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I'm currently engrossed in one of the books from my Christmas holiday reading list - How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Eric is Google's Executive Chairman and Jonathan previously managed the company's consumer, advertiser and partner products so they write with authority on Google's inner workings.
One of the key take ways for me was with respect to business communication. Their view is that when it comes to communication, businesses should default to being open and they should maximize the velocity and volume of the flow of their information.
Two great examples stood out for me:
The Google Board Report
Every quarter, Google executives create an in depth report on the state of the business providing data and insights on the business and products (nothing particularly unusual so far). What is surprising is that this detailed report is shared with every Google employee, along with a video from Eric presenting the slides that were delivered to the board. There are some elements that are redacted for legal reasons, but the default is to provide open communication and share. Google has shared every board presentation in this manner since they listed on the NASDAQ in 2004 and they have not had issues with respect to leaking of confidential information.
The key result is that nobody complains that they aren't aware of what's going on within the company. It's all there for their consumption.
Google OKRs
Another example of transparency at Google is their OKR process. OKRs are the Objectives (strategic goals to achieve) and Key Results (the way which progress towards the goal is measured) that every Google employee defines and publishes each quarter. It's a first person account of the things that they are working on and care about. The open nature of this information allows anyone in the business to understand anyone else's business priorities.
The OKR process starts at the top with Larry Page (Google's CEO) posting his OKRs and communicating them at a company-wide meeting. The various business and product leads will then join in to define what each OKR means for their team and to review how they performed for the last quarter. Following on from this each staff member documents their own OKRs without any doubt of what the company's priorities are for the next quarter.
Google's OKR process helps to maintain alignment across teams even as their organisation scales rapidly (they currently have over 50,000 employees).
I've been fortunate to work in a number of fantastic organisations, and I can only see an upside for staff engagement with increased organisational transparency.
A good summary of the book follows, it's a worthwhile read!
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Guide to the application of genotyping to tuberculosis prevention and control; handbook for TB controllers, epidemiologists, laboratorians, and other program staff
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Description:1. Introduction to Tuberculosis Genotyping -- 2. Tuberculosis Genotyping Case Studies -- 3. CDC Tuberculosis Genotyping Laboratory Procedures -- 4. Combining Genotyping and Epidemiologic Data to Improve Our Understanding of Tuberculosis Transmission -- 5. Developing a Tuberculosis Genotyping Program -- 6. Applying Genotyping Results to Tuberculosis Control Practices -- 7. Appendices -- Appendix A: Glossary and Abbreviations -- Appendix B: References and Useful Resources
"This guide provides an introduction to the application of tuberculosis (TB) genotyping to TB control practices and to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) TB Genotyping Program. It was written by the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association (NTCA)/CDC Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Genotyping and is intended for TB controllers, epidemiologists, laboratorians, and other program staff members who will be involved in submitting isolates for genotyping, analyzing and responding to genotyping results, or using genotyping data to monitor TB transmission trends. This guide does not contain specific directions on how a TB control program must carry out its genotyping program. The CDC genotyping program is not a research effort, and participating state and local programs are not required to carry out a protocol, submit a certain number of isolates, or collect specific data. Rather, this guide provides general guidance about how to utilize the genotyping laboratories, how to understand genotyping results, and how to apply those results to improve TB control practices. For those interested in the specific procedures used by other TB genotyping programs, the Maryland TB program and the New York City TB program have agreed to share their procedure manuals; those documents can be downloaded from our TB genotyping WebBoard at http://web-tb.forum.cdc.gov." - p.1
Suggested citation: National TB Controllers Association / CDC Advisory Group on Tuberculosis Genotyping. Guide to the Application of Genotyping to Tuberculosis Prevention and Control. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; June 2004.
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Bring Barre District to Your Community
If transforming lives is your passion and creating a fun, healthy and welcoming environment is your dream. Bringing a Barre District Lifestyle studio to your community might be your answer. Licensing to become a Barre District Studio owner fulfills the dream of entrepreneurship, provides the freedom of flexibility, and allows you to empower others to create healthier lifestyles.
If you're already a Barre Bestie that has been to a Barre District Lifestyle Studio, loves our method and has a dream to bring the Barre District Lifestyle to your community - start the conversation and send your responses to our STUDIO OWNER QUESTIONNAIRE to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you love barre and dream to own your own studio, but have never been to a Barre District Lifestyle location: arrange to experience your first Barre District class, and when you love our method and want to make it your own, submit your answers to our STUDIO OWNER QUESTIONNAIRE and attach your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com
Q. What does it cost to own a Barre District Lifestyle Studio?
The cost to own a Barre District Lifestyle Studio is $30,000 for a Wisconsin based studio and $35,000 for any studio outside the state of Wisconsin. There is a service charge of 4% or $300 minimum that is based off your gross sales, due monthly. The total investment to open a Barre District Lifestyle Studio can range anywhere from $50,000-$90,000 and depends upon your location and circumstances.
Q. How long is the process to open a Barre District Lifestyle Studio?
The timeframe to open a Barre District Lifestyle Studio can range anywhere from 3-18 months and depends upon your situation and circumstances.
Q. What support, training and resources are provided when owning a Barre District Lifestyle studio?
Nikki Meesuen - Barre District CEO, Founder & Licensing Director, will be your dedicated consultant and guide through out the process of set up and evolution of your Barre District Studio.
- Assistance with demographic research, site selection, and lease negotiation
- Buildout advice and complete vendor list for equipment and brand identity
- Assistance with MindBody software set up and training
- Merchandise and retail information
- Featured information on Barre District website with links to your studio's info, schedule and social media accounts
Christina Zarnowski, Barre District Co-Founder, Creative Director & MKE studio owner - trains you and your team; offering ongoing, dynamic choreography
- Onsite training program for studio owners and initial instructors hosted at our North Ave. training headquarters.
- Continued education/training throughout the year:
Weekly: Choreography of the week, "CHOW" weekly video
Monthly: BarreBase and BarreFight Choreography, and music playlists
Nikki Meeusen
is a Wisconsin native who has a passion for helping people better themselves through fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. She fell in love with the barre workout immediately after discovering a method derived from the original Lotte Berk technique, and dreamed to make it a bigger part of her lifestyle. She opened her first barre studio in Milwaukee, WI in 2015, has since partnered with Christina Zarnowski, and founded the brand, Barre District, a fitness studio that has an emphasis on an all-encompassing healthy lifestyle
As the brand's CEO, she creates the the opportunity and provides assistance for new owners to continue to bring the Barre District Lifestyle into more and more communities. The innovation of Barre District studios is to provide the transformative barre workout, and to create community through collaboration with other businesses and organizations to provide a place, products, and resources that contribute to helping people create healthier lifestyle habits.
When she is not taking barre classes or working to grow Barre District, Nikki is all about having fun with friends, has a passion for growing flowers, loves animals, pizza, beer and anything WI local. She enjoys to garden, be outdoors, and spend time with her husband, Eric, and their daughter, Kenzie.
Christina started her professional career in the beauty industry, working for Clinique, Prescriptives and freelancing for M.A.C. Eventually she transitioned her esthetics career into managing a locally owned salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. While living in Florida, she dabbled in fitness, ultimately focusing on running. In 2013, her family moved home to Wisconsin, and once their first winter hit, her love for running was forced indoors onto a treadmill of a big box gym. Christina began loving her time at the gym and soon decided she wanted to find a way to turn that love into a career. After taking a group fitness class and watching the instructor have the time of her life while teaching, she decided THAT was her dream - just didn't know what type of class. After discovering barre, and the changes it made, she knew that was the only workout she needed, and went on to complete her first certification in Chicago. Soon after being certified, she became manager of the Bay View barre studio taking the lead in developing new content and choreography. Nikki and Christina have since partnered, founded, and grown the Barre District Lifestyle Brand, and continue to expand it into more and more communities. Christina owns two Barre District locations, holds seven certifications in barre and fitness, and is one of the few people who has been trained, and holds a master level certification, in the Lotte Berk method. She creates new ongoing choreography, and provides training to all current and future studio owners and instructors. When Christina is not at her studios, she is spending time her amazingly supportive husband, Chris, and their two kids, Avianah and Crew, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.


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By Tiffany Scandal
Narrated By Tiffany Scandal
Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
Release Date: 04-25-16
Lose your best friend because you finally Came Out. Spend days driving aimlessly because there's nothing to do. Serve your rapist breakfast because you need your job. Fall asleep to gunshots and sirens because that's the only sense of home you've ever known. Hold hands with ghosts. Your life is in pieces, but you can't be broken. Wipe off the blood. Tired of being told who to be, what to wear, how to act and who to fuck. Break the rules and learn fast how to never get caught. All you need is nothing, but you're happy with your car, guitar and camera. Throwing around polaroids of tits like they're money, you swap stories about adventures and realize that we're all running away from something.
Jigsaw Youth
"Tiffany Scandal is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge in years. A deft, masterful mix of both bizarro and horror. I definitely can't wait to read what she writes next!" -Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Ghoul
"Visceral and unpredictable, this book is a narrative that's distinctively told, with many a nod to punk rock incorporated into the larger work." -Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Such a vivid attention to detail to her work that you can't possibly see everything she's put into it. She's a puzzler." - Electric Literature
"Scandal's writing-direct, willful, violently alive."
Tiffany Scandal is the author of three books. The first, THERE'S NO HAPPY ENDING, is part of the 2013/2014 New Bizarro Author Series from Eraserhead Press. Her second book, JIGSAW YOUTH (Ladybox Books, 2015), has made numerous "Best Of" lists and is available as an audiobook which the author has narrated herself. She returns to Eraserhead Press for the release of her third and newest book, titled SHIT LUCK, which is already making waves and considered to be a great introduction to the Bizarro Fiction genre.
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Julia Ryvkina (Ukraine) – Successful summit 01 January 2019 Superior package – 7 day Machame route
Dear Karel,
The trip was amazing, I still have dreams about the mountain every night. The staff was absolutely wonderful, I felt very safe with the guides.
Fred is the best, Emmanuel was very supportive and was always around when I needed any assistance, Michael was very pleasant and helpful.
Porters are my heroes. Nothing could be done without them. Singing and dancing deserves an award. I loved every second of the trip.
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"Town planning" defines, among other things, the character and dimensions of streets, sidewalks and medians, the location and frontages of civic parks, squares and courts, the heights and frontages of buildings, the location and nature of civic buildings, the structure of multi-modal transit, the character and location of street furniture, lighting, materials and signage, as well as the expression of gateways, both perceived and actual, to a community. Modernist town planning was ushered in post-WWII and has since proven to be a failed experiment. Traditional town planning - the design philosophy behind Historic Districts - has continued to be practiced, and has recently made a great resurgence in the form of the New Urbanist movement.
In the 1920's and 1930's, Modernist architects and city planners were calling for radical changes in cities worldwide. This famous example of urban renewal by Le Corbusier called for major demolition in the center of Paris, replacing the traditional fabric of the city with vast tower-block housing and expansive auto-corridors.
Video length, 2:10.
In the 1920's and 1930's, Traditional architects, artists and other lay-people were rediscovering the charm and ordered complexity of the traditional towns and cities and began to make moves to protect those places from the radical changes that were being proposed by the Modernists.
1960's Modernist Town Planning in the UK
Video length, 6:35.
1960's Modernist Town Planning in New York
This documentary on New York is worth watching in its entirety, particularly episode 7. This clip introduces city planner Robert Moses, his philosophy and his impact on the city of New York.
Video length, 18:15.
Effect on Historic Districts
Our Historic Districts still bear the scars from Modernist planning and design decisions in the forms of cross-town expressways, over-sized parking lots, one-way streets, single-method transportation structures, and euclidian zoning ordinances. Becoming less frequent today, still it is not uncommon to hear of the beautiful, well-built buildings that were demolished to make way for community-deadening, block-sized parking lots. Other communities were entirely demolished by crosstown expressways, such as this one in Charleston, SC:
1960's Traditional Town Planning in New York
To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts, four conditions are indispensable:
- The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must ensure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for different purposes, but who are able to use many facilities in common. (Mixed Use)
- Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.
- The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained.
- There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people for whatever purposes they may be there for. This includes dense concentration in the case of people who are there because of residence.
The necessity for these four conditions is the most important point this book has to make. In combination, these conditions create effective economic tools of use.
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Video length, 13:40.
When our towns and cities are uncomfortable to live in, they become viewed as commercial or entertainment districts for their surrounding suburbs. Vast arterial road systems connect zones of home, to zones of retail, to zones of entertainment, to zones of schools. The vast amount of land required for such a system is incapable of being serviced by public transportation, and so nowhere is accessible without each individual arriving by car, requiring even vaster amounts of space allocated for parking. This Modernist model for urbanism is socially isolating, and environmentally and economically unsustainable.
When towns and cities have comfortable densities and mixes of use, a citizen's daily needs can be met in a 10 minute walk. In this way, towns and cities are able to accommodate more people of varying income levels. The automobile becomes not a burden but a tool for occasional use, and the street becomes a gathering place for the citizens rather than a traffic-filled artery to "anywhere but here." This traditional model for towns and cities allows more of the hinterlands to remain as open land, preserved for environmental, agricultural and recreational purposes.
The race of the "starchitect" to the tallest building, and the continued implementation of large-scale sprawling developments are two examples of Modernist town planning today. The rendering above shows a new take on the old theme of towers in a park, but the social, economic and environmental problems remain the same.
Leon Krier represents the traditional town as the combination of the monumental buildings of a city and the supporting fabric of streets and blocks. Most buildings in a city need to be fabric, or contributing background buildings, that are mixed in use, and help form the network of public space otherwise known as the street.
The contemporary philosophy of Traditional Urbanism is called New Urbanism and in the US is lead by the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 1993 the CNU was founded by, "a group of enthusiastic architects looking to codify the thought behind their previous work in creating long-lasting and better-performing neighborhoods. Working against the conventional, predominant sprawl-oriented dogma of the post-WWII period, the group had worked for years to create buildings, neighborhoods, and regions that provide a high quality of life for all residents, while respecting the natural environment."
For more information please see the Town Planning section of our Recommended Readings page.


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Learn What You Can Expect From Our Chiropractors
A chiropractor is a doctor who specializes in treating neuro-musculo-skeletal (nerve-muscle-joint) problems and educates patients in 'wellness.' They are primary care providers like MDs and dentists, which means you don't have to be referred by your family doctor to see us, you can just call to book an appointment yourself.
A chiropractor does some things that medical doctors and physiotherapists also do, but they also check the function of the joints in your spine and correct abnormal movement of those joints found to be not moving properly (i.e. dysfunctional). At Alberta Back and Neck Rehab & Sports Injuries Clinic in Calgary, our focus is on rehab of chronic and severe neck and back pain.
What Causes the Pain?
When a joint loses its ability to move normally (joint dysfunction), it often creates pain. There is usually muscle spasm and reflex nerve irritation as well. These painful conditions are often treated by MDs with drugs; physiotherapists treat the muscular component, but without a chiropractor the underlying problem, the abnormal joint function, is rarely treated, and this is why the pain often does not get relieved, or returns after only temporary relief. We know that it is important to stretch and strengthen muscles, do rehab exercises, get rid of trigger points and scar tissue, but we also know that doing these things without restoring joint function is often not getting to the root of the problem.
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I was born in Metz, northeast of France. The house where I grew up has been in the family since 1735 and is located in the heart of the city's historic center. As is common for any old building still standing, it could be described as:
An early French history textbook: Under the Roman Empire, Metz (Divodurum at the time) was fortified. The remains of the ramparts were demolished in the 18th century when the house was built. What is now the cellar of the house used to be the street along the rampart, as the well-preserved Roman road marker shows.
An anthropometric study: the very low ceilings in the hallways of the first two floors attest of the short height of my ancestors.
A hacking exemplar: hanging hooks to smoke meats are now used for light fixtures; tools from the glass and wood workshops now serve as original art displays. In the past, my grandparents and great-grandparents created 'secret' pockets where they hid valuables during the wars, and the front door changed location several times to increase the economic activity coming from the street.
I still wonder about the reason or story behind small details I start noticing when I take the time to find them. And what about these generations of people who lived here before us: what were their conversations about? How did they go about their day? How did they use the house? If only the walls could talk...
When I moved to Atlanta, its rich social and economic history gave me plenty of opportunities to continue my exploration and day-dreaming about the lifestyle of Atlantans at the turn of the century. I quickly became astonished by the abandoned spaces in the heart of a pulsating city. A block from our modern condo and glass skyscrapers rested decayed or deserted buildings, often blanketed in kudzu and vines. The contrast between contemporary and historic architecture was shocking and compelling. The summer of 2007, I became completely fascinated by the mystique of abandoned buildings such as the Craigie House and Ansley Inn in Midtown, the John B Gordon Elementary School in East Atlanta, the Briarcliff Mansion in Druid Hills, or the Atlanta Constitution Building downtown. That was also the summer I devoured novels by southern authors Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers, which fed and probably overamplified my curiosity about the mysterious aura of the South. For a more accurate and less emotional rendition of accounts, I also read about Atlanta's history, met Atlantans born in the 1920s and 1930s, and asked lots of questions to anybody willing to share their knowledge. While I secretly hoped these buildings would remain untouched and keep the mystery alive, I realized the utopian nature of my aspirations was highly incompatible with builders' plans to provide more living spaces for people to enjoy Midtown.
Well, maybe not that incompatible. Recently, it has become easier for us to start experiencing historic Atlanta buildings as textbooks, anthropometric studies, and hacking exemplars. Instead of words like 'demolishing' and 'tearing down', we started hearing about 'repurposing' and 'restoring': unused railroad tracks turned into the Beltline, City Hall East became Ponce City Market, what was once Murray's Mill is now The Goat Farm Arts Center. This repurposing of unused spaces gave hundreds of people a chance to finally enter these once enigmatic buildings. The downside is that we are literally talking about hundreds of people occupying these spaces now, which makes daydreaming and drifting slightly more challenging--although still possible. The bricks, the stone, and the wood are still there; the initial architectural style of American Movement, Tudor, or Late Gothic Revival will forever attach people's visions, values, aesthetics to these buildings and allow us to travel back in time.
I marvel at our unique opportunity to use Atlanta as our textbook and see our LAB ATL students writing the next chapters of the city as they work with it. I hope they will hack, repurpose, reinvigorate, and also marvel, day-dream, and ask lots of questions. My biggest wish is for them to design a new style in the architecture of education for future generations to look at and realize the meaning and importance of legacy for future generations.
Agnès Browning, Lab Atlanta faculty


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With Shatter Buggy there is no driving to the mall, finding (and paying for) parking, waiting in a lengthy cue, only to learn that you are going to receive a "refurbished" model for an astronomical amount of money…Oh, and YOU get to transfer all of your data. Remember how to do that?
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My Obsession With Bralettes
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Like many women across the universe, I really dislike wearing bras. They can be uncomfortable, itchy, pokey in odd places, and just a generally terrible experience. Now, I do not have a very large chest, but boycotting bras altogether isn't really an option for me, so I searched for an alternative.
Enter the bralette.
For those of you who do not know, a bralette is similar to a sports bra in the fact that it's a bra without wires or molded cups but does not have the intensity to hold you in like the sports bra. They have thin or lacy straps like a regular bra, and provide a decent amount of support for small to average chest sizes.
The main thing that I love about bralettes is that they are insanely extremely comfortable. Since I refuse to wear anything with an underwire, these are perfect. Not to mention they are super adorable and come in a billion different colors.
Now bralettes are not just for us smaller chested ladies. I have a friend who does have a larger chest and loves wearing them as well, so you never know until you try them on!
The cute little red number I'm wearing in the picture above is from PINK. Here are a few of my current favorites:
Tropical Lace Unlined Bralette
Eyelash Lace High-Neck Bralette


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Laughspin Podcast, episode 62: Interview with W. Kamau Bell of Totally Biased
On this special episode of The Laughspin Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with W. Kamau Bell, comedian and host of Totally Biased, a show that did so well in its first season on FX that it will start airing nightly (instead of just every Thursday) on Sept. 2 on FX's sister network FXX.
The interview went down in Kamau's office, which he's barely decorated in the year he's been there; he explains why in the interview. And anyway, since the show is now moving offices elsewhere in Manhattan, it's good that he didn't. During our interview, we talk about Bell's fateful meeting with Chris Rock (which led to Rock signing on to become an executive producer of Totally Biased), Barack Obama, Bell's family, the show's new season, the concept of rape jokes and so much more.
I should also tell you that Bell and the writing staff of Totally Biased are launching a stand-up comedy tour on July 11 starting in Boston. You should check out TotallyBiased.com for all the dates and links to tickets. Ok, enjoy the interview!
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Students with strong reading comprehension skills typically view the process of understanding texts as an active process. That is, when reading a text of any kind, a strong comprehender is constantly working to construct their understanding of text by actively asking questions, making inferences, and connecting information. This matches how reading comprehension is defined by literacy scholars, who define reading comprehension as an active process in which the reader simultaneously extracts and constructs meaning from the text using cognitive processes such as inference, attention, and reasoning.
By contrast, struggling comprehenders might interact with text in a somewhat passive way – simply reading through the words on the page without any expectation that they should understand and make meaning from those words in some coherent way. Sound like some readers you know?
As teachers, parents, or tutors, we can support students in developing the viewpoint that comprehending text is an active process and one that they are in control of. One way to do this is by having readers annotate the texts they are reading. Importantly, we must keep text annotation simple – making it too complex can distract students from actually making meaning! I've suggested four simple markings readers can use to annotate texts as they read. This is one way to develop students' reading comprehension muscles.
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To the random passer-byer, the checkout lady at the grocery store, the sales woman at Justice, the waiter at Red Lobster or the random stranger in Walmart, we have 2 kids, they are girls and they are 6 years apart. Having two kids 6 years apart has it's challenges that I do think would be so different if Matthew was alive and running around like the active 4 year old I know he would have been.
Kaitlyn being 6 years older than Samantha is awesome for so much. She is incredibly helpful, can play with her, entertain her, I can trust her to sit with her while I get the mail or throw clothes in the washer. She can put socks on her, get a hair brush and really, Kaitlyn can just about get herself ready for the day every day. And while they are obviously going to like way different things, Kaitlyn is perfectly satisfied to play baby with toys with her.
When Kaitlyn was younger, I loved when all the kids went back to school and we could go to a nearly empty zoo, park, mall, fairytale town and so on. I hate going on weekends and the summer. It's hot. It's crowded. People are rude and you have to almost battle for your teeny little kid to have a turn.
I want to take Samantha to the zoo, but I don't want to take her on the weekend. And I feel bad that Kaitlyn will be at school and miss out on something she loves.
While Kaitlyn being at school ensures lots of 1 on 1 time with Samantha, it's also different, she won't see San Francisco on a random weekday when traffic is light, she probably won't go to the zoo or fairytale town as much, and our by our-self time will end at 2:30 with our wait in the pick up line. But, she'll grow up with one entertaining and loving big sister.


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Dolphins Have Longest Memories in the Animal Kingdom and can remember their friends after 20 years apart.
By Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News, August 6, 2013
Sorry, elephants: Dolphins have taken the top spot for best memory, at least for now.
New experiments show that bottlenose dolphins can remember whistles of other dolphins they'd lived with after 20 years of separation. Each dolphin has a unique whistle that functions like a name, allowing the marine mammals to keep close social bonds.
The new research shows that dolphins have the longest memory yet known in any species other than people. Elephants and chimpanzees are thought to have similar abilities, but they haven't yet been tested, said study author Jason Bruck, an animal behaviorist at the University of Chicago. (Also see "Chimps, Orangutans Have Human-Like Memory.")


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For an adventurous young man from Las Vegas, University of Denver freshman Jason Zucker has been starring in an unusual hockey story.
It's so far-fetched that the beginning has a splash of fiction.
Zucker's claim to fame is being the first player from Nevada ever chosen in the NHL draft. Which is true, if you disregard he was actually born in Newport Beach, Calif.
"I was 2 months old when we moved to Las Vegas," said Zucker, "so I go with being from Vegas."
No matter his birthplace, the second-round draft choice of the Minnesota Wild this past summer is making a huge impact for Denver, showing the potential to be the Pioneers' best first-year forward since Avs star Paul Stastny hit DU ice six years ago. Through 12 games, Zucker has seven goals, 10 points and has shown a passion that can be contagious.
"He has a tremendous skill set," DU coach George Gwozdecky said. "He's a strong skater, he's got a quick release, he can be physical, and he plays with an edge and emotion that is certainly conducive to our other guys."
Zucker doesn't hide the fact he eventually wants to play, and star, in the NHL. He has known that from an early age. He was a first-year peewee player at 11 when his parents allowed him to play competitively in Los Angeles. His father, Scott Zucker, who builds and remodels buildings for Station Casinos, said his son commuted to L.A. each week, flying out Thursday and flying back Tuesday, staying with a teammate's family while in California.
"(He'd) spend Tuesday night and Wednesday night with us in Las Vegas," Scott Zucker said. "His schooling at that point was all done on the Internet."
"I've just always wanted to play hockey, all the time," Zucker said. "My dream today, as always, is to play in the NHL. When I was young, that's what I wanted to do, and I did everything it took, and my parents dedicated everything they could to make sure I could play. So far, it's paid off."
Zucker, 18, got the hockey bug from older brothers Evan and Adam, both of whom attend the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and play on the school's club team. Evan, 23, moved to Colorado Springs at age 15 to play Triple-A for what then was known as the Pikes Peak Tigers. He also played for the Colorado Outlaws out of Westminster.
"Evan was my hero. I wanted to be like him," Jason said. "He moved away and played juniors, and that's what I wanted to do."
Zucker began competitive hockey in an under-8 league, before moving up to squirt (9-10), peewee (11-12) and bantam (13-14). At home, he could be found skating at Sobe Ice Arena at a local hotel, roller blading to the rink dressed in his hockey gear with his skates around his neck.
"Jason lived at a hockey rink here, not only because of Evan and Adam, but because he truly fell in love with it," his father said.
As Zucker improved, he became part of American hockey history. At age 15 he moved to Michigan to play for a prestigious midget organization, then caught on with the U.S. National Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. He played for the U.S. under-17 and under-18 teams the past two years and from April 2009 to April 2010, Zucker and goalie Jack Campbell became the first Americans to win three International Ice Hockey Federation gold medals in the same year.
He was the youngest member of the U.S. World Junior Team that shocked Canada in January for the gold medal in the biggest amateur tournament (20-under) in the world. With his international experience and strong start to his collegiate career, he is almost a lock to make this year's U.S. World Junior team. The preliminary roster will be announced later this month.
While mostly playing with sophomore center and leading scorer Drew Shore, who is also expected to make the world junior team, Zucker has shined. All of his goals have have come in Western Collegiate Hockey Association games, and he is tied for the league lead in that department.
But sometimes he plays like the freshman he is. He irked Gwozdecky in the Pioneers' 6-1 victory over Minnesota State on Saturday after he took a holding minor and 10-minute misconduct early in the second period. The coach benched his prodigy.
"I was pleased to see that Jason took it like a man. He was positive, he was cheering on the bench in the third period, supporting his teammates," Gwozdecky said. "He understood the sanctions for his lack of discipline, accepted it and continued to contribute whatever he could do, and I think that sends a very strong message to the rest of the team."
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Jason Zucker
Height: 5-feet-11
Weight: 180 pounds
Born: Jan. 16, 1992
• Son of Las Vegas casino builder Scott Zucker; his mom, Natalie, is a former competitive figure skater.
• The family pronounces its name "Zook-er" but Jason goes by "Zuck-er" and his nickname is "Zucks."
• At age 11, Zucker commuted to Los Angeles to play on a peewee team that included University of Denver freshman classmate Beau Bennett.
• Zucker is tied for second with seven goals for DU, one behind linemate Drew Shore; is tied for first in WCHA with seven goals in league play.
Mike Chambers, The Denver Post


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Theodore Roosevelt once said, "comparison is the thief of joy". We're all human, we've all done it- wondered if someone else's life was just a little easier, a little better than ours, just enough to make us feel, well, not very joyous.
Heck, not long ago, after scratching out an all but illegible to-do list with the stump of a green colored pencil he found at the bottom of his daughter's backpack, the sight of Ryan happily practicing cursive with a brand new, blue-inked Uni-ball Jetstream pen filled Joe with envy.
"Anyone could do perfect lower-case 'j's' with that thing," he thought. Not his proudest moment.
All jokes aside, if comparison is joy's thief, isn't it true that generosity can fill us with joy? We wanted to spread that message.
The result is our short film, "Someone Else's Shoes", featuring the lovely and talented Eleonore Dendy. It was shot over two days and four locations, in the fall of 2016 with a cast and crew of 20 people.
The spot centers on a young woman, briefly imagining her life would be better in 'someone else's shoes'-literally-the heeled pumps, the running shoes, the fashionable sandals she spies on the feet of passersby. But she can't really know what journey those other shoes are on, and realizing this, she gives herself an injection of joy via a different route- through an act of generosity.
We owe a big shout to Studio 2 Cafe, a full-service cafe nestled in the beautiful east Harriet neighborhood of Minneapolis (which has also served as our de facto office from time to time) and Gear Running Store, Minnesota's premier shop for runners and walkers, located in Edina.
We thank you for your generosity, for taking the time to read this and for your continued support.


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This rare snake lives only in the high, rugged mountain ranges of south central Turkey, and its rarity is contributing to its doom. Specialist reptile collectors are always on the lookout for species that are rare or have a limited range, as well as those that are attractive or venomous. The vipers in Turkey and Southwest Asia combine all of these properties, so they have been severely over-collected. The Saint Louis Zoo is helping to save the rare mountain vipers of Turkey and Armenia (see side story).
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Shedding Light on the World of Dark Social
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We've all done it: participated in dark social. But it's not as illicit as it sounds. Dark Social is web traffic generated from social shares that do not pass as referrals by analytic tools. These social shares are usually links copied and pasted into emails, direct messages, texts or shared via apps like SnapChat and WhatsApp. These shares are not tracked as social media referrals in Google Analytics but rather show up as direct traffic.More


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Iceland's Favourite Places (DVD)
Iceland's Favourite Places is a unique and user-friendly DVD with short films of over 100 Icelandic locations, renowned for their natural beauty and cultural interest. You will discover the amazing contrast in Icelandic landscape, from majestic glaciers and active volcanoes to stunning geothermal areas, powerful waterfalls and rugged lavafields.
The DVD includes commentary in seven different languages: English, French, German, Danish, Japanese, Chinese and Icelandic.
The beautiful images you will enjoy on this DVD were filmed in high-definition (HD) and the music especially composed. Enjoy an amazing journey where you discover your favourite Icelandic place.
This is a top quality, interactive DVD for tourists and people interested in discovering Iceland´s most favourite places.
Total running time of the DVD is 145 minutes.
It is region free (plays all over the world).
Iceland's Favourite Places was the number 1 best selling DVD 2007 in Iceland's biggest bookstore.
This is a top quality DVD for tourists and people interested in discovering Iceland's most favourite places.
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Now that Mary and I are both doing this full time (YAY!!!) we are able to do so much more. Not only are we doing weddings, but we are also doing everyday arrangements (nothing says "I love you" like a sunny floral arrangement!), sympathy work, birthday parties, showers, etc. We love what we do and are so excited that we now have the opportunity to showcase even more of our floral designs. We have fresh flowers in the coolers full time now and flowers getting delivered at least twice a week. Give us a call next time you need a centerpiece for your table, a bouquet for your girl, or a get well basket for a friend. We pride ourselves on always doing something a little different and using the freshest flowers. We are even thinking of expanding into holiday home decorating....we are your gals if you need wreaths for your doors, swags for your windows, and a gorgeously decorated tree. And for all you guys out there that follow our blog (I am sure there are so many, haha!)...what about flowers for a year for your mom or your wife - that would be an awesome present! Every woman loves getting flowers! We are happy to deliver to Salem, Gloucester and Cumberland counties for a minimal fee. Elmer Hospital is just down the road, we make floral deliveries there often to help brighten a patients day. Recently, Mary got a phone call at 5 pm for a birthday arrangement and it was delivered by 6 pm....we just HAD to get it there on her birthday, and we were happy to do it! Of course I can never do a blog without adding at least one picture, so here you go. These are a few arrangements that we made this morning, check out Lee playing in the background! Enjoy!
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Director : Daniel Barnz (Won't Back Down, Beastly).
Cast : Golden Globe Nominee Jennifer Aniston (Friends, We're the Millers), Academy Award Nominee Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Pitch perfect), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Academy Award Nominee William H. Macy (Fargo).
Synopsis : Jennifer Aniston plays an acerbic woman named Claire who becomes fascinated by the suicide of Nina, a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband (Sam Worthington), Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy.
Genre : Drama
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In this exercise you will drawing a table using 3D modeling tools.
Objectives/Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Students will acquire and demonstrate:1.) technical competency in using software to solve a problem, 2.) sense of craft through precision and care in the presentation of the work, 3.) design aptitude in the ability to solve an object-oriented construct, 4.) judgment in the formal articulation of a three-dimensional object. 5.) consideration of limitations and constraints in the problem solving process.
T.1. Go to the Dining Table page of on the Design Within Reach online catalog. Find a table to draw.
T.2. For Dimensional information click on More Info.
T.3. No need to use your titleblock file for this one. Just start a new file in AutoCAD using the acad template. Save the file and name it with your name followed by the name of the table as described on the Design Within Reach website. If Cole Porter were drawing the Arc En Ciel Folding Table, he would name his file ColePorter_ArcEnCielFoldingTable.
T.4. Create a layer for each material that your table has. Name the layers so that they represent the materials. Names might be Wood, Glass, Aluminum, etc.
T.5. Keep in mind that when you view your table from the Top view, we should see the top of the table from above. The table can be rotated later to have the correct orientation, but it would be best to start from that orientation. In the image below a round table is shown from the top view.
T.5. The table must be drawn so that the bottom of the legs sit at 0" along the Z-axis. In the image below, notice the relationship of the bottom of the table legs to the UCS icon. The image below is from the front view, but the UCS icon has been set to World. To do this go to a front or other side view, type UCS at the command line and select the World option.
T.6. There are many ways to construct objects in 3D and it will depend on the type of table that you plan to drawn. It is recommended that you discuss with the instructor the methods of 3D modeling that you plan to use.
T.7. If you have a simple table, you may be able to use primitive solids. More complex forms may require more advanced modeling techniques.
T.8. If you are drawing a round table, you may find the following video helpful.
T.9. If you are working with a table that has straight table legs, you may be able to use the primitive forms like Box and Cylinder, but if the leg has a profile or changes in shape, you may want to try the Loft command. The video below describes how the tool works.
T.10. If you are working with a table that has curved legs, you might try using the Sweep command. The video below describes how the tool works.
T.11. If these videos do not address the type of table you are drawing, ask for help!
T.12. When you have completed your table, save and close the file. Upload the file to your Google Drive folder.


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Microsoft announced Paint 3D during the company's Creators Update event. The new release of the much-loved software suite offers an array of new features and functionality. It's now possible to take photos on the phone, import into Paint and transform items into fully rendered 3D objects. The company demonstrated this ability by taking photos of a sandcastle, which was then edited in 3D using Paint.
These objects can then be edited, cropped, rotated and more. The new 3D functionality ties into Remix3D.com for 3D objects available online. There's even the option to doodle with a supported pen into 3D directly. Those of you who enjoy using emoji, you'll be able to create and paint your own. Lastly, objects edited in Paint 3D can be shared on social media, including Facebook.
The new version of Paint 3D will make its way into the Creators Update. Remain tuned to Windows Central for more on Microsoft and 3D.


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BERLIN — Germany's police and security services suffered from deeply rooted prejudices and a lack of cultural diversity, which allowed a neo-Nazi cell to carry out violent attacks against immigrants for more than a decade without being detected, according to a parliamentary committee report issued Thursday.
The parliamentary investigation was ordered after the police in November 2011 stumbled on a link between a bungled bank robbery and the unsolved murders of nine small-business owners — eight Turks and one Greek — between 2000 and 2007. The realization that a three-member cell of neo-Nazis operated in Germany for years with impunity caused public outrage and led to the resignation of top law enforcement officials.
The inquiry concluded that prejudice often led the police to draw quick and erroneous conclusions about certain murders, based on the ethnicity of the victims, and it demanded changes in the 36 law enforcement agencies, including training and recruiting more ethnic minorities.
"Turks murder Turks — that seems to have been the mentality," said Sebastian Edathy, a lawmaker from the center-left Social Democratic Party who was chairman of the committee. "I don't think it is a case of institutional racism, but we do have racists working within the security authorities."
The 1,357-page report largely ascribed the authorities' inability to solve the cases to biases harbored by individual officers. It also found that a culture more defined by rivalry than cooperation among the security forces also rendered it impossible to connect a bank robbery by the cell in one state to a murder in another.
Lawyers representing the victims' families and representatives of the country's police officers criticized the findings of the report, which is to be debated in Parliament on Sept. 2.
Rainer Wendt, the head of Germany's police union, called the findings of the report "excessive and unfair," and he placed blame on politicians who make decisions about training and financing the forces.
The committee made 47 points and recommended changes to the structure of the security forces, their ability to cooperate and how they carry out their investigations. No new legislation based on the recommendations by the committee, which included representatives from all five parties represented in Parliament, is expected to be drawn up until after a legislature is elected on Sept. 22.
Even after the failed bank robbery, it took the police days to make the connection to the murders. The authorities eventually linked the cell to the killing of a police officer and a 2004 nail bomb attack on a shopping street in Cologne that was popular with Turks in which more than 20 people were injured.
Beate Zschäpe, the sole survivor of the cell after the two other members killed themselves, is standing trial in Munich, charged with complicity in the killing of 10 people and carrying out the bombings. She faces life in prison if found guilty. Four other men face lesser charges on suspicion of supporting the three cell members.
Clemens Binninger, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union who served on the committee, singled out the Cologne bombing as a glaring example of the authorities' refusal to consider racism or xenophobia as a motivation for the crime.
"A bomb attack in a street where only ethnic minorities live and work and only foreigners were targeted and were victims of this crime — nevertheless, authorities did not include a possibly far-right motive in their investigation, but focused only on organized crime," Mr. Binninger said.
The 15.7 million members of ethnic minorities among the slightly more than 80 million people living in Germany are still vastly underrepresented in official positions and higher levels of government.
"If at least one member of a team involved in the investigative police had had Turkish grandparents, then it would not have taken more than six years to realize there might have been a right-wing motive behind the murders," said Mr. Edathy, the committee chairman.
Lawyers representing the victims' families at the trial in Munich issued a statement in which they insisted that institutional racism is prevalent and claimed the report did not go far enough.
The committee also called for improved cooperation among the myriad police, state and federal security forces, and for an increased vigilance to the threat posed by far-right extremism, which had been less of a concern after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which drew attention and resources to combating Islamic extremism.
Mishandling of the investigation has already claimed several high-ranking officials. In July 2012, Heinz Fromm stepped down as president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence service, days after it emerged that an official in his office had shredded documents containing potential evidence.


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I am a Scientist.
Climate change is real. The debate is over how much man has caused or sped up climate change due to the input of greenhouse gases.
Let's just say that man-made Global Warming is real and we are rapidly heating the planet with the use of hydrocarbons like oil and coal. Isn't that a pretty big deal? Shouldn't that prove we aren't being stewards of Creation like God gave us charge to be?


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Kistakuz, not far from Khujand, is the home of a traditional tea house, financed by the president of Tajikistan. Construction began in 2010 and it is not yet finished. David and I got a tour of it on March 10. Walking into the main room, you feel like you have entered a cathedral or large mosque. The one large dome is supported by hand-carved wooden posts. The above photo was taken by David Sears.
Behind the tea house, workers are continuing the hand carving on columns. Women and men work in separate rooms because they are "more comfortable," according to the man who was showing us around. I can deal with that. But, I was not happy when I heard that the women earned $200 a month and the men receive $500 a month – for essentially the same work. Because, we were told, the men are more experienced and work faster. The men are not older than the women, but still they might be more experienced. But 150% more experienced?


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James Renwick Willson (1780-1853)
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Born at near Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1780. In 1795, he joined the Associate Reformed Church, but transferred his membership to the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1798. Graduated with first honours from Jefferson College in 1805. His theological studies included two years under the care of the Dr. Alexander McLeod, of New York, and he was licensed by the Reformed Presbytery, June 9, 1807. He was ordained and installed pastor of the united congregations of Coldenham and Newburgh, Orange County, New York, August 10, 1817. In 1823, the Newburgh branch was dropped, and he remained at Coldenham until his resignation in 1830. He was installed pastor of the Albany congregation, September 17, 1830, but returned to Coldenham, where he was re-installed, November 21, 1833. He was chosen Professor of Theology in 1836. At the creation of the Allegheny Seminary, in 1840, he resigned his charge in Coldenham to accept a professorate in the institution. From 1845 until 1851, he was the sole Professor in the Seminary, which removed from Allegheny to Cincinnati, Ohio and then to Northwood, Ohio. His most famous sermon, "Prince Messiah," brought forth much controversy. The Legislature in Albany, New York, discussed it for a whole sitting and denounced Willson in the most violent terms. His prayers, which they feared, were banished from the Legislature by unanimous vote. The sermon was burned in a public bonfire and Willson was burnt in effigy before the State House door. He died September 29, 1853.
1817-James Renwick Willson.-An excellent survey of the various views held concerning the atonement throughout the history of the church showing together with a demonstration of the pervasive belief in vicarious atonement with its relation to the doctrine of predestination. It was written to combat Hopkinsianism.
1820-James Renwick Willson.-An excellent presentation of the doctrine of the Mediatorial reign of Christ and its implications for all nations and kingdoms. This is the Covenanter postmillennial vision.
1821-James Renwick Willson-This begins with a very pointed response to the rejection of this Review by the editors of the Presbyterian Magazine. What follows Willson's exposure and critique of Isaac Watts as an antitrinitarian and the implications for church psalmody.
1821-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon showing that the obligation to civil government as well as the obligations of the civil magistrate are founded and grounded in the Moral Law particularly as it is to be discovered in the Fifth Commandment.
1823-James Renwick Willson.-In this essay, Mr. Willson attacks one of the most cherished false doctrines of his day and ours, the wicked notion that tolerance is always a good position in religious matters.
1825-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon advocating an optimistic future for the church on earth and a call not to fret but to remain faithful is bearing testimony to the truth not compromising with error. In the end, the church will be victorious and the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
1829-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon on the duties and responsibilities of the civil authorities with respect to enforcing proper Sabbath observance among Christians. It is notable for its assumption that the magistrate does have an obligation to uphold the whole law of God.
1831-James Renwick Willson.-This sacramental sermon focuses on the doctrine of oaths and vows. It discusses the implications of vows for people in various connections, from members of the church to nations. In this, Mr. Willson has much to say about public social covenanting in church and state.
1832-James Renwick Willson.-Two essays: the first, examining the claims of Christ over the nations; and, the second, the application of these claims to the present constitution of the civil government in the United States.
1836-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon that calls attention to the several lamentable dispensations of providence as provoked by national infidelity and negro slavery.
1838-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon showing that Christ as Mediator is God equal with the Father, has received a mediatorial kingdom from the Father and that the law of God revealed in Scripture is his law binding all Christian nations in all things.
1847-James Renwick Willson.-Dissent over the allowance of the Synod of 1847 dispensing with the necessity of lining of the Psalms in the public worship of God. Undoubtedly his reasons are still unpopular with those whose mindset rejects order and charity in the worship of God.
1849-James Renwick Willson.-A terse defense of the binding obligation of the Solemn League and Covenant upon the United States. Willson treads where few American Reformed Presbyterians wish to go explicitly; yet, he demonstrates both the how and why of this obligation with arguments which every real Covenanter must acknowledge as demonstrations.
1849-James Renwick Willson.-A short article calling for covenant renovation with special reference to the relation of the Solemn League and Covenant to the United States.
1850-James Renwick Willson.-A short article pressing for covenant renewal, including the Solemn League and Covenant, because the signs of the times warrant such practice.


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Continue Mission
No Veteran Left Behind
CONTINUE MISSION IS A 501(c)(3) NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION serving Veterans with service connected physical, mental, and emotional injuries. We aim to inspire, empower, and involve Veterans and their families and referred Service Members in recreational and educational programs that promote health and wellness and positive life changing experiences. We are dedicated to raising mental health awareness and taking an active role in suicide prevention.
We invite civilians and communities to join together to support this mission.
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Thank you so much for the Dinner Celebration Saturday evening.
Words from a Gunners Mate
A Grateful Vet
I just watched the Continue Mission documentary online on BYU TV. I could'nt get my eyes off my comoputer screen and was hanging onto every word I heard. I am still in, been serving for 17 years. I did 5 tours downrange. I see myself going again at least one more time. I can relate to absolutely everything y'all shared in the documentary.
Just wanted to thank you for what you are doing for the vets. Maybe one day, I will get out of the house and join y'all.
In memory of those who have given their lives for our country.


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Outdoor Adventures, the new EP from Revy, has just been released, making this the 25th release coming to us from the fine folks at netlabel Betamod. Be sure to download this three song EP. Track listing is as follows.
1. synap
2. xlok
3. Counter-Couture (revy rmix)
1337 GEEK BEAT (formerly 1337 G33k B3at) has changed their name. Here's the reason, straight from them.
"1337 g33k b347 is being changed slightly to..
1337 GEEK BEAT. Too many and too often, clubs, labels, fans, etc get our name wrong. We are NOT..
1337 speak geeks
1337 geek BEATS
1337 geek BEETS
LEEK geek beats
we are... 1337 GEEK BEAT."
The newly christened 1337 GEEK BEAT also has a new remix on their site. Artist Bandit Train has a new song up as well, Pallet Town is the name. Also two songs letting themselves be known from Cicatriz, Seek and Destroy and Circle In My Square.
Two shows in New York this weekend. Armcannon in Buffalo, and a Priestcave, Anamanaguchi show in The Big Apple itself. Sunday night Horse The Band will be rocking Michigan. Finally, Monday, the 31st, Operation Mission will be entertaining the west coast in Portland, OR.


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Consumers Finances & Credit On Uptrend According To Report
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Positive out look that the economy is in repair by the numbers revealed in Equifax's latest monthly National Consumer Credit Trends Report. Overall, the report shows that between July 2011 and July 2012 there were year over year dollar base declines.
"Consumers continue to improve their credit management, through higher monthly payments on card accounts, refinancing of existing mortgage debt at lower rates, and lower delinquency ratespretty much across the board," said Equifax Chief Economist Amy Crews Cutts. "Growth in total credit is consistent with the overall improvement in the economy – slow, but steady – with the exception of mortgage debt which is declining overall."
Sixty day plus delinquency rates down 35% for Auto Loans, 23% Consumer finance, 21% Bank credit cards. First mortgage severe derogatory moving to REO is declined 17% , first mortgage 30 day plus delinquency declined 15% with home equity revolving 30 day plus delinquency declined 7%
"The decline in mortgage debt is due to loans converting to real estate owned at the end of the foreclosure process, homeowners paying down debt faster through cash-in refinancing, or shortening of the mortgage term as well as borrowers curtailing the debt by adding a bit extra to their payment each month, Crews Cutts added.
In addition to improving delinquency rate is the rise of new credit which increased 13% to $348 billion in May 2012 from $305 billion a year earlier. New bank credit card increased 21% to $72.9 billion through May 2012 from a May 2011.
"Student loans is one area of lending not affected by tighter underwriting standards since the start of the recession," said Crews Cutts. "The investment in higher education pays off over a person's lifetime, while the tuition cost has to be paid up-front, leading to big demand for student loans.
But if the graduate does not find a job right away there will be much difficulty when the first installment payment is due once they graduate.
Apple Jury: Samsung Infringement was Intentional
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A video testimony from senior Samsung executives made it "absolutely" clear to the jury that the infringement was on purpose said the Jury Foreman on the Apple vs Samsung case, Velvin Hogan, 67. He said Apple was very persuading that they needed to protect their innovation.
"We didn't want to give carte blanche to a company, by any name, to infringe someone else's intellectual property," Hogan told Reuters a day after the verdict. Yet, at the same time he explain the jury did not agree with the damages that Apple was asking for which was $2.5 billion to $2.75 billion.
"We wanted to make sure the message we sent was not just a slap on the wrist," Hogan said. "We wanted to make sure it was sufficiently high to be painful, but not unreasonable."
Hogan an engineer, and a patent holder, explained that deliberations were done in less time than was expected including answering 600 questions as required because of the engineering and legal experiences of the jurors which helped with the complex issues. And they had a system and only reviewed what was relevant. Once they determined which patents were valid they went through each product one by one .
"This is a huge victory for Apple," Mark Lemley, a Stanford Law School professor, said in an e-mail. "The verdict is just large enough to be the largest surviving patent verdict in history."
"Even more important is the injunction Judge Koh is likely to issue," Lemley said after yesterday's verdict. "The real question is whether this is enough to derail the momentum the Android ecosystem has gained in the marketplace."
"All of us feel we were fair, that we can stand by our verdict and that we have a clear conscience in that we were totally not biased one way or another," Hogan said.
Additional Reading:
Steve Jobs
I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (In Their Own Words)
Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs
No Deficiency Due With New Shortsales Guidelines
The new Shortsale guidelines from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will make it easier for sellers who previously did not qualify and eliminate previous problems in the past including remedy for the 2nd lienholder and not having to prove hardships.
"Short sales have become an increasingly important tool in preventing foreclosures and stabilizing communities," said Leslie Peeler, senior vice president, National Servicing Organization, Fannie Mae. "We want to help as many homeowners avoid foreclosure as possible. It is vital that servicers, junior lien holders and mortgage insurers step up to the plate with us. These new guidelines will open doors to help more homeowners qualify for short sales, remove barriers to completing short sales, and make the process more efficient for homeowners and servicers."
Shortsale process is now open to non default borrowers who may face hardship death of a borrower or co-borrower, divorce or legal separation, illness or disability or a distant employment transfer starting November 1, 2012 when the new short sale guidelines making it easier for eligibility.
"The streamlined short sales process will definitely help homeowners," says David Liniger, Re/Max International chairman and co-founder.
"A lot of sellers and their Realtors have not been able to sort out the problems with short sales and have given up on the process because, even after sending in the correct paperwork, they have sometimes waited three or four months for their lender to respond," Liniger says.
Servicemembers who need to relocate qualify for a shortsale. They no longer have to pay remaining deficiency after a short sale and will automatically be qualified for short sale even if they are current in payments. Provisions were also created for military personnel with Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders.
One major barrier that is also being addressed is the issue with second lien holders. The second lien holder have caused a substantial percentage of short sales failures. To prevent second lien holders from stalling the short sale process, the GSEs will offer up to $6,000.
In addition, all servicers will have the authority to approve and complete short sales that follow the requirements without first going to the GSEs for approval. And the GSEs will also waive their right to pursue deficiency judgments.
"These new guidelines demonstrate FHFA's and Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's commitment to enhancing and streamlining processes to avoid foreclosure and stabilize communities," said FHFA Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco in a statement. "The new standard short sale program will also provide relief to those underwater borrowers who need to relocate more than 50 miles for a job."
Additional Relating Reading:
How to Make Money in Real Estate in the New Economy
Investing in Real Estate
Cash Flow Notes 2012
Finance Minister Offers Swiss Banks Tax Evasion Deal
Switzerland's Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
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Swiss banks for years have avoided U.S. regulators in regards to helping wealthy Americans commit tax evasion. But in a world where banks are under major global scrutiny and investigation because of the Libor manipulation scandal, massive derivative trading losses, money laundering allegations and admissions, and banks participation in the crash of the credit and mortgage markets; U.S. regulators are taking action and banks are now having to answer for their violations.
Swiss banks are sacrificing their employees past and present by giving names to the U.S. authorities in connection alleged employee's connection with setting up American accounts for tax evasion. Thousands of names are being given to federal regulators according to Douglas Hornung, a Geneva- based lawyer representing 40 current and former employees of HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA)'s Swiss unit.
"The Federal Council had no right to grant permission for banks to send any information to a foreign authority," said Marcel Niggli, a professor of law at the University of Fribourg.
"The companies know the risk of penalties in Switzerland is insignificant compared with the business risk in the U.S. It's a cold-blooded action by the banks."
The legality of this action is questionable and would violate rules of privacy although the risk of privacy violation consequences may worth the risk as compared loss of U.S. business for some banks.
"The tax dispute with the U.S. can only be settled without further escalation if the bank cooperates with the U.S. authorities," said Igor Moser, a spokesman for Zuercher Kantonalbank.
"The respect for the rule of law has declined in a way I simply thought unimaginable a few years ago," Moser said. "The government treats these business interests of the banks as if they were the business interests of Switzerland because the U.S. market is so enormously important."
Switzerland's Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is attempting to make a deal with the U.S. regulators for the Swiss banks but with elections coming up in November there is a limited window of time as as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner are both leaving their positions.
"We are prepared to sign a settlement with the U.S. for the Swiss banks today. We feel we have made a constructive proposal to the U.S. but it is up to them to accept it or not," said Widmer-Schlumpf.
New Foreclosures Short Sales Help With New Policies
FHA loan foreclosure "starts" increased for the second quarter 2012. The older foreclosures have been processed through the market but now because of the mortgage settlement, mortgages that were late some time ago are only now starting the foreclosure process.
To move through the new foreclosure short sale offers policies enacted this summer by Fannie Mae and Freddie reduces the short-sale timeline process to expedite the pre-foreclosure sale process to include short sale offers. Servicers are "encouraged" to follow these requirements with respect to mortgage loans sold to either Fannie or Freddie, including FHA, VA and USDA loans they may have purchased.
Last month another bill was introduced to assist with the short sale process. The bill addresses one of the major road blocks to closing short sale offers and that is the problem with non cooperating secondary lien holder.
Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton) introduced a bill to speed up the short sale process by requiring subordinate mortgage lien holders to make a decision on a short sale within 45 days.
The bill called "Fast Help For Homeowners (FHFH) Act" has full support from the National Association of Realtor. The NAR stated that its members continue to report delays in completing short sale transactions due to drawn out response times for whether or not an offer was accepted by the secondary lien holder.
"Second mortgage lien holders frequently hold up and cancel the short sale transaction while trying to collect the largest possible payout in exchange for releasing the homeowner's lien, even though the secondary lien holder often gets nothing if the home ends up going into foreclosure," said NAR President Moe Veissi, in a statement. "While efforts have been made to improve primary lien holders' response times, issues still abound with second and subsequent lien holders, and this legislation is a step in the right direction."
Delayed Foreclosures Moving Back Into The Market
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"The dam may not burst in the next 30 to 45 days, but it will eventually burst, and everyone downstream should be prepared for that to happen — both in terms of new foreclosure activity and new short sale activity,"Brandon Moore, RealtyTrac's CEO.said in a statement.
The dam that will burst because of the postponed foreclosures that banks were hesitant to proceed with during the robo-signing investigation on fradulent foreclosure documentation. Lenders hit the pause button on foreclosures because they "were afraid that anything they did would be under a microscope," said Eric Higgins, a professor of business at Kansas State University.
The majority of the delayed foreclosure processing were in the states that have "judicial foreclosures". The bankers with mortgages in these states bank stopped filing foreclosure if they were not 100% sure the documents were correct and could stand up in court.
Some homeowners who were in default but did not receive their foreclosure notices were stuck in limbo during the robo banking investigations. They like many in Las Vegas abandoned their homes when there was no bank communication and they were not able to get answers and only reached the automated voicemail endless loop at their banks.
Many others stopped paying their mortgage and remained in their home especially when the banks could not provide any further status of their foreclosures or when their mortgage was sold from one bank to another and their accounts were lost in the shuffle.
Others just squatted and did not pay for many months and years. In Florida, the average time was 861 days, and in New York it was 1,056 days — close to three years.
But now the regulators have come to a $26 billion settlement with the banks to include Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo . which means that inventory which has been lacking in the market have been showing up in the market now as potential short sales and foreclosure properties and the flow of foreclosures will continue back into the market now that the settlement is in place.
Already for the month of August new foreclosure "starts" has been up and hit a record highs according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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Proposed Mortgage Rules To Protect Homeowner Borrowers
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week proposed rules to protect homeowners and to avoid problems suffered by many borrowers during the housing crisis.
"These rules are about putting the service back in mortgage servicing," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray, on a conference call with reporters. "The bottom line is to treat consumers fairly by preventing surprises and run-arounds." The rules provide basic protections, he added.
For instance requiring that the mortgage servicing company provide monthly statements which seems so simple but is not standard; breaking down all the numbers such as deposits, principals, interest rates, fees, due dates and warnings about new or increased fees including ARMs adjustable-rate mortgage reminders in advance.
"A lot of this stuff is common sense," said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH Associates, a publisher of consumer loan information, of the proposed rules. "You shouldn't have to codify proper business practices. That's not to say everyone is a bad actor. But the ones who did it wrong did it so badly, they forced the regulators' hands on the rest of the industry."
One of the major surprises occurs when the borrower no longer maintains property insurance and the mortgage servicer has the right to force a policy. The new law requires that forced policy process be transparent and borrower of policy payments to avoid borrower not being ready to pay the cost.
Policies and procedures will be required to be in place so borrowers are able to navigate and find assistance when they need including correcting payment issues and receiving timely payment receipt and corrected documents.
Systems will be required so that the homeowner borrower is able to easily obtain assistance and options to avoid foreclosure when they are in default. The new rules also requires review of file for loan modification and other payment plans application and response in a timely fashion restricting ability to proceed with foreclosure unless these options are applied for first.
"The inadequate performance of many mortgage servicers has helped widen the misery for many Americans," said Richard Cordray, director of the consumer agency, in remarks to reporters announcing the proposed rules. The rules will take effect next year after a public comment period. "Right now, people have too little protection under federal law if their mortgage servicer surprises them with costly fees or gives them the runaround."


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The final touches to the weathering have been completed. A flay coat of Gunze clear flat was applied to the model to seal the weathering so far. Oil paint streaks were applied to the underside of the vehicle using both 501 Abteilung and windsor and newton oils.
The entire EEV was now ready to be wired up and mounted to the flight recorder base.
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LA CROSSE, Wis.—Babson College senior John Decker (Parkland, Fla.) saw his storied career come to a close in the 800-meter run prelims at the 2018 NCAA Division III Track & Field National Championships on Friday night at Roger Harring Stadium.
Decker, who entered the night seeded 10th in the 800 meters for the second year in a row, posted a time of 1:51.78 to finish fourth in his heat. His time was good for 11th place out of 20 runners in the prelims and was 0.68 seconds behind Nick Neville of Rowan, who grabbed the ninth and final spot in Saturday's final.
The only All-American in program history, Decker leaves Babson owning the top 10 times in the 800 meters. A four-time New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) champion, he earned all-region honors at the NCAA regional championships in each of the last three seasons, and USTFCCCA All-New England accolades in both 2017 and 2018.