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Has Spain Just Slammed On The Brakes For Europe's Unitary Patent Plans?
from the are-we-there-yet? dept
Although the European Union finally approved the continent-wide Unitary Patent in December 2012, after decades of discussions, the story is by no means at an end. Science describes the root of the problem:
The final agreement introduced a complex arrangement for the oversight of patent matters by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Instead of being enshrined in the main patent regulation, the court's role will be mentioned indirectly in the Unified Patent Court agreement. Axel Horns, a patent attorney at the KSNH law firm in Munich, says the solution is "awkward." But it satisfies both defenders of the Court of Justice's supreme authority, such as the European Parliament, and those who want to limit its role, including some businesses and the United Kingdom's conservative government.
A key bone of contention is therefore what exactly the role of Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will have here, with different EU countries wanting very different things. But it's even worse than that, because two nations, Spain and Italy, refused to sign up to the Unitary Patent at all, after their respective languages were not included alongside the other official ones -- English, French and German. This has led to a Unitary Patent that doesn't actually unify Europe, but instead introduces yet another complicated layer on top of existing structures. Spain is now taking advantage of that fact to challenge the whole structure at the ECJ, as this story on The IPKat blog explains:
By hiding the actual substance of the patent, its scope and its limitations, behind an -- admittedly clever -- system of legal referrals, the [Unitary Patent] regime has become even more complex. As a result, the ECJ is confronted with a patent which is in fact just an empty shell. This makes the Regulation [governing the Unitary Patent] either invalid for a lack of legal determination or it will force the Court to define the substance of the unitary patent out of the blue. It will however not prevent the Court from exercising its judicial review over the European patent system. The idea of keeping the ECJ out of the game by stripping down the Regulation was doomed to fail from the very beginning.
And if this lack of legal clarity is not enough to scupper the whole plan, Spain has two more lines of attack. Since it is not part of the Unitary Patent zone, Spain's companies are obviously at a disadvantage:
Article 7 of the Regulation entails an indirect discrimination on grounds of nationality which results from the fact that unitary patents applied for by Spanish enterprises will always be governed by a foreign law.
In other words, the awkward compromise agreed to finalize the Unitary Patent last year actually contradicts the fundamental impetus behind the European Union: to create a uniform set of laws that apply equally across the whole continent.
Probably for this reason the IP Kat blog suggests:
It is also not unlikely that Spain will put its finger on the Court's greatest treasure, the Internal Market. There will almost necessarily be a distortion of competition between the Member States where the unitary patent is available and those where it is not.
the chances of success [for Spain before the ECJ] do look promising. The mutation from an autonomous patent for the European market to the hitherto unknown schizophrenic creature of a "European patent with unitary effect" has left deep scars, and every one of them could be taken up before the Court.
One thing is for sure: if the brakes have indeed been slammed on for the Unitary Patent project, they are unlikely to come off for a good while unless something dramatic happens. The IPKat blog reminds us that proceedings at the ECJ take about 22 months on average, so it may well be several years before we have the court's judgment, and things can move forward.
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February 20, 2013
Forum to discuss collaborating for Purdue's student success
A forum on March 27 will continue the Foundations of Excellence (FoE) initiative's conversation about collaborating for student success at Purdue.
The forum will be 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. The forum is free and open to anyone who works at Purdue.
The forum will focus on building strong partnerships to advance student success through collaborations of faculty, staff, administrators and students.
Nationally recognized scholars -- Charles Schroeder, a professor, former chief student affairs officer at five institutions, and consultant at more than 100 colleges and universities, and Jillian Kinzie, associate director of the Indiana University-based National Survey of Student Engagement Institute -- will share their research on effective student engagement, learning and degree completion. The forum will include breakout sessions and facilitated discussions during breakout sessions about how to build strong partnerships on campus.
More information about Schroeder can be found here. More information about Kinzie can be found here.
The forum is sponsored by the Purdue University Senate, the Center for Instructional Excellence, the Purdue Academic Advising Association (PACADA), and the Foundations of Excellence sponsoring units, which are Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Housing and Food Services, and Diversity and Inclusion.Registration is limited. To do so, go to www.purdue.edu/FOE and click on the link at the bottom of the page.

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For his 10th birthday on Nov. 28, Matthew Garr of Shawnee, Kan., asked his friends to bring unusual presents to his birthday party: money for a 10-year-old girl his family sponsors in Guatemala.
Matthew delivered the money he raisedó$500 in cashóin person to Paco Wertin, CEO of CFCA. Matthew was accompanied by his mother, Debbie, and younger sister, Erin.
The Garr family has sponsored Magdalena for about four years. This is the second year Matthew has raised money for her at his birthday party. Last year he collected $303 and Magdalenaís family used the money to purchase a bed, a kitchen countertop and sink, and household supplies such as soap.
Matthew said helping Magdalena made him feel "great and awesome."
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The dollar dropped to its lowest level against the yen in more than two months on Monday after data showed a sharp slowing in the pace of U.S. manufacturing-sector expansion.
The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index declined more than expected to 51.3% in January from 56.5% in December, but companies attributed the drop in part to poor weather. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a drop to 56%. A reading above 50 signals expansion.
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declined to ¥100.92 from ¥102.04 late Friday. That's the lowest level since ¥100.16 on Nov. 20, according to FactSet data. The greenback fell 3.1% against the yen in January, its largest monthly percentage decline since April 2012.
Earlier, China's official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 50.5 in January from 51 in December. The Chinese data were the latest to support the idea of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. At the same time, the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to reduce monetary stimulus. The combination has helped trigger a run out of currencies of emerging-market countries that rely heavily on China for trade or have large current-account deficits, which will become more expensive to fund as U.S. yields rise.
"The drivers of the current turmoil aren't going to go anywhere and any respite is likely to be temporary," said Societe General currency strategist Kit Juckes in a note, referring to Chinese growth concerns and the pullback in U.S. stimulus.
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The dollar USDTRY, +0.5619% rose to 2.2844 Turkish lira from 2.2624 lira late Friday, while the greenback USDZAR, +0.2662% gained to 11.2662 South African rand from 11.2078 rand. The dollar USDINR, +0.2196% rose to 62.925 Indian rupees from 62.50 rupees late Friday, according to FactSet.
U.S. data this week culminates in the January employment report on Friday. While the ISM data could prompt investors to cut their projections for the jobs report, it's not likely the data will change the Fed's plans to reduce its monthly bond purchases, said George Dowd, head of Chicago foreign exchange for Newedge. The Fed at its January meeting further reduced those monthly bond buys to $65 billion.
"The Fed is like a big ship. It takes a pretty substantial, out-of-the-range number to cause problems," he said.
U.S. stocks plunged on Monday and Treasurys strengthened.
The ICE dollar index DXY, -0.36%, a gauge of the greenback's strength, declined to 81.032 from 81.247 late Friday. The WSJ Dollar Index BUXX, -0.26%, which pits the dollar against a wider basket of rivals, fell to 74.29 from 74.44.
The euro EURUSD, +0.2629% rose to $1.3529 from $1.3489 late Friday. The British pound GBPUSD, +0.6575% dropped to $1.6304 from $1.6443.
Euro-zone manufacturing PMI rose to 54.0 in January from 52.7 in December. The U.K.'s manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 56.7 in January from 57.2 in December, according to the index from Markit and Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply. The data show a tenth-straight month of expansion in the manufacturing sector.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, -0.3222% traded at 87.51 U.S. cents versus 87.49 U.S. cents late Friday.
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Sometimes I am confused whether to use the word "affect" or "effect." I usually get it right, but I do have to think about it first. Of course, affect is the verb and effect is the noun. The confusion can come in because there are rare instances when affect can be used as noun and effect as a verb. Use your favorite search engine to look up "affect vs effect" and read all about it.
Within the System p world, there can also be confusion over the metrics physb and physc. Basically, here are the definitions from lparstat documentation.
physc : Indicates the number of physical processors consumed.
physb: Indicates that the physical processor is busy.
So, the physc metric is physical consumed, which indicates the amount of CPUs consumed or used by the LPAR , regardless of if it is busy or idle.
The physb metric is physical busy, which is the same as physc but without the idle cycles.
With shared partitions, these values will almost be the same, because the partition operating system will give idle cylces back to the hypervisor, minimizing how many idle cycles there are.
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If you were married or divorced recently, there are a couple of things you will want to do to ensure that the name on your tax return matches the name registered with the Social Security Administration.
If a taxpayer takes their spouse's last name or if both spouses hyphenate their last names, they may run into complications if they do not notify the SSA. If the newlyweds file a tax return using their new last names, IRS computers would not be able to match the new name with their Social Security Number and reject the return.
After a divorce, taxpayers who change back to their previous last name also need to notify the SSA of the change.
Informing the SSA of a name change is quite simple. File a Form SS-5 at your local SSA office. The form is available on SSA's Web site at www.socialsecurity.gov, by calling 800-772-1213 or at local offices. It usually takes about two weeks to have the change verified.
Taxpayers who adopt will want to make sure their adopted children have an SSN. Taxpayers must provide SSNs for each dependent claimed on a tax return. For adopted children without SSNs, the parents can apply for an Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number – or ATIN – by filing Form W-7A, Application for Taxpayer Identification Number for Pending U.S. Adoptions with the IRS. The ATIN is a temporary number used in place of an SSN on the tax return. The W-7A is available on the IRS Web site at www.IRS.gov, or by calling 800-TAX-FORM (800-829-3676).
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Jan. 27, 2009
Fans, don't miss your chance to win a \$250 giftcard from JetBlue airlines! At halftime of the women's basketball game vs. UMass Dartmouth on Tuesday, January 27, students will have the chance to construct paper airplanes, which will then be flown onto the court. The paper airplane that lands closest to the bulls eye wins! The second place award winner will receive an authentic UMass Boston Athletics fleece blanket! The game begins at 5:30 p.m. and Fuze will help to sponsor the event and be giving away free samples of its product throughout both the women's and men's basketball games. Come on out and have a blast with the Beacons!


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Guest post
Andra Zeppelin, editor of Eater Denver, wrote here about the 2012 Slow Money gathering in Carbondale. She and other journalists met with Slow food founder Carlo Petrini at the Slow Money meeting in Boulder this week. We asked her to share their conversation.
Slow Money, a non-profit established in 2009 with the goal of funding local food systems, held its national gathering in Boulder April 29-30. Since its inception, Slow Money has moved $24 million into small food businesses around the country, including farms, creameries, grain mills, niche organic brands, local processing, distribution and seed companies, and restaurants.
Slow Money grew out of founder Woody Tasch's "Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money" (Chelsea Green, 2009, $15.95), which advocates for investments that focus more on sustainability than consumption. Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food International, wrote the foreword to the book, and attended the recent Slow Money gathering.
You call Slow Food's advocacy the 'new paradigm for politics.' Why?
The world is going through a crisis and food is at the center of it. To get out of this crisis, you simply can't use the old political paradigm. Politicians don't seem equipped to deal with this. The old paradigm says: you are in a crisis, you must be self-confident, consume, and consuming will get the economy restored. This formula no longer works. It's like taking a diabetic to the bakery and giving him cake. Today, we throw away a third of all the food we produce while a billion people are starving. That is madness. We shouldn't strengthen the passive consumerism. We need new citizens who change their individual behavior to reduce waste starting in their own day-to-day lives. The new paradigm says that quality food is a right of all people not just of those with more money. This new political paradigm recognizes that our planet is our house and our responsibility and it also recognizes that food has a central role in change. Food is the very essence of change in the world today.
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Saudi unveils 'undeniable' Iran attack evidence
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Thunberg to Congress: 'Listen to the scientists'
U.S. will revoke California waiver to require cleaner cars
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Grieving survivors of a monster typhoon in the mainly Catholic Philippines flocked to shattered churches yesterday, listening to sermons and asking questions of God nine days after the storm ripped their communities apart.
The services offered a brief respite from the grinding battle to survive in the wastelands created by some of the strongest winds ever recorded and tsunami-like waves that destroyed dozens of coastal towns and killed thousands of people.
Aid has been slow in arriving, but an enormous international relief operation picked up momentum over the weekend, bringing food, water and medical supplies and airlifting basic necessities to isolated communities.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, who has been criticized over the speed of his government's response, called for understanding of the logistical challenges as he toured some of the worst-hit areas yesterday.
"Please have patience. These affected areas are really spread out," Aquino said, adding: "Don't lose hope."
About 300 people in Guiuan, the first town to be hit by Typhoon Haiyan, attended mass yesterday in the courtyard of the ruined 400-year-old Immaculate Conception church.
Delivering the homily, Father Arturo Cablao commended the community's strength of spirit, as parishioners — some of them silently weeping — stood among twisted roofing sheets, glass shards and mud.
About 80 percent of the Philippines' 100 million people are Catholic, a legacy of Spanish colonial rule, and their steadfast faith was on display throughout the central islands that were devastated by Haiyan.
"The Lord has strengthened our faith and made us stronger in order for us to survive and start off all over again," said Belen Curila, an elegantly dressed 71-year-old, who attended the mass in Guiuan.
In Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit cities, hundreds of devotees sat on flood-soaked pews at the 124-year-old Santo Nino church, which had its roof ripped off by Haiyan's ferocious winds.
Violeta Simbulan, 63, said the priest's sermon promising that God would always be there was a comfort after losing two cousins and an aunt in the disaster.
"Yes, I was reassured. As long as I have faith and constantly pray to God," Simbulan said.
As the morning masses were held, the international relief effort continued to build, consolidating its initially tenuous grip on the catastrophic situation.
"The arrival was pretty slow at first but it is picking up extremely well," World Food Programme emergency coordinator Samir Wanmali said at Tacloban airport.
The Philippine government said yesterday that 3,681 had so far been confirmed dead in the disaster, with another 1,186 people missing. The UN and other relief workers say the death toll will climb much higher over the coming months.
If the worst fears are realized, Haiyan could be the country's deadliest natural disaster, surpassing the 1976 Moro Gulf tsunami that killed between 5,000 and 8,000 people on the southern island of Mindanao.
Dramatic video footage emerged yesterday showing the destructive size and power of the storm surge as it slammed into the Samar coastal town of Hernani.
"It was like a huge tsunami," said Nickson Gensis, a staff member of the child development agency Plan International who recorded the surge from the second floor of a house that withstood the impact.


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A few girls that work at my salon do this. And I was wondering who else does this?
Legs take me longest (because I'm a perfectionist) and so I'm hoping someone experienced can give me some pointers on reverse clipping in general!
I've been doing a lot of long (1/2" or longer) trims on dogs with fine coats (maltese, yorkies, silkier shih tzus) and when I use my clipper combs (I use the Wahl brand) the hair lays down before it goes over it leaving some spots longer.
So do you reverse clip? Why or why not?
Do you just reverse clip legs? If you do, how many lengths up or do you use the same length for your legs?
And good grooming articles on reverse clipping would also be appreciated!
Legs take me too long to finish, so even if you have a way to finish legs without reverse clipping and finish them in a timely matter please let me know! Videos are also appreciated!
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EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following informal discussion letter in response to an inquiry from a member of the public. This letter is intended to provide an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
ADEA Retiree Health
This is in reply to your letter of March 6, 2003, to the Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). You indicate that the insurer charges retirees over the age of 65 significantly greater premiums than retirees under age 65 for prescription drug coverage. As I understand it, the prescription drug premiums are separate from the basic insurance premium.
Note, however, that I could not read the column headings on the attachment you sent regarding premium rates. Therefore, I am unclear about some of the terms of the plan. I cannot tell, for example, whether the amount listed under "base monthly premium" is the amount paid by National Grid or the premium paid by the retiree. If you wish, you may contact me at (202) 663-4638 to clarify that information.
Without a full investigation, however, we will be unable to determine whether or not the charges for benefits are proper under the ADEA. We do not provide formal opinion letters in these situations. If you wish to challenge the employer's practices, you need to file a charge of age discrimination with EEO's New York District Office, 201 Varick Street, New York, New York 10014, 212-741-8815. Charges of age discrimination must be filed within the earlier of 300 days after the discriminatory act or 30 days after the dismissal of any claim of discrimination filed with a state agency. The New York District Office can discuss with you the specifics of your claim and the procedures that must be followed.
Please note that this letter does not constitute an official opinion of the EEOC.
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Introduction to Early Years Education and Care L2 Cert. (Distance Learning) at National Extension College *Fees Payable*
Course description
This qualification from CACHE is designed to prepare you for working with children in a range of job roles, for example as a nursery or pre-school assistant. It is suitable for anyone wanting to work with young children, even if you have little or no previous experience of childcare. The course will cover all aspects of working with children from birth to the age of five years, and you will also gain knowledge of children up to the age of seven years. As well as being a qualification in its own right, after achieving the Level 2 you can choose to progress to the Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce.
You should allow for between 269 and 282 hours' study time, plus additional time for completing assignments, and time spent in your relevant setting. CACHE recommends 250 placement hours spent in your setting over the duration of this course. You will have tutor support for a period of up to 12 months from the date of enrolment.
Course content
- Support healthy lifestyles for children through the provision of food and nutrition
- Support healthy lifestyles for children through exercise
- Support children with additional needs
- Support creative play
Entry requirements
There are no formal entry requirements for this course, but you will need to have a good command of basic English, be at least 16 years of age, and be working or volunteering in a relevant childcare setting. This is an online course so you will also need easy access to the internet.
You will create an online portfolio of evidence using different formats such as learning plans, written tasks, discussion and direct observation in the workplace.
Financial information
It's your choice: pay in full and discount your course fees, or spread the cost with our finance offer. To pay in instalments, you will need to enrol by telephone.
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NEC will register you for this qualification with the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education (CACHE). The £100 registration fee is not included in your course fee and will need to be paid in addition at the time of enrolment.
Further information
This course is entirely self-contained so no additional textbooks are required. However, it is recommended that you purchase the following book for additional reading: "CACHE Level 2 Introduction to Early Years Education and Care" by Carolyn Meggitt (ISBN: 9781471809279), costing approximately £24.
This is not included in your course fee.
To achieve this qualification you'll need to gain 33 credits: 29 credits by completing 14 mandatory units, and the remaining 4 credits by completing a selection of optional units.
You'll work through this course using the NEC Laser: an online learning system that makes completing your course – submitting your work, doing activities and getting feedback – straightforward and enjoyable. The system is easy to use and all the work you complete is recorded in your learner profile, forming an online portfolio.
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-- Elvis Dumervil's route to riches was somewhat unconventional by today's NFL standards for superstars. He didn't posture, wasn't petulant or pouty. He didn't rip his coaches or the front office, hold out of minicamps or ask for a trade.
Coming off an NFL-leading and team-record 17 sacks last season, Dumervil signed his restricted free agent tender and continued working out with the Denver Broncos during the offseason while his agent and general manager exchanged figures.
Dumervil hit pay dirt with a $61.5 million extension through 2015 that includes $43.168 million in guarantees, a record for a player at his pass-rushing position.
His agent and his coach both suggested Dumervil's payday wasn't just about his pass-rushing prowess but also came about because of his patience and professionalism.
Dumervil said he was raised with a strong work ethic and he praised the advice he got from family members and his agent.
"And so at the end of the day, I knew my value and there was no need to go out and pout or go out, you know, the way other guys may have handled things because I know that character is No. 1 for me and I knew if I could bring the stats along with that it gave me a good chance," Dumervil said. :Article source Espn.com


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Let $R$ be a relation on the set $\Bbb R$ of real numbers where real numbers $x,y$ satisfy $xRy$ if and only if $e^{x-y}$ is an integer. Is $R$ an equivalence relation on $\Bbb R$? Is it a partial order?
I have proved it's reflexive let $x=1$. for reflexivity $xRx$.
so $e^{x-x}= e^{1-1}=e^0 =1$. This also satisfies the result being an integer. Therefore the relation is reflexive.
To check is the relation is symmetric it means. $xRy$ then $yRx$. The problem I am facing is I can't seem to find an $x$ and $y$ that satisfies $e^{x-y}$ being an integer.


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Futurist Ray Kurzweil to Join Google
Ray Kurzweil, author and controversial thinker, announced on Friday that he will join Google as a director of engineering; he'll focus on projects involving machine learning and language processing. Kurzweil is best known for his theory of "technology singularity," essentially a claim that posits that mankind will create a post-human collective superintelligence through means of advancements in technology. Kurzweil's first day at Google is Monday.


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Rarely am I disappointed in an article in Essence Magazine. I've subscribed for years and look forward to reading the magazine each month. But Essence has me feeling some type of way about Christine Beatty's glamour shot and essay in the November issue. Beatty talks about the lessons learned from her affair with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In fact, Beatty and Kilpatrick served time in jail for perjury after lying about their affair under oath during a whistle-blower lawsuit.
Don't get me wrong, I want to believe Beatty regrets her actions and I pray she can forgive herself. Along with Kilpatrick, they let down their spouses, her daughters and his sons. The affair and coverup were exposed in a big way when hundreds of text messages, some of them explicit, were revealed to the public during the lawsuit. The text messages were fair game because they were exchanged on city-issued cell phones. Without question, taxpayers in Detroit paid for some elements of the affair since Beatty was Kilpatrick's chief of staff and some of their fooling around happened on the city's time.
There may be some value in hearing from the other woman, though I'm struggling to see it. Since Essence gave Beatty three pages to tell her story, equal time should have been give to Carlita Kilpatrick to tell hers. After reading Beatty's essay, I came away thinking she was in some way rationalizing the affair. She'd known and loved him since high school, her marriage was sinking and she and Kilpatrick worked so closely together that one thing led to another. But here's the thing: Many people feel attraction to someone they work closely with or have had a crush on since high school. As adults, it's our responsibility not only to honor our marriage vows but to think about the collateral damage caused by affairs. Marriage is a covenant between two people and God. Too often, people act first and think later. By then, the damage is done.
A few years ago I watched helplessly as someone I love was destroyed by a woman who inserted herself into her marriage, which was already struggling. I listened to her as she describe this woman's actions toward her and her husband, who vehemently denied his wife's suspicions. Trust and believe we women know when our husbands' heads have been turned by another woman. There is always someone younger, prettier and more interesting, especially when you've been married for a time. And this goes both ways. Women aren't exempt from cheating on their husbands. Perhaps the marriage I watched implode could have been saved with a lot of hard work. The couple shared similar values and had a lot of history together. Their children struggled mightily when their parents divorced. But when three and four people are involved in a marriage, there is no way it can survive.
Divorce is a serious step that should not be made lightly. Some couples decide that despite the infidelity they will stay together and try to rebuild the house that was once on solid ground. Christine Beatty says in her essay that she and her husband are now divorced but are successful co-parents. The Kilpatricks have endured the mayor's multiple affairs and his conviction on corruption charges. He will be serving his 28-year prison sentence close to his family's home in Texas.
Here's hoping the next time Essence editors decide to run an article by the other woman, they let the wife give her perspective. She's the one who held it down for their kids and stood by her man when he was carrying on with his mistress.


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I had been holding off on posting this to see if the perpetrator of the fake Masada spoiler would further incriminate themselves - but here is what I think is proof that Masada/Israel is fake:I found this photo on Flickr...http://www.flickr.com/photos/airogos/3441769374/Which is the un-photoshopped version of this:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3oXiTkp0uI4/SneUr3JSzrI/AAAAAAAAAC8/PxWD88xM6pg/s1600-h/masadacluebox.jpgI suspect the EXIF information on the photo on Stephan Cohen's blog has been altered to the correct time frame to fit our race.Now I would love it if TAR 15 had gone to Israel - I lived there for a while - but I suspect it didn't happen this time around.
COMMUNI- Film L.A. Inc. #2, requesting Board grant WRP GroupCATIONS permission to close the following streets for filmingpurposes:6th Street from Santa Fe Ave to Mesquite Street onSaturday, July 18, 2009 from 4:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.;Santa Fe Ave from Willow Street to Jesse Street onSaturday, July 18, 2009 from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.came across this, don't know if it's our race?
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Waiting patiently - so excited!!!
I saw this on twitter...Dr_Emperor: just saw the amazing race people run through lax. what's amazing is them not having to wait in line.6 minutes ago from mobile web · Reply · View Tweet
go TAR15 FWIW, a Google Earth generated .KMZ file (attached below) of one possible route from Starting Line to LAX
We just need to figure out what flight they are on. If we had an airline that would help.
American Airlines dslaybaugh: Here @ LAX & a couple from the show "Amazing Race" came rushing to the AA counter. Cameras & all. How fun.7 minutes ago from TwitterFon
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If you're one of those people who can't abide hearing about other people's dreams, I suggest you skip this post. Move along, nothing to see here.
Last night I dreamt a doozy. It started out unassumingly enough: I was spending Christmas with a fantasy version of my friend Caroline and her family. Caroline and a few of her girlfriends and I were sitting around a tree up in her bedroom, which seems like the sort of thing I'd usually love, except that some of the friends were really irritating. So I got all sorts of snippy and flatly insulted one (and, I believe, the Christmas holiday in general, which is something I, the queen of Christmas, would never do). So they were furious with me and I exiled myself downstairs with Caroline's parents.
This is where it gets creepy. While hanging out with Caroline's parents, a suitcase was delivered for me. It was my old suitcase that had been retrieved from a bus accident I'd been in previously. The bus had gone off a cliff and plunged into the sea. It was full of people, most of whom died. I was one of a few survivors. So I immediately began sorting the contents of the suitcase into piles ("ditch" and "clean/keep"). I somehow knew that not only was it gross to not clean things that had been underwater with corpses for months, but it was also dangerous. It became apparent that the more time you spent around contaminated items, the more likely you were to become obsessed with the wreck and the dead. Someone who looked like Keira Knightley was also one of the survivors, but her boyfriend died on the bus. She became so obsessed that she swam back to the bus to be with her boyfriend and drowned. (Yes, they retrieved our bags, but left the bus full of dead bodies underwater.) So all subsequent appearances in my dream were of ghost Keira.
Undoubtedly the person who became most deranged was Telman, a guy who looked like Kenneth from 30 Rock. First, my company fired him, which he discovered they were planning on doing by accident at a staff meeting—someone left a paper on the table about his firing and Telman noticed it. So he was bitter at the company and then, after spending more time around contaminated items from the bus, became utterly obsessed. The combination was not good. He started trying to infect other people with the obsession (somehow that was possible) and became quite the menace around town. Meanwhile, the company gave me some sort of sorry-you-were-in-a-major-accident stipend of $4,000. Evidently they felt guilty, because, by keeping the two daughters of the bus company owner on staff, they didn't have to get the buses inspected or something. (Yeah, I'm not entirely certain about the logistics here.) Essentially, it boiled down to the fact that my employer was at fault for the bus wreck. I was appalled and felt betrayed. They were trying to buy my silence about their negligence for $4,000. Unfortunately, I don't remember what I did about that. Maybe that part dropped out of my dream.
By this point, Telman had infected tons of people, each of whom could infect more people. The obsessed were like zombies, roaming the streets, looking for more people to contaminate. I'm not sure whether they were alive or ghosts like Keira Knightley. More ghosts—those of the people who died on the bus—had since joined him, too. Noah Bennet from Heroes had been trying to recondition Telman, but I was shocked when I discovered by what means. He attached a pronged metal device (it looked like a very stylized scorpion) to Telman's spine right below the neck and would leave it there, doing its thing (whatever that was), sometimes for two hours at a whack. I don't know exactly what it was supposed to do, but it hurt like hell. I tried it for only a few seconds, and it was agonizing. I made the others who were trying to capture Telman try it, too. Big, burly men were spasming in pain. We were all left with a lot more sympathy for him. Things changed after that. Somehow I reached an accord with Telman and his ghosts: they stopped bothering us and we stopped chasing them, trying to recondition them. Eventually they became quite friendly to those of us who could see them (not everyone could). In fact, my boyfriend (not Afshin, some other random guy who looked a little like a former coworker) ate some crumbs that allowed him to see the ghosts. It seemed very sweet at the time that he wanted to be one of the few who could see and talk to the ghosts.
So it somehow worked out in the end, what with the friendly ghosts and all. There was also some digression about sandwiches and a personable old deli counter guy, but I don't remember where that fit in the arc. I was getting a couple of my friends and myself sandwiches at a rest stop during a bus trip. (In a bus, I should note, shaped like a giant loaf of wheat bread.) Considering my past experience with buses and, well, death, you'd think I'd skip the bus trip. Guess not.
Oh, and I finally apologized to Caroline and her friends for my prior bitchiness. They totally forgave me.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- Ousted Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro made a cool $58 million as part of his severance package, when he was asked to leave the company in January.
De Castro's severance package was based in part on how well the company did and its stock performance. All but a million dollars was based in the value of his equity award in Yahoo. De Castro's package was bigger than CEO Marissa Mayer's 2013 compensation, valued at $24.9 million with an additional $21.2 million from vested shares.
De Castro was Mayer's first big hire after she was appointed CEO, and he was expected to revive the tech company's fledgling advertising business.
Yahoo, in a preliminary proxy filing Wednesday, said that de Castro's exit package would have been far smaller had it not been for the sharp gains in the Yahoo stock. Yahoo's share value rose from $15.68 to $40.34 while he worked at the company. As a result, the severance package was valued at $17 million when he signed, but now has more than tripled to $58 million.
Ironically, much of Yahoo's stock surge has less to do with management initiatives and more to do with Yahoo's 24 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The company has seen its value soar in the last few years and with an upcoming IPO, it is rumored to be valued at around $200 million.
Yahoo defended its decision to hire de Castro and his package by saying that they believed he "had a unique set of highly valuable skills and experiences that would be key to returning the company to long-term growth and success and would best serve long-term shareholder interests."
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A week after their birth at the Texas Children's Hospital, the latest set of sextuplets is making big progress with five breathing on their own and just one still on a ventilator.
Their parents gave TODAY an exclusive first look at the "six pack," as doctors have dubbed them. The tiny pink babies, three boys and three girls, are being cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit. Doctors expect the babies, who were born 10 weeks premature, to stay there for at least a couple of months.
The babies were delivered by C-section on April 23 in just four minutes – much quicker than their parents, Lauren and David Perkins, expected.
"All of a sudden, they were like, 'Baby A is out,' and I was like 'Oh, we're starting,'" Lauren told TODAY's Janet Shamlian. "Within four minutes, all six were out." Andrew, Ben, Levi, Allison, Caroline and Leah are their names: The largest was just 2 pounds, 15 ounces.
Though the Perkinses are remarkably calm now as they survey their little six-pack, they were caught off guard by the whirl of emotions as the babies started to come.
"My heart was beating like crazy," David told Shamlian. "Lauren was shaking like crazy. I did not expect that. They said that was perfectly normal."
A team of about 35 doctors, nurses, and other specialists had rehearsed the delivery so that everything would go smoothly.
"When mom came into the hospital, we knew where the equipment was going to be," Dr. Charles Hankins a neonatologist at Texas Children's Pavilion for Women told Shamlian. "We knew which teams would be at which bed with which baby. So it's just being ready. You don't want to do this dance the first time that night."
Lauren described her first meeting with the babies on the blog the couple set up for family and friends.
"I officially met them on Tuesday and got to touch them!" Lauren wrote. "I couldn't believe they all fit inside my belly. My favorite moment was getting to hold one of them this morning; she had been upset but calmed down when I held her. :) Two of the babies love their pacifiers and Dave got to put the pacis in their mouths yesterday."
The Perkinses weren't looking to create such a big family in one shot. They'd sought out the help of a fertility specialist after trying to get pregnant for a year and a half. Lauren was given fertility drugs and doctors inseminated her with David's sperm.
David described the process on their blog.
"That involved two weeks of shots and a couple turkey bastings," he wrote. "There was a 25 percent chance the procedure would work at all, and if it worked, a 25 percent chance of twins. The odds went down from there on multiples, with a 1 percent chance of sextuplets. After 'the 2 week wait' we found out Lauren was indeed pregnant, but with really high hormone levels, so an ultrasound was recommended to see what was going on. We knew something was up when we saw the doctor's jaw drop... he had seen 6 babies!"
The Perkinses were offered the option of selectively reducing the pregnancy to make it safer for both Lauren and the babies, but the couple rejected the suggestion.
"You see your six babies and heartbeats and there's no sign of problems," she told Shamlian. "And how do you choose?"
While five of the six babies are now breathing on their own and seem healthy, one, Leah, is still on a ventilator and is facing greater challenges. She had surgery this past Monday and seems to have come through it well.
Leah's dad is hopeful that everything will turn out all right.
"I don't think we'd be taken this far just to have some of them not go home with us," he told Shamlian. "We're very confident in that."
Linda Carroll is a regular contributor to msnbc.com and TODAY.com. She is co-author of the new book "The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic."
More amazing health stories:
'Miracle' mom survives massive blood loss to deliver healthy baby
Teenager gets lung transplant in time for prom
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PHOENIX -- New York Jets owner Woody Johnson stood against a window of the Arizona Biltmore resort, hemmed in by 18 media members wondering about the uncertain future of Jets all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis.
MILLION BUCKS: Revis gets his bonus
It appears Johnson and new general manager John Idzik will spend the NFL owner's meetings entertaining offers for the shutdown corner, who is coming off a season-ending torn left anterior cruciate ligament suffered early last October against the Miami Dolphins. Johnson was asked if he expects Revis will be with the Jets this season.
THEY WANT TEBOW: A 'contract waiting' for him
"It depends, we'd like to have him on the team. But we're trying to make the team better," Johnson said.
The Jets appear stuck until an interested team becomes convinced that Revis is well on his way to returning to four-time Pro Bowl form and worth the high draft picks — and new contract -- it would take to secure him past the 2013 season.
A NEW COLT? Irsay tweeting hints
Revis, 27, is entering the final year of his four-year, $46 million deal.
Dumervil buzz: Free agent defensive end Elvis Dumervil has hired new agents following the fax machine fiasco that factored into his release from the Denver Broncos on Friday. Dumervil signed on with CAA, headed by Tom Condon and Ben Dogra, after firing agent Marty Magid.
Dumervil, meanwhile, has indicated that he wants to remain with the Broncos. Do the Broncos want him back?
"We're doing whatever we can to make us better," Broncos coach John Fox told USA TODAY Sports. "If that works out, great."
Dumervil was set to accept a $4 million salary reduction to $8 million for the 2013 season when the deal blew up on Friday. Magid told USA TODAY Sports that beyond a problem with the fax machine transmission, the Broncos sent incomplete paperwork and revised terms of what was verbally agreed upon, causing a delay.
The Broncos disputed Magid's version, and say the signed contract arrived six minutes late.
Rule namesake: Maybe the proposed revision that will allow officials to conduct replay reviews when a coach erroneously throws a challenge flag will be known as The Jim Schwartz Rule.
"That's rather unfortunate," the Detroit Lions coach told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday.
On Thanksgiving, Schwartz threw his challenge flag to protest an 81-yard touchdown run by Houston Texans back Justin Forsett. Replays show Forsett's knee touched the ground, but because Schwartz challenged a scoring play that would automatically be reviewed, he was penalized and a chance to overturn the call was nullified.
Owners will vote this week to fix that glitch.
Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith and Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy also had cases of faulty challenge flags throws last season.
"Any time you're talking about replay, the most important thing is to get it right," Schwartz said.
And having a rule named in his honor?
"You take ownership of everything," Schwartz said. "It is what it is."
Contributing: Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY Sports
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From May 5-6, 2014, participants joined Dr. Michael Ungar for a two-day workshop about "Counselling Children, Youth and Families with Complex Needs: An Ecological Approach to Nurturing Resilience across Cultures and Contexts." The workshop demonstrated the application of resilience theory and research to clinical practice.
When treating children, youth and families who have experienced poverty, violence, marginalization, or psychological trauma, the focus is often too narrowly placed on individual complex needs and problems. Such focus on delinquency or conflict between children and caregivers misses the broader sources of healing and resilience in people's lives. This workshop presented a strengths-focused model of intervention that draws on the potential capacity of people's social ecologies (e.g. friends, cousins, parents, teachers, community and cultural mentors, government service providers, NGOs, etc.) as sources of resilience in contexts of significant adversity.
Participants learned how to identify and facilitate people's access to seven factors that enhance resilience: 1) relationships; 2) a powerful identity; 3) a sense of personal control, agency and power; 4) social justice; 5) material resources like food, clothing, and safety; 6) a sense of belonging, life purpose, and spirituality; and 7) cultural rootedness. Participants also learned 20 skills to help the people they work with experience each of these seven factors in their lives in ways that are psychologically meaningful and contextually relevant. Finally, the workshop discussed a five-phase model of clinical practice to make interventions effective.
The workshop demonstrated this ecological approach to counselling by using exercises, clinical transcripts and video recordings. It built on best practice knowledge borrowed from both clinical work and studies of resilience among populations who face adversity. Because this intervention model combines clinical practice with aspects of case management and advocacy, it suits the needs of mental health professionals working in community mental health clinics, addiction treatment centres, schools, home-based family support programs, and correctional and residential settings. The workshop explored practical techniques for clinical intervention and case planning while providing participants a forum to discuss the most challenging children, youth and families with whom they work.
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ROCHESTER — Nickolas Skaltsis is scheduled to be transported to the Rochester Circuit Court Friday for his probable cause hearing.
Skaltsis, 62, of 6 Erik Drive in Dover, was arrested Thursday, Jan. 24, and charged with 19 felony counts of theft for operating a fraudulent investment scheme.
The Securities Regulation Bureau has found 13 known local residents who each invested anywhere from $10,000 to $45,000 with Skaltsis, and were promised 4-percent to 24-percent interest.
"Skaltsis is accused of making false and deceptive representations about those investments by representing that he would use the funds to acquire, rehabilitate and resell distressed properties in Strafford County …" according to a press release from the Attorney General's Office.
Only one of the 13 investors has received their money back in full.
"The total amount of loss to those investors identified in the 19 charges is alleged to be $287,000," according to the press release.
The bureau released a report that said Skaltsis' total debts, between prior investments, secured deals, personal loans, partnership deals, a defaulted mortgage and the judgment against him brings his total debts to more than $1.2 million.
According to Jim Boffetti, of the Senior Assistant Attorney General Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, the court allowed Skaltsis to remain hospitalized at New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord after his arraignment last week on personal recognizance bail. He is in this hospital because he attempted suicide on Oct. 12, 2012.
If he is discharged from the hospital, Skaltsis' bail is immediately converted to $300,000 cash only.
Boffetti said the probable cause hearing can be waived, but as of Wednesday afternoon, he had no indication Skaltsis and his public defender, Carl Swenson, would be doing so.
"They haven't said if they are or are not going to do it," Boffetti said.
If the judge believes the 19 felony charges against Skaltsis were in fact committed, the state will then present the case to the grand jury.
According to Boffetti, if Skaltsis is indicted by the grand jury, Skaltsis will be arraigned in Superior Court on those indictments.


text: Is UBS bonus a sign banks haven't learned lesson?Swiss bank increases bonus pool by 28 per cent to $3.5 billionBy Katharina Bart and Steve Slater02/04/2014|hrreporter.com|Last Updated: 02/04/2014 ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) — A jump in bonus payments at Swiss bank UBS AG stoked criticism on Tuesday that a previous cut was short-lived and banks have not learned lessons from the financial crisis.Banker bonuses drew intense criticism after the crisis which peaked in 2008 and 2009 for creating lucrative short-term incentives, tied to often ill-conceived products, whose failure cost banks and governments billions while leaving the bankers themselves unscathed.Yet as conditions in the banking sector improve, UBS and other banks argue they need to keep rewarding top performing staff in areas such as merger and acquisition advisory, bond trading or advising rich clients, or risk losing them to rivals.UBS said it had increased its bonus pool for 2013 by 28 per cent to 3.2 billion Swiss francs (US$3.5 billion), after a cut in 2012 when it was fined for rigging Libor interest rates.It said it needed to reduce a pay gap between with other banks and said the increase was justified after a "transformational" year in which it swung to higher than expected net profit and surpassed most of its turnaround targets.Critics said it showed little had changed after the financial crisis and argued banks were still paying staff too much, often at the expense of shareholders."It is offensive when bonuses outpace profits. It isn't really comprehensible," said Roby Tschopp, head of activist shareholder group Actares.Actares voted against UBS's pay plan last year and Tschopp said he didn't know how he will vote this year.Thomas Zimmermann, spokesman for Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund, an umbrella organization for Swiss labour unions, said: "UBS is carrying on as if nothing happened."They have learned nothing from the public debate about the Minder initiative or the 1:12 initiative," Zimmermann said, referring to controls on executive pay introduced in Switzerland last year.The Minder initiative gives shareholders a binding vote on compensation, though voters rejected a proposal to limit executive pay to 12 times that of junior staff.UBS's decision comes with the bonus season in full swing in Europe and follows payouts already announced at major U.S. banks. Bonuses in investment banking are expected to be mostly flat to slightly lower, though some firms are raising pay.RELATED ARTICLESRestaurant delivery jobs hold their own in the Uber Eats ageCombatting unauthorized overtimeMore than half of Canadian employees feel underpaid: surveyBONUS HIKEBank of America and Morgan Stanley increased average pay last year by around 7 percent, while pay in the investment bank arms of JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank fell.Goldman Sachs cut average pay by 4 percent last year, although average compensation still topped $380,000 for its 32,900 staff.Top staff continue to receive multi-million-dollar awards, but more cuts could be on the cards for weak and average performers, especially in fixed income after a relatively bad year in that sector, bank and recruitmentindustry sources said.UBS's bonus hike would lift average personnel costs to 249,581 Swiss francs (US$276,500) across the bank's 60,200 staff, up three per cent from the year before. Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said the bank had cut its absolute and relative pay substantially in recent years and the rise for 2013 had "reduced gaps to market pay"."We feel comfortable that we now have a normalised compensation framework for the entire bank that allows us to be competitive and attract and retain the best talents," Ermotti told reporters on a conference call.UBS is considering introducing an "allowance" system to help comply with European Union rules that will cap 2014 bonuses at 100 per cent of fixed pay, or double with shareholder approval, for his 5,600 staff in London and others in the EU."There are various options and it goes without saying one of those is to use allowances that are supplementary, and can be included in the fixed compensation framework," Ermotti said.He said UBS would decide in the next couple of months the best way to comply with the EU directive.Rivals including Barclays, Goldman Sachs, HSBC , Bank of America and JPMorgan are also expected to introduce monthly or quarterly role-based allowances that count as fixed pay but have more flexibility than salaries and are not pensionable.UBS changed its compensation framework in 2012, which it said was to increase focus on long-term performance and was aligned with creating attractive returns to shareholders.It said the cost of performance awards in 2013 would be flat for shareholders at 3 billion francs on an accounting basis after amortisations and deferrals.Yet critics of rich banker awards seem unlikely to be appeased by such reassurances. 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Like many of you I have spent a lot of time looking for a good camp chair. It has to be comfortable, light and easy to pack. Stable and able to withstand all the riggers of camp life. Ideally it will be cheap.
I started out not bothering to take a chair and used to sit in my hammock but that was too far from the fire and could not be easily moved. Then I tried the cheap chairs you get in petrol stations and supermarkets. They are light enough and comfortable but break quickly and don't pack easily. I tired a lightweight camp chair that was a bit low slung and fragile. You had to get out of it in a very specific way. Not ideal. Then I got a fishing chair. It was solid and comfortable, if a bit low to the ground. It is heavy and a pain to pack, actually you can't pack it you just have to wedge it somewhere in the canoe but it has lasted the longest and generally earned its keep. It is, however, now well worn with few trips left in it. The stitching and material are starting to part company.
So here I was again looking for a camp chair. As it happened I got an email that had information about a new Thermarest chair, the Trēo. The specs looked impressive. Packs small. easy to erect, stable, not too heavy but hard wearing. Please let it be true.
If all this was true then it would be close to perfect. Is it cheap? Not really. Currently they are going on Amazon for just under £77, http://www.amazon.co.uk/THERMAREST-T...DRD25MKCQDVHCT but are usually closer to £85. This takes it to the same sort of price point as the Helinox which I have not tried but has design similarities until you get to the legs and it packing into itself. Anyway, if it does what it says and lasts I would be happy to pay this price. But it needs to deliver.
And so it was delivered Not just delivered but taken out, sat on, used on trips, ready for me to give an informed opinion on. First off it looks great when packed. A solid lump that can be thrown about a bit and stuffed in a pack easily. Either in the main pack or a side pocket.
It can be hard to gauge the size so here it is with a crusader mug, my standard size unit And a 1 litre bottle in the mug in case you need a further guide.
If we take the rubber band off from around the legs we can swing one leg open to see inside. The rubber band is attached to one of the legs so it does not get lost. The "hand strap" is attached to a plastic disk that is just slid into place. There is nowhere to store this disk and strap when the chair is erected. It is just asking to be lost. Actually it may be a disposable part of the packing but too useful to chuck away so I came up with a solution for this. More later.
Inside we see some rolled up material and some poles.
Open the legs out and put them the right way up.
Unroll the material to find four poles. Two with two sections and silver ends and two with three sections and black ends. The pole sets are shock corded together as is the norm.
A quick shake to spring them into shape.
Then the silver ends of the shorter poles go in the two holes that are on the same leg. The longer black poles go into the single holes on each of the remaining legs.
I know what you are thinking, "John is so going to lose that disk with the hand strap".
Sticky backed velcro to the rescue
Alternatively you could loop the hand strap over one of the poles at this point but the velcro solution gives you somewhere to stick the disk as soon as you take it out.
You unroll, fold out the material and find a seat shaped sling with "pockets" in the corners. You put the ends of the poles in the pockets and voila, you have a chair.
It takes a lot of words and pictures to describe this but in reality less than a minute to do.
Now lets put a 6 foot 3 inches tall, slightly under 15 stone, MagiKelly in the chair.
Mmmmm, comfy Sam wonders if there is a version for dogs
When I first got this chair I set it up at home a few times and got into it really gently. I was worried I would bend the bars or the material would rip. Logically I knew it had been tested extensively by the manufacturer before they even went on sale but still it felt too light to really take abuse.
However, once you get out camping and are moving round the campfire, getting up to do this and that, moving the chair, sitting down, getting up again you start to treat it like just a chair. The kid gloves come off and you start to just rely on it. Given time you may even find yourself swinging back on it a bit
Indeed you will come to think of it as being so robust that every time you lift it you will be shocked at how light it is. In a very short time I have come to think of it as being as solid as the fishing chair it is replacing. So I am always surprised when I lift it and find it is a fraction of that weight. Indeed this lightness is a reel boon as it makes it so much easier to shift position when the smoke changes direction and you are getting kippered by the camp fire. Moving is further helped as the Treo chair has a seat height about twice that of the fishing chair. So getting up is easier and not quite the "turtle on its back" impersonation I could be accused of, when exiting the fishing chair.
I should have mentioned another benefit of the design of the chair. The plastic legs have a wide foot compared to the rubber tipped ends of most camp chairs (Helinox included). As a result the legs do not easily sink into the ground. I have tried them on a beach and it was fine. My fishing chair would have gone in at least an inch in the same conditions. The three legged design also means you do not get any wobble but of course if you lean forward and out to the side far enough you can tip but you do need to go stupidly far.
As you can tell I am really taken with the new Thermarest Trēo Chair. Is it the perfect chair? Maybe. It is portable and packable enough. Indeed so packable I will be taking it even on day trips. I may even take it when walking. It is comfortable and high enough. Is it cheap enough? Probably. The deciding factor will be if it lasts well. I am confident it will. Confident enough indeed that I am looking to get a second one.
Of course I'll keep you updated with how it stands up as time progresses.


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The Ravens lost their first of the season in Foxboro, and the loss came down to five critical mistakes made by the purple and black.
1. Chris Carr's opening kickoff fumble
I'll admit that, at this point, any good feelings I had regarding the signing of Carr this past offseason have flown the coop. He is terribly indecisive on both punt and kick returns, and his decisions to repeatedly bring the ball out from 5 yards deep in the end zone are bash-your-head-against-the-wall inducing. Fumbling the opening kickoff, in a huge game, on the road in front of a hostile crowd is unforgivable (Chris Carr, get me some WAFFLEFRIES!). The defense held strong in keeping NE out of the end zone, but spotting a team like the Patriots a 3-point lead in the first minute of the game is no recipe for success.
2. Joe Flacco's Red Zone interception at the end of the 1st half
Tough to say who was more "at fault" here, but there was obviously some miscommunication between Flacco and Mark Clayton. Clayton ran a stop-and-go, Flacco threw to the "stop" part of the route, and Leigh Bodden was left as the only player near the ball. Bodden made a very nice play to pick the ball off, but it never happens if Clayton is there to fight him for it.
The Ravens, trailing 17-7 at the time, had the chance to go into the locker room down by a single score, but instead gave themselves the daunting task of overcoming a double-digit deficit against Belichick and Brady.
3,4. Roughing the passer penalties on Ngata, Suggs.
These two plays are being heavily criticized by talking heads and pundits all over the league this week. They were, unquestionably, ticky-tack. However, those are the rules. It's on the players to know what they can and cannot do, ESPECIALLY to the guy that the rule book was basically rewritten for. Neither of the "hits" (if you can call them that) on Brady were malicious or put him in any danger whatsoever, but that's not the point. Blame the refs if you want, but the rule committee are the ones really at fault here.
Suggs looked like he was doing everything in his power to avoid Brady, but he stumbled forward and brushed the QB's legs. In the 2009 NFL, that is a penalty.
New England scored touchdowns on both drives that were extended by the laundry on the field. In short, they took advantage. Great teams take advantage of the rules, mediocre teams complain about them.
Which do you want to be, Ravens?
5. Mark Clayton's sudden, last minute stone hands
After all that, the Ravens still had a VERY good chance to win this game. The final drive put together by Joe Flacco was a thing of beauty. Starting at their own 20, down by 6, with 3:32 to go, the Ravens were nearly perfect in moving the ball to the New England 14 with 30 seconds to go and 1 timeout remaining.
With 1:10 to go, and the ball at the NE 20, Flacco floated a pass to Clayton in the side of the end zone. It would have taken a GREAT play to pull it in (and given Tom Terrific a bit too much time for comfort), but the fact remains that the ball hit Clayton on the arms, and he COULD have had it.
Three plays later, Flacco went to Clayton again, this time on 4th-and-4, on a 6-yard out. Clayton was wide open, and a catch would have led to a time-out and 4 shots at the end zone from about the 8 yard line to win the game. Unfortunately, Clayton tried to turn and run for the end zone before securing the ball, it bounced off his numbers, and the Ravens got sent home losers.
I'm not gonna sit here and crucify Mark Clayton…but it's a pretty safe bet that #89 will be featured prominently in this week's editions of both "Come on Man!" on ESPN and "Did Not Play Like a Raven" right here at the Nest.
I also feel like I have to call out Cam Cameron a bit this week. Cameron, who has been nothing short of spectacular since arriving in B'More, really shat the bed in this one. If I agree with Mike Preston, you know it's bad.
Joe Flacco threw the ball 47 times for 264 yards, an average of 5.6 yards per play. Conversely, the Ravens ran the ball 17 times for 116 yards, an average of 6.8 yards per play. The Patriots, even with Brady, Randy Moss, and Wes Welker, were much more balanced on offense, nearly 50/50 run/pass. The Ravens could have used their running game, which was working effectively, to move the ball, extend drives, rest their defense, and keep Tom Brady off the field.
Ray Rice had 103 yards on only 11 carries.
Willis McGahee had 11 yards on 5, but again found the end zone through the air.
Le'Ron "Pain Train" McClain had…0 carries???
What the hell, Cam?!?!
Never was the puzzling absence of McClain more perplexing than when, with 5 minutes left in the game, the Ravens faced consecutive 3rd and 4th-and-1s near midfield. Rice and McGahee ran back-to-back for 0 yards, and the Ravens handed the ball back to the Patriots, who then had the chance to seal the deal then and there.
Is short yardage not McClain's specialty? He seems to pick up those short first downs every time! Even more maddening was the fact that, not only was he not given the ball on either of those plays, but he WASN'T EVEN ON THE FIELD! At the very least, McClain should have been used in his decoy/blocking FB role there, needing just 1 yard.
Even before this play, I was yelling at the TV for some Pain Train. I was a bit nervous that he had perhaps been injured and the cameras not caught it, but then I did spot him in on a few plays (blocking, of course) earlier in the fourth.
Let's hope Cameron looks at the film this week, gives himself a few nice "/facepalm!s" and gets back to balance from here on out. The Bengals, for one, are much improved in the secondary this season.
On the whole, the Ravens had a chance to win in the final minute, against a very good team, despite shooting themselves in the foot multiple times. If you have to lose, that's the way you want to do it. Hey, they weren't going to go 16-0. I had them penciled in for 2-2 after 4 games, and they are 3-1 with an earlier-than-expected battle for the division lead coming up this Sunday at home. Let's move past this one and get ready for Cincy.
Injury Front
Finally, regarding two Ravens who were severely injured in the game:
Brendon Ayanbadejo, last week's AFC Defensive Player of the Week, and anchor of the Ravens' already questionable kick coverage teams, told the media he is likely done for the season, needing surgery on a torn quadriceps tendon. (Guh. On the play that Brendon got hurt, he is never even in position to be injured if Dominique Foxworth wraps the ballcarrier up and makes a damn tackle, instead of diving at his ankles with a shoulder!)
Paul Kruger, you are the next man up.
Jared Gaither, taken off the field on a stretcher after slamming his head into Joe Flacco's back, reportedly has movement in all of his extremities. Gaither was too large to fit in the MRI machine at Mass. General Hospital, but X-Rays on his neck and shoulder came back negative. No word on how long it will be until Gaither returns, but we wish the big man all the best in a full and speedy recovery. In the meantime, Michael "Blind Side" Oher will get to live up to his book by moving to the left side, and Marshal Yanda will take over for Oher on the right.


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New Jaguars general manager David Caldwell hasn't changed his stance from the day he was hired in January, Alex Marvez of FOX Sports reports. Tim Tebow isn't coming to the Jaguars under his watch.
"For us, it was always about a fresh start," Caldwell said on SiriusXM NFL Radio Tuesday night. "It was about new energy here with coach (Gus) Bradley, with Shad Khan being our new owner, myself as a first-time general manager and a coaching staff that has a lot of first-time coaches there, too.
"We just wanted a fresh start. We didn't want the same recurring themes coming up."
Among those "themes" would be fan and media pressure to play Tebow, who Forbes Magazine ranked earlier this week as the most influential American athlete despite his throwing struggles at the professional level. The New York Jets experienced that distraction in 2012 after acquiring Tebow in a trade with Denver.
When asked by Broncos management where he preferred to get traded, Tebow chose New York over Jacksonville because he believed there was a better chance for him to receive quarterbacking snaps. Tebow, though, barely played last year even as starter Mark Sanchez struggled. Tebow was waived following last month's draft when the Jets couldn't find a trade partner and went unclaimed.
This still hasn't kept some Tebow supporters from pushing for his signing in Jacksonville. There was even an online petition posted that asked fans to urge President Obama to call Caldwell and "tell him to stop ignoring the Jaguars fans and sign Tim Tebow!" The petition was removed Monday on the White House web site.
Tebow backers point to the fact he was 7-4 as a starter in 2011 while leading Denver to the playoffs and a first-round victory over Pittsburgh. Tebow was able to compensate for a 46.5 completion percentage with his mobility and penchant for leading late comebacks.
Tebow has continued to work this offseason with outside coaches and trainers to try and improve his throwing mechanics. But there also is a feeling among some NFL executives that he has no more upside as an NFL passer and it's better to invest in developing a younger quarterback, especially with Tebow having become a lightning rod for controversy with the Jets and Broncos.
Asked whether he felt the same based upon his Tebow comments, Caldwell said, "You can read into that however you would like."


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By Emma Luigard
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LOURDES, France — It has been five days since we arrived in Lisbon. Since then we've visited Fatima, Santiago de Compostela and Burgos, spanning a total of two countries and are in transit to visit our third, France.
In each city we've encounter multiple groups of other pilgrims from a wide range of countries. So far we've met pilgrims from Australia, Korea, Lebanon, Italy, France, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Poland and other groups from the U.S.A. Every encounter begins with face-splitting grins and frantic waves from both sides, followed by the signature question, "Where are you from?" Pictures are then taken and items exchanged — in one case a Canadian flag pin for a U.S.A. flag. The groups then part ways, but not with "good-bye" but with an enthusiastic "see you next week!" The easy ways between fellow pilgrims is a wonderful display of the church as family around the world.
On Friday we went to Mass, and a group of Polish scouts was also in attendance. The Mass was celebrated in Latin, Spanish and Polish. During the Latin parts of the Mass it was incredible to see everyone singing in unison because Latin is a universal part of Mass. However, what was even more incredible was watching the Polish scout sitting in front of me participate in the Spanish parts of the Mass, not just the Polish parts. But then I realized he wasn't much different from me. I speak primarily English and bits of Spanish, but I'm traveling with a group of primarily Spanish speakers who only speak English to make sure I'm not left out. Just seeing him in a similar position as myself made me realize that even though we may not understand each other's spoken language we do understand each other's faith, and that is what brings us together — our love for God.
Emma Luigard, 16, will be a senior at Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, Md. The member of St. Bernadette Parish, traveling with St. Camillus Parish in Silver Spring, said she is "excited for World Youth Day because it will be full of cultural and religious experiences."