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It's a simple biological fact that dads love gadgetry so they make the perfect gift for Father's Day.
The problem is that your kids are more into either make-up, dresses and shoes, or mud, football and beer.
And what if you haven't got any kids? Why should you miss out on this present-giving bonanza?
The solution is that you should treat yourself to something special this Father's day, because if you don't buy yourself something awesome, no one will.
Read on for our inside guide to every father's gadgetry wishlist.
Sky+HD - £49 + £10/month
There's not a father born who doesn't love a bit of sport, and there are some fantastic Sky HD deals, which means it has never been cheaper to get high definition TV.
Sky+HD boxes have been slashed to £49 and a high definition subscription is only an extra £10 on normal tariffs.


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If you've got an internet connection and time to kill, swing over to Wikimapia. Like Google Earth, it allows you to browse through satellite photos and scope out the terrain. Unlike Google Earth, it allows visitors to mark and describe features of interest. History buffs have gotten in on the act, so you can do some nifty virtual battlefield touring.
Since Wikimapia is a collaborative project, the entries reflect popular interest. The most thoroughly-documented sites are the famous Civil War battles. Gettysburg is marked up like crazy; even the Longstreet Monument has a notation. Antietam and Shiloh also have some great detail. That's not the case for the Revolutionary War sites. Check out Cowpens, King's Mountain, Lexington Green, and Yorktown. I tried searching for some War of 1812 sites, but most of them didn't turn up any results.

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January 14, 2018
1. Origin
Dan Brown
A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
2. The Rooster Bar
John Grisham
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
3. The People vs. Alex Cross
James Patterson
Detective Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial for murder charges.
4. The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child
Jack Reacher tracks down the owner of a pawned West Point class ring and stumbles upon a large criminal enterprise.
5. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
6. Artemis
Andy Weir
A small-time smuggler living in a lunar colony schemes to pay off an old debt by pulling off a challenging heist.
7. Year One
Nora Roberts
When a pandemic strikes and the world turns into chaos, several travelers head west to find a new life.
8. End Game
David Baldacci
Jessica Reel and Will Robie fight a dangerous adversary in Colorado.
9. The Wanted
Robert Crais
A single mother hires Elvis Cole to investigate her son who is on the run after a deadly crime spree.
10. Tom Clancy Power and Empire
Marc Cameron
President Jack Ryan seeks to identify the hidden forces escalating the tensions between China and the United States.
13. Two Kinds of Truth
Michael Connelly
While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.
12. Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King and Owen King
Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
13. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
14. Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard in World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.
15. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Mississippi while his black mother takes him and his toddler sister to pick up their white father, who is getting released from the state penitentiary.
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Calvin Johnson can have his single-season receiving yardage record. The Atlanta Falcons have a record that matters even more: 13-2.
The Falcons clinched the NFC's No. 1 playoff seed with a 31-18 victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night. Matt Ryan had four touchdown passes and just seven incompletions in his second consecutive near-flawless performance.
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I've been critical of the Falcons all season for lucky wins, their easy schedule and playing down to their opponents. But the Falcons deserve a ton of credit for how they've finished out the season. A 34-0 whitewash of the New York Giants last week, followed by this convincing road victory, marks Atlanta's best stretch of the season.
Ryan's play is especially promising. At times, he can make it look too easy because he always gets the Falcons into advantageous looks. He showed off a pinpoint deep ball Saturday, and had a sense of the moment.
After the Lions cut the Falcons' lead to 21-13 in the second half, Ryan had his gutsiest drive. He converted an inside third-down throw to Roddy White while being drilled by a Detroit blitz. That led directly to points being set up by a key Ryan scramble.
This season only will feel like a success in Atlanta if the Falcons cash in on home-field advantage with a playoff win or two. After the last two weeks, the Falcons should feel more confident than at any point this season.
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NAHBS 2013 highlights – massive gallery part four
Fat bikes and adventure touring rigs
We're still not done with our coverage from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show – and if you weren't lucky enough to walk the halls yourself, hopefully you haven't grown tired of looking at the amazing machines in our first, second and third image galleries.
Our fourth and final installment is a collection of this year's fat and adventure touring bikes. There's a lot of overlap between these two types of go-anywhere rigs. Both are relatively new genres of bicycles that have become sweethearts of custom builders. (Due in no small part the fact that, while increasingly popular, there are still just a handful of companies offering production models.)
Not quite fat, but quite popular
Surly's massive 29x3in Knard tires and 50mm-wide Rabbit Hole rims have gained (ahem) traction with the custom crowd as well. While bikes designed to accommodate these tires may not technically be considered full-on fat bikes, they offer similar traction and rollover benefits in a more traditionally-designed frame package, as there's no need resort to 170mm-wide rear dropout spacing or 100mm bottom bracket shells.
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Cent; this reminded me about your mention of making some ASM videos. Did you scrap that project or is it still in the works?
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A slow down
10 comments:
- Marcie Garnett said...
Hope all goes well for you in the "living" world!
- May 14, 2013 at 12:02 PM
- Wendy said...
We'll leave the light on!
- May 14, 2013 at 12:16 PM
- Debi Austen said...
Sometimes the living need to take priority - we'll be here when you get back!
- May 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thank you, ladies!
- May 14, 2013 at 12:54 PM
- Elizabeth H. said...
Hope everything is okay and I look forward to reading your blog whenever you are able to post.
- May 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM
- zelsersk said...
Hope all is well. I am having to take a break too from the past and spend my time in the present.
- May 14, 2013 at 3:05 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thank you all for your kind comments. Everything is good, I just don't have the time to devote to quality posts...and I don't like doing less!
- May 14, 2013 at 5:51 PM
- Sally said...
We'll be happy for your return!
- May 14, 2013 at 8:18 PM
- John D. Tew said...
There will be a void in the blogosphere until you return, but everyone needs a sabbatical from time-to-time to tend to life and family demands. Your Followers will watch for new posts and perhaps new arrivals such as me will have time to dig into the Leqaves for Trees archives during your sabbatical. ;-)
BTW, I have a reference to your blog in tomorrow's Saturday Serendipity.
- May 17, 2013 at 5:51 AM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
John, thank you for your kind words! It's true, there are some treasures deep in my archives...it's not a bad idea to re-post some of those!
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Get a Grip! 20-Minute Kettlebell HIT Workout
James Farrell
About This Workout
The buzz on HIT (high-intensity interval training) is heating up, with new boutique sweat shops modeled on this to-the-max method popping up everywhere. "All-out intervals push your body past what it's used to, which means you're shocking your muscles and forcing them to change," says Eric Salvador, the head instructor for the Fhitting Room, a recently opened HIT studio in New York City. Jump-start your results in just 19 minutes with Salvador's killer kettlebell routine. Using a pair of 10- to 15-pound kettlebells, do as many reps as you can of an exercise in a minute, rest for 30 seconds, then move on to the next. Rest for one minute after completing the circuit, then repeat it once more. You'll burn a scorching 10 calories or so every minute and feel firmer by the time you towel off.
James Farrell
Press It Up
Targets shoulders and abs
- Lie faceup on floor with knees slightly bent, heels on floor. Hold sides of kettlebell in front of chest with both hands.
- Slowly lift upper body off floor (until back is upright), pressing kettlebell overhead.
- Reverse motion back to start.
- Continue for 1 minute.
James Farrell
Dip and Kick
Targets abs, butt, hip flexors, and legs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, holding kettlebell in left hand; bend left elbow out to side so that left hand is in front of shoulder and ball of kettlebell rests on back of left forearm. Extend right arm out to side at shoulder level, palm down.
- Lower into a squat, then stand up and kick left leg forward to hip level. Return to squat; continue for 30 seconds.
- Switch sides (holding kettlebell with right hand and kicking with right leg) and repeat for another 30 seconds.
James Farrell
Flutter Kick
Targets arms, abs, inner thighs, and outer thighs
- Lie faceup on floor holding sides of kettlebell with both hands; arms and legs extended toward ceiling.
- Lift shoulders off floor and, keeping upper body lifted throughout, try and touch left shin to kettlebell as you lower right leg toward floor (without allowing it to touch); switch sides and repeat.
- Continue, alternating legs, for 1 minute.
James Farrell
Loopy Lunge
Targets arms, abs, and legs
- Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding handle of kettlebell in left hand, arms by sides.
- Lunge forward with right leg, bending both knees 90 degrees, and pass kettlebell under right thigh to grab handle with right hand.
- Pushing off right heel, return to start position.
- Repeat, lunging forward with left leg and passing kettlebell under thigh to left hand. Continue, alternating sides, for 1 minute.
James Farrell
Crank It
Targets shoulders, arms, abs, butt, and hamstrings
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, kettlebell on floor in front of feet.
- Squat, placing palms on floor on either side of kettlebell, and jump feet back into full plank position.
- Jump both feet forward, landing them on floor outside hands.
- Grip handle of kettlebell with both hands and stand up as you simultaneously bend elbows out to sides to pull kettlebell up to chest.
- Place kettlebell on floor and repeat move for 1 minute.
James Farrell
Booty Burner
Targets chest, abs, and butt
- Lie faceup on floor with knees bent and heels on floor; grasp a kettlebell in each hand by the handle, arms by sides.
- Bend elbows to bring kettlebells by sides of chest (the ball of kettlebells rests on back of forearms), then lift butt of floor.
- Holding lifted position throughout, press kettlebells up. Slowly lower kettlebells to sides of chest, then repeat.
- Continue for 1 minute.
- MAKE IT EASIER: Alternate pressing one kettlebell overhead at a time instead of both.
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Eight O'Clock Coffee Rebrands, Takes Design to Fashion Week
Venerable coffee brand Eight O'Clock Coffee has been given some new clothing. The 154 year old coffee brand has redesigned its packaging and launched some -- yes, it's true -- fashion-related promotions.
One such program, Spot the Red Bag, begins today and encourages people to submit pictures of red bags, whether it's the newly design Eight O'Clock Coffee packaging or or a swanky red bag spotted on the runway during Fashion Week. Or even a red bag spotted on the street. All for a chance to win a trip to New York Fashion Week in February. Pictures can be uploaded to Instagram and given the #SpotTheRedBag hashtag.
A second program will, no joke, involved designers showcasing Eight O'Clock Coffee-inspired handbag designs during this Fall's Style360 during New York Fashion Week.
Coffee packaging as high fashion. That's a new one on us. But an interesting approach none the less.
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Venture Capital
Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA) is the professional association of lower middle market funds and investors. The association campaigns for federal laws, regulations, policies, and low-cost capital that support SBICs and others in their ability to invest long-term debt and equity venture capital in small businesses.
National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) - The National Association of Investment Companies is the only industry association for investment companies dedicating financial resources to investment in an ethnically diverse marketplace. NAIC member companies invest in privately held minority-owned businesses that have a high probability of growth and the ability to generate significant returns for investors and shareholders.
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Resources for Small Business Lenders
National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders (NAGGL) - The National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc. was established as a source of technical information for small businesses and financial institutions on the SBA 7(a) Loan Program.
Coleman Publishing Homepage - This Web site provides useful information on two key federal loans program for small businesses, the SBA 7(a) and 504 programs.
The National Association of Development Companies (NADCO) is the trade association for the nation's Certified Development Companies (CDCs). Our members are non-profit organizations that have been certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide financing to small businesses through the SBA 504 loan program.


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Some of the Most Important Lab Tests and What They Mean
September/October 2011
In many parts of the world, medical providers care for their patients who have HIV/AIDS without the benefit of laboratory tests -- sometimes even the most basic ones. Fortunately, in the United States (and various other countries), medical providers almost always have available to them a wide range of diagnostic tools. Below are some of the most important ones.
Complete Blood Count (CBC)
This tells you whether you are anemic (too few red blood cells), neutropenic (too few of the white blood cells called neutrophils that fight bacterial infections), or thrombocytopenic (too few platelets, or thrombocytes, for your blood to clot normally) -- all of which occur commonly in people with HIV. The CBC also gives you something called the "differential," which is an individual count of all the different kinds of white blood cells: neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, basophils, and eosinophils. It is also crucial in determining your total CD4+ T-cell (or CD4) count, a critical measure of immune function.
CD4 Cell Count
The FACS (not "fax," although pronounced the same way) or Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter machine identifies CD4 cells and directly measures what their proportion (percent) is of all your lymphocytes (white blood cells) when your blood was drawn. So, the CD4 percent is what the machine actually measures, and the total (or "absolute") CD4 cell count is derived from multiplying the percentage of CD4s by the total lymphocyte count. That is why the differential from the CBC is necessary -- in order to obtain your CD4 cell count.
Over time, the CD4 percent is a more stable measure of your immune system function because the total CD4 count is influenced by your white blood cell count at the moment your blood was drawn, a number that varies constantly. Nonetheless, by habit and tradition, health care providers have used the total CD4 cell count for key decisions, such as when to start HIV meds or preventive therapy for opportunistic infections, like PCP (pneumocystis pneumonia).
Viral Load, or HIV RNA PCR (HIV Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase Chain Reaction)
This key test tells us how much virus is in a milliliter (abbreviation: mL) of your blood, one-fifth of a teaspoon. Note that it does not tell us how much HIV is in your entire body, where most of the virus is -- in tissues, such as your lymph glands or nodes. Even though this test uses a tiny quantity of blood, it has proven to be a very good indicator of response to antiretroviral therapy.
The most commonly used test is made by Roche, and has established cut-off values for the upper limit of how much virus can be detected and the lower limit, which is referred to as "undetectable" virus, a shorthand way of saying "below the limit of detection." Note that "undetectable" means the amount of HIV is less than the technical ability of the test to detect it and does not mean that HIV is not there. The Ultrasensitive test has a low-end cut-off of less than 20 copies of HIV RNA/mL.
There are other types of viral load tests (see Positively Aware July/August 2011, "Undetectable -- Says Who?"), such as the branched DNA (bDNA) assay, that are sometimes used. There are various technologies, but the measurement principles, with cut-offs for the upper and lower limits, are similar to the RNA PCR tests above.
Serum Chemistries -- Liver and Kidney Function Tests
Liver Function Tests (LFTs): These tests measure some key functions of the liver, a complex organ that performs many important tasks in the body. The liver manufactures proteins that are essential to blood-clotting and to keeping fluid in your bloodstream instead of leaking out into your tissues and causing swelling (edema). The liver breaks down most environmental poisons (toxins) and drugs to rid the body of them. It also forms bile, which is important for digestion.
Amino aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine aspartate transaminase (ALT) are key enzymes that indicate how well liver cells (hepatocytes) are functioning. The levels of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase and a protein by-product called bilirubin indicate how well the liver is producing and excreting bile, which is then stored in the gall bladder. Albumin, a protein made in the liver, is critical for keeping fluid in the bloodstream and is an overall measure of nutritional status.
Liver function can be damaged by alcohol abuse, environmental toxins (including street drugs), viral infection of the liver (viral hepatitis), and a long list of diseases and prescription medications. Since people with HIV sometimes also have chronic hepatitis B or C, drink too much, or experience liver damage (hepatotoxicity) from medications, LFTs are important to monitor.
Kidney (renal) function tests: These tests measure how well your kidneys are doing their primary job, which is to rid the body of protein waste (blood urea nitrogen, or BUN) and regulate blood volume by filtering out the waste and extra water to form urine. The two main kidney function tests look at the level of waste as a way to measure how efficiently your kidneys are operating. These tests can provide clues that someone might have HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) or kidney malfunction due to other causes, such as dehydration, diabetes, or drug toxicity.
Since some drugs are excreted from the body by the kidneys, dose adjustments need to be made when a person develops altered kidney function. Awareness of kidney dysfunction is also important when selecting an ARV regimen because some medications, like Viread (tenofovir), are not preferred for someone with underlying kidney disease.
Kidney function should be checked when someone enters HIV care. Thereafter, people at high risk of developing kidney disease (primarily African Americans and diabetics or people with a family history of diabetes) should have their kidney function checked at regular intervals. Routine checks at least annually are also recommended for people on ARV therapy.
Syphilis Blood Test
Syphilis, like HIV, is a sexually transmitted infection that may have no symptoms at all. If left untreated, it can cause -- years later -- significant disease and death due to damage to blood vessels and the brain.
There are a number of blood tests for syphilis (RPR, FTA, syphilis IgG), but the type of test is less important than the fact that everyone with HIV should have one upon entering HIV care; women who become pregnant should also have one to prevent transmission to their unborn baby. After that, screening depends on risk -- people who are at higher risk of exposure through unprotected sex, especially those with multiple partners, may need to be screened regularly. Several outbreaks around the country among men who have sex with men have occurred over the past several years. Sex workers, incarcerated individuals, and people with other sexually transmitted infections are also at high risk. Otherwise, annual re-testing is appropriate.
Tests for Viral Hepatitis
Many HIV-positive people are also infected ("co-infected") with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is very important to find this out because, if left untreated, both conditions can ultimately lead to severe scarring of the liver (cirrhosis), liver failure, and liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC for short).
Some HIV medicines are active against hepatitis B, so it is important to craft an ARV regimen that will adequately treat both HIV and HBV at the same time. Hepatitis C currently requires treatment with two drugs -- peginterferon and ribavirin -- that do not control HIV, and this therapy can be pretty challenging. The use of newly approved drugs for HCV used in addition to the standard combination of peginterferon and ribavirin can markedly improve response to therapy, as well as possibly shortening the treatment period.
In addition to HBV and HCV, it is also important to test blood for proteins that are protective (called antibodies) to hepatitis A (HAV). There is no chronic form of hepatitis A, but if you already have chronic liver disease from hepatitis B and/or C, you can get much sicker from hepatitis A than someone who doesn't have HBV or HCV, because you may already have some liver damage. Since there are vaccines available for hepatitis A and B (but not, unfortunately, for hepatitis C), these should be offered to every HIV-positive person whose blood tests show no immunity to these viruses.
Resistance Tests (Genotype and Phenotype)
These tests tell us whether your virus is resistant to certain HIV drugs (in other words, a given medication will not be effective against your virus). Testing for transmitted resistance is now recommended before starting HIV meds, as up to 12% of people have a virus that is resistant to one or more antiretrovirals. These tests are also used to help choose a new combination of meds for people who are not responding to their current HIV therapy.
Both genotypes and phenotypes are done on a blood sample. Genotypes, which are simpler, faster, and cheaper to perform, identify changes in particular viral genes that are associated with reduced or no response to specific drugs. Phenotypes, which are more complicated, time-consuming, and expensive, test how well your HIV grows in the presence of different concentrations of HIV drugs.
Genotypes may be more than adequate for early resistance because they look at how much resistance the virus has compared to virus with no resistance; phenotypes have some advantages for people with extensive resistance because they can indicate how well the virus responds to various amounts of individual drugs. The phenotype results can be especially useful when there are no "new" drugs available to someone and the only option is a "salvage" regimen of drugs to which the virus is at least partially, if not fully, susceptible.
In the most difficult cases, both tests add information of value. Cost can limit the availability of these tests, especially the phenotype.
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ROCHESTER ��� He is making an impact, saving money and getting praise from passengers in vehicles as he motors by. Alex Boros, a city resident, built his own motorized bicycle.
It all started in the spring of 2011 when Boros, 43, saw a man on a motor-bike in the parking lot of a Dover supermarket.
�I flagged him down,� he said. �It just looked so cool. He had just motor-pedaled from Portland, Maine, and it took him a little over three hours. He was very kind and let me try his ride. I was hooked.�
Boros, who was driving a 1996 Subaru station wagon at the time, decided to buy a kit to motorize his bicycle and sell his automobile.
�I quickly realized it�s fun to ride, it�s inexpensive to get around,� he said. �My old car needed a new catalytic converter and thus was only getting 17 miles per gallon on the highway.�
Boros purchased the same kit that the man in the parking lot had, which ran him an estimated $600.
�Yes, there are cheaper kits out there, but you get what you pay for. I�ve heard of people making a motor-bicycle from junk yard scraps,� he said. �I like the fact that I can easily order replacement parts online, including various sprockets for engine torque and various top speeds. I can really dial in the�perfect ride.�
This was much cheaper than fixing his Subaru, which, Boros said, was a smart decision due to his fixed income.
By downsizing from the sport vehicle to his motor-bicycle, Boros has had to get accustomed to not having windows and walls protecting him as he travels.
�I�use my motor-bicycle all four�seasons, except in heavy rain,� he said. �In the winter, I use studded winter road tires�made for bicycles.�
Boros said he prefers to stay out of the rain, but believes he made the best choice using the motorized bicycle as his only means of transportation. The bike can reach speeds up to 35 miles per hour, although Boros� top speed is 25 miles per hour. He�s traveled throughout New England, and has only put about $300 more into the bike.
�I think the selling point is the miles per gallon,� Boros said. �With a rider under 175 pounds, you could easily get 200 miles per gallon.�
This depends on the weight being carried on the bicycle, according to Boros. He said if he is carrying groceries, or going up hill, the miles per gallon decreases.
Boros said his bike is also registered through the Department of Motor Vehicles.
�I just wanted to have just as much legal�right to be on the road as any other motorist,� Boros said. �I saw myself eventually crossing state lines, even motor-pedaling cross-country, so I wanted a moped plate.�
Boros said registration was a gray area. He said he emailed back and forth with the DMV in Concord for over nine months before receiving his registration.
�Legally, yes, you do need to have a vehicle like this registered, but when speaking to police officers in Dover and Rochester, they told me they did not have a problem with it,� he said.
Boros� bicycle is covered by AAA for up to a 200 mile tow. Next month, he plans to get it insured through Progressive for only $77 a year.
Boros isn�t making more motorized bicycles at this time, but said if anyone wanted to contact him to build a custom bike for them, he would be up for the challenge.
�No one really wants to spend a grand for one like mine,� Boros said. �If someone wants to trust me and hands me a grand up front, then I�d be quite happy to build them a good quality motor-bicycle.�
The motivation behind this project, Boros said, was sparked by his bipolar disorder. He said using the kit and building his bike widened his horizons.
�That, and also it was a huge economic savings and it was fun,� Boros said.
In the future, Boros hopes to ride his bike to the White Mountains to take photographs and make sketches for paintings to help his aspirations of becoming an artist.
�Life can be unlimited and full of opportunities,� Boros said.
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ROCHESTER ��� He is making an impact, saving money and getting praise from passengers in vehicles as he motors by. Alex Boros, a city resident, built his own motorized bicycle.


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14 year old girl: "Sex for me is just like dancing. I adulation dancing with with altered men".
Doctor: "Do you even feel annihilation if you ball with these men"?
14 year old girl: "Sometimes. I feel a lot of feelings. They endure for a while and afresh they're gone".
Doctor: "Do these men even accept animosity for you"?
14 year old girl: "Sometimes, for a minute".
Doctor: "If you accept a sister and she tells you that she wants to accept sex, what will you acquaint her"?
14 year old girl: "I will acquaint her to wait".
Doctor: "So why do you do what you do"?
14 year old girl: "I am the a lot of accepted babe in 9th grade".
This is a chat (not accurately though) from a cine I afresh saw on TV. It was actual realistic, absolutely bent my attention, and aggressive me to address this article.
Just like this babe in the movie, I had sex if I was 14. The alone aberration amid me and her was that I was accepting sex with alone one guy and that I didn't get a disease. Still, a lot of her thoughts were my own thoughts aback then, and for abiding these are your thoughts too… in a way.
There is something about sex that makes us absolutely analytical about it at a adolescent age. It makes us admiration how it feels. It makes us anticipate that we become added complete if we appoint in it. And just like what this babe thought, it makes us anticipate that we can accretion accepting through it.
When your accompany alpha administration their animal adventures with you, you activate to admiration how it absolutely feels. And a lot of of the time, humans will acrylic a absolute nice account in your apperception even if they didn't adore it. Guys blow about it; and so do girls. Nobody will anytime allocution about their bad adventures with it.
Having sex for guys accomplish them feel like they've baffled something. It makes them feel like absolute men. For girls, it's absolutely different. She starts activity acceptable if the guy starts absent her. She doesn't absolutely attending at it as sex. She looks at it added of accepting his absorption and getting capital by this guy. This is what the 14 year old babe in the cine meant if she said that the animosity of the guys for her endure for a minute. Afresh she starts absent the absorption again, which is why she eventually keeps giving in to it.
Regardless of age, guys and girls will consistently be the same. I bethink one adage that goes: Guys accord adulation in adjustment to get sex; Girls accord sex in adjustment to get love. In short, men are amative beings and women are affecting beings. You put these two needs calm and you accept teenagers whose hormones and testosterones are calmly triggered.
Unfortunately, boyhood sex never leads to annihilation good. In fact, God Himself is adjoin it, not that He doesn't wish you to adore it but because He wants you to really, absolutely adore it. Anticipate about it this way… your parents wish to accord you the best car that you can possibly get. They don't wish to accord you annihilation beneath than that. However, they accept to delay for the appropriate time to accord it to you. God is the aforementioned way. He wants to accord you the allowance of sex, which was advised by Him, in the appropriate time and place, and that is in marriage.
Believe me, no jailbait who has had sex has anytime enjoyed it the way God advised it to be enjoyed. Honestly, your bodies are not even absolutely developed yet if you're in your teens. Added than this, you are still mentally and emotionally immature. You may anticipate that you are or can be physically acceptable at it, but that doesn't beggarly that it is acceptable the way it can be good.
It takes a abysmal acquaintance with the added getting to feel so chargeless and airy with sex. This acquaintance and abandon can alone be accomplished in marriage. In alliance there is no abhorrence of getting caught, accepting a disease, acting bigger than others, proving yourself to your partner, etc. You are just chargeless to be who God fabricated you to be. You advisedly serve the added getting because of your abundant adulation for him/her. It is not a apparent top but something so abysmal and intense.
Teen sex may feel acceptable but it doesn't last. It alone scratches the surface. Afresh it leads to destruction. How abounding boyhood pregnancies and abortions accept resulted from this? How abounding acute jealousies that led to annihilation accept happened as a result? How abounding adolescence acquired STDs as a consequence? How abounding guys and girls accept been aching and blood-soaked in effect?
In that cine I was talking about, one babe had articulate sex with her boyfriend. She absolutely admired him. So one day, the guy took her to her allowance with addition acquaintance with his adherent and capital her to do accumulation sex with them. The babe said: "But I alone wish to accept sex with you". She was so abashed at what he was aggravating to do. She ran abroad and the guy still backward in the allowance with the added couple. That absolutely bankrupt her heart.
Teen guys are not complete abundant to even accept the affections that girls go through. Boyhood girls are not aswell complete abundant to handle their own emotions. This is area aggregate can get absolutely messy. It's a lot of drama, for sure.
Teen sex, or any added sex alfresco of marriage, will never plan the way sex was advised because it is alive adjoin the grain. It's like application an apparatus for something it was not advised for. You may anticipate it's alive until the motor goes out, or it absolutely breaks.
Sex is God's allowance for you for your marriage. It is declared to be your allowance for your approaching husband/wife. It is not meant to be opened now and be acclimated for anyone else. Even if you will eventually end up affiliated to the getting you're accepting sex with, you still can't accessible the allowance afore its time, or you will ruin it. This happened to me which was why my aboriginal alliance failed. He was my admirer at 14 and the guy who I gave up my virginity to. I had sex with him at 14 and connected to accept sex with him, which led to my abundance and a alliance both of us were not able for. It aching not alone him and me but even our accouchement and the humans about us.
It is not as difficult as you may anticipate it is if you accept that you deserve the best. This is area it all starts. If you accept that you deserve annihilation but the best that God has to action you, afresh you will delay for the best one and the best time. You will not just accord that appropriate allowance to anyone. It is aloof for the getting God created for you.
It will aswell be easier if you buck in apperception that you accept an adversary out there who is dying to abort you, annihilate you, and abduct from you. His name is satan and he is your amount one enemy. He wants you to accord up that allowance so you will not accept the best that God has to offer. He wants to abduct that allowance from you. He wants to annihilate you with a ache or with the acrimony of a anxious boyfriend/girlfriend. He wants to abort your life. Giving in to sex afore alliance is giving in to the devil. Do you wish that?
In the bosom of associate burden and temptation, you will be able to affected if you focus on God and His Word. You will not be able to do it on your own. You charge Jesus and the ability of the Holy Spirit.
Lisa Maki is the architect of God'z Gurlz, a Bible-based online annual for women whose mission is to is to accommodate a abode area women can apprentice to administer their emotions, acquaintance healing, accept adulation and acceptance, be chargeless to be who God fabricated them to be, and be the best they can be in their homes, schools, professions, relationships, and calling, through administration of insights and experiences, counseling, prayer, and devotionals, thereby acquirements from and acknowledging anniversary other.


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FLINT, Michigan — It was a put up or shut up type of game for no. 4-ranked Mott Community College on Saturday versus rival Henry Ford.
One of the Bears' two losses this season came at the hands of HFCC on the road back in January, when the Hawks scored on the final play of the game to win by one.
The cream rose to the top the second time around as Mott soundly beat the Hawks, 81-67, in front of a packed house at the Steve Schmidt Gymnasium.


text: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Victoria Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > We have a 113 node IBM x330 cluster with Myrinet 2000. We're > experiencing very high failure rates on Myrinet switch ports > (average 3 per month) and on Myrinet NICs to a lesser extent > (about 1 per month). Ports and NICs are fine one minute, > then one or the other just dies (for good). Cables > (fibre, not copper) seem fine - one or two failures only in > nearly a year. > > There is no pattern in the failures, and they are entirely > unrelated to usage levels; seldom used nodes are just as > likely to have failures as heavily used nodes. I'd at least suspect wiring and spikes. There was a long discussion on ways to MISwire computer rooms on the list a few months ago that you might look up in the list archives; within it are some URL's to sites that describe some of the problems that can occur when one plugs lots of nodes into multiphase circuits that e.g. share a common neutral. In a nutshell you can be building up a significant neutral line voltage and browning out your supply voltage during the critical middle third of each half-phase when switching power supplies tend to draw all their power. This harmonic distortion of the supply voltage can cause all sorts of problems, premature and inexplicable component failure being one of them. Since systems experiencing it tend to run with their power supply capacitors inadequately charged, it can significantly reduce the ability of those power supplies to filter out spikes. Even surge protectors don't eliminate all of the problems that can be caused. You might check up on just how the room was wired. In particular, look at the voltage between neutral and ground at the receptacles where all the nodes are plugged in. If it is as high as a few volts, you may have a problem, especially if it is high on the circuit where the systems are located and not high on the circuit where the switch is located. If you have an oscilloscope, you can look at the actual supply line voltage at the receptacles loaded and unloaded, to see how badly distorted the wave is. Solutions (if this turns out to be your problem): a) NEVER share a neutral wire between three phases in a computer room. The load isn't resistive and doesn't have a power factor near one, and it is actually dangerous to do so (it overheats the neutral and the main supply transformer). Run a separate neutral for each phase. b) Try to keep the runs as short as possible and use heavy gauge wire. The neutral line voltage depends on the current it carries and its resistance. Resistance increases with the length of the run, decreases with the cross-sectional area of the wire. c) Use power factor corrected power supplies if possible, or a harmonic correction supply transformer for the entire space (there are companies that would love to sell you one). d) Some people on the list suggested that a UPS would probably help. It seems like an expensive solution compared to running additional neutrals, and nearly as expensive as getting a harmonic correction transformer. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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text: Peter St. John wrote: > Jeff, > I was musing about the (to me, novel) idea of multi RAID on one box > (probably the head node of a cluster or subcluster), by analogy with > CPU cache levels; RAID0 with a few 10K rpm drives for speed, RAID6 > with many 7200 drives for size and reliability; then I'd be able to go > fast until a failure, then rollback to a checkpoint served by the > RAID6. This is just a gedankenexperiment. > I don't have any particular configuration in mind, I don't have a > cluster and it will probably be a small number of superannuated Alpha > boxes if I do it at all this summer. > Peter Well, it's an interesting experiment anyway. Here are my thoughts on file systems for small systems: - I would think of 2, maybe 3 file systems: /home, /scratch, and maybe /data. - I would use PVFS2 for /scratch because you could get faster than NFS speed (depends on network, number of servers, etc.) Otherwise I would probably use RAID-10 for /scratch. It gets you some speed from the RAID-0 part, but if a disk fails, then it will at least continue to operate. Yes, it may be expensive in terms of the number of disks (at least 4 disks, but only the capacity of 2 of them). if money is a constraint, then I would have a single disk or RAID-1 for /scratch. Another alternative is to just let users run out of /home. - For /home I would use something like RAID-6, or if I had enough money RAID-61. For RAID-6 you need at least 4 disks so for RAID-61 you need at least 8 disks (could get a little pricey). RAID-6 is also a bit slower than RAID-5, particularly for writes. So if speed is an issue (or cost), I would go with RAID-5 or RAID-51. RAID-5 requires at least 3 disks, so RAID-51 requires 6 disks. It's better than RAID-5 but it still may be pricey. - If speed is more important, you could try RAID-60 for /home. It gives you some redundancy, but you also get RAID-0 to gain some performance back. - Finally, I think of /data as a directory structure where you park data after you are finished with it. So, I tend to think of capacity and reliability instead of performance. This could mean something like RAID-51 or RAID-61 if you like. - BTW - if you want good performance on the file system itself, I would recommend XFS. I've seen really good throughput results with it (but I don't have any personal experience). Ultimately, however you chose to configure your file systems, be sure to think about the purpose of each file system. What is stored in the file system and how valuable is it? Can I tolerate the file system being down for some period of time? Can I restore the file system from backup? Did I make a backup? :) Then once you have an idea of what you want to do, how are you going to get the file system to the compute nodes? Are you going to use NFS? PVFS2? Lustre? Something else? Once you decide this, you can make some estimates of the performance the file system is likely to see. For example, with NFS you can estimate the throughput of NFS. Once you know this estimate, you can then determine how much IO you need from the disks to balance the system. For example, if you think the throughput of NFS is X, then I would make sure I have X throughput on my file system. Otherwise the file system can become a bottleneck. If you have too much throughput on the storage side, then the file system becomes the bottleneck. In my opinion it's all about balance. With that said, if you're building the system at home and the management has given a fairly severe budget limit, I would use RAID-1 in the master node with fairly large disks and leave it at that :) My management has restricted me, so this is what I do. Jeff


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Whether you're in-house or agency, good PPC reporting is a key factor to proving the value of PPC and of the job you're doing managing PPC.
A crucial aspect of PPC reporting is data visualization. We PPC managers deal with numbers all day long – a seemingly endless stream of data that can be sliced and diced in an infinite number of ways. It's our job to pick out the gold nuggets from all that data, and present it to the decision makers in a way that's easy to understand.
Every PPC manager is intimately familiar with Microsoft Excel. It's probably the most-used tool for managing and working with PPC campaigns & data. And it has a ton of built-in features that help with reporting, like charts and graphs.
If you aren't using charts in your PPC reports, they probably look something like this:
If that's the case, stop reading now and go figure out how to use the Chart function in Excel.
Even if you are using charts, however, they're worthless if they aren't structured properly. They make your PPC reports suck.
Data visualization is the reason charts exist. They're supposed to make tables of numbers (like the one above) more meaningful and easier to understand and interpret at a glance. But a bad chart doesn't do that.
Axes Must Make Sense
Take a look at this chart, for example:
Now look at this chart:
Which one is more meaningful to you?
A good chart has x and y axes that make sense. In the first chart above, the y (vertical) axis is too compressed. There is no reason for the y axis to start at 0 when the smallest data value is obviously close to $1,000. By starting at $0, it flattens out the entire line so it's more difficult to see the highs and lows – which is precisely the information a line chart like this is supposed to illustrate! That chart should start at $500 or maybe even a larger number.
The second chart does a better job – by beginning at a number larger than 0, the data is much easier to visualize.
Use a Second Axis
Have you ever seen a chart like this?
How many clicks did you get in April? Zero? It sure looks like it. And how does that compare with March? Do you have any clue what's happening with clicks here?
When a chart is comparing more than one metric with diverse values, such as huge numbers and smaller numbers, or numbers and percentages, the best option is to use the second axis. To use the second axis, right-click on the data you want to put on the second axis (in this case, Clicks) and select "Format Data Series." From there, select "secondary axis."
When you're done, the chart should look this:
Better, isn't it?
Don't Cram Too Much In
When you're reporting on a lot of key metrics, it can be tempting to throw them all into one chart. Sometimes, that's OK – it's often meaningful and useful to see the metrics plotted over time and look at how they compare with one another.
That said, sometimes the multiple metrics end up looking like this:
Wow. Do you have any idea what's going on here?
Neither do I. I often refer to this as the "child's scribble" chart, because it looks like the "coloring" my kids used to do when they were babies: a totally random collection of lines, dots, and colors that is so jumbled, it doesn't mean anything.
If your charts are starting to look like child's scribbles, maybe it's time to split the data points into multiple charts, or remove metrics that are old or no longer meaningful.
Use the Right Chart Type
Even well-constructed charts can suck. I've seen a surprising number of reports with charts like this:
Once again, it's tough to tell what's going on here. It looks like content and search are approaching a more even percentage of clicks, but I'm not sure.
Better to use a different type of chart. In this case, pie charts make sense:
Wow, what a difference! It's clear from the pie charts that the percentage of content traffic is almost doubling every month. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is yet another element that should be included in a good report.
Reports with poorly-crafted charts and rows of numbers suck. Take the time to use the right charts to effectively visualize your data, and combine them with solid analysis, and you're on your way to useful, un-sucky reports!
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A profession facing a predicted personnel shortage of 1 million by 2012 tends to get creative about helping career changers break into the field. That's exactly why diverse educational options are available to mid-career workers who want to switch gears and pursue a new career in nursing.
"The variety is needed to avoid duplicative education efforts on the part of second-career students and to feed the nursing pipeline," says Susan Odegaard Turner, Monster's Healthcare Advisor and a nurse with 30 years of wide-ranging experience in healthcare.
If you're looking to transition into nursing, check out the varied educational paths you can explore.
The LPN/LVN Path
With at least a high school diploma, you can obtain one year of training at a hospital, vocational-technical school or community college and become a licensed practical nurse (LPN), known as a licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in some states.
But know in advance, Turner says, that as an LPN/LVN you'll be limited in the on-the-job activities you can perform. Equally important, she says, is the fact that you'll likely earn $10 to $15 an hour less than registered nurses (RNs), whose practice scope is wider. "An LVN is a great stepping-stone to RN, but the roles are not interchangeable," she says.
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Dan was raised in a northern Michigan, runs an office in Detroit, and has the nickname "Bear Claw." Dan joined our team after a couple of years in the NFL.
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Adam founded DMC Atlanta in 2003. He is a bourbon and food snob who loves his family and live music. He is also a proud "Headblade" proponent.
"The Nucci" is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. If you don't like him, it's you, not him. He's awesome.
Cole is from Marietta and attended Mercer University, where he played lacrosse and graduated in May of 2014. He might be the nicest person we've ever met.
Austin was born and raised in Atlanta. He has traveled the US in search of the perfect protein shake.
Corey was born in Philly and grew up in Atlanta and was an Olympic Jockey. Kidding - He played football at South Carolina.
Ganessa is from Riverside, CA, but we are slowly converting her to sweet tea. She has mastered the non-duckface selfie.
Julia was born in Iowa, but her dad's job moved her family out to the suburbs of north Atlanta. From there, her love for lemonade and the word "Y'all" grew.
Mike was born in New York, NY but raised in Atlanta, GA and attended the State University of West Georgia.
Jen is originally from West Palm Beach, Florida and has a degree from UCF in Early Childhood Education. Her dog is smarter than your honor student.
Savanah is an Atlanta native who graduated from Valdosta State. If you thank her for something, you will immediately know she worked at Chic-Fil-A
Jared is a great leader at DMC Atlanta. He lives with his wife and sons in South Atlanta. His wife is cooler than he is.
Michael was raised south of Atlanta. He is a rabid UGA fan who runs our team in Nashville with his wife, Vianca. Go Dawgs!
Rae has been a part of the DMC Atlanta team since 2012. She is head of HR and has an unnatural love of queso.
Originally from Nigeria, Daniel is a rising star in on the DMC Atlanta team who can occasionally be spotted dancing in the office.
Alethea was born Alaska, spent most of her childhood in Florida, but claims Atlanta as her home. Occasionally Adam hides in her hair when Jenna is being really loud.
Chris grew up in a small town in NY and runs an office in Dallas, TX. He is a proud Cleveland Browns Fan. Seriously. He is.
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Closed Today (Saturday) Due to RainJan 21 2012
Due to the rain Milestone will be closed all day today. The Saturday Nights Racing is canceled. We are going to try our best to try to open tomorrow (Sunday). Keep checking back for updates! Don't forget your ponchos at Supercross tonight


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2 out of 5 Stars
Director: Brad Peyton
Writer: Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal, Adam Sztykiel
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief language, and crude gestures.
Synopsis: Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) is a primatologist with a close bond with an albino gorilla named George. When George is infected by experimental science gone awry, he begins to grow and his temperament becomes increasingly more violent.
Review: Loosely based on the classic Bally Midway game from 1986, "Rampage" is a popcorn film that never figures out what it wants to be. I expected something big, dumb and fun. Director Brad Peyton ("San Andreas," "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island") and his team of writers forgot to include the fun. What we have is a surprisingly gory film that desperately wants to be taken seriously, but doesn't realize it has a glass ceiling that makes that goal nearly impossible. Frankly, if you want to make a movie about giant monsters, corporate greed and the lasting bond of friendship, someone should have called J.A. Bayona or Guillermo del Toro.
The film begins on a space station and almost immediately makes it clear that the film has a vicious streak. This, in and of itself, isn't necessarily a bad thing. "A Quiet Place" also fired a shot across the bow in its opening scenes that set the rules for the narrative that was to follow. The key difference here being that "A Quiet Place" created a sense of atmosphere and stuck to it. "Rampage" is a schizophrenic train wreck that bounces between horror, comedy, action and political satire without warning. The early scenes with Dwayne Johnson work fairly well, but the instant we're introduced to Clair and Brett Wyden (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy) the film takes a dramatic turn for the worse and spirals downward from there.
When the giant monsters finally start destroying a city, it is a joyless exercise that feels as soulless as Michael Bay's Transformer films. The fun moments, which there are a few, only serve as a reminder to what the film could have been.
If you're looking for a film the simple thrills of "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," "Ready Player One" or "Pacific Rim Uprising," you're going to be sorely disappointed.


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