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Project Fiona – the only tablet in the world designed for PC gaming
Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Nevada, – Jan 10th, 2012 – Razer™, the world leader in high performance gaming hardware, is proud to announce their newest gaming concept design – the Project Fiona PC Gaming Tablet. Unlike other tablets designed for general use and casual gaming, Project Fiona is a tablet concept designed to play the most popular PC games of today with an intuitive control setup for a phenomenal on-the-go gaming experience.
Powered by Intel® Core™ i7
Razer worked closely with Intel to harness the power of its third generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor in Project Fiona. As a result, Razer's tablet is more akin to a fully functioning PC; and yet in a form factor and platform highly familiar to everybody.
Instead of relying on developers to work on a suite of brand new applications for Project Fiona, many PC games today run natively on the tablet concept without the need to be ported, optimized, or developed from scratch.
Moreover, Project Fiona will feature one of the most powerful processors integrated in a tablet form factor. Instead of the casual and mobile-only games that run on under-powered tablets, Project Fiona will run full-fledged PC games that have never run on a tablet form factor before until today.
"Project Fiona's combination of high performance Intel-based gaming hardware and innovative tablet design is specifically focused for PC gamers. It will unleash the PC gamer to play their existing and future high-end games in one of the most exciting new form factors – a tablet," said Brad Graff, Director of Partner Marketing, Netbook & Tablet Group, Intel.
PC Gaming User Interface Designed For a Tablet Form Factor
Razer's multi-award winning user interface and ergonomics team have developed an all-new hybrid user interface scheme for Project Fiona. Featuring integrated dual game controllers with ultra-precise analog sticks, Project Fiona runs gamepad-enabled PC games right out of the box.
Along with the game controllers, Project Fiona is also designed with ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly sensitive multi-touch screen. This provides game developers with new game experiential opportunities to develop around the hybrid game control experience offered by Project Fiona. It also ensures current-generation PC games run on the tablet concept, as well as any existing games optimized for the touchscreen interface of a tablet.
Future games developed for Fiona are expected to take advantage of not just the integrated gamepad controls but also integrate core game functionality controls for the touchscreen and accelerometer-based controls.
"While multi-touch screens have become the de facto user interface for tablets, they are not the right interface for serious PC gaming," said Min-Liang Tan, CEO, Razer. "The user interface we have designed for Project Fiona allows all existing PC games to be played right out of the box and also provides game developers new opportunities as they develop next-gen games on a highly-intuitive platform. Both developers and gamers are going to love the new user interface that combines the best of a gamepad, multi-touch screen and accelerometers for an all-new gaming experience on-the-go."
The Most Immersive Gaming Experience on a Tablet
To further intensify the gaming experience with Project Fiona, Razer's integrated dual controllers deliver full force feedback, so every explosion or gun recoil can be felt in the gamer's hands.
THX® Ltd., which works with many of the world's most innovative audio and video home entertainment manufacturers, agrees that the tablet adds tremendous flexibility to a gamer's lifestyle. "Video games, music and entertainment that previously were mainly enjoyed within the home can now be enjoyed anywhere through tablets such as the Razer Concept PC Gaming Tablet," said Chris Golson, Senior Director, Business Development, THX.
Developer units of the Project Fiona Concept PC Gaming Tablet will be made available soon. Interested parties should email [email protected] for more information. Project Fiona will be on display at Razer's booth in South Hall 3, #31473.
About the Project Fiona Concept PC Gaming Tablet
Project Fiona is the only tablet in the world designed for PC gaming.
Price: Estimated below USD $1,000
Availability: Actual product shipping Q4 2012
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Baseball has never been as big as soccer or cricket in Britain, but it has deep roots — by some measure, in fact, deeper than its storied history in the United States.
The arrival of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in London for Major League Baseball's first games in Europe this weekend is being treated as a festival of Americana, but it may be that what has come to be regarded as America's game in fact started in England, before the revolution — or insurrection, depending on the teller — separated the colonies from the mother country.
The radical retelling of the game's history, marking another break from the foundational myth that the game began in Cooperstown, New York, is based on the relatively recent discovery of a diary that mentions a game of baseball in the very English environs of Surrey way back in 1755, long before the first recorded competitive baseball game in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1846.
Baseball has been regarded as an American innovation, with its root in the traditional British games of rounders and the ever-popular cricket, but the diary, on public display in Surrey after being authenticated by experts, at least raises the possibility that baseball began in Britain.
The game has had spurts of popularity in England, and has followers to this day, but there's no question that regardless of where it was first played it grew to maturity in the United States, and was launched from there to the Caribbean, Asia and other parts of the world.
Britons have gorged on many aspects of American pop culture, from rock 'n' roll to fast food to Hollywood blockbusters, but baseball has not developed a mass following — in part, perhaps, because it seems impenetrable to people who didn't grow up with the sport. It appears that soccer fans find baseball too slow and cricket fans find it too fast.
Columnist Matthew Engel wrote in The Guardian that Britons have taken to the NFL and NBA but still find baseball to be "the most alien sport of all." He said the "'national pastime' has always struggled to penetrate a sea wall of bafflement and contempt."
It's not quite that simple. As in America, the game took hold in some rural areas and factory towns early in the 20th Century.
One of its most prominent early backers was the industrialist Francis Ley, who became enchanted with baseball after a visit to the United States in 1889. He introduced the game to employees at his Vulcan Works foundry in Derby and built a stadium named the Baseball Ground.
According to the website of the Derby, a soccer club that played at the Baseball Ground from 1895-1997, the Derby County nine won the English Cup in baseball in 1897.
If English baseball had taken off at that point, Ley would certainly be remembered as one of its founding fathers. Fatefully, he also spent money improving the soccer field, which proved handy when that sport surpassed baseball, even though the field was known as the Baseball Ground for more than a century until it was demolished in 2003.
There was also a strong connection between baseball and the Everton soccer club, sparked in large part by Everton chairman John Moores' passion in the 1930s for what had by then become America's game. Baseball was frequently played at the club's Goodison Park, and Moores spent much time and money trying to establish an 18-team baseball league in the greater Liverpool area.
The soccer club's website says he managed to convince many soccer players throughout Britain to take up baseball as well, and he even established a little-remembered entity known as the National Baseball Association. Not surprisingly, Everton emerged as league champs.
Other leagues were formed as well, sometimes drawing 10,000 fans, but that came to a halt with the outbreak of World War II.
Matt McDowell, a lecturer on sports policy at the University of Edinburgh, said efforts to form British leagues filled by British players have floundered in part because the sport is largely ignored by the press, which regards it as inferior to cricket and too closely linked to rounders, seen as a game for kids.
"It's very tough to have any kind of collective history of baseball in Britain," he said. "You had leagues and you still have leagues but what you don't have is any kind of collective memory of it because there's been no real national championship and it's a sport that gets no national coverage on television."
Dreams of a popular national baseball league have been put on hold, but the game's long history on the periphery of England's sporting culture has borne fruit: According to the Baseball Almanac, at least 33 players born in England have played in the major leagues.
The list ranges from Dave Brain, an infielder and outfielder who started his career with the Chicago White Sox in 1901, to Chris Reed, a left-hander who pitched two games for the Miami Marlins in 2015 before drifting back to the minor leagues.
His record? No wins, no losses. He did strike someone out.
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Today was the day that Broadway's supposed best was bestowed with Tony nominations, making this the most important morning of the year for everyone, everywhere. Who made out like a bandit? Who flopped bigger than Carrie, The Musical?
Let's take a look……
No real surprises here. Well-reviewed new Green Day jukebox musical American Idiot got a nomination and will likely win, unless Tony voters decide to prove their multiculturalism by going with the sleeper hit Fela! For our money Idiot sounded and looked great but most of the themes felt like dated relics of the blessedly dead Dubya era. We haven't seen the three other shows, so who knows! As far as revivals go, financial failure Finian's Rainbow might be the one to beat, though the accolades for the just-opened British La Cages revival might cut it off at the feet. A Little Night Music will not win, we know that much.
In the new play category, this is probably a race between the august Brit production of Red, a Donmar Warehouse joint about the painter Mark Rothko featuring one of those towering Alfred Molina performances, and beloved Off-Broadway import Next Fall, a throwbacky New York play about New York gays. Fall might prove too small and retro to beat Red's fartsy pedigree. The revivals category is also a two horse race, between Denzel's Fences and Liev & Scarlett's A View from the Bridge. Both were (or are, in Fences' case) critical and box office successes, and both feature movie stars, whom Broadway loves to reward in the hopes that they'll stay and do more plays and keep drumming up sales. Our money's on Bridge, which had slightly more positive reviews
Denzel vs. Alfred! Liev Schreiber and Jude Law are probably just respect nods in the play category, just as Kelsey Grammer and Sean Hayes are in the musical. Douglas Hodge will almost assuredly win leading musical man, raved and bestowed with an Olivier as he was in London. But who knows! There was that wacky year when David Hyde Pierce won for the dreadful Curtains. We predict Alfred Molina taking it for the plays. As for the featured guys, it's nice to see young fellow Bobby Steggert get a nod for his solid work in Ragtime (also probably given to him as an appreciation for the off-Broadway tuner Yank!, which looks to be getting a Broadway run next season — gay soldiers, singing!!), but he's likely to get overshadowed by Finian's Christopher Fitzgerald or Robin De Jesus from Cages. And we bet little English whippet Eddie Redmayne will win in the play category for his lauded work in Red.
Scarlett Johansson is a Tony nominee. If she had been nominated for her decent work in Bridge without being joined by her far superior costar Jessica Hecht, that would be an outrage. But they're both up there in the featured category, so fine. Again with the "hey celebrities, look how much we love you!" kind of nomination there. We actually think Hecht might win that category. For leads in a play it's probably between Laura Linney for Time Stands Still — she could be the representative win for the whole show — and Viola Davis for Fences. Davis has a Tony (for another August Wilson play no less) and Linney doesn't. That could make the difference. As for the singing/dancing ladies, it's great to see the modest, unshowy work Christiane Noll did in Ragtime get a nod, though she's overshadowed by Catherine Zeta-Jones' scratch-singing in Night Music and Sherie Renee Scott's almost-one-woman Everyday Rapture biographing. That award is Scott's to lose. Featured wise, it'd be fun to see Come Fly Away's limbs-akimbo Karine Plantadit dance away with the prize, but she might be overlooked in favor of two grand dames, Barbara Cook (Sondheim on Sondheim) and Angela Lansbury (terrific in Night Music). Lansbury pretty much always wins this thing when she's nominated, so anyone else could have an uphill climb. Maybe she and Cook will split the old people vote and Plantadit will get to give some sort of wonderfully wacky acceptance speech. A boy (or girl) can dream.
Obviously people over at The Addams Family are probably a little disappointed, if not surprised. Their abysmally reviewed show picked up a couple nominations here and there (including one for Andrew Lippa's score), but neither Nathan Lane nor Bebe Neuwirth got a pat on the back for having to deal with the dreadful material for like another six months. It's gonna be a long, cold summer.


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Jason - A little experiment
by Raffa
For some time now, as you may know, we have a trainee in our studio, the charming and talented Sanne. At least once a week (usually on tuesday) she is with us in the studio and she works on her figure projects. Her first project was painting a zombie figure and her second project was sculpting a bust. She is very accurate when doing stuff and really tries to do her best to learn and improve.
So what is the usual process of a sculpt when you don't do it just for yourself or as a hobby?
She finished sculpting the bust a while ago and I showed her how to prepare it for casting.
Next step is sending it to a caster (we won't do this ourselfes as we want high quality casts) who does a specific number of casts. The casts get sent back to us and we need to find a painter for the promotional paintjob (shouldn't be a big deal ;-) and then you could theoretically advertise and sell the bust.
So, as she doesn't own a "real" company (by now) we will do a little experiment.
But before writing the next senteces I want to show you some photos I took of the bust:
So, this is Jason! Yes, I know.... a very unusual bust, not the typical fantasy barbarian chick with big breasts and tiny armor.... but I think it is something very interesting to paint and it's for sure pretty well sculpted!
So, the experiment is that we will ask here on the blog who is interested in a "preorder" of this bust so casting will be "self payed" and Sanne can have a resin copy to really see the whole progress of such a project.
You can preorder this bust (size is around 4cm width, 5cm height so he's pretty big) for the price of just 12 € + shipping (2,40 € Germany / 3,45 € international).
If you want to preorder, write a mail to:
PICSTER (at) MASSIVEVOODOO (dot) COM
with the subject "JASON preorder" including your adress and PayPal adress.
The preorder time window will be two weeks from now... you can order until the 23-february-2014
Whe will notify all people who preordered at the end of the time window with information about the delivery date and will send out invoices for payment.
If you have any further questions, feel free to put them in the comment section of this post!
I hope you take part in this little experiment and show Sanne that not only typical big titted fantasy girl busts can have a little success ;)
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Michael Pietsch is Executive Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, and was David Foster Wallace's editor. He adapted the following from "Editing Wallace," a Q&A with Rick Moody, published in Sonora Review 55, May 2009.
In April 1992 I received on submission from David Wallace's agent, Bonnie Nadell, around 150 pages of Infinite Jest, the opening section. They were wild, smart, funny, sad, and unlike any pages of manuscript I'd ever held in my hands. The range of voices and settings sent me reeling. The transvestite breakdown on the subway, the kid in the doctor's office. The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. The Lung. Young Hal with his little brass one-hitter. Gately, Troelsch, Schacht. The names! Erdedy, Wardine, Madame Psychosis. I'd read chapters from it published as short stories in magazines and here at last was the gigantic construct that linked those wildly disparate pieces. What I remember is that David knew his book was going to be very, very long, and he was looking for someone whose editorial suggestions he thought he might listen to. I was lucky enough to be working at Little, Brown, a company that was willing to support this kind of endeavor. We signed a contract and waited.
When he was around two-thirds through the novel David sent me a giant stack of pages and asked for my thoughts. I protested that without the whole story it would be impossible to know what ultimately mattered. But I tried to give him an accounting of when I found it intolerably confusing or slow or just too hard to make sense of. I banged my head hardest against the Marathe/Steeply political colloquies and the Orin Incandenza football stories and David revised those strands considerably.
We'd agreed early on that my role was to subject every section of the book to the brutal question: Can the book possibly live without this? Knowing how much time Infinite Jest would demand of readers, and how easy it would be to put it down or never pick it up simply because of its size, David agreed that many passages could come out, no matter how beautiful, funny, brilliant or fascinating they were of themselves, simply because the novel did not absolutely require them.
Every decision was David's. I made suggestions and recommendations and tried to make the reasons for them as clear as possible. But every change was his. It is a common misconception that the writer turns the manuscript over to the editor, who then revises, shapes, and cuts at will. In fact the editor's job is to earn the writer's agreement that changes he or she suggests are worth making. David accepted many cuts—around 250 manuscript pages is what I recall. But he resisted others, for reasons that he usually explained.
Here are a few of those responses and explanations. They give a sense of how engaged David was in this process and of how much fun it was to work with him.
p. 52—This is one of my personal favorite Swiftian lines in the whole manuscript, which I will cut, you rotter.
p. 82—I cut this and have now come back an hour later and put it back.
p. 133—Poor old FN 33 about the grammar exam is cut. I'll also erase it from the back-up disc so I can't come back in an hour and put it back in (an enduring hazard, I'm finding.)
pp. 327-330. Michael, have mercy. Pending an almost Horacianly persuasive rationale on your part, my canines are bared on this one.
Ppp. 739-748. I've rewritten it—for about the 11th time—for clarity, but I bare teeth all the way back to the 2nd molar on cutting it.
P. 785ff—I can give you 5000 words of theoretico-structural arguments for this, but let's spare one another, shall we?
I keep trying to imagine encountering David's books separate from the tall, athletic, casual, brilliant, concerned, funny man I knew—the way we encounter most writing, bodies of work whose creators we never meet, complete years before we encounter them. It is one of the great miracles of life, our ability to apprehend a human spirit through the sequences of words they leave behind. And I have to say that the David we encounter through Infinite Jest is pretty amazingly like the David I knew. When for a moment I manage to imagine myself as a reader opening up a copy of Infinite Jest for the first time, the way I opened V or Soldier's Pay or Suttree or A Handful of Dust or The Canterbury Tales, I think Yeah. Wow. Yeah.


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Ok older skaters, let's take a trip down memory lane and respect to Mr. Chick Treece of McRAD. Thanks to Eric Pritchard for emailing over his latest video work.
After getting their start opening for Minor Threat, McRad rose to fame in the skateboard world after being featured in Stacey Peralta and Cr Steck's 1988 movie Public Domain. The leaser of McRad, Chick Treece along with Ray Barbee and CR Stecyk tell the story of the band and its place in skateboard history. Documented by Eric Pritchard.


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NEW: Popular athlete's death classified as a suicide
Pastor and family friend says Seau suffered many concussions
Seau texted his ex-wife and children "I love you" before his death, pastor says
His death is being investigated as a suicide, medical examiner says
The San Diego County medical examiner's office Thursday classified the death of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau as a suicide, but the finding will probably do little to answer questions swirling since he was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Toxicology results and the narrative that could reveal contributing factors in the death could take weeks or longer to complete, said Sarah Gordon of the medical examiner's office.
Since news broke that Seau was found Wednesday in his Oceanside, California, home with a gunshot wound to the chest, there has been speculation about whether repeated hits to his head over his 20-year pro career could be a contributing factor.
1994 Chargers team carries dark legacy
There is no evidence Seau suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease brought on by multiple concussions, though friends and family have stepped forward to say the legendary linebacker suffered a number of hits to the head during his career.
As a linebacker, he played "the most havoc-ridden position on the team. He suffered many concussions, so there is a strong sense that it played a role," said Shawn Mitchell, a pastor and Seau family friend.
Mitchell, who stood next to Seau's grief-stricken mother as she faced a sea of cameras to discuss her son's death, said the family had received calls from researchers asking to study his brain.
"Him taking the shot to the chest makes sense that he would want his head examined," he said.
The medical examiner's office, in a statement Thursday, said it was awaiting the family's decision regarding study of Seau's brain. It said a final autopsy report may take up to 90 days to complete. The autopsy confirmed Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
While Mitchell did not identify the researchers making the requests, among the institutions the family could donate Seau's brain to is Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, the research center that found former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson suffered degenerative damage to his brain because of repeated hits.
Duerson committed suicide, shooting himself in the chest in 2011 and leaving a suicide note that said he wanted his brain studied for possible damage.
Seau's death follows last month's suicide of former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, the lead plantiff in a class action lawsuit against the NFL over concussion-related injuries. The lawsuit names more than 1,000 professional players.
In both cases, Easterling and Duerson exhibited symptoms of repetitive head trauma: memory lapses, anger and deep depression, according to family and friends. And in both cases, researchers found signs of brain trauma.
More than 100 former professional football players added their names Thursday to the growing list of people suing the NFL, saying it "repeatedly refuted the connection between concussions and brain injury," according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta by attorney Mike McGlamry.
The NFL has repeatedly dismissed the allegations, saying player safety is a priority. "Any allegation that the NFL intentionally sought to mislead players has no merit," it said.
Seau does not appear to have participated in any of the pending lawsuits against the NFL.
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, warned against drawing a conclusion in Seau's case, though he said there were striking similarities between his death and other cases involving football players.
The only way to determine if Seau suffered CTE is to analyze the brain tissue for "hallmarks of the dementia-like disease," Gupta said.
"We can't know, unless Junior Seau's" brain is analyzed in this way, whether his death was related to CTE, he said.
Though Seau had no reported documented history of concussions, Gupta said "the hits don't necessarily result in diagnosed concussion, but the brain is rattled over and over again."
Seau family friend Joe Gallagher said the former linebacker made a comment recently that appeared to indicate a possible issue.
"Junior had wanted to donate his brain to science to the study of concussive injuries," he told CNN affiliate KGTV of San Diego.
Seau was drafted into the NFL in the first round in 1990 out of the University of Southern California. He debuted with the San Diego Chargers, establishing his Hall of Fame potential as a Pro Bowl staple.
He left San Diego before the 2003 season to join the Miami Dolphins and spent parts of the last four seasons with the New England Patriots before retiring in late 2011. Seau amassed 1,526 tackles, 56.5 sacks and 18 interceptions in his 20-season career.
Seau's death rocked the Southern California city of San Diego, where he was a member of the 1994 Chargers – the team's only Super Bowl appearance.
His reputation as a fierce tackler – with a heart of gold for his community work – earned him admiration and a legion of fans.
Through most of his career he avoided negative publicity that plagued some in the NFL.
But in October 2010, he made headlines when he was charged with domestic violence after an incident with his girlfriend, and then hours after his arrest he drove off a cliff and crashed on the beach. Investigators later ruled the crash an accident, saying he fell asleep at the wheel.
On Wednesday, Seau made headlines again. His girlfriend, who had just returned home from a workout, found him in the bedroom of his home with a gun lying next to him, authorities said.
It is not clear if Seau left a note or an explanation. Funeral arrangements are pending, but are expected to be announced Friday afternoon.
"At that time, any specifics to be shared will be made available to the public, as we are waiting to discover Junior's personal wishes through an Executor," Mitchell said in an e-mail.
In the hours before his death, Mitchell said he sent text messages to his ex-wife and their three children.
"They said simply, 'I love you," Mitchell told CNN. "They actually responded back to him with 'Love you too, Dad.'"
Alan Duke reported from Los Angeles, and Chelsea J. Carter reported from Atlanta.


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Blake Shelton Opens 2013 ACMs With 'Boys 'Round Here' and a Little Help From His Friends
Blake Shelton opened the 2013 ACM Awards on Sunday night (April 7) with his new single 'Boys 'Round Here' -- and he was joined by a few of his famous friends for a killer live performance.
These kinds of awards show guest-fests aren't always ideal musically, as there are typically too many people on stage who don't actually add much, just to have a bunch of names up there. But this was actually more like a true collaboration, with everyone on stage actually contributing to the performance.
Shelton started off alone, but was shortly joined by his co-host Luke Bryan. Sheryl Crow then came out, followed by Pistol Annies. Brad Paisley -- one of the few real instrumentalists among the current crop of country stars -- took a signature guitar solo from the audience before winding up on stage jamming at the end of the song.
And that's about as good as it gets.
Watch Blake Shelton and Friends Sing 'Boys 'Round Here'


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Some well-known badminton personalities – five men and three women – are vying for three places to represent their peers on the BWF Athletes' Commission.
After four days of voting – two at the Yonex German Open 2013 and two at the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships – players will know on Thursday 7 March who they have selected to speak and act on their collective behalf for the next four years.
Those seeking election are: Imogen Bankier (Scotland); Cai Yun (China); Koo Kien Keat (Malaysia); Kaveh Mehrabi (Iran); Greysia Polii (Indonesia); Yuhan Tan (Belgium); Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (Denmark); and Wang Xin (China). All, except Mehrabi – who chaired the outgoing Commission – are newcomers seeking office for the first time.
Eligible voters must meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Be listed on the Main & Qualifying list of players for the 2013 YONEX German Open or the YONEX All England Championships.
• Be ranked in the top 150 players in Women's or Men's Singles on Thursday 31 January 2013 (the ranking date for the Main and Qualifying draws for the Yonex German Open).
• Be ranked, with another player, in the top 95 pairs in Women's, Men's or Mixed Doubles as at Thursday 31 January 2013.
Voters must select one female candidate, one male candidate and a third candidate of either gender.
The three successful candidates will join other current Commission members – Lee Yong Dae (Korea); Emma Mason (Scotland; Vice Chair); and Rodrigo Pacheco (Peru) as well as ex-officio member, Pedro Yang (Guatemala). The six members are selected on a rotational basis, with half the panel having elections every two years. One of the newly-constituted Commission's first duties will be to determine a Chair and that individual will sit on the BWF Council.
For further information on the upcoming BWF Athletes' Commission election, including profiles of the eight candidates, click here.
The BWF Athletes' Commission was established in 2008. Its purpose is to represent the views of athletes to the BWF Council. The Chair of the BWF Athletes' Commission is a full voting member of the Council and has the responsibility of advising the Council on matters relevant to athletes.
The BWF Athletes' Commission is guided by the Athletes' Commission Charter.
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Home networks aren't easy to maintain. If you have a home network, and you need help managing and troubleshooting it, you'll want to give Cisco Network Magic Essentials a try. It's got just about every tool home network users need to solve most of problems that pop up.
Cisco Network Magic Essentials crawls through your network to find attached PCs and devices (including printers), and reports on what it finds. It's designed for those with no network experience, so you don't need to be an IT pro to use it.
Among Network Magic Essentials's most useful tools is a network map that shows all devices on your network, and gives you plenty of details about each, such as device name, hardware and software configuration, IP information, security software used, and more. However, if you want to get information about network-attached storage, you'll have to use the Pro version of the software.
Other helpful tools in Network Magic Essentials are troubleshooters for fixing broken network connections and setting up wireless security. Of particular note to those with home networks is the ease with which the software lets you share files and printers. You'll also get alerts if there are any issues with the network that need to be fixed–and troubleshooters to help you do the fixing.
Note: There is also a $50 version of the program, Cisco Network Magic Pro, designed for small business networks, that supports more PCs and network-attached storage devices, offers Internet access controls, and has other network management features. Cisco Network Magic Pro and Cisco Network Magic Essentials are the same download, which times out after seven days. During that seven-day period, you get all the features of Cisco Network Magic Pro. To use the program after that, you'll have to pay the registration fee for either version. Also note that if you have a Linksys router if after seven days you don't register, you can use the software as Cisco Network Magic Basic, which includes the network map, some security features, and several other useful tools, but not nearly as many as for Cisco Network Magic Pro and Cisco Network Magic Essentials.
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32,256 Philips LEDs Light the Iconic 2013 Times Square Ball
32,256 Philips LEDs Light the Iconic 2013 Times Square Ball
Demonstrates to the World Unprecedented Lighting Possibilities of LED Technology
Philips to host "Make Your New Year Sparkle Twitter Sweepstakes - #NYECountdown" to Highlight Timely LED Innovations
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Philips continues to bring innovative LED technology into the lives of millions by lighting the world-famous Times Square New Year's Eve Ball. New Year's 2013 marks the 13th consecutive year Philips has served as the official Lighting Partner to the iconic Times Square Ball. The LED lighting on the Times Square Ball demonstrates the latest in innovative LED technology and ushers in a new era of lighting that delivers energy savings, greater light quality, longer bulb life, and dimmability to existing lighting fixtures.
Times Square New Year's Eve Ball illuminated by Philips LED lighting. (Photo: Business Wire)
The same innovative technology used in the Ball is commercially available to consumers to use in their home, and continues to become the new standard in lighting. This includes the redesigned Philips LED A-19 bulb, the LED replacement for the traditional 60 watt lamp. The A19 LED bulb reduces energy consumption by 85 percent, lasts 25 times longer, and can save consumers an estimated $134 in electricity costs during its lifespan, as compared to the traditional 60-watt incandescent.
According to a recent Philips survey, almost 60% of people agree that light plays an important role in setting the right mood for a special occasion, such as New Year's Eve*. In addition, 60 percent of those surveyed report that lighting is important in improving someone's overall mood. Of those surveyed, 30 percent are very familiar with LED lighting solutions. When asked about the benefits of LED technology, 71 percent of respondents cite energy efficiency, and 61 percent agree that LEDs last longer than traditional incandescent bulbs.
However, there is a significant knowledge gap about other important benefits, such as color quality, customizable hues and brightness, and the ability to integrate with existing fixtures. To help raise awareness of how LED lighting can enhance people's lives, Philips is hosting the Make Your New Year Sparkle Twitter Sweepstakes running Dec. 28, 2012 - Jan. 3, 2013. Using "#PhilipsNYECountdown," entrants could win a new lighting entertainment kit for the home by tweeting about how Philips lighting can enhance a New Year's celebration**. Visit http://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/connect/newyears/index.wpd for more details.
"The Times Square Ball is an icon for the world to see, but more important, it is a real-world example of how innovation can enhance our lives while creating a more sustainable community," said Ed Crawford, CEO of lamps, lighting electronics and controls, Philips. "Though this is our 'lucky' 13th lighting, at Philips, we know it takes more than luck to deliver meaningful innovation. Through our focused and persistent efforts, we continue to expand our product lines and make it possible for more consumers to use energy-efficient, high-quality, cost-friendly and long-lasting LED lights in their homes."
Like the 32,256 Philips LUXEON LEDs that light the glittering Times Square Ball, the commercially-available Philips LED bulbs consume up to 80 percent less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, reaping significant savings for consumers who switch to Philips LEDs. For example, if everyone in the U.S. transitioned to energy-efficient lighting in their homes, consumers would eliminate 87.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and generate energy savings of $15.8 billion. For more information about Philips lighting products for the home, visit http://www.usa.philips.com/c/led-light-bulbs/30033/cat/en/.
*About the Survey:
The survey was conducted in partnership with Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) among a national sample of 1,003 adults, 503 men and 500 women 18 years of age and older, living in the continental United States. Interviewing for this survey was completed on November 15-18, 2012.
**The Make Your New Year Sparkle Twitter Sweepstakes runs Dec. 28, 2012 - Jan. 3, 2013. See the full Web site for official rules: http://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/connect/newyears/index.wpd
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people's lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2011 sales of EUR 22.6 billion and employs approximately 122,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming, home and portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Family News from Emma
Veronica here with some sad news from Emma.
Her husband, Aaron, is in the hospital after a scary episode last night. His left side went numb and he was unable to move.
Right now they are working on moving him to another hospital with a neurologist as his current doctors are baffled and don't know what happened. The possibility of a stroke or heart attack causing it has come up, but with him being so young and healthy, they just aren't sure.
Please keep Emma, Aaron and their families in your thoughts and prayers. Thankfully, Aaron is not in pain, but the idea of not knowing what's going on is causing much stress on both Emma and Aaron. I know I pray that God would guide the doctors in the right direction so they can begin getting Aaron well.
I truly believe in the power of prayer and the more people praying - the stronger the power!
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Thanks for the heads up Veronica. Will be praying for rapid discovery of the problem and healing.ReplyDelete
Emma, my thoughts with you and your family. I am sure this is very hard on you guys. I had a similar scare a year ago and thankfully it was only a minor issue. (An Atypical migraine). I hope that Aaron's health issue resolves quickly.ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you all. I am so sorry you have to go through such a stressful situation. I do pray for a quick diagnosis and a very speedy recovery. Big Hugs!ReplyDelete
Absolutely Veronica! Emma and Aaron have got my prayers coming their way too!ReplyDelete
We are all here praying for Aaron, you, the boys and the entire family. Emma, as a caregiver myself, PLEASE take care of yourself... try to rest and accept help when offered. Again thoughts and prayers are with you all!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info.. Prayers headed their way for a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers for both of them! Hope he is on the mend soon, and that the Lord grants peace to Emma while she waits with him!ReplyDelete
My thoughts are with you in this difficult time! Keep your spirit up!ReplyDelete
Thanks for letting us know, Prayers and hugs are being sent their way.ReplyDelete
Prayers and reiki are on their way to both Emma and Aaron. Thank you for posting.ReplyDelete
Prayers going up for the whole family. Please keep us posted.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Prayers sent. Wasn't he just getting over being sick?ReplyDelete
Sending prayers up right now!!! Thank you for coming and letting us know what was happening. {{{HUGS}}} to Emma!ReplyDelete
Emma My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family! I hope everything is ok!!ReplyDelete
Emma, I am wishing you and your family well and a speedy recovery for your hubby. Take care.ReplyDelete
please keep us to date on how he is. Prayers for her family as well!ReplyDelete
Praying that everything is okay with your husband and to give you strength to get through this difficult time.ReplyDelete
Oh that is awful! I know they don't know what it is yet - but just wondering like that must be so hard for her. I hope it's something he can recover from quickly! I will be thinking of her and her sweet family a lot.ReplyDelete
Oh I am so sorry to hear that they are going through a difficult time I know things like that are so scary, I know everything will be ok and even though we can't be there with them all our hearts and prayers go out to them! Stay strong and be hopeful!ReplyDelete
From my family to your family we will be praying. Praying for a quick recover for him also. Thanking God for giving you strength in this difficult times.ReplyDelete
Oh no, I pray that everything is okay. Will be definitely keeping you and your family in my prayers Emma.ReplyDelete
Amy V
My thoughts and prayers are with you Emma! Big hugs and good thoughts!!ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
I Believe in the power of prayer too.ReplyDelete
Praying for them
Your family will be in my prayers. JudeReplyDelete
Your family will be in my thoughts and Prayers.HugsReplyDelete
Emma my thoughts & prayers for you, Aaron, & the boys. Praying especially for healing by the Great Physician our LORD Jesus.ReplyDelete
Emma, you and your whole family are in my thoughts and prayers. I pray for your husband's speedy recovery. Hang in there sweet girl. Know we are all thinking of you.ReplyDelete
Big hugs,
Oh Emma your family is in our prayers. Love ya FriendReplyDelete
Big Hugs
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Oh no, I'll be keeping Emma and Aaron in my thoughts and prayers (((HUGS)))ReplyDelete
you are all in my prayers!ReplyDelete
Emma, stay strong! You and your family will be in my prayers! I hope that your husband will make a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Tracey
My heart hurts for you and your Sweet sweet family. I will be praying every minute of the day that his health is quickly recovered. Lots and lots of hugs sweet friend!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Praying for you both, sweetie!! Big hugs!! God is with you- He will never leave you or forsake you! I will keep positive, healing thoughts in mind for you all! Love, JoyReplyDelete
Praying for peace and healing!ReplyDelete
How scary! Praying for the family!ReplyDelete
My thoughts and Prayers for Emma and her family.ReplyDelete
Emma, my prayers and thought are with you. 2tim 1:7 For GOD did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind. Stay strong my friend.ReplyDelete
HUGS & Blessings
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Emma, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time.ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers go out to Emma and her family! Hugs, and loves!!!ReplyDelete
oh, Emma, I just found out through FB. The power of prayer is great, and we are all praying for your husband and your family. God bless you ALL. Martha C.ReplyDelete
Emma, praying for your husband and your family. Thinking of you!ReplyDelete
I hope everything is ok, and that the doctors will be able to make him better soon! I will be praying for your family.ReplyDelete
Oh Emma,ReplyDelete
I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers!
Love and hugs, Janice
Praying for you ALL!!ReplyDelete
Oh no, how scary!! Aaron, Emma and family are in my prayers, as are the doctors so they may find out soon what is happening and fix it!!!ReplyDelete
HUGS Emma!!!
Thanks for sharing that with us!! Sending hugs and prayers your way Emma!!ReplyDelete
Debbie Chapman
Hi Emma, Hope everything gets better.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers are getting sent to you and your family Emma. Hope everything works out ok.ReplyDelete
Melissa D
Sending lots and lots of prayers your way :)ReplyDelete
Dearest Emma,ReplyDelete
We are keeping your family close in our thoughts and prayers. Praying for Aaron to have a 100% recovery and back with your family very soon.
**Lots of BIG Prayerful Hugs**
Oh my gosh!! Prayers coming Emma & Aaron's way!!ReplyDelete
Prayers and best wishes to Emma and Aaron!ReplyDelete
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Sweet Veronica... thank you for being there for Emma... *Ü*. Please keep us updated on how things are progressing.ReplyDelete
**Lots of Hugs**
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Emma. Hoping for a quick recovery for your husband.ReplyDelete
Kerry~Momma K
I am praying for you and your Emma. I wish your hubby a speedy recovery. Love, Cathryn67ReplyDelete
Thank you for letting us know so we can pray diligently! Give her big hugs and let her know her cyber friends are praying!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the update. I pray that everything will be okay for him and for their family.ReplyDelete
Allison H.
Sending hugs and positive thoughts!ReplyDelete
Emma So sorry for your troubles. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Hope this is resolved quickly and aaron is back on his feet soon. Much love and big hugs !ReplyDelete
Sending wishes for a speedy recovery and resolution .I am praying for your wonderful family Emma.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Anita
Emma my love and prayers are with you (((hugs))))ReplyDelete
take care of you too my dear friend!!
Thank you SO much Veronica for letting us know. They are in my prayers from this moment on. I also believe in the power of prayer. It can bring miracles about and it can bring comfort. Emma, I love you and your family SO much! I'm PRAYING so hard for you all!!!!ReplyDelete
I will be praying for you as well. I will pray that the doctors will figure out what's wrong and that your husband and you will stay strong. I believe in the power of GOD's miracles!!
Keeping you in my prayers!!
Emma,so sorry that you and your family are going through this. Sending you hugs and praying for you and your family!!ReplyDelete
Emma, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Stay strong...and be sure to take care of yourself so that you can be there for your family! Hugs my friend!ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Emma.ReplyDelete
Emma, Please know that in this time of stress you and your family are in our hearts and prayers. We pray that this medical issue passes and that your husbands body is healed. Always remember to stop and take a deep brath sometimes we forget to breath when your loved ones are hurting. Always MindyReplyDelete
Emma my thoughts and prayers are with your family. I hope Aaron gets better soon. Hugs KateReplyDelete
We will be thinking of you and Aaron. Hope they find out whats wrong soon !!!ReplyDelete
Thank you, Veronica, for bring this to ur attention. Prayer is a powerful thing.ReplyDelete
Emma, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I pray that the doctors are able to pinpoint what is going on with your husband. You are loved, my friend!
Saundra :)
I am so sorry Emma I hope everything is ok! Take care and you and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers. Veronica thanks for the update that is very sweet of you!ReplyDelete
so very sorry to hear the bad news. keep us updated please.ReplyDelete
My family and I are saying prayers, sure hope it all works out sweet Emma!ReplyDelete
Jessica, the creative stamper
Thinking and praying for you and your hubby, Emma!! Big hugs to you!ReplyDelete
<3 Kimmy
Sending prayers all the way from Trinidad. Not only do I admire your creativity, but I am always touched by the way you glow when you talk about your family. Speedy recovery to your husband, and strength and grace to you.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting Veronica.ReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with Aaron, Emma, and their family.
Thanks for posting Veronica.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Hugs Emma!
Sherrie K.
Thoughts and prayers are with you guys.ReplyDelete
Your family are in our prays. Stay positive and strong Emma. We are all praying for your family.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear about Emma's husband. Emma and her family are in my thoughts and prayers, hope all goes well with him. Thanks for the update.ReplyDelete
So sorry for what's going on. I hope everything is soon well with your hubby and with you and the rest of the family on the emotional side too. My prayers are with you. Take care always.
Many blessings!
Your creative friend,
Thanks Veronica for the update too-you're a good friend.ReplyDelete
Emma, I will be praying for you and your Hubby. I pray they find the problem he has a speedy recovery. Hugs & Prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
Vickie in N.C.
So Sorry to hear the news Emma, I will keep you in and your family in my thoughts. I hope they can figure everything out very soon and your husband gets better very soon.ReplyDelete
Thanks for letting us know Veronica. Emma is such a wonderful person and she has an awesome family. My thoughts and prayers are with them all. I hope that Aaron recovers soon and that it ends up not being anything serious. God Bless.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear this. I will be praying for you and your family Emma. Hope he recovers soon and you can get some answers!ReplyDelete
Praying for your family Emma ! I hope all goes well and hope its very minor and can be taken care of right away ! Stay strong and trust in the Lord he will pull you all threw this ! BIG WARM HUGS ,JANIEReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Sending angel hugs for each of you.ReplyDelete
Oh Emma I have you in my prayers. I also truly believe in the power of prayer and will be awaiting for positive news about your husband. Sending you lots of hugs and faith.ReplyDelete
Linda K.
Love and hugs to Emma and her familyReplyDelete
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear that.... Emma, your husband and family are in our thoughts and prayers!!ReplyDelete
You and your family are in our prayers!ReplyDelete
Oh, no! I will definitely keep both of them and the boys in my prayers! Please update us when you can! {{{ HUGS }}}ReplyDelete
Sending lots of prayers your way Emma! Please take care of yourself too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Praying for Emma and her family.. they are special people and will be ok..ReplyDelete
Thanks Veronica.. we appreciate you letting us know..
Emma, My thought and prayers are with you and your husband. I'm praying he has a speedy recovery. Shari (cricutrookie)ReplyDelete
Emma, I'm praying for you, your husband and your family. I hope a diagnosis is made soon and that your husband recovers quickly.ReplyDelete
~Sharon C.
Sending prayers for Aaron, Emma, their boys, and both families. I hope the doctors find a diagnosis soon.ReplyDelete
Emma, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. My heart goes out to you my friend. If theres anything I can do just let me know. Please take care.ReplyDelete
Emma, pleas know that my sincere thoughts and prayers are with you, your husband and sweet family right now! We all lOVE you!ReplyDelete
Emma you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you veronica for letting us know and keeping us posted. Wishing Aaron a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Lisa Scrappingpinklady
We are with U Emma and Aaron....ReplyDelete
Thouoghts and prayers with you and your family, Emma.ReplyDelete
will be keeping you all in my prayers...ReplyDelete
Thinking of you, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
Many prayers and hugs go your way Emma for you and your family. I hope that they are able to find out what is going on and your husband will have a fast recovery.ReplyDelete
Emma, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Praying for a speedy recovery for your husband Aaron.ReplyDelete
Your husband and family are in my prayers.ReplyDelete
thank you for posting to let us know. Emma & Aaron (and family)are in my prayers!ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear this....will say a prayer for her and her family!ReplyDelete
Praying for Aaron that they can find out what is causing this. Praying for Emma for patience as she waits and feels helpless beside her husband. And praying for their amazing boys as they struggle with this as well. We love you guys!!ReplyDelete
Prayers on their way for Aaron, Emma, their kids and the entire families... so sorry and thanks for the info, and yes, if you can keep us updated Veronica like others have asked...ReplyDelete
Sending prayers there way!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM
I am praying for your family. Hugs Emma!ReplyDelete
Elizabeth M
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 8:08 PM
Thanks for letting us know Veronica. Thinking and praying for you and your family Emma.ReplyDelete
Thank you Veronica for letting us know.ReplyDelete
Emma prayers are coming your way as we pray for wisdom for the doctors. Also for a speedy recovery. Our prayers go out to you and the boys, stay strong and rely on the Lord! Keep us posted, love you.
Veronica,thank you for the update. Please keep us posted. Hi Emma, I also will pray for a quick recovery and healing for your hubby. This is SweetCricut83 from Socal sending my love and prayers to you and your family. God Bless.......AngieReplyDelete
Sending prayers your way!ReplyDelete
Praying for your husbands speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear this. Thank you for the information. The prayers are going up.ReplyDelete
Emma please know your followers are keeping you, your husband and family in our thoughs and prayers. You bring so much to all our lives, I hope this support gives you strength in this difficult time.ReplyDelete
I am honored to join you in prayer for Aaron and Emma.ReplyDelete
You are all in my thoughts and prayers. I know this is a challenging time...know you have the love and support of all of us!! Take care!! Love- Bev BReplyDelete
- Debby from Pgh.,PAMarch 9, 2011 at 8:40 PM
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Aaron and your families. Keep the faith and this too shall pass.
Emma, I just read about your husband. My mom and I are praying for him and for you and your kids. I am a Christian and I believe in prayer. God Bless. I will be thinking about you.ReplyDelete
~Madison funkycards.blogspot.com
Lifting your Aaron in prayer! Hugs to you Emma.ReplyDelete
I hope and pray for you and your husband Emma.ReplyDelete
Our families thought and prayers are with your family, Emma for a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
Emma, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time. Please stay strong and positive, and know is easier than said, but we are hear to keep you strong and positive. Please know you have our support and whatever you need, we are here for you.ReplyDelete
Emma, keeping you guys in my prayers and sending positive thoughts your way!ReplyDelete
Take Care!
Sorry to hear about your husband being hospitalized, my thoughts and prayers are with all of you.ReplyDelete
Sending you lots of prayers for a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
Prayers and positive thoughts go out to Emma and her family. I'm so sorry and I pray that things will get better. Take care.ReplyDelete
Emma, Aaron, and boys...ReplyDelete
My prayers are with you for a speedy recovery and an answer as to what has caused this. "The Creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the week, and to those who have no might He increases strength." Isaiah 28-29
Oh Emma, I am so very sorry this happened. We will be storming heaven with prayers for Aaron and sending tons of prayers and positive thoughts to you and the boys. Not know is the hardest part. Be well my friend ((((HUGS)))) AndreaReplyDelete
oh Emma, our prayers and thoughts are with you and Aaron and We are here for you and pray that the doctors get him on the road to recovery!ReplyDelete
Praying for Emma and her husband. Please keep us posted.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry to hear this Emma!! :( Praying for Aaron,the boys and you!!!Sending some positiv thoughts!!ReplyDelete
thats so sad. I hope he will recover fully soon. Best wished for the familyReplyDelete
I'm so so very sorry and upset to here this news Emma!! I'm wishing and hoping with all my heart that this episode is not as serious as it first seems. You, Aaron and the family will be constantly in my thoughts my friend.ReplyDelete
Love Viv xxx
My thoughts and prayers are with Emma, her husband, and family. Hoping that they find out what is going on and that his health improves. God BlessReplyDelete
Sending up prayers as I type!ReplyDelete
God Bless !
Sending you and your family good thoughts and prayers!ReplyDelete
I'm so very sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
Emma, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry to hear this. My prayers are with all of Emma's family hoping that Aaron will get well soon.ReplyDelete
Emma, I send you all my prayers for AAron and you! I hope everything turns out ok! Best of luck and stay strong hun!ReplyDelete
As I read this, I felt that I was hearing this news of a family member or friend that I personally care for. Emma, you provide us with such inspiration and joy - I certainly pray for Aaron to get answers and a quick recovery, and that you have strength to help him through this. We care for you and your family! Best wishes!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness will keep emma and her family in my prayers.ReplyDelete
I'll be thinking of you and your family emma praying for a speedy recovery and praying for you and your family. God BlessReplyDelete
Emma...You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Praying for a speedy recovery for your DH.ReplyDelete
Hugs Pam
My prayers go out to Emma, Aaron and the family!ReplyDelete
Emma, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family!ReplyDelete
All our love ad prayers are with you and the family Emma. Just know that GOD is in control.ReplyDelete
"Be still and know I AM GOD" Psalm 46:10
HUgs, Carol L.
Prayers said. Wishing you all God's Blessings and a complete recovery for Aaron.ReplyDelete
Sending lots of prayers and love to you and your whole family!ReplyDelete
Emma and family: May the peace of the Lord that passes all understanding guard your heart and mind during this time. May the Lord direct the hands and minds of the doctors. May the Lord provide complete healing and restoration. Many prayers your way! Melin of CookingWithCricut.com.ReplyDelete
Oh, Emma!!!ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry that you guys are going through this!!! I am sending lots of prayers & positive thoughts your way!!!!!!!!!
Please let us know if you need anything...
Crafty hugs,
Veronica thanks for letting us know1 Please let Emma and Aaron know that her crafting family is thinking about them and their family!ReplyDelete
Jamie Kong
Thank you, Veronica, for posting about what happened. Miss Emma, I will say for your Aaron, this prayer for his healing. You may pray it as well.ReplyDelete
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored, and glorified, throughout the whole world, now and forver. Sacred Heart of Jesus, I put my complete trust in you. Holy Mary, Mother of Jesus, pray for me. St. Joseph, kind and loving spouse of Mary, and foster father of Jesus, pray for me. St, Jude, patron saint of hopeless and difficult cases, please pray for me and grant me your request.
This is a never fail novena that I have used numerous times throughout my life. It has NEVER failed. Pray it 9 times a day for 9 days straight. I will be praying it for you as well, as I am sure you will be too busy taking care of your hubby.
God's grace be with you,
Mary Jane
What a great outpouring of love for you and your family Emma.You are a great and loving person and you do deserve it. I also will pray for you your familyReplyDelete
and for the Doctors.
Sending loads of hugs and prayers your way. God is truly a healer. :)ReplyDelete
I will be praying for them! Thanks for the update!ReplyDelete
sending lots of prayers your way Emma! wishing for a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info! Let them know that we will keep them wrapped in prayer. Be well Aaron, and Emma, take care of yourslef. Don't worry about keeping up with things here. We can wait for him to return to good health.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Jessica
Our thoughts are with you and your family !ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM
I will be sending prayers up for you and your husbandReplyDelete
Thanks Veronica for letting us know. My prayers are with the family!! Hope he has a speedy recovery! ~ YvetteReplyDelete
Our thoughts and prayers to you and yours.ReplyDelete
how scary...i'm thinking of you....ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family I hope you get some good news soonReplyDelete
I just read your blog...my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. If you can't find answers with the new hospital, try a teaching hospital..they are usually the place to turn when you have no answers. May God bless your husband and I pray for your strength.
So very sorry to hear of your husband's health problems. My prayers and thoughts are with you and your families.
Emma, So very sorry to hear about your husband, I will say a speacial prayer for you and your family. Stay strong I know he will be okay. TraciReplyDelete
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Tool libraries, which have been around since at least the 1970s, offer communities a way to share resources that would otherwise spend the vast majority of the time sitting in drawers and garages. They make screwdrivers, saws, drain snakes, drills, chisels, and whatever else one might need for building and repair projects available to patrons either for free or for a small fee. By providing access to tools, these libraries help to build resilient communities, they empower their users, they lessen neighborhoods' ecological footprints and they help to beautify areas.
Tool lending[edit | edit source]
Handily illustrating the benefits of access over ownership, tool lending is an idea that is quickly spreading. A directory of tool libraries now lists almost 50 around the world and there are more in the works. In August, the Center for a New American Dream, in keeping with its efforts to "change social norms around consumption and consumerism," offered a free webinar entitled How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community.
Featuring tool library veterans Mike Froehlich, founder of the West Philly Tool Library, Jason Hatch, founder of the North Portland Tool Library, Pete McElligott, founder of the Berkeley Tool Lending Library and Ty Yurgelevic, founder of the Temescal Tool Lending Library in Oakland, Calif., the webinar offers a behind the scenes glimpse at what it takes to successfully start and run a library and provides introductions to some of the people who helped launch the tool lending movement.
Some of the areas covered are: fundraising, buying tools, sponsorship, membership, location options, volunteers, legalities, fees, tool maintenance and repair, records, and outreach. The webinar is just over an hour long and is a great peer-to-peer resource for those interesting in bringing tool sharing to their communities.
Resources[edit | edit source]
- How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community webinar
- Want to learn more about starting a tool library? Read How to Start a Tool Library
- Local Tools - Web-based inventory management system that can be used to keep track of tools and tool library members
- National Tool Library Google Group
- New Dream Community Action Kit - How-to's and resources for setting up a tool library, creating a cooperative, organizing community swaps and more.
- Want to learn more ways to share? Check out Shareable's collection of sharing how-tos, the largest on the web.
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Regarding the letter from Paul Gessing, "Resourceful," in your March 22-28 issue: I would like to take serious exception to what Paul Gessing of the Rio Grande Foundation says about the trends in the world's commodity prices. A bet between Simon and Ehrlich made back in the '80s is irrelevant, and to infer from that that commodity prices have been dropping is highly deceptive at best.Data from the United States Geological Survey's Historical Statistics for Mineral Commodities is below. The data is in constant 1998 dollars per ton of commodity for the years 2000 and 2010.Chromium—2000: $721/t, 2010: $2,010/tCopper—2000: $1,840/t, 2010: $5,550/tNickel—2000: $8,180/t, 2010: $15,700/tTin—2000: $7,730 /t, 2010: $15,200/tTungsten—2000: $7,840/t, 2010: $19,500/tAnd a couple of my favorites:Silver—2000: $152,000/t, 2010: $464,000/tGold—2000: $8,530,000/t, 2010: $28,500,000/tThe prices of these commodities have not gone down.Organizations like the Rio Grande Foundation, assorted political entities and the various groups that are supported by the Oil Boys, Big Coal, the Chemical Folk, and such, put out a lot of misleading propaganda and outright lies. The quantity of this propaganda and outright lies will increase dramatically as the elections approach. The lies and propaganda prey on the ignorant and are designed to let the corporate world continue to pillage, plunder and pollute the planet with impunity and without regulation. Global climate change, oceanic acidification, massive human overpopulation and widespread ecological disruption are very serious realities, and efforts by entities such as the Rio Grande Foundation to deflect attention from them are inexcusable. We really do have serious problems, and if we close our eyes to them, we will pass much more serious problems on to those who follow us.
Letters: Cannabis At The Roundhouse Cannabis At The Roundhouse
The SouthEast New Mexico Medical Cannabis Alliance would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the State Legislature and Governor Martinez for passing and signing SB 240 during the last legislative session. SB 240 is an innovative bill that makes the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program self-supporting. This bill provides for the successful continuation of the nation's best-run medical cannabis program without any cost to New Mexico taxpayers.There are no negatives surrounding SB 240. New Mexicans needing relief from chronic, painful and sometimes terminal conditions are finding that relief. The taxpayers of New Mexico are not subsidizing medication. The program itself pays for salaries, administrative costs and expenses incurred by the state office through yearly fees paid by legal producers and patients that produce their own medication. There is now a brand-new, viable, legal industry in New Mexico where one did not exist before. Jobs are being created, taxes are being paid, law enforcement resources are freed up, the black market takes a hit and the demand for cartel marijuana is reduced. New Mexicans with one or more of 16 approved conditions are guaranteed safe access to medication, and no one following the rules is in danger of criminal prosecution under state law. Perhaps the best thing about SB 240 for New Mexico patients is the distinctly nonpartisan support for its passage. When Senators Cisco McSorley and Rod Adair are on the same page, we've made serious progress in nonpartisan accomplishment. Our thanks to each of you for your compassionate, unwavering support. Our special and sincere thanks to our own Senator Carroll Leavell for his "yes" vote on SB 240. Senator Leavell, you have the support of the Alliance! The Alliance also wishes to express our sincere disappointment with Representatives Cathrynn Brown and Bill Gray for their "no" votes on SB 240.Recent CBS News and Gallup polls show that a full 71 percent of Americans feel that medical use of cannabis (marijuana) should be legal. In our state we are fortunate that medical cannabis use is legal and that sick and suffering New Mexicans, including many veterans, are finding relief because of that. The passage of New Mexico SB 240 represents another step forward by our state regarding the prudent application of medical cannabis laws.
Letters: Straight But Not Narrow Straight But Not Narrow
I wish to thank the editor of the Alibi and Janice Devereaux for printing one of the most lyrical, articulate and thoughtful letters I've ever read ["An Open Letter to Sate Rep. David Chavez," Feb. 23-29] .While not a member of the gay community, I thoroughly approve of her noting the narrow-mindedness and tightlipped disapproval of lifestyles that differ from the ones many choose. I believe it is not my business to tell others how to live.P.S., I'm mailing Xerox copies of the letter to my my out-of-town friends so they can admire its clarity and beauty.
Letters: Duke Nukem Duke Nukem
[Re: Opinion, "Playing With Nuclear Fire," March 29-April 4] Jerry, thanks for promoting Palast's work. Unfortunately, it is too little, too late for all the best efforts of activists. I hope all readers will go to enenews.com to see what is actually up. Our government agencies, mass-conspiracy-media, every talking-head you see on TV is lying or participating in normal, ignorant, American go-along to get-along, don't-make-waves, just do it. Mr. Ortiz y Pino, you have scratched the surface. Unfortunately, we live in high clearance Newk Mexico, so we dare not bite the deficit-funded hand that feeds us. The diesel backup generators are an interesting aspect of the story, but in reality, the stark fact is that every so-called nuke power plant actually requires constant input of high-voltage, commercially-produced-and-delivered electricity , without which the cooling stops and the meltdown begins. Even if the diesel generators were perfect, they only have what fuel is in the tanks. After that, with your disaster-destroyed power grid gone, you get meltdown anyway . That is what we have cooking away times three, at least, at Fukushima. Plutonium mixed-oxide fuels were jettisoned and vaporized into the atmosphere. You can see it for yourself on YouTube. Nice basic article, Jerry, going as far as you did to help Palast. But, Jerry, now is the time to show us a little more depth. Actually, a lot more depth.
Letters: Priorities Priorities
[Re: Blog, "Daily Word," March 29] Bankers are taking federal bailout money and foreclosing on our homes that are no longer worth the mortgage amount because the bankers burst the bubble … and Gadi Schwartz is following the City Housing Director to the nail salon? Hooray for tough journalism.
Letters: Divide And Conquer Divide And Conquer
[Re: Letters, "The Great Divide," March 29-April 4] Well, Greg, I must say that this perch of yours in beautiful Placitas sounds quite interesting. The view must be spectacular, as your part of the Earth tends to be filled with stunning, stark beauty. That's probably why the home prices in your quaint village are so prohibitive for us average folk—you know, simpletons that don't have quite the same "perch" that you do. In fact, we're lucky to have a perch at all, and even if we did, it wouldn't quite give us the same sweeping perspective you've been so utterly blessed with. No, unfortunately us down below don't have the same opportunity you do to see the world so objectively and simply like the thoughtful professor that you are. I wonder though, are you looking down from your perch through a camera, perhaps? Maybe one that, I don't know, has a black-and-white lens attached? Because this A vs. B perspective is so, well, simplistic—almost like you've been sitting on that perch a long, long time—30, 40 years, I'd say. Certainly your romanticism of the very modern times you called "the '60's" wouldn't suggest that maybe "Republicans" aren't the only ones who really believe that the world must backtrack to some mythical utopia dreamland in the past. But what do I know, I'm just an intellectually challenged, fascist Victorian drooling over the Bible in the canyon below, eagerly arming myself in anticipation of the next war—while you, in your exclusive, beautiful and very narrow corner of the world observe from high above, completely detached from this awful American schism I, and the other frothing racist misogynists, apparently helped create.
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[Re: Opinion, "A Police State of Mind," March 22-28] I attended the Nonie Darwish lecture and heard dissidents crying about "free speech on campus." When protesters "mic checked" Ms. Darwish they violated her right to free speech.A question-and-answer session followed her lecture and the dissidents were given the opportunity to express their anti-Israel sentiments.Interestingly, no one challenged Ms. Darwish on ideological grounds that Islamic Sharia laws imposed by Middle East dictators promoted terrorism and oppression of women.
Letters: Let The Sun Shine In? Let The Sun Shine In?
[Re: Blog, "Protest against APD shootings today at 4 p.m.," March 28] Police shootings were down in 2011 from 2010. Either fewer people needed to be shot, or APD is being more careful in applying deadly force, or both. A Justice Department investigation might tell us if there was, or still is, a problem outside the obviously bad calls.I signed up with a group to watch cops because I thought some impartial observation could not hurt. I resigned when it became obvious too many of them were more about cop hating than cop watching and were using a concern for civil rights as a cover. There never was and never would be a justified use of deadly force in their world. Too bad, it was a good idea.
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When planets move from one direction to another it brings about changes in certain people's well being and fortune. By worshipping the planets we get immense benefits. Indian Astrology believes that the planetary positions of nine planets in a geo centric orbit determine the way a person will live, progress and exemplify ones life to others before death. Nava means nine and graha means planet. There are nine temples located in Tamil Nadu representing each planet in the Navagraha. All nine of them are located with in a 65 km radius around our paradise resort in Kumbakonam.
Any human being experiences mixtures of happiness and sorrows, Establishments too have their ups and downs, If we know the planetary positions at the time of commencing a job or enterprise, with its help, we will be able to find out how it will take shape or how we would fare in it.If our horoscope is cast on the basis of the configuration of the planets at the time of our birth, our fotunes over the entire period of our life can be predicted.
Navagraha-the nine planets could give harmony or misery to the individual as per its movements. One has to do shanthis or parikaras; for the particular planet(s) and its lords; such direct appeals to the concerned planets and their lords will give quick and timely results. As we said earlier our resort is centrally located in and around navagraha temples. Special navagraha packages are available at Paradise Resort. Feel free to contact our resort for details.


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Are Men's Ties Falling Out Of Summer Fashion?
As thermometers start to creep up toward the triple digits, office menswear starts getting casual. It makes sense; having a thick ribbon tied around your neck in the sweltering heat is, by all accounts, a revolting experience.
Our very unscientific polling of the NPR newsroom revealed only 8 percent of men wear ties on hot, summer days. We wondered: Could we, humble fashion pioneers, be on the brink of a cutting-edge fashion trend?
We posed the question to a group of fashion experts. They all agreed that each industry experiences its own unique trends in office menswear. While men in creative fields are dressing more casually, the dress code in tech companies has been sharpening up. The uniforms in medicine, law and finance are as stiff as ever.
Choire Sicha blogs about men's fashion for The Awl. Speaking on behalf of the creative sector, he says professionals in media, PR, advertising and architecture have started moving away from the suit-and-tie uniform, preferring slacks with a crisp, button-down shirt. "We're allowed to push the boundaries of what we're allowed to wear," Sicha says.
Many men hang a neutral-colored sport coat in their office, to round out the look. Sicha recommends stashing a tie in your desk for after-hour events. "I will actually put on the dress shirt and tie, but pull the tie down and unbutton the top collar as if I have been suffering in a tie all day, yet I still look dressed up. It's a good look," he says.
Lu Verde says you would not believe the number of ties he sells every day at Bergdorf Goodman's flagship store in New York City. He says lawyers, doctors and bankers are unfazed by the heat. "A man just walked in last night and picked out 20 ties for himself in five minutes, and you're talking about $200 a tie," Verde says.
Tie DO's And DON'Ts
- DO wear a tie with a full suit.
- DON'T wear a tie with slacks.
- DO pair a skinny tie with a tailored suit.
- DON'T wear bow ties without a tux.
- DO wear cotton ties in the summer.
- DON'T wear novelty ties.
- DO wear blue; it always looks good.
- DO be careful with prints.
Source: Stefan Doyno
He says a few years ago, some New York offices tried to make the dress code more casual, but it was a complete disaster. "Men did not know how to dress casually; they look very sloppily dressed when they try to just put on a pair of khakis and a polo shirt," Verde says. "So a lot of these offices that went casual all went back to a dress code where they have to wear a suit, or a sports jacket and a tie and dress shirt to dress properly."
Verde can think of only one type of white-collar employee who can get by without a tie — "the guys who work for Google."
Those guys are precisely Joseph Rosenfeld's client base. Rosenfeld is an image consultant in Silicon Valley; he calls it a success when he persuades them to wear button-down shirts and slacks. "The tech uniform used to be pull-up shorts, T-shirts and sandals."
He says times have shifted; even startups are starting to polish up. If you want proof that there is a growing appetite for fashion and style in Silicon Valley, Rosenfeld says look no further than the the Westfield Valley Fair Mall. The big shopping center near San Jose, Calif., is attracting fashion-forward stores like Miu Miu and Prada.
Rosenfeld says he is nostalgic for the suit and tie, but it is more important for managers to reflect the culture of their teams in how they dress. "I love neckwear, but it has its time and its place," he says. His Silicon Valley clients tend to save their suits for special occasions, such as meetings on the East Coast.
Once you have decided to wear a tie, then comes the problem of picking the right one. There are questions of fabric, colors, prints and even shapes.
As skinny ties have become more popular, designer Tom Ford has gone in the other direction, creating extra-wide ties.
Stefan Doyno, who writes about men's fashion for The Manual, sees ties as an opportunity to express your individuality while wearing an otherwise boring suit. But you have to make sure that you are setting the right message with your neckwear.
He says to steer clear of bow ties unless you are wearing a tuxedo. "I'm not really a fan of those; they always look out of place," he says.


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What You Need to Know about AA Anniversary Coins
Anniversary coins are one of the best forms of creating beautiful memories especially if an individual has recovered from drug and substance abuse that they have been fighting that addiction for quite some time and at one point found refuge in a rehabilitation center where they were taught on how to recover from that particular addiction. Most of the people usually have graduated from inhabitation center need support and encouragement so as to continue to live responsibly and that at no point they are going to fall back again into drug addiction this can be achieved by appreciating them with a piece of coin indicated that we still value them and wish them all the best.
AA anniversary coins may take different forms in terms of their composition such as bronze, gold, silver, a diamond among other types of precious jewelry that can be used to create beautiful memories in the minds of the affected individuals as well as showing value. One of the significant characteristics of these coins especially this was made out of bronze usually are into types that are only similar in there and designed in such a way that they allow for drawings in writing of words which carry an essential message to these individuals who are to be avoided with those particular coins.
One of the most outstanding and unique features of this coins is that they come with a segment of serenity prayer that helps the recovering people to maintain their pledge on self-respect and also to give them a motivation to continue living a better life the days to come. These coins are made of bronze and contact different shapes depending on the customer's preferences and what they would want to be featured in the design and completion process of producing that coin.
Another important feature of this coin is that they are relatively cheaper in terms of pricing as evident in most marketplaces. The composition of elements that are used to make this specific coin have focused critically on the portability factor which makes it easy to be used as well as applied as a souvenir because it can be carried anywhere anytime and with simplicity. One of the significant benefits of having anniversary coin is that it's going to motivate an individual especially who is trying to overcome useful substance and drug abuse as well as reminding them how important they are in this life. These anniversary coins are the best form of gifts as they enhance peaceful coexistence and harmonious relationships between people with different, especially those who are struggling to overcome the challenge of drug and substance abuse.


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On May 12, CrossFit filed suit against the National Strength and Conditioning Association, claiming the NSCA's Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published a study based on "'junk' science" to suggest that the fitness program "causes injuries at a high rate." The motive, the suit alleges, was to undermine CrossFit's lucrative and steady business of certifying trainers, for which the NSCA is a competitor.
We mentioned the case a couple weeks ago, but it's worth a closer look, if only because it exposes the fitness company far more effectively than the NSCA study ever did. In the lawsuit, all of CrossFit's neuroses emerge, as does its inner asshole. It's what you might call a full-body workout.
Published online in February 2013 and then later in print in November by a group of scientists from Ohio State, the study evaluated 54 CrossFit participants in Columbus over 10 weeks of training. (It was the first analysis of its kind, according to the scientists.) Finally, it seemed, here was a little scientific rigor being applied to the extravagant claims made on behalf of the wildly popular fitness program. Is CrossFit's style of "high-intensity power training" any good, or is it just a modern brand of snake oil for a modern brand of broseph?
The study's conclusion: CrossFit works. Participants burned fat and expanded their VO2 max. The authors wrote: "[W]e can infer from our data that a crossfit-based HIPT training program can yield meaningful improvements of maximal aerobic capacity and body composition in men and women of all levels of fitness."
This was a straightforward endorsement, couched in the careful language of scientific inquiry. But instead of celebrating, the CrossFit faithful began sharpening their pitchforks. Why? Because of a single statistic, cited by the authors once in passing:
Of the 11 subjects who dropped out of the training program, two cited time concerns with the remaining nine subjects (16% of total recruited subjects) citing overuse or injury for failing to complete the program and finish follow up testing.
And once again in a paragraph expressing carefully hedged concern over CrossFit's understudied injury rate:
A unique concern with any high intensity training program such as HIPT or other similar programs is the risk of overuse injury. In spite of a deliberate periodization and supervision of our Crossfit-based training program by certified fitness professionals, a notable percentage of our subjects (16%) did not complete the training program and return for follow-up testing. While peer-reviewed evidence of injury rates pertaining to high intensity training programs is sparse, there are emerging reports of increased rates of musculoskeletal and metabolic injury in these programs
The "notable" was perhaps a stretch, given both the small sample and given that the nine CrossFit casualties were established in conversation with a trainer at the gym, according to one of the authors. It was little more than a footnote, though, a way for the study to say, in its cautious way, that look, CrossFit probably isn't perfect.
But those two mentions were enough to work CrossFit's adherents into a frenzy. When Outside referenced the study in a piece about CrossFit-related injuries, fans of the fitness program tried to "discredit the story, the research, and Outside," Warren Cornwall wrote in a follow-up, calling the reaction "berserk."
Why did defenders of CrossFit waste their furor on a minor point in an otherwise wholly complimentary study by respected scientists in a peer-reviewed study? Why did they wage war on Outside, a magazine not known for its hostility to fitness fads? Why has CrossFit itself sued both the parent organization of the journal and the scientists themselves? To understand CrossFitters' behavior, you have to first understand how CrossFit sees itself.
"We have sought to build a program that will best prepare trainees for any physical contingency," its website says. The annual CrossFit Games claim to crown the "Fittest Man and Woman on Earth." "Best." "Fittest." CrossFit's identity centers not only on being effective but on being better than anything ever. One of the study's authors, Steven Devor, sneeringly but accurately characterized the CrossFit crowd's mentality in a phone conversation with CrossFit's attack dog, Russell Berger: "CrossFit ... is the greatest thing in the world and will cure every disease known to man."
All the triumphalism, however unearned, serves an important purpose: to distract people from the fact that CrossFit is simply branded exercise, done with other people. It's a fad sustained by people's belief that it's something special, something better than anything else on offer.
If this seems faintly religious, consider CrossFit's business model. By design, the company has only two big sources of revenue: trainer certification and licensing fees, which are paid annually by trainers who've opened their own CrossFit gyms, or "boxes." What this means is that the growth of the company relies almost entirely on its ability to evangelize (new trainers) and propagate itself (more boxes). CrossFit is an idea surrounded by an ever-expanding circle of prophets, everyone on the lookout for apostles and apostates alike.
This business model is the source both of CrossFit's ferocious competitiveness—both intra and extramural—and of its noisy persecution complex. Either CrossFit truly has to be the best, or it has to go hard after the people who say it isn't.
When Berger pounced on Devor's study this fall, he argued that he was merely trying to unmask shoddy science, and coming to the defense of the Columbus, Ohio CrossFit gym where the study took place. It first came to his attention when a competing gym posted a message on the Internet urging people to come there instead, because people wouldn't get hurt. "We're sort of a guardian that prevents a full-scale slandering of our businesses by pseudoscience," Berger says.
In April, Russell Berger recorded a phone conversation with Steven Devor. A transcript was published in The CrossFit Journal, a sort of Pravda for the burpee-and-box-jumps set, and then referenced in CrossFit's suit against the NSCA, in the apparent belief that it would demonstrate the ill intent of the scientists. But to anyone outside of the CrossFit bubble, it shows no such thing. What it shows is a clearly intimidated scientist being badgered into a disavowal of an admittedly soft statistic, one that no sane person would've thought was the pivot of the study in the first place.
Russell: So I guess the interest that I have is, when we first started talking about this, you implied that the 16 percent injuries were an accurate reflection of what you expected to see from a CrossFit program, but now you're saying that you don't think that that's true, and it really could have been anything. Is that—?
Steven: Well, yeah—. Again, let me clarify then. I think, is 16 percent the high number? It might be. I mean, Russell, I don't know. I've only done this study once. I mean, I think you could do this study again, and handpick a bunch of people, let's say, that are very good athletes at CrossFit, and you might see extraordinarily low injury rates. But I could do the study and pick a group of people that are unfit, and throw them into a CrossFit environment, and I can—. I would bet—. I bet a month of your salary, that you would see a much higher injury rate then. So, 16 percent might be high. Sixteen percent might be right on. I don't know, that's the number we got—
By the end of the conversation, Devor seems at his wit's end. He'd co-authored a paper that was titled "Crossfit-based high intensity power training improves maximal aerobic fitness and body composition." He'd produced science to buttress the claims of the CrossFit gospel. And yet here he was being bullied over a lone paragraph that had nothing to do with the study's conclusions. "I do feel like," he says at last to Berger, "this is a bit of a witch hunt for a pro-CrossFit agenda." He later told Outside: "There's no way I will ever do research with that workout again. It's just not worth it."
That's a great description of the impasse CrossFit now faces. Desperately wanting approval, it has circled the wagons and worked actively against the very means to its validation. The biggest problem CrossFit has is itself.
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By Philip Pullella
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Saturday that his meeting with Bernie Sanders, contesting the Democratic candidacy for the U.S. Presidency, was not meddling in politics and that anyone who thought otherwise should "look for a psychiatrist".
Sanders and the pope met briefly on Saturday morning at the Vatican guest house where Francis lives and where Sanders and his wife spent the night after he addressed a Vatican conference on social justice.
"When I came down, I greeted him, I shook his hand and nothing more. This is called good manners and it is not getting involved in politics," the pope told reporters in answer to a question aboard the plane returning from the Greek island of Lesbos, where he visited a refugee camp. [L5N17J063].
"If anyone thinks that greeting someone is getting involved in politics, I recommend that he look for a psychiatrist," he said, laughing.
In an interview with ABC News after the meeting, Sanders called the pope "a beautiful man", adding "I am not a Catholic, but there is a radiance that comes from him."
"I just conveyed to him my admiration for the extraordinary work he is doing raising some of the most important issues facing our planet and the billions of people on the planet and injecting the need for morality in the global economy," Sanders, a Brooklyn-born son of Polish Jewish immigrants, told ABC.
The Democratic hopeful from Vermont has campaigned on a promise to rein in corporate power and level the economic playing field for working and lower-income Americans who he says have been left behind, a message echoing that of the pope.
The meeting came just days before Tuesday's Democratic party primary in New York, where polls say he is trailing Hillary Clinton. After he won seven of the last eight state contests, a loss in Sanders' home state would give front-runner Clinton a boost toward the party's presidential nomination.
Sanders has said the trip was not a pitch for the Catholic vote but a testament to his admiration for the pontiff.
(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Additional reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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Ralph Nader on Drugs
2004 Reform nominee; 2000 Green Candidate for President
A. Our failed war on drugs is endangering our communities, imperiling police, wasting tens of billions of dollars and, because it is criminalizing what is a health problem instead of rehabilitation for drug addicts, is filling our prisons at $40,000 a prisoner and making the corporate-prison industry even richer. The way to go is to look at drug addiction as a rehabilitation challenge, focus on youngsters in terms of prevention, have community policing where the police work and live in the community, which is the best way to make a community safe, and decriminalize marijuana so we can begin to move this into a rehabilitation-health problem.
A: No. You never prohibit an addiction because what you do is you drive it underground and a huge black market occurs. What you do with an addiction is expose the addicters to massive information, protect them from deceptive advertising, protect the young from being sold such [things] as tobacco products. Keep the research up to make whatever tobacco is consumed less lethal in terms of nicotine and other levels and increasingly make it socially stigmatized so that people often will stop smoking or won't smoke, not because it's bad for their health, but because it's no longer the thing to do. When I was in college, non-smokers were on the defensive. The smokers would blow smoke derisively in non-smokers' faces. You'd never see that today.
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