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Thailand captain Wilavan Apinyapong: "Congratulations on Brazil's win. We tried hard in this match, but Brazil are very strong. However, we still keep hopes on making the cut for the final round alive. I wish our dream came true (to play in the final round in Macau)." Brazil captain Fabiana Claudino: "We played well with good serves. We played according to the coach's plan. Now, I just think about the finals in Macao. We trained hard during the past two months and it deserved we reached the final round. I hope my team will do well there."
Thailand coach Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai: "Congratulations on Brazil's win. They played very well with exceptional tactics and techniques. We worked hard in this match, but it was very difficult to score points from them. However, it's great when we learned that we are playing the world's best team. They are world No.1 and the Olympic champions. We already tried our best here." Brazil coach Jose Roberto Lages Guimaraes: "I appreciate the Thailand head coach's words. We did a good job with good serves. We played well in every skill. I would like to give Thailand a thumb-up for staging this year's World Grand Prix as a memorable success. This is my first time in Thailand and I have a good time here. Thailand also played well. Although they lost to us, I think they are a strong team. In the final round in Macao, it's not easy for us. Teams will be divided to play in two groups. It's a tough mission there in Macao, but we will try our best."

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The AAFP recently released a policy document that outlines how the nation could resolve its chronic shortage of family physicians by implementing targeted policies that value primary care.
The revised policy paper, titled "Family Physician Workforce Reform: Recommendations of the American Academy of Family Physicians," lays out a strategic plan regarding how to increase the annual production of new family physicians by an average of about 65 physicians each year through 2025. Doing so would move the needle on the number of practicing family physicians from 3,500 today to 4,475 in about a decade.
In a March 13 press release about the updated workforce policy, AAFP President Reid Blackwelder, M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn., called the plan a "comprehensive approach" that would recruit medical students into primary care, support the schools that produce more primary care graduates and expand community-based residency programs in communities that need services.
Americans need access to care and "a patient-centered practice environment that rewards the quality of care, not the number of tests or procedures," said Blackwelder.
In addition to increasing the number of residency positions, the AAFP policy calls for
- urging medical schools to develop admission policies that would both identify and recruit students most likely to pursue primary care,
- holding a portion of medical school slots for students who want a career in primary care medicine,
- measuring a medical school's production of primary care physicians by looking at a graduate's choice of specialty five years postgraduation rather than by first-year residency choice,
- appealing to all public and private health care payers to pay the costs of medical education,
- increasing funding for Title VII Health Professions Training Grants to medical schools that turn out more primary care physicians,
- emphasizing collaborative rural training sites,
- increasing support for the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs, and
- training family medicine residents to practice team-based care within the patient-centered medical home.
The policy also calls for payment reform so a patient-centered medical home -- the practice model that features the kind of comprehensive, coordinated care that results when payment is based on quality rather than volume -- is available to every patient in America.
The AAFP workforce policy complements a report published in the January/February issue of Annals of Family Medicine titled "Four Pillars for Primary Care Physician Workforce Reform: A Blueprint for Future Activity(www.annfammed.org)."
A number of organizations contributed to that report via their work on a task force created by the Council of Academic Family Medicine. Those organizations are the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the North American Primary Care Research Group.
The task force was supported in its efforts by the AAFP, the AAFP Foundation and the American Board of Family Medicine.
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The alumnus of the inaugural Screenwriters Workshop in Tokyo received his award at a private ceremony at Sundance.
Hagiwara co-wrote his upcoming feature directorial debut Spectacled Tiger with Kyohta Fujimoto. The coming-of-age film follows a high school trivia quiz wunderkind whose rigid world view is turned on its head.
Hagiwara is a graduate of the Art Center College Of Design in Los Angeles and writer-director of the short film Super Star.
The Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award was created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema and recognises and supports a "visionary filmmaker on his or her next film."
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How can I keep my waterfall free of algae and buildup? Renee – Heber Springs, AR
While the warm sunny weather is great for enjoying the outdoors this summer, it can also create some headaches in your water garden. A lot of you may notice that your stream and waterfalls are growing a nice coat of green algae as we continue through the warmer summer months. In a lot of cases, especially if you are using beneficial bacteria such as Nature's Defense® your water is clear but algae and debris is attaching itself to your stream, waterfall and rocks. There is really simple fix to this green monster, in less then 15 minutes you can have amazing results.
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My Recommendations for Beginning Raw Feeding.
By Megan M Scull-Monroe on Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 10:04pm (repost from Raw Chat facebook PMR feeding group)
My Recommendations for Beginning Raw Feeding
1. You`ll want to start with 2-3% of your dog's (or puppy's) ESTIMATED IDEAL ADULT Weight. Tweak with more meat if your dog gets a bit skinny, a bit less if your dog gets 'fluffy' over the space of a few weeks.
You might start out by weighing your dog, and weighing her meals; but most don`t continue once they get more comfortable and more experienced feeding raw. Tiny, toy, pregnant, puppies or very active dogs might need as much as 4 -5% or more - very large, giant, overweight or couch potato dogs might need less than 2% to maintain.
2. Ditch the kibble or canned, there's been plenty of discussion on this list about why processed foods and raw don't mix; just let it suffice that your dog can reap the benefits of raw faster and more completely if you donate the kibble to your local shelter asap.
A species appropriate raw whole prey model diet doesn't include kibble. Or veggies, grains, carbs, dairy, fruits or tons of supps. Or, for the most part, ground meats. No need for w/rec/k bones either. And, your dog may be less motivated to make the change if he can smell that kibble!
3. Offer at least 2 meals a day to start with. (3 meals for a pup under 6 - 7 months old, 4 for a pup under 4 mo, or for tiny dogs) Feeding once a day (or even less often) can be a great feeding plan for a dog, but not at first; too much new food at a meal can cause digestive upset. Feed as large a portion as you can for the size of the meal. No little pieces or cut up, 'bite sized' chucks.
Dogs need to tear into their food and shear hunks off to swallow and crunch bone for physical, mental and dental health. They don`t chew or eat the way we do - their jaws aren't designed to move from side to side, just up and down - their digestion begins in their stomachs, not in their mouths. So swallowing big hunks of meat and bone is fine. If it fits, its OK.
If it isn't happy in the stomach, the dog will hork it up, and re eat it, so it will go down and stay down the 2nd or 3rd time. Its all good, that`s the way dogs are.
4. Feed a little less at each meal at first than you think you should. Too much new food over the course of a day or two can cause digestive upset, too. Some dogs are, or learn to be, self-regulators. That means, no matter how much food you offer them, or how often, they will only eat as much as they need.
You might just want to offer them fattier portions of meaty meat pork, tongue, beef or veal heart with the cap fat left on, some trim) more often, after they get used to eating raw.
Just be sure your new-to-raw dog knows that what you are serving is *real * food, then, leave him to decide.
OTOH, some dogs never get full! "Know thy Dog." is the motto that applies here.
5. Stay with one new meat for at least a week, maybe two. You want the dog to be showing you that he is well adjusted to the new meat before adding in new stuff. Take it slow; add only one new meat every week or two.
6. You can switch to a new meat by just serving it at the next meal, and all the meals after that for a week or so, or you can add a bite or two of the new meat in with the 'old' meat, gradually adding more new and less
'old' over several days, until you are feeding all new and no 'old'.
Pups tend to acclimate much more quickly to variety in their diet. Whatever works for your own dog.
7. Boneless meals tend to produce loose, even runny poops. A judicious amount of bone in a newbie dog's meal will tend to firm things up. There will be less poop overall; raw is much more digestible and less goes to
waste. Poops will be less frequent also, for the same reason.
Bone adds bulk, so sloppy poops can be firmed up by some (don't go overboard!) bone at each meal at first. Too much bone and your dog can get " fossil" poops that are dry, whitish and crumbly.
8. Chicken is often recommended as the first meat to be introduced for several reasons: its cheap, easy to obtain, has easily consumed and digested bones, is easy to cut into different meal sized portions, is bland, you can trim visible fat and skin if you need to tweak, you can even take out bone if you need to, most dogs will eat it and its pretty bland.
Read the labels on the chicken before you buy; don't get any that say its enhanced with flavoring/seasonings, tenderizing additives or salt/sugar/broth injected. Some dogs get itchy or vomit or get true diarrhea from enhancements. Whole chickens are the best to start with, ime. Cut into portion sizes with kitchen shears, as needed.
9. Some newbie dogs vomit or poop bone bits. There is an adjustment period, so you want some bone in most meals at first, but too much bone may not be digested and the dog will just hork it up or poop it out.
NPs, its just the dog's way of saying "Too much right now, no thanks."
10. Some dogs will get the Bile Vomits or Bone Bits Bile Vomits (BV or BBBV) when new to raw simply because their schedules or routines of eating have been changed.
When a dog adjusts to raw, his gastric 'juices' become much more acid, to better digest the raw meat and bone. If he's expecting a meal at a certain time, the juices start flowing in anticipation of getting a meal. When the meal doesn't happen, the dog often will hork up the yellowish, foamyish bile, with or without bones.
Sometimes they hork up BBBV because raw digests faster than kibble, the tummy is empty, so it must be time to eat. NP for the dog, he's gotten rid of the irritation. He may react as if he feels bad, just because you are upset that he did it on your new comforter, or on the white carpet.
11. A lot of dogs don't drink as much water or as frequently when switched to all raw, all the time. Raw has a pretty high water content and most dogs are forced by dry as dust kibble to over drink water to compensate in order for their bodies to process it. If only fed raw, you don't need to coax your dog to drink more water or even broth, just offer plenty of fresh water, he'll drink when he needs it.
12. True diarhea is not just loose, runny or sloppy poops. It is frequent, liquid or watery explosions of poo that a dog cannot 'hold back'.
True diarrhea is caused by disease or parasites. The occasional loose poops, or "Cannon Butt" even over a few days, that comes from feeding a few too many boneless meals or introing too much of a new meat or feeding too much organ at one whack, is not diarrhea.
13. The general rule of thumb for feeding raw is: 80% meat (muscle, fat, skin, connective tissue and such muscular organs as heart, tongue and gizzard) 10% EDIBLE bone (not all bone that is served must be consumed) and 10% organs (3-5% of this is liver, the rest is as much variety as you can find and afford) This is not an immutable 'daily requirement'.
"Balance Over Time", over weeks and months is one of the raw feeding maxims. ; ) If you feed true whole prey, that is; entire animals at a time, then the meat to bone to organ ratios are 'perfect' for that creature. Whatever parts your dog can eat of is right for him. In the wild, wolves will eat off a large animal carcass for days, and each wolf gets different parts.
If times are hard, they will consume the entire critter, including skin, fur, less 'choice' parts and will even crack the hard long bones to get to the marrow, even hunt small prey, like rabbits, mice or birds. If pickin's are plentiful, they will eat the easiest and choice parts, and then move on.
Because of variances in size, age, personality, life experiences, structure and dental ability, a particular dog will be able to consume, or not: all or part or some or a little bone from any particular animal. The exception to this is most beef bones, and the weight bearing bones of large ruminants - too dense - these are tooth breakers and can cause early wear.
If you feed 'Frankenprey', that is; a variety of protein, body parts and organs from different animals, to simulate the whole prey experience for your dogs, do the best you can to find enough variety in all these aspects for optimal health.
14. Organs - don't try to add a lot of organs or organ variety at first. An easy way to satisfy the human need to "Do it all, right now!", is to toss the gizzards and heart you get with your whole chickens in with a bonier meal, a little piece at a meal.
Heart and gizzards are organs, but should be fed as meatymeat. The liver can be cut up into teensy bits, and fed a tiny bit at a time with a meal. This will allow you to feed organs, but shouldn't cause runny stools. If it does, stop feeding it and freeze those parts for later on down the line.
A partial list of organs, so I don't forget to look for variety; liver, salivary glands, spleen, sweetbread (thymus & pancreas), kidneys, ovaries, testes, brain.
"Offal" - viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans, but great dog food! Offal can fall into either meatymeat or organ categories.
15. SEBP - Slippery Elm Bark Powder. This is a good innocuous herb that soothes the stomach and digestive system. If you feel you need to intervene when your dog has loose poops or constipation, this is the way to go. SEBP is used to treat diarrhea, constipation, enteritis, colitis & irritations of the stomach. Its used to soothe, protect & lubricate mucous membranes. Also, can be used to relieve the discomforts of kennel cough & other types of bronchitis.
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I have used 1 Tsp - 1 Tbl of SEBP to 8 - 12 oz of ground or chopped chicken. Mix together and shape enough meatballs for several days, and freeze them. They thaw quickly. For small dogs, divide in ounce meatballs, for large to giant dogs, 1 ounce meatballs. Feed 1 with each meal. Or, fast for a day, (not for pups, fast for just a meal or two) offer plenty of water. Feed SEBP meatballs 3-4 times throughout the day.
Feed smaller, more frequent meals for several days after, gradually increasing the meals and decreasing the SEBP meatballs. You will often see an increase in mucousy poops with SEBP, this is part of the way it soothes
the digestive system, and the dog's body will do the same sometimes even without SEBP. You can also mix it with meat broth and feed it whenever you fast/rest the dog's digestive tract. And you can dust meat with SEBP when there's digestive upset.
16. You can feed pretty much any animal or animal part that your dog will eat and that won't break the bank. : Common grocery store variety suffices for some; chicken, turkey, pork, beef, lamb, fish, rabbit. Others can obtain at a reasonable price and feed; goat, venison, emu, ostrich, bison, buffalo, elk, mutton, mice, rats, guinea hen, quail, bear (bear? ), the list goes on and on.
17. If you must supplement, you can add Salmon or Fish Body oil, either in caps or liquid. It adds Omega 3 fatty acids to the diet, to balance out the O6s, which supermarket meats are high in.
Make sure it doesn't have any plant based oils, like soy, in there. Build up the dog's bowel tolerance gradually to a maintenance dosage.
Follow the recommendations that come with the product you buy.
In the case of true disease, you may need certain supps, but this is the exception to the rule, most dogs don't.
Whole chickens, turkeys, pork shoulder roasts and fresh hams are all big hunks 'o meat and edible and digestible bone that you should be considering introducing into your pup's feeding plan, as well as organs.
It really isn't that hard to raw feed your dog. There's a learning curve, definitely. But, that's what this list is here for.
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2012 Bal de Ballet honorees revealed
Enchanted Evening is the theme for Le Bal de Ballet 2012, and the highlight of this Denver Ballet Guild fundraiser will be the June 9 presentation of 43 debutantes and 21 Young Men of Distinction. Their identities were revealed on Sunday when the ball committee hosted the traditional announcement party at Cherry Hills Country Club.
See pictures taken at the announcement party
The debutantes, all high school seniors, are:
Ellen Fannie Abbott, daughter of Christina Fitzgerald Richardson and Dale Michael Abbott, Regis Jesuit High School; Ashley Michelle Achee, Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell Dean Achee, Kent Denver School; Laura Elisabeth Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. William Lester Armstrong III, Valor Christian High School; Megen Ann Axelrod, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Charles Axelrod, Kent Denver School; Elizabeth Annaatje Beaver, Dr. and Mrs. Philip Beaver, Kent Denver School; Hannah Lee Buchenau, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ray and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Joseph Buchenau, East High School; Emma Marilyn Bunsness, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Scott Bunsness, Regis Jesuit High School; Allison Rhea Camp, Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Camp, Arapahoe High School.
Kristin Thi Douglass, Louise James Douglass, St. Mary's Academy; Shay Kara Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Philip Elliott, Cherry Creek High School; Jennifer Diane Evans, Mr. and Mrs. James Donivan Evans, Regis Jesuit High School; Ashlyn Elaine Dorsey, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Alvin Dorsey, Littleton High School; Danielle Laura Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Raymond Fitch, Mullen High School; Raquel Antonia Fullinwider, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Newton Fullinwider, Mullen High School; Meghan Susannah Gahm, Dr. and Mrs. Gregory James Gahm, Arapahoe High School; Caroline Leigh Gebhart, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Edward Gebhart, Colorado Academy; Rebecca Yasmin Gunberg, Dr. Steven Ray Gunberg and the late Mrs. Gunberg, Colorado Academy; Perry Maughan Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maughan Howell III, Kent Denver School.
Allison Marie Kolberg, Dr. Michaela Wynne McDonnell, Kent Denver School; Mackenzie Patricia Kinard, Dr. and Mrs. Mark Powell Kinard, Colorado Academy; Sarah Elizabeth Lindsay, Drs. Lori and Greg Lindsay, Kent Denver School; Katherine Alexandra Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Brian Lucas, Cherry Creek High School; Grace Catherine Maguire, Mr. and Mrs. Charles David Maguire, Regis Jesuit High School; Katelyn Mackenzie Manzer, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Michael Wellington Manzer, Jr., Arapahoe High School; Nicole Lucy McVey, Mr. and Mrs. David John McVey, Cherry Creek High School; Hannah May Mirr, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth James Mirr, Kent Denver School.
Jacqueline Elizabeth Murphy, Dr. and Mrs. Terrence Paul Murphy, Colorado Academy; Molly Rose O'Donnell, Patrice "Trece" O'Donnell and Mr. and Mrs. Timothy James O'Donnell, Arapahoe High School; Alena Joan Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Leo James Payne, Jr., Regis Jesuit High School; Taylor Cherie Poyfair, Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Poyfair, Mullen High School; Lindsey Pells Reifsnider, Mr. and Mrs. Robert John Reifsnider, St. Mary's Academy; Chloe Elizabeth Schmergel, Mr. and Mrs. Paul O'Brien Schmergel, Kent Denver School; Mary Margaret Sherrill, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fuhrmann Sherrill, Colorado Academy; Taylor Blake Stimpson, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Stimpson, St. Mary's Academy; Stephanie Noel Sullan, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Thomas Sullan, Cherry Creek High School.
Tess Bergen Swanson, Mr. and Mrs. Todd William Swanson, Colorado Academy; Kimberly Jacqueline Trefz, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Neil Trefz, Ralston Valley High School; Kaitlyn Frances Vottiero, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Francis Vottiero, Regis Jesuit High School; Taylor Kay Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Richard George Walker, Regis Jesuit High School; Amy Alysssa Wedmore, Linda Katherine Wedmore and David Elliott Wedmore, Cherry Creek High School; Courtney Diane Wham, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Charles Wham, Kent Denver School; and Anne Estabrook White, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Divine White III, Kent Denver School.
The Young Men of Distinction, also seniors in high school, are:
Matthew Rand Alley, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rand Alley, Regis Jesuit High School; David John Casper, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Charles Casper, Arapahoe High School; Brian Edward Deline, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Christopher Deline, Regis Jesuit High School; Nicholas Thomas Diercks, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kevin Diercks, Mullen High School; Connor Patrick Dix and Hunter Thomas Dix, Dr. Corinne Rochelle Dix, Kent Denver School; Weston Nelson Eckloff, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Nathan Eckloff, Jr., Cherry Creek High School; Chase Madden Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Halldorson Fuller, Colorado Academy.
Corey David Ginsburg, Mr. and Mrs. Noel David Ginsburg, Cherry Creek High School; John Arthur Greene, Mr. and Mrs. James Arthur Greene, Cherry Creek High School; John Christian Jolliffe, Mr. and Mrs. William Cumings Jolliffe, Cherry Creek High School; Eric Hans Joondeph, Dr. and Mrs. Brian Christopher Joondeph, Mullen High School; Benjamin Welles Lehr, Deborah Galt Welles and Ronald L. Lehr, Kent Denver School; John Rock Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Brian Lucas, Regis Jesuit High School; John Louis Maslin, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Alan Maslin, Legend High School.
Jeffrey Daniels Munn II, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Munn, Colorado Academy; Anthony Vincenzo Pizzichini, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Louis Pizzichini, Colorado Academy; Nolan Heider Scannell, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Patrick Scannell, Regis Jesuit High School; Matthew Samuel Tedeschi, Elaine Susan Gampel and Alan Joseph Tedeschi, East High School; Bailey Brandeberry Tills, Jenifer Lee Brandenberry, Dominic Charles Del Papa and Matthew William Tills, Kent Denver School; and Alexander Russell Wissmann, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Russell Wissmann, Kent Denver School.
"This class is an exceptional class," says Pamela O'Neal, the chair of Le Bal de Ballet 2012. "Our honorees excel in areas ranging from academics and student government to sports, literary publications and National Gold medals in art and writing."
O'Neal also notes that the honorees have donated large amounts of their time to community service. "They've made medical service trips and served as Special Olympics coaches. They demonstrate the leadership and outstanding character befitting future leaders of our community."
O'Neal's co-chair is Debbie Raeder and the honorary chairwoman is Pam Kelsall. Mancy Jolliffe is president of Denver Ballet Guild.
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My youngest daughter was 5 months old when she first crawled. She walked at age 8 months. She was so small, that she could walk under the kitchen table standing up.
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How old was your child when they mastered crawling?
When did your baby become an expert crawler?
Yipee for all the early crawlers, but the average age is 8 mos.
My daughter wasn't even 5 months old when she started crawling. At 6 months, she was pulling herself up on the furniture . By 6 1/2 months she was "cruising" the room by holding on the furniture. at 7 3/4, she started walking and we knew we were doomed. She started crawling upstairs, standing up and toddling. We had to put up a gate to keep her from it. She could sit up on her own by 3 months and the photographer at Olan Mills was stunned at how she was able to sit up. She talked early as well and at 6 months old would sit looking through a big book of animals. We homeschooled her and she learned to read in 6 weeks time at age 4 years and by read, I mean she could fluently read all of the first grade Seuss and other books. Since homeschooling produces such stellar results, she started college work in her early teens. We didn't do anything to teach her walking or crawling. She got a lot of time and attention and freedom to explore.
My son started to "army crawl" (i.e. pulling himself on his belly) when he was 7 months, then began crawling properly when he was 8 months. It really made spending time with him that much more fun once he could move himself around.
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My daughter was crawling at 4 months and walking at 7 1/2 months! She is now 13 months and she is a very smart girl! She is so advanced for her age too.
My daughter started crawling when she was around 5 and a half months old, was walking by 10 months, running by 12 months and now at 16 months she is an exoert climber!
my child is 8 months old and still he is moving on his belly :(
I had five children, but my middle son was born with the attitude "Look out world, here I come"! He rolled over the day we brought him home from the hospital (2 days); he sat alone and crawled at 3-1/2 months; at 7 months he would pull up in his crib, bend his knees, jump, flip over the rail and land on his feet running. There was nothing he wouldn't try and I wondered if either of us would survive. Now, this wonderful child is a man - father, grandfather - and he is taking wonderful care of his Dad and me. I thank God every day for him. Young mothers, teach your children well. After all, they will some day choose where you will spend your last years!
my son mastered crawling when he was 5 months!! :)
6 and a half months
1st child was walking at 7 months,2nd crawling at 7 months and walking at 10 months,3rd crawling at 7 months and walking at 10 months,4th child crawling at 10 months and walking at 1 year.
My daughter was 1 week shy of 5 months when she mastered crawling. She was was walking by the first week of 6 months!!
My son didn't crawl, he walked at 8 months. He tried to crawl, but said "dirty knees" and then just walked! LOL My daughter was 8 months when she crawled, but walked very soon after that!
Guess my son was a late comer. He didn't crawl until 9 months.:)
My daughter began to crawl at 6 months. and now the shes 8 months shes trying to stand on her own to walk.
My son started crawling at 6 months and at 6 1/2 started to pull himself up and stand on his own
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Started crawling at 5 and a half months. We were so proud. :)))
7 months..was standing already at 8a months!
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my son was 5 months old when he mastered crawling
My oldest was 5 months old when she began crawling like nobodies business.
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There's a nice post over at ER Stories about treating other members of the medical staff, and in particular about how it can impact your relationship, as an ER doc, with your colleagues in other specialties.
The transformative power of these interactions, I think, is that it forces the doctor-patient to view the ER doc in a different way. I joke that ER docs are at the bottom of the prestige ladder in the house of medicine: everybody I talk to thinks I am an idiot because I know less about "their organ" than they do. They don't see the huge majority of patients we successfully manage on our own; only the cases when we need help. And then we seem weak. When I call, say, a cardiologist (invariably at 2AM) with a patient with a funny rhythm, it's often because I don't know the best way to handle it and I need help. The cardiologist, irritated at being woken with what is (to him) a trivial issue, may view this uncharitably. Similarly, when I call the orthopedist about a dislocated hip that I just can't get back in, he too may view this as yet another sign of incompetence on the part of the ER.
I recall, though, once when a cardiologist brought in his wife -- she had fallen on the ice and had a nasty trimalleolar fracture-dislocation of the ankle. I interpreted the x-ray at the bedside, sedated her and reduced the fracture, and splinted it. She went home with ortho follow-up. (I offered her admission, which she declined.) As they left, the cardiologist gratefully offered me the most awesome back-handed compliment I have ever received:
"You guys did great. I was really surprised -- I figured you'd just call ortho to take care of it. I didn't know you guys could, you know, actually do stuff."Um, thanks. I think.
Seeing us manage issues that they do not know how, demonstrating that we do have competencies that they were not aware of, can be very powerful. As the author at ER Stories referenced: once you have done so, your future interactions with those individuals can be much improved by a new-found mutual respect. In fact, the more contemptuous the specialist is, the more dramatic the turn-around tends to be.
Add to this, of course, that the specialist probably may feel grateful towards you, and that there is the obligatory intimacy required when a colleague becomes a patient. There's nothing to teach you humility like having to let someone do a rectal exam on you when you were bad-mouthing them the day before!
I would be remiss if I did not point out that the vast majority of our colleagues in other specialties do, in fact, treat us with respect and courtesy. Even they, though, sometimes have their eyes opened a bit when they get to see us do our thing.
(Another great way to earn the respect of your colleagues is to be involved in the medical staff affairs of your hospital. Sitting in meetings with you and hearing you voice intelligent opinions on the affairs of the hospital also will help your docs gain respect, visibility and credibility in the medical staff. But that's another post.)


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Convictions come with a cost.
Owen Strachan has been pro-life for many years, but it wasn't until recently that the college prof decided to act on his convictions.
"I've been convictionally pro-life for a long time but hadn't taken an opportunity to get involved with the cause," said Strachan, assistant professor of Christian theology and church history at Boyce College. "I was a passionate advocate for pro-life thinking, but it wasn't until coming into contact with this ministry -- and finding people who were putting their convictions to work -- that I started to get practically involved."
The ministry is Speak for the Unborn, which came to life when Ryan Fullerton, pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., preached a sermon on sanctity of life Sunday in 2009. Dave and Stacey Hare, who were members of Immanuel at the time, decided to act on the message. The following Saturday, they went to an abortion clinic in downtown Louisville to do sidewalk counseling.
"They had no idea what they were doing," said Andrew King, who has led the ministry at Immanuel since the Hares left for the mission field in 2010. "But they went out there and started talking to people, pleading with them not to have abortions."
A group from Immanuel continues to go out every Saturday morning to do sidewalk counseling. On Tuesdays and Fridays, a group goes from Louisville's Kenwood Baptist Church, where Strachan serves as an elder.
As a professor at the undergraduate school of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and as a pastor, Strachan's primary calling is to teach, write and think. But he wanted to put his intellectual life to work.
"It's an extremely good thing for our faith and convictions to cost us something," Strachan said. "In a Jesus-like way, we can put boots on the ground and our doctrine into practice, and really experience the cost of Gospel ministry."
Sidewalk counseling makes the cost quite tangible.
"It's not a fun ministry," Strachan said.
The typical morning includes waking up early to arrive by 7 a.m., when the Speak for the Unborn volunteers stand on the sidewalk outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center next to the busy Market Street.
As women walk from their cars to the clinic door, volunteers try to engage them in conversations, which rarely last longer than a minute.
Speak for the Unborn volunteers use this brief time to try to persuade these women -- who often are with their boyfriends, husbands, friends or even parents -- not to abort their unborn children and to receive instead a free ultrasound at A Woman's Choice Resource Center, located next to the abortion clinic.
In the short time volunteers have to talk to these women, "you try to engage them quickly, you try to plant a seed, speak a Gospel truth. And then they go in and you lose them, so to speak," Strachan said.
The brief amount of time is not the only obstacle Speak for the Unborn volunteers must overcome. There are pro-choice volunteers there as well, wearing orange vests with the words "clinic escort" on the back, to help women enter the abortion clinic and to shield them from the pro-life volunteers. Interactions with escorts can turn hostile.
"They have pushed and sworn at us," Strachan said. "I had one escort tell me that she wished I had never been born. I had shared how thankful I was that I hadn't been aborted and that the people walking into the clinic hadn't been aborted, and she shouted to me that she wished I had been."
The hostility sometimes extends from the sidewalk to the Web –- at everysaturdaymorning.net -- where the pro-choice escorts blog about, among other things, stories from sidewalk interactions with people they call "antis" and "protesters."
It is no surprise to Strachan that standing against the culture's standards of morality can be difficult and disheartening.
"Jesus promised that ministry in His name is going to be hard," Strachan said. "We should expect some suffering."
Despite the uncomfortable situation and the direct contact with what Strachan calls "tangible darkness," there are reasons to endure. Just as the apostle Paul promised, God often uses fools and seemingly foolish efforts to accomplish His purposes -- even when that foolishness includes preaching to a window.
"Many of us will try to preach to the window of the waiting room where the women going into the abortionist's chamber sit before they're called in," Strachan said. "We've seen women leave that waiting room and tell us that they could hear what we were saying outside. That's a great thing to know, but when you're actually preaching to a window, you feel like a fool."
There have been other occasions for hope, as well.
Heather Van Roekel, a volunteer from Kenwood Baptist Church, talked with a lesbian woman on her way into the clinic, and through her kindness and pleading, the woman decided to go in for a free ultrasound at A Woman's Choice Resource Center.
After seeing the ultrasound, she decided against the abortion. Van Roekel has continued contact with the mother and has taken her and the baby to church events.
King has seen other examples of fruit in this ministry.
"I know people who have adopted children from crisis pregnancy situations," he said. "We do see women turn away, and we get to share the Gospel with those people. Every life we see saved is a reminder that the Lord is faithful."
Currently, Immanuel and Kenwood are the only churches formally taking part in Speak for the Unborn. There are several Catholics and other individuals who also do sidewalk counseling -- although the number of escorts usually outnumbers the pro-life volunteers -- but King wants to see more evangelical churches involved.
"We would love churches to claim days," he said. "We want to set realistic expectations, because it is a hard ministry. If your church can come out every third or fourth week even, we would love that."
Though individuals can volunteer with Speak for the Unborn, local churches have the advantage of facing the challenge with community.
"Due to the difficult nature of the ministry, it calls out for fellowship and community, support and prayer," Strachan said. "You can do the ministry as a lone ranger, but it's so much more empowering to go down with fellow members, to pray together, to encourage each other between conversations, to stand on the sidewalk together. You can be a lone ranger, but you'll miss out on so much of what God intends to give us in the local church."
Strachan knows that those who advocate for the unborn, whether with their churches or by themselves, will face obstacles. But the hope of seeing women choose life for their babies and of embracing foolishness for Christ's sake makes the obstacles worth enduring.
"What keeps me going is that I want to be a light," Strachan said, "and I want to suffer in His name, and I want my faith to taste and feel more real than it does when I try to risk-proof it."
Matt Damico writes for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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Great post, Randy! May I add to this people who use their ADD as an excuse for poor follow through.
One of my pet peeves is people who use their personality as an excuse for their behavior. "I can't help it, that's just who I am" is the phrase that's often uttered to rationalize or justify an action, position, or attitude. In some ways it's almost the perfect defense to any argument, isn't it? "You mean you want me to change who I am?" How can you ask someone to change the very essence of what makes them who they are?
There's no doubt that our inborn temperament and natural personality traits shape the way we perceive and react to our environment, however, we are in control of the way we choose to respond to situations. Part of being a successful and trusted leader is learning how to regulate your thoughts, emotions, and natural personality traits so that you can respond in a manner that is appropriate for the situation at hand. Using your personality as a crutch to stay in your emotional comfort zone will only limit your leadership potential and alienate those around you.
Your personality is not an excuse for…
Being rude to people — If you frequently find yourself saying "I'm just being honest and telling it like it is," then you're probably relying too much on your default nature of being direct and to the point. Those are great traits to possess, but they shouldn't be used as an excuse for being harsh or inconsiderate with people.
Not giving feedback when feedback is due — It's difficult for most people to deliver constructive criticism to others, but people often hide behind their personality traits as an excuse to not give feedback. Whether you're introverted and shy and find it difficult to engage others, or an extroverted people-pleaser that can't stand the idea of someone not liking you, you have to learn ways to give feedback. You owe it to yourself and others.
Avoiding or inciting conflict — Along the same lines as giving feedback, dealing with conflict is probably the most common area where we stay in our emotional comfort zone. This is especially dangerous for people who tend to fall on the edges of the spectrum in dealing with conflict – either avoiding it or gravitating to it. Whatever your natural style of dealing with conflict, it doesn't mean that's the only way to deal with it. Just as important as knowing your natural tendencies, it's important to know how others tend to deal with conflict so that you can "speak the same language" when trying to resolve issues.
Blaming others — It's easy for us to blame others for whatever shortcomings we may have in our life or career; it's much harder to honestly examine ourselves and take responsibility for the choices we've made that have led us to where we are today. For example, if you have a personality need to always be right, and you demonstrate that by constantly arguing and debating with colleagues, you shouldn't blame others when people stop including you in projects, meetings, or decisions. "They don't want my opinion because they don't respect me and don't want to hear the truth"…no…they don't want your opinion because you always think you're right and it's annoying!
Our personalities are what makes us the unique individuals we are, and the beauty of organizational life is that we're able to take this diversity and blend it into a cohesive whole that's more productive and powerful than the individual parts. Learning to be more aware of our own personalities and those of others, combined with a willingness to stretch out of our comfort zones and not always rely on our natural instincts, will help us lead more productive and satisfying lives at work.
I've heard "I'm just a realist." before (maybe even used it myself) as an excuse for pessimism. "Sure, you might be a realist you're just good at looking at the bad side of reality." Great post!
As usual, all valid points. I'm curious, ever shown a list like this to somebody who would benefit from this constructive feedback? My experience is they sometimes don't see themselves in it at all! Quite fascinating really when you delve deeper into the psychology of why some self-reflect the way they do, if at all!
Love this post, and you are spot-on. I work with The Birkman Method personality assessment, and I love seeing how we're all uniquely wired, with different strengths. It's important for us all to celebrate and play to our strengths, but at the same time, invest some energy in those "things we can work on". Some of us would benefit from taking more time to aim before firing, paying a little more attention to detail, or being more decisive. And ultimately, as you say, we all have to take responsibility for ourselves, our actions, and our behaviors. There's a term commonly used in Birkman circles, which is really more of a strategy: borrowing behaviors. While certain habits or behaviors may be natural for us based on our unique wiring, those behaviors aren't always appropriate or productive, and we might be well-served to "borrow" some behaviors from another personality type in certain situations, or in order to meet our own personal goals.
Great point, Randy! When someone is kind enough to bring one of our faults to our attention a better response than "I can't help it, that's just who I am" would be "That's who I was but I'm trying to change. Thank you for reminding me."
How about this excuse: "You have always gone out of your way to "help" people and that is why you are disappointed when they treat you like crap." Is this putting the blame back on the other person??
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"There's no doubt that our inborn temperament and natural personality traits shape the way we perceive and react to our environment, however, we are in control of the way we choose to respond to situations." No, we are not. Our personality can not be separated from the way we respond to situations. A desirable respons can be neurologically impossible.
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Great article! As my Dad used to say "Boredom is an inside job!". This also applies to happiness and gratefulness. There is really no excuse for being rude and inconsiderate. As Eric Hoffer said " Rudeness is the strength of weak people. When someone is rude I repeat this to them. Maybe they can ponder this for a few seconds! Thanks!


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Washington: 10 Things to Do
I am not going to argue that Washington, D.C., is a fun place. It is not, at least not by design. It is a city people visit to lodge a complaint, to learn something or to stare at monuments to power and loss. It is most of all an earnest place.
But of all the places I have lived, none has the accidental loveliness of D.C. This is a city you can walk across, with wide-open avenues, front porches, old neighborhoods and river views. It was designed by a Parisian, Pierre L'Enfant, and it still feels that way. Because buildings cannot by law be higher than the width of the street they front, you can always see the sky. There are more than two dozen free museums, so you can absorb culture the way it was meant to be experienced in short encounters in the midst of everyday life.
That said, there are also a lot of red-faced, miserable tourists tromping through D.C., and you don't want to be one of them. So one guiding principle: Don't visit things that look the same on TV as they do in person. The White House, for example, is not worth the trouble, sorry to say. You are free to look at it from the outside and marvel at the snipers on the roof, but since 9/11, it has become obnoxiously difficult to get inside. The Washington Monument? The best thing about it is its starkness. You will see that from afar all over town. In 24 hours, your time is better spent popping into one of the outstanding museums, strolling through a garden and then inspecting one of the many icons that say more about America than a slab of concrete ever will.
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Fiction of the Absurd
Nikolai Gogol . . . Franz Kafka .
. . Bruno Schulz . . .
Daniil Kharms . . . Eugene Ionesco . . . Albert Camus and others
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
Best known for the mainstream Taras Bulba (romantic epic, 1835-42), The Inspector General ("naturalist" comedy, 1836), and Dead Souls (1842) the Ukrainian Gogol (pronounced "goggle") wrote some excellent early absurdist stories including "The Nose," "The Carriage" (both 1836), and the seminal "Diary of a Madman" (1835). Another well-known story, The Overcoat (1842), considered one of Gogol's best works, also has several distinctively absurdist characteristics, including: the antinomy of outward appearance and inner reality, the related issue of questioning socially established values, and the fantastic ending.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
"A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."
Author of the famous but unfinished novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika; and of "Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," "The Hunger Artist" and other stories and parables; also well known is "Letter to his Father."
Kafka is almost an archetype of the modern individual at odds with an impersonal bureaucracy, connived by paternalistic society into feeling guilt and insufficiency before the projected super-ego or conscience or what we feel driven to achieve. For the Surrealist Magus André Breton, "Kafka flashes the capital question of all times: Where are we going, to what are we submitted, what is the law?"
A German critical edition of The Castle in 1982 restored Kafka's original style and syntax; the English translation by Mark Harman (Schocken, 1998) is expected to replace the Willa and Edwin Muir translation of 1925, now perceived to be deficient.
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Bruno Schulz (1892-1942)
A Polish author sadly neglected by publishers and public but whose genius has been recognized by such established authors as John Updike and Isaac Bashevis Singer. He wrote two books of stories, Sklepy cyanomonowe (1934; English translation published in the U.S. as Cinnamon Shops, in Britain as The Street of Crocodiles, 1963) and Sanatorium pod klepsydra (1937; English translation, Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass, 1978), both of which Schulz illustrated. Although Schulz is credited with the first Polish translation of Kafka's The Trial, he only attached his name to that work to ensure its publication.
Schulz's drawings are characterized by sexual idolatry bordering on sado-masochism. He made his living teaching art at a local school. His Drawings have been issued both separately and with his selected Letters, which include an exchange with Witold Gombrowicz -- whose work Schulz admired and lectured upon.
Lovers of dark literature and art are indebted to Jerzy Ficowski for his strenuous efforts to preserve the creative works of Schulz.
Schulz was murdered by the Nazi SS after talking a walk one night in 1942 and wandering into the "Aryan" section of his native town, Drohobycz. How ironic that Schulz's work embodies a kind of search for what is intrinsically noble, and the Sanskrit root-word "arya" means "noble." Pictured: Bruno Schulz, c. 1933.
Daniil Kharms (1905-1942)
A virtually unknown Russian author whose absurdist stories were long preserved only in samizdat or underground, hand-circulated manuscripts. Born Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev, he invented the name "Kharms" (also "Charms") in high school. He participated in the Leningrad avant garde literary group the Oberiu, which collaborated with Malevich and the Russian Futurists in the 1920s. His writings, which include children's stories, are characterized by coincidences and acausal occurences, sudden disjunctions often of a violent nature, non sequitur endings, and stripped-down narrative that prefigured minimalism. Kharms himself was "disappeared" by the Stalin regime in 1942. His selected works are available in English along with those of Oberiu co-member Alexander Vvedensky in George Gibian's Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1971).
Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994)
Romanian writer best known for his plays "The Bald Soprano" (1950, which ushered in the Absurd Drama), "The Chairs" (1952), and the landmark "Rhinoceros" (1959), Ionesco himself preferred his short stories. The Colonel's Photograph and Other Stories (NY: Grove, 1969) is one collection. He also wrote a novel, The Hermit, and the autobiographical Fragments of a Journal (1967). The Hermit deals with a man who inherits wealth and withdraws from work and society into a comfortable life ruled by habit, indifferent to the turmoil of the world, which grows until it engulfs him as well.
Ionesco cited Apollinaire's "The Breasts of Tiresias" (1917) as one of his earliest influences, and he also greatly admired Camus.
Photo: Jerry Bauer (Cover from Fragments of a Journal, Grove Press Evergreen Edition, 1968)
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French novelist, essayist, playwrite. Best known for the novel The Stranger (a.k.a. The Outsider) and the essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" (both 1942). He is often considered a nihilist, or extreme absurdist who believes that life is senseless and useless; however, this may be an unfair characterization, and he is more safely classed as an existentialist. His rejection of revolution, even for independence, and his attacks against Lautréamont and Sade resulted in a feud with the surrealists. His unfinished final novel, Le Premier Homme (The First Man) was published in 1995. Photo courtesy Robert Daeley.
Other Authors
This page is not intended to be a complete survey of absurdist fiction, only to pay homage to a few select authors. Along with the better-known playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd, the most notable omission here is Samuel Beckett. Others include Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide.
For Raymond Roussel and other precursors of Surrealism and the theatre of the absurd, see my Surrealist Writers page.
Additional precursors of absurdist fiction include: Voltaire's (Candide), Nietzsche, Dostoyevski and the Biblical Ecclesiastes.
Related but distinct is the Nonsense movement typified by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
Examples of late 20th century absurdist fiction include Catch-22 by Joseph Keller and the work of Julio Cortázar, John Kennedy Toole's A Conferderacy of Dunces, Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and Walter Abish.
Also visit The Witold Gombrowicz Page
Acknowledgements Thanks to Prof. Richard L. Penner at the University of Tennessee for his class on Absurdist Fiction, which introduced me to Gombrowicz and Kharms. Thanks also to Julius Hatofsky for bringing Bruno Schulz to my attention.
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Russian Helicopters is breaking further into the Middle Eastern market by supplying the Kazakhstan Emergencies Ministry and Kazakhstan Border Service with Mi-171 helicopters for use in border patrol, search and rescue missions and personnel and cargo transport.
The Border Service has already received its Mi-171Sh, which will be used in routine patrols of the Kazakh border and also to transport special forces troops to detain anyone that illegally crosses the border. The helicopter can be fitted with on-board defense systems and can carry up to 36 troops, with the ability to land four troops simultaneously.
In addition, the Kazakhstan Emergencies Ministry has recently placed an order for a Mi-171E, a variation of the Mi-8/17 series, which are typically used for medical assistance and SAR operations after disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, or forest fires. Delivery is expected for 2015.
Mi-171E. Photo courtesy of Russian Helicopters
Both helicopters are produced by the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plane, a subsidiary of Russian Helicopters. The Mi-171E has the option to add equipment needed to work in strenuous mountain conditions, and can operate at air temperatures ranging from minus 50 to plus 50 degrees C. It can carry up to 26 people in passenger seats or up to 12 on stretchers accompanied by medical staff. Both the Mi-171E and Mi-171Sh can carry up to four tons inside the cabin or on an external sling.
Russian Helicopters has completed several projects with Kazakh partners, including the 2012 delivery of two Ka-32A11BCs, the 2013 delivery of two Mi-171Sh rotorcraft and last year's transfer of a Mi-171E to the Interior Ministry.
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Museum is bright spot on city's horizon
New London just might be turning around - a national Coast Guard Museum, which has been in discussion for more than a decade - is closer than ever to becoming a reality.
But on the other hand, the long anticipated new construction at Fort Trumbull fizzled in 2013 when the developer failed to get proper financing to satisfy the Renaissance City Development Association.
Other big deals - the downtown ice rink came down after losing money for two consecutive years but a playscape in Riverside Park rose up to honor Emilie Parker, one of 20 first graders killed 13 months ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
In November, volunteers from the community and the New Jersey Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association's Sandy Ground Project: Where Angels Play installed a playscape in three days at Riverside Park.
"Emilie's Shady Spot," was dedicated on a brilliantly sunny Sunday. Emilie's parents, Alissa and Robbie Parker, and her two younger sisters, Madeline, 5, and Samantha, 4, helped build the 2,600-square-foot pink and blue playground.
"She had a lot of love," said Alissa Parker. "My daughter would have wanted to give back. She thought so much about other people. She'd get the biggest kick out of this."
The New Jersey Firefighters built 26 playgrounds in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey to honor the 20 children and six adults who were killed in the shooting rampage at the school in Newtown.
New London Main Street, the nonprofit organization with the mission of revitalizing the city's historic district, gave up on the idea of attracting visitors to the downtown by offering an ice rink. The City Council backed the idea.
Main Street bought the 45-foot-by-90-foot rink with a loan from the city, which was to be repaid over five years with rink revenues and sponsorship income.
During its first season, the rink drew about 11,000 skaters, according to Main Street officials, and about as many onlookers. A survey of downtown businesses said the rink had brought more foot traffic downtown during the usually quiet winter months, and Main Street broke even. But last year, attendance was down significantly, according to Renee Fournier, Main Street board president.
In the fall Main Street announced the effort had failed and the rink was not going up.
It's for sale. So far no takers.
River Bank Construction became the designated developer in 2010 to build 103 units of housing on six acres in Fort Trumbull. Plans were developed, showed to the public, approved by permitting agencies and a shovel was nearly in the ground last spring when financial troubles arose.
River Bank, owned by father and son Irwin and Robert Stillman, proposed to self-finance the first phase of the roughly $20 million project and the RCDA refused to sign the deal without guarantees that the Stillman's cash would be used for the project. Several mediation sessions were unsuccessful.
By December, RCDA members were nearly ready to call the project dead. They intend to issue a new request for proposals in 2014 for new projects in the development area.
The head of the Coast Guard, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., is hoping to attend the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new museum on the city's downtown waterfront before he retires next year. And after he retires, the museum will be his "pet project" and his "passion."
The Coast Guard Museum Association needs to raise $50 million to $60 million before construction can begin at the site, a 0.37-acre lot near Union Station. About $170,000 has been donated so far.
Plans for the museum call for a 54,300-square-foot building with four floors of interactive exhibits, event space, lecture rooms and a reception area with a gift shop and caf�. The barque Eagle may dock at City Pier.
So it has been a year of fits and starts in New London. While prospects for the Coast Guard Museum are bright the lack of development at Fort Trumbull has been a disappointment for many.
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New design 1984-1986 headlight control upgrade.
Why a second design? This whole project started when aftermarket 87/88 headlight motors started to appear in the aftermarket. I worked with a local electrical engineer and we tried to reproduce the controller for the 87/88 Fiero headlight system. My idea was to offer a reproduction 87/88 headlight motor controller and misc parts and let the customer buy these aftermarket 87/88 headlight motors so anyone with a 84-86 could upgrade to have basically the same system as used in the 87/88 Fiero. The problem we found is there is an IC chip in the controller that has a number on it that is changed by GM and is not traceable. So basically we could not reproduce the 87/88 headlight motor controller without the real number for that IC chip.
So I decided I could make the 84-86 headlight control system with everything in one potted box just as the 87/88 was all in one box. That worked fine but the problem was that it was somewhat difficult and time consuming to install. You had to reroute many wires etc. I don't blame many for not wanting to install it in their 84-86 Fiero because of the complexity of the install. In time I realized there is a better way to do this that is seriously easier to install.
Some history of the 84-86 headlights:
Most that have headlight motor problems in their 84-86 Fiero want to blame the headlight motors. They replace them with rebuilt headlight motors but many times still experience the same problems. Some replace the relays but again still have the same problems. Why? The problem in most all cases is a diminished path for the voltage and amperage from the battery reaching the armature of the headlight motors. The armature is spring loaded and if it does not spin with enough strength and momentum it will not operate the contacts in the headlight motors correctly.
The path for the voltage from the battery and back (all the grounds) is a long one. As on any older vehicle, time takes it's toll on the wiring connections, grounds etc. There is never any one place to look. It starts at the battery terminals and little by little the voltage and amperage diminishes along the way. Why? Slightly corroded connections in all the various connectors is common. Corroded grounds. Every marginal connection diminishes the voltage and amperage to the headlight motor armatures. By the time the voltage and amperage gets to the armatures in the headlight motors it can be seriously diminished.
How can the voltage make it to the headlight motors when they have to pass thru connections like this!!
While doing the first installations of my old system we found many connectors had corrosion between the wires and the brass ends. I've seen some clean these connectors but you also have to make sure there is no corrosion in the crimped connections.
This one is somewhat clean. Some of them from a few installations of my old kits were so corroded the corrosion went up the wires over an inch. We had to sand the wires clean before we could install the butt splices and solder them.
The kit eliminates all of these marginal connections.
What is in this new design kit?
My idea for the new design kit was to make replacement relays for the headlight buckets. But I had also pondered using OEM aftermarket headlight bucket relays. The problem with using aftermarket relays is no one makes new pigtails. So I had to think of how to over come this. The way I found to do this is to use spade connectors, wires, solder them, put on self sealing heat shrink tube and pot them to make them 100% moisture proof. These headlight bucket aftermarket relays seem to very plentiful as they are used in several other GM cars including the C4 Corvette and should be available for many, many years yet.
You also replace your old isolation relay with my new reproduction isolation relay. New waterproof disconnects to the headlight motors are included. All the old marginal connections in the front headlight area are now new.
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Included with the kit is a step by step paper instruction sheet. Use both the paper instruction sheets and this installation web page below to install this kit.
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This upgrade kit does both headlight motors. You only need to order one kit per car.
It still takes a bit of time and effort to install this new system but it is seriously less difficult. All you are doing is replacing the isolation relay and both relays on the headlight buckets. And putting in new disconnects on the headlight motors. if you take your time and follow the paper instructions and my installation web page it is not that hard to do.
I'm generally here and you can call if you have any questions. 262-835-9575
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Because I use postal flat rate boxes for heavy orders there is no program that can add the proper amount of shipping to every order. So all shipping is added manually by myself after you place your order. That is explained here: Shipping added later explanation
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