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A certain somebody has to go and have a birthday! Yesterday was my birthday, and it was a full day of laziness and good food. I slept in, then stayed in bed even after I was awake, then finally got up. I ate my first meal at 1 p.m., if that helps put my level of laziness into perspective. Jeff had to work, so the kids and I just took it easy most of the day. Kaylee and I managed to make it to the mall to look for clothes to wear to my super-fantastic dinner later that night. Kaylee didn't find anything she loved, but I found a cute dress and some really cute shoes! We left for Park City soon after Jeff got home. Our dinner reservations were for Chez Betty, one of my favorite places to eat on this entire earth! Brit got kind of sick on the way, so he spent a good 45 minutes in the bathroom, before we knew if we were going to be able to even sit down. Turns out he needs to stop drinking full water bottles on an emptly stomach. Kids! I ordered the Chef's Tasting Menu which included all four courses. First course was a cold melon soup, second course was an arugula and fried peach salad, main course was salmon with horseradish potatoes in a bacon herb broth, and dessert was chocolate pudding cake with house-made coconut ice cream. Can you even believe how good that all sounds?!? It WAS as good as it sounds. It was also nice to be in Park City where the air seems a little cleaner, and the temps are a little lower. This year my birthday was just the way I like them... lazy and delicious!
Thanks to everyone who dropped by, emailed, called, I/M-ed, and texted, their happy birthdays to me!!! I honestly don't deserve such great friends and family! But if I'm honest, I loved the extra attention :) Thanks to Kaylee, Brit, and Jeff for making my birthday great. Love to everyone!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Labels: birthdays, chez betty, family
Born on April 17, 2008, Dimple Dell Farm's Wintersong was too weak to stand, too little to survive. We found her in the barn, still on the ground, mostly dry, on a freezing cold spring day. We were not expecting her or her sister this year since we didn't think her mom had been bred. Usually with goats, they will start to fill their udder several weeks before an impending birth, and mama Marilou had no udder this year. Winter's twin sister was bigger and stronger and had been able to stand and get her first vital milk. Kaylee was distraught over the fact that this little baby goat was just going to lay there freezing to death, so we picked her up and brought her inside. It was obvious that she had not developed properly in the womb. Her little voice didn't sound "right", and she was unable to bear any weight on her hind legs. It was too much for me to see Kaylee so upset over this little goat, so I went out to try to get some milk and colostrum from her mom. Luckily there was enough milk for both babies by this time and we put it into a bottle to see if tiny would take it. She did. This meant that it would be a long day, a long night, and another long day, and the odds were stacked high against this little girl's survival. If she was never able to stand, and hold her weight, she would not make it. We fed her every four hours and by the next morning she was attempting to stand on her own. She wasn't successful though, and by the second night I was feeling pretty sick about the whole situation because Kaylee was getting more and more attached. On day three, against the odds, that little goat stood and walked around on her own. Later that day we took her back out to the barn to help keep her a part of the herd. She never did learn to nurse from her mom, but she did still have a bond with mom and sister, whom Kaylee named Meadowsong. After the first few days, bottle feedings got farther apart and life calmed down a bit. Little Winter won Kaylee's heart. She has been more like a puppy following Kaylee around the pasture and yard, eating from a bottle, and giving sloppy kisses. Kaylee started calling her Baby Girl, and she would come to Kaylee when called. I know Kaylee wanted to keep her, and I would have said yes to keeping her, if we were going to move to a place where we could still keep goats. But we are not, and so we've had to find homes for all our goats. We had just four little girls left from our babies this year and since they have been weaned, and our adult goats all have a new home, it was time to list the girls for sale. On Sunday we got a call from a family looking for baby goats just like ours. They came out to take a look and it was then it finally hit Kaylee that Baby Girl may have to leave. Indeed the family wanted to take all four girls. Again, Kaylee was distraught. We talked it over with her, she knew that this family was a great place for little Winter, and that she would be able to stay with her sister and cousins, but the grief of having to let her go was almost too much. We've cried many, many tears these past two days as Kaylee tried to decide whether or not to let her go.
This afternoon, the family came back to pick up the goats. I can't tell you how terrible I've felt having to watch MY baby girl sob and agonize over her decision to let little Winter go to this new, good home. Isn't this just the worst part about parenting?
Kaylee, I'm so proud of you. You are strong, even if you don't think so. Love you, Mom.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
...keeps you up all night! In keeping with our plan of "voluntary simplicity", we are having to find new homes for most of our pets. Last Saturday we took four of our goats to their new, awesome, home at Heidi's little farm in South Jordan. She had been ready for them for a few weeks, but it took me a while to finally say, "Okay, I'm ready to let my babies go." The story would be kind of funny if I wasn't still in mourning, but I'll tell it anyway...
Transporting goats is a little more difficult than dogs or cats. You can't just put them in the backseat! Goats are constantly rumenating (chewing their cud), which means they are constantly eliminating (think pee and poop). I had been trying to come up with a way to get all four, full-sized goats to their new home for some time, and Jeff had been trying to come up with a way to get my mom's piano out of our house, and more recently garage for about six years. Being the smartie-pants that he is (we've established this in previous posts), Jeff devised a plan to take care of both problems at once. UHaul! So early Saturday morning we wheeled the piano out of the garage and up the ramp, tied it securely at the front of the truck, and were ready for delivery number one... or so I thought. That was when Jeff informed me that we were paying 79 cents per mile, and that we were only making one trip! Hmmm... I wonder how well my mom is going to like this plan? Out to the barn we went to get the goats (remember the eliminating?), and into the back of the truck they went. It took some shuffling and a lot of food to get everyone situated. That's when Kaylee mumbled to me, "The goats are climbing on the piano." As soon as the door to the back came down, Jack started wailing.
When Jack wails, it sounds like he is dying a violent and bloody death. He kept wailing the entire trip and I am just glad we didn't run into anyone in law enforcement. Can you imagine the list of violations? "No officer, we've never been convicted of animal cruelty." "No sir, we don't normally treat our good furniture this way." We made it to Heidi's without a glitch, unloaded the goats and said our sad goodbyes. Next stop, Kay's house. Luckily she wasn't home when we got there, otherwise the process would have taken even longer, due her hyperventilating right there in the driveway. Tim seemed fine with things though, bless his good natured and laid back little heart, so we wheeled the piano down the ramp and into THEIR garage. Kaylee played a few goodbye notes, and damned if that piano wasn't still in perfect tune!
Despite my reservations about this ill-gotten plan, it all worked out pretty well. After some hard-core hose and nozzle action, the back of the truck looked good as new. It only took me four days to come to terms with my grief, and post about it. I am happy with the home situation we found for my goaties, so hopefully my good luck will continue while we find new homes for cats, dogs, chickens, and ponies. Then, maybe, I can start sleeping at night again. My only regret, I guess, was my decision not to warn my mom about eating those chocolate covered raisins in her piano!
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Monday, July 21, 2008
I love to sing. I don't have a good singing voice, but my kids tell me I do a mean Axel Rose in 'Sweet Child of Mine'. So I guess '80's glam rock is my strong point. One of the hazards of being a singing fool, is that inevitably I will get the lyrics wrong from time to time. In my defense, many times the artist is nearly impossible to understand, so I figure they are just asking for it. I blame my mom for this actually. She used to replace the lyrics of songs she felt were 'inapropriate', with some she felt better about. How can a person be expected to be a stickler for lyrical perfection, when her own mother taught her it was fine to just sing it the way you hear it?!? For example, I was 14 before I realized that Kenny Roger's 'The Gambler' didn't say, "you never count your BLESSINGS when you're sittin' at the table, there'll be time enough for countin', when the DINNER'S done." I was with some friends, going to the mall or something, when the song came on and I began to sing these made-up lyrics. Imagine my embarassment! It was a long time before I heard the end of that one. It was a popular song in it's day! Everyone (except me) knew that it went, "you never count your MONEY, when you're sittin' at the table, there'll be time enough for countin', when the DEALIN'S done." Yes, the song was about gambling, the title after all, was The Gambler, but my mom didn't agree with gambling, so she made the song all about dinner.
I also think it's funny when you could swear the lyrics go a certain way, and then later find out you were way off! One of my favorite things is to listen to my kids in the backseat of the car trying to sing along with a cd or the radio. It's funny what words they will put in based on their age, and scope of the world around them.
My kids are great about coming up with replacement words for swears in songs they like. Squish (our dog's name) can replace a swear word starting with Sh, gosh, and dang, are always great lyrical censor words, and sometimes just yelling BLEEP at the offending word is enough.
The worst offending band of all time, I think, is Aerosmith. My worst interpretation of song lyrics was way back when Aerosmith released 'Dude Looks Like a Lady'. I tried and tried to figure that one out, but all I heard was... well I can't even repeat it here! I think they just allow for Steven Tyler to sing gibberish for a certain percentage of each of their songs!
I guess that's the great thing about art... we can all interpret it in our own way!
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Labels: aerosmith, kenny rogers, music, song lyrics
Friday, July 18, 2008
It feels like that sometimes, doesn't it? When people ask my kids where they go to school and, of course they reply they are homeschooled, the next question is most always aimed at me: "How do you do that?" Certain days, when I'm feeling irritated about having to answer this same question over and over again, or maybe I'm just feeling smug... I say "Heh, it's not that hard. I just put them in front of the t.v." It's kinda true though. I mean, not the part about putting them in front of the t.v., but the role that media today plays in our reality, and quite frankly, in how we relate to one another. For example, the title of my post about my impending birthday (YOU PUT YOUR WEED IN THERE) is a line from a movie that Jeff uses everytime anyone talks about anything floral. It's as predictable as the sun rising each morning, and I knew as soon as he read the content of my post, that exact quote would automatically pop into his head. Or take my brother-in-law, Nate, who has a song for everything. I'm not sure I've had many conversations with him where it didn't end with a correlating verse from one song or another. The guy's a walking IPod!
So in keeping up with our lofty goal to make our kids the smartest on the block, we took them to two movies this weekend. Thursday night we got to see an early showing of "The Dark Knight" at a private function. Jeff and Brit were awarded our tickets after attending a seminar on all new things nerdy in the IT world. We really liked the movie, but I won't say much more. I don't want to be the spoiler in case readers have not yet seen it. Here's my only comment... IMO, the Joker character lived up to all the hype! If you're a fan of the Batman movies, this one is worth the full-admission price.
Movie #2 was "Mamma Mia" this afternoon. We went to the Off Broadway production when it came to Capitol Theatre this past year and looooved it! We really liked the movie too, but it wasn't "Phantom of the Opera" good. Of course it's never apples to apples when you try to compare a live, onstage performance to a motion picture performance. But, again, worth seeing on the big screen. The music can't be beat! It was just a little weird for me to see James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) break into song, while wearing a skin-tight, metallic jumpsuit. Yep, just a little weird.
What did we learn? We learned a $150,000,000 budget gets you a pretty, darn, good, action hero movie. We learned that not all A-list actors should be cast in certain roles, simply because they are A-list actors. And, most importantly, we learned that Gotham City is not a great place for a family vacation, but Greece looks like a fabulous family destination! It's great to get a heads-up about these things before booking airfare.
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Labels: dark knight, mamma mia, pop culture
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Baby Ryker decided to make an early arrival on Tuesday, July 15th, at 8:24 p.m. At two weeks early he weighed in at 6 lbs. 8 oz. and is 18 1/2 in. long. He is so tiny and cute! He has Joe's ears, nose, eyes, and hair. He has Keely's mouth and chin. It's funny when you see little babies and can pick out the features from each of the parents, it kind of reminds me of playing the Wii, picking out your Mii. Kaylee couldn't wait to hold him, and I couldn't stop thinking about miniature ketchup and mustard bottles the whole time we were visiting... sometimes I wonder, on a scale of 1 to 10, how demented my brain actually is! Brit graciously allowed Kaylee and I to hog all the baby holding time, somehow though, I don't think it was that big of a sacrifice for him. I've noticed that boys and men are more hesitant to hold a new baby. Why is that, I wonder?
This is Joe's second boy, and Keely's first. She had been in for a scheduled dr. appt. just hours earlier and her dr. joked, after examining her, that she was just really resisting having this baby. I think Keely was kind of wishing to hold out until her mom was to arrive from Minnesota on the 26th. Keely went home to take a nap, lay down on her bed, and POP! Her water broke. After only a couple of phone calls to try to confirm her suspicions, the contractions started. At 2:30 p.m. she left for the hospital, at 3:30 p.m. she was in her room, and at 8:24 p.m., another tiny Miracle arrived. She had a great delivery and everyone is healthy and happy. Except Keely's mom, who is still in Minnesota feeling sad she missed the birth of her only daughter's first baby.
Congratulations Joe and Keely!!!
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
If you've been following my blog, you may recall that we planted a garden this year. Some of the garden is doing well, some things are struggling. I didn't do anything fantastic to encourage growth, and in fact some of the seeds we used had been sitting around for several years. So I guess the fact that anything is growing, is a good thing. This year we did use a super-special kind of fertilizer, it's hard to come by, but seems to do the trick. It's a goat-chicken-horse manure mix that we made ourselves! I don't normally experiment with animal feces, but hey, we've got all that poop just lying around waiting for flies, why not make something out of it? The plants seem to love it, sadly, the weeds seem to love it more. We have the biggest weeds you've ever seen!!! I spent a few hours out there pulling them out and feeding them to the animals, but soon realized that the weeds were probably going to win. I decided to make the best of the situation... we are eating the weeds. I'm not kidding either. I guess a lot of the weeds we have in our garden are edible. I know! Who woulda thought? Mostly they get blended up with our fruit smoothies.
The two things I love best about summer are: going out barefoot (or with flip-flops), and the fresh produce. Tonight for dinner we had fresh corn on the cob, fresh strawberries and cream, and zucchini right out of our garden. So yummy! Weeds or no weeds, gardens rock!
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Labels: fresh vegetables, gardening, weeds
Sunday, July 13, 2008
In two weeks it will be the eve of my birthday. Most of the time I don't pay much attention to how many years old I am, I like to think I'm not aging, obviously I'm wrong. But as soon as July starts, it seems a clock begins to tick in my head... louder and louder every day, reminding me that soon I will be leaving another age number behind. This year is especially bad because I will turn 39! This next year will be my last in a decade, after this year I will no longer be able to say, "I'm in my thirties..." or "I'm a thirty-something mom of two..." etc, etc. I had a really hard time with this same issue ten years ago when I was turning 29. You'd think that 30 would have been harder on me, but it wasn't! Besides, 20, 30, 40, are all milestones, right? You've made it to start another decade! I've done a little something each milestone that I'd thought about doing for many years beforehand. Something a little, shall we say, daring? On the edge? Unexpected? So to help me think forward to my next decade milestone, instead of dwelling on the fact that this year is 39, I'm looking for the next celebratory ritual I should partake of on my big 40. I'm pretty sure no one (maybe Jeff) knows what I did when I turned 20, and only a select few know what my turning 30 symbol was, but I'm up for suggetions for this next one.
Here's the only catch... if it's illegal, I just won't be able to do it. I've thought, on more than one occasion, that it might be fun to see what happens when one smokes a joint (scandalous, I know) and in the past, when I was younger and thinner, I thought it might be liberating to streak a public beach. But I have this hang-up about getting into trouble... in fact I used to be mortified when my mom would park the family station wagon in a handicap stall at the grocery store, claiming that having to drag seven kids along to get groceries WAS a handicap. I'd murmur under my breath, "Having to win back seven kids from Child Protective Services after you've been hauled off to jail seems like a bigger handicap to me!"
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
It's been a year since I got my super-fantastic car. I think good cars must be like good spouses, because I love my car more today, than the day I brought her home! I have never been so in love with a non-living object in my entire life. I've already posted about WHAT I love about driving my Prius, but I don't think I told the story of HOW I got my Prius.
The year was 2002 and I was surfing the web, checking out my usual "how to save the planet" sites, when I came across the Toyota Prius. Well after reading all I could about hybrids and electric cars, and prototypes for all kinds of funky vehicles, I knew that the Prius was the car for me. Even after my convincing arguments for why we really, really, needed this cool hybridized car, Jeff was not impressed. Instead he took me to a Jeep dealership and bought a Wrangler. The Wrangler was cool, we had some fun times. We also had to rebuild the transmission, tow a utility trailer to Costco just to get the groceries home, and make the kids climb over the front passenger seat once it wouldn't slide forward anymore. Obviously we'd made a little mistake when we got this Wrangler as our everyday driver. But, like the smartie pants that he is, Jeff learned his lesson, and we traded the thing in on a new car for me... I drove home in a 2005 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited! That's right, this time was going to be different because the Unlimited model gave us an extra 18 inches of room! True, this time was different, because we got the thing lifted, got bigger wheels and tires, and a whole new suspension. Didn't take long to realize I couldn't get into the lifted Jeep without a step-stool, so we invested in some rock rails (that's off road speak for running boards). I don't know how many thousands of dollars we put into that Jeep in the two years we owned it, but I do know this... nothing we did to it made it easier to drive, shop, carpool, or use it as my everyday car!
I didn't give up on my Prius dreams. I must have finally worn Jeff down because in June 2007, he put the Wrangler Unlimited up for sale and told me if I still wanted a Prius, we could get one. Cue Hallelujah music. It wasn't as easy as just going to a dealership and picking one out, they were in short supply a year ago, and they were selling for sticker price, no room for negotiations. But they were much easier to get a year ago than they are today! And we didn't pay a $6000 upcharge for a used one like people are doing now! I love my car for so many reasons, but the fact that I could sell it today at a year old and actually make a profit just adds to my satisfaction!
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Labels: eco-friendly, hybrid, new car, prius
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
It's been a while since I've been tagged. I played fair and took my pics without cleaning, or altering things... bear in mind though, that all I'm doing all day long is painting, packing, working in the yard, and getting ready for carpet... so go easy on me with the messes!
Someday I want to tour the Mediterreanean Coast!
Just woke up, no shower, no make-up.
Can you see Brit behind his laptop?
Yep, that's it... this made me realize Jeff has twice as many clothes as I do!
The guest bedroom is my favorite room right now because it's the only clean room in the house.
I'm sure that bejeweled flip-flops are painfully out of style, but I love these old friends!
I did cheat a little by throwing something over my bra :)
Ack! Disgusting!!!
Too crowded.
Now I get to tag a few...
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Labels: photo tag
Thursday, July 3, 2008
This is where my thought trail went today as I looked out my kitchen window. I had been singing "God Bless America" in my head, (Independence Day) when I looked out to see my brother sweating buckets in the midday heat as he stained our deck. If Devin is staining the deck, it means I don't have to, and that's a good thing. I don't know what I was on when I thought we could get the entire house painted, carpeted, cleaned, remodeled, and organized in time to put it up for sale. But I must have really been nuts to think we could tackle the exterior and yard too, all by ourselves, with no outside help!!! So, today, as I moped around cursing my mutinous body for having a Fibro flare-up at a time when I need it to cooperate most, I was grateful for the help we're getting. Thanks so much to Devin, Tanner (my nephew), the sprinkler guy Jeremy, and Oscar and his lawn crew.
Progress report: This week we got the basement painted and the new carpet put in. It looks and smells fantastic. Devin scraped and painted the white wood fences, and will have the deck completely done tomorrow. Tanner came over a couple of days this week to help with flower beds and general yard maintenance. He's trying to work enough hours to earn a muzzle loader (rifle) from Jeff.
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Labels: fibromyalgia, house remodel, siblings


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Last Monday I attended the "MAKE IT YOUR OWN" t-shirt reconstruction competition put on by the wonderful Costume Museum of Canada , Mitchel's Fabric & T-shirt Connection. I needed a side project to mix things up, and was dying to see what exciting designs would result from such an open invitation. I wasn't disappointed! Here are just a few of my favorite designs (of which there were just under 40 entries!).
Seriously cool designs by Andrew of Lennard Taylor and Adrienne of Eat Really Super Fast Blog
A cute patchy "labotopus" by Naomi Goodman
Adorable Spring Dresses by Linda Vuong and Carmen of HugMe Dresswear
and a slouchy, very pretty reversible bag by Belinda Morales!
1st place was taken home by the very deserving Veronica Davis who used a technique which separated the jersey into gauzy spider webs to cover the skirt of her garment, along with a full bodice of braided strands of hand stitched jersey. So impressive!
2nd place : Lune Jersey Mock-Moccasins!
Yay! I was so excited to land 2nd place in a competition that displayed such ingenuity and talent. The best part though, is that through doing a side project like this, I met a lot of creative people, and tried something new. I had so much fun making these boots (yep, I made them my size so I could wear them like crazy).
The entire boot of these Jersery Mocs was cut from a single grey men's cotton t-shirt. I experimented with Dylon - Sunflower Yellow to dye the fringe a nice heathery hue. The bottom of the boots are leather for durability (and a bit of texture). Insoles keep toes warm. The drawstring closure is also created from a strand of jersey, topped off with speckled feathers.
Side projects are an amazing way to keep your creativity flowing, and have you looking at materials in a new way. What a great experience!
XO Jill

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Any business owner knows that the success of a company is a sum of multiple things: some are small and their influence may not be immediately apparent, others are obvious. But no matter what kind of business you run, there is one thing you simply cannot afford to neglect – your graphic design.
1. Company Logo
Your company's logo is what people first encounter when they get in touch with your business. All successful businesses share one trait: their logos are immediately recognizable, even if they are partially obscured. One may say that they are recognizable because these companies are so well-known, but this works both ways, and the logo itself contributes greatly to the overall name recognition of the company.
Take Apple, for example. Their original design was overly complicated and rather generic. It would, of course, be an exaggeration to say that it is the change of logo that brought them success; but it is certain that its current logo has long ago became an immanent part of Apple's corporate identity and cannot be changed without harming the company's standing a great deal. It ideally combines all the features of the best logos: simplicity, unmistakability and consistency.
2. Collateral Materials
Business cards, brochures, window stickers, visual aids, letterheads – all these things can and should be used to create and maintain your corporate identity. Don't think that the age of physical collateral material has passed. On the contrary, people today are so used to web marketing, social networks and suchlike that good old printed marketing tools can make all the difference.
For example, recent research carried out by Deliver magazine shows that clients from all age categories who received printed catalogs spent 28% more on average than those who didn't receive one.
3. Web Design
Today, in a world where people get most of their information from the Internet, it doesn't come as a surprise that web design plays an enormous role in improving sales. Trends, principles and tricks of the trade aimed at improving conversion rates evolve all the time; and fortunately for business owners, it is one of the best documented marketing directions of today. The Internet is rife with case studies showing the results of various A/B tests, and according to them even seemingly unimportant changes in web design can lead to increase in conversion rates ranging from 5-10% to a whopping 595%.
4. Social Media
Social media design is directly connected with more orthodox web design, but in recent years it has gradually turned into an industry of its own. Various social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and so on occupy an ever-growing part of people's lives. They spend more time there than simply surfing the Internet. They communicate with each other. They find new information. And businesses that manage to harness this trend are harvesting enormous benefits. The Q3 Social Intelligence Report from Adobe shows that last year such social networks as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter saw respectively a 39, 150 and 300 percent increase in revenue per visitor.
5. Packaging
Most companies treat packaging in a purely utilitarian fashion – as a way to ship their product to clients so that the product isn't damaged on the way. Which doesn't mean that it is the way you should behave as well. On the contrary, it is an excellent opportunity to stand out. And it isn't just a theory. For example, an eye-tracking study by Strategir that researched the influence of different variants of packaging on customer behavior resulted in design changes that increased overall sales by 15%!
6. Advertising
With all that new-fangled online marketing one can forget about good old-fashioned methods of attracting attention. TV, magazines, newspapers, signboards, yard signs, flyers and suchlike can and should still be used to promote your services and products. You simply should take into account what mediums may sell your product best. For example, TV ads are the best medium in terms of reach (71%) among affluent adults, being especially effective in selling luxury items (costing more than $75,000). The same goes for magazines. Although magazine reach is somewhat lower than that of online ads (48% vs. 50%), among luxury prospects magazines show much better results.
Graphic design is crucial for creating your company's identity; and once it is created and established, it is very hard to change it. That is why if you are just starting out it is wise to have a brainstorm and consider every idea very carefully before making any final choices.
Featured photo credit: Bee & Bear Calendar 2010 by 2B design/Victor Chang via flickr.com


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KINGS POINT, NY, Sept. 7, 2018 – On Friday, August 31, United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumnus, Lieut. Spencer Grinnell, USCG, USMMA Class of 2011, was part of a Coast Guard Search and Rescue crew that responded to a rescue call for an man and his 7-year-old granddaughter.
The two, who were spending one of the last days of summer boating, became stranded when they ran aground in the shallow waters of Grassy Point, NJ. Lieut. Grinnell, a crewmember aboard an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter out of Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, was responsible for successfully hoisting them to safety.
Click here for USCG video and audio footage of Lieut. Grinnell during the rescue.
Updated: Friday, September 7, 2018


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Hello there lovely Makelight readers! It's Alyssa, back for a new Agnes Makes to share with you here on Makelight!
This month, I wanted to share a super easy bake which is a personal favourite of mine {it's chock full of marzipan, which I could easily eat all by itself!}. I love to bake seasonally too, so for this recipe I added super sweet raspberries to balance out the sticky almond. Delicious. The flavours here remind me of an old fashioned Bakewell Tart, except this is a lot more moist and fluffy than a pastry bake topped with icing. Right up my street with a nice cup of tea! I love my little six cup Bundt tin too, it adds a neat and fancy element to any bake. It's decorative without trying at all, making a super sweet twist to your next afternoon delight.
Ingredients //
6 cup Bundt
125g unsalted butter, softened
125g marzipan, softened
100g fresh raspberries, washed and quartered
175g self-raising flour
75g caster sugar
quarter teaspoon, almond essence
quarter teaspoon,vanilla extract
3 large eggs
Make //
Preheat your oven to 160c, 140c fan, Gas Mark 3.
First up, prepare the bundt tin by rubbing the inside with butter and dusting with flour.
Wash and halve the raspberries, dusting with a little flour before setting aside {it helps the fruit to grip the batter and not sink to the bottom of the tin during baking!}.
Chop up the {room temperature} butter and marzipan into reasonable chunks as it makes them easier to blast in the mixer.
Put both into your mixing bowl and blend with the sugar until smooth.
Add the almond essence and vanilla extract and blend again.
Next, add the eggs one at a time, mixing each before adding another. Add the remaining flour to the mix and blend through.
Finally fold in the raspberries.
Spoon the cake mix into the prepared tin {no more than three quarters full!} and bake for around 40 minutes.
When the cake looks golden and a cake tester {cocktail stick or super fine skewer} comes out clean, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin.
Turn out and leave to cool completely.
Extra delicious if served with vanilla ice cream. Enjoy! Until next month. xo, Alyssa.
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Vance's Three Month Spring Pictures | Albuquerque Children's Photographer | Jennifer Lyn Portraits
The Terchila's are one of our favorite families. Stephanie and I met when our oldest kids were still babies and we haven't been able to live without them since. Then we were lucky to end up pregnant together with our second kiddos, and the rest is history. We went out the Rio Grande Bosque when her son, Vance, was a few months old to get some quick photos. Aubree is such a sweet big sister, and doesn't let Vance go very far without her.
Stephanie is an absolutely amazing woman. She is a big supporter of CHASA, the Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association. Each year, she and Aubree petition for the month of May to be declared Pediatric Stroke Awareness month in New Mexico. They raise money for CHASA, and blog about all the awesome things Aubree is up to. Having a second kid has barely slowed her down, and Vance is going to be just as charming and fun as his big sister.


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Did your computer fail to open a LIBZIP file? We explain what LIBZIP files are and recommend software that we know can open or convert your LIBZIP files.
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We are constantly working on adding more file type descriptions to the site - the current count exceeds thousand by far, and more information about LIBZIP files will hopefully be added soon.
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Our popular summer discussion series just for parents is back! Join us on Tuesday evenings to dive into important topics for parents, no matter where you are on your parenting journey.
June 12: Picture Book Theology with Hannah Schock
Hannah Schock is the creator of Picture Book Theology, which collects and highlights the evocative and spiritual material to be found in children's picture books. You can learn more about Hanna and Picture Book Theology on her blog: www.picturebooktheology.com
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Quite why Wenger did not sign Hugo Lloris from Nice two years ago is a mystery, especially given the manager's scouting network in France. Now at Lyon and with his reputation vastly improved given his stupendous performances in the Champions League this year, Lloris would not be cheap but he would suit Arsenal.
Bottom ofAt centre back, Wenger needs a player with a big personality, for example, you look through the Arsenal team and see no natural winners, with the possible exception of Cesc Fabregas. Sol Campbell could provide back-up for another year - though that should mean selling Mikael Silvestre.
Arsenal requires a similarly forceful presence to bolster their midfield, a Gilberto Silva-type player whose experience young players such as Abou Diaby and Alexandre Song would benefit from. The outstanding candidate for me is Scott Parker. His hunger and defensive strength would complement the abilities of Arsenal's several creative midfielders, too.
Up front Marouane Chamakh could provide the solution to their shortcoming. He is an excellent player and a far better alternative than Nicklas Bendtner who should be no more than a squad player for a side such as Arsenal.
Wenger could have signed Chamakh last summer but chose to wait until now as his contract has expired. It is understandable that Wenger should want to save several million pounds but he cannot afford to continue to be so frugal. If Arsenal is to challenge for the Premier League and the Champions League next season, Wenger must be prepared to spend big in the summers, even if that means overspending on keys players.
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Kala is just one of the many women who are desperate for a Maternity and Child Care Unit to be built at our Medical Centre in the Rhema Garden.
During her pregnancy, Kala had to attend three different hospitals - one in Pudapatty, not far from Cumbum; one in Kudulur, 6 kms away from Cumbum, and one in Cumbum itself. Every time she had to visit one of the hospitals she had to get up very early in the morning to travel and queue to see the Doctor. The travel expenses alone cost Kala Rs 200 (£2.35) per visit - a lot of money when you consider the average daily wage is just £1.50.
When Kala was 8 months pregnant she developed problems with her thyroid function. She was then referred to the Government Hospital in Theni, 40 kms from Cumbum, as her delivery was likely to be complicated as a result. Had Kala gone to Theni, she would have been without the support of family, particularly in the event of an emergency - a terrifying thought for her when she had been told that the life of her, and her baby, was in danger due to her thyroid dysfunction.
Kala's family ultimately managed to find a private hospital in Cumbum itself that was willing to take Kala on, however the family had to get into significant debt for her care and this meant the family struggled financially.
Kala's story does have a happy ending - she gave birth to a beautifuil baby girl, delivered via cesarean section.
Kala says that, had there been a maternity unit at the Medical Centre in the Rhema Garden, she would have had a much better experience, with much less stress, and much less debt.
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All our side gates are made to measure, so we can replace any old wooden gate and fit it perfectly. This gate measured about 90 x 200 cm and was delivered in less than a week after ordering. The gate is made of 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20 year warranty. These gates are maintenance-free, as they don't have to be varnished, and can simply be (power-) hosed down if need be, so they will look good for years to come.
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Ron has helmed various senior leadership positions in his more than 30 years in the IT industry. Prior to joining VMware in 2014, he was the Senior Vice President, Systems Oracle Asia Pacific, responsible for driving the business and product management strategy and sales of its Server and Storage portfolio across the region. During his time at Oracle, he also served as Vice President of Systems Sales, ASEAN. Ron also held various senior management roles at EMC, including Corporate Vice President for Strategic Accounts and Global Alliances across Asia Pacific and Japan as well as President for EMC South Asia Region.
Ron was also a senior officer with the Republic of Singapore Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Miami Dade College. During his free time, he loves travelling and spending time with his family and five dogs.
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2018 will be Asean's Year of the Cloud
Based on the Chinese Zodiac, 2018 will be the year of the dog. The dog is typically viewed as a symbol of intelligence. Futurologists say that, for technology specifically, projects next year will roll out at an incredible speed on a scale like never before. I will like to go one step further and posit that cloud will be the main driver of accelerating this technology evolution in Asean and anchoring each nation's drive in becoming a smarter city.
As Asean countries ramp up on their smart nation push and aspire to embed hyper-connectivity, hyper-efficiency and multi-functionality into their infrastructure, we are going to see a huge uptick in IoT investment. Spending on IoT implementations in Southeast Asia is expected to grow 35% from an estimated US$1.68bn in 2015 to reach US$7.35 in 2020 according to Frost & Sullivan.
What this means for the cloud is that it will need to make a significant shift to the edge as more and more things get connected and generate copious amounts of data. In order to leverage this data and turn them into precious actionable insights, cloud services need the freedom to run nearly anywhere. Data analytics will need to be carried out at the physical locations where data is created (e.g., factories, airplanes, distribution centers, branch offices) because it is not feasible to move data to a cloud for processing and analytics. Furthermore, the rise of augmented reality applications requires data and application services to be extremely close to the point of application consumption.
This means businesses will need cloud services to be faster, more flexible in order to meet business requirements. Cloud is no longer a physical place where applications run, but rather an operational mindset that can be applied practically anywhere.
Asean businesses need this mindset now more than ever. The markets that they used to have a firm hold on are up for grabs as global giants from U.S and China arrive at local shores, competing for a slice of the pie. Every sector, from retail and healthcare to financial services and education, are all affected. No one is spared the onslaught of disruption. To thrive in such an economy and deliver a superior user experience, businesses need to move cloud to the edge. This move ensures that they have at their fingertips the correct tools and services at the point where data is created and applications are consumed.
At VMware, I am always awed and humbled at the same time to witness how Asean markets are leapfrogging the cycle when it comes to modern technologies. In fact, they are moving at a faster pace than their more mature counterparts in other economies! Our customers in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand for example can go for a software-defined datacenter from day one, enabling them to overcome barriers to innovation such as network provisioning.
We do not need a crystal ball to tell us that we are at a tipping point in Asean for the cloud. The parts are in place to innovate and create incredible new solutions that will disrupt the way we live and work. 2018 is only the beginning and will set the stage for the decade to come. Watch this space!


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Kids and Companions Book Club - DATE CHANGE
NEW DATE - 4/28 We love talking with you about books, and we've met many of you who love talking about books too! Join us for great reads and conversation! Kids and an adult they want to bring along will be reading and talking about books together. We'll be meeting on the third Thursday of the month in the children's library to share a book, a snack, and our ideas and opinions. Register April 7 and May 5. Book selections: April - Matilda by Roald Dahl, May - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling.


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From cosmetics, to supplements and pharmaceuticals- natural products using a wide-array of botanicals play an important role in our health and wellbeing. However, deceitful adulteration poses a great risk to the natural products industry and the safety of its consumers;there are a number of well-known cases involving substitution by toxic species that have led to illness and even death. There are numerous methods commonly used for botanical authentication- from microscopy, to chemistry, and infrared radiation- that vary in their ability to detect and identify adulterants. Although DNA-based technologies have not yet been widely used in industry, there are a number of methods that offer great potential for solving our challenges with adulterant detection, especially of closely related species. In the proposed project, we will develop a new test, Detect IDNATM, specifically designed to affordably and reliably, detect and identify adulterants and contaminants, even in processed materials such as capsules and botanical extracts. Detect IDNA"""""""" is based on an innovative method that integrates and refines two well- established technologies: Site-Targeted PCR analysis and DNA sequencing, which we have named """"""""Sequenced Site-Targeted PCR"""""""" (SSTP). The objectives of this proposal are to prove the technology and demonstrate the commercial viability of our Detect IDNATM testing line. We will accomplish these objectives with the following Specific Aims: (1) Design and Optimize an Array of PCR Primers;(2) Validate the PCR Primer Sensitivity and Specificity;and (3) Test the Applicability on Commercial Materials. For Phase I, we will demonstrate the applicability and significance of our method by analyzing three species, which have significant issues with adulteration: black cohosh, skullcap, and American ginseng. While American ginseng is commonly substituted by inferior relatives, the others are prone to adulteration by toxic species leading to great safety concerns for consumers.
Accurate authentication of botanical ingredients used in natural products is arguably the most important factor in determining their quality and efficacy- after all without reliable means to confirm the identity of botanicals and assure the absence of contaminants, public safety is at risk. A wide-variety of authentication methods has been developed to combat issues with adulteration but there still remain three major weaknesses including differentiation between closely related species, detection and identification of low-levels of contamination, and authentication of materials that have been processed or are degraded. In this project we will enhance our service line by developing a novel test specifically design to affordably and reliably detect and identify adulterants and contaminants in a variety of commercial products, Detect IDNATM, which is based on an innovative method based on integrating two well-established technologies: Site-Targeted PCR analysis and DNA sequencing, which we have named Sequenced Site-Targeted PCR (SSTP).


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#30daysoftesting – What type of testing can benefit from automation
Already day 4 of 30 days of automation in testing, time flies when you are having fun!
What types of testing can automation support you with? Share an example.
In my humble opinion it can be used with any type of testing. If you consider automation to be any use of tools it can even support exploratory testing.
I like it a lot for API/web service testing and data migration testing since that is where I feel it makes my life as a tester much easier and nicer.
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Annulment of Marriage in Florida
We receive many questions from clients asking if an annulment of their marriage is how they should proceed.
Annulments are rare these days but are still available if you meet specific "grounds." The idea behind an annulment is that the marriage was never really legally valid as opposed to a divorce where you are asking a court to terminate a "valid" marriage. The logical and legal question becomes…….what makes it valid or invalid?
Courts will order that a marriage be annulled if one of the following situations can be established:
- Mental Illness, Insanity or Retardation: If a person is married while mentally ill, insane or so mentally retarded that he or she could not knowingly and willingly consent to marriage, then the marriage may be annulled. Here, annulment would be granted on the theory that marriage is a consensual relationship, and most mentally ill, insane, or retarded people are considered incapable of giving legal consent.Temporary Insanity: If temporary or periodic insanity is claimed, the affected person's condition at the time of marriage governs whether or not his or her possessed the legal capacity to marry. A marriage will not be annulled if it was entered into during a "lucid" interval between episodes of temporary insanity.
- Fraud: If one of the parties did not tell the truth, or misrepresented information in order to induce the other party to enter into the marriage, then the marriage may be annulled because of fraud.
- Lack of Consent or Duress: If a person is compelled to marry another under a threat of violence that would overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary mental strength, the marriage may be annulled on the theory that marriage is a consensual relationship, and that compulsion under threat is inconsistent with consent. Actual threats of serious violence are required.
- Intoxication: If either spouse was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the marriage, or if it can be shown that there was such intoxication at the marriage ceremony that either spouse was incapable of knowing the nature of the marriage contract and its consequences, annulment will be granted.
- Inability to consummate the marriage (or "impotency"): To obtain an annulment for impotency, the person seeking annulment must prove that the other spouse was permanently and incurably impotent when the marriage was entered into, and that the person seeking annulment did not discover the fact until after the marriage.
- Lack of parental consent for an underage marriage: Most states have age requirements for marriage. Generally, persons under the age of 18 must have parental consent to marry. If an underage person managed to obtain a marriage license without court or parental approval, the marriage would be subject to annulment.
- One of the people is already married (bigamy): A marriage is subject to annulment when it is entered into before the dissolution of an earlier marriage of one of the parties becomes final.
- Incestuous marriage: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/STATUTES/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0741/Sections/0741.21.html All states prohibit marriages between parents and children — including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree; between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood; and between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and first cousins.
- Mock Marriages: A marriage entered into with no intention that it be binding is considered a mock marriage. If the couple agrees to marry to accomplish a specific objective, such as legitimizing a child, the majority of courts will regard the marriage as valid and will not grant an annulment.
Unless you fall under one of the above situations the divorce option is the only way you can proceed to end the marriage. If you and your spouse are in agreement to end the marriage you would have an uncontested divorce. Quite often this process can be much faster and less expensive than the annulment process itself.


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Joint replacement patient quickly returns to racquetball court.
Alan Canonico has a great passion for racquetball. He generally plays three or four days a week when he's home in Sarasota, and he often travels across the country to participate in tournaments. When he couldn't play due to discomfort in his joints, it was a pain unto itself for him.
"I really enjoy the game and play at a high level," he shares. "Years ago, however, I tore the meniscus in my left knee and had arthroscopic surgery. Three years later, I tore the same knee again, then I did it a third time.
"By then, the pain in my knee was excruciating every time I moved or turned quickly. I was taking prescription ibuprofen one after the other just to stay on the racquetball court. I eventually had to have knee replacement surgery because arthritis developed, and the pain in my knee was too intense to continue playing."
Alan had the procedure performed at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center in Bradenton, and he was extremely pleased with his experience at the hospital. Six months after surgery, he was back to playing racquetball at his previous high level.
"Then one day, I thought I pulled a groin muscle," Alan relates. "I decided to let it rest, so for four weeks, I stayed home and stretched. The pain got worse, however, and became so bad, I couldn't get into and out of my car. Just lifting my leg was extremely painful, so I went back to the orthopaedic surgeon.
"He told me trouble getting in and out of a car is an indication of a bad hip. He took x-rays and said, It's not a groin muscle. You need a new left hip. He showed me all the arthritis in my hip, then told me I had a decision to make about having hip replacement surgery. I decided to get it over with so I could get back to playing racquetball."
As soon as Alan decided to move forward with surgery, his name was placed on the surgical schedule at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, where there is an entire floor dedicated to the care of people having spine and joint surgery.
The 21-bed unit is The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center, where coordinator Caroline McGrath, ARNP, began Alan's program of care by providing him with a guidebook that explains the surgery and its recovery process.
"The guidebook is a very comprehensive manual that directs patients through their care before, during and after surgery," describes Caroline. "It almost becomes their second Bible that they can refer to on an ongoing basis for information and answers to their questions.
"Patients then come to a preoperative education class, which is vital because it prepares them prior to surgery and alleviates many of their apprehensions. Patients and their family members can also ask any other questions they might have."
"Caroline ran a class that was unbelievable," offers Alan. "She was terrific and discussed everything I was going to experience. She showed me the different options and then introduced the staff on the orthopaedic unit.
"Lakewood Ranch has a floor that's devoted just to orthopaedic patients, which I think is wonderful. If people have a hip or knee done, they're right there with experienced doctors and nurses. They also have special rooms where patients do their rehabilitation."
Initial Rehabilitation
Following joint replacement surgery, patients stay in The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center, where they're carefully managed through their initial rehabilitation by qualified and committed staff. All patients are evaluated by a physical therapist at the bedside on the day of surgery.
"Some total hip patients have an assisted walk in the hallway, and others do some bedside activities and exercises and then get up and sit in the recliner to eat dinner," states Caroline. "This improves circulation and helps them expand their lungs fully, cough and deep-breathe, which is very important to their recovery."
"As soon as I was done with surgery, they put me in my room in the orthopaedic unit and woke me up," recounts Alan. "They got me standing up and moving around quickly. They had walkers and other items I could use for support, but they got me walking right away."
Much of the postoperative management of the total hip procedure centers on getting the patients moving, getting their range of motion going and getting them into physical therapy. The patients' physicians and the nurses in The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center get them into therapy twice a day, both individually and in a group setting.
"Group physical therapy is beneficial for patients because they interact," notes Caroline. "They push each other to do the exercises; sometimes, they even get a little competitive. Still, everyone improves at his or her own pace. What's most important is the patients ultimately reach their goals of getting good function out of their replacement joints."
All of the nurses in The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center are orthopaedically trained, and everyone on the therapy team is committed to the Marshall-Steele philosophy adopted by the center. Under Marshall-Steele, the staff follows a stringent set of guidelines that aim to quickly initiate rehabilitation and enhance recovery. The goal is the best outcome for each patient.
"Four weeks – not four months – after having the hip replacement surgery, I was back to hitting the racquetball. At six weeks, I was back to playing at a skilled level." – Alan
"In addition, I'm there on a daily basis during their stay to ensure that all of their medical needs are being met and to coordinate their discharge," stresses Caroline. "I'm there for them right through to the reunion luncheon twelve weeks afterward, when we let go of their hands and they're ready to be fully independent again."
Words of Advice
After Alan was discharged from The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center, he continued doing the exercises he learned there. He kept in contact with Caroline and went to his doctor's office regularly for follow-ups on his rehabilitation, which he took very seriously. As a result of his dedication, he was able to return to his passion very quickly.
"Four weeks – not four months – after having the hip replacement surgery, I was back to hitting the racquetball," Alan marvels. "At six weeks, I was back to playing at a skilled level. Now, I'm running all over, and I have no pain at all. I feel like I never had a hip replacement joint put in."
Alan says he is amazed that he no longer feels any pain in his hip, including when he gets in and out of his car. He's also pleased with his experience at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, which he describes as "fantastic." He has kudos for the staff in The Orthopaedic Spine and Joint Center.
"I can't say enough about the Lakewood Ranch staff," he enthuses. "They're wonderful people. They were great from the time I checked in until the time I left. They took really good care of me."
Because Alan has had successful total knee and total hip replacement surgeries at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, he is quick to recommend the hospital to others. He offers some additional counsel for those facing total joint replacement surgery.
"My advice for good results is to do three things," he observes. "First, it's very important that you get a surgeon you can trust and who will discuss all the options with you. Then, find a good place to have the surgery, a place like Lakewood Ranch Medical Center. Finally, be dedicated to your rehabilitation. Do that, and you'll be back to your activities in no time."


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My client was struck by a driver who was pulling his car into a bay to have it serviced
Hauppauge, N.Y. (PRWEB) August 11, 2009
New York auto accident lawyer Michael S. Levine issued a strong warning today to all motorists in the State of New York to check their insurance policies to be sure they have adequate uninsured and supplemental underinsured coverage in the event of a serious injury caused by an uninsured, underinsured, or hit-and-run driver.
"One of the hardest things in my profession," Levine said, "is to have to tell a client that the person who caused their accident either has no insurance, or only has the $25,000 minimum liability coverage required by law in New York State.
"If the driver," Levine continued, "or the passengers, sustain catastrophic injuries as a result of an accident with an underinsured vehicle, $25,000 may not even scratch the surface in terms of adequately compensating the victim for his, or her, pain and suffering."
A bill pending in the New York State Assembly (SO4705) would require motor vehicle insurance providers to provide their insureds with uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage that is equal to the amount of the insured's liability coverage. Presently, an insured may have adequate liability coverage, only to find out, after an accident with either an uninsured or underinsured motorist, that he or she has inadequate uninsured or underinsured coverage to fairly compensate the driver for his or her injuries.
"If this bill passes it will help lift the shroud of secrecy surrounding this important issue," Levine said. "But more would still need to be done by the carriers themselves to help make every motorist in the state aware of the benefits of adequate uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage.
Levine explained that insurance companies, which are required by law to provide their insured's with at least $25,000 of uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, make a minimal profit on these supplemental programs, so there is little, or no, business incentive to push the coverage on their policyholders.
"Any driver," Levine said, "who doesn't have at least $100,000 worth of uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, if not more, is being penny wise and pound foolish. They need to know that these coverages are a minimal added expense in any automobile policy."
A recent study by the Insurance Research Council estimates that 14% of drivers nationwide, and 7% of drivers in New York State, are uninsured.
As such, Levine warns that motorists should never put themselves, or their families, in a position where if serious injuries are sustained in a motor vehicle accident, all they can recover is $25,000.
"Most drivers," he said, "assume wrongly that every driver on the road is sufficiently covered by automobile insurance. That is not even close to being the case. Unfortunately, most people realize that they didn't buy enough UM/SUM coverage when it's too late, after they've been seriously injured in an accident by a driver who is either uninsured, or has only minimum insurance."
To further illustrate his point, Levine pointed to a case he settled recently involving a 16-year-old boy who was working part time at a Jiffy Lube on Long Island.
"My client was struck by a driver who was pulling his car into a bay to have it serviced," Levine said. "The boy sustained very serious injuries to his leg and needed invasive surgery. The car that struck him only had a $25,000 policy. My client's parent's car only had $25,000 in SUM coverage. Even after surgery, his leg injury could cause him problems for the rest of his life. But because his parents didn't have enough underinsured coverage, my client was only able to receive $25,000 for his injuries, which is a completely inadequate outcome. I see these regrettable situations repeat themselves time and again."
Contact: Rich Jachetti, 914-318-4656


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Can you eat to relieve depression?
If you think you can add a few specific supplements to your diet to handle your depression, think again. Instead, begin to eat to relieve depression!
You are what you eat, and that's true for your mental health as well as the health of the rest of your body. The drugs used to treat depression have had limited success out in the world; the field of psychiatry is finally turning its attention to diet and how what we eat affects depression!
Dr. Drew Ramsey, an integrative psychiatrist at Columbia University says, "We're now facing this huge epidemic of mental health disorders. Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world, and soon it will be the leading cause of disability in America. So, as somebody who treats depression, it's of great interest when we see a data signal that suggest that we can treat depression by focusing on nutrition and what we eat."
Dr. Ramsey went on to say, "For a long time in psychiatry, we've know that individual vitamins can have a big impact on mental health – vitamin B12, iron, magnesium – but really in the past 10 years, studies have begun to look more at dietary patterns, and that's been quite revealing."
While I think this is remarkable progress in the thinking about depression, I think caution is necessary. Too many people will assume they can down a handful of supplements in the morning and eat whatever they choose for the rest of the day. It's important to take a holistic view of our diet and to acknowledge that a food that is good for us has more to offer than the particular vitamin or nutrient that is being called out as its sole benefit. For instance, dark green leafy vegetables may give us vitamin K, but there is a host of additional benefits that make them a good idea to include in our meals on a regular basis.
"Food should be the first line of defense because it's a foundation treatment. We really need to move away from thinking of things like diet and exercise as 'complementary' or 'alternative'. That's really bad thinking that's gotten psychiatry into trouble", continued Dr. Ramsey.
It remains to be seen whether main stream medicine will embrace a non-pharmaceutical approach to treating depression and other mental health challenges… where is the profit for big-pharma? Dr. Ramsey is an integrative psychiatrist, which means he uses a combination of traditional and non-traditional methods to help his patients; these include nutritional therapies and dietary interventions.
If you struggle with depression, change what you eat. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and cut out processed food and sugar. Eat a small amount of protein with each meal and eat healthy fats like avocado and olive oil. That's how I cured my depression…I decided to eat to relieve depression.
Here's a question for you: what have you got to lose except maybe some unwanted weight and years of depression?
Remember this post next time you order that burger and fries…
Helping you achieve Major Wellness in your life!
Cheryl A Major, CNWC


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Animal rights organizations, including PETA, sacked Michael Vick. (And rightfully so.)
Now they are blitzing at a much bigger target: the meat and poultry industries. But the message strategy—according to a Times story this morning—isn't what you'd expect:
"Raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined."
The environmental claim is backed up by plenty of data, including a study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
I'm not sure the rationale is going to convince many hard-core carnivores. (Or the Beef Council, for that matter.)
But the campaign may cause enough cognitive dissonance among avid and outspoken environmentalists to persuade them to go "green" at dinner, too.
It's a brilliant strategy, really. Score another one for animal rights.


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Major reshuffle in Punjab Police, districts get new chiefs
The Punjab government on Wednesday effected a major reshuffle in the state police, posting new SSPs and transferring senior officers in the top brass.chandigarh Updated: Aug 05, 2015 20:20 IST
The Punjab government on Wednesday effected a major reshuffle in the state police, posting new SSPs and transferring senior officers in the top brass.
Sangrur SSP Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu is the new Faridkot district police chief. He replaces Charanjit Singh Sharma, who has now been posted as the Moga SSP.
Mandeep Singh is the new SSP of Mansa, while Dhanpreet Kaur has been posted as the Hoshiarpur SSP in place of Rajdeep Singh, who has been posted with the Punjab Armed Police, Jalandhar.
RK Bakshi is the new SSP of Pathankot in place of Rakesh Kaushal, who will be the new commandant at Police Recruit Training Centre at Jahan Khelan, Hoshiarpur.
Rajinder Singh, who was deputy commissioner of police (DCP) at the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate, goes as the Kapurthala SSP, replacing Ashish Chaudhary.
Harpreet Singh is the new SSP of Patiala, while Narendra Bhargava has been posted as the DCP of the Ludhiana Police Commissionerate.
Moga SSP Jatinder Khaira will now be the Fatehgarh Sahib district police chief.
Batala SSP Inderbir Singh has been posted as the assistant inspector general (AIG) in the personnel department at Chandigarh.
Among senior police officials transferred on Wednesday, Gaurav Yadav has been posted as inspector general (IG), police headquarters, whereas Arpit Shukla has been given the assignment of IG, security.
Parmod Ban, who was the commissioner of police in Ludhiana, has been replaced by Paramraj Umranangal.
Ishwar Chandar, the IG, border range, has been posted as IG, Bathinda range.
Lok Nath Angra, the IG of Jalandhar range, has now been posted as IG, border range. BK Bawa replaces Angra as IG, Jalandhar.
Additional director general of police (ADGP), law and order, Dinkar Gupta, is the new ADGP, welfare, while CSR Reddy has been posted as ADGP, provisional and modernisation. VK Bhawra is the new ADGP, information technology.
AK Mittal is the new deputy inspector general (DIG), Ludhiana range, while KV Partap heads as DIG, border range.
Arunpal Singh has been posted as DIG, Jalandhar.
First Published: Aug 05, 2015 15:44 IST


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The way your investment or retirement plan is constructed is critically important.
Your plan needs to be aligned to aligned with your long term objectives, consistent with your risk tolerance, grounded in reality, and robust enough to cope with varying market cycles.
That sounds like a tall order, but if your plan isn't well put together, you need to quickly revisit it, and ensure that it meets these criteria going forward.
The patient investor understands that a solid, well considered plan is a robust process that has navigated challenges before and will do so again in the future.
Strategic plans are there to keep you on track to your long term objective, so in times of volatility and uncertainty, take care not to undermine what you've achieved so far with short-term reactive decisions.
In other words, if you can get the foundation right first, then stick to it, your discipline and patience will eventually be rewarded.
Rick Maggi


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I love music. I can't go a day without it - my current addiction is Tron: Legacy from Daft Punk. Much like my music evolved, my music programs have changed. Here's a history of what I use*:
Kinda complicated, huh?
When I was in high school, I started off with iTunes and YouTube, and it's evolved over the years. Part of that is the evolution in the technology I use - iTunes became pretty entrenched in my music system due to syncing with my iPods. YouTube was the way I discovered new music, but now, there are many ways to discover it.
With this, my library of music has become extremely fragmented. It lives locally and in the cloud, but there's no way to access all of it at once.
A lot of it has to do with the basic positioning of each program:
- Last.FM - It's a radio station with social underpinnings - a good portion of programs out there allow you to scrobble to Last.FM, thus building your library there. Unfortunately, it's luck of the draw on your radio - you can't access a song directly.
- Grooveshark - Store your music online via the cloud - you could potentially recreate your entire library onto Grooveshark and access it via the web, your desktop, and your smartphone. The cons here is that Android and iOS do not have *sanctioned* Grooveshark applications and Grooveshark doesn't have every song .
- Spotify - Spotify allows you to supplement your library with licensed offerings and provides an alternative music management system
- YouTube - it's a video service. Yes, this includes music videos, but YouTube's focus is on social sharing. Plus... I'm not entirely sure these videos are legal....
The focus that each program accomplishes is fairly different from each other - at the core, a user can listen to music, but each program is now focused on answering 'what else can you do with music players?'.
I started this post a while ago, so while this was percolating, Google Music came out of beta. Like iTunes, Google Music will lock you (more) into Google's ecosystem, which fits into the company's strategy. This is why it will be hard to make a unified experience for your music - in creating this experience, you create an escape from using the music services directly.
Of the services that I use, Spotify comes the closest to what I want - it's a free cross-platform service and I can import almost all my music to varying degrees of difficulty (easy from iTunes, headache inducing from Grooveshark). I don't have to spend money on a Zune Pass, more space from Google Music, or music from iTunes, but that means I'm dealing with Spotify's UI, which is not perfect. But the question of music 'synergy', to borrow a term from webOS, still remains as a pretty interesting design question, and I hope that I can help solve it some day. There's a lot left to be said, from the possible effect on the music industry to playing nicely with competing companies, but I'll stop here.
*This graphic was created right before I discovered MOG - it should be under the category of 'Not Used Yet'


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As I was laying on my couch with my feet elevated onto a pedestal of pillows, halfway through my sixth episode of Ozark for the day, I received an invitation to a couple meetings about the beginning of the spring sports season.
For sportswriters, choosing his or her favorite season to cover can probably be compared to a parent choosing their favorite child. Why? Well, because we both have to act like we love them all unconditionally, but deep down, stirring inside of us like that hankering for ice cream, we all know who the favorite is. Every family has a golden child and if you think yours doesn't, well, then I have some sad news for you: you aren't it.
I'll just tell you, the spring season is my favorite. The lackadaisical nature of spring sports is what draws me in. Sitting in the dugout, chewing on some seeds while watching a baseball game is therapeutic for me. My life, and more importantly, my mind races a mile a minute, but it can't do that at a baseball game.
Swimmers from Atascadero don't hate swimmers from Paso (for the most part), golfers from SLO don't want to injure a player from AG, they only want to shoot their best scores and have some fun conversation while doing it. It is a nice change of pace from seeing football players try and kill each other every play in the fall and girls elbowing each other in the face in water polo in the winter.
What the spring reminds me of are multi-sport athletes. It's because it is in the spring that swimming and track season both occur. While these two are certainly prestigious sports all by themselves, they are also tremendous sports for multi-sport athletes to compete in, even if they don't consider themselves a track runner or swimmer.
Whether you play a sport on land or in the water, speed always kills. That is part of why track and swimming are so fun. The top soccer players, basketball player, water polo player and football players can all work to get faster and polish their technique, and then at the end of the season, can have a race to find out who is the fastest.
Urban Meyer, the head coach of Ohio State's football program, has been quoted numerous times saying he only recruits multi-sport athletes. Playing multiple sports helps athletes become more well-rounded, they develop different muscles and coordination with different sports that they can bring with them to each new sport.
Playing multiple sports can reduce the risk of injury in younger athletes because they aren't constantly working the same ligament in their elbow or making the same hard cuts with their knees. Most importantly, playing multiple sports helps with burnout.
People get burnt out on things. It happens. It's irrefutable. I loved football more than anything and by the end of my senior year of college, I couldn't wait to be done. But it wasn't that I was done with football, I loved playing the game. I was done getting up at 5 a.m. for workouts, I was done watching film until 10 at night and still having homework to do. I was done giving up all my weekends and summer vacations for football. I was done putting in the extra 30 minutes after practice to run routes with the quarterback, and I attribute that, in part, to the fact that when I got to high school I largely only played one sport.
If numbers are more of your thing then look at this. According to an article in the USA Today High School Sports edition in March of 2017, 71 percent of D-1 football players were multi-sport athletes in high school. Eighty-seven percent of D-1 female track runners were multi-sport athletes while 91 percent of males were.
I saw many graphics when the National Title game was being played a few weekends ago that highlighted the number of multi-sport athletes on both teams. At least 84 percent of the athletes on Alabama and Clemson were multi-sport athletes in high school.
Playing multiple sports is a privilege that you will only be allowed to do at the high school level. Don't miss out on it.


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"The US Navy successfully conducted a flight test March 15 with the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) off the west coast of Hawaii," the report stated.
The radar system has been in development for the past decade and is being designed for the DDG 51 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to provide state-of-the-art technology for integrated air and missile defense, the report explained.
"This marked a historic moment for the Navy. It is the first time a ballistic missile target was tracked by wide-band digital beam-forming radar," US Navy, Major Program Manager for Above Water Sensors Capt. Seiko Okano said.
Okano added that the new radar is expected to revolutionize the future of the US Navy.


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