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08-13-05, 02:28 PM
I'm fairly new to trail riding, and was wondering what some of the safety measure I should take are, and what are some etiquettes I should know? I know the usual stuff like wear a helmet and try to stay hydrated and the such, but what are some others?
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- The real reason drivers don't notice
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MarkS
10-07-06, 11:16 AM
UmneyDurak
10-07-06, 11:38 AM
Interesting enough thats what I also think about while I am on a bike.
R-Wells
10-07-06, 12:34 PM
This is a real issue with guys.
Here is a very incomplete short list of things that may cause a guy to think about sex, or be in use when the thought occurs.
Little baby ducks
Watermelon wine.
Pigs.
Commercial Jets flying 30,000ft overhead.
Rocks.
Lawn mowers.
Onions.
Trees
Inkjet printers
Boiling water.
Crescent Wrenches.
Hubcaps
Table legs
Colnago
Roofing nails
Vacuum cleaners.
Face it we got problems.
wethepeople
10-07-06, 12:37 PM
It's true, i'm thinking of sex right now.
john bono
10-07-06, 04:06 PM
YOU might all be thinking of sex, but I....
Never mind.
sbhikes
10-07-06, 04:47 PM
Rocks? Roofing nails? You guys have real problems.
Hobartlemagne
10-07-06, 04:57 PM
We arent pretty enough. Thats why drivers dont notice us.
yuhoo
10-08-06, 04:17 PM
Interesting enough thats what I also think about while I am on a bike.
Impossible. The Private part is nimbed after riding for some period of time.
R-Wells
10-08-06, 04:45 PM
Impossible. The Private part is nimbed after riding for some period of time.
Well, I dont think you are taking into consideration the process of massaging the Private part to get the circulation back so that the nimbness will go away.
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Although I didn't mention it there is a script (ReverseLookup.php) that does a true reverse lookup (if that's what you're looking for). It's essentially a hack that grabs the info from phonenumber.com. It's just nice because it filters out the ads for you.
I took Raven's interface from the NPA script, threw it into this script, and posted the source with a command-line Perl tool to do all the work without your web-browser. Enjoy it!
Oh, and someone tried to pass the string "drop table users" to my NPA script. Briefly, it didn't work because the NXX variable gets converted to an int before it's put into the MySQL statement. In the end the string ends up as the numeric value "0". Sorry.
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Chicago Meeting
#1
Posted 31 May 2007 - 09:52 PM
Locations:
103rd and Cicero Starbucks Map
and/or
106th and Cicero Panera Map
WiFi is available at both spots. We want it to be in the day time on a saturday afternoon.
What do people think?
#2
Posted 31 May 2007 - 10:19 PM
Also, I think it'd be interesting to have a Saturday afternoon time- say second or third sat. of the month so geek time won't take up another Friday night.
The Panera is bigger and it has truly free wifi as opposed to starbucks t-mobile hotspot- so I think Panera's a better pick. There's a nice patio for outside seating as well.
-kn0x
#3
Posted 05 June 2007 - 02:09 AM
#4
Posted 07 June 2007 - 11:02 PM
bump
Double bump. I'm glad you guys took the initiative. Chicago meetings have been brought up on several occasions before, but I just haven't had time to commit. Let me know where they're at, and I'll try to make it out.
#5
Posted 03 July 2007 - 10:24 PM
Damn wireless keyboard.
#6
Posted 16 July 2007 - 01:29 AM.
#7
Posted 16 July 2007 - 03:30 PM
I think we decided to have the spring\summer meetings in the city. In Millennium Park, I'll get the exact details of a spot in a week or so. Maybe we can all meet by the bean for the first meeting and then all agree on a better spot. Anyways I went ahead and created a Yahoo Groups mailing list for the meetings, sign up here ..
once you guys have one or two meetings we can create a subdomain for you at binrevmeetings.com to help you orgainize
#8
Posted 16 July 2007 - 04:54 PM
Edited by kn0x, 16 July 2007 - 04:55 PM.
#9
Posted 16 July 2007 - 08:05 PM
As for the subdomain, do we get control over the software on there as well? I noticed you give us stuff like Wordpress, are we free to add plugins and other stuff?
Edited by thej3w, 16 July 2007 - 08:06 PM.
#10
Posted 22 July 2007 - 12:10 AM
#11
Posted 22 July 2007 - 04:10 AM
I got some sun while I was out there, so bits of me are redder than usual. Which isn't a bad thing, just different.
Edited by thej3w, 22 July 2007 - 04:11 AM.
#12
Posted 23 July 2007 - 01:50 PM
#13
Posted 23 July 2007 - 02:41 PM
#14
Posted 23 July 2007 - 08:59 PM
We still need to decide on a better place to meet in Melenium Park. The bean is pretty crowded.
I was thinking maybe that concert green.
#15
Posted 25 July 2007 - 06:33 PM
Me and kn0x are collecting memberships to our shell server project.
We are asking for $5 per month (3 months for $17 (an extra $2 for Paypal) to (somewhat)cover our initial costs.
We are planning to offer a Secure Jabber Server with PGP-PKI encryption(membership not required) for secure private IM communications for the hacker community.
Shell accounts on our Debian server will include access to our HTTP proxy (via SSH tunneling) irssi, naim, etc. (so you can use your favorite irc/IM networks, email clients, web space, BBS, and more). User directories will be encrypted, and will only be offered to people we can trust who come to the meeting.
We reserve the right to deny you service for any reason including, but not limited to: lack of skill, body odor, being ugly, etc. Obviously there will be no P2P, warez, pr0n, cracking, etc.
PayPal payments are being accepted right now at: [email protected].
P.S. We are also struggling to come up with a name. Email me or kn0x about a name you think is good. If we use your name, we will give you $5 off (one month free) your shell purchase.
#16
Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:13 AM
#17
Posted 27 July 2007 - 02:13 AM
I really need to stop being lazy and get to one of these meetings.
Fuck that.
Next meeting, my house.
#18
Posted 27 July 2007 - 03:09 AM
Fuck that.
Next meeting, my house.
If you live on the south-side, and not in the "hood", you can count me in.
Going into the city sucks.
#19
Posted 27 July 2007 - 03:13 AM
A few of us from Chicago want to start a meeting. We have possible locations, but we need some input on when (day and time).
Locations:
103rd and Cicero Starbucks Map
and/or
106th and Cicero Panera Map
WiFi is available at both spots. We want it to be in the day time on a saturday afternoon.
What do people think?
I'm really thinking that since those locations are painfully close to my house, I'm down.
#20
Posted 27 July 2007 - 11:41 AM
They are on the small side, we had 8 people show up last meet, anymore show up this time and we are taking up way to much room. Everyone would have to buy something or at least some people would, inorder for us to stay there.
It wouldn't really be a "Chicago" BinRev meeting if its outside the city of Chicago.
The WIFI at the places are pay per use, 30 for a month, 10 for a day. Yes, PTunnel worked before, but not everyone would be using it, and it's stealing.
As for BreakDanceJs house, even if we held it there I still don't think he would make it to the meeting.
Miche'le has the right idea, the grass area by the concert in MP would be good. We could do some outdoor WarWalking\Scanning next time. If I can find my pigtail I can bring my cantenna and we can scan for WIFI and point it at tall buildings to see what we find.
I think our problem with the last meeting was that we had one just to have one, we didn't really do much other than "hang out" but I bet if we come up with a schedule and some "hacking" activities that the next meeting would be really well. Also since it will be after Defcon, many of us will have stories of Defcon and other cool stuff. So it should be a lot more intresting.
Edited by thej3w, 27 July 2007 - 11:42 AM.
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ORLANDO In research to be presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston offer a new explanation of why chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) tends to recur in the lymph nodes and bone marrow after being cleared from the bloodstream by chemotherapy. Their findings will be reported during in an oral session on Monday, Dec. 6, at 4:45 p.m. in room 315 of the Orange County Convention Center.
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Dear Arabineters, I am a freshly joined graduate student intending to work in plant endocytosis. In genetic aspects,Arabidopsis is good for my study, but I am not sure wheather fluorescence imaging at subcellular level is possible in Arabidopsis suspension cell culture or not. I shall be very grateful if you please give me some suggestions about the feasibility of working with the mentioned system & please suggest me some alternatives also ,which you think will be good to work with. Regards -- Anirban Baral JUNIOR SCHOLAR NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH UAS-GKVK CAMPUS,BELLARY ROAD BANGALORE-560065,INDIA
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Green feature less square footage, alternative energy sources such as solar panels, working with the natural lay of the land, and using natural insulation to decrease the need for energy. Green home building incorporates as many of these ideas as possible in addition to using sustainable construction materials.
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Abstract
Background
Early childhood is critical to the development of lifelong food habits. Given the high proportion of children with inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, identification of modifiable factors associated with higher consumption may be useful in developing interventions to address this public health issue. This study aimed to identify the characteristics of the home food environment that are associated with higher fruit and vegetable consumption in a sample of Australian preschool children.
Methods
A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted with 396 parents of 3 to 5 year-old children attending 30 preschools within the Hunter region, New South Wales, Australia., family eating policies and family mealtime practices. Characteristics of the home food environment that showed evidence of an association with children's fruit and vegetable consumption in simple regression models were entered into a backwards stepwise multiple regression analysis. The multiple regression analysis used generalised linear mixed models, controlled for parental education, household income and child gender, and was adjusted for the correlation between children's fruit and vegetable consumption within a preschool.
Results
The multiple regression analysis found positive associations between children's fruit and vegetable consumption and parental fruit and vegetable intake (p = 0.005), fruit and vegetable availability (p = 0.006) and accessibility (p = 0.012), the number of occasions each day that parents provided their child with fruit and vegetables (p < 0.001), and allowing children to eat only at set meal times all or most of the time (p = 0.006). Combined, these characteristics of the home food environment accounted for 48% of the variation in the child's fruit and vegetable score.
Conclusions
This study identified a range of modifiable characteristics within the home food environment that are associated with fruit and vegetable consumption among preschool children. Such characteristics could be considered potential targets for interventions to promote intake among children of this age.
Background
Adequate consumption of fruit and vegetables provides children with essential nutrients for healthy growth and development [1] and may displace the consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods associated with childhood overweight and obesity [2-6]. Given that childhood diet is a significant determinant of adult diet [7] and higher fruit and vegetable consumption in childhood is associated with decreased risk of adult chronic disease [8,9], the benefits of adequate childhood fruit and vegetable consumption appear to extend throughout the lifespan. Despite this, internationally, a high proportion of children have inadequate fruit and vegetable intake [10,11]. Identifying factors associated with higher childhood fruit and vegetable consumption may assist in the development of interventions to address this public health issue.
Many factors influence the foods that children eat: the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of their families [10,11]; their individual preferences and genetic predispositions [12,13]; psychosocial factors [14]; and characteristics of their environment [15,16]. Given the amount of time children spend in the home, this environment represents a potentially promising setting in which to improve young children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Rosenkranz's ecological model of the home food environment hypothesises that child diet in this setting is influenced by three domains: built and natural environments; political and economic environments; and socio-cultural environments [17]. Of these, those most proximal to a child's life, such as home accessibility and availability of foods (built and natural environments) and parental diet, parenting practices and rules, and family eating patterns (socio-cultural environments) may be most amenable to intervention. As such, research investigating associations between these characteristics of the home environment and children's fruit and vegetable consumption is warranted.
Studies of school-aged children have found parental fruit and vegetable intake and the accessibility and availability of fruit and vegetables in the home [12,15,16] to be consistently associated with children's consumption. However, research involving children of preschool age (children aged 3 to 5 years [18]) is limited. For example, a 2007 systematic review that included environmental correlates of children's fruit and vegetable intake identified just three studies involving children of preschool-age, compared with 30 studies involving children aged 5-18 years [16], while a more recent systematic review only included studies of children aged 6 years and older [15]. The factors influencing dietary habits in early childhood be may distinct from those affecting school-aged children, due to preschoolers' earlier developmental stage and greater dependence on their family [15]. The few studies that have investigated associations between such factors and fruit and vegetable consumption in preschool children found positive associations with parental fruit and vegetable intake [19-21] and parental role-modeling [22]; and negative associations with eating in front of the television [23] and parental pressure to eat [21,23]. However, only a minority of these studies, have used both a comprehensive or validated assessment of child fruit and vegetable consumption and multivariate analyses to isolate the effect of individual variables and control for the influence of socio-demographic characteristics [20,21]. As such, this study sought to address these limitations, and identify characteristics of the home food environment associated with fruit and vegetable consumption in a sample of Australian preschool children.
Methods
Design
A cross-sectional survey of parents of preschool-aged children was conducted via Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI).
Ethical approval
The data for the present study forms the baseline dataset for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a telephone-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in preschool children [24]. Ethical approval for the broader trial was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committees of the University of Newcastle (Ref No. H-2008-0410) and the Hunter New England Area Health Service (Ref No. 08/10/15/5.09).
Sample
Study participants were parents of 3 to 5 year-old children attending non-government preschools within the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Almost 90% of preschools within New South Wales are either privately run or run by the community [25]. All participants had previously volunteered to participate in a telephone-based randomised controlled trial of a fruit and vegetable intervention [24]. Preschools were ineligible if they provided children with meals, if they catered exclusively for children with special needs, were government preschools (as the conduct of this research was not approved in these institutions) or if they had participated in child healthy eating research projects within the prior six months. Parents were eligible if they resided with their preschool child for at least 4 days per week and were responsible for their child's meals and snacks at least half of the time. If children had dietary restrictions that were incompatible with the Australian Dietary Guidelines for fruit and vegetable consumption (as determined by an Accrediting Practicing Dietitian), their parents were deemed ineligible.
Recruitment
Recruitment procedures are described in detail elsewhere [24] and are based on a systematic review identifying effective strategies for recruiting parents for study participation through schools [26]. Briefly, all eligible preschools within the study area were invited to participate. At consenting preschools, a research assistant distributed study information and consent forms to parents as they dropped off or picked up their child. Parents indicated their consent by ticking a box on the consent form and returning it to a drop box at the preschool. Recruitment of preschools began in February 2010 and recruitment of parents began in March 2010 and was conducted over a 6-month period. The consent form contained questions about the parent's residential suburb, the child's age, gender, and usual fruit and vegetable consumption (average number of serves per day). In order to assess bias due to selective non-participation, parents who did not wish to participate in the study were encouraged to also complete a consent form with this information and return it to the preschool.
Data Collection
Consenting parents were contacted to complete a telephone survey via CATI delivered by telephone interviewers experienced in conducting health-related interviews. The survey was conducted from April to October 2010. Parents were instructed to answer with respect to their preschool-aged child. If they had more than one child aged 3 to 5 years, they were instructed to select the child who would have the next birthday.
Measures
Participant characteristics
The survey included items to assess the socio-demographic characteristics of parents and children. Parents were asked their age, gender, highest level of education and annual household income and whether they identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, and were asked to report their child's date of birth and gender. Items were sourced from population health surveys [27]. Parents were also asked the number of days per week that they resided with their child, and how often they were responsible for providing their child with meals and snacks (always, most of the time, half of the time, seldom, never).
Children's fruit and vegetable intake
Participants also completed the fruit and vegetable subscale of the Children's Dietary Questionnaire (CDQ) [28]. This subscale requires parents to report the variety and frequency of fruit and vegetables consumed by their child over the past 24 hours and past 7 days. This tool includes potatoes and sweet potatoes in the assessment of vegetable consumption, but parents are specifically instructed not to include hot chips. Fruit and vegetable juices are excluded from most (3 out of 4) questions assessing the frequency and variety of fruit intake, with the exception of the number of occasions of fruit or vegetable consumption over the past 24 hours. The subscale score ranges from 0 to 28 and a score of 14 or more suggests that the child has intake patterns consistent with fruit and vegetable dietary guidelines [28]. Changes on this score could arise from a range of possible changes to children's fruit and vegetable consumption patterns, for example, a one-point increase could result from eating an additional type of fruit or vegetable, or eating fruit or vegetable at an additional occasion in the previous 24 hours. This subscale has been established as reliable in comparable samples of preschoolers (intracorrelation coefficient = 0.75), and has been established as valid against a 7-day dietary checklist in a sample of school-aged children (Spearman's correlation coefficient = 0.58) [28].
Characteristics of the home food environment
Characteristics of the home food environment were assessed within seven domains: Parental role-modeling of fruit and vegetable consumption, pressure to eat, parental provision of fruit and vegetables, fruit and vegetable availability, fruit and vegetable accessibility, mealtime practices and family eating policies. Where possible, items were taken from existing validated measures of the home food environment including The Healthy Home Survey [29], The Child Feeding Questionnaire [30] and The National Nutrition Survey [31]. Where known, the reliability and validity of items are provided alongside each item. Study items with unknown psychometric properties are also identified.
a) Parental role-modeling of fruit and vegetable consumption
Items from the National Nutrition Survey were included to assess the average number of serves of fruit and vegetables consumed each day by parents [31]. Answers to these questions have been positively associated with objective biomarkers of fruit and vegetable intake including α-carotene, β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, lutein/zeaxanthin and red-cell folate [32]. A lack of existing role-modeling items that were specific to fruit and vegetable consumption, quantitative, and targeted at parents of preschool children led the study team to develop two items to assess this. Specifically, parents were asked separate questions regarding the number of times they had consumed fruits, and the number of times they had consumed vegetables, in front of their child on the previous day. The validity of these items is unknown.
b) Pressure to eat
The 'Pressure to Eat' subscale from Birch's Child Feeding Questionnaire was included to measure the extent to which parents try to control the amount and type of food eaten by their child [30]. Scores range from 1 to 5 and a higher score indicates more pressure. The four-item scale has been shown to be internally consistent (Cronbach's alpha = 0.70) and reliability estimates for the four items of this subscale are 0.19-0.52 [30].
c) Parental provision of fruit and vegetables
As no items or scales could be identified that measured the extent to which parents provided their children with fruit and vegetables, two questions were developed specifically for this study, and as such their psychometric properties are unknown. Separate questions were asked regarding the number of occasions on the previous day that the parent provided the child with fruits and with vegetables.
d) Availability of fruit and vegetables in the home
As no appropriate measure of home fruit and vegetable availability that was brief, suitable for telephone data collection, and appropriate for use within an Australian sample could be sourced, to assess this, parents were read a list of 19 commonly consumed fruits and 24 commonly consumed vegetables from the Children's Dietary Questionnaire. Fruit and vegetables could be available in any form: fresh, tinned, frozen or dried. Parents were asked to identify those that they had in their home at that time and the number of varieties of fruits and vegetables were then summed. The validity and reliability of this item are unknown.
e) Accessibility of fruit and vegetables in the home
Accessibility was assessed by asking whether fruit and vegetables in the home were stored in a form that facilitated their consumption, for example, washed and chopped. The vegetable item was taken from the Healthy Home Survey (item reliability, kappa = 0.57, item validity, kappa = 0.43) [29]. The reliability and validity of the Healthy Home survey items were established in a study of 85 American families with 3 to 8 year-old children by having 50% of the sample re-do the survey one week after the first administration, and by a home-visit to 95% of participants [29]. As there was no equivalent item for fruit, this was adapted from the vegetable item, specifically: Do you have any ready to eat fresh fruit on a shelf in the refrigerator or on the kitchen counter now, for example, fruit you have washed or chopped to make ready to eat, like bunches of grapes, berries, or oranges?
f) Mealtime practices
The extent to which the family was adopting mealtime practices that encouraged child fruit and vegetable consumption was measured using items from the Healthy Home Survey. Items taken from this survey included the location where most meals are eaten, the number of days per week the family sits at a table to eat dinner together, and the number of days per week the child eats dinner in front of the television (Item reliability kappa = 0.73-0.80) [29].
g) Family eating policies
Questions from the Healthy Home Survey were also included to assess the extent to which parents adopted eating policies that encouraged fruit and vegetable consumption. On a five-point likert scale ('all of the time' to 'never') parents recalled the frequency with which they did each of the following: ask their child to eat everything on their plate at dinner; restrict dessert if their child does not eat the food on their plate at dinner; reward their child with desserts, snacks or confectionary if they finish their dinner; allow their child to eat only at set meal times; and allow their child to help him/herself to snacks when at home (Item reliability kappa = 0.40-0.75) [29].
Analysis
All analyses were conducted using SAS 9.2 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Descriptive statistics were used to describe the sample. Where quantitative items were used to collect information about environmental characteristics relating to fruits and vegetables separately, these totals were summed to form a single variable, for example, parental intake, parental role-modeling, fruit and vegetable availability within the home and parental providing behaviour. Similarly, the two accessibility items were combined into a single item indicating whether both fruit and vegetables were stored in a ready-to-eat format or whether fruit, or vegetables, or both fruit and vegetables were not stored in this way. Consistent with previous research on Australian parents of preschoolers [33] parental education was dichotomised into 'university educated' and 'other', and annual household income was split into less than $100,000 and $100,000 or more. Categorical variables used to assess eating policies were recoded dichotomously, whereby "all of the time" and "most of the time" responses were combined to reflect consistent adoption of these policies, and "some of the time", "rarely" and "never" were also combined. Non-normal continuous variables (days per week the family eats dinner together at a table, days per week the child eats dinner in front of the television) were treated as dichotomous categorical variables. The cut points were set at the frequencies with which the highest levels of children's fruit and vegetable consumption have previously been associated [34-37]. Therefore the number of days per week the family eats dinner together at a table was split into 7 days and less than 7 days, and the number of days per week the child eats dinner in front of the television was split into 0 days and 1 or more days. Similarly, the location where most meals were eaten was recoded into 'table' and 'other' [38].
A series of simple regression models were run investigating the association between each characteristic of the home food environment and children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Simple regression models also investigated socio-demographic characteristics for which associations with children's fruit or vegetable intake had previously been found; parental education [10], household income [39], child gender [19] and child age [19]. As numerous simple regression models were being tested, a Bonferroni adjustment was applied to the p-value (0.003) to account for the increased likelihood of type one error [40]. As evidence suggests fruit and vegetable consumption varies between children attending different childcare centres [41], all regression analyses used generalised linear mixed models (Proc Mixed) with a random intercept term to adjust for the correlation of measurements within a preschool.
A screening criterion of p < 0.25 was adopted to determine which variables would be included in the multiple regression analysis. A criterion of p < 0.25 was used as evidence suggests that adopting the traditional threshold (p < 0.05) can exclude variables of known importance [42,43]. A backwards stepwise approach was used to determine the final multiple regression model with the least significant characteristic of the home food environment removed and the analysis re-run until only significant variables remained. Socio-demographic variables that satisfied the screening criterion (p < 0.25) were controlled for in the multiple regression model (i.e. they were included in the stepwise process and retained in the final model).
Results
The sample consisted of 396 parents, recruited from 30 preschools across the Hunter region. Of the 57 preschools within the sampling frame, 30 consented, 19 were ineligible, seven refused to participate and one could not be contacted. Children from approximately 2,200 families attended the 30 preschools, and 417 parents consented to participate, with a further 178 returning a form indicating that they did not consent to participate. Of the consenters, ten refused to participate when contacted to complete the survey, six were ineligible and five could not be contacted, resulting in a total of 396 parents providing data for the analysis. The study sample and the characteristics of their home food environments are described in Table 1.
There were no significant differences between participants and those non-consenters who returned a form with respect to child age, gender, daily serves of fruit or vegetables, or level of disadvantage based on residential postcode [44]. However, only a small proportion (approximately 10%) of the families who did not participate returned a completed consent form. In comparison with a regionally representative sample of children aged 2 to 4 years, a similar proportion of children in this study consumed at least one serve of fruit per day, but a higher proportion of children in the study consumed at least two serves of vegetables per day [45].
Most parents (99%) lived with their child 7 days a week and most (74%) reported that they were 'always' responsible for their child's meals and snacks, with 22% and 5% reporting they were responsible 'most of the time' and 'half of the time' respectively. Parents consumed an average of five serves of fruit and vegetables each day and consumption levels approximated that of female adults of a similar age within the region [45]. On average, parents ate fruit and vegetables in front of their children more than two occasions per day and provided their children with fruit and vegetables more than three times a day. While, on average, households had almost 22 different types of fruit and vegetables available in the house, fewer than half of those households (39%) kept both fruit and vegetables in a ready-to-eat, accessible format. On average, families ate together at a table 5.6 days a week (with 57% eating together 7 days a week) and children ate dinner in front of the television on an average of 2.2 days a week (with 47% not doing this at all, i.e. 0 days per week). The majority of families (87%) ate most meals at a table. Although 59% of parents indicated that they would restrict dessert 'most' or 'all of the time' when their child did not eat their dinner, 29% rewarded their child with dessert for finishing dinner. Only 4% of parents allowed their child to access snacks themselves.
The mean score for the fruit and vegetable subscale for children within the study was 14.8 (sd 4.6). Table 2 displays the strength of the associations between children's fruit and vegetable score and characteristics of the home food environment and socio-demographic characteristics in simple and multiple regression models.
Simple regression analysis found statistically significant positive associations (p < 0.003) between children's fruit and vegetable consumption and the following factors: parental fruit and vegetable intake; occasions per day where parents role-model fruit and vegetable consumption; provision of fruit or vegetables to children; variety of fruit and vegetables available in the home; keeping fruit and vegetables in a ready-to-eat format (e.g. washed and chopped); and only allowing children to eat at set meal times.
Twelve characteristics of the home food environment had a p-value less than 0.25 in the simple regression models and were entered into the backward stepwise regression along with parental education, household income and child gender. The assumptions of multiple regression were tested and found to be acceptable. The regression coefficients, 95% confidence intervals and p-values for the five significant variables (p < 0.05) that were retained in the final regression model are shown in the final two columns of Table 2.
Multiple regression analysis indicated that higher fruit and vegetable consumption in children was significantly associated with: higher fruit and vegetable intake in parents, more frequent provision of fruit and vegetables to children throughout the day, having a wider variety of fruits and vegetables available in the home, having fruit and vegetables stored in a ready-to-eat format, and generally only allowing children to eat at set mealtimes. These variables remained significant despite controlling for parental education, household income and the gender of the child. This model of the characteristics of the home food environments accounted for 48% of the variation in the child's fruit and vegetable score. The regression coefficients suggest that, all other factors held constant, each additional occasion that parents provide their children with fruit or vegetables throughout the day is associated with an average an increase in children's fruit and vegetable score of 1.80 points, and that ensuring that children generally only eat at set mealtimes is associated with an average increase of 1.00 points in the fruit and vegetable score. The coefficients of the remaining three significant variables within the model ranged from 0.12 to 0.90.
Discussion
This study is one of only a handful of studies examining associations between characteristics of the home food environment and the fruit and vegetable consumption of preschool-aged children, and among the first to investigate these relationships through multiple regression analysis and with a reliable and valid measure of fruit and vegetable intake. The study found that greater fruit and vegetable consumption in children was positively associated with parent's own fruit and vegetable consumption; the frequency with which parents provide these foods to their child; the availability and accessibility of these foods in the home; and with maintaining set mealtimes. Such findings provide insights into factors that influence young children's vegetable and fruit intake.
The positive association between child and parent fruit and vegetable intake is supported by studies involving preschool-aged children [19-21] as well as older children and adolescents [14,18,48,49] and supports previous recommendations that modification of parent diet be a key strategy for interventions targeting children's eating habits [5,19,21,38,46]. A lack of significant association between child fruit and vegetable intake and parental consumption of these foods in front of their children, however, suggests that the influence of parental role-modeling is complex [47,48]. Further research investigating the mechanisms by which parental intake may influence child consumption may yield important insights for intervention.
A unique aspect of this study was the examination of parental provision of fruit and vegetables as a correlate of child consumption. Although the reported positive association is somewhat intuitive for children of this age, the finding accentuates the critical role that parents play in facilitating fruit and vegetable consumption through provision of these foods. Within the study sample at least, the findings also suggest that there is considerable scope to further improve child fruit and vegetable intake through encouraging more frequent provision. On average, parents provided fruit or vegetables to their child on 3.2 occasions per day, with dinner being the most prevalent occasion for serving vegetables, and morning tea the most prevalent occasion for serving fruit. Given that it is recommended that children of this age have three meals and two to three small snacks daily [49], introducing fruit and vegetables at additional occasions throughout the day, particularly the provision of vegetables for morning or afternoon teas, could represent an effective intervention strategy. Further, the findings of this, and other studies with older children [50,51] demonstrate a greater likelihood for children to eat fruits and vegetable if they are stored at home in a ready-to-eat form. As preparation time is a commonly cited barrier to fruit and vegetable consumption [52,53], having ready-to-eat fruit and vegetables on hand may increase the likelihood of parents feeding their preschool child these foods rather than convenient, pre-packaged, snack foods. As only 39% of parents in this study reported storing fruit and vegetables in this way, strategies that make it easier for parents to purchase, prepare and store ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables are needed and likely to facilitate increased parent provision of these foods to their child.
These findings should be considered in the context of the study limitations. First, this data is cross-sectional, precluding conclusions regarding causality. Further research is warranted to determine if these associations are evident in longitudinal research, and if changes to such characteristics mediate the changes to child fruit and vegetable intake following intervention. Second, use of parent volunteers may have introduced selection-bias as study participants may not be representative of the broader population from which they were drawn. Compared to a random sample of 764 mothers of 2 to 5 year-olds in the broader study region, parents in this study were more educated (47% vs 36% with a university education) and from higher income households (41% vs 20% earning over $100,000 per year) [33] and their children had higher levels of vegetable consumption than a regionally representative sample of children aged 2 to 4 years [45]. The strength of the associations found in this study is therefore unknown among families from less advantaged backgrounds. Furthermore, most participants identified themselves as the parent that was primarily responsible for feeding their child, and only 4% of the participants were fathers, most likely due to fathers being less likely to drop children at childcare [54] and being less likely to have primary responsibility for food within the household [55]. This may restrict the generalisability of study findings to mothers, and the primary food provider, rather than parents more broadly. The inclusion of measures of the home food environment with unknown validity and reliability is a further limitation of this research and further research is required to develop and refine appropriate measures suitable for population-based investigation. Finally, this research examined the combined consumption of fruit and vegetables. The analyses did not allow for the identification of the relative associations of environmental characteristics with fruit and vegetable intake separately [56]. Future research should seek to address these limitations.
Conclusions
The study findings suggest that a range of factors within the home food environment appear to be associated with young children's fruit and vegetable intake. The final regression model which included parental intake and parental provision of fruit and vegetables to their children, the availability and accessibility of fruit and vegetables in the home and having set mealtimes accounted for almost half of the variation in children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Such results suggest that there are modifiable factors within the home environment that may be appropriate targets for future interventions aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in preschool-aged children to address this substantial public health problem.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
Author RW led the development of this manuscript. Authors RW, EC and LW determined the research design and the measures to be used. All authors decided upon the analyses conducted, and contributed to, read and approved the final version of this manuscript.
Acknowledgements
This project was funded by a Cancer Institute New South Wales grant with author LW receiving salary support from this institution. In-kind support was provided by Hunter New England Population Health and infrastructure support was provided by The Hunter Medical Research Institute.
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Genetic variation in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene is likely to be particularly important for phenotypes associated with function of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), such as cognition (Dickinson and Elvevag, 2009). Neuroimaging studies confirm that the COMT Val158Met (rs4680) polymorphism affects human prefrontal cortical function, and as such is strongly associated with differences in neural process underlying cognitive output (Dennis et al., 2010; Mier et al., 2009). However, these findings do not necessarily imply any change in cognition. A recent meta-analysis observed no significant effect of the Val158Met single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on frontal cognitive tasks (Barnett et al., 2008). Nevertheless, some studies have indicated that this association might be specific to developmental stage (Barnett et al., 2007; Dumontheil et al., 2011; Raz et al., 2011). Thus further examination of COMT genetic variation is required for a better understanding of its role in a wider range of cognitive functions during development.
Relatively little is known about the role of COMT in cognition in children (Diamond et al., 2004; Dumontheil et al., 2011), and specifically in relation to developmental stages, such as puberty (Barnett et al., 2007). The cognitive effects attributable to COMT activity may depend on developmental stage because structural and functional changes occur in the PFC during adolescence (Casey et al., 2000; De Luca et al., 2003; Rubia et al., 2000; Supekar et al., 2010); cognitive functions performed by the PFC in adults may be governed by different or more diffuse circuits in children. If so, then COMT variation may have little effect on cognitive performance during childhood, but a stronger effect in adolescence. Moreover, increases in the level of reproductive hormones such as estrogen during puberty can down-regulate COMT transcription and lead to a sex difference in COMT activity, and therefore to a different effect of COMT on cognition in boys and girls (Tunbridge, 2010). Among 8-year-old children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort Val158Met polymorphism was reported to have a larger effect on verbal IQ in pubertal children when compared with prepubertal children (Barnett et al., 2007). A recent study of 6–20-year-olds also suggests the role of development in the effect of COMT Val158Met polymorphism on working memory, specifically that visuospatial working memory capacity exhibited an age by genotype interaction, with a benefit of the Met allele (rs4680) emerging after 10 years of age (Dumontheil et al., 2011). However, these studies were cross-sectional in design, so did not investigate the genetic effect on cognition in the same children at different developmental stages.
Despite strong evidence for the biological importance of several COMT SNPs (Nackley et al., 2006) little is known about associations with cognition of any loci other than Val158Met. A functional three-SNP haplotype consists of Val158Met (rs4680) and two synonymous SNPs (rs6269 and rs4818): ValA/ValA, ValA/Met, ValA/ValB or Met/Met, ValB/Met, and ValB/ValB are diplotypes ranked from highest to lowest according to COMT enzyme activity. This haplotype exerts a major influence on the level of COMT expression and enzyme activity (Nackley et al., 2006) and has previously been shown to have a curvilinear association with measures of verbal inhibition and working memory (Barnett et al., 2009). Previous studies have also reported associations between rs165599 (located near the 3′UTR region) (Burdick et al., 2007; Chan et al., 2005), and rs737865 (located in intron 1) (Diaz-Asper et al., 2008; Liao et al., 2009) and cognitive function. These SNPs appear to be functional, with rs737865 G (=C) allele and rs165599 G (=C) allele being associated with lower expression of COMT mRNA in the human brain (Bray et al., 2003).
In the present study we include the Nackley's haplotype (rs6269–rs4818–rs4680) and the two functional SNPs, rs737865 and rs165599, to characterize better the combined effects of variation in the COMT gene on cognitive function. Using data from the British 1946 birth cohort we aimed: (1) to investigate the effect of the five COMT SNPs on cognitive function in the same boys and girls at two time-points (age 8 and 15 year follow-ups); (2) to test whether pubertal stage of cohort members established at the second assessment (age 15 years) modifies any observed associations.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) (also known as the British 1946 birth cohort) is a socially stratified birth cohort of 5362 individuals (2547 women and 2815 men), who have been followed up since their birth in 1946 with regular data collections (Wadsworth et al., 2003). Blood samples were collected from 2756 members at age 53 years. Every survey member with information on at least one cognitive test (phenotype indicator) at both age 8 and age 15 years and DNA genotyped for COMT SNPs was included in the descriptive analysis (n = 1029 boys and 1048 girls). Survey members with available DNA had higher cognitive scores on all cognitive tests at ages 8 and 15 years than those without genetic information; but were not different with respect to pubertal stage at age 15 years (p = 0.35) or social class of origin (p = 0.52). The results of comparing those with DNA and those without on cognitive tests measures are presented in Supplementary Table 1.
Ethical approval for this research was obtained from the North Thames Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee, and from relevant local research ethics committees in the survey areas. Informed consent was given by all respondents.
Children were assessed by teachers in a school setting at ages 8 and 15 years using tests devised by the National Foundation for Educational Research (Pigeon and Douglas, 1964; Pigeon et al., 1968). At age 8 years these were: (1) reading comprehension (selecting appropriate words to complete 35 sentences); (2) word reading (ability to read and pronounce 50 words); (3) vocabulary (ability to explain the meaning of the same 50 words); and (4) picture intelligence, consisting of a 60-item non-verbal reasoning test. At age 15 years these were: (1) Alice Heim Group Ability Test (AH4), a 130 item timed test, with separate verbal (analogies, comprehension, and numerical reasoning) and non-verbal (matching, spatial analysis, and non-verbal reasoning sections) tests; (2) The Watts-Vernon Reading Test, a test of reading comprehension requiring the participant to select appropriate words to complete 35 sentences; (3) A 47-item mathematics test, requiring the use of arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, and algebra.
All scores reported in the results were standardised within the sample included in this analysis to a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
At age 15 years, pubertal development in boys was classified at school by a physician based on the development of genitalia, presence of pubic hair, axillary hair and voice broken. Those with infantile genitalia or early adolescent genitalia, but no pubic or axillary hair and voice not broken were classified as prepubescent, all others as pubescent. Age at menarche was used as the marker of pubertal stage for girls, and was obtained from mothers’ reports in 1961. This information was used to construct a binary variable for pubertal status distinguishing between those who had menarche by age 15 (pubescent) and those who did not (prepubescent). The majority of the participants (89% of boys and 90% of girls) had reached pubertal status by age 15.
DNA was extracted and purified from whole blood using the Puregene DNA Isolation Kit (Flowgen, Leicestershire, UK) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The five SNPs, rs737865, rs6269, rs4818, rs4680 and rs165599, were typed by using the KASPar system by KBioscience, UK (). The integrity of the genotyping was checked by genotyping frequency, concordance of duplicates and Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE). The call rates for the genotyped SNPs were 97.8–99.2%, with >95% concordance between duplicate samples and there was no evidence of deviation from HWE (p > 0.05).
The programme PLINK v1.07 was used for haplotype analysis (Purcell et al., 2007). The haplotype frequencies (rs6269–rs4818–rs4680) were similar to those reported in the original paper (Nackley et al., 2006): GGG (=ValA)–40.8%, ACA (=Met)–50.8%, ACG (=ValB)–7.8%, all others–0.6%. The survey members were then assigned to one of six possible diplotypes (i.e., the pair of haplotypes) using a ‘phase’ option (Table 1): ValA/ValA, ValA/Met, ValA/ValB or Met/Met, ValB/Met, and ValB/ValB.
Of the five genotyped COMT SNPs, the central three, rs6269, rs4818 and rs4680, were in high linkage disequilibrium (LD): r2 = 0.72 for rs6269–rs4680 and rs4818–rs4680; and r2 = 0.97 for rs6269–rs4818. In contrast, the LD between the three SNPs in the haplotype block and the other two SNPs was low (all r2 < 0.38). We therefore chose to separately test associations between cognitive scores and rs737865 and rs165599 and with the three-SNP haplotype.
First, linear regression was used to test for associations between rs737865, rs165599 genotypes (under an additive model), the three-SNP haplotype and the cognitive measures. In addition, curvilinear regression was used to test for associations between the three-SNP haplotype and the cognitive measures. Analyses were performed separately for boys and girls, and the sex-by-genotype interaction term was fitted to test for sex differences. At age 15 years, analyses were also stratified by pubertal stage, and the puberty-by-genotype interaction term was fitted to test differences between pubertal and pre-pubertal groups.
The effect of COMT genotypes on global cognitive function in a longitudinal context was examined using structural equation modelling (SEM) (Schumacker and Lomax, 2004). Model estimation was performed with Mplus version 6 (Muthen and Muthen, 2007). The model fit was evaluated with recommended fit indices (Hu and Bentler, 1999): the Tucker–Lewis index (TLI), the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), and the comparative fit index (CFI).
A graphical depiction of the model is shown in Fig. 2. The measurement part of the SEM model represents overall cognitive function at ages 8 and 15 years. The structural part includes direct paths from the COMT genotype to cognition at age 8 and age 15. We fitted the model using multiple group analysis (Byrne, 2004). In the final analytic model, the factor loadings of global cognition factors were constrained to be invariant across gender groups, whereas the path coefficients from COMT genotype to cognition were freely estimated.
The item intercepts were freely estimated in both groups because the main parameters of interest are path coefficients, hence invariance of factor loadings are sufficient (see (Gregorich, 2006), for a detailed discussion on level of measurement invariance). We performed the Wald χ2 test of parameter equalities for gender group differences in the structural regression paths.
Since SNPs associations were examined in multiple group SEM with cognition modelled as a latent variable, it was important to examine whether the measures of cognition were comparable across the gender groups (Byrne, 2004; Meredith, 1993). Two confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models with different degrees of measurement parameter restrictions were specified in order to assess the extent to which the validity of the comparison of path coefficients across groups held. The baseline model tested configural invariance where latent global cognition variable had the same number of factor indicators, i.e. same number of items representing specific test domains in male and female groups. In this model, the factor loadings across gender groups were freely estimated. This model was a prerequisite for testing the next step, the metric invariance, where the factor loadings were constrained to be equal across groups. The measurement invariance in factor loadings ensures that the global cognition construct has the same substantive meaning across gender groups, thus warranting valid comparison of regression path coefficients in the SEM model. Then model fit indices of the two models were compared to evaluate the degree of measurement invariance of the loading parameters in the models.
We used the same range of the above-mentioned fit indices to investigate models of measurement invariance. The restrictive model is preferred if the fit indices are not significantly inferior compared to that of the less restrictive model. In terms of the RMSEA, the change should be less than .015 (Chen, 2007). For CFI, the change should be less than .01 in CFI (Chen, 2007; Cheung and Rensvold, 2001). We also presented the TLI and Chi-square as overall tests for goodness of fit (Marsh et al., 1998).
A Bonferroni correction was applied in an attempt to address the issue of multiple testing. The total number of independent tests was 15 (two individual SNPs plus one haplotype in two gender groups at two ages plus three tests [two SNPs and one haplotype] for pubertal status at age 15 in boys only). We did not treat each cognitive test as independent as they were highly inter-correlated (r = 0.6–0.9). This approach to inferences on independent tests required that the conservative α-level of 0.0033 to be used as the significance level for robust inferences.
Descriptive statistics for the phenotype measures and genetic data, by sex, are presented in Table 1. The results of association analysis between the COMT SNPs and cognitive traits at age 8 and 15 years are presented separately for boys and girls in Table 2. There were no associations between rs737865, or rs165599 or diplotype and cognitive measures at age 8 years in either boys or girls. The regression analysis for cognition at age 15 years identified associations between rs737865 and AH4 verbal ability (β = −0.106, SE = 0.049, p = 0.031), and reading comprehension (β = −0.098, SE = 0.049, p = 0.044), but only in boys (Fig. 1). Boys with CC genotype had higher scores than those–carriers of T allele (both p's < 0.05). None of the findings survived p-value correction for multiple testing (α-level = 0.0033).
There were no associations between this SNP and level of cognitive functions in girls. Sex differences were tested by interaction terms but found not to be statistically significant at α-level of 0.0033: p for sex interaction = 0.13 and 0.09 for verbal ability and reading comprehension, respectively. There were no associations between diplotypes and any of the individual cognitive tests at age 15 years using linear (Table 2) or curvilinear (Supplementary Table 2) regression models.
The effect of pubertal stage on the associations between rs737865 and reading comprehension and verbal ability was then tested. In boys, we observed the similar effects of the SNP on verbal ability (β = −0.123, SE = 0.051, p = 0.016) and reading comprehension (β = −0.110, SE = 0.051, p = 0.031) in those who reached puberty by age 15 years. There were no associations between rs737865 and either verbal ability (β = 0.062, SE = 0.124, p = 0.62) or reading comprehension (β = −0.026, SE = 0.127, p = 0.84) in prepubescent boys. There was no statistically significant difference between prepubescent and pubescent groups: p-values for the puberty interaction tests were 0.18 and 0.17 for verbal ability and reading comprehension respectively.
We tested for the longitudinal effect of COMT rs737865, rs165599 and diplotype on cognition using SEM model for boys and girls (Fig. 2 for rs737865). Individual cognitive tests were modelled as components of global cognition at both ages. Results of modelling to test for measurement invariance of global cognitive measures showed that the less restrictive model demonstrated a good fit to the data (chi2 = 512.944, df = 34, CFI = 0.980, TLI = 0.968, RMSEA = 0.080). The second model with more restrictive equal factor loadings across gender groups showed even better fit indices due to model parsimony (chi2 = 560.089, df = 40, CFI = 0.979, TLI = 0.970, RMSEA = 0.076), supporting the invariance of factor loadings across gender groups. This provided a sufficient condition for comparison of the COMT SNP association with global cognitive measures across both genders. A multiple group SEM model was fitted with rs737865 as predictor of the global cognition (TLI = 0.971, CFI = 0.979, RMSEA = 0.065). The results of the SEM estimation suggested the effect of rs737865 on general cognition at age 15 in boys only (Table 3; Fig. 2), although the results of the Wald test for gender group differences in the structural regression paths were non-significant (χ2 = 2.19, p = 0.14).
Stratified analysis showed that the association between rs737865 and global cognition at age 15 was significant in pubescent (β = −0.11, SE = 0.05, p = 0.037), but not in prepubescent (β = −0.01, SE = 0.16, p = 0.96) boys, although the Wald test revealed that the differences by developmental stage were not statistically significant (χ2 = 0.34, p = 0.56).
The results of the SEMs for rs165599 and diplotype provided no evidence for the association with cognitive function at age 8 or 15 years (Table 3).
After correcting for multiple testing, the present study failed to demonstrate a significant effect of the five COMT SNPs on cognition in boys and girls at ages 8 and 15 years, providing little evidence that COMT variation can have an effect on cognitive abilities in childhood and adolescence.
However, several limitations should be taken into account when interpreting the present findings. Losses to follow-up and missing data are unavoidable in long running birth cohort studies such as the NSHD. There were differences in cognitive measures between those with DNA and those without DNA. This potentially could lead to underestimation of the effect of the COMT gene on cognition. However, that would be the case if the association operates differently in those with lower scores of cognitive abilities. We did not formally test for population stratification; however the 1946 birth cohort represents the general population of Britain of the middle of 20th century, which is of white Caucasian origin.
The strength of the study is its representative large sample. Yet, given the small number of prepubescent adolescents, there might still not be enough power to detect the small effect of the COMT individual SNPs or diplotypes in the groups stratified by pubertal status at age 15 years. In light of the possibility of the Type II error, the present results should be interpreted with caution. Indeed, the effect sizes of the original regressions were small (<1% of the common variance), and the results did not withstand correction for multiple testing.
Another strength of the study is the longitudinal analysis of the COMT gene in cognitive function using the SEM approach. The SEM approach allows for greater precision in phenotype measurement due to correction for measurement error in the cognitive outcomes, which may otherwise have reduced the statistical power to detect any robust associations with these genes (van der Sluis et al., 2012)
Before applying Bonferroni correction for multiple testing, only one COMT SNP, rs737865, was associated with verbal cognition in pubescent boys at age 15. Therefore, our finding did not confirm the results in the ALSPAC cohort showing a significant effect of COMT rs4680 on verbal IQ in pubescent boys (Barnett et al., 2007). The results of the analysis of COMT diplotypes on cognitive functions in children were not statistically significant and did not confirm the previous findings of curvilinear association between COMT diplotypes and cognition in ALSPAC cohort (Barnett et al., 2008).
We believe that testing for the effect of the COMT gene on various cognitive abilities is important for several reasons. It has been demonstrated that COMT protein has the strongest effect on the dopamine neurotransmission in the PFC, the brain region that plays an important role in a wide variety of cognitive functions, including cognitive control and IQ (Green et al., 2012). Moreover, performances on diverse tests of cognitive function tend to correlate; this underlying covariance represents general cognitive ability (‘g’). It is therefore logical that COMT could affect general intelligence as well as specific executive tasks (Duncan et al., 2000)
In our study, we were able to test the effect of the COMT gene on cognitive abilities at different developmental stages. It has been reported, that the heritability of general cognitive ability increases significantly and linearly from childhood through young adulthood (Haworth et al., 2010). In line with this observation, a recent study of 6–20-year-olds showed that visuospatial working memory capacity exhibited an age by genotype interaction with a benefit of the Met allele emerges during adolescence (Dumontheil et al., 2011).
The level of a reproductive hormone oestrogen, which down-regulates COMT transcription (Xie et al., 1999), increases during puberty in girls. This suggests that adolescence is an important developmental period, when the sex difference in COMT activity emerges (Xie et al., 1999), and the effect of COMT on cognitive abilities between boys and girls differentiates. Therefore, adolescence can be an important period when the sex difference in COMT activity emerges, and the effect of COMT on cognition between boys and girls differentiates. However, our study was not able to confirm the effect of COMT variation in adolescent girls or boys at age 15. It remains unclear whether the previously reported age-specific effect may be due to puberty. The puberty-by-gene interaction effects were not significant in boys, and there is a lack of power in our study since the group of prepubescent boys is small. On the other hand, many developmental changes may occur between ages 8 and 15 years, and young people are exposed to influences from many environmental factors. Therefore, we cannot exclude possible genotype-environment interaction on cognition. Recently, epigenetic mechanism for the interaction of the COMT with lifetime stress has been discovered: the greater stress led to lower methylation of the Val158 that was related to reduced cortical efficiency during a cognitive task (Ursini et al., 2011). Future studies will need to address these issues by employing longitudinal designs, using repeated measures of cognitive functions, and exploring the effects of specific DNA variants in interaction with environmental factors on trajectory of changes across cognitive development.
In conclusion, the present longitudinal study provides some evidence that COMT variation may affect cognitive function in a sex or developmental stage-specific manner. Further studies are necessary in order to make stronger conclusions.
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We wish to thank all the survey members for their participation. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [to M.R., P.B.J., D.G, and T.J.C.], Medical Research Council [to D.G., M.R.], and the Department of Health (NIHR) [Career Scientist Award to T.J.C.]. Dr. Barnett is an employee of Cambridge Cognition, Ltd.; and she is also a co-inventor on patent PCT/GB2005/003279 (methods for assessing psychotic disorders). Prof. Jones has received research grant support from GlaxoSmithKline; he has received a speaker's honorarium from Eli Lilly; and he is a co-inventor on patent PCT/GB2005/003279 (methods for assessing psychotic disorders). Drs. Gaysina, Xu, Croudace, Wong and Richards report no competing interests.
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Andrachne is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is one of eight genera in the tribe Poranthereae.1 Andrachne comprises 22 species. They are monoecious herbs or subshrubs, native to semideserts and desert margins of the Americas, southern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia.1 The genus Andrachne was established by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum in 1753.2 Linnaeus took the name from Theophrastus, but it is not clear what plant Theophrastus used the name for.3
The circumscription of the genus has varied since it was first established by Linnaeus. It was last revised by Vorontsova and Hoffmann in 2008.1 They recognized 22 species and divided Andrachne into two subgenera. Andrachne subgenus Phyllanthidea contains six species and its type species is Andrachne microphylla. Andrachne subgenus Andrachne contains 16 species and its type species is that of the genus, Andrachne telephioides.4 Vorontsova and Hoffmann segregated Pseudophyllanthus ovalis, Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, and Phyllanthopsis arida from Andrachne where many authors had placed them.
The names Eraclissa 5 and Telephioides 6 have been used for one or more species of Andrachne. Both of these names have been obsolete for many years.
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Birmingham Conservation Trust works to find imaginative and sustainable solutions for historic buildings in the City that are threatened with dereliction and decay. With its charitable status, the Trust can draw in funds from Lottery and other charitable trusts to tackle buildings no one else will touch and in the process create attractive places to work, live and play.
The Trust also has an educational remit to promote an understanding and awareness of Birmingham's architectural heritage. It does this through talks, lectures and running open days at relevant properties. In this way it remains close to the local communities, who have an interest in the buildings being restored.
The group is run by a board of trustees with a wide range of skills, who represent interest groups in the City and the City Council Planning Department. Once projects are completed any proceeds are ploughed back into future projects.
In recent years the Trust has:
Saved the last courtyard of Back to Backs in Birmingham.
In 2004 the Trust completed an exciting and ambitious scheme to rescue the last courtyard of Back to Backs in the city and secure their future. The Trust raised over .8 million and undertook a complete programme of repairs.
The buildings were then handed over to the National Trust who has taken on the long term management. The project, which featured in a five-part documentary by Carlton TV, has been an outstanding success, drawing in over 40,000 visitors in the first year, becoming a focus for community links and attracting a number of prestigious awards.
Completed a feasibility study for Perrott Folly, Edgbaston.
This magnificent seven story Grade II* listed 18th century tower had serious structural problems and needed a new use to secure its future maintenance. However, this is not an easy project as the rooms are small and the stairs are steep and difficult. Working with the local community, the Trust has completed a detailed study, which explored all available options. As an immediate result of the study, the Trust undertook emergency repairs.
Developed a scheme to open Newman Brothers Coffin Works to the public.
Newman Brothers is a most unusual survival of a Victorian coffin fittings factory, complete with all its machinery and much of its stock. In its heyday the company exported its goods across the world and their name is a byword for the highest quality coffin handles and shrouds.
Listed Grade II* by English Heritage in 2000, the factory was under serious threat of re-development but following an application from the Trust to Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency bought the factory and agreed to fund Birmingham Conservation Trust to implement a mixed use scheme, whereby the most interesting parts would be opened to the public and the remaining areas converted into offices to generate income for the public parts. This is now the Trust major priority and is likely to costs approximately £2.5 million.
Improved the capacity of the Trust.
The Trust has continued to increase its capacity to undertake its challenging work. Not only has the Board has been strengthened by the introduction of several new active members with appropriate skills but staffing hours have also been increased.
Thanks to the huge publicity and success of the Back to Back project the Trust has been transformed from a relatively unknown organisation to one is recognised regionally and nationally.
The Trust website contains full information on all aspects of the trust work.
Priorities for the Future
- Continue to develop partnerships with local communities and other organisations in the City to facilitate the repair and renewal of buildings at risk
- Full develop and implement the Newman Brothers Coffin Works scheme
- Continue to raise awareness of the potential of the City buildings for re-use and regeneration
- Encourage access and enjoyment of Birmingham historic buildings by opening them to the public
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A Winter Fuel Payment is a tax-free payment paid to help with the cost of winter fuel bills. It is paid to people of the qualifying age (in general, anyone aged 60 or over). Winter Fuel Payments do not depend on how cold the weather gets.
WHO CAN GET A WINTER FUEL PAYMENT
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HOW MUCH IS A WINTER FUEL PAYMENT
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If you are not sure which rate of Winter Fuel Payment you are entitled to, you should consult an experienced adviser. There are other payments that are only paid when the weather reaches a certain temperature, called Cold Weather Payments. These are made to people on some income related benefits during cold weather. If you think you should have received Cold Weather Payments, you should contact your pension centre or Jobcentre Plus.
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If you successfully claimed a Winter Fuel Payment in a previous year and your circumstances have not changed, you do not need to make a claim again.
If you think you may be entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment you should request an application form from the Winter Fuel Helpline 0845 9151515.
CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
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If you have made a claim for a Winter Fuel Payment and do not get one, or get less than you think you should, you can challenge the decision which has been made on your claim. If you have not made a claim, you should get in touch with the Winter Fuel Payments helpline and ask for a formal decision to be made. Once you have a decision, you can ask the office to look at the decision again or you can appeal. If you are not happy with the service provided by the Winter Fuel Payments helpline or the Pension Service because of mistakes or delays or any other issue, you can complain. You can do this whether or not you also want to challenge a decision. You should also consult an independent advisor to assist you with this.
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Published on 29th March 2012 by Gareth Halfacree
EVGA's new warranty policy, due for announcement early next month, brings some welcome new extras for customers.
More like this: Custom PC magazine - 3 issues for £1
Originally Posted by mattbaileyMore importantly, if you have family in the USA, you can get a GTX 680 for US$499, send it over and retain the warranty, and US$499 is £314 :D
Originally Posted by mattbaileyship them marked as a gift!
Goods sent as a gift that are over £40 in value are liable to import VAT.
Originally Posted by r3loadedNice, it'll be an EVGA card for me when it's time to upgrade!
Originally Posted by faugusztinGood luck with that. For stuff woth more than 30-40 euros you will pay VAT even if the sender marked it as a gift.
Originally Posted by bdigitalcha-ching!!
Originally Posted by faugusztinQuote:Originally Posted by mattbaileyship them marked as a gift!
Good luck with that. For stuff woth more than 30-40 euros you will pay VAT even if the sender marked it as a gift.
Quote:Goods sent as a gift that are over £40 in value are liable to import VAT.
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cha-ching!!
Now, if only they'd release an overclockable Ivybridge-E chip to go in their SR-X board, I'll be queuing up...
Asus and Gigabyte.... take note!!! This is how you build a loyal customer-base.
I'll be taking a closer look at them next time I go to upgrade.
Good luck with that. For stuff woth more than 30-40 euros you will pay VAT even if the sender marked it as a gift.
I have had a couple of items slip the import VAT net in the past - but not many. Maybe worth the risk as you aren't losing anything - if you do get stung then you are paying the same price as you would over here anyway ;)
Hmmm. Didnt know that! Oh well. Stuck with rip off UK plc prices! When can I emigrate?
I love EVGA! EVGA FTW!
Sorry, just had to get that out of my system having seen that!
Ummm, how come I typed in "F-T-W" (Had to put in the dash otherwise it makes it Cheesecake for some reason LOL) and it came out as Cheesecake?
Thanks Brumgrunt and Bit-Tech for bringing this to my attention!
Yep, that's an awesome way to gain more customers.
Mine will be hand delivered :D
Having a good warranty goes a long way for me.
Yea plus postage and VAT / import duties.
More like WTF :'(
Then value the card less than £40 (who's to say you are wrong, it could be faulty, or presumed faulty). Though if the postman 'loses' it or it's damaged in transit, you won't be covered for more than £40. A risk perhaps worth taking, maybe not, since the warranty won't cover your shipper dropping it.
Also, assuming you have relatives in a place with cheaper stuff, you might visit them once in a while or vice versa. So carry it in the luggage, gift wrap it, and value it <£40 and chance your arm at 'nothing to declare'.
The net of the inland revenue is pretty lose, and you can often dodge it just by trying. I've even bought things from Thailand DDU (duty unpaid) and we've only paid taxes for it once out of a number of times.
If you think of the amount of times you've gone abroad with electronic kit in your bag (potentially expensive), who is to say it isn't brand new, or that you brought it with you to start with? The taxman is ruthless, but he isn't 'that' clever.
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He will replace Robert Edwards, who has been promoted to president of the Pleasanton-based grocer. Bocian will start Feb. 19.
Safeway is poaching Bocian from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was executive vice president and head of corporate services and finance. Before that, he was executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Hewlett-Packard for three years. He has also served as CFO and chief administrative officer at Starbucks and worked in various positions at Ohio-based NCR Corporation.
Bocian holds a bachelor of arts in Russian and masters in business administration in accounting from Michigan Sate University. He also served in the U.S. Navy.
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Exclusive | BJ Penn Transcript Part 4 | Rematching Tri-Star A Priority, "At The Time I Didn't Want Those Other Fights, I Wanted GSP After UFC 94" | UFC NEWS
Fans look forward to UFC 152 where Rory MacDonald faces the future Hall of Famer BJ Penn. They participate on Just Scrap Radio Episode 8 to ask the everlasting question on BJ Penn’s cardio. BJ explains the cardio issue can get complicated with over training and taking fights on short notice.
BJ Penn fan wrote on facebook: “Please ask BJ what he’s doing with his cardiovascular training? I’m a huge BJ Penn fan it’s hard to watch BJ in a lot of his fights because he can gas the 2nd round. His cardio was Couture like when he trained with Marinovich. Is there any chance he will go back to Marinovich training?”
BJ Penn:
“There has been some fights I’ve taken on short notice. I’ve come in there and I haven’t been in shape but a lot of the times – and no one is gonna buy this – the mistake I made is that I’ve worked out too much and I use all my energy by the time I get to the fight – I’m so burnt out from listening to 10 different coaches and listening to 10 different coaches argue with each other. The training camp starts and I can spar, I can go 10 rounds a couple of weeks before the fight I can’t even go the 1st round. That’s just different mistakes that everybody collectively as a team. It’s tough with a person from the outside to gauge what that guy is doing but if your fighter ends up going to a fight with an injury or over trained or whatever it maybe. A lot of coaches don’t want to take the blame but I would have to think that’s the coach’s fault.
You almost want to tell a guy when you hire them, because a lot of people they walk up to you all the time and they say ‘c’mon I can do this, this, this and I can make you so great and I can do this and that’ and I want to tell them ‘And if you don’t? And if you don’t and we fail – can you pay me? Can you give me the money that I’m going to lose?’ you know what I mean ‘why don’t we put your money as deposit? That’s how I feel about different coaches that come up to me and say ‘I can help you this and that’ I just want to tell em ‘If it doesn’t go as you say – you pay me whatever money that we lose – if something goes wrong. ’ I don’t know how many coaches will put their money on the line for that.
On another note talking about Marinovich, Marinovich is a great coach, great trainer. He knows how to train a lot of different sports and I definitely learned a lot from Marinovich over the time. A lot of people talk about those fights the Kenny Florian and Diego fights. And people ask different things, to tell you the truth that Kenny Florian fight was after the GSP fight and I was so embarrassed by the way everything went. One day I’m beating Sean Sherk and I’m the best fighter on the planet and I got a bad fight with GSP and everybody’s saying ‘ah, you’re making excuses. You aint good’ I was just so motivated coming out of the gates for that. I wanted to fight Kenny Florian, fight Diego. Dana White was taking to me about putting on another fight with GSP after the Diego fight. To tell you the truth I never wanted to fight Frankie Edgar, Matt Hughes, Jon Fitch and Nick Diaz. I wanted my revenge for UFC 94 when that all went down because that was big news at the time. I didn’t even want to fight those other fights. Those were just fights I was doing. I don’t even know why I was doing those fights. I was just fighting because I just hate to sit at home and sit on the couch but that’s just everything that happened. I’m not sitting here just obsessing about the whole thing with whatever controversy happened at the 94. Like I said that’s the past. I got nothing to say on that – all that is done at this point.
I got a lot of offers with other guys to fight but when I got the offer from Rory. I’m thinking ‘Good, I get to fight that brain of Tri-Star gym. ‘a lot of it is Faraz. They got a good thing going up there. They got a good team. They’re making a lot of waves. They’ve got St Pierre who’s going to go down as the greatest welterweight in history. They got another guy who they say ‘This is him. This is who’s going to be the champion.’ I don’t know – Like I said ‘I’m not thinking about any belts but I’m pretty good myself. I want to show them. I want to show the world that you’re not just gonna walking in and kick my butt for 4 rounds – no ways! You’re going to the hospital too. If I go to the hospital – you’re going to the hospital too.”
You hear fellow UFC Champion Jens Pulver in the background proudly saying “My boy, my boy” as BJ Penn finishes his sentence.
BJ Penn has more to say just<<
thanks for setting the record straight for all the critics
I don’t buy BJ’s reasoning for only winning 1 of his last 5 fights. If BJ wanted to avenge his loss to GSP, I don’t understand why BJ would be unmotivated to fight Fitch or Diaz. Cause if he wins against those two guys, he is next in line to fight GSP. So by that logic, why would BJ be motivated now to fight Rory? I just don’t believe it. Something else was and is going on. This makes no sense to me.
If I may, I’d like to give my take on all this. You see until UFC94, BJ had never been dominated like he was by GSP. Then GSP and Faraz came out afterwards and gloated about how they broke down BJ’s game and came up with a gameplan to beat him, including all the greasegate stuff and all. Just a bunch of poor sportsmanship in rubbing his nose in it and patting themselves on the back. Bullshit character moves. Now BJ being a warrior first and a fighter second, did not like what happened and wanted to rectify the mistakes made in his preparation for that fight. But there was no way White was going to allow BJ another GSP fight soon so he decided to beat up the 55ers for awhile and look to ww later.
Now he fights Edgar, how could anybody get up to fight Edgar at that time??? So then he takes a break and sees his chance to get back to the ww but White tells him he has to fight a few top guys. But he is in the later part of his career and wants GSP. I believe that he told us the truth and he wastn’t motivated to work hard to beat them. Let;s face it he was beating everyone of them until late rounds.
Now Rory challenges him and Rory is a big heir apparent to GSP. So it gives him a chance to beat not only Rory, but Faraz and GSP. He also knows that when he beats Rory, he is Condit, Kampmann away from GSP.
anyways that’s what I think….
It’s Firas not Faraz.
So he went to Welterweight, and knew that if he beat the contenders put before him who could get a shot at GSP but couldn’t get worked up to do it… But that if he beats Rory he is two fights away from another fight so that will motivate him? That makes as much sense as a healthy deep fried Mars Bar. It is illogical.
And for the record, at no stage in the Diaz fight was he winning that fight.
dude, he won the first round, go and watch the fight, he took Diaz to the ground and took his back! what are you talking about?
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Featuring its roster of World Champions, the Evolve Fight Team (), Asia’s #1 ranked professional fight team, does the Harlem Shake. With World Champions in Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Wrestling, and No Gi Grappling, the Evolve Fight Team is the most decorated professional fight team in Asia. Evolve MMA is Asia’s top martial arts organization.<<
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The “Leo” of this poem is the legendary Black longshore union activist Leo Robinson, who died this past January. “The deep, dark chocolate brown, booming / Baritone brother sportin’ black, Lenin-like / Greek Fisherman’s cap / comin’ Coltranish….”
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“Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy.” The Lords of Capital, who are preparing to snatch chunks of cash straight out of ordinary people’s accounts in Cyprus, to pay for a bank bailout, are the same class that has “devalued the franchise of the 49 percent of Michigan’s Black population that live in municipalities and school districts under the thumb of outside financial managers.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford.”
Two heroic political prisoners need your urgent help. Albert Woodfox, of the Angola 3, has spent four decades in solitary confinement. Lynne Stewart, the people’s lawyer, is fighting cancer in a Texas prison cell. “Lynne’s family and legions of supporters are asking that she be given compassionate release from prison so that she can at least have a chance at survival.”..”
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In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of chaos is Washington’s default foreign policy as an alternative to “the Chinese handwriting on the wall.”.”....
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IBC-North Carolina Chapter and affiliate organizations offer services to the community that include: training and skills development programs, services to the elderly, performing arts programs, mentoring programs, scholarships, single-parent and family support programs affordable childcare and after school programs, neighborhood revitalization programs, housing, education and health initiatives, entrepreneur skills training, computer and internet technology programs, referral services, and crisis relief efforts.
IBC-North Carolina Chapter provides local non-profit organizations with the opportunity to raise funds in employee workplace campaigns through its umbrella Federation services. Organizations that provide services to Black, high-risk under-served communities join the federation. A limited number of community non-profit organizations receive funding from participation in employee workplace campaigns as they are unaware of this opportunity and or have the technical expertise to complete the process. There is a great need for the IBC Federations to help organizations with these challenges. The Federation approach provides the one-stop model for organizations to participate in the fund raising process to gain funding to help their constituency. IBC-VA helps organizations build a permanent base for funding programs services, supporting day-to-day operations and developing critical projects which allows expanded services to more people in need.
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Power, agility and speed are the traits that many executives exemplify in solidifying deals that accelerate their business. This week several professionals who Black Enterprise identified as Intelligent Performers were invited down to Leeds, Alabama where they were honored for a broad range of business achievements. They also got to match their skills against the same characteristics that define the best in driving performance at the Porsche Sport Driving School.
The hilly and scenic 2.38 mile Barber Motorsport Park is home to the school and offers 16 turns and more than 80 feet of elevation changes. Guided and directed by a team of full-time instructors trained as professional racecar drivers, the 16 participants were challenged and exhilarated by the demands of the course, which included learning how to better manage turns, braking and accelerating, as well as how to avoid spinning out of control on wet surfaces.
Among those driving the 911 Carerra, the Cayenne and the Panamera included Larry Barkley, Senior Vice President of Retail, Tourneau; Matthew Carter, President, 4G, Sprint; Bart H. Williams, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; Kevin Warren, President, U.S. Solutions, Xerox; BE 100s CEOs Tilmon F. Brown, CEO & President, New Horizon Baking Company Inc.; R. Donahue Peebles, CEO & Chairman, The Peebles Corp.; Charles H. James III, Managing Owner, C. H. James Restaurant Holdings LLC, and artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, head of Compound Entertainment, Shaffer “Ne-Yo” Smith.
Also along for the ride was the online winner of the Intelligent Performers competition JeFreda R. Brown, real estate agent with Keller Williams Realty in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information on how to sign up for classes, log on to.
See pictures from the Black Enterprise and Porsche Intelligent Performers event, including Ne-Yo, D Nice and more, here
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By Aiyana Ma’at
One of the best things I’ve learned to do to get my feelings out (especially when I’m feeling a whole lot) when I’m upset with Ayize is this: Write A Love Letter. It may seem counterintuitive. I mean when you’re mad or disappointed who feels like writing a Love Letter, right? I certainly don’t…but it works so I do it anyway. So, just how does it work and what does it do? Well, it does 3 things.
#1 It helps me to release (and stop holding onto) all of the feelings I’m having.
If you’re anything like me you can hold a grudge like nobody’s business. When I’m mad…I’m not kinda mad. I’m UPSET and I can run through whatever happened, how wrong my husband is, and why i’m so upset a million times in my head…over and over. It’s not helpful and it sure ain’t healthy but it has become a habit (a bad one) and so to interrupt the vicious cycle of “I’m mad, I have a right to be mad, and let me tell you why” playing like a broken record in my head I write so that I can just put my feelings down on paper, get them out, and see them in front of me. There’s something about seeing your pain on paper that helps to bring perspective to whether or not a feeling is what I say it is or whether or not it goes deeper than that (meaning Ayize has kicked up something in me but the feeling really goes deeper than what he said or did.
#2 It allows my husband to really get into my heart and mind and understand my perception of the situation and where I’m coming from.
He usually can do that much easier when I write a Love Letter letter because he doesn’t have to deal with my tone of voice (which may not be the best and ultimately doesn’t help him understand me) or having to answer me right away. He can sit with what I’ve written for a little while so that he can give his best response instead of responding defensively or critically.
#3 It always and I mean always helps me to get beyond my anger and move to where and why I’m hurt.
It never fails I usually begin my letter with the feelings that are easier for me to identify: “I’m mad because…” I’m upset because…” but it’s not long before I begin to tap into the deeper places in my heart and my pen begins to write : ” I love you so much because…” or “I’m hurt because… ” or “I need you because…”
Plain and simple writing a Love Letter when you’re mad as hell is the way out of that hell of emotions and back into the love and peace that you really want and need. To find our loving feelings, many times we need to first feel all our negative feelings. Writing Love Letters automatically lessens the intensity of our negative feelings and allows us to more fully experience our positive feelings. Here are some guidelines for writing your Love Letter.
- Address the letter to your partner. Pretend that he or she is listening to you with love and understanding.
- Include all of the feelings you are feeling…anger, sadness, fear, regret, and then love.
- After each section, pause and notice the next feeling coming up. Write about that feeling.
- DO NOT stop your letter until you get to the love. Be patient and wait for the love to come out.
- Sign your name at the end. Take a few minutes to think about what you need or want. Write it in a P.S. For example, P.S. I need to know that you still enjoy being my friend and being with me like when we first got together. I want to spend more time together starting with a date this weekend.
Nothing happens on accident. If you’re reading this then you very likely need to get to writing!
And, don’t forget to write until you get to the L-O-V-E! Stop Playing Start Pushing.
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Beauty sometimes have nothing to do with relation. The city of seance and the capacity of the brain is the matter. Be wise in your choice.
My hubby and I don’t happen to live in the same place right now. Was wondering if I could email my love thoughts wen am upset instead of writing it out and sending it in d mail.
I agree… I've always practiced this…when my feelings begin to overwhelm and I feel that my true feelings cannot be relayed verbally I always write letters… I've done it when in confrontations with friends and my significant other and it definitely helps me to gain perspective… but now with my next relationship I'll make sure to get to the L-O-V-E … thanks again… I just love the energy and advice you too bring… Much love and keep pushing
Baby that was beautiful. Almost as beautiful as you. Although you weren't writing this to or for me……while reading it I felt like I was sitting inside of your heart experience the simple things that make you and our love magic. I love you Queen.
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With investigations of Tennessee, Auburn, Ohio State, and Oregon taking center stage, college football fans have been given many opportunities to comment on the NCAA and its enforcement procedures. Here on Black Shoe Diaries, we've covered the Buckeye compliance issues at great length.
Despite our best efforts, we know that we aren't experts in the field - at least not yet. To help us understand the complex business of compliance and enforcement, we reached out to a person who has extensive experience in the topic - John Infante.
John Infante is the assistant director of compliance at Colorado State University. While performing the same job at
Towson University Loyola Marymount, John anonymously ran Bylaw Blog, an unofficial/opinionated guide to NCAA compliance issues. John discontinued the blog after his identity was revealed, but the site was so highly regarded that the NCAA encouraged him to continue. Now, the NCAA hosts it on its own website.
John was gracious enough to let me pick his brain on a variety of topics - the role of a compliance department, the effect of social media on college athletics, the rise of 7-on-7 club teams, and "cost of attendance" scholarship reform. And for those of you who are (or have become) serious soccer fans, there's a special bonus question for you at the end.
Like conference expansion last season, compliance has been this off-season's hot topic, even though most people know very little about it. As a compliance officer, can you elaborate a bit on what a school's compliance office actually does and how big the staff normally is?
The job of the compliance office is two-fold. First, it must maintain institutional control over and monitor the school's athletic departments. Second, like every other part of athletics administration, it must support the programs to reach their goals. So in addition to the monitoring, educating, and penalizing that gets compliance in the news, there's also an aspect of advocacy where the compliance office fights for favorable interpretations and waivers. At the BCS level, typically the staff is 3-4 people, although there are departments with 8-12. Below that, two or three is normal, with some smaller schools still having only one full-time compliance officer.
How far does a school's compliance responsibility go? When does the NCAA step in and take a larger investigative role?
When an investigation goes beyond the standard look into a potential secondary violation, there's really three ways it can go. The first is that the institution largely does the investigative work in-house. This is relatively rare at this point, and oddly enough is seen only at the largest schools with the biggest offices. Running a major infractions investigation essentially doubles a compliance office's work. So most BCS schools choose the second option, which is to hire outside counsel.
The third option is to simply throw open the doors and allow the NCAA to come in and control the investigation. This is normally not required though because of the principle of institutional control. Ultimately the institution is responsible, so it's up to the institution to do a thorough investigation if it chooses to. The NCAA's enforcement staff and the Committee on Infractions decide what a thorough investigation is though. Even if the school does the legwork, the enforcement staff will still make sure it gets what it needs from the institution.
In recent history, we've seen investigations against power programs like USC, Tennessee, Auburn, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, and even newcomers like Boise State. Is the NCAA expanding their staff and the scope of their investigations? Or is this a particularly turbulent time in college sports?
I think it's less about the expansion of the staff as it is a philosophy change. The method of focusing on areas like agents or basketball or football clearly works. It allows the NCAA staff members to build the relationships, the sources, and the leads that ultimately lead to exposing programs and people that aren't following the rules.
But there are a lot of factors outside of the NCAA's office in Indianapolis that are helping to increase the number of schools facing investigation. Members of the media, most notably Dan Wetzel and Charles Robinson have their own relationships and their own sources. Social media has made it harder to keep anything beyond the smallest violations quiet. It all adds up to more leads and tips for the enforcement staff to follow.
How great of an impact has the rise of social media had on the NCAA rulebook? Are we regulating something that's nearly impossible to control?
It's changed the traditional definitions of how coaches contact recruits. It's harder to differentiate between a phone call, a text message, and a letter. The other problem is that change comes much quicker. When Facebook changed their messaging system, it didn't need to spread slowly. Every teenager adopted it immediately.
So regulating how coaches get in touch with recruits is getting impossible. You can still regulate when coaches speak to recruits, especially when they start, and that's the direction the recruiting bylaws will have to go in the future.
Does the compliance model we've laid out actually work? The NCAA is a fairly small operation, at least compared to the larger member schools like Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, and Florida. If it doesn't have subpoena power, aren't we really just counting on schools to act in good faith?
One recent trend is the adoption of a more defensive stance by some member schools facing allegations. Until a few years ago, it was difficult for a school to put up a vigorous fight against major infractions allegations. The reason was that once you had to investigate a major infractions allegation, you could either stonewall or you could actually do the investigation. No school had the resources to do both.
Now with the growth of compliance staffs and the rise of outside counsel, it is possible for a school to comply with its obligation as an NCAA member to cooperate but still put up a strong defense against the charges. It has become the classic case of the private sector having more firepower than their regulators.
Simply expanding the NCAA's enforcement staff isn't necessarily the answer, because the enforcement model is based on institutional control. To really change the enforcement model, you would need to drop or deemphasize the idea of institutional control, and change the relationship between the members and the institutions. That would be long road, but it's one that at least deserves a look at this point.
When you talk about changing the relationship between member institutions and the NCAA, what do you mean? If we mean making the process more adversarial, how much are we at risk of the power conference members throwing up their hands and withdrawing in order to start their own league?
Just because the process wouldn't be based on institutional control doesn't mean there wouldn't be cooperation. A prosecutor and a defense attorney can still work together. All the NCAA members, especially those in the power conferences, want a more consistent enforcement process. If that requires it to be more adversarial, to define roles more clearly, that's what it will take.
How can we reform the system to make enforcement more effective? Is expanding the enforcement staff the answer? Or would it be better to consider rewriting the rulebook to focus exclusively on major violations?
Just expanding the enforcement staff is not the entire answer. That said, I don't think you'll find a single person in college athletics who says the NCAA has too many or even enough people on the enforcement staff. Expanding enforcement, both in numbers and in tactics, is one part of the puzzle. And the NCAA is doing so, with new positions being hired and more staff members out in the field.
The Division I Manual is certainly overdue for an overhaul. 99% of the college sports world can agree on some core concepts. There should be some academic requirement. There should be some limit on what the institution can pay players. There should be a way for recruits to not have their lives taken over by coaches. And there should be some limit on how much coaches are allowed to ask of athletes in terms of practice.
The trouble is that when you wipe out the existing rules and try to start from just those principles, getting almost 350 very different and fiercely independent schools to agree is very hard. So hard that it might not happen. So major changes in the rulebook are less about what those changes will be and more about which schools and sports will be in the highest level of college athletics when you're done.
You were recently a guest on a podcast with CBS Sports' Mike Norlander where the two of you discussed the loosely regulated AAU model. We've previously spoken here on BSD about the rise of 7-on-7 club teams. Do these teams and tournaments really pose the same kind of problems for football recruiting that they do for basketball recruiting, or are we making a mountain out of a molehill?
Long-term, I'm of the belief that 7-on-7 poses a greater threat for problems in its current state than AAU basketball. In the short term though there's one major limiting factor: it's not real football. AAU is not just real basketball, in some ways it is superior to high schools basketball since top players regularly play with and against other top players. Right now 7-on-7 is just another place where "third parties" might latch onto a recruit. But it's far from the only place that can happen.
What troubles me about 7-on-7 is that it represents the first step toward real club football. Having figured out how to get football players playing and visible during the offseason, the next step is to have them playing the real thing. The problem is the physical toll of football is too much to have both high school and club football. So while AAU basketball exists alongside high school basketball, I'm confident that club football will eventually replace high school football. And if that happens with no regulation or structure in place, it will be the Wild West.
With the 7-on-7 model still in its formative stages, is it possible for the NCAA (maybe in partnership with the NFL) to be the regulating body for club football?
That would be difficult. The NCAA isn't a youth sports organization, so it's not part of the NCAA's expertise to run a national youth or high school-aged football league. It's not in the NFL's wheelhouse either, unfortunately. And there's less chance of club football teams producing players that can jump to the NFL. The NFL and NCAA will need to be partners for a real national club football structure to exist, but their role is more to favor that structure in how they scout and select players rather than to actually run it.
You've spoken a bit about competitive equity, which is obviously a concern for programs in non-BCS leagues. In a related topic, several conferences have begun discussing increasing scholarship amounts to cover "cost of attendance." What kind of impact would this proposal have on teams in smaller leagues, or even smaller schools in the BCS conferences themselves?
The greatest impact is likely to be felt in Division I's "middle class," that is the schools you mentioned plus the FCS. The reason is that any proposal would be targeted at football, and a school that does not sponsor football doesn't have to come up with a quarter million dollars for one team. So non-football schools are well positioned to weather or even profit from these proposals.
It's hard to say what the impact will be without seeing a full proposal. There are five or six different ways to have cost-of-attendance scholarships, and the price tag varies wildly. That said, the impact on competitive equity is likely to be felt more in nonrevenue sports than in football or basketball. Schools will come up with the money for football, men's basketball, and any Title IX obligation that results. But whether they can find the money for baseball, soccer, and hockey is another story.
One look at Bylaw Blog's Twitter account and you know how passionate you are about soccer. Jurgen Klinsmann - best possible hire for the Men's National Team?
Absolutely, especially at this time. Klinsmann was always something of a dream hire because he has a European pedigree but understands the current American system and the American player. He's a not a miracle worker or a sure thing, but as US Soccer transitions to a more European development system with the US Soccer Development Academy league and the MLS academies, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who understands both and has senior national team management experience.
Thanks to John for all of his insight. He's full of information and a pleasure to speak with. Make sure you visit the Bylaw Blog () and follow him on Twitter (@BylawBlog).
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There are Club social events throughout the year including formal and informal dinners, midweek lunches, barbecues, quiz nights, talks, cruising seminars etc.
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TweetWorks Focuses Twitter on The Conversations
Tweetworks is another service that works on top of Twitter to try and make it just a little more useful for you. If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with a group of people on Twitter, you may already know how hard it can be. There is a reply feature on Twitter, but you can only reply to one person. I’m sure you’ve seen tweets with seventeen different names included as “@” replies:
@aroundharlem @sistory @iluvblackwomen @soulpwr Check out my #blk group on Tweetworks!
You may even do this yourself. The problem is that everyone after @aroundharlem in the above example is not going to get the message under normal circumstances.
Groups and Threaded Conversations
This is where Tweetworks comes in. You can create and join groups around the topics that interest you. I created a #blk group that you can join as an example.
When you send a message to a group or reply to a message in a group, the message can also be sent out to Twitter as usual. It will include a link back to the original conversation. This allows anyone following you to click the link and join the discussion on Tweetworks. The conversations in Tweetworks are threaded, so it’s simple to follow what’s going on even when multiple people are involved.
In addition to posting to groups, you can also post public messages to Tweetworks to take advantage of it’s threading feature. You also have the option to moderate comments and give props by clicking the “BINGO!” star next to each comment.
Make Twitter Manageable
My mom recently informed me that she didn’t see the point of Twitter. The fact that the conversations had no context made it useless for her. Nobody was talking about anything interesting. Tweetworks makes Twitter more useful for those of us that are sometimes overwhelmed by things we don’t care about, AKA the noise. Just browse the groups, join one you like, and tweet away. You’re still participating on Twitter, but you’re only seeing what you want to see, having the discussions you want to have.Category: Social Networking, Trends, web 2.0 | Tags: #blck, tweetworks, twitter
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thanks for the info. I see twitter tools all the time, but not sure which ones work. I'll give this one a run.
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Rahsheen, you dear brothalove are a consistent techie life saver. Now I know what this tool is all about. Thank you for helping me organize my content and Twitter for 2009. I just joined TweetWorks and set up discussion groups for my two social networking sites and radio shows. Peace and Joy, Ananda
I appreciate your hard work Rahsheen thanks i have a huge plan to market the group believe me it will be used! A lot of stuff will be focused around Black History Month 09
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Masses, The
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Economic Systems
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newspapers and periodicals, revolution, socialism
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Although published only from January 1911 through December 1917, The Masses was perhaps the American left's best-loved magazine, publishing some of the age's leading artists and writers. In an era when the American socialist press included hundreds of daily and weekly papers, published in the dozens of languages spoken by a largely immigrant working class, The Masses and the more agitational International Socialist Review were the party's most prominent magazines until they were suppressed during World War I. After a modest beginning as an earnest exponent of an evolutionary road to socialism, The Masses was re-launched in 1912 with Max Eastman as editor and a core of artists and writers who ran the magazine as a cooperative. They proudly proclaimed it “A Revolutionary and not a Reform Magazine; a Magazine with a Sense of Humor and no Respect for the Respectable.” The reborn Masses embodied a fusion of avant-garde artistic and literary sensibilities with a more radical but eclectic socialist approach. The magazine was lively and irreverent, illustrated by some of the leading artists of the day and publishing contributions by radical labor leaders and other activists, side by side with prominent writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, John Reed , Carl Sandburg, and Mary Heaton Vorse. Many made their living in the commercial press, while contributing their more ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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Decibel Festival 2013 Lineup has seen it’s first wave of artists. For 2013 Decibel Festival will be celebrating 10 years taking place September 25-29, 2013, Seattle, WA. They will be breaking the artist announcements up into three equal parts. The second announcement will be on June 4th and the third and final announcement will be on August 6th. The majority of the headliners will be coming on the second or third announcements.
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Sandwell District is Dead. I knew something was up when the former record label/collective tumblr site started a random string of posts on February 4th, 6th, 9th and the final on the 27th with the above photo. Each post was blank with a reduction in the name of the site name WhereNext? until ending in just ? Each building the anticipation for what was happening next? Maybe the label was being re-instated since Sandwell District called it quits on December 31st, 2011. That was their official ending of regular audio communications from the label. But still promised a few performances from Sandwell District Live (Regis + Function).
Since then there have been a few Sandwell District Live performances and the tumblr site has released semi-regular communications in the form of mix tapes, past interviews and audio clips, releases on Downwards, announcements of live performances and releases from SD members including some from Regis, Silent Servent, Function and the return of British Murder Boys (Regis + Surgeon), and of course the occasional photographic art.
So what does DEAD mean? Sandwell District was once dead before, a long time ago before it involved anyone besides Regis. It was reborn and became a prolific addition to the modern era of techno. Given the way the label has been go genius-ly loosely handled… who the fuck knows… and that’s what makes it great. Till next time Sandwell District.
MUTEK 2013 Montreal will take place May 29th – June 2nd, 2013 and will include the lineup below.
The MUTEK 2013 Lineup has seen it’s first wave of headliners. Announced a little early this year for the festival of digital creativity and electronic music’s 14th edition. MUTEK 2013 Montreal dates are from May 29 to June 2, 2013, taking place over 5 days. The presale of passports and weekend passes – available at reduced rates and in limited quantities – has also began. The MUTEK PASSPORT will give access to the festival’s entire line-up and the WEEKEND PASS will give access to all events from Friday, May 31st to Sunday, June 2nd inclusively. The discounted rates only last until March 31st. Many more names will be added to this list in the weeks to come, most notably the crop of selected local and Canadian artists. Please leave comments on the MUTEK Montreal 2013 Lineup.
[Update] - Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory and Borderland (Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald) added to the lineup.
[Update] – MUTEK 2013 Schedule starts to take shape (below).
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DEMF 2013 Lineup – Movement 2013 Lineup Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 have all been announced from Paxahau. The dates for Movement 2013, Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, were announced back in September, again taking place in Hart Plaza, Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27, 2013 and now it’s time for the DEMF 2013 lineup. This years 2013 Movement Lineup looks amazing. There seems to be a few changes from the Movement 2012 Lineup with more of a focus on true techno in 2013.
Bringing back Ben Klock and Marcel Dettmann for a back to back set as in 2011, UK involvement with legendary Luke Slater as Planetary Assault Systems (Live) and Dave Clarke, Tommy Four Seven, Mike Parker, lots of west coast techno with both Silent Servant and Rrose from Sandwell District, Drumcell, Truncate, mid-west representation from DVS1, Carl Craig and the return of Richie Hawtin, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson to headline the electronic music festival.
Notable additions to the Movement 2013 Phase 3 lineup include: Lucy, Dubfire, Squarepusher – Live, MOBY – Dj Set, Deadbeat, Magda, Reference – Live, Annie Hall and Cajmere. The full alphabetical lineup is below.
More information on Movement 2013 Pre Parties and DEMF 2013 After Parties. Please leave us your comments on Movement 2013.
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Here’s our Best Music Podcast 2012 Part 2, focusing only on the second half of the year. Check out the Best Music Podcasts Part 1 for the first six months of 2012. To define our focus we like to concentrate on podcast series, not just one off mixes. Though as in part 1 we’ve added a new section at the bottom that includes free promotional dj mixes not available on a podcast series. We also ensure these are lasting mixes, ones that not only impress us on the first listen, but every listen throughout the year. We also will admit to possibly not listening to every music podcast from 2012, so if have some suggestions on sets that did not make it on the list, please – leave us a comment. These podcasts are ordered according to release date and podcast series.
This mix from Donato Dozzy, along with mixes from Svreca, Morphosis, Bill Kouligas and Peter Van Hoesen marked the end of a legacy. These were the final mixes from the MNML SSGS mix series as well as the blog itself, which found it’s way as a respected electronic music blog with a number of loyal readers over the years. Upon starting this mix I was expecting to hear the deep, beautiful, atmospheric techno the Italian producer is known for. What I found was delightfully unexpected and much more than I anticipated. This best music podcast 2012 is a mix of strictly hand drums vocals – and I’m a sucker for well crafted hand drum sets.
Untold is now known as one of the UK’s most vital DJs, producers and label managers. This made it onto the best music podcasts for 2012 because it’s a stellar mix with loads of outstanding recent techno cuts: none shining more than that of his own tracks, most notably ‘Motion The Dance’ and ‘Luminous’ from the Change In A Dynamic Environment series on his own Hemlock Recordings label.
Sit back and take a journey with this best music podcast of 2012. When you awake confused and disoriented and your recent memories seem like distant dreams you’ll know you’ve entered the mind of Vessel and seen just where this new project is headed musically.
Before hearing this live set from Decibel Festival 2012 I’d never heard of wndfrm, the experimental/ambient/minimalist sound from Portland’s Tim Wescott, yet I’ve been in awe of it ever since. It’s airy, atmospheric sound blended into dub techno is a perfect fit for Seattle’s annual festival of electronic music, performance, visual art and new media. Also check out the Headphone Commute – Decibel 2012 Showcase for a sample of more brilliant sounds from the festival this year.
Marcel Fengler may be my current top techno Dj. Which is saying quite a lot given he shares a residency at the legendary Berghain club with the likes of Marcel Dettmann and Ben Klock just to name a few. It really just comes down to Fengler’s taste in music. Every set I hear he’s playing the same techno and electronica tracks I just bought and even in this age of digital djing, syncing, auto beatmatching and midi controllers, it still is really just about the basics – what makes a good Dj is his passion, track selection and connect with the listener.
This mix from Ian Lehman on the podcast series from my good friends at Blank Code is a dangerous and diverse blend while staying true to techno purists. It made it to the best music podcast 2012 list simply because I connected with it more than any other on Blank Code’s dedicated weekly podcast. Speaking of dangerous and pure check out Blank Code’s latest release BCR003 Mutate – Circle 2 EP, probably their most soulful release as of yet.
I don’t need to say much about Adam X or the Electric Deluxe Podcast as I’ve written plenty about both throughout this blog and his Electric Deluxe Podcast from last year as ADMX-71 landed on our Best Music Podcasts 2011. I just love his taste and roots in industrial music as they mirror mine so closely.
As EPM perfectly stated “The Fear Ratio (AKA James Ruskin & Mark Broom) deliver a mix of twisted electronic genius.” This mix made it on the Best Music Podcasts 2012 because simply put, it’s a history lesson in electronic music - containing not only present day heavyweights such as Shed, Rob Hood and The Fear Ratio themselves but lots of gems from the Warp and Ninja Tune labels such as Aphex Twin, Autechre and Squarepusher. Mixing a generation of electronica and techno as well as hip hop from Gang Starr might prove to be a nightmare for a lesser experienced duo, but they pull it off beautifully making this an extremely memorable set.
I suspect Xhin let it all hang out whist playing for this hometown crowd in Singapore. This live Dj Mix can only be described as a new-age, digital speed garage as he blends segments of Depeche Mode and even Whitney Houston over a slew of electronic music genre’s while also tossing in the signature style of techno he has become known for. This mix is quite different from any I’ve heard from Xhin before and is eerily reminiscent of an early Dj Dan mix tape – with, of course, new sounds and flavors.
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We’ve again compiled a short list for the Best Music Podcasts 2012. This being the first edition for 2012, focusing only on the best music podcasts in the first half of 2012. As with last year’s best music podcasts 2011, there are lots a great music podcast to choose. To define our focus we like to concentrate on podcast series, not just one off mixes. Though for 2012 we’ve added a new section at the bottom that includes free promotional dj mixes not available on a podcast series. We also ensure these are lasting mixes, ones that not only impress us on the first listen, but every listen throughout the year. That being said there are probably some great, bangin’ mixes out there from djs with loads of turntable skills. Sets that would sound amazing if we were seeing them live. But that’s not always what we’re going for here. These are dj mixes that we enjoy listening to, time and time again, at the office, on road trips and hanging out with friends. Hopefully this will give you a chance to discover you own hidden gems you may have missed in the first half of 2012. We also will not admit to listening to every music podcast from 2012, so if have some suggestions on sets that did not make it on the list, please – leave us a comment. These podcasts are ordered according to release date. Check out our Best Music Podcast 2012 Part 2.
Sawf is a local on the Perc Trax label and known for his stripped-down techno with punchy kicks and pounding bass. Check out his remix of Forward Strategy Group ‘Mandate‘ off the Labour Division EP2. You can see where he gets his aggressive style by listening to this podcast. I’m completely drawn to this mix and placed it on the Best Music Podcasts 2012 list because it takes me back to my electronic music roots. Sawf serves up dark industrial and EBM with the likes of Ministry and Nitzer Ebb. Plus he tosses in one of my favorite tracks of all time the Aphex Twin – Nine Inch Nails remix/rework ‘At The Heart Of It All’ – a beautiful fucking track. This is also one of my favorite podcast series because you never know what to expect. You hardly ever hear a set the dj would play live and the tracks always seem to mirror their early influences.
This Resident Advisor Podcast was the first I’d heard of Developer, a techno producer from L.A. and owner of the Modularz label, although he’s been a dj for 20 years. Yes he has been rocking the L.A. techno scene on and off for 2 decades but it wasn’t until last year when he created his own label and productions that he started receiving international attention. This mix is deeper techno, something that wouldn’t be uncommon from fellow L.A. techno icon and Sandwell District cohort Silent Servant, which is probably what caught my ear and landed this on the Best Music Podcats 2012 list. Developer does admit this is an unusual set for him and though he’d like to “do something different than my usual pounding 40 tracks per hour aggressive techno style.” Though the style does reflect that of his own productions and I believe he tossed in some of his unreleased material at the time.
This Resident Advisor Podcast also happened to be the first I’d heard of this artist. Airhead is a new talent from the UK, good friend and collaborator of James Blake and signed to the R&S label. This mix landed on the Best Podcasts 2012 list simply for it’s variety and freshness. It’s a fun mix to listen to. Airhead describes, “It’s a collection of some of my favorite music as well as some of my own work, roughly divided into three sections. I spent a fair amount of time trying to strike a balance between the more dance floor-oriented tracks and quieter moments.” I agree and you’ve done a nice job with that.
Dadub is a live techno act and sole mixing engineers for Lucy’s Stroboscopic Artifacts label. One of my absolute top labels currently. I love Dadub’s dubby, inventive and atmospheric approach to techno production and their unique signature found on all Stroboscopic Artifacts releases. Check out the Way to Moksha release for some of the most brilliant and thought provoking techno of 2012. This particular mix is not one of their live sets but it is definitely dubby and atmospheric and much more soothing and airy. I spent many sunny summer afternoon’s kicking it with his mix in the backyard which is why I think it is one of the best music podcasts of 2012.
ASC has been known as a drum n bass producer from the UK but in the last few years he has been pushing out perfected IDM styled techno. I think every ASC mix I hear is outstanding and this one is no exception. I listened to his RA.233 podcast from the end of 2010 for all of 2011. Every track in this set is an original except just one. This mix definitely pushes into much darker and harder territory then I’ve heard from ASC in the past.
This podcast came out just before Movement 2012, giving listeners an insightful preview to their scheduled performance at the Detroit electronic music festival. Project 313 is a duo of Detroit natives who have been putting in work djing and promoting across the Motor City for years and their production team has taken shape nicely. I’ve heard a few other Project 313 sets prior, but this one set me back and got me real excited for their set on Memorial Day. This mix starts out deep and atmospheric and builds to an energetic experience with several waves in between, just as any good set should. I felt their inspiration pouring out of this podcast and it spilled right over into their set at Movement which is how it landed on our Best Music Podcasts 2012. The duo behind this live production team also founded the Blank Code record label and run some of the best events currently in the mid-west. Their Scene parties have been bringing in some phenomenal international talent into Detroit and the Scene-Interface afterparty was one of the highlights of this years Movement festival.
Modifyer is great concept – an experimental collection that serves as a platform for artists. I like podcasts series that surprise me and that’s exactly why I love this one. This mix from Amir Alexander could have been chosen at random and given me the same satisfaction as toiling through each and every process part. This mix made the Best Music Podcasts 2012 because I can hardly stand hip hop these days. In fact I avoid it like overweight chicks in a gym class kickball team. This mix however is not that hip hop. This shit is classic. Plenty of old Outkast, Wu Tang, East Coast, West Coast, R&B and turntable skills.
I’ve not going to say much about this one. No need. Just listen and be prepared. O/V/R Live in one of the most infamous clubs in Berlin. If you don’t know, now you know.
This is a great live performance from Redshape and it exemplifies his music and style perfectly.
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Navarra - Full Race Preview
A title showdown in the GT Pro-Cup class between the Belgium Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS trio of Stéphane Ortelli (MCO), Christopher Haase (DEU), Christopher Mies (DEU) and the Marc VDS Racing Team BMW drivers of Bas Leinders (BEL), Maxime Martin (BEL) and Markus Palttala (FIN), sees just three points between them as they go head to head for championship glory on Sunday 14th October.
In the Pro-Am Cup class there is no fewer than three Ferrari 458s gunning to be crowned 2012 champions. The AF Corse team of Louis Machiels (BEL) and Niek Hommerson (NED) have a slender three point advantage over the Vita4one Team Italy squad of Eugenio Amos (ITA), Giacomo Petrobelli (ITA) and Alessandro Bonacini (ITA). However, coming up on the rails after a strong 4th in class at the Nurburgring two weeks ago is the all-French SOFREV ASP trio of Jean-Luc Beaubelique, Ludovic Badey and Patrice Goueslard.
Anticipating the tension and excitement going to Navarra is Stéphane Ratel, Founder and CEO of SRO Motorsports Group, who said: “The final weekend of the 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series is all set to be a thrilling climax to a terrific season of close action throughout the classes. It is a testament to the series as a whole that we will probably not know the various title winners until the very closing stages of the race next Sunday.”
Keeping with the remarkable entry lists that have been seen in the Blancpain Endurance Series throughout 2012, the finale sees close to 50 cars on the provisional entry list with Audi, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Jaguar represented.
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With the end of Spring rapidly approaching, the Cubs are going to have to make a couple roster moves to get the 40-man roster in line, with the expected additions of guys like Blake DeWitt, Joe Mather, Rodrigo Lopez, and possibly another reliever. Look for some things to happen in the next couple days.
- The baseball world went extension crazy over the last few days, with the two big ones being Giants starter Matt Cain (5 years, $112.5 million) and Reds first baseman Joey Votto (10 years, $225 million). Both deals, at first glance, look huge, particularly for extensions. But I think we’re seeing the combined impact of the new CBA’s obvious efforts to funnel more money to the big league payroll side, and of new/improved sources of revenue (e.g., TV deals). These deals, at this price level, is probably the new normal. Adjust expectations accordingly. As for the particular deals, the impacts are at once obvious (Votto stays in the division for a long time, Cain isn’t available for teams like the Cubs to bid on after this season), and hard to predict (does Cain being locked up make Matt Garza more expensive in trade? or less expensive, because he’s going to cost a whole lot to sign long term? are the Reds going to regret such a long, huge commitment to Votto? or was it necessary because of the Reds’ efforts to get a new TV deal and to keep fans happy?). By the way, that beautiful picture comes courtesy of The Father-in-Law on our Spring Training trip. Best guess? Votto was telling Rolen about his new contract.
- Carlos Marmol has changed the grip on his fastball, which is allowing him to get some sink. The velocity on his fastball isn’t what it once was, so the more movement Marmol can get on it – and the more he can command it – the better. That way, he isn’t always relying exclusively on his slider (which will make his slider all the more devastating). Marmol had a rough early Spring, but has been better of late. I don’t really read too much into either half of the Spring – instead, I see a guy who lost some movement on his slider last year, lost velocity on his fastball last year, and lost confidence in his ability to throw the fastball for a strike without getting blasted last year. I need to see those things change, and I can only see that when the regular season rolls around.
- Ian Stewart and Steve Clevenger will become tremendously less valuable assets on Thursday. They turn 27 and 26, respectively, that day. Too old. Dump ‘em while they still have value. Today or tomorrow.
- Dale Sveum isn’t into huge pump-up speeches, so he’s not really expecting to give one to the Cubs this week.
- Marlon Byrd says there’s nothing like being a Chicago Cub. I still like that guy.
- Kerry Wood says the Cubs are itching to get the season started. I still like that guy.
- Baseball Nation previews the 2012 Cubs, and it sounds like many previews you’ve heard before.
- 25 years ago today, the Cubs dumped seemingly washed up pitcher Dennis Eckersley on the A’s. Oops.
- You have another day to win a pair of free tickets to the Cubs’ April 12 game against the Brewers (hopefully a nice crew of BN’ers will be there). Details here.
49 responses to “It’s an Extension Explosion and Other Bullets”
“25 years ago today, the Cubs dumped seemingly washed up pitcher Dennis Eckersley on the A’s. Oops.”
I believe they did in response to Al Campanis’ comments on Night Line the night before…
I thought it was the same day?
Votto’s extension starts in two years after his contract is up? Or is it 8years added to his current contract? Either way, he’ll be 38years old at the least at contracts end ..no thanks
in 10 years, I think $22.5 a year for a 1st baseman is going to be Carlos Pena money. Either way, he becomes the Chipper Jones of the Reds – lots of value behind that.
The guys on MLB Network this morning were talking about how overpaid Cain is – in the past 5ish years Cain is 4 games under .500 while Lincecum is 26ish over. And that, my friends, is about the only time that wins and losses matter for a starting pitcher these days, when you can compare them to a teammate over a stretch of time.
If the Giants extend Timmy in the next to years they might just have to field a AAA since I’m sure Lincecum will expect to be the highest pitchers ever.
I wonder if they’re going to let Timmy walk, and extend bumgrarner instead.
It’s certainly possible. Timmy isn’t anywhere near the pitcher he once was, with a 91-92 fastball now instead of 94-95. And he’s already facing concerns over the longterm health of his arm, cause he said yesterday that he’s scrapping his slider because it puts too much stress on his arm. His frame just isn’t built to sustain a long pitching career, and I’m sure the giants have similar concerns
“And that, my friends, is about the only time that wins and losses matter for a starting pitcher these days, when you can compare them to a teammate over a stretch of time.”
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I still don’t think they matter. If you go to only 3 years it’s Lincecum 13 over and Cain 9 over.
And neither pitcher is the same guy they were back in 2007 and 2008. Cain is definitely better now, and Lincecum is the same but I bet you can make an argument he’s declined a tad.
But I agree with him being overpaid. (Votto too).
And that is why you do your own research before you blabber everywhere. Cain has been pretty good, 2.97 ERA over the past 3 years.
I don’t think Votto is overpaid. 30 homers, .300/.400/.500 every year – those are solid numbers. That is certainly no worse than Fielder, although Fielder will give you better power numbers but a worse glove.
Votto is not overpaid now, and won’t be for a few years. The problem is that he’s a firstbaseman, and he cannot “age down” to some other position. And, good a hitter as he is now, he (probably) will not be this good a hitter towards the end of the contract. (If the NL has DHs by then, it will be less of an issue, obviously: he still [probably] will be above average.)
This might be one advantage of signing good-hitting SS, 2B and CFers to long term contracts: they can “age down” to other positions. However, you then have to make sure that they are good hitters relative to league average, not CF or middle-infield average!
These signings are pointing to the payrolls skyrocketing in the next few years. Soon a team will have 100M a year committed to 4/5 players. By next year Soriano will look like a steal
Or he’ll think he deserves MORE money!!!
We should probably lock up Castro for 10 years/100m ASAP.
nah, go whole hog and do 20/200
I think $40M or less locks up Castro for 5-7yrs (now, before he adds 20 homers to another. 300 hitting season)
Castro’s not dumb, he knows that he’ll be worth a ton when he hits free agency, and he’ll be what like 25-27. no way he signs an extension until at least a couple years into arbitration. any extension he signs will be minimum 100 mil guaranteed and that would probably still be a steal.
He’ll barely be 28/29 on a 6 year extension. He has 4 arbitration years (maybe 3) after this 2012 season, he’s not thinking about free agency. An extension now will guarantee him $20M-$30M for his arb years at the price of losing $10M or so on a couple free agent/club option years, that he can get back when he signs the blockbuster deal at age 28/29
I think you need to look at the Justin Upton and Andrew McCutchen type contracts to see what Castro should get…
Cameron Maybin and Elvis Andrus, too. I agree.
Andrus yes, but not Maybin’s contract (he’s not as good as Castro)
& the 6yrs $51M for McCutchen&Upton is too much for Castro imo. McCutchen played a full 3yrs as a power&rbi guy before signing ..Upton did sign his extension after only 2 seasons but he also had 41 homers & easy projectable 30 homer power
The number to lock up Castro now before he adds another AllStar type season to his resume is somewhere in between Andrus’ 3yrs/$14M but much lower than $51M over six years
I think it will be much closer to the $51M than you let on there. McCutchen is 3 years older than Castro and as such, his power should be there. I could see a 6 year $42M deal getting it done but probably closer to 6/48
Castro giving up a few dollars but also potentially becoming a free agent in the middle of his peak years.
The Al Campanis Nightline appearance came a few days later. It was on April 6, 1987.
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And here’s a great piece from ESPN OTL (the only thing worth watching on ESPN)
The Adrian Gonzales contract has always looked awesome, but as more and more of these get signed….it’s starting to look amazing.
ya, he has to be pretty ticked off he left $75M on the table
and hes the best of the bunch in my opinion. (obvioulsy pujols is amazing, but his at his age, the deal is inexplicable)
Ian and Steve’s birthdays are tomorrow (4/5) so the are not baseball old yet
AHH! Correction imminent!
Like everyone here, part of me will always wish that I could have been a big leaguer. However, at 39, people describe Chipper Jones as if he’s a wizened old man. When I was 39, I got an award for being an outstanding *young* researcher. I think that I like my “middle age” coming in my late 40′s rather than my late 20′s, thanks!
Believe me, I want to punch myself in the face every time I refer to a player in his late 20s as “older.”
(The Stewart/Clevenger bit was obviously tongue-in-cheek.)
Haha Brett, you said you like guys…
Will see if Boston goes back to Oakland and asks for more compensation?
Bam.
Reading the constant convenient and even “relished” predictions be baseball people about the Cubs I wonder if a Gomer Pyle; SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE might be in order, maybe served with some special baseball “mustard”. I recalled that SD, SF and AZ had similar prognostications and then September rolled around suddenly the world said HOW?
Maybe it just is I have competed in my youth and know how much difference great coaching and preparation has when previous your coaching corps simply sucked. It is like a pin ball machine as players come prepared and compete in preparation instead of mailing it in. Reading the article quoting Woody about defense and then seeing what Borzy is doing with the catching corps and how McKay is taking on the Cubs piss poor baserunning and defense positioning only good things will result. The other big deal was Sveum a former SS protege taking Castro under his personal project and working on his defense and overall approach to the game. Finally yesterday’s revelation about using technology and statistics regarding situational hitting….
Now the team must stay healthy and actually perform but I think this might be a surprising year. Can this all be served with a tomato, pickle and some onions as well?
I agree, Ivy Walls. I’ve been saying it on here quite a bit. I don’t expect them to make the playoffs, but I expect them to exceed current expectations. Why? For the same reasons you stated above. The management of this team is different from years past, and I think that’s worth at least 5 wins above what people are expecting. I also think we have guys like Barney and LaHair, who people write off, who could make a major impact on the team. Plus if Soriano, Soto, and Stewart have better than average seasons, our lineup is not as woeful as people expect. But most importantly, I think we have a solid pitching staff (recognizing question marks in the bullpen). I’ll say it again: 75-80 wins.
A related side question: if you *knew* the Cubs, trying their hardest and performing their best, could win only 80 games this year, would you rather they did that, or would you rather they won, like, 50 games, and were a nightmarish pile of awful?
If they win 80 games at least you know there is something to build around. But, if they were the Astros, and only won 50 games, do you really want to build around any part of a team like that? I think I know where your going with your premise though. You would be drafting number one and have more money available in the new CBA for signing the drafted players.
Brett,
Here is the catch on that question.
It is easy to say that a 50 win team is actually a better outcome than an 80 win team with the improved drafting position. That is true.
That said, for the Cubs to win 80 or more games will require that a number of players who have really not performed in the past will break out. Guys like Samardzja, Stewart, and Volstad are the prime candidates. Other guys like LaHair, Soto, Barney, Soriano, Byrd, Marmol (well, I guess everyone really) would certainly improve their value with big season, whether of the break out or bounce back variety.
So, if the Cubs win 81 games this year, I am pretty sure that we will be feeling pretty good about a handful of positions that we have some pretty big question marks at this point.
In other words, a 50 win team would be fine in that it would bring a nice draft pick, possibly a real future superstar. That said, I will take some certainty from guys like Shark, Volstad, Stewart, etc heading into 2013.
I think that’s an excellent point (and, for what it’s worth, I have no preconceived answer to the question – I merely wanted to ask…).
I don’t think I’d ever enjoy seeing them be nightmarishly awful. I understand there are collateral benefits to placing at the bottom, but I think we have the money and resources to rebuild without that kind of embarrassment. I’d prefer to see a culture of winning institutionalized regardless of the talent limitations. I think that’s better for the long-term health of the organization. If they lose, and lose bad, how many guys with potential lose faith? How does it affect a rising star like Castro? Does he start thinking he’s better off somewhere else? Maybe he requests to be traded from the laughingstock of a team. Hope goes a lot further than hopelessness. I don’t like the idea of shooting for the bottom for some draft positions and money.
I would be interested to see what Theo & Jed would do with early draft picks. However, that could be accomplished with 70 wins!
You always try to win as many games as possible. If you aren’t trying every single day, you should get out of the league.
Nuts, as I said a HOF coach told me simply, “the ONLY thing a team learns from losing is how to lose.” Winning is infectious as is losing. Plus in MLB winning breeds value, how much is Garza, LaHair, Soto and possibly (hope against hope) Soriano if the team is surprisingly competitive than if they plummet to Astroland? Forget the draft choice positions, how many players make to the ML’s who were not number one draft picks—-show me development and show me capability and I will show you a good team.
Well said.
“I’ll say it again: 75-80 wins.”
On that note, ESPN summarized their 30 “over/under” polls, where people voted on whether Arizona … Washington would finish with more or fewer wins than ZIPs projects. For 25 of 30 teams, the fans said that ZIPs underestimated the wins! (The Cubs were one of 5 for whom the majority said “fewer,” with a projection of 71.5 wins) Of course, approximately half the teams will win more games and approximately half will win fewer.
It will be interesting to see if the “pessimist” fans (Cubs, Mets, Astros, O’s and Rockies) are actually “realist” fans, or whether fans basically are right about half the time.
“25 years ago today, the Cubs dumped seemingly washed up pitcher Dennis Eckersley on the A’s. Oops.”
It wasn’t that he was washed up, he needed to dry out. He probably wasn’t going to do it unless something drastic happened like getting traded for a non-prospect outfielder. The Cubs did themselves and him a huge favor.
Votto is a great player but that extension is just stupid, not as bad as the Prince contract but close. Why not have him motivated thru next year and if he leaves so what, as he’ll be 30…
On Opening Day we get Bill Murray throwing out the first pitch (not a bad choice) and Wayne Messmer signing the National Anthem. Wayne Messmer?
Come on Cubs, you can’t do better than Wayne Messmer, who we have to endure during most of the regular season as it is? How much you wanna bet he brings his wife along and they sing a duet?
Even a local American Idol contestant would have been more entertaining to help fuel the Opening Day festivities! How about Jim Cornelison for a day?
Wayne Messmer? I mean come on. Geez !
I must disagree with you. Messmer does a great rendition of the National Anthem.
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Sunday 24 April 2011: One way
It was like walking through a zombie movie
Shops, with entire walls missing. The stock inside untouched like the humans have just been wiped out.
Buildings with no front wall showing a window into the life that went on inside.
Shoe boxes stacked in racks in a shoe shop storeroom
A desk covered in paper work abandoned in a 3 walled office.
We went for a drive through the city to explore
Arriving at the cordon, it was busy, but eerily quiet.
The street damage, while bad, was pretty much as I expected, as was the shop damage,
but the sheer scale of the job ahead was humbling
What did catch me by surprise was the number of large buildings that appear on a lean, or sunk in the middle.
There are a number of the big buildings which look like they will have to come down
The army guys on the cordon said they have been given the expectation that volunteers will be need until October to staff the cordon
Having seen the clean up job ahead, there is a lot to be done for October.
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Tuesday 10 May 2011: How to sacrifice.
In 1973 it was my english teacher Mr. van der Welle, who introduced me to the world of photography. He showed us (during class) a slide from a stream in Scotland (Speyside). In wintertime, taken from mid stream. Naked, as he did not bring any dry clothes with him.
Not completely satisfied with the result. Will try it tomorrow once more.
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Wednesday 10 November 2010: Looks like and angelfish to me
This sculpture hangs in the southeast quadrant of the Accolade East Building at York University in Toronto. I blipped its northeast counterpart, Air Dog a few weeks ago. Here are some images of it from other angles. I'll try to find some info on the artist and its proper title and post in the next day or two.
Yesterday's blip: Is Halloween over?
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Why do we love watching Chuck from the Bronx put gross and disgusting things in his mouth? I don’t know, but it’s always entertaining. This time, Chuck is taking on the garlic challenge (with the skin ON). Do you think he’ll make it without up-chucking? Find out below. Watch more Viral Videos here
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turned 28, they would get married. Shortly before her 28th birthday, Julianne is lamenting the sad state of her love life when she gets a call from Michael, who announces that he has important news. Julianne is convinced that Michael is going to ask her to marry him, and she is crestfallen when he announces that he's engaged to Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz). Kimmy seems like the perfect woman for Michael; she's sweet, pretty, bright, and adores Michael, and her wealthy family is just as fond of him as she is. But now that Julianne has realized how much she loves Michael, she's not about to give him up without a fight -- and isn't afraid to fight dirty. Julianne's uneasy ally in the battle for Michael's affections is her friend and editor George Downes (Rupert Everett), a cheerfully out-of-the-closet homosexual who is not prepared when Julianne asks him to pose as her boyfriend. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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To escape a band of Ogami mercenaries, Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) is forced to hijack a tour ship. At first, feisty female tour guide Molly Noguchi (Kristin Lehman) harbors an intense dislike for Hunt, but before long she has willingly (and, it might be whispered, lovingly) joined forces with him. Meanwhile, Trance (Laura Bertram) undergoes a mysterious metamorphosis which also profoundly affects Harper (Gordon Michael Woolvett); and in their efforts to locate the missing Hunt, Tyr (Keith Hamilton Cobb) and Rommie (Lexa Doig) haggle with Tyr's old crony Ferahr (Dave Ward) -- who may or may not be in cahoots with the Ogami. "Lava and Rockets" originally aired on February 4, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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1. Social media gives you the opportunity to be the best YOU possible. This applies to you and your brand.
2. There is no “one-size fits all” social media strategy.
3. Diving into social media without a strategy is like being on whitewater raft without a paddle. It’s probably not going to end well.
4. Crises happen everyday. Expect it will happen to you and your brand. Plan accordingly.
5. Social media doesn’t clock in at 9 a.m. and clock out at 5 p.m. It’s a 24/7 affair.
6. Social media success doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of hard work, time and effort before you see any real noticeable gains.
7. Anyone who tells you that managing a social media account is going to be easy is lying. Run as far away from them as possible.
8. Yes, you can calculate the ROI of your social media efforts. Yes, you need to.
9. Numbers matter. Anyone, who tells you otherwise, just hasn’t found the right ones to measure yet.
10. There’s only so much you can learn from case studies. At some point, you just have to take the plunge and start applying what you learn.
11. Creativity is what separates the good social media pros from the bad ones.
12. Avoid the social media shiny object syndrome. New sites are created everyday. You don’t need to be on every site. Focus on the ones that add value for either you or your brand.
13. Social media burnout is real. Make sure to unplug every now and then. (such as when you are on vacation).
14. The best social media work is usually done in a team setting. Don’t try and be a one-man or one-woman show.
15. Social media is NOT a popularity contest. Being popular just means that you have lots of friends.
16. Instead, strive to be influential. Influence means you can persuade people to do something. That’s hundred times more meaningful than being popular.
17. There’s a big difference between being authentic and personable and being personal on social media sites. Know the difference.
18. Be true to yourself and/or your brand. You can’t fake an authentic dialogue.
19. Every post, tweet, status update, video, etc, should add some sort of value or contribute to your overall goals. If they don’t, it is time to rethink you strategy.
20. Just because it’s on Twitter trending topics, doesn’t mean it’s true. I’ve lost count of the number of celebrities that have allegedly died on Twitter that are still alive and thriving.
21. It’s crucial to think two steps ahead. Are you building a strong enough presence from the get-go? Would you lose everything if Facebook were to disappear tomorrow?
21 Social Media Truths
1. Social media gives you the opportunity to be the best YOU possible. This applies to you and your brand.
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Be A TravelHero
When you book a holiday on the Internet, you’re constantly faced with a battle of endless offers, flashy advertising and great deal announcements. I think most travel sites aren’t very useful or user friendly and a waste of time.
However, having said that, there’s some good ones out there too, like Travelhero.com for instance. Travelhero helps you find hotels online and provides plenty of discount offers. Arranging a hotel reservation is made easy on their web site, allowing you to pick the best options and set yourself up for a great trip or holiday. No matter where you going, you can search for flights, hotels and even car rentals. Very well put together to save you a lot of time and hassle!
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This morning it's eight degrees and snowing -- and the Mystery Woman just left with her 89-year-old mother for a check-up.
Roads are slick.
And they prefer I stay home with the dog. It seems I scream a lot in the car.
Yesterday, we had to drive across town to visit a different clinic. For the first time, I got to see the industrial strength of winter. Parking lots look like ice rinks or pools of toxic waste. Arthritis comes easy. True story: A TV reporter strapped on skates and played in the street.
We ate lunch at Chili's, which was decorated with Chilympiad stuff. Naturally, I tried to get a discount from the waitress, claiming to be the their only customer who had actually gotten drunk in Terlingua. "Nice try, old timer," she said.
In this order, we’ve had snow, snow, snow, rain, a little sleet, more snow, even more. The wind chill is serious. Minus 30 tonight. That plays hell with clean up. Ice becomes iron and is forged to the minor streets and major sidewalks. Major thoroughfares, however, are mostly clear.
This morning, I read a neat thing in the paper. They say if you toss a pan of hot water in the air, it will freeze before it hits the ground. (Didn't work.) In Texas summers, we reverse the ritual by frying eggs on sidewalks. (That doesn't work, either.)
Dog trainers advise against buying a winter puppy from the Midwest. They claim the dogs will never again go outside to answer nature’s call.
True story.
But still, I kinda like it. Locals nod knowingly and whisper to each other something about my attitude next March.
It could be worse. I could have voted for Dick Cheney.
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It's going to get up to 20 degrees by Monday. It'll feel like the orange groves of Florida.
Frumpfan
Throwing a cup of water or coffee in the air to freeze does work, but it needs to be colder...way below zero. Watch Jonathan on KARE11 weather...he likes to do that trick in the backyard. He might also demonstrate the banana-hammer by driving a nail with a banana that has frozen outside.
I'll tell you what could be worse, George...you could BE Dick Cheney. Of course, you two do share the possession of bionically regenerated tickers. But given that you have a conscience and a decent soul you'd have a hard time living with yourself, cold weather or hot.
Years ago, during the midst of a really hot Texas summer, my sons and I decided to see if an egg really would fry on the sidewalk. It wasn't immediate, but within two hours, the egg did cook all the way through. We moms of boys know these things... Denise
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Grading the Coaching Hires: Mark Stoops and Kentucky
If I’ve learned one thing in my years covering college football, it’s that every coaching hire has to be evaluated differently. What might be a home-run selection at one school could be a dud at another; a guy who might be a perfect fit at one place could be a disaster somewhere else. Every coach, and- most importantly- every job is fundamentally different, and they need to be treated as such when evaluating these coaching hires.
And in essence, what I was really trying to say with that very long-winded opening paragraph was as follows: I like the Mark Stoops hire at Kentucky. A lot.
No, he might not have the huge name or sparkling resume of some of the other SEC hires this off-season, but at a school that is simply looking for hope and a reason to show up at the stadium, Stoops is exactly what Kentucky needed. He is young and energetic and will pump life into a football program that desperately needs it.
Of course while hope and energy are good in the short-term, in the long-term the question now becomes this: Will Stoops be able to win enough football games at one of the toughest places to do so in college football?
Let’s take a look.
Why We Like The Hire:
Simply put, Stoops resume speaks for itself. As most everyone knows by now, Stoops has spent time as an assistant at Miami and as defensive coordinator at Arizona and Florida State, with the one common denominator in all his stops being that his defenses have flourished.
And to his credit, Stoops’ defenses have only gotten better of late. In 2011 Florida State ranked No. 4 in total defense and this past season only Alabama gave up fewer yards than the Seminoles did. And before anyone says that it had little to do with Stoops and everything to do with the talent in Tallahassee, remember this: Florida State ranked 108th nationally the year prior to his arrival.
Even talented players need to developed, and Stoops seems capable of that.
Beyond that, what particularly appealed to me about this hire is that Stoops actually knows the area he’ll be coaching in. Kentucky isn’t an easy place to recruit and the SEC isn’t an easy place to coach, which is why I was never really a fan of bringing someone from outside the Southeast (mainly Gary Andersen or Mike MacIntyre) to try and tackle this job.
Well instead of taking either of those guys or anyone else, they instead a guy Midwest roots (the Stoops family is from Ohio) but Southeast ties, making him the best of both worlds from a coaching and recruiting standpoint. More importantly with so many coaching stops around college football, Stoops can and has put together a staff that is as competitive as any in this conference.
Remember when I mentioned this hire above? Yeah, I wasn’t lying.
Why We Don’t Like the Hire:
What it all boils down to is what you already know: Stoops has never been a head coach. Anywhere. That’s a scary proposition no matter who you hire, and regardless of what school you’re hiring him to. But to do it at one of the toughest jobs, in college football’s toughest conference makes it that much tougher.
So really, the questions now with Stoops are more abstract than anything tangible. We know who Stoops has hired as his assistants, we know (relatively) what kind of offenses and defense Kentucky will run and we know what his recruiting plan is too. What we don’t know is how he’ll handle the responsibilities off the field, not to mention the split-second decisions on the field which could be the difference between victory and defeat.
As much as I like the hire, there are still plenty of questions which surround Stoops and Kentucky.
What Kind of Talent Does He Inherit?
Hmm, the short answer is “not much.” Talent is something Kentucky has never had a bounty of at any point in their football history, and it was in especially short demand in 2012 when they finished last in the SEC in scoring (just 17.9 per game) and gave up the second most points on defense in the conference as well (31 per game). It also doesn’t help that the Wildcats will also lose their best overall playmaker (wide receiver La’Rod King) and only player to make either the All-SEC first or second team (offensive lineman Larry Warford) to graduation this off-season as well.
Still, of the few players who did make an impact on the field in 2012, most do return. The Wildcats return four of their top five leading tacklers on defense (including all three starting linebackers) and plenty of guys who got touches at wide receiver and running back.
Of all the players who return to Lexington though, what’ll be most interesting to see is how Stoops handles the quarterback derby. Maxwell Smith, Jalen Whitlow and Patrick Towles all took at least 40 snaps this past season, and all three return in 2013.
There’s an old saying that goes “If you have two quarterbacks, you have none at all.” So what happens if you’ve got three?
It’s something Stoops will need to address right away.
Yeah, But Can He Recruit?
The short answer here is that I’m a little more dubious than most. Stoops was known as an avid recruiter at Florida State, except, relatively speaking, what does that mean? After all, it isn’t all that hard to recruit to Florida State; the tradition speaks for itself, the school has more resources than any in the ACC and Jimbo Fisher himself is a monster recruiter in his own right. So was Stoops really that good a recruiter? Or was his success just a byproduct of where he was recruiting to?
Of course while I am dubious about Stoops’ recruiting ability, what I will give him credit for is this: Whether he can actually get players or not, only time will tell. But at the very least, he does have a plan to be successful.
For one, that plan starts in Ohio where there’s a ton of high school talent, but is also a place that former head coach Joker Phillips and his staff never seemed to emphasize in their recruiting efforts. Well to his credit, the Stoops name still carries a lot of weight in Ohio (Stoops’ father is a legendary high school coach there) and from Day 1, Mark has taken advantage of that. Kentucky has already offered a number of the state’s top players, including a handful of elite juniors.
More importantly, Stoops has loaded up his staff with guys who can recruit too. New defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot comes with Stoops from Tallahassee, where he was known as a monster recruiter, but was also the point-person in the recruitment of last year’s No. 1 overall high school player Mario Edwards Jr.
Also, the was one other assistant coaching hire which caught my eye as well: New defensive line coach Jimmy Brumbaugh is coming to Kentucky straight from a Mississippi junior college.
That seems like a bizarre move... unless Stoops plans on hitting the junior college ranks hard to find talent.
Final Thoughts:
Admittedly, when Stoops was hired by Kentucky, my biggest concern was that he would essentially try to turn the program into “Florida State Light.” That he would take the blueprint which made Florida State successful in his time at Tallahassee, and try to follow it to a tee in Lexington.
And it would’ve been a disaster. Kentucky isn’t, nor ever will be Florida State, and should never be treated as such.
That’s also why it’s been so refreshing to see Stoops come to Lexington with a plan completely unique to this particular school and this particular job. We all know what he and Eliot will do on defense, and Stoops also brought in Neil Brown from Texas Tech to run a fun and exciting offense as well. In recruiting, the emphasis seems to be exactly where it should be: Stocking the roster from Ohio high schools, and filling in the blanks via the junior college ranks.
Factor it all in, and I think this was a grand-slam hire for Kentucky.
Stoops might not have been a great fit at every school, but relative to what Kentucky wanted and what Kentucky needed, he was just about perfect for them.
Final Grade: A-
For all his opinion, analysis and insight on college football and beyond, please follow Aaron on Twitter @Aaron_Torres.
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If your schedule is anything like mine, your daily schedule can be very busy with work, raising your children, sports and not to mention your "Honey Do List." Do not take your responsibility as a Dad lightly. I have been known to put my job first over the immediate needs of my family more times than not. I strongly believe one role of a Dad is to provide the essential needs for your family. One way to do this is by working for a paycheck … [Read more...]
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Over 300 people entered our Blog Your Way to the North Pole contest, with more than 44,000 throwing their support behind their 5 favorite entrants.
February 22, 2011 - Congratulations to Giovanni Savaglio. After an enthusiastic and heated contest, he is now Quark's Official Blogger to the North Pole.
Hans Lagerweij, president of Quark Expeditions, was on the selection committee. He commented, "Giovanni touched me with his thought that the unexpected is part of polar travel. That is so true!" Author, professional travel blogger, and selection committee member, Chris Epting, chose Giovanni because of "his earthiness, honesty and ability to paint a picture with words."
We congratulate all the competitors. The competition was keenly contested by many talented bloggers. We thank all who voted for their favorite top 5.
The 20th anniversary North Pole Expedition
Since 1991, Quark Expeditions has specialized in expedition cruising to the Arctic and Antarctica, in ships with ice-strengthened hulls or in icebreakers. The 2011 expedition from June 23 to July 7 begins in Helsinki, Finland, where guests spend the night in a centrally located hotel. On June 24, they are flown from Helsinki to Murmansk, Russia, the homeport of the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet to board 50 Years of Victory. The expedition vessel generates 75,000 horsepower enough to crush through packed ice 10 feet thick.
Reaching the North Pole can take between 4 and 8 days, depending on weather and ice conditions. When the top of the world is reached, guests enjoy a champagne toast and a barbecue on the ice. On the southbound journey, shore landings are made in Franz Josef Land. The uninhabited Russian islands are located 10 degrees from the North Pole and are the natural habitat of magnificent polar bears and ungainly walrus.
See rare video of this 15-day North Pole cruise >
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I have to admit, I'm torn about this question. I absolutely couldn't stand Katy Perry when she first came out. It really bothered me that someone who was a former Christian singer did what I considered "selling out" just to get famous. Her song "I Kissed A Girl" really put her on the map, and I just couldn't understand why people were embracing the song so much. I haven't really been a big fan of hers since then, but am finding some of her songs really good and I have to admit she's a very good singer. Not only that, but the girl is gorgeous, and therefore I will give credit where credit is due, even though I'm still on the fence about her. I'm curious what your thoughts are about her? Here are some gorgeous shots of her and her newest video, which I love...such a great song..."The One That Got Away."
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I feel the same about her as you Kori.
I'm just the opposite - I used to like her but now I'm finding I like her less. She's absolutely horrible live and just seems to be trying to hard now in my opinion
I too have mixed feelings on Katy. I love love love her last album (it's a great one to plug in a bop around to) and I think that she is stunningly gorgeous (when she doesn't dye her hair wacky colors). But there's just something about her that doesn't sit quite right.
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I think she is pretty and some of her songs are catchy, but her music will never be on my ipod. I think shes overrated! Beautiful and a beautiful studio voice, but I don't love her.
i actually love katy perry and all of her songs. great blog. follow?
I like her. I understand what you say about selling out, but she's so extremely talented, and just gorgeous as can be. It's really hard not to like her, and her catchy tunes.
Her songs are always super catchy!! I can't help but like her! :)
I love her. She is stunning and different and just great.
I love her! I've been a fan from the beginning.
I wasn't a fan of hers at first because I couldn't stand her first song. I've loved all of her songs after that one though!
This girl is gorgeous...hands down. Not liking her funky hair phase though but all in all I like her. The singing...she's got a great voice just sometimes uses it not to her advantage...though, I have to say I'm listening to her music ever since it came out...just because it's catchy and I can work out easier. Haha!
i love katy perry. however I think she started her career the way she did in a way to rebel the way she was brought up. but i feel like she has toned down a bit. however i'm not a big fan of "the one that got away"
I’m torn about her too, but I like her less now than I used to. There are so many good songs from her first album and the songs from her second album lack the heart her earlier songs had (besides I Kissed A Girl, of course). She just makes mindless music to sell records now. I think she’s pretty and talented, but her over the top antics drive me crazy. Take a note from Adele’s playbook and focus on the talent, ladies!
I'm so over her! I'm not into any of her songs. She's right up there with Taylor Swift when it comes to annoying the heck outta me! Over them.
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Bloodshot Digest: 10-13-09
The But The Weatherman Promised Me Snow edition:
- After swearing at me about how STUPID Twitter is, Scott H Biram went and joined it. You can follow him @ScottHBiram. In 140 characters or less, Biram's been regaling us with tales from his current US tour—check out the dates and see if he'll be headed your way.
- Perfect Sound Forever has an interview with Exene, where she talks about moving back to LA, where the punk scene is now, and how she almost changed her last name -- You can read it here.
- Rosie Flores' upcoming album, Girl of the Century, is now on pre-sale! Once you order a copy, check out one of her Texas shows with the Pine Valley Cosmonauts or at the Tempe Bloodshot BBQ.
- The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir is continuing to recover from its van accident last month, but good news is coming in: Mark is out of ICU; Gibson is replacing the guitar Mary lost in the wreck; and WOXY / LaLa.com will be featuring SYGC as their band of the week on Thursday!
- In more SYGC news, both Subterranean and The Hideout in Chicago have generously donated nights for benefit shows -- Halloween eve at Sub-T will feature BBU, Canasta, New Duncan Imperials, Kevin Flynn and the Avondale Ramblers, along w/ appearances from members of SYGC. Meanwhile, the Hideout announced a benefit on November 12 featuring The 1900s and Brighton, MA. You can read more about these shows here.)
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Renan Barao punches Scott Jorgensen at UFC 143 on Feb. 4, 2012 in Las Vegas. Image via Esther Lin of MMA Fighting
The fights just keep coming for UFC 148, but this one is a bit odd. Renan Barao has established himself as a top five bantamweight and was considered a candidate to face the winner of the third Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber bout for the UFC bantamweight title. In the meantime though, he's facing an unranked fighter with just one UFC win. Here's the news from UFC.com:.
I guess the story is that they're both on long winning streaks? Okay, sure. Barao (28-1, 1 NC) is coming off an impressive win over Scott Jorgensen at UFC 143 last month, and has won all three of his UFC bouts to date. Hougland (10-4) picked up a decision win over Donny Walker in his only UFC fight to date back at UFC 132 in July.
Honestly, this looks a little bit like a showcase bout for Barao at first glance. No disrespect to Hougland, but Barao facing an unranked fighter at this stage has to be for a reason, right?
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Miesha Tate vs. Cat Zingano will take place at The Ultimate Fighter 17 on April 13 and will be the second women's MMA fight in UFC history.
Another fight has been added to the finale of The Ultimate Fighter 17 with Miesha Tate meeting Cat Zingano set to meet in the UFC's second ever women's bout. Earlier today a bout between Gabriel Gonzaga and Travis Browne was also announced for the show.
MMA Fighting with the news:.
The UFC seemed to be hoping that things would work out with Cristiane Santos to set up a superfight between Rousey and Cyborg in the near future, but with Cyborg recently asking for her release and the prospect of the two meeting at 135 pounds unlikely, it would seem near certain that Tate vs. Zingano could determine a title challenger.
Tate lost the Strikeforce title to Rousey in a grudge match with action that matched the pre-fight trash talk. While the brutal armbar result left no real question as to who the better woman was that night, a rematch between the two still might be the biggest potential fight in WMMA.
The undefeated Zingano (7-0) has a fairly impressive resume, with stoppage victories over Takayo Hashi and Carina Damm and has only gone to decision once.
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Renewable Energy Bill Passes Japan’s Lower House of Parliament
Japan’s lower house of parliament approved legislation to subsidize electricity from renewable sources as the country reduces its dependence on atomic energy after the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Passage of the bill, which now goes to the upper house, sets the stage for Prime Minister Naoto Kan to leave office this month and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan to choose his successor. Kan’s popularity has fallen over his handling of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster and he pledged to step down once the Diet approves his legislative agenda.
The legislation requires utilities to buy electricity generated by geothermal, solar and wind sources at above-market rates in order to stimulate investment in renewable energy, which accounts for 9 percent of Japan’s power supply. Solar panel manufacturers like Kyocera Corp. (6971) and geothermal plant developers including Fuji Electric Co. may benefit from the subsidies, known as feed-in tariffs.
Kan last month called for phasing out atomic power after the March earthquake and tsunami caused the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.
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EU Plan for Failed Clearinghouses Shouldn’t Sink Banks, EBA Says
European Union plans for handling failing clearinghouses should be designed in a way that won’t cripple banks, the bloc’s regulators said today.
Some options being weighed by the EU for allocating losses at a crisis-hit clearinghouse “could spread the problems” to healthy financial institutions, according to an opinion published by the European Banking Authority. “In a situation of stress, banks could be seriously hit.”
The European Commission is seeking views until Dec. 28 on measures to take taxpayers off the hook for rescuing institutions such as clearinghouses, central securities depositories and large insurance companies. Steps being considered include forced writedowns of margin that lenders have posted with central clearers.
Clearinghouses such as LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd. and Deutsche Boerse AG’s (DB1) Eurex Clearing operate as central counterparties for every buy and sell order executed by their members, who post margin, reducing the threat from a trader’s default.
The EU should also weigh rules for failing hedge funds, the EBA said. The EBA brings together bank regulators in the 27- nation EU to coordinate rulemaking.
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I love a party. People, food, drink, celebrations, music, something new to see, old friends to greet, new friends to make -- there’s just nothing better than a party.
Give me a party in May, after months of cold, boring winter and soggy, iffy March and April, and there is just nothing better than a party in May.
Unfortunately, I rarely have time to throw parties. Most of my friends don’t have time to throw them either. Before you feel sorry for my party-less state, let me tell you that every single month -- including soggy April and wonderful May -- Maryville throws a party for me.
So don’t despair that you or I must be in a party-less state. It’s time again for the Maryville Arts Coalition Last Friday Art Walk.
Art Walk happens every month, but there is always something special about the spring and pre-summer months. Folks are in such good moods. Everyone is so happy to be out of the house and walking around in clothes that are faux-fur lined and zipped against the wind. At April’s Art Walk last month, there was just such a feeling of release in the air, such a great feeling of “Man, it’s good to be out again.”
And I only got to three places on the map! There was so much hugging going on, so much catching up with folks I hadn’t seen in a while, plus a Find the Art in Arthritis Scavenger Hunt to promote, that I didn’t get very far down Broadway.
My mission for May is to visit as many of the Art Walk participants as I can squeeze into the 5 to 9 p.m. time frame.
I wonder if we are beginning to take for granted the talent we see every month at the MAC First Friday Art Walk. I’ve been to some of those gallery crawls and walks in nearby cities, and I’m telling you that the variety and the talent level of what these businesses and MAC are bringing in to downtown Maryville is top-notch. I could spend my whole paycheck and greatly expand my cultural knowledge just talking to the artists and soaking in their offerings each month.
May’s Art Walk is certainly no exception. Some of the featured artists are new names to me -- which isn’t hard as I’m not the most cultured person in town. Some, however, I am beginning to recognize from previous Art Walk experiences, and I am excited to see what they are offering this month.
Plus, there are two new businesses on the walk for May, in addition to the exhibits at the Clayton Center for the Arts, which was added a few months ago. Little Nifties, 300 E. Church Ave., is under Dandy Lions, where Lyda Plemons gallery used to be. I’m as anxious to see the store as I am featured artist Linda Sharp’s mixed media gourds.
Morgan Place Spa, 206 High Street, stretches Art Walk almost to Lamar Alexander Parkway and gives another place to stop on the way to-or-from the Clayton Center. Katie Kinney will have an exhibit there that she has titled “Soul Searching.”
Other features this month include Fine Arts Blount ArtSpace Gallery at 106 E. Broadway Ave., hosting Sallie Macy and Olga Radar who will feature an exhibit entitled “A Leg at Every Corner.” On the second floor, Maryville High School student work will be on display. I’ve seen some of the talented work by MHS students, so trust me when I tell you not to skip the second floor. It could be some of your favorite work this month.
In Ta Dye 4 Ink at 113 W. Harper Ave., the sounds of the band Cup O Jazz will entertain folks in the store for Last Friday Art Walk. Ta Dye 4 Ink is adding some variety to Art Walk, so I’m anxious to hear the band.
At The Village Tinker at 417 W. Broadway Ave., which is one of the most eclectic and interesting stores you will find anywhere in East Tennessee, artisan Jean Terry will be featured with her jewelry.
Professional Hair Design, tucked away at 120 E. Broadway Ave., will show silk work by Debbie Harrington. I’m not sure what silk work is, but I’m sure going to find out.
Tomato Head Restaurant at 211 W. Broadway Ave. has a photography exhibit entitled “Discover Life in America.” At Broadway Gallery at Preservation Plaza, oil paintings by Gail Kornoupakis and Norma Riegle will be on display.
Clay sculptor Leanne Moe will feature her work at Studio 212. The business is located at 212 E. Harper Ave.
Boyd Thomas Clothing at 227 W. Broadway Ave., will feature paintings by Tammy Schlosser. Tammy is a member of Fine Arts Blount, and the works of hers I have seen are primarily in oils and have that Old Masters look and feel, so it is sure to be a great exhibit.
The Capitol Theatre promises to keep the party going even after Art Walk officially ends with the Streamliners Big Band sound, so you will have plenty of excuses to make a night of it.
Come on out Friday night. You will see everyone you know and a bunch of folks you need to know. Just strolling around downtown will make you smile and lift your spirits, I promise. As they sang in Camelot -- “It’s May, it’s May, the lusty month of May. The lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray…”
Last Friday Art Walk is the perfect place to celebrate the last few days of this great month!
Following are photos we took last month as folks enjoy the April Last Friday Art Walk.
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I’ve received a few emails this summer regarding my wedding ring photography. So, I thought I would pull a few of my favorite ring shots from recent weddings and talk a little about how I shot them. *Warning* If you aren’t a photographer, you might want to skip to the pictures as “photographer geek talk” is about to ensue.
The lens I use most is a Nikon 60mm Micro/Macro AF lens. This lens allows me to focus down to life size. Life size means that if a ring is 1″ across, then the entire ring will fill the frame of the camera. This lens is big and a lot to lug around, but it’s clarity when focused on something small (like rings) is far superior to a standard lens so it’s worth the weight to carry around a wedding. If you shoot rings, do yourself (and your clients a favor) and get a proper micro/macro lens.
The next most important item is a quality tripod. Most of my macro photography is done on a tripod. You simply can’t handhold and get good results when stopped down to f8-f16 in the dark at 10pm during a wedding reception. And when it comes to tripods, get a good one the first time and you will have it for the rest of your career. I use a Bogen aluminum with a Really Right Stuff, BH-40 and believe this to be one of my very best photography investments.
Next: lighting. I like the Fenix line of pocket flashlights. They are small, easy to carry around and manipulate. The light emitted is easily balanced and the battery life is unexpectedly long.
Finally, your imagination is your only limitation! Rings are brilliant and gorgeous. Contrast is key and focus is not to be missed. Take your time and be very careful not to drop them or to let them roll off the table, between rocks, through cracks, over the cliff – you get the idea!
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Welcome to the Small Business Center Your Partner for Business Success©
SBC supports the development of new businesses and the growth of existing businesses by being a provider of business education, training, coaching, information and referral. A Small Business Center (SBC) is located within 30 minutes of you. Blue Ridge has a SBC in Flat Rock at the main campus and a SBC with the Blue Ridge Innovation Network (BRIN) in Brevard at our Transylvania Center. BRIN is an educational hub and catalyst for new business incubation and existing business innovation.
Request a free confidential consultation about your business. Call 828-694-1779 or click here to register in order to receive free, confidential business advice from our advisor. Registration is fast, easy, and free.
SBC Mission The objective of the Small Business Center is to increase the success rate and the number of viable small businesses in Henderson and Transylvania County by providing high quality, readily-accessible assistance to prospective and existing small business owners and their employees.
SBC Vision The vision of the Small Business Center Network is to foster and support entrepreneurship, small business training and economic development in Henderson and Transylvania County.
For more information click on links to the left or call (828) 694-1779
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Welcome to Bluffscape Amish Tours in beautiful Lanesboro, Minnesota. We are excited that you have found us and hope that you take the time to explore the Southeastern Minnesota culture we have to offer you. Here is our story.
The Beginning
2005, Dave & Joan Ruen began their new business venture in Lanesboro. Joan taught high school business part-time and wanted to start a small business. Dave works full time in agribusiness, but fully supports Joan in the operation.
We both were interested in framing and decided that custom framing and a small art gallery would be a great fit for the Lanesboro community as it is known as one of 100 Best Small Art Towns in America by author John Villani.
Almost a year into the business we decided to add instant digital photo processing as a service to the community. The photo kiosk saved people a trip out of town for quick and easy photo service.
A New Addition
November 4, 2007, we purchased Flaby's Amish Tour business. Gerry had wonderful tours with the Amish, and we thought it would be fun to carry on Flaby's professional Amish tours. Vern, Eric, Rory, and Joan are our excellent, knowledgeable, and friendly hosts that guide the tours. Dave is great with people and looks forward to a few Saturdays for his turn as the tour guide.
After much thought and with mixed emotions, January 31, 2010, we closed the art gallery and gift shop, but continue with the Amish tours. Thank you to our gallery artists and customers, we had fun serving you!
The Ruen Family
David, Joan, Meredith, Kirsten, and the late Andrew Ruen make up the Ruen Family.
David is a native of Lanesboro. He is employed in the agribusiness industry and you may see him guiding a tour occasionally on Saturdays. Dave has lived in various places in the midwest due to his career and is now settled back in his hometown.
Joan was raised in northwestern Minnesota. Joan moved from the flat Red River Valley to the rolling hills of the Bluff Country. She appreciates the beauty of both the open prairies of NW MN and the bluffs of SE MN! Joan enjoys guiding the Amish tours and getting to know the Amish families and the guests on the tour.
Our Reservation Specialists
The friendly staff at Stone Mill Hotel & Suites in the red Feed Mill building in Lanesboro will be taking your reservations for Bluffscape Amish Tours. They are glad to take your reservations and answer questions you may have about our tours.
To contact us for a Bluffscape Amish Tour please call (507) 467-3070
BluffScape Amish Tours
102 Beacon St. E., Lanesboro, MN 55949
[email protected]
Mailing Address:
26047 Gladiola Lane, Lanesboro, MN 55949
Phone: 507-467-3070
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Plassnik on Iran: "No reason for relief or cries of triumph"
06.12.2007
Foreign Minister at "question hour" in the National Council
Vienna, 6 December 2007 - "It is without any doubt a demanding mission for both domestic and foreign policy, which we have prepared with the corresponding care and precision," said Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik during today's "question hour" in the National Council on Austria’s mission in Chad. "This EU Bridging Mission is designed to help the people in the region, not France," said Plassnik, pointing out to the clear dividing line between France's military presence and the EU mission. "There are no doubts as to the non-partisan and impartial approach of the EU. I did not make myself very popular with our French partners during the negotiations on the mandate. I persistently demanded that there is a clear political framework for the mission. This includes the mission’s strict independence, clear time limits, and close links to the United Nations."
The Minister pointed out to the "multidimensional international presence" in Chad, which was established by UN Security Council resolution 1778 (2007) and consists of the following components: the UN Mission (MINURCAT) aimed at improving the security of the civilian population and guaranteeing international human rights standards, which will train the Chadian police force to protect the refugee camps, and the EU Bridging Operation, which will create a secure environment for the return of the refugees and internally displaced persons and for the implementation of the UN Mission.
"The new EU Reform Treaty will not change our neutrality," reiterated Plassnik, answering repeated questions with regard to the future Treaty of Lisbon. "Even in the future, Austria cannot be forced to participate in an EU military campaign. Both the commitment to a common foreign policy in solidarity within the European Union and neutrality equally form part of our Federal Constitution. And this will not change."
According to Plassnik, the same applies to the area of water supply and water resource management, an issue of great importance to Austria. "Unanimity is still required in this respect. No changes can or will be made here against our will." The Minister also stressed the additional protection provided by the EU Reform Treaty, which clearly states the responsibility of national states for services of general interest, including, for instance, communal water supply.
"I do not want to imagine a European Union without Carinthia, and I cannot imagine Carinthia without the European Union," said Plassnik on a question concerning the signature campaign against the EU Reform Treaty organized by the BZÖ in Carinthia. The Minister reminded that especially Carinthia, according to the words of Provincial Government Member Josef Martinz is a "European champion in collecting EU subsidies" and has received approx. 1.9 billion Euros worth of direct aid from the EU since accession. "Popular support for the signature campaign is not convincing. In any case, I will continue to patiently and persistently inform the people of Carinthia on the EU and the new Reform Treaty. I am convinced that it will be perceived accordingly."
The Minister emphasized the continued international concern over the nature of the Iranian nuclear programme. "The latest report by the US Intelligence Services is not a reason for relief or for cries of triumph. It is now important for all sides to pull themselves together to finally establish a climate for negotiations. A parallel moratorium - stop of uranium enrichment and suspension of sanctions - could pave the way for negotiations."
When asked about developments in the Middle East, the Minister pointed out the "energy boost" given to the peace efforts by the Middle East conference in Annapolis: "There is now a chance for concrete progress. A peace roadmap containing all core issues is already on the table. But the political will must ultimately come from this region." There is a risk, however, that extremist forces will attempt to undermine such progress, said Plassnik. Therefore, it is now particularly important to remain engaged and convince public opinion in the region. "I particularly supported this approach in Annapolis. It is also important to involve the women and the youth in the region in this process. We need a broad and sustainable alliance of all moderate forces."
In this context, Plassnik also referred to the follow-up to the Women's Conference on the Middle East that she organized in the spring: "We will organize a media seminar with female journalists from the region in Vienna in late January, we support concrete women’s projects in the Palestinian territories as part of development cooperation, for instance in the area of health, and my Greek colleague Dora Bakoyannis will organize a follow-up conference in the spring of 2008."
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Greetings All. I just purchased my first BMW, 1987 325i with a 5 speed. The dealer said its battery was bad and wouldn't hold a charge. Figured it was no big deal, jumped it off and I drove it home (I test drove it a couple of weeks ago). When I got home and put it in the garage where it was dark, I realized that the Instrument Panel, rear marker, and license plate lights were on. Got the wiring diagram, chased it down to the headlight switch, and realized the wiring to it was melted. Mainly the Gray/Red wire. Several others were melted from the 25 pin connector towards the instrument panel, and from the connector towards the firewall. It looks like one of the previous owners botched a splice and the electrical tape came off. Should I try to rewrap all the wires? Can I get a new harness from the connector to the instrument panel? Where's some good places to buy parts? Thanks!
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At least I thought I ordered them. Tuns out that the front tire is unavailable nation wide. I called several large distributors. Since I have the Anakee 2 rear coming, would it be advisable to purchase the original Anakee for the front? The Anakee 2 replaced the original Anakee. I think part of the difference is that the 2s wear better.
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I read the ON review article talking about the back support belt. I went to their website & there is a new version & for 1/2 price the older version. Anyone have comments on one to the other- or either one? New has improved brace in back.
Also, I'm a 40 waist & sort of fall into two sizes which I would need to resolve .
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Solar manufacturers squeezed between rising silicon costs and falling cell prices
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The price of solar-grade silicon has jumped to its highest in almost two years, while module prices have declined
London and New York – Makers of solar cells are under severe pressure with the spot price of cells at an all-time low at the same time as prices for solar-grade polysilicon and wafers have been increasing.
The prices charged for solar-grade polysilicon and wafers continued to increase in March 2011. Cuts in subsidy support on 1 January across major European markets, in the form of lower feed-in tariffs for solar electricity, are putting downward pressure on the prices of finished photovoltaic modules. Because of limited supply, the price of silicon is not falling - in fact it is rising.
The latest Bloomberg New Energy Finance Solar Value Chain Index, just published, the average spot price of polysilicon reached $79/kg in March 2011, the highest since May 2009 when the Index began. The price of polysilicon in China is higher than in the rest of the world, due to import restrictions and limited domestic supply.
The price of wafers also increased, with 6" multicrystalline silicon wafer prices reported at $3.62/piece on average in March, up 3% from February. Multi-crystalline silicon cell prices however were on average at $1.25 per Watt in March 2011, down 9.4% from December 2010.
The dollar price of modules (or panels) has dropped by almost 7% since December 2010, despite the strengthening euro, the currency of the world’s largest photovoltaic markets. The March results of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Module Price Index show an average factory gate price across all markets for immediate delivery of $1.88/W for crystalline silicon modules. Although this is down since December, it is above the market’s previous expectations.
"The global demand for PV modules continues to be very strong, mainly driven by anticipation of further tariff cuts in Italy, Germany, Slovakia and the rest of the European PV markets," says Martin Simonek, analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "The first half of 2011 will see relatively small declines in module prices, despite the pressure from developers, because of supply bottlenecks upstream."
The data for Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Solar Value Chain Index and Module Price Index are collected between second and eighth day of each month through a questionnaire sent out to over 120 companies that buy, sell or trade polysilicon, wafers, cells and modules. The monthly results for both surveys are sent to all participating companies on the tenth day of each month. The Solar Value Chain Index started in May 2009 and the Module Price Index was launched in November 2010. Participation is free of charge for manufacturers across the solar value chain, and in case of the Module Price Index also for traders and developers. For further information on the Index, please contact [email protected]
Contact on this press release:
Sarah Feinberg
Bloomberg LP
+1 202-654-4360
[email protected].
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bnetTV speaks with Jim Manis of the Mobile Giving Foundation at the 2012 MMA Forum held in New York.
The Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF), headquartered in Issaquah, Washington,.
The Mobile Giving Foundation serves as the “glue” between a charitable giving campaign, the wireless industry and the 250 million wireless users in the United States. MGF processes and vets applications from nonprofit organizations wishing to deploy wireless technology in their communication and fundraising activities because we know it is critical to have a trusted third party—in this case, MGF—affirm the quality and integrity of nonprofits using this technology to solicit contributions. Once approved, MGF develops fundraising campaigns in conjunction with established mobile marketing firms and the nonprofit. Our messaging platform is then used by wireless carriers through their short message service (SMS) centers. (SMS is a communications protocol that allows the exchange of brief text messages between mobile telephone devices.) The wireless carriers pass 100% of the charitable funds they collect through to MGF. The MGF also remits 100% of the donation to the recipient nonprofit within 30 days of receiving funds from the wireless carriers. The MGF charges back costs for short-code costs, reporting and messaging charges directly to the nonprofit organizations or their supporting service providers on a post-donation basis.
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