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CHICAGO — On the sixth floor of a sleek office building here, more than 150 techies are quietly peeling back the layers of your life. They know what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election.
The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign's 2012 digital operation — from data mining to online organizing — reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could impact the outcome of a close presidential election. It makes the president's much-heralded 2008 social media juggernaut — which raised half billion dollars and revolutionized politics — look like cavemen with stone tablets.
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Mitt Romney indeed is ramping up his digital effort after a debilitating primary and, for sure, the notion that Democrats have a monopoly on cutting edge technology no longer holds water.
( Also on POLITICO: White House tech gurus unveil digital road map)
But it's also not at all clear that Romney can come close to achieving the same level of technological sophistication and reach as his opponent. (The campaign was mercilessly ridiculed last month when it rolled out a new App misspelling America.)
"It's all about the data this year and Obama has that. When a race is as close as this one promises to be, any small advantage could absolutely make the difference," says Andrew Rasiej, a technology strategist and publisher of TechPresident. "More and more accurate data means more insight, more money, more message distribution, and more votes."
Adds Nicco Mele, a Harvard professor and social media guru: "The fabric of our public and political space is shifting. If the Obama campaign can combine its data efforts with the way people now live their lives online, a new kind of political engagement — and political persuasion — is possible."
Launched two weeks ago, Obama's newest innovation is the much anticipated "Dashboard," a sophisticated and highly interactive platform that gives supporters a blueprint for organizing, and communicating with each other and the campaign.
( PHOTOS: Technology and the Obama campaign)
In addition, by harnessing the growing power of Facebook and other online sources, the campaign is building what some see as an unprecedented data base to develop highly specific profiles of potential voters. This allows the campaign to tailor messages directly to them — depending on factors such as socio-economic level, age and interests.
The data also allows the campaign to micro-target a range of dollar solicitations online depending on the recipient. In 2008, the campaign was the first to maximize online giving — raising hundreds of millions of dollars from small donors. This time, they are constantly experimenting and testing to expand the donor base.


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New Economy, New Ways to Do Finance
|Wall Street is the engine that powers our economy.
|Most real economic activity is local.
|Corporate banks are too big to fail. We need them to keep our economy going.
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Finance begins with a simple idea—individuals or groups sell shares to investors or borrow money from banks, and use the funds to start businesses, buy land, or build houses, factories, or roads. Investors gain a stake in these ventures; if these companies are publicly traded, investors can buy and sell shares on stock exchanges. But as the small U.S. stock exchanges of the late 18th century grew into the vast institution that is now Wall Street, the relationship between trading and the real economy of goods and services fell apart. We've witnessed what happens when "owners" of businesses have no accountability for outcomes in the real world. Financiers are rewarded for generating short-term profit, even when the investments turn out to be phony or to cause harm. As mega-finance crumbles, many farsighted individuals are putting their money in enterprises and financial institutions that benefit working Americans and the places they live.
|Stephanie McMillan for YES! Magazine
The YES! Take on Finance in the New Economy
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by Zach Carter
Local banks can change the world, one neighborly investment at a time
|My Best Investments are Down the Street
by Judy Wicks
It has become a sadly familiar scene. Hard times force a company to downsize, and some people will have to lose their jobs. Or will they?
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Americans want to invest locally. What's stopping them?
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Support community enterprise, bank on small business, and invest in community loan funds.

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Rob Avila completed his fifth season as part of the University of California San Diego baseball program in 2016. He joined head coach Eric Newman's first staff in September of 2011, became the top assistant ahead of the 2013 campaign, and was elevated to the role of associate head coach in December of 2015. Avila serves as UC San Diego's pitching coach while assisting with recruiting and coordinating camps, among other administrative duties.
During Avila's time on campus, the Tritons have gone 164-106 (.607) overall and 119-74 (.617) in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), arguably the toughest conference nationally in the NCAA Division II. UCSD has produced a winning record in all five seasons, with two conference tournament titles (2012, 2014) and one CCAA regular-season banner (2012). The Tritons have qualified for the CCAA Championship four times, including the last three, and earned three NCAA berths, advancing to a pair of West Regional finals.
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The 2016 season was a 13th straight in which UCSD posted a winning mark (31-21), with Avila's group achieving the second-best ERA (3.91) in the CCAA for the third year in a row, remarkably with 35 of 52 (.673) starts taken on by true freshmen, and 294.1 of 449.0 (.656) innings by true or redshirt freshmen.
In his first year in La Jolla, Avila guided a staff that ranked third in the CCAA and 57th in Division II with a 3.88 ERA. The Tritons won their fourth consecutive CCAA regular-season and tournament titles. Junior ace Ryan Goodbrand posted an unblemished 11-0 record to earn All-America honorable mention, while three senior pitchers, Rauh, Tuma and York, were offered pro contracts. In 2013, the Tritons had the CCAA's third-best strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.18). The 2014 campaign saw them second in the league and 25th in the country in ERA (3.23).
Prior to joining the Tritons, Avila was the head coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla., from 2006-09, where he led the Sailfish to two National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) South Region championships in four seasons. He was named the NCCAA South Region Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2009. In both of those years, the Sailfish finished ninth in the NCCAA. During his tenure, Avila coached one All-American and 22 all-region selections. Three players went on to sign professional contracts.
In 2010, Avila was an assistant athletics director for operations at PBA. He was also the school's head strength and conditioning coordinator from 2005-10. Avila began his coaching career in 2001 as an assistant at Mendocino College in Ukiah.
Avila's baseball career spanned both the collegiate and pro levels. He garnered all-region distinction at Fresno City College (1997) and was a two-time All-NAIA Independent pick at The Master's College (1998-99) in Santa Clarita. Avila's 1999 campaign still stands out in TMC's single-season record book, ranking first for RBI (66), third in slugging percentage (.751), and tied for fourth in doubles (21), home runs (15) and total bases (139). He is third in career slugging (.645) and ninth in batting (.359).
In 1999, Avila was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 18th round. He spent five years in the minor leagues, including time with the Double-A Reading Phillies.
Avila earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 2002 from The Master's and a master's degree in the same field from Azusa Pacific University in 2005.
Avila's wife, Bethany, was a standout volleyball player at The Master's. They reside in Oceanside with their three daughters, Violet, Elaina and Emme, and son Trey.


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Five years have passed, but the pain on Neneh Mansaray's face tells more of the story than the monotone words that escape from her trembling lips. It is heartbreaking and uncomfortable to watch as she vividly remembers the struggles of her past. Taking notes seems insensitive. Yet Neneh assures us that her story must be told. This petite and unassuming woman is fiercely determined. From tragedy she has garnered her own triumph, and now it's her goal to make sure that other women in Sierra Leone do not suffer the hardship she has faced. With CARE, Neneh is helping women in her village focus on the joy she has come to know - motherhood.
At the age of 18, Neneh gave birth prematurely to a stillborn child. Trying desperately to start the family she knew she was meant to have, a civil war and the death of her husband seemed to thwart her chances for success. She later remarried and tried repeatedly to get pregnant. Eventually she did conceive and carried the child to term.
But for many women in developing countries, carrying a child to term does not always lead to motherhood.
In Sierra Leone, one out of every 56 live births results in the death of the mother. According to the United Nations Human Development Index, it is the poorest country in the world, ranking number 177 – the very bottom of the list – adding to the challenges women face.
Neneh's delivery was a harrowing experience, and at this point she can't even look at us as she proceeds to tell us about it. Her eyes stare off in the distance, taking her deep into a painful past.
Neneh lived in a small farm community. She moved there when she married her second husband. When it came time to finally deliver their first child, a recent death in the community added to the already difficult task of giving birth at home. She labored for days, but the unborn child did not come quickly. The women of the village who assisted with deliveries were called off with the men to attend to the remains of their deceased neighbor, a customary practice in Sierra Leone. Without a health facility in the community, Neneh continued to push through her labor alone.
Finally, the child crowned, but no one was around to assist Neneh. She couldn't stand; her feet had swollen so much from the stress placed on her tiny body. Upon returning, the women of the village discovered that Neneh had labored for seven days only to once again give birth to a stillborn baby. Yet the labor was not over. The placenta remained inside of her and she struggled to deliver it. The women pushed on Neneh's stomach, hoping to coax it along. They reached inside her, attempting to rid her body of the last bits of afterbirth.
I thought I was going to die.
- Neneh
Urine seeped out of her uncontrollably. After 10 days of relentless labor, she finally passed the placenta. Not surprisingly, she was lethargic.
When a woman from Neneh's parents' village came to check on Neneh, her neighbors panicked. They wanted to hide Neneh because they believed they had contributed to her demise. So Neneh retreated to a nearby field – alone – left to die. Scared and weak, she spent the night outside, exhausted from the 10 days of intensive labor and bleeding. Word traveled back to Neneh's parents and her elder sister Fatu arrived from Yataya village to recover her from the bush.
Neneh's own community refused to help her, claiming they had no stretcher to help transport her and chastising her for being unable to deliver her own child.
Neneh and Fatu had few options. Neneh could not walk - she was bleeding and urinating, and partial paralysis had set in. In her mind, Neneh had given up on life. Once again, she was left alone by the bank of a river while her sister went to gather members from her community to recover Neneh and bring her back to Yataya.
For reasons she cannot explain, Neneh's weakened and frail body clung to life. Once she arrived in her sister's village, Princess, a local health worker, contacted CARE and helped call for an ambulance. Neneh was brought to a hospital in the nearby city of Kabala, about a 25-minute drive from Yataya, where doctors saved her life.
Afterwards, Neneh returned to Yataya instead of her husband's community. He blamed her for their inability to have children and the entire community felt she was cursed. But life wasn't much better in Yataya. Because of the prolonged and stressful labor, Neneh had developed an obstetric fistula, or a small tear in her bladder wall. She could no longer control her urine, causing an unavoidable foul odor.
When she went to gather water, the women would call her names and refused to let her have access to the pump. Men and women would gather on the front porch of her sister's home to verbally abuse her. Neneh spent her days sneaking out the back door of her sister's home in the early morning and returning late at night after dark, to escape the hurtful criticism. She was confused and didn't know why she could not control her bladder. Ashamed, she sat under a tree each day to pass the daylight hours alone. She couldn't do chores because the community banned her from public places, calling her "dirty." They spread rumors that Neneh had developed her condition because she was promiscuous and chased men while she was pregnant. It wounded Neneh to feel the ostracism of yet another community.
When Princess learned of Neneh's condition, she knew something had to be done. Once again, she approached CARE and together they arranged for Neneh to meet with a local health organization that provides services to people who cannot afford them. They arranged for Neneh to have an operation to fix the fistula and paid all of the expenses.
Neneh returned to Yataya a literally changed woman. Men began to take notice of her. They came to her sister's house attempting to court her. Finally, as she tells this part of the story, a tear breaks free from her eye.
"When I was sick, people made fun of me. Now, they wanted to marry me."
But then a slight smile cracks her lips apart and she says, "So I told them all, 'No.'" Instead, Neneh joined a local health club formed by her friend Princess, who now works for CARE.
She became involved in her community and wanted to learn about her own health and how she could prevent things like the fistula from happening again. In the health club, Neneh learned about water and sanitation, malaria prevention, birth preparedness and the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. In all, she completed 25 health topics and earned a certificate to become a community health promoter. She now shares her knowledge with other families in her village.
Attending community health club meetings gave Neneh a confidence she never had. Osman, the village chief from a nearby community, noticed Neneh as he came to Yataya on business each week and he began to pursue her. Eventually they married, but Neneh was still nervous about becoming pregnant. She worried that pregnancy was the cause of her obstetric fistula, so she consulted with the local health organization that helped her obtain the fistula operation.
There, they advised her to give birth at the hospital, where she would have access to proper medical treatment in the case of another difficult delivery. Neneh also joined her local pregnancy support group organized by CARE, where she and other women learned about proper nutrition and prenatal care such as vaccinations and malaria prevention.
Today, Neneh has a healthy little boy named Kolleh. She is grateful to CARE for helping her achieve her dream of motherhood; she credits CARE with enlightening her to health issues and how to recognize complications from pregnancy before it is too late. "I would have died if I never came into contact with CARE," she says. "Without CARE and Princess, I would not have been able to get the operation and I would not be here."
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Hitter-friendly Citizens Bank Park appears to be a topic again. It was mentioned in newspapers this past week and on ESPN's spring training telecast from Orlando on March 22.
As we announced just before last Christmas, the left field wall was being adjusted after studying home runs at Citizens Bank Park for two seasons. The wall moved back five feet and the height was increased from eight feet to 10.5 feet. The 329-foot foot marker at the left field foul pole remains at that number with the wall angling back five feet from there. The 369-foot mark that was on the left field wall for two seasons is now 374 feet.
It is a fact that Citizens Bank Park ranked third among all Major League parks in home runs hit in 2004. The number was 228, trailing two Chicago ballparks, Wrigley Field (233) and U.S. Cellular Field (272). Seven different ballparks topped 200 home runs that season.
Last year, five parks surpassed 200 homers: Citizens Bank Park (201), Yankee Stadium (206), U.S. Cellular Field (213), Ameriquest Field (233) and Great American Ball Park (246). Citizens Bank Park climbed over 200 when seven homers were hit in the final home game.
It all means that there were 27 fewer homers at Citizens Bank Park in year two.
Our video survey estimates the new dimensions will subtract another 15-18 home runs in year three. One of the goals in building the park was to have a fair park for pitchers and hitters. It didn't play that way the first two seasons but an adjustment was made. Correcting wind patterns is unsolvable, unless we put a dome on the place. Don't count on that happening.
Physical changes in ballparks are not unprecedented.
The outfield wall at Veterans Stadium was raised from eight feet to 12 feet after the first season (1971) to eliminate the frequency of ground rule doubles.
After one year at Minute Maid Park in Houston (then Enron Field), an adjustment was made to make home runs to left-center more difficult. The distance in the power alley remained at 362 feet, but the height of the yellow line indicating a home run increased from 10 to 25 feet. The 315-foot distance to the left field foul pole remained, keeping it the shortest left field in the National League. As I recall, there were two or three "cheap" home runs hit to left field in Houston during last year's postseason, but no fuss was made over the fact of the short porch there.
In Detroit, the Tigers moved the left-center field power alley from 395 to 370 feet following the third season at Comerica Park. The San Diego Padres shortened Petko Park's right-center fence from 411 to 402 feet after last season.
See what's new at Citizens Bank Park in 2006.
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Very cool to read this. As a baseball collector, I've been wondering what CBP's new dimensions would be. I was fearing the worst…that the fences would be moved back 20 feet. But this doesn't bad at all. BP will continue to be paradise.
Two questions:
1. Has anything been studied in terms of alterning the wind patterns there? In addition to the short fences, it's also seemed like balls just carry much farther at CBP than at most other parks.
2. Any chance the right field wall gets moved back next offseason?
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Radial keratotomy (RK) involves making tiny
cuts in the
cornea, which flatten it and reduce
nearsightedness. In people who have both
astigmatism and nearsightedness, the surgeon may make
additional cuts to flatten the misshapen part of the cornea that is causing the
Because the outcome of surgery on the first eye may
affect how surgery is done on the second eye, many surgeons wait 6 weeks before
treating the second eye. This delay also reduces the risk of spreading a
corneal infection to the second eye. While waiting for the second procedure,
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nearsighted, since wearing two very different eyeglass prescriptions causes
distorted vision.
RK is an outpatient procedure. It is
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entire process usually takes less than 2 hours, including preparation time,
care right after the surgery, and paperwork.
After surgery, you
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next day. During this second visit, the surgeon will examine your eye and
prescribe eyedrops to prevent infection and reduce inflammation. More follow-up
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after surgery.
Unstable vision is common in the first 3 months after
surgery and may last for up to 1 year. Your vision may vary slightly over the
course of a day (although not to the point that you would need two pairs of
Radial keratotomy is an
elective procedure that is done to correct
nearsightedness in otherwise healthy eyes.
Good candidates for RK have normal, healthy eyes with
stable, mild-to-moderate nearsightedness (up to about 3
diopters) that is not getting worse with time. RK may
also correct some amount of
You may not be eligible for
RK if you have:
RK is effective in reducing mild-to-moderate
nearsightedness. It does not always completely
end nearsightedness. You may still need to wear corrective lenses some of
the time for either near or distance vision (or both) after surgery. People who
have moderate-to-high nearsightedness before surgery are more likely to still
need correction for distance vision after surgery than those who are only
mildly nearsighted.
The greatest problems with RK surgery are that
the results are harder to predict and they tend to change
over time. RK reduces nearsightedness, but it often causes mild farsightedness
(overcorrection) or does not completely correct
nearsightedness (undercorrection). Results are sometimes several
diopters different than predicted. In contrast,
eyeglasses and contact lenses are fitted with an accuracy of within 0.5 diopter
of the desired correction.
The vision
correction after RK also may be unstable. Most people who have RK surgery
gradually become more
farsighted for at least 8 to 10 years after surgery.
This is called the
hyperopic shift.
The most frequent complications of RK include
overcorrection (farsighted after surgery), undercorrection (still nearsighted
after surgery), and unstable vision (hyperopic shift). Retreatment is
sometimes desired to correct these problems. You may not be able to wear
contact lenses because of the shape of the eye after surgery. This is not the
case with LASIK or PRK.
Complications can occur but are not
common. These include:
A few very rare complications may threaten vision,
Radial keratotomy is considered safe. No deaths have been
reported as a result of the operation. And serious complications are rare. But
experts do not yet know the long-term side effects or
If you are considering having
surgery to improve
nearsightedness, consider all the options
(including radial keratotomy, PRK, LASEK, epi-LASIK, LASIK, corneal
ring implants, and intraocular lens implants), and talk about them with your
doctor. Ask your doctor
the questions that you have about surgery (for example, what are the risks, benefits, and possible outcomes) so that you understand your options and can make the best decision.
PRK, LASEK, epi-LASIK, and LASIK surgery have
replaced radial keratotomy (RK) as the refractive surgeries chosen by most
people. But RK is still very effective for mild nearsightedness (up to 3
diopters) and in other cases. Corneal ring implants
help some people who have low levels of nearsightedness.
If you need another type of eye surgery later in
life, such as cataract removal, the corneal scars from RK may make the
operation and recovery more difficult. RK weakens the cornea, making it more
prone to injury.
The RK surgery is an
elective procedure. The cost of refractive surgery varies
in different locations, but it can be very costly. Most insurance
companies do not cover the cost of refractive surgery.
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For most companies, rental and operating costs play vital roles in deciding whether to relocate to a new office space. However, one of the most important factors to take into consideration is the interior fit-out cost of the office space. This can be a very daunting experience given that what may seem initially to be a very simple and straightforward interior fit-out project, could potentially grow in complexity and cost, as unforeseen complications emerge.
Due to budget constraint, it is not uncommon to find clients overly optimistic about the fit-out budget by under-estimating the project cost at the initial stage. This eventually forces the client to come up with additional cash for the shortfall or compromise on key project elements. Most of these headaches can be avoided with better and more complete information presented early in the project and with the support of a project manager.
In principle, there are five major factors which drive fit-out costs:
- condition of the base building
- types of space and facilities required
- when the space is required for occupation
- what the client is prepared to spend
- the client's corporate objectives.
However, getting an idea of how much you can expect to pay for the fit-out of the office space can be difficult because projects vary greatly. Some office fit-outs will be purely cosmetic while others might involve extensive fit-out works with a detailed analysis of the utilisation of the workspace environment for future company growth.
To establish a ball park budget at the preliminary phase, the client must decide whether a low, medium or high specification fit-out is ideal for the office environment, based on branding and corporate objectives. A low specification fit-out will usually place emphasis on getting the most out of an existing space rather than engaging in an extensive fit-out-this is usually in the region of 300-600USD per square metre. The medium specification office fit-out takes this a little bit further by improving on the product specifications with greater emphasis on client facing areas and fit-out works. This is usually in the region of 600-900USD per square metre. The high specification, on the other hand, will have experienced interior designers and construction experts on board with high product specifications and additional facilities such as a canteen, gym, crèche, video conferencing facilities, and so on. This usually starts from 900USD per square metre, depending on the local currency fluctuations, given that most construction materials are imported into Nigeria.
From a cost saving perspective, the first step in getting good value is by engaging the right project manager (PM) to drive the entire process from initial conception to final completion. An experienced project manager will be able to interpret the client's brief, and can drive the design and construction process to a client's vision and budget with seamless execution. Here are some of the ways that the PM can assist in helping the client get value for money:
Firstly, the PM will check the condition of the base building to establish that the key components are not obsolete, and as such can support the client's work environment. In doing so, the PM will be able to advise the client if a Category A (CAT A) or Category B (CAT B) fit out is required. Typically, CAT A is what the developer provides as part of the rentable office space. In other words, raised floors, suspended ceilings, extension of the mechanical and electrical services above the ceiling from the riser across the lettable space, finishes to the internal face of the external and core walls, and blinds. On the other hand, CAT B completes the fit-out to the occupier's specific requirements. It can typically consist of installation of partition walls, enhanced finishes, conference/meeting room facilities, reception area, enhanced services/specialist lighting, IT and AV installations, kitchen fit-out, and furniture.
Most times, a tenant's fit-out of lettable office space follows on quickly after practical completion of the base building. The PM will carry out a conditions survey once the client takes occupation of the floor and the landlord will be notified of any defects. Often, the appointed contractor will need to make good the defects and on behalf of the client, the PM will put forward a claim for the cost of the remediation works. Any expenditure by the tenant against this type of work is recorded and the landlord notified.
Secondly, the PM can assist in conducting a space assessment and a test-fit (furniture layout) of the space to be occupied. These not only help to determine how much space is required but also how employees could make better use of the space. This in itself is an opportunity to identify significant savings, as well as map out future requirements for factors such as growth and internal team changes. The test-fit can also provide the basis upon which contractors are invited to tender for the construction works or use to ascertain the budget prior to any financial commitments.
Another key component of interior fit-out costs is furniture items. Typically, these items make up about 40% of the total fit-out cost components. While the idea of having a design and build contractor to provide a one-stop solution may be tempting, it should be noted that contractors will usually add about 30% to the manufacturer's price to allow for profit and associated risks. Therefore, the most cost effective approach will be to separate the furniture items procurement from the contractors work package. The PM can assist the client to conduct separate Request for Proposal (RFP) for the furniture package by targeting reputable furniture manufacturers thereby cutting out the middleman-in this case the contractor.
Finally, over the last few months, fluctuating foreign exchange rates have posed a significant challenge to the construction industry. Therefore, it is important for occupiers looking to embark on fit-out works to allow for contingencies due to fluctuating foreign exchange rates as this can impact on relative costs.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Ninth-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria won the Winston-Salem Open in a walkover Saturday after Gael Monfils retired with an injury in the second set.
Melzer was leading Molfils 6-3, 2-1 in the final when the Frenchman withdrew from the U.S. Open tuneup citing an abdominal injury.
It marked the fifth career crown for Melzer and his first in an outdoor hardcourt event. His last victory came at the 2012 Memphis indoor tournament.
The Austrian breezed through the first set and was leading the second when Monfils appeared to hurt himself while serving and retired after receiving treatment during the changeover after the third game.
Melzer improved to 5-8 all-time in finals, while Monfils fell to 4-15 lifetime in finals, including 0-2 this year.


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TROY -- As the Canadian government makes good on a promise to discontinue their penny, citing production costs that exceed its monetary value, the U.S. is looking for ways to lose less on each Abe Lincoln. On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mint officially ended its distribution of one-cent coins to financial institutions, the reasons for which were summarized in Pat Martin's elegy for the passing one-cent piece. "There's nothing a penny will buy any more, not a gum ball or small piece of candy," said Pat Martin, a member of the Canadian Parliament, on Monday. "The penny is a nuisance. It costs too much to make. They clutter our change purse and they don't circulate. They build up in piles in old cookie jars under our beds and in our desk drawers. You can't give them away. They cost more than what they're worth. It's time to put them all out to pasture, put them out to the curb." Those reasons resound with Americans', who have long echoed Martin's sentiments. "I don't use them, I just collect them," said city resident Mangia Huang on Monday. Others said they "just aggregate," whether in drawers, in jars or on dressers. As in Canada, there is a cost for Americans to continue squirreling away the ubiquitous denomination. For every penny shipped to federal reserve banks last year, it cost the United States Mint two cents to purchase the metal, manufacture and ship all 6 billion cents. The mint only made 9.4 billion cents that years. The production and distribution of those billions of pennies generated a loss of $58 million last year, a shortfall that burdens the federal government, and thus taxpayers, with unwanted taxes each years Production of the penny has been in the red for several years, said James Booker, a economics professor at Siena College, but he said the cost fluctuates with the value of the metals. In 2011, the federal reserve banks requested 8.2 billion coins, of which 4.9 billion were pennies. Largely due to increased metals' costs that year, it cost the federal government 2.4 cents to produce each penny at a loss of $60.2 million. By comparison, the Canadian government moved to discontinue their cent when it was only costing 1.6 Canadian cents to produce each maple-leaf branch coin. (For comparison, a Canadian dollar is worth approximately one cent less than an American dollar.) Metal manufacturers in the United States have strongly opposed the discontinuation of the penny, especially the zinc industry. For the U.S., discontinuing the penny may be out of the equation. In the past decade, two bills have been introduced - in 2002 and 2006 - calling for the end of the penny, but both failed to advance in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, the U.S. Treasury has said that the Obama administration is interested in looking at using cheaper metals to make the penny. The composition of the cent consists of 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper, but if other metals or combinations of metals were used it is possible the federal government could reduce costs. The U.S. Mint has been researching just such a possibility. In December, the Mint submitted its 2012 biannual report to Congress on the current state of production costs and progress towards using cheaper metals to make the cent. After two years of research into 80 metals and 30 alloy possibilities, the mint concluded that more research was needed, and did not make a recommendation to Congress. In the meantime, the Mint has been reducing its costs of operations, moving from three shifts to two shifts at both their facilities, in Denver and Philadelphia, said spokesperson Michael White. Such a move will help save taxpayers money on making the cent, and some of its costly brethren. Last year the nickel cost 10.06 cents to produce and ship, costing taxpayers $51.2 million, for a total loss of $109.2 million between both denominations.
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Empowerment in the Classroom
On Chicago's far Southeast side, past streets lined with boarded up buildings and 24-hour liquor stores, ten high school students buzzing with nervous energy enter a room full of adults—who may be just as excited as they are.
The school is Team Englewood High School, located in one of the city's poorest communities, and the students are part of a group that will perform a local spinoff performance of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the spring. The adults are a small group of movie stars, rappers, publicists, photographers, producers, teachers, and reporters.
And, no pressure, but they've all come to hear what Team Englewood's ten sophomores have to say.
As part of the promotion for a new education initiative based on Zinn's book, Matt Damon and Lupe Fiasco, both of whom appeared in the 2009 documentary, The People Speak, have come to Chicago to perform in a benefit show and to talk to the Englewood students about American history and hear them perform some of their own pieces.
"If [students] can connect to these historical figures, hopefully they will see themselves as part" of history, Damon said, touching on one of the central goals of Zinn's work—and of the nonprofit Voices of a People's History of the United States, which has created a curriculum based on Zinn's book. The group's mission is to "bring to light little known voices from U.S. history," including those of inner-city students of color. As part of this goal, they are rolling out an educator's toolkit for 1,000 teachers in Chicago, complete with videos, lesson plans, and locally relevant readings.
"We select material from the past that speaks to the present," said Brenda Coughlin, founder and director of the nonprofit. "We want students and people in the communities to be able to … say to young people: you make history."
"We're expanding the notion of what literature is: a canon for the people, of the people," says Kevin Coval, a hip-hop poet, educator and co-founder of the teen poetry festival Louder Than A Bomb, who is overseeing the project in Chicago. Students will be asked to respond to speeches from Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and others with their own text in their own words.
"It's really nice to hear you guys own your own voices and have power," Damon tells the group. Having grown up next door to Zinn in Boston, he says bringing the project to life with the voices of students is particularly exciting for him. Damon, who was in elementary school when A People's History was first released, in 1980, brought the book to class on Columbus Day that year, and read from the first chapter on indigenous people.
A key message of Zinn's work, Damon told the students, is that "change always, always comes from the bottom up." It's up to anyone "at the bottom to agitate and demand what is due to them."
For students like those at Team Englewood High School, the empowerment aspect is central. The Englewood neighborhood led the city in homicides last year, and, according to the Chicago News Cooperative, about 32 percent of residents live below the poverty line.
"It touches me that you guys would come here to Englewood and do work like this," said Jerome Wade, 17, who said he was born and raised in Englewood. "The first thing [about Englewood] that comes to your mind is gangs, but it isn't only like that. You may not have the funds to do something, but everyone has a voice."
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The student's excitement at the celebrity appearance—and at simply being listened to—says Chicago-born-and-bred rapper Lupe Fiasco, "shows the oppression of their voices and their experiences."
The program also hopes to challenge a contentious trend in education: the push to edit out parts of history. In Arizona, ethnic studies were banned and defunded because of allegations of "ethnic chauvinism," while a conservative group in Tennessee wants to remove any mention of the Founding Fathers being slave owners from textbooks.
In contrast, the curriculum is meant to be an antidote to much of mainstream history, which "teaches a watered-down version of the victors," says Coval.
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gaseous waste product from metabolism. The blood carries carbon dioxide to your lungs, where it is exhaled. More than 90% of carbon dioxide in your blood exists in the form of bicarbonate (HCO3). The rest of the carbon dioxide is either dissolved carbon dioxide gas (CO2) or carbonic acid (H2CO3).
Your kidneys and lungs balance the levels of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and carbonic acid in the blood.
This test measures the level
of bicarbonate in a sample of blood from a vein. Bicarbonate is a chemical (buffer) that keeps the
pH of blood from becoming too acidic or too
Bicarbonate is not usually tested by itself. It may be done
on a blood sample taken from a vein as part of a panel of tests that looks at
electrolytes, such as sodium, potassium, and chloride.
It can also be done as part of an
arterial blood gas (ABG) test. For the arterial blood
gas study, the blood sample is taken from an artery.
A carbon dioxide (bicarbonate) test helps find and
keeps track of conditions that affect blood bicarbonate levels, including many
kidney diseases, some lung diseases, and
metabolic conditions.
It is often done as part of a group of laboratory blood tests (chemistry screen) to help find the cause of many kinds of symptoms.
You do not need to do anything before you have this test.
Many medicines may change the results of this test. Be sure to tell your doctor about all the nonprescription and prescription medicines you take.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for
the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results may mean. To help
you understand the importance of this test, fill out the
medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
The health professional
drawing blood will:
The blood sample is taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch.
There is very
little risk of complications from having blood drawn from a vein.
A carbon dioxide (bicarbonate) test measures the
level of bicarbonate in the blood.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Results are usually available in 1 to 2 days.
mEq/L (23–30
High carbon dioxide (bicarbonate) levels may be caused
Low carbon dioxide (bicarbonate) levels may be caused
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include the
CitationsFischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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Over the years I've used this space to offer reviews and amplification of books that I think are important to the digital advertising and marketing community. Some are directly about sales theory ("The Challenger Sale"); others about how we think and create ("A Whole New Mind"); and still others are issue driven ("The Daily You"). Today I'm reviewing a internet book that's about history. Sort of.
Cory Treffiletti is well-known to many of us in this industry. He's been a leading agency-side executive (i-Traffic, Freestyle Interactive, Carat) and entrepreneurial thinker (IUMA, Catalyst S+F, Blue Kai) since the mid-90s. Now he's taken on what can only be described as a massive labor-of-love in compiling "Internet Ad Pioneers: The Stories of the Unsung People Behind the Birth and Growth of the Internet Ad Industry." The structure is simple: Cory queued up interviews with 31 people (buyers, sellers, entrepreneurs, researchers and others) who were all deeply engaged around the origins of digital advertising and marketing. The book is a straightforward presentation of those interviews.
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Yes, I was initially quite interested in the book because I'm one of those interviewed (Chapter 7) and because I count over two dozen of those featured among my friends, colleagues and collaborators in the business. But if it were just a self-congratulatory walk down memory lane, "Pioneers" would sell about 31 copies. The more I read the interviews – the individual stories and recollections – the more I realized this is an important book that should be on the bookshelf of everyone engaged in our business. For two reasons:
Just When You Think You Know the Story… As I read through the chapters focused on even very close friends, it dawned on me how little attention I'd paid over the years; how many details and themes I never knew, and would never have known had I not stopped to read. We are all so caught up in the next 15 minutes that we don't really listen to one another. I was struck by Maggie Boyer-Finch's anecdote about a young agency executive who was going on about how great his agency was – all the while unaware that Maggie had helped found that same agency.
Everything Old is New Again. Many of the stories are deeply personal and the themes are evergreen. Many revolve around times of hubris and unrestrained growth, followed by the inevitable day of reckoning. There's very candid conversation around the decisions that were made, and gut wrenching stories about downsizing and survival during "internet winter." There are also very practical discussions about evaluating talent, building teams, navigating deals and holding onto core values during chaotic, asymmetrical times. "Internet Ad Pioneers" may tell stories from the mid-90s, but they can be overlaid neatly over our current discussions about social, mobile, local, video and whatever comes next.
At its best, the book is driven forward by Cory as an active interviewer: he knows his stuff and raises just enough pointed observations and connections to keep things moving. (You recognize this quality most when it's not there: the Chapter 8 "interview" with Media Post editor Joe Mandese reads like the John Galt monologue from "Atlas Shrugged." I would like to have heard more of Cory's voice in that one.) No book is perfect: the "closing comments" at the end of each chapter – while generous and respectful – can sound a bit repetitive and overly solicitous of the subjects. And there were a few spots where some bracketed editorial comments would have better identified and contextualized the stories.
But these are minor points. Buy this book and read a couple of chapters each day. Do it not to celebrate the past, but to help yourself and your company navigate the immediate future.
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TORONTO — Seeing Aaron Hill standing in the hallway wearing a suit was definitely a surprise when we were heading to the presser to announce Alex Rios signing a six-year deal. As it turns out, both Rios and Hill inked extensions today.
Rios' contract is for six years and $64 million with an option for the 2015 season that could make the deal worth near $80 million. Hill signed a four-year, $12 million deal with club options for the 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons. According to Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi, Toronto has once chance — prior to the 2011 season — to choose either a one-year, two-year or three-year extension. It's be $8 mil for one more year, $16 for two or $26 for three.
Ricciardi said he preferred not to comment about any trade clauses, but I believe it's limite no-trades for both players. Ricciardi did note that the players cannot opt out at any point. Rios' deal takes effect next year and Hill's goes into effect immediately. I don't have a breakdown of the annual salaries or bonuses or anything yet.
The presser was quite entertaining, with Vernon Wells, Roy Halladay, Matt Stairs, Lyle Overbay and John McDonald making appearances. We jokingly asked Wells if he had to give up some of his salary to help the club afford the new deals for Rios and Hill. When asked if he was picking up the next tab for a team meal, Rios said that's Vern's department. Nice.
Back with more later…
UPDATE — 5:46 pm: OK, some clarification on the contracts for Hill and Rios. For Hill, by Opening Day 2011, the Jays need to decided whether or not to pick up three additional years for $26 million, running through 2014. If the team declines, the Jays then has to decide at the end of the '11 season to either decline the option altogether or to pick up either a one-year extension worth $8 million or a two-year worth $16 million. For Rios, his contract is six-years worth $64 million, but there is a $1 million buyout for after the 2014 season. Should Toronto decide to keep Rios around through 2015 with the club option, it'd be another $13.5 million. So essentially, it's either a six-year, $65 million deal or a seven-year, $77.5 million deal. Now that we're clear…
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (1-2) at BOSTON (3-1)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
David Eckstein, SS
Matt Stairs, LF
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Marco Scutaro, 3B
Gregg Zaun, C
PITCHING: RHP Shaun Marcum
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF
Julio Lugo, SS
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Kevin Cash, C
PITCHING: RHP Tim Wakefield
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That should make both players happy! Great players and I hope that this move pays off. Ricciardi has this tendancy to give out early contract extensions to try and make players happy. It is an interesting strategy, compared to waiting to the last minute to sign these guys hoping they will have to perform for their payday.
It sends a message to players that if they keep performing their payday can come at anytime. This didn't really work with Vernon Wells (at least last season), but I think it worked good with Halladay (he just needs to stay off the DL, as we all know)
Both deals are very good for the Jays considering how fast salaries can rise. If both players continue their progression their salaries in the last years of their deals will be a bargain. Now on to Mcgowan.
Hurray! our 2-3-4 hitters locked up for at least the next 4 season!
With Snider (LF) and Lind (DH) fast approaching, the future of the Jays suddenly looks very promising! With vets like Overbay and Rolen around for 3 more yrs, we could be a very good club in the near future! Now all we need to do is to go out and start winning some games to back it all up.
Go Jays Go!
Anyone know why yahoo sports says that the Jays gave Rios 70 mil and not 64? And great game against the Redsox today.


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Minnesota and Wisconsin are home to the largest population of nesting eagles in the United States outside of Alaska. That is why, if you take a stroll along the Mississippi River near Red Wing, you are bound to see the national bird.
"The state of Minnesota alone has about 700 breeding areas," Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Brittany Hauser said. "A lot of those areas are along the Mississippi River valley which serves as a migration corridor for them."
Eagles begin to congregate in November which is why the best time for viewing one in the area is from December to March.
A major factor in why this part of the Mississippi River sees such a high number of the birds is the access to open water needed for food. Most of the river freezes during the winter months with only select areas staying open because of the current. The Red Wing area is fortunate enough to be one of these areas.
If you can't make a trip to the river to view the eagles between December and March, there's still a chance you will see the bird further inland as well.
"Eagles are also scavengers," Hauser said. "They can be seen feeding on animal carcasses out in corn fields, feed on deer, rabbits, really anything that's left out."
Asked why eagles are so prevalent in Minnesota and Wisconsin as opposed to other neighboring states, Hauser said it's largely due to the population of trees. Minnesota and Wisconsin have a high population of white pines and other trees durable enough to hold up to the weight of an eagle's nest.
With a weather forecast indicating warmer temperatures upcoming, it presents a perfect chance to get outdoors and catch a glimpse of these majestic birds.


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No Bob Costas? No problem for NBC's Olympics, so far
If all people can tweet about is Bob Costas' eye and Matt Lauer's beard, odds are NBC will take it.
That's not what the network wanted, obviously. It hadn't planned on Costas being sidelined by an eye infection or on Lauer substituting as the Winter Olympics' prime-time and late-night host Tuesday, Wednesday and again tonight (at the very least). Nor could anyone have guessed how many people would take delight in mocking Costas' blazingly red pupils, though odds are once Lauer was chosen, executives were prepared for Twitter protests about everything from his failure to shave to his failure to be Dan Patrick, Al Michaels, Rebecca Lowe or Lester Holt – to name a few of the alternate hosts you can find listed under the revived #NBCfail.
As you should expect from someone who has spent the last 17 years co-anchoring a live broadcast, Lauer was fine: A dependably professional presence both alone and when bantering with Mary Carillo or Cris Collinsworth. He's not a sportscaster, but he's spent years taking the Today show to the Olympics, so he's familiar with the sports and many of its athletes. This is not his first time down this particular half-pipe – and even if it were, it's not like the prime-time host is on air all that much.The truth is, whomever NBC chose, carping was going to follow. For the moment, Costas is irreplaceable, which is why, wisely, Lauer did not try to replace him. The on-air approach he took in his introduction Tuesday was that of a friend stepping in to help an ailing co-worker who has "been playing hurt" and needed some time off. That tone – with its implication that he was only there to keep the trains running – should lessen the volume of criticism he might have received had viewers seen his appearance as a tryout for future Games.
If viewers balk anyway, it's because of two problems Lauer can't fix: He comes with Today baggage attached, and he's not Costas. When it comes to Olympics, Costas is simply the best in the business, a likable personality, totally at ease in the job, who links a dry, self-deprecating wit to a depth of knowledge and a retained sense of wonder. A broadcaster like that you want back on the air as soon as his eyes will allow.
So it's no surprise that people have taken to Twitter to complain about his illness and his absence. And, at times, to complain about him, because no one is universally beloved in an Internet universe where someone is always complaining about something. But for NBC, the happy surprise is that all the various #NBCfail-tagged complaints still haven't reached a critical media mass, as they did during the London Olympics. Even then, the barrage was being loosed by a minority of viewers, but they were vocal enough to cause major embarrassment.
Instead, the hashtag of the moment is #SochiProblems, which bothers NBC not one whit. There are the usual rants from those who somehow expect a commercial broadcaster to behave like its government-funded counterparts in Britain and Canada. But overall, the griping is comparatively muted. And whatever gripes people have, they're watching, and in greater numbers than many expected given the time difference and the largely negative pre-Olympic coverage.
It could be, of course, that people are less upset simply because they're less interested in the Winter Olympics than they are in the Summer Games. But it could also be that NBC learned some lessons from those summer tweets and is doing something right.
At the top of any list of improvements is the increased availability of live coverage, which has always been a sticking point for many Olympic fans. More events are being aired live on NBC's cable outlets, and almost every event is streaming live online – even in marquee sports that were blacked out in London.
Some are unhappy that they need a cable or satellite subscription to watch the Internet feed, but some of what's being shown online is also airing on NBC-owned cable outlets, and that's a business the company has to protect. At any rate, from a fairness standpoint, why should you get something for free that others have to pay for? And no, "Because I want it" is not a good enough answer.
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Sunday, 21 March 2010
A (miserable) 10k race report
Since I don't have the energy or frame of mind to write anything long right now, I'll keep it brief.
SR and I both ran the 10k race in Holbæk yesterday at 2:30 pm. It was rainy and windy, but the temperature was pleasant. I ran the first 5k in just over 20 minutes, on pace for a 10k PR and feeling good. I was following the same guy and drafting just like my coach, SR, has always recommended. But then I got a side stitch. And it wasn't just a little side stitch (but this was impossible! I had such a small breakfast!). I had to almost slow to a stop and was screaming out curses in English as the spectators watched me. I decided I would just walk back to the start because there was absolutely no way to go on. Or so I thought. I mean, even though I knew now I wouldn't get a PR, I did also come to win and there was prize money. So I told myself there was no such thing as pain, even though I was crying like a baby and yelling "Help!" the remaining 4km. The pain was definitely worse than what I experienced with the birth of The Lorax. Was I insane? The end could not come soon enough. I was not happy with my 42:44 time, but I did win (barely) and I got a 200 kr. gift certificate to Intersport. SR got second and was happy with his 34:50 time, though he claims he would have won had he known there was such a good prize for first. I had to laugh a bit. We were both feeling okay after the race and got to hang out with Ann and Martin from Jyderup. So it seemed all was well.
But today has been like hell. The stomach pain and nausea just would not abate all day except in the precious moments I was asleep. When one is in that much pain mid-race, they should probably stop running. I had not considered I'd pay for it so much today. Or maybe it would have been just as bad regardless of the racing; hard to say.
Luckily SR took the kids to Copenhagen today so he could play tennis with the band Safri Duo. The next post will be a more positive one. At least I hope so!
But no matter how bad my race was, it was not as bad as Mike's: he went 25 miles off course at 3 Days of Syllamo in Arkansas only to be denied food and water by the campers he finally found!
I had a great night's sleep and woke up feeling myself this morning, but soon learned Natali had been throwing up all night. Guess it was just the stomach flu.
11 comments:
- mmmonyka said...
I hope you feel better soon. Your time is still amazing considering all the pain your were in!
- 21 March 2010 at 22:55
- Danni said...
Don't you think you should get this checked out? Not cool!
- 22 March 2010 at 02:56
- cherelli said...
Hmm, on the plus side you are one crazy tough-minded girl when there is money and placings on the line. On the minus side - you should definitely not delay getting checked out! Hope it all turns out well.
- 22 March 2010 at 03:12
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks, gals! It means a lot to me to have your support! Glad to report all is well again. Just have to get the rest of the family through it now.
- 22 March 2010 at 07:14
- RunnerWoman said...
rest of the family through it now? ahhh... so it was a gastro-intestinal/flu thing? very unpleasant but at least not scary.
- 22 March 2010 at 09:29
- Jrahn said...
So, wait! You mentioned an ectopic pregnancy. Does that mean that you're pregnant?!
- 22 March 2010 at 13:20
- sea legs girl said...
No, no, no. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here! I'm due for a period in about 5 days. I'm definitely not buying a pregnancy test until I'm actually late.
- 22 March 2010 at 13:30
- SteveQ said...
I see the Lorax is now following my blog! He'll have to write his own blog soon (suggested title: Stroller at the Start Line)
- 22 March 2010 at 16:36
- olga said...
Glad the mistery resolved.
To our old matter - two words: Liza Howard:)
- 22 March 2010 at 20:26
- sea legs girl said...
Ah, yes, the Liza Howard who won the 2010 Rocky Raccoon? She's going down.
Okay, seriously, that is so exciting. Can't wait to meet her. Plus it suddenly makes Hells Hills seem like a lot bigger race. :)
- 22 March 2010 at 22:10
- Jrahn said...
Oh, goody!
You have more self-restraint than I do. I was using those tests as soon as I possibly could!
I've got my fingers crossed for ya!
- 23 March 2010 at 01:55


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Denny Hamlin finds support in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Denny Hamlin thought he had extra supporters pulling for him after a tumultuous few days in the spotlight.
Three days after NASCAR fined him $25,000 for perceived negative comments about the new Generation 6 car (he compared it to the much-maligned Gen 5 car), Hamlin said the amount of support for his appeal of NASCAR's decision was overwhelming.
HAMLIN:Stands up to NASCAR after fine
"I just can't even put it into words how happy it makes me that the fans are behind you and everything," he said after finishing 15th in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. "It's good to see even people that aren't fans of mine support my decision."
SUNDAY:Matt Kenseth celebrates birthday with win
NASCAR said it had not received official notice of his appeal. No hearing date was set.
Though a speeding penalty left him off-sequence on pit strategy, Hamlin was buoyed by how well his Joe Gibbs Racing team performed. Teammate Matt Kenseth won and Kyle Busch finished fourth after leading on five different occasions.
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"(It was) the best we've run at this track since I can remember," Hamlin said after the Gen 6's first race on a 1.5-mile layout.
"(The car) didn't race too bad," he said. "For the most part, I was happy with everything. Just a silly mistake when I shouldn't have made one took away 10-plus spots from us. But I'll make it up for them here down the line."
Those comments were far different from his postrace remarks last week, when he finished third and said, "I just didn't pass that many cars today. ... This is more like what the Generation 5 was at the beginning."
But NASCAR's numbers backed up the perception the Gen 6 car performed well at Las Vegas. Drivers made 1,000 more green-flag passes than in last year's race. There also were 131 green-flag lead changes, the most at Vegas since NASCAR began keeping track in 2005.
Busch was responsible for many of those, though his car wasn't good enough on the long runs to maintain his lead. "For about 10 laps, the thing was a rocket ship," he said. "And then it just started getting so loose you could barely hold on to it."
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ChefConf 2018: Barry Crist Opening
Barry Crist
Chef, CEO
ChefConf 2018 Session: Global Scale Application Architecture With Habitat and Microsoft Azure
John Kerry – Operations Architect, NCR
William Stewart – Software Engineer, NCR
We'll design a globally redundant ordering application with Microsoft Azure and Habitat. Using global traffic managers, Cosmos DB, and globally distributed virtual networks we'll sketch together a hosting topology that'll allow consumers to interact with our application with relatively low latency and with a high degree of fault tolerance.
Using habitat on this infrastructure will allow for a simple test \ build \ deploy pipeline and give us global delivery orchestration for free.
Microsoft Azure & Chef Integration and Demo
Jeremy Winter
Microsoft Azure, Partner Director of Program Management
Chef Automate's Impact upon Toyota Financial Services
Mohammad Malik
Toyota Financial Services, National Manager – Cloud Engineering
CSG International and How DevOps Delivers Results
Erica Morrison
CSG International, Exec Director – Software Development & Operations
Harnessing the Cloud with OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Stephen Figgins
University of Kansas, Assoc. Director of Operations of Agile Technology Solutions
Detect, Correct and Automate with Chef on AWS
Arun Gupta
Amazon Web Services, Principal Open Source Technologist
Chef- and Habitat-powered Runtime for Stateful SaaS
Deepack Sihag – DevOps Consultant
Amulya Sharma – Sr Staff Software Engineer, GE
How to Prepare for an Audit (AKA Make Audits Suck Less)
Seth Thoenen
Systems Engineer, Jack Henry & Associates
Cloud Compliance with InSpec and Chef Automate
Victoria Jeffrey – Software Engineer, Chef
Rick Marry – Senior Software Engineer, Chef
Chef and InSpec Builds with Jenkins
Annie Hedgpeth – Cloud Automation Engineer, 10th Magnitude
Nick Hudacin – Senior Systems Engineer, Relativity
Capital One's Fully Automated, Scalable & Regionally Fault-tolerant Chef Platform
John Casanova
Master Software Engineer, Capital One
Herding Cats – How to Get an Entire Organization Cooking with Chef
Brittany Woods
Automation Engineer, CARFAX
Chef @ Yahoo! JAPAN: Powering the Largest Portal Site in Japan
Ippei Suzuki – Chef Strategy Officer (CSO), Creationline, Inc. (representing Yahoo! JAPAN)
Kenta Kawaharada – Yahoo! JAPAN
Developing the Essential macOS Cookbook at Microsoft
Jacob Zaval – Service Engineer, Microsoft
Eric Hanko – Service Engineer, Microsoft
Achieving Cloud Agnostic Application Deployment with Habitat
Scott Ford
Principal Strategic Solutions Architect, Chef
Distribute and Conquer- the Federated Model for Chef Automate on AWS
Jonathan Weiss – Senior Engineering Manager, Amazon Web Services
Mark Rambow – Software Development Manage, Amazon Web Services
VMware & Chef – What is the Ecosystem Like and Where Does Everything Fit?
JJ Asghar
Partner Architect, Chef
Using Chef and InSpec to Securely Manage Endpoints (Panel)
Mike Dodge – Client Platform Engineer, Facebook
Ryan Moon – Client Platform Engineer, Slack
John McCrae – IT Manager, Chef
Easy Ad-hoc Remote Tasks and the Future of Chef Workstation on the Desktop
Tyler Ball – Software Development Engineer, Chef
Jon Morrow – Engineering Lead, Chef
Global Scale Application Architecture With Habitat and Microsoft Azure
John Kerry – Operations Architect, NCR
William Stewart – Software Engineer, NCR
Bid Farewell to "Compliance Theater" and Welcome Continuous Compliance
Carter McHugh
Executive Director of Agile Architecture, CSG International
How the Habitat-operator Brings Habitat Awesomeness to Kubernetes
Indradhanush Gupta
Software Engineer, Kinvolk
Production-Ready Kubernetes and Habitat in 40 Minutes
Joey Schluchter
Azure Cloud Architect, Microsoft
Meshing Legacy Systems with Habitat to Lift & Shift
Graham Weldon
Technical Coordinator and Vision Lead, Rakuten
NFCU and Chef – A Year of Automating AIX, Linux, and More
Alan Thatcher
Support Lead (Chef), Navy Federal Credit Union
How SAP leverages Chef Automation
Martin Schygulla – Automation Team Manager, SAP
Juan Carlos Martinez – Automation Engineer, SAP
Build a Recipe for Success with Chef and Splunk
Domnick Eger
Global DevOps Practitioner – ITOA Practice Lead, Splunk
How We Drove Everything Towards Automation and Still Made the Auditors Happy
Greg Rommel – Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer, Discover
Ryan Kotecki – Cloud Automation Engineer, Discover
Don't Burn Your Fingers with HPE Synergy and Docker with Chef Automate
Nigel Wright – Cloud Architect, Dimension Data
Anthony Rees – Solution Architect, Chef
Cookbook Quality Metrics and You!
Robb Kidd – Software Development Engineer, Chef
David Aronsohn – DNSquirrel, DNSimple
Media and Analyst Q&A – On the Present and Future of DevOps
Alex Williams – Founder and Editor, The New Stack
Mike Kravis – Managing Director, Deloitte
Beth Pariseau – Senior News Writer, TechTarget
Torsten Volk – Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates
Using Compliance to Quarantine – Remove the Risk & Rebuild Clean
Galen Emery
Customer Architect (Federal), Chef
Empowering Strategic Charitable Investments with Automation Science
Andrew Morris
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Delivering the World's Most Powerful GIS Software Continuously
Mark Carlson – System Architect, Esri
Cherry Lin – Product Engineer, Esri
How Rakuten became a Chef Training Partner and trained 200 Chef employees
Rex Cerbas – Technical Account Manager, Rakuten
Takaaki Furukawa – Server Engineer, Rakuten
John Fitzpatrick – Training Program Manager, Chef
How DB Systel Manages Computing Infrastructure on High Speed Trains
Heike Hallenberger
Software Developer, DB Systel
Developer-Friendly IBM Cloud Automation Manager and IBM Cloud Private
Bill Stoddard
Program Director of Offering Management (IBM Cloud Automation Manager), IBM
Cooperating Fault Tolerant Habicat #cheffriends: Live Demo
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Customer Advocate/System Engineer, Chef


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Daffodil Campaign - Door to Door Canvasser - Daffodil Campaign
The Canadian Cancer Society is currently seeking energetic, passionate, and outgoing volunteer canvassers (Door to Door, Workplace, Friends & Family, Online) to be the face of the Canadian Cancer Society in neighborhoods or workplaces during the Daffodil Campaign in April.
Thousands of volunteer canvassers participate in the Daffodil Campaign in communities across Canada because they believe passionately in the mission of the Canadian Cancer Society. April is the month to fight back and an opportunity to show people living with cancer that they are not alone and we will not give up until all forms of the disease have been defeated.
Canvassers have a great passion for the fight for life and are able to commit to going door to door 1-3 times during the month of April, for an hour or two each time, to ask for donations and raise awareness about the Canadian Cancer Society. Visiting neighbors on the weekend or in the early evening is recommended.
As an alternative to going door to door or to complement door to door fundraising, canvassing friends & family, workplace, clubs or associations and/or online are all other opportunities to show your support.
- Short-term commitment and flexible hours
- Make a difference in the fight against cancer
- Engage with the community
- Meet neighbors and raise awareness within your community
- Training will be provided
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- Canadian Cancer Society Volunteer Orientation (recommended)
- A great attitude and a passion for the fight against cancer.
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On the Verge with Gary Clark Jr.
Whether he's a modern-day bluesman or rock 'n' roll guitar slinger, Gary Clark Jr. is a musician whose stock is on the rise. The Texas guitarist, 28, has been playing out since his teens and now counts Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys and the Rolling Stones among his high-profile fans. Clark's first major-label album, Blak and Blu, released in October, debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 84,000 copies. Ain't Messin' 'Round, a slab of fuzztone-slathered funk peppered with rock 'n' soul horns, is No. 22 on USA TODAY's Triple A airplay chart.
Who's bad? The first concert Clark attended -- the Denver stop on Michael Jackson's Bad tour in 1988 -- set the then 4-year-old on his life path. "That's one of my first memories, really," he says. "I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.'" He got his first guitar, an Ibanez RX20, at age 12. His primary instrument these days is a cherry-red Epiphone Casino. "I like the versatility of it," he says of the hollow-body electric guitar. "It can be mellow and lowdown, kind of jazzy, or you can crank it up. It's got a little bite to it. I love the sound of the P-90 (pickups) -- when you crank them up and you can get a little feedback, get it to scream at you the right way, it can be kind of cool. And it looks good."
All blues.Blak and Blu uses the blues as a launching pad for an exploration of musical styles ranging from slide-guitar Delta blues (Next Door Neighbor Blues) to punky rock 'n' roll (Travis County) to the title track's hip-hop- and Miles Davis-influenced R&B. "When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. We would play Albert King, Freddie King or T-Bone Walker," he says. "Then I would hang out with friends who were my age, and we'd listen to a Wu-Tang Clan record with an Albert King guitar lick as a sample. They wouldn't connect, but, me, I was making the connection. There's a common thread in all this stuff. I'm for throwing in some modern stuff and going back, too, taking elements from guys who did it a while ago."
Not the new Hendrix. Clark shrugs off the "new Jimi Hendrix" designation with which some fans and critics have saddled him. "There's no comparison, so I don't even give it any thought," he says. "I shut it down immediately, because I've got too much respect for the guy." Blak and Blu, however, does contain a medley of Hendrix's Third Stone From the Sun and If You Love Me Like You Say, a staple of the late bluesman Albert Collins' repertoire. "The first guitar albums that I got were Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins," he says. "Those were major influences that changed the way I listened to music. I wanted, in my own little way, to say thank you, like a tip of the hat. If I could have done it, I would have thrown a Stevie Ray Vaughan song in that medley."
Showcasing with superstars. Clark has landed several high-profile gigs recently. He guests on Alicia Keys' new album, playing on her Fire We Make duet with Maxwell. His tribute to Buddy Guy during the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington will be part of a television special airing Dec. 26 (9 p.m. ET/PT, CBS). He also played with the Rolling Stones during one of their Brooklyn shows earlier this month. "I had a couple friends say they'd never seen me smile like that on stage," Clark says. "I usually keep it pretty cool, but I lost all cool points on that gig."
Going down to the Crossroads. Clark is booked to play Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in April at New York's Madison Square Garden. His appearance at Clapton's festival in 2010 served as his national introduction. "That was definitely a moment where I thought to myself, 'You better keep practicing. There are a lot of eyes on you now,'" he says. Some of those eyes belonged to executives at Warner Bros. Records who eventually signed him to a deal. Highlights like that significantly improved what otherwise could have been a very bad day, since Clark also got a call from his cable company informing him they were about to disconnect his service for non-payment. "I was like, 'You know what? I'm fine. I'm about to get up and play on stage with Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Buddy Guy. I'm not really worried about that today.'"


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Direct contact for Lindab products and system in your country (local languages).
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CADvent Enabler is a program that allows users to open dwg drawings, created with CADvent in AutoCAD.
The Lindab Quick Selection Tool, lindQST®, is a very fast, easy-to-use and flexible online tool for your daily work.


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One of the very interesting people I met at How The Light Gets In was the writer and filmmaker David Malone. In conversation with him and (it was a very weird weekend, okay?) Michael Nyman and the head of cultural affairs at the Mexican embassy to the UK, he'd mentioned that some of his work had been uploaded by other people to the net. Also, that his preferred form, the lyric televisual essay, had gone out of fashion. As I've noted here more than once, proper rhetorical television isn't really made any more.
So I went looking, when I got home. And I found his DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE:
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
I don't think David will mind if I show it to you here. It's beautiful.
David also writes a blog, and can be contacted there.


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Allow your teens to fully participate in Bible study with case studies, discussion questions, self-evaluations, and more! Order 1 per student.
Every week, Encounter™ teen Sunday school curriculum challenges students with an engaging Bible study that helps them understand God, the Bible, doctrine, or a biblical worldview. Students experience lessons in ways that fit their learning styles—hands-on activities like drama, art, and games, as well as intellectually engaging small group discussions, research, and reporting.
Students explore what it means to encounter God in their everyday lives. Encounter™—The Magazine (take-home) reminds students of how the lesson fits into their lives with engaging articles and stories, daily lesson-related devotions, and invitations to go online and share their response to the week's topic.
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Curious about improv? Want to give it a try? Join the Bad Dog Academy Tuesdays at 7pm!
Who is it for? Our Tuesday drop-in is perfect for anyone with little-to-no experience who wants to work out their improv muscle - or give it a shot for the first time! Ideal for Foundation Series students looking to gain more experience outside of class.
Cost: five dollars at the BDCT box office. No need to sign up, just show up a few minutes early


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Bath Area Community Events Calendar
Bath Farmers Market
Saturday November 30, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Farmers Market meets on Saturday mornings year round. We are at Waterfront Park on Commercial St. from May thru November. It's a happy place to spend a morning-pick up a coffee and a bagel, fresh donut or decadent pastry from one of our talented bakers, or grab some fresh apples or berries to nibble on while you cruise for your favorite foods , flowers, and farm products.Our vendors offer seasonal produce, fresh meat, poultry and fish. Glorious cheeses and creamy yogurt, sweet and savory baked goods, bread and fresh soups and ready to heat meals. Wool blankets, beeswax candles, herbal medicinals and all kinds of special treasures are available. Check out the homemade granola, the locally roasted coffee-try a cup-and the lactofermented vegetables. We have bags too. SNAP users are welcome; we support credit and debit cards. Plan on a light breakfast while you cruise and converse with our vendors!
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