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Food - Adventurous American cuisine featuring standout steaks dribbled with Milk Stout reduction and puffy lamb burgers topped with feta
Service- Swift and observant
Ambiance-Sparse alehouse setting, pleasant hinged deck off lounge.
Doc Holliday's Steakhouse & Saloon in Swatara Twp. left a bad taste in my memory and in my review. Thankfully, this sketchy spot with questionable, country ambiance morphed into Lancaster Brewing Company in 2008.
I've allowed a good five years to pass before going back to this restaurant next to the Howard Johnson hotel off of the I-283/83 interchange on Eisenhower Boulevard.
"There were too many chains everywhere doing steaks. Meat prices were out of control. We decided to do something different with this space," said Nick Keares, part of The Keares Restaurant Group which owns Lancaster Brewing Company and multiple restaurants.
"We've put together a menu that is more adventurous and more upscale," he added.
The result is an impressive and appealing switch to creative American cooking with a saloon-inspired setting.
Brick and brewpub accents tuck in clean, open rooms with wooden furnishings. The dining rooms are set at a more comfortable temperature than the long, frigid, dark-lit bar area.
We chose to sit outdoors on the new tree-shaded deck built last year. The deck faces Howard Johnson's but no one seemed to care or notice. The focus instead was on microbrew samplers of eleven Lancaster Brewing Company microbrews for $12.
There was a handy mat beneath the glasses that labeled each microbrew. We started out tasting lighter, summer-inspired brews such as a refreshing, easy to drink, Gold Star Pilsner and an overly sweet, strawberry jam tasting, Strawberry Wheat.
My favorite on the tasting pad was deep-honey colored Country Cream Ale honed in flavor by a crisp, hint of hop finish. I also enjoyed Hop Hog IPA. It halted taste buds in their tracks with a bold, dry malt intense flair. A couple of sips, and we were done with the roasted tickle of coffee and chocolate tasting Milk Stout and Amish Four Grain with its unique, grain-kissed edge.
Our waiter (who was excellent by the way) had just set down an assortment of oversized and intriguing appetizers. Sea salted and sesame oil sprinkled edamane, $5, was served warm which made the soybeans easier to slide out from their casings.
House made chunks of mozzarella garnered our attention poking up from tomato bruschetta, $7.50, and toppling off an extensive, toasted boat of Italian style bread. I noticed we weren't the only ones tackling this very tasty starter.
Another rather different appetizer was Asian duck tacos, $10. Slow simmered meat pulled from duck legs filled lower portions of three crisply fried won ton shells.
Crunchy, julienned daikon slaw and pungent wasabi aioli contrasted well together with the richness of the duck meat and slight heat from siracha chiles. We couldn't resist delving into one more flavorful starter.
The blue corn crusted crab cake, $11.50, flaked off in granular cornmeal-treaded crab lumps spooned with black bean salsa and dolloped by smooth, rich garlic aioli.
Entrees matched appetizers in appetite appeal. Signature grilled center cut ribeye, $26, had a silky textured napped by a Milk Stout reduction that penetrated the tender cut of Choice beef. Creamy horseradish swirled into homey, mashed potatoes and provided the only condiment necessary to complement the mouth-watering steak.
Medium rare and perfectly cooked, bland sesame seared yellow fin tuna slices, $25, just didn't have a lot of flavor.
I scraped julienned peppers splashed with sesame oil and ginger over the tuna chunks to perk up the fish. A sticky rice cake had a melon ball scoop of wasabi on top that for unsuspecting diners could potentially bring tears to the eyes or beer sampler to the mouth as in this case. Minus the overdose of this Japanese style horseradish and wafers of pickled ginger, the sticky rice cake was unusual and palate pleasing.
According to Keares, the lamb burger, $12 crowned by a thick layer of feta cheese and served with house cut fries (or sweet potato fries for an extra $1.50) has been very popular. The patted lamb patty hung over the bun like an overstuffed chair cushion. It was served rare and juicy just how I had ordered it. Juicy, summer-fresh tomato slice, red onion, lettuce and a cool refreshing cucumber-enhanced tzatziki sauce topped off this perfect, alternative burger.
Our server was very prompt with each course. Desserts, $7, came out before we even began digesting the appetizers or for that matter the beer. (I'm not complaining-there is nothing worse than a meal that moves along right up until the end and then there is a long wait to pay the bill.)
Priced high, homemade assorted cheesecakes and signature bread pudding were house specialties. Presented as a large muffin, peanut butter chocolate bread pudding had a shortcake-like browned muffin top and custard soaked and baked bread slices. Hershey's chocolate syrup was drizzled over the top.
Plain New York style cheesecake was a skinny little slice but had butter-smooth texture and fresh baked, vanilla-scented flavor.
And to think I waited five years before going back to this obscure underpass locale. Lancaster Brewing Company is certainly an improvement over the former Doc Holliday's Steakhouse & Saloon.
Lancaster Brewing Company
Just off I-283/83 interchange next to Howard Johnson
469 Eisenhower Blvd.
Kitchen hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m, Friday-Saturday, noon- 9 p.m., Sundays
Menu: American pub fare specializing in steaks and seafood especially crab cakes, extensive sandwich menu and main course salads, brick oven pizzas
Entree prices: $15-$26
Brew growlers available, 64-ounce, screw top, $7.99, German-style snap top with metal handle, 64.6-ounce, $25.
Thin crust gourmet pizza, $9-$12
Notes: Major credit cards, Reservations accepted, full bar, however, only Lancaster Brewing Company micro brews are sold on tap or by the bottle, gluten free meals available upon request, handicapped accessible, children's menu
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http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/08/lancaster_brewing_company.html
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From ABC News, with Diane Sawyer, comes the story:
The answer from the Colorado State Patrol stunned him. Henson never returned the DVD he'd checked out of the Littleton library, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.[...]
"I was just shocked," he said. "I was like 'What? I've got a what now?'"
After spending eight hours in a county jail, during which time he was fingerprinted, photographed and booked, Henson's father bailed him out. He had tried calling his mother for help, but she didn't seem to believe him, telling Henson there was no "book police."
City spokeswoman Kelli Narde said Littleton lost $7,800 in lost library materials in 2009, including Henson's DVD. They issued 81 summonses for failure to return library materials, she said. "And 80 of them were resolved without a problem."[...]
The warrant Henson was brought in on in January was actually for failure to appear. The town claimed it sent numerous bills, notices, a summons and a notice of a court date, but they apparently were all sent to a previous address and Henson saw none of them.
"I understand the city was following its procedure ... but when somebody's not informed of a court date and then they're getting arrested on the side of the road, getting embarrassed, having fear and all that, it just doesn't sit well with me," Henson said.
Narde said they don't buy that Henson never knew they were looking for the DVD, noting that they left two cell phone messages and that their notices didn't get returned by the postal service meaning someone had to have picked them up at his old address.
Narde said the city council met Tuesday and agreed to research a possible revision to the policy on issuing arrest warrants in similar cases.So what do you think? Is this as crazy as it first sounds or is there a lesson to be taught to those egomaniacs who always seem to believe that laws don't really apply to people like them. After all, our Congressmen certainly behave this way, so why can't the rest of us? Personally, I hope the guy learned a lesson and that the publicity got through a few other thick skulls along the way. But, hey, that's just me.
"In the meantime the court and the police department have been directed not to issue any summons for failure to return library materials," she said.
The city has also refunded the $460 the arrest cost the Hensons and promised to wipe the incident off Henson's record...
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http://bookchase.blogspot.com/2010/03/theyre-coming-to-take-you-away.html
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TODAYS FOOD QUOTE
I think nothing is more exquisite than beef in Kummel, garnished with slices of banana stuffed with Gruyere or pureed sardines with Camembert or whipped cream with tomato sprinkled with brandy or a chicken with lily of the valley. Chef Jules Maincave (1910) quoted in Larousse Gastronomique
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
1822 Charles Graham of New York received a patent for artificial teeth.
1839 Famous Food Fights:
The Great Pastry War ended this day. A brief conflict began on November 30, 1838, between Mexico and France caused by a French pastry cook who claimed that some Mexican Army soldiers had damaged his restaurant. The Mexican government refused to pay for damages. Several other countries had asked the Mexican government for similar claims in the past due to civil unrest in Mexico, without any resolution. France decided to do something about it, and sent a fleet to Veracruz and fired on the fortress outside the harbor. They occupied the city on April 16, 1838, and through the mediation of Great Britain were promised payment of 600,000 pesos for the damages. They withdrew on March 9, 1839.
DID YOU KNOW? Food Trivia
Cocoa butter is the edible vegetable fat from cocoa beans, extracted from the cocoa beans during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder. Cocoa butter has only a mild chocolate flavor and aroma.
Cocoa butter is one of the ingredients used to make real chocolate, it is gives chocolate the ability to remain solid at room temperature, yet melt easily in the mouth.
Cocoa butter is one of the most stable fats known, containing natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity and give it a storage life of 2 to 5 years. It is used for its smooth texture in foods (including chocolate) and in cosmetics and soaps.
Whenever I utter the word "exercise" I will rinse my mouth with chocolate!
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http://www.network54.com/Forum/258202/thread/1205048649/SUNDAY%2C+MARCH+9%2C+2008++*+National+Crabmeat+Day
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Say hello to my first ever Etude House Nail Polish~ Haha. This wasn't really in my plan because I find P50.00 ($1.14) too expensive for a small bottle of nail polish which I know will just go to waste because I'm not the type who keeps on using the same color over and over again. But then when I saw the bright pastel shades of this evil bottles on the counter, plus the brush handles have this really cute design too, so yeah I picked up something in pink.
I can't read Korean, but I saw that this shade is called Pinkade (PK010). Its a light pink pastel color. I think other shades of this range are all in pastel shades, so you would really like to look at them.
I find 1 coat too sheer, or maybe I just don't know how to apply it. But really, even with 2 coats I can still see a part of my nail. And since its quite thick in my opinion, I just stopped at 2 coats.
It looks really nice from a distance :D But not closely because you will see how ugly my nails are done hahaha. I like how its a light pink.
I find it expensive because I can buy cheaper brands with even better quality, but I'm not yet sure about repurchasing. Maybe I will if it will be on sale.
Can I just ask a question? Im not sure if its just this bottle or all of their nail polishes, but since I haven't read anyone commenting about the scent of this nail polish, then maybe mine is a defective one? Lol hahaha I find the smell of this nail polish unbearable. And when I say unbearable I really mean it. I mean I know most nail polishes have this acetone smell, but this is just too much. I'd rather sniff on gasoline and rugby than this. Really the smell is bothering me. Korean products always have this nice smell, but what happened to this nail polish? O_O
Oh well, enough ranting. Today is the last day of the year 2011 (at least here in the Philippines). So to all of you I want to wish you a happy and safe New Year :)
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http://whenthreeisacrowd.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html
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When school starts this fall in Elgin, Ill., teachers will be evaluated on their work in the classroom, as they have been for years. But for the first time, those who are struggling will be paired with consulting teachers who will coach them and help them develop a plan to improve.
In the ongoing push to improve our schools, all eyes have turned to better ways of ensuring that teachers are doing their jobs well. There's a growing recognition that current evaluation systems aren't sufficiently focused on the elements of teaching practice that improve student outcomes, and the federal government is providing incentives for states and districts to create more rigorous evaluation systems that address these shortcomings.
It's a long-overdue move. We need to do a better job of evaluating and supporting all teachers so they can improve instruction for every student. Unfortunately, while more sophisticated ways of measuring teachers are now being developed, less attention has been paid to the other side of evaluation -- providing the robust coaching and professional learning that can improve instruction, particularly for novice teachers still learning to navigate a demanding profession. And as has long been the case in professions such as engineering, medicine, aviation, and the law, research is beginning to show us that the best people to provide professional evaluations and support for teachers are often other teachers.
In Elgin and more than a dozen other school districts across the country, teachers are doing just that through an approach called Peer Assistance and Review (PAR). Instead of just setting a bar for teachers to reach, PAR creates teacher-led coaching and support systems to ensure that they can meet expectations and continue to grow throughout their careers.
Details vary, but in PAR programs evidence of effective classroom teaching, not superficial checklists or subjective write ups, become the basis of teacher evaluations. Teachers who are not performing up to expectations work with consulting teachers to develop a plan to improve and are given coaching and other supports to help them follow through. For example, in Columbus, Ohio, novice teachers in participating schools receive between 15 and 20 formal observations and ongoing support from their consulting teachers -- and are much less likely to leave the district or the profession as a result.
Making teachers accountable to each other and providing opportunities for educators to work together to improve instruction removes the traditional isolation of the teacher in the classroom that has too often hindered educational progress. In fact, the consulting teachers often learn as much from observing and coaching their peers as the educators they work with. The majority of teachers who enter PAR programs due to performance issues improve and move out of the system, but those that don't are removed from schools -- and because teachers and their unions are involved in the system and each individual decision, those dismissals are seen as fair. In fact, research has shown that teachers in PAR programs are tougher in evaluating their peers than the principals and other administrators that traditionally lead evaluations. Other studies have found links between these rigorous evaluation systems and improved student outcomes.
PAR has been in existence for decades, but the practice has been slow to spread. It can be a tough sell for cash-strapped districts, which have to hire new teachers to replace the ones who conduct evaluations and provide support. And teachers are often initially uncomfortable with the idea of being evaluated by their peers, though in district after district, they quickly warm to the idea of collaborating with peers. District and union leaders also have to have a good enough working relationship to sit down and jointly create the system, including making tough decisions about how and when under performing teachers should be removed. And even then, it's not a quick fix -- developing and implementing an effective PAR program can take several years.
But with growing interest in new teacher evaluation systems, PAR's time may have finally come. In Elgin, the local union worked with its district, with the support of the NEA Foundation, to develop its peer assistance system as a way to comply with the state's new teacher evaluation laws. The partnership demonstrates that the tougher evaluations that states are now requiring and the professional support teachers have always needed don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Nor should they be. The PAR approach is a win-win: while addressing concerns about the quality of teaching through more rigorous evaluations, the counseling by experienced teachers helps ensure that all educators, as a matter of course, learn how to deepen learning and help children meet high standards -- which is exactly what the end goal of any evaluation system for teachers should be.
Harriet Sanford is the president & CEO of The NEA Foundation.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harriet-sanford/teacher-evaluation-system-update_b_1533676.html
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John Edwards has written a short commentary for the Wall Street Journal on what he intends to do to stop corporate abuses.
That’s right, abuses. All of us are familiar with the examples of corporate abuse, such as Enron and the loss of hundreds of pension by hard working people. The average CEO makes 400 times what the average worker makes. Is that the problem? Yes and no, it has more to do with the fact that less families can make ends meet. We have more debt as a nation than ever before in it’s history and so many worry that their children can’t have a better life than the generations before them. This is the problem, it’s not about redistributing wealth, but ensuring that we all can prosper from a strong economy rather than just the majority of us suffering so the very few can prosper at our expense.
Rather than focus on his usual pitch, the very true fact that many American families are having a harder time to make ends meet, I want to get to the meat, the three things he says he will do in order to stop corporate abuses.
The first thing we need to do is to make affordable, high-quality health care a part of the social compact. Not only are health-care costs putting a huge strain on American families and our competitiveness in the global economy, but a system that leaves 47 million Americans without health care is a moral disgrace. As president, universal health care will be my number one domestic priority.
Second, we also need to adapt retirement savings to the modern work environment. In the past, it was common for people to stay with the same company their entire career, and so it made sense for pensions to be connected to employers. Today, the average worker will probably hold jobs with multiple companies.
We can’t allow fundamentally healthy companies to go into bankruptcy just to avoid keeping their promises to employees, or to emerge from bankruptcy with millions for executives and nothing for workers. As president, I will ensure that corporations honor the pension promises they’ve made to workers, by giving workers a claim for lost pensions, just like lost wages.
Third, our companies should be run for the benefit of workers and shareholders as well as insiders. Today, too many companies in America are putting far too much of their earnings into excessive CEO and executive pay, when this money could be going to increased worker salaries, better benefits and investments in plants and equipment.
“Third, our companies should be run for the benefit of workers and shareholders as well as insiders.” Crazy thought isn’t it? It’s about bringing back some balance to the system and putting more power into the hands of those who make what America is today possible. That is why Unions are so important to the entire Country, they set the standard, they can pull workers voices together and they can insure that workers are fairly compensated, not only by wages, but benefits and the promise of a comfortable retirement after years of hard work.
Edwards is not anti-business, he’s basically anti-monopoly. So few have monopolized the power to control the system that so few also benefit from the profits. It has to stop and it benefits all of us to fight for those below us in the economic ladder, to bring everyone up a rung or two.
But for me it’s the ending, it’s the final words that put this all into perspective.
In order to fulfill our obligation to future generations of Americans, we must restore balance between America’s corporations and America’s working families. Only then will we be able to guarantee that anyone who is willing to work hard and do the right thing has the opportunity to share in our nation’s prosperity.
John Edwards’ ad “Time to Tell the Truth”
This message is so important and Edwards makes the strongest argument for “electability” than all the Democratic candidates. Everyone, despite their political leanings, are facing the same challenges from health care to education. I’ve read from other candidates supporters that Edwards is too “angry”, but a lot of us, from Republicans to Democrats, Independents to Libertarians, we are angry, but it’s the right kind of anger that unites the people, those who vote, together Edwards asks us to make this change possible. This is the kind of uniting we need.
Howard Dean was ‘too angry’ and this was used against him at the peril of our party. Please consider the fact that anger is not a bad thing, it’s a strong feeling of displeasure. I say, if you are not displeased, than you aren’t paying attention.
“To get real change, we need a president who will stand up against the big corporations and powerful interests who control Washington,” Edwards said today at his “Countdown to Caucus” event in Boone. “We need somebody who is going to fight this fight and win this fight. But I’m not talking about going to Washington as president and fighting politicians.
“I want to be absolutely clear that the corporate greed that is destroying the middle class of this country and stealing your children’s future, it is stealing the future of Democrats’ children, Independents’ children, Republicans’ children, ” Edwards continued. “I’m telling you, this is a message and a cause we can unite America around.”
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http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/01/02/john-edwards-my-plan-to-stop-corporate-abuses/
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Great line-up featuring Miles Crawford, Charlene Soraia, Patrick Clancy and Bjorn Belief
groveSTOCK 2009 is an event for all who love to hear and play music. It takes place in the grounds of St. Paul’s church, Grove Park Road, Grove Park, Chiswick on Saturday 20th June 2009 from 2.00pm till 10.00pm. Tickets are £10 in advance or £15 on the day. See website www.grovestock.co.uk for more details or call 0870 264 3333.
Chiswick’s Got Talent will offer adults the opportunity to show off their talents in comedy or music. The prizes include a unique opportunity to perform at Jongleurs or Lock-Out Music. More information and entry forms can be found on the Chiswick’s Got Talent website at www.chiswicksgottalent.com.
The groveFACTOR talent showcase offers cash prizes. Students have the chance to perform: play a musical instrument or sing and receive advice from a panel of local high profile musicians, including West End musical director Michael Reed.
The Test Drive offers the chance to discover your hidden talent and try out a new musical instrument with the guidance of a professional tutor, be it guitar, drums, clarinet or tin whistle.
Ken Hammond’s BBQ experience will be sizzling all day.
groveSTOCK afternoon line up will be as follows:
Throughout the afternoon our wandering clowns and magicians will entrance and delight your little ones in the children’s corner with tricks and games, face painting and a bouncy castle.
The groveSTOCK evening kicks off at 6pm:
Chiswick’s Got Talent – Friday 19th June and live at groveSTOCK Saturday 20th 2009
We all know that talented someone just looking for their big chance. Now in Chiswick we’re offering exactly that with Chiswick’s Got Talent.
Entertainers or musicians are invited to enter talent contest and win a slot at Jongleurs comedy club or Lock-Out Music club.
Preliminary auditions take place on Friday 19th June before a panel of professional judges. Six lucky finalists will perform at groveSTOCK 2009 on Saturday 20th June before a discerning audience who will decide which act will win this coveted opportunity and a magnum of champagne.
St Paul’s church, Grove Park Rd, Grove Park, Chiswick on Friday 19th June at 7pm for the first round. Entry fee for contestants is £10 and this includes entry to groveSTOCK on Saturday. Audience entry on Friday night is free. Audience members and performers will receive a free glass of wine.
Contestants must be aged 16 or over. Audition slots on the Friday evening will be allocated on arrival. Entry forms together with entry fee (payable to groveSTOCK) must be received by 15th June. Participants must be available to compete in the final at groveSTOCK on Saturday 20th June.
See www.chiswicksgottalent.com for more information and to download an application form.
June 10, 2009
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http://www.chiswickw4.com/info/evgrovestock11.htm
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SBA official to hear complaints
The forum will begin at 10 a.m. at the NHHEAF's building located at 3 Barrell Court, and is open to the public. This event will give attendees a chance to openly voice their concerns about regulatory enforcement, excessive fines, retaliation, disproportionately burdensome regulations and other regulatory issues involving federal agencies.
Comments and concerns raised at the regulatory fairness forum will be directed to the appropriate federal agency for a fairness review in an effort to reduce undue regulatory burdens, while helping small businesses succeed.
This event is also an opportunity for the small business community to come away with a better understanding of the resources available to small business owners and entrepreneurs through the Office of the National Ombudsman.
To register, contact José Méndez at firstname.lastname@example.org, or call 202-205-6178 before the meeting. Visit www.sba.gov/ombudsman for more information.
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http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20130911/NEWS02/130919781/1021/sports22
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In the past, the User Agent string for all devices began with the format "MakeModel/firmware." As mobile browsers advance in sophistication, they more closely mimic PC-based browsers, and the User Agent string now begins with the browser name (e.g., "Mozilla/"). Device make and model information is pushed farther back in the string, which makes the information difficult to parse.
To simplify device detection in these circumstances, AT&T handsets now report a new header,
x-att-deviceid. This header, appearing on all upcoming AT&T devices, will report the information that you're used to seeing at the start of the User Agent string, enabling a simpler parsing field to identify a device.
x-att-deviceid header is inserted by the device (i.e., no gateway is responsible for this header). It will appear in app HTTP connection profiles.
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http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=5300270
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Posted in Current Events Tags: Alicia Keys, Alicia Keys at Whitney Houston's funeral, Whitney Houston
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Don’t you love when you don’t have to get up in the morning and go to work? For many people public holidays represent a welcome change in the daily routine. Which countries had the most public holidays in 2008? Where should you go to enjoy some days off?
Euro-monitor International announced the top countries with the greatest amount of public holidays on working days. Tourism-review.com invites to check them out.
1 ) China, Hong Kong – 16 days/year
As well as the new two-day weekend, Chinese workers enjoy various holidays throughout the year including New Year’s Day, the Spring Festival, Labour Day and National Day. Those working for multinational companies can even expect a Christmas holiday. Any bank holiday falling on a weekend is now usually offered as a day off the following working week. Annual paid holiday usually comprises of between one and two weeks to be taken at a time which suits both the employee and the firm.
2 ) Egypt – 16 days/year
Paid holiday from formal jobs is generally 21 days, with 16 public holidays throughout the year, and two public holidays that fall on the weekend. Most government employees are compensated the following week if the public holidays fall on weekends. Other private companies link holidays that fall near weekends with other days. Therefore these days are usually deducted from the employee’s annual leave.
3 ) India – 15 days/year
Government employees receive, on average, one month of paid leave per year but in the private sector employees receive between 15 and 20 days paid leave. In 2007, there were 17 public holidays in India, 12 of which fell on week days. In 2008 the number of public holidays decreased to 15. Indians tend to take a few days around such public holidays and plan a slightly longer holiday. For Indians the peak periods for traveling are during the school summer holiday in June and the winter break in December while arrivals tend to peak between August and March, as the summer months tend to be too harsh for many inbound travelers.
4 ) Indonesia – 15 days/year
At the end of the Ramadan fasting period, Indonesian Muslims celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, also known locally as lebaran. During lebaran, many urban city dwellers, especially Muslims, return to their home towns or villages, usually in the rural areas. For this reason, the government usually declares a one-week (five-day) holiday to allow the massive orderly outflow and inflow of people from and back to the cities. The trend for holidays over long weekends became increasingly common after the Bali bombing of 2002 (which left more than 200 people dead) and the second Bali bombing of 2005.
The immediate effect of the bombing was a sharp decline in tourism to Bali, as many foreign tourists cancelled their trips to the island. It is hoped that the long weekend holidays created by the government in this way will encourage Indonesians to travel domestically, especially to Bali, thus preventing the sudden collapse of the tourism industry.
5 ) Thailand – 15 days/year
Employees are entitled to 40 days of annual paid leave: 10 days for personal leave; 10 days for vacation and 30 days for sick leave. There are at least 13 national and religious holidays per year. Most Thai people tend to take vacation at least twice a year to join their children semester breaks. Children usually take two semester breaks, in April and October of every year. When national or religious holidays fall on Friday or Monday, it is common for Thai workers to spend those longer weekends for travel in the country or to other countries nearby.
6 ) Morocco – 15 days/year
Most Moroccans spend their annual leave within Morocco itself, often visiting family or sometimes simply staying at home. Most take at least two to three weeks holiday in August, and they usually spend much of this time at the beach, usually along Morocco’s long Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. Middle-income consumers may also travel to other regions of the country.
7 ) Malaysia – 14 days/year
Malaysia has many public holidays each year. Employees are typically entitled to 14-24 days of annual leave and 30 days medical leave. Most holidays are taken at the end and at the beginning of each year as the population celebrates some of its biggest celebrations namely Deepavali, Eid Mubarak, Christmas and Chinese New Year. The holiday season usually begins in November and runs through to February the next year.
8 ) South Korea – 13 days/year
Overall leave entitlement remained similar during both 2005 and 2006. In previous years, public holidays have been adjusted to balance out the total number of holidays, and therefore the increased number of paid holidays at work was accordingly offset by the reduced amount of national holidays. The impact of the five-working-day system has changed the concept of holidays as most people are taking the two days of the weekend off. As a result, short domestic trips have seen an increasing frequency compared with longer stay-over holiday trips during the past couple of years.
9 ) Chile – 13 days/year
There are 13 public holidays per year. In Chile, some holidays that fall on working days are moved to the following Monday, which allows employees to enjoy a 3-day “weekend”. This law was approved partly because the government considers that longer weekends favour tourism. The most traditional cultural event in Chile is related to the celebration of Chile’s Independence Day, which happens every year around the official day of 18 September. Chilean food and drinks are consumed in “ramadas”, places set up for the occasion to enjoy dancing and folk music, including “cueca”, the official national folk dance, and other Latin American rhythms.
10 ) Turkey – 13 days/year
People tend to take their holidays either on public holidays or during the summer. Holidays in winter encourage people to take a trip to warmer places, usually southern parts of Turkey. However, in winter 2007, snowfall was surprisingly rare, and winter tourism faced a crisis of low demand, since there was no snow and therefore no skiing.
Religious public holidays are very common in Turkey. There are public holidays for two religious festivals, as well as three days of national holidays.
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http://www.coolthingsworld.com/top-10-countries-with-the-most-public-holidays/
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Originally Posted by paul
I remember the max member that was selling his m5 had his engine built. THe pics he showed looked good dose anyone know the shop that did the work
I think you are talking about BigD's E34 M5. It was rebuilt by Charlie I believe.
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Check out some of these great Midwest-related stories I read online as we closed out 2012:
- Black Star Farms: A Fantastic Destination-We've visited the wine tasting room Black Star Farms at Sutton's Bay, Michigan, several times in the past, so I enjoyed this account of a visit there at The Wine Monologues of a Wine Enthusiast blog. I enjoy the winery's Rieslings, and during our last visit, we stopped by the Leelanau Cheese creamery tucked behind the Black Star Farms tasting room to sample (and take home) some of the fab Raclette Cheese.
- Planning a Visit to Traders Point Creamery-Nicole takes readers of her Arrows Sent Forth blog to another great Midwest creamery. Traders Point Creamery is one of the country's only all-organic dairy farms, and it looks like a great place to visit with your family and sample some ice cream!
- Bath School Disaster-The recent tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut reminded Debra Ann Pawlak of the disturbing story of the worst act of violence against a school. I read this sad story about a year or so ago in a book about the 1927 tragedy in mid-Michigan which claimed the lives of 45 people, most of them children.
- CLE Reads: Les Roberts' Whiskey Island-I was thrilled to read Amanda's review of author Les Roberts' latest book in his Milan Jacovich mystery series at the Clue into Cleveland blog. I got Tim hooked on the series after buying him the first couple of books in at when I visited Ohio for a writers conference. We didn't know about this newest addition to the series, or the one immediately preceding it. Thanks for helping me do some Christmas shopping, Amanda!
- Finding Hendricks County's Historical Markers-Eric posts this report on the county's All Access blog, and includes a couple of the markers I saw on my own trip there recently. I'll be posting more of my stories about Hendricks County, which will include my take on a couple of these markers, in coming months. Meanwhile, I'll be looking for Eric's take on Hendricks' Samuel Luther Thompson marker. Thompson played with the Detroit Tigers baseball team in the early 1900s, so it was a must-see site for me when I was there.
- Indianapolis Collected: A Dirty Tale of Mudpack Marketing-Libby shares some dirty tales of the "toilet" concerns of Indianapolis citizens over the years at the Historic Indianapolis blog. I do appreciate the sense of humor displayed here in what could be a more pedestrian story about cosmetic products made and marketed in Indianapolis during the early 1900s. This blog always offers a fun and interesting look at Indianapolis history.
- The Beauty of Cleveland's Guitar Mania at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-Justin shares his collection of photos of decorated guitars at his InACents blog. Artists decorated 54 large guitars that later were on display throughout Cleveland, but Justin happened to catch the collection when it was displayed together in front of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame museum last summer.
- Family Cabins at Brown County State Park-I've enjoyed staying at a couple of Ohio's State Park inns, and I've always wanted to try staying at the lodges or cabins in one of Indiana's State Parks. Check out Nicole's story at the Indiana Insider blog about her family's stay in a cabin at Brown County State Park.
- Ohio Caverns-You wouldn't think of Ohio as a place to find cool caverns, but think differently! Michael shares this report about some of the state's visitor-friendly caverns at the Discover Ohio blog.
- Born & Raised in South Detroit-Sorry Steve Perry and Journey, but there is no such place as South Detroit. Farlane shares one of my favorite pieces of trivia and a great photo taken by DetroitDerek at the Michigan in Pictures blog. Yup, Canada is -south- of Detroit, something I've pointed out myself multiple times over the years!
- Meet Christian Clemens, founder of Mt. Clemens-Check out Amy's story about Mt. Clemens founding at her Night Train blog. I've always been fascinated with Ohio's canals, and Michigan's lack thereof, so I especially enjoyed learning about Christian Clemens' connection to Michigan's ill-fated Clinton-Kalamazoo canal.
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Over the past couple months, WrestleZone has been the first to release exclusive reports leading up to yesterday’s release of WWE Smackdown star Montel Vontavious Porter, known as MVP.
WZ has been reporting that the the former star had been unhappy with his position in WWE for quite sometime, and we’ve been chronicling all the backstage news surrounding his situation since its inception. For those who may have missed our reports and want to catch up on everything leading up to yesterday’s release, all of our exclusive reportsa are included in the next several pages. So be sure to click on all the links to catch up on everything we reported on MVP and WWE.
WrestleZone First Posted The Following on October 3rd:
After speaking to a source in WWE earlier this evening, WrestleZone can now exclusively confirm that a top WWE star is strongly considering his retirement from the pro wrestling industry.
Out of respect to the superstar, who is still under contract with WWE, we will not be revealing his name at this point, however as the story continues to develop WZ will be providing more information. It should be noted that the wrestler in question is NOT Chris Jericho.
We have been told that the top star’s contract is expiring with WWE in the very near future, and that he has several options on his plate outside of the pro wrestling world that he has a strong interest in exploring. We have also been told that if this wrestler does indeed leave WWE it will not be to jump ship to TNA, but rather to quit the wrestling business altogether and focus on other avenues.
WZ will continue to update this situation as it develops.
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Los Angeles Film Festival 2014 - 'What To See'
Hey LA film freaks – it’s that time of year again! Yup, our favorite Los Angeles Film Festival held in Downtown Los Angeles at LA Live is upon us again taking place June 11-19 (head over to www.lafilmfest.com for more details!) and it’s going to be a real special year. Not only are there some amazing original films and cool events planned, but this is the official 20th Anniversary of the fest that has long prided itself on bringing movie geeks everywhere the best of cinema both big and small. So in celebration of their long standing achievements, Starpulse.com is kicking off our comprehensive fest coverage by taking a gander at some of the more tasty looking cinematic product that has us salivating this year. (And in full disclosure I have seen some flicks early – including one that is not only five-star but is in serious contention for my top ten list of 2104!) From directors we love to actresses we adore, from stark reality to dark fantasy, here’s some notables on..."What To See!"
“Snowpiercer” – Forget that this one is a fantastic looking South Korean post-apocalyptic thriller that also sports a cast including "Captain America" himself Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton and the mighty Ed Harris. We’re interested in this one due to one thing and one thing alone - it’s directed by "The Host" and "Mother" mastercraftsman Bong Joon-ho. (It’s also a flick that a press pass can’t get you into – look for me standing in the hopeful Rush Line with my firm $20.00 cash in hand as a true die hard Bong fan!)
“Man From Reno” – A proposed noir thriller, this one features the teaming of two very different gents (a Japanese crime novelist and a small town sheriff) as they try to solve a murder on the backstreets of San Francisco. You had us at noir.
“Out in the Night” – We love docs that boldly examine and expose miscarriages of justice and this one looks like it’s gonna be an eye opener for sure. Four gay African-American women are assaulted and sent to prison and this doc promises to bring to light all the facets that caused their unjust incarceration.
“Inner Demons” – Yeah, we’ve all seen teen drug rehabilitation flicks. But what if the girl taking said drugs was actually doing so to keep at bay a demon hell bent on possessing her? It’s a unique premise interestingly directed by the former field producer of the A&E series "Intervention" – chilling and real could make for some good horror.
“Trouble Dolls” – Anyone who reads Starpulse.com knows we adore the work of the talented Jess Weixler and not only is she a featured player in this flick about tested friendship but she also co-wrote and co-directed – we’re there.
“Starred Up” – This Northern Ireland import sports an interesting story of father and son incarceration, but that’s not what caught our eye. The description states the film ‘will leave a mark’ – a bold declaration we’re eager to put to the test.
“Evolution of a Criminal” – What’s even more engaging then a doc about a criminal who looks back, examines and tries to make peace with a brutal robbery he committed years earlier? How about the fact that the criminal is also the director of the piece – intriguing is an understatement.
“Cut Bank” – This flick that’s about a ‘get rich quick scheme’ sports a cast – Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Billy Bob Thorton, Bruce Dern and John Malkovich – that could make an insurance seminar seem cool.
“The Well” – Seems a little to complex to explain, but the very scary and unsetting photo that accompanies the description of a gal screaming out amidst a cover of black muck reminds us of The Raft segment from "Creepshow 2" – goop covered guys and gals rule.
“Repo Man” – For those who haven’t seen it (and you two should be ashamed!) and those who want to simply revisit it, Alex Cox’s early outing "Repo Man" is celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary this year and it still holds up as one truly original piece of work. Strange, genre-defying and all together entertaining, the film also marks a chemistry ridden pairing of a young Emilio Estevez and older Harry Dead Stanton that is required viewing for any cinefile.
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Maro J. Emerson
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WARSAW: Maro Johnson Emerson, 92, of Spring Mt. Road, died Sunday Dec. 9, 2012 at his residence.
He was born April 3, 1920 in Coshocton Co. to the late Harry and Lola (Ross) Emerson. He was a 1938 graduate of West Lafayette High School, and he served in the U.S. Army during WWII, receiving a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. On Oct. 10, 1941 he married Gwendolyn Laura "Ging" (Davis) Emerson, who preceded him in death on Jan. 26, 2011. He was an auto body repairman for Stewart Auto Body, and later owned and operated Emerson Auto Body, and was widely regarded as the "best auto body man around." He later went on to work for the Clow Water Systems Co., retiring in 1985. He was a 50+ year member of the Warsaw Masonic Lodge #255, and in his later years he enjoyed gardening at home.
He is survived by four sons; Richard (Barb) Emerson of Warsaw, Dave (Verna) Emerson of Warsaw, Larry (Carolyn) Emerson of Coshocton, and John (Becky) Emerson of Coshocton, a daughter, Eileen (Bill) Darr of Newcomerstown, seventeen grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren, as well as two sisters-in-law; Helen Conrad and Eileen (Sonny Davis) Mullet, both of Coshocton.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by a grandson and two brothers; Bill & Everett Emerson.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 12, 2012 at the Fischer Funeral Home in Warsaw with Rev. Richard King and Pastor Ralph Johnson officiating, and a Masonic service by the Warsaw Masonic Lodge #255. Burial will follow in Valley View Cemetery, with graveside military rites performed by the Coshocton Co. Joint Veterans Council. Visitation is one hour prior to service time at the funeral home. www.fischerfuneralhome.com
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice-Health Services of Coshocton, P.O. Box 1284, Coshocton, OH 43812.
Published in the Coshocton Tribune on Dec. 10, 2012
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Author's note: I had just finished watching the movie Brother Bear, and the artic has always fascinated me. I... Show full author's note »
Nunavut“It is almost time. When the girl returns, I want her to die. She will be hard to kill, but her death will be the ultimate triumph. We must hurry though, and we must make it seem like there was nothing that could be done. It must be done swiftly, and it must be done so that no one suspects anything or anybody,” whispered a large figure over a fire. A smaller person across nodded, careful not to let the firelight come close to lighting his face.
“We can’t let anyone guess that I am a part of it, nor can they guess it is you. We must kill all the younger children, in each family, including yours. Injuquaq must never suspect, we must stay behind the scenes, we must not be suspected,” repeated the man. Across the fire, the other person nodded.
“Do you understand?” leered the man, leaning forward into the fire. The light illuminated a long scar across his cheekbones and highlighted dark, bushy eyebrows with an asiavik tattoo between them.
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I found some fabulous clearance & closeout deals at Pick n Save today! Please keep in mind that these deals may not be the same at all Pick n Save stores. If you are shopping tomorrow for Double Daze (see the ad match-up here), you may want to keep an eye out for these deals!
ALSO, you may want to price check these items at your store! The sign may not be up yet!
All Laundry Detergent 96 loads $7.49 (reg. $14.99)
$1/1 All Laundry Detergent printable
$1/1 All Liquid, Powder or Mighty Pacs, exp. 6/16/13 (RP 05/05/13)
= $6.49 each or $5.49 after doubled coupon
Tide ColdWater $4.24 (reg. $8.49)
$0.40/1 Tide Detergent printable
= $3.84 each or $3.44 after doubled coupon
Earth Friendly Products Auto Dishwasher Gel $3.99 (reg. $7.99)
$2/1 Earth Friendly Product (Recyclebank)
Seventh Generation Bleach $2.27 (Reg. $4.54)
$3/2 Seventh Generation Dish Detergent or Household Cleaner and Laundry Detergent printable
Arm & Hammer Fresh 'n Soft Dryer Sheets, 100 ct $1.67 (reg. $3.34)
$1/2 Arm & Hammer Liquid or Powder Detergent or Fabric Softener Sheets, exp. 6/30/13 (SS 04/14/13)
= $1.17 each or $.67 after doubled coupon
Olay Quench Plus touch of sun only $2.64!
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Interior wall material, not interior paneling
I'm not talking about the interior paneling, we are in the middle of tearing that out and installing new. I should have made myself clearer, sorry, but this is a little confusing.
In the inside of the walls (after you tear out the old paneling) the factory put sheets of paneling between the exterior sheet aluminum and the aluminum framing. It is almost like they were using it for sound deadening or insulation. It appears to have been put up next to the framing (c-channels and such) and then the exterior aluminum sheeting was held into place and welded. This made a framing/paneling/exterior sheeting sandwich. It will be difficult to get out. I hope that helps explain the configuration.
I am planning on insulating with Dow closed cell insulation board inside the wall. I just wondered what the rest of you did if/when you ran into this. I don't think it would hurt it to stay there, but I was hoping to get some thoughts or actual experience.
I didn't mean to go on so long, thanks for looking at this.
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CCL: Montreal Impact flip the script, hold their nerve late in opening win
MONTREAL – The Montreal Impact have conceded seven goals after the 75th minute this season in Major League Soccer, almost always losing points as a result.
It looked like the club was in for more of the same in their CONCACAF Champions League opener on Tuesday night at Stade Saputo, but the Impact held their nerve and kept their 1-0 result against El Salvador’s FAS in the Group 3 opener.
And even more impressively, they did it without defender Hassoun Camara - who was sent off in the 72nd minute for a for a dangerous sliding tackle on Raul Renderos - and head coach Frank Klopas on the sideline.
“We always felt like getting the second one, and even a third one, just to relax, especially the way, late in games, we’ve given up leads,” said Klopas, who was sent off in the 82nd minute for arguing calls. “But we talked about the focus and concentration after the 75th minute, and it’s always good to be able to score. But at least, we were disciplined and focused. We battled with 10 guys. We stayed organized.”
The win was Montreal’s first across all competitions since June 29, and it came in part because the Impact were able to create chances early. Only fantastic stops by Luis Contreras on Marco Di Vaio and Andres Romero prevented the Impact from putting the game to bed early.
“Today, there’s a lot of satisfaction, more than relief,” Camara told reporters postgame. “We saw that we could do well despite the adversity and so on. Grabbing the three points tonight is great.”
But it still might not be enough. Last season, Montreal started the tournament’s group stage with another 1-0 win, against the San Jose Earthquakes. The Quakes eventually went through to the quarters on goal differential while every team in Group 5 won both their home games.
To most Montreal supporters, it was another late loss that did them in, this time a 1-0 loss against Guatemalan side Heredia on the road. This time the Impact will look to flip the script when the head to El Salvador for their rematch with FAS on Aug. 20.
“Last year we went down [to Guatemala] and didn’t get the result we needed,” team captain Patrice Bernier said. “We have to go there, get a result and then face New York the last two games with the advantage of having grabbed points early. Last time around, we won one, lost one and essentially put the cards in the other teams’ hands. We just have to go to Salvador and grab a result.”
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2010 Complete Election Coverage: Surviving in the middle
In an angry, bare-knuckled political year, Rick Snyder seems a little out of place. He’s a mild-mannered self-described moderate, running for governor of Michigan as a Republican. He won’t say whether he considers himself a conservative. And he also looks like a winner.
So does Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, the Tennessee Republican who beat out two conservative opponents for the GOP’s gubernatorial nomination. So do a host of Senate candidates, including Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Mark Kirk of Illinois, who have seen their numbers tick up as they’ve distanced themselves from their respective parties.Continue Reading
For all the talk of a campaign dominated by ideological extremes, a surprising number of candidates in both parties are competing by casting themselves as unapologetic centrists, attempting to seize the vast space between the made-for-TV conservative activists and national liberal favorites who dominated the primary season.
There aren’t enough middle-of-the-roaders to make a dramatic impact on the national discourse. And there are plenty of races in which moderation and civility are not the rule. But where Republicans are stretching the map most dramatically, it’s in no small part due to candidates who have run well to the middle of the GOP base.
And where Democrats have the best chance of surviving on hostile turf, it’s often because they’ve run away from a national party brand increasingly associated with government overreach.
“One of the big story lines of this cycle is that voters are not looking to replace Democrats with Republicans. They are looking for people they feel are in touch with their values and are in touch with where they want the country to go,” said Matt Bennett, vice president of centrist think tank Third Way.
“I think the candidates who have eschewed some of the strident populism, anti-business populism, and have talked about finding sensible solutions to problems are resonating.” He continued, “There are districts where you could be, you know, Batman and not win if you had a ‘D’ next to your name.”
If technocratic, pro-business centrists are in this year, there’s no better example than Snyder, who’s poised to roll over Democratic Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero — a combative, cable-friendly personality — in the general election. Even as he’s way ahead in the polls, the former Gateway CEO still resists giving himself an ideological description.
“I don’t even put labels on myself. I just don’t see value in that,” Snyder told POLITICO. “We started from Day One in the primary and have held true to the same positions from the very start, which is basically: Here’s a clear, positive vision for Michigan’s future.”
In Tennessee, Haslam performed a similar feat, defeating a pair of more strident primary opponents who attacked him as a squish in a strongly Republican state.
That’s a characterization former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman disputed, insisting that Haslam’s just “more of a pragmatic conservative.”
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March 18, 2011
• NCAA Tournament Central on RedStormSports.com
• GAME NOTES: NCAA Tournament First Round (PDF)
• LIVE STATS (Free): St. John's vs. Texas Tech
• ESPN2 Coverage Maps
• St. John's vs. Texas Tech: NCAA Tournament Pregame Quotes - Kim Barnes Arico
• St. John's vs. Texas Tech: NCAA Tournament Pregame Quotes - Players
• PHOTO GALLERY: Pregame Press Conference and Friday's Practice
• St. John's Cheers On Women's Basketball's Second-Straight NCAA Tourney Bid
• Red Storm Is Dancin' Again; STJ Earns Second-Straight NCAA Tournament Bid
• Printable Bracket (PDF)
• ONLINE VIDEO GUIDE: "Inside St. John's Women's Basketball"
• 2010-11 St. John's Women's Basketball Media Guide (PDF)
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STANFORD, Calif. - For the second-straight season, the St. John's women's basketball team earned an At-Large bid to the NCAA Tournament as the Red Storm was picked to face Texas Tech as the No. 9 seed in the Spokane Region, as announced by the Selection Committee on Monday night on ESPN.
The Red Storm will play the Red Raiders on Saturday, March 19 in a 4:20 p.m. (E.T.) tip off in Stanford, Calif., at the Maples Pavilion. The game will be televised live on ESPN2 with Dave Pasch and Mary Murphy on the call. The competitive No. 8 vs. No. 9 game will be the primary game in the 4 p.m. window.
Tip Off Quick Hits
• The last time the Red Storm competed in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments was 1983 and 1984. With the men's basketball team earning an At-Large bid to the Big Dance on Sunday, it is the first time since 1988 that both the men's and women's programs will be going dancing in March. It is the first time the women have been selected as a No. 9 seed.
• Texas Tech, the No. 8 seed, has not been in the NCAA Tournament since 2005, but has previously garnered 18 appearances in the Big Dance. The Red Raiders (22-10) ended their season at the semifinals of the Big XII Championship, as then-No. 21 Oklahoma defeated Texas Tech, 71-69 on March 9.
• The winner of the St. John's-Texas Tech match up will face either No. 1-seed Stanford (29-2), the automatic qualifier from the Pac-10 or No. 16-seed UC-Davis (24-8), the automatic qualifier from the Big West, who will be making its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Stanford and UC-Davis will play each other on Saturday, at approximately 6:30 p.m. (ET). The Second Round game will be played on Mon., March 21, at 9:30 p.m. (ET).
• It is the first-ever meeting between the Red Storm and Lady Raiders. St. John's has played four other first-time opponents this season. The Red storm is 3-1 in debut match ups in 2010-11, defeating UCSB, St. Bonaventure and Arkansas State, but losing to Kansas State, another Big XII opponent. St. John's has also never played against Stanford or UC-Davis.
• Nine teams from the BIG EAST Conference were named in the tournament field -- the most of any of the 31 league's represented.
Red Storm Season Quick Hits
• In 2010-11, St. John's (21-10) continued its successes from its historic last season, as the Red Storm was ranked for 16-straight weeks in the Associated Press Poll (including the 2009-10 season); with its highest ranking at No. 17 on Dec. 27. In the ESPN/Coaches Poll, St. John's was ranked for 18-straight weeks and continues to receive votes in the latest poll released March 14.
• According to the most recent RPI data, St. John's boasted an RPI of 32 and a strength of schedule rating of 33. The Red Storm finished seventh in the BIG EAST with a 9-7 record and had its second-consecutive 20-win season, including key BIG EAST victories over then-No. 16/17 Georgetown (Feb. 13) and Rutgers (Feb. 1), both with RPI's in the top 25. STJ opened the season with a 64-50 victory over current No. 19/17 Marist (Nov. 12) at Kansas State.
Dancin' Again In The Tournament
With Monday's selection, this year's appearance in the NCAA Tournament is the second-straight for St. John's. The only other time St. John's played in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments was in 1983 and 1984. St. John's played in the East Regional both times, and both times were awarded the No. 7 seed. 1983 was St. John's first appearance in the NCAAs. Don Perrelli's St. John's faced No. 2 Old Dominion, but lost 86-62 at University Park, Pa. In 1984, Perrelli's squad faced No. 2 North Carolina and was edged out of the tournament in a 81-79 overtime contest in Norfolk, Va.
• With Monday's selection, this year's appearance in the NCAA Tournament is St. John's sixth overall bid to the national postseason tournament (1983, 1984, 1988, 2006, 2010, 2011). Only one other school is making its sixth appearance in the Big Dance with Hartford, a team St. John's played in a scrimmage earlier in the season.
• St. John's has an overall record of 3-5 in the Big Dance. The Red Storm has made it to the Second Round three times (1988, 2006, 2010).
Barnes Arico At The NCAAS
• Head coach Kim Barnes Arico has made three trips to the NCAA Tournament during her nine-year tenure with St. John's. She is the only St. John's head coach to make three trips to the Big Dance. She is also the only coach to take St. John's to two NCAA Second Round games. She also has the most NCAA tourney wins.
• Barnes Arico is 2-2 in the NCAA Tournament, taking the Red Storm to the Second Round in both 2006 and 2010. With the At-Large bid in 2010, Barnes Arico's Red Storm boasted a No. 6 seed, the highest ever in St. John's women's basketball history. With the No. 9 seed in 2011, she is the only Red Storm coach to take the women's basketball team to two-straight tournaments since then-head coach Don Perrelli.
• Barnes Arico is 151-123 (.551) at St. John's. She is 245-195 (.557) overall as a head coach.
• At Adelphi, Barnes Arico took her squad to the 2002 Division II NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.
2010 NCAA Tourney Recap
• With a 65-47 victory over Princeton (March 20) in the NCAA Tournament First Round, No. 6 seeded St. John's advanced to its third Second Round appearance in the Big Dance.
• Against Princeton, Shenneika Smith set a new career-high with 12 rebounds. The rebounds, coupled with her 13 points, gave her the third double-double of her career.
• Centhya "Coco" Hart recorded her second double-double of the year with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Da'Shena Stevens tied the Donald L. Tucker Center record for field goals made with nine.
• St. John's played against the host-school, No. 3 Florida State, two days later. The Red Storm nearly upset the Seminoles with a last-second jumper in overtime, but the shot bounced off the rim and FSU came away with a 66-65 victory. Nadirah McKenith scored 15 for St. John's, which was trying to reach the NCAA round of 16 for the first time. Stevens had 14 points and 10 rebounds despite spending much of the second half and overtime battling leg cramps, and Joy McCorvey added 13 for the Red Storm. Smith's 10 points broke Stevens' rookie scoring record set in 2009 (406) and set the new mark at 412.
• There were 10 ties and 12 lead changes in the first half, St. John's never leading by more than three, Florida State never by more than four.
Scouting The Bracket
• TEXAS TECH: The Lady Raiders are making their 19th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, the 10th most of all Division I schools. Texas Tech is making its return to the Tournament after a five-year hiatus. Before the break, the Lady Raiders went to the NCAA Tournament 16-straight years from 1990-2005. Texas Tech is one of seven teams from the Big XII in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
• Coached by 12th-year head coach Kristy Curry (267-123), Texas Tech finished sixth in the Big XII with an 8-8 conference record. The Lady Raiders went 1-1 in their conference tournament, defeating Oklahoma State, 75-52, then losing to Oklahoma, 71-69. On Feb. 19, Texas Tech marked a notable victory over one of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, Baylor, 56-45.
• Junior forward Kierra Mallard leads the Lady Raiders in scoring, with 12.1 ppg, the lone player averaging double figures. Senior forward Teena Wickett and sophomore guard Casey Morris add 9.8 ppg to the Lady Raiders scoring. Simliar to the Red Storm, Texas Tech averages around 64 points per contest as a team.
• From Jan. 19-Feb. 9, Texas Tech lost six-straight, but rebounded down the stretch finishing up winning six of nine games including the Big XII Tournament.
• Texas Tech is 2-0 against common opponents in 2010-11, defeating Pittsburgh, 78-65, and Kansas State, 68-66, in overtime.
• STANFORD: No. 1 seed and host of St. John's first bracket, Stanford is making its 24th consecutive appearance in the Tournament and 25th overall. Stanford is 2-1 against common opponents, defeating Rutgers, 63-50 and Connecticut, 71-59 (to stop their record-breaking 90-game win streak); but losing to DePaul, 91-71. Stanford enters the tournament field on a 23-game winning streak as the Pac-10 Tournament Champion.
• Stanford has four players averaging in double figures, led by Nnemkadi Ogwumike with 15.2 ppg and Jeanette Pohlen with 15.0 ppg.
• UC-DAVIS: The No. 16 seed in the bracket, the Aggies enter the tournament as the automatic qualifier from the Big West. It is UC-Davis' first trip to the NCAA Tournament. UC-Davis is 0-1 against common opponents, losing to Kansas State, 61-41. The Aggies finished the season winning seven of their last 10 games.
• STJ has two players averaging in double-figures through 31 games played with sophomore Shenneika Smith and junior Da'Shena Stevens.
• Smith has led the team all season with 397 total points and an average of 12.8 per contest to go along with 6.1 boards per game. Smith posted a double-double at Villanova (Feb. 22) with 10 boards, 10 assists. The team is 3-0 this season with Smith notching a double-double.
• Stevens, who recorded a double-double vs. Georgetown (Feb. 13) averages 12.1 ppg with a team-best 6.5 rpg. She leads the squad in double-doubles with five, and has led the team in scoring in four out of the last six games.
• Rookie Keylantra Langley could be the player to watch in the NCAA Tournament as she has increased her playing time from two minutes to 12.8 minutes per game as the back up point guard.
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Classic Film Series at OPA
The successful Classic Film Series sponsored by Ogunquit Performing Arts, continues its 12th season with the presentation of King of Hearts at the Great Hall of the Dunaway Center, 23 School Street in Ogunquit at a new time and day: 2 pm on Sunday afternoon December 9. Admission is free. New this year: free popcorn!
King of Hearts is the 1966 French comedy/drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates. The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the German Army retreats, they place a booby trap to be set off and destroy the town when the allies arrive to occupy it. The locals flee; then left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape from the asylum and take over the town posing as townspeople, thoroughly confusing the lone kilt-wearing Scottish soldier, Charles Plumpick, who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb that the Germans placed in the town square. The lunatics crown Plumpick King of Hearts with surreal pageantry as he frantically tries to find the bomb. The film ends with the question of who is more insane!
King of Hearts is thought to be derived from de Broca's own wartime experience as an army newsreel cameraman. The actual theme came from a brief news article about fifty French mental patients who had dressed themselves in the uniforms of dead American soldiers and were wandering through the French countryside when the Germans shot them by mistake.
When the King of Hearts was released in France in 1966, it was not particularly successful critically or at the box office. But when it was released in the United States a year later, it achieved cult-film status, eventually running for five years at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts and other repertoire movie theaters. The appeal of the King of Hearts has transcended contemporary vogue or passing political trends, touching a chord in the hearts and minds of those who have fallen under its spell and enduring through the years.
Come to the Dunaway Center on Sunday December 9 at 2 pm to enjoy this absorbing film which will be shown on a full wall-size screen with quality projection equipment provided to OPA by Kennebunk Savings Bank. The next three Classic Films (January through March) will also be shown on Sundays at 2 pm (not the usual Wednesday evening at 7) to take advantage of daylight and easier travel should the winter be a snowy one. The Dunaway Center is located at 23 School Street in Ogunquit. Admission is free and there is plenty of free parking.
Classic Film Series continues:
Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. — Night of the Hunter
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 at 2 p.m. — Green Mansions
Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 2 p.m. — Gaslight
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7 p.m. — For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7 p.m. — Yankee Doodle Dandy
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From the Super Mario Wiki
The Intergalactic InSinkErator (or In-Sink-Erator) was the industial-sized garbage disposal system of Darth Koopa's Koop Star. It was only ever seen in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Star Koopa".
When Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad are taken prisoner aboard Koop Star, Darth Koopa fails to make Princess Toadstool agree to surrender the Mushroom Colonists' Planet over to him. As consequence, Mouser was ordered to drop the four heroes into the Intergalactic InSinkErator.
Before dropping Mario's group in the InSinkErator, Mouser used a flow chart to explain that the garbage disposal works on different levels. On the top level was a large funnel, leading down to a series of buzzsaws. Below the buzzsaws was an unseen section where garbage was compacted into a Garbage Pod. The section below that was where the Garbage Pod was to be ejected into outer space.
Upon pressing a button, Mouser dropped Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad from the platform that they were standing on down into the top section of the Intergalactic InSinkErator. As Mouser left the area, he failed to notice that Mario used his plunger to get a grip on the funnel above the buzzsaws, while his friends grabbed ahold of him. The Intergalactic InSinkErator reminded Mario and Luigi of the garbage disposals they used to fix back in Brooklyn, which always had silverware stuck in them. This prompted Luigi into jamming the blades by dropping the utensils he had on him into the InSinkErator, allowing Mario's group to safely fall past them.
Although the rest of the Intergalactic InSinkErator remained unseen, Mario's group made it through alive, and ended up packed inside a Garbage Pod, which led them to the Mushroom Colonists' Planet.
The Intergalactic InSinkErator was never seen again, as it was destroyed, along with Koop Star, when Mario blew up the foundation of the spacecraft with a Bob-omb.
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Olympiakos stun Bremen with late goals
October 04, 2007 10:05 IST
Olympiakos Piraeus scored three times in the last 17 minutes to stun Werder Bremen 3-1 in their Champions League Group C match on Wednesday.
Bremen took a 32nd minute lead when Hugo Almeida blasted in a Daniel Jensen cross but Ieroklis Stoltidis tapped in the Olympiakos equaliser in the 73rd minute after a blunder by Bremen's reserve goalkeeper Christian Vander.
The game swung the Greeks' way nine minutes later when Christos Patsatzoglou slammed home a long-range shot and Darko Kovacevic made sure of the points in the 87th minute, tapping in another rebound after Vander again failed to hold on to the ball.
The goals handed Bremen their second defeat in two matches, while Olympiakos went top of the group with four points, just ahead of Real Madrid, who also have four points.
Porto snatch late victory
Ricardo Quaresma scored a stoppage-time goal to give Porto a 1-0 victory over Besiktas in their Champions League Group A match on Wednesday.
Porto had to work hard to stave off growing pressure from the home side in the later stages of both halves, with Besiktas creating a series of chances.
But it was Porto who broke the deadlock when midfielder Quaresma poked the ball past Besiktas keeper Hakan Arikan from close range in the second minute of stoppage time.
The result lifted Porto to second in the group with four points, two behind leaders Olympique Marseille and three ahead of Liverpool. Besiktas are without a point after a second loss.
Schalke too good for Rosenborg
Second-half goals steered Schalke 04 to a 2-0 victory over Rosenborg Trondheim in their Champions League match in Group B on Wednesday.
Midfielder Jermaine Jones broke the deadlock at the Lerkendal Stadium in the 62nd minute with a left-foot shot off a pass from Ivan Rakitic.
Striker Kevin Kuranyi sealed the victory in the 89th minute, breaking free, evading defender Christer Basma and putting the ball past Rosenborg goalkeeper Lars Hirschfeld.
Rosenborg, who had held Chelsea to a surprise 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge two weeks ago, paid the price for failing to take their chances in the second half.
Schalke, who got their first points on the board, are third in the group -- level on three points with Valencia and one behind leaders Chelsea after the Londoners' 2-1 win in Spain.
UEFA Champions League 2007-08: The Complete Coverage
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The time has come. You’ve read dozens of articles, followed the buzz online, talked to trusted colleagues, and weighed your job prospects. You’re ready to earn your master’s degree. But with 63 qualified library and information science (LIS) programs to choose from, where to begin?
The American Library Association (ALA) has assembled general guidelines to get started, available on ala.org. The task of weeding through your options may be daunting, but it is far from impossible. Consider this your first information-gathering task in your new role as future librarian.
In the library world, the degree comes with many different labels, but most important it that is comes from an ALA-accredited program. Start by referencing a list of those schools using ALA’s online searchable database or list. Most LIS employers require a master’s degree from an accredited program for professional positions in the field, so an accredited MLS/MLIS course is essential.
LIS programs do not lose their accreditation status very often, but it happens. Most recently, the MLS program at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, suffered this action. Programs from five other institutions are currently in a status of “conditional accreditation,” which means the programs must make updates to comply with ALA’s Standards of Accreditation.
The “name” factor
It doesn’t appear that a degree earned from one school makes you more hirable than one from another. On the blog HiringLibrarians.com, an August 2013 survey called “What Should Potential Hires Learn in Library School” included the question, “Which library schools give candidates an edge?” An October 2013 analysis of the survey results revealed that 51 percent of eligible respondents said a candidate’s alma mater is not an important factor in hiring decisions, with a further subset stating that candidates’ skills and experience are more relevant than their school. As well, where you earned your degree will likely have little effect on salary.
That being said, not all library schools are created equal. Forty-nine percent of eligible respondents from the Hiring Librarians survey named preferred LIS schools (you can browse their answers). U.S. News and World Report releases rankings of the ALA-accredited MLIS programs in the United States (it’s also worth paying attention to the methodology behind the list). But for many prospective students, other needs—cost, life obligations, location—factor more into the best choice than rankings or perceived prestige.
It makes sense to begin by comparing LIS schools by cost. Some program websites are forthcoming with this information, others are not. Email the school for more details. Sign up for an information session. Schedule a meeting with a program advisor. Ask program alumni to share what they actually paid for their degree. Simply put: ask and ask again until you have an unshakable understanding of what you’ll be asked to fork over.
Regardless of which school you select, there are options to help reduce the cost of your graduate school tuition. Become aware of the opportunities via ALA’s Scholarship Program, its directory of Financial Assistance for Library and Information Studies, and the LISjobs.com scholarships page.
To apply for federal student loans, domestic applicants should fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Each state has different FAFSA deadlines—be aware of those or, better yet, the FAFSA campus deadline.
Universities offer a variety of scholarships, fellowships, grants, and work opportunities that provide tuition relief for graduate students. It’s possible to reduce tuition by thousands of dollars by taking advantage of financial aid opportunities, and a graduate assistantship with tuition waiver is worth its weight in gold. An LIS program with a higher cost but excellent financial aid options may still be a worthy contender. And for those already working as paralibrarians, employers may be willing to pick up some or, more rarely, all of the tuition. College savings plans, offered through employers or independently, are another way to help defray the expense.
What do you want to learn?
“Different programs offer different perspectives and emphases, and those will appeal to different kinds of students,” says Joe Janes, MLIS program chair at the University of Washington iSchool in Seattle. “Is the program one that seems focused on vocational skills and specific expertise, or is the curriculum focused more broadly at the conceptual level, or somewhere in between?”
When comparing curricula, one helpful benchmark is the school’s focus on traditional library services vs. newer, nontraditional information-related areas. Some LIS programs have been folded into “information schools” to strengthen the connection with other information sciences. Examining the balance of theoretical courses vs. those that focus on practical, “real-world skills” is another helpful measure. Overall, look for a reasonable depth of course offerings in your areas of interest, plus a good mixture of other electives. You never know what might spark a new interest or career direction.
Says Janes, “Students often wind up changing their ideas once they start a program, so having a wider range of options and an environment that fosters and encourages that sort of exploration and investigation can often be a real bonus.”
It’s also just as important to consider a school’s faculty: who they are, what their specialties and areas of interest are, and what the faculty to student ratio is.
Don’t forget to think outside the classroom. Hiring managers are looking for library experience as well as coursework, so seek out volunteer opportunities, internships, and (if you’re lucky) paid work experience to complement your course load.
There are four main categories of librarianship: public, academic, special, and school. There are opportunities for further specialization within each, and the right program can help to put you on this path quickly. Common LIS specializations include:
- Teacher Librarian/School Library Media Specialist
- Health Sciences
- Information Architecture/Informatics
Many schools offer dual degree programs, or the ability to earn two master’s degrees concurrently. This may be especially useful if you’re planning for a career in academic librarianship. Common degrees complementary to the MLS/MLIS are:
- Public Administration
- Children’s Literature
- Juris Doctor (J.D.)
If you are a midcareer professional (with significant library experience) seeking a graduate-level degree, alternatives to the MLS/MLIS include a Master of Library Management or a Master of Information Management. If you are considering a career in archival work, the Society of American Archivists has compiled a guide for those interested in a graduate program in archival studies.
You are here
For many applicants, relocation is not a realistic option, so the choice is between local programs in their hometown and online options. But for those who can relocate, if you plan to be a residential student, consider how the location of the program might cost you in other ways. If you plan to attend school full-time, living expenses will loom a lot larger in the absence of a full-time paycheck, so a location with a lower cost of living may make a big difference. If you’re debating whether to keep your full-time job, consider that your limited schedule will make it trickier to land LIS-related volunteer/work experience (unless, of course, you are already working in libraries). Urban locations will have more opportunities for working, and networking, but in certain cities the cost of living will be higher.
If the program you like has other library schools congregated in the area, how will this affect your ability to get work experience while in school and your job prospects after graduation? Will the competition for professional jobs be so fierce as to force you to leave all of your newly formed contacts behind for employment elsewhere?
Online or not?
You may be weighing the pros and cons of a fully or partially online program. For those considering fully online but not sure if it will be a good fit for your learning needs, take a Self-Assessment for Distance Learners. Or put yourself through the paces of a rigorous online course for free via Coursera, Khan Academy, or edX.
If you know that online will be your best choice, not to worry, you have plenty of options. “Nearly half of the 57 ALA-accredited programs are 100 percent online; 13 are primarily online, and 23 are partially online,” says Michael Stephens, assistant professor at San José State University’s online School of Library and Information Science and LJ’s Office Hours columnist. “Students in our program get at least the same opportunities as students who attend residential programs, including internships, award-winning student chapters, advising, faculty office hours, a student research journal, research assistant opportunities, etc.”
Make sure that the school makes learning, volunteer/working, and networking opportunities available to its online students. Cautions Stephens, “Sometimes when a school has both residential and online programs, many of the opportunities (guest speakers, student chapter meetings, tours, events, meetings, internships, etc.) take place on campus (or nearby) and are not easily accessible to online students.”
For many, library school is the first chance to start building the relationships that will carry over into your new career. Feeling as if you are a part of your LIS program—and not just tuning in for lectures—is important. Student groups and organizations, both formal and informal, help to build rapport and can even serve to influence higher-level program decisions.
Additionally, investigate the support services available to students, such as academic advising, job placement, and formal and informal faculty mentorships. The opportunities that a school makes available for its students should influence your decision just as much as—if not more than—the curriculum.
Many LIS programs share common admission requirements such as a statement of graduate objectives, bachelor’s degree with a minimum 3.0 average, a résumé, letters of recommendation, and more. Some schools ask for a Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) score, while others make it optional or don’t ask for it at all.
Once you’re ready to apply, give yourself enough time to get all your application materials in order and write a solid essay. Overall, it’s important to consider what might happen if you are keen to get started but are not accepted into your school of choice. If that’s even a possibility, it’s worth applying to your second and even third picks.
In the end, selecting a school is a gamble. You’ll find that certain ones feel right, seem to have a “fit.” There will be frustrations: classes and faculty may disappoint, and there’s the inevitable infuriating group project. But LIS schools are working to stay ahead of a rapidly changing profession. If LJ’s perennial guide to becoming a modern-day librarian (“How To Become a 21st-Century Librarian”) has “changed significantly in less than a decade,” imagine how reactive LIS schools need to be.
In the end, where you go to school will not make that big of a difference. What matters is what you do with your time while you’re there. Good luck, and see you on the other side.
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
- How many credits are needed to graduate, and what is the cost per credit?
- Is there state-supported tuition for state residents?
- If so, what requirements must you meet to count as a resident of that state?
- Does the school have reciprocal tuition agreements with other states?
- Are online students offered in-state rates even if they are not residents?
- What other campus fees are included in the tuition or charged separately?
- What is the estimated cost of books and supplies?
- What is the student insurance rate, how often is it charged, and how might you opt out?
- What is the estimated total cost of the degree?
- Does the school participate in the federal student aid program?
- What other financial aid services does the institution offer?
- How is eligibility for financial aid assessed?
- What kinds of financial aid is offered (tuition, fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation)?
- What enrollment status must students maintain to qualify for financial aid?
- What program-specific scholarships are available to LIS students?
- What general LIS scholarships are nationally available?
- What kinds of graduate assistantships are available to LIS students?
- Do they include a tuition waiver?
- What other LIS student employment positions are available?
- What general campus work opportunities are available?
- Is the program offered in quarters or semesters?
- What are the core classes?
- What elective classes are offered and how frequently?
- Which technology classes are offered? Which are required?
- What is the graduate degree project or requirement (thesis, practicum, research project, exam, etc.)?
- If the school offers courses both online and offline, are required courses offered online-only or also in person?
- Does the program offer internships, practicums, and/or independent study as part of its curriculum?
- Does the school belong to a consortia?
- Are course credits recognized from other programs?
- Can credits be earned from other graduate-level courses?
- Are credits recognized from an existing master’s degree?
- Are doctorate degree programs available?
- Who are the faculty and what are their backgrounds?
- Where and what do the faculty publish?
- Does it match your areas of interest?
- Have faculty members won any awards?
- What is the level of faculty professional involvement (professional societies, committee work, etc.)?
- What is the faculty/student ratio?
- Do recent alumni feel the curriculum adequately prepared them for professional-level work?
- Does the program provide recommended academic tracks or course listings in a designated specialization/concentration of interest to you?
- How often have the courses that you want to take run in the past few years?
- How many professors in your speciality are there, and are any of them about to take a sabbatical or otherwise become unavailable?
- Does the program offer alternative master’s degrees to the MLS/MLIS?
- What concurrent degree options are available, what is the cost, and what are the requirements?
- What is the cost of living in the area you hope to attend school?
- How large is the campus, and where can you expect to live relative to the campus?
- What opportunities are there for out-of-program working, learning, and networking?
- How many libraries/information centers/museums and archives are in the area?
- What is the relationship between the school and these institutions?
- How many other library schools are in the state or region?
- What is the job market like for new LIS graduates in the state or region?
- Does the program require an on-campus orientation or other mandatory in-person events?
- What services are available for incoming students to learn the technology?
- Are courses synchronous, asynchronous, or a mixture?
- What elements comprise the online courses (lecture, class discussion, collaborative project work)?
- Does the school use any methodology to assess and make their online programs more effective?
- How do online students socialize and build rapport within their cohort?
- What other online opportunities are available to students?
- What opportunities are there for socialization and relationship-building among students?
- Is there an events calendar and what does it look like?
- What student groups and organizations are there and what do they do?
- Is there a student group presence on social media?
- Does the school have an ALA student chapter?
- Does the state library association offer discount rates for students?
- How receptive is the program to student feedback?
- How responsive is the faculty/program administration to student needs and concerns?
- Where do students live in relationship to campus?
- Would the school be considered a “commuter school”?
- What did recent alumni say about the relationships they were able to build within the program?
- Are recent alumni happy with the academic counseling they received?
- Does the program have a job center, and what are its placement rates?
- Are alumni eligible to receive placement services?
- If it is a hybrid program, are community resources offered for online students as well as in person?
- When are the application periods and how frequent are they?
- How are applicants evaluated? What is the acceptance rate for the program?
- What is the minimum (and maximum) amount of time allowed for completion of the required credits for the degree?
- Does the program offer technology training for newly accepted students?
- Does the program require applicants to submit a standardized test score?
- Will the program waive the standardized test requirement for previous graduate work?
- Will there be an in-person interview?
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Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy will be releasing the government's roadmap for Australia's participation in the digital economy today, but what does the industry expect from it?
The goal of the paper was to outline the key areas of focus for Government, industry and the community, according to the Minister.
"Australia needs a digitally aware and enabling government, a digitally confident, innovative and skilled industry and a digitally literate and empowered community. The paper explores the actions we need to advance to enhance these key factors for success," Conroy has previously said of the effort. "It is time now for government, industry and the community to work together to foster and harness the benefits on offer in the digital economy."
The big gun
Microsoft Australia chief technology Greg Stone said that although he welcomed the paper, he didn't believe it was about laying out strategies for the future, but more about creating a picture of what current conditions were and what was being done so the industry could reflect.
"This is part of the government laying the building blocks for enablement," he said. "If these things are referred to in that paper, then that paper becomes a useful point for the reflections of society." He didn't believe the paper was supposed to be prescriptive, but more a milestone to mark the government's progress — an opportunity for the industry to pause and think about the future.
"In many ways what people are looking to in this whole thing is not the paper," he said. "We see the paper as a signal. We see it as part of the process ... I'm certainly not looking to it for where we should be placing our bets."
The government had recently removed an enormous stumbling block in promising to create widespread broadband connectivity, Stone said. The executive believed it was now up to the industry to use its own levers to make the best of that.
Martin Hosking, chairman of Aussie start-ups RedBubble and Aconex and Looksmart co-founder, said that he hoped the final version went past the grab bag of issues which was the draft paper. "The draft paper has 500 different things. That's all well and good, but you have to focus on a number of small things so you can win," he said.
Australia has poor performance in the digital economy sphere, according to Hosking. "There's not a single Australian company in the top 500 internet companies in the world," he said, noting Australia needed to focus on why that has happened.
Three main issues Hosking picked out were a lack of recognition of Australia's distance from the global markets, the very low numbers of engineers and computer science graduates coming from universities and the difficulty of getting capital for internet ventures. "If you need $25 to start the next Google in Australia, you can't," he said.
If you need $25 to start the next Google in Australia, you can't
Start-up veteran Martin Hosking
Austrade was often helpful on the first issue, he believed, but he thought there could be more done to ameliorate the concern. On the graduates, Hosking suggested making certain degrees free for bright students. The capital issue was a hard one to resolve, he said, needing a long-term commitment from the government.
Bart Jellema, the director of all things cool and wonderful at coupon discovery start-up Tjoos and active organiser of community start-up initiatives such as Startup Camp and BootUpCamp said that first he thought the government needed to do something about the price of international bandwidth to make its National Broadband Network investment worthwhile.
He also said it took too much effort to wade through the red tape to get government grants: "When you're doing a start-up, there's so many other things you have to learn. There's so many programs out there. Sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth."
Jellema thought that there should be a general tax cut for all starting businesses to make it simple and help companies right from the start, when it could be just two people in a garage.
Mick Liubinskas, web strategist, co-founder of start-up consultant Pollenizer and start-up veteran also called for more funding to be invested in digital technologies. He said that funding prototypes had been made necessary because of the sinking economy, which had meant that money from the usual sources — family, friends and fools — had dried up.
The internet provider
iiNet regulatory officer Steve Dalby said he hoped to see government support for the development of new applications to drive take up of the National Broadband Network. "100Mbps might be cool to brag about, but an export industry based in Australia that exploits that bandwidth, with productivity and lifestyle-enhancing applications, is much more exciting," he said.
Investment in Australian software and hardware development that could be traded to the rest of the world was needed. It would be great if there was an iPhone apps store-like model for the National Broadband Network, Dalby said.
The support could come in increased funding for the private sector, as well as universities, TAFEs, CSIRO — anyone who wanted to get creative. "The NBN should put Australia at the cutting edge in this world. Generalities about 'e-Health' and 'smart grids' just doesn't cut it anymore, it needs to be driven by incentives aimed at developing real applications," he said.
Conroy's opposite Nick Minchin was not impressed by the report, because he saw it as a summary of where Australia was at, as opposed to providing any clarity on how the government intended to deal with the issues the industry faced.
He singled out convergence as one issue he believed required more clarity — those areas where boundaries were blurred between broadcasters, content providers and telcos.
He agreed with the paper's points on the dangers of badly constructed regulation, but pointed out the hypocrisy of saying that the digital economy was market-led while supporting an enormous government owned investment in it — the National Broadband Network.
"The reality is there is currently a great deal of uncertainty in the sector and most of that has been caused by the government's mishandling of broadband policy since coming to office," Minchin said.
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Dog Days Of SummerWritten by: Edsel Walker on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Beneath the hot summer sun, the young players engage in conditioning drills.
The coach encourages, motivates, and inspires. He is a clone of Norman Vincent Peale and vocalizes The Powers of Positive Thinking. He will change a bit in the weeks to come and be less nurturing. The players all await the inevitable volcanic eruption of emotion that is sure to come. The coach will bite his whistle and order his troops to run, or to crawl the length of the field crab style.
Football is a classroom all its own. The lessons are unique and will follow these young men long after their playing days.
Where sweat is the price of progress and pain can be a single snap away. The lessons are courage and commitment . The classroom bell is replaced by the shrill of the whistle. The game is believed by many to be the ultimate team sport. The players are taught to work together and learn that no one reaches the end zone by themselves. The platform of victory is not reached alone. The chain that supports the weight of its task is effective because each of its links are strong. The multiple weight lifting sessions and conditioning drills unify the players. They develop a true sense of team.
But these are the dog days of summer, and everybody is undefeated and unscored upon. The coaches dream and scheme of mismatches between the hashes. There are jobs to be won. The reality of the near future is blocking and tackling. The shorts and shirtless look will be a memory. The pads and helmets will separate some from others. The pretenders are posing as contenders until two a days. Big hits will bring symphonies of ooohs, aaahs and atta boys. The fans watching practice and the coaches will smile.
The game is about Friday nights. The smells of the concessions. The buzz of the crowd. The cheerleaders, majorettes and the band. Broken field runs and backside blitzes. Backyard battles with neighboring communities. Bragging rights are important to the people who pay their three or four dollars to view the spectacle. If victory is not achievable, may the team play with heart, spirit, and fight to the very end. The bright lights that shine on the stage of green will fade to black. They will rest until a future Friday.
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New Linux Threads™!
I’m proud to announce that I’m working with KayFerg.com in producing some new, design worthy, Linux apparel. Since this venture is still in the beginning phases, we’d really love some feedback from everyone, especially the Linux community. Visit her site, take a lookie-loo (or purchase something) and post your feedback here.
The Designs We’re Looking For
The slogan for the “teaser” shirt came from the signature I use in Gmail. It may not appeal to everyone, but I got a kick out of it and knowing that I can have it on a tee – well, that just made my FOSSy-day!
With that said, we are really looking for input on other concepts from the community. We don’t want to have too many “wordy” slogan-like tees, such as “There’s no place like ~”, “RTFM”, etc. The main idea is to really make designer apparel, so even if the people looking at your shirt, don’t get the underline message – they can still say, “Cool shirt! Where’d you get it?”
Also, for our protection and yours please only convey concepts (i.e. “How about a shirt that says; When life gives you lemons, make Linuxade”). Copyright infringement is a sensitive issue for everyone and since KayFerg.com is handling the design/art aspect of the shirts they cannot accept or look at any images, drawings or anything that resembles artwork, so please do not post those things in your feedback. It will not be considered. Okay… I got the legal jargon out of the way!
Wait, Lurking, Feeding the Need
I’m very excited to see this idea materialize. I really think the combination of my enthusiasm for Linux and working with KayFerg.com should produce some really cool apparel for my Linux community. I’ve been wanting to show the world my love for Linux, but most of the shirts out there really seem lame. I mean not to offend, but that’s my take on what I’ve seen thus far.
KayFerg.com is going to be a vendor at Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 and 15 designs are currently in the works (scheduled to be released in September). Since these apparels are for you, your feedback on designs and concepts is greatly appreciated. ALSO, if KayFerg.com decides to design a shirt around a concept you were the first to contribute, you will get a FREE shirt for yourself. Lets really run with the essense of “open source” and see what the community can produce! “Go Team Venture!” (Venture Bros. quote, if you don’t know)
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ANNVILLE >> For most local swimmers, Sunday's Mid-Penn All-Star Meet at the Annville-Cleona Community pool marked the final lap of the competitive summer season. The rest earned one more chance to make a splash at next weekend's Mid-Cap Championships hosted by Central York High School.
Lebanon County swimmers claimed gold medals in 20 of the 76 races at Sunday's All-Star Meet. The Palmyra Aquatic Club, Falcons Swim Club/Lebanon YMCA and host Annville-Cleona Otters combined to produce 17 individual winners and three first-place relays.
The Otters combination of Olivia Cheslock and Brookelle Anderson led the way as triple winners. Cheslock raced to victory in the 100-meter freestyle, 50 backstroke and 100 individual medley for 10-and-under girls. Anderson touched first in the 100 free, 50 free and 50 butterfly for 12-and-under girls.
In addition, elder Otters Ethan Gehenio and Katie Wingert both completed the day as double winners.
Gehenio, a recent Northern Lebanon graduate, blitzed the field in the 50 back (27:39) and 100 IM (1:01.36). Meanwhile, Wingert won the 50 fly (30.45) and 100 IM (1:11.07) for girls' 15-18.
Otters head coach Jim Gardner also received a blue-ribbon effort from Allison Metzgar in the 8-and-under girls' 25 breastroke.
As for Palmyra, Peyten Lyons and Ellie Keck set the pace for the 'B' Division champion Cougars. Lyons reeled in the unlimited girls' 50 breast title in 32.44. Keck turned in the top time in the girls' 13-14 50 fly.
Two Palmyra relays also checked in first in their respective races for head coach Cynthia Lyons. The 13-14 girls' 200 medley consisted of Keck, Shealyn Trostle, Karly Bruce and anchor Madeline Wolfe. The Palmyra boys' 11-12 medley quartet featured Daniel Leach, Zachary Toth, Nicholas Machinga and Stephen Lyons.
The Falcon Swim Club/Lebanon YMCA tacked on five victories to the county total Sunday. Cedar Crest varsity swimmers Glaucio Silva and Jadyn Bord swept the boys' and girls' 15-18 breaststroke. Silva, a rising junior, registered a personal record of 32.05. Bord, soon-to-be-a-sophomore, clocked in at 37.96.
Caity Gelgot added a win in the unlimited girls' 50 free (28.82), and Alex Hain handled the competition in the 10-under boys' 100 freestyle for Falcon/LEBY coach Dustin Long. Cedar Crest also claimed the 15-18 girls' 200 medley relay, which included Bord, Gelgot, Caroline Gelgot and anchor Kelsey Lyter (2:18.28).
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July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nikko Asset Management Co. this week began choosing lead underwriters for an initial public offering, said three people familiar with the plan, setting up the first debut share sale by a major Japanese asset manager in a decade.
Nikko Asset is preparing to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as March 31, according to the people. Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co. will sell some of its stake in a global offering, said the people who declined to be identified as the process is private.
Japan’s equity capital market has started to recover after share sales plunged in the wake of the earthquake in March. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average has pared losses since the disaster to about 5 percent from as much as 18 percent, and Japan Airlines Co., Tokyo Metro Co. and Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. are among companies looking to sell shares to the public.
“This deal will provide a litmus test of Japan’s asset management business, and rivals are likely to follow,” said Fumiyuki Nakanishi, senior strategist at SMBC Friend Securities Co. in Tokyo. “By listing, Nikko Asset will improve its visibility in Japan and abroad, making it easier to raise funds and sell its products.”
Nikko Asset will conduct so-called beauty contests this month to select managers for the offering, the people said. The firm’s Tokyo-based spokeswoman Kyoko Wada declined to comment, as did Sumitomo Trust’s Tokyo-based spokesman Yasushi Kojima.
Nomura, Goldman Sachs
Citigroup Inc., which acquired Nikko Asset from Nikko Cordial Corp. in 2008, sold the company to Sumitomo Trust as part of a transaction that valued it at 120 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in October 2009.
Nomura Holdings Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup, Daiwa Securities Group Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. are among potential bidders to manage the sale, the people said. Nomura was No. 1 underwriter for Japanese equity sales in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Since the earthquake on March 11, 28 Japanese companies sold shares in public offerings worth 240 billion yen in total, In the same period a year earlier, 35 companies sold stock worth 2 trillion yen, according to the data. Goldman Sachs appointed two senior bankers to run Japanese equity and bond underwriting to boost its investment banking business following the quake.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., the parent of Sumitomo Trust, fell 1.4 percent to 284 yen at the close of trading in Tokyo. The Nikkei 225 slid 0.3 percent.
Nikko Asset, founded in 1959, employs 572 staff including 72 fund managers, and has 12.8 trillion yen under management. The investment management firm, run by Chief Executive Officer Timothy McCarthy, has subsidiaries in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney.
In Japan, Nomura Asset Management Co. and Daiwa Asset Management Co. are among investment companies that remain unlisted. Asset manager Sparx Group Co. listed on the Jasdaq exchange in 2001.
“The shares will gain popularity among overseas investors as Nikko Asset operates globally and has opportunities to merge with other asset managers under Sumitomo Trust’s umbrella,” Nakanishi said.
Sumitomo Trust and Nikko Asset agreed to buy DBS Asset Management from DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, for S$137 million ($113 million) to tap business from the expanding ranks of wealthy Asians, the companies said in December.
To contact the reporter on this story: Takahiko Hyuga in Tokyo at email@example.com
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4 education projects are awarded grants
The Wayzata Public Schools Education Foundation has selected four recipients for its “From Excellent to Exceptional” grant program. The projects, which will receive about $19,500 total in funding for 2014-15 programming, are:
• “Lego Robotics”: Expansion kits for Lego Robotics project at all three middle schools. Submitted by Tyler Shepard.
• “Augmented Reality World Book Talk”: Innovative and interactive book talk project using apps and technology to engage students in reading. Submitted by Brad Gustafson, Greenwood Elementary.
• “Polar Heart Rate Monitor Initiative”: Heart rate monitors for all three of the district’s middle schools to help achieve state-guideline fitness levels. Submitted by Kristine Miska and Shelly Mozey.
• “Teaching for Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling in the Elementary Spanish Classroom”: Teacher education for TPR (Total Physical Response) to help facilitate all levels of Spanish learning at the elementary level. Submitted by Robyn Vethe.
Since 2007, the foundation’s “From Excellent to Exceptional” grant program has provided nearly $140,000 to projects in Wayzata schools in a variety of academic areas, including reading and literacy, sensory research, math, science, fine arts and special education.
Wayzata High team in Science Bowl finals
A team of students from Wayzata High School in Plymouth is among 11 teams of middle and high school students nationwide that will advance to April’s national finals in the 2014 National Science Bowl in Washington, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced last week.
Wayzata High’s team members are seniors Jayant Chaudhary, William Zeng and Nathan Stocking, junior Orien Zeng and sophomore Joseph Chen. For more information, go to http://tinyurl.com/lnr3xt5.
School makeup day scheduled for Feb. 17
Monday, Feb. 17, will be a school day for kindergarten through 12th-grade students in the Eden Prairie district, Superintendent Curt Tryggestad has announced.
Feb. 17 was initially scheduled as a day off for students and as a professional development day for teachers. Now it will serve to make up for instruction hours lost to school closings this exceptionally cold January.
The state requires public schools to accomplish a set number of instructional hours each year. Although districts build in a few extra hours each year to account for unexpected closures, Eden Prairie students have missed three school days on Jan. 7, 23 and 28.
Weigh in on district’s budget decisions
Eden Prairie parents, staff and community members are invited to attend one of two input sessions as part of the district’s budget-reduction process. The district is anticipating a budget gap of about $4 million for the 2014-15 school year.
Both sessions are scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. on the following dates:
• Wednesday, Feb. 5, east commons, Eden Prairie High School.
• Thursday, Feb. 6, cafeteria, Central Middle School.
Session participants will help prioritize potential budget reductions for the 2014-15 school year and help to identify possible reductions for the 2015-16 school year, which will be needed if November’s operating levy is not approved.
The district is asking individuals to register to attend a session. To register, go to http://tinyurl.com/n27v355.
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JUNEAU - Highland Light Seafoods, LLC, an Alaskan seafood processor with headquarters in Seattle, has agreed to pay a $135,000 penalty to settle federal Clean Water Act violations, according to an EPA order.
Based on an inspection in December 2008, EPA found that the Highland Light Seafoods' 160-foot catcher-processor vessel, Westward Wind, was not in compliance with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit while operating in Alaskan waters, according to the EPA.
EPA said Highland Light Seafoods over the past five years failed to maintain records documenting visual monitoring of the effluent grind size and waste conveyance systems; failed in 2004 and 2005 to maintain records documenting visual monitoring of the shoreline and sea surface; violated its NPDES permit in 2005 when the Westward Wind discharged to Nazan Bay; discharged near the Pribilof Islands in 2006 without an authorized NPDES permit; discharged seafood waste on numerous occasions in quantities greater than the company specified in its application; and failed to update its application after it made significant changes in its operation.
The penalty amount was driven by the lack of demonstration that the crew of the Westward Wind was monitoring its operation for the last five years, NPDES Compliance Manager Kim Ogle said.
The NPDES permit program, a key part of the Clean Water Act, controls water pollution by regulating sources that discharge pollutants into waters of the United States.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
His own family was taken from him long ago. It was the summer of 1857 when they first arrived in Washington and he was only 9 years old. Three years later, his mother would die of a respiratory infection. Five years after that, his sister would head out into the forest one day and never return.
Somehow, Talmadge managed to persist on his own. He continued to tend the orchards that he and his family started from nothing more than two ailing Gravensteins and a small plot of vegetables. The orchards, of course, were significantly larger now. After he acquired more land with the help of the Homestead Act of 1862, he had grown the orchards to nearly 25 acres, widening the space between himself and his nearest neighbors at the same time.
Maybe families are made by the people we find and lose.
Everything Talmadge had come to know about being alone, except when he sold his fruit at market, comes to an unexpected end when two runaway girls, both pregnant survivors, seek shelter in his orchards. These girls, despite being damaged and distressed, change his outlook about everything.
Even before they followed him home, he was immediately taken by these hungry and dirty creatures who were busy contemplating how they might steal his apples and apricots. If he dozed by his wagon before the churches let out, they would eat for the first time in days.
When Talmadge did doze off, he wouldn't wake up again until one of the boys from town hollered at him. He had been robbed and the boy offered to chase them down. But Talmadge didn't want to bother. He was more curious than furious over the loss of a few apples.
He became even more curious when they camped themselves at the foot of his orchard a few days later. Their appearance had rekindled a memory, two ghosts who reminded Talmadge of his own lost sister.
In the days that followed, the two girls would only take one tentative step after the next, slowly shortening the space between them. From their point of view, it was only out of necessity. Talmadge had food, and taking it from a man was barely the lesser of two evils against the prospect of starvation.
A story is set in the near wilderness of a different era.
Instead, between her bouts of vidid imagery, Coplin tells the story of this rare and gentle heart, a man who lives in a time and a place that was anything but tame. In fact, the world around him is incredibly harsh.
Jane and Della, for example, had good cause to run away. But even they have become so familiar with an unsympathetic world, they never speak of the horrific lives they were dealt. They leave it up to Talmadge to discover that on his own when he sets out to discover their past. What he finds quickly ends any notion of reuniting a family as he had once hoped someone would do for him and sister.
Instead, with some assistance from an herbalist, midwife, and his closest neighbor Miss Caroline Middey, he decides to protect them (and their babies) the best he can. He does so despite knowing that any tranquility the three of them find will eventually come to an end. It is only a matter of time before the man who wants them back will change the trajectory of all their lives in a willful atrocity.
A quick wrap without spoilers and a note about the author.
After receiving her degree from University of Oregon, and MFA from the University of Minnesota, Coplin received residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Ledig House International Writers Residency Program in Ghent, New York. No surprise, Coplin's considerable insight in her novel comes in part from bring raised amongst her grandfather's orchards in Washington state.
The Orchardist By Amanda Coplin Picks Up 9.4 On The Liquid Hip Richter Scale.
This is the kind of book that proves there are many different kinds of cool, with some of them loud and others just a sorrowful whisper. The Orchardist falls decidedly in the latter column, but only in so far as the orchard shelters those against the much darker and disquieting world.
Even so, every trip away is a constant reminder that the world is big enough to swallow them all up. Isolation and inoculation are two different things after all.
Although the novel isn't packed with as much action as many of our picks, it's fitting for anyone who appreciates a richly drawn atmosphere and characters you might know better than yourself. You can find The Orchardist: A Novel at Amazon or download it for iBooks. You can also order the novel from Barnes & Noble. The audiobook version is read by Mark Bramhall, who accurately captures the somber tone.
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IBM: Phishing scams a major cause of bank breaches
An IBM study, not surprisingly, found that human error is a leading cause of data breaches in banks.
Malicious attachments and links, ShellShock and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks were the top three cyber threats facing the financial sector, which suffered having 20 million records breached last year, according to a new study released by IBM.
The study, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute for IBM, said the average cost per lost record was $170 with the average data breach costing a bank or financial institution $3.79 million. And one of the prime causes is human error.
The report found 18 percent of the attacks resulted from employees specifically clicking on a dangerous link or falling prey to one of the advanced social engineering tricks being used and opening a malicious email attachment. When other forms of human error are included the total number of attacks to people hits 25 percent.
Another 18 percent of the incidents centered on attackers using ShellShock, which exploits vulnerabilities found in the GNU Bash shell used in Linux, Solaris and the Mac OS.
DOS attacks were the third most prevalent types. While logic would dictate that anyone attacking a bank would be looking to make a financial score, Scott Craig, a threat researcher at IBM, wrote these attackers could be trying to score political points by shutting down a bank's operation. However, he did admit there could be a financial component to a DOS attack with the criminal looking for a payout to stop the assualt.
Even though human error is a huge problem. in general. the top root cause of data breaches within the financial sector was found by IBM to be malicious or criminal attacks. These comprised 47 percent of all attacks, with system glitches causing 29 percent of the breaches and human error 25 percent.
The biggest change IBM saw in financial sector internet crime is a 55 percent increase in attacks focused on extortion or the direct theft of money from the institution.
The study found a large shift in the type of trojans being employed with Dyre having been the most common in 2015, despite its use drying up starting last November. Dyre's usage was up 19 percent year over year and was used in 24 percent of all attacks. It is thought that Russian authorities took down the gang behind Dyre.
“We saw Dyre fall silent around November 18, 2015. This was not the first time the servers went quiet; we thought it was possible the gang was simply taking a ‘time out' it's not so uncommon to see that,” Limor Kessem, a researcher with IBM Security, told SCMagazine.com in an email Thursday. “But we have not seen Dyre come back, and have seen very few new infections, which could be chalked up to people opening spam emails late after they were sent.”
The next most popular trojans used were Neverquest and Bugat. In fourth place was Zeus, which had been the most widely used trojan in 2014.
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http://www.scmagazine.com/ibm-phishing-scams-a-major-cause-of-bank-breaches/article/473617/
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The announcement was as stunning as it was swift.
Mere days after a recording surfaced of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling spewing hateful comments toward African-Americans, Sterling was banned for life by the NBA.
Banned for life. Wow.
Good for the NBA. Good for new commissioner Adam Silver, who swung his sword mightily and quickly, ridding the league of a despicable human being. Good that it was announced for all of us to see that the venomous ramblings of an 80-year-old bigot will not be tolerated.
Still, today is no reason to celebrate.
Make no mistake, Silver did the right thing.
He went as far as he could and needed to go, and much further than many thought he would. With anger and hurt in his voice, Silver had one of the finest moments in the history of sports commissioners.
He stood before the world and said that just because you have gobs of money, that just because you might come from an older generation of outdated and often tolerated prejudices, that just because you say something in the privacy of your own home, it doesn't make it okay to possess the views of a Southern plantation owner from the 1800s.
Just three months into his new job, Silver moved at warp speed to banish an owner who probably should have been kicked out of the NBA years ago for all of his misogynistic actions and racist views.
In the end, the right thing happened. Sterling is gone. Soon he will be forced to sell his team. Then he will live the rest of his life buried in secluded shame.
That's how it should be.
This is a pivotal moment. Not only for Silver. Not only for the NBA. But in the continuing battle for civil rights.
But let's hold the applause, please. This is far from over.
Perhaps you cheered when you heard Silver had shoved Sterling out of the league for good. Maybe you felt a sense of pride when you realized that public outrage led the NBA to act so harshly. Maybe you feel a little better today knowing that most of us share the belief that racial intolerance cannot be tolerated.
And there is nothing wrong with feeling good that justice is being done and this particular brush fire of racism is being stomped out.
But let's not confuse things. This isn't Dr. King saying he has a dream. This isn't Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier.
Today is not the time to stand up and proudly declare that racism is a thing of the past in this country.
In fact, it's a reminder that it still exists.
You think Sterling woke up last week and, for the first time, decided to warm up for a KKK tryout? Do you think he's the only owner in sports who, privately, thinks like this? Don't you wonder what else we might hear if we secretly recorded the private conversations of every other NBA owner?
Of every sports owner?
Of every person?
These days, racism doesn't come in the form of burning crosses, separate water fountains and nooses hanging over trees.
Instead, it comes in the form of an NBA owner telling his mistress to not bring African-Americans to his games or to post photos of them on Instagram. It comes in the drunken rage of an NFL player at a concert looking for a fight and dropping the n-word. It comes in the form of those defending Sterling's words just because the First Amendment says we can't throw him in jail.
These forms of racism are more subtle than white hoods, but are very much as real and dangerous and disgusting.
Hate is hate, no matter what form it comes in.
It also will come in the form of angry emails in reaction to this column.
Yes, we have come far. But we still have so far to go and I worry that Tuesday will soon be forgotten.
Here is now my fear: Sterling goes away, the NBA goes back to work, the fans return to cheering dunks and we all move on as if this whole thing never happened. Or, worse yet, we all pat ourselves on the back like we've accomplished something.
Yes, Sterling is gone and that is good. But this is just one chapter in a very ugly book that is far from being completed.
A lot of good was done Tuesday.
Silver established himself as the type of person you want to lead the NBA. Clippers players and fans got their team back. They can, once again, proudly cheer and wear the Clippers colors.
Best of all, the NBA is finally rid of an owner who has been as deplorable as he has been lousy and, along the way, let it be known that there are consequences for speech and views steeped in hate and bias.
Maybe — hopefully — this will make many of us reexamine our beliefs and our thoughts, especially those we never share, those we hold deep inside.
Tuesday was a good day in the fight against hate and intolerance and racism.
But it wasn't the final day.
Until then, let's put our celebration on hold.
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http://www.tampabay.com/sports/basketball/nba/donald-sterling-ban-provides-good-result-but-not-the-end/2177468
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LANCASTER - It's here. Finally.
Undefeated Penn Manor.
Co-Section 1 leader Wilson.
The Comets and the Bulldogs are tied atop the heap in the section race.
Wilson is No. 1 in District 3 AAAA.
Penn Manor is No. 3 in District 3 AAAA.
The Bulldogs are riding a 34-game winning streak in section play and have won the last four Section 1 titles in a row - at 7-0 each time.
Wilson is at Penn Manor on Friday for a 7 p.m. kick with a lot riding on it.
Join me at PennLive.com for LIVE CHAT from the game, lauching at 6:30 p.m. from Millersville.
Tell a friend and spread the link.
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Scrapers, trenchers and manual graders. Roadbuilding machinery won't look like this again...
The newest roadbuilding machines can zoom over unmade ground in no time, with modern motor graders being particularly speedy.
It wasn't always this way of course. At one time split logs were used to grade roads, and devices thal loosely resembled horse-drawn trenchers were used for larger highway projects in some parts of the world. In fact, the very first continous excavators were most popular for building roads. According to Giant Earthmovers, most of the early grader manufacturers, such as Russell (who became Caterpillar)Austin-Western and Adams produced these machines.
Originally elevating graders were pulled by packs of horses and later by steam traction engines or crawler tractor. The elevating conveyor was powered by a chain or gear drive. The discharged material would then be loaded into wagons running alongside, or formed into ‘windrows' to make up the road base.
Again, according to Giant Earthmovers, the first continuous excavators were built by the New Era Manufacturing Company in 1866. This early machine was built from wood, though in later years it was built from metal following a takeover by Austin Manufacturing.
By the mid 1940s most manufacturers had abandoned elevating graders in favour of the more modern motor-graders and scrapers. Although the technology is outmoded today, the process was efficient as dirt was moved directly from the road surface to the embankment.
The King Road Drag was a grader implement for grading dirt roads that revolutionized the maintenance of the dirt roads in the early 1900s. It was invented by David Ward King who was a farmer whose farm was in Holt Township, near Maitland, Missouri.
It started out as two parallel logs with the cut side facing the front separated three feet by rigid separators and pulled by a team of two horses. Variations of the two-plank drag design but pulled by trucks or tractors are still used today to smooth the dirt infields of baseball diamonds.
In this simple design, the first log would remove clods and the second log would smooth the road. The logs were staggered so that dirt would be pushed to the center to create a crown so that water would rush off.
This replaced the old practice of dragging a road with a single log which left the surface unrepaired and rut filled. It also made it possible for farmers to improve roads near their homes without having to wait for government graders in the United States.
An important component of the grading process was that it had to occur when the road was wet.
This invention was the horse drawn forerunner of the modern day road grader. It was a sensation in its day. States passed laws requiring its use. The design was so simple that King did not enforce his patent rights. However he did tour the country explaining to how to use it.
All this happened years before the Gulf started to build modern highways. In fact, Abu Dhabi's first paved road was not completed until 1961. By this time, a full range of hydraulic machines were available, allowing the great stretches of highway se needed during the oil boom to be built in record time.
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Added Oct 25, 2011
The silhouette is “Princess line”
The trane is pinned on a back stay and a shoulder.
This material is expressed the design by Embroidery.
This dress is very heavy.
This material is"uchi-kake"(a silk gown worn in a traditional wedding ceremony of Japan.)
Uchi-kake is the fomal kimono that length is longer than a normal kimono.
Mostly,uchi-kake is colored,red,pink,green,blue,gold,etc.
When most holy case,weared “Shiro-muku”(All is white color).
Uchi-kake is expressed the handle which prays for happiness(For example, A pine / a crane / a fan. These are regarded as longevity and a design of the happiness in Japan)
A pine 松（ma-tsu)
A crane 鶴(Tsu-ru)
A fan 扇(o-u-gi)
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The world will be coming to Africa… and SAP has geared itself to accommodate this migration, particularly where it concerns the integration of applications across a myriad of industries and sectors on the continent.
Speaking at a roundtable on mobility and issues affecting businesses across Africa at the SAP Saphila 2012 conference, Robert Enslin, President, Global Customer Operations SAP AG, described the company’s Hana offering as “the solution for Africa”.
Hana is appliance software that is designed to aggregate substantial volumes of data and produce relevant results for the business in realtime.
Executive leadership at SAP used the conference forum to reiterate the value of Hana for emerging businesses in Africa.
“In the future to be able to serve your consumers means to serve the segment of one and the segment of one is you. Previously we served businesses and now we serve the ‘segment of one’ which means everything you do will be available to make decisions on. If you are a CIO and you don’t believe in big data to make decisions on, you will probably be out of a job quite quickly because your company can no longer afford to make decisions on historical trends…that’s old…people are making decisions on what happens right now,” explained Enslin.
This means that IT department has to react quickly and ensure that this channel is open for an immediate response.
“This is the future. You will never be able to make decisions in the luxury of an eight to five hour time frame. The world will come to Africa. There are seven billion people in the world, there will be ten… in order to feed all the people you have to find the next destination.China has already come to Africa, we’ve seen the Indians come to Africa, the Malaysians have come to Africa… it’s the next economic geography to expand. Seven of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Africa,” said Enslin.
There is an opportunity for businesses inAfricato adopt this technology and leapfrog traditional systems to position the businesses competitively.
Chris Tredger, Online Editor
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Aliases for VPS28 Gene
External Ids for VPS28 Gene
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for VPS28 Gene
This gene encodes a protein subunit of the ESCRT-I complex (endosomal complexes required for transport), which functions in the transport and sorting of proteins into subcellular vesicles. This complex can also be hijacked to facilitate the budding of enveloped viruses from the cell membrane. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2013]
GeneCards Summary for VPS28 Gene
VPS28 (VPS28, ESCRT-I Subunit) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with VPS28 include noonan syndrome 1. Among its related pathways are HIV Life Cycle and Infectious disease. GO annotations related to this gene include protein complex binding and ubiquitin binding.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for VPS28 Gene
Component of the ESCRT-I complex, a regulator of vesicular trafficking process.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Re: Handy to have spare parts
I like rescue tape too.
Absolutely, have to add that one.
I'll bet one of these and some wire would come in handy.
ClampTite Clamp Making Tool - J. S. Enterprises - www.clamptool.com
Anyone every use one?
The lesson from the Icarus story is not about human failing.
It is a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.
If you have an engineering problem solve it.
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Two men burglarized and ransacked a room at a Westside motel Tuesday afternoon, possibly looking for drugs that belonged to a man who was staying in the room when he was arrested three days earlier, Athens-Clarke police said.
The men called a manager at Intown Suites, 2044 N. Milledge Ave., and asked if they could retrieve their friend’s belongings, but they wouldn’t give their names and the manager denied their request, police said.
Two men showed up at the motel later that day and asked maintenance workers to let them in the room and became angry when turned down, police said.
Then, between 2 and 3 p.m., someone pried open the door and tore apart the room as if they were searching for something, according to police.
The man who had stayed in the room was arrested on Saturday when officers stopped his car in East Athens and found various drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills, and also a handgun, police said.
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http://onlineathens.com/blotter/2012-05-16/motel-room-ransacked-apparent-search-drugs
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Where are prices? Highest bid is an auction, which is illegal on this site. Read the rules about this.
Unless I specifically say so, I am NOT trading.
If I am selling a LOT, I will NOT break it up.
Ask for my "best price" and the price will go up.
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http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/4233656-post4.html
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also Q&A up:
Once again we want to welcome you to the new Darksiders II website. Being a part of our community means you will be the first to know when new trailers, screenshots, announcements and updates around Darksiders II are released.
The rumor-mill has been churning with speculation recently, so we wanted to put it to rest first here with our core fans: Darksiders II will be moving to release globally in August 2012, rather than June as previously announced. It’s just a short delay, but we promise the game you’ll have in August will be well worth the wait!
This is great news for the team at Vigil, because it allows additional time for polish and to ensure that all aspects of Darksiders II meet the high-quality bar the team is targeting. In game development, more time is always a good thing for quality and the Vigil team is dedicated to providing the definitive Darksiders experience.
A brief Q&A on the date change is below for any questions that you might have: http://bit.ly/J2R0Qm
Questions & Answers:
Q.) When will the game be available in North America?
A.) Darksiders II is scheduled to be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in August of 2012. The release date will vary by region (as they did with a June release). The exact street dates will be issued for each region in the days to come.
Q.) Has the date been pushed back to tie in with Nintendo’s WiiU™ launch?
A.) The date was shifted to ensure we meet the high quality threshold that we are committed to achieving. It has nothing to do with any other platform releases.
Q.) Is Darksiders II being pushed back because of the recent layoffs at Vigil Games?
A.) No, the staffing changes at Vigil Games have not impacted the release date.
Q.) Is content going to be cut from the game?
A.) Definitely not! As we approached the game’s completion date, the team asked for more time to polish the huge amount of content included in this ambitious project. We are all committed to making Darksiders II the highest-quality game possible and the additional time will allow the team to do just that. The game content remains unchanged, as do our future DLC plans.
Q.) Are you truly pushing the date back to make Darksiders II a better game?
A.) Absolutely, that is the only goal fueling this decision. Nothing is more important to us than quality and thankfully our company’s current operational position allows us to make the right choice for Darksiders II.
Q.) Aside from getting it later, will this affect my pre-order?
A.) Definitely not, everyone who has/does pre-order Darksiders II will receive the Limited Edition at release, along with any associated retail exclusive content.
Q.) Will the game definitely release in August or will it be delayed again?
A.) This small delay is to allow additional time for polish and bug fixing. As we’ve stated in numerous articles and videos, Darksiders II is substantially larger game than its predecessor and the ambition of this project requires extra time to polish to the high standards that Vigil Games and THQ are committed to.
If you have any further comments feel free to post them within the forums here:
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Photo: Anna Kim
Last week, Pantone revealed it's 2014 color of the year -- radiant orchid! It's a "captivating harmony of fuchsia, purple, and pink undertones," according to a press release. With three colors combined into one, that means there's a plethora of ways to use it inside and out of your wedding cake. Here's how:
1. Fresh Orchids - Luckily, orchids are in seaon year-round, so you can choose between varieties such as phalaenopsis, dendrobium, vandas, and mokara.
2. Ombre Frosting - Whether it's fondant or buttercream, have each tier trail from light to dark.
3. Fruity Flavors - Some of our favorite secret cake baker's flavors are champagne and three berry, lemon and passion fruit and wild strawberry with vanilla bean mascarpone.
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http://www.projectwedding.com/ideas/309952/3-ways-to-incorporate-radiant-orchid-into-your-wedding-cake
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Human Workshop has released Foley Bass Machine, a free bass synth for Kontakt.
Human Workshop's Durk Kooistra had this to say, "I do one to one tutoring with artists and sound designers via my website. And after the great contribution by Nolan, aka Frequent, a student asked me about using foley in kontakt to create heavy bass sounds. So that's exactly what we did. With the foley sounds in the pack from Nolan we created a set of patches and I later added a background and selected some parameters for the UI. Coincidentally Nolan has been doing lessons with me also, small world.
Besides the recordings of Nolan I used KSP scripting and built in FX. By adding FX chains in kontakt we can add harmonics. By using the scripting language to detune and set it in a nice legato mode we can end up with lovely sustained bass notes.
So after the session with my student I made a quick video and the UI and wanted to get this freebie to you all asap."
Pricing and Availability:
We take a look at the newest Nord Drum
Doepfer and Intellijel included and more to come!
These neat little interfaces look very nice indeed!
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http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2013/12/09/free-bass-synth-for-kontakt/
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Il Vecchio Ginepro
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... Olbia for a look see as it was only a couple of miles away.
On the way we passed “Maltese Falcon” a Canadian yacht which has provided some really
good info on anchorages in Italy etc., which we have found extremely useful. Took a photo and are hoping to pass on our thanks.
Whilst there we decided to stay especially as there is a substantial supermarket not
ar from the town quay.
The town quay, which ...
Thursday 20 August
We could easily stayanother day but the winds are supposed to change direction andincrease, so we moved to another anchorage.
Went ashore and completed some provisioning and enjoyed a reasonable lunch.
The water doesn't look that inviting so mainly chilled for the remainder of the day.
Friday 21 August
Moved a few miles further east and found a pretty little anchorage near Porto Pollo.
Took the dinghy ashore trying to ...
... water is just the clearest aquamarine and you can see quite clearly to the bottom. We're entering the Smeralda (Emerald) coast.
Wednesday 19 August
The winds were pretty strong during the night so we got up in the middle of it and folded up the bemini which was rattling due to the wind. This gave us the chance to see the night sky which was impressive as well as witnessing another thunderstorm in ...
... are so big we all comment we should have shared them but we manage to finish them. Let's face it we are now accustomed to eating copious amounts of food! We chat to a few of the young local boys who have stopped for lunch and they are fascinated by the fact that we have come all the way from Australia. They are impressed and curious at the same time. It's a great little village very picturesque with friendly ...
... SantaTeresa in Sardinia.....about 1 hour.
Santa Teresa is on the on the northern most tip of Sardinia, and the coast. Of Corsica can be seen from this mainland. The town has a population of 5000 but increases this time of the year to 10,000 to 15,000. [PHOTO_ID_R=santa-teresa
We arrived at about 5pm and took a tour of the town centre.
Dinner that night was cod fish pieces and muscles with a cummin sauce and salad.
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http://www.travelpod.com/hotel/Il_Vecchio_Ginepro-Arzachena.html
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Wall Refrigerator motor clicking...
and after the clicking it doesn't kick in. Most people don't know where to start on this late 1950's refrigerator that's in good condition. Does anyone know if these motors can be replaced or rebuilt and who does it. Location Massachusetts - North Shore.
Re: Wall Refrigerator motor clicking...
Let me ask you this: how do you consider this very old 60 + year old refrigirator to be "in good condition" if it needs a new motor?
Some electric companies will buy this appliance from you if you bought a new one. Just do it.
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https://advice.thisoldhouse.com/showthread.php?120356-Wall-Refrigerator-motor-clicking&mode=hybrid
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"I like Song Seung-heon but I don't' love him haha".
He's been saying that Song Seung-heon was his closest friend since his debut until now and has mentioned his name in a recent TV program too.
So Ji-sub claimed, "I will like the guy as long as I live. We are completely different individuals with different tastes. I will always remember him helping me when I was distressed. I will always be good to him".
When reporters asked if So Ji-sub was being too fond of him he said, "Song Seung-heon is very appealing as a man. There are many people of the same age, older or younger that look up to him. But that doesn't mean I love him".
About working together he said, "One reason why we get along so well is because we are very different. To think about it, our works have been very different too. He is a good brother, colleague and actor".
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A project of the Partnership for a New American Economy
Though a predominantly conservative state, policymakers in Utah and members of the community have managed to find a middle ground on immigration issues. In 2010, business leaders, community activists, religious leaders, law enforcement officials, and many other Utah residents came together to write the Utah Compact, a declaration calling for smart immigration reform that is business friendly and compassionate. The Utah Compact is widely credited with helping push through a series of immigration bills that Governor Gary R. Herbert signed into law in 2011. The measures included a guest-worker permit law, that allows undocumented immigrants to stay in the state as long as they pay a fine, are actively working, and have no criminal record. The law also requires law enforcement officials to verify the immigration status of people arrested for felonies and some misdemeanors. Although each measure had its opponents, this balanced approach to state immigration law was the first bill of its kind in the nation, and many cited it as a possible model for federal policy. The Utah Compact has inspired several other states to do the same - Indiana and Iowa have signed identical declarations, and other states are considering following suit.
Size of foreign-born population (2013)
Percent of state’s population that is immigrant
Growth in foreign-born population (2000-2013)
Top countries of origin
This kind of legislation is all the more important in Utah, a state that has seen its foreign-born population jump by almost 50 percent between 2000 and 2013. Today, according to the American Community Survey, in 2013 more than 8 percent of Utah’s population is foreign-born, or over 230,000 residents. The largest groups are from Mexico, Canada, and China. Mexicans in particular constitute a large community in Utah and they contribute heavily to the state’s economy. According to a study by the University of Utah, Mexican immigrants there have more than $1 billion in purchasing power and pay millions in taxes.
Immigrant students in Utah also contribute to critical Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM fields. Between 2008 and 2018, STEM industries are projected to play a key role in US economic growth, adding jobs 73 percent faster than the rest of the economy. For a state like Utah, fixing the US immigration system so that it is easier for students trained in America to remain in the country after graduation will be critical. In 2013, 29 percent of the students earning Master’s or PhDs in STEM fields from the state’s research-intensive universities were foreign-born. More than half of the students earning engineering PhDs in the state in recent years were also noncitizens.
Foreign-born students create jobs for Utah and often provide the technological innovations that drive economic growth in the state. A recent study by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the American Enterprise Institute found that for every 100 foreign-born graduate of a US Master’s or PhD program who stays in the United States working in a STEM field, 262 jobs are created for Americans. That translates into a significant employment boost for Utah, where the state’s share of foreign-born STEM advanced degree holders working in STEM fields grew significantly between 2000 and 2010, by 72%. By 2020, Utah will need to 81,200 new STEM jobs and immigrants will play a key role in occupying these positions and continuing to promote economic growth.
Immigration Reform = Economic Growth in Utah
Reforming our immigration system will generate millions of dollars and thousands of jobs across Utah. According to Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), undocumented immigrants who enroll in a legal path to citizenship will generate more than 6,100 jobs and more than $475 million for the state by 2020. Expanding the number of both high-skilled (H-1B) visas will also have positive economic effects. The new H-1B visas awarded to Utah between 2010 and 2013 will translate into 1,662 new jobs for U.S.-born workers in the state by 2020. REMI estimates that expansion of the H-1B program would result in more than 1,400 jobs and add more than $117 million to Gross State Product by 2014.
In Utah, creating a path to citizenship and expanding the high-skilled visa program would add a total of more than $210 million to Gross State Product in 2014.
A recent study by the Partnership for a New American Economy also found that Hispanics account for $3.7 billion in Utah’s spending power. Hispanics also contributed $1.1 billion in combined federal, state, and local taxes. A total of $ 600 million of those taxes went to Social Security and $100 million was paid to the Medicare trust fund.
Immigrants are helping to grow housing wealth in some key Utah counties as well. Between 2000 and 2010, more than 27,000 immigrants arrived in Salt Lake County, the area that includes the city of Salt Lake City. By moving into neighborhoods formerly in decline, immigrants play a role in adding to the housing wealth of the neighborhood’s residents. That influx of immigrants added $3135 to the value of the average home in the county, or more than $1 billion to housing wealth there overall.
Immigrant residents are also contributing to Utah’s economy through entrepreneurship. In 2010, 8.5 percent of business owners in Utah were immigrants, despite making up just 8.4 percent of the total state population. Between 2006-2010, immigrant-owned businesses generated more than $380 million in income annually for the state as well. Such immigrants will be critical in helping Utah, much like the rest of the country, overcome the current economic slowdown by creating jobs. During the past 30 years, the single biggest driving force behind net job creation in America has been new business generation.
Immigrant entrepreneurs have long been a critical part Utah’s economy. One of the state’s largest employers, Smith’s Food and Drug Centers, is today a division of Kroger, a company founded originally by the child of German immigrants. Envirocare, a Utah-founded firm that is now a key part of the environmental services giant EnergySolutions, was founded originally by an immigrant from Iran. Together, the parent companies of these firms employ almost 345,000 people today and generate $92.1 billion in annual revenues.
In part because of the challenges students face remaining in the state after graduation, Utah is also currently short of the professional workers it needs in critical STEM areas, fields that help the state’s economy remain innovative and competitive. According to the nonpartisan advocacy group Change the Equation, from 2009 to 2011 almost 1.5 STEM jobs were posted online in Utah for every one unemployed STEM worker in the state. Fixing this problem is critical to Utah, which is home to a host of major technology companies, including Overstock.com.
Utah may also need to recruit immigrants to address a coming shortage of medical professionals. By the year 2030, the federal government estimates that the state will be short almost 10,416 registered nurses, leaving almost 36 percent of RN positions in the state vacant. Potential physician shortages have also long been a concern in Utah, in part because there is only one medical school in the entire state. According to the University of Utah School of Medicine, Utah has the fourth lowest number of physicians per capita of all 50 states. And according to the Utah Medical Education Council, Utah will need 332 additional doctors per year to adequately treat the state’s population, which is quickly aging—leaving patients who need greater care and doctors who are retiring and will need to be replaced.
Immigrants in Utah are also helping to create jobs in the state through seasonal and temporary work. According to the US Department of Labor, Utah’s employers were granted certifications to bring in more than 750 workers on H-2B visas in fiscal year 2013. These visas, often used to staff places like amusement parks, hotels, or landscaping services during the high season, protect American jobs to allowing companies to take on more work and continue operations. One study by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the American Enterprise Institute, in fact, found that for every 100 H-2B visa workers, 464 jobs are created or preserved for American born workers. In Utah that means the visas authorized in FY 2013 alone supported almost 3,500 American jobs.
However, the H-2B visa can be costly and cumbersome to attain. The average employer spends $2,500 for each H-2B visa it sponsors, and applies to multiple federal agencies in the process. With a more streamlined visa program, job creation in the state could be greater.
Moreover, from 2000 to 2010, a period when tourists from Brazil, China, and India boosted international travel spending globally, Utah also saw its share in the international tourism market decline due to the U.S.'s inefficient visa system. This drop amounted to roughly 14,000 lost visitors, as well as $57 million in spending and 434 jobs.
Overstock.com, which started in 1999 with a team of 18 people, has grown significantly and today boasts more than 1,400 employees and generates $1.1 billion in revenue per year. But, says Acting CEO Jonathan E. Johnson III, the company would never be where it is today without its high-skilled staff. “Our ability to access and hire these talented employees, no matter where they were born, is essential to our success as a business and our ability to continue to create jobs in America.”
Lately Johnson, like so many other business leaders, has been having trouble finding the software developers, web designers, and other employees that make his business a success. “There are more jobs out there for people with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula than we have candidates for them,” he told Fox Business News in July 2012, “We need more of these math and science workers.” Having a more ready supply of such employees here in the United States would allow Overstock.com to continue to grow and add jobs—a potential boon to Salt Lake City, where the firm is based. Bringing on immigrant STEM workers, he told Fox, “helps us hire more merchants, more marketers, more finance, more warehouse and more call center people. So in my view, when we bring people on and give them visas that allow them to work here, we’re creating jobs. And just as importantly, we’re not creating competition in their homelands that are going to hurt our business.”
Johnson believes that in order to keep the US economy growing, we have to adapt our immigration laws. “It is irresponsible not to act – especially at the federal level,” he says. Johnson is advocating for a visa for entrepreneurs, but he also thinks we need to think about agriculture and other industries where immigrants are key to job creation as well. “Reforming our immigration system will not solve all of our economic troubles,” he says, “but the reforms offered by these efforts are practical, workable solutions that will help get America working again.”
Immigrants are helping to grow the US economy everywhere, not just in the places—like our biggest cities—that we expect. They are helping to fill labor shortages on America’s farms, starting businesses that employ US workers, and developing the cutting-edge products that make America the world’s preeminent innovation hub.
Click on a state to learn more about the contributions immigrants are making to the local economy.
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May 29, 2008
Bourbon to sell stake in Rigdon Marine
The other shoe has dropped in the Gulfmark-Rigdon merger deal.
Paris-based Bourbon, which helped Rigdon Marine get started, says that it will sell its stake in Rigdon on completion of the merger which is due to take place in the 3rd quarter of 2008.
Bourbon says this will give it a capital gain on the sale of approximately 60 million euros, plus repayment by Rigdon of loans granted by Bourbon, for a total of 110 million euros, which, in addition to the cash proceeds from the sale, will reduce the group's debt.
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http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMVII/2008may00302.html
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Martin Vows To Drive in 2012
By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
Fort Worth, Tex. – Mark Martin isn’t ready to hang up his helmet just yet.
Kasey Kahne was named earlier this week as driver of Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 5 Chevrolet, beginning in 2012. That ride is currently occupied by Martin.
But the 51-year-old Martin said today at Texas Motor Speedway that he will still be racing in two seasons.
“I’m not going to retire,” Martin told a group of reporters in the Sprint Cup garage prior to opening practice for Sunday’s Samsung Mobile 500. “I’m going to race in 2012. They’ll be an opportunity for me that I’m sure will be exciting and fun and that I can help people.
“I feel like I’ve done that in the No. 01. I feel like I did that at DEI. And I realize I helped the No. 5 team realize that they can win races and contend for a championship.
“I’ll find another opportunity exciting to me.”
Martin, who continuously refused during his behind the hauler session with reporters to hint at his plans in 2012, admitted that he played a major role in choosing Kahne as his replacement.
“Kasey Kahne was the guy,” said Martin, who is in his second full-season at Hendrick Motorsports. “One of my biggest concerns is who going to be the successor. So that I didn’t knock them out of getting the very best, A, number one pick, that’s why I started talking to Kasey Kahne before anybody in September last year.
“The timing wasn’t exactly right, but I wanted to make sure that he considered it because it’s the perfect scenario for Kasey Kahne and it’s the perfect scenario for Hendrick Motorsports.
“I’ve been here three years (through 2011), and three years is enough.”
Martin reiterated that nothing is in place just yet for him in 2012.
“I don’t want to commit to (a ride in 2012) now,” he said. “I want to make sure that Hendrick is set. And they are set.
“It’s such an incredibly, perfect scenario.”
– Jeff Hood can be reached at email@example.comNo Comment
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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I dont mean to be critical....wait yes I do....but your trip is going to cost a bundle in and of itself...sailing to basicly undeveloped or under developed countries where Just making a living is difficult for most...whom do you think is going to give you money there? Sounds like another angle to get cruising funds to me...Hope Im wrong....
Welcome aboard anyway..
PS: Dont take it personal ...we see it all around here..
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"Occupy Portland has sent the following letter to city officials...
This open letter from the General Assembly of Occupy Portland affirms our solidarity with the homeless people in our city. We ask that City ordinances currently used to criminalize homeless people be suspended until new solutions are found. This request is in accordance with the official Bill of Rights for Children and Youth as adopted by Portland and Multnomah County: "Shelter: We have the inherent right to shelter. The City of Portland and Multnomah County should continue their efforts to provide adequate shelter to those who need it."
The number of unhoused people living on the streets of Portland has steadily increased over the past ten years in spite of good intentions to reduce homelessness to zero. Instead, Portland city officials are now cracking down on the efforts of a nonprofit homeless organization, "Right to Dream Too" (R2DToo) to open their self-help site, a rest area for those forced to live outdoors (located next to the Chinatown gate on Burnside Street). Their goals are modest and very basic: "The right to rest, the right to sleep, and the right to dream, too."
The Occupy Wall Street movement is calling attention to the increasing inequality and economic injustice across the country. One frequent grievance is the rise of evictions due to home foreclosures, a trend which has been exposed as caused by banks' irresponsible manipulation of loans. Many more Americans are now on the precarious edge of living one or two paychecks away from joining the homeless. This is a state of economic emergency which calls out for extraordinary action by governments.
We encourage you to open dialogue with alternative solutions — such as the R2DToo rest area, which is legally leased on private property, and is run by experienced volunteers with support from the community. Such efforts in self-determination and bootstrap self-help cost the City nothing, as they are funded by charity and managed by the hard work of volunteer organizers. Such projects are in the American vein of self-reliance and also strengthen community bonds. We invite you to help such grassroots solutions.
Finally, The Bill of Rights for Children and Youth can be found prominently displayed on the reception desk of Mayor Adams' office, and is also online at the County website. It affirms what Occupy Portland also affirms: the inalienable right to survive, which requires shelter. Families and individuals who cannot live indoors, for whatever reason, should not be swept out of sight and mind. They deserve the human dignity to be seen and to exist in our city.
Thank you for considering this appeal, and we welcome your response.
Occupy Portland, General Assembly"...
...open letter reposted from Street Roots article link to streetroots.wordpress.com
THANKS OCCUPY PORTLAND! WE LOVE YOU <3
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If you are in Southern Oregon on May 12, please join for the screening of "Life, Adjusted."! 6:30 pm at the Varsity theater in Ashland ...
"Life, Adjusted." Screening at the Varsity in Ashland.
May 12, 2016, 6:30pm
Southern Oregon Film and Media is sponsoring a Film Insider Screening with the premier of the documentary "Life, Adjusted."
on May 12th at 6:30 pm at the Varsity Theatre in Ashland. Q&A with the director, producer, cast and crew following screening!
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http://www.elementsofbeing.com/
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New York State Child Performer Regulations
The New York State Department of Labor issued Child Performer Regulations, effective April 1, 2013. The full text of the regulations and assessments on public comments can be found on the DOL website at: http://labor.ny.gov/legal/child-performer-regulations.shtm. The final regulations were published in the State Register on March 6, 2013, and will also be included in the New York Code of Rules and Regulations ("NYCRR") as 12 NYCRR Part 186. Before the regulations were adopted, SAG-AFTRA worked extensively with the DOL to ensure that minor performers were afforded necessary protections in the entertainment industry. We are happy to report that many of our comments were taken into consideration and the final text reflects our collective bargaining agreements in many respects.
The adopted regulations call for the following:
- A trust account must be established for child performers and employers are required to transfer 15 percent of earnings to the account to be held in trust until the minor is 18.
- Child performers must obtain a permit from the DOL, which can be renewed annually. Likewise, all employers of child performers need to obtain employer certificates from the DOL.
- Child performers below 16 years of age must be accompanied throughout the work day by a responsible person. In areas covered by SAG-AFTRA’s jurisdiction, the responsible person is the parent or someone named by the parent.
- An employer must provide a nurse with pediatric practice experience, and a responsible person for each three or fewer children performers between the ages of 15 days and six weeks, and for each 10 or fewer child performers from ages six weeks to six months.
- Employers are required to provide time and facilities for the education of child performers, regardless of where they are schooled, when their work schedules prevent them from fulfilling their educational requirement outside of work. Employers must provide certified or credentialed on-location teachers when needed.
- Work hours are set forth according to the age of the child and the type of production. These work hours closely mirror those negotiated in our collective bargaining agreements.
SAG-AFTRA believes these regulations will help protect child performers by creating a safe and productive environment when they work in the New York entertainment and media industries. SAG-AFTRA will continue to monitor the regulations and work with the DOL to ensure best practices continue to evolve. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the following SAG-AFTRA staff members:
Huseina Sulaimanee, Counsel
Laws pertaining to work permits vary widely from state to state. Most states require a general work permit before a minor may engage in any type of employment.
- Most states require a letter from your child’s school indicating that the child is in good academic standing before they will issue a permit.
- You must also have a copy of your child’s birth certificate available.
- Always check with your local school and your State’s Department of Labor regarding employment in your area.
Special Work Permits
States such as California, New York, Louisiana and New Mexico have special work permits and rules and proof of trust (a.k.a. Coogan) accounts for children who are employed in the entertainment industry. You will find information about those special permits and rules through the following links:
Work Permit Information
For more information about your state’s laws in relation to the employment of minors visit the following websites:
New Hampshire: http://www.labor.state.nh.us/youth_employment.asp
North Carolina: http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/rules1933/rules1933.html
Rhode Island: http://www.dlt.ri.gov/ls/childlabor.htm
Washington State: http://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/TeenWorkers/default.asp
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Levels of Teamwork
The nature of the work determines how much of a team you need to be. The more interdependent people are, the more closely members need to work together. At Acorn Consulting we refer to 3 levels of interdependence.
Level 1: Members have to communicate decisions and activities
Level 2: Members need to coordinate their activities
Level 3: Members need to collaborate by engaging in joint problem solving and brainstorming. They need to challenge each other's ideas and work together on developing plans and managing execution.
Basics of Good Teamwork
At all levels good team work rests on the 4 basic elements of goals, roles, process and relationships. High performance teams pay attention to all 4 elements.
Goals: What we're trying to accomplish together
Roles: Who does what and how we handle overlaps and interdependencies
Process: How we run our business and how we work together
Relationships: Communication and influence skills for getting work done
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The Detroit Tigers have interviewed San Diego Padres bench coach Rick Renteria for their open managerial position. He is the fourth candidate to be interviewed for the position and the second member of the Padres organization to be interviewed this week.
The Tigers confirmed Thursday to MLive that Renteria interviewed for the job earlier in the day.
Renteria recently had hip surgery and is unable to travel, so the interview took place in California.
The Tigers interviewed Padres special assistant and former Tigers catcher Brad Ausmus for the position Monday. They interviewed hitting coach Lloyd McClendon and Los Angeles Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach for the job last week.
Padres vice president and former Tigers general manager Randy Smith had good things to say about Renteria during a radio interview Monday on Detroit Sports 105.1. Smith said Renteria has a great temperament to be a manager.
"He knows when to pat a guy on the back and when to kick him in the butt," Smith told host Matt Dery. "He's got some fangs when necessary. A good guy. An even personality. Not a big ego at all. Just a real solid baseball guy."
Renteria, known as Rich Renteria during his playing career, hit .237 in 184 games in the majors for three teams over the course of five partial seasons.
Renteria played his final two season in the majors for the Marlins in 1993 and 1994, which were also Dombrowski's first two seasons there as general manager. Renteria managed in the minors for the Marlins from 1998 to 2001 under Dombrowski. He was named Midwest League Manager of the year in 1999 after leading Single-A Kane County to a 78-59 record.
Renteria, 51, has coached in the majors for six seasons, including three as the bench coach for the Padres. He originally joined the Padres as their first-base coach for the 2008 season. He managed Team Mexico in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
"(He's) a guy that's kind of stayed out of the spotlight, but very solid credentials, very well thought of by the players," Smith said. "He's a hot candidate in a lot of different spots this fall. We'll see what happens."
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Posted 4 years ago on May 23, 2012, 11:41 p.m. EST by OldCrow
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
Anyone but the wealthy who seriously thinks either Obama or Romney really cares about them and/or will make life better for them is nuts.
They're both horrible and are servants of Wall Street, corporate america and the rich.
Leave aside the PR slogans and posturing and the two parties when in office do about the same thing: Slaughter poor/middle class people in less developed countries (Invasions, bombs, cruise missiles, drones, "sanctions", embargoes, "fiscal consolidation", etc.), and transfer money from the middle class and poor to the rich (via bail-outs, tax cuts, "incentives", privatization, "credit facilities", Quantitative Easing, etc., etc.)
If you really want to do something that COULD make a difference, participate in your local Occupy action (or kindred movements), or support them in some way.
The mean greedy, bastards who own and control the two parties and the U.S. won't give you shit to live on or any freedoms left to enjoy if you don't make a fuss.
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The lights are on
Developers from 17-BIT will take on Skulls of the Shogun players tonight in undead samurai warfare.
The event will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. PST, focusing on two-versus-two games, and four-player deathmatch.
To play, add these Gamertags:
If smiting developers isn’t your thing, 17-BIT has a contest up offering a chance to win limited-edition Skulls items such as signed art prints and a wall scroll. The contest runs until 10 a.m. PST on February 27. For more on the game, check out our review, or check out this strategy guide to prepare you for tonight's battle.
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It's Baltimore's business
BALTIMORE- Baltimore Mayor Bob Kalish is happy to have people getting into the village's business--he announced nearly $3 million of business expansion coming to Baltimore in 2007 during his annual State of the Village address.
"The business expansion that I will announce today will represent a total investment of $2.8 million dollars in the Baltimore economy," Kalish told about 50 community members gathered at Liberty Union High School Monday morning to listen to his address. Kalish said Rick and Robin Foreman, owners of The Baltimore Builders Supply, will build a 10,700 square feet Ace Home Center located on SR 158 north, which should bring eight jobs and a $1.8 million investment into the village. The Foremans anticipate a spring 2007 opening.
Chet Hauck, developer of the Market Place Shopping Center, will build a $1 million, six unit, 20,000 square feet commercial mini warehouse behind the Market Place Shopping Center off Factory Street. Also, the Christ United Methodist Church will build a new Family Life Center costing $1.4 million. Kalish said the total investment in the community between the three projects is $4.2 million.
Kalish hopes to hire a new police chief this year to provide 40 hours per week additional police coverage in Baltimore. Kalish enlisted the help of the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police to advertise to its 900 members. Kalish said that the "citizens requested" a full-time police chief and he hopes to have one cruising the village streets by an "April timeframe." Once a new chief is in place, current part-time Police Chief Brett Rogers will remain on the force as a parttime officerand current full-time officerBilly Putnam's position will not change.
Kalish announced that with the help of the FairfieldCounty Commissioners, Director of Fairfield County Emergency Management Matt Keefe, and the Baltimore Village Council, the village funded $4,500 for its share of a tornado siren.
The village will work with the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and the Community Improvement Corporation to implement "Discover Baltimore," a marketing plan Kalish proposes to promote Baltimore as "the place to be in business" to new and existing businesses. "We have over 70 businesses at present that Discover Baltimore can market to those on the World Wide Web," he said.
Kalish saluted the Tarhe Shrine Club for raising money to help Baltimore residents Scott and Crystal Bradley, who became overwhelmed with medical bills after their infant son, Jonas, was accidentally burned. Kalish said he worked with Congressman David Hobson (R-Ohio) to seek financial assistance for the Bradleys, who have no family locally. The Shriners raised money for the Bradleys through donations and is seeing that all of Jonas' bills and treatment are taken care of by the Shriners Children's Hospital of Cincinnati until Jonas is 18 years old.
"(The Shriners) have been a miracle in a hard time for us," said Crystal Bradley. "They made us feel like we have family here."
Kalish recognized Baltimore Lions Club members George and Sue Bachman. George Bachman is the first Baltimore Lions Club member to attain the 13K District Governor title. Kalish said Sue Bachman enthusiastically helps her husband promote Baltimore. "I think Baltimore is the best kept secret, just like the Lion's Club, throughout Ohio," said George Bachman.
Several other members of Baltimore government spoke :
+ Village Administrator Marsha Hall said 2006 was a very busy year for Baltimore. For years, Baltimore has worked on a list of wastewater issues from Ohio EPA. "We've reached the end of those items," said Hall, referring to the village's construction of a new wastewater treatment facility, which began earlier this year, and a new force main station, construction of which begins this spring.
She said last year the village developed a street priority so residents will know when their streets are to be repaved, and the village is taking an inventory of its storm sewers. Last year the village welcomed residential development like the 151 home Sleepy Hollow subdivision, which changed its name to Meadow Creek.
Some utility fees were raised last year, said Hall, but the village has a plan for not raising fees while Baltimore finishes its wastewater plant and begins proposed upgrades to its water plant. "Council does not want to ask for more money from its residents," she said. Halls plans to transfer funding from the wastewater plant project to the water plant project as the wastewater plant project is completed. "Our water plant is 75 years old," she said. The water treatment plant project is in its initial discussion stages; Hall expects upgrades will be necessary within three to five years. This year, the village is putting together a water system master plant to determine what projects are required, when they are required, estimated costs, and possible funding sources.
Hall added the village applied for an Ohio Public Works Commission grant for a second water tower.
She said the village is look at paying for the "growth that is coming" and associated capitol improvements by means of developer impact fees, which is "the only way in Ohio to collect for new growth." The village is also reviewing taking over management of the community swimming pool. "We think we can do it better," said Hall. She added that the village requires contractors to register with Baltimore. "Residents can call to findout if a contractor is on the list" and make certain the contractor is reputable," said Hall.
+ Fiscal OfficerFlo Welker said the village has very few employees and "they need to be taken care of." With that in mind, she said the village offered its employees direct deposit last year and she's working with a bank to permit online payments of water bills for everyone. Welker also hopes residents will be able to fileincome taxes completely online by mid-year. "These are things that will make life easier for a lot of people," she said.
Welker added that the current council has accomplished more in the last two years than was accomplished in the previous ten years. "When you look at our council people, thank them," she said.
+ Service Superintendent Dennis Rose said the village crews only plowed snow once last year. "It's been a little different this year," he said. The village replaced sections or water lines, purchased new equipment, replaced tables and chairs at Johnson Park, as well as basketball hoops.
+ Village Engineer Don Morrison said the village made many infrastructure improvements including beginning the $5.2 million wastewater treatment plant project, mandated since 1991, and the village will soon be ready to start on force main interceptors--a $553,000 project- -to divert flows straight to the wastewater plant.
+ Kathy Badgely announced she is serving as chair of the village's revitalization committee. "We have buildings downtown in sad need of repair," she said. Committee members must convince business owners of the financial advantages of making improvements. Badgely will work on creating a matching funds program for business owners who want to make improvements. She asked for public and private organizations to donate to the case.
"We have a full agenda for 2007," said Kalish in conclusion. "Lets' make this a championship year."
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A pioneer attempt to assess the safety of chemicals that directly of indirectly affect water based ecosystems. 22 papers provide state-of-the-art for research approaches, new applications of old methods, new data on several pesticides and other chemicals.
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Introduction to "Classic Expressions Series"
"This is a presentation of a conceptual work that encompasses nearly 10 years of research in music, sound and technology. The goal was to develop a new view on how music can be presented in Surround Sound. What you will experience is an experimental project that takes orchestration into new dimensions of sound. In producing these classic masterpieces, I have taken a revolutionary approach to showcasing music orchestration with the position of each instrument or group of instruments around the listener. Original orchestral partitures were transcribed in a virtual domain using midi, sampled instruments and synthesis to achieve real separation of the instruments, and also to balance them together in the surround mix. This creates the perception that each individual sound has its unique location in 3-Dimensional Space. Looking to the future of sound and music technology, there is a need for new development to showcase new artist and producers in a revolutionary way. I believe that this new experience will be an exciting and entertaining journey in music and sound."
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Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older
Discussion in 'Vintage/Left Kickers' started by Coffee, Dec 28, 2008.
My '79 OR390 and my'04 husabergFE450 in the background
Sorry took so long, stuff in storage.
Firecrackerkid you need to get with Todd Bohnet up in Wilson Creek Wa. Todd has 2 1983 WR175 bikes and puts on a couple of great events a year . He also has lot's of play day's also . Bohnet Motorcycle Park is on facebook give them a like !
Getting to be quite a collection of Husky'ers around here. Ron in Yakima, Geary in Coulee Dam, Todd in Wilson Creek, and myself and my brother Chris in Ephrata and Wenatchee. If we ever get OUR bikes running, we'll all have to crash Todd's place one of these days.
May be in the future Todd and I could put together a Husqvarna Day of riding and bike display , sit down and talk about the bike's and swap information . This could be a once of year event . This year on Easter Sunday Todd is having a vintage race . He has classes for all years of bikes. This year will be my second year there to race . I love riding my 1981 , CR430 on his track .
the finnished bike is my 77360wr burleson replica i bought it new and just restored it.I put on 79 front forks it rides good i did'nt have my curnutts rebuilt and painted at the time of the pic i guess should update it,the other bike that is not done has a weird frame number check it out' and look at the frame it has bends and gussets that are not on any huskys i've ever seen the guy i got it from said it was kent howertons factory race bike the frame # might suggest a factory bike if anybody knows anythig about it i sure would appreciate any info.
Hi Firecracker, thanks for posting these photos. Much appreciated, and very interesting to see OEM plastics.
Saturday this was my garage find a 1986 XC 250 rough but a great bike to restore . The amazing thing was it had a like new late model aluminum water pump clutch cover like new . I may later do a restore article on this bike .
I freshened up my brothers 87 430XC
it was a good looking bike
I bought a 93 360 and he decided he wanted one too
so I sold this to a friend, he still enjoys it
freshened up the engine, replaced most of the plastic, fresh tires, etc
you get the idea
look at the pipe, had to trim the front fender to fit
oh for a spare $10k burning a hole in my pocket!!!
My " NAUTO " (new auto)
88 Auto engine in an 07 WR250 frame,
Custom pipe, inlet manifold & frame mods, ported for better torque & starting, suspension set up for my weight & (lack of) ability.
Had a few head aches & learning curves but it's getting better every time I ride it, I also have an 85 Husky CR500 6speed motor with a Magura hydraulic clutch that fits straight in the frame to make it a little more versatile.
So I've been asked for a few more details about what mods where needed so here goes,
Engine- Swingarm pivot hole bored from 14mm to 17mm to fit the 07 swingarm bolt (not as easy as you'd think as the outer flanges bore out ok but the centre case locator is as hard as they come).
- OR390 kickstart to get the clearance from the footpeg & frame, I originally planned on using the 88 model kicker but you need to be 7 foot tall & it still didnt clear the foot peg.
- Cylinder ported for more torque & easier starting (great mod even if only for the starting as there is no push starting)
Frame- Cut in front of the foot pegs & lengthened 60mm which also allowed for the cut above the exhaust port clearance to be raised higher for the different height of the exhaust ports (I used a professional race car frame builder to weld the crome moly).
- Solid frame engine mounts to reduce the vibration & chance of bolts coming loose(sill not sure if this was a good idea as it makes removing the engine more difficult).
- A portion of the frame on the left swing arm pivot was cut away & strengened to allow kick start clearance.
- A hole was cut into the under side of the top frame rail directly above the spark plug to allowm me to use a ignition timing tool while still in the frame.
- I am also considering making a head to frame mount to try & reduce the vibration even more.
Swingarm- The inside edge of the bearing pivot needed 7mm to be removed to accomodate the 88 engine but I only took it from 1 side so I could get the sprockets to line up which also means the the engine is slightly offset.
- I also had to use an older style chain guide to get clearance for the 54t rear sprocket.
Other mods & sods- Radiators needed to be spaced 10mm out from the frame because of the frame exhaust port being raised.
-Custom made carb to cylinder inlet manifold.
-Custom made to 430 specs exhaust utilising the WR250 expansion chamber & muffler to keep the stock looking appearance.
-Custom made 54t rear sprocket by Chain gang.
All in all the building & riding has been a lot of fun to do especially as the fridge was close by, I am hoping to get some video on here soon.
a true marriage of eras
something old (88 engine)
something new (07 frame)
something borrowed (??)
something RED (it's just not blue)
Fab concept, great to see your refining it and making it work. would love a ride on it.
wow How about some more details on the swap.
Few things left to do on the coolest bike EVER.
Very cool looking. Just curious, how does the 500 compare power wise to your 400?
No real seat time on the 500 yet, winter time when i bought it.
Brutal compared to the 400 from memory and i only rode the 84 model 500 which was tamed down abit!!
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Rockville Centre, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/12/2013 -- McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, one of the most established Rockville Centre bars, is now taking table reservations for their Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, February 3rd. This year’s Super Bowl party will be even bigger with the bar’s drink specials that will be served throughout the game. The bar will be serving $1 mugs, all day long. For groups entering the beer pong tournament, guests will be treated to $5 pitchers of Coors Light. McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon is surrounded by 17 flat screen HDTVs, ensuring that guests will see every minute of the action. To reserve a special VIP booth for McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon’s Super Bowl XLVII party, contact the event coordinator at 516-442-2600.
No private party in Long Island would be complete without an open bar package. Along with $1 mugs and $5 pitchers of Coors Light, McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon will also be giving sport fans the options of selecting a $25 Top Shelf Open Bar package. The open bar package is a cheaper option for larger groups because guests can pay a set amount up front, instead of having to pay per drink throughout the night. The best part about the open bar package, is that guests will be able to enjoy a buffet during the half-time special. There is no better way for sport fans to enjoy the biggest game of the year, than by having an unlimited supply of beers, mixed drinks and liquor. Cheap drink specials, food buffet, football and entertaining commercials, will make this year’s Super Bowl party at McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon bigger than ever.
About McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon
Located on Merrick Road, in Long Island, McFadden's has come to be known as one of New York's premier bar/restaurants. Featuring resident DJs and a fun bar staff, McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon will deliver an experience one will not soon forget. McFadden's Rockville Centre location is an established party bar that combines as a both sports and dining destination. With over 30 high definition Plasma TV's and 2 Giant projector screens, McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon provides a fun venue to meet pre-game, post-game, or to stay and watch the game in its entirety, even when New York’s favorite teams are out of town.
For more information on how McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon can host a private party or happy hour in RVC, visit http://www.mcfaddensrvc.com/.
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[Rubygems-developers] Specifying a platform
gsinclair at soyabean.com.au
Sun Apr 18 02:54:05 EDT 2004
On Saturday, April 17, 2004, 11:04:28 PM, Chad wrote:
>> There are a few points to make here.
>> 1. The error message given there is a bit fearsome. I'm not sure what
>> the current policy on error messages is, but I'm sure this one can
>> be improved. I'll take advice and then make the change myself.
> This is just one of those bad error messages (stack traces) that hasn't
> yet been cleaned up.
Fixed. I've gone and made all exception classes we create inherit
from the new class Gem::Exception. That makes it possible to catch
them separately and generally.
>> 2. Why is a platform required? I understand platform to be "what kind
>> of machine this can run on", which is fine, but what does "Ruby"
>> mean as a platform? If a gem is platform-independent, does a
>> platform need to be specified? If we must have "Ruby" meaning
>> "platform-independent Ruby-based gem", can it be the default
>> Platform suggests to me a binary gem, I suppose.
> RUBY is indeed intended to mean that the gem is cross-platform. I
> think RUBY being a default is a sensible way to go about it.
Sounds good. I agree with Rich's comment elsewhere that Ruby *is* a
platform. So we can treat it as the default platform.
But then, what if a gem includes C code as well as Ruby code? And
what if that C code uses, for instance, "fork"? This platform
business might need some more definition.
>> 3. Naming. I've brought this up before, but buried within a thread.
>> When I had "Gem::Platform::RUBY" specified as the platform for
>> "ruby-dict", it built fine, but the gem was named
> The addition of "-ruby-" in the name crept in quietly during one of the
> enhancements someone (was it me?) was doing over the past month. I
> feel like there's no reason to keep it for cross-platform gems, but
> someone might have a reason they needed it. Is this true?
> I would prefer not to use characters that I have to escape in the shell.
> tashi-delek:~ chadfowler$ touch test-(win32)
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> I guess it's a subjective difference, but the parentheses *really*
> bother me.
I think your POV is quite valid. I'd not thought of that.
> So, do we agree that we don't need -ruby- in the name of a gem?
If my assumption that an platform specification implies a binary gem
is correct (is it?) then a reordering *might* make sense.
I think it's easier to parse and less likely to confuse or conflict,
but is it sensible and appealing?
P.S. To address another point raised elsewhere in this thread, I do
believe that the platform should be present in the filename (unless
it's Ruby), because sometimes it's all that differentiates two gems.
Is it not?
More information about the Rubygems-developers
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It almost sounds too outrageous to be true, and yet it is not.
With millions still struggling to get power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, non-union work crews from Alabama have been turned away by New Jersey. The reason? Their non-union status.
WAFF in Alabama reports that the crews rushed to help after receiving calls from Seaside Heights, NJ. However, when they arrived, they were told that their services would not be needed. Some have returned home, while a couple of crews found a warm welcome on Long Island.
(H/T: Joe Pags)
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Australian Unity and Master Builders form partnership to provide savings on health cover for ALink Members
Australian Unity and ALink are pleased to present a range of services and initiatives that reward you for being a Member, as well as providing value for money Hospital and Extras cover when you need it.
Australian Unity is proud to offer members of the ALink a discount on health cover premiums.
If you're switching from an equivalent or higher level of cover with another health fund to Australian Unity, you can enjoy similar levels of cover without additional waiting periods (other waiting periods may still apply).
To find out more please call Australian Unity on 13 29 39 or click here.
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Tag Archives: short sales
Maintain your mortgage payments (if you can) even if you're "underwater"
I don’t have equity in the home I bought three years ago. When is it…
By John Simons
The pros and cons of buying foreclosures and short sale properties
Compelling as they may sound, foreclosures and short sales can present unique challenges.
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Brought to you by WBIW News and Network Indiana
Last updated on Monday, March 19, 2007
(KOKOMO) - A second jury trial in the August 2004 murder of 48-year-old Gordon Kirkham is set to begin today in Howard County.
Danny Thomas is accused of beating and killing Kirkham, a former Monticello man. Thomas' first trial in November ended in a mistrial.
Kirkham's body was found lying in the living room of his home. Police said he had been severely beaten in the head, hands and face with some type of pipe or heavy object.
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Table of Contents >
The Commission's updated Strategic Plan was published in February 2011 and is located at http://www.cftc.gov/reports/strategicplan/2015/index.htm. It integrated the expanded responsibilities under the Dodd-Frank Act. As a set of guiding principles for implementing new regulatory and mission activities, this plan provides direction during a time of uncertainty. These strategic goals were constructed in a focused way, lending credence to unifying goals found within the CEA and Dodd-Frank Act.
The CFTC organizational programs support the strategic plan goals through nine key mission activities identified by the Commission.
The Commission's strategic goals are defined on page 30 in the Summary of Performance. In FY 2012, the Commission spent $115.7 million conducting mission activities in support of the Commission's top four strategic plan goals and spent $83.2 million conducting mission support activities in support of regulatory and organizational excellence.
|Strategic Goals (Abbreviated)|
Strategic Goal 1: Market Integrity
Strategic Goal 2: Financial Integrity
Strategic Goal 3: Robust Enforcement
Strategic Goal 4: Cross-Border Cooperation
|2012 Mission Activities||Dollars in Millions||FTE|
|1. Registration and Registration Compliance||$10.1||32|
|2. Product Reviews||$5.2||19|
|3. Surveillance, including Data Acquisition and Analytics||$42.2||118|
|6. International Policy Coordination||$3.0||14|
|Strategic Goals (Abbreviated)|
Strategic Goal 5: Regulatory and Organizational Excellence
|2012 Mission Support Activities||Dollars in Millions||FTE|
|1. Economic and Legal Counsel||$25.4||108|
|2. Data Infrastructure and Technology Support||$31.1||38|
|3. Agency Direction, Management and Administration||$26.7||117|
The Commission performs a thorough review of the registration applications of all entities seeking to be registered as DCMs and DCOs. Multi-disciplinary review teams of attorneys, industry economists, trade practice analysts and risk analysts ensure that the Commission undertakes a thorough analysis of such applications to ensure compliance with the applicable statutory core principles and Commission regulations. Site visits may be required to validate needed technical and self-regulatory capabilities.
The Commission reviews new product filings as well as issuing no-action letters related to product issues. The CFTC's traditional scope of work includes reviewing new futures and options contract filings, reviewing contract rule submissions, and developing new rules and policies to accommodate innovations in the industry. Currently, the Commission conducts due diligence reviews of new contract filings to ensure that the contracts are not readily susceptible to manipulation or price distortion, and that the contracts are subject to appropriate position limits or position accountability. The Commission also analyzes amendments to contract terms and conditions to ensure that the amendments do not render the amended contracts readily susceptible to manipulation and do not otherwise affect the value of existing positions.
The Commission performs three broad types of surveillance: market and trade practice, financial and risk, and business analytics. The Commission monitors trading and positions of market participants on an on-going basis. Commission staff screen for potential market manipulations and disruptive trading practices, as well as trade practice violations. The Commission also monitors changing market conditions and developments, such as shifting patterns of commercial or speculative trading or the introduction of new trading activities, to assess possible market impacts on internal review techniques and/or evaluate the impact such changes may have on exchange trading rules and contracts. The Commission also conducts risk and financial surveillance of DCOs, clearing futures commission merchants, and other market participants such as swap dealers, major swap participants, and large traders that may pose a risk to the clearing process. CFTC also maintains a business analytics platform for performing data analysis. The platform allows staff analyzing industry data to keep pace with the continuing growth in industry data volume and complexity. The Commission established a Strategic Plan objective to ensure that information technology systems support the Commission's existing and expanded responsibilities to ensure financially sound markets, mitigate systemic risk, and monitor intermediaries.
Examinations are formal, structured assessments of regulated entities' operations or oversight programs to assess on-going compliance with statutory and regulatory mandates. Regular examinations are the most effective method of ensuring that the entities' are complying with the core principles established in the CEA (as amended). Examinations are performed by multi-disciplinary teams of individuals, attorneys, industry economists, trade practice analysts, risk analysts and accountants depending on the scope.
The Commission protects market participants and other members of the public from fraud, manipulation and other abusive practices in the commodities, futures and swaps markets. Its cases range from quick strike actions against Ponzi enterprises that victimize investors across the country, to sophisticated manipulative and disruptive trading schemes in markets the Commission regulates including oil, gas, precious metals and agricultural goods.
The global nature of the futures and swaps markets makes it imperative that the United States consult and coordinate with foreign authorities. The Commission is actively communicating internationally to promote robust and consistent standards and avoid conflicting requirements, wherever possible. The Commission participates in numerous international working groups regarding swaps, including the IOSCO Task Force on over-the-counter (OTC) Derivatives, which the CFTC co-chairs. The CFTC, SEC, European Commission and European Securities Market Authority are intensifying discussions through a technical working group. The Commission also is consulting with many other jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Canada.
Discussions have focused on the details of the Dodd-Frank rules, including mandatory clearing, trading, reporting and regulation of derivatives market intermediaries. The Commission's international outreach efforts directly support global consistency in the oversight of the swaps markets.
The Commission supports an in-depth, analytical research program that focuses on innovations in trading technology, developments in trading instruments, and the role of market participants in the futures, options, and swap markets. A team of specialized economists supports the Commission's numerous divisions by analyzing these constantly evolving components of markets to help anticipate and mitigate significant regulatory, surveillance, clearing, and enforcement challenges. Economic expertise is especially important for the development and implementation of new financial regulations related to the Dodd Frank Act and the oversight of a new swaps regime.
The Commission's legal services include: 1) engaging in defensive, appellate, and amicus curiae litigation; 2) interpreting the CEA; 3) providing legal advice and support for Commission Divisions; 4) drafting and assisting other Divisions in preparing Commission regulations; 5) assisting the Commission in the performance of its adjudicatory functions; and 6) providing advice on legislative and regulatory issues.
The Commission's over-arching IT strategy is to increase the integration of IT into the Commission operating model, which is described in Goal Five of the Strategic Plan. This strategy has become increasingly more important and complex as the Commission's regulatory scope has expanded faster than its resources. In order to do this rapidly with the most practical investment, the Commission's approach is to manage data as an enterprise asset, promote and adopt industry data standards, give priority to services that provide the greatest mission benefit, architect services using small components that can be assembled and reassembled with agility, and deliver solutions in short, iterative phases. The first area of focus must be on data understanding and ingestion—particularly because CFTC has a unique imperative to aggregate various types of data from multiple industry sources across multiple markets, much of which is new to the Commission staff. Receipt and analysis of the first wave of registrant reporting will give Commission staff insight into the markets and business process, which can be used to firm-up requirements and designs for internal surveillance systems. Likewise, the same business analytics tools used for data understanding and ad hoc mining of mature datasets will also be used to automate transparency reporting.
As stated in the CFTC's Strategic Plan, the Commission's ability to achieve its mission of protecting the public, derivative market participants, U.S. economy and the U.S. position in global markets is driven by well-informed and reasoned executive direction, strong and focused management, and an efficiently-resourced, dedicated, and productive workforce. These attributes of an effective organization combine to lead and support the critical work of the Commission to provide sound regulatory oversight and enforcement programs for the U.S. public. To ensure the Commission's continued success, continuity of operations, and adaptation to the ever-changing markets it is charged with regulating, the Commission must lead effectively and maintain a well-qualified workforce supported by a modern IT infrastructure and working environment.
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Let us introduce ourselves.
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Our dream is achieving the best results through continuous learning, research, and professional development, with strong ties to the client needs and industry.
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- IndoCisc, Jakarta - Indonesia
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Brett Hills, founder of the successful website, 999dine.com, will shed light on the everyday success skills he has acquired in his rise from extreme skier to an accomplished entrepreneur at noon on Feb. 17 in Room 2401. The talk is sponsored by the Business Law Society and lunch will be provided.
During his talk titled, “Success Skills: Things They Never Taught in School (but should have)”, Hills will share the top business and life success skills he has learned since earning an MBA from Anderson Schools of Management 10 years ago.
Specifically, he will discuss how to master everyday skills that will improve confidence and production in today's business environment; strengthen interpersonal relationships and handle fast-changing workplace conditions; be better equipped to perform as a persuasive communicator, problem-solver and focused leader and how to develop a take-charge attitude initiated with confidence and enthusiasm.
Hills also will share his own story that began when he moved to Taos in 1994 with the goal of becoming a professional extreme skier and segued into a job bartending in the Caribbean.
Upon earning his MBA, Hills launched 999dine.com, a website where diners can purchase dining certificates at a discount. The website continues to thrive today. In addition, Hills is a commercial real estate adviser with Maestas and Ward.
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http://lawschool.unm.edu/news/archives/2010/february/brett_hills.php
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135D excavator delivers impressive swing torque, drawbar pull, and lift capacity, with low emissions and noise. Reduced tail-swing design lets the 135D rotate freely within confined spaces or when working within a single lane of traffic. Redesigned cab combines more legroom and tinted glass for unsurpassed comfort and visibility. Powerwise™ III engine/hydraulic management system maximizes power output, saves fuel, and delivers smooth multifunction hydraulic operation that you've come to expect in John Deere Excavators.
Fuel-efficient Tier 3 emission-certified diesel delivers power without compromise in all conditions. This excavator's extended 500- and 5,000-hour engine and hydraulic fluid service intervals increase uptime and reduce daily operating costs. Intuitive, multi-language monitor with 4-color LCD screen provides a wealth of info and control. Displays operating diagnostic, and maintenance data with easy-on-the-eyes clarity. Oil-impregnated bushings enhance durability and extend grease intervals to 500 hours for the arm-and-boom joint and 100 hours for the bucket joint.
Machine Information Center (MIC) captures and stores vital machine performance and utilization data to help improve uptime, productivity and profit. User-friendly LCD color monitor tracks up to 14 maintenance intervals and lets an operator check any of 32 machine operating parameters at the touch of a button. Easy-to-open doors provide quick access to service items. Lube banks, filters, and checkpoints are grouped for added convenience. A large fuel tank enables the 135D to work longer between stops.
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|For immediate release|
The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to maintain the existing stance of monetary policy, keeping its target for the federal funds rate at 6-1/2 percent.
The utilization of the pool of available workers remains at an unusually high level, and the increase in energy prices, though having limited effect on core measures of prices to date, still harbors the possibility of raising inflation expectations. The Committee, accordingly, continues to see a risk of heightened inflation pressures. However, softening in business and household demand and tightening conditions in financial markets over recent months suggest that the economy could expand for a time at a pace below the productivity-enhanced rate of growth of its potential to produce.
Nonetheless, to date the easing of demand pressures has not been sufficient to warrant a change in the Committee's judgment that against the background of its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth and of the information currently available, the risks continue to be weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate heightened inflation pressures in the foreseeable future.
2000 Monetary policy
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|Group Manager, Central Architecture||Microsoft||173,500||Mountain View, CA, 94035||02/01/2010|
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There are three weeks left in the NFL season. Teams are not only positioning themselves for the playoffs, but there are a handful of teams that are in a race for a position they don’t necessarily want. In the coming weeks the top spots in the 2011 NFL Draft are going to be determined. Below we have the five teams closest to the first pick in the next draft. Let’s have a look at what some of them may do with their early draft picks.
Carolina Panthers (1-12)vs. Arizona, @Pittsburgh, @Atlanta
If you shook a magic eight ball it would tell you that all signs point to the Panthers being the team in the top spot. They appeared to get a bonus pick with Jimmy Clausen last year, but things are not shaking out. Not to say that Clausen cannot be the guy there, but if Andrew Luck is available and they have a chance at him, that makes for a very attractive pick and Clausen could become trade bait.
Something that the Panthers noticed this season was just how good they had it with Julius Peppers. Another appealing option for them is Clemson DE Da’Quan Bowers. The Panthers could also look at defensive tackles Nick Fairley and Marcell Dareus.
Cincinnati Bengals (2-11)vs. Cleveland, vs. San Diego, @Baltimore
There is a chance the Bengals don’t win another game this season and Carson is a making a heck of a case for the Bengals to move on, isn’t he? The Bengals would have a tough time passing on Andrew Luck, potentially even having him sit like Palmer himself did. The Bengals would also be interested in the services of Bowers.
Denver Broncos (3-10)@Oakland, vs. Houston, vs. San Diego
How about that Tim Tebow pick? The Denver situation is going to be interesting to watch as they bring in a new coach. It is unlikely the Broncos go the QB route if Luck does come out, though we are certain to hear about how Tebow is not the new coach’s problem. Surely they do not want to be faced with that choice. What would really make Denver happy is to get their hands on cornerbacks Patrick Peterson (LSU) or Prince Amukamara (Nebraska).
Detroit Lions(3-10)@Tampa Bay, @Miami, vs. Minnesota
Of all the teams listed here we think that Detroit would be the least likely to get Lucky. Except for the injury thing, they appear to be very happy with Matthew Stafford. If Detroit somehow ended up with the first pick we could see them snagging a stud on the outside like Bowers. Imagine Bowers lining up next to Suh…wow.
We don’t think that Detroit gets the first pick, in fact they could potentially win a couple more games. We could see Detroit picking one of the two cornerbacks.
Buffalo Bills(3-10)@Miami, vs. New England, @NY Jets
Of these teams, the Bills are the one that could benefit most from a top QB. While we could see them losing the next three games, chances are the Panthers don’t win enough to give the Bills top choice. If Luck does come out we could see some maneuvering by the Bills…make that should see.
While the Bills still need help at offensive tackle, at this point they may be picking too high for the available linemen. If a lineman does not work his way up, we could see the Bills target one of those cornerbacks or look at another playmaker for when they do get a QB and grab wide receiver A.J. Green (Georgia).
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/543827-race-for-the-2011-nfl-draft-number-one-pick
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We have planned this tripped as our honeymoon and we have a few questions. We have booked an one bed room beachfront suite, could anyone suggest what building would be best ( I heard G)? Has anyone done the night time snorkeling? Any activities we must do?
Be sure to give time for your message to post. It has to go thru a moderator before it's released and becomes visible. Please see our comments on your "Newbie" post. Relax and have an awesome visit!!
Hi! If you have booked a one bedroom beachfront suite you will only be in block A or B.
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Extract from the novel Rossetti's Obsession, Center for Basque Studies, Reno, 2005. Translated from Basque by Madalen Saizarbitoria. Originally published as Rossetti-ren obsesioa, Erein, 2001.
I put the manuscript back in the envelope in which it had been sent and lingered at the window, staring out at the gray foam-specked sea, which seemed enraged under the weight of the black sky. This sight alone would have been enough to make the feeling of wetness cut straight to my bones, but the house itself was also very damp from having stood empty so long. To make matters worse, I hadn't been able to get the heating to work, despite several attempts. However, I knew it was the thought of never seeing Victoria again that caused me to feel ill at ease and made me shiver on that harsh autumn morning.
"We'll meet again" she said before leaving and added, "some day", after a short pause. The phrase is crystal clear to anybody who wants to understand it, especially as it was I who, only a moment before, had somewhat awkwardly asked her, "I hope we'll meet again?" Her reply might have been, "Sure, whenever you're free," or at least an indefinite, "Any time," but in the event she only repeated, "We'll meet again" and to make matters worse, added, "Some day." It's true that she said it in a sweet tone of voice but that doesn't mean anything because Victoria is essentially unable to be rude – well, except when she calls Dante Gabriel Rossetti a wretch.
It was thus made very clear to me that she was trying to avoid another date, and that she was happy to leave the possibility of our meeting again entirely to chance. This perhaps explains why I didn't reply, "Okay, why don't we meet tomorrow, if you want" I didn't, since it would have left her with no way out.
I'm sure that if we ever happened to meet again, we'd be able to have a drink or a cup of coffee together and reminisce about our walks in London, and frankly that's almost the worst thing, that she didn't even seem angry, hurt or offended. In other words, she didn't care enough about me to feel resentful and this makes it all the more painful; I've disappointed her, like many others before me, I suppose, and she just pities me.
It was partly due to bad luck that our burgeoning relationship ended, but essentially I'm the one to blame. Now that it's all over and I know I've lost her forever, I see all the more clearly how deeply in love with her I was, and that she must have felt something for me too; of this I'm sure. In retrospect I realize that I should have shown her more clearly how I felt, that I should have said, quite simply, "I think I'm in love with you, Victoria." She would have said something in response, I don't know what, to show that she also cared for me. Maybe she would have said something like, "I also have feelings for you," in that expression women often use when they want to let us know they're not completely indifferent toward us; and then we would have gone on to talk about seeing each other again, and the landscape I now behold, a sky aching under the weight of black clouds, spat at by the gray sea, wouldn't have the power to upset me, because we would already have arranged to meet again somewhere, probably in San Sebastian, to have dinner together at the Urepel, a restaurant overlooking the Urumea river.
Now, after all that has happened, it's easy to say with hindsight that anything would have been better than what I actually did. But at the time I was so scared of disappointing her by saying or doing the wrong thing that I felt the need for a tried-and-tested formula to win her affection. What I needed was something more convincing and above all more original than, "I think I'm in love with you."
Actually, I was tempted more than once, while we walked around London, to interrupt her and tell her just that, but I was afraid that such a remark would end it all, would even offend her by revealing how I had misjudged her friendliness toward me. This tendency of us men to want to go beyond the mere platonic friendship women are often satisfied with is something they find particularly annoying; they feel betrayed when they find out how badly we misinterpret their friendly affection, and all too often this brings an end to the very friendship we want to transcend.
This was why I decided against openly showing her my feelings. I didn't want to put our fledgling, fragile relationship at risk. However, I see clearly now that the worst thing she could have done had I told her something like, "I think I'm in love with you" would be to laugh it off and say, "Come on, it's only your imagination" or, "You don't even know me," or even something more philosophical, such as, "You don't really love me, you just want to love me."
Any decision would have been better than the one I ended up making. It's all so clear now in view of the way things turned out. Nevertheless, without wishing to sound entirely blameless, I want to say that I had my reasons for doing what I did. I thought it would be more convenient for me to write to her rather than tell her what I wanted to say, since, for anyone with any literary skills whatsoever, it's easier to convey such things in writing. Firstly because it helps you avoid a face-to-face encounter, but more importantly because it lets you hide your true intentions behind a literary faįade, so that if things don't go as planned you can always say it was only words, mere fiction. This is why I believe writers, with some noble exceptions, are usually cowards. But in this case, trying to win over Victoria through writing seemed all the more justified, because a couple of years previously, in similar circumstances, it had proved extremely successful with Eugenia. At the time, at least, I wouldn't have thought it excessive to use the word "successful" to describe the effect my note had on her, and it was natural to expect that what had worked with Eugenia would also work with Victoria, for they were alike in so many ways: apart from belonging to the same social class, they were both intelligent, educated women with an interest in literature. The main problem, however, was that I had almost completely forgotten the words I had used in my note to Eugenia, and that, precisely because I had forgotten them, I became obsessed with the note, or rather with the idea of sending Victoria the exact same note. A similar one wouldn't have done. I had gotten it firmly into my mind that it had to be the same text, word for word, so I tried everything to get it back. That's more or less what happened to put it briefly.
I suppose that to some extent this happens to everybody: you forget something that usually trips off your tongue, then become obsessed with calling it to mind. I for one have often found myself in this situation, especially since I started to use the computer to write, because, being a late arrival to the world of information technology, I easily lose parts of my documents in the unavoidable process of cutting and pasting. And usually on such occasions, whatever I've deleted – a simple line, a word, even the heading of a note "dear friend, just a word" – suddenly seems irreplaceable, as though it had been the result of a unique moment of inspiration.
In such situations I feel convinced that only the words that I've lost and the exact way they were strung together can adequately express my thoughts, and that if I don't remember them I won't be able to say or write a single word. Thus I become obsessed with retrieving them and can spend hours and days on end at the computer, wasting my time, calling all my computer-literate friends for help, because I'm incapable of recalling exactly the line, paragraph or fragment I've lost. And it has to be the same text, word for word.
Of course, in the case of the note I'd written to Eugenia and wanted to use again with Victoria, a certain nostalgia for the lost word seems more understandable. For one thing, as I said before, I well remembered the effect the note had had on Eugenia, for it had suddenly filled her with a fiery passion for me, and this naturally made me all the more eager to recover it. Moreover, because I'd written the note by hand, I couldn't even entertain my obsession by frantically searching my hard disk for it, which made things even worse.
Sedano, a psychoanalyst by profession and a friend and colleague of sorts, describes me as an "obsessive neurotic." According to him, this isn't a condition one is born with (I myself prefer to call it a condition rather than an illness), but one that usually develops early in life. Though he's probably right, I don't think that as a child I resembled such lascivious children as, for example, Freud's Rat Man, who got erections at the tender age of four. However, what I can assure you, for I do have extensive knowledge in this area, is that obsessive neurosis is certainly not a psychological trait that improves with age.
In the carefree days of youth you share your ideas and plans with others without giving it a second thought. You don't feel the need to selfishly keep every idea to yourself as if it were patent-pending, probably because you're more prolific, as well as more self-confident, in the sense that when you lose a good idea you feel you can easily come up with a better one. In fact you feel like an inexhaustible source of ideas. Poems seem almost to gush from your mind – or your heart, for I'm not sure where poems are generated. Enough, in any case, to enable you to send love letters to all the girls you fall for. Moreover, when we're young we're also less inhibited about copying from poetry anthologies: we have an anything-goes attitude.
Anyway, what's certainly true is that when I was young I wouldn't have become so obsessed with a lost text, because I could write a new one just like that, or fall back on a line that I particularly liked. "I opened a window to the sea" was an opening line I frequently used. I certainly wouldn't have lost any sleep over it, and this is precisely the attitude Rossetti himself should have taken, but the poor wretch got it into his mind that his poems were terribly sublime, and became obsessed with recovering them. Something similar happened to me.
It was something that Victoria couldn't understand: the selfishness of a creative mind, its vanity. "People like that would rather see an entire Gothic cathedral demolished than one line of their work erased," I remember her saying. Her voice, usually so sweet, became tense whenever she repeated what a wretch Rossetti was. And she never seemed to be joking; in fact, whenever she brought the matter up she was very serious, deadly serious.
I haven't always been like this. My literary work – if it can be so called, for apart from some commissioned work, I've only published one novel, Farewell, Sadness, an early work whose title reflects the mood in which I wrote it – my literary production, I say, has never really obsessed me. I mean that I'm not one of those people who go around brooding on the brilliance of their silly ideas and writing them down on scraps of paper.
Š Rossetti-ren obsesioa: Erein
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Well unfortunately, yesterday, due to an unexpected situation my stock 04' WRX (43k mi. engine) got a spun bearing. So I've decided to go ahead an replace the shortblock, my question is how much work will it take to properly replace by old 2.0 shortblock with an 2.5 Sblock? Or should I just stick with the 2.0?
Thanks in advance guys seriously. Plus, if you guys have a better plan that you think I should go with, please do tell.
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|Prostate Cancer Screening: Moving Beyond PSA - Renal and Urology News|
More than 1 million prostate biopsies are performed annually in the United States, predominantly driven by elevations in PSA. The merits of PSA screening have been widely debated due largely to its low specificity for prostate cancer (PCa), especially for high-grade disease.
Two randomized trials (PLCO/ERSCP) failed to resolve the controversy and the U.S. prostate screening task force (USPSTF) recently gave PSA screening a Grade D, recommending against it. In doing so the USPSTF failed to fully acknowledge the limitations and merits of both the PLCO and ERSCP trials and dismissed the fact that over the past 20 years of PSA-based screening, PCa-specific mortality has been reduced by close to 40%, while the risk of metastatic disease has been substantially reduced (Urol Onc 2012;30:117-119).
Given the need to reduce overdiagnosis of low-stage/low-grade PCa while improving detection of aggressive disease, the American Urological Association, the American College of Surgeons, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline committees have made recommendations for risk-adjusted PSA screening, citing data demonstrating that PSA baselining and kinetics dramatically improve screening efficiency, particularly in younger populations.
Nonetheless, in the absence of widespread adoption of risk-adjusted and patient-informed screening strategies, a likelihood of over- and underdiagnosis and over- and undertreatment exists, with attendant morbidities pending improved diagnostic tests.
Among the most promising new molecular tests for PCa screening is PCA-3, a non-coding, large-chain RNA over-expressed in PCa. PCA3 is detectable in urine and independent of prostate size and PSA.
In a recent study led by the National Cancer Institute Early Detection Research Network and presented last month at the American Association for Cancer Research, Wei and colleagues reported on a comprehensive, prospective, independent validation of urinary PCA3 alone or in combination with common clinical factors (prior negative biopsy, PSA, race, age, abnormal DRE, and family history) for the detection of PCa at 11 U.S. sites.
In nearly 1,000 men undergoing initial or repeat biopsy, these investigators found that urinary PCA3 prior to a prostate biopsy improved the prediction of PCa and high-grade disease with a high positive predictive value (90%) in the initial biopsy setting and a high negative predictive value (88%) in the repeat biopsy setting. The investigators conclude that counseling men undergoing prostate biopsy in the context of PCA3 would reduce the burden of prostate biopsies.
While widespread adoption of urinary PCA-3 has not yet been incorporated into most physician screening practices, it represents a clear positive step toward a more risk adjusted biopsy strategy, a goal on which we all can agree.
Robert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS, holds that G. Willing “Wing” Pepper Chair in Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, where he is Chairman of the Department of Surgery. He is Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Uzzo also serves as theRenal & Urology News Medical Director for Urology.
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http://www.globaldialysis.com/dialysis-world-news/100-dialysis-industry-news/261357142-prostate-cancer-screening-moving-beyond-psa-renal-and-urology-news.html
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SALT LAKE CITY — Novell never sold ownership rights to Unix computer software code when it allowed another company to take over the servicing of the venerable server operating system used by large corporations, a jury in Utah decided Tuesday.
The verdict was a setback for The SCO Group of Lindon, Utah, which hoped a victory would lift it out of bankruptcy and strengthen a separate case alleging IBM misappropriated Unix code for improvements that made the open-source Linux operating system run better.
Former Novell executives testified that they intended to sell the copyrights along with the Unix operating system, and SCO Group offered an amendment written a year after the 1995 sale that transferred the rights.
"Obviously, we're disappointed in the jury's decision," said SCO trial lawyer Stuart H. Singer. "We were confident in the case, but there's some important claims remaining to be decided by a judge."
SCO will ask U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart to award the copyrights to SCO "even if we didn't have them before," he said. "It's a setback, but it's not over."
SCO filed a slander-of-title lawsuit in 2004 asserting Waltham, Mass.-based Novell hurt its business and reputation by claiming it sold serving rights, but not copyrights.
"Novell is very pleased with the jury's decision confirming Novell's ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux," the company said in a statement. "Novell remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front."
An IBM spokeswoman didn't immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14787463
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Releasing a new short to Explosm and NewGrounds AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
i'm a big fan of cyanide and happiness and i haven't seen that one, pretty damn good, they never fail, *sigh*
First time i've written a review while laughing... Great
Love this one! Like the guy below said, the best part is when he said Oh Sh**! And jumped off the roof! ;)
best part was haha look how fast im going ooooh s***
short but ok
its ok but still very short(even for a short)
The first instalment in a new Wildlife Documentary Series
First episode of 2 ants 1 president
Rej displays his twirling talents
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Some nights you’ll find me in the kitchen doubling up a dish. This is because I’m either freezing one for my family, or I’m getting ready to take a meal to a family in need.
Hospitality covers the whole range of life experiences and emotions.
For me, some of these life experiences and feelings have come in challenging times, like when I had my children (who are now teens), when my husband and I lost three parents within a five year period, and when I had several surgeries.
Friends rallied together and gave me one of the most thoughtful gifts: They brought my family a meal. They fed our bodies and nourished our souls with their generous love for us.
Taking a meal to others in need happens often in churches, but it’s not just church people who we should look out for. Our world is full of need.
A basic checklist for bringing a meal to a family
Here are some simple tips for blessing another family during hard times with a meal:
• Make sure the family knows when you will be arriving.
• Keep the meal simple, whether it’s one entree or a full course.
• If possible, use disposable dishes so the recipient doesn’t have to worry about washing pans and plates and getting them back to you.
• Don’t plan to stay and visit unless you are invited in.
Helping for an extended period of time
If you know a family is going to need help for an extended period of time, setting up a meal schedule can be a huge blessing.
Photo by Emily
Some simple steps include:
• Ask the family if they’d like to receive meals, and then ask for names of some of their close friends, neighbors, or family members.
• Ask when the family would like the first meal, and for how long the meals should continue (I usually only commit to two weeks). Let them know to expect a meal every other day, and decide with them when it should be delivered.
• Set up a calendar with the schedule.
• When you make the calls to friends, neighbors, and family members, you don’t have to know what they plan to contribute. Let them decide the menu in their own time.
• Fill the calendar and make sure to include names and phone numbers. Email or mail the information to the recipient.
Once the schedule is set, my mission is accomplished! The family is on their way to being blessed.
This is what I call having a hospitable spirit — seeing a need and jumping in to help ease the pain of others. Who’d ever guess we could bless other bodies and souls in such a simple, yet meaningful way?
If I hadn’t been the recipient of this beautiful act of love years ago, I would have never understood how nourishing it is — to the body and the soul.
And who knows the lives you’ll touch in the process.
How do you look for needs around you? Have you been touched by being the recipient of a meal when you really needed it?
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” That Mark Twain quote is one of Tim Ferriss‘ favorite maxims. And one that’s certainly motivated him to go against the grain of popular thinking time and time again.
- The majority of people do not speak six languages. Ferriss does
- The majority will never win a Chinese Kickboxing Championship. Ferriss did
- The majority will never write a book. Three Ferris books landed him on bestseller lists.
- The majority will never appear on a broadcast television show or earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
- Ferris and his dance partner earned their spot for most tango spins and did so Live with Regis and Kelly — yes, live.
The sad fact is… the majority will never achieve even a few of their dreams.
Why not? If you ask Tim Ferris, he’ll probably say it’s because they haven’t yet dared to figure out how to buck tradition, forget about what the majority thinks or tells them to do, and adopt a new way to transform their dreams into the small, selective, sequenced, high stakes, but malleable building blocks that he models through his lifestyle design teachings in his series of “4-Hour” books and his blog.
Deconstruction, selection, sequence, stakes — whether pursuing a business goal, a personal achievement or filling a financial need — these are Ferris’ time management hacks for slicing, dicing, prioritizing, and cooking up whatever just dessert you want to add to your plate of accomplishments.
Whether Tim Ferris sets his sights on learning a new skill, a new language, a new sport or achieving a new business goal, it’s his time management hacks and the way he carves up a problem with razor-like precision and whittles time and space and the problem down to only 20% of their original sizes that makes his methods so achievable and so effective for others to emulate.
Hack Like Ferriss
Ranked at the seventh most powerful online personality in 2012 by Newsweek and their Digital Power Index 100, Timothy Ferris and his time-goal-continuum have helped many creative problem-solvers finally deconstruct and surmount the obstacles that formerly kept them from achieving their lofty goals.
One group that has embraced Ferris’ profitable learning and time management hack system spends most of their time hanging out on Google and YouTube.
While most affiliate marketers still struggle to make their blogs appear in Google search results after being decimated by Panda and Penguin updates, a few Ferris-following video marketers are finding a profitable niche in slicing, dicing, and focusing all their efforts with that 20/20/80% model in mind.
Following Google Trends each day, they pick one trend that looks marketable. They then search the named trend’s keywords with the free Google Keyword Tool for Adwords to verify how many people typically search for that term.
But instead of creating a video for the main keyword term and competing with the masses to get on page one of YouTube and Google, they search for the next highest keyword that has a recognizable consumer market — a market known to buy products online, not one that just “wants information” or freebies. They search for the trend’s related consumer market that can be clearly defined through quick demographic research easily found online.
If the trend for the day is a story on a sports figure, they know their audience will usually be focused on young, athletic, single or divorced men, but they check that guess with hard data just to be sure.
Then they ask, what are those guys interested in? What kinds of products are they known to buy online? Working out, fitness, health, and dating websites are their usual haunts with buying habits perfect for their goals.
They then find a highly desired product that can generate a reasonable commission and subtly monetize the description beneath the video with an affiliate link to the product.
The video they make, which might only be a series of a few slides with an appropriate audio track for their targeted audience, highlights the sports figure or story of the day, with the affiliate product link appearing first in the description above a nice article related to the day’s trend.
After they upload the video to their site, to YouTube or both, they’ll find 10 blogs or forums where their targeted demographic market hangs out. They’ll then make meaningful, interesting, helpful comments, reference the sports figure trend of the day, and add the link to the video within the comment. The link could lead an interested reader to the marketer’s site where he’s embedded the video or directly to YouTube where he also uploaded it. He then repeats the process for each of his ten targeted blogs for those demographics.
And after getting the hang of it, they do all that within an hour, confirming Ferris’ time management hack theories and his 20/20/80% rule. With so few competitors directly vying for page one with their specific, highly focused keywords, they’re apt to reach their goal with little trouble.
Ultimately, many of these trend-hackers are reaping the rewards when hundreds of thousands of eyes start to fall on their videos, click their affiliate links, and earn them a commission for their troubles.
By thinking outside the box, by looking at trends, by choosing the “trend-market” that delivers hundreds of thousands of eyes to them daily, by breaking both their market and video tasks down into bite-sized pieces, by choosing to focus on what others don’t focus on, these video marketers are finding that Tim Ferris’ influence in their thinking is helping them succeed online.
And they’re succeeding where others are typically failing by still trying to directly compete with the masses. Still listening to the majority. Still following the herd mentality.
Think Like Ferriss
Ferris thinking follows herds, but then segments them and focuses attention to the fringes with the most profitable possibilities. Focusing on the twenty percent of the audience that deliver 80% of the desired results. On twenty percent of the tactics that deliver 80% of the desired results.
That’s how savvy, successful video marketers are beating the odds online — with Ferris’ deconstructive, selective, sequenced methods with built-in high stakes. Succeed and profit; fail and perish.
Recently, Ferris-following video marketers have been selling their own how-to products online through internet marketing platforms like the Warrior Forum. But what they’re really doing is selling their own story of how they successfully modeled and adapted Tim Ferris’ time management hacks for their own profitable purposes.
How do you put Ferris-Hacks to work for you and your company? Whether attempting to better manage your team’s time, better train yourself in marketable skills you currently don’t have or to conquer an old habit that you’ve vowed to vanquish, here’s some Ferris-Hacks to get you started:
1. Deconstruct your goal into basic building blocks that make up the whole of want you want to learn, accomplish, achieve, best or conquer.
2. Use Pareto’s Principle, the 80/20/20 rule, to choose the most crucial building blocks and most important tactics that comprise 20% of your subject or target that will complete 80% of your entire goal.
3. Next, sequence your tasks for maximum effect, focusing on hard data to support your choices and to track your progress at specific points along your way.
4. And finally, set up stakes with both positive and adverse consequences that ensure you either complete, achieve, reach or win your targeted goal or suffer harsh consequence, like having to donate to a cause you hate or something equally detestable that rewards something opposite from your goal.
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Through the use of simple, repetitive processes and equipment, Ari Marcopoulos creates sparse yet complexly layered works that break down the perceived economic barriers of art production, with a vague smack of the political. His current show of new work, Wherever you go at Marlborough Chelsea, continues this tradition, exhibiting a number of prints, photographs and video using simple methods and techniques to create impressively vocal pieces. Using simple handheld cameras, Marcopoulos photographs his subjects in candid, neutral poses, then passes the images through several stages of printing onto rice paper, creating dense, complexly shaded images with their own created narratives.
Ari Marcopoulos, City Riders (2012)
The show also features a number of video portraits of subway riders, shot covertly on a cellphone camera and projected onto the gallery wall. An advocate for democratic distribution and image equivalency, Marcopoulos is additionally exhibiting the show as part of a ‘zine’ series, released in collaboration with Dogwood books. In an echo of this sentiment, Marcopoulos has included a vitrine of some of his rare, out of print books alongside bootlegged zine versions for visitors to peruse.
Ari Marcopoulos, Wherever you go (2012)
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on April 3, 2001
Right around 1970, four of the five Taylor siblings were cutting their first albums. Alex tragically passed on just a few years ago, and Kate isn't recording all that much anymore (though check out her recent single release of "Auld Lang Syne"). But James and Livingston are still churning them out.
This album was Liv's debut and it's still one of his best. At this point in their careers, Liv and James still sounded quite a bit alike in vocal, guitar, and writing styles; if you liked James's first two albums (his Apple debut LP and _Sweet Baby James_), you'll probably like this one too.
The big hit was, of course, "Carolina Day." But there's a lot more here -- a bunch of solid Liv originals and even a crunchy take on "Six Days on the Road."
Give it a listen. Liv has been tagged by some as the "thinking man's Taylor" -- an appellation that isn't quite fair to James but that does convey something of Liv's warmhearted-yet-cerebral lyrics.
If you like this, investigate some of Liv's other stuff. I highly recommend _Ink_, _Bicycle_, and _Our Turn to Dance_ among his more recent releases. In general, he's one of the most consistently craftsmanlike -- and underrated -- performers of the last two or three decades.
on August 25, 2003
It's funny when I look at my music collection and think about how many artists' first recordings rank as my favorite ones in their catalogue - this first recording by Livingston Taylor (from 1970, I believe) is certainly in that category. He's done a lot of fine work since then - thankfully he's still very active - but this one warms my heart and ears like few others. The songwriting style, the guitar work - he's one of the best fingerstyle players you'll ever hear - and his wonderful, warm voice all combine to make this album (and many of his others) a great listening experience. All of the songs are originals, with the exception of his great take on the George Jones classic 'Six days on the road' - and every one resounds with the creativity and spirit that make Liv Taylor's work so exceptional. He writes and sings from his heart - and there's a lot of love and wisdom contained there that he's, thankfully, willing and able to share with us. It's hard to go wrong in picking anything from his catalogue - but this is a great place to start. It's a true classic that has very ably stood the test of time.
on November 13, 1998
Listen up, this is classic Liv Taylor, at his best, and during his early years. If you are a fan at all you will appreciate this CD. I have this record and have been waiting for this to be reproduced, as with his other older albums. Buy it now, you won't regret it!
on August 20, 2015
Still have my vinyl copy from my high school days. In my first year of college, a century and a half ago, Livingston performed in the auditorium, and due to a general lack of musical taste, it was a small crowd, so he came down from the stage, pulled the one third full house down close and gave a wonderfully intimate performance. One of the Great ones. Now I have the download,, and it sounds as good as ever.
on January 26, 2014
Unquestionably one of the 10 finest singer songwriter albums ever released. The second side in its entirety is a masterpiece. Liv's melodic tunes, his words of both turmoil and the search for self-acceptance, and the album's superb production (by Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen's manager since the late seventies) make it a true classic. Liv has done several fine albums since (Liv, Ink, Life is Good), but his debut is a hall of fame work.
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Cláudio César Dias Baptista - CCDB
Cláudio César Dias Baptista (CCDB) was born in São Paulo - SP, Brazil, on May 6, 1945, son of César Dias Baptista (writer, poet, singer and journalist) and Clarisse Leite Dias Baptista (piano composer, concert artist and professor - see "Clarisse Leite" in Wikipédia).
In his youth, CCDB was amateur astronomer, member of the Associação de Amadores de Astronomia de São Paulo (A.A.A.S.P.), where he was one of the directors of the Cinema Department, which he founded with his classmate Rafael Vilardi, operated the sound in the Planetarium and manufactured telescopes, including their mirrors and lenses and presented the sky and scientific films to the visitors of Planetário do Ibirapuera - the first Zeiss number two Planetarium in the world besides the original in the Zeiss factory. He was also a model aircraft maker.
Cláudio César Dias Baptista (CCDB) was the founder (with the owner, Leonardo Bellonzi) of EDITELE - Editora Técnica Eletrônica, publisher of Nova Eletrônica Magazine (65,000 issues/month) distributed by Editora Abril in all Portuguese speaking countries during the decade 1977 - 1987, where he published hundreds of pages of his own articles, atricles of other authors and technical books.
CCDB is also known as the founder, with Raphael Vilardi, of the most important rock musical group from Brazil, named "Os Mutantes" (or simply "Mutantes"), with his brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias, and with Rita Lee. Mutantes recorded several LP and CDs and played in many countries, for example, in the theater Olympia de Paris.
CCDB has a technical diplom Honoris Causa in electronics, given by CREA, a government department in Brazil.
CCDB was an Audio Engineering Society (AES) Member ("Member" is a degree normally given to audio engineers) and in Brazil is still known as "The Pope of Audio".
CCDB studied business administration in the Escola de Administração de Empresas da Fundação Getúlio Vargas em São Paulo (EAESP-FGV) and directed several enterprises.
CCDB became famous for manufacturing musical instruments, and the best known instrument is the "Golden Guitar", in Portuguese "Guitarra de Ouro", about which several articles were published in journals and magazines, as you may find searching the web.
CCDB manufactured audio products during many years, until 1994, to the most important musical groups, churches, theatres and musicians - there are still several CCDB products in use in musical groups, churches, theatres, etc., and the people who own these products doesn't sell them at any price. You may download the video (479.75MB) and see CCDB in action during the demonstration of the audio console CCDB 44 in the legendary "VÍDEO CCDB 44".
To dedicate himself only to write books, CCDB put aside his work in audio and does not manufacture any product now nor accept consultations about audio or electronics.
To publish himself his books, the book in co-authorship with his son Rafael Borges Dias Baptista (RDB) and the RDB chess small book, CCDB studied and learned PHP language and developed the CCDB Livros active section of his site www.ccdb.gea.nom.br, where these books can be read today.
CCDB AS A WRITER
CCDB is now a writer, with several books, which he published only for on-line reading in his site www.ccdb.gea.nom.br, CCDB Livros section.
The main opus from CCDB is "Géa", with twelve text books, each with 250 pages and one glossary-dictionary, with 1,000 pages. In "Géa" CCDB has twice the lexicon of William Shakespeare in all his opera and six times the lexicon of Camões in "Os Lusíadas": thirty thousand words (1). Among several stories, "Géa" tells the history of Clausar, a mystic in his search for Light, and in his voyages among the stars, the galaxies and beyond.
"Géa" tells also the story of Clausar in the search of Ansata, the greatest dancer of the Universe, which Clausar didn't know that was his daughter named Ky, who was token from him with only two years old. Clausar falls in love when he sees Ansata dancing in a theatre of his planet and searching for her, he discovers a Mystical Order, who has the power to bring him to the outer space in the search of Ansata, cruising several solar systems in the Telaria Constelation. One of the stars of that constelation is Delta Telariae (in the extraterrestrian language), which is our Sun. In the planet Tridelta (our Earth) he finally reaches Ansata... and Clausar discovers that she is his daughter Ky.
There are described mystic experiments of Clausar which are in fact the ones of CCDB. There are described also inventions which can work if created in laboratories, as the "Ionomag", an ionic and magnectic propeller. CCDB published Géa himself for on-line reading (today only possible in Brazil because the means of payment for the reading, via "PagSeguro", is limited to that country) in his site, www.ccdb.gea.nom.br, CCDB Livros section.
One of the remarkable characteristics of "Géa" is its sonority. Dedicated to sound and music for many years CCDB created an opus wich has some real metrified and formatted poetry, but is mainly prose; and its prose in many places (where the sentiment suggests) subtlely changes to poetry, to which the ear habituates itself and the Reader doesn't note that he/she is reading already metrified and very sonorous poetry.
CCDB wrote also "Geínha", for children and teenagers, with twelve volumes of 250 pages each (and no dictionary). "Geínha" was written under the model of a fairy tale... but without fairies! Some of the characters came from "Géa" opus, but "Geínha" is not a resume of "Géa": it is a completely different story.
THE BOOK NAMED ")que("
CCDB wrote also the book named ")que(" for adults, with one 301 pages volume, where are told the adventures of Clestis, Delícia and Delcles. Clestis discovers a Portal in the mirror of his bathroom and from that start point he does journeys with the Spirit of the Bathroom (a facetions name for somebody which is in fact a superior Entity).
"CCDB - GRAVAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL (CCDB - PROFESSIONAL RECORDING)"
CCDB wrote also "CCDB - Gravação Profissional", with one 1,010 pages volume, a technical book in co-authorship with his son Rafael Borges Dias Baptista (RDB). This technical book was illustrated by RDB.
CCDB ilustraded himself with his 3D characters the books "Géa" and "Geínha" - more than one thousand illustrations (62 illustrations in each of the twelve text volumes of each opus). CCDB created all the covers for his books.
The whole of the books from CCDB have, today, 3,455 characters and cannot be labeled in any category. These books have literature, fiction, mysticism, romance, sci-fi, inventions, drama, tragedy, comedy, fantasy, sex, drugs, war, peace, etc.
CCDB also wrote, IN ENGLISH, a book which is not published in his site nor anywhere. That book is "We, Mutantes" and tells the story of the Mutantes (or "Os Mutantes") group from the perspective of the insider that CCDB is. Several books were published in Brazil about Mutantes, as "A Divina Comédia dos Mutantes", from Carlos Calado, but none from the insider point of view.
CCDB is also looking for a publisher for "We, Mutantes", which English must be corrected by the editor (this own page, written by CCDB as if he was telling the story of another person, is a sample of CCDB's - my - "English").
SEARCHING FOR A PUBLISHER (AN EDITOR)
Although CCDB published his books (in perfect Portuguese language) in his site www.ccdb.gea.nom.br for on-line reading only, he is looking for a publisher to publish his books in Brazil, in the Portuguese speaking countries and (if translated by the publisher) in all countries of the world.
CCDB IN THE WORLD OF FASHION
Today CCDB is also a great success, as a writer and an illustrator, in the fashion site www.bymk.com.br, where he creates looks, under which looks he writes resumes of the stories of his books. The work of CCDB in the world of fashion is directed to divulge his work as a writer and to demonstrate for the publishers that, if his texts and characters are a great success in the world of fashion, they will be also if published in printed books.
It's easy to see the work of CCDB in byMK: search "CCDB" and his page appears, where in the "looks" link his more than (today) 400 looks with beautiful texts will be seen and with great comments about his work.
CCDB - THE MYSTIC
CCDB is also a mystic; he reached directly the contact with God, without religions, priests, intermediaries. The opus "Géa" tells the adventures of several protagonists, and the mystical experiences of the own author are told as if they were the experiences of his character Clausar. There is also sex, incest, violence, war and poetry in CCDB opus.
In the opus "Géa", CCDB presents the "bio-relativity" (biorrelatividade) as a theory of his protagonist named Clausar. Where "bio" is for "life" and "relativity" has not the acceptation as in the Einstein theories, but signifies "relationship between living beings".
The bio-relativity says that everything in the Universe is alive, including elementary particles, atoms, molecules, cells and multicellular organisms. When, recently (many years after "Géa" was written and registered), scientists synthesized a cell, they didn't created "life", because life already exists in the elements which were utilized to produce that cell.
Bio-relativity says that the main purpose of all entities (all above, including particles) is "to relate more for exist more".
To relate is "good"; to "unrelate" (desrelacionar) is bad. For example: a man and a woman relates one with the other and produces a baby: That's good, because augments the relationships in the Universe - which causes happyness. Somebody kills the baby: That's bad because reduces the existing relationships - which causes sadness.
From bio-relativity it's possible to extract (and the author does extracts) a new ethics: Beings who relates more are more ''valuable'' than beings who relates less - that's why humans kill vegetables and animals to eat with not so great consternation as when killing other humans.
The author allerts against bad using of the concept of bio-relativity when applied to human beings - there are not any superiority of race, creed, etc. suggested in bio-relativity.
The concept is useful in creating better scales of values for determining responsabilities, degrees in schools and hierarchy in any group or enterprise. And bio-relativity is also good for philosophers to think about.
The bio-relativity says that even the elementary particles have "will": The will of relate more to exist more. So, the bio-relativity augments (not colliding with) the Darwin Theory of Evolution, accepting someting more than "chance" (acaso) to promote the evolution of beings. The "will" in particles is "to relate more" in form of attraction or repulsion; the "will" in the cell is to relate more with the Universe - that's the cause for the development of the senses, as vision, earing, and others and the specialization of cells in the multicellular organisms; the will in human beings everybody knows (I hope...) what is.
The possible nonsense of the words "to exist more" is also discuted in opus "Géa".
The bio-relativity also explains, in another way, added to the Darwin's theory (but including "chance" as one of the ways), why a butterfly can produce the image of an owl - and not the image of a politician... in his wings; why the cobra can produce an specific poison to kill the prey; and how the bee and the flower adapts themselves to each other.
MAIN CHARACTERS IN CCDB BOOKS
The total of CCDB's opus has 3,455 characters. "Géa", the main opus of CCDB has 1,267 characters. Among these characters:
Clausar, extraterrestrian from planet Géa.
Gia, wife of Clausar.
Rá, son of Clausar and Gia.
Ky, the greatest dancer of the Universe and daughter from the first marriage of Clausar.
Ra-El, the best friend of Clausar and superior starship fighter pilot.
Geárion, Being of Light, and "Ky Único de espécie (Only Soul of a species)".
Tóxia, the "telária" of the mortal poison.
Posenk, the bio-computer who acquired life.
Talia, the girl which is in the dreams of Rá.
Terrar, the terrestrian.
Géa, the feminine part of the One - in the last chapter of "Géa".
Géo (God), the masculine part of the One - in the last chapter of "Géa".
CCDB AS MUSICIAN
CCDB is also a musician. You may download from his site www.ccdb.gea.nom.br the "Tema dos Seres de Luz" (Theme of the Beings of Light) from his site (see the direct link for the composition page below). CCDB wrote the lyrics in the extraterrestrial idiom "teruzês"; so, the song has a title in that idiom: "Tárky fros Gédos fre Géon". CCDB composed the song also, in Cubase 5. His main purpose as musician today is to divulgue his books.
CCDB AS COMPUTER GRAPHICS ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR
CCDB created in 3DStudio MAX and Autocad all the more than one thousand illustrations and all the covers for his books. You may see these works in his site, www.ccdb.gea.nom.br.
See, please, the vast site of the author, www.ccdb.gea.nom.br, for reading (in Portuguese) the reportings in several important Brazilian magazines and journals about his life. The reportings you may read (in Portuguese) utilizing the links in this page: http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/reportagens.html
Cláudio César Dias Baptista (CCDB) is in the En Wiki (English Wikipedia)
The page in En Wiki was created by another person, not by the own CCDB:
Géa is in the En Wiki (English Wikipedia)
The page in En Wiki was created by another person, not by the own CCDB:
Cláudio César Dias Baptista (CCDB) is in the Pt Wikipédia
The page in Wikipédia was created by another person, not by the own CCDB:
The Golden Guitar (Guitarra de Ouro) you may see also in Wikipédia:
CCDB plays on-stage with the other Mutantes and with Gilberto Gil during a Brazilian Pop Music (MPB) festival (TV Record). All the Instruments (including the bass) were manufactured by CCDB:
VIDEO ANIMATION by CCDB: “Ky dança a Música da Armadeira 5.1 (Ballet Phoneutria)” - ©CCDB 2015 all from one author: history, book, symphony, coreography and computer graphics animation in 5.1 audio (six channel)
Ky dança a Música da Armadeira 5.1 (Ballet Phoneutria)
VIDEO ANIMATION by CCDB: “Ky dança a Música da Armadeira (Ballet Phoneutria)” - ©CCDB 2015 all from one author: history, book, symphony, coreography and computer graphics animation
Ky dança a Música da Armadeira (Ballet Phoneutria)
VIDEO ANIMATION by CCDB: “Ky dança a Sinfonia em roKy” - ©CCDB 2015 all from one author: history, book, symphony, coreography and computer graphics animation
Ky dança a Sinfonia em roKy
VIDEO ANIMATION by CCDB: “Ky dances Proust Remembered” FULL HD
VIDEO CCDB 44
Minimum Summary of the opus Géa http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/minimum_summary_of_the_opus_gea.html
ENGLISH PAGES ON THE AUTHOR'S SITE http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/english_pages.htm
Música da Mão 5.1 (Music of the Hand 5.1 version - six channel audio)
Música da Mão 5.1
Música da Mão (Music of the Hand)
Música da Mão
Tema de Géa (Theme of Géa) Tárky fre Géa http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/tema_de_gea_sergio_dias_e_ccdb.html
Tema dos Seres de Luz (Theme of the Beings of Light)
Tárky fros Gédos fre Géon http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/tema_dos_seres_de_luz_por_ccdb.html
Tema dos Seres Sapientes (Theme of the Sapient Beings)
Tárky fros Gédos fre Géon
Tema dos Seres Submétricos (Theme of the Submetric Beings)
Tárky fros Gédos Subtrezêmbicos
Tema das Partículas Subatômicas Viventes (Theme of the Subatomic Living Particles)
Tárky fros Gédons Gédios
Easy and organized access for the pages on the author's site: Links para as páginas mais visitadas (links for the most visited pages) - some pages in English.
"GÉA" IN CINEMA
Suggestions (in English) from the author for the making of several feature films from the content of opus "Géa": When Géa is filmed.
SITE OF THE AUTHOR CCDB
(1) The Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary "Novo Dicionário Aurélio Eletrônico - versão 5" and previous versions, in the entry "Léxicon", confirms the lexicon (total words utilized by a writer in his opus) of William Shakespeare: 15,000 words. From the "Livro Treze" (glossary-dictionary of the opus "Géa") and from the own opus "Géa" it's easy to discover that the CCDB's lexicon in "Géa" is 30,000 words - twice the lexicon of William Shakespeare in all his opera. Here is an excerpt from the "Novo Dicionário Aurélio Eletrônico" dictionary: [" 'O léxicon de Shakespeare, não obstante os seus quinze mil vocábulos, parece não possuir expressões bastantes' ...(as quais)... 'frisassem à sua vasta ideologia.' (Camilo Castelo Branco, Otelo, o Mouro de Veneza, p. 10.).".]! It's also easy to discover from the preface of Camões' "Os Lusíadas" that his léxicon is 6,000 words in that opus. Quantity is not always synonim of quality; so, you are invited to read "Géa" and the others books of CCDB and RDB to compare the quality with the quantity.
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“I felt like I just won an Oscar.”
That’s how Ellee Nolan Asaro of Trade Mart Interiors describes her reaction on finding out she’d taken first place in the Specialty Window Fashions category of this year’s Envision Design and Workroom Ingenuity Awards.
Window Fashion Vision magazine announced the winners at the recent VISION12: International Window Coverings EXPO held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.
Ms. Asaro’s work will be featured in the magazine and the VISION website at www.wf-vision.com.
Winners were judged by experienced industry professionals and instructors for their attention to clients’ needs, creativity, design excellence, construction perfection and elements and materials used. Competitors were judged in 15 specific categories, including type of window treatment, room, commercial or residential and overall excellence.
Ms. Asaro’s award-winning window treatment was created for the home of a former Islander now living in Freehold, N.J., who was familiar with the work of the Great Kills design firm.
“It was a real challenge,” she said, noting that the treatment she designed was for 17-foot-high Palladian windows. “But that wasn’t the biggest challenge” she said. “The center window had a top arch that meets the crown molding and the walls on either side of it were at different angles, so the boards [for the valances] had to go on an angle.”
The size and configuration of the living room in which the windows were situated demanded a dramatic statement, while the style of the home called for a treatment somewhat traditional in style.
Explaining that the only thing in the room when she first saw it was the sofa, Ms. Asaro said, “I worked from the colors on the throw pillows. I knew I needed a darker fabric to stand out and give it presence,” she said of her choice of a faux silk polyester fabric in burgundy and aubergine stripes. Elaborate scrolled iron hardware crowns the pleated headers of pale gold finished with 8-inch gold and burgundy trim.
Ms. Asaro said the design, from original sketches to realization, took from six to eight weeks to accomplish, with installation requiring scaffolding.
The designer, who has been employed at Trade Mart for 12 years, says she begins each project by interviewing her client to determine his or her style, favorite colors and what emotions they want to evoke in a room before sketching out her ideas.
“I really strive to give my clients their own unique style,” said Ms. Asaro, a former manicurist and nail salon owner whose interest in interior design was piqued when she took faux finishing classes in Manhattan.
And now, she’s won a prestigious industry award her first time out, a winner chosen from among nearly 100 entries nationwide.
As much as she appreciates the recognition and is proud of her win, Ms. Asaro also prizes the challenge and experience this particular commission presented.
“If I can install a job without a problem, it’s a miracle,” she said. “And this job, as difficult as it was, was perfect from beginning to end. I’ve even gone on to become friends with the client, It was a really great experience.”
Danielle Lucchese contributed to this story.
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http://www.silive.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/07/island_designers_work_is_recog.html
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The $1 weekly video is a fine thing.
I am currently putting myself through Heaven's Gate (the original, long long version). An infamous film that wrecked careers, wrecked a studio, and nobody saw. For years I've told myself I should see it. Now it's finally happening.
It reminds me of watching Matrix 2. Incredibly impressive in many ways, and horridly put together.
It had a huge budget, a pretentious director (Michael Cimino) and every shot of the film is beautiful. Amazing photography and sets and locations. Every shot looks delicious and expensive.
But it is sooooo long. Every scene is twice as long as you'd want it to be. And in most scenes very little, or nothing at all of any consequence to the plot happens. I have watched 1 and a half hours so far, and I am finding it difficult to remember one significant or memorable exchange of dialogue.
And even worse, there are scenes where you can't hear what the leads are saying! The director obviously wanted a realistic feel. So if the leads are talking near a busy road, you hear the background traffic rather than the lead voices. There are scenes that I have carefully replayed, but still can't make out what they're going on about! This is not a way to win over your audience Michael!
But I am determined to keep watching. The bad guys' plot is to kill 125 poor immigrant peasants, and so far they have a lot of catching up to do.
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Kush is a variety of Cannabis indica which is known for its strength and therapeutic properties. Kush strains were among those cultivated by the British firm GW Pharmaceuticals for its legally licensed commercial trial of medicinal cannabis. The strain originates from northern Pakistan and northwestern India, with the name coming from the Hindu Kush mountain range.
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US plans to ban its citizens from traveling to North Korea — tour operatorWorld July 21, 15:35
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Russia wins 2017 FINA World Championships’ gold in women’s team free competitionSport July 21, 13:55
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First bionic eye surgery successfully completed in RussiaScience & Space July 21, 13:41
Russia's new advanced corvette to take part in Navy Day parade in Far EastMilitary & Defense July 21, 13:31
Global coke smuggling ring using unsuspecting seniors bustedSociety & Culture July 21, 13:25
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The searches at the office of the Finam investment holding have nothing to do with company operation, its president Vladislav Kochetkov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
Kochetkov said the investigators were looking into transactions of one of Finam clients. He said he knew nothing if the client in question had carried out any illegal financial operations.
"Not through Finam," he said noting that "it would be logical to search other companies which serviced the client."
He declined to name the person. "It's a natural person whose name will tell you nothing; he's not an oligarch; just an ordinary businessman above medium level."
The searches were conducted from 07:00 through 12:00, Moscow time, on Tuesday. Finam's work was not paralyzed, but police sealed off several storeys.
Finam began to service clients later than usual.
Kochetkov said the searches had been conducted correctly.
Founded in 1994, Finam provides broker's services on all the key world exchanges, as well as all kinds of banking services. It engages in Forex trade and trust management of funds.
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Over 120 customers attended the special day-event where they were treated to champagne on arrival and a fine selection of canapés before the new model was revealed.
The BMW 7 Series has redefined what an exclusive, luxurious driving experience looks like in contemporary, pioneering form. Groundbreaking technologies in the areas of lightweight design, powertrains, chassis, operating systems, intelligent connectivity and interior ambience underline its mission to bring together unbeatable driving pleasure and long-distance comfort in a luxury sedan.
Held at the Worsley Park Marriott Hotel & Country Club, guests were able to view the car at their own leisure and take in the astounding exterior and interior of the model.
In addition, customers had the opportunity to take the car for a test drive, allowing them to be one of the first in the country to get behind the wheel of the highly-anticipated car.
The sumptuous car also focuses on maximising well-being in the rear compartment, with an Executive Lounge feature with massage function and Vitality Programme, the Sky Lounge Panorama glass roof, the Welcome Light Carpet, the Ambient highlight and a smartphone holder with inductive charging station.
Standout innovations in operating system and driver assistance technology include the extension of the iDrive system to include a touch display and BMW gesture control, as well as Touch Command, the new BMW Head-Up Display, crossing traffic warning, the steering and lane control assistant, active side collision protection, Surround View with 3D View and the Remote Control Parking system.
Jason Almond, Franchise Director at Williams Group, commented: “It was with great pleasure to reveal the new BMW 7 Series to our customers. The feedback was unbelievable and everyone was taken aback by the luxurious model. Interest is already very strong and orders have already been placed.
“I would personally like to thank everyone who took the time out to come along to the launch event and we look forward to welcoming the rest of the public to our showrooms and seeing the incredible BMW 7 Series for themselves.”
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Filmmaker tapped to pen the Warner Bros. pic
As Warner Bros. finalizes plans on how to fully exploit DC’s stable of iconic superheroes across the company’s various divisions, it’s making moves to send Superman on his next adventure.
The studio and Legendary Pictures are negotiating with David Goyer to pen a new script, tentatively titled “Man of Steel,” that would help Warner Bros. get a new Superman pic on the bigscreen before it loses the copyright on the character in 2013.
Both Warner Bros. and Legendary are high on Goyer after he helped breathe new life into the Batman franchise in 2005 by co-writing “Batman Begins,” which went on to earn $352 million worldwide. Its follow-up, “The Dark Knight,” for which he helped develop the story, earned $1 billion.
Fanboys also know Goyer as the man behind New Line’s “Blade” franchise and as an executive producer on Sony’s “Ghost Rider,” both of which are based on Marvel comicbooks. He also penned a version of Fox’s planned “X-Men Origins: Magneto” pic.
Goyer is working with Jonathan Nolan on a script for the next Batman installment, based on an idea from helmer Christopher Nolan. He recently co-created “FlashForward” for ABC and left the series to focus on film projects full time.
According to sources close to the companies, Goyer pitched a more action-packed idea that involves Superman battling archnemesis Lex Luthor and super villain Brainiac — far different than the original story that was seen in “Superman Returns” in 2006. He could wind up helping another scribe develop the final script, as he did with “The Dark Knight.”
“Superman Returns'” Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer are not expected to return, after the film disappointed the studio when it earned $390 million worldwide. While the tally is respectable, it certainly didn’t amount to what executives had hoped for from a character as recognized around the world as Superman.
Legendary co-financed and produced “Superman Returns” as well as the last two Batman pics. It’s also backing the next Superman and Batman films.
Warner Bros., which is starting production on “Green Lantern” with Ryan Reynolds toplining, is under a timeline to get another film in production by 2011 or risk having to pay the heirs of Superman creator Jerome Siegel considerable coin for the studio’s exploitation of the character over the years. The Siegel heirs and the heirs of co-creator Joe Shuster will own the entire Superman copyright in 2013, according to an ongoing court battle over who owns the character.
Latino Review broke the news on its website Wednesday.
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http://variety.com/2010/film/news/goyer-flies-with-superman-1118015706/
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Chevrolet Vega Parts
The Chevrolet Vega is a subcompact car produced during the years 1970-1977. Chevrolet is one of the leading manufacturers of automobiles and has its headquarters in the United States. The firm was found in 1911 and is a division of General Motors. In the mid-1930s, the brand included various features to its cars like power steering, power windows and air-conditioning. There were a stream of vehicles introduced in the 60s, 70s, and 90s like the Corvait, Vega and Corvette, respectively. Some of the famous cars of the brand include the Bel Air, Equinox, Colorado and Corvette.
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