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As STRUCTeam's principal engineer, Frederic takes the technical lead on many of its high-profile projects across all industry sectors, with a particular focus on the renewables and marine sectors.
Frederic brings over fifteen years of experience in the advanced structural engineering of racing yachts, and is responsible for developing and broadening technical capabilities. Before joining STRUCTeam in 2010, he worked with marine architects and yacht designers to develop composites solutions for a wide range of high performance vessels. Many of Frederic's designs have been incorporated into award-winning yachts.
With a PhD and MSc from the University of Southampton, Frederic's research area was the hydroelasticity of sailing yachts in waves.

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"Get the fundamentals of the game down and the level of everything you do will rise"- Michael Jordan
This Clinic offers comprehensive instruction on core offensive basketball skills. Our objective is to develop your child into a complete, well-rounded player. We use a teaching approach that fosters personal development skills for success both on and off the court.
Competing in a track meet without learning to run first most likely results in struggle. The same is true in basketball – signing up for a league or school team without the proper technique or practice of those techniques quite often results in struggle as well. Our Youth Skills Clinic prepares a player to go out and play successfully!
Open to boys & girls ages 7 to 11. Players will be grouped according to age & appropriate skill level.
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Can you copyright public domain art?
You can't copyright public domain material as is, which would remove it from free public use.
The public owns these works, not an individual. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can own it.
However – if you substantially change the public domain material, then you own the copyright of the derivative work. [pinit]
How To Graphics: Can You Copyright Public Domain Art?
Additionally, a collection of public domain material will be protected if the person who compiled it has used creativity in the selection and organization of the material. You're free to use individual pieces, but copying and distributing the complete collection may infringe the "collective works" copyright. source
How much do you need to change the public domain material to copyright it? There's no specific percentage. Likely, if a case went to court, it would depend on the judge's interpretation of the piece, his/her personal stance on the issue, and other factors.
Now, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV – or the internet! You should always do your own due diligence if you have specific concerns. In other words, hire a lawyer 😉
How I Created the Graphic with Public Domain Art
I made the accompanying images by combining two pieces of public domain art – photo and logo. I didn't bother to put a copyright © on it, but I could argue that I used creativity in the combination, and substantially altered the original image. Honestly, I'm not certain this is enough of a change to qualify for a new copyright. The only reason I would care about someone downloading a piece like this is if they took off my name, and especially if they put theirs on instead.
Do people do stuff like that? Oh yes! Sadly.
For each image in this series I created for Twilight Zone Day, I put the TZ logo on a separate layer and switched it from black to white. In Photoshop, you can do that quickly by "inverting" the layer: Image… Adjustments… Invert, or command-I.
I changed the opacity of the layer to about 50% – whatever looked good with each image. In some cases, I added a drop shadow instead of lightening it as a watermark, so the logo would stand out against the light photo background (see image at right).
Be sure to check out my previous post for more details on finding public domain art. I did find these images in the same place: WikiMedia.
And here's the whole Twilight Zone slideshow! I created a series of images for a photo album on my Facebook Fan Page. I've heard that albums get great engagement and – this one did! Perhaps I'll write a post explaining how to set up a Fan Page album, as it's a bit hidden.
I hope you found this useful! Please give this post a "Like" if it's helped give you some clarity on the question, Can you copyright public domain art? Thanks!


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This isn't an april fool's joke. This evening, I got the 40th Valor emblem needed in order to buy Xintor's Expeditionary Boots, bringing my "hit-cap offset" to 448, or 17.08%. This means that I can now try out the Fireball PvE spec.
I picked up the glyphs from Wimzig, slapped on this 20/51/0 talent build onto my secondary spec (I am LOVING dual-specs, btw), and started practicing on a dummy in Ironforge. When raid invites go up for day 2 of Evening Naxxramas, I will attempt to liveblog my exploits as a change of pace. Wish me luck!
8:18pm (server) – raid is filled! looks like the makeup is druid/dk tank, priest/druid heals, 3x mage, dk, hunter, and priest dps. First thing that comes to my mind is scorch duty. Other mage is FFB and he's got the glyph, so he's good to go with that.
8:31pm – Hot Streak! Awesome! Wait, what? Pull's over? um…DIE CRITTER!
8:35pm – there seems to be a shortage of ice blocks. Where'd all this aggro come from?
8:40pm – 2 deaths already. Definitely a glass cannon.
8:47pm – wiped on Razuvius at ~10%. Second in DPS, but first in total damage by a MILE. Actually had to Evocate that fight. Maybe I ought to back off on some of those LB's. AND WHO THE HECK WAS ON SCORCH DUTY? ARRGGH. I might as well be the one to do it next time.
9:12pm – connection issuefrom the MT. Once that was resolved, got another shot at it. Died early. Apparently those jagged knives are heat-seeking.
9:35pm – Gothikk Down. DPS was meh. Hard to get a spell in edgewise with 3 sec fireballs. I prolly should have scorch spammed the adds.
9:36pm – dps was meh because I had 3 broken pieces of armor that fight. Carbonite map was covering the durability indicator. Makes perfect sense now.
10:02pm – 4 horsemen is actually a progression point for this "group" of raiders. Once they get the hang of the flow of the fight, I will be able to see see how this spec performs under those conditions.
10:22pm – 4 horsemen down! I ran out of mana even with mage armor on. I think I should have put the 2 optional points into Arcane Meditation instead of Student of the Mind. 100% mana regeneration sounds pretty sick. Switching to Frost for Sapphiron, because I get free 120 frost resist with that spec. Will make conclusions once the night is over.


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Ryan has spent 15+ years in the orthopedic industry, with experience in a variety of team and managerial roles within product development including lead engineer, project manager, and group manager. Ryan has commercialized and led teams of engineers to develop products in a variety of markets including hip, spine, extremity, and soft tissue fixation. Along with commercializing medical devices, Ryan has a track record of innovation including eight patents issued or currently in prosecution. Ryan has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University.
Ryan has also spent a portion of his career in orthopedic device manufacturing assuming a variety of operational roles and has a deep understanding of design for manufacturing.
Ryan resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana with his wonderful wife and five children. In addition to spending time with his family, Ryan enjoys getting outside and playing golf, hunting, fishing and enjoying the many lake activities in the area.


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I have reduced my goal to 20 for the rest of this year, not much left I know. My aim is to complete 4/5 books this month. Very ambitious however there are a couple I am very excited to read, so hoping I may be able to find time to read 2 a week. Not all are available via amazon but are on Goodreads. Does leaving one half read count?
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Wilderness ER: Use what is at hand
Class teaches what to do when injured in the wild.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part series on Wilderness First Aid based on a 16-hour (two-day) course taught by Sam Coffman at the Helotes Creek Nature Center. This installment includes moving a patient, medical treatment and comments by students. Coffman's next 16-hour Wilderness First Aid course will be Dec. 5 and 12 at the Helotes Creek Nature Center.
Wilderness First Aid involves learning to treat the variety of ailments and injuries that happen outdoors and being innovative in using whatever is available to take care of the injured.
That is especially true when moving the injured party which may be crucial to getting them to a better area for treatment.
For extraction of the patient, instructor Sam Coffman showed students how to make an impromptu stretcher using a blanket or tarp wrapped around two poles used for handles.
If poles for a stretcher are not available then putting the patient on a tarp, blanket or something similar allows them to be dragged to a better treatment location.
Students also learned how to move a patient by themselves using the one person Fireman's Carry or two people locking arms for the victim to sit on and be moved.
Coffman said wilderness injuries include heat stroke or frost bite, insect or snake bites, poison oak or poison ivy reaction, fractures and sprains and different kinds of shock.
Coffman took his students to an area behind the Helotes Creek Nature Center and showed them poison oak growing among other plants and how to recognize the plant.
As he pointed out the poison oak, students took photographs and took notes.
As part of the "use what is around you" philosophy of Wilderness First Aid, Coffman used the walking tour of the area behind the nature center to show students material for things like slings.
He showed how the curved bark of a hackberry tree can be used as a support cast to hold a person's arm in a sling.
Coffman also showed how a curved newspaper can be used the same way.
Back in the classroom, students learned to recognize common snakes in the South Texas area including the rattlesnake, cotton mouth and copperhead and poisonous spiders like the Brown Recluse and Black Widow.
In addition to learning outdoor medical skills, Coffman showed students how to put together wilderness first aid kits, from a basic one to a more sophisticated kit able to treat more people for more injuries or ailments.
Coffman suggested learning how to make several size first-aid kits so smaller ones can fit in larger ones.
The class also learned how to treat the various injuries and ailments using items in the first-aid kit or whatever is available.
Among the class members were James Hernandez and Gloria Rupert.
"I believe more people are trying to be self-sufficient and becoming more knowledge about nature and how to use nature effectively," Hernandez said.
"That is how I feel and one of the reasons I am taking this Wilderness First Aid Course. More and more people including me are getting interested in the outdoors and I want to be ahead of the curve and use what I learn in this class to help others," Hernandez said.
Rupert, a professional massage therapist, said she used to live a more adventurous life including skiing and camping in the snow in Switzerland and enjoying the outdoors while living in the African nation of Senegal.
"This Wilderness First Aid class falls right in with the lifestyle I had before moving here (the San Antonio area). We used to hike and camp year round and kayak and we even took canoeing vacations in Europe," she said during a break in one of the classes held in September.
"I want to get back to that active, outdoor lifestyle and this class is part of that effort," Rupert said.
Coffman said Hurricane Katrina, 911, the Oklahoma City bombing and earthquakes in California have shown how quickly the emergency medical treatment system in a major urban area can be overwhelmed and overtaxed.
In those and similar situations Wilderness First Aid training would be just as useful as treating a patient out in the woods.
"After Katrina, many people in New Orleans had to walk around in murky water polluted by petroleum products and had to do that for a long time. A minor leg cut that would be treatable with stuff in a medicine cabinet could become much worse walking that polluted water.
"And they were long way away from definitive care. That would have qualified as a Wilderness First Aid situation," Coffman said.
Final installment: A wrap up by Sam Coffman.


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I have mentioned my ambivalence when it comes to categorizing my research as musicology or ethnomusicology (and also what "-ist" I call myself). Regardless, I am in Chicago conducting research of various sorts (hence the quotes around field in the title), and here's a story based on my 22 or so hours in Chicago so far.
Do you know what's really helpful when traveling? Going in the right direction. It seems obvious, yes? Well, when I'm dealing with the CTA, it doesn't always work so obviously. Case in point: yesterday I was trying to get from the airport to my hotel. Thanks to my iPhone (research instrument extraordinaire) and the google maps app, I had a route set involving one train and one bus.
The train part was a piece of cake, as there is only one train departing in one direction from Midway. I got off at my stop and proceeded to the street to find the bus stop; conveniently the stop was right out the front door of the train station. Not so conveniently (for me), both the northbound AND the southbound version of this bus arrived at that stop. I did not notice this…. because as I was walking out of the train station, what I thought was my bus pulled up.
I hopped on, pleased with the fortuitous timing. My phone was dying, so once I got on the bus, I put it away; but after a few stops, I decided to check my progress. It was at this point that i realized my blue dot was NOT on the blue line heading north. I tried to remain calm and immediately got off at the next stop. I and my luggage trudged across the street and back north a block or so to find the nearest bus stop for the NORTHbound bus. I waited a solid twenty-five minutes; finally, I was on the bus headed toward my hotel.
The happy ending is, of course, that I made it to the hotel (eventually). But here's the more interesting coda: There was a man that got off the train when I did. I remembered him because he let me exit the train before he did, and when I was trying to find the elevator, he pointed me in the right direction. When my northbound bus got back to the train station, he was still waiting and got on the northbound bus! Assuming he had been there since we disembarked from the train, my stupidity did not cost me any extra time, only a bit of embarrassment and a slew of frustration!


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God is generally accepted by Jews, Christians, and Muslims to be the ultimate source and judge of morality. Some people of faith often look upon we who do not hold their God close to our hearts as being somehow inherently immoral, since we reject that from which morality flows. Many more see our rejection itself as being immoral; we reject that which is intrinsically 'Good' therefore we reject 'Goodness'. I find this particular conviction of the faithful to be morally abhorrent.
Morality is a system of rules for correct conduct. The followers of the Abrahamic divinity point to the Ten Commandments as their exemplar for morality, built upon by Jesus and Mohammed (depending on the faith). George Carlin dismissed with these fabled tablets in an excellent and concise fashion, but for the purposes of this article, in short, the first three are nonsense about fearing the deity, next we have respect for one's elders, which has little to do with morality, and the rest boil down to fidelity, honesty and murder, which do. These do not require divine inspiration; any society will arrive at some form of this system almost naturally.
An orderly society can only be built if people respect each other's right to have and maintain property, and the right to live. Without these Commandments are we to believe that everyone would go about their lives arbitrarily stealing and killing? This would be anarchy, and yet the great cities of Mesopotamia, the civilisations of the Yellow River Valley, the Nile, and the Aegean were able to survive and flourish without God telling them how to behave. They may also have invoked the wrath of their gods on those who were immoral and broke laws, but that does not mean that God or gods were the source of their morality. God is merely the guarantor of this particular social contract.
We do not need Commandments. If these were wiped from history the social contract would survive, morality would endure. We would know that it is wrong to murder or to steal, as we can imagine how it would to be to have these things done to us. Quite simply "Do unto to others…" In a civilised, secular world the enforcement of this does not require a deity, simply a justice system, or even a strong sense of societal norms. People often point to, for example, the brutality, use of slavery, and corruption of Roman Empire, the Crusades, or Medieval Europe as being times of great immorality. This is an anachronistic assumption. The brutality of these people was perfectly coherent within their moral structure, and often affirmed by their faith. The sacking of cities, the execution of prisoners or the killing of religious zealots is looked back on with disgust, but were generally socially acceptable at the time. These people were not more primitive than we; they lived in a harsh world and acted in accordance with their traditions, social norms, and often with their faith. They were a moral people, no more than people of today, they just had different morals.
Morality is then a set of rules, largely accepted by a particular society at a specific time, which can evolve as the society or culture develops. It does not require God, or faith. And even then, the morality they preach is a corrupt and repugnant version of morality. To be moral is, basically, to be able to distinguish from right and wrong. Catholicism teaches that in doing 'Good', in doing God's work, the faithful will be rewarded in heaven. This work is taken generally to mean being a loyal subject of the illusory king, converting more souls to join his army of faithful, and expounding his peculiar brand of truth. This is seen to be a morally good life. It is a betrayal. A truly moral or virtuous act is only such if done without the prerequisite stipulation of reward. In effect, you do the Right Thing because it is the right thing to do, not for riches and glory, here or in the 'afterlife'. The faithful expect, even demand as an article of faith, to be rewarded for their deeds. This might lead one to believe that it is the faithful, not we atheists, who would descend into anarchic and bloody kleptomania without the promise of heaven. To do Good Things, virtuous and moral acts, are rewards in themselves. As Kant said, "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end." Converting people, and doing good things for them as a means to your own salvation is a very cynical morality. This is the condition for entrance to heaven: use your fellow man. The ultimate commandment of the Christian God is 'Fear me, obey me, abuse your fellow man, and I will reward you'.
Atheism and secularism are then exceptionally more moral than any system of faith based on reward. They make no promises of 'eternal reward', or for the kind judgement of a fairy-tale king, but ask that we behave towards one another in a civilised fashion, with mutual respect and understanding, and without reference to capricious deities. They exist in the here and now, where actions have permanent and tangible consequences.
Children have to be taught what is right and wrong, and, depending on the time of year, an ultimate sanction, such as the dreaded Santa Claus, may be used to guarantee good behaviour. Fear is an excellent means of controlling the credulous. Adults (should) know what is right and wrong, yet the ultimate sanction still exists in popular culture. Bad people will go to Hell for eternal punishment, and the good will ascend into Heaven for eternal reward. Fear is an excellent means of controlling the credulous.
Grow up. Be moral for your own sake and that of your fellow human individuals, not for Santa Claus, the Bogeyman, or any other such fiction.
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Ask the Right Questions Upfront to Build an Effective Lead Generation Plan
Set yourself up for success and ask the right questions upfront to build an effective lead generation plan.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Hurry-up Offense
Companies spend so much time, money and energy building an offering that by the time the product is to be released, it requires the organization to move to a "hurry up offense" to build a pipeline—ideally this process starts when a development project is first funded. In short, fast food approaches to creating a lead generation plan to build a qualified pipeline will result in wasting dollars and time, increasing turnover rates in staff, lowering morale and sacrificing market share.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Anyone Can Spend Money
The lead generation plan is where the rubber meets the road. Lead generation can be done by anyone, anywhere. In more cases than not, lead generation "activities" are assembled that are poorly designed and generate lackluster results. However, the perception is that there was a plan and money was spent so marketing failed. However, efficient and effective lead generation plans can only be designed, developed and executed by a small percentage of marketers who can balance strategic thinking with tactical execution. If focus is placed on the five fundamentals (served market, target account profiles, buying process, message and offer) described below you will avoid many lead generation pitfalls.
The lead generation planning model below is a high level diagram of what to be thinking about when crafting a customer acquisition initiative. In general, it is best to start with an objective that is highly correlated to your reverse engineered demand creation plan—this should be a plan that is mutually developed with Sales and Marketing. From here, the center of the model emphasizes the strategy development—how will you achieve your objective. Typically, messaging or offers are the next component to be developed. With these critical elements of the initiative in place, the appropriate demand creation vehicles become obvious. Of course, there are many more pieces and parts to the puzzle, but if you focus on the core components below and the interrelatedness of each, you will find that your initiatives will be more efficient and effective.
Served Market vs. Spaghetti Against the Wall
One of the most common mistakes companies make is to take a spray and pray approach to their marketing efforts. The argument for such a strategy usually centers on a belief that the offering is equally suitable for all users, all companies, all industries and all geographies or that it's too difficult to identify the served market. While there may be some truth to the former and the later does take some doing, it will serve a company well to have a tightly defined served market and a compelling value proposition. This is not to say that organizations that are not targeted will never buy or that you should not go after these organizations at some point in time, but it is trying to communicate that your best ROI will come from following the rule as opposed to chasing exceptions. The constraint that should be forefront is that you have a finite set of resources (people, money and time) and all the wood for the Marketing arrow should be laser focused for optimized returns.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Targets – Roles in the Buying Process
Simply deciding on what size organization (revenues, employees, industry, etc.) is a good start but it is not enough information to build a successful customer acquisition plan from. The real questions are: Who are you going to target in your campaigns? What are the names of the organizations? Who inside of these organizations should be targeted? What is their contact information (social footprint, physical address, telephone number, email address). What is their motivation and behavioral patterns? This is the critical step that cannot be properly managed with a call to a list broker, setting up a Twitter account or creating a Facebook or LinkedIn page. This can be accomplished via an integrated plan that embraces social media, classical marketing or a combination of both. The basic question that should be the driving force needs to be answered by Sales—what is the profile (TAP: Target Account Profile) of a qualified prospect that you would like to be placed in-front of (physical or virtual) and feel confident that you would close two times out of three, or more.
Developing the TAP is a give and take process that must include Sales and Marketing and must be centered around a documented set of assumptions that are mutually agreed upon. Why? This is your customer acquisition blueprint–this will help answer the questions of what is the market, who is being targeted, what is the value proposition, what are the offers, what are the right sales conversations and what is the follow-up process. When Sales and Marketing nail these questions it will have a huge impact on the qualified pipeline and on the effectiveness and ROI of campaigns.
The smaller and tighter you can make the target database of prospects the better as the amount of time and attention increases inversely with the size of the database. The bonus is that if you have a tight database, your budget goes further. For example, if you have $100,000 and chase 10,000 companies you have $10 per organization, however, if you tighten the list to the 500 best prospects you now have $2,000 per organization.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Messaging – Sales Conversations
There are too many companies chasing the same set of buyers—usually 100 to 1,000 with a message that a buyer will lump together (what's already in there mind, the way they view your offering, the way they view competitors and substitutes). Unfortunately, the words and images offered by each company creates a slur and blur in the prospects mind. If a prospect can remember a message there is still a challenge to correlate that message with your company, as other companies are in contact with that prospect as much, or more often, than your company–even major consumer brands have this problem
It is critical to have a message that is compelling and resonates with your target audience. The first step in offering a compelling message is to understand the business problem that you solve, the economic cost and benefits, the roles in the buying process, the competitive environment and the business drivers. This means it is imperative to develop an understanding of who these people are, what they are held accountable for, where they go for information, who do they trust, what are they trying to accomplish, how they have made purchases in the past, etc. (persona, journey board and behavioral model). From here, a set of strategic and tactical messages can be crafted that will be meaningful for the different roles in the buying process and will cut through the clutter.
All communications need to be consistent and reinforce one another with a similar, tone, look and feel. That means the website, presentations, offers, social outreach, email communication, voicemail scripts, call guides, etc., need to be developed from the same communication/messaging platform.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Offers – Not After Thoughts
The offer should not be an afterthought or a quick peruse of what happens to be available at that point in time. The basic premise of a customer acquisition initiative is to initiate, develop, advance or cultivate a relationship with a prospect or customer. Assuming new customers are the focus, the real question is what could be provided to the prospect at a point in time that would encourage them to provide their contact information, create a positive impression, influence their knowledge/agenda, indicate that they are interested or ready/willing/able to purchase. Once you have identified these motivational elements you are well on your way to establishing compelling offers for your initiative.
Effective Lead Generation Plan – Follow-up – Don't Let the Fruit Rot
Last but certainly not least, is follow-up for each initiative. The best customer acquisition initiative in the world will be significantly hindered with poor follow-up and/or weak or nonexistent hand-offs between Marketing and Sales. On average, an inquiry will need to be touched at least 10 times before it becomes warm, cold or a referral. This is why it is imperative for Sales and Marketing to work collaboratively so that there are clear expectations, consistent terminology, clean processes, auditable systems and specific roles and responsibilities. At a minimum, terminology around the sales forecast, target account profiles, call guides, voicemail scripts, email follow-ups, SFA tracking requirements, qualification matrices, weekly quotas and reporting should have been disseminated and communicated to all.
Marketing is part art and part science. Many times a stake has to be placed in the ground because of time, money, resources, etc. Even in those situations, take at last 10% of the timeline of the project and use that time upfront to think and plan. Socialize data, thoughts, assumptions and document as much as possible. When the organization acts as one is will be more powerful and successful.
Download an Effective Lead Generation Plan that will optimize the conversion of responses to qualified opportunities.


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Courtesy Of Donna Van Lier-Grieve Of Re/Max Select.
Welcome to PINE GROVE ESTATES! Located just minutes from down town! This CUSTOM BUILT 2500+sq.ft. 4 level 5 bdrm, 3 bathroom ORIGINAL OWNER HOME sits on 2.82 acres, close to golf course, Agri-plex quad trails, fishing and more. This beautiful home features VAULTED CEILINGS, laminate & carpet flooring. SUN ROOM offering a entire wall of windows make this open concept design perfect for entertaining! Adjacent is the open style kitchen & living room, w/ a WOOD-BURNING FIREPLACE. Main floor offers family room, bathroom, DEN/OFFICE, HUGE MAIN FLOOR LAUNDRY/ MUD ROOM, Patio doors that open to 84 feet of rap around deck overlooking the yards. The master bedroom has a HUGE WALK-in CLOSET, and a 5pce ensuite complete with a deep soaker jetted tub.2 more huge bdrms & a 4 pce bath on the 3rd lower level. Partial finished basement with two more bdrms! METAL ROOFING.OVERSIZED TRIPLE ATTACHED GARAGE (23' x 26') CONNECTED TO AN OVER SIZED GARAGE WORK SHOP (23'x 42') BOTH with in- floor heating & 220V wiring.BRING OFFERS
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Loyola University Chicago School of Law,
DePauw University,
B.A., Economics and History, cum laude, 2006
Thompson Coburn LLP
Associate, 2012-Present
Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division
Clerk to Hon. Nancy J. Arnold, 2009-2011
Bill represents a range of clients in the areas of real estate, construction, development, and public finance. Drawing on his dual experience in public finance and real estate matters, he advises lenders, owners, developers, and contractors on an array of contractual and financing issues. In each transaction, he focuses on providing clear, concise counsel and a pragmatic approach to challenges.
Bill has provided legal counsel to contractors, subcontractors, and owners on significant national public and private development projects. He frequently represents real estate lenders, and has developed notable experience representing issuers in public finance transactions, with proficiency in dealing with low-income housing tax credits. Bill drafts and negotiates commercial leases for retail and office transactions for major corporate clients, both tenant and landlord. In his representation of several major regional hospitals, Bill facilitates construction contracts for expanding health care hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, and remote centers throughout the country.
Prior to entering private practice at Thompson Coburn, Bill served as a law clerk in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He gained significant experience in real estate and public finance law regarding contract disputes and quiet title actions, and declaratory judgments involving municipal governments, tax increment financing, construction contracts, easements, insurance, bonds and equipment finance. In addition, Bill has diversified his legal knowledge with advanced courses in taxation from Northwestern University School of Law.
- The Wall Street Journal, Deal of the Week (March 2014) column featured a substantial housing redevelopment in the historic Tremé neighborhood if New Orleans for which Bill and his colleagues in Thompson Coburn's real estate group represented U.S. Bank.
- A top design-build contractor garnered a new 200,000 square-foot headquarters project for a major systems integration company using construction documents Bill helped negotiate.
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This review of Inside a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know has been near the top of the NYT Most E-mailed stories all week. And why not? Who doesn't want to know what's going on between our ears? For some of us it is a theme park of thinkerating. For others, grey space. (Ahem, OBST.)
There was interesting stuff like this
A dog's vision affects its sense of time, too. Dogs have a higher "flicker fusion" rate than we do, which is the rate at which retinal cells can process incoming light, or "the number of snapshots of the world that the eye takes in every second." ... This is more than a game of fetch; it is a profound, existential realization: "One could say that dogs see the world faster than we do, but what they really do is see just a bit more world in every second."
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Countering the currently fashionable alpha dog "pack theories" of dog training, Horowitz notes that "in the wild, wolf packs consist almost entirely of related or mated animals. They are families, not groups of peers vying for the top spot. . . . Behaviors seen as 'dominant' or 'submissive' are used not in a scramble for power; they are used to maintain social unity."
So let's see how much you have learned. Below you must study my pictures and guess what my expression tells you about what is going on in my noggin...
A. Robert Reich's column in the NYT was an informative defense of a single payer system, though I do believe he is overly optimistic about the political possibilities for passing said legislation.
B. Mmmmm.....bacon.
C. I should recite a little Seamus Heaney, ahem,:
Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
At a funeral mass, the skunk's tail
Paraded the skunk. Night after night
I expected her like a visitor.
D. Oscar's looking at my butt, isn't he?
E. I wonder if I'm taller than Robert Reich. And also, he's looking at my butt again, isn't he?
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Getting to Know You
Understanding patients as people
"We are more than our illness."
Dr. Susan McClement finds inspiration in the words of Sir William Osler, the legendary Canadian physician who passed away nearly a century ago: "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
Patient care is enhanced when medical personnel know more about the patient as a person, their family, and their general circumstances, says Dr. McClement. It is particularly important when a patient is dealing with life-limiting illness and the last stages of life.
"Lots of times when people think about oncology or cancer care they think about the disease and the treatment of it," explains Dr. McClement, Principal Investigator, Psychosocial Oncology and Cancer Nursing Research at St. Boniface Hospital. "But when we think about holistic care and what it means to take care of a person in his or her totality, we are thinking about care of body in terms of symptom management, but we are also thinking about the heart and soul and mind of the person."
At the root of psychosocial oncology is the belief that "we are more than our illness," says Dr. McClement. The research she and her colleagues perform is centred on learning more about what patients and families need, and promoting changes in practice where appropriate.
For example, says Dr. McClement, how nurses interact with patients can have an impact on their well-being, even when a nurse is performing technical tasks optimally. "If we behave like their care is burdensome for us, people can really start to feel diminished and their sense of self and their sense of dignity gets eroded," explains Dr. McClement, who has been a nurse educator since 1985. "We know that there is a whole package of negative outcomes when one's sense of dignity is eroded. We know that people who have what we call a fractured sense of dignity have higher levels of pain, they have higher rates of depression and anxiety and our research has shown that people have a loss of will to live. We talk about nursing and caring being soft, but there are hard-edge consequences if we don't get it right."
Dr. McClement and her colleagues have been involved in a large number of research studies designed to advance knowledge and practice from a psychosocial perspective. One of her most significant projects focuses on nutrition in cancer patients in the last stages of life. She first developed an interest in the topic years ago as a research nurse gathering data for a study on the Palliative Care Unit at St. Boniface Hospital.
"I saw a lot of very thin and emaciated cancer patients who I knew were imminently dying and yet, at the same time, I saw family members bringing in bags of food and going to great lengths to try and get their loved ones to eat," recalls Dr. McClement. "I saw the resulting conflict that happened between the patient and family, and I saw the ripple effect with the conflict between family and staff. That really piqued my interest.
She has been trying to understand why families behave the way they do around food when a loved one is in the final stages of life, and she is learning more about the impact on patients. And it all starts from a scientific understanding that in the final stages of life, human beings do not process fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, the way healthy people do. The calories, therefore, have little positive impact on reversing the weight loss that occurs as part of the patient's illness. Family members, although eager to be helpful and nurturing in a difficult time, don't always understand this.
"What we see is a dynamic where families are trying to get their loved ones to eat; healthcare providers are saying it is not a good idea to push food; and patients are saying 'get off my back, I can't eat this,'" explains Dr. McClement. "And so we've got all of this tension going on at the end of life. I wanted to understand what that was about. My work has really helped me to understand why some families behave in the way they do."
While Dr. McClement sympathizes with families desperate to do something proactive, her research and observations point to potentially negative outcomes from encouraging eating against a patient's will.
"Patients would say things like, 'You know what? The only way that I am going to get any peace around this is not to talk to them when they come and pretend that I am sleeping,'" says Dr. McClement. "That's really quite tragic because in a finite amount of time there are important conversations I think that dying patients and families should be having. I think it is tragic that that time is lost while patients are trying to be self-protective."
Another body of research is focused on the experiences of healthcare aides in personal care home settings. These are people who spend a great deal of time with elderly people in life's final stages. They are in a position to make keen observations about a person's condition, but lack the official standing to advocate on behalf of residents when they see family members making decisions about end-of-life care that the aide believes are inconsistent with residents' wishes. With that dynamic come ethical and emotional issues and questions.
"It is not surprising to me that we often see a high turnover of healthcare aides, although having said that, there is a cohort of healthcare aides who have been caring for the same residents for long periods of time who are so committed. They will say 'it is like caring for my family,'" says Dr. McClement. "There is a great need for that group to be educated in end-of-life care."
Above all, for Dr. McClement and her colleagues, the research – funded in part by St. Boniface Hospital Foundation – is about ensuring optimal care for people near the end of life. It's about seeing palliative care not just as a physical unit within the hospital, but as a philosophy of dignity and comfort at all stages of illness. It's about asking patients: "What do I need to know about you as a person to take the best care of you possible?" And it's about using the answer to inform the delivery of care.
"I lament the times back when I was working in the ICU and I read the obituaries of patients who I'd cared for. I learned more about them from reading their obituary than I did in the time that I was caring for them," recalls Dr. McClement. "How might the way I would have approached them or their family been different had I taken the time to ask and learn about these things?"


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In today's post I want to share with you a Furls Crochet Odyssey hook review.
Before I start, I just want to mention that I bought the hook myself, and this is NOT a sponsored post.
I will always give you my honest opinion, regardless if a post is sponsored or not.
But because I know that some people don't fully trust a review that has been sponsored, and for that reason only I am specifying this before starting.
Everything said is my own opinion.
Furls Crochet Odyssey hook review
Furls Crochet has different hooks collections, but the one I am reviewing is part of their Odyssey collection.
You can find the collection here: https://furlscrochet.com/collections/odyssey
Currently they have their Odyssey hooks in 5 colors: Black, red, purple, pink and rose gold.
I bought the Rose Gold edition which retails at $66 per hook.
But other colors retail at different prices. Their black hooks retail at $30, the purple at $33, the red at $60, and finally we have the rose gold and the pink both at $66.
I am not completely sure why that great variance in price just by colors, almost or more than double the price for the pink and rose, over the black and red.
I couldn't find a official explanation on the site over this.
Looking at all hooks in the Odyssey collection, you can see that the black, red and purple hook's tips are coated with nickel, while the pink is coated with 14K gold.
Nothing is said of the rose gold one, but if you compare it with the pink, you can see that they are so similar that it might be the same coating. So I am assuming that is also coated with 14k gold, and this is the reason for the price difference.
The line offers sizes B to P (2.25 mm to 10.00 mm)
I bought the size E ( 3.5 mm). And tested it making a couple of swatches in different stitches.
I compared it with other crochet hooks of the same size.
I used a classic crochet hook, the kind that is available everywhere, even at Walmart!
And I compared it to a simple ergonomic hook, the kind that has rubber around the handle.
Furls Crochet Odyssey hook review UPDATE:
At the time of recording the review I though that the sticker that tells you the size of the hook was under a clear coat of paint.
The sticker edges where so fine that they blended so well, and I couldn't feel them. They were also bright and glossy, so this made me thing that a coat of clear pain or varnish like the one I use for my clay charms.
Turns out the sticker is not covered, and with further use, the border is now wearing off, and revealing that in fact, is not protected by any kind of cover, and could fall at any time.
This is not a problem of me, because I only own one Furls Crochet Odyssey hook. So, I know that the only one I own is my E size.
But if I were to buy more, or if you want to buy more than one, this could be a problem, as you won't know what size your hook is, if the sticker falls.
For some of you this might still not represent a real problem. But since I am a pattern designer I need to know the exact size of hook I am using so I can list it on my patterns.
But someone else following a pattern just needs to make sure to obtain gauge, and the actual hook size is not that important.
A way around this problem, could be to buy different sizes in different colors. But I know most people prefer to have their collection in one set of colors.
Whatever you choose to do, I just want to tell you the whole story and deliver all the information so you can make your own decision based on this review and others.
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Against all expectations, London ghostwriter Stephanie Harker becomes friends with her latest subject, bad girl reality show star Scarlett Higgins, only to become caught up in a scheme that leads to the abduction of Scarlett's little boy.
The book opens at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, where Stephanie, who has become five-year-old Jimmy's guardian, flips out when she sees a male stranger lead him away as she's being examined in a security box. After being Tasered by agents and told she's making up the abduction, she pours out an exhaustive account of the events leading up to it to a sympathetic female FBI agent. Though "Scarlett Harlot" gained fame as an epithet-spouting bimbo on a survivor-type show, Goldfish Bowl, she actually is a woman of savvy intelligence who invented that image to escape her bad circumstances. Like Stephanie, whose moody musician boyfriend attempts to control her, Scarlett has a disagreeable mate: a gadabout club DJ who is into drugs and guns. The women become close, shutting the men out of their lives after Jimmy is born, and closer still after Scarlett is diagnosed with cancer. To escape the tabloids, Scarlett imports a half sister who looks a lot like her to be her public surrogate. The story also involves a British detective with whom Stephanie becomes involved, a doctor who devotes himself to the terminal Scarlett, and a Romanian nanny. For all its twists, the narrative never gains traction. The plotting is so mechanical, the writing so pedestrian ("She watched, the tension in her body growing with every passing minute"), you half suspect this book was concocted not by McDermid, author of such masterpieces as A Place of Execution (2000), but a different kind of ghostwriter.
If anything vanishes in this book, it's the first-rate writing fans of McDermid (best known in the States for her Wire in the Blood series) have come to expect.


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Snowberry bush (Symphoricarpos albus) is a medium-size ornamental shrub best known for brilliant white berries that emerge from September to November. Oval, blue-green leaves dot snowberry branches in spring and summer, and its overall shape is loose and open when left alone. Depending on the cultivar, snowberry can grow slowly to a height and spread of 4 to 8 feet. Prune snowberry for shape or rejuvenation in early spring, before new growth begins.
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Examine the snowberry bush for dead wood. Test branches for flexibility by bending them if you're unsure. If they break, they're dead. Follow the dead branches back to living wood and clip them out.
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CNN's Fredricka Whitfield talks with Denzel Washington about his involvement with The Boys and Girls Club of America
I always like Denzel in his movies roles I give him and any one else that helps Our Children A 10 Rateing
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In utero, the umbilicus is a vital conduit between the placenta and fetus and directly impacts the development of the intestine and urinary systems. After delivery its importance diminishes to the role of a potential site of neonatal vascular access. Disorders of the umbilicus are either acquired (granuloma), infectious (omphalitis, phlebitis), neoplastic (teratoma, sarcoma) or congenital (hernia, omphalomesenteric and urachal abnormalities, dysmorphology). Congenital abnormalities predominate in children although granulomas are very common in infants.
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Rockies' season depends on making right moves — now — with pitchers
It was painful watching Wilton Lopez get pinballed around the ballpark Tuesday night as the boos rained down from the scattering of fans left at Coors Field.
The right-handed reliever, so good for Houston in 2012, was blasted for three homers, eight hits and six runs in two-thirds of a marathon eighth inning.
After the Rockies lost 15-3 to the White Sox, I asked manager Walt Weiss a blunt question:
"What has happened to Wilton Lopez, from the pitcher he was two years ago to the pitcher we saw tonight?"
Weiss, who, to his credit, never throws his players under a bus, responded: "Typically when you get hit hard up here, the ball is in the middle of the plate and it gets elevated. Its' tough, when I think about 'Lopey.' He's a warrior and he always wants the ball."
But I'm sure Weiss knows, and the front office knows, they simply can't keep giving Lopez the ball. At least not at the major-league level. The Rockies, from owner Dick Monfort, to assistant general manager Bill Geivett, to Weiss, insist they want to win now. For the good of the team, that means sending Lopez down to Triple-A as soon as possible.
The other story Tuesday night was lefty starter Franklin Morales. In a sense, he was auditioning to stay in the rotation. The "tryout" didn't go very well. He gave up six runs, allowing eight hits, with four walks, three strikeouts, a hit batter and a balk in 6 1/3 innings. Two home runs in the second inning set the tone.
"I need to compete every time and make my pitches and stay ahead in the count," Morales said. "I need to stay focused, all game. I know I need to do better. In the second inning, I missed a couple of pitches."
For the first time in years, the Rockies have some starting pitching talent they can mix and match, be it with Jordan Lyles, Tyler Chatwood or even prospect Eddie Butler. And Juan Nicasio is fresh off one of the best starts of his career. So it really makes no sense to keep Morales in the rotation. I imagine he will be sent to the bullpen very soon.
I'm not sure if, or when, the Rockies will promote Butler this season. I can't imagine it will be anytime before June. Remember, Chatwood is due back on Sunday and Jhoulys Chacin is scheduled to return in about four weeks. If Lyles continues to pitch well, it makes more sense to let Butler keeping honing his craft at Double-A Tulsa.
Still, the right-hander is off to a strong start this season. Tuesday night, he surrendered only six hits and two runs in seven innings of work. It was longest start for a Tulsa pitcher this season. He struck out seven and did not walk a batter. In two starts this season, Butler has posted a 2.25 ERA. In 12 total innings, he's walked only one and whiffed 12.
It will be interesting to see when the Rockies promote Butler.
Late-night notes of note:
* Troy Tulowitzki started Tuesday's game despite his a slight pull in his right quad. He went 1-for-3 with a double and also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. However, it was clear that he was running the base gingerly.
After the game he said he was "fine." Asked if he was running cautiously, he said, "I'm playing it the way I should right now."
Since going hitless on opening day in Miami, Tulo has hit in seven-straight games, going 11-for-23 with three doubles, a triple, home run, five RBIs and seven runs scored.
* The Rockies are 4-17 in interleague games at Coors Field since 2012.
* The six homers they allowed are the most since Sept. 18, 2011 vs. San Francisco.
* Michael Cuddyer extended his hitting streak to nine games with a double in the second inning, a career-best streak to start the season. Cuddy is hitting .432 (16-for-37) with nine runs scored, four doubles, three home runs and eight RBIs.


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From Reverse Wine Snob: "Portal do Fidalgo Alvarinho – Delicate and Delightful"
Reverse Wine Snob is back with another review! This time he's focusing on a single varietal Alvarinho. Find a sneak peak below, as well as a link to the full review!
"Today we're back with another delightful Vinho Verde pick! Unlike the last wine we featured, which was a blend of several different varieties, today's wine is a single varietal Alvarinho. You can find out lots more about this variety in our Grapes of Vinho Verde article.
The 2013 Portal do Fidalgo Alvarinho begins with a pleasing aroma of apple, pear and citrus. It's a bit shy when first opened but don't let that stop you (…) Better and better with every sip, this is a wine that's hard to put down once you discover its delights!"
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One of my co-workers raises alpacas on her farm. How cool is that? Admittedly, I skipped a lot of steps between alpacas and clothing since I bought the yarn from her.
It turns out that animal fibres are pretty easy to dye: no mess, no hazmat suits, and no ruined kitchen pots. I used this dyeing tutorial from It's A Stitch Up: the whole process went just as described, quick and easy.
So, yarn + Kool-Aid + vinegar…
Makes beautiful colours!
That's 450g of fingering-weight alpaca yarn, dyed with 10 packs of Kool-Aid. There are some irregularities in the colour where the yarn was tied: I initially thought about re-dyeing it, but when I knitted it up, I liked the effect.
The end result is more feminine than my usual style, but perfect for the winter climate. The knitting pattern I used was the Mie Danish shawl from the Filcolana yarn company: you can find the English translation by Exchanging Fire on her blog (thanks!)


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A couple of weeks ago we got wind of the news that the adaptation of the graphic novel Locke & Key would be a TV series instead of a movie. The adaptation comes courtesy of producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, as well as Steven Spielberg.
Kurtzman and Orci recently made a huge deal with 20th Century Fox TV, who will also produce the Locke & Key series along with Dreamworks TV. I previously speculated that Fox would pick up the series (it would be pretty silly for them not to) and that's reportedly what's happened.
Deadline reports that Fox has handed a series commitment to Kurtzman and Orci for the Locke & Key series, which will be written by Josh Friedman, writer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The report doesn't state how much of a commitment Fox has given - is it as little as a pilot or as much as a full season? The fact that there's already mention of a possible summer (2011?) run for the series is a strong sign that Fox is looking to commit to this project for at least one season.
I haven't read the graphic novel but it sounds like Locke & Key will need to be pretty big in scale and length with some impressive special effects to successfully translate it to the small screen. I imagine that's partly why they chose to make a TV series instead of a movie, as this way they'll have more time to tell the story (episode-after-episode is a lot better for a storyteller than a two-hour movie).
In case you're not familiar with it, the plot of Locke & Key is as follows:
It tells the story of Nina Locke and her three children, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, who survive an unspeakable horror and attempt to rebuild their lives at Keyhouse, their family home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. It is a mysterious New England mansion, with fantastic and transformative keys hidden inside its walls that are also being sought by a hate-filled and relentless creature with ties to the Locke family's past who will stop at nothing to accomplish his sinister goals.
Things are moving swiftly with Locke & Key, so I wouldn't be surprised if we start hearing word soon of who will be cast in the lead roles, as well as seeing some concept art and so forth to give us a hint of what we can expect from this particular comic-to-TV-series adaptation.
Will this show be a success and garner a strong following (a la Fringe) or will it fail to catch on and get canceled (a la Flashforward)? It's way too early to tell at this point but it's always fun to speculate :-) .
Source: Deadline


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As part of our support of the Temple's access committee, we have provided a simple means for members to sign up as greeters (or ushers) for Shabbat services. We hope to get from two to four ushers for each service. If you have never ushered, you may wish to pick a day that someone else has already chosen; consider it our apprenticeship program. Provide your e-mail address when you sign up and we will do our best to notify you as your big day approaches.
General Guidelines for Ushers at Temple Sinai
Thank you for volunteering to be an usher at our services. The ushers are the face of Temple Sinai.
- Smile and greet congregants and guests coming to services. "Shabbat Shalom" is a nice thing to say.
- Give out appropriate prayer books and the announcement sheet.
- Hearing devices should be available on the yarmulke box.
- Don't wait for anyone to ask for help. On the other hand, don't force yourself on someone who says "no thank you."
- Remain in the lobby until about five minutes into the service for late comers.
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The first year of the Wilkinson Center's Back-To-School Shoe Drive helped 500 children; this year they are helping 1,800 kids by giving them all new shoes.
Carlin Morris started organizing the Wilkinson Center's Back-To-School Shoe Drive 23 years ago, and it's still going strong.
"I wanted to make sure each child had at least one pair of shoes each year that was fitted to their feet, brand new shoes," Morris said.
The Wilkinson Center is a nonprofit in Dallas dedicated to helping the city's working poor. It partners with Payless ShoeSource for the annual event, which is crucial for many who participate. High school students Janie and Jazmin Shoumbert said they and their siblings only have about one pair of shoes each.
"Our dad died, my mom's a single mom, so this is just like a really great experience for us," said Janie. "We can get some shoes, my little brothers get shoes, and we can't really afford to just go buy new shoes all the time."
Her sister agreed.
"You don't want to start school with old tattered shoes," Janie said. "People look at your shoes, my little brothers, they have to wear uniforms so every one wears the same so if you have tattered shoes they might make fun of them."
Morris says there are many families in Dallas facing the same challenges.
"When you add the shoes to the backpacks, to the new clothes, to the uniforms, to the gas, to the food budget and all," she said. "I just hope that when they don't have to buy a pair of shoes that helps with their monthly budget and they can feed their children easier."


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fire dept stand-by staffing proposal passed, but with a twist
Most proposals considered by the city council are simple to understand. If a majority of the council votes in favor, it passes and the proposal is implemented. If not, the proposal is not implemented. Easy enough.
But at tonight's city council meeting, item 6B on the agenda stated:
"To deny the request of Fire Chief Kiser to reinstate 2011 standby call-in procedure and overtime funding."
The wording is this way because when the proposal was considered by the Finance Personnel Committee last week, it failed. So that committee's recommendation to deny the request came before the council. But when it's worded like this, the result of a vote isn't so simple. In this case, if the proposal passed, that would mean the council approves the denial of the request and the fire department doesn't get what they want. If the proposal failed, then no action is taken, and still, the fire department doesn't get what they want. So either way, there was no way for Chief Kiser to win based on this particular vote.
I voted nay along with Alderpersons Bauer, Robinson and VanVonderen. So I basically said that I was denying the request to deny. But it was a 4-4 vote, in which case the mayor breaks the tie, and he voted aye. So the motion to deny the request passed.
I want to spell this out and make it clear, because if you read a tweet about it, or hear a blurb that says the city council denied the request, that's not entirely true. In this particular vote, we didn't have the power to approve the chief's request. Now, we are the city council, and we certainly have the power to make a new motion or consider any changes to the budget, but we didn't do that, not last night anyway. Hannah O'Brien, from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, does a great job tweeting about local politics, but on a negative vote like this, it's difficult to explain in 140 characters or less exactly what that means. So, instead of replying to her tweet, I figured I'd explain it here.
Moving forward, I'm eager to talk about this more as part of the regular budget process. We'll continue discussions on our 2013 budget in the coming months, working toward passing it by the end of this calendar year.


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Murderer get life in prison
A Carson man convicted of murdering his ex-wife's boyfriend in Downey three years ago was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey Falcone imposed the term on Jeffrey Denard Lewis, 41, who was convicted Feb. 25 of first-degree murder in the May 21, 2005, slaying of Da Shun Leonard Shufford.
Jurors also found true the special circumstance allegation that Lewis was lying in wait before the attack, along with a gun allegation.
Lewis killed Shufford when he realized his ex-wife was not going to come back to him, Deputy District Attorney Deborah Escobar said.
Wearing a wig and carrying a loaded handgun, he waited for the victim to come home and confronted him, she said.
Lewis shot Shufford four times, beat the victim in the head with the empty gun and stomped on his head, Escobar said. He was arrested the following month.
Service clubs honor detectives
Hawthorne's Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs will honor two police detectives today for their investigation into the September death of a toddler.
The investigation by Detectives Sean Galindo and Eric Lane led to the arrest of James Ward IV, who is awaiting trial for allegedly shaking his stepdaughter to death last year.
The girl, Kayla, died at a hospital several days after police officers found her unresponsive on the floor of the family home.
After an investigation, Galindo and Lane arrested Ward, who is due in court July 2.
Library renovation approved
The final phase of a project to renovate Torrance's main library at a cost of more than $760,000 has received the green light.
The City Council approved the project at its Tuesday meeting. Construction is tentatively slated to begin this summer.
It's the first renovation of the main floor of the library since it was built almost 30 years ago, city officials said.
The upper floor and basement previously have been renovated and now it is the turn of the ground floor of the Katy Geissert Civic Center Library, said Mayor Frank Scotto.
New welcome unveiled
Officials on Thursday unveiled a new block-lettered sign greeting travelers who enter Los Angeles International Airport from Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards.
The sign's undulating design is meant to evoke the nearby sand dunes and ocean waves, according to airport officials. It took 11 months to install the sign and plant some new landscaping at a cost of $45,000.
A similar beautification project is expected to be completed this summer on the south side of the airport near the intersection of Sepulveda Boulevard and Imperial Highway, according to airport officials.
"As good neighbors we are proud the sign will not only serve to beautify a major LAX entryway, but that it will also serve as a nice introduction to our neighbors in the Westchester community," said Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of the agency that operates LAX.
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Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint from 8:30 tonight to 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the eastbound lanes of the 1300 block of Rosecrans Avenue in Gardena.
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A pipeline carrying gas condensate from the Bombay High offshore oilfield to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd premises in Uran led to a leak late on Sunday night,resulting in spillage of oil in the sea. ONGC officials said the magnitude of the leak was yet to be assessed.
The leak was reported around 10.30 am on Sunday,after residents of the area near the sea shore at Uran saw a layer of an oily liquid on the water.
Our crisis management team reached the spot of the leakage and the leaks were plugged. We are appointing an agency to clear the spilled oil and are still assessing aspects such as how much oil was spilled and how far the spill spread, said an ONGC official.
Information about the leak was also conveyed to the Uran police and several teams were rushed to the spot so that the shore could be cordoned off till the situation was brought under control.
As gas condensate is flammable,the area was declared safe only after 12 hours, police said.
The ONGC's report on the magnitude of the incident is expected on Tuesday and inquiries are on to check how the pipeline sprung a leak.
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Okay, I read this and thought "yikes, that is hard." Then I thought "gosh, if we could just ALL do this, it could make a huge difference" but do you know what? We are commissioned to be Christ's body in this world and His joy is in us. When we allow Him to live in us and through us, we do indeed feel His joy in all things. We then reflect that joy to others . . . Hmmm . . . I need more joy in my life . . . how about you? I am wondering if maybe the reason is ME. Maybe I need to listen more closely to His loving whisper . . .
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble." 1 Peter 3:8


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Steve Failla has spent every fall since 1984 involved in football, in one way or another. This year, however, marks a break in that pattern, and it's a reflection of his growing interest in golf.
"Over the last handful of years, golf has become a passion of mine," he said.
Failla, 40, who has been the Riverhead High School girls golf coach for four years, has taken on the added title of the school's boys golf coach, succeeding Wade Davey. (more…)


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Chinese people are known for their insatiable appetites, and according to a recent study, the amount they spent eating out in 2016 is so enormous that it's actually greater than the gross domestic product of a number of countries.
A recent report by Beijing-based Dianping and Meituan, which offers food ordering and delivery services, states that the 1.37 billion population of China spent 3.5 trillion yuan (around $507 billion) dining out last year.
The report also disclosed Hot Pot as China's favorite food, which had about 22% of the restaurant market share.
According to the most recent figures by World Bank, the amount was greater than GDP of several developed countries, including Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Thailand, and UAE.
Source: theatlas
China's GDP growth rate is second among all the major economies after India and only lags behind the US in terms of total GDP.
Information source: The Quartz
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If you've recently invested in a new property with a sizeable outdoor space, you may be wondering just what you're going to do with it. You might have a vision of what you want in your mind's eye already, but simply don't have the time to bring that vision to life. Instead, it may be that gardening simply isn't your thing, and you don't have the faintest clue as to where you'd even start.
Well, whichever of these two categories you happen to fall into, you'll find that this post was written with you in mind. Because we're going to show you how hiring a landscape gardener could beautify your backyard. All with the added bonus of you not having to lift a single finger.
Making the Most of Your Investment
You've probably spent months scouring the web and perusing different house and land packages in order to find the right one. So, it's of little wonder that after finding the property of your dreams with the perfect outdoor space, you'd want to find a way of making the very best of it. Well, a landscape gardener may not be able to help with the interior design, but they can certainly help you makeover the garden.
Typically, the process will start with an initial site inspection, which gives the gardener a chance to get a feel for the space. They may check the quality of the soil. They may also take a note of what direction the garden faces, in order to work out which plants are best suited to such an environment. If you do have any ideas that you'd like them to implement, this is the time to speak up. They'll be able to inform you of what options are viable and work out the best ways of bringing your artistic outdoor vision to life.
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Your Requirements
If you have no clue as to how best to utilize the space, and you'd rather leave it to the experts, that's absolutely fine. That's half the point of hiring someone else to do it in the first place! But, it's helpful at least to have an idea in your mind about what type of garden you want to have. For example, do you like to throw a lot of garden parties, and need a large patio or decking area? Do you have a family pet such as a dog or cat that needs to be taken into consideration?
Be Practical
It's also important to be honest with yourself about how much you can handle. Also, how much time you have to spare to actually maintain the space in question. It's all very well having the gardener plant lots of bright and attractive plants. But if you don't have time to water them, you'll find that your beautified garden space doesn't stay beautiful for long.
Many people aren't lucky enough to even have a garden or backyard to call their own. So, why not employ the services of a top-notch gardening professional, to help make your outdoor space the best it can possibly be?


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