SLIDESHOW: Bowlers from K2 Sports in a league of their own | West ...

Will Knudsvig, a.k.a. Captain PBR, tries for a strike at the West Seattle Bowl. He is a new customer service rep with K2 Sports. Some employees participated in a team building exercise today. Click above photo for SLIDESHOW.

The West Seattle Bowl hosted two dozen K2 Sports employees Friday afternoon from their Customer Service and Warranty Department for a team building exercise, several of them West Seattle residents. They seemed to belong to a league of their own, as some women sported bright boas, and men wore wigs and ski gear on the lanes.

Four teams participated. "To the Tens" challenged the "Smooth Operators", while it was the "Bowling Alley Howlies" vs. the "Gutter Rats".

The individual high scorer can choose between any K2 product or full day off with pay. The team high scorers get a whole day off with pay. Best dressed individual gets to choose any Ks product, too.

Gregg Erickson, Director, Customer Service and Warranty judged and facilitated.

"We're just here to blow off some steam and have an annual team building, hopefully one of many," he said.

K2 Sports was located on Vashon Island, then moved to 4201 6th Ave. S. in 2006.

This year is K2 Sports' 50th Anniversary. Employees who have worked there 25 years or more get free trips to Hawaii.

Source: http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/10/07/features/slideshow-bowlers-k2-sports-league-their-own

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National Novel Writing Month

As the title says; Who's doing it, what's your planned plot ?

New to Nano ? easy to join! http://www.Nanowrimo.org Is the link

If you got a autor name already link us or give us it!

My author name; Altaica

On 10 October 2011, the site will be reset and everyone will start with a blank slate, Last year, and the three previous years {2007-10} I partook in Nano and won each, the first time I did it {2006} I was 3K words short. This year I plan to make it, maybe double the number of words. But one never knows for sure.

Who else is doing it ?

NOTE: I was unable to find any other thread pertaining to nanowrimo, if there is one already please merge this with it, or at lesast inform me about it. thanks!

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Demi Lovato goes back on tour, year after breakdown (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Teen star Demi Lovato is going back out on the road, a year after entering treatment for bulimia and other emotional problems.

Lovato, 19, will start a 10-city U.S. tour in November to celebrate the success of her latest album "Unbroken" and its debut single "Skyscraper", her spokesman said on Friday.

Lovato, the former star of Disney Channel's "Sonny with a Chance", suffered an emotional breakdown in November 2010 when she pulled out of a concert tour with the Jonas Brothers and entered a three month treatment program.

She has since spoken openly about her 10 year battle with eating disorders and said she started cutting herself at the age of 11.

Lovato has since quit the TV series that made her one of Disney Channel's biggest international teen stars, saying she wanted to focus on her music career.

Lovato has performed recently in New York and Los Angeles to promote the September release of "Unbroken". The new mini-tour will start in Detroit on November 16 and end in Chicago on December 3.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant)

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Charles Darwin and the Vivisection Outrage

Author?s Note: The following originally appeared at The Dispersal of Darwin.

"Darwin" by Nathaniel Gold

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According to the British Medical Journal the alleged crime resembled a crucifixion. The victims had been strapped to boards, backs down, and with their legs cinched outwards. In the stifling August heat their heavy breathing was made only more intense by a suffocating fear. The accused was described as wearing a white apron ?that was afterwards covered with blood? as he approached one of the individuals he had selected for his experiment. Their mouth was tied shut, but when the blade entered the thin, pink flesh of his inner thigh the cries of agony were simply too much to bear.

Experienced medical men in attendance, including some of the nineteenth century?s top surgeons, were outraged and demanded that the animal?s torture cease. Thomas Joliffe Tufnell, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, denounced the demonstration as a ?cruel proceeding? and stormed to the operating table to cut the dog loose.

Other physiologists objected to the interruption with one insisting, ?That dog is insensible; he is not suffering anything.?

But Tufnell held firm, ?The dog is struggling hard to get free. I am a sportsman as well as a surgeon, and I will never see a dog bullied.? However, a vote was taken among the assembled members of the British Medical Association and the demonstration was allowed to continue.

A tube was then forced into the conscious animal?s femoral artery, the white hair of his belly stained red as the arterial pressure caused blood to spurt from the incision. Into the tube the accused injected pure alcohol. The result, continued the Journal, ?was an immediate struggle, which almost immediately subsided. The animal became dead drunk.?

?Now, you see he?s insensible,? a physician snidely remarked to Tufnell.

?Yes,? Tufnell replied, ?and he?ll never be sensible again, for he will die.?

Spattered with gore from the comatose animal, the accused, Dr. Eugene Magnan of Paris, insisted he would be quite well by that evening. The dog soon died. Magnan then turned to the second animal, opening the same artery as before but injecting absinthe into the wound. According to witnesses:

The animal struggled much, cried as far as it was able, showed other symptoms of great suffering, and ultimately?not long after the injection?had a fit of epilepsy.

This had been the point of Magnan?s August 13, 1874 demonstration: the physiological effects of alcohol and absinthe on the animal nervous system. It had been made possible by four physicians based in Norwich, England, all of whom now stood trial for actions taken that did ?unlawfully illtreat, abuse, and torture certain animals.? Dr. Eugene Magnan, also listed as a defendant, was not present in the courtroom since he had fled the country back to France. Because it could not be proven that the four English physicians had been actively involved in the demonstration the charges were ultimately dismissed, though the court ruled that the case against them was proper and required them to pay all legal costs. However, in the court of public opinion they were guilty as charged.

Animal experimentation, or vivisection as it was known in the nineteenth century, had already been practiced for centuries (William Harvey?s famous dissections of deer in the 1620s had revealed the heart?s role in the circulatory system) but with the rise of scientific medicine more animal subjects were being ?put to the blade? in the name of science. The physician George Hoggan described his own experience taking part in some of these dissections with dogs:

Hundreds of times I have seen when an animal writhed in pain, and thereby deranged the tissues, during a deliberate dissection; instead of being soothed, it would receive a slap and an angry order to be quiet and behave itself. . . Even when roughly grasped and thrown on the torture-trough, a low, complaining whine at such treatment would be all the protest made, and they would continue to lick the hand which bound them till their mouths were fixed in the gag.

Darwin was well aware that these kinds of experiments took place, even using a similar example in his 1871 book The Descent of Man:

[E]veryone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

As one of the most celebrated biologists in England, Darwin was both a supporter of experimental physiology and was passionate about protecting animals from cruelty. As a local magistrate he regularly came across cases of cruelty to farm animals and, according to his biographer Janet Browne, ?was inexorable in imposing fines and punishment.? In 1853 he waged a ?private vendetta? against a Mr. Ainslie for cruelty to his carthorses, threatening to ?have him up before a magistrate & his ploughman also.? According to his son, Francis Darwin, the man who many saw as advocating ?might is right? was as disgusted by animal cruelty as he was by the human cruelty he experienced in slave holding societies:

The remembrance of screams, or other sounds heard in Brazil, when he was powerless to interfere with what he believed to be the torture of a slave, haunted him for years, especially at night. In smaller matters, where he could interfere, he did so vigorously. He returned one day from his walk pale and faint from having seen a horse ill-used, and from the agitation of violently remonstrating with the man. On another occasion he saw a horse-breaker teaching his son to ride, the little boy was frightened and the man was rough; my father stopped, and jumping out of the carriage reproved the man in no measured terms.

This sympathy extended to animals used in experimentation, as Darwin wrote to the Oxford zoologist Ray Lankester in 1871:

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. It is a subject which makes me sick with horror, so I will not say another word about it, else I shall not sleep to-night.

However, Darwin did not take his own advice and, after the media uproar following Magnan?s demonstration and the ensuing court case, the notoriously reclusive naturalist spearheaded a campaign to regulate how vivisection was conducted in England.

The year 1875 was a milestone for British animal rights activism. Building off the popular outrage over Magnan, the author, feminist, and animal rights campaigner Frances Power Cobbe formed the Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection (and, later, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which continues to this day). With the assistance of sympathetic members of Parliament, Cobbe drafted a bill that would require regular inspections of physiological labs engaged in vivisection. Darwin heard of this activity through his daughter, Henrietta Litchfield, who was passionate about animal rights and had sent her father Cobbe?s petition to sign. Her letter had Darwin contemplating the issue ?for some hours? and he delivered a considered and thoughtful response:

I conclude, if (as is likely) some experiments have been tried too often, or anesthetics have not been used when they could have been, the cure must be in the improvement of humanitarian feelings. Under this point of view I have rejoiced at the present agitation.

However, despite his conflicts over vivisection, Darwin?s opinion of the bill was that it would do little to protect animals and, at the same time, would result in a chilling effect on science:

[I]f such laws are passed, the result will assuredly be that physiology, which has been until within the last few years at a standstill in England, will languish or quite cease. . . I cannot at present see my way to sign any petition, without hearing what physiologists thought would be its effect, and then judging for myself.

Four months later Darwin, who rarely took any active role in politics, was in the midst of a political campaign to introduce his own bill to Parliament. As he wrote to his close friend Joseph Hooker, then-President of the Royal Society, ?I worked all the time in London on the vivisection question . . . The object is to protect animals, and at the same time not to injure Physiology,? and he had already enlisted the support of ?some half-dozen eminent scientific men.?

While protecting the scientific enterprise was an important aspect of what became known as the Playfair bill (after Dr. Lyon Playfair, the liberal member of Parliament who introduced the legislation), Darwin?s personal background advocating against animal cruelty and the fact that his son-in-law, Robert Litchfield, was the one who helped Darwin write the bill, it suggests that animal rights was just as much a part of Darwin?s concern. In fact, the Playfair bill went beyond Cobbe?s in the protection of animals by including the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) guidelines that required anesthetic in all experiments, including for teaching purposes. As historian David Allen Feller wrote in 2009 in his account of the 1875 antivivisection controversy:

Under the BAAS guidelines, not only was anesthesia required in experiments whenever possible, but an entire class of experiments, those conducted for mere demonstration purposes without any new scientific discovery in mind, were outlawed. This was not so under the [Cobbe] bill, which did not distinguish between classroom and purely scientific experiments. Inclusion of this provision of the BAAS guidelines was clearly intended by Darwin from the outset of his work on the bill. Darwin wrote to Burdon Sanderson and Huxley that he thought the BAAS guidelines would be the best compromise, and Darwin specifically noted the inclusion of a ban on the use of live animals for the purpose of demonstrative teaching.

Darwin is widely known for never taking part in any public discussions or debates on his theory of natural selection (leaving that to trusted friends such as Thomas Henry Huxley). His poor health and hatred of travel kept him at his estate in the countryside throughout most of his life. And yet, on the question of vivisection, Darwin not only traveled to London to help draft the Playfair bill, he returned when asked to testify by the Royal Commission when investigating the use of vivisection. During the questioning Darwin again insisted that experimentation on animals was important for the development of medical science. However, on the question of experiments carried out without anesthetic or ones inflicting pain unnecessarily, Darwin stated unequivocally that, ?It deserves detestation and abhorrence.?

Those words became the basis upon which the Royal Commission recommended that vivisection be regulated. After quoting Darwin?s view in their report to the Queen, they went on to state:

This principle is accepted generally by the very highly educated men whose lives are devoted either to scientific investigation and education, or to the mitigation or the removal of the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

The following year The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 was passed by Parliament and signed into law.

Charles Darwin?s advocacy for animal rights has more than mere historical interest. Today it is commonplace for scientists, particularly those who work with animal models in their research, to oppose animal rights legislation as being fundamentally anti-science. However, as Darwin himself has demonstrated, it is possible (even necessary) for the pro-science position to be concerned with animal welfare. Being pro-science does not mean being pro-cruelty.

There are currently some very good laws in place throughout England, Europe, and the United States that protect animals from unnecessary suffering in the pursuit of medical knowledge. However, the differences between countries continue to raise concerns about how much suffering should be permitted in animal research. Last year saw the use of chimpanzees in medical experimentation banned throughout the European Union. At the same time, there are nearly 1,000 chimps used by federal researchers in the United States for vaccine, hepatitis C, and HIV research. Year after year legislation to ban the practice fails to gain support in Congress.

Ironically enough, many of the worst abusers of animals in the nineteenth century came from continental Europe, a region that is now the leader in animal rights legislation. If there is any justice in Eugene Magnan escaping prosecution for his actions 135 years ago, it may be that public outrage over his ?demonstration? sparked a movement that, today, would provide him with no safe haven. There is little doubt that animal experimentation has resulted in some necessary medical breakthroughs. But, as in the nineteenth century controversy, Darwin?s own struggle with this research is something we would do well to remember.

References:

?Prosecution At Norwich. Experiments On Animals,? The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 728 (Dec. 12, 1874), pp. 751-754.

Browne, J. (2002). Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Darwin, C. (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Feller, D. (2009). Dog fight: Darwin as animal advocate in the antivivisection controversy of 1875 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 40 (4), 265-271 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2009.09.004

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Finding a Great Auto Repair Shop | Automotive Repair

Everyone knows how expensive it can be to take your car into a Denver dealership for repairs. Unfortunately, many people would rather just go to the dealer instead of fussing with the headache of finding a trustworthy and affordable auto repair shop in Denver. Contrary to some people?s beliefs, there are in fact quality auto repair shops here in Denver that offer competitive pricing and excellent service. There are definitely certain things to take a look at when trying to find the best Denver auto repair shop for you. Here are the top things to look for:

- Experience: Just like anything else, repairing cars is a skill which is refined with time. As they experience more and more scenarios and solutions over years, good mechanics are better equipped to handle any situation that should arise. Also, an auto repair shop wouldn?t have a long history is it didn?t provide competitive and trustworthy service.

- Customer Service: How you are treated by your mechanic is extremely important. If you are going to put your money and trust into a shop to fix your car, then you should receive excellent, loyal service in return. The repair shop is not doing you a favor, you are doing them a favor by giving them your business? A good mechanic will know that, and treat you accordingly.

- Competitive Pricing: A great Denver shop can offer dealership quality service at a fraction of the price. Especially in today?s trying economy, the consumer will be drawn to affordable prices. When dealing with their cars, nobody wants to sacrifice on quality to save a few bucks. That?s why its important to seek out a repair shop who has the integrity to offer competitive prices in this sluggish market.

- Skill: Be sure that your automotive repair shop has all the proper certifications to work on your vehicle. The mechanics should be well-versed in everything from engine oil change & service, fluid change & service, engine tune-up, and belt inspection to engine rebuild, chassis electric repair, suspension service, and drive train repair. Make certain that your shop can perform all of the tasks required.

By: Brady Tucker

Source: http://www.mangkulturelltforum.org/automotive/finding-a-great-auto-repair-shop

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Anheuser-Busch investing $1B in US - seattlepi.com

ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Anheuser-Busch plans to invest $1 billion in its U.S. breweries and other facilities by 2014.

The St. Louis-based brewer of brands like Budweiser and Bud Light said the money allotted for projects this year will go toward modernizing its brewing processes, upgrading its systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and installing equipment for new products.

Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewer, but like most companies doing business in the U.S., has continued to see demand for its products fall as the tough economy wears on consumers. Its parent company, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, reported that its second-quarter profit rose by more than a quarter as higher sales in China made up for soft demand in the U.S. and Brazil. Meanwhile, Anheuser-Busch is reinvesting in the business to boost efficiency and productivity, and in turn, profitability.

Anheuser-Busch has made a number of investments in its business recently, including a $60 million upgrade of its St. Louis brewery and $34 million upgrade of its Houston brewery, which allowed it to expand its production and improve its environmental efficiency. The company also has increased spending in its agricultural operations and other facilities, including a $40 million investment in its Longhorn Glass facility in Houston.

Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Anheuser-Busch-investing-1B-in-US-2201829.php

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Blogging for Business | Customer Service Dallas | Thad Stammen

Blogging | Search Engine Optimization Dallas | Thad StammenSince the introduction of blogging for business in the Internet, it has become an indispensable tool for so many business owners and companies as far as advertising and marketing are concerned. But it should be noted though that blogging will only bring value and desired benefits to any business if done in a very well-calculated style of business blogging.

Good Business Blogging Means Good Business

Yes, good business blogging can definitely increase your business value by bringing you the most loyal of customers; at the same time help you build trust among new potential customers. However, if blogging is not done so appropriately, as it should be, blogging can also be destructive to your business. That is why make it a point to always think of blogging as an integral and indispensable part of your business that needs to be present at all times.

Here are a few helpful tips you may consider when setting up blogging into your business.

Take Good Care Of Your Customers

Take care of your readers as if they are old and loyal customers. Make it a point that you reply to every comment and email promptly and courteously. If you have to do some research to give them answers that will satisfy them, then by all means, do so. And ensure that you make your blog site a venue that is high in spirits and totally creative.

The Value Of Editing Before Posting

Before posting what you wrote on your blog, make sure that it is perfectly written in terms of grammar, spelling and spontaneity This way, you will appear sharp and professional to your potential customers which will surely reap the benefits of credibility and loyalty in the future.

Make your blogs a little bit more of a formal writing because the more informal you write, the less professional your business will appear. It would be downright embarrassing to be re-posting each time you publish because you were too careless as not to edit before publishing them.

Add Some Personal Touch To Your Blogs

Make sure that you furnish your information in a clear and concise manner at all times. Do not forget to put sub-headings as they will make your posts more searchable. Also, always highlight your keywords and key phrases bold and put paragraph breaks frequently. Doing all these will surely make your blogging come across as professional and will therefore allow busy customers to browse through and get the gist of your posts without having to read the whole writing anymore.

Be Personal And Yet Not Too Personal

Always it would help to make your blogging for business a funny and interesting venue for stories that can project a friendly and cheerful spirit for your business. However, it doesn?t only have to be humorous and fascinating, but it also have to be appropriate to your blog?s topic. Be personal by infusing a little bit of yourself into your writing as this will help establish a personal relationship with your customers. And in doing so, you will be able to build a sense of trust between you as business owner and your clients which will eventually translate to good business.

Source: http://www.thadstammen.com/increasing-your-business-value-through-blogging/

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Ways to Effective Internet Marketing | cms-bg.net

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  1. Keywords: Keywords are the building blocks of any website. They are what user?s type on the search engine to look out for a particular product / service. Therefore, you website content should be potentially loaded with such key words to appear in the early pages of the search engine results. The earlier your website appears, more are its chances of being noticed by the consumer. You would find special keyword software and online sites to identify key words to use them correctly at the right places to draw maximum consumers.
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      LA puts "PST" time stamp on art world (Reuters)

      LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? A city once thought to have less culture than a bowl of yogurt, Los Angeles is challenging that notion with an epic exhibition, "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980."

      Ten years in the making, "PST" was initiated by the Los Angeles-based Getty Foundation and Getty Research Institute with a $10 million-dollar grant to 68 museums and galleries in southern California, making it the region's largest ever cultural collaboration.

      The mammoth event opened at the weekend and runs for six months. It includes numerous exhibitions covering topics as traditional and diverse as pop art and sculpture, home design, cars and performance. Backers hope it sheds light on the unofficial story of the Los Angeles' art scene and gives people a comprehensive look at early trends and new voices previously muted by the art world establishment.

      "One thing I've been wondering about 'PST' is whether or not it will in fact rewrite the history of 20th Century art by actually challenging that singular narrative," said painter Judy Chicago. "That's what we want to see, real diversity."

      The post World War Two period covered by the exhibition is a critical one that brought a spotlight to new names like Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn and Judy Chicago.

      In Europe and New York, artists were rebelling against a monolithic establishment teaching a long line of 'isms' -- fauvism, cubism, modernism, all the way to abstract expressionism. Artists in California were unburdened by tradition and found references elsewhere.

      The post-war economic boom created a consumer society reflected in the sculptures of Ed Keinholz and George Herms, who used junk and other found objects to make "The Librarian" (1960), a collection of papers, books and a wooden box.

      Car culture, of course, is evident in works like "Car Hood" by Chicago, painted on the hood of a 1964 Corvair, and "Freeway," by Vija Celmins, a photo-realist painting of a dashboard view of a freeway.

      NEW WAYS OF THINKING

      As industry sprang up in the region, new materials and technologies became available to artists like Norman Zammitt who employed logarithms in consultation with experts at the California Institute of Technology to produce the bewitching colors of "North Wall," featured at the Getty Museum.

      Artists like Larry Bell and De Wain Valentine used resins and plastic coatings developed from the aerospace industry to create transparent sculptures and floating plastic cubes.

      With the proliferation of television in the 1950s and 1960s came a tsunami of popular culture. The influence of Hollywood can be seen in the wide compositions of Ruscha and the staged happenings of Chicano artist Gronk, a co-founder of 1970's conceptual art group, Asco.

      Asco, which is Spanish for 'nausea,' was Gronk's visceral reaction to seeing friends returning from Vietnam in body bags. The group was famous for staging happenings and photographing them. They called them 'No Movies' -- films made without the use of celluloid.

      One day he spotted a taxidermy cobra snake in a penny store. "Oh my God," he gasped. "The No Movie Awards for people who do not make film!" He took the snake home, spray painted it gold and, he ironically notes, "It's now in a plexiglass box at the L.A. County Museum of Art!"

      Emerging Latino voices like those of Asco are given due consideration by "PST," as are African Americans featured in "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980."

      Following the Watts riots of 1965, "Artists started to think about their social space differently and drew on materials that reflected that kind of chaos," notes the Getty's Catherine Taft.

      The rising voice of feminism is articulated by the work of women such as Chicago who was fed up with being told females couldn't be artists. Founder of the first Feminist Art program at California State University in Fresno, she came west looking to reinvent herself in the classic American tradition. Thus, Judy Cohen became Judy Chicago.

      "A lot of the L.A. artists in the 1960's had underground names. Ed Ruscha was Eddie Russia, Larry Bell was Ben Lots and I was Judy Chicago," she recalled.

      More information on PST can be found at the website http://www.pacificstandardtime.org.

      (Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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