders from an inheritance of such lovely possibilities.''
Separation from that ''inheritance,'' however, did not lead the Puritans to dispense with seasonal ornamentation. Winter decoration arose, at first, simply out of a need to store food indoors. On a sideboard they piled apples in pyramids. Squash, pumpkin, apple, and pear slices, threaded on twine, would be festooned from beams to dry beside what we now call ''Indian'' corn. Holly, rose hips, and crab apples might be brought indoors - less for use than for decoration. And (especially if company were expected) the rooms might be decorated with wreaths and swags of evergreens, laced with dried flowers or bright-colored ribbons. Color? Yes, indeed - the New England villagers, contrary to the popular notion of their black-and-white austerity, had a love of color that shows up in wallpapers, ribbons, and fabrics. But it was not, in 1830, Christmas color.
It took another decade, at least, before the New England villages began to follow the fashions of Boston and New York, where Christmas decorations had become the vogue. Clement Moore had written his famous ''Visit from Saint Nicholas'' ('' 'Twas the night before Christmas'') in 1822. In 1856 Christmas became a legal holiday in New England. Somewhere in the latter half of the century, too, the Christmas tree arrived in New England.
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Over the years I've posted several audio excerpts from Alan Watts' talks, but I hadn't seen any animated illustrations of his suggestions or parables until today. Here are a couple of short ones that draw from his lectures on Zen and Daoism (thanks to Tom via Berry for finding them)-
The second one, in particular, raises some interesting questions: is Watts – or the parable – suggesting that one should never judge an event to be good or bad, just because one can never know all of the event's long-term consequences, and one can never be certain even of its immediate, short-term consequences? In the case of each of the events in the parable, instead of the farmer's saying "Maybe", could he not have said something just a little stronger: "Probably"? True, he would have been wrong about the improbable consequences of the events in the story, but if he made a habit of saying "probably", wouldn't he be right at least most of time? And wouldn't that be enough to allow for the usefulness of at least some value judgments (the ones past experience teaches us we can be most confident about)?
I guess my point is this: yes, nature is very complex, and our minds are very limited, as are the data we use when we judge some event to be good or bad. But our minds are also part of the complexity of nature, and the somewhat predictable patterns of nature can and should inform our minds. I think the best lesson to be learned from the parable is not that one should never make value judgments, but that one should be very humble when making them, and act only on those judgments one has good reason to believe are true.


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The South-Eastern Norway regional health authority [Norwegian: Helse Sør-Øst] has implemented a large hospital reform in Oslo by merging four hospitals – creating Oslo University Hospital (OUS). This merger process is essential as background information to understand the measures conducted for efficiency improvement at hospital department level, which is the main topic of this master thesis. In 2004, the Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT)–departments at Ullevål and Rikshospitalet merged, in practice by gathering all personnel and equipment at one location (Rikshospitalet). Increasing the proportion of day surgery was one of the changes implemented in the reorganization process after the merger; another was assessment of ENT-cancers to a larger extent on daily basis [Norwegian: dagutredning], instead of hospitalization that had been the case previously. This is referred to as day assessment in this paper. Regarding day surgery, the specific ENT-department has developed and established a special, almost unique, expertise on performing cochlear implant operations without hospitalization, and this type of day surgery will be discussed in the thesis. It was considered interesting to compare two separate years after the department-merger in 2004, but before and after the reorganization process in the merged department, and the years 2005 and 2012 were chosen. Hence the intention was to study efficiency before and after implementation of measures expected to improve efficiency, such as a higher proportion of day surgery. By choosing these years the analysis has, however, not compared the period before and after the department merger, as both years studied are after the merger. Included in analysis and results are activity-data (mainly as DRGs) as well as input measured as FTEs (full-time equivalents/one year full-time-work). The plan has been to measure technical- and cost-efficiency, and analyze whether changes in these parameters correlate with the measures implemented during the reorganization process at the department, and discuss if there is a relationship. The analysis has shown that there has been a substantial increase in the proportion of day surgery in the ENT-department, and that efficiency measured as cost-efficiency are much better in 2012 compared to 2005. Technical efficiency is almost equal according to the analysis performed in this study. Reasons for these changes will be discussed, as well as a discussion of uncertainty in the results.
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January 2, 2014
By Hilary Russ
(Reuters) – Pennsylvania is scrapping a deal with a British-based company to privatize management Of the state's lottery system, Governor Tom Corbett said on Monday, the latest of the Republican's high-profile initiatives to falter.
Pennsylvania's is the only U.S. state lottery that dedicates all of its proceeds to programs that benefit senior citizens – including property tax and rent rebates, reduced transportation costs and low-cost prescription drug programs.
The state struck a deal more than a year ago with Camelot Global Services LLC, a subsidiary of Britain's national lottery operator, Camelot Group PLC, to guarantee $34.6 billion in payments to the state over 20 years to manage the Pennsylvania lottery.
But Corbett's administration repeatedly had to extend the contract after Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who reviews state contracts, rejected it in February.
Kane, a Democrat seen as a potential rival to Corbett for re-election next year, said the first-term governor had overstepped his authority and contravened the state constitution in signing the deal.
The latest extension was set to run out at year's end and would not be renewed, Corbett's office said. Lottery operations will continue to be managed by the state.
"As we move forward, we will take what we've learned to make our successful lottery even better – expanding the player and retailer base, improving player loyalty, and implementing strategies that will grow our lottery, responsibly and efficiently," Corbett said in a statement.
Corbett spokesman Jay Pagni said that privatization was still an option but that there were no other bidders or specific plans.
"The need still exists to grow the lottery to provide a predictable and reliable revenue stream for those that benefit from it," Pagni said.
"We remain on good terms with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are open to future possibilities," Camelot Global Managing Director Alex Kovach said in a statement.
Both Pagni and Camelot cited changes in Pennsylvania's political landscape and competitive environment since the deal was struck in November 2012. Lottery employees also sued to stop the privatization.
Corbett has struggled to enact some of his largest agenda initiatives, including the lottery deal. His proposals to reform the public pension system and privatize state-owned and operated liquor sales have stalled in a legislature controlled by his own Republican party.
He is considered among the most vulnerable U.S. governors seeking re-election in 2014. A Quinnipiac University poll this month found that his approval rating had fallen to 36 percent – his lowest since being elected in 2010 – with 53 of registered voters disapproving of his job performance.
Corbett's push to privatize the lottery is "by far" the least popular of his main initiatives, and the administration could not gather enough public or legislative support for it, said G. Terry Madonna, public affairs professor at Franklin & Marshall College and director of its polling unit.
That could actually work in Corbett's favor in his tough re-election bid.
"People don't favor it. If you don't do it, it doesn't create any harm," Madonna said.
Meanwhile, Kane, who is both the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania's attorney general, received more votes than any other statewide candidate in 2012, outpolling even President Obama. She pledged to serve a full four years as attorney general and has downplayed local speculation that she would consider a run for governor as early as 2014.


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