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Photograph of Tsarnaev: Robin Young/A.P. Photograph of Loughner: Pima County Sheriff’s Dept/The Arizona Republic/A.P. |
Study Says SpongeBob Poses Danger To Kids: How Seriously Should Parents Take This? |
SpongeBob SquarePants was recently renewed for a 10th season. If a recent study in the journal, Pediatrics, is right about its brain numbing-content, there are already 200 irresponsible episodes of the program available, with more on the horizon. That could mean bad news for parents who don’t monitor their children’s T... |
In the Pediatrics study, 60 four-year-olds were tasked to either draw pictures, watch the interactive learning program Caillou, or watch SpongeBob SquarePants. The kids mental abilities were tested immediately after the activity and unsurprisingly, the study showed those children who watched SpongeBob had lower test sc... |
THR has noted previous studies have linked long-term TV watching to attention span levels, but the Pediatrics findings take the idea into a new ballpark, stating it is fast-paced television that’s the real problem. |
Here’s the thing: I hope no one is arguing that fast-paced cartoons are helping children to develop or function at a higher level. SpongeBob SquarePants is not interactive like the PBS program Calliou and it is not meant to be a learning tool. It’s entertainment, and, as Nickelodeon curtly mentioned in response to the ... |
Should parents be aware of how much time kids put into watching TV versus physical activity and homework, etc.? Yes, but like adults, kids need some time to chill out, too. After a whole day of school, homework, after-school activities and dinner with the family, kids and their overactive brains deserve an hour or two ... |
That might be the most sound – and blatantly obvious - advice the study can offer. Too bad it spends the rest of its time bloviating about the dangers of SpongeBob. |
How Seriously Do You Take This Study? |
Not very seriously. Kids need mental down-time! |
Very! My kids wont be watching Spongebob anymore! |
It was a heartbreaking sight in the East Bay Tuesday when people walked up to their school and realized it is now defunct. |
Some students became emotional as they discussed what happens next. |
"It's all shot now," Dennis Tomlinson said. |
Tomlinson was just one quarter away from earning his degree. However, the “Welcome Back” sign at ITT’s Oakland campus was marked with locked doors and no answers on Tuesday. |
Tomlinson, who had been part of the cybersecurity program, said there were "enough teachers" and described ITT as a "good school." |
Paul Hansford and Arrow Metcalf also came to the campus Tuesday in disbelief. |
They heard the news and saw on the internet that ITT in Oakland has shuttered. The Department of Education said transcripts will be available and students should look into transferring their units to other schools. |
But Hansford and Metcalf, who described feeling a “little bit of frustration,” couldn’t access their transcripts Tuesday. Calling the school’s phone number didn’t lead to answers either, Metcalf said. |
For her part, a subcontractor with the city of Oakland expressed worry for those who found themselves without jobs Tuesday. |
“When you lose your job, you wonder, ‘Where will money come for my expenses?’” said Cheryl Maier of the Oakland Private Industry Council. |
One of the biggest for-profit chains in the nation, ITT has been under increasing scrutiny from the Education Department following allegations of misconduct. It has also been sued about the quality of its programs and high-cost private student loans. |
Student John Lane, also a quarter away from finishing his training, said his dreams are on hold now. |
“I would’ve gotten a job somewhere,” he said. |
Basically, we predict that Hiddleston is absolutely going to kill it in this movie. |
Both written and directed by Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius), I Saw The Light will tell the story of how Hank Williams rose to fame thanks to his incredibly skills as a musician - but ultimately falter and die far too young due to health issues and serious alcoholism. Beyond Tom Hiddleston, the movie's impressive cast i... |
1992 was a simpler time. Bill Clinton was elected, The Bodyguard came out, Windows 3.1 was released. It was also a time when puppetry and animatronics still had a place in fantasy films. |
President Higgins and his wife Sabina arriving at the Guildhall this evening. |
IF YOU HAVEN’T had your dinner yet then you may want to look away now (or else face some feelings of inadequacy). |
Michael D Higgins is attending a gala dinner at London’s Guildhall this evening and the menu has just been confirmed to the media. |
Here’s what’s on offer, complete with poetically-worded descriptions. |
A delicate mousseline of lightly smoked rainbow trout presented with a spring salsa of watercress orange, young tomatoes and Dublin Bay prawns. |
Dorset rabbit meat slowly braised combined with the sweetness of dates in a handmade fresh pasta shell on a bed of baby spinach leaves, finished a tangy safe butter sauce. |
Salt marsh lamb from the Gower Peninsula, prepared, cooked, and served in two different ways with a rosemary reaction and crushed new potatoes. |
A classic English dessert in harmony with Irish Whiskey ice cream, garnished with a London ‘Shard’ of sugar work. |
President Higgins is set to address 700 guests at the event, which is being hosted by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Fiona Woolf (yes, the City of London has a separate mayor to the rest of London). |
After he arrived at the Guildhall this evening, the President inspected the guard of honour, which was provided by the Honourable Artillery Company, before he headed inside for the meal. |
Guests tonight will include broadcaster Terry Wogan, former boxer Barry McGuigan, actress Fiona Shaw, Dublin Mayor Oisin Quinn, RTE Director-General Noel Curran and his wife, former Taoiseach John Bruton and his wife, former footballer Kevin Moran, and Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. |
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Subject: Re: good bond funds for income? |
Income ususally means taxable. So good quality muni bond fund should be considered. They usually pay better yield after tax than lower rated corporate bonds. |
Two I like are NQS and BLE. But there are lots of good ones out there to choose from. |
In the flight to quality last fall, people dumped their munis as well as corporates to buy Treasuries and presumably CDs. That made for some remarkably high yields (caused by deeply discounted prices). The market has slowly recovered, but yields are still quite good. |
A third consecutive night of rioting broke out in the French city of Grenoble on Monday after two teenagers were killed while they were being chased by police. |
The two young men, aged 17 and 19, were not wearing helmets when they were crushed between a coach and a wall on a bridge as they fled the police on a stolen scooter on Saturday evening. |
Rioting youths in the Mistral district of the city – where the victims lived – were filmed hurling fireworks and petrol bombs at police on Monday night, while as many as 65 vehicles were also reportedly torched. |
Video footage from the scene shows police attempting to thwart the riot from behind the barricade that the youths had erected by launching canisters of tear gas. Hundreds of fireworks rang out among the skyrise apartment buildings in the city, and balls of flames appeared to land at random. |
Four firefighters and several policemen were reportedly injured in the chaotic clashes, while a 25-year-old man was arrested for throwing projectiles at police. |
The construction contract for the new Napier Aquatic Centre will go out to tender, after a close vote at Napier City Council. |
With Mayor Bill Dalton still in hospital, the vote at a meeting on Tuesday ended in a 6-6 split, meaning acting Mayor Faye White had the deciding vote, leading to a 7-6 decision to go out to tender. |
Councillor Tania Wright phoned into the meeting to cast her vote. |
Debate largely centred around the need for a new pool versus the financial responsibility around the new pool. |
Councillor Annette Brosnan, who moved the motion, said she was excited about the investment in the new community space. |
She said the underperforming Aquatic Centre at the current location meant children were missing out on swim lessons, as there is not enough space. |
"Our facilities are not fit for purpose. |
"Councillor Boag yesterday was published saying we can't learn to swim in a splash pad, well you can't learn to swim at Onekawa either at the moment." |
Councillor Tony Jeffery said he would love to support the new pool, but he could not in good conscious. |
"I know it is to Mayor Bill, I know how hard the staff have worked under council's instruction. |
"But that is my heart, my head says this is not affordable. |
"I have poured through the accounts, I have asked all the questions. |
"There is just too much inherent risk." |
He said he could see rates ending at unaffordable levels in the near future, if this project is to go ahead, which he said would have a negative impact members of the community, especially those on a fixed income. |
"The first thing that goes is you don't heat your house, you don't buy clothing, and the third thing is food, you reduce your food. |
"I cannot do this to our citizens." |
NCC's chief executive Wayne Jack said the decision marks the beginning of an exciting development. |
"The new aquatic facility will ensure that Napier's sport development, leisure and play, water confidence and health and fitness services will be balanced." |
The new site, which has been dubbed the Prebensen Dr site, but will be accessed from Tamatea Dr, will have a 25-metre lap pool with room to expand to 50 metres in the future if necessary. |
It will also have a dedicated learn to swim pool, hydrotherapy pool, play pool, two hydroslides, gymnasium, spin room, cafe, birthday party room, outdoor playground and outdoor water play area. |
The tender for construction will be advertised in mid-May, with council considering the award to tender in July. Construction would then begin at the end of 2019. |
$41.3 million has been allocated for the pool in the Long Term Plan. This could be moved up to $44.3 million, although the final $3 million has not been approved. |
Councillors who vote for the pool were Acting Mayor Faye White, Annette Brosnan, Claire Hague, Graeme Taylor, Keith Price and Tania Wright. |
Councillors who voted against the motion were Tony Jeffery, Richard McGrath, Kirsten Wise, Larry Dallimore, Maxine Boag and Api Tapine. |
Here are the topics for todays television show on www.yorba.tv Thursday at 4:00 pm EDT. |
The first topic is the making of a head and shoulders pattern. Chart # 1 shows the price of gold for the past year. Let me point out an obvious level of resistance on the way up last fall. In early November, gold bounced up against resistance at 850 and fell back. On the second attempt, it cut through resistance, but f... |
The chairman of a Senate oversight committee, Joseph Lieberman, has said he is considering legislation to place limits on large institutional investors in commodities markets, which have posted record prices this year in agricultural products and oil. The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs ... |
We may be witnessing a possible solution to the Peak Oil dilemma in the formation of an unsustainable speculation driven crude oil price super spike. The impact of which will be to shock corporate and private consumers into making the necessary changes in the near future to be able to better adapt to the real impact of... |
Markets have a way of humbling even the most prescient prognosticator. That's definitely been the case for oil this decade. |
There have been perfectly good reasons why oil prices couldn't break, let alone hold, every perceived milestone it's hit and passed in recent years—from the $20 level taken out in the run-up to the Iraq war to the $100 mark burst through this year. But even with a lot of very smart people betting against it, black gold... |
As long as this morning's pullback low at 49.80 in the Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) contains any forthcoming weakness, my pattern work is "warning" me that the KOL has completed a near-term correction within an otherwise still powerful bullish channel, and has turned up for a retest of the prior high at 54.00, l... |
There seems to be no stopping the high flying oil price as it leaps above $130, a price that seemed unlikely just last December. The growth in oil demand will continue to be driven by China and Asia , in spite of the U.S. economic slowdown. |
In fact, according to the International Energy Agency, China, India , Russia and the Middle East will consume more crude than the U.S. , for the first time. Oil use worldwide will increase 2% this year because of the emerging markets. So with demand as robust as it is, any possible supply disruption will simply push oi... |
THE PRICE OF PHYSICAL GOLD slumped another $18 at the London opening on Wednesday, falling to an eight-session low as crude oil slid yet again. |
European equity markets turned sharply higher for the first time in a week – gaining 1.5% in Paris – while bond prices fell on news of accelerating inflation in Germany , the Eurozone's largest single economy. |
Gold's sharp sell off yesterday (Gold closed at $907.40 down $18.60; Silver at $17.45 down 79 cents) has continued. Gold traded sideways in Asia before selling off again late in Asia and in early trading in Europe. Stock markets in Asia were mixed overnight but European markets have recovered from early losses and the ... |
Investing in the junior mining shares over the last year or two has been considered risky at best and perhaps insanity by some investors. So, why would we be looking for leverage on the junior mining sector when the shares and the mining indices are hardly keeping up with the price of the bullion, gold or silver? Why n... |
Prices are influenced by two forces. Inflation, caused by monetary expansion, is an increase in the general price level. That influence is felt directly though domestic prices rising and through a depreciating national money forcing imported prices higher. Additionally, prices on a relative basis can change. In the Agr... |
That is what is happening right now in stocks, commodities, and currencies, as the secular trends that were prevalent in all three asset groups up until mid-May will reassert themselves at the appropriate time, in the not too distant future. For stocks, this will involve a newer trend lower in both absolute and relativ... |
John Derrick writes: U.S. Global Investors (Nasdaq: GROW ) recently hosted a webcast titled “Energy and Commodities Trends: Speculative or Sustainable?” to provide a closer look at the current strength in natural resources prices. Our timing for this topic was good: oil prices hit a record $135 a barrel last week and d... |
SPOT GOLD PRICES ticked lower in early action on Tuesday, slipping just below the tight trading range seen on Monday, when London and New York – the center of world Gold Trading – were closed for public holidays. |
Crude oil meantime rose above $133 per barrel after militants hit key pipelines in Nigeria . |
With markets in the U.S. and UK closed yesterday for US Memorial Day and UK bank holiday, gold traded sideways in slow trade in Asia and Europe. Stock markets in Asia were positive overnight but European markets have come under pressure and the FTSE has given up its early morning gains to trade flat for the session so ... |
Commodity pricing theory mainly focuses on the transference of a “risk premia” from risk-adverse hedgers to speculators. This insurance-like context was first proposed by Keynes (1930) in his theory of normal backwardation. Essentially, Keynes believed that hedgers have to pay speculators a risk premium to convince the... |
Dr. Richard Spurgin (2000) explained it in the following way. There are four types of participants in futures markets: short hedgers, long hedgers, speculators and arbitrageurs. Short hedgers are commercial producers and long hedgers are commercial consumers. |
Maybe it is just bad timing. Maybe our luck has run out. Whatever the case, it is downright unfortunate that the full effects of skyrocketing world oil supplies had to be realized during the silly season of a presidential election cycle. It is virtually a lock at this point that what needs to be said will be left unsai... |
Gold was up 3% last week and silver surged nearly 8% (more on silver below) and in normal circumstances profit taking would be expected in the early part of this week. But with oil remaining near record levels and inflation concerns increasing significantly, gold (and silver) may again surprise to the upside. Oil was u... |
Gold is currently moving in volatile times and to me at least the debate on where it is going next looks increasingly polarized. While the hot money seems to have abandoned gold and silver to ride the crude oil bandwagon (which will certainly suffer the same drop soon), the old maxim "Sell in May and go away" seems to ... |
Gold has recovered from its previous two “whacks” rather nicely this past week and the Friday before, but it will very likely be whacked again very soon, possibly as early as this coming Monday. |
Because gold is rising while the Dow/US stocks are in ultra-dangerous territory. |
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Britain's prime minister pitched the benefits of the London Stock Exchange during a visit to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom weighs which international market to list shares of oil giant Aramco in what many expect will be the largest public offering in history. |
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