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First, I have to start with a moment of gratitude. Less than 90 days ago, I had a simple idea while stuck in traffic.
What if all of the people working with women business owners worked together?
Now, every day my email box is filled with economic development agencies asking what I am doing, women business owners pledging their support and people telling me about their experience. This momentum is because of a group of individuals (who are already VERY busy taking the time to answer a call for collaboration). To all of those individuals and the organizations they represent, I say thank you.
This collaboration of groups, individuals and organizations committed to the further economic development of Phoenix women business owners, is currently called PhXX Forward. We held our second meeting September 11th at Scottsdale Skysong. Our attendance had grown and people came prepared to answer one simple question:
"One is the first objective that we want to focus on as a group."
The possibilities where endless. We had government agencies, successful women business owners and representatives from the largest women's networking groups in the room.
Through feedback from our first meeting, responses to my blog, emails and a few strategic meetings we had narrowed it down to a couple of key areas that we felt our first objective might fall within.
First, we laid the ground rules.
I attended a panel discussion with Jodi Leggit and Angela Hughey. These ladies had some wonderful insight on community grassroots organizing. I shared with the group what I heard from these ladies about what works in our community and encouraged them to consider them as guidelines:
- Be positive and inclusive, you can't make change if you can't enroll people outside of your group.
- Create a unified story and a simple call to action that is easy to support.
As women (mostly, we did have a couple of male participants and we hope to have more) that represent a wide variety of backgrounds and passions it would have been easy for a discussion about our first objective to spiral out of control. We kept our focus by brainstorming in small groups and using the following criteria to narrow our possible options.
- Do we have the resources needed to achieve the goal?
- Does it create momentum and engage stakeholders outside of the group in support of women business owners?
- Does it strengthen the existing groups and resources available?
- Is it measurable? (We don't have to determine HOW we are going to measure right now, but it has to be measurable on some level).
- Does is economically empower Phoenix women business owners?
The groups discussed and debated. Sometimes heated. Many women business owners were in the room. For some, it was the first time they got to articulate their frustrations. Many of which we have now heard repeated multiple times:
"I don't know what I am doing, I don't know where to start, when I finally reached out to business resources they didn't provide the help I needed."
"There are so many meeting and resources and at the same time no one can make any sense about what works for my business."
I assure you the sentiments are not limited to Phoenix, in fact they are very similar to trends on a national level.
Still, we had to come back to the point.
What were we going to do about it?
Even though all of the groups had different areas they all seemed to come back to the same question, "How can we measure our impact, or even know where to start, if we don't have the facts? "
Here is a scary truth, we don't know who many women business owners are in Arizona let alone Phoenix, what their business looks like or the economic impact they have. Everyone has the same reaction, you need to reach out to the SBA, the ACA or…fill in the blank…I have reached out personally to pretty much every agency you can think of. I have received data on small business owners, on national trends, aggregate rankings but not the clear data we need to develop a story. The members of this collaboration had a similar experience.
We decided if we wanted, that was our first step.
Create a data sheet that describes a cohesive story of women business owners in Phoenix and articulates our needs.
We also decided on a few organizational needs. We needed to create a system for communication that encourages collaboration and information sharing that was not overwhelming or overly time intensive. So we created a communications sub-committee. That sub-committee is also taking on the task of starting to create a list of all of the partners and resources available to women business owners in Phoenix.
Second, people want to be able to describe what the group is, who is involved and the NEED we address. They want to tell our story. This is a task that we have now spent hours working on, getting feedback from a variety of stakeholders, including several one on one meetings with experienced community leaders.
The need for a collaboration like PhXX Forward is best demonstrated with a moment that occurred in our second meeting. One brave soul stood up and he asked. "Why should anyone care about women business owners?" Brave, and a valid point. People don't know why they should choose a women owned business over other options, why they should care if their taxes support organizations that can actually create economic development for women owned businesses, or the systematic economic impact that achieving gender equity among business owners can have. What is the need for another group talking about a group of business owners who all share the same lady parts (stolen from an email I received from someone who refused to speak on a women business owner's panel because she saw no difference between her challenges and those of men)?
There are a lot of great reasons, data and research that articulates the value of a diverse vibrant entrepreneurial community. We have to get better at articulating that value in the same language as the people in power.
So that is where we stand. We ended the last meeting with a promise to go back to our groups, organizations and business and find data. Dig up research and facts that can help us create a cohesive story of the Phoenix women entrepreneurial community and our economic impact. A tool that will help us build strong organizations and advocate for women business owners but perhaps most importantly it represents a starting line. A simple, action oriented goal that will support the members of this collaboration and set the tone for our organization.
We hope you will join us. What resources do you have to help us better collaborate as a community? What leaders do you know that need to be part of this conversation? What data about Phoenix women business owners do you have access to?
Our next meeting is scheduled for October 11th at 8:30am at ASU Skysong. RSVP here:
If you have answers to any of the above questions email me ask to be added to our supporter network and share your resources or post your thoughts and comments on this blog,
We might not know all the answers yet but one thing is clear. We have tapped into a tremendous need in our community for collaboration to help us leverage our efforts. We have an amazing group of individuals and organizations that are committed to working together in support of women business owners. They have seen the writing on the wall. Women business owners are a critical piece of our economic outlook and we are putting together the pieces one step at a time to create a more vibrant picture of our future.


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I'm lucky to routinely be surrounded by professional educators, especially K-12 educators, on a very regular basis. The patience, passion, and dedication that a great educator at any level must have for their students is awe-inspiring. Quite frankly, I sometimes don't believe that I have one of those qualities…it's the one I deem most important: patience! If a parent ever came and yelled at me because of THEIR student performing poorly – I think I would lose it. It's for reasons like these that I, also, should never work in customer service and strongly prefer higher education (students who are older, more independent, and hopefully have more advocacy than a teenager or pre-teen might) to K-12.
BUT, in all seriousness and much more importantly…
In either arena, in any service-based profession, and especially in education…the amount of reward and pride that you feel once your customer or student or whomever is satisfied, smarter, or whatever … that's what you work for. Seeing them be happy and, in education, seeing them use the tools that you shared with them is so wonderful. That's what makes a late night, or a grumpy parent, or an annoying customer, worth all of the trouble, in my opinion. It's those meaningful interactions, even if they are short, that remind you why you do what you do as an educator.
That's exactly how I felt last night.
It was Nats night! I was enjoying the Washington Nationals' ballgame with my friend Sarah C. She came up from Fredericksburg, and it was her first MLB baseball game – how exciting! So, even though the Nationals were losing miserably, it was still a good time, as my friends Zack F. and Michelle S. came up for the game too! Toward the end of the game, a student, who I'll call "Nevin," came up to me out of no where…at a BASEBALL GAME.
We were actually on the hunt for some funnel cakes toward the bottom of the 8th inning (crunch time!), and walking around the ball park. It was at that moment that, off in the distance, I hear someone say "Hey! That's Justin Graves!" What? This doesn't happen in environments this large…oh man who is this going to be…am I going to remember their name? oh no…(these are all the thoughts that I had rushing through my head in that moment)
Mind blown and heart racing, I turn around, and I see a young man wearing a maroon polo. It took me about half of a second to place him, and then I immediately remembered – I had just spoken at his school last week! At Jefferson Academy here in Washington, D.C., the students wear uniforms. I would remember that maroon shirt anywhere. It was a nice Hokie maroon, too. :)
I had just met him on Friday, only 5 days prior. I remembered that "Nevin" asked me some of the best questions of all of his classmates. It was Career Day at his school, and I volunteered my time to come and speak about my two very different careers – my day job that sees me serving the American people as a project manager and policy analyst through the federal government, and also my passion job that sees me traveling the country to inspire others, particularly students, as a motivational speaker. After taking just 10 minutes to explain both to them, I invited them to ask questions about what, exactly, they wanted to know about, for the remaining 40 minutes. Of the 3 sessions, every single class had MORE than enough questions! :) Sharp kids.
I remember particularly, at the end of Nevin's class, being posed a question by the teacher. The teacher asked me, "if you could, just one more time remind these students why it's important to accept differences in other people. Why is that important to YOU?"
I had already lectured them a bit about my motto, "life is all about what you have done for other people," and the importance of community service in the world. I had already told them about how the value of a first impression, and a solid, friendly first handshake. And, after that, I reminded them that NO one else in the world they meet is going to be exactly like them. And that if they treated others badly, simply based on that fact, then they would be making EVERY single person around them feel bad. I remember making eye contact with "Nevin" after I said that and, for some reason, I just felt like it clicked for him. I just felt it. I didn't know for sure, but I thought it did.
Afterward, some students would focus on the policy part of my job with their questions. Others would focus on the students I get to work with. Some would ask more about my disability – it was quite the range. But that's exactly why I decided to do this. Students and their curiosity, together, are just so inspiring to me. The amount of knowledge that young people just want to soak up reminds me how great it is to be an educator – especially when you have those students who are as motivated. And when you're the guest speaker, something outside of the norm for them, it's easy to have them just completely and wholly engaged.
As a professional educator, yes, you have to deal with the students who might not be as intrinsically motivated and be more difficult to handle. But every professional educator I know tells me that it's just part of the ride. As a non-traditional educator, it's moments like "Nevin" walking up to me and giving me a bright smile, a firm handshake, and literally exemplifying many of the things he's learned over the years in making a fantastic first impression on Sarah and I. It's so damn moving to me. I don't know this kid…and I don't know the next time I'll see him. But if what I said that one day in his class had even the smallest affect on how he interacts with others for years to come…mission accomplished. THAT is why HESONWHEELS exists. That is why I do what I do, on top of everything else that I do.
There's one more story from last night that got my mind really rolling as I tried to fall asleep last night. A woman, who we'll call "Pam," that I met yesterday after the game as we hung around the ballpark. I thought her chocolate Labrador Retriever pup was gorgeous, and complimented him as I walked by. She offered me the chance to pet him. Of course I accepted!
She was my 1 new person last night, and she shared not only her dog and her beer with me but also a story about how the school she works at is on 80% free and reduced lunch. Assuming that's correlated to a high rate of low-income families, along with the racial tensions she explained…all reminded me of the perils (but the proportionally greater reward, I'm sure) of being a professional educator. The challenges that come with working in an environment like that…took me back to another (read: the most) moving experience that I had earlier this year as a non traditional educator…
Over the past few weeks I've been giving a presentation called "My Passion Job & My Day Job." It's Career Day season here in D.C. public schools, and my motivation to develop this presentation and explore the opportunities to work with students from this angle came from an experience that I had in Austin, Texas this past March.
I was in Austin to speak at SXSWedu, and my session, titled "Everyday Philanthropy," thankfully went off without a hitch. I was in town for two weeks, and after my session was done, I still had a week and a half to explore the other SXSW conferences. That night, I decided to go to a few mixers, network a bit, and then dip out to head next door to Alamo Drafthouse and catch one of the films that were showing as a part of SXSWeduFilm. Typical Justin though; I was on J. Graves time, and was too late – the film house was full, and there was quite the line to get in…
Never one to shy away from the opportunity to chat with a stranger in line, I start to chat it up with the woman standing next to me in line. Ironically she had actually attended my session earlier in the day. This wonderful woman, Susie S., is an educator in Austin's school system, a fourth grade teacher. It turned out to be absolutely fate that Susie and I didn't get into that film viewing, in my opinion. I wouldn't have made a new friend out of it and the opportunit(ies)y and ideas that came from it would have never happened either.
Yes, I really do believe in fate, the Butterfly Effect, and how we are all in certain places for very intentional reasons.
More on that opportunity in this post, coming later this week … :) For now: thanks for reading!

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Air DensityJanuary 29, 2017
Most of us have heard stories about temperatures getting so high in the south that airplanes are not able to take off. Most of us have also seen pictures or videos of hot air balloon pilots operating a big burner below their hot air balloon as they work to leave the ground or to increase their altitude. And of course, we have all played with helium balloons tied to the end of a string at some point in our lives and admired how they floated through the air with ease.
Have you ever really stopped to wonder about these things though? Why does hot weather affect the performance of an airplane, how does the act of shooting flames into the opening at the bottom of a hot air balloon cause the balloon to rise from the earth, why does helium cause a balloon to float at the end of the string. Well, it all basically boils down to air density.
Remember our discussion on temperature in a previous blog discussion? We discussed the fact that temperature is a measure of the motion of molecules in a substance. As it turns out, in a gas like air, as the motion of molecules increases, the gas expands resulting in a decrease in the density of the air and the air becomes lighter.
Think of air just like water. When you throw something into a swimming pool that is less dense than the water in the pool (like a life jacket), it floats. The same thing happens in air. If something is less dense than the air around it, it floats. So, our helium balloon is kind of like a life jacket and the same holds true for the hot air balloon because the hot air inside the balloon is less dense than the air around it. In the case of the airplane, the low air density caused by the high temperatures reduces an airplane's wings ability to create the lift needed to make the airplane fly.
Unfortunately, temperature is not the only thing that affects the density of air. The molecules that make up the air also affect air density. One example of a molecule that can affect the density of air is a water molecule and believe it or not, water molecules are lighter than the other main molecules that make up air. The more water molecules, the less dense the air is. To say it another way, the higher the humidity, the less dense the air is. So, hot humid air is less dense than cold dry air.
The last factor we will talk about in this discussion is pressure. Pressure also affects the density of air which is probably kind of intuitive when you think about it. When you squeeze something it gets more dense right? Kind of like when Superman squeezes coal into diamonds…
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What Hiring Managers Want You to Know About the Application Process
Ever wondered exactly what HR wants from you or what's going through their heads? Here's what you should know about the hiring process.
Raise your hand if you've ever reached the final interview stage but didn't get hired. Or you submitted your application only to have it lost forever in the Internet blackhole.
Why does this happen, and what does HR actually want from you?
You're in luck! Several HR professionals want to share four important points to help you secure the job you want.
1. Your application is a process
You submitted your application three weeks ago, and you still haven't received a hint someone even received it. Why?
"There are meetings to have, other candidates to schedule and conversations to be had," says Paul Smith, Director of Human Resources at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Paul holds over 15 years of HR experience in both the private and public sector.
"Depending on the circumstances, the HR person might be the only one handling HR duties in that office," Smith says. "There are times when they are shorthanded, they might be on leave or key decision-makers are unavailable. Sometimes there is a sense from job applicants of 'why don't they tell me, why don't they communicate?' But sometimes there isn't anything to communicate yet. The process will be different depending on the company, industry, size of the company and management philosophy."
2. Be genuinely interested in our company, and we'll be genuinely interested in you
"We love good questions," says Jeffrey DeLucia, Manager of Talent Acquisition at The Judge Group, a consulting, staffing and training agency. Jeffrey oversees all incoming talent and screens candidates from the entry to senior level. "Ask us about differences you noticed between us and our competitors. It shows you took the time and effort to research. Specifically for me, since I interview for sales positions, I like to see assertiveness for this particular role. We want to see someone who wants to be here."
Ask good questions to not only showcase your company research, but also to transform your typical, generic question and answer format interview into an engaging, back and forth conversation. This shift helps you stand out and generate interest from your interviewer.
"A sense of passion and a want to be doing the work is important," Smith says. "Being able to specifically demonstrate your interest in the work is important. It makes for a conversation instead of an interview. The interview process is usually a question and answer process, but when you actually go to work, you won't really be doing the question and answer thing. Your conversations are what you'll be doing in the organization."
3. If you're not contacting us on LinkedIn, you're missing an opportunity to stand out (and don't just spam us)
"I think most people aren't using LinkedIn enough," says DeLucia. "I recruit 90 percent of my candidates on LinkedIn."
Caroline Girone, a Human Resources Specialist at the Office of Civilian Human Resources for the Department of the Navy, agrees. "If someone contacts me on LinkedIn, I can help them with the application process," Girone says. "The only method we can accept resumes by, however, is through usajobs.gov. If I was in the private sector, I would be very open to receiving resumes, because that shows initiative and research, which is impressive."
Applying for a public sector job is a different, often stricter, process than many private sector positions. All public sector applicants are required to pass an exam (and score highly) just to receive an interview. This method helps the government ensure fairness for interested applicants.
You might feel great knowing both private and public sector human resource specialists are open to your attempt to connect, but do so with a sense of purpose.
"I get requests that say 'add me to your network,' but sometimes I have no idea who this person is and I have no idea why they want to connect with me," Smith says. "I imagine I came up on their side of the screen that says 'people you may know.' But that's not true networking; it's just adding to your Rolodex."
If you're going to reach out, make sure to explain why in the email and briefly state what you want.
4. We understand the hiring process is hard on you
"People get frustrated because they don't see any transparency in the process," Smith says. "That creates a certain amount of uncertainty, which causes anxiety. I encourage folks to try to look at the uncertainty as part of the process, as opposed to letting yourself get anxious about it. I think, specifically, the hardest thing for candidates to grasp is how organizations and HR view the ability to get work done."
When HR and management read resumes and interview, they look at knowledge and skill sets, but they also look at abilities—are they able to get the work done? HR people will think, for example, of the organization's managerial styles, coworkers and different matrix relationships, and whether the candidate is going to be able to accomplish their tasks in this organization. And it's hard for a candidate or someone looking for a job to know those internal dynamics.
Your turn: What question do you most wish you could ask HR and why?
Reggie Hall Jr. keeps GenY inspired and one step ahead at FreshWisdom by sharing interviews and advice from thriving Millennials as well as older generations to help you get what you want. Say hi on Twitter @FreshWisdomLive or on Facebook.
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Tyrell Jenkins says:
Once again, another helpful post. Perfect reassurance that hiring managers do care.
Reggie says:
Thanks Tyrell – I found it encouraging and even surprising to experience that for the most part HR sympathies with the struggles and competition applicants experience today.
Christine Steffensen says:
Thanks Reggie for this insightful list. Managers want people with more skills so they can take on more responsibilities for a lesser payment.
frayedpassport says:
"All public sector applicants are required to pass an exam (and score highly) just to receive an interview." This statement is completely untrue or at least misleading. For certain positions (e.g., diplomat), you'll absolutely need to take an exam, but it's not an across-the-board requirement for all public sector positions. The hiring process for the federal government is indeed strict and can super complicated depending on what private sector organization you'll compare it to, but nope: not all of us had to take exams for our federal jobs. I'd encourage anyone interested in working for the public sector to read up on the application requirements for any department or agency they're interested in and make a go for it 🙂
Dana Leavy-Detrick says:
Really great article. We're conditioned to expect immediate information at our fingertips, and this simply isn't how the hiring process works. I think you said it best in that "sometimes there just isn't anything to communicate yet." Having been on the hiring side for 10+ years, I've seen it move at lightening speed, and also, more often than not, get dragged out for any number of reasons not even having to do with the candidates themselves.
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Academic Achievement of First-Generation Mexican American Males in a Community College
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Absael Antelo
Jessica C. Kimmel
Gilberto Hinojosa
The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of successful attainment and achievement of 10 Mexican American males in a rural Southwest community college. This study strives to offer insights concerning the questions: (a) what behavioral patterns of current family, peers, and conditions in school have influenced the educational decisions of these Mexican American males? (b) what social conditions motivate these Mexican American males to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity? This qualitative research was also aimed at establishing and understanding how a selected number of Mexican American males have achieved academic success. The researcher chose 10 men with either an associate of arts or an associate of science degrees for an in-depth interview and used a semi-structured interview guide in an effort to prompt oral discourse. The interviewer posed questions concerning academic conditions, family impact, college environment, and financial issues. The responses to the questions led to similar themes involved in these students' course completion and graduation. The researcher used a theoretical framework using Bandura's Social Learning Theory (1977) in which he suggests that not only environmental factors, but motivational factors along with self-regulatory mechanisms affect an individual's behavior. This research illustrated the conditions that facilitated reaching the participant's educational goal and mission, which was to complete a two-year degree at the community college. The inquiry examined the behavioral patterns that have been an influence on the educational decisions of these Mexican American males, and what social conditions have motivated them to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity.
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Scandal-hit Takata shares jump as boss hints at resignation
[TOKYO] Takata shares jumped on Tuesday after the airbag supplier's boss said he would resign once the company recovers from a scandal linked to at least 13 deaths and scores of injuries globally.
The Tokyo-listed stock soared as much as 10 per cent in early afternoon trade after chief executive Shigehisa Takada told the annual shareholder meeting that he would step down from his family company, before trimming those gains.
The shares ended 2.17 per cent up at 375 yen (S$4.96).
"Once I'm convinced the company is back on track, I will pass the baton (to new management), which is my role," he told the closed meeting, according to a company spokeswoman.
The firm, one of the world's biggest auto parts suppliers, declined to comment on any timeframe for its top executive's resignation.
Mr Takada was widely criticised for his handling of the crisis, rarely appearing in public even as the company plunged deeper into trouble.
Shareholders at the meeting Tuesday reported that executives were peppered with angry questions about their response to the scandal, which has sparked the biggest auto industry recall in US history.
"I don't think the president is qualified for his post," a 66-year-old shareholder told reporters outside the meeting.
Ahead of the meeting, another investor told AFP: "They have to put an end to the damage that has been done. I want to hear management's thinking on its responsibility."
Takata is facing lawsuits, investigations and huge compensation costs over a defect that can send metal and plastic shrapnel from the airbag's inflator canister hurtling toward drivers and passengers when an airbag is deployed.
At least 13 people have died in accidents linked to the defect and scores more have been injured, while the crisis has sparked the recall of some 100 million airbags worldwide.
The Nikkei recently reported that US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) was looking to buy a majority stake in Takata, which reported a 13.08 billion yen net loss in its latest business year.
On Monday, Honda said an airbag made by Takata exploded after a minor crash in Malaysia where the driver was killed after suffering chest injuries.
It was still awaiting the official cause of death, Honda added.
In morning trade, Takata's shares had plunged more than eight per cent in response to the announcement from Honda, which is Takata's biggest airbag customer and the worst-affected automaker in the crisis.
Most of the fatalities have been in the US, including a Texas teenager who died in March after her 2002 Honda Civic collided with another car, activating a defective Takata airbag.
Investigators increasingly suspect that the chemical used to inflate the airbags can be unstable, especially in hot and humid conditions, and cause the inflator canister to rupture.
Last year US safety watchdog slapped Takata with a record US$200 million fine as it accused it of supplying inadequate and inaccurate information about the problem airbags to regulators.


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The government has rejected proposals to increase NHS staff pay by 1 per cent across the board and will instead impose a two-year deal in which staff who receive incremental pay awards get no further rises at all.
Most employees not eligible for incremental rises will receive a 1 per cent rise, with the exception of 400 very senior managers in the NHS who will have their pay frozen in cash terms for the next two years.
The independent NHS Pay Review Body recommended a 1 per cent uplift across all pay scales but ministers have rejected this, citing the "unaffordable" cost of a 1 per cent increase.
NHS Employers has estimated the cost of an across-the-board 1 per cent increase at £500m.
Under the plans revealed today staff eligible for incremental pay increases on the Agenda for Change framework, which usually average at 3.4 per cent, will receive only these increments. Staff due to receive incremental rises of less than 1 per cent will have these uplifted to 1 per cent. This will affect around 55 per cent of staff on Agenda for Change which covers almost one million workers.
Employees at the top of their pay bands, and therefore not eligible for an incremental rise, will get a 1 per cent rise. However, these rises will be non-consolidated – meaning they are not added to employees' substantive pay or pension. This is to avoid permanently widening the pay gap between staff at the top of their band and those on lower pay points. This will affect 45 per cent of staff.
This deal will also apply in 2015-16 when staff at the top of their band will receive a 2 per cent pay rise but this will again be non-consolidated.
The consolidated pay scales remain unchanged and will continue to be the basis for additional earnings such as overtime and unsocial hours enhancements.
Doctors and dentists will receive a 1 per cent pay uplift.
The government claims the deal will save over £200m in 2014-15 and over £400m in 2015-16.
NHS Employers chief executive Dean Royles said: "These are really tough calls for the government to make. We know how disappointed staff will be.
"Employers are recruiting more front line staff with no additional money and this is not sustainable. The simple fact is that the decision to have no annual pay increase for those already eligible for increments will help ensure more that staff remain in employment than would otherwise be the case.
"Even with limiting the increase to staff at the top of their pay scales, employers still face a £150m pay bill pressure this year. This is bound to have an impact."
However, Christina McAnea, head of health at union Unison and chair of the staff side council, accused the government of "riding roughshod over the PRB."
She added: "The government has shown complete contempt for the NHS, contempt for staff and contempt for patients and will pay the price at the ballot box."
"Increments are not a substitute for the annual pay rise that is needed to meet the increasing cost of living."
Rachel Maskell, head of health at the union Unite, said it would be consulting with its members about the possibility of industrial action. The union has around 100,000 members in the health service.
She added "Jeremy Hunt has adopted a divide and rule tactic which calls into serious question the relevance of the so-called independent PRB.
"He is deliberately muddying the waters by trying to imply that the annual increment that staff receive, as they gain more skills to benefit patients throughout their careers, is part of the annual pay increase – it is not. It is despicable that Hunt has adopted such an underhand tactic.
"The PRB's role is defunct, if ministers continue to steam roller its copious evidence gathering process which leads to its considered recommendations on pay."
Mr Royles accepted unions would be angry but said he hoped they would recognise the need for job security adding that doctors now needed to agree to changes to their pay, terms and conditions.
Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander said: "We need to continue with public sector pay restraint in order to put the nation's finances back on a sustainable footing.
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Here's a 10-step program to eliminate pounds one by one, burn fat and reach your weight goal that you've set yourself.
Every year, the scale needle seems a little harder to move. You reduce the size of the portions, you say, "No, thanks," to the desserts; you sign up for Zumba classes – and yet the size of your jeans is increasing and your energy level is decreasing. What is going on ?
From the forties, our body undergoes a series of changes that profoundly affect digestion, metabolism and other bodily functions. Because of changes, including hormonal changes, the growth rate of our cells slows down. We just have to learn to live with it.
However, if something is wrong, metabolically speaking, and there is an underlying medical problem, it must be treated before any weight loss program is put in place so that it can have the maximum effects. Here's a 10-step program to understand the issues that prevent you from losing weight after age 40, and learn how to overcome them.
Get to know and adapt to the new biological rhythms of your body
In the old days, being old did not necessarily mean having shapes. Today, those of us who are over 40 face a double challenge: We live longer, and we are not as active as before.
When it comes to burning calories, it's a pretty simple equation. What is consumed must be burned, or everything will remain on our hips. Getting weight is very easy – eating only 100 extra calories a day (100 more than your body burns) will lead to weight gain of 4 to 5 pounds in one year, experts say. What are 100 calories? Not much: A can of Coca-Cola contains 155 calories, a bar of chocolate over 200. Of course, cola, chips, and chocolate cookies are not a problem if you run or do walk. But after 40 years, our level of activity also tends to decrease. The challenge is to balance the two.
Take a step back from the past year and think about when your weight seemed stable and when it seemed to be slowly increasing. What were you doing during the good weeks? What sabotaged the other moments? Make a list of what works for you and what makes you gain weight. Use your own healthy habits, they are most likely to help you now.
More ways to lose fat after 40 years
2. Eliminate the underlying metabolic conditions to speed up your weight loss
Would you be surprised to learn that thyroid problems affect more than one in five adults after 40 years? And that 8 out of 10 people are women? The most common disease is hypothyroidism – a thyroid that is not active enough – and this is one of the main reasons that prevent many women over 40 from losing weight. The thyroid is a small gland that produces the hormones that regulate metabolism, and when it is deficient the metabolism is no longer properly regulated. Imagine a weak thyroid as a sort of internal thermostat that would be set too low. Symptoms include a feeling of permanent cold, poor circulation in the hands and feet, sweaty hands, fatigue and lethargy, hair loss (including eyebrows and eyelashes), and weight gain – despite genuine efforts to eat well and exercise.
If you suspect that hypothyroidism is causing your metabolism to slow down, the first step is to contact your doctor and ask him to give you a thyroid test. But beware: It's not always so simple. Many thyroid experts consider that first-line blood tests of thyroid function, known as TSH tests, are not reliable indicators, these experts argue that doctors should diagnose based on symptoms rather than laboratory tests. There is considerable disagreement among endocrinologists about what should be considered a "normal" level of thyroid stimulating hormone, a rate that would indicate subclinical hypothyroidism, and a rate that would reflect hypothyroidism. Since 2003, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has recommended that a result of the TSH test equal to or greater than 2.5 should be considered as a possible indicator of hypothyroidism. But many laboratories still use an old standard where 5.5 is considered the threshold above which the thyreostimulin level is abnormal. New recommendations issued jointly by a working group of AACE and the American Thyroid Association (ATA) have not clarified much, in summary a test result between 2.5 and 10 may indicate hypothyroidism ( case by case). In addition, the 2012 recommendations suggest that physicians use another test for a thyroperoxidase antibody level, or TPOAb, in a diagnosis of autoimmune hypothyroidism.
Conclusion: If the result of your TSH test is greater than 2.5, make sure your doctor knows that AACE considers you a candidate for thyroid treatment, depending on your symptoms. Then ask for an endocrinologist, you can discuss with him the need for additional tests.
3. Change your eating habits for maximum energy
Your goal, at this stage of your life, is to feed yourself to be full without succumbing to the temptation to eat as you did at age 20. One of the recommended strategies is to eat more often, but in smaller amounts each time. Another benefit of this method is that it is easier to keep your blood sugar stable, so you do not have peaks or troughs that contribute to tilts on your rate curve.
Here is the rule: Try to eat five to six small meals a day, and do not spend more than three or four hours without eating. For example, you can eat a healthy and light breakfast before going to work, then take a nongra yogurt in the late morning. So, instead of eating a big pasta dish at noon and spending the afternoon just half asleep, eat light lunch and spend the rest of your lunch break on a brisk walk. Take a nut-based snack with an apple, it will prevent you from eating sweets at 4 am and this snack will prevent you from overeating at dinner.
Your goal is exactly the opposite of deprivation and diet – you need to make your body feel full and nourished at all times, as long as the total amount of food you consume is less.
4. Schedule the time of your meals to enjoy the natural rhythms of your body and lose weight without frustration
Most experts agree on one point: If you nibble (or dine) after 8 pm, what you eat is more likely to be directly stored on your hips and belly. Fortunately, the opposite is also true – what you eat in the morning, when your metabolism speeds up to its optimum operating speed, what you consume is more likely to be spent effectively.
You do not like having breakfast? Sorry, but there is no way around this meal; Eating a good breakfast is one of the best habits identified by experts to stay slim. When members of the National Weight Control Registry (people who lost 15 kilos and did not regain that weight for one to six years) were surveyed, 78 percent of them said they had breakfast every days and almost 90 percent of the study members reported having breakfast at least five days a week. This factor was one of the only ones identified by researchers that was common to most members who participated in the study!
5. Help your metabolism with foods that fight fats
I know you've heard about this before, but it's true: It's not just the amount of food you eat that's important, but what foods you eat. There are many healthy foods that you can eat in abundance – and no, that does not mean filling your refrigerator with celery sticks like in the 1970s. Instead, make some simple adjustments to your diet, incorporating foods that actually fight fat instead of foods that cause fat gain. Eat other foods in moderation, and you should be OK.
6. Make your muscles allies in your fat loss program
There is one point on which exercise enthusiasts are right: The more muscle mass you have, the more calories your body burns. But, even if it's sad to say, one of the natural tendencies of aging is the loss of muscle, and the gradual replacement of it by fat. So, in order to mobilize all your muscles' abilities to burn calories, you have to work on it.
The key to long-term benefits is physical activity such as fitness. Buy dumbbells, a bar, some elastic bands and some accessories to start the fitness, and think about your high school gym teacher. And do not forget to strengthen your heart; planks, flexions, pilates, all these movements help strengthen the core muscles that are essential for good posture. Make the exercise as enjoyable as possible, practice while watching the evening news or your favorite series. Other tools that can also help you: kettlebells, an exercise ball, and ankle weights. Slowly and gradually, develop your biceps, your abs, your deltoids and your glutes, and you will have gained great allies in your fight to prevent weight gain related to age.
7. Sleep more to burn more calories
As all pre-menopausal women or active men over 35 can tell you, sleep becomes less and less easy as you get older. It's not just because we are busier or more stressed. We also have several physical problems, from back pain to snoring to night sweats, any of these problems can prevent you from having a good night's sleep.
Yet paradoxically, having a good night's sleep is one of the keys to losing weight. In recent years, major research has shown that sleep deprivation is directly related to weight gain because of the action of the two hormones leptin and ghrelin, which control hunger and the feeling of fullness. . One study concluded that "sleep time can be an important regulator of metabolism and weight. And here's how it works: When you are deprived of sleep, ghrelin levels increase as leptin levels decrease. These changes cause hunger and diminish the feeling of satiety. Add to this the fact that sleep-deprived people often crave "energetic" foods, which are mostly sweet or salty, and you'll see how small changes in your routine can affect significant weight gain.
And there's more. Studies have recently shown that our bodies are more metabolically active when we sleep, and that when we do it less than six hours a night, it impairs our glucose tolerance, a precursor to diabetes. Therefore, the more we sleep, the more fats and sugars will be burned efficiently.
Add these parameters and you can see an emerging model: The older we get, the harder it is to get a good night's sleep – and the less we sleep, the more weight gain we promote. What to do ? Take steps to combat sleep problems and your waistline will also be affected.
8. Start a healthy relationship with sweets to lose more pounds
If you're dying to eat a candy, treat yourself to it, savor it slowly so that your brain's pleasure sensors fully capture that sensation. A tip that many experts recommend: Cut the candy in half before starting to eat, carefully pack the second half and "put it aside". You may want to or not – sometimes, if you eat the first half slowly and think enough about it, you will feel satisfied. But knowing that you have a little left is important for your brain, it tends to desire the things it perceives to be rare.
Do not try to replace them with fake candies. Researchers have recently discovered that artificial sweeteners can not trigger the body's natural satisfaction response. So, eating a 100-calorie substitute cookie only adds to your problems, you'll continue to crave the real cookie, and the 100 calories you just ate will not help.
9. Forget the diets. Concentrate on your fuel / energy ratio
If, like most people over 40, you have a few extra pounds, you've probably made a lot of decisions about dieting. You have also probably realized at this point in your life that diets rarely work, and that you do not start overnight in a new, intensive training program. There is a good reason why sudden and drastic changes do not lead to long-term weight loss, and can even lead to greater weight recovery. Have you ever noticed that your weight tends to be stable from week to week, even if you break down one day and get sick, but the next day you return to a normal diet? Nature has done so with optimal capacity to maintain a stable metabolic rate, as it helps to help us withstand food shortages and weather events and also respond to sudden energy demands.
Unfortunately, this means that when you have gained weight gradually over the long term, your body has adapted to your new weight and is now doing its best to hold it back. Here's what to do: Make slow, incremental adjustments on either side of the equation. And you – and only you – decide which side of the equation (incoming fuel / outgoing energy) you make these adjustments.
10. Make slow, realistic changes in harmony with your lifestyle
Let's say you want to lose 5 pounds. To lose them right now, you need to burn 35,000 calories – an impressive number that would be like eating nothing at all for about 2 weeks, jogging for 51 hours, or walking for 126 hours. Not only would that be impossible, but attempts like this would put your body in a state of starvation and metabolic slowing, which would sabotage your efforts.
But you can also, in a much more effective way, plan to lose 500 grams to 1 kilo per week for 5 to 10 weeks. Studies show that if you go for a slow but steady approach, you are much more likely to maintain that 5 kilogram weight loss. Remember that you are the only one responsible for adjusting your metabolic system. Choose what you focus on either by reducing the number of calories you consume or by increasing the number of calories you burn. You will find a balance that will suit you between the two.
If you can do six half-hour walks each week without suffering too much, it's a good choice, if you can only do three, do it. If going out when it is only ten degrees is really too bad and you do not want to die by going to a gym, but you do not have too much trouble giving up your desserts, do rather changes in your diet in priority.
Your main goal should be to make as many small incremental changes in your lifestyle and in your daily routine as possible, and you need to stick to it in the long run. This is the ultimate secret of the fight against weight gain after 40 years.


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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Congratulations to a new member Richard Hardie who on his 1st time out hit the perfect shot
into the 16th to score a hole in one.Richard joins us from Cooly/Tweed and is a welcome new member to our Club.
World Golf Handicap System
To – All Australian Golf Clubs
Dear All,
Overnight, The R&A and the United States Golf Association released a public statement regarding the development of a World Handicap System – this statement is attached for your information. The communication from The R&A and USGA follows a brief update on this subject that was provided to all Australian golf clubs by the Chairman of Golf Australia in July 2015.
The GA Chairman's 2015 update includes important information on Golf Australia's position in relation to the World Handicap System. This information remains current and we continue to look forward to receiving from the R&A and USGA the final proposal on the make-up of the new system. The 2015 statement is available from the following GA webpage – www.golf.org.au/world-handicap-system
Golf Australia would continue to manage and govern handicapping in Australia under a World Handicap System. Golf Australia's national computerised handicapping service, GOLF Link, would continue to perform the same role in Australia under a World Handicap System that it currently does. The personal data of Australian golfers that is held within the GOLF Link database would not be shared with entities outside of Australia. The only public display website for handicaps held by Australians under a World Handicap System would continue to be the Golf Australia website – www.golf.org.au.
Please contact me should you have any queries.
Kind regards,
Simon Magdulski
Director – Rules & Handicapping, Golf Australia
Telephone 03 9626 5023
Mobile 0409 214 320
Please note that the Veterans competition on Monday 1st May is cancelled due to Northern Rivers Ladies Pennants playing on course. Normal competition for Vet's will be on Tuesday 2nd May. Hope you can all attend.
Wayne Martlew
Vet's Captain
Ladies Easter Raffle
Congratulations to Maren Cooper who won the major prize in the Ladies Easter Raffle.
Also to Margaret Bee who took home the 2nd prize.
Well done to all the other prize winners who have already claimed their prizes.
Thank you to all for their support of the raffle.
Special thank you to Bev Jurd and Janet Haddrick who managed the raffle and to all the ladies who sold tickets.
Happy Easter to all.
Mens Pennants 2017
Thanks to all the members who have elected to give up their Sunday mornings
to represent CLUB BANORA in this years NRDGA Pennants.This year we
have managed to fill 3 teams and they are as follows
TEAM 1 A Hubbard-R Evans-M Kemp-D McSwaine-K Haddrick-W Muir-Russ Evans
TEAM 2 M Grills-J Lehkyj-N Luxton-I Strange-K Mount-W Stone-R Quine
TEAM 3 I Kirk-Max Jessop-J Woods-T Brown-J Wilson-Mark Jessop-B Jurd
First game is 21st May,Iwill contact all of you in the near future in regards to
your shirts.
Wayne Muir
Please be advised that the APRIL Monthly Medal
will now be played on SATURDAY April 22nd
Wayne Muir
Mens Captain
Sensational Team Verses Par Sunday Score
Congratulations to Barry and June McFadden for their sensational Team verses Par 4 Ball score on Sunday, a whopping +13.
The score was made up of +7 on the first nine and +6 on the back nine. Closer examination shows their round was worth 50 Stableford Points.
Below at Presentation June spoke of Barry's great day with the putter. Barry pointed out such a strong score only occurs when both players make a significant contribution. Great round guys.
Barry and June qualified first to represent Club Banora in the NSW Keno Medley Four Ball Championship.
All the best in the next round of the Championship to be held at Byron Bay.
Popular Members Dominate Hole-In-One & Eagles Leader Board
Michael Noakes played the shot of the day at the Par 3 7th Hole, the ultimate shot – a ball that came off the head of the 9 Iron and skidded a bit.
Good friend and playing partner, Russell Evans called the ball flight as good and proved correct. The group and importantly Michael could not see the ball after it passed the front bunker and missed the joy of seeing it go in the hole. When the green was reached and the ball could not be found. Russ's initial call proved significant. Congratulations Michael on your first Hole-In-One. Michael was caught by the photographer standing proud shortly after his achievement. Michael takes home a bottle of spirit and six balls. He will receive his Hole-In-One certificate at the Christmas party.
Eagles at the 18th Hole were also the order of the day.
Alan Hubbard hit a good drive at the 18th Hole and 9 Iron that left him with a long curling putt which fell to him Eagle.
Michael Wood also hit a long drive off the tee at the 18th which left him with a pitching wedge that stopped with 2 metres. Polished play straight out of the text book.
Well done Alan and Michael.


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Rabbit Polyclonal
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of severe dementia; yet, there is no cure. Although it is known that Amyloid b (Ab) plaques contribute to the disease, additional research tools are necessary to determine how these plaques form. Researchers at Emory have found that a lysosomal protease called asparagine endopeptidase (AEP) can cleave amyloid precursor protein (APP). When amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved, the resulting peptides contribute to Amyloid b (Ab) plaque formation and the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Ye's lab characterized two novel sites of APP cleavage by the AEP enzyme (APP sites N373 and N585). They then generated antibodies that, unlike what is currently available, specifically detect the APP peptides that result from AEP cleavage. The antibodies specifically recognize the following regions: APP amino acids 1-373, APP amino acids 1-585, and APP amino acids 586-695, but not the full length).
Publication: Zhang, Z. et al. (2015). Nat. Commun., 6(1), 8762.


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NHRA Funny Car racer Shawn Langdon's last victory came 36 races ago in a Top Fuel dragster, Sept. 25, 2016, at St. Louis.
Make that one week ago, in Durham, N.C.
His Super Gas/Super Comp-racing racer father Chad Langdon has a healthy new liver after a cancer diagnosis and more than a year of roller-coaster transplant teases and disappointments and a cross-country move with wife Sherry for uncertain daily life in a travel trailer. He underwent successful surgery last Friday at Duke University Medical Center.
It was a victory for the whole Langdon clan and the drag-racing family who has been cheering him on from all corners of the country. For Shawn Langdon, it was a rather groggy triumph after his hours on the Interstate highways that made him feel lately more like a long-haul trucker than a NHRA champion and current Funny Car competitor.
Following the Gatornationals, Langdon was on his way from a buddy's shop in Alabama to a bracket race at U.S. 43 Dragway at Ethridge, Tenn. He was about five miles from the racetrack when he received the call that his father finally was scheduled to be the primary recipient of a replacement liver. Langdon immediately turned the truck and trailer around, drove back to the shop to drop off the racing equipment, then headed on the 11-hour trip to North Carolina. He arrived at 5:30 Friday morning, thinking he would be late to support his stepmother – and Sally Martini, who temporarily gave up her NHRA national-event parking-boss job to be Chad Langdon's required secondary home-caregiver. Chad Langdon had had to undergo a last-minute biopsy before surgery, so that bought Shawn Langdon some time.
He stayed in Durham until this Tuesday, then drove another 12 hours home to Danville, Ind., and flew to Las Vegas Thursday for this weekend's Denso Spark Plus Four Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Shawn Langdon has something that was better than a Wally statue. (He has 14 of those, along with four national-championship hardware from the Jr. Dragster, Super Comp, and Top Fuel classes.) Today, he has his dad back and on the road to recovery.
But he wants that race trophy this weekend more than he has ever wanted one before.
"It was hard for me to leave [Tuesday] morning, knowing I've got to go to Vegas this weekend. The timeline worked out OK. I stayed as long as I could to make sure everything was good. He got moved out of ICU and into a regular room. He's got the best care available out there right now," Langdon said. "And he's got his wife, Sherry. He's got Sally Martini. She's there. A lot of people know her, but for those who don't know her, she's the does a lot of the parking at NHRA national events. So if you notice that for the next couple of months that the parking's all crazy at the national events, it's only because Sally's not there – she's taking care of my dad for the next couple months. Just give it a couple of months – she'll be back out there. I know he's in the best hands right now.
"There was a time I needed to stay and I wanted to stay," he said. But his father told him, "No, man, you go out to Vegas. Win Vegas for me and bring the trophy back to me."
Shawn Langdon said, "I'm ready to win one for so many reasons, but I have a whole new motivational factor for showing up to Vegas: if I can win that trophy and bring it back to my dad."
The entire experience has prompted him to become an organ donor and encourage others to do the same.
"We were very happy and relieved," Langdon said after knowing his dad was in the medical winners circle. "Then to go into the ICU room and see him hooked up to all these machines and he's got tubes coming out of every part of his body – he was heavily sedated and not really aware of anything. That moment kind of hit me how just how crazy all this stuff is, how fragile life really is. At any moment you just never know what can happen. It hit me really hard. You kind of looked at your dad as an invincible person, the person who has shown you the way of life, and to see him in a situation like that, it just hit me so hard that I'm so grateful I am that he was really struggling with his liver.
"I mean, his body was healthy, but his liver was failing. And somebody out there was an organ donor and saved my dad's life. It just really hit me at that moment that I needed to become an organ donor," Langdon said. "It was always something that I felt was an awesome thing to do, but I think it really hits you when it's your family.
"For my dad, it saved his life. He's a very healthy individual. He just had a bad liver. Man, this whole situation, it's a tough situation. I just kind of feel that's my next thing. I'm going to become an organ donor and hopefully nothing ever happens. But if something does," he said, "I hope that I would be able to do for somebody else what somebody else was able to do for my dad. And that was to save his life.
"It's hard to talk about it. This kind of stuff is really difficult to talk about. I think the main thing out of this story is I'm going to become an organ donor and if there's one or two people who can read this story and know that if you become an organ donor, you can save somebody's life. If we can push that along and inspire somebody to do that . . . I know the impact it had on my family. That was the first thing my dad said after he woke up: 'I have a second chance at life.' All that stuff kind of hits you. You don't really think about some of the finer things in life. It takes you five minutes to save somebody else's life. If they can get another 20 or 30 years out of life, that's what it's all about," Langdon said.
A special bond that unfolded during this ordeal was the one between Shawn Langdon and his primary benefactor, Steve Bryson, owner with wife Samantha, of Global Electronic Technology. When Chad Langdon first learned he had cancer, Bryson was a calming influence on the family.
"He has had liver complications on his end. was very, very instrumental in the beginning stages, as far as helping my dad out and recommending certain doctors and pointing them in the right direction and kind of giving them that initial [boost]," Langdon said. "You have that initial 'sock-'em' when everything is going on: 'Well, what do we do now?' We're not in the huge financial situation where it's like, 'OK. Boom. Let's go to right to the doctor.' We've been very fortunate for the most part where we really haven't had a lot of health issues where we didn't know where to go and who to talk to. But Steve Bryson was very, very, very helpful with a lot of stuff like that. He talked to my dad quite a bit about little things."
In Gainesville three weeks ago, Bryson and Langdon shared a quiet and comforting moment, talking about another recent letdown when his father was poised to receive a liver but ended up being the secondary recipient. Bryson told him, "Don't give up. They're going to get this going."
Langdon said, "It kind of hit me at the heart a little bit when he said, 'I'm very fortunate to have met you and be a part of the team with Kalitta [Motorsports] and sponsor the race car. I feel like God's got a plan for everything, and I feel like the plan wasn't to come here to sponsor the race car and to do all that. The overall plan was to help your dad be healthy and to help your dad get a transplant. I'm glad to be able to be a part of that and help you guys out.' It was like, 'Wow, man, thank you very much. I just want to thank you for helping us out and helping my dad out. I'm saying thank-you, but I don't know if it's an adequate way to show you my appreciation and gratitude towards you."
Bryson said, "As long as your dad's healthy, that's all that matters."
As a professional racer and a champion, Langdon has been mindful, in his words, "to inspire other people to go out there and say, 'Hey, you can do it. I didn't have anything special, growing up. I just wanted to become a race-car driver and worked very hard at it and was able to have that opportunity,' just kind of show the younger generation that, 'Hey – anything's possible when you put your mind to it.' I know a lot of people have come to my dad and given him lots of support and inspired my family and me, sharing their own stories about their own transplant successes and cancer successes. I really feel like in the past year, the roles have been reversed. So many fans have inspired my family and me, giving us hope and the inspiration we've needed to get us through these processes."
Justin and Chris Lamb and their family, as well as Shane Thompson and his family and Rodger and Karen Comstock got together and made T-shirts for in support of Chad Langdon, "just to kind of raise awareness. The demand for them was overwhelming," Shawn Langdon said. "The outpouring of support with that just meant so much to my dad . . . all the people within the racing community, just how much they really do care. We're out there competing against one another. At the end of the day, we are a family. I know that helped push my dad through a lot of the hard times."
That family -reunion feeling carried them through. But they're aware that families like to know all the details of one's personal life, too.
"We stayed a little private about it. He didn't want the sympathy side of things," Langdon said of his dad." As more people started kind of finding out, people were coming up with words of encouragement or sharing their own stories. After awhile, it gave him a little motivation. People were kind of getting a little worried because my dad and Sherry weren't showing up at the racetrack anymore, and a lot of people were like, 'Hey, are you guys OK?' or 'Is something going on?' She was like, 'I think we need to put a word out so people don't think we're getting a divorce or anything like that.' You know how drag racing is."
The occasional squabble breaks out in drag racing, but Chad Langdon's reaction after regaining consciousness from his surgery epitomized the mentality of this sport's participants.
"He came to," his son said, "and opened his eyes and he looked at Sherry and me and asked, 'Are you guys OK?'"
Langdon said, "The whole group at Duke University, I can't thank them enough. Their doctor team, the whole research center, the nurses . . . our whole experience at Duke has been absolutely phenomenal. It's an excellent group of people, all the way from top to bottom.
"The wave of emotions this past week has been crazy," Langdon said. "So far everything's got a good ending, at least for the most part."
Right now he's daydreaming about how much crazier they would be if he were to break his racing drought this Sunday and bringing his dad Chad and early Fathers Day present.
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What do I know?
What do I know?
Okay. Mark clearly did starting to work out… hr…
so basically, she's doing this to show that she can still kick butt, even though she's of a lower caste?
Could be worse Joel… Wait till they start on the Monty Python quotes! 😉
This is honestly one of my gaming gripes as well. When one person tries to compare everything to Harry Potter. I get it, just about everyone enjoys the series, but you just killed the sense of immersion.
Scooper :p maybe he joined darren in bro-yoga after all? 😛
@ Scooper+nespa: he decided to bulk up to be more like his inner babarian 😉
also, this snake wench is cackling mad – clearly she´s Bellatrix!
@Eaglechris: Honestly, I find being TOO concerned with immersion can suck the fun out of a game. Half the fun of tabletop gaming is goofing around as you play.
I started charging people XP after 5 minutes of OOC.


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Thu, Apr 26 2018 - EARLIER TIME - Thursday Morning Semi-Fitness Hike at Island Ford (View Original Event Details)
We appreciate everyone showing up a half hour earlier so we could get our scheduled hike - don't want to miss a week unless absolutely necessary:) . We started at 10 and hiked throughout the trails of Island Ford and somehow Joyce is always able to make this interesting and enjoyable even through we didn't do any of the Lollipop Trail. Instead, we did the warm up hill twice. Judy made her way up to the top of the hill first both times - no one was even close! We maintained a nice steady pace getting in a strong 4.5 miles in the 1 1/2 time frame (we shorted the hike as well to avoid the rain.) Thanks again for sharing Thursday morning with us - hope everyone stays dry the rest of the day!


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Welcome to the Coalition for Public Safety Training in Schools, Inc. (CPSTS) website. I encourage you to take a moment to view what CPSTS is all about. We are dedicated exclusively to educating students in the 9th grade through the 12th grade who are interested in public safety careers.
CPSTS also serves as an advocate for seeking employment; educate students and parents about careers in public safety, mentoring and other related internal and external activities.


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G&T Global HQ
City of Westminster
Retail, Commercial
City of London Corporation
70,000 sqft offices
20,000 sqft retail
City of Westminster
Located in London's West End, this building has been created behind a retained façade and forms the new headquarters for Gardiner and Theobald. Careful modelling from the surrounding neighbourhood has been used to justify two additional swept back floors at roof level, giving the building an entirely new outlook and lease of life.
The completed project demonstrates a successful and considerate fusion of historical regard and contemporary intervention. The building retains charm, warmth and character and delivers a knockout punch at rooftop level as one emerges into the new space which sits carefully poised between the two original turrets, now opened up to provide some of the most enjoyable spaces in town.


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'We are told that apologising too much undermines our authority and damages our self-esteem, but saying you're sorry has some surprising upsides.'
Source: New Scientist
'We are told that apologising too much undermines our authority and damages our self-esteem, but saying you're sorry has some surprising upsides.'
Source: New Scientist
There will be no posts here for two weeks. I will be gone and off the grid. Please have an enjoyable rest of June and come back after the 4th of July.
"I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
— Molly Bloom
'…[E]levating chicanery and those who propagate its—even to debunk the lie—only spreads their nonsense. "Megyn Kelly interviewing Alex Jones is like taking a leaf of poison ivy that you know is making you itch and rubbing it all over someone's face," says Stephanie Kelley-Romano, who teaches rhetoric at Bates College and studies how and why conspiracy beliefs take root. "You don't spread it around." …'
Source: WIRED
'That group includes doctors from across the country, including the University of Colorado, the CDC, Yale University, Stanford, and the University of California, San Francisco. In the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the doctors reveal chilling accounts of five patients who pursued such bogus treatments. What followed was years of heart-wrenching suffering, avoidable life-threatening infections, and death…'
Source: Ars Technica
The fact that the diagnosis is not well-founded is less the problem than that the putative sufferers fall victim to snake oil salesmen. It seems to me that, if you seek help for a controversial syndrome you have to hold the caregiver to a higher, rather than a lower, bar regarding the plausibility of the approach they suggest.
'Where did consciousness come from? A recent piece in New Scientist (paywalled, I'm afraid) reviewed a number of ideas about the evolutionary origin and biological nature of consciousness. The article obligingly offered a set of ten criteria for judging whether an organism is conscious or not…
- Recognises itself in a mirror
- Has insight into the minds of others
- Displays regret having made a bad decision
- Heart races in stressful situations
- Has many dopamine receptors in its brain to sense reward
- Highly flexible in making decisions
- Has ability to focus attention (subjective experience)
- Needs to sleep
- Sensitive to anaesthetics
- Displays unlimited associative learning..'
Source: Conscious Entities
"We propose that the phenomenon known to neurologically intact people as 'Subjective Experience' is best understood as the activation of various sites in both extrinsic and intrinsic networks by a brand new episodic memory engram (i.e., a complex theta wave coding pattern originating from field CA1 of the hippocampus)…"
Source: Wiley Online Library


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1, the bearing oscillation is large. The one or two big axis with the exciter, because the bearing long, with more additional equipment, oscillation is very difficult to control the natural minimum. Natural gas generator long-term operation, fatigue, aging and so on random factors caused the bearing oscillation increase, brush vibrated, the brush is uneven, and the lead column friction spring loose, attack the local sparks gradually further affect the overall situation.
2, the brush is unclean. Most people ignore this point, the normal operation of the generator brush in sealed cabinet, polar brush center is sheathed on the shaft gear shaped axial fan, by rotation of the rotor to ground heating under the graphite powder, brush the time off, to clean the cooling effect.
If the door is not closed, or forget to close when inspecting, the dust outside is accompanied by hot air to suck into the brush, and it is attached to the brush post, on the one hand, it will affect the heat dissipation of the brush. On the other hand, when the brush stroke is unclean, the insulation strength between the brush columns is not very simple.
There are spiral grooves on the slip ring, which is to add the heat dissipation area of the brush, improve the touch with the brush, make the brush more cool, and make the carbon powder easier to pump away.
If the door of the cabinet is not strictly closed, the power of the electric fan is lack of dust and it is easily attached to the spiral groove. The result is imaginable. The excitation electromechanical brush is exposed to the outside in consideration of its low voltage level, and it is also suggested that the maintenance and repair be regularly cleaned. In the last few days, my factory had a magnetic brush sparking and was forced to stop. Many reasons, often small things turned into a catastrophe.


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Written by Kwangyul Choi
Calgary is one of the most automobile-centric cities in Canada. A heavy reliance on automobile travel generates a number of negative impacts in Calgary, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, physical inactivity, and social isolation. According to the travel behaviour report by the City of Calgary, in 2011 79 % of weekday trips in Calgary were made by automobiles with substantial variations by the location of the city. While more than half of trips from the city centre were either walk or bike trips (only 23% of trips were made by automobiles), more than three quarters of trips from outside of the city centre were made by automobiles (70%, 80%, and 82% of weekday trips from the inner city, established outer city, and greenfield areas were made by private vehicles, respectively).
One of the reasons that Calgary's city centre shows a lower level of auto trips is the fact that a number of destinations are close to homes,so that the residents can more easily travel by other modes of transportation. Hence, promoting compact and mixed-use development and providing transportation alternatives (e.g., public transit) are examples of city planning strategies that can contribute to reducing automobile trips.
My article examines how land use and transportation policies can influence households' driving behavior in Calgary with a focus of the household's daily number of vehicle kilometers travelled (VKT). In this article, several city policies including densification, job creation, road network design, public transit service, and decentralization were tested to see if there would be additional benefit of each policy to reduce household daily VKT.
Generally speaking, Calgarians tend to travel more as they live further from the city centre. The unique spatial character with a strong urban core can explain this trend. The Calgary's urban core is a place where most work or life related activity opportunities and amenities are clustered. This spatial pattern of the city requires long-distance travel for those who do not live in the city centre or nearby communities. My article suggests that decentralizing the economic, social, cultural role of the city centre could reduce city-wide automobile use.
Statistical models by location of the city, however, show that one policy does not fit all parts of the city. In the city centre, none of the policies I tested had any additional benefit to reducing household VKT because this area is entirely built-up and already highly dense. However, these outcomes do not negate the other benefits of compact and mixed-use development in the urban core. In Calgary's inner city, promoting density may be the best planning strategy to reduce household VKT. In the developing areas more policies seem to reduce household VKT, which indicates more potential for these policies to have an impact on VKT in areas outside the city centre. Densification and job creation in these areas will be expected to reduce household daily VKT significantly. Providing more public transit services, particularly in Calgary's newer communities outside the city core, seems to be the most influential policy to reduce household VKT.
Kwangyul Choi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calgary. His research is part of the Richard Parker Professorship in Metropolitan Growth and Change. His article, "The influence of the built environment on household vehicle travel by the urban typology in Calgary, Canada" was published in Cities earlier in 2018.