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Twitter has a lot of virtues, but discussing policy issues in detail is not one of them. But I was saying earlier that to keep Metro running properly, WMATA-serving jurisdictions will need to pony up more tax money. Tim Carney asked:
@mattyglesias, why would higher taxes, rather than higher fares, be your solution for WMATA?
I replied:
@TPCarney It's more efficient for prices to approximate marginal costs than average costs.
And he said:
@mattyglesias, (a) not sure I understand what you mean, (b) why should walkers, work@homers, & drivers subsidize metro-riders?
So I promised I would write a real blog post and explain myself. It's below the fold:
In a perfectly competitive market, the price firms charge for a widget will be equal to the marginal cost of producing an additional widget. That's because if the market price of widgets was less than the marginal cost of producing widgets, it would make sense for my firm to produce fewer widgets — after all, we're losing money on each sale. Conversely, if the market price is higher than the marginal cost of producing widgets, I'm going to ramp-up production since each sale is profitable. And this is a good thing. As Greg Mankiw writes on page 152 of his Principles of Economics, in a perfectly competitive market: "the forces of supply and demand allocate resources efficiently. That is, even though each buyer and seller in a market is concerned only about his or her own welfare, they are together led by an invisible hand to an equilibrium that maximizes the total benefits to buyers and sellers."
In the real world, of course, competition is often not perfect. And certainly there's no competitive market in DC-area subway systems. Metro is a monopolist. So what about monopolists? We turn again to Mankiw's Principles, this time page 323 (emphasis in the original):
We begin by considering what the monopoly firm would do if it were run by a benevolent social planner. The social planner cares not only about the profi earned by the firm's owners but also about the benefit received by the firm's consumers. The planner tries to maximize total surplus, which equals producer surplus (profit) plus consumer surplus. Keep in mind that total surplus equals the value of the good to consumers minus the costs of making the good incurred by the monopoly producer.
Figure 7 analyzes how a benevolent social planner would choose the monopoly's level of output. The demand curve reflects the value of the good to consumers, as measured by their willingness to pay for it. The marginal-cost curve reflects the costs of the monopolist. Thus, the socially efficient quantity is found where the demand curve and the marginal-cost curve intersect. Below this quantity, the value of an extra unit to consumers exceeds the cost of providing it, so increasing output would raise total surplus. At the optimal quantity, the value of an extra unit to consumers exactly equals the marginal cost of production.
If the social planner were running the monopoly, the firm could achieve this efficient outcome by charging the price found at the intersection of the demand and marginal-cost curves. Thus, like a competitive firm and unlike a profit-maximizing monopoly, a social planner would charge a price equal to marginal cost. Because this price would give consumers an accurate signal about the cost of producing the good, consumers would buy the efficient quantity.
So Metro is a monopoly. And it is, in fact, run by social planners. If they're benevolent, they will set the price of a metro ride equal to the marginal cost of WMATA "producing" an extra ride. And think about the marginal cost. Suppose I walk out of the office right now, go around the corner, cross the street, and head down into the McPherson Square Station to hop on the Orange Line. What does that cost WMATA? Well, basically nothing. The train was going to run anyway and running a train with 100 passengers on it costs the same as running a train with 101 passengers on it.
So the optimal price will be very low.
But even though the marginal cost of Metro is very low, the total cost is high. Building a subway system costs a ton of money. Buying rolling stock also costs money. And the minimum level of personnel, electricity, etc. that's required to keep the system running is fairly high. So if you look at WMATA's entire ridership, you'll see that the average cost per rider is pretty high. If you don't want WMATA to receive subsidies, you need to make the fare equal the average cost, which is going to be much higher than the marginal cost and therefore inefficient.
So if you're going to build a mass transit system, it ought to be largest financed by non-fare revenue sources. Of course that's arguably just a case for not building a mass transit system. And obviously, we generally don't build mass transit systems. Even big-time advocates of heavy rail mass transit such as myself will happily concede that it would be foolish to build them in the majority of America's towns. Raising sales taxes, after all, introduces inefficiencies of its own so you have to ask yourself if the costs of building the system will exceed the benefits. Note, however, that this is also a question that needs to be asked of roads and highways.
So how should you finance Metro? Well you actually can start with fares. Right now, during rush hour Metro runs as many trains as it's logistically capable of running on most lines. And the trains are crowded. When faced with that kind of objective overburdening of the system, it makes sense to use high fares to bring demand in line with the supply that can actually be provided. There's also money to be made from selling advertising and WMATA could license in-station vendors of different kinds. And WMATA owns parking lots at some of the suburban stations that bring in money.
But beyond that, it's good to use tax revenue. Ideally you'd be talking about tax revenue that bears some relationship to the goals of your mass transit system. So congestion pricing on highways in the area makes a lot of sense, as does taxes on transportation-related pollution like a gasoline tax. Last, you should probably tax land near Metro stations.
In the real world, of course, nothing is ever done in an ideal way so we have (a) higher than optimal fares, (b) higher than optimal property and income taxes, (c) lower-than-optimal congestion charges and gasoline taxes, and (d) fewer mass transit lines than would be optimal.


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(Reuters) - Four-time All-Star Vincent Lecavalier was signed on a multi-year contract by the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, the biggest name to be scooped up on the second day of the National Hockey League's free agency.
The 33-year-old Canadian will join the Flyers after spending his entire 14-year league career with the Tampa Bay Lightning, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2004.
"It is a great honor for me to be a part of the Flyers," Lecavalier said in a statement.
"This is a great hockey team with a great history which I'm very proud to be a part of. I'm going to do my best to help lead this team to another championship."
Drafted number one overall by the Lightning in 1998, Lecavalier was released last week by Tampa Bay to clear space under a smaller salary cap. He had signed a five-year deal with the Flyers worth $22.5 million according to local media.
Lecavalier has scored at least 20 goals in each of his full seasons in the league, with last year's lockout-shortened campaign the only exception. In 1,037 career games for Tampa Bay, he scored a franchise-high 383 goals.
In other moves on Saturday, the St. Louis Blues agreed to a one-year deal with veteran forward Derek Roy, pending the results of a physical, while the Buffalo Sabres signed defensemen Alexander Sulzer (one-year) and Drew Bagnall (multi-year).
"Proud to (be) part of the St Louis Blues organization. Excited to get started," tweeted the 30-year-old Roy, who split last season between the Dallas Stars and Vancouver Canucks, registering seven goals and 21 assists.
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Over the years Keara and Stefan became friends. I think the message that is given in this book is you can get along even if some other people don't want you to.
I think the characters in this book changed as they got older because over the years they realized that the other person was kind in their heart. This book is similar to other books that I have read like: America's Champion Swimmer and Martin Luther King, Jr. because Keara and Stefan persevered and stuck with their ideas even though it was very hard.
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SALSA-Lib is a small, light-weight, hot and spicy version of the ALSA library, mainly for embedded systems with limited resources. The library is designed to be source-level compatible with ALSA library API for limited contents. Most of function calls are inlined, and accesses directly to the hardware via system calls. Some components like ALSA sequencer aren't supported, and most of all, the alsa-lib plugins and configurations are completely dropped. Thus, neither dmix nor format conversion is available with SALSA-lib.
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STOCKTON - Police received almost simultaneous reports of two armed robberies carried out by three men matching similar descriptions Tuesday in the same northeast Stockton neighborhood.
STOCKTON - Police received almost simultaneous reports of two armed robberies carried out by three men matching similar descriptions Tuesday in the same northeast Stockton neighborhood.
Both robberies were reported about 6:50 p.m. in a neighborhood just north of March Lane and west of Holman Road, and both involved handguns, police said. In both cases, the robbers fled in a dark vehicle, possibly a four-door sedan, authorities said.
In one case, a man was walking near Rayanna and Fred Russo drives when he was approached by three men, including one who was armed with a gun, officers said. The gunman told the man to empty his pockets while one of his accomplices went through the man's pockets, taking personal property, police said.
The robbers were described as a man standing 5 feet 9 inches tall with a black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans; a man standing 6 feet 2 inches tall wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans; and a Latino man in his 20s standing 5 feet 8 inches tall with a thin build, a mustache, a black hooded sweatshirt and a black handgun, authorities said.
The other robbery occurred about a half-mile away in the 2500 block of Cornflower Street, police said. A man was exiting his vehicle after pulling into his garage when an armed man walked in and demanded his money, police said. The man handed over his wallet to the gunman, who removed cash and threw the wallet back, officers said. The victim then noticed two more men were standing at his garage door pointing guns at him, police said.
The gunman who entered the garage was a Latino man in his 20s standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds with a mustache, blue jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt pulled over a black hat, authorities said. One of his accomplices was described as a man 19 to 20 years old standing 5 feet 8 inches tall with a thin build, police said. The other was a man in his 20s, officers said.
FRENCH CAMP - The California Highway Patrol arrested a man Wednesday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run collision that occurred last week in Manteca.
Herminio Ayala Ponce, 60, was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run resulting in death or injury and vehicular manslaughter, said Officer James Smith, a spokesman for the Highway Patrol. The suspect is being held at the San Joaquin County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday, according to jail records.
Ponce was driving a 1991 International two-axle tank truck west on French Camp Road just west of Highway 99 at 6:38 a.m. Jan. 13 when he made a left turn onto West Frontage Road, the CHP said. Ponce turned directly into the path of a 24-year-old motorcycle rider, who sustained fatal injuries when he struck the truck's rear axle, officers said. The victim was also struck by a second vehicle traveling east on French Camp Road, the CHP said.
Ponce momentarily stopped but then continued south on West Frontage Road, authorities said. Construction workers in the area called 911 and followed Ponce, helping authorities locate him, the CHP said.
STOCKTON - A 34-year-old man was beaten and robbed Wednesday morning in central Stockton, authorities said.
According to police, the man was walking near East Main and South San Joaquin streets about 5:20 a.m. when three men exited a vehicle and said, "Hey, what's up?" When the victim turned around, he was punched in the face and fell to the ground, officers said. The assailants continued punching the victim, removed cash from his pockets, took his headphones and stole a cellphone, police said.
The robbers then fled in their vehicle. All three were described as Latino men 20 to 30 years old, authorities said.
One was 5 feet 7 inches tall and 250 pounds with a black Oakland Raiders jacket and a dark-colored beanie, police said. The second was 5 feet 9 inches tall and 160 pounds with short hair, black pants and a black hooded sweatshirt, officers said. The third was 5 feet 11 inches tall and 170 pounds with short hair, black pants and a black sweatshirt, authorities said.
STOCKTON - The San Joaquin Delta College Police Department is trying to identify a suspect and a person of interest in a sexual battery incident that occurred about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
A female student was walking toward campus on the Shima 2 pathway when a man approached her from behind, reached around her midsection with both arms and tried to unbuckle her belt while kissing her on the neck, police said.
The man then let the victim go and left the area in an unknown direction, authorities said. The assailant was described as a black man with a dark complexion wearing long, dark sleeves and dark-colored pants, police said.
Moments before the attack, the woman was walking with an unknown man whom she met outside the Goleman Library, authorities said. He was described as a black man with a dark complexion wearing a black jacket, black pants and white tennis shoes, police said. Officers believe he may have witnessed the attack.


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So sales at U.S. retailers stunk in May, right? After all, they grew less than half as fast as Wall Street predicted.
Well, not really. Sales actually grew a bit faster in May than expected – if large revisions to April sales are taken into account.
Here's the back story. Retail sales officially rose 0.3% in May, based on a preliminary government estimate. That's well short of the 0.7% estimate of economists polled by MarketWatch.
Yet the government now says retail sales rose a solid 0.5% in April instead of a tepid 0.1% as originally reported, using more up-to-date numbers.
Had the April sales figure remained unchanged, sales in May would have shown a 0.8% gain – a tick higher than the Wall Street forecast.
So the lower-than-expected increase in May stems entirely from the upward revision in April.
That's not to say retail sales in May were great, though. Upon closer inspection, sales fell in most major categories, especially on things that are considered discretionary, such as eating or drinking out.
Indeed sales at bars and restaurants have fallen two straight months and four of the past six. Consumers should be more willing to dine out if the economy truly were getting much better.
Most economists still think consumer spending will increase as the year progresses, based on rising employment and faster expansion in many key U.S. industries such manufacturing. Higher spending is expected to boost second-quarter U.S. growth to 3.7% after a 1% contraction in the first quarter.
Yet retail sales are only growing about two-thirds as fast as they historically do and weekly paychecks for Americans are barely growing once inflation is taken into account. The economy is still performing well below its potential.
The slow growth in wages and consumer spending helps explain the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression, and if those trends continue, hopes for a speedier U.S. growth are likely to be dashed.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a legal services company primarily catering to law firms (of all sizes). Often times law firms take on a case or project that is too large for them to handle with their current staff, or they simply have too much work. As a consequence, they look to temporary, or contract, attorneys and paralegals to provide services and complete projects. Unfortunately, finding the right attorney or paralegal for the task can be difficult.
One Source Legal LLC, works with licensed attorneys, law professors, retired judges and top paralegals to complete such projects in a short time period. We do not outsource out of the country. All work is completed by attorneys that are experienced in their chosen concentration and are licensed in their jurisdiction.
Our target audience is overworked law firms of all sizes. Whether they need one project completed or several, we can help. We are aiming to become an extension of our client's office, there to help whenever needed.
Our logo will primarily feature on our website and as such should be eye catching.
We have no set requirements, only that the logo be crisp, bold, and clean. We will be primarily using this this logo on our webpage. A separate contest will be listed for our webpage design.
The name of the company is One Source Legal, LLC. LLC does not need to be in the logo. The name of the company could be run together in the logo, such as: OneSourceLegal.
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by Elise Seyfried
We are awaiting the arrival of our son Sheridan's buddy's cat, Ruthie. This mystery feline will be with us (Sheridan promises) only about two or three weeks while its owner resettles. I am quite anxious about this, about the climbing and the feeding and the (possible) clawing. But I'm also anxious that I might fall in a strange kind of love.
When my daughter Julie had her rabbits, I bemoaned their mess and smell. But the minute she returned them to the bunny rescue shelter, I keenly felt their loss. Ditto when hamsters Puffles and Truffles bit the proverbial dust; I actually shed tears at their passing. Bette the beta fish survives, long past her projected time of demise, and while she gives us zero affection, I know I will be sad when she goes to the big aquarium in the sky. I've always held the line at "NO dog," purportedly because I detest the idea of walking said beast in foul weather, etc. But honestly? I don't think I could stand to have a dog die before me.
I get abnormally attached to the human visitors we seem to attract as well. When the kids bring friends home for the holidays or just because, I take to them like a mother and ALWAYS hate to see them go. Our foreign exchange students' returns home after short or lengthy stays were incredible wrenching. I pretend that I am thrilled for my youngest daughter, who is on the brink of travel and college and her exit from the house, but inside I just hate the thought of her leaving, just as I've hated the exodus of the older kids in their turn. I guess my ideal life would include a dwelling big enough for at least 20 or 30 people at all times.
Perhaps my holding on to the various creatures in my life is my way of freezing time. If nothing changes, I don't grow older. If something or someone leaves me or dies, I can't escape the fact that my days are numbered. But so what if they are numbered? Why is that such a tragedy?
If I believe (and I do) that we are created for eternity, then what's the big worry? Why can't I consistently wrap my brain around the assurance that we will all be reunited in the end? Because I want eternity right now (without actually dying, of course). I want to reconnect with my departed loved ones. I want to have lunch with my late sister Mo and ask my late Nana to scratch my back again and sit down for a long talk with my ever-chatty deceased mom. I want everyone I've ever loved within arm's reach, and I want them to stay there.
Meanwhile, I wait for a cat, as I wait for all the new creatures, human and otherwise, who will be crossing my path in the days and years to come. I wait, with apprehension about their impending appearances and expected sorrow about their inevitable departures. I wait for a cat, and every instinct tells me to harden my heart, so I won't get hurt. Maybe the Buddhists have it right: a key to happiness is non-attachment.
But, try as I might to detach, that's not me. So I will no doubt continue to be an annoying clinger, completely wrapped up in all who populate my life. I'm probably doomed to stick to everyone like glue. One of the few poems I have memorized is "Spring and Fall, to a Young Child," written by the amazing Victorian-era poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It describes the grieving of a little girl, Margaret, at the arrival of autumn and the falling leaves. Hopkins ends with: "It is the blight Man was born for/it is Margaret you mourn for."
After a long, cold and dreary winter, we actually had a spring this year, with cool breezes, crocuses and daffodils dotting the lawn. (We haven't planted anything for years, and so we are always amazed when flowers come up anyway.) As I write this, there is a bird perched in the tree right outside our family room window, and I can hear its rustling. And on this beautiful, sunny day, I realize that I have a choice. I can love my loved ones, love my springs while I have them and not dwell on the inevitable autumns and winters ahead. After all, it's Elise I've been mourning for — and maybe it's time to stop.
Elise Seyfried is Director of Spiritual Formation at Christ's Lutheran Church in Oreland. She is also an actress, wife, mother of five and co-author (with husband, Steve) of 15 plays for children. She is the author of a self-published book, "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life," a collection of essays. It can be purchased for $15 plus shipping through www.eliseseyfried.com.


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They've scared up an 'Exorcist' for the stage
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Forget the movie. This "Exorcist" is turning heads - by not turning heads.
"We're not going to throw up all over the audience," noted actor Richard Chamberlain while on a recent rehearsal break at the Geffen Playhouse in LA's Westwood Village.
Chamberlain is one of the stars of the Geffen's new stage adaptation of the 1971 William Peter Blatty novel about a girl who may be possessed by Satan, the girl's distraught mother, and the senior and junior priests charged to save the day.
The book was a phenomenon. And yet for many, its memory is overshadowed by the 1973 William Friedkin film, which provided visceral thrills aplenty, including Linda Blair's famous head-spinning scene.
The Geffen production, running through Aug. 12, reaches back to Blatty's decidedly more cerebral treatment: scaring up a serious discussion of psychology, faith, love and evil.
Little wonder bringing "The Exorcist" to the stage appealed to playwright John Pielmeier. He explored similar territory with his Broadway breakthrough, the 1982 hit "Agnes of God," about a psychologist at odds with a mother superior over a nun's claim she experienced a virgin birth.
"('The Exorcist') is very much the bookend to my writing career," noted Pielmeier. "If 'Agnes' was the one end of it; this is toward the end of the other end."
There are also ties that bind "The Exorcist" to earlier works by the director, John Doyle, whose credits include daring revivals of two Stephen Sondheim favorites: "Company" and "Sweeney Todd."
"You're always going to get audience members who are wanting to get what they first saw," Doyle said of "Exorcist"-film fans who give the stage version a shot. "My job is to tell the story as if it's never been told before."
Beyond Chamberlain, the other well-known cast member is Brooke Shields, who plays the mother. While she has stage experience, it's as a replacement for leads in musicals.
Shields said "The Exorcist" returns her to her pubescent days, working with such revered directors as Louis Malle "Pretty Baby") and Franco Zeffirelli "Endless Love"). "And, basically, (with) Louis and Zeffirelli, I got spoiled," Shields admitted. "Everything has paled in comparison in between (then and working with Doyle), to be honest."
So is "The Exorcist" on stage heading to the Great White Way?
"You always want to do it on Broadway," said actor David Wilson Barnes, who portrays the younger priest. But he warned that such thoughts could be counterproductive, at least at this stage. "Because you start making it into a Broadway thing, as opposed to the thing that it wants to be," he explained. "And if the thing that it wants to be then becomes the Broadway thing, that's fantastic."


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HDC Galaxy i9300 S3+ Videos
Here's a fun video review of the HDC Galaxy i9300 S3+:
Here is a comparison video by Colonel ZAP on the HDC Galaxy i9300 S3+ and the M100s Google 4S (iPhone clone):
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Its filling station in Montgomery is inaccessible to the player. The filling station has numerous Carcer City gas canisters on its property as well as a dumpster with the text Skip Hire (also on the rusty wheelchair on the dock at Fisher's Lagoon). It also has a 'beater' Sadler parked behind it, and a Bike under its garage roof.
Along with Gasso and Going it is most likely a very minor competitor of the dominant Xoomer petrol company which maintains a much larger presence in the state and outcompetes the smaller companies.
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The new Angels
They're coming back to TV. Here are Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor in Miami working on the new Charlie's Angels tv series yesterday. If you're wondering about Drew Barrymore, she's producing the show. The third angel, Annie Ilonzeh, was there too but they've marked up the cost of those photos and unfortunately it's too pricey right now, considering this is just a pilot and not even a real show yet. Ilonzeh however was the first angel to be cast after a lengthy search. Her character is called Kate. She's an ex-cop who knows kung fu and "is the most serious of our 3 Angels but also knows how to let her hair down and have a great time". Please. You just slapped your leg from the amazingness, I know you did.
As for the other two – Rachael Taylor's Angel is "Abby". She's the youngest. And super rich. But her dad was a Bernie Madoff type so she's all about the vigilante justice and proving she's a good person and sh-t.
Minka Kelly is the one the producers wanted from the beginning. They've yet to confirm her name in the show. Originally it was to be a former US marine called Marisa who knows about weapons and combat and can kick anyone's ass. Also, she's a bit OCD and has to line up her condiments by right angles. Something like that. When Minka finally signed though, they decided to tweak up the character a little. We'll find out soon enough.
So will you watch Charlie's Angels?
Here's what I'm into about Charlie's Angels: it's not like it's never been anything but fluffy and silly candy, with three friends who have each other's backs at the end of every episode. Boys get to play punch and sock 'em superhero pretend all the time. Charlie's Angels is just the same kind of fantasy, only for girls. Having said that, it has to strike the right note. It has to capture that, you know, call it ignorance, call it irreverence, call it camp, that they had in the 70s. Back then there was an audience for it. It wasn't a stretch for them to "get it". I'm just not sure that we're the same now. Thoughts?
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So, after compiling a long list of possible Frenchie Foods, I decided to make a few different dishes for the party. I figured that not much else at the party would be vegan (because, y'know, French Food)... so if I wanted to have a nice dinner, I was gonna have to bring it for myself.
The first thing I decided to make was a Pissaladiere. I love this yummy French take on pizza - a delicious crust covered in caramelized onions, olives and roasted bell peppers. What's not to love? It is so beautiful and delicious! I used this recipe from the Food Network, with a few changes:
~ reduced the olive oil in the onions by half AND used 3 lbs of onions instead of 2 lbs
~ used roasted bell peppers instead of anchovies (blech!)
~ used Kalamata olives instead of Nicoise olives (which I couldn't find!)
It was totally delicious, made two big pans, and was totally gone by the end of the night!
I also made this nice simple Marinated Lentil Salad, from Vegan Mediterranean Kitchen. It was simple and light and healthy (again, I majorly reduced the olive oil). I didn't just want to eat pizza for dinner, so I was happy to have some lentil-y goodness in my belly. As it turned out, the other vegetarians at the party were happy to see this dish there as well!
Finally: Dessert! I made this wonderful French Almond Plum Cake, from a recipe I veganized years ago from Jacques Pepin's cooking show on PBS! (recipe below!). It is so delicious and quite easy too. I had a bunch of plums from my aunt's plum tree, and this was a good use for them. The cake is fun because the plums puff up while baking and then collapse, leaving plum-shaped holes in the cake - but also spreading their plummy goodness in the cake. It's topped with an apricot-jam glaze. So good!
In the end, there were actually a couple of other dishes at the party that were vegan : baguettes, some ratatouille, an excellent fruit salad, and a corn salad. So, together with my goodies, I was set! Plus, I actually met a few other vegans at the party (wow!) and they were stoked to find out that there was a vegan dessert for them!
1 c flour
1 c raw almonds (I used slivered almonds this time, but Jacques used whole almonds with the skins on)
1 c sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
2 "eggs" ~ I used EnerG Egg Replacer with good results
4 tbsp soy margarine/Earth Balance
1/4 c almond milk
4-7 ripe plums (it depends on the size of the plums)
extra sugar
1/4 c apricot or plum jam
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Preheat the oven to 350F.
Add the flour, almonds, sugar and baking powder into a food processor and pulse until the almonds are pulverized. Add the margarine and pulse until blended.
Mix up your Egg Replacer and pour it into the food processor. Pulse until combined. Then add the almond milk and pulse briefly until you have thick, sticky batter.
Spread the batter into a buttered springform pan. Use a rubber spatula to spread it around and smooth it out.
Take the plums and use a paring knife to carefully cut out the pit, while leaving the other end of the plum intact (like an olive!). It's a little tricky, so don't despair if you mess it up a little. Just do your best.


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I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) since March 2002. Both of my sons also got ME/CFS at ages 6 and 10. Our younger son fully recovered after 10 years of mild illness. Our older son still has ME/CFS and also has Lyme disease plus two other tick infections. This blog is about how our family lives with chronic illness, with a focus on improving our conditions and enjoying our lives in spite of these challenges.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Movie Monday 10/15
However, now Jamie is home sick! He seems to have been exposed to one of the many viruses going around at school and is in a bad crash. The good news is that he went 7 full weeks of college without missing a single class (!)...but now, of course, what we all knew was coming has arrived - the unpredictable crashes of virus season. He is worried about his classes and deadlines he can't meet, so I am trying to help him learn how to communicate with his professors and explain the effects of CFS. He talked to each of them at the start of the semester, but that first big crash of the school year is always a challenge. For now, he's here at home, resting and catching up on all the TV he's missed while away!
Surprisingly, with all this downtime, we haven't watched many movies this week. Craig was preferring TV shows last week and also had a hankering for some old favorite Halloween movies from Disney Channel (comfort TV!) that I grabbed for him at the library. We did however watch another old comedy, continuing our streak from last week:
Ken and I are still enjoying past seasons of The Good Wife and Treme, both excellent shows. As a family, we are watching Bones, Glee, and Revolution each week.
Have you seen any good movies or TV this week?
(If you are also interested in what we are reading, check out the Monday post on my book blog. And this week, I also posted about what I was cooking this weekend!)
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hi sue - that flu season at college hits even the healthiest of kids - so glad he made it seven weeks - i don't know if this helps but i have found i no longer say i have chronic fatigue - i may say - i have what is currently called chronic fatigue but more aptly named neuro-endocrine-immune disorder - its amazing what a different response you get and i feel it immediately helps those that are not familiar at all more quickly gain an understanding - wishing you all the best - heatherReplyDeleteReplies
I always take a similar approach, Heather! My usual line is "I have an immune system disorder that is known in the US as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome."Delete
In coaching Jamie yesterday through his e-mails to professors, I advised him to use that same phrase - immune system disorder. I think it is something easily understood by most people, accurate, and explains why a simple virus like a cold could knock him out.
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Apple is reportedly interested in adding data from the popular location-based check-in app, foursqure, to iOS Maps. That's according to Jessica E. Lessin and Spencer E. Ante of the Wall Street Journal:
The talks, which took place in recent weeks and involve Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, are the latest sign of Apple's plans to more tightly integrate local services into the iPhone and iPad. The discussions with New York-based Foursquare come as Apple has been talking to a number of companies that collect local data to improve its new mapping product. The maps service, released in September, has had a rocky reception and faces fierce competition from Google.
foursquare collects data about where users go, as well as sentiment and commentary about those places. Whether this would actually improve the quality of Apple's currently middling local search and point-of-interest data, or would merely offer more and more varied data, is hard to say. Apple already sources data from TomTom and Yelp, among others, but has had considerable problems aggregating, cleansing, and qualifying it.
The WSJ also says:
Before he died last year, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs told at least one associate that he thought Apple could compete head-on with Google in local search, according to the person he spoke to.
There's no way to know how much broken-telephone is included in that quote, or any information on how Apple planned to actually accomplish the goal, but here's the thing -- Apple replaced the Google-powered iOS 5 Maps app with the non-Google-powered iOS 6 Maps app, so now they are competing head-on with Google in local search. There's no "think" about it.
Local search is table stakes now on mobile. Apple has to nail it. foursquare is interesting, but getting iOS 6 Maps to the point where it's reliable is vital.
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Me, too, Shanoah. I, too, am politicked out. Still, I gots enough juice left in me to share this one little tidbit: why I will never be able to take Tea Party seriously.
As you know, many media outlets often refer to members of the Tea Party movement as Tea Baggers, which of course instantly brings to my mind this scene from John Waters' Pecker [1] (starring a criminally underemployed Eddie Furlong, by the way).
Not Work Safe, just because it's John Waters. Courtesy of nessthing.
Jesus, that's scary, ain't it? It's almost as good as the job the Republicans did for the word "liberal" – almost.
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We get it,,, just stop being a bitch,, please??Phillipp wrote: I was pissed off as an idividual and am not afraid to make that pretty clear.
I assure you nobody,,, I mean nobody gives a f*** about what you did or didn't do,,,OK?Phillipp wrote: The HF f*** up left me without kites for 5 weeks. I missed some really good sessions and sold my old gear very cheap.
Take some hormones along with your vegemite, it couldn't hurt now could it??Phillipp wrote: The only reason why you're seeing more of my posts right now is that I've broken my foot and can't kite for another 4 weeks.
Please,,,,slow down, take a breath,, >> then<< move on (wink)Phillipp wrote: What I don't get is why certain people keep defending BEST as if there was no f*** up. What is the problem in admitting the HF was a disaster (or in marketing language: "not as successful as expected") and than move on????
No you haven't you're a whiny, snivelling little bitch today, please,,, I implore you give it a rest...Phillipp wrote: I've moved on already and am looking foward to ride again, but I won't tolerate posts that try to hide the f*** up that the HF was.
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Nokia and AT&T have announced that the new Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920 will be available for $49 and $99 respectively when they launch this Friday. That puts the more modest Lumia 820 smack in the middle of the free iPhone 4 and $99 iPhone 4S, and the flagship Lumia 920 at exactly the same price point as the iPhone 4S, Apple's year old phone, and fully $100 cheaper than the $299 price for Apple's flagship iPhone 5 with a similar 32GB of storage. Daniel Rubino from WPCentral has all your info:
There is little doubt in our mind that AT&T is making the Lumia 920 the best option with heavy subsidies. Coming in with 32GB of memory, the Lumia 920 is significantly cheaper than the same offering of the iPhone 5 with comparable memory ($299). Throw in a free wireless charging pad and for $99, users are getting a very good bargain for what is arguably one of the most powerful devices on the market today.
Undercutting Apple on price is nothing new. AT&T and Nokia launched the previous generation Lumia 900 for $99 as well and, sadly, it ended up being barely a blip on the radar. The problem with Windows Phone has never been price. It's been a) Microsoft not wanting to market it as something better than the incredibly bad Windows Phone brand, b) carrier reps not wanting to push it over Android, and c) customers not wanting to buy it over iPhone.
Right now, I'm not sure a free price point would move substantially more units of the much larger, heavier, thicker, far better camera equipped, but still very app-contrained Windows Phones.
That's why it remains flabbergasting to me that, even with Halo 4 launching this week, Microsoft still couldn't pull the trigger on Xphone Halo Edition. They couldn't figure out a single way to leverage any of the Halo 4 hype for their mobile platform.
Imagine the phone-branded equivalent to this sitting on shelves between Android and iPhone (or the empty spot where sold-out units would have been.)
Source: WPCentral


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Several people I spoke with and greatly respect said they were disappointed the Mets didn't make a run at Cuban free-agent first baseman Jose Abreu, who signed a six-year, $68-million contract with the Chicago White Sox.
Considering the success of Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes and the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig, all of a sudden tapping the Cuban market is the hot thing. But sometimes teams can get burned touching hot objects.
Abreu, 26, last played on an international stage during the World Baseball Classic this spring and batted .360 with three homers and nine RBI. Prior to that, he batted .453 with 33 home runs and 93 RBI in 63 games in the 2010-11 season, but sustained a shoulder injury. The previous season, he batted .399 with 30 home runs and 76 RBI.
No doubt, impressive numbers, but the obvious question is: How good was the competition? Justin Verlander, Adam Wainwright and Clayton Kershaw don't pitch in Cuba.
The eye-popping number for Abreu isn't his power against questionable competition, but the $68 million, which is very real money.
That is a lot of money on a question, albeit an important one for the 2014 Mets. They already have two first basemen in Ike Davis and Lucas Duda, but both have greatly under-produced and the Mets aren't happy with either.
We know very little about Abreu as a player against quality competition, but there are many questions when deciding to go the international route. Mainly, do the Mets want to sink $68 million in a player they know precious little about?
After freeing themselves under Sandy Alderson of the contracts of Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo, Francisco Rodriguez, Johan Santana and Jason Bay (there's still some deferred money there), the last thing the Mets want to do is sink money in another long-term deal, especially with the possible results so precarious.
Maybe Abreu will pan out for the White Sox. If so, good for them. But, the last thing the Mets need is another long-term headache.
The Mets were wise to sit this one out.


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March 31, 2014
Each year at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), a unique panel convenes on the first day of the meeting. This event -- the Martin Delaney Panel -- highlights a critical issue that lies at the intersection between HIV clinical research and HIV advocacy.
At CROI 2014, the theme of the panel was "Hepatitis C: From Trials and Tribulations to Triumph." One of the panelists was Tracy Swan, Hepatitis/HIV Project Director at Treatment Action Group and a longtime, outspoken patient advocate on issues related to HIV/hepatitis C coinfection. Our correspondent Terri Wilder spoke with Swan shortly after the panel.
It feels like this year, 2014, is shaping up to be the year of hepatitis C. What are your thoughts about developments that are coming down the pipe, and what do you think about the challenges that are going to come with these new hepatitis C drugs?
It's funny. You keep seeing these trials with cure rates of 95% and 100%. And it's wonderful -- don't get me wrong -- but it's almost mind-numbing after a little while. You just think: How do you distinguish? Everything is well tolerated. What is going to be the best way to get things out there to people?
I think we really need screening programs. We need to identify more infected people. And we really need an infrastructure. So, as excited as I am about the drugs, and as grateful as I am to not have to keep talking to people about drugs that give them a lot of side effects and won't work very well ... Think about it: If the number of people with HIV quadrupled overnight and all the things we take for granted were stripped away -- the infrastructure, the funding, the programs, the case management, the services, and even the community; when so many people are undiagnosed, it's kind of hard to form a community -- if you strip that all away, you've got hepatitis C, on the downside.
Then, on the upside of things, you've got a cure.
I think 2014 is the year we bring those two together. But we have to figure out how to bring the cure to the people. And the drug prices are going to be a horrendous problem.
Let's talk about screening. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] came out with its recommended age cohort screening. The New York State Department of Health implemented a rule, effective Jan. 1, that folks in a certain cohort be screened for hep C. It feels like people are trying to roll these rules out, maybe in reaction to these new drugs.
How effective do you think these kind of cohort-based screening programs are going to be?
They can't be less effective than what we had before. I think some of these are really beginning to pick people up. What concerns me is, there are so many people newly entering care because of the Affordable Care Act. They may be getting slammed with multiple diagnoses all at once, because they haven't been in health care and don't know why they're feeling so crummy.
There might be providers that now feel that they need to screen, but then don't know what to do with people once they have a positive antibody test. I still think it's much better to screen as a critical public health step.
But there are a few things. It should be tied to surveillance programs, so you could collect the data while you're providing services to people, or nested within them, somehow. Also, yes, the baby boomer cohort is an important group, but you keep seeing all these reports of high infection rates among young people who are injecting drugs. If you're telling doctors who are already feeling pretty overloaded to do one more thing, they're not going to step out of that and start saying, "Hmm. I wonder who else I should be looking at now?" if they're trying to squeeze five people into an hour.
The cohort that we're talking about is people born between 1945 and 1965. I would assume that data drove that decision. But your point is that we're still missing people.
Well, the data we have are limited. It's from the NHANES survey -- incarcerated and homeless people -- and other very high-prevalence populations were not included. So, (1) we have an underestimate for the whole population; and (2) I don't quite understand how the incidence went from 300,000 cases a year down to about 16,000 cases over a decade and a half.
There are some reasons. Crack: People stopped injecting and started smoking more. But I think nobody was really counting, and we never developed the health care infrastructure that we needed to really characterize and then begin to address this epidemic. We have a lot of assumptions. There could be way more people of every age out there with hepatitis C.
Earlier, you mentioned the Affordable Care Act [ACA]. What do you think is going to complicate ACA implementation and getting folks who have hep C on treatment and into care?
I'm a big fan of single-payer health care. I would have much rather seen a system like that. I think we have a collapsing health care system with people entering it who don't even know how to use it.
No one's saying, "Look: People probably aren't going to be that nice to you. They're going to demand all this information from you. You're going to have five minutes with the doctor. You might hear something scary." You're not having anyone say, "What's on your mind?" How do you ask these questions? "How can we make the most of this appointment?"
I think we really need some health care literacy training for people so they feel comfortable going to a medical doctor. And when they get a diagnosis, whatever it is, they feel more like they have some control over what their next steps are. Hepatitis C has last-on-the-list syndrome. It doesn't progress quickly. "I don't have to deal with it right away." Treatment's too yucky. Treatment's too expensive.
Hopefully, the new drugs will really push the envelope, and people who need to be treated and cured will be. But it's not really clear how that's going to play out.
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Hi everyone,
As you might have noticed I'm currently taking some holidays and that means no new cues till the new year :)
Apart from that throughout the last few of days I had some issues with the site that should now be resolved.
That's it from me in 2008. I'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year and see you in 2009 :)
by twilight on December 30th, 2008 :: Comments (1)
One year
Hi everyone,
CueDB is exacly one year old today. The website got some considerable updates over that time, Cutie evolved into version 1.2 and CueDB currently holds 1785 cues.
Because of the birthday I have uploaded over 80 cues for older (2005) sets from my collection (something I've been meaning to do for the most part of the last twelve months). I will continue uploading the older cues so that I can finally reach November 2007 (and there won't be any gap periods). Other than that keep an eye out as I will try to get you some nice goodies in the coming weeks.
Best regards
by twilight on November 4th, 2008 :: Comments (0)
Over the past three days the site has experienced some major (and then minor) issues.
First of all my hosting company decided to recompile PHP on the server and that simply didn't go as smoothly as they expected (and later on caused a domino effect on a couple of different things)
After that I made some changes to the login/logout routines and hadn't tested them properly
Anyway all the issues should now be resolved, but if anything doesn't work like it used to then let me know.
Apart from that if anyone can recommend a RELIABLE hosting company then please PM me or reply in this thread.
by twilight on October 2nd, 2008 :: Comments (0)
Cutie 1.2
Hello everyone,
I have release the new version of Cutie today. It's got a bunch of fixes and new features on board, but most noticably let's you do one-click-downloads directly from your operating system. You don't even have to go to the website - just click on the audio file you want the cue for and Cutie will search CueDB for possible matches.
Go to the client page for more info on Cutie.
Some of you probably noticed that I have been uploading less cues than usually in the recent weeks. Well to be honest I have very little free time and since I wanted to release the new version of Cutie I had to neglect the cue-making a little bit I'll try to bring the site up to speed as soon as possible, but any help will be greatly appreciated
by twilight on July 28th, 2008 :: Comments (1)
Out with the old - in with the new
Hi everyone,
Well I just managed to clear the old backlog on the 6 weekly shows that I regulary cue up and already I know a new one will build up this week.
I'm off for a short holiday from tomorrow and won't be back till next Monday - this basically means no cues from me for the next week
by twilight on July 1st, 2008 :: Comments (0)


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�By Katie Collins?News Eagle Reporter
HAWLEY - Aqua America has mandated that commercial residents in the borough of Hawley and throughout areas of Pennsylvania, have to install a double check valve, in order to protect businesses� water supplies. The device will prevent cross contamination in case there was a drop in pressure, and the water were to be siphoned back into the distribution system, explained Donna Alston, the Manager of Communications at Aqua America. If property owners choose not to install the valve, Aqua may shut their water off. Alston said Aqua America will work with property owners to try and figure something out, if necessary.
The commercial residents� distribution systems are designed so water flows from a water main through a service line to different residents. But, instances like fires or water main breaks, can cause the water to flow from the plumbing, back into the distribution system, which would ultimately go to the local public water supply and produce contaminated water.
The valves have to be installed now, because the Department of Environmental Protection has made it the responsibly of public water utility companies to execute the program, since it is a national regulation, explained Larry Doyle, the National Meter Manager for Aqua America.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency�s website, explains that the Clean Water Act was first enacted in 1948, but the Act was reorganized and expanded in 1972. Through the Act, the website explained that the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters are established.
Aqua America, has been implementing the Act for years. But, because Aqua America�s customer base is throughout the United States, Alston said the company has been allowed to enforce the installation of the valves in a "manageable fashion."
When Jim Downey, owner of Trish's Bagels in Hawley, read the warning label on the box that his WATTS Double Check Valve, Series 007 and LF007 came in, he had questions. Aqua America had sent Downey a letter, because although they had sent him a "Backflow Protection Package," he had yet to submit a yearly test report to Aqua America. Downey was concerned when he read "CONTAINS MORE THAN 0.25% LEAD" on the warning label that was on the valve�s box. The label also said, "It is illegal to use this product in any plumbing system providing water for human consumption in CA, MD and VT, and will be illegal in LA after 2012 and everywhere in the United States after 2013." Downey made some calls to Aqua America and his questions were never answered. Puzzled about how the valve is illegal in some states and not Pennsylvania, Downey asked, "if I brought a bullet from Pennsylvania to California will it still shoot?"
Come January 2014, "the hammer hits and the gravel falls down" and people cannot use "anything that touches water that has lead in it" Doyle said. So now, he said, all water meter manufacturers are complying because anything that has lead will need to be scraped. For the people who are concerned about the lead, if they have yet to install the valve, Doyle suggested they could go back to the distributor and ask for a valve that does not contain lead.
There are some businesses in Hawley that have already installed the valves. For them, Doyle said they "don�t have to do anything because they�re grandfathered." He explained that because the valve is already installed and there is a "small portion of lead, they can keep them in." But, if the commercial resident�s owner were to repair the valve after January 2014, they would need to replace it.
As for residential properties, Doyle said new construction, has to have the appropriate valve installed. But, with old residential properties, he said the requirement for the valves has not been enacted yet because "backflow brings a problem with it." He explained that the "thermal expansion" is something that new properties are being built with, while old residents are unlikely going to have them. So he said, "We�re working to get the high-hazards done first and new construction to follow the process."


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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Help Nest Feature 3: Can You/Are You Able To Do This?
Greetings Grammophiles,
This post addresses a question submitted by Olga in the Ukraine [hello over there, by the way]. She wanted to know if a meaningful difference exists between the modal verbs "can" and "to be able to." Olga specifically referenced these verbs in the simple past (could and was able to), but in this case what holds true for the past is just as true for the present and future. First, you might ask what a modal verb is, and what does it do? Like their name implies, modal verbs indicate modality, a linguistic term that generally refers to the speaker's attitude or perception regarding possibility or preference. Among other things, modal verbs indicate how possible an action is (can she do it?); how well the person likes the action (she likes to run); or what the ethical importance of the action is (she should/must/ought to run).
Here is a short list of common modal verbs:
can, must, should, to be able, ought, like, will, may
Now, to Olga's question. Does a meaningful difference exist between could and was able to? The general consensus seems to be no with a few exceptions. In many cases, these two modals can (are able to) be substituted for each other without altering the meaning one bit. See, it's just that easy! However, you can take a few differences into consideration when searching for the "right" one.
1) can is shorter than is able to. It requires fewer short, choppy words, so it conveys your point more easily. Simply put, can is an easier, quicker, and therefore more attractive alternative.
2) can does tend to convey a more general meaning regarding ability as opposed to is able to. For example, the sentence, "I could catch the bus," reflects only your theoretical ability to catch the bus (if you wanted to), but the sentence, "I was able to catch the bus," sounds much more definitive and factual to our Anglicized ears (you actually caught it).
3) can does not imply tangible results (resultative), so in these situations, is able to is more appropriate. The sentence, "I ran so fast, I was able to catch the bus," shows the result of your running. If you were to substitute could in the second clause, it would not make sense.
So, Olga, should you continue marking your students' papers wrong if they use could instead of was able to? Yes, in two specific cases. If you are focusing on style and smooth prose, could often presents a better alternative because it is shorter and does not involve that lame, general verb "to be." If, however, your students are writing about results (one thing caused something else to happen, and that something else was enablement/ability to do something), then they should and ought to use was able to.
Whew! I hope I was able to help (or was it "could help"?).
Brady Spangenberg
5 comments:
- Julia Miller said...
That's great, Brady. I'm sure international students misinterpret 'could' when they do evaluations of my teaching. I've had students respond to the statement 'This teacher could improve their teaching by . . .' by telling me all the things I've just done and which they've already said they liked. They obviously confused 'could' with 'was able to' and thought the question was asking them to comment on how I had already improved my teaching.
We seem to use 'could' only with a future/conditional sense when it's used positively in British and Australian English , eg 'we could do it (in the future) if we wanted to' (but we don't want to),
but it's ok to use it in the past if it's with a negative sense, eg 'we couldn't do it' (we were unable to do it).
How difficult English can be!
- November 11, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Matthew said...
Thanks Brady,
That was a very illuminating response, but one question about your second example: wouldn't "I am able to catch the bus" compare well with "I could catch the bus." The former sounds much less definitive and factual than "I was able...", as use in your example.
- November 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- Mrs. B said...
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LovelyLittleLexemes . blogspot . com
I do a word of the day plus etymologies with some grammar/linguistic write-ups.
Have a great day!
- December 8, 2010 at 8:04 AM
- Andrea Duff said...
What a gorgeous blog, Mrs B. It is a real 'corker' as we say in Australia. Thank you for sharing :)
- December 8, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Saranya said...
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- May 26, 2011 at 6:22 AM


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Chapter 96-310, Laws of Florida, amended Section 110.113, Florida Statutes, effective July 1, 1996, to require mandatory participation in the direct deposit program by new employees. Use of direct deposit is now a condition of employment for a person appointed to a position in State government on or after July 1, 1996. OPS employees are categorically exempt from this requirement, but are encouraged to participate. For information regarding these requirements, please refer to Comptroller's Memorandum No. 1, 1996-97, dated July 5, 1996.
Attached for your use is a report of employees of your agency employed since July 1, 1996, who are not participating in the direct deposit program. This report does not include OPS employees. We have indicated on the list those employees who have been exempted pursuant to provisions of Chapter 96-310, Laws of Florida. This list also includes new hires who may have signed up for direct deposit, but are not yet active. Please review this report and take steps to ensure that required employees enroll in the direct deposit program as soon as possible, but no later than 30 days from receipt of this notice. Please provide information on actions taken and results of your efforts to enroll employees in the direct deposit program to Bob Spooner, Bureau of Accounting, Room 414 Fletcher Building.
It is our intent to provide this report on a quarterly basis to facilitate compliance. If you have any questions, please call Mike Crowley or Steve Smith at 488-2922 or Suncom 278-2922.
This memorandum is being provided in electronic form to all agencies. A hard copy of the memorandum is also being provided to each agency, along with the applicable attachment.


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by Christian W. Peck
Public Information Officer
Niagara County Public Information Office
Top elected officials from North Tonawanda plan to call on their state assemblyman to shepherd a bill to limit sex offenders' access to children through the Assembly before the June 20 conclusion of the state's legislative session.
That North Tonawanda assemblyman, Robin Schimminger, is actually the author of the bill, which passed the state Senate Tuesday after Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-North Tonawanda, fast-tracked the bill for passage in the Legislature's upper chamber.
The bill was pushed through the Senate by Maziarz after the Assembly's leadership failed to provide a sponsor for a companion bill to a bill authored by Maziarz that would restrict sex offenders from residing within 1,500 feet of schools and other facilities utilized by children. Maziarz decided to sponsor the weaker Schimminger bill in the hopes of helping Niagara County enact safeguards against sex offenders after a state court in Geneva struck down a sex offender restriction law there similar to one on the books in Niagara County.
Thus far, Schimminger's bill, which was introduced in January, has not been voted out of committee, despite Schimminger's considerable seniority having served in the Assembly since 1977.
WHO: Legislator Paul B. Wojtaszek, R-North Tonawanda, Mayor Robert G. Ortt, R-North Tonawanda, City Attorney Shawn P. Nickerson, R-North Tonawanda
WHAT: Calling on Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, D-North Tonawanda, and the leadership of the New York State Assembly to bring A.3419 to the floor for a vote, and pass the same, following the passage of its companion bill, S.5680, in the Senate Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Schimminger, would restrict sex offenders from residing within 1,350 feet of schools and other facilities regularly utilized by children.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 12, 4 p.m.
WHERE: North Tonawanda City Hall, 216 Payne Ave., North Tonawanda.


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Yes, I think you can. I disagree with the author's "usually for a limited period of time."
In psychology, attachment theory is the study of the emotional bonds we form with other people.
See Attachment Theory - About.com
For almost all of us our attachment to our mothers is one of the most permanent and significant things in our lives.
In general (as opposed to scientific) usage, attachment still signifies the emotional connections we form with people, ideas or things. Depending on the nature of what we attach ourselves to, and on our own special natures, these bonds may be more permanent or less permanent. But I can see no justification for the blanket claim that our attachments are generally temporary.
To take just one example: those of us who post here as teachers rather than students probably all have a lifelong attachment to the English language, and I doubt that any of us will ever give that up.
Student or Learner


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Nakai, Journal of Japanese Botany 17: 203. 1941.
Members of Costaceae are perennial, rhizomatous, non-aromatic herbs, usually terrestrial or more rarely epiphytic. Stems are terete, most often unbranched, leafy, sometimes spirally contorted; when branched, then secondary branches break through the leaf sheaths (Tapeinochilus). Leaves are spirally arranged, with the sheaths closed and tubular; libule is present and the petiole short; pulvinus is absent; lamina are narrowly to broadly elliptic, rolled up from one side to the other in bud. The inflorescence a strobilaceous spike, terminal on the leafy shoot or on a separate, short, leafless shoot, or flowers solitary, axillary (Monocostus). Flowers are epigynous, perfect, and zygomorphic; the calyx is tubular, shortly 2-3 lobed; corolla is 3-lobed, with the lobes basally fused, imbricate in bud and unequal. Labellum is petaloid, staminodial, opposite to the stamen, as long as or much longer than the corolla, ± 3-lobed, often with crisped margin; basal part of stamen and labellum are united into a papillate tube. (From Kubitski, et al., p. 128)
Costus spectabilis Ridley