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One of the things we can count on in life is that nothing runs smoothly forever. If that wasn't true, a lot more cars from the 1940s or even earlier would still be on the roads, instead of being the rare sights that they are. As with all mechanical devices, eventually something breaks or wears out. And then there's always Murphy's Law, which says that, "If something can go wrong, it will."
In the landscape business, where we depend upon our machinery, these breakdowns can be costly, not just in the dollar outlay involved in buying replacement parts, but in downtime. This is especially true when it comes to riding mowers, the most expensive piece of equipment any landscape maintenance professional owns outside of their trucks. It behooves us to take good care of them.
If we do, they last longer and have fewer breakdowns.
"Maintenance is extremely important, because it allows our equipment to last longer. And with the price of mowers, you need to stretch their life out as long as you can," said Ryan Strunk, co-owner of family-owned All Seasons Lawn Care in Knoxville, Tennessee.
"We sharpen the blades of our walk-behinds every other day or so; we grease them once a week, we check the oil three times a week. Usually, one guy will be gassing up the mowers and another one will be checking the oil." In addition to the mowers, the hedge trimmers and string trimmers, leaf blowers and vacuums are maintained on a regular basis. Strunk adds, "If they start running badly, we'll run some SeaFoam through them to clean the gunk out of the carburetors."
"Our regular mower maintenance is very proactive," says Justin Wixom, account manager for Gothic Grounds Management, Inc.'s North Las Vegas, Nevada branch. "Our mowers run for seven hours a day, every day, so we sharpen the blades and change the oil three times a week."
Gothic performs 80 percent of its maintenance work in-house. "When the machines come in every three weeks for their routine maintenance, we do a complete inspection.
All the belts, wheels, handles, all the pieces that can and do break, are checked. We change the spark plugs, the air filters, do any general maintenance that's needed," said Wixom.
"We make sure that all the cables are connected properly. If something is broken, we fix it immediately."
Michael Candillo has a completely different approach to maintenance. He owns Garden Gate Landscaping, a full-service landscape company with six full-time employees in Raymore, Missouri. "We send everything out. I found that when we attempted to do our own maintenance, we made a lot of errors and spent unnecessary time doing things the long way. It saves us money as a business to have a great relationship with a local service shop."
It's easy to neglect maintenance. Putting things on a schedule can prevent problems like Strunk once experienced.
"We had a problem a few years ago with one of our walk-behinds," he said. "We were just real busy, got way behind on our greasing, and the spindle actually broke while the crew was mowing one day—all from not being greased."
And then, sometimes power equipment breaks down because it's being used improperly. "We've trained our guys to recognize when an air filter on a string trimmer or blower is getting clogged to the point that it's affecting the motor's performance," said Wixom. "But we've found that some of the crew, instead of turning the machine off and putting a new air filter in, they just took the air filter out completely. Then the motor runs just fine, 'cause it's not being restricted by the air filter. But you suck debris into the motor and destroy it. Then you have to replace the whole thing."
It's really a matter of communication more than anything. Your employees need to be taught why they should never remove an air filter, and the consequences that follow. Sometimes, though, a mere explanation won't be enough to keep people from doing what's expedient, yet foolhardy. In that case, you may need some 'bad attitude insurance.' "Removing air filters has been an issue for us in the past," said Wixom. "We consider that negligence, and we have a disciplinary action plan in place for that."
What if your field employees don't tell you when something's broken? "We want them to say, 'Hey, this thing's not running right; I need a different one,'" said Wixom. "Unfortunately, it's a common problem, where the guys just aren't communicating. We have a foreman for each crew, and we take the time training them on equipment functions; how things are supposed to run. We tell them to flag tools when they look like they're starting to need maintenance."
Why would someone keep working with a tool that's not operating properly? "People know they have schedules and timeframes and routes that have to be completed in a day," says Wixom. "Sometimes there's a fear that if they have to make a phone call to report that a piece of equipment is down, they're not going to finish their route. If they can just take an air filter out and finish the job, they'll do that and deal with the problem later. But by then, the damage has already been done." But Gothic isn't throwing in the greasy towel, not yet anyway. "Communication is something we're always working on."
ISS Grounds Control, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, operates in several states and more than 50 countries. Gene Petrini, operations manager of the Phoenix/Tucson branch, explains their procedure. "We change all mower blades every Friday. The walk-behind mowers will come in once a month in the summer, every couple of months in the winter. We'll change the oil and clean the filters. Oil is changed based on the number of hours the machines run. And the air filters are blown out once a week. We instruct our crews not to attempt any kind of repairs out in the field. A guy will mickey-mouse around with something, do a quick fix, but the quick fix later becomes a major fix."
Just as it is at Gothic, at the ISS Phoenix/Tucson branch, removing an air filter is a real no-no. "In Arizona, we have a lot of dust. It's going to fly in there, get into the carburetor, score the cylinder, and bam! Now we have to buy a new piece of equipment."
Obviously, winterization is something they don't really have a need for in Arizona. However, in Missouri, where Candillo works, they do. Before the mowers are put away for the winter, he makes sure they are washed down. "We power-wash them underneath and get into every little crack and crevice. You don't want gunk sitting up in that mower all winter long."
After that, Candillo's service shop does a multipoint inspection of the mowers, checking the belts, plugs and points. They grease the bearings, disconnect the batteries, and put in some fuel stabilizer.
"Before we put our mowers or other tools to bed for the winter, we make sure everything gets cleaned out well," said Brian Janes, coowner of JC's Landscaping and Lawn Service, LLC, in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. He makes sure his zero-turn riding mowers are completely overhauled so they're ready to go in the spring.
"We check for cracks in the frames. If we have an older mower, we pull the cover off and blow out the head to get out any grass that might be stuck up in there. We do
that once a week through the season, and very thoroughly at the end of it. We leave a little bit of gas in our riders, just so we can move them in case we have to. We put in an additive so the fuel makes it through the season."
Strunk also puts a fuel stabilizer in his mower's gas tanks before they're put up for the winter. "If you don't, after about 30 days or so the gas will start to go bad. It separates. Ethanol attracts water, and with all the ethanol in the fuel nowadays, you'll end up getting a little bit of water in your gas tank."
"E15 breaks down and leaves varnish inside the engines," says Bob Broughton, owner of Empire Landscaping in Victor, Montana. "All that sticky gunk will make it hard to start that engine back up in the spring." He gets around this problem by putting high-octane aviation fuel in his mowers before he stows them away for the long Montana winter, where temperatures can drop to 20 degrees below zero.
Improper maintenance—or maintenance that you think is proper but isn't—can harm your equipment. "Some contractors tell me, 'I really take care of this mower; I pressurewash it every time I use it,'" says John Mierek, customer support manager for the Briggs and Stratton Power Products Group, commercial division, Munnsville, New York. "Well, he's just driving water up into the bearings and lubrication points. That causes corrosion, especially if they do it in the fall, and then it sits all winter and doesn't go though the greasing." Mierek suggests that rather than pressure-washing your mower, do a simple rinse-off with a garden hose. Better still, blow it clean with one of your leaf blowers or an air compressor with a nozzle.
For larger commercial mowers, the most important thing is to make sure that they're getting consistent greasing. "We often find that a contractor will have ten mowers, but always have problems with a certain one. The issue is usually lack of maintenance," Mierek said.
Broughton has a solution for that problem. "We have one employee assigned to each mower. That person is responsible for that piece of equipment. He is supposed to check or re place
belts, change and top off fluids, and do repairs." He finds that his fifteen workers don't hesitate to report when one of the mowers or other piece of equipment is down. "My guys aren't afraid to say, 'I tried to fix this, but I'm stumped.'" Mierek suggests that you "refer to your owner's manual. Every model of mower has a slightly different maintenance schedule." If you've lost or misplaced your manual, most
manufacturers have them on their websites in pdf format, even for discontinued models. This is also true of the manufacturers of small power equipment.
The E15 issue
E15 is gasoline with 15 percent ethanol added. It's notoriously hard on small engines. "It gives us a lot of headaches," said Janes, whose mowers, string trimmers and blowers are all gas-powered. "The E15 fuel corrodes carburetors from all the moisture it attracts. It makes things not want to run right. So we run our machines all season long with a fuel additive in it. That makes a world of difference."
"E15 is a huge problem. It's probably one of the biggest our industry has faced in some time," said Kris Kiser, CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
"E15 was designed for 2001 and newer automobiles only. No outdoor power equipment engines are designed, built or warranted to run on anything higher than E10 (fuel with ten percent ethanol content.)" Kiser offers this illustration. "A landscape contractor sends his crew out in the morning to go fill up the tanks in the equipment. Now, the higher the ethanol content, the cheaper the fuel. People tend to buy the cheapest fuel available. If that's E15 (or even worse, E85), they could bring home every machine you own, destroyed. You've voided your warranties. They're very specific about the kind of fuel you're to use. Who makes that person whole again?" E15 is finding its way into the market, mainly in the Midwest and upper Midwest, but it may come to your pump soon. Be aware.
Your mowers and your other tools are your livelihood. Just as your body needs the right nutrition and regular checkups to keep it going strong, your power equipment needs regular, appropriate maintenance to keep it working smoothly. Treat them right, and they should serve you well for many years to come.


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Oregon: 2011-12 Post-MortemPosted by Connor Pelton on April 19th, 2012
Over the course of the next two weeks, the Pac-12 Microsite will break down each team's season: what went well, what didn't, and a look ahead at the future. Today's subject: Oregon.
What Went Wrong
The Ducks couldn't win a big game. Oregon went 1-7 against 2012 NCAA Tournament teams, and if they could have won just two or three more of those games they could have been playing in the NCAAs, instead of the NIT, in March.
What Went Right
Despite Oregon's struggles to win games against top opponents, they won most of the rest. And because of that, they found themselves on the NCAA Tournament bubble heading into Championship Week. A main reason for Oregon's second place finish in the Pac-12 was the play of Minnesota transfer Devoe Joseph. Expected to be just a role player before the season began, Joseph proved that he belonged from his opening minutes against Fresno State on December 10. The senior guard out of Ontario, Canada, finished the season with a team high 16.6 PPG, good enough to garner a spot on the All-Pac-12 first team. As a surprise, Joseph and fellow Toronto senior Olu Ashaolu were honored on Senior Day with the playing of O Canada before the game began.

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Welcome to the Bi-Polar Girl website. This is the place where you can have fun learning about Bi-Polar Disorder or indeed living with BPD.
I realise that fun is not usually associated with mental illness - and that's a shame because (let's face it) dealing with mental illness is DEPRESSING! It is too devastatingly serious not to laugh with it.
Bi-Polar Girl was born from my desire to
I suppose you could summarise all that by saying that cheeky little Bi-Polar Girl aims to CHALLENGE current perception and understanding of what a mental illness is.
Bi-Polar Girl was given a face by my talented son Greg who is (among other things) a graphic artist and himself suffers with BPD.
This site was built for me by my wonderful husband Richard, he who knows about all things internet and makes it so easy for me to use.
This is YOUR site as much as mine so please feel free to leave comments - don't be afraid to disagree with what I write in my blog or what I say in my videos if this is how you truly feel. YOUR truth is as precious and valid as mine.
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Grossman optioned after slow start to season
HOUSTON -- Considering how well left fielder Robbie Grossman played in the second half of last season for the Astros, his struggles at the plate and in the field in the first two weeks of the regular season certainly came as a surprise to general manager Jeff Luhnow.
Grossman was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City following Tuesday's game after going 0-for-4 against the Royals. He was hitting .125 with six hits in 48 at-bats and has had a few misplays on defense. Grossman began the year as the starter in left field and hit second in the order.
"We saw what he's capable of doing at the end of last year," Luhnow said. "He's capable of being a very effective two-way player and we handed him that left-field everyday job and he played every game so far this year.
"He was given every opportunity. It was disappointing for him primarily, but also to us. I'm fully confident that Robbie will go to Triple-A and find his stroke and sort everything out and make it back here later this year and will help us win ballgames. I'm confident of that."
Grossman had two stints with the Astros last year in his Major League debut, hitting .322 with a .816 on-base percentage in his final 35 games after getting recalled in July. He hit just .198 in 28 games early in the year, but made some adjustments in the Minors that paid off. He'll have to do that again to get to back to Houston.
"I told Robbie, 'Look, we've been here before,'" manager Bo Porter said. "'You arrived last year and you struggled. You went back and you went down and took care of business and you came back and had a productive regular season.' I said, 'Treat this here the same. Go down there and take care of business and you'll be back here in short order.'"
His departure frees up some playing time for L.J. Hoes in left field, especially now that George Springer appears destined to start in right for the foreseeable future. Hoes played left field in the Minor Leagues with the Orioles and when he made his Major League debut.
"It's tough sitting over here feeling you can help the team and seeing those guy struggle," Hoes said of the Astros' early-season offensive woes. "You have to understand, it's what they want to do. It's a process and you have to have confidence in your teammates and their ability to snap out of it. Robbie's one of my good friends, and [Alex] Presley has been my teammate, and I've been talking to them to encourage them and telling them it's early in the season and to keep working and to break out of it."


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The 35-year-old left Rangers after his contract expired at the end of last season and it is expected he will provide back-up to Julian Speroni as manager Ian Holloway looks to guide the Eagles to Barclays Premier League safety on their return to the top flight.
Alexander, who has three Scotland caps and has also represented Cardiff and Ipswich during his career, stayed at Ibrox last summer despite Rangers' demotion to Division Three, but left the club at the start of the summer and is looking forward to getting to work at Selhurst Park.
"The club did fantastic last year, they've got a great set of players here," he told Palace's official website.
"I've worked with [goalkeeping coach] George Wood before - he's a great coach, one of the best I've worked with. The chance to come back and work with him was very appealing.
"And obviously being in the Premier League, one of the best leagues in the world was one of the main things for me. I'm really looking forward to the season ahead and I can't wait to get started.
"Julian's done fantastically well here. He had a great season last year, but it's important to have good back-up, experienced back-up and I think that's what I'll bring to the squad."
Alexander becomes Holloway's eighth summer signing and joins Stephen Dobbie, Dwight Gayle, Jerome Thomas, Jose Campana, Kevin Phillips, Elliot Grandin and Marouane Chamakh in penning deals with the club.
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Still deciding where to go for your big vacay this year?
Well, we might have your answer—if you're a Fifty Shades of Grey fan, that is. The Klein Constantia wine estate—located 10 miles outside of Cape Town, South Africa—is seeing a huge influx of visitors, thanks to the mere mention of their signature Vin de Constance in the smash book trilogy.
Yes, seriously.
Now, we totally get the Fifty Shades love—we even want to take the college class about the series. But, traveling all the way to South Africa to sample a wine merely mentioned in the book? Wowzer.
To be fair, we know Christian and Ana fans aren't the only ones willing to plunk down big bucks for their beloved characters. Twilight fans made Forks, Wash., a tourist destination, thanks to its central role in the series.
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KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer Giveaway
This is the best and most amazing giveaway I've ever hosted. To the tune of a $549 value, but who's counting.
One very lucky person is going to win a new KitchenAid 7-Quart Bowl Lift Residential Stand Mixer in the color of your choice (red, silver, black, white)
Here is some product information on KitchenAid's newest and best performing stand mixer
I have made a half dozen things with my new mixer and it's the mixing equivalent of a Ferrari.
Sleek, smooth, powerful, responsive. Truly an amazing piece of high end equipment.
In comparison to my 6-quart KitchenAid stand mixer, which is a wonderful machine, the 7-quart is even better.
Why do I love the 7-Quart Stand Mixer so much?
It's the largest capacity residential bowl-lift Available 7-Quart (6.6 L). The extra quart helps with making things like 8 ½ lbs of mashed potatoes,
8 ½ loaves of bread, or 14 dozen cookies at once.
This baby is deep
You may think, Oh I'd never make that much of anything or I don't need all that room but once you have all that room, you will be in mixing heaven and won't ever want to give up all that room.
In terms of height, the 7-quart is about an inch taller than the 6-quart, really not much wider, and for functional and practical terms, it fits in the same cabinet space as my 6-quart does.
The 7-quart is just so smooth and it's the most powerful and quietest KitchenAid Stand Mixer available – 1.3HP high efficiency DC motor is designed to run longer and delivers optimum torque with less heat build-up.
It easily handles recipes requiring longer mixing, kneading and whipping times.
The all-metal, precise gear design produces a smooth, quiet sound.
This mixer is their most efficient. An advanced feedback control communicates in micro seconds to the motor to ensure optimal power is delivered to the bowl. When I change the speed, the mixer is so incredibly responsive.
Included in the box
Dishwasher Safe Accessories:
Maximize bowl coverage with
the stainless steel 11-wire
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Flat Beater and Power Knead™
Dough Hook. Handles small and large jobs equally well.
This mixer is so shiny and gorgeous in person that it was hard to take photos. The light just bounces, shines, and reflects like crazy. This Shiny Lady would light up anyone's kitchen beautifully.
I know I am going to create memories for decades to come with this mixer. As a little girl, I grew up helping my mother and grandmother cook and bake. When my mom hauled out her 1970s split pea green KitchenAid stand mixer, I knew it was time to help her create something fabulous. I will never forget the times we spent baking and cooking together. They are among my fondest childhood memories.
Whether it was holiday cookies or birthday cakes or a batch of cookies just because, I grew up baking with a KitchenAid. This mixer, me, and my little baking helper will create a lifetime of baking with our shiny red KitchenAid. She's only five years old now, but already wants to be in charge of the beater speed. Whoa, honey, do not put it on high right after we add the flour.
I've already put the mixer to use making White and Dark Chocolate Cream Cheese Chocolate Cake Bars
After pondering the hundreds of desserts I've made and blogged about over the years, I narrowed it down and here are my Top 5 Favorite Recipes I've made.
I can't wait to recreate these recipes, and make hundreds more, with help from my new KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Triple Layer Fudgy Mint Oreo Brownies
Marshmallow Peanut Butter Double Chocolate Pillowtop Bars (GF with Vegan options)
Coconut Peanut Butter Magic Cake Bars
And an honorable mention for Caramel and Chocolate Gooey Bars (GF with Vegan adaptation)
Comment below to enter the giveaway to Win a KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer:
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Contest ends Wednesday, April 18, 2012 and winner will be chosen randomly. Open to continental U.S. residents only. In the interest of full disclosure, KitchenAid provided me with this mixer and they are providing one for the winner. All opinions expressed are 100% my own and I am not being compensated for my opinions or to host this giveaway.


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For the Houston Dynamo, it is all about eliminating mistakes at this point in the preseason. But a mistake is what cost them a late goal to the Charleston Battery in Wednesday's nightcap of the Carolina Challenge Cup. A Zach Wells blunder resulted in a 1-1 draw and, in the process, made the Orange's quest for a third straight Challenge Cup title a little more difficult.
The Dynamo got on the board in the 17th minute after the USL Division One side conceded a free kick on the left flank. Stuart Holden's out-swinging free kick found Ryan Cochrane's head as he rose above the pack of defenders just outside the six-yard box. Cochrane's snap header left Battery goalkeeper Dusty Hudock helpless as the ball slammed against the back of the net.
In the 27th minute, Houston was unlucky not to double its lead when Kevin Goldthwaite slammed a shot off the crossbar. Alejandro Moreno was equally unlucky not to connect on the rebound.
The tide began to turn in the Battery's favor with the beginning of the second half. Charleston made several strong runs on goal and had Houston on its heels as coach Dominic Kinnear began toying with his lineup, inserting Dwayne De Rosario and Brian Ching, both of whom had been away from the team with national team duty.
Neither Ching or De Rosario were effective as substitutes, as they were both forced to fall into a defensive posture as the Battery continued to push the attack. The Battery finally pulled level in the 83rd minute off a looping ball played into the penalty area by defender Tim Karalexis. Wells raced well out of his goal, losing the challenge to the Battery's six-foot-six Jamaican international Newton Sterling. With Wells well out of his goal, Sterling nodded the ball over the flailing Wells, who could do nothing but watch it bounce across the line for the equalizer.
"It was a bad decision," Wells said. "It's something you have to learn from."
The draw keeps Houston in first place in the CCC standings after its convincing 2-0 win over Toronto last Saturday. Toronto holds second place with a 1-0-1 tournament record after beating New York 2-1 on Wednesday. New York and Charleston hold third and fourth place, respectively. The tournament concludes Saturday when Charleston takes on Toronto at 6 p.m. followed immediately after with Houston and New York at approximately 8:15.
Houston Dynamo (1-0-1) vs. Charleston Battery (0-1-1)
March 28, 2007 -- Blackbaud Stadium, Charleston SC
Carolina Challenge Cup
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Ryan Cochrane 2 (Stuart Holden 1) 17
CHR -- Newton Sterling 1 (Tim Karalexis 1) 83
Houston Dynamo -- Zach Wells, Craig Waibel (Mike Chabala 64), Ryan Cochrane, Eddie Robinson (Pat Ianni 48), Kevin Goldthwaite, Chris Wondolowski (Brian Ching 72), Kelly Gray, Brad Davis, Stuart Holden (Corey Ashe 84), Paul Dalglish, Alejandro Moreno (Dwayne De Rosario 48).
Charleston Battery -- Dusty Hudock, Tim Karalexis, Brandon Curran, Chris Gores (Lee Sandwina 46), Anthony Catalano, Lazo Alavanja (Louie Rolko 72), Armando Romero (Chris Stone 84), Luke Vercollone (Ian Bennett 46), Ian Fuller (Adam Acosta 85), Jordan Hughes, Aaron King (Newton Sterling 46).
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Eddie Robinson (caution) 46
CHR -- Ian Fuller (caution) 66
CHR -- Chris Stone (caution) 87
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Help your pet smell better
2 recommended pet products put to the test
WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. – Sherri Cox works hard to cover up the smell of Sammie, her five-year-old basset hound.
"I've been in people's houses and the first thing you smell is the dog," said Cox, who is admittedly self-conscious about what type of odors Sammie is bringing into her Central Florida home.
Groomers like Melanie Thompson can be a pet parent's savior.
Thompson, the grooming services manager at Petco in Kissimmee, is somewhat of an expert on getting the stink out of dogs and their homes.
"It's not one particular thing, it's the whole circle: what you put into the pet, how you live around it and how you maintain the pet at home," said Thompson.
She recommends cleaning around the eyes, inside the ears, maintaining their teeth and using a comb versus a brush.
"When you don't get the tangles out, apart from it being very uncomfortable for the dog, there's more chance for build up of odor,"said Thompson.
Products range from shampoos and wipes and home deodorizers and mouth washes.
"There are all different types of mouth washes that you can add to your pet's water every day that are going to help with all the odors and the stinks that build up everyday ,not just the teeth," said Thompson.
Her brand recommendations are Tropical fresh breeze spray and Espree baking soda and oatmeal shampoo.
She said the pet parents she sees like the spray the most and any shampoo with baking soda and oatmeal works well to keep the smell away for a few weeks.
Cox tried both the spray and shampoo.
According to veterinarians, odor could be an indicator of a skin condition.
"The ones that you bath them and then two days later they already stink terribly, then they have something else going on," said Marcia Schwassman, a veterinarian who specializes in dermatology.
"If your dog is having skin problems then you need to be getting something from your veterinarian depending on what type of skin problem your having then we have certain types of shampoos used to treat different skin problems," she said.
We checked back in with Sherri Cox about a week after trying out the shampoo and home deodorizer.
Cox says that Sammie and the house both smell terrific -- even after her dog went outside and ran around.
Both products cost around $12 at Petco.
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'Enroth made 35 saves to lead Buffalo to a 2-1 overtime win over Carolina as they earned an extra point on the road. Enroth made several difficult saves, particularly in the second period when he stopped all 15 shots that Carolina fired at him and helped kill off a 5-on-3 shorthanded situation. The win improves Enroth's record on the season to 7-2-2. He has allowed two or fewer goals in six of his 10 appearances with the Sabres this season.'
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A Conversation with Thomas Ashley-Farrand (Namadeva)
by Don Campbell
Thomas Ashley-Farrand is one of the Western world's foremost authorities on Sanskrit Mantra and its application to life's problems.
In 1968, Ashley-Farrand began having experiences of a mystical nature, which over the next few years became more intense and profound. He began to read the spiritual literature of the East, where he found eloquent explanations of his specific experiences in the Upanishads.
In 1972, he received Kriya initiation from the Self Realization Fellowship.
Mr. Ashley-Farrand began practicing extensive mantra-based spiritual disciplines in 1973. From 1973-1984, he was the priest for the Temple of Cosmic Religion (Sanatana Vishwa Dharma) in Washington, D.C., first as priest-in-residence where he performed ancient Sanskrit ceremonies (pujas) twice daily, and later as traveling priest based in Southern California. In 1974, he received initiation from Sadguru Sant Keshavadas into the universal mantra for spiritual illumination, the Gayatri Mantra, and other mystical formulas. He also studied with Christian mystic Dr. Leon Wright of Howard University. In 1975, he received Tibetan spiritual empowerments from the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
In 1978, Mr. Ashley-Farrand journeyed to India where he met a wide variety of spiritual teachers both famous and unknown. There, he astonished swamis, pundits, shastris and others with his intonation and pronunciation of complex Sanskrit mantras, slokas and spiritual formulas. From one end of India to another, he was asked to demonstrate his mastery of this complex spiritual liturgy for assembled Indian spiritual teachers. Repeatedly, they told him that he had been a swami and spiritual teacher for several lives in India. A highlight of his trip came as he was blessed by two of the most prominent spiritual personages in all of India, each having spiritual authority over more than 150 million people: H. H. Pejor Math Swami, and Sri Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati Maha Swamigal. He also received empowerments from Kalu Rimpoche, the Dalai Lama and Sakya Jetsun Chiney Luding (Jetsun Ma), a woman guru from Tibet.
Since 1989, Mr. Ashley-Farrand has been a frequent lecturer for such organizations as the Theosophical Society of Long Beach, California, and Astara, where he has assisted in annual Fire Initiation Ceremonies since 1991. Mr. Ashley-Farrand has led retreats at Esalen, Far Horizons in the Sierras and other locations.
In the fall of 1998, Mr. Ashley-Farrand taught an 18-week course at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, entitled "Sound and the Ancient Sanskrit Healing Rituals." The course was offered for credit leading to a certificate in Wellness. This first successful offering of the course lead to its selection as an honors course in the Philosophy and Religion Department.
Prior to his current full time spiritual work, Ashley-Farrand was a management and marketing consultant based in Southern California with clients in the health care and computer technology industries. His marketing and management experience includes large scale efforts for the United States Army and a national foundation. He was lead author for Medical and Health Care Marketing For The 1990s.
With experience in the broadcasting industry, he has been producer-director for a Washington, D.C., television station, taught broadcasting and communications courses as a full-time faculty member of George Washington University, and was vice president for a privately held television company in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Ashley-Farrand earned a BA from Ripon College and an MA from Marquette University. He is married to Margalo Ashley-Farrand, an attorney with law offices in Pasadena, California.
The following interview was conducted at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Mr. Ashley-Farrand was teaching a three-day workshop entitled "The Adventures of Rama and Sita: The Mantras of the Ramayana" from May 13th to15th [2005].
Don Campbell: How did humankind come to be blessed with mantra?
Thomas Ashley-Farrand: According to both The Shiva Sutras and The Lakshmi Tantra, when the universe was first constructed, it was constructed of the 50 vibrations that we know today as the Sanskrit alphabet. And when humans were brought into being, we were created as a "step-down transformer" to receive the highest vibrations for the evolutions of the Earth. So, we were constructed to receive all the highest vibrations and that's why you find in the Hindu scriptures that even the gods (small "g") want to be born here. Because the evolutionary potential we have for containing all this is unlimited. We can go right to the top, to the highest.
While some of the celestial spheres are glorious and the beings there live hundreds of thousands of years, some are not immortal and their evolution is fixed. Ours is not. So, they take embodiment here so they can evolve very quickly, and even pass some of their previous positions. It's a big story, but we were given the opportunity to become all that for which we were the vehicle, essentially.
The early sages and others—who were not from here—realized that certain vibrations could affect the evolution of the organism at the subtle level. To be in a body, to be here, you have to have an ego. The Self, we know, is immortal—there's never a time it wasn't, never a time it will not be: it's divine and immortal, but the ego mind/personality is not—it comes and goes, comes and goes.
The early sages realized that, with these spiritual formulas, the ego itself could begin its evolutionary journey and that with which we identify could also become immortal, if it chose to do the work. Hence, mantra and Sanskrit formulas.
According to the Purusha-Suktam (Hymn to Purusha) in the Rig-Veda, there was a fire ceremony done shortly after the dawn of time by the great sages who were created. And out of it emerged the Vedas and the Gayatri Mantra. It says, "And they tied Him to the altar, that One who was before the creation. They tied Him there with the cord of mantra for the realization of themselves and future generations." They invoked Him and tied Him there.
DC: Narayana?
TAF: They don't call Him Narayana in the Purusha-Suktam, they just say "Him" and "He who was before." In the Narayana-Suktam (Hymn to Narayana) he identifies himself as Narayana.
[Note: The four Vedas are the world's oldest written scriptures. They are the Rig-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, the Yajur-Veda and the Sama-Veda. They are largely collections of hymns (sukta) to God/Goddess in His/Her various aspects. They are regarded as having been directly transmitted to humankind by God/Goddess, and therefore as infallible Truth (shruti). The Puranas are collections of stories, myths, and history. They mainly deal with five topics: the original creation of the world; the recreation of the world after its destruction; the great world ages; the genealogy of deities and sages; and dynastic history. They are regarded as authoritative traditional knowledge, or secondary scriptures (smriti), but not as revealed literature.]
DC: During the workshop, you spoke of mantras being divided into Vedic and Puranic mantras. Could you briefly discuss those two categories and how the mantras from one differ from mantras from the other?
TAF: I'm much more qualified to discuss Puranic mantras than Vedic mantras. Most of the priests will use Vedic mantras in their ceremonies. The Purusha-Suktam, for example, is from the Vedas. The Narayana-Suktam is from the Vedas. Some of the Puranas, which came a bit later, have mantras associated with the stories. For instance, "Om Rama Ramaya Swaha" is not a Vedic mantra, it's a Puranic mantra. "Shri Rama Jai Rama Jai Jai Rama" emerged from the story of Rama; it doesn't appear in the Vedas. Nonetheless, it will bring realization.
DC: Do the Vedic and Puranic mantras differ energetically?
TAF: Only slightly. You know, many of the great spiritual disciplines come from the Skanda-Purana, which is a huge, multi-volume Purana. For example, something called the Sattya Narayana Puja that is specifically designed to eliminate certain kinds of karma—which is done, by the way in every temple in India, whether it's a Shakti temple, a Shiva temple, a Vishnu temple, whatever it is—came from the Skanda Purana. It's extremely powerful. In some quarters, it's called "a dispensation for the Kali Yuga."
DC: A lot of westerners who were introduced to the eastern spiritual path are familiar with mantra as a tool for spiritual growth. However, I think fewer are aware that they can be used for practical purposes—to address goals and challenges associated with living on this earthly plane—as you said during the workshop.
TAF: I'm a very practical guy, at my core. You know, ultimately, any spiritual path is an exercise in enlightened self-interest, because we're all trying to extricate ourselves from what I call our "karmic predicaments." So, in that sense, any spiritual path is the ultimate in practicality, because it's going to show the way out of here. As part of that, then, why shouldn't we deal with specific life problems, issues and circumstances? There's no reason not to.
DC: Is there something about this age we live in—the Kali Yuga—that makes mantra an especially good tool to use in seeking our spiritual advancement?
TAF: Yes. It's because of the density of Kali Yuga. Things—our bodies, the Earth, the Universe—are much denser than they were even 5,000 years ago. And that density becomes the medium for our advancement. The example that is often given is that if you try to row a boat in air you don't get anywhere very quickly, but if you lower the boat and the oars into water, the density of the water itself becomes the medium of advancement. And mantras are like oars in the water: the denser the conditions are, the more they work to help us transform.
Some scriptures even say that, though it's difficult, being born in Kali Yuga—what is sometimes called spiritual winter—is a blessing because spiritual progress can come so quickly. We can accomplish in a few years what it might take in another time—in spiritual spring or summer—hundreds of years to accomplish.
DC: It's ironic, isn't it? The density that can be our worst spiritual obstacle can also be the vehicle for our liberation.
TAF: That's right, it's completely ironic. It also provides the medium for very rapid advancement. That's why one of the sayings is, "Namaiva namaiva kevalam," which means, "The name alone, the name alone, can move you forward."
DC: What advice would you give someone who is attracted to beginning a mantra practice for the very first time?
TAF: Do a 40-day discipline and don't miss a day—keep going. In any spiritual pursuit, discipline is of foremost importance. In any religion or any practice, it's the way we demonstrate our sincerity—by discipline, by doing a regular practice, whatever it is. Whether it's mantra, or prayer, or deep study, you do it every day, you do it regularly. Whatever you pick, whether it's mantra or something else, be disciplined.
DC: And should they pick just one mantra for the initial 40-day discipline?
TAF: I think so, because, if you're just starting out, it's an experiment. You're going to say, "Well, what am I going to do with this." If you do one mantra for 40 days, it's the cleanest experiment. If you have more than one, you don't know what brought the results. "Well, did this do it or did that do it?" If you do one mantra, anything that happens is largely a result of that mantra.
DC: How would you advise a beginner to select a mantra?
TAF: If you read books on mantra—there aren't that many out there—as you're reading about mantra, certain ones will just leap out at you. So, it's really your own karmic intuitive nature beginning to self-select. And you can trust that.
Mr. Ashley-Farrand is the author of several books and audiotape programs including Healing Mantras (Ballantine Wellspring, 1998), Mantra: Sacred Words of Power (Sounds True, 1999), Mantra Therapy Healing Intensives (Saraswati Publications), The Ancient Science of Sanskrit Mantra and Ceremony (in three volumes) and other works. This last book for advanced students contains over 4,000 mantras and is the most comprehensive book on transliterated Sanskrit mantra in the English language. All of his books and audio programs are available through his website, www.sanskritmantra.com.
First published in the July/August 2005 issue of Sacred Pathways magazine.
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Imagine you stumble upon an oil spill that needs immediate attention to prevent substantial environmental damage, but even when you contact the authorities nothing happens. You feel completely lost when you realise no one cares. What do you do? Do you take matters into your own hands to try to stop the spill?
Yes, indeed – you enter private property and turn off the tap to stop the oil spill. When that is done the authorities finally act. The property owner is convicted in court as he, on purpose, started the pollution. People living in the surrounding area all support your move to take matters into your own hands. The property is seized to avoid further oil spill and authorities start checking the environmental impact of the pollution.
So problem solved, right? Not really. It is only just starting.
The property is in reality a corn field, and the oil is an illegal cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) corn (MON810), in which GE pollen was spreading and contaminating conventional cultivations as well as the surrounding environment.
In 2010 in the Friuli Region in northern Italy, Greenpeace activists from Italy, Austria, Germany and Hungary quarantined GE corn crops that were grown illegally. Wearing safety equipment to protect against contamination, the activists isolated, cut and secured the top of the GE corn plants, the part that contains the pollen.
Greenpeace Hungary decided to join the action in order to put pressure on its own government to uphold a GE ban that was in place in Hungary but was being threatened by multinational seed companies transporting all kinds of seeds throughout Europe. They were hoping for a very strong reaction from the Italian authorities that would encourage the Hungarian government to stand strong against increasing pressure from the bio industry.
The Greenpeace action was carried out to identify GE contamination caused by the owner of the field, who decided to sow – without authorisation – GE corn in a hidden location. Regional and national authorities did not take any measures to find the GE corn and stop the contamination, so after filing requests to all public bodies involved – from regional authorities, to the Minister of Agriculture and even reaching out to the President of the Republic (in his role of safeguarding laws and rules) – Greenpeace activists found the hidden location of the illegal cultivation and quarantined the area.
A total of 23 Greenpeace activists were arrested by police.
After this, national and regional bodies finally acted. They confiscated the fields and ordered the destruction of the illegal corn. The owner was fined 30,000 euros and locals and farmers were happy their fields were safe.
It does not end there though; in 2011 the farm was seized by the authorities in order to prevent new illegal activities, and one of the Greenpeace activists involved had all accusations of invading and occupying the corn field against him dismissed because the judge had ruled that the activist needed to act in order to prevent contamination.
In 2012 Greenpeace Italy was fined as well – 86,250 euros – because the activists entered the field. The activists are also risking a second charge because they interfered with the illegal corn in order to quarantine it.
Greenpeace Italy opposed the charges and the case is going to court.
Greenpeace believes the party that put the environment at risk is the guilty one, and not the one that prevented the contamination. During this process Greenpeace Italy has received strong support from farmers, consumer associations and many others who are ready to declare themselves co-responsible in an act of solidarity.
Saving the environment can cost you dearly. Greenpeace believes it is worth it.
Federica Ferrario, GE Campaigner, Greenpeace Italy
Further reading: Genetically Engineered Maize: The Reality Behind the Myths
and Greenpeace critique of the European Food Safety Authority's opinion on genetically modified maize MON810
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Except in this case, the corn was being grown illegally. What about all the cases where Greenpeace has destroyed rightful, legal and controlled field ...
Except in this case, the corn was being grown illegally. What about all the cases where Greenpeace has destroyed rightful, legal and controlled field trials of GE crops? There is no legal or moral justification. Right now there are two Greenpeace activists who are going to court in Australia for breaking into a CSIRO facility and destroying a wheat experiment. They weren't capping an oil spill - they were
And an oil spill is a bad analogy. There is no disagreement that an oil spill is a bad thing. The question in this post is whether it is ok to go onto someone's property to stop something that is universally agreed to be dangerous. There is no public mandate or agreement that GE crops should be destroyed, and the scientific literature backs up its safety and utility.
To destroy a legal and rightful field trial is akin to blowing up an abortion clinic in the middle of the night when no one is there. The people who do those sorts of things are acting out of the best intentions - they think they are preventing murder by doing so. Greenpeace thinks it is preventing catastrophe by destroying GE crops. In fact, they are stopping others from addressing problems in the world such as issues of food security in a world with a changing climate. That is the opposite of preventing harm - it is preventing one of the many tools we need to prevent harm, and I can find nothing moral in that.
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Apologies - it appears I made an error copying and pasting my comment in. One sentence was cut off, here it is:
They weren't capping an oil ...
Apologies - it appears I made an error copying and pasting my comment in. One sentence was cut off, here it is:
They weren't capping an oil spill - they were destroying a variety of wheat engineered to have a low glycemic index and thus could be better for helping people control weight and prevent diabetes. Potentially healthier wheat is nothing like an oil spill.
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Could the effectiveness of anti ge / gm campaigns be still improved? I think that it might depend on the arguments against ge (Genetically Engineered...
Could the effectiveness of anti ge / gm campaigns be still improved? I think that it might depend on the arguments against ge (Genetically Engineered) / gm (Genetically Modified) crops. Here's my personal account:
Until now I didn't know that gm plants are as hazardous as many people are claiming. But what I read today in a British newspaper (Guardian) has changed my mind.
So why I didn't I see the apparent threat until now? It's because people have mostly argued that gm plants will jeopardize human health directly. But I'm really not sure if this is true, and just like me, many other people don't believe it. This is also the reason why many people don't take the arguments against ge / gm plants seriously. Thus the campaigns might not be as effective as they would perhaps be otherwise.
I think that gm crops should be discussed in a broader context. Just an example: if people knew that with gm crops we risk to contribute to the eradication of species like honey bees, thus eventually eliminating one third of food production worldwide, the campaign against gm might resonate a lot more with ordinary people (like me).
Here is what I read today in the British Guardian. The article argued that the worldwide collapse of honeybee colonies is due to a virus, in addition to "the weakening of colonies through lack of food and the presence of damaging pesticides, that would make them more vulnerable to infestation". But "bees and other pollinators are vital in the production in up to a third of all the food we eat".
Then, in the comment section, an African grower of macadamia nuts adds his observation that gm pollen is also part of the problem. And that's what has changed my mind about ge / gm crops today. Citation:
"CCD - colony collapse disorder is also linked to the presence of neonicitinoid pesticides. Clearly varroa mites weaken bees but pesticide residues, gm pollen (meant to wipe out caterpillars but which can also impact grubs, like bee grubs), other pollutants like O3, all weaken the bees."
So why don't we argue like this instead of mostly relying on a mono-causal argumentation?
By the way, I'm an Avaaz member. Shouldn't Greenpeace join forces with Avaaz?
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Black Sea: The coming of steam and rail
For a large part of the 20th century the Black Sea was a relatively forgotten part of Europe. The north, east and west was dominated by the Soviet Union and communist Bulgaria and Romania and the south by authoritarian Turkey. Since the demise of communism that has all changed of course, but the future of the region is still far from clear. What is easy to forget though is how, during the latter part of the 19th century, much of it experienced a boom, in no small part due to the coming of the railways, steam ships and oil exploitation. These extracts come from Charles King's excellent history of the Black Sea, which we would recommend to anyone interested in the region. He is professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington. Here he notes that on water "the development of steam transport, especially screw-driven ships that had begun to displace sailing vessels even before the Crimean war meant that getting from one coastal city to another was easier than ever."
Riverboats of the Austrian Steam Navigation Company ran down the Danube from Vienna, and ships of the Austrian Lloyd Company sailed from Trieste. By the early twentieth century, Italian, French, and German steam lines had established their own long-distance routes. In four weeks, one could travel from London to Odessa, with stops in Malta, Alexandria, Istanbul, and other Mediterranean ports. The Russian Steam Navigation Company, established with Tsar Alexander's imprimatur in 1857, ran routes that crisscrossed the sea. Regular circle lines took goods and passengers from Odessa as far east as Batumi, with calls at all the Crimean and Caucasus ports; river lines ran up the Dnepr. Once every two weeks, Russian ships docked at Trabzon and the other Ottoman ports.
Steam was one part of the equation. The railways were the other. From one end of the Black Sea to the other they were transforming its economy. In 1895 for example ancient Tomis, called Köstence under the Ottomans, was renamed Constanta with much fanfare as the railway to the Romanian port finally opened. "Soon," notes King, "oil from the Ploiesti fields was flowing from Constanta just as the Caspian fields had found an outlet in Batumi."
These and other modernized ports became natural conduits for the raw materials and products of the industrial revolution, into and out of the western Caucasus and the eastern Balkans. They were part of a growing network of rail links around the sea from Bulgaria to Georgia. Under the power of steam, goods could be taken all across Europe by rail, then across the sea itself by steamship to the other shore. Varna, which had been linked by rail with the Danube already in the 1860s, had a population of nearly 40,000 by the early twentieth century; it later became the major port of the new kingdom of Bulgaria. Constanta remained smaller in population, but the active petroleum trade made it a vital commercial center for the Romanian kingdom. Batumi was likewise far less populous than many other ports, but it was unrivalled as an export center. The value of Batumi's exports increased by well over 300 percent from the 1870s to the 1910s.
The Black Sea: A History. Charles King. 2004.
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Republicans: Time to exorcize the crazies
There is really no way around it: The Republican Party, no matter how many fresh or smart ideas it may have, isn't going to get anywhere in this state — or nationally — if it continues to spew the hateful gibberish we've heard from Scott Renfroe and Dave Schultheis the past couple of days.
It's not even a matter of their opposition to particular bills (one regarding the extension of health benefits to same-sex domestic partners and another one regarding HIV testing) or even the ruthlessly absurd arguments they offer in defense of their positions. It is about common decency and empathy. Either these two are unable to articulate a viewpoint without injecting some twisted lesson they learned at 12, or they aren't smart enough to know when to keep quiet. Either way, the Republicans should do all they can to condemn them.
Granted, Democrats will often unfairly accuse opponents of homophobia — or of being nefarious twits — when these kinds of culture war debates are churning. In this case, they are right on all counts. Both of these Republicans have fed the perception that the entire Party is ruled via biblical tenets rather than first principles.
Though I support gay marriage and/or civil unions, I can accept that there are a multitude of coherent and intellectual reasons to be in opposition. But I am fairly certain that equating homosexuality to murder is not one of them.
Here is Renfroe:
"I'm not saying (homosexuality) is the only sin that is out there. Obviously we have sin — we have murder, we have, we have all sorts of sin, we have adultery, and we don't make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal."
I won't even waste my time — or yours — dissecting this comment. That would assign it a significance it does not deserve.
Now, Schultheis has been killing — just killing — the Republican Party for years. If there is an absurd issue to defend, Schultheis is there. If there is some offensive comment that can make Republicans look more obtuse, Schultheis is there. The man is the go-to guy on irrelevance.
I suppose, it's possible to oppose a bill mandating HIV testing for pregnant women if you believe it's a gratuitous coercion of the individual. But I can absolutely appreciate the argument that the state has a responsibility to protect children from the negligent behavior (and contracting HIV isn't always a matter of reckless behavior) of adults. And since the bill features an op-out clause, I don't see it as particularly worrisome.
"This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part and I just can't go there," Schultheis said. "We do things continually to remove the consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly."
So children should live with the consequences? Really?
Well, it's worse. Schultheis, chimes in with this masterful tidbit: "What I'm hoping is that, yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that," he said. "The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior."
Are these the words of a person who should be representing anyone?
The Republican Party has to get rid of these people, pronto. They aren't conservatives; they're nihilists. Can anyone imagine a Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater claiming that a child should live with AIDS to teach the mother a lesson? (If that is what Schultheis meant. And I still hold out a slim amount of hope that this was a matter of incoherence.)
Republican majority leader Josh Penry can't win. If he dictates to his membership what they should be saying, the Left will feed on it and accuse Penry of pulling puppet strings. If he doesn't control them, however, you will be left with the barbarian wing of the party dominating news cycles. Republicans can't afford it anymore.


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Blond Natalia in Studio Arrangement
2010, oil on linen, 44×48 in., 112×122 cm.
Group Exhibition curated by John O'Hern
July 2–30, 2010 | Opening reception Friday evening 5 – 8 pm
Private view on Thursday, July 1 | By invitation only
Solo Exhibition of New Paintings and Drawings
Sept 3–30, 2010 | Opening reception Friday evening 5 – 8 pm
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June 12th – July 31, 2010
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Contemporary Drawing Group Exhibition
June 19 – August 15, 2010
DRAW is the largest contemporary drawing exhibition to emerge out of New York City, and features original drawings by more than 350 artists. DRAW will have it's museum debut at Museo de la Ciudad de México, one of Mexico City's finest museums. To coincide with the exhibition, the museum will be publishing a book for distribution to contemporary museum bookstores around the world. Carlo McCormick, art writer and curator in the U.S. will be writing an introductory essay for the book. The exhibition is curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey. Special Guest Curator for Mexico is Miguel Calderon Museum, Director: Cristina Faesler.
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Centro Histórico
2010, mixed media on wood panel, 20 x 16 in., 41 x 51 cm.
SURVEY SELECT: Narrative Art Exhibition
Curated by Mark Murphy
July 15 – Sept 5, 2010
Private opening Thursday, July 15, 6 pm – 11 pm
Celebrating 65 internationally renowned artists, "Survey Select" elevates the narrative tradition of storytelling with original art works, critical writings, workshops, films and community events. Through a unified presentation of painting, drawing, collage and sculpture the public can experience a 8 week museum show for free six days a week from July 15 through September 5 in downtown San Diego.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Mike Pence is asking farmers and others to return any unused propane to their suppliers as the state struggles through an ongoing shortage.
Pence also announced Wednesday he would extend travel waivers to maintain the flow of propane to homeowners and farmers and was adding $5 million in heating assistance for low-income residents.
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Many of the area track teams took the week off, but five teams from our area traveled north to Elbert to participate in the 30-team Elbert Relays this past Saturday.
A meet with primarily Class 2A and 3A teams, Eads, Granada, Kit Carson, Springfield, and Wiley all participated.
Though none of the teams finished in the top three in either the girls or boys races, there were some outstanding individual performances.
The Springfield Lady Longhorns were fifth overall, for the top finish among area teams.
Highlighting the area performers were junior hurdlers Kallysa McGeary from Springfield and Koy Palmer from Granada.
McGeary was first in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles in a breakout performance in her first meet of the year.
Palmer, one of the top hurlers in 1A a year ago, was first in the 110 highs, running a 16.13 time.
Returning 2A state champion Eboni Nash won her specialty, the shot put, with a throw of over 38 feet; she was third in the discus as well.
Eads also had three of the top eight throwers in the shot, with Hailey Ray sixth and Brooke Lenox eighth. Granada's Brittany Gonzales was seventh.
Wiley freshman Peighton Lindo had an outstanding day as well, taking second in the 400 dash, fourth in the triple jump, and fifth in the 200.
Kylee Holden of Granada had the top individual finish for the Lady Bobcats as she placed second in the 100 hurdles.
The Springfield girls displayed good depth in the relays, placing in all five relays.
The 400 relay team of Madison Burdick, Breanna Hendricks, Ally Loflin, and Demi Owenby took first with a time of 55.1.
The Lady Longhorns were third in the 800 relay, fourth in the 800 medley, fifth in the 1,600, and sixth in the 3,200 relay.
Springfield junior Whitney Westphal was fourth in the 800 run, while Owenby was sixth in the 100 in other individual performances.
"I was pleased after four hours on the bus," said Springfield girls coach Mike Jaco. "We left at 3:45 a.m. and had some sick girls too. We're not in shape yet, but it was a pretty good day."
Eads, Granada, Kit Carson, and Wiley all had relay teams place.
Kit Carson was third in 1600 relay, Eads was third in the medley, Granada was fourth in the 400, and Wiley was fifth in the 800.
In addition to Palmer on the boy's side, Springfield junior Ross Dunlap was second in the high jump with a leap of 6-foot even, just an inch off first place.
Like their girls, the Springfield boys placed in all four of the relays.
The Longhorns top finish was a third in both the 1,600 and 3,200 relays. They were sixth in the 400 relay and eighth in the 800 relay.
The Eads boys were fifth in both the 1,600 and 3,200 relays.
Wiley's Blake Ridgeway was fifth in the 1,600 run, while Springfield's Garrett Casper was also fifth in the 800 run.
Most of the area small schools will be competing on Saturday, April 5 at the Warren Mitchell Badger Invitational in Limon.
Elbert Invitational
Area results from the 2014 Elbert Invitational track meet held Saturday, March 29:
Girls results:
100 dash – 6. Demi Ownbey, Springfield, 14.35; 7. Laura Morales, Granada, 14.39.
200 dash – 5. Peighton Lindo, Wiley, 29.37; 7. Cassidy Miller, Wiley, 29.62.
400 dash – 2. Peighton Lido, Wiley, 1:05.02; 6. Cassidy Miller, Wiley, 1:06.03; 7. Darcy Widener, Granada, 1:07.08.
800 run – 4. Whittney Westphal, Springfield, 2:43.46.
100 hurdles – 1. Kallysa McGeary, Springfield, 17.75; 2. Kylee Holden, Granada, 17.91; 6. Cassidy Miller, Wiley, 18.62.
300 hurdles – 2. Kallysa McGeary, Springfield, 52.29.
Discus – 3. Eboni Nash, Eads, 104-00; 6. Brooke Lenox, Eads, 90-05.
Shot put – 1. Eboni Nash, Eads, 38-06; 6. Hailey Ray, Eads, 31-08.
High jump – 3. Audrey Poteet, Wiley, 4-08.
Triple jump – 4. Peighton Lindo, Wiley, 30-04.75.
400 relay – 1. Springfield, 55.10; 4. Granada, 55.86; 8. Kit Carson, 57.43.
800 relay – 3. Springfield, 1:57.44; 5. Wiley, 1:59.78; 6. Granada, 2:00.61.
800 medley relay – 3. Eads, 2:05.24; 4. Springfield, 2:06.95.
1,600 relay – 3. Kit Carson, 4:47.59; 5. Springfield, 4:52.53.
3,200 relay – 6. Springfield, 12:55.74; 7. Wiley, 13:59.41.
Boys results:
110 hurdles – 1. Koy Palmer, Granada, 16.13
300 hurdles – 7. Reagan Lane, Eads, 46.49.
800 run – 5. Garrett Casper, Springfield, 2:16.21.
1,600 run – 5. Blake Ridgeway, Wiley, 5:16.67.
High jump – 2. Ross Dunlap, Springfield, 6-0.
Long jump – 8. Jaxon Crawford, Kit Carson, 16-09.25.
400 relay – 6. Springfield, 48.25.
800 relay – 7. Granada, 1:41.02.
1,600 relay – 3. Springfield, 3:43.85.
3,200 relay – 3. Springfield, 9:22.50.
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In 2002, HSS identified the potential for a Rapid Recovery or "Fast Track" program for certain patients undergoing hip replacement surgery or total hip arthroplasty (THA). This presentation outlines the program's development from its early stages in research, through the establishment of a Joint Commission (JCAHO)-recognized "National Standard" plan of care, and onto the safe, effective, and efficient patient treatment offered today.
By 2002, many postoperative THA patients progressed at a faster rate than previously seen due to many technical advancements in surgery and anesthetic techniques. HSS recognized this as an opportunity to adapt to the needs of this particular patient population while addressing the hospital's desire to decrease length of stay. With this goal in mind, the establishment of a Fast Track program was proposed.
The first step towards the development of a Fast Track program was to compare HSS current standard of practice to the national standard following THA. Similar to HSS, other institutions also reported accelerated patient pathways. Reports stated patients were undergoing total hip replacement surgery and being discharged from a hospital within 1.6 days. HSS wanted to re-design a Fast Track program that could meet their goals while providing the same quality care.
A Utilization Management Task Force looked at the implications of a two-day length of stay. The Task Force discovered that surgeons were performing THA on younger and/or more active patients, with current trends focusing on less invasive procedures. Furthermore, there were no outcomes data on the clinical course of patients being discharged on post-operative day #2.
An interdisciplinary team reviewed the current standard plan of care for patients undergoing total hip replacement surgery. Necessary changes to the current program were then identified and revised, and it was found that the Fast Track program required the following:
Addressing these as well as other challenges, the team designed an interdisciplinary plan of care program. An interdisciplinary documentation tool - recognized by The Joint Commission (JCAHO) as the "National Standard" form for interdisciplinary documentation - was developed as well.
Other important developments that resulted from the team's work included:
Patients for the Fast Track program are recruited in the surgeon's office and have the option to consent to participate in a study. The HSS Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviewed and approved a study to determine if a select group of patients undergoing THA can be discharged from the hospital two days after surgery without any increased complications or adverse affects on the clinical outcome.
A Fast Track protocol was designed to select appropriate patients to go through the correct process as they were admitted into the hospital system. The surgeon would identify the patient as appropriate if he or she met the following criteria:
The interdisciplinary team is notified when the patients are coming in for surgery, as pre-operative planning is critical for the success of the program. .
Pre-operative education is a key component in the Fast Track program. It is essential for each patient to have a true understanding of what is entailed, so that he or she is able to make an educated decision about participation in the program. Each Fast Track participant attends a 90 minute class followed by 20 minutes of one-on-one training on individualized Fast Track guidelines.
In order for the rehabilitation staff to measure success and determine if the patients were meeting their goals within the set two-day length of stay, standards were set so that patients must:
Every Fast Track patient would be discharged home with home care services in order to continue working towards independence in ADL activity. In addition, patients would also be provided with an educational video reinforcing how to transfer independently, use an assistive device, perform the home exercises, and recognize precautions they should be aware of.
A registry was established to track all of the patients enrolled in the program. Certain factors were recorded, including length of stay, variations that were made to the post operative plan of care and, if necessary, reasons why a particular patient's length of stay was longer than two days.
The first Fast Track patient was seen in 2004. As the program progressed and an increasing numbers of patients took part, the interdisciplinary team evaluated the delays in discharge to address some of the issues that had arisen. Common challenges that arose and occasionally hindered the patient's rate of progress included:
Some patients were motivated and interested but unable to functionally progress as quickly as they wanted to, and some patients decided after surgery that they didn't want to - or were not ready to - leave in two days.
To date, over 150 patients have enrolled in the Fast Track program. Our average length of stay for 2006, in days, was 2.37. We, as a department and as an institution, are constantly reassessing the program to optimize each patient's chance to achieve their goals. Our physical therapy program is reassessed annually, and we are always looking for ways to improve.
Our intention is that the protocol approved by the IRB for this program will lead to the development of an evidence-based tool that would further measure progress. Ultimately, the Fast Track program has helped the Rehabilitation Department and HSS at large to stay at the cutting edge of patient care, and we believe it will continue to do so into the future.
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This Sunday, January 22, MTV2 will premiere the highly anticipated rap video for Tech N9ne's "Am I A Psycho?".
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If Jerry Brown manages to reach agreement with legislative Republicans to place a sizable portion of his temporary tax extension proposal on the ballot this fall, it may be due to his charm more than any logic.
This is not the brash, quippy governor of 1975, when he was elected at the age of 36; rather, 36 years later, Brown is attempting to respectfully reason and dialogue with his legislative counterparts in a way that many, if not all haven't seen while serving in Sacramento.
A little history would serve us well.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger served as governor, he treated legislators more like bit players in a movie than members of a co-equal branch of government. Once, when the legislature refused to pass a budget he proposed, Schwarzenegger called them "girlie men" for their cowardice. After that, the relationship between the governor and the legislature went down hill, and fast.
Gray Davis had a similar attitude as governor. One year after he submitted his budget proposal to the legislature in a tough economy, Davis refused to bargain and said instead that "the job of the legislature is to implement my (Davis's) vision." No friends made there. Three years later when Davis was the subject of an historical recall, his Democratic colleagues were eerily quiet about his defense.
Note that the political party of the governor didn't matter. Manners did.
Jerry Brown has taken a different path this time around. Courteous and conciliatory, he's approached Republican opponents with an open door much like one that swings in both directions than one that slams in your face. Of course, there remain huge ideological differences, but philosophy is one thing, arrogance is another.
The budget dance still has a few rounds to go before it reaches fruition or impasse. Don't be surprised if some kind of deal is struck between the two sides, and if one is, it will be because of Brown's approach as much or more than any financial urgency or threat. Who knows, it may be that nice guys do win--once in a while, anyway.
Jerry Brown's Secret Weapon
If Jerry Brown manages to reach agreement with legislative Republicans to place a sizable portion of his temporary tax extension proposal on the ballot this fall, it may be due to his charm more than any logic.


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