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Jeans Reign Supreme at Nashville Denim Days Festival
This Saturday and Sunday Music City will host first-ever Nashville Denim Days Festival
Notable designers, brands and artisans will be on-hand to help attendees learn about the industry via hands-on workshops and demonstrations, indigo art installations, pop-up shops and more. Heralded musician Nikki Lane, a fashionista and denim devotee, will headline the performance stage. She'll also be selling vintage wares from her beloved store High Class Hillbilly. Cult-followed brand imogene + willie will be in attendance and host a party to commemorate the event. TENCEL ™ branded fibers by Lenzing is the title sponsor of the festival.
"We participated in Denim Days in New York, and I've attended Denim Days in Amsterdam before," says Tricia Carey, TENCEL's Director of Global Business Development. "We wanted to take on a bigger role in the Denim Days Festival because we wanted to have a stronger connection to the consumer."
Visitors can expect a visual experience showing how TENCEL™ goes from trees to denim. The goal is to help the consumer understand what the product is and the value behind buying products that incorporate the fibers. For the event, TENCEL™ is creating a festival shop stocked with garments using its fiber. Featured brands include 3X1, Mavi, Reformation, Godfather of Denim and more.
TENCEL™ fibers are produced from sustainably sourced raw wood. The fibers are manufactured using an environmentally responsible production process. Composed of natural material, TENCEL™ fibers are biodegradable and compostable and can fully revert back to nature.
The fibers enhance the aesthetics and functionality of fabrics and can be combined with a wide range of other textile fibers.
"You can make a really soft, sustainable, strong fabric from trees, and you can have it in a variety of different looks," Carey says. "We really want to show the whole lifestyle behind what TENCEL™ denim represents."
The Denim Talks Speaker Series will feature Q&As, panels, and lectures geared towards jean aficionados. The schedule includes topics like pursuing a fashion career in Nashville and strategies from social influencers.
Noted author and philanthropist Buddy Teaster will give a lecture on the intersection of social enterprise, poverty, and the fashion industry. Panelist Sarah Bellos of Stony Creek Colors, makers of bio-based dyes, will be indigo-dying bandanas for festival-goers. Embroiderer Matt Davidson of Ranger Stitch will be onsite to custom embroider denim for attendees. Atelier & Repairs, a brand built around the idea of transforming the forgotten, is partnering with Belmont University on a T-shirt challenge, asking students to transform $5 t-shirts into garments of their own design.
The winner will receive a mentorship with Atelier & Repairs creator Maurizio Donadi. Effortlessly cool fashion brand Madewell will be on hand to present its "Blue Jeans Go Green" initiative, which allows guests to recycle their old jeans in exchange for $20 towards a new pair of Madewell dungarees.
Nashville Denim Days is a festival for die-hard denim fans, fashionistas, music lovers, and foodies alike. The action-packed, two-day schedule includes an outdoor denim bazaar, pop-up shops, food trucks, festival games, musical entertainment and more.
"It's a nice atmosphere to talk about how the product is made and the art and craft behind denim," Carey says.
Mayor Briley will officially sanction November 10 and 11 as Nashville Denim Days. To commemorate the event, the city will paint the town blue by lighting up the Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge.


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The Disease
When a man's promiscuous, it's considered eminently natural. When a woman is, it must be because she's damaged goods with low self-esteem and daddy issues. But, with sincere apologies to all the confident, self-aware, high-libido women out there, Jean Davis really is damaged goods with low self-esteem, and she defiantly acts out by sleeping around a lot. Or rather, she did in her twenties when she was a university student in Ontario.
One of her partners was a handsome young man named James Blaine who had, until two days before meeting Jean, been a homely middle aged man. He happened to be putting the cap back on the gas tank of his truck when "Model T" Ford walked up, slapped him, and drove off in Blaine's vehicle. Blaine was completely unable to describe his attacker or, more frustrating still, his own truck. But when he woke up the next morning as a strapping six-foot Adonis, it salved the sting. He immediately set out for Ontario and started flirting with the first college cutie he could see. It was Jean.
Jean didn't understand that she'd slept with a superhero. (Or supervillain. Or perhaps most accurately, super-manslut.) Her own powers were subtle and it took more than twelve months for her to wonder about one of her former flames, a friend-with-privileges named Craig Yucelo who'd moved away to Montreal. As she was idly contemplating him, she found herself sharing his thoughts. She blinked, and tried again. This time, she was looking through his eyes and feeling his sensations as he sat stuck in traffic. When she considered how nice it would be to hear from him, the idea stuck. He called her that night.
Jean had made herself Patient Zero for a sexually-transmitted psychic disease, and she's the only one with access to the network of infected minds that spread, slowly, through Canada and the United States.
Lineage: Amanda Sykes - Lyndon Johnson - J. Edgar Hoover - Tyler Ford - James Blaine
Power Level: Tier Six
Offspring: Edmund Moore, David Cowles, Evan Moore and two others
Personality: At first, reckless, defiant and self-centered. Later on, haughty, manipulative and self-centered.
Values: Feminism, Personal Aggrandizement
Known Powers
- Jean is the genesis of a psychic disease called Sclarosis Maxilliae which spreads through fluid exchange, especially sexual contact.
- Those infected by the disease are subject to Jean's ability to Read Minds and Plant a Notion.
- She also has a Last-Ditch Escape which allows her to possess someone infected with Sclarosis Maxilliae.

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September 11, 2008
FTZs Prove Complex for Many Tenants
By Kari Hamanaka
With real estate owners working hard to distinguish their international distribution center site from the next industrial complex, achieving foreign trade zone status is becoming an attractive marketing tool to hire industrial users. However, more real estate owners are finding it pays to go the extra step in assisting users with site activation.
San Diego-based The Allen Group recently completed a 500,000-square-foot, three-building complex in the Midstate 99 Distribution Center in Visalia. The distribution center is within a foreign trade -zone granted to the Merced Counly Board of Supervisors. And while the developer markets the fact that Midstate 99 and its logistics park, the International Trade and Transportation Center in Shafter, are within foreign trade zones, few tenants at either project have activated their sites.
"We do have lots of tenants, and we have exposed them to the benefits [of an FTZ] and had only a few express interest in pursuing it," said Larry Montgomery, director of development for Central California at The Allen Group. There seems to be the need for an education process to make people aware of the benefits."
Those benefits include duty and tariff relief for importers and exporters, but simply moving to an industrial park within a foreign trade zone is not enough to gain those incentives. Individual users must go through the process of activating their site, which involves a business background check and review by U.S. Customs. The entire process takes an average of six months to complete.
Although owners of real estate see the value of being within an FTZ, users may be a little slower to adopt that same belief. "It's a marketing niche for industrial users," said Jon Cross, director of marketing at The Allen Group. "If you don't have foreign trade zone status in your [industrial] park, it's one less entity that you could lose a deal on."
For the most part, Cross finds that prospective tenants will ask about the FTZ status of a property, but mainly as a precautionary measure should they decide to go ahead with activation in the future.
A 177-acre portion of the Tejon Industrial Complex, at Tejon Ranch, is in an FTZ. The complex is partially in Kern County, an area many have begun to refer to as the "Golden Empire" projected to be the next area to experience a new wave of industrial development after the Inland Empire because it is central to the ports and has cheap land. Therefore, being within a foreign trade zone would only seem to be icing on the cake for importers or exporters locating in that region.
"People have really started to recognize outbound efficiencies obtained by locating in Kern County," said Barry Hibbard, vice president of commercial and industrial marketing at Lebec-based Tejon Ranch Co., "and also the fact that you have dual port -access bringing products from Long Beach and Oakland. You also have great eastbound access of the [State Route] 58, and most people don't get that at first until you show them."
Clayco Ina recently purchased 23.75 acres in the Tejon Industrial -Complex for me development of a build-to-suit warehouse facility for Famous Footwear. The site is located within the FTZ established by a joint venture of Tejon and the Rockefeller Group Development Corp. The two companies also partnered to develop a 606,000- square-foot industrial facility completed in February in the Tejon Industrial Complex.
Clayco's acquisition is what Hibbard described as a supply chain move to be more responsive to the market. Famous Footwear currently has distribution centers in Wisconsin and Tennessee.
A 350,000-square-foot distribution building will be constructed at Tejon for the shoe company, with additional room for a possible expansion.
While 177 acres of the Tejon Industrial Complex received FTZ status after a two-year-long application process, IKEA Wholesale Inc. is the only subzone at Tejon to date that has activated its site to benefit from being within the FTZ, which is an extension of the FTZ granted to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners.
According to Hibbard, FTZ site activation is an untapped market for so many different reasons. However, it is the consensus among industrial developers, brokers and FTZ consulting companies that there is a lack of education and proper marketing to make companies aware of the benefits of a foreign trade zone.
"It is rather technical to quantify the benefits," Hibbard said. This is not something a real estate broker would be able to do, and ifs not something I would recommend developers do."
Additionally, the process to activate a site within a foreign trade zone can be an arduous one with various levels of bureaucracy involved.
Douglas Burr of Visalia-based Burr Commercial is the marketing broker on the Midstate 99 Distribution Center in Visalia and said properties in FTZs do not command higher rents than non-FTZ sites.
"It's just an extra amenity that allows a company to locate somewhere," he said.
Though Burr said tenants do ask about FTZ status, he thinks it will become more of an issue in die future as more products are produced overseas.
Not Just Another Amenity The question facing real estate owners and consultants is how to get users to see beyond the FTZ as just another amenity alongside higher dock doors or secured parking.
At the Tejon Industrial Complex, Brandi Hanback, managing director of Rockefeller Group Foreign Trade Zone Services, said Rockefeller and Tejon are more involved in making sure companies understand the benefits.
"We're implementing FTZ packets where we're delivering the benefit," Hanback said. "We have an in-house consulting division that works to get land designated and works to help users of real estate activate zones. We take them through the process to go through U.S. Customs; ifs not just us telling them. That's the difference between a successful zone and one that's not"
It is not just in California that a little more guidance is in order. The need to educate real estate owners and users is nationwide.
At the national level, less than half of the appraised FTZs are activated, Hanback said. There are 18 designated foreign trade zones in the state, evenly dispersed between Northern and Southern California, with 33 companies having activated subzone status.
Hanback said what is often the case is that real estate owners will seek FTZ status because they presume it will be beneficial, but they lack the expertise to market it correctly to users.
"A lot of times, they think competitively that because someone else may have [FTZ status], they have to have it, but they can't address how it will be used unless they understand how it will benefit them," Hanback said.
The lack of understanding is what has allowed for the emergence of third-party companies such as ITC-Diligence Inc., headquartered in Seal Beach. ITC activated itself as a foreign trade zone operator at Global Access, the multimodal facility at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville. The 8,500-acre project is being developed by Stirling Capital Investments in partnership with the city of Victorville.
ITC offers other businesses at Global Access the option of operating under FTC as an activated site. ITC then monitors the companies and provides oversight. As a result, David R. Harlow, of ITC, said business participants are able to see the financial and logistical benefits of activating their FTZ site without having to go through the process alone.
Chris Webb, director of leasing and sales for Stirling, said industrial users do need the additional guidance when it comes to navigating foreign trade zones and activation.
"In my experience, ifs a benefit to reach out [to users]," he said. There is some level of bureaucracy and paperwork to go through, but there are professionals that can walk a corporation through that. It's not the major focus of many companies coming to an FTZ, so they're not set up to go through the paperwork."
Prego Inc. is the only participant of FTC's program at Global Access. While the program provides the service on a short-term basis, Harlow said Prego is participating on a long-term basis because of a preexisting relationship with ITC. Generally, the company recommends participants activate their site within a year from signing up to use FTC as a foreign trade zone operator.
"We then step out of the picture, but we are in the background to provide them with minor management oversight such as third party audit spot checks with customs and filing their annual reports," Harlow said. "We're just no longer the actual activated operator [for them]." ITC also is activated at industrial centers in the City of Industry and Palm Springs, doing most of its work in the Inland Empire and Imperial Valley.
"When we started this [business] five years ago, the one thing we realized in the Victor Valley region is that there's a significant lack of education on the program," Harlow said. "It wasn't that people didn't want to use the program; they just didn't know about it"
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NERD NITE: Alton Brown, everyone's favorite food-science nerd, has just published his second volume of collected recipes, Good Eats 2: The Middle Years. He'll discuss the tome with another popular nerd, John Hodgman, fresh off his puzzling gig providing voice-over non sequiturs at the Emmy Awards. (FYI: In case you didn't get tickets to the now-sold out NYT Talk with Brown this weekend, here's your chance to see him for free). Barnes & Noble Union Square, 7PM.
NIGHTMARE: The Black Cat (1934) marks the first onscreen pairing of horror legends Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and what an odd pairing it is: In the underground chambers of a Hungarian castle, the play an architect and psychiatrist angling for the souls of a honeymooning American couple. Part of the Closely Watched Films series at 92Y Tribeca, who describe the film as "a bizarre tale of revenge, obsession, cat-phobia, necrophilia, ritual murder, glass-encased women, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chess." (Is that all?). 7:30PM.
TOP CHEFS: Eat Drink Local Week, the brainchild of the Edible magazine group and GrowNYC, wraps tonight with the Third Annual Taste of Greenmarket, an epic eating event at the Altman Building. In keeping with the fest's core theme, sustainable, local ingredients will abound at tasting stations, helmed by a who's who of NYC chefs and mixologists--from April Bloomfield (Spotted Pig) and Tom Colicchio (Craft) to Bill Telepan (Telepan) and Dan Barber (Blue Hill), and many more, with proceeds going to The Greenmarket Youth Education Project. Come hungry. 6PM (VIP); 7PM (general admission).
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I've spent well over a year of my life travelling in total, from short vacays, to study abroads, to being an expat living in another country. It's actually probably much closer to a couple years of being in a foreign country. From that time away, I've definitely learnt my fair share when it comes to travel. Over the course of those couple of years, I've picked up various travel tips, some which have stayed and others haven't. However, the #1 thing that has helped my travel experience more than anything else may surprise you. It's not about saving money on flights and accommodation. It has nothing to do with packing, being efficient, or travel hacking. In fact, it's simply a small alteration I made for myself, that has since changed my entire time travelling for the better:
Intermittent Fasting. Aka skipping breakfast.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the term/practise/approach/whatever you want to call it, you can learn more about it via the man who got me started on it, JMax Fitness.
Of course, the actual practise of intermittent fasting can vary significantly from person to person. For me, it means not eating until lunch, or whenever I get hungry (usually around noon hour). But I wasn't always this way. In fact, up to last August, I had never skipped breakfast in my entire life. Let that sink in a moment. The very first thing I did every single morning was eat. And if I even waited ten minutes, my stomach would rumble uncontrollably, and the longer I waited I would start to shake. Essentially, I was completely nonfunctioning until I had food in my belly. The way I started my mornings seemed to dictate the rest of my day. When I started getting hungry throughout the day, I would need to stop what I was doing right that second, and eat. There was no stopping the hunger pangs, or even prolonging them, and my mind couldn't focus and my vision blurred.
Although my need to eat the very second I got hungry faired just fine in an everyday office setting, this pattern proved rather difficult while travelling. It actually put a damper on my travels, as a good chunk of my time was spent in search of something to eat to ensure I wouldn't get hangry. It even affected the people I was travelling with. When my boyfriend first started intermittent fasting a few years ago, I scoffed. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Or so we were made to believe (mostly by those large cereal companies, whom influence a lot more than you may think). But besides the well-known "fact", I just could not even fathom the thought of going the morning without eating. So I dubbed the fad 'not for me', and after reading this post on the consequences of fasting with women, I was further convinced.
However, when I moved abroad last year, and started travelling quite often, I realised my experiences were impaired by my immediate need for food at any point in the day. When we'd stay in hotel, or apartment, the first thing I needed to do when I woke up was eat breakfast. Which meant running out the door in search of the nearest food joint. On top of all this, I was pretty particular about what I ate, preferring a good protein & vegg meal than some carb-loaded pastry. This made it even more difficult, as healthier food are tough to get a hold of, especially in a foreign country.
My usual healthy breakfast options: Egg Muffins + Low Carb Granola
My big break actually came accidentally. I became quite sick last summer, and awoke without feeling the need to eat immediately. As I got better, I kept it up, slowly but surely. I started eating breakfast an hour after waking. Then two. Soon, I could go the entire morning, a good 5 or 6 hours without eating and without impairing how I functioned. In fact, I become more productive, better focused, and happier. I now controlled my hunger, and it didn't control me.
Our first trip (staying in a hotel without breakfast) after I started fasting was daunting. But it proved the easiest trip yet, and after that I was hooked on intermittent fasting. It has completely changed my life and how I travel. Food is no longer the priority for the entire day (although I still love it!). I now just eat whenever I want, whenever is convenient for me. If we're spending the day hiking and there isn't a restaurant nearby, no problem. It's way more convenient while travelling as well, as once we head out of the door of our hotel, instead of wasting time on a lengthly breakfast, we head straight to the sights or whatever we may be doing that day. It's made travelling, and life in general, all the more enjoyable!


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Join us in the Handmade Hub
Sat 30 & Sun 31 May, 8.30am – 5pm
Michael Fowler Centre, Free entry
Join us at the Handmade Hub for your share of creative ideas, good conversations and the opportunity to purchase from independent New Zealand creators.
Open to the public, the Handmade Hub includes a market, exhibition space, pop-up cafe as well as the Holland Road Knit Lounge and Nancys Finishing Space. The hub will be open all weekend with experts on hand to give you tips and guidance on your last finishing touches.
After a spot to wind down? The Hub provides a community space for all Handmade attendees – meet with your fellow makers for a cuppa and something to eat while you discover what else has been made throughout the day.
Handmade Night Market
Sat 30 May, 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Michael Fowler Centre, Free entry
Meet the makers behind some of our workshops and buy yourself some New Zealand made products from independent designers.
Immerse yourself in making with the Maker Exhibition and enjoy a few edible treats to keep you going while you shop away. We'll see you there!
If you are a business interested in joining the Handmade Night Market or Hub, please visit this page


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Successfully SOLD by Jason Martin - 0411 497 355
Privately positioned on the northern side of this quality building is a wonderful two bedroom apartment offering modern open plan living spaces complimented by a great kitchen with large servery and breakfast bar.
Both bedrooms and lounge area have direct access to the large north facing balcony.
There is a modern bathroom plus large internal laundry.
Privacy is enhanced by established gardens and trees around the apartment. The apartment is in an extremely well constructed security building with security basement parking.
A great property offering a convenient location and modern lifestyle.
A perfect investment or place to call home.
Jason Martin 0411 497 355
Council Rates: $1,338.30 pa
Water Rates: $688 pa
Strata Levies: $571.82 pq
Area: 122 m2 approx
DISCLAIMER: The information in this media has been furnished to us from sources we believe to be reliable. We have not verified whether or not the information is accurate and do not have any belief one way or the other in its accuracy. We do not accept any responsibility to any person for its accuracy and do no more than pass it on. All interested parties should make their own inquiries in order to determine whether or not this information is in fact accurate. All measurements, distances and areas are approximate only.
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Learned the Hard Way
Experience is a good teacher, but bad experience is a better teacher.
Life's Learning Curve
After particularly unpleasant encounters, people sometimes say, "I guess it was a learning experience." Everything is a learning experience if only you are aware of your ignorance. It's only when you forget your ignorance that you encounter difficulty due to the false presumption of knowledge about your current situation.
Theme & Variations
Once, when I was a young man, I got out of a crowded Manhattan subway at night. All the commuters went up the right staircase. Separating myself from the herd, I went up the left stairway all alone. . . and got pistol-whipped and mugged. The rest of my life has been a variation on that theme.
In-Tuition of Nature
Nature's first lessons are taught with pain and pleasure. Once these are learned – if ever – then she whispers the secret of communion and fidelity. After a long apprenticeship, she secretly bestows her creative power, indicating graduation. This is done unceremoniously and the only rewards she offers for such a rare accomplishment is delight in poetic pain.
Announcing the inaugural lecture series of the Castalia Cultural Center:
When: Tuesday evenings (6pm – 7pm) beginning September 16, 2014 (First Lecture Series is consists of 5 lectures – one every Tuesday, unless otherwise noted.)
Where: 1318 Beacon Street, Suite 15, Brookline, MA 02446
Who: Jason Giannetti
What: "Homer to Aristotle: Ancient Greek Education and Philosophy and Their Counterfeits"
Cost: $10/lecture, $50 for the entire series
Space is limited, so register early.
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Capacity planning for the data warehouse (and by extension your big data applications) requires care and accuracy, mostly because these systems usually account for the majority of storage media occupied by enterprise IT systems. Storage capacity encompasses more than merely the disk storage used to store operational and analytical data; it also includes backup media used for file and database recovery, temporary files and databases used to store intermediate data, extracts from IT systems to peripheral data marts for local analysis, and any requirements of specific hardware devices. These last include things like redundant disk arrays and disk mirroring for performance or disaster planning.
Consider an operational system (e.g. product sales) that generates ten megabytes (10 MB) of transactional data per day. This data may be stored in a disk array in a redundant form that allows the data to be re-constructed even if a small number of hardware elements fail. Production data is, upon entry or update, also sent to a "mirrored" set of redundant disk drives at a secondary site for disaster recovery purposes. The total amount of disk space used is now 20+ MB.
DBAs may implement table and database backups for multiple uses, including local data recovery and for use by applications (which can read the backups rather than accessing and locking production data). We're at 30+ MB. DBAs also plan for various database utilities such as reorganizations, which require work files for sorting. It is also common to maintain multiple copies of (current) production data in several locations for performance purposes. Finally, daily copies of the data are stored and retained in the data warehouse and big data applications.
In summary, for every megabyte of data stored in operational systems you must plan for about three to five that amount of storage for current use and much more for historical storage and analysis.
It therefore behooves the DBA and systems support staff to automate the capacity planning process. Since warehouse and big data are such a large part of capacity, I will concentrate on automation of their analysis.
Automating Capacity Planning
Information about how "big" a database or table is exists in several places, and with different measures! For example, a data file from an operational system arrives for load into the data warehouse with a file size of 10MB. Because the data is in display format (character, numeric) rather than in internal format, Db2 data compression can reduce the in-database size of the data to 5MB.
But there's more. Db2 data tables are stored in VSAM files with a 4K or 32K block size. If the row size (compressed) for the table is 3500 bytes, about 500 bytes on each 4K page is wasted. In addition, tablespaces can be formatted to contain regular amounts of empty space (called freespace and free pages) in order to increase performance of insert and delete activity. The net effect is that 10MB of data compresses to 5MB of raw data, but requires (say) 6MB of disk space. Also, VSAM files are allocated in blocks called extents that are initially empty. Hence, our 6MB of data may be stored in a dataset of (currently) size 10MB.
But wait, there's more. Most tables have one or more indexes. This increases disk space allocation. Some table spaces exist in a partitioned form wherein there are separate datasets for specific sets of rows, perhaps by date range (e.g., one partition for each month).
In order to do capacity planning properly, develop a method of measuring current disk space usage at the operating system / file system level. This separates the "how much data do we have" question from the "how much disk storage are we allocating / using" question. It is this second question that is more important, since you pay for the storage you have allocated.
First, review the items mentioned above for possible inefficiencies in disk usage. Measures on average row size, amount of existing free space, disk space allocated and used are available from various system and vendor utilities. Create processes to regularly report on these items, including top ten lists of tables, tablespaces, indexes and files with "wasted" space. Creating these processes, reviewing the results and making changes are good training for new DBAs.
Next, report regularly on disk space allocated and used by object and database and store this information in a table for analysis and forecasting. Include indicators for tables that are replicated to other sites, the type of table (fact table, dimension table, operational table), etc. This allows for a more detailed analysis of what collections of data are growing at what rate.
Next, include in your report information on current and future stale data purges. For example, a data warehouse table that is designed to retain data for seven years will, after seven years, stop growing if old data is purged.
Finally, analyze your future needs for disaster recovery. Most data warehouse and big data applications were implemented with no expectation that they would be required if a disaster occurred. However, nowadays many of these applications are used in conjunction with operational systems for making business decisions; that is, they became mission-critical. This may catch IT by surprise, in the sense that you "suddenly" need massive amounts of data storage in your disaster recovery site to hold warehouse and big data copies, as well as requiring a high-speed network to replicate production data to that site. Otherwise, you would not be able to recover your big data application or data warehouse after a disaster.
In the next blog entry I will cover automating big data analytics support.


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105 Survey of Physical Sciences
Prerequisite: minimum ACT Mathematics score of 19 or "C" or better in Math 110
Offered: Fall and Spring
4 credit hours
Laboratory course in physics and the earth sciences. Intended primarily for non-science majors. Three lecture hours and two lab hours.
110 Science of Energy and Environmental Problems
Prerequisite: ACT Math sub-score of 17 or Math 100
Offered: Fall and Spring
4 credit hours
This course applies the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, mathematics, meteorology, climatology and geology to understanding fundamental energy and environmental problems facing mankind today. Basic physical science is focused on current controversies that should concern an education person. An emphasis will be placed on gathering information from current resources and explaining that information to a lay audience. Topics covered may include acid rain, climate change, automobile emissions, and conventional an alternate energy sources. Three lecture hours an two lab hours per week.


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Price guides Connecticut past Ole Miss
Hartford, CT (Sports Network) – A.J. Price poured in a game-high 23 points to
lead 21st-ranked Connecticut past Ole Miss, 77-59, in the Hispanic College
Fund Classic at Hartford Civic Center.
Price finished 9-of-13 from the field and dished out four assists while Jerome
Dyson scored 16 points for the Huskies (4-0), who never trailed in the second
Jeff Adrien added 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Marcus Johnson
contributed 10 points in the win.
Bam Doyne led the Rebels (4-1) with 16 points on 7-of-17 shooting. Clarence
Sanders and Todd Abernethy each scored 13 points in the loss.
Ole Miss was a dismal 35 percent (24-for-69) from the floor.
Leading by one with 8:34 remaining, UConn went on a 22-7 burst to finish the
first half with a 39-23 advantage. Price led the charge with 11 points in the
frame while the Huskies shot 45 percent from the floor.
The Rebels were never a threat to UConn in the second half as they could only
get as close as 14 when Abernethy drained a three early on.
Game Notes
The game marked the first ever meeting between the two schools…UConn shot 50
percent from three-point range…Ole Miss committed eight turnovers to UConn's


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They heard the museum was haunted! Undaunted,
They brought their equipment, to see for themselves.
Recorders and other such get-up were set up
Midst Indian artifacts filling the shelves
You might, given that's what your choice is, hear voices
In fuzzy recordings and that sort of thing
The noises they've heard may be ghostly, but mostly
They're steps on the way to the sound of "ka-ching"
"If tourists will hit the museum to see 'em
We'll say we saw ghosts, and we caught them on tape!
The suckers will love it! They'll line up, and sign up
For annual passes, their mouths all agape!
You want what we claim we've collected inspected?
The button to pay us securely is here!"
They'll show you—but first, take your money. It's funny;
Their ghosts are transparent; their motives are clear
Via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!'s daily news quiz, the story of a museum rumored to hold ghosts! So, who ya gonna call? Ok, failing them, who ya gonna call? The Tri-City Research and Investigation of the Paranormal team, that's who! (For the record, I'm one of those cuttlefish who recognizes that these whos should be whoms. And it bothers me to use the idiomatic "who" in this case.)
Anyway, don't bother with that last link–it's a pay site. Naturally. More on that below.
As for the museum itself…
Cheri Schrader, executive director of Platte County Historical Museum, said the team is welcome to return, if the historical society board approves.
While she's not convinced anything supernatural is present there, Schrader believes the possibility could be good for publicity.
"If it brings people in, that's good," she said, "and I hope it doesn't scare people away."
Hey, museums need publicity. Can't blame them too much. I'd like to see the publicity come from challenging the TRIP people, but if a group is giving me free publicity, that's a tough call to make.
Oh, and I suspect that the very notion of paying to see the evidence (as with the TRIP site) would influence viewers to interpret the recordings in accordance with the "paranormal" account. (via Aronson & Mills, 1959, for the science geeks.) Once you've shelled out your money for paranormal evidence, you want your money's worth, and will convince yourself that (in the words of one of the investigators) "There definitely is paranormal activity there. That's for sure."
How nice. Amateur ghost hunters have overturned centuries of physics, biology, and psychology. I expect they'll be getting a call from the Nobel people any day now.
(extra internet points to those who knew the parenthetical reference in the title)


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I just finished a book I really liked, one I had been meaning to read for a while, and I'm sad it's done. That's the hallmark of a good book, isn't it? That you're sad it's done? That you wish you could have lived with it and in it a little longer?
It feels like a relationship is over, and although there are many more books waiting in my "to read" shelf, I don't feel like moving on to a new relationship just yet. I keep thinking about what I learned. I also keep reveling in how nice it's been to actually read a book I bought because I was interested, and not something I have to read for class or for reviewing. (Although there I have been lucky, too, because most of the books I have read recently were books I was interested in myself.)
The book I just finished was Lynne Greenberg's The Body Broken, and I will write about it soon. But first I need a few days to be wistful, and a few days to gather my thoughts.


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JWT Tutorial FirstProcess
Here we show how you start out if you're completely new to JWT.
Creating your first JWT process
At the beginning we have to create a new process ("File", "New -> Other…", "JWT Workflow Tooling" -> "New Workflow model"). After selecting the target project and the filename of the workflow, the name of the main package and the model as well as the author and version information can be specified.
You can also select whether JWT should already create a basic structure of packages for you including one for applications, one for roles and one for data or whether you would like to structure your processes alone.
In the next window we can select whether we want to import some external data or applications from existing templates. Existing templates make it much easier for you to reuse information that you have stored once for another process model. In our example we have already specified some external applications and external data which can be reused for this process model. This template is not necessary for the further reading of this document, it shall only describe what would be possible with JWT WE.
The overview page which appears when opening the file shows the already added information (such as author, name of the workflow or version number) as well as the name of the current workflow (Simple Process)
To edit the process steps, you need to go to the modeling tab "SimpleProcess":
To create your first process, you need an InitialNode at the beginning, a FinalNode at the end and at least one action in the middle. Connect these three elements with ActivityEdges and you'll get something similar to the following figure:
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This bust of Commodus is currently maintained by MK&G (the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe) in Hamburg, Germany.
These sculptures are an important way to study how the Roman Caesars appeared at the time of their rule. It is also a way to tell how they viewed themselves.
Here we see a bust of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (161-192 AD). Wearing the clothes of a commander tells us something about his political claim. This kind of costume displays, among other things, the symbol of his power.
Wearing a beard, Commodus wants to let people know that he is an educated man. The costume and his general appearance, however, do not tell us anything about the vices of this Roman ruler. His excessive way of life and rule led to his death, reportedly by murder, in 192 AD.
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Optimal Outcomes completed a 120,000 square foot medical office building located on the campus of Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The state of the art building offers an attached 650 spot structured parking deck as well as elevated connectors to Bayfront and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The second floor of the facility is Bayfront's Heart Center and Cath Lab. Additional specialties within the building include Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Pediatric Orthopedics, ENT, Perinatologists, and OB/GYN. The first floor includes a number of medical and retail establishments including Tropical Smoothie and AnuYou Institute.
Optimal Outcomes was approached after a deal with a national real estate REIT failed to consummate. Local physicians interested in the site made the referral after touring other Optimal projects.
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Back in January, we included reality TV warhorses Survivor and The Amazing Race on our list of reality franchises that needed to be benched. At the time, both shows deserved to make that list as they were each coming off career-worst seasons filled with boring characters (Brandon Hantz anybody?), unimaginative challenges (setting up beach umbrellas... really?!) and a general lack of tension. Rather than watch these once-great shows continue to stumble downhill, we felt it best for all concerned that they take a prolonged break and return when they had some fresh ideas up their sleeves. But surprise, surprise: ever since Survivor: One World and the 20th Amazing Race premiered in February, both shows have been back on their game. In fact, we actually find ourselves anticipating -- rather than dreading -- each new episode (for now, at least -- there's still plenty of time life for these seasons to go south, after all). Here are the notable changes we think have improved both shows:
We Actually Enjoy Watching (and/or Hating) the Contestants
We're not sure who deserves credit for lighting the fire under the CBS casting department, but a hearty thank you is owed to that person or persons because this new crop of Survivors and Racers has yielded some great characters. Over on Survivor, you've obviously got to go with Colton as the season's breakout star, even if his presence on the show was just cut short due an appendectomy scare. Granted, we'd never argue he was a likable personality, but his behavior generated plenty of drama around camp, drama that was largely absent last season amidst all the praying and whining. And even with Colton now out of the equation, Alicia is still around to make trouble, Tarzan and Kat are reliable sources for baffling/dumb utterances, that immunity idol discovery has made Kim and Chelsea a potentially dangerous duo and Christina is a fascinating contradiction -- a contestant who is probably smart enough to win it all, but can't quite seem to get her act together. And sure, there's still some dead weight around (sushi chef Jonah is entirely useless, while Troyzan is just a younger, duller version of Tarzan) but at least none of them is another Hantz relative. Depending on how the post-merge dynamics shake out, we could be looking at one of the most competitive endgames in a while.
While The Amazing Race doesn't have a Colton-sized villain, Big Brother vet Rachel is an easy person to root against (could she be the most irritating TAR contestant since Season 3's Flo?) as is her Mean Girl nemesis (and Kardashian clone) Vanessa. (We're also glad that those two clowns got eliminated early on. Sorry David and Cherie, you can't replace Jon and Al in our hearts.) And surrounding those two are some truly entertaining personalities, like good ol' boys Mark and Bopper and federal agents Nary and Jamie (though we still aren't sure why they thought that pretending to be teachers was a good strategy). Heck, we can even tolerate Rachel's teammate Brendon, whose only real flaw seems to be his taste in girlfriends. Good casting is the lifeblood of all TV shows and reality programming in particular. This time around, both series got it right.
Better Challenges, Better Locations
Okay, so the second half of this category applies more to TAR than Survivor, which returned to the same Samoan location they've already used for three of the past five editions. But the challenges have absolutely been more fun this season, maybe because none of them take place on Redemption Island, which has thankfully been relegated to the dustbin of Survivor history along with Jonny Fairplay and that Thailand season. The return of reward challenges has been a boon as well -- how good did that Survivor ice cream parlor look last week?
Meanwhile, last night's TAR had a particularly good Roadblock; while they were in Azerbaijan, contestants had to participate in a helicopter crash simulation, requiring them to escape from a submerged copter and swim to the surface. How do we know that's a great TAR challenge? Because we'd never in a million years want to pay to do it ourselves (ditto for the crude oil scrape at the subsequent Detour and that beard styling challenge on last week's episode). The destinations have been well-chosen as well, from Santa Bárbara, Argentina to Bavaria, Germany (home to that resplendent castle that inspired Sleeping Beauty's Disneyland abode) to Baku, Azerbaijan. We feel like we've really been seeing the world again instead of following the usual itinerary.
More Involved Hosts
Look, doing two of these shows a year can be tiring, we're sure. But TAR and Survivor always benefit when their longtime emcees Phil Keoghan and Jeff Probst actually seem invested in what's going on. Granted, Probst took a bit too much pleasure in needling the women during their losing streak, but the look on his face when Manono marched into Tribal Council instead of Salani was priceless and he handled the season's two medical emergencies nicely. The nature of the competition in TAR means that Keoghan doesn't get to mix it up with the contestants quite as much as his Survivor counterpart, but he seems genuinely invested in Bopper and Mark's success (given Bopper's sick daughter and all) and is almost as visibly put-off by Rachel as the rest of us. We knew he was a good judge of character.
All-Around Better Gameplay
As satisfying as it was to see Boston Rob finally win Survivor after a gazillion tries, bringing back old contestants proved to be a mistake because they too easily manipulated the new guard, throwing the game out of whack. Casting only first-timers and recycling the boys vs. girls twist has made the various inter-tribal strategies more fluid and interesting. Especially now that Colton is gone, nobody is clearly in charge of the game anymore and that always results lots of great (and boneheaded) moves. As for TAR, while Art and J.J. have been leading the pack in recent weeks, somehow all of the remaining teams feel evenly matched in their ability to tackle the challenges and clues they've been presented with. At this point, we could honestly see any one of them winning -- even Rachel and Brendon. (Hey, we didn't say we wanted them to win...)
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A new study has found that an I-V infusion of antibiotics in children could treat appendicitis, instead of surgery. Officials have made the option available at the Nationwide Children's Hospital, after the research was published in the journal JAMA surgery.
The study in the United States found that children who underwent treatment with antibiotics had better outcomes, compared to those who underwent surgery. The antibiotics worked in 28 of 37 children, with a success rate of 76 percent after one year. It was also found that those who had an ineffective regimen of antibiotics did not have complicated appendicitis. About 65 additional patients who were a part of the study, opted for immediate surgery.
"When chosen by the family, nonoperative management with antibiotics alone is an effective treatment strategy for children with uncomplicated appendicitis," wrote the authors.
Minneci, M.D, M.H.Sc., and Katherine J. Deans, M.D, M.H.Sc., of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, and her team studied the overall effectiveness of nonoperative management for acute uncomplicated pediatric appendicitis. Minneci said the antibiotic treatment is a reasonable treatment option to both kids and adults. But, the choice of treatment depends on what is best for the patient, she added.
Dr. Deans said that with surgery patients take time for recovery, pain and a five to ten percent risk of complications. But they don't have to worry about recurrences. The study authors found that patients with parents or guardians who spoke a primary language other than English were more likely to opt for antibiotic treatment. They consider surgery to be the last resort in Somali and other immigrant communities. Though appendicitis is more common in the second decade of life, it can occur at any age. Minneci thinks that the study can also be applied to adults. The authors have called for further study as some parents are concerned about appendicitis coming back.


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Move over Napa, because New York has some great wine regions of its own. The Finger Lakes, Hudson River Valley, Niagara, and Long Island all feature competitive wineries who create exceptional products. There's no longer a need to travel across the country to tour world-class vineyards: they're in our own backyard. Here's our list of New York's best vineyards:
This western New York vineyard located near Niagara Falls is one of the outstanding locales on the Niagara Wine Trail. The winery features 78 acres for private outdoor tastings at a spring-fed lake, perfect for a couples' escape or even a wedding if you're really serious! Spring Lake specializes in Rieslings, but they also have excellent Zinfandel, Merlot, and Chardonnay wines. The special feature of this vineyard is the vintage 1940's train you can board at the nearby town of Lockport to take a historical journey through the Niagara countryside and eventually stop at the winery for lunch. Website
Part of the distinguished Keuka Lake Wine Trail, Hunt Country is a true farm winery, family-owned and managed, producing an entire range of 24 wines. Open year round, the tasting room is bright and airy, and the wines you taste are always your choice. Since 2010, their wines have won over 20 major awards in competitions across the country. Best of all, you can enjoy a variety of entertainments at the vineyard if you're looking for a memorable excursion, including chamber music concerts, twilight picnics, dog walks, and the annual Harvest Festival. Website
This vineyard not only has an extensive and intriguing history to explore, but also a museum, art gallery, restaurant, and gift shops in which to wonder. The Bully Hill family philosophy of winemaking is to combine "wine with laughter", embodied in everything from their curious bottle labels to the boisterous personalities of their tour guides. Being one of the largest and oldest wine producers in the Finger Lakes region, Bully Hill blends an extensive professional knowledge of the craft with a very welcoming demeanor. Website
Jamesport Vineyards is a father-son collaboration that began in 1981 at Early Rising Farm in Cutchogue, New York, making Jamesport Vineyards one of the North Fork's oldest vineyards. Sixty acres of pristine vineyards are located here, with the majority of plantings include Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The high quality of our fruit is what gained Jamesport Vineyards a stellar reputation. We use only OUR own high-quality fruit for producing our award winning wines. Jamesport Vineyards is truly an estate winery. Website.
A recipient of Wine & Spirits Magazine's 2011 Winery of the Year, Red Newt focuses not only on crafting world-class wines, but to expertly pair them with locally sourced cuisine. There are several wine and food tastings at Red Newt to demonstrate this emphasis, including a designed three-course meal to bring out the best qualities of both food and wine. There are also weekly events to experience such as the Cooking Class Series where the chefs unveil some if the magic and teach some of their recipes to a small class. Website
Perched on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, Standing Stone is another must-stop on any Finger Lakes wine tour. Predominantly producing white wines, Standing Stone was the first winery to produce the newly recognized Saperavi wine in the USA after the grape variety was officially recognized. Tours of the vineyards can be unguided or with a guide, including a barrel cellar tour where you'll have the novel option to taste wine right out of the barrel! Website
Recognized as the oldest operating winery in the United States, this vineyard in the Hudson River Valley has been producing wine for nearly 200 years. Brotherhood features many specialty "spiced" wines including one flavored with ginseng, a May wine with sweet strawberry flavors, and a wine similar to mead made from wildflower honey. The gorgeous old-world styling and spaciousness of the winery grounds offers an excellent venue for weddings, corporate events, and dinners. A visit to Brotherhood is essential for any lover of wine. Website
Overlooking the crystal clear waters of Keuka Lake, The Dr. Konstantin Frank winery offers breath-taking views year round. Situated in the former home of Dr. Konstantin Frank, their main tasting room is both cozy and welcoming. Vast windows surround the tasting room, peeking out to beautiful Keuka Lake and some of the oldest vinifera vineyards in the United States. Visitors may also enjoy their newly constructed tasting room located directly next to our main tasting room with panoramic views of Keuka Lake. Website
The high vaulted ceilings, custom tasting bars, and expansive outdoor patio of Duck Walk give visitors a true Long Island Wine Country experience. You could consider this the "luxury" winery and tasting destination of this list, located in the heart of the Hamptons with quick access to all manor of resorts and leisure activities. Despite its surroundings, most of Duck Walk's award-winning wines can be purchased for under $15. Great for a economical, yet romantic date activity. Website
The philosophy of this winery has always been "quality over quantity", leading Paumanok Vineyards to produce wines of exceptional distinction. The winery is a renovated turn-of-the-century barn that houses a fermentation tank room and lab with a spacious tasting room built on top of the barrel cellar. Surrounded by an inviting deck overlooking the vineyards, the tasting room is the perfect setting for private parties and weddings. Paumanok also hosts a variety of special events open to the public throughout the year. Website


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Chicago –Concussions continue to be a hot topic in professional sports with greater emphasis placed on player safety and understanding of brain injuries. Leagues are adopting more rigid guidelines focused on taking injured players out of the game and keeping them sidelined until completely healed. As the message spreads that concussions should not be taken lightly, many experts are aiming to create a similar movement where the pros get their start: youth sports. With close to 7 million high school athletes in the United States and an estimated 140,000 concussions occurring among these students, the message of concussion safety is one that cannot be ignored.
"Children are at much greater risk for long term damage from concussions, particularly when repeat injuries are sustained," said Hunt Batjer, MD, chair of the department of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "A major misconception is that a player needs to lose consciousness to be considered concussed. In reality, the majority of concussions do not result in a complete black-out."
A concussion can occur anytime there's a hit to the head causing jarring or shaking that disturbs brain function. "The people on the field overseeing student athletes, coaches, trainers and team physicians, need to understand the serious nature of concussions and the importance of keeping kids out of the game when a brain injury is suspected," said Batjer, who also serves as co-chair for the National Football League's (NFL) Head, Neck and Spine committee.
To spread that message, Northwestern Medicine™, the shared vision of Northwestern Memorial and the Feinberg School, is hosting "Playing It Safe: Changing the Mindset Around Concussion Safety." The free educational symposium will take place on Wednesday, July 27, at Northwestern Memorial. Offered in partnership with the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), "Playing It Safe" aims to help athletic directors, coaches, trainers and youth sports volunteers understand the hard-hitting facts about concussions and plan for the new Illinois legislation that will protect athletes when teams begin playing this fall.
Attendees will hear experts in neurosciences, sports medicine and athletics discuss what happens to the brain when a concussion occurs, return to play guidelines, and why there's a need for a culture change in sports that eliminates pressure to play following a blow to the head. An overview of the new concussion legislation, including the role coaches, trainers and volunteers have in implementing those rules will also be provided. Chicago football Hall of Famer Dan Hampton will provide a keynote address.
"Athletes play with soreness all the time, but it's crucial to get the message out there that a hit to the head isn't the same as bumps and bruises to other parts of the body," said Michael Terry, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial, associate professor at the Feinberg School and head team physician for the Chicago Blackhawks and Northwestern University athletics. "Concussions are a very real concern for young athletes and repeat blows to the head can leave kids with lingering effects. The best protection is a coach, trainer or team physician who knows their players and is trained to recognize the signs of concussions and knows when to pull an athlete out of the game and keep him or her out until fully recovered."
The symposium will also teach coaches and trainers how to recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion, which can include: appearing dazed or stunned; confusion about an assignment or position; forgetting a play; uncertainty of game, score, or opponent; moving clumsily; answering questions slowly; losing consciousness (even briefly); behavior or personality changes; and the inability to recall events before or after a hit or fall. Each attendee will be provided a concussion toolkit that provides reference materials outlining signs and symptoms of a concussion, as well as return to play guidelines.
Athletes must be kept out of the game until fully recovered from a concussion. Returning to play prematurely puts children at risk for a disabling or fatal brain injury. "Second impact syndrome can occur when a second blow to the head happens prior to the child recovering from the initial concussion. This can cause the brain to swell rapidly, a serious medical emergency," explained Batjer. "The brain is more vulnerable to injury after the first hit, so even minimal force can cause serious, irreversible damage."
Kids take longer to recover from a concussion than adults; in some cases they may need to refrain from sports or physical activity for up to six weeks. "When recovering, resting the brain is vital," said Batjer. "That means no watching television, reading or surfing the internet. The injured child needs to sleep and remove stimuli while they are getting over a concussion."
Another message that the physicians hope to get across is that concussions can occur in any sport, even non-contact sports such as gymnastics or cheerleading. "We hear the most about concussions in games like football and hockey, but in reality these injuries can occur in any sport," said Terry. "Female athletes are actually more susceptible to concussions than their male counterparts. At the college level, the most concussions occur in women's soccer and ice hockey. There has to be a focus on safe play and protecting athletes across all sports."
Batjer and Terry will be among the panelists presenting at "Playing It Safe." Kurt Becker, former Chicago Bear and high school football coach; Adam Bennett, MD, sports medicine specialist; Tim Bream, MS, ATC, head athletic trainer, Chicago Bears; Daniel Derman, MD, president, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group; Sarah Edwards, MD, orthopaedic surgeon and team physician for Northwestern University; Kurt Gibson, associate executive director, IHSA; Thad Ide, senior vice president, research and product development, Riddell, Inc.; Carrie Jaworski, MD, head team physician for Northwestern University Athletics; and Amy Mayber, associate general counsel, Northwestern University.
"Participating in sports is a wonderful outlet for child development and certainly encourages healthy habits, but we need to instill the message that one game is not worth sacrificing your future," said Batjer. "Adults need to facilitate an environment of safe play. When a concussion is suspected, it's better to be safe than sorry. Take the player out and leave him or her out until a medical professional provides clearance to return."
"Playing It Safe" is a free event, but registration is required. To register, call 877-926-4664 or visit www.northwesternmedicine.org/playingitsafe.


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Carmelite Friars Assigned to Mount Carmel Center
Rev. Jorge Cabrera OCD, Superior
214-331-6224 ext. 101
Fr. Jorge (Cabrera) de María Inmaculada, is a Discalced Carmelite friar who belongs to the Oklahoma Province of St. Thérèse. He entered the Order in 2001, made his first religious profession on January 1st, 2003 and his solemn profession November 14, 2008. He received the sacrament of Holy Orders on June 12, 2009. He has a Masters Degree in Divinity from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and a Masters in Spiritual Theology with concentration on Carmelite spirituality from the Centro Internacional Teresiano Sanjuanista (CITeS) in Avila in conjunction with the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid, Spain.
Fr. Jenaro de la Cruz, OCD
Fr. Jenarao was ordained March 5, 1966. He has had a variety of assignments since arriving in Dallas in 1966. He has served at: St. Mary of Carmel, Dallas, Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dallas
Little Flower Church, Oklahoma City, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, San Antonio.
Fr. Jim Curiel, OCD
Fr Jim is from San Antonio, Texas. He joined the Discalced Carmelites there in 1988. He was ordained at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower in 1995. He has a BBA in Financial Management and an M. Div.
In Residence
Very Rev. Fr. Stephen Sanchez, O.C.D. , Provincial
Fr. Stephen Sanchez was elected Provincial of the Oklahoma Province of Discalced Carmelites in 2017. While he lives at Mount Carmel Center, his main responsibility is to the Province which requires him to travel often.Priestly Ordination: Basilica of St. Therese and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 1992. Advanced Studies in the Spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross at'Centro Internacional de Avila' in Avila, Spain 1992-3. Master of Divinity Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX 1992. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX 1987. Accepted into the Monastery of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in San Antonio 1983. Born and raised in San Antonio, TX. Attended Catholic Schools throughout academic life. Has a deep love for St. John of the Cross.
Mary Bellman
Administrative Assistant
214-331-6224 ext. 114


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Funnyman Jim Carrey is in talks to star in Loomis Fargo, an action-comedy flick based on real-life events centering on an armored car heist. The pic revolves around four dull-witted Southerners who managed to rob a Loomis Fargo armored car to the tune of $17 million. Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) will direct from a script in turns by Emily Spivey, then Danny McBride and Jody Hill, and finally Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer. Hit the jump for more on this project, including details on Carrey's potential character.
Variety reports that Carrey is in talks to star as Dave Ghant, a military vet and Loomis Fargo night guard who acts as the gang's ringleader. Relativity Media is in the process of acquiring rights to the picture, with Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn producing. In addition to Napoleon Dynamite, Hess has also directed Nacho Libre and Gentlemen Broncos. If you're a fan of (or at least familiar with) those films, you can take a good guess at the type of humor you should be expecting. Production on Loomis Fargo aims to start in North Carolina this coming April.
Carrey is currently filming director Jeff Wadlow's Kick-Ass sequel as Colonel Stars, a founding member of the vigilante team, Justice Forever, who recruits other would-be superheroes. The picture reunites original stars Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicolas Cage and Chloe Moretz. Newcomers Donald Faison, John Leguizamo, Lindy Booth and Olga Kurkulina also star. Carrey will next be seen opposite Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi in the Don Scardino-directed magician comedy, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. The picture also stars Olivia Wilde.


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The (mis)information age
|Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:35 AM
We all get them. A well-meaning but completely uninformed relative or friend forwards an email that carries a dire warning. Whatever this email claims will happen to those who do not heed the warning will be much worse if we do not forward this email to at least everyone in our contact list. This email is vague on sources if it supplies any at all; but the message urgently screaming at us in bold, red, capital letters removes all doubt about its authenticity.
Welcome to the misinformation age. I once received an email warning of the dangers of margarine. The email claimed that "Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.." The letter went on to state that if one were to leave a tub of margarine in a garage in the summertime it will not grow mold on it. I once found a tub of margarine that had made its way to the back of the refrigerator and can personally attest that it is possible to grow mold on margarine.
snopes.com is a great resource for checking the origins of emails with questionable accuracy. My own built-in fact checker tells me that the more alarmist in message and appearance the email is(i.e. flashy visuals, ALL CAPS, "Delete this message if you don't love this country" etc.) the more likely it is to be completely baseless and false.
Misinformation about medical research is spread much in the same way. Spam emails crowing about class action lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies are common. On a much grander scale, Hollywood has not been kind in its portrayal of the medical research industry, often portraying research clinics as secretive, government-operated entities run by sadists who use their patients as unwilling guinea pigs.
While there have been much publicized low-points in medical research, it is worth mentioning that those have been far outweighed by the achievements made through research. Accomplishments such as organ transplants, the deciphering of the structure of DNA, polio vaccines, the discovery of insulin, the use of anesthesia in surgery, and more effective treatments for cancer and HIV/AIDS, but to name a few, were not possible without research.
It is my hope in writing this blog that I will be able to dispell most of the myths and misperceptions about clinical trials that have been propagated through internet hoaxes and negative media portrayals. Making decisions about our health and our bodies is much easier when we are armed with facts. Now, isn't that something we can all agree is a good thing?
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The sex trade in Victoria has been fully legal since 1994. This has led to a huge demand for prostitution services and a 500 per cent increase in illegal brothels and sex trafficking. Today, in Melbourne there are 89 legal brothels and over 500 illegal ones.
Melbourne is now a major destination for sex tourists. Those dodgy-looking "Thai Massage" places along Sydney Road with the tacky flashing lights and blacked out windows that are open seven days are more than likely illegal brothels. Is this what we want in our city?
Prostitution is said to stop men from raping women. If the sex trade was an actual solution, why is sexual violence on the increase worldwide?
Since the legalisation of prostitution, you would expect there to be some regulation of the industry in Victoria. There isn't. The sex trade is legal in Victoria and Queensland and I experienced this dark, seedy world as a receptionist over a decade ago. The venue was outside of Melbourne's CBD and marketed itself as a high-end brothel. There were panic alarms in every room, which were never used, as abuse and sexual assault are just accepted as normal in this industry.
Until this experience, I was in favour of the sex trade and porn. Then I saw what was really involved. No woman chooses this life, no matter how much she says she does. It is a last resort out of desperation, poverty and lack of real choice.
Internet pornography is fuelling this industry. I was subjected to porn playing on large screens in every room, so I couldn't escape it.
The men wanted exactly what they saw in the porn, even the way the women looked. This was mainstream porn, but the degradation and abuse of women is sickening. Porn is where many men get their sex education and boys are now exposed to it on average at about age 11.
Sex buyers, also called johns, are driving the sex trade. The only way to stop sex trafficking is to stop the demand for men buying sex. Men do not need sex; they will not die if they don't have it. It is not a human right. There is an unhealthy preoccupation with sex and sexuality in our culture. Sex is not as important as we're led to think.
The Johns don't care whether the woman is there by choice. They do not care if she is underage or trafficked; in fact, they probably prefer it because she is more vulnerable and he can get away with more.
There is a solution to this sex trade, the Nordic Model, which has been in place in Sweden since 1999. The Nordic Model has been adopted in Norway, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Canada, France and, recently, in the Republic of Ireland. The legislation implemented in Sweden has had a huge cultural impact. There is more respect for women.
When the sex trade is normalised it leads to a sense of sexual entitlement in men; that women exist for their sexual pleasure. Men relate to women as sexual objects and not full human beings. Sexual entitlement is the root of rape culture. A hostile and dangerous environment is created when prostitution is legalised for every girl and woman in the community. If one group of women is up for sale, that is how are all viewed.
The Nordic Model, also known as The Sex Buyer Law, works by cutting the demand for prostitution by criminalising traffickers, pimps, brothel owners and sex buyers. Under this law, women selling sex is not against the law but buying sex is. Profiting from the sexual exploitation of women and children is a criminal act.
Before the Nordic Model was introduced in 1999, it was the woman who got a criminal record, which meant she could not go on to other employment. A criminal record makes it impossible to find a regular job and one big reason women get trapped in the industry.
The Nordic Model clears criminal records of women so that they are able to move on with their lives. Women are provided support, education, rehabilitation, child care, and financial and housing assistance to get out of the industry. All factors that drive women into prostitution are dealt with. It begins with a widespread public education campaign calling for a fairer society. A minimum income is guaranteed for all, the gender pay gap is eliminated, as well as student fees and debts.
Sex buyers receive jail time of up to a year if caught buying sex. They are provided with therapy and support for sex addiction to prevent them returning to their old habits.
Since the Nordic Model was introduced, attitudes towards buying sex have shifted rapidly in Sweden in a positive direction. The proportion of men buying women for sex has been halved. It is now considered a very uncool thing to do and only absolute losers buy women for sex.
Murder statistics for prostitutes are 40 per cent higher than for the general population of women. In Sweden, there have been no recorded murders of prostitutes since 1999. Street prostitution has been reduced by 50 per cent and as a result there are fewer street disturbances and less criminal activity. Sex trafficking has decreased dramatically and the recruitment of new women has almost come to a halt. Violence towards prostituted women has decreased and rapes are down 50 per cent.
The Nordic Model is proven to work and other countries are following suit. Let's make Australia next. There can be no equality between men and women as long as prostitution exists. Prostitution is men's sexual slavery of women. No one argues that slavery is a good thing and there is nothing positive that you can say to justify prostitution.
We must end the demand for the sex trade in order to end sex trafficking. The Nordic Model is the only way this can be done.
Talk to your local politicians about the Nordic Model and why we need it in Australia, for the betterment of our communities and to enhance the wellbeing of all women and girls.
Jacqueline Gwynne has written articles for Collective Shout and Nordic Model Now. Her story is included in the book Prostitution Narratives, edited by Melinda Tankard-Reist and Caroline Norma (Spinifex Press). Jacqueline is a board member and secretary for Pink Cross Australia, a foundation that helps men and women get out of the sex industry.
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People are crazy about getting natural and herbal stuff for their health and beauty. So to be more précised on this point, we got to you a wonderful fruit which has plenty of benefits within it.
Bael Fruit with the scientific/Botanical name as Limonia acidic sima is also called as elephant apple, monkey fruit, and wood apple. Most of the parts of Asian countries like this fruit a lot and this is also known for its benefits.
Crazy news about this fruit is Elephant squeezes all the juice from the fruit without any damage to the shell of it, and no one knows that logic yet, and that's why it is called as Elephant apple too.
The Wood apple is basically grown in most regions of the Sothern part of Asia; it can grow 30 feet in height. The fruit is also called as Edible fruit with 6-9 cm in diameter with brown color pulp and small white seeds with covering of wood type shell.
Let us see those plenty of health benefits that are hidden in this wood apple. Wood apple is an immune booster and fights against bacterial and viral infections caused by them. It is a great reliever from respiratory problems, indigestion, peptic ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, piles, and dysentery.
Due to its anti- inflammation property is can prevent from cancer, cures diabetes, sand increases the milk production in feeding mothers. This can also prevent from sexual problems.
Wood Apple contains tannins, phosphorous, fiber, calcium, nutrients, vitamins, organic compounds, protein, and iron.
Can cure Hives- Skin disease
Hives- Urticaria, affects 30 % of the people, It starts with an itchy patch on the skin and turns into swollen bumps on the skin. The itching goes more and more to scratching, alcohol consumption, emotional stress, Heavy exercise.
Take cumin powder 1 gm, Bay leaves power 1 gm and Bael fruit juice, mix all of them and apply on the affected areas twice a day so that by using this juice for a week can completely cure this problem.
Constipation Problems:
Take Bael fruit pulp mix 1 tsp salt and 1 tbsp black pepper, take this once a day for the people having constipation problem.
Dandruff Removal
Dandruff is a never ending process on hair scalp. Take Bael fruit peel or shell 25 gm and take 500gm of coconut oil and heat them in low flame for 15-20 minutes until the extract gets into the oil. Just an hour before you do head bath apply this oil on scalp and massage with all your fingers on it ? If you use this regularly for 3 months you can get dandruff free hair.
Better for Diarrhea:
The wood apple trunk and branches of Bael tree contains "Feronia Gum" which can be used in dysentery and diarrhea.
Take 30 ml of Bael Leaves juice and mix it with sugar cane juice or unprocessed sugar to cure stomach pain or constipation problem of the kids from 5 to 10 years.
Hormone Deficiency in woman:
Take 1/4 the cup of curd and 2 tbsp of Bael fruit juice twice a day, this can cure all hormone deficiency problems including progesterone levels.
Boosts energy levels:
Take 5 tbsp jaggery with 5 gms of Wood apple pulp and have it once a day so that you can get rid of tiredness, sleeplessness, fatigue. This always boosts your energy level and this can also be taken like Jam on Bread.
More Lactation in new Mothers:
Take 1 tbsp of wood apple juice and 1 tbsp of dry ginger along with 2 tbsp of jaggery, this can be best for the lactating mother, this can increase the milk for the babies along with best medicinal benefits for the baby as well.
Acts as Blood Purifier:
Take 50 gms of honey mix it in warm water and take 20 gms of wood apple pulp of juice and take it after morning jogging or workout to act as a blood purifier. This can show awesome results in weight loss as well.
Balances the Blood sugar level and Blood pressure:
1. This can be a benefit to the person having diabetic sugar levels increased on a regular basis, Take 1 tbsp of Bael leaves juice in the morning after fresh up as this controls the over urination problem as well.
2. Take warm water and boil with 10-12 bael leaves for 3 minutes and steep it and can take this water as this manages hypertension.
Perfect cure for Tuberculosis:
Take bael juice 2 tbsp and mix with sugar and honey during night time. If taken regularly for almost 30 days it can cure tuberculosis.
Bottom Line:
We recommend people not to eat more as this can cause flatulence in the stomach due to its Shelly nature and just try having it little when you are having it for the very first time. We are presenting the best health benefits of Bael fruit just for you.


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How To Blog An Interactive Novel
Sure, there's beta readers who might offer suggestions for a later draft or reviewer comments that might influence what happens in the next book, but rarely do readers experience the journey of writing alongside the author.
In the world of blogging and digital publishing, there's no reason this has to remain the case.
Use a Novel Blog to Write an Interactive Story
One of my favorite types of books when I was growing up was the Choose Your Own Adventure series. It provided a quick read or a long one depending on my frame of mind. It was also great to be a part of the story in a way, though the second person narrative style didn't fool me even back then.
A similar paradigm could be used to write a novel, be it a Choose Your Own Adventure style or a traditional novel. A portion of the story could be posted to a blog. It ends with a survey, asking the readers what they think should happen next. Several pre-arranged plot points could be offered to choose from.
A place for comments (open ended plot points) would make it a little more difficult for the writer but all the more interactive.
I have no data to back this up, but I think some readers would enjoy reading a story that they have a say in what happens.
50 Weeks to a Completed Novel
Pick a day to post a new chapter, and post a new chapter each week. Let's say Monday is a good day for you (and for your readers). A 2,000 word chapter is posted each Monday. At the end of each chapter is a survey and comment box to give readers a chance to weigh in on the next chapter.
If this is done for 50 weeks out of the year (leaving 2 weeks for a vacation/holiday), the writer would have written a 100,000 word first draft. If the posts are an average of 1,500 words instead, a 75,000 word novel would be the end result.
Would you enjoy reading a story like this? Would you ever write one?