text: Houston Furnace Repair Experts So the furnace went out (again). You may want to be talking to anyone but us right now, but in a situation like this, Church Services in Houston should be your very first call. It doesn't matter if it's early in the morning or late at night – our technicians are here for you 24/7/365. We'll be there before you know it and get the job done fast – so you can get back to your routine and not have to stress about needing another furnace repair anytime soon. Call Today (713) 396-3760 Emergency Furnace Service 24/7 Schedule Your Service 4 Important Points About Furnace Repair 1 Make sure your thermostat is set to "heat" There are a lot of things to keep in mind when seasons change, so it's understandable that you could forget to switch your thermostat over to "heat." Double check to make sure yours is set correctly. 2 Check your furnace switch Your furnace switch looks like a normal light switch and should be in the Up, or On, position. Once On, your furnace should turn on in a couple minutes as most systems utilize built-in delays. 3 Change your furnace filter Dirty filters are one of the most common reasons for inefficient furnace performance. Be sure you're changing your filter every one to three months for optimal performance. 4 Check the circuit breaker Go to your home's circuit breaker panel and find the breaker that controls your furnace. Determine if it is in the middle position or the Off position. If it is, cycle the breaker to Off and reset it to the On position. Church Services furnace repair technicians in Houston are prepared for any type of heating repair Whether your furnace is electric, gas, duel fuel, heat pump, oil or a boiler. We have all the skills and training needed to get the job done right the first time. Think of furnace repairs as though our technicians were skilled doctors, working tirelessly to diagnose and provide the proper prescription for your home's comfort problem. What you need to know when you believe your furnace needs a repair service: If you can noticeably smell gas, call Church Services right away. If your furnace isn't running, find the emergency shut off and try your breaker. Switch them off, then on again. If the the heat still won't come on, give us a call so we can help determine the source of the problem. Find out more about our furnace repair service for electric and gas furnaces or oil furnaces and boilers on here. Need one of our experts in Houston for a furnace repair service ASAP? Call (713) 396-3760 to get it scheduled, and we'll get your system working beautifully before you know it. CALL TODAY! (713) 396-3760

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AUCKLAND: New Zealand imploded at the start of their second innings as they set out to build on a daunting 239-run first innings lead on the third day of the final Test against England on Sunday.
At stumps at Eden Park in the series-deciding final Test, New Zealand were three for 35, leading by 274 after dismissing England for 204.
Opener Peter Fulton, who scored his maiden Test century in the first innings, was unbeaten on 14 which included three boundaries, with Dean Brownlie on 13.
In a chaotic final session of play, eight wickets fell for 39 runs as the England tail collapsed and the New Zealand top order followed suit, increasing the chances of a decision in the deadlocked series.
The rain-abbreviated first two Tests were drawn but only fine weather is forecast for Auckland over the next two days.
New Zealand decided not to enforce the follow on after ripping out the England tail after tea as they gambled on bowling last on a deteriorating wicket.
But the strategy appeared to backfire as Hamish Rutherford fell on the third ball he faced to start a collapse that reduced New Zealand to eight for three after eight overs before Fulton and Brownlie steered them through to stumps.
The New Zealand batting failure came after their strike bowlers Tim Southee and Trent Boult had ripped through the England tail, taking the last five wickets for 31 runs.
The eight dismissals after tea occurred in the space of 18 overs as the wicket which supported the New Zealand batsmen to a first innings 443 began to show assistance for the bowlers.
For New Zealand, left-armer Boult produced his best Test figures of six for 68 while Southee finished with three for 44.
Broad had the remarkable figures of two for seven from seven overs for England.
He removed Rutherford for a duck with a rising delivery that was flicked to Ian Bell in the gully and trapped Ross Taylor (three) leg before wicket.
Kane Williamson had scored one run from 11 balls when he chopped a wayward delivery from James Anderson on to the stumps
England, who started the day at 50 for two, staged two spectacular collapses in an innings that was boosted by the single partnership of Matt Prior and Joe Root.
They lost three early wickets for 22 runs as Nick Compton (13), Bell (17) and Jonny Bairstow (3) struggled to cope with the morning swing generated by Southee and Boult and all fell leg before wicket.
At 72 for five and their backs firmly against the wall, Prior and Root set about salvaging the England innings and produced a 101-run partnership for the sixth wicket.
Prior was dropped by Brownlie at second slip on 24 and went on to top score for England with 73 when he was caught at point slashing at a wide Neil Wagner delivery just before tea.
Root produced England's second highest score, working his way to 45 when he was bowled by Southee to end the innings.
Broad caused a brief flurry of activity on the scoreboard, and distorted Boult's figures, when he belted 16 runs in the space of four deliveries.
But the bowler had the final word when Broad's next attempt to reach the boundary saw him caught at cover by Rutherford.


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Date: Nov 03, 2012
Press Release Number: 179-2012
Port Authority to Begin Operations Tomorrow At The Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal Following the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
The Port Authority will receive the first five cargo vessels at the Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal in Elizabeth, New Jersey tomorrow morning. Port Elizabeth Terminal is open for business, and Port Authority staff and our partners are working around the clock to continue ramping up to full service.
Four cargo vessels will go to Maher Terminal and one cargo vessel will arrive at APM Terminal. Maher and APM had power restored earlier today and are working to ensure all systems are in place to receive their first vessels tomorrow morning.
Longshoremen will be back to work and unloading cargo at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. Tomorrow's shipments are expected to provide a wide array of products and materials to the area.
Restoration of power continues to be a key requirement in returning the port to full operations. All roadways are cleared for safe passage and PAPD will direct traffic for all port employees.
The port has faced unprecedented challenges as a result of Hurricane Sandy. The storm surge caused nearly four feet of water throughout the Port. Round the clock cleanup efforts have repaired damaged roadways, hundreds of displaced shipping containers, fixed rail lines, damaged electrical systems and other port cargo.
Clean up of the Port is continuing around the clock to ensure that all port partners are brought back to full operation. All employees should check with their respective employers for reporting to work assignments.
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the gateway to one of the most concentrated and affluent consumer markets in the world. It is the largest port on the East Coast, and the third largest in the nation. With quick access to major population centers, the Port industry from the New York Harbor has the ability to reach approximately 20% of the US population in fewer than 8 hours. The port industry is responsible for more than 269,000 jobs in the region.
In 2011, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey handled 5.5 million TEU's (20-foot equivalent units), a record and nearly 4 percent more than 2010's volumes. The port's on-dock rail system – known as ExpressRail – also set a new record in 2011, handling 422,144 containers, or 12 percent more than in 2010. In 2011, the Port's major import commodities included furniture, beverages and apparel. The dollar value of all cargo that moved through the port exceeded $185 billion.
The Port Authority manages Port Newark, the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal, the Howland Hook Marine Terminal, the Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal, the Red Hook Container Terminal, and the Port Jersey Port Authority Marine Terminal.
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Yves Saint Laurent Beauté expresses a unique elegance and freedom and is a faithful partner to everyone. From the illuminating touché éclat to the seductive Black Opium, Yves Saint Laurent works to liberate the contemporary man and woman in their pursuit of love, passion and happiness.
As a Beauty Advisor you are the face of brand and the first point of contact with the customer. This role requires a sense of luxury as you assist the customer with finding the product or service that is perfect for them. You will be responsible for driving retail sales within your counter and working as a team to hit counter targets.
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· Complete all personal paperwork accurately, legibly and on time
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· Assist customers by finding substitutions for returned merchandise and/or out of stock items
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This class is designed to provide classroom and hands-on instruction for performing the duties involving a complete external beam path alignment process. This includes general external beam alignment on the CL-707 Laser. The course covers external beam alignment configurations that support both Fast Axial Flow and Diffusion Cooled Resonator applications. Hands-on objective will be the successful completion of an external beam alignment on a CINCINNATI Laser.
- Safety
- Basic Laser Theory
- Card Shot Setup
- External Beam Path Familiarization
- External Optics: Inspection, Cleaning, and Replacement
- External Beam Path Delivery Theory
General familiarization of CINCINNATI machine control will be very useful.
Electrical and machine tool mechanical knowledge is helpful.
Prior experience working on the laser system with a Service Representative or a trained maintenance person is advised.
We highly recommend that soon after attending the maintenance class, participants complete a planned maintenance on a laser system, under the supervision of a CINCINNATI Service Representative, to review and practice what they've learned.
Due to machine availability, training at CINCINNATI can only be done for current model machines. Training for discontinued models must be done at the customer's facility.
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In April of 2001 Oceanus Technologies Incorporated and North Shore
Incorporated entered into a US distribution agreement. North Shore
Incorporated, a water sports equipment provider for over 13 years has been
offering the Kite Surfing adaptation of the original Oceanus REEL leash
After testing the Oceanus Retractable Energy Enhanced Leash an agreement was
signed and The REEL went on the NSI web site. In their first six months North
Shore sold over 1000 REELS, and the feedback has been great!
Now we are happy to introduce our NEW 2002 MODEL KITE REEL! Our 2002 model
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NPR board names Jarl Mohn new president, CEO
WASHINGTON (AP) — The board of directors of NPR has selected the chairman of Southern California Public Radio to be its next president and CEO.
The board announced Friday that Jarl (Yarl) Mohn will start in July. Mohn says he considers the new position a mission, not a job. He succeeds Paul Haaga Jr., who has served on an interim basis since last year.
The Sixty-two-year-old Mohn served as founding president and chief executive officer of Liberty Digital and president and chief executive officer of E! Entertainment Television. He was also executive vice president and general manager of MTV and VH1.
Board chair Kit Jensen says Mohn has a keen ability to identify media and consumer trends and has a strong track record on diversity and fairness.
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Jean1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 145 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
Van Lier
I've been in the business of managing medium to large web and software design & development projects for over 15 years now, and have a ton of experience working with all kinds of clients, projects, team members, budgets. Some of the more recent sites I've been involved with include: http://www.espnrise.com, http://www.beliefnet.com, http://www.ufl-football.com, http://www.nfl-360.com, http://www.qualcomm.com, and many other major brands of the sort.
Over time, my expertise has allowed me to not just manage projects but build project management departments within companies. I did that with a software company, and most recently with a large web agency in San Diego, Digitaria.com.
Now I'm working with multiple web and software companies either as a consultant or in a project management capacity... but the bottom-line is I help them deliver projects, serve their clients, solve problems.
My clients are, in order of importance:
- Web design and development agencies
In this case, I primarily interface with mid/high-level executives that know their existing staff can't handle the client needs and hire me to come in and help.
- Software-as-a-Service companies (i.e. software that's available online, like turbotax.com)
In this case, I mostly interface with mid/high-level executives that are looking to improve their internal staff and processes to serve their clients, and deliver their products more effectively.
- Any company, in any industry that just needs help getting their web projects executed on time, on budget, and successfully.
In this case, I work with the directors of online marketing or anyone who's in charge of the company's web presence and help them plan projects, find vendors, coordinate resources, etc.
All these companies and people have one thing in common - they need help and they call me to come in and solve a problem. There is no formal process involved, they hire me based on a confidence-level that I can come in and do just that.
The logo needs to include the name "Van Lier".
It needs to look professional, so it could appeal to the 'banker' type, but mainly young and energetic, so it appeals to the web/creative agencies.
The tagline I'm playing with is simply this: "Solutions." (include the period, not the quotes.
The overall feeling/emotion of it should be: established, trustworthy, dynamic, efficient, effective.
My personal style is professional but always fun, spontaneous, effective. I want the logo to reflect that, nothing too old fashioned or traditional, but not too 'artsy' or far-fetched.
You could try either using all lower case, or hand-writing style to convey that, but I'm hoping you can find other ideas.
I'm partial to dark/navy blue, or dark grey/charcoal. If you want to introduce other, more lively colors, try a bright orange but not as a primary.
Here are examples of styles I gravitate towards:
Polo, brown frames are pretty traditional, but orange highlights to keep it young.
In the attachments is the type of car that represents the tone. Fast and sporty, but within the high-quality engineering and sophistication. The dark blue is not a traditional car color like silver or black but not too young either.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
two times the Goodbyn fun!
That's right, we got another Goodbyn! :)
I thought Goody would be an appropriate name for Byndi's pal, but I think my 8-year-old son has other ideas. ;-)
Today both my big boys took a Goodbyn to school and they were SO excited! :)
The Goodbyn on the left is for my 6-year-old son. He's the one I shared about before, with his anti-bento lunchbox. I was very unsure of how he'd like the Goodbyn because he can be set in his ways, but he loved it right away! :) The contents of his lunch are pretty much the same as before:
In the top container he has his natural applesauce and peach yogurt. The blue pieces in there are tiny ice packs. They came as part of a larger ice "blanket" and I just cut out the size segments that I needed for this space. In the middle space is his beloved Horizon milk box, a spoon, and his mini fruit roll-up. The bottom spaces hold Goldfish crackers, popcorn, pretzels.
The Goodbyn on the right is for my 8-year-old son. His top container got popcorn, his water bottle holds ice water, in the bottom spaces he has mini saltine crackers, strawberries and grapes, and a cereal bar & granola bar.
Both boys were THRILLED to take popcorn in their lunches. That is something I don't pack often because it just takes up too much space in their regular lunchboxes. But popcorn is a perfect fit for the Goodbyn. :)
6 comments:
- Mariah said... [Reply to comment]
How cute! I keep debating wether my J is too old or not for one of these.. . I love the fact that you can put things like applesauce in without worrying about it spilling so much... hmmmm... thoughts?
Also, I had NO idea there are mini saltines!! Where-o-where do I find those?!? I remember eating saltines with you on the bus to school lol <3
BTW, I love the names Byndi & Goodbyn ^_^ Too cute!
- March 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
J. is one year older than E... I don't know. Has J. seen it? E. was not keen on it when I showed him pics online, but once we had it he wanted to use it. No, let me elaborate - he LIKED it right away, but he was afraid he'd be teased at school for it. There are a couple boys he's with that are quick to call things "baby". His Disney Cars box he took to school one day was "babyish" according to these boys, and he's very sensitive about being teased. So he's been a little leary of some things due to that. He had said to begin with that he'd be happy to use it "family days, just not school days". But today was his first day taking it to school and he's not home with a report yet. :)
I found the mini-Saltines next to the oyster crackers. They are Premium brand. :)
I was a big cracker-o'holic in high school. Saltines with american cheese was high on my list of foods to be eaten. LOL :)
- March 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Alie said... [Reply to comment]
How would you say the size of this box compares to the Laptop lunchbox?
- March 2, 2010 at 7:47 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
It's a LOT bigger than the Laptop Lunches box. Now I only have the original Laptop, not the 2.0. But I'd say the Goodbyn compartments are about twice as deep. It probably holds twice as much as the LL, maybe more!
It's kind of hard for me to pack because I'm so used to small bento boxes that you fill completely!
- March 2, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Alie said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks for the info! I think I'll be skipping this box as the Laptop holds too much food for my boys! I suppose that will change as they grow up. Hopefully the box will be "cool" enough for them at that point! ;)
- March 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Mariah said... [Reply to comment]
Hmm.. we'll have to see, either way, I *love that you can put the applesauce etc in it w/o an individual lid... so, even if it's just for home or day trips, we'll get use out it! Thanks Melissa! J's super sensitive about that stuff too, I wish he'd just go with what he likes and not worry about what the other boys think, but I guess we all go through that 'wanting to be cool' thing :( If only they knew the cool kids almost never actually are ^_^ except for us of course ;P
- March 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM


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Pre-Law at Hastings College
Hastings College has a robust pre-law advising program – combining coursework that requires complex reading and deep analysis with small class size and personal attention – that will help prepare you for the LSAT and success in law school.
At Hastings, you'll be given the opportunity to be mentored by the pre-law adviser, Bruce Batterson, regardless of your major or majors. The pre-law program helps you choose the best curriculum to prepare you for law school while at the same time complete the majors and/or minors that most interest you.
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YANKEES: Alex Rodriguez set for first minor-league game
TAMPA, Fla. -- New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is set to play Tuesday night in his first minor league game on a rehabilitation assignment.
Rodriguez said he felt fine and was eager to get going.
"Awesome," he said Monday at the Yankees' spring training complex. "I'm really excited."
Rodriguez said he didn't have a timetable for rejoining the Yankees. He was on a conference call with team officials earlier in the day.
"I have no idea," he said.
"It's all been very positive. We're all looking in the same direction ... get back to New York as soon as possible and tomorrow is the first big step," he said. "We've talked to all our doctors. Everyone has approved it."
The Yankees said Rodriguez was scheduled to start for Single-A Charleston in the South Atlantic League. Rodriguez was supposed to play at least three innings against Rome during the game in South Carolina.
"It will be the first game that I play in, in maybe over eight months. It's been a long time. It's going to be great to suit up again. It gets me one step closer to helping my team win in New York," he said.
Rodriguez has been working out in Florida this year while recovering from surgery on his left hip on Jan. 16. The three-time AL MVP turns 38 later this month.
Many rehabbing Yankees play for the minor league team in Tampa, but lately the weather has been rainy. The inclement forecast prompted the Yankees to have Rodriguez start with Charleston.
Rodriguez wasn't sure how long he'd be with Charleston.
"Two things we're working with the scheduling, where all these teams are at. There's rain all over the East Coast. So, we're just going to try and run away, try to find some good sunshine."
"It has to do more with the weather. In an ideal world, we would always play at home because we can do more work, but if the weather is bad, we have may to jump over at X, Y or Z depending where the sunshine is," he said.
Rodriguez walked out of the camp carrying an equipment bag while a clubhouse assistant brought a box of bats. They put them in Rodriguez's car, and he signed several autographs before driving off.
Rodriguez has 647 career home runs. The Yankees have struggled this season while Rodriguez and several other stars have been on the disabled list.
NOTES: SS Derek Jeter (ankle) ran the bases for the first time during his recent recovery. ... OF Curtis Granderson (broken finger) put on a glove and caught easy flyballs.


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Just a quick summary of some things that have been going on--or are about to go down in the near future:
A few weeks ago, I published a tiny little story over at WhiskeyPaper. This story, I think I originally wrote it as a 78-word story for some contest that Esquire was having. I'm not sure I ever sent it. Something else about it: Back in the day, Jane and I used to listen to a set of CDs called In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry. There was Whitman and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein, among others. Including one of my favorites back then, Charles Simic. When I wrote "Dearest Miljana," I was thinking of Simic's Slavic accent. I was thinking of a heavy-voiced older man. Heartbroken and full of longing.
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More recently, I was asked by the good folks at Origami Zoo Press to contribute something to their new series, "Resurrect Your Darlings." If you click over there, you'll see what they're up to with the series, which I thought sounded very cool. You'll also be able to read three excerpts from an old story of mine called "Duplex," along with an explanation of what makes it a "darling" of mine.
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Tonight, after going to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood today, I wrote a short blog post about the film and making art/writing, which you can read here. That film. Man, it slayed me.
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Lastly: For those of you in and around the Louisville, Kentucky, area: I'm going to be reading there on Friday, September 26th at 6:30, along with Leesa Cross-Smith, Eric Shonkwiler, Aaron Burch, Ashley Farmer, and Ryan Ridge. I'm stoked to get to visit bourbon country again--and to get to hang out and listen to such stellar writers. The details:
Celia's Art Gallery, Mellwood Art & Entertainment Center
1860 Mellwood Avenue
Louisville, KY
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Ralph Snyderman, M.D.
Dr. Snyderman '61 is Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University, where he was the former Chancellor for Health Affairs and the first President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. He previously served as Senior Vice President at Genentech, a leading biotechnology firm and before that was the Hanes Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Snyderman is the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the two top awards worldwide for inflammation research. He served as President of the Association of American Physicians, Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and is frequently called upon by Congress and other policymakers as a participant in the debate on health care reform. He received the Washington College Alumni Association Citation in 1996 and an honorary degree in 2004 for outstanding achievement in the field of medicine. Ralph is a member of the 1782 Society, and made the first Board commitment (a gift of $100,000) to the new science-building project.


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The Bruins are hoping that Kaspars Daugavins' bite is worse than his bark.
And you better believe they know all about his bark. The 24-year-old Latvian forward, also known as "Doggy," let out a few canine cries after he scored Ottawa's only goal in a 2-1 loss to Boston on March 21.
It's something Daugavins started in the AHL while playing for the Binghamton Senators during their drive to the 2011 Calder Cup championship.
"The guys told me every time I score, I have to bark like a dog," the affable Daugavins recalled with a smile, "so it just carried over to Ottawa, I guess."
And now to Boston?
"Hopefully," he said.
First, though, Daugavins has to put the puck in the net, something he did 19 times in the regular season for Binghamton in 2010-11 and 10 more times in 23 playoff games. That's a lot of barking.
He even had a 40-goal season in juniors. But in 86 NHL games, he has only six goals.
The versatile, 6-foot, 205-pound wing/center, who was tagged with the nickname "Dog" in juniors for obvious reasons, is mostly a hound on defense. The Bruins were attracted by his grittiness and skating, so they claimed him off waivers when the Senators tried to send him down to the AHL on March 27. The normal visa issues delayed his arrival in Boston, and he played his first game for the Bruins Thursday night against New Jersey.
Not only did Daugavins' last goal come against the Bruins, but so did his last assist, in another 2-1 loss to Boston on Feb. 28.
But Daugavins is best remembered by Bruins fans for that deviant shootout attempt in Boston's 3-2 victory over Ottawa on March 11, which went viral on YouTube with more than 700,000 views to date.
You remember, the one in which he pinned the puck to the ice with the toe of his stick, skated in on goalie Tuukka Rask, then spun around and tried to tuck it in at the right post, only to be blocked by Rask's left skate.
Daugavins remembers when the move was born while he and some teammates were fooling around.
"Probably three, four years ago in practice," he said. "I was doing it in practices against goalies who had never seen it, and then I did it in a shootout against the Hamilton Bulldogs in the American League and it worked, so I had to try it here."
Which leads to the obvious question: Will he do it again?
"Probably not for a while," he said, "but maybe in the future. ... You can go to either side and do a lot of things with it."
Daugavins, who happens to own two dogs (a Labrador retriever and a "little dog"), said he never really got a chance with Ottawa and is glad the Bruins gave him a new life. He thinks his style fits in well here.
"I work hard, same as this team," he said. "Every guy battles for every inch of ice and I do the same thing. Hopefully, I'll be a help here.
"It was a little tough there (in Ottawa). I played a few good games and right away, after that, you're scratched. So it was tough mentally but you just have to keep working and maybe some good breaks happen for you.
"This is what happened — Boston picked me up and hopefully I get a chance to prove that I can play in this league and be some help here."
There isn't a long list of NHL players from Latvia. In fact, there have been only 17, the best known being retired goalie Arturs Irbe (San Jose, Dallas, Vancouver, Carolina); defenseman Sandis Ozilinsh (Colorado, San Jose), who is now playing in Russia's KHL; and ex-Bruins forward Martins Karsums, who later played for Tampa Bay and is also in the KHL now. All three hail from the same hometown (Riga) as Daugavins.
In fact, Daugavins contacted Karsums after being picked up by the Bruins and was told that he'd like it in Boston.
Because of that lack of NHL lineage — and lack of hockey in general — in Latvia, Daugavins didn't take up the game until age 10. He had to trade hockey cards for his first hockey equipment, and played mostly on frozen ponds and lakes.
None of his family played hockey, and he never got rides to practices or games, being forced to find his own way.
A left-hand shot, Daugavins — part of the playoff-push posse rounded up by GM Peter Chiarelli before the trade deadline, including future Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr and defenseman Wade Redden — made his Bruins debut at right wing on the third line with Rich Peverley and Jay Pandolfo on Thursday night against New Jersey.
The combinations may shake out differently once Patrice Bergeron and Chris Kelly return — there is a chance that Kelly will be back against Carolina on Monday night — but there's still likely to be a spot for Daugavins at least until he is evaluated.
Coach Claude Julien said he likes Daugavins' toughness and his "above average" skating ability, as well as his ability to kill penalties if needed. Against the Devils, Daugavins had two shots, a hit, a giveaway, a takeaway and a blocked shot in just under 9-1/2 minutes of ice time.
As far as his scoring potential, Julien said the jury is still out.
"I don't know enough about him to answer that question," the coach said. "We'll see with time as he plays here. I've seen him shoot a few times; if he hits the net, he might be able to score, right? But you've got to give a guy a chance to fit in, and we're going to give him that opportunity."
Soderberg coming, staying?
Either the Cavalry is on its way, or the Bruins are ready to be disappointed for about the fourth time since 2007.
Carl Soderberg, the talented 27-year-old Swedish center whose rights they acquired six years ago from St. Louis for goalie Hannu Toivonen, is free after his Swedish Elite League team, Linkoping, was eliminated in the second round of the playoffs on Friday. After winning the opener, Linkoping lost four straight.
GM Chiarelli has said that Soderberg is interested in reporting to Boston in time for the NHL playoffs. Soderberg has declared interest in the past, only to snub the Bruins each time.
"I'm not hanging my hat on this," Chiarelli said last week.
After playing Montreal on Saturday, the Bruins have 11 games left in the regular season, which ends April 29.
Soderberg had 31 goals and 29 assists in 54 games for Linkoping this season, and added a goal and an assist in six playoff games (he missed three due to a suspension for an illegal hit to the head).
Northeast Division battle
The Bruins missed a chance to take over sole possession of first place in the Northeast Division last night in Montreal, it would have been the first time they occupied the top by themselves since Feb. 18. ... Be glad you're not a Philadelphia Flyers fan. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the team was talking before the trade deadline with Jagr, who ended up in Boston; Ryane Clowe, whom the Sharks traded to the Rangers, and Jay Bouwmeester, who wound up going from Calgary to the Blues.
Penalty-free game
The Maple Leafs and Islanders played only the fifth penalty-free overtime game in 32 seasons on Feb. 28. There is an asterisk, however, because the game did include a penalty shot (a miss by New York's Michael Grabner) and a delayed penalty that was wiped out when a goal was scored. … The Rangers' Rick Nash scored his first eight goals of this season in the third period, becoming only the second NHL player to do that. The other player is also a Ranger, although Aaron Asham did it in 2003-04 when he was with the Islanders.
A book worth reading
You might want to check out "Sixteen: An American Hockey Story," a book about the 1973 St. Joseph's High of Pittsfield state champion hockey team, available on Amazon.com (RoseDog Books, $18). It was written by Dr. Peter J. Drennan, who was the star of the team and wore No. 16. It's a compelling tale: The school didn't have hockey until 1969-70, and was a doormat for the first three years. Then, in 1973, the team won the Division 2 state title, beating Notre Dame of Fitchburg in the semis and Wayland in the final. Drennan is now a medical doctor.
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Regular expressions has been a topic that I have found most developers trying to avoid, I remember once asking for some help in a forum about regular expressions in Javascript the helper advised me to get away with Javascript regular expressions
I was amused but his advice made me to think otherwise and I have been since then trying to dig deep in to this issue.
I always have issues with JS regexes so I've thrown them out for the most part and just make a stinking AJAX request and send them to a much more robust PHP regex I use now, but this one works and I use it some times.
Today I thought of sharing with you all the folks what I have so far learnt with regular expressions that will be of particular interest to Javascript developers.
(This tutorial is not complete, see part 2 soon)
Regular Expression Definition:
In computing, regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters.
Regular expressions are a powerful tool that can be used to pattern matching. With the help of Regular expressions that validation in Javascript becomes too trivial and I should not say easy rather challenging and interesting.
The general syntax for specifying a Javascript regular expression would be
var rex = /pattern/modifiers
Here pattern specifies the pattern or type of the regular expression e-g the pattern of email id is [email protected] and not something that contains @ and . only.
Modifiers specify how we want out patters to be matched. e-g: putting i as a modifier means that we are interested in case insensitive match of our regular expression.
Pattern matching characters are numerous and hence are grouped in to various categories:
Position Matching
If you wish to match a certain character that happens to be at a specific position in a sequence. E-g a substring that may happen to be an initial character or say some five characters behind the start of sequence or say at the end of the sequence:
The following are the position matching characters available in Javascript
1: Caret(^): ^ matches only the beginning of the string. E-g:
a: /^singularity/ matches "singularity" in "singularity is yet to come " and not "when is singularity gonna happen"
(The modifier i is used to signify a case insensitive match)
c: /^singularity/i matches "SinGUlaRiTy" or "sINgUlaRity" or "singularity" in "singularity is yet to come " or "sIngUlariTy is yet to come "and not "when is singularity gonna happen"
2: Dollar($): $ matches only the end of the string E-g:
a: /organ$/ matches "organ" in "microorgan" but not in "organismic"
3: Boundary Character(\b):\b matches any boundary character. i-e it should be either at the beginning or at the end of the string. E-g:
a: /ly\b/ matches "ly" in "This is really Cool."
4: Non Boundary Character(\B): E-g:
a: /\Bor/ matches "or" in "normal" but not in "organisms".
This is just a start with the Javascript regular expression. Treat this as a part 1 and I am coming back with the part 2 very soon.
Part 2 will be continuation of the same with a real example script to test a validate a test expression in Javascript using Javascript regular Expressions.


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The New Year marks a time for new beginnings, new hopes, new aspirations and, in my case, a huge new dilemma. It won't come as a surprise that my dilemma is, once again, related to MMC. For those who don't know, MMC (Modernising Medical Careers) was the government's attempt at reforming medical training. The idea was that doctors would get a clear career path and a structured training schedule. It's failed, all that the government succeeded in doing was fucking up the lives of thousand and thousands of junior doctors, created endless reams of extra paperwork for us to do (taking us away from our patients) and the "training" is exactly the same as before – the big difference is that we now have less of it.
Not exactly progress, if you ask me.
The failings of MMC and last year's MTAS fiasco have been discussed no end on the web, in the papers, on the radio and on the telly, so I won't go into all that again but I will explain to you the dilemma that MMC has left me with and maybe you guys can help me out.
Last summer, I was working as a doctor in general medicine and MTAS/MMC fiasco left me staring down the barrel of unemployment. With only 9 days to go until I had to sign on to the dole, I managed to secure a "run-through" ST1 job doing anaesthetics in a different part of the country. "ST" jobs were like gold-dust and the competition for them was fierce, so I was very pleased to be offered one and accepted the job offer with much relief.
I then relocated myself to a different part of the country, found myself a lovely apartment to live in, and set about seeing if a career in anaesthetics was for me. After working here for 5 months now, I love my job. I find it the most interesting, exciting and rewarding job that I've ever done and I KNOW that this is what I want to do for the rest of my working life.
So far, so good and you may now be wondering what my dilemma is.
I'll tell you. It's this city. I really enjoyed where I was living before but my new city (NewCity) just doesn't have the vibrancy, the character and the things I enjoy. My first impressions of NewCity were that it was ugly and uninteresting and, after living here for almost half a year now, I know that my first impressions were correct. NewCity is just a bit rubbish really. Entertainment comes from the "Let's Go Out, Drink 12 Pints, Dance To Cheesy Music And Try To Get Off With A Slightly Overweight Bird" school of good times. I've nothing against this once in a while, but my problem is that there is NOTHING ELSE to do here and the "living for Saturday Night" mentality gets a bit tedious after a while. I don't know – maybe I'm just getting old!
Another part of the problem, I feel, is that I am now living hundreds of miles away from my family and old friends. This isn't as huge a deal for me as it is for some people because I'm pretty good at making the effort to visit people or call people. Also, I'm a pretty affable and sociable person and tend to make new friends quite easily. That said, I'm not at the "popping round unannounced to your mates house to watch the footy" stage of friendship yet, and I think I miss that a little too.
So my dilemma is this. Should I stick with NewCity? As things stand, I have a seven year Specialty Training contract here. The fact that I'm doing a job I really love and have found a gorgeous apartment to live in would suggest sticking with it. But then again, should I remain in a place I don't like for seven years (the rest of my youth)?
Leaving would mean giving up my run through training and I'd have to navigate my way through the quagmire of the applications process once more. There is even more competition for training positions this year than there was last year, so if I decide to leave, there is a real chance I won't be able to get another job and end up being unemployed.
The 2008 application process began on Saturday, so I have to make a decision pretty quickly.
Should I stick or should I twist? I really am torn, what do you guys think I should do?
- Michael
b.t.w. the system does not allow me to transfer my contract to another part of the country because my reasons for wanting to move are not "compelling" enough.


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Ansel Adams, 1902–84, American photographer, b. San Francisco. He began taking photographs in the High Sierra and Yosemite Valley, with which his name is permanently associated, becoming professional in 1930. That year he published the first of many books of his photographs, Taos Pueblo. With Edward Weston and others he founded the Group f/64 in reaction to the painterly photographic aesthetic then current. He specialized in characteristic regional landscape, particularly of the Southwest, and worked to emphasize the conservation of nature. In addition to heroic vistas of the American wilderness, he also made smaller and more intimate images of such landscape elements as trees, rocks, driftwood, and grasses.
Adams wrote numerous technical manuals, including the classic Basic Photo-Books series, and helped to found photographic art departments at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (the first such department) and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His book Born Free and Equal (1944) was an effort to aid Japanese Americans incarcerated in "relocation camps" during World War II. In 1946 he established the first college department of photography at the California School of Fine Art. Adams also published the first superb portfolio reproductions of his own and others' photographs. His work has become known to a wide audience through the many books, posters, and calendars that have featured his photographs.
See aperture monograph (1972); M. S. Alinder and A. G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916–1984 (1988); J. Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (2001).


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Mark Driscoll is wrong.
Godly men stick up for people, not make fun of them.
Godly men honor women, not belittle them.
Godly men love their gay and lesbian neighbors, not ridicule them.
Godly men celebrate femininity, not trash it.
Godly men own their sexuality, not flaunt it.
Godly men pursue peace, not dismiss it.
Godly men rise above violence, not glorify it.
Godly men build up the Church, not embarrass it.
Godly men imitate Christ—who praised the gentle and the peacemakers, who stood up for the exploited and abused, who showed compassion for the downtrodden, who valued women, and who loved his enemies to the point of death.
If this Facebook status were Pastor Mark Driscoll's first offense, it might not warrant a strong response.But Mark has developed a pattern of immaturity and unkindness that has remained largely unchecked by his church. In evangelical circles, he's like the kid from high school who makes crude jokes at every opportunity, uses the words "gay" and "queer" to describe the things he most detests, encourages his friends to subject the unpopular kids to ridicule, and belittles the guys who aren't "macho" or "manly" enough to be in his club.
As blogger Tyler Clark put it, "When you put out a call on Facebook for people verbally attack 'effeminate anatomically male' men, I find myself back in high school—shoved against a locker, with the bullies calling me a faggot."
What we have on our hands is a bully.
And this bully is teaching the young men at his church and under his influence that bullying is an acceptable expression of "biblical manhood."
This has to stop. As followers of Jesus, we are obligated to stick up for the least of these, especially when they are being publicly bullied in the name of Christ.
We are also obligated to use the proper channels to do so. Many have asked that Mark apologize, but he has refused. Many have written blog posts expressing their concern, but he remains defiant. It's time to take some more practical steps:
Today I emailed Mars Hill Church to request that the elders take whatever measures necessary to stop Mark's bullying once and for all. No more empty apologies. This behavior must change.
If you wish to do the same, here's how:
Mars Hill Church
1411 NW 50th
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 816-3500
If you know Mark personally or attend his church, approach him as a friend and request that he get the counseling he needs to deal with this destructive pattern. Bullying is as harmful to the bully as it is to the victim.
And to turn this bad situation into something good, consider joining the "I'm Sorry Campaign" to apologize for the ways that we as Christians have harmed the LGBT community.
Mark's bullying is unacceptable.
Stop talking about it and do something.
[Update: Mark Driscoll has responded.]
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Along my financial journey in life, I made a great number of mistakes. In this ten part series which runs from July 19 to July 30, I'm going to focus on ten of my worst mistakes and the difficulties and successes I've had in overcoming those mistakes.
I chose a career path for the money instead of one that matched my passions and skills.
During my high school years, I felt fairly certain what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be writer, preferably a science fiction writer. I was absolutely enamored with the novels of Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, and countless others who made a life out of meshing scientific progress with imagination. I dreamed of going to college, majoring in English literature, and minoring in mathematics and another science or two.
My high school English teacher encouraged this dream. Virtually everyone else looked at me as though I walked out of the insane asylum. They pointed to the low average income of an English teacher. They told me that was a waste of a perfectly good mind.
In short, I was convinced by everyone around me that the measure of a person's worth and intelligence was how much they managed to earn.
By the time I actually went to college, I settled on a life sciences major, which led me to at least some lucrative opportunities. As time went on, I added computer science as well because I showed a knack for computer programming.
In short, because of the incessant drumbeat I heard for money, I chose an educational and career path that I knew directed me away from my passions. I did have some degree of talent, especially in the computer science classrooms, but I wouldn't spend my odd hours writing code. I would spend my odd hours reading and writing, both fiction and non-fiction.
I did get a good-paying job out of college, but as that job became more and more consuming, I felt my life dreams of writing slipping further and further away. I slid into something of a personal malaise because I wasn't chasing my big dreams any more. I tried very hard to put a bandage on that with material things.
Putting a bandage of material things on top of a personal wound doesn't help in the long run.
What I wound up doing is spending an awful lot of my free time for years channeling my energy into what I felt was fruitless writing because the act of writing felt good to me. I'd share my writings, watch them fail, and become convinced that by my career choice – seeking the better paying job – I'd lost my chance to follow my real dream. That'd just make the malaise – and the spending – worse.
The long term effects of this showed up in my career and in my finances. I began to feel very burnt out on my actual career. At the same time, I would try to cure this feeling of failure and burning out by buying stuff that I didn't really need or didn't have time to really enjoy. This brought me deeper and deeper into credit card debt and deeper and deeper into a sense that I couldn't escape.
The solutions were right in front of me, but I didn't see them.
First of all, I could have just majored in what I wanted to in college. Yes, this might have meant foregoing income, but it would have also meant following my passions and dreams instead of walking away from them. Alternately, I could have double-majored in a way that allowed me to follow my dream and still follow a lucrative path, too, if the dream didn't work out.
Later, I could have focused on actually trying to launch writing as a side career instead of just writing aimlessly and somehow stumbling onto the success of The Simple Dollar. I started The Simple Dollar not as some sort of aim of finding a new career, but because I loved to write and I knew I was going through the same financial issues that a lot of people my age were going through. My target audience at first was, quite literally, my friends who were also struggling financially. I stumbled into this, period, and it took me many years of wandering for it to happen. Putting some aim into that dream would have made all the difference.
I didn't do either of these. The only reason I'm writing for a living right now is pure, simple luck, albeit luck that had a place to sprout because I actually was attempting to write in some fashion.
The real lesson here is that happiness doesn't come from money. As long as your basic needs are met, additional money does not bring happiness. It brings some material luxuries, but it also usually brings additional problems, too. The only way additional money helps is if you use it wisely, enabling you to … well, frankly, chase those dreams and passions you have.
What can you do to avoid this trap?
If you have a dream so strong that you stay up all night involved with it, give chase to that dream. Passion like that makes up for a lot of ground in other areas, because so many people out there are just clocking their nine-to-five with little real passion at all. A lot of people get by on skill or on the fact that their job mostly just needs a warm body that can follow instructions. The people that succeed, though, are the ones that mix passion with a little natural talent – but the passion and the time are the biggest elements (just ask Malcolm Gladwell). This doesn't necessarily mean you have to throw ambitions for a high-income career away – double major and balance the two, or get a degree in a profitable area, live lean for a while, then go back to school to focus on the less-profitable passion. Or, better yet, just try to get your foot in the door without the degree (if you can). Money will come to you because passion is one of the few things worth paying for in life.
If you're already in a career that's taking you away from your passion, spend your free time chasing that passion with all your… passsion! Toss off as many of your extra activities as you can and focus your energies in your free time on making a go of that passion. It might require taking classes or it might require just "woodshedding" for a while (in other words, practicing a skill you love until you've acquired a high degree of proficiency). Don't abandon that dream just because the circumstances of your life aren't helping you with it. Instead, create a flowerbed upon which it can grow, a flowerbed created out of the excess time and energy in your life when you're not working at that job.
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The Red handkerchief is ALSO popular amoung women into vaginal fisting. But other than that Ron you hit the nail on the head.Ron wrote:Red handkerchiefs being a single among the gay male crowd to show who is into anal fisting, for those who don't know.)
Another thing to consider is the RULES BM actually requires these days. Sex used to be a LOT more open on the playa(2000 and before) you could literally do it anywhere. But now they have all these fucking rules and cops and all that. A lot of more closed camps are just protectnig themselves from legal prosecution.
As a woman often looking to get laid on the playa, I don't always find the 'sex camp' and most of the time am not looking for that. The male to female ratio is such that I have ample selection of partners and perhaps the problem of me getting laid or not is better answered by why I am not meeting these interested parties? You probably have you best chances exploring this question.
And if I'm not neccisarily looking for a 'sex camp' , but am the kinky sort of woman that does and can enjoy that sort of venue how will you find me on the playa? Will you advertize pre-playa? Will you attempt to attract me with classes and workshops that lead to play parties in evenings (this is how alot of sex camps on the playa do it)? Or will you wait for me to randomly show up, dissapointed that all you are getting is the guys who 'herd they could get laid here'.
Oh and I'm guessing a bit on this one but about one third of the women on the playa are actually lesbians and dykes and not even part of whatever equation you got going.


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You can't wait to go pick out your wedding dress — but don't forget your groom! What your man and his guys wear is an important piece of the overall wedding day look. Make sure he feels prepared when it comes to picking out his attire and guiding his groomsmen. Here are some simple shopping tips for the groom and his entourage.
Narrow down the type of attire.
White dresses for brides? Pretty standard. But there's a lot more flexibility on the menswear side of things. Depending on the level of formality, your budget, and your man's comfort level, you may want to consider the pros and cons of a tuxedo vs. a suit. Tuxedos are typically rented and for more formal occasions while suits can be purchased and give off a slightly more casual vibe. Suits also tend to fit better, since you can make alterations on them.
Get help from the experts.
Just like shopping brides have consultants, so should the grooms. A menswear expert can help men figure out proper sizing, fabric differences, and details like ties and cummerbunds. Don't send your groom in there blind.
Get the timing right by having bridesmaids dresses selected first.
Female attire will typically take much longer to purchase and alter than male attire, and the color choice will be more obvious. So if you're doing any tie-gown matching with bridesmaids, make sure you have your ladies outfits selected beforehand. You also want to match the formality level--you don't want shimmery, floor-length bridesmaids gowns with a quirky suspenders-and-bowties attire for the groomsmen.
Don't forget about alterations.
If you're purchasing a suit, men will probably need at least minor alterations to make sure the fit is perfect. This is going to be the most photographed day of your life--you don't want your guy to have sleeves that are too short or pants that are awkwardly long.
Allow some fun accessories.
Wacky socks or cufflinks make great groomsmen gifts and add a little personality to your groom's overall wedding look.
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Urinary incontinence (UI) is the loss of urine control, or the inability to hold your urine until you can reach a restroom. According to the National Association for Continence, approximately 25 million adult Americans experience temporary or chronic urinary incontinence. UI can strike at any age. Women over age 50 are the most likely to develop UI. Urinary incontinence may be a temporary condition, resulting from an underlying medical condition. It can range from the discomfort of slight losses of urine to severe, frequent wetting.
|Urinary Tract Illustration.
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Incontinence is not an inevitable result of aging, but is particularly common in older people. It is often caused by specific changes in body function that may result from diseases, use of medications, and/or the onset of an illness. Sometimes it is the first and only symptom of a urinary tract infection. Women are most likely to develop incontinence either during pregnancy and childbirth, or after the hormonal changes of menopause, because of weakened pelvic muscles.
The following are some of the different types of urinary incontinence:
The following are the most common symptoms of urinary incontinence. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of urinary incontinence may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
For people with urinary incontinence, it is important to consult a health care provider for a complete physical examination that focuses on the urinary and nervous systems, reproductive organs, and urine samples. In many cases, patients will then be referred to a urologist, a doctor who specializes in diseases of the urinary tract.
Specific treatment for urinary incontinence will be determined by your doctor based on:
Treatment may include:
Specifically designed absorbent underclothing, which is no more bulky than normal underwear and can be worn easily under everyday clothing, is available. Also, incontinence may be managed by inserting a catheter into the urethra and collecting the urine into a container. Consult your doctor with your questions regarding the management and treatment of urinary incontinence.
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I note that many of the comments here are 5+ years old, so I think it's worth adding some updated opinion as the world has a habit of changing over time.
Julie Meyer is a formidable force for good in the British/European entrepreneur scene. She is fantastically well connected, and to the right people (which is no small thing if you have a b2b product and speed to market is key), understands the difficult dynamics of startup life, has real empathy, business insight and she will do as she says. If I had a penny for every VC who said they'd do something and didn't….
It is true that Ariadne isn't running a big fund, but that's ok. Julie works tirelessly to help fund European entrepreneurs at the earliest (read 'hardest') stage and has successfully deployed capital. Furthermore, she believes passionately in the spirit of entrepreneurship and is a true champion of those who try.
I have observed Julie operating at startup Board level – behind closed doors where difficult decisions are made and real strategy is formed. She is energetic, creative and adds tremendous value and insight. She encourages the entrepreneur to think differently about their business model, asks insightful questions and is unafraid to dig deeper, at all times with a positive, proactive demeanour that is inspiring.
If you want an ex-banker/consultant/accountant with zero operating experience giving you money and advice from an ivory tower, then take your pick of the countless European VCs on offer. But if you seek someone who is wisened by experience, will open doors, help you navigate choppy waters and tirelessly stand by you when the chips are down, then Julie is your woman.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
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Presentation Advisors is a one-man presentation firm. I work with clients of all shapes and sizes, from large corporations to non-profits and universities, helping them tell their stories with visually engaging PowerPoint presentations, marketing communications, and social media strategies.
Much of my brand is focused around my thought leadership via my blog (http://blog.presentationadvisors.com) and workshops. After this logo is designed, I will use it as the cornerstone for a WordPress design contest that will result in the combination of my corporate site and blog site all into one.
My audience varies widely. Since the logo will represent my brand, it will be seen on all collateral like business cards, my website, Twitter background, presentations, etc. My blog audience can range from educators to designers to CMOs and more.
I'm looking for a completely new logo, from scratch. I never really loved my current logo and it only appeared on my Twitter background (http://www.twitter.com/story_jon) and business cards. The blog carried on the orangish/reddish color scheme of the old logo, but that's not a prerequisite. I'm refraining from uploading the old logo file because it's irrelevant. This is completely new.
The winning logo will have the following characteristics:
- A current, web 3.0 feel
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I want to give you the freedom to create. You choose the color palette, but it must be a palette that can carry over well to a blog design. YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE THE OLD ORANGE/GREY COLOR SCHEME. My presentations are designed with simplicity, beauty and color. The logo should have that same feel.
Adding a visual element/image to the logo is welcomed but not necessary.
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This is a little tricky to wrap your brain around — Jason Alexander teaching Larry David how to play George Costanza. It's the actor who played George Costanza on 'Seinfeld' teaching the creator of Costanza how to play Costanza while filming the 'Seinfeld' reunion on an episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' even though Costanza is his alter-ego.
Basically it's just a lot of Larry David shouting. You *like* Larry David shouting, remember?
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Everyone's favorite hockey analyst, Barry Melrose, is here to answer your questions. Feel free to ask him about his coaching days, what working at ESPN is like, the NHL lockout, mullets, or anything else that your heart desires. And be sure to check out Melrose's new book, Dropping the Gloves: Inside the Fiercely Combative World of Professional Hockey, which is available now on Amazon.
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Posting a blog on the letter B really is a no-brainer for me because my hometown is Beccles and my mother comes from Bungay; both are Suffolk market towns and both are very dear to my heart. A cousin of mine joked that my letter B post should be called, "Beccles, Bungay and Best Cousin". ;-)
For the purposes of this blog post I have decided to focus on Bungay and incorporate the letters B and C in my Family History Alphabet Blog Challenge because one particular street in Bungay, which is dearest to my mother's family story, is Cross Street.
Bungay is steeped in history, though if you passed through it not knowing anything about its story, you will not find it at all obvious. Bungay has never been one to boast so I will happily boast on its behalf. It has a Castle, a Printing Works (Clays, who were responsible for the printing of Harry Potter books), a theatre, a web of hidden and blocked-in tunnels which once linked Church to Castle, the infamous legend of the Black Dog (or Shuck as it also known by), a headless horseman ghost, as well as famous people such as Elizabeth Bonhote (nee Mapes) who was the 18th Century author of the gothic novel, Bungay Castle and author Chateaubriand who sought refuge in Bungay during the French Revolution in 1757 (which brings to my mind another, more recent "refugee" in Julian Assange who also stayed in Bungay). Yet another famous author and one-time Chairman of the Bungay Petty Sessions, was Henry Rider Haggard.
|Bigod Castle Bungay
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Bungay has two parishes (St Mary's and Holy Trinity) and upon researching my family tree, I discovered that some of my ancestors were baptised, married and buried in either the St Mary's parish or the Holy Trinity parish. Searching the census returns of 1841-1911 there are clear indications which parish the people of Bungay lived and worked in.
My first known ancestor from Bungay was my five times great-grandfather, Henry Ward. I am yet to find where he was baptised but one avenue I have investigated hinted that he may have come from nearby Flixton. Henry married Rosamund Curtis in 1771 in Bungay St Mary. They had five known children, four boys and one girl. I am descended from the only girl; Mary Ward. She never married but she did have six children. Her eldest, Henry (Harry) Ward was my three times great-grandfather.
Around the year 1830 another of my ancestral lines - Jolly - came to Bungay from Laxfield. My three times great-grandfather Josiah Jolly moved with his wife Susan and their first-born, Mary. Finances were at the bare minimum though for Josiah, who got his living as an Agricultural Labourer and Farmer, and on the birth of their second child Josiah junior in 1830, was recorded as seeking Relief at the Shipmeadow Workhouse.
It was not until the middle 1890s that my ancestral line - Preston - came to Bungay from Norwich in county Norfolk. Here, my great-grandfather Percy Preston, the tenth child of eleven, married a Jolly girl who was also the tenth child of eleven! They had three children, including my maternal grandfather, Percy junior.
|Postcard Image of Bungay, circa 1905
What I love most about Bungay is its wealth of local history authors, past and present. One family that immediately springs to mind are the Reeve family - Chris, Terry and their late grandmother Iris. Others are Ethel Mann, Frank Honeywood (the Town Recorder), Malcolm Bedingfield and Charles Patrick. I must single out Frank Honeywood here as he went one step further than merely writing about Bungay. He went out and took copious amounts of photographs of the town, and some of these can be found in published works, as well as at the Bungay Museum in Broad Street or, I would imagine, at the Lowestoft Record Office.
|St Mary's Church
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|Holy Trinity Church
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|The Old Pump Site, Looking Towards Bridge Street
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|Earsham House, Grade II Listed Building
One-time Home of Ethel Mann
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If you are interested in the history of Bungay, please check out these wonderful websites:
Packed with local history and information on Bungay today
Make sure you check out the 'Theatre History' link
Next week, Cross Street...


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The cutlery for amuse bouche and desserts belongs to the Human collection: the result of the partnership between the French designer Bruno Moretti and Michelin-starred chef Guy Savoy. This partnership stems from their joint passion for research, quality materials and harmonious presentation. The amuse bouche and dessert cutlery is a characteristic feature of the Guy Savoy restaurant, used to present and serve the typical little welcome toasts or the sorbet at the end of the meal. The particular artichoke shape, a typical ingredient of the Savoy maison, gives this special utensil a dual function.
A graduate of the école nationale supérieure d'art (Higher National School of Art) in Dijon in 1985, Moretti founds the 18 Août with Fabrice Berrux and Pascal Oriol in 1987. Bruno Moretti has been working on projects in the field of design and interior architecture. A large number of his works concern "tableware": fruit bowls, trays, cutlery, kitchen utensils, having features in major exhibitions; some of his pieces were entered into the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. His meeting with Guy Savoy in 2012, marks the beginning of a new field of experimentation in table design. This relationship, both friendly and professional, leads to the development of several projects which take a different look at our relationship to objects and culinary habits. With Guy Savoy, Bruno Moretti proceeds with designing a set of "table art" products for the chef's new Paris restaurant at the Hôtel de la Monnaie de Paris, which opened in 2015.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW — Hoping to revitalize itself, information security company Symantec on Wednesday said it will streamline its operations, simplify its products and focus more on solving its customers' biggest problems.
Part of the plan will involve what the company termed "a reduction of the workforce," including "fewer executives and middle management positions." But Symantec officials declined to say how many of its 20,500 workers would lose their jobs and what percentage of them would be in the Bay Area, where it employs about 3,000.
Symantec, which announced the plan along with its third-quarter fiscal earnings, also said it would pay its shareholders a cash dividend for the first time, and split the positions of chairman and chief executive.
CEO Steve Bennett will remain president and board member Dan Schulman will become chairman.
Bennett, former CEO of Intuit, was named Symantec's boss in July, replacing ousted CEO Enrique Salem, to help re-energize the company. He said his plan, which will be put into effect over the next two years, was needed because Symantec had become "underperforming" and its employees "a bit demoralized."
In a note to his clients following the announcement, Technology Business Research analyst Allan Krans said Symantec's revenue has been lackluster for more than four years. But with Bennett's plan, he added, "by the middle of 2014, we expect to see Symantec emerging from the current mold of flat financial performance."
In its earnings report, the maker of Norton anti-virus software said its sales for the third quarter totaled nearly $1.8 billion, up 4 percent from the same period a year ago. It said it earned $212 million in profit, but that was down 12 percent from a year ago.
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Like many of you, as a school speech-language pathologist, I left graduate school ready and excited to jump into classrooms. I realized the benefits of reaching my students in their own environment and so I set out to reach them there by "educating" teachers on speech and language. And then… reality hit. With all the added responsibilities, how do I go about adding one more task to my ever-growing list and collaborate with teachers?
Are you like me? Often, school SLPs feel lost when it comes to reaching their students in the classroom. Typically, we fall into one of two camps. Either we feel the need to completely take over the classroom lesson to "teach" the teacher something about language or we become too afraid of looking like a "know-it-all" and so do not offer any suggestions. Neither of these offers a solution. Here are three easy ways to collaborate with teachers that provide a balance between the two:
1. Provide a monthly newsletter. This is one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with teachers. If you have monthly themes, give them an idea of what you're working on. Provide a "vocabulary word of the month," a tip on how to serve students in their classrooms, a good resource or website, or even a practice sheet stapled to your newsletter for teachers to provide to students. Teachers will appreciate the time you took to reach out to them and will also gain information on both their students and how we service them.
2. Give a student snapshot to your teachers. This is most beneficial at the start of the school year. Unfortunately, with all of our responsibilities, important information is often not communicated and students' services often suffer as a result. Relay any accommodations on students' Individual Education Program (IEP) that the teacher is responsible for providing in the classroom and make sure they understand what each one means. It is also helpful to provide an overview of the goals you are working on with their students. For example, a simple statement such as "During Johnny's speech and language session, he is working on increasing his vocabulary and reading comprehension," would give the teacher an idea of what he works on with you.
3. Hop into the classroom during independent reading. Many classrooms now schedule a chunk of time devoted to practicing independent reading and writing skills. My district uses a structure for this called "The Daily 5" created by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. When I walk into a classroom during Daily 5, I can immediately sit with students and listen to reading, ask questions about what they are reading, teach vocabulary and assess and monitor articulation skills while reading. What does this type of intervention mean for us as SLPs? We can easily monitor and work on skills within the classroom setting all while requiring minimal if any planning time. This type of intervention also sets the tone for easily working with the teacher on their turf without taking over the entire classroom.
I hope this next school year finds you rested and ready to try new ideas. Reaching out to teachers often feels like one more to-do, and can fall to the bottom of our priorities. By making a goal each year of trying just one new idea, it can seem less overwhelming. I guarantee it: by reaching out to our students in their environment, we will be making a huge impact on their lives.
Nicole Allison, MA, CCC-SLP, has a passion for creating materials that benefit the school SLP, especially when it comes to data collection and the Common Core State Standards. She currently works in a public school as the only SLP (yes, that's right, all 13 grades and loving them) and is the author of the blog Allison's Speech Peeps (speechpeeps.com). She also serves on The Ohio School Speech Pathology Educational Audiology Coalition as secretary. Her and her husband recently had a baby and are loving parenthood. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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