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Potatoes and leeks go together perfectly in this Potato Leek Frittata, great for breakfast or a vegetarian main dish with a side salad. Top it with plain yogurt and parsley for a treat.
This Potato Leek Frittata has no crust, and instead uses thin slices of potato and egg for structure – just like a tortilla española (one of my favorite Spanish dishes, with layers of potato held together by egg!).
The overhanging edges exposed in the oven get a bit crispy, and are worth fighting over. The sliced leeks are a wonderful compliment, as they add a delicate and sweet onion flavor.
Leeks are easily found in the grocery store – they are in the picture below. I don't use the dark green leafy tops in this recipe, but you can hold onto them for soup stock.
As I photographed this recipe, I spoke to my mom – who happened to be heading to the grocery store for ingredients for our favorite Dairy-Free Potato Leek Soup.
I loved that we were on the same wavelength, both craving these warm cozy flavors. I hope you try out these flavors in soup or a frittata soon!
- 2 large leeks
- 1 small russet potato
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 large eggs
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- cracked pepper and red pepper flakes
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Prep the leeks by slicing the white and light green parts into ⅛ of an inch disks, and then washing them in a bowl of water. They are typically quite sandy so do this until the water is clear and then dry them in a towel.
- Prep the potato by slicing it thinly into ⅛ of an inch disks.
- In an pan on medium heat with 2 tablespoons olive oil, begin sautéing potato slices. We want them to begin to look translucent and get about ⅔rds of the way cooked.This should take around 7 minutes.
- Remove the potatoes from the pan and line a pie plate with about ⅔ of the potatoes. Set the extra potatoes aside.
- In the same pan you cooked the potatoes, sauté the leeks for 2 minutes and then add them on top of the pie pan. Add in any leftover potato slices at this point.
- Whisk together eggs, garlic powder, and salt and pour the mixture on top of the vegetables.
- Bake the frittata for 20 minutes and top with cracked pepper and red pepper flakes.
Serve warm or cold, or keep it in the fridge for the rest of the week for quick meals. It won't last long!


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Cool Stuff: This Kid Wins Halloween With His Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Wheelchair Costume
Posted on Friday, October 21st, 2016 by Ethan Anderton
Living with an ailment than keeps you confined to a wheelchair most of the time when you venture out of the house is undoubtedly difficult. But luckily, a nine year old boy named Jeremy with spina bifida has some spectacular parents who make him feel like the coolest kid on the block when heading out into the neighborhood on Halloween.
You might remember a story in Star Wars Bits last year where a father turned his son's wheelchair into a snowspeeder from The Empire Strikes Back. The flaps even moved, and the laser canons shot glowing NERF darts. That was Jeremy in that snowspeeder. Now his father has done something magical again by turning his son's wheelchair into the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters. Read More »

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I've been working with Canadian medical device company, Trudell Medical for the last couple of months to create several animated explainer videos to explain the benefits of their AeroChamber Plus* Flow-Vu* chamber for asthma use and animated instructional videos to show proper use of their products.
This first one presents an overview of the benefits of using the AeroChamber Plus* Flow-Vu* Valved Holding Chamber with your Metered Dose Inhaler medication.
A second video about the AeroChamber Plus* Flow-Vu* focuses on the benefits of their patented Flow-Vu* inhalation indicator for parents administering asthma medication to their children.
It's been a great experience working with all the folks at Trudell Medical on these videos as well as several other animated instructional videos that I'll post separately. Looking forward to working with them more in the future.


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Three decades ago, my adoptive mother and I both became cancer patients. The way we each reacted to our new identities was a study in contrasts, but growing public awareness of cancer's environmental roots has now brought us, unexpectedly, back together.
"The history of cancer is long, but our recognition of the agents that produce it has been slow to mature."– Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
When I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1979, at the age 20, I drafted a list of goals. The first thing I would do, once I was sprung from the hospital, would be to pay a visit to Claire's Boutique in the mall. There I would get my ears pierced. Next, I would hit the university library. There I would answer the question, Why me?
Neither task was difficult to accomplish, but one had a more predictable outcome than the other.
The ear-piercing achieved exactly what I thought it would: it upset my mother. Her reaction – arising from the particular religious practices of her German-American family – allowed me to be angry with her. And anger allowed me to rebuff her attempts to bond with me over what she saw as a shared medical experience.
I couldn't have walked away from her otherwise. Mom was in treatment for breast cancer. There she was in her wig, her platelet count decimated by chemotherapy, distraught about my earlobes. I had predicted this. I knew that she would see the earrings as an unnecessary mutilation. As if we don't have enough problems already, Sandy, that we can't control.
Those words provided the pretext I needed to storm out of the house and head back to college, forty-five miles and a world away. I had lost the script to my life. I knew how to play the role of the supportive, unrebellious daughter alongside my mother's brave performance as a cancer patient who could calmly accept bad news and carry on. But I didn't know how to be a co-cancer patient.
In the library, I turned my attention to the medical literature on bladder cancer. What did we know about causation? Questions posed by my diagnosing physician – had I ever worked with vulcanized rubber? – led me to believe that environmental exposures must be part of the collective story. They were. There was a trove of data going back to the nineteenth century. Dyes, rubber manufacturing, chlorinated water, air pollutants, dry-cleaning solvents: all were linked to bladder cancer. If not mine, then somebody's.
But, outside of the isolated world of epidemiology and toxicology, there was very little recognition of this evidence. The word carcinogen never appeared in any of the pamphlets on cancer in my doctors' waiting rooms. The medical intake forms I was forever filling out asked detailed questions about the history of cancer in my family but none about, say, chemical contaminants in my hometown drinking water.
I'm adopted. The wells periodically contain trace amounts of dry-cleaning solvent.
As we approach the forty-eighth anniversary of Silent Spring's publication – we are still far from a mature acknowledgement of cancer's environmental agents. But there are signs of an awakening awareness. Provinces and municipalities across Canada have banned the cosmetic use of pesticides on the grounds that they are linked to childhood cancers. The European Union has banned carcinogens from cosmetics. Here in the United States, calls grow louder for reform of the flaccid Toxic Substances Control Act, which has proved itself unable to eliminate suspected carcinogens from the marketplace. And I can now find the words carcinogen and environment in the waiting-room literature.
But, for me, the most telling sign of the times is this: my hometown hospital invited me to give a lecture on environmental carcinogens before an audience of physicians concerned about the proposed expansion of a hazardous-waste landfill. Mom came with me. I was the one wearing earrings.
A columnist for Orion magazine and an internationally recognized authority on environmental links to cancer and reproductive health, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment—an updated edition of which was published by Da Capo Press in April 2010. In 2001 she received the Rachel Carson Leadership Award for her "outstanding contributions to the conservation and environmental movement." She has lectured before the parliament of the European Union, at various medical conferences, and on numerous college campuses, and is a scholar in residence at New York's Ithaca College. You can visit her website: www.steingraber.com as well as at HuffingtonPost.com, where this article originally appeared.
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Hello and welcome back to our all-ages comics column, From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays! This is our final column until after the New Year of 2014 rings in, which means it's time for our TOP 15 ALL-AGES COMICS of 2013!!!!!
I am pumped if you couldn't tell. After reading tons and tons of titles every week, this is one of my most favorite columns to do every year, so let's do it! To be on the list, the ongoing/mini/graphic novel must have been published either in part or full in 2013, with the exceptions of translations of foreign materials which must have been translated for their first time in English in 2013. For both ongoing and minis a minimum of two issues must have been published to be considered, unless it was a one-shot special. Digital comics are ranked the same as ones in print only (which is rare if it's print only these days) due to the evolved nature of the comic market. Between new material and reprints this year I have read over 200 titles (I stopped keeping count after 200, so much material out there, thanks digital world), and now I boil it down to this:
Herobear and the Kid (Boom!)
Mike Kunkel struck magic back in 2002/2003 with this title, but its indie run over 10 year ago now doesn't always make it the most common thing to come across, so the fine folks behind Boom! Studios' all-ages line, Kaboom!, had the right idea and that was to reprint this sucker! If you've never read this splendor of comics, it is part Calvin and Hobbes, part Shazam!, and wonderfully a touching story that is very much its own thing. Hands down the best thing to be blessed with a reprint this year is Herobear and the Kid!
Sonic The Hedgehog (Archie)
Sonic, and the other Archie title Megaman (which just missed this list by a hair), got really, really good this year! In fact, we can easily say it was possibly the best year ever in the title's 20 year run! Sonic has evolved over the ages with the video games, and an eternal core cult audience has kept the comic book going since its animated incarnation days in the mid-1990s, and this year it was just an exquisite example of action, excitement, and thrills, all done right, with easy access to new readers while keeping their old fans happy. We also were treated to that great Sonic/Megaman multi-arc crossover, which was a cool read for fans of those franchises.
My Little Pony (IDW)
My Little Pony: the kids dig it, adult men calling themselves bronies dig it, and apparently this year comic fans dug it, making it surge like wild fire with some the biggest feed back and sales spikes since Adventure Time a short while before it. Surely the TV tie-in helps the title, but at the core, putting the show aside, the comic is regularly delivering up great, well drawn stories that entertain, and in plenty of cases have a pretty great message behind it. Now if only Hasbro would let IDW dig back up the Inhumanoids we'd be in a perfect world!
All Of Scrooge McDuck's Millions (Disney Comics)
Europe sure churns out a lot of all new Disney comics these days, and specifically Italy rocks the Mouse House. When Disney didn't renew their comic licenses with Boom! Studios a few years back, most were surprised when they didn't have Marvel Comics (which they own for those that don't know) start churning out Disney character comics, but instead released them themselves as mostly digital only titles between their own app and comiXology. The best title to date that they released at the year's start was All Of Scrooge McDuck's Millions, where we get endless adventures as Scrooge recalls how he got those first millions. Something about the mood with the art and storytelling just works so cosmically well for this title.
The Smurfs (Papercutz)
Smurfs, the creation Peyo is perhaps best known for world wide, is just a wonderful title. For a good chunk of time now Papercutz has been translating these comics for their first time in English and putting them out, and this year was no different as we saw tales that bore new characters, took them flying, even a Christmas themed book. These guys are timeless and you just can't smurfing argue that their title isn't great.
Pantalones, TX (Archaia)
This title by creator Yehudi Mercado was a wild time! Loud, fun, colorful, and endlessly creative. It was just different and it stuck out above a lot of things, which is something to say considering 2013 was heavily dominated by licensed character comics. Mercado and publisher Archaia took a gamble on something original instead, and blam-o, total artistic pay off as Mercado created a book worth a thousand re-reads.
Archie (Archie Comics)
Archie has had its ups and downs during its history that reaches far back, but in recent years we have seen a surge of creativity over there that continues. The main flagship title for the Riverdale universe continued to rock out this year, starting with a cross over with the cast of TV's Glee, sci-fi tales, shenanigans with Thor's hammer, and more. I love what they're doing these days over there, and it wouldn't surprise me if within the next three years across all media everything becomes Archie again like back in the 1960s.
SpongeBob Comics (United Plankton)
SpongeBob has become a character that has now withstood the test of time, over 10 years old and still rocking out. When we boil the characters of Bikini Bottom down to what really works, it is the same laws that apply to all timeless characters, like the cast of Looney Tunes or what not, and SpongeBob Comics really knows how to tap into that humor and make the cartoon work in the comic book medium. Aside, the comic also lets different artist's think outside of the box and render our favorite characters in their own art style, helping keep things fresh and fun to read. Happy artists make happy comics, and SpongeBob Comics was a great title to read this year.
Hello Kitty (Viz Media)
Hello Kitty has been around for a good chunk of time now and every year we still seem to see something new with her, from crossovers with Kiss and Street Fighter and beyond. Viz Media branding their own all-ages line have decided to take a homegrown approach in the recent year instead of translating all-ages Japanese manga and the one title that paid off was their graphic novel for Hello Kitty! A beast of task to tell anything in pantomime, the team of writers and artists gladly tackled the challenge and succeeded with these great "silent" Hello Kitty comics that looked nice and more importantly had a bit of imagination to them.
Unico (DMP)
Osamu Tezuka: God of manga! I've written about this gentleman plenty in this column and this year marked the DMP release of the first ever English translation of Unico! Thanks to backing from a successful Kickstarter, fans of the cult film The Fantastic Adventures of Unico have been rabid to get a chance to read the original manga that tells the tale of possibly the cutest unicorn ever drawn on the page, and the results was everything we would hope it would be, both comics and the English packaging living up to expectations.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC)
Talk about titles that seemed to get REALLY good overnight this year, although it is apparent DC Comics is still trying to figure out its all-ages titles game plan, they seem to be trying to make their titles live up to the new era of quality for all-ages comics on the shelves and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was nothing but a fantastic read all year! From classic set-ups, to really out there alien tales, even their van got haunted and the poor guys at the auto shop had to deal with it. I want more Scooby comics like these and I want it now! Several writers have worked on this title but this year exemplary work was provided by Scott Gross and Sholly Fisch. Don't lower your bar again DC and keep cranking this excellent bad boy out.
Princeless (Action Lab)
This title returning with it's fresh take on a fantasy tale from the pen of Jeremy Whitley was a delight to read this year. The universe that's been created here is a joy to read every issue and hopefully we will get to see the next installment sooner than later! Action Lab has done good giving the world this comic and if you haven't read it, obviously I have nothing but a string of really nice things here to say about it which means you should run out to the store and pick yourself up a copy of the collected editions now!
Bandette (Monkeybrain)
The digital title is just wonderful. It looks like a European title, it flows like an American title, a cat and mouse game with a famed teenage robber, set across the backdrop of France, only from the dynamic creative team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover. Its a breath of fresh air and continues to entertain with each and every issue, and with the right price on the comiXology app it's to become the latest comic you can get addicted too.
The Fox (Archie Comics/Red Circle)
When Archie relaunched it's Red Circle superheroes line it was quite a swank game plan and although the fanfare has died down a little bit and the New Crusaders is now a set of mini-series and not an ongoing, the quality of the comics are still something to write home about and with their latest mini-series which revives the classic character the Fox, it is another home run that brings back the vibe of silver age fun while being cool. Haspiel and Waid have done great giving us a must read title of a character most would never have expected. A well done treat for superhero fans.
The Phoenix (Phoenix Comic)
The Phoenix blew me away this year! The shear quality of this comic, and a weekly comic at that, was almost incomprehensible! How could it be this good week, surely it has to have drop eventually. And you know what? It never did. Week after week, this British all-ages anthology has produced the best comics one can only be so lucky to come across. If you live in the United Kingdom you are lucky to get it in print, however here in the States its a little tricky for a weekly print publication like this, however they have one of the classiest iPad apps in the iTunes newsstand I have ever come across making the whole package feel great! Anything from comedy to adventure, pirates to space aliens to roman times, are here every week with gorgeous art and amazing story telling. If you do not read The Phoenix you do not know what you are missing and need to get on it now!
Adventure Time (Boom!)
Adventure TIme. Do I need to say more? If there is a Boom! Studios title that can strike lighting more than once, it has been and continues to be this. Fans of the show are happy, casual comic readers love it, and maybe most importantly when looking at a comic: it is always entertaining. Similar to what we see in the SpongeBob comic, the editors give the artists on the back-up stories a chance to do their own thing and render it in their own style, and that freedom pay offs, sometimes out shining the main the story in a few of the issues. That said, the main story always looks and feels like the show while at the same time being its own thing if you don't follow the show. When came down to all-ages titles in 2013, Adventure Time deserves the number one spot on the list. It's just too mathematical to not be number one after all.
In summary 2013, like 2012, was an exceptional year for lots of all-ages titles and there were a lot of things I wanted to include on here but was limited to just 15 spots (which is kind of cheating to start with since most lists are 10). Special shout outs to highlight a few memorable things that just missed our list include Peanuts, Garfield and Regular Show from Boom!, Megaman from Archie, Benny Breakiron and Ariol from Papercutz, Looney Tunes from DC (which like Scooby-Doo has suddenly improved seemingly overnight), Ugly Dolls from Viz, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at IDW and the latest Oz mini-series installment from Marvel, all great titles contributing to the over all quality of all-ages comics this year.
That's it for now, see you in a few weeks in 2014!
Drew McCabe


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Crikey! My little technology heart is all a-flutter!
Those folks at PearMountain Technology sure know how to turn my knees to jelly. All they have to do is come out with a new software that is easy and fun to use and I end up spending hours upon hours playing with it. That software is called Picture Collage Maker.
Wanna make a photo collage? Check.
Wanna make a calendar? Check.
Wanna make a poster, greeting card, anniversary card, Christmas card, a photo book, scrapbook page, or even a label for a DVD? Check, check, check, check, check, check, and check.
They've got you covered. And that is only an eensy-teensy bit of all of the fun you can have with their software.
Take a look at some of the things that I created. (Note in the first picture, our canoe is in dry dock… but that didn't stop my pajama-wearing grandson from wanting to paddle in it first thing in the morning!)
Lest you think this software is difficult to use, lemme give you a little technology quiz to determine your competency.
Can you: A). click B). drag your mouse C). scroll through your pictures D). make decisions?
If you can answer yes to three out of the four above questions, you've got the necessary technology skills. (The hardest part is deciding which pictures to use, which project to do, what colors, textures, and backgrounds to use. Decisions will be your bugaboo — not the software!)
You can make a master creation yourself. Or, you could spend time with a grandchild making collages together. Maybe you could buy the software for an older grandchild — and a copy for yourself.
You could send your collage to a distant grandchild as a way to share pictures — and your love!
After you create your collage, you can print it up, send it to Facebook, save as a PDF, set it as your computer desktop picture, or send it to your sweet grandchild through e-mail. (Here's that pesky decision making process raising it's ugly head again!)
I give this software 2 thumbs up — and all of the rest of my digits both fingers and toes! It makes me giddy with technology glee.
And, do you know what is super cool? PearlMountain Technology is giving a 70% discount off their normal price. Woot!
It regularly sells for $29.90 which in itself is a great price. But through November 5, you can get it for only $8.97.
Did you see that price? For less than a pair of shoes or a ticket to a movie (if it isn't the dollar show), you can get a fabulous software program.
So hurry and scurry over to http://www.picturecollagesoftware.com/promotion/halloween.html and get your copy now.
Go on! Skeedaddle. I'm not going to write anything else. Really. I'm not.
Stop reading right this very second and go get it.
You'll be glad you did!


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Feb 23, 1999
|Filing date
|Oct 28, 1996
|Priority date
|Oct 28, 1996
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Ned R. Gehris
|Original Assignee
|Gehris; Ned R.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (26), Classifications (7), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to identification devices and more particularly relates to identification bands which are compromised or destroyed when removed. These bands find multiple uses such as for patient and prisoner identification; admission recognition to secured areas as for concerts, exhibits and public affairs; animal tagging; article identification; and other related uses.
2. Definitions
For ease of description and simplicity of understanding, the following terms and definitions are used in this specification and its appended claims:
a. "Band" is used to mean a device bearing identifying indicia adapted to be secured in surrounding relationship to a part of a person, animal or object. In its most common embodiment it is a bracelet that is attached to a wrist of a person and it is in this context that the invention is usually discussed in the following description, though it should be understood that it is not intended that the invention be so limited.
b. "Circumference" is used to mean the perimeter of a band as secured to a person or an object.
c. "Diameter" is used to refer to the diameter of the band as secured to a person or an object.
3. Discussion of the Prior Art
Bands of the sort to which this invention relate are well known and described in the prior art. Conventionally, the bands utilize straps of flexible materials having envelopes or pockets adapted to receive inserts bearing identifying indicia. The exposed portion of the pockets are made from a transparent material so that the indicia remains visible after it has been inserted. While not as secure from accidental or purposeful erasure or alteration, the indicia can be inscribed on the surface of the band as with an indelible ink.
By way of example, hospitals need to provide reliable means to identify patients by name, accounting number or bar code during their stay in the hospital. Ideally, the identification is inexpensive since the article is not reusable, it must be easy to attach to a wrist or ankle, it must be securely fastened and not inadvertently or readily detached, it should be light in weight and finally, it should be comfortable to wear. Reference is here made to U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,020,657, 3,656,247, and 3,965,589 which contain representative descriptions of bands of the general type to which this invention pertains and they are incorporated herein by reference.
It is at once apparent that a band must be snugly attached so that it can not slide off a wrist and over the hand. It is also apparent that the band should not be attached so tightly that it chaffs the wrist, restricts the circulation of blood or otherwise is uncomfortable or annoying to wear.
The bands provided in the prior art most commonly make use either of a crimped fastener or holes in the ends of the bands through which fastening means are inserted. Crimped fasteners have the advantage of being infinitely adjustable, but suffer from the fact that they can be pried loose and removed or exchanged with a different band. However, when holes are positioned at the two ends of a band, locking devices can be used that require destructive removal. These locking devices are usually referred to in this application and claims as "snap locks". They are well known in the art (see, for example the FIG. 4 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,783,917) and are readily available from many sources, as for example, Scovill Fasteners Inc. under its trademark "Tag Lock".
While bands that utilize holes and snap locks are more secure than are crimped bands, they lack the flexibility of crimped bands in adjusting the circumference of the band and how tightly it is drawn down over a wrist or ankle.
When one considers the geometry of the bands, it can be appreciated that small changes in the circumference of a band will result in significant changes in the diameter of the band. Since the relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle is expressed by the equation C=π(D), a variation of only one inch in circumference of a band will alter the diameter of the band by slightly more than five-sixteenths of an inch. This follows from the fact that when C is increased by a distance x, (C+x), then D will increase from D=C/π to D=(C+x)/π or C/π+x/π. The increase in D is therefore equal to (C/π+x/π) minus (C/π) or simply x/π. It necessarily follows that if a wrist band is made with attachment holes one inch apart and the band is attached to the nearest hole that is comfortable to wear, the diameter may vary by �5/16ths of an inch. This variation may be the difference between a band being uncomfortably tight and a band that, with some persuasion, may be slid off the wrist.
It is of course possible to space the attachment holes on a band closer than one inch apart but, as a practical matter, a spacing which is closer than about 3/8 to 1/2 inch is generally undesirable because of the increased chance of tearing the band between adjacent holes.
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a band which may be worn comfortably but adjusted to prevent accidental or intentional removal as by sliding the band off a wrist.
It is another object of this invention to provide a band that may be adjusted in its circumference to a length less the distance between the attachment sites on the band.
Yet another object of this invention is to provide a band that has increased adjustability in its fit as around a wrist without spacing the holes (attachment sites) so close to each other that the band may be torn between adjacent holes.
These and other objects of this invention are achieved by placing holes at a first end of the band that are spaced apart at distance different than the distance at which the holes at a second end of the band are spaced apart. When a hole from the first end of the band is aligned over a hole on the second end of the band a snap lock is passed through and engages and secures the holes in their aligned position. When security is important, the snap locks can be of the type that must be destructively removed.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, when the first end is placed over the second end, at least two holes on the first end will align with at least two holes on the second end and the number of holes separating the two aligned holes on the first end will be one more or one less than the number of holes separating the two aligned holes on the second end. By these means the incremental distance at which the circumference of the band can be adjusted will be the difference of the distance between adjacent holes on the first end of the band and the distance between adjacent holes on the second end of the band.
These and other objects of this invention will be made clearer by a description of the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a simple form of a band made in accordance with this invention illustrating fundamental relationships of the attachment sites (holes) on each end of the band.
FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the band in FIG. 1 illustrating three rather than one repeating unit.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view, similar to the band in FIG. 1, illustrating the use of a different number of holes in the ends of the bands.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view in plan illustrating a preformed sheet of bands in which multiple parallel holes are used at each end of the band.
FIG. 5 is a sketch illustrating the basic geometry of a band of indeterminate length made in accordance with this invention.
FIG. 6 is a cross sectional view of a prior art fastening device useful in the practice in this invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates in schematic form a band 20 which can conveniently be fabricated from a tough, flexible material. While leather is an acceptable material from which the band may be made, many plastics will prove more useful in terms of toughness and wear and include materials such as polyethylene, polyester, nylon, acetal and the like, all of which are available in strip or sheet form for convenience of fabrication.
The band 20 of FIG. 1 is illustrated as being adapted to be looped and fastened around a patient's limb. Identification information such as a name, an identification number or bar code can be inscribed directly onto the band or, more preferably, for greater security, the identification indicia ID may be placed and sealed in a pocket having a transparent face. See for example the device illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,020,657.
It should be understood that the present invention is not concerned with the method or materials by which the band is fabricated nor with the means used to display indicia on the band. Almost any method known in the art can be used. Rather the invention here described relates to a band which can readily be adjusted to fit comfortably, yet securely, around, for example, a persons' wrist or ankle. This is accomplished by the relationship of the holes on the end portions of a band of this invention.
As illustrated in FIG. 1 there is schematically illustrated a band 20 having a middle portion ID for displaying indicia and a first end portion A and a second end portion B. The two end portions A and B are adapted to be overlapped and secured with snap locks such as illustrated, for example, in FIGS. 3 through 10 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,285,146. Another fastening device 35 is illustrated in FIG. 6 of the instant application. The fastening assembly 35 is comprised of a male plug assembly 28 which is placed into a female socket assembly 30 in a locking relationship. The male plug assembly 28 is designed with a barbed end 31 that is received in locking relationship by the female socket assembly 30. The male and female ends are connected together by means of a tether 32. The tether assists in keeping the male and female pieces together in pairs for user convenience. For a more complete description of this fastening device, reference is made to FIG. 4 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,783,917.
In FIG. 1, the first end portion A is illustrated with four holes 1a through 4a each separated by a distance y. The second end portion B of the band 20 has five holes 1b through 5b each separated by a distance x. The attachment sites 1a and 1b are shown in overlying registry with each other as are attachment sites 4a and 5b. It follows that the distance between attachment sites 1b and 5b is the same as the distance between attachment sites 1a and 4a. This distance is here referred to as the repeat distance R.
It is apparent that the repeat distance R is equal to the sum of the incremental distances 3(y) on the first end portion A of the band or the sum of the incremental distances 4(x) on the second end portion B of the band. The difference in the incremental distances x and y is indicated on the drawing as .increment.. The basis of the invention lies in the fact that there is one less hole in a repeat unit R on one end of the band than there is on the other end of the band 20.
FIG. 2 illustrates a band 20 similarly configured with the band 20 of FIG. 1 except that three repeat units R are provided. As a result, four snap locks can be used to secure holes 1a and 1b, holes 4a and 5b, holes 7a and 9b and holes 10a and 13b. While the use of four fastening points is probably excessive, FIG. 2 illustrates that a band can be designed to accommodate a plurality of fastening points.
The band 20 illustrated in FIG. 3 differs from the bands 20 of FIGS. 1 and 2 in that the number of holes in a repeat unit have been changed. Here the the first end portion A is illustrated with five holes 1a through 5a each separated by a distance y in a given repeat unit R. The second end portion B of the band 20 has six holes 1b through 6b each separated by a distance x in a given repeat unit R. The effect of changing the number of holes in a repeat unit in FIG. 3 is to decrease the distance .increment. thus allowing greater flexibility in adjusting the circumference C of the band 20. Note, however, that the difference between the number of holes in the repeat units at each end of the band is just one as is also true in the bands of FIGS. 1 and 2. As illustrated, attachment members may be inserted at holes 1a and 1b, at holes 5a and 6b and at 10a and 12b.
Referring to FIG. 4 there is shown a sheet of material S scored for division into a number of bands 20. At each end of the bands 20 are two parallel rows of holes h. By using holes in pairs, the attachment of the band 20 will be more secure since a pair of holes on end A can be aligned with a pair of holes B on the other end of the band thus doubling the security of the band from accidental or purposeful removal.
Referring to FIG. 5, the mathematical relationships established between the several elements of a band 20 designed in accordance with the invention is illustrated. The dotted horizontal lines represent a band 20 of indeterminate length.
a. R=to the repeat distance
b. x=the distance between the holes on end B of the band 20
c. y=the distance between the holes on the end A of the band 20
d. y=x+.increment. where .increment. is the incremental adjustment that can be made in C, the circumference
e. n=the number of holes in a repeat unit R at the end A of the band 20
f. n+1=the number of holes in a repeat unit R at the first end B of the band 20
g. R=y(n) and also R=x(n+1)
h. then x(n)=y(n-1) and, substituting for y,
i. xn=(x+.increment.)(n-1)
j. xn=xn+.increment.n-.increment.-x; and, solving for x
k. x=.increment.n-.increment.; or
l. .increment.n=x+.increment.
m. n=(x+.increment.)/.increment. and, finally:
n. n=x/.increment.+1.
By substituting values in the foregoing equations a band may be designed by selecting the minimal circumferential adjustment .increment. and the minimum spacing desired between the holes on the end B of the band. For example the following relationships can be developed.
______________________________________x Δ n y R______________________________________1/2 1/4 3 3/4 11/23/8 1/8 4 1/2 21/2 1/8 5 5/8 21/25/8 1/8 6 3/4 33/41 1/8 9 11/8 9______________________________________
The above are listed in units without dimensions but are of practical use in designing a band of the invention if they were considered to be in inches.
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- [ZBX-10933] fixed unexpected overwriting of trigger expressions for unchanged triggers when updating multiple triggers simultaneously via the API trigger.update method
- [ZBX-10866] fixed calendar time for cases when local time zone differs from servers time zone
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- [ZBX-10723] forced quoting of item key parameter if macro resolution resulted in unquoted parameter with leading spaces
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Following the horrific Manchester bombing on 22 May, Socialist Party members in the city have been campaigning against terrorism, war, racism and austerity and continuing our general election campaigning.
Jack Metcalf at the Socialist Party's campaign stall on 27 May said:
We're doing our regular stall in Market Street, campaigning against war, racism, terrorism and austerity.
We've been having a really good response today, people are still reeling a bit from the attacks but people are coming together in solidarity and are looking towards the future, looking towards the election and looking towards solutions so we can end this cycle of violence.
Looking towards funding our policing, funding our NHS and the vital services that are threatened with closure which were heavily used during the attack to a point that they wouldn't be able to do so again after the cuts which have been promised.
We've had a really good response from people. We had a bunch of lads really enthusiastically telling us what they thought of Theresa May, so much so that they nearly knocked our stall over!
In general we've had a really warm response, people really looking towards anti-austerity politics. £10 an hour, trade union rights, the NHS and renationalisation are all back on the agenda. It's what people are talking about and they're really pleased to see us saying it.
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Disney Epic Mickey is the ability for players to choose either good or evil actions as Mickey Mouse. We originally learned that Mickey's appearance would change based on what sort of actions you take. Take good actions, and he would appear more like the Mickey we all know and love. Take evil actions, on the other hand, and he would transform into something decidedly more sinister.
Until now, that is, with the Mainichi Daily News reporting that the "mean" version of Mickey has been removed from the game after it left a bad taste in the mouths of focus testers. Now, instead of transforming into a more menacing mouse, Mickey will simply adopt a smudgy look. Just another reminder that, yes, focus testing can ruin anything.


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Journeys of the Spirit
Rev. Catie Scudera, Sunday, February 26, 2017
Worship Service
Sunday, February 26, 2017
10:30am in the Meetinghouse
Rev. Catie Scudera, preaching
For our multigenerational worship this month, Rev. Catie and DLRE Mark LaPointe bring to First Parish a special service developed by the Sophia Fahs Collaborative at Meadville-Lombard Theological School. The "Sophia Fahs Sunday" services are developed with "an eye toward excellence in shared ministry, multicultural diversity, multiple learning styles, and the latest in faith development theory." This Sunday, we'll ask ourselves: What journeys are our spirits on? How has that changed over our lives? Where will it go as we grow older? Why do we take this journey together?
Children attend the full service. Childcare available for infants and toddlers.
Junior Youth Group meets at 5pm in the Parlor.
Senior Youth Group meets at 7pm in the Parlor.


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Hey I got 2 '69 sa200. Ones getting rebuilt as we speak and it's got a true red face plate and a f162. Now my other '69 has a black faceplate and oil light... I think?... but that one has a f163.
Both motors are same code 6633 and are original
Just wondering if someone knew of the time line from short hood to "long hood" with the two piece front then going into the 60's and 70's
After this 69 rebuild I'll be taking the f163 out of my other 69 and connecting it to my 58 gen.. well that's the plan but we'll see!


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Atop an oak-shaded hill at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., an epitaph chiseled in Latin on Col. Nathaniel Rochester's headstone whispers, "If you seek his monument, look around you."
Mount Hope, America's oldest municipal park-garden graveyard, is a refuge not only for the departed. Curious souls tramp through the 196-acre arboretum by the tens of thousands each year – among them picnickers, birders, joggers and history buffs.
In the Romantic era of Words-worth and Beethoven, the vogue of mourning embraced a love of nature and artistry. So-called rural cemeteries a few miles out of town were a sublime departure from the austere colonial churchyards with morbid funerary where the dead typically ended up.
About 200 were established in the three decades before the Civil War, beginning with Mount Auburn near Boston in 1831. They're invariably hemmed in now by urban sprawl, forerunners of large city parks and the grid pattern cemeteries that predominate to this day.
Carved out of wilderness on New York's western frontier in 1838, Mount Hope's heavily wooded Old Grounds are a jumble of glacier-carved ridges, ravines and meadows.
Cobbled carriage paths twist and tumble past Greek-style mausoleums, a Florentine fountain, a Gothic Revival chapel, stone terraces fringed with wildflowers and ornate sculptures.
Around every curve lie tales of heroism, ingenuity, intrigue and tragedy: a dentist, Josephus Requa, who invented the machine gun; Gen. George Washington's drummer boy; an Arctic explorer with the Army forced to resort to cannibalism; George Selden, creator of the gasoline-powered automobile.
Regular visitors and newcomers alike are drawn in by Mount Hope's topography, architecture, personalized ornamentation and fabled denizens.
"I look at the beauty, the architecture and the stones, and I remember all those buried here that made the city – made history what it is – as people," said Joyce Wiedrich, 58, a nurse who gets a daily glimpse of Mount Hope from a hospital.
Mount Hope began as a 54-acre cemetery 11/2 miles from downtown, where overburdened burial grounds were proving a health hazard and an obstacle to expansion. Today, bustling neighborhoods and the University of Rochester campus press all along its perimeter.
Under oaks 200 to 300 years old, the heart of Mount Hope "is maybe the only place in Rochester that still looks like the 19th century," said Dennis Carr, a library researcher. "It brings history alive – a paradox in a cemetery – but you feel connected to great events and people who did great things."
Carr saw Kurt Vonnegut on a 1994 pilgrimage to honor fellow POW Edward Crone Jr., the role model for Billy Pilgrim in "Slaughterhouse Five." Vonnegut later wrote that "he didn't feel the Second World War had ended for him until he had come here and visited the grave of his friend," Carr said.
The rural-cemetery movement, which sprouted at Père LaChaise near Paris in 1804, spread to England before crossing the Atlantic.
Four private rural cemeteries – Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Mass., Laurel Hill in Philadelphia, Green-Wood in Brooklyn and Spring Grove in Cincinnati – are national historic landmarks. Within the next year, Mount Hope will try to claim that designation.
That cemetery model – selectively planted and pruned but meant to look as if it spontaneously arose from nature – mirrored the spirit of the times.
"You've moved from the colonial-era Protestant idea of predestination," where cemeteries are grim and neglected, to "a much more optimistic view of the afterlife" reflected in loved ones being laid to rest in lilac groves under limestone tablets adorned with Scripture or soulful verse, Carr said.
Mount Hope's public ownership made it a striking example of cemeteries suited to a more egalitarian age. Lot holders had free rein over the design and appearance of the individual grave sites.
As the industrial economy took hold after the Civil War, cemetery layouts were turned over to professional superintendents and the free-for-all approach began to be seen as garish and disorganized. The centrally managed landscape-lawn model was popularized by Adolph Strauch at Spring Grove.
"He got rid of private-lot fencing, all the extraneous visualization like cast-iron animals, wire benches and trellises," said the 733-acre Cincinnati cemetery's historian, Phil Nuxhall.
In recent times, rural cemeteries have come full circle in capturing the public's imagination.
"They start out as contemplative places to honor the dead and equally as parklike spaces that could be accessed by any level of society," Carr said. While that cemetery style faded away, they've benefited from a newfound appreciation for conserving the past.
"Maybe 30 to 40 years old, people started to look at them as cultural resources akin to a museum," Carr said. "They're a constant in a constantly changing world."


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I've been getting fed the "OMG I'm so busy, there's no time for anything else!" line my entire professional life, so eventually I started blogging about it:
- There's really no need to talk about how busy you are
- Being busy is the same as a drug for most people
- Only about 10 percent of Americans can balance "being busy" and "being happy"
- What exactly are you so, so, so busy with?
- Is "The Busy Trap" someday going to lead to an Essentialist movement?
I literally have never understood the whole busy thing. Life is complex, yes. Sometimes your boss is killing you with deliverables. Sometimes your kids have a lot of needs. You need to pay attention to your spouse and adult parents and siblings and family and friends. There are commitments, yes. THERE'S NO TIME FOR TRAVEL!
I've heard all this stuff. I've thought some of it (but not a lot of it) myself. My general viewpoint is thus: how "busy" you are is a choice. You have X-amount of time you're required to be at work; if it's taking you 2x that time to actually do your work, you need to think about how productive you are. I'm not saying skate out at 4:55pm every day (although I've had long stretches of life where I've done that, yes), but you don't need to be rocking the 72-hour/week with pride every time out either. That just burns you out. About 55 hours/week is essentially a hard ceiling. Remember that.
Now we've got some new research on all this. Here it is in Fast Company, and here's the original study. Here's the general methodology:
Every year, throughout the year, researchers from the BLS contact thousands of Americans and have them talk through the previous day. The resulting American Time Use Survey (ATUS) gives the most complete statistical picture of how people spend their time, without some of the biases inherent in other surveys. Since the BLS doesn't ask about particular categories of time, people are less inclined to give socially desirable answers. Since the survey looks at the previous day (including both weekdays and weekends), people don't have to guess what is a typical day and what is not.
Alright, not bad. It has flaws. But not bad. (All methodologies have flaws because, well, people have flaws too.)
Here are the big takeaways:
The results paint a picture of modern life that's quite at odds with the usual assumptions. According to the ATUS, the average American sleeps 8.8 hours per day. That's 8.54 hours on weekdays and 9.4 hours on weekends and holidays. This survey does include older teens and senior citizens, who perhaps might have more hours available for sleep, but even looking at slightly busier demographics, the sleep totals are still pretty high. The average working mom with a kid under age six got 8.67 hours of sleep per day; the average working father of young kids got 8.27 hours.
We have enough time to sleep because we work less than we think. The average full-time work week comes out at just a bit shy of 42 hours.
If you told most hard-driving, Type-A D-Bag "Work Is Virtue" guys that they only work 42 hours/week, they'd spit in your face, then punch you right in the teeth. People hate to have their work ethic questioned, especially those that tie their self-worth back to work (which is many people). But this is actual data, baby! This is the same thing as whenever you sit in a meeting about analytics, which no one really understands in the least, and everyone starts questioning everything down to the root. Yes, analytics programs sometimes are bad, and sometimes are set up wrong. But I mean, that's trackable data. Let's stop questioning it. OK? Same with this survey. It has flaws, no doubt. But … it's a survey. It's not made up out of whole cloth.
There's 168 hours/week. If you work 42 and you sleep 56, that leaves 72 hours for other stuff. (Chasing those dreams, baby!) Let's say you work 52 and sleep 56. There's still 62 hours available. That's like, 9 hours/day.
I know most guys (usually guys, but it happens with females too) claim "70-80 on the clock." For some people, maybe that's close to true. For a lot of people, I think it isn't. People chase busy because they fear irrelevance if they're not busy, especially in a world where everyone is claiming to be busy. (That made no sense, but hopefully you followed it.) People also chase busy because it literally gives you the same quick hit that a drug does. It makes you feel like you're important and relevant to others. If you don't feel that way, the opposite is depression, right? That's not good.
Here's the real answer: learn to worry less about how relevant you are and focus more on the things that matter/less on the things that don't.


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Yesterday morning at 230 AM , I got a panicked call from my best friends husband that they took her in the ambulance with chest pain .. this is the same friend that had a baby 11 days ago> I told him top bring the kids here , he dropped off the 18 month old and off he went , he got there and she was in the cath lab.. she was having a massive heart attack, one of her main arteries had frayed open and she was fading.. they code blued her but they got her fixed and put in three stents. It was very scary to see her so sick yesterday knowing the problems I have with my heart and lungs.
So yesterday was a very long day to say the least, I dropped her lil one off with her hubby at the hospital at 430 , then got my other friends lil 3 yr old for the weekend at 5, today Dani has a basketball game , and after it Gabe's best friend who is 14 will be coming home with us also, so my house will be full this weekend. Dani is so grumpy and snotty the past few days , She is driving me nuts .. i think it is the mid winter cabin fever.
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The kids are playing Kinect while I get my points and such , take my water pills and then I will take it over for awhile, I am also liking taking the puppy and the dog we have out cause I walk farther than they really need and they love it... yesterday I walked for 15 minutes out while carrying my friends 25lbs lil boy( he don't walk yet), today I will take Bug and we will walk awhile and he can look at the horses and walk with me and the dogs... he will love it maybe my kids will walk to.
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What a scary day! I hope your friend is doing better and I'm glad she has a good friend like you to help out with her little one. Sounds like a busy weekend~I miss having all the activity of my kids and their friends around. Good job on your 133 day streak! Keep going strong!
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Prayers heading your friends way for a quick recovery. She and her husband are lucky to have you as a friend.
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OH my god! That is an eye opener. I will be praying- for all of you! Hope things get better.
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What a good friend you are, always helping out! I hope your friend makes a speedy recovery. Have fun with DC3...I just can't quite get the hang of the dance games. I seem to be better at the sports based ones.
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With my first I was clueless. I never read a thing, never even once considered making a birth plan (not sure if I had ever heard the term). I figured why "scare" myself (gotta admit, most birth stories in the mainstream public are terrifying). And that I would do what I needed to do to get the baby out.
The goddesses of birth were smiling on me that day. I had a good midwife on shift and showed up at the hospital with no idea I was in real labor and was 8cm. A few laps around the ward and a few pushes later, I popped out my kid.
Would I recommend that? Not really. It could have gone a really different way. I did write birth plans for my second and third. Did anything in their labor follow it? Yeah, a few things. Was it everything I wrote out that I wanted to happen/not happen? Not even close. In fact, my second and third were far more medicalized than my first. Partially by circumstances. But I don't think my birth plan was really that healthy of an exercise. I think with our fourth I will just wing it again. I know basically what I want and don't want, but there was something about writing out every detail (maybe not every one) that made me still feel like I "failed" despite having a vaginal, med-free, bonded birth (which basically is what i want!) So I think they can have negatives. I do seem to fall into the camp of being more go-with-the-flow. But it depends on what works for a mama and where her comfort level lies.
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I also noticed that when I go to start the engine the first time I crank it, it will begin to start and give a gurgle sound as if it was on but won't start up completely then I will let off of it and try again and that second time it will start as soon as I turn it over it will start. It never has done that before, does that single any thing out? Thanks for the help!
So this morning I popped my hood to check for a loose line again or anything out of the ordinary and I checked all of my fluids and my coolant was down a lot from the night before but there were no leaks on the hoses or spots on the ground. Any ideas?
I finally got the code off of the obd and it gave me P0340 - Camshaft sensor. Does that mean that there is a sensor going to the camshaft that went bad or that the camshaft itself is messing up?
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I think its one of your pullys that is bad and it resulted in having you sensor going out. Domino effect.
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it just happened to my 03 i have about 93k and It was doing that when i hit around 40- 50 and when im about to stop at a light it will make that squeky sound and shut off periodically. I thought it was the pully on the alternator so i took it off and it test bad but when i had it replaced it still made noise like i said domino affect. I trying to find out which pully
It sounds like it may be a vacuum line that is loose. Check carefully for a loose hose, and check for codes since your engine service light is on. It's probably on because of the vacuum line. Can't really tell u much more w/ no other clues. Trouble code might give u some idea where vac. line is. good luck countrycurt0
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Sorry jr86, that doesn't rattle any new ideas loose in my brain, although it is probably all connected. One possible idea, can you push down on the gas pedal in park/neutral and get the rpms up to 15-1800, will it make the whistling noise while the car is not moving? If so,have someone maintain the rpm's so u can hunt around for the source of the noise. One trick that has worked for me a couple of times is to try and narrow down the area where the noise might be, and give a small area a real heavy dose (spray) of WD-40, or something similar. If you shoot a heavy enough spray on the vacuum leak (if that's what it is) it should quiet it down briefly. This works best on small leaks, yours may be a big one. The spray just 'seals' up the leak very briefly. It just might help u narrow down where it's located. Don't use anything flammable, the WD-40 won't harm anything. And go get that engine code from auto zone or somewhere if u can. That would be the clue u need. Keep me posted! countrycurt0
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Ok jr86, the camshaft position sensor circuit malfunction can be several things.
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Do u have or can u get a multimeter to test the system?
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check the voltage of the camshaft position sensor ( w/ multimeter)
also check the crankshaft position sensor if u haven't found anything wrong above.
powertrain control module is last thing to replace, as it's expensive. U should make sure everything else is ok before replacing it. good luck, let me know what u find. PS I'll be away for about 10 days- so it may be awhile before I can get back to you. countrycurt0
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S.M.Inam, founder president, of SAARC Chamber of
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Having a multi-dimensional personality, Inam always
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Professional (Pvt.) Ltd. WAME Representative Office Pakistan, he is
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Country Exhibition in Moscow 1991. He was the leader of Pakistan
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trades delegation to Uzbekistan and Russia in 1992. He was the
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PAGE: What steps your insight suggests
resolving financial and economic problems faced by Pakistan?
INAM: It is unfortunate that we always look
rescheduling as the means for solution of the huge foreign debts.
Headlines appear in newspapers whenever Pakistan succeeds in
rescheduling of the debt payments or gets a fresh loan. As a matter of
fact the rescheduling or grant of fresh loans are adding to our
financial problems instead of resolving the issue. Steps should be
taken for debt retirement instead of rescheduling the repayments.
PAGE: How we can retire our debts in the
face of financial constraints and limited cash flow from external
INAM: Pakistanis living abroad are greatly
concerned with the economic problems faced by the country. It may be a
disclosure to many of us that non-resident Pakistanis living in USA,
UK and Canada have formed three groups and have offered to sell at
least $20 billion to the government of Pakistan. They have also
offered to invest the entire amount they will get against the sale
proceeds of these dollars within Pakistan.
PAGE: In what capacity you are talking on
behalf of those Pakistanis living abroad.
INAM: You may take me as their spokesman as
they have authorized me to go ahead if the government gives a green
signal. These groups however have certain reservations. They are
asking a sovereign guarantee that the funds they invested in Pakistan
is according to economic policies of the government and would not be
nationalized in any case. The invested funds would not be subjected to
any tax unless the areas of investment start showing profitable
results. They are willing to invest that fund even against a mark up
rate of 13 per cent.
PAGE: Have you moved the idea to the
INAM: 'Yes, the idea has already been
floated to the concern'. He however declined to give details of the
PAGE: You are the founder president of SAARC
Chamber of Commerce, how do you see the prospects of economic
cooperation in the region.
INAM: Despite the fact that Pakistan and
India have strained political relations, the common cultural, language
and strategic factors have always been instrumental in a much bigger
border trade between the two countries. Due to the policies of the two
governments the size of the official trade is hardly around 700-800
million dollar. However the informal border trade is running over $2-3
billion every year. Narrating his personal experience of a visit to
India, Inam said Pakistani products informally imported into that
country are available at every shop in major markets of Delhi while
Indian products whether Banarsi Sari, Indian liqueur, beetle-pan
scores of consumer items are available in Pakistan. These are the
harsh realities, which we should accept. This is an avenue where the
economy can get benefits by allowing the formal trade; otherwise the
people engaged in informal trade would continue to take advantage of
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How I Made $21.95 From My Blog Last Month
Seriously. That's all we made. Before expenses. Aren't you supposed to make money blogging? Aren't we business and finance professors who should know how to do this? Let me explain.
Where We Started
The Money Professors is an offline company with an online presence. We are not an online company. But we decided that needs to change. Why? There are many reasons, but let's take a journey back together shall we? (Cue cheesy music and the fake old-time video reel).
It was 2010 and three college professors were teaching their popular personal finance class at East Carolina University (500 students per semester – for a class that was purely elective and didn't count towards any degree or program). Having spent the last several years improving the student experience in the classroom and being asked by local media for interviews and for guest presentations at various conferences and events, the three realized there was a real thirst for financial education.
Now, I had already written two books (The Graduate's Guide to Life and Money and Extra Credit: The 7 Things Every College Student Needs to Know about Credit, Debt & Cash). But we felt the need to write a textbook as well. Which starts us on the journey of The Money Professors (yes, we are actually professors – who teach business, marketing, and personal finance). We formed our company as a way to allocate royalties as well as other income such as speaking and consulting fees. Thus we started an offline business, partly for tax purposes. We quickly landed a contract with the non-profit Inceptia to design the curriculum for their Certificate in Personal Financial Management.
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Since then we have been working on our textbook, completed a book for parents of college bound seniors called How to Keep Your Kid from Moving Back Home after College, and continue to speak and consult. But ultimately we realized that while our message was reaching hundreds each year, we felt that we could reach thousands instead. The best way to do that was to take our knowledge and content and turn our website into a blog – rather a resource site for financial literacy content – driven by a blog.
We wanted – No we needed to make our content available to everyone. So that brings us up to last month. Since we are not set up as a blog, we don't have many affiliate partnerships formalized (we now have an Amazon Associates Account setup in case customers prefer to purchase our books on Amazon and not from our site – but I am not sure if that has been setup correctly yet), we don't have any social media campaigns, and the only online product we have developed so far is the recently launched workbook Turn Your Debt into Dollars – which gives readers the strategies to save tens of thousands of dollars by eliminating debt and improving their own credit score.
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We are working on several online courses as well as other workbooks and a software program, DebtorADE, which is actually available as an Excel download, but we plan to have it coded as a standalone software tool. The website will also be redesigned as more user-friendly. Right now we are designing the website on paper.
Part of our efforts are to help individuals navigate debt, money management, and increasing their earnings. While we always tell people to first focus on the things you can control – your spending – that is the short-term. For the longer term, we want people to also focus on increasing their income – whether that is through getting a pay raise, a better job, or starting a business.
Follow Our Journey
If you want to start a blog there are a ton of resources available that we will be sharing in future posts. But you can also follow along with us. I know it is motivating and exciting to hear from bloggers who are making $30,000+ per month, but there is so much they have already done to get there. You can start from the beginning and see what we do to succeed – and at times fail. We will be as transparent as possible in the process. We are educators after all. We want to help others succeed in business. That's what we do. That's what we teach.
There are so many exciting things I can't wait to share such as:
- The steps to start a blog
- Choosing a hosting provider
- Choosing the right theme for your site
- Choosing a shopping cart
- Choosing an email autoresponder
- Joining an affiliate network
- Backing up your site
- Site security
- Looking at the numbers
- Storage and site performance
- The list goes on..
Since I teach business for a living, I anticipate creating some of the above topics as their own standalone face-to-face courses. If so, I will create an online version as well once I get the bugs worked out offline so you will have a high quality college-caliber course without all the additional fees and expenses.
Learn to Make Money Blogging – Or Just Make More Money Period
What I can tell you is that starting a blog (if you want to make money blogging) is like starting any other business, but it is a little like the wild west in that it is not as defined of a market in the way that say a retail store or a coffee shop is readily defined. That means there is a lot of opportunity but a lot of snake oil salesman out there as well.
If you want to learn how to start a business, and want to watch one as it unfolds (our March sales so far are a whopping $0 – so we are really starting from scratch – UPDATE: March Sales = $28.95), then follow us along. I will also explain why we aren't making any sales and what we are doing to change that over the next few months. Whether you want to make money blogging or just make money in any business that you start on your own, what we share along the way will be helpful.
Keep in mind that The Money Professors all work full-time at our respective colleges and we do some offline work for the business as well. For example we are currently in the process of working on a textbook with a major publisher. The point is that we are not under any pressure to make money from our site and we are running it part-time since we work and already have other part-time obligations. Many of you are also in the same situation. You have day jobs. We get it. Every step will be broken down into easy-to-understand and easy-to-do steps. This is going to be fun!
We are happy to answer any questions you might have and will layout our business in more detail in a later post.
In the meantime, keep making smart money decisions and push yourself further in your career or your entrepreneurial adventures. Feel free to post comments or questions. We look forward to sharing this journey with as many people as possible.
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It is so awesome
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I would watch it now and again not an ardent fan
doctor and the medics r better :D
Such a commonplace show.
I watched the first episode & was weirded out.
Can I skip the first few episodes lol? @Zendrya
It's amazing, the best show out there
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