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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998
07:36:18 -0400
Claire Belilos, is the most tirelessly persevering and thorough consultant I have yet encountered, relentlessly pursuing perfection in the smallest detail. She would certainly be my consultant, were I in the hospitality business.
Herman Holtz, author
of "How to Succeed as an Independent Consultant".
June 5, 2002
Kevin Williams
December 2001
As a business writer and researcher, I stand in awe
of Claire's down-to-earth approach and clear, direct, writing style.
Her ability to put her finger right on the pulse of the crucial
issues confronting today's managers - and her skill in bringing
her year's of experience in the hospitality industry and in consulting
to bear upon their resolution - make all her writings a "must"
Jens Hatje
I want to thank you for allowing me to feature your articles on my site at http://www.hr-info.com, which led to many positive comments among my clients and the human resources directors visiting the site. Thank you again and best regards,
Tassos Tsapilis, President, HR-Info.com, Australia
January 2001
Hi Claire,
With very
best regards,
Great newsletter!
Thank you so much for your time, efforts, and enthusiam. I
appreciate your efforts greatly.
January 2001
Re: Your
newsletter issue on the Pillars of Customer Service
January 2001
From a top Executive Chef in the U.S.:
11, 2000
August 2000
Hi Claire,
Susan Munroe
Dear Claire,
I am a manager of a high volume chain restaurant in Orlando at Downtown Disney. I assist in running the front of the house. I have a list of challenges and the first one I want to accomplish is team moral. I am working on getting the staff to a higher level of excellent team service as well as ownership in what they do. Your articles help!! Thank you. We have pre-meal shift meetings every day and I am always looking for ideas and stories to bring to the crew.
thank you
From: "Sandeep
Mamgain" <email@example.com>
Hi !
I am a partner in a
Software Company based in India.
Best regards,
An excellent site for students to reference, as the content validates what we are talking about in the classroom.
Guy Baker, Professor
June 4, 1999
I have been to your web sites on numerous occasions. The ideas presented in your article "Defining Service" clarify what service is all about and I used it, with your permission, to train my Department Heads.
Many Thanks
General Manager, of
a U.S. Chain Hotel in Cairo
I have read a lot of
your mailings to HRNET (of Cornell) and have come to know a little
about you. I
Thanks again,
Claire, over the last
several months, I have read your responses to posts. I am truly
thankful for your intelligent thought provoking comments. You generally
go beyond the basis stream of thought and provide very sound critical
thinking to your responses. Thanks again, I wish you were part of
my team at work.
Date: Thu,
20 May 1999 14:21:49 -0700
Hi Claire,
Just wanted to thank you for your wonderful site -- it's full of interesting, valuable information. We're in the process of updating our Employee Orientation Program and I came across your site by doing a keyword search "employee orientation".
Your article offers
a unique perspective on the process that I did not come across on
any of the other sites I visited, which included things
Maureen Malanchuk
Canadian Airlines
Hi Claire,
I am enjoying your forum
very much and learning a great deal from it. It is amazing to me
that such a wealth of professional opinion and thought is available
to me through your forum and I feel very lucky to be able to access
Dear Claire,
I would like to briefly express how thankful we all are at La Ciociara Catering of having met you and given the opportunity to receive your professional advice on how to greatly improve our hospitality service. We have already received great reviews from our customers and there is a great deal more teamwork among our staff members.
Thank you.
Sylvio Papa, La Ciociara Catering, Vancouver, B.C. Tel:(604) 931-7161 Fiesta Pui Bella, Weddings & Banquets Catering Company
I thought to drop you a line to thank you for providing us with the leadership and tools to strengthen our yacht chartering services.
Your personal experience in the Hospitality industry, Human Resources, and business structures gave us the foundation to develop our team, product, market and service.
You created a very relaxed atmosphere with the round table meeting, successfully brought down animosity walls between co-workers, and allowed us to really take part in idea creation and decision making. I would also like to extend my appreciation for your follow-up, introduction to the Vancouver Board of Trade, and suggestions for marketing our product.
You definitely demonstrate a genuine care for your customers by going the extra mile."
Manager, Yacht Charters, Vancouver, B.C.
I recommend Claire as an outstanding professional in the Training field. Her extensive experience in the hotel industry makes her a good person to plan and implement training programs.
Her experience enables a good understanding of operational issues and facilitates all-round understanding. Her encouragement, enthusiasm and dedication to her area of expertise impressed us and left us more confident of our abilities.
Our Hotel has benefited from Claire's direction in preparing our Heads of Departments to systematically prepare lesson plans and evaluate lesson outcomes.
Her extensive experience in Hospitality enables a good understanding of operational issues.
Our Department Heads now feel confident in delivering the supervision classes that would teach a range of personal and interpersonal skills to our supervisory staff. By the end of The Design and Delivery of Training Seminar we felt more confident of our abilities to train and develop our team."
General Manager
The Training Course was delivered in a pleasant manner and easily comprehended. I have already instituted changes in training procedures in my business and can see positive results in behaviour patterns and work methods.
The information conveyed has helped me to evaluate my existing training programs, better organize and define the content of these programs, and clearly set and improve training goals and objectives. Results have been achieved as planned. This has already saved me time.
The course has motivated me to invest more time and effort to self-develop and apply my know-how in a more practical manner."
Executive Chef, Exclusive Golf Club, Vancouver, B.C.
We are very satisfied with the re-organization of our Housekeeping Department - actually, more than satisfied..."
Vice President - Finance, 200-room Time-Share Hotel, Whistler, B.C.
I like the way you incorporated industry information, business trends and safety training in the new Employee Handbook, and I especially liked your idea of having the Employee Handbook become a "live tool" - and not "for the bookshelves".
General Manager, Franchise Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.
Thank you for an excellent presentation on Careers in the Hospitality Industry at our Career Fair. You provided valuable information to students and parents of this school, and they appreciate it very much."
Anne Meyer, Career Advisor
I wish to compliment you on your drive, initiative and creativity in developing a North American market for our specialized scanners though you were new to the high-tech industry."
Moshe Rafael, President
Congratulations! You must be proud and you deserve it! I'll proudly look for those articles and save them. Besides... I couldn't ask for a better mentor in this business.
It's funny but your advice still echoes through my ears with every related situation that arises in this biz... I've been living by it!. Thanks again......It's seems to be paying off.
Judy Kwiatkowski, Sales
and Events Coordinator
I "met" Claire in one of the "streets" of the Internet. We discussed ways to promote my hotel which is a small hotel at the center of Jerusalem. After I explained her how we operate, she prepared me a promotion letter to be sent with each check that I send to the travel agents.
The professional letter had an immediate effect. For the first time I got comments from the Travel agents to my letter. Till now they only cashed the attached check. That letter made a direct hit like a "TOMAHAWK MISSILE".
That was a great job. Thanks Claire
Tody Warshavsky, General
" I wish this forum (Customer Service Viewpoints Forum of Easytraining Claire great success!
IMO, forum participants will find in Claire a really good friend and colleague; a thoroughly knowledgeable and seasoned professional; someone who would be willing to do whatever it might take for helping people succeed; and, overall, a first class expert-consultant.
I should know. I found Claire some weeks ago through a forum such as this, and since then she has proven to me that she is someone who is both competent and a real human being, a rarity in our days.
So, again Good luck Claire!
Costas Chantzis, President
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998
22:02:14 +0200
I like your article in VirtualPromote Gazette #53 (Marketing your Business, Product or Service on the Web). It was helpful and nice.
Good luck from Spain. Keep up!!
Martín (G.V.S.
España) Gentes viajeras y sociables
Thank you so much for your input regarding cross training of "difficult employees/managers". I've since used your advice to create energy between my teams by having my employees cross train to their own team members' jobs before cross training to other teams.
I've still got it going on a small scale and it seems to be producing some interesting effects for me. In general, I'm creating my own internal promotable talent pool, and keeping more menial type workers from becoming too stagnated in dead end job choices.
CEO of a high-tech company in the U.S.A. (1998)
I am a student at the University of Georgia. I am presently taking a personnel management course. Request permission to share with the class your paper on Maslow's hierarchy needs. You have done an excellent job, and I think that we can all benefit.
Student, U.S.A.
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Women's Centre" firstname.lastname@example.com
Dear Claire:
I would like to compliment you on a report that you wrote regarding: Training and Development, "Achieving Results by focusing on the Human Factor." Personally I think you have hit the nail right on the head. I have been thinking on these lines for a long time but could not find the appropriate words to describe how I was feeling, until I read your piece.
You can see it so plainly everywhere we go into today's society there is no value placed training and development anymore( I question whether their ever was) How important the little things count in our every day life and how people assume that their is no need for this because they don't even consider the word human and what it means. To think about their needs, beliefs, backgrounds, ideas and aspirations is not even entered into their train of thought only what the outcome is and what needs to be done. Many times I see people devaluing amongst people vs. people and classifying people into lots and categories and it rubs me the wrong way. WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT I OFTEN SAY TO MYSELF.
I would love the opportunity to either view your programs, have your services brought to our community or work with you in some way. I would appreciate hearing from you. I can be e-mailed at email@example.com I was wondering if you have a catalogue that I could view as well. You can forward any material or information at the following:
Career Information Center
C/O Diane Taylor
Diane Taylor
From: Winifred Barton
Dear Claire: I APPRECIATE the information below - it sounds like the best advice we have ever had. All your posting add up to COMMON SENSE which is really all we need in the final analysis.
Warm regards - Winifred Barton.
Bartonian Metaphysical
I've enjoyed your postings to Hrnet (of Cornell University), and that prompted me to visit your web site. I downloaded two of your articles dealing with customer service. Even though we are a water district, not a retail organisation, the principles you espouse hold as true for us as they do in the hospitality industry.
Roger Lubin
Many of the articles
referred to can be found at http://www.easytraining.com. A compilation
of the articles published in Easytraining Insights Digital will
be sold in book form in the near future. List yourself at
http://www.easytraining.com/contact.htm to be advised when publication
is ready. You can list yourself in the same form to be advised
of sales of our forthcoming supervisor's guide to employee motivation.
Read excerpts from our
Easytraining Insights Digital Newsletter at http://www.easytraining.com/insights.htm
Home Page: http://www.easytraining.com
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Indiana, clutching to its No. 1 ranking for a few more days, bounced back from an upset loss to Illinois Thursday night and beat Ohio State today 81-68.
That's great and all, but let's talk about Clark Kellogg. The Kellogg name is famously associated with weirdo sexual beliefs and an unsettlingly obsessive fascination with pooping. With this crazy-ass simile comparing Indiana guard Victor Oladipo's smoothness and explosiveness to that of a baby's lower half, Clark is just picking up where his surname's forebear left off. And you know what? It's pretty fun.
CLARK KELLOGG COMPARES VICTOR OLADIPO TO A "SMOOTH" AND "EXPLOSIVE" BABY'S BOTTOM [Awful Announcing]

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As parents, we all have that innate desire to protect and provide for our kids. Yet, at some point we must ask ourselves, Are we doing too much for them?
We are all guilty of mild and extreme acts of over-protectiveness and over- parenting that can be very damaging to our children. Many parents are willing to overextend themselves in catering to their children and excessively meeting their needs. Parents may feel surprised or resentful when their children grow up feeling unable to take care of themselves. Doing too much for our children fosters dependence not independence.
How do you know if you are doing too much? Do you feel burned out and put upon? You can determine if you are an over-functioner if: you tend to move quickly with advice; think that the more you do, the more you love them; think you know what's best, not only for yourself but for others; correct problems and do not allow children to struggle on their own and find their own solutions. Parents sometimes cannot sit with their own anxiety and instead jump in too quickly to rescue and inadvertently rob their children of the skills and practice that are necessary to develop competence and mastery in life.
Children who are not permitted to think for themselves and to solve their own problems have a heightened need for attention and approval, and have difficulty dealing with expectations. They also may have a tendency to blame themselves or others, and feel responsible for the happiness of others. On the other hand, parents begin to feel resentful, overwhelmed and carry on an attitude like that of a martyr.
Good questions to ask yourself the next time your child asks you for something, are "can they do this themselves?" "Am I doing something for them that they could learn and/or do for themselves? If the answers are yes to both questions, then know that you are hurting them and not helping them with kindness.
At the Hellenic Therapy Center, 567 Park Avenue, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, we specialize in family, individual and couples therapy. We have a team of professionals who can guide you with parenting and family issues. Visit our website www.hellenictherapy.com or call 908-322-0112.


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Pay Attention! Dec. 3 Orange Board of Ed Meeting May Have Been The Start of Something Big
No one realized that there would be fireworks at the Dec. 3 Orange Board of Ed meeting at Race Brook School
The meeting started with the Pledge of Allegiance and reading of the Board of Ed Mission Statement.
Vice-Chairman Jody Dietch was sitting in for the vacationing Board Chairman Jeanne Consiglio, and in the presence of a half dozen or more elementary school students, she announced the opening of the public participation portion of the meeting.
Immediately former vice chairman Keith Marquis jumped in, stating that the board elections taken in November were illegal.
He quoted by-laws explaining that the elections are to take place in December not November and that board members whose terms begin in December could not rightfully vote on such things in November
He moved for a new election, which was seconded by another board member.
Within the bylaws Dietch found a section that specified the second Monday in November was correct.
Marquis persisted that there is supposed to be an annual meeting and a regular meeting, yet the board only had a regular meeting but no annual meeting with a separate agenda.
Board member Deb Marino questioned why this concern wasn't brought up at the last meeting.
Upon further examination of the board bylaws, Dietch said the two — the one by which the board held its election and the one to which Marquis brought attention — were contradictory to one another. At this point the children in attendance began to squirm in their seats and adults also became uncomfortable.
Dietch said the issue should be held over until the January meeting.
Marino made a motion to appeal, 2/3 of the board approved it, and then Marquis made a motion to add the election to the agenda.
18 minutes into the meeting the Racebrook School sixth grade students offered a presentation on Computers On Wheels (COWS) in their classroom, each telling how he or she utilizes the equipment.
The presentation concluded with an explanation of how they will create a Public Service Announcement using the COWS in the future.
Kevin McNabola presented the projects for which the town will need to obtain $14.5 Million bonding — 23% is the state reimbursable rate for school projects.
Here is the LINK to the Bonding Slideshow Presentation
Back to the Election Question
With the Election back on the agenda, Dietch stated that after having obtained a copy of the prior month's agenda, The November month's meeting was listed as an annual meeting, therefore it was a legal meeting.
Deb Marino questioned The date on which it fell, and Dietch quickly answered that the calendar had been approved by the board.
Marquis said the board voted to re-do the election, and Dietch said they voted after receiving misinformation that it was an illegal meeting, so … NO, no more meetings to clarify anything. The meeting was legal, the election vote stands.
Marquis appealed her ruling and it was seconded.
Board member Sue Falvey then gave Marquis a tongue lashing stating she was upset that he decided to blindside Consiglio by bringing up the issue when the chairman was on vacation.
"I know what you're up to, I know what you're doing. You want the vote right now," she said. "She needs to be here, that's the bottom line."
Falvey went on to say that she voted for Consiglio as chairman.
Marquis answered with, "You can still vote for her."
Falvey snapped back, "You filled me in that you know what the numbers are going to be, how everyone will vote … you know you're going to win, and you know she's going to lose … she needs to be here."
Marquis said the board has a policy against personal attacks on individuals and if it is going to be discussed it should be done in executive session or in a special meeting.
Dietch said, why not have elections in a special meeting when the whole board can be here.
Addressing Marquis, Falvey said, " You just brought our dirty laundry out here for everyone to see."
To which Marquis calmly retorted, "I didn't make any mention of anything until you decided to throw it out."
Dietch jumped in, "I do believe that the entire board should be here. I don't believe that Jeannie knew that anyone was planning to….."
Falvey completed the sentence, "…..Blindside her."
Dietch continued, "… bring this issue up. We have documentation showing that it was a legal meeting and I don't believe these elections should be held."
"I think it's a shame that the current climate in the town has done everything in its power to make this board political, which it never was," Dietch said. "I think it's a shame that the focus is being taken off of what we're here for, which is the children of this town and not to be a political board."
"The fact that you are trying to make it a political board — AND YOU ARE — don't deny that … is a shame," Dietch said to Marquis. "I've been on this board longer than almost everybody here and the same time as you Keith and you know darn well what I'm talking about."
"I think it's a shame, I don't see why it can't wait until the January meeting. Obviously the votes are not here to override your appeal," Dietch said.
"I think it's a shame what you are all doing and if you think the election was illegal there's no reason it can't wait till the January meeting."
Board Member Amy Criscuolo said that the board should seek a legal opinion before proceeding.
Falvey moved to have it carried over to the January meeting, which Criscuolo seconded.
Marquis said he wanted to have some discussion.
Addressing Dietch, he said, "You said I'm making this political… you should look back at the last election and see what happened there. Historically the Chairman has been from one party and the vice chair from another but that was thrown to the wind last month by whatever deals you made…."
Dietch answered, "There were no deals, I didn't even know I was being nominated."
The atmosphere did not get any nicer, people who were present compared it to the contentious boards from the late 90s early 2000s.
Each board member received three pieces of different colored paper.
Nominations were taken for Chairman: there were two — Keith Marquis and Jeannie Consiglio —result, 6-3 in favor of Marquis
For Vice Chairman: Jody Dietch and Bill Kraut nominated— result, 6-3 in favor of Kraut.
Secretary: Deb Marino and Amy Criscuolo nominated —result, 6-3 in favor of Marino.
For those who are not Political,
The November election had an Independent (D) as Chairman, Democrat as Vice Chair and Republican as Secretary.
The New Election has a Republican as Chairman, Independent (R) as Vice Chair and Republican as Secretary.
Originally published Dec. 5
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SA is proud to announce the next great addition to the lineup of fun stuff for the members.
The userbar mod ...make your own professional looking userbars,just like the ones I have in my signature now. It's very easy, user friendly,and the results are awesome ! The main thing you need to do to create them is if you want to use a custom background such as an image you need to size it to 350x19. Other than that its all just customize it the way you want, add your text (it autoformats the text for you when you type it in) and make sure you update the user bar each time you see the "update" button, then save it and it even gives you the image url with the IMG tags already to paste into your signature. You can even make rotating user bars using the static bars you've already created. Meaning if you make 3 or 4 user bars, you can go to the add rotating bar link and pick which bars you want to rotate through.
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Street sign recovered during incident
Some people shoot guns during New Year�s Eve celebrations. One man started a day early.
Kinston Department of Public Safety officers responded to 1007 Jefferson Drive at 2:06 a.m. on Dec. 30 to reports of shots fired. It was determined the suspect � Lemuel Gray Wiley, 27 � fired his Glock 17, 9-mm pistol while at his residence at the location.
Authorities also determined he was under the influence of alcohol at the time.
KDPS seized the weapon, valued at $600. In some small amount of irony, Glock calls its model 17 the most widely used law enforcement weapon worldwide.
During the course of their investigation, officers also found and seized a stolen street sign, valued at $50. Wiley�s charged with discharging a weapon in city limits and receiving stolen goods.
He was not, however, taken to jail.
�He was issued a citation to appear in district court and released, so he was never taken into custody, per se,� KDPS spokesman Woody Spencer said.
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Sorry mate,
Just found answer with a bit of googlery, 1 is the womens (damn ebay),
Hi Ete,
I just saw your post in the discontinued frag discussion and you mentioned Rive Gauche, which I wanna buy. Could you tell me if there's any difference between the blue striped bottle and the black striped bottle? Thanks for your time,
Ete . . . . your inbox is full. I'll ship the l'instant when you're ready
Your inbox is full.
Dude! The TdH just got purchased about 30 min ago.
I do have a partial 12.5ml sample though. I'll add it to your shipment as a consolation gift
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I have to share a Facebook post from Brian Acheson, CSEP, on Tuesday; it sums up the—ahem—excitement of events:
"Earthquake was 5.9 in Mineral, Va., 130 miles from Saturday's event. Oh wait, we just moved that show today to Friday due to a hurricane. So to recap, 1 event, 1 hurricane and 1 earthquake. Can you say event insurance?????"
Stay safe, my friends.
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Troubleshooting Windows shares (samba)
On your Windows machines, use DHCP
This may sound weird, but it solves quite a bit of issues. If you wish to have static addresses, 1 way of doing it is if your router supports static DHCP. This way your PCs/devices will get assigned always the same IP on every dhcp request
Using shell access, go to the directory that's shared, and list its permissions
- Add discussion about which file perms are recommended and how to change them.
Windows Vista
A samba "bug" has been fixed in samba v3.0.22 [1][2][3] To connect a password protected samba share from Vista [4] on a Buffalo network-attached storage series device using an older version of Samba (ie Pre v3.0.22), you need to do the following:
- Run the Local Security Policy app - secpol.msc
- Go to Local Policies | Security Options and choose the "Network
- Security: LAN Manager Authentican Level" item
- Set it to "Send LM & NLTM, use NTMLv2 session if negotiated"
If for some reason your "secpol.msc" refuses to work, you can manually change a setting in the Windows registery.
- Go in the "Execute command window" and type "regedit" and press "OK", it will pop the Windows registery window.
- Browse the this key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\" and change the value for the option "LMCompatibilityLevel" from value 3 to a value 1.
Are you using the same workgroup ?
Make sure that the workgroup you use is the same that your windows computers use:
- Defined in Windows ;ControlPanel:Network:Identification_Tab:Workgroup_field
- For a workgroup MSHOME these lines should appear in /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global] workgroup = MSHOME
from webmin: Windows Networking->Workgroup
Try adding guest access
While you may want security w/ user/passwords on your shares, enabling guest access is another way of troubleshooting if you can make it work. Be aware this will effectively disable security. [5]
1. Pick a directory you wish to share ie: /mnt/share and change the access permissions to make it readable and writable to everybody.
chmod 777 /mnt/share
2. Add the [share] section to /etc/samba/smb.conf This will create a free to all directory, and set the security to share. Below is a small but complete configuration file you could use.
[global] security = share workgroup = MSHOME create mode = 777 directory mode = 777 [share] comment = LinkStation Share path = /mnt/share read only = no public = yes
3. Restart Samba on the Linkstation with this command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
4. In Windows Explorer, doubleclick on Network Neighborhood, then on Entire Network, then on your workgroup (MSHOME in the case), and see if you see your LinkStation
5. Doubleclick the icon to see the share directory.
6. Navigate to the share directory.
Are file names mangled? Try setting the charset
If you find that files copied to your Samba share work fine when using Samba, but appear with garbled characters when accessed through SSH or SCP (e.g. "menú" shows up as "menú"), the problem is probably the charset you are using. You will need to set the unix charset variable in the global section of the smb.conf file to the correct value. For example, if you are using Latin1 in Windows, you set:
unix charset = ISO8859-1
- ↑ Samba Documentation
- ↑ http://www.samba.org/ The samba web site
- ↑ http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html "Using Samba", by Ts, Eckstein, and Collier-Brown (O'Reilly)
- ↑ Vista and Buffalo Terastation
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April 18, 2012
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Corey Huggins of Xavier (La.) has been named NAIA Men's Tennis Player of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Huggins was selected based on his performances from April 9 – 15 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group player of the week selections. The honor is the second such award in a row and the third ever for Xavier men's tennis. Teammate Loic Didavi won the award last week and the Gold Rush's Zach Taylor was named Player of the Week on May 4, 2011.
Huggins dropped his first singles match of the week, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, to Iain Sneddon of NCAA Division I Tulane (La.) on April 10 before rebounding with a dominant 6-0, 6-0 victory over Tougalo's (Miss.) Jimmy Pommerlee as Xavier rolled to a 9-0 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference win on April 14. The junior from Brooklyn, N.Y., finished his stellar week at No. 6 singles with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-1) match-clinching triumph over Maxim Tkachenko of NCAA Division I Alcorn State (Miss.) on April 14.
Huggins fared even better in doubles action, going 3-0 on the week. He paired with teammate Viktor Svoboda for an 8-5 win over Tulane's No. 3 doubles group, an 8-0 shutout of Tougaloo's Jamal Perkins and Stonie Lyons and an 8-4 victory over the No. 3 doubles pair from Alcorn State.
Huggins is now 4-4 in singles action this season and 13-8 in doubles. As a team, Xavier is 14-7 overall and ranked No. 8.
The next men's tennis Player of the Week will be announced on April 25.
Nominees: Sean De Young, McPherson (Kan.); Sebastian Esquetini, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Antonio Manuel Marcelo, Cumberland (Tenn.); Gustav Hollnagel, Morningside (Iowa); Clinton Chlumsky, Bethel (Kan.); Martin Poboril, Oklahoma Christian; Ty Butler, Indiana East; Ross Schulenberg, Doane (Neb.); Simon Felix, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Patrick Frandji, Warner (Fla.); Pablo Numbela, Campbellsville (Ky.); Mark Zubov, St. Francis (Ill.); Scott Layton, Asbury (Ky.); Andrew Cobb, Reinhardt (Ga.); Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Kevin Sacksteder, Indiana Southeast; Bohan Li, St. Louis Pharmacy (Mo.); Alex Sandri, Bethany (Kan.); Fabricio Morales, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); McKay Inman, Hastings (Neb.); Nathan Martinet, Fresno Pacific (Calif.); Reilly Good, Judson (Ill.).
2012 Composite Award Winners
Week 1: Simon Felix, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Week 2: Marlu Jansen Van Vuuren, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Week 3: Jochem Hoefnagels, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Week 4: Loic Didavi, Xavier (La.)
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The 2012 Kane Boys' Golf team surpassed last year's win total on their opening day. Head coach Nathan Smith's squad defeated Smethport and Austin in their first match, and split their second match, defeating Port Allegany and losing to Ridgway. Smith, now in his 10th year as coach, has five golfers that earned letters last year returning this season. They are Ryan Greto, Dan Park, Austin Woolcock, Trace Gordon, and Austin Hoag. Smith calls these five the "core of the team." All of them spent many hours on the course over the summer and have improved over last year. 2012 Fall Sports Previews can be purchased at The Kane Republican.


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The 11th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference will take place in San Francisco, California July 25-27, 2012. Topics will include:
With more than 65 million Americans possessing a criminal record, the consequences of conviction – specific legal barriers, generalized discrimination, and social stigma – have become more numerous and severe, more public, and more permanent. These restrictions affect jobs and licenses, housing, public benefits, judicial rights, parental rights, interstate travel, and even volunteer opportunities. Moreover, the legal mechanisms relied on in the past to restore rights and status for formerly convicted individuals have atrophied or become ineffective, with the result that a significant percentage of the American public is permanently consigned to second class citizenship. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' (NACDL) Task Force on Restoration of Rights and Status After Conviction will hold hearings on Thursday February 16 and Friday February 17, 2012 in Miami Florida. The hearings will undertake an inquiry into how legal mechanisms for relief from the collateral consequences of conviction are actually working, in state and federal system.
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Please find the report at http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/publications/sen_State_of_Sentencing_2011.pdf
NACDL has long recognized that it is crucial to work across the aisle to seek consensus on the critical and sometimes controversial criminal justice issues our affiliates and Network members are engaged in. In that vein, NACDL has worked with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), on a series of initiatives. ALEC recently passed a resolution that seeks to obtain greater transparency and accountability as states create and enhance criminal laws. The premise is based on the fact that over the years legislatures have introduced a significant number of new criminal laws and increased penalties on existing statute without transparency of the costs associated with implementation, and often without a clear understanding of the consequences of the penalties. The goal is to ensure a comprehensive fiscal note is reflected in any legislation introduced. In addition, the resolution seeks to ensure that the penalties imposed in the measure are proportionate to the offense.
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Maureen Pacheco of the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at Loyola Law School is researching what various states are doing with individuals arrested well into their adult years for offenses committed when they were juveniles, and whose cases are delayed in prosecution either because of delayed reporting (sex cases), or because they were arrested on a cold hit case. They are in the preliminary stages of collecting information and hope Network members can take a few minutes to answer some questions about this topic. If you do not have some or all of the information, it would be greatly appreciated if you could refer Andrea to the appropriate person or office. Please respond to email@example.com
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From Laurie Arons Special Events... Our sweet bride comes from a deeply rooted San Francisco family, so it was only natural their love for the city took a prominent role in planning her wedding to our groom, a tech expert in the legal industry. A graduate of St. Ignatius College Preparatory and a member of the SI Parish, the bride walked down the Jesuit Baroque church's magnificent aisle surrounded by 230 friends and family members. Because she is an elementary school teacher, children were an important part of the ceremony. Five flower girls and ring bearers escorted her down the aisle, Ragazzi Boys Choir sang hymns at the Catholic ceremony and many of her students attended the church wedding. The reception was held at the stately Four Seasons San Francisco, a special place for the family where many celebrations have taken place over the years. The couple chose blush & gold for their color palette, with the occasional accent of Golden Gate bridge red for fun. The bride's grandmother loves sweets, so guests found their seat assignments on a chart full of blush and red lollipops arranged in the shape of a heart. In addition to their coffee crunch flavored wedding cake, the couple also offered a "cookie bar" from a local favorite Anthony's Cookies. But if guests weren't too full of sweets before the night ended, late night California burritos were tray-passed on the dance floor, in a nod to the groom's San Diego roots and favorite guilty pleasure.


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Wayne Rooney says England could have been better in Norway friendly
Newly installed England captain Wayne Rooney admitted his team "all could have done better" as they sealed a less-than-convincing 1-0 victory against Norway at Wembley.
A muted performance on the pitch was matched by a modest crowd off it, with 40,181 fans in attendance as a 68th minute penalty from Rooney gave England the win ahead of their Euro 2016 qualifier versus Switzerland next Monday.
Yet the Manchester United striker admitted he and his England colleagues had turned in a below par display, as he suggested a victory was all that mattered.
"I thought I could have done better. I think we all could have done better," Rooney told ITV Sport. "But this was the first game after the World Cup and it was important that we got the victory going into the game on Monday.
"I think in the first half we moved the ball quite well. They made it difficult for us, sat back, but we created a few opportunities.
"Second half we started fairly sloppy and that was disappointing because we wanted to go out and take the game to them, but we got the win in the end.
"There were a lot of young players in that team. The important thing was to get the victory."
- Rooney vs. Milner: Whose pass was worse against Norway?
- Report: England 1-0 Norway
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Rooney took his international goal tally to 41 with his winning spot kick, as he admitted he had already decided which way to place a spot kick long before man of the match Raheem Sterling gave him the chance to execute his plan.
"It is always nervous taking a penalty, but I was confident I would score," said the striker, who is now just eight goals behind Sir Bobby Charlton in England's all-time record scoring list. "I knew which corner I was going to before the game if we got a penalty and I put my boot through it. Thankfully it went in."
Rooney had complimentary words for Liverpool winger Sterling, as he suggested he enjoyed playing with the 19-year-old attacking starlet.
"He is a threat," added Rooney. "He takes the ball, he runs at people. It doesn't always come off, but he is an exciting player and makes things happen. He is great to play with."
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Classroom celebration ideas
Ideas for Groundhog Day Celebrations for
Elementary or Middle School Teachers
1. Have students find as many smaller words as they can in
2. Have students find as many smaller words as they can in
3. Have students use several research sources to read and report
about the groundhog. Have them find other names for the groundhog
such as chuck, woodchuck, and whistle pig. Have them research the
characteristics of the groundhog, (mammal, 20-26 inches long, 5-15
pounds, color, fur, etc.) food the groundhog eats, (grass, weeds, clover,
flowers, and carrots) and where groundhogs live.
4. Many times groundhogs will prepare elaborate underground living
quarters including several doors and several rooms. Have students
draw diagrams of the "perfect" groundhog home.
5. Groundhog Day is the perfect time to study shadows. Studying
shadows is not only fun, but will get the creative juices flowing.
*Allow students to make shadows on the overhead screen or a
piece of white paper.
*While one student is making a shadow on a piece of white paper
have another student trace it. Add lines and colors and backgrounds to
create a "Shadow Creature."
*Divide students into groups of three or four. Have them write
and perform a shadow play.
*Use a projector light to draw a silhouette of each student. Use
them as a bulletin board display and then have students take them
home as a Valentine gift for the family.
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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary is a fan of the Boeing aircraft company. In fact the Irish airline magnet just purchased 175 of Boeing's next generation 737 jets for $15.6 billion.
'Look at the economics of the 737, the Boeing has 189 seats. The European Airbus A320 has 180 seats. Those nine extra seats when you're flying them eight times a day, 365 days a year are a compelling competitive advantage for Boeing,' O'Leary told CNBC.
'It's why Ryanair has a lower competitive cost of any other airline in Europe, most of whom fly Airbus.' The average flight time on Ryanair's European routes is about 90 minutes to two hours at the cost about $40 a ticket — half the average cost of one on Southwest Airlines.
O'Leary often has seating room on his mind, once saying he wanted to take the back bathrooms out of his planes. But he told CNBC that regulators won't let him, although if he could achieve the six extra seats he wanted, ticket costs for all his passengers would be 'lower by another 5 percent.'
O'Leary has looked into creating a 'standing-room only' section on his planes like on trains and buses, because one day there'd be so much room on board that 'passengers could fly for free with the airline making money selling snacks and the other stuff.'
O'Leary's order, signed in New York, will allow Ryanair, Europe's leading low-cost carrier, to increase its fleet to 400 planes. Ryanair's capacity will reportedly grow by 25 percent to 100 million passengers a year by 2018.
'This is a huge deal for the Boeing Company,' Ray Conner, the president and chief executive of Boeing's commercial airplane division, said in a news conference in New York. 'We've been talking about this for quite some time.'
Ryanair is one of the few airlines with an all-Boeing fleet. Meanwhile O'Leary said the airline saw significant growth opportunities in Europe as other carriers cut back service.
Ryanair's last big order with Boeing was in 2005, and its last plane was delivered at the end of 2012. The new planes are scheduled to be delivered between the end of 2014 and 2018.
'There is a pressing need for us,' O'Leary said at the news conference. 'This makes it easier for Boeing to negotiate with us and to squeeze us for slightly higher prices.'
O'Leary joked at the signature ceremony about the price he had paid. 'Fifteen billion dollars, and all I get is a pen,' he said.


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"Doctoring;" Dole v. Clinton on 60 Minutes
Two items today:
1) The reporter who publicized Anita Hill's uncorroborated charges against Clarence Thomas expresses doubts about the truth of the charges against Dick Morris, even accuses the New York Post of "doctoring" the photo.
2) Sunday night 60 Minutes gave Bob Dole a chance to respond to Bill Clinton as they had given Clinton time after the Republican convention. But did 60 Minutes give both candidates an equal going over, an equal chance to forward their spins? Compare and contrast.
In 1991 NPR's Nina Totenberg went on the air with Anita Hill's allegations against Clarence Thomas. Hill had no corroboration and no evidence. Now look at Totenberg's sudden concern about the validity of the Dick Morris story in the Star and New York Post. Her story was beyond question, but Totenberg has no problem impugning other media outlets. From this past weekend's Inside Washington TV show:
Gordon Peterson: "Is this
just a Dick Morris story, something that's out there. Or will is it going
to hurt the President, do you think?"
Dan Rather challenged Bill Clinton on taxes and made Clinton answer the
"character question" charge once in his August 18 60 Minutes
interview, but he also set him up with questions about Dole being too old,
asked if Dole's been captured by extremists and sympathized with Clinton
being the subject of so many GOP attacks.
From August 18:
Morley Safer's introduction: "It's been a long time since one political party jumped on, really stomped on, a sitting President the way the Republicans did last week in San Diego. This afternoon Dan Rather sat down with President Clinton in the White House and looked at the rough political week that was." [Anyone remember Ann Richards and "silver foot in his mouth"?]
Now here are Rather's questions:
-- Dan
Rather: "Mr. President, again, happy birthday. How are you feeling
crossing 50?"
Rather: "Also at the convention, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Senator from
Now, here's the interview of Dole with Lesley Stahl. Note how less time is devoted to letting Dole respond to Democratic attacks. In fact, Jesse Jackson's and Ted Kennedy's attacks aren't ever raised. There's nothing about Clinton going too far left; Dole charges unfairness and Stahl turns it on him to press him about being unfair to Hillary; and Stahl argues with him about his tax plan, contending his anti-tax stand of the 80s was correct.
From the September 1 60 Minutes:
Lesley Stahl: "At the Democratic convention a lot of Democrats were
saying that Bob Dole is a good and decent man, and even Bill Clinton made
a point of saying Bob Dole loves his country. I'm wondering what you think
of Bill Clinton. What kind of a man do you think he is?"
For those who made it this far, a special bonus: highlights of David Letterman's Monday night "Top Ten Dick Morris Excuses"
6. Misunderstood when President
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A look at the cast of characters in 'Hamlet'
Hamlet (Shaun Sheley):
Our 30-year-old protagonist, the grief-afflicted prince of Denmark, is hung up on the recent death of his father and the almost instant ascent of his uncle, Claudius, to the throne. Also less than cool in Hamlet's eyes is the fact that his mother, Gertrude, was all too willing to marry his scheming uncle practically before her former husband's body was cold. The tortured and possibly unhinged young man has only one recourse: revenge.
Claudius (Tim Newell):
The shrewd and deliberate King of Denmark, unknown to almost everyone, has murdered his way to the throne and into the "incestuous sheets" of Gertrude's bed. This sits less than well with the ghost of Hamlet's father, who instructs his wayward progeny to take up arms against his skeevy uncle and root out what's rotten in the state of Denmark.
Ophelia (Rebecca Elkin-Young):
The beautiful young maiden is majorly crushing on Hamlet (and vice-versa), though her father Polonius and brother Laertes forbid her from returning his affections. This does not end well, as Ophelia's conflicting alliances eventually drive her mad.
Laertes (Adam Rath):
At first, the young son of Polonius and sister of Ophelia wants nothing more than to while away the days in Paris. But events back home, up to and including the death of his father at the hands of Hamlet, bring him back to Denmark in a murderous mood.
Gertrude (Lisa Vitrano):
One of many objects of Hamlet's poetic ire, Queen Gertrude is stuck between her new husband's unsavory past and her son's bloodthirsty future. For her, as for pretty much everyone in the play, things end less than well.
Polonius (Tom Loughlin):
A sort of sanctimonious bloviator in the Bill O'Reilly mode, Polonius is the chief counselor to Claudius and less-than-scrupulous father of Ophelia and Laertes. He is perhaps best known for dispensing pieces of advice that in no way describe himself, this above all: "To thine own self be true."
Horatio (John Profeta):
As Hamlet's true BFFL and constant confidant, Horatio is always at the young prince's side and backs him up in his suspicions of Claudius, his love for Ophelia, and most other things. He lives to tell the tale.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Anthony Alocer and Adam Yellen):
Once Hamlet's college buds, these two less-than-bright young men have been recruited by Claudius to spy on Hamlet. The prince, being smarter than the both of them combined, finds them out almost immediately and sends them off to their ignominious end.
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Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, President Emeritus SJU
Dietrich Reinhart's Speeches and Writings
The late President Emeritus Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, served as 11th president of Saint John's University from July 1, 1991 to Oct. 21, 2008. He died on Dec. 29, 2008.
In October 2008, upon Reinhart's resignation after 17 years as president, the Saint John's Board of Regents announced the establishment of The Benedictine Institute at Saint John's University in his honor.
A tribute was held for Reinhart at the annual Saint John's Day on April 17, 2009. The evening included the presentation of several posthumous awards, including the Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus Award and honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Saint John's University and the University of St. Thomas. On March 24, 2009, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann honored Reinhart for his lifelong dedication to service in Collegeville, Minn., and the Catholic collegiate community. Bachmann published a statement in the Congressional Record, the official record of the proceedings of the House of Representatives.
During Reinhart's tenure as president, enrollment grew by nearly nine percent and the academic profile of entering students rose dramatically; the university's endowment grew from $36 million to just over $145 million and Saint John's successfully completed the largest capital campaign in its history, One Generation to the Next: The Campaign for Saint John's.
Other significant undertakings during his presidency included the designation, with Saint John's Abbey, of the entire 2,700 acres of Saint John's campus as an Arboretum and the commissioning of calligrapher Donald Jackson to handwrite and illuminate The Saint John's Bible.
Under Reinhart's leadership, the Saint John's campus underwent a physical transformation, including the construction of a new Sexton Commons campus center; expansion and renovation of SJU's athletic facilities; renovation of the Quadrangle, Saint Benet Hall and Emmaus Hall; renovation of the Peter Engel Science Center and construction of a new science building; construction of a Flynntown Community Center; and construction of apartment-style housing on campus in Saint Vincent Court, and Saints Placid and Maur Houses.
In collaboration with its educational partner, the College of Saint Benedict, Reinhart co-led the creation of the first joint strategic plan, creating a permanent relationship of interdependence and a partnership unique in all of higher education. The goals of the coordinate relationship are to strengthen and advance a common academic program; enhance the educational experience of students by sharing resources, including programs, faculty, staff and facilities; and draw on Benedictine values to offer an exceptional liberal arts education in the Catholic university tradition.
Reinhart began leading future plans to renovate and expand the Alcuin Library, make a Saint John's education possible for more first-generation college students and create more explicit programs and strategies to ensure quality reflection, discourse and action around core mission commitments of the Catholic intellectual tradition and Benedictine values.
Reinhart chaired the board of the Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities (ABCU), and served on the board of directors for ABCU, Bremer Bank, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC), the Central Minnesota Community Foundation and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Reinhart was born in Minneapolis in 1949. After graduation from DeLaSalle High School, he came to Saint John's as a student in 1967 intending to study government and prepare himself for a career in law. Like many students who come to Saint John's, his interests and the values which were to shape his life changed: he graduated from Saint John's magna cum laude in history and entered the monastery the following summer. He was professed as a Benedictine monk July 11, 1972.
Reinhart completed his doctoral studies in history at Brown University in 1984. His dissertation - "The Parliamentary Visitation of Oxford University, 1646-1652" - is a study of conflict between religious, university and government officials at Oxford, during a time of enormous political and social unrest and economic instability in England.
Upon his return to Saint John's, Reinhart joined the faculty of the department of history, regularly teaching First-Year Symposium, Tudor-Stuart History and Reformation History. He was a faculty resident in the campus residence halls from 1984-1991. In 1988, he was elected dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, a post he held until his election to the presidency by the Board of Regents in January 1991.


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When employees at Ventura Manufacturing in Zeeland talk about spicing up their work day, the really mean it.
The Zeeland Fire Department was called to the semi-automated manufacturing company at 471 E. Roosevelt Ave. about 1:15 this afternoon after some workers were having sore eyes and difficult breathing.
Turned out the cause was not a toxic chemical or natural gas but residue from hot peppers.
Firefighters searched the facility but couldn�t find the source of the irritant, according to Fire Chief Bill Gruppen. Firefighters looked for the cause of the problem while American Medical Response ambulance crews assisted the workers.
�It turned out there was this semi truck,� Gruppen said, that all the watery-eyed employees had been near.
Firefighters called the truck line and discovered the trailer was earlier used to haul hot peppers before being brought to the Zeeland facility. The driver had swept out the trailer, spreading around the spicy scent.
It was a first for Gruppen and his firefighters, who have dealt with natural gas leaks and other chemical spills linked to the area manufacturers, but never a pepper problem.
No one was seriously injured and no one was hospitalized, he said.
The truck was going to be washed, he added.
Ventura Manufacturing started in 1997 and was the first satellite company focused on providing services to Innotec, which is involved in furniture manufacturing, according to the company website. Ventura has expanded to customers outside Innotec.
A message was left at the company but has not yet been returned.
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Hot peppers bring emergency crews to Zeeland plant
When employees at Ventura Manufacturing in Zeeland talk about spicing up their work day, the really mean it.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.—Following a 2-0 week and three-game winning streak, UMass Boston junior Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) and redshirt sophomore Kristen Spain (Quincy, Mass.) were named the Little East Conference Offensive Player and Goaltender of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon.
Ledin, the Little East Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2012, registered eight points in two games to earn the Offensive Player of the Week award for the fourth time in her career.
The junior forward recorded two goals, including the game-winning marker, in a 4-1 victory over Suffolk University Wednesday, before adding a goal and an assist Saturday against UMass Dartmouth. With the win over the Corsairs, UMass Boston moved to 2-0 in the Little East Conference and stayed tied for first place.
Ledin leads the Little East Conference in goals (nine) and points (21) for the third consecutive season and ranks amongst the top 50 women's soccer players in the nation at the DIII level in goals, points, goals per game and points per game.
Spain earned the nod as the top keeper in the conference for the second time in two years, after setting the UMass Boston program record for career shutouts Saturday afternoon.
The Beacons starting goalie posted three saves on three shots in Saturday's win to pick up her program-record setting 11th shutout in her 27th career start.
On the year, Spain has posted a 4-3 record with an .837 save percentage and 1.17 goals against average and ranks in the top five of the Little East Conference in every major category.


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Although rates of heart disease and stroke continue to fall, a rising tide of unhealthy behaviors may start to reverse those improvements, according to an American Heart Association report.
Over 10 years, death due to cardiovascular disease fell by about 33%, and stroke mortality dropped 37%, Alan S. Go, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Northern California and chair of the writing committee for the annual report, and colleagues wrote online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
But at the same time, more than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, and a third say they don't get any exercise, according to the AHA's "Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -- 2013 Update," done in conjunction with the CDC and the NIH.
"We've made a lot of progress in improving outcomes for heart attack and stroke," Go told MedPage Today. "What's concerning to us is that trends in risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes, are all going in the wrong direction."
Every year, the AHA, along with the CDC, NIH, and other government agencies, publish updated statistics on heart disease and stroke.
Donna Arnett, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president of the AHA, said some troubling parts of this year's report are that about 20% of Americans still smoke, a proportion that has been flatlining for several years.
Also, increasing rates of obesity are leading to a higher prevalence of one of its main comorbidities, type 2 diabetes, which stood at 8% in this year's report.
"Those are really troubling figures when we think down the road about the future of cardiovascular disease in America," Arnett told MedPage Today.
Arnett said a key strategy to reversing those trends is to get the risk factors under control -- particularly when it comes to diet and exercise.
While 68% of adults are overweight or obese, more than a third (35%) are fully obese. For children, 32% are overweight or obese and 17% are fully obese.
Inactivity is high for both adults and children as well. A third of adults said they didn't get any leisure-time physical activity, while 18% of high-school girls and 10% of high-school boys didn't get 60 minutes a day of moderate activity over the course of a week.
Changing those behaviors is clearly a large challenge, Arnett said, but clinicians can also go after "lower-hanging fruit." Particularly, high blood pressure -- which accounts for 41% of cardiovascular disease mortality -- should be targeted, she said.
Currently, only 53% of adults with hypertension have their disease under control, according to the report.
The main challenge, Go said, is patient awareness of the importance of controlling blood pressure.
"Most people don't feel any symptoms of hypertension, so they don't understand the effects that their medications are having," he said. "We need patients to take a longer view, that their blood pressure does affect their risk of stroke or heart attack."
Health systems also need to be better about screening for hypertension, and clinicians need to expand their use of blood pressure medication combinations, he added.
"Rather than maximizing the dose of just one medication, most people need at least a couple of different medications to adequately control their disease," Go said.
Arnett added that high cholesterol would be another "low-hanging fruit" to target, as 14% of adults currently have uncontrolled high cholesterol, above 240 mg/dL.
Getting a handle on these risk factors will also help curb costs of cardiovascular care, which rose to $313 billion in 2009, up from $228 billion in 2008.
The rise is due to a "complicated array of factors," Arnett said, including the fact that the population is aging, as well as the improved survivorship from heart disease, which leads to an "increased complexity of the cardiovascular patient in terms of care at the end of life."
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What Inspired Chrysler's Ram Truck Super Bowl Ad 'So God Made a Farmer'
Chrysler Group LLC said its Ram truck unit's Super Bowl ad called "Farmer" was inspired by the late radio host Paul Harvey's "So God Made a Farmer" speech that for decades has been a soundtrack for farmers and their families.
To make the spot, the truck maker said it commissioned 10 photographers including William Albert Allard of National Geographic and documentary photographer Kurt Markus to create the images that form the commercial's backdrop.
The ad is latest piece of the Chrysler's "Guts, Glory, Ram" campaign, and while it pays tribute to the hard work and perseverance of farmers, it is really aimed at everyday drivers who like the rugged, self-sufficient and powerful image that large pickup truck's project.
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Well, well, well, Vegan MoFo VI has arrived for the month of October, 31 days of (near) daily food writing & updates, and I'm seemingly more prepared than ever. And being less-than-employed, I have legitimate time on my hands for projects! This year, I'll be once again rounding up on VeganMoFo central and posting over at Vida Vegan HQ with Janessa & Michele. I found last year's Animal Friends Month project simply delightful – but I must admit, I missed habitual blogging (and if you know me, you know that's not my favorite word to actually mutter, shhh).
This year, I'll be jumping on the kombucha wagon of days-of-the-week themes. It's so, so subject to change, but the initial plan is:
Mondays are for Reminiscing: where I'll finally dive into my SE Asian travel experiences, photos and culinary adventures from this past winter, and other recent tales from the road.
Thai Tuesdays: with the aim of not just recreating regional Thai-style dishes, but to capture the recipes and take notes on the veganization of the cuisine I obsess and daydream the most about.
Wednesdays will feature Portlanding: my odes to those restaurants, coffeeshops, food carts and other notable locales & experiences I want to share – even a few of those I'd prefer to selfishly keep in my 'hidden gem' territory.
Thursday night is set to be date night, which of course, is Dinner with Jules. This will include dinners by my girlfriend, whose repertoire is expanding into Italian territory, and meals and special projects we just may create together.
And for the weekend, my fifth theme (which gives a little wiggle room for a bonus or catch up post) will be Heartichoke-inspired. Heartichoke is a private vegan supper club concept that my friend Maeve and I experiment with, and we've got some custom cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and other treats in the works.
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code I82.629
Acute embolism and thrombosis of deep vn unsp up extrem
Diagnosis Code I82.629
Short Description: Acute embolism and thrombosis of deep vn unsp up extrem
Long Description: Acute embolism and thrombosis of deep veins of unspecified upper extremity
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code I82.629
Valid for Submission
The code I82.629 is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00–I99)
Diseases of veins, lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes, not elsewhere classified (I80-I89)
- Other venous embolism and thrombosis (I82)
- Diseases of veins, lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes, not elsewhere classified (I80-I89)
Information for Medical Professionals
The diagnosis code I82.629 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG V35.0)
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The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- 453.82 - Ac DVT/embl up ext (approximate) Approximate Flag
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- Acute deep venous thrombosis of upper extremity
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- Acute deep venous thrombosis of upper extremity as complication of procedure
- Deep venous thrombosis associated with coronary artery bypass graft
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Information for Patients
Blood Clots
Also called: Hypercoagulability
Normally, if you get hurt, your body forms a blood clot to stop the bleeding. After the bleeding stops and healing takes place, your body usually breaks down and removes the clot. But some people get too many clots or their blood clots abnormally. Many conditions can cause the blood to clot too much or prevent blood clots from dissolving properly.
Risk factors for excessive blood clotting include
- Certain genetic disorders
- Atherosclerosis
- Diabetes
- Atrial fibrillation
- Overweight, obesity, and metabolic syndrome
- Some medicines
- Smoking
- Staying in one position for a long time, such as being in the hospital or taking a long car or plane ride
- Cancer and cancer treatments
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Deep Vein Thrombosis
Also called: DVT
Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, is a blood clot that forms in a vein deep in the body. Most deep vein clots occur in the lower leg or thigh. If the vein swells, the condition is called thrombophlebitis. A deep vein thrombosis can break loose and cause a serious problem in the lung, called a pulmonary embolism.
Sitting still for a long time can make you more likely to get a DVT. Some medicines and disorders that increase your risk for blood clots can also lead to DVTs. Common symptoms are
- Warmth and tenderness over the vein
- Pain or swelling in the part of the body affected
- Skin redness
Treatment includes medicines to ease pain and inflammation, break up clots and keep new clots from forming. Keeping the affected area raised and applying moist heat can also help. If you are taking a long car or plane trip, take a break, walk or stretch your legs and drink plenty of liquids.
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Assessing Mental Folding in Children
Justin Harris, Department of Psychology, Temple University
Nora Newcombe (PI), Department of Psychology, Temple University
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Department of Psychology, Temple University
Strong spatial skills are an important component for success in everyday life and for many classes and careers (National Research Council [NRC], 2006). This is particularly true in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines (Battista, 1990; Schwartz & Black, 1996; Carter, LaRussa, & Bodner, 1987; Pribyl & Bodner, 1987; Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009, Wu & Sha, 2004). Determining how to best provide early support for these skills is therefore a pressing research question. However, assessing potential educational programs requires valid assessments of the target skills, as does evaluating the progress of individual children as they develop. Unfortunately, many skills that can be easily assessed in adults lack an age appropriate analog for children.
Mental folding represents one such gap in the spatial intelligence literature. Mental folding has long been considered an important component of spatial skills (Linn & Petersen, 1985; McGee, 1979, NRC, 2006). As the name suggests, mental folding involves being able to imagine how an object will look after it has been folded in a specific way. Mental folding is of particular interest as it was one of the skills found to be predictive of entry into STEM disciplines (Wai, Lubinksi, and Benbow, 2009).
We have developed a new, age-appropriate test of mental folding aimed at a population of 5- to 7-year-olds, the Mental Folding Test – Precise level 1 (MFT-P1). The MFT-P1 is designed to be the simplest mental folding test that requires precision in the folds being imagined. Unlike adult tests, no overlapping folds are included and unfolding is not explicitly required, though children may use it as a strategy to identify the correct answer. The test consists of 12 test items and 2 practice items.
The test begins with a detailed script explaining important features of the test and the concept of mental folding through two practice items. For each practice item children are presented with a physical piece of paper with colors and markings to match the prompt (see Figure 1). The fact that the prompt matches the physical piece of paper is reiterated multiple times. For the first practice item, children fold the physical piece of paper and then the task is explained. Before the child is prompted to select an answer the experimenter explains why each of the distracter items is incorrect. The distracters for the practice items do not follow the same pattern as those in the rest of the test. Rather, the distracters for these items are meant to help the child understand the task (see Figure 1). The children are then prompted to gesture making the fold on the practice item and then to select an answer. For the second practice item, children are instructed to gesture folding and select an answer before folding the physical piece of paper. The order is reversed to highlight that the test should be solved by mentally folding the prompt before looking at the answers, but that the answer may be checked by mentally folding the prompt again. The location of the correct answer for the first practice item is on the far left, while the correct answer for the second practice item is on the near right. This is to prevent the child from extracting any rule based on location of the answer choices.
Figure 1. Experimenter view of Practice item 1 (top)
Practice item 1 with explanations (bottom).
The 12 test items immediately follow the practice items and are not accompanied by a physical piece of paper. Distracter items were created to capture errors based on a lack of precision in folding and are analogous physically making such errors (see Figure 2). These distracter items were designed in this manner so that errors could be treated as meaningful responses. By including a consistent set of distracters in this test it is possible to treat a bias to one of the errors as meaningful information about an individual's mental folding.
Figure 2. Example test item.
Ninety-two children with a mean age of 70.69 months (5 years and 11 months, 46 females) have participated thus far. The test has an acceptable level of internal reliability (α = .81, calculated using tetrachoric inter-item correlations to correct for dichotomous scoring). A moderate to strong, positive correlation with Levine's Mental Transformation Task (Levine et al., 1999, r = .38, p < .001) suggests that the MFT-P1 is measuring spatial intelligence. Linn and Petersen's (1985) meta-analyses reported that mental folding should not show gender differences and none were detected in the MFT-P1, F(1,88) = .68, n.s). The MFT-P1 scores significantly improved across the target age (r = .56, p < .001). There is also a significant reduction with age in number of children who followed a guessing strategy (r = .33, p < .01) from 54% for 5-year-olds to 8% for 7-year-olds, indicating that this test is appropriate for the intended age-range.
Two projects are currently underway in an effort to use this task to further understand early spatial development. Four-year-olds were initially excluded due to difficulties following instructions on how to fold paper. An examination of the relationship between the development of physical folding precision and mental folding precision is therefore currently underway. Physical folds are being assessed using bidimensional regression (Friedman & Kohler, 2003). This technique allows the coordinates defining the fold children make to be regressed onto the coordinates of the actual fold that should be made. This technique provides multiple statistics on different distortions made that are analogous to the ways in which precision can be lacking. We hypothesize that problems with physical folding will be related to problems mentally folding.
The second study will examine the developmental trajectory of mental folding ability using an accelerated longitudinal design. Children will be followed at intervals of 6 months so that their development can be assessed. Future studies should determine if scores on the MFT-P1 could predict success in early science and math courses, as well as later spatial skills.
The MFT-P1 appears to be a reliable and valid test of mental folding for children in the 5- to 7-year-old age range. This test can therefore fill an important gap in early spatial skills assessment. The development of this test, and others like it, is an important step in laying the foundation for providing the necessary support of spatial skills in young children. Proper evaluation is the cornerstone to the development of sound educational initiatives and in advancing the basic science of understanding how these skills develop. Future work can now address both of these goals with respect to mental folding.
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