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Should You Take the GMAT Twice?
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Earlier this week, I wrote about how you should decide on a GMAT test date. In that article, I mentioned something I called the "second try safety valve"--the option to take the GMAT a second time, if necessary.
Second Try's a Charm
As I wrote in that article, many people don't achieve their goal scores on the first try. In some cases, that's pure nerves. Even if you are sufficiently prepared to get a 680, the stress of unfamiliar surroundings might prevent you from reaching that goal.
If you take the test again, most of that stress should have dissipated. There's won't be any surprises in the test center, and you'll have a better idea of what kind of mental stamina the GMAT requires.
Can You Really Improve?
Just because I'm writing about this tactic doesn't mean it will work for everyone. The GMAC reports that the average GMAT re-taker experiences a modest improvement, but some of those people spend months prepping between tests. The "average" may not apply to you.
Were you unusually stressed out during the exam? Are you confident that you can master that anxiety if you try again? If so, retaking may be a good idea for you.
Stress isn't the only reason you can expect improvement. As I wrote a couple of years ago, it's important to be able to pinpoint specific weaknesses. Don't blindly expect that another prep course, tutor, or six weeks of study time will magically increase your score. For some people, it won't.
Planning Ahead
It's important to start thinking about that second test date even before you set your first test date. Remember that you can't take the GMAT more than once every 31 days. If you want to have the "second try safety valve," you need to plan ahead.
Schedule your first attempt at the GMAT at least six weeks ahead of your first application deadline. (And don't forget to give yourself plenty of time to study! It defeats the purpose if you rush to study for the first attempt.) Then, if you don't reach your goal, you can schedule another test date for 31 days later and still get your applications in on time.
Natural Variation
One reason that I recommend planning for the possibility of a second test date is that the GMAT isn't a perfect assessment of your skill level on any given day. Depending on the specific questions it gives you, it might be slightly easier or harder when you take the test.
If it were possible to take the GMAT on back-to-back days or back-to-back weekends, I would probably recommend that to my students. That way, you wouldn't have to sustain your study efforts for another month after the first attempt. But since the GMAC doesn't permit that, we have to settle for the 31-day compromise.
Study Maintenance
In those 31 days, keep studying, and remember to spend some time on every aspect of the GMAT. Even if you got a fantastic score on one part of the test, continue to review that content.
If you've identified some content areas in which you are weak, obviously you'll want to hone in on those. And if stress was the problem, more practice tests (under conditions as test-like as you can make them) are in order. But regardless of how you spend your time, don't neglect any part of the exam.
On the Application
Many business school applications simply ask for one GMAT score. A large percentage of top schools take only your best score. In other words, you have nothing to lose by retaking the test, except for some study time and the $250 exam fee.
If you get a higher score the second time around, no one ever has to know about your earlier attempt. If you don't manage to improve your score, you're no worse off than you were before you retook the test.
I hope that you get the score of your dreams on your first try. But be realistic: Plan for the possibility that your dreams might take a bit longer to materialize.
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The tulips in my front yard are just now blooming. I know, yours are probably almost done, but these guys don't get much sun being near a fence and tree cover....but look at them now! I think tulips are my favorite flower.
Ry loves to be snuggled up like this on the couch. I tuck his arms in and the sides of the blanket all around. He looks so cozy...so sometimes I grab a blanket and snuggle up with him too. I mean, this little guy is hard to resist.
Our little ballerina just after the official 'picture day' at the dance studio. She can't wait for her recital coming up in June!
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So I hear these guys come from other bands?
Yep. These guys are legit successful musicians (not just your average struggling-for-success-in-Brooklyn group). Lead singer Michael Ian Cummings and drummer Noah Rubin are formerly of The Dead Trees, and guitarist Joshua Hubbard played in The Paddingtons and Dirty Pretty Things. When their old bands started to wind down, the three friends got together to form Skaters "out of pure force of habit," explains Cummings. "Like, what else were we gonna do? We are totally unqualified to do anything else."
Oh, nice. What does Skaters sound like?
They call it "humblecore" — Cummings' smooth vocals and charismatic lyrics are refreshingly unpretentious (the "humble"), while prominent drumbeats and an excellent variation of guitar work keeps it interesting and just shy of poppy. It washes over you in pleasant waves, with little splash of punk here and there.
Anyone you could compare them to?
They're pretty individual, truth be told. Cummings cites their collective influences as "the melodic punk bands of the '70s and '80s, stuff most people don't consider punk, like Mission of Burma, Devo and Cars," plus the prerequisites like The Ramones, The Clash and The Pixies. It makes perfect sense: think harmonious, breezy melodies marinated in garage band punk. A lot of fun and perfect summertime tunes.
They sound legit. Where can I listen?
On Spotify and iTunes. If you like what you hear (and we're pretty positive you will), download their EP for free on their website. And stay tuned for new material soon; they're recording now and will have a new EP plus a few singles out by mid-summer.
Any good live?
Oh, they're excellent. Their next gig is May 25 at Pianos, and they'll be playing a bunch in NYC over the summer so stay tuned to their site for more shows.
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Sept 30 (IFR) - Russian Railways has set final guidance on its Rbs15bn-20bn seven-year Eurorouble bond at 9.25% (+/-5bp), according to a lead. The bond will price in range.
The company began marketing the notes at 9.5% area.
Books are in excess of Rbs50bn, including joint lead manager interest. Pricing is today.
The Reg S deal is being led by JP Morgan, Sberbank and VTB Capital.
On Thursday, state-owned Russian Railways priced a US$500m October 2020 Eurobond.
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Question about 1998 Chevrolet Malibu
No belt diagram for 3.1 chevy malibu.... and to take the old one off do i have to remove anything
Posted by howieatown on
cant route back the drive belt
Is the oil pump on a 98 malibu in the oilpan?
These instructions are for the 3.1 L engine with serpentine belt.
To change the belt, you need to remove the engine mount first. But before you do that, you must support the engine so it won't tilt after you remove the engine mount bolts. You would also need at least one helper. Here's step by step: 1. Use a jack and a long enough wooden block to cover the oil pan. Larger block will distribute the forces better. Don't use only a jack or a small block, it might crack the oil pan. Note: normally, you shouldn't lift engine by the oil pan, you should use an engine hoist, but carefully support with wooden block works. 2. Slowly raise the jack to support the engine. 3. Unscrew (Counter Clock Wise) the 2 bolts and 2 nuts of the engine mount. It's on the passenger side right next to the serpentine belt. 4. Loosen the tensioner bolt, and remove the old belt. You may have to raise the engine a bit to get a big enough gap to slide the belt through. 5. Put in the new belt and route it according to the diagram, you may have to leave it off one of the pulley because the tensioner is so tight. Don't worry, you'll slide it on later. 6. Put tighten the tensioner back on. Make sure the round metal pin goes in the appropriate slot. 7. Here's the hard part, putting the belt entirely on the pulleys. You have to either: a) Put a 3/8" ratchet in to the slot near the tension pulley that says "LIFT" and pull really hard to compress the spring, while putting the belt on the one of the pulley. Unless you are Arnold, you will need help. b) Pull a rope behind the tension pulley arm and pull while pushing with your left arm on the pulley arm to compress the spring; then get another person to hook the belt on one of the pulleys. 8. Put the engine mount back on. 9. Test run the engine to make sure you didn't mess up. Turn on accessories like A/C. If the temperature goes way up, you messed up. The water pump might be spinning the wrong way.
Note: If you don't have a good floor jack, you can jack up the car, place a support under the oil pan, then slowly lower the car until the engine is supported. In this case, jack-stands or blocks under the frame are a good idea to avoid lowering too far
Posted on Dec 10, 2008
followed your instructions to the T, but ended up changing water pump, and tension pully, and drive belt. Now the belt keep walking off. It looks like allignment between cam shaft and AC pump are not in allignment. Belt keeps walking half way off the cam shaft and apperas at that point to be alligned. Any suggestions on how to get the belt to stay on ??? Please help 863-484-3357 Scott
All you have to do is the release the tension on the belt so that it can be loose to slip off the pulleys. Get a 3/8 drive ratchet. There is a square hole in the tensioner pulley close to the end where the actual pulley is, your 3/8 ratchet with out any socket on it will fit in that hole. Pull up or push down to release tension on belt and while holding tension in the release position slide belt off pulley. If you don't see a diagram on how the belt is routed on pulleys. Create a diagram draw all pulley on the car like crank alternator etc and draw where the belt goes up on down on which pulley. Very easy to do. Good Luck
Posted on Dec 10, 2008
I kept losing belts, too but I found that my harmonic balancer was seperating. I chased that for ages until I discovered it. Also, the serpentine belts from different manufacturers can be slightly different lengths, which means that he long ones may "chatter".
Posted on May 25, 2011
A ratchet will not fit with on the tension pulley assembly while installed in a 98 Malibu. There is not enough clearance to get the ratchet in and out of the hole. You must use a 3/8" breaker bar or pulley assembly tool. I could not get the leverage that I needed due to my breaker bar being only 10" long and the limited clearance between the motor and motor mounts. I improvised and used a clamp to toque up on the breaker bar. The clamp used the motor mount for leverage. This was the easiest way to do it since it didn't require alot of man power and it didn't require a helper. I also didn't have to take off the motor mount.
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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCBD) – Main Street is blooming again, but not for long courtesy of Mother Nature.
Warmer temperatures from the last few weeks bloomed many of the azaleas and other crops around the Lowcountry earlier than anticipated.
Walter Earley is a farmer in Holly Hill and says spring sprung sooner than usual for his strawberries. However, this week's cold snap is making things interesting for him at Hickory Bluff Berry Farm.
"Right now it's this wind," said Earley, "if we can get the wind will die down, we'll be ok. If it stays the same, we'll probably lose some."
Earley says anything with a bud is likely to be overrun by this cold. "They're very tender, they can't stand it," said Earley, "it'll just kill them."
Regardless of whatever is left blooming, Flowertown will be March 31-April 2 in Summerville.


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Wal-Mart sells $149 Xbox 360 Skylanders Bundle Black Friday
By News Division On November 23, 2012 · In News, Retail, Systems, Xbox 360
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. this week began selling an exclusive bundle that includes Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 and the Skylanders game bundle for $149.00.
This week, the Xbox 360 4GB Skylanders Bundle, which includes the Xbox 360 4GB console and Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Starter Bundle sells at $149.00.
Microsoft this fall price cut Xbox 360 consoles by $50 in a new holiday promotion initiative.
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My husband and I just spent three days and four nights on the fabulous Caribbean island of St. John without our six-month-old baby. We stayed at the ultra-luxe Caneel Bay resort for a wedding while he stayed home in NYC with my parents.
The main reason why we didn't bring him was because of the babysitting factor: we didn't feel comfortable leaving such a young baby with a hotel-appointed babysitter we didn't know while we attended the wedding festivities. Yet we still agonized over whether or not to bring the baby with us to St. John.
While we missed the baby terribly while we were away, it was clear that we made the right decision. Here's why we're glad we didn't bring the baby with us on vacation:
1. The baby was happy, healthy and safe with my parents. I trust my parents 110%, but I was so worried that something would happen beyond their control. For example, what if the baby got sick from a germ he had encountered a few days before I left. Or some freak accident had occurred. Or the baby just missed us so much he would be miserable and crying constantly. But nope, everything went wonderfully and both he and my parents had a great 3 nights/4 days.
2. My parents were happy, healthy and safe with the baby. I was worried that the baby would completely exhaust my parents since he completely exhausts my husband and I on a regular basis. I always knew my parents were very hearty and energetic, but now I know that they are far more hearty and energetic than my husband and me. Forget that condescending saying: "I hope I have their energy when I'm their age." No, I wish I had their energy right now!
3. St. John was way hotter and more humid than I had expected. Yes, I knew the Caribbean would be hot and humid in June. It's the off season for a reason! The humidity was so intense that both of my cameras had problems with the lenses fogging up. I rarely burn, but I ended up with a very burnt back after applying (apparently not enough) SPF 50. This was no weather for a six-month-old; it was barely weather for a thirty-something-year-old. I would have insisted the baby hang out in the air-conditioned hotel room, and either I or my husband or both of us would have been stuck right there with him.
4. It's also the Off TM season. The mosquitoes and no-see-ums (aka sand fleas or midges) were out in full force, especially in the shade and at night. I don't really like bug spray, so it took quite a few bites before I used the complimentary bottle of Off that the hotel provided us. Noseeums are just the worst because those tiny red bites keep flaring up and itch for days. I'm sure the insects would have devoured our baby because he is just so sweet!
5. It was so nice to spend a few days alone with my husband. OK, we weren't completely alone, as we were there to attend a destination wedding. But we got to spend more time alone in the four days/3 nights than we had in the past six months. Plus we were in the most beautiful setting. We were married for more than six years before we had the baby, and
6. St. John reminded my husband and I why we love to travel. The unspoiled beauty of St. John is reason enough to visit, but it's the incredible off-shore snorkeling that truly sets it apart. On multiple occasions at Scott's Beach at Caneel Bay, my husband and I swam with sea turtles, which was really neat. They were just swimming around, so we would follow them as long as we could.
Right now, we're very focused on the day-to-day with the baby, and there are so many exciting moments as we see the world through the baby's eyes (e.g. "The baby liked feeling the grass! He tried to pull some out of the ground! It was amazing!). But this trip reminded us how much we enjoy breaking free of our usual routines and experiencing things that amaze us, too, like sea turtles and starfish.


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Faecal Incontinence
Researchers from Sydney University did a survey to determine the prevalence of faecal incontinence in the community and evaluate identifiable risk factors.
Norman Swan: Still to come here on The Health Report are health authorities, governments and health professionals really doing enough to protect us from complications and unnecessary side-effects in hospitals?
That's after hearing about a survey of adults in Sydney, which has discovered a significant, hidden and embarrassing problem among reasonably large numbers of people, some of them quite young.
The problem's faecal incontinence, so I hope you've finished eating. One of the researchers was Professor Nick Talley, of the University of Sydney.
Nick Talley: Basically we mean people who lose control of their bowels; they leak out either liquid or sometimes solid bowel motion and this is done at times obviously when they don't want to do this, and they can soil their underpants or they can embarrass themselves. It's a significant problem.
Norman Swan: It's something that you associate with the very old; is that fair?
Nick Talley: No I don't believe so. Obviously older people certainly will have this more often, and we know that people in nursing homes for example, very frequently have a problem with faecal incontinence. But young people can have this too, and both men and women, even young men and women, can have a problem with leakage of bowel motion, usually liquid, and usually small amounts, but still a problem.
Norman Swan: So tell me about the survey that you did.
Nick Talley: Well we took a group of people at random from Western Sydney, and we sent them a questionnaire which we had previously tested for its accuracy. In the questionnaire we asked them about faecal incontinence and about the kinds of problems that might cause faecal incontinence, and we had a look at the data and we found the results very interesting. We actually showed that 2% of people were leaking solid bowel motion overall and 9% had liquid problems, and that's a large number of people. And we also found that men and women both had the problem, which was a little bit more surprising, although others had shown this too. And finally we showed that young people would often have this as well, and this was a problem for them.
Norman Swan: And the average age was 53, not 93, as you might imagine.
Nick Talley: Exactly, although we looked at people anywhere from 18 up to in their elderly years.
Norman Swan: And what were the risk factors? What predisposed you to faecal incontinence, at least in this study?
Nick Talley: Well certainly we found that people who had problems with their bowels in terms of a diahorroea problem, they had loose bowel motions or they had to rush to the toilet, these people tended to have more problems with incontinence. In other words, their muscle was overwhelmed by their underlying bowel problem.
Norman Swan: But that would have just been a one-off occasion, wouldn't it, or not?
Nick Talley: Well no, it can happen obviously recurrently, at least in some of these people, and clearly if you're on the highway and you suddenly have to go and you overwhelm your muscle, then you have a problem, and if you're on the train or on the bus, even worse.
Norman Swan: So people with changing bowel habit, they were at risk?
Nick Talley: They certainly were at risk, and some of these people would have an irritable bowel even, and we know some people with irritable bowel do get incontinence, at least in some cases. The other issues we found were people who'd had surgery in this area, and certainly a tear as well, either during childbirth or for some other reason, that can certainly predispose you to this problem.
Norman Swan: Anything else?
Nick Talley: Well we know that some people, their muscle actually is damaged for reasons that we don't understand, it just basically wilts away, and some of these people will present with a problem with faecal incontinence. Other people of course will have diabetes, although we didn't show in the survey that diabetes was a risk factor. There was a trend towards this, and it's probably just a numbers game, and if we had more numbers of diabetics we would have seen a relationship, and in other studies we've shown a relationship.
Norman Swan: Now come back to surgery, because probably quite a lot of people do have surgery at that end of their gastro-intestinal tract, for haemorrhoids, they might have had a fissure or something like that, and there's been a lot of criticism of the techniques that surgeons use, because they often use a technique which grossly dilates the anus, and it's been well recognised for a while that incontinence is a side effect. Is there a call here for surgeons to change their practice?
Nick Talley: I think surgeons need to be certainly aware of the issues. I think some of the procedures like anal dilation are out of date now, and generally wouldn't be recommended by most people. Certainly I would not usually send my patients for such a procedure. But you know, clearly sometimes you have to have surgery for fissures or whatever, fistulas, and in that situation there can be a complication of incontinence, and that's very unfortunate, but one has to realise it. But certainly excessive procedures here need to be avoided, and often can be with current medical therapies.
Norman Swan: And the effect on their lives, did you assess that?
Nick Talley: We did ask them about the effects on their lives, and in about a third of people, incontinence had a significant effect on their life, and that's a lot of people I guess.
Norman Swan: You'd imagine it'd be higher than a third.
Nick Talley: Well I guess if you're only leaking a small amount, and just staining your underpants, people can put up with this, it's when they lose control at inappropriate times, when it embarrasses them, that's when it has a big effect on their lives. And I guess it's good that only a third have such a problem, but it's still a significant number of people.
Norman Swan: Is it treatable?
Nick Talley: It is treatable. There are a number of different approaches, including changes in diet that can be helpful, muscle exercises can be applied and these can also be helpful.
Norman Swan: The pelvic floor exercises?
Nick Talley: Pelvic floor exercises certainly can be worthwhile and worth considering. Medications can help; there's a particular medication Imodium or Loperamide that can be very useful in tightening up the muscle as well as reducing bowel contractions and therefore helping the problem of incontinence. And then if that all fails, there are surgical approaches that can be considered for very severe cases, although remembering a number of these procedures while useful in some people, will fail in others.
Norman Swan: And the dietary changes, what are they?
Nick Talley: Basically I try and get people to bulk up their diet, which firms up their bowel motions and therefore reduces the problem of leakage. Sometimes there are specific dietary factors that precipitate diahorroea and urgency, and I try to get people to avoid these issues. They're the basic approaches that I take.
Norman Swan: How many of these people have actually been diagnosed with the problem, or had their doctor ask about it?
Nick Talley: Well it's interesting that the majority had not had their doctor ask about this problem at all, and if they didn't volunteer the problem, then their doctor would not know. The other issue is many patients come in and say their problem's diahorroea when what they really mean is they're leaking bowel motion, they have incontinence, and if you don't tell your doctor exactly what the problem is, you won't necessarily get the right treatment. So we found only a minority had actually been asked about this problem by their doctor specifically.
Norman Swan: And are many of the causes of faecal incontinence progressive? In other words, that if you don't treat it, it's going to get worse?
Nick Talley: They can be. If you've had an injury down there for some reason, for example after childbirth, and there's muscle tears, then that can worsen as you get older, unfortunately, and so that can be a problem for some people. Not everybody worsens, but some people do.
Norman Swan: I'm just coming to the point about whether it actually makes a difference, telling your doctor.
Nick Talley: I think it probably does. I think again if you can take simple measures, including exercises and diet changes that control the problem, then I believe that certainly can help people and in terms of progression, well later on perhaps, if your doctor knows about the problem and things get worse, then other approaches can be taken early on to reduce the kind of impact that the problem has on people's lives.
Norman Swan: And do you think doctors know enough about this?
Nick Talley: Probably not, frankly, and this is an issue for education for General Practitioners and even gastroenterologists, who may not see this as much as some of the colo-rectal surgeons.
Norman Swan: Nick, thank you.
Nick Talley: Thank you very much.
Norman Swan: Nick Talley is Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney.
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Man 'brought chaos' to Boat Race
A swimmer "protesting about elitism" brought chaos to this year's Boat Race when he jumped into the Thames and brought it to a dramatic halt, a court has heard.
Trenton Oldfield, 36, stopped the annual contest for around half an hour on April 7, the first time in the history of the 158-year event that it had been disrupted by a bather.
Opening the case, prosecutor Louis Mably told jurors the race between Oxford and Cambridge was spoiled for hundreds of thousands of spectators watching from the banks of the river or live on BBC TV, not to mention the two university rowing teams.
He told jurors at west London's Isleworth Crown Court that despite it continuing, "so far as the Boat Race was concerned, Mr Oldfield had obviously caused chaos. The feeling of disappointment was obvious - because not only had everything been delayed but the crews and the public had been denied a natural conclusion to the race that they had come to the river to see."
He said that after being rescued from the river, Oldfield was detained by police who asked him why he had jumped in the river.
Mr Mably added: "He replied that he was protesting about elitism. Exactly what he meant by that - who knows?"
Oldfield, an Australian of Myrdle Street, east London, denies a charge of causing a public nuisance.
Mr Mably said the two eight-man teams were just "settling into the rhythm and the race was developing into what was a close and exciting contest" when the disruption occurred.
Oldfield, who was clad in a wetsuit, had swum into the paths of the two boats as they neared Chiswick Eyot between the two and three-mile markers of the race, which had set off from Putney.
Mr Mably said that although "to some extent" there was a risk of danger to the rowers, the real threat was to Oldfield himself as he narrowly avoided being hit by the blade of an Oxford oar before race umpire John Garrett spotted him and called a halt to the race.


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Demolition, Displacement, and the Effect on Children in Chicago Public Housing
Housing is the foundation of a family's life. This basic need determines the surrounding environment, the schools children attend, access to amenities, and even economic opportunities. Due to the essential service that housing provides, the US federal government spends about $50 billion annually on housing assistance for low-income families. However, public housing has not always delivered on its promises.
In Chicago, this failure led to the demolition of a number of public housing developments during the mid-1990s and a policy shift to a voucher-based system. If a government housing unit was scheduled for demolition, residents could transfer to another unit or relocate using a Section 8 voucher to rent in the private market.
New research by economist Eric Chyn provides evidence that the children of families who left public housing are more likely to be employed as adults and earn more than those not displaced. Using labor market data linked to administrative records, Chyn concludes that displaced children of all ages grow up to have relatively improved economic outcomes. On average, children of displaced families are nine percent more likely to participate in the labor force and have average annual earnings that are $602 higher—a 16 percent increase—relative to their non-displaced counterparts.
This study's findings contrast the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) results, which suggest that only young children (under 12 years old) benefit from moving out of high-poverty public housing. In that study, residents had the option to apply for a voucher, which some critics suggested might create selection bias.
Constructing a natural experiment, Chyn leverages Chicago's public housing demolitions to compare children of families who relocated to those who remained. The two groups statistically have the same observed characteristics in terms of labor market and criminal activity prior to the demolitions. The data demonstrates that three years after demolition, displaced families lived in neighborhoods with 25 percent lower poverty and 23 percent less violent crime relative to non-displaced public housing residents.
Increased neighborhood choice is important, as public housing developments are located in the most impoverished zip codes of Chicago. For example, the Census Bureau classifies extreme poverty where more than 40 percent of households live below the poverty line; in this sample the poverty rate was over 77 percent. With 20 million children across America living in high-poverty neighborhoods, there is an escalating concern over the consequences of concentrated poverty.
After examining outcomes of those who moved, Chyn discovers that economic gains are only realized for children in households with no working adults, with no detectable effects for children in households with at least one employed person. Also, using data collected from social administrative records, Chyn determines that the significant economic gains from moving are not sufficient to reduce eligibility for Medicaid or food stamps.
There are also worrisome downsides to the demolition and displacement. Children of displaced families had 16 percent more property crime arrests than their non-displaced peers. Furthermore, for older children, there is a nine percent increase in the probability of dropping out of high school. This last fact echoes the aforementioned MTO research and the detrimental impact of moving as a teenager on future outcomes.
Chyn's analysis reveals the relocation of children out of high-poverty public housing results in more expansive improvements than past evidence suggested. In contrast to Professor Raj Chetty's MTO findings, children of all ages who moved had improved economic outcomes relative to residents who remained in public housing. One possible explanation is the "reverse Roy" effect, where those who would most benefit from a program are the least likely to receive assistance. Demolitions forced families to move who would have otherwise preferred to stay.
Housing vouchers offer a potential opportunity to disrupt poverty. Chyn calculates that a child who moves out of public housing due to demolition earns about $45,000 more in total lifetime income. This corresponds with an increase in tax revenue enough to exceed the average cost of relocating public housing residents. Not only could children benefit in the long run from relocating, but taxpayers could net gains. Investing in mobility, opportunity, and fiscal responsibility might be a model for future success.
Article Source: Chyn, Eric. "Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children." 2016.
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The Games That Giggsy Plays
The Games That Giggsy Plays
by Emma Garman
A series dedicated to explaining Britain's manufactured celebrities to an American audience.
Here's a fun game to play — well, when I say "fun game to play" I suppose I really mean "grim illustration of late capitalism's warped values that might fleetingly distract you from the pointless quagmire of your own existence." Anyhoo, fingers on buzzers: of the following, which genre of news story has the longest shelf-life in our ADD-pandering global media landscape: missing white girl with pretty blonde hair; white girl imprisoned for grisly murder; or famous married man sexing women who aren't his wife? The answer, as established by the indefatigable wonks at Princeton's Department of Research Studies to Discuss on Buzzfeed or Reddit, is that all three enjoy a statistically equal claim on our attention, and on average will attract 1,250 times the coverage of an outbreak of war, the discovery of a contagious fatal disease or a celebrity's rad new hairstyle (not counting Jennifer Aniston but definitely counting Jennifers Lopez, Garner and Love Hewitt).
Or rather, that was the status quo until very recently. But the British press, not content with its phone hacking and privacy debates and Liz Joneses and what have you, has willfully thrown the whole delicate system into disarray with its unstinting, unwavering and well-nigh heroic focus on the romantic infidelity of footballer Ryan Giggs, who, it emerged last June (or roughly four centuries ago, in Internet years), had been cheating on his wife Stacey with yet another woman. Admittedly, that the woman in question was married to his younger brother lent some piquancy to the tale, but it is nonetheless impressive to behold the sheer number of daily headlines still dedicated to the "scandal" at the expense of actual news, aka stuff people don't already know about in byzantine and queasy detail. So why do the casual indiscretions of this 38-year-old Welshman — winger for Manchester United, father of two, millionaire many times over — exert such a powerful pull on the media's prurient gaze? Since it is this column's burden and honor to shine a light into the very realms others fear to contemplate, let us seek answers, even if our quest erodes the vestigial fragments of our innocence, as it surely will.
After all, the exposure of Giggsy's eight-year on-off affair with his brother's wife — a comely brunette real-estate agent named Natasha — provoked such a profound sense of betrayal and disillusionment in the nation's esteemed mouthpieces, you'd be forgiven for assuming that prior to 2011, British footballers were renowned for their abstemious habits, civilized conduct and monogamous relationships. (Spoiler alert: they weren't. Your weary columnist lacks the stomach to elaborate, but inquisitive readers should Google "footballers roasting," with the proviso that the results will be NSFW and NSF retaining faith in humanity as a species; cf. also the tribulations of our friends Coleen Rooney and Cheryl Cole.) "It rocks everything when you hear things like this," despaired Coleen Nolan, a showbiz veteran of many years, in the Mirror. "You really can't know what people are like underneath… I'm just so let down by him." Well, of course you are, Coleen, and we can only hope that your searing cri de coeur reached some genocide orphans or Guantanamo prisoners, so as to help put their little travails into perspective.
Commentators a shade more cynical and sentient than dear Coleen might have noticed that what Ryan was "like underneath" had been hinted by an immediately preceding scandal, one of such seismic repercussions, it's been preserved for posterity with its own moniker. Giggsygate had it all: super-injunctions, flouted! The once inalienable right to kiss and tell to the highest bidder, stomped upon! Randoms on Twitter, threatened with prison! Naturally, this Sheridanesque comedy of manners featured a buxom leading lady: former Miss Wales Imogen Thomas, a glamour model and "Big Brother" alum whose previous consorts include model Tyson Beckford, comedian Russell Brand and various Premier League footballers. But lest you imagine that occupying the dizzy middles of post-reality semi-stardom has been a breeze, please understand that with greatness comes sacrifice: "it's hard to work out if a guy wants to date me because he likes me," she once lamented, "or because he sees me as 'Imogen from Big Brother.'" Little did she know that one day her name would be synonymous with a cultural milestone of even huger significance!
Permit me to set the scene: Britain, spring of 2011. Her Majesty's subjects were enjoying the warmest April for 350 years while psyching themselves up for the looming nuptials of Kate and Wills, little aware that in an office in Wapping, the Sun's Gary O'Shea — single-handedly playing Woodward and Bernstein's roles in the historic proceedings — was preparing to eclipse Royal Wedding fever with the bombshell that "lovestruck" Imogen had been "romping" in a "string of luxury hotels" with a "married Premier League star," sometimes — and sports fans are cautioned to reach for the smelling salts for this next bit — just before key games. Furthermore, the Sun had been "gagged" — in other words, the unnamed player had obtained a High Court injunction protecting his privacy, telling the judge, it later transpired, that Imogen was demanding large sums of money to stay quiet. A brief, and in retrospect ominous, lull preceded the appearance of Twitter account @injunctionsuper, which announced: "Footballer Ryan Giggs had an extramarital affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas which lasted for 7 months. #superinjunction" Giggsy's lawyers, apparently not au fait with the concept of cutting your losses, sued Twitter and obtained an order compelling the site to hand over details of users who had violated the injunction, causing Twitter's UK traffic to increase by nearly a quarter as countless users tweeted "Ryan Giggs is suing Twitter. I can't Imogen why."
As the days lengthened and spring turned into summer, the farce reached its climax with the Scottish Sunday Herald's publication of a front page photograph of Giggsy with a "censored" bar across his eyes. The next day a Liberal Democrat MP, John Hemmings, dared to speak the footballer's name in the House of Commons — motivated, he said, by a desire to protect the Twitter violators from prosecution and imprisonment, and also probably by a desire to make his Monday in Parliament marginally less of a snooze.
Just how quickly interest in the illicit liaison of an athlete and a starlet would have blown over had the unexpurgated version been published from the get-go, we'll never know, although some of us can surmise with withering authority: "Exposure of his extra-marital fling with a pneumatic brunette from kiss and tell central casting would have been at best a two-day wonder," insisted a Daily Mail reporter, while a Forbes blogger damningly pointed out that Giggsy's high-priced lawyers clearly weren't familiar with The Streisand Effect.
Nor had they given due consideration to the legendary wrath of the British tabloids, whose battle-hardened foot soldiers will exact lengthy and savage revenge on anyone foolish or unlucky enough to become an enemy. And so it was that, ironically, Giggsy's ill-advised attempt to keep one of his affairs classified paved the way for the feeding frenzy that ensued once the story of his relationship with Natasha broke, which itself happened because she heard, along with the rest of the Western world, about Imogen. "When I found out he was cheating with Imogen too," said Natasha, "I was really hurt." Opting to soothe her pain in time-honored fashion, she accepted a large check from the News of the World in exchange for unburdening herself of the whole sorry saga, then flew to Spain to avoid any awkward conversations across the breakfast table with her cuckolded husband, Rhodri. Meanwhile, Imogen's suffering was succinctly evoked in one plaintive tweet: "I just wanna curl up and die today," an understandable reaction to another woman getting her mitts on the six-figure Murdoch-signed check that's rightfully yours.
Natasha, who's now separated but not divorced from Rhodri, has courageously salvaged a high-flying media career from the wreckage of her Sophoclean love triangle. "Celebrity Big Brother" was the obvious vehicle for her hotly anticipated TV debut, and she comported herself with aplomb, resolutely deflecting hostility from both the public and her adversarial housemates. Model Nicola McLean, for instance, on hearing that she'd be sharing camera time with Natasha, sniffed that she "makes money from ruining lives." (Nicola makes money from having photographs taken of her spray-tanned E-cup implants, thus earning the moral high ground.) In Natasha's defense, she's not the only one milking her fifteen minutes for all they're worth: earlier this month, poor doubly-betrayed Rhodri "opened his heart" to the Sun; his father Danny, from whom Ryan is estranged, granted an in-depth interview to the Star last weekend, and even Ryan's aunt Joanna has
aired such trenchant views as "he might have a sex addiction. Who knows?"
Poignantly, Ryan stands alone in failing to profit from his shenanigans: his legal bill has been estimated at £250,000 (nearly $400,000), while his enormous income from his many endorsements — including Reebok, Givenchy, Patek Philippe and Fuji — will doubtless have shrunk in the wake of his fall from grace. Still, with a personal fortune of £34 million ($50 million), he's possibly making ends meet, especially taking into account his current earnings as a player for Manchester United F.C. — the most valuable sports franchise in the world, and also home to this column's chief nemesis, Wayne Rooney — which are $125,000 a week, the equivalent of a 66,700% pay rise on his first salary from the club as a teenager or, if you'd prefer a more heartwarming example of how satisfyingly British society is organized, 100 times the salary of an NHS ER doctor.
Whether being rewarded so handsomely for kicking a ball around a field confers an obligation on a player to conform to certain behavioral codes — or, as newspapers would contend, automatically makes it "in the public interest" to publicize in three-inch headlines the breaking of those codes — is a raging debate unlikely to be settled anytime soon. But as Prime Minister David Cameron said vis-à-vis Giggsygate, there's an urgent need to reconsider the regulations governing privacy and the media, including the controversially spiraling use of legal injunctions to safeguard celebrities' precious sexual peccadilloes. As the law stands, the engine of a super-injunction is the section of the European Convention on Human Rights that enshrines an individual's right to a private and family life, which Giggsy's lawyers would have argued was threatened by the Imogen revelations. Do let's take a moment to imagine the pride of the ECHR's original drafters, who were responding to the atrocities of the Holocaust and the persecutions under Communism in establishing the international treaty, seeing their legacy invoked to protect a footie player's right to secretly have it off with the Sexiest "Big Brother" Housemate Ever (as voted for by former male housemates), even if it proved no match for the Internet's almighty imperative that information be free.
And anyway, perhaps being caught was ultimately a blessing in disguise, because it meant that Giggsy had to take the first step to recovery: Admitting He Has A Problem. Yes, Auntie Joanna's been vindicated: her nephew has joined the revered company of Michael Douglas, David Duchovny and of course Tiger Woods, to whom he is often compared, in seeking treatment for sex addiction. "Ryan has an illness and he needs my help," said Stacey Giggs, who henceforth owns the copyright on the phrase "long-suffering wife." "As long as he does what he has promised our marriage will survive. He never loved Imogen and Natasha is a liar. Our family will come through this." (When Stacey ran into her sister-in-law outside a restaurant, she was slightly less restrained in her choice of words, informing Natasha: "You're nothing but a fucking slag!" Her husband yelled at her to get in the car before berating his former fling for selling her story, as drivers stopped their cars to gawk at the spectacle. Natasha, evidently a girl with an admirable grasp of priorities, retorted that she'd used the NOTW money to pay for breast implants.)
Conveniently, the zeitgeisty blend of responsibility-ceding and self-recrimination implied by the sex addict label is precisely what will have helped placate Giggsy's corporate sponsors, whose idealized presentation of the archetypal sportsman and family man isn't, or so I'm given to understand, entirely compatible with his current reign as Britain's Premier Love Rat. Only time will tell if he, like his fellow philandering football star and erstwhile Man U teammate David Beckham, can rehabilitate his "nice guy" image and return to a time when, if his name is mentioned in the media, it's mostly to do with either his performance on the pitch or a product he's endorsing — although in the future, advertisers may want to ease up on the Christ concepts like this walking-on-water Smirnoff campaign, whose slogan is Extraordinary Purity.
Looking on the bright side, Giggsy has in the past valiantly overcome such obstacles to role modeldom as an alleged physical assault on his then-girlfriend, toilet paper heiress and Kate Moss' bff Davinia Taylor, whom he was seen punching in the face and stomach in a nightclub (curiously, nearly all references to the skirmish seem to have been scrubbed from the Internet). Then again, on the rare occasions that Giggsy has spoken spontaneously about his life, he comes across as ill-equipped to cope with the much-decried pressures of living in a fishbowl. Only a little over a year ago, he bemoaned contemporary celebrity culture and its encroachment into football, in words that now read as a tragic goading of fate: "I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse."
Previously: Amy Childs, Jordan and Boris Johnson.
Emma Garman no longer lives in her native UK, but she still watches lots of its TV. She's also on Twitter.
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The State Of The Smart City
Because infrastructure quality and property value growth so often go hand in hand, it stands to reason that improved infrastructure including energy, water, transportation and communications technology, is an economic challenge the commercial property industry has a great interest in. But rolling out new technologies without testing can cause chaos of all kinds. How can new ideas in infrastructure be tested without putting life, limb and property value at risk?
Across the globe, the tricky problem of testing new infrastructure outside of computer simulations has been attacked from a few different angles, producing three giant projects that will amaze anyone familiar with the real estate development process. Catch up with the state of the "smart city"


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Econsultancy found that the most common use of data modeling was for attribution, among both client-side marketers and agency professionals worldwide.
Website Marketing Statistics & Trends
e-Strategy Trends' continually updated collection of website marketing trends and statistics for marketing, public relations, advertising and strategic communications professionals.
Top Product Launch Go-to-Market Strategies, April 2015 [CHART]
Understanding buyer needs or pain points counts as the most important go-to-market strategy for a product launch.
How People Arrive At Websites, November 2014 [TABLE]
Typing a domain name into a browser's address bar remains a common internet behavior.
B2B Buyers Top Sources For Research By Generation, March 2015 [TABLE]
When it comes to making B2B purchase decisions, Millennials and Gen Xers are more likely than Baby Boomers to believe in the importance of consulting their colleagues and earning team consensus.
Top Influences Over US Consumers' Purchase Decisions, April 2015 [CHART]
When it comes to influencing consumers' purchases, word-of-mouth continues to outperform all paid media.
SMBs' Most Effective Marketing Methods, 2014 vs 2015 [TABLE]
US small and medium-sized businesses were seeing more success with their website than any other channel.
Channels B2B Marketing Execs Use To Distribute Content, January 2015 [CHART]
B2B content marketers may need an intro to mobile, based on polling by Regalix, which found that mobile played a minimal role in such marketing efforts.
US Magazine Audience Share By Platform, 2013 vs 2014 [CHART]
The US magazine audience grew 9.3% between December 2013 and December 2014, from 1.43 billion to 1.59 billion.
Trust In Pharma-Sponsored Websites By Demographic, January 2015 [TABLE]
While seniors may see their prescriptions pile up over the years, they don't turn to—or trust—pharmaceutical companies very much.
Most Effective vs Most Difficult Email List Growth Tactics, January 2015 [TABLE]
43% of marketers said prompting website visitors to opt in to company emails was effective, and just 16% said this was the most difficult.
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I had a great conversation today with Kevin Merritt of blist. He was nice enough to get together with me as I get reintroduced to the Seattle scene. It's a weird thing returning to a city which you left almost a decade ago, but made much easier when people welcome you with open arms.
During the course of our conversation, we were talking about the shifting needs of getting product to market, and the skill set required of your marketing team. This of course could take many, many pages of text to work through, but I think he summed it up best when he broke down the shift by stating simply: "people need to think about the difference between product marketing and product management."
When most people think about marketing, especially engineers, they think about marketing communications. They think about advertisements. They think about press releases. They think about Gartner's magic quadrant. That used to be the right way to think about marketing, because the means by which you could reach your customer were quite constrained, and marketers relied on the gatekeepers to the customers. Namely the press corp and the analysts.
Times they are a changing, and marketers now have unprecedented access to their customers. Think about it: 10 years ago, it was almost a ridiculous thought to think that a CEO would have a public forum discussion with customers about product features, limitations or directions. The idea that for several cents per click, you could have your ad in front of customers looking for information pertaining to your product, in a specific city, at a specific time period during the day was the stuff of advertising fairy tale, and yet now it's a simple matter with Google AdWords.
Product management is about reaching the customer. Delivering to them the product that solves a need for them in an exceptional way. This requires close quarters conversations with your customers to really understand their pain points. Assisting users in the product discovery continuum is a critical part of product management. In a world with an increasing volume of products and features, how can you be heard? Product management is about delivering the right message at the right time to the right person. If you can't assess those items, you're in the wrong business.
I can speak personally about this because I was part of the team that built AskMe. I was the very first employee and responsible for the consumer portal and our syndication business. We grew the site to MediaMetrix top 150, and had a guy who isn't credited (though should be) with inventing the sponsored link for search traffic. My team was doing widgets with our content back in 2000. The problem? We had the right product with the right message at the wrong point in time. We were Yahoo! Answers about six years too early. Other examples include the Foleo (wrong product), Newton (wrong time) and the early days of the UFC (wrong message – no holds barred fighting vs. mixed martial arts).
Being a stellar product manager means adapting to the world around you, and using the new tools and communications channels to reach your customers, assess their needs and pain points, and construct the messaging for your product. Yesteryear's banner ad was yesterday's AdWord is today's social media portfolio will be tommorrow's who knows what. The key is to stay educated and stay close to your customer.


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ParticleStorm crashes with an access viloation on the line calling ExecuteCommandList in the code section below.
void PipelineManagerDX11::ExecuteCommandList( CommandListDX11* pList )
if ( pList->ListAvailable() )
m_pContext->ExecuteCommandList( pList->m_pList, false );
What version of the GPU driver do you have installed on your system?
I have a HP-NVidia Quadro 4000 with HP approved driver 188.8.131.5205 (ForceWare 271.05) running on Win7/64 on a HP Z600 Workstation. NVidia BIOS is 70.00.56.00.07.
Out of curiosity, can you try running in single threaded mode? I have found one other issue that causes trouble occasionally in the MT mode, but it is normally affecting constant buffers instead of command lists....
It works perfectly in single threaded mode.
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Can you try to run the ParticleStorm sample in MT mode with the latest commit? I corrected a MT issue, and it may be helpful in your situation...
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The Society
The Brief
Inspired by Gospel values, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (the "Society"), a Catholic lay organization, leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering in the tradition of its founder, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, and patron, St. Vincent de Paul. As a reflection of the whole family of God, Members, who are known as Vincentians, are drawn from every ethnic and cultural background, age group, and economic level. Vincentians are united in an international society of charity by their spirit of poverty, humility and sharing, which is nourished by prayer and reflection, mutually supportive gatherings and adherence to a basic rule. Organized locally, Vincentians witness God's love by embracing all works of charity and justice. The Society collaborates with other people of good will in relieving need and addressing its causes, making no distinction in those served because, in them, Vincentians see the face of Christ.
The Project
The Society publishes a Newsletter which tells stories of the works done in charity and love of neighbor. They make a great effort to visually document the story behind the scenes in a photojournalistic, story-telling way.
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There will no doubt be a million pieces about this, but here in Nebraska YOU can be the first to noodle this idea:
Say, Hillary "wins" the Election on November 8th.
Prior to December 19th (Elector "voting" day) FBI Director James Comey, after his announcement today that he is reopening the email investigation, finds some super-bad email (?) and decides to indict Hillary. (And let's say that it is very bad, whatever that might mean.)
What do the Electors do?
Do they elect Hillary? It would likely take forever to actually put her on trial, etc.
Do they elect Tim Kaine? But who really wants Tim Kaine to be President? (No one, other than him and his mother, that's who. )
So assuming they'd stick with a Democrat, do they just pick someone? Joe Biden? Al Gore? Bernie?!
As the joke already goes, in the future whenever a question is asked about what year that one weird thing happened, you already know the answer:
At this point you've likely seen the Donald Trump haters who took a sledge hammer to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And you've seen all the looney-birds who find it their life's ambition to burn down, trample or otherwise destroy Trump yard signs.
Well, at the Mike Pence rally in Omaha yesterday, they were out as well, adding to their bucket list of disrupting a political rally (their grandkids will be so proud).
An intrepid GOP supporter got his hands on one of the signs being thrust about at the rally, and here is what those hardy interlopers wrote:
Isn't that precious?
But seriously, you go to all the trouble to stand in line, get past the Secret Service, bide your time until just the right moment…and you don't even bring your own anti-Trump sign?
The best you've got is a Sharpie and an expletive?
Listen Democrats: Watch a few Saturdays of College Gameday and see what a critical/funny/attention-getting sign really looks like. Something like this:
We're revealing our Top 50 GameDay signs over the next 10 days.
No. 50: Hitting Jim Harbaugh where it hurts. pic.twitter.com/RyIlS2MxtI
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 21, 2015
Hopefully they Facebook Live'd the whole thing…
District 43
Since people will finally start paying attention around next Wednesday, we will look at a couple of the Legislative races getting down to crunch time:
Here is a mailer in the contentious race waaaay out in Deb Fischer's old district in north-central Nebraska, between incumbent Al Davis and challenger (and higher primary vote-getter, 54%-45%) retired Col. Tom Brewer:
This is the race where half the fight is about who lives in Lincoln more. Brewer points to the mansion that Davis owns in Lincoln, and Davis says that Brewer doesn't pay the right taxes on his man-cave back in the district.
In the mean time, Davis is also having a tough fight of being on the wrong side of many harder-core conservative issues.
This will be an exciting one to watch as it gets down to crunch time.
District 33
Another interesting one is the race for incumbent Les Seiler's Hasting's district.
Governor Pete Ricketts endorsed Seiler's opponent Steve Halloran, and the Seiler is also running into some of the same criticisms Al Davis had — opposing much of "Ricketts' agenda".
Groups supporting Seiler are also hitting him on an interesting issue that can get the easy attention of the average voter:
Seiler, the Chairman of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, has been absent as Chair from hearings 20 times. Most recently, today, Seiler allowed Lincoln Democrat Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks to fill in as chair of the Department of Correctional Services Special Investigative Committee, while Omaha trial attorney Steve Lathrop handled the hard questions.
It's not clear why Seiler has been absent from so many hearings, but it is clear that this is an issue that Joe Likely Voter understands: showing up for work. If you can't do that, it starts to get tough.
Another we will keep an eye on…
Jumpin' Around
Leavenworth St. will be Live Tweeting life all weekend long — watching the stadium hop at Camp Randall to carving punkins on the dinner table, and every political item in between. (OK, usually more politics than autumn vegetables…)
You can follow along @LeavenworthSt on the Twitter and keep up with every update by Liking Leavenworth St. on The Facebook.
Because that's how you keep up with the talk of Nebraska politics all Halloween Weekend long!


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I'm an attorney dedicated to helping people tackle their challenging financial problems. Bankruptcy is the tool I use.
I take an active role in keeping informed about developments in my practice areas. I am a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (www.nacba.org), and participate in national conferences, exchanging ideas and strategies to help consumers in bankruptcy cases, and gain knowledge of practitioners from throughout the U.S.
Periodically, I attend seminars and meetings about any recent developments in bankruptcy law. I also attend seminars to sharpen my skills as a lawyer. Recent legal education seminars I participated in include: Federal Trial Bar Course and many specific bankruptcy seminars in several states.
Since the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act, I have studied the impact of this law and its many provisions on specific cases in many seminars. I have also experienced the impact that the Act has had first hand in planning, preparing and filing bankruptcy cases for my consumer and business clients.
Before starting my own firm, I was an associate attorney in Domestic Relations, Bankruptcy and litigation with several other Chicago law firms.
I also participate in the C.A.R.E. program (Credit Abuse Resistance Education, sponsored by the Office of the United States Trustee), by speaking to high school seniors throughout the Chicago area. The goal of the program is to explain the responsible use of credit, to warn the students about the traps and pitfalls of the credit card industry. I also present information about the Bankruptcy system, and what happens if they get into financial trouble. I hope to provide some "preventative education", so that our young students can try to avoid some of the problems I have seen.
Practice Areas: Personal Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy; Real Estate; Foreclosures.
Admitted: 1991, Illinois
Law School: Washington University, J.D., 1991.
College: University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., 1988.
Member:National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
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What does "chain free" mean
I wish to buy property. Please advise what "chain free" means?
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Hi, Chain free means that there is no upward chain so that the seller of the property is not needing to look for a different property to buy / rent before they move out meaning your move in date is entirely up to yourself.Answered on Sep 23 2013, Report content
Hi eem2am, Chain free, as mentioned above, basically means that there is no need for you to wait for the person you are buying from to find another home to move into, which of course always has a danger of failing and falling through. No chain can mean, among other things, that a home is being sold after someone has passed away, or someone is moving in with a partner or their family. It is basically there in order to show you that the process of buying will be far less complicated for you. Many thanks, ScottAnswered on Oct 8 2013, Report content
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|Attention Before you read this tutorial, I highly recommend you check out my resources page for access to the tools and services I use to not only maintain my system but also fix all my computer errors, by clicking here!
Windows Firewall related errors are all too common, with users encountering problems of varying degrees. It's for this reason I have taken it upon myself to write this post.
Let me first begin by stating that I will be addressing Windows Firewall on Vista/7/8/8.1 systems and not Windows XP, and for those users that are still on Windows XP based systems, it'd probably be best that you considered upgrading, but that's a discussion for another day.
Error 0x8007042c is one of several Windows Firewall error codes. This particular error prohibits you from turning Windows Firewall on. If you aren't already aware of the significance of a firewall program, let me summarise things by saying, it's a network based security tool. Its sole purpose is to act as the middleman between the trusted, secure network (home PC) and a potentially unsecure network (WWW).
What Causes Error 0x8007042c?
When error 0x8007042c occurs, it's typically due to the failure of specific system services; which means, in the vast majority of cases this Windows Firewall error is not caused by the Firewall tool itself, but by a particular service required by the operating system to execute the program.
That aside, when users first encounter this error, it typically manifests itself in the following way:
Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings.
Error code 0x8007042c
In addition to the above mentioned causes, there are several other factors that are also known to contribute to this error. These are the following:
- A malware infection
- Windows registry corruption
- Firewall service is disabled
How to Fix It
The good news about this particular error is that it's not too difficult to fix. You do not need to be technically proficient in computing nor hire a professional. Simply attempt the various methods below. I've listed them in order of effectiveness, so if one method doesn't work, consider using the proceeding method.
Run a Registry Scan
Sometimes the primary cause of an error such as this could be registry corruption. The registry, being the central database of the operating system, used to store the most important data which is used for the smooth functionality of the system. Its sensitive nature is unfortunately what makes it so susceptible to corruption and various other faults.
As a result it's highly recommended that you regularly scan and repair your registry to prevent any registry-related errors from manifesting themselves on your computer and also to maintain the overall performance of your system.
With that said, I'd have to recommend the use of RegCure Pro for that particular purpose, and that's solely because of its efficiency and multifaceted nature, in that it's capable of optimising your system in addition to rectifying registry errors. Anyway, you can acquire this nifty tool from here:
Run a Repair Installation
If the above method fails to fix the 0x8007042c error, then your next best option will be to run a repair installation. To do this, you have two options, the first is the manual option, which you can find out more about on my post on enhancing ones system.
The second and best option is to use the Windows repair tool Reimage, which is designed to do repair the integrity of your operating system, but on the fly, within your Windows environment. It provides for a more cost effective alternative to purchasing a new operating system CD for the manual option. Anyway, you can acquire this powerful tool from here:
|The solution(s) below are for ADVANCED level computer users. If you are a beginner to intermediate computer user, I highly recommend you use the automated tool(s) above!
Start Firewall Service
Utilising this method, you should be able to start Windows Firewall manually, and then set it to automatically start at boot up; a sometimes viable method of bypassing the 0x8007042c error. Anyway, in order to do that, simply do the following:
1. First, boot into your computer with full administrative rights.
2. Then press + R, type services.msc and click on OK.
3. Once Services loads up, double click on Windows Firewall.
4. This should bring up the Windows Firewall Properties applet, from here, set the Startup type to automatic and then click on OK.
5. This will take you back to Services; from here double click on Base Filtering Engine.
6. The Base Filtering Engine Properties applet should load up, from here set Startup type to automatic and click on OK.
7. Lastly, close Services and restart you computer.
Note: This method will only work if these two services were stopped.
Run a Malware Scan
When confronted with the 0x8007042c error, you should never rule out a malware infection. There are tons of different malware programs that are capable of corrupting various services and components in your operating system, Windows Firewall being the one in this case.
Thus, for this particular solution, I recommend you run a full malware scan of your system using SpyHunter, as it is currently one of the leading solutions in the marketplace, right now.
1. To begin, simply boot into your computer with full administrative rights.
2. Then download SpyHunter from the following link: CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT SPYHUNTER
3. Once you have downloaded and installed SpyHunter, you should run a full scan of your computer by un-ticking the box next to Quick Scan and clicking on Scan Computer Now.
4. Once SpyHunter has successfully finished scanning your computer, click on Fix Threat to repair the threats it has found.
5. Now that your computer is clean, press + R, type Control Panel and click on OK.
6. Once Control Panel loads up, type Windows Firewall into the Search Control Panel box, then click on Windows Firewall.
7. This will take you to the Windows Firewall options menu, from here, click on Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
8. On the following screen, click on Turn on Windows Firewall under Home or work (private) network location settings and Public network location settings and then click on OK.
Create Batch File
Another more thorough, though complicate method of fixing the Windows Firewall error 0x8007042c, entails using a batch file to restart all Windows Firewall related services in an attempt to rectify the problem. Anyway, in order to do this, do the following:
1. First, boot into your computer with full administrative rights.
2. Then right click on the Desktop and select New -> Text Document.
3. This will create a New Text Document on your Desktop; simply double click on it, to open it.
4. Once you have opened the New Text Document, copy the following text into it, by highlighting it, then pressing the Right Mouse Button and selecting Copy, then right clicking inside the New Text Document and selecting Paste:
sc config MpsSvc start= auto sc config KeyIso start= auto sc config BFE start= auto sc config FwcAgent start= auto net stop MpsSvc net start MpsSvc net stop KeyIso net start KeyIso net start Wlansvc net start dot3svc net start EapHostnet net stop BFE net start BFE net start PolicyAgent net start MpsSvc net start IKEEXT net start DcaSvcnet net stop FwcAgent net start FwcAgent
5. Then click on File -> Save As.
6. Type Repair.bat into the File name box, then set the Save as type to All Files, then click on Save.
7. You should now have a Repair.bat file on your Desktop, simply right click on it and select Run as administrator.
Note: Press Y on your keyword, if and when you are prompted to stop a specific service, and then press Enter.
Once the Repair.bat file has finished running, try and start Windows Firewall again. If it works, be sure to delete the Repair.bat file, by right clicking on it and selecting Delete.
Run System File Checker
Sometimes the 0x8007042c error may be the result of corrupted Windows system files. In the event that this is case for your system, you'll want to either repair or replace the specific file. This is where system file checker comes into play, as a built-in Windows tool designed to scan, detect and replace any damaged, missing or corrupted system file.
With that said, for additional information on how to run this powerful tool, I suggest you check out my post on fixing outlook error 0x800ccc13.
Are you looking for a way to repair all the errors on your computer?
If the answer is Yes, then I highly recommend you check out RegCure Pro.
Which is the leading registry cleaner program online that is able to cure your system from a number of different ailments such as Windows Installer Errors, Runtime Errors, Malicious Software, Spyware, System Freezing, Active Malware, Blue Screen of Death Errors, Rundll Errors, Slow Erratic Computer Performance, ActiveX Errors and much more. Click here to check it out NOW!


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Author: Karin Slaughter
My Review
The title and cover art for this book had me curious how it pertained to the story inside. i was hopeful the author tied it in. She sure did. As with the other books in this series, Karin delivers plenty of twists and surprises to keep the pages turning.
The character's continue to grow. Although a few grow laterally instead of forward. I could just kick Will. Will he ever boot Angie to the curb? He's in love with Sara, but how long will she put up with that woman toying with their lives?
Sara is my favorite character. She's been through so much and still manages to see something good in people. Figures Angie has to torment her, and in some really sick ways.
About Angie. She's as much a twist as ever. She has a moment or two where the opportunity to be somewhat human comes along. I think she fails miserably.
There's all the mystery, suspense, and thrills you can take in this book. As I'd hoped, Karin delivered a convoluted path to the end. Gotta tell ya, though. This is not the end.
4 Stars
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.
Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.
The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.
With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI's newest medical examiner and Will's lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn't found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city's most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world's most expensive lawyers—a man who's already gotten away with rape, despite Will's exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will's troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller — a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller — a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
Karin Slaughter is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the Will Trent and Grant County series and the instant New York Times bestselling standalones, Cop Town and Pretty Girls. There are more than 35 million copies of her books in print around the world.
Visit her at http://www.karinslaughter.com
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Grateful for the obedient ones!
When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
Matthew 1:24 NLT
God is looking for people who simply obey him, even if this could mean for them the risk of the public embarrassment, not being understood, being criticized, or being judged by others. —Thank you Lord for those who by their example teach me to obey you!
© CAYADO Consultancy – April 2015
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Welcome To She Caters
At She Caters, delicious food is served with elegance and simplicity. She Caters uses fresh, organic and locally grown ingredients to create flavorful menus that provide a visual pop to any event or dinner table. She Caters provides customizable menus that include gluten free, vegan and vegetarian dishes so that no one is left out from the table!!


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Completely and utterly non-related, I know, but what's your take on this?
Predator: An extraterrestrial species with a huge cultural focus on hunting and killing other species for glory and social status.
Alien: A hive-mind type of species whose only objective is to turn every single planet in the universe into a colony of their own.
- PredatorVote A
- AlienVote B


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Agnes Jean Smith
Last updated 1/7/2017 at Noon
Agnes Jean Smith of Fallbrook, Calif., went home to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on Monday morning December 26, 2016.
Jean or Jeannie, as she was known to her many friends and to all of the family, was born on April 18, 1926 in Newman, Ill. of Fred and Leonora Prosser. She was the second of three children.
After graduation from high school in Villa Grove, Ill., she continued helping her parents by working on the family farm. She eventually started a career in accounting.
On March 28, 1948, Jean married Glenn E. Smith of Tuscola, Ill. On April 24, 1950, her first child was born, a daughter, Glenna Jean Smith, then around two years later on March 7, 1952, a son, Larry Allen Smith.
In June 1966, Jean and family moved to Fallbrook, where she continued to be a homemaker and worked for the local Western Auto Store and then at Fallbrook Hospital. She retired from working outside of her home in the late 1970's.
After a two year stay with her husband at Naval Station Adek in the Aleutian Islands, Glenn and Jean came home to Fallbrook and she became a tireless caregiver to family members who needed help in times of serious illness.
Jean was preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Leonora of Tuscola, Ill.; sister Evelyn Jones, also of Tuscola; brother Raymond Prosser of Shelbyville, Ill., and her husband Glenn and daughter Glenna Jean Johnson of Fallbrook.
She is survived by her son, Larry Smith of Fallbrook; grandson Drew Glenn-Martin Johnson of Apache Junction, Ariz., and son-in-law Robert C. Johnson of Arizona City, Ariz.
Services will be held at Berry-Bell and Hall Mortuary on Friday and Saturday, January 6 and 7, 2017. Viewing will be Friday the 6th from 4 to 8 p.m. On Saturday the 7th at 10 a.m., a short service will be held at the mortuary's chapel followed by burial at the Masonic Cemetery in Fallbrook. Afterwards a reception will be held at Calvary Chapel of Fallbrook.
Jean had a deep love for her family and for her friends. She had a love for God that is now complete up in heaven. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.


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Quantum entanglement is one of the delightfully bizarre phenomena that underpins quantum mechanics. The basic idea behind it is that two particles can be linked to each other—that is, affect each other's quantum states—over any distance, even if that distance is the diameter of the universe. What's more, the effect happens instantaneously, but without going faster than the speed of light. How? Just let us help you wrap your head around it.
Related: The Double-Slit Experiment Cracked Reality Wide Open


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A few years ago, I painted this pugloaf:
It's been one of my best selling prints. People seem to like it. 😀
Things never stay quite the same, though. I've been painting and changing things up constantly since I painted this. I recently took a Sketchbook Skool course that tasked me with working over an old painting. I love the idea, and I've been turning it around in my head ever since. So I made this:
Pugloaf 2017! This was a really, really fun one to work on. I may have to revisit this painting in a few years and do it again.
Here's a photo of the nearly finished original sitting on my desk yesterday:
You can purchase prints of the new version right here. (And if you prefer the older one, it's still available too!)