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Business isn't booming for antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn. A local rug store is luring away her customers with its rock-bottom prices. Eager to check out the competition, Abby is delighted to find a priceless Persian amid the cut-rate carpets--and shocked when Gwendolyn Spears, the store's beleaguered owner, begs her to take it home Abby feels more than a little guilty about getting such a great deal . . . especially when Gwendolyn is found dead the next morning.
Investigating the brutal murder, Abby soon discovers that the prized Orientals of Charleston's society dames are nothing more than cheap fakes . . . and that a dangerous thief will do anything to pull the rug out from under her.
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If you let Smallest Weasel sleep in your bed because she had a bad dream, she is going to fall back to sleep very quickly and start dreaming that she is a kick - boxer.
When Smallest Weasel is going for the take down sweep in the ring all night you better believe you are going to wake up with bad back pain on the only day that you have available to get some yard work done.
So, despite knowing better you will start working in the yard and Boy Weasel will ask if he can give the 100 lb Mastiff puppy a bath in the yard. You will say yes
because you are delusional with pain and Boy Weasel will get the dog wet and soapy before the dog decides that she is afraid of the hose and Boy Weasel realizes after being drug around the yard that he is not strong enough to hold her back when she bolts away in fear.
You will then step in to hold onto the dog and finish her bath. You will soon realize that you are not strong enough to hold back a scared 100 lb puppy either and wind up falling flat on your face and aggravating your back pain on the front lawn.
Soon your neighbor will need a ride to drop off her car for repairs and will ask you to help out and you will.
You will drop off your neighbor just in time to realize that two Weasels and a stray Weasel friend need rides to two separate track practices and that dinner is not yet prepared
because you didn't plan it yet.
Mr. Weasel will agree to take care of dinner on the grill while you play chauffeur.
Once all the Weasels are home safely and Mr. Weasel has fed them, it will be bedtime for the youngest Weasels and yourself. You will take your pain medication and lie in your bed grateful for the comfort. As the medicine starts working a severe, violent and loud thunderstorm will begin.
When the storm moves in, Smallest Weasel will come to you afraid and want to sleep in your bed. And when Smallest Weasel sleeps in your bed, you just know that you going to wake up with back pain but you also know that you are going to get a blog post out of it.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Will I Ever Learn?
If you let Smallest Weasel sleep in your bed because she had a bad dream, she is going to fall back to sleep very quickly and start dreaming that she is a kick - boxer.
21 comments:
Definitely worth the back pain...this was a funny funny post!
- April 6, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- Tara R. said...
Sounds a little like the movie Groundhog Day.
The last time we (and by we, I mean hubs, I was only on towel duty), washed our dogs, it was like wrestling a Kraken. I think the next time I will simply take them to PetSmart and let the professionals take care of them.
Hope your back is better soon.
- April 6, 2010 at 4:58 AM
- Melisa with one S said...
Too bad writing your blog posts is so painful! :)
I hope your back feels better!
- April 6, 2010 at 5:06 AM
- Spuds said...
Wait... so the title was a rhetorical question, right? Ha! Very funny post, though! Hurt backs are not fun! I hurt my back last year... when I sneezed. Go figure, huh?
- April 6, 2010 at 5:29 AM
- MandyE (Twin Trials and Triumphs) said...
Is it bad when we start to thing in terms of blog posts??? Hahahaha!!!
I finally cashed in a birthday gift certificate for a massage yesterday, and my back and shoulders are aching today. I keep telling myself, "...but it's a *good* pain." :)
- April 6, 2010 at 5:59 AM
- WeaselMomma said...
@ Alyssa ~ Thanks, I'm glad you laughed.
@ Tara ~ That sounds like a mighty smart idea.
@ Melisa ~ Meh, at least I had something to write.
@ Spuds ~ Try not to pepper your food too much. =)
@ Mandy ~ Yeah. Hi, I'm WeaselMomma and I have a blog obsession.
- April 6, 2010 at 6:23 AM
- Busy-Dad-E said...
Sometimes in the midst of (similar) chaos in our house, I'm able to "laugh it off" easier knowing that I have new material to blog about. I couldn't agree more.
- April 6, 2010 at 6:34 AM
- PJ Mullen said...
Yikes, hope you're feeling better soon.
- April 6, 2010 at 7:54 AM
Hope you are feeling better! At least its not like the 100 lbs puppy is afraid of thunderstorms...at my house my 20lb dog freaks out and keeps us up when it rains. Its so sad because he's old and scared. Either way I'm in pain the next day trying to prevent him from hurting himself.
- April 6, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Joanie M said...
It's amazing how mobile little ones are in their sleep.
- April 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Mike Sullivan said...
Next time, please get pictures of the dog wash.
- April 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Michelle said...
Ohhhh so sorry. You know it's supposed to storm again TONIGHT, too, right? On the plus side, given how bad the storm damage was by us, any yard work you would have gotten done would have needed redoing after today and tomorrow anyway, right?
- April 6, 2010 at 8:31 PM
- Otter Thomas said...
Dog bathing is not my favorite thing. I have a lab that loves swimming but hates baths even on 100 degree days. I don't get dogs. Hope you back feels better soon.
- April 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- de-I said...
Hmmmm - sure this isn't just an excuse to get more of those pain pills (just the thing for those over worked Weaselmomma days) :)
- April 7, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Stesha said...
Anything for a blog post is my motto. Especially if it's a funny blog post:)
Hugs and Mocha,
- April 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM
- terri said...
I understand your frustrations, but believe me, you're going to look back one day and realize that you actually miss having your kids want to snuggle in bed with you. And you'll even look back on the karate kicks with fondness.
- April 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- SurprisedMom said...
I hope your back is feeling better. Believe it or not, I miss those kick boxing days. . . not the pain mind you, just the snuggling part.
I love when my kids do things I can blog about. I'll have to get them riled about about something. :D
- April 7, 2010 at 10:44 PM
- seashore subjects said...
At least you got some cuddles before the pain. And I bet the newly cleaned puppy will cuddle with you too!
- April 8, 2010 at 3:58 AM
- Mr. Man said...
Has Youngest Weasel ever heard the Fresh Prince song, "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson?". I think she can.
- April 8, 2010 at 6:57 AM
- Jason @ The Devoted Dad said...
Your poor back. Hopefully, now that a couple of days has subsided, it has calmed down a bit. Ugh!
- April 11, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Mrs4444 said...
Awesome, except for that danged back pain!!!! I hope you've recovered by now :)
- April 18, 2010 at 5:51 PM


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NEW ORLEANS — Whether Terrance Broadway was throwing, running, or throwing on the run, he gave East Carolina fits and justified Louisiana-Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth's decision to let his sophomore quarterback finish the season as his starter.
NEW ORLEANS — Whether Terrance Broadway was throwing, running, or throwing on the run, he gave East Carolina fits and justified Louisiana-Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth's decision to let his sophomore quarterback finish the season as his starter.
Broadway passed for 316 yards and ran for 108, helping Louisiana-Lafayette repeat as winners of the New Orleans Bowl with a 43-34 victory against East Carolina on Saturday.
The performance capped a 2012 campaign which opened with Broadway backing up senior Blaine Gautier, who broke a bone in his throwing hand in late September.
"Terrance comes in and just has a phenomenal season," Hudspeth said, describing the difficult decision not to give Gautier, the New Orleans Bowl MVP a year ago, his job back when he was healthy again late in the season. "We really had hit our stride and the best thing about Blaine is he understood."
A pair of former Gadsden City Titans also played a big part in the win. Running back Alonzo Harris rushed for 120 yards and two touchdowns, while safety T.J. Worthy made three tackles and broke up a pass on fourth down late in the contest to help seal the win.
Broadway had to sit out last season after transferring from Houston, and saw this year's New Orleans Bowl as his first real chance to add some kind of championship to his name after coming up short as a high school standout in Baton Rouge, La.
"My main goal was to get our team a big win in this bowl game and just to get that monkey off my back that I didn't have a ring from high school and last year," Broadway said. "I was very focused on that."
Harris' touchdowns went for 6 and 68 yards for
the Ragin' Cajuns (9-4), who briefly squandered a three-touchdown lead before moving back in front for good on Broadway's 14-yard scoring pass to Javone Lawson late in the third quarter.
"Nothing fazes our team," said Broadway, who also ran for a 12-yard score. "Everybody on our team responds to adversity well. So when they came back on us and made a game out of it, our team is still upbeat and saying we're going to win this game."
And they did, with Brett Baer adding his second and third field goals in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.
Shane Carden passed for 278 yards and two touchdowns for East Carolina (8-5) but was intercepted in Cajuns territory by Jemarlous Moten in the fourth quarter as ECU drove for a potential tying or go-ahead score.
"They did a good job of changing, I guess, the coverage throughout the game," Carden said of ULL. "But I think our offense could execute a lot better. It was nothing really they were doing. It was a lot of us just not executing routine plays."
The Pirates' Reggie Bullock rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns.
"The game plan was fine. We just needed the execution of the calls. We've always played hard. That was not a problem," East Carolina coach Ruffin McNeill said. "We had a chance there late in the game. ... I was proud of our guys."
Carden's touchdowns went to Justin Hardy for 19 yards and Danny Webster for 16 yards. Hardy finished with five catches for 59 yards. East Carolina's Andrew Bodenheimer had five catches for a team-high 65 yards, but could not secure a crucial fourth-down pass in the final minutes as Worthy ripped the ball away in ECU territory. That allowed the Cajuns to run the clock down to 15 seconds before setting up Baer's final field goal from 40-yards out.
Jamal Robinson had six catches for 116 yards for ULL, including a 39-yarder that was Broadway's longest completion. Lawson finished with four catches for 71 yards.
The Cajuns carried a 37-31 lead into the fourth quarter after Lawson juggled but secured the ball for a sprawling, rolling touchdown catch. The point-after kick failed, however, and East Carolina made it 37-34 on Warren Harvey's 26-yard field goal.
Broadway's interception on a tipped pass gave East Carolina the ball on the Cajuns 39, but Moten stepped in front of Carden's long pass over the middle to help preserve the slim lead.
Red-clad Ragin' Cajuns fans made up the bulk of a record New Orleans Bowl crowd of 48,828, and they were celebrating early.
Broadway's scoring run, his ninth rushing touchdown of the season, gave ULL a 7-0 lead and Harry Peoples' 10-yard scoring made it 14-0.
ECU didn't get a first down until early in the second quarter, when Carden converted on third-and-long with Jabril Solomon for a 45-yard gain. That set up Bullock's first touchdown from 5 yards out to make it 14-7.
Harris' two scores had the Cajuns seemingly in command at 28-7, but ECU responded with two touchdowns in a span of 13 seconds to make it a one-score game.
First came Hardy's leaping, outstretched grab in the back of the end zone. Then Darryl Surgent fumbled a kickoff return, giving ECU the ball on the Cajuns 16. Carden found Webster over the middle for a score on the next play.
Louisiana-Lafayette was able to regain some momentum in the final 37 seconds of the first half, driving 47 yards on five plays to set up Baer's 50-yard field goal, which was the same distance and direction as his game-winner at the end of last year's New Orleans Bowl.
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Ample research has shown that informal connections between people have a substantial influence on economic life, in terms who deals with whom and how well they perform. We call this "social embeddedness", meaning that we are all embedded to different degrees in various networks of people, which influences our behaviour and success. One dimension which in a business context has received a lot of research is whether people have a joint educational background, particularly whether they are alumni from the same academic institution.
Guoli Chen, Ravee Chittoor and Bala Vissa thought that this embeddedness research that is focused on educational background could perhaps be especially valid in a Western context (where most of the research has taken place) but that in a different context, such as India, different types of affiliations might also play an important role. Specifically, they wanted to focus on the role of caste (i.e. people being of the same or different castes) and language (in terms of people sharing the same regional dialect).
Research setting: Equity analysts in India
To examine these different dimensions of inter-personal networks, they focused on a particular set of people and relationships, namely equity analysts. Firms listed on the stock exchange will often be followed and evaluated by analysts, as employed by banks, who make buy and sell recommendations to the public regarding the company's stock.
Perhaps the most important task of such an equity analyst is to forecast – as accurately as possible – the future earnings of the firm. However, to make an accurate forecast, an analyst often has to at least partly rely on information received directly from the company; not seldom in the form of personal conversations with the Chief Executive. And Guoli, Ravee and Bala suspected that when the analyst happened to share the same background with the company's CEO it would be much easier for him or her to get access to the CEO and his company information; making his earnings forecasts more accurate.
They tested this suspicion on a sample of 141 Indian firms, followed by a total of 296 equity analysts, between 2001-2010. First of all, they found clear evidence that equity analysts that are alumni of the same academic institution as the company's CEO were indeed able to make much more accurate forecasts. But, in addition, the same was true for analysts who shared the same background in terms of caste, and in terms of regional language. In fact, the effects were roughly the same size, meaning that these old historical patterns (around caste and language) were just as important in India as the more contemporary ones (i.e. university affiliation).
They then examined the conditions under which these different types of informal ties mattered more or less or whether such ties were indeed always beneficial. They found that older CEOs – who could be expected to be influenced more heavily by traditional patterns – were more susceptible to issues of caste and language than younger CEOs. They were less influenced by joint academic affiliation. Hence, although these old historical patterns matter a lot in India; they matter less for younger people, who are relatively more susceptible to joint academic affiliation.
In addition, they found evidence that these informal relationships were particularly beneficial if it concerned a truly Indian firm (part of a traditional business group). In contrast, such informal ties hurted more than they helped, when the firm in question was an Indian subsidiary of a Western multinational corporation.
Overall, what Guoli, Ravee and Bala's research shows is that, in a country like India, old historical social structures still matter a lot in the world of business, especially when it concerns firms that are part of a traditional business group. The effect of language (which is analogous to ethnicity) was particularly potent. These effects may begin to matter a bit less for younger people (i.e. since they were especially strong for older CEOs) but they still wield considerable influence on economic life.
Paper to be presented at the "Sumantra Ghoshal Conference for Managerially Relevant Research" at the London Business School.
Which old boy network matters? Basis of social affiliation and the accuracy of equity analysts' earnings forecast of Indian firms. Guoli Chen (INSEAD), Ravee Chittoor (Indian School of Business), Bala Vissa (INSEAD)
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BOSTON, Mass. – The No. 2 Yale coed sailing team finished its regular season this weekend, placing third at the Boston Dinghy Cup hosted by MIT and seventh at the Greater New York Open at Fordham.
The scores remained close until the end at the Boston Dinghy Cup, with the Bulldogs finishing only nine points behind first-place Stanford, and only one point behind second-place Tufts. The Bulldog's depth is what allowed the team to succeed overall, with each boat taking top-four in its division.
Senior skipper Chris Segerblom and sophomore crew Charlotte Belling placed fourth in a competitive A division. The duo struggled with consistency at the beginning of the regatta, but persevered in the trying conditions of the Charles River to improve, never finishing outside the top-ten in the last four races.
Freshman team of skipper Ian Barrows and crew Meredith Megarry won B division. The young team won six of their fourteen races in B division, and placed outside the top-ten only twice.
In C division, senior Max Nickbarg with crews junior Sarah Smith and freshman Natalya Doris placed second. The most consistent of any of the Bulldogs this weekend, these sailors won only one race this weekend, but finished outside the top-five only three times. Nickbarg said he was focused on "Just trying to make high percentage plays around the entire race course, consolidating any gains early on in the race."
At the Greater New York Open, more underclassman Bulldogs were able to race, finishing in seventh. The race committee struggled with numerous wind delays, only allowing for six races to be completed in each division. With 81 points, Yale was only 10 points out of the top-five.
Freshman skipper Mitchell Kiss with crews sophomore Emily Johnson and freshman Chandler Gregoire placed fourth in A division, winning a tie breaker against Dartmouth thanks to their win in race five. Sophomores skipper Eric Anderson and crew Sanam Rastegar placed eighth in B division.
After a successful spring season, Bulldogs will now sail the New England Dinghy Championship at home next weekend, hoping to qualify for a spot in the ICSA National Semifinals in June.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Cumberland County Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills refused to throw out a slate of prostitution-related charges against Thomaston businessman Mark Strong this week. She denied his motions to dismiss all charges and suppress evidence, as well as his request for a hearing on the validity of an investigator's testimony in the case.
The ruling, dated Dec. 31, 2012, and posted online by the court system Wednesday, means Strong, 57, will face trial this month on 59 charges, including promotion of prostitution and invasion of privacy.
Strong is accused of conspiring with Alexis Wright, 29, to run a prostitution business out of her Kennebunk fitness studio. Both Strong and Wright have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
Strong and Wright will be tried separately in the sprawling case, which has also included charges against more than 60 individuals accused of paying for sex at the studio. But the two are tied together in a lawsuit by the building's landlord, who said Strong and Wright — both allegedly listed as tenants of the studio space — owe rent and property taxes.
Strong's attorney, Daniel Lilley, filed a motion to dismiss the charges against his client, in part, because of what he described as prosecutors' inability or unwillingness to turn over evidence against Strong in a timely or usable fashion.
In his original motion, Lilley told the court that: His office never received a computer hard drive the York County District Attorney's Office alleged had been seized from Strong and contained evidence implicating him; that a report from a key investigator in the case was turned over after the Nov. 26 deadline to do so; that because alleged johns are still being regularly charged in the case material continues to be added to the evidence pile as the trial date approaches; and that Strong's team could not access a computer presentation made by prosecutors to support their recommendation to join Strong and Wright in a single trial.
Lilley also requested what is known as a Franks Hearing, in which he would argue that Kennebunk Police Officer Audra Presby's written testimony is "reckless" and "misleading … to the court," and filed an additional motion to throw out that evidence along with other related documents.
Strong, who is also a private investigator, has accused Presby of targeting him in the case in retaliation for an investigation he was doing into a police officer's shooting of a knife-wielding woman in 2011. The Kennebunk Police Department denied Strong's accusations and noted that the shooting was investigated by the state attorney general's office, as are all police shootings in the line of work, and the officer was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Lilley argued that search warrants based on Presby's affidavit should never have been granted, and the evidence discovered through the execution of those search warrants should be suppressed.
But Justice Mills denied the motions and request for a Franks Hearing, writing in her decision that Lilley, in a previous conference, asked for a speedy 2012 trial even with knowledge that additional alleged johns would be charged into 2013. She also said sufficient probable cause was documented by investigators through "electronic data, video, phone records and other documents" prior to seeking the search warrants in question.
With regard to the hard drive in question, Mills ruled that prosecutors delivered all of their computer evidence to Strong's team, and that a two-terabyte external hard drive the defendant's team alleges has yet to be turned over simply is not part of the record.
"This hard drive is not listed on any inventory of the items seized," Mills wrote in her decision.


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</<p> Pay scales for fitness professionals barely budged in 2000.
SAN DIEGO - Median hourly wages for specialty instructors, as well as median salaries for fitness program directors, remained the same in 1999 and 2000, according to IDEA's Fifth Annual Fitness Industry Compensation Survey, in which information was obtained from more than 160 U.S., Canadian and Puerto Rican fitness facilities. There were some increases, however: Personal trainers, group fitness and fitness floor staff, and personal training directors saw a small incremental rise in their median hourly wages or salaries.
The specific findings of the survey are as follows:
Fitness Program Director
Job Description: Fitness program directors hire and supervise staff, prepare budgets, manage equipment and oversee scheduling of classes, clinics and training.
Main Pay Criteria: degree/certification (66 percent), years of experience (63 percent) and years in the organization (57 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $15
Hourly Rate (1999): $15
Salary Pay (2000): $30,000
Salary Pay (1999): $30,000
Personal Training Director
Job Description: Personal training directors hire, supervise and schedule trainers; plan department services; and prepare budgets.
Main Pay Criteria: degree/certification (66 percent), years of experience (63 percent) and years in the organization (57 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $15
Hourly Rate (1999): $19
Salary Pay (2000): $25,000
Salary Pay (1999): $25,000
Personal Trainer
Job Description: Personal trainers instruct individual clients, monitor and record progress, and may enroll new clients and collect fees.
Main Pay Criteria: degree/certification (70 percent), continuing education (57 percent) and years of experience (52 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $23
Hourly Rate (1999): $20
Specialty Instructor
Job Description: Specialty instructors teach classes requiring specialized training, such as yoga, indoor cycling or martial arts.
Main Pay Criteria: degree/certification (55 percent), specialty area expertise (53 percent), continuing education (42 percent) and years of experience (42 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $20
Hourly Rate (1999): $20
Group Fitness Instructor
Job Description: Group fitness instructors teach general classes set to music.
Main Pay Criteria: degree/certification (63 percent), years of experience (54 percent) and continuing education (51 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $18
Hourly Rate (1999): $16
Fitness Floor Staff
Job Description: Fitness floor staff monitor equipment, supplies and people in a fitness center.
Main Pay Criteria: personality (38 percent), work availability (37 percent) and degree/certification (32 percent).
Hourly Rate (2000): $8.25
Hourly Rate (1999): $7
Salary and hourly rates aside, the IDEA survey also recorded information on the benefits and discounts that many fitness facilities offered their employees. A significant portion of qualifying fitness industry professionals were offered paid sick and vacation time, health insurance, club membership and pro shop discounts. While these discounts and benefits have been stable for the past few years, the number of fitness businesses offering them to employees has jumped from 20 to 50 percent since 1993.
Boston Sports Club Team Steps Down
Two former Health Development Corporation executives resign.
BOSTON - After Town Sports International (TSI) acquired Health Development Corporation (HDC) last July and merged the Boston-area fitness club chain with its own Boston Sports Clubs (BSC), HDC executives Paul Couturier and Phil Bonomo stayed on to ease adjustments between the two companies. Couturier (former HDC president and CEO) and Bonomo (former director of strategic marketing) created what Bob Giardina, TSI's president and COO, has called, "the smoothest transition in all of our experience." Now the two have decided to call it quits.
"We are proud of our accomplishments over the past 17 years," said Couturier. "We built a strong network of clubs that became very attractive to companies looking to gain a foothold in Boston."
Couturier plans to pursue other business opportunities while Bonomo will continue on with his own strategic marketing consulting company.
Friends of Operation Fit Kids
Rev up your engines! Operation FitKids (OFK) will get off to a racing start at its official grand opening celebration for its four new Atlanta sites on April 25. Ron Hemelgarn, Indy 500 racing team owner and member of FitKids' board of directors, will be promoting the event on the 25th (and at the Indy 500 on the 28th) with a visit from his winning Hemelgarn team driver, Buddy Lazier, and his racecar.
OFK is a nonprofit dedicated to youth health and supported by the American Council on Exercise (ACE). The organization works with local high schools, youth groups and other organizations to create adolescent and youth fitness centers using recycled commercial fitness equipment.
Cardio and strength equipment donations, as well as other fitness products, are still needed for the Atlanta grand opening. If your company can help out, please contact FitKids' Executive Director DeeDee Kovacevich at (800) 825-3636, ext. 707 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. All donations are tax deductible.
Operation FitKids, Athletes Against Drugs and Bally Total Fitness tag team for a stronger community. Bally Total Fitness is partnering with both Athletes Against Drugs (AAD) and OFK as a part of the club chain's "Strong Communities" campaign.
With this latest partnership, OFK and AAD are collaborating, with ample backing by Bally, to bring fitness facilities to high schools in the Chicago area. FitKids will identify the communities in need, coordinate the layout of the fitness centers, and arrange for donations and setups for fitness equipment. AAD will implement ongoing health, fitness and human performance programs, with Bally providing much of the equipment.
Already Bally has donated more than $12 million worth of reconditioned fitness equipment to inner-city schools, youth-at-risk programs, police athletic leagues, and other community service organizations. Besides the supplies, Bally has contributed training for the equipment use.
Many others in the fitness industry have contributed to Operation FitKids' cause. The most recent good Samaritans include American Council on Exercise; The Step Company; Sporting Goods Manufacturers of America; Stamford Athletic Club and AgeFit in Stamford, Conn.; Power Systems; Rally Sports-Boulder, Colo.; Frog's Club One (San Diego); Nautilus; and Hriczko Trucking.
For more information on Operation FitKids, visit its Web site at www.operationfitkids.org.
The Spectrum Chain Looms Large in 2001
A new executive team heads the chain's aggressive national campaign.
PLANO, Texas - Five new senior officers are heading up Spectrum Clubs Inc.'s national expansion plans. In addition to the officers, Spectrum announced the openings of both a National Support Center in Dallas and an additional Regional Support Center in Southern California to further these goals.
The National Support Center opened late last year in Plano, Texas, with the following five key executive appointments: CFO Larry Page, a former CFO, executive vice president and treasurer for CEC Entertainment; Vice President of Marketing Annie Bendalin, who had a successful history in high-visibility consumer media marketing; Corporate Controller Tana Toulmin, formerly the director of financial reporting for Metromedia Restaurant Group in Dallas; Vice President of Finance Steve Kauzlaric, who recently served as the vice president of finance at the Dallas-based VertPort Inc.; and Purchasing Director Garry Cullinane, who most recently was the purchasing and facilities manager for United Advertising in Dallas.
"In record time, we have assembled an outstanding senior leadership team to drive our expansion in the fitness industry," said Spectrum CEO Bob Steele. "We have also launched two major projects - the $5 million expansion of our Spectrum Club South Bay in California and the new Spectrum Rogers Ranch in San Antonio, Texas."
In addition to the new appointments for the National Center, Spectrum's Regional Support Center in El Segundo, Calif., has also named new key personnel. These appointments include: Michael Yeater, director of operations; Joseph Cooney, director of member services; Mark Borden, director of sales; Teri Forsythe, director of human resources; Toni Brown, group exercise director; Stacy Shimabukuro, fitness director; Jennifer Santana, food and beverage director; and Chase Messer, regional controller. This additional support center will lead the California division of Spectrum Clubs.
Sixty percent of adult-onset diabetes cases are preventable, according to a recently released Finnish study. The study's researchers tracked 500 Finns for a two- to six-year time period, and found that a combination of exercise and a low-fat, high-fiber diet significantly reduces the risk of this disease, as well as decreases blood pressure and fat levels in the blood.
It might seem like a tall tale, but two recent and separate studies indicate that people who are overweight and also of above-average height suffer greater health risks.
In the former study, body mass as well as height in men were significant contributors to risk of cataracts. According to researchers at Harvard University, men with a BMI over 27.7 and who were over six feet tall, or who had the greatest waist-to-hip ratio, had a 23 to 31 percent higher risk of developing the eye condition.
While a link between obesity and cataracts has been proved - obesity increases the risk of gout and generalized inflammation in the eye area, both of which raise the risk of cataracts - the link between height and cataracts is still under study.
In the second study, published in a recent issue of Diabetes Care, children over the age of 3 who were taller and heavier than their peers were twice as likely to be diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Of these children, the tallest ones were the most likely to develop the disease, compared to youngsters of medium height.
Scientists argue that during a growth period, a child's body manufactures more insulin. As the demand for insulin increases, the body cells that produce the hormone become stressed and may fail to manufacture the needed amount, causing diabetes to develop.
While neither children nor adults can control their height, they can control their diet and activity level. This is where you can help your clients maintain healthy lives.
King Momo, the opulently obese patron of Rio de Janeiro's carnivals, has been put on a diet. Due to protests from health officials over the recent early deaths of two former King Momos, the city is turning toward healthier, fat-free, King Momo festivities. While candidates for the hefty position still have a minimum weigh-in of 240 pounds, their festival feast has been trimmed down from an all-you-can-eat pasta extravaganza to salads and diet soda. In February, the winner of the King Momo title will be handed the keys to the city from the mayor, a prelude to Rio de Janeiro's five days of wild pre-Lenten parties and night-time parades.
Meanwhile, while Momo is slimming down, the Scots have appointed a Fat Tsar for their own country. After a three-year study of Scotland's health problems, the position was created to wean the country's population of their fattening diets.
What's this? No more haggis and trifle?
According to the Scottish Health Surveys, the country takes first prize over the rest of the world for number of heart attacks and angina cases. The survey team reported that the diet of the poverty-stricken (fat-soaked, deep-fried and no veggies) has caused a life-expectancy gap of nine years between the lower and the higher classes.
Scotland's Health Minister will appoint the Fat Tsar, who is expected to lead a national health action campaign and tighten the country's collective kilt.
Can't chew gum and walk at the same time? Apparently, news sources claim you shouldn't run or cycle and chew at the same time as well. According to a Men's Fitness article, an ingredient in sugarless gum can cause diarrhea in cyclists and runners.
- The New York Health & Racquet Club recently hosted a swing class that allowed members to work with cast members from "Swing!," a Broadway show.
- Quivira Sportsclubs has reportedly opened the first EPOCH Centers in Kansas City at its locations in Lenexa, Shawnee and DeSoto. Another location is to be added at Quivira Sportsclub of Blue Valley at a later date. New manager Carolyn Marney, most recently of the St. Joseph Fitness Center in Kansas City, will be conducting the exercise fitness and training in the new centers.
Offering scientific and medically supported exercise testing and training, EPOCH Centers, owned by the Exernet Corp. (www.exernet.com), offer an educational approach to exercise for its clients. Clients take classes for one semester, with a follow-up test to measure their individual fitness improvements.
- Web-wandering fingers no longer have to work up a sweat trying to find women's workout wear. Lucy.com, an online and catalog retailer, and Crunch have teamed up to open a lucy.com retail store at a Crunch NYC location. This will be the third retail distribution channel for lucy.com since the company first launched a Web site in November 1999. The new retail center, aptly named lucy@crunch, will be situated on the first floor of the Crunch gym at 1109 Second St. in midtown Manhattan. The store will be open to both members of the public and the club.
- New hires abound at LifeCenter plus, a health club located in Hudson, Ohio. Catina Stecz has been appointed new fitness director. Laura Beal fills a new position as assistant fitness director. Dan Chain now heads up all front-desk operations. Katie Callison has joined to work in the aquatics department. And Tricia Downey has been added to the club's sales team.
- Annbeth Eschbach has left her position as WellBridge's vice president of marketing and spa development to start a new spa development venture, backed by McCown DeLeeuw & Co., the private equity group behind the 24 Hour Fitness chain.
- Susan DuBois is the new assistant manager of the Hilton Anaheim Sports and Fitness Center in California. DuBois began her career at Hilton in 1989 as a receptionist and aerobics instructor. Since then she has developed and taught various group exercise programs at the Center, as well as trained individual club members. In addition, DuBois teaches physical education courses at Golden West College in Huntington Beach.
- Adam Handelsman is stepping down from his position as PR director for Netpulse Media Networks to pursue his own media relations firm - Handelsman & Associates Public Relations. His new company will continue to represent Netpulse, among other clients.
- Jill Bauman, Pam Kock and Ladonice Song, for being named the top athletic directors at Club Corp. Bauman is the general manager of the Athletic and Swim Club in Equitable Center (New York City), Koch is the athletic director of Milwaukee's LeClub, and Song is the athletic director of the Capital Club in San Jose, Calif.
- Dr. Jack Barnathan, for receiving the gold medal of the International Federation of Bodybuilders. Dr. Barnathan heads up N.Y. Strength Performance Consulting Group and Centers for Strength and Performance.
- Derek Markey, RDV Sportsplex Tennis Center manager, for winning the 2000 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Florida Section Junior Coach of the Year Award. He was also selected to serve on the Junior Competitive Council.
- Fabiano Designs International for receiving an award from the Themed Entertain-ment Association (THEA) for its design of Gold's Gym in Madison, Wis. Of the 15 nominees worldwide, Fabiano was honored with the most prestigious award.
- Dave Gates, a consultant to Sidney/Shelby Co. YMCA, and Carmen Richards, a consultant to the Lamsan Health Club at Andrews University, for winning the Life Fitness "Ultimate Performer" contest. Gates' YMCA received a new Life Fitness CT 9500HR total body rear drive cross-trainer, and Richards got a TR 9500HR treadmill.
- Bel Air Athletic Club (BAAC), winner of the annual Harford Award for Service. Club founders Roger and Elaine Ralph accepted the award, which was presented by the Harford County chamber of commerce, Harford county government and Harford Community College.
- East Bank Club, for celebrating its big 20. The fitness, sports and dining center is located in Chicago's River North area.
- Nirvana Athletic & Fitness Center, for celebrating its 15th anniversary. Nirvana has four locations in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area with more than 5,100 members.
- Corporate Fitness Works Inc. (CFW) of Montgomery Village, Md., for being honored at a Redskins home game. The company - which designs and manages customized fitness centers and wellness programs for corporations, government agencies, hotels and retirement communities - received the "Small Business Champions" award from Bank of America for its business achievements in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
- Fitness Holdings Worldwide, which was named by FORBES magazine as one of the "500 top private companies." Fitness Holdings is best known for its 24 Hour Fitness chain.
- Vista del Monte Fitness and Aquatic Center (a senior living community in Santa Barbara, Calif.) and East Jefferson General Hospital Wellness Center (located in Metairie, La.). Both were recently honored by the second annual Pinnacle Awards sponsored by NuStep Inc. NuStep saluted the two organizations for their innovative senior wellness programs.


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NFL executives are dissatisfied with proposals to bring professional football to a downtown Los Angeles stadium, threatening the $1.2 billion project, according to sources. Dakota Smith in the Daily News,
The league has been in talks with Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring a team back to L.A., but league executives are unhappy with the company's offer, said a source familiar with the negotiations. And the developer hasn't offered an updated proposal in recent months, said the source.
Issues concern AEG's stake in an NFL team, how much the developer is willing to pay for that stake, and who would control issues such as marketing and licensing at the football stadium.


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Lonette McKee to Lead SOWA'S RED GRAVY Off-Broadway
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre, in association with Castillo Theatre, will present Sowa's Red Gravy by Diane Richards at Castillo Theatre (543 West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.). Performances begin October 18th with Opening Night set for Sunday, October 28th. Performances continue through November 18th only.
In addition to Lonette McKee, Woodie King Jr. directs a cast that features Aaron Fried, JoNathan Peck, Kimberly Q, Toni SeaWright, Gary E. Vincent, Iris Wilson, David D. Wright, and Kene Holliday (Streamers, "Matlock," The Josephine Baker Story, G.I. Joe: (The Movie). Sowa's Red Gravy will have set design by John Scheffler, costume design by Ali Turns, lighting design by Antoinette Tynes, and sound design by Bill Toles. Bruce Heath will provide choreography.
Sowa's Red Gravy is a play filled with humor and insight by a master storyteller of Southern folklore. The six character play with music captures the sound, heart, and fury of African-American culture. The play is similar in style and content to the works of the Harlem Renaissance writers Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Sowa's Red Gravy is a play of southern "mulebone" folklore and unforgettable characters like Windy Willow, Sapphire and Luwana. Narrated by Sowa, a 110-year old wise woman, who resides in Harlem in quantum time, Sowa recounts her life before the emancipation and claims to have lived many lives as varied as a White Hollywood film star, an African Warrior and a Louisiana Voodoo Queen. Sowa's storytelling is so captivating that you are sure to be convinced she is telling the truth and you will delight in the other characters as well.
Playwright Diane Richards is a new voice in the American theatre and an emerging playwright that fills a much needed void in American theatre. Her greatest passion is writing. She is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, the most prestigious African American writers guild in the world, who's early founding members include Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Maya Angelou, Rosa Guy, Grace Edwards, Terry McMillan and Ossie Davis. Richards has studied fiction writing with James Baldwin and Elia Kazan's legendary editor – Sol Stein. Also a songwriter and screenwriter, Richards has had an impressive career in the entertainment industry winning recording artist awards, writing and producing her own material and associate producing NKOTB and Big L's albums on Sony Records. She remains active in the music and film world through memberships in ASCAP and the Independent Feature Project.
Director Woodie King Jr. is the Founder and Producing Director of New Federal Theatre. Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has presented over 250 productions in its 41-year history. Mr. King has produced and directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theatres, and in universities across the United States. He originated and subsequently co-produced For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (first produced by NFT and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre), What the Wine Sellers Buy, Reggae and The Taking of Miss Janie (Drama Critics Circle Award). His directional credits are extensive and include work in film as well as theater. Mr. King was recently inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution to the American Theater.
Lonette McKee received a Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of the tragic mulatto, Julie, in the Houston Grand Opera's production of Showboat, for which she received the distinction of becoming the first African American actress to play the coveted role in the US. She later reprised the role on Broadway for great theatrical director Hal Prince. She earned critical praise and a Drama Desk nomination for her heartbreaking portrayal of Billie Holiday in the one-woman hit drama with music, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. Lonette exploded onto the screen in a stunning feature film debut playing the beloved character, 'Sista' in the now cult-movie, Sparkle. Following were starring roles in films Which Way Is Up and Brewster's Millions opposite the legendary Richard Pryor, The Cotton Club and Gardens of Stone for renowned director, Francis Ford Coppola. Sundance Film Festival winner Lift earned Lonette a Black Reel nomination. Other films include Cuba, Men of Honor, 'Round Midnight (for legendary French filmmaker Bertrand Tavenier), Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, He Got Game and She Hate Me (for Spike Lee). Recently, Lonette appeared in A Day in Black and White, Honey, ATL, Paper Mache Chase, Fast Food Fast Women, Honey 2, This Narrow Place and LUV, opposite hip hop mega-star Common. TV films include Women of Brewster Place, with Oprah Winfrey (NAACP nomination); Having Our Say, Queen, To Dance with Olivia, For Love of Olivia, Blind Faith and Dangerous Passions. Lonette also received an NAACP nomination for her recurring appearances on As The World Turns and enjoyed a recurring lead role on hit series Third Watch. Other TV appearances include The Tonight Show, Today Show, Good Morning America and David Letterman. Lonette was recognized in "People Magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful" issue. Lonette has written and produced solo CD's entitled, Lonette, Words and Music, Natural Love, Acoustic Tracks and Lonette McKee and toured throughout the world in solo concert performances including the prestigious JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall. Lonette has studied Film Directing at The New School in NYC and apprenticed directing under the tutelage of Spike Lee. Lonette continues to write and produce music and screenplays along with television concepts for Lonette McKee Films Inc. Dream Street, an original screenplay for theatrical release will mark Lonette's directorial debut, and was chosen as a Finalist in Sundance Film Lab. Her music CDs Acoustic Tracks and Lonette McKee are now available via Black Ink Music Management. Currently, Lonette is a Contributor for the Huffington Post and teaches the Actors Workshop at The City College of New York Continuing and Professional Studies. Lonette is proud and honored that her first concert with friend and music great, Michael Henderson will be at CCNY's Aaron Davis Hall on November 2, 2012.
Performances of Sowa's Red Gravy will be Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30 PM, Saturday at 2 PM and 8 PM, and Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets will be $25 and can be ordered at www.castillo.org or by phone at 212/941-1234. No performance November 2. For more information, please visit www.newfederaltheatre.org or call NFT at 212-353-1176.


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May 12, 2019 Woodhouse College in London, GB
About the Nia White Belt
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.
Upon graduation, you are eligible to become a member. As a member, you obtain a teaching license (whether you decide to use it or not) and have exclusive access to an in-depth continuing education program, an online forum, and special benefits and privileges. You may enroll in the Green Belt Training - which is dedicated to the craft of teaching - at any time after completing your White Belt Training. You may also enroll in the next level of training, Blue Belt Training.
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My name is Dorit, I'm delighted to meet you here. I stumbled on Nia 14 years ago and my life and body changed forever. I had no intention of teaching Nia, just being a happy student. When I got back to London and discovered there were no classes, sheer desperation led me to take the training six months later and now here I am.
I am the UK's resident Nia Technique White Belt Trainer and in February 2014 I was awarded Nia Trainer of the Year by the Nia Training Faculty.
Nia is the ultimate personal development journey through the body. It is a brilliant way for coaches, trainers and faclitators to widen and deepen their experience as coaches and as people living in their bodies. It traines a physical connection to Joy which will transform your life as it did mine and so many other Nia teachers and students. It's packaged as an expressive fitness programme that will guide you into Loving your Body and loving your Life. It is empowering, graceful, playful and tender. Somatic Education will positively shape how you work, feel, look and live.
Nia is a Mind Body Soul dance that is a pathway to self knowing through the wisdom and intelligence of your body.
I was invited to become a trainer after bringing Nia to London and building the Nia London community of teachers. Over the past seven years over 70of my own students have gone on to become teachers.
Before finding the Nia Technique I worked as an Opera Singer for my local house CAPAB in Cape Town as well as small Opera companies such as British Youth Opera in the UK.
I believe that this work transforms every life it touches, I would love it to touch yours.
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I can't recall which television program I watched recently that had an interview with Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, but I remember thinking that I'd like to see more local coverage of this man who is so prominent among the Catholic bishops and their religious freedom focus. The Washington Post covered him, in an interview piece that includes some interesting background on the man. We're told about his "anger" in the first paragraph of the piece. In the second, changes in law that would force the Catholic Church to violate its teachings or stop some of its social work is portrayed as the church not "serving" same-sex couples. And then:
As the leader of the church's largest — and perhaps most controversial — effort in a generation or more, the archbishop's task is to convince Catholics that religious freedom is under attack in the United States and that religious traditionalists, in particular, are victims of something akin to racism and xenophobia. The campaign's main rallying cry has been an Obama administration mandate requiring most faith-based employers to make contraception available to employees.
"Aren't we 40 percent of the population?" Lori asked during an interview this week at a retreat center in rural Maryland. "Don't we provide more health care, more social services, than any other non-governmental organization? Why are we always in the crosshairs? Let us alone. Let us do our job. Let us be Catholics. Let us make our contribution to the common good according to our own likes. That's what America is about."
I like to look at the contrast between what we're told Lori is saying and then his actual quote, which sounds like it could have been set up rather differently.
Also, the mandate isn't just about requiring everyone to make contraception "available" to employees, as this article states. It's about forcing employers to purchase insurance that provides contraception, abortion drugs and sterilization free of charge. (Side note: I still love that the same media that tried to convince us that 98% of all women are popping contraception all the time or whatever -- debunking of that stat here -- are also trying to say that this mandate would be about making contraception "available." Pick one!)
Moving on:
A lot is at stake for the bishops, who have seen their authority severely eroded in recent decades amid the clergy sexual abuse crises and Catholics publicly ignoring church teaching on contraception, among other things.
Polls show many Catholics are unconvinced of the idea that religious liberty is under assault. Even some supportive bishops have worried publicly about the appearance of partisanship in an election-season movement that has encouraged priests each Sunday to sermonize against President Obama's policies.
A lot is at stake for the bishops? Not religious freedom. Not Catholic social work. Just the bishops because, it's really about those partisan bishops
who just praised Obama last week for his immigration decision. (At this point, I might suggest you read the actual words of the bishops -- such as this speech by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput -- for a countervailing view of what the bishops actually think is at stake. )
Perhaps the next paragraph is an attempt to substantiate it. But it doesn't work out so well. Who are these unnamed bishops (plural) who are so worried? And check out that language! Sermonizing! Mercy me! Does this language accurately convey why the response to the action from the federal government is happening now? Suggesting it's being done as part of the election -- rather than in response to when the Obama administration decided to force religious groups to fund insurance policies they oppose on doctrinal grounds -- is ... interesting.
And guess where that link under "Polls show many" goes to. It goes to a Public Religion Research Institute poll. Alana Goodman at Commentary critiqued the poll when it first got a ton of media attention (attention that typically failed to mention that the outfit that produced the poll isn't exactly neutral) a few months ago. She mentions that PRRI leadership has various ties to President Obama and adds:
Here are three problems that immediately jump out:
1.) No breakdown of the number of Catholic respondents.
The poll was taken from a random sample of 1,009 American adults aged 18 or older. But it doesn't include the percentage of the sample that's Catholic, making it impossible to figure out how meaningful the data from this group is.
2.) Strange sample weighting.
In a poll on religious opinions, you'd expect the pollster to weigh the sample to account for accurate representation of religious affiliation. But the sample in this poll was only weighted to the following five parameters: age, sex, geographic region, education and telephone usage. The last two – education and telephone usage – seem to be far less consequential to the poll than religion, and it's hard to see why they'd be included when religious affiliation was not. Occasionally, weighting can be used to manipulate polling data.
3.) An odd disclaimer.
Polls typically include a margin of error. In this case, the margin is +/- 3.5 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence. But they don't usually include disclaimers like this: "In addition to sampling error, surveys may also be subject to error or bias due to question wording, context and order effects."
Those are all controllable errors that professional pollsters are expected to avoid.
Is that really the poll we should be linking to? Or if we're going to link to polls from interested parties, why not mention that a group opposed to the mandate just released a poll and it included a section on religious liberty? They report, for what it's worth:
Religious Freedom: When asked as whether the federal government has the right to force morally objectionable coverage on religious institutions, 57 percent of voters said no. Those numbers remained high for women, with 54 percent of women under 45, and 58 percent of women 45 and older, disagreeing. This finding is nearly identical to that in a recent New York Times survey, which found a 57-36 margin favored allowing religious institutions to opt out of coverage.
Regarding the possibility that religious service providers may close down due to fines for refusing to comply with the mandate on conscience grounds, 65 percent of Catholics and 57 percent of women said they would question the wisdom of the mandate. Interestingly, those numbers were even higher for women under 45, with 63 percent responding that such closures would cause them to question the mandate.
When asked whether it is fair to suggest that Obama is creating divisions and conflicts in America, women were evenly split 48 to 48 percent, and Catholics agreed by 58 percent as compared with 41 percent who disagreed.
Also interesting was the strong and consistent support for the bishops' response, with large majorities of self-described Catholics, Active Catholics (those polled who regularly attend Mass), and non-Catholics agreeing it was appropriate for the bishops to address the issue. Half of all Active Catholics actually heard a letter from their bishop opposing the mandate read to them at Mass.
Since these results are in line with the New York Times/CBS poll (and others) from a few months ago, I'm not entirely sure the "Polls show many Catholics are unconvinced" line holds up. I mean it may be true, but "polls show even more Catholics are convinced" would also be true, right?
And then we get a quote from an historian at Notre Dame who says that the bishops' credibility has taken a hit. R. Scott Appleby is identified in the story simply as a historian. But he's the kind of historian who thought the Nobel Prize committee chose "brilliantly" when it picked President Barack Obama for an award (you have to read the last quote) and is a vigorous defender of President Obama, as you can hear in this interview where he defends Notre Dame University's decision to award President Obama an honorary doctorate.
The story does something few others do -- notes that Lori's focus on religious freedom began prior to the Obama administration instituting the mandate.
Then we get a quote from someone who says that Lori, among other less negative things, is "confrontational." Stephen Schneck, is identified simply as the director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at Catholic University. Readers are not told, however, that he's a vigorous opponent of the fight against the mandate and actively involved in defense of the mandate. And you might remember him from yesterday's story I highlighted, where he was going after the funding of the religious liberty campaign.
Anyway, there are informative and good parts of the story, too. And despite learning some stuff about this angry and confrontational guy who has no support from Catholic laypeople, the piece ends in this way:
Just before the interview, Lori launched a Mass service at the retreat center in Sparks with a prayer from the Book of Matthew.
"You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you," he said, standing in front of a huge wall of windows.
That's a heck of a kicker. But maybe next time quote a few people who aren't quite so political.


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I've been developing a grabber for tvheadend and came across a situation when adding/removing a lineup. When the system gets the response for antenna lineups, it seems they all have the name "Local Over the Air Broadcast". When you have multiple lineups, this is confusing. It would seem that it would make sense to append the location (zip code) to the name as in "Local Over the Air Broadcast - 92101". This would be similar to the name structure for cable/satellite lineups.
Anyone see any issues with changing the ota lineup names to this format?


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Great information of what to expect in the housing market for 2014.
I think the following sums it up perfectly "Normalcy is returning to residential real estate," says Lee. "People are seeking homes for all the right reasons: to gain shelter and security, raise a family, and generate long-term wealth."
The more I meet with both sellers and buyers i am hearing less concern about value and more questions regarding "life style and life style needs"
Buyers, Sellers Will Jump Off the Fence This Year
Consumers are more committed to buying or selling this year, according to Prudential Real Estate's fourth quarter Consumer Outlook Survey. Of the 2,500 consumers surveyed, 78 percent held a favorable view of real estate, a five-point jump from the previous quarter and 15 points higher than at the end of 2012. Sixty-three percent said they were more committed to buying and selling in 2014.
One generation in particular has a favorable perception of real estate right now: Millennials. The generation peaked at 87 percent with a favorable perception of real estate in the latest survey.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Rob Klinkhammer was so wide open, with so much gaping net with which to deposit his first National Hockey League goal Saturday night, that when the red light went on he looked a lot like the late Jim Valvano at the 1983 NCAA Basketball Championships.
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"I waited and worked my whole life for that moment. It's been a pretty long road," said the 26-year-old native of Lethbridge, Alberta, who was never drafted and toiled in the American Hockey League since 2007 – other than 15 NHL games with Chicago and Ottawa. "I was so open and I didn't think (teammate Boyd Gordon) was going to find me. I just knew he was going to shoot it.
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Shane Doan scored his fourth goal in the last six games to give the Coyotes a 1-0 lead in the first. It was only the third time in the past 16 games that the Coyotes managed to score first – dating back to a 2-0 shutout against the Stars here on Feb. 2 – but it's a key for them. They are now 7-1-1 this season and 107-13-6 when taking a 1-0 lead since coach Dave Tippett came to Arizona in 2009.
Mike Smith, who had allowed 18 goals in his past four games, returned to form with 21 saves to help the Coyotes avoid their first three-game losing streak of the season and jump over Dallas and back into a Western Conference playoff spot.
The Coyotes blocked a season-high 29 shots in the game, eight of them by defenseman Zbynek Michalek and four during a 5-on-3 Dallas power play midway through the third period.
"Those guys made more saves than I did," Smith said. "I think 'Z' did for sure. Those guys really buckled down. We talked about protecting our house for the whole 60 minutes and we did a really good job."
Kari Lehtonen made 21 saves for Dallas but the Stars, who had scored three or more goals in 13 of 14 games since being blanked here, struggled in the desert. Jaromir Jagr scored career goal No. 675 in the second period for Dallas to make it a 2-1 game, but Smith shut the door there and continued his mastery over his old team.
Smith is now 7-1-5 in 13 games against the Stars, who drafted him in the fifth round in 2001.
"You have to give them credit. They played hard defensively and they got in our lanes," Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan said. "We needed to be better about at net presence and getting shots past the first defender instead of getting them blocked.
"Down 2-0 against these guys, it's not easy to come back. But I thought we should have gotten a point."
The Coyotes took the coveted 1-0 lead on another great play by their budding star on the blue line.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson jumped off the bench and raced to the blue line to snag a Steve Sullivan drop-pass before it went offside. He did pirouette around Dallas' Eric Nystrom before finding Antoine Vermette behind the goal line. Vermette punched a pass to Doan at the lip of the crease and he pushed it by Lehtonen at 16:59.
Ekman-Larsson leads the Coyotes in assists (14) and points (17) and continues to do so with flair.
"There's only three or four guys in the League who can make that play and (Ekman-Larsson) is one of them," Doan said.
Then at 10:38 of the second it was time for Klinkhammer, who didn't get to Arizona from Portland of the AHL until after 3 a.m. due to weather and flight delays, to savor his moment to remember.
"We've been looking for an opportunity to get him in," Tippett said. "He's has such a good year in Portland (14 goals, 44 points). And playing where he did tonight, with Gordon and David Moss, is exactly the kind of player he is. He's a solid player, strong on the wall and gives us a good forecheck down there."
The Coyotes had all the momentum, but lost the handle when Klinkhammer was sent to the box for interference and Moss popped a puck into the stands 24 seconds later. With a 5-on-3 power play, Jagr beat Smith with a wrist shot over the shoulder at 18:19 for his team-leading 10th goal.
Amazingly, the Stars got another extended 5-on-3 under almost the same circumstances in the third period. With Kyle Chipchura already in the box, Vermette's diving clear attempt went over the glass and the Stars had another extended 5-on-3 for 1:29. But the Phoenix penalty kill smothered Dallas, allowing only one shot.
"That was our chance to get back in the game," Dallas defenseman Stephane Robidas said. "They stop us there and that gives them the momentum to win the game."


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New England Law | Boston or UMass Dartmouth School of Law
May 09, 2012, 04:57:26 PM »
I got accepted into New England School of Law and UMass Dartmouth School of Law. UMass recently received provisional ABA accreditation. I am planning to attend part-time evening program.
UMass is very close to my work and lot cheeper then NESL.
NESL has a better taxation program.
Thank you so much for all of your inputs.
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Re: New England Law | Boston or UMass Dartmouth School of Law
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May 09, 2012, 09:59:27 PM »
I don't have any personal experience with either school, so keep that in mind as you read this. To me, it sounds like UMass is probably a better bet.
1) It's cheaper, a huge advantage. Since neither school currently has a huge reputation, you might as well save money.
2) The UMass system is fairly well respected, and I think there's a good chance that UMass Law will eventually build up a solid reputation. Having a strong, well recognized parent institution supporting the law school is invaluable. It means that even though the law school is new, the institution already has experience with administration, fundraising, setting up financial aid programs, etc. All of that experience will come into play when the law school applies for full ABA approval. The ABA looks at everything from long term financial viability, to employment policies and administrative stability. Also, UMass has already hired some pretty good people, including Malagrino (formerly of La Verne and USD) for property. All good signs.
3) NESL, on the other hand, has probably peaked and isn't going any higher.
Re: New England Law | Boston or UMass Dartmouth School of Law
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May 13, 2012, 12:02:44 PM »
Share what you have learned about UMass, please. I poked around a little and really got no where- which makes me suspect there isn't too much going on for students in the Dartmouth area. I have real hopes for UMass, but idk.
NESL or UMass? Both are risky, buy Roald's analysis is a good one. In Mass, of all the schools on the lower end, UMass is probably you're best bet. Problem is, its still a gamble. But so is Suffolk, W. NE and NESL. Don't scoff at going cheaper- that is a huge deal, huge. Good luck.
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May 15, 2012, 09:40:58 AM »
Thank you so much for all of your responds. I am a CPA and have almost 7 years of experience in taxation. I want to specialize in taxation.
Here are my analyses:
UMass Dartmouth Evening Division:
Provisional ABA Accredited.
Tuition is $25000 cheaper than NESL.
Only 10 minutes away from my work.
They have a great transitional to Law School program. I can take one class in this summer prior to start the Law School and I will have a less load on my first semester.
New England Law | Boston Evening Division:
Fully ABA Accredited.
Coupe hours commute.
Reputation is lot better than UMass Dartmouth.
Re: New England Law | Boston or UMass Dartmouth School of Law
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May 15, 2012, 10:13:05 AM »
UMass doesn't have a tax clinic or at least vita? Really? I don't know too much about tax law, but you may need a LLM anyways. Idk there.
Does UMass have any class reciprocity with any law schools? I would if I were them- meaning you can still take the classes if you wish.
I wouldn't say NELS's rep is a lot better- its still a low end school. GL
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May 15, 2012, 10:17:29 AM »
Although I'm not a tax attorney, I doubt that the extra five classes in taxation offered at NESL will make much difference when it comes to getting a job. In my experience, employers rarely pay much attention to the specifics of your transcript. Your background in accounting will likely be the prime factor. However, my understanding is that tax is one of the few areas of legal practice where an LL.M is preferred (required for some jobs). Maybe the extra classes would help you get into a good LL.M program.
Here's the thing (and please understand that I don't mean this as criticism): neither school is very prestigious, so you might as well save the money. I'm not sure that I'd agree that NESL's reputation is a lot better than UMass's. NESL has been around a while, and has always been a lower tier school. UMass is new, which means they don't yet have a reputation. However, in my opinion UMass has the potential to become a very good school. Frankly, I think it will quickly surpass NESL, Suffolk, and Northeastern. Remember, "new" doesn't mean "bad". The UMass system is large and well respected, and this will benefit the law school immensly.
In my neck of the woods (CA), we've had two new schools pop up (UC Irvine and Chapman) within the last decade. Chapman quickly passed up its competition in Orange County (Whittier and WSU), and UCI is slated to pass up everyone in southern California except UCLA and (maybe) USC! Not bad for start-ups.
Lastly, the time you'll save commuting is important. Especially in your first year, law school is almost unbelievably demanding. An easy commute, low stress day will really help. In the end, remember that I have no actual experience with either school. Do what you think is right for you!
Good Luck!
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May 19, 2012, 05:34:53 PM »
No kidding. A couple hour commute first year- Dude, you need those three to four hours a day- not want, need. If you go to law school in Boston you'll need to be closer, unless you go part time.
Not trying to be mean, but how much have you thought this through?
Re: New England Law | Boston or UMass Dartmouth School of Law
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May 21, 2012, 06:58:46 AM »
Again, thank you so much everyone. If I do choose to go to NESL I will have to quit my job sooner or later. It is not practice to drive every day to Boston. You all right UMass make complete sense to me. I have sign up for the summer class at UMass so I will have a one less class in the summer.
I have one more question, while I will be taking summer class at the UMass, this will give me opportunity to explore more about law school. I have an option to quit the Law School after summer class and prior to the orientation. Do you all think I should paid $600 to NESL to hold a seat for me, just in case? This way I will have an option in August if something didnt work out at the UMass? Today is the last day to make payment at the NESL.
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May 21, 2012, 11:14:35 AM »
That all depends on your financial resources. You can have a safety net if you choose and can afford it, but I'd make a commitment if I were you.
Does UMass not charge a seat deposit? That would up the cost to $1200.
Seat deposits are designed to force the average person to make a commitment to a school as to open seats up in schools you plan on not attending. As a matter of manners and courtesy to someone one NESL's waitlist you may want to withdraw rather than linger until fall.
Idk, your reluctance to commit to UMass should tell you something. Maybe you should just wait a year. You seem unsure. Don't go to a law school you will regret in the future.
Roald and I both prefer UMass of these two, but like Roald said UMass is new and we don't know yet what their potential will be. Regardless, NESL is a risky and frighteningly expensive choice, UMass maybe risky, we just don't know how much yet. GL
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May 21, 2012, 12:40:51 PM »
Having graduated from UMass Dartmouth undergrad, it is likely they may become ABA approved in the time you are there. However, it seems more practical to go to the school that gives you more of the taxation classes you want. Can't you take the train in to Boston? My parents live about 20 minutes from U-Mass and it only takes me about 35 - 40 minutes to get to Boston from there. Look into taking the T. The commute from route 24 is not bad until you get to the 93. There must be a stop and ride somewhere in that area, Brockton, or maybe closer. I know it's a lot more money, but I think you should go to the school that focuses more on the type of practice you want to do. I work full-time and commute about one hour to school and about a half hour back with no traffice at night. If the T runs fairly consistently after your classes, then it might be worth it. You can always read on the way there. Where do you live?
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