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Arrange Shelves to Showcase Collections
From shoes to dishes to quilts, let these artfully displayed collections inspire you.
Arrange Shelves to Showcase Collections
Can't quite decide how to showcase your favorite collections? Take another look at those shelves. From shoes to dishes to quilts, let these artfully displayed collections inspire you.
Here, crisp white shelving with a blue-painted interior showcases colorful pottery while serving as a point of interest in the breakfast room.
Distinctive Color Against Blanched Shelves
Bleached wood shelves add height to this guesthouse. By leaving space in each cubby and placing National Geographic magazines with their distinctive yellow spines out, this unique collection of spheres and other objects doubles as art. With a complementary hue of soothing blue, these citric accents are sure to pop.
Greenhouse Shelves
In her Santa Monica, California, flower shop, Stephanie Schur uses shelves as a creative way to display and organize vases, flowerpots, and gardening gloves. Ceramic pots decorated with birds and curious plants add to the whimsical feel of an apothecary's shop.
Blue-and-White China Collection
A collection of blue-and-white patterned china is displayed on the shelves of an antique hutch in a kitchen sitting area. The dishes were the inspiration for the choice of Lee Jofa fabric covering the armchairs.
See more from this summer home, designed by Suzanne Kasler.
Neutral Porcelain Display
Who says bookshelves are just for books? Built-in wall space is a great place to show off gorgeous porcelain pottery. The pieces' neutral tones harmonize peacefully with the dove-gray shelving without distracting from other subtle focal points around the room.
Country Kitchen Shelves
A cozy medley of blue-and-white dishes and ceramic chickens lines the shelves in this country-French kitchen. Besides adding color and textural elements, these pieces come in handy when cooking or serving a large group of friends and family.
See more clever shelving ideas from designer Charles Faudree on the following slide.
Cozy Enclosed Bed with Handy Shelving
Wrapped in a rosy toile, this guest bed is nestled in a cozy niche, complete with curtains for privacy and a porthole window. Shelves lining the back of the alcove provide surface area to store books, statues, photos—even a reading light.
Click here for more country-French inspiration from Charles Faudree
Gorgeous Red Accents Against Blue Shelves
White shelves stand out against robin's egg blue walls and vibrant red accents in this showhouse library, designed by Patricia LaPierre. The shelving houses a range of obscure and colorful artifacts, from seashells and coral to plates and paintings in warm colors that pop against a cool backdrop.
Colorful and Inspiring Shelf Display
Sometimes the items you most want to display will have such a big impact that they will inspire the palette for an entire room. In this sitting area, wall niches feature simple shelving that holds an exotic array of trinkets and mementoes nestled among familiar family portraits and books. The bright hues of the yarn rhino, yellow statues, and pair of colorful prints played a role in designer Jennifer Garrigues's decision to keep the armchairs and rug a quiet cream, allowing the pieces on the shelves to stand out.
Sophisticated Pottery Collection
A precious collection of antique Chinese pottery is displayed in a vintage glass-front Belgian bookcase. The pieces' subdued hues blend seamlessly with the neutral palette of the rest of the living room, like the caramel-colored leather lounge chairs from Wesley Hall. Urns line the top of the cabinet, adding a sense of dimension.
Eye-Catching Cabinetry
Windows form the back of these glass-front kitchen cabinets, affording views of silver vases and colorful pottery from the inside and outside. The extra windows also allow sunlight to flood the kitchen through an unconventional source.
Curio Collection
A corner curio cabinet is a handy way to display your curiosities. Vintage silver-rimmed cups line the top and bottom shelves, with a worn wooden box anchoring the middle shelf. Hanging the unit in the corner allows more open space on the desk.
Collecting for a Complementary Palette
A pine china cabinet holds zesty pieces that complement the yellow, gold, and cream dining room designed for the DC Design House by Camille Saum. The shape of the chartreuse-colored plates reflects the rounded dining chair backs. Shiny green paint inside the cabinet works to anchor the sunny palette with a cool but exciting color, while silver and gold objects inside glitter and gleam.
Navy Details on White Shelves
Special items coordinating with the room's color scheme are housed on raffia-backed shelves. Navy collectibles bring out the couch's soothing colors; vintage silver trophies bring a touch of retro sparkle to the top shelf.
Color-Happy Shoe Closet
Arrange a to-die-for shoe collection on closet shelves to create a fun wall space, as shown in reality star Bethenny Frankel's NYC loft. Organized by color and style, these beauties also help to inspire outfits.
Glass shelving tucked into a teal alcove provides an ocean-hued backdrop for a seashell collection. The greenish-blue backing ties in the striped upholstery scheme while mixing in colorful elements of the sandy pink seashells.
Bathtub Organization
Shelves near the tub are an easily accessible place to keep a store of bath salts and soaps in vintage containers. The handy location also ensures that books and fluffy white towels are always within reach.
Shelves Punctuated with Color
Color plays a starring role in this sophisticated space. Cooking and wine books are stacked amid portraits of chefs and bright blue Asian sculptures for a small shelf display with big personality. Dragons lend an exotic touch, while shapely vases balance the high-texture scheme. The vivid cerulean pieces look particularly striking against the white backing of the arched niche.
Exotic Collection on Wooden Shelves
An exotic collection of small statues takes center stage on environmentally friendly cabinetry by el Environmental Language, which blends in seamlessly with the room's natural wood scheme. The rich browns and golds look right at home against an inviting neutral wall paint. A striped rug brings out the varied wood grains in the cabinets, shelves, and fireplace surround.
Contrasting Shelves in a Pink Room
White-painted bookshelves provide a gallery-like background in the living room and offer a contrast to the bright pink walls.
Bardith Plate Collection
Antique white plates from Bardith are the perfect items to showcase in this pretty neutral sitting room. The shelving niche features a decorative arch, which adds a nuanced touch of timeless elegance to the room's classic style.
Explore more of this grand New Jersey home here.
Art Lover's Collection
Custom bookshelves wrap around this library, designed by homeowner Steve McKenzie. As CEO and chief designer for custom framing company Larson-Juhl, as well as an artist himself, he loves to collect artwork. This room in particular is lined with art books and pieces from artist Jonathan Adler. "I'm obsessed with art books," Steve says. "The library was designed specifically to house my books and our collection of Jonathan Adler pottery."
See more from this art lover's Atlanta home.
Displaying Family Photos
Shallow shelving along a busy upstairs hallway is the perfect place to display family photos. In conjunction with the rich wooden floors, these black-and-white prints make a graphic impact against the white shelves and wall.
See more from this new home with classic style.
Colorful Quilt Collection
Built-in shelves painted dusty blue contain a collection of quilts from Bellwether Dry Goods, which are displayed throughout the home. The desk, a family heirloom, warms the space.
More from this Capitol Hill home on the following slide.
Rustic Hutch Display
A collection of prized dishes is ready for use in this antique pine cupboard. Vibrant fruits and veggies lend loads of color to the sophisticated scene.
See more from this home, designed by Mary Douglas Drysdale.
Nautical Minimalist Shelving
Built-in shelves are a great way to carry the motif of a room. Here, ship lanterns and silver bowls filled with coral work with the harbor painting to set a nautical mood. A symmetrical arrangement and creamy backdrop keeps the scheme clean-lined and classic.
Butler's Pantry Wet Bar
Tucked into this pantry, a wooden buffet with open shelves provides space for a modest wet bar—as well as a collection of quirky ceramic pieces. Against white walls, the pastiche of artwork creates a unique color palette all its own.
Bookshelf with a Secret Feature
Bathroom shelving pulls double-duty above this tub in designer Skip Sroka's D.C. home. At first glance, the alcove appears to house a collection of books; however, the framed artwork cleverly conceals a flat-screen television. Perfect for a long, hot soak after a day in the office!
Shell Shelves
Shell motifs give these built-in shelves an attitude that suits the blend of decorative styles in the room. An assortment of aged artwork and photographs mingle with silver pieces and unique candleholders on the shelves, which match the Victorian vibe of the French-style bergères and a violet settee.
Craving more collections? Click here to see our slideshow on collecting exquisite Gilded Age China and Glass.


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Barriers and Facilitators for Emergency Department Initiation of Buprenorphine: A Physician Survey." Am J Emerg Med. 2019."
National Variation in Opioid Prescription Fills and Long Term Use in Opioid Naïve Patients After Urological Surgery." J. Urol.. 2019:101097JU0000000000000343."
US Emergency Department Encounters for Firearm Injuries According to Presentation at Trauma vs Nontrauma Centers." JAMA Surg. 2019."
Attitudes on Technological, Social, and Behavioral Economic Strategies to Reduce Cellphone Use While Driving in Teens." Traffic Inj Prev. 2018:1-23."
Novel Smartphone-Based Measures of Cell Phone Use While Driving in a Sample of Newly Licensed Adolescent Drivers." Health Educ Behav. 2018:1090198118788612."
Opioid Prescribing Limits for Acute Pain - Striking the Right Balance." N. Engl. J. Med.. 2018;379(6):504-506."
Adolescent Cellphone Use While Driving: An Overview of the Literature and Promising Future Directions for Prevention." Media and Communication. 2016;4(3)."

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"Did you know Mita is living in the same city as you are?" a friend informed him over the phone, "every Friday she walks from metro station to the synagogue."
"From Kochin to Canada!" Samir wondered as he parked his car," Mita has come a long way; all god's will!"
Samir Sheikh and Mita Cohen were close friends from childhood. Eventually, their faiths came in between – Samir a muslim and Mita a Malabar jew.
Implication of a muslim man waiting outside a syanagogue dawned upon Samir, when the police officer demanded,"sir, show me some identification, please!"
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This is an effort to write aflash fiction effort with the Friday fictioneers, 03rd, May, 2019, using picture prompt provided by host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Other stories can be found here
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Working with the news media has many aspects. However, writing letters to the editor and editorials for your local newspaper is something anyone can do and can definitely bring midwifery issues and the Midwives Model of Care to the attention of your community.
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Albright receives West Point award for service
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright received the U.S. Military Academy's prestigious Thayer Award on Thursday, joining Dwight Eisenhower, Neil Armstrong and other past recipients recognized for their outstanding service to the U.S.
Albright, the first woman to hold the nation's top diplomatic post, used the occasion to praise U.S. soldiers, call for an end to "partisan squabbling" in Washington and warn against isolationism.
The academy's announcement of the award, named for former West Point Superintendent Col. Sylvanus Thayer, describes Albright as a leader on policy and international affairs. The annual award is given to citizens whose service illustrates the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country."
Albright received the award at the Hudson River academy during a dinner ceremony hosted by West Point's Association of Graduates. Before the dinner, the cadets conducted a ceremonial parade in her honor on the grassy expanse at the center of the academy known as the Plain.
President Bill Clinton appointed her secretary of state during his second term, and she served from 1997 to 2001. She previously had been U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Albright was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and was forced to leave after Nazi Germany gained control there. She spent much of World War II in England.
Other past recipients of the Thayer Award include Douglas MacArthur, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Jordon, Walter Cronkite, Colin Powell and Bob Hope.
"The list of previous recipients is an extraordinary one that includes many people who once held high office or otherwise achieved fame," Albright said, according to prepared remarks provided by West Point before the dinner. "But looking down the list, I know that if I had to choose a single companion to watch my back, it would be the winner of this award in 2002 -- the American soldier."
She recalled life with her family as refugees when U.S. troops arrived in England to stage for the Normandy assault in France.
"In the months that followed, almost an entire continent lost to evil had to be taken back village by village, hill by hill," Albright said. "It was an assault carried out against dug-in positions, amid rain and mud and blood and darkness, winnable only through unbelievable courage and at unbearable loss."
She said that ensuring young Americans are able to meet the demands of the future depends on Washington overcoming its divides and ensuring a "rational approach" to the federal budget.
On the day the partial federal government shutdown ended, Albright said that after viewing the cadets' "amazing parade," she'll bring back to Washington the message that "these young men and women deserve better."
Albright also spoke of the complexity of the challenge facing the nation and its soldiers now.
"Our recent military engagements have played out against a complicated political backdrop, tinged with religious and cultural tension, questioning allies, less than conclusive results, and an American public that often seems disengaged," she said, while stressing the need for the investments and policies necessary to maintain the nation's global role.
"Here at West Point, cadets are taught about engineering and mathematics, history and science, but above all, you learn about the qualities demanded of a leader," she said. "So I suspect that I do not have to tell you that American leadership is still needed in the world today."


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Historical Fiction Writer Ellen Brazer Visits with Mike Angley
MA: I'm joined today by author Ellen Brazer. Before getting published, Ellen did just about everything but write. She was in business. She worked for the State of Israel, and she was involved with the community. She actually did not begin to write seriously until she was in her forties. So tell us, Ellen, with no real writing background, how was it that you came to pen novels?
EB: I was waiting for some medical test results to come back. I was extremely successful in business when I was very young and while waiting for that phone call I asked myself what mountain had I yet to climb. The answer for me was writing a book. I have a dear friend who is a Pulitzer Prize winner. When I wrote my first draft of Hearts of Fire I pressed the Caps Lock key on the computer and wrote the entire first draft in capital letters with almost no punctuation. It was my writing friend who said, there is something here and you must keep going. That first book took me 10 years to write. The manuscript went from under the bed to the closet and then back under the bed again. A doctor friend took it on a ski vacation and he was the one that finally got me to become serious about getting the book published.
MA: I can't even imagine going more than a full sentence with the Caps Lock Key on! Tell us about what you write.
EB: I write historical fiction. Let me tell you about Clouds Across the Sun. Before the end of WWII, Hitler charged a group of his most trusted and brilliant comrades with a mission—educate your progeny and then elevate them to positions of power throughout the world. Steeped in fact and impeccably researched, Clouds Across the Sun is the story of just one of these children.
From Naples, Florida, New York City, and Washington D.C., to Israel and then the killing grounds of Vilnius, Poland (Lithuania) this story is one of great romance, discovery, redemption, and enlightenment as Jotto Wells unravels the intrigue surrounding a plan to take over the government of the United States.
MA: How did you develop your characters? Was there a great deal of research involved into the lives of people from this era?
EB: I am not sure as writers that we develop our characters. I think they are born to the page and then they develop us. Whenever I have a new character I find myself sitting back and watching their personality emerge. Sometimes I have to rein them in when it feels like they are doing something out of character but most of the time they are in control of me. In Clouds Across the Sun I have more than one protagonist and I was always amazed that they each had their own distinct voice.
MA: More than one protagonist? Tell us about one of them.
EB: I will focus on Jo for this question. She is very independent and self-assured. As the first woman Senator from New York she is intelligent and opinionated. Her greatest weakness is that she falls prey to her family's influence over her.
MA: Any unique antagonists, other than the obvious?
EB: I think I do bad guys really well and in this book there are some really evil people. When creating an antagonist in the Holocaust time period it is challenging to show all sides of the personality. My antagonist is a Nazi doctor from the Concentration Camps. We see him as a dangerous monster but we also see him as a loving father. The danger is constant when he comes to America after the war with one goal: placing someone under his influence as President of the United States
MA: Do your novels ever fool people into thinking more of the fiction is actual fact?
EB: I write historical fiction that is so based in fact that when people finish my book they tell me that they are chilled and always ask themselves: Could this happen? Is it happening? I talk about IBM, The Red Cross, Hitler and Henry Ford's close friendship and how the U.S. allowed thousands of known Nazis into the U.S. in exchange for information about our new enemy, Russia.
MA: Interesting…so what's next?
EB: I am writing an historical novel that takes place in the year 135 of the Common Era. It was a time period when the Jews believed that Shimon Bar Kockba was the Messiah. Following him, they managed to defeat Rome and for a three year period Israel was under the control of the Jews. And So It Was Written is the story of two brothers, one who becomes a famous physician in Rome and the other becomes a commander in the Jewish army. There are some very unique and controversial elements to this book that I am keeping close to the vest so stayed tuned. I am in the process of rewriting and I hope to be finished within the year.
MA: Well thank you, Ellen. I encourage everyone to visit Ellen's website for more information: http://ellenbrazer.com/Home_Page.html Read More


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I was recovering from surgery this past weekend. On Thursday, I had reconstructive cosmetic surgery to tweak my breasts. The original plan was that I would be in surgery for one to two hours and then head home late Thursday afternoon. Surgery actually took almost four hours.
The doctor told Sister, who had come from Toronto to spend the day with me at the hospital, that she took some extra time to fix my abdominal scar. This included tailoring the dog ears on each side of the scar left from my original DIEP flap surgery. I was thrilled to learn that in addition to adjusting the size and shape of my breasts, the surgery had repaired the scar along my abdomen and those unsightly puckers on each side of the scar.
I decided to stay in the hospital overnight, and I am so glad I did. I didn't have to worry about getting home and trying to be comfortable; instead I was able to settle quickly into a quiet room in the hospital. My husband made dinner for both Sister and me at home and brought it to the hospital, since it was after seven and I had missed ordering a hot dinner. With Sister there and my husband doting on me, surgery turned out to be an almost pleasant event.
I am excited about this surgery. Like most women who just get cosmetic plastic surgery to improve their looks, this surgery is a little more indulgent than the mastectomy or the original DIEP flap to restore my breasts. I can feel womanly and pretty again, and my breasts will really be closer to what I want. The fact that the doctor revised the abdominal scar makes me feel a little special and giddy at the thought of really looking great again.
We deserve this kind of care after breast cancer. The medical skills are available to restore our beauty and our self esteem. I am fortunate to have the insurance to do this, but there are a costly co-pay and deductible that almost led me to cancel at the last minute. Too many of us have put off this kind of restoration after breast cancer because of cost. It is hard to question the co-pays needed for treatment to save our life, but we can find plenty of reasons to save the money needed to restore our life. That is a shame and one we shouldn't be dealing with.
Breasts matter, we matter, and how we look after the battle matters. My friends and loved ones remind me that my surgery wasn't self-indulgent as I am prone to believe, but rather necessary and deserved. We all deserve to feel great and be restored after breast cancer.
Monday is the big reveal. I am going to the doctor to have the bandages removed and see the results. I am truly excited and will let you know how things turned out.


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All 4500 plus Family History Centers around the world are being encouraged to have pages in the FamilySearch Research Wiki. Many of the Centers have unique resources and those resources may be listed on the Centers' pages. For example, the Mesa Regional Family History Center has a section on unique resources and has links to its Obituary search records and Interment records. The Center also has a link to its online collection of digital books. Most of the Centers have their class schedule and other valuable information.
Simply type in the name of Center near you to find in depth information about the facility, staff and equipment available.
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- Stocks To Watch
Futures Flat; Carnival Sinking
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Stock futures are essentially flat Thursday morning, buoyed initially by news of a radical monetary moves by the Bank of Japan, but weighed down on jobs data:
Jobless claims rose by 28,000 to 385,000 in the week ended March 30, the highest since Nov. 24, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 47 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a drop to 353,000. Before adjusting for seasonal variations, claims fell by almost 1,600.
The Easter holiday falls on different weeks from year to year, making it a challenge to smooth out swings in the data, a Labor Department spokesman said as the numbers were released. Further progress in the labor market that includes a pickup in the pace of hiring depends on faster economic growth.
At the latest, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 index are up less than 0.1%.
Also falling are shares of Carnival (CCL), down nearly 2% after yet more mishaps hit the cruise company:
On Wednesday, the Carnival Triumph broke loose from its dock in Mobile, Ala., after a storm. And Carnival said the Grand Turk cruise center will be closed for the rest of the week after a number of guests reported symptoms of gastroenteritis.
These latest debacles come a little over a month after an engine fire on theTriumph, the same ship that just broke loose, knocked out its power, stranding passengers for days in the Gulf of Mexico, and a year after the disastrous Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy that left 32 people dead.
On the rise is CryoLife (CRY), up 11% after receiving FDA approval for a next generation HeRo device:
The HeRO device is the only subcutaneous AV access solution clinically proven to maintain long-term access for end-stage renal disease (ERSD) hemodialysis patients with central venous stenosis. CryoLife anticipates launching the next generation HeRO device during the fourth quarter of 2013 following scale up and validation of the manufacturing process.


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Communities and Personalization for Individual Products. British Academy of Management Annual Conference (BAM) 2002. (30.41 KB)(2002).
Managing High Variety: How to Overcome the Mass Confusion Phenomenon of Customer Co-Design. (Depperu, D., Ed.).European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference 2003. (62.53 KB)(2003).
From mass customization to collaborative customer co-design. (Reponen, T., Ed.).European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2004.(2004).
Identities Management: An Approach to Overcome Basic Barriers in E-Commerce and Collaboration Applications. 4th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2004. (23.45 KB)(2004).
Communities for Co-Design: Customer Collaboration as an Enabler of Mass Customization. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2005 (Track: Organizational Communication and Information Systems). (154.18 KB)(2005).
Overcoming mass confusion: collaborative customer co-design in online communities. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC). 10(4), 96-131.(2005).


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Q: I see pond nets for little ponds, but how do I stop leaves from getting into my 1-acre pond?
Casey- Wichita, KS
A: Pond netting works great to prevent blowing leaves and debris from landing in small water features, but they're not practical – or possible, really – for large ponds and lakes like yours.
Can you imagine what it would take to install a supersized 1-acre pond net? It would be like you and 20 of your friends trying to cover Fenway Park's field in rain delay tarp while maneuvering tiny tricycles. Entertaining for those watching, but almost impossible for those installing!
Instead, we suggest a three-pronged approach that involves a little manual labor, some beneficial bacteria and a lot of aeration – but no tricycles.
Shoreline Cleanup
The first step is to manually remove fallen leaves and debris from the shoreline with a tool like a Pond & Beach Rake or PondSkim™ Debris Skimmer. When you rake up or skim all that decomposing material and dump it in your compost pile away from your pond, you're preventing it from decomposing in the water, where it turns into algae-feeding muck.
Bombard with Bacteria
To break down the organic material that does find its way into your pond, use muck-busting beneficial bacteria like those found in Pond Logic® MuckAway™. The pellets can be used throughout the fall, as long as water temperatures are above 50° Fahrenheit. They'll sink to the bottom and instantly begin to break down debris and improve water clarity.
Aerate and Oxygenate
An aeration system, like the Airmax® Aeration System, removes dangerous gases like ammonia while delivering oxygen to your fish and muck-eating beneficial bacteria. It churns and turns over the water column, circulating that oxygen and keeping your pond or lake healthy. And if your pond freezes over in the winter, your aeration system can create an air hole in the ice for gas exchange.
They may not make 1-acre nets, but you can keep those blowing leaves managed with these three easy tips. Good luck!
Pond Talk: How do you prevent leaves and debris from landing in your large pond or lake?
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Ferrari say their decision to bring 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen back to the Formula One team next season will help and not hurt Fernando Alonso's chances.
"For anyone thinking that the choice of Kimi is somehow an anti-Alonso choice, I can put their minds at rest," team principal Stefano Domenicali told the team's Web site.
"At Ferrari, everyone knows the interests of the team come first and only then those of the individual. Fernando is a key asset for this team and he will be for a long time. I'm sure he is the first to be happy with a choice made to strengthen the group, because he is too intelligent not to realize that a stronger team can only be an advantage," the Italian added.
Double world champion Alonso had made clear before the appointment that he would be happy to continue with under-performing Brazilian Felipe Massa as his teammate.
In comments on Wednesday, after the announcement from Maranello, the Spaniard paid tribute to the departing Massa and welcomed his new "traveling companion," without mentioning the Finn by name.
Domenicali said the driver combination of Alonso and Raikkonen was the best Ferrari could have and both would start on equal terms.
The Italian also addressed concerns about Raikkonen's ability to work as a team player, and in helping to develop and improve the car technically.
"Everyone has their own ways and you can't expect a Finn to start telling jokes in Italian or playing the clown," he said. "Honestly, I think the combination of Fernando's expressive and passionate Latin character and the cool style, to call it that, of someone like Kimi, seems to appeal to many," he said. "As for the technical side of things, not only do we know full well how much Kimi can contribute at an important time like this... but we also have first hand information from James Allison as to how much the Finn has also progressed in this area over the past two years."
Allison was with Raikkonen at Lotus, where he was technical director, before starting work with Ferrari this month.
Lotus can take time to announce a replacement for Raikkonen because they are now the Formula One team with the most sought after driver vacancy, team principal Eric Boullier said on Wednesday.
Lotus are the fourth-most competitive outfit this season.
"We are currently in discussion with a few people and will make a decision shortly," Boullier told the team's Web site. "We are in the privileged position of being the most desirable team on the grid with a seat available, so we are therefore in no rush to announce anyone without establishing what will be the best for our team and the future."
Germany's Nico Hulkenberg, the Sauber driver who had been tipped to join Ferrari when it seemed Raikkonen could be headed for Red Bull, looks an early front-runner, but Massa could be another option.
Boullier said there was no bitterness about the Finn's decision to join Ferrari, the team with which he won the 2007 championship, alongside Alonso.
"Two years ago, when we decided to sign him, quite a few people thought we were crazy," said the Frenchman of a racer who had spent 2010 and 2011 competing in the world rally championship and NASCAR. "And what happened in the end? We've been working with an amazing racer, who scored points for the team 27 times in a row, won two races, put motivation at a very high level at Enstone, and got on very well with his teammate. Now, it's time to think about the future. We remain a medium-sized team and there are some areas in which we're not in a position to fight against the other top teams just yet."
Lotus had hoped to retain Raikkonen and greeted Ferrari's announcement with a Twitter posting declaring: "So #Kimi is off to #Ferrari for 2014; it hurts a little bit..." along with a photograph of two rabbits mating.


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I have a problem that is driving me demented.
I have a PC running XP (or W7, makes no difference) that has a direct Ethernet connection to a DSP (no routers in the way).
After reset, the DSP sends BOOTP packets to the PC as it waits to be loaded.
The PC detects these BOOTP packets using Winpcap.
On receiving a BOOTP, the PC sends a small program to the DSP using UDP.
The PC then opens a socket and reads a UDP packet from a specific port (actually 0xC0C0).
When the DSP starts, it broadcasts an ARP to find the host then sends a UDP packet to port 0xC0C0 on the host.
If I run this, it works.
The PC detects the BOOTP, loads the DSP, which sends the ARP and gets a response, the DSP sents its UDP packet and the PC gets it.
If I immediately reset the DSP and run the PC program again (having closed it down after the previous run), the PC detects the BOOTP, loads the DSP, which sends the ARP and gets a response, and the DSP sents its UDP packet (all verified by Wireshark on the PC), but the PC program then never sees any incoming packet.
Instead, if I wait a minute or so after a successful run, I can run again without problems (the incoming UDP packet is read correctly).
I have verified that the data being sent in both directions are always the same on every run.
All the Winsock calls on the PC execute with success returns.
It appears that something in Windows is taking a long time (of the order of a minute) to close the socket at the end of a run and, in the meantime, it is absorbing incoming packets and discarding them. This must be happening AFTER Windows has happily opened the socket for the next run.
As the PC program is shut down between runs, there cannot be any memory of previous runs in the program itself.
It must be something strange happening in Windows.
I have been chasing this problem for a very long time now and I am no closer to a solution.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.


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The man picked to lead King City's scandal-ridden police department comes with his own history of controversy, but City Attorney Roy Hanley said he wants residents to know that Dennis Hegwood is "the exact best person" for the job.
Hegwood, 62, was quickly hired as interim police chief Wednesday after Hanley recommended him for the job.
According to Hanley, accusations and an investigation of rape allegations while Hegwood was Atascadero's police chief a decade ago were fueled by closed-minded reactions to a biracial sexual relationship.
Hanley and the new chief go way back — the two worked together in Atascadero, where Hegwood resigned as police chief in April 2004 despite being cleared of rape allegations.
Hanley suggested that Hegwood be tapped for King City this week after the department lost about one-third of its officers. Six King City officers were arrested Tuesday as a result of an investigation into widespread corruption in the department. Among the arrested was acting Chief Bruce Miller.
Hanley said he would like to lay to rest the controversy that, thanks to the evergreen nature of news online, follows Hegwood everywhere.
"The poor guy gets battered with it anytime he does anything," Hanley said.
Hegwood, who was on the job in King City on Wednesday, did not respond to The Herald's request for an interview.
In a written statement, he said his goal is to lead the department "with a focus on community service and professionalism."
Hegwood has already had a close view of King City's police troubles.
He was hired to help conduct an internal affairs investigation inside the department within the past year, Hanley said, and also came in to conduct team-building training.
He takes over as even more agencies are looking at the King City Police Department. Besides an ongoing investigation by the District Attorney's Office into corruption allegations that led to Tuesday's arrest, the department is being investigated by the FBI after several thousand dollars that officers seized from bank robbers went missing.
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office is also investigating the department, but Sheriff Scott Miller said that's mainly under the auspices of the district attorney's probes.
"The DA's office is still the lead agency and we're here to help," Miller said.
In addition, a retired officer from Santa Barbara County has been called in to conduct an internal affairs investigation, Hanley said.
The rape allegation
Hanley spoke Thursday about Hegwood's 10-year-old Atascadero controversy.
Few specifics about the allegations were published at the time, largely because news media have policies against reporting sexual assault claims unless criminal charges are filed.
But the story came out after Hegwood himself mentioned it in connection with his retirement in April 2004.
According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune, a woman alleged on Feb. 20, 2004, that Hegwood raped her.
The San Luis Obispo County district attorney's office determined that the woman changed her story over time and did not have physical signs of rape, the paper said.
Former Sheriff Pat Hedges told The Tribune that detectives found no crime was committed based on statements from an independent witness.
"Any contact was consensual, and there was no indication of any criminal wrongdoing," Hedges said.
Hanley said the incident involved a woman who had separated from her husband and was staying with a female friend.
She invited Hegwood over to spend the night and he did, Hanley said.
After she got back together with her husband, he said, the woman told him she'd had sex with Hegwood because she had too much wine.
"He marched her down to the sheriff's office," Hanley said, and pushed her to press charges.
But the woman's female friend later told detectives the liaison was consensual, and charges were never filed, he said.
Despite being cleared, Hanley said Hegwood "fell on his sword" and resigned "to protect the department."
Hegwood said in a written statement at the time, "This has been a trying time for me personally. While I remain committed to law enforcement and believe I have much to offer professionally, I have decided it is in the best interest of the city and police department that I continue my community service in a different venue."
Hanley eventually followed with feelings of bad blood over how Hegwood was treated.
"He was a black man having sex with a white woman," he said, adding that he believed that fact was behind some council members' urgent calls for Hegwood's resignation.
"Unfortunately," he said, "the world is still that way."
The Atascadero incident was not the first time a racial controversy surfaced in Hegwood's career.
He resigned as Rialto's police chief in 1998 after a no-confidence vote from the officer's union. But it was also the day news broke that he had prepared a confidential report about department racism to help a former police dispatch supervisor sue the city. Hegwood was adamant his departure was not connected to the news stories.
Short stay expected
The new chief is being paid $7,000 a month for his King City work. Hanley said that's far less than other California interim chiefs are paid, which can be as much as $12,000 a month.
Hegwood is expected to stay on the job at least a few months, when another interim chief is likely to be hired before a regular chief can be found.
A seasoned veteran of the vagaries of small-town political wars, Hanley said he's hesitant to ever use the word "permanent."
Hegwood's most recent job before coming to King City was as a criminal justice instructor at San Luis Obispo's Cuesta College.
According to a King City news release, he began his law enforcement career with the Department of Defense Police at the Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach. He worked as a patrol deputy at the Riverside County Sheriff's Department and later with Los Angeles City Housing Authority police.
He's written research reports for the U.S. Department of Justice and was awarded the Governor's Award in Organizational Achievement.
He is a "strong advocate" of community-oriented police, the press release said — an approach he may need to lean on now that he faces the shattered trust of King City residents.
Asked if even the hint of controversy might hamper Hegwood's relationship with King City police and residents, Hanley said, "I think so highly of Dennis that when people meet him, I think they'll agree."
"It may turn out that I'm naive," he said. "But I hope I'm right."
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WIARTON, Ont. – Canada's prognosticating rodents are split on whether the country is in for an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Wiarton Willie, Canada's most celebrated of all its furry forecasters, is predicting an early spring, siding with Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil — generally regarded as the groundhog of record.
Manitoba's lesser known woodchuck, Winnipeg Willow, also failed to see her shadow when she emerged Saturday morning, meaning she believes spring is around the corner.
But Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam and Quebec's Fred are calling for more cold weather.
Folklore has it that if a groundhog sees its shadow on Groundhog Day it'll flee back to its burrow, heralding six more weeks of winter, and if it doesn't, it means spring's just around the corner.
Hundreds bundled up early Saturday to watch Willie emerge, many slipping on woodchuck masks or toting figurines of the famous rodent.
Willie's prognostication is the marquee moment of a three-day festival in his honour.
Kristin Otten, who was crowned the festival's queen, said she was a bit disappointed with the groundhog's call.
"I'm kind of sad about that because I really love the snow. But we'll see what happens," she said.
Others suggested the forecast isn't as important as the celebration itself.
"We only get to do this once a year," said Jerzy Bohatkiewicz, who has gone to the annual event for the last eight years.
"There's a reason for us to be here, to get out of bed at five in the morning, so we can find each other amongst this crowd here, find a little corner where we can all laugh and cheer and have fun —no matter what."
Shubenacadie Sam was the first out of his burrow to make his prediction to a worldwide audience via webcam.
Fred was next with his forecast in Val d'Espoir, a community in the Gaspesie region.
Willie weighed in just after 8 a.m. Eastern time, followed by Willow roughly an hour later.


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DARIEN – Actions speak louder than words, and symbols can serve not only as inspiration but be everlasting.
"I think it's more important that the students at our school learn the lesson that there are things more important than your vanity and your looks," said Ashley Yong, 16, of Darien.
On Feb. 10, as hundreds of spectators looked on during the students vs. staff basketball game in the Hinsdale South High School gymnasium, the junior with the 25-inch long hair did something that most girls her age wouldn't dream of – shave it all off.
"My friend had to drag me into the chair, but I eventually got up there and they tied the little apron thing around me, split my hair into sections and just like snipped it," Yong said.
Yong shaved her head in support of children's cancer research through the St. Baldrick's organization. She has never had cancer nor has she ever known anyone with it, but it was thanks to an incident at a hair salon a couple of years ago that led up to this event.
"Two years ago, I was at a salon getting my hair cut, and the girl next to me ... was breaking down crying because she was talking about how her hair didn't look exactly how she wanted it to," Yong said. "That got me thinking. Then a year ago, I saw a video of a girl getting her head shaved for St. Baldrick's so that sparked my interest and I've been growing my hair for almost two years now."
Yong said her hair has never meant that much to her, but tell that to other teenage girls.
"I had some friends in the crowd that were crying literally for me and I didn't understand that," she said with a laugh.
The next day, as she walked through the halls at Hinsdale South, Yong said she got "a lot of stares," but she was also surprised by the number of compliments she not only received from teachers but also random people and students.
Twitter also "exploded" the night she lost her hair.
"I got tweets from random people saying, 'You inspire me,'" she said.
The next stop for Yong's clippings is Locks of Love, an organization that uses donations to create hair prosthetics for people who have lost their hair due to a medical condition.
Yong may have surpassed her goal of raising $500, but she said it wasn't just about raising money for cancer research and St. Baldrick's. It was about breaking the chains of what society views as beauty, whether it's on the cover of a fashion magazine or on a reality TV show on Bravo.
"You don't need material things to make your life better and no matter how small the things you do are, they can have a big impact if you have a message to go along with it," she said.
In between getting her head shaved for a cause, Yong also keeps herself busy with volunteer work, and at Hinsdale South she participates in peer leadership network, Spanish club, yearbook, newspaper, principal student advisory council and outdoor club.
Next year, Yong said she plans on participating in St. Baldrick's again and is also hoping to get a group of her friends together to participate with her, even though they may be reluctant.
"People will get used to it anyways," she said.


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Charles Kuentz was a beloved Northside band director who instilled in his students a passion for music and taught them about the importance of character, commitment, and work ethic.
Kuentz grew up in a musical family that often would get together with friends for jam sessions on Sunday afternoons. His mother played the piano, his father played the fiddle and accordion, and Kuentz played the trumpet, just like his older sister.


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Donizetti's 'Maria Stuarda' Saturday at CMC
Special to the Daily
A new production of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" is next up in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD simulcast series at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, taking place Saturday at 10:55 a.m.
The opera is set prior to the 1587 execution of Mary Stuart, Catholic queen of Scotland, when Queen Elizabeth I of England was faced with ongoing threats to her throne. Elizabeth I was the last of the English Tudor monarchs. She placed Mary in confinement for almost 20 years in fear that the Scottish queen was part of a plot to dethrone her. Donizetti came across the story when attending a mid-19th-century Friedrich Schiller play, "Mary Stuart." After early work with librettists, Donizetti revised the libretto himself, simplifying the plot to focus on the conflict between the two rivals.
Maria, the "noble victim," will be sung and acted by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Elisabetta, the "vengeful monster," will be performed by the South African soprano, Elza van den Heever. Not only is Elisabetta concerned about protecting her throne, but also about winning from Maria the love of Roberto, Earl of Leicester, sung by tenor Matthew Polenzani. The Act I gathering of these three, along with the assembly of the English Court in London's Whitehall Palace, were actions for theatrical effect for both Schiller's play and Donizetti's opera, and never occurred in real life.
Leicester entreats Maria to humble herself before the queen. In the well-known Act I duet scene, Maria, mastering her pride, kneels before Elisabetta, asking her pardon. Elisabetta responds by accusing Maria of treason. Maria loses her temper and denounces the Queen as the "bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn" and is then dragged back to prison.
The New York Times' Vivien Schweitzer asked DiDonato why a mezzo-soprano was chosen to sing Donizetti's highly lyrical, bel canto role of Maria. DiDonato indicated that heroines of bel canto music often must express their suffering through heart-wrenchingly beautiful music, best achieved through a voice with deeper resonance. Reviews of the opening performance indicate that DiDonato accomplished this transcendence both with superior voice and convincing stage actions.
Another interesting sidelight is the decision by van den Heever to shave her head for the role. Portraits of the wig-bearing monarch, Queen Elizabeth I, show an unusually high forehead. Repeated attempts to cover den Heever's hair with a bald cap left a fine ridge visible in the close-in views of the cameras used in HD live productions, so she shaved her head to achieve the look.
The lyrical solos, duets, choral ensembles and orchestral support under the baton of Maurizio Benini, along with the costuming and staging, are excellent. Each cast member received top reviews for vocal and acting personification.
Saturday's showing has one intermission, during which snacks and beverages will be served.
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Cisco sees ratified T11 standard driving adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard was unanimously approved by a T11 standards body, but Cisco Systems and Brocade still can't agree on adoption rate of FCoE.
Last week, the FC-BB-5 working group of the T11 Technical Committee unanimously approved a final standard for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Now the technology's champion in the storage marketplace, Cisco Systems Inc., and some analysts expect the formally approved standard to drive adoption of the fledgling standard in the market.
Claudio DeSanti, a distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems and the T11 committee chairman, said there were no no significant changes to the specification for the standard between establishing "technical stability" with an earlier draft last fall and the final ratification. However, there were four members of the committee who voted No on the earlier version and then changed their votes to Yes on the final standard after "resolving communication" and clarifying some points about how the spec was written.
Even though vendors, including Cisco Systems, have already begun rolling out FCoE products based on the "technical stability" version of the standard, Tam Dell'Oro, founder and president at Redwood City, Calif.-based Dell'Oro Group, said a lack of an official standard has been known to stall adoption of new technologies in the networking market.
It remains to be seen exactly how Fibre Channel over Ethernet will make its way into the marketplace. Cisco Systems' DeSanti said the FCoE standard has gone from proposal to approval in approximately two years, which is quicker than average. Storage administrators at Lafarge North America Inc. and East Carolina University -- both of them Cisco Systems customers -- told SearchStorage.com in April that they see FCoE as the next logical step in data centers.
But Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco Systems' chief storage networking competitor, forecasts slower FCoE adoption, pointing out that the technology has so far only been able to consolidate "the first hop into the network" between client servers and the core switch.
Cisco Systems' DeSanti acknowledged that, but said most of the value of Fibre Channel over Ethernet lies in consolidating that first hop. "Most data centers connect a small number of storage devices to lots of servers using multiple interfaces -- the first hop accounts for 80% of the costs they have," he said. "In the future, the remaining 20% or so may migrate to FCoE or remain as is, but the bulk of the benefit is in the first hop."
Dell'Oro agreed. "The ratio of servers to storage devices is usually about 10:1," she said. Between six and eight different adapters are often added to those servers to provide redundant connections over multiple interfaces. Cabling can also be a significant cost. "I know one medical company whose administrator told me that cabling for a seven foot rack can cost up to $10,000," she said.
Even though it seems customers are buying in, Dell'Oro said she expects just 4% of storage-area networks (SANs) to be connected using FCoE by the end of 2010. And while the cost savings of consolidating server connections can be compelling, the cost-benefit will vary. Customers can see the potential upside of FCoE, "but whether they'll do it or not is another thing," she said. "They need to feel very comfortable with it, and there's other stuff: how many boxes you need, how much you save on pure box reduction, lower cooling, etc., etc. All these factors have to play into the equation."


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Help Sponsor the Dietz Family!
St. Patrick Catholic School has been preparing students for success for over 165 years. If it weren't for the community, church, parishioners, faculty, and families we would not be able support our students in their educational journey.
The Race for Education is our main fundraising event of the year. We ask that you sponsor these students as they "race" to help raise funds for the school. Our goal for 2019 is to raise $25,000. Your sponsorship can make a huge difference in our school. It will help us provide the tools needed to give students the best educational experience possible (such as purchasing technology equipment, gym equipment, art supplies, and provide extra funding to educational programs).
Our Race for Education event will occur on May 3rd, 2019. We encourage family and friends to attend and watch the kids race.
Your support is appreciated.
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As Saint Patrick School celebrates its 167th year, please support our mission by making a contribution to the continued success of our school.
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So far, the Dietz Family has raised $340.00 for the school. AWESOME!


text: Forget the pop-up concept. The partnership of David Stark and Haus Interior owner Nina Freudenberger has resulted in something far more dramatic: Stark staged a "takeover" of the entire NoLIta store. Called Wood Shop, the retail space and art gallery feature the event designer's irreverent and highly inventive takes on home objects. There are wooden vessels (with glass vials cleverly tucked within so that they serve as functional vases), chunky block place-card holders, and, yes, even wooden nickels ($4 apiece). But despite the name, it's not all about one material. Stark, who has developed pop-up shops for West Elm and Target, also includes linen pillows, throws, and tableware such as denim-covered bottles and canvas table runners. There's even a collection of offbeat jewelry that features miniature tool-box pendants (think tiny wrenches, screwdrivers and pliers). Looking for the ultimate reprieve from the all-too-expected box of Valentine's chocolates? Stark has the answer with his "Wood You Be Mine" heart-shaped box filled with wooden "samples" ($125). Wood Shop, through February 29, 250 Elizabeth St., New York, 212-741-0455; hausinterior.com


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Identify the structures on the posterolateral wall of the pelvis.
Attempt to identify the pelvic splanchnic (parasympathetic) nerves that arise from the ventral primary rami of S2-S4 and pass to the pelvic viscera. The sacral splanchnic (sympathetic) nerves arise from the sacral ganglia of the pelvic portion of sympathetic trunk.
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Rhapsody made a surprise appearance at Facebook's f8 conference today, at least in the form of its logo on a slide shown by Mark Zuckerberg as he introduced the social network's new Facebook Music platform for listening to tunes with friends.
Here's how Rhapsody is involved: The Seattle-based music service will be offering a free 30-day trial to Facebook users, without requiring them to enter credit card information or automatically converting them to paid subscribers once the free period is up. It will through the Facebook Connect login service.
Facebook users will be able to access the free Rhapsody trial when friends who are using Rhapsody share what they're listening to via "scrobbled" links. The 30-day trial will also include the ability to use Rhapsody on mobile devices. The Rhapsody service normally starts at $10/month.
At the same time, the Facebook Music launch also highlights the newly competitive landscape for Rhapsody. Appearing on stage with Zuckerberg today was Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, whose service recently launched in the U.S. and offers a free version that has proven particularly popular in Europe.
Rhapsody, which was spun off from Seattle-based RealNetworks last year, launched a series of new social features last week on its website.
Previously: New from Facebook: Timeline view, lifestyle apps, music and movies with friends


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greendavid needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
We need a new logo for Penelope's Hope Chest. This is a business that currently sells vintage and antique products through an off line store - but it is expanding into the online world.
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The funky new light fixtures in Jack Purcell Park that look like giant badminton racquets are a perfect way to honour the celebrated world champion.
Ottawa park's new public art inspired by wrong Jack Purcell
The funky new public art pieces in Jack Purcell Park that look like giant badminton racquets are a clever way to pay homage to the celebrated world champion.
Purcell was a badminton icon in Canada, winning five consecutive national championships and securing a spot in the Sports Hall of Fame.
Though he died in 1991, his spirit lives on, and Converse sneakers still bear his name.
Purcell is as worthy as any famous Canadian athlete to have something named for him.
The only problem is the Jack Purcell of badminton fame was from Guelph, Ont.; the Jack Purcell for whom the Elgin Street community centre and adjacent park were named after was actually a longtime Ottawa resident known for mending hockey sticks for children in his Centretown neighbourhood.
"I'm sure people are wondering what in heaven's names are these things," said Diane Holmes, the Somerset ward councillor.
She suggested it's possible the architectural company hired to complete the park's $525,000 makeover — which began last July and is nearly done — did some basic online research, found the stuff about the badminton player and used it as inspiration.
"I think he just Googled 'Jack Purcell' and the only thing that comes up is the badminton player," Holmes said. "The Ottawa-hockey-stick-helper-out-of-kids doesn't come up on Google."
The original design actually called for the racquet-shaped light fixtures — which each cost $4,595 — to be strung like real racquets, but that plan was nixed, Holmes added.
Now the structures are supposed to look like futuristic trees. But people strolling through the park recently over the lunch hour weren't sure what to make of them.
While one man thought the poles look like oversized question marks, another said they reminded him of the goal posts from Harry Potter's favourite sport, quidditch.
Still another thought it looked like the city paid an artist to bend some metal.
"I'd like to say that I appreciate art, but these don't say anything about anything to me," said Richard Jones, gazing up at them.
After hearing the sorry tale of inspiration gone awry, Eric Olmstead had a suggestion for the city: "Maybe we could ship them to Guelph and say, 'Hey, we'll trade you something.'"
But Dan Chenier, the general manager of parks, recreation and culture, contends the 10 fixtures aren't a total screw up. They accomplish what they were intended to — provide an interesting feature at the park's east and west entrances. And they light up at night.
"A lot of people don't even think they look like badminton racquets. They think they just look like stylized hooks or just a shape," he said, adding the intention was not to commemorate Purcell.
"I don't think that takes away or adds to Jack Purcell's story," Chenier said.
A retired postal worker, Ottawa's Purcell was dubbed "the stick doctor" because of his penchant for repairing broken hockey sticks in the basement of his home on Cartier Avenue, and giving them to neighbourhood children.
He reportedly supplied 175 mended sticks in the 1964-65 season alone, according to documents in the city's archives.
His stick-mending career began when his own son, Jon, started playing public school hockey in 1955 and eventually expanded to include skate sharpening.
Purcell died in 1966; the community centre that bears his name opened eight years later.
"That was his whole life," Purcell's widow, Rita, said at the time. "Children used to come to the front door asking for sticks. We almost never got through a meal."
Holmes said she wants to install a plaque in the park to tell people about Ottawa's Jack Purcell.
Jack Purcell, meet Jack Purcell . . .
Name: Jack Purcell
Lived: Unknown to 1966.
Occupation: Postal worker
Claim to fame: Mending hockey sticks and sharpening skates for children in Centretown in the 1950s and 60s
Name: Jack Purcell
Lived: December 1903 to June 1991; Guelph, Ont.
Occupation: Badminton player
Claim to fame: National and world champion


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Battle of Sarn Athrad
|Battle of Sarn Athrad
|Date: F.A. 503
|Place: The crossing at Sarn Athrad and the slopes of the Blue Mountains
|Outcome: Complete destruction of the Dwarven host, recovery of the Nauglamír
Completeley destroyed[1]
The Battle of Sarn Athrad was a fight between the Dwarves of Nogrod and Elves of Ossiriand after the Battle of the Thousand Caves and the sack of Menegroth.
[edit] History
[edit] Prelude
In F.A. 502[2] King Thingol of Doriath had asked Dwarves from Nogrod to remake the Nauglamír and set in it the Silmaril he had received from Beren. Dwarven craftsmen from Nogrod performed this task but in secret, they were determined to possess the finished work and carry it off to their mountain home. When Thingol was ready to place the completed necklace about his neck the Dwarves challenged his right to own it. He rebuked them and they slew the king. The Dwarves took the necklace and fled eastward. All but two were killed, the Nauglamír was retaken, and was brought back to Queen Melian. However, the two Dwarves who escaped went to Nogrod and spread a false tale that Thingol had had the Dwarves killed in Doriath to cheat them of their reward for fashioning the necklace.
The wrath of the Dwarves was kindled by the false report and long they plotted vengeance. Aid was sought from the Dwarves of Belegost but they denied it and tried to dissuade the Dwarves of Nogrod from their purpose.[1] Their attempt did not avail; in F.A. 503[2] Nogrod issued a great host that marched on Doriath. In the meantime, the grieving Melian left Middle-earth, which withdrew the Girdle of Melian that had long protected the realm. There was thus no hindrance when the Dwarves swept into Menegroth, fought and killed many Elves, and took the Nauglamír and other plunder.[1]
[edit] The Battle
Word of the host of Dwarves in war gear heading west had come to Beren and Lúthien, then dwelling on Tol Galen. Soon a messenger from Doriath came and revealed what had befallen. Beren, his son Dior, and a host of Green-elves of Ossiriand journeyed swiftly north to the river Ascar, which emptied into the Gelion near the Dwarf-road crossing at Sarn Athrad.[1]
Unaware of any peril, the reduced host of Dwarves burdened with the spoils of Doriath entered the ford. As they climbed up Gelion's banks the air filled with the sound of elven-horns and the shafts of arrows. Beren slew the Lord of Nogrod[3] and took from him the Nauglamír. Although most of the Dwarves were killed in the ford, some escaped and fled towards the mountains. However, as they climbed the slopes of Mount Dolmed, Ents came forth and drove the Dwarves into the forest, from which none escaped.[1]
[edit] Aftermath
This was Beren's last battle. As the Lord of Nogrod was dying he cursed all of the treasure taken from Doriath. Beren took the Nauglamír, washed it of blood, and took it back to Tol Galen for Lúthien. The rest of the treasure though was cast into the Ascar, which from then on carried the named Rathlóriel, the Goldenbed. Dior left his parents and took up the kingship in Doriath. After his parents died the recovered Nauglamír came to Dior. Eventually, news of the necklace and its Silmaril came to the sons of Fëanor who assaulted and destroyed Doriath.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: V. The Tale of Years", p. 346
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Nauglafring", p.225


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Dear Dr. Norquist:
I'm pretty much bored with life. I get up and go to work every day, come home and make dinner (and feed my cat) and then watch my favorite TV shows. I have a routine for everything. I talk on the phone a lot and go to mass every weekend. Sometimes I go shopping or out to dinner with my friends (whose children I've watched grow up). I guess I shouldn't complain – being bored with life is a lot better than most people have it. I shouldn't be writing to you about something so trivial – but I guess I am! Do you have a cure for a boring life?
Dr. Norquist responds:
I do not think this is a trivial question at all. You are listening to some place inside that is longing for more. This place is urging you towards more enlivenment, more aliveness. It is pointing you towards your next personal growth step.
Enlivenment is an expression of an inner state, an excitement about life. Curiosity, passion, inspiration, excitement, longing and loving are all expressions of this inner state. Kahil Gibran (a 20th century Lebanese American poet) described it as "life's longing for itself."
Start by noticing this inner yearning for 'something more', whenever it makes its presence known. As you move through your day, when you find yourself interested in or moved in any way by something you see, feel, hear, think or sense, notice it carefully. For example, perhaps you are touched by a TV show about animals or intrigued by a show about a certain aspect of history, or perhaps someone at work tells you about an adult education class that interests you. Your inner response (excitement, interest, intrigue) is a cue that this is an area you could consider adding to your life in some way. The more you listen to this inner response, the more boredom will recede from your life.
Remember, it is what excites you that is your guidance. Following what excites others will not be helpful in your enlivenment. Please try this and let me know if you have further questions. Thank you for asking this question!
Check out Dr. Norquist's new blog: GrowingThroughParenting.com.
(Dr. Sallie Norquist is a licensed psychologist (NJ #2371) in private practice and is director of Chaitanya Counseling Services, a center for upliftment and enlivenment, in Hoboken.) Dr. Norquist and the staff of Chaitanya invite you to write them at Chaitanya Counseling Services, 51 Newark St., Suite 202, Hoboken, NJ 07030 or www.chaitanyacounseling.com or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Questions can address various topics, including relationships, life's stresses, difficulties, mysteries and dilemmas, as well as questions related to managing stress or alternative ways of understanding health-related concerns. 2018 Chaitanya Counseling Services


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Employment Background Check Guidelines
Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, conducting credit background checks and running a criminal check to avoid negligent-hiring lawsuits
Claim your FREE copy of Employment Background Check Guidelines: Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, conducting credit background checks and running a criminal check to avoid negligent-hiring lawsuits!
Conducting background checks is both necessary and extremely risky — Business Management Daily, publisher of The HR Specialist and HR Specialist: Employment Law, has created this targeted report for employers and human resources professionals.
Employment Background Check Guidelines shows employers and HR professionals how to properly conduct reference/background checks, select third-party background firms and why screening candidates online on social networking sites is legally risky business.
Employers and HR professionals should make it their policy never to hire a candidate without an employment background check. Your organization could be held liable for "negligent hiring" or "failure to warn" should an employee turn violent on the job.
When conducting a job background check, make sure you comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which regulates not only credit background checks but also checking criminal records and driving records.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #1
Make sure you comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulates how employers perform an employment background check on job applicants. Contrary to popular belief, this federal law doesn't cover just credit background checks. It covers any background report, such as driving records and criminal records obtained from a "consumer reporting agency" (CRA).
Under the FCRA, you're typically free to conduct an employment background check and use the information if you have a clear business interest, such as hiring, firing, reassigning or promoting someone.
Editor's Note: For more information on the Fair Credit Reporting Act, visit www.BusinessManagementDaily.com.
But you can't run a job background check on a whim. You must receive the person's written permission before obtaining the report.
Two trends now compel more employers to conduct an employment background check. First, terrorism threats and incidents of workplace violence have made companies more aware of the need for job background checks.
Second, "negligent hiring" lawsuits are on the rise. Companies have a "duty of care" to protect workers and customers from employees the company knew—or should have known—posed a security risk.
Learn about the FCRA notification rules you must follow before obtaining a consumer report on an applicant or employee, or withholding a job offer based on an employment background check, in Employment Background Check Guidelines.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #2
Steer clear of negligent-hiring lawsuits
If you fail to do an employment background check on applicants for certain positions, you could make your organization vulnerable to a negligent-hiring lawsuit by any worker or customer who's been hurt by a violent employee.
A number of court decisions have established the principle that an employer has a "duty of care" to protect workers, customers and clients from injury caused by an unfit employee who an employer knew (or reasonably could have been expected to know) posed a risk.
For an employer to be held liable for negligent hiring, the plaintiff must prove:
- An employee intentionally injured a co-worker, customer or client
- Few, if any, pre-employment checks were performed, and that if they had been, those checks would have likely revealed a worker's propensity toward violent behavior; or
- The employer, knowing a worker's propensity toward violence, did not provide proper supervision and security.
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Employment Background Check Guidelines #3
Checking references: Legal safeguards
Contacting an applicant's former employers is an essential step in conducting an employment background check.
Caution: Keep in mind that you can't ask a reference any questions you are prohibited from asking an applicant. Restrict your inquiry to job-related issues.
You must also check information furnished by all candidates without discrimination against any group. Many employers have been snagged for making cursory checks of white applicants but probing more deeply in the case of minorities.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #4
Background-checking firms: Sort out the best from the rest
Not too long ago, just a few dozen companies offered employment background check, credit background check and criminal check services. But the industry mushroomed in size and scope—though not necessarily quality—after post-9/11 security concerns and ethics scandals drove up the demand for increased background screening.
The result: Nearly 1,000 vendors are in the screening industry now, making it difficult to sort out the top tier from the fly-by-night firms. Many sell cheap but incomplete background checks in minutes. Too often, they simply restate old information bought from private data brokers with no guarantee the data are current or correct.
Follow the benchmarks for gauging background-screening providers in Employment Background Check Guidelines.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #5
Screening candidates: To Google or not to Google?
HR professionals and managers increasingly use search engines and social networking sites (like Facebook) to dig beyond the typical résumé and cover letter. Many of the "red flags" uncovered include Web postings by the candidates themselves—postings that the person obviously didn't expect job recruiters ever to see.
The problem: Googling candidates can carry certain legal risks.
What if you Google only minorities? What if you inadvertently view information about a different person with the same name? What if your search shows a picture of the person in a wheelchair? All scenarios could raise discrimination charges if you reject the candidate. Two tips to avoid such legal risks:
1. Make sure you've got the right person. Even relatively rare names are duplicated, and many tall tales exist in cyberspace. "The way to deal with that is to bring (the Google result) to the person's attention," says Joe Beachboard, an employment lawyer with Ogletree Deakins in California. "I would always give the person the opportunity to confirm or deny it."
2. Be consistent with your searches. As with other recruiting tools, you shouldn't discriminate when Googling based on the person's race, age, gender or name (national origin bias). Realize that Googling may pull up photos, which means you may have to explain whether you considered the individual's race/age/disability in your hiring decision.
Claim your FREE copy of Employment Background Check Guidelines: Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, conducting credit background checks and running a criminal check to avoid negligent-hiring lawsuits!
Employment Background Check Guidelines #6
How to protect yourself from Internet-related liability
When employers gather information about job candidates through websites such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, they expose themselves to discriminatory failure-to-hire lawsuits.
When it comes to discrimination, ignorance is often bliss. It's impossible for an employer to discriminate based on information it does not have. Usually, employers take care not to ask applicants about their age, race, gender, disability or other protected characteristics. But viewing a candidate's Facebook page may provide some of that information—and possibly much more. By accessing such information, the employer loses the ability to claim ignorance.
On the other hand, using the Internet in an employment background check can provide valuable information that the employer might not otherwise learn. Employers need to balance the risks and benefits.
Advice: Don't consider the Web a reliable substitute for traditional hiring practices. A YouTube video may provide a glimpse of a candidate's personality, but a face-to-face interview will probably reveal much more of a candidate's true personality. Plus, it won't expose your company to liability.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #7
Should employment background checks include sex-offender registries?
Each state's law is different. That means employers must check the rules before using sex-offender registry information. For instance, California law prohibits employers from searching for a job applicant's name on the registry unless they can demonstrate they are doing so to protect a "person at risk." But the law doesn't clearly define "person at risk."
Employers in most states can—and probably should—scan the registry if an applicant will work around children or the disabled on the job, or will work unsupervised in people's homes.
Several states require employers to notify applicants if they plan on checking a sex-offender registry. Again, laws vary by state—a common regulation requires providing a public record to the applicant within a certain number of days.
Other convictions: Always check state law to see how you can use criminal convictions when making hiring decisions. Most states have a statewide criminal record database, which can be searched—usually for a fee. Call your local police department to find out which state agency handles criminal records in your state
Claim your FREE copy of Employment Background Check Guidelines: Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, conducting credit background checks and running a criminal check to avoid negligent-hiring lawsuits!
Employment Background Check Guidelines #8
Prevent new type of lawsuit: Credit-check discrimination
If your organization uses credit background checks in the hiring process, you'd better have a sound business reason for doing so or you could face a new type of litigation: Minorities who've been turned down for jobs because of their credit history are arguing that employers are using credit checks as a way of illegally discriminating against minority applicants.
Credit background checks are becoming increasingly popular. Surveys by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 40% of employers were pulling credit reports as part of the screening process in 2010 (up from 35% in 2003).
Find out how to avoid "disparate impact" lawsuits and claim affirmative defense under Title VII in Employment Background Check Guidelines.
The bottom line: Credit background checks fill the employer's psychological need to "do something" when hiring a person who will be responsible for handling money. But credit checks offer no guarantee of sorting out the "bad eggs" in hiring.
If you use credit background checks in your hiring process, make sure you can point to a clear business necessity.
Also, focus on other nondiscriminatory approaches that can vet candidates and prevent theft more effectively than credit background checks.
Employment Background Check Guidelines #9
Refusing to hire former criminals: Is it race discrimination?
Stay away from across-the-board bans on hiring anyone with a criminal record. Consider each case individually.
The EEOC's Compliance Manual on Race and Color Discrimination says employers must "be able to justify [banning hiring based on a conviction] as job-related and consistent with business necessity. This means that, with respect to conviction records, the employer must show that it considered the following three factors:
- The nature and gravity of the offense;
- The time that has passed since the conviction and/or completion of the sentence; and
- The nature of the job held or sought.
"A blanket exclusion of people convicted of any crime thus would not be job-related and consistent with business necessity."
So, when faced with an applicant with a criminal record, evaluate the position for the risk that potential employees would pose. For example, jobs that allow access to customers' homes may justify cleaner criminal records than jobs with limited public contact.
Also, take into account the nature of the offense and how it relates to the position. Barring applicants with traffic violations for a fast-food job is excessive, while barring applicants with violent convictions may be justified.
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