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One Methods:wikiHow Holiday Cookbook
Christmas is a wonderful celebratory time of year, however many people find it hard to be excited about Christmas, and fail to be full of the Christmas Spirit. However, this guide will show you how to be full of the Christmas Spirit, so that you may be happy during the holidays.
1Watch some great classic Christmas movies that play a lot during Christmas time (These movies are pretty good and are mostly family oriented. So don't worry.)
- A Christmas Story, The Polar Express, Elf, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, The Santa Clause, Home Alone, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer, The Bells of St. Mary., Mickey's Once/Twice Upon a Christmas, White Christmas, The Family Stone, and The Night Before Christmas.
2Get in touch with your family and friends. No Christmas is complete without the ones you love.
3Read Christmas themed books like "The Night Before Christmas", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "The Polar Express" and Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Some families even have a tradition that, on Christmas Eve night, one of the parents reads "The Night Before Christmas" bedtime story style.
4Decorate as much as you can. Ornaments, Christmas cards, popcorn strings, all the Christmas food. Hang chocolates and candy canes on the Christmas tree.
5Make a to do list of things to accomplish before December 25. Example:
- Get the Christmas feast groceries
- Get presents December 2nd
- Wrap presents
- Get good treats
6Send out Christmas cards! Get craft supplies and make them for family, friends, and people in the military and hospitals who can't be with their family on Christmas! This can be fun to do with friends!
7Make a Christmas list.
8Make sure everything is clean and uncluttered. By making everything clean, you will have less time concentrating on the cleanliness of your environment, and more time to concentrate on Christmas.
9Make a countdown list that everyone can see. This will help you to feel more 'Christmassy' as the days go by.
10Get an advent calendar, it is delicious and a festive way to get in the spirit of Christmas. This also helps keep the little ones (and big ones) stay more patient until the special day.
11Book your Christmas leave off work (it is up to your boss to say it's okay or not). Get your boss a good present too, this may increase their "kindness."
12Get creative with Christmas meals. When eating Christmas dinner and the turkey on Christmas day -- it isn't complete without the crackers, novelties, paper hats, mottos and jokes. And don't make the meal gross, like cranberry sauce mixed with squash and mashed potatoes.
13Make people laugh with puns. e.g. on a computer stick a notice on such as Please will yule log off your computers when finished. Also don't make a strange and confusing pun like "That elf is a Rude-elf". It can cause confusion.
14Use mistletoe! If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, wife/husband or if you are friendly with a boy/girl, ask for a Christmas kiss. Try taping the mistletoe to a hat and walk around with it on, make sure you avoid the wrong person.
15Listen to good Christmas songs: Nat King Cole is one of the most well-known Christmas-time artists. Also, if you have satellite TV watch the music channels as they show Christmas songs. Some suggestions:
- Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade
- Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
- I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday - Roy Wood and Wizard
- Walking in the Air - Aled Jones
- Do They Know its Christmas? - Band Aid
- I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
- Rocking Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
- White Christmas - Bing Crosby
- Happy Xmas (War is Over)- John Lennon
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)- Many versions exist
- Sleigh Ride- Many versions exist
- Frosty the Snowman- many versions exist
- Step into Christmas - Elton John
- Mistletoe and Wine - Cliff Richard
- Mary's boy child/Oh my lord - Boney M.
- Fairytale of New York - Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
- A spaceman came Travelling - Chris De Burgh
- Last Christmas - Wham!
- All I want for Christmas- Mariah Carey
- Jingle Bells - Bing Crosby (other versions exist too)
16Be generous and give. Donate your time and/or money to those in need. Think of how you would feel if you were less fortunate. Try to make those who are suffering better. Try and do a good turn for someone, you could do anything from holding the door open to taping some quarters on to a vending machine with a note.
17Give gifts! It wouldn't be Christmas if no one gave anything.
18Smile, smile to anything and everything. Get really happy!
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- Never spend more than you have. Remember that homemade gifts like cookies are just as well appreciated!
- It is a good idea to put your countdown calendar on the Christmas Tree.
- Be appreciative.
- Wear holiday sweaters!
- Sing carols and do traditions that you might have. If you don't have traditions then this year is the time to make some!
- Others may not be as eager to share the Christmas spirit as you would like them to be. Don't let them get you down, but don't overcrowd the Christmas decorations, catchphrases, and greeting cards. The point is to create good cheer among family and friends, not to push them away. Stay happy, remain calm and cool.
- Be aware if you have pets, chocolate is poisonous to pets and can potentially kill them, so be extra careful with the food. This cannot be stressed enough.
- Don't start this too early; people will think you are strange. Pretty soon after Christmas, it won't be exciting anymore and it will just be even stranger. Ideally you should start this at some point between 15 November and 1 December inclusive.
Things You'll Need
- Light bulbs
- Christmas decorations
- Chocolates and sweets
- Christmas movies
- Compact discs/DVDs/Videos/cassettes with all the Christmas songs on
- Christmas crackers
- Advent calendar
- Safe decorations are also energy conserving but can be fake produce so consider researching the product. Plastic ornaments are safer.
- Prepare and don't burn the turkey, buy it ahead of time to avoid panic.
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Dell Venue Pro not coming until January 5?
The general availability of Dell's Venue Pro WP7 smartphone has been pushed back yet again, this time to January 5. It was originally expected -- and showed briefly -- on Microsoft's website at the start of November. It appeared on Dell's website for pre-orders but has triggered frustration from early buyers claiming their shipments have been pushed back, even with shipping notifications in hand. The Windows Phone 7 slider was originally slated to launch today, December 14.
The reasons for the delay haven't been specified, but may revolve around the availability of its AMOLED display and earlier reported issues with pre-production versions' Wi-Fi and SIM card slots. At one point, the Microsoft stores that had early access had almost no models that were working properly.
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*I should preface this review by saying that I do not agree with Lady Thatcher's politics or certain policies.*
The Iron Lady is a biopic about Lady Margaret Thatcher, the first Western female country head, the longest reigning British Prime Minister in the 20th century and a political and historical figure who polarises opinion to this day. It is directed by Phyllidia Lloyd (director of global smash hit Mamma Mia) and stars Meryl Streep in the lead role.
Margaret Thatcher (Streep), the daughter of a grocer who rose to prominence in British politics in the 1970s is suffering from dementia in the modern day. While being convinced by her daughter Carol (Olivia Colman) to throw out her dead husband Denis' (Jim Broadbent) clothes she reminisces about the key moments in her political and personal life in the form of flashbacks. From her first election failure to her rise within the Conservative Party to leader and latterly Prime Minister, The Iron Lady explores the woman behind the controversial icon.
Let me begin with the positives. Meryl Streep is superb in the lead role as you would expect and far from being a caricature of Thatcher, she instills in the character a sense of strong-willed sensitivity that helped the real Lady get elected numerous times. Jim Broadbent and Olivia Colman are both also excellent in their respective roles, walking the line between reality and film fantasy without being too comic or overbearing. They support the master turn of one of the most successful female actors of all time. It is in the strength of Streep's performance, however that the problems with the film begin to surface.
The framing device of the modern day is a neat idea to begin with, but constantly dragging the audience away from the meaty subject matter is distracting and frustrating in equal measure. This causes any real flow in the narrative to disappear and becomes the first major problem. The second is more worrying. When you have a subject as controversial as Lady Thatcher to play with, there must have been a temptation to fall on one side or the other. She is seen as either a tough-as-nails political whirlwind who shaped Great Britain into the prosperous nation it became, or she's a warmongering, ambitious and heartless leader who tore the country apart with constant cuts and over-the-top taxation on the poor. Whatever your opinion, it'll likely be strong and the film never really lays its hat on either side.
Too scared to alienate one side or the other, it succeeds only in frustrating everyone. The key moments of her political reign are all in there, but they are treated as short tidbits of historical curiosity rather than the life-changing events they actually were. The Iron Lady instead focuses on the character of Margaret Thatcher, but does it in a fluffy, popcorn style reminiscent of My Week with Marilyn. It never takes a chance by putting itself out there and so you're left with a bit of damp squib. Considering the subject of the biopic was a strong-willed juggernaut in British politics, she is treated as simply a woman overcoming adversity. It's a story that we've seen hundreds of times before, by better film-makers and does a disservice to the explosive material on hand.
Just when you think The Iron Lady is going to be let off the leash, it reigns all parties in again and drifts along, popping back to the rather dull modern day. It is saved from utter trash by the stellar performances within, but even their quality cannot stop the eventual loss of the audience. It is epitomized by one scene in the doctor's surgery, when she lambastes the physician for asking how she 'feels.' The speech is delivered with careless aplomb by Streep, ever over-shadowing the whole film with effortless class. This scene leaves us wondering why the film spends the majority of its running time worrying about how we 'feel' rather than doing what the figure of Lady Thatcher suggests and challenging what we 'think.'
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In which Scrabble dictionary does PILEUS exist?
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- The umbrellalike fruiting structure forming the top of a stalked, fleshy fungus, such as a mushroom; the cap.
- A brimless, round skullcap worn by ancient Romans.
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Representatives of Lisburn City Council, Thiepval Barracks and the Royal British Legion laid wreaths and floral tributes in memory of the six soldiers who lost their lives 26 years ago when a bomb was detonated in Lisburn.
At the time the six young men: Sergeant Michael J. Winkler, Lance Corporal William J Paterson, Lance Corporal Graham P. Lambie, Lance Corporal Derek W. Green, Signalman Mark R. Clavey, Corporal Ian Metcalfe had participated in the Lisburn Half Marathon when the bomb in Market Square was detonated and many other participants and spectators were injured.
Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Andrew Ewing, who laid a wreath on behalf of the Council, said: “It was an honour to be able to attend this poignant occasion, which marks a very sad time when our local community was attacked and six brave souls lost their lives.
“I was only 14 at the time and remember being shocked that the Troubles had hit our town and I was numbed by the news of the lost lives and many injuries.
“I still feel that way today as we mark the anniversary of this tragedy alongside serving and former military personnel.
“Northern Ireland has progressed significantly towards peace and reconciliation and I welcome that however we must never forget the sacrifice that was paid by so many. The callous attack on the soldiers who were out enjoying themselves with the local community and raising money for charity was a very dark day in the history of the Troubles, which still reverberates feelings of shock and hurt amongst the people who remember that horrific atrocity.
“Last year the council held a service to mark the 25th anniversary and some family members of the six soldiers were present. It is humbling to once again publicly pay our respects to these young men and know that they are not forgotten and shall be forever remembered by those living in Lisburn.”
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Titles in Lords
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Nobody *Cares About Me
An EasyEnglish Translation with Notes (about 1200 word vocabulary) on Psalm 142
Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words in brackets, ( ), are not in the *Hebrew Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. A word list at the end explains the other words that have a *star by them.
The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Checking.
Jesus said, "Your Father in *heaven feeds the birds (that fly) in the air. You are much better than they are!" (Matthew 6:26) (*Heaven is the home of God the Father.)
This psalm is a "maskil". There are 13 psalms called maskils. They are 32, 42, 44, 45, 52-55, 74, 78, 88, 89 and 142. Bible students think that "maskil" means:
∑ either a psalm with something special to teach, like 32 and 78, or
∑ a psalm that the *psalmist wrote in a very clever way. (The *psalmist is the person who wrote the psalms.)
David wrote this maskil in a cave. It is a *prayer to the *LORD. We say *prayers when we talk to God. David was in trouble (or "had trouble".) His enemies were trying to catch him. He does not say who these enemies were. There are two stories about David hiding in a cave. A cave is a hole in the side of a hill. One story is in 1 Samuel 22, the other is in 1 Samuel 24. David feels safe in the cave, but he does not want to stay in it. It seems as if the cave is a prison. But there are no friends to give him help. He writes "Nobody cares about me". This means "Nobody loves me enough to give me help". But the *LORD God can send him help. This psalm prays for that help.
Verse 1: *LORD is a special name for God. It is the *covenant name. A *covenant is when two people (or groups of people) agree. God agrees to love and send his people help. His people agree to love and obey God.
Verse 3: David wrote this psalm in Hebrew. That is because David spoke Hebrew. The words translated "when I do not feel brave" are "when my spirit feels weak" in the Hebrew Bible. Sometimes we all feel like this. There is so much trouble that we do not want to fight it. We want to run away from it! Our spirits feel weak. We do not feel brave. Our spirit is that part of us that lives after our body dies. But David knows that God will tell him what to do. His path here means what he does. David thinks that his enemies have put traps in the path for him. A *trap is what people catch animals and birds in. Davidís enemies wanted to catch him. He did not know where the *trap was. But God knew!
Verses 4 and 5: No human friend cares about David, but God does! This was true for David, and it is true for us. We only have to pray to God and ask for his help.
Verse 7: "*Praise" means "tell somebody that they are very great". Here it means "*Praise God". David says "your name" but he means God. But he means more than the name God. He also means everything that God is. This includes these facts:
∑ he loves us;
∑ he is very powerful;
∑ he will always be alive;
∑ and many other things.
But who are "the *righteous"? The word means "very, very good". Only God is really *righteous. But he says that his people are *righteous too. They are *righteous if they love him and obey him. Some Bible students think that here "the *righteous" means people who are *praising God with David in the *temple in Jerusalem. The *temple was Godís house. They made it from animal skins when David was alive. Other Bible students think "the *righteous" are people who joined Davidís friends. This was while David was running away from his enemies.
1. If you are in trouble, tell God. Ask for his help. Do what an old hymn (song about God) says: "Take it to the *Lord in *prayer".
2. If you have a Bible, read the stories of David in the caves in 1 Samuel chapters 22 and 24.
3. Study Psalm 57 in this set of psalms. It is in Book 2. David also wrote it when he was in one of these caves.
care ~ love and do kind things for someone.
covenant ~ two people have agreed what each should do (here, God and his people). Look in Psalm 120 about the covenant.
heaven ~ the home of God.
LORD ~ the *covenant name for God (in a *covenant you agree with someone).
maskil ~ a psalm that teaches you something.
praise ~ to say how great someone is; or, words that say how great someone is.
prayer ~ you say a *prayer when you speak to God.
psalmist ~ the person that wrote a psalm (or psalms).
righteous ~ very good (only God is really righteous). God says that the people who love and obey him are righteous. Sometimes we say they are "the righteous", meaning "righteous people". Look after Psalm 5 in Book 1 of the Psalms of David for more about the word "righteous".
temple ~ a place where people meet to worship God.
trap ~ thing that you catch animals or birds in.
your name ~ See What Psalm 142 means Verse 7.
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Fine Motor Skill Development
Materials to Develop the Pincer Grasp
Learning to use the pincer grasp (where children use the thumb and index finger to pick up a small item) is a critical fine motor skill. When children use the pincer grasp, it is important that the web space or the space formed by holding the thumb and finger together be rounded. This allows the child to hold a pencil or other tool in a way that is less tiring for the hand. The pincer grasp can be developed by materials such as
- A sieve with colored toothpicks for inserting through the holes (using colored toothpicks allows children to classify by color if they wish).
- Colorforms or stickers to place on paper.
- Eyedroppers to move water from one container to another.
- Tweezers, tongs, or spoons to move glass marbles, beads, shells, or pinecones from one place to another.
- Wooden chopsticks that are tied together at the top with a rubber band to pick up pompoms.
- A Lite Brite.
- Pins to push into a paper with a cork board underneath to punch out a design of choice.
- Buckles to open and close and shoes to tie (at Bright Beginnings Preschool an actual shoe is nailed to the wall for children to lace and tie).
- A sunflower with tweezers to remove the seeds.
- A rubber band ball for removing and adding rubber bands.
Materials to Strengthen Grasping and Squeezing
Following are some materials to enhance grasping and squeezing:
- A plant sprayer and colored paper so that children can spray a design on the paper.
- A paper puncher, many different types of paper, and a beautiful container to hold the punches. The punches can be used for other activities.
- A turkey baster and cotton balls (the child can blow the cotton ball across the table with the baster).
- Squeeze toys such as toys whose eyes bulge when squeezed.
- Clothespins that are used to attach items to a clothesline (the clothesline can be placed on the wall of the manipulative area).
- Sponges and basters. In a Montessori program, the manipulative shelves included a tray furnished with a baster, a pitcher of colored water, and two glasses. Children pour the water into one of the glasses and use the baster to move the water to the other glass. Another tray includes a pitcher of water, two small bowls, and a sponge. The child pours the water from the pitcher into one dish and then uses the sponge to move the water from that dish to another one.
- A nutcracker with nuts to crack (nuts can later be eaten for snack).
Materials to Strengthen Bilateral Coordination
Bilateral coordination is using both hands together or using one hand for one thing while using the other for something else (holding paper with one hand while cutting with the other). Following are manipulative materials that enhance bilateral coordination:
- Cotton balls to pull apart (these can then be used to glue onto a picture or to make a project).
- Beads to string into necklaces.
- Pop beads to put together and pull apart.
- A stapler and paper.
- Lacing cards.
- Cards that show a clapping rhythm for children to imitate.
- A child’s shirt to practice buttoning (Joanne, a preschool teacher, took the shirt and placed it over a frame, making it easier to button).
- Two clear jars (one containing colored water) and a funnel on a tray. Children can pour water from one jar through the funnel into the other jar.
- Paper for folding airplanes or origami.
- Newspaper for tearing (the newspaper can be used for collages, paper mache, or other art products).
- Beautiful small coin purses to unzip and find the treasure.
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By Chris Lane
By Jeff Balke
By Aaron Reiss
By Angelica Leicht
By Dianna Wray
By Aaron Reiss
By Camilo Smith
By Craig Malisow
"I like it when it looks like there's effort, like, 'Man, somebody climbed up on that freeway pole,' " adds Poly.
They hop in the car, the Menil Collection their next target. But things get sidetracked when Poly's daughter calls, complaining about her schoolwork. "That damn family tree," Poly says afterward. "Why do they have to do that? We don't have pictures of grandmothers of ex-husbands."
After three quick stops -- a swatch on the rail of the Menil Bookstore, a cozy on the antenna of a Jetta and another swatch on a bench inside Rudyard's -- the duo pauses to take home a couple of pizzas to their kids, who've begun calling every ten minutes.
"I was thinking I'd yell at them and say, 'This is important to me!' " jokes Poly when they pull up to the house.
Their next stop is Memorial Park, where AKrylik plans to wrap a tree with the blue-and-green baby blanket she never finished. "I closed it off, put buttons on it and now it's a Knitta piece," she says, holding it up in the light.
After trudging down the path and waiting for joggers to pass, the women put up the four-foot-long swatch in less than a minute, only to decide it's not facing the right way. They take it down, wait for more runners to go by and put it up again.
On the way back to the car, they avoid patches of mud -- "If we were true gangstas, we wouldn't care," says AKrylik -- while bragging about past tags. They've done plenty of car antennae over the last two months -- men seem to remove the cozies faster than women -- and even wrapped the pay-phone cord by the Rudyard's bathroom.
"There's really no message or point," says AKrylik. "It's not an ideological experiment or anything -- just something we thought would be fun and funny at the same time."
These gangsta mamas have big plans: cozies for car bumpers, hats for fire hydrants, carpets for sidewalks and, if only they can get enough people, curtains for bridges and covers for water towers. They recently recruited five new members -- WoolFool, DJ Hooker, Loop Dogg, Purl Nekklas 14KT and GrannySQ -- and want Knitta eventually to become a Montrose icon.
"You know what it reminds me of, except that his things were a little more permanent?" asks AKrylik. "Chicken Boy. It reminds me of Chicken Boy's stuff, because some people know who he is, but for most people it's 'There's that chicken guy sticker.' "
A Chicken Boy cutout, complete with droopy face and coxcomb hat, hangs on the wall at Poison Girl, the bar where Poly and AKrylik return to the scene of their earlier crime. Since they know the owner, they're there for sport, wanting to slip a knit coaster under someone's drink without being noticed. But the bar's not as crowded as they'd like, so they give up and head for the door after one beer.
A doe-eyed bartender looks at them knowingly and says, "Did you see someone tagged our bike rack?"
"That sucks," says AKrylik, bluffing. "Now you're going to have to get a pressure washer to clean it up."
On the way out they throw down a coaster and place an empty beer bottle on top of it. Once outside, they burst into laughter, knowing it wasn't their best work but that it's time to head home.
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I was reading Bill Chuck’s newsletter this morning and was struck by this statement:
This season, the Blue Jays have been 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 13-13, 20-20, 21-21, 22-22, 23-23, 24-24, 26-26, 28-28, 29-29, 30-30, 32-32, 34-34, 35-35, 36-36, 39-39, 47-47, 49-49, 50-50, and today they are 51-51 and 15-15 in their last 30 games.
The Blue Jays have been the very definition of average so far this year.
Let me put it another way. Over at Bill James Online, Bill posts a “Hot Teams” list. He uses a temperature scale; each team starts at room temperature of 72 degrees and then their temperature goes up or down based on how they perform the next game. Then the temperature is further affected by the next game. And so on and so on.
According to my calculations, the Blue Jays have an average temperature of 71 degrees this season—just about room temperature. The Reds and Rockies are also at 71; the Mets at 73.
Here’s the other thing: the Blue Jays’ standard deviation in temperature is just 11 degrees. Only the Cubs have had a more consistent temperature. So, the Blue Jays have been persistently average all year long, more than any other team. In its own way, a pretty impressive achievement.
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According to my parents, I bounded down the stairs one Sunday morning at age 11 and asked them, “Have you ever heard of this show ‘Saturday Night Live’?” I remember being entranced with the show the night before. As I watched it, I thought to myself, “I wish I could write like that.” And that is the moment I fell in love with comedy.
Over the years, I never did much to pursue that love, but I have always remained a fan. Last year, I discovered a new way to keep up my love of comedy. You know how they say, “Those who can’t do, teach?” Well, I don’t do comedy, but nothing is stopping me from writing about it.
For a journalism class assignment last year, I profiled one of the presidents of Marquette’s improv comedy group, the Studio 013 Refugees. I sat in on hours worth of practices and shows to complete my project. I got the opportunity to watch hours of improv comedy and learned how the process works. I was completely immersed in comedy. I loved it – so much so that I came back the next semester to do another project on the group. Over the past year, I was around the Refugees so much that people were asking me if I was a member of the group.
A few days after I finished my most recent project with the group, I was sitting in a coffee shop, feeling bummed that I was done with all my work with comedy. A member of the improv group walked into the coffee shop and told me that some of the Studio 013 Refugees had taken the initiative to form Marquette’s first sketch comedy group – 33rd and State.
This brings me to my main point. Naturally, I completely forgot about whatever I was doing at that time and brainstormed potential journalism stories profiling the beginning of this group. I settled on a blog series.
The group officially launched in January, so I am going to be along for the ride. I’m writing for people like me – those who love comedy but aren’t directly involved in the creation of it.
Between now and 33rd and State’s first show in April, I will be writing about specific topics pertaining to the creation of a sketch comedy show. From scouting filming locations, to the process of acquiring props and costumes, to the finals days before the show – I’m going to cover everything I can.
I have been watching hours on end of “30 Rock” to prep for my official immersion into sketch comedy next week. Yes, that is the excuse I’ve been telling myself. But really, as I officially start these blogs next week, please send kind thoughts to this group because some of its members have been dealing with me for a year now.
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With a USA win today and a Mexico loss (to El Salvador - I mean, I know it's a road match but Mexico really ought to be able to go in there and at least get a tie) we're inching closer to a World Cup with the United States and without Mexico. Which would really, really piss off the Mexicans. I admit to being pretty schadenfreude-y about this, having not yet forgiven them for their Osama chants and general awful behavior when our team is involved.
Anyway, they're currently squatting at fifth in the standings. Trouble for El Tri. Big trouble? Think they're really in danger of missing out? Their saving grace is they still have four home matches left, where they're damn near unbeatable usually, and they have yet to play Trinidad. All they have to do is get to third place to qualify, and fourth to get to a playoff with a mediocre South American team. | <urn:uuid:9ed55516-0b14-4bf6-8603-4a90891469cb> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://mgoblog.com/content/ot-mexico-trouble-or-big-trouble | 2014-12-21T22:47:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772743.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00162-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978058 | 190 | [
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If you want one new show to watch now that Battlestar Galactica has ended, make it NBC's new show, Kings. I haven't been this excited by imaginative television in years. In the US you can catch it on hulu. The ratings weren't good, by the way, so let's all cross our fingers and hope NBC gives this show a chance to breathe.
If you prefer to wait and watch a whole season of something at once, take a look at the first season of Damages, also on hulu. Both Glenn Close and Ted Danson play characters who will stop at nothing to get what they want -- and of course they are in conflict, and can't both win. Ted Danson is driven by greed and ambition; Glenn Close wants to bring justice to those ruined by Ted Danson. She's on the good side of this battle, but she's got more darkness in her than a black hole. And I've left out the appealing main character -- Glenn Close's young associate -- will she succumb and become just as twisted as her mentor? | <urn:uuid:8894eec9-55aa-49ae-a6f1-ab97f8bcc5cd> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.alpinegizmo.com/2009/03/23/kings.html | 2014-12-21T22:13:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772743.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00162-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977127 | 220 | [
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STANTON, Calif. (June 12, 2013)—Jan Cooper, a 72-year-old grandmother who lives in Southern California, fired at an intruder and almost hit him in a confrontation that was recorded by a 911 operator.
Cooper, of Anaheim, Calif., said she fired one shot from her .357-magnum revolver early Sunday as a burglar tried to break in through a sliding glass door.
She said she has owned guns since she was a teenager and has years of practice at the shooting range with her husband, a World War II veteran.
A suspect was arrested by Orange County sheriff's deputies a short time later.
Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says Cooper’s gun was legal and registered.
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Community Round-Up: 15/11
Posted 15 November 2012 - 04:21 PM
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and the RuneScape community is stuffed with turkey-tastic fun and competitions! There are turkey invasions in Varrock; prizes for counting dead turkeys; a scavenger hunt across the internet and - of course - more player-run celebrations than you can shake a turkey drummer at! You can find out more and join in with the festivities over on the forum.
Video Makers at the Duel Arena
The ongoing battle between some of RuneScape’s finest YouTubers is heating up as we enter the second rounds this week. Be sure to observe the duels and show your support for your favourite video makers this Saturday! Duel times can be found over on the forum thread here.
Evolution of Combat Video Guides
You may have already seen some of the great videos coming from the RuneScape community regarding Evolution of Combat and there’s so many more! We’ll be featuring some of our favourite videos over on our Facebook page in the coming days so be sure to 'Like' RuneScape.
The fansites are still busy preparing for the huge Evolution of Combat update and RSBandB have already done just that with their handy Action Bar tool. This neat app allows you to play around with various Action Bar set-ups and share them with the community! They’re also running a competition for the best set-ups, so be sure to get involved with that!
Fancy some PvM? RuneZone have you covered with their huge boss battle bonanza happening on the 1st December! There are some great prizes on offer so it’s certainly worth getting involved! You can sign up and find out more over on RuneZone’s forum.
RuneScape Football League
RuneScape player and football fanatic Bigg Benn regularly hosts RuneScape football matches, and is looking for more players to get involved! If football is your thing, then perhaps you can join the RuneScape Football League! Find out more and get involved here.
Following on from last week’s incredible real-life Dark Bow creation, we have another player created weapon – a real-life Gravite 2H sword! Tying in nicely with this week’s Dungeoneering improvements, this impressive sword was made by RuneScaper Evilcoen13.
If you want to see your RuneScape creations featured in the weekly Community Round-Up, send it over to us at [email protected]!
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all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought
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The new landscape at the rail yards will extend the park’s distinctive design vocabulary established south of West 30th Street. Credit: James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Friends of the High Line Co-Founder Robert Hammond was joined by the New York City Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe and members of the High Line Design Team to present initial design concepts for Section 3 of the High Line, the final stretch of the historic freight rail line that has been converted to a public park, that will wrap around the Hudson Yards between West 30th and West 34th Streets. Continue reading High Line Section 3 design unveiled
The Stage 2 section of the Highline designed by James Corner Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf, and Buro Happold has opened to the public. The opening of the new section doubles the length of the public park. After years of planning, design and construction, the High Line is now one mile long, running from Gansevoort Street to West 30th Street, connecting the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen.
Robert Hammond, Malcolm Gladwell, Jerilyn Perine and John Mollenkopf discuss the Highline, the impact on New York and the wider flow on effect in broader terms. A great discussion that also looks at other examples around New York, USA and the world that have had a similar effect. the video is worth the full 1 hour 26 mins to listen to people from varying backgrounds discuss the Highline one of the most talked about landscape architecture and urban design projects in the world. Although not one mention of the landscape architects or architects. But as Malcolm Gladwell talks about its the business we’ve chosen to be in business.
Section 1 of the Highline designed by James Corner Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro has been a great success winning numerous awards and becoming a precedent for urban regeneration. New Yorkers have grown to love Section 1 of the Highline and are looking forward to Section 2 opening in 2011. Recently the High line Blog posted images of the latest Section 2 construction taking place including the 4,300 square feet of hard wearing sod/lawn being placed between West 22nd and 23rd street. Read and see more of the Highline Section 2 at the High Line Blog
Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the 2009 Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence competition, widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program. The winners are: the American University in Cairo – New Campus, Cairo, Egypt; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; The Rise, Vancouver, British Columbia; West Chelsea/High Line Rezoning Plan, New York City; and Zhongshan Shipyard Park, Zhongshan, China. | <urn:uuid:714521fa-0040-4608-bfcc-25410ce9f453> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/tag/highline/page/2/ | 2014-12-19T06:35:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00122-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92749 | 590 | [
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Guitar Hero II - PS2 - Preview 2
Long before the Dance Dance Revolution craze hit North America, Konami released a music game called Guitar Freaks. The arcade machine featured two guitar controllers with three buttons (red, yellow, and green). Your goal was to hold down each button and press the string lever just as the appropriate notes were lined up on screen.
Guitar Freaks made it to PlayStation 2, but only in Japan. The game was a blast, but must’ve been deemed too risky for American and European audiences.
Harmonix Music Systems, creator of Frequency and Amplitude for PS2, were willing to take on that risk when designing Guitar Hero. Built with Amplitude’s 3D layout, Guitar Hero presented a series of fast-scrolling notes that must be struck to keep the song going. The guitar controller was more elaborate, featuring five buttons instead of three. Its sleek design and light plastic makes it look cool while being easy to hold, regardless of your age, size, or instrument experience.
That’s where Guitar Hero really succeeded – you don’t have to play an instrument, or know anything about music performance, to have a good time. Just follow the notes as closely as possible. Listen to the music, enjoy the wonderful rock sounds. But don’t let that take you away from what you’re seeing. The visuals are as important as the sound.
Guitar Hero II continues the series with dozens of new music tracks, new challenges, expanded multiplayer, and new ways of playing the guitar. Do you want to be lead guitarist, or just play rhythm? Maybe you want to get that deep, underlying sound of bass guitar? All three are presented, giving you the chance to take on different parts of specific songs.
Those who are new to the series will find the game challenging, but not at all difficult to get into. Strumming is made easy with the string lever, letting players push it downward to hit each note. Within minutes you’ll be “playing” music. Your musical prowess is only limited by personal speed and reaction skills. Improving those skills is just a matter of re-playing each song, increasing their difficulty setting, and trying your best to hit every note.
The game is somewhat forgiving, but don’t expect all mistakes to be forgiven in the new multiplayer mode. Players team up for lead and rhythm or bass guitar, upping the ante on how each song is completed. One crappy player could bring down the song – a new challenge not experienced in Guitar Freaks’s co-op mode. Just like DDR, Guitar Freaks let one player carry the load. Guitar Hero II wants both players to contribute to the song equally. Different difficulty settings for each player allow you to customize the experience, making it simple for one player and challenging for another.
Spectators and groups of players waiting for their next turn will appreciate the array of colors, cool character models, and other visual treats. The game moves very fast. Simpler tracks are given the appearance of speed with various polygon displays, not to mention the note palette that never stops coming. You won’t get much of a breather. When the song starts, be ready to play.
Over 60 music tracks will be featured in the final version, including the Foo Fighters classic “Monkey Wrench.” Stone Temple Pilots’s "Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart" is another memorable track. Fans of Avenged Sevenfold will be glad to hear “Beast and the Harlot.” And of course the game has numerous rock staples, including Kiss, Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses, Jane’s Addiction, and many others.
Get ready for my solo.
Blasting out of speakers on November 7th, Guitar Hero II will help wannabe rockstars live the dream all over again. Xbox 360 owners can look forward to playing the game next year using a guitar designed specifically for the net-gen console. Unlike the current guitar controller, the new one for 360 will include an expansion port. It doesn’t take long to envision what could happen next: Drum Hero, Bass Hero, or Piano Hero. Whatever is decided, you can count on Harmonix and RedOctane to be at the forefront of the music game revolution. Grab your guitar controllers, call your friends, and prepare for one of the best multiplayer experiences a music game has ever produced. | <urn:uuid:64f06011-bb12-4437-b434-8f1cea436c95> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.gamezone.com/previews/guitar_hero_ii_ps2_preview_2 | 2014-12-19T06:55:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00122-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949529 | 933 | [
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking charges against several people accused of poaching snow geese in Sutter County.
Warden Mark Michilizzi said officers investigating the incident determined that 15 individuals were responsible for shooting 116 snow geese and crippling approximately 10 to 20 more that the shooters did not recover from the field.
A warden on Wednesday responded to an area about two miles east of Sutter, near Butte House and Humphrey roads, following a complaint of several people shooting into large flocks of geese.
Sutter County sheriff's deputies were the first on the scene and requested assistance from wildlife officers when they discovered the individuals had taken a large number of geese.
Although the regular goose season in this area runs from Oct. 20 through Jan.27, Michilizzi said California regulations prohibit a hunter from taking more than six geese per day.
Wildlife officers went to three different locations to account for the number of snow geese taken. They found one individual in possession of an additional 200 waterfowl -- ducks and geese -- that had been taken earlier in the season. Individuals may not possess more than twice the daily bag limit at any one time.
Michilizzi said he did not know how the birds were being stored or how they were to be used.
During the investigation, officers concluded that the shooters approached large groups of geese that were feeding and resting on the ground, then fired their shotguns into the group. This method of hunting is not unlawful, but when done carelessly it can result in killing more geese than permitted by law and may cripple birds that will later die in the field, officials said.
No arrests have been made. Results of the investigation likely will be submitted to the Sutter County District Attorney's Office, although Michilizzi said investigators could pursue federal charges. As a migratory bird, he said, the snow goose is a federally protected species.
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‘feast of sacrifice’ ends Muslim Hajj
I am no expert on Islam. In fact, I would consider myself to be pretty ignorant when it comes to the Koran or to the daily practice of Muslim people around the world.
My ignorance made today’s photo post over at The Big Picture all the more interesting and informative.
According to The Big Picture:
Yesterday marked the end of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice” – which also marks the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by any Muslim who has the ability to do so.
This year, nearly 3 million Muslims made the Hajj, without major incident, and are now returning to their homes across the world. Muslims who stayed closer to home celebrated Eid al-Adha, commemorating the the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God.
Traditional practices include ritual prayers, the sacrifice of animals (usually sheep), distribution of the meat amongst family, friends and the poor, and visiting with relatives.
My ignorance prevents me from making an educated comment on the nature of Eid al-Adha sacrifice, but it is worth noting that millions of people, worldwide, still gather for the shedding of blood.
Here is an image of thousands of pilgrims gathered in Mecca (images and captions from The Big Picture):
How incredible is the scale of this picture? At first glance, the Grand Mosque registered as a massive sports arena in my American mind.
Lest we deceive ourselves, the celebration of the “Feast of Sacrifice” is not limited to the Middle East. As the following images show, Eid al-Adha spans the globe …
From the other end of the world:
To gathering cites very close to home:
I am almost embarrassed to admit that for all of my 26 years, the Hajj and Eid-al Adha have been barely a blip on my radar screen.
Our world manages to be both incredibly large and incredibly small, incredibly distant and amazingly near to us. As a Christian, I need to realize–we all need to realize–that we live in an increasingly global community.
The nations are no longer so foreign to us. The nations have now come to us.
We must realize–I must realize–that there is much to learn and much work to be done. There is much need to make Christ known.
We have been entrusted with the message that this . . .
. . . is no longer required for us to gain access to God, for:
when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
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Date: Wed Sep 23 1998 - 14:15:47 EDT
yes, I am reading it in long and short pulses, each foot the equivalent of a
half note and two quarter notes. I do not know how to read the accents
directing the tones. My problem, of course, is reading ahead for the time
value of the next syllable, or counting subsequent consonants, to determine if
the one I am analyzing is long or short.
How are the accents read for tones?
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PROPERTY owners have been getting something unexpected from New York City -- tax assessment notices that they can understand.
"Dear Taxpayer: The Department of Finance estimates the value of your property as follows," the notice begins. What follows are not only the assessed value and an estimate of the tax bite for the coming fiscal year, but the market value that city assessors have placed on the property.
Until last year, the city released only assessed values, not the market-value estimates from which they were derived. That made it impossible for owners to understand the rationale behind the assessment and whether the city was being reasonable and fair in its taxation.
"Market value is a number that's on everybody's lips," said Carol O'Cleireacain, the Finance Commissioner. "They always know what the apartments around them have sold for, or the house up the block."
"The most important criterion in assessment is market value," said Martha E. Stark, assistant commissioner and special counsel at the Finance Department.
In the past, owners of office and apartment buildings could divide the assessed value by 0.45 to get some glimpse into what the assessor had in mind, assuming that the assessed value was 45 percent of market value, as it is supposed to be for such properties.
But the owners of one-, two- and three-family houses (known to the Finance Department as Class I properties) were left in the dark. Although assessed values in this category are supposed to be 8 percent of market value, they might be much less.
That is because the assessment of Class I properties cannot, by law, increase more than 6 percent annually or 20 percent over five years. In neighborhoods where market values rose quickly in the 1980's, assessed values did not keep pace. As a result, an assessment of $15,000 could apply to a house whose market value was $187,500. Or $250,000. Or $375,000. There was no way for homeowners to tell.
"They had to do algebraic computations," Ms. O'Cleireacain said, "and I felt this was not at all helpful in getting people to understand the tax. They felt there was no justice in the tax, that it wasn't linked to anything, that it was an abstract concept."
There was, indeed, something abstract about the way value was calculated, she said. Technocrats in the finance agency focused on adjusting the current assessed value in relation to previous assessed value, Ms. O'Cleireacain said, rather than relating assessed value to market prices.
"They didn't have a history of determining market value," Ms. O'Cleireacain said. "They didn't do their work that way."
Moreover, bureaucrats do not tend by nature to be eagerly forthcoming with the data they use to make decisions. "There's a certain comfort in keeping things a secret," Ms. Stark acknowledged. "It gives you the feeling you have a power over people that you don't necessarily have. But one thing Carol would say is, 'Why shouldn't we tell them?' "
One reason was a fear that logistical nightmares would result when homeowners got their first glimpse of how the city pegged market values. "The Tax Commission was a little concerned that people would be up in arms, come rushing in and clog the process," Ms. Stark said. "The Tax Commission said, 'Please don't publish market values, it will bring our operations to a halt.' "
But that did not happen, she said. While the number of homeowners applying for an assessment correction increased threefold, to 9,000 in 1992 from 3,000 in 1991, the owners of some 600,000 other one-, two- and three-family properties did not apply.
"Yes, they get angry perhaps about the level of the tax," Ms. O'Cleireacain said. "But I've had people all around the city come up to me and say, 'You got the market value right.' I said: 'Thank you. That means your taxes are right.' "
Not everyone believes the city hits the target. Patricia Dolan, president of the Queens Valley Homeowners Association in Kew Gardens Hills, said the concept of market-value disclosure was "excellent" and "by and large, a very useful feature."
"The problem," she said, "is that the real market value and the market value on the form have nothing to do with each other." As an example, she cited row houses on the south side of 73d Terrace that had been assigned higher market values than detached, one-family houses on the north side.
CO-OP and condominium owners maye also be surprised when they see the "market value" line on their notices. Their properties are treated as if they were rental buildings. By law, assessors cannot factor in the sales price of individual units. Instead, they calculate the estimated net income for the building, then apply a capitalization rate to determine what a buyer might pay.
That yields a "market value" for condominium and co-op units that may be anywhere from 35 to 65 percent of the amount for which they might sell, Ms. Stark said.
"You have to read this value as a piece of a comparable rental building," counseled Mary Ann Rothman, executive director of the Council of New York Cooperatives. "It shouldn't distress you from the point of view of, 'Oh my God, if this is all I can get for my apartment, I might as well kill myself.' " | <urn:uuid:c7e7a318-0fdf-4d2a-b4df-3e16608c0f3d> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/21/realestate/new-for-new-york-readable-tax-notices.html?src=pm | 2014-12-20T17:23:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00026-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979567 | 1,144 | [
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Originally Posted by Jester10
Just came into owner ship of a 5gal tank kit with heater filter and light. I was curious if I got a dwarf puffer if I could include a few cherry or ghost shrimp. I know they eat snails I was sure if he would eat them either.
It depends on the puffer's personality. If you want to do that though you should make sure there is some kind of moss the snails could hide and and I would introduce them to the tank first. That way if they start to breed then even if the dwarf puffer does eat a few they would just replenish the numbers | <urn:uuid:c7388e93-834b-426b-84f3-26e4d90e2b02> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/beginner-freshwater-aquarium/dwarf-puffer-shrimp-109438/ | 2014-12-20T17:35:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00026-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989527 | 144 | [
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"As the world struggles to emerge from the global crisis, some 200 million people—including 75 million under the age of 25—are unemployed. Many millions more, most of them women, find themselves shut out of the labor force altogether. Looking forward, over the next 15 years an additional 600 million new jobs will be needed to absorb burgeoning working-age populations, mainly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, almost half of all workers in developing countries are engaged in small-scale farming or self-employment, jobs that typically do not come with a steady paycheck and benefits.Here's a figure showing on the left how much absolute job creation is needed in various regions of the world by 2020, given population growth, and on the left, the annual rates of job creation needed. The challenge of creating jobs with decent and growing compensation at these rates is an enormous one.
The problem for most poor people in these countries is not the lack of a job or too few
hours of work; many hold more than one job and work long hours. Yet, too often, they are not earning enough to secure a better future for themselves and their children, and at times they are working in unsafe conditions and without the protection of their basic rights. Jobs are instrumental to achieving economic and social development. Beyond their critical importance for individual well-being, they lie at the heart of many broader societal objectives, such as poverty reduction, economy-wide productivity growth, and social cohesion. The development payoffs from jobs include acquiring skills, empowering women, and stabilizing post-conflict societies."
In much of the world, it's important to remember that those counted as having a "job" have neither an employer nor a regular paycheck.
"To many, a “job” brings to mind a worker with an employer and a regular paycheck. Yet, the majority of workers in the poorest countries are outside the scope of an employer-employee relationship. Worldwide, more than 3 billion people are working, but their jobs vary greatly. Some 1.65 billion are employed and receive regular wages or salaries. Another 1.5 billion work in farming and small household enterprises, or in casual or seasonal day labor. Meanwhile, 200 million people, a disproportionate share of them youth, are unemployed and actively looking for work. Almost 2 billion working-age adults, the majority of them women, are neither working nor looking for work, but an unknown number of them are eager to have a job."
As the figure shows, 70-80% of those who are have jobs in sub-Saharan Africa have nonwage employment. The figure illustrates that the prevalence of wage employment is actually closely associated with economic development, and more broadly with whether the society is one in which organizations called private firms have the ability and flexibility to create themselves and to expand.
World Bank reports always make me smile a bit when they discuss the role of the private and the public sector. My sense is that many of the readers of such reports are skeptical of free market economics. Thus, the economists at the World Bank find themselves needing to straddle the fence: on one side, they do speak up for the importance of the private sector and free markets; on the other side, they spend a lot of words pointing out that government has an important role to play, and leaving the door open for the possibility that certain government interventions might be useful. Thus, here's the report on the centrality of the private sector in creating jobs:
"[T]he private sector is the main engine of job creation and the source of almost 9 of every 10 jobs in the world. Between 1995 and 2005, the private sector accounted for 90 percent of jobs created in Brazil, and for 95 percent in the Philippines and Turkey. The most remarkable example of the expansion of employment through private sector growth is China. In 1981, private sector employment accounted for 2.3 million workers, while state-owned enterprises (SOEs) had 80 million workers. Twenty years later, the private sector accounted for 74.7 million workers, surpassing, for the first time, the 74.6 million workers in SOEs. In contrast to the global average, in some countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the state is a leading employer, a pattern that can be linked to the political economy of the postindependence period, and in some cases to the abundance of oil revenues. For a long period, public sector jobs were offered to young college graduates. But as the fiscal space for continued expansion in public sector employment shrank, “queuing” for public sector jobs became more prevalent, leading to informality, a devaluation of educational credentials, and forms of social exclusion. A fairly well-educated and young labor force remains unemployed, or underemployed,and labor productivity stagnates."
And on the other side of the fence, here's the report on the importance of government, along with implications that a great many types of government interventions in labor markets can be justified.
"While it is not the role of governments to create jobs, government functions are fundamental for sustained job creation. The quality of the civil service is critically important for development, whether it is teachers building skills, agricultural extension agents improving agricultural productivity, or urban planners designing functional cities. Temporary employment programs for the demobilization of combatants are also justified in some circumstances. But as a general rule it is the private sector that creates jobs. The role of government is to ensure that the conditions are in place for strong private-sector-led growth, to understand why there are not enough good jobs for development, and to remove or mitigate the constraints that prevent the creation of more of those jobs. Government can fulfill this role through a three-layered policy approach:This mildly split personality--between emphasizing the private sector and markets on one side and looking at possible roles for government on the other side--is probably an occupational hazard for economists. I doubtless suffer the affliction myself. But that said, I fear that the World Bank report may understate the difficulties of large-scale private-sector job creation in many countries around the world. Ultimately, true job creation occurs when an employer does not rely on government subsidies or handouts, and instead is producing a product at a price that customers actually want to buy. It requires letting firms fail, when they prove incapable of meeting this standard. And it requires letting firms continue and grow when they do meet this standard, even though a successful and growing firm can become a potential source of political and economic power that might in some way challenge the existing government. All of this is a long way of saying that when 40%, 50%, or 80% of the workers in an economy are involved in non-wage employment, the transition to a situation in which private-sector firms are numerous and large enough to offer wage employment to a very large proportion of the adults in a country is an enormous and difficult task.
• Fundamentals.... Macroeconomic stability, an enabling business environment, human capital accumulation, and the rule of law are among the fundamentals. ... Adequate infrastructure, access to finance, and sound regulation are key ingredients of the business environment. Good nutrition, health, and education outcomes not only improve people’s lives but also equip them for productive employment....
• Labor policies. ... Labor policy should avoid two cliffs: the distortionary interventions that clog the creation of jobs in cities and in global value chains, and the lack of mechanisms for voice and protection for the most vulnerable workers, regardless of whether they are wage earners. ...
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Plot ties to city police troubles ‘tenuous at best’
Friday, April 5, 2013
Like every element in "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance wanted his fictional Schenectady Police to be as close to the real deal as possible....
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Are you looking to publish your lesson plans? Would you like to contribute to a database of great lessons? This semester a small group of Urban Education Graduate students are editing the website Teaching 4 Change. We’re looking for innovative lesson plans from all disciplines. In particular, some of our team will be looking closely at the differentiation components of your lessons. Your plan will be evaluated using this rubric and the best ones will be published right here! The lesson should be in the accepted TCNJ format, found at http://www.tcnj.edu/~educat/documents/Lessonplanformat.pdf. Students will receive full credit for their work and they will be contributing to a database full of lessons that can be used as exemplars for future students and the larger community.
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DSH Perfumes Vanille Botanique is the most decadent vanilla themed perfume that has ever touched my skin. It’s so rich and luxurious that I almost feel guilty wearing it because it’s one of the most self-indulgent, lavish perfumes ever created. And that’s why I love it.
Vanille Botanique smells so good the opening is a rich vanilla complimented by old-fashioned mosses and a hint of retro florals. But, trust me, this is all about the vanilla. The vanilla in this is sweet, balsamic, rich and palatial. There is a faint hint of citrus. The citrus isn’t fresh or glimmering. It’s more like an essential oil smothered by the balsamic richness of the vanilla bean. There is more to this fragrance than just vanilla, I can pick up on that. BUT I mainly get a rich, balsamic vanilla that is thick like syrup but not overly sweet. Actually, it reminds me of tolu balsam. So there is a hint of “amber” and benzoin in this balsamic glazed tobacco-like vanilla. It’s a linear scent like Guerlain Tonka Impériale. I don’t care if it’s linear because I smell good for 15+ hours wearing this lavish perfume.
Notes listed include citrus, florals, gourmand notes, balsams, resins and vanilla. PERFUMER – Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Give Vanille Botanique a try if you like rich, dense vanilla fragrances that do not smell like baked goods or synthetic. Give it a try if you like rich gourmands like Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, L’Artisan Parfumeur Vanille Absolument, Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille and/or other gourmands by DSH Perfumes. This scent is a unisex vanilla like the ones I listed above. This is not a “light” vanilla, it’s super dense so keep that in mind. This isn’t sheer; it’s syrupy.
This fragrance has above average sillage and is extremely long-lasting. One spray is all you need! If you apply more than that, there’s the risk of being overwhelming. I always get compliments on this perfume when I wear it from random people. It seems that people like vanilla. DSH gourmands work so well on my skin.
I admit that this is one of my favorite vanillas but because of its opulence, I must be in the mood for it. I must be in the mood for a dense perfume and when I am, this is perfect. I feel confident and glamorous. And when I’m not, this perfume makes me feel feeble covered in furs too heavy for me to carry around.
The 1 oz EDP retails for $130 and is exclusive to Indie Scents. It’s expensive but remember that it’s all botanical. Those ingredients aren’t cheap. And a little of this goes a long way. – I’m finished justifying this purchase now, OK
Victoria’s Final EauPINION – Balsamic, decadent, rich and “thick” vanilla. At this time, this is my favorite vanilla on the planet. That’s saying something coming from my vanilla loving self.
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Right now, roughly 1,000 schools -- public, private, rural, urban, and suburban -- are implementing a curriculum plan called the Core Knowledge Sequence. That number is slated to increase significantly in the fall: Under the new Common Core State Standards, the state of New York is recommending the Core Knowledge Language Arts program for preschool through second grade.
It won't be long before the Core Knowledge program will have helped educate more than a million children -- an estimate that doesn't count the several million children whose parents have taken them through Core Knowledge books such as What Your First-Grader Needs to Know. Judging from the evidence, this is a good thing. The Core Knowledge curriculum is based on the idea that students need actual knowledge, not just thinking skills, in order to succeed. As the program's website explains:
It's natural to assume that teaching lots of "stuff" isn't important anymore when students can simply Google anything they need to know. But you probably take for granted how much "walking-around knowledge" you carry inside your head -- and how much it helps you. If you have a rich base of background knowledge, it's easier to learn more. And it's much harder to read with comprehension, solve problems and think critically if you don't.
As I turn 85, I find myself looking back on my own intellectual history with Core Knowledge. I've written four books on the theory behind all this activity. But the thought occurs: Perhaps sharing my personal epiphanies might be a good way of helping others understand the program's character and scientific origins. More important, perhaps it would help mitigate two misconceptions: that reading is a technical skill and that Core Knowledge is impelled by reactionary nostalgia.
A crucial moment occurred about 60 years ago as I was in my first semester of teaching English to Yale freshmen. The poem under discussion that day was "Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne, and my interpretation was being challenged by a very sharp undergraduate.
The poem starts this way:
AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
The undergraduate insisted that it was a poem about death, since the poem forbids "mourning" and offers the image of a man dying quietly.
Most professors of English would agree that this is not a poem about dying. In Donne's day, the word "mourning" did not have the limited, mortuary connotation it has now. True, the poet does say he is departing from his beloved, but he's going on a real geographical trip. In the rest of the poem he explains that he'll be coming back, and they will renew their love as before. The valediction is a "be seein' ya," not a "farewell."
But nonetheless the poem can be read as a permanent farewell. In Donne's famous image of a compass, the twin legs part from each other, then one leg takes a circular trip, but then the two legs come back together. All that could be read as a reuniting of two souls after death. There are other clues that make death a plausible interpretation -- not just the word "mourning" in the title, but also the image of the dying man, and the poet's insistence that he and his beloved are not like "dull sublunary lovers" who depend on each other's physical presence. That could suggest some sort of posthumous spiritual reunion.
But my bright undergraduate didn't even need to bring out those detailed arguments. He made a more decisive theoretical observation: He pointed out that then-current literary theory held that the intention of the poet is irrelevant. A poem goes out into the world as an artwork, a "verbal icon," to be interpreted as readers wish, so long as their interpretations follow the public norms and conventions of language. That doctrine meant, said the undergraduate, that his reading of the poem was just as valid as my reading, since both followed public norms and conventions. My immediate response was that his logic was absolutely right.
So, why was I teaching this class?
In 1954, Yale was the vibrant center of the "New Criticism" that had already begun to take over the teaching of literature in the high schools, mainly through the phenomenally successful textbook by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren called Understanding Poetry. The theory was that you didn't need to have a lot of biographical or historical information to understand poetry. You could learn to read any poem if you knew poetic conventions and techniques. The other influential text was The Verbal Icon by William K. Wimsatt, who, like Brooks, had been a professor of mine at Yale. All of them became dear friends despite our disagreements.
In those heady days when the Yale English department was rated tops in the nation, it had the feeling almost of a theological seminary for the new doctrines that freed the study of literature from its pedantic, historical trappings and treated works of literature intrinsically as literature -- as "verbal icons." Under this theory, the argument that my student made was right. His "reading" was just as valid as mine. Once he had mastered Understanding Poetry, why should I, or anyone, need to teach him how to read Donne's poem? | <urn:uuid:f9b0bd72-915d-4771-8d47-1bc50fc7c2de> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/how-two-poems-helped-launch-a-school-reform-movement/274467/ | 2014-12-22T02:53:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00106-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980331 | 1,147 | [
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I have a spreadsheet like the one shown in the image. What I would like to do is generate a formula which will count how many times MALEs from NEW YORK choose the BLUE color. In the column D, the user can enter 1-3 different colors. Column B will be ignored in this case. Can anyone help me with the formula? Thank you! | <urn:uuid:700b0c65-923b-4fe7-8469-df018eb871da> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12254637/google-docs-spreadsheet-formula-match-multiple-criteria | 2014-12-25T11:13:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447547257.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185907-00018-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916401 | 75 | [
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OGDEN — Davion Berry scored 23 points and had six assists as Weber State held on for a 65-59 victory over Idaho State Monday night.
Weber State (8-6, 5-1 Big Sky Conference) held a 26-22 halftime advantage and led 53-41 with 6:26 remaining in the game. Idaho State made a run, closing to 59-57 with 46 seconds remaining following two 3-point shots by Chris Hansen. The Wildcats answered as Jordan Richardson, who had 18 points, made two free throws and Berry followed with a layup and two free throws to secure the win.
Weber State won the rebound battle 38 to 27 as Joel Bolomboy had 16 and Kyle Tesnak pulled down 11. The Wildcats also made 12 of 25 shots from beyond the arc.
Hansen led Idaho State (6-9, 3-3) with 27 points and Tomas Sanchez contributed 12 points and four assists.
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The 'Mechanics' of the Bacteriophage T4
Initially I built an organic bacteriophage T4 using proteins gathered from the protein data bank and other scientific sources. However, I was captivated by its almost robotic appearance. Instead of giving it an organic texture and placing it in a traditional cellular environment, I decided to run with the mechanical theme. So I rebuilt the bacteriophage using nuts and bolts, screws, gears and metal created in 3-D. Although it is made of mechanical parts, I have ensured its scientific accuracy. The head for example is an icosahedral with each of the proteins represented (gp24, gp23, Hoc, Soc) albeit in shiny metals. The collar, sheath, and baseplate are accurate as well. I then created a suitable environment for it---a work bench with a blueprint, tools and parts you might expect are needed in order to build one in real life. As for the art direction, I've always been intrigued by steampunk art. The details and colors often used in this style are quite fitting for this piece. | <urn:uuid:e6f6ad4a-1dde-4b90-95a1-e0b70be8c404> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://discovermagazine.com/sitefiles/resources/image.aspx?item=%7B2B25DD4B-104E-4BA8-8599-908E5D6EBDA3%7D | 2014-12-19T10:49:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00066-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963851 | 227 | [
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This is a photo of my grandfather Garrett Leo Brady and two of his friends. Garrett is the one on the left. The names of his two friends are not known. I received the photo sealed in a frame, so I don't know if there is additional information on the back of the photo.
Garrett worked for the Post Office Department in Chicago, as a letter carrier. His uniform included buttons with the initials P.O.D., which he told his daughter stood for "Poor Old Dad." By 1914, Garrett was earning $900.00 per year (according to a 1978 letter from the Civil Personnel Records Dept.) If you recognize these other two guys, or had an ancestor who was a mail carrier on the north side of Chicago in 1907-1916, let me know. I'd like to hear from you.
Garrett Leo Brady was born in Newark, NJ on 5 November 1874. His parents were Garret Brady and Mary A. Bestick. Garrett Leo was one of six siblings. He married Jennie Whelan on Wednesday, 22 February 1905. It was Washington's Birthday, so they had a day off work.
Garrett's death on 22 March 1916 was caused by a skin disease, Facial Erysipelas, also known as St. Anthony's Fire. He was buried at Mt. Carmel Catholic Cemetery in Hillside, IL.
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Content: 3 kg bag of pure biochar made from pyrolised natural wood. Restore your soil fertility and reduce your carbon footprint: by adding this bag to the soil, you are sustainably increasing soil health and storing 2.4 kg (80%) of carbon back into the soil for thousands of years.
How to use: Mix into the top 30 cm of soil in your vegetable patch in Autumn, Winter or at the start of Spring to restore soil fertility. You can also mix biochar to organic compost to make high quality compost. We recommend a minimum of 10% biochar in your planting medium. There is no recommended maximum application rate, so far studies have shown that the more you add the better the results. | <urn:uuid:c3c57fb3-91af-4020-bdc9-685aee828208> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://oxfordbiochar.bigcartel.com/product/biochar-for-fruit-veg | 2014-12-19T10:42:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00066-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93331 | 146 | [
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Tuesday 22nd August 2011
Hi, I'm Beck - Hello~ |
So...Vie. Vie. Vie. Moi vie.
I have a tendency to babble, rant; et cetera. (It's a family thing~~
I'm random. Reeeeally Random.
I'm smiley on normal days.
My friends and family come first.
My favourite animal has ALWAYS been the wolf.
I have many nicknames.
I live in the now.
I have a bucket list. - I have a tendancy to forget what I always want to do.
Currently suffering long-term illness.- Hoo. Rah.
As a angelic child- I always used up all the disposable cameras at weddings.
I'm a curly blondie.
My mum likes cows. (No...really)
I'm balding from sickness...soon I'll be a tudor monk.
I love beer, coffee and especially Tea.
I have the most amazing friends in the world.
I am the youngest of four siblings.
Bruce Forsyth is my cousin. OH YEAH- I HAVE HIS CHIN.
I love books.
I am a Ice figure skater of 4 years. I can do spins and stuff. My coach is jane. Jane is cool. Love Jane
I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting mail!!
I Love <3
This is tempoary.
So here we are. I'm a grungey fifthteen year old girl, with an ambition of career, Love. Life. But I? I want to film. Photograph. I want to inspire!! So this is me. Inspiring. I hope I do! | <urn:uuid:c239af07-df1e-41ee-8ac1-91ceee5d9c24> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://redredconverse.deviantart.com/ | 2014-12-19T10:43:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00066-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900067 | 353 | [
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Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson says an indictment has been returned in Wayne County Superior Court charging Randall Miller, Jody Savin and Jay Sedrish with involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in connection to the death of 27-year-old Sarah Jones, who was a camera assistant working on the set of ‘Midnight Rider’. She was killed in February 2014 when an oncoming train passed through the set.
Jones and several other members of the film crew were located on the railroad tracks and trestle at Doctortown Landing in Wayne County, when Jones was struck by the oncoming train. Other crew members were injured, but survived the collision.
Miller and Savin are the owners of the Unclaimed Freight Productions, Inc. which was filming ‘Midnight Rider.’ Sedrish was the Executive Producer for the film.
The district’s attorney office says they will not comment on this pending case.
Steve Lowry, whose law firm represents the family of Sarah Jones, tells News 3 that the criminal charges were “not a surprise.”
Sarah Jones’ parents have filed a civil suit in relation to their daughter’s death naming Miller and others from Unclaimed Freight. Another attorney from Lowry’s firm, Jeff Harris, told us when the civil suit was filed that the incident that caused Jones’ death was a clear cut case of negligence.
Lowry tells WSAV, our sister station in Savannah, that Sarah’s parents were informed of the criminal charges on Thursday. “They just want justice for their daughter,” Lowry says. | <urn:uuid:70283605-3b5b-417d-9787-725d34a8f98a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://segazine.com/allman-indicted-in-wayne-train-crash-that-killed-movie-crew-member/ | 2014-12-19T10:46:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00066-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983627 | 332 | [
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CheapHotels.org benefits others by participating in what’s now often termed “voluntourism,” such a journey takes a lot of commitment. Fortunately, it’s easy to give back to the world during your travels just by staying in a hotel that donates part of its profits to charitable causes.
Discount hotel booking engines are extremely common, but it’s not often you’ll find one that allows you to get great deals on hotels while also backing a great cause. Luckily, a website called CheapHotels.org does exactly that. As long as you book a room directly through the company’s homepage, one percent of the total fee for your room will go towards an organization called OrphanAid Africa, a non-profit in San Francisco that assists disadvantaged kids in Ghana.
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Play each overtone of the Bb overtone series including the fundamental (low Bb). Start on low Bb, play it for a minute taking as many breaths as needed, and then move up to the next and play it for a minute, and continue onward all the way up to the highest partial you can manage. I spend about 15 minutes doing this each day, which lets you know by the time I get to the top I'm pretty worn out and I don't have a minute of 4th octave Bb in me.
Most importantly, I try to make each note sound pleasant, but I've also incorporated other aspects into my long overtones like bends and vibrato.
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Matt And Kim was elated to be back in the five boroughs. Also, maybe just elated in general. Drummer Kim Schifino’s unbelievably wide smile was a permanent fixture in Terminal 5 this Wednesday night from the moment she walked on stage until the moment she exited.Brooklyn’s own
The duo pulled wasted no time plunging into their happy dance tinged brand of pop punk, opening with “Block After Block” followed by “Good Old Fashioned Nightmare.” All the fan favorites emerged one by one, and the crowd loved all of it.
Matt And Kim’s performance was fun. How could it not be? All the bells and whistles were out—from the lyric displaying lights to the backdrop showcasing the classically tacky vinyl siding adorned “architecture” characteristic of some Brooklyn neighborhoods—also the cover of newest release Sidewalks.
On top of that, the performance was peppered by dancey musical interludes. “(Do You Think You’re) Better Off Alone” and “Just A Friend” served as transitions between songs and the crowd eagerly filled in the lyrics. When things seemingly couldn’t get anymore entertaining, balloons printed with Kim’s face were distributed to the sweaty masses. The punchy carnival-esque intro to “It’s A Fact” amped up this balloon action as blue, pink, red and yellow rubber flew everywhere.
Yes, it was all very fun. This is not to say that a question didn’t pass through this cynical New Yorker’s mind: Could this fun all be so incredibly genuine? Especially amid the elaborate props and the flashing lights. Were the entertainers in this sold-out venue (sold-out for 3 months, I might add) really and truly so gratefully giddy? Could they be so genuinely happy? I sure hope so. Regardless, the chorus from Matt And Kim’s “Lightspeed,” look at me now, had never rung so true.
After a two-song encore, during which Kim reappeared harnessed with a marching band drum, the show ended. Colorful rubber littered the floor as show-goers left the venue. Crowd goers still seemed energized but Kim’s face must have been sore from all that smiling.
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Guide to Los Angeles County, California ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
Los Angeles Plaza 1869
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18 February 1850: Los Angeles County was created as one of 27 original counties in the new state of California. Prior to the creation of the county, the records were either at city or Franciscan mission places.
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Location in the state of California
Location of California in the U.S.
|Founded||February 18, 1850|
|County Seat||Los Angeles|
|Address|| Los Angeles County Courthouse|
12400 E Imperial Hwy
PO Box 1024
Norwalk, Ca 90650
Phone: 562.462.2137; Los Angeles Website
The County Clerk has divorce records from 1880 and probate and court records
from 1850. The County Recorder has birth, marriage, death and land records
18 February 1850: Los Angeles County was created as one of 27 original counties in the new state of California. Prior to the creation of the county, the records were either at city or Franciscan mission places.
The original County of Los Angeles covered a large part of Southern California including parts of what is now Kern County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, and Orange County. These areas split off to form San Bernardino County in 1853, Kern County in 1866, and Orange County in 1889. In 1893 part of San Bernardino County that had originally been part of Los Angeles County became part of Riverside County.
For animated maps illustrating California county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation California County Boundary Maps" (1850-1925) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
For a list of record loss in California counties see: California Counties with Burned Courthouses
Los Angeles County contains 88 incorporated cities (2010) and many more named places. Los Angeles City also contains a large number of named areas many of which had their origins before they were annexed into Los Angeles.
Communities: Hacienda Heights, South Whittier, Topanga, Universal City, East Los Angeles, more...
Local histories and biographies of the Los Angeles area are numerous. The Calfornia GenWeb project has created name indexes for some of these books. To see those, click here.
Courtesy of the Long Beach Public Library, historic photos of Long Beach are available to see here. Long Beach Photos.
Ancestry.com ($) has an online searchable copy of Greater Los Angeles & Southern California : portraits & personal memoranda. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1910. The use of Ancestry is free at many libraries. Also available at some libraries (WorldCat).
For a list with cemetery names, contact information, and some lists of names of deceased, see Cemeteries in the City of Los Angeles. It shows the numerous cemeteries in Los Angeles and Hollywood, which is part of the city.
Cemeteries in the County of Los Angeles lists the cemeteries in the county, but not in the city itself. This includes San Pedro and Wilmington.
A book was made with cemetery inscriptions from Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach; Long Beach Municipal Cemetery; and Wilmington Cemetery, Wilmington:
- Some Early Southern California Burials. Questing Heirs Genealogical Society, Long Beach, California, 1974. Available at various libraries (WorldCat). The online version is here.
FindaGrave is also an excellent source for burial information.
To see the US GenWeb Tombstone Transcription project, click here.
For tips on accessing Los Angeles County, California census records online, see: California Census.
For information about Los Angeles city census records, see the Los Angeles wiki page.
Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about California denominations, view the California Church Records wiki page.
- Records of the First Baptist Church in Glendale, California as of June 1. 1929 can be searched here. Courtesy of the church and of the Southern California Genealogical Society.
- Records of the American Lutheran Church, Los Angeles County, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).
For the years from 1854 to 1938, the Family History Library has a microfilm series of circuit court records for Los Angeles County and other areas. These include common rule books, equity, equity decree registers, Judgement registers, common law and other items. These can be ordered and viewed at any Family History Center. To order, check the Catalog at www.familysearch.org under the Search tab.
- Southwest Blue Book for 1923-1924 lists online the names and addresses and maiden names of society members, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Los Angeles Athletic Club members, and Pacific Fleet Officers as well as marriages of members in 1923: courtesy of CA Gen Web.
- Ancestry.com ($) has Los Angeles City Directories for 1888-1890.
- Fold3.com ($) has Los Angeles City Directories 1873, 1875, 1878-1924 (5 yrs. missing) available online. This database is sometimes free at libraries.
- Long Beach City Directories: 1899-1966: courtesy of the Long Beach Public Library
- The first Los Angeles city and county directory, 1872, reprint edition is available at various libraries (World Cat)
Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups
Los Angeles County also has a significant Asian American history.
For more information about religious and minority groups, see the wiki page for the city of Los Angeles.
The American History and Genealogy Project has a webpage with links to much helpful information; biographies of early Glendale and El Monte residents and more, histories, and newspapers, and photos of early Southern California. Find that here.
Local histories are available for Los Angeles County, California. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the Wiki page section California Local Histories.
Land and Property
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.
See California Land and Property for additional information about early California land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.
Early migration routes to and from Los Angeles County, California for emigrant settlers included:
- Camino Real de California 1770s linking Spanish Mission churches in California and Baja California
- Old Spanish Trail 1829 Los Angeles, California to Santa Fe, New Mexico
- California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California
- Mormon Trail to Southern California 1847 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California
- Butterfield Overland Mail 1857-1861 from San Francisco via Los Angeles to Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri
- Central Overland Trail 1859-1869 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Carson City, Nevada (and usually on to northern California)
- Union Pacific Railroad 1869 Ogden, Utah to Omaha, Nebraska
- Central Pacific Railroad 1869 Ogden, Utah to Sacramento, California
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway 1881 Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois
- Southern Pacific Railroad 1883 Los Angeles, California to New Orleans, Louisiana
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 1885 Los Angeles, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico (and the Santa Fe Railway)
Military History and Records
Fort Drum 1862-1871 (Wilmington)
Fort McArthur 1914-1974 (San Pedro)
Fort Tejon 1854-1864 (Tejon Pass near Grapevine)
Regiments. Service men in Los Angeles County, California served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Los Angeles County, California:
- - 1st Regiment, California Infantry (Union), Company B
- - 1st Battalion, California Native Cavalry (Union), Company C
- - 1st Battalion, California Native Cavalry (Union), Company D
World War I
Second to None has a short review of the WW I activities of this division of Marines, and detailed history of the Second Division Association of Los Angeles, and a some brief biographies of its members.
- Jackson, S. Melvin. 1933. Second to none. Los Angeles [California]: Sam Babcock, Sixth Marines. At various libraries (WorldCat).
Naturalization and Citizenship
The Los Angeles County Archives has records of Los Angeles County for the years 1856 to 1886:
Los Angeles County Archives
225 North Broadway
Los Angeles, California 90012
- The Los Angeles Public Library has made available on its website an index to newspaper and periodical articles containing obituary information on renowned actors, authors, journalists, and librarians. You can search the database by name, occupation, date of death, and cause of death. The data fields in the results returned may include full name, including married name, maiden name, and nickname; sex, occupation, death date, age, place of death, and information source.
- Arcadia Bulletin - full-text digital issues in Google News Archive; covers 1940
- Arcadia Daily Tribune - Google News Archive; 1930-1936
- Arcadia Journal - Google News Archive; 1917-1931
- Arcadia Tribune - Google News Archive; 1923-1936
- Torrance Public Library: Historical Newspaper Archives (1913-1969)
- Torrance Public Library: Historic City and Phone Directories (1922-1975)
Courtesy of the Whittier Public Library:
- Whittier Daily News, Whittier Register, Whittier News: 1888-2007
- Historical Photograph Collection: Images of the establishment of Whittier-late 1800s to mid-20th century
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Los Angeles County, California newspapers in online catalogs like:
The Southern California Genealogical Society has created The Los Angeles Times Obituary Index database searchable by either first name, last name or a combination of the two. If the name is found, the index provides the year of the obituary. If a copy of the obituary is desired, then it is necessary to purchase it from the Society. Currently the Index covers the period 1988 to 2004.
Rose Hills Memorial Park has a searchable database with some online obituaries. Burials:1914-present, Some Obituaries: 2011- present
The county clerk is usually the custodian of probate records. The records include wills, fee books, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, probate ticklers, and dockets.
Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their place of residence.
You can obtain copies of the original probate records (such as wills and estate files) by writing to the county clerk at the county courthouse.
The FamilySearch Catalog lists films of probate records. To find the records for this county, use the Place Search for California - Los Angeles - Probate records.
Archives, Libraries and Museums
Los Angeles FamilySearch Library
10741 Santa Monica Blvd
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
Hours: T-W-Th 9 am-9 pm; Mon-Fri-Sat 9 am-5 pm; Closed Sun
Southern California Genealogical Society and Family Research Library
417 Irving Dr.
Burbank, CA ~ 91504 818-843-7247
Sons of the Revolution Library
600 South Central Avenue
Glendale, California 91204-2009 Telephone: (818) 240-1775
Library and Museum Hours: Wednesdays Noon to 6:00 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed Sunday through Tuesday, Saturdays before a Monday holiday, Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and the entire month of December.
County of Los Angeles Public Libraries is a system of local libraries with some microfilmed newspapers and city directories and biographies. They will search for obituaries (Click the link above for their search policy.) This system has four ethnic centers: The Black Resource Center, the Asian Pacific Resource Center, the Chicano Resource Center, and the American Indian Resource Center.
County Courthouse Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 W. Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012 (county seat)
Family History Centers
- Agua Dulce California Family History Center
- Burbank California Family History Center
- Canoga Park California Family History Center
- Cerritos California Family History Center
- Covina California Family History Center
- Glendale California Family History Center
- Glendora California Family History Center
- Granada Hills California Family History Center (Northridge)
- Hacienda Heights California Family History Center
- Huntington Park California West Family History Center (Los Angeles)
- La Crescenta California Family History Center
- Lake Los Angeles California Family History Center (Lancaster)
- Lancaster California East Family History Center
- Lancaster California Family History Center
- Long Beach California East Family History Center (Los Alamitos)
- Long Beach California Family History Center
- Los Angeles California East Family History Center (Monterey Park)
- Los Angeles California Large Multi-stake Family History Library
- Los Angeles FamilySearch Library
- Palmdale California Family History Center
- Palos Verdes California Family History Center (Rancho Palos Verdes)
- Pasadena California Family History Center
- San Fernando California Family History Center (Van Nuys)
- Sylmar California Family History Center
- Torrance California Family History Center
- Valencia California Family History Center
- Whittier California Family History Center
Long Beach High School Yearbooks: 1900s-1950s: courtesy of the Long Beach Public Library
- 417 Irving Dr.
- Burbank, CA 91504
- P.O. Box 15102
- Long Beach, CA 90815-0102
- P.O. Box 4367
- Whittier, California 90607-4367
- Meetings at Masonic Lodge
- 7604 Greenleaf Ave.
- Whittier, CA
- 1310-B West Magnolia Boulevard
- Burbank, California
- P. O. Box 7369
- Burbank, California 91510-7369
- Telephone: 818.848.3122
- Meetings: 2nd Saturday Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov at 3 pm
- Los Angeles Family History Library
- P.O. Box 307
- Buena Park, CA 90621-0307
- Meetings: Los Angeles Family History Library
- 10471 Santa Monica Boulevard
- Los Angeles, CA
- Telephone: 310.474.9990
California tax records complement land records and can supplement the years between censuses. There may be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information, see the wiki page California Taxation.
Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. See the CDC Where to Write website for information on acquiring copies of these records. The State office has records since July 1905. For earlier records, contact the County Recorder. See also How to order California Vital Records
For early marriages see the Matrimonial Investigation Records of the San Gabriel Mission, which span 1788–1861. These are notarized interviews with couples wanting to marry in the Roman Catholic Church, performed to establish the couples’ freedom to marry. The collection includes 165 investigations, with 173 men and 170 women, primarily from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. William McPherson donated the original documents to the Claremont Colleges. Click here to see those images.
Some marriages are also on the Western States Marriage Index.
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk
(for Birth, Marriage and Death records going back at least to 1852) Norwalk RR/CC Building
12400 Imperial Highway
Norwalk, CA. 90650
Office Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday through Friday (open 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of every month)
- Note: There are several other sites to get birth, marriage and death records in Los Angeles County but Norwalk is the only facility that you can view records personally.
Viewing Vital Records: The following will provide you with the procedure for viewing vital records. Certificates and indexes of birth, death and marriage records not exempt from public inspections may be examined at the Office of the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. , Monday through Friday, except holidays. In addition to certificates on file, there are indexes of birth, death and marriages available for public inspection as follows: Births prior to 1905 and from 1964 to the present; Deaths from 1877 to the present; and Marriages from 1852 to the present. Records of confidential marriages performed pursuant to Family Code Section 500 are not available for public review. Certificates and indexes may be examined at no charge unless a deputy is requested search and/or retrieve more than five records. Random searches of the indexes or the certificates are not allowed. An application is required for each record searched. Information sufficient to identify the requested record must be provided.
Los Angeles County Death Records at the Family History Library:
Los Angeles County Death Records are available through the Family History Library System. First, search the index film for the year the person died. Note that in 1958-1960, there are separate film sets for different cities in Los Angeles County, including Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Long Beach.
Note that entries in the county wide index with certificate numbers preceded by an "L" pertain to the Long Beach set of death certificates.
The California Death Records 1940-1997 can be searched for free on Rootsweb. California Death Records
California county clerks were to keep voting registers every other year from 1866 and well into the 20th century. These large books, called Great Registers, listed the men who registered to vote in that county. Besides name and age, the record may show place of birth, address, occupation, naturalization date and sometimes even a physical description.
These records are at the California State Library (1866-1944), and microfilmed copies are available through Family History Centers (1866-1910). Ancestry ($) has a searchable database of Los Angeles Great Registers from 1873-1896.
Genealogy Societies, Archives and Libraries
- Los Angeles County, CA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
- California Genealogy Network Community on Google+
- California Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
- Los Angeles County CAGenWeb
- USGenWeb Archives
- USGenWeb Archives backup site
- Los Angeles County Genealogy (California Genealogy)
- Online Los Angeles Death Records and Indexes
- ↑ California State Association of Counties (accessed 1 July 2014)
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Los Angeles County, California. Page 85 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Los Angeles County, California" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California (accessed 15 February 2013).
- ↑ Free Databases at Southern California Genealogical Society (accessed 27 June 2014).
- ↑ California History (accessed 25 July 2014)
- ↑ Germans in California at German American Pioneers (accessed 25 July 2014)
- ↑ Italians in Los Angeles at Southern California Historical Society (accessed 25 July 2014)
- ↑ LA County is the Capital of Asian America at Social Focus on KCET (accessed 25 July 2014)
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "El Camino Real (California)" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_Real_%28California%29 (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Old Spanish Trail (trade route)" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish_Trail_%28trade_route%29 (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ "Oregon California Trails Association" at http://octatrails.micromaps.com/ (accessed 18 July 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Jefferson Hunt" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Hunt (accessed 6 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Butterfield Overland Mail" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfield_Overland_Mail (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Central Overland Route" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Overland_Route (accessed 13 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Union Pacific Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Central Pacific Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pacific_Railroad (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Santa Fe Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Railroad (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Southern Pacific Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_Railroad (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Atlantic and Pacific Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_and_Pacific_Railroad (accessed 14 September 2011).
- ↑ The California State Military Museum (accessed 1 July 2014)
- ↑ Fort McArthur Museum (accessed 1 July 2014)
- ↑ Fort Tejon Historical Association (accessed 1 July 2014)
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“He was saying that he felt bad about not being able to be here,” Nicklaus said on Wednesday at Muirfield Village. “He said he's doing well, progressing well, and he's looking forward to getting back into the game. He misses it.”
Woods has been on the DL since having back surgery on March 31 and announced last week that he has no timetable for his return to competitive golf.
Nicklaus’ mark of 18 major championships has always been the litmus test of Woods’ career. And when the Golden Bear was asked if he thought it would be Tiger’s health or the increasingly high level of play by younger players that will keep Woods from catching him, he had a quick answer.
“His biggest stumbling block probably is going to be his health, and I think his health is something that he thinks he's doing very well with,” Nicklaus said. “If he’s healthy, Tiger’s got 10 plus years to play top‑quality tournament golf.”
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I'm trying to be optimistic that her hips will be fine in ten days but I'm still mentally preparing for the casts. Dr. P. was actually more forthcoming at this appointment than he had been through this entire process. That could have been because I had my mom (an orthopaedic nurse) with me at the appointment. He also explained that none of these are fool-proof. She could be in the casts and still need surgery afterwards.
How am I feeling about this? Devastated. I feel like I failed somehow. No matter how many people say there is nothing I could have done, I still feel like an inept parent. Maybe I didn't have her harness on right. Maybe I could have place her hips out more while she's sleeping. Even Dr. P. said we've done everything we can. But guilt is a nagging feeling that I don't shake easily.
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As my iPhone morphs with every new iOS release into something more closely resembling a tricorder from “Star Trek” than a cell phone, I can’t shake the voice of Captain Kirk ringing in my ears:
“Scotty, I need more power!”
If you’re a smartphone owner, you know my plight. Because of the myriad ways I use the device—calling, emailing, surfing, posting, Facebooking, tweeting, mapping, gaming, listening, watching, and searching—I’m apt to run out of juice before my day is done. In the office, this usually isn’t a big deal, because there’s always a working outlet to feed my mobile appetite for electricity.
When I step out of the office as a frequent flyer, however, it’s a whole other story. In airports across the world, electricity is the great mobile equalizer—it doesn’t matter whether you’re first, business or economy class, at some point you’re going to be crawling around a terminal floor looking for the one remaining, unused outlet that works. Let me state on my behalf as well as that of the millions of other frequent flyers out there, crawling around on the floor is not a perk. It’s a sign that something’s amiss.
For a time, I was optimistic that my airport floor-crawling days were over. First, Samsung began sponsoring some four-outlet charging stations in airports around the country. Now that’s smart, brand-relevant marketing at work! The problem, of course, is Samsung’s stations are so few and far between that they generate lines similar to 1970s-era gas stations. If you are lucky enough to score an open outlet, you spend your next hour fending off the unwanted advances of the tired, red-eyed masses “who just need a little juice” to revive their dying smartphones.
Of course, there are some airlines and airports that understand their passengers’ need to have to charge their mobile devices while waiting in the terminal and in-flight. Virgin’s various nameplates have been ahead of the curve as has JetBlue in offering in-flight USB ports. I was pleased as punch a couple years back when Continental (soon-to-be United) began offering some flights with standard outlets throughout the cabin. And on a recent trip to Chicago via MDW, I was very impressed with not only the number of in-terminal outlets Southwest offered, but also that they were conveniently located next to comfy leather chairs, barstools, and tables.
Despite these advances, the problem still remains—airports and airlines are offering too few options for mobile device-charging both in-terminal and in-flight. Considering that many airlines now allow you to scan mobile boarding passes, this situation is more than one of mere convenience—it is a fundamental customer service problem that marketers within those organizations need to work to help address.
Why marketers? Because guess where the cranky mobile-enabled masses turn when they haven’t gotten their electricity fix? They turn straight to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, where their complaints snowball into opportunities for others to bash your brand. Smart marketers would be wise to walk each of their terminals and take a long, cross-country flight or two in order to fully appreciate the frustration that is finding somewhere to charge your iPhone or Droid or iPad. Those same marketers would be smarter still if they’d push their organizations to:
I will acknowledge up front that I’m probably being hopelessly naïve about the costs associated with either of these endeavors. However, I’m hard-pressed to believe that there aren’t other brands like Samsung that wouldn’t jump at the chance to get in front of frequent flyers in need of an energy fix. I, for one, would certainly look favorably upon the brand, airport, and airline that upgraded their electrical grid to better meet my needs as a mobile traveler.
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Massachusetts single-family pending home sales up for fifth straight month
WALTHAM –The Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) reported that the number of singlefamily homes put under agreement in September went up for the fifth straight month compared to the same time in 2010.
Condominium pending sales was down only nine units from September 2010. On a month-tomonth basis, the number of singlefamily homes and condos put under agreement were down from August.
“Buyers took advantage of the super-low interest rates and lower home prices in September and made offers on homes,” said 2011 MAR President Laurie Cadigan, brokerowner of Barrett & Company in Concord. “With the volatility in the stock market, I wouldn’t be surprised to see people starting to move some of their money back into real estate.”
The tracking of signed purchase and sales agreements (also called “pending sales”) provide reliable information about where the real estate market is heading in coming months.
The number of single-family homes put under agreement in September was up 9.06 percent compared to the same time last year (3,609 homes in 2010 to 3,936 homes in 2011). This is the fifth straight month of year-overyear increases. On a month-tomonth basis, single-family homes put under agreement were down 10.8 percent from 4,411 homes in August.
A pending sale or a sale “under agreement” is when the buyer and seller agree on the terms of the sale of a home and have a signed purchase and sale agreement, but have yet to close and be recorded as such. MAR is the only organization, which compiles this statewide information from Multiple Listing Services each month.
The number of condos put under agreement in September was down 1 percent compared to September 2010 (1,267 units in 2010 to 1,258 units in 2011). On a month-tomonth basis, condos put under agreement were down 20.7 percent from 1,587 units in August.
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Sports Hub: NASCAR Legend Kenny Wallace, Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore, Brian Feldman
Former NASCAR Driver Kenny Wallace was a special guest tonight on the Sports Hub discussing Blues, Cardinals and the upcoming World of Outlaw Sprint Cars race in Pevely, MO. This weekend.
Native St. Louisan and Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore joined The Sports Hub talking about his first year in the NBA, and throwing out the first pitch at the Cardinals game this weekend.
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I finished a whopper of a project for July class.... It's so big that the class will have to be run in 2 parts. And I thought you might like a peek....
It's a metal-cased album. Which looks like this on the outside:
And has lots of pages and fun bits on the inside:
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Posted Feb 16 2007 @ 01:02 PM
Ever since revealing to Ryan Seacrest that she now loves "dating like a guy", squeaky clean pop princess Hilary Duff has totally been hittin' the town and playin' the field! When she broke up with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden (who is now joined at the hip with Nicole Richie), I'm sure there was a lot of chocolate eating and Kleenex purchasing. But now she's over it and is one lean mean dating machine! Hil says that "dating is fun. I kind of feel like a guy! It's, like, I can do it now. But I feel kind of wrong at the same time. I've never gotten to date before, so it's kind of exciting. I've always just had a boyfriend, you know? I'm young!" Young you are little Miss Duff, in fact, too young to be allowed into LA hotspot Area on February 10! However, this didn't stop the Duffster, as she went out in an ensemble that is, how should I say this, a little more "Britney appropriate". In a raggedy red mini, fishnets, leather boots and (the saving graces of the outfit) a v-neck sweater with skull earrings and gold bracelets, Hilary looked like we've never seen her before, cute but a little provocative! And to top it all off.. the gold Razr? Eesh!
While Hilary says that she and Joel are still on speaking terms, they have each also moved on. She explains, "I had a really great relationship with him, and we still have a great relationship, which is really good and unusual. He's a good person, and I will always care about him." Such maturity from such a young girl!
Hilary Duff seen in West Hollywood, Ca on Feb 10 2007.
i really love her,but in this picture she looks like.....a bitch...sorry hilary but this is the worst dress you ever wore!!!!but i still love you!!!
i'd like to know if u girl know who are those boots of??thank u..xoxoguest on Feb 17 2007 @ 07:44 AM
lol- looks lyk a prostitute- a whore. haha
welcome to the dark side of hilaryguest on Feb 27 2007 @ 05:51 AM
Hilary Duff is so sexy hot she should show more skin.guest on Apr 23 2007 @ 10:41 PM
Hilary Duff is so sexy id love to #$*! her in those bootsguest on May 30 2007 @ 01:36 PM
...yes! She realy looks like a bitch!!!!!!!!guest on Feb 22 2008 @ 04:42 AM
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July 16, 2007
AUGUSTA, Ga.---An accident sent one person to the hospital and caused problems for folks traveling on one part of Bobby Jones Expressway this morning.
Richmond County deputies tell News 12 a black Buick was attempting to change lanes after the eastbound Deans Bridge Road exit, and the drive apparently didn't see the silver Ford Focus in the next lane.
The person in the Focus swerved to avoid being hit, then over-corrected and went down an embankment. The Focus ended up on its roof, and the driver was taken to the hospital.
Deputies say the driver of the Buick was charged with improper lane change and driving without insurance.
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iOS4 came with most awaited features: Multitasking and several others and now all new iPhone 4 released at WWDC 2010. But what does it take to trash the dream? Simple, more innovation.
Google announced Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo at it’s yearly Developer conference: Google I/O 2010. The latest release brings some tasty features that makes iPhone OS look ugly. Let’s go ahead and compare what these two OS can do, as per today.
The Android already multitasks, and does a better job than does iOS 4. I regularly listen to Pandora while doing many other things with my Droid, and have been ever since I bought the device.
It’s nice to see that iPhone users can now do this…some of them, i.e. Apple has limited multi-tasking to seven specific kinds of services. Android does not have that limit. Apple says it imposed the limit in order to preserve battery life. I say give the user freedom to do what he wants, including running down his battery too fast.
iOS4 now lets you change your wallpaper. Once again, Android has had that for quite some time. So there’s nothing to brag about there.
Update: Launch of iPhone 4 with iOS 4 still doesn’t change much, overall scenario is still similar.
iPhone 4 iOS4 vs. Android 2.2
Android 2.2 Froyo
Good Multitouch interface, good UI, decent gestures.
Yes. Looking closely, apps pause in the background, cripple multi-tasking. Apps except VoIP, Streaming, don’t execute in background, no matter what.
Full Multitasking, OS allows full background processing on demand,
PUSH notifications, cloud notifications to trigger apps.
Apart from what iPhone does, Cloud notifications can initiate Intents (Actions) within defined applications. E.g. open a map with a specific route from PC, without touching phone.
Contacts, email, calendar, apps, music, videos Only via iTunes
Wirelessly sync Contacts, email, calendar apps, Apps settings (app
Exchange support, VPN client, email sync, Remote Wipe
Exchange support, VPN client, email sync, Remote Wipe plus Open API
From app Store or via USB
From Marketplace or remotely from PC/Mac via Online marketplace.
iTunes via USB or iTunes store on iphone.
Over the Air (OTA) transfer to phone without touching the phone from
Stream Music from PC to phone
Use 3rd party apps
New Official plugin (Simplified media) works with iTunes, Windows
Much bigger,better gaming
Small gaming base, but newer, powerful OpenGL APIs, and Dalvik VM JIT are making Android more
Game Social Networks
Xbox Live alike social
Safari Browser is decent on speeds
No. Of Apps
Individual, Update all at a time
Individual, Update all, Automatic App updates as soon as update
No App performance improvements in 4.0 from 3.1.3 or 3.1.x
Dalvik VM’s JIT (Just in time compiler) is now enabled, all existing apps (which already run fast vs. iPhone) would run 2x – 4x times faster than Android 2.1
App Feedback/Crash Reports
Users can rate the Apps and judge based on that
Users can see Ratings, Failures, Crashes and Complete Java StackTrace of failures
Bluetooth + USB. Wifi only on Jailbroken devices
USB + Wifi out of the box. No word on bluetooth
Turn by turn Navigation
Good apps available, but not for free
Google Maps Navigation is the most superior navigation app, yet, free
Superior iBooks + Kindle reader
Inferior 3rd party apps, Kindle coming soon.
UI customizations: Widgets, Skins, themes
Everything: Themes, Widgets, Skins, Multi-Screen Wallpapers
Hardware access from Browser
GPS location via GeoLocation API
Upcoming access to magnetometer, accelerometer, GPS, Camera,
Search email, sms, app names instantly
Google search, apps, search within apps (when supported by app)
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Family & Marriage Counseling
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CALL # = RC488.5 .E78 2011.
TITLE = Essential assessment skills for couple and family therapists / Lee Williams, Todd M. Edwards, JoEllen Patterson, Larry Chamow ; series editor's note by Michael P. Nichols.
IMPRINT = New York : Guilford Press, c2011.
CALL # = HQ801 .E398 2009.
AUTHOR = Elliott, Susan J.
TITLE = Getting past your breakup : how to turn a devastating loss into the best thing that ever happened to you / Susan J. Elliott.
EDITION = 1st Da Capo Press ed.
IMPRINT = Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Lifelong, 2009.
CALL # = HQ759.48 .G55 2008 ebook.
AUTHOR = Gilbert, Neil, 1940-
TITLE = A mother's work [electronic resource] : how feminism, the market, and policy shape family life / Neil Gilbert.
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Keeping up with a baby is hard work – however, play time shouldn’t have to be! Between meal time, nap time, and bath time, it can feel like all you really want to do is curl up and go to sleep yourself. However, it is important to remember to have fun and play with your baby. Play time is important in building a bond between mommy and baby, and for your child’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth and development. It helps your baby learn about the world and them and about how to interact with other people. In addition, play time is fun for babies, and a happy baby is an easy baby! Luckily for tired moms, there a plenty of fun and easy ways to entertain your baby. Keep reading for some suggestions!
Take a Field Trip
If it’s a nice day, bring your baby outdoors! For a baby, nothing is more fun than rolling around in the soft gross and digging their hands into a sandbox. Being outside exposures your little one to a variety of tactile experiences that they are unlikely to encounter if they stay inside all the time. Make sure to bring your child’s cotton cable hat and bootie set in case it gets chilly!
Schedule a Play Date
An easy way to entertain your little one is to add another baby to the mix! To get the party started, simply set up a baby nap mat so that they’ll have something soft to play on, and let them do their thing. chances are that the two will be able to entertain themselves, and let you catch a breather. A play date will also give you a chance to chat and catch up with the other mom, which can be incredibly refreshing and relaxing.
Provide Interesting Toys
Giving your baby an interesting toy or two is a great way for baby to exercise both their creativity and motor skills. Safe toys for babies include soft, plushy animals, such as an Apple Park Blankie (which also doubles as a cuddly baby blanket!). A set of large plastic keys are another popular baby toy idea, especially for babies who are just starting to teeth. Finding toys that your baby enjoys can provide them with hours of entertainment, making your job a lot easier! If you have yet to find a toy that your baby really seems to like yet, keep looking- chances are that that special toy is out there.
Read a Book
Reading to your child is a great way to build the parent-child bond and to stimulate their cognitive development. Pick an easy-to-understand book with a lot of colorful illustration, so that your little one can follow along with you. To relax them and put them in the book time mood, wrap your baby up in a soft cotton baby blanket, and make sure that they’re nice and comfy! | <urn:uuid:09f1c5a5-d60d-487c-82e3-53dcd38985fc> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.babyblankets.com/blog/2013/11/fun-and-easy-ways-to-entertain-your-little-one/ | 2014-12-21T01:05:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00090-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961581 | 578 | [
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Driver improvement program offered
The Minnesota Highway Safety Center will be offering a 55+ Driver Improvement eight-hour course on Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Parkers Prairie High School.
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|Birth: ||Mar. 16, 1924|
|Death: ||Jan. 6, 2000|
Louise Blair, 75, a lifelong resident of Hico, died Jan. 6. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 15 at the First United Methodist Church in Hico with Rev. Glenda Whitehead officiating.
Born Ruby Louise Blair to Solomon Elbert and Abbie Wesley Burks Blair on March 16, 1924, in Hico, she attended Hico schools and graduated in 1941 and then went to John Tarleton Agricultural College.
During World War II, Miss Blair worked at Curtis Field in Brady and upon her return briefly attended Howard Payne College before beginning work in her father=s hardware store.
Through the years, she learned the hardware business working alongside her father. She acquired Blair's Hardware as full owner in the 60's. Miss Blair sold the business in 1996 for health reasons, however, it continues to operate as Blair's Hardware.
She was active in the community, devoting years of service to The American Cancer Society and The American Heart Association. In 1974, Miss Blair was the first woman to be elected to the Hico City Council where she served continuously until 1980 when she was elected Mayor Pro Tem in Hico.
She was the first woman in Hamilton County to serve on a jury, and the first woman in this area to serve as a pallbearer. She worked for many years to ensure the success of the Old Settlers' Reunion and received the Hico Citizen of the Year Award in 1982.
Other accomplishments she was proud of were the Hico Heliport that Miss Blair dedicated to her father and the Peppermint Square Park, which she joined with Glenn Ross in creating and maintaining for the benefit of Hico.
She was a member of the First Methodist Church of Hico and Eastern Star.
Her parents and two brothers, Morris Burks Blair and S. E. Blair, Jr. preceded her in death.
Survivors include two nieces, Ellen Blair of Austin and Catherine Blair of Washington, D. C.; her aunt, Ruby Malone of Brady; three cousins Mary Louise Laughlin of Giddings and RueAnn Harrington of Georgetown.
Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Howard, Jimmie Ramage, Tex Knudson, Harold Walker, Billy Ward, Floyd Drake, Bob Bates, Glenn Ross, Bruce Slaughter, Bill Rutledge, Larry Holderman, and Janie Holderman.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to First Methodist Church, P. O. Box 99, or Peppermint Square, c/o Glenn Ross, P. O.Box 38, both in Hico, 76457.
Created by: Ken Jones
Record added: May 02, 2009
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High Price, Yes. High Quality, You bet. Does everything it advertises, Yes. The only problem was a previously purchased D.G. Switch for a specific H.K. Pistol. The S.F. X400 does not mount as far back on the rail as a S.F. X300. I will have to contact Sure Fire to obtain a solution. I have every confidence in S.F.'s Customer Service to come up with the answer, from previous contacts. Would I recommend this product to a friend? Absolutely! (Please do not include my full name or contact information. Retired L.E.) | <urn:uuid:66aab612-e892-4b74-aa74-a58c431c9fb1> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.lapolicegear.com/sf-x400-gn-ultra.html | 2014-12-21T01:04:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00090-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938099 | 157 | [
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For nearly an hour, members of the Fairfax County School Board, the schools superintendent and schools staff said their good-byes to deputy superintendent Alan Leis Thursday, April 10.
"I'm so excited about this being my last board meeting, but I'm also sad about leaving," Leis said of all the fuss.
With his family, wife, Kathy, a school-system French teacher, and daughters, Elizabeth and Julia, beside him, Leis was presented with a glass table containing a plaque, listened as a lengthy proclamation recognizing his more than 30-years of service in the school system was read and was surprised to learn the Walnut Hill Center in Falls Church will be renamed the Alan Leis Instructional Center.
Leis becomes the new superintendent of Naperville Community Unit School District 203 in Illinois July 1; however, April 15 marked his last day on the job in Fairfax County. He began his career in Fairfax County as a classroom teacher at Herndon Elementary and has served as executive assistant to the deputy superintendent for school operations, as well as assistant superintendent for the Department of Human Resources.
Leis' contributions to the school system include planning and implementing a new merit pay-based evaluation system for teachers and principals, initiating an overhaul of the school system’s hiring practices, designing and implementing the nation’s first entirely new teacher hiring process using technology and implementing a managed health-care system for employees that saves the school system more than $1 million annually. He has been responsible for overseeing special projects such as the adult education program, a community task force on fund-raising and advertising in the schools and coordination of Project Excel.
With his impending departure, the board has created two new positions to take on the responsibilities Leis had as deputy superintendent. Thomas Brady, formerly the assistant superintendent of the Department of Facilities, was named chief operating officer, and Nancy Sprague, formerly assistant superintendent for Instructional Services, is the new chief academic officer.
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1.Did you grow up in a foodie family?
Not really. Dad was a general in the army and my mother was a professor in business and accounting. She was a very busy lady - never cooked until she moved to New Zealand a few years ago. That was a big adjustment for her. We lived very comfortably. We had a massive house and there was one person doing all the cooking, one person doing the tidying up in the house and one person doing the outside work. I was curious about food but never went into the kitchen. We'd eat out a lot though - Chinese, European, sometimes Indian. I ate at a lot of restaurants as a child.
2.With such high-achieving parents, was there pressure on you to succeed?
No, there wasn't. My father did want me to follow him into the army but that wasn't me. I went to hospitality school in Chennai when I was 14. To be honest, it was just an easy way out of school. I was very young though. I remember I couldn't lift my suitcases because I was so small and someone had to help me.
A lot of my upbringing has influenced my work now. That discipline my dad had from the army. Everything has to be consistent. In some ways a kitchen is like the army: you have to get everything done a certain way and the pressure's quite high when you're charging a lot of money to people.
3.It is a lot of money: how can you charge such high prices?
Tuesday nights are our test kitchen and that's very reasonable: eight courses for $80. Wednesday to Saturday we do five courses for $95 or nine courses for $140. With wine it's $230 a head. But so much goes into the overall experience - it's food quality and ingredients but then every other detail matters too. We spend $1500 a month on tablecloths. All the plates are handmade for us by Peter Collis. I don't tell my kitchen hand that though. When he's doing the dishes he thinks they're shipped in from America and take six months to replace.
4.Does that make your customers more demanding?
Our customers are very knowledgeable about food. They're real foodies and a lot are international. We like everyone to leave happy but some people are just hard to please. We had a diner last night and he had the best table in the dining room but he was pissed off at how noisy it was. I was like "what can I do?" This is the dining room.
He went on his phone and looked at the decibel rating which was a nine.
I know this because I read his review on Trip Advisor late last night.
It was his anniversary and I wanted him to have a good time but the two of them looked like they didn't want to be here.
5.How did you end up in New Zealand?
My parents were living in Oman and so I got my first job there through a family friend at the Grand Hyatt Muscat. I learned a lot there - I was the youngest in the hotel of about 80 or 90 chefs. When I was 20 I wanted to go somewhere to diversify my cooking style. The restaurant scene here was better than the Middle East and I didn't like that the company you worked for there had your passport.
6.So 15 years ago Auckland had a good restaurant scene?
Well, it was better than the Middle East. I got work at Toto and a couple of years later Antonio the owner shouted me a meal at the French Cafe. That was the worst thing he could do. I was like 'this is the kind of food I want to do'. It inspired me a lot and I was like, 'Okay, let's go'.
7.Will you ever be a telly chef?
No. You have to be a personality and a good speaker and I'm not those. I'm a chef. Yeah, I do watch TV. Watch a bit of Masterchef unfortunately. I think I should keep my thoughts to myself about that show.
8.You still have foam in your dishes: isn't that now highly unfashionable?
This is such a debatable topic and the media doesn't help at all. They don't mind having a creamy sauce but if it's slightly aerated they make it such a drama. Foam is an aerated sauce that makes it less rich or creamy and allows the flavour without dominating the dish. I'm like what, are you over purees as well?
9.Where do you and your family go to eat out?
I eat at least once a year at all the fine-dining places: Merediths, Clooney, Grove, French Cafe. I love them all. We all inspire each other I think. With my family we love Blue Breeze Inn and Moo Chow Chow. Last Sunday we went to the Twisted Tomato in Pt Chev. It was great. Young people doing really good things.
10.What do you do after a night's service?
I get home about 12.30am or 1am and Chand my wife has always made me a meal. She cooks five different meals a week. No matter how much you eat during the day, after a long service every chef wants a little snack at night. She makes a lot of Mexican. Tostadas. Sometimes a curry.
11. Why did your mother move to New Zealand?
She got sick in Oman, was diagnosed with cancer and two weeks later my father passed away. It was a bit of everything together. It was a really difficult time for everyone.
Mum had full chemotherapy and moved here.
12.What did you learn from your parents that you'll pass on to your daughter?
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After directing the hard-hitting '<i>Shool</i>', the heavy-headed '<i>Dum</i>' and a light-hearted '<i>Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega</i>', director <b>E.Nivas</b> comes up with 'Bardaasht'. The interesting part is that the story and screenplay of the film is penned by director <b>Vikram Bhatt</b>. After Bobby Deol's last film '<i>Kismat</i>' where he was paired with ex- Miss World Priyanka Chopra, he ...
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A groundbreaking study, which provides the first ever comprehensive analysis of sexual behaviour around the world, is published today in the Lancet, as part of a major series on sexual and reproductive health.
The paper1 analyses data from 59 countries worldwide to answer questions such as when people start to have sex, how many sexual partners they have and whether they practise safer sex. The authors explore what the patterns and trends mean for sexual health and they review the literature on preventive approaches to improve sexual health status.
The paper contains a number of unexpected findings. In an age in which scare-stories about underage sex and promiscuity abound, there has in fact been no universal trend towards earlier sexual intercourse.
Another surprising finding is that it is the developed nations that report comparatively high rates of multiple partnerships, not those parts of the world which tend to have higher rates of HIV and AIDS, such as African countries. This has led the authors to suggest that social factors such as poverty, mobility and gender equality may be a stronger factor in sexual ill-health than promiscuity, and they call for public health interventions to take this into account.
Monogamy was found to be the dominant pattern in most regions of the world. Despite substantial regional variation in the prevalence of multiple partnerships, which is notably higher in industrialised countries, most people report having only one recent sexual partner. Worldwide, men report more multiple partnerships than women, but in some industrialised countries the proportions of men and women reporting multiple partnerships are more or less equal.
Trends towards earlier sexual experience were found to be less pronounced and less widespread than is sometimes supposed. In the majority of countries for which data were available, age at first intercourse had increased for women. In many developing countries, especially those in which first sex occurs predominantly within wedlock, the trend towards later onset of sexual activity among women has coincided with the trend towards later marriage, and this is particularly a feature of countries in Africa and south Asia.
The trend towards later marriage in most countries of the world has also led to an increase in premarital sex. However, most people are married, and married people have the most sex, with sexual activity among single people tending to be more sporadic, although it is greater in industrialised countries than in developing countries. Marriage does not always protect against sexual health risk. In Uganda, married women are the group for whom HIV transmission is increasing most rapidly, and a study in Kenya and Zambia showed that the sexual health benefits of marriage for women are offset by a higher frequency of sex, lower rates of condom use and their husbands' risky behaviours. In Asian countries, where early marriage is encouraged to protect young women's honour, early sexual experiences can be coercive and traumatic and, with respect to early pregnancy, dangerous for mother and child.
The researchers found that in a number of countries, rates of condom use at last sexual intercourse were increasing, in some cases, for example in Uganda, strikingly so. Rates of condom use are generally higher in industrialised than in non-industrialised countries, especially in women, and have continued to increase substantially in recent years.
Given the diversity of sexual behaviour revealed by the study, the authors call for a range of preventive strategies to be adopted to protect sexual health. They point out that in poor countries, sex is more likely to be tied to livelihoods, duty and survival, while in wealthier countries there is greater personal choice, even though power inequalities still persist.
The authors caution against the adoption of quick fixes and 'one size fits all' approaches to preventive interventions. They call for greater efforts to address the links between sexual behaviour and poverty, gender inequalities and social attitudes in efforts to improve sexual health status. Individuals need the facts and skills to make their behaviour safer, but changes to the social context are needed to support them in this.
Professor Kaye Wellings of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the team carrying out the study, comments: 'The huge regional diversity in sexual behaviour shows how strong social influences on behaviour are. No general approach to sexual health promotion will work everywhere, and no single component intervention will work anywhere. We need to know not only whether interventions work, but why and how they do so in particular social contexts'.
'The selection of public health messages needs to be guided by epidemiological evidence rather than by myths and moral stances. The greatest challenge to sexual health promotion in almost all countries comes from opposition from conservative forces to harm reduction strategies. Governments tend to shy away from supporting interventions other than those with orthodox approaches. Sexuality is an essential part of human nature and its expression needs to be affirmed rather than denied if public health messages are to be heeded'.
The findings will be launched at a press conference, held jointly with the Lancet, at Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1, from 10.00 am on Monday 30 October 2006.
For further information on the press conference or the Lancet series, or to interview Professor Kaye Wellings, please contact the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Press Office on 020 7927 2073 or the Lancet Press Office on 020 7424 4949.
Sexual behaviour is an important determinant of both fertility patterns and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections. Information about sexual behaviour is essential to inform preventive strategies and to correct myths about what constitutes safe and unsafe activity. Increased research in this area in the past two decades provides a historically unique opportunity to take stock of sexual behaviour, and efforts to safeguard it, at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Factors that determine variations and trends in sexual behaviour are environmental, and include shifts in poverty, education and employment; demographic trends such as the changing age structure of populations and the trend towards later marriage; increased migration between and within countries; globalisation of mass media; advances in contraception and access to family planning services, and public health HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention strategies.
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CHICAGO (CBS) — A man who has spent his life traumatized by witnessing the murder of his 5-year-old brother was sentenced to 71 years in prison Monday, for killing his aunt’s boyfriend at a family barbecue in March 2006.
Cook County Judge Thomas Hennelly sentenced Derrick Lemon, now 24, for the murder of Ilya Glover. Hennelly sentenced Lemon to 46 years for first-degree murder and added 25 years, to be served consecutively, for fatally discharging a firearm.
The sentence will have to be served in full, meaning Lemon, who has spent a little over a year in custody awaiting trial, wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2081, by which time he would be 94 years old.
Sixteen years ago when he was a boy of 9, Lemon sat on a phone book in Cook County Juvenile Court, to testify about how he’d watched in horror as two young boys threw his 5-year-old brother, Eric Morse, to his death from a 14th-floor window an Ida B. Wells housing project building at 3833 S. Langley Ave., recounting how he’d tried in vain to run down all 14 flights in time to catch his little brother.
Eric was also stabbed and Maced before he was dropped from the windwow, according to published reports.
The youths who killed Morse, Jesse Rankins and Tykeece Johnson, were both sent to juvenile detention facilities. They have since been released.
Prosecutors said Lemon has gone on to lead a life of crime.
At a hearing last month, Glover’s family urged Hennelly to impose a tough sentence. In a statement to Lemon, Glover’s daughter, Crystal, wrote: “You know how it feels to lose a loved one, and you still committed this crime.”
On Monday, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Andreana Turano said Glover’s family was pleased with the sentence.
“Mr. Glover’s mother just passed away,” Turano said, “but she’ll be looking down from above today.”
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More Americans Now Favor Legalizing Marijuana
Survey results just released by the Pew Research Center has found that for the first time in over 40 years, the majority of Americans now favor the legalization of marijuana.
The poll found that 52% favor legalization and 45% do not.
The last survey taken in 2010 found that just 41% of respondents favored legalization, support has jumped 11% in just three years.
65% of people born since 1980, now between the ages of 18 and 32, favor legalizing pot, up from just 36% in a 2008 poll. There has also been a dramatic change in older people’s attitude towards marijuana too. Half of all Baby Boomers now favor pot, where back in 1990 only 17% did. Since 1994, the percentage of Boomers now supporting legalization has nearly doubled, from 24% to 50%.
Nearly 48% of Americans now say they have tried marijuana, up from 38% a decade ago.
According to the survey, 47% say they used it “just for fun,” while 30% say it was for a medical issue; 23% also admitted that they used it for medical purposes and also just for fun. Recently Washington state and Colorado have legalized the recreational use of pot. There is a federal bill favoring the legalization of marijuana that is being co-sponsored by Maine’s U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree. The Green Party in Portland is now circulating a petition calling for legalization in that city. There is also a legalization bill making its way through the state’s legislative process that was presented by Representative Diane Russell of Portland. | <urn:uuid:270e77a1-bc3b-425e-b12b-3cdce1623b6c> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://i95rocks.com/more-americans-now-favor-legalizing-marijuana/ | 2016-04-29T03:06:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00088-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970412 | 332 | [
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Ascent of Split Mountain on 2012-08-21
|Other People:||Solo Ascent|
Only Party on Mountain
|Date:||Tuesday, August 21, 2012|
|Ascent Type:||Successful Summit Attained|
| Elevation:||7640 ft / 2328 m|
Ascent Trip ReportI started at dawn and armed with Eric Willhites trip report (copy and paste)
Thanks to Eric for sharing his information, it really helped. Be sure to study his map and pictures, they were big help to me prior to .
Anyway, it is worth using Eric's report and doing your map work and carry plenty of water in summer / late summer as I still went through 4 quarts and a lot of salt tablets. I saw no one else on the mountain and no recent footprints. I had cell coverage but during the hike I gained more than 3000 feet and took 4.5 hours to get to the summit, slow even for me but I took a lot of breaks after it started heating up. Also see the summitpost page for Split mountain by Scott Patterson.
I camped at the Green River campground nearby and would recommend using it and getting an early start to beat the heat.
|Summary Total Data|
| Route Conditions:||Maintained Trail, Open Country|
| Gear Used:||Ski Poles|
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Woodland Trails B & B is located very close to St. Croix State Park. Minnesota’s largest: the park covers 34,037 acres, which is 53 square miles!
A daily or seasonal state park permit is required to enter. Once inside, activities include:
Climbing the old Fire Tower for a panoramic view.
Renting a bicycle and touring the six miles of paved trail.
Renting a canoe for a two-hour trip on the St. Croix.
Swimming in Lake Clayton.
Hiking or cross-country skiing on miles of trails.
Touring the site of the old Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), home to hundreds of park workers in the 1930s.
Geocaching … treasure hunting with a GPS receiver. You can borrow a receiver at the Park Visitor Center.
Have you ever wondered what Minnesota was like before settlement and before logging? One researcher wored to answer that question about St. Croix State Park. Here is his answer.
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My main research interests lie in the Cognitive Neurosciences, in particular in the investigation of the neural mechanisms underpinning visual perception and attention, and their dependence on context. The definition of context ranges from visual environment over action, memory (and other executive functions) to personality traits and social interaction. My work covers the investigation of perceptual and attentional changes over the entire life span in healthy volunteers and various groups of neurological and psychiatric patients. Moreover, I am interested in the safe interaction between humans and robots.
After a degree in biology (Dipl. Biol.) at the University of Mainz, Germany (1985-1991), I worked in research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany (1991-1997). I completed a PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) on the interaction of temporal and textural cues in visual perceptual grouping at the University of Mainz in 1994, followed by two post-doctoral periods at the College-de-France in Paris, France (1997-1998), and at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium (1998-1999), studying the neuronal basis of visual attention and of oculomotor functions with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Between 1999 and 2003, I held a tenure research ...
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WASHINGTON–US President Barack Obama warned China on Thursday against the using force or intimidation in its tense maritime disputes with its neighbors and urged a peaceful resolution.
Obama, meeting Chinese officials who were in Washington for wide-ranging talks, “urged China to manage its maritime disputes with its neighbors peacefully, without the use of intimidation or coercion,” a White House statement said.
Tensions have steadily risen between China and Japan, which accuses its growing neighbor of sending an increasing number of ships to exert its claim over sparsely populated islands managed by Tokyo in the East China Sea.
The Philippines and Vietnam have also charged that China has used assertive means to exert claims in the conflict-riven South China Sea, although tensions have abated slightly with Hanoi in recent weeks.
State Councilor Yang Jiechi, addressing a press event at the end of the two days of talks, said that China supported “freedom of navigation in all oceans” and “will continue to firmly implement its policy.”
The United States since 2010 has repeatedly been outspoken over the South China Sea, saying that it has a national interest in ensuring freedom of navigation but does not take sides on individual claims.
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Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen.
The reason I love this cookbook is the man's knowledge of cooking. Chef Paul will tell you everything that should be happening while you're cooking, smell, look, taste, etc.. at certain stages. I've really learned a ton about cooking from this book! The Chicken and Tasso Jambalaya recipe is one of my favorites. I cook all of my Jambalayas this way now, which is, after sauteeing ingredients, add rice and liquid, finish in the oven, similar to a Paella. Most recipes finish Jambalaya on the stove top, I think it comes out far better from the oven. I've never made a bad recipe from this book, and most are phenomenal! The Crawfish Etouffee I had from K-Paul's during Mardi Gras was one of the best things I've ever eaten, and certainly the best Etouffee. Speaking of which, if your going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, K-Paul's usually opens their window at night and serves a variety of different items to-go for about $6 or $7 bucks a-pop! Last year they had Crawfish Etouffee, Chicken etouffee, Blackened Drum, as well as a few others, including my favorite heart stopper, Deep-Fried Ham Po Boy! That's right folks bread and all, battered and fried! Atkins be damned! Pure heaven!
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The billionaire investor George Soros has said it will be "very difficult to avoid" recessions in the US and the UK.
Mr Soros has famously profited from previous economic crises
In an interview with BBC News, Mr Soros said he supported the US Federal Reserve's surprise interest rate cut, which bolstered global stock indexes.
"You do have to rescue markets otherwise you would go into a depression, as you did in the 1930s."
He also said that the current market turmoil is a sign of global influence shifting to the developing world.
'Shift of power'
"I'm not looking for a worldwide recession," he said.
"I'm looking for a significant shift of power and influence away from the US in particular and a shift in favour of the developing world, particularly China."
He added that authorities have trusted markets too much over the past 20 years.
"The authorities came to rely on the markets to right themselves," he said.
"But they ought to have known better because they have in the past come to the rescue."
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What Does the Law Say?
Where are the laws regarding sex discrimination in GA found?
In GA, claims of sex discrimination can be brought under federal law or state tort law.
Where is the federal law regarding sex discrimination in employment found?
The federal law regarding sex discrimination is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII prohibits any discrimination in the workplace based on sex. Title VII has been amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which guarantees equal employment treatment to pregnant women. Leave time, including maternity leave, is also included as part of Title VII as part of the Family Medical Leave Act.
To whom does the federal law apply?
Title VII applies to public and private employers with 15 or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or proceeding year. This includes state and local governments. Under Title VII, there are some employers who are exempt from the act and thus their employees are not covered under Title VII. The United States is one example, as it is wholly owned by the Government of the United States. Indian tribes and the District of Columbia are also exempt. Most private membership clubs, other than labor organizations, are also exempt.
Under the federal law, what is illegal?
Under Title VII, an employer is not allowed to fire or refuse to hire a woman, or otherwise discriminate against an employee in regards to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of her sex.
What constitutes sex or gender discrimination under federal law?
Under Title VII, an employer is not allowed to limit, segregate, or classify female employees in any way which would deprive them of any employment opportunities or otherwise negatively affect their employee status because of her sex. Specific employment practices which may be considered sex discrimination include: failure to hire, failure to promote, sexual harassment, wage discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, discriminatory termination, and retaliatory termination.
What is an "employee" under this law?
The term "employee" means any individual employed by an employer.
Are women a "protected class"?
Yes, under Title VII, women are a protected class.
Is it ever okay for my employer to treat or impact women differently because of their sex?
Your employer can only treat women differently on the basis of their sex if they can prove that the discrimination was a bona fide occupational qualification. This means that the qualification was substantially job related and necessary for the operation of the business.
What could my employer do to deny my allegations, and how do I respond to its denials?
Your employer will attempt to show a legitimate, non discriminatory reason for their behavior. If your employer offers legitimate reasons for the action taken against you, you then need to show that the reasons offered by your employer are just superficial excuses to act discriminatorily. It is always your responsibility to prove that sex discrimination was the reason for your employer's actions.
What are examples of legitimate, non discriminatory reasons for discharge?
As mentioned, once you have shown that you were qualified for the job and performed at an acceptable level, your employer will then provide a legitimate, non discriminatory reason for discharge. Examples of legitimate, non discriminatory reasons for discharge include; whether you were not qualified and were hired for reasons unrelated to your experience (such as having an affair with your supervisor), whether you were a problem employee through continual tardiness, or whether you had difficulty working with supervisors and peers. Furthermore, if your replacement is female, your employer has effectively negated your wrongful discharge suit, unless you can prove the claim under a different protected class. Finally, the employer may provide general statistics proving they have fired more men than women in the last year to counter any claims of discriminatory behavior.
Does it matter when the discrimination occurred?
An employee has 180 days to file a claim with the EEOC. If the claim is not brought within the 180 days, the opportunity to file the claim is lost.
What options do I have if I my employer has fewer than fifteen employees?
In order to file a claim under Title VII, your employer must have 15 or more employees.
Who enforces the law?
How do I file a claim of sex discrimination with the EEOC?
For more information on filing a claim in Georgia, please see How to File a Claim.
If I prove my sex discrimination claim, what kind of remedies am I entitled to?
For more information on available remedies, please see What do I get if I win?.
Where is the state law regarding sex discrimination in employment found?
With the exception of wage discrimination, there are no state laws in GA that deal directly with sexual discrimination. However, depending on the type of discrimination that has occurred, lawsuits may be filed under tort claims such assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Sexual Harassment is an example of a type of discrimination that can be brought under state tort law.
To whom does the state tort law apply?
Under state law in Georgia, the size of the business and the number of employees have no affect on your ability to bring a claim of sexual harassment. Therefore, tort claims of this sort can be brought against any employer.
Under state tort law, what is illegal?
There are a variety of claims that can be brought under state tort law in GA. The most frequent of these is sexual harassment.
Does it matter when the discrimination occurred?
Generally speaking, claims must be brought within two years after the sexual harassment occurs. If the claim is filed after the two years have elapsed, the claim will essentially be lost.
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There are several lessons that can be taken from Friday’s Albuquerque Public Schools board $350,000 buyout of Superintendent Winston Brooks.
First and foremost, it needed to happen.
When the 62-year-old Brooks was busted during a November school board meeting for a Twitter conversation with a television reporter in which he likened state Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera to a barnyard animal, his judgment and his dedication to moving the state’s largest school district were put in serious question.
And while his departure appears to have nothing to do with that unfortunate and embarrassing incident, it bolstered Brooks’ stance as a vocal critic of national and state education reforms designed to boost student achievement by establishing accountability and performance measures for students and teachers – even though fewer than half of his 86,000 students can do math or read at grade level.
The Twitter debacle prompted the board to decline extending Brooks’ contract, instead placing him on an improvement plan. And while everyone can and should strive to do better, that’s not really what taxpayers want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for while their kids can’t read a cereal box or make change for a dollar.
Then there was the bizarre 911 call he made, claiming he was being assaulted by his wife. She said he was hallucinating from a medical condition, and no arrests were made.
The unseemly Skandera matter followed a bit of a theme, namely that Brooks had problems with women in important jobs.
He’s still facing a couple of lawsuits filed by two of them, one a former assistant principal he said had “slept her way to the top” and another a former associate superintendent demoted after complaining Brooks “treated women with disdain.”
In fact, Ralph Arellanes, chairman of the Hispano Roundtable of New Mexico and president of the Albuquerque chapter of LULAC, said his organizations “have never had so many complaints about abuse of power against women and minorities as we have received from this superintendent.”
While it should be Brooks on the hook for any judgments or settlements in those cases, it’s more likely to be – you guessed it – the taxpayers.
Last month, APS Board President Analee Maestas hired an attorney to look into serious personnel matters regarding Brooks and, apparently, his wife, Ann. It was that attorney’s secret report that led to his departure.
A second lesson is that some good things did happen at APS with Brooks in charge.
The graduation rate is up markedly. It was 46.2 percent when Brooks was hired in 2008, according to an APS spokesman. In 2013, it was 73.3 percent.
APS has partnered with Central New Mexico Community College on a dual-credit school, started an International Baccalaureate program at Sandia High and launched a full-time virtual school.
Brooks’ pick for chief financial officer turned the district’s bond rating around and earned a rating of AA1 from Moody’s.
And Brooks has stood up for students – from one who was bullied by a state wrestling champ to all who might get a better education if teacher transfer policies were changed.
Finally, the third lesson is the folks picking up the tab deserve to know more about why the almost permanently short-of-cash district is shelling out more than nine times the median household income in the city to get Brooks to go away before his contract is up in 2016.
Yes, it’s a good deal in the sense that Brooks would have made nearly twice that much sticking around in a job long after he had become ineffective or worse. But in terms of public accountability it could and should be better.
According to Brooks’ “Resignation and Settlement Agreement,” the attorney’s investigation (also paid for with an undisclosed mount of public money) will be kept “in a file separate from Brooks’ personnel file, and it shall not be released to anyone, including potential future employers in response to a request for Brooks’ personnel file.”
Yet the board will give Brooks a letter of recommendation.
No district should perpetuate the game of pass-the-bad superintendent. While APS has pledged not to reveal the report even to a prospective new employer for Brooks, it seems almost incomprehensible that anyone would hire him without seeing it.
While it is unfortunate Brooks and his wife became the focus of an attorney’s investigation, and airing their presumably dirty laundry will not move the district forward, taxpayers deserve to know more about what they are paying for.
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You started drawing pictures when you were young because you like creating then you realized you were good at it and it got you attention... Then they almost killed it for you, starting at school, but you persisted because some part of you still wanted to create a new world. And they tried taking it away from you by making you pay for it, in oh so many ways and tried making you forget what it is really about and to convince you that it doesn't really belong to you by imposing rules and contexts, concepts and precepts. But something inside you still holds on. And this is you. You create because you must, because you are Pan, the Universe, Everything you carry inside you. Mirror. And to create is to express this natural evolutionary urge inside of you. Chaos and Order. Movement in waves of creation. Motion. World upon world inside of worlds. Infinite. Because you are what you are. A God/ ess. Creator. The Magician. The Storyteller. | <urn:uuid:6f7308f4-d22d-466d-9812-9fa91e4d8120> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.neilnieuwoudt.blogspot.com/2012/11/good-morning-mr-magpie.html | 2016-05-01T23:04:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00096-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977316 | 200 | [
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Social democrats pave way for return of right-wing Popular Party in Spain
22 November 2011
With the count complete, the right-wing Popular Party (PP) won 186 seats in Spain’s 350-seat Congress in Sunday’s election compared with 154 in the last parliament. With an absolute majority, the PP will be able to pass legislation without recourse to smaller parties and control all the organs of state, including the courts.
The PP won 44.6 percent of the vote compared to the outgoing Socialist Workers Party’s (PSOE) 28.7 percent. The vote for the social democrats slumped by five million and the number of seats held by the PSOE plunged from 169 to 110, in its worst performance ever.
The PP was able to capitalise on the social disaster brought about by the global financial crisis and the austerity measures imposed by the PSOE, aided and abetted by the ex-left groups and trade unions that supported it in government. The outcome of the elections is a serious warning to the working class.
In 2004, the PP was driven from office, with the PSOE under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero securing 42 percent of the vote in a historically high turnout of 77.2 percent. The PSOE received 10.9 million votes—the highest number of votes of any party ever—and the PP’s vote dropped by 700,000. The vote in particular reflected massive popular opposition to the war in Iraq, which then-PP leader José Maria Aznar supported by sending Spanish troops to back the US occupation.
But the PSOE was the undeserving beneficiary of the anti-PP sentiment, and was to cruelly betray the mandate for fundamental political and social change.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, it has imposed savage spending cuts, including a 15-billion-euro austerity package, wage cuts of 15 percent and attacks on pensions. This is under conditions of widespread hardship and unemployment levels close to five million, or 21.52 percent of the workforce and 50 percent among 18-to-25-year-olds.
This even enabled the PP to pose as an opponent of cuts, if only by remaining silent about its own intentions.
Even so, Spain remains a social powder keg. Much of the world’s press crowed that the vote represented a swing to the right. In fact, the PP only increased its vote from 10.2 million to 10.8 million votes. Nearly 10 million voters, over 28 percent, abstained. The swing to the PP was for the most part due to the collapse of the PSOE vote from 11.1 million in 2008 to 6.9 million.
This shift also benefited the pseudo-left parties such as the United Left, which saw its number of seats increase from two in 2008 to 11. The new Basque coalition Amaiur went from zero to seven seats in Congress and now outnumbers the region’s traditional Basque Nationalist Party, which only won five seats.
For the new government to meet the public deficit target of 4.4 percent of gross domestic product by the end of 2012—the PSOE failed to meet the 6 percent for this year—it will have to slash spending by 30 billion euros ($41 billion), twice as much as the PSOE, at a time when the economy is sinking deeper into recession.
Fearful that Spain faces a crisis of revolutionary proportions, new PP Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for Spaniards of all political persuasions to work together.
“It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years,” he said. “We stand before one of those crossroads that will determine the future of our country, not just in the next few years but for decades.”
He combined this with an appeal for the financial markets to realise “that there are elections and that the winners must be given a little room for manoeuvre that should last more than half an hour.”
There were, he added, “no miraculous cures to solve Spain’s economic troubles.” He must act, while seeking to avoid creating “artificial division.”
But the global financial oligarchy interpreted Rajoy’s appeals, even though they come from the major party of the ruling elite—the political heirs of the dictator General Francisco Franco—as a sign of weakness.
The PP’s domestic political calculations do not count for much to the global banks, which have been behind the installation of unelected technocratic governments in Greece and Italy.
The common demand of the “financial markets” is for the new government to grit its teeth and immediately impose greater austerity measures, further slashing living standards, “reforming” employment protection laws and destroying what remains of the welfare state.
To underline their diktat, on Monday interest rates on the country’s 10-year bond rose by 12 basis points to 6.56 percent. These are far above Germany’s rates of 1.88 percent and close to the 7 percent levels that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to request huge bailouts from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund earlier this year. Madrid’s Ibex stock exchange dropped nearly two percent in early trading.
Spain is now considered to be less creditworthy than Italy, where former European Union commissioner Mario Monti has been installed as prime minister. Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, declared contemptuously, “Little is known about him [Rajoy] outside Spain… He reminds me of Zapatero. If it is going to be that way, Spain will continue to lose influence.”
A Madrid-based bond trader told Reuters, “They [the PP] still haven’t done anything so it makes sense there’s no support from the market. It’s good they’ve won a majority, but the global economy remains in a bad way, and this won’t change one day to another… The problem remains. There are no clients. There is no interest. Maybe the ECB [European Central Bank] is buying bonds, but it’s the only one that is.”
Another said, “Rajoy says he can rebuild market confidence in Spain but his arrival isn’t enough and he hasn’t said anything ‘magical’ tonight. The crisis is moving too fast; in this environment bond markets might not extend him credit while we wait.”
The vice chairman of Spain’s largest employers’ organisation, the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations, Arturo Fernández, said the bond rates were not “sustainable” and the country was on the “edge of an abyss.”
Whatever their concerns regarding the political and social stability of Spain, Rajoy’s government will do as it is told. Spanish workers face a brutal offensive that will make the pain inflicted on them to date pale in comparison.
Rajoy’s appeal for national unity is a fraud. Whatever time and leeway the PP is given will be used only in order to mobilise its supporters in big business and the upper layers of the petty-bourgeoisie, including the pro-Falangist elements on the party’s periphery, as an effective force against the working class.
Workers and youth must articulate their own response to the collapse of the PSOE and put an end to the ability of the bourgeoisie to dictate the political and social agenda.
This means building a new and genuinely socialist party.
Such a party must be free from the grip of the trade union bureaucracy that has spent the past years propping up the PSOE and sabotaging the fight for jobs and living standards, and which will perform the same service for the PP.
It must be based upon a programme for the reorganisation of economic life to meet social need, not private profit, capable of uniting workers in Spain with their class brothers and sisters across the continent on the struggle against the capitalist institutions of the European Union and for the United Socialist States of Europe.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A shooting inside a Northside liquor lounge sent one to the hospital late Wednesday night.
An altercation inside the Gateway Liquor and Lounge in the 9900 block of Lem Turner Road escalated into a shooting, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
An unidentified male victim was taken to UF Health Jacksonville with non-life-threatening injuries for treatment of a gunshot wound.
Police do not have a suspect at this time, but believe they are looking for only one individual. The investigation is on-going.
Anyone who has any information about the location or identity of the suspect is asked to contact JSO at 904-630-0500.
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Just a quick question for anyone who has had this happen before.
I am 24wks5days pregnant... I just got over a cold that I had for 2 weeks and my left rib cage is absolutely killing me. I did a LOT of coughing while I was sick and am still coughing a bit now. For the last week I haven't been able to sleep on my left side at all b/c it actually feels like the rib(s) are bruised ... and everytime I cough I get a very intense shooting pain in that same area (also around to my back). I swear it feels like I cracked a rib or something (although this seems unlikely). It's actually sore to the touch as well... there's no visable bruising, but when poked at it feels like it must be bruised internally.
Has anyone ever had this happen to them while pregnant (or while sick and pregnant)? I've heard that your ribs do get spread a little bit once your uterus (and baby) starts pushing upwards... perhaps that's the cause? Thanks guys!
One of my best friends who was NOT pregnant had a very bad cold a few months ago and SEVERELY bruised one of her ribs from excessive coughing so it can happen. With the extra pressure on your ribs from pregnancy I would think this could occur more easily than in those who are not pregnant. Try icing it and definitely be very careful around that area. Does tylenol help the pain at all? If it gets too bad, give your doctor a call for recommendations.
BTW: I have experienced rib pain on and off thoughout this pregnancy (Im 35 weeks) but it typically a pain that comes on periodically and has not prevented me from sleeping on my ribs.
Excessive coughing can lead to bruised or even broken ribs sometimes. Youd know if it was broken because it would hurt like h*ll to even breathe. Try to take it easy for a day or two, and you should feel better.
(I have a bad cough from allergies. it sounds like I'm a smoker... I'm not, and I've had the same feeling before)
I've tried Tylenol (since it's the one med I can take), but it doesn't even touch the pain. At least it doesn't hurt when I breathe (so, yup, probably not broken)... but every time I cough, I have to brace myself and cough very gently... even so, it still ends up feeling like my ribs are getting squeezed or stabbed. I bought a body pillow to sleep with at night (just yesterday) and it seemed to help a little bit, but I still can't lie on my left side.
In all honesty, I went into the pregnancy knowing that I'd be experiencing worse than "normal" back pain b/c I have scoliosis and I've had 2 surgeries for it (spinal fusion when I was 15 yrs-old and then one just 3 years ago to remove all of the fusion rods/screws b/c of infection)... I think the rib pain is just an added bonus b/c of the cold/cough. =) I plan on calling my doc on Monday since I have to call and get my Glucose/Diabetes results then anyway... so I can let them know what's going on with my ribs. (And my ribs are a little contorted to begin with b/c of the scoliosis, so maybe that's why they got bruised/injured so easily)
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The Minister looked at me in an absent manner; his attention seemed to have been wandering. “What was it Miss Chance said?” he asked.
Before I could speak, a friend’s voice at the door interrupted us. The Doctor, returning to me as he had promised, answered the Minister’s question in these words:
“I must have passed the person you mean, sir, as I was coming in here; and I heard her say: ‘You will find the tigress-cub take after its mother.’ If she had known how to put her meaning into good English, Miss Chance — that is the name you mentioned, I think — might have told you that the vices of the parents are inherited by the children. And the one particular parent she had in her mind,” the Doctor continued, gently patting the child’s cheek, “was no doubt the mother of this unfortunate little creature — who may, or may not, live to show you that she comes of a bad stock and inherits a wicked nature.”
I was on the point of protesting against my friend’s interpretation, when the Minister stopped me.
“Let me thank you, sir, for your explanation,” he said to the Doctor. “As soon as my mind is free, I will reflect on what you have said. Forgive me, Mr. Governor,” he went on, “if I leave you, now that I have placed the Prisoner’s confession in your hands. It has been an effort to me to say the little I have said, since I first entered this room. I can think of nothing but that unhappy criminal, and the death that she must die to-morrow.”
“Does she wish you to be present?” I asked.
“She positively forbids it. ‘After what you have done for me,’ she said, ‘the least I can do in return is to prevent your being needlessly distressed.’ She took leave of me; she kissed the little girl for the last time — oh, don’t ask me to tell you about it! I shall break down if I try. Come, my darling!” He kissed the child tenderly, and took her away with him.
“That man is a strange compound of strength and weakness,” the Doctor remarked. “Did you notice his face, just now? Nine men out of ten, suffering as he suffered, would have failed to control themselves. Such resolution as his may conquer the difficulties that are in store for him yet.”
It was a trial of my temper to hear my clever colleague justifying, in this way, the ignorant prediction of an insolent woman.
“There are exceptions to all rules,” I insisted. “And why are the virtues of the parents not just as likely to descend to the children as the vices? There was a fund of good, I can tell you, in that poor baby’s father — though I don’t deny that he was a profligate man. And even the horrible mother — as you heard just now — has virtue enough left in her to feel grateful to the man who has taken care of her child. These are facts; you can’t dispute them.”
The Doctor took out his pipe. “Do you mind my smoking?” he asked. “Tobacco helps me to arrange my ideas.”
I gave him the means of arranging his ideas; that is to say, I gave him the match-box. He blew some preliminary clouds of smoke and then he answered me:
“For twenty years past, my friend, I have been studying the question of hereditary transmission of qualities; and I have found vices and diseases descending more frequently to children than virtue and health. I don’t stop to ask why: there is no end to that sort of curiosity. What I have observed is what I tell you; no more and no less. You will say this is a horribly discouraging result of experience, for it tends to show that children come into the world at a disadvantage on the day of their birth. Of course they do. Children are born deformed; children are born deaf, dumb, or blind; children are born with the seeds in them of deadly diseases. Who can account for the cruelties of creation? Why are we endowed with life — only to end in death? And does it ever strike you, when you are cutting your mutton at dinner, and your cat is catching its mouse, and your spider is suffocating its fly, that we are all, big and little together, born to one certain inheritance — the privilege of eating each other?”
“Very sad,” I admitted. “But it will all be set right in another world.”
“Are you quite sure of that?” the Doctor asked.
“Quite sure, thank God! And it would be better for you if you felt about it as I do.”
“We won’t dispute, my dear Governor. I don’t scoff at comforting hopes; I don’t deny the existence of occasional compensations. But I do see, nevertheless, that Evil has got the upper hand among us, on this curious little planet. Judging by my observation and experience, that ill-fated baby’s chance of inheriting the virtues of her parents is not to be compared with her chances of inheriting their vices; especially if she happens to take after her mother. There the virtue is not conspicuous, and the vice is one enormous fact. When I think of the growth of that poisonous hereditary taint, which may come with time — when I think of passions let loose and temptations lying in ambush — I see the smooth surface of the Minister’s domestic life with dangers lurking under it which make me shake in my shoes. God! what a life I should lead, if I happened to be in his place, some years hence. Suppose I said or did something (in the just exercise of my parental authority) which offended my adopted daughter. What figure would rise from the dead in my memory, when the girl bounced out of the room in a rage? The image of her mother would be the image I should see. I should remember what her mother did when she was provoked; I should lock my bedroom door, in my own house, at night. I should come down to breakfast with suspicions in my cup of tea, if I discovered that my adopted daughter had poured it out. Oh, yes; it’s quite true that I might be doing the girl a cruel injustice all the time; but how am I to be sure of that? I am only sure that her mother was hanged for one of the most merciless murders committed in our time. Pass the match-box. My pipe’s out, and my confession of faith has come to an end.”
It was useless to dispute with a man who possessed his command of language. At the same time, there was a bright side to the poor Minister’s prospects which the Doctor had failed to see. It was barely possible that I might succeed in putting my positive friend in the wrong. I tried the experiment, at any rate.
“You seem to have forgotten,” I reminded him, “that the child will have every advantage that education can offer to her, and will be accustomed from her earliest years to restraining and purifying influences, in a clergyman’s household.”
Now that he was enjoying the fumes of tobacco, the Doctor was as placid and sweet-tempered as a man could be.
“Quite true,” he said.
“Do you doubt the influence of religion?” I asked sternly.
He answered, sweetly: “Not at all”
“Or the influence of kindness?”
“Oh, dear, no!”
“Or the force of example?”
“I wouldn’t deny it for the world.”
I had not expected this extraordinary docility. The Doctor had got the upper hand of me again — a state of things that I might have found it hard to endure, but for a call of duty which put an end to our sitting. One of the female warders appeared with a message from the condemned cell. The Prisoner wished to see the Governor and the Medical Officer.
“Is she ill?” the Doctor inquired.
“Hysterical? or agitated, perhaps?”
“As easy and composed, sir, as a person can be.”
We set forth together for the condemned cell.
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What is the net ionic equation for the reactions of:
a.) magnesium metal and acetic acid
b.) acetic acid and ammonia solution
My answers were :
a.) Mg(s) + 2H+ (aq) -> Mg2+ (aq) + H2 (g)
b.) H+ (aq) + NH3(aq) -> NH4+ (aq)
Apparently these answers are wrong. Can someone please explain to me why?Please respond ASAP!
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When magnesium metal reacts with acetic acid (CH3CO2H, a weak acid), magnesium acetate (a salt) and hydrogen gas is produced. The salt, Mg(CH3CO2)2 is soluble in water because all acetates are soluble. Thus, the complete equation is:
Mg(s) + 2 CH3CO2H(aq) = Mg(CH3CO2)2(aq) + H2 (g)
Since acetic acid is a weak acid it should not be shown dissociated in the total ionic or the net ionic equation. Mg(CH3CO2)2(salt) is a strong electrolytes. The total ionic equation therefore is:
Mg(s) + 2 CH3CO2H(aq) =Mg˄+(aq) + 2CH3CO2 ˄– (aq) + H2 (g)
Following similar arguments, the total ionic equation of the second reaction can also be obtained.
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In an ideal world, Francesca Maximé says she’d like to be a mother and a wife, but life gave her a detour. Like many, the 41-year-old New York City television news anchor has gone through family struggles, relationship problems, as well as self-identity issues. However, instead of wallowing in her pain, she learned to release it through poetry.
Born in Chicago to an Italian-American mother and a Haitian-Dominican father, Maximé grew up outside of Boston and graduated from Harvard with a degree in English literature. After college, she studied poetry at SUNY Binghamton. On October 15, her first book of poems “Rooted: A Verse Memoir,” published by NYQ Books, hits shelves.
“I started writing it in 2004,” says Maximé about her many poems about her abusive father and ex-fiance. “I didn’t know at the time that it would be the book it is today.”
She says by peeling away the layers of herself and delving deep down inside, she realized she never felt she deserved the right person in an adult relationship, because she was abused by her father and always fighting for his love.
“These poems go into the nitty gritty – where we don’t want to go, but it’s alright to talk about it, because that’s the only way we are going to heal,” says Maximé.
Her poem, “Miscarriage,” she says, pretty much encompasses her and might be the closest one to her heart.
“It’s not about me having an actual miscarriage, but it’s talking about all the things that I’ve lost – whether they were my friends, my home, my career, my lover – it’s a metaphor for that. It’s also the children that I never had,” says Maximé. “There’s a lot of loss and sadness but a lot of resilience. Pushing hard in NYC and moving on – that I’m not going to let this define me, or end me, but push me forward into a new realm.”
She says her poems just seemed to write themselves, and they needed to be written.
“If I hadn’t written about these things, I probably wouldn’t have been able to come face to face with my ex-fiance at the end – that’s how I end the book,” says Maximé. “I tell him how I felt about things, and realize it’s ok to not to want to be with him and let it go.”
She also wrote a poem entitled, “What I Wanted,” which talks about wanting to be like Cindy Crawford and Oprah Winfrey and have a talk show to talk about complicated issues we all face.
“I feel like I’m moving towards that,” says Maximé who is also starting a new talk show called “Fresh Outlook” on Ebru TV – in which she will be talking about sensitive topics such as, immigration, college, and the election. “If there’s a way that other people feel less alone through the shared struggle that I’m sharing, that’s really satisfying to me.”
The poet/newswoman describes writing to be as natural as giving birth, and although she still dreams of finding the love of her life and having a child one day, she will always have poetry. Just completing “Rooted” this past summer, Maximé says she ends on an up note.
“This is the story of me…field reports about different parts of my life,” she says. “In the news we revisit stories, and I do that in my poems too as my life evolves. We’re all storytellers and we all have our stories to tell. Mine, in this case, are shared in poetic verse.” | <urn:uuid:7178a1b8-d73f-4ad5-bf3c-6297ea389646> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://nbclatino.com/2012/10/13/tv-anchor-writes-poetry-book-called-rooted-a-verse-memoir/ | 2016-05-05T16:10:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860127870.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161527-00216-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980348 | 857 | [
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Watch this video about three college kids who got creative and started an ice cream business to pay for college. It’ll brighten your day.
I recently listened to an NPR interview with a new author who wrote a book about living in a van for two and a half years to save on the cost of housing while attending Duke University. Ken Ilgunas sounded articulate and smart and I imagine his book Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom would be a fascinating read about extreme frugality, but I found his story terribly depressing. He talked about whipping up meals in his car and the awkwardness around making friends and dating because he feared bringing anyone back to his van. In college, when you’re supposed to be spending time eating, studying and hanging out with friends, Ilgunas lived the lonely life of a recluse.
With tuition going through the roof, is this what college is really coming to? Homelessness? It turns out that Ilgunas’ decision to live in a van was a great social experiment—something cool to write about—as his mom offered to pay for an apartment and he refused. But the media is rife with stories about students who are homeless because they truly have no other option. There has also been a surge of stories about students selling their bodies to pay for books.
I much prefer the more cheerful story of three women who started an ice cream business presented in the upbeat video above. Lindsay, Taylor and Steph of Wilton, Conn., hand-painted an old 1977 ice cream truck and College Creamery was born. From their truck they sell snow cones and ice cream bars and they use their profit from their sales to cover their costs, pay for their college tuition, and they even have money leftover to donate to education foundations and causes.
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Melissa Isaacson does a nice job of rehashing Derrick Rose's rehab in a story posted on ESPN Chicago on Friday, but there's still no word on when he might take the court.
This story says Rose has been cleared to play by doctors. He's been practicing full speed for more than a month, so that's not a revelation.
It also says Rose doesn't feel fully comfortable jumping off his left leg. This information was mentioned during the Bulls-Sixers TNT broadcast on Feb. 28.
It's been clear for a few weeks that Rose's return is a matter of him telling the team he's ready to play. This could happen anytime and I don't think anyone has a handle on the exact date. As coach Tom Thibodeau says, he'll play when he's ready.
The Bulls' ideal plan since last summer has been for Rose to play this season, so he can begin to regain confidence in his reconstructed left knee. So it's not likely they'll say, "It's April and we're not going to beat Miami, anyway, so don't bother coming back." The doctors believe playing this season is an important step for his well-being heading into next season.
Rose is not likely to play tonight against Utah. But as I've been saying for a while, it could literally happen any day. The Bulls will be in California next week while the Big Ten Tournament fills the United Center, with games against the Lakers, Sacramento and Golden State.
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Event listings and online announcement advertisements methods have been overhauled by Student Council, ITS, and the College’s administration this past year. In particular, the rules governing the Reserved Students Digest have changed significantly and ITS installed an online calendar system over the summer.
We believe these changes have not been for the better.
At the beginning of last semester, students were told that the Digest would no longer list more mundane events that had a specific time, and would focus more on true announcements. The Student Council declared that it would be, according to The Phoenix, “more limited and its breadth more condensed.”
Unfortunately, because there are no published guidelines on the exact purpose of the Digest, many students are still confused on where to advertise their event or activity. Just yesterday, for example, an Effective Grantsmanship workshop and a lecture were on the afternoon mailing of the Digest. Both of these items are clearly advertising events that should have fallen within the purview of the Swarthmore calendar—so why did they make it onto the mailing list?
We asked Student Council Secretary Liana Katz, and she told us, “technically those two messages should not have been included in the RSD.” However, “there is a list of approved users who can automatically post to the RSD without having their messages approved by me as were those two messages.”
If there are going to be strict rules on what events can be advertised on the Digest, they should be applied evenly, and not only to student events. These exemptions only serve to confuse the issue.
Even if students want to advertise on the Digest, many are unclear on how exactly to do so. The Student Council website has no procedure on how to submit events to the Digest, and the “Plan an Event” section of the calendar website makes no mention of the Digest. Instead, submit announcements through Digest has become a secret passed down by word of mouth.
“Its tough to make announcements without pulling teeth,” one student told the Gazette. “I ended up calling three different people and firing off five emails trying to get it done!”
This confusion was exacerbated by the recent switch from Majordomo mailing list software to Mailman. For a few days at the beginning of this semester, all emails sent to [email protected] were rejected by the software. There had not been any official word on this change, other than two blog posts on the ITS blog which don’t ever specifically mention any changes to the Digest.
A larger problem is that the central premise of this change—that the Digest would be shorter—has not proven true. On 2/28/2007 for example, there were fourteen events in the Digest. Yesterday afternoon, there were twelve. We took a random week from December 2006 and found that there was a total of 84 events in fourteen Digests. During the past seven days, there were 89 events advertised in the same number of Digests.
If the changes haven’t de-cluttered the Digest and are leaving a large portion of the student body confused, why keep them?
The events calendar was implemented over the past summer. It isn’t clear exactly where it came from.
Throughout the Spring 2007 semester ITS held a series of discussions on adopting some kind of unified calendar and email system, and discussed Google Apps in particular. Students loved the idea of a calendar, and for good reason. A centralized location to find and sign up for events is a great idea that every college campus needs.
Active Data Calendar, the software currently in use, was never mentioned to the wider student body. And, unfortunately, the current calendar isn’t up to the job.
One online design firm suggests five rules of web design. The two most important are that the site should be easy to read and easy to navigate. The current site isn’t. The front page of the calendar is six printed pages long, filled with duplicate events which are listed again and again for each day of the week, making it difficult to skim the calendar.
The main page of the calendar has five drop down menus and more than twenty buttons. There is no intuitive and clean way to get a picture of a day’s events.
There is an accepted interface for calendar software. Many students and staff are comfortable with iCal, Outlook, and Google Calendar which all use a similar design to quickly and legibly impart scheduling information. The Events Calendar tosses those conventions out the window, and it doesn’t offer something better.
The calendar has an unquestionably impressive list of features. For most users, however, these features don’t matter if the calendar isn’t easy to quickly read.
Not only is the calendar hard to read, but the events submission process is intimidatingly complex: there are twenty-five information fields. Even with this incredibly detailed information requested for each event, there isn’t a simple way to exclude certain weeks for ongoing group meetings. According to the calendar, most weekly events continue through Spring Break.
Additional barriers for information about events are posed by requiring students to reserve space, a process that requires yet another username and password and navigation through another complex and confusing site.
Last year, advertising an upcoming meeting required a single email. Now it requires filling out an enormous form, making a user account, navigating through two complex websites, and then responding to a bevy of confirmation emails. Instead of using the internet to facilitate inter-college communication, we have regressed.
Unfortunately, there is no single easy solution. Facebook and fliers help to form an ad hoc advertising network, but the are insufficient alone. The Digest is cluttered and the rule changes are unsuccessful. We need a calendar, but the Active Data Calendar fails at the job.
We believe that the College needs to move forward on a unified system like Google Apps. We need to have a serious campus-wide discussion about messaging, calendar, and email systems to create a successful communication network.
In the meantime, we need to have well-publicized and clearly-written rules about what can be posted to the Digest, and they need to be enforced across the board.
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Two approaches of calculating GDP:
What is spent on a product is the income to those who helped to produce and sell it. GDP can be measured either from the expenditure approach or the income approach.
1. Expenditure approach
The economy is divided into four sectors: household, business, government, and foreign sector.
C: Consumptionis the expenditures of the household sector. It includes spending on 1) durable goods which last for more than one year, 2) non-durable goods, and 3) services.
I: Investmentis the expenditure of the business sector, including 1) purchases of new capital goods which are equipment or tools that aids in the production process, 2) changes in business inventories, 3) purchases of new residential housing.
G: Government Purchasesis the expenditure of the public sector, such as education and defense expenses. Transfer payments are not included. If Government’s expenditure is greater than taxes collected from business and household sector, government is having a deficit; if government’s expenditure is smaller than the taxes collected, government is having a surplus; if the two amounts are equal, government’s budget is balanced. When there is a budget deficit, government needs to borrow debt from the business, household or the foreign sectors. Government’s debt is usually higher in recession than in an expansion phrase of the business cycle because government needs funding to finance their deficit.
Xn: Net Exportsis the differences between exports (goods and services sold to the foreign markets) and imports (goods and services produced and imported from abroad). Xn = X – M (X=exports, M=imports)
Computing GDP: GDP = C + I + G + Xn
2. Income approach
All final goods and services are produced using factors of production. By summing up the factor payments, we can find the value of GDP. Some adjustments are required to balance the account.
Compensation of employeesincludes the wages, salaries, fringe benefits, Social Security contributions, and health and pension plans.
Rentis the income of the property owners.
Interestis the income of the money capital suppliers.
Proprietor’s Incomeis the income of incorporated business, sole proprietorships, and partnerships.
Corporate Profitsis the income of the corporations’ stockholders whether paid to stockholders or reinvested.
Sum of the above items is the National Income (NI).
Indirect business Taxes(general sales taxes, business property taxes, license fees etc.) should be added to NI. They are not considered to be payments to a factor of production, but they are part of total expenditures.
Depreciationis another cost, which should be added.
Net foreign factor income(income earned by the rest of the world – income earned from the rest of the world) should be added to adjust GNP to GDP.
Computing GDP: GDP = Compensation of employees + Rent + Interest + Proprietor’s Income + Corporate Profits + Indirect business taxes + Depreciation + Net foreign factor income
Some statistical discrepancy should be considered to balance expenditure and income approach.
Nominal Vs Real GDP
Nominal GDP = Sum of (Price X Quantity) for every item produced in the economy, using the current year’s price. When comparing nominal GDP figures between different years, you cannot determine whether the increase is due to the increase in price level or increase in output. Real GDP is adjusted for price level, that is, GDP measured at the same price level.
Real GDP = (Nominal GDP / price index) X 100
If real GDP increases from one year to the next, then economic growth has occurred.
Growth rate =[(Real GDP of last year – Real GDP of earlier year) / Real GDP of earlier year] X 100 %
The rise and fall of GDP over time is referred to as the business cycle. Phases of the business cycles are peak, recession, trough, recovery, and expansion (when economy has expanded beyond the initial peak). The U.S. economy’s longest growth period is from 1991 to 2001. From the second quarter of 2001, the U.S. economy has entered a recession. According to the statistics in the second quarter of 2002, U.S. is experiencing a growth rate of 1.1% annually.
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It was all Mahar, all night.
Isaiah Jones returned two kicks for touchdowns to spark host Mahar (4-0) to the a 36-0 non-league win over Great Barrington.
Jones returned a punt 55 yards for a second-quarter touchdown.
Mahar led 29-0 at halftime, before Jones returned the second kickoff 84 yards to close out the scoring.
Brian Beauchemin (seven carries, 139 yards) scored on runs of 37 and 85 yards to help Mahar build a 15-0 edge after one quarter.
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Everything from buying a car, getting a loan, or obtaining
insurance is controlled by our credit score. Each of the
three major credit bureaus uses a scoring method for rating
Equifax calls it a
Union the EMPIRICA Score and Experian the FAIR ISAAC, or
These scores range from a low
of 300 to a high of 850. Our average client has a score from
the mid-500 to the mid-600 level. Less than half a percent
of the population has a score above 800. The following is a
list of what the credit bureaus base a client's score on:
35% of a credit score is
based on bill paying habits. A timely payment
history will maintain a high score, but any late
payments will subtract points. A string of 30-day
late payments is worse than one 60-day late.
- 30% of
the score is derived from the amount owed in
comparison to the available credit limit. Keep
balances at or below 30% of the available credit
limit for maximum points.
- 15% of
your score is based on length of credit history.
Keeping an old card even at a higher rate could help
the score. Points are given to those who use credit
cards actively and responsibly.
- 10% is
based on the mixture of types of credit. The most
points are gained from the combination of a
mortgage, car or school loan (installment) and
credit card (revolving) accounts is good.
- 10% is
founded from the pursuit for new credit. Looking
for a mortgage loan will not cost you, but applying
for new credit cards every month will.
A majority of lenders use
Credit Bureau scores as the method to estimate an applicant's credit
risk. People with high Credit Bureau scores are likely to repay
loans and credit cards more consistently than those with low
Credit Bureau scores. Although Credit Bureau scores are remarkably
predictive, no one can predict with certainty whether or not
an applicant will repay a credit account.
Accurate negative information
can generally be reported for 7 years, but there
can be reported for 10 years.
Information reported as part of an application for a
job with a salary of more than $75,000 has no time
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more than $150,000 worth of credit or life insurance
has no time limitation.
Information concerning a lawsuit or a judgment can
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My Life in 8 Words
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
A. I love to garden. On a nice day (in England that means not raining) I can be found up to my elbows in mud, both at home and on my allotment. I have a huge greenhouse on the allotment, and each year I try to grow melons. Even with our pitiful summer this year I did harvest three of the tastiest melons ever and a dozen enormous cucumbers. The watermelons didn’t make it past the size of an orange, but there’s always next year.
Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
A. My very long gingery-blonde hair.
Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
A. Cake. But it would have to be a generic category. I’m not sure I could eat chocolate fudge cake forever. I’d need some carrot cake and lemon meringues thrown in for a bit of variety.
Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
A. As a child I insisted I was half cat, and dreamed about my cat morphing into a human. I’m happy being a person now, but if I could come back again after this life I would want to be a cat in a nice home. I’d be one of those laid back ginger tabby cats with a great big purr. | <urn:uuid:0ff3c5ee-a611-4c20-8ef2-d137af190f67> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Lisa-Hinsley/410627954 | 2016-04-30T03:22:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111592.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00202-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945194 | 338 | [
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Victoria Cross - Second World War, 1939-1945
Aubrey Cosens was born in Latchford, Ontario on 21 May 1921. During the Second World War he enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, but in mid-1944 transferred to the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada.
Sergeant Cosens was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery and determined leadership in action at Mooshof in Germany on 25 and 26 February 1945. With two tanks in support, Cosens’s platoon twice attacked German strongpoints located in three farm buildings, and was beaten back on both occasions. The platoon was then subjected to a fierce counterattack, during which the platoon commander was killed. Sergeant Cosens assumed command of the platoon, now reduced to himself and four men. As the four other men provided covering fire, he ran across open ground to the remaining serviceable tank and directed its fire on the farm buildings. Having ordered the tank to ram the first building, Cosens entered it alone, killing several of the occupants and making prisoners of the rest. He then continued alone into the second and third buildings, killing or capturing what remained of the enemy. Just after the successful reduction of the strongpoints, Sergeant Cosens was shot through the head by an enemy sniper and killed.
“In Holland, on the night of 25th/26th February, 1945, the 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, launched an attack on the hamlet of Mooshof, to capture ground which was considered essential for the successful development of future operations.
Sergeant Cosens platoon, with two tanks in support, attacked enemy strongpoints in three farm buildings, but were twice beaten back by fanatical enemy resistance and then fiercely counter-attacked, during which time the platoon suffered heavy casualties and the platoon commander was killed.
Sergeant Cosens at once assumed command of the only other four survivors of his platoon, whom he placed in a position to give him covering fire, while he himself ran across open ground under heavy mortar and shell fire to the one remaining tank, where, regardless of danger, he took up an exposed place in front of the turret and directed its fire.
After a further enemy counter-attack had been repulsed, Sergeant Cosens ordered the tank to attack the farm buildings, while the four survivors of his platoon followed in close support. After the tank had rammed the first building he entered it alone, killing several of the defenders and taking the rest prisoner.
Single-handed he then entered the second and third buildings and personally killed or captured all the occupants, although under intense machine gun and small arms fire.
Just after the successful reduction of these important enemy strongpoints, Sergeant Cosens was shot through the head by an enemy sniper and died almost instantly.
The outstanding gallantry, initiative and determined leadership of this brave N.C.O., who himself killed at least twenty of the enemy and took an equal number of prisoners, resulted in the capture of a position which was vital to the success of the future operations of the Brigade.”
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NEWS & EVENTS
Dordt College News
Ag major goes into the field
May 14, 2010
A friend asked Neal Vellema last year what he was passionate about.
When the ag-missions major told him he didn’t know, he said, “You should go do something with Dea Lieu.”
Lieu is a Dordt graduate in the Ivory Coast.
“I thought he was crazy, but the comment stayed in the back of my mind,” Vellema says. Gradually he came to the conclusion that he should go, in part to explore whether agricultural missions was really what he wanted to do. He raised some of the money he needed through family and his church and flew to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on June 4.
“I didn’t take advantage of a Partners Worldwide orientation offer, thinking it would save me a trip to Grand Rapids (Michigan) and make it more of an adventure,” he says. An adventure it was.
Dea Lieu met Vellema in the capital city of Abidjan, nearly 400 miles from his home. The trip back took a long day because of the condition of the roads. Lieu lives in an area still controlled by rebels from the civil war. Although the government officially has taken back control, the rebels still “police” the area. Checkpoints along the roads are manned by rebels carrying semi-automatic machine guns.
“I was told they weren’t much of an actual threat, but they were definitely intimidating. Each time we reached a checkpoint with Dea’s pickup, we had to stop and talk to them, and each time, my heart was racing,” says Vellema.
Vellema lived with Lieu’s family. But Dea was the only person who spoke English.
“His kids were really fun, and we enjoyed playing soccer and card games, but most of our communication took a lot of effort,” Vellema says. They did use Google at times to type in sentences they wanted to say to each other and then read the translation.
The Lieu family lives in the rain forest. “The ‘bush’ is a monster that takes over the roads and everything in its path if it isn’t continually cut back,” Vellema says. To control its growth, the traditional way of doing agriculture is “slash and burn,” which sends the ground’s nutrients up in smoke and leaves the land vulnerable to being washed away.
Lieu is trying to show his people a different way to farm, but change does not come easily. Vellema hoped to help restore a demonstration farm that Lieu had helped set up before he was forced to flee the country during the civil war. The farm, whose purpose was to show more sustainable farming practices, had been destroyed in the war.
But the farm needed more than hard work. It needed money to rebuild—money that no one had. So Vellema spent most of his time working with Lieu on his own farm growing rice, peanuts, and chickens to support his family of seven.
For a North American dairy farm boy used to getting up early to get the work done every morning, the biggest challenge was cultural. Vellema wanted to accomplish as much as he could while he was there.
“Things take a long time to get done in Africa,” he says. “Some days people sleep longer, and then food needs to be made, and then someone may stop by and you need to spend time with them.…” he recalls with a smile. Lieu would talk with him about these differences, knowing from his four years in North America how they contrasted.
“He told me that for people to see I had come as a Christian to offer help was a witness in itself; what I did physically was not the only or even most important part of my stay,” Vellema says, although he still wanted to see results from his visit.
He’s pretty North American, he realizes, even though he thinks he may walk a little slower than he used to, and he tries not to worry as much about getting things done. He also realized how much he missed and loved farming in the Midwest.
Vellema will graduate in May, and although his plans aren’t firm, he wants to have his own farm, although not a dairy like he grew up on.
“In dairy farming you never get a day off,” he says, but not because he isn’t willing to work. “I’d like to be at the forefront of a move back to smaller, more diverse farms that raise a variety of animals and crops in a way that is very conscious of keeping the land healthy.”
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AnnaSophia Robb is best known for her current role as the young Carry Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries. That said, it’s no surprise that she loves fashion and has a great sense of personal style. We spotted her at the H&M “Denim Days” launch in New York, which is associated with Seventeen magazine. She’s actually collaborating on the line with H&M, which makes her even cooler in my book!
While posing for cameras, she wore a pair of metallic pointy-toe pumps with cuffed jeans, a white tank, and a shimmery metallic jacket. Her glowing skin and smile finished the look, along with a cool bag from Gap. I also love that she goes for accessible pieces that most of us can afford!
Check out AnnaSophia’s recent red carpet look below, and tell us what you think of her metallic heels.
AnnaSophia Robb at the H&M “Denim Days” Launch in association with Seventeen magazine in New York City, New York, March 2, 2013
Stuart Weitzman Naughty in Rose Gold, $335
Manolo Blahnik Point-Toe Metallic Patent Pumps in Copper, $595
Manolo Blahnik Point-Toe Metallic Patent Pumps in Nude, $595
Manolo Blahnik Point-Toe Metallic Patent Pumps in Silver, $595
Aren’t these glam pumps so fun yet sophisticated and seemingly timeless? Which pair is your favorite?
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After failing to bring in his promised "no strike deal" with the unions, Boris Johnson now wants to ban certain strikes instead.
Under plans discussed with Philip Hammond:
"between 30 and 40 per cent of a union's entire membership would be required to support industrial action, as well as a majority of those actually voting, to make a strike legal."
They argue that strike ballots with low "turnouts" have no legitimacy and that thresholds would ensure that all strikes have a democratic mandate.
But why stop there? Why not apply the principle elsewhere?
Take Boris's consultation on removing the Western Extension which received the impressive backing of around 0.3% of Londoners.
Or his comrade David Davis, who withdrew his labour at public cost and received the backing of just 24% of his electorate.
Or Boris himself who was elected as Mayor with the first preferences of just 19% of his electorate.
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Well, that certainly is eye-catching. Song Seung-heon’s erotic (and 19+ rated) melo film Obsessed (Korean title Human Addiction) is preparing for its release later this spring, and has released a trailer and stills as it begins its promo push.
Coming from the director of Bang-ja Chronicle and Untold Scandal, it’s no surprise to see this movie taking the same provocative melo angle as Song Seung-heon plays an elite soldier deployed to Vietnam in 1969, who falls in love with the character played by rookie actress Im Ji-yeon. The problem? He’s married to Jo Yeo-jung (who starred in the Bang-ja Chronicle, which did a lot to shooting her to fame), a woman who harbors ambitions of making her husband into a general.
Adding to complications, his lover is married as well—and to a subordinate who has sworn loyalty to him (played by Ohn Joo-wan). Hence the intense staring through windows in the preview, I presume. In the trailer, the two lovers’ connection is described as “two people who never should have met.” At one point, he laments, “If I don’t see you, I can’t breathe.” She wonders, “Why does my heart race so?” Illicit affair, duh.
I’m not entirely sold on the tone, which seems like it’s in danger of going rather over-serious and grandiose. On the other hand, played with the right intensity, the crossed-lovers narrative could twist hearts and wring tears. Obsessed releases in May.
- Lee Beom-soo and Song Seung-heon courted for drama reunion
- Song Seung-heon and Jo Yeo-jung headline erotic melodrama
- Song Seung-heon considers erotic melodrama
- When A Man Loves: Episode 1
- Song Seung-heon in When a Man has Better Luck on the East of Destiny
- Song Seung-heon made of wax
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In other writing news, I’m going to ease up on myself with the queries for Ernest. It’s time for a little break. And I’m giving myself a break on the Yet It Will Come rewrite. I’m feeling the need for some short fiction love. Have a couple of story ideas brewing. It’ll do the creativity some good to switch gears again. Have to do that to keep it fresh.
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By Elizabeth Hur
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Caught on tape: There was chaos as a suspected shoplifter uses his car to make his getaway.
Police say along the way, he injured a store manager and an innocent bystander waiting for a bus.
In fact, surveillance video from the Chestnut Deli shows a silver car jumping the curb at 47th and Chestnut Streets in West Philadelphia. The video goes onto show the car speeding away with onlookers in shock and running out of stores to check on a woman.
“My life just flashed. He was just inches away. All I saw was the grate of the car.”
The 62-year-old woman was knocked to the ground. Still in shock, she asked to remain anonymous.
“I didn’t know where to run, and all I did was–all I can say is God threw me back and I went to the ground.”
Lt. John Walker explained what happened next: “Fortunately, we had some detectives in the area doing undercover work. They saw the male, and they were able to stop him. He got out and fled on foot, but after a three block foot pursuit, he was apprehended.”
32-year-old Miltiadis Saritsoglou is now under arrest.
It all began shortly after 10 a.m. on Friday. Police say the suspect tried to get away with about $300 worth of batteries from a Rite Aid pharmacy.
“The manager in the store sees it. He just reacts and runs and runs after the male, who jumps in a car. The manager tries to stand in front of his car, leans on the hood of the car. As the manager leans on the hood, the male takes off at a high rate of speed, forcing the manager to tumble off the car,” Walker said.
Police say the 32-year-old then lost control of the car and hit the 62-year-old victim–and a pole–trying to get away.
Court records show that Saritsoglou has been in and out of jail since 1998. He’s been arrested on 20 separate occasions for theft-related offenses. This time around, police say they’ll make sure he pays for his crime.
“Pretty stupid act, and now he’s going to face some serious consequences for $300 in batteries,” Walker explained.
The 62-year-old victim added, “Just for batteries? You’re going to kill somebody with a car?”
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I finally released three of my Inspired by Faith and Science books on Amazon Kindle, dreaming they'd automatically link the the Createspace versions in the Amazon listings and all would be well. I can now report all is indeed well, thanks to the excellent customer service at Amazon's Author Central. The books didn't link but I clicked on those little blue "contact us" words as I viewed one in Author Central. I chose "other" as my question type, selected "I want to link different editions of my book" from the dropdown, gave them the ASIN of the kindle version and the ISBN of the paperback, and... within just a few hours the link was made!
Thank you Amazon Author Central!
If you want to see how it turned out, I now have a sensible link to my author central page too--likewise created in just a few hours! Just click on
and you'll see my twitter feed, my blog, my bio and my books. If you wait a few days you may even see more books as I continue celebrating the upcoming release of Divide by Zero by re-releasing What IFS books on Createspace and Kindle. | <urn:uuid:f9797e8c-cb20-4669-bd61-ad67e658b9b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://sheiladeeth.blogspot.com/2012/08/with-thanks-to-amazon.html | 2016-05-06T07:22:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964127 | 239 | [
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Webber made a bad start on Sunday, losing key places, until he clashed with Pastor Maldonado.
But as he pushed to recover from that spin, his second clash was with Ferrari's Felipe Massa, before he crashed heavily as Sergio Perez, Romain Grosjean and Paul di Resta fought for position.
"You can't have more errors than that in one race," Red Bull's driver manager Marko is quoted by Bild newspaper.
"That was not a good day for him.
"The start was no good, and the accidents were not good.
"It's too bad, because it affects us in the constructors' championship."
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Free gracilis muscle excursion in children has lower failure rates than in adults
WEDNESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Dynamic facial reanimation using free gracilis transfer in children has an acceptable success rate, significantly improves smile, and may improve quality of life (QOL) with respect to facial function, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
Tessa A. Hadlock, M.D., from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, and colleagues measured the gracilis muscle excursion and QOL changes in 17 pediatric patients undergoing 19 pediatric free gracilis transplantation operations. They were compared with excursion measured similarly in 17 adults undergoing 19 free gracilis operations. The children's QOL outcomes (functional outcomes) were evaluated using Facial Clinimetric Evaluation instrumentation.
The investigators found that pediatric free gracilis recipients had an average gracilis excursion of 8.8 mm, which matched that of adults, but with fewer complete failures of less than 2-mm excursion (11 percent in children and 21 percent in adults). Statistically significant improvements following dynamic smile reanimation were noted on QOL measures.
"Free gracilis transfer for smile reanimation in children carries an acceptable failure rate, significantly improves smiling, and seems to improve QOL with respect to facial function," the authors write. "Because it carries a lower failure rate than a similar cohort of adult patients, there is no need to wait until patients reach adulthood to offer dynamic reanimation." | <urn:uuid:24a66030-0a42-4c32-8f93-2ae9428868fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.nursingcenter.com/healthdayarticle?Article_id=653032 | 2016-05-06T07:31:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932226 | 336 | [
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2012 Olympic Games Limited Edition Box Set
Commemorative Art Prints Limited Edition Print, 30cm x 40cm View all Limited Editions…
2012 sees the Olympic and Paralympic Games coming to London with a burst of pride and anticipation. This year also sees the centenary celebrations of the Olympic Games posters which have been commissioned over the years by the hosting cities and have included artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Whether you are looking for a superb memento of the 2012 London Olympics or a future investment for your great grandchildren, this magnificent ‘Limited Edition Art Print Box Set’ will make a podium worthy addition to your family.
The limited edition box set features 12 unique art prints on 250gsm archive paper which each measure 30x40cm, as well as a numbered certificate and a booklet entitled “Behind the Art” which takes a look at the inspiration used by each of the artists. This stunning collection of prints comes in a hinged, black and gold presentation box and each box is numbered in gold under the official Olympic and Paralympic logos.
With only 2,012 pieces made, this commemorative box set is a must have for collectors and Olympic enthusiasts alike.
Olympic Artists: Rachel Whiteread, Chris Ofili, Howard Hodgkin, Anthea Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Martin Creed.
Paralympic Artists: Tracey Emin, Michael Craig-Martin, Sarah Morris, Fiona Banner, Bob and Roberta Smith, Cary Hume. | <urn:uuid:34c57002-7b07-4932-b3b8-1a492c42e8e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.popartuk.com/sport/2012-olympic-games-limited-edition-box-set-ogbpp19011-limited-edition-print.asp | 2016-05-06T07:22:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886974 | 310 | [
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We're looking for an eBay expert to take a look at our account to figure out what exactly is happening to us and come up with a strategy for us to implement and expand to where we need to be on the platform. We're an ecommerce company and we used to be selling on eBay only when we first started, and eBay used to be our strongest platform. We've started going into Amazon & our website and we basically let eBay alone on the side. Our Amazon account is responsible for 80% of our revenue, and eBay has maybe 3-5%. These platforms are offering the same marketing materials, products, keywords, pricing, but somehow it's just not there. We used to have all of our products filling the entire first page, and now they're no where to be found. We do have a good account, over 10K feedbacks and top rated seller, but the ratio of our revenue on eBay compared to Amazon just don't make any sense. Please contact us if you're on top of the most current eBay marketing & SEO strategy. Thanks! | <urn:uuid:ac24f3da-9690-48da-bfe5-68b26a02de7d> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/ebay-motors/ | 2016-05-06T08:01:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956633 | 215 | [
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Births for that period of time are not always recorded, so she may have been born in/near Fertile, but the birth not registered.
Was Arvilla a first or middle name?
I can't find Arvilla, but can find at least one, maybe two females of the correct age with the middle initial A living in Polk County. There are some Rindahls also living in the adjoining Red Lake County.
What were her parents' names? There is more than one Rindahl family. Do you know the names of any of her siblings?
Fertile [not Fetile] is located in Garfield Township, Polk County, Minnesota.
Searching for surnames only, I couldn't find any Bleeck, Bleek, Bleak, spellings (or parts thereof) for any male getting married in Minnesota with that name. No Arvilla Rindahl/Rindal.
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|Fudge brownie mix||1 Pound (Betty Crocker)|
|Water||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)|
|Vegetable oil||1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)|
|Cream cheese||8 Ounce, softened|
|Powdered sugar||1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)|
|Raspberry preserves||1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)|
|Baking chocolate||1 Ounce (Unsweetened)|
1. Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease bottom only of rectangular pan, 13x9x2 inches. Stir brownie mix, water, oil and eggs in medium bowl until well blended. Spread in pan.
2. Bake 28 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out clean or almost clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack, about 1 hour.
3. Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar and preserves in small bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Spread over brownies. Refrigerate 15 minutes.
4. Place chocolate and butter in small microwavable bowl. Microwave uncovered on Medium (50%) about 1 minute or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Drizzle over brownies. Refrigerate about 1 hour or until chocolate is firm. For 18 brownies, cut 6 rows by 3 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.
Calories 389 Calories from Fat 186
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 21 g32.4%
Saturated Fat 7.1 g35.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 58.7 mg19.6%
Sodium 245.8 mg10.2%
Total Carbohydrates 48 g15.9%
Dietary Fiber 1.5 g6%
Sugars 35 g
Protein 4 g8.3%
Vitamin A 6.2% Vitamin C
Calcium 3.2% Iron 11.5%
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This May, come out for AIGA Raleigh’s debut Fresh Cut Film: Design and Thinking
The design community is growing. There are some amazing stories to share, and we’re excited to kick off exclusive, one-night only screenings of great new design films. AIGA Raleigh’s Fresh Cut Film series is a chance to get together, catch up with colleagues and relax with a movie.
Join us casual evening at the Rialto Theater for a first view of the documentary Design and Thinking. Grab a popcorn (and a drink from the bar) and get ready for a great night. David Burney of New Kind will give a brief introduction to the idea of design thinking, followed by the film festival favorite.
About the Film
How do we fully engage organizations to think about the changing landscape of business, culture and society? Inspired by design thinking, this documentary grabs businessmen, designers, social change-makers and individuals to portrait what they have in common when facing this ambiguous 21st century. What is design thinking? How is it applied in business models? How are people changing the world with their own creative minds? It is a call to the conventional minds to change and collaborate.
Watch the trailer.
Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM
1620 Glenwood Ave.
Address Line 2
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Some end-of-the-year tidbits for air travelers:
On Friday, December 28, 2013, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued some new rules designed to “speed the deployment of Internet services onboard aircraft.”
In its release, the FAA explained that, since 2001, it has been authorizing companies to offer in-flight broadband service on an ad hoc basis. It will now allow airlines to “test systems that meet FCC standards, establish that they do not interfere with aircraft systems, and get FAA approval…up to 50 percent faster, enhancing competition in an important sector of the mobile telecommunications market in the United States and promoting the widespread availability of Internet access to aircraft passengers.”
And, as the TSA winds up the year, the ever-shocking and entertaining TSA Blog reports in its Week in Review that this week “only” sixteen guns (nine of them loaded) were discovered at airport checkpoints. That’s on the low side for the weekly gun finds, but clueless travelers were also nabbed this week for trying to take hand grenades, razors and other weaponry through the checkpoints. And, as the folks at Skift reported earlier this week, this year TSA discovered more than 1,500 guns at airport checkpoints, a new record for the agency.
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