Doc McStuffin's new job is Purrrr-fect!
Teach your young ones about care and responsibility in the new Doc McStuffins Pet Vet releasing on DVD November 3rd! Doc McStuffins opens a new veterinary practice in her backyard clinic where she treats stuffed animals and toys. The DVD includes 5 pet themed episodes of the Peabody Award-winning animated series each highlighting lessons about care and responsibility for pets plus a Exclusive Pet Vet Collar inside!


There is a new myspace-linkedin-like site up called zaadz They are still in pre-Beta mode. Honestly: pre-Beta? What exactly does that mean for me?
Our Mission. That's easy. We're gonna change the world. […] The quick version of what we're gonna do: build THE most inspired community of people in the world… Imagine social networking with a purpose, a community of seekers and conscious entrepreneurs circulating wisdom and inspiration and wealth and all that good stuff. Fun fun fun.
Somehow all of this sounds very ambitious. Almost too big. And like they're playing in a competition where many other communities already gained ground.
By now I also heard from some friends who actually do watch television regularly, that the Eric Cantona Spot appears on a view German stations – mainly the sports channels, of course. Sofar, I haven't seen it myself, though.
Another campaign utilizing Google Maps: Heineken hooks up with Google Maps for Tapvat World Tour 2006.
In this microsite visitors are supposed to search the world for gigs from Dutch live band Voicst using Google's satellite images. All within a certain timeframe while a radio signal leads you to the right spot.
The game is intuitive enough, which is good as I don't speak any dutch. At the end I found the spot (why would the want to have a gig there?), but I didn't understand what they wanted my address details for – surely it was for some kind of sweepstake, but who knows what else I might have signed up for?
Try it out, it's interesting and kept me busy for quite a few minutes (I had to try twice to find the spot – and it's of course in a different place every time).
New iPod Ad visible from outerspace? Or just a normal thing first seen on Google?
boakes.org apparently broke the news: Steve Jobs, the incredible Steve, won an abandoned mineral mine in remote western Australia during a poker game – and has nothing better to do than to build a giant iPod ad on it.
An ad that can be seen from outer space, as even adrants reports (err, quotes). If you look on technorati, you can find lots of posts on this matter – it's the new Apple story, apparently. OK, it's for the 30th birthday of Apple, fair enough. They might as well go big.
Yet, according to all the blogs I read sofar, I was probably the only one not zooming in on to the iPod, but zooming out to check out the area around it.
And while I like this story a lot, I couldn't help myself noticing, that Steve Jobs is indeed building two iPod ads rather close to each other!! I suppose one is for the iPod video while the other one is for, well, any of the other iPods. It's not finished yet, so it's difficult to tell.
You can find it here on Google Local.
Viacom Starts Playing With Video Mashups reports business2blog. You can create mashups of clips from different show of their teen channel "the N".
And of course you can email these clips to your friends. Smart as they are, they insert a little ad in the beginning.
This is just a quick note pointing to one of my favourite Podcasts, "Across the sound".
This time (and next time) Joe has invited Jackie Huba of Church of the customer, and Pete Blackshaw from Consumer generated Media.
So what could this podcast potentially be about?
Of course, one of my favourite topics – consumer (or citizen) generated media (or content). They aren't so sure about the exact term either. This was episode Nr. 1, with episode Nr. 2 following next week.
I just wonder – why putting it live like broadcasting, in two chunks, one this week, the second next week? Why not upload all of it in one go and let us have the content "on demand"? As far as I understood, that second chunk is already sitting on Joes harddrive, waiting for publication until next week…!
Any way, it's definitely worth checking out nevertheless.
Adrants has some news on really excellent Guerilla Marketing by Nike.
Wonder if we get to see cool stuff like that here in Germany during the world cup?


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Classical Music in the Heart of the Swiss Alps
The Verbier Festival is an international classical music event that takes place each summer in the mountain town of Verbier, Switzerland. The Festival's mission is to build a community of exchange between great masters and young artists from all over the world and to be a leader in its field by providing meaningful music education programmes.
Launched in 1994, and now globally renowned, the Festival welcomes audiences with a distinctive and exhilarating blend of events, both large-scale and intimate. Audiences from around the globe come to experience music-making at the highest level in a setting that brings them close to star performers, rising talent and a complete process of learning, rehearsal and performance.
The Festival's Academy is its respiratory system—a laboratory where future talents are discovered and nurtured. It sets the gold standard for the training of emerging soloists, chamber and orchestral musicians, singers and conductors. Each summer, audiences witness these musicians in action at more than 100 masterclasses, rehearsals and performances. The Verbier Festival Orchestra has become a rite of passage for today's exceptional young orchestral musicians and the Academy's programmes for soloists, chamber musicians and singers include an impressive list of alumni from over 60 countries who have been engaged by the world's leading concert presenters since their time in Verbier.
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There are many Cassia species worldwide which are used in herbal medicine systems. This particular family of plants are used widely for their laxative actions. Canafistula is no exception... it is often used as a highly effective moderate laxative that is safe even for children.
However, in large doses, the leaves and bark can cause vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and cramps. Canafistula is also employed as a remedy for tumors of the abdomen, glands, liver, stomach, and throat, for burns, cancer, constipation, convulsions, delirium, diarrhea, dysuria, epilepsy, gravel, hematuria, pimples, and glandular tumors.
In Ayurvedic medicine systems, the seeds are attributed with antibilious, aperitif, carminative, and laxative properties while the the root is used for adenopathy, burning sensations, leprosy, skin diseases, syphilis, and tubercular glands. The leaves are employed there for erysipelas, malaria, rheumatism, and ulcers. In Brazilian herbal medicine, the seeds are used as a laxative and the leaves and/or bark is used for pain and inflammation.


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Artifacts found during QAR dive
In Underwater Archeology
By Jannette Pippin - JD News
The raising of a cannon is planned as part of a fall dive expedition now under way at the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site off the Carteret County coast, but recent excitement has been over an artifact much, much smaller.
Now in its second week of the four-week dive, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources archaeologists closed out the first week with an artifact recovered Friday of a small lid that appears to go to the set of seven bronze nesting weight cups recovered from the shipwreck in 2007.
The set of graduated, cup-shaped weights that fit inside of each other have already gone through the conservation process and are on display as part of the largest exhibit of artifacts from the shipwreck considered to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
The exhibit is located at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, which is the official repository for the QAR project.
David Moore, curator of nautical archaeology for the Maritime Museum, said the artifact was located about 20 feet from where the nesting weights were originally found.
"I would be surprised if it's not (the lid)," he said.
Having the lid would help to complete the set, which was missing the lid and its smallest weight when it was found.
Moore said the smallest of finds make a big impact when it comes to piecing together the story of the Queen Anne's Revenge.
"The small, seemingly insignificant artifacts all play a part," Moore said. "All the artifacts give us a little bit of the story and enable us to put together this 3-D jigsaw puzzle."
The nesting weight cups could have been used for measuring medicine or gold dust.
The recovery of the likely lid for the weight set came as East Carolina University students Laurel Seaborn and Rob Minford worked the dredge and sluice box used in separating tiny artifacts from sediment from the shipwreck site.
Students with ECU's maritime studies program and a student from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation are participating in the dive expedition.
"Part of what we're doing is education," said Nathan Henry, assistant state archaeologist.
Also recovered this week was an artifact believed to be a shackle from the ship.
"It's definitely a shackle, but we don't know if it was used for rigging or possibly as part of the slave trade," Henry said.
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A case exhibit of small artifacts from the wreck of what is believed to be Queen Anne's Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard's flagship, will be on display at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh ...
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University Hospital now offering COVID vaccine at front door
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Laura Garcia, Staff writer
Sep. 1, 2021 Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 5:33 p.m.
University Hospital has started administering COVID-19 vaccines at its front door for unvaccinated hospital visitors.
Billy Calzada, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
University Hospital has started offering COVID-19 vaccines to anyone entering the hospital.
Chief Operating Officer Ed Banos said the initiative started slowly, sometimes getting six to eight people a day in the front lobby, but on a more recent day, about 50 people rolled up their sleeves to receive the vaccine.
"We're just trying to get more people vaccinated," he told the system's board of managers at a meeting Tuesday night.
Over the past three months, nearly 93 percent of COVID-19 patients at the hospital have been unvaccinated. These patients, on average, tend to stay in the hospital for 10 days — or twice as long as other inpatients.
Free vaccines are administered by the system at five other locations, and people can also call 311 to find a nearby pop-up clinic or visit the city's Alamodome site from 4 p.m. to 8 .m. Wednesday through Friday.
Banos said University Health is doing what it can to combat the spread of the coronavirus in the community, while trying to ensure emergency medical care is available for non-COVID-19 patients.
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This includes hiring 70 registered nurses and respiratory therapists from a contract staffing agency amid a delay in the state sending support. Last week, the state sent 15 nurses to help with the surge.
The hospital has been buying more air purifying filters, quickly running through its supply of personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves, and shifting units around the building to accommodate the surge in infected patients.
Still, the hospital had to delay more than 220 nonemergent surgeries as resources are diverted to treating patients with coronavirus.
The stress of going into a third major wave of hospitalizations despite the availability of vaccines is taking a toll on hospital employees, particularly those who worked through the first two deadly surges last summer and winter.
Nearly 4,000 Bexar County residents have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. San Antonio had its first coronavirus deaths back in March 2020.
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Banos said the hospital has opened more "recharge rooms" for staff to take breaks, especially near the COVID-19 units, and that the University Health Foundation and other donors refurbished rooms with new recliners and art.
The hospital funded a wellness program in October that gives employees access to counseling and psychiatric care within one week of requesting the service.
An on-site, part-time mental health counselor has been hired to help residents and doctors; chaplains are also available throughout the shift for support, and employees are encouraged to attend classes to learn about resiliency and compassion fatigue.
"We're trying to be proactive to make sure we keep our staff safe and prevent burnout," Banos said.
University Health is preparing to reopen its COVID-19 vaccine hub at Wonderland of Americas for booster shots, but officials have not determined when. The site will likely take both appointments and walk-ins.
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We've put together five sets of parent tips on how to help kids develop their reading skills. Feel free to read the tips, print them, or e-mail them to a friend!
Parents can help their children develop fluency skills by giving them lots of practice reading aloud. The goal is for kids to be able to read without hesitation or false starts and with the good inflection that can come only with understanding the text. Better fluency leads to better comprehension.
Skilled teachers encourage fluency in two ways – with vocabulary exercises that build a child�s familiarity with words, and with lessons that are specifically designed to speed up a child�s decoding ability.
Dr. Barbara Foorman of the University of Texas notes, for example, that with young children, teachers will first teach letter-sound connections. Then they�ll focus on groups of letters such as prefixes and suffixes and then on bigger chunks of words.
"The teacher is trying to move the child to larger and larger units so he can quickly and automatically recognize the word at a glance and be able to pay attention to the meaning of the story," she explains.
Research being done at the University of Massachusetts on eye movement shows that good readers don�t hunt around a page but instead decode one word at a time as their eyes move methodically across the text. Good readers seldom backtrack and are highly systematic. Younger, less skilled readers, on the other hand, spend more time on each word. They leap ahead shorter distances and they back up more often.
Many kids become fluent readers through reading practice. But some have decoding problems that need to be diagnosed as early as possible. Not only is it important to help struggling readers so they can comprehend text, but difficulties now will often turn kids off to reading later.
The third program in the Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers television series, "Fluent Reading," introduces parents, teachers, and researchers who are using strategies that work in helping kids decode quickly and achieve fluency.
One key to fluency is recognizing that words like bat can have multiple meanings. Cathy MacDonald works with struggling readers in an afterschool program called RAVE-O at Salemwood Elementary. This program for second and third graders directly targets fluency. As an example, the kids place the word bat in the center of a web and fill the spokes with words and phrases related to baseball or fruit bats. Thanks to these lessons, Ms. MacDonald�s students are developing a rich knowledge of words, which in turn helps them to become more fluent readers.
At Suddoth Elementary School, Tina Scholtes teaches her first graders about the handy spelling pattern "ight." They are learning that changing the first letter of a word – from fight to might to bright – creates new words that are still easily recognizable. These students are moving beyond letter-by-letter decoding. By learning to read common letter groups at a glance, they�re taking a big step toward fluency.
The Johnson School has many first graders at risk of reading failure, so the school district has stared an innovative volunteer program called Book Buddies. Reading tutors work with at-risk kids twice a week to read books, drill phonics, and play phonics games. Book Buddies has put together everything researchers know will help struggling readers: parental support, systematic phonics, good children�s literature, and lots of individual attention. Students are selected for Book Buddies because they are behind their peers, but thanks to community help, a remarkable 85 percent of them read at grade level by the end of the year.
At Fort Pitt Elementary School, a second grader named Azeeza gets reading help from a different type of book buddy – a computer. "The Reading Tutor" is part of a new wave of computer software now being used to supplement classroom instruction. Azeeza reads aloud to the computer, and when she gets stuck, the software sounds out a tricky word or offers a variety of clues. The computer provides Azeeza with infinitely patient practice and assistance in oral reading.
Students are referred to the nonprofit Stern Center for individualized reading help. Becka, for example, has difficulty comprehending what she reads because she is a slow decoder. She is, however, a very bright student – she reads at the 12th percentile but does math at the 97th. Frequent assessment and lots of individualized instruction are helping Becka become a reader.
Encourage your child to read aloud to you every day. Be a patient listener. Gently help him or her over the rough spots. For practical strategies you can use today, see our Parent Tips. Or send a fun and encouraging e-card to a special reader in your life.


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Pancho Villa Stash House in El Paso to be featured on History Channel
Border Culture
by: Aaron J. Montes
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A house in El Paso called the Pancho Villa Stash House is expected to be featured in a History Channel program within the next few months, according to an individual who was involved in the production of the feature.
Cindy Medina, the U.S. Representative of the Pancho Villa Foundation, said the stars and production crew of the show "Beyond Oak Island" were in El Paso to produce a story about the stash house. A historical marker outside the property on Leon street tells of the time federal agents raided the home belonging to the revolutionary leader.
The Treasury Department in 1915 ordered a raid on the home owned by Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his brother Hipólito where they found cash, gold and jewelry inside a safe. Around $100,000 was found, which is the equivalent of nearly $3 million today.
"Pancho Villa befriended a lot of business owners here in El Paso, Texas. He stayed in various homes. He stashed money in various homes. He walked our Downtown streets," Medina said. "Him and a lot of Mexican Revolutionaries like Abraham Gonzalez and Pasqual Orozco."
Medina says she along with local historians Max Grossman, Jackson Polk, David Romo, and Bernie Sargent collaborated on the episode to bring life to the story.


It's the story of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) from her construction through the aftermath of her near-sinking by an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf during the "Tanker War" in 1988, a late act in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. For several years, the two opposing sides had been taking potshots at oil tankers in the Gulf in order to deprive the other side of much-needed trade.
Both sides were less than meticulous about identifying their prey; neutral and even friendly ships suffered the consequences. Together they had turned the inland sea into the world's most hazardous watercourse.
The United States had tried to keep out of the fray–U.S. policy makers would have preferred both sides to lose, if that were possible, but the region's oil gave it a strategic significance that could not be ignored. Reagan administration officials muddled along at arm's length, passing battlefield intelligence to Baghdad even as they secretly shipped arms to Tehran, until the Kuwaiti monarchy forced the White House's hand in late 1986 by extracting a promise to protect its tankers.
In mid-1987 the U.S. Navy launched Operation Earnest Will–its first convoy operation since World War II–and began to dispatch dozens of U.S. warships to the region.
The Roberts was one of those ships and she would nearly be sunk.
The first half of the book details the construction of the ship, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, and the assembly and training of her crew. Captained by CDR Paul Rinn, the crew trained as hard or harder than any other in the fleet, with particular attention paid to damage control. The accidental attack on the USS Stark (FFG 31), a sister ship to the Johnson, in the Gulf by Iraqi aircraft underscored the need for top-notch damage control and combat command.
same systems, the same vulnerabilities.
On April 14, 1988, the Roberts found herself in the middle of an uncharted minefield. Using auxiliary motors, Rinn tried to back the ship out along the track she had taken in, but one mine exploded, ripping a 15-foot hole in the ship's hull and disabling a great deal of her capability to fight the fires and flooding that followed. Drilled constantly against the worst disasters anyone could come up with, the Roberts' crew found themselves faced with scenarios that no one had imagined. Chief Dave Walker found that, even when partial electrical power was restored, that his console was still dead.
Walker looked around. He hoped the console wasn't actually damaged, hut rather had simply been cut off from its electrical supply when the engine room flooded. His eyes landed on the floor buffer, a fluffy-footed instrument the sailors loved to hate.
The chief explained his idea: take a fifty-foot length and strip the leads, producing a long extension cord. Next, find a connection to the panel's power supply by severing its cable to the now-useless battery pack. Twist the buffer cord and battery lead together. Now you've got a console with a handy plug-in cord. Start trying 120-volt outlets until you find one that works.
That maneuver is just one of many astounding ad-libs by a crew that, though faced with a nearly-insurmountable task, not only kept their ship afloat but made what preparations they could to defend themselves if necessary.
As the flag officers described the effort, the reporters added it up. –So simultaneously, they were backing out of a mine field, controlling flooding, putting out a fire, moving magazines, and repairing the ship?" one asked.
The Roberts and her crew were quite something.
A chapter is devoted to Operation Preying Mantis, the retaliatory strikes against the Iranian military. Though the Roberts was out of action, her SH-60 LAMPS Mk III Seahawk helicopter did play a role, making sure that the Roberts was not totally left out.
An American navy frigate damaged by an Iranian mine in the Gulf two months ago is a write-off and will have to be scrapped, according to naval sources in the area. The US authorities are attempting to cover up the costly loss in case it reopens questions about Washington's large naval presence in the Gulf…The frigate is beyond repair, but is being kept in dock to prevent the full extent of the damage being revealed…In the words of one naval observer, the USS Samuel B. Roberts –crumpled like cardboard" when it hit the mine.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reprinted the article with glee.
The men of FFG 58 lived up to the memory of their namesake ship on that day in 1988, 44 years after the first Sammy B was destroyed in battle against a foe many, many times her size. A mine, physically small but still a grave threat to any ship, nearly did in the latest Sammy B. But the preparation and action of the crew, combined with an absolute refusal to give up the ship, saved the day against odds nearly as long.
No Higher Honor is a great read, filled not only with action but with the crucial background that made the crew able to do what they did when everything was on the line.


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Michter's Single Barrel US*1 Straight Rye
Home/Rye, Single Cask, Non Colored/Michter's Single Barrel US*1 Straight Rye
Michter's is a Non Producing Distiller……
Master distiller Willy Pratt doesn't distill…..
But anyway, it's really good stuff……
Spicy with peppery notes, citrus, butterscotch, oak.
Kenmerken: Rye, Single Cask, Non Colored.
According to the United States government, rye whiskey sold in the United States must meet these requirements:
•Made from a grain mixture that is at least 51% rye.
•Aged in new charred-oak barrels.
•Distilled to no more than 160 proof, or 80% alcohol by volume (ABV). In practice, most rye is distilled out at a lower proof than this.
•Entered into the barrel for aging at a proof no higher than 125 (62.5% ABV).
•Bottled at no less than 80 proof (40% ABV).
Rye needs to be, as noted, 51% rye. The remaining 49% includes other grains. Usually, those grains include corn, wheat, malted rye, and malted barley, in any combination. Some distilleries, though, have experimented with rice, oats, and other grains. In ryes from large producers, though, the proportions are typically about 51% rye, 39% corn, and 10% malted barley.
Like bourbon, the rules on rye require the use of new charred-oak barrels. This allows the barrel to impart more of its own flavors of oak, caramel, and vanilla into the whiskey than you get with Scotch, which generally uses second-hand barrels.
Straight rye must meet all the legal requirements of regular rye, but it has a couple of extra requirements that regular rye lacks:
•Straight rye must be aged at least two years. If it is aged less than four years, the bottle must carry an age statement. The corollary to this is, if a bottle labeled "straight rye" carries no age statement, the whiskey is aged at least four years. (Some straight ryes aged longer than four years carry age statements. This is mainly for marketing purposes, but if you prefer older whiskeys, you may find it informative.)
•Straight rye may contain no added colorings, flavorings, or additional spirits.
•If a straight rye carries an age statement, it carries the age of the youngest whiskey in the bottle. In other words, if a distillery blends several barrels of rye to make a batch for bottling, the age on the bottle refers to the whiskey from the youngest barrel. Some whiskey may be older.
Glenlochy 29 Signatory CSC 1980
Signatory Vintage Cask Strength Collection by Andrew Symington.
Cask: Hogshead number 2649.
Bottle 183 of 265.
Edradour The Ultimate 2003
Distilled: 2003.
Bottle number 135 of 291.
Blair Athol 26 The Ultimate 1988
Matured in a "wine treated" ex-sherry butt.


When the alarm woke me up I was confused the phone said 5:30 but the clock said 4:30 so I got on the net and realized that today was the start of daylight savings time and that we had lost an hour. Knowing this I went to the hotel reception when they opened at 8 and asked for one hour late checkout. Australia and New Zealand both have checkout at 10 am in most of the places we stayed at.
As we expected it was drizzling on and off , so we went for breakfast at good restaurant where the locals go on Sundays. It was packed and we had to sit on a small table. After breakfast we started to load up the motorcycles and managed to leave before 11 am . There was light rain and the roads were wet , we also were getting used to handling of the new bikes.
initially the weather was cold but bearable. then it got really cold and down to 5.5 deg C . at times we would get strong side winds and the overcast was constant. We passed by some very nice scenery and finally parked in front of Lake Pukaki , the color was different a light turquoise that we have not seen in a lake before . Unfortunately the clouds covered the mountains and Mount cook could not be seen.
Husain's bike started to warn that fuel was low and before we entered the motel we filled up at a gas station . Once we arrived we realized that the motel was under new management for a week now. There was no internet and no guest laundry service.
We rested and warmed up for a while and then walked into town for a meal. on the way back we stopped to buy some food a grocer for Ali's late night snack. tomorrow we head further south to Te Anau .


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Alva est une census-designated place située dans le comté de Lee, dans l'État de Floride, aux États-Unis.

Alva fait partie de l'agglomération de Cape Coral–Fort Myers.

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Lors du recensement de 2000, elle comptait .

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Census-designated place en Floride
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'I just need time to breathe'
PAT SOMMERVOLD has retired after 47 years at Tracy Area Public Schools. "I swear to this day I only received the job because I was Norwegian heritage and Lutheran. Seriously, those were two of his questions and I scored 100%." Photo / Erin Ballard
Pat Sommervold spent the last 47 years taking care of business for Tracy Area Public Schools
By Erin Ballard
Pat Sommervold might work behind the scenes, but for more than four decades her year-round responsibilities as finance director have made her crucial to the success and sustainability of Tracy Area Public Schools.
Out of a small office at Tracy Area High School, business has run like a well-oiled machine for 47 years under Sommervold's care. On June 30, she'll pack up her desk and say goodbye, leaving behind a reputation of intelligence, attention to detail and dedication that will stretch well past her retirement.
"I've learned a great deal from her, and she's shared a lot of her knowledge and information with me. She's right beside me every day," TAPS Supt. Chad Anderson said. "One of the biggest things, in positions like this, you need people that are trustworthy. And she always keeps what's best for the district in mind. The community and the district of Tracy have been very fortunate to have her, as someone who is dedicated and loyal, and she's going to be missed.
"It's very unusual that we come out spending more than we predicted. Even with declining enrollment, we've come out on the positive end so often, I think it's just because of her planning and preparation," Anderson added.
Sommervold's main job is a big one. Each year, she, with the superintendent, is in charge of setting a budget, keeping track of all expenditures, from gas and electricity bills to salaries, and knowing how and where state money can be used. It's a task that requires a lot of knowledge and extreme meticulousness in order to come out even and take advantage of every dollar out there.
"The thing to remember is school finance is a very complex system," Anderson said. "You have certain places and ways that you can spend that money and you have to make sure you adhere to all those regulations."
Sommervold started working at Tracy schools in August 1973, after completing an administrative assistant course at Canby Vocational Technical College, now Minnesota West Community & Technical College, that July. She scoured the papers for any office jobs and fate sent her to interview with Superintendent Dayton Lauthen for his secretary position.
"I swear to this day I only received the job because I was Norwegian heritage and Lutheran. Seriously, those were two of his questions and I scored 100%," she said.


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Megan Kalmoe, Olympic medalist rower, says 'stop trying to ruin the Olympics'
By Nick ZaccardiJul 25, 2016, 8:35 AM EDT
Megan Kalmoe, an Olympic bronze medalist rower heading to her third Games, has a message for everybody fixated on the water quality in Rio:
Stop trying to ruin the Olympics for us.
"I can't be sure when the first headlines about the water quality in Rio appeared and the conversation really started," Kalmoe wrote in a blog post last week. "But ever since then, it seems like it's all people want to talk about. And I can't really understand why. At this point, it is known that there are issues with the water quality. It is known that athletes are going to be at risk for illness. It is known that we are going to have to be smart, hygienic and take precautions. Great. Let's move on."
Kalmoe, 32, is the senior member of the U.S. women's quadruple sculls crew, joined by Tracy Eisser, Grace Latz and Adrienne Martelli.
Kalmoe and Eisser were part of the crew that took gold at the 2015 World Championships, setting the U.S. up to potentially take its first Olympic title in the event in Rio.
But Kalmoe, who said she plans to retire after the Olympics, like just about every other U.S. Olympian, is much more often asked about topics she can't control.
"Why do we insist on indulging this negativity when there is so much potential for a culture of optimism and positivity in and around the Games?" Kalmoe wrote. "As a culture we have a really simple choice when it comes to how we want to frame the conversation around Rio 2016, and at every turn it seems we are choosing to be jerks.
"Every time you ask us to shift our focus from our specialty during the one time in a four-year cycle that we get the opportunity to share our expertise with the world, it's an unnecessary distraction that we as competitors do not need and should not have to deal with from people who are supposed to be on our side. Every time you steer the conversation away from the athletes and competition and on to things that are outside of our control, you're suggesting to us: 'I think you should probably waste some of your energy worrying about this, don't you?'"
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Where is democracy without a free media?
Martin Lumb April 6, 2018 0 COMMENTS
CJA President Mahendra Ved
CJA President Mahendra Ved appeals to the heads of government summit in London to remember the pivotal role of a free press
The statement by the Commonwealth Heads of Government on November 29, 2015 at the end of the last CHOGM held at Malta makes no direct reference to the role of media or the media itself. But it would be safe to assume that their concern and commitment to uphold the principles of democracy and human rights would naturally extend to the freedom of expression, without which these two and other noble values cannot be served.
It is time to seek a formal place, beyond just a mention in the final declaration, at the CHOGM summit in London. It is essential because media freedom is in peril, and journalists' working conditions have worsened since the Commonwealth leaders last met.
This has been on the table of the Commonwealth's partner organisations directly concerned with media and a whole range of related issues: the Commonwealth Journalists Association, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK).
After discussions in London over long hours, and garnering opinions of their branches and units, the representatives have painstakingly worked on principles of freedom of expression and the role of media in strengthening democracy.
It is earnestly hoped that the Commonwealth leadership will give due attention to them and adopt them. It is necessary to send a clear message from London to all Commonwealth nations and through them to the international community, that media freedom is essential to guarantee the safety, prosperity and wellbeing of seven billion-plus people, their environment and much else.
The Commonwealth leaders need to acknowledge that media freedom is endangered in many of the Commonwealth nations and those outside it where many governments swearing by democracy and rule of law have fallen short on their claimed intentions and actions, often citing "national security." Journalists on duty have been jailed, abducted, maimed and killed.
At the last CJA Conference, 2016 in London, Lord Guy Black, chairman of the Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust, underscored the decline in press freedom, "across the world – not least of that in the Commonwealth."
Painting a grim picture of press freedom, he noted that while Jamaica, Canada and New Zealand regularly lay among the top ten countries in the world with the greatest degree of press freedom – others languish year after year near the bottom. The press in Uganda, Pakistan, Rwanda, Bangladesh and The Gambia, remains "tightly and often punitively controlled," said Lord Black.
The principal threat to the media, by the very nature of the way nations across the world are governed, emanates from the political class. That class is very astute. It is articulate enough to disclaim any notions, leave alone intentions, of posing such a threat. To quote Lord Black again, "I get used to politicians talking about how they support a free press – usually they prefer another country's press freedom to their own – but very few of them really understand what it is we fight for, and it's important we articulate that."
The situation is grim. It needs noting that most of the 74 journalists killed in 2016 were 'targeted deliberately,' says Reporters Without Borders. These threats come from governments, political classes, sectarian groups, militants and what governments, to obfuscate their role and escape responsibility, expediently call "non-state actors".
Other media and human rights bodies have made similar assessments which need to be taken seriously. Media freedom is in peril. The Commonwealth should take a stand and resolve to defend it.
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It's not always about the money, although you may not want to share that sentiment with Hollywood. That's something actor Keanu Reeves is well aware of, having spent 10 years in what he calls "movie jail" for the nerve of turning down a huge paycheck to reunite with Sandra Bullock for Speed 2 back in the 1990s. What this translates to is that the studio behind the original Speed, 20th Century Fox, allegedly (according to the actor) put the word out that Keanu should not be used in any of their films.
Speed took the Die Hard formula and successfully transported it to a bus that would explode with all its passengers aboard if it dropped below a certain … well … speed. The film, which paired Keanu up with Sandra and which cost $30 million, pulled in over $350 million around the world. Fox, as a studio is wont to do, planned on a sequel. Keanu, however, did not, and it had nothing in the world to do with money, but the script that had been written. The actor and Fox went their separate ways, the sequel — Speed 2: Cruise Control — was put into production with Sandra acting opposite Jason Patric and went on to bomb. Badly. It cost $160 million and pulled in $164 million. Yeesh.
One thing should be noted, if there was indeed a blacklisting, the only one that got hurt was Fox. Between Speed in 1994 and The Day the Earth Stood Still 14 years later, Keanu's film roles included The Devil's Advocate (starring with Al Pacino and Charlize Theron), the Matrix trilogy (a seminal hit), The Gift, Constantine and The Lake House (which put him back together with Sandra).
Considering the third chapter of his latest franchise, John Wick, is hitting theaters in May, it seems like "movie jail" was good for Keanu.


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Lucien OTT (Paris, 1870 - Villeneuve Saint-Georges, 1927)
Relatively little is known of the painter and draughtsman Lucien Ott, who began his career as a designer of furniture. Perhaps inspired by the work of Paul Gauguin and the other artists then working at Pont-Aven, he made several visits to Brittany early in his artistic career, between 1889 and 1900. It was in Brittany that Ott met the printmaker and illustrator Henri Rivière, whose colour woodcuts provided an introduction to the artistic principles of Japonisme. On his return to Paris, Ott exhibited some of his landscapes of Brittany at the Salon des Indépendants of 1901. The following year he contributed a further ten works to the exhibition, and he continued to exhibit there regularly until 1914. Ott's favourite subjects were scenes of Paris and the banks of the Seine, as well as views of the surrounding Ile de France and sites in Brittany.
Although he was first and foremost a landscape artist, Ott also produced still life drawings in pastel, as well as portraits of his wife, children and close friends; works which are more immediate and direct than his delicate landscapes. His palette became somewhat darker as his career progressed. With the outbreak of war in 1914, Ott joined the army, where he made several drawings of his fellow soldiers and scenes of military life. After the end of the war he appears to have given up painting altogether, and until his death produced mainly watercolour views of the countryside around his home in the Parisian suburb of Villeneuve Saint-Georges. In 1929, two years after his death, Ott was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris.
A gifted draughtsman, Lucien Ott worked fluently in a variety of media, including pen, pastel, chalk and watercolour. He was also active as an engraver, trained in this medium by his friend, the printmaker and art historian Loys Delteil. Drawings by Lucien Ott are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and elsewhere.


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APGA Decries Ikpeazu's Campaign Strategy
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The campaign organization of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Alex Otti, has decried the strategy adopted by the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu Campaign group.
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Otti's campaign organization said since the beginning of Abia State governorship campaigns, the Ikpeazu campaign organization has done its worst to create all kinds of confusion and dissension in its main opposition, APGA, all of which has been fueled by its morbid and understandable fear and loathing of Dr. Otti.
The position of the organization was contained in a statement signed by the Research and Strategy Adviser to Dr. Otti and his campaign group, Nnanna Ijomah.
The organization noted that a political campaign could be judged in terms of relevance, effectiveness, vision and organizational ability, but alleged that Ikpeazu's campaign organization is devoid of these important elements.
It said it was in doubt if both the governor, his handlers and 3,000 special assistants sleep soundly at night without having recurring nightmares about their nemesis, Dr. Otti. It added that the campaign of calumny, adulterated stories, made up lies, bribery of disaffected APGA primary election losers, etc, notwithstanding their determined efforts, have all come to naught.
"It is pertinent to say you can ascertain the upward or downward trajectory of a campaign by the kind of message it chooses to propagate, usually towards the tail end of a campaign season, before voting day. It has become common knowledge, in political campaign parlance or practice, that the moment a campaign starts getting into what is generally referred as "gutter politics," it is a blazing neon sign that it is running scared and afraid of defeat.
"In this case, character assassination in the form of fabricated stories, mis characterization of events and innuendo become its weapon of choice, for the purpose of regaining a degree of political ascendancy, relevance and momentum. But, as the saying goes, "you can never lift yourself up by tearing someone else down through malicious lies. Please note, deliberate and carefully manipulated lies are different from constructive criticisms based on verifiable facts, history and performance.
"However, not deterred and scared of the increasing support of Dr. Otti and practically all APGA candidates by Abia people, as witnessed by thousands of people who throng their campaign rallies from Obingwa to Arochukwu, the Ikpeazu campaign version of Lai Mohammed and Festus Keyamo, in the persons of the usual suspects of Ememanka and Okiyi Kalu, suddenly decided to have one more try in their desperate effort to tarnish the image of Otti and dent his rising popularity, by coming up with another spurious Diamond Bank-related lie.
"This time, as usual, it is a manufactured mendacious lie about how Otti, verbally approved the withdrawal of N1.2 billion from the bank when he was its CEO for the benefit of some People's Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains, in the persons of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose and former Defense Minister of State, Musiliu Obanikoro.
"As proof of their stupidity, cluelessness and ignorance of banking rules, procedure and processes, it is laughable as it is incredulous that both Ememanka and Okiyi kalu would not know that no banking establishment, worthy of its name and reputation, would allow or dispense N1.2 billion from its vaults without some form of documentation.
"To falsely allege that Otti verbally approved the withdrawal of this said amount with the sole objective of impugning on his character and integrity, all in the name of politics, is not only wicked, malicious and evil but also unconscionable.
"Which then begs the question, how low can the Ikpeazu campaign go just to win re-election? As records have shown and as evidenced by the document recently released by the Director of Publicity of the Alex Otti campaign, Mr. Kazie Uko, there is absolute proof to the contrary that Otti as managing director of Diamond Bank at the time had anything to do with verbal approval of the withdrawal…"
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As you know, training twice a week is the minimum requirement for all students. With advancement in rank, that minimum goes up as the volume of techniques increases (both at the rank held as well as the need to maintain all skills previously learned) and the expectation of skill becomes higher.
From a scientific standpoint consistent practice, instruction and correction improves the neural connections that allow us to master a skill or action. Without consistent training habits, students risk the "groundhog day effect" which means re-training the brain versus building upon previous training. This creates a challenge for both the student, who struggles to learn a skill and the instructor, who find themselves re-teaching skills, rather than developing and building on the skills already learned.
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Q: Replicating dropdown menu behavior in Javascript One of the things I've noticed about dropdown menus in OS X is the way they deal with transitioning to a submenu. When you have a menu open and you want to open a submenu from it, the submenu stays open as long as the pointer is located within a certain cone-shaped region extending from the side of the menu. If the mouse leaves this region then the menu will close immediately, but while the mouse is in that cone then the menu will never close. This also allows you to move your mouse along a diagonal path to reach an element in the submenu.
On the other hand, submenus on most websites will close unless you carefully move the mouse along a series of straight line paths to reach a submenu item. On better designed websites (Google docs does this, as do others), there is a delay before the menu closes which takes care of the whole diagonal path issue, but makes the interface seem unresponsive.
Is there a way to replicate the OS X behavior in a web menu? I'm not really familiar with some of the more esoteric techniques. I was thinking something along the lines of manually adding in the cone-region (as a transparent image or something) and using mousein and mouseout on that region to handler showing and hiding the menu. I'm not really sure how to go about that though.

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Shelley Davidescu is a Business Mentor for women in wellness ready to spread health and healing worldwide. Professionally trained in mental health, she combines her knowledge in psychology, business, and health to help women share their powerful transformation and unique message to heal and create a bigger impact in the world today.
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[01:52] – Shelley helps women elicit their story
[02:47] – Value Bomb Drop: Make your one thing, your one thing. It's never really comfortable to be vulnerable
[04:11] – What is something you've changed your mind about in the last 6 months? I think it's important for entrepreneurs now to redefine what grind means
[05:42] – Worst Entrepreneurial Moment: I was on my laptop on a Saturday night – working. I suddenly had a huge wave of frustration, got up, and cried over my business
[08:23] – You have to outsource the stuff that's not for you
[08:51] – You don't have to be good at everything
[10:10] – Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment: When I was able to hire a full team and be able to delegate
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Shelley Davidescu:	I'm pumped!
John Lee Dumas:	Yes! Shelley is a business mentor for women and wellness, and she's ready to help spread health and healing worldwide. She's professionally trained in mental health and combines her knowledge in psychology, business and health to help women share their powerful transformation and unique message to heal and create a bigger impact in the world today. Shelley, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro, and give us just a little glimpse of your personal life.
Shelley Davidescu:	Yeah, sure. Thanks, John. I'm actually originally from Mexico. I'm an immigrant from Mexico City and now live in San Diego. And I'm pretty much obsessed with anything health related. I know that we just talked about me eating chocolate right before we got on, but I'm a huge fan of raw chocolate, and that's pretty much all I – actually, I'm a huge chocolate snob. So, that's pretty much all I eat.
John Lee Dumas:	Well, if you're a health nut and all you eat is chocolate, I think you just made everybody's favorite diet list. So, whenever the book comes out, let us know.
Shelley Davidescu:	Yes!
John Lee Dumas:	So, what I want to do now, Shelley, is kind of move into what you consider your area of expertise. So, kind of break that down for us. What do you consider your specialty?
Shelley Davidescu:	So, what I help women do is really elicit their story of transformation. There are so many women who have radically transformed their health and they have the power and the capacity to inspire other people to do so. There are so many health gurus out in the online space today that really just tell people what to do, or sell people on products or whatnot. But, the real transformation happens when we share what we've been able to do ourselves, and other people get inspired. So, I really help elicit that story, that human element that is irreplaceable, and share that in a really powerful way, and in a confident way so that other people are inspired to take action.
John Lee Dumas:	Okay. So, within this specialty that you have, what are two things that you think that we really need to know, just as human beings, maybe even as entrepreneurs. But, what are two things that you think we need to know that we probably don't?
Shelley Davidescu:	The number one thing that I tell my women is to really make their one thing their one thing. Their tribe in the market will really appreciate them tenfold when they deliver what they are truly specialized in, and plus, they get compensated really nicely for it because nobody else does that one thing. So, that's something that I really love to start with. And then, the second one is that it's never really super comfortable to be vulnerable or to put yourself out there. And I think that there's a huge misconception that people have that when they see others just being very public or sharing very openly, they have this misconception that it's easy for them, or that they don't have self-doubt or fear about not being liked or being questioned, or just regular human fears.
John Lee Dumas:	So, let's kind of move on to something that you've recently changed your mind about. I mean, you know, we've talked a few times now about chocolate and how you eat chocolate every single day, which is a little unique for a health nut. But at the same time, if it's pretty high in the cacao area, then maybe you're doing some good things. But, talk to us about something that you used to believe just as recently as six months ago that you just don't anymore.
Shelley Davidescu:	That I have to work all the time, which is just not true. And I know that entrepreneurs are really grinding day in and day out, which I think is a necessary part of growth, but I think it's really important for us to redefine what "grind" means, and sometimes, eating chocolate and contemplating the universe is actually work. You know, that's where I get a lot of really creative ideas, and I'm redefining what work means to me and spending more time with open space to have creativity flow into my day. So, it's following more of, like, the 80/20 rule where 20 percent of my effort grants me 80 percent of my results.
John Lee Dumas:	Well, I think it's such a problem when people don't give themselves time, when they don't give themselves space to think and to come up with that next big idea. I mean, I look back on my journey. Like, all of my big ideas came while I was on runs, or meditating or journaling. And Fire Nation, so many people, they just freak out. They think they have to be doing something busywork-like every single minute of every single day, and they're never giving themselves the time to breathe, the space to think. And that's critical. That's where the ideas come from. So, Shelley, let's talk now about your journey as an entrepreneur, and specifically, your worst entrepreneurial moment to date. So, take us down to that moment and tell us that story.
Shelley Davidescu:	Oh, my gosh! You're going to make me relieve this one, huh?
John Lee Dumas:	Yeah, girl!
Shelley Davidescu:	All right. So, I was actually sitting on the floor with my laptop. It was a Saturday night, it was 11 p.m. and there was no party at my house. And my eyes were probably bloodshot from staring at computer, probably all afternoon, working on Facebook ads, and all of a sudden, I had this, like, huge wave of frustration and, like, tension wash over me. It's kind of like I don't know if you surf, but kind of like when you get dumped on by a huge wave. It just did not feel good at all, and I was so frustrated. I got up, went to the bathroom and just started to cry. And this the first time I broke down and cried over my business. It was not a pretty sight. I usually have the ability to just, like, be cool and collected and take breaks and all that kind of stuff, but I was so frustrated trying to figure out my Facebook ad campaign. It might seem kind of small to some people, but I'm not techie at all. So, none of the buttons looked like they had a week before, there were names on the screen that I just couldn't figure out.
So, things were very confusing, and then, I just kind of got tunnel vision and I felt like my whole business was going to tank and crash for me not figuring out my Facebook ad campaign, which is obviously not true, right? There's, like, so many other pieces going on, but I basically came back to the room and I asked my husband, Jordan, if could literally just take Facebook ads off my plate, and just please never make me do that again. And from that point on, I just outsourced it. It was just, like I said, it kind of might seem like small to some people, but it seemed like it was a puzzle that was unsolvable for me.
John Lee Dumas:	Fire Nation, we only have so much bandwidth. We only have so much energy. We only have so much knowledge that we can really put forth into this world, and when you are going down these rabbit holes that just aren't your thing, what are you doing? You're wasting time, energy, effort, bandwidth, potentially even money when you could be spending that time in other areas. I mean, Shelley has so many great qualities that she could have been working on, polishing, getting out there to the public, like, all of her knowledge on chocolate and on health and on all these different things. But instead, she's going down these rabbit holes o Facebook and just getting discouraged and disgusted with the whole process that was she even going to give in? Some people have given in quick because of something like that when that's just a part of your business. You have to outsource the stuff that's just not for you. If it's not making you stronger and it's making you weaker, go back to your core and make sure that you're finding other people to just fill in your team in the areas that you're not strong in. I mean, Shelley, that's my big takeaway. But, what do you want to make sure that Fire Nation gets from your story?
Shelley Davidescu:	Yeah, I mean, you definitely nailed it. But, you know, I personally – that was the moment that I needed to have to confirm and have it etched in my memory that I don't have to do it all myself. I don't have to be good at everything. I know that as a business owner, I'm responsible that everything runs optimally, which I have no problem doing. But at the end of the day, you know, my bets are on my strengths, not on my weaknesses; and if I could have somebody else do it in five minutes rather than two hours that it takes me, then of course that's the most intelligent thing to do. So, outsourcing is the name of the game, and I always ask myself, "Who else can do this?"
John Lee Dumas:	And Shelley, you said "two hours," but it's not just two hours. It's the stress building up to those two hours when you know you have to be doing that, it's the absolute, like, just mental kind of fog that descends after those two hours of you trying to kill yourself doing it. So, you take back those two hours pre that you would have been stressing out, then those two hours of work and then, the two-three hours of mental fog that would have set in afterwards. And now, you're talking, like six, seven hours, Fire Nation, of core creativity time that you're taking away from yourself instead of outsourcing to somebody who maybe not in five minutes, but maybe in 20, 30 minutes can set up an incredible campaign for you while you're doing what you do best. So, Shelley, that's an "ah" moment that you had, obviously, but you've had a lot. So, take us to one of your greatest "aha" moments to date, and tell us that story.
Shelley Davidescu:	When I actually was able to hire a team, like a full team, and just being able to delegate and being incredibly productive. And like you're saying, being able to really focus on where I shine, which is really relationships, making connections with people, having conversations, doing Skype calls with my clients and coaching. That's really where I shine. I'm not into building websites. Have I built the skill over time? Yeah. But, it's taken me probably five times longer than somebody else who's actually really, really good, and that's their strength. But yeah. I mean, I think my greatest moment was having the whole team and just being able to onboard client, after client, after client and fully being present with them. Because that's really what we're here to do is to show up with our strengths, and to deliver what our gift is. And so, since my gift is not Facebook ads and it's really being in that coaching relationship, I was able to do it with such a joy. And that was a moment in my business that was so happy and so joyous that I just knew that I had been working so hard for that moment. I was so grateful for it, too.
John Lee Dumas:	Fire Nation, you can see the theme that's developing throughout this interview. I mean, my strengths are actually conducting these interviews. I'm not outsourcing these interviews; I'm not bringing in other people to do these actual hosting of these interviews. Like, this is what I do. But, am I going to do the show notes for this episode? Absolutely not. I've hired somebody who will do amazing, timestamped, linked, beautiful show notes, and I will already be halfway through another interview by the time he's even halfway done those show notes. I mean, think about that. I am doing what I do best, and I'm hiring out the rest, and that's what Shelley has done as well. And she's opened herself up to just continue to focus on what she does right. So, let's kind of maybe take one more big takeaway from this Shelley. Like, what do you really want to makes sure that our listeners get? I mean, we've really nailed this theme right now, but let's kind of go outside of that box a little bit, and really give Fire Nation a takeaway that they can run with.
Shelley Davidescu:	Fear is definitely going to be one of the biggest obstacles in moving forward with anything, whether it's putting yourself out there, whether it's outsourcing, right? Because us entrepreneurs want to be in control of everything. And so, just recognizing that fear is going to be there and the only way to get through it is to just move forward and to do it anyway. There's no entrepreneur on the face of this planet that is operating without fear. It gets easier to operate with it instead of trying to get rid of it.
John Lee Dumas:	Shelley what are you excited about right now? I mean, we know chocolate, but what's the other thing?
Shelley Davidescu:	Yes. I am actually super fired up about my group program that's launching in just a couple of weeks. It's called Health to Millions. So, Health to Millions actually exists because I am actually giving women in wellness the mission to step up and share their story of transformation and inspire others to feel good on the inside while looking good on the outside. So, we cover story, magnetic messaging, gap positioning and soulful sales.
John Lee Dumas:	Wow. Where can we find out more about this?
Shelley Davidescu:	It will be live on CleanForks.com.
John Lee Dumas:	CleanForks.com, Fire Nation. Check that out. And Fire Nation, what you're going to be checking out as well is the lightning round, which is coming right up, so don't you go anywhere. I'm going to take a quick minute, first, to thank our sponsors.
Shelley, are you prepared for the lightning round?
Shelley Davidescu:	I'm ready.
John Lee Dumas:	What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur?
Shelley Davidescu:	I would have to say the fear of having to do it all, and just knowing that I wasn't strong in certain areas required. I had no idea how to outsource or that I even could.
John Lee Dumas:	What is the best advice you've ever received?
Shelley Davidescu:	Not to follow anybody else's roles to really do what feels good, and the energy really transfers to other people.
John Lee Dumas:	What's a personal habit that contributes to your success?
Shelley Davidescu:	Planning tomorrow today. I map out my month, my weeks and my days in advance so there's structure and flexibility built in to eat a lot of chocolate.
John Lee Dumas:	I love that. And actually, within my upcoming launch of The Mastery Journal, the last section says, "Win tomorrow today." And, it's all about structuring the next day today so tomorrow… Let me say that again. Structuring tomorrow today so that you can win tomorrow today. So, I love that. What's an internet resource, like Evernote you can share with Fire Nation?
Shelley Davidescu:	I would have to say the simplest but three most important resources that I use all the time is Upwork to hire support, Asana to map out and plan basically anything, and Acuity to schedule my client.
John Lee Dumas:	Upwork, Asana, Acuity. Love it. If you could recommend just one book, Shelley, what would it be and why?
Shelley Davidescu:	Oh, my gosh. So many, but the number one book that I'm completely obsessed with is Psycho-Cybernetics. If you want the mindset of success and specific action steps to go along with it, you have to read this book.
John Lee Dumas:	This is the last question of the lightning round, Shelley, but it is a doozy. Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning in a brand new world identical to Earth, but you knew no one. You still have all of the experience and knowledge you currently have, your food and shelter taken care of, but all you have is a laptop and $500. What would you do in the next seven days?
Shelley Davidescu:	I'd be connecting, relating, getting to know people, helping people share their story and spread their message to change the world for the better.
John Lee Dumas:	Let's end today on fire, Shelley, with a parting piece of guidance, the best way that we can connect with you, and then we'll say goodbye.
Shelley Davidescu:	Sure, yeah. I can be found on CleanForks.com. I've also prepared something special for Fire Nation. So, you can discover your own message over at CleanForks.com/firenation, and you can download your message blueprint to help you connect and bond with your tribe so you can start making a bigger impact.
John Lee Dumas:	Nice. And what's that parting piece of guidance?
Shelley Davidescu:	Parting piece of guidance is to just get out there and feel the fear, and just do it anyway.
John Lee Dumas:	Feel the fear; do it anyway, Fire Nation. And you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, by the way, guys. And you've been hanging out with SD and JLD today, so keep up the heat and head over to EOFire.com. Just type Shelley in the search bar. That's Shelley with and E; so, that's E-Y in the search bar. Her show notes page will pop right up, and these are the best show notes in the biz, Fire Nation. Why? Because I don't do them. Because I outsource them. There's timestamps, there's links galore. You name it, it's there. And of course, get your free gift from Shelley over at CleanForks.com/firenation. Shelley thank you for sharing your journey with us today. For that, we salute you, and we'll catch you on the flip side.
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Q: AngularJS - return won't work? Edit: Thanks for the duplicate link, it has been helpful, but I'm still confused. I understand that it wouldn't work if I just wrote $scope.phones = function(){ return $http.get(url)} which is what the original op did. I am already using .then to evaluate the promise. I don't understand why I can't get the value the promise returns into my $scope.phones without using $scope.phones = response.data in my promise.
if I write $scope.phones = GetPhones() basically what it says is "Call function GetPhones, evaluate it and return the promise". But I'm also writing .then return response.data. Why isn't that enough to evaluate the promise?
I understand that it's async so the rest of the code has already run, but that should include the ng-repeat I use in my template. Why does changing the value through assignining response.data to it cause my Browser to load the data but assigning return response.data to it, doesn't trigger an update?

I am trying to query an API to get some data and display it in a list on my .html file. However for some reason my "return" loses the data... (see commented code)
(I am doing a variation of the official angularjs tutorial)
$scope.GetPhones = function () {
        return $http.get($scope.baseurl + '/api/PhoneApi')
            .then(function (response) {
                $scope.phones = response.data; //It works like this
                return response.data; //but not like this
            });
    };
$scope.phones = GetPhones();

Even when both lines are in the code it'll still work, it's like GetPhones(); in $scope.phones is never called but the function is called once, when I load the page ...
I suppose I am doing something wrong when I pass my .then return value to the function return value at the start? Hard to find an example of this actually, most people seem to use $scope.var = response.data;.
Help me understand this?


A CLC consultant comes to your school for a day as a critical friend and investigates where your school is regarding the computing curriculum and creative use of ICT in teaching and learning. A report is produced that outlines the schools strengths, weaknesses and ways forward to help plan a strategic vision for the use of ICT in your school.
Nothing has to be produced from scratch for the day but it is beneficial to view medium plans for all year groups and any school development plans (SIP/SEF/ICT Mark) which specifically reference ICT.
We also look at any data on ICT spend or budgets. It helps if we can get logged on to the network to look at plans and documents.
Samples of pupils ICT work, if available is helpful – again it is not expected for them to be specially prepared but we can look through pupil network folders if this is acceptable with the school. It would be useful if I could get some time with the lead ICT lead and / or technician at some point in the day whenever is convenient.
An online survey is delivered for as many staff as possible to take – it is to provide an overview of staff ICT capabilities and confidence with a view to targeting CPD and can be taken anonymously. The best is usually if 15 minutes of a staff meeting could be dedicated to completing this in the ICT suite as it ensures the highest uptake but obviously staff can take it in their own time if preferable. It works well on smartphones too.
A written report is then compiled using all the data which you will receive approximately one week after the onsite audit.


Adopting your first cat is a huge step, not to be taken lightly. Although cats have a reputation for independent natures, that fact does not equal "no care is necessary." Before rushing in to buy that darling "purebred" kitten in the pet store window (which is a mistake in itself), take the time to do your homework, to understand cats better by knowing why they do the things they do.
That understanding can help you can avoid these common mistakes made by new cat owners. Forewarned, you will also be able to avoid mistakes made by experienced cat owners. The result will be a happier and healthier cat and a long-term companionship with another living being, the like of which you never dreamed.
My son and I considered long and hard for weeks before we agreed that two kittens might bring new life to our bored older cats. And we never once considered getting them anywhere other than a shelter. And you know what? We were right. It worked, both for our older cats and these youngsters.
If you "impulse-buy" a new purse or a new t-shirt, you can almost always return it if it turns out to be the wrong color or the fit isn't right. No harm, no foul; the purse certainly doesn't suffer from its rejection. But adopting a living, sentient creature such as a cat and kitten, to become a family member, is entirely a different matter.
Adopting a new cat should be for keeps, so consider carefully before you make that decision.
My husband and I thought long and hard before adopting Billy in 2005. We had seen him several times at our local pet food store on adoption days, and we were worried because he simply wasn't thriving. You'd never know he was actually five months old in this photo. We adopted him three weeks after we first saw him and took him to our veterinarian the following day. My son was in charge of keeping him separate from the other cats for the first week, and today, Billy is HIS cat through and through.
Adopting a cat can almost be compared with adopting a child. No responsible adoption agency would release a precious child to someone who was not financially prepared to give him or her the best possible care.
While some shelters and cat adoption groups make no such investigation, you owe it to your cat to take care of his basic needs, as well as being prepared for emergencies.
One free tip: Invest in Pet Insurance as soon as you adopt your first cat. It will help save your wallet many times in the future, as your cat develops and grows.
Every day I read pleas for help from people who failed to spay or neuter their cats: male cats spraying every available surface of the house or escaping outdoors to fight other male cats; female cats who keep the household awake with their loud yowling during estrus and worse yet, "surprise" litters of unwanted kittens. Could you really afford to raise a litter of kittens? The cost would be much more than spaying that female cat.
The overwhelming cat population problem society faces is reason alone to spay and neuter. Add the medical problems averted by S/N and there is no reason not to do so.
Although cats may quickly recover from minor illnesses, they can just as quickly die if an emergency isn't recognized. Cats need certain vaccinations, they need annual examinations, and they definitely need and deserve immediate veterinary care when they become sick or injured.
Don't delay in choosing (and using) a good veterinarian.
Money saved by buying cheap cat food will be spent hundreds of times over on veterinary care. Cats are obligate carnivores and need a good source of meat protein. They do not need large amounts of grain fillers, especially corn, which is a cheap source of protein used by many cat food manufacturers. Learn how to choose cat food and select the best brands you can afford. You'll find your cat may eat less of the high-quality food because they don't have to gorge to get the nutrients they need.
Many an innocent new cat owner has been led down the declaw path when a veterinarian asks, "Do you want your kitten declawed when we spay her?" Some veterinarians consider declawing a "routine" surgery, while cat advocates consider it cruel, inhumane, and unnecessary in almost every case.
Declawing is not a matter of "trimming" cats claws. It is the surgical amputation of the first joint of the bones in this drawing. Learn the facts so that you can make an informed decision.
Many people believe cats deserve the freedom, fresh air, and sunshine of an outdoor life, while many others can offer proof that cats can be very happy and healthy living totally indoors. That the outdoors offers dangers not found inside simply cannot be debated. Fortunately, there are a number of compromises that will give you and your cat the best of both worlds, while keeping him safe and happy.
Cats will consistently use a litter box, if it is kept scrupulously clean, and if the litter is not scented or unpleasant to the cats' feet. Carefully maintaining your cat's litter box will almost guarantee you that you will not be faced with litter box avoidance problems.
Caveat: If your cat suddenly starts urinating outside the box despite your careful maintenance, you should immediately suspect a urinary tract problem, which is a veterinary emergency.
When you join the ranks of cat lovers, you'll soon find that we commonly refer to our cats as family members, rather than "pets." While cats may legally be considered "property" in some jurisdictions, the term ends there. You can no more "own" a cat than you can own another human being. If you haven't figured out the distinction by now, your new cat will let you know in quick order. In fact, many cat lovers describe themselves as being owned by their cats, as demonstrated by the accompanying photo!
A cat is not a child, and a cat is not a dog. Cats' unique ways make them the endearing creatures they are. On the other hand, some of their traits may cause frustration because we don't understand their needs. Cats instinctively seek out high places and sharpen their claws because they are cats, not because they are stubborn and disobedient. Our job is to accommodate those needs in acceptable ways.


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Team Sky to ride full-suspension Pinarello Dogma at 2019 Paris-Roubaix
Pinarello Dogma FS features 20mm of damped front suspension
By Jack Luke
Pinarello has launched a full-suspension version of the Dogma
The suspension unit itself is integrated into the headtube
The rear suspension unit has been used before
The system has no pivot and instead relies on the flex of the chainstays
The system can be controlled via a Garmin, an app or on the bike itself
The bike is claimed to be 15 seconds faster than an undefined rigid bike along the Carrefour de l'Arbre
Pinarello has just released a full suspension version of its Dogma race bike, based around HiRide's fully-automated electronic suspension system. The bike has 20mm of travel at the fork and 11mm at the rear.
It will be ridden by select Team Sky riders at Paris-Roubaix — the most notoriously gnarly race of the classics — this weekend.
A version of the bike that had rear suspension only was previously available. Our Oli Woodman spent time on this bike last year and he was very impressed by the system.
Riding HiRide's semi-active suspension system for road bikes
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What is Pinarello's DSAS suspension system and how does it work?
The previous version of the suspension-equipped Dogma, the K8-S, featured an elastomer-based rear suspension unit. The same unit is used on this bike but it's complemented by a fork that has 20mm of damped travel.
Pinarello Dogma K8-S rear-suspension road bike released
Unlike the rear unit, the fork's damper is based around a coil spring and a hydraulic damping circuit. This setup is not dissimilar to Cannondale's HeadShok system, though this arrangement is far more discreet.
The headtube on the Dogma FS is slightly wider to accommodate the system. Likewise, the size of the upper bearing has been increased to 1 1/4in to maintain stiffness.
The length of the headtube has been reduced to keep the stack height suitably low for this race-focussed bike and the actual suspension unit itself is integrated into the lower portion of the headtube.
The head angle has been slightly slackened and the chainstays lengthened in a bid to improve handling in rough terrain. Lastly, the rake of the fork has also been slightly reduced to keep handling similar to the regular Dogma when the system is sagged.
No geometry chart was available at the time of writing to confirm these numbers.
The flexible stays in combination with the suspension unit are said to offer a total of 11mm of rear-wheel travel.
Unlike the front, the rear suspension unit is built around an elastomer. This is again paired with a hydraulic damping circuit.
As with the previous system, this damping circuit can be fully locked out on smooth terrain. This system can be left to run automatically, with a combination of gyroscopes and accelerometers able to determine when riders are on rough terrain, unlocking and locking as required. The system can also be fully manually overridden by the rider.
The DSAS system is powered by a battery pack located in the seat tube of the bike. The system can be controlled via a dedicated app, an ANT+ compatible Garmin head unit, or using the manual interface on the downtube.
Pinarello Dogma FS key specs
The Dogma FS features much of the same technology seen on the regular Dogma, including Pinarello's signature aero ForkFlap, the aero-profiled recessed down tube and, for some unknown reason, an Italian-threaded bottom bracket.
What is the difference between an Italian and BSA bottom bracket?
Unusually for a bike that designed explicitly for riding on rough terrain, the Dogma FS is only rated for tyres up to 28mm wide. This is a bold move when clearances for tyres 30mm wide and upwards are not unusual on race bikes these days.
Only a rim brake version of the bike has been shown so far and it is not clear if a disc version will also be available. Pricing, specs and availability are also all to be confirmed.
Does suspension make road bikes faster? Pinarello thinks so.
The DSAS system is claimed to reduce the amount of road vibration that reaches the rider by 42 percent.
This reduction is claimed to result in a time that is 15 seconds faster than an unspecified 'rigid' road bike along the Carrefour De L'Arbre. The numbers in the graphs below shed some light on how these figures were achieved, though the exact methodology for the test is not defined.
Does the Pinarello Dogma FS suspension system actually work?
Potentially curious marketing stats aside, we've previously used the DSAS system on a Dogma K8-S and we were very impressed by its overall performance. You can read more on our impressions of it in our first ride review.
Will we see this system on other bikes?
It's worth clarifying that Pinarello appears to have dropped the HiRide name — a separate company that had been developing the system for some years — from the DSAS system. Whether it is licensing the technology for use under its own name or has acquired HiRide is not clear.
Assuming it's the former, it's possible we could see the technology used on other brands' bikes. We have contacted HiRide to clarify the situation.
Looking at the market more broadly, the release of this bike comes hot on the heels of the release of the second generation of the Futureshock-equipped Specialized Roubaix.
Specialized's new Roubaix returns to its racing roots
The Roubaix also uses suspension — though in a different configuration, with only the cockpit suspended — so it's clear that larger manufacturers are taking heed of the potential advantages of suspension on road bikes.
Whether we will see even more mass-market adoption of suspension on road bikes remains to be seen, but we'll be watching closely.
It's about time suspension came to gravel bikes
What do you think? Is suspension on road bikes marketing guff or the innovation we so desperately need? Let us know your thoughts below!
Jack Luke
Jack has been riding and fettling bikes for his whole life. Always in search of the hippest new niche in cycling, Jack is a self-confessed gravel dork, fixie-botherer, tandem-evangelist, hill-climbing try hard, and thinks nothing of taking on a daft challenge for the BikeRadar YouTube channel. With a near encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling tech — from the most esoteric niche nonsense to the most cutting edge modern kit — Jack takes pride in his ability to seek out tech and stories that would otherwise go unreported. Jack has been at BikeRadar for three years now and is regularly testing an esoteric mix of weird and wonderful bikes.
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