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"For a moment I think about taking the FBI to a bed somewhere, but immediately I realize this is a consequence of the defilement from yesterday. This is exactly how karma is generated, through craving arising from craving arising from craving. Just because I successfully negotiated the charms of three beautiful women, with the help of JBO and an astronomical investment by my Colonel, I now feel I can fuck the FBI with impunity. But the Lord Buddha taught two thousand five hundred years ago that there is no impunity. In more elegant language than I can muster he warned that you always pay for pussy, one way or another. For example, if we go back to Jones' room at the Hilton, one of two things could happen. She could enjoy it more than I or I could enjoy it more than she. The keener one immediately becomes the slave of the other, with disastrous consequences for both. I think it likely that I would initially fall under her spell, which gets more powerful every day. Having trapped me, she would use her abrasive genius to nibble away at everything about me which is alien to her: my belief in rebirth, my spiritual dimension, my meditation, my Buddhism, my preference for huge doses of chili in everything I eat. She would not realize that she would be turning me into an American, but by the time I'm living with her in some luxurious by soulless suburb in one of those cities in America which looks like all the others, with an American accent now and forced to go underground with my chili habit, she will have started to hate me because I will have become a millstone round her neck and the lust will have run out a long time ago. There might even be a child, which of course will make things a whole lot worse, because our mutual karma will include this third person. After death, no matter how hard we try, we will be reborn in circumstances where we will be forced to continue where we left off. We will be sworn enemies by this time, and I will probably be the dominant one now, due to the way things have to balance out in the universe. No, I am not going to fuck her today."
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June 23, 2014 -- Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 3D/2D graphics and computing intellectual property (IP) cores, announced today that it became a partner in the Altera Design Services Network (DSN) program to help customers accelerate Altera FPGA and SoC design productivity and innovation.
DMP develops and provides leading-edge GPU IP cores for 3D/2D graphics rendering and computing purposes. Altera certified DMP as an Altera DSN member based on its track record in GPU IP licensing for embedded space. DMP GPUs play a profound role in improving the interactive visual experience of a wide range of applications that range from TV, cameras, automotive, and gaming, all the way to industrial equipment. Through the alliance program, DMP will make significant contributions by providing GPU and professional service related to computer vision to accelerate and spread visual computing technologies using Altera FPGAs and SoCs.
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Re: st: RE: saving regression output after "PV" command
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Re: st: RE: saving regression output after "PV" command
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> The "PV" command is a user written module to estimate the data from large stratified samples like "PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS".
> The PV command is very useful, the problem is that after running the command I do want to use the estimates of two subgroups to run decomposition, but it does not see the output when using "estimates store" stata return (last estimation results not found, nothing to store).
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> I am trying to use estimates store after running the command to use the output in another analysis but it does not work (error says: last estimation results not found, nothing to store).
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Screenshot a Day – 11
As part of Tycertank's screenshot challenge, we've been tasked with posting a screenshot a day based on a series of predefined topics spanning the entire month of August.
Day 11: I love doing this.
I love collecting achievements. Ever since they were first introduced, I was excited about the possibility of collecting as many as I could. Even the silly ones I'll do for a few points and the number of hours I dedicated to finishing off my Archaeology ones should say something too.
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Why it's important:
GI cancers (oesophagus, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, bowel/anal): Australia's most common cancer group - 24,600 new diagnoses a year, 3 every hour
12,000 deaths a year - 33 per day
Low survival rates - average 49%, pancreatic just 6% over five years - compare melanoma, breast, prostate cancers: all around 90%
Recent evidence shows GI cancer research under-funded vs mortality
GI Cancer Institute and AGITG:
Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG): conducts clinical research trials (since 1991) with worldwide collaboration to improve treatments (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, combinations, best practice)
This research saves and extends lives, improves quality of life
GI Cancer Institute: AGITG community division raises trial funding, awareness - of GI cancers, trials, preventive strategies (healthy eating, exercise)
Question: What do you hope to achieve during GI Cancer Awareness Week?
Gail Smith: The event from April 27 to May 3, is hoping to do exactly what it says – raise awareness of gastro-intestinal cancers among the general public. It will be Australia's first-ever national GI Cancer Awareness Week, and will include free public forums in Melbourne and Sydney with scientific experts, survivors and supporters sharing their knowledge and experience. It will also be a rare, but valuable opportunity to ask questions of medical professionals.
GI cancers include cancers of the oesophagus, stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, the bowel and the anus. It is Australia's most common cancer group with 24,600 new diagnoses a year – that's 3 every hour. Survival rates are extremely low – there are 12,000 deaths a year – that's 33 per day. The survival rate averages 49 per cent with pancreatic cancer at just 6 per cent over five years. They are shocking statistics when you consider that the survival rates for melanoma, breast and prostate cancers are all around 90 per cent.
Question: What do you hope Australians learn about GI Cancer?
Gail Smith: I'm hoping that people will begin to think more about these cancers. They have to be talked about and action taken to increase funding into research. These diseases are so common in our society yet by doing simple things such as living a healthy lifestyle, people can minimise their risk.
Question: Will you be attending the upcoming Engage Community Forum on GI Cancer?
Gail Smith: Yes, I'll be attending in Melbourne. The date is April 28 at Hawthorn Arts Centre. The GI Cancer Institute is the community arm of the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG), which conducts clinical research trials to save and extend lives and improve the quality of life for those suffering from GI cancers. The institute's aims are to raise funding for trials research and awareness education among the public through initiatives such as healthy eating and exercise.
Question: How has GI Cancers affected you and your family?
Gail Smith: My father died in 2005 from pancreatic cancer. He was 73 but was fit, healthy and a non-smoker. Pain in his stomach was dismissed by his GP as irritable bowel syndrome and the cancer was only discovered when he was admitted to A&E a week later. Within four weeks he had passed away. Unfortunately pancreatic cancer is often discovered too late – in my father's case, it had spread to his liver and there were no treatment options left.
In 2012, both my mother and mother-in-law were diagnosed with GI cancers. My mother-in-law had treatment for bowel cancer but sadly died a year later. My mother's tumour was situated in her oesophagus - she had successful surgery in 2013 and is now, thankfully, free of the disease.
Question: Can you talk us through the methods you use to hopefully prevent yourself from GI Cancer?
Gail Smith: I basically try to keep fit and healthy by exercising and watching what I eat. This includes lots of vegetables and fish and just a little meat. I don't smoke and only have the occasional glass of wine or beer. I have a bowel screen test every year, which is easy to do, and I keep informed of developments in GI cancer research.
Question: What advice do you have for women who are supporting family members with GI Cancer?
Gail Smith: Ask for help! My mother, sister and I nursed my father at home with a district nurse visiting each day to administer medication. We took it in turns to have a break, even if it was just for a walk to the shops. It's difficult to do but you have to look after yourself to be able to care for another person facing these devastating illnesses and this means not being too proud to ask for help and support. You don't have to shoulder the burden on your own – there are lots of support services available staffed by people who have a wealth of experience and knowledge about caring for someone with a GI cancer diagnosis.
It's also vital as a carer, to stay abreast of new developments in treatments and clinical trials and to have a close relationship with your medical team to discuss these and any worries or concerns you may have.
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Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are studying the alligator for clues how to regenerate teeth in humans. The tooth structure of alligators is surprisingly similar to that of humans, except that an alligator has eighty teeth, each of which can be regenerated up to fifty times in a single day. The frequency at which American alligators can regenerate teeth is due to the activation of dormant stem cells which trigger the growth of a new tooth when the alligator loses one.


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Fave Mom is a play on my name.🙂 I'm Faith Vera and if you take the first two letters of both my first and last names you get FAVE aka Fave Mom and this is my blog.
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Living between Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, I'm back on the east coast. My fave things are peonies, garden roses, daisies, giraffes, Disney, Rapunzel & Belle are Spirit Princesses, Universal Studios, Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, purple, polka dots, Diet Mountain Dew, Doritos, and guns. Not necessarily in that order. I'm Catholic, which by the way, is Christian. I know that I'm very unoriginal and fit most cliches. I won't try to deny it if you ask me. Ill-advised, indiscreet, and injudicious individuals infuriate I. So, does the fact that "24" is no longer on the air. I know that last statement was completely redundant, and if you agree with me, then we are certainly destined to be great friends. Love being a biological mom and a pseudo mom and I think/know OJ did it. 🙂
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Research regarding social competence is growing rapidly, but there remain a few aspects of social development that merit more attention. The presented pair of studies were planned to address two such areas in the social development literature, specifically the longitudinal trajectories of social competence and the role of social competence in second language development in language minority (LM) students. The goal of the first investigation was to examine the developmental trends of interpersonal skills (IS) across the early childhood and elementary school years in a nationally representative, U.S. sample. The goal of the second study was to examine whether differing …
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TWF14: The Law and Order Episode of Who Killed the Essay March 24, 2014Posted by The Typist in books, literature, lyric essay, memoir, New Orleans, NOLA, Odd Words, Toulouse Street.
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"This is the Law and Order episode of Who Killed the Essay," moderator John Freeman said to open the Tennessee Williams Festival panel "The Return of the Essay." "Someone killed it. We're going to find out later from Lennie Briscoe," the character from the crime drama franchise. Panelists Dani Shapiro, Kiese Laymon and Roxanne Gay promptly put a bullet in the head of Freeman's metaphor.
"The essay isn't dead, it never died," panelist Roxanne Gay shot back. "We have the arrogance in this age of believing that we're going to be the end of literature when it has been around for millenia. That is always appalling to me. The book is dying. Are you kidding me? People were writing books on rice paper. Calm down. Books aren't going anywhere, readers aren't going anywhere. I think things are shifting. The essay from Montaigne to [fellow panelist] Kiese, we're still doing it. I think we're in the golden age of the essay. I've never read more stunning essays than the ones I read every single day and the art hasn't been perfected because it can't be perfected but people are practicing it at such a level. If the essay is dead, then the afterlife is quite wonderful."
"The internet has done a lot of terrible things, but one of the best things it's done has democratize this writing thing. It has allowed us to read all these amazing essays," Laymon said. "I think there was a golden age. I think [James] Baldwin was the golden age. Every day, or every other day, I read an essay on the Internet that actually scares me as a writer. I think those are the best essays, I think s— I can't do it. I just can't do it as well as other people can do it. Now we have people not waiting for crusty editors to say: here's your stamp that says, now you can put it out there. Also it puts out some art that is not so great, but it's also allowed me to read some of the greatest essays that I have read in my life."
"I don't think we can know a golden age that we're in one," Dani Shapiro, countered. "I will admit tweeting this morning the title of this panel and saying, I don't think it's vanished. I also think it's worth noting that the word essay means attempt, to attempt to get something right and true and universal and authentic down on the page. That's like saying human nature is dead."
Freeman asked his panelists: "If style is a struggle and essay is an attempt, what are you attempting in an essay? What makes you want to put the struggle in that form?"
"There's an urgency when I'm writing an essay," Gay explained. "Something has gotten under my skin. One of the first essays that got under my skin. One of the first essays that got my attention was "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence". It was about a young girl that was raped in Cleveland, Texas. The New York Times wrote a story about the town–poor, poor town–and think of these poor boys but there were like 30 of them. The magnitude of the crime was horrific and the shoddiness of the reporting was also horrific. I went into this fugue state trying to temper my rage with understanding how we got to a place as a culture where we're worrying about a town instead of this 11 year-old girl. The essays that I love writing the most are where I'm trying to make sense of this crazy world, but also acknowledge the god in this world."
"Kiese, you [mention] the fact that an essay is going to deal some collateral damage to their family, because the wedge into a topic is not just your experience. It's everything you grew up with. I wonder if you could talk about writing about your family and those essays and how you weighed what you would actually reveal because the truths you tell are quite difficult."
"I feel like I've been writing about that question in my essays and my fiction. I come from a family in central Mississippi. I was raised by my mother. She was 19 when she had me. I went to graduate school and went to stay with my grandmother [also] in Mississippi. They're both wonderful, brilliant people but whenever they got around white people their wonder and their brilliance and their thickness shrunk, and I think a lot of time they want me to also shrink my brilliance on the page. In [one] essay I talk about my mother pulling a gun on me when I was 19, partially because she wanted me to act right. I was trying to say in that essay there is a consequence to acting right in this country especially for folks of color…I think we talk about the consequences too often of not acting right, but there is a self consequence for acting right.
"Form is really important for me and I'm pushing back against forms and against my mom and I was trying to push back against my inclination to write predictable punditry. My inclination is to just write the traditional, standard essays that will make people say, 'that's a smart African-American man' as opposed to being a potentially revelatory Black human being." Later in the panel he added, "I come from a community where sadness, funk, funny happens all the time and I was being encouraged to take the funk and funny out."
"Dani, you've written about your family in two memoirs, and this book Still Writing, it looks like a book about writing but then it's threaded through with all these tiny memoirs," Freeman asked Shapiro. "Did you find that to write about writing did you have to write about your family?"
"When it comes to form and when it comes to realism, it feels like in the last ten years of my writing life things have been breaking apart. The more I try to make something whole the more it breaks apart. I think what you just said about realism and the surreality that is at the core of it in some way is so true: the puzzle like structure, my last memoir Devotion was puzzle-like, every essay that I've written in the last five years. When I started Still Writing I was writing a blog because my publisher told me I had to write a blog. And I was thinking what can I blog about that's not going to make me want to stick pins in my eyes every day. What I wanted to write about was how to do this every day. I didn't want to write another book about craft. I wanted to write about what it takes: the courage, the tenacity, the persistence, the resistance. Then I started getting letters from people says, 'I really needed this today' and I thought, people are actually asking me to write a book. How often does that happen?"
"I'm reading this and what is it like to revise your life, the story of your life in public." Freeman said.
"I think it would be an amazing thing for the same writer to spend an entire writing life writing the same memoir every ten years because it would be a different book every ten years because the relationship between the self and the story is the story. When I wrote Slow Motion [arising from the death of her father] I had feeling that this was the before and after moment. I wasn't old enough to know that there is more than one before and after moment. It was also my son's illness fifteen years later, and my mother's death.
There was an essay in Ploughshares that was called "Plane Crash Theory." I think it's my best essay. It began shortly after 9-11, my infant son was dropped down a flight of stairs by a baby sitter and for months and months I couldn't write a thing. It was all in the shadow of 9-11 and felt like a shadow had flown over our house and was hovering there. I was having coffee with a friend of mine in Brooklyn who's a writer and I said, 'I haven't written a word since Jacob fell down the stairs' and she said, 'that's your first sentence'. I couldn't tell the whole story because the essay couldn't contain that he was dropped down the stairs but that a few weeks earlier I had noticed these little movements and he was later diagnosed with this rare seizure disorder. An essay couldn't contain both of those, so I took all of my anxiety and my fear and my feeling of–writing, what is the point of it–but finding a way to pour all of that into a very disciplined form and tell the whole story emotionally and not tell the whole story, what to leave in and what to leave out, which is such an important part of writing memoir and essay."
"I think one of my most popular essays to write was the hardest to write," Gay said in a comment that resonated for me in the post-Katrina room. "It was about The Hunger Games, because I love, love, love the Hunger Games to insanity. I started to think what is it about the Hunger Games that captures me as an adult because they are YA . There is a young woman in the novel Katniss, she has to endure the unendurable over and over again is that it showed PTSD as it is, as something that cannot necessarily be cured but something that you learn to live with, and as something that will shape the decisions you will make."
Freeman asked the panelists if there was someone, an essayist, who opened a door and what they did. "I would say in a word [Joan] Didion if it was an essayist," Shapiro said. "Grace Pailey was for me an example of the life of a writer, a life I wanted in some way. When I think of Grace I think of her sentences, I think of her fiction, the distillation, a certain kind of minimalism before there was minimalism. She was tremendously important to me."
Gay, after citing the encourage of her parents from age four, cited Edith Wharton. "She was doing it when women weren't encouraged" to write. "She is the master of the elegant sentence." And Zadie Smith: "she is fierce. She makes me feel like I can do anything with the word." Laymon also talked about his grandmother's influence. "My grandmother taught me how to work. She worked at a chicken plant and the way she talked about it, the craft, she made me feel I was beautiful." His essayist pick was James Baldwin. "The Fire Next Time was the first book that I really, really read. I would tear it apart. Ultimately I think I became the writer I want to be because in The Fire Next Time, someone who was so great could not make space for Black women. You could be so sublime and so great and not make space for this entire group of people you should make space for. Baldwin's otherworldliness is something I could aspire for, not just because of his prose but because of the gaps in his prose."


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It's a well-known cliché that dads are supposed to be handy, and capable of building or fixing anything in or around a standard suburban home. Generally, that's not even close to reality for most dudes, but every now and then a guy appears out of the blue with detailed images of his impressive man cave, like the one hidden behind a bookcase.
Now here comes a man with a similar idea, albeit on a smaller scale. Meet Eric Strong.
Eric's son was in need of a bigger bed. So Eric decided to Ikea hack his way to one.
The solution was to merge three different IKEA products.
Here he goes.
Yes, that's another bookcase with a secret room behind it.
And an awesome slide to go down every morning.
And some sort of ball contraption.
Watch the video of the full construction and feel bad for your 3-year-old self. It's OK.
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Author: Cheryl Colwell
Book: The Secrets of the Montebellis
Genre: Contemporary fiction, suspense
Publisher: Inspired Fiction Books
Website: www.cherylcolwell.com
Lisa Richards is caught in an abusive relationship and devises a clandestine plan to build her dream and escape. In league with the secretive Montebelli Corporation, she grasps her one chance to gain financial freedom and fulfill her dream to bring new life to the town her ancestors helped settle in the Pacific Northwest.
As a stranger to town, Steven Taylor distrusts Lisa's surreptitious behavior and sets out to expose her. Instead, he discovers the truth and becomes one of her few allies.
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If life hadn't needed attending to, I would have read this book straight through! It caught my attention right away and had such fantastic characters that I so wanted to find out how it ended. Being a mom with 6 kids though, and having to actually make meals for them, prevented me from going straight through in one sitting, though I did try!
Firstly the setting was gorgeous, and so well displayed with words that you felt like you were there. You could easily see Lisa's vision for the town to grow and be what she knew it could be for those around her. The intrigue of Fire Mountain and the opal mine added that treasure hunting element to it. I absolutely loved the rich family history and legacy that it had in it.
Lisa was a super strong woman, yet so humble and patient. Her dedication to freedom and her dream was going on 6 years of planning. She was the polar opposite of her husband. He was a psychiatrist who really needed to see a psychiatrist! He was prideful, selfish, haughty, and abusive. Cheryl really got us to the point of hating this husband for his mistreatment of Lisa. Oh but the end is gold!! I can't tell much, this book would be easy to write a review that gives away too many of the secrets.
Honestly this book snuck up on me and grabbed me. I was contacted by the author to read it and the summary sounded interesting. I was actually surprised at how wonderful the book was! This is one of my top favorites of the year. It had just the right amount of mystery, suspense, discord, family legacy, and God in it!
Fantastic job Cheryl!!
I see she has another book Adriana's Secret coming out in the spring, and be sure I will be reading that as well!
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February 18, 2006 by TWRY Staff
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"Just a Burned Out Hometown Hero, Everyone's Number One Zero…."
Formed in 1995, Plunge has singlehandedly built their own adoring fanbase by getting back to basics. What basics you ask? Great music and a sincere appreciation for their fans. Having gone through some lineup changes throughout the years, their song remains the same – solid rock music that translates well lyrically and even better live. Plunge is currently out on tour ripping it up and down the East Coast with the current line up – Mike Ruocco on lead vocals and guitar, Chris Shucosky on guitar and vocals, Mac Calvaresi on drums and vocals, and newcomer Jim Boyer on bass and vocals. Playing songs off of their latest release Hometown Hero and new songs off of their upcoming EP scheduled to be released in March, they exude energy and passion onstage and off. Simply put, these guys are rockstars in waiting.
Heading into this interview, everything seemed to be going wrong. After all, we were in Florida and it was colder than Alaska. The club Plunge was playing at (which shall remain nameless) seemed to be totally clueless, and the band was set to go on at 7:30 pm, while their website had originally said 8:00 pm.
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After the show we approached Mike since it was his birthday and we wanted to wish him well and give him the cake we brought for him. He invited us on the bus and soon thereafter we were treated to an acoustic performance with Mike, Mac, and Chris while Jim watched and listened with us. There were about 7 fans on the bus for the performance and the band said they wanted to do it to make up for the night.
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After the impromptu acoustic set (where they even played us a cover of Butch Walker's Mixtape, along with our favorite Plunge songs) I sat down with Mike for an interview. The bus was busy and there was a lot going on but he was still cool enough to sit down and answer all of my questions. I can't say this in any other way but bold Go see these guys, if they are in your area, you won't be disappointed. I flew to Florida to see them and I'd do it again in a heart beat.
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WASHINGTON — Eric Shinseki resigned as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday, leaving behind a sprawling bureaucracy embroiled in scandal and burdened with a decades-old legacy of overwhelmed facilities and management failures that his successor must now confront.
President Obama announced Mr. Shinseki's departure after a 45-minute Oval Office meeting between the two men that ended a week of mounting demands from both parties for the secretary to step down. Mr. Obama, who appeared pained at the turn of events, hailed Mr. Shinseki as having an unquestioned commitment to the nation's veterans, but he said the political storm had made Mr. Shinseki's continuing leadership untenable.
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Fixing the problem at the department now becomes an urgent political matter for the president, once again raising questions about whether the candidate who pledged in 2008 and 2012 to make government work efficiently has lost grasp of the government he now leads.
The department's troubles, however, remain a far more serious concern for the millions of veterans whose access to timely health care has been steadily eroding as waves of wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan have converged with those who returned from earlier wars.
Access Audit of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and Clinics
This report covers the first phase of a systemwide audit of scheduling and other practices at Veterans Affairs medical centers and outpatient facilities. Many of the 216 sites reviewed were "flagged for further review."
Most of the veterans now seeking treatment at department facilities are aging Vietnam-era service members, many with chronic illnesses like diabetes that require long-term care or with cancer and cardiovascular disease that require complicated and expensive treatment. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are further straining the system with mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder.
Veterans' demand for medical services is soaring. The number of outpatient visits to V.A. health care facilities has grown by 26 percent over the last five years, to 94.6 million in the current fiscal year, according to the department. Over the same period, the number of staff doctors and nurses has grown by 18 percent.
The effort to resolve the fundamental problems at the department will also play out in Congress, where Republicans say the problem is not a lack of money — the department's $154 billion annual budget has more than doubled since 2006 — but rather inefficiencies in the delivery of care. Democrats say that the problem is a serious shortage of doctors and not enough hospitals.
"This is going to be a slow grind," a senior administration official said of the need to overhaul the department. "A lot of the problems, they are not just systemic, but they are chronic. It's like, roll up your sleeves, start digging into the culture and get rid of people who are impeding necessary change."
"It won't be pretty," said the official, who asked for anonymity to be blunt about the challenge facing Mr. Obama in the months ahead.
One immediate question is whether the departure of Mr. Shinseki will have any real impact on the agency's deep-seated problems. Mr. Shinseki apologized in a speech on Friday morning, before Mr. Obama accepted his resignation, saying that he was "too trusting" of some people working for him. He criticized a "systemic, totally unacceptable lack of integrity" at some veterans health care centers that he said he could not explain.
Defenders of Mr. Shinseki point out that problems at the Veterans Affairs Department, the country's largest health care system, were far worse during the Vietnam era. Despite the current problems, many veterans say that the quality of care delivered — once they are able to get into the system — is much better today.
In addition, the veterans agency has a history of innovation in its health care programs, including advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries, improvements in artificial limbs, increased use of electronic health records and the investigation of medical errors.
But the problems described Friday in an internal audit are remarkably similar to those documented six years ago in a report to the department by Booz Allen Hamilton, the management consulting company. The Booz Allen report found "chronic delays in care" at veterans hospitals and clinics, resulting in part from "the current shortage of nurses, nurse practitioners, primary care providers and specialty physicians."
Mr. Shinseki had already been challenged by some of those problems during his five years at the department's helm. A year ago, he and Mr. Obama had what aides described as a "come to Jesus" meeting in which the president demanded that Mr. Shinseki deal with a huge backlog of disability claims that were delaying benefits to veterans.
But the recent allegations that officials manipulated waiting lists for thousands of veterans across the country exposed even bigger issues. The department's internal audit, which Mr. Shinseki presented to the president on Friday, attributed the scheduling scandal to the agency's "overarching environment and culture which allowed this state of practice to take root."
The audit said that the department's culture "must be confronted head-on if it is to evolve to be more capable of adjusting systems, leadership and resources to meet the needs of veterans and families."
The audit was unsparing in its documentation of the extent of problems. It found, for example, that at least one instance of reporting false patient wait-time data had occurred in nearly two-thirds of the department's facilities. "Such practices are sufficiently pervasive to require V.A. to re-examine its entire performance management system," the audit said.
The seeds of Mr. Shinseki's departure may have been planted years ago, when he established standards that his supporters said were admirable but unrealistically high. He set 125 days as the goal for processing disability claims and was then blamed for the backlog that ensued. For new patients, he required that veterans be seen within two weeks.
In the audit, that 14-day standard was singled out as an "organizational leadership failure" and a major problem in providing timely care, second only to a shortage of doctors.
Major Reports and Testimony on V.A. Patient Wait Times
Problems with waiting times for veterans seeking medical care have been documented dozens of times by federal agencies over the past 15 years.
In announcing Mr. Shinseki's departure, Mr. Obama said a number of department officials, including in Phoenix, the medical center that spawned the current scandal, would be fired. He also said that bonuses would not be paid to senior V.A. health care executives.
Now, the challenge for Mr. Obama will be finding someone who has the ability not just to lead a department with nearly 300,000 employees, but also steer it in a new direction. Mr. Obama said Friday that Sloan Gibson, Mr. Shinseki's deputy and the president's choice to be the acting secretary, will not lead the department over the long run.
"There is a need for a change in culture within the V.H.A.," Mr. Obama said, referring to the Veterans Health Administration, "and perhaps the V.A. as a whole that makes sure that bad news gets surfaced quickly so that things can be fixed."
Among the names mentioned as Mr. Shinseki's possible successors by lawmakers and officials at veterans organizations are Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer, who was under secretary of Veterans Affairs from 1994 to 1999; Representative Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, a veteran who served as assistant secretary at the department; Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana; and Jim Webb, a veteran who was a Democratic senator from Virginia and a secretary of the Navy.
The president may also face a difficult time getting Congress to agree on legislation and financing to make the necessary changes. Democratic and Republican lawmakers have demonstrated vastly different visions for reforming the department.
Speaker John A. Boehner said Friday that "until the president outlines a vision and an effective plan for addressing the broad dysfunction at the V.A., today's announcement really changes nothing."
Republicans like Representative Jeff Miller of Florida, who is chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, blamed how the department's resources were divvied up for much of its problems. "The middle-management administrative functions have grown exponentially over the last few years," Mr. Miller said.
Senator Bernard Sanders, a Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said that although more accountability was needed, lack of resources was a major problem.
"I suspect very strongly there are parts of the country that we simply do not have the number of doctors and nurses we need, and those will cost money," he said.
Part of the department's problems stems from sheer size: Not only is it the nation's largest health care system — with nine million enrolled veterans served at 150 medical centers and 800 outpatient clinics — it is among the largest workers' compensation systems, charged with disbursing annual disability payments to nearly four million veterans.
In addition, many of the more recent patients are seeking treatment for profound injuries that would not have been survivable in earlier wars but are today, in part because of mandatory body armor and improvements in front-line medical care.


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Pickard relocated from Singapore at the start of the summer after more than a decade in Asia, most recently as chairman of Huntsworth Asia-Pacific. Pickard spent 18 months at Huntsworth, which he joined after serving as Burson-Marsteller Asia-Pacific CEO for three years.
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I don't know how many folks reading this really know about or pay too much attention to the big picture narratives that unfold over time as I write, create, and move from one idea to the next in this catchall corner of the internets. And that's fine, for most folks my life story wouldn't matter much or be relevant anyway, but there are some between the lines story lines that may be worth highlighting from time to time.
About a year or so ago, and in the middle of launching and waging the Board Art Benefit project for SurfAid, I was pouring so much into that thing as I felt the weight of everyone's expectations to make the project as successful as possible, that I neglected for a long period the vital essence of my own art life – making art. I became consumed with promoting other artists art all to benefit folks in need, that I sort of ceased to be an artist for awhile there. (Here's a good read on that topic.) Long story short, I ended up spiraling into the worst depression I've ever known over it.
I irreversibly pulled the plug on my old website beardart.com along with the years of work that went into it. I went blank on social media. I sat on a couch a lot.
I was done. And it didn't really matter. If I shared this with anyone it was usually met with a "well yeah you gave that art thing your best, but it's probably better to move on" type of response. Not from everyone, but from many. The general mindset seemed to be in consensus that Beard should no longer Art. Move on. Do something else. Had to happen sometime.
And that's fine, I know they all meant well, so I won't dwell on them except to provide contrast for a few of the folks who took a different approach to what they saw and heard from me at the time. There were a few who reached out and were genuinely concerned to see that I was alright. It meant the world to me, but there was one red-bearded fellow who took it a few degrees further and just wouldn't put up with my non-sense. Meet Pierce Michael Kavanagh… PMK.
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And today I find myself typing this little recollection from the gallery I just opened up near my home as a strong testimony of the effectiveness of their pushing me on. Quitting artists don't open galleries. I may not ever make it as a well known artist in the great big world, but art is what I do and live and breathe, and I was dying without it. If death is like sleep, Pierce provided the wake-up call, and it was time for me to get up and get some stuff done as there was a long and busy day ahead.
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Andrew Wild: With the late departure of Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze, how has the team reacted to its coaching change under Matt Luke?
Grayson Weir: Actually, the team has reacted exactly as one would hope. It's been nothing but positive here in Oxford. The boys are fired and up and have embraced an underdog mentality and are 100 percent behind not only each other, but (Luke). Before the South Alabama game in week one, he said something along the lines of, "You don't have to be blood to be family, it just has to be real." That's definitely carried over into the team and the guys in the locker room and Oxford in general.
Nothing has changed (scheme-wise) since Luke took over. That being said, over the summer we hired a new offensive coordinator in Phil Longo, who came from Sam Houston State, and defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff, who taught here a while ago before a short stint with the Saints and, most recently, Auburn. Those guys came in and changed up the schemes a little bit on offense and defense, but since Luke has come in, nothing has changed at all.
AW: What's the best aspect of quarterback Shea Patterson's game?
GW: The strongest part of Patterson's game, and what makes him so special, is his ability to extend plays. Don't get me wrong — of course his arm is unbelievable, and he's pretty quick once he gets out of the pocket, but it's his ability to make nothing into something. Last year, we specifically saw it against Texas A&M. Being against Texas A&M, people started hyping him up as the next Johnny Manziel, but I don't like that comparison, just because they're two different players. Manziel was a running quarterback … (Patterson) is more of a mobile guy rather than a running guy, which is kind of a different entity.
Rather than scampering for 5 yards and a first down, which he can do, he prefers to stay in the pocket, or at least the backfield, and when it appears the pocket has collapsed or he's inches from being wrapped up, he can do something crazy and continue the play until one of our wide receivers gets open. (Ole Miss) actually practices when things go wrong. They have the defense run around doing crazy stuff, and the receivers get open. They're preparing every week for what happens if (Patterson) doesn't stay and everything goes wrong and all of a sudden Shea is 12 yards back field running away from a defender.
AW: The defense has struggled against middling opponents. What part of the defense is most vulnerable?
GW: Once you get past the defensive line (it starts). Our defensive line has been able to step up to some extent, between our defensive ends Victor Evans and DeMarquis Gates having good years so far. And we've got a big fella in Josiah Coatney in the middle, who can kind of blow up that offensive line. But once a running back gets to the second line of defense, it's been pretty ugly when it comes to our linebackers and secondary being able to wrap up.
There's been a couple times, one I can point to specifically last week against UT Martin, where the running back looked like he was taken down in the backfield, and then boom, all of a sudden, he was 67 yards downfield and into the end zone. So the most vulnerable part of our defense is the inability to wrap up, and it's been a flaring issue the last two weeks. Both our defensive coordinator and Matt Luke have emphasized that this is kind of priority No. 1, "It needs to be fixed and it will be fixed," but I don't know if that's true, so we'll see, come Saturday.
AW: Who would be the guy on defense to step up on Saturday?
GW: So far, A.J. Moore has been the only bright spot within the secondary. He's been able to step up and make some tackles coming off the edge, and by the edge I mean from the cornerback position. He's been able to come in and find his way to the tailback. That being said, I'm going to be lame and say the entire secondary needs to step up. You can't really point to one guy, just because it's been pretty terrible across the board.
AW: What's the most interesting coaching tendency you've noticed so far?
GW: When you look at the stat sheet, you can pick it out from a mile away. Longo comes in from Sam Houston State, which was the most efficient offense in the FCS level, and he brings this Air Raid offense into Oxford. We've thrown the ball a fair amount the last couple years with Chad Kelly and Bo Wallace before him, and all the way back to Eli Manning, we've always thrown the ball. To some extent, we've had a run game, whether that be an extension of the run game where we're throwing quick outs to our tailback and he scampers for a couple yards up the field, or a true running game that can at least balance the passing attack to some extent.
This year, we've seen that our run game is pretty nonexistent. While the coordinators and coaching staff, and even the players themselves, are kind of saying they're looking to increase the run game to take a little pressure off of the passing game, I don't see that to be true. I think the tendency will be to throw the ball 80, 90 percent of the game downfield. To put it in layman's term, the most interesting tendency has been that we're all pass and no run.
Andrew Wild is the sports editor. Contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @andrewwild17.


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The world is upside down so if I'm upside down in the world then I might actually be right side up. Don't you feel like the world is upside down? A few years ago it was all the rage to invert the Christmas tree so that the wide part was at the top and the narrow part at the bottom…this allowed for many more gifts at the bottom and isn't that what Christmas is all about? Getting more and more gifts? Thankfully, that trend didn't really catch on but you can still see a few odd trees out and about. This week we are looking at the real meaning of Christmas. Our text is Isaiah 61 and the theme is joy as we light the 3rd Advent Candle this week. We won't find lasting joy at Crabtree Valley Mall or in getting a whole bunch of gifts. The world has that all upside down. Joy comes from God and this week we'll find out together how to be right side up in God's eyes, even if that makes us upside down in the eyes of the world. Make plans now to come at 9:30 and or 11 AM this Sunday and invite friends, family, neighbors and even strangers you meet along the way…they'll all be glad you did!
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RMF Systems becomes part of Des-Case Corporation
Doedijns Group International (DGI) announced on March 28th the sale of its filtration business unit, RMF Systems, to Des-Case Corporation. Des-Case Corporation was founded in 1983 to provide the lubricant industry with innovative specialty filtration products for lubricant protection and is headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, USA.
Read the press release HERE.
Frank Robben (top left) – CEO Doedijns Group International, Brian Gleason (Top right) – CEO Des-Case Corporation.
Gerben Gerken (bottom left) – Managing Director RMF Systems, Menno Krom (bottom right) – Sales Manager RMF Systems.


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Make no mistake. There are forces in the world so evil that their entire purpose and mission is to lead us to defeat. All they desire is to keep us busy, uninterested, and confused about all things God. They use whatever they can to keep us separated from our life's calling.
Them's fightin' words.
I was watching my daughter, Sara, at gymnastics the other day. I had lingered a bit to chat with some moms and when I looked out into the gym I saw something profound.
The girls would team up and one would wrap a belt around her waist. The partner would then stand behind her… holding the belt on both ends… and be dead weight as the other one tried to run.
The girl in front was running the race, and the purpose of the girl in back was to keep her from doing so. By adding enough resistance, the plan was to wear the runner out so she would quit.
But I realized the runner had a different purpose.
Her goal was to make it to the end no matter what. She was going to fight through the hardship of carrying a heavier load and reach the finish line. The last thing she was going to do was quit her race, because she knew the coach would make her do it again.
As long as she kept her eyes on the coach and that finish line, she was able to remain focused and determined… and consequently, she didn't allow the pull from the one resolved to hold her back… to win. As a matter of fact, all of these girls ran with such fortitude it was as if the burden wasn't there at all.
"Since we are surrounded by so many examples [of faith], we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us. We must run the race that lies ahead of us and never give up." (Hebrews 12:1)
Look, the Enemy is going to do everything he can to bring you down. Chances are, he already has a time or two. He hates you. Despises you. So knowing his time on earth is short, he will stop at nothing to slow you down, discourage you and distract you. Be aware!
But you know what? It's not only the Enemy… sometimes it's your own fault.
Many times, you are your own worst enemy. While Satan may whisper a lie to you, you agree with it. You're guilty of not taking your thought life captive. Sometimes your enemy is two-fold.
If you always blame it on Satan, you're giving him too much credit.
I wonder what is pulling on you today? What's holding you back from finishing the race? What is working towards defeat in your life?
- Your past?
- An unhealthy relationship?
- A lack of courage?
- Guilt over a situation?
- Anger towards someone?
Run anyway. When you're struggling to catch your breath… run. When you're aching to sit down and give up… run! When it seems like too much… run anyway!
What is our motivation? Jesus…
"Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up." (Hebrews 12:3)
Sisters, run, run, run. Don't give up! Don't quit! In spite of every opposition and affliction that is working towards your defeat, don't give in.
You are stronger than you think. The blood of Jesus gives you all the power you need to thwart the plans of the Enemy. With Him on your side, you have everything you need to keep running.
Now, go get 'em!
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Team USA won the 2013 U19 World Championships held in Prague on July 7. The Americans — clearly the most physically talented squad in the tournament — held off a tough Serbian team in the title contest. The bronze-medal game matched up Lithuania and Australia, with the Lithuanians (the 2011 champs) clinching the third spot on the podium.
Team USA featured a bevy of potential pro talent (tourney MVP Aaron Gordon, Marcus Smart, Jahlil Okafor and a handful of other promising players), but they weren't the only ones NBA scouts had their eyes on. Here it is a list of the top international performers that showed NBA potential, including a star-making performance from a certain Australian guard.
Dante Exum (1995, 6-foot-6, PG, Australia, AIS Canberra)
No player meant more to his team than Exum, as he led his team to the semifinals despite playing with a mediocre supporting cast. Standing 6-foot-6 with a remarkable 6-foot-9 wingspan and big hands, Exum possesses amazing physical skills for a point guard, combining his size with top-shelf quickness and athleticism. He isn't an elite leaper and his upper body needs some bulk, but he was without any doubt one of the top athletes in the competition.
His best attribute might be a lighting-quick first step. In transition, he is simply unstoppable at this level of competition when he hits his top speed, showing incredible body control and the ability to change direction in limited space. He loves to penetrate, and he can finish at the rim with a good variety of moves, even off balance. His ability to draw contact generates a high number of free-throw opportunities (seven per game during the tournament), but his conversion rate has definite room for improvement (60-percent FT in Prague).
He needs to work on his ball-handling skills, as he occasionally loses control of the ball against pressure and traps. His catch-and-shoot 3-point-shooting ability is becoming more reliable, but he needs to work on his pull-up jumper and his midrange game, since most of his attempts take place in the painted area. He prefers to create off the dribble in iso situations, distributing the ball when defenders try to double team him, but he needs to work on his decision-making skills in pick-and-roll situations.
Defensively, he's able to guard just about any backcourt player with his combination of size and lateral speed, but he must improve his defensive fundamentals and positioning. He closed the tournament with 17 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists, emerging as one of the top overseas prospects, regardless of age.
Dario Saric (1994, 6-foot-9, PF, Croatia, Cibona Zagreb)
Saric hasn't shown significant development since last summer, even though he collected remarkable stats in this tournament, closing with his typically eye-opening all-around numbers (22.4 points, 12.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists).
At this level, he's able to play both wing positions, with well-above-average ball-handling and passing skills for his size. Saric owns a complete offensive skill set, an advanced post-up game with a wide variety of moves and an effective use of his pivot feet. His 3-point shot in catch-and-shoot situations is quite consistent, but he still needs to add fluidity to his mechanics. His mid-range game is well rounded, but he should improve his pull-up jumper and his ability to attack the basket off the dribble.
His rebounding instincts are on another level, thanks to his superior basketball IQ, positioning and intensity. On the defensive side, though, he needs to work on his one-on-one positioning, while playing with more toughness. His main flaws at the pro level will be his lack of elite athleticism and poor lateral speed, both of which could limit his effectiveness as a small forward, forcing him to play near the rim against bigger and stronger forwards. The quickness with which Saric can develop a more fluid jumper will likely hold the key to his success overseas, where he is destined to play as a stretch power forward.
Vasilje Micic (1994, 6-foot-5, PG, Serbia, Mega Vizura)
Micic was among the tournament's best point guards, with his top-level size and physical power allowing him to excel at this level. He possesses a unique skill where he can master the rhythm of his team's offense, finding innovative ways to involve all of his teammates — particularly in pick-and-roll situations. His creativity with the ball in his hands is quite impressive. Plus, he has a complete offensive repertoire, including fakes, jukes, and changes of speed/direction off the dribble.
His main shortcoming is his lack of consistency on his three-point shot. In addition, he lacks elite lateral speed and athleticism, but he compensates for those flaws with his high basketball IQ and game comprehension. It seems highly unlikely that his style is suitable for the NBA, but he definitely seems destined to compete against the best European talent. He closed the tournament with 12.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists.
Tyler Ennis (1994, 6-foot-2, PG, Canada, Syracuse University)
The Syracuse recruit was one of the tournament's most prolific scorers, as he carried most of the offensive burden of the Canadian National Team on his shoulders. Standing 6-foot-2, McIntyre has a solid body structure (especially in the upper body) that allows him to effectively absorb contact. He's not a ball-hog, but he certainly isn't a traditional pass-first point guard, as his scoring instincts are strongly developed.
He's really quick an a terrific ball handler, which makes him awfully difficult to keep away from the rim. As a volume scorer, he needs to work on his shot selection and especially on his 3-point stroke (22.2 percent) — his main offensive flaw, especially off the dribble. He still must improve his playmaking skills and in decision making in pick-and-roll situations. On the defensive side, he shows quick hands and good instincts.
Zhou Qi (1996, 7-foot-1, C, China, Liaoning)
Zhou Qi was one of the event's youngest players (age-17), but proved that be belonged at this level of competition — which bodes well for his future development. He one of his team's most effective players on both ends of the floor, closing the tournament with 12.3 points and 10.2 rebounds. His name hit the international spotlight after his astonishing performances (including a jaw-dropping 41 points, 28 rebounds and 15 blocks against Germany) in a famous U16 Tournament held in Turkey in 2011.
Qi Zhou is a really quick big man with long arms and amazing footwork for a player his size, showing a soft touch from both midrange and in catch-and-shoot opportunities. He needs to work on his posture and his upper-body strength, but he must be careful when adding bulk in order to prevent stress fractures, given his height/dimensions. He has reliable passing skills and good ball-handling skills for a 7-footer, showing strong fundamentals. At the moment, he's not able to create his own shot with consistency; in fact, most of his points came from assists or offensive rebounds. He still needs to develop some go-to post moves and improve the use of his pivot foot.
Defensively, he's really effective in help situations, with excellent timing on block attempts, but he has to develop his fundamentals and positioning. If he continues on this developmental path, he may be the next great Chinese basketball prospect.
Nikola Jankovic (1994, 6-foot-9, PF, Serbia, Charleroi)
Jankovic is a polished and mature power forward who should have been included in the All-Tournament team. He's a bit undersized and not extremely explosive, but he makes up for that with his combination of mobility and footwork. He plays with an old-fashioned style, with a solid sense of positioning and fundamentals in the post. He's particularly effective with his hook shot and pivot feet.
He has terrific instincts and the necessary toughness to fight below the boards to make him a quality rebounder, even without elite measurements. Like last year, his main shortcoming is his jump shot — his range is rather limited and he struggles from the free-throw line. He closed the tournament with 11.5 points and seven rebounds.
Mislav Brzoja (1994, 6-foot-5, SG, Croatia, Villanova University)
Brzoja has developed nicely since his first season with the Villanova Wildcats. The big Croatian guard has defined his frame and upper body in the American weight rooms; plus, he has worked on his outside shot, improving his mechanics and shot selection. The slashing 2-guard plays with toughness when the ball is in his hands, and can easily withstand contact when attacking the basket, allowing him to convert a high number of 3-point plays. His size and frame also make him a remarkable rebounder for the position. He's not selfish but he's definitely not a pass-first guard.
On the defensive side, his size and tenacity allows him to guard both wing spots effectively. His offensive game definitely needs more polish if he hopes to develop into an elite scorer. He was the second-best scorer on his team with 13.8 points 6.9 rebounds and two assists.
Nikola Milutinov (1994, 7-foot, C, Serbia, Partizan Belgrade)
Milutinov was one of the best big men in the tournament, thanks to his combination of size and mobility. He stands a legit 7-feet tall and possesses a remarkable wingspan. He plays with confidence and maturity, thanks to his ongoing experience with Partizan Belgrade, which allows him to face all of the best big men at the highest European level.
His leaping ability and athleticism are quite impressive for European standards, where he uses those physical attributes to his advantage as a rebounder. His offensive fundamentals are solid, where he shows a good midrange touch, but he needs to improve his post positioning and his back-to-the-basket game. On the defensive side, he intimidates opponents with great timing for blocks and solid positioning. An intriguing prospect with high upside, he closed the competition with 11.1 points and 5.9 rebounds.
Marius Grigonis (1994, 6-foot-8, SF, Lithuania, Zalgiris)
Grigonis is an athletic wing with strong scoring instincts, especially in transition when he has space to attack the basket. He's able to use his excellent foot speed and explosive first step to beat his opponents and get to the rim, even if he is knocked off balance. He has good height for the small-forward spot, with a solid body structure that only needs added definition. He has advanced passing skills and is often looking for teammates when defenses collapse on him.
His mid-range game is still lacking, though, especially his jumper off the dribble, limiting his overall effectiveness in the half-court game. His range is solid, but he needs to work on his selection and mechanics in order to become a more reliable shooter. He needs to work on the defensive side, especially on his positioning and his occasional struggles with early foul trouble. Grigonis is prospect that could excel in the top European levels. He closed the tournament with 12.5 points 5.9 rebounds and two assists.


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Good Morning Miss Bliss was about the life of Miss Carrie Bliss and her classmates. Her 8th grade students were Zack Morris, a charming, scheming boy, Lisa Turtle, a rich, fashionable girl, Samuel "Screech" Powers, an awkward nerd with a major crush on Lisa, Mikey Gonzalez, Zack's best friend who was often shy around girls, and Nicole "Nikki" Coleman, a smart, outspoken young girl who was good friends with Zack as well.
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How to Design a Passive Solar Greenhouse
From Collin's dad's solar geodesic greenhouse, through a greenhouse built from soda bottles, to a simple DIY hoop house, we're not shot on self-built grow spaces here on TreeHugger. but the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia has a very detailed post and time-lapse slideshow by Rob Avis about how he built a passive-solar greenhouse in Calgary. Interestingly, he says, the European model of greenhouse was designed for low levels of mostly diffuse light in winter. Calgary is, according to Avis, better suited to a passive solar structure that maximizes direct sunlight from the South, while preventing heat loss through heavy insulation on the North side. How does it work? We don't know because he is yet to grow anything. But it sure looks good.