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The teen pregnancy rate in New York City dropped by 27 percent over the last decade, a statistic that city officials credit to teens' expanded access to contraception.
The city's health commissioner, Tom Farley, told the New York Daily Newsthat the data shows two concurrent trends: more adolescents are choosing to use birth control, and more of them are also delaying sexual intercourse. That's partly because New York is one of the 21 states that allows all minors to have access to contraceptive services — and two years ago, the public school system began a pilot program to provide Plan B to public school students in districts with high rates of unintended pregnancy:
The city has worked to make it easier for kids to get birth control —giving out condoms at schools and making birth control and the morning-after pill available in some school clinics, a sometimes controversial move.
Farley said the numbers show that strategy is working.
"It shows that when you make condoms and contraception available to teens, they don't increase their likelihood of being sexually active. But they get the message that sex is risky," he said. […]
Teen pregnancy in the city is still higher than it is nationwide, but it has fallen at a sharper rate, officials said.
Despite the promising trends, health officials in the city note that there are still significant racial and geographic disparities among the teens who are getting pregnant. The Bronx has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the country, and African-American teens in New York City have a much higher pregnancy rate than their white counterparts — 110.7 births for every 1,000 back girls, compared with 16 births for every 1,000 white girls. That trend is evident on a national level, too. Black and Latina women have the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and, subsequently, thehighest rates of abortion.
But the city's school system is on the right track, since part of addressing the connection between poverty and teen pregnancy is increasing access to affordable birth control. Removing the cost barriers to contraception encourages low-income women to choose longer-lasting, more effective forms of birth control that lower their risk for unintended pregnancy. And increasing adolescents' access to Plan B is particularly important since the Department of Health and Human Services requires women under the age of 17 to obtain a prescription for Plan B, an unnecessary extra step that is often a barrier preventing adolescents from accessing the contraception they need in a timely manner.
Despite right-wing fervor over Plan B, it is an extremely safe medication that does not actually induce abortion. The majority of parents whose children are enrolled in New York City's public schools support the city's initiative to expand access to this type of contraception.
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This is what happens: I start out the week thinking, I'm going to post every day! On my happy happy blog! And all my nice readers will respond and we'll have a great dialogue going and then we'll all get together for s'mores!
You should know that my mind is crammed with exclamation points as well as flights of fancy that end in all of us making s'mores.
Did you all grow up making s'mores with your family? I do not recall making s'mores, ever. Which is odd because my mother has this strange, obsessive love of marshmallows. This is the kind of thing I would bug her about when I was right out of college and had just started therapy. "WHY DIDN'T WE EVER MAKE S'MORES," I would demand in another late-night post-emotional-revelation phone call. "I JUST THINK I WOULD BE HAPPIER IF WE HAD BEEN A S'MORES-MAKING KIND OF FAMILY."
Yes, so. I have all these high hopes for my blog, but then it's one of those weeks—those dreaded weeks when exactly nothing happens. Plus, could it be a more nondescript time of the year? I mean, maybe it's your birthday or it's the day you won that triathlon or the week you fell in love or found your pet possum or I don't know what. For me, anyway, this is pretty much the kind of week where all I can do is hunker down and wait. Especially when it snows--that's just insulting. We're gearing up for spring, and you're going to give us snow? Fuck you. Fuck you, weather. Yeah, you heard me. Fortunately (FOR THE WEATHER), the snow went away, and now we're left with this bitter cold—and oh, crap, I'm talking about the weather. Do you see? Do you see what I have spared you?
So then when my non-posting becomes, like, a thing , a thing in my twisted mind, my imagined readers grow restless, then hostile, and I think, I can't write just any old crap, I have to make it up to them, I have to hit it out of the ballpark, and then I picture my readers growling (you growl, in my mind) and shaking your s'mores sticks at me (are there sticks, when you make them? See, I don't even know) and demanding quality entertainment. This, of course, leads to total paralysis. Which then leads to this, my mortified re-entrance, my shuffle out onto the stage as you're all filing out, throwing your programs to the ground in disgust. Wait, don't leave! I've got a little number all worked out!
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Petty leads U.S. Men's Juniors to First NORCECA Win
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 27, 2012) – The U.S. Men's Junior (U-21) National Team opened play at the 2012 NORCECA Men's Junior (U-21) Continental Championship with a 25-12, 25-12, 25-16 sweep over Honduras on Monday evening at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Greg Petty (Downers Grove, Ill.) posted a match-high 13 points at outside and served lights out for the United States in its pool-play opener to give Team USA the edge needed to control the entire match. Petty's points came from a match-high five service aces, six kills and two blocks.
"I had been working on my serving for the past few weeks at training," Petty said. "I was trying to find a rhythm and attack when the toss was there.
U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Team Head coach Peter Hanson started Petty and D.J. White (Hermosa Beach, Calif) at outside, team captain Micah Christenson (Honolulu) at setter, Nick Olson (New Berlin, Wis.) and Matt Tarantino (Van Nuys, Calif) at middle blocker, Ben Patch (Provo, Utah) at opposite and Tony Ensbury (Manhattan Beach, Calif,) at libero.
"We would like to congratulate the Honduras team," United States head coach Peter Hanson said. "Honduras played with great energy. On our side we were focused and were able to get all 12 players into the match."
Tarantino posted five kills on six attacks, two blocks and a service ace in the first two sets, contributing eight points to the U.S. ledger. James Shaw (Woodside, Calif.) subbed in the second set and started the third, posting eight points off of five kills on nine attempts, two service aces and a block. Michael Henchy (Ventura, Calif.), also subbing in the second set and starting the third, recorded six points off of a team-high six kills on nine attacks.
Olsen started all three sets and posted four kills and two blocks for six points. White contributed six points with three kills, two blocks and one service ace. West and Patch both started the first and second set and posted three points off of two service aces and a block from West and two kills and a block from Patch. Christenson provided three points with two kills and an ace.
Scott Rhein (Pleasant View, Tenn.) subbed in all three sets at outside and posted two points off of one kill and one service ace while middle blocker, Driss Guessous (Pasadena, Calif.) started the third set and delivered two kills for two points.
Behind Christenson's and West's setting, Team USA converted 36 of 64 attacks for a 56.3 kill percent and .375 hitting efficiency (36-12-64). The U.S. posted 39 kills to Honduras' 13 and out blocked 11-5. Team USA delivered 13 unanswered service aces. Honduras converted just 22.4 percent of its attacks with a negative .069 hitting efficiency (13-17-58).
"Coming into the match, we knew Honduras was an athletic team that had the potential to hit hard," United States captain Micah Christenson said. "We wanted to concentrate on our side of the net, working on our block and refining our game."
"We were working on keeping the ball on our side," Petty said. "We wanted to limit our errors on defense and keep the momentum."
Team USA will face St. Vincent (0-1) on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. MST to continue in Pool A action.
Team USA began the first set with an 8-2 lead before the first technical timeout. White attacked from the outside for the first U.S. point. Patch and Tarantino teamed up for a double block followed by a hitting error by Petty, giving Honduras its first point at 4-1. Honduras gave up two points with a service error followed by a long attack. Tarantino delivered a one-and-done rocket to bring the U.S. to 6-1 and forced a Honduras timeout. Coming back from the timeout Honduras posted a kill from the outside only to be answered by a U.S. double block from Petty and Olsen. Tarantino delivered a service ace followed by a service error to bring the score 10-3. Christenson and Olsen paired for a double block to bring the team to 12-4. A U.S. service error followed by a Honduras service error cancelled each other out for a 13-5 set score. Patch used a big swing on the right side for a kill at 14-5. The U.S. went on a 4-1 run stopped by a moment of miscommunication to bring the score to 18-6. Tarantino tried to capitalize on his team-high kill percentage but shot too far. Honduras followed with a kill at 21-11 only to be answered with a Petty attack down the line for a kill. Honduras gave the U.S. a 23-11 lead with a hitting error. Christenson delivered a kill to give the U.S. its first set-point of the match, 24-12. Petty stepped to the line to serve and delivered an unstoppable serve for an ace and the set. The U.S. took the first set with a final score of 25-12 over Honduras.
The second set began with the same U.S. starters as the first and again, Team USA took control early in the set with an 8-1 run over Honduras. Olson and Patch charted back-to-back kills followed by an ace from Petty for a 4-0 start. White and Tarantino posted a double block to give the U.S. an 8-1 lead. Honduras answered with a kill and White's attack went long at 8-3. Christenson built on momentum with a kill followed by a service ace to give the U.S. a 10-3 lead. Tarantino posted his sixth kill at 11-4 followed by back-to-back kills from Petty, 14-5. Honduras earned three-straight points off of U.S. errors to bring the set to 14-8. The U.S. responded with three-straight itself to bring the set to 17-8. Petty delivered two service aces at 19-9 but was stopped by an error at 19-10. Honduras gave the ball back the U.S. with an error at 19-11. Tarantino and West shut the attack down with a double block at 21-11 followed by a Honduras error. Henchy posted a kill to take the U.S. to set-point at 24-12. Shaw closed out the set with a kill giving the U.S. a final score of 25-12.
Hanson started the third set with Guessous and Olsen at middle, Hentchy and Petty at outside, Shaw at opposite, West at setter and Ensbury remained at Libero. Honduras opened the third set with a kill and kept the lead from a U.S. until 3-1. Shaw delivered a kill down the line to tie the set up at 3-3. Henchy maintained the momentum with a quick over-pass for a kill at 4-3. Shaw posted a stuff-block followed by a kill off the pass from West to take the U.S. to a 6-4 lead. Petty took a big swing on the outside followed by back-to-back kills from Henchy to give the U.S. a 10-6 lead. The U.S. used a Shaw kill, Henchy block and back-to-back petty aces for a 4-0 run. Petty's third serve hit the net at 14-8 but the U.S. bounced back quickly with a kill from Guessous at 16-8. The timeout iced Olsen, forcing a service error at 16-9. Shaw went on a three-point killing spree to bring the U.S. to 19-11. Honduras delivered a bullet to Shaw who couldn't handle the attack giving Honduras a point at 22-14.The U.S. regained control and Rhein posted a service ace at 24-14 followed by a Honduras kill took the set to 24-16. Honduras served into the net giving the U.S. set and match at 25-16.
2012 U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Team
# - Name (Position, Hometown, Grad Year, Club, Region, College Status)
3 - Micah Christenson (S, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2011, Outrigger Canoe Club, Aloha, University of Southern California)
4 - Tony Ensbury (L, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2011, SCVC, Southern California, Princeton University)
5 - Driss Guessous (MB, Pasadena, Calif., 2012, Manhattan Beach Surf, Southern California Signed at Ohio State)
6 - Michael Henchy (OH, Ventura, Calif., 2011, Spectrum VBC, Southern California, Ohio State)
8 - Nick Olson (MB, New Berlin, Wis., 2012, West Allis Lightning, Badger, Signed at University of Chicago-Loyola)
9 - Ben Patch (Opp, Provo, Utah, 2012, Utah Elite, Intermountain, Signed at Brigham Young University)
10 - Greg Petty (OH, Downers Grove, Ill., 2011, Sports Performance, Great Lakes, Lewis University
11 - Scott Rhein (OH, Pleasant View, Tenn., 2011, Impact Volleyball Club, Southern, Pepperdine)
14 - James Shaw (S/Opp, Woodside, Calif., 2012, Mountain View Volleyball Club, Northern California, Signed at Stanford)
16 - Matt Tarantino (Opp, Van Nuys, Calif., 2011, Santa Monica Beach Club, Southern California, Pepperdine)
17 - Matt West (S, Seattle, Wash., 2011, Space Needle Volleyball Foundation, Puget Sound Region, Pepperdine)
18 - DJ White (L/OH, Hermosa Beach, Calif., 2011, Manhattan Beach Surf, Southern California, Harvard)
Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Peter Hanson
Assistant Coach: Jonah Carson
Assistant Coach: Jay Hosack
Statistician: Jake Schick
Team Leader: Collin Powers
2012 NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship Schedule
Pool A
Aug. 27: Mexico def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-7, 25-10, 25-15 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 27: United States def. Honduras 25-12, 25-12, 25-16 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Mexico def. Honduras 25-15, 26-24, 25-14 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: United States def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-8, 25-8, 25-9 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Honduras def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-17, 25-11, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: United States def. Mexico 25-18, 25-18, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Pool B
Aug. 27: Puerto Rico def. Curacao, 27-25, 25-13, 25-23 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 27: Canada def. Guatemala 25-15, 25-13, 25-21 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Canada def. Curacao 25-13, 25-7, 25-22 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Puerto Rico def. Guatemala 25-20, 25-19, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Guatemala def. Curacao 25-14, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Canada def. Puerto Rico 25-13, 25-15, 28-30, 25-12 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 30: Puerto Rico def. Honduras 25-16, 25-16, 25-11 (Match 13) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 30: Mexico def. Guatemala 25-23, 25-17, 25-23 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Classification 5/8
Aug. 31: Guatemala def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-12, 25-16, 25-16 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: Honduras def. Curacao 25-27, 25-19, 27-25, 25-19 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: Canada def. Mexico 25-17, 25-18, 24-26, 25-21 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: United States def. Puerto Rico 25-15, 25-16, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Final Classifications
Sept. 1: St. Vincent and the Grenadines vs. Curacao, 11:00 a.m. (7th Place) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Guatemala vs. Honduras, 1:00 p.m. (5th Place) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Mexico vs. Puerto Rico 3:00 p.m. (Bronze) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Canada vs. United States, 5:30 p.m. (Gold) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)


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The question has been posed whether President Obama really has done everything legally possible to put an end to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of families through deportation. I, and many others, do not believe that he and his party have the political will to address comprehensive reform in a meaningful way. Not in his first term. Not in his second term. Not ever.
So let's take a look at what the President has done to stem the tide of his 400,000 deportations per year mandate.
The Obama administration has reviewed approximately 150,000 pending deportation cases, moving to administratively close 1,500 of them through a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Not good odds, as the amount of individuals benefiting from prosecutorial discretion is insignificant in consideration of the amount of pending deportation cases reviewed.
The administration has also proposed a new policy that will permit the pre-adjudication of hardship waivers for individuals that are statutorily ineligible to adjustment of status due to the manner of their admission (i.e., they were not inspected and admitted a/k/a they "snuck into the country"). Of course this proposed policy won't go into effect until after the election, and is transparently being offered as a political carrot. In reality it may be all stick.
I say this because the waiver process is tumultuous, and submission of an application should in no way be interpreted as a guarantee that a waiver will ever be issued. Even if a waiver is granted the individual will be required to incur great expense to leave the country simply in the exercise of tagging up in their home country for visa issuance. Moreover, if an individual submits themselves to the pre-adjudication waiver process, and the waiver is denied, the inevitable result will be the institution of removal proceedings.
I'm not willing to predict what percentage of waivers will ultimately be favorable adjudicated. That being said, the percentages of people benefiting from the prosecutorial discretion memo are between 1-6% depending on who you ask. All I know is that unless I have a client who has already had removal proceedings instituted against them it will be a hard sell to convince them to risk everything by exposing themselves to the potential liability of a denied waiver, coupled with the harsh slap of the institution of deportation proceedings. The whip is simply much, much bigger than the carrot.
Point being, there are alternatives that have not been considered by the Administration that in certain circumstances will negate the requirement of a waiver and the need of the individual ever departing the United States.
Specifically, humanitarian parole, or parole in place. President Obama has the authority to confer parole status on an individual that would render them eligible to adjust their status inside the United States. This would eliminate the need for a waiver, which in most cases is required to cure either a three or ten year bar that is triggered upon departure due to unlawful presence inside the country.
Parole could be granted on a case by case basis to individuals who are immediate relatives of United States citizens, and who are able to establish hardship to their relatives if they are deported. The hardship would not have to be extreme in nature, which has been defined as more than the pain that stems from separation, and which is less than what is required for the approval of the waiver.
This option could be made available only to individuals with no criminal record, have established good moral character, and who are only ineligible for adjustment because they were not inspected and admitted.
So the bottom line is that there are other options available to this President that are much better alternatives to what has been offered, and the options could be implemented IMMEDIATELY.
If this President is serious about making good on his previously broken promise to stop the flow of deportations this would be a seriously big step in the right direction.
And by the way, I don't want to have to wait until after the election, which is half a year away.
Start issuing paroles this summer Mr. President.
Don't make us wait for your second term to break another promise.
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After the monstrous box office opening for Fast Five this past weekend, Fast and the Furious 6 became a total no-brainer for the studio heads. So it's not exactly shocking to hear director Justin Lin say that Fast and the Furious 6 has been all but officially greenlit - and that he'll once again be calling the shots on the next installment.
A followup to Fast Five has been in the cards for a while now, with the intention that it would round out the trilogy that began with Fast and Furious. Franchise staples like Vin Diesel and Paul Walker would naturally be returning, (possibly) along with new addition Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Lin spoke to USA Today about the immense popularity of Fast Five and had the following to say about the likelihood of a followup:
"['Fast and the Furious 6' is] pretty much 100%. It's going to happen... At five, we're just hitting our stride. We're growing. People want to continue this journey."
The implication is (of course) that Lin will once again be sitting in the director's chair on a sixth Fast and the Furious flick - one that would feature a change in scenery from Rio de Janeiro in Fast Five, with Europe looking like a strong (and obvious) possibility right now.
Universal chairman Adam Fogelson has spoken about Fast and the Furious 6 as well, saying that the plan is to continue turning the series into "a true action franchise in the spirit of those great heist films made 10 or 15 years ago." So what better way to emulate classic heist flicks that feature great vehicle chase sequences (like The Italian Job) than to have the next Fast and the Furious venture literally take place in a European locale?
Something that Screen Rant's Ben Kendrick mentioned in his Fast Five review is that moviegoers who had little to no interest in the franchise before now aren't likely to become converts anytime soon; this is still a series primarily about muscle cars, (hilarious?) death-defying stunts, explosions, and scantily-clad women. Fans of these movies have seemingly approved of Lin's directorial style up to now - so, with regards to his return for Fast and the Furious 6, it's pretty much an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" situation.
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UTIs are the second most common bacterial infection after respiratory infections. In 2000 in the United States, about 11 million outpatient visits, 1.7 million emergency room visits, 367,000 hospitalizations, and $3.5 billion in health care expenditures were attributed to UTIs in adults. E. coli is most often the cause, but other microorganisms may also play a role.
The natural product that is most used for UTI, and on which there is the most evidence, is cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon). In a 2007 national survey on Americans' use of CAM, among those who used natural products, cranberry was used by 6 percent (which translates to about 1.6 million people).
The mechanism of action of cranberry is not fully understood, but basic research has yielded findings that may explain its potential benefit in UTIs, such as the suggestions that:
An early theory, that cranberry inhibits bacteria replication through acidifying the urine, has been largely discredited.
Proanthocyanidins are molecules that help create intense color in fruits and vegetables and are thought to have antioxidant properties.
Practice Guidelines
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline in 2008 on uncomplicated acute bacterial cystitis in nonpregnant women. Among ACOG's recommendations are to use antibiotics both as first-line therapy and for prophylactic or intermittent treatment. ACOG notes that drinking cranberry juice has been shown to decrease recurrence of symptomatic UTIs, although the optimal length of treatment and concentration of juice still need to be determined.
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Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott confirmed that Texas has turned down an offer to join the Pac-10 and will stay in the Big 12. Oklahoma has announced that it will stay in the Big 12 conference as well.
Details of a new deal were not announced, but Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe was able to come up with an 11th hour package that lured the Longhorns to stay. The rest of the remaining 10 teams in the conference are expected to follow, including Texas A&M, who has a chance to leave for the SEC.
Texas has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning.
Oklahoma President David L. Boren and Vice President and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione released this joint statement regarding OU's decision to remain in the Big 12.
"The decision to stay in the Big 12 represents a consensus position which resulted from a collaborative effort with our colleagues in the conference. We value the strong working relationship that has been reaffirmed during this process among the conference members. We intend to work very hard to make the conference as lasting and dynamic as possible. We appreciate the respect and interest that has been shown to OU during this process."
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WASHINGTON — It's up to Vice President Joe Biden to show that the U.S. effort to realign its gaze toward Asia hasn't fizzled out.
Biden will arrive Monday in Tokyo on a weeklong trip to Asia, which is watching carefully to see how committed the Obama administration is to increasing America's influence in the region as a hedge against an increasingly assertive China.
In meetings with leaders in Japan, China and South Korea, the vice president will seek to show that while the administration has been preoccupied with Mideast flare-ups and a series of domestic distractions, the U.S. remained determined to be a Pacific power.
At the same time, disputes among Asian nations seem to be boiling over, threatening instability in a region that's vital to the U.S. economy.
American allies Japan and South Korea are barely speaking. China is butting heads with its neighbors and with the U.S. about Beijing's new air defense zone over a group of tiny islands that have exacerbated long-simmering territorial conflicts.
The U.S. on Friday advised American carriers to comply with China's demand that it be told of any flights passing through that defense zone.
Early in his presidency, Obama declared the U.S. was "all in" when it came to the Asia-Pacific.
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The Orange County Medical Association is in the process of revamping its Web site. This involves updating the content and structure of the site, and requires a new visual design. That's where you come in...
Orange County Medical Association
We need a visual design for the homepage and a daugther page, based on the provided wireframes.
There current site is http://www.ocma.org/
They don't really like it...so don't use it as a guide. They have updated their logo a bit, which is also provided.
The wireframes are simply guidelines...you are free to modify them, within reason, to express your vision. The navigation needs to stay roughly where it is, and the ad in the lower right corner is a fixed size. Everything else can be played with. The final site will be put together with Drupal.
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- Important: The design must work with a 1024 x 768 display. Specifically the entire homepage, including the navigation in the footer, must be viewable above the fold - so you should be able to see everything on the homepage without scrolling. Subsequent pages may scroll.
- Homepage (wireframe provided)
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- The audience is medical doctors, and this site is targeting younger doctors and those in training or just out of school
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EMSquared is a subsidiary of Employers Mutual and is a new venture to establish an e-marketplace for business to business transactions. In the form of an exchange, this Australian based venture is focussed on becoming the trading hub for buyers and sellers across the country. In this environment it will deliver online auctions, e-tendering and a 24 hour quotation service focussed on providing small to medium businesses with the negotiating power of a large corporate. Supporting this will be a supplier catalogue environment that allows users to actively search witha sophosticated matching engine to find the products that tehy wish topurchase. As a part of developing the brand and market presence our target is to become the default purchasing environment for our members.
Corporate tag line is "savings for your business is our business"
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focused on becoming the purchasing portal of choice we are seeking to attract an internet savvy audience, delivery through both a standard web interface and a mobile interface the portal will attract busy people looing for a trusted secure provider that has the best access to suppliers. Securing deals by virtue of its aggregated member base it will still leave both the buyer and supplier in control of their own transactions.
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By Justin Tang
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
So advised Taco Bell Inc's President and Chief Concept Officer Greg Creed in a lively talk to Anderson students about how to successfully lead a company an economic crisis on October 7 in Korn Hall. Creed was joined by Anna Ohki, Taco Bell's chief food innovation officer as they presented their strategies and personal tips on leadership and methods to marketing a brand.
Creed, the innovator behind Taco Bell's "Think Outside the Bun" campaign told students "It's most important to focus on leadership during difficult times." He explained that through reframing, a company may look for growth opportunities in situations where few growth opportunities appear to exist.
As an example, he cited Taco Bell's market share of Mexican-style food where the company already owns 60% of the $10.6 billion market. But, he noted, the company only only owns 2.6% of the $220 billion fast food market. Instead of framing the company's goal as an attempt to increase profitability by gaining more of the Mexican food market they already dominate, he reframed the situation by highlighting the potential growth in the fast food market overall.
Creed also spoke about how to work efficiently by being "Smart with Heart." He said it is essential that leaders enable their business to succeed, engage with the company on how to do so, and explain the importance of the business' goals. These three, Creed believes, connect the "head, hand, and heart."
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MSC Meow black cat tea infuser, $16.95. Celebrating Halloween doesn't have to involve dressing up like an extra from Dawn of the Dead or covering your house in faux cobwebs. For some, acknowledgement in an everyday item is enough. victoriasbasement.com.au
Skeleton Kokeshi doll, $70. Inspired by the Japanese dolls, he's the cutest little skeleton you'll see this Halloween. neueblvd.com.au
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Ectoplasm jelly bomb, $8.95. Launch this slimer into the bath water and let the gooey jelly ooze across the surface, softening your skin as it goes. Bursting with tangerine, grapefruit and restorative litsea cubeba oils. au.lush.com
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DARE No. 12 Peach Party temporary hair colour, $19.95. Get your Halloween funk on with an orange semi-permanent hair colour that provides fast, fashion-forward colour for the young at heart. Available at Hairhouse Warehouse.
Chaser lightning skull tank, $112. Another Halloween essential, what would the tradition be without an obligatory skull. orderofstyle.com
Freezer Pod, $24.95. Use kiwi fruit, blueberries, green jelly and this freezer pod a to make a spooky eyes Halloween treat. weanmeister.com.au
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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
– Jawaharlal Nehru
In McHenry County we don't have to travel far to find beauty and charm, particularly in the summertime. Our area is full of adventures waiting to be discovered, from state and conservation district parks to festivals and special events.
One event combines some of my favorite things – art, music and gardens – into one lovely package. It's also for a good cause, which makes it even better.
The eighth annual Gallery in the Garden runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 600 Lawndale Ave. in Woodstock.
The juried event, located a few blocks off the Woodstock Square, features more than 50 artists exhibiting works for sale, as well as musicians playing throughout both days.
The "garden" part of Gallery in the Garden comes in the form of the private garden of event organizer and artist Deb Glaubke. She, along with partner Gale Harris, who creates stoneware sculptures, started the event in 2006 with the help of Deb's son, Rob, who is a photographer.
Glaubke's three-quarter-acre lot includes a Japanese meditation garden, ponds and both native and imported plants. This year, it will spill over into a neighbor's yard to the south.
For a list of participating artists, visit www.galleryinthegarden.org.
Twenty percent of the proceeds will be donated to Court Appointed Special Advocates, which trains volunteers to advocate in court for abused and neglected children.
In the past three years, Gallery in the Garden has raised more than $14,000 for CASA, which, since its creation in 2005, has served 212 children in the McHenry County juvenile court system. To learn more about CASA, visit www.casamchenrycounty.org.
In addition to the art on display, music plays a vital role in the event's wonderful vibe. We have a lot of great musical talent in our area, too, and if you haven't experienced the music scene in Woodstock yet, here's a chance to discover some great acts.
On Saturday, visitors can sit in the garden and listen to the Kishwaukee Ramblers play bluegrass from 10 a.m. to noon. Singer-songwriter Cassandra Vohs-Demann will perform from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., and here's hoping she does her wonderful cover of Lucinda Williams' "Can't Let Go." Singer-songwriter Ken Johnson takes the stage from 3 to 5 p.m.
On Sunday, singer-songwriter Tim Merkel performs from 10 a.m. to noon, Vohs-Demann returns from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., and fingerstyle guitarist Merv Collins will entertain event-goers from 3 to 5 p.m.
After you've looked around and enjoyed some music, you also can snack on a cookie from Jaci's Cookies or enjoy barbecue or vegetarian lunch offerings from Porkie's.
Gallery in the Garden combines beauty, charm and, for me anyway, an adventure akin to a treasure hunt. My husband can tell you about the many pieces of pottery, jewelry and photographs I've taken home over the years.
For me, it just doesn't get much better than that.
• Joan Oliver is the assistant news editor for the Northwest Herald. She can be reached at 815-526-4552 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Pet packages and security.
I just wanted to throw out a question as to how many users check out PET packages before they install them to make sure they do not install software that could put a user's security at risk.
For example, one makes a PET package of a game and includes in it a means to remotely access the computer it is installed on.
The unwanted code could set itself up to even activate at a given time using the scheduler.
I usually do not examine the contents of a Pet package before I install it.
Just imagine if a dd command was included and what the dd command is capable of!
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Anything is possible unless you are able to audit/inspect the code. This is why the inclusion/distribution of pre-built binaries is such a bad practice. Of course, most users are not smart enough to audit a piece of software -even a script, for example. One hopes to be able to trust the distributor, but I see that BK often includes binary packages which have been built by others. He should at least insist that submissions be made in the form of a build script which compiles and builds the package. Of course, you/he still has to be able to either trust the source or be capable/willing to inspect it.
I would never (and never have) trusted anyone's binaries from this forum. And I also don't trust any scripts from here without going through them first to see what they really do. The problem is that nearyl everything offered here is done in such a shoddy manner, taht the scripts aere basically unreadable. BK sets a bad precedent there, as well, because even his stuff is nearly impossible to decipher.
These days, I don't depend on *anyone* for any binaries -I build everything myself -except for Opera and Flash-player. I do not really trust the flash-player at all -it has always been crap. Opera I do trust, as far as possible. They seem to do a better job than either the Seamonkey or FireFox teams -security alerts on Opera are rare indeed.
To be fair, most of the 'crap' offered here is not maliciously intended -it's just that the authors have no idea what they are doing and so they easily can cause a disaster -at my expense.
I do trust the intentions of most major distros, but I'm always careful about their *implementations* of those intentions. Very few distros have adequate methods for vetting software. For any sort of mission-critical or security-minded system, I would only trust myself or debian. debian is the *only* distro which tests software anywhere near adequately.
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I do extract and inspect every package I put to the woof. Mostly I have to do this because often woof non compliant pinstall.sh scripts brakes woof building. I also check that the package does not install something which overwrites existing binaries or libs or overwrite configuration scripts without improved intention.
Backdoors in Puppies. Might be. There are quite a lot people which searches under the hood and strange behavior is frequent topic and the cause many times has been hunted down. I havent heard in 3 years that ever backdoor or malicious content ( intentional ) has been found
Of course it can be there.
You can also have car accident tomorrow, but still you go to the work.
My medication is in balance.
About script content. Good to hear that it is not only poor understanding about scripting that I dont understand most of the code. It is helpful to hear that the content is incomprehensible to the talented coder also. Thanks.
It could be said that the content Puppy coders use gives also security by obscurity. lol.
Every force has equal counterforce.
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You can also have car accident tomorrow, but still you go to the work.
My medication is in balance.
There's also the problem of aging, although I suppose you could try stem cells.
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or cloning... ?
i mean backing up the important data. infact i am more worried that my harddisk are fried due to electrical glitch (it happen to me once) than a crappy pet.
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It is good to hear others opinions on this subject!
At least we are using an open source OS in Puppy and other versions of linux. That gives us at least a chance to examine the software we install as well as the base it is installed on.
We are not at the mercy of MS, its closed source OS and lord knows what gets added by its update manager that one does not know about and cannot legally examine.
The MS users license as an example prohibits that sort of checking of their software.
At least with Puppy, the source code for most of it is available although not included with the SIOs.
I have read on Barry's site of one being able to request the source code for any puppy version he makes.
So thank you for your views on this and others that have read this thread feel free to join in and make your thoughts known.
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linux generally also easier to backup.
in Puppy we just need to copy the savefile...
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When Win xp came out, I was desperate to find an alternative. I used Lindows/Linspire untit it ended. I still have one install of Linspire and it still runs. I started following Puppy during it's early development. I never checked the box {always trust M$}.
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James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, illustrations by Laura Park
Little, Brown: 284 pp., $15.99, ages 12 and up
Middle school is an awkward other-world — a purgatorial pit stop between childhood and teendom that's difficult to negotiate even for the most self-confident of kids, let alone an undersized boy without friends who's bullied by a shaved-headed thug nicknamed Miller the Killer.
In James Patterson's first book written specifically for middle-grade readers, the horrors are laid out with words and elaborated upon with pictures that chronicle the miseries of one Rafe Khatchadorian, an incoming sixth-grader at the institution he refers to as Hills Village Prison for Middle Schoolers.
Co-written by Chris Tebbetts, this fictional autobiography is a natural companion to Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, plumbing, as it does, the depths of tween angst in a self-deprecating confessional style that occasionally asks questions of the reader.
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Rafe lives with his little sister, Georgia, his overworked waitress mom and a boorish stepfather-to-be whose only value is warming the couch. So when Rafe's reaction to an assembly presentation of the school's code of conduct is the goal of breaking every rule in the book, no one is there to offer a smarter path. What starts with the pulling of a fire alarm escalates to the destruction of school property and detention with Ms. Ruthless Donatello, a.k.a. the Dragon Lady.
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Many of the characters in "Middle School" are stereotypes — the militaristic gym teacher reliving his glory days, the trio of lunch ladies concocting toxic meatloaf and other inedible fare, the blond girl class-representative-to-be who inspires a crush — but they're played to great comedic effect in Park's illustrations. On a two-page spread detailing gym class, Coach Lattimore holds a clipboard under his hairy arm that reads "Pain," while a boy, lying nearby in the grass, actually lives it. He's broken in half.
"Middle School" does a wonderful job of channeling the anxiety, and (il)logic, of the middle-grade mind. "Middle School" is a perfectly pitched novel exploring an important and under-covered topic: the unhealthy ways in which disempowered kids express themselves to obtain some sort of control over situations in which they find themselves helpless.
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:35 pm
Post subject: Is this the weather for Kona One?
My forecast calls for following forecast: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Breezy, with a southeast wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.
I sail a long board, Kona One with a smallest sail being a 6.5 Retro. Should I even consider going out in this kind of wind with the Kona One?
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:02 am
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It is not essential Nodak to use a big sail on a longboard. You could use a small one, even down to 3.9 in a real blow if you wanted to.
It was standard practice in the early 80's, on the old big heavy polyethelene longboards, and they still flew in gales. (literally, if careless!
There is a big difference between what is optimum and highly desirable, and what is actually possible. A sail is a sail is a sail, and the wind blows them along!!
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:12 am
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you obviously realize the DANGER ...
AND you have the equipment question
my long board stays at home after about 20 mph winds
me, at 100 kilos in a light wind area - my smallest sail is a 6.3
in the winds you describe, i hope for on-shore and i practice - control, water starts, etc
on a sunny day with those temps and on-shore i have had GREAT sessions
butt NOT with a long board
they say it can be dunn with the KONA - since it is a hybrid
please be CAREFUL if u go !!!
helmet ?? not alone, etc ....
addendum - also - depends greatly on chop and/or waves !!!
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:22 am
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It's not so much the wind speed, but the sea state that matters. If you had a sheltered harbor or bay with flat water I'd say ok. I can handle a 6.5 in 20-25, but if it's rough a 5.0 works better. I would not want to be out on a 6.5 in 30+. I would definately look into getting a smaller sail, maybe 4.5 - 5.5.
Once I sailed a 12 foot raceboard with a 5.3 starting out in 10-18 winds expecting 15 -25 [forcast]. After sailing up wind a few miles , the wind suddenly picked up to 30 with higher gusts! I had to sail back on a broad reach in very rough conditions. That board mowed through the chop with great control, secure, but scarry fast! This was the late 1980's, so I know that longboards can and do work well in high winds. I made it back ok. I believe I thanked God many times as I returned safely to shore. A very dangerous situation for an inexperienced sailor.
One never knows what the wind is going to do. Forcasts are often wrong.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:47 am
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Yes, it should be considered and it's fun. Kona's wind limit for races is 28 kts.
Like with any board, the question you really need to answer is : What happens if something goes bad, where will I end up?
If the answer is no problemo, consider the following.
As slinky said, board selection is really linked to sea state. Sail selection is mainly wind based, but sea state is important too. Your weight will obviously dictate selections too.
I'm 220#. I've sailed my 7.5 in 20kts average with gusts to 28 kts in a protected bay closeby, flat water. It was scary fast in the gusts. I was mostly overfinned, fighting the 46 cm down, as it was quite sucessfull at trying to get out of the water under me! Never fell from this tough. I've been later out in similar conditions with a smaller 40 fin and everything was great.
I've also sailed a few time with my 6.0 and the 40 fin on lake Champlain in 20-25 kts. The wind is stable there and most times, you see nice 2-3 ft organized swell. The Kona is good and fast in these conditions. You have to tune things right to make sure you can sail well in both straps. The speed is great, but it can get tiring as the board flies over the chop and you have to provide shock absorption. In these conditions, it's much easier to waterstart.
Another closeby spot has a lot of chop. I don't like the spot from maybe 17 kts and higher because the chop prevents early planning and bounces the board around when on the plane. Not fun for a Kona.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:15 am
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Nodak, how do you do in 15-20 with that setup?
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:56 am
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I love conditions just under 20mph and can sail well in them. For higher wind I tune my gear according to conditions, scaling the fin size down to 39-40cm for 5 - 6.5 m size sails. A 7.4 sails calls for a 42cm sail, etc. There's no way the stock 46cm fin will stay in the water with a sail less than 8.5 m. I'm 180 lbs.
I only keep my Kona One at our lake (6 sqr. miles surface area). No sense for board any smaller because winds are off shore and I need the center board quite often to get upwind. Water is choppy.
Here's a glimpse of our weather patterns during late summer and early fall. Frustrating that it gets too windy to sail.
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:58 am
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Nodak, I've sailed the Kona One with a variety of sails down to 6.6 in both very light and pretty huge (30 knots with chop). All with the Kona One class fin.
The board can handle it and is very fun to sail even if you fall b/c you can either waterstart or uphaul. Be aware that the padded deck seems like a nice cushion but crashing onto a large board hurts more simply b/c it cannot move out of the way to reduce the impact whereas shortboards can do so.
Safety seems to be the best question. Do you have a leeward shore, or can you sail safely in side shore? Are you sailing alone? File a "flight-plan" with family or friend with a fail-safe time after which they should call authorities if you don't reach them first.
You should keep the centerboard installed to prevent a geyser shooting from the centerboard well. Also, consider reducing fin size of you can, and move the mast foot commensurate with the sail size. A guide to exact mastfoot locations for the Kona One One Design sails can be seen here:
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:46 am
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one of the biggest benefits to me in florida is that long boards allow for the largest wind ranges for any sail. i have sailed the 11'5 in tropical storms with offshore winds of 12-38 with a 5.8 sail with great success. in similar applications with a 5.2, i've been far from happy.
the original kona one fin was 40-42 cm, and was narrower in chord. it provides the best upside wind range for the kona one. it did not give up much on the low end, provided the wind was planing strength.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:27 pm
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You get your ass on the water. The only way to learn how to apply one's sailing-overpowered textbook knowledge is to get out there and sail overpowered. I got back and forth on a 240 liter longboard with a retractable plastic fin in winds well over 40 mph on a 3.7 for one simple reason; it was that or not sail. You just do it, as long as there's no risk of being blown out to sea.
When in doubt, sail. None of us learned to enjoy a 6.x sail in winds averaging over 30 without trying. Now my primary limit to sailing my 6.2 is a 21 mph average (that's out east; corridor sensors are calibrated quite differently); any weaker and it's not worth the effort to me.
As for helmet, I wouldn't sail in 5 mph without one. It takes only one unconscious moment to lose enough consciousness to lose one's life.
And forecasts are almost never accurate.
I could go on productively for a few pages, but I won't.
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And even as we're not actually professional musicians - all of us have other day jobs, families et cetera. Nevertheless, we sure would like to look like one here on the internet, and we sincerely love what we do and people from all over are looking forward to our new album.
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As the dog days of summer start to wind into the dog days of fall, it's time to start dreaming about fall whiskey tasting season, the period from October to November when all the major whiskey tasting events take place.
This year, for the third year running, Sku readers will get a discount at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's Single Malt and Scotch Whiskey Extravaganza. The Extravaganza includes not only tasting booths from lots of great distilleries but also a chance to taste some of the Society's bottlings which are normally available only to Society members.
This year's extravaganza will be Friday, November 11 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica. Dress is business casual with a jacket preferred (note to SMWS, business casual in LA does not include jackets).
The regular price is $135, but your Sku discount gets you up to two tickets for the member price of $120. To purchase tickets and get your discount, just go to the Society's website and enter SRE2011 in the promotional code box.
And if you aren't from LA, have no fear. The Sku discount works for all of the Society's fall Extravaganzas, including Chicago (October 5), Boston (October 13), Washington DC (October 26), Philadelphia (October 28), San Francisco (November 9) and Fort Lauderdale (December 1). Details on the website.
See you there!
FTC Disclaimer: Sku finally sold out and attends this event free of charge.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Whiskey Calendar: The Sku Discount is Back for SMWS's Extravaganza
3 comments:
Eh, so you've sold out. At least now you're qualified to run for political office!
- August 18, 2011 at 4:44 AM
- sku said...
Sam, great idea! I hear there is a presidential race coming soon. Perhaps I could fill the niche of the pro-whiskey candidate.
- August 18, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- AaronWF said...
Woe for my ignorance! Another whiskey tasting event in Chicago? "Duh!" I suppose, but hark, I flock hence! Thanks Sku!
- August 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM
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