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Collective Impact: A Model for More Effective Advocacy?
Here is a strong addition to your regular reading list for 2011 if you are not already reading this publication: Stanford Social Innovation Review. I first started reading SSIR after participating in the Executive Nonprofit Leadership in the Arts fel...more
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Family Therapist
Gregory Crow, Ph.D.
In 85251 - Nearby to Glendale.
Like married couples, there are times when families get stuck. There may need to be an intervention with a loved one who is out of control in some way, or just a need to have a safe place with a professional to be sure family members are heard and a consensus can be reached in regard to a difficult situation. When people can express their feelings and ideas, it helps everyone feel like a valued member of the family. With a safe place to be heard and express themselves, the family can often solve it's own problems.
Family Therapist
The Couples Expert-Loving Connections Counseling LLC, LCSW
Marriage and Family Counselor
Family therapy can provide an opportunity for family members to come together and work through issues that might be affecting the entire familyFamily counseling may help to prevent problems from occurring in the future, keeping your family on the path of love, cooperation, and family harmony. In family counseling the goal is to build close, bonded families with a common connection .
Family Therapist
Therapy With Heart, MA, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
In 85258 - Nearby to Glendale.
The transition between junior high and high school, along with high school to college, are stressful times for teens due to the change in their identity. During adolescence, teens are working on creating their identity and feeling comfortable in their world. This can cause chaos and confusion for the teen. Therapy With Heart is here to help increase communication within the family, help your teenager manage stress and overwhelm, and ensure that he/she is creating a positive sense of self and identity.
Family Therapist
Kevin Fleming Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
In 85001 - Nearby to Glendale.
Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. email@example.com or 877-606-6161.
Family Therapist
Sandra Nettles, LCSW, MSSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 85021 - Nearby to Glendale.
Families with teens may experience difficulties such as rebelliousness, blended families, divorce, adoption, bullying and self-injurious behavior such as cutting. I help teens learn to deal with the challenges of transitioning from childhood to adulthood. I help parents learn new skills needed to cope with a teenager. I help families learn how to communicate their wants and needs effectively, without fighting or hurting each other. The teenage years can be a challenge but the skills to navigate through those years can be learned!
Family Therapist
Michael Rehm, MA, LPC, CCTP
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
In 85018 - Nearby to Glendale.
Family members have a need to feel they are included and are free to become the person they are meant to be. In healthy families, the adults are willing take responsibility for their actions and interact appropriately with others. Parents are also willing to attend to the needs of infants, adolescents, and minors in ways that are commensurate with their stage of development. Family therapy serves to facilitate a respectful and loving atmosphere where individuals are encouraged toward individual growth and development. A family must anticipate changes over time. Family therapy encourages each family member toward adaption and growth.
Family Therapist
Alyssa Mandel, MSW, LCSW, CEDS
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
At the Mandel Center of AZ, Alyssa Mandel, LCSW approaches Family Therapy from a strengths-based perspective. Rather then focusing on all of the negative aspects of what is occurring in the family, we work on identifying and expanding the positive components in the family. We are always non-judgmental, fair and balanced in our work with the complex nature of Family Therapy. Our goal with families is to help every person involved feel as though they are valued and honored regardless of what issues they may be facing. And, assist the family in supporting each other by teaching them positive coping skills.
Family Therapist
Bonnie Slater, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Family therapy can help you improve troubled relationships with your spouse, children, or other family members. You may address specific issues such as marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, or the effects of substance abuse or a mental illness on the entire family. Family Therapy focuses on relationships within the family. Family systems and Strategic Intervention are two of the approaches I utilize in family therapy. Family therapy may be the primary focus of treatment, or it could be used as a supplement to individual therapy.
Family Therapist
Sandy Graham, MS, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
In 85018 - Nearby to Glendale.
Most family problems are the result of ineffective communication and ineffective boundaries. The process of family therapy is often educational as each family member learns how to honestly share thoughts and feelings while allowing others to do the same. My work with families is dynamic and results oriented. I will help you work toward intimacy while respecting each other's individuality.
Family Therapist
Khara Fuentes, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
In 85048 - Nearby to Glendale.
For families who chose to attend therapy together Khara has a place for you. Khara is able to gain an understanding of each person's position in the room and use that to meet the needs of the family. Families will gain ways to communicate in ways that will allow each member to feel heard and understood. This leads to better problem solving over the long-term and families being closer to one another.
Family Therapist
Cynthia A. Criss, LPC, CSAT
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist
In 85028 - Nearby to Glendale.
Many dysfunctional families have a person in the family who becomes the identified problem. Sometimes families think that if only this person would attend therapy and resolve their issues, the family will improve its functioning. I believe that the person displaying problematic behaviors is likely a symptom of family dysfunction. Often, the entire family will benefit from therapy. Families of persons with sexual compulsive behaviors can benefit from being educated about these concerns.
Family Therapist
Cristy Lopez, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist & Coach
In 85016 - Nearby to Glendale.
Are you experiencing challenges with one or more family members? Does it seem as if you just do not get along as well as you either once did or had hoped? Or, do you have a particular family member who seems to be having a hard time succeeding in school, work, or social relationships? Life doesn't have to be this way. You and your family deserve better! I will help everyone gain a better understanding as to what is going on while simultaneously helping everyone work toward solutions that can be implemented today. If you don't work toward change, things usually will remain the same and often do become worse. Call me at 602 323-7824 to get started.
Family Therapist
Tara J. Nolan, M.S.W., M.Ed., L.C.S.W.
Personal, Career, and Relationship Life Coach
In 85032 - Nearby to Glendale.
Our families are our most valuable asset and the most important foundation of our lives. They are from where we develop our personalities, our sense of identity, and our sense of safety in the world. So often, though, personality conflicts or misunderstandings and built-up resentments ruin our peace in the family. It takes a skilled family therapist to balance the individual needs of each family member and the overall health of the unit. One cannot be sacrificed for the other. I am very comfortable with all the complexities involved in dealing with multiple personalities with sometimes opposing agendas. I will help you sort things out to create a win-win for everyone!
Family Therapist
Tres Adames, MDiv, BCPC
Board Certified Pastoral Counselor
In 85345 - Nearby to Glendale.
Dysfunction of some sort exists in every family. The key to change is not blame but taking personal responsibility for your part in the mix and seeking to change your own influence in the family. I've worked with parents and teens who struggle with communication and respect issues and have been blessed in helping families emerge out of the most trying of circumstances and grow closer as a result.
Family Therapist
Anne Brown, MS, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
In 85251 - Nearby to Glendale.
Family is very often the foundation and building place of our sense of self and our skills in relationships. No family is perfect and most families will endure difficult times. However, sometimes families get stuck in communication and behavior patterns that simply do not work. I can help you explore the underlying issues interfering with family functioning. I believe in an honest and non-blaming approach for helping family systems with conflict resolution, boundary development and open communication.
Family Therapist
Martin Keller, Ed.D.,ABPP, FAACP
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology
In 85028 - Nearby to Glendale.
Dr. Keller utilizes family therapy when appropriate. In working with children and teens, dysfunctional family dynamics are a major contributing factor in the development of symptoms of anxiety, depression,substance abuse, and academic underachievment. Improving empathic communication within the family system can play an important role in the treatment of a variety of psychological conditions. Dr. Keller attemts to utilize the family as a support system to help patients recover from emotionally painfull experiences. Family therapy is often used as an adjunct to individual therapy. Dr. Keller may refer to another therapist for family therapy while he is treating an individual patient.
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Thank you for visiting our Arizona search of licensed family therapists in Glendale. Discord due from strife, marital problems, sibling rivalry, family of origin issues and blended families (just to name a few) can strain and hurt loving relationships. Counseling with honesty and depth will get to the heart of the issues and work towards healing. Find resolution for your family in Glendale right now, please contact a specialist above, you can email 24/7.
Glendale is located in Maricopa County, Arizona. It has a land area of 59.08 square miles and a water area of 0.38 square miles.  The population of Glendale is 240,126 people with 79,152 households and a median annual income of $46,776. .
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Ecological consultants
It is important to seek expert advice when you are applying for planning permission, altering the management of your land or carrying out other works, which could affect significant species, habitats or wildlife features.
It can be difficult to find the correct expert. This web-page provides some ideas on where and how you can find the appropriate consultant or specialist.
Guide to selecting and appointing an ecological consultant or specialist
The choice of consultants or specialists able to undertake work in relation to planning applications or similar schemes can be guided by the following principles:
1. Membership of an appropriate Institute
Ecological consultants, whether working independently or employed by a consultancy are normally members of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. CIEEM can provide information on its members who work as consultants.
When you require a formal Environmental Impact Analysis, membership by a consultancy or individual of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment is a useful indication of competence.
2. Knowledge of the local area
Knowledge of the local area can be useful in understanding the relative importance of different species, habitats and features and is often linked to having good contacts with local contractors, wildlife organisations and voluntary wildlife recorders. It can also lead to a better understanding of local biodiversity policies, action plans, constraints and opportunities.
3. "In house" expertise
Not all environmental or planning consultancies will have their own in-house nature conservation specialists and you may wish to use other freelance consultants, particularly when cases/ sites require a multi-skilled approach. In such a case it is advisable for you to ascertain who the specialist or consultant will be, and what professional qualifications or relevant expertise they possess.
4. Relevant experience and knowledge
It is important to ensure that your ecological consultant or specialist is qualified and experienced in the relevant fields, for example an ecologist with extensive experience of working on estuarine birds may not have the appropriate experience to survey flower-rich meadows. It may even be necessary for you to appoint additional specialists for particular parts of the project, for example specialist surveys; mitigation work or acting as an ecological clerk of works. (Consultant ecologists may also be able to help in briefing other staff, for example giving "tool-box talks" to construction teams.)
5. Legal requirements
It is important to ascertain whether the consultant that you have appointed has all the appropriate legal documentation and qualifications that are required both within their profession and for health and safety etc.
Some species groups require those working with them to hold special licences or for the work itself to be licensed, for example in order to handle bats, a consultant should be a licensed bat worker and the development work will be subject to a licence from the Wildlife Management & Licensing Service, Natural England.
6. Located or based locally
Is your expert located locally or will you be charged for their travelling time and mileage ? It is important to establish this before you appoint any expert advisor. This is particularly important since ecological survey work sometimes requires repeat visits, visits in the early morning (eg for bird surveys), or at night (eg for bat or badger surveys).
7. Tenders and detailed written proposals
It is always advisable to seek, for comparative purposes, several written tenders that include details of the work that the consultants would undertake. It may be helpful to ask for a 'day rate' for any additional work that may also be required.
8. Insurance
Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance should be held by the consultants to cover the costs of any legal liabilities established against them.
9. References and recommendations
It may be useful to ask for references from any potential consultant for similar projects that they have carried out. Local contacts can also be a good source of information about suitable consultants.
Ecological data
Please note that relevant ecological data may be available from the Local Records Centre - Gloucestershire Centre for Environmental Records.
The data has been collected by volunteers, the Wildlife Trust, consultants and local authorities and is stored and collated by the Landscape Research Centre and then made available in response to requests for data. There is likely to be a small charge for this service. A reputable consultant would carry out this service on your behalf but you may wish to use this service before engaging the services of a consultant.
Where do consultants and specialists advertise?
Ecological specialists and consultants often advertise in the relevant magazines and periodicals, for example:
- In Practice (produced by the CIEEM)
- Planning (produced by Planning Resource)
Wildlife and ecological trusts
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is the county's leading conservation charity dedicated to wildlife. It is part of a national partnership of 47 local wildlife trusts with a junior branch, Wildlife Watch. For more information please visit:
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust website
The Cotswold Water Park Trust
The Cotswold Water Park Trust is an environmental charity working to improve all 40 square miles of the Cotswold Water Park for people and wildlife. For more information please visit:
- Cotswold Water Park Trust website
The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
CIEEM is the professional body that represents and supports ecologists and environmental managers in the UK, Ireland and abroad. It provides a variety of services to develop competency and standards in ecology and environmental management. For more information please visit:


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The Billionaires Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football's Super-Rich Owners (Bloomsbury)
Hardback released August 2017.
Winner: Coutts Football Book of the Year, 2018 Sports Book of the Years Awards.
Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game?
While almost cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership – a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits journalists and outsiders.
I criss-crosses the world – from Dhaka to Doha, from China to Crewe, from St Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium – to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.
The Billionaires Club is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the globe, and part travel book as I follow the ever-shifting trail around the globe in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football.
At its heart The Billionaires Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become an essential cog in this machine.
Praise for The Billionaires Club:
"A sprawling, but fascinating, exposé of why billionaires are so keen to bankroll £200,000-a-week sportsmen … the business-minded and the football crazy — and there are many who are both, as this book proves — will find it hard to resist." – Sunday Times
"Both surprising and insightful …The book does a fine job of examining just why rich men choose to plough oodles of money into football." – FourFourTwo
"An extraordinary journey across football's heartlands to try and discover the motivations and backstories behind the men who have hijacked the game." – Irish Examiner, Sport Books of the Year.
"A fascinating read for the many football fans interested in the developments off the pitch." – Financial Times
"The best analysis yet of the biggest story in football." – Ken Early, Irish Times & Second Captains podcast
"The Billionaires Club should be thought of as a football bestiary for our times, a brilliantly researched catalogue of the exotic, the evil and the egregious. From the Tuna barons of South East Asia to the ice cold oligarchs of the post-Soviet tundra, from Wall Street bankers to the sheiks of the gulf's micro kingdom, James Montague relentlessly exposes the political and economic motivations that have led them all to football, and tracks the consequences of their self-regarding and poisonous presence. The first rule of politics is know your enemy; those who want to stop the catastrophic rise of the one percent in the game are in James Montague's debt." – David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round
"The working man's ballet is now a playground and a platform for super-rich owners, authoritarian states willing to buy themselves power and a veneer of respectability – and downright criminals. This is the 21st century football writer's conundrum: how to investigate this transformation and expose wrongdoings without being spat out by the system. In the end, in most cases, the balancing act turns out to be a Faustian pact. James Montague has had the courage to tear up that tacit contract, by which silence is rewarded with access – and a job. This is not just a 'good' book (even if it is that too): it is also a brave and necessary one." – Philippe Auclair, France Football
You can buy The Billionaires Club here.
Thirty One Nil: On the Road with Football's Outsiders (Bloomsbury)
Paperback released May 2015
Winner: TalkSport Football Book of the Year, 2015 British Sports Book of the Year awards.
In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for 2014's World Cup in Brazil. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their lives. Yet, along with thousands of other footballers backed by millions of supporters, they all dream of snatching one of the precious 32 places at the finals; and so begins a three-year epic struggle – long before the usual suspects start their higher-profile qualifying campaigns under the spotlight.
Named after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have ever seen (Australia's 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. It celebrates the part-time priests, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. It tells the story of teams who have struggled for their very existence through political and social turmoil, from which they will very occasionally emerge into international stardom.
From the endlessly humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed and fleet-footed players of Eritrea, Thirty-One Nil gets intimately and often dangerously close to some of the world's most extraordinary teams, and tells their exceptional stories.
Praise for Thirty One Nil:
"The Indiana Jones of soccer journalism." – Sports Illustrated
"Thirty-One Nil is well worthy of entry to the canon of great football reportage." – The Independent
"A gripping tale . . . Montague's book is a tale of dreaming despite the odds, and its strength lies in the many compelling individuals featured in its pages." – South China Morning Post
"A compelling, exciting book . . . let Thirty-One Nil take you on an emotional journey that rekindles your love of international football." – These Football Times
"As heartwarming as it is heartbreaking." – FourFourTwo
"A vibrant, at times emotional, chronicle." – Independent on Sunday
"Vibrant and colourful . . . Thirty-One Nil is a brilliant read." – Back Page Football
Just before publication CNN ran a six part serialisation of Thirty One Nil. You can read it here.
You can also buy Thirty One Nil here.
When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East (de Coubertin)
Revised paperback released May 2013
Winner: Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year awards.
Over seven years I travelled to every country in the Middle East uncovering stories of football's survival and resurgence. Whilst the region has often been divided, football is the Middle East's great uniting thread. When Friday Comes takes you to every corner of the Middle East – from Yemen to Syria, Egypt to Iran – where football thrives and where the game played an important, sometimes crucial, part in the Arab Spring. But, more importantly, the Middle East and its extreme wealth also provides a window on this rising power, and how football in the rest of the world could be changed forever.
Praise for When Friday Comes:
"You don't have to be a football fan to like this. When Friday Comes takes the reader on a fascinating journey that teaches as much about the Middle East as about wannabe West Ham fans in Israel" – ESPN
"Funny, exciting and thrilling, with tragedy at every turn, it's a deep but rewarding read" – Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwo Book of the Month.
"In a world that demonises the "Arab street", Montague gives us a glimpse of just how playful and human it can be" – David Goldblatt, The Independent
"A courageous, amusing and informative work" – Daily Telegraph
"Hugely entertaining . . . one of the most fascinating sports books of 2008" – Richard Moore, Scotland on Sunday
You can buy When Friday Comes here.
Ultras: How Egypt's Football Fans Toppled a Dictator (de Coubertin Short Books)
E-book released September 2013
In January 2011 millions of Egyptians took part in mass protests that ended the iron rule of its military dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Football supporters across the country set aside their differences and played an instrumental role in the demonstrations that led to Mubarak's deposition. A year later elements allegedly loyal to the old regime took a terrible revenge during a match played in Port Said, killing 72 Al Ahly supporters in an incident that shocked the world.
I was the only western journalist to be given full unrestricted access to the Ahlawy; a passionate but largely obscure group of Al Ahly fans. I had first met them in 2007, as they just started out, before they grew and went on to play a vital role in the Egyptian revolution.
Ultras is the story of the Ahlawy, from when they numbered just a few hundred committed Al Ahly fans, through to the mass protests in Tahrir Square, which helped depose Mubarak, the horrors of Port Said, the World Club Championships in Japan, and beyond.
Their story demonstrates how the dividing line between football and politics is paper thin, and how a hitherto unknown group of fans played a pivotal role in shaping the destiny of a nation.
Ultras is extracted from the revised edition of When Friday Comes.
You can buy the e-book of Ultras here.
When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone (Mainstream)
First edition released August 2008
While religion often violently divides the Middle East, the countries of the world's most explosive region share one thing – a deep and obsessive love of the beautiful game. When Friday Comes observes the region's culture and politics through the prism of football. To understand the game in the Middle East is to understand its people. For as much as football forms an unlikely common thread between different countries, the sport also reflects what is unique in the national characters of those who play, support and organise it.


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By JOHN ANTCZAK and AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
Friday, September 14
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detectives on Friday were investigating a possible domestic violence motive after a gunman shot and killed his ex-wife and four others before killing himself during a nearly 40-minute rampage in Southern California, authorities said.
Javier Casarez fatally shot himself as a deputy closed in on him after the killings in Bakersfield, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Thursday.
Casarez, 54, shot his ex-wife and a man at a trucking company before chasing after another man, killing him, and then driving to a home where he shot dead a father and daughter on Wednesday.
Court records show a divorce between Casarez and Petra Maribel Bolanos de Casarez was finalized earlier this year.
In his petition for divorce filed in December, Cesarez accused Bolanos of cheating and asked the judge for his wife's text messages to specific phone numbers. The judge denied the request.
Bolanos recently filed for a change involving child support and custody over the couple's two teenage children, and the pair had a hearing set for Oct. 11, court records show.
Youngblood said it appears that Casarez targeted every victim, starting with a worker at T&T Trucking, and that domestic violence appears to have played a large part.
"It appears to be there's more than just husband and wife having a fight because other people were targeted," he said. "There's a reason for that and we need to find that reason."
Investigators are looking into whether Casarez's ex-wife may have had relationships with Contreras or Valadez, the sheriff said.
Casarez likely took his ex-wife to the trucking company against her will and then fatally shot 50-year-old Manuel Contreras with a .50-caliber handgun, authorities said. He shot his ex-wife and then turned the gun on a second man, 50-year-old Antonio Valadez, the sheriff's department said.
Casarez fired at Valadez as he ran away, but then tracked him down in his car and killed him, the sheriff said.
Casarez then drove to the house of 57-year-old Eliseo Garcia Cazares, who Youngblood identified as a friend. Casarez fatally shot Garcia and his daughter, 31-year-old Laura Garcia.
"She may have tried to intervene to keep the suspect from approaching her father, and he shot and killed both of them," Youngblood said.
After the shooting at the Garcia home, Casarez carjacked a woman driving with her child. The woman and child escaped, and Casarez drove to a highway where a sheriff's deputy saw him, Youngblood said.
As the deputy closed in, yelling at Casarez to drop his gun, Casarez fatally shot himself in the stomach, according to graphic body camera footage released by police on Facebook.
The video shows deputies and paramedics working to save Casarez. Deputies look over Casarez's gun and talk about how he would have had to reload it during the rampage.
David Bunting, who said he's a friend of Eliseo Garcia Cazares and lives two doors down from him, said he has no idea why his neighbor would have been targeted.
He said Garcia was a self-employed truck driver who always was with his grandkids when not working, often driving them around on his golf cart.
"He's a really nice guy. I can't say enough good things about him," Bunting said. "It's kind of a shock because of the kind of a person he was."
He said his daughter Laura was a mother of four and that most of the Garcias' large family was home at the time of the shooting. He said they're devastated and in shock.
He said Eliseo Garcia Cazares and his wife had four grown children, including a daughter who was killed in a car accident a few years ago.
T&T Trucking, where the initial shooting happened, said in a statement that the company "is in a state of mourning."
"We are greatly saddened and offer our heartfelt condolence and prayers to those who lost a loved one."
About 30 witnesses were being interviewed by deputies, Youngblood said.
He said Casarez was a legal permanent resident of the U.S. The 50-caliber gun used in the shootings was legally purchased in 2004, Youngblood said. Casarez had been arrested for vehicle theft in the 1980s, but he did not have a history of violent crime, the sheriff said.
Youngblood called the shootings devastating, especially for Laura Garcia's children, who may have witnessed their mother's death.
"These young children, when they see this, that's something that will stay with them the rest of their lives," he said. "But officers … they're also not immune to those emotions. Those cases stay with them their entire career, so this has a far-reaching impact on a lot of people in our community and in our department."
Associated Press writer Christopher Weber contributed to this report.
Opinion: Democrats' Strategy Undermines Effect of Revelation Against Kavanaugh
By Michael Graham
The sudden release of a "mysterious letter" allegedly accusing Judge Brett Kavanagh of sexual misconduct as a teenager appears to be a last-ditch effort by Democrats to derail his confirmation to the Supreme Court. And the behavior of anti-Kavanaugh senators during his confirmation only adds to the view that this latest charge is more about theater than substance.
On Thursday, nearly a week after the Senate Judiciary Committee's televised hearings on Kavanaugh's confirmation — and two months after she received it — ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California announced that she had turned over a letter to the FBI for investigation.
"I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," Feinstein said in a statement. "That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities."
For its part, the FBI has declined to open any investigation into the allegations and is merely placing it in Kavanaugh's background file "per the standard process," an FBI representative said. They may not have had any choice. According to CNN, sources who've seen the letter say all the names in it were redacted by Feinstein.
Few people have actually seen the letter and reporting on the details is sketchy at best. Even Sen. Chuck Schumer has not seen the contents of the letter, according to his staff. The Guardian claims to have a source who was "briefed on the contents of the letter" who says it describes an incident that occurred when Kavanaugh and the accuser were 17 years old and at a party. "Kavanaugh and a male friend had locked her in her room against her will, making her feel threatened, but she was able to get them out of the room," the Guardian reports.
Sources close to Kavanaugh say the judge was "completely blindsided" by the allegations. A spokesman for Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland, the private school Kavanaugh attended, said the school has "no knowledge regarding any accusation."
Kavanaugh supporters note that Feinstein, who has had the letter since July, could have asked the judge about the allegations during private meetings or discussed it with fellow members of her committee behind closed doors. She declined to do either one. This has sparked speculation that she didn't find the allegations in the letter serious enough to pursue.
It also appears that Feinstein only released it under pressure from fellow Democrats desperate to block a nomination that appears to be on track for confirmation before the Supreme Court reconvenes in October. Senate Republicans have announced that the Judiciary Committee will vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation — almost certain to be a party-line 11-10 vote for confirmation — September 20.
"There's no plan to change the committee's consideration of Judge Kavanaugh's nomination," a representative for Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley said. Committee member Sen. John Cornyn of Texas was even more dismissive:
"Let me get this straight: this is statement about secret letter regarding a secret matter and an unidentified person. Right?" the senator tweeted. "I will add: the FBI already performed and has reported on a background investigation on the nominee and this has been made available to all senators on the Judiciary Committee."
In fact, Kavanaugh has gone through multiple background checks for various government jobs — including working in the White House — since 1993. Due to the contentious politics of his appointment to the D.C. Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush, he went through the committee hearing process twice. These allegations, or anything similar, never surfaced.
If the goal of committee Democrats pressuring Feinstein to reveal the existence of this letter was, as White House representative Kerri Kupec says, an "11th-hour attempt to delay his confirmation," the behavior of their own members may have undermined the effort. High-profile theatrics by senators (and likely 2020 presidential candidates) Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California who suggested scandals that failed to appear have been criticized by court-watchers, including some of their fellow Democrats.
Tennessee Democrat and Senate candidate Phil Bredesen said Wednesday he's "embarrassed by the circus" the hearings became. Indiana Democrat Sen. Joe Donnelly called the behavior of Kavanaugh's critics "shameful."
Schumer, on the other hand, was pleased with the Judiciary Committee's performance, saying afterward, "It was a good week."
American moderates may not agree. In the wake of Booker's widely mocked "I am Spartacus" moment, Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine became the target of what her office describes as an "extortion" campaign — a crowd-funding effort raising more than $1 million Democrats are threatening to spend against her in 2020 if she votes for Kavanaugh's confirmation.
And Thursday, the same day the "mysterious letter" story was being revealed, Collins' office received "a 3-foot-long cardboard cutout of male genitalia, accompanied by a profanity," according to the Washington Post.
Unless the allegations in the letter are both explosive and corroborated, it's unlikely that, in the environment of partisan chaos Kavanaugh's opponents have created, this story will stop his eventual confirmation.
Michael Graham is political editor of NH Journal. He is also a CBS News contributor. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
By Robert C. Koehler
There's almost no such thing as voter fraud, even though the Trump administration — and Republicans in general — affect to be so afraid of it they've had to develop a system guaranteed to purge voters from the rolls in enormous numbers.
They're keeping America safe!
From nothing.
This, you might say, is the elephant in the room, politely unacknowledged even when the Republican system, very much embraced by the Trump administration, is critically analyzed. It's called the Interstate Crosscheck System, developed by Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state and Republican candidate for governor, and its flaws are unavoidably — indeed, grotesquely — obvious.
But before that matters, I think it's crucial to establish the fact that voter fraud — bad citizens, or worse yet, illegals, voting twice, indeed, driving from one state to another (Georgia to Illinois, say) in order to do their part to swing a national election — is itself a complete fraud. However, trumpeting the fear of such non-existent behavior is absolutely brilliant.
It's the current manifestation of minority vote suppression. It's the new racism.
All this is made clear in investigative journalist Greg Palast's irreverent new documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, which takes on Crosscheck and present-day vote suppression, no holds barred, linking modern racism with the old-fashioned kind. In the process, the film lets us know the real value of the right to vote, from the point of view of those who had to fight and die to attain it.
Here, for instance, is author Linda Blackmon Lowery describing her experience on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 — Bloody Sunday: "When we got to the top of the bridge, then you could really see what was on the other side. And there were white people sitting on their cars with their Confederate flags and their banners. 'Die nigger.' 'Go home, coon.'"
Suddenly she heard a popping noise, as teargas canisters went off all around her. "You couldn't breathe, you couldn't see. I ran into this big old thing of teargas. (A police officer) was running behind me with a billy club. (She makes a hand gesture describing being clubbed from behind.) When I woke up they had me on a stretcher, putting me in the back of a hearse. I just jumped up and before anybody could catch me I was heading across that bridge."
A short while later, the film shows a protester holding a sign: "My vote has been paid for in blood."
And this begins to create the context for discussing Crosscheck, part of today's oh so politically correct racist gaming of democracy, which is — let's be frank — an incredible inconvenience to people in power. It was then and it still is now. What's a rich, powerful white person supposed to do?
Crosscheck is part of the answer. Kobach's system is simplicity itself. In order to protect America from the horror of millions of people voting twice (risking prison time for committing this federal offense), Crosscheck collects the names on the voting rolls of all participating states, which at this point is 27, mostly under Republican legislative control, and conducts a computer search for matches, or quasi-matches. Those matches — all the Fred Jacksons, all the Jose Garcias, etc., etc. — become potential double voters. Note: The matching names are first and last only, with middle initials ignored. Allegedly, Crosscheck also compares birth dates, though such data is often missing from voter rosters.
A list of the matches are sent to the participating secretaries of state and state election boards, which can then purge their rolls of these folks. According to Palast, these states have so far removed 1,067,046 voters, not counting Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's recent "purge-frenzy," removing 591,000 voters' names in the current election cycle.
Here's the thing. Most of the matched names belong to people of color. "Jackson, Rodriguez, Garcia, Lee, Kim — these are primarily minority names," Palast explained. "It doesn't take a genius to figure out this system is unbelievably racially biased."
In the documentary, Palast points out that 90 percent of Washingtons, for instance, are black. In some states, "20 percent of minority voters … are on the Crosscheck list."
So, as the Washington Post reported a year ago, the Crosscheck method is so utterly slipshod that way-y-y-y over 99 percent of the name matches the system reports to participating states "were unlikely to have anything to do with even attempted voter fraud." But because of Crosscheck, a huge number of voters, mostly men and women of color, who tend to vote Democratic, will either be denied their right to vote or forced to vote provisionally, which usually means they won't have their vote counted.
I repeat: There is virtually no such thing as voter fraud — certainly nothing at a level that could actually impact an election. As the Brennan Center for Justice pointed out last year, in its report "The Truth About Voter Fraud": It is more likely that an American "will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls."
But keeping Americans of color — those who have truly paid with their blood for the right to vote — away from the polls by the millions, does indeed impact our elections. Look at who got "elected" president!
Palast, hardly content simply to expose this outrage in book and film, has teamed with Jesse Jackson and the two, with the pro bono help of the New York law firm Mirer, Mazzocchi and Julien, have filed suit, under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, with every Crosscheck state to get the names — the million-plus names — of registered voters purged from the rolls. The public, after all, has a right to hold the state accountable for the games it plays.
Robert Koehler, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.
As Hurricane Florence approaches the Carolina/Tidewater coast, the Better Business Bureau is already receiving reports from consumers about high prices for necessary emergency items.
The attorneys general for three coastal states — North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia — have initiated their state price-gouging laws, which automatically go into effect during a declared state of emergency in order to prevent businesses from over-charging customers who are preparing to weather a storm or stocking up their vehicles to evacuate.
BBB warns businesses not to give in to the temptation to raise prices during a storm, both because it may be illegal to do so and because it erodes marketplace trust. Consumers will remember which businesses took advantage of them during a storm.
Opinion: Women Won't Vote for Only Democratic Women Candidates
By Karin Lips
A blue wave of Democratic women is coming in November, poised to win every office from city dog catcher to U.S. senator and lead the resistance to President Donald J. Trump. That's what many headlines would have us believe.
If the dream scenario plays out for Democrats, history would mark January 21, 2017, as the day this particular blue wave began forming as thousands of women attended the Women's March in Washington and cities across the country.
What began as a group of women upset at some of then-candidate Trump's comments related to women quickly morphed into a partisan progressive political effort. The Women's March consisted mostly of disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters.
A SurveyMonkey national poll conducted after the Women's March found that a large majority of marchers voted for Clinton — 79 percent said they voted for Clinton, 8 percent said they voted for Green Party nominee Jill Stein and 5 percent said they didn't vote. At most, then, less than 10 percent voted for Trump. The Women's March transformed into an organization, channeling energy into the Power to the Polls national voter registration campaign effort to elect progressive candidates in 2018.
While the Women's March and Power to the Polls program has focused on promoting liberal and progressive women, we shouldn't forget the Republican women this fall. A look at the number of women running for office from both parties shows that women increasingly entering politics crosses partisan lines.
Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics data show that more Democratic women than Republican women are running in the offices they measure — U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, lieutenant governor, other statewide elective executives, state legislature, state senate and state house.
But women across the board — both Democratic and Republican — are setting records. Some 476 women filed to run for the House, smashing the previous record of 298 set in 2012, and 234 won their primary, again beating the record of 167 set in 2016. Democrats alone broke the record of women who filed to run, but together Democrats and Republicans increased the number of women who filed by 178. More women filed this election to run for Senate, governor and lieutenant governor than ever before.
Women are running across the political spectrum — from advocates of socialism to advocates of free-market policies. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th Congressional District as a self-proclaimed Democratic-Socialist. Representative Kristi Noem is running to become South Dakota's first female governor, touting her conservative leadership.
Women are motivated for a variety of reasons to run. Making sure women have equal opportunity to run and compete on the issues is what matters.
All women should celebrate this November that gender isn't the main motivation behind how the youngest generation of women votes. During the last presidential election, there seemed to be a disconnect between Hillary Clinton's version of feminism and women's empowerment and what the youngest women voters wanted. Clinton's version said women should vote for her because she was the first woman running as a major party candidate for president, regardless of her policies. This message was front and center — she even wore a suffragette white pantsuit for her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
But the enthusiasm just wasn't there among the youngest women voters. CNN found in Democratic primaries across 27 states that Clinton won 61 percent to 37 percent among women overall, but Bernie Sanders bested Clinton by an average of 37 percentage points among women ages 18 to 29.
This is consistent with a Refinery29 and CBS News poll of women ages 18 to 35 that found women of all ages and politics said health care was the top issue and ranked gender of a candidate as a low priority for winning their vote. What is most important according to this poll is the candidate shares their culture and values.
As we recognize the victorious women candidates this November, it would be a shame if we lost sight of the success of women overall. Women, like men voters, are focused on issues, and not simply gender or one party. That's something to honor.
Karin Lips is president of Network of Enlightened Women. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.
Opinion: Women Are Leading the Wave
By Juanita Tolliver
Who runs the world?
Come on, we all know that answer, especially in this midterm cycle.
Women are leading from the front this election cycle and pulling the rest of politics with them. And that's not just women candidates, but also women voters.
The midterms will see women candidates riding the wave into office in November, and there are plenty of historic firsts and achievements to be made.
Firsts like Rashida Tlaib, a congressional candidate in Michigan's 13th District and potentially the first Muslim woman in Congress. Like Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia, congressional candidates from Texas and potentially the first Latina congresswomen to represent the Lone Star State. Like Paulette Jordan, Idaho's Democratic nominee for governor and the first Native American woman ever nominated for governor. And, of course, Georgia's Stacey Abrams, potentially the first African-American woman governor in America, and Debra Haaland, a congressional candidate in New Mexico's 1st District and potentially the first Native American woman in Congress.
This cycle alone, there are 18 women running for governor, 24 female Senate candidates, and 243 women running in House races, which is historic in and of itself. And who's going to carry them across the finish line and into office?
Women voters.
According to a recent CBS News poll, 46 percent of women voters are likely to support a Democratic candidate versus 34 percent who would support a Republican candidate, and among women independent voters, 38 percent are more likely to support Democratic candidates compared to 32 percent who are more likely to vote for Republicans. This same poll shows that 40 percent of white women plan to vote Republican, down from the 53 percent of white women who supported Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in 2016.
In addition to the polling, women are leading the charge at home in their communities. They're spearheading get-out-the vote efforts with local resistance groups. They're powering the campaigns of women candidates as campaign managers and volunteers. And they're fighting to get results in November.
This puts women candidates, particularly Democratic women candidates, at a massive advantage as we head into the home-stretch of the midterms, and it allows for new types of candidates to emerge — activist candidates, human candidates, tough candidates.
Candidates like Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are challenging the old guard, which largely comprises older white men — and making space for themselves as activist candidates. These women are pushing the party beyond its comfort zone and offering diverse approaches and solutions along the way.
Candidates who are showcasing their humanity like Zephyr Teachout, a candidate for New York attorney general whose most recent ad features her receiving an ultrasound and emphasizes that "being a parent and being in power shouldn't be in conflict for a woman any more than they are for a man."
Candidates like M.J. Hager and Amy McGrath who take pride in their military service and toughness to act in difficult, dangerous situations and how that has led them to push for change and seek public office in the first place.
These women have thrown the rule book about what women candidates have to be like, look like and sound like out the window — and our political system should get ready for a jolt. Instead of "waiting in line" women, especially women of color, are stepping up, taking the reins, and forcing new debates about the problems facing all Americans.
Big or small, there will be a wave of historic outcomes this election cycle and the energy from voters can't be ignored. Turnout in primaries has been off the charts (voter participation was up by more than 1 million in Florida's recent primary compared to the 2014 midterm cycle, for example), Democratic candidates outraised Republicans in contested Senate races and out-raised them by $44 million in 56 House races during second quarter, and 65 Republican-held seats are now rated as competitive.
No matter what, Congress is going to look a lot different come November.
Juanita Tolliver is the campaign director for the Center for American Progress Action Fund. She wrote this for InsideSources.com


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RE: Competitive Under 17
Is there anything in the rules that would prevent the two assistant referees from switching their sides at the half of a game? I would think in the interest of fairness, this shouldn't happen, but it did occur in our game today.
Hi Daniel, No, there is nothing in the Laws of the Game that would preclude this. While it is not the more common practice as far as I am aware and I'm not sure I can see any particularly compelling reason to do this in normal circumstances, I know that it does sometimes happen and assuming they were both neutral officials I don't think any concerns regarding fairness should arise.
Hi Daniel, actually there is nothing within the LOTG that state the AR MUST remain on his line same as in the first half. The switch could be tactical or match control perhaps an unruly crowd control issue or technical area and the CR feel the more competent senior AR would be better able to control things? Or perhaps one AR is really quick and the tactical approach of the team he supervised in the first half suits his approach? I see it done in the EPL and actually talked to former EPL referee Geoff Winters about that very concept regarding fairness given he ran an exhibition match here in Alberta and the one coach reacted very negatively to it! Note it helps with not switching the hand for directional control for ball in or out or possession The statement that best solves the condition is we are 3 or 4 NEUTRAL referees doing what we think is best for the match! As a 4th I took over for referee who was injured and as CR I have subbed my 4th for an AR who pulled his muscle and kept my other AR with the same team because there he was already familiar with the defending tactic of them pushing way up quickly. Their coach was a real mouthy individual and the AR promotion for my 4th as a young inexperienced referee I felt would lead into greater problems for match control. Either you buy in to the fact as referees with integrity we see what we see as a neutral officials or hold on to the idea we are out to get you by some nefarious unethical collusion for which we skilfully planed earlier! Choice is yours! Cheers
I have on one occasion had my AR's switch sides of the field at half time. There was some condition on one line that we didn't realize before the game started. By moving the AR's straight across the field (but still on the same end), they would be calling offside against the opposite team in the second half. I just had to remember that I was running a reverse diagonal now. One other time I had only 1 AR, and we recruited a club line for the other side of the field. Fortunately in the first half the AR was at the end of the field that had all the action. One team was dominating the other. The weaker team seldom got the ball very far across the half line. At halftime I decided to do a really weird thing. I had the AR move to the opposite end of the field so he could continue to be of assistance to me, rather than viewing the game at long distance (and continue holding his interest). But that was one extreme example at a recreational youth game.
Hi Daniel Nothing in the Laws to prevent this. Generally it does not happen because there is no need to do it. However factors that can be a consideration include say a young official who has been badgered by spectators on one side who requests to move to the other side might be acceded to. If an official complains that he is struggling with looking into the sun and he wants to change might be facilitated. If an assistant is not confident in his first half performance and requests that he might be better going to the other side might be acceded to by the referee. So there can be reasons which is up to the referee to decide on. Sometimes I think that after watching defenders and forwards interact for 45 minutes that ARs learn a lot during that time which can be beneficial to the second half officiating by moving. As it is not the norm it does not happen very often. Fairness is not a concern as with neutral assistants what side they are on makes no difference.
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The Nursery is doing it right
The opening riff off the latest from Toronto's The Nursery is immediately enticing. By the time the vocals jump in, you're already hooked.
'She Speaks the Wave' is the first song off the band's two-track EP of the same name, released in March. And it's a masterfully crafted song at that. The guitars and synths and drums and bass all lead into one another, yet remain separate, and together the music and vocals swell and soften in all the right places.
The second track, 'Hexes and O's' is a wild raucous – it's fun and dancey and poppy. It has more of a ska sound to it, pointing frontman Alex Pulec's early days on the scene as the guitarist for now-defunct The Ruby Spirit.
The best thing about The Nursery, though, is their unabashed risk-taking. In an era where musical risks are had to come by, bands like this one stick out for all the right reasons. Whatever they're doing, it's working, and I hope it never stops.
For more on The Nursery, visit: www.thisisthenursery.com.


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This is a guest post from Bogleheads® forum member Nisiprius, published August 14, 2011.
It's often debated whether we can expect to get the "historical rate of return" for an asset class going forward, but let's not get into that.
The historical rate of return for the S&P 500 has been roughly 10% per year; for intermediate-term bonds, 5.5% per year.
That's per year.
|Historical Risk/Return – Bonds
|Historical Risk/Return – Stocks
|Average annual return
|Average annual return
|Best year (1982)
|Best year (1933)
|Worst year (1969)
|Worst year (1931)
|Years with a loss
|14 of 90
|Years with a loss
|25 of 90
If you figure about 200 trading days per year, that means the average return for stocks is 0.05% per day, yet the stock market often fluctuates 1% or more on any single day. The average return for bonds is 0.026% per day. The whole point of your investments, their long-term earnings, are not going to be visible day-by-day–they're going to be completely masked by the short-term volatility of the markets.
You may be unfamiliar with the behavior of bond funds. A general-purpose intermediate-term bond fund like Vanguard Total Bond Index Fund (VBMFX) is not going to behave like a money market account or a bank account. Here's how money would have grown in VBMFX versus a money market account.
Notice these things:
- The money market fund, like a bank account, moves one way only: up. It moves up at different speeds from time to time, sometimes slowly (flat sections), sometimes quickly (steep) sections, never down. The bond fund does not. It generally rises pretty steady but there are definitely some downward fluctuations. Notice particularly the area around 1994, a 4% dip, and, more recently, about a 2% dip in 2011.
- Think about what a 4% downward dip means (as in 1994). It means that several years' growth can be wiped out in a few months. However, it is quite different from the shock of a 50% drop in the stock market.
So, you should expect your bond funds to fluctuate; they're not like bank accounts. You should not be terribly surprised to see, let's say, a 5% loss over a period of a year. You're hoping to get more than you get in a cash investment, but you can put in $10,000 at the beginning of the year and see only $9,500 at the end of it.
You are balancing risk against return. Over the 25-period shown, we are talking about the difference between growing $10,000 to $28,000 in a money market fund–other safe cash investments wouldn't be very different–or $50,000 in the bond fund.
Are bonds a safe place for your retirement savings?
Safety is all relative. Vanguard calls VBMFX "risk level 2" and says "In general, such funds may be appropriate for investors with medium-term investment horizons (four to ten years)." They of course qualify it with a "may" but they are implying it's pretty safe if you won't need the money for at least ten years, because that's usually long enough for the growth from reinvested interest to overcome any downward fluctuations that might occur.
In contrast, Vanguard calls its less-risky stock funds "risk level 4" and says they "are subject to wide fluctuations in share price… may be appropriate for investors who have a long-term investment horizon (ten years or longer)."
Like a cash investment, VBMFX is an investment in "nominal" bonds. All the statements about loss and recovery refer to numbers of dollars. Inflation is potentially serious to bond holders; in that sense, bonds are not so safe. This is why many Bogleheads favor an allocation to TIPS, as represented by the Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities Fund, VIPSX.
VBMFX invests in strongly-rated "investment grade bonds." A bond is (typically) a loan of $1,000 to a corporation or to the Treasury, which pays you back regular interest payments for the term of the bond, then pays back the $1,000. Unlike a stock, which is a sort of share or partnership in a business, a bond is a specific promise to pay agreed-on amounts. "Investment-grade bonds" are from reliable issuers who, the ratings agency judges, are well able to afford the loan and will almost certainly pay it back. That means that virtually every bond in VBMFX is going to pay back the loan within a known period of time–average about 7 years for VBMFX. In that sense, it is pretty safe against long-term dollar loss. Unlike stocks, there is good reason to believe that the dollar value of VBMFX will recover from downturns and that losses will be temporary. 1994 is not a worst-case scenario but it was a very severe event in the bond market, and you can see what happened.
Here's one more way to look at risk. This is a price chart for VBMFX. Suppose you simply spend the dividend payments from the fund instead of reinvesting them. The dividend payments represent the source of long-term growth for the fund; the price fluctuations represent the short-term effects of the market. If there were no market fluctuations, every bond in the fund would always be exactly worth its $1,000 face value and the market value of the fund should be perfectly stable. Asking whether a bond fund is "safe for retirement savings" is basically asking whether the price and NAV of the fund are holding up stably over time.
A money market or bank account, if you withdrew the interest as it accrued, would just sit there and hold precisely the same number of dollars all the time. The chart below shows what VBMFX did. NOTE: This is a price chart, without reinvested returns.
The short-term fluctuations up and down, within perhaps a 10% band, illustrates the short-term risk of the bond fund. The fact that the long-term behavior is more or less flat indicates the relative safety to a long-term holder. The flatness and relative safety of the bond fund become clearer if we plot it together with a similar price chart for a stock fund:


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One of the most popularized holidays, most especially here in the Philippines, is Valentine's Day. As early as the last week of January, people are already dropping hints about the holiday mostly on social media. Aside from Christmas season, Valentine's Day is another celebration that evokes stronger feelings of love, affection, romance, and even bitterness! Some companies or organizations may prefer to just ignore the holiday but one of Sprobe's core values is to maintain a healthy work and life balance as it is one of the most foolproof ways to boost job performance and satisfaction. What better way to do this than to celebrate Valentine's Day at the office. So the Multimedia Arts Club, who served as the host for the month's People's Hour, prepared something really special for the rest of the Sprobeans this Valentine's Season as it was matched up with the month's Chinese New Year celebration!
People's Hour on the month of February was celebrated on the 23rd since 24 and 25 were holidays and majority were having their leaves on the 26th. Eye-catching decorations at the reception area welcomed us as we entered the office. Plastered on the glass walls were well-designed Chinese zodiacs with really funny fortunes with paper hearts ornamented above them. Opposite to this area is a Tinder app made of Styrofoam and Carolina paper hanged using thin transparent strings where people can take pictures of. There were also hanging red Chinese packets all over the ceiling of the main office.
It is already a tradition here in Sprobe to have hourly activities/games before People's Hour, starting 2pm. Headed by the hosting club's president, Nathaniel, the hourly activity was a dare game where names of all the boys and girls in the company (except the higher managers and organizers) were rolled into a paper and were put inside two containers, separating the genders. Another container contained all the dares. Every hour, two pairs of boys and girls should participate. Nathaniel initiated the picking of the first boy participant and the picked boy participant should pick a girl participant as his partner while she is going to pick one dare for them. If the dare is too impossible or too challenging for the pair to accomplish, they only have one chance to pass a dare and pick another one. However, there were only a couple of pairs who passed since the dares were only really simple to follow such as taking a selfie together and post it on Facebook for an hour or hugging each other for five seconds. It was one fun and full of giggling afternoon to initiate the People's Hour.
The People's Hour proper formally commenced with Diosel as the host of the program. He gave a really impressive short opening speech. He then addressed Miss Shayne Gerodias, the company HR, who greeted us with her welcome remarks. Fun games followed. The first game was called "Us Against the Ball" where four pairs from each area in the office participated and each of them were given a small ball that should land the ground just by using their backs. The last game was called "Cheek to Cheek" where two groups of eight people in each are to relay a card just by using their cheeks. The group with the most number of rounds their card got relayed, won. Funny moments and facial expressions were captured on cam as each of the group members tried their best not to drop the card while passing it to another. With all the fun and entertainment aside, the program proceeded with the recognition of each project members from their respective managers. Each awardee was given a certificate for keeps. The February birthday celebrants were also called in front to blow their candles after we sang them a birthday song.
After the program everyone was eager for the meal but it wasn't dinner time just yet! The most awaited and final activity of the program was called "Secret Valentine", led by one of the host club's members, Bawit. This activity already started during the week of People's Hour where each girl or boy has their own secret Valentine and it will be revealed during People's Hour. Each one of us got our secret Valentine a present. Chocolates, stuffed toys, and other sweet things. That afternoon, we were lined up and faced our secret Valentine. We then exchanged gifts and smiles and giggles. Some of us also received love notes. Real life couples and soon to be couples were intentionally paired though. Everyone giggled and some of us squealed because of kilig! Some even took photos of them. It was priceless. Everyone felt happy and loved, as it is the main purpose of the Valentine's day-themed celebration.
Finally, dinner was served and by that time, we were not only happy and loved emotionally, but physically as well. Chinese themed food was served such as steamed rice and siomai. We also attacked the cake afterwards! The night ended with everyone's face smiling…while chewing a mouthful.
Even though the program was just simple, it was nonetheless thoughtful and everyone enjoyed every bit of it. As what everyone says, less is more. It was worth keeping the night light but fun. We are surely going to experience more fun times like this in the upcoming People's Hour celebrations! With that being said, work and life balance here in Sprobe is certainly one of a kind.
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Summer in Northern Kyushu Part 5 (2016) | Usuki Samurai DistrictSunday, September 25, 2016
It's been 2 months since I stepped off the plane that took me back home from the fascinating land that is famous for high-speed bullet trains, futuristic architecture, towering skyscrapers and quirky pop culture. It could be any country in Asia or Europe but the one that I've been to is one that I can't stop obsessing over: Japan! :)
|the stone buddha outside Usuki Station
On the 4th day of my summer adventure in Northern Kyushu, I decided to do a spontaneous trip to Usuki, a former castle town located on the east coast of Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Sarah, my Japanese dorm mate I met the previous night, highly recommended a day visit in Usuki. I can still remember how excited she was when she was telling me about the former Nioza Historical Road, the famous Stone Buddhas (Usuki Sekibutsu) and the Lotus Flower festival. She said it would be a great opportunity for me to see the lotus flowers, which are in bloom from mid-July to mid-August.
|the historic city of Usuki is one of those rare magical places on earth where you can still see how the Japanese feudal community looked like hundreds of years ago
I did not know anything about Usuki prior to my arrival in Japan, so I was hesitant to go for a brief moment. It only took an hour of research before I went to sleep when I finally decided to go. Woohoo! I love solo travel! :) One of the advantages of solo travelling is you are definitely more flexible with time. You are free to change your plans whenever you want to, without explanations or disappointing anyone. I cannot imagine I would fall in love with solo travel haha.
|It was amazing to see old Japanese houses still being used by current locals
And so, I woke up very early that day, went to Beppu Station and grabbed two onigiris for breakfast at Family Mart before I boarded the train going to Oita Station. From there, I took a train going to Usuki. It was only an hour by local train (or around 30 minutes by Limited express trains), which goes into the Oita mountains, until I reached my destination. I almost freaked out when I woke up from a nap and found myself alone in the train! We passed by some unmanned trains stations, it was scary! Haha. Good thing, I downloaded an English train map and saw that we are almost at Usuki Station.
Travel tip: Local trains to Usuki are not covered by JR Northern Kyushu Rail Pass but covered by JR Pass or JR Kyushu Rail Pass (All Kyushu Area Pass). If you are a Northern Kyushu Rail Pass holder, take a train to Oita Station which the pass covers. Then buy a train ticket to Usuki which costs 740 yen one way.
|I was unsure if this was a private property or not. I decided to climb up the stairs and check out the Japanese cemetery.
I arrived at Usuki Station at 10:00 AM and I went to Usuki Tourist Centre located just beside the station. They do not have any English speaking representatives but I managed to get a map and to ask about the bus schedule for Stone Buddhas (Usuki Sekibutsu). My Japanese dorm mate also told me that Usuki City provides free bikes for tourists. I did some sign language so that the Ojisan would understand what I am requesting. Haha. He gave me a bike and an Usuki pamphlet. He also told me, in Japanese, to come back at 12 noon to catch the bus going to the Stone Buddhas. Thank God I did learn some Japanese phrases before this trip!
|This Obasan was at the cemetery before I arrived. "Konnichiwa!" she greeted me, grinning. Such a friendly Obasan :) She might be wondering what a stranger's doing in a cemetery lol!
|this looked like a tradtional Japanese watchtower - I am quite unsure haha
|the empty Hacho Oji Shopping street
|stone tablet outside the former Shinkoji Temple
|traditional Japanese houses at Nioza Historical Road
|the lovely Nioza Historical Road - reminds me of those Taiga Dramas I've seen online :) Japanese Historical dramas FTW!
|Even though there's a museum and a few old temples and shrines in Usuki, for me the main attraction here was the town itself and the descendants of the townspeople who had been continually inhabiting these traditional houses for centuries
|look how lovely it was!
|According to the Uskuki Pamphlet I got that day, roughly 40 hectares of Central Usuki have been set aside for historical preservation, and about 70 building are designated landmarks.
|the imposing Usuki Castle Ruins
|the wooden torii gate outside the castle ruins - I wasn't sure if there was a Shinto Shrine inside because I did not enter the castle grounds.
|entrance to Usuki Castle
I went back to Usuki Station just in time for the bus going to the Stone Buddhas. So, that's all for now. I will create another blog post for the Stone Buddhas, so please do stay tuned for that! The post will be up in a few days :) Have a beautiful week ahead my dear readers!
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Get It, Ya Bish! 5 Co-Stars We Want On Kendrick Lamar's Next Film
At this very moment, somewhere Kendrick Lamar's "good kid, m.A.A.d city" is blaring out of a speaker. Comparisons and critiques aside, the Compton MC has fulfilled his goals and made it relevant to be creative within Hip-Hop again. Lyricist of the Year. Check. Putting his life in these twelve songs, Kendrick Lamar has shut up dissenters ('cept for Shyne; c'mon man!) and led the charge of real rap returning to the radio.
All of this got us to thinking, while we jam out to "Money Trees" — who could star in K. Dot's sequel? Being realistic, we know Kendrick isn't going to drop another album until after his Top Dawg Entertainment comrades release their solo projects. But one can dream, no? With that in mind, we mused 5 Co-Stars We Want On Kendrick Lamar's Next Film, which you can check out in our gallery above!
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Municipalities included in the protected areas classified as Nature Reserve or Nature Park (therefore belonging to the Community of the Protected Areas): Baldissero Torinese; Brandizzo; Brusasco; Carignano; Carmagnola; Casalgrasso; Castagneto Po; Cavagnolo; Chivasso; Cigliano; Crescentino; La Loggia; Lauriano; Lombriasco; Mazze'; Moncalieri; Monteu Da Po; Pino Torinese; Rondissone; Saluggia; San Mauro Torinese; San Sebastiano Da Po; Torino; Torrazza Piemonte; Verolengo; Verrua Savoia; Villareggia; Villastellone;
Municipalities situated in the adjoining area and not in the protected area (so, according to the article 18 of the Regional Law 19/09, not belonging to the protected area): Beinasco; Borgaro Torinese; Bruino; Castiglione Torinese; Gassino Torinese; Nichelino; Orbassano; Rivalta Di Torino; San Raffaele Cimena; Settimo Torinese; Venaria Reale.
Municipalities included in the SCIs and SPAs: Baldissero Torinese; Brandizzo; Brusasco; Carignano; Carmagnola; Casalgrasso; Castagneto Po; Cavagnolo; Chivasso; Cigliano; Crescentino; La Loggia; Lauriano; Lombriasco; Mazze'; Moncalieri; Monteu Da Po; Pino Torinese; Rondissone; Saluggia; San Mauro Torinese; San Sebastiano Da Po; Torino; Torrazza Piemonte; Verolengo; Verrua Savoia; Villareggia; Villastellone; Casalborgone; Rivalba.
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Park Authority Deliberative Deeds
After the measures for the protection of River Po and Collina Torinese implemented by the Region in 1990 and in 1978 with Bosco del Vaj Nature Reserve in Collina Torinese, in 2012 these safeguard projects have joined with Law no. 19/2009.
From an administrative point of view, the safeguard of river Po is entrusted to three different Park Authorities, and the Po Torinese Park Authority is the central one. The river territory crosses big urban centers such as Moncalieri, Turin, San Mauro, Chivasso, and it is far from the traditional idea of a Park rich in large woodlands, white peaks, and wildlife. However, the establishment of a protected area in this territory aims at improving a habitat characterized by a strong human pressure, and therefore by urbanization, massive overbuilding of the banks, water pollution and upheaval caused by extractions of sand and gravel, etc., problems characterizing the whole course of the river. The instruments to carry out these actions are given by the planning of the area, enabling the rearrangement of the various activities through the development of a new way of gathering human activities, tourist services, and naturalistic heritage, by the controls of the Surveillance service, by the cultural and educational sensitization actions suggested every year by the Park Authority, and which include the organization of events, meetings, and guided visits.
The area of Collina Torinese is another unique place a few steps from the town, and represents a meeting point of protected areas safeguarding an important natural heritage including the beech tree woodlands of Vaj or places where environment and important monuments live together, like Superga Basilica.
These different environmental realities represent an extraordinarily important heritage placed in the context of the area of Turin, and mainly included in the territory of the Green Crown where, besides naturalistic features, you will find important places like the circuit of the House of Savoy Residences. A territory to discover, promoted by the Park Authority in the enhancement program and with the website www.collinapo.it
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Our campaign against facebook's use of coal is definitely getting facebook's attention. But we want to make sure that Mark Zuckerburg realises that it's not only Americans and Europeans who think that coal sucks; people around the whole world are calling for an end to facebook's coal use.
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An example of the type of photo we'd like you to take. Make sure that the letter on your page is clearly visible in the photo.
We'll then email a page for you to print out. The idea is that you'll then take the page and have a photo taken of you holding it up. It would be awesome if you could have a famous landmark or something like that in the background (like part of Table Mountain for example) -- we want it to be clear that the photos have been taken in Africa.
After taking your photo, you can then email it back to us, and we'll 'stitch' all the different images together to make one big photo-montage!
We'll put the images up on our website and also post it on facebook, making sure that Mark Zuckerberg and all his friends know how much we'd love them to ditch dirty coal power.
If this sounds like something you'd like to be involved in, sign up here! Once you've signed-up we'll then send you all the information you need, and go into more detail explaining the activity.
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The Figured Online Help Centre is a comprehensive resource to help with troubleshooting or product up-skilling. It's a good place to find answers to common questions, or direct your own clients to for guidance.
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Rivington Music Rehearsal Studios, located in the historic Lower East Side, is NYC's leading live music rehearsal space for bands and musicians. We feature newly refurbished studios fitted with the highest quality equipment from world-class brands like Marshall, Fender, Pearl, and Mackie. There are spaces ranging in different sizes for all budgets.
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Do you want to donate to AGN, but are a little hesitant about how the money will be used? No problem! Click on for our Wish List on Amazon. You can pick out what we need most/whatever fits your budget best and have it delivered straight to our door, assuring both you (and us!) that all your hard-earned money goes to the dogs, horses, chickens, and Curly!. (And you know us – we'll post those goodies once we receive them to assure you even further.)
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The State of the News Media 2013: Annual Report on American Journalism
In 2012, a continued erosion of news reporting resources converged with growing opportunities for those in politics, government agencies, companies and others to take their messages directly to the public.
News Magazines: Embracing Their Digital Future
Amid the broad decline of the magazine industry in recent years, news magazines have been among the hardest hit. That trend continued in 2012 for the six publications analyzed by the Pew Research Center, Time and Newsweek, as well as four smaller niche publications – The Economist, The Atlantic, The Week and The New Yorker. Ad pages for the group fell by an average of 10.4% in 2012, about 25% greater than the 8.2% slide experienced by magazines over all.
The State of the News Media 2012: An Annual Report on American Journalism
New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people's news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps.
The Search for a New Business Model
How close are America's beleaguered newspapers to solving their revenue problems? A new report from PEJ that includes detailed case studies of dozens of daily papers and interviews with newspaper company executives finds an industry struggling to reinvent itself, but also some hopeful success stories.
The Tablet Revolution
The most detailed study to date probes who tablet users are, how they get news and how willing they are to pay for it. See the report, infographic or slideshow.
News Leaders and the Future
What do today's newspaper and broadcast news executives think about the economics of their industry? Are they optimistic for the future? A new survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors and the Radio Television Digital News Association offers answers.


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Of Montreal Goes To Montreal
Published: 2004-08-04
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Out supporting their newest album 'Satanic Panic in the Attic' is American band, Of Montreal. This September will see the band add a total of fourteen gigs onto their tour history. Of Montreal will hit two Canadian cities during the fall tour, one of which is their namesake.
Although Of Montreal's newest released has gained the group some extra attention from new fans, they've been on the scene for quite a while longer than 'Satanic Panic in the Attic'. The power pop band's first foray into the world of music came in the form of 1997's 'Cherry Peel'. Of Montreal has since released six other full-length albums.
Hailed as Of Montreal's best album to date, 2004's 'Satanic Panic in the Attic' is the brainchild of Kevin Barnes. Barnes basically created the album himself, writing all of the songs and recreating the sound that Of Montreal has become known for.
To check out how the band has evolved over the past seven years, head on over to www.ofmontreal.net. Once there you can download a few songs off of every one of Of Montreal's releases, for absolutely free.
Wondering how an American band ended up with such a Canadian name? When the love affair between lead singer Kevin Barnes and a woman from Montreal came to an end, Barnes was inspired to start a band. Of course, that band was christened Of Montreal. Just one more way a Canadian has contributed to music (and thankfully not in a bad way either).
Of Montreal's Canadian gigs:
September 24 Montreal – Que-El Salon
September 25 Toronto – TBA
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