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Not big deals. Please, keep me updated about this. I might be able to support you.
I am just curious. iPhone features a very powerful CPU. It is quite unlikely you really need anything faster than FAME/C. Have you thought about this?
.ltorg is also not supported, so manually create literal pool (boo) periodically for the jumps
.global is .globl in Apple's version
After manually fixing this, I got it to compile, but the use of r9 is a no-no on iPhone, as this is used by the OS and can be used by the compiler. I globally replaced with r12, as it looked safe, but will review my changes and try again.
Not big deals. Please, keep me updated about this. I might be able to support you.
I am just curious. iPhone features a very powerful CPU. It is quite unlikely you really need anything faster than FAME/C. Have you thought about this?
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Thanks for the offer, mate. Very much appreciated.
The 3GS has an ARM Cortex A8 (like the Pandora) running at 600MHz and 256MB RAM. It runs at full speed with sound using FAME/C. The prior generation of devices (iPhone 3G and iPod Touch) have an ARM 1176 running at 412MHz & 500MHz respectively. This CPU has much less horsepower (although still good) and the FAME/C is just not quite there.
I have sound set at 22050KHz and a buffer size of 960 sample frames, and it only refreshing at around 15 - 18 times per sec on the older hardware (should be 22-23x). So, I do need to do some work on this.
Sound Bug:
I am running PAL, and set the time_slice and m68k_speed both at 0. The big problem I'm having right now is the sound is 'choppy', like portions of the buffer are skipped or some timing issue. I've used my iPhone sound routines several times now in other emu's / code without issue, so I'm fairly certain it is not them. Any suggestions here would be great. Interestingly, if I set the mode to NTSC, the sound choppiness goes away, by IK+ crashes on start. I'm using 0.7.2a of the gp2x version of uae4all. Not use if IK+ is incompatible with NTSC or it's a bug in uae4all yet.
Update on my approach:
My approach has changed a little again, as I'm now back to C68k, and rewriting it to use a hybrid C / inline ARM approach. I'm taking advantage of the ARM's CPSR, so the flags generally do not have to be calculated (like Cyclone). In addition, the hybrid method is cool, as I see the gcc instruction scheduler making interesting optimizations that otherwise would take me lots of time, pouring over the ARM 1176 technical reference manual. All the opcode handlers are set as 'naked' functions, so there is no prolog and epilog. This means I'm using the 'GOTO' approach like Cyclone, where the end of each opcode handler jumps to the next handler conditionally. It might be interesting for some people to look at, when I'm done. I've already got a number of unit tests which validate the core is working for the instructions I have implemented (ORI/ANDI/EORI, ORICCR/ANDICCR/EORICCR, and more).
So far things are looking great with regards to performance of the hybrid C/ARM version. I have about 82 unit tests so far, testing a wide variety of expected results of the implemented instructions, such as flags. I'm finally at the point where I could test this little program:
move.l #$80, d2
move.l #$00, d0
move.l #$7FFF, d1
addi.w #$3333, d0
dbra d1, loop
dbra d2, inner
trap #15 ; halt simulator
END START ; last line of source
Basically, it increments d0 by 1, 4194176 times.
(loop) = the time to execute the above program
(total) = the time for all 82 tests
The results:
3G ARM 1176 @ 412MHz
FAME/ARM core:
1.041s (loop)
1.711s (total)
FAME/C core:
1.708s (loop)
2.427s (total)
Speed up:
1.64x (loop)
1.42x (total)
3G[S] ARM Cortex A8 @ 600MHz
FAME/ARM core:
0.567s (loop)
0.818s (total)
FAME/C core:
1.081s (loop)
1.313s (total)
Speed up:
1.90x (loop)
1.61x (total)
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Students React to Lean School Lunches With 'We Are Hungry' Song
As a way to help combat obesity, new federal guidelines were recently put in place stipulating that schools serve meals totaling no more than 850 calories. Since then, some students say the new low-cal lunches simply aren't enough. One group of students at Wallace County High in Kansas even created a protest song called 'We are Hungry' that parodies Fun.'s 'We are Young.'
In the video, famished students find it difficult to perform at school due to a lack of food. Many collapse while playing sports, others fall asleep during class and some resort to hoarding junk food in their lockers.
Linda O'Connor, the teacher who wrote the lyrics to the song, said students claim the lunches simply don't give them enough energy to get through the day.
"From day one when the students went through the line, they literally looked at their plates incredulously," O'Connor said. "Like, 'Is this really what we're being served?' It was the lack of protein and the entrée that really hit hard for them."
But pediatric dietician Anne Condon-Meyers says the calorie limit and reduction in protein should be fine for most kids, especially if they supplement with fruit, vegetables and low-fat milk. Besides, the new guidelines are designed to fight obesity, and "it doesn't take a lot of extra calories per day to gain weight at a fast rate," she said.
What do you think? Are these new lunches a good idea or are we starving our children?

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Day 1: Arrive Bucharest
Upon arrival in Bucharest, you are transferred to our hotel. Tonight we will have an orientation meeting followed by dinner.
Day 2: Bucharest Exploring
We begin our morning with a guided city tour of Bucharest, seeing the historical downtown and the Parliament Building, which was designed and nearly completed by the Ceausescu Regime as the seat of political and administrative power in Romania. Constructing the Palace required demolishing much of Bucharest's historic district, including 19 Orthodox Christian churches, six Jewish synagogues, three Protestant churches (plus eight relocated churches), and 30,000 residences. This is the world's second largest building after the Pentagon.
Day 3: To Brasov via Sinaia, Bran Castle
Departing Bucharest, we begin our journey to Brasov, crossing the Carpathian Mountains. This is our point of entry into Transylvania, the land of Magyar, Saxon, Secler, Romanian and Moc Peoples. Enroute, we stop in Sinaia, named after Mount Sinai in Egypt. It is a mountainside town with winding streets and colorful houses. We visit Peles Castle, a former royal residence. Built between 1875 and 1883, the castle contains many architectural styles, 160 rooms, and beautiful terraces. We also stop at Sinaia Monastery.
Day 4: Brasov Sightseeing, Risnov
This morning we explore the downtown core of Brasov, one of the seven main Saxon cities. It has a well-preserved downtown square that is surrounded by beautiful buildings. (It is reminiscent of squares found in Prague.) We visit the Black Church, named so by a fire that blackened its walls. Erected in 1476, the Gothic cathedral has a 250-foot high tower and an organ with 4000 pipes. We also visit the first Romanian school with amazing old Slavic manuscripts.
Day 5: Prejmar, Viscri, to Odorheiu Secuiesc
This morning we explore Prejmar, a former Saxon fortified church in a town outside Brasov. This church is exquisite in design and contrast, featuring thick walls with internal passages that were used to defend its inhabitants from attack.
Day 6: Biertan, Sighisoara
Today we will visit more Saxon heritage sites. Our first stop is the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Biertan. The Saxons built this fortified church, which houses a magnificent altar made up of 28 panels, in the 15th century. After lunch we drive to Sighisoara (Shassburg) the best-preserved medieval/fortified Saxon town in Europe. Walk up to Citadel Hill along narrow winding streets crowned with a 200-foot clock tower that watches over the main gate. This 14th-century building contains old documents, weapons, coins and glass icons. Atop Citadel Hill, there is a Gothic cathedral with strange stone sculptures on the buttresses. You can also visit the house where Vlad Tepes "Dracula" was born. It is now a pub!
Day 7: Mt. Hargita Hikes, Secler-Gates, Enlaka Village
This morning we drive up to Mt. Hargita, the sacred peak of the local Seclers, via the scenic Ivo-stream Valley. There we have an hour-long hike to the very peak, where we can enjoy the landscape of central Transylvania with long-range views of the Carpathians. Enroute we stop in a small village, famous for its dozens of "Secler-gates", whose beauty adorns the streets. These gates were a sign of hospitability and showcased the skill of local woodworkers. Many of these gates are more than one hundred years old and are deemed to be national monuments.
Day 8: Charcoal Makers, Praid Salt Mine, to Gura Humorului via Bicaz Gorge and Lacu Rosu
We begin our day with a visit to see the work of traditional charcoal makers at Kalonda Pass. We have an opportunity to do some shopping in the village of Korond, whose inhabitants are famous for their handicrafts and more than 5000 families make their livelihood from producing ceramics and wooden crafts.
Days 9 - 10: Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
Among the most picturesque treasures of Romania are the Painted Monasteries of Bucovina. Their painted exterior walls are decorated with elaborate 15th and 16th century frescoes featuring portraits of saints and prophets, scenes from the life of Jesus, images of angels and demons, and heaven and hell. Deemed masterpieces of Byzantine art, these churches are one-of-a-kind architectural sites in Europe. Far from being merely wall decorations, the murals represent complete cycles of religious doctrine. The purpose of the frescoes was to make the story of the Bible and the lives of the most important Orthodox saints known to villagers by the use of images. Their outstanding composition, elegant outline and harmonious colors blend perfectly with the surrounding landscape. Some of Romanias most beautiful countryside is to be found in Bucovina, whose rolling green hills nestle villages and monasteries within their valleys. Horses, decked with red-tasseled bridles, travel country lanes, as villagers crowd churchyards in traditional folk dress on Sundays and holidays. Seven of the churches were placed on UNESCO World Heritage list in 1993. The eighth, Sucevita, is awaiting sanction to be added to the list. We have dedicated two days to explore the most stunning examples of painted churches in this area.
Day 11: To Torockoszentgyorgy Through the Eastern Carpathians and the Transylvanian Basin
Today we have a long day of driving to reach Torockoszentgyorgy (Coltesti), secluded behind the magnificent rock of the eastern Apuseni Mountains, which borders the western side of Transylvania. Our journey will take us through beautiful mountain scenery as we cross the Eastern Carpathian arch and through central Transylvania, passing the Borgo and Mestecanis Passes. We continue our journey through a series of significant towns that were once an important part of medieval Transylvania. We arrive Torockoszetgyorgy in the late afternoon.
Day 12: Rimetea Village Museum, Torda Gorge Hike
The whole morning is free to enjoy the beautiful setting of our lovely hotel. Enjoy a stroll through the village, a walk in the nearby meadows or enjoy a coffee with a nice book in the terrace. The choice is yours!
Day 13: Torockoszentgyorgy Castle Hike, Moc Villages
This morning, we explore the 13th century castle ruins which overlooks our village, Torockoszentgyorgy. Our hike takes us through the gorgeous rural countryside. The view from the abandoned castle is simply breathtaking.
Day 14: Sincrau Village, Oradea, Arrival in Hungary
After our morning at leisure, we make our way to the Hungarian border. Enroute we visit a Calvinistic church of the Magyar Sincrau (Kalotaszentkiraly) village. This is one of the foremost, original ethnic villages of Western Transylvania, famous for its folk and native culture. Enjoy the hospitality of the locals with their traditional costumes, very special local dishes, as well as the opportunity to shop for some local handmade painted pitchers, woodcarvings and embroideries. We cross the Bucea Pass, our exit point of Transylvania, as we descend to Oradea (Nagyvarad) to visit one of the most gorgeous Baroque churches in all of Central Europe, and the burial place of the sacred Hungarian King, St. Ladislaus.
Day 15: Hortobagy N.P., Godollo Royal Palace, to Budapest
After breakfast, we travel into the Pusta area to see its unique endemic breeds of animals. The Pusta is a wide-open flat area with unique vegetation. In terms of flora, the Pusta is Asiatic and is known as a small piece of Asia inside Europe. Hortobagy National Park is a World Heritage Site that preserves the unique natural and cultural treasures of this remote part of Europe. We will see the special curly-haired and "cholesterol-free" mangalica pigs, strange spiral-horned sheep, the enormous Hungarian gray cattle, water buffalo and many special house fowls and pigeons. We travel by cart into the open plains, where we will be introduced to the life of the local herdsmen and horse riders, as we visit several herds of semi-wild kept animals. After lunch, we continue to travel westward to see the former royal palace of Godollo. Godollo was a palace of Emperor Franz Joseph, King Charles IV (the last Hungarian King), and Nicholaus Horthy, Regent of Hungary between the two World Wars. Partially restored over the last two years, the building and garden provide a glimpse into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's regal past, highlighting the life of the famous Sissi, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph. After our visit, we continue on to Budapest.
Day 16: Budapest Sightseeing - Buda Highlights
The broad Danube River runs through the middle of this stunning metropolis, dividing hilly Buda from the Pest plain, with nine beautiful old bridges and romantic islands. Although Budapest was first populated 50,000 years ago, its current name dates just over 140 years old and came into existence when Old Buda, Buda and Pest all united in 1873. It boasts 80 thermal springs which supply 12 spa baths, 237 historical monuments, 23 museums and galleries, 40 theaters, and seven concert halls.
Day 17: Budapest Sightseeing - Pest Highlights
Today, we begin our exploration of the Pest side on foot and by bus. First, we drive to Heroes' Square to see its grand statues, museums and the lovely park, where we stop and learn about Hungarian history. We drive along Andrassy Street (a World Heritage Site), and see its most important buildings, including the famous Opera House. We then visit the Basilica, the greatest of the Hungarian churches. After lunch we have a guided tour in the Parliament Building, which is ranked as one of the most beautiful in the world. With 691 rooms this neo-Gothic palace stretches 880 feet (268 meters) along the embankment of the Danube River. In the afternoon, we have the choice of an optional visit to the nearby synagogue, which is the 2nd largest in the world and the largest of the continent; or you also can opt for enjoying a stroll (and shopping) in the covered Market Hall area, the largest of Budapest. At the end of the day we will have our dinner in one of the oldest and most renowned restaurants of Budapest (Matyas Cellar), where we will enjoy live gypsy music and traditional folk dancing with the famous Csardas.
Day 18: Visegrad, Danube Bend, Szentendre
Today, we travel north from Budapest to the very center of the Danube Bend, visiting the Royal Palace of Visegrad City. Completed in 1330, Visegrad was the largest building ensembled in medieval Hungary and was declared as the capital in the 14th century. "From Visegrad, from an earthly paradise" - thus wrote an ambassador of the Pope, guest of King Matthias (1458-1490), and a person well used to glitter and pomp. We travel to the Serbian city of Szentendre to explore this legendary old museum town. With its winding streets, church towers and colorful houses, Szentendre is probably the Danube Bend's most visited tourist center and is a fascinating place to explore.
Day 19: Church of Zsambek, Alcsut Arboretum, Kamandul Hermitage, Castle of Lovasbereny
Today we continue exploring the surrounding areas of Budapest. We begin with the Church of St George the Martyr, a former Benedictine Abbey, located in the village of Zsambek, which is one of the oldest monuments of Hungary, and which survived both the Mongolian invasion and the Turkish occupation. Later we have a guided tour through the arboretum of Alcsut in Danube-Ipoly National Park, where we will see many of the 540 different tree and bush species on display in the park. We will learn more about the special history of the park and its origin as the garden of a former aristocratic palace. We enjoy a lovely lunch beside a little lake, before continuing on to our guided tour of the Kamandul Hermitage Site of Majk, which is an extraordinary assemblage of buildings. The Kamandul Order was established in 1009 in Italy, and the monks were allowed to speak to each other only twice a year. They lived at this peaceful spot from 1733-1770, until it was converted into a hunting lodge for the famous Esterhazy family. Later we stop at Lovasbereny Castle, a ruined and half-abandoned mansion of a local aristocratic family who shared a fate similar to other such properties during the Communist-era. Before our return to Budapest, we enjoy a great panoramic view over the second largest lake of the country, Lake Velence. Tonight we will enjoy our farewell dinner.
Day 20: Depart Budapest
Our adventure in Eastern Europe concludes today as we depart for Budapest Airport to board our international flights home.
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Nation & World
Mohammed Morsi reshuffles Egypt's Cabinet; 3 posts go to Muslim Brotherhood
President Mohammed Morsi named nine new ministers to his government Tuesday, including three members of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a move that his prime minister, Hesham Kandil, said was intended to re-energize efforts to reverse Egypt's prolonged economic spiral.
But the new appointments also had the effect of increasing the political isolation that's grown around Morsi since he assumed the presidency last summer.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive Islamist society through which Morsi rose to prominence, now will control 10 of the government's 35 Cabinet seats, a development that fed opposition complaints that the president is more intent on strengthening the hand of the Brotherhood than providing good governance. A fourth Cabinet post went to a known Islamist, though he isn't a formal member of the Brotherhood.
Two of the new Cabinet members – the finance minister and planning minister – replaced the top two officials who'd been leading Egypt's so far unsuccessful negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8 billion loan.
The three elevated Brotherhood members were Amr Darag, a top official in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, who was named the minister of international cooperation and planning, Yehia Hamed, Morsi's spokesman during his campaign for the presidency, who became the investment minster, and Ahmed el Gizawy, who headed the Freedom and Justice party's agriculture committee and was named the new agriculture minister.
Morsi also named Fayed Abdel Moneim, an Islamic economics professor with no previous government experience, as finance minister.
Morsi had signaled last month that there would be changes in his Cabinet, but he offered no explanation for the individual selections Tuesday. Some interpreted the moves as an effort by Morsi to bolster the Brotherhood's grip on power. Others said, however, that the choices highlighted how few people outside the Brotherhood were willing to serve in the Morsi government.
Kandil acknowledged that many potential ministers outside the Brotherhood had turned down posts in a government that much of the country considers a failure.
Certainly, any Egyptian Cabinet minister, especially those with portfolios related to the country's economy, faces a major challenge, something Morsi hinted at when he swore in the new ministers. "Today, you say farewell to sleep," Morsi told his new ministers, according to Kandil.
So far this year, the Egyptian pound has lost 15 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar, a decline that's been slowed only by the intervention of nations such as Qatar and Libya, which have infused billions into Egyptian reserves.
Wael Gamal, a economic commentator here, said he foresaw little immediate improvement in the economic outlook from the shuffle. "What will really matter is whether the government changes its policy," he said. "It is not about faces; it is about policy."
In addition to the heads of finance, planning, agriculture and investment, Morsi appointed new chiefs to the ministries of parliamentary affairs, oil, antiquities, culture and justice. The change in the Justice Ministry post appeared to be a reflection of Morsi's unhappiness with the previous justice minister, who refused last year to fire judges who'd been appointed during former leader Hosni Mubarak's time in power.
Morsi didn't replace his minister of interior despite declining security and mounting frustrations over the lack of police reforms.
On his Twitter account, Amr Moussa, the head of the National Salvation Front, the leading opposition group, wrote: "The reshuffle does not add anything and does not change much, so the situation will need a new reshuffle in the near future."
He added: "The challenges are big and the new reshuffle seems that it won't be able to handle the situation."
Of the new appointees, Darag has been in the public spotlight before. A fluent English speaker who earned his Ph.D. in social mechanics and foundations at Purdue University, Darag has been the public face of the Morsi government, meeting frequently with reporters and other opinion makers, convincingly presenting the Morsi government as made up of moderates, not ideologues.
At a breakfast panel last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Darag described Egypt's transitional period as "typical" and promised a more mature government after October's scheduled parliamentary elections.
He cited anecdotes that portrayed Morsi's government as having improved the economy, and he shrugged off a question about Egypt's bleak economic and political situation.
Instead, he gave a lengthy explanation for how Egypt now is producing more of its own wheat. When another panelist noted that more Egyptians are hungry today than two years ago, Darag pleaded with him in Arabic slang: "Come on, my uncle, be optimistic."
McClatchy special correspondent Amina Ismail contributed to this report from Cairo.


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By this morning, rebate reservations for the Trade-In & Save Program (aka Cash for Appliances) had been exhausted, leaving only spots on the waiting list.
Approximately 6,000 rebates each for washers and dishwashers were reserved either by phone or online as well as of 11,400 for fridges and 2,000 for freezers.
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The process looks exactly the same as the process for an actual rebate reservation, except without a guaranteed rebate. You'll have 30 days to purchase a qualified appliance, arrange for "Proof of Demanufacturing" if you're replacing a fridge or freezer and postmark your application materials.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — U.K. equities advanced Tuesday, with AstraZeneca PLC gaining on speculation the British drug maker will receive a takeover bid, while GlaxoSmithKline PLC shares rose as the pharmaceutical heavyweight made a couple of its own deals.
U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.26% leapt 0.9% to 6,681.76, the highest closing level since April 4, according to data from FactSet, following a four-day break in trading in observance of the Easter holiday. Last week, the index finished the holiday-shortened week up by 1.1%.
The FTSE on Tuesday broke above "several resistance levels" including the 6,680 mark, paving the way for the benchmark index to retest an April peak of around 6,705, said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst at Forex.com, in a note.
AstraZeneca AZN, +0.04% AZN, -0.84% helped pace the FTSE 100's gain as its own shares rose 4.7% — the strongest rise since August 2011, according to FactSet data — after a Sunday Times report that Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.87% , the largest drug maker in the U.S., had approached AstraZeneca about a possible £60 billion ($100.78 billion) merger. Separately, the Daily Telegraph reported that AstraZeneca has hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to advise it if Pfizer PFE, -0.87% were to again attempt to talk with the company about a takeover bid.
An overlap with cholesterol-lowering medications Lipitor from Pfizer and AstraZeneca's Crestor, "could perhaps cause some [U.S. Federal Trade Commission] concerns but wouldn't be prohibitive," wrote European research analysts at Credit Suisse in a Tuesday note.
Meanwhile, shares of GlaxoSmithKline GSK, +0.85% GSK, +0.94% tacked on 5.2% following plans by Novartis AG NOVN, -0.71% to buy Glaxo's oncology unit for about $14.5 billion, while Novartis sells its vaccines unit to Glaxo for $5.25 billion. The companies are also planning to combine their consumer divisions, which sell medication that doesn't require a prescription.
Shares of biopharmaceutical firm Shire PLC UK:SHP also finished higher, by 7.6%. An estimated "robust" 13% earnings per-share compound annual growth rate from 2013 through 2018, "at a minimum given pipeline news and further cost control, justifies upside for the shares," said Jefferies which on Tuesday reiterated its buy rating on Shire.
But mining issues lost ground, with Anglo American PLC AAL, -1.35% down 0.6% following a Financial Times report that the company is getting ready to leave its platinum mines at Rustenberg in South Africa. Labor strikes that have hurt the country's platinum sector are among the factors Anglo American is assessing as it considers its future at Rustenberg, according to the report.
Platinum prices on Monday dropped 2% as a pay offer by platinum producers in South Africa fell short of union demands, which may result in a strike by workers continuing for weeks, according to Bloomberg.
Shares of Randgold Resources Ltd. UK:RRS were off 2.4%, Fresnillo PLC FRES, +3.48% dropped 2.3% and Rio Tinto Ltd. RIO, +0.28% RIO, +0.08% RIO, +0.43% pulled back by 1%.
Investors in the U.K. market will soon likely have another stock to watch, as Card Factory reportedly said it plans to list shares on the London Stock Exchange next month. The greetings-card specialist, which is majority owned by private equity group Charterhouse Capital Partners, could raise up $90 million from the float, according to Reuters.
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Do you think all supermarkets are basically the same? The results of a new survey show differently. If you've been shopping around for a new grocery store, the numbers may provide insight as to which chain is the perfect match for you.
The survey, from Market Force Information, asked shoppers to rate various grocery stores—ALDI, Costco, Giant Food, Kroger, Publix, Safeway, ShopRite, and Walmart—and explain why they favored (or avoided) one chain over another. The top answer for what shoppers most like about their supermarket is "convenient location." That's hardly an endorsement, now is it? But at least survey participants were honest.
The next most popular reason for preferring one supermarket is "low prices," followed by "good sales and promotions," which are basically the same thing, then on to "cleanliness" and "variety of merchandise and selection."
If you assume all supermarkets are pretty much the same, take a close look at the survey's grocer attribute graph. The graph pinpoints where different supermarkets rate in terms of a variety of categories, including "fast checkout," "low prices," "inviting atmosphere," and "variety of merchandise."
(MORE: 16 Easy Ways to Save on Groceries)
By examining this graph, you'll get a good sense of each store's personality, strengths, and weaknesses—which should give you a good sense of whether the store sounds like it's a good fit for your needs. Here are examples of how four of the supermarkets rate:
ALDI: Gets highest rating of all supermarkets for low prices, the same results as last year. On the other hand, it scores the lowest of all in terms of "one-stop shopping," "variety of merchandise," "natural/organic choices," and "inviting atmosphere," and is also quite low for "high-quality produce" and "high-quality meat." Basically, if low cost is your top priority, ALDI is for you—but you get what you pay for.
Giant Food: The survey names Giant Food and ShopRite as the overall favorites among consumers, with Giant slightly ahead. Neither of these chains stands out in a major way from the field, however, as both get middle-of-the-road ratings in most categories. They don't do anything particularly badly, but they don't blow away the competition in any way either. Basically, these stores offer solid value and decent selection and customer service.
Publix: Shoppers like many things about Publix, including the chain's inviting atmosphere, courteous staff, quality produce and cleanliness. While Publix got the highest ratings in all of these categories, it's bottom of the barrel in the area of "low prices." (In other words, prices are high.) Perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise, as a superior product usually comes with a higher price tag. Basically, Publix offers a fancy, higher-end shopping experience, and shoppers pay for it.
(MORE: 10 Indie-Seeming Brands That Aren't Indie)
Walmart: Also not surprising is that Walmart snags the highest scores in the "one-stop shopping" category. The other stores focus on food, while Walmart supercenters sell food as well as bikes, toys, clothing, garden supplies, TVs, and more. Walmart darn well better blow out the competition on this front. On the other hand, Walmart gets the lowest scores of all in the categories of high-quality meat and produce, fast checkout, cleanliness, good sales and promotions, and, perhaps worst of all, courteous staff. Basically, if you're a Walmart person, then you shop at Walmart and there's not much need to go elsewhere.
Brad Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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With the Smoking Ban Being Revisited, 'Smokefree Natrona County' to Watch Council Closely
With Casper City Council planning to revisit its five-month-old public indoor smoking ban, Smokefree Natrona County says, in the coming weeks, it will watch the actions of council closely.
Smokefree Natrona County says it will do whatever it takes to keep the ban in place.
"We have worked far too hard to go down without a serious fight," Smokefree Natrona County spokesperson Kenny Ainsworth said in a press release last week. "Everyone in Casper deserves the right to breathe clean air – we are prepared to make sure that we continue to be protected from secondhand smoke long into the future."
Smokefree Natrona County representative Anna Edwards says her organization will do its best to keep council members informed about the consequences of repealing the ban.
"We are willing to do what it takes to educate the four new council members," Edwards said. "We're going to be there at the meetings to show support of this ordiance."
Council will hold its regular work session Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.


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After suffering for years under a reign of terror by a greedy landowner and his thugs, a small settlement decides to fight for its freedom. Fend off the attacking forces to save your future.
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Controls: Mouse to aim and fire, q to change the quality. Later on in the game you'll unlock special attacks, it'll be explained in-game how to operate those.
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The KC PASS chapter has successfully executed the latest SQL Saturday. Thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for a wonderful event! The amazing thing about SQL Saturday is that it gives the local attendees a taste of the PASS Summit without traveling or spending any money, save a few bucks for lunch. So, you might assume that only local speakers show up to present. Well, even though there are fantastic speakers living in the area of each SQL Saturday, like PASS board member Bill Graziano in KC, SQL Saturdays also draw speakers from all over the country and, in this case, Canada as well. If you were lucky enough to be a part of SQL Saturday #53 yesterday, you could have seen presentations by out of town SQL Server gurus Tom LaRock (SQL Rockstar), Steve Jones, Sudhir Gajre, Wendy Pastrick, Chris Shaw, Karen Lopez and many more.
At this particular SQL Saturday, each attendee paid $10 for lunch. So, expecting a nice box lunch or pizza, we were all surprised to be treated to Kansas City barbeque. Fast forward a few hours to the drive home, I read on Twitter that the leftover food was donated to City Union Mission and would feed over 300 people in need. Wow, I bet our hero Bill Gates would be proud of SQL Saturday #53.
My weekend began Friday afternoon as I met up with 5 of my St. Louis DBA friends, and we piled into a minivan and headed west. We stopped in Columbia, MO, for dinner at Cracker Barrel. Soon the conversation drifted to paging files, clustered indexes and foreign keys. Looking around the restaurant, I mentioned that we were the probably geekiest table in the place.
My session on SSRS was scheduled at 8:30, the first session block. I'm not a fan of speaking at the first session of the day, but it did go well. My talk was about all the new features introduced with R2 that you don't usually hear about like page names, page numbers that start over with groups, and report parts. There is more to R2 than maps and sparklines.
Once again I organized a Women in Technology (WIT) panel. This time, instead of holding the panel at lunch, we were given a regular session slot in the Professional Development track. The group attending the session was smaller than a lunch session, but the discussion was no less lively. I served as moderator, and the panel included Kim Tessereau, Wendy Pastrick, and Karen Lopez. Karen graciously agreed to fill in for our original panelist, Michelle Ufford, who was unable to attend.
This is the third time I have been involved with a WIT panel this year, and every time the discussion is different. One of my favorite comments came from Karen concerning how technical women are portrayed in the media. She mentioned that the number of law school applications exploded when the show LA Law was popular. Now the CSI genre has captured the imagination of our young people. We need to have a cool new show featuring DBAs, women with great technical skills who lead fun, glamorous lives outside of work. I think it is a great idea! But, seriously, we need to make sure that the young women in our lives understand how cool technology really is. Side note -- Today's Parade magazine contains an article about the new popularity of High School musical groups thanks to the hit show Glee.
Lance Harra, long time PASS volunteer, brought his daughter Amanda to the session. She told us about a new middle-school trend, dressing up like nerds. It seems that non-geeky students are sporting taped up glasses and pocket protectors. (By the way, I have tried taping a pair of broken glasses, and it didn't work.) I'll have to check with my nieces and nephews back in my hometown to see if they have seen this. I'm not sure if this interesting new trend is good or bad for inspiring kids to think about technology careers.
For me, SQL Saturdays are also a way to catch up with my PASS friends and meet new ones. I spent most of the day networking and attended only one session, "Strategies for Concurrency and Performance" by my team member Sudhir Gajre. This session proved to all of us in the audience that we have a lot to learn if we really want to be a DBA.
Finally, I met back up with my St. Louis friends and started the long drive home. From Twitter, I saw that SQL Saturday #53 was continuing on in spirit as people met up for an informal after party.
I'll be heading to Orlando in a couple of weeks for SQL Saturday #49. See you there!


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Ink drawing by Franco Iturraspe
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Update 05/18/2011: More screenshots for more new filters in my new post. :-)
Update 05/02/11: After many changes, it looks like the CRT shader development has settled down, so there's less need for me to maintain the older versions of the shaders. From here on out, I recommend visiting Screwtape's git repo for all of your XML shader needs (my mediafire account will still be there, but Screwtape has all of mine and more).
CRT.OpenGL.shader and CRT-flat.OpenGL.shader are similar to the shader covered in this post, though they run slightly faster and have no visible artifacts. CRT-simple.OpenGL.shader is a simplified rewrite that should be usable on much older, slower machines.
Here is the original post for informational purposes:
Here is the original post for informational purposes:
This post covers the use of filters to upscale pixel art--specifically as it applies to SNES emulation--with special attention to CRT reproduction. If you just want the pictures and to download the filters, skip to the bottom of the post.
As everyone who dabbles in old-school emulation knows, artwork that was intended for a 480i CRT television that has been upscaled to an HD resolution looks like absolute garbage on an LCD monitor. The chunky sprites with their often thick, cartoony outlines just weren't designed to be reproduced with sharp edges resulting from nearest-neighbor upscaling.
To get around this ugly upscaling effect, many emulators now include upscaling interpolation filters, which apply complex mathematical algorithms to the original picture to fill in the gaps between things that are impossible to represent in chunky low-res, such as curves and smooth diagonal lines. You're probably familiar with some of the more common and popular interpolating filters, such as SuperEagle, SuperSaI and HQ2x. Unfortunately, none of these filters gets everything quite right, especially numbers and letters, which can look bubbly or overly smoothed (you can learn more about pixel art scaling algorithms here).
Purists have long been turned off by the inaccuracies of interpolating filters and have instead used scanline masks to try and capture the effect of an interlaced display, relying on the human brain's natural ability to recognize patterns and fill in the gaps between lines (you can learn everything you ever wanted to know about scanlines here). However, this too falls short from a true representation of a CRT display, as it ignores the existence of phosphors--the tiny red-, green- and blue-colored lenses that the electron gun in the back of a CRT tube shoots with a beam of electrons to recreate a colored pixel--and the color bleed that naturally occurs in these displays.
Recently, a number of determined individuals have set out to try and capture all of the different effects of a CRT display, warts and all, to truly reproduce classic pixel art the way it was meant to be viewed.
The Comparisons:
(Each of these images is presented as it would be displayed onscreen, at a resolution of approximately 800x600, then again at 400% scale without any interpolation used when scaling; as always, click the thumbnail to embiggen)
First, we should look at the baseline. This was scaled up to size using nearest-neighbor and is otherwise untouched:
Next, we'll add blargg's NTSC filter, which emulates the noise and color bleed of an NTSC video signal (this filter has several presets; I will only be showing the RGB preset, which reproduces the look of an SNES hooked up via RGB connection [not available in the U.S.], and the RF preset, which reproduces the look of the SNES RF modulator attachment, respectively):
As a note, blargg's NTSC filter is so accurate that byuu, the author of bsnes, recommends its use along with bsnes' accuracy profile to achieve proper blending on games that use halftones to simulate transparency (Jurassic Park and Kirby's Dreamland, for example).
Next up, we'll look at cgwg's CRT shader, which includes a phosphor mask and barrel distortion to simulate the screen curvature of a CRT television (just look at those RGB phophors!):
Similarly, there is a version of cgwg's CRT shader, which doesn't include the barrel distortion and represents an idealized flat CRT (actual flat CRTs tended to have slight blurring at the edges where the tube curvature would normally be). Incidentally, this version also has no visible garbage pixels (the occasional black specs that are visible in the curved version):
Pixel Shaders vs. Software Filters
cgwg's CRT shader is a special kind of filter known as a pixel shader. Unlike regular filters, which rely on the CPU to do all of the complex upscaling calculations, pixel shaders draw on the awesome computing power of the video card to do the calculations, thereby leaving the CPU to focus on emulating the SNES. Additionally, since the pixel shader is calculated separately from the filter in bsnes, you can stack blargg's NTSC filter with cgwg's CRT shader:
Finally, for non-purists, we'll look at the combination of cgwg's CRT shader with the popular SuperSaI filter, which creates a pleasing--though not quite as accurate--output:
As amazing as cgwg's CRT shader is already, there is still some room for improvement. For example, the current implementation misses the intensity-based bloom effect on individual phosphors that can be seen in a true CRT. DOLLS (J) [!], one of the contributors to the CRT reproduction effort, intends to write a more complete CRT emulation shader in the future that will incorporate these and other idiosyncracies.
Click here to download cgwg's CRT shader (Also includes the 'flat' version for those who don't like the tube-style curvature; UPDATE: fixed dead link), which is compatible with bsnes and the newest release of snes9x. For more information on CRT emulation, you can check out this highly informative thread on the bsnes forum. For other bsnes-compatible shaders that are not included with the official download, check out my mediafire account.
UPDATE (3/4/2011): Themaister did a rewrite of the flat version of cgwg's CRT shader, moving many of the calculations from fragment to vertex, which provides a substantial ~20% increase in speed (making it usable on many older and less powerful video cards). This rewrite also appears to conform more rigidly to the GLSL shader spec, making it compatible with more cards from different vendors. I have labeled it v4 of cgwg's CRT Flat, and it is available in the aforemented mediafire account.
UPDATE (3/4/2011): Themaister did a rewrite of the flat version of cgwg's CRT shader, moving many of the calculations from fragment to vertex, which provides a substantial ~20% increase in speed (making it usable on many older and less powerful video cards). This rewrite also appears to conform more rigidly to the GLSL shader spec, making it compatible with more cards from different vendors. I have labeled it v4 of cgwg's CRT Flat, and it is available in the aforemented mediafire account.


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September 15, 2007
Teva U.S. Mountain Running Team Scores Two Team and One Individual Medal at the World Mountain Running Trophy
For the first time in the history of U.S .mountain running the team took home two team medals as the women's team repeated with a Gold medal performance and the women's junior team scored silver. In addition Laura Haefeli took home the first-ever women's individual medal with her third place finish.
The day of racing over the 4km course with 1000 feet of climb and descent commenced with the junior women. The field of 53 of the best mountain runners under the age of 20 sprinted out of the sport stadium in the mountain town of Ovronnaz. The Teva US team was led by Anna Lieb who took fourth place in 21:23 missing silver by just 17 seconds. The race was won by Lara Tamsett of Australia in 20:48. Maria Dalzot ran 21:48 to place eight. Kathryn Helmerick took 30th place in 23:45 in the field which featured runners from 22 countries. In the junior women's competition the top two runners score. The team took second place with 12 points. The field of 17 full teams was led by Australia with 4 points. The women were excited to be the first us junior team to medal. Dalzot was happy with her result and noted ^`I m looking forward to 2010, I want to come back on the senior women's team.
The second race of the day under brightening skies and rising temperatures (between low 60s to mid 70s) was the junior boys which consisted of the same 4K loop run twice. The team was led by Christian Thompson in 17th place, running 38:25. The top finisher was Geoffrey Kusuro (Uganda) who led the field of 76 runners representing 24 countries. Jonny Stevens was the second US finisher taking 44th in 41:19. Alex Jodidio was 59th in 43:06 and Zach Rivers took 63rd in 44:20. The team scored 120 points (three athletes score) to place 11th in the field of 16 complete teams.
The third race to be contested was the senior women's which also consisted of two laps of the 4K course. Laura Haefeli led the US team taking third in 41:49. Anna Pichrtova was the overall winner in 39:11. Christine Lundy finished 8th in 42:23 followed closely by Rachael Cuellar in 12th place in 42:40. Anita Ortiz finished 31st in 44:29 in the field of 86 runners representing 30 countries. The team bested 19 other full teams to take the Gold with 23 pints (three score) and for the second consecutive year beat the Czech Republic by one point.
The final race of the day was the senior men's, which featured three grueling laps of the 4k course with a total of 3000 feet climb and descent. 145 runners from 34 countries toed the line. Marco De Gasperi (Italy) a former world champion as both a junior and senior runner was again victorious and a crowd favorite as his Fan Club was out in full force. De Gasperi ran the three lops in an amazing 51:49. Six time world champion Jonathan Wyatt who was not competing while recovering from a recent injury called the course VERY TOUGH.
The Teva US team was led by by Payton Batliner who placed 25th in 56:13. Shiloh Mielke was 37th in 57:10. Rickey Gates and Clint Wells closed out the team scoring finishing in 57th and 58th respectively, both with 58:43. Simon Gutierrez was 65th in 59ö04 and Paul Low was 118th place in 1:04:36. The team placed 9th in the field of 25 complete teams.


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DOSWELL, Va. — The body of one occupant of a hot air balloon that caught fire and crashed has been recovered and police searched Saturday for two others feared dead, Virginia State Police said.
The three were in a balloon Friday night that witnesses said crashed amid screams for help from the balloon.
The body was found in a heavily wooded area shortly before midnight, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Saturday. The balloon and gondola carrying the pilot and two passengers have not been found, she said.
Because of the time elapsed since the crash about 8 p.m. Friday, the search for two other occupants has shifted from a rescue operation to a mission to recover the remains, Geller said. More searchers were called in Saturday.
Police received eyewitness reports that two occupants either fell or jumped from the burning balloon after it struck the power line.
Carrie Hager-Bradley said she saw the balloon in flames on her way home from the grocery store and heard people yelling, according to WWBT TV.
"They were just screaming for anybody to help them," the station quoted her as saying. "'Help me, help me, sweet Jesus, help. I'm going to die. Oh my God, I'm going to die,'" Hager-Bradley said she heard one person screaming.
The crash occurred near the Meadow Event Park in rural Caroline County, where the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival was being held. The area is about 25 miles north of Richmond.
The festival was scheduled to begin officially on Saturday, but was holding a special kickoff event Friday for about 740 people. Organizers canceled the rest of the festival.
Twenty balloonists from the Mid-Atlantic region were to participate in the weekend festival, said Greg Hicks, a spokesman for the venue, which also is the site of the State Fair of Virginia.
"It's just shocking situation for everyone," said Greg Hicks, a spokesman for Meadow Event Park.
Some hot air balloons landed safely in Debra Ferguson's yard, The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg reported.
She said one of the men in the balloons pointed up at another still in the air and said he thought it might be in trouble.
"As soon as we looked up, the thing blew up right there," Ferguson told the newspaper. "All I heard was, 'Oh my God, Oh my God,' and all you saw was the top of the balloon still flying, but all of the basket was gone. All of the flames just disappeared. … It was like a match — poof — and then it was gone."
Caroline County resident Paula Dustin said she and her family and a friend were watching the balloons inflate and take off when they saw one in the distance that appeared to be in distress.
"We saw a glow, and you could tell the bottom of the balloon was in flames," Dustin was quoted by the newspaper as saying.


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Access For All: Charles Darwin's Library Is Available Online
More than half of books in the personal scientific library of Charles Darwin, including Darwn's abundant research notes and marginalia, have now been digitized and made available to the public. The digital volumes have just been launched online on the Biodiversity Heritage Library's website as part of a collaborative project by the American Museum of Natural History, Cambridge University Library, the Natural History Museum of London, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The pages of Darwin's books are covered in notes and commentary, offering a direct view of the great intellectual in action. The Darwin Library project enables readers to trace how ideas sparked by the volumes in his library were systematically incorporated into Darwin's scientific theories. Darwin's evolutionary theory, for instance, addressed many aspects of the natural world, and the works of other authors and thinkers provided much of the intellectual momentum for the development of this concept. In fact, Darwin once complained that he had become a "machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." "Darwin's work, particularly his theory of evolution, is foundational for all of biology including such work underway at the Museum today," said Michael Novacek, senior vice president and provost for science at the American Museum of Natural History. "The digitization of his library will provide invaluable insights into the intellectual process that produced such groundbreaking approaches to the natural world and the order of life on Earth."
"We undertook this digital edition of Darwin's Library as an integral part of our effort to produce an online edition of all the scientific manuscripts that Charles Darwin created. Darwin's marginalia turned these books into manuscripts," says David Kohn, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Darwin Manuscripts Project, which aims to digitize and transcribe all the hand-written documents that capture the evolution of Darwin's scientific theories into published works.
Most of the annotated books in Darwin's personal library are held at Cambridge University Library. The majority of the books are scientific, although several key volumes are humanities texts addressing subjects that Darwin later addressed through his scientific work. The series of transcriptions accompanying each page reveal which passages Darwin found relevant to his work, stimulated his thinking, or vexed him as he read the work of others. In addition to images of the individual pages of each library volume and transcribed marginalia, Darwin's notes are fully indexed so that users can easily search for topics and ideas relevant to their interests or work.
The online transcribed marginalia relies on the work of two scholars, Mario A. Di Gregorio and Nick Gill, published in the 1990s and now greatly enhanced by Gill. This project was jointly sponsored by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and National Endowment for the Humanities through a Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant.
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Oley Mennonite Church (Oley Valley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA)
Oley Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located in Oley Valley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was the outgrowth of both an agricultural extension and an evangelical outreach from the Conestoga Mennonite Church near Morgantown, Pennsylvania. The first family moved into the valley in 1938, and by 1942 there were 13 families. Sunday-school services were begun in May 1942. On 3 January 1943, Omar Kurtz was ordained as the first pastor. On 18 July 1946, John L. Glick was ordained assistant pastor. For eight years the services were held in a rented union chapel; in September 1950 a new church was dedicated. A number from the community have been received into the church, and from here have gone at least six missionaries. The membership in 1957 was 115, with Ira A. Kurtz of the Conestoga congregation serving as bishop.
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Kurtz, Omar A. "Oley Mennonite Church (Oley Valley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 23 Sep 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oley_Mennonite_Church_(Oley_Valley,_Berks_County,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=104781.
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Kurtz, Omar A. (1959). Oley Mennonite Church (Oley Valley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 September 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oley_Mennonite_Church_(Oley_Valley,_Berks_County,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=104781.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 54. All rights reserved.
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A recent Pew Research report found that after record high debt-to-income ratios during the booming economy of the early 2000s, young adults have taken a big chunk out of their debt compared to their older counterparts following the Great Recession. But the reasons behind the great debt reduction may be the lack of solid economic foundations among millennials.
After the recession, young adults - those 35 or younger - now own fewer houses, fewer cars and carry less credit card debt than they did during the boom years. Sounds great, but unfortunately it may have less to do with their economic success and responsibility and more to do with economic struggle. According to Pew research, the median debt of households headed by someone younger than 35 fell by 29 percent from 2007 to 2010. Also, the share of younger households holding debt of any kind fell to 78 percent, the lowest level since the government starting keeping records in 1983.
Less debt always sounds good until we look at the reasons behind it - more younger people are prevented from qualifying for loans to buy cars and homes because they don't have the resources to pay them back. Before the Great Recession young adults were catered to by banks offering 'no-money down' loans with 100 percent financing on homes and cars. These loans seemed great to millennials who had seen their parents and grandparents drop as much as 20 percent down for loans with interest rates in the double digits.
Today's weak job market and tighter lending standards at banks have made it harder to get mortgages - more like the old days. Millennials lucky enough to have a job may be making less than they expected or worried their job won't last, and if they don't have a job they can't get a car loan or buy a house. So the news that young adults have less debt may initially sound great but if we look deeper it shows how far they have to go to get their slice of the "American Dream."
The concept of saving for things they want may seem foreign to some in the younger generation who grew up in boom times where things were readily bought and given by doting parents. But it's a concept that may come home to roost as they go out on their own and establish their own families and homes and the debt that inevitably comes along with it.
The median mortgage balance went from $150,000 in 2007 to $128,000 in 2010, perhaps a sign that the younger generation is reeling in their spending.
Many millennials are delaying marriage and forming households later, which reduces their home buying and mortgage debt. But the shrinking debts don't necessarily mean younger adults are in better financial shape than they used to be - they still owe more relative to their income than older people.
Debt reduction among young adults during bad economic times has been driven mainly by the shrinking share who own homes and cars, but it also reflects a significant decline in the share who are carrying credit card debt, from 48 percent in 2007 to 39 percent in 2010.
Student debt was the only major type of debt to increase among young households during the recession, according to the Pew study. In 2007, 34 percent of young households had outstanding student loans. That figure rose to 40 percent by 2010.
Younger households have pared their credit card balances and in 2010 only 39 percent of them carried a balance, down from 48 percent in 2007 and 50 percent in 2001. And the amount they owe is lessening as well, down from $2,500 in 2001 to $2,100 in 2007.
So our younger generation may have less debt - and it's never a bad thing to not be beholden to others for credit - but if we read between the lines we see it's because they are facing challenges many of us haven't faced in years - the threat of declining access to good, steady jobs with a hopeful financial future.


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Lancaster, PA - Baker Batshield® is pleased to announce that the National Tactical Officer's Association (NTOA) http://ntoa.org/ has recently conducted an independent evaluation of both sizes of the Baker Batshield®, and will publish the results in an upcoming issue of the "Tactical Edge" www.ntoa.org/tacticaledge professional journal.
Inventor Al Baker states; "I am extremely gratified to read the results of this in-depth product evaluation www.bakerbatshield.com.membertested.asp of the Baker Batshield® by my peers. The results of this NTOA 'Member Tested" report validate the purpose of my invention. When unlimited visibility, speed, long-gun and handgun accuracy is required, the Baker Batshield® is the only ballistic shield that exceeds this mission. Tactical teams that prepare for a quick, aggressive offense will find our new product to be an indispensable unit of personal protective gear. Many American tactical teams continue to use conventional "bunkers" in a slow, methodical, and observational manner … and should be encouraged to continue their use in this traditional role. However, when the mission requires speed, accuracy and the presentation of overwhelming firepower, the Baker Batshield® is the only shield available for the job."


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Cambridge, Mass. - Four players finished in double figures for Clark, as the fifth-seeded Cougars knocked off top seed MIT, 71-59 in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's basketball semifinal on Saturday afternoon.
Mitch Renshaw's (Rutland, Mass.) personal 7-0 run put Clark up eight points with 7:32 to go and MIT would get no closer, as the Cougars (15-12) advanced to the NEWMAC Championship game for the first time since 2003.
Noel Hollingsworth led the scoring for MIT, with 30 points in
the losing effort to go along with nine rebounds. Will Tashman also
had 12 points and eight boards for Tech (22-4), who will await word
on a possible at-large selection to the NCAA Division III
tournament on Monday morning.
After a Mitchell Kates 3-pointer put the Engineers on top, 49-47, with 12:55 remaining, Clark would reel off the game's next 10 points while holding MIT scoreless for nearly six minutes. Brian Vayda knocked down a three-pointer from the top of the key to give Clark the lead for good at the 10:10 mark. Renshaw would then make three straight jumpers, including one from beyond the arc, to propel the Cougars to the upset win.
Renshaw and Jack Minister (Manchester, England), with 19 points each, led the scoring for Clark. Mark Alexander (15) and Vayda (10) joined them in double-figures. Minister was five-for-ten from three while Alexander added five rebounds and five assists, both team highs.
Noel Hollingsworth led the scoring for MIT, scoring 30 in the losing effort to go along with nine rebounds. Will Tashman also had 12 points and eight boards for Tech (22-4), who will await word on a possible at-large selection to the NCAA Division III tournament on Monday morning.
MIT would make its first seven shots of the game to open up a 17-4 advantage, just over four and a half minutes into the contest. Billy Johnson connected on a pair of three's during the spurt. However, Clark would respond with 15-2 run over the next 6:03 to even things up at 19. With the game tied at 22, the Cougars then scored 12 in a row, including four straight from three-point range, to take a 34-22 lead with 2:29 remaining in the half. The Cardinal and Grey would score the final nine of the period to get within three at the intermission.
The teams traded baskets at the outset of the second half as Tashman's layup and foul cut a five point Clark lead down to two. A pair of Hollingsworth free throws would give MIT its first lead since the 6:49 mark of the first. Clark then got a jumper from Tucker Esborn (Branford, Conn.) and a fast-break layup by Alexander to go back on top by three before a quick 7-2 run by the Engineers put the hosts on top, 47-45. Reed Powell and Kates each made driving layups before the decisive 10-0 run.
MIT had a 35-25 advantage on the boards but Clark was able to make up for that by shooting 47.6% (10-21) from three-point range and forcing the Engineers into 14 turnovers.
The NEWMAC Championship will be played at MIT on Sunday, February 28 at 12:00 p.m. with Clark taking on third seed, WPI. MIT will find out its postseason fate during the NCAA selection announcement on Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. Fans can view the announcement live at NCAA.com.


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It's hard to associate parachutes with anything but people skydiving from airplanes. But the first modern parachute was actually invented over a century before the Wright brothers conducted their first successful flight.
Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to the 216th anniversary of André-Jacques Garnerin's (and history's) first parachute jump, though calling it a jump may be a bit of a stretch.
Garnerin actually had the parachute fully opened when he floated upwards in a hot air balloon. It wasn't attached to his chest, but instead attached to the balloon's basket. Garnerin only needed to detach the hot air balloon to let the parachute ferry him back down to the ground, as seen in an illustration depicting the event.
Today's Google Doodle lets users take on the role of Garnerin himself. The parachute pilot angles his basket to catch the wind and ride it down. Google created a minimalist version of turn-of-the-19th century France, complete with men in top hats and women in large dresses that dwarf their legs.
While the Google Doodle won't let you crash Garnerin, he can land in a variety of different spots. He can rejoin his crowd of adoring fans from his original launch site, play with tropical birds by landing on a treetop, or hang out with penguins and whales in the Arctic ocean. No matter where he lands, he'll still tip his hat to celebrate the occasion.


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Robert Sandler (credited as Bob Sandler in some DVD interviews) served as a writer on Fraggle Rock, beginning in the second season. He also wrote for Sesame Street Canada.
His other work includes scripting various Canadian productions such as Under the Umbrella Tree, Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show, the law drama Street Legal, The Argon Quest with Terry Angus and other Fraggle Rock alums, and production duties on the investment banker drama Traders. Most recently, he served as co-creator and executive producer of the semi-documentary series 72 Hours: True Crime.
Sandler was interviewed on the topic of "Red-Handed and Invisible Thief" and "The Battle of Leaking Roof" for the Fraggle Rock: Complete Third Season DVD.
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pain when getting up
So earlier today my dh was having chloe jump up slightly for treats(nothing that we don't do on a regular basis) after a few she yelped a little just thought she might have twisted her leg a little funny and she went about the day just fine. Around 8 or so she got down off the couch to stretch then triegetd to get back up and yelped. I had her get down and tried flexing her back legs one at a time. Bringing the left leg up was fine it was when I streached it back she yelped. It hurts her to get up after laying down . We gave her a half of deramaxx (sp) and now she's sleeping on the couch. Any ideas ? I'm not thinkingg its the knee more like the hip. She's ok going down stairs but not up, and she was walking fine with no limp. Her knee isn't swolen either. Should I wait to take her to the vet until after I get home from work tomorrow or take the day off and take her first thing?
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Keep her well rested and quiet and take her after work.
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Looks like she pulled a muscle in her lower back. So pain pills and anti inflamitorys no stairs and limited play time. He said if things get worse then well do an xray, he said her hips felt o just the muscles were tense.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 10:00 am we will celebrate the completion of another segment of the West Street Pathway project.Everyone welcome. Bring your bicycles, families, and strollers. Click here for event details.
Background: The City of Berkeley recently received funding to complete the West Street Pathway for pedestrians and bicyclists along the former Santa Fe Railroad Right of Way between Cedar-Rose Park and Strawberry Creek Park. This project partially funded by Measure B
West Street Phase II Pathway Project Information: 1) April 21, 2011 West Street Powerpoint presentation to the Transportation Commission 2) West Street Pathway Phase II FAQs: 3) Phase II Design Drawings: West St I; West Street II; West Street III 4) West Street Pathway Construction Update - October 2012


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Have you ever been to one of those restaurants where they make the caesar salad right at your table. It always tastes so good and they make it look easy. I used to make caesar dressing from scratch when I worked in a kitchen in high school but have never tried it at home.
Obviously I had to leave anchovies out since Joey would be eating this and he hates seafood.
Obviously I had to leave anchovies out since Joey would be eating this and he hates seafood.
Pepper Added by Joey - he adds a ridiculous amount to every salad.
Homemade croutons
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons mayo
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
romaine lettuce
3 mushrooms, sliced
1. Wash and dry the romaine lettuce. Rip into bite sized pieces.
2. In a large bowl add pressed/finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, dijon, worcestershire, salt and pepper. Whisk to combine.
3. Gradually whisk oil into mixture.
4. Whisk in mayo.
5. Add half the parmesan cheese and stir to combine.
6. Add lettuce, bacon, mushrooms, remaining cheese and crutons to the bowl. Toss to combine.


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I probably don't say this enough, but I am extremely hopeful about the future of women in the Church. Sure, there are some extra-loud voices calling for women to conform themselves to narrowly defined roles that have more to do with an idealized conception of pre-feminist America than with actual "biblical womanhood," but I believe these cries represent the last desperate throes of a dying movement. I sincerely believe that, if I have daughters, they will be welcomed as equals in most evangelical churches, and that egalitarian marriages like my own—in which my husband and I work together as a team of equal partners—will become the norm within Christiandom.
Several posts this week encouraged me:
Dan Brennan with "Friendship, Marriage, and Ongoing Sexism"
"But for Mark and Grace, their model of marital friendship is not a voluntary equal-footing friendship. It only allows the woman to go so far in their friendship, community, and their culture before she must surrender her gifts, her body, her decision-making process to the embedded sexism in the marriage and surrounding community. Yes, there is mutuality on the surface, but underneath the shallow mutuality is sexism by default. Is this what is meant by "neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"?
Roger Olson with "Truth, Authority and Roles"
"This is why I am adamantly opposed to so-called 'complementarianism.' No matter how much they say that the husband should love his wife as Christ loves the church, they (the leading complementarian preachers and scholars) are handing husbands the right to ignore truth when it is his wife who has it and he doesn't—that is, when his wife is right and he is wrong. I am waiting to read or hear a complementarian say to Christian husbands: "When your wife is right, she is right and you must obey the truth...I'm afraid that complementarians love authority and roles more than truth."
Morgan Guyton at Red Letter Christians with "Why Gender Hierarchy Makes No Biblical Sense to Me"
"Servant leaders who emulate Jesus can never impose their will on others by force. Jesus' power is derived in His complete submission to those who disagreed with Him to the point of letting them crucify Him when He had all the resources of the Creator of the universe at His disposal. If Jesus is my model for how to love my wife like He loved the church, then I can't see a reason why there would be any gender hierarchy in my household."
Rachel Stone at Her.Meneutics with "How We Can Harness the New Domesticity Without Diminishing Women"
"This domesticity will look different in every family. My husband's mom made her own everything, even mayonnaise; to my mom, home-made cake meant Duncan Hines as opposed to buying ready-made cakes at the bakery. My dad did (and still does) all of the laundry and cooked a fair share of the meals, too; my mom was (and is) more likely to keep on top of car maintenance and to do most of the driving on long trips, whereas in my husband's family driving was clearly the province of the man. But my husband and I both grew up in homes where we were welcomed, sheltered, nourished, loved and where we experienced the outflowing of that love toward strangers and near-strangers in the form of Christian hospitality."
JR. Forasteros' review of 'Real Marriage' for Relevant
"The model of marriage, family and maturity the Driscolls build is more a reinvigorated idealization of the nuclear family than something that arises from the Scriptures. And that would be fine, except the Driscolls present this model as every person's created intention. It's not presented as an opinion, but a divine command. The Driscolls assume full personhood is found in marriage and child-rearing. There's no picture of biblical singlehood and little discussion of how married and single persons integrate into one larger whole in the Church."
And I know I've already shared this one...like, twice already... but Sarah Bessey's "In Which Love Looks Like Real Marriage" is one of the most beautiful depictions of egalitarian marriage I've ever encountered:
"Well, who is in charge here?
We are.
Yes, but if push comes to shove, who is the leader?
We are.
But then who is the spiritual head of your home?
Only Jesus.
It's a slow-dance still, isn't it, my luv? You lead and I lead, we are both following His music, no hierarchy here. We move together, one body, all for intimacy and beauty, the dance of lovers that know every curve and lean into the unknown parts with full trust in the hands they hold."
You may also find this interesting:
Amanda MacInnis with "Being a Smart Consumer of the Academic Literature: Gender Differences and the Comp/Egal Debate"
What about you? Do you get the sense, as I do, that the evangelical tide is turning in favor of egalitarianism? What have you found that encourages you?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
PlanetBox lunch with an edible nametag!
In the large section is cereal bar, granola bar, pretzels and fruit leather.
Working around the PlanetBox is also carrots, striped granny smith apple, and the prettiest little organic strawberries I have ever seen since moving to TN from CA (almost five years ago)! Those strawberries are perfect.
The fruit leather is the "leftover" from Monday's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom snack. It's the "negative" of some of the letters that were used in that muffin tin meal. I strategically made words of some of the letters before cutting them out to make the "scraps" more appealing. :)
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- Becky A said... [Reply to comment]
so cute! I am STILL jealous of the Planetbox...3 of my 5 have birthdays coming up, maybe I can convince one of them that a Planetbox is what they want!
- August 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Christina said... [Reply to comment]
The edible name tag is so incredibly cute!! I love the idea!
- August 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- mochadoo said... [Reply to comment]
oooooooooooo.....I like this box!!!
- August 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- Frugally Fabulous Mom said... [Reply to comment]
So cute! I'm trying to decide on a lunchbox...PlanetBox or Laptop Lunchbox? Which one is the best?
- August 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- faithfulmommy said... [Reply to comment]
See - I'm beginning to get off my major desire for the Goodbyn lunchbox now that I'm seeing your PlanetBox lunches looking all cool and masculine... but if I'm honest, I want both. Three sets of both. One of each for each of three kids. And honestly, eventually I will have them all, thankyouverymuch.
- August 25, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- Mama said... [Reply to comment]
So, what brand of fruit leather do you buy? And where do you buy it? I'm trying to figure out how to do that.
- August 25, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Mama, it's Archer Farms brand from Target. Comes in a box of 10. It's organic and quite a bit softer than other brands I've used which makes it easy to cut.
Frugally Fabulous Mom... I can't say which one is best, but I'll say that PlanetBox is all one piece so there is less to keep track of. Laptop Lunches have mutiple pieces to chase after, but with Bento Buddies inner boxes you have more variety in how you "lay out" the lunch. Laptop Lunches system will cost half of a PlanetBox setup.
faithful mommy - you go girl! ;-)
- August 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Susan Yuen said... [Reply to comment]
Neat box! Great looking lunch and love the name tag. :)
- August 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- The said... [Reply to comment]
I would love to know how you stripe and checker the apples. Also, do you put lemon juice on them so they don't turn brown?
- August 26, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- Sweet Savings said... [Reply to comment]
What did you decide about PlanetBox - pros, cons?
- August 26, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- The Traylor's said... [Reply to comment]
Okay so I must admit I stumbled upon your blog at 4:45 in the am. I have a teething baby... and for the first time EVER I'm happy he woke me up. HAHA. I'm in love. I'm actually writing a blog post on my "family" blog linking to you because I'm loving it so much. While browsing for a fun photo to include (hope you don't mind) I clicked on this link and just wanted to say, I'm a California girl too. I moved to Tennessee almost six years ago! We'll be here for at least another three while my husband finishes up his grad program. Anyway, thanks for this blog...it's amazing!
- August 27, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- Kara said... [Reply to comment]
Really cute! I love the fruit leather name tag.
We have a planetbox and I love it. It made it all the way through Kindergarten last year and it still looks brand new. We got a new carry bag and magnets this year because my son wanted a different color.
The only cons I have are the price and it's a bit heavy, especially when you add a full funtainer thermos along with it. Ds is only in first grade and doesn't have much to carry or far to go so the weight isn't a huge issue for us.
For me the pros are: It's stainless steel so no icky chemicals to worry about and it go anywhere in the dishwasher without melting/warping. It's really durable. It's easy for a little kid to open without danger of spilling the entire contents. It's all one piece so there are no lids to lose.
We have tons of different lunch boxes. Laptops lunchboxes for everyone in the house, a Mr Bento that my husband takes to work, a couple of Lunchsense kits (these are great when I want to pack a hot lunch in a wide mouth thermos) and the Planetbox. I gave my Goodbyn away because it just didn't work well for us.
- August 30, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Ellisa said... [Reply to comment]
I'm still trying to figure out the adorable striped apple. I know it must be crazy simple, but I just can't get my stripes that thin... :/
- September 9, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Ellisa, I use a serated knife to cut the stripes through the skin. The serated bits allow you to feel the skin popping as it is cut ... once you have the slits through the skin just use a paring knife to cut away the peal in between the lines.
It sounds more complicated than it really is. :)
- September 9, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Ellisa said... [Reply to comment]
sweet!! Thanks Melissa!!
- September 11, 2010 at 10:55 AM


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She certainly didn't have a shot at Miss Congeniality, but Tyra Sanchez did win season 2 of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race — an upset that doesn't surprise her one bit. After publicly accepting her title at last night's official finale celebration at New York's Therapy lounge, Miss Sanchez — also known as Orlando native James Ross, who just turned 22 — spoke to us about how she transformed her villainess status into victory.
By Brandon Voss
Advocate.com: Did you get any sleep after last night's finale viewing party?
Tyra Sanchez: Actually, right after my number I went down, changed, and went right back to the hotel, because I knew today was going to be a busy day. I had a lot of fun at the party, though.
The finale was filmed many months ago. How did you keep your victory a secret for so long?
If I ever felt I needed to talk about it, vent, or scream it out, I'd go in the bathroom, close the door, look in the mirror, and just talk to myself.
Knowing that you had won, what was it like to sit at the finale viewing party with the other finalists and all those people watching you watch yourself?
It felt really good, but it was strange because I could tell that some of the room was rooting more for JuJubee and Raven. I don't think anyone was expecting me to win.
Are you mad at people who didn't root for you from start to finish?
No, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but it makes me upset when people say that I didn't deserve to win. I honestly think I deserved to win. I gave you drag. I did everything the judges asked, times 10.
Has anyone said to your face that you didn't deserve to win?
No one's said that to my face, but yesterday we all did The Wendy Williams Show, and some people came up and were like, "I love you all, but I'm rooting for you, JuJu." In my mind, I was just saying, "OK, you just wait till tonight."
Since Ru often called you "the other Tyra," I'd love to see you chat with Tyra Banks too — though she might cut you for stealing her name.
I don't think she'd cut me, but I would love to meet Tyra Banks. I have this crazy idea to be on her show, but when it comes on it's me, and I say, "This is the new Tyra show." Then she comes out, and I have on exactly the same outfit, hair, and makeup as she has on. That would be hilarious.
Though you had won several challenges during the season, many people did see you as the dark horse going into the finale, but many also felt that you really proved yourself worthy of the crown in the final challenges. Do you feel like you saved your best for last?
No, I gave my best every time. I stayed consistent, and I didn't fall under. I remained true to who I was, and I gave more and more every week.
In last night's reunion special, Ru, talking about your performance in the wedding dress challenge, said, "Bitch, your pussy was on fire." I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I could tell that it was probably the biggest compliment she could give a drag queen.
Yeah, It felt really good to know that she thought that my idea was really hot and something that she would probably try herself.
You were often portrayed as the villain of the season. Did you ever feel unfairly edited, or do you take full responsibility for your bitchiness?
Everything you saw on the show happened exactly the way it happened at that time. Of course some key points were left out — apologies that were made or when we made up — but everything that happened on the show happened.
Did you worry that being viewed as a difficult by the other girls might affect the judging?
No, I didn't. It actually worked out in my favor because it showed that the girls were afraid of me and that they were jealous. For them to bring all that to the judges at elimination helped me out a lot. I could be like, OK, I'm going to prove that what you're saying is not true.
Were you heartbroken that you didn't win Miss Congeniality too?
No, I was not.
You spoke in the reunion special about how you much you had grown, changed, and matured since the show filmed. How did that personal evolution happen in such a short time?
Well, it's been almost a year now. I'm still the same person, but my sweet side has been amplified.
During a reading challenge, the girls gave you shade about your grill. Has your shiny new smile boosted your confidence and therefore improved your attitude?
No, my confidence has always been here. I just know that appearance is like 65% of my career. A beautiful inside should always come first, but you should have a beautiful outside to match because looking at that makes people live and like you.
Winning this competition positions you as a role model for the gay community, particularly aspiring young drag queens and especially young African-American drag queens. Do you feel prepared for that responsibility, and would you like to use your new fame to promote good causes?
Yes, but younger drag queens have always looked up to me and asked for my help. If anyone needs me to perform for a benefit to raise money for a cause, I'm all for it.
The Rihanna number — a "Hard"-"Rude Boy" mash-up — you performed at the finale party was amazing. It's a shame that none of the contestants get to show off those kind of signature club numbers on the show.
I think that should be a challenge on the next season. You should get to choose from a list of songs that you normally do back home and perform that, because you're right — you don't get to see that side of us that you see in the clubs.
I know a girl's entitled to some secrets, but your big prosthetic breasts always steal the show. Where does one buy something like that?
I got them from a Web site. The guy who made them was very friendly and got them to me immediately. I feel incomplete if I don't have them on now. I've always liked bigger breasts. I feel like that's what makes a woman a woman — her hips, her breasts, and her hair — so I love big hips, big hair, and big breasts. We're trying to imitate beautiful women, and beautiful women have hourglass bodies.
You're a very vocal Beyoncé fan, and many people have compared your styles, but which woman, living or dead, would you never want to be compared to?
Beyoncé, actually. Being compared to her isn't so bad because I love her and live for her fashions, but I get that a lot — people saying, "Oh, she's just a wannabe Beyoncé." That's not who I am. I want to be myself, and I don't want people thinking I'm trying to be Beyoncé.
Years from now, when RuPaul's Drag Race is in its umpteenth season, what will all the drunken gay viewers who get together on Monday nights remember most about Tyra Sanchez?
They'll remember her fashion the most — how she brought it to the runway every time and always gave you fashion that was beautiful, sickening, or over-the-top.
Who makes your outfits?
I was making all my own outfits at one point. I hate sewing now, but everything you see me in is something of my own design. Like what I wore in last night's Rihanna number was inspired by the video, so I sketched out something and had someone make it for me.
So only custom outfits will do?
Every now and then I'll find something off the rack that can fit me, but it's nothing I would ever wear on stage. It's something I'd walk around the club in.
Do you have a special someone back home to share all this excitement with?
I have my son, Jeremiah, my family, and my boyfriend, Taylor, who was at the viewing party back home in Orlando.
You spoke a lot about your young son Jeremiah on the show, but I'm unclear on some of the details of that conception. Did you consider yourself heterosexual when you had him?
I guess you could say that. My son was born while I was in high school, and I wasn't gay at all in high school — I was never interested in guys. I guess toward the end of the high school years it could come up and I would think about it, but I wasn't really interested in men until after high school. A couple months after high school, I tried it and fell in love with it.
What's your baby mama situation like?
My baby mama situation is like my best friend situation. We're very good friends, we know we have a child together, so we work hard to raise him.
If RuPaul's Drag Race were a graduating class, Tyra Sanchez would be voted Most Likely to...?
Win a reality TV show. [Laughs] No, Tyra Sanchez would be the person most likely to be in a movie. I like all kinds of movies, but I really want to be in one of Tyler Perry's films. Or I'd love to be in the Avatar sequel. Can you imagine Tyra Sanchez as an avatar?
More than I can imagine Tyler Perry letting you steal Madea's thunder.
Well, maybe Madea and I could be in a movie together. That would be hot.
Let's end by playing a game of "screw, marry, kill" with your fellow competitors. OK, go.
I'd screw Sahara, I'd marry Tatianna, and I wouldn't kill anyone because I'm America's sweetheart.
Advocate.com, April 2010.


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Week # 4 Anders Göran Johannesson
aka Andrew Johnson
Anders Göran was born Januray 14, 1871, Slätthög , Småland. His parents was Stina Kajsa Danielsdotter and Johannes Svensson. Anders Göran had 5 siblings.Anders Göran emigrated to America in July 1871.
I called a relative who I thought would know something about this.
She only knew that the family had been in Sweden in the early 1900s, they lived in Duluth and the daughter's name was Esther.
...Aha, I had, through Ancestry, found a family named Andrew, Hulda W and Esther W Johnson in Duluth. Hulda was born about 1876 and had emigrated around 1895. The daughter Esther was born about 1905. I think this is the right family, but I have not yet got further in my search.
Below you can see the photo of Anders Göran aka Andrew Johnson
his wife Hulda and daughter Esther.


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