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Keeping Us Safe, LLC Aging Speaker Painesville Ohio We offer two group presentations. 1. Senior Drivers Vs. the Aging Process 2. Parents with Aging Parent Drivers
24 years experience in the area of seniors and safe driving.
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BJ Hickman Magic Shows and Speaking Services Dover New Hampshire serving Midland Professional magician and speaker BJ Hickman entertains and educates throughout New England and the United States. His comedy audience participation magic shows keep getting him invited back. He speakes to adults who want to communicate better with childr.Magician BJ Hickman has entertained full time for over 10 years and performs regularly at Hollywood's Magic Castle.
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Oasis for Optimal Health Orlando Florida serving Midland Eudene Harry MD is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Holistic Medicine. She is also extensively trained in the field of anti-aging and hormonal balance. She has given numerous seminars and speaks eloquently on the nuances of living healthy and aging well..I have been a Physician for over 14 years, I am a strong believer in mind-body-spirit medicine, that is why I went from traditional to Alternative, because I know it works.
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Debi Stranahan, Singer Songwriter Guitarist Dayton Ohio serving Midland Very engaging.. Plays guitar, singer, songwriter - great for coffee shops, small clubs, as a stage show.. Can also sing with background music - has all equipment including background music, microphones and speakers.. Very affordable Can perform from one hour to four hours....25 years www.debistranahan.com is my site with the most comprehensive information. Weddings, receptions, fundraisers, private parties, coffeehouses, small clubs, fairs... This is where I am most experienced.
Dr. Sue New York New York serving Midland Susan Horowitz, Ph.D., is a MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, COMMUNICATION TRAINER, UN ADVISOR IN EDUCATION, AUTHOR of QUEENS OF COMEDY, based on her interviews with superstar comedians, and PROFESSOR. KEYNOTES: Journey to Success, Celebrate Diversity, Queens of Comedy, Humor, Health and Stress, Genius of Jewish Comedy, Empowerment, Conflict Management, Aging, Executive Coaching, business, theater, speech, storyteller, puppet. Dr. Sue enjoys the opportunity to speak, travel, entertain, and motivate..'NEW YORK UPBEATS' (Sue Horowitz-Singer, Laura Paulman-Pianist)have been delighting audiences for over 4 years. References, CD, and Video of live show available.
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Aeromodeling's premier expo will start Friday at the Ontario Convention Center and will include an appearance by Bruce Jenner, celebrity star Kim Kardashian's stepfather and former Olympian.
Flying model aircraft enthusiasts and anyone interested in radio-control aircraft and aviation are welcomed to attend the premier aeromodeling exposition, AMA Expo 2013, hosted by the Academy of Model Aeronautics.
Families and hobbyists will be able to shop at more than 100 model aircraft manufacturers, view the latest in technology, watch flight demonstrations, listen to presentations, view unique exhibits and more, according to an Academy of Model Aeronautics news release.
A complete list of activities and ticket information can be found at www.amaexpo.com.
The event is from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Jenner, who is an AMA member and aeromodeling enthusiast, has agreed to speak at the expo. He won the gold medal for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics.
He has starred in the E! reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" since 2007 along with his wife Kris Jenner, stepdaughters Kourtney, Kim, Khlo? and stepson Rob.
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OXFORD -- Mississippi State University football coach Dan Mullen has not only seen what happened Saturday night, but he also lived it in reverse.
In 2009, Mullen was the new coach ready to embrace the biggest rivalry in the state of the Mississippi. He took the microphone after a 41-27 victory against the University of Mississippi at Davis Wade Stadium and said, "One team in this state is on the rise and heading into the right direction."
Everything came full circle for Mullen and MSU in a 41-24 loss to Ole Miss. The Rebels helped bring that point home late in the game when a video of Mullen appeared on the jumbotron inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In the clip from 2010, Mullen said, "We'll never lose to this team again."
Despite acknowledging the Bulldogs didn't play well, Mullen tried to poke fun at Ole Miss and its fans.
"They must love me here if they're putting me on the jumbotron," Mullen said.
The victory helped first-year coach Hugh Freeze and the Rebels (6-6, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) become bowl eligible. Freeze has brought a fresh and exciting energy to a program that has been tired of being pushed around in a rivalry MSU has controlled in recent years. Judging from the "Our State" billboards, ad campaigns, and marketing by the MSU athletics department, Ole Miss was motivated on many levels to end MSU's three-game winning streak in the series.
"Rebel Nation had to go through losing the momentum in this series," Freeze said. "I understand that was difficult. I lived it. I've been through it and our kids were very aware of that tonight."
Ole Miss won the Egg Bowl for the first time since 2008 when it earned a 45-0 victory in the final game of Sylvester Croom's coaching career at MSU. The Rebels also earned bowl eligibility for the first time since 2009.
"This game was personal," Ole Miss sophomore wide receiver Donte Moncrief said. "I've been hearing through Twitter and other media that we were soft and a lot of noise. I know I could make plays, and that's what I did."
Moncrief, who was highly recruited by both programs, caught seven passes for 173 yards and tied a school record with three receiving touchdowns.
"Our kids prepared to play, but we didn't execute very well, and that caused us to not play very well at all," Mullen said. "You never know how it's going to play out until you to game day and start doing it on the field."
MSU's seniors were trying to be the first class to win four straight Egg Bowl games since 1942. Instead, they had to deal with their first loss through an agonizing fourth quarter.
"It wouldn't be a rivalry if we won every game," MSU senior cornerback Johnthan Banks said. "It hurts, and if we don't learn off this then I expect the same thing to happen in the bowl game."
Mullen doesn't believe the determination to end MSU's winning streak and to become bowl eligible coupled with the fact it was playing at home tipped the scales for the home team.
"I can't imagine it playing to any more stakes than for us," Mullen said. "We take this game incredibly serious. I would be shocked if they didn't have that much energy for this game."
Judging from the shift of momentum Saturday night, Mullen and the rest of the MSU athletics department don't have to worry about being shocked again.
"These seniors had to walk around and hear how bad they were and how bad it was around here for so long," Freeze said. "Now they get to hear the good side of it, so I'm thrilled."
For more than a month, MSU (8-4, 4-4) will have to live with the feeling of knowing the trophy resides two hours north of Templeton Athletic Center in Starkville where it sat for the past 1,456 days.
"It's going to be really tough to deal with this," MSU senior wide receiver Chad Bumphis said. "We're going to have to find a way to put it in the back of our minds, but I don't know how long that will take."
Since he took that microphone in 2009, Mullen has referred to Ole Miss as the "The School Up North." After the game, he maintained he doesn't regret the boastful nature he had in his first three years in the rivalry.
"I stand by that statement and would make them again," Mullen said. "We just have to work harder, and these guys didn't put in enough to win this game. We need more."
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Terence Stamp and Michael Caine once shared an apartment in the early 1960s. Stamp was the star, with Billy Budd, Term of Trial and The Collector to his CV, while Caine was still on his way up. The turning point came when Stamp knock-backed the title role of Alfie, a role he had made his own on Broadway, but didn't want to reprise on film. Caine spent a long night trying to change Stamp's mind. He failed and the role was given to Caine.
Years later, Michael Caine wrote how he sometimes dreamt of that long night trying to convince Stamp to take the role, and "still wakes up sweating as I see Terence agreeing to accept my advice to take the role in Alfie."
Stamp made Modesty Blasie instead, which on paper sounded fabulous - directed by Joseph Losey; starring Monica Vitti and Dirk Bogarde; adapted by poet and writer Evan Jones from the best-selling Peter O'Donell comic strip. Sadly, it flopped, and the blue-eyed, angelic Stamp was slowly eclipsed by his former room-mate, Caine.
Yet, Stamp was no longer interested in making films for the sake of making films. He was beginning to choose roles because he wanted to make them. He turned down an incredible amount of work, as he later explained in an interview with Valerie Singelton in 1978:
'I didn't accept a lot of work because I was of the opinion, if one wanted the long career, one should do good, interesting things. One shouldn't do anything.
'So, that was a kind of a political decision really, apart from the fact I enjoyed to do things that interested me. It didn't interest me to play Tate and Lyle lorry drivers, you understand? I did that already. I didn't want to do that in a movie. I wanted to play princes and counts, and intellectuals and things that I wasn't, rather than something I was.'
After Modesty Blaise, Stamp opted to work with radical film-maker Ken Loach, on his first movie Poor Cow, which co-starred Carol White. The film was a surprise hit in America, largely down to Stamp's casting. He then appeared in John Schlesinger's Far From the Madding Crowd with Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Peter Finch. Yet, for all his success, there was something missing.
'And this thing which came later was a feeling of an inner emptiness success didn't fill. I had assumed that this inner poverty would be transformed when I became rich and famous. And it took me a few years of being rich and famous to understand that the inner void was very much there.
'And, you know, if I couldn't fill it with one Rolls-Royce, I couldn't fill it with three.
'I started traveling and looking at myself. Looking, thinking the answer was outside still in a form of, you know, I transfered from beautiful female companion, to highly, holy, spiritualized person. So I was kind of looking for that in truth - it was an inner odyssey that was going on.'
Stamp moved to Italy and then onto an ashram in India, where he found he could get 'Groovy Kashmiri hash or groovy golden guru - you get what you're looking for.' Here he was "transformed from Terence Henry Stamp to swami Deva Veeten."
The years passed and the roles had dried-up, until (as in all good tales) one day in 1977:
'On this particular morning, as we enter, I am hailed by the concierge who showed me to my original room. Apparently he remembers me. "Mr. Terence", he says in an accent worthy of Peter Sellers. "We have a cable for you". He extricates the telegram from the depths of his nightstand and presents it to me. Dog-eared, with tickertape strips glued onto the square envelope and smeared with dust, I have no idea how long the urgent missive has been waiting. However, as it is dropped into my palm it has the psychic weight of the English breakfast I am about to order. I read the typed front piece and realize why. It is addressed to: Clarence Stamp, The Rough Diamond Hotel, Dune, India. It is a miracle that it is even in my hand. Goose pimples spread up my arm and I have a sense that my life is about to change. The telegram is from my long-suffering agent James Fraser, who came across me playing Iago at the Webber-Douglas Drama Academy in 1958 and, bless his heart, has represented me ever since. The telegram reads: 'Would you be prepared to travel back to London to meet Richard Donner regarding a role in the Superman films 1 & 2. You have scenes with Marlon Brando. Could you stop over in Paris to talk to Peter Brook who is going to make a film of George Gurujieff's Meetings With Remarkable Men. I read it again. Can hardly believe it, but yes, it's there, in the palm of my hand. And yes, my life is about to change.'
After Superman, Stamp was cast as the Count in a London production of Dracula, (one of several productions about the great undead vampire that had appeared on both sides of the Atlantic). It was during this production that the following interview with the BBC took place, where Terence Stamp explained, to interviewer Valerie Singleton the attraction of Count Dracula.
'I always think of evil and the Devil being terribly groovy - not unattractive at all, they have to be really interesting and really seductive because that's the magnetism of evil, you know, it has to be outwardly beautiful and fetching.'
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TV ad shows danger of 'invisible secondhand smoke'
Making houses and cars smokefree is the only way to protect children from second-hand smoke, according to a new government campaign in England.
The TV and radio adverts show how pervasive invisible second-hand smoke can be.
Breathing it in can damage lungs and cause cancers, research has shown.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is calling for smoking in cars where children are present to be made illegal.
Second-hand smoke is the smoke breathed in from other people's cigarettes.
The new TV campaign is based on research which shows that most secondhand smoke is in the form of invisible, odourless gases.
It shows a young baby being surrounded by cigarette smoke as her mother smokes by the nearby kitchen door.
Another advert depicts children in a car breathing in second-hand smoke from their father's cigarette. He is smoking in the driver's seat with the window down.
A study from the National Research Councilin 1986 found that 85% of second-hand smoke cannot be seen.
This smoke can put other people and children at increased risk of lung disease, meningitis and cot death.
'Protect others'
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said that people do not realise the serious effect of second-hand smoke.
"This campaign will raise awareness of this danger and encourage people to take action to protect others from second-hand smoke.
He also said the government had plans to do more.
"Next week we will end tobacco displays in large shops. We will also be consulting on plain packaging this spring."
Research carried out by the Royal College of Physiciansfound that around two million children currently live in a household where they are exposed to cigarette smoke, and many more are exposed outside the home.
The damage caused by exposure to the harmful toxins in cigarette smoke results in 9,500 hospital visits in the UK each year costing the NHS more than £23m annually, the report said.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said it wanted to see smoking in cars made illegal, when children are present.
Professor Terence Stephenson, President of the RCPCH, said: "The state does have a duty to protect children's health and intervene where necessary.
"Other progressive legislation such as seatbelts in cars and banning drink-driving, once met with scepticism, have proven to make a significant difference.
"I have no doubt an outright ban on smoking in cars would have the same positive results."
Doctors in Scotland have also urged the government in Edinburgh to ban smoking in cars, while the Welsh government said last year it would consider legislation if attitudes did not change.
Prof Dame Sally Davies, England's chief medical officer, said second-hand smoke could cause a range of health problems.
"Smoking damages our lungs, causes cancers and is now the biggest risk for cot death. Parents who smoke need to think about the effect it has on their family.
"Giving up smoking or making sure you have a completely smokefree home and car is the only way to protect your family."
Support and advice is available on the NHS if people want to give up smoking, she said.
A survey of 1,000 young people in England by the Department of Health, found that children overwhelmingly want smokefree lives.
Eighty-two per cent of children wished their parents would stop smoking in front of them at home and 78% wanted their parents to stop smoking in front of them in the car.
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Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said: "There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke and children are at risk of a range of diseases such as asthma, ear infections, and potentially fatal meningitis as a result of breathing in second-hand smoke in the home or car."
But Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said the government had gone too far.
"It's only a matter of time before loving parents who smoke in or around their homes are accused of child abuse and risk having their children taken into care.
"Tobacco is a legal product. If the government doesn't want children exposed to even a whiff of smoke they will have to amend the smoking ban to allow designated smoking rooms in pubs and clubs. That is the only sensible solution.
"Meanwhile, are they going to ban barbecues and bonfires?"


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Carol Quina 4/2/2012 9:32:35 AMSo freaking cute. Had to include that...no way around it! #1453920
Jillian Danielson 4/2/2012 9:33:54 AMThank you so much Carol!!! She was such a ham :) #10071843
Melinda F. Schneider 4/2/2012 10:04:31 AMAwwww...how cute! #10071869
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John Connolly 4/14/2012 3:47:09 PMThis one is all the way off the cute scale Jillian! A superb capture, beautifully presented in B&W! #10090826
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Model Sugarpop and her lil girl, Kali..are supposed to look tough for this Steampunk photo, but, lil miss was just too cute for the tough girl look. Steampunk is a mix of trains, goth, industrial, and gears. It's its own culture and bits of steampunk attire can be seen in the movie "Wild West" with Will Smith.
These steampunk photos taken during our 6th Girls Day Out.
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New Lung Cancer Screening Detects Tumors at Earliest Stages
New guidelines published in the Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend that certain high-risk groups can benefit from lung cancer screening with low-dose CAT scan. The guidelines were developed after a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicated that screening can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20 percent.
"This is good news because chest X-rays are inadequate at picking up lung cancer at an early stage," says Rudy Lackner, MD , a thoracic surgical oncologist at The Nebraska Medical Center. "A CAT scan, on the other hand, can detect lung cancer nodules in stage 1a when the cure rate can be as high as 90 percent or more. However, currently only about 25 percent are found in the earliest stages. Approximately 75 percent of lung cancer cases are found in stages 3 and 4, when cure rates drop to 5 percent and lower."
The guidelines recommend that individuals ages 55 to 74 that have smoked a 30-pack history should be screened. This is equivalent to a half pack a day for 60 years, one pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years.
Because of these new recommendations, some of the major insurers are now covering this screening, says Dr. Lackner.
If a patient falls into this high-risk group, the pros and cons of lung cancer screening should be discussed between the patient and his or her primary care doctor. If a CAT is ordered and nodules are found, the patient should be referred to a lung specialist to determine whether they need to be biopsied or watched. About 50 percent of the population will have lung nodules from exposure to things like fungus or respiratory tract infections, but only 2 percent of these individuals will have cancerous nodules, says Dr. Lackner.
"Whether we biopsy the patient will depend on factors such as the size of the nodules and whether the nodules are increasing in size and multiplying," says Dr. Lackner. "If the biopsy is negative, we will follow the patient for a minimum of three years."
If no nodules are found, a CAT scan is recommended every year until age 74, says Dr. Lackner.
"The most challenging aspect of this screening is determining what should be done if nodules are found," says Dr. Lackner. "This is where our expertise comes into play. We have a long track record of performing lung cancer screenings and treating lung cancer patients."
Current data indicates that the chance for long-term survival improves when the medical team involved is dedicated to lung cancer treatment. The Nebraska Medical Center is unique in the region in that it has the only team of surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, case managers and nurses dedicated to the treatment of lung cancer. Dr. Lackner works side-by-side with Apar Kishor Ganti, MD , a hematologist/oncologist specializing in lung, head and neck cancers, Karen Trujillo, MD , who with Dr. Lackner, are the only thoracic surgical oncologists in Nebraska with practices limited to cancers of the chest. The other members of his team dedicated to the care of lung cancer patients include oncologists Anne Kessinger, MD , and Alissa Marr, MD , radiation oncologist Weining (Ken) Zhen, MD , pathologist William West, MD , and radiologist Matthew DeVries, MD .
The Nebraska Medical Center is also a member of the NCCN and Dr. Lackner serves on the committee that developed the lung cancer screening guidelines.
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States and is the most preventable. It causes more deaths in women than breast, cervical, uterine and ovarian cancers combined.


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Since 1842, The Citadel has molded individuals into leaders through an emphasis on character, selfless service and the discipline to face challenges and persevere. Graduates of The Citadel succeed because they know what it takes to meet a challenge in any field - patience and persistence, discipline and determination, teamwork and hard work.
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Members of The Citadel family including The Board of Visitors, administration, faculty and staff have a commitment to excellence and ethics and are dedicated to the principles of duty, honesty, loyalty, integrity and accountability. These tenets define The Citadel's mission to prepare its graduates to be principled leaders in all walks of life by instilling core values in a disciplined academic environment.
Please click on the links to the left to learn more about Leadership and Ethics at The Citadel.


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text: Berry Plastics Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY) (the "Company") announced today the commencement of a secondary public offering of 14,728,218 shares of the Company's common stock by certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (collectively, the "Selling Stockholders"). The Company itself is not selling any shares and will not receive any proceeds from the proposed offering, and it will not change the number of shares of the Company's common stock that are currently outstanding. The underwriter may offer the shares of Company common stock in transactions on the New York Stock Exchange, in the over-the-counter market, through negotiated transactions or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market rates or at negotiated prices. Citigroup is acting as the sole underwriter for the offering. A shelf registration statement (including prospectus) relating to the shares is effective with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement, when available, may be obtained from Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 800-831-9146). This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering of these shares of common stock is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and related prospectus. About Berry PlasticsBerry Plastics Group, Inc. is a leading provider of value-added plastic consumer packaging and engineered materials delivering high-quality customized solutions to our customers with annual net sales of over $4.6 billion in fiscal 2013. With world headquarters in Evansville, Indiana, the Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BERY. Forward-looking StatementsCertain statements and information included in this release may constitute "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied in such forward looking statements. Additional discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is contained in the companies' Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The companies do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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M Davidson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Davidson Insurance Agency, Inc (as of NOW)
independant insurance agency that has been in the family for 2 generations and going on three. feel we need to change name of family business to a much larger scale. we will be expanding into other states. we do not specialize in any one area, we offer life, health, auto home business, farm, bonds. we have 4 locations and we are in a town of 250,000 people in Lincoln, Nebraska, our new target marketing is for larger companies we can insure. our growth has been steady and productive. our moto is to overdeliver to our clients and we have systems in place to make sure we do that. Every other agency strives for :"best service" although that is important I am sick and tired of hearing it and I expect it from within my agency. , What we want is to over deliver within our agency. Give the client more than what they expect.
our marketing is anyone with an insurance policy. we have special niche's within the agency but overall we service all policies.
Our main funnel of business is referral, word of mouth and we have been in the business for many years. Lincoln is 250,000 population and we refer to it as location 1, Location 2 has 6000 location 3 has 12 and location 4 is also in the 250,000 population just on the other side of town.
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Citrus' Copas, Pullen sign with Sauk Valley (3-22-2012)
Citrus' Copas, Pullen sign with SaukValley
Hurricane baseball players head to two-year school in Illinois
Saturday, March3, 2012 at 1:41 am
Citrus seniors Cameron Copas and Mark Pullen have played baseball together since their days as Inverness 9-10 baseballall-stars.
Now, Copas and Pullen have signed up for atleast two more years as teammates.
Copas, a catcher, and Pullen, a left-handedpitcher, will be attending Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, Illinois.Both Hurricanes were offered athletic scholarship money to become Skyhawks.
"I'd go anywhere to play baseball," Pullen said.
Although the pair have committed to the collegesight unseen, Copas and Pullen will get to see Skyhawks play in Vero Beach fromMarch 4-8. According to the school's website, it is a trip Sauk Valley makesevery year.
Copas, Pullen and Citrus coach Brady Bogart allcredited Citrus assistant coach Dan Comstock, who sent tape of the players and madefirst contact with Sauk Valley.
Comstock said that Copas and Pullen's approachon and off the field would have been attractive to any college.
"They're as strong in the classroom as they areon the field," Comstock said. "These college coaches look at academics and if akid has character, and both of these guys do."
Bogart said Copas was the team's most polishedhitter in 2011 and lauded the player's approach at the plate.
"He's one of the purest high school hittersaround," Bogart said. "His approach never changes."
As for Pullen, the pitcher throws in the low 80sand was one of the Hurricanes' best starting pitchers last season in posting a6-3 record.
The biggest hurdle for Pullen, according toBogart, was just having the self-confidence to be a standout hurler.
"Mark didn't think he was as good as he is,"Bogart said. "We just told Mark if you can throw your three pitches forstrikes, you can get people out."
Copas was excited about heading to Illinois andsaid it was great that Pullen is also going, but that he would have beenattending Sauk Valley regardless.
For the Skyhawks, it's a chance to tap into theflush talent located in the Sunshine State.
"Any time an out-of-state school can bring theelement of a Florida baseball player into the fold, it works for them too,"Bogart said.
"They needed to go to a place they can playright away, which I think they can," Bogart said, "and they needed to go to atwo-year school. This is a good fit for them."


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Brazilian defender Fabio Alves has been cut from Sydney FC after just one year at the A-League franchise.
The Sky Blues on Monday said the club and Alves had "mutually agreed" to terminate his contract, as coach Frank Farina rebuilds his squad for the 2013-14 season.
Farina thanked Alves for his contribution but admitted he wasn't in line to feature in the starting line-up next season.
"We are looking to change things going forward and we couldn't guarantee Fabio the regular first-team football he requires," Farina said in a statement.
Alves made his A-League debut with Melbourne Victory in 2011, scoring one goal in 23 appearances for the club.
He switched to Sydney FC last year after his 12-month contract at the Victory wasn't extended.
The former Brazil under-20 representative played 18 games for Sydney FC, who narrowly missed out on a spot in the finals after finishing seventh.


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presspass needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 152 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
American Collectors Mint (ACM)
We are television shopping network specializing in merchandising, sales and marketing of Unites States collectible coins.
Coin collectors and investors of gold and silver bullion, coins and precious metals. High end collectors and investors.
Professional look. Clean but exciting. Due to our demographics we want our logo to be a clean, exciting design with sophistication. No cartoon looks please... High end look that is not to busy. Keep it simple.
Gold - Silver - Black are good colors but will entertain other ideas.
Maybe a patriotic theme if it has class and sophistication. Scrolls and other artifacts would be good as well.
Using the letters "ACM" in the logo could be a nice touch.
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Reverend collaborated with proto-punk guitar legend Ron Asheton (1948-2009) to bring you this unique guitar. Based on our popular Volcano model, this guitar melds three Reverend CP90 pickups with a korina body for a raw, yet fat tone with a percussive attack. The perfect guitar for edgy rock tones, but also versatile enough for just about any situation. Unique features include: lightning bolt body logo, and Ron's signature silkscreened on the back of the headstock.
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In addition to all kinds of general Ruby fame, Dr. Nic is the creator and maintainer of the Ruby on Rails Textmate bundle. Now, it seems that just a few hours ago he noticed that our Ville Lautanala aka Lautis had written a few good bugfixes and changes to the bundle. He then went ahead and merged them to the master branch. And the real kicker here is, that among those changes was the change that adds APIdock-powered documentation macros. Let's hope that this change sticks so all Rails codin' Textmate users will be able to enjoy the rich documentation browsing that APIdock provides.
Will the Ruby bundle, which is also maintained by Dr. Nic, follow next?
Update: Origin of the bundle can be changed using following commands:
% cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Textmate/Bundles/Ruby\ On\ Rails.tmbundle % git remote rm origin % git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://github.com/drnic/ruby-on-rails-tmbundle.git


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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
What I do for my friends
2002 Azienda Agricola Stanislao Radikon Jakot Venezia Giulia IGT
A deeper color than when I last had it. After some air, the nose really opens up. This is my favorite of the Radikon wines and while this bottle doesn't have the intensity of past bottles, the 2002 vintage was probably not a great candidate for aging. Not that these bottles should be aged in any event.
2003 Clos Rougeard (Foucault) Saumur-Champigny Le Bourg
This showed a lot of wood on first opening. After about an hour in the carafe, the wood started to become more of a complement, with notes of spice, rather than a focal point. This has excellent texture with a nose and palate that is pure Bourg. This wine, along with the 1997 of this and Breton's Perrières of the same vintages, is the wine that made me question perceived wisdom about vintages and to start asking questions about how the wine can be so remarkable and fresh in such a hot and challenging year like 2003. What this comes down to is not so much ambient temperature, but soil depth. There is very little topsoil at Bourg and underneath is pure rock, according to Nady Foucault. The same is true of Perrières, according to Pierre Breton. This same topic came up a couple of years later with Kevin Harvey at Rhys when discussing his various vineyards. Although the Skyline wasn't the coolest of his vineyards, it had the poorest soil which really makes the plant struggle to ripen and forces the roots very deep to find water.
5 comments:
- Guilhaume Gerard said...
getting rid of your crap vintages eh?
- April 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- Salil said...
Are there any similar terroirs (in terms of that stony depth/thin topsoil) in Chinon? I remember being very impressed by the 03 Baudry FdP, but haven't tried any others.
And welcome back.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- tin said...
Good point about Foucaults' '03s. However, Poyeaux also exhibits similar levels of freshness and focus, although coming from a slightly different type of soil and younger vines than Bourg (if I am not wrong). What's your take on that? Btw. I had TCA-like issues with Radikon's '02s (both with his Oslavje and Ribolla), bit worrying...
PS: You've been missed, good to have you back.
- April 28, 2011 at 2:58 AM
- Florida Jim said...
'Bout time.
I have never had a Foucault that I didn't think was too woody.
I like your theory on soil depth. BTW, I picked up some 2008 Skyline pinots from Rhys and will hold one for the next time we dine.
Best, Jim
- April 28, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- Cliff said...
Great to see you back.
How does the soil depth argument work for vineyards planted to young vines. How long does it take for the root structures to establish themselves?
- April 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM


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It's taken almost half of the school year for me to get here, but I'm finally ready to post a tour of my classroom for this school year.
I like to see inside of other people's classrooms. Pictures posted on blogs and on twitter. Short videos on Youtube, or wherever else the inside of someone else's space is showcased is always interesting to me. As teachers, we tend not to get around much. We don't get the opportunity to talk about space and classroom design that often. Design is becoming ever more important, especially with studies like this one being released that show design to be an important factor in learning.
A bit of context about my space. My classroom is on the second floor of a two storey building. I have two large windows that face southwest. I am almost a neat freak in my classroom. I can't work in a messy classroom. I think it serves as a distraction to a lot of kids. Now, that doesn't mean that in the middle of projects that we don't have a mess (I'm sure the janitors here curse me sometimes), but overall, I want things to be tidy.
Entering from the hallway, these shots are of my entire classroom:
I currently have 26 students in my class and try to support kids as many ways as possible. Some students prefer desks, others like tables. Some students want to work with others, others want to have their own space and prefer to work alone. I like to have "home" spaces such as desks and chairs, but I also like to have a few tables for small group work or other spaces (such as the green chair above) where a student can get away from their regular space and work somewhere else if they need to.
A few of my favourite things about my classroom are the couch and the huge National Geographic world map that I bought a couple of years ago. I also love the huge dragon mural on my wall. I teach middle school; who wouldn't want a massive painting of a dragon?
I'm fortunate these days to have a large stable of technology in my classroom. I have two desktop imacs that are used mostly by the students in my video editing class but are open to anyone who wants to use them. I've just managed to acquire twenty new Dell laptops which we are putting to good use. I also have five Lenovo tablets which are used by my students for all sorts of things from basic research to serving as calculators when someone forgets theirs at home to being used as cameras, for playing math games, recording reflective videos, etc. At $200 each (bought before the Nexus 7 was available….) they were a good buy. About half of the kids in my classroom bring their own devices from home to use in class for different things. Ipods serve as ereaders and calculators, a few kids have tablets and about 10 of them bring laptops from home. All of this runs through the wireless network that is set up in my classroom.
My latest acquisition has been a 42 inch TV which I've had the maintenance staff at my school mount on the wall. This has quickly become part of a lot of things. I simply have an old laptop hooked up to it and I run a Powerpoint show on it all day in the classroom with all sorts of information on it. For example, we are currently studying structures in science class so I've uploaded a bunch of pictures or different structures that I've taken on my travels. I had a consultant bring me some new books so I've taken a picture of them and uploaded it to the TV to promote these books. I have slides of current homework assignments, sports practice times in the school and other things. I have Scratch installed on my new laptops and some kids are beginning to play with it a bit. To promote this, and before we really get in to using it in the classroom, I've put a slide up for it, as many kids had never heard about it or used it before.
All of these things make for a full classroom so one decision I've made is to not really have a teacher's desk. It simply takes us too much room and I've always found that I don't sit down much during the school day anyway. I do have a shelf with a couple of drawers in it and this holds my laptop and other papers I need during the day.
So that's a full tour of my classroom. It is a busy place filled with kids and their stuff and with plenty of different things going on. 26 kids + me + a full time education assistant + all sorts of technology = a busy, (hopefully) engaging place.


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I'd been reading blogs long before I knew what they were called. I watched a TV show called What Not to Wear, on BBC, and read they were broadcasting it in the USA. I went online and found links to the show, followed by comments by fans. As I read the comments it seemed as if I'd stumbled onto a bunch of employees and friends of the show emailing each other about a particular episode. I felt like I was eavesdropping on a private conversation, but it was fun, so I kept going back to the site and followed along for months. I was a wannabe blogger but didn't know it.
I wanted to comment, but I didn't think I could be part of the group. I wasn't invited, I didn't know how to get my cool name, and they'd wonder why I was reading their private email. They all seemed to know each other. It was extremely entertaining. I've since learned that I was a lurker.
As an experienced blogger now, I love lurkers. My site meter indicates I sometimes have 600 people read my blog and yet I get only 5 or 6 comments. I'd love to know more about my lurkers, why they come, do they come back, are they afraid of crashing the party, or getting tons of spam or getting their identity stolen by joining in with comments. Those were some of my fears as I learned about blogging.
Many people read blogs like you'd read a magazine: just for entertainment, not for interaction. I think it's all totally fine. I now comment on several blogs, and I lurk on more, and it's very fun either way.
Before I really got set up I started hearing about my space and pornography sites, and stalkers and stings as dirty old men followed 13 year girls to the mall, because of their sites. The word blog had made it's way into my vocabulary, but it seemed scary. If you blogged, I thought, you were opening yourself up to child-abuse, the sex trade, or at the very least spammers. I wasn't sure what spammers were, but it sounded like something to avoid. I've realized I can't walk through life scared, though. Fear is not a positive emotion. Hope is.
I haven't been stalked, spammed or kidnapped in the 8 months I've been blogging, and I love the blogging friends I've made and the info that's available to me. For free! It's a fabulous hobby. I was almost ready. I was getting the blogger lingo and I started dipping in my toe.
I discovered other sites where everyone was talking about politics instead of fashion, and I loved hiding in the corner listening in. There seemed to be new people arriving, introducing themselves to the others and I realized they weren't necessarily family or work friends all emailing each other, they were strangers connecting through these sites. I began to feel I'd be welcome.
This is the woman who brought me into the Blogosphere.
About that time my sons and others were talking about blogs. I realized I was lurking on actual blogs, that bloggers were glad I was lurking, and would be happy to have me comment. "Would it be like crashing their family reunion?" I asked. Then our son's new girlfriend said, "You ought to read mine." So that night I went to Anna's blog InBetween the Lines, and I loved it! I loved her! I clicked on all her blog roll friends and read them all. I loved her dad, her brother-in-law, her sisters, her friends. I loved how they interacted, what they talked about, and I could see why Pete was attracted to this beautiful author.
I found I couldn't comment unless I had a blog of my own (which isn't true on my own blog. Comment away!) so I got my daughter to set me up. It turned out to be easy-peasy. Over the next few days I learned to look up blogs by googling blog topics. I read some that appealed, and then visited their blogrolls, and found more I liked and added them to my favorites. After I started posting, I went to a few of my favorites, commented on their posts and invited them to visit mine. I now have a list too long to leave a comment every time, but I often want them to know I was there.
The Blog World had welcomed me with open arms. There are people of different backgrounds, cultures, ages, experiences, that fascinate me. People like me, with similar interests, and those with totally different life styles and expertise anxious to share through their blogs. It is like a giant university where you can skip around and pick and choose any subject that strikes a chord and join that discussion, or at least listen in.
So this all brings me to
I keep asking people, "What's the Blog Etiquette?" and nobody knows. I want a few suggestions. For instance:
- Is it rude to visit without leaving a comment?
- If someone leaves a comment, should you visit them and say thanks for commenting?
- I have enjoyed posts where I never leave a comment, and then wonder if I'm partly responsible for keeping that post alive. Is it like a store with no customers will have to shut down?
- Has anyone had bad experiences using real names?
- Are there blogger stalkers who try to track you down?
- Is a comment supposed to be short and sweet or can it turn into a post itself?
- Is it polite to suggest a favorite blog when you're commenting on someone else's post?
- I don't read blogs where crude language flies fast and furiously, or where lack of respect is shown. How do you keep comments from becoming that way?
- How long do you keep checking a latent blog, before you give up on it.
- I never want my blogging to turn into a chore. It's totally fun right now. But I can start feeling responsible to my imagined readership. How does that work? Can you take a break? Will people stop reading your blog?
- Posts are so different that we can all find what we're interested in. Are there topics people are especially drawn to?
- What are pet peeves of blogs?
- How do you choose the ones you read regularly?
- What's the etiquette on adding someone to your blog roll? Should you let them know?
- If you're added to someone's are you supposed to add them? Is it an insult if you don't?
- If you laugh at your own blog, and no one reads it, is it really funny?
- Do you write for yourself or for your readers?
- Would you keep writing with no comments?
- Some people are worried about getting comments from strangers and feel invaded. How can you tell who not to invade?
- Do you need permission to quote from someone's blog?
- If you're not getting any money for it, can you use artwork and images from books on a blog?
- How many blogs do you regularly follow?
You can add any questions or comments you have. Just respond to what you want to; there's no mark down for answering just 2 or 3 questions. I am anxious to hear how you feel about this topic! Lurkers welcome. Just post a comment as anonymous and we'll never know.
Help me compile a little list of manners that seem to be evolving naturally. I like the learn as we're inventing this and think it's fun to see what happens. But if there are some rules I'm breaking, I don't want to offend any of my new cyber neighbors. Email this post to others if you want to, so we can get several responses. Thanks!


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There's a thing called the dynamics. A dynamic is an urge toward survival. And there are eight of these dynamics. –L. Ron Hubbard
What motivates life? What motivates Man? Those were the questions L. Ron Hubbard posed when seeking workable answers to the problems of both the individual and society. After examining the whole of life in its variety and complexity, he isolated a common denominator to all living things—the Dynamic Principle of Existence: Survive! Here was a watershed breakthrough in Man's understanding of Man. For while "everyone knows" that life forms are surviving, survival as their sole motivation was a brand-new discovery. How, then, did survival apply to Man and his everyday existence? By examining the full range and depth of his activities in the light of this new discovery, the infinitely diverse behavior of human beings all aligned and fell into place. As Mr. Hubbard discovered, the Dynamic Principle of Existence actually breaks down into no less than eight separate but interdependent urges toward survival: An individual survives for himself (1); for the family and future generations (2); for the group (3); for Mankind (4); for all life organisms including the animal and plant kingdoms (5); for the physical universe of matter, energy, space and time (6); as or for the spirit (7); and of or for Infinity (8). Moreover, as he further reveals in this lecture, so interdependent are these dynamics that a failure to work along any one dynamic can drag down the rest while, similarly, a concentration on a single dynamic will also injure the others. But an understanding and, hence, balance of all Eight Dynamics provides the path to achieving the lasting success and happiness that are the very essence of survival—for oneself, one's family, one's fellows and, indeed, the whole civilization. This, then, is not just wisdom about life. This is life.
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Here's a smart way to improve education in North Carolina: Banish the words gifted and talented.
As flattering as it is meaningless, the G&T label has metastasized across our state and country in recent decades, distorting our understanding of learning. Suggesting that cognitive biology is destiny, it subtly tells good students to attribute their high marks to smarts and struggling students not to bother because they don't possess the cerebral goods.
Fortunately, this is beginning to change as educators recognize that noncognitive skills – especially grit, tenacity and perseverance – are the cornerstones of success in school and life. A draft U.S. Department of Education report cites growing evidence that "these factors are essential to an individual's capacity to strive for and succeed at long-term and higher-order goals, and to persist in the face of the array of challenges and obstacles encountered throughout schooling and life."
Translation: 21st century educators are rediscovering 18th century values. Once hallowed virtues such as industry, determination and conscientiousness that were given the bum's rush as IQ scores and critical thinking skills became the classroom's Holy Grail are coming back into focus.
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Public education should have a straightforward goal: to produce contributing members of society. While the ability to read Shakespeare and solve mathematical equations is key to this, so too is the discipline to read the plays and solve the problems. When my daughters moan about high school math, I must admit that I do not remember or use algebra. I also tell them that they must try their best because it demonstrates the capacity to apply themselves to the task at hand.
Life isn't only about galloping across meadows; often it's about mucking out the stalls. Both must be done well.
The fact is, most school work is not that hard; the vast majority of students are intellectually capable of earning passing grades in every class. As researchers Miles Kimball and Noah Smith noted in the Atlantic, "for high school math, inborn talent is much less important than hard work, preparation and self-confidence."
The same is true for adulthood, where most tasks – whether it's being a good spouse, parent or worker – do not require high-order thinking. True creativity is exceedingly rare; even highly compensated individuals do not have to be Einsteins. Most of us just need to combine basic cognitive skills with the ability to get along with others, meet our commitments and control our worst impulses.
In a nutshell, we need character – a quality too many youths have not developed. To cite two examples: Before age 18, about 25 percent of American males have been arrested, according to a study in the journal Crime and Delinquency. The number jumps to above 40 percent by age 23. A 2009 study drawing on Pentagon data found that 75 percent of our country's 17-24-year-olds were ineligible for military service because they were "too poorly educated, too overweight or have a serious criminal record."
In response, traditional public schools and charter schools are increasingly integrating character education into their curricula. The new common core standards for math emphasize developing the ability to persevere in solving problems. Students must learn that stumbling is fine but quitting is unacceptable.
The best overview of these efforts I've come across is journalist Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character." Criss-crossing the country, he shows how teachers and parents are using a renewed focus on noncognitive skills to boost not only cognitive performance but also life skills.
One of his findings speaks directly to an ongoing debate in North Carolina: whether to expand pre-K programs. I have long believed that Head Start and other early intervention programs are a poor investment because most of the cognitive advantages they provide vanish as quickly as morning dew. Indeed, Tough notes, the seminal data collected from one of the most famous early intervention programs, The Perry Preschool Project in Ypsilanti, Michigan, showed that it did not "raise IQ or grades over the long haul." Recent research asking different questions, however, found that its structured, nurturing environment produced students more likely to graduate from high school and be employed at age 27 and less likely to get arrested or spend time on welfare than disadvantaged children who weren't in the program.
There is no silver bullet to improving education. New approaches – from charter and vocational schools to more rigorous tests, expanded use of technology and even a later start of the school day – must be explored with vigor. But these must be coupled with a renewed emphasis on time-honored values of dedication and determination. None of us – even those with gifts and talents – can realize our potential without character.
Contributing columnist J. Peder Zane can be reached at email@example.com.


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Introduction to the Tsunamis
Mistakenly called "tidal wave" the word tsunami is a Japanese word meaning, "harbor wave". A tsunami is a series of traveling ocean waves of extremely long length generated by disturbances associated primarily with earthquakes occurring below or near the ocean floor.
Tsunamis are primarily the result of a vertical displacement of water and rank high on the scale of natural disasters.
Since 1850, tsunamis have been responsible for the loss of over 440,000 lives and billions of dollars of damage to coastal structures and habitats. One very large tsunami occurred in 2004.
At 7:59 am local time (0059Z; How to read Z-time), December 26, 2004, a extremely powerful underwater earthquake (magnitude 9.1 on the Richter scale) occurred just off the coast of the island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.
This earthquake (the third largest in the world since 1900) produced a devastating tsunami (waves in excess of 100 feet/30 meters) that killed over 225,000 people.
Tied for fourth, a magnitude 9.0 (on the Richter scale) earthquake off the coast of Japan produced a tsunami that lead to an estimated 20,000 deaths on March 11, 2011.
Landslides (either into water or completely below the water surface) are also capable of generating tsunamis.
A tsunami, apparently triggered by a large underwater landslide from an earthquake, devastated the northwestern coast of Papua, New Guinea on July 17, 1998.
Three waves, the highest measuring more than 23 feet (7 meters) high, struck a six mile (10 km) stretch of coastline within ten minutes of the earthquake.
Portions of icebergs breaking or calving into the water can cause fjord tsunamis. (Fjords are narrow inlets of the sea with steep cliffs on either side.) But by far, earthquakes near "plate" boundaries produce the most tsunamis.


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Rich Zygler warns employers against a certain type of PHP developer that lives out there - the "Lone Wolf":
I've run into the Lone Wolf PHP Developer at several places I have done work. Sometimes, I've had to work side-by-side with the Lone Wolf. Other times, I've replaced the Lone Wolf who had moved on to different hunting grounds. Still other times I've had to hire people and had to choose between a Lone Wolf and several other candidates.
He lists out a sort of checklist to see if the person you're working with (or you!) fit into the "Lone Wolf" mentality. Things like not working well with a team, does work on production servers, never reads blogs or keeps up with the community and has a habit of coming up with overly complex solutions for simple problems that might not scale all that well.
Check out the rest of his list for more criteria - chances are there's already a "Wolf" prowling around in your neck of the woods too.