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One of my favorite ways to look back at the past year is with 10Q whose slogan is: Reflect. React. Renew. Life's Biggest Questions. Answered By You.
Rereading my 10Q answers from last year and answering the first question, of 2011 I see that my focus has shifted completely. A year ago I was searching for something–a purpose. Wanting more from my life, I decided to go back to school to study nutrition (or medicine). I wanted my life to be slightly different than it was.
A month ago my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and my perspective changed completely. Instead of wishing for a slightly different life, now I want to cling desperately to life as I know it now with my family. I am heartbroken by the news that someone so close to me is so sick but I am also amazed that this sad news would allow me to be more content person at the same time that I am devastated.
Last spring my cat was diagnosed with lymphoma. She spent the summer at the vet and returned to us this fall. I have to give her steroids every morning and chemo three times a week. Thin and frail with a sharp bony back my cat is now lying on my kitchen floor looking not that bad. The chemo and steroids seem to be working. I can hear my mother rolling her eyes over the phone wondering out loud why we don't put her to sleep, but right before she got sick she caught a mouse. When the vet told us she had cancer and we had to make a decision about whether to put her to sleep my husband said "She did catch that mouse."
It is massively inconvenient to have a sick cat and it is heartbreaking to face illness. But these challenges bring a reflection to my life and make me realize how lucky I am. The irony is that even in health my cat was pretty unfriendly and somehow in sickness she is a nicer cat.
Life is a rollercoaster and I don't blog as much lately. Forgive me. My "never a dull moment" life has really made me step away from my computer to be with my family–and my cat.
Happy New Year and visit 10Q now so you can remember today before next year is upon us.


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Hollywood Gone Mad: Complaining That Oscar Nominated Films Downloaded More
from the think-this-through,-people dept
Oscar nominees typically enjoy a box office bounce. But Hollywood increasingly has to reckon with another award-season ritual, one that could best be described as the piracy plunder.But why is that a problem? The only reason those films received this additional attention was because of the Oscar nods, so complaining about the similar bump in unauthorized downloading seems bizarre. Seriously, if you are getting a bunch more people paying for the movie, are you really that concerned that another group is viewing it in an unauthorized manner? It's as if some people actually believe that every unauthorized download is a lost sale.
The attention that an Oscar nomination for best picture bestows on a title also triggers a spike in illegal downloading.
It's pretty simple: if you're getting downloaded more, it means there's more interest in your film, and it's your job as a film producer to figure out how to make money from that interest. It's not something to complain about.
The article also highlights, as we've discussed at great lengths, how the producer, Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Films, of last year's Oscar winner for best picture, Hurt Locker chose to sue 5,000 fans of his film for unauthorized downloading. Of course, it leaves out the part where he also called someone a "moron" and a "thief" for explaining to him, quite politely, why such a strategy might backfire. The reporter asks Chartier about the backlash, and he suggests that nobody knows who produces what films, so he doesn't care if he gets a bad reputation: "I don't think anyone is waking up saying, 'Let's boycott movies made by Voltage.'" Apparently Chartier doesn't use the internet much. There are, in fact, efforts by people to get everyone to boycott Voltage films because of his actions.

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American Presbyterians who want to help Christians in Egypt must first be informed, said a PC(USA) partner in a webinar hosted by Presbyterian World Mission today.
Ramez Atallah, general director of the Bible Society of Egypt, said that Western media and governments are not providing accurate information about the situation in Egypt. The Bible Society is considered the Bible publisher for all the churches (Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic) in Egypt. The Aug. 14 destruction of two of the society's bookstores in southern Egypt was not covered by the Western media, which is not stationed in that area, he said.
After those shops and many churches were burned, many were afraid that Christians would react with violence against Muslims. But instead, they showed restraint and followed in the peaceful footsteps of Jesus, Atallah said.
"We are thankful and praise the Lord for the actions of Christians after the attacks of the past two weeks," he said.
The attacks, following the removal of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt, concluded "a depressing year for us," Atallah said. "When Morsi was elected the worst fears of Christians were realized … On June 30 [when mass demonstrations led to the Egyptian military's seizure of power from Morsi] we realized and were surprised that the vast majority didn't want radical Islam.
"We are disappointed with Western media characterizations," Atallah added, "because they are not reflective of the reality on the ground … There are several Christians in the new cabinet. We're very excited at what's happening."
American Christians in Egypt must tell their counterparts back home what is really happening in Egypt, Atallah said. They must also help Egyptians understand that the U.S. government does not represent U.S. churches.
Although there have long been misunderstandings between American and Middle Eastern Christians, the church is one body, said Amgad Beblawi, World Mission's coordinator for the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe.
The role of the church should be clear, and all Christians should be united, he said.
Atallah asked for prayers and solidarity from American Christians for Egypt and the whole of the Middle East. "This was not a rejection of Islam," he said. "It was a rejection of political Islam. Please don't blame Muslims ― the problem is Muslim extremists."
"I think the answer is in prayer. It's not in politics, obviously," he said. "Pray for us. Help us in rebuilding ourselves, rebuilding our churches, our bookshops."
Click here to donate to help rebuild churches and Christian bookstores can be made through the PC(USA)'s partner in Egypt, the Synod of the Nile Evangelical (Presbyterian) Church.
For more information about Egypt and the PC(USA)'s mission and peacemaking efforts there, click here.


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The secret is "culture"!
"I came to see in my time at IBM that 'culture' isn't just one aspect of the game - it is the game."
-- Lou Gerstner (1942- ) Former IBM CEO, credited with its turnaround
Culture is your organization's DNA - the blueprint for everything you do. To be better at innovating - your culture must expect and foster innovation. To improve customer satisfaction - your culture must expect and foster great service. Great leaders realize this. They know that "culture" isn't a single item on a task list. And it can't be delegated to a committee. It's all encompassing. It's the real work - and legacy - of leaders. (Source: Fast Company)
"Culture" is the reason why the City College MESA Program is the best academic support program for students in math, engineering and science majors: the MESA Program has a culture of success, with a language of success! The MESA culture connects everything and everyone in the MESA program. The MESA culture expects and fosters excellence in student achievement. The MESA culture produces scholars and leaders!
MESA is the best academic support program for students in Math, Engineering & Science majors. The secret is "culture"! The MESA Program has a learning culture of success, with a language of success.
Culture is defined by Webster's Dictionary as:
We each have a personal definition and understanding of culture: it is who we are. Our culture is taught to us by our families, friends and communities. We learn what foods to eat, what clothes to wear, how to communicate, how to behave, and what is important.
But culture is also related to success in college: to be successful in college, students must know the culture of the college, the college standards and the college system (see Pyramid Model). This is especially true for success in Math, Engineering and Science. Fortunately, culture is what the City College MESA Program does best!
The MESA program has a culture of success, with a language of success. More than a program or community, MESA is family, with shared beliefs, practices, and behaviors designed for student success:
More than knowing the MESA culture, MESA Creators own the MESA culture. They take the MESA culture wherever they go. MESA Creators are successful in school and in life, and they achieve FREEDOM!
Storytelling is very important in every culture. Stories are used for entertainment, for teaching, for passing on values, beliefs and wisdom. This is also true in the MESA learning culture of success. The MESA culture has the "African Village story" to pass on the secret to success and teach all MESA Creators what it takes to be successful in life. MESA Creators "want to breathe"!
Here is the African village story:
A wise man lived in an African village next to a lake. He knew every secret of life. One day, two village kids decided to test the wise man. They asked him, "What is the secret to success?" Without saying a word, the wise man took each kid by the hand and walked them to the lake and into the water - until they were completely underwater! The kids didn't know how to swim, and they began to panic. But just before they could no longer hold their breath, the wise man pulled them out to the shore. Taking deep breaths, the kids wildly began to catch their breath, and they screamed at the wise man, "Are you CRAZY? You could have killed us!" The wise man answered, "Just before I pulled you from the water, what was most important to you?" The kids replied, "We were going to drown. We wanted to breathe!" Sharing his wisdom, the wise man said, "Exactly! When you find something in life that you want as much as you want to breathe, then you will find the secret to success."
The Arican village story is adapted from story by Dr. Edward Prather -
Emerging Ethnic Engineers Program, University of Cincinnati
See "Secret to Success - African Village Story" handout (PDF)
The MESA culture has many stories of success. MESA Creators rise to their potential and beyond. They are often the best in their classes. They often earn the top scores on tests. They achieve success at City College, and they successfully transfer to continue their journey towards FREEDOM!
Here are sample MESA stories of desire, persistence and success!
"I want to breathe!"
A student joined MESA in Fall. He was a Math major. On his own, he had worked his way up to a Calculus III level, with average success. Also, he previously attended Morehouse College, but it was not the right time and place in his life. MESA came at the right time for him! He was introduced to the MESA culture, he learned the MESA strategies for learning, and he became a MESA Creator. He excelled in Fall, passing both Calculus III and Linear Algebra. But there was more room for improvement. In Spring, carrying 12 units, he earned A's in all his classes (a 4.0 GPA!), including Differential Equations and Discrete Math. He mastered all of the MESA learning strategies, including BPR, Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving, speaking with professors during office hours, and the use of the Smartpen! When asked about the strategies that helped him the most, the student responded, "All of the MESA strategies are great, but the thing that stuck with me the most was the African village story!" He not only remembered the story, he owned and applied the message from the story. Talking about his new academic success and his perspective on life, he simply said, "I want to breathe!"
MESA Master Fighter
A student returned to school and she joined MESA. She was a pre-med major. That first Fall, she took Calculus II (the most difficult class of the 3 Calculus classes!). It had been 5 YEARS since she last took Calculus I. She scored 12 out of 100 on her first Calculus II exam - by far the lowest score in the class! Her professor expected her to withdraw from the class. He didn't think that she had a chance of passing. But she wasn't like other students - she had a desire to succeed, and she was a MESA Creator! She took advantage of the MESA Program. She worked hard to learn the MESA culture and the MESA strategies for learning, including BPR, Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving, speaking with professors during office hours, and study groups. Her efforts helped! On the second exam, she raised her score to equal the class average. She was on her way to success, and she continued working hard to truly master the MESA learning strategies. Although the third exam was very difficult, she succeeded to score 82 out of 100 - an increase of 70 points from her first exam! She went on to score over 84 on the final exam, and she passed the class! More than a master learner, she proved to herself that she truly was a MESA master fighter!
#1 - Best in Class
A MESA Creator transferred to San Diego State University. He was a Mechanical Engineering major. In his first semester, he enrolled in a full load of classes, including Calculus II (the most difficult class of the 3 Calculus classes!). There were 132 students in the Calculus II class! Compared to his classes at City College, it was the largest class that he ever had. Large classes can be intimidating for many students, especially transfer students. However, the class size did not matter to him. As a MESA Creator, he transferred with confidence. He took the MESA culture with him, and he applied the MESA learning strategies, including BPR, Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving, speaking with professors during office hours, and study groups. On the first Calculus II exam, he earned a "B-" grade. He was disappointed by the result. He expected a higher score. So he worked harder at applying the MESA learning strategies. On the second exam, he was #1! He earned the highest score in a class of 132 students - he missed a perfect score by only 2 points on a difficult exam! (Note: the class average was a "C" grade) He then went on to earn an "A" grade in the class for the semester. Not only did he prove to himself that he belonged at San Diego State University, he proved that he was one of the best and brightest. He proved himself as a MESA Creator!
Lost & Found
A student enrolled at City College after graduating from high school. Because she was a Math major, she participated in the City College Academy for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Success. The Academy was a summer bridge program for female students interested in STEM majors. With 25 other first-time female college students in the Academy, she was trained in the MESA culture and MESA learning strategies, including BPR and Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving, she was mentored by female MESA Creators, she met counselors and STEM faculty, she toured City College, and she met role model, female professionals in STEM. She received the best training to be successful at City College! She also joined the MESA Program. But when the Fall semester began, she did not apply her MESA training. Instead, she approached the learning in the same way that she approached the learning in high school - the wrong way! She received a "C" grade on her first exam in Intermediate Algebra. It was a wake up call! She learned her lesson. As a MESA Creator, she accepted responsibility, she took action, and she began to apply her MESA training. She received a "B" grade on her second exam, she received an "A" grade on her third exam, and she continued to receive "A" grades on all her work! With the MESA culture, she found her way back to the top! She is set for success at City College and beyond.
"You need to be in the MESA Program!"
A student was taking Trigonometry at City College. He was a Mechanical Engineering major, but he was not in the MESA Program. He failed his first Trig exam. Fortunately, he had a friend who was in MESA and knew the power of the MESA culture. She told him, "You need to be in the MESA Program!" Because he cared about his success, he took her advice and joined MESA. He was trained in the MESA culture and MESA learning strategies, including BPR and Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving. He immediately distinguished himself as a MESA Creator by applying the MESA culture and working hard to improve his math scores. He earned an "A" grade on his second exam, and he went on to earn an "A" in the class. The next semester he also earned an "A" grade in Precalculus. When he reached Calculus, he earned the highest score in the class on the first exam! As a MESA Creator, he demonstrated that he in fact owned the MESA culture. With the MESA culture, he is set to create his own success at City College and beyond!
Going for 100% - I want my free dinner!
A student joined MESA in Fall. She was a Math major, and she was enrolled in Intermediate Algebra - it was her second attempt. She had taken Intermediate Algebra with the same professor the previous Fall, but she was unsuccessful. This time it was guaranteed to be a different experience. She joined MESA, and she was trained in the MESA Culture and MESA learning strategies, including BPR and Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving. She immediately distinguished herself as a MESA Creator by applying the MESA culture and working hard to succeed in math. Her work paid off: she became an "A" student! She scored 100% on the last midterm exam - it was the only perfect score in the class! Her next goal was to score 100% on the final and earn a free dinner from her professor, as a reward for all students earning a perfect score on the final! She was clearly on her way to achieveing her goal. She demonstrated that she in fact owned the MESA Culture and was set to create her on success at City College and beyond!
I am a Star!
A student was taking Intermediate Algebra at City College. He was a Mechanical Engineering major, but he was not in the MESA Program. He was failing the daily math quizzes, and he failed his first two math exams. Fortunately, he was referred to the MESA Program by a Counselor. Because he cared about his success, he took the Counselor's advice and joined MESA. He was trained in the MESA culture and MESA learning strategies, including BPR and Big Picture Approach to Problem Solving. He immediately distinguished himself as a MESA Creator by applying the MESA culture and working hard to improve his math scores. For starters, he began to do BPR to prepare for class and he chose to sit in the front row for lecture (the learning T!). He started earning perfect scores on the daily quizzes, and he earned an "A" grade on the third exam! He was very excited to receive his graded test. The professor awarded a "star sticker" to every student who received an "A". He could see that his test had a star, even before he received it back! It was his first star on an exam, and, with the MESA culture, he was prepared to earn many more stars. Also, the professor began to know him by name. He no longer was just another student in the class, he was a star!
MESA Creators, we may come from diverse backgrounds and seek different goals, but we share one thing in common, the MESA Culture! We are the engine of prosperity, the future leaders of our respective fields, and above all else we have what it takes. The time will come when you get to inspire others, until then I challenge you to: Walk like you're paving the way, chase after your goals like you want to breathe, go hard and become unstoppable!
This video series captures the experiences of MESA Creators beyond the San Diego City College MESA Program. Enjoy!
"Cal Poly San Luis Obispo" features MESA Creator Alex Frem.
About Alex:
"University of California, San Diego" features MESA Creator Ashley Pourazary.
About Ashley:
MESA Program - for current students
MESA Legacy - for transfer students


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The Center for Family Safety and Healing
Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence and Restoring Hope
The Center for Family Safety and Healing
For those impacted by family violence, the path to healing can be a difficult one.
But healing is possible if you have the right people by your side. With the resources we have available, the many short and long-term effects of family violence, both personal and global, can be overcome. In fact, many people are on that path to healing right now.


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Nelson, Stephen L.
QuickBooks 2006 For Dummies
Now you can add another member to your team: QuickBooks 2006 For Dummies. This helpful book is loaded with the latest information, features, and expert advice you need to make the best use of the software. Pop open the book, and you'll quickly start getting the basics in plain English. Written for those of us who aren't CPAs, this down-to-earth guide explains how to:
- Create invoices and credit memos
- Produce income statements and financial reports
- Process payroll and simplify tax preparation
- Estimate, bill, and track expenses
Author Stephen Nelson not only has an MBA, a CPA and expertise in teaching the rest of us about QuickBooks, he also teaches other CPAs how to teach the rest of us about QuickBooks. You'll feel like you've got a knowledgeable and humorous buddy at your side as you learn how to:
- Streamline bill paying with online banking and electronic checks
- Set up a workable chart of accounts and a good working budget
- Keep track of inventory, fixed assets, and vehicle mileage
- Handle selling a depreciable asset—and nine other "Tricky Situations"
- Figure out your break-even point—and nine more "Secret Business Formulas"
- Install QuickBooks in ten easy steps
If you handle the financial parts of your business like a pro, you're free to concentrate on what you do best. QuickBooks 2006 For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to get started!
Keywords: COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Personal Finance Applications COM027000
- Author(s)
- Nelson, Stephen L.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 394 pages
- Category
- Information Technology, Telecommunications
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780471980407
- Printed ISBN
- 9780764599545


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The article Shock therapy for mental patients will be reviewed
continues the ignorant tradition of demonizing electroconvulsive
therapy (ECT) in the media (the very use of the anachronistic
and misleading phrase shock therapy is unwarranted) without
5 presenting the compelling reasons for its continued use. Most
of the facts and quotations in the article, including the
gratuitous final paragraph about pigs in an abattoir, are
simply taken from an article by Davar in Issues in Medical
Ethics, without questioning whether Davars presentation of
10 the issue is an unbiased and scientifically accurate one. What
Ms. Davar, and by extension Ms. Jain, has done is simply cite
authorities who agree with her point of view, quote statistics
without context, use an abundance of negative adjectives, and
ignore outright the empirically proven benefits (often
15 life-saving) of ECT in many categories of mentally-ill
patients. This is shabby and irresponsible medical journalism.
While this is not the place to dispute, point-by-point, Ms.
Davars presentation of her position and Ms. Jains repetition
of it, I would like to quote, to counter their negative
20 emphasis, from Andrew Solomons widely read, intensively
researched, highly respected book, The Noonday Demon: An
Anatomy of Depression. Solomon writes: Antidepressants
are effective [against major depression] about 50 percent of
the time, perhaps a bit more; ECT seems to have some
25 significant impact between 75 and 90 percent of the time...
Many patients feel substantially better within a few days
of having an ECT treatment a boon particularly striking
in contrast to the long, slow process of medication response.
ECT is particularly appropriate for the severely suicidal
30 for patients who repeatedly injure themselves and whose
situation is therefore mortally urgent because of its
rapid action and high response rate, and it is used in
pregnant women, the sick, and the elderly, because it does
not have the systemic side effects or drug-interaction
35 problems of most medications.
There are, indeed, problems with the administration of ECT,
especially in a country like India with its poor health
infrastructure. It would be foolish to deny that the
practice is subject to abuse (as Solomon and numerous
40 Indian writers report). The continued use of direct ECT
(without the use of an anesthetic) is certainly a matter
of concern and a concerted effort to implement national
guidelines making modified ECT (using an anesthetic)
mandatory is as necessary as it is laudatory. But we can
45 all do without more pieces of journalism which perpetuate
the myth that ECT is a medically unjustified, indeed barbaric
practice, tantamount to torture. This ignorant view, equally
prevalent in the West as it is in India, has more to do with
movies like One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest than
50 with scientific fact.
1. It can be inferred that the author believes that the author of the article mentioned in the first line
(Select ALL answer choices that apply)
A. fails to question her source material rigorously
B. includes unwarranted matter
C. uses an excess of pejorative terms
2. The authors attitude towards ECT is best described as a
A. determined neutrality
B. mild criticism
C. wholehearted approbation
D. qualified approval
E. laudatory justification
3. The authors makes his point primarily by
A. offering a particular authority as a counterview
B. attacking one authors lack of social responsibility
C. criticizing the mindset of medical journalists
D. a reasoned discussion of the merits and demerits of a therapy
E. offering an objective evaluation
It is exceedingly difficult to make people realize that an evil
is an evil. For instance, we seize a man and deliberately do
him a malicious injury: say, imprison him for years. One would
not suppose that it needed any exceptional clearness of wit to
5 recognize in this an act of diabolical cruelty. But in England
such a recognition provokes a stare of surprise, followed by an
explanation that the outrage is punishment or justice or
something else that is all right, or perhaps by a heated attempt
to argue that we should all be robbed and murdered in our beds
10 if such senseless villainies as sentences of imprisonment were
not committed daily. It is useless to argue that even if this
were true, which it is not, the alternative to adding crimes
of our own to the crimes from which we suffer is not helpless
submission. Chickenpox is an evil; but if I were to declare
15 that we must either submit to it or else repress it by seizing
everyone who suffers from it and punishing them by inoculation
with smallpox, I should be laughed at; for though nobody could
deny that the result would be to prevent chickenpox to some
extent by making people avoid it much more carefully, and to
20 effect a further apparent prevention by making them conceal
it very anxiously, yet people would have sense enough to see
that the deliberate propagation of smallpox was a creation of
evil, and must therefore be ruled out in favor of purely humane
and hygienic measures. Yet in the precisely parallel case of a
25 man breaking into my house and stealing my diamonds I am
expected as a matter of course to steal ten years of his life.
If he tries to defeat that monstrous retaliation by shooting
me, my survivors hang him. The net result suggested by the
police statistics is that we inflict atrocious injuries on the
30 burglars we catch in order to make the rest take effectual
precautions against detection; so that instead of saving our
diamonds from burglary we only greatly decrease our chances
of ever getting them back, and increase our chances of being
shot by the robber.
35 But the thoughtless wickedness with which we scatter
sentences of imprisonment is as nothing compared to the
stupid levity with which we tolerate poverty as if it were
either a wholesome tonic for lazy people or else a virtue to
be embraced as St. Francis embraced it. If a man is indolent,
40 let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor. If he is
not a gentleman, let him be poor. If he is addicted to the
fine arts or to pure science instead of to trade and finance,
let him be poor. If he chooses to spend his wages on his beer
and his family instead of saving it up for his old age, let
45 him be poor. Let nothing be done for "the undeserving": let
him be poor. Serve him right! Also -- somewhat inconsistently
-- blessed are the poor!
4. The passage is most probably intended to
A. serve as an introduction to a more detailed discussion of poverty
B. censure imprisonment as a punitive measure
C. analyze the possible repercussions of social evils
D. continue a prior discussion of strong measures against social evils
E. make people recognize social evils in the face of deliberate obfuscation
5. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would agree with all the following except
A. most people dont realize that by punishing offenders they are surrendering themselves to the vicious cycle of crime and punishment
B. sentences of imprisonment have little success in reducing the crime rate in society
C. it would be ridiculous to inoculate people suffering from chicken pox with small pox
D. if criminals were not strongly punished for their misdeeds there would be no law and order in society
E. tolerating poverty is at least as bad as inflicting punishments on criminals
6. The authors argument about imprisonment would be most weakened by showing that
A. imprisonment is not widely regarded as an act of cruelty
B. chicken pox and burglary are not analogous evils
C. imprisonment does not cause malicious injury
D. sentences of imprisonment are given increasingly rarely
E. a burglar who commits murder in self defense would not be hanged
7. The author apparently believes that people at the time he wrote the passage were
A. inclined to consider poverty a social evil
B. anxious to take the right steps to ensure an orderly society
C. too ready to judge other people unfairly
D. inconsistent in their attitude to poverty
E. in favor of unusually harsh punishment of all offenders
8. Answer this question based on the information in the paragraph below.
Early data on seat-belt use showed that seat-belt wearers were less likely to be killed in road accidents. Hence, it was initially believed that wearing a seat-belt increased survival chances in an accident. But what the early analysts had failed to see was that cautious drivers were more likely to wear the belts and were also less likely to cause big accidents, while reckless drivers were more likely to be involved in big accidents and were less likely to wear the belts.
Which of the following, if true, could an opponent of the view presented above best cite as a reason for recommending continued use of seat-belts?
A. Careful drivers who are involved in accidents caused by reckless drivers, would be more likely to survive if wearing a belt
B. All drivers should be required by law to wear a belt
C. The ratio of big to small road accidents is very small
D. In fatal accidents seat-belt wearers in the front seat are less likely to survive than those wearing seat belts in the back seat
E. On average, careful drivers pay lower insurance premiums than do drivers who have been involved in accidents.
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A Stent Event: Michigan Tech Students Mimic Blood Flow in the Lab
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
If by chance you should have a stent inserted in a clogged coronary artery, you can probably count on it staying around for a very long time. So it's important to know what will happen to it.
"But there's not a lot of information on exactly how stents degrade in the body," said Patrick Bowen, who just completed his BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Technological University. What information there is, on stents and other devices that surgeons place inside us for our own good, has been derived from studies on large animals, which are expensive and time-consuming.
That information may now be more forthcoming. Bowen is part of an interdisciplinary Senior Design team that found a couple of new ways to replicate what happens to stents and other manmade things tucked inside our blood vessels.
First, the group implanted tiny wires in the aortas of rats and tracked what happened to the material. Over time, the wires became coated with a layer of calcium and phosphorus and then were gradually covered by a layer of cell tissue.
The students then concocted a mixture of fibrin (a protein involved in blood clotting) and a cell culture medium chemically similar to blood. Next they put iron and magnesium wires in the mix. "Then they subjected it to circulatory flow," said Jeremy Goldman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and the team's co-advisor. "Essentially, we tried to place the candidate stent material into a simulated artery."
The wires in the fibrin mixture corroded in exactly the same way as the wires in the rats. "In the past, in vivo and in vitro corrosion rates have always been different," said Jaroslaw Drelich, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and the group's other co-advisor. "These appear to be identical."
If their slurry is as good a mimic as these initial tests suggest, the team's work has major implications for scientists.
"The rat model could help reduce reliance on large animals. And the students' in vitro model might make it possible to reduce the use of animals overall," Goldman said.
In other words, said Bowen, "We could save a lot of pigs and rabbits, and companies could save a lot of money."
The Senior Design team has been funded by Boston Scientific, a designer and manufacturer of implantable medical devices, including stents. In particular, they are investigating bioabsorbable stents, which would be gradually absorbed into the body over time. So far, the company has been impressed with the students' efforts, said Goldman. "They've done cutting-edge work. For undergraduates to accomplish this shows a high level of effort and dedication."
Their success has been due in great part to its interdisciplinary nature, Goldman added. "The project brought together our two departments in a very nice way," he said.
Senior Design team members, in addition to Bowen, are Rebecca Franke, Judy Bryne, Ellen Pokorney, Jessica Rhadigan and Aaron Tauscher (Biomedical Engineering); and Jesse Gelbaugh (Materials Science and Engineering). The researchers expect to publish a number of papers on the project; two recent graduates, Daniel Pierson and Jacob Edick, are first and second author, respectively on a paper that has been submitted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research B: Applied Biomaterials.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Although I haven't watched "Wreck-It Ralph," I have read the (highly recommended) screenplay, and it sparked some musings about characters and their jobs.
"I gotta say, it becomes kinda hard to love your job… when no one else seems to like you for doing it."
–Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph, as an anti-hero and video-game villain in his day job, is in fine company. In his book What Foreigners Need To Know About America From A To Z, Lance Johnson provides surveys that list some of the service industries and related jobs Americans rank as lowest and complain about the most:
- Oil companies
- Real estate agents
- HMOs
- Tobacco companies
- Auto dealers
- Cell phone companies (contracts)
- Collection agencies
- Banks
- Auto repair
- Mortgage brokers
If your characters hold a profession everybody hates, that makes your job as a writer more challenging, but in the case of Wreck-It Ralph, it can also be a rewarding journey. Everyone (including, ahem, writers) can relate to days in which no one appreciates what you do. Yes, Wreck-It Ralph is about Generation X, the video game and most maligned recent generation, but it is also about our jobs and our livelihoods.
Does the job define the character?
Does the job define the person? In our society, yes, it does.
Does the job define the character? In the case of cop dramas, legal dramas, political dramas, hard-boiled police procedurals, stories about sex workers, stories set in the entertainment industry, stories about teachers, even family dramas in which Mom and Dad are the (toughest of all) job titles (what parent hasn't felt unappreciated at some point?), the answer is yes.
Whether it's Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" who lives for the job, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Kirk (when the movies prompted him to admiral and took him away from the Enterprise, that sparked major character conflict and a four-movie arc), there are many examples in which the job defines the character. But it's also the character's relationship to the job that creates drama and conflict.
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In Wreck-It-Ralphs's case, he just wants to be a part of society and be valued. His external goal is to get a medal, but in the course of "going turbo" and leaving his game, he develops other relationships.
This works for true stories, too: If your client has a job that the public has preconceptions, especially negative, about, such as the mortgage industry (Confessions of a Subprime Lender), IRS agents, Hollywood agents (sorry), salespeople, or politicians (if you land such a gig), your job is to make the case as to why the reader should care: Is it a tell-all? A personal struggle with illness? A friendship or love story that changes lives? A how-to book on consumer advice? A cause that's bigger than the job?
Yes, it is hard to separate people from their jobs, because one of the first questions we ask is, "What do you do?" Why would your characters, including in nonfiction, be any different? Also, other than their stated job title, characters have different jobs to do in your story. Hero, comic relief, best friend, messenger, shapeshifter, mentor, sidekick…
Don't knock the villains (even though we all love to). In my follow-up post, I'll give some love to the antagonist/villain's job and why, in Ralph's words, "I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me."
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The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions.Have you ever wondered what it's like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an astronaut? Beyond learning basic scuba skills, there are specialty AquaMissions, such as wreck diving, navigation, buoyancy, environmental awareness and more. PADI Seal Team includes doing some cool stuff in the pool, meeting friends and sharing in the adventure of the underwater world.
To join the PADI Seal Team, a child must be 8 years of age or older. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary, but kids should be comfortable in the water. Parental approval is required.
The PADI Seal Team program teaches responsibility and respect for the aquatic realm. It's broken into two parts. Part one, AquaMissions 1 - 5, covers basic scuba diving skills, such as breathing underwater, clearing a mask of water, recovering a regulator and swimming around experiencing the sensation of being weightless. Each session takes about an hour. Complete these AquaMissions and become a recognized PADI Seal Team Member. Your experience may also count toward the PADI Open Water Diver course when you're old enough to participate in the course.
Part two, 10 specialty AquaMissions, includes adventures like creature identification, search and recovery diving, and skin diving. Complete all of these and you'll become a PADI Master Seal Team Member – joining an elite group of young scuba divers.
Contact Scuba Center Temecula to enroll in the program and get started with a PADI Seal Team Crew-Pak. Your pak includes everything a PADI Seal Team Member needs to prepare for AquaMissions including a fun video, activity book with puzzles, and log book pages to track your adventures.
In the PADI Seal Team program, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device, dive gauges and a tank. Visit us at Scuba Center Temecula to ask about gear and get advice about how to prepare from your PADI Seal Team Leader (a.k.a. PADI Instructor).
Bubblemaker is as fun as it sounds – a chance for kids to blow bubbles by scuba diving. Children who are at least 8 years old can use scuba gear to breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. Have a party or celebrate a birthday by throwing a memorable, exciting Bubblemaker event with friends and family at your local PADI dive shop.
A child must be 8 years old or older. Kids must be comfortable in the water, but no prior experience is necessary. Parental approval is required.
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Contact your PADI Dive Center or Resort to schedule a Bubblemaker program or to organize a Bubblemaker party. The Bubblemaker Crew-Pak contains mementos of the experience and is full of fun surprises, such as a kid-sized beach towel, logbook, certificate, temporary tattoo, decal and the adorable and popular Bubblemaker water toy. Adults love them, too.
In the Bubblemaker program, participants get a basic introduction to how to use scuba gear, how to clear a regulator and mask, and an overview of breathing do's and don'ts. Your local dive shop will advise you about anything else you need.
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AGCO Corp. is stepping out into new territory for U.S. farm equipment manufacturers with its e3 clean air technology, but it's not exactly moving into uncharted waters.
Trucking company operators and manufacturers in Europe have already been making use of the Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR systems that are the basis of the e3 technology for three years, according to a trucking industry expert.
"Mercedes Benz-Daimler has produced more than 250,000 SCR technology vehicles, and in Europe, overall, there's been more than 500,000 trucks produced with SCR technology," says David L. Uschwald, director of SCR Infrastructure with Detroit Diesel Corp.
"SCR technology is chosen by Detroit Diesel, Daimler, Freightliner, Western Star and others mainly for purposes of increased durability. You can run the engine to meet demand and worry about treating the exhaust past the engine. Of course, fuel economy is a factor as well as reduced cost of ownership."
Uschwald spoke to a group of agricultural editors attending AGCO's launch of its new AGCO Tractor, Challenger and Massey Ferguson high horsepower tractor series. Each of the new tractors comes equipped with e3 SCR technology.
Selective Catalytic Reduction is a proven emission-control system designed to lower emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and particulate matter from the exhaust gases of diesel engines, says Garry Ball, director of engineering for AGCO. The company has chosen SCR as the method it will use to meet EPA's emission standards for off-road diesel engines.
The new e3 system (e3 stands for energy/economy/ecology) is a post-combustion, after-treatment process that takes place within the exhaust system itself. With e3 a NOx reducing agent, or Diesel Exhaust Fluid, is injected into the exhaust gas upstream of the e3 catalyst chamber.
When heated, a liquid urea solution, the active ingredient in DEF, turns to ammonia and reacts with NOx from the exhaust to convert the pollutants into nitrogen, water vapor and tiny amounts of carbon dioxide. AGCO says the e3 technology alone can achieve NOx reductions in excess of 90 percent.
Uschwald said Diesel Exhaust Fluid is a solution of de-ionized water and 32.5 percent automotive grade urea. The DEF is carried in a separate tank on board the tractor and is consumed at the rate of about three gallons of DEF for every 100 gallons of diesel. "Typically, a farmer will fill his DEF tank every second fuel fill up."
Detroit Diesel and a number of other companies are setting up a distribution system for DEF, which will be sold in 2.5-gallon jugs, 10-liter and mini-bulk containers, that will include many truck stop chain locations. DEF can also be purchased at any AGCO Tractor, Massey Ferguson or Challenger dealership.


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Preview: IKEA Sultan Erfjord
Bed: Sultan Erfjord matress with Sultan Aram foundation with Sultan legs
Manufacturer: IKEA
Retail Price: $989 for the whole set
Last night we fell into bed with another Swede, but this time a much more affordable one. Our new Ikea Sultan is also smaller because the delivery men couldn't get a queen size through our door (similar to last time). Rather than teach them how to squeeze it through, I figured 12 months of this was going to kill me, so I opted for a smaller full size, which they delivered with no problem. It's going to be a full size year. It really looks tiny, but it DOES make our bedroom feel bigger, which is very refreshing.
We had to test an Ikea bed because they are – in my mind – a high standard at the low end of the spectrum, and I'd never slept on one before. If Hastens is a luxury bed that one might aspire to later in life, then the Ikea beds are your entry bed that you might aspire to upon graduating from college. And since they are both Swedish, it seemed more interesting to compare them back to back.
Mind you, I didn't choose the cheapest Ikea bed (@ $80 for a Jaren mattress), but went for the upper end of their spectrum, where their foam beds live (natural latex, memory foam and blend). At just under $1k, this is NOT a cheap bed.
In addition, I'd also recently learned that Ikea is making a bigger move into beds, upgrading its Sultan line and capitalizing on their broad distribution now that they've spent the last ten years building a ton of new stores in the US. They WANT you to buy their beds.
What Do We Think So Far?
It was actually fascinating recognizing the similar DNA between the two beds, even as one is built like a tank and the other is lightweight. As I unwrapped the Erjford, I loved that it came in two neat pieces (mattress and foundation) with five wooden legs screwing directly into the foundation just like the Hastens. This makes so much sense to me. Not only does it simplify things and not necessitate a metal frame, it also makes the bed quieter and more stable. No wheels to roll around and no creaking of many parts.
After one night, it is DEFINITELY a different bed. While we both slept pretty well, the firmness and the foam will take an adjustment, and Sara was hoping that it was going to be more springy, like memory foam, but it is not. In addition, it doesn't breathe as much as the all cotton, horsehair Hastens, and the latex feels a little warm at night. You sleep ON this bed, as opposed to IN it.
The Prediction?
Compared to an over $10k luxury bed, I'm not predicting that the Sultan will be better, but I am hoping that it will be a VERY GOOD bed for the price, providing a good night's sleep. We both originally favored firmer beds, so we may find this more familiar and comfortable in some ways.
Things I've noted that it has going for it are:
a. Majority of all natural ingredients (natural latex, 100% eco-cotton, lambs wool and solid wood – strangely no metal springs are mentioned). There was no off gassing that I could detect when we opened it up.
b. Nice, simple design that offers over 14″ of depth, which should give us all the comfort we need.
Do you sleep on an Ikea Sultan? If yes, please let me know in the comments how it's going for you.
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I began working as a consultant in change management services with my current employer back in 1991. After trying to juggle raising two kids with my consulting career–my husband also had a career in consulting–I hit the wall in 2000 and went through a total burnout. This life-changing experience gave me the opportunity to make some major changes and to find my mission in life.
I transitioned to a human resources role and used my personal experience to put mental health on our company's agenda, as well as to put in place the mechanisms to promote a healthy work-life balance. In 2010, I took on the role of Human Capital & Diversity lead for Norway. In this role I work on developing leadership, talent and culture. I am also the Nordic Inclusion & Diversity lead.
My passion for inclusion and diversity grew out of my life experiences: my professional burnout in 2000; the lessons I learned while restructuring my life and my career to find balance and pursue roles that are meaningful to me; and by being the mother of two beautiful children adopted from Colombia (now 20 and 17 years old). Each of those experiences gave me insight into being "different" in both positive and negative ways and inspired me to focus on the diversity of our people, especially those who struggle and who are not part of the majority.
"Each of those experiences gave me insight into being 'different' and inspired me to focus on the diversity of our people, especially those who struggle and are not part of the majority."
I feel really blessed to work in areas and on projects that are so close to my heart. I really feel that I was put in this world to make a difference in the inclusion and diversity area. My life was preparing me for this work–I can see that clearly now. I am credible in my role because I have experienced how important it is to be included and valued for who you are, even when you do not follow the path of the majority and even when you fail. We each bring different insights and value to a team. When those differences are valued, synergies and solutions are created that would not have been possible if we all were the same.
Lessons from a proud child
In 2008, my beautiful and proud child came out of the closet at age 13. More recently, my child told us he is transgender. As his mother, I have certainly made mistakes, but I have also been able to learn and explore a new world. Together, we have participated in the Oslo Pride parade and the San Diego Pride parade, and we have visited the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in San Francisco.
When I started talking about my child with friends and colleagues, there were many people who suddenly gave me hugs and said, "Oh no, I am so sorry." Initial reactions like that, often followed by silence and disconnection, made me wonder and then react. I kept talking about the subject, allied with the global LGBT network at my workplace and our Norwegian LGBT organization, put an LGBT flag in the office and put an LGBT sticker on my laptop so that everyone could see it.
Basically, I started rocking the boat, which is a part of my role as diversity lead. I worked to implement LGBT awareness training for all employees in Norway. Securing leadership acceptance to implement this training has been my greatest victory at global professional services company Accenture so far. The training marked a breakthrough for our work in this area in Norway, where we now have an established LGBT network.
My being a proud mother actually started the LGBT wave in our company in the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Latvia). We now have LGBT leads and networks in all Nordic countries, and we compete a bit with each other about who is doing what first, such as painting the office walls in rainbow colors or participating in a Pride parade. LGBT is my favorite inclusion and diversity topic because I have experienced how sensitive and difficult the topic is and how much harm we can do unintentionally by not having basic skills and knowledge in place. LGBT is about each of us. It is about how we lead, how we communicate, how we work together and how we unleash the potential of every talent.


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Shabbat, Thanksgivukkah and Beyond
November 29, 2013
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Judaic message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, November 29, 2013.
Shabbat, Thanksgivukkah and Beyond
There has been so much information about Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, Thanksgivukkah, Menurkies and Pilgrims on the web, Facebook, in Newsletters and Newspapers -- it's been dizzying. The only time in our lifetime(s) that Hanukkah and Thanksgiving collide. Depending on what you read and where you read it, the estimates are wild about when, if ever, the next time will be… in 79,000 years? In the year 2065? In the year 2070? Never?
The Hebrew Calendar is ENOURMOUSLY complicated, no wonder everyone is confused. Since it's a lunar calendar, the months are based on the cycles of the moon: The new month is always the new moon. So… unlike our Gregorian solar calendar of 365.25 days per year, the Hebrew lunar calendar has a mere 354 days – which means that each year the lunar calendar starts 11 days earlier. That won't do, of course, because Jewish holidays need to be at particular seasons: Hanukkah in the dark of winter, Passover in the spring, Rosh Hashanah in the autumn. So we need leap years to keep everything balanced. The Gregorian leap year, of course, is an extra day every 4 years (unless the year is divisible by 100, but not 400… very confusing… so don't ask! You can google Gregorian calendar if you really want to figure it out.) But the Hebrew leap year happens 7 times in a 19 year cycle.
But wait – there's more! The system of leap years isn't perfect because there are actually a few minutes different every year. This was a disaster for the pre-Gregorian solar calendar, because it didn't correct the calendar for those few pesky minutes. So in 1582, when the Pope Gregory declared the calendar, they skipped 10 days in March so the Vernal Equinox would return to being on March 21! (I warned you this would be dizzying.) When the Rabbis in the 4th Century figured out how to calculate the calendar for the next few thousand years, they also ignored a few stray minutes. Therefore, the whole Hebrew calendar breaks down in the Hebrew year 6000! Right now is the Hebrew year 5774. In a mere 226 years, it will be the Hebrew year 6000… on Rosh HaShanah in the "American" year 2239 all bets are off as to how they will correct the calendar. Although some people calculate that there might be a confluence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving before that in 2165. What will happen in the year 6000? The Medieval Philosopher/Scientist/Physician Maimonides in the 12th Century considered the problem. However, the 23rdCentury was so far off, he figured it didn't matter because he felt that the Messiah would surely appear before then, and there would be no need for a regular calendar.
However we calculate it, this will be the only confluence of the two holidays in our lifetime. And… the night after Thanksgiving will be Shabbat. The Maccabees, when they created the Holiday of Hanukkah, felt it was a time for Thanksgiving… they just won a war with the Greeks, and they restored the ritual in the Temple for the first time in 2 years, and gave thanks for the previous harvest which would normally have been celebrated at the Fall holiday of Sukkot, but wasn't since the Temple was in the hands of the Greeks. It was the same Biblical holiday of Sukkot that inspired the Pilgrims to give thanks. So too can we, at this confluence of holidays with its adjacent Shabbat, think about the blessings in our lives as Americans and as Jews, and give thanks that we have been brought to this season.
Shabbat Shalom


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What Are the Top Housing Regrets?
A new Trulia survey asks housing buyers and renters to list their top regrets. Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko joins Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Wild Oak Trail, 2009
Twice a year in February and October, ultra legend Dennis Herr hosts a run around the Wild Oak Trail, affectionately known around these parts as TWOT. One loop of this sweet single track trail boasts about 8,000 feet of climb over 25 miles. Most runners opt for one loop and the parking lot party, while others go out for a second loop under the full moon. Some folks even attempt four loops, the TWOT 100.
This year was perfect for at least two loops, as temps were in the 60s during the day on Saturday and the sky was clear for the full moonlight.
Four runners, Emily Grossman, Mitchell Goodman, Mike Dobies and Andy Peterson went out on a second loop but only Mike, his friend Pat, and Andy finished the loop...that road crossing at 10 miles leading back to camp is just too seductive in the middle of the night!
I ran with Bobby Gill, John Cassilly, Marlin Yoder, and Marc Griffin for most of the morning until John and Marlin dropped us like a sack of potatoes climbing Big Bald. By that time, the fluffy snow of the morning that had been so fun to run in was now slushy, not-so-fun snow. Throw in the ridiculous climb up Big Bald, and you have a freaking hard climb. But hey, that's why we love TWOT so much---you get three long, hard climbs, a fabulous, runnable trail, and Dennis catering to our every whim, so it's hard to hate Big Bald for long.
I enjoyed running with Marc and Bobby. Marc and I tried to scare Bobby, who is running in the Beast series this year, with tales of Grindstone, which shares a lot of the TWOT course. As we were climbing Big Bald and going into anaerobic debt doing so, Bobby asked, "Does Grindstone-gasp-have climbs-gasp-as hard as-gasp-this one-gasp?" To which we replied in unison, "Yes, and harder." Silence.
Bobby, who just started running in 2008, was a good sport and took it all in stride, including creating his own ode to TWOT. In fact, there were a bunch of young (read: 20-something) runners out there, including the JMU mountain bike crowd, who came into the parking lot hooting and hollering "I had so much fun out there!" That's a pic of those young guns, below.
It's cool that a new generation has discovered what we've known for awhile---that the Wild Oak Trail is truly a special place and we are indebted to Dennis for introducing us to its beauty. Thanks, Dennis, for another memorable TWOT!
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Here's the link to my pics.
Here's the link to Charlie's pics.
11 comments:
- running etc said...
Great report, buddy. I feel like I was there. :)
- February 9, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Wish you had been there! I met a friend of yours whose name is escaping me now---he runs with you. He finished well ahead of us so he is fast!
Let's plan a run in the Sugar Hollow/Rip Rap area...Feb 21 work?
- February 9, 2009 at 8:29 AM
- Griffin said...
I think you should make it the week after so i can go. I am going to Canada to see my parents taht weekend.
- February 9, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- ultrastevep said...
Sorry we had to miss out on some TWOT fun this year. We did come down for 2 loops last year in the ice storm aftermath. It always seems to be nice when we "don't" come down! That doesn't bide well for Reverse Ring, which should be a raging blizzard =:-0
- February 9, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- B.Gill said...
Hey, I *gasp* wasn't *gasp* suffering any more *gasp* than you two!
Thanks for the Tour de TWOT! I'm definitely looking forward to getting back out there for some more.
- February 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- running etc said...
Sugar Hollow/Rip Rap could work Saturday, Feb. 21 ... i think i can get grandparents to take Ben to hoops.
Here's hoping that i do NOT get stuck reffing a b-ball playoff game in FARMVILLE that day ...
- February 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Gentry, plan on the 21st if we can.
Marc, I can't run the 28th b/c of my daughter's b'day...sorry!
Bobby---yes, we were suffering just like you, no worries, we just fake it better! Great climbing and running out there on the Tour de TWOT! We will most definitely run another loop for Gstone training in the summer.
- February 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Kiry said...
Sophie, great write-up and photos! Thanks for capturing my triumph!
- February 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Michael Huff said...
Sounds like you had a great time. I have never run the TWOT but do remember those trails from Grindstone, big climbs. I ran the ICY 8-Hour on Saturday and did not have to contend with big climbs, although, sometimes the climbs can offer a well needed walking break. Run Strong!
- February 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM
- annette bednosky said...
Folks have soo much fun at your runs! Cool! I am planning a tough yet casual adventure for 3/22 in and around Doughton Park (Blue Ridge Pkwy) -32ish mile adventure and am currently trying to figure out out to post it on a sharing website...Yet if a 9am start at Basin Cove Overlook on the Parkway with no support and a handful or 2 of kindred spirits sound good-please join us!
Thank you for being you!
- February 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Mike--come run TWOT with us next time. The section that are not Gstone trails are really tough but beautiful. Congrats on the ICY0-8!
Annette, I would love to join you 3-22 but have lacrosse all weekend...also tapering for Terrapin the next weekend. But one of these days I would love to run the Balds of NC...is that the Art Loeb trail? Keep me posted on your adventures!
Did you see the awesome article in March Runners World about Bob Wilder, Jay Dicharry, and "staying injury-free?" I am going to blog about it in the next few days. Check it out!!
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Breaking NewsA Venezuelan soap star and her ex-husband were shot to death by a roving band of highway robbers -- but amazingly ... police say the couple's young daughter survived the attack.
Monica Spear -- Miss Venezuela 2004 -- and Henry Thomas Berry were shot and killed after their car broke down near the town of Puerto Cabello in Venezuela.
Police say the family was waiting for a tow truck when the bandits showed up. Spear and Berry locked themselves and their 5-year-old daughter inside the car ... but police say the robbers opened fire, killing them and injuring the girl -- who's hospitalized with a bullet wound to her leg.
The family lived in the U.S., but were on vacation when they were attacked.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest murder rates. According to news reports, violent crime is so bad ... even residents are afraid to venture out at night.


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Zachary Quinto & Josh Bowman: Coach's Summer Party!
Zachary Quinto and his American Horror Story: Asylum co-star Lily Rabe attend the Coach Summer Party on The High Line on Tuesday evening (June 11) in New York City.
The 36-year-old actor just won the Critic's Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Mini-series or Movie!
The actors were also joined at the event by Revenge's Josh Bowman, Karmin singers Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, model Chrissy Teigen, Saturday Night Live funny ladies Vanessa Bayer and Aidy Bryant, and Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari.
FYI: Lily is wearing a Suzanne Rae dress. Josh is wearing Coach's Nick Shoes. Aidy is wearing Coach's Legacy Wristlet and Gemma Wedge. Vanessa is wearing Coach's Legacy Mini Tanner and Terri Heel.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Crowdsourcing Business Cards
11 comments:
- Joel413 said...
In this age of being green and organic. I think you need to go all natural.
- Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 10:36:00 PM PDT
- Matev said...
I like the Lucha one best.
- Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 10:38:00 PM PDT
I like the barbarian one because it is more detailed and shows off your handy work. The others do not have as much detail. Well maybe the nude one shows too much.
I guess it depends on your audience. I would have to imagine that art directors of Kids related publications might be turned off...
- Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 6:06:00 AM PDT
All of the above! Then shuffle them up and give them out randomly.
- Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 8:10:00 AM PDT
- Geffen said...
Trick question! Why not print them all and hand out different ones at different times! There are printers that can still do a small batch (ie it won't cost more).
- Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 12:23:00 PM PDT
- SavageGamer said...
I like the idea of shuffling all four into a "Cool Artist" collectible deck. But if I had to pick just one, I'd vote for Superhero You. It has a "Who was that masked artist" vibe.
- Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 3:34:00 PM PDT
- Anemone said...
Superhero, because the blue uniform offers a better contrast with the red wrapping banner.
- Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 4:17:00 PM PDT
I suggest turning them into a limited edition collectible trading card type thing. Or just making one that appears to be part of a set when in fact there is only one card.
That said, I like the super hero, vigilante card best.
- Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 8:39:00 AM PDT
- Joseph said...
Hope full for best business card design from you.
Clear Business Cards
Scratch Cards
Printed Gift Cards
- Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 2:58:00 AM PDT
- Waseem said...
Do you have some custom gift card to share?
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The greeting card is definitely stunning -- and also exactly what a attractive reward. Any girl can be thrilled to get this specific.
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No doubt inspired by Alec Baldwin's latest impressive run of public confrontations, Sean Penn came back strong Tuesday night in an attempt to retake his title of most volatile celebrity in public.
According to TMZ, Penn was at the Lobby Bar at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel when he saw a flash go off from another patron's cell phone and realized a man was trying to take his photo.
A witness at the bar told the website that Penn went after the guy — who was not a paparazzo — and screamed at him, "Do we look like (expletive) zoo animals?"
No … zoo animals are usually much calmer.
Penn — who was in town to speak at a sales conference — then grabbed the guy's phone and slammed it to the ground.
Hopefully, the guy was at the end of his phone contract.
TMZ has video on its site that starts at about that part of the incident, in which Penn can be heard saying, "I'll make you eat the phone … get the (expletive) out of here!"
Shortly thereafter, Penn complained to hotel management, saying, "You should do something about that." The site said a manager approached the (former) fan of Penn's and asked if he wanted to call police, which he didn't. He then left the bar. The man reportedly attended the sales conference Penn spoke at and was still wearing his name tag.


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If you appreciate animation and frequent Cartoon Network, then you're probably familiar with a lone Samurai known simply as Jack. Samurai Jack is a popular series primarily for its beautiful 2D artwork and original presentation, but it also offers powerful stories about patience and benevolence. Of course, Jack's attempts at peaceful resolutions don't always work (he does have a bounty on his head), so there's plenty of room for traditional arse kicking.
Jack's situation is a rather unusual one. As a child, his village was plagued by the evil shape shifter Aku. At one time this demon spawn was imprisoned, but he escaped to wage revenge upon the man who caged him (Jack's father) -- and rule the world. As chaos enveloped Jack's village, Jack was smuggled out of town with nothing buy an ancient sword (the very one that originally defeated Aku). After years of training to be a samurai, Jack returns to his hometown to find that everyone has been enslaved by the evil Aku. During his rescue attempt, Aku flings Jack into a time portal that sends him to the distant future. Jack learns that Aku has become an all powerful ruler -- so Jack takes it upon himself to return to his own time, stop Aku, and save the world from enslavement.
Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku isn't based on any particular SamJack episode. The developer Adrenium worked closely with the show's creator Genndy Tartakovsky to create an original storyline. Because of Jack's frequent time travel, Shadow of Aku could fit in anywhere in the SamJack timeline. In Shadow of Aku, Jack is continuing his quest to find a way back to home. During his search, he encounters four different races that need help ridding their lands of Aku's shadow.
Each area (which includes an ancient village, forest, and Aku's City) acts as a world hub where Jack can embark on five or six quests. Locals ask Jack to deal with Aku's minions in exchange for clues leading to a time portal. Jack might have to rescue villagers from a burning building, destroy a statue of Aku, put out fires at a tree house, or find the great tree spirit. The objectives aren't too complex, but they accurately resemble Jack's quests in the show.
While Shadow of Aku's storyline and art direction have been influenced by the cartoon, the game is resembles other action titles like Maximo. Jack's equipped with the standard weak and strong attack, but as he progresses through the 24 levels he'll find scrolls that let him perform the ancient art of combos. These are fairly easy to trigger -- just hold down the left trigger while hitting the requisite button combinations. These combos are usually supernatural feats, presented in cinematic slow motion. Jack might spin through the air like a shuriken, whirl around in circles in a "Windmill Attack" or perform a massive slashing sword combo known as the "Cobra Strike".
When your combos aren't sharp enough to cut through the slew of enemies thrown at you, Jack can trigger Sakai Mode (which is sort of like bullet time). Handy for handling multiple foes, Sakai Mode also causes more damage to enemies and lets you target the weak spots. Without it, you'd have a hard time beating an early boss that only takes damage if you hit a large button on its back (most SamJack enemies are robots), without Sakai Mode . Jack also has an arsenal of shurikens and a bow and arrow.
One of the more visually pleasing aspects of combat is Jack's ability to deflect projectiles back at the enemies that shot them (ala Star Wars). While this doesn't really require any skill besides holding down the block button, it is a nice inclusion. Also, if the daring time it correctly, the weak attack can be used to deflect poison or fireballs too.


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Edward Gunthorpe, an above-par physical education teacher at Lindenhurst High School and founder of the golf team there – died on January 4. He was 90 years old. "The only teaching job he ever had was at Lindenhurst," said his wife of 64 years, Dr. Muriel Gunthorpe.
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Most Tileys originate from the West Country and a family web site chronicles these comprehensively.
However there is a gap in that there is great uncertainty in identifying the branch(es) that migrated to London in the 18th century and as a consequence there is also difficulty in linking various London Tileys together although it seems probable that some are related (proximity of the families, common names etc).
Looking for SAWARD of Eastwood Essex UK
My family seems to have originated from Essex. There are a number of groupings of SAWARD families in the county and at least one branch migrated to Hertford Hertfordshire UK. Various other families seem to have migrated to London - my branch is amongst these. I have not found any trees or other researchers looking into what appears to be my tree, nor have I found the "Adam" Saward who presumably founded the Essex groupings.
The furthest back I have been able to trace my paternal family is a Samuel Saward b 1767 in Eastwood. There is a grey area surrounding one of his grandsons where there is inconsistency in names (Cornelius or John) and where birth records do not seem to show up at all and census and marriage cert data do not quite match. Similar problems arise with Cornelius/John's marriage(s) and children. Apart from my gf and one of his sisters most of Cornelius/John's children as shown in the censuses of 1871 (head of family John) and 1881 (head of family Cornelius Sayward - the only time it was spelt that way)seem to have disappeared without trace
At least one Saward - James Townsend Saward or Jim the Penman - was transported to either Tasmania or Australia, and others probably emigrated there. James Townsend Saward was a notorious forger whose day job was as a barrister. He was also implicated in the original Great Train Robbery (a consignment of bullion disappeared from a train between london Bridge and Paris) because it is believed he fenced some or all of the loot.
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Who doesn't want to get a little more life out of your tires? Since your rear tire wears faster than your front one, the traditional method to extend tread life has always been to ride until your rear tire is worn out and then swap the front and rear tires. But our Spin Doctor Tech Tip team has a modification to this tire rotation strategy that will keep your bike handling like new.
Rotating your tires front and rear is a great idea to increase the longevity of the pair but…..
If you like to ride on the edge, whether cornering like a pro or shredding technical singletrack, THINK TWICE!
Most steering control, both off-road and on, comes from the front tire while more tire wear happens with the drive forces on the rear.
So putting a road tire worn flat or a MTB tire with worn lugs on the front will lessen traction when cornering hard.
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