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The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Eternity exhibits an opaque purple color as well as abundant notes of licorice, incense, forest floor, and a boatload of black and blue fruits. This full-bodied, stunning blend of 91.1% Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.9% Estate Petit Verdot will benefit from another 2-3 years of cellaring, and should keep for 25-30 years thereafter.
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"…This full-bodied, stunning blend of 91.1% Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.9% Estate Petit Verdot will benefit from another 2-3 years of cellaring, and should keep for 25-30 years thereafter."
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The 2010 Eternity Reserve Cabernet reflects collaboration among two incomparable vineyard managers; Tom and Josh Clark and two master winemakers; Frederic Delivert and Jean Hoefliger. Their goal, take the trademark tiny, intensely concentrated Clark-Claudon fruit and craft a reserve, World Class, Bordeaux blend.
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The 2010 Eternity presents with deep, dark, black cherry and touches of Mazarin, red and lavender. Next, experience an explosion of black currant, juicy black cherry, cedar, touches of thyme and tarragon, clay, granite, bacon fat, tobacco leaves and pronounced depth in the nose. The wine enters the mouth softly while evolving on velvety, well integrated tannins and seamless texture adding dark fruits; plum and boysenberry. It then lingers with chocolate powder, apricot, a touch of black licorice and roasted coffee beans in the finish…Spectacular!
Eternity, originally produced in honor of our daughter Briana's wedding, is a beautiful expression of place, the season and the passion of its makers.
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Tech Alum Ralph Coombs on Wheel of Fortune, Oct. 7, 1999
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., October 6, 1999 -- Not every New Mexico Tech graduate has gone on to ask the eternal question, "Is there a 'T,' Pat?," but Jason Ralph Coombs, a recent alumnus of the state-supported research university had his chance and gave it his best on a recent national broadcast of Wheel of Fortune.
Coombs, who graduated from Tech this past May with a bachelor of science in computer science and mathematics with highest honors, was the "big money" winner on Monday evening's installment of the popular television game show. He walked away from Pat and Vanna's familiar stomping grounds $27,300 richer.
"It was all cash, no prizes," says Coombs. "Of course,California will get 9.7 percent of that. And, if I get the money this year, it'll cost me about 29 percent to the feds; otherwise, 31 percent to the feds. . . . I may have to pay New Mexico income tax, also."
The Bosque Farms native ran into a slight mishap right before the start of the show when the Wheel of Fortune accounting department required proof of his Social Security number.
"When we were getting started, I mentioned that I didn't have mine since they no longer put it on the Tech IDs or the New Mexico State driver's licenses, but that I could have my Social Security card faxed to them," Coombs relates.
"After the show, however, I called my mom--as promised--to tell her how I did, telling her I did well, but not wanting to give everything away," Coombs reveals. "She refused to hang up; and, since we were talking long-distance on my roaming cellular, I eventually hung up on her.
"I couldn't get a hold of my brother or anyone else who could provide proof of my Social Security number, so I ended up revealing the show's ending to my mom in exchange for her faxing me a copy of my Social Security card," he explains.
The Wheel of Fortune show which featured Coombs was taped in late July of this year, but wasn't aired until Monday, October 4.
Coombs had tried out for the nationally televised and syndicated game show back in 1997 when a Wheel of Fortune contestant recruiting team stopped by Albuquerque, but it wasn't until this past summer when the Tech alumnus would make his sterling debut.
"Being a big winner, I got to talk to Pat Sajak and Vanna White at the end of the show," Coombs points out, "and I was incredibly nervous by that point. In looking back, though, they seemed like fairly regular people doing their job. After all, what they were doing is the same thing they do every day . . . except they have the challenge of being new and interesting each and every day."
While making last-minute preparations prior to the show's taping, Coombs also got to meet "the next Pat Sajak-in-training," who plays the role of Pat in a warm-up session for contestants.
"I thought he was just anybody," Coombs says, "but when they were warming us up, he went through all of the moves of Pat Sajak, more so, I think, than if he would have just been filling in for our convenience."
Coombs didn't limit his fun to just the Wheel of Fortune studio, though, while he was in the Los Angeles area; he also had time to tool around in a rented convertible with a friend, Steve Stalcup, who also is a former Tech student.
"The day before the show, we went out to Santa Monica beach and there were some promo guys there handing out tickets to television shows," Coombs recounts. "They asked if we wanted to see The Tonight Show or something, and I said 'No, we're going to Wheel of Fortune.'"
The promoter then made a disparaging remark, along the lines of "Oh, that show's not that great."
"But, I'm going to be on it," Coombs asserted.
"Well, then that's different," the promoter conceded.
"I believe my experiences at Tech helped in some respect," says Coombs, thinking back on his game show debut, "but I highly doubt my education at Tech had a pivotal effect on how I did. . . . Then again, maybe the education kept my mind warm."
When Coombs isn't featured on nationally televised game shows, he works at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.


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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain should realise it has nothing to lose by expanding a refugee resettlement programme, a charity said on Wednesday, despite an increasingly hostile political climate over immigration and asylum.
A group of Liberians were the first refugees to arrive for resettlement in Britain in 2004, under a scheme to provide a legal route into the country for some of the world's most vulnerable people. Often they have been living in refugee camps, sometimes for many years, and have no way of returning home.
Since then, Britain has offered places to 5,557 refugees from troubled Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo among others, as part of the Gateway Protection Programme which allows up to 750 refugees to be taken in each year.
But Refugee Council Chief Executive Maurice Wren said Britain should offer "substantially" more resettlement places in response to a growing global refugee crisis.
"The numbers are on the increase and there's no let-up on the drivers of refugee flows. We only have to look at what's happening today in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic and what may happen in the next year or two in Afghanistan, Iraq and even closer to home, in Ukraine, if the tension spills over into conflict," Wren told Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
"If we're going to play our role as a global power tackling a global problem, then refugee resettlement must be a big element of that."
Most refugees eventually return to their home countries or are integrated in the country of asylum. However, resettlement to a third country is the only solution for some, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
Britain is one of 13 European Union (EU) countries which has a regular resettlement programme, separate from the asylum system. In 2012, Britain was second only to Sweden in the number of refugees it resettled, taking in 989 refugees compared to Sweden's 1,483.
The EU, as whole, resettled 4,405 refugees in 2012 – a fraction of the 53,053 resettled in the United States, and less than the second leading resettlement country, Australia, which took in 5,079 refugees.
UNHCR says roughly 80,000 refugee resettlement places are available globally each year. But that's dwarfed by the 690,000 refugees who currently need resettlement.
Despite the scale of needs, Wren acknowledged that refugee resettlement remained a "thorny issue" in Britain – which only agreed to take in hundreds of Syrian refugees after calls from charities and two political parties – and other countries where "policy is increasingly determined by domestic political concerns".
"It seems to me to be more crude and more naked over the last 10 to 15 years," Wren said, referring to policy.
With polls regularly showing immigration to be one of voters' top three concerns, Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure ahead of European elections in May and a national election next year to make good on his promise to cut the net influx to the "tens of thousands" by 2015.
Some lawmakers in his Conservative party want him to get tougher, partly to dissuade its supporters from defecting to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which opposes "open-door immigration". This has led to political parties "aping and adopting the clothes of UKIP and taking a very harsh line on immigration", Wren said.
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Post pobrano z: 34 Free WordPress Theme Frameworks and Starter Themes (With A Comparison Chart)
WordPress offers a huge space for creativity and flexibility when designing and developing new websites.
Any type of website can be built on top of it: from blogs to newspapers, corporate websites to landing pages and even social networks. All you need is a theme coded to handle that functionality.
Yes, WordPress theme development. That is an easy process for experienced hands who knows the capabilities of the application and familiar with its functions and "not too hard" for others.
To simplify developing new themes, there are awesome WordPress theme frameworks and starter themes that you can use as a base for skipping the repetitive steps and begin with an optimized playground.
Here are the 34 free and good-quality ones that will save your time from searching them. And, in the bottom, you can find a comparison table for these WordPress theme frameworks.
The main power of this framework is its extremely clean WordPress code output, clean head and URLs (even for the head, CSS and JS paths).
Upon its activation, it automatically applies many useful customizations (like creating a homepage, defining the permalink structure, etc.).
Roots has 2 widget areas and it includes Blueprint CSS, 960.gs, the 1140px Grid, Adapt.js, Less Framework 4, Foundation by Zurb, and Bootstrap by Twitter.
It is a theme aimed at helping you build simple, uncluttered, useable, and mobile-friendly websites.
Skeleton has styling for typography and form elements + includes simple tabs and accordions.
The theme is based on and inspired from Skeleton Responsive Boilerplate, Theme Options Framework, Thematic Framework, Formalize and TwentyTen Theme.
P.S. There are also optional styles for bbPress and Jigoshop.
Bones is a theme following the mobile first approach that has a detailed + organized CSS, in-depth documentation with tutorials and details on every level.
There are 3 versions:
- classic
- responsive
- HTML version for projects
Many useful features exist including page navi, breadcrumbs, related posts and HTML5 video with fallback.
It is based on 960.gs, 320 and Up Extension, HTML5 Boilerplate.
Gantry has a detailed admin interface with 65 base widget positions and 38 layout combinations that provide a huge space for customization.
There are lots of built-in features including the CSS and JS compression, speed-optimized codebase, several widgets and gizmos such as font-sizer, Google Analytics, to-top smooth slider, IE6 warning message, etc.
Starkers is a completely naked WordPress theme built to be a starting point for theme designers.
It's a stripped-back version of the 'Twenty Ten' theme that is bundled with each WordPress download.
The theme is based on YUI Reset and it is totally unstyled.
Wonderflux is a solid, easy to update and flexible platform you can use for any WordPress project.
It has location-aware template parts that allow you to concentrate on the content, not the code.
The framework comes with a fully dynamic CSS grid system, simple administration controls and over 100 display hooks.
Reverie is a HTML5 WordPress framework based on ZURB's Foundation and HTML5 Boilerplate.
It can almost be used out-of-the-box. There are 2 widget areas; sidebar and footer and 2 menus (top navigation menu and footer information menu). Also works with bbPress 2.0.
Thematic is a good option for using as-is or as a blank WordPress theme for development.
There are built-in with styles for popular plugins and many theme filters + hooks are available.
The theme has 13 widget areas + multiple layout options and it is strongly advised to use a child theme for customization.
Whiteboard focuses on simplicity and includes only the core WP functionality.
it supports WordPress features such as manageable menus, background, and header image besides featured images, several widget areas, and more.
The framework uses LESS for mobile support and responsive outputs. The code is lightweight + well-commented and there is support for child themes.
The big thing that separates this PressWork from others is its unique front-end editor.
Google fonts selector is integrated to this front-end editor to easily select your fonts. A PSD file is included to customize the design and it has 2 widget + 2 menu areas.
Constellation Theme
The Constellation theme is a great base for any WordPress-powered website.
It has the styles for creating responsive pages, has a HTML5 code and comes with a flexible grid system.
The theme is based on the HTML5 Boilerplate.
TwentyTen Five
This theme is an HTML5-powered version of the default WordPress TwentyTen theme.
It is cleanly coded, using the theme and integrating new features on it is pretty easy.
There are several important stuff behind Elastic: a visual theme editor, a theme engine, and a set of protocols that link these two.
It aims to bring a new approach to editing and creating themes which both developers and end-users will find easy to work with.
Flexible is a carefully-coded child theme of the default Twenty Ten theme and built-with any browser size in mind.
It has a Facebook FanGate integration and packed with Themekit (which is a plugin for plain simple customization via WordPress editor).
WP Paintbrush
WP Paintbrush comes with a built in front-end editor that enables anyone willing to quickly create a unique design for their website.
The editor has a drag 'n' drop interface for placing theme sections, comes with fixed or fluid layouts and much more.
Html5 Shell
mimoYmima has implemented an improved body tag that includes many valuable information about the page loaded.
There are smart sidebar disabling methods which could come handy, several @font-face examples and dynamic sidebar + custom template examples packaged with the framework
The code is commented clearly for easing the production process and it uses Modernizr + HTML5 reset css
Gantry is based on 960.gs.
This framework has many custom widget areas, widgets, hooks, shortcodes, page templates and many options to easily customize your website.
It is being improved continuously and has a community growing around it.
HTML5 Reset
This blank theme focuses on making a solid HTML5 compatible starting point for WordPress theme development.
It also has some additional features such as built-in analytics and starter CSS declarations for basic WP elements.
HTML5 Reset is based on digwp.com's Blank WordPress Theme, Modernizr and HTML5 Reset.
The Buffet
The framework has many SEO features including breadcrumbs and jQuery improvements such as comments form validation, SuperSleight for IE6, superfish menus or jBreadcrumb.
It is also compatible with many plugins and fully localized, ready for translation.
The theme includes 960.gs and Blueprint CSS.
This framework includes useful options such as free icons, typography, breadcrumbs and form designs.
There are also multiple post formats to ease theme customizations.
It has support for widgets, child themes and comes with a clean code.
Handcrafted WP
This one may not count as a framework, but it is an almost-naked starter theme with many useful features such as cleaner head code, integrated analytics, support for menus, post formats and custom post types.
The theme also has a widget-ready sidebar and dashboard.
Handcrafted WP is based on Toolbox Starter theme and HTML5 Boilerplate.
If you want to make your own theme and want it to be ready for HTML5, ToolBox may satisfy your needs.
It is a blank theme in plain and semantic HTML5 markup with almost no CSS.
This is a WordPress theme using HTML5 Boilerplate and based on Thematic ToolBox (and other Thematic themes).
H5 Theme Template
H5 includes a full pack of theme files and folders with each file having all the latest WordPress functionality.
It is built with easy customization and personalization in mind and serves as a solid starting point for your next HTML-5-based theme.
Brave New World
This theme has no layout and styling except the modified version of Eric Meyer's reset CSS and a baseline typography.
Although it is such a plain theme, it is built with HTML5, WAI-ARIA in mind and supports hCard + hAtom microformats.
1140 Fluid Starkers
This theme is the combination of Starkers + the 1140 CSS Grid and great for anyone looking for a responsive naked theme.
Indeziner is a starting point for creating websites using WordPress with no hassle.
It has a fully customizable homepage, almost every section can be enabled/disabled and bundled with a slideshow, gallery page and Flickr integration.
Blank Themes
Blank Themes offer 1, 2, 3 column blank themes to start from with the variations of sidebar locations.
There is also a blank portfolio theme that can be easily customized and used for your own portfolio.
rtPanel has a developer centric framework which is useful for developers willing to tweak codes with hooks and functions.
The framework also provides control over content and design for anyone who is not so familiar with coding and web-development.
Sandbox and various other themes from plaintxt.org provide a strong and clean structure with rich semantic classes powered by dynamic functions and microformats.
The themes are minimal and can be good starting points for new themes.
Suffusion is a cross-browser theme with a bunch of options.
It has 19 widget areas, one/two/three column, fixed-width and flexible-width formats, 10 pre-defined templates, 18 pre-defined color schemes, 2 customizable multi-level drop-down menus, featured posts, a magazine layout, tabbed sidebars, widgets for Twitter, social networks, Google Translate and more.
Foundation is a blank starter theme that has all the core features needed to creating a new theme.
It is a nice kit for developing responsive websites, uses Orbit as a content slider and based on ZURB's Foundation Framework + HTML5 Boilerplate.
StartBox is a theme framework that makes rapid web development and WP theme creation simple for both designers and developers.
It comes pre-loaded with customizable theme options, several widget-ready areas and custom widgets, 6 pre-defined layouts and a comprehensive documentation.
Yoko is a modern three-column blog theme and it comes with a custom social links widget and shortcodes for text columns, info boxes and highlighted text.
It also provides various post formats and uses Google Web Fonts.
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This is an excerpt from Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education by Andrew Foran.
The educational philosophy of experiential education first developed in the late 19th century and has since been articulated in a variety of fields, including cooperative education, outdoor education, organizational development and training, and service learning. The essence of experiential education is the notion that experiential moments—doing as part of the learning process—can result in meaningful learning. Effective teaching requires that the outdoor leader take an active role in constructing the learning with participants—learning is not to be left to chance, nor is the meaning of the experience for the participants assumed to be the intended learning. No one can argue that experience happens—it is unavoidable—but learning is a delicate process as the outdoor leader helps the participant make sense out of a communal process.
The challenge for outdoor leaders and participants is how to make meaning out of an experience: how to begin with raw experience and then process the intentional learning into working knowledge. An assumption of experiential education is that it is intended to be holistic and integrative, based on the process of making meaning out of experience. The idea that experience, learning, and development are interconnected has provided a jumping-off point for various forms of outdoor programs.
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Ill. bill addresses alcohol use by on-duty police
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers are seeking a zero-tolerance policy for most on-duty police officers when it comes to using alcohol.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph (http://bit.ly/13R1pKt) reports the push follows the findings by a Chicago-based watchdog that there aren't consistent statewide alcohol standards for law enforcement agencies.
The Better Government Association found that some agencies have zero tolerance for alcohol in the bloodstream of on-duty officers, while others allow blood-alcohol levels below the state's legal threshold for drunken driving.
The measure would exempt undercover investigators and alcohol use related to training. The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Council says cases involving off-duty officers called in to work should be considered.
The bill has been approved by the state House and awaits Senate action.
The bill is HB3035.
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Demi Lovato Seeks to Repeal 'R' Rating of 'Bully' Movie
Demi Lovato has never been afraid to speak her mind, and now she's encouraging her fans to do the same. The singer is part of a petition to repeal the 'R' rating on the movie 'Bully.'Lovato took to Twitter to support the campaign, originally started by Michigan high school student Katy Butler. Hollywood Life reported that Butler's petition was 15,000 short of its 200,000 signature goal as of press time, a goal that Lovato is determined to bring to fruition.
Please help repeal the R rating on "BULLY." EVERYONE should be able to see it. Sign the petition chn.ge/y74nq9
— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) March 1, 2012
The 'R' rating prevents the film from reaching its target audience of middle and high school students. The film examines students across the United States and their struggles with harassment from their peers, as well as suicide victims who succumbed to their torment.
This isn't the first time Lovato's spoken out against insensitive or unjust actions from the media. In December, the 'Skyscraper' singer lashed out at Disney for joking about eating disorders on an episode of 'Shake It Up.'
The anti-bullying movement is a cause close to Lovato's heart. She's performed at anti-bullying rallies and spoken out against bullying numerous times, claiming she was bullied herself in school — though some swear that it was actually Lovato who was a bully. In any case, whether her motive is retribution or empathy, we're glad to see her taking a stand.
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Letris 3: Word puzzle game Review
App Store success stories can often come from the place you least expect. The Letris series is one such success, and it's a game franchise we haven't really had our eye on. The premise is simple: it's Tetris with letters - essentially a more single-minded version of Puzzlejuice. You create words through tapping letters, and try not to let your stack reach the top of the screen. Letris 3 is the latest in a series so popular that's it's apparently spawned its own game show, so we though…Watch The Video Review
Fling Theory Review
In Fling Theory, you follow a particle through a journey of attraction, repulsion, destruction, and everything in-between. It's a physics flinger in the truest sense of the word. Each stage involves guiding your partcle through series of mazes and pipes, collecting the three stars and plenty of coins along the way. By changing the charge of your particle (yellow for positive, red for negative) you alter the way charged particles in the environment affect your path through the maze. By…Watch The Video Review
Pettson's Inventions Review
Pettson and Findus are the stars of a series of successful children's books written and illustrated by Swedish author Sven Nordqvist. Pettson is a strange old farmer and Findus is his cat who walks on two legs and wears green-striped pants. In Pettson's Inventions, Findus wants to be able to fly, but they don't have the necessary parts to launch the frisky feline into the wild blue yonder, so Pettson asks the player if they will help find the parts by crafting other inventions to solve…Watch The Video Review
PrismaPix Review
There's a reason why we at AppSpy recently reviewed Kris Pixton's latest release in the Pathpix series - it was to act as a refresher or reminder of the developer's particular puzzling style. Ultimately it acts as a perfect introduction to an entirely new (relatively speaking) puzzling experience in the form of PrismaPix, and while it may feature the same core goals of PathPix, the gameplay itself is fresh and utterly engrossing. Mixing elements of games such as Minesweeper, Fill-a-Pi…Watch The Video Review
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If you haven't had a crack at Typing Maniac on Facebook, I heartily recommend giving it a go - while you may not be the best hardcore gamer around, you might just be able to out-type your friends to a first place victory. However Typing Maniac for iOS devices by MetroGames is a slightly different thing altogether - where the browser version makes great use of keyboard skills, translating the game to depend on your texting skills isn't quite as smooth. This is mostly thanks to the vert…Watch The Video Review
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Is it just me or are TV shows scrambling to make games now? CBS Interactive along with Chillingo have released 'Numb3rs™ - The Game' and in a refreshing turn for the better this who-dun-it show isn't being paired with an adventure game. Nope, instead of searching for hidden objects and pressing witnesses you'll take part in the fantasy mathematics of Numb3rs by solving numerical puzzles. Charlie has developed yet another algorithm to locate the suspect in question, but as a budd…Watch The Video Review
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'So Long, Oregon!' by Blinkbat Games pokes fun at the classic edutainment title Oregan Trail and honestly, why shouldn't it? The distant echo of words like 'dysentery' still litter the cultural landscape and it was high time a game like this came along to bring closure to this painful chapter in the lives of many gamers. Almost everything about this title reaches for parody, from the old-school VGA/EGA style graphics to the inclusion of 'realistic' physics that are almost guaranteed t…Watch The Video Review
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'Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece, Book I' (deep breath) by The App House is an interesting experiment in trying to recapture what made the Professor Layton series on Nintendo's handhelds so popular. With its turn of the century 'period' style and dozens of interesting puzzles the game certainly steps in the right direction, but will players dive in to the world of Simon Graham long enough to wait for 'Book II'? Most of the game's puzzles are touch-driven, allowing players…Watch The Video Review
Chromixa Review
Chromixa began life as an art installation based on creator Simon Watson's fascination with light. A handful of development time later and we have a light based puzzle game for the iphone. The goal is to create shapes of a solid colour out of overlaying smaller pieces of different colours, much like a jigsaw. Control is all touch and drag. Upon touching a piece, it can be dragged anywhere on screen or the large wheel can be used to rotate it. If you ever get confused about which colou…Watch The Video Review
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After nearly 50 years, Seattle cop still on patrol
Arnold McGinnis started in 1962, plans to retire next month
Arnold McGinnis' first week with the Seattle Police Department went without ceremony. Barely 25, the Bellingham native had a three day orientation, then hit the streets with a veteran police officer.
On the sixth day, he patrolled a section of downtown Seattle alone.
Today, nearly 50 years later, McGinnis is still at it.
"I don't like being tied to a desk," he said, patrolling near Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street – the city's most dangerous intersection for gang activity.
McGinnis was offered detective jobs a few times, but turned each offer down because of that whole desk thing. Though guys 30 years his junior have become lieutenants, McGinnis never had a desire to take the test. Because he liked patrol so much, he put off studying for the required test to become a sergeant for three decades.
As the city celebrates the Seattle World's Fair a half century ago, McGinnis, who turns 75 next week, remembers being on patrol there with a starting salary of $430 a month.
Department officials can't recall anyone who has worked longer than McGinnis, who plans to retire next month with a career of 50 years and a day. And McGinnis says he "can't think of a finer bunch of people to spend time with."
"He's fit as a fiddle, spit-shined shoes and always works hard," said Capt. Neil Low, who worked with McGinnis as a lieutenant. "I'd tell young officers, 'You should look so good now, let alone with 35 to 40 years on.
"I still think he's what young officers should model themselves after."
On front lines during '60s riots
After graduating from Bellingham High School in 1955, McGinnis spent two years in the Marines and then another two years at what's now Western Washington University. A pitcher and second baseman, he helped lead the Vikings' baseball squad to the NAIA tournament in 1958.
McGinnis had talked to a military policeman friend about joining law enforcement after the Marines, and later applied with both Seattle police and the U.S. Border Patrol. He took the first offer from Seattle.
"We had to wait until we hired enough people to form an academy class," McGinnis recalled. "It was six and a half months before we had enough people to form an academy class."
When he started on patrol, he hadn't been out of Bellingham a week.
But he picked up quickly, working downtown and filling in occasionally on the World's Fair detail, which had 60 officers teamed with 90 civilian guards and a 16-man fire department.
Tasers were decades away, though McGinnis remembers how the sleeper hold – a move that causes unconsciousness by blocking carotid arteries – was effective against aggressive, dangerous suspects.
Officers at several departments were routinely taught to use the move until a jail guard applied the wrong hold and accidentally killed a man. Because of the potential liability, the department now tells officers to use that technique only in situations when deadly force is required.
Seattle had riots in the late 1960s and early 70s that make the recent May Day violence look mild, and McGinnis was assigned to the department's Tactical Squad, which focused on high crime areas.
He recalls the day at Seattle Central Community College where a fellow Tactical Squad member had his leg broken, another had a broken arm and at least four others got concussions. In May 1969, more than 30 people were arrested in demonstrations there and in Feb. 1970, 20 people were injured and 76 were arrested at the federal courthouse.
The following year, a King County grand jury indicted public officials in a payoff scandal.
One of McGinnis' better memories from that decade is being cast in the 1974 film "McQ," where John Wayne plays a Seattle cop. McGinnis, whose character was knocked out by bad guys at the Pacific Medical Center that later became Amazon's headquarters, recalled Wayne as an especially humble, "down to earth, friendly man."
McGinnis still get's royalty checks every few months, and puts them to use for greens fees at his favorite public golf courses.
'I'm really honored'
Under Chief Robert Hanson, McGinnis worked in the community relations office. City Councilman Tim Burgess, who also worked there as an officer, recalls McGinnis as "a good guy who was easy to work with."
McGinnis also was sent to the FBI Academy in 1972 as part of the department's Emergency Response Team – the team that became SWAT.
But it was patrol where McGinnis found his calling. He spent a decade at the South Precinct beginning in 1975, switched to the East Precinct for seven years then returned to South where he remains.
Though most officers carry a Glock, McGinnis is one of a handful who carries a .357 Magnum revolver.
He rarely fired his service weapon, though he and his partner fatally wounded a robbery suspect in August 1971 after the man lunged at the officers with a knife. An inquest jury unanimously decided McGinnis did not intend to kill the suspect, and decided both officers' actions were justified.
That scene at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street is still replayed in his head all the time, McGinnis said.
The good days, he said, "are any time you can do something for a child." McGinnis and his wife, Geri, have three grown kids of their own and are raising their 12-year-old granddaughter.
"That's a real joy to get a second shot at parenthood," said McGinnis, who doesn't seem a day over 64.
His most prized possession is the Tag Heuer wrist watch, given by fellow South Precinct officers as a gift for his 40th anniversary on the force.
"I really felt honored that everyone would contribute," he said. "Tag Heuer watches are not cheap - I certainly would never have bought one for myself. I've always been a Timex guy."
Rick Nelson, who spent two decades with McGinnis as his sergeant, was one who helped pay for it. The Chicago native's gift of gab kept gang members around Rainier and Henderson in check, and he is known as a professional, proactive officer who could be relied on, McGinnis said.
But last year, as Nelson had a personal struggle, there were tips that he'd been taking drugs seized as evidence. In January, Nelson was caught keeping cocaine during an undercover drug operation. He was relieved of his badge and service weapon, and driven home.
Learning that Nelson killed himself later that day was the saddest day of McGinnis' career, "and I really, really miss him."
Though McGinnis plans to stay in touch with the fellow officers after his retirement next month, coworkers say it won't be the same without McGinnis on patrol. To see how much they admire him, look at his sleeves.
One weekend when McGinnis was gone earlier this year, officers grabbed his uniform shirts from his locker and Captain Mike Nolan got approval from the department's top brass to promote McGinnis to sergeant major – the first in the department's history.
They surprised him with the promotion at a morning roll call.
"I'm really honored to have something like this stuck on me," he said. "They can't give you any more money, but what the heck – money isn't everything."
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Australian artist Meredith Woolnough uses embroidery to create her delicate and intricate depictions of different plants. With some thread and a sewing machine, she forms different complex patterns found in nature, such as the veins of a leaf, patterns found in coral, and even lines and shapes found in red cabbage. Each fragile piece displays the small beauty found in the fine details of nature. What would be small, fragile beauty that the average person may overlook, Woolnough finds inspiration. Patterns from shells, petals, and lily pads are given new life in each breathtaking piece. The artist treats her artwork like specimens, as she carefully pins them under glass in shadow boxes for display.
Using vibrant colored thread, she builds up a density of embroidered patterns that become almost three-dimensional. In some cases, like in her embroidered bowls, the work really does have volume as it holds the shape of a bowl. Because of the method in which the artist creates her work, it demands an intense patience that can be seen as meditative. The repetitive patterns and natural quality of Woolnough's work is like that of a Mandala, holding sacred qualities.
The work maps the frameworks of the various veining systems found in nature to create work that explores the balance, harmony and connectivity of life on Earth. Inspired by the patterns, structures and shapes found in plants, coral, cells and shells Meredith's embroideries represent both the robust beauty and elegant fragility of life.


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Oprah is slipping.
At a time when the Manti Te'o imbroglio has begun to feel like it was all an anchovy-and-Anheuser-induced dream, we're reminded that the story of a fake dead girlfriend has yet to die, thanks to Katie Couric.
Katie, not Oprah (who perhaps could have closed the deal by explaining that Steadman is fake, too), has finagled the first televised TV interview of Te'o — not to be confused with the non-televised TV interview conducted by Jeremy Schaap of ESPN. According to the New York Times, the sit-down will be televised on Thursday.
Coincidentally (or not), the T'eo family has hired a spokesman who has served as Couric's spokesman for an extended period of time.
So, in other words, we don't expect much.
All we expect/hope for at this point is the truth, or something close to it. The entire situation continues to create a sense that we're being sold a version of reality other than the truth. From a half-hearted investigation by Notre Dame to Te'o's reluctance to answer questions from ESPN on camera to the decision to dump the outcome of a 2.5-hour interview onto the Internet in the wee hours of a Friday night to the lingering inconsistencies in the story to the admitted lies about meeting the fake dead girlfriend to an effort by Schaap and Te'o to address his ongoing comments about the fake dead girlfriend after December 6 that bordered on an Abbott and Costello routine to the unexplored question of whether and to what extent Ronaiah Tuiasosopo perpetrated this fraud for possible financial gain, something stinks worse than the rotting corpse of a fake dead girlfriend.


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Think short-term and long-term.
Jails are most often run by sheriffs and/or local governments and are designed to hold individuals awaiting trial or a serving short sentences (in Florida, inmates serving 364 days or less serve their time in jail).
Prisons are operated by state governments and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and are designed to hold individuals convicted of crimes.
Jails operate work release programs, boot camps, and other specialized services. They try to address educational needs, substance abuse needs, and vocational needs while managing inmate behavior. Inmate idleness contributes to management problems.
State prison systems operate halfway houses, work release centers and community restitution centers - all considered medium or minimum custody. Inmates assigned to such facilities are usually reaching the end of their sentences.
There are approximately 3,600 jails in the United States. The BSO jail system is the 10th largest local jail system in the United States. It is one of only 3% of the local jails in the United States to have earned accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections.
The Broward Sheriff's Office maintains five jails: the Main Jail, the North Broward Bureau, the Joseph V. Conte Facility, Paul Rein Detention Facility and the Stockade Facility. The number of beds in the entire system is nearly 4,800.


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A post by our exploit-herder in residence, Jason Royes
The Problem
Have you heard about Shellshock? If not, you may be living under a rock. To summarize:
If an application sets an environment variable name or value to a value that is derived from user input and subsequently executes bash (and possibly other shells), an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.
But WHY
When I first read the post from Robert Graham, my first thought was: "when did we begin storing function definitions in environment variables?" I scanned through the section of the bash manual dedicated to environment variables and could not find anything on the topic.
I knew I was not alone after googling and finding this on Stack Overflow. Luckily, I had an old VM handy that I never update.
Here's bash:
$ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
So, according to the stack overflow article, what's actually going on is that bash stores exported functions in the environment.
$ f1 f1: command not found
Let us create a file that will define a function and export it:
$ cat f1.sh #! /bin/bash f1() { echo "in f1" } export -f f1
Now to include it:
$ source f1.sh
Voila, f1 is now defined within the shell environment.
$ env|grep -A1 f1 f1=() { echo "in f1" }
If you've already read about the Shellshock attack, the value of f1 above should look familiar.
Bash 4.2 and Exported Functions
Bash 4.2 (vulnerable) processes environment variables in initialize_shell_variables (see variables.c). What happens when an environment variable has a value that begins with "() {"? A new buffer is allocated and the variable name is concatenated with the variable's value. This basically creates a normal bash function declaration. The concatenated string is then evaluated with parse_and_execute:
temp_string = (char *)xmalloc (3 + string_length + char_index); strcpy (temp_string, name); temp_string[char_index] = ' '; strcpy (temp_string + char_index + 1, string); parse_and_execute (temp_string, name, SEVAL_NONINT|SEVAL_NOHIST);
Imagine an exported function named f1 that has a value resembling "() { ls -l; }". The code above combines the name and value into temp_string, resulting in "f1() { ls -l; }". This string is then evaluated and a function definition is burnt in memory.
The vulnerability arises because user input is being evaluated directly with the same function used to evaluate all other bash commands. If commands are appended to the end of the function definition, ex. "() { ls -l; }; ps", they are executed. This is because they fall outside the bounds of the function declaration and so are treated just like they would be in a regular bash script. Note that anything inside the function declaration should not be executed unless the function is invoked.
The construction of temp_string also means an attacker can inject through the environment variable name. For example:
$ ./ss-name.py total 6868 drwxrwxr-x 12 user1 user1 4096 Feb 13 17:28 bash-4.2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 7009201 Feb 13 2011 bash-4.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 52 Feb 13 16:19 f1.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 49 Feb 13 16:47 f2.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 101 Feb 13 17:30 ss-name.py -rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 96 Feb 13 16:58 ss-test.py Segmentation fault
Whoops! Bonus segfault. Here's ss-name.py:
#! /usr/bin/python import os os.putenv('ls -l;a', '() { echo "in f2"; };') os.system('bash -c f2')
Bash 4.3 and Exported Functions
The bash patch seems fairly concise. The patch now includes a check to make sure the variable name only contains legal characters (thwarting injection through name). There's also a new flag called SEVAL_FUNCDEF. If parse_and_execute parses a command that is not a function definition and this flag is set, an error condition results.
This seems to correct the issue, however, relying on the function parsing code still feels dicey.
Perhaps there are other ways around these new defenses yet to be revealed.


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Many screen-printed products are insulators, so completely eliminating static through grounding isn't really possible.
By Screen Printing's Solution Sourcebook
Static is the excess or deficit of electrons on a material. Static in screen printing is most often caused by friction, separation, heat change, and improper grounding. Screen-printed products normally experience all of these during handling. Potential results of untreated static energy include ink spidering, sheets sticking together, delivery/stacking difficulty, accumulation of dirt and dust, electric shocks, damage and interference in electronic components, and even fires and explosions.
Friction: Static is most often caused by friction, the rubbing of two materials together during the printing or converting process. Rubbing a plastic substrate over a metal feedboard creates a charge. The plastic picks up the negative charge, while the metal feedboard carries the positive charge. Metal is a good conductor, so its acquired charge is short-lived. Plastic is a poor conductor, so it retains its charge for a long time.
Separation: Static can be generated when two materials are separated―for example, pulling the barrier film off of a substrate. Generally, the barrier film holds a charge that is opposite of the product it protects. Media that holds a charge generated by separation can attract airborne dust and debris from several feet away.
Heat change: Products that are subjected to continuous heat changes can build a static charge. Dryers are a major source of this phenomenon. Charges and temperatures constantly change when a printed product is in the drying phase. In extreme conditions, dust and particulates can be drawn onto the product's surface and adhere to the product.
Improper grounding: Even the greatest efforts to ground machinery can be thwarted by greased bearings and poor metal-to-metal connections, both of which can actually interrupt the ground. Furthermore, some charges may be too high to ground properly. Many screen-printed products are insulators, so completely eliminating static through grounding isn't really possible.
Static control
Active static-elimination systems include active electrical ionizers, static bars, air ionizers, ionizing nozzles, steady-state DC generators, and pulsed DC controllers. They create ionization by forcing high voltage to ground and breaking down the air molecules in between into low levels of ozone. Passive static control uses grounding and conductive metals. Carbon fiber, stainless steel, phosphor bronze, and copper tinsel are commonly used in screen printing.
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April 23, 2019Sri Lanka
A high level of coordination suggests the perpetrators had substantial expertise, possibly drawn from a foreign-based terrorist group.
March 29, 2019Terrorism and Counterterrorism
In the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque attacks, public debate is mounting in Western democracies over the severity of the threat posed by far-right extremists.
April 12, 2018Terrorism and Counterterrorism
CFR's Bruce Hoffman joins James M. Lindsay to discuss the evolution of global terrorist threats.
October 30, 2018Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Last week's mail bombs and synagogue attack have reignited a heated discussion of hate crimes and terrorism in the United States. Definitions matter in this debate.
January 15, 2019China
Mohammed Barkindo, Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is worried about the U.S.-China trade war. Even though oil prices seem to be stabilizing, Barkindo to…
December 27, 2018United States
Year's end is a time for taking stock, counting successes, and assessing failures. It is also time for remembering those who are no longer with us. Here are ten Americans who died in 2018 who through…
December 7, 2018Saudi Arabia
Relations between the two countries, long bound by common interests in oil and security, have strained over what some analysts see as a more assertive Saudi foreign policy.
March 6, 2018Al-Qaeda
With the demise of the Islamic State, a revived al-Qaeda and its affiliates should now be considered the world's top terrorist threat.
November 7, 2018Brazil
Federal investigators in Brazil have uncovered corruption at the highest levels of the government and in the country's largest corporations.
September 11, 2018China
Teaching Notes for The Third Revolution, written by Elizabeth Economy, in which she reveals Xi Jinping's new China model and discusses how other countries should approach this complex and powerful country.


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BRASILIA, Brazil, June 21 (UPI) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff held an emergency cabinet meeting Friday to discuss widespread protesting and civil unrest in her country.
The protests began more than a week ago over bus fare hikes, but have since been focused on corruption and the cost of next year's World Cup soccer tournament, the BBC reported.
More than 1 million people took to the streets Thursday in cities throughout Brazil.
One person was killed Thursday at a protest in Sao Paulo state when a car drove through a barricade. Twenty-nine people have been injured since the protests started in Rio de Janeiro and 35 in Brasilia.
Rousseff, who has canceled a trip to Japan next week to deal with the crisis, is expected to give a public address after the emergency meeting, the BBC said.
Many protesters say they feel underrepresented and say preparations for the World Cup are taking money away from social needs, The Guardian, Britain, reported.
"There are no politicians who speak for us," said Jamaime Schmitt, an engineer. "This is not just about bus fares any more. We pay high taxes and we are a rich country, but we can't see this in our schools, hospitals and roads."


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The Land Stewardship Project is a member of the Farm Beginnings Collaborative (FBC). The FBC is a national alliance of independent regional groups of farmers and farmer-training support organizations working together to promote Farm Beginnings, a farmer training model that is community based, rooted in sustainable principles, and farmer led.
Members of the Collaborative are:
• Angelic Organics Learning Center, Caldonia, Illinois
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• FAARMS, Medina, North Dakota
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• Land Stewardship Project, Montevideo, Minnesota
• Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners, Unity, Maine
• Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society, Ceresco, Nebraska
• Organic Growers School, Asheville, North Carolina
• The Land Connection, Champaign, Illinois
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Seated (from left): Kristina Milnor, Elizabeth Boylan, Emily Tow Jackson. Standing (from left): Christian Rojas, Leonard Tow, and Debora Spar.
A generous benefactor supports faculty research and exemplary teaching
Kristina Milnor, an associate professor of classics, was pregnant with her first child last May when she received the exciting news. Milnor, along with Associate Professor of Chemistry Christian Rojas, had been named as the first two recipients of a new award for Barnard faculty members offered by the Connecticut-based Tow Foundation: The Tow Professorships for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners. Designed to help Barnard recognize and promote outstanding teaching and research, the new professorships will be awarded to two associate professors each year and come with two years of support totaling $50,000 for each professor; the award's uses include summer stipends, research, and professional development.
"It was a real vote of confidence," says Milnor, who joined Barnard in 1998 and teaches lecture courses in classical civilization as well as classes in elementary, intermediate, and advanced Latin. A specialist in Roman history and Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, Milnor received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for her 2005 book, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life. She also recently completed a book about literary graffiti from the ancient city of Pompeii, and says that the Tow award will be a big help as she chooses and begins pursuing her next big project. Milnor's not sure yet of the topic—perhaps something on representations of law and the idea of law in Roman literature—"but stay tuned," she says. "I feel incredibly grateful."
Professor Rojas, the other 2010 Tow award winner, definitely shares that feeling. "It's just a tremendous honor," he says. Rojas joined Barnard's chemistry department in 1997 after completing an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on developing novel methods for incorporating nitrogen into organic molecules and the application of those methods to the synthesis of amino sugars. "It's very labor-intensive," says Rojas, who notes that the Tow Foundation stipend will enable him to hire two Barnard students to help in his lab this summer.
Along with the two annual professorships, last year the Tow Foundation also announced plans for a new annual teaching award to recognize an exemplary member of the Barnard faculty: The Tow Award for Innovative and Outstanding Pedagogy. The first winner of the award will be announced this spring and will receive $10,000, which can be used for research or professional development that helps promote innovative teaching.
The Tow family has long been a generous benefactor to Barnard. Leonard Tow, a former cable television industry executive, started the family's foundation together with his wife Claire; their daughter, Emily Tow Jackson '88, began serving as Tow Foundation executive director in the mid-1990s. Since 1996, the Tows have sponsored the Tow Foundation Public Service Internship Program at Barnard; the program has helped dozens of students get practical work experience at a wide variety of organizations including nonprofit organizations, education, public health, and public-service agencies. Moreover, since 2001 the foundation has also funded the Tow Research Fellowships, which enable students to travel and conduct research for their senior theses.
In the past few years, however, the Tows decided they would like to expand their focus to give faculty members extra support. "We thought it was essential to recognize really top-quality teaching," says Tow Jackson, who majored in American history. She and her father spoke with Barnard president Debora Spar about how they could best support great teaching, and the ideas for the Tow Professorships and the new Tow teaching award were born. "One of President Spar's goals was to really shore up faculty recognition," says Tow Jackson. "We think there's a tremendous benefit to the College in helping high-performing staff pursue their interests."
News of the Tow Professorships and the new teaching award was greeted with rousing applause at a faculty meeting last May. Barnard Provost and Dean of Faculty Elizabeth Boylan was thrilled that Barnard was able to recognize Professors Milnor and Rojas, each is a "wonderful and distinctive embodiment of the scholar-teacher ideal." Boylan says she believes the new Tow teaching award will send a strong signal both within and to the outside world about "the value we place in innovative and effective teaching."
Spar says that the experience of working with Emily and Leonard Tow and witnessing their strong support for Barnard has been a real pleasure. "They both know the institution so well and clearly understand higher education," she adds. "We are very lucky to have them as part of the Barnard family and I look forward to seeing all the good that will come from the generous awards they have established."
The Tow Foundation last year also decided to double the funding available for both the public-service internship program as well as the Tow Research Fellowships. The fellowship program was launched a decade ago; 89 students have received funding for summer travel and research projects since 2002. These projects have covered everything from microfinance in the nonprofit sector in China to the study of graffiti from the Ptolemaic and early Roman period in Egypt. "We knew that travel costs were prohibitive for many students," says Tow Jackson, who notes that her father, the Tow Foundation chair, is a strong proponent of travel for students. "He really believes it's an essential experience," she says.
With the public-service internship program, Tow Jackson says the goal was to assist students who wanted to explore potential careers in the nonprofit and public policy spheres, while also providing some extra support for the organizations for which the students interned. "We saw it as a double bang for the buck," she says and notes that many nonprofits struggle to do their work with limited budgets and staff. Since the program started 15 years ago, it has provided support for some 230 interns working for a mix of organizations including public-interest groups and government agencies, such as the Revenue Watch Institute, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the New York State Office of the Attorney General.
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Hubble Spies Globular Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph.
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Globular Cluster Mayall II in the Neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
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Not long ago when the health club industry designed new health clubs, we had to make sure that the clubs were not intimidating to women. We went through great lengths to ensure that their experience was a pleasurable one. Now, with the burgeoning spa market, it's just the opposite. We have to make sure that we do not alienate the male clientele.
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I still remember during one spa experience years ago being provided with a robe that made me look like Lurch from the "Adams Family," and seeing my friend, who enjoys beer and whose stomach is evidence of that, unable to completely close the robe he was given to wear.
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Instead of making relaxation rooms all about quiet and herbal tea, relaxation lounges for men must provide something extra. Many relaxation lounges now have plasma TVs on which men can watch their favorite sporting events. The lounges even provide peanuts to munch on while relaxing infront of the TV. I was in one lounge the other day that even provided Starbucks coffee next to the herbal tea. Are beer and single malt scotch in the near future? Extra large robes, slippers that fit, pre and post shaving products, and face and body products specifically designed for men's skin are all the rage now.
- Consider the menu.
Changing the atmosphere is just part of the equation for making spas more comfortable and attractive for men. Spa owners also must consider the menu. Short and concise menus are best for men because they don't want to have to choose from 50 massages and facials. Instead, men prefer a short list with one to three treatments that are named something "manly." Each treatment also needs an explanation using "man speak" — in other words, using plain English and terms that don't require a detailed explanation.
- Customize the music.
The more luxurious spas offer a selection of music so each man can choose the tunes that help him relax best. The man's preference can then be noted in the CRM software program for his next visit.
- Simplify the products.
When selling retail products to men, make sure the products are simple to use because men don't want a product that has "five easy steps." Five steps aren't easy for men; they are just too many for them — try one step instead. Men just want to put on the product and then forget about it.
- Cater to the couple.
Another aspect of the spa design is the couple's room. Men might be more likely to try a spa if first accompanied by the woman in their life. These couple's rooms should be fun and interactive. One room I recently put into a spa had a small rasul room — a warm tiled room, where a couple can lie on a warm/heated tile bench with a slight steam and with candles strategically placed around them. They can apply/rub "mud" on each other. Once the mud takes its course, they can rinse each other off with a hand shower and cross over into the next area, which is a Swiss shower made for two. Then they can proceed to the two massage tables in the room for their treatments.
Marketing to couples is a great idea. A couple's massage can be a great way for couples to reconnect or a way for them to enjoy a very unique date. And who knows? If they enjoy the experience, they could become regulars.
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America is the best and don't you forget it.
If you enjoy watching the Olympics, good for you, keep on.
Leading up to every Olympiad, summer or winter, the whole world gets excited and catches that Olympic fever. Then, sometime following the opening ceremony many people sour of the big event and the only thing they see is the negativity.
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They ask me, "why should you care about swimming, gymnastics and track and field every four years?"
But days like Thursday, when the USA dominated swimming and gymnastics, is when I realize how much I enjoy the Olympics.
The truth is, I don't care about those sports. If Michael Phelps never wins another gold medal it won't affect my life one iota. If Gabby Douglas never does another floor routine I won't lose one wink of sleep.
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If it wasn't for the Olympics, Michael Phelps wouldn't tell you to eat at Subway. You would have no idea who he is.
The same goes with Gabby Douglas, Missy Franklin, Ryan Lochte and all the other great athletes representing USA in the Olympics.
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It all comes down to one simple thing, the United States of America is the greatest country ever.
That's it, that's what makes the Olympics enjoyable.
If the USA wasn't in the Olympics nobody would pay attention to it.
The Olympics gives a country pride and honor like few things can.
Quick, what's the greatest sports moment ever?
If you didn't say the 1980 USA men's hockey team winning the gold you need your head examined.
Unfortunately, I wasn't alive in 1980 but 32 years later it may as well have happened yesterday. The USA took so much pride in that moment and it still takes pride in it.
America is the best and don't you forget it.


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Arborwayfan wrote:...(e) the private company was offering the service to begin with but started to lose money (Boston Elevated Ry 20s, 30s, 40s; commuter rail after 1964).
Which of these apply to the T Commuter Rail?
BostonUrbEx wrote:Seems most North Side sets are 4 cars now, weren't they typically 5 car sets prior to this crunch?
sery2831 wrote:There are 14 FOUR car sets north, we are down a lot of cars.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Does this include doing the much-delayed cab signal + PTC installations to the 1600-series cabs so they no longer have to be bottled-up exclusively north? I'm sure it's not helping this mix-and-match game of desperation to still be hamstrung by classes of equipment that are non-portable across the whole system.
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10 Most Influential Female Nurses of All Time
July 29, 2008
Nurses impact lives every day. But once in a while, a nurse comes along who touches the lives of the world, and not just her patients. These women went above and beyond for the field of nursing. They served in wars, broke down racial barriers, and campaigned for women's rights. They have become role models for women everywhere, not just nurses. However, nurses can be especially proud to share a title with these 10 ladies.