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Colin Firth has reportedly signed up to star in a sequel to The King's Speech.
According to The Sun, the actor will reprise his Oscar-winning role as King George VI in a new movie set during the Blitz.
Geoffrey Rush is also said to be returning as the King's speech therapist, but the second film will not follow George's battle with his stammer. A source apparently told the tabloid: "The sequel is going to be about the experience of families during the Blitz. It will focus on how the privileged Royal Family was hit by the crisis, compared to the more ordinary family of George VI's speech therapist. The focus will be on George but it will also show how the whole royal household was affected. There's still amazing interest in the Blitz."
Although nothing is official yet, the source added: "The movie is still in the very early stages but everyone's keen to get going soon." The King's Speech director Tom Hooper is also apparently keen to return, along with actress Helena Bonham-Carter, who played George's wife Queen Elizabeth in the original film.
Made for just £8 million, The King's Speech was a major commercial and critical success in 2011, grossing over £250 million worldwide and winning four awards at that year's Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Firth. You can watch the trailer for the film's Blu-ray and DVD release below.


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THE FIRST FIRE OBSERVERS scanning the forests from the open cockpit of a flying boat had the same focus as the air crews of a twin engine airplane or helicopter on patrol today: find the fire and report it – now. The same goal, but the aircraft and means of communication were radically different.
In the 1920s, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Ontario Provincial Air Service experimented extensively with air-to-ground wireless transmission, but at that point few patrol planes carried wireless equipment.
Planes without wireless followed these procedures.
Reporting wildfire using these methods was not always 100% reliable, but it was incomparably faster than ground patrol.
AIR-TO-GROUND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION, meanwhile, was revolutionizing communication. For the first time aerial patrol crews could transmit fire reports to headquarters on the spot. They tapped out the fire report using Morse Code. It was one-way communication only, from aircraft to base.
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals backed up Royal Canadian Air Force fire patrol operations in Western Canada.
The first RCCS radio station opened at High River, Alberta, in 1922. When the aerial patrol crew detected fire, they sent a message to the base at High River, who in turn, notified the ranger station by phone. A patrol plane on standby transported fire fighters and equipment to the site.
In 1924 RCAF flying boats at Jericho Beach, Vancouver, were equipped with wireless sets. 'After extensive air-to-ground trials, wireless supported coastal patrols became routine'. By 1928 twelve RCCS radio stations supported RCAF forestry patrols in Western Canada.
Watch: RCAF Fire Detection Patrol making a Radio Report. [Forest Fire Fighters of the Skies, 1927. National Film Board.]
Ontario Provincial Air Service radio technician H.A. Robinson and observer Monty Baker, aware of the need for air-to-ground communication in the OPAS, teamed up to build a sending/ receiving set. In the summer of 1924 Baker tapped out a fire report in Morse code to the fire base in Sudbury, the first successful air-to-ground fire report in Ontario. The full story is described in Making Contact.
By end of 1924, two Ontario Provincial Air Service flying boats were equipped with wireless telegraph equipment. But wireless equipment was costly, and competent operators were hard to find. After a short time operations were discontinued.
TODAY the pilot can radio a fire report immediately to fire management headquarters. Satellite technology supports direct radio communication from the most remote areas of the country.
Watch: Reporting a Smoke from the Air, 2001 [Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 2001]
Although technology has advanced dramatically, today's procedures for spotting and reporting fire from the air are strikingly similar to the first aerial fire patrols.

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Undergraduate Program
If you Major in Urban Studies at Queens College, you will develop a critical understanding of the issues facing our cities, especially New York City, learn how to do urban-related research and perform urban policy analysis, and develop valuable skills including writing a policy brief, making an interesting oral presentation, and writing a paper that is full of critical insights. These skills will be useful to you in your future career and as an urban citizen.
The undergraduate curriculum stresses:
- Exciting entry-level and advanced courses that address current issues, controversies, and debates on topics such as diversity, poverty, sustainability, segregation, environmental change, underemployment, gentrification, homelessness, community planning, health services, and urban politics.
- Exposure to issues facing citizens and decision-makers in New York City and in other metropolitan areas in the United States and across the world.
- The application of critical social theory to the formulation and evaluation of social and economic policies.
- A new service learning program built upon ongoing, mutually beneficial relationships between students, faculty and community organization partners. This combines meaningful work at community organizations and public agencies with enhanced academic learning that prepares our students for active participation in public and community service.
- New course offerings on immigration, diversity and immigrant diasporas.
- A new emphasis on environmental studies.
THE URBAN STUDIES MAJOR Required Courses
URBST 101: Urban Poverty and Affluence
URBST 105: Urban Politics
URBST 200: Urban Research Methods
URBST 221: Making Public Policy
URBST 330W: Contemporary Urban Theory
URBST 370 or URBST 371 VT: Service Learning Practicum or Service Learning Project
PLUS 18 credits in other Urban Studies courses.
ELECTIVES: For your electives, you are free to choose from among any of the department's dozens of courses. See the Undergraduate Courses page for a full listing.
THE URBAN STUDIES MINOR Required Courses
URBST 101: Urban Poverty and Affluence
URBST 200: Urban Research Methods
And either
- URBST 105: Urban Politics
- URBST 221: Making Public Policy, or
- URBST 330W: Contemporary Urban Theory
At least three other Urban Studies courses at the 200 level or above.
One cornerstone of our service learning program is Urban Studies 370: Urban Studies Practicum, which is required for all majors who do not take URBST371 VT. In this one-semester course, students participate in a weekly or bi-weekly seminar while working about one day per week at one of our community partner agencies. In this way, we built our students' ability to integrate research, theory and real- world practice while preparing them for careers in the urban setting.
In addition to the library and other resources available on the campus, the Urban Studies Department has special facilities for our students. This includes a wide-ranging library, computer facilities, and our Office of Community Studies whose staff are available at select times to help you to make maps, charts, graphs, and demographic reports. Also, we have developed several websites that are designed to help you in your coursework. They include:
Demographic and other data on the communities of New York
The Office of Community Studies
Service learning
The Environmental Studies Program
Many courses in the Urban Studies program will require you to write papers. No matter what the length of the paper, you should assume that it should be documented with full and proper citation for all sources that you use, including scholarly articles, web sources, interviews, and newspaper articles. See p. 12 of this Handbook for guidance on learning the proper format for citations. Also, the QC Library website, has guidance to manuals on citation styles. For more information about paper writing and style guidelines, please read the QC Style Manual, attached here.
Contact the Writing Center if you need help in writing proper research papers. The Writing Center is located in Kiely 229 and can be reached at 718-997-5676.
Undergraduate students are eligible for three departmental awards, as well as department Honors in Urban Studies. Awardees are selected by the faculty, but you should be aware of them and feel free to suggest yourself or your fellow classmates for an award. Please contact an Undergraduate Advisor if you would like to suggest someone for an award. The awards come with a small cash prize. The awards are named in honor of past members of the Department and are:
- Matthew Edel Award for Excellence in Scholarship
- Paul Davidoff Award for Community Activism
- Herbert Bienstock Award for Excellence in Research


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1. Facebook partners with Uber to let users in US request rides from within Messenger
By Mike Isaac and Vindu Goel
Digest: Mobile
Curator: Edith Yeung
First Uber ride booked via Messenger will be free. More ride-hailing services to be added to the Facebook Platform. Read More
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2. Tinder wants you to swipe right to become an organ donor
By Christina Farr
Digest: Health
Curator: R. Scott Munro
Total click bait, but it's always great to see consumer companies doing well by health. Especially when you have something as simple as swiping right. Read more about Tinder's partnership in one of Christina Farr's first FastCo articles. Read More
More from this reading list: http://eepurl.com/bKoO1n
3. Empirical Support for the Boulder Thesis
By Brad Feld
Digest: Startup Communities
Curators: Julian Miller, Brad Feld, Shane Reiser
Here's an overview of the Boulder Thesis from our very own Brad Feld. It even comes with a bonus whiteboard video from Kauffman! Read More
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4. Alibaba, Disney Strike Deal to Sell Content System in China
By Laurie Burkitt
Digest: China Tech
Curators: Xu Tao and Edith Yeung
The Mickey Mouse-shaped device, priced at $125, will connect users to Disney content, such as films, cartoon series and games. Customers will also be able to use it to plan a visit to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Disneyland theme parks. The device comes with a one-year subscription to content, Disney said. It didn't say what it would charge Chinese consumers after the first year. Read More
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5. How to Detect Counterfeit Money
By Jason Rueger
Digest: Small Business
Curator: Marc Prosser
According to the most recent Secret Service data, there is nearly $9 million in counterfeit bills circulating in the US. With the rise of digital printing, it is getting easier and easier to produce counterfeit bills that will fool the average cashier or business owner – not to mention most consumers. If you and your employees are not educated, your business could lose hundreds or thousands in profit by accepting counterfeit bills. Read More
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High streets in the UK have endured their worst summer in summer in six years, reports The Guardian, as unpredictable weather and the lure of restaurants and holidays have kept shoppers away.
According to figures from accountants BDO, underlying sales (excluding new store openings) fell by 1.1% in July. Sales fell by 2% in the previous month and by 0.9% in May, which means that stores have seen three consecutive months of decline since 2009.
A survey of 85 medium-sized retailers including Oasis, French Connection and Hobbs, found that fashion retailers were the worst hit, with sales down by 1.4%. Homeware sales were down by 1.1%, which was surprising considering the buoyant housing market.
Head of retail and wholesale at BDO, Sophie Michael, reported that some fashion retailers had tried to cope with a cold start to the simmer by launching their summer sales earlier than normal, but they were hit with a decline in consumer confidence due to the economic chaos in Greece. She also pointed out that those who delayed until August did not fare much better either.
"Consumers remain cautious with regard to spending: the political landscape is still cooling after the election, and speculation over interest rate rises continues to create uncertainty," said Michael.
She said shoppers were indulging in "selected spending" at restaurants and bars, rather than on homewares and fashion.
Retailers will be disappointed with the figures, after suffering a tough autumn last year when the weather was unseasonably warm and endured a difficult start to spring, which was much cooler this year than last.
The continued caution of shoppers came despite an increase in disposable income, with several choosing to spend money on more lavish items that they were previously holding back on, such as cars or holidays.
It seems that expectations of interest rate rises are weighing on consumers' minds, alongside changes to tax credits and other benefits announced by the Chancellor last month.
According to the regular GfK survey BDO's figures reflect a slump in consumer confidence last month, while the number of shoppers visiting the high street slid by 1.1 per cent between April and June, according to the British Retail Consortium.
Jamie Merriman, research analyst at Bernstein believes that fashion retailers are less likely to benefit from an improvement in the economy because they haven't suffered as much as other businesses in the recession.
She said: "What we have heard from retailers so far is that summer has been a bit mixed. When we have volatile weather it's never a surprise to have clothing sales."
However, she went on to say that those retailers with flexible supply chains and had made the right calls on trends and discount activity, were still likely to have performed well.
Last month Next increased its predicted annual profits by 2% after warm weather in July helped to boost sales.
"Good retailers will outperform in this situation. They are not immune to the weather but tend to do better," said Merriman.
Chief executive of Karen Millen, Mike Shearwood, said fashion retailers were also failing to deal with a dramatic change in the way people shop.
In the past, people would visit several stores and try on a variety of outfits before making their choice, increasingly shoppers pick what they want online and head straight for a particular shop – cutting down the opportunities for retailers to entice them to buy other things.
Related article: Click-and-collect is the new battleground for retailers - but is it bad for business?
"There has been a huge change in shopping habits," said Shearwood. He added that retailers had also tried to cut back on discounting this summer, and this had not paid off for every chain. "This season has been mixed," he said.
Related article: Should small retailers rush to adopt Apple Pay?
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Agility is the ability for a business to respond rapidly to opportunities or threats. In software development, it is the approach by which solutions and requirements evolve through a collaborative and iterative effort, in contrast the traditional waterfall approach which relies on exhaustive specifications and rigid project plans.
As enterprise architecture practices require huge amounts of upfront documentation that can take a long time to build and even longer to update, EA can often be seen as being stuck in a waterfall mode. So why would IT leaders invest in enterprise architecture in the first place as they are under pressure to develop new and agile methods?
This is a common perception, but it doesn't have to be this way. Enterprise Architecture means visibility. Agility without EA is like navigating at sea without a GPS: it is harder, it takes longer, and you may get lost.
Try to ask IT leaders how many applications they manage. The latest response I had was: "We would like to have 600 applications, we think we currently have around 900, but when we try to list them we count 2,000". How can you plan for change if you don't know what you are changing?
Enterprise Architecture provides clear visibility on IT assets and makes transformation possible. With an EA repository, IT leaders can easily see what they have, which systems are being used or not, which costs they need to reduce, and therefore to make the right investment decisions. In simple words: if you want to know how to get somewhere, you need to know where you currently are.
EA can accelerate the implementation of change. Take the scenario where a new application needs to be added to the stack, migrated, or removed. The simple fact of finding the information is time consuming: which systems will be impacted? How many users rely on it? Are all supporting artefacts consistent with the new system? Imagine doing this for 10,000 applications like it is commonly the case in large banks. EA speeds up the process by providing instant access to the information. The EA repository acts as an interactive map that helps navigate the information and run changes rapidly.
Enterprise Architecture can also play a part as an accelerator for project delivery. When projects have access to the enterprise architecture repository, they can easily understand the big picture, access company standards and reduce the time spent on documentation. A large telecom company in Australia estimates that their EA repository helps them save between 5 and 10 days for each project. It quickly adds up as they need to run up to 1,000 projects per year.
Last but not least, EA can bring agility in fixing operational issues. The EA repository provides the necessary visibility to identify root causes and assess impacts in a timely manner. In fact, it is a common use case to share the EA repository with an organisation's support service, it allows support officers to instantly identify the stakeholders involved when a system breaks down, and it gives them the means to spot root causes and rapidly assess the impact on the business.
Enterprise Architecture supports agility by providing the necessary visibility to plan for change and to conduct change much faster. However, with the current pace of innovation, it may be hard to keep up with the speed of transformation and ensure the EA data stays up-to-date. How do agile EA teams deal with this issue?
The main risk with enterprise architecture is that the data isn't updated and doesn't keep up with the pace of transformation. Yet it is mostly an organisational issue. Modern architecture teams are adopting agile methods to update data through a collaborative and iterative approach.
Architects shouldn't try to document the whole repository in one shot. That's a recipe for failure. Instead, the best practice is to set up a central knowledge base that serves as guidance for projects and is continuously updated by them. With a central repository, project teams understand how their developments support business objectives, and if they are in line with company standards. Project teams and architects can work together to define and adjust project requirements, assess the impact of change, and quickly update the repository.
This approach has been formalised in the SAFe framework (Scaled Agile Framework), which explains how to scale agile methods in large organisations, highlighting the necessity for collaboration and iterative adjustments. SAFe implements DevOps, an approach that brings together development teams (Dev) and software operations (Ops) to accelerate project delivery. The approach is based on "architectural runways", which aim to continuously describe the intentional architecture in collaboration with business analysts, solution architects and technology architects. Business analysts link projects to capabilities and objectives, solution architects design applications, services and data flows, and technology architects make the link with the infrastructure and supporting APIs. With the right collaboration, each team is accountable for their own part, and the whole repository stays up to date, therefore providing the right visibility to senior management.
Alongside with collaboration, automating the way data is populated will accelerate the process and help the EA team keep up with business changes. When it comes to describing a target architecture, the human mind is indispensable, but some level of automation can help to populate existing data. The right EA repositories make it possible to integrate with other systems, including CMDBs, HR repositories and project management tools in order to automatically import the data already available elsewhere. Some EA tools even make it possible to generate diagrams automatically and allow architects to focus on analyses and other higher added value tasks.
Enterprise Architecture is not a hindrance to agility, but an essential component of it. It brings the required visibility to plan for change and execute faster. An agile and collaborative EA practice will then make it possible to keep the repository up to date and keep up with the pace of business transformation. Yet, if collaboration is the first key to an agile architecture, choosing the right architecture repository comes a close second. The EA repository must help architects work faster. Top notch EA tools, in opposition to Visio-like systems, allow them to automate the population of data and integrate with other systems, and focus on high-value analyses instead of manual drawings: do more models, less modelling.
Download the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools that describes the current state of the market for EA tools and the vendor positioning.


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Properties:• Help to relieve symptoms of colds and increases resistance to infections
• Has antioxidant properties
• Selenium and Vitamin C help to increase the body's resistance to negative factors
Main Components:
Pau D'Arco Bark
"A divine tree, granting strength and resilience", the Pau D'Arco's bark contains over 20 bioactive compounds that provide health benefits by blocking the growth and replication of pathogens and preventing cell death due to oxidative stress.
One of the strongest antioxidants protects the body from the effects of stressful factors, preventing premature aging. This mineral has the capacity to stimulate immune cell activity, thanks to which the body's own defences are strengthened.
Vitamin C
Necessary for the selenium to be as fully absorbed as possible, while strengthening blood vessel walls and taking part in the synthesis of protective proteins in the body.
As a dietary supplement, take 1 or 2 capsules daily with a meal
Pau D'Arco bark poweder 500 mg; Selenium 30 mcg; Vitamin C 60 mg; other ingredients.
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Little did I know that the famous Pioneer Woman and I are leading parallel lives this week! No, I'm not suddenly living life on a cattle ranch in OK, married to a man called Marlboro Man who makes my heiney tingle. [I am married to a man who smokes Marlboros and makes my heiney tingle, but that's another story…] No, my brush with fame is #8 on her to-do list: planning the garden and fixing the rototiller.
For weeks, Grandpa and I have had this day set aside to take his beleaguered rototiller to the tractor repair place, and I think we both jumped out our beds this morning with the same thrill, akin to Christmas morning, that buzzed in our heads excitely: It's tractor field-trip day!
Since Grandpa can't drive himself these days, we had to carefully pick the best day to drive the trailor with the Landpride RTA 1558 Rototiller Attachment down country roads to the rural outpost of Griffin, Georgia and Wade Tractor Repair.
Okay, Griffin is no longer a rural outpost of Atlanta, but is now a bedroom community of suburban metro-Atlanta, but there is still just enough agriculture in that neck of the woods to keep a tractor repair and sales company in business.
Tony was gracious enough to drive Grandpa's big van for us, and I just sat and enjoyed the ride, trying to catch all the country wisdom that my grandpa let fall. The sky was bright and wintery, and the sides of the road were still covered with patches of snow. Where the Flint River had puddled out into swollen pools, the last residues of ice-crusts floated on the edges and the murky surface. In all, it was a lovely drive through woods, pastures, and old country homes.
But it's when we arrived at Wade's that the real fun began! It was like a tractor wonderland! Even as we drove into the service entrance, Grandpa and I were itching to check out some of those shiny new tractors on the lot. But first, the rototiller…
Here's our sad little rototiller, just waiting for expert service. Apparently, the drive chain broke and ballbearings knocked around inside the drive case. That sounds really bad…..but we have to get it fixed before spring! Afterall, the mule is long-dead, so we have to make the tractor work.
Wave for the friendly readers, Grandpa! He's such a sport to ham it up for the camera. Yeah, I know, he's just as besotted with his grown-up granddaughter as he was with his baby granddaughter. That's the benefit of being a granddaughter…you really don't have to be grown-up all the time.
Wow, what a relief that can be, too!
Now that the rototiller was safely entrusted to the care of the service department, we were free to browse the sales lot. Wild horses couldn't have pulled us back into the van without poking around!
Hmmmm maybe what we need is a new Kubota RTV, Grandpa. Can't you just hear him saying, Oooooooowheeee! I gotta get me one of those! This once independent and still fiercely proud man can't help but think, Maybe they can take my driver's licence away, but they can't keep me from driving one of these beauties around my farm…. And Grandpa, you're right. I'll be your enabler….
We just have to sneak the RTV past Grandma and we're home free!
Oooooo Tony! You look HOT in that Kubota Supergrand Cab tractor!
You can till my fields anytime you want!
Slide on over, Sexy, and make room for me! (And turn that luxurious heater on, too. It's really cold out here! )
But WAIT! What do we have here, tucked in between the newest, fanciest, prettiest tractors on the market today?
There it is, the perfect tractor…the tractor that revolutionized small-scale farming in America. The 1953 Ford Jubilee. All the shiny, all the climate-control, all the new pales in comparison to this old friend of Grandpa's. Here's a tractor he can really appreciate. [Of course, he has a 1954 NAA Jubilee at home. Never buy the first year of any model!] Grandpa, tell Tony all about it…
How does it look under the hood, Grandpa?
Do you mean to tell me that you didn't know this tractor originally came with a positive-ground battery? [Uh, no, Grandpa, I only know what you tell me…but I believe you…]
So, it just goes to show once again that new and shiny may catch our eye, but old and familiar warms our hearts. I've learned that this is true of tractors, and it's certainly true of Grandpa's. And even when you think you might know enough to recognize a Ford Jubilee when you see one, you can always learn something new about how it ticks.
I hope I never stop learning about how my Grandpa ticks.
To wrap it up, here's a final picture of my Grandpa's old tractor, taken today with snow still in the tire treads. It's old, dependable, strong, familiar, and fun.
Just like my Grandpa.


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KU School of Medicine-Wichita
Town's doc will be "difficult to replace," but they're trying
June 18, 2014
By Brian Whepley
Rice County Hospital and the community of Lyons, Kansas, have plenty to offer when it comes to attracting doctors.
Five years ago, the hospital underwent a $10.5 million remodel that turned the '50s-era building into a bright, up-to-date facility. Its two birthing suites are modern and roomy and welcome about 90 babies a year into the world. It has a new CAT scanner and stroke diagnosis equipment that video-links patients to Denver neurologists. Its busy rehab facility offers physical and occupational therapy close to home, and a large hospice room provides a peaceful retreat for patient and family. Community support and an endowed foundation have helped make all those things possible.
Lyons, home to about 3,500 residents and the county seat, is about 30 minutes from three larger cities - Great Bend, McPherson, and Hutchinson. Wichita is about 90 minutes away, and about 10 miles south is Sterling, home to Sterling College and about 2,300 people.
A town with everything ... almost
Lyons and its people have made commitments to the future. Voters approved spending $13.5 million to expand and improve schools, and the community built a new pool and water park several years ago. It's a good community to raise a family, a place "where if your kid's out messing around they're going to call you, and you don't have to worry," said Roger Tobias, M.D., who has practiced there since 1982.
On a regular basis, specialists in cardiology, rheumatology, podiatry, and urology visit the hospital's clinic to see the patients of Tobias and three other doctors in Sterling. A general surgeon comes twice weekly, and the hospital's ER sees about 200 patients a month. A block away, the hospital-owned Lyons Medical Center has more than a dozen patient rooms and was built to house up to six doctors.
The problem is, only one doctor, Tobias, practices at that large office, and at 63 he's not taking new patients. Without a nurse practitioner and a physician's assistant, the office and the nearby ER couldn't operate. Doctors from Sterling help staff the ER, see patients, and deliver babies at the hospital, but Tobias is the only doctor close at hand.
"He will be very difficult to replace," said Carol Frisbie, a longtime patient. "He's taken great care of us. It's the feeling of the old country doctor. He would make a house call if you needed. He's a pillar of the community."
Recruiting has been challenging
It's not for a lack of trying that Tobias is practicing solo. Tobias, hospital CEO George Stover, and others have been recruiting for several years. Despite having what they believe is a first-class facility and a good community, they keep coming in second with recruits.
It's a problem that hits home for Tobias in several ways. He's a native of Lyons who studied at KU School of Medicine-Wichita, did a surgical residency in Wichita, and served as an Air Force flight surgeon before deciding family practice was more to his liking. He chose to practice and raise a family - he and wife, Debbie, have two sons and a daughter - in his hometown. He plans to retire in a little over two years.
"This is his community, his town, and he wants to make sure that the people of Lyons are taken care of," Stover said.
An ironic prediction
And then there's the fact that, in 1991, Tobias was an author of a provocative report by the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, "Where Have the Doctors Gone? When Will They Return? A Report on the Shortage of Family Physicians in Kansas." The report was intended to light a fire, and did, recommending that the KU School of Medicine turn out more primary care doctors, and pay residents in rural areas more, among other recommendations. It spurred changes - many of them good, Tobias said - but the shortage of rural family doctors remains.
"The irony of it gets to me a bit," Tobias said, now that he finds a doctor shortage in his own office.
"We have so much to offer, a fine building, equipment, colleagues. It does become frustrating to be second," Stover said. "We get those recruits who come in and go, 'Wow, what a great place.'"
But then they hear that they've come in second, that a doctor wants to live closer - or farther - from family. In April, the hospital paid to take part in an electronic recruiting event for primary care doctors. Fewer doctors "attended" than had signed up, and they spent three hours at a computer waiting for one to enter their "booth." None did - "we were skunked," Tobias said.
Having had their hopes raised, patients ask when the new doc is coming and he can tell them only that they're doing all they can. Tobias praises the community for being understanding, and hospital management for finding fill-ins that allow him to vacation or see his kids.
Heart for rural medicine starts in medical school
Tobias believes, as he long has, that medical students should experience rural practice firsthand. The Wichita campus incorporates a rural rotation requirement in its curriculum for just that purpose.
"You can't make people like small-town life if they haven't been exposed to it," Tobias says. "You've got to get them down on the farm early, to show them they could have a career and a life there."
Small-town practice has both responsibilities - being a "pillar" is one - and benefits. The doctor cares for the people, and they care right back.
"One of the most meaningful things in my life was when I had to have surgery, and I was blown away by the number of well wishes and get-well cards I got," Tobias said. "There are so many times as a doctor that you do what is expected and you think it goes unnoticed - it was amazing."
"It's being able to take care of the patients you see in church and the community," Stover said. "You get to help develop and shape the community you live in. There's a lot of young doctors for whom that's appealing."
So they'll keep recruiting. And hope to find a doctor, or two, who can see all that Lyons has to offer.KU School of Medicine-Wichita


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Whether you're brand new or a seasoned pro at self-cathing or using ostomy supplies, you probably come in contact with your medical supplies on a regular basis. At some point, you may have looked at the packaging on your catheter supplies to see symbols and numbers.
Do all those unrecognizable symbols on the package make you feel like you're in the dark? 180 Medical can shed light on this situation for you! We love to offer education when and where we can.
Directions for Sterile Catheter Use
Then they may ask you to take a look at your catheter package to find a symbol of a number 2 with a line crossed through it. That symbol means "do not reuse," which indicates the FDA's guidelines that all intermittent catheters are considered sterile-use devices that should be used once and then disposed of.
Depending upon the brand and type of supply, packaging can vary in color, size, length, and shape. But you can always depend on knowing that the symbols are there, because they are regulated by the FDA.
Most Common Symbols on Catheter Packages
|Symbol for "Do not reuse." Single or sterile use only.
|Manufacturer's lot number or batch code. They symbol will be right next to a set of numbers indicating the number of the batch in which this particular supply was produced.
|Indicates the product's reference or item number. Your 180 Medical specialist may ask you to find this number to determine what item you have on hand.
|Manufacturer. This picture will be next to the name and address of the manufacturer.
|Date of manufacture. Next to this symbol, you will see a date with 4 digits indicating the year and 2 following digits indicating the month that this product was produced/manufactured in (YYYY-MM).
|Use By. Next to this small hourglass symbol, you will see the expiration date with 4 digits indicating the year and 2 following digits indicating the month (YYYY-MM).
|By prescription only. U.S. Federal Law restricts this device to sale on order of a physician only.
|Method of sterilization by Ethylene Oxide.
|Method of sterilization using irradiation.
|Method of sterilization using dry heat or steam.
|Not sterilized. You may see this on products such as non-sterile gloves.
|Instructions are available to read or consult.
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Movement-based interactive systems for play came into the spotlight over a decade ago, and were met with enthusiasm by the general public as well as the Human-Computer Interaction research community. Yet a decade of research and practice has not fully addressed the challenge of designing for the moving body and play. This thesis argues that often, the role of the technology to sustain the play activity, and to drive the design process, has been over-emphasized, and has resulted in limited design possibilities. This thesis explores an alternative design approach to address the problem through combining the design of the technology with designing aspects of the social and spatial context where the play activity takes place. The work is grounded in an embodied perspective of experience, action, and design. Methodologically, it belongs to the Research through Design tradition (RtD).
A core concept and a characterization of design practices are presented as key contributions. The concept of embodied core mechanics is introduced to frame desirable and repeatable movement-based play actions, paying attention to the way these are supported by design resources including rules, physical and digital artifacts, and the physical and spatial arrangement of players and artifacts. The concept was developed during the two main design cases: the Oriboo case, targeting dance games for children, and the PhySeEar case, targeting rehabilitative therapy for the elderly. It was further substantiated in subsequent external design collaborations. To support the design process, this thesis presents embodied sketching: a set of ideation design practices that leverage the embodied experience and enable designers to scrutinize the desired embodied experience early in the design process. Three forms of embodied sketching are presented: embodied sketching for bodystorming, co-designing with users, and sensitizing designers.
Through reframing the design task as one of designing and studying embodied core mechanics, this thesis establishes an alternative approach to design for movement-based play in which significant aspects of the embodied play experience, lead, drive, and shape the design process and the design of the technology.
The past decade has seen an increased focus on body movement in computer games. We take a step further to look at body games: games in which the main source of enjoyment comes from bodily engagement. We argue that for these games, the physical and social settings become just as important design resources as the technology. Although all body games benefit from an integrated design approach, the social and physical setting become particularly useful as design resources when the technology has limited sensing capabilities. We develop our understanding of body games through a literature study and a concrete design experiment with designing multiplayer games for the BodyBug, a mobile device with limited sensing capabilities. Although the device was designed for free and natural movements, previous games fell short in realizing this design ideal. By designing the technology function together with its physical and social context, we were able to overcome device limitations. One of the games was subsequently incorporated in its commercial release.
Designing bodily experiences is challenging. In this paper, we propose embodied sketching as a way of practicing design that involves understanding and designing for bodily experiences early in the design process. Embodied sketching encompasses ideation methods that are grounded in, and inspired by, the lived experience and includes the social and spatial settings as design resources in the sketching. Embodied sketching is also based on harnessing play and playfulness as the principal way to elicit creative physical engagement. We present three different ways to implement and use embodied sketching in the application domain of co-located social play. These include bodystorming of ideas, co-designing with users, and sensitizing designers. The latter helps to uncover and articulate significant, as well as novel embodied experiences, whilst the first two are useful for developing a better understanding of possible design resources.
Designing body games, games in which the main source of enjoyment comes from bodily engagement, is not an easy task. This article reports on a holistic design approach that considers the social and physical setting of the activity as design resources, together with the technology. We introduce the concept of embodied sketching as a method to gauge how different configurations of resources make for a good design. We report on the experience of using embodied sketching in exploratory workshops with children, as a way to co-create design ideas. The explorations were based on simple games implemented in a technological prototype, which allowed organizers and children to collectively explore game variations by changing the rules of the game, the physical configurations, and the roles of players. We report on our takeaways from four workshops at four different schools in three different countries
The concept of playification has recently been proposed as an extension of, or alternative to, gamification. We present a playification design project targeting the re-design of physiotherapist rehabilitative therapy for elderly inpatients. The menial and repetitive nature of the physical exercises targeted for design might seem ideal for shallow widespread gamification approaches that add external rewards to entice usage. In our project, we introduced a "third agent" instead, a NAO robot that would take over some of the work typically carried out by the physiotherapist. This technological intervention triggered the emergence of playfulness, when inpatients and the therapist re-signified the ongoing activity by engaging in playful role-taking, such as blaming the robot for mistakes, or for sensitivity to the inpatient's inaccurate movements. Based on the experiences from this project, we discuss some of the major differences between playification and gamification.


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|This story (Paving firm is convicted of $1.8m fraud - The Boston Globe) about unethical and illegal actions by asphalt paving companies brings to mind problems that we have had in the past. It seems that the contractors who pave the streets for the City often have extra asphalt leftover at the end of the day and they would love to make an extra buck by doing some spontaneous paving work. When the asphalt is in the truck at the end of the day I guess either needs to be used or discarded, so they are hot to make a quick sale. We have seen various pressue tactics to get people to agree "right now" to have the job done. At my house we share a driveway with our next-door neighbors and the pavers have told us the neighbor wants to have the paving done when that is not true.
So it is great to see Alcott, Litchfield, and other streets in the neighborhood, but watch out in the afternoon for a great deal on driveway paving. Or if you are actually looking to have some of your property paved, here is a chance to maybe get a good deal. But if you are in the latter category, maybe you'll consider a more environmentally green approach instead of asphalt. There are many options for porous paving that allow water to drain through, let grass grow between the paving blocks, and look much better than more black asphalt to a lot of people.
Beware of agressive asphalt pavers!
Posted by Harry Mattison on 5/10/2007 07:17:00 AM
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I paid not mind to it until i read that they said ""We were disappointed with the outcome, but want to assure our customers and vendors that we have implemented a system of controls and compliance procedures."" How ridiculous. I hate how they "try to make a quick sale" it unbelievably unacceptable. They deserved to be convicted.ReplyDelete
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Ambience on Tour is a small group tour operator specialising in Wine and Art tours on the Gold Coast Hinterland area focusing on the beautiful Tamborine Mountain. Day tours include Winery tours, Art tours, Brewery and Distillery tours, Scenic tours and Tailored tours to fit your needs.
We are in a UNIQUE position to take you to meet a range of talented and individual artists in their studios where they reside and work against the rainforest backdrop.
Our objective is to ensure you come away from the tour happy, fulfilled and enriched whether it be from being enchanted and enlightened by our artists, or having appreciated award winning Queensland wines, or having visited the intriguing internationally accoladed Distillery or having soaked up the ambience of the rainforest and scenery, or a combination of all of these factors!
Ambience on Tour is a strong advocate for supporting local artists as well as local produce.
Our Story
Ambience on Tour was founded in late 2016 by Helen Claase who is both owner and operator.
The art tour concept is inspired by Helen's late mother and the many wonderful and talented people from all walks of life that Helen has had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know on Tamborine Mountain.
Helen has always had a keen interest in wine, art and natural beauty and found an ideal opportunity to showcase some of the finest that Queensland has to offer.
Having travelled extensively, Helen has plenty of hands on experience of wine tasting both globally and across the different corners of Australia. She has followed the changing wine trends throughout the years with fascination - from wine making and bottling to consumer trends. When last did you use a cork screw to open a bottle of wine?!
Coming from an IT Consultancy and Project Manager background Helen is now following a different path veering back to where she was many years ago in the Travel Industry but with a very different focus.
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The Power Up Fast-pitch softball team won the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) 14C World Series championship in Kansas City, Mo.
Power Up went undefeated for seven games to win and only allowed 7 runs and scored a total of 42 runs during the tournament.
This championship now ranks Power Up fourth (out of 708 teams) in the nation in 14C for power ranking according to the USSSA website. Also, according to the world series director, Power Up placed second in sportsmanship.
Sammie Kuhns of Pocola received the Pitching Most Valuable Player (MVP) award while shortstop Lexi McClellan of Ozark received the All-Tournament MVP award.
During pool play, first baseman Haley Hogan of Van Buren and second baseman Paige Lee of Hector both received an MVP award.
Extraordinary plays ensured the wins. McClellan hit a grand slam and had the most runs scored for Power Up. Hogan hit a home run over the fence and third baseman Mariah Reagan of Booneville made a double play. Sidney Bieker of Greenwood made a diving catch in center field to end the championship game.
Left fielder Aliyah Hall of Fort Smith came through on an awesome catch to end an important inning. Pitcher Lauren Wilson of Van Buren, pitcher Whitney Tatum of Booneville and outfielder Baylee Riley of Hector made timely hits to ensure Power Up wins.
Catcher Morgan Shaw stayed strong behind the plate catching players off guard at the bases. Lee threw a player out while on her knees; and Kuhns made an extra effort chasing a ball to throw a runner out at first to stop the opponents momentum.
Overall, Power Up has an in-class record of 34 wins and 5 losses. During tournament plays, the team has four first-place wins, two second-place wins, and three third-place wins.
Bieker Electric and Mickle-Wagner-Coleman, Inc. Engineers of Fort Smith were sponsors for Power Up.
A total of 55 teams suited up for the event with 23 teams in the upper bracket with Power Up.


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Take command of your fleet and battle against deadly smart astronauts. Your objective in this real-time-strategy game is to capture your opponents space stations. Strengthen your forces and manage your ships capacity level strategically. Alternate between massing your ships together for defense and spreading your forces to capture more stations. Act fast, because your enemy will not wait for you. Only the best tactician will achieve victory.


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Merciless Compassion
We should be compassionate to all. But compassion sometimes has to be harsh. How else can we pinpoint where the problem really lies? Hatred's hold on us is so strong. Simple coddling will not do the job.
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It's not just costumed panhandlers raising hell in Times Square — a veteran tour-bus ticket hawker says he was stabbed in the face by a competitor as they battled for customers along West 42nd Street.
Al Mamann, 54, says in a lawsuit that he was selling tickets for CitySights NY bus tours and had wandered a few steps from his spot on the corner of Eighth Avenue when a seller with rival Skyline Sightseeing raced across the street to confront him.
The worker demanded to know why he was selling tickets there, even as his own partner urged him to leave Mamann alone, the Manhattan man said.
Mamann began walking away, but the encounter got violent, he says.
"He came behind me and stabbed me from behind," he recalled of the August 2013 dispute. "I grabbed my face, and there was blood all over my body, and when he saw the blood, he tried to run away."
Mamann said a pen punctured his cheek, entered his mouth and knocked out two teeth, leaving a wound that required 14 stitches.
He's suing Skyline and the worker, Romeo Marishaw, in Manhattan Supreme Court for $5 million.
After the attack, cops nabbed Marishaw, 27, of The Bronx, a block away and charged him with assault.
Marishaw faces charges in a second assault case, in which he allegedly punched and broke the jaw of another rival worker a month earlier. Both cases are pending.
Marishaw has since returned to work, infuriating Mamann.
"When I see him, I'm boiling, but I can't do anything," Mamann said.
The case is just another example of rising mayhem in Times Square.
This month, a Gray Line tour-bus driver crashed into a CitySights bus, injuring 14. And tensions between costumed beggars and police have resulted in a "Spider-Man" allegedly punching a cop and a protest rally by the panhandlers.
Mamann and his co-workers, who all work on commission, say Skyline, which joined the cluttered bus-tour market about 15 months ago, uses intimidation to get ahead.
It's gotten really bad. There are some aggressive elements coming into the business.- CitySights manager Collin West
"It's gotten really bad. There are some aggressive elements coming into the business," CitySights manager Collin West said.
Ticket sellers say their Skyline counterparts threaten them, interrupt their exchanges with potential customers as well as assault them.
Marishaw denies breaking anyone's jaw or stabbing Mamann.
"That's definitely not what happened," Marishaw said.
He says he was selling tickets at Skyline's stop outside the Starbucks on West 42nd Street when Mamann came into Skyline territory to sell.
When he confronted the older man, Marishaw says, Mamann intentionally bumped into him twice.
"After the second time, I punched him. I assaulted a man. I'm not disputing the incident, not at all, but there was no stabbing going on," Marishaw told The Post.
"This bus company stuff is very territorial. One of their tactics is to send someone in front of our bus stop. They sent him to cause a little ruckus. They try to get you frustrated. I was completely provoked."
Skyline could not be reached for comment. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.


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I wish I'd screen grabbed the weather forecast I read, late on Friday night, as we were going to bed and hatching a plan for the weekend - so that I could have juxtaposed the natty new BBC weather graphics with what actually arrived. 'Sunshine and 7 degrees all afternoon', it proclaimed. After what turned up, I want a refund.
Or do I?
We spent Saturday morning at the gym. Just for once, Katie and I managed to get Wattbikes next to one another, both with working headsets, seat post clamps, pedals - even bluetooth! The final piece of the jigsaw, being able to see one another on Zwift, remained elusive, but we did an hour or so up the mountain towards our Le Col challenge hours, interspersed with some adult conversation and trips to the water cooler to combat the intense heat (none of which later). It hurled it down with rain so we went and got Rhoda some new trainers to ride in, and nipped to Cafe Ventoux for a bit of an outing and something to eat. Katie took the opportunity to see what she might spend her £50 Le Col voucher on - assuming we got some more time on the bike before the weekend was out.
Sunday came, and the sun shone as we sat in church. A bit better than the forecast, we thought. Excellent! We drove home, choosing to ignore the car's temperature warning beep, and threw ourselves into the task of getting everyone's touring kit out at the same time for the first time since last May.
The touring bikes came up from the basement - a feat in itself. Katie's had air in the rear hydraulic brake line. Again.
Ruth's winter cycling jacket was missing. The girls had been sharing one for weeks, which was fine until we wanted them to ride together.
EVERYTHING needed oiling.
Ruth's jacket was still not in evidence.
Rhoda's bottle cage had been robbed from her trailerbike when Thomas Ivor put his foot through one during cyclocross training. Thomas Ivor hadn't tightened the bolts back into the frame, and one was missing on the basement stairs.
Ruth's jacket wasn't in the car. It wasn't anywhere in the pile of coats by the front door. It wasn't in the washing basket, or the cupboard. It wasn't in the girls' bedroom, or their chest of drawers. Running out of places to look.
We had a shortage of serviceable rear lights. About four of them have had the switches fail in wet weather recently. It was looking decidedly dull outside.
Ruth's jacket was not in our bedroom, either. It was not under the settee, nor in the bag we took to her last cyclocross race. It was not in the front garden, or the flippin' fridge. The hunt was becoming desperate and tempers were fraying.
In the end, since all the jacket-searching had cost us so much time we were all 'hangry', we jumped in the car, all each one of us (except Ruth's top half) in full lycra, and went to a well known burger joint which euphemistically calls itself a 'restaurant' but is careful to enhance the eating experience by never bringing to your table everything you ordered. As we arrived there, we were treated to a hailstorm. Words were possibly had with the Almighty, who had apparently hogged the promised nice weather, for the part of the day we had spent indoors, worshipping Him.
I think the children thought that was it, and we were going to go home, take off our cycling kit, put a fire in the grate and spend the rest of the day looking for Ruth's jacket, but somehow, (perhaps that £50 Le Col voucher had something to do with it) Katie and I steeled ourselves to the prospect of cutting back our ambitions for the day's riding, but restoring some honour by being able to say we had ridden, after all. Here's what I think we learned, as we set out under grey skies, which proceeded to dump on us from a great height...
1. There will be 'can't be bothered' days on the road, too. They may of themselves have no particular reward at all - but they facilitate the 'other days' - and you have to do them to reach your goal.
When you reach the end of a tour, you will remember the really tough bits. The stinking great hills. The equipment failures. You'll remember the amazing bits - the natural wonders, a tasty meal, road angels you met. What you're unlikely to remember so readily is the miles and miles you spent just plodding on. The days when getting on the road again was a drag. A nagging headwind. Rain that stops as soon as you've put your wet weather gear on. Even in lovely places, there are boring bits.
The fact is, going the distance is very much about being able to keep on going when the motivation is low and excuse factor is high. If you hadn't done a few hours at 10mph feeling uninspired, here and there, you might be hundreds of miles short of your objective. Sticking with a plan to throw your leg over the bike, even when at the time, it would be much easier not to, is good discipline for days where caving in could kill off your big aspirations.
2. If you don't find the kit you need today, you won't have it for next time, and you'll lose another ride. If one plan goes for a Burton, try and respond in a way that prevents recurrence.
We covered less than half the distance we had hoped, in the end, but if we had used 'we can't find everything in a hurry' as an excuse, we'd not have gone out at all - and we'd have left ourselves the same excuse for next time, too. In the end, we figured that if we only rode up our street and back, to have done that before the day was out would be a sign that we were able to get moving more quickly, and fully equipped, next time. Today's ride became a facilitator for the next one! (See point 5, below)
Repurpose a ride that isn't going to hit all the original targets. Roll with the blows and do something purposeful with it - even if that's short of, or different to, what you'd hoped. It might mean next time goes more smoothly.
3. What doesn't kill them makes them stronger - children get used to what they've experienced safely, and will be calmer next time. Use incentives.
What is training for, if not a bit of conditioning?! A small dose of hail in the faces, endured by choice and survived, makes for better endurance next time it comes and can't be avoided. Use mitigations (being able to turn round and put the wind at your backs, and doing that before things get ugly) and rewards (hot chocolate and a warm bath at home afterwards) while you have them. If we encounter a full-on hailstorm again, in the middle of nowhere, the children know what to do, and that it will be ok. They won't die. It will still be a good adventure. We were well impressed with the girls' willingness to endure a burst of rough weather and keep going; Thomas Ivor was able to get used to the 'new' sensory input of cold stuff hitting his face whilst riding a road he knows well, and could process his response at his own pace.
Children today are often shielded more than is helpful to them, from the weather. Properly equipped, with careful management (both important caveats!), they can endure more than they think - and if you are willing to do it close to home, out of season, that unexpected storm on your next tour will be far less of a curved ball. Which brings us to the next point...
4. Train hard, fight easy - test your contingencies and ability to deal with problems when you can choose to, rather than when you have no choice!
Last year, we were privileged to go to visit Islabikes in Shropshire. In preparation for a staff outing, a weekend's off-road touring through Wales, founder Isla Rowntree presided over (and participated in, and won) a competition in which every participant had to change their rear inner tube against the clock, unaided, using only their own equipment for the trip, fully packed up as it would be on the day. I won't say who found they'd packed a 26" tube on their 29er, but several of the participants encountered trouble they'd not foreseen, and a few doubtless tweaked their preparations subsequently! As Isla pointed out, they'd be glad of the frustration now, if they had a puncture out on open moorland in a freezing cold deluge the following week.
Solving problems you hope you will never have, with a safety net, might lead to packing new or different things (or knowledge!) that improve your chances on tour, when things go wrong. If the things you fear most on tour, you've already tried and found a response for, you have rather less to fear. In our case this time, it wasn't so much equipment based but a test of 'can we ride on in these conditions', in a situation where we could bail out at any time - and the answer was "yes - and Rhoda needs the peak of her hat adjusting for her when it happens". If that's the worst of it, we won't be so worried next time the BBC forecast turns out to be so lamentably inaccurate!
There is a general level of satisfaction to be had from having 'done it anyway', and if children bank positive experiences of dealing with situations you'd prefer not to deal with, but might have to, everyone stresses less. Even if unbeknown to them, you dialled things back a bit having satisfied yourself it was ok, everyone gets a feeling that nothing can stop you next time. Some days, when you're digging deep, that's what you need upon which to draw.
5. Evaluation is the mother of preparedness - a.k.a. 'Always look in the toy box'.
We got home, got warm, got the girls some hot chocolate and a bath, and Katie set to, continuing the hunt for the lost jersey, finding a number of other things we didn't know we'd lost, along the way, and filling two bags for the charity shop, largely of toys that the girls didn't need any more. At the bottom of one of the toy boxes, patiently waiting all along to be discovered, was a Size 1 HUP cycling jacket.
We made a list, from which the missing jersey was cheerfully removed, of other things that had come to light during the afternoon. Ruth's trailerbike seat needs to go up. Rhoda's gloves are getting tight and she is probably ready for the larger crankset her sister uses. We have a new 11-34t cassette that needs fitting to Katie's tourer, along with bleeding those pesky brakes again. I ended up recording Ruth's heart rate, not my own (although that was instructive, during the ride!). I've got a loose front lamp bracket. We need to sort out some more rear lights, or fix the ones we have. These are all things we can try to fix before our next full team ride, rather than consigning ourselves to repeating them - and whilst it's been decided that the girls are to have special bags to put their cycling clothes and accoutrements in, we will be sure to check the toy box, next time something's gone astray...


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The City of Binghamton is located at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. The city is at the crossroads of Interstates 81 and 88, as well as New York State Route 17 (also known as The Southern Tier Expressway and the future Interstate 86).
The Binghamton Metropolitan Area includes approximately 252,000 residents in all of Broome and Tioga (NY) counties.[1] Binghamton is part of the "Triple Cities," along with Endicott and Johnson City (which are actually villages). The region is collectively referred to as Greater Binghamton.
Early history
The city was named after William Bingham, a wealthy Philadelphian who bought the surrounding land in 1792. Before that, the first known people of European descent to come to the area were the troops of Gen. John Sullivan in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War.
The community was first settled around 1802 and was known as "Chenango Point." Binghamton was first incorporated in 1834 as a village of the Town of Binghamton. Binghamton became a city in 1867.
Abel Bennett was the city's first mayor. His farm property on the city's west side is known as the Abel Bennett Tract. On Feb. 19, 2008, this historic district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Later development
An early Link Flight Simulator, invented in Binghamton in 1929.
Binghamton was nicknamed the "Parlor City" for its neat streets and attractive homes, including many stately mansions. Strangely enough, many of those stately mansions are now funeral parlors. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many immigrants moved to the area, finding an abundance of jobs, leading them to call it the "Valley of Opportunity."
Greater Binghamton is noted as being the birthplace of the Link flight simulator as well as IBM. Until the Cold War ended, the area never experienced an economic downfall, due in part to its defense-heavy industries. This concentration of the defense industry made the area the seventh most likely area in the nation for a nuclear attack during the old War, and the population peaked at around 85,000 in 1950, but now hovers around 50,000.
Along with the start of IBM, the original Dick's Sporting Goods started out as a fishing store in the East Side of the City of Binghamton.
Facing west towards the confluence of the Susquehanna (left) and Chenango (right) rivers. Confluence Park, Downtown Binghamton, 2007
Binghamton is located at 42°6′8.01″N 75°54′42.47″W (42.102225, −75.911797)[3].
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.6 km² (11.0 sq mi). 27.0 km² (10.4 sq mi) of it is land and 1.6 km² (0.6 sq mi) of it (5.43%) is water.
The north branch of the Susquehanna River passes through downtown Binghamton. This branch rises in eastern New York and receives a number of tributaries above Binghamton, most notably the Chenango, which joins from the north just outside of the business district. Major floods occurred in the city during 1865, 1936 and 2006.
In 1935 the Chenango suffered a flash flood, which was damaging, but less severe once it joined the larger Susquehenna. So much water came from the Chenango, that the Susquehanna flowed backwards for some distance above the confluence. In 1972 the remnants of Hurricane Agnes flooded the entire Susquehanna basin downstream from Binghamton, but the damage in the city was minor.
In 2006, the Susquehanna flooded again in Binghamton causing massive amounts of damage in the city and the entire metropolitan area. The Exchange Street and Washington Street bridges were flooded and the height of the river surpassed the flood walls on North Shore Drive, Court Street, and Conklin Ave. The damage was extensive enough to force large scale evacuations, including that of Lourdes Hospital which was unable to pump water out of its basement fast enough.
Binghamton has a humid continental climate, with cold, snowy winters and warmer, wet summers. Snowfall is significant, with an annual total of 82.4 inches. Binghamton is not as greatly affected by the lake-effect snows as the cities in the north (Syracuse) and closer to the Great Lakes, but persistent snow bands from the lakes do occasionally result in moderate snows. Binghamton receives significant snows at times during the year from Nor'easter storms as well.
Summers in Binghamton are typified by warmer, less humid days with occasional temperature spikes into the upper 80s and lower 90s. Higher temperatures have occurred, but are very uncommon. As with most cities in upstate New York, precipitation in Binghamton is spread evenly throughout the year; there is no "dry season."
Points of Interest
- Cutler Botanic Garden
- Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park
- There are six carousels in Broome County, 2 of which are located in Binghamton
- Rod Serling Museum
- Roberson Museum and Science Center
- Clinton Street Antique Row
- NYSEG Stadium
- Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
- Discovery Center
- The Bundy Arts and Victorian Museum
- Cyber Cafe West
- The Twilight Zone Binghamton's Rod Serling Experience Escape Room
Notable Residents
- Rick Baker (Academy Award winning make-up artist)
- Mark Clayton (Famous football player)[citation needed]
- Richard Deacon of The Dick Van Dyke Show also worked as an orderly in City Hospital, now known as Binghamton General Hospital[citation needed]
- Five Eight, members of the rock band grew up in Binghamton, later moving to Athens, Georgia.[citation needed]
- Anthony George (soap-opera actor) born in Binghamton.[citation needed]
- Johnny Hart (cartoonist of B.C. and The Wizard of Id)
- Edwin A. Link, Binghamton-based scientist invented the flight simulator used for pilot training and video interface technology
- Ernie Manouse (TV Anchor/Producer PBS)
- Billy Martin, New York Yankees Hall of Fame second baseman/Manager lived in Port Crane, a Binghamton suburb, until his death.
- Leonard Melfi (poet, screenwriter and playwright, author of "Oh Calcutta" and "Birdbath")[citation needed]
- Bridget Moynahan (actress, Coyote Ugly, Six Degrees)
- Elmar Oliveira resided in Binghamton in his younger years and in 1979 when he became the only American ever to win the Gold Medal for violin at Moscow's Tchaikowsky International Competition.[citation needed]
- Marla Olmstead painter whose abstract works attracted worldwide and media attention from the time she was four years old, and whose work is documented in the 2007 documentary My Kid Could Paint That.
- David Sedaris (comedian) and sister Amy Sedaris (actress)
- Rod Serling (creator of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery)
- Jack Sharkey (heavyweight boxing champion) was born in Binghamton.
- George Hull - originator of the Cardiff Giant, resident and tobacconist/cigar maker in Binghamton.
- Steve Perry, lead vocalist, songwriter and founding member of the rock/ska/swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, best known for the song "Zoot Suit Riot" was raised in Binghamton, NY having graduated from Vestal High School.[citation needed]
- Dave Michaels Former CNN/KABC-TV Anchorman worked at WENE, WKOP and WINR Radio in the mid-fifties. He hosted WKOP's Moonlight Serenade and WINR's All Night Show using his full name - David Michael Potts.
- Bill Hallahan - was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1920s and 1930s.
- Slam Stewart - Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart: jazz bassist.
- Jiverly Voong - Perpetrator of the Binghamton shootings of 2009 was a resident of Johnson City, NY.
- Fred Coury - drummer for 80's hair-metal band Cinderella was raised in Johnson City
Connection to The Twilight Zone
Creator Rod Serling was raised in Binghamton by his parents, Samuel and Esther, and graduated from Binghamton Central High School.
- ↑ "2003 Metropolitan Area Rankings". 2003-06-06. http://www.proximityone.com/msa03us.htm. Retrieved on 2007-12-17.
- ↑ WestsideBinghamton.org
- ↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2005-05-03. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
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I do a lot of articles about stuff used by drivers. Sometimes the drivers are current drivers, other times, the drivers have retired and moved on to other ventures. Such is the case with this helmet, used by Dave Labs. Dave Labs is a former ASA Champion, who moved to drag racing in the NHRA and IHRA. He is a self taught artist, following in the style of Kenny Youngblood. Labs works out of West Allis, WI, and has designed a number of cars, including NASCAR, ASA, and NHRA. He also designs shirts, and has painted hot rods and airplanes.
During his career, Labs wore this Bieffe helmet.Bieffe is an Italian helmet company that had a reputation for making "cheap" helmets. I'm not even sure if they are still in business, as they don't seem to have an official website, and it doesn't appear that they are making new helmets.
This specific helmet has a KENDALL GT-1 sponsor on the visor, and is customized with DAVE on the sides, and Lab's Racing on the top. This particular design is a motorcycle helmet. It has DOT markings on the back. The red, gold and silver color scheme is one of Dave's favorites. The helmet is missing one of the visor clips, and has a large amount of scuff marks and scrapes across it. The tags inside the helmet show a large amount of staining.One thing I like about Dave is that he is a hands-on guy. He left the NHRA because " was spending more time with business, and that didn't leave me very much time to go Drag Racing. The quicker and faster you go, requires more work and more crew help. I didn't want to turn the operation over to someone to prep the car, and then I would just drive. I guess I learned it from Don Garlits, but I always wanted to be hands on with the running of my car. I don't want to be just a Driver. With that in mind, and the ever increasing demands to compete at the NHRA level, I decided it was best to stop Racing." He likes to know everything about his car, everything it does, every adjustment it needs, and how it all works. I'm like that. I want to be able to handle the items I discuss, not just look at pictures of the items.
This week we've discussed a designer, next week, we will discuss the canvas that these designers now use.


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"Rock Bottom" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob gets stuck in Rock Bottom.
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Nat Peterson
- Thaddeus
- Sea Urchins
- Green soil (debut)
- Swallower (debut)
- Rock Bottom Bus Manager (debut)
- Grandpa SquarePants (mentioned and depicted by SpongeBob)
- Gary the Snail (mentioned)
- Angler Fish (debut)
- Other Rock Bottomites (debut)
SynopsisSpongeBob and Patrick board a bus in order to get home from Glove World, a glove-themed amusement park that they love. They accidentally board the wrong bus, which then takes them to a cliff. The cliff leads to a sort of aphotic zone called Rock Bottom, inhabited by multiple strange deep-sea animals. SpongeBob tells Patrick to wait while he goes to try and find a bus schedule. While SpongeBob is gone searching, Patrick gets on the bus to go home but accidentally leaves SpongeBob behind. SpongeBob tries to find a bus that will take him more but nothing happens. After several unsuccessful attempts to get on the bus, SpongeBob heads to the bus station and waits in a very long line. By the time he gets to the front, he finds out that the last bus to leave for the night is already gone, and he's stuck there until morning. He gets scared by a raspberry sound coming from nowhere, and he dashes back to the cliff. The raspberry sound's maker reveals himself to be a friendly-looking anglerfish creature, who has SpongeBob's balloon from Glove World. The creature blows up the balloon, ties it to SpongeBob's wrist, which makes SpongeBob show that he could hitch a ride home. When SpongeBob returns home, his balloon pops. The episode ends with Patrick on his way back to Rock Bottom, thinking SpongeBob is still there.
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|( ‣ ) Associated production music
|( • ) Original music
|( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
‣ Moon Walk - John Fox [title card]
‣ Roll Up Waltz (e) - Andrew J J Hall [opening at Glove World]
‣ SpongeBob Closing Theme - Steve Belfer, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick on the bus]
‣ Missile Disaster - John Fox [Bikini Bottom City Limits]
‣ On Fire - Gregor F. Narholz [bus drives down a cliff]
‣ Moon Walk - John Fox [SpongeBob and Patrick in Rock Bottom]
‣ Mavericks - The Woodies [SpongeBob chasing the bus]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill [waiting for next bus]
‣ Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Uh-oh, shoe's untied."]
‣ Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob still waiting]
‣ Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob's balloon blows away]
‣ Hawaiian Adventures SpongeBob Theme - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton [someone chases SpongeBob's balloon.]
‣ Kamakani (b) - Kapono Beamer ["Well, there goes another one."]
‣ Orchestral Effect (f) - Dick Stephen Walter [glove candy dispenser]
‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob sees a candy machine]
‣ Pell-Mell - Sam Spence [pushing buttons on machine]
‣ ? - SpongeBob reaches toward the candy bar
‣ Deadline - Sam Spence [SpongeBob goes to the bus station]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [329th in line]
‣ On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [clock ticking]
‣ Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford [lights turned off]
‣ Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz [someone approaching]
‣ Royal Hawaiian Hula - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob's balloon travel home]
‣ Honolulu March - Hans Haider [ending]
*On the Season 1 DVD, this is replaced with "El Dementia" by The Surfdusters.
- This episode is available on The Best of SpongeBob SquarePants, Complete 1st Season, First 100 Episodes DVDs and Glove World Forever! (DVD),
- As of August 12, 2016, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 9.2/10 based on 353 ratings by users.[1] TV.com users give this episode a rating of 9/10 based on 206 votes.[2]
- "Rock Bottom" was ranked #79 during the Best Day Ever event on November 9–10, 2006.
- The title card is similar to "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost."
- Mr. Lawrence stated that the idea for this episode came from getting on the wrong bus as a kid and the bus driver going the entire route before he would let him and his friend off in the right place, which frightened them both.[citation needed]
- This is the first episode to feature Glove World.
- Residents of Rock Bottom all speak by blowing a raspberry (sound made while sticking out your tongue) in between words. When SpongeBob tried to speak normal to the fish at the bus station, the fish did not understand his "accent" until SpongeBob started to blow his tongue to speak.
- Rock Bottom's other areas are never shown and remain unknown. SpongeBob only stays near the bus stop, bus station, and the entrance road, not going any further. Though, in some video games such as Battle for Bikini Bottom, and SpongeBob's Boating Bash, Rock Bottom's other locations and sights are shown.
- The opening credits for this episode are in light blue instead of the regular navy blue. This also happens in "Arrgh!," the sister episode.
- This is one of the seven episodes in which the 1986 Paramount logo is plastered with the 2002 Paramount logo. The others are "Help Wanted," "Squeaky Boots," "F.U.N.," "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost," "Employee of the Month," and "Karate Choppers."
- Close to the cliff is a public toilet with a ? and a ¿. It is unknown which gender belongs to which bathroom.
- Since the one-eyed creature that was also the bus station employee came out of the one with the ¿ and had a male voice, it could be hinted that ¿ is for males and ? is for females.
- The fish that works at the bus station in Rock Bottom to give schedules of when the buses are coming is the same fish who stole SpongeBob's Kelp Nougat Krunch candy bar from the vending machine.
- As the bus is carrying SpongeBob and Patrick descends down the cliff face, the dramatic incidental music is from the song "Whirlpool," performed by the Detroit, Michigan surf band, The Volcano.
- In the level, Rock Bottom in Battle for Bikini Bottom, when the player first starts the level and runs towards the kandy vending machine near the bus stop, a bus will drive up, stop at the bus stop for a second and then continue driving. This references the incident in this episode.
- The Dutch title of this episode is "Wachten op de bus," which means "Waiting For The Bus."
- The bus stop sign reads "BUZ" with a "Z" at the end instead of an "S" at the end. The vending machine sign has a K replacing the C, and the N is backwards.
- The buttons that SpongeBob press are A-B-E-F-A-C-F-E-C for a Kelp Nougat Crunch.
- The Fiery Fist O' Pain can be briefly seen when SpongeBob and Patrick leave Glove World, although it is called new in the later episode, "Roller Cowards."
- Rock Bottom is one of the few cities in the series besides Bikini Bottom. You can see more here.
- Rock Bottom and Glove World together appear years later in SpongeBob's Boating Bash.
- This episode marks the first mentioning of Grandpa SquarePants, when SpongeBob imitates him, however his first actual appearance (in a thought bubble) is in "The Sponge Who Could Fly."
- Rock Bottom later appears in Employee of the Month video game.
- The citizens of Rock Bottom are based on deep sea animals, and Rock Bottom is apparently a deep sea trench.
- The ninety-degree slope is probably meant to be a continental slope.
- There is an online game based on this episode called Bikini Bottom or Bust.
- In Croatian dub, the episode name is "Dno Dna" or "Bottom Floor
- When SpongeBob says the extreme darkness is "advanced darkness," it's accurate, since Rock Bottom is a deep sea trench, and it's too far below the surface for light to reach.
- Running Gags: Whenever SpongeBob sees a bus and tries to run up to it, it quickly drives off and Nat getting hit with a balloon.
- SpongeBob apparently left his glove hat behind when he returned to Bikini Bottom.
- Although Rock Bottom only appears in one episode, it appears as a stage location in many SpongeBob video games.
- This episode inspired the 2008 roller coaster, SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge, at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.
- This episode premiered on Dee Snider's 45th birthday.
- This episode, along with "Arrgh!," as well as "Valentine's Day/The Paper," rarely airs on the British Nicktoons.
- Due to the text seen, and the strange accent, it is possible that Rock Bottom uses a different language then the normal english accent and language.
- This is the only episode to date that ends with a bubble transition.
- On the old Nickelodeon website, this episode was falsely listed as "The Bus."
Cultural references
- This episode is similar to Stephen King's short story, "Crouch End."
- The clock at the bus station has a red and white design that resembles a Poké Ball from Pokémon.
- At the beginning of the episode when SpongeBob says, "Another funtastic day at Glove World," his lips don't move when he says, "Glove World."
- If you play frame-by frame when SpongeBob and Patrick are boarding the bus, SpongeBob's right arm is missing, but appears for a brief moment.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick get on the bus from "Glove World," SpongeBob doesn't have fifty cents for bus fare. But, when SpongeBob is in Rock Bottom, he is seen putting two coins that read "25" on them in a candy bar vending machine.
- When the bus heads toward Rock Bottom, SpongeBob says, "I think we're on the wrong--AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!--bus!," but the captions exclude it and just say bus. However, Nickelodeon UK kept the original captions.
- When SpongeBob screams "Fish paste!," the original captions read "Fish face!" However, Nickelodeon UK kept the original captions.
- SpongeBob says "Mmmmmmmm... Kelp Nougat Crunch." when looking at the vending machine, but the original captions say "Mmmmmmmm... Kelp Nugget Crunch." However, Nickelodeon UK kept the original captions.
- When SpongeBob looks at the vending machine, it is facing him. But when he is choosing the candy he wants, it is facing the opposite side of the road that's at a 90 degree angle.
- When SpongeBob told Patrick "50¢," Patrick said "Nope" (he does not even have that much money). Regular closed captions excluded Patrick's line, and it is a little hard to hear it.
- When SpongeBob is yelling at the man at the bus station, a sign that reads "Information" can be seen above the window. But, when the lights shut off, the sign disappears.
- In this episode, SpongeBob notices that his shoe is untied and ties it, however, in a future SpongeBob episode, "Your Shoe's Untied," he has forgotten how to tie his shoes and mentions that his shoes haven't been untied since SpongeBob was an egg. It is possible "Rock Bottom" took place after this episode.
- When they arrive there is no candy machine.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick get on the bus, there is a fish sleeping on one of the seats but, when they arrive at Rock Bottom, he is gone.
- The information fish says that the next bus left in five seconds, But it came and went, that means that was only one second (although bus schedules aren't always reliable)
- When SpongeBob was looking for a bus schedule, he had his balloon,but when he was chasing after the bus the balloon was not in his hands. Then in the next scene he had his balloon again.
- When SpongeBob tries to find a way out after seeing the weird creatures exiting the bathrooms, he has his glove balloon. But when running for the bus that Patrick had entered, the balloon is gone.
- When SpongeBob is first seen dialing the letters on the candy machine, the sign titled "BUZ" disappears. It reappears in the next scene.
- When SpongeBob chases the bus (after pushing the candy bar like a pedal) his running animation shows him running forwards. However, he actually runs to the side.
- When SpongeBob throws his glove hat on the ground, it disappears a bit later.
- When SpongeBob was at the bus station in the dark, he had his glovelight. When he left the bus station and started heading toward the cliff, the glovelight was gone.
- When Patrick tells SpongeBob "The bus is here!" he somehow had the 50¢ needed to ride the bus even though, he had already told SpongeBob he had no money.
- When the cardboard SpongeBob was at the candy machine, it does not appear smiling, but when it falls, it is.
- Instead of the tumbleweed being red, it is green in this episode.
- When SpongeBob was walking across the street back to the vending machine, he was looking behind him if the bus came, but SpongeBob actually was looking at where he was standing at.
- When the red fish blew up SpongeBob's balloon, he said it had enough AIR. However, they live underwater.
- When the bus stops in Rock Bottom, the bubbles behind it freeze in mid-air.
- When SpongeBob eats his glove candy he spits out right next to him, but when he comes back from trying to get a candy bar, it disappears.
- When SpongeBob notices his shoes are untied, the shoe laces are black, compared to the normal white.
- The distance between the bus stop and when the road goes up, varies between scenes.
- When SpongeBob falls asleep while waiting in line at the bus station, it shows a clock that has two "3"s on it.
- Thaddeus' arms look shorter.
- At the end of the episode when SpongeBob's balloon popped, pieces of it were laying on the ground but in the next shot, the pieces were gone.
- The storyboard artists are not credited in this episode. Only the storyboard directors are credited.
- When SpongeBob is chasing after the bus Patrick is in, the exit in Rock Bottom is a greater distance away than it was in the prior scenes.
- In one scene when SpongeBob is sneaking up on the bus, his holes are missing.
- In the bus station, when the lights turn off, the !ИFθRNNA|-'iθИَ sign dissapears, a few scenes later, it reappears.
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