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03/26/2019 - Tune in as Mario, Brian and Beth cast their final votes on this year's March Magic Tournament and see how the bracket shakes out! Do you agree with how our bracket worked out this year? Be sure to send us an email and let us know what you think!
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Designed for dancers ages 3-4, the childern learn basic ballet steps, play movement games and work on their gross motor skills.
Ballet and Pointe
Dancers are taught primarily Cechetti technique (Italian school), but other styles are also identified and introduced.
A blending of technique styles are taught including, but not limited to, Luigi, Giordano, Hatchett, Tremaine. Jazz incorporates many turns and leaps.
Designed for the exceptionally motivated student whose extra-curricular priority is dance.
A style of dance incorporating either or both ballet and jazz technique, interpreting the lyrics of a song through movement.
Teaches the dancer how to articulate the feet. Great for developing rhythm and coordination.
Hip Hop
Students will learn street dance styles such as break dancing, animation, and popping in a fun and exciting environment.
Incorporates balance, strength, flexibility and other basic technical fundamentals for those interested in pursuing school dance teams or just to have fun!
Summer Dance Camp
Ages 4 plus, students learn basic dance movements, play movement games, and work on gross motor skills; dance to music from the movies; and create story-related arts and crafts! Camps vary by theme and are a perfect summer activity!
Tribal Style Belly Dance
Beginning and all levels tribal style belly dance drills and intermediate tribal fusion choreography.


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Video About: How to Create an Online Quiz In Under 5 Mins
While this article mentions how to create a true or false quiz, you can also add other question types such as matching, fill in the blanks or multiple choice as needed to create a quiz with a good mix of different question types.
Here's how a 'true or false' quiz appears to learners:
Follow these steps to create a 'True or False' quiz:
Step 1. From your dashboard navigate to "Create a quiz" -----> "Create Scored Quiz."
Step 2. Describe your quiz by adding a title and description, and you can also add a relevant image.
Step 3. Select True/False question type from the menu.
Step 4. Type the question in the box (true or false questions are statements which are either true or false). Select the correct answer and click "Save & Add New" to add more questions, or "Save" to add the question and exit to the quiz editor.
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Hope everyone has gotten a good start to the New Year and has possibly even taken on some New Year's Resolutions that they are intending to keep throughout 2015. My project for today is a card where a football player needs to go for that goal line.
For this card, I printed out the digital image (Football Humphrey) on Cryogen cardstock and colored him in with Crayola colored pencils blended with Gamsol. The sentiment, "Super Star" is stamped onto Cryogen cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and backed with kraft brown bag cardstock. The football goalpost and the green paper is paper cut from my stash. The card base is also Cryogen cardstock, and I cut it using the Sizzix Framelits Basic Step Ups die set.
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Arsenal's last Premier League win at Stamford Bridge came all the way back in October 2011 when they won a pulsating eight-goal thriller.
That's just one memorable Stamford Bridge battle between these London rivals that we're looking back on ahead of the rivalry's latest instalment tonight.
🇳🇬😳 Chelsea 2-3 Arsenal
October 1999
KANU believe it!
Cometh the moment, cometh the man, and in 1999 that man was Nwankwo Kanu. Arsenal trailed 2-0 heading into the last 15 minutes at a waterlogged Stamford Bridge. A hat-trick from the Nigerian, including a miraculous effort from an acute angle to settle the contest, will never be forgotten by travelling Gooners. Relive it below:
There was no shortage of @Arsenal fans asking to see Kanu's fifteen minute hat-trick against Chelsea 🎩— Premier League (@premierleague) December 25, 2019
🎁 Happy #Christmas, @huninho7! 🎁 pic.twitter.com/oPTUpSZ2P9
🇬🇭☄ Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal
December 2006
Essien's swerving strike salvages a point
Throwback to when Essien scored this screamer for Chelsea vs Arsenal 🚀— Football Stuff (@FootbalIStuff) January 16, 2018
🎥 - @premierleague pic.twitter.com/Qx4RZvMrsR
Chelsea slipped eight points adrift of leaders Manchester United as Ghanaian superstar Michael Essien scored a ferocious curving pile-driver to level matters at the Bridge. Mathieu Flamini had put Arsenal ahead just six minutes prior to Essien's thunderbolt, in an ill-tempered match which saw Ashley Cole face old club Arsenal for the first time since a controversial move across the capital.
A frantic finish saw Chelsea hit the woodwork twice in second-half stoppage time, first through Essien and then through Frank Lampard (who had hit the post in the first half as well), and Arsenal escaped with a draw that their performance probably didn't merit.
🇨🇮💪🏿 Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal
March 2008
Drogba torments the Gunners
There are very few opponents that Ivorian powerhouse Didier Drogba enjoyed playing against quite like Arsenal. He scored 13 goals against them in all competitions, eight of those coming in the Premier League, and two of them arriving on this day as he fired Chelsea to a come-from-behind win. Power and desire were two of Drogba's strongest attributes and both were on display every time he turned out against the Gunners in London derbies.
🇳🇱🎩 Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal
October 2011
RVP hat-trick underlines EPL MVP status
Where does one even start with a game like this?
Robin van Persie's hat-trick inspired Arsenal to a thrilling victory against Chelsea after the visitors twice trailed in the contest. Van Persie took his personal tally to 28 goals in 27 Premier League matches and Chelsea skipper John Terry had an afternoon to forget, slipping to allow the Dutchman in for his second and Arsenal's fourth. Van Persie would go on to win the Premier League's Golden Boot that season.
Here's how the goals went in:
1-0 (Lampard 14); 1-1 (van Persie 36); 2-1 (Terry 45); 2-2 (Santos 49); 2-3 (Walcott 55); 3-3 (Mata 80); 3-4 (van Persie 85); 3-5 (van Persie 90+2).
🔵 Chelsea 3-2 Arsenal
Tough start for Unai Emery
August 2018
In Unai Emery's second match in charge of Arsenal, Chelsea an early two-goal lead through Pedro and Alvaro Morata, only for the Gunners to level matters through Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alex Iwobi in a breathless first half. The Gunners spurned numerous chances to go on and win the game, and that would come back to haunt them when Marcos Alonso popped up with the winner on 81 minutes. The defending on this day wasn't as chaotic as it was in the eight-goal thriller back in 2011, but it wasn't particularly good either.
One can only wonder what's in store tonight.
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Continuous Improvement,
Policy Propagation, and Realization
The Best Continuous Improvement Program Combined With Policy Propagation
Continuously Improve Towards a Vision or Challenge
Utilize your All Your Company's Minds: "Improve every process, every day"
Toyota's Kata is a methodology that propagates policy throughout the organization leading to realized benefits. It begins with the business direction. Then it moves through realization. Kata focuses progress towards a specific direction and fosters communication up and down the chain of command. Consequently, Kata marches a company towards achieving their vision. It is noteworthy that Toyota has used this for 60 years to propel their company to excellence.
Other Benefits Include
- Quantifiable movement towards a Challenge
- Expands thinking from implementation to "what could we do instead?"
- Stimulates employee ingenuity
- Increases employee engagement
- Encompasses the whole company
- Provides a structure of continually improving
- Lasts through CEO tenures
- Employee growth opportunities up and down the chain of command
- Continual pushing improvement velocity
- Communication leads to goal alignment
- A smoother move to Lean Production
Kata High Level Methodology
The VP brings in the ever important business requirements. By understanding business goals, the customer requirements, and the corporate capabilities, the VP is responsible for developing the strategy which leads to business success. This starts the alignment of the business to results utilizing the Kata Methodology.
The business strategy from the VP leads to strategic business targets. These targets propagate down to the Value Stream Manager and results in Value Stream targets. These then propagate down to the Value Stream Loop Manager to develop their targets. Lastly, depending upon organizational structure, the Process Manager determines their targets.
The VP is considered a Coach to the Value Stream Manager and the Value Stream Manager is considered a Learner relative to the VP.
Value Stream Manager
The Value Stream Manager is responsible to build the Current State Value Stream (CSVS) and consequently build the Future State Value Stream (FSVS). The FSVS is the basis for Target Conditions which will be explained later.
If the VP does not have a strategy to deliver then the Value Stream Manager can develop their own requirements for the Value Stream.
To enable rapid and complete communication the Value Stream Manager will set up an especially relevant Learners Storyboard. This storyboard will include:
- Target Condition (TC) – A TC is an interim requirement with a due date for a process improvement that moves you towards a Challenge. You iterate to your challenge or vision through Target Conditions. Each TC has a due date.
- Challenge – This comes from the VP and represents the end goal that the TC marches towards.
- Current Condition (CC) – Represents detailed documentation of current performance
- Experimenting Record – This contains documentation of experiments performed to reach the TC.
- Obstacles Parking Lot – The move from the CC to the TC encounters obstacles. Some obstacles are predictable ahead of time and some aren't. All of the obstacles are listed here.
The Value Stream Manager also builds the schedule.
Value Stream Loop Manager
The responsibilities of the Value Stream Loop Manager include analyzing the CC and analyzing how this impacts the Value Stream. This manager will publish the current condition and then to distill Process requirements to help determine the TC.
The VS Loop Manager initiates the Coaching Summary Board which summarizes:
- Learners
- Coaches
- Dates
This Summary Board displays responsible individuals and as a result, communication is successful. TC goals, and the experiments and expected results.
Value Stream Manager
At this point they start the "Time Plan"
VS Loop Manager
The VS Loop Manager is responsible for starting the CC/TC Form and also determining the requirements for the TC by back-and-forth dialogue with Coach and Learners.
Process Manager
The Process Manager determines the requirements, each with a due date. Also, determine what needs to change to improve and meet the challenge. The Process Managers are one step above the operators in the company hierarchy. Process Managers are very close to what needs to improve. Subsequently, their teams are a key to success.
They will manage the CC/TC Form and populate the "Process Activities Analysis" which keeps track of the CC and the TCs. Also, the documentation of the experiments is done in the "Experimenting Record".
The Process Manager is the Coach for the operators and works very closely with them to deliver on the TC. While working with the operators they should use any set of tools they can think of to help them "Learn" about the process.
Value Stream Manager
The Value Stream Manager populates the "Theme/Role Matrix" and sets up the "Coaching Schedule".
This rounds out a schedule of who is responsible for what and when. When the process propagates to the Process Manager then the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata loop starts the "Learning " iteration needed to advance the key processes towards meeting the VP Challenge.
Below I review some additional important points to help explain the concept.
Coach and Learner come as a combination. The Coaches responsibility is to guide the Learner through the process. The Learner does just that, learns. These two individuals act as a team. Every Coach has a Learner and every Learner has a Coach. This concept propagates all the way up to the VP.
Improvement Kata
This graphic summarizes the trajectory that the process takes starting at the Current Condition and subsequently progressing towards the Challenge and Vision. Let's walk through this.
The effort starts with a thorough understanding of the CC. One way to think of it is that if you have the CC and the Vision you can draw a straight-line trajectory from one to the other. Without fully understanding the CC you will never know the trajectory of the improvement line.
As you move towards the Vision, your first stop is a TC. The assumption is that it is not possible to move directly from the current condition to the Vision or the Challenge, so you must get there in steps.
The movement to the first TC takes you through. Some of the Obstacles are known ahead of time and some are not. For individuals new to this process, don't set the first Target Condition too far from the Knowledge Border so they don't take on too many unknown Obstacles. As individuals get more comfortable with this process they will also be more comfortable venturing through areas of unknown obstacles.
The first step is to get to the first TC. The next step is to get to the second TC and so on until you accomplish the Challenge.
The states described above are explained in more detail below:
Verify the Current Condition (CC)
A firm grasp of what you are attempting to improve is important because it affects the trajectory and makes the first movement valuable. A CC could refer to a standard process or throughput number. Validation of the CC will keep you from trying to improve an unstable process.
This is key, out there and possibly unattainable. What would you really like to accomplish. For instance: 0 defects, a safe environment, 100% value added work. The Vision not only lets you voice a destination but also constrains the trajectory to your destination. This is key because it focuses improvement to accomplishing predefined goals, rather random improvements.
Target Condition (TC)
The TC is chosen carefully because it has an assigned due date that you must accomplish it by. The TC is also on the trajectory towards the Vision and Challenge. There may be many TCs that you moved to before you accomplish the Challenge. Thinking of a TC expands the minds of employees to think into the future of how it could be.
The TC should be a stretch goal. It must stretch the mind. Therefore, some Obstacles may be obvious and some may not. The goal is to Learn. Unanticipated obstacles induce learning. A best practice is to pick a TC and then go for it without much deliberation. This instills learning. Minimize encountering Obstacles to start and then increase with expanded experience.
As you move forward you will encounter unanticipated Obstacles. This is where the brain of all process participants is used to take what you know and what you have found out together, and do what it takes to move past these Obstacles. As a result of this effort setting TCs closer to the CC becomes more common.
The sooner this journey is started, the quicker exceptional results roll in.
Coaches and Learners Relationship
The Coach/Learner relationship is the key that makes this whole methodology work. This methodology focuses on learning. The concept is that if you have expertise in learning you will create a competitive advantage. As learning becomes a virtue in your company, the company will start to move forward faster.
Every manager is a coach. The Coaches responsibility is to lightly direct the Learner towards the success of moving closer to the Challenge. Usually the Coaches have more expertise than the Learners and therefore must be on guard to not feed the Learner solutions.
Every manager can also be a Learner. This methodology should propagate completely up and down an organization. The goal is Policy Propagation which leads to action. The following section includes a starter set of questions for both the Coaches and Learners.
The graphic below highlights the Coach/Learner relationship between the different levels of individuals therefore leading to constant improvement..
Value Stream Manager
Value Stream Loop Manager
Process Manager
The Questions for the Coach
Coaching Kata questions:
- What is the Challenge?
- What is the Target Condition?
- Explain the Actual Condition?
- What Obstacles do you think are preventing you from reaching the Target Condition?
- Which "one" are you addressing now?
- What is your Step? (Experiment)
- What do you Expect?
- How quickly can we go and see what we have learned from taking that step?
Reflection Questions for the Coach
- What did you plan as your Last Step?
- What did you Expect?
- Explain what happened?
- What did you learn?
As a result of implementing Kata Policy Propagation, Realization, and Continuous Improvement you will move closer to the Toyota Production System. In conclusion, make time your ally.
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Rebecca Bromels, Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, UC College-Conservatory of Music
Prior to joining the College-Conservatory of Music Rebecca served as director of engagement of ArtsWave, the Greater Cincinnati region's local arts agency and the nation's largest community campaign for the arts. Prior to working with ArtsWave Rebecca worked for twelve years at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. As managing director for eight seasons, she worked to broaden the company's base of support and provide resources for its innovative productions of Shakespeare and the classics. She has also directed plays for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, the SERIALS project at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, New Edgecliff Theatre and St. Croix Festival Theatre in Wisconsin. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Texas Christian University.
Michelle Conda, Professor of Piano; Coordinator of Secondary Piano and Piano Pedagogy; Division Head, Keyboard Studies, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Michelle is an Associate Editor for Clavier Companion magazine with her specialty in the field of andragogy—adult learning. She is a founding member and on the Steering Committee of the National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum. National conference participations include the Steering Committee of the Adult Learning session of Music Teacher's National Association, Steering Committee of the Carnegie Hall Achievement Program and Steering Committee member of The National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She lectures locally and nationally. Michelle's articles have appeared in Keyboard Companion, Clavier Companion, Yamaha Key Action, American Music Teacher and Piano Pedagogy Forum. She is also the author of Sensible Piano Skills for the College Age Musician, a guide to learning piano for students studying other music performance disciplines. At UC, as well as heading the Secondary Piano and Piano Pedagogy programs, she heads the Communiversity piano program. Furthermore, she is a frequent collaborator with the Cincinnati Community Orchestra, having performed eight concerti with them to date.
Steve Hegge, Grant Officer – Office of Research University of Cincinnati
Prior to his current position, which includes working with arts faculty to obtain grants for creative work, Steve worked as grants manager for the Cincinnati Art Museum. He has taught English and writing composition. His work experience includes a year teaching English at Nation University in Thailand. Steve has written and published a collection of personal essays/prose poems titled Bowling Green Dreaming. He has a Masters Degree in English.
Jesse Lawrence, University of Cincinnati Research Institute
Jesse's arts background includes a major in theatre from Drury University.
Bryan Smith, Director, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, University of Cincinnati
Bryan is responsible for developing and directing course design programming and workshops to support and promote learner-centered pedagogy university-wide, which includes engaging in faculty outreach and strategic planning to enhance Center impact and meet university goals. He has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature and Master Degrees in Fine Arts and Creative Writing. Bryan'w work has been published in several literary publications.
Kathleen Spada, English Composition Instructor, University of Cincinnati
Matthew Thomas, Owner, MAT Intelligent Design
Matthew is a Freelance Graphic Designer located in Cincinnati, OH. His current clientele includes Cincinnati Christian University and Aspen Roofing & Siding LLC. Prior to starting his own business, he worked as a Cover Designer for Author Solutions: A Penguin Random House Company. Also known as Verbatim, Matthew is a local Hip Hop Artist and Spoken Word Poet. In December of 2011, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphic Design from the Art institute of Indianapolis.
Lean Players
The following people met with the workshop participants to provide them with an immersion into Lean thinking.
Robert Martinchenko, Founder / CEO LeanCor Supply Chain Group
Robert's entire career has been committed to third party logistics. Beginning his journey in transportation and warehousing, Robert has spent over 20 years learning and implementing lean and operational excellence with a focus on end-to-end supply chain management. Early in his career, Robert recognized the unmet logistics needs of lean manufacturers. A globally recognized thought leader in lean thinking and end-to-end supply chain management, Robert is a senior instructor for the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute. Robert has written several business books, two of which were awarded the prestigious Shingo Research Award. He recently co-authored Discovering Hidden Profit, detailing the operational framework to connect the four core processes of business strategy, product life-cycle management, sale and marketing, and supply-chain operations in order to maximize customer value at the lowest possible total cost.
Deborah McGee, Learning Activities Manager, Lean Enterprise Institute
Deb is responsible for all aspects of LEIs onsite education programs including speaking engagements, standard and customized training programs, and other activities to support onsite capability development. Prior to joining LEI, Deb served as a Project Manager for 13 years with a Boston-based manufacturing & technology company. She brings a practical understanding of lean thinking and application having contributed to enterprise and shop floor process improvements, product line development, and organizational growth through teamwork and complex problem solving.
Niklas Modig, Author and Researcher, Stockholm School of Economics
Niklas is a researcher at the Center for Innovation and Operations Management at Stockholm School of Economics and is one of the leading authorities within lean and operational excellence. He has been living for extended periods in Japan and reads, writes, and speaks Japanese fluently. From 2006 to 2008, Niklas was a visiting researcher at the "Center of Excellence – Manufacturing Management Research Center" at University of Tokyo where he researched together with professor Takahiro Fujimoto who is the leading Toyota researcher of all time. As the first and only foreign researcher in the world Niklas was given access to conduct a in-depth study of Toyota Motor Corporation's most high-performing service systems. He has spent thousands of hours inside Toyota trying to understand the depth of their philosophy.
Tom Richert, Principal, Lean Project Consulting
Tom began his work with lean principles in 2000. In addition to using lean approaches on projects he also helped develop and deliver a corporate-wide training program for a large construction management firm. His lean experience as a project manager includes building projects in New England and California. His work as a lean coach includes working with project teams throughout the U.S. in their implementation of the Last Planner® System and Responsibility-based Project Delivery™, helping them reduce project schedules by working together more reliably. In addition to working as a project manager for a range of owners, Tom has also worked as the lead cost estimator for a multi-billion development program, and presented a number of research projects on using a lean approach in public transit to several international transportation conferences.
Karyn Ross, Principal, Karyn Ross Consulting
Karyn is a purpose-driven consultant and lean coach, and the coauthor of The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations. She has taught organizations in sectors such as financial services, HR, transportation and retail how to use creativity combined with Toyota Way principles and tools to make sure that every customer receives exactly what they want, when they want it, right the first time. She is passionate about teaching teams how to use creativity to discover and deliver the solutions that will satisfy customers on an ongoing basis. A practicing artist, with an MFA in Sculpture, Karyn's specialty is developing a team's creativity and critical thinking skills so that they can continuously solve problems and innovate, a powerful combination for delivering service excellence.
John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute
John Shook is recognized as a true sensei who enthusiastically shares his knowledge and insights within the Lean Community and with those who have not yet made the lean leap. John learned about lean management while working for Toyota for nearly 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and subsequently to other operations around the world. While at Toyota's headquarters, he became the company's first American kacho (manager) in Japan. His last position with Toyota was as senior American manager with the Toyota Supplier Support Center in Lexington, KY, assisting North American companies implement the Toyota Production System. As co-author of Learning to See John helped introduce the world to value-stream mapping. John also co-authored Kaizen Express, a bi-lingual manual of the essential concepts and tools of the Toyota Production System. In his latest book Managing to Learn, he describes the A3 management process at the heart of lean management and leadership. John is an industrial anthropologist with a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, and is a graduate of the Japan-America Institute of Management Science. He is the former director of the University of Michigan, Japan Technological Management Program, and faculty of the university's Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. John is a sought-after conference keynoter who has been interviewed on lean management by National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and numerous trade publications.
David Verble, Principal, Lean Transformation Group
David has been a performance improvement consultant and leadership coach since 2000. Prior to that, he worked for Toyota in North America for 14 years, first as an internal change agent and later as a manager of human resource development at the plant and North American levels. He has been on the workshop faculty of the Lean Enterprise Institute for eleven years and has done presentations and workshops to support a number of the LEI affiliates in the Lean Global Network. David has worked with clients in manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and higher education in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work focuses on supporting clients in process improvement, development of lean management systems and practices, strategic thinking and problem solving, and leadership coaching for managers and executives. David is a partner in the Lean Transformations Group and is based in Lexington, KY, where he works through Verble, Worth & Verble.
Bryan Wahl, Senior Associate, Bostwick Design Partnership
As a practicing architect, Bryan enjoys putting things together, creating stories, and teaching others throughout the design process to reach their goals. The design process inspires him to create, going beyond the building and shaping the environment. As a good listener, he absorbs and analyzes information first and then translate it into a design. By leading conversations through which designs are conceptualized, refined, and developed detail is uncovered and clarity is gained to achieve desired outcomes. Bryan has been leading the design effort on his firm's first lean project, which is also the first Integrated Project Delivery project for the Cleveland Clinic.
Workshop Discussion Leader
Joanna McGuffey, Founder / CEO, Unconventional Works
Unconventional Works was founded to help people build quality relationships in the workplace, invest deeper in their organization's mission and to be more fulfilled as part of a team. Joanna helps teams make changes in the workplace to increase morale and productivity. She works with leadership teams to help define their culture, believing it ripples far beyond its leadership. It reaches throughout the organization to clients and beyond. Joanna is a Certified Facilitator of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology and provides workshops designed to fit specific challenges, including understanding the perspective artists have toward Lean thinking. She has a Fine Arts degree from California State University and her experience includes work as an art instructor.


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Lack of family planning, along with other barriers to sexual and reproductive rights and health, remain obstacles to progress on several key development indicators. Progress, for instance, on achieving universal primary education for the world as a whole has stalled at roughly 90% largely because education systems in sub-Saharan Africa are unable to keep up with the rising numbers of children. While training community volunteers and improving antenatal and emergency obstetric care can go a long way towards lowering maternal mortality, we will not have really solved these problems until the fertility rate drops.
Bangladesh was in a similar situation not long ago. In 1982, Bangladesh's fertility rate stood at about 6.1 births per woman, roughly the same as the current rate for Uganda, number six of the top 10 countries with the highest fertility rates in the world. Recent figures show Bangladesh's fertility rate plummeting to near replacement level, "one of the steepest declines in history," according to The Economist.
So how did we do it? I first joined the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1977. We worked with the government and other NGOs on a massive outreach campaign to address the direct and indirect determinants of family planning adoption. By increasing demand and expanding access to family planning methods, we helped raise Bangladesh's rate of contraceptive prevalence from 12.7% in 1980 to 61.2% in 2011.
Termed a "reproductive revolution", the shift was especially remarkable in that it took place even while Bangladesh remained one of the world's poorest countries. It happened largely at the village level, with women field workers and an army of local volunteers given incentives to distribute information, condoms, pills and injectable contraceptives.
Today, the rate of contraceptive prevalence rate remains below 20% in 24 African countries. Sceptics will say that cultural resistance to contraception remains a hurdle, yet Bangladesh faced many of the same circumstances, including entrenched poverty, low literacy (among women in particular), religious opposition and patriarchal social norms.
Replicating that success is obviously more complicated than transplanting the same programmes to African countries. Yet some of the more data-driven approaches are already seeing progress in Africa, where Brac now works in five countries. In Uganda, for instance, researchers from the London School of Economics, University College London and the World Bank looked at a programme called Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (pdf). The programme sets up local girls' clubs in borrowed and rented buildings in poorer communities, a safe space where girls can sing, dance, play games and socialise within walking distance of their home, away from the pressures of family life and male-dominated society. Some of the girls are then trained as mentors, and through them, the girls receive training in health awareness (including family planning), life skills, financial literacy and livelihood skills. They even have the opportunity to receive microloans to start their own businesses.
One of the ideas behind ELA is that social empowerment (including confidence-building, life-skills and health and family planning awareness) should go hand in hand with economic empowerment. Using a randomised control trial, the researchers tested this theory and recorded some remarkable effects: self-reported condom usage rose 12.6 percentage points among those participants who are sexually active, and two years after they entered the programme, fertility rates were 28.6% lower compared to a control sample. Participants' reports of having sex unwillingly decreased by 83% from the baseline during a one-year period, which the report calls "the clearest marker for the programme changing how empowered adolescent girls are in their relations with men".
Despite the programme's emphasis on employment – both income generation and self-employment rose, according to the study, and about 15% of the 53,000 ELA members are taking microloans as of April 2013 – it does not seem to have an adverse affect on schooling. Many girls who had dropped out even considered going back to school. It was enough to convince the World Bank's Markus Goldstein, a report author and previous "girl effect" sceptic, that "putting money into a programme like this, in Uganda [with one of the lowest median ages in the world], is a darn good investment for girls during the critical transition from childhood to adulthood."
Results such as these, empirically tested by outside researchers, make me optimistic that the gains of Bangladesh can be repeated elsewhere. To advance the family planning agenda, development organisations should develop their own dual-pronged approaches to empowering girls and women – socially as well as financially. We need to provide access to knowledge and the means to control fertility, along with economic resources that help bolster the social status of females within the home. It is important to follow the data, constantly examining our own assumptions and correcting our mistakes. If we do this, I'm confident we can build the support mechanisms necessary to allow African women to bring about their own reproductive revolution.
Mushtaque Chowdhury is the vice-chair of Brac. Follow @BRACWorld on Twitter
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The Best and Worst of Superhero Games
Excitement is growing in the gaming community for the release of the highly anticipated Spider-Man, exclusively on PS4. The superhero genre is massive in the movie industry with MCU dominating the scene with several Avengers movies and other subsequent titles. DC has also seen success with Christopher Nolan's Batman movies and the fantastic Wonder Woman noteworthy entries. Either way, we are very much living in the superhero era. So, what about video … Continue reading The Best and Worst of Superhero Games


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March 30, 2017
Forever grateful for Dr. Hussain
By natalie04
We would like to recognize our Neurologist, Dr. Shawn Hussain. We first met Dr. Hussain back in 2010 when our then 5-year-old daughter, Natalie was first diagnosed with epilepsy. Dr. Hussain was one of the main Neurologists working to find the right medications to bring Natalie's seizures under control. Natalie has been hospitalized several times […]
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Maybe your divorce order included a child support order, or maybe you had to drag your ex back into court to get a child support order. Regardless, South Dakota gives you three ways to get your child support payments. The information below will help you learn more about this and other South Dakota family law issues.
Both parents have a financial obligation to pay for the care and feeding of a child, regardless of marital history. If you have primary custody of your child are a stay-at-home mom or dad, South Dakota family law will require the other parent to get health insurance for the child. However, this is only true if the insurance is available through the other parent's employer.
The South Dakota Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) has many ways to force a parent to pay court-ordered child support, even if that parent is self-employed or unemployed. If the other parent lives outside of South Dakota, OCSE can work with the noncustodial parent's state to enforce any child support ordered in South Dakota.
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Capital is a key measurement of an institution's financial strength. It works as a cushion against losses and affords protection for members during times of economic instability for the credit union. When it comes to safety and soundness, the more capital, the better.
SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST received a score of 6 out of a possible 30 points on our test to measure capital adequacy, falling short of the national average of 15.65.
SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST's capitalization ratio of 6.00 percent in our test was worse than the average for all credit unions, an indication that it could be less resilient in a crisis than its peers.
Bankrate uses this test to determine the impact of troubled assets, such as unpaid loans, on the credit union's reserves set aside to cover loan losses, as well as overall capitalization.
Having extensive holdings of these types of assets suggests a credit union could have to use capital to cover losses, reducing its equity cushion. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and no longer earning money, reducing earnings and increasing the risk of a failure in the future.
SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST scored 20 out of a possible 40 points on Bankrate's asset quality test, less than the national average of 38.09.
The credit union's ratio of problem assets was 0.00 percent in our test, beneath the national average and potentially indicative of superior financial strength compared to other credit unions.
How successful a credit union is at making money has an effect on its safety and soundness. A credit union can retain its earnings, expanding its capital buffer, or put them to work addressing problematic loans, potentially making the credit union more resilient in times of trouble. Losses, on the other hand, reduce a credit union's ability to do those things.
On Bankrate's earnings test, SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST scored 2 out of a possible 30, failing to reach the national average of 10.11.
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WASHINGTON -- The House Energy and Commerce Committee endorsed a major immigration bill Tuesday to grant amnesty to many aliens now living illegally in the United States.
The measure was approved by voice vote after the panel narrowly rejected an amendment that would have strengthened the bill's restrictions on medical benefits to needy aliens.
While the legislation denies Medicaid benefits for five years to aliens seeking amnesty, it exempts some -- such as the aged and the disabled -- from the ban.
Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif., offered an amendment to eliminate those exemptions, saying they would encourage aliens to slip in illegally to seek free medical care in "a welfare state."
His amendment was defeated by a 9-8 voice vote after Rep. Henry Waxman, D- Calif., chairman of the panel's health subcommittee, said it would deny Medicaid benefits to needy pregnant women and possibly lead to health problems for their children.
The bill, cleared originally by the House Judiciary Committee, also must be approved by several other committees before it can go to the House floor.
It would grant legal status to otherwise law-abiding aliens who entered the United States before 1982, while also trying to discourage the entry of more illegals by making it unlawful to hire them.
A Senate version passed last year would grant legal residence to aliens who entered the United States illegally before 1980, instead of 1982, but also seeks to stem the flow of more illegal aliens across U.S. borders by punishing employers who knowingly hire them.


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An electric candle typically produced a light of 1,500 to 6,000 candlepower, which corresponds to the output of 11 to 43 modern 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. The temperature in the arc could rise to 4,000 degrees Celsius (more than 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest temperature that man achieved until the arrival of the atomic bomb.
(the inversed arc light above was a concept, it was never built)
Paris set the ball running in 1877, with 54 street lights on the Avenue de l'Opéra and 80 lamps in the Grand Magasins du Louvre. London
Moonlight towers
While European cities placed electric candles on posts, like we do today with street lights, the Americans had the idea of lighting entire cities and villages by means of a grid of towers that stood up to 300 feet (90 metres) tall.The first arc light tower was erected in
These structures, sometimes resembling oversized oil derricks, were equipped with 4 to 6 arc lights of 2,000 to 6,000 candle power each. Most of them burnt all night and all year (except at full moon) although some cities turned the lights off around midnight.
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The idea of placing arc lights on towers did not go unnoticed in
Europe. It is believed that the Eiffel Tower in Paris, finished in 1889 and also equipped with powerful arc lights (below), was inspired by the first San José towe
Placing lamps over the intersection of streets is the best method when low arc lighting is desired. By placing a lamp over the intersection of a street, you place the lamp where it can do the most possible good, as it can light the streets equally in four directions a distance of about 400 feet radius of the lamp."


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Hotel description: The Adagio Porte de Versailles aparthotel is well served by public transport. By plane: 9.9 mi (16 km) from Orly Airport. Take the Orlyval bus and get off at Antony. Take the RER B and get off at Cité Universitaire. Take the T3a tram and get off at Desnouettes. Continue along Rue de la Porte d'Issy then turn left onto Rue Louis Armand. Turn left onto Rue Eliane Jeannin-Garreau. By train: the Montparnasse train station is 3.1 mi (5 km) from the hotel. Take metro line 12 and get off at Porte de Versailles.
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What you need to know about the kneeling protest
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Trayvon Martin, Stephon Clark, Terence Crutcher. These are only a few names of African American men whose controversial deaths by police officers have sparked protest.
Former 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, has led the charge in the protests against police brutality of African Americans and people of color. Kaepernick began this movement by sitting during the national anthem during the preseason games of August 2016, where he went unnoticed. Then, on September 1, 2016, Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem and was joined by his teammate Eric Reid. These protest have helped increase awareness for an issue that has been silenced for far too long.
However, Kaepernick's protests have resulted in a national uproar.
The football player justified his actions in a press conference, stating, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
In Colin Kaepernick's most recent operation, he teamed up with Nike to shoot the latest "Dream Crazy" marketing campaign ad. The ad has caused major buzz in the media world; so much so that owners of Nike products began to share pictures and videos of them destroying their Nike possessions in protest against the ad. Even President Trump has gotten in on the controversy, tweeting out, "Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts."
Despite the backlash that Nike has gotten from the ad, the company has reported a 31% sales increase since the ad has been released.
Colin Kaepernick has joined in on the Black Lives Matter movement as well, and has made tremendous donations to multiple charities and organizations. He also founded and fully funded the Know Your Rights camps as a way to educate the youth on ways to interact with law enforcement.
Currently the football player is a free agent and has not been signed by any NFL team, claiming that he has been blacklisted by the NFL leadership. He continues to protest and uses his platform to get his voice – and the voices of others – heard.


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We can install raised kerbs for each specific location, customising the kerb height to ensure bus ramps can be deployed safely.
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And as you disengage critical thinking in your mind you will begin to see new ideas, new possibilities, new options you did not see before. You will perceive my voice in smaller, softer ways, and you will understand the perspective of others with greater compassion and sensitivity. For I feel your hurt, and I see your pain, but criticism in the moment will not protect you the way you want. It will diminish your experience and decrease the fulness I have made available to you. So disengage your habits of criticism, and embrace the beauty of the moment along with its imperfections.
And as you practice this as a lifestyle you will engage with me in greater measure. For you will encounter my heart even in the midst of chaos and confusion. As you embrace the moment, without attempting to fix everything, you will be able to relate, engage, and interact in a more pure manner than if you filter it all through a critical lens. And as you are free to engage, your heart will be more active and you will surely see and feel wisdom, beauty, and details you did not perceive before.
But though this is simple it will not be easy. To engage in this moment will require courage. It will require a willingness to embrace the imperfect, the inconvenient, the unlovable. But in doing so you will be more connected, more alive, more active. So exercise your choice to engage in this moment, and embrace all you find yourself surrounded with. For regardless the situation I am there with you. I am present. I am available to you.
Exercise your courage to take the path less traveled, the path against your natural inclination. Take the path of exuberant risk, and experience the full spectrum it has to offer. For you were designed with the capacity to experience it all, and to overcome. You were not designed to hide, to cower, to analyze all the time, but you were made to experience all these things and even more.
So dismantle your critical thinking and activate your compassion and courage. Activate the deep things within your heart, and enjoy the process and experience of living in this present moment, as we share all this world, all this life, has to offer.


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I want to rally as a crew member!
I want to rally as a crew member!
A great way to get involved in rally racing is as a crew member. Most people think that they don't have the mechanical ability, or know enough about how cars work. The
whole notion of what goes on as a crew member is very much misunderstood. It is not a six second pit stop. Rally just is not that kind of racing. Rally is endurance racing. The pit stops are anywhere from ten to ninety minutes long. There are also instance where work can be done overnight, between
Rally lingo
Here's some lingo you might come across:
- Service - this is what the pit stop is called. Usually, these last somewhere from 10 to 40 minutes
- Stage - the part of the race were we are actually going fast on the dirt roads
- Transit - the part of the race were we are driving at normal speeds on a public road. The transit takes us between stages, or from a stage to a service.
- In Time - the time of day when the rally car arrived at service
- Out Time - the time of day when the rally car is due to leave the service
- Service Vehicle - the van or truck that carries all the tools and parts.
Service Action
What kind of work gets done? Well, this is largely dependent on what part of the car was damaged during Anders' last high-impact parking maneuver. First, the service vehicle arrives at the service area, we have a big check list of things that get unpacked. Some of them are:
- Take out the big tarp that the rally car will park on
- Unload the jack
- Set up the chairs, as there will be a wait before the rally car arrives
- Listen to the scanner for any news about the team
Then, once the car arrives there are many very ordinary things that even non-car people can do.
- Clean the windshield
- Walk around the car looking for new dents
- Look underneath the vehicle for things hanging down that weren't hanging down before
- Pull branches and bushes out of the radiator
- Take pictures
There are also many things that can be done by those with very limited car experience.
Again, lots of this stuff is on a check list.
- Fill up the car with gas
- Check the tire pressure
- Check the oil level
- Change a tire
- Attach the night rally driving lights
The lesson to take from this is that the driver and the crew chief know how to fix the vehicle. Anything that is complicated or requires special tools is going to be handled by them.
Rally is Unique
However, even these lists overlook another fact that is unique to rally: the driver and navigator are racing all day, in the middle of nowhere.
This means that if something is needed, like food, or water for the radiator, or duct tape, it is up to the crew to find it. Sometimes that means just asking the crew working on the car next to you, sometimes it means driving into town twenty minutes away to pick up a part. The more people that are available to help with these missions, the better. Some people might be assigned to drive the car over to the technical inspection while others are registering and filling out paperwork.
(Actually, we always pack food, water, and duct tape. People usually come to us looking for stuff. *grin*)
Sometimes the most critical task is making sure the driver and navigator stay hydrated. Overheating can cause severe performance degradation both of those team members, who are driving around with the windows up, perhaps with the heat blasting to combat an engine overheating problem, in fireproof suits with helmets. That gets hot!!!
So you can see that there is much more to being on the crew than just diagnosing an engine problem or replacing an alternator. Those things usually fall into the not very often category. Everyone can help!
Take a look in the Stories section for a look at what has actually happened during some rallies...
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Having a website is akin to setting up a market stall - it is just the beginning of the trading process. One still has to stock one's stall, make sure what is being sold is visible (and obvious) to passerbys, promote the stall, and then sell! The internet parallel is putting up enough information and calls to action on one's website, optimising one's website to be 'visible' to search engines (SEO), making it user-friendly to visitors, and following up on your visitors' response to your calls to action.
It is not sufficient for your corporate website to be your entire digital marketing strategy. Social networks including blogs, discussion forums, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are relevant to most businesses. However, this is clearly to varying degrees depending on the nature of one's business.
Most would agree that the days of conducting a business without having a website are truly over. What is becoming more evident is that a website only scratches the surface. Your future employees, clients, board advisors and suppliers will not only Google you to find your website - they also check the rest of the internet for your digital footprint. This new paradigm was the inspiration for us to invite NeonDrum to our inaugural Amoo Booster Series event to talk about online PR. As experts in the online PR space, they promise to share tips that would make a difference to your business.
Event information and links to complimentary tickets are available below:
Address: Marks and Clerk LLP, 90 Long Acre, WC2E 9RA
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Date: Thursday 26th, January 2012
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How do your brains create a picture of something we've never seen?
Take a moment to imagine a horse riding a surfboard, wearing a pair of rockin' boardies, or a duck with a pipe teaching a French class. Oh la la!
The way we can create these images in our minds is a complex process. It seems easy, but that only because we are so used to it.
You probably haven't seen either of these things, but amazingly when we engage our imaginations we can picture them clearly in an instant. So how do our brains create a picture of something we've never seen?
The way we can create these images in our minds is a complex process. It seems easy, but that's only because we are so used to it. To create new and odd images your brain takes familiar pieces and stiches them together to make the new image. It's like a scrapbook collage made right inside your head!
When you look at any object, thousands of neurons in your posterior cortex fire. They work together to encode an image of the object as a complete neural ensemble. When you think of this object again, this neural ensemble fires and you can picture it clearly.
So when imagining something entirely new (like our surfing horse) the neural ensemble's for a horse and for a surfboard are activated at exactly the same time. The images are fired forward to your prefrontal cortex where they are cobbled together into one new complete image. Once this complex function has taken place, you have a new neural ensemble and can quickly fire up an image of your surfing horse. How handy huh!
This is why novelty images are so effective in advertising. It helps your brand get remembered by creating new neural pathways. For example, if you are shown a Meerkat in a waistcoat, selling you insurance it creates a whole new neural ensemble. So, the next time you think of a Meerkat, guess what's in the mix?


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The Google play Redeem Codes are very useful in the parlance of use in the games or other applications available in the Play Store. These apps are more often than not free as they are downloaded more if they are available without requiring any payment.
There are times that a seemingly free app may also require monetary influx. The apps may ask for payment in order to upgrade its features and for added benefits. The premium version may be paid, and offer better features than the free versions; it can be bought with free Google Play Codes.
Advantages of Free Google Play Codes
Google play gift card is the best kind of gift that can be given to an app-enthusiast and they are also quite easily available for purchase in the Play store. The benefits of using the premium or paid versions are that they generally do not contain any ads and the quality of the attributes will be much better than the best of the free versions.
It is as much a marketing gimmick as it is a matter of economical use of resources. Free versions generate income with the ads and paid versions do that with their point charges. Google play gift card codes merely make it less cumbersome.
Best Reasons For Opting For Google Play Gift Card
Google Play gift cards are the perfect gift that a gamer who likes to play online through Google Play. Online apps, even that are available for free, may be bound by the online currencies that the app uses.
In the case of any upgrading for the games as required by the gamers for their players, it is necessary that the point be either purchased online or got free through some code generator website. In the end what matters is the free Google Play codes that are useful for any kind of purchase made in the apps used by the Play store.
Play Store vs. Hack Sites
Now days, the Google Play gift Cards are available from the different hack sites that offer cards of the same denominations. In order to play free online games like Top Eleven, there should be no need of money but the developers introduced Top Eleven Tokens as in-app currency for upgrading the game components and reaping more benefits.
The benefit of this arrangement is that there is no need to make any payment. Free Google play redeem codes available in such sites are safe and secure as they are developed from the loop holes of the game itself and get updated.
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Free Cards and Points
The different avenues available to get Google play gift cards are foremost the Play store, which is the primary source for points. Secondly, some select apps and websites, which have offers and generators that create the codes to mimic the originals. These codes are as good as the original source, and also have the additional benefit of having no cost attached to them.
Google Play gift card codes are the best options to get the codes for free, but the flaws are that they are not available outside the US, and they cost money.
Hack Sites and Code Generators
The use of code generators has gained popularity, but there should be proper caution exerted before choosing the website supplying the codes. Such as there are many different websites that advertise that they offer the best codes for the online game Top Eleven tokens.
However, it has to be noted that not everyone will be able to give the codes free of cost to everybody. In such a case, it is better to choose a website which has a good reputation and requires less effort. Completing surveys and endorsing links are way better, than getting trapped on the quest of free Google Play redeem codes.


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Our blog has talked a lot about the omni-channel this year. This is one of the biggest changes taking place to the customer service industry at present so that is no surprise, but it's interesting to see a few reminders of how in-store customer service should work sometimes.
This Resource Nation blog focuses on just that, and summarises the seven must-have attributes for any company offering in-store service to customers.
As you might expect, knowledge of products, personal attention, and consistent branding all feature highly on the list, but these are all the kind of attributes you expect when walking into a store.
What was interesting to see – considering this is a list of essential in-store attributes – was that mobile and wifi are also on the list. This means that customers who are in-store are still expecting some kind of electronic interaction with your brand.
Featuring free wifi in your stores allows customers to quickly find information about you products. Of course it could also allow them to find a better deal elsewhere, but that's another problem.
Mobile interaction can be as simple as offering coupons or vouchers to the phone, allowing people to quickly get additional product information to a phone, or integrating with a location-service, such as foursquare, to offer special deals to customers who check-in to your store.
What is clear from this checklist is that the omni-channel has already happened and does not refer only to the process of buying online. Stores on the High Street need to consider how they interact with the online experience even if the actual purchase takes place in person.
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I have always enjoyed breakfast at the JW. I also had an incredible dinner there a few years ago too.
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I have always enjoyed breakfast at the JW. I also had an incredible dinner there a few years ago too.
Ruth's Chris has a consistent, excellent steak menu (their filet mignon is superb).
St. Elmo's, not so much.
Have to second the JW breakfast - last year my son had a breakfast burger every morning.
I think he enjoyed that as much as any demo or event we participated in!
A moment later I realize "Hey dummy. You live in Indianapolis. You go that way on your way home from work. You can go literally any day."
If you go through the mall on your way to the ICC in the morning you could stop at Subway in the food court. The last couple years they've been opening for breakfast to feed the hungry gamer hoard. They sell lunch and breakfast options at that time.
There are going to be a LOT of people trying to forage for food in the area. Expect a long long line whereever you go without reservations (if any possible). Then count yourself lucky if you do get a short line.
The convention center food varies. I detest their salads, but pizza and a hot dog are good for a quick meal. I adore their loaded nachos when they have them, and frequently get their over-priced but RIGHT THERE sodas. :)
Welcome to the convention! You will be amazed at what you didn't know existed. Don't be frustrated, it is overwhelming and best you can do is hold tight to that tiger until its over.
It's entirely possible they've refined the process and/or I just got a bad pair of hamburgers, but I'm not going to try them again. On the plus side, they were very efficient at keeping the line moving quickly.
I've tried the Ruth's Chris slider lunch a couple of times and it never has been very good. There are places within a very short walk of the convention center where you can mobile order decent food - Panera is close as are a few others. But while in Indy I suggest you try to avoid chains at least for a bit and enjoy some local places. Shapiro's and St. Elmo's are just two examples but there are plenty of others.
Shapiro's is amazing. I forgot to go last year, was sad.
I went to Shapiro's on Saturday and it was overpriced for what I got. I got a mediocre roast beef sandwich for $15, then potato salad, a single deviled egg, bag of chips, and bottle of soda for another $10. It has a good ambience and the cafeteria style ordering was neat, but the price was nuts.
Here are some of my favorites.
For breakfast we always head over to the Subway in the Hyatt. I know it's a chain, but it's better than Steak & Shake (Everyone who's anyone goes there). On Sunday, the last day, we stay at The Westin, and have breakfast in the No Name Lounge.
Lunch, I leave it up to the the Fates, and whatever I have time for.
Dinner, we go to The Claddagh at least one night. We also to Scotty's Brewhouse on Saturday night.


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Map and Directions
- Map and directions to Seattle Children's Emergency Department
- Patients and families may pull into the Emergency Department driveway and a free 24-hour valet service will park your car on the hospital campus.
Emergency or Urgent Care?
- If your child needs care for minor, non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries when your healthcare provider's office is closed, we provide specialized pediatric care at our four Urgent Care locations in Bellevue, Federal Way, Everett and Seattle. Urgent Care is open on evenings, weekends and holidays.
- For more information, read our Emergency or Urgent Care? checklist or download the checklist as a PDF in English, Spanish or Arabic.
- You can make an appointment for Urgent Care here.
About the Emergency Department
We specialize in meeting the unique needs of children and families during medical emergencies.
Seattle Children's Emergency Department is dedicated to caring for babies, children, teens and young adults, providing complete, coordinated care for your child in one location. Our team has extensive experience providing state-of-the-art emergency care especially for young patients. A lead doctor, called an attending doctor, is in our Emergency Department 24 hours a day, every day. We offer round-the-clock access to Seattle Children's experts in more than 30 pediatric specialties and to the full facilities of our hospital.
Our team recognizes how stressful illness or injury can be – not only to your child, but also to your family. You know your child best, so we will include you as we assess and treat your child.
Services and Features We Offer
- Emergency care for children ages 21 years and younger, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Our providers are Pediatric Emergency Medicine experts.
- Rapid access to the full facilities and staff of Seattle Children's, including operating rooms, MRI, CT scan, X-rays and other advanced diagnostic techniques, and experts in more than 30 pediatric specialties
- Radiology center adjacent to the ED makes imaging services more convenient and efficient.
- Central work stations give caregivers greater visibility to your child's room.
- Communication with Urgent Care Clinics ensures our providers work together to coordinate care if a child needs to be transferred to the ED.
- Free interpreter services are available.
- TVs in each exam room have access to our interactive media system, GetWell Town.
A registered nurse will greet you as soon as you walk through the door and assess your child's condition. After your child's condition is assessed by a nurse, a medical intake coordinator will show you to an early initiation room. Registration will take place in the room after the medical care team sees your child.
The entire primary care team may come into the room at the same time so you won't have to explain your situation to each person involved. This will ensure everyone is on the same page and enable care to move forward without delay.
Meet the Emergency Department care team.
Paying for Care
Learn about paying for care at Seattle Children's including insurance coverage, billing and financial assistance. Understand Urgent Care and Emergency Department charges and when you may pay both. See About Your Bill: Urgent Care and Emergency Department Charges (PDF) to learn more.


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(Crain's) -- A big retail center in the trendy Lakeview neighborhood was sold this month while one nearby was put on the market, signs that investor appetite for quality retail properties may be back.
One Lakeview retail center sells, another on the block
Sources say Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Corp. bought the 95,455-square-foot retail center at 3131 N. Clark St., known as the Pointe, from insurance company Principal Financial Group.
Off-price clothing and shoe stores Marshalls and DSW are tenants there, while craft store chain Michaels has leased the one vacant space, a former Linens 'n Things.
Just a half-mile south, the Century Shopping Centre at 2828 N. Clark has been put up for sale without an asking price.
The six-story, 171,719-square-foot center is anchored by a Landmark Theatres movie theater and a Bally Total Fitness health club and also includes a 390-car garage.
A marketing brochure lists the Century's 2011 "in-place" net operating income as $1.82 million. A proposed CVS drugstore would boost that to $2.12 million in 2012, the brochure says.
Pricing couldn't be determined for the Pointe, which is at the intersection of Clark, Halsted Street and Barry Avenue. But sources say Des Moines, Iowa-based Principal would be hard-pressed to come close to the roughly $37 million the firm paid for the property in 2006.
A Principal spokeswoman declines to comment, and an Inland spokesman didn't return a call.
Sources say a CB Richard Ellis Inc. team led by Richard Frolik and George Good quietly marketed the property for Principal. Mr. Frolik declines to comment.
The Century, at Clark and Diversey Parkway, is making a return trip to the block after the property failed to find a buyer in 2007. The owners, a group that includes executives with Chicago-based Clark Street Development, have hired Mid-America Real Estate Corp.'s Ben Wineman and Stanley Nitzberg to market the center.
Mr. Wineman declines to comment, and Mr. Nitzberg didn't return a call.
Bally, the seven-screen Landmark theater, the Aveda Institute and the proposed CVS would account for 61% of the center's shop space and 56% of its gross revenue, according to the marketing brochure.
The Century's owners have a letter of intent with CVS for a first-floor space that the drugstore chain would lease for 25 years, the brochure says, and there's also a proposed lease with rental car company Hertz for a third-floor location and some spaces in the parking garage.
A call Tuesday to Clark Street Development was referred to Peter Eisenberg, one of the Century's owners. Mr. Eisenberg, a Clark Street managing member whose bio on the firm's Web site says he was involved with the Century's redevelopment, didn't return a message.


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FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Corrections Department says inmates have assaulted two guards at the Fort Dodge prison.
The attacks occurred around 5 p.m. Wednesday. A department news release says an inmate attacked a correctional officer, and when another officer went to help, all three fell to the floor. The department says more officers were sent to the unit after another inmate began kicking the two officers on the floor.
The two guards were treated at a Fort Dodge hospital and then returned to work the remainder of their shifts.
The names of those involved haven't been released.
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When Stephen Poe decided it was time to get rid of his 1967 Hemi Barracuda for something a little more street friendly, he couldn't stay away from Mopar. With old school Pentastar blood running through his veins and an affinity to Plymouth's wicked fish, he knew what he was looking for, and just had to wait for the right moment to reel in another gorgeous car. This time, it was a B5 Blue big-block 1971 'Cuda that caught his eye.
But Stephen wanted nothing to do with that 'Cadillac-style power steering' that classic musclecars are notorious for. A couple trips around the block with Stephen riding shotgun, and it was a far cry from the feel of the steering in our 1965 Plymouth Belvedere, Project Track Attack, after we installed a Borgeson power steering box.
Our installation back in 2013 was to combat the same problem Stephen was having: lane wandering. One look over the shoulder to change lanes, and the car would begin the trek to the next lane before you're ready. It was a huge improvement to the larger B-body, but for this beautiful E-body, Borgeson had something new for us.
We had one advantage this time around with the installation: the engine had a couple of bad lifters and a flat cam, so it had to come out. That made it the perfect opportunity for a steering box swap into the '71 'Cuda; we know that the factory gear is more difficult to remove with the engine in place, but when opportunity knocks, Stephen decided it was time to answer.
Mike Williams, of Schrader's Speed & Style in Azusa, California, made quick work of installing the steering box. After giving it a once over and heaving the bulky factory box out of the way, installation of the Borgeson unit was a piece of cake. He used the same three bolts from the factory steering box, and after centering the shaft that connects the box to the column by checking the lock-to-lock, he reinstalled the pitman arm – the wheels had already been left centered and straight.
All New, Better Price Point, Same Borgeson Quality
So what's new with Borgeson's latest offering for the Mopar world? Like the first-generation steering box, the new Mopar power-steering box is lighter than that factory box by roughly 13 pounds, and it's still running a quicker 14:1 ratio. But, Borgenson's Jeff Grantmeyer tells us the big difference is inside the box itself, which brings about a lower price.
We were able to drop about $100 off the cost of the box with the new design. -Jeff Grantmeyer, Borgeson
But, rather than pulling a bait and switch, Borgeson decided to pass those savings onto the customer. "We were able to drop about $100 off the cost of the box with the new design," he said. That savings alone just about pays for the alignment that is recommended afterwards.
The box itself is all-new, not rebuilt or reconditioned. As Grantmeyer has told us plenty of times before, "The problem with a rebuilt box is that you still have 40-year-old technology." With this new unit, the feel is much firmer, and the lane wandering is history. The new box is re-splined to fit either early or late pitman arms, and will work for 1962-1982 Mopars with either the 1 1/8-inch (PN 800126) or 1 1/4-inch (PN 800127) sector shafts.
Steering Coupler And Hose Kit
Borgeson also provides a hose kit (PN 925113) with the proper 16mm fittings required by the new box, with instructions included to identify the pressure line (closest to firewall) since both fittings are the same size. Because the engine was over by the bench hanging from a hoist, Mike set the hoses aside to wait for the engine to be stuffed back in so that he can route the pressure and return lines properly.
As you might guess, with the smaller box, that leaves a bit of an issue with reconnecting the steering shaft. Borgeson has taken care of that part for you with it's Mopar Steering Coupler Kit. (PN 036425). Swapping steering boxes from one brand to another requires mating the new box to the original column, and not only is the input shaft slightly different, but the distance between the steering shaft and the new box changes as well.
To install the Borgeson coupler kit, a little cutting and drilling is required, so Mike wasn't out of the woods yet, or out of the engine compartment. The process is rather simple, and, again, Borgeson provides full instructions on how to modify the steering shaft to accept the Borgeson coupler.
The break in metal-on-metal contact that our coupler provides eliminates this hydraulic noise from passing through to the steering wheel. -Jeff Grantmeyer
If you haven't noticed that noise before – and who can with a thumping big-block stealing all the thunder – Grantmeyer explained that to us. He said, "The box we are adapting has the hose connections very close to the input shaft connection of the gearbox. The break in metal-on-metal contact that our coupler provides eliminates this hydraulic noise from passing through to the steering wheel."
Another nice thing about the Borgeson coupler is no more messing with the difficult clamp and rubber seal on the OE coupler housing – that, in itself, is a huge plus. If you've ever had to install a new factory coupler, you know that you can easily find yourself with mismatched slider shoes and coupler housing, there are a few different housings based on which car and what model year.
Borgeson provides the instructions of how to measure the shaft for cutting, and the new steering coupler has three holes for inserting roll pins after drilling the shaft. Of course, drilling into a hardened steel steering shaft is not going to work with your box store drill bits, so Borgeson even provides the proper drill bit for this task.
It's recommended to make sure that the steering is lined up straight, along with the steering wheel. Since the steering hub and the input shaft are splined, adjustments can be made. However, the the steering column shaft and the Borgeson coupler are not splined, so getting everything straight just makes aligning the front end a little easier.
Mike drilled the first hole and inserted the first of three included roll pins. This assures that the second and third holes can be drilled properly, and that the coupler won't shift if the drill bit tries to walk. A small tap from a center punch helps to keep the drill bit from wandering, and is recommended as well.
Waiting For The Ponies
As we mentioned, the engine had to be pulled so we took full advantage of the open compartment to upgrade to the Borgeson steering box. It can be done with the engine in place, but you might have to unbolt the engine mounts and raise the vehicle a little to remove the large, factory box.
This unit is a new, lighter power steering box for existing power steering cars, but can also be installed on Mopars with manual steering boxes. Borgeson also has a brand new Saginaw-style steering pump (PN 800322) available for both big-block and small-block Mopars, as well as a small-block pump bracket kit (PN 802412) to save you from having to scrounge around the wrecking yards looking for the right brackets.
If you're looking to upgrade your steering to a modern, firm feedback in your 1962-1982 Mopar, check out the Borgeson website and end your lane wandering. If you're looking to upgrade your Ford or GM vehicle, Borgeson has you covered there with a modern feel power-steering box.


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Sterling College Symphonic Band to perform first concert of the season
The Sterling College Symphonic Band will hold its first concert of the year on Thursday, November 1, at 7 p.m. The concert will be held at the Sterling United Presbyterian Church. The public is invited to attend.
The concert will feature a variety of music, including J.J. Richards march "Emblem of Unity;" "Rhythm of the Winds," an American standard by composer Frank Erickson; "Rites of Tamburo," an original work by composer Robert W. Smith that opens with solo french horn and quickly builds in energy and excitement; a shimmering and beautiful arrangement of the American folk song, "Shenandoah", by Frank Ticheli; and a dramatic and powerful arrangement of the American spiritual, "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord" arranged by David Holsinger.
"We are excited to open up our concert season at Sterling College with the Symphonic Band. This group of students have been working hard on a varied repertoire of music and we are sure that every audience member will find a piece or two that they really enjoy. The concert will be fairly short due to limited amount of rehearsal time, but we've packed it full of quality programming," said Larry Brownlee, pro-rata assistant professor of instrumental music.
Sterling College is a Christ-centered, four-year college located in Sterling, Kansas, with a mission to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith. For more information, visit www.sterling.edu.


text: Toying around with the notion of "what if..." is always a rather fascinating affair. It is therefore hardly any wonder that Blutengel mastermind Chris Pohl, when faced with the proposition of releasing a compilation of his greatest hits, started asking himself the question: "what would our classic tunes have sounded like if we had had today's technology and know-how at our hands, back then?" And as the standard "best of" fare always has the bitter taste of a cheap cash in, the idea for "Nemesis" was born and Blutengel started re-recording a selection of their favorite hits from their early days from scratch. The result is nothing short of impressive, as classics like the seminal "Black Roses", "Vampire Romance" or "Engelsblut" are not only reinvigorated, but gain a completely new and mesmerizing identity of their own. The new versions experience make revisiting the favorite Blutengel blasts from the past an adventurous and enthralling experience. Sumptuous top Quality and strictly limited FAN-BOX. It includes the deluxe 2CD digipak, an exclusive DVD with all official Blutengel video clips and an exclusive Blutengel-logo-medal in an antique silver look on a leather strap. Thus, "Nemesis - The Best Of & Reworked" is not only the perfect entry point into the dark and captivating sonic world of Berlin's Gothic-Pop-masters, but also a unique opportunity for old fans to rediscover the Blutengel canon in an altogether new way. The perfect document of the sonic prowess of this influential band!


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