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"This is the #1 I have been waiting for!" |
What more to say; It would be a repeat of what others have said before me. |
Downloaded and started to use it. Just like that. So intuitive. |
In the future I would like to see it merged with a project manager and an invoice printing ability. |
This Western anthology moseyed along quietly for almost half a century (22 years on radio), and was set in Death Valley, Cal., because that's where its sponsor's product, 20 Mule Team Borax, was mined. Characters were always more important than action, and the most recognizable was the host. For 13 seasons it was `Old ... |
The future is GREEN,SUSTAINABLE energy. The future is NOW in this secluded hideaway of beautiful Crimson Canyon. CUSTOM built GREEN home w/ earth friendly materials such as energy efficient tankless water heaters, underground air returns for maximum air circulation, low water bath fixtures for water conservation, tinte... |
Video: 96-years-young Tao Porchon-Lynch wows America with the Tango! |
She’s 97 in two months and had three hip replacements. And Tuesday night, she stole the country’s heart and imagination by dancing up a storm, doing the tango with a 26-year-old man on America’s Got Talent. |
Meet Tao Porchon-Lynch, of White Plains, NY, who had the audience and judges, including Howard Stern and Heidi Klum, on their feet at the end of her performance Tuesday night. |
On Tuesday night, she kicked that fame up quite a few notches. |
"Nothing is impossible," she told her hometown newspaper in Westchester. "Inside of us is the power to do anything." |
Her dance instructor, Vard Margaryan, was her partner. |
"The young man that I'm dancing with there is 70 years younger than me," she says. "I have fun with it." |
Today, December 1, is World AIDS day. If you're looking for some last-minute ideas to help commemorate the day in the classroom, the aids.gov website offers fact sheets and posters for download and ideas for using social media to raise awareness. |
This morning, President Obama and several celebrities spoke at a World AIDS Day event held by ONE, the nonpartisan advocacy and campaigning organization co-founded by U2's Bono. |
Education International has a "One Hour on AIDS" lesson plan available on its website in 22 languages. |
Teachers might also be interested in this podcast on the Harvard Graduate School of Education website, during which HIV education specialists from UNESCO describe the responsibility of teachers and schools around the world to educate youths about the epidemic and the ways educators can facilitate a drop in new infectio... |
BLAINE, Minn. -- The under-19 Baltimore Spirit has proved to be explosive on offense. As with most successful soccer teams, however, a potent attack usually is initiated by an effective defense. |
The Spirit, four-time defending Maryland Cup champs, outscored opponents 35-4 in five victories that earned the Baltimoreans their first U.S. Youth Soccer Region I crown. |
"We play good team defense. That helps the offense," said striker Bryan Bugarin, whose seven goals in regional play were one fewer than those by midfielder Mike Henning. "Offense comes natural for us. We're naturally an attacking team." |
The first Baltimore-area team in any age group to advance to the national tournament in seven years, the Spirit opens play in the Snickers USYS National Championships today with a McGuire Cup semifinal against the Salsa of Riverside, Calif., at the National Sports Center at 3 p.m. The other semifinal matches Vardar III... |
The championship match is scheduled for Sunday at 8:30 p.m., preceded by the third-place game at 5 p.m. |
The Spirit is a mature side. Of its 16 players, 11 have completed TTC two years of college and five are sophomores, giving the squad )) more collegiate experience than any team ever in the nationals. |
The Salsa, in comparison, has no college players. |
"We'll be more fit and more physical than the other teams," said midfielder Matt Nesbitt. |
Nesbitt agreed the Spirit's success starts in the back. "We try to get numbers behind the ball," said the son of coach Dave Nesbitt. Opponents "shouldn't be able to go down the middle. They're going to have to go over the top or on the outside. We should always have at least eight players behind the ball." |
Also helping the Spirit is the close-knit nature of the team on which many players have been friends and teammates since adolescent days. For example, six team members graduated from Calvert Hall; four of those now play for UMBC. |
On the Spirit are three Baltimore scholastic players of the year: Bugarin (1991), J. J. Kremer (1992) and Shane Dougherty (1993). They are an aggressive lot. |
"Most of us, we've been on this team since we were little, even before high school. That helps," said sweeper Mike Barger. "We like running. We make it hard [for the opposition]. We're all over you all the time, never give you a chance to do anything." |
A third of babies today are born out of wedlock. Fewer than a quarter of households are married couples living with their children. Single-mother households increased at five times the rate of married couples with children during the 1990s. Households of unmarried partners grew by 72% over the same period, the U.S. Cen... |
The Census Bureau report tracks a 30-year move away from the married-with-children paradigm. This trend is helping fuel an emerging pro-marriage movement that is aimed at changing state laws to bolster and stabilize marriages and make it harder to divorce. |
"The bottom line is successful marriage is a win-win for everyone--for the children, for the married couple, for the entire community," said California Rep. Wally Herger (R-Chico), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee's Human Resources Subcommittee. Herger chaired hearings on marriage and family last month, part of... |
Under the 1996 welfare law, states can use their welfare funds to promote marriage and family but are not required to do so, said Herger. In last month's hearings, legislators were urged by conservative lawmakers and marriage educators to earmark welfare dollars for marriage-strengthening efforts. |
Oklahoma, Arizona, Maryland and Florida have recently passed statewide pro-marriage initiatives (such as offering marriage-education classes, teaching relationship courses in high school, refunding marriage-license fees for completed premarital courses and publishing marriage-skills handbooks). In California, only Mont... |
"Can you teach people to surrender to marriage?" said David Popenoe, a Rutgers University professor of sociology and co-director of the National Marriage Project, a nonpartisan initiative aimed at promoting marriage stability. "The best answer is nobody really knows." |
What marriage researchers do know, said psychologist Howard Markman, director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, is that the seeds of divorce have often been planted before people even marry. How couples communicate and handle conflict is the best predictor of marital distress or ... |
Markman and psychologist Scott Stanley from the University of Southern Mississippi have developed a premarital education program that is considered one of the best in the country, according to Diane Sollee, director of Washington-based Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, a clearinghouse for marriage r... |
The program--in use in the U.S., Germany and Australia--is based on the longest studies ever done on marital distress and divorce. |
The result is a 12-hour relationship-education course called PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program), which can be taught as effectively by laypeople as by therapists. In a five-year follow-up study of PREP graduates in Germany and the U.S., the rate of divorce was cut in half, said Markman. The program ... |
"We teach couples critical conflict-management skills--like when things are escalating, call a timeout and then later call a meeting for no more than 15 minutes and define what you are going to talk about," said Markman. "Gentle communication is better than angry harsh communication. We also ban problem solving and try... |
The second part of the approach, he said, is to inspire and motivate people to invest in their relationship and to make it a priority in their lives. Markman opposes mandating premarital courses or making divorce more difficult because "most people don't file for divorce or even seriously entertain the idea until the m... |
Though there needs to be a lot more research on the effectiveness of different marriage-strengthening tactics, Popenoe said that people are generally hungry for lessons on love. Participants in the National Marriage Project's focus groups last year agreed universally on the need for more education about relationships. ... |
Many questions are unanswered and the nascent back-to-marriage movement--mostly directed at low-income individuals--is fraught with debate. Some economists fear pro-marriage programs will poach money from poverty programs. |
Sociologists such as Pepper Schwartz, a member of the Council on Contemporary Families, a group formed to educate the public on research about family diversity, worry that "glamorizing marriage" by extolling its virtues and dangling economic incentives will encourage the wrong people to marry for the wrong reasons. "We... |
More information is available at smartmarriages.com and prepinc.com. Kathleen Kelleher can be reached at kathykelleher@home.com. |
FOR THE RECORD Los Angeles Times Wednesday June 27, 2001 Home Edition Part A Part A Page 2 A2 Desk 2 inches; 41 words Type of Material: Correction Wrong title--The June 11 "Birds & Bees" column in the Southern California Living section incorrectly identified the professional affiliation of Scott M. Stanley. He is an ad... |
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Wouldn’t It Be Rich: Should the Right Bush Obama? |
The Democrats, the American hard left, and their enablers in the media (please forgive the redundancies) set the new standard for political civility and restraint in their treatment of George W. Bush over the last eight years. Applying their standard to the president-elect, it’s not too early to declare the socialist a... |
Jeffrey Lord’s article regarding the Bush-bashers was right on target. However, not all such scribes are from the east or left coasts. From the depths of Lake Woebegone, Garrison Keillor frequently mocks President Bush. Keillor, though, doesn’t refer to him by name. His sarcastic attacks use the expression “Current Occ... |
It would seem that President Bush will be sorely missed in Minnesota. Without him to attack, Keillor will have to begin singing the praises of Al Franken. But then, it should be recalled that the Minnesota state bird is the loon. |
Great article! This 54-yr old guy couldn’t have said it better! |
The first four years the Dodgers were in southern California, they played at the Memorial Coliseum. Dennis’ dad used to get us to the stadium several hours early so we could sit near the player’s tunnel entrance and collect autographs. We’d also sit under a big ol’ tree near an area where Dodger players could park thei... |
One afternoon after getting a few of those ’58 Dodgers to sign our 8×10 team photos, Den and I decided to take a break under that big ol’ tree and wait for the St. Louis Cardinals’ team bus to arrive. While sitting there, looking over our fresh collection of John Henry’s… I spotted this young guy with jet black hair, w... |
As this young guy with the jet black hair walked by… Dennis and I made the decision to ask him for his autograph. We knew he was a Dodger, but wasn’t one of the BIG names like Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Johnny Podres or any of the other players we’d had sign our 8×10’s that day. When we approached him, he smiled, signe... |
While back under that tree… we catch another player walking toward the entrance. This fellow was a small(ish) black guy wearing a nice shirt and tie and one of those sporty mini-fedoras with a silk band around the outside. Again, Dennis and I both decide to go for the autograph. After he signed… D & D went back to the ... |
Oh, and just so you’ll know — wherever Dennis and I went we always kept two things near to our vests: (a) our envelopes containing a current collection of black ‘n white team photos (for quick access and autographing) and (b) a pocket sized thingy called a transistor radio. |
If you were a 4-foot-nothing baseball fan in ’58 Los Angeles — there was an rule of thumb that needed to be adhered to: “Keep your friends close; but keep Vinny closer.” OK, one of them Godfathers mighta’ said it first — but we got the message. And just so you’ll know, that evening after the game, Mr. Scully took the t... |
Obviously a jaw-dropping figure. But, further investigation leads me to conclude that the author overstated the liability by a factor of 1000. Please see this 2008 article from another publication, with their presentation of the Encinitas unfunded liability at that time ($4.4 million). |
Encinitas has about 485 school department employees. If the $4 billion figure mentioned by the author were correct, this would translate to an unfunded liability of over $9 million per current department employee. Obviously not reasonable. |
Nonetheless, the other points made by the author do illustrate the severity of the nation’s looming public employee pension and healthcare cost problem. |
Howzabout a term limit on political parties? |
An enduring weakness of democracies is their lack of accountability. At its most basic level, democracy is nothing more than majority rule and 51% is the maximum percent of support one needs to maintain power. The Founders had 3500 years of failure at self-rule as a guide and chose a republican form of government with ... |
I paid just at $20,000 in federal income and SS taxes last year, or about 29% of my gross income. Most reading this paid nothing near this or even a comparable percentage. State/local took another 10% of my gross. The horde of fed, state, local excise taxes on all my other bills probably took another 1-2 just for good ... |
You don’t need Rand’s, Adams’s HHGTTG works to see where this all end up when the party is over. What follows this might be something akin to what you find in Brave New World or 1984.The most free and prosperous nation the world has ever know is going to be hobbled for generations by unimaginable debt (and unfunded man... |
I’d like to thank Lisa Fabrizio for her wonderful column regarding President George W. Bush. The past 8 years have shown exactly who the “MSM”, along with an awful lot of Democrats, are. It has been extremely disheartening to have the President attacked 24/7, with no stop, even though he did so many things right and ke... |
While I’m not a “libertarian” and never been a Union member, there seems to be as many different flavors of libertarian as there are individual persons claiming to be one. While that might be the nature of what Libertarians are in effect, I must take exception to what Ira Kessel recently said about “unions” in their de... |
Ira, first off, you did have a choice to not be a member of a union. The same choice all of us have. It is your choice to live and work in a non-Right to Work state and your choice to be a teacher (aka a government employee btw) and Union member. A true libertarian would find that to be the case short of the People’s D... |
Second, you conveniently overlook that a “union” is by nature is a collective and such collectives for good or bad are only interested in the collective good of that Union. They could care less about you as an individual or the business and its customers. They’ve got from you what they want. In case you haven’t noticed... |
In the public sector, going on strike is essentially holding the tax payers and government functions hostage. In my book that is called “force” and in some cases “fraud” both of which are legitimate responsibilities of government to prevent. When your government goes on strike what options do tax payers have as recours... |
Management and elected officials may be spineless in some cases but on balance those that you are trying to transfer the blame to have no power to force individuals to act in their own self interest rather than the Borg collective’s interest in non Right to Work States. Correct me if I’m wrong Ira, those states that ar... |
You made all the choices to feed the problem. You bought into the comfort and protection of the collective knowing going in you had to be a Union member to be a government teacher. The collective didn’t force you to do anything at all. Calling yourself a Libertarian is like me calling myself Pro Life and working for an... |
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME? |
This article succinctly points to the difference between Democrats and conservatives. Democrats truly believe the government makes the economy run, while conservatives believe it is the wonderfully entrepreneurial mind of the people that, once unshackled provides the steam for the world’s greatest, fairest, economic en... |
The new iMacs push on iMac Pro territory, but how much power do you really need? |
The iMac and iMac Pro are impressive computers that pack everything you need for video editing, web-browsing, and more into a clean package. The iMac Pro is clearly the more powerful of the two, but with Apple recently refreshing the higher end iMacs with newer processors and graphics cards, both machines are once agai... |
In this guide, we consider design, performance, and features to help make sense of the differences between the two. |
Both the iMac and iMac Pro are made of aluminum and are designed as an all-in-one computing solution. It’s an iconic design that hasn’t changed much over the years, but it makes for one clean desk setup. The differences end there, though. |
Looking at the just iMac, there’s a 21.5-inch and a 27-inch version available. The 21.5-inch version comes with a 4,096 x 2,304 resolution (4K) display, and all 27-inch versions come with a higher-end 5,120 x 2,880 (5K) resolution display. Which version you choose depends on how you’ll use your iMac, but both are visua... |
Moving to the iMac Pro, it exclusively comes in a 27-inch variant with a 5K resolution display. It also sports a unique Space Gray color which sets it apart from the silver color found on the rest of the lineup. |
Alongside size differences, there’s also a lot under the hood that sets iMac and iMac Pro apart. Both the 4K and 5K iMacs come with the option for Intel’s 8th-generation processors. At $1,300, you can start with a four-core Intel Core i3 processor on the base 4K iMac model. For an extra $300 more, there’s a jump all th... |
On the $2,300 5K iMac, you can get up to a eight-core Intel Core i5 processor, pushing it close to the iMac Pro. Keep in mind, more cores mean for higher efficiency, so picking up an iMac with a six-core processor might be best for the long term to keep it future proof. |
As for the iMac Pro, it comes with options for an Intel Xeon W processor with either 8, 10, 14, or 16 cores. Unlike what you can get on the 4K or 5K iMacs, this is a powerful workstation-class processor. Priced at $5,000 it is something designed for more serious professionals like designers and animators. |
All entry models of 4K and 5K iMacs start with 8GB RAM, whereas the iMac Pro starts with a whopping 32GB of RAM. The types of storage are also different, with the iMac Pro starting with a faster solid-state-drive storage. In contrast, the 4K and 5K iMac’s start with a “fusion drive,” which combines a traditional spinni... |
Coming down to the specifics, the base model of the Retina 4K iMac is still equipped with options for a slower 1TB hard drive. The highest-end models come with “fusion drive.” 5K iMac models also pack the “fusion drive,” but you can upgrade to a smaller sized 256 GB solid-state-drive for $100 on all models. |
A unique element to the 5K and 4K iMacs is its dedicated graphics cards, which add extra power for video editing and content creation. Apple refreshed the graphics inside the 4K iMacs to the Radeon Pro 555X and the 560X, and the Vega 20. On the 5K iMacs, graphics range to the Radeon Pro 570 X, 575X, or 580X. These stil... |
With the iMac Pro, it packs in options for up to the AMD Pro Vega 56, Vega 64, or Vega 64X. These graphics cards are far more capable and are for are serious of designers and professionals. The price is expensive too, with Vega 64 coming in at $550 extra, and Vega 64X coming in at an additional $700. |
The iMac Pro also features Apple’s T2 co-processor. This is Apple’s custom silicon for Macs, and it enables new levels of security by integrating the controllers found across image signal processor, audio controller, and SSD controller. |
Coming down to connectivity, 5K and 4K iMacs feature four USB-3 ports, an SDHC card slot, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and an Ethernet jack. The iMac Pro, however, keeps the same variation but edges ahead with the addition of four Thunderbolt 3 ports. |
If you’re choosing between these two desktop computers, chances are you in need of some serious power. Video editors, music producers, game developers, or graphic designers alike will all need to decide for themselves just how much power they need. |
If rendering 8K video is part of the task, the 10 cores and extra graphical power of the iMac Pro might be tempting. For most everyone else, one of the mid-range iMacs should give you all the processing power you’ll need to accomplish your goals. It might not come in Space Grey, but it’s a far more practical option. |
August 1, 2017 Closures, Looking ahead. |
The Filipino-inspired food truck Be More Pacific is getting a more permanent home. The business, which opened as a food truck six years ago, is moving into the space previously occupied by Rebel Pizza Bar at 7858 Shoal Creek Blvd. The restaurant from owner-operators Mark Pascual and Giovan Cuchapin is expected to open ... |
The menu at the restaurant will expand on the truck’s various noodle and fried rice dishes and creative offerings like Longanisa Tots (tator tots topped with cheese, longanisa pork sausage and spicy plantain sauce ), and also serve beer and Filipino-inspired cocktails. |
“It’s been a journey, but we are grateful to have finally found the perfect space to continue our dream,” stated owner and operator Mark Pascual. |
Rebel Pizza Bar opened in the summer of 2015 as an off-shoot of the neighboring Suzi’s China Grill. |
Amanda and her boyfriend Steve Stone have been creating crowns of courage for 9 months to help women fighting cancer discover their inner beauty. |
The tattoo may be temporary but the impact is permanent. |
Amanda Gilbert has been creating henna tattoos for eight years, "When they first sit down in the chair it's almost kind of somber a bit and then we start asking them questions because we want the crown to be about them. " A crown of courage representing each woman's battle with cancer. |
Becky Richard explains her crown design, "I chose a tree because I really felt like the people that loved me were coming around me and holding me up." |
Their partner, photographer David Burgess, photographs them. |
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