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The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners adopted the Tobaccoville Area Plan Update in March 2013. The plan, developed by the Tobaccoville Village Council and the City-County Planning Board with citizen input from several public meetings, reflects changes in the community over the past ten years and will guide development for the next ten years.
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Hi, i am new to the forum, so i want to mention I play 2 types of Iberian gaita besides the Galician. The first one i got in December 2011, it is from the area of Zamora and its name is the Gaita Sanabresa, but it is more like the chanter from Aliste. it plays in Bb, has 1 octave and it plays in a minor scale. I have been taking classes in it and it has a lovely different sound to the other major key chanters in iberia.
my 2nd gaita is the Sac de Gemecs, i got this in January 2012. it plays in Do major and has 3 drones (do, sol, Do) . it has 1 octave and can get limited semi-tones. i can not over-blow any of these chanters, but there are lots of melodies so no need to try.
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Labour Revenue spokesman David Clark is making a habit of going off half-cocked, with the latest example of his comments on the tender process for updating Inland Revenue's computer system, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said today.
"Yet again it is a case of 'Ready! Fire! Aim!' from Dr Clark," Mr Dunne said.
"He needs to gather his facts and then see if they align to his very obvious political intentions before shooting from the lip."
The Registration of Interest document outlined the mandatory criteria which were entirely appropriate in that they reflected the skills and expertise required to undertake a transformation of this scale and complexity.
"Dr Clark seems determined not to understand this is not just an IT system upgrade, but a much wider business transformation programme that will include the modernisation of all of Inland Revenue's business processes."
"For that reason alone he should surely appreciate that this is far more serious than his once-over-lightly cute sound-bite approach."
"It is vital that Inland Revenue has access to the best expertise and skills available."
"I also want to make very clear that the ROI and RFP procurement process was developed and managed by Inland Revenue with no involvement from Capgemini."
The procurement process that Inland Revenue has undertaken was to secure services for the planning phases only.
"The purpose of the ROI was to identify companies or consortiums regardless of where they were based, that had the capacity and capability to provide the services necessary for the planning phase of Inland Revenue's transformation programme."
Mr Dunne said that despite Dr Clark's surprise, Inland Revenue had no expectation of how many businesses, including New Zealand-based business, would register their interest either individually or as part of a consortium.
"It would defeat the purpose of an ROI for Inland Revenue to have preconceptions of which entities might meet the mandatory requirements, and it is somewhat naïve to think otherwise," Mr Dunne said.
"The mandatory requirements do not exclude New Zealand-based providers from the outset as the opportunity exists for them to either register their interest individually or partner with other companies in New Zealand or elsewhere."
"That's business and companies understand it, even if leftie politicians don't," Mr Dunne said.
The ROI process was the first stage of the procurement process. As a result of that procurement process Capgemini was selected for that phase of the transformation planning. Capgemini entered into a partnership with a local New Zealand firm, Tenzing, to complement the expertise that Capgemini provided.
"It is inappropriate for Inland Revenue to release information that is under active consideration by the Government – no decisions have yet been made."
"I will be taking the transformation programme business case to Cabinet early in the new-year. If approved, Inland Revenue will be approaching the market to identify suppliers of design and implementation services," Mr Dunne said.


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President Obama's first term was absorbed by dealing with the Great Recession. I hope that in his second term he'll be able to devote more attention to the Great Inflection.
Dealing with the Great Recession was largely about "Yes We Can" — about government, about what we can and must do "together" to shore up the safety nets and institutions that undergird our society and economy. Obama's Inaugural Address was a full-throated defense of that "public" side of the unique public-private partnership that makes America great. But, if we're to sustain the kind of public institutions and safety nets that we're used to, it will require a lot more growth by the private side (not just more taxes), a lot more entrepreneurship, a lot more start-ups and a lot more individual risk-taking — things the president rarely speaks about. And it will all have to happen in the context of the Great Inflection.
What do I mean by the Great Inflection? I mean something very big happened in the last decade. The world went from connected to hyperconnected in a way that is impacting every job, industry and school, but was largely disguised by post-9/11 and the Great Recession. In 2004, I wrote a book, called "The World Is Flat," about how the world was getting digitally connected so more people could compete, connect and collaborate from anywhere. When I wrote that book, Facebook, Twitter, cloud computing, LinkedIn, 4G wireless, ultra-high-speed bandwidth, big data, Skype, system-on-a-chip (SOC) circuits, iPhones, iPods, iPads and cellphone apps didn't exist, or were in their infancy.
Today, not only do all these things exist, but, in combination, they've taken us from connected to hyperconnected. Now, notes Craig Mundie, one of Microsoft's top technologists, not just elites, but virtually everyone everywhere has, or will have soon, access to a hand-held computer/cellphone, which can be activated by voice or touch, connected via the cloud to infinite applications and storage, so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before. Alas, though, every boss now also has cheaper, easier, faster access to more above-average software, automation, robotics, cheap labor and cheap genius than ever before. That means the old average is over. Everyone who wants a job now must demonstrate how they can add value better than the new alternatives.
When the world gets this hyperconnected, adds Mundie, the speed with which every job and industry changes also goes into hypermode. "In the old days," he said, "it was assumed that your educational foundation would last your whole lifetime. That is no longer true." Because of the way every industry — from health care to manufacturing to education — is now being transformed by cheap, fast, connected computing power, the skill required for every decent job is rising as is the necessity of lifelong learning. More and more things you know and tools you use "are being made obsolete faster," added Mundie. It's as if every aspect of our lives is now being driven by Moore's Law. This is exacerbating our unemployment problem.
In their terrific book, "Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy," Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology note that for the last two centuries it happened that productivity, median income and employment all tracked each other nicely. "So most economists have had this feeling that if you just boost productivity, the pie grows, and, in the long run, everything else takes care of itself," explained Brynjolfsson in an interview. "But there is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everyone. It's entirely possible for the pie to get bigger and some people to get a smaller slice." Indeed, when the digital revolution gets so cheap, fast, connected and ubiquitous you see this in three ways, Brynjolfsson added: those with more education start to earn much more than those without it, those with the capital to buy and operate machines earn much more than those who can just offer their labor, and those with superstar skills, who can reach global markets, earn much more than those with just slightly less talent.
Put it all together, he added, and you can understand, why the Great Recession took the biggest bite out of employment but is not the only thing affecting job loss today: why we have record productivity, wealth and innovation, yet median incomes are falling, inequality is rising and high unemployment remains persistent.
How to adapt? It will require more individual initiative. We know that it will be vital to have more of the "right" education than less, that you will need to develop skills that are complementary to technology rather than ones that can be easily replaced by it and that we need everyone to be innovating new products and services to employ the people who are being liberated from routine work by automation and software. The winners won't just be those with more I.Q. It will also be those with more P.Q. (passion quotient) and C.Q. (curiosity quotient) to leverage all the new digital tools to not just find a job, but to invent one or reinvent one, and to not just learn but to relearn for a lifetime. Government can and must help, but the president needs to explain that this won't just be an era of "Yes We Can." It will also be an era of "Yes You Can" and "Yes You Must."


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Slovakia is country rich in folk and cultural tradition. Crafts including woodcarving, fabric weaving and glass painting have long been part of its heritage, reflected in the country's architecture of wooden churches and brightly painted houses. And the impact of past cultural repression is evident in much of its art, literature and music.


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- The Roots of Morality I: Refuting Relativism (August 31, 2006)
Moral relativism, the position which states that morality is reducible to opinion and nothing more, is inherently and irreparably self-contradictory and must be rejected, proving that morality is in fact objective.
- The Roots of Morality II: The Foundation (September 5, 2006)
Given that morality is objective, we must next figure out what its basis is. This post proposes happiness as the fulcrum upon which all morality must be balanced, and shows how other proposed bases are insufficient to bear that weight.
- The Roots of Morality III: Universal Utilitarianism (September 7, 2006)
Universal utilitarianism is the moral system that arises from the recognition of happiness as the supreme good. This essay unpacks some of its implications for human behavior and shows how it avoids the quandaries that bedevil other versions of utilitarian moral theory.
- The Roots of Morality IV: The Theistic Rubber Stamp (September 12, 2006)
Divine command ethics, far from providing an objective basis for human moral behavior, merely serves as a rubber stamp for whatever prejudices a believer already holds, and is therefore inferior to the secular principles of universal utilitarianism.


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The mood is growing surly in the south of Europe as austerity measures take hold. With unemployment at 20 percent in some countries – and youth unemployment as high as 50 percent – warnings are growing sharper about a troubling rise of populist feeling.
The current chaos in Greece presents a vivid example.
Ahead of a key March deadline, the Greek government agreed – after much political agonizing and protesters' torching of dozens of buildings throughout Athens – to a number of cuts demanded by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in exchange for a bailout necessary to remain solvent. Minimum wages and public jobs will be cut. More taxes will be raised and collected. Greece will cede a substantial amount of economic sovereignty to international lenders.
Many Greeks are aware they hold a lion's share of the blame for their predicament. But the effect of ongoing screw-tightening by Germany, the growing admission throughout Europe that Greece is poised to default, and the Greeks' inability to see a way out of the crisis has deepened discontent and humiliation.
In the days leading up to the Feb. 13 government approval of the latest rounds of cuts, Greeks in the streets accused their leaders of betrayal for acceding to international lenders' demands. They compared the government to the military dictatorship that ruled the country until the mid-1970s.
Isn't Greece simply paying the price of reform – one that Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy all have to pay, to some degree?
Perhaps. But austerity may have consequences that aren't easily seen on the accounting books: How much austerity can a democratic government impose before it loses the trust of citizens needed to make reforms?
Mario Monti, Italy's new, widely respected leader, issued a blunt warning last month to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led Europe's austerity march. Without growth and greater European solidarity, public anger in Italy could cause it "to flee into the arms of populists," Mr. Monti cautioned.
Populism in Europe is a slippery term with a bad history. In the "prosperity Europe" of the past 50 years, angry populism was a memory from the 1930s or a spasm of antiforeigner hatred – skinheads, neo-Nazis, anti-elite, and anti-Europe hate groups, basically.
But in "austerity Europe" populism has a new and more powerful economic dimension: the unemployed, sitting on the street with no sense of future.
Rising authoritarian appeal
Southern Europe's democratic tradition is relatively new. Besides Greece, Spain and Portugal were also run by dictators until the 1970s.
When the Italian and Greek governments fell last autumn, technocrats were appointed to take over, rather than new leaders being elected. There is no guarantee that the next elections will bring to power those seeking the sunny uplands of democracy, rather than demagogues.
Austerity has brought a dramatic and abrupt shift to Europe's political scene. In Greece, reports suggest a shattering of the political center, new interest in the far right and left, continuing anti-immigrant sentiment, and growing support for more authoritarian politicians.
Romania's former prime minister, Emil Boc, stepped down last month amid mounting street protests against austerity.
In Hungary, run by the Soviets until 1989, strongman President Viktor Orbán has shown a willingness to change his nation's constitution and control the media to stay in power – with the backing of a growing far right.
Nor is populist feeling restricted to the more peripheral countries. In France, the far-right Marine Le Pen has been turning heads ahead of the April 22 presidential election. She looks askance at the euro, would take a protectionist approach to trade, abhors globalization and immigration, and says France is decaying.
"Our country is in the process of underdevelopment, of Third Worldization," she argues. Ms. Le Pen now scores 20 percent in the polls and is scaring the pants off President Nicolas Sarkozy's reelection team. Surveys last month found more than 30 percent of French see her ideas favorably.
"With an austerity policy, my best prediction is zero growth for years," says Jean-Paul Fitoussi of Sciences Po in Paris. "What would change that is a rising populism," he says, which could bring political disarray, which would make things even worse. "Already, 33 percent of French agree with Le Pen about globalization and the euro. It's a definite wild card."
Europe lacks a unifying narrative
It may be too early for the direst predictions. No armies of brown shirts or Bolsheviks are appearing on Europe's streets just yet. Some fear and anger was dampened after the European Central Bank quietly loaned $639 billion to banks in December 2011.
But the underlying direction of Europe is not toward the robust growth and idealistic integration that characterized the Continent in the postwar era.
Rather, the current period is witnessing the disappearance of the narratives of the past decades. Talk of shared values is giving way to talk of national interests and competition. The grand narratives that brought solidarity – the cold war, the "End of History," the "Clash of Civilizations," the "Return of History" – are over. The lack of a shared project at a time of austerity is causing fragmentation, the rise of populist sentiments, and the sapping of trust.
The Italian social thinker Raffaele Simone argues in a recent work, "The Sweet Monster," that Europe is preoccupied with the surface attractions of celebrity culture and new technology, and it merely seeks to sustain its comfort levels. Such a condition, in which older narratives of justice and human rights are ignored, is a seedbed for extremism and anger he says, whether against immigrants or elites.
London-based Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics argued at Chatham House last month that Western economies were not on the brink, comparing them to a post-Gilded Age period of the late 20th century, what he calls "the Old Normal," and thinks a "backlash" against inequity is still a decade away.
Still, he was concerned about the speed of global changes and said the prescription of austerity may have unintended consequences. Speaking of the Irish bailout last year and Monti's warning to Ms. Merkel, Mr. Posen said, "It is mind-boggling to watch the Irish be asked to eat their children, as Jonathan Swift suggested.... It is entirely right and justified for my friend Mario Monti to stand up and say, 'If we're going to do this much austerity, you better ... give us something or there is going to be a horrible backlash.'"
It 'boils down to trust'
The issue boils down to trust, says Felix Roth of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Trust is often indefinable, but crucial for democracy, and without it, he says, "What we worry about is that people will find their own solutions via populist leaders and say we don't [care] anymore."
Mr. Roth has worked out measurable "trust" quotients for Europe. In 2010, less than one-quarter of the populations of Spain, Ireland, and Greece trusted their parliaments, and "approximately 70 percent do not trust it anymore," he wrote in "The Eurozone Crisis and Its Effects on Citizens' Trust in National Parliaments."
Spain went from a "plus 23" trust quotient in 2008 on Roth's scale to "minus 50" in the past year. Italy's levels of trust in its institutions today is at a "minus 70," which he calls "serious."
"The opposition of citizens is growing far too strong, and we aren't talking about the Assad regime and Syria," Roth told the Monitor. "These are European states. Austerity has limits, but I'm not sure economists have put this in their models.
"To get reforms to work you need trust, which isn't there," he says. "So they won't get implemented, and that's what you have been seeing in Greece."


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UNION, Wash. (AP) — A flooding river covered a road in Washington, allowing some migrating salmon to swim across the pavement.
Video from KOMO-TV shows one salmon didn't make it Wednesday when it was caught by a dog that walked away with its catch near Union, about 40 miles southwest of Seattle.
The salmon-crossing-the-road scene is replayed nearly every year on the Skokomish River. It frequently floods after heavy rain in the Olympic Mountains.
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The man who made the moonwalk famous is getting a planet of his own.
The Michael Jackson estate has entered a licensing deal with a Los Angeles company to create an online virtual world based called "Planet Michael."
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The planet will live inside the Entropia Universe, a so-called "massively multiplayer online" game with about 100,000 active users. It is run by the Swedish company Mind Ark.
The estate will work with game publisher SEE Virtual Worlds to develop the game for release in 2011. In it, fans will be able to collect and trade virtual Jackson merchandise, and earn credits by performing challenges related to his music and dance moves.
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As in other virtual worlds, players who want to buy more credits can replenish their game accounts using real money.
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Up front, Elliot Dee and Scott Matthews return at hooker and openside flanker respectively with James Benjamin returning to the No 8 berth.
Hayward said: "This is certainly set to be our biggest test so far and with England coming up in two weeks' time, we will have a very good idea of where we are after these two games.
"The French team looks to be a formidable force. They have very few new players in their squad from last year, they have a scrum half who can kick with both feet, they are unpredictable and have a lot of balance throughout their side so they can vary their game.
"This is the type of challenge we want, to see how players perform against the best teams. We are sticking to our principle of making sure all our players get a decent amount of exposure to this level of rugby. Afon (Bagshaw) did very well at full back in the first two games, but Steffan deserves a chance to show what he can do after performing well in the Premiership.
"The same goes for Connor Lloyd - we have three good nines and Connor deserves a chance to start, while Tom Williams will hopefully get some game time with the Blues against Leinster this week. Harri (Evans) and Scott (Matthews) return after injury while it's a case of rotating the other players."
Wales Under 20 team v France (Saturday 22 February, 6.05pm, Eirias, Colwyn Bay):
Steffan Evans (Scarlets); Ashton Hewitt (Dragons), Harri Evans (RGC), Steffan Hughes (capt, Scarlets), Dafydd Howells (Ospreys); Ethan Davies (Dragons), Connor Lloyd (Scarlets); Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Elliot Dee (Dragons), Nicky Thomas (Ospreys), Scott Andrews (Dragons), James Sheekey (Blues), Will Boyde (Carmarthen), Scott Matthews (Dragons), James Benjamin (Dragons)
Replacements: Ethan Lewis (Blues), Luke Garrett (Dragons), Callum Lewis (Blues), Rory Thornton (Ospreys), Ben Roach (Blues) Luc Jones (Dragons), Luke Price (Ospreys), Tyler Morgan (Dragons)
Tickets are available for the remaining Wales Under 20 home games - against France on Saturday 22 February (6.05pm) and Scotland on Friday 14 March (7pm). They are on sale now at Colwyn Leisure Centre and Venue Cymru (online at www.venuecymru.co.uk / tel 01492 872000/ The Promenade, Llandudno) and wru.co.uk/tickets from £5 Under 16s and from £10 for adults.
Wales Under 20 Six Nations fixtures 2014
Wales Under 20 v Italy - Friday 31 January - Eirias (won, 26-9)
Ireland Under 20 v Wales - Friday 7 February - Dubarry Park, Ahtlone (won, 16-0)
Wales Under 20 v France - Saturday 22 February - Eirias - 6.05pm
England Under 20 v Wales - Friday 7 March - Kingston Park, Newcastle - 7.45pm
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The Gift of Hope – Host a May Bake Sale
At Cookies for Kids' Cancer, we encourage supporters to host bake sales all year long. Who doesn't love cookies at Valentine's or Easter, on a hot summer day or at a fun fall festival, and what's November and December without fresh-baked holiday cookies? No doubt, we believe any time is a great time to support Cookies for Kids' Cancer with a bake sale.
But this spring, Cookies for Kids' Cancer is calling on all of our supporters to make May our biggest bake sale month to date, with the highest number of bake sales we've ever had. We hope to see our army of supporters fire up the ovens to bake and sell more cookies than we can even imagine. But it's going to take lots of support to make that happen. In order to beat our single month record for bake sales, we'll need over 350 bake sales held in May alone. That number may sound huge, but really, if people all across the country could do it in December, when it was cold, dreary and nearly everyone was busy with the holidays, it should be easy to make bright, sunny, warm May the perfect month for record-breaking bake sales.
But other than the pretty weather, why May? Well, we have a few reasons. . .
1. Mom. Yes, Mother's Day is one important day in May, but really, why not make the entire month dedicated to the moms in our lives? Moms make us who we are, inspire us to dream, and protect us from the harms of the world. In the world of pediatric cancer, moms go from being inspirational to super-human – as they fight for their child's life while working each day to keep the rest of the family's life "normal." So host a bake sale in honor of your mom, your girlfriends, your sisters. . .or in honor of all the moms of pediatric cancer warriors who see every bake sale as another sign of hope for the future. Columnist Betsy Flagler recently highlighted the power of moms in the fight against pediatric cancer in The Charlotte Observer – Personal Battles Lead to Cookies for Kids' Cancer. Check out her story for an inspired reminder of the difference we all make.
2. Gifts. Please be sure to find your mom the perfect gift this Mother's Day, but that is not the kind of gift we are tallking about. This May, all of our registered bake sale hosts will be entered to win amazing gifts from companies who believe in Cookies for Kids' Cancer. Vera Bradley, Kitchen Aid, Le Creuset, Built and others have stepped up with gifts that any baker or bake sale host would love. Stay tuned to this blog for details on all the prizes up for grabs. How do you win? Simply register your May bake sale and submit your funds raised to Cookies for Kids' Cancer by June 5th. All completed bake sales are eligible to win. Drawing for prizes will be held Monday, June 7th and gift recipients will be notified by email.
3. Hope. Never doubt the power of a bake sale. Each time a bake sale is registered, hope is renewed in the hearts of families with children battling pediatric cancer. And there is no time like May, when the world thaws from winter and bursts into full bloom, to give the gift of hope every child deserves.
Register to host a bake sale. Do it to honor mom. Do it to win a great prize. Do it to give the gift of hope. Do it because if we all do a little, together it adds up to a lot.


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Jeff Cohen is Harvard's all-time leader with 142 career goals (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seniors Jeff Cohen, Paul Pate and Kevin Vaughan have been selected to the 71st annual United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association/LaxWorld Division I-II Senior North/South Game.
This game originated in 1940 and was played at Municipal Stadium in Baltimore, Md. This year the game will be played at Harvard Stadium Friday, May 25, at 5:30 p.m. The Division III game will be played at 3:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the stadium for $5.
Vaughan, a Harvard captain and midfielder from Ridgewood, N.J, who also earned unanimous All-Ivy first team honors, led Harvard with 19 assists, while ranking third with 17 goals and 36 points. Vaughan, who served as one of the Harvard captains for the second consecutive year, was tabbed to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List, as well as the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America third team and Preseason All-Ivy League team. Vaughan also tied for second on the Crimson with 33 ground balls during his senior campaign.
Cohen, an attackman, ranked second in the country with 3.43 goals per contest and stood 11th with 4.0 points per contest during his senior season. A native of Syosset, N.Y., Cohen, who paced the Ivy League with 48 goals, 56 points and eight man-up tallies, was also honored unanimously to the All-Ivy League first team. He became Harvard's all-time career goal scorer (142 tallies) and his 167 career points (142-25-167) are tied for sixth in team history, while his 48 goals this spring rank seventh most in a single year in school history.
The attackman, who recorded 10 hat tricks as a senior, enjoyed six straight games with three goals or more from Feb. 28-March 24. Cohen netted a season and career-high seven goals in the Crimson's 11-7 win over Michigan March 31 and added five-goal efforts against Holy Cross (Feb. 28), Duke (March 12), Brown (March 17) and Dartmouth (March 24).
Pate, also a captain of the Crimson, started all 12 games he appeared in at defense. A native of Manhasset, N.Y., Pate collected 12 ground balls on the year. Pate, who received NEILA All-New England second team honors last spring as well, served as the leader of the Crimson defense, which held opponents under 10 goals in six contests this year.


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The US and Germany are among the world's major countries of immigration. The US takes in more immigrants than any other country, and Germany is the chief destination of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Nothing suggests the influx of migrants to either country will soon cease. Population growth in both countries is fueled by immigration. In the US about one-third of population growth is due to immigration; in Germany, 100% of the population growth is due to immigration. About 8% of the 260 million US population are foreign-born, and almost 9% of Germany's 81 million residents are foreigners. Some foreign-born residents in the US are naturalized US citizens, and about one-sixth of Germany's foreigners were born in Germany (persons born in the US are automatically US citizens; persons born in Germany acquire the nationality of their parents).Germany proclaims that it does not wish to become a country of immigration, but provides a relatively generous set of services to legal foreigners. The US, by contrast, basks in its immigrant heritage, but provides relatively few public services to help to integrate newcomers. Immigration. The two parts of Germany have been affected differently by migration. The former West Germany added 13 million net immigrants between 1950 and 1993, while the former East Germany lost 5 million residents because emigration exceeded immigration. The former West Germany included in 1993 about 4 in 5 Germans, and virtually all of the 7 million foreigners in Germany live in the former West Germany. Germany is unlikely to remain a country in which foreigners arrive and remain foreigners. If a net 400,000 immigrants continued to arrive annually, Germany would have a population of about 90 million, of whom 30% would be foreigners. Major cities such as Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich, which are now about one-quarter foreigners, would have populations that were half or more foreign. Since 1 in 6 foreigners in Germany today was born in Germany -- 1.2 million of 7 million -- and half have lived in Germany for 10 or more years, the status quo of foreigners remaining foreigners is not likely to continue. Asylum. Most of the foreigners arriving in Germany over the past 5 years seeking to settle have arrived as asylum seekers. In Germany and all of the industrial democracies, the majority of asylum applications are rejected, so that separating genuine and false asylum applicants is a major objective of all asylum systems. When the number of asylum seekers surges, as it did in 1992 in Germany to about 438,000, the cost of housing, feeding, and deciding asylum cases -- some DM 6 to 8 billion or $4 to $5 billion -- can equal contributions for development assistance (Germany provided $7 billion ODA in 1993). Both Germany and the US have invented in-between categories for aliens who are not eligible for asylum, but who nonetheless are not deported. The US and German acronyms -- TPS, DED, "tolerated" -- reflect the expectation that these aliens will eventually depart.Foreign Workers. Germany recruited guest workers between 1961 and 1973, when their number peaked at 2.6 million, making 1 in 8 workers a foreigner. Over the next 15 years, these foreign workers united their families in Germany, and second and third generation-foreigners joined their parents in the German work force. In the 1990s Germany responded to rising migration pressures from the east after 1989 with 5 distinct foreign worker programs that involve some 350,000 foreigners, and add the equivalent of about 150,000 full-time workers to the German work force. However, unlike 1960s guest worker programs, 1990s foreign worker programs had a different purpose -- to cope with micro- rather than macro-labor shortages, and to make inevitable migration legal. The most important program involves project-tied workers. Under this program, German firms subcontract with foreign firms, and the foreign firm supplies the expertise and workers to complete a particular phase of a project. There were an average 40,000 project-tied foreign workers in Germany in 1994, down from 60,000 in 1992 because of scandals that involved German contractors using project-tied agreements as backdoor guest worker programs.Most newly-arrived foreign workers are employed seasonally in Germany. A peak 150,000 seasonal foreign workers in 1994 contributed the equivalent of 40,000 FTE to the German labor force. Seasonal foreign workers can remain 90 days in Germany, and most are employed in agriculture, restaurants, or construction. If the workers are employed less than 2 months, the workers and their employers do not have to pay social security taxes on their wages. The third program is for border commuters from the Czech Republic and Poland. If local workers are not available in Germany within 50 km of these eastern borders, then employers can request permission from the German Employment Service to employ commuter workers at prevailing wages who can remain in Germany for up to 2 nights weekly. However, most of the industrial democracies have heeded the advice of the OECD and deregulated their labor markets, and most today play less of a job-matching role in labor markets. The German ES matches about 35 percent of all job seekers and jobs, the US ES three to four percent -- giving governments less credibility when considering employer requests for foreign workers.Are you an IT pro? Get your act together if you wish to work in Germany. For, there is a job opportunity for you as the country faces the highest shortage of highly qualified IT professionals. In 2002, they introduced a 'German Green Card' for IT specialists. This card allows employers to fill up a vacancy with transnationals if there is a shortage of homegrown professionals. The bad news however is that in other sectors (other than IT), the employment prospects in Germany are not so good. In fact, responding to the high level of unemployment in the country in 1973 the German government put an absolute ban on the recruitment of foreigners in other sectors.To work in Germany, one needs, first and foremost, a work permit and a visa. To obtain the permit, s/he must have a valid job offer from a German employer. For IT professionals seeking a Green Card, the job offer should entail an annual salary of 77,400 DM /$39,575, or else 100,000 DM/$51,130. The implicit guarantee is that an IT pro can obtain a visa within a few days of applying. IT professionals with lower salaries and other job aspirants have to apply for a 'conventional type' work permit. They must also possess proof of having the requisite skill for the job (a college degree) and work experience of at least a year or two. Finally, they must also be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the German language. Besides, the prospective employer has to establish that the candidate is well qualified for the post in question and that he is unable to recruit a suitable German candidate for the post.Application forms can be obtained from the German Embassy or Consulate or can be downloaded from their website. Submit the form to the German Embassy or to the German Consulate General. Applications must be submitted in person or through an approved travel agent. Forms sent via mail are summarily rejected. The documents that you need to furnish with the completed form are a valid passport, two passport-size photographs and an employment contract. It normally takes up to three months for the clearance to come. Once the application is approved, the candidate is issued a travel visa valid for three months. After arriving in Germany, s/he has to immediately register with the authorities until the work permit is extended.


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Canastota community supports Emily Simmons' recovery (video)
CANASTOTA - For 61 days, Emily Simmons lay comatose at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital in Syracuse after her mother's car was hit at an intersection in Richfield Springs on May 19.
The accident sent Emily, her friend Christie Rinaldo and Emily's mother, Heather, to the hospital. The others were released shortly after, but Emily remained unconscious from the trauma she suffered.
On July 19, she woke up, saying "that's my mom," surprising her mother who had sat by her side the entire time.
"I could not believe what I was seeing or hearing," her mother said.
On Sunday, more than 600 people gathered at the Rusty Rail in Canastota to show their support for the family as they struggle to pay the millions in medical bills that have stacked up since that fateful evening returning from a Mt. Markham softball game.
"This community has been fantastic in offering their support and assistance, " said family friend Lisa Picciano of Canastota, who helped organize the event with others from the community.
In addition to the benefit tickets sold, more than 200 raffle baskets were donated by individuals, organizations and business throughout the area that were auctioned off through a silent auction.
"It is a chance to help the family and celebrate a miracle in Emily being with us today," Picciano said.
Emily has been nicknamed the "Miracle Princess." She is currently going through physical, occupational and speech therapy at St. Camillus. Her mother feels Emily's determination and the community's outpouring of prayers has helped make this miracle come true.
After celebrating her 13th birthday just over a month ago, Emily is now looking forward to Christmas.
"It will be so good to be home for Christmas and share it with my family and friends," she said.
Looking ahead, Emily plans on enduring more surgery but her goals are set on playing field hockey for Canastota and going back to school full-time in the fall.
Her younger brother Douglas said the past five months have been very hard.
"It is good to have her home now and letting her beat me up again," he said.
Heather and Doug Simmons, Emily's parents, are especially grateful for all of the support the community has given.
"This is a wonderful place to live. All of this support has helped the whole healing process," Heather said. "The community has taken care of us so that we could take care of Emily."
Ed: The length of time Emily was comatose was corrected 10/22/2012.


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The cast of the new film "The Way, Way Back" show off their dancing prowess at WSJ's Breakfast Briefings in Bryant Park.
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Nearly 5,500 students take classes at FAU's second-largest campus after the Boca Raton campus. Conveniently co-located with Broward College (BC) as part of the South Florida Education Center, it covers 38 acres in the western part of Broward County. FAU Davie offers coursework in 30 degree programs through the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, College for Design and Social Inquiry, College of Education, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.
FAU Davie Campus has served FAU students since 1990 with 2+2 programs working in close partnership with Broward College and other educational institutions. The FAU Davie Campus creates a supportive learning environment with particular sensitivity to students of nontraditional ages and culturally diverse backgrounds. A high priority is placed on offering the complete upper-division portion of high-demand undergraduate degree programs. Graduate programs in education, public administration, and business, are available on the Davie campus as well. It also hosts the base of operations for FAU's Everglades research and restoration efforts.
The campus is located on Broward College's Central Campus. Students may enter Broward College as freshmen and graduate from FAU with undergraduate degrees in over 30 disciplines. More than 315,000 square feet of carefully designed classrooms, laboratories and faculty, staff and student offices are located on this campus along with a shared-use, 112,000 square-foot FAU/BC library designed for the 21st century.
Other support facilities include a student Campus Recreation and a multi-service Student Union. The campus also offers a rich and varied program of student activities provided by the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management. Students have all of the services they require for career counseling, wellness, testing and evaluation, tutoring, health services, student government and financial aid, among others. Like a small college within a large university, the Davie Campus is seen as a "model" branch campus for the state of Florida and the nation.
The Teaching and Leadership Center is a joint collaborative initiative of FAU, Broward College and the School Board of Broward County in an effort to meet the challenges of attracting, developing and retaining qualified educators for the schools within these communities. The center's goals include expanding the pool of mid-career professionals and recent college graduates to teach in Broward County's schools. This particular project streamlines the district's hiring, placement and new staff support systems for alternative certification candidates by creating a one stop center for all candidates seeking information, training and support.
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First Fable 3 Screenshots Go All 'New Romantic'
Tossing one's daughter gaily in the air, dragging beggars along, touring factories, dispatching dastardly ne'er-do-wells and walking your faithful dog are among the activities displayed, in this case enjoyed by a red-eyed Adam and the Ants fan.
Fifty years after Fable 2, Albion is now a "Napoleonic fairytale" world in the grip of an industrial revolution, where players will be "fanning the flames of revolution" before claiming the throne to rule over and decide the fate of the land--good or bad.
Fable 3 is slated for release on Xbox 360 in the 2010 holiday season, packing Project Natal support and a microtransaction store for everything from items to areas.
Microsoft also released a 'fact sheet,' quoted below for your reading pleasure.
Five decades have passed since the events of "Fable II," and Albion has matured into an industrial revolution, but the fate of the kingdom is at peril. In "Fable III," you will be called upon to rally and fight alongside your people, ascend to the seat of power, and experience the true meaning of love and loss. The choices and sacrifices you make while fanning the flames of revolution, and then as you rule as King or Queen or Albion, will lead to an ever evolving world of consequences that will be felt across your entire land. This sets the stage for unparalleled action and adventure that offers even more ways to fight and engage than ever before.
Throughout your journey, you will encounter a colorful cast of characters that fans have come to expect from the off-beat style and humor in the "Fable" games. After determining whether these characters are your friends or foes, you will either join them or fight against them in explosive combat, alone or with a friend on Xbox LIVE. In your quest to plant the seeds of revolution, seize power and rule over your kingdom, the choices you make will change the world around you, for the greater good or your own personal gain. Who will you become? A rebel without a cause, the tyrant you rebelled against, or the greatest ruler to ever live?
Features: "Fable III" features include the following:
- Be the hero and forge your own destiny. Storytelling comes to life as "Fable III" puts you and your hero in the center of an epic journey that traces your rise from revolutionary to ruler and beyond, along with all the action, drama and humor. Interacting with the world of Albion has never been easier or more rewarding. The Expressions system offers an ingenious new Dynamic Touch feature that allows your hero to reach out and embrace a loved one, or exact retribution against those who have betrayed you. Your hero, your faithful canine companion and even your weapons now also evolve to extremes mirroring your morality and personal style of combat. The emotional connections players will develop in the world of "Fable III" will lead to some of the most memorable moments ever experienced in a game.
- Where blockbuster action meets adventure. Your journey spans from the streets of a thriving and industrialized Albion to the surrounding battlefields. The pioneering one-button combat system allows players to easily combine different styles in their arsenal--hand-to-hand melee attacks, long-range precision shooting and wickedly catastrophic spells--to advance the one-button combat mechanic to a full scale, thrilling level that offers infinite ways to engage, experiment and compete.
- Choice and consequence. A core tenet of the "Fable" franchise, players are presented with infinite choices and consequences that impact the world around them. Good or evil, loved or loathed, career versus family, or just you and your faithful canine companion--live the life you have always dreamed. More so than ever before, your choices lead to far more profound outcomes that impact your every being. Whether it' deciding the outcome of minor squabbles or changing the direction of the entire kingdom, these key decisions will change the world forever.


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Iowa, says Michael Adams, suffers unfairly from what he calls the "state fair" stereotype.
"That's the perception that we're all white, we all grow corn, and we all go to the state fair," says Adams, vice president of marketing and public relations for Greater Iowa Credit Union in Ames.
But Iowa ranks fourth in the nation in Hispanic population growth, according to the Federal Reserve. That's partly why Greater Iowa expanded its footprint from a university credit union to a community-based institution that embraces the Hispanic community, Adams told the 7th Latino Credit Union Conference in San Diego.
The journey has had its bumps along the way, but the credit union has made great strides in serving a community that, at some branches, accounts for up to 40% of members.
The effort began in earnest when Greater Iowa received a grant from the World Council of Credit Unions to fund a remittance program. "When we did that, we were off to the races," Adams says.
He outlines the steps Greater Iowa took to approach the Hispanic community:
Partnered with Coopera, which has a strategic alliance with CUNA. Coopera provided translation services, cultural awareness training, financial education material, and other services. "They told us, 'This is what you need to do,'" Adams says.
Established a customer identification program. The credit union accepts international documentation as a basis for membership and Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) for loans, and other accounts.
The credit union also offers stated-income loans to help members build credit. The first loan is for $1,000 and must be repaid in seven months. The second loan is $1,500, with a 13-month term. After members successfully repay these loans, they're eligible for all credit union services.
"It took about two years to get the board to sign off on that, but it has worked out well," says Adams, citing a 1.5% delinquency rate on these loans.
Took a multipronged approach to marketing, including print and television advertising, festival sponsorships, community outreach, and three scholarships named after Coopera founder Warren Morrow, who passed away this year.
Hired bilingual and bicultural staff;
Formed an employee implementation team to launch, monitor, and promote the initiative and to gain staff buy-in; and
Offered a Spanish-language personal finance website for Hispanic members called El Poder es Tuyo, which translates to "the power is yours" in English.
One of the biggest challenges Adams faced was internal politics. Not everyone on the management team and board agreed with these changes.
But that has changed over time—in large part due to the effort's success: While the credit union's overall membership growth was 2.2% in 2011, growth in Latino membership was 12.7%.
While Greater Iowa might not be the Ferrari of Hispanic outreach, Adams says "we're in a sturdy car with tank full of gas."


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Axial-radial cylindrical roller bearings are precision machine elements that can provide long service life, provided they are mounted and maintained properly. Proper mounting requires experience, accuracy, a clean work environment and the appropriate tools.
Mounting instructions
For general information about mounting bearings, refer to Mounting and dismounting.
To reduce the risk of damaging the bearing, do not apply any force through the rolling elements. Force should only be applied directly through the ring that is being mounted.
Mounting procedure
- Coat all mating surfaces on the shaft and inner ring with a thin layer of light oil.
- Loosen the retaining bolts (used to secure the bearing during transportation) ½ a turn.
- Mount the bearing onto the shaft, loose flange first, aligning the attachment bolt holes in the bearing with the tapped holes in the shaft. To facilitate this process, an induction heater can be used and/or a guide stud can be inserted into one of the attachment bolt holes in the shaft. SKF does not recommend heating axial-radial cylindrical roller bearings above 80 °C (175 °F).
- Once the bearing (and support ring where applicable) is in position against the shaft abutment and the assembly is at ambient temperature, insert the attachment bolts and tighten them "finger tight" while rotating the outer ring. This procedure helps to settle the rollers and centre the inner ring assembly.
- With the inner ring centred, gradually tighten each attachment bolt in a criss-cross pattern in three stages (fig. 3), tightening the bolts to 35%, then 70% and then 100% of the recommended torque values listed in the product table.
- After the bearing is fitted, the retaining bolts must not be left loose. Either retighten them to the recommended torque values or remove them completely.
- A similar procedure can be applied for fitting the outer ring. Coat all mating surfaces in the housing and on the outer ring with a thin layer of light oil.
- Mount the bearing/shaft assembly into the housing (fig. 4).
- Insert and tighten the attachment bolts "finger tight" while rotating the bearing/shaft assembly. Tighten each attachment bolt in a criss-cross pattern in three stages (fig. 5), as described in step 5.
Checking running accuracy and friction
Once mounting is complete, the running accuracy and friction need to be checked. In cases where friction is particularly high, there are three potential explanations:
- The mating parts are not machined according to specification.
- The attachment bolts are over-tightened.
- There is too much grease in the bearing.
To eliminate possible stresses that may have occurred during mounting, loosen all attachment bolts and retighten them in a criss-cross pattern using the three stage process described above.
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Space launch system program completes step one of combined milestone reviews
America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle -- the Space Launch System -- is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of milestone reviews.
The SLS Program has completed step one in a combined System Requirements Review and System Definition Review -- both extensive NASA-led reviews that set requirements to further narrow the scope of the system design and evaluate the vehicle concept based on top-level program requirements. The reviews include setting launch vehicle requirements for crew safety and interfacing with the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to carry it to deep space as well as the ground operations and launch facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Additionally, the reviews set cost and schedule requirements to provide on-time development.
"It's exciting to see how far this program has come in such a short time," said Todd May, SLS program manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "Completion of this first step of reviews moves the nation's first deep space rocket from concept development to preliminary design."
The milestone reviews are two in a series of life-cycle reviews advancing the vehicle from concept design to flight readiness. Step one included a focused technical review of the program requirements with information on cost, schedule and risk. A standing review board comprised of technical experts from across the agency evaluated SLS program documents including vehicle requirements, specifications, plans, studies and reports. The board ensured specific criteria were met and confirmed that requirements are complete, validated and responsive to mission requirements.
The combination of the two reviews as well as safety and reliability analyses is a fundamentally different way of conducting program reviews. The SLS team is streamlining processes to provide a safe, affordable and sustainable rocket.
"This checkpoint gives us a mature understanding of the requirements, solidifies the vehicle concept design will meet all the requirements of the program and mission and signals that SLS is ready to begin engineering design activities," added May. "We're moving forward to deliver a new national capability to get America exploring space again."
Step two, which will begin in early summer, will include an integrated assessment of the technical and programmatic components fully evaluating cost, schedule and risk involved with the program.
The Space Launch System will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit, taking astronauts farther into space than ever before. It also can back up commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station. Designed to be flexible for crew or cargo missions, the SLS will continue Americas journey of discovery from the unique vantage point of space. The Marshall Space Flight Center is leading the design and development of the rocket that can take us to the asteroids, Lagrange points positions in space where a satellite or science instrument could be stationed in a relative steady state the moon, and eventually to Mars.
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Corporate Insight's 2013 Monitor Awards are out! The awards honor financial services firms for excellence in the online user experience they offer prospects, clientsand advisors. Throughout the month of February, we will be releasing a series of slide decks highlighting the firms that received Gold Monitor Awards. Each of the nine slide decks will focus on a specific industry within financial services.
Retirement Plan Monitor Awards are given out across six categories including:
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Deerfield takes care of life's "what ifs?"
Deerfield's Life Care concept offers its residents unique health care benefits, as well as significant financial advantages and security. A complete continuum of care eases comfort and provides peace of mind because we offer all levels of health care on-site, if you should ever need it.
The Life Care benefit assures the availability of assisted living and long-term nursing care in our on-site health center at the same monthly rate as in your apartment or cottage. This protects your finances by maintaining your monthly costs no matter what level of care is needed. Additional costs include two more meals per day. Larger accommodations and ancillary health care services are available, but not included in the monthly fee.
The benefit is clear, as you can take comfort in knowing where and with whom you will get your care and can accurately plan for future health care costs.
In fact, Deerfield is the training site for the Geriatric Fellowship Program, which is part of MAHEC. In addition, the city of Asheville's high-quality care has earned a reputation as a healthcare mecca with the explosion of alternative, complementary, and traditional medicine. Deerfield is also located in close proximity (five to seven minutes) to Mission Hospital, part of the Mission Health System, one of the nation's top performing medical organizations. Learn more at www.missionhospitals.org. Asheville also offers both the VA Medical Center and Park Ridge Health System.


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Seagate has announced that starting in January 2009, it will reduce the warranty period on some of its bare hard drives to three years. One of the big selling points of Seagate drives over the competition for many consumers was the longer warranty.
Some drives that currently have a five-year warranty that will be rescued to only three years on January 3 will include the Barracuda 7200, DiamondMax, Momentus 7200, Momentus 5400, Pipeline HD, Pipeline HD Pro, DB35, and the LD25 5400.
Seagate points out that owners of these drives who purchased before January 3, 2009 will get the full five-year warranty that is currently offered. Seagate says that the reduction in the warranty period isn't because of a lack of faith in their own products, but is to make the warranty more in line with the rest of the hard drive manufacturers' warranty periods.
ZDNet quotes Seagate saying, "Our product quality remains excellent, and, as the worldwide leader in drive storage, Seagate is committed to providing our customers with the most reliable storage solutions available anywhere. Based on our data, we know that 95% of all returns take place during the first three years, so by going to a three-year warranty period (which is more in line with the rest of the industry and the needs of our partners and customers) we can make other aspects of our customer and warranty support programs more attractive, with negligible impact on customer product return needs."
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Desmond Smallwood
|Williamsburg, Va.
|High School:
60m: 7.00
200m: 22.24
- Set an outdoor record of 22.37 seconds in the 200-meter dash at the Vanderbilt Invitational.
- Anchored the 4x100-meter relay team that recorded a season-best time of 41.99 seconds, placing fourth at Vanderbilt.
- Posted a personal record of 10.90 seconds in the 100-meter dash at the Mason Invite. It was the best time posted in the 100-meter by any Ram this season.
- Ran the first-leg of the 1600-meter sprint melody team that placed eighth at the Florida relays with a time of 3:27.16.
- Anchored the 4x100-meter relay team that ran a season-best 42.01 seconds, placing 23rd at the Flordia Relays.
- Placed eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.12 seconds at the Fred Hardy Invitational.
- Anchored the 4x100-meter relay team to a fourth plae finish at the Fred Hardy Invitational with a time of 42.30 seconds.
- Finished fourth in the 100-meter dash at the Virginia Cup with a time of 11.15 seconds.
- Ran a 22.59 seconds in the 200-meter race to finish seventh at the Virginia Cup
- Anchored the 4x400-meter relay that won at the Virginia Cup with a time of 3:17.90
- Placed sixth (22.47 seconds) in the 200-meter in his outdoor debut at the Ram Invite.
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that placed fifth in the New Balance Invitational with a time of 3:18.54.
- Named the Atlantic 10's Rookie of the Week for the week of Jan. 14
- Won the 60m dash at the Navy Quad with a time of 7.05.
- Placed second in the 200m at the Navy Quad running a personal-best 22.24
- Opened his career with a third place finish at the Father Diamond Invitational in the 60m dash running a 7.00.
- Ran four years of indoor and outdoor track at Lafayette High School in Williamsburg
- Helped lead the Rams to the Indoor and Outdoor District and Regional titles
- Won the state race in the 300m and 200m , while finishing second in the 55m and the 100m
- Set school records in the 200m and the 4x200 as a junior
- Was named to the All-State team following his junior season
- As a senior won the Sportsmanship/Model Student Athlete award
- Participated in the Five-Star Track and Field AAU program for two years
- Son of Harem and Karen Smallwood
- Born on Oct. 13, 1993
- Studying Mechanical Engineering at VCU
- Has one brother, Aaron, who runs track at Virginia State University


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Life has been a lot like a reality show lately. Actually life has been a reality show. My partner Joy and I have been working to create a revolutionary new tanning product with one of our favorite longstanding clients Derek Saathoff. Derek has been our client for a decade, he used to come to us when he was a model, back in the day when we had our tiny studio on the 2nd floor of 580 Broadway. Now Derek is a model manager and one of the stars of the logo reality hit "A-List NYC". (Also known as "Real Housewives with Balls"). We are so excited about the new product, it embraces all of the great things that we have worked on over the past ten years – our ledgendry self- tanner with several cutting edge innovations. Derek is a gorgeous man, with an extremely high level of taste. We collaborated to come up with a product that was sexy, clean, undetectable as a "fake" tan. The spray, which is for at home use, incorporates hyaluronic acid for mega skin hydration and skin care. This is a tan that bronzes you and gives your skin an amazing treatment at the same time, working on moisturization and deep collagen building. TanSexual is a cult, New York City product – born in Soho – it is all about being well groomed, sexy, clean, polished, healthy – and keeping your skin safe and youthful – by keeping out of the sun. Our product is called "TanSexual". This season the question to ask is "are you a TanSexual."
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Students Shoot for Stars at Space Camp
By Ray Johnson
Special to American Forces Press Service
TRANSINNE, Belgium , Aug. 18, 2008 – With Joshua Mayo in the pilot seat and flight director Daniel Arvleo-Perez overseeing a mission control center hundreds of miles away, the space shuttle landed flawlessly. Not bad for a couple of teenagers.
And for 24 children of soldiers stationed in Europe, it provided a break from the realities of having a parent deployed to global hotspots such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
The space camp, held Aug. 3-8, was one of three destination camps hosted this summer by Installation Management Command Europe Region's Child and Youth Services as part of its Camp A.R.M.Y Challenge program. The acronym stands for adventure, resilience, memories and youth -- all of which certainly proved true for participating high-school students who wanted to learn more about the cosmos.
"Based on the kids' evaluations, we hit the mark in providing them with activities they wanted," said Joe Marton, the program's director. "They wanted a fun experience to enjoy in the here and now while also developing or enhancing skills for use during life's travels."
Besides planning, launching and landing a simulated shuttle mission, the campers also worked with past and present astronaut-training tools, including:
-- The Multi-Axis Trainer, wimulates what an astronaut felt during a tumbling spin when reentering the Earth's atmosphere in Apollo program space vehicles;
– The 1/6th Gravity Chair, which replicates movement than an astronaut experiences on a surface with one-sixth the gravity of earth -- like the moon. It was used by Apollo crews to prepare for their mission to the moon.
-- The Rotating chair, which reproduces disorientation and vertigo; and
-- The Microgravity wall, which creates what it's like to move in the frictionless environment of space when working on satellites or the shuttle itself.
In between these amusement-park-like rides, the teenagers prepared for their shuttle launch by splitting into two groups: mission control, where participants took on various jobs performed by NASA members on the ground, and mission in space, which had the campers performing the roles of space shuttle astronauts.
Two days before their mission, the 24 Camp A.R.M.Y Challenge campers truly got a sense of what it's like to reach the stars as they connected for an hour with astronaut Air Force Col. Mike Finke, via Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS, a volunteer program that builds and operates equipment that allows communication between the orbiting outpost and Earth.
Originally, the teenagers were to be allotted a 15-minute session with two Japanese astronauts training at Johnson Space Center. However, a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico forced the pair's evacuation. Staying behind and volunteering to replace them during the question-and-answer program, Finke, who is preparing for a six-month mission on the space station, took every query. The questions ranged from the complex to the simple, such as: "What physical, physiological and behavioral changes can occur in astronauts while in space?" to "What grades did you make in high school?"
Pegged to lead the ISS Expedition-18 crew in October and a father of three, Finke noted he could relate to the campers' parents being separated from their children, saying: "It's tougher for me every time I leave; … your moms and dads feel the same."
Marton said the teenagers -- many of whom have had a mother or father deployed numerous times -- took note of Finke's comments of his time away in space and reintegrating with his family. "There was a synergy there, a sense of, 'I understand what you're going through.' Looking back, it was a blessing in disguise that we weren't able to connect with the two original astronauts. Colonel Finke certainly understood what these military children are experiencing."
Besides the space camp, Installation Management Command Europe Region also held a Camp A.R.M.Y. Challenge sports and fitness camp for middle- and high-school-age children and an island adventure for middle schoolers, along with specialty camps at garrisons heavily impacted by deployments. Overall, almost 1,250 children of deployed U.S. servicemembers participated in the camps.
Now in its second year of existence, the program continues be part of what Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates calls "a sacred responsibility" to care for U.S. military children affected by deployment.
Speaking last month at a conference for members of the Military Child Education Coalition, Gates said: "The empty seat at the dinner table night and after night is a constant reminder of a child's worry for his or her parent's safety."
"Our military children are awesome," he declared, "just as their parents are, but they have extra hurdles to clear, burdens to bear. … The sons and daughters of our all-volunteer force also serve this nation; we have a sacred responsibility to care for them."
(Ray Johnson serves in the Installation Management Command Europe Public Affairs Office.)
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Unlike so many people who were blessed with losing weight during chemo, I gained weight. The combination of the steroids, eating whatever felt nurturing (which during chemo was mashed potatoes with butter and cream at least three nights a week), and exercising whenever I could keep my wig on, kept me swollen and plump during my six months of chemo cocktails.
After chemo came the celebration of being cancer-free, followed by a twin pregnancy, where I think people would often mistake me for the "Great Pumpkin" and then a really fit post-pregnancy body. I tend toward the "pack rat" side and anyone who knows anything about "energy work" will tell you that holding on to things helps you hold on the pounds, the past, and stagnates your "chi."
So, after each and every event I attempted to clean my closet, but, alas, I needed support for this. Could I give away my pregnancy wardrobe when I wasn't planning to have any more children? A resounding "no" my inner recycling, don't-waste-just-in-case mouth said. What about my daughter's baby clothes? I better keep at least all the nice ones (which were all of them) as a back-up. Have I mentioned I do not excel at closet cleaning?
My best friend usually flies down from Northern California to help me with my little problem, although with four kids and a full house of dogs, snakes, hamsters, and the entire neighborhood's children, I felt selfish asking since she had also attended each and every one of my chemotherapy sessions and has countless better things to do.
I attempted to clean my closets alone for the last seven years. Some people have two sizes in their wardrobe, but I had five. I had my pre-chemo clothes, my chemo clothes, my post chemo clothes, my pregnancy clothes, my post-pregnancy clothes, my post surgery clothes, etc. It was quite an assortment. I tuned into my favorite part of giving away things, which is finding a good home for them. Many things went lovingly outside my front door that others would enjoy and get much more use out of than me. The old suits (were they really from the 80s?) went to working, battered women. Children's clothes scurried off to friends with baby girls on the way. My daughter cleaned out some clothes and toys to ship to Africa for two children her class supports via donations. Strangely enough, the wigs were hard to give away. First of all, they were expensive, second, what if I need a good gag for a Halloween party? I tried to pretend like being a young, single bald woman wasn't especially traumatic back then – that what was most important was that I lived. But in retrospect, it really was difficult to be 36 and bald.
While I still could probably find a few things I don't need, I feel wonderful, lighter, happier and truly "unstuck" (I don't really know if I was stuck before, but I definitely feel the opposite of that now)! It also feels like putting breast cancer in its true place – the past where it belongs.


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Seven NFL teams' fight songs are included for the first time this year in the Madden NFL soundtrack - unfortunately (from my perspective) the best one is MIA. Probably because they didn't want the thing sounding like a porn movie.
That would be "Super Chargers" - not exactly marching band stuff as you can hear here. But from "Hail to the Redskins" to "Fly Eagles Fly" to "Skol Vikings", there's definitely a blood-pumping, finger-pointing, fight-starting, bail-posting ethic to this year's music.
The rest of the soundtrack is meant to reflect the songs you'd expect to hear on gameday at the stadium itself - hence "We Ready" and "Thunderstruck" and "Welcome to the Jungle".
Interestingly there's a cover version of "Rock and Roll Part 2". The original performer, Gary Glitter, of course was convicted and imprisoned on child porn charges in Britain in the 1990s, and the NFL sought to distance itself from the artist after that, though the song has been an unofficial crowd anthem in many North American sports for years. The NFL allows a cover version by the Tube Tops 2000 to be played at league venues.
Here's the full track list:
Original Recordings: • AC/DC: "Thunderstruck" • Archie Eversole: "We Ready" • Blur: "Song 2" • Bush: "Machinehead" • Guns N' Roses: "Welcome to the Jungle" • Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil' Wayne: "Let It Rock" • Kiss: "Rock and Roll All Nite" • Ozzy Osbourne: "Let Me Hear You Scream" • Ozzy Osbourne: "Crazy Train" • The Hives: "Tick Tick Boom" • Todd Rundgren: "Bang the Drum" • Ying Yang Twins featuring Homebwoi: "Halftime"
Cover Versions: • Rock N Roll Part 2: (as made famous by Gary Glitter) • We Will Rock You: (as made famous by Queen) • Crowd Chant: (as made famous by Joe Satriani) • Kernkraft 400: (as made famous by Zombie Nation)
Team Fight Songs: • Chicago Bears: "Bear Down Chicago Bears" • Detroit Lions: "Gridiron Heroes" • Green Bay Packers: "Go Packers Go!" • Miami Dolphins: "Miami Dolphins #1" • Minnesota Vikings: "Skol Vikings" • Philadelphia Eagles: "Fly Eagles Fly" • Washington Redskins: "Hail to the Redskins"


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Bring Your Cabbage to Work Day
It wasn't a big cabbage. No, just big enough to hold in my hand, about the size of a bottle of Chambord liqueur or a royal orb. It would have gone well with the scepter of dried zinnia that's decorating the dashboard of my car.
I cut this cabbage from the patch in my drive-to garden last night, as I gave up on my hopes of planting fall lettuce, despite the fact that there's really good soil yearning for some fall planting, even if the seeds won't germinate until next spring, despite how the little plastic garden borders that I scored from a neighbor's driveway with a "free" sign on them have proven that they will work quite nicely to keep the chickens out of that newly weeded and loosened earth. Somehow, I just can't find the seeds, and I'm not certain we even had any seeds left after last spring. And you know… I don't want to admit it, but … it's time to let the vegetable-growing season go. I mourn it, oh how I mourn it, every year, and I love having something edible burgeoning to thumb its nose at winter, to blaze red and green despite the shortening of the days. I want to rage against the dying of the light. But it's time. I know it, my muscles know it, my shoulders know it, the scraped soles of my gardening sneakers and the torn pockets of my gardening pants know it.
So to console myself, I cut one of the six-pack of the remaining late little cabbages, craving a nice spicy mayo-yogurt slaw, punched with chili powder and half a jalapeno and spiked with cider-vinegar soaked golden raisins. And … I swear to you, people, it just disappeared. It was rolling around in the car on my drive back from the garden, and I must have put it somewhere *special*, but I forgot where that was, between the trip to a hardware store for a light bulb and a trip to the grocery for chocolate, and I thought I was losing my marbles — why is it that round objects are so hard to keep track of? — and when I got home I couldn't find it. Could it have escaped into a parking lot? Gone rollabout? Decided to join some grand Vegetable Revolution? Escaped the surly bonds of Earth to orbit a Great Pumpkin? When it grew cold after about a dozen dark trips out to the driveway to make sure I hadn't missed it under a car seat or tucked next to the ice scraper, I gave up.
And when I parked at work this morning and picked up my purple sling pack, it seemed oddly weighty. Funny, it wasn't that heavy when I schlepped it into the car, or maybe it's just that everything was heavy…What the hail is in there?
And there it was. Between my wallet and checkbook and hairbrush, in the big pocket behind my cellphone pocket which is behind the lip-balm pocket which is behind the Master Gardener-badge pocket … WHAT HAS SHE GOT IN HER POCKETSES, MY PRECIOUS???
She's got cabbage. I fought the slaw, but, obviously, the slaw won.


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Killer-queen of Gamanraige, Maeve of Connacht, scored
her ancient song on pages time forgot, in life long ago
going back to begin at a coast of psychopomp sea-gods
whose tide of beauty is read beneath waves breaking
on a shamrocked shore of island invention, sung of since
the pre-Jesus era to a flight of Earls from Lough Swilley.
Goidelic Finn McCool, more apt to give than deny,
his spear ran wet through many a man, who fought
but hours amid years of hunting in woods; final chief
fenian whose hair turned white prematurely.
Sreng. Beautiful to behold, harsh and inhospitable
Connacht Fir Bolg who slew on the Plain of Pillars.
Nuada his foe at the first Battle of Moytura.
Bres; cruel son of Formorian prince Elathra
and De Dannan princess Eriu, spared at Lough
Arrow in the second by the king of light Lugh:
valiant and ruthless, crazed like a Norse-berserker
frenzied on bog-myrtle: silent in Fort Navan's
cast-list of kings on the island of myth, with women
behind a Wall of Three Whispers at Tara,
and Uisnech where Bridgit's first fire was lit.
A Cunning crafstwoman dyed in permanent overlap
between two worlds who voiced the Uliad, wrought
a queen's acorn crop of severed heads to fiction
with he of two names in the Hall of Heroes
at the court of king Conchobar mac Nessa:
"I care only that my doings live as myth when
I'm gone, not if die tommorrow or next year." Setanta,
Culann's Hound; whose martial-art training ceased
in a friendship of thighs at the Fort of Shadows
on the isle of Skye, and was unwilling as Higgins at
O'Connors wedding to kill the close companion,
pass sentence by one deft stroke in a single bout
of printed combat, alive in the ancient memory
of Ardee, where the son of a dog slew foster-brother
Fediad with a bellow-notched belly darted Gáe Bulg
thigh-friend Scáthach gifted. A light-spear thrown
solely in combat at river fords - it's barbarous tip
cast from the foot like a javelin, was removed
by filleting Fediad's body apart and slew all but
Lugaid mac Tri Con - Son of Three Hounds
Dear Cúhulainn
You lived the well ordered life with a chariot driver
and barley fed horses to war with, until the implement
predicted to kill a king did and prophesy proved true
as your bowels spilled out on a cushion in the vehicle.
King Cú Roí's death avenged by son Lugaid. His father,
part of a roaming band of warrior bards who raided
spoil and slaves from the Isle of Man - stole Blathnat
who loved you - of course - on first sight; your hero-halo
out-sparking the rival who took her for part of his booty
but who betrayed him to you who said to the satirist
"Tie grace to wrath,"
Cúhulainn, now tied to a pillar of stone to die standing up.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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