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Ordinarily I'm very, very good at finding people in the US censuses and I have found many problem listings for other people. But, I still have a few of my own Census Problems! I think new perspectives might help, so I'm starting "The Great Census Problem Swap!"
We can swap problems for a while and see where it takes us all. I'll give info on one of my problems. If you care to spend some time on my problem, just post one of YOUR census problems as a comment and I will work on yours! I promise to give it my best shot!
Clara Eveline (Davidson) Porter in the 1900 US Census?
In 1900, Clara was probably recently widowed, her father had just died, and her only daughter had been married in the past year. Clara should be 50-52 years old and probably with her 16-year-old son, L. Willis. How far could she have gotten?
Clara was born 24 Jun 1848 in Milton, Chittenden, Vermont, daughter of Titus Davison and Hannah Bascom. Clara appears to have always used the spelling DAVIDSON, while Titus consistently used DAVISON. She married Celim Homer Porter 22 Mar 1870 in Colchester, Chittenden, Vermont.
I have Clara in all of the following censuses:
- 1850 & 1860 in Milton, Chittenden, Vermont with her parents
- 1870 in Colchester, Chittenden, Vermont with Celim and his parents
- 1880 in Woods, Chippewa, Minnesota with SA (Celim), and sons George, Frank, and William (who I believe is also called Roy G.).
- 1910 & 1920 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California with son L Willis
But I cannot find her or son L Willis anywhere in the 1900 census.
Daughter Cora May Porter was born 16 December 1881 in Kerkhoven, Swift, Minnesota and son L (Leslie?) Willis Porter was born 28 Mar 1884 in Big Stone, Grant, South Dakota Territory. However, Willis's birthdate is from a Delayed Birth Certificate filed many years later.
I believe her husband Celim died 23 March 1898 in Grant, South Dakota, but I only have a family note to that effect. I do have formal sources for a 1906 probate in Vermont with no mention of a date or place of his death. Clara's father, Titus, died 22 May 1900, in Milton, Chittenden, Vermont.
Other family in the 1900 census
Son George C. is in St. Anthony precinct, Franklin County, Idaho with his family. Daughter Cora is in Big Stone Twp, Grant, South Dakota with her new husband. There is a Frank Porter, 24, single, butcher, living along in Fort Pierre Stanley, South Dakota, but I don't know for sure if this is Clara's son. There is a Roy G., 23, born Iowa, in the 8th ward, Omaha, Douglas, but I don't know for sure if this is Clara's son.
Two of Clara's three remaining siblings are still in Milton, Chittenden, Vermont for the 1900 census. The third, Willis A. Davison, is unaccounted for; I think he had left Vermont.
At some point, Clara acquired a farm in what is now Bottineau County, North Dakota; the legend is that she won it in a poker game. There are also family legends that Porterville in California got its name from the family and that son L Willis was a cowboy in Texas before coming to California. (His first wife was born in Texas. Their only child was born in 1913 in Los Angeles.)
Finding Clara or her son L Willis in the 1900 census will probably not give me any earth-shattering new info. It will just fill in some missing info.
Who is your biggest census problem? If you care to share, I'll be glad to give it a try! Have a great day!


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Sara Barker has been installed as the 54th president of the Silver Valley Civitan Club. Barker succeeds Chris Hughes in the club's highest office. Barker has served two terms as treasurer and chaplain once. She has been a member of the club nine years.
Sara Barker has been installed as the 54th president of the Silver Valley Civitan Club. Barker succeeds Chris Hughes in the club's highest office. Barker has served two terms as treasurer and chaplain once. She has been a member of the club nine years.
Barker challenged the club to have fun during the coming year and to attack each project with energy. She stated that 'no energy vampires' would be allowed.
The outgoing president in his 'State of the Club' address thanked each member for their support and gave a summary of club activities. Chris Hughes noted Special Olympics involvement was his top project and also spoke about Project Santa Claus, hosting an area meeting and the club attending a Hi-Toms baseball game.
Barker presented Hughes a past president's lapel pin, a personal plaque and his name placed for a second time on the past president's perpetual plaque that is displayed at Silver Valley Elementary School.
Other 2012-13 club officers installed are Chad Montgomery as president-elect, Julie Slack as secretary and Leigh Gallimore as treasurer. Directors are John Hughes, Connie Kindley, Harold Parrish and Immediate Past President Chris Hughes. The chaplain is Roger Barker and the sergeant-at-arms will be Joyce Hughes.
The installing officer was Past Civitan Governor Dan Allen III of Rockingham. He wife, Inell, the 2012-13 district governor-elect, presented Civitan International and District awards.
Ann Layne of Denton was inducted as new member. Layne is sponsored by Joyce Parrish.
The annual installation banquet was Oct. 2 at Skipper's Seafood Restaurant with 37 people in attendance.
The club has received its annual shipment of Claxton Old Fashioned Fruit Cake. Cakes are available from members at $4 per pound in one and two pound sizes. The club has 1,032 pounds of the holiday treat.
Barbecued chicken will be sold at church
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church will have its bi-annual barbebcued chicken fundraiser on Oct. 27. The plates consist of half of a chicken, potato salad, slaw, roll and dessert. The cost is $8 per plate. It is take out only. The chicken will be available from noon until 4 p.m. Call 472-2507 for tickets. Pleasant Grove UMC is located on Old Highway 64 at the Davidson –Randolph county line.
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The reviewers use a rule of thumb that caches placed within .10 miles (528 feet or 161 metres) of another cache may not be published on the site. This is an arbitrary distance and is just a guideline, but the ultimate goal is to reduce the number of caches hidden in a particular area and to reduce confusion that might otherwise result when one cache is found while looking for another. On the same note, don't go cache crazy and hide a cache every 600 feet just because you can. If you want to create a series of caches (sometimes called a "Power Trail"), the reviewer may require you to create a multi-cache, if the waypoints are close together. A series of caches that are generally intended to be found as a group are good candidates for submission as a single multicache.
We didn't have any power trails in Iowa until a few weeks ago when I approved the LOBRI Trails in Muscatine, after geocachers LOBRI wrote to me to request that their series be approved so they could "draw attention to geocaching" in Muscatine in advance of an upcoming geocaching event and so they could take a local newspaper reporter on a cache hunt. Even though Grounspeak discourages power trails (see the guideline excerpt above) I decided to approve this series. Evidently that power trail or others outside of Iowa inspired other geocachers to create their own power trails. Now several more have been submitted.
Because of what's written in the guidelines, I'm going to begin questioning geocachers who submit power trails -- asking why they can't be set up as multi-caches instead. If there is no good reason, they can expect that their power trail cache will not be approved.


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Q: Is there a way to tell if a beach in the Caribbean is clean?
— M. Lynch, Toronto
A: The Blue Flag Program — run by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) — helps monitor water cleanliness worldwide. The Copenhagen-based non-profit organization currently reports there are 3,849 beaches and marinas in 46 countries across Europe, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, the Caribbean and more that have been awarded Blue Flag status.
The process to get the prestigious designation is quite involved. The beach needs to meet 32 criteria involving environmental education, water quality, safety and environmental management. When it comes to monitoring water quality, five issues are examined. The beach must fully comply with water-quality sampling and frequency requirements. And the beach area must be unaffected by industrial, waste-water or sewage-related discharges.
In the Caribbean, six island nations currently have Blue Flag beaches. Jamaica has eight Blue Flag beaches and one Blue Flag marina — six are in Negril (Coco La Palm, Couples Negril, Couples Swept Away, Long Bay Beach Park, Merrils One and Merrils Two).
In December, four U.S. Virgin Islands beaches received certification. Blue Flags are now raised on St. Thomas as Lindbergh Bay's Emerald Beach Resort and Great Bay's Ritz Carlton. St. John's Trunk Bay has Blue Flag status, as well as St. Croix's Palms at Pelican Cove Beach Resort. See blueflag.org.
Is that Caribbean beach clean?
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In 2014, Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood launched "Porn Studies," the world's first academic periodical devoted exclusively to pornography, although many of their colleagues—and anti-porn feminists—advised them against it.
Clarissa Smith, a professor of sexual cultures at the University of Sunderland in the UK, is describing to me the ideal sex robot. "Maybe it wouldn't look like a human at all," she says. "It could be like a sleeping bag you zip yourself into and have a whole-body experience. How fabulous would that be? You could have your toes tickled and your head massaged at the same time."
I ask if she's seen the two-legged cyborgs from Boston Robotics that don't fall over, even when shoved. "They kind of look like horses," she says. "They're not sexy." She tells me that if she had any business acumen, she'd design her own pleasure bots. "I wouldn't be talking about this journal."
The journal we've been talking about is Porn Studies, the first academic periodical devoted exclusively to the study of pornography. Founded in 2014 by Smith and Feona Attwood, a professor in cultural studies, communication, and media at Middlesex University London, it's since become the go-to quarterly for hot-and-heavy, peer-reviewed research on how porn is constructed and consumed around the world.
After receiving a raft of coverage from the Atlantic, the Washington Post, VICE, and, of course, the Daily Mail, nearly 250,000 people viewed the journal online over its premiere weekend. The first issue featured an article by groundbreaking film scholar Linda Williams, an essay on how porn literacy is being taught in UK schools, and a meta-analysis of porn titled "Deep Tags: Toward a Quantitative Analysis of Online Pornography"—which reads sort of like Nate Silver's guide to PornHub. Later issues have explored topics as varied as the "necropolitics" of zombie porn to the "disposal" of gay porn star bottoms who bareback.
Porn has long been a popular field of academic research—professor Linda Williams's seminal text on the subject, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" was first published in 1989—but its scholarly inspection has not been without controversy.
"It has been considered a 'despised form,'" Smith said. "But I think there are enough people around now who are approaching pornography from a whole range of viewpoints, not just asking, 'Should it exist?' or 'How should we regulate it?' but 'What is it? Who's in it? How does it work?'"
Before Smith became a leading expert in pornography, she was working at an ad agency and pursuing a master's degree in women's studies. "I sat through so many lectures about the radical feminists' rejection of porn," she said. Then, one day at the office, she received a press packet from two publishers who were just about to launch soft-core magazines for women.
"I was like, hang on, two publishers think it's worth it to launch porn magazines, and yet women supposedly have no interest in this?"
Smith had friends who were into porn, she enjoyed a good Chippendales show now and then, and she'd watched as the Ann Summers sex shop in her neighborhood had transformed from someplace dark and seedy to a "bright and colorful" spot to buy sex toys.
"I saw these things happening, which, according to theory, couldn't be happening." She had a gut feeling that porn, too, was being misjudged.
In 1999, Smith decided to analyze For Women magazine, a relatively upmarket glossy that ran features like "Semen: a user's guide" and "Women who sleep with strangers night after night." The magazine, Smith argued, sought to manufacture "a space where women [could] be sexually free" by writing about things like three-ways, cuckolding fetishes, and anal sex in a way that made them seem normal. It was also primo masturbation material, offering "male bodies for female consumption" and real-life sex stories.
Academics and peers she respected tried to dissuade Smith from continuing down the porn path. "They would ask me, 'When are you going to move on from this area into more serious study?' They'd also tell me I was really brave." She laughs. "I wasn't brave, I was interested!"
When academics analyze comics, horror films, video games, or anime, it isn't generally assumed that their scholarship constitutes a ringing endorsement of everything in their field of study. But with porn, it's different. The topic is so "burdened with significance," as transgender studies professor Bobby Noble once described it, it's easy to get trapped in the debate over its existence—instead of looking at it objectively as a cultural product.
But Smith ignored the naysayers and, over the next few years, penned a number of articles with titles like, "Shiny Chests and Heaving G-Strings: A Night Out with the Chippendales" and "They're Ordinary People, Not Aliens from the Planet Sex! The Mundane Excitements of Pornography for Women."
She was cavorting with other porn academics and traveling to conferences when she fortuitously met Feona Attwood. "It felt like we were the only two people talking about [porn], at least in the UK," Smith said. The pair eventually brought their idea for a porn studies journal to the multinational academic publishing house Routledge, initiating two-and-a-half years of negotiation. When, finally, the two were told their proposal for the journal had been accepted, they "sat in stupefied silence for about ten minutes," Smith said.
Nearly as soon as Porn Studies was announced, a feminist anti-porn organization in the UK called Stop Porn Culture circulated an online petition demanding the creation of an anti-porn journal for the sake of balance. Signatories claimed the journal was akin to "murder studies" from the viewpoints of "murderers."
Smith and Attwood believe they somewhat missed the point. "We were trying to move away from the idea that there were only two ways of thinking," said Attwood. "Like for or against television, or for or against the novel. It's a bizarre way of thinking, from an academic point of view."
At the time, the UK had recently banned a long list of hardcore sex acts from porn produced in the country, including "spanking, caning, whipping, penetration by an object 'associated with violence,' physical or verbal abuse (consensual or not), urination in sexual contexts, female ejaculation, strangulation, facesitting and fisting (if all knuckles are inserted)." The country's mood wasn't exactly sex-positive.
"We have this idea that we can just keep undesirable things out of the country," Smith said.
That fearful attitude, naturally, extends to university campuses. "I don't think there was ever a golden age for studying porn," Attwood told me. "It's always been tricky!" She says the resistance the pair encountered—and continue to encounter—is part of a "much broader" problem related to academic freedom; at the University of Houston, for example, teachers were recently told they might want to modify what they teach in case students are carrying concealed weapons.
"The social and political context we are working in at the moment as academics makes our work more precarious and dangerous in all kinds of ways that are not just about what we study," Attwood said.
Yet the history of porn research in the United States isn't as dramatic as you'd imagine. Linda Williams was able to teach porn with full support of her administration way back in the (H.W.) Bush years.
"There is still such a thing as academic freedom," Williams said nonchalantly when I asked how administrators reacted to her porny syllabi when she taught the subject at UC Irvine, in the heart of conservative Orange County, in 1992.
Back then, Williams, who'd already published a book on the subject by that point, would screen whatever porn was floating around in the cultural ether. She had her students watch gonzo porn; feminist porn ("cleaned up with lots of potted plants and no money shots"); and sadomasochist porn ("the theatrical kind…and the other kind").
The biggest issue students had was with the gay porn, which Williams says freaked out the hetero guys—a lot. Usually, though, what students did in her classes was laugh their heads off. "That's kind of a protective measure, because otherwise they might, you know, get horny," she said.
When I asked Smith if she screened porn in her classes, though, I was surprised to hear that she didn't.
"Both Feona [Attwood] and I have tenure, but that still doesn't mean that you can do what you like. Also, I'm at a small, provincial university that is one of the post-1992 schools [formerly polytechnics or colleges of higher education in the UK], and we don't have a very bullish attitude that we're the elite, so I have to be aware of the university's sensibilities, which are: Can we defend this to parents? I don't want to cause that kind of trouble."
For now, Smith is advising graduate students, conducting research, attending conferences, and, of course, editing Porn Studies. She says she's most concerned about making sure the next generation doesn't feel the same sense of shame over their sexual desires as the older people she's interviewed in her research. "In the research that Feona and I did, one of the key things that comes through when you talk to older people about their engagements with porn [is that] people say, 'I just wish someone had had a proper conversation with me about sex. I just wish I hadn't felt so much shame about looking and finding bodies attractive and going looking for it. It's taken me a long time to understand what I like sexually.' Why do we want another generation coming up afraid of their bodies and ashamed of their desires?"
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Dr. Marcia Delcourt is the Coordinator for the Doctor of Education in Instructional Leadership Program at Western Connecticut State University (WCSU). She received her B.A. degree in Special Education from Bloomsburg State University, PA. She received an M.A. from the University of Connecticut (UCONN) in Special Education/Gifted Education and her PhD from UCONN's Department of Educational Psychology, focusing on both gifted education and measurement and evaluation. She is a Professor in the Department of Education and Educational Psychology at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT. She also serves as an educational and research consultant. From 1997-1999 she was an Associate Professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT and from 1993-1997 she was a Professor at McGill University where she taught courses in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology. She has also been an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1988-1993) and a Principal Investigator for The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Dr. Delcourt has been active in education for over 25 years as a teacher, graduate level program coordinator, curriculum and program consultant, program evaluator, and researcher. She received the Early Scholar Award for 1996 from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and is the Past Chair for the Division of Research and Evaluation of NAGC. In 2008, she received recognition as a Woman of Achievement from Western Connecticut's Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa and received the Second Annual Excellence in Teaching Award from WCSU.
Dr. Delcourt has been a Principal Investigator (PI) or evaluator for 25 national or state grants. For example, she has been a PI for two Jacob K. Javits grants, The Learning Outcomes Study (Delcourt, M. A. B., Loyd, B. H., Cornell, D. G., & Goldberg, M. D, 1994) and the Qualitative follow-up to that study (Delcourt, M. A. B., & Evans, K., 1994), as well as the evaluator for Project C.U.E.: Creating Urban Excellence (Delcourt, 2000) (Javits grant), 21st Century grants (2003-2013), a Mentoring grant, and the Improving Schools Study (Chancellor's Office for New York City Public Schools) (Center for Resource Management, 2002). She had also worked on the evaluation team studying restructuring efforts in Providence, RI, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and Brown University. She continues to work with colleagues in Canada on multiple inquiry projects. At the state level, she has also been a PI for a Title II grant and for 2 Teacher Quality Partnership grants, one in mathematics and one in science. As a professor, she advises doctoral candidates in their dissertation work, and was one of the authors/designers of the Doctor of Education in Instructional Leadership Program offered at Western Connecticut State University.
Her 70+ publications have appeared in journals such as Educational and Psychological Measurement, Gifted Child Quarterly, The Journal for the Education of the Gifted, International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving, Roeper Review, and Journal of Research and Development in Education. Her present research interests include developing inquiry in teachers and students, encouraging talent development, analyzing program development and assessment techniques, developing student learning outcomes, encouraging teachers as researchers, and assessing the impact of computer technologies. She recently edited a book with colleagues from McGill University entitled Inquiry in education volume II: Overcoming barriers to successful implementation. She is presently working with educators and researchers through the government of India to identify and mentor children with high ability in mathematics and science.


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6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations
There seem to be two kinds of people in the world: those who don't understand cats, and those who think cats are kind of douchebags.
Unfortunately for cat lovers, science has kind of come down on the side of that second group. Research has revealed that a lot of the quirky and even cute things your kitty does are actually signs that your cat is kind of a dick.
Meowing to Imitate a Baby Human
Cats have many different ways of communicating, but the meow is every cat's go-to vocalization when it wants to tell us something; be it, "I'm hungry," "pay attention to me" or "I just took a dump, go clean it up." However, far from the one-dimensional barking sound that dogs use to communicate, cats are like living stereo equalizers that are able to fine tune the pitches and tones of their meows... so they can better manipulate you into doing what they want.
A recent study has shown that people subconsciously can tell the difference between a pleading or soliciting meow and a run of the mill, casual one just by listening to sound clips taken from different felines in different situations. The subjects said the soliciting sounds came across as more urgent and less pleasant than a normal meow, much like the cries a human baby makes when she's hungry.
In fact, further studies have proven that a cat's cry for food or attention shares a remarkable similarity in frequency to a baby's cry. It's not coincidence- it's pure, kitty evil genius.
Using their expertise in Soviet-style subliminal advertising, cats adjust their purrs and meows to include this frequency which then prompts their owners into responding to them more quickly. Like well trained animals ourselves, we respond because, not only is the sound annoying to us, but it also stimulates our natural instinct to immediately nurture anything that sounds like our offspring, even if it is covered in fur and named Mr. Bojangles.
Leaving Their Poop Uncovered As An Insult
One of the major perks to owning a cat over, say, a dog or a horse, is that all cats instinctively drop their waste into neat little litter boxes, eliminating the need for frequent "walkies" and the palpable awkwardness that comes with the public use of pooper-scoopers and plastic baggies. Cats instinctively seek to bury their droppings, so it works out for everybody.
Contrary to popular assumptions though, this behavior doesn't come from Snowball's obsessive compulsive cleanliness, but rather an evolutionary holdover from before felines were domesticated and had more dangerous predators than the vacuum cleaner to worry about.
Burying the poop prevents detection by their enemies, but there's another layer to it, which is that they do it to avoid challenging the dominant cat of the group. It kind of makes sense, if burying the poop is a sign that they fear another, larger animal, then leaving it uncovered would be a pretty aggressive act. "No one here is bad enough to fuck with me. Enjoy my shit."
So... what do you suppose it means when your cat doesn't bother to cover his poop?
Yep, some cats intentionally leave their crap uncovered or in conspicuous locations (such as on a doormat or in your sister's bed) in order to communicate to us that they are the dominant member of the household, and that this territory is theirs.
In the wacky world of feline politics, feces act as little, smelly flags that clearly dictate the boundaries of each cat's domain. In the wild, these flags are intended to be seen, and smelled, by other cats, a sign that this is the stomping grounds of a badass kitty.
When it comes to the shared domain with humans that domesticated cats enjoy, the same territorial rules still apply, so a housecat who leaves his waste out in the open is sending the message to us that he is El Presidente, and that we should be covering up our shit, so as not to offend him.
And guess what? We do. We helpfully flush away our poop and your cat probably thinks it's done entirely to avoid offending him. Yes, if you want to take back your house, it's time to poop in kitty's bed.
Rubbing Against You to Declare Ownership
By nature cats are hard to read. They're not like dogs, hopping around with joy when you walk in the door, or slinking away with shame when caught eating the garbage. No, cats have mastered an expression of almost disdainful indifference that they seem to wear regardless of their mood.
However, as any spinster will tell you, a cat's affection is obvious when its purring and rubbing its face and body against your leg. It's like the animal is giving you a little kitty hug the only way it knows how!
The problem with that, though, is when cats rub up against their owners, it has nothing to do with affection at all, but instead is kitty's way of claiming you as its property.
Cats, like many other animals, are packed full of pheromone-oozing scent glands that are primarily used to communicate with other cats on such hot topics as identity, sexual availability and territorial ownership. The most active and important glands that a cat uses to send these messages are located on the tail, the side of the body and the face. Thus, when a cat rubs up against your legs or slides its face along your hand, it is engaging these glands in order to leave its unique scent on you.
That scent in turn communicates to any other animals in the vicinity that not only is it, say, female and horny, but that you, the human, belong to her. When a cat brushes against your legs, it's less a furry hug and more of a prison yard tattoo. One that reads, "Owned By: Mittens" and, "Single Siamese Female, 8, seeking uncut Tom for a romp in the alley."


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Feature requests & roadmap / Multiple USB security camera sensors on one USB bus« on: February 20, 2010, 08:29:34 pm »
If we were to set security-specific USB cameras to only take snapshots once every five seconds, regardless of which orbiter was accessing them, we could then create a software alternator to switch between cameras on the same bus so that only one camera would be running at a time. This would allow for multiple USB cameras to be installed on LMCE on the same bus. The hope is that this would allow people to set up a fully functional, state-of-the-art security system using nothing more than one computer, a network of usb hubs, and USB webcams set up as security cameras.
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Paul Cormier needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Carolina Home Mortgage
Carolina Home Mortgage is a locally owned, independent firm serving those fortunate to call North Carolina home. We have been helping people buy and refinance their homes since 2000.
Our Commitment
* To provide the best mortgage advice and products
* To keep our clients informed during the mortgage process
* To facilitate a smooth closing
Locations: Chapel Hill, Burlington, Fayetteville, Pittsboro NC
Home Buyers looking for a mortgage or mortgage information. Home owners looking to refinance their homes, Real estate agents helping with their clients financing needs.
Attached is the current logo we use on all our stationary and on our website at http://www.carolinahomemortgage.com. We need to update the look while still maintaining the familiarity of our brand. Specifically, we need to keep 3 pine cones and the words "Carolina Home Mortgage" in the Logo.
The design should also include the tagline:
"Helping You Make Carolina Home"
The final design will need to be submitted in AI format. All fonts used will need to be specified.
Forest green and brown are the primary company colors, however alternate colors will be considered.
Logo needs to work well on light colored backgrounds.
Our website is being redesigned, with a modern, colorful look, so think "Web 2.0", subtle gradients, simple lines, modern typography, etc.
Also consider "North Carolina" imagery (mountains, pine trees, etc.)
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Please join us in Booth N2915 just across from Airbus Helicopters.
Guardian Mobility, a Knowmadics Company
Guardian Mobility is a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for global tracking, voice and data communications, Flight Data Monitoring and analytics services to the aviation marketplace. Guardian has developed a full range of products and services targeted towards assisting aircraft operators increase safety and efficiency and reduce costs with improved reporting. Guardian introduced its first portable GPS tracking device in 2002, delivering location and status information and has since developed solutions to facilitate 2-way text messaging and automatic data communications between the aircraft and the ground. Guardian's products are approved for government-mandated Automatic Flight Following (AFF) and are used by fleet operators worldwide for Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and Engine Trend Monitoring (ETM) to support Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) and Maintenance Operations Quality Assurance (MOQA) as part of a Safety Management System (SMS).


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A counterpart to the biblical adage that the poor will always be with us is the notion that the rich will always be one tax hike away from leaving us.
That's the foundation stone, after all, of the argument against raising taxes on "job creators" and of bestowing preferential treatment on capital gains (largely collected by the rich) over wage income (the sustenance of us other poor slobs).
And it's a linchpin of the campaign against Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to raise income taxes on income above $250,000, topping out at a 13.3% rate on income over $1 million. Go after the wealthy like that, the argument goes, and the rich will flow out of the state like rainwater cascading down a sewer grate.
It's refreshing, therefore, to see some hard data on the issue, and illuminating to learn what it tells us, which is: Not so.


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The 2016 high school football season is close to kicking off and Rosedale Technical College is once again proud to be a sponsor of the Friday Night Rivals series in the Pittsburgh and Harrisburg markets. Rosedale Tech will be the halftime sponsor in the Pittsburgh market and the first-down sponsor in the Harrisburg market. Friday…read more


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Alterity needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 83 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Modern Practitioner - Tag line: Wisdom Wealth Well-Being - should be included in the logo design
Modern Practitioner is a new website which is content and coaching membership based. It will deliver educational articles, audio interviews and newsletters. Please do not use the expected medical dental symbols. I want it to have an image that you would use for a lawyer or real estate etc.
The target audience is Dentists, Chiropractors and Optometrists. This audience is well educated and don't have a lot of time so the image has to gain their interest quickly. I would like something that has a "High tech, high touch" look and feel to it for this sophisticated audience.
Tag line: Wisdom Wealth Well-Being - should be included in the logo design
Please do not use medical symbols that relate to this industry. What I am looking for is something unexpected, something that gives an image of calm in a busy business world? A logo image with the test.
*Upper or lower case to me depends on the layout and image so I have no preference
* Should convey a modern,clean, fresh, professional look that also has a "luxury" feel to it.
* I would like the look to convey trust and you would want to do business with this company
* No Black Background
* No red or purple in the image
* Must be in usable formats for website, wordpress, joomla and powerpoint slides
* Vector, Illustrator, jpg and tiff. I also need them in a layered format, either .png or .psd
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|This is the article on the manga volume. For the character, head to Naruto Uzumaki. For other uses, see Naruto (disambiguation).
|Naruto Uzumaki
|(うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto)
|Volume Info
|The Worst Client
|Release Date
|March 3, 2000 ISBN (978-4-08872-840-7)
|August 6, 2003 ISBN (978-1-56931-900-0)
Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) is volume 1 of the Naruto manga.
Chapter 1
- "Naruto Uzumaki!! " (うずまきナルト!!, Uzumaki Naruto!!)
Twelve years ago, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox devastated the shinobi village of Konohagakure, and was only stopped when the village's leader, the Fourth Hokage, gave up his life to seal it within the body of an infant: Naruto Uzumaki. Years later, Naruto has grown into a prankster who is constantly causing trouble around the village. The villagers dislike him for it, but having no parents or friends, Naruto craves even negative attention.
Despite claiming to be a talented shinobi who will someday become Hokage, Naruto is incapable of performing even the most basic of techniques, such as the Clone Technique. After failing to graduate from the Academy, one of his instructors, Mizuki, tells him that if he manages to steal the Scroll of Seals and learn one of its secret technique, he will finally be allowed to continue on to the ranks of the ninja. After successfully stealing the scroll, Naruto is caught by another instructor, Iruka Umino. Surprised that Iruka found him so quickly, Naruto worries that he will now be unable to graduate. Realising that Naruto has been tricked, Iruka protects him from Mizuki's attack, Mizuki planning to take the scroll for himself.
Mizuki tells Naruto that he is alone in the world because of the Nine-Tails sealed within him, a fact previously hidden from Naruto. He goes on to explain that the villagers hate him for the monster he contains and that Iruka, his parents having been killed by the Nine-Tails, must hate him the most. Iruka says this is not the case as he does not blame Naruto for the beast's actions, and in fact he sympathises with Naruto, having also grown up craving attention. Naruto believes him and uses his newly mastered Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat Mizuki. Amazed by the complicated technique Naruto has learned, Iruka officially makes Naruto a ninja in training.
Chapter 2
- "Konohamaru!!" (木ノ葉丸!!, Konohamaru!!)
While preparing for his life as a ninja, Naruto Uzumaki meets the young Konohamaru in the middle of an attempt on the Third Hokage's life. When he fails, Konohamaru asks to train under Naruto, hoping that his Sexy Technique will be enough to defeat the Third and become Hokage. Planning to become Hokage himself, Naruto asks why he would want the title. Konohamaru explains that, as the Third's grandson, people only identify him as such and not by his name. He hopes that, by becoming Hokage, people will acknowledge him, not because he's the grandson of the latter.
Knowing what Konohamaru is going through, Naruto agrees to train him. Ebisu, Konohamaru's tutor, believes the "Nine-Tails boy" is a bad influence and attempts to stop their training. Konohamaru uses his perfected Sexy Technique to try and get rid of Ebisu, but it has no effect. Naruto follows up with his Harem Technique, which affected Ebisu and a proof he's also a pervert. Seeing that he still has much to learn, Konohamaru breaks off his student-teacher relationship with Naruto, as depending on Naruto's help to become Hokage would mean he is unfit for the position.
Chapter 3
- "Sasuke Uchiha!!" (うちはサスケ!!, Uchiha Sasuke!!)
Naruto Uzumaki, having finally passed his graduation exam, heads to the ninja academy to be put into three man squads. He ends up paired with Sakura Haruno, a girl Naruto has a crush on, and Sasuke Uchiha, the person Naruto considers to be his rival. After Sakura shows disappointment at being paired with Naruto, and only happy about being paired with Sasuke, Naruto devises a plan. During lunch Naruto ambushes Sasuke and ties him up, then uses the Transformation Technique to turn into Sasuke. Approaching Sakura as Sasuke, Naruto goes about finding what she thinks of him. Interrupted by having to go to the bathroom (right before he can get a kiss from Sakura), Sasuke manages to get free. Sasuke passes Sakura and she pesters him about their time together a few moments earlier. She then goes about insulting Naruto, and makes fun of him having no parents. Sasuke retorts angrily, saying she makes him sick. Deciding she has been too mean to Naruto, she decides she should try and be nicer to him from now on.
Chapter 4
- "Kakashi Hatake!!" (はたけカカシ!!, Hatake Kakashi!!)
The newly-formed Team 7 is given the jōnin instructor, Kakashi Hatake. To help them get to know each other, they all share something about themselves; Naruto wants to be Hokage; Sasuke wants to kill a certain someone; Sakura blushes before revealing that she likes Sasuke, but openly states she hates Naruto; Kakashi, despite it being his idea, refuses to tell them anything about himself, instead suggesting that they are all hopeless.
Before they can officially be made genin and thus ninja, Team 7 must take part in a survival test. Kakashi advises they do not eat beforehand and gives them until the next day to prepare. He then shows up late. Team 7 is tasked with getting one of the two bells he keeps on his person. Whichever two members get a bell will get lunch and be made into a genin while the third is sent back to the Academy with an empty stomach. Determined to take a bell for himself, Naruto attacks Kakashi. He is easily stopped, by Kakashi. Kakashi suggests that they may have potential after all.
Chapter 5
- "Unpreparedness is One's Greatest Enemy!!" (油断大敵!!, Yudan Taiteki!!)
Sasuke and Sakura go into hiding, planning to ambush Kakashi when an opportunity presents itself. Naruto takes a direct approach and confronts Kakashi, planning to immediately take one of his two bells so that he can have something to eat. Kakashi repels Naruto's attacks with little effort, all without interrupting his reading of an Icha Icha book. Kakashi warns Naruto to avoids showing his bind spot to an enemy and attacks with One Thousand Years of Death that sends Naruto crashing into a nearby lake. Frustrated by the ease with which he is being defeated, Naruto creates a number of shadow clones to overpower Kakashi. The clones capture and attack Kakashi, only to discover that Kakashi is another of Naruto's shadow clones.
Chapter 6
- "Only for Sasuke…!!" (サスケ君に限って…!!, Sasuke-Kun ni Kagitte…!!)
Naruto gets into a fight with his shadow clones, believing that one of them is Kakashi in disguise. This is not the case, to his disappointment, Kakashi having merely switched places with one of the clones. Naruto is quickly cheered up when he sees a bell lying on the ground. He goes to pick it up, but is tied to a tree before he can do so. Kakashi appears and lectures him about obvious traps. Sasuke takes Kakashi's preoccupation to attack, but finds that this is also a trap. His location exposed, Sasuke flees. Sakura, worried about Sasuke, goes looking for him, but falls prey to one of Kakashi's genjutsu. Kakashi tracks down Sasuke, remarking that he is the only one left.
Chapter 7
- "Kakashi's Conclusion" (カカシの結論, Kakashi no Ketsuron)
Determined to prove himself better than Naruto and Sakura, Sasuke attacks Kakashi. Unlike the other two, Kakashi has difficulty with Sasuke, needing to close the Icha Icha book he was reading so that he can avoid Sasuke's attacks. When Sasuke uses the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, Kakashi is forced to stop playing around and immobilises Sasuke. Naruto, meanwhile, frees himself from Kakashi's trap and tries to steal some lunch. He is, however, caught by Kakashi red-handed. Kakashi calls Team 7 together and states that there's no need for the three go back to the Academy, however he advises them to give up on becoming ninja.
Author's Note
|Greetings. With everyone's support, my first comic has been published. I'm ecstatic. Speaking of ecstatic, the first time I won an award for one of my manga, I was so happy I was flying high. But this time is 10 times better than that. I don't know how to say it, but this is the happiest moment of my life. But I guess I'm happiest knowing that this comic will be read and enjoyed. Yup, that's it!
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Navigating the complicated interests of tax reform
UPDATE: A clarification regarding this story about the controversial tax bill in Congress and specifically a measure about how much private plane companies should pay.
We reported Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, D, sponsored the measure. It ensures private plane companies don't have to pay the so called "ticket taxes" when they are simply sitting in storage.
While Senator Brown has supported exempting these companies from excise taxes as recently as February of this year, he is not the sponsor of this particular amendment.
His office also says it isn't a new tax break, and only clears up confusion between those plane companies and the IRS over existing law.
These are turbulent times on Capitol Hill, with tempers flaring over tax reform.
One flash point; a measure that could lower taxes for those who own or lease private jets.
Back in 2011, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown railed against even the appearance of tax cuts for jet owners, saying the GOP was only hurting itself while helping the wealthy.
But Brown sponsored a measure in the current tax bill that some argue is a break for the rich.
The Hill reports it would exempt jet owners for paying certain costs related to upkeep and maintenance.
Private owners already pay a higher fuel tax than commercial airlines do, and so some say they should not have to pay the so-called ticket tax -- especially since they don't typically issue taxes.
Brown's office was quoted as saying it in no way cuts taxes for private jet owners.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that the amendment is bipartisan, and backed by Brown's fellow Ohio lawmaker Republican Rob Portman.
The article also points out that Ohio is home to two private jet companies, implying that the proposal may be more about state loyalties than anything else -- just one example of how the fine print in a 400-page bill could lead to more fights when Congress returns.


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Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty!
When Matthew Crawford finished his doctorate in political philosophy at the University of Chicago, he took a job at a Washington think tank. "I was always tired," he writes, "and honestly could not see the rationale for my being paid at all." He quit after five months and started doing motorcycle repair in a decaying factory in Richmond, Va. This journey from philosopher manqué to philosopher-mechanic is the arc of his new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. It's appropriate that it arrives in May, the month when college seniors commence real life. Skip Dr. Seuss, or a tie from Vineyard Vines, and give them a copy for graduation.
The graduates won't even skim Shop Class, of course. But maybe, five years from now, when they can't understand why their high-paying jobs at Micron Consulting seem pointless and enervating, Crawford's writing will show them a way forward. It's not an insult to say that Shop Class is the best self-help book that I've ever read. Almost all works in the genre skip the "self" part and jump straight to the "help." Crawford rightly asks whether today's cubicle dweller even has a respectable self. Many of us work in jobs with no discernible products or measurable results. We manage brands and implement initiatives, all the while basing our self-esteem on the opinions of others.
Compare that with the motorcycle mechanic. Instead of the vague threat of a performance review, the mechanic faces the tactile problem of a bike that won't start. He tests various theories and deploys actual tools. The sign of success is a roaring engine. In Shop Class, Crawford talks about fixing bikes and the analytical lessons he draws from his gearhead days. It's kind of like Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In one virtuoso episode, an oil seal on a 1983 Honda Magna V45 becomes a lesson in how curiosity can be dangerous when it becomes fixated *. We become self-absorbed, even self-indulgent. The ideal, when working on a bike, is to keep the customer in mind, to realize that messing with the bike (satisfying our curiosity) ultimately needs to be curtailed by consideration of the wider world—i.e., the customer, who doesn't want to overpay. As Crawford points out, much "knowledge work" lacks this element of practical wisdom, of opening out into the experience of others. Just go read a few dissertations.
While doing the work of a mechanic provides intellectual challenges and the intrinsic satisfactions of completing problems from start to finish, Crawford knows that working in the trades is seen as déclassé and too limiting for a college graduate. And then he goes on to show how stupid that viewpoint is.
The first piece of evidence to consider is a quote from the Princeton economist Alan Blinder about how the labor market of the next decades won't necessarily be divided between the highly educated and the less-educated: "The critical divide in the future may instead be between those types of work that are easily deliverable through a wire (or via wireless connections) with little or no diminution in quality and those that are not." Binder goes on to summarize his own take: "You can't hammer a nail over the Internet." Learning a trade is not limiting but, rather, liberating. If you are in possession of a skill that cannot be exported overseas, done with an algorithm, or downloaded, you will always stand a decent chance of finding work. Even rarer, you will probably be a master of your own domain, something the thousands of employed but bored people in the service industries can only dream of.
Crawford distinguishes between trades such as carpentry or plumbing and traditional manufacturing jobs, lamenting the transformation that the arrival of "scientific management" in the early 1900s wrought in the latter: "[S]cattered craft knowledge is concentrated in the hands of the employer, then doled out again to workers in the form of minute instructions needed to perform some part of the process." But, you, reading this on the computer, are surely light years away from the gears and cogs and debasing routine of Ford's assembly line. No. Crawford shows how the same thing that happened to trade work is happening to some forms of knowledge work, too.
Crawford focuses on cubicle life, the kind of job in a major city that many bright college grads would be happy to land: investment analyst, paralegal, junior marketing executive, sales associate. He doesn't have a lot to say directly about the caring professions, like teaching, or about self-styled Web artisans or slackers. It's the cubicle and its "contradictions" that get him riled up. Just as in the assembly line, "[t]he cognitive elements of the job," writes Crawford, "are appropriated from professionals, instantiated in a system or process, and then handed back to the new class of workers—clerks—who replace the professionals." Look around the field in which you toil, be it advertising, finance, or consulting. Who really gets to face new problems and make decisions based on their knowledge and instincts, and who is just another clerk, following instructions?
Now you begin to understand why you watch The Office. The cubicle life is amorphous. What are you actually making? How do you know if you are advancing at your job? Does sending e-mail all day help the brand? Does my boss think I am a good guy? It's an absurd situation, and "self-referential irony supplied by pop culture" helps one cope with that absurdity. Crawford looks around at the sociologists who have studied office life and concludes that the office is best approached as a "place of moral education" with managers acting as therapists, concentrating on helping us become team players. The "team" is what launches the product, lands the account, drives the business. "The individual feels that, alone, he is without any effect," writes Crawford. And worse: "He has difficulty imagining how he might earn a living otherwise." The team makes us passive and helpless.
With language like this, Crawford echoes the '50s critique of "other-directedness" put forward in those classics of sociology that sound more dated than they are, The Lonely Crowdand The Organization Man. With his motorcycle-inspired "metaphysics of quality," Crawford pays obvious homage to Robert Pirsig. But what distinguishes Crawford from his predecessors is how far blue-collar work, both in numbers and prestige, has fallen since even the '70s. Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I've got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley.
What is the way out? We all can't become motorcycle mechanics. And while Crawford would not be so unsubtle as to suggest direct prescriptions for happiness, he emerges from his tales of camshafts, Porsche repairs, and tales of hack jobs with some strategies for avoiding despondent alienation. The first is a notion of scale. It's satisfying to complete a task from start to finish. Start a small business, or learn a trade—really! Do you know how much plumbers make? It also helps to imbue what you do with a sense of craftsmanship. Strive not for flimsy new economy "flexibility" but for real, handy expertise in a chosen field. The point is to achieve mastery, which in turn gives you a skill not subject to the whims of office politics. Finally, think about how your work affects others. This is a hedge against both narcissistic creativity and doing actual harm.
Now, I don't want to leave you with the impression that Crawford is sending us all off to plumbing school. He's not idiotic. His macroeconomic argument is this: "We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed)." You might call Crawford a locavore of work. He wants economic policies that are human in scale and provide maximum opportunity for self-reliance and self-employment. That may sound like Declaration of Independence language, but it's not an amber-encased ideal. As Crawford shows, all freedom takes is a little willingness to get your hands greasy.
Correction, May 20, 2009: The sentence originally had the wrong make of Honda bike. Crawford discusses a Honda Magna not a Honda Magnum. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Al-Anzoor needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
a new clinic that specialized in providing nutrition, healthy food, fitness, hollistic health and other lifestyle treatments. All under one roof. We are new clinic but has strong background in healthcare services.
General public and patients and those who need these services.
The design is based on the name itself only no other words but you can add graphics only.
The design is based on that the first letter is a capital then the remaining is small letters (Enaya).
The main design with be in the letter E. make of it a different shpes and styles, must be readable, larger than the remaining of the word.
The letter E need to be approaching the character in the attached file which has a symbolic meaning in the local laungauge.
The remaining part of the word (naya) must be following the capital designed letter E so the word could be read as one word (Enaya).
Add appropriate light graphics.
The design will be used for products and services that carry the same name, food, slimming materials, courses, etc.
It should not be very fancy or elegant but a memorisable character which represent lifestyle and health.
We need to say to our clients that they are responsible about their own health. We need to motivate them to be proactive and take positive action in maintaining their health.
Thank you for participating in our contest and wish you success.
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Munters Protect - the barrier against corrosion
Yes, it is revolutionary! From now on all metal fans from our factory in Italy will be manufactured in the new coated material Munters Protect, featuring the best corrosion resistance performance available on the market.
Not only will this mean a longer product life cycle, less maintenance on fans, reduced total cost of ownership and less environmental impact, it also means that Munters now offer a 3 year warranty on these fans!
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Freedom Oklahoma launches to amplify conversations around why marriage matters
April 01, 2014
Today, marriage supporters from across the state of Oklahoma came together to launch Freedom Oklahoma, a robust, broadbased bipartisan campaign to move marriage forward and make the case that Oklahoma is ready for the freedom to marry.
Freedom to Marry is proud to serve as a founding and leading member of the public education campaign, a project of statewide LGBT organization The Equality Network. The campaign launched today in Oklahoma City on the steps of the state Capitol.
We stand alongside this coalition of local and national partners and supporters from across the state, all with the aim of broadening the conversation about marriage for same-sex couples across the state. The campaign will showcase the diversity of Oklahomans who support the freedom to marry, and sending the message that now is the time to allow everyone in the Sooner State to marry the person they love.
Freedom Oklahoma was founded weeks after the state's announcement that it would appeal the marriage victory in Bishop v. Smith, a federal court decision struck down a state constitutional amendment restricting marriage to different-sex couples. Oral arguments will be heard in Bishop v. Smith at the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on April 17.
Troy Stevenson, Executive Director of The Equality Network, said today:
We will lift up the voices of loving gay and lesbian couples as well as business, faith and civic leaders and Oklahomans from every walk of life who believe in the freedom to marry. Equality is denied to thousands of loving and committed Oklahoma couples, and that cannot stand. Freedom means freedom for everyone and every Oklahoman must be afforded equal protection under the law.
Rebeka Radcliff and Kim McDonald, a married couple who lives in Tulsa, spoke today at the press conference about why they need their marriage respected where they live. They said:
Oklahoma is the state where we fell in love. Oklahoma is where we want to raise our son. Oklahoma is and will always be special in our hearts and the place where we want to spend the rest of our lives together. I hope that finally, one day, we can be a legally respected married couple in the state where we live. Only then will it truly be home.


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Your filter effects nicely bring out the rustic appearance.
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Any one else still have leftover ham? We do. But, we've put it in the freezer. After a week of delicious ham leftovers, we are taking a break from ham and are going to enjoy other meals this week.
We are looking forward to trying some new recipes – but also love some oldies on the menu this week: BBQ Chicken Pizza, Breakfast Potatoes and Honey Mustard Stir Fry. Oh, and Cheesy Chicken Ranch Casserole. Love that one.
This week, I'll be sure to share the delicious recipe I forgot to post last week… here's a sneak peek:
On our menu this week:
Leftover Whole Wheat Waffles {new}, maple apple sauté
Broccoli Pesto Pasta {new}, steamed veggies
To do: Prep veggies for stir fry, make baked oatmeal
Blueberry Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal
Honey Mustard Stir Fry, Brown Rice
To do: Cook wild rice, thaw chicken
Leftover Baked Oatmeal
Parmesan Chicken Bake {new}, wild rice, steamed veggies
To do: Make muffins for Bible study
Applesauce Granola and Fruit
Dessert for Bible Study: Apple Butter Muffins {new}
To do: Nothing
Veggie Scramble, Breakfast Potatoes
Cheesy Chicken Ranch Pasta, steamed green beans
To do: Prep pizza toppings, make BBQ sauce
Leftover Veggie Scramble, Breakfast Potatoes
Pizza Night! BBQ Chicken and White Bean Italian Pizza
To do: Make cherry crisp {new}
Grilling – Pork Burgers.
Find more great menus at OrgJunkie's Menu Plan Monday!


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Natural Hair Community
NaturalHairCommunity.com is a social networking service and website that will be launched in February 2011. We will blog about natural hair and we also allow users to create a personal profiles, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interests groups, organized by the community, update their status (think facebook), follow other users (think twitter), upload pictures, videos, and much more. So, we are focusing on building a community of individuals who are interested in natural hair. The community will be a place where naturals around the world can interact and learn from the experiences of other naturals.
We define natural hair as unprocessed hair that has not been chemically altered in texture (meaning perm-free hair). Individuals who have perm-free hair or relaxer-free hair are sometimes referred to as "naturals".
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We aim to be a place where naturals (or people wanting to become natural) come to share experiences with each other. The website will be free (so anyone can register and participate).
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Quite a nice way to celebrate an anniversary. It includes a QR code to a free game, but as I can't do QR on an iPhone, I'm outta luck. Like a ghost being chased by a giant yellow mouth that just had his morning coffee.
On the subject of coffee in Japan, all Japanese 101 students learn that coffee is pronounced kōhi in Japan (it makes for an easy katakana lesson). I've always found this strange, given coffee's ateji: 珈琲. Now you 101 students are probably scratching your head because your 101 kanji doesn't go up to rarely seen kanji like these. Prompting me to take a
C-c-cc-coffee Breakdown:These are truly ateji being used just for their sound. But that sound seems so off to my American ears in part because 珈 has a 力 in it's elements. Kanji with 力 inside them are usually pronounced ka. Kanji with a 非 in them are usually pronounced hi, so I'm cool with that one. So logically, it should be kahi, right? I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it seems that the spoken word came into Japan from Holland but the ateji seem to have been put together by one Udagawa Yōan, a scholar of the Dutch (Western) world that, in between creating new Japanese words for elements, decided that coffee (dutch: koffie) was 珈琲. There were a few other kanji/katakana tried out back in the day too: 可否, カウヒイ, and 哥非乙. These all suggest a ka sound too! My guess is that at the end of the day, Chinese's 咖啡 had the most influence on the choice of ateji. But even they pronounce it kāfēi. Hey, you may be thinking I just wrote the same kanji I've been ranting again. But look close. It's time... for my first ever
珈: ornamental hairpin (never used)
琲: string of many pearls (also never used)
gloss: coffee?!
Ch-ch-chinese Breakdown:So there you have it. Arabic word, Dutch/Japanese pronunciation, Chinese characters, but not the right ones. If you are in Japan, see if you can spot 珈琲 or a ghost on a can or carton of coffee. But if you spot a 啡, don't touch the can.
咖: coffee
啡: coffee/morphine
gloss: really awesome coffee
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Mt. Airy lawyer-turned-writer an Ivy League good sport
by Lou Mancinelli
It turns out that fans owe the tradition of hot wings and Super Bowls to the Ivy League, where the rules of modern football, from yardage markers to the number of players on the field, were developed. The Heisman Trophy, college football's most prestigious award, was named for John Heisman, who once coached at the University of Pennsylvania.
Twenty-year Mt. Airy resident, writer, historian, producer, cartoonist and former lawyer Mark Bernstein tells the story in "Football: The Ivy League Origins of An American Obsession" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Bernstein, who turns 51 this month, worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia for six years before leaving his job at age 34 to shift careers and take his chances as an untrained writer. "I kind of realized I liked what I was doing at night a lot more," said Bernstein, a 1979 Penn Charter graduate raised in East Falls about the writing hobby-turned craft he worked to refine at night.
Now a senior staff writer at the Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), where he has interviewed people like writer, humorist and National Public Radio host Joel Stein and two-time United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Bernstein's work has been published in the Wall Street Journal and The New Republic, among other national publications. He is the author of five books on politics and sports, and he co-produced a documentary about Ivy League football that aired on PBS in 2008.
Something about the high pressure of law and an urge to create first directed him towards the life of freelance writing. "It became pretty apparent that I just wasn't cut out for it," said Bernstein about life as a lawyer.
His wife Rebecca, a corporate lawyer, encouraged his literary leaning. "It's a little bit scary to try and do it after putting all this time into law school," he said about leaving his first career and dedicating himself to a new trade.
After all, Bernstein was heavily invested financially and had worked for a decade in the field before he left. A 1983 Princeton University graduate, the Mt. Airy resident worked on Capitol Hill for a few years before earning his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1989.
Nevertheless, a year into his new gig, Bernstein was approached by the director of the University of Pennsylvania Press, who needed a writer for a book about the history of Ivy League football. Two weeks earlier Bernstein had sold Penn's alumni magazine a freelance piece about a football game played between Penn and Riverton Club of Princeton inside the Academy of the Arts on Broad Street in 1889, something he read about in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He took the job and was paid an advance, a privilege for an unknown, little-published writer.
Bernstein was not a complete neophyte as a writer. At the Virginia School of Law, for example, he was an editor of the law review, and he worked as a reporter for the Perryton Herald in Perryton, Texas. He was also a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and then-Rep. Dick Durbin of Illinois.
"Some of it's been luck," said Bernstein, a father of two girls who has worked as a writer full-time since 1997. His publishing career officially started two years earlier in 1995 while he was still a lawyer, when he first sold sketches of his comic strip, "J.D.," to a San Francisco legal newspaper. It ran until 2006, eventually being picked up by New York legal newspapers and others around the country.
"You could get all your frustrations out on paper … send them off to San Francisco," said Bernstein about drafting the strip. But the relevancy of his jokes petered out the longer he stayed away from the office.
Bernstein said that as a writer he has more control over the course of his life than he did as a lawyer. "It seems that a lot of lawyers wish they were doing something else," he said. "There's an expression for it: 'getting over the wall.' I was one of the lucky ones in that respect, I guess."
Bernstein began his freelance career by first writing pieces on speculation and sending them to editors, unsure if the work would ever be published. It was a risk. "The un-U.N." was one of his early pieces published in 1996 in Philadelphia Magazine about how the United Nations headquarters was originally supposed to be built in Roxborough until the Rockefeller family stepped in and donated millions of dollars to have it built in New York City.
Bernstein chose to spend time researching stories that interested him, for weeks if necessary, figuring that a completed piece provided a better chance of attracting an editor than just an idea proposal. His strategy worked, and he sold more pieces about subjects that interested him. When generating new material, he searches or waits for anything that piques his interest. It might become the next book or article.
At present, for the Princeton alumni magazine he's scheduled to fly to California to interview two producers of the Showtime series "Homeland" who are also Princeton alumni. Bernstein is also working on a non-fiction account based around the lighting of Manhattan in the nineteenth century.
"Everyone has this assumption that before electricity people used to sit around in the dark," said Bernstein about the book, "but before that gasoline powered lights."
He said it's a story that needs to be told.
For more information, visit www.markfbernstein.com