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A Tradition of Achievement
Sacks Tierney: 60 Years of Service to Our Clients and Community
One of Arizona's oldest law firms, Sacks Tierney has
distinguished itself, since its founding in 1960,
through cause-related volunteerism and legal involvement
in local and national issues; offering litigation
services and experience competitive with much larger
firms; and pioneering expertise in legal areas of
special value to Arizona clients.
In 1960, Seymour Sacks, a young Brooklyn-born, Harvard-educated lawyer, left his
position with the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue a future in private
practice. Like ambitious people before and since, he headed west, to Phoenix.
His previous exposure to Arizona had consisted of trying a case in Federal Court
in Prescott.
Shortly after arriving in Phoenix, Sy was one of several
attorneys whom the Arizona Attorney General's Office
hired to help investigate some of the state's savings
and loan institutions. During his brief time there, Sy
befriended one of his fellow attorneys, and the two of
them went into private practice together. Their new law
firm opened its doors in November 1960 in the Luhrs
Tower in downtown Phoenix, and they began providing
legal services at an hourly rate of $25.
In Memoriam
Seymour Sacks
Marvin Cohen
In 1966, in the lounge of a Philadelphia hotel, a chance
meeting occurred between one of Sy's colleagues and
another young Harvard law graduate,
David Tierney, who
was clerking for a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice.
The meeting led to a visit to Phoenix and an offer to
join Sy and his fellow attorneys; however, David
declined the opportunity and instead joined the Peace
Corps, serving as an assistant to a city manager in
David returned to the U.S. in 1969 and, finding the job
offer still open, moved to Phoenix and became the third
associate in what was then a six-attorney law firm. He
started practicing as a criminal defense attorney
before transitioning to commercial litigation,
construction law, arbitration and mediation.
By 1965, the firm had moved to the 15th floor of the
Arizona Title Building at 111 West Monroe and was
practicing in the areas of condemnation law, business
law, civil litigation and criminal defense. Although
there were only six attorneys, the firm recruited
nationally at top law schools such as Harvard,
Northwestern, Michigan, Chicago, Columbia and
The firm's small size also did not deter it
from taking on legal Goliaths; at one notable point
during its early years, Sy Sacks and his small band of
colleagues simultaneously took on two corporate giants
in complex, class-action litigation.
The firm doubled in size during the 1970s. Among its
recruits during that decade were current partners
Steve Benson,
Mike Rooney and
Rob Kimball.
In 1979, the growing 12-lawyer firm made its second
relocation in 19 years, moving to 3300 North Central Avenue. As the firm grew to its
current size of approximately 30 attorneys, two more
moves occurred: in 1990 to the Phoenix Plaza at 2929 North
Central Avenue, and in 1999 to its present location at
4250 North Drinkwater Boulevard in Scottsdale.
Sacks, who passed away in 2011, was one of a small
group of lawyers nationwide listed by
The Best Lawyers in America® in each of the first 25 years of the
publication's existence.
Sacks Tierney Today
Since its founding, Sacks Tierney has distinguished itself through a tradition
of cause-related volunteerism and legal involvement in local and national
issues; the advancement to the bench by some of its members;
litigation services and experience competitive with much
larger firms; and expertise in legal areas of special
value in Arizona, including construction law, healthcare
law, Indian law and water law.
As a result of purposeful recruiting and professional
development, Sacks Tierney has positioned itself to
appeal to individuals, entrepreneurs and corporate
decision-makers who value excellence in legal skill and
responsiveness and who respect Sacks Tierney's firm-wide
values of:
effectiveness and unyielding professionalism in
addressing clients' challenges and goals;
honesty, integrity and trust;
respect for the individual;
creativity and innovation;
performance that exceeds expectations; and
a refusal to sacrifice quality for financial gain.
The vision that led to the firm's founding in 1960 has
produced a widely respected law firm where discerning
corporate decision-makers, closely held business owners,
government leaders and high net worth individuals enjoy
personal attention and tailored, innovative legal
Sacks Tierney is also a place where talented Arizona
attorneys, supported by a high level of quality in
administration and infrastructure, are free to pursue
the highest levels of professional achievement and
community involvement. Variety and diversity with
respect to age, experience, geographic origin, faith and
gender have for many years been a Sacks Tierney
Diversity at Sacks Tierney is not a function of quotas
or formulas. Rather, the firm's welcome mix of people is
a natural outgrowth of its long-standing values, culture
and qualities that consistently attract a diverse group
of attorneys and staff.
More than 60 years after
the firm's founding,
its attorneys and staff remain
mindful of, and committed to, its role as a solid member
of Arizona's legal profession and its 60-year
legacy of purposeful service to clients and the Arizona
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The S-Trike
- $4000 - 2009 S-Trike
- $500 Luggage Bag
- $300 - Tandem Kit
- $1200 - Streamlined Cloth Fairing
- $1100 - Trailer Hitch Rack for Flat Top & S-Trike
- Used 2008 S-Trike
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Launching the S-Trike is effortless. With the caster on the front landing gear and very precise control you can take off and land in very tight areas. It is so well balanced you can also steer just by turning the glider.
The S-Trike luggage bag. You can fit 7 gallon and 5 gallon gas cans comfortably together. Or lots of camping equipment, extra gliders, fishing gear, golf clubs… Doubles as a mud flap and prop shield.
Easy and simple portability. In about 60 seconds the S-Trike can be broken down and clamped to its travel rack. By having 2 lighter pieces to deal with it is easy for a person to manage setup by themself.
The Flat Top 200 power plant is also its own backpack aircraft. If you have a tight or rough launch area you can always unhook the Flat Top and just foot launch it without the S-Trike. Or stuff it in your trunk for trips.

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Located in downtown Ferndale, Assaggi opened in the spring of 2000 with the intention of creating a casual, elegant bistro setting with a warm, friendly and welcoming atmosphere. The aromas from our various entrées invite our customers the moment they walk through the door. The food at Assaggi Bistro is a mix of Rustic Italian and Country French with a touch of Lebanese. Our menu changes to bring you the best in local seasonal ingredients.
The Restaurant
Assaggi Bistro offers a full bar and wine listing with a selection of over 120 wines from select vineyards around the world.
Service is always friendly, knowledgeable and professional. Our mission is to create a memorable experience from start to finish. Our reputation has been built by word of mouth.
The dining room atmosphere consists mostly of earthtones while modern artwork created from such local artists as Sue McClear, Carol Valente, and long-time customer Maureen Sillman's black and white photography. adorn the walls. Perhaps the most notable feature of the main dining area is the inclusion of a large wood fired oven displayed prominently within Assaggi's open kitchen.
At Assaggi, we offer old world hospitality for a modern world. Combine uniquely flavored dishes, hospitality, and warm, friendly service with energetic owners who are always nearby .... and you have the recipe for Assaggi's success.


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Show Me A Farm Where They Milk Cows
Farms, Facts and Fun for Families, who love the pregnancy pillow amazon! Watch part one of this brilliant DVD for a taste of what day-to-day life is like behind the scenes on a busy dairy farm. Show Me A Farm Where They Milk Cows is a fun, informative and engaging DVD that children (and adults) will want to watch again and again! If you'd like to buy a copy of the DVD and its companion book 'Big Pink Tongues', please visit Show Me A Farm to browse books and DVDs that we have produced for children about farms and farming.


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Your open fire style (the Camelot difference)
Central to everything we do here at Camelot Real Fires are our customers. Understanding what your style is, and making that dream a reality as a working open fire is what we do.
Every customer is unique and has their own open fire style, tastes, and ideas about what their perfect open fire will look like in their home. That's why we go the extra mile by offering you access to our open fire style design service before we create a wood burning open fire that is as unique as you are. There is a charge for this service, but we offer credits if you buy a Thermovent fire.
Some customers are incredibly knowledgeable about the detail of the period their property relates to, others have a vision, and some just want us to help them create something that looks amazing every time they sit down in front of their roaring fire. From our perspective any approach to finding your style is the right one as long as it feels right to you.
One of the key decisions you need to make about open fire style is whether it's going to be a fire or stove. Now we love stoves as efficient solid fuel burners – but let's be clear – you will never make a stove look like a period open fire and don't believe anyone who says it will. It will also have a door of some sort reducing the ambience created by the sounds, aroma and view of the flames.
Just wanted to let you know how pleased we are with the fantastic fire you installed in our 400 year old thatched cottage recently. We can hardly believe how easy it is to light, without any sign of smoke in the room!
Paula L, Thatched Cottage, Bedfordshire.
Your Choice
Most of our Thermovent fires are created to a traditional design, but we can also offer a modern "stand out" design- Designfire.
Call us on 01905 820181
We love to talk open fires.
Camelot near you?
We have resellers around the UK
The canopy (or fire hood) is the most diverse and impactful element in most cases. The sizes and shapes range from compact to large, rounded or squared off, straight edges, curves, wide or tight angles. There is also a wide variety of materials and finishes available, such as steel, copper, or polished brass. These can be smooth or textured to suit the your desired open fire style.
Dog irons and fire grate
Other items such as the grate front and dog irons can be designed to complement the canopy (or it can be the other way around). The thickness of the bars, the flourishes we add such as twists and scrolls in the metalwork, really add personality to each open fire we make. If we're casting in iron, brass or bronze the patterns we make can feature an unlimited range of design elements.
Whether we leave the casting polished or natural also makes a huge difference. The finished product is a beautiful and personal piece, which not only looks amazing but becomes a stunning feature in the room. Each Thermovent fire also provides an efficient heat source and wonderful ambience that can only be achieved with a wood burning open fire.
Design sketches for each fire
Throughout this process, we're available to guide you with an extensive gallery of previous work to view and choose a whole fire style or individual elements from – or even create something totally new. Often we provide our design sketch service showing your style of open fire actually in situ in your inglenook or open fireplace to scale before you make a final decision.
Hi Paul, our Camelot fire is proving its worth. Absolutely superb in our thatched cottage. If you need a further endorsement please make contact.
John H, Thatched Cottage, West Sussex.
Anniversary Edition – ready to go at a fixed price.
If you don't want to customise each element of your fire, and love our past work, we have combined all of the most popular choices into our Anniversary Edition Thermovent open fire. It's really popular in Inglenook open fires but also chosen for many other styles of open fireplace.
Modern open fire styles
We pride ourselves on providing our customers with outstanding service and uncompromising quality, but it is the personal and uniquely styled products that our customers love the best. Because a traditional open fire would not always match the aesthetic of this type of property, we decided to come up with something that would. We called our solution Designfire.
Call us on 01905 820181
We love to talk open fires.
Camelot near you?
We have resellers around the UK
Designfire is an open fire which creates a new benchmark in design and efficiency. With Thermovent inside, it features our unique convection system to maximise heat output and distribution around the room. Designfire brings open fire design into the 21st century with its contemporary laser cut outer designs. Designfire features a dual layer metal surround available in a range of contrasting and complimentary colours, emphasised in contoured relief through one of three precision cut patterns in the outer layer, allowing the inner layer colour to be shine through.
Bespoke options
We can , if you wish, create your own unique laser cut pattern for Designfire or use one you may have, or even feature a brand / logo as the pattern. Email us or call 01905 820181 of you would like to explore this option.
Standing proud – out in the room
The result is a real open fire in a modern, customisable style, which is no longer constrained to sitting inside an inglenook. Due to its unique 360 degree design, Designfire can take centre stage as a focal point out into the room, or sit neatly in an existing fireplace, depending on your preference.


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2016 – Disappointing Year for the fans of Horror Titles
It seems 2016 will be a disappointing year for players who are in love with horror titles. Few months ago Konami's Silent Hill project was canceled, but the fans remained enthusiastic about other promising horror titles. Now the fan's enthusiasm is fading away, because one of the most promising horror titles for 2016, Allison Road, met the same fate as Silent Hill.
Today Lilith Ltd. announced on Twitter that Allison Road is cancelled. Soon, official statement, containing the details about the game cancellation will be released.
From the start, Lilith Ltd. had problems raising funds for development of Allison Road. They even began a Kickstarter campaign trying to raise funds. Even with the big popularity among the fans, Allison Road's Kickstarter campaign wasn't gathering enough funds and attention raise enough money to fulfill its final funding goal. The fate of Allison Road was decided when Team17, the studio who created the Worms franchise, offered to take over the publishing duties for Allison Road.
The involvement of Team17 in Allison Road was the last information we've received about the game. During the campaign to raise money, Lilith Team was giving regular updates and shared their visions about the game. They even revealed games featured. Revealing screenshots from the forest environment for Alison Road, Lilith team raised the fans expectations; the game was on its way.
The updates, the visions everything ended with the announcement from Team17. The tweet that brought the big disappointment was "Hi all. Sadly Alison Road had to be cancelled".
With the cancellation of Allison Road it's uncertain what will happen with Lilith studio. The studio went "all in" with this project, and its failure to finish it is harming the future of the studio.
What caused the cancellation? Perhaps the game passed its budget, or they had development problems. With official statement, we will find out the reason why this project was terminated.
With the cancellation of the two most anticipated horror games, Silent Hill and Allison road, 2016 is going to be a disappointing year for the fans.


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SCOTTISH actor Sam Heughan has been named the Grand Marshall of the 2016 New York Tartan Day Parade.
The star, who is best known for his role as the 18th Century Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser in the hit Starz series Outlander, will lead the parade on Saturday, April 9.
It's a big date on the calendar for Sam and Outlander fans, as the show's much anticipated Season 2 is set to premiere on the same day.
The series, which is adapted from Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books is currently filming the final block of Season 2 on location in Scotland.
Sam spoke of his pride at being named Grand Marshall by the National Tartan Day New York Committee.
He said: "As Grand Marshal of the New York Tartan Day parade 2016, I am honored and proud to serve the city and its ancestral ties. I love the city, the people and the vibe. Please join me in toasting all who live and visit there with a whisky and a toast!"
Deeply honored to be asked to be this years Grand Marshal!!!— Sam Heughan (@SamHeughan) February 16, 2016
Thank you NYC!#TartanTakeOver #NYTartanWeek
The actor also tweeted Robert Burns' famous poem about the US city.
"Address to New York - stolen and plagiarized from Robbie Burns....
"Thy sons, Yankies, social, kind,
With open arms the stranger hail;
Their views enlarg'd, their liberal mind, Above the expansive, city vale.
Thy daughters bright thy walks adorn,
Gay as the gilded summer sky,
Pioneers, Citizens, Bronx or Hudson Born, Thy island strikes the adorning eye.
New York! Scotia's family seat,
All hail thy palaces and towers,Where once a year, Scotch Monarchs meet,And March,
Honored on America's avenue of powers."
Sam Heughan will join an the illustrious alumni of Scots who have led the Parade, including Sir Sean Connery,
Alan Cumming, Cliff Robertson, Brian Cox and Kevin McKidd and most recently in 2015, fellow Outlander star Graham McTavish.
The Tartan Day Parade is the highlight of celebrations which will run from April 2nd to 10th.
The week includes a diverse range of events, from the Scotland Run through Central Park, to lunch-time concerts, business seminars, a Pre-Parade Ceilidh - and much more.
Bands, Pipers, Dancers and Clans from Scotland, and throughout the United States and Canada, are joining the Parade, along with dozens of Scottish and West Highland Terriers.
The 2016 Up Helly Aa Jarl Squad, celebrating Shetland's Norse heritage, are also among the highly anticipated performers at this year's parade.
They will be joined by the Edinburgh Academy Pipe Band and Strathallan School Pipe Band, among over 30 bands taking part in the celebration.
The New York Tartan Day Parade began 18 years ago with a with a handful of loud Scots and Scottish Americans walking down a sidewalk to be the culminating celebration of over ten days of events that will take place throughout the city.
Alan Bain, president of the National Tartan Day New York Committee, said: "I remember well the first Tartan Day Parade along the sidewalks of Third Avenue.
"I am proud this year, on our 18th Anniversary of the Parade, to see us grow from strength to strength, we hope you will join us on the Avenue."
The Parade is organized by charity The National Tartan Day New York Committee.
The Organization is comprised of the St Andrews Society of the State of New York, the New York Caledonian Club, The American-Scottish Foundation and Clan Campbell.
Meet the New York Tartan Day Parade past Grand Marshals in the gallery below.


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Micro 4/3 Metabones Speed Booster Now Shipping for Leica R & Contax Lenses
Metabones delayed the MFT Speed Booster for Micro 4/3 mounts earlier in the year, and it wasn't clear when we might see the final version, even though a few pre-release adapters have been going out to different reviewers. If you're a Leica R or Contax owner, however, you're in luck, as Metabones has just started to ship the adapter for those particular lenses.
These Leica R and Contax (which includes Zeiss) lenses are fully manual, so that means they don't need electronic controls, just a simple mechanical adapter. With the Speed Booster, these become effectively wider and faster. Here's a little bit from Metabones on the MFT adapter:
- Increase maximum aperture by 1 stop.
- Increase MTF.
- Makes lens 0.71x wider.
- Optics designed by Caldwell Photographic in the USA (patent pending).
- The tripod foot is detachable and compatible with Arca Swiss, Markins, Photo cam ball heads.
Some lenses have some specific quirks for the Leica R adapter:
- Super telephotos such as the Telyt 560/5.6 may vignette at the corners.
- The following lenses require modification in order to fit on the Speed Booster.
Super-Elmar-R 15mm
Elmarit R 28/2.8
Elmarit R 35/2.8
Summicron R 50/2
The Leicas armed with the Metabones adapter should produce some fantastic results, especially since they have such a great look already, but many of them were limited to only f/2.8. Now with the speed booster, many of their primes will be f/2 or f/1.4 -- and with cameras that aren't as great at higher ISOs, that extra stop can be extremely helpful. There is also plenty of good and relatively inexpensive Contax Zeiss glass out there (though I'm sure prices have gone up a bit since DSLRs started shooting video).
While we've mentioned that it will be some time before we see a Canon version, with the Leica R and Contax Speed Boosters now shipping, it's possible we may get the other versions -- like Nikon -- shipping sooner rather than later.
Both adapters will run you $400 a piece, so head on over to the Metabones site to read more about it or purchase one for yourself.
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This is just awesome. Though I probably won't buy right away, it's nice to see that my lenses will be getting faster. Does anyone know what modifications need to be done to the Elmarit 28 and 35 to get them to work?
May 24, 2013 at 8:28PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Now you can get even MORE of that "film look" with super shallow depth of field and shooting wide open to show your friends how professional you really are, with your 800 dollar DSLR! I mean, it's not like anything in your frame besides the noses of your actors matter anyway!
On the bright side, my leicas are gonna go up in resale value because of this.
May 24, 2013 at 9:19PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Depends how you look at it.
I only want wide for light, not DoF.
Most people want wide for DoF and light. It looks more 'cinematic', ironic how many films don't actually use a massive wide open aperture. Then again DR on their cameras is tons better than any DSLR.
May 24, 2013 at 10:00PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
This will be an awesome "must have" for BMCC MFT owners as it will solve three of the most famous request for that already amazing camera, 1. wide lenses 2. higher sensitivity 3. More DOF. The extra sharpness is not really needed anymore as the BMC is already super sharp..it could bebefit from softer lenses actually. Kind of makes the BMCC a more attractive alternative for those on a tight budget..as cheap / old lenses are more preffereed as they will give more character and less moire to the BMCC's extra sharp sensor.:D
May 25, 2013 at 1:35AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Does anyone know whats up with the ef to mft speedbooster or if there will be one at all?
May 25, 2013 at 2:25AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I own a Gh3 and I want to know if with Metabones can I get more DOF? if the anwser is yes, how much? Like a Full sensor camera or less?. For me that is the only reason to buy it.
May 25, 2013 at 3:29AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
May 25, 2013 at 4:19AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
"more depth of field" traditionally used to mean wider depth of field. And by that, meaning more of the frame in focus. And since this will make the lens behave a bit faster you could use it to lessen the DoF, meaning, having narrower depth of field, or less of the frame in focus.
So in the traditional sense no.
Though, In the confused meaning of the concept of Amounts of DoF, then maybe... yes?
I wonder why people have reversed the concept of DoF in the last decade... never made much sense to me.
May 28, 2013 at 4:00AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Anybody know if a Leica M Speedbooster will be available or even possible? There are some great Voigtlander M lenses that would go faster now...
May 25, 2013 at 4:47AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Leica M is FF. AFAIK, SpeedBooster is for crop sensor cameras, i.e. APS-C and m43.
May 25, 2013 at 7:56AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Can somebody explain to me how this adapter works? I dont understand how can some glass increase maximum aperture.
May 25, 2013 at 8:23AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
think of it like a magnifying glass directing the light onto a smaller surface
May 25, 2013 at 8:27AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
This video explains it.
Its awesome, but i dont like the oval shape of specular highlights in bokeh. It looks weird.
May 25, 2013 at 8:33AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
May 25, 2013 at 8:25AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Will there be a Speed Booster for full frame cameras sometime?
May 25, 2013 at 2:35PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I don't understand why anyone NEEDS full frame for their video work let alone anything bigger!
May 26, 2013 at 2:47AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
now if someone explained how exactly the leica lenses need to be modified... is it enough to just unscrew that one cylinder shaped part or do the lenses need to be shaved?
May 27, 2013 at 12:40AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I'd like to second this request. 28mm/2.8 owner here and would really love to use that lens with the speedbooster. Any leads?
May 28, 2013 at 8:54AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I've send two request to them about the same lens for a GH1. No response so far... What do you mean about "cylinder shaped part" ?
May 29, 2013 at 8:10AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
hi, mathieu! Please let us know what they respond here so that we're in the loop. Thanks.
May 29, 2013 at 10:36AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
They answered me pretty quickly actually (their website "asking a question" don't work but by mail it was fine...) here's what Alex from Metabones told me : "We aware your Lens rear will touch the speed booster glass surface…..
so you need measure yourself….or find a camera shop to check…..
I will try to find a drawing for Leica R to M4/3 speed booster for your measurement.
Most Leica R Lens not need to modify when use our speed booster adapter…."
So we have to wait for this drawing to measure on the back of our lenses ;) (the question remains, what to do if it doesn't fit ?)
May 30, 2013 at 12:56AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM


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Why is this even a debate?
It seems to me that the CRNA-led debate is financial… once you tease through all the fluff.
So here's some literature I found:
- Evidence-based review did NOT find nurse anesthetists' care equal to that of physician anesthesiologists
- Unsupervised anesthesia care by a nurse anesthetist is a threat to patient safety
- Anesthesiologist Direction and Patient Outcomes
- Is Physician Anesthesia Cost-Effective?
- I chose not to include biased studies where sick patients were not compared as well as morbidity and mortality.
As an anesthesiologist, I work in an MD-only anesthesia group. This is by choice: I prefer doing my own cases and being responsible for my own liabilities. The times I have required an anesthetic, I have requested a physician anesthesiologist. As a resident, I had very good insurance coverage, so I wanted a physician for my surgery. At that time, I was ok with having a resident anesthesiologist paired with an attending anesthesiologist for my case. My second surgery was done at my current hospital, and we only have MD anesthesiologists. Perhaps I'm biased? I know and I understand the path/journey/training it takes to get to become a physician anesthesiologist. I want someone who is well-trained, independently thinks, vigilant, and knowledgeable.
I'm sure there are great CRNAs out there… but when I was a resident… we used to supervise CRNAs in our final training year…. and it was scary some of things they would do. Who extubates from a trach R&R on 30% FiO2? Yeah, that particular CRNA told me they had 30 years experience. 30 years experience of doing something wrong doesn't equate to 30 years of knowledgeable experience. And let's not forget that CRNAs need a 15 minute morning break, 30 minute lunch break, and 15 minute afternoon break and they go home when their "shift" ends (even if it's in the middle of a complex case). I take a break when I can… I eat lunch and take a bathroom break when I can…. and I choose to stay and finish complex cases for better continuity of care.
Would you want a nurse practitioner or physician assistant solely performing your surgery without a surgeon? I know I would NOT. I think there's plenty of room for teamwork in healthcare. This is how to improve hospital efficiency and patient care. My fear is if CRNAs gain independence for purely financial reasons. But then, they will have to carry their own liability, cover their own breaks, take night call and discover that they had it so good in a healthcare team.
Opinions from other physician anesthesiologists:
- Proof that CRNAs don't care about patient access to anesthesia
- Numbers don't lie: Anesthesiologists are more qualified than CRNAs
- Doctor by your side: Get the Facts
- How MD anesthesiologists have become victims of their own excellence
- CSA legal analysis: Unauthorized opt-out of Medicare requirement
- Karen Sibert MD: Nurse anesthesia supervision and online opinion
- Unsupervised anesthesia care by a nurse anesthetist is a threat to patient safety
- CSA: Role of a physician anesthesiologist
- ASA: Patients demand physicians provide anesthesia care
- Primer on the anesthesia care team model
- Physician-led anesthesia is safe anesthesia
- ASA: Doctors and nurses are simply not one and the same
- Independent nurse practitioners are not the primary care solution
Bottom line in my opinion:
- Physicians endure years of grueling medical education that starts with the why, how, and treatment of disease. This is followed with years of residency training specifically in anesthesia. There's also further training in the form of a fellowship for specialized fields.
- Getting into medical school is an extremely competitive process. You take the top 1% of college graduates and high MCAT scores to get into medical school. The board certification for becoming certified in anesthesiology is quite complex and difficult in both the written and oral board exams.
- I will continue to be FOR team-based physician-led anesthesia care.


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September 11, 2001. I was standing watching the TV in the smoking room of ward 10-2 in Alberta Hospital, not really believing what was happening. I had just finished up nearly 6 months of being in a locked ward, not able to leave for any more than half an hour. I was drugged, I was way out of shape, and I was about to go through a very long period of adjusting again to life on the outside of an institution. Before I had got to the TV room, one plane had already hit a tower and it was smoking. Then, right in front of my eyes the second plane hit and the announcer had a fit, he couldn't believe what was happening. There were reports of another plane hitting the Pentagon and somehow I think I knew it wouldn't escalate more than that. One guy, a very distasteful young man actually laughed and cheered as the towers fell after watching people jumping to their deaths rather than be burned by the fire that was climbing the tower. When the towers collapsed, he said it was good for whoever had done the thing. I told him to shut up or something and went on watching in silence. Everything was a bit surreal, we were very protected in that place. The next night some people that wanted to were allowed to join in a candlelight vigil on the front steps of the hospital. I didn't know what to feel, what to say but I joined them.
One of the things that was really odd for me was that for a long time, please forgive my youthful ignorance, I didn't like America. It wasn't that I didn't like Americans, the people in the Country, I often disliked the foreign and domestic policies of the US government. Add this to the fact that I was in a mental hospital and you have one very confused psychiatric patient. Some years ago I had traveled through the South-Western US, mostly California, Oregon and Washington, and for a time I was homeless, for a time I was a victim of a con artist who took every last cent I had and even left me in debt from helping him and nearly died in the middle of the Mojave Desert, alone and far from home. Still, I found that there were Americans who were incredible to me. There was one man, Dennis Boucher in Cerritos, California who met me in a truck stop, talked to me for half an hour then drove me to his home and let me sleep on his couch, he washed my clothes, and he even said he would lend me the money to get home. I declined the money because I was already $2,000.00 in debt on my credit card that only had a $500 limit and I knew my parents couldn't cover either the debt or the bus ticket he was offering me. I almost wanted to stay there, California was in many ways beautiful, and in many more ways Dennis was an incredibly kind person. He ended up driving me to a busier truck stop than the one he had met me at and I was left permanently changed as to my opinion of people in the US. Everywhere I went though, kind people would give me rides, give me $5 for something to eat, even at one point I was sleeping in a ditch with some Mexican immigrants who literally had nothing, and they gave me a half a pack of cigarettes before someone gave me a ride.
That was a long and difficult trip, and I didn't have 100% mental health on my side. Now, 24 years later I have seen more and done more, but just about all of my learning was based on that trip. I don't really know what to think of 9/11, to be honest I am still a little confused as to why planes piloted by what I heard were Saudis caused the US to start a war in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to kill Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Husein. Now with this whole ISIS/ISIL situation I am even more confused. It hurts in some ways that I can't offer anything to help or make changes, I am too old for the military and too mentally ill to be a war reporter. The world keeps turning and the only thing that regularly seems to get turned in me is my stomach. It all seems like such a huge and difficult problem to me. When I think of the Vietnam War years I think about a lot of poor kids, a large percentage of black kids who were mostly high school dropouts being sent off to fight a war they didn't understand while those who were able to go to College had lives of drink and debauchery. I guess a lot of the people that went to Vietnam were into drink and debauchery as well, I just have a thing in me that kind of hates the elitism that dominated America in those years and most likely still does. I find myself to be very lucky, especially right at this time in my life. So much good has been happening. I have been having job offers, writing opportunities, book sales opportunities and a closeness with my extended family that for a long time I thought I would never have again. And by some miracle I have been able to break my chain of bad habits. No gambling, no drinking, no use of drugs or cigarettes. And that is gaining me a lot of trust and respect from a lot of people. I don't know what the key to the whole thing is, but I suppose a good deal of it had to do with a decision I made a long time ago to break the cycle of alcoholism that had dominated the lives of men in my family for possibly dozens of generations.
I guess I don't really know much more of what to say. I hope and I pray that someone can read this and see some of the things I have done, going from a mental patient 14 years ago to someone with three jobs, a great deal of respect in his community, a bit of notoriety in newspapers, radio and television with regards to being an advocate of mental health awareness and see something in themselves. See a part of them that has long been forgotten, a 'kindness muscle' that may have atrophied, but is still there to be exercised and brought back to full strength. As usual, anyone who reads this blog is free to contact me, my personal email is email@example.com
I apologize that I don't have the presence of mind to write a poem today. If anyone would like a free look at my poetry, just about everything I have written is archived at my Facebook page, Valhalla Books. All the best to you Dear readers!


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Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; "Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.


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Documents show City Place property has new owner and active development plans
Confidential documents obtained by AnnArbor.com show the development team is poised to move forward soon with demolishing seven houses along South Fifth Avenue near downtown Ann Arbor to make way for two new apartment buildings and a 36-space parking lot.
The property changed hands last week in a sale that leaves an out-of-town developer with control over the project as it moves forward.
AnnArbor.com obtained dozens of pages of documents this past week offering a glimpse into what's happening with City Place — an approved by-right project that city officials and many neighborhood residents don't want to see built.
The documents show the development team has worked aggressively in recent months to line up financing and take other steps necessary to start construction.
Among those documents is a May 25 letter of intent from Titanium Real Estate Advisors to Jeff Helminski, vice president of Rochester-based Campus Village Communities and one of the partners involved in City Place.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
"The developer believes that in order to secure construction financing, the project will require 40 percent equity on a loan-to-cost basis, which equates to approximately $5.4 million in equity for the project," the letter states.
"Investor intends to contribute $4.6 million of capital and the developer and affiliated parties $800,000 of the $5.4 million total."
Campus Village currently owns, operates or has under construction more than 3,000 rental units in 11 different apartment communities.
Its portfolio includes apartments near several universities, including Michigan State, Wayne State, Kettering, Texas A&M, Saginaw Valley State, Ferris State, Siena Heights, Toledo and Wright State. Most were either purchased or built in the last 10 years.
The letter of intent from Titanium gave Helminski until June 10 to accept the financing terms and return an executed copy.
Titanium Real Estate Advisors is a division of Titanium Asset Management, a publicly traded investment manager headquartered in Chicago. Its clients represent a number of institutional investors, including public employee pension funds and college endowments.
Property changes hands
A newly formed company called City Place Ann Arbor LLC filed articles of organization with the state on Aug. 5. Ernest Schaefer of Campus Village is listed as the resident agent.
According to a financial document leaked to AnnArbor.com, Schaefer had a net worth of more than $17 million at the end of last year.
Helminski declined to comment on Friday about the investors behind City Place or what's happening with the project. But he confirmed that, as of Thursday, he and other partners involved with City Place Ann Arbor LLC had finalized the purchase of all seven houses expected to be demolished to make way for the 24-unit apartment complex.
In the past, Ann Arbor developer Alex de Parry was seen as the face of both City Place and Heritage Row, an alternate development proposal for the same location. But it appears now that Helminski and his team are taking the lead on pushing forward with City Place.
De Parry owned five of the houses and had an interest in the other two. But now after the sale, it appears he's no longer involved in the development.
City Place was begrudgingly approved by the City Council in September 2009, despite concerns about aesthetics and whether the project fits the character of the neighborhood. It legally conformed with city codes, so the council felt it had no choice but to approve it.
Heritage Row, a compromise proposed by de Parry in late 2009, promised to preserve the seven houses while building new apartments behind them. But four council members — Mike Anglin, Sabra Briere, Carsten Hohnke and Stephen Kunselman — blocked Heritage Row's approval last year, steering the developer back toward City Place.
Fearing City Place could move forward now, some council members said this past week they're hoping the developer is open to bringing back the Heritage Row proposal. Helminski and de Parry both declined to comment on that possibility.
If the developer were to bring Heritage Row back for reconsideration, one of the four council members who previously opposed it would need to change his or her vote for the project to win approval, and it appears Anglin and Hohnke might be willing.
Ann Arbor resident Tom Whitaker, who lives across from the City Place site and continues to oppose the project, referred comments to his attorney on Friday.
"We are exploring all possible legal options for our client to pursue," said attorney Susan Morrison, declining further comment.
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One of the documents obtained by AnnArbor.com this past week is a 32-page construction finance offering prepared by Jones Lang LaSalle's real estate investment banking group in Chicago. The undated report includes confidential financial information about City Place, as well as a market overview that was used to sell the project to investors.
The report references a financial commitment from Titanium Real Estate Advisors and states that Campus Village also was seeking a construction loan of up to $11.5 million, representing 85 percent of the total development cost.
According to the report, Campus Village executed a development and purchase agreement with the owners of the City Place property for about $3.7 million and have paid more than $1 million for pre-development activities. The report also said detailed construction drawings were being finalized and construction was expected to start by the end of September.
In addition to $3.7 million for the land, the project budget shows $7 million in hard costs, including $100,000 for building demolition and $5.3 million for building construction — for a total building cost of $82.40 per square foot.
The report describes City Place as a quality student housing option for the University of Michigan community. The market overview contained in the report states there's "significant opportunity for the development of new student housing units due to a very strong rental market that is historically underserved with quality housing options."
"City Place will be the most spacious new student housing project serving the Central Campus market and will provide the highest level of technology available, including the fastest Internet and greatest bandwidth capacity in Ann Arbor," the report states.
City Place is a 64,750-square-foot project with 23 six-bedroom units and one five-bedroom unit in two identical buildings. The 1.23-acre site is located along the east side of Fifth Avenue, south of William Street, in an area near downtown zoned R4C multiple family residential.
The monthly rent for a majority of the units is expected to be $900 to $960 per bed, with a handful of them priced at $1,100 and $800, according to the report.
The budget projects a stabilized annual cash flow of $1.1 million, equating to an 8.5 percent return on cost. Annual debt service of about $870,000 would be paid over 30 years.
Net rental income is expected to be about $1.5 million annually. Total operating expenses are expected to be slightly north of $500,000 a year, including $200,999 in taxes.
The report talks about the on-campus housing currently provided at U-M, calling it both "limited" and "outdated." Off-campus housing, the report adds, is "infamous for its low-quality offerings" that have "pushed into areas originally constructed as single family neighborhoods."
The report looks at comparable rents, identifying City Place as more affordable than other apartments in the campus area.
The average rent is expected to be $5.78 per bedroom square foot, compared to $9.24 at Zaragon Place, $7.21 at 411 Lofts, $6.17 at 922 Church and $6.54 at 930 Church.
The report references enrollment growth at the University of Michigan, claiming about 800 new students are being added to the rental market each year.
According to university records, undergraduate enrollment increased from 25,555 to 27,027 — about 5.8 percent — between 2007 and 2010. Meanwhile, total enrollment increased from 38,680 to 41,924, or about 8.4 percent, during that time.
However, university officials said recently they think they welcomed too many freshmen on campus last fall and so they made it a goal this year to reduce the incoming class. A university spokesman said on Friday this year's enrollment figures won't be released until October.
The new housing stock is growing, too: Two high-rises are under construction, and another is proposed on East Washington. Combined, the three projects will bring another 1,173 bedrooms into the student housing mix.
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's e-mail newsletters.
Tom Teague
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:08 p.m.
@Ryan - Kudos on a good piece of reporting, especially given that none of the primary sources would go on the record with you. It provides some interesting insight into the developers' thinking, financing, and expectations as well as some tantalizing glimpses at their views on the Ann Arbor market.
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 5:11 a.m.
City council should make a public apology to the citizens of Ann Arbor for their selective and inconsistent enforcement of law, codes, and zoning ordinances.
Laura J
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:23 a.m.
I hope the city council is happy with themselves. They did not let the property owner develop his land with a decent and good plan. Now these houses are going to be demolished and we have no one but council to thank for it.
John Q
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 5:53 p.m.
No one forced them to invest in this property. If they wanted to build a project that didn't meet the zoning rules, they should have found a site that did or selected a site without out the potential problems that came with this one.
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:45 p.m.
John Q, you'd do the same thing if you were in the developer's shoes. They've spent how much on this debacle already? They have one project already approved, and nothing but stonewalling on the project that they said they'd rather build (and that the public, aside from some loudmouth neighbors, found least objectionable) -- in the end, this is nothing more than a sound business decision based on the costs they've already incurred and the obstacles that have been put in their way. City Council had its chance and they blew it. Believe me, I'm not one to defend developers, but this is one of those exceedingly rare cases where I'm on their side.
John Q
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:16 p.m.
It's the developers choice to go this route. Quit trying to deflect the blame. No one is forcing them to tear down anything.
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 5:13 a.m.
That's not correct John Q. It is the responsibility of city council to maintain the integrity of the development process....they failed.
John Q
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 4:11 a.m.
We have the developers to thank for that. It's not the Council that's paying for the bulldozers.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 10:06 p.m.
I do not blame Mr. de Parry for walking away, and since the new developers have zero ties to the community, expect they will have zero interest in working with a hard to deal with city council. The bulldozers will arrive very, very shortly. Then the cement trucks and by next fall the students.
Lets Get Real
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 : 12:52 p.m.
Yes, more outsiders with no committment to the community - except to extract money from it. More beer parties on the street, more noise, more litter, more undesirable behavior perpetuated by these living situations. I wonder how quickly the condition of these buildings will decline with so many people crammed into small spaces? By the way - where are the kitchens? I see beds, and desks, and bathrooms, and a media room. Will these students have to have a meal plan at UM? Or, eat out every meal? Or will they have a house mother who will cook for them? This looks like a fraternaty to me. Let's Get Real - this is not an asset for the city. Neighborhoods are what make a city; destroying them is not progress. This is a very sad commentary on the future of Ann Arbor.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 9:18 p.m.
Six bedrooms per apartment @ $900-1000 per bed=$6000 per apt per month as stated-is this correct? 411 rents for about $800-$1000+ for the entire unit of 1-4 bedrooms, per their website-if I'm reading their website correctly? Isn't there a legal-be it state or city-limit to how many bodies can live in so many feet of space? Six beds per apartment seems like a very cramped place unless one apartment takes up one entire floor of a building.
The Picker
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 12:47 p.m.
225 Sq' / bedroom, City code
Mike D.
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 3:37 a.m.
411 Lofts cost $900 to $1200 per room, not per unit.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 10:04 p.m.
JMA2Y - 20 bedrooms in 7,748 square feet. This is in the range of 300 square feet per occupant, more than most SRO buildings being built today and way more than many of the dorms.
Mike D.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 8:24 p.m.
It's amazing how a few people like Mr. Whitaker and commenter "beuwolf" think it's reasonable to stop all development in downtown Ann Arbor by making everything a historic district. This is a progressive city, and that means we preserve certain neighborhoods with historical significance and replace others with denser housing. Density allows more people to live in or near downtown so they drive less. Density makes public transportation options more viable. This is not rocket science; it's how people everywhere else in the world consume less energy per capita than Americans. The houses in question are dumps (yes, I have been in one). They aren't deemed historic. Council did the right thing by not ginning up a historic district just to save them. Council did not do the right thing when it rejected a much better proposal from the developer. So we get a crummy, giant box. The blood of tackiness is on the hands of Mike Anglin, Sabra Briere, Carsten Hohnke, and Stephen Kunselman.
Wed, Sep 21, 2011 : 2:20 p.m.
From a developers point of view, they will build the absolute cheapest possible building that brings in the greatest amount of revenue. If it is minimally attractive enough that people are willing to live in it, they have done their job. The government is supposed to represent the rest of the citizenry who will not LIVE IN it, but will have to look at it and who might also own nearby property which will be affected by it. In this case, the government did not do its job but the developers did do theirs. The result will be the cheapest possible building. Period. If they cannot get anyone to live in it, the taxpayers will be on the hook for its upkeep eventually until someone else comes along to tear it down and start again. In my opinion, there should be architectural standards for the entirety of the city but there are not. Only building codes. Hence- there are hideous building all over Ann Arbor. Were it not for the old downtown area and the U of M, Ann Arbor would look like one big, ugly strip mall. From a developers point of view, avoiding (talented) architects is something you want to do at all costs. If there are no architectural standards to meet, go as close to a 4 sided box as you can.
Mike D.
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 : 8:21 p.m.
John Q, what is the other choice? The developers do nothing and lose their investment? Do you really think that's viable? I guess you must live in a communist country, but America is still a capitalist society.
John Q
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:18 p.m.
It's the developers who are choosing this route. You can blame Council because they didn't pick the plan you wanted. But no one forced the developers to tear down houses or build an ugly box. That's their choice.
Mike D.
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 12:53 p.m.
I'm complaining because the intransigence of a few on the council has forced density to manifest as an ugly box that will be a run-down slum within a decade. Stricter codes combined with a willingness of council to make smart compromises would allow more sustainable development. Instead, we get this. Life isn't black and white, and there are right and wrong ways to add density.
John Q
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 4:10 a.m.
Why are you complaining? You're getting your density.
say it plain
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 4:23 p.m.
We're going to have to get used to this in Ann Arbor. Unfortunately for us, given the current state of real estate development, one of the only types of projects still seen as profitable will rely on the college-costs bubble. So long as Americans are willing to ring up huge debts for dorm beds and tuitions and such, and so long as there are still loans available for this, projects oriented toward students will be 'sellable' to investors. Ann Arbor managed to escape too too much of the overdevelopment of the heady bubbly downtown condo scene, though we've had our share. Ann Arbor managed to escape too too much of the sprawling subs on the outskirts, though we've had our share. But I fear we will not escape this next round of bubbly development, student housing. In some ways we really have needed more of it, but we'll be seeing what happens when we get *lots* at once now I think!
Phil Dokas
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 4:12 p.m.
Here's Jeff Helminski's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jhelmin. People should let him know what they think about these plans of his.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 5:54 p.m.
can't see the tweet - can you share?
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 5:23 p.m.
Good idea, lets harass a group of developers willing to invest in the City while one neighbor threatens to waste everyone's time on the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit. We didnt get what we wanted so lets just drag out, just for the sake of being sore 'losers' in this.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 4:16 p.m.
He bought a legal siteplan. he will build it. Our feedback will be irrelevant. Blame the neighbors for forcing everyone's hands and creating a lose-lose scenario for the citizens.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 3:33 p.m.
This project proves that those that just say "no" to everything, rather than engaging in the conversation and coming to a reasonable compromise, end up with nothing except the right to whine and complain about how they've been wronged. Works exactly the same for anti-development liberals (I say this as someone that leans heavily to the Left politically) as it does for Tea-Party Republicans. They had a chance at a not unattractive, neighbor-friendly, preservation-friendly option that might not have been 100% of what they wanted (not that they were prepared to put any of their own money on the line) but at least it wouldn't have been a boring suburban solution like this that ignores the context and will lower their property values.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 3:12 p.m.
Whoop Tee Do
hut hut
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 3:02 p.m.
"Construction of new housing has been limited in recent years in part due to the high barrier to entry nature of the Ann Arbor city entitlement process and its both active and influential community groups who have long held anti-growth sentiments," the report adds It's just so hard to build here. LOL! I guess that's why we see so many hight rise apartments and condos going up. Even during a recession, developers want to build in Ann Arbor. Even when things turn sour and the roadblocks, many that are not the casue of the bureaucracy of neighborhood interest groups, (re: active community involved local residents) , they continue to want to invest and build. Nobody ever said that capitalism was without risk.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 3:02 p.m.
The photo of the floor plans shows 5 bedroom units. So maybe a mix of students, halfway house residents and federal/state funded homeless shelter space in each unit? That will be interesting to see what kind of calls the AAPD starts getting. Seems like there is plenty of rental space in/around Ann Arbor already. As far as the esthetics go, there are already many dozens of crappy apartment buildings all over town so a few more could hardly further offend the delicate sensibilities of residents.
The Picker
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 2:37 p.m.
This is not really a campus project, it is downtown, at least six blocks to the Diag. I would call this a rooming house due to the fact that these six bedrroom units will have individual leases for each bedroom. What will become of it when the student population realizes that living with 5 other individuals (some strangers to round out the six) is not all that great of a living arrangement. Remember it only takes one bad sub-let and their friends to upset the harmony in any group home. Again, what will become of these buildings when the students ignore them. I'll let you fill in that blank!
The Picker
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 12:39 p.m.
Dude! What? Your statement makes no sense!
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 5:20 a.m.
Picker, you are way off base dude. These are students, many are not wealthy enough to experience the "values" you put forth in community living, or don't have a financial choice. They make do. I think it's safe to say you never served your country in the military, I had 168 roomates and we lived in the same bedroom called a barracks and that was like the hotel Hilton compared to other accommodations. 5 roomates with seperate sleeping quarters, that was officer country.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 5:52 p.m.
pretty steep prices for a "rooming house"
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 2:27 p.m.
"Heritage Row, a compromise proposed by de Parry in late 2009, promised to preserve the seven houses while building new apartments behind them. But four council members — Mike Anglin, Sabra Briere, Carsten Hohnke and Stephen Kunselman — blocked Heritage Row's approval last year, steering the developer back toward City Place. Fearing City Place could move forward now, some council members said this past week they're hoping the developer is open to bringing back the Heritage Row proposal. " I doubt it, I would not after all this grief.
Lets Get Real
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 : 1:05 p.m.
Mike Anglin - you're historic house could be next in line for demolishion - you live in the exact same kind of neighborhood this development is destroying.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 1:54 p.m.
What again is suppose to be so bad about City Place? People are willing to RISK their "HARD EARNED" money to provide housing for students which will increase the tax rolls of Ann Arbor, provide more foot traffic for local businesses and put Union Construction people to work! You almost have to be Anti-Ann Arbor not to like the story?
hut hut
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 12:46 p.m.
Du Parry owned the property and allowed it to disintegrate. He did not spend his "HARD EARNED" money to maintain and improve the property. He sat back and collected the rents and didn't do anything to improve the property.
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 1:24 p.m.
Rather than wringing our hands about how horrible City Place will be, I ask that voters remember why 7 beautiful historic houses are being destroyed. The City Council did not vote for the historic district which would have saved these houses, notwithstanding that the local committee which studied the merits of the historic district overwhelmingly endorsed the historical district. The result is that an out of town developer is plundering our cityscape. Rapandulo, Derizinski, Teal, Taylor, Smith, among others, did not vote the historic district. Remember that during the primary and general elections. I have followed this matter closely. It is quite apparent that Tony Derezinski and Jean Carlberg at the City Planning Commission level, and Deresinski at the city council level, have endorsed an agenda of knocking down all of the historic houses to the south of downtown, all the way down to Madison. If that is what Ann Arbor wants, so be it. If you don't like it, don't vote for Rapandulo, Derizinski, Teal, Taylor, and Smith in the city council elections. We as Ann Arbor residents get the results which we deserve, and by virtue of those who elected those folks, City Place is what we got.
Dave Koziol
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 : 1:25 p.m.
I hope you are kidding when you call those 7 house "beautiful". I park behind them, and they are run down ugly old buildings.
Rob T
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 2:28 p.m.
After three years of living in Ann Arbor, I'm still not sure what makes Kerrytown and Germantown historic. Is it that they're full of student rentals? There are some lovely old houses, but nothing you wouldn't find in other Midwestern cities.
Hot Sam
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 12:51 p.m.
Have I read this right? 23 SIX bedroom units??? If that is the case, where does one start...
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 : 11:05 a.m.
Since the monstrosity known as City Place appears to be moving forward, citizens of Ann Arbor need to learn from the errors of Mr. Whitaker and his neighbors. 1) Change is inevitable, so don't fight every option - you will end up with the worst possible scenario just because it is permissible within the zoning code. 2) By having the neighbors fighting so vehemently, council caved to the best possible alternative, Heritage Row, in order to kow-tow to a small segment of the constituency. 3) Selective use of historic designation will not work to stop specific projects.


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No, FAS 157 is not an airline flight number in a disaster movie, it's something much worse when it comes to the disaster that has become our economy; FAS 157 is an Accounting Rule we're riding straight into the ground—an Accounting Rule!
FAS 157 is the "mark-to-market" accounting rule created by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that I spoke of in my original post that decoupled mortgage-backed securities from their underlying real estate assets back in November 2007 and simply stated, FAS 157 must be repealed or we will experience a rerun of this credit disaster movie. Can it really be that simple? Read on…
The 110-page congressional "Rescue Bill" is now available online for your reading enjoyment. It's the result of a week's worth of Washington legislative shenanigans that served as the best advertisement for congressional term limits I've seen. These are the people we've put in charge of our country! Makes me want to vote this election season for the people with the least amount of time in Washington…how about an Obama/Palin ticket!
An Example: SampleBank
To understand the mark-to-market issue we need to climb into our time machine and travel back to pre November 2007 and the value of a mortgage when a bank sells it to another bank. The value of that mortgage is simply the unpaid principle along with the risk that the homeowner will default (in which case the value is that of the underlying property) or that the homeowner will prepay and thus lessen the interest part of the return. To keep the example simple, let's assume neither of those occurs because both are a rarity.
Enter mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which are bundles of mortgages, and in some cases thousands of them. And for the sake of this example, let's have an MBS bundle of 1,000 mortgages with an average principle balance of $100,000 which means the value of our MBS is $100M dollars.
Now let's assume that SampleBank buys this MBS with the intent to hold it until maturity. This is the bank's capital and if we assume they have the leverage to loan out 10 times their capital, this means they can make loans up to $1B based on this asset. They also begin to process the individual loans in the bundle, sending out coupon books, receiving monthly payments, and producing statements.
Along comes November 2007 and the requirements of FAS 157, mark-to-market valuation of mortgage-backed securities. FAS 157 says SampleBank must no longer value its MBS based on the unpaid principle, but instead must value it at the price of other MBSs that have been recently traded! Well, mortgage-backed securities are not the most liquid of securities given the infrastructure needed to process them. This concerns the president of SampleBank who decides he now has additional uncertainty as to the value of his MBS and thus the credit leverage it provides, so he decides to sell it. Over time, so do a lot of other banks, which drives the value of the MBS down, and thanks to FAS 157, when the price goes down, so do the values of every other MBS even though the intrinsic value of the underlying unpaid principles and backing real estate have not actually decreased. The result is panic selling and complete uncertainty of the value of a bank's MBS portfolio and thus the amount of money they can lend…so they stop lending! An estimate from William Isaac, former chairman of the FDIC, is that since FAS 157 was enacted, banks have had to artificially write down $500B in assets which means they have lost $5 Trillion in lending capacity.
In contrast to what the talking-heads on your television say, this is not just a problem for homeowners… it's a problem for anyone who directly or indirectly depends on credit which includes homeowners, renters, children living with parents, every man, woman and child in the country. It certainly does decrease the availability of new mortgages and thus the number of potential buyers of real estate which lowers the price of that real estate, but it also impedes the purchase of everything else.
Repealing FAS 157
So what would happen if we simply repealed FAS 157? The value of SampleBank's MBS would resort to it's pre November 2007 value. The winner would be the bank that bought it at an artificially distressed price and the loser would be SampleBank that sold it at that price. Banks that held their portfolios—in some cases because they couldn't sell them—would have their portfolios restored, and in all cases, capital would magically return freeing up ten times that amount of credit. This means that if we (the government) start purchasing these distressed MBS portfolios according to the "Rescue Bill" and THEN repeal FAS 157 we would have a windfall profit when we put them back on the market.
If you read the HR Rescue Bill in it's entirety (have an ample amount of No-Doz handy) you will find buried in Section 132 "The Authority" to suspend FAS 157, and in Section 133 the initiation of a "Study on mark-to-market accounting" which implies they are considering the issues just discussed. They need to do more than "study" and consider, they need to act! It's interesting that we don't really need a bill of any kind to solve the credit problem since FASB didn't need one to cause it. They can repeal FAS 157 as easily as they created it.
This credit meltdown was triggered by the stroke of a pen, the penning of FAS 157. It can be rectified by another stroke of the pen that repeals this absurd rule as applied to mortgage-backed securities. This is Henry Paulson's task and he just needs to overcome the major proponents of FAS 157 who architected this disaster, the largest being, ready for this… Henry Paulson himself! Talk about a movie plot!


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What is PPC? PPC stands for pay per click marketing. Let's break this down! You send an ad out over Facebook and over 1,000 people click on this ad! At the end of the day, you are paying for people to go to your website. We all need a little help, and this is a great way to get this help.
The best part about effective PPC management is making sure to run a successful paid search campaign. You can post the ad to Facebook, but is your audience on Facebook? At Oceanfront Media, we use Google AdWords to help promote your advertising and PPC Marketing. This is because AdWords enables businesses to create their ads and these ads will appear on Google's search engine and other platforms maintained by Google.
PPC Marketing isn't something that can be posted and just forgotten. This process needs to be maintained, but this doesn't mean it needs to be time consuming. This is where Oceanfront Media comes into play. We offer strategies to help bring as many people as possible to your website.
We help you understand the best advertisements for your PPC marketing, which areas to focus on, and how to reach your target audience! At Oceanfront Media, we make PPC Management & Marketing easy.


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Industrial Products
Smallfry has delivered distinctive and technically demanding industrial products to a wide range of industry sectors. By working with our clients, we harness brand values and strengths to transform ideas into tangible products and services. Our experienced team develop initial hand-drawn concepts into detailed solutions that are aligned to their technical brief, balancing ergonomics with engineering design. Our skilled approach to industrial design utilises CAD, prototyping, product development, branding and manufacturing to produce a functional and attractive product for the target market. Smallfry's work in this sector includes noise measurement instruments, agricultural tractors and traffic management products.


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The Marian Group at UCLA
Our group focuses on understanding materials evolution under extreme conditions using multiscale computational modeling. Formulating theoretical models of materials behavior under a variety of far-from-equilibrium conditions, e.g. shock-loading, very fast deformation rates, high dose and dose rate irradiation, ultrafast heating, etc., requires a deep understanding of a wide range of physical processes. We develop efficient computational techniques to implement these materials models, taking advantage of large-scale parallel computing capabilities. At every possible scale, our simulations are benchmarked against and validated with experimental data to build confidence in the models. Specific areas of interest are microstructural evolution and mechanical property degradation in fusion materials, simulations of plastic deformation in alloys, simulations of thermodynamics and phase transformations in functional materials, strength in nanostructured crystals, and simulations of irradiation damage in a variety of situations. The overarching goal of our work is to influence materials synthesis and design by understanding their internal evolution under prescribed conditions.
Group News
Our recent article in Nature Communications has been indexed in Sift Desk.
Jaime has been promoted to Full Professor!
Jaime appears as a co-author in a new Nature Materials article!
We welcome Sicong (Alan) He as a new PhD in the Marian group!
We welcome Martin Diehl, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Duesseldorf, who will be staying with us until October.
Marc has successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations to Dr Zhao, PHD in Materials Science and Engineering from UCLA!
We welcome Pablo Molina and Sergio Luccarini in their visits to work in our group for a few months.
Iris has successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations to Dr Chang, PHD in Materials Science and Engineering from UCLA!
After four productive years at UCLA, Nikhil is starting as Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) . We will miss him but we wish him the best and look forward to continuing the collaboration!
Congratulations to Shu Huang for passing her qualifying oral exam!!
Congratulations to Qianran Yu (MAE) for passing her qualifying oral exam!!
We welcome Cameron McElfresh, new PhD student in the Marian group!!
Research at the Marian Group featured in Scientific.net!
Michael Reyes has passed his thesis defense! Congratulations to Dr Reyes, PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA!.
Nick Julian wins a 2018 DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award!
Qianran Yu and Shu Huang to do a five-week interneship at Los Alamos National Laboratory this summer.
Iris has been selected to attend the prestigious Chemistry and Materials Summer School at LLNL this summer.
We welcome Javier Segurado from IMDEA-Materials in Spain for a six-month sabbatical!
Prof. Marian selected as a member of the executive committee of UCLA's Plasma Science and Technology Institute
Congratulations to Nick Julian on winning a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship!
Congratulations to Michael Reyes (MAE) on passing his qualifying oral exam!
Sky passes his thesis defense. Congrats to Dr Huang!
Jaime selected as an Editorial Board member of the Condensed Matter Physics section of Scientific Reports
Check out Prof Marian's talk "Physics-based modeling of materials and uncertainty quantification as drivers for exascale computing" at IPAM.
Marian group featured on UCLA's IDRE's Newsletter and Newsline!
Jaime's dual appointment with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department approved!
Congratulations to Iris on passing her qualifying oral exam!.
Iris Chang selected for a six-month internship at Apple as a simulations engineer for laser based material processing.
Nikhil has been awarded a IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Jaime to attend the COSIRES and Mod-PMI-2016 conferences in Loughborough, UK.
Marian's group research is featured in Advances in Engineering.
Glenn Jones visiting for 10 weeks from the University of Oxford
Sky and Jaime attend the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Sky's first draft paper finished and published in ArXiV
Jaime to deliver plenary talk at the ICFRM-17 conference in Germany on October 11
Congratulations to David on his new postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins!
We welcome Asghar as a new postdoc in the group!
Jaime and David attend the TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
Congrats to Sky Huang for passing his quals!


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Nobody doubts the need for compliance in medical publication planning and execution. However, the recent 8th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Medical Publications Professionals (ISMPP) in the US also aimed to provide attendees with practical solutions to aid efficient and effective publication planning in what has become an increasingly complex environment. Topics covered included methods to quantify and ensure author involvement, including those with language barriers, improvement in publication timelines, effective collaboration between industry and publishers, new publication models and technologies, as well as the need for not just transparency, but also clarity in communication.
Corporate integrity agreements
Increasingly, medical publication professionals are being affected by the fact that US-based companies, or the US affiliates of global companies, are being placed under corporate integrity agreements (CIAs), which include mandates relating to publication practices. Although a CIA is a binding agreement made between a US company (or US affiliate) and the US Office of the Inspector General (OIG), publications and publication planning are impacted both inside and outside the US.
In an effort to streamline global processes and work in a compliant manner worldwide, many companies under CIAs are putting in place a single global Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure that all company-supported publications are developed according to the same high standards.
So what is the situation with medical publication planning in 2012? Consider the following:
This all points towards the need for publication planning to be more globally-orientated than ever before.
Transparent, clear, accessible
So how does a publication professional ensure that the publication plan is meeting the need to be truly global in scope and communicating effectively with readers?
As mentioned, in recent years the primary focus of individuals working on medical publication programmes has been to ensure the transparency of all activities and publications undertaken by the team. This has included ensuring appropriate authorship, acknowledgement of all non-author contributors, conflict of interest disclosures, plus ensuring publication and/or disclosure of all clinical data as appropriate.
Compliance and transparency remain vital and the profession should view them as the bedrock of all it does. However, in the midst of ensuring full compliance, the actual art of delivering an efficient and effective publication programme has been almost forgotten.
Clinical relevance
On the foundation of compliance and transparency, publication programmes must be built that run efficiently and produce outputs that clearly convey the data and its clinical relevance, including any risks, to the appropriate audience.
One of the panel discussions at the recent ISMPP meeting focused on what end users of publications really want from the publications they read. The panel featured a wide range of stakeholders including a patient representative, a medical librarian, a journal editor and a payer representative. In a distilled form, what people actually want from medical publications is actually very simple and listed in the box:
The rise of open access publishing was reviewed in PME in the article 'Access granted' (PME July/August 2010) and this has further gathered pace in the two years since. Physicians, and other readership groups, need and want to be able to access information at any time and anywhere, and for free. More and more journals and publishers are turning towards open access, and this is particularly important in developing countries where the readership may well not have access to traditional print journals, or the funds to be able to purchase them.
Moving forwards, it must be ensured that the readers are able to find the information they need and for that information to be written and communicated in a manner that facilitates understanding of the information across different languages, cultures and levels of education. The writers of these publications, be they contributors or authors, should write at an appropriate level for their audience and with sufficient clarity to ensure that the information they are conveying is not just disclosed, but is understood in the appropriate context.
Efficient and Compliant?
One of the dangers of focusing purely on compliance in a publication programme is that good project management is overlooked, the programme becomes less efficient and publications are not developed and published in a timely manner. Ironically this defeats one of the aims of a compliant programme, which is to disclose data as quickly as possible following study completion. With the increasing influence of budget constraints, it is important that the publication team maintains good project management in all aspects of its work, to achieve publication of information in an efficient and effective manner that does not waste time and resources and ensures that information reaches the readership quickly.
Top tips for efficiency in publication programme management:
In summary, the profession must maintain compliance and transparency as the core of how it acts, and then build time- and budget-efficient publication programmes that utilise appropriate publication models to reach all of the global readership with information that is written with scientific accuracy and clarity, while engaging the reader.
The Authors
Russell Traynor (left) is director, business solutions at UBC-Envision Group and chairman of ISMPP. Sarah L Feeny is global head of scientific direction at Complete Medical Communications and European-At-Large Trustee of ISMPP. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of ISMPP, UBC-Envision Group or Complete Medical Communications.
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We're used to it by now. Those of us who love mixed martial arts have come to accept that our sport will be subjected to ignorant, unfair commentary from people who don't understand it and don't care to understand it, and that the anti-MMA voices will grow particularly loud any time the sport becomes regulated in an area where it had previously been banned.
But even if we're used to it, and it would be easier just to ignore it, sometimes it's valuable to point out some of the over-the-top assertions about MMA that come out in the local media whenever the sport arrives in a new town.
So with MMA recently being legalized in Ontario, let's take a look at some of the problems with this Windsor Star column by Anne Jarvis.
Jarvis starts with this:
"So, Maximum Fighting Championship 29: Conquer is coming to Caesars Windsor next month. They'll have to hose the blood off the floor of the Colosseum. Mixed martial arts is the full-contact, almost no-holdsbarred sport combining boxing, wrestling and martial arts. Bouts are fought in a cage. It's bloody barbaric, and I meant that pun."
Good one.
"Half of bouts end in a knockout, technical knockout or "choke out," all of which can cause brain injury. Some of these guys will likely suffer chronic traumatic encephalopathy, like hockey player Bob Probert."
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Sometimes I get requests. Sometimes they are requests for interesting things. Here is the video in question:
Could I "please, please, please analyze this?"
Of course the question comes up: is it real or fake? My first approximation says it is real. Clearly, this kind of thing is possible. However, I have been wrong before and this isn't impossible to fake.
There are a couple of things to check. The first thing that came to my mind was the time of flight. I can get this from the video. If the time in the video is significantly different than what would be calculated, then it is likely fake.
Starting Assumptions ——————–
- No air resistance. This is wrong, but it is a good first approximation. Also, it will make it much easier to calculate.
- The reporter starts at half court. This makes the horizontal shot distance about 84 feet/2 = 42 feet and take away one foot for the goal off the back edge. (12.5 meters) Oh wait. According to this site, the center of the hoop is about 5 feet from the back edge. This would put the distance at 37 feet (11.3 meters).
- The initial starting position of the ball is about 6 feet (over the reporter's head). The basketball goal is 10 feet off the ground. This gives a vertical change in height of 4 feet. (1.2 meters)
- The time of flight for the ball was right around 1.5 seconds (from the video).
Ok, there is one more thing I can get from the video. If I assume a basketball diameter of 29 cm, then I can get a few frames of the ball as it is being thrown. This is a plot of the vertical motion of the ball as it is being thrown.
So, I can use an initial launch speed of about 12 m/s.
Projectile Motion —————–
Since I am ignoring air resistance, I can treat this as a plain old projectile motion problem. Here is a rough diagram.
The key to projectile motion is that you essentially have a y-motion and an x-motion. The only thing these motions have in common is the time it takes. Since there is no acceleration in the x-direction and the y-acceleration is -g, I can write: (oh, the ball starts at the origin for simplicity and I am calling x and y the final position of the ball)
I have two equations and two things I don't know: time (t) and the launch angle (θ). Now I will use the x-equation to solve for the angle and plug that into the y-equation. This is what I get:
Now, here is a trig trick. In y-equation, it has the sin of θ but I have cosine. Look at this fake triangle.
See, this triangle has the same value for cosine of θ. Also, I can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the other side. Now, what is the sine of θ?
Substituting this into the y-equation, I get:
To solve for t, I will get the square root on one side and square both sides.
This is like the quadratic equation - well, for t2 instead of t. I can use the quadratic formula to solve for t2.
Now, I can put in the values from above to get the possible values for time (there will be more than one possible answer).
This gives two times of flight. 2.06 seconds or 1.12 seconds. What is the difference? Well, the longer time is for a higher angle and the shorter time is more of a "straight" shot. Neither of these values is exactly 1.5 seconds. Well, that might be ok. My method for finding the initial velocity was a little uncertain - especially with the poor quality video.
Fake or Not? ————
Unfortunately, I am going with "inconclusive". Even if the time was exactly what I calculated, it wouldn't absolutely mean it is a real video. I mean, if you can fake the video you could probably calculate the real time. Or better, just throw another ball and see how long it takes - even if it misses. So, I will just assume it is real for now.
What Are the Chances? ———————
This is a better question. Clearly, it is possible to make this shot, but how unlikely is it? I will leave this as a homework question, but here is a tip. You will probably need to simulate this shot and run it a whole bunch of times. See the links below for an example.
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THE first images have been released of Viking treasure buried in a Scottish field for more than 1,000 years.
The objects were found inside a pot unearthed in Galloway and include rare items such as a silver brooch from Ireland and silk from around modern-day Istanbul as well as gold and crystal.
The items date from the ninth and 10th centuries, and are part of a wider hoard of about 100 pieces, which experts say is the most important Viking discovery in Scotland for more than a century.
Richard Welander, of Historic Environment Scotland, said: "Before removing the objects we took the rather unusual measure of having the pot CT-scanned, in order that we could get a rough idea of what was in there and best-plan the delicate extraction process. That exercise offered us a tantalising glimpse but didn't prepare me for what was to come.
"These stunning objects provide us with an unparalleled insight to what was going on in the minds of the Vikings in Galloway all those years ago.
"They tell us about the sensibilities of the time, reveal displays of regal rivalries and some of the objects even betray an underlying sense of humour, which the Vikings aren't always renowned for."
The items, found by metal detectorist Derek McClennan in September 2014, are now with the Treasure Trove Unit, which is responsible for assessing the value of the hoard on behalf of the Office of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
The hoard will then be offered for allocation to Scottish museums, with Mr McClennan eligible for the market value of the find - a cost that will be met by the successful museum.
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I'm creating a customized search input field that takes text on the left side and search tags on the right:
I want to limit the text to whatever will fit into the left side such that the user cannot type into the space occupied by the tags. For example, in the image above, the user can type:
"This is some text. This is more text. Man, there's a lot of text here. Just look"
before hitting the left-most tag "MECXXX". At that point, I want to prevent the user from typing anymore.
But if the user gets rid of the "MECXXX" tag, he should be able to type some more:
"This is some text. This is more text. Man, there's a lot of text here. Just look at all this text"
I can figure out the position of the left edge of the left-most tag, but how do I figure out the position of the right edge of the text?


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CSI Annual Conference 2007
November 3-9, 2007
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia
CSI 2007, held November 3-9 in Arlington, VA, delivers a business-focused overview of enterprise security. 2,000+ delegates, 80 exhibitors and features 100+ sessions/seminars convene to provide a roadmap for integrating policies and procedures with new tools and techniques.
Register now using code: CSI2007 and save $100 off the conference or get a Free Exhibition Pass at www.csiannual.com.
If you think it's not worth $100 to my readers to see the previous text, how about this: I have two free full conference passes (together worth over $3000), courtesy of CSI, to be awarded to blog readers.
How do I decide who should get them? I'm going to hold an essay contest. The two best essays (judged by me) that address any of the following categories will win:
- Discuss why control-compliant approaches to security like FISMA are a disaster.
- Explain why detection systems should be kept separate from policy enforcement systems; see Considering Convergence? for background.
- Tell us how Network Security Monitoring helped you perform your detection and response mission for a real incident. (You can anonymize your employer or organization.)
- Any of the other "hot button" topics you've read at this blog.
Please send an email to taosecurity [at] gmail [dot] com with your answer, or publish it at your blog. Winning entries will be published on this blog.
Entries for the contest must be received by me via email no later than 8 pm eastern time Tuesday 23 October 2007.
Thank you to CSI for providing these free passes and discounts.


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Bold Love is Clear Creek Community Church's 5th commitment campaign in its 24 year history. Its purpose is to further the church's 4B vision (from the Beltway to the Beach and from the Bay to Brazoria County) of having 10 campuses in close proximity to the people we are trying to reach.
Commitment campaigns like Bold Love are markers in the history of our church for two reasons: (1) people experience unprecedented personal spiritual growth and (2) the church grows in the ability to fulfill the mission God gave us.
We invite you to join us!


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Meet The Team - Catherine Timmons
Catherine Timmons is an up-beat group fitness instructor who delivers BodyAttack and BodyPump to her loyal NLL following. Her classes are always full with eager participants and her enthusiasm rubs off on everyone she meets.
Catherine Timmons is our new 'Meet the Team' employee.
Tell us about yourself and your job?
I worked in payroll for 20 years and just prior to teaching fitness, I worked for STV as a HR Systems Officer for 8 years which I left when I had my first son. I have been a Group Fitness Instructor for 10 years with NLL and I also work part time as a Finance Assistant. I got into teaching because I always loved going to group fitness classes. It was such a great fun experience and the instructors that put me through my paces inspired me with their energy and motivation. So I did ETM and then progressed to Les Mills programmes.
What interested you in a career in the health and fitness industry?
I got into teaching because I always loved going to group fitness classes. I had such a great experience attending the classes with each instructor inspiring me. I always attended group fitness classes at NL Leisure in my spare time and progressed to teaching them. Teaching fitness and working part time for NLC fits well with looking after the boys. I currently teach BodyAttack and BodyPump.
What are your hobbies?
In my spare time I look after my two boys and I enjoy chilling out with family and friends.
That's all for this 'Meet the Team' segment. Stay tuned for more news coming soon!