Since your ex found this new person in a very short time after you broke up, the chances of long-term compatibility between the two of them are minimal. Keep in mind that a rebound is not a romantic, love-based relationship. Because your ex never really had a chance to be alone signs youre dating a borderline go through the post-breakup blues, he or she will have to face the reality of being single and alone once the rebound relationship comes to an end.
Conveniently, your 'no contact' phase will likely be ending around the same time, giving you an opportunity to reach out to your ex just as he or she is experiencing the heartache and loneliness that follow a breakup. If you suspect that your ex has found someone to replace you, and that this new person is not just a rebound unlikely, but still possibleyou'll need some expert guidance to win them back. Click here to watch the free video presentation from songs about your ex dating someone new expert Brad Browning It's a very painful thought, and one that can turn the strongest men into sobbing wrecks.
When I break up with someone I ship them off to an imaginary island where they roam free and make coconut snowmen and live very happy, very celibate dating jokes and courting jokes far, far away from me. Sometimes, when you find out your ex has moved on, your brain broadcasts the following message on repeat: The number one reason you shouldn't be overly concerned that your ex is dating someone new is that this is almost certainly a rebound 'fling' for your ex.
It's Just A Rebound Relationship! There's not many feelings that speed dating for over 40s in london compare to the wave of emotions you're likely to experience upon learning your ex is seeing someone new just a few days or weeks after you broke up.
Having trouble seeing why this new person in your ex's life is actually going to help your chances of getting them back? And as I'll explain below, that's good news for you.
My advice is to regard her with the songs about your ex dating someone new level of interest and companionship that you would anyone who shares a similar life experience.
If you want to believe that they love you the most, then go with that. You just know it. I know, it sucks. Until then, make the island, block the exes, and keep the focus on yourself, not anyone else. Most rebound relationships are over in weeks, and your ex's rebound will likely be equally short-lived. My advice is to block them both the second the status appears. This is kinda valid. So when your ex does stop dating Mr. You can feel it in you bones. Being 'Replaced' Really Sucks There's not many feelings that can compare to the wave of emotions you're likely to experience upon learning your ex is seeing someone new just a few days or weeks after you broke songs about your ex dating someone new. But here's the thing: Basically, you need to fall back in love with yourself.
So stop comparing and start blocking, because she might be looking at your profile and thinking the same thoughts, and neither of you deserves to feel inferior. But, while it may seem absolutely terrible right now, things aren't actually as bad as they seem.
Assuming you play your cards correctly, you'll be able to present yourself as: You just want to listen to sad songs and stare out the window, OK? Does she have a better job? You shave your legs, you watch makeup tutorials, you buy pretty new things, you do anything and everything you can think of to get some attention, and then you still feel icky.
It's just a rebound. Does she have more friends? A rebound is a way for your ex to take his or songs about your ex dating someone new mind songs about your ex dating someone new the pain of your breakup while avoiding the loneliness that comes with the single life.
Marti Schodt December 31, Is she prettier than me? If you try to somehow sabatoge their relationsip, you're really killing all hope of ever winning your ex back. Instead of looking to an outside source for approval, maybe take a couple days to re-anchor yourself. And regardless of how painful it might be to know your ex is dating someone newyou too many fish dating site should not say or do anything right now. Rebound, be ready to pounce.
You have so many feelings to share and you need someone to share them with. Make a list of all the things you do well and all the good qualities you possess and then spend a little time coloring or reading or running or whatever helps you decompress. If you try to ask your ex about this new person, you're almost certainly going to cause irreversible damage to your chances of getting songs about your ex dating someone new back.
He or she hasn't fallen madly in love with someone new, and you haven't been 'replaced' in your ex's mind. So, for the time being, just take this one on the chin and try to accept it as an unfortunate reality for now.
Giggles in your Inbox Subscribe to our daily newsletter and get the latest updates on fashion, beauty, style, and more. There is definitely value in talking it over with someone close to you, but be considerate of their time and patience.What To Do If Your Ex Has Found Someone New Nov 29, · In this video Rory outlines how to act when you've found out your Ex is dating a new person. This is an important one!! If you'd like to get my help please email me at TheLoveChat@versicherungnews.info for a. With the first ex, I still relied on him for emotional support the way I did when we were dating, and seeing him with someone else made me wonder if . Search for your favorite songs from multiple online sources and download them in the best possible quality for free. There is no registration needed.


I delivered this commissioned painting to one very happy client today! I have been working on this for the past several months and really pushed to finish it last week so that I can focus completely on the 5 Christmas commissions I need to complete within the next month.
I loved painting this piece as the Tennessee State Capitol is one of my favorite buildings. I am lucky enough to work right by it (and in it on some occasions!). In fact, I gave a Capitol tour today to some family members who are visiting from out of town. As I painted this piece, intricate details and all, I gained an even greater respect for the architect who designed it and for those who built it by hand nearly 175 years ago.
This painting was commissioned by someone who works in a state office building near the Capitol and it will hang in his office once it is framed. I can’t wait to see the frame he chooses!
This painting was a real challenge for me because I know what color the building is in the daylight, but since this is a painting of the Capitol at dusk, the colors of the building are determined almost entirely by the lights shining upon it. It definitely took some careful consideration. Because the main colors in this piece are yellow, I chose to mix my shadows in the purple family — because yellow and purple are complimentary colors. Just a little color theory lesson for you 🙂
Here are some detailed shots of the painting:
If you are interested in your very own commissioned painting, please read my custom artwork page.


Upstate medical centers watch Ebola crisis warily, but not with alarm
Published: Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 6:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 6:56 p.m.
The Ebola virus has dominated headlines and social media, and has created fear far from the epicenter of the epidemic in West Africa.
The deadly virus is nothing new to Spartanburg resident and recent Wofford College graduate Callixte Nahimana. The 24-year-old from Northern Province in Rwanda was 7 when there was an Ebola outbreak in a not-so-distant land.
"Although it was happening across the border in Uganda, I never feared it because I knew the government would do everything it had to do to keep (the virus) out," Nahimana said.
The Ebola virus is fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. Ebola is suspected to have caused the deaths of 961 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. It's in West Africa where the outbreak — the largest in history — is suspected or confirmed to have infected almost 1,780 people as of Friday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Thursday reportedly moved to a Level 1 Response — its highest level alert — in response to Ebola. The World Health Organization on Friday declared the outbreak an international public health emergency.
Ebola is spread by direct contact with an infected person's body fluids, including blood, sweat, feces and vomit.
The virus seemed a distant abstraction until two American missionaries contracted Ebola while providing health care to suffering West Africans. Both missionaries were flown to the U.S. for treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
Although Ebola could be introduced into the U.S. by an infected traveler from Africa, the CDC reports that the risk of the general U.S. population contracting the virus is "exceedingly low … widespread transmission in the United States is highly unlikely owing to our systematic use of strict and standard infection control precaution in health care settings, although a cluster of cases is possible if patients are not quickly isolated."
The CDC has provided U.S. hospitals and health care workers information to prepare for the virus.
According to the CDC, the Ebola virus can be detected in blood only after the onset of symptoms, which include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness and diarrhea.
Symptoms appear within two to 21 days of exposure to Ebola.
Dr. Debra Miller-Cox, an infectious disease specialist with Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, said it is highly unlikely that someone would arrive at the hospital with the Ebola virus, and she does not think people here should be very concerned.
She points out the outbreak has placed the international community on high alert. She said there's increased awareness and vigilance at ports of entry.
Miller-Cox said what makes someone at risk for Ebola is if they have visited the impacted countries.
"It's not simply the symptoms. It's the symptoms in conjunction with a very, very specific travel history," Miller-Cox explained.
Someone leaving the affected countries, Miller-Cox said, would have been instructed upon departure to watch for symptoms within 21 days.
Miller-Cox said personnel in the emergency department are aware of the CDC guidelines.
"It's an incredibly remote possibility that anybody around here right now is going to have Ebola," Miller-Cox said.
If someone had visited one of the countries, developed a fever within 21 days and walked into the emergency department for care, Miller-Cox said the patient would be placed in isolation, tested for the virus and the state Department of Health and Environmental Control would immediately be alerted.
"You would be put in either a high-risk category or a low-risk category of exposure," Miller-Cox said.
The high-risk category would include coming into contact with infected people or animals, such as bats, she said.
Miller-Cox said she would tell people who have not traveled to impacted countries that they should not worry.
"Community physicians need to focus on reassurance and vigilance," Miller-Cox said.
A Mary Black Health System spokeswoman said in a written statement:
"Although the risk is low, we are prepared to follow guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the event that a patient exhibits symptoms of Ebola, which includes placing the patient in a private room and issuing a face mask. Medical personnel who enter the room would be protected with gowns, masks, face shields and gloves. Nonessential staff and visitors would be restricted from entering. We have notification procedures in place to report suspected cases to local and state health departments and the CDC."
Rosylin Weston, a spokeswoman for the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, said airports receiving international flights and passengers are on heightened alert. GSP, which annually serves more than 1.8 million passengers, is not receiving passengers arriving in the United States directly from foreign countries. Those passengers enter and clear Customs elsewhere.
There are 20 U.S. Quarantine Stations located across the country where international travelers arrive. The nearest one to the Upstate is in Atlanta.
Jim Morris, a researcher and professor in Clemson's Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, does not study the Ebola virus, but does study tropical diseases.
"Will it ever get here? I don't know, but I think it's incredibly unlikely," he said.
Morris said the United States, unlike West Africa, has the infrastructure to manage and contain the virus.
In Morris' opinion, people here should be more concerned about their neighbors' children who have not received vaccinations for whooping cough or measles. He said that between 24,000 and 25,000 Americans die of seasonal flu annually.
Morris would suspect someone from West Africa who felt poorly probably has malaria.
"It's a very common infection," he said, pointing out that it kills about 1 million people a year. Tuberculosis claims about the same number of lives.
Kyle Richardson, 26, of New Orleans is a first-year student at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine's Spartanburg campus. Richardson said students there are discussing the Ebola virus.
"Much of the conversation has been about the scare of transmission, the parameters of the virus, the different levels of infection, and the ethical questions being raised about bringing (two Ebola-infected U.S. citizens) to this country," Richardson said.
"As a medical student, it doesn't scare me. I'm glad to see people are doing everything they can to bring our citizens home," he said.
Tim Brown, 47, of Spartanburg does not fear that returning Americans infected with Ebola would lead to an outbreak here.
"But it does make you think about all of the cultural and social reasons for why the disease is spreading (in Africa). In a family-centric society, most people are not coming forward when they start showing symptoms for fear that they will be cut off and ostracized," Brown said.
Nahimana thinks the fear in Africa is that if one has the virus, people will abandon them.
"You risk being isolated — cast out. That could be why people are not coming forward if they think they have it," he said.
Nahimana has family in Rwanda.
"I am concerned for them, but I am not yet afraid for them," he said.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


The Turing Test blurs the distinction between a model and (irrelevant) instantiation details. Modeling only functional modules is problematic if these are interconnected and cognitively penetrable.
2. I like Green's analysis of the Turing test. I've never liked the test, especially in its popularly-expressed form. But I would still defend functionalism. Science does not advance by producing indistinguishable replicas of reality but by producing models --representations of reality--where the level of indistinguishability is functional. A model of DNA made out of chopsticks and ping-pong balls may be true (makes all the correct predictions) but it would never be confused with a real DNA molecule; an artificial heart may instantiate a theory of real heart function but be made of very different stuff, etc. The point is that in such cases there is a very clear sense of where to draw the line between what is to be imitated (modelled) and what the largely irrelevant details of instantiation are.
3. With the Turing test, this line of demarcation is less than clear. Gross physical appearance is obviously one irrelevancy, but only one (and a trivial one); doing everything by keyboard doesn't go anywhere near far enough. The problem, it seems to me, is to a large extent the old one of interconnectedness--which is why modularity is so appealing and the fact of cognitive penetrability so worrying to folk like Pylyshyn. That is, no scientific model (or work of art) tries to capture all of reality; there is an agreed perspective that sets the rules (conventions) about what is to be preserved and what may be distorted. (Sorry to sound like Nelson Goodman.) But in studying mind, it is difficult to draw up these rules, and the Turing test says that (apart from the obvious ones) there aren't to be any. Perhaps this is why some people think that the role of AI/CogSci is to produce the software equivalent of a humanoid robot. The Turing test would be more plausible if the task were one in which the Turing Examiner attempted to distinguish between the human visual system and a computer's AI program in their effort to discriminate cats from dogs. The problem of course is that for the human, the discrimination task is likely to be influenced by the state of other parts of the system (internal and external context--cognitive penetrability).
4. I thought the ideas would be strengthened if you tackled more explicitly this issue of modularity in relation to the Turing Test.
Green, C.D. (2000) Is AI the Right Method for Cognitive Science? PSYCOLOQUY 11(061) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.061.ai-cognitive-science.1.green http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.061


The Blue Jackets locked coach John Tortorella out of their locker room on Tuesday night; Calgary’s Johnny Gaudreau making OT history; more hot topics.
The Blue Jackets were embarrassed on Tuesday night in Dallas, losing for the eighth time in their past nine games. Ryan Johansen, the team’s erstwhile No. 1 center, was benched for the entirety of the third period after turning in a disinterested performance through the 40 minutes. And after the loss, coach John Tortorella was locked out of the room so the team could hold a players-only meeting.
Sounds like things are unraveling again in Columbus. But that’s exactly the response the coach was looking for.
“I didn’t think I’d be in [the locker room] as much as I am right now,” Tortorella said earlier on Tuesday of the time he spends working on changing the team’s culture. “So that’s what I’m trying to get to is, just calmly go about it, push the athletes as hard as they need to be pushed—but I also want to listen to them, too, as I’m getting to know them. And if they want me out of there, they need to take control of that room.”
Clearly, it’s not fun to be wearing Union Blue these days. And given the holes in the roster, and the limitations imposed by the salary cap, that’s probably not going to change any time soon. But that meeting looks like a sign that this team is ready to hold itself accountable. The next few games will be telling.
Or at least, their Vincent Tremblay moment.
Name doesn’t ring a bell? You’re probably not alone. Tremblay was a struggling minor league netminder with the AHL’s Baltimore Skipjacks back in 1983-84 who earned an unexpected recall to the Pittsburgh Penguins. He stepped between the pipes for four games and allowed 24 goals ... a result which, despite their denials, was exactly what the Pens were looking for. The skid ensured that they’d finish last in the NHL, allowing them to take Mario Lemieux with the first pick in the 1984 draft. The rest is history.
It’s no secret that the Coyotes have their sights set on the prize of the 2016 draft: forward Auston Matthews. There’s no player they’d love to have at the heart of their rebuild more than the Arizona native. Of course, a blatant tank job like the one the Pens pulled wouldn’t cut it these days, in large part because of the chancy uncertainties of the draft lottery.
And to be fair, the Coyotes look nothing like a team that is tanking. In fact, they’re in the thick of a playoff race for the first time in four years and, thanks to the instability of the Pacific Division, would likely remain in the hunt right down to the wire with Smith tending their net.
But with Smith out of the picture, they Yotes are in trouble. Not that he has been lights out this season, but a tandem of Anders Lindback and Louis Domingue isn’t good enough to keep them in the mix. Lindback has gone 4-5-1 with a .900 save percentage and 2.92 GAA in support of Smith. Domingue has played just seven NHL games, none of them this season.
GM Don Maloney needs to look for help. He owes that much to the players in the room and to the team’s ticket buyers.
That said, there aren’t many upgrades to be had on the market. Cam Ward’s not the answer. Neither is Jonathan Bernier (more on him in a moment). After surveying the landscape, Maloney might decide he has no real option but to stick with what he has.
Going with Lindback and Domingue for the duration could kill Arizona’s playoff hopes. But it might turn out to be the best thing for the franchise in the long term. And at least it’s an honest effort.
• It’s hard not to feel for Jonathan Bernier, whose winless slide continued on Tuesday night with a 5–4 OT loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. He’s now 0-8-2 this season and hasn’t recorded a regulation win in the NHL since March 3, nearly 10 months ago.
The 27-year-old was making his first start since returning from a conditioning stint with the AHL Marlies that saw him go 3-0-1 with a .948 save percentage and three consecutive shutouts. If hopes weren’t exactly high that he’d rediscovered his game with that success, there at least was reason to believe he’d worked past the confidence issues that have dogged him this season.
Instead, he looked like the same fragile keeper, allowing five goals on just 27 shots, including one on only four in the first period. He wasn’t to blame for all of the red lights, but the inability to come up with the big stop, combined with his usual heart-clutching shakiness, wasn’t anywhere near good enough to get the Maple Leafs a win on a night when they scored four times.
That game was a chance for Bernier to turn the momentum his way. It didn’t work out. It won’t be the last time he suits up for the Leafs, but it’s hard to imagine coach Mike Babcock turning to him any time soon knowing that Bernier has allowed at least four goals in five of his past six starts.
• It’s no surprise that Calgary’s Johnny Gaudreau is excelling in three-on-three overtime. His game, based on speed and creativity, is tailor-made for the wide-open spaces created by the new format.
Still, it’s impressive to see how quickly he’s established himself as the league’s most dangerous OT weapon. His assist on Kris Russell’s game winner in Tuesday’s 2–1 win over Nashville was his seventh OT point of the season. That ties the mark set by Markus Naslund in 2003-04 and later equaled by Joe Thornton in 2005-06.
And to think, it took Gaudreau all of 30 games to hit the mark. The NHL’s record keepers might want to use pencil for his points the rest of the way.
The numbers game
• Shayne Gotisbehere of the Flyers has now scored three overtime goals in his first 17 NHL games, the fastest pace in league history. Ryan Malone, who held the old mark, needed 64 games to reach three extra session tallies. He is also one of only three rookies to pot a trio in one season. The others: Sidney Crosby of the Penguins (2005-06) and Andrew Cogliano of the Oilers (2007-08).
• The Flames lead the NHL with an 8-1 record in OT. Johnny Gaudreau has contributed to seven of their eight such game-winning goals.
• Colorado netminder Semyon Varlamov, who blanked the Blackhawks on Tuesday night, now has a career mark of 11-3-0 vs. Chicago.
• The great Gary “Boom Boom“ Santaniello profiles former Tampa Bay assistant George Gwozdecky as he gets a fresh start as a coach with a struggling Colorado high school program.
• It was a year ago today that the Panthers and Capitals battled it out in the longest shootout in NHL history. Relive it all here.


Features and Benefits
Efficiency rating of up to 96% AFUE—can save you hundreds of dollars each year*, compared to standard furnaces
ENERGY STAR® qualified—meets or exceeds EPA guidelines for energy efficiency
Power Saver™ motor operates at constant torque to help maintain consistent air flow.
Power Saver technology not only provides energy boost capabilities improving the overall system efficiency, similar to a variable speed furnace but also delivers higher SEER ratings in cooling mode. In continuous fan mode, this technology helps keep energy waste at a minimum.
Two-Stage Gas Valve operates at a lower heating output for efficiency, switching to a higher output as needed.
Dual-fuel capability—can be combined with an electric heat pump to enhance comfort and fuel efficiency by alternating between electric and gas heat, optimizing energy use and minimizing heating costs


I recently gave myself permission to go to New York.
I’ve always been drawn to the idea of the Big Apple. The history. The architectural glamour. The diversity and the hardcore realness of it all. I’ve had fantasies of seeing a Yankees/Jays game in Yankee Stadium during fall for years. And wouldn’t you know! There it was on the schedule! What are the odds? It was the perfect storm. I had the means, I had the friends, and I had the opportunity. But there I was, 38 years old, still finding reasons why I shouldn’t or couldn’t go. Well actually that’s a load of crap. I was busy finding reasons why I wouldn’t go. It’s important to realize that there’s a difference. When I did an inventory of reasons why I wouldn’t, it became clear to me that nobody was physically holding me back from going. I was holding myself back with excuses that were really just ways to avoid guilt.
So I said to myself, “Black Raven,” (because talking to yourself in third person is totally normal), “Why do you have wings?” And that’s when I granted myself the permission to fly to New York.
Now I know this sounds exciting and like something you want to do too! Why should Black Raven have all the fun? But don’t get all crazy here. You can’t just jump into allowing yourself to do shit! You’ve likely been denying yourself parole from Guilt Prison for many years now and it’s sort of something you have to acclimate yourself to. Don’t attempt to do this at home. The stunts you are about to read about have been performed by a practiced professional.
I’ve been doing a lot of this lately. “Practicing Permission.” At first, I started small. I began talking back to that asshole voice inside my head that would rain on my parade every time I thought about doing something I really wanted to do. At first, I began taking naps whenever I damn well pleased. Then, I spent money on books that inspired me instead of saving for good tires. (Wheeee!!! this is fun!!!) Before I knew it, I was taking long silent walks (alone, without my kids! SHAME!) and leaving the dishes in the sink so I could write. Slowly, I became more comfortable telling that inner asshole to just fuck off.
It’s important to remember that inner asshole is not you. It is every person who ever made you feel as though you couldn’t make decisions for yourself. And let me tell you, we are all surrounded by these people. They are everywhere. Assholes, as far as the eye can see, all bound by their own unmet expectations and impossible ideals. Don’t be an asshole to yourself! There are enough of them out there to contend with.
When we’re kids, we’re not allowed to do much. We need to ask permission. A lot. “Mom, can I ride my bike without a helmet? ” NO. “Mom, can I eat this KitKat bar for lunch?” NO. “Mom, can I have a puppy?” HELL NO. Kids need rules and structure and routine, right? It gives them a baseline for what’s expected, what’s right, and what’s wrong. Because they don’t know yet. They’re kids. It’s our job as parents and adults to teach them what to do and what not to do, because we’ve learned. We’ve lived. We’re brimming with wisdom and life experience.
So why the hell are we still asking permission to do things as adults? Hopefully we’ve learned by now to trust in our own decisions. We should know what’s right and what’s wrong. Why are we still subconsciously looking for permission from our families, our partners, our friends, and every one else in our personal fishbowls to do the things we want or need or choose to do?
That’s where Guilt comes in. It’s the opposite of Permission. As women, caretakers and mothers, we are asking so much of ourselves. We are catering to our family’s every need and ignoring our own. We are not giving ourselves permission to even take a nap or a solitary walk or a trip to the mall alone and if we do, we feel varying degrees of guilt. Guilt which causes us to prioritize our selfish need to be admired and required over our need for time with ourselves. We are sacrificing the freedom of our unique spirits in the pursuit of feeling needed, or adequate, or enough. We are looking to the admiration of others to fill the space inside ourselves meant for fulfillment.
It’s not just mothers, either. I’ve noticed this about most adults I know. We know what we SHOULD do. We know what we are EXPECTED to do. But do we really pay attention to what we WANT to do? A lot of us do, we’re just to afraid to give ourselves PERMISSION to do it. We don’t want to break the rules or fail to meet expectations. We don’t want to rock the boat. We don’t want to feel the guilt.
I’ve been learning to trust myself to know what I want and what I need. I allowed myself the permission to take time for to explore my passions and interests. To prioritize my personal development and take my time identifying my own personal goals and ideals. I took the time to examine my standards and re-evaluate my desires and motivations. I gave myself permission to reprioritize my life, and permission to change my mind. I told the inner assholes to beat it. I found that empty space and looked at it straight on until I figured out how to fill it.
I acknowledged my own personal evolution. And I wanted to go to New York. So I did. And I loved every second of it.
Give yourself permission to use your wings and live your life. Please. If there is one thing you ever need to master, it’s to saying YES to yourself. Allow yourself to breathe, to think, to take a break. Give yourself permission to rise from who you are to who you want to be.
Allow yourself to live.
Allow yourself to fly.
What’s YOUR New York?


Ironically the distinction that you draw is the same one that I use to argue against using regular expressions for parsing problems.
Regular expressions are designed as a tool for locating specific patterns in a sea of stuff. (Well until Perl 6 that is...) Parsing is the task of taking structured information and analyzing the structure. This is a very different task, and regular expressions (as they currently are) are simply not designed to do it. Parsing is a lot more work, but for structured text is going to give much more robust solutions. For instance you avoid different kinds of data being mistaken for each other.
The problem is that people are used to using regular expressions for text manipulation, and then set out to solve what is really a parsing probem with regular expressions. Then fail (and may or may not realize this). This happens so routinely that the knee-jerk response is that virtually anything which can be done with parsing should be, rather than regular expressions. And indeed this is good advice to give to someone who doesn't understand the parsing wheels - if only to avoid the problem of all problems looking like nails for the one hammer (regexps) that you have.
However the two kinds of problems are different and do overlap. Where they do overlap, it isn't necessarily obvious which is more practical. It isn't even necessarily obvious from the problem specification - sometimes you need to make a guess about how the code will evolve to know that...
Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
Please read these before you post! —
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
- a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.
| & || & |
| < || < |
| > || > |
| [ || [ |
| ] || ] ||


Energy Policy: Managing Colorado's Future
Date of Award
Environmental Policy & Mgmt
Master of Applied Science
Environmental Policy And Management
Amendment 37; California; Colorado; Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects; Energy plan; Energy policy; Energy policy -- Colorado; Environment; Renewable energy; Renewable energy sources -- Colorado; Renewable energy standard; Wyoming
Growing population and growing energy needs in Colorado are driving increased energy consumption with associated environmental impacts. Currently Colorado state government manages issues of environmental impact, renewable energy and energy efficiency in a piecemeal fashion. An analysis of energy policy in California and Wyoming was conducted to identify best practices that could be employed in Colorado. Two key components were identified: 1) an overarching energy action plan similar to the plan employed in California and, 2) gubernatorial leadership to make energy planning and environmental stewardship a top priority. A Colorado focused energy action plan should take into account both renewable and fossil fuel resources that are abundant in the state.
Blanchard, Mark, "Energy Policy: Managing Colorado's Future" (2007). University College: Environmental Policy Management Capstones. 198.


so you made a film about a woman
Let's start by saying that SUBMISSIONS ARE FREE.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
2018 Festival: 13-16 September, 2018
2018 Festival Submission Deadline (must be received by): June 30, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2018
Final Versions of Accepted Film(s) Received By: July 31, 2018
* We are always accepting submissions and, if accepted, they may be incorporated into our tour program.
Please include the following items with your entry form for the festival:
1. Link to an online accessible digital screener (ie. Vimeo, Youtube)*
2. A completed Submission Form with film synopsis
If your film is accepted for the festival:
Please provide the following in digital format:
1. High resolution promotional images online (4×6 at 300dpi is preferable)
2. Press pack with production credits and biographies
3. Exhibition format Quicktime file, HD trailer, and three (3) 10 sec. HD clips*
*Our preferred export settings for the Festival are Quicktime files Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ) at HDTV 1920×1080 square pixels. Audio 48kHz, 24-bit, discrete channel. Label photographs with the film title and photo credit. Clips and trailers will be used for promotional purposes.
For rough cut consideration, contact Aisha at email@example.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
What film length do we recommend?
We feature films from 60 seconds to 90 minutes. The majority of our films are under 40 minutes. 1-15 minute clips are ideal. We may ask you to edit the length if we love your story but have trouble managing our time!
What kinds of films do we accept?
We are looking for films featuring individuals who identify as women. Production, cinematography, etc, do not need to be run full-force by women. However, the core purpose of this festival is to highlight and represent our feminine energy. We are looking for films that inspire adventure and have an empowered femme feature. Typically adventure film festivals are looking for films strictly in the realm of adventure and action sports - climbing, biking, skiing, boating, yoga - but we have expanded our focus and realize that passion and adventure run deeper than these boundaries. So filmmakers, show us what you've got!
What do I get if my film is accepted?
Life long satisfaction, an all-access pass to the festival and events, your film projected on a $100,000 projector to audiences around the country wildly applauding your story, the opportunity to bond with our awesome corporate partners and sponsors, our unconditional love and support, and official acceptance into the No Man's Land Family. You could also when an award! And did we mention free beer!?
A film fest full of radical ladies in Carbondale, CO...why should I come?
Because this is your wildest dream come true! You also have the chance to connect with an audience that includes some of the most inspired individuals on the planet: filmmakers, athletes, artists, outdoor industry professionals, outdoor industry film and marketing executives, and your new climber/running/surfing partner. Also, because you deserve a vacation, and why not take it in one of the most amazing places on the planet? Most importantly, come to meet other passionate and action-oriented individuals like yourself and watch some really sweet films. So...no reason to not be there!
Do you present awards?
Yes! We present six awards at the Festival: Best of Festival, People's Choice, Femme-Wow (favorite male-free production), Most Inspiring Story, Best Cinematography and Wildest Adventure. Awards will be presented after the final screening the night of the Festival and announced on the website.


Optimum planting out size?
Is there a perfect size for a tomato plant to be transplanted outside?
Last year I probably started my plants too early and ended up with some/most/all being about 2 feet tall by the time I planted them out. I ended up losing a bunch of plants that snapped off at the ground in some high winds. One thing I learned was that the plants that I staked at planting time did fine, the ones that weren't staked, snapped off.
Anyhow I vaguely remember Dave/digdirt posting something about the optimal size for transplanting, but I don't remember the details.
Is there such a thing as too big? I always figured, the bigger they were when they started, the quicker they'd produce.


City: Mexico City
What was one of the first albums you remember listening to that you really connected with?
Version 2.0 by Garbage. There’s something really melancholic on that album, and it has all these beautiful melodies and hooks. I consider it to be a perfect mix of electronics and rock/pop music.
At the time of hearing this album did you imagine that you would one day create your own music?
I guess. I think I had wanted to create or perform for a couple or years before that. I found the idea of being in a band really appealing but I spent most of my childhood drawing. I didn’t actually start playing until a couple of years later.
Did your family encourage a love of art and music?
I wouldn’t say encourage, support is a better word. They encouraged it as a hobby not as a profession, but they’ve been supportive since I dropped out of college to record and tour.
What is your personal favorite part of making music? Writing, Recording, Playing Live?
Writing definitely. Creating is the best part. I’m not as much into technical recording and producing as into coming up with beats and synth lines or lyrics. Playing live is a close second.
What pushes you to write music when you are feeling lazy or uninspired?
Nothing can. I have to get out of it naturally. I’ve spent long periods of time—months—not making music at all. But it’s still in the back of my head; it’s all piling up and eventually I have very productive weeks or months.
How many albums do you have out now?
Zero. Most people think Ghetto Ass Witch is an album but it’s an EP. I only have EPs out, though I’m working on an album. I want it to come out next year, even though I recently lost all progress on it due to a hard drive failure. So, I’ll be starting up again when the tour I’m on is over. It’s gonna be darker and more industrial-sounding.
What do you love about music?
How it affects mood. There’s music that fits every feeling ever and it’s different for each person. That’s pretty rad.
What inspires you on a daily basis?
Music, people, books, even money; everything can be inspiring. I don’t really have one constant source of inspiration.
Have you been reading anything interesting lately that has been inspiring you?
I just read Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson, which for some reason I never read growing up and I was/am a huge Antichrist Superstar-era Manson fan. It made me realize that I’m lacking a bit in the theatrical so I’m probably gonna work on that.
Have you ever seen or experienced a ghost? If so, can you tell us about it?
Can’t say that I have but I have seen UFOs twice. Both times they looked the same and it was the same kind of experience: a red light flying fast then stopping suddenly followed by a bright white flash that seemed to be blinking, and then it was gone. On both occasions I didn’t realize about the flash until the next day when I was still thinking about it.
I do like reading theories about ancient civilizations and their relationships with aliens. That is an inspiration for sure.
Where is the strangest place from which you have drawn inspiration?
What would you like to see happen in the future, for yourself, and for the rest of the world?
For the world, full disclosure, contact, a new paradigm for mankind. Though I’m starting to doubt it’ll happen in my lifetime. And, for me, I just want to keep making music and touring for a long time.
Interview of Ritualz by Emma Kathan for Psychic Gloss Magazine.


Several years ago, while I was listening to a popular morning radio show here in San Diego, one of the hosts mentioned a surprising fact. He stated that every day, each and everyone of us sees a cow. I burst out in laughter! Are you kidding me? I thought, I live in San Diego, not Kansas! He went on to clarify that it may not be a real cow, but the image of a cow, anywhere around us, which would include billboards, magazine ads, TV, books, products, etc.
I considered “every day” to be an overstatement so I decided to do some fact-checking. Boy, was I in for a ride! That very evening, as I opened my fridge, there it was, not one, but two cows in there! One on the milk jug and one of the yogurt tub, both staring at me with their tender bovine eyes. As the days passed by, I started to wonder, could this really be true? Well, so far it really looks like it is…
I live in California and for those of you who don’t know, over the past several years, the state has been promoting CA dairy products. Yes, you guessed it, the stars of the TV, print and billboard ad campaigns, are cows. You can visit the Real California Milk website and see it for yourself. Oops, did you click on that link already? Hmm, I guess you’ve exceeded your quota of cow sightings for the day!
By browsing the site, I found out there are actually six breeds of dairy cows in California:
1. Black and white Holstein
3. Brown Swiss
6. Milking Shorthorn
Happy cow plushies
Who knew milk came in that many flavors, even before adding chocolate or vanilla to it? I continued browsing the site and viewed their most recent ad campaign, as well as the Happy Cows TV commercials, including the audition reels. For the hard-core Real California Milk fans, there’s even an online store. I’m thinking of getting the happy cow plushies. My kids could make up their own cow dialogues (I’m guessing cow poop would come up pretty quickly in the conversation, since they seem to enjoy this body-secretion stage right now). However, if I purchased the black and white plushies, I’d end up seeing even more cows than I do right now, so maybe it’s not such a good idea…
Last fall, we turned off our TV cable service after we realized that we never turned on our TV (look for an upcoming blog entry on this one!). I then thought that my daily cow sightings would disappear. Boy, was I wrong! Even though we don’t watch TV and the milk we buy now doesn’t feature a cow on its labels, I still seem to bump into the long eye-lashed bovines every day. Why? Simply because I have kids who read lots of books, and somehow many of them feature cows. Books on farms? Cows. Books on trains? Cows, staring at the trains go by. Books on oceans? Cows. Alright sea cows, also known as manatees. OK, I’m pushing it with this one, but you get the picture.
And there’s my local grocery store whose manager finds it hilarious to place a giant (yes, giant!) photo of a cow head on the wall right above the dairy department. OK, maybe I’m overreacting here and they’re just providing a simple visual clue to their customers to locate the milk, but still…
The other night, as I lay down in bed at almost midnight from a long, tiring day, I couldn’t remember if I saw a cow that day. That’s strange, I thought, as I grabbed a recent issue of Money magazine. I flipped through the pages when suddenly, there it stood, a huge cow in the middle of a full-page ad. Hmm, why didn’t I think of that, a “cash cow” in a Money magazine? I can’t believe I could be tricked so easily.
Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story
Recently, I started having daily sightings of another character. I have two words for you: Buzz Lightyear. Surprisingly, my kids don’t watch TV and have never seen Toy Story 1, or 2, or 3, but they sure know a lot about Woody and the gang! It all started a couple of months ago when my oldest son came back from preschool and started talking about Buzz Lightyear. I guess one of his little friends had brought a doll at school, and that was the catalyst for our new space adventures! This somehow coincided with the promotion launch of the upcoming Toy Story 3 (playing very soon in a theater near you) and a revival of the movie’s characters in our favorite stores (particularly Target and Walmart). As curious parents, we’ve embraced our kids’ interest in the characters and we now are the proud owners of several plastic dolls, books and even matching Buzz Lightyear PJs (for the kids, not for us, I need to mention). As a marketer by trade, I’m flabbergasted by the power of store displays to influence purchasing decisions of both my kids and myself (who doesn’t want Buzz tattoos) and the abundance of supplies. As a parent, I love watching my two-year old son hold Buzz Lightyear in one hand, Woody in the other, and create his own story, which usually ends up with one character tackling down the other. I think Buzz usually wins…
So for now and at least for the next few months to come, I can say that every day, I will not only see a cow, but also Buzz Lightyear. Hopefully, not on top of the cow, not a pretty sight…
June 27, 2010 update: they have cows at SeaWorld too!
September 29, 2010 update: Every day I see a cow, the French edition
DECEMBER 31, 2010 UPDATE – The brand new “Every day I see a cow” blog is up and running, just in time to document daily cow sightings in 2011! Take a look and let me know what you think. “Every day I see a cow” is also on Facebook, so feel free to visit the page, like it, and share your own cow sightings with everyone. The more, the merrier!
If you enjoyed reading this post and would like to receive future postings, please enter your email address and click the Sign Up button at the top right of this page. Thank you for reading!


|The Ladies of Brown Girls Burlesque|
|The lovely Miss Dakota!|
This year for me is about body positivity and as always, living my most glamorous life! So, I spent January 2012 celebrating the womanly art of Burlesque. I took a 4 week beginner’s course with the Miss Dakota’s Burlesque Academy taught by professional dancer Miss Dakota here in Los Angeles. And boy was it fun! What body image issues? Miss Dakota had us laughing while we strutted our individual stuff and found our own style in the fabulous basic moves she taught us. The first week we worked with boas, the second week she introduced gloves, the third week focused on some choreography and the final week we got to work with fans! I am definitely a fan girl.
I also attended Victory Variety Hour the longest running burlesque show in L.A. VVH celebrated founder and Super Star Penny Star Jr.’s birthday and special guest Margaret Cho performed a FANtastic burlesque number too. You can check out some of the highlights here! If you are in town, VVH is a MUST SEE!
While watching the fabulous vaudevillian comedy and striptease numbers at Victory Variety Hour I was once again amazed at how CRAZY creative and hilarious of a craft burlesque really is. Humor, costuming, choreography, story, Burlesque has it all! My creativity was sparking all over the place! I can’t wait to get some inspired new goodies for you at SweetLeigh!
Burlesque has not only become a fun stylish spectator sport but I would love to end my year of Body Positive journeying with a performance of my own! Women of every ethnicity, sexuality, gender, shape and size are part of this empowering tribute to sensuality, fun and fantasy!
Coming Soon, the women of Vintage Burlesque! For now, a very brief introduction to some of the fabulous modern women of the artform I have been inspired by:
|New Orleans treasure, Perle Noire by Leland Bobbe
|SF Legend Alotta Boutte, Founder of Harlem Shake Burlesque|
|Dirty Martini in “Coco A Gogo” editorial in V Magazine 2010
|The Lady Ms. Vagina Jenkins photo:Mollie Montana
|Brown Girls Burlesque, NYC.|


January is the perfect month to kick your chili game up another notch. With the weather getting its coldest, there’s all the reason in the world to keep your belly warm. This month, add this latin-infused recipe to your chili repertoire. Food blogger Amber from A Ginger in the Kitchen sent us this slightly spicy and totally filling Chorizo Black Bean Chili.
The chili starts with a spicy base of browned chorizo sausage. The chili gets even spicier with contributions from green chillies and jalapenos. The rest of the base comes from a helping of tomatoes, corn, a creative addition of hominy, and Randall Black Beans. After cooking, garnish with smooth chunks of avocado, cilantro, and a homemade chipotle sour cream. If these flavors don’t wow you, we aren’t sure what will.
The one drawback to this dish is the long cooking time. But with chili, waiting is the name of the game. As it cooks in your crock pot, try not to salivate too much over the thought of all those robust flavors intermingling together.
Are you hungry yet? Head out to the store, and look for Randall Beans Black Beans to make this dish tonight.


Niklas Nenzén is based in Stockholm, Sweden
Janice Sloane is based in NYC
As seen through this exhibit, the idea of the portrait and "body revisionism" can assume a multitude of forms and meanings, whether as physical structure, psychological metaphor, or social construct.
For Niklas Nenzén's precision collages, the atmosphere of cloistered chambers as self portrait is a site of suspect supernatural memory and a springboard for follies and fantasies. His idea is based on a playful hypothesis about how the human body is readable as an atlas of mythic locale. Or conversely, that myths and fables supposedly depict the self-discovery and creation of the present human body. On display in the gallery are works from a theme named "Fabled Senses", wherein each image is, at least to Nenzén, purportedly a lost tale from an archaic mind.
In Sloane's Portrait heads, the theme of skin and its impermanence has been a constant.
"I work with themes of impermanence while relating them to issues regarding aging, "ideal beauty", sexuality, eternal youth, disfigurement, disease, healing and cosmetic surgery. Ideas are also drawn from African sculpture, ritual objects and painting. Using organic and inorganic materials, photography, painting and sculpture the work is a mix of everlasting and temporary. The subjects are caught by chance in a process of transformation, and rendered static."


Why Should You Preplan Your Funeral?
As we all know, the death of a loved one can be a very trying and difficult time for friends and family. However, during this period of adjustment and emotional distress, many important questions arise, including:
- What kind of funeral should we plan?
- Should we bury or cremate?
- Where will we hold the services?
- Who do we need to tell about the service?
- What would our dearly departed want?
Just as important, they may ask:
- How much will it cost?
- How will we pay for this?
When you discuss your preferences in advance, you can alleviate some of the stress and create a memorable experience for the people you truly love.
How Can I Preplan My Funeral?
With the help of a funeral planning advisor with the correct training and expertise, you can create a personalized celebration of your life with three easy steps:
- Reflect on how you want your life to be remembered. You can include special interest to make your service even more meaningful.
- Review your life with your advisor. They will be able to explain all of the available options and can help remove the stress that often leads to unsound financial decisions.
- Relax and enjoy your time with your family. With set arrangements, your family will not have to worry when the time comes.
Should I Prefund My Funeral?
The financial burden of a funeral can be extremely stressful for a family, and these prices do increase over time. You can help cover the funeral’s costs to better help your family deal with the stress involved with a funeral.
To learn more about how we can help you with pre-planning, please contact us today.


While he was a master of the absent presence - writer Mike Rowell commented that "even in the emptiest of scenes, we have the feeling that someone has just left and will step back into view any second" - Webb also incorporated subjects in their surroundings, as though they could belong nowhere else. His portrait of his great friend, the painter Georgia O'Keefe, photographed from behind and looking out of the studio across the New Mexico desert, is as firmly planted in the frame as a snail in its shell.
Webb was born in Detroit, Michigan, and educated at the University of Toronto. "Until I discovered photography in 1939, I had quite a normal life," he later wrote. "The banking business and the export business, with a few years prospecting for gold in southwestern United States and Central America constituted my conception of the ideal life. Came 1939, and photography - and I really started to live."
What Webb learned, while studying in Detroit under Ansel Adams and Art Siegel, was the mastery of a large format view camera (with a frame of either 5x7in or 8x10in) and the pursuit of a passion around the streets where he lived. Later on, he acknowledged a formative generation as his "teachers" - Stieglitz, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Paul Strand and Harry Callaghan, among others.
When America entered the second world war, Webb joined the navy, and was fortunate in being given photographic missions. Two years were spent with the US 7th Fleet in the south Pacific, photographing particularly in New Guinea and the Philippines.
This experience marked out a fascination with the way people live that was to later include studies of the Pennsylvanian Amish, indigenous Mexicans, the inhabitants of Spanish and black Harlem, sub-Saharan Africa, and 19th-century Texas homes and public buildings - the subjects of two later books and exhibitions which signalled his involvement with south-west America, an area to which he repeatedly returned, eventually to live.
In 1946 he joined Roy Stryker, whose famous Farm Security Administration (FSA) had included such luminaries of documentary photography as Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Marion Post - and, of course, Walker Evans. Their task was to at tempt to improve social conditions in the dustbowl states by showing the unacknowledged poverty at the heart of what was already the wealthiest nation on earth. Webb was promptly sent to New York to document the building of the Rockefeller Centre, and he later worked on projects following pipelines to Montreal and ice jams on the Ohio river, interspersed with his Louisiana story, and others on the streets of New York.
It was a natural progression from Stryker to work for the United Nations, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef), the World Health Organisation and the World Bank. Webb's Esso building was included in Steichen's Family Of Man book, with images from around the world intended to demonstrate how people are "everywhere different and everywhere the same." At the same time, he was completing assignments for a raft of US magazines, ranging from Fortune to Life, and Ladies Home Journal to Cosmopolitan.
In 1949, Webb met his New York-born wife Lucille in Paris. Living in the French capital for four years formed the basis of two of his most successful touring exhibitions, Paris Architecture (1950) and Photographs Of Paris (1951). Back in America by the mid-1950s, and winner of a Guggenheim fellowship, he used the diaries of 19th-century prospectors as a guide to a series of projects on the great American gold rush - in five months, travelling from New York to San Francisco, he took more than 7,500 pictures.
The alternation between commercial and social photography, combined with his talent for capturing an atmosphere, persisted throughout. Webb's work appeared regularly in solo and group shows, and he was a formative element in the New Subjectivity movement that emerged in the 1950s.
Of his own method, he wrote: "Creative photography does not have anything to do with location, projects or causes as such, yet it can involve any one of them. It is a need to express something within the photographer. A creative photograph is one seen through the photographer. The reason for making the photograph is often unexplainable."
Webb's early friend and lifelong mentor, Beaumont Newhall, put it differently. "He has chosen to record that which is not spectacular; his approach is the opposite of the news photo- grapher, who seeks the novel and the unusual."
Webb was compared to many eminent predecessors and contemporaries, among them Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott and Edward Weston. His photographs are on permanent display in 25 museums, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Musem of Modern Art, New York, and Washington's National Gallery of Art. His latter books include Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist And Her Landscape (1984), and a reprise of Photographs Of New York and Paris 1946-60 (1985).
Todd Webb is survived by his wife.
Charles Clayton 'Todd' Webb, photographer, born September 15 1905; died April 15 2000


Providing New Educational and Career Opportunities Across the Healthcare Industry
A new program in Southeastern’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences is helping students achieve a strong, interdisciplinary foundation in healthcare, providing them flexibility to pursue fulfilling careers in a wide variety of
The Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences program, part of the Kinesiology and Health Studies Department, began in the Spring of 2020 to help students broaden their knowledge and obtain a cutting edge in the ever-changing and multifaceted healthcare field. This contributes to not only better career opportunities for students but also a stronger workforce that is able to tackle the unpredictable challenges of today and tomorrow.
Department Head of Kinesiology and Health Studies Dr. Charity Bryan explained how this is preparing Southeastern students for the next step in their education, offering “a flexible curriculum to complete requirements for admission into physical therapy, physician assistant, dental hygiene, public health, and athletic training programs.”
Southeastern has already seen an interest in the program from the community. Bryan said, “The new Health Sciences program has proven very popular with over 235 majors.” In response to the growth and interest, Southeastern has welcomed new faculty members to “expand our class offerings and provide additional research opportunities for students.”
The faculty members are knowledgeable about the program and excited to share their knowledge with future health professionals. Professor of Health Sciences Dr. Ralph Wood said, “This is the perfect degree for students who want to pursue careers in public health and healthcare-related fields, such as health coaching and patient navigation.”
The Health Sciences degree will have a direct benefit to our local and state community. According to a study published in 2018 by the United Health Foundation, Louisiana was ranked the unhealthiest state. The program aims to help alleviate this problem. “The Health Science degree will allow graduates to specifically address health problems and help individuals pursue better health outcomes, improve health literacy, and make healthier choices for themselves and their families,” said Bryan.
This program gives students the opportunity to pursue many career paths across the health field. It includes a solid foundation in public health courses including epidemiology and two course sequences on chronic disease management; a course solely focused on motivational interviewing and health coaching; and the necessary training to plan, implement, manage, and evaluate evidence-based programs.
The flexibility throughout the program offers students the opportunity to choose 22 hours of health science electives. They can pick from courses in athletic training, biology, physics, chemistry, kinesiology, health systems management, psychology, nursing, microbiology, zoology, and family and consumer sciences. The electives provide students the option to complete coursework to gain prerequisites required for graduate school programs in athletic training, occupational therapy, physician assistant, physical therapy, or other allied health professions. Students can also complete the requirements to earn a certificate in digital health management or population health management. Program Coordinator Carrie M. Edwards said, “The 22 hours of elective
provide a framework for students to not only complete prerequisites for graduate programs in the allied health
sciences but also the flexibility to choose courses of interest in health and wellness to create a more holistic health degree.”
Students can collaborate with nationally recognized faculty through research opportunities. Faculty members within the program have research experience in health coaching and counseling; drug, alcohol, and tobacco prevention; chronic illness in children; nutrition and physical activity; worksite health programming; health disparities; minority health; stress and health risk behaviors; and other research topics.
Students are encouraged to engage in learning opportunities beyond the classroom and interact with other students and health professionals through attending professional conferences. Some of the conferences include the National Health & Physical Literacy Summit, Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), American School Health Association (ASHA), and American Public Health Association (APHA).
The career options post-graduation for students obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences are bright. “Graduates will be prepared with a solid undergraduate foundation to pursue careers in public health, health
education, and health coaching, as well as graduate study and/or professional degrees in pre-health, such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant, dental hygiene, public health, and athletic training,” said Edwards. Students completing this program will be equipped to take the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination to become CHES certified.
By Mary Grace Kelley


Available on all Hot Spring Highlife® Collection and Limelight® Collection spas, this easy-to-use salt water system eliminates the worry of keeping spa water clean, clear and sanitized for a full year.* With just a little salt in your spa water, the system generates chlorine automatically so you’ll spend less time measuring and adding chemicals. This unique system makes spa ownership easier than ever by removing the guesswork and hassle of water care maintenance.
Reap the Benefits
- More natural-feeling water with no itchy, dry skin or eyes
- Fewer chemicals added and no harsh odors
- Simple water care means more time enjoying your spa
- Conserve water by reducing spa drain and refills to once a year*
Relax More. Maintain Less.
One of the primary concerns about owning a spa is water care.
Watch this video to learn how the FreshWater Salt System lets you spend more time relaxing in your hot tub and almost no time maintaining it.
How It Works
Unique, patent-pending technology makes FreshWater Salt System the best salt water system for hot tubs. The titanium cartridge creates chlorine from salt to sanitize the spa water. Use the control panel to set the system level needed to clean the water based on your usage needs.
The control panel prompts you to check the water with a test strip every 10 days and adjust the system if needed. It also indicates when the system needs attention and instructs you on what steps to take. It’s that easy. The disposable cartridge never needs any maintenance and lasts for four months. With only three cartridge changes, the water stays fresh for a full year, giving you the best spa water possible.
With fewer additives and less chemicals, the spa water stays cleaner longer. Spa water lasts 12 months before it needs a drain and refill. FreshWater Salt System saves on maintenance time, conserves water and saves money. The disposable and maintenance-free titanium cartridge, hidden away in the spa, is easy to replace in just a few seconds, without tools.
Top 5 Hot Tub Buying Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
Hot tubs are an investment in your health, happiness, and recreation. Coming from the experts, there is a lot to know about hot tubs. Look at our guide to learn what it is that you should avoid when considering a hot tub!
Want More? Try These
Water Care Systems Hot Spring Freshwater Ozone System
Available on all Highlife® Collection and Limelight® Collection spas, this easy-to-use salt water system eliminates the worry of keeping spa water clean, clear and sanitized for a full year.*
Gazebos & Enclosures Patio Rooms
Patio rooms can be ordered fully enclosed or with open sides to suit the degree of protection required.
Manual & Automated Cover Lifters Covana Legend Swim Spa Cover
With the Covana LEGEND, your swim spa will be more accessible and easier to use than ever!


By Yivvie is all about handmade, unique stuffed animals - and other goods - to bring you joy. Each item is lovingly designed and hand sewn in my home, located in Philadelphia, PA.
By Yivvie was born in December 2012, really as a fluke. I originally had made some small holiday ornaments made for a shop where I was selling other items, and I figured it would just be a one-time thing. Much to my bewilderment, the owner loved them and asked if I could make larger animals for children. From there, the animals were nurtured to grow bigger and stronger and more diverse and I decided to start selling them on Etsy. I also have been setting up shop at local craft fairs, and having a lot of fun doing it!
I went to school for printmaking, and a little later picked up painting; I continue to do both my spare time. I love working with my hands and I've found that the act of sewing by hand is very cathartic and enjoyable. That's right, each item is sewn by hand: no gluing here! I don't even own a sewing machine. All of the patterns are made from scratch, too, taken from my own drawings that use simple shapes to make up each animal.
Though I'm not able to pin-point an exact source of inspiration, that "ah-hah!" moment, I've had a special love of animals and nature ever since I was a little girl. It only made sense to me to create something that passes on that love. I want everyone to have the opportunity to bring sweet, adorable items into their home for their children or themselves. I want everyone to have a little piece of joy.


|Description||DADI is a decentralized global cloud computing platform that intends to provide innovative web services, making its clients able to scale and grow their products more effectively.|
|White Paper URL||https://dadi.cloud/whitepaper|
|ICO Launch||2018/01/29 05:00|
|Token Platform||ETH (ERC20)|
|Coin Price||0.50 USD|
|Funding Cap||$29 Million|
What Is DADI
DADI is a decentralized global cloud computing platform that intends to provide innovative web services, making its clients able to scale and grow their products more effectively. The services offered by DADI are based on a micro-services architecture that helps in building a wide range of digital products using intelligent applications. Most of the digital products are supposed to have web services. Therefore, businesses using web services can easily adapt to DADI’s technology to have better performance. The DADI plans to provide cloud services to the masses at a cost 90% less than the traditional cloud services.
Since DADI is a decentralized cloud computing platform having no central authority to supervise, therefore, the platform uses fog computing managed by a decentralized autonomous organization – DAO. This helps in removing the extra fee that could have been needed to pay to other private cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web services. This is how the platform helps in empowering people by breaking down the monopoly created by several big names as mentioned above.
How Does DADI Work?
DADI operates following a different strategy as compared to most of other cloud computing services, having no points of failure or data centers. It is based on blockchain technology having thousands of decentralized nodes of the network that helps DADI to have increased speed with better performance at a comparatively low cost. It has a ready-to-roll framework of services with its main focus on data, making targeted experience achievable. It’s is known to be an open source network that is end-to-end encrypted and empowers various online products. The platform allows its users to develop versatile content-oriented products.
Earn DADI Tokens
To earn DADI tokens investors need to participate in the launch of the ICO, which has just taken place on January 29th, 2018. Investors could have also earn DADI tokens by getting themselves registered in the pre-sale phase of the ICO. However, the pre-sale of the ICO has been closed now. As the information available on the official website of the ICO, DADI plans to generate around 10% of the total token sale in its pre-sale phase.
Buy DADI Tokens With E-Wallets
DADI is an ERC20 token based platform. ERC20 is also known as ethereum. Ethereum is a cryptocurrency and therefore, it needs to be stored in e-wallets. Investors who wish to buy DADI tokens need to open an e-wallet account before they buy DADI tokens.
The ICO Distribution
The ICO planned to hold its launching ceremony on January 29th, 2018. The ICO will last for about 30 days or until the target fundraising is completed, in other words, which ever may come first. There is a total of 50% tokens available for the public to subscribe. The ICO plans to observe a capping of 29 Million USD. The starting price of the ICO is 0.50 USD.
Token Allocation (100%)
The token allocation of the ICO is expected to follow the proportion given below.
- 10% tokens of the ICO are planned to be allocated to partners
- 60% of the ICO tokens are planned to be allocated to investors
- 20% of the tokens of the ICO are planned to be allocated to the founding members of the ICO
- 5% of the tokens are expected to be allocated to the ecosystem fund
- 5% of the tokens of the ICO are expected to be kept aside for meeting operational expenses of the ICO
- 5% tokens of the ICO are expected to be allocated for offering referral programs.
Like all other reputed ICOs, DADI also plans to offer 20% bonus to its early investors. It means that people who will buy DADI tokens in early days of its launch will receive 20% extra tokens as compared to those buy DADI tokens in later days. However, a weekly breakdown of the bonus reward has not been shared by the ICO.
The ICO has following team members.
- Joseph is the Founder & CEO of DADI
- Chris Mair is the founder of DADI
- Will Lebens is the team leader and head support teams at DADI
- Paul Kingsley is responsible for financial management at DADI.
- James Lambie is a software/data architect at DADI
- Francesco Iannuzzelli is a Technical Director at DADI
- Jo Biddulph is the Director Implementation at DADI
- Paul Regan is the Product Director at DADI
- David Longworth is the Director Design at DADI
- Viktor Fero is the Principal Engineer at DADI
- Arthur Mingard is the Principal Engineer at DADI
- Eduardo Bouças is the Senior Engineer at DADI
- Adam K Dean is the part of leading development at DADI
- Jean-Luc Thiebaut is the Senior Engineer at DADI
- Robert Stanford is also a Senior Engineer at DADI
- Peishan Chen is a Senior Project Manager at DADI
- Robert Belgrave is an advisor to DADI
After a careful review of the ICO, we hereby conclude that DADI is one of the best ICOs we have reviewed so far. Their concept is unique yet workable. They have potential scalability level and well-designed blockchain based infrastructure to take cloud computing experience to new heights of excitement. The ICO tends to be quite transparent since even a minor detail about the ICO is disclosed on the official website of the ICO. Teams members details are given in full with a brief history of their past business affairs. We expect the ICO is going to be a successful venture for sure. We suggest people should invest in ICO with full confidence. We believe people will find us suggesting them the best ICO ever.Visit Broker


Strain of Sullivan's Island grass makes Kiawah's Ocean Course
By Scott Eisbergseisberg@abcnews4.com
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - Maintaining a golf course is a tough task as it is. Maintaining a championship caliber golf course, that sits where the Ocean Course sits, an even bigger task.
"He built a golf course right here on a sandbar, if you ever look at Kiawah from the air; we're a narrow strip of beach. Basically, he incorporated a golf course into the dunes" says course superintendent Jeff Stone.
The visionary he speaks of is course designer Pete Dye. Dye's plan of having a world class golf course sitting right on the ocean is not an easy one to maintain with the salt air and conditions it faces on a daily basis.
Of course, Dye had a plan for that as well when in 2003 he decided to use a strain of grass called paspalum a University of Georgia professor found on Sullivan's Island.
"I said Pete, what's it called again? He said paspalum. I said I'd never heard of it" says Stone.
Stone wasn't willing to back down from the challenge, so he went down to Athens, GA to visit the professor, Ron Duncan.
"I walked out and there was a lunar landscape. He said this is the grass we're going to use. I said, you've got to be kidding me. Sure enough, they grew it on the greens and within six weeks we had the course ready for the world cup in 2003, it's been there ever since."
Any idea can be a good idea in a laboratory or growing on Sullivan's Island, but this is a world class golf course and the idea worked to perfection.
"It's pretty much bulletproof; you can take a putt or a bulldozer to it." says Stone.
The Ocean Course's head pro Stephen Youngner says the players couldn't be happier with the surface.
"The fairways, the ball sits tight on the grass. It's a great surface to play on. The greens are spectacular here at the Ocean Course. It thrives in this environment because it's so tolerant to that saltwater that is so prevalent here."
Of course Stone is working from sun up to sun down keeping the course in tip top shape, for the tip top ground of golfers that will be scattered among it in about two weeks.
It was a money idea, cultivated on Sullivan's Island, now keeping one of the toughest tracks in golf, quite green, right near the big blue sea.


If you haven't tried Chai yet you're missing out on some wonderful flavors.
What is Chai?
Chai mean "tea" in Hindi and was created in India where tea is often mixed with spices and milk.
The Chai Tea we serve at Stoked Coffee is a black tea with the flavors of vanilla, honey and spices mixed with milk. Although the spices are a guarded secret by the manufacturer, many detect the flavors of cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg along with a peppery undertone.
Not sure you will like Chai? If you love the warm spices of Fall like pumpkin pie and spice cake, you will likely love Chai. We have customers who swear they hate chai but fall in love when they taste our Frozen Chai!
Stoke up your Chai by adding Pumpkin Sauce, Vanilla syrup or White Chocolate.
You can even get espresso added to your Chai. It's called a Chai Charger and it's when one shot espresso is added to any size Chai drink. So if you like a lot of espresso flavor, get a small Chai because the flavors will be more concentrated. If you want less espresso flavor, get a large Chai because the one shot espresso will spread out in the large cup to provide less espresso flavor.
Sugar-Free Chai is also available if you are watching your sugar intake.
If you've never tasted Chai Tea, or think you don't like it, give our Chai Tea a try.
If you already love Chai, stoke it up with other flavors and open up the world of Chai to great new possibilities.


The Bentley Hotel was an homage to finery: gray stone walls and tall fancy columns, brass-framed glass doors, and a fancy-pants doorman dressed in a colorful uniform. I parked at the door and jetted inside to check things out, no use bringing all that gear until I knew where I was headed.
The lobby was just as lush: mahogany desk, elaborate chandeliers, Persian rugs, and a winding marble staircase to the second floor. “Hey buddy, where’s the Chief Justice speaking?” I asked the first bellman I saw.
The bellman took one look at my blue jeans and snubbed me.
“We require proper attire in the lobby sir.” A cheerful voice came from behind the desk.
I turned to see hypnotizing golden eyes eyeing my “attire” with disdain. There was something familiar about her gaze. Where had I seen her before?
“Oh, Brock, it’s you. You can’t just pop in to see me like this. Especially dressed like that.”
“Uh, yeah.” I fumbled for my next line hoping the blank look on my face didn’t betray my clulessness. “I . . . uh . . . forgot that you worked here.”
“Well, I guess I can forgive you. We were both pretty trashed.”
The girl from the bar. What the hell was her name?
“I don’t usually get that wild,” she giggled.
And what the hell did we do?
She leaned across the reservation desk and her cleavage peeked through her swelling blouse.
“Me either.” I stared at her chest . . . for a name tag. “Susan, I’m working too. I’m here to shoot the Chief Justice.”
“Do I have to call security?”
Still flirting. Must have been pretty good. “With a camera. I’m working for KALX.”
“That’s different. The Bar Association is lunching in the Pelican Ballroom, second floor.”
“Thanks.” I turned to dash back to the Taurus for my gear.
“Hey, I had fun last night. Wanna do it again?”
“Yeah,” I called over my shoulder. “Gotta go. Can’t keep His Honor waiting.”
Heavy velvet drapes and plush burgundy carpet sucked every foot-candle of light out of the Pelican Ballroom. I barged right in, mid-introduction. Every eye in the place bored through my cocky shell. I knew someone was going to sue me for disturbing the “speech,” but I soldiered on.
I stooped in the darkest corner I could find to assemble my gear. Icky clicked into its lock on the tripod. The big blue multi-pin umbilical cord stretched from Icky to my recorder. I connected the 30 volt sun-gun to the battery belt strapped around my waist, and bolted it to the camera’s light post.
I’d never seen so many stuffed suits in my life. Every lawyer in the state must have been there. They crowded around tables covered in frilly, white table cloths, their hair receding; their stomachs distending. They stood in unison as Chief Justice Wallace Christophe strode to the podium.
I squeezed my way between chairs and tables slapping my recorder against attorneys and counselors all the way to front of the room and set my tripod fifteen feet from the dais.
The judge opened a manila folder containing his speech, and I switched on my light.
They call it a sun-gun for a reason.
About a ga-jillion watts hit the judge square in the face. He raised his hands and swatted at the rays like they were a hoard of angry mosquitoes. His face squinched like he’d bitten a green persimmon, and he tried to blink gathering tears from the corners of his eyes.
My heart pounded against my ribs. I just blinded a judge. At least he couldn’t see me on the dark side of the light.
“I’ll see you in court,” the judge warned in a scholarly voice, “if I ever see again.”
The room erupted with laughter. I wanted to hide under my tripod. When the attorneys had all taken their seats, the judge lowered his head and barreled right into his speech.
It happened about three minutes in.
Hey new guy.
The Chief Justice froze.
Damn voice pager!
Blow off the judge.
Weaver’s words echoed in my head. “It’s a voice pager. It’s great.” Great my ass. The brazen voice in the little box on my hip drowned-out anything His Honor was trying to say.
We don’t want him.
I melted into a puddle and tried to soak through the heavy carpet.
“I don’t want you either, New Guy.” The judge said like he’d issued his decree from the high court’s bench. The lawyers guffawed and pounded the tables.
I grabbed my shit and oozed out, banging every lawyer’s chair along the way. The girl with the golden eyes called after me as I rushed through the lobby. I didn’t even bother to wave. I just wanted to be gone.
I threw my gear into the trunk without disconnecting anything. The sooner I could be out of there the better.
Inside the car, the two-way was already calling. Hope the judge hadn’t started talking yet. Just come back, Boyd needs a photog.
“The judge was in the middle of his speech. You told the entire room we didn’t want him.”
Sorry. You ought to turn your pager down when you’re shooting.
"Now you tell me." I threw the car into gear and floored it. My tires squealed, and I was gone in a puff of blue-gray smoke, jumping ever speed bump in the parking lot. I hoped no one took that “How’s my driving” sticker on my bumper seriously.
I took the long route back to the station to cool off so I didn’t kill someone when I got back.
Hey new guy. It was the radio. Someone just called from their car phone. They say your driving’s fine, but your trunk is smoking.
I checked the mirror. Thick white smoke billowed from the edges of the trunk lid.
“Holy shit, I’m on fire!”
I threw the car into park and jumped out in the middle of MacAuthur Boulevard. Cars zoomed past like it was normal to see a smoldering news unit on the main drag.
New guy, you okay?
I fumbled for the radio. “No, I’m not okay. I’m on fire!”
There’s a fire extinguisher in the back seat.
I grabbed the fire extinguisher, threw the trunk open, and put the fire out. It was minor, but my rain gear was now melted to my sun gun. The stupid light must have switched on when I jumped that damn speed bumps.
On cue, the hangover I’d been waiting for all day erupted inside my head.
I had been a photog for two days. I’d been stripped and hosed, fired, hired, humiliated by a judge, and caught fire. I could only hope the words Weaver had spoken were true and tomorrow none of this would matter.
I somehow doubted it.


I get messages each and every day from trying muscle-developers everywhere throughout the world, and a standout amongst the most widely recognized inquiries.
I was asked, "Does drinking truly influence the muscle development procedure?"
I'm sorry to learn it, yet yes, as well much liquor will have a huge negative effect on your muscle-building results. Liquor is much more hurtful than the vast majority think, and it's vital that you see how this medication (yes, liquor is a medication) is influencing your advancement. This is not a hostile to medicate discourse, however in the event that you're not kidding about accomplishing a really amazing physical make-up, you should know about the 5 primary ways that liquor is abating down your increases…
1) It adversely influences protein blend. Protein combination is the procedure where amino acids are joined together to frame complete proteins. Inordinate liquor utilization backs this procedure off by up to 20%, what's more, since your muscles are comprised of protein, you can perceive how this is a issue.
2) It brings down testosterone levels and expands estrogen. Testosterone is the most imperative muscle-building hormone in your body. One of the constraining elements that decide the amount of muscle a man can pick up is their level of free-streaming testosterone.
3) It causes lack of hydration. The kidneys must channel a lot of water with a specific end goal to separate the liquor, and this can bring about extreme drying out inside the body. Water plays a totally significant part in the muscle-building process, and being even somewhat dried out is a formula for calamity. The muscles alone are contained of 70% water.
4) It drains the group of vitamins and minerals. Liquor utilization causes vitamins A, C, the B's, calcium, zinc and phosphorus to be depleted at fast rates. Vitamins and minerals keep each and every process in your body working appropriately, and a considerable lot of these procedures include muscle development and upkeep.
5) It expands fat stockpiling. With 7 vacant calories per gram, liquor can really be very swelling. Liquor additionally upsets the Kreb's Cycle, which assumes a vital part in fat blazing. It's critical to have a fabulous time in life; however a lot of fun can prompt issues. In the event that you're not kidding about accomplishing noteworthy muscle-building results, you certainly need to screen your admission of liquor and ensure that you are expending it with some restraint. A couple drinks here and there shouldn't be an issue, however in the event that you end up drinking each weekend you can nearly unquestionably kiss your muscle picks up farewell. On the off chance that you choose to go out and party, make a point to drink a lot of water and to appropriately support yourself with vitamins/minerals and a protein rich dinner.
I don't suggest rotating your whole life around your muscle-building program, so don't be hesitant to go out and have a decent time occasionally. Simply make a point to keep your drinking evenings occasional (close to once every month) and legitimately sustain yourself to decrease its belongings. For whatever length of time that you screen what you're doing you can accomplish an amazing body and have a social life in the meantime.


Bernarda Gonzalez was married to Leoncio in Mellecina,
Spain. Their first child, Macrino was born in Spain in 1883. There were three sons and three daughters. Need more information about Leoncio and Bernarda.
Hi, my name is Esteban, from Argentina.
My mother's surname is Trelles and she had a cousin named Macrino(not the same Macrino but I think is one of the family names, the other is Ivo)
I was born on 1977.
write if you need some info!
Yes, I'm sure is the same family.
They are all from Asturias, Spain.
Asturias is like a state of Spain (actually it's a princedom) The capital of Asturias is Oviedo.
I went to Spain a lot of times, my family house is on Paredes, a very little town near Oviedo.
There is family history on Luarca too(also in Asturias).
Some Trelles came to Argentina on the 50's and I have aunts and uncles.
I have some kind of family tree but I dont have all the dates yet.., here it goes:
Camila Trelles married with Manuel Mendez(Paredes, Asturias)
Jesusa Mendez Trelles who married to Manuel Trelles Osorio
they had: Joaquin (my grandfather - came to Argentina)
Marina (came to argentina - dies last year)
Isaura (came to argentina)
Alicia (came to argentina -dies 4 years ago)
Manuel (came to argentina-dies)
Antonio (came to argentina-dies)
Cecilio (went to florida, usa -he dies too)
Maria (dies too young in spain)
Nestor (dies in spain)
Camila and Manuel also had:Macrino, Nicasio, Alfredo and Julia
It's a veeeeeeery long root, and it's very complicated, I have cousing married each other and a lot of info lost.
The Cuba and Central America root.
Well if u want me to send you all the root send me mail!!
Thanks for your reply. My great uncle was Macrino Trelles; probably not your Macrino. My grandfather was Ubaldo. All of my Trelles family came from Oveido, Spain. My greatgrandfather was Leoncio Trelles. His wife was Bernardo Gonzales. Do you think our families connect? Can you trace your Trelles family to Spain or the U. S. ?
I reard you message my g-grandfather's name was Nicanor Trelles Santoyo, he was born in Cuba but his family came from Spain, I have not been able to find out from where. He lived in the US many years around the 1870's in New Orleans where he became a US Citizen. Does it connect in anyway with your Trelles?
Do you know anything about the Balaguer side because all I know is my grandfather came from Spain and had 9 sisters.Also he had a cousin which happened to be Joaquin Balaguer which was the President of the Dominican Republic.If you have any info I would be so happy. Thank you.
My father is Balaguer, but I dont have a good relation with him... :o(
I meet my grandparents, Jose Balaguer and Alicia Quilez (both born and die in Bs As, Argentina)
I also know that the family name cames from a city near Barcelona, Spain. The City of Balaguer.
If you have any family roots of Balaguer please let me know, Im making my Family Tree, but I only have the Trelles family by now... :o(
Hi! I hope you had a good day.
Well, my father was James Balaguer and his father was Emil Balaguer. Emil Balaguer had 9 sisters and moved here from Spain. He told me that he carried the title of Don from Spain. His cousin, Joaquin Balaguer was the president of the Dominican Republic. Getting back to Emil, he had children by two different women and I have found their daughter. She needs to talk to me some more so I can get more information. Anyway that is the extent of my knowledge however if you want me to keep you updated on what I find I definitely will. Thank you for responding. I hope you find out more about your family.
I would like to share any and all info about the Emilo Balaguer family in Philadelphia. There were about 8 sisteres and Emil was the only boy. One of the sisters was Theresa who was my husband's grandmother. Theresa and Emilo's parents were Gabriela and Emil from Cuba....We have heard that they were originally from Spain but we have no real proof of this.....Joyce
Are you still there? My Trelles family was from Oviedo, Spain. Grandfather was Ubaldo Trelles. He was born 1888 Lynn


I am an avid hockey fight fan. In fact, I have been registered to one of the biggest hockey fight forums on the internet today, hockey-fights.com.
On this site, someone foolishly suggested that the Capitals sign Antti Niemi, the now unrestricted free agent who won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks. I am entirely against this decision for a multitude of reasons.
For starters, Niemi will be 27 years old before the season begins. Varlamov and Neuvirth are both 22. Both of the Capitals current goaltenders offer five more years of NHL play, assuming all three retire at the same time. Plus, Varlamov and Niemi can be talked about in the same conversation in terms of skill, despite the age difference. Which leads one to believe that Varlamov will become a much better goaltender than our Finnish friend.
Niemi made his NHL debut last season, posting a 1-1-1 record in 3 starts, along with a 3.40 GAA and .864 save percent. He backed those numbers up with a 26-7-4 record in 39 games played this year, posting a 2.25 GAA and .912 save percent. The number to focus on is 70.2%, which represents the percentage of total points that Niemi was good for this year, 59, out of a possible 84.
Varlamov too made his NHL debut last season, posting a 4-0-1 record in 6 games played, to go with a 2.37 GAA and a .918 save percent. This season, he finished with a 15-4-6 record in 26 games played, along with a 2.55 GAA and .909 save percent. The magic number for Varlamov is 70.3% - Varlamov achieved a total of 45 out of a possible 64 points.
Also of note: Niemi posted .427 saves per minute played this season, compared to Varlamov, who posted .470 saves per minute. Considering both the Capitals and Blackhawks have a very respectable puck possession offense, finishing the season #1 and #3, respectively, this is a very telling stat. The Blackhawks as a team finished tops in the league with only 25.1 shots allowed per game; the Capitals were 18th, allowing 30.9 per game.
Surprisingly, Niemi's playoff numbers are not as good as Varlamov's, except for the obvious, win percent. Niemi is 16-6 in 22 playoff games; Varlamov is a mere 10-9 in 19 games, spread over the last two seasons. However, Niemi has a 2.63 GAA and .910 save percent, with two shutouts, while Varlamov has a 2.49 GAA and .915 save percent, also with two shutouts. Niemi has made .488 saves per minute in his playoff career, while Varlamov has made .490 per minute. Which leads me to believe that Varlamov, despite having an obviously worse defense (the 'Hawks had the best defense squad I can remember since the Blake/Bourque/Foote led Avalanche), has played better, if not more consistently.
Niemi is a good but not great goalie who played behind a phenomenal team and rode them to the Cup. Not to say he did not contribute his fair share - he was awesome against San Jose. However, he is still unproven in the NHL, having only played a combined 64 regular season and playoff games. If the Capitals were to bring in a goalie to make a run for the Cup, despite not having all the rest of the tools, they would seek a proven winner - not a kid with half a season of experience.
Varlamov has shone on the international stage, winning silver at the 2010 World Championships, and silver at both the 2006 and 2007 World Junior Championships, starting in both 2007 and 2010. Varlamov has also won two consecutive Calder Cups, as a member of the Hershey Bears. He has yet to have a chance to dominate in the NHL, but has a good chance to do so, entering the season as the starter, albeit in split fashion. One would figure that Varlamov will start around 55-60 games, with Neuvirth getting the rest.
Furthermore, the Capitals have around $5.3 million in cap room, not counting the possible addition of Marcus Johansson, who will count for $900k should he play. Neuvirtg accounts for $821k, which is basically a wash with the Swedish import. Niemi figures to make around $3 million this upcoming season, if he can find a suitor. That would leave the Capitals with roughly $1.4 million to work with. One would figure that with the addition of DJ King, injuries will be less frequent, however with a team full of small forwards, they are inevitable. Plus, the team is not ready for a deep playoff run as is, so a deadline deal is possible, if not probable. If Niemi was signed, the Capitals would not have the flexibility they desire .
It would be fiscally irresponsible for the Capitals to pursue Niemi. He would not improve the team's current goaltending situation, and would stunt the development of the current crew. Plus, the Capitals have made a commitment to stick to the plan, which involves developing talent, and not making a shot at the Cup. Since Varlamov has much more upside than Niemi, it would be only for a "win the Cup now" chance that the Caps would even look at Niemi.
What do you think?