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Report: How Food Stamps Benefit Corporations (EBT is Big Business)
Posted on November 17, 2012 by Nick Sorrentino
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An investigation by the Government Accountability Institute has found that:
Three companies – J.P. Morgan EFS, Affiliated Computer Services, and eFunds – provide EBT services for 49 states and 3 US territories.
Since 2004, 18 of 24 states who contract with J.P. Morgan to provide welfare benefits have contracted to pay $560,492,596.02. New York alone has a seven-year contract worth $126,394,917.
Projected average food stamp spending post-recession will be 175% greater than prerecession average spending, from $28 billion to $77 billion.Since 2009, 32 states have followed the USDA's suggestion to use Broad Based
Categorical Eligibility "as a way to increase SNAP participation and reduce State workloads."
Changing the rules for eligibility, along with state-level changes in
application methods, has contributed to a 70 % increase in food stamp participation from 2007 to 2011.
Lax security by EBT processors and states invites food stamp fraud, often through social media. There are understaffed fraud investigation units at both the federal and state level. For example, Florida has just 63 staff positions to police approximately 3 million EBT users state-wide. These investigators not only handle TANF and SNAP eligibility fraud, but also EBT trafficking, Social Security Disability and Medicaid eligibility fraud, Emergency Financial Assistance for Housing, and Low Income Energy assistance, among many others.
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This quilt top has been a delight to make. I began it about 18 months ago and decided to piece my background blocks using various fabrics, some from Keiko Goke, others are Timeless Treasures London Subway and Paris Roadmap as well as Lakehouse Annie's Seed Catalogue and Valorie Wells Dehli. I love the effect the pieced background gives to the quilt.
The pattern is Flower Garden Quilt designed by our incredibly talented Aussie designer Kim McLean. Kims appliques are a joy to work with, all her patterns come with 'to size' patterns (no need to find a photocopier to enlarge) and I love the many curves and points and stems and circles, a joy to applique!
All of the bright applique fabrics here are from the wonderful quilt and fabric designer from Japan, Keiko Goke. They are simply delightful often reminding me of crayon drawings. I love her orange fabric with the pink, red and white hearts and it makes a perfect inner border, set off with the gorgeous 'crayon scribbly' purple fabric.
I am very happy with how this quilt has turned out. But how will I quilt it? By hand definitely! With perle 8 threads for sure! As for quilting the flowers, as yet I have no idea! I will probably put this down for a couple of months now, to be quilted when the weather has cooled a little.
Thank you to everyone, both here and on instagram who have encouraged me all the way along with this quilt. I have really appreciated it, you have all helped me to get this quilt top finished! Thank you also to Keiko Goke who spoke about my quilt on her inspirational blog here. What an honour! xo


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So sorry for calling you Pineapple, Pam!! *blushes* Thanks for all of the helpful hints. I only lack 2 things on my Nature Faction having everything done. I see what you mean by "calling all available builders" when it comes to the statue! I have started a Magic Faction, and had something interesting happen. I'll put it in the form of a spoiler....
One of my villagers (thru an island event) found a crystal wedged somewhere. I chose to let him keep it. He turned into twins, with the other one being the opposite in likes/dislikes! He started out 'looking sinister', but after I put him to work, he behaved normally....so far. Got that game on pause until I finish my Nature Faction. Lol.
To Haily Bunny:
Male villagers can make babies well into their elderly years. There is no special potion to help with it. Give it a try and see if your older male will make a baby with your females over 18. If not, and if you have no male children, you can hope for an random island event that will bring someone new to the village or possibly a barrel of babies. :)
I have started on the statue puzzle.
It has been going on for about 2 days now, but sometimes I pause the game to make sure that I have balanced doctors and scientists.
Unfortunately my statue puzzle stuck!
i mean it's like after few moments the chief starts wandering around and stops directing the work, and all the builders have stopped pushing the statue.
When I dragg the chief back to the statue he said that he sees a good place for the statue but then he wanders off. Same as all builders including the masters.
To sweetmelody:
The cactus is immediately to the right of the research area. Here's a screenshot to help you.
To JIGuest:
The items to restore the alchemy lab are in different locations for each game, so I can't tell you where to find it. However, I can show you a screenshot so you know what it looks like.
Help! My 2 master builders are refusing to rebuild the lift. And my chief is like 9 years old, so she has no skill and it is telling me only adept builders can work there. Am I doing something wrong? I have almost no food. My tree isn't running out, it just says "not enough to harvest". Will it replenish on its own?
To JIGuest:
If your villager's health bar shows "weakened", you'll need the potion. However, if it says "sick", you can have another villager heal the one who is sick. There's a substantial difference between being weakened and being sick.
If your villager is weakened, try a lesser potion:
The villager may die of starvation, which is just part of how the game works.
To Liberty:
What does it say in the description at the bottom of the screen when you click on your villager when he's just standing? Also, what is his rank? Trainee, Adept, or Master? Villagers tend to do nothing more often if they aren't trained. You have to stay on them pretty hard sometimes to get them to keep working until they gain more experience. I doubt it's a glitch. Probably just a lazy or unproductive villager.
I have a minor problem. I tried to wait for the fire to go out but the time was down to one minute and still no sparkles. When the fire went out, there was nothing there to pick up. If I put a villager on the spot, the action bar would say "confused". I have an adept and master scientist but my master scientist has a baby and the adept one said "confused" when I dropped her on the fire pit. Can someone help?
hi, me again...i have tried 6 times to make the shark solution...i am a magic so i used 2 roses and the berry...it just blows up. i have tried it with a master and an adept and an elder and it is just not working, is there something else i need? p.s. i restarted and my little villager was working fine. i think he was just having a bad day.
To Liberty:
Are you using scientists to make the shark potion? Also, please tell me where you are finding the herbs you are using. Describe their location and what they look like. we need to make sure you're using the right herbs for the potion.
The correct shark potion for the Magic Faction is rose+rose+berry bush.
The potion sometimes blows up if you don't have advanced alchemy, but you should be able to make it work with what you've got.
To Madmick:
The items for the collections continue to show up randomly. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to get the ones you're missing. Also, if you're missing rare items, you can have the chief point them out every 24 hours. You may get duplicates, but it may also bring up the ones you need.
To JIGuest:
Try exiting the game and going back in to see if it will reset. Another option is to go back to the site where you originally purchased the game and download it again to make sure you have the newest version. Lastly, if it still will not let you get past the bath plans, contact customer service where you purchased the game for assistance.
HELP!!! I have almost managed to get the statue to the top of the hill with the help of the chief and many builder. It is now just sitting there and no one will push it anymore. I interrupted my chief from directing work.. I have tried a million times send them up to the statue again, but they won't work anymore and the chief won't direct them anymore.
It seems to me if I don't finish this puzzle #9, I'm pretty much stuck.
I do have this game for so long but I just started a week ago, I can't remember where I purchased the game. Can anybody help me please?
I have completed puzzles 1-8, 10, and 13-14, and now I am stuck. Mainly confused as to why my orchard is no longer replenishing, I know it comes with time, but my orchard has been emptied 3 days ago (literally, not in Isola time) and it only produces 8 fruit per tree. I've been doing the rain dance as often as I can to get fruit from the trees above using the lift, and ofcourse getting the children to pick up the various of mushrooms that are also becoming more rare. Is there something that I am doing wrong? Any hints on what to do? I know there is no secret potion, but just wondering if anyone has had this issue.
I am also not gaining much tech points as there is no puzzle for me to complete at this time until I level up on the faction and etc. Which has gotten my game to a stand still point. There are days now, where I only come in a few times a day now to check up on them, to make sure the villagers are still alive, since I am so low on food, (now at 0!!)
Any other helpful hints minus the walkthru would be greatly appreciated, I know this is a waiting game, but I seem that I will literally be playing this game for a month before I can complete anymore puzzles.
I am just about at level 2 for everything minus science and faction and I currently have 18 people, 0 food, and 1706 tech points.
To Nat:
First of all, check question #2 in the FAQ at the top of this page.
Your main problem is that you haven't solved puzzle 11, which should be a priority in this game.
One other point - You said you're not earning many tech points because there's no puzzle to solve. Tech points are not tied to solving a puzzle. Your scientists earn tech points all the time and you should plan your population so that you always have plenty of people at the research table so that you can level up enough to have an unlimited food supply.
If you still need help, let me know.
To txsunshine:
When you put the chief at the top of the path and he/she does the little dance and points, that means there definitely is a rare collectible on the island at that moment. You have to search for it in all the usual spots where collectibles appear. It will only be there for a short time. They appear at random like all other collectibles.
To Cantahar:
Are you sure you're in the right place? Here's a screenshot of the dry grass that will hopefully help you.
before this, i did not have enough space for my villager to reproduce babies. so i make them build the hut BUT! i left the game running for a couple of days without attending to it. so when i'm back. They're all old. And it just so happen the 2 child i made before i left the game are both male!
now they are all old and cannot reproduce.
not even the fertility drug help.
To Azure:
The Lotus is directly to the right of the bath. Here's a screenshot.
To JIGuest:
Female villagers cannot have children after the age of 50. Nothing will change that. At this point, the best you can hope for is that a new villager or a barrel of babies will arrive in the form of a random island event.
It's a good idea to put your game on pause if you're going to be away for awhile. :)
i am stuck. i have level 2 on everything except my faction. My orchards are rarely producing any food. i have completed puzzles: 1-8, 10, 13 & 14. i cant complete anything else. and my tech points are raising so slowly.
i have 6 of my adult villagers researching so i can try to gain tech points. I have 2 kids, so i am trying to collect as many doubles as possible. any suggestions on what i can do?
I am playing all three VV games at once and I have two problems.
First, in VV1, I have a women who has been nursing for six VV years. Same baby. Her details always say, "nursing for 120 minutes." I can't get the clock to start running down on her time remaining. While she's been nursing this baby, my other nursing female has produced three babies. Anyone experience this? I only have two females of childbearing age so I need to get this fixed!
In VV3, I returned to my village to find everyone dead except two nursing women and a girl, who turned out to be the chief. Just as I had dreaded, the two babies turned out to be girls. I'm pretty sure that the only way I'm ever going to get some breeding going on is if I experience the crate of babies... and they're not all girls. Is there any way to trigger island events? Or artificial insemination?
To Trish:
You need to ask your question about VV1 over in the VV1 forum located here:
About your problem with all females -
There's no way to trigger island events and there's no possibility of having babies without a male. In addition to the barrel of babies, there is also an island event that brings a lone villager (usually a male) to the tribe.
I think I encountered a bug in Virtual Villagers 1.00.04. For Puzzle #9, after I had completed the bath and Level 3 Restoration & Leadership, I flew a chief - then a Master Builder - over the top of the path, where they saw a place to anchor the statue. I dropped a Master Builder there, and the game said it was too difficult without plans, so I took them to the chalkboard where they drew the plans for the bath again. Did I miss a step? I can't get them to draw plans for the statue or build its scaffolding.
To JIGuest:
Yes, you have indeed encountered a known bug in the game. According to the developers, you should be able to still do the statue puzzle even if the bath drawings don't disappear from the chalkboard after the bath is completed.
First, be sure to exit the game and go back in to reset everything. Drop a Master Builder on the chalkboard. It may put the statue drawing on top of the bath drawing, which will look like a mess, but it will still work for doing the statue. After that, drop a Master Builder on the spot to build the scaffolding. It should work. If it doesn't, you may try going back to the site where you originally purchased the game and download it again.
How can I keep my villagers on a certain task, or at least away from another specific one?
Now that they can fish, most of my villagers spend all their time fishing, no matter how often I place them back on restoring the hut nearest the hive.
I have a population of sixteen, and a stockpile of thirty thousand fish, and they're still fishing for all they're worth. Since they seem to eat 1-2 times per "game year", I figure I have approximately one thousand years' worth of fish, and a pretty good olfactory defence against invaders in the deal.
heres a tip for ancient bath to be completed quickly
put all your adults to fix the bath then exit the put your clock 2 days ahead then pause then exit then set your clock back to reguler then unpause game and you should have a completed bath
[Edit: It's a bad idea to change the computer clock. It can mess up the game and other functions on the computer. I strongly advise against it. -Pam]
Just a couple tips for food, and increasing parenting skills.
A good source for food
Once you have completed puzzle #5 and grow all three trees, you need to have the needed villagers do the rain dance. Then, when it starts raining, have a villager stand on the lift. When the villager is lifted a seed will again fall. A villager can then collect the seed as food. This can be done as often as the lift returns to the ground.
Increasing parenting skills
A great way to increase parenting skills is to use your elders. Older females can not get pregnant, so you can continually drop a male on an older female. His skill level will increase without having another mouth to feed.
Help, Im level 2, found a gem in fire pit. Cooled it off. Can't figure out who picks it up or why. Now every time I drop a person on it it says "looks like a nice place for a fire". What should I do? Thans for help on everything else. I have come and come from help section now many many times for your help.
Lately, when I put someone on my lift and retrieve the fruit, my food amount does not go up. I let the person walk to the food bin and see them deposit the fruit. Do I have to wait for the bucket to dry out and for the villager to come down on their own? I've been picking them up, putting them on the fruit and trying to force the process to go faster. Do I need to be patient and let them slowly lower to the ground in order for the food they gather to count? This seems to happen with the rain dance more than natural rain. Thanks!


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Question submitted on Aug 20, 2012.
QuestionI''m 19, and my family believes my generation will never be able to collect social security and retire... so I was wondering, is it possible to retire on your own IRA alone?
That would be dependent upon your situation/needs at the time of retirement, but of course, it is possible. For retirees, an easy way to determine a financially appropriate time to retire is to start by taking all necessary expenses and annualizing them. This would include your base living expenses (i.e., housing, food, transportation, clothing, utilities, health care, insurances, income taxes, etc.) to determine an annual cost of living.
A second step, depending on your lifestyle, would be to determine your annual expenses for non-essential, discretionary items (i.e., eating out, vacation/travel, entertainment, "toys", etc.)
Once you have these two numbers, you would divide by 4.5%. Recent studies have shown that a 4.5% portfolio withdrawal ratio is sustainable for an investor''s lifetime based upon historical market returns without the investor having to worry about running out of money. That being said, suppose your estimated essential, non-discretionary expenses in your future retirement are $45,000 annually. At a 4.5% target "safe" annual withdrawal rate, this would equate to an IRA/portfolio of $1,000,000. Of course, adding the non-essential, discretionary expenses to the essential, non-discretionary expenses and performing the same calculation will give you a second target, based on the lifestyle you anticipate in retirement.
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In a news conference Monday, officials declared safe the neighborhood around the site of last week's deadly West, Texas, fertilizer plant blast, which was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake and left a large crater.
Still, public services will not be restored for several weeks, officials said, and they have not yet identified what caused the blast.
Meanwhile, as the town struggles to recover, the White House said Monday that President Barack Obama is planning to attend a memorial service for first responders scheduled for Thursday on the campus of Baylor University in nearby Waco.
Last week's explosion killed 14 people, wounded 200 others, destroyed about 50 homes and severely damaged a nursing home and other buildings nearby. It reportedly killed 10 first responders, many of them volunteer firefighters who came after initial reports of a fire at the plant.
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Town's Recovery Could Take Weeks
Preliminary reports indicate the infrastructure to the town was severely damaged and that further assessment is underway to determine just how significant that damage may be, city officials said Monday afternoon.
Due to the damage, officials said a boil water notice is in place for all of West, likely for the next few weeks, and that those without water service will not have it restored for up to three weeks.
City officials said city services it will take some time to restore and are encouraging people to find someplace else to stay until all services are restored.
Federal and state investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire that set off the explosion. Investigators also said they are taking a 3-D image of the crater to determine it's size and hopefully learn more about explosion.
Authorities said there is still no inventory of all chemicals that were at the facility.
Officials also discussed the memorial service scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Baylor's Ferrell Center in Waco. The White House said Monday morning that President Barack Obama is planning to attend, though it is not yet clear if the president plans to tour the town.
Inside the Blast Zone
The destruction was evident in a short visit to the area organized for reporters.
An apartment building just across the railroad tracks from the plant appeared to bear the brunt of the explosion, according to a pool report. The building's roof was collapsed, its windows were blown out and chunks of concrete from the plant littered the space between the tracks and the apartments.
Assistant state fire marshal Kelly Kistner said the blast left a "large crater." Kistner said all fires have been extinguished at the explosion scene, and the remaining fertilizer tanks at West Fertilizer Co. are not a danger.
"Several blocks we had projectiles or shrapnel that has been found of different sizes," Kistner said. "Smaller pieces have been found blocks away."
The wave radiating from the blast also hit the nursing home across the street from the apartments. There too, windows were blown out, ceiling tiles were visible throughout the rooms and the red brick exterior was cracked. At West Intermediate School, a northern wall was charred and the southern wall showed structural damage.
Crews from Union Pacific were repairing the railroad tracks, but reporters were kept from climbing the berm to see what was happening at the fertilizer plant. Above the berm, four heavily damaged metal structures were visible at the plant.
More than 60 people are working in the blast zone for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the state fire marshal's office.
Kristner said officials have found the seat, or center, of the explosion, "which is important, because as we conduct our investigation we'll be working from an outer perimeter inward, from the least damaged to the greatest damage. So knowing the seat of that explosion is important."
Robert Champion, the special agent in charge for ATF's Dallas office, said experts plan to get into the crater in the next couple of days and start digging it out "to see what transpired to cause this devastation."
"It's a slow process, but we're getting there," Champion said.
The town of 2,800 people was previously known in Texas for its deep Czech heritage — from the designs of storefronts in the town center and the names of streets and businesses to the "Czech Stop" bakery selling kolaches and other pastries to drivers exiting Interstate 35.
Sunday Services
On the first Sunday after a fertilizer plant explosion leveled part of the tiny Texas town, pastor John Crowder stood atop a long flatbed overlooking a hayfield and spoke to his congregation.
Elsewhere, at the largest Roman Catholic church in town, the Rev. Boniface Onjefu's congregation on Sunday included firefighters and emergency workers who could be spotted in bright yellow jackets.
Some of the people who attended Crowder's outdoor service wore T-shirts calling on others to "pray for West."
"Every time I close my eyes, all I can think about is the explosion," said Edi Botello, a senior at West High School. "People running around. People evacuating. There was one point I couldn't even talk. I just stuttered."
Crowder's First Baptist Church in West remained blocked off as investigators work on the scene of Wednesday's blast. So about 100 people sat in white folding chairs Sunday morning, while others carried their own.
"We have lost our friends and neighbors," Crowder told the audience. We have lost the safety and comfort of our homes. But as scary as this is, we don't have to be afraid."
"I stopped at the nursing home," Onjefu said. "I noticed a lot of people trapped. I assisted. I prayed with some and held the hands of some that needed comfort. I saw him in the eyes of everyone."
"God heard our prayers and prevented another tank from exploding."


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HD DVD launched a couple of months ago to modest fanfare: eight titles and a couple of US$500 players. The movies were priced at US$34.95 each—more expensive than a DVD and about the same price as rival Blu-ray discs (although some sites are running promotional pricing for the Blu-ray launch). Universal Home Studios, which is responsible for many of the first set of HD DVD titles, has decided to cut prices on all movies in that format to US$29.95. DVD/HD DVD hybrid discs will be US$34.95.
The price cuts will take effect beginning August 8, when there should be a significantly higher number of HD DVD titles out. Naturally, the US$29.95 is a manufacturer suggested retail price, meaning that savvy shoppers should be able to find them cheaper than that.
Could HD DVD backers be worried about slow uptake already? It's possible. Sony Blu-ray movies are selling for US$17.95 or US$23.45 wholesale. That leaves a lot of headroom for retailers to price them as they wish—Best Buy is selling preorders of "50 First Dates" on Blu-ray for US$29.99 while Amazon has it for US$19.99. Dropping HD DVD movie prices to US$29.99 will make them more competitive with Blu-ray on price.
It's tempting to paint the move to cut prices as one of the opening volleys of an inevitable format war. After all, both Blu-ray and HD DVD are new and expensive technologies vying for the hearts and wallets of consumers. HD DVD has the hardware price advantage in spades, as you will have to pay twice the money for a Blu-ray player vs. an HD DVD player. If that amounted to the difference between US$150 for one and US$300 for another, that might not matter too much. In this case, we're talking about a US$500 spread between the two, an amount that will make those who aren't committed to living on the bleeding edge of technology think twice.
On the other hand, Blu-ray (which will begin shipping next week) has an edge on HD DVD: the PlayStation 3. Say what you will about the price or lack of HDMI support in the low-end model, the fact is that there are a lot of PlayStation fans out there that are going to buy the console regardless of price. As Sony has chosen to in effect include a US$200 Blu-ray player with each next-generation console, it will get Blu-ray into homes where it might not otherwise go.
Ultimately, it's going to be a long time before a winner is declared. Price-sensitive shoppers are going to sit on the sidelines until the cost of the players starts to drop, and movie pricing will make little or no difference. DVD sales have dropped sharply in the past couple of years as movie fans have filled up their home libraries and realized that services like Netflix allow them to sate their DVD-watching jones for a relatively low monthly price. If HD DVD and Blu-ray movie rentals are widespread, few movie fans are going to rush to replace their DVD libraries with next-generation discs after dropping US$500-1,000 on a replacement for their DVD player.
When the dust clears, the winner will probably be the one that breaks through the magic US$299 barrier first—as long as there is a wide selection of movies available. That time (and price) looks to be a long way off, so calling a winner with only a handful of precincts reporting just isn't possible.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A furious comeback came up just short and the Tennessee State men's basketball team fell at Jacksonville State, 70-64, on Thursday night.
The Tigers were down by 19 with 3:03 left in the first half, but could only get as close as six.
Patrick Miller led the Tigers in scoring with 21 points for his 13th 20-plus point game of the season. The senior also added six rebounds.
Redshirt Junior M.J. Rhett recorded his 10th double-double of the year with 12 points and 10 boards.
Tennessee State (2-18, 1-5 OVC) fell behind, 23-9, through the game's first nine minutes as the Gamecocks made eight of their first 11 shots from the floor (73 percent). JSU also had zero turnovers during the span.
JSU (9-12, 3-3 OVC) padded its lead to 18 with a Brian Williams free throw at the 6:43 mark, making the score 30-12. The bucket came off of the Gamecock's fourth offensive and 13th total rebound of the contest.
The Tigers had five boards through the first 15 minutes, but tallied eight through the last five, helping them narrow the gap to 39-22 at the break.
Rhett led TSU with eight points and six rebounds during the first stanza, but TSU was 5-for-11 from the charity stripe (45 percent). JSU meanwhile, made 8-of-10.
Tennessee State was a different team early in the second period as Miller had a breakaway slam at the 17:29 mark to cap a 6-0 TSU run. The one-handed dunk made the score 39-28 in favor of the home team.
The Tigers cut the Gamecock lead to six at 47-41 when Jay Harris hit a pair of free throws with 7:25 to go. The buckets gave TSU a 9-for-10 mark at the charity stripe to start the second frame.
Strong work on the defensive end also allowed TSU to come back as the Gamecocks were held to a 2-for-19 line (10.5 percent) through the half's first 12 minutes.
The Tigers were down by nine with 2:11 to go, but Jacquan Nobles hit his only bucket of the game – a three – to make the score 59-53.
Six points proved to be the closest that the Tigers would get as the Gamecocks made 9-of-12 freebies down the stretch to win the game, 70-64.
TSU committed 11 turnovers on the night, leading to 19 JSU points.
True freshman Ugo Mmonu tied a career high with eight points and added three blocks, the second-most by a Tiger this season.
Tennessee State will come back to Nashville to host its crosstown rival Belmont on Saturday. Tipoff between the Tigers and Bruins is slated for 7:30 p.m.


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The Mystery of Schizophrenia
Trapped: Families and Schizophrenia
The main problems of schizophrenia have of late been neither neglected nor solved. Professor Benedetti and his colleagues in Switzerland, who not long ago decided to review contributions to the subject that had appeared between 1956 and 1961, were confronted with nearly three thousand articles and found it necessary to assure readers that only a minute fraction of these contained anything new in the way of findings or fruitful hypotheses. This implied no denigration of the investigators: it testified to the obduracy of the problems. Not all who scan the literature, however, see so little essential advance; the editor of an American survey, convering some four thousand articles on schizophrenia published in the decade 1946-1956, declared that "the essential, complexly integrated etiological factors are clearly available…and ready to be acted on therapeutically and preventively."
Such diversity of opinion is particularly evident when the social and familial influences on the occurrence of schizopherenia are under examination. Some inquirers are convinced that the mothers of schizophrenics have been harmfully restrictive and inconsistent in their attitude to the child, or subtly dominating and overprotective, and that the fathers were mostly ineffectual and withdrawn: in this family pattern of relationships and upbringing they discren the genesis of schizophrenia. They may qualify this, as Frieda Fromm-Reichmann did, by limiting it to a particular culture; or they may, like Erik Erikson or Lauretta Bender, deny that a rejecting, domineering mother can play so large a part in determining that her child should become schizophrenic; but the argument either way usually turns on clinical evidence drawn from a small number of cases or a biassed sample. This is true not only where parental attitudes are in question, but also for the whole social environment as a cause of schizophrenia. Systematic, well-designed studies dealing as rigorously as possible with the social data, have been few.
Professor Hollingshead is pre-eminent among sociologists who have tried to describe and understand the settings in which schizophrenics live. The New Haven study, "Social Class and Mental Illness," which he carried out in conjunction with Fredrick Redlich, the Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, was impregnably documented, and by its sober yet convincing analysis threw fresh light on the recognition, types, and current treatment of schizophrenia prevailing in different strata of society. He was therefore appropriately invited in 1956 to carry out, again with a psychiatric collaborator, an epidemiological survey of mental illness in Puerto Rico, where the Director of the Social Science Research Centre of the University had recognized the importance of such an inquiry in a rapidly changing society. But the full plan could not be pursued, because of lack of funds; it was therefore decided to restrict it to schizophrenia and to concentrate on personal and familial influences. For three years, from 1957 to 1960, field work went on under the close supervision of Professor Rogler, who was assisted by four psychiatrists, an anthropologist, and a number of interviewers and social workers; the subsequent analysis and presentation of the material were…
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We've recently found a server that hosts a great number of sites that are used to launch mobile malware, targeting Android OS and Symbian (specifically the J2ME platform).
The server, located in Germany, is managed by a hosting provider known as a haven for cyber criminals.
We found a total of 1,351 websites hosted on the said server and categorize the sites into five segments based on the type of guise they use for the distributed malware:
- Android Market apps
- Opera Mini/ Phone Optimizer apps
- Pornographic apps (sites were unavailable during time of checking)
- App storage sites
- Others (sites that were inaccessible during time of checking)
As for the unavailable sites, it seems that the attacker is still setting them up, or has permanently taken them down. The domains listed under App storage sites, which hosts Apps featured in the other domains, are inaccessible. However, the hosted Apps were still up thus making them available for download through the Android Market App and the Opera Mini/Photo Optimizer App sites.
The sites under Android Market apps displayed a website very much similar to the legitimate one. They feature popular applications like WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Barcode Scanner, Skype, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and others. The files downloaded from such sites are now detected as ANDROIDOS_FAKENOTIFY.A.
On the other hand, the sites that feature download links for Opera Mini and Phone Optimizer lead to J2ME_SMSSEND.E – a malware that can run on devices that support MIDlets.
Among all the categories mentioned, most of sites promoted Opera Mini updates and Photo Optimizer Apps compared with others. Here is a graph showing the distribution of domains based on the categories:
This particular cybercriminal operation presents some interesting findings. Here we saw that the attackers are not necessarily targeting only one platform. Based on the targeted platform, we also saw that cybercriminals use different social engineering lures. Also, despite the emergence and prevalence of platforms such as Android and iOS, the Symbian platform still seems to be targeted as well.
Trend Micro Mobile Security users (both Android and Symbian) are already protected from this threat. All of the malicious domains and files are blocked and detected respectively.


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For some reason people tend to think that the two personalities of Ozzie and Manny might clash like oil and vinegar. I think a bit differently. They both have a laid-back more of a cruisin' through life with style phase to them, which could also be the perfect bond.
Do not be surprised if they bond like brothers from another mother and possibily chat about a nice place in the South Side for Manny in 2011.
If Billy Martin and George could reunite and be friendly….Manny and Ozzie have a chance too.
Rays Renegade
Kenny Williams is awesome!! I met him in Baltimore and he spent a good 10 minutes talking with my lil' family and me…right out of the parking lot. I was taking a picture and he came behind me and asked if I wanted him to shoot the pic for me, of us. I called him Mr. Williams and he told me that was his father! He said I was to call him Ken. Williams, Ozzie and Mr. Reinsdorf were made for each other. I dig the ChiSox…but then again there's the matter of being related to their 3rd base coach. (shhh)
This could work out for the ChiSox, but sometimes you gotta take a chance. If I was a Sox fan, I am not sure how happy I would be, but I know for a fact I would be intrigued. Go ahead Kenny Williams, take a shot. What's the worst that could happen? http://stlcardinals06.mlblogs.com/
I will miss Manny and wish him well. He gave us some thrilling moments, he was good with his teamates and he was good with the fans. He even gave little Deuce a signed bat.
It was time to say goodbye. He is better suited for the AL.
Jane Heller
Manny will thrive for the White Sox – unless he gets tossed after the first pitch of a pinch hitting appearance with bases loaded like yesterday. I think that would send Ozzie off a bridge or something.
– http://janeheller.mlblogs.com
RR — Manny can and will be manageable… if he wants to play.
BTB — I won't tell anyone. I might use it as a way to get onto field level… but I'll keep it a secret.
StlCardinals06 — Exactly… and he's relatively cheap.
Emma — Agreed. His antics are better suited for the playground though.
Jane — That was ridiculous. I wonder if he did that on purpose.
Manny's either gonna play like a maniac for the rest of the year or immediately get hurt. No in between.


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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event January 22-26, 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Jarrah Takes Trip to Jacksonville; Purpose Unknown. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
9/11 hijacker Marwan Alshehhi and another man, apparently hijacker Mohamed Atta, stop in Jacksonville, Florida. They land at an airfield in a small plane, and Alshehhi purchases about 11 liters of fuel with a credit card belonging to Huffman Aviation, a flight school he studies at around this time. Alshehhi leaves the airport in a courtesy car and then comes back in "an hour or two." When this story is first reported in late 2004, the FBI will not say why Atta and Alshehhi landed here or where they went, although another of the hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, will stay in Jacksonville twice in 2001 (see January 22-26, 2001 and February 25-March 4, 2001). In 2004, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) will say that the hijackers' time in Jacksonville never came up during the 9/11 Commission hearings, adding: "I want to know… why didn't the September 11 Commission know about this. [The Commission] was given carte blanche authority to get any piece of intelligence to put together this jigsaw puzzle." [First Coast News, 11/10/2004]
Entity Tags: Marwan Alshehhi, Mohamed Atta, William Nelson
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9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah takes a trip to Jacksonville, Florida, where he stays for three days at the Ramada Inn. The purpose of this trip is not known, although he will return again one month later (see February 25-March 4, 2001). It is unclear how he arrives in Jacksonville, as there is no record of him taking a flight there. However, he is known to have arrived in Newark from Tampa on January 16, and to have bought a ticket on January 15 for a flight from Newark to Tampa on January 22, the day he arrives in Jacksonville. He departs the US on January 26, flying from Jacksonville to Newark and then to Dusseldorf, Germany. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 120-121 ; US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, 7/31/2006, pp. 5-6, 22 ] Marwan Alshehhi, and possibly Mohamed Atta, stopped in Jacksonville around October 2000 (see (October 2000)).
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After returning to the US for the fifth time, 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah flies immediately to Jacksonville, Florida, where he stays at the Ramada Inn for a week. He had previously visited Jacksonville (see January 22-26, 2001), as had Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi (see (October 2000)). While in Jacksonville, he frequents Wacko's strip club. A worker there will later say that the FBI comes to the club after 9/11 to ask questions and show pictures "of the 9/11 terrorists," and a dancer recognizes Jarrah from a photo line-up. The information about the hotel stay will be discovered by First Coast News in summer 2004 and they will offer to share it with the FBI. The local office will originally agree to meet the reporters, but then cancel at the last minute, saying that the cancellation had been ordered by their superiors at the Justice Department due to a possible impact on the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. First Coast News will comment, "Questions still remain as to what Jarrah was doing in Jacksonville." [First Coast News, 8/24/2004; US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, 7/31/2006, pp. 5, 22 ] Jarrah's whereabouts after he leaves Jacksonville are unknown for a week and a half, but he shows up in Decatur, Georgia, on March 15. There he stays at a hotel previously used by Atta and Alshehhi for two weeks using the name variant Ziad Samir. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 128 ]
9/11 hijackers Hamza Alghamdi and Marwan Alshehhi make two purchases of "pornographic video and sex toys" from a Florida store. They spend $252.17 on videos and toys at Video Outlet in Deerfield Beach on July 4, then return on July 27 and spend another $183.22. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 176, 178, 196, 198 ] These two and other hijackers are also reported to attend strip shows, watch porn, and use an escort service (see Before September 11, 2001 and September 7-11, 2001).
Entity Tags: Hamza Alghamdi, Marwan Alshehhi
Mohand Alshehri. [Source: Spiegel TV]In the days before the attacks, some of the hijackers (including Waleed Alshehri and/or Wail Alshehri) apparently sleep with prostitutes in Boston hotel rooms, or at least try to do so. A driver working at an "escort service" used by the hijackers claims he regularly drove prostitutes to a relative of bin Laden about once a week until 9/11, when the relative disappeared. Bin Laden has several relatives in the Boston area, most or all of whom returned to Saudi Arabia right after 9/11. [Boston Herald, 10/10/2001] On September 7, two female escorts are sent to "Arab men" in the Park Inn, Boston. One of the escorts will later say that a photo of Satam Al Suqami looks "very familiar." [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 264 ] On September 10, four other hijackers in Boston (Marwan Alshehhi, Fayez Ahmed Banihammad, Mohand Alshehri, and Satam Al Suqami) call around to find prostitutes to sleep with on their last night alive, but in the end decline. Says one official, "It was going to be really expensive and they couldn't come to a consensus on price, so that was the end of it… Either they thought it was too extravagant [over $400] or they did not have enough money left." [Boston Globe, 10/10/2001]
Entity Tags: Satam Al Suqami, Waleed Alshehri, Mohand Alshehri, Wail Alshehri, Fayez Ahmed Banihammad, Marwan Alshehhi, Osama bin Laden, Central Intelligence Agency
The Pink Pony strip club. [Source: Durand Patrick / Corbis]In the Pink Pony strip club in Daytona Beach, Florida the night before the 9/11 attacks, three men make anti-American sentiments and talk of impending bloodshed. One says, "Wait 'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed." These are not any of the hijackers, since they had all left Florida by this time, but it is suspected these men knew the hijackers. [Associated Press, 9/14/2001; MSNBC, 9/23/2001] Mohamed Atta is said to have regularly frequented the same bar (see Before September 11, 2001). However, in September 2002, the St. Petersburg Times will report, "Some other famous terrorist sightings never panned out, including that of the manager at a Daytona Beach strip club, who told the world he heard three men spewing anti-American venom and predicting bloodshed the night of Sept. 10. When his story seemed to change with each telling, law enforcement moved on." [St. Petersburg Times, 9/1/2002]
Entity Tags: Mohamed Atta
Cheetah's nude bar in San Diego. [Source: Cheetah's]A number of the 9/11 hijackers apparently drink alcohol heavily in bars, sleep with prostitutes, and watch strip shows in the US in the months and especially the days leading up to 9/11. In late February 2001, hijacker Ziad Jarrah frequents a strip club in Jacksonville, Florida (see February 25-March 4, 2001). In July 2001, hijackers Hamza Alghamdi and Marwan Alshehhi make two purchases of "pornographic video and sex toys" from a Florida store (see July 4-27, 2001). Some hijackers, including possibly Satam Al Suqami and Waleed and Wail Alshehri, sleep with prostitutes in the days before 9/11 (see September 7-11, 2001). On September 10, three hijacker associates spend $200 to $300 apiece on lap dances and drinks in the Pink Pony, a Daytona Beach, Florida, strip club. While the hijackers have left Florida by this time, Mohamed Atta is reported to have visited the same strip club, and these men appear to have foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks (see September 10, 2001). [Boston Herald, 10/10/2001] Alshehhi and Atta are seen entering the Hollywood, Florida, sports bar Shuckums already drunk. They proceed to drink even more hard alcohol there (see September 7, 2001). Atta and Alshehhi are seen at Sunrise 251, a bar in Palm Beach, Florida. They spend $1,000 in 45 minutes on Krug and Perrier-Jouet champagne. Atta is with a tall busty brunette in her late twenties; Alshehhi is with a shortish blonde. Both women are known locally as regular companions of high-rollers. [Daily Mail, 9/16/2001] A stripper at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret in Las Vegas, Nevada, will later recall Alshehhi being "cheap," paying only $20 for a lap dance. [Cox News Service, 10/16/2001] Several hijackers reportedly patronize the Nardone's Go-Go Bar in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They are even seen there on the weekend before 9/11. [Boston Herald, 10/10/2001; Wall Street Journal, 10/16/2001] Majed Moqed visits a porn shop on three occasions and rents a porn video. The mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, will later say of the six hijackers who stay there, "Nobody ever saw them at mosques, but they liked the go-go clubs." [Newsday, 9/23/2001; Newsweek, 10/15/2001] Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar often frequent Cheetah's, a nude bar in San Diego. [Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002] Alshehhi is possibly seen in the Cheetah nightclub in Pompado Beach, Florida, on July 1, 2001. Six dancers who work there will later claim to have seen him. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 173 ] Hamza Alghamdi watches a porn video on either the afternoon of September 9 or on September 10. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 272 ; Wall Street Journal, 10/16/2001] Temple University, Philadelphia, professor Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub will later comment: "It is incomprehensible that a person could drink and go to a strip bar one night, then kill themselves the next day in the name of Islam.… People who would kill themselves for their faith would come from very strict Islamic ideology. Something here does not add up." [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 9/16/2001]
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Writing and scoring the questions is more like being on the receiving end of Marquis de Sade. Because the entire season is spoiled, I'll have to spend extra effort rewarding the more obscure spoiling questions. All the boots are pretty obvious from here on out.
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In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes that the separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks, was not as heavily guarded as they thought.
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Judge: Badaracco called and offered me money
BRIDGEPORT -- State prosecutors wrapped up their case against Dominic Badaracco Sr. on Tuesday, playing jurors a recording of a profanity-filled telephone call between the judge he allegedly tried to bribe and Badaracco's former business partner, who urged the judge to not take it.
"He called me and he offered me f---ing money. What's he expect me to do?" Judge Robert Brunetti asked longtime friend Ronald "Rocky" Richter in a conversation that was recorded by grand jury investigators on Nov. 18, 2010. That was a day after Brunetti claims Badaracco called and offered him "100 Gs" for his help with the investigation into the disappearance and presumed murder of his second wife, Mary Badaracco, who vanished from the couple's Sherman home in 1984.
"No, no don't ... don't take it," Richter responded.
In the call, which was played while Richter was on the stand, Richter acknowledged giving Brunetti's home phone number to Badaracco and referred to a conversation he had with the defendant a week earlier in which Badaracco allegedly said, "I gotta give Brunes something" for his assistance.
Under cross-examination, however, Richter vehemently insisted that Badaracco had never mentioned offering money.
"Never, never, never, never ... I've said it three times already," Richter said as defense attorney Richard Meehan sought to drive home the point.
There is no recording of the Nov. 17 conversation between Badaracco and Brunetti. The only evidence of it is Brunetti's testimony, which he gave on Monday, the first day of the trial.
Prosecutors Michael Gailor and Leonard Boyle called only four witnesses, including the judge and Richter, in presenting their case.
Badaracco's attorneys will begin his defense on Wednesday, and the case is expected to go to the jury by Friday, Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin said.
Badaracco will not take the stand, his lawyers said.
The highlight of the trial on Tuesday was the testimony of Richter, a close friend of Brunetti's since they were teenagers and Badaracco's partner in a roofing and siding business for 25 years.
Richter acknowledged that twice after the grand jury began in the fall of 2010 he had called Brunetti for information about it. Brunetti was not involved in the secret proceedings, but was assigned to the same judicial district where the grand juror, Judge Arthur Hadden, was hearing testimony.
But it wasn't until after Badaracco allegedly offered him a bribe that Brunetti told his superiors and Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane about it, sending the investigation in another direction. Investigators unsuccessfully sought to set up a meeting between Brunetti and Badaracco, where they hoped to record another bribery offer.
The grand jury concluded early last year without bringing charges against anyone for Mary Badaracco's death.
Because Hadden only found probable cause that she was dead, not that she was murdered, jurors in the bribery trial have only been told that she was missing and that her husband was a target of the investigation.
Richter also acknowledged letting Badaracco use his cellphone for the phone call in which he allegedly offered the bribe, a move that prompted a stern rebuke from his friend.
"What are you crazy, giving him the phone," Brunetti demanded, according to the recording.
"He's f----ing calling me and he's offering me f----ing money. What's he want, what's he expect me to do?" Brunetti said
Richter, who was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony, clearly was a reluctant witness, backing away from statements he'd previously made to investigators. He also responded with answers such as, "I'm not sure," and "It could have happened" to other questions, in particular those about Badaracco's plans to offer "something" to the judge.
"By any measure, Mr. Richter has been reluctant and inconsistent. You have to pull information out of him," Devlin remarked at one point.
The state's final witness was the manager of the Webster Bank branch in Sherman, where Dominic Badaracco and his current wife, Joan, had several accounts.
The manager, Elaine Johnson, testified that Badaracco withdrew some $185,000 from two retirement accounts on Nov. 15, 2010, two days before the call to Brunetti, and deposited the money into his wife's checking account. The funds were redeposited into new retirement accounts a month later, Johnson said.
The trial will resume at 10 a.m. Wednesday.


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The estimates for comics sales for September 2012 are now online here at The Comics Chronicles, and they complete a quarter that in non-inflation-adjusted dollar terms was the biggest since at least the mid-1990s. North American comics retailers ordered $123.6 million in comic books and graphic novels in the quarter, beating the previous record set just three months earlier by the second quarter.
With the DC relaunch entering the comparative picture, periodical sales were down last month. Avengers Vs. X-Men #11 led the market and was the only Marvel title in a Top 10 filled with DC Zero Month issues. To date in 2012, retailers have ordered nearly 59 million copies of periodicals appearing within the Top 300; a year-end total of 80 million is tantalizingly withing reach. The Direct Market hasn't been above 80 million copies since 2008.
No repeat appearance for Walking Dead #100 in the rankings; we'll see the final sales in the end-of-year totals.
Trade paperbacks and graphic novel sales, however, helped keep the market just barely in positive territory for the month — though it's debatable whether the market-leading title, Thanos Quest #1, should be counted with the trades. It is a collected edition, compiling two issues of a microseries released in September and October of 1990 (when they had sales through Capital City Distribution of 23,000 and 19,300 copies respectively) — but alone in the top-ranked trades it has no ISBN number, and when it was collected in January 2000, it was counted as a comic book by Diamond.
But its cover price then, $3.99, was not substantially more than the average comic-book price at the time; the current version's $7.99 is more than double the current average. Inclusion on the graphic novel list has tended over the years to be a function of price. The 2000 version, incidentally, landed in 151st place during its release month, with preorders of more than 12,500 copies; the current version just beats that total, with more than 13,100 copies sold at twice the price. (Movie buzz tends to help!) Counted as a comic book, it would have been in 164th place.
Just as Diamond releases "small" and "indie" publisher charts for comics that sometimes extend the Top 300 lists, Diamond also does so for graphic novels. Rarely do the charts include items not already seen on the larger list, but last month and this month they have. We can actually see down to 464th place, where items are still selling around 280 copies; as the 300th-place level for trades this month was 396 copies, that suggests a very slow drop-off in the "long tail." The trades from 301st to 464th place likely add around 55,000 copies and a million dollars all on their own to industry sales.
The aggregate totals:
Versus 1 year ago this month: -10%
Versus 5 years ago this month: -3%
Versus 10 years ago this month: -7%
Versus 15 years ago this month: -17%
Q3 2012: 20.51 million copies, +6% vs. Q3 2011
YEAR TO DATE: 58.83 million copies, +15% vs. 2011, -8% vs. 2007, +12% vs. 2002, -22% vs. 1997
September 2012 versus one year ago this month: -8.72%
Q3 2012 versus Q3 2011: +6.06
Versus 1 year ago this month: -7%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +6%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +36%
Versus 15 years ago this month: +18%
Q3 2012: $73.23 million, +11% vs. Q3 2011
YEAR TO DATE: $206.81 million, +17% vs. 2011, +2% vs. 2007, +41% vs. 2002, +15% vs. 1997
September 2012 versus one year ago this month: -4.42%
Q3 2012 versus Q3 2011: +11.5%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +12%
Versus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -6%
Versus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 50 vs. the Top 50: -13%
Q3 2012: $21.99 million, +18% vs. Q3 2011
YEAR TO DATE: $62.61 million, +23% vs. 2011
September 2012 versus one year ago this month: +14.43%
Q3 2012 versus Q3 2011: +15.37%
Versus 1 year ago this month: -3%
Versus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +4%
Versus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 50 TPBs: +15%
Q3 2012: $95.21 million, +12% vs. 2011
YEAR TO DATE: $269.41 million, +18% vs. 2011
September 2012 versus one year ago this month: +1.02%
Q3 2012 versus Q3 2011: +12.71%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +1%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +19%
Q3 2012: $123.6 million, +13% vs. 2011
YEAR TO DATE: $346.59 million, +16% vs. 2011
The average comic book in the Top 300 cost $3.56, with the average comic book ordered by retailers costing $3.50. $3.50 was the median price of comics, and $2.99 was the most common price.
Updates have been made to the pages listing the #1 comics of each month, the 300th place comics of each month, and the Diamond-era sales records.
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Oh, my goodness, bean bags have been quite the plaything around here of late. After close to an entire lifetime of being fairly uninterested in tossing and catching games, the girls are both now just about obsessed. Syd likes straight catch, but Will is in love with the "pop fly game," in which I toss a bean bag high, high, high up for her. However, she has her own particular take on the skill, preferring to crouch like an animal as I toss it, then spring up for the (hopeful) grab.
Since I like to include a couple of play shots with the still life shots in my etsy listings, I combined a game of pop flies with a photo shoot for the rainbow bean bag set now up in my pumpkinbear etsy shop. Yeah, "catching" a good shot of a good pop fly catch...
Here are the other photos in the rainbow bean bag listing, some more sedate, one not so much:
Friday, June 24, 2011
Throwing the Rainbow
2 comments:
- Tina said...
Those are great! I love all the action shots. I haven't tried making bean bags yet but I know quite a few kids (my daughter included) that would love them. And I do believe there are a few birthday's coming up...
- June 24, 2011 at 10:40 PM
- Stephanie said...
So so pretty and sweet!
- June 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM
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Op-Ed by: U.S. Rep. Candice Miller
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The victims of serious mental illness in America know full well the heavy toll it imposes on the lives of those afflicted, their families and loved ones.
Rarely but tragically – as in the form of the senseless and unspeakable massacre of first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 – the rest of us know too what can happen when severe mental illness goes undetected or untreated.
Experience tells us we will look in vain for simple answers to the question of how such tragedies can be prevented, especially ones that are consistent with the values of a self-governing republic.
We also know that broad new restrictions on all citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights would be neither practical nor effective.
But we can seek to remedy obvious flaws in our approach to the treatment of mental illness. Flaws that too often leave the severely ill homeless or incarcerated, their families in despair and the rest of society feeling helpless or numb.
I believe legislation introduced in Congress by Rep. Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania Republican and psychologist, represents an opportunity to do that.
This legislation, of which I am a co-sponsor, would be the first overhaul of the federal government's approach to mental illness in 20 years. Its aim is to target spending more effectively and establish a framework for treatment that would funnel assistance to those in greatest need.
It would also empower parents and other caregivers for the seriously mental ill to play a more active role in treatment by removing barriers to their interaction with physicians, psychiatrists and other providers.
In the last seven decades, the number of psychiatric patients receiving institutional care has declined fifteen-fold from 600,000 to 40,000. Much of this decline can be attributed to advances in out-patient therapy. Sadly, a significant proportion is the result of budget pressures that have left the chronically ill fending for themselves or, increasingly, in prison or jail.
The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R. 3717) would expand the authority of courts and treatment centers to enroll the seriously mentally ill in assisted out-patient treatment plans and to enforce their implementation, thereby reducing the number of patients with diagnosed, severe mental illness who go without or fail to adhere to therapy and/or drug treatment programs. (Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history in 2007, for example, had been diagnosed with severe mental illness and ordered into out-patient treatment; he failed to comply.)
It would also link federal mental health grants to the states to modifications in the definition of mental illness requiring a treatment plan. In many states, including Michigan, court-ordered treatment often cannot be imposed absent evidence that the victim of mental illness presents an imminent danger to himself or to others. By modifying that standard to one in which treatment could be ordered for those who obviously cannot manage their daily affairs, we could ensure more of the severely mentally ill are cared for and increase peace of mind for their families.
With these, and other changes in federal mental health policy contained in this proposal, I believe we could make real progress in the treatment of those among us suffering from serious mentally illness. For them, for their families and for the innocent who, rarely but tragically, fall victim to untreated madness, we have an obligation to try.
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Love is an entirely baffling concept to most people. Most people, although they may have felt it, are at a complete loss when asked to describe it.
According to Grant Naylor, "Love is a device invented by bank managers to make you overdrawn."
Medically and scientifically speaking, love and lust are devices that serve the genetic impulse to procreate and nurture children. Lust drives you to mate, and love drives you to stay with the person with whom you have mated.
The evolutionary upshot of which is that a couple will stick together while their newborn infant is incapable of looking after itself.
The process by which the mind loves another is a complex chemical cocktail of endorphines that acts as a reward mechanism for spending time with your loved one or offspring. The reward mechanism fills the lovers with a profound sense of peace and contentment. This essentially becomes an addiction, which is understandable.
Religion and love[edit]
Many Christians claim that love only comes from the God or the soul. However, love is explainable in terms of the natural processes of biology, particularly the field of evolutionary psychology.
There are essentially three kinds of love: love of family, romantic love, and friendship. The first ultimately comes from an instinct to preserve genes. The second comes from procreation instincts. The third is essentially a social pact that confers survival advantages.
Can you prove that love exists?[edit]
Sometimes love is also used as an analogy to demonstrate that it is rational to believe in things without evidence.
This is because one of the most common arguments against the existence of God is that there is simply no evidence that God exists, and since the burden of proof is on the person making a positive claim, it is reasonable to suggest that God's existence be demonstrated before belief is warranted. Theists respond by saying "You believe in love, even though there is no evidence that love exists."
- This claim is simply false. Love is an emotional state, and there is plenty of evidence that this emotional state exists. People who claim to be "in love" behave in markedly different ways from people who do not. Studies of the brain show that certain areas are activated by feelings of love.
- "Exist" is an ambiguous word, which lends this subject to the equivocation fallacy. When we say that an apple exists, we are speaking of a specific entity that occupies a position in space. But there are also abstract concepts that "exist," and the meaning is different. The color green might be said to exist. However, "green" is not an object; it is a name that we have chosen to give to a range of wavelengths in visible light. The color green "exists" only in the sense that certain real objects have the property of being green, which has meaning because of the definitions that humans have assigned. Love exists in this second sense: not as a standalone object, but as a property that appears in certain minds and has meaning to people due to common experiences.
- Given the above distinction about different definitions of existence, it is fair to ask: in which sense does God "exist"? Is God a real, physical object existing in some real universe? Or is God an abstract concept, like love, which exists primarily in the minds of those who feel it? If this is the second definition, then many atheists might agree that God "exists," but this is not an existence which would be satisfying to many theists. Few atheists would deny that the emotional belief in God exists, like love. But treating God as a feeling and nothing more does not give the notion of a genuine, physical God who commands power over the real universe.
Isn't love cheapened if it is scientifically explainable?[edit]
Some theists object to efforts to explain love in terms of science. They believe that explaining love makes it seem cheap and mundane by removing the mystery.
Many will tell you that that isn't the case. The fact that we can understand how love works does not change the fact that it is a powerful emotion that drives people's behavior. As a part of the human condition, it drives people to great acts of creativity and spurs people to monumental achievements.


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Reichert v. Elizabethtown College, 2011 WL 3438318 (E.D.Pa. August 5, 2011)
Plaintiff's threatening behavior toward certain faculty members of his college led the administration to monitor plaintiff's school-issued email account. Plaintiff's lawsuit against the school included claims for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Stored Communications Act (SCA), and common law invasion of privacy.
The college moved to dismiss these claims and the court granted the motion.
The court found that the ECPA claim failed because plaintiff did not allege the interception of the email messages was contemporaneous with the messages' transmission. As for the SCA claim, the court noted that the statute protects electronic communications providers from liability for searches of their own systems which are used to provide the service. The school provided the service, so it could not be liable for monitoring its own system. And as for invasion of privacy, the court found that plaintiff had failed to allege the mental distress required to sustain such a claim.


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Earlier this year, Adobe sponsored a series of short videos by the Type Directors Club (TDC). Each video in the series, appropriately named Type Legends, features an interview with a legendary type designer. Thus far, four videos have been released. As a sponsor of the videos, supporter of TDC, and a team of folks passionate about type we were thrilled to see these videos come to life and wanted to share the video links with all our Typblography followers.


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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Daily Designs and Daily Designs Sentiments Day 2
As many of you know, I moved to a new house and new location just over 7 months ago so the first image is a dear one. It's a perfect image for moving or simply sending a note to a friend or parent. I don't know about you, but my best friend's parents are like second parents to me. Ellen and I have been best friends since I was in 3rd grade...almost 25 years ago. So you can imagine when I visit her parents it's "home sweet home". This sentiment is perfect after a visit with your parents too. Or perhaps you want to send a piece of home to your husband/wife who is fighting the war overseas. Whatever the occasion, you'll soon fall in love with this image paired with this sentiment.
I began stamping various paper scraps with coordinating ink using Polka Dot Basics II. Each colour has the same polka dot pattern. I then used my EK success square punch and punched out 2 or 3 or each colour and then randomly placed them on my card base. The goal was to create a masculine/neutral tapestry or quilt look as a second layer. Next I inked up my scallop circle (yes those rings and scallop are ONE stamp). Then I stamped my birdhouses. The birdhouses are also one stamp. As a final step I coloured my image using Ciao Copic markers and stamped my sentiment on a scrap piece of white cardstock. You can see the exact colours on the last photo. I picked them to match my papers. *Note: the green in the ring is actually the same colour as my cardstock but looks lighter in the photo.
Stamp Set(s): Daily Designs and Daily Designs Sentiments (Urban Design by Alli Miles) by PTI
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White by PTI, Dark Chocolate by PTI, Kraft, Scarlet Jewel by PTI, Ocean Tides by PTI
Ink: Scarlet Jewel by PTI, Dark Chocolate by PTI, New Leaf by PTI, Versamark, Ocean Tides by PTI
Tools: Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, Copic Ciao markers, EK Success square punch 11/4 inch
Another one of my fav images is this sweet teddy bear and rattle. Who doesn't like making baby cards?
I began by stamping my bear on Dark Chocolate ink. Next, I carefully wiped the rattle and nose using a baby wipe and coloured those areas with my Tombo markers and stamped it on white cardstock. I touched up the inked area by going over the areas using my markers again (this helps the colours look more vibrant). Then I stamped my "sweet baby" sentiment using spring rain just below the bear. Next I inked my scallop circle using true black ink and wiped the outer ring with a baby wipe and coloured it with my blue tombo marker. Again I touched it up after I stamped it. Then I used my EK success scallop punch to punch out the image.
You'll note that I stamped Polka Dot Basics II on the spring rain cardstock. I also used a Martha Stewart punch on the top edge. I found a piece of Bitty Dot paper and decided to sew 3 button to it. As a final touch I added some spring rain gingham ribbon and tied a bow.
As you probably noted, I used 3 different methods of "colouring" these images with 1) ink 2) Copics and 3) Tombo markers (SU! markers work just as well). Again, I wanted you to see that there are many ways you can personalize your images.
Stamp Set(s): Daily Designs and Daily Designs Sentiments (Urban Design by Alli Miles) by PTI
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White by PTI, Dark Chocolate by PTI, Spring Rain by PTI
Patterned Paper: Bitty Dot by PTI
Ink: Dark Chocolate by PTI, True Black by PTI, Spring Rain by PTI
Accents: Spring Rain Gingham by PTI, Spring Rain Buttons by PTI, White Floss
Tools: Copic Ciao markers, Martha Steward punch, EK Success scallop punch, Tombo Markers
Thanks so much for stopping by and to those who left me comments yesterday--it means so much to me. I'd love to hear which card is your fav.
Your exclusive insider stamp set clues today just because you stopped by: you'll love this set if you want to crown your princess or hand a wrench to him...a little birdie told me! (3 images included in the set)
See you back again tomorrow!
17 comments:
- Diane Jaquay said...
All I can say is WOW!!! Both of these cards are fantastic, and I'm loving the images in this new set! I'm so excited to see the whole thing!
- January 11, 2010 at 3:58 AM
Love the first card--the patchwork and the image are so great together.
- January 11, 2010 at 4:35 AM
- corinna said...
Love both cards! And I'm going to love this stamp set for sure! I'm sooooo excited to see tomorrows artwork! tfs with us!
- January 11, 2010 at 5:16 AM
- Kimberly said...
The bear image is really cute, but I love the first card. I was struggling with some masculine cards this past weekend, so I'll be using that idea! The scalloped circle looks really fun, as well.
- January 11, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- Carol's Ink Spot said...
Very nice cards and I LOVE the stamp imagines you have shown already. A definite must have for my shopping list!
- January 11, 2010 at 5:39 AM
- Charmaine said...
Very cute cards. Love the polka dot patch work you did...will have to try that out.
- January 11, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Charmaine said...
Very cute cards. Love the polka dot patch work you did...will have to try that out.
- January 11, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Steph Zerbe said...
OMGoodness, Super Cute Cards!!!! I'm excited about the Home sweet Home sentiment. Very fun! Gorgeous cards!
- January 11, 2010 at 7:22 AM
- Helen F. said...
Super sweet cards, Alli! I love the colors and design on your "Home" card!
- January 11, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- Cindy H. said...
Adorable cards, adorable images!! I love your polka dotted Home Tweet Home card!!
- January 11, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Unknown said...
Sweet cards and stamps! I'll have to sit on the fence because I love both of your cards. I really like the way you mixed the polka dot stamps on the first card. Can't wait for the whole reveal!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Glenda J said...
Ok - don't make me pick a favourite! I love them both - especially the colour combos. The buttons are perfect!
- January 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Hi Alli!
I really love your polka-dot/quilty card - not only the technique, but especially the stamps! Your birdhouses, and the sentiment, together with your scalloped circles are so great together! Perfect!
- January 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- Laurel said...
These are so cute, love the first card!
- January 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Deirdre said...
More Stunners Alli, just love them both.
- January 14, 2010 at 6:24 AM
- Angela W said...
Both are great! I love the baby card, so cute!
- January 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- 苦瓜鹹蛋Star said...
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Spicer Shoots Career Low on Day One of Evansville Tournament
Nashville, Tenn. – Freshman Natalie Spicer carded a career best 82 during the first round of the Braun Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Evansville. Spicer guided the Tigers on a cool day at the Par-71, 6,012 yard Quail Crossing Golf Club in Boonville, Ind.
Spicer hit 11 fairways and 11 greens on her way to seven pars and a birdie as she finished at 11-over. The first-year just missed a hole-in-one on the par-3, 17th, as her tee shot stuck just outside of the cup. Spicer tapped in for her lone birdie. On the par-4, 6th, Spicer converted on an up-and-down to save par.
Amelia Dap finished four shots behind Spicer with a 15-over, 86. The redshirt-sophomore hit a 4-iron off the tee box at 11, 165 yards into the wind and landed inches from the flag setting up a tap in birdie. Dap continued solid play on the par-4, 4th, hitting the fairway and reaching the green in two. The Murfreesboro product two putted for par. Dap averaged less than two putts per hole on day one.
Laura Bremer and Kelly Merkel both entered the clubhouse with an 88. Bremer highlighted the round by sinking a 12-foot putt for birdie on the par-5, 3rd. The sophomore transfer finished with 12 fairways, six greens, 33 putts and an up-and-down on Monday.
Sarah Needleman shot a non-scoring 90.
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Bob Dylan has nothing on Ira's nasal tunes.
National Public Radio DJ Ira Glass has lent his unique vocal talents to a cover of the late Elliott Smith's "Say Yes," New York mag's Vulture blog reports.
To those unfamiliar with the eccentric "This American Life" host's soul-affirming radio work, this may not be such a big deal.
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But Glass' fans are likely to find his duet with Lucy Wainwright Roache simply adorable.
Roache, the daughter of musicians Suzzy Roache and Loudon Wainwright III, told WNYC's John Schaefer it was Glass' idea to collaborate for what eventually became the bonus track of her debut full-length album.
"Somewhere along the line Ira made a joke about us doing a song together but we decided to take the joke seriously," she said.
Check out a live version of the result, and Lucy Wainwright Roache's interview here ("Say Yes" at around 12:30).
Selected Reading: Vulture, Soundcheck, This American Life