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As with most of the traditional genealogy passed down to me from my predecessors, there is very little original documentation for any of the dates, places and even the people listed in numerous printed genealogies about the family. I have spent some considerable time researching some of the Town Records from Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island to document the birth and early life of John Tanner, but have not focused on documenting the line from John back to the Mayflower passengers, Richard Warren and Francis Cooke and Francis' son John Cooke who later married Sarah Warren, Richard's daughter.
It is amazing how many times this pedigree has been repeated by my own family members without anything more than a nod to documentation. Fortunately, because of the Mayflower connection, there is a huge body of resource material. The Mayflower passengers and their descendants for four and five generations have been exhaustively sourced in a variety of publications. The starting points for my research are the publications of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants particularly, the book:
Wood, Ralph V. Francis Cooke of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996.
If this line has been so completely documented, then why do I want to re-plough the field? The main reason is to provide the most current documentation and to put those links into FamilySearch.org's Family Tree program and to provide a current assessment of the controversies surrounding the line. Unfortunately, FamilySearch's Family Tree program is still struggling with the duplicates and data inherited from New.FamilySearch.org, so any information I enter will have to wait until the lines are untangled and able to be edited. I really have no hope in correcting all of the inaccurate information published in books and online about this family, but I do hope to provide at least one documented and reliable source.
Examining this early Colonial genealogy is not as simple as it might seem. For example, Thankful Tefft and Joshua Tanner had a daughter they named Thankful Tefft Tanner. There is considerable confusion in the existent genealogical records between the mother's information and the daughter. Even the General Society of Mayflower Descendants includes a measure of controversy in their publications where there are disagreeing opinions about the historical record.
During this next week, I will be in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah helping the attendees of the Family History Expos Retreat with their genealogy. Perhaps, I will have time to address some of the issues surrounding Thankful Tefft Tanner and her ancestry back to the Mayflower. In any event, I hope to write about this issue during the next few weeks, documenting the sources and giving examples of research.


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It's a chance for local teenagers to build up their self-esteem while simultaneously building friendships and building robots, spaceships, vehicles and just about any other object that can be built by human hands. The first meeting of the Teen LEGO® Building Group will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2 to 4 p.m., at Springside Chestnut Hill (SCH) Academy, hosted by the school's robotics team. It will offer an opportunity for teen LEGO® builders to build together in an inclusive atmosphere.
Teen members of SCH's robotics team will be on hand to help participants make their own creations. Although there will be no takeaways, the group can continue to meet and work toward displaying their work to hundreds of other teenagers at the First LEGO® League competition, which will be hosted by SCH Academy in December of this year.
"People who love LEGO® also love to build with others. It's a great chance for teen LEGO® fans to socialize with other teens having similar interests," insisted Cynthia Day, of Wyndmoor, founder of Spectrum FUNdamentals Studio, who helped to organize this precedent-setting event along with Mary Reichley, founding member of the Colonial LEGO® Users Group, and Peter Randall, head of engineering at SCH Academy.
(Formed in 2010 by Day, Spectrum FUNdamentals Studio creates classes where children and teenagers on the autism spectrum can socialize while sharing common interests. It formerly held classes above O'Doodles Toy Store in Chestnut Hill but now is operating on an event-only basis.)
The June 30 event is free and is open to all teenagers, but there is a specific effort being made to include teens with various forms of autism. "My own son has autism," said Day, 58, "but when he has gone to a LEGO® event, you'd never know it. So I thought it would be great to have an event where autistic kids could meet other autistic kids, and through sharing a common interest in LEGO®, it would be a lot easier for them to socialize. Kids on the autism spectrum are also particularly good builders.
"Since we are working toward a big display, there will be plenty of opportunity for all the kids to provide input and have fun together. We really appreciate SCH's involvement also since their robotics team will add the element of teens helping teens."
Mary Reichley added, "This teen group will have a goal of making a great display of work for the December event. We hope to have a number of tables where the teens can really show off their work to hundreds of other interested kids. Events like this already exist for adult fans of LEGO®, but we thought, 'Why not for kids?'"
(Colonial LEGO® Users Group {LUG} was formed in 2013 as a club for serious teen builders. Colonial LUG members have created "Brick Insanity" at the Lafayette Hill Public Library for children to experience the fun of LEGO® bimonthly. The LUG will sponsor a fundraiser for the library in September which will include a carnival theme, games and a raffle made entirely of LEGO®. A display with the theme of a playground on the fourth of July made by LUG members is currently being displayed in the library's LEGO® store display box until July 18. For more information, contact Mary Reichley at firstname.lastname@example.com)
LEGO® is a popular line of construction toys manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, LEGO®, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, mini-figures and various other parts. LEGO® bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings and even working robots.
Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. LEGO® began manufacturing interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then a global LEGO® subculture has developed, supporting movies, games, competitions and six themed amusement parks. One might call LEGO® a sophisticated advance over Tinkertoys, which have been around since 1914.
From their earliest years at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, students learn to become creative designers and problem solvers through an engineering and robotics curriculum that is one of only a few such schoolwide curricula in the country. It may include constructing a LEGO® castle in 2nd grade, designing and manufacturing a marketable consumer product in middle school, etc. More information about the curriculum can be obtained at www.sch.org/robotics
For the June 30 event, teens must register by emailing email@example.com or calling 215-805-3094. The event will take place at SCH's Robotics Lab at 500 West Willow Grove Ave. Parking is on site. LEGO® will be provided for building. Also, anyone who has LEGO® cluttering up their attic is urged to contact Cynthia Day to donate them to her worthwhile organization.

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Story Behind Lichtman Creating Volleyball Clinics for Great Cause
by Cassidy Lichtman, U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Outside Hitter
When my brother and I were little we had an allowance like a lot of kids. I think it was fifty cents a week and most of the time my parents forgot to pay us. We both had chores we had to do around the house—mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, taking out the trash, etc. But I remember my dad specifically telling us that our allowance was in no way connected to our chores. We were to help out around the house because we were a part of the family and were expected to give back. As we got older, that concept extended to the volleyball community. We reffed tournaments for the younger kids at the club or helped out at summer camps at school. We probably could have gotten paid but that wasn't the point. The point was that if you can do something to help someone, then you should do it.
So, now that I'm older, I want to help kids like me. I've loved the game of volleyball since I can remember. I was that kid who you could not pull out of the gym. I'd go to two practices a night and take a 20-minute break for dinner in between. But it's not even just playing. I'm also a giant volleyball nerd and I always have been. I like learning about the game. I'd sit and watch older teams practice, studying how they moved or read Volleyball Magazines from 20 years ago. The NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship semifinals and finals were held in San Diego when I was 12-years-old and all I could think about was how I wanted to do that someday.
But as inundated as I was with the sport when I was growing up, I probably couldn't have named the starting lineup of the U.S. National Team or told you where we ranked in the world or who the coach was. The only time I ever saw them play was once every four years in the Olympics. And I think the same can be said for almost every girl in the prep volleyball world today.
The National Team currently trains out of Anaheim, Calif., smack dab in the middle of one of the most thriving volleyball centers in the country. Despite the prime location, though, there is still a large disconnect between the National Team and the club scene. Just like when I was a kid, the vast majority of young players don't know who the top players in their sport are or what we're working on in our gym. As a current member of Team USA, I want to help with that.
So, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to run some clinics in San Diego, Los Angeles and possibly the Bay Area in California. All I want to do in each clinic is to take one or two skills and break down the fundamentals the same way that we do in the USA gym. I want to give younger players the opportunity to hear about what keys I'm focusing on when I have a passing session with Karch Kiraly or when I'm serving for match point.
I realize that there are many different ways to teach volleyball and each coach has his or her own ideas about technique. I would never say that our way is the only way and I don't expect anyone to blindly accept it as such. For a couple hours, though, I'd like to ask people to try it our way as I explain why we think that it makes sense. After that, players and coaches can decide if it makes sense for them. At the least, I think it would be valuable to start a dialogue and to get girls to think about their own technique and the way that they play.
This whole idea didn't actually start out with me wanting to run clinics. It started because, like I said, I wanted to help kids like me. But not the volleyball playing kind. Many of you may not be familiar with my story. My athletic career should have been over before it even started. I woke up one day when I was nine years old and couldn't walk. For seven months I was on crutches as I saw one doctor after another. None of them could find any way to break through the constant pain and I wasn't supposed to walk ever again. I made the choice to walk anyway, but I skipped over the part about getting better. Instead, I decided I wanted to be a volleyball player and I made the pain even worse. It's been over 14 years now and the pain has never stopped.
Kids aren't supposed to have to deal with things like that. They're supposed to be worrying about spelling tests and birthday parties not doctors, medications and physical therapy sessions. There are plenty of kids out there, though, who do have bigger things to worry about. I'm not going to pretend like I know how they feel. But I know a little bit about being hit with heavy issues at a young age.
Here's the thing, though: after all of it — all of the visits to the doctors, all the failed treatments, all the times I've cried because it hurt — I still love life. I still find things every day that amaze and inspire me. I still wake up every day grateful for the opportunities I've been given. So, at the end of the day, I'll probably never get better physically. But I do feel like I've come through this process with my heart intact. And I want other kids to be able to say the same.
I think the first and most crucial step toward that goal is making sure that kids are surrounded by love. That is why 100 percent of the money raised in these clinics is going to go to the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Our coaching staff will be made up of volunteers, ranging from other National Team coaches and players to college coaches to club coaches who also want to learn more about what USA is currently teaching. The gyms we will be using will be donating their space and we will likely get a few corporate sponsors on board as well.
More than anything else, it has been the volleyball family that's brought me through the toughest times in my life. Sometimes we get so caught up in the tension of rankings and lists and records that we forget about the great things that we can do together. I've seen the volleyball community come together in amazing ways and I'd like to see it happen again. I think this is an opportunity to help kids and families who really need it while simultaneously learning more about the game that we all love.
The first "Play With A Purpose" clinics will be held in San Diego at Canyon Crest High School on March 31 and in Los Angeles on April 21. Be on the lookout for further information on dates and locations through your clubs or follow me on twitter (@CassidyLichtman). Feel free to send me an email at email@example.com if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing you out on the court!


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The History Channel.
Ken Burns turned acclaimed authors like Shelby Foote into TV celebrities.
The History Channel works backward, turning TV celebrities into acclaimed authors.
Lest you think the lead character from Pawn Stars is bereft of wisdom that merits preservation for the ages, heed the promotional copy of his new book's dust jacket:
Rick isn't only a businessman; he's also a historian and keen observer of human nature. For instance, did you know that pimps wear lots of jewelry for a reason? It's because if they're arrested, jewelry doesn't get confiscated like cash does, and ready money will be available for bail. Or that WWII bomber jackets and Zippo lighters can sell for a freakishly high price in Japan? Have you ever heard that the makers of Ormolu clocks, which Rick sells for as much as $15,000 apiece, frequently died before forty thanks to the mercury in the paint?
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Hickory Dickory Dock, this 6-year-old boy loves a clock. Short or tall, it matters none. Rhythm or Seiko, it matters some. Cuckoo or classic, he has them too. Some come in different colors, even red and blue. Hickory Dickory Dock, Chevy Ash has a clock -- err, clocks. Many clocks. Count them. One, two, three, four ... 599, 600, 601?!
Hickory Dickory Dock, this 6-year-old boy loves a clock. Short or tall, it matters none. Rhythm or Seiko, it matters some. Cuckoo or classic, he has them too. Some come in different colors, even red and blue. Hickory Dickory Dock, Chevy Ash has a clock -- err, clocks. Many clocks. Count them. One, two, three, four ... 599, 600, 601?! Loving Time Chevy, the son of Michelle and Peter Ash, is not a typical boy, preferring a suit and tie -- not a dirty shirt and jeans -- to tumble around in. And with a smile, he'll shake your hand. Just as unusual is his hobby -- collecting watches and clocks. They are "beautiful works of art," Chevy says, squirming in a chair. His tick-tock gallery takes up two rooms in his parents' New Philadelphia home. The collection comes in different shapes, sizes, colors and brands. Rhythm Watch Co. of Japan produces some of his favorite clocks – classic designs with soothing sounds of French horns and melodic strings. Seiko Clocks is another favorite. Forget Toys "Clock," was one of Chevy's first words, said Michelle Ash, tracing her son's interest in timepieces back to a trip to the hospital. It was in 2002. Chevy, at 13 months, had a cold. In the hospital he saw a two-sided clock. A passion ignited. Chevy's mom said: "We thought it would be a passing thing," but her son would pick DVDs on the making of clocks over "Blue's Clues"; a pocket watch over a train set. His birthday cakes have clock images. He bypasses toys in the stores for watches. He owns a clock given to him by his parents after he successfully was potty trained. And, for Halloween, Chevy dresses as -- what else -- a clock. His passion for clocks doesn't mean he is stuck on time and has no other interests. He is a kid, after all. "I like to go to the pool and have some good times and play with my friends," he said. A Member of the Clock Club But, at age 6, Chevy also is one of the youngest collectors of clocks and watches in the U.S., a member of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). That's right, there is a club. There are 2,300 members, including a cat and 17 youths, in the national organization, said Jim Bland, marketing director for NAWCC. "Kids like things that make them think and cause them to wonder and imagine," and the mechanics of clocks get some kids excited, Bland said. That seems about right. Chevy, showing off his gallery, said he loves clocks because they have "movement and gears and stuff inside them... (and) they play music." And he'll get to mess with this "stuff" soon. "Me and my dad are going to build a clock," he blurts out, while rolling around on his bed. By the way, his bed sheets have clock designs. Sleeps Well When this clock is built, it'll take its rightful spot on one of his bedroom walls, sharing space with more than 50 clocks and a poster of the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock." Michelle Ash said most of the clocks in her son's room do not run constantly, so Chevy can sleep soundly. Which one of his roughly 600 clocks, you might ask, is his alarm clock? Well, of course, that would be mom.
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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team tied for seventh overall at the 2014 NEC Outdoor Championships after the final day of competition on Sunday. CCSU was led on day two by sophomores Ally Gates and Alyssa Gonzalez who each earned a bronze medal.
Gates finished third in the 3,000m steeplechase with her time of 11:17.76 to post six points for CCSU and kick off Sunday's track competition.
Gonzalez finished third in the 400m hurdles after placing fifth in yesterday's prelims. The sophomore crossed the line in a personal-best time of 1:03.47 for six more points. She was followed by senior Shelby Tuttle in fifth with her time of 1:04.72.
Tuttle also raced the 100m hurdles in which she posted a new career-best time of 14.26. Her finish tallied five more points for CCSU and qualified her for ECAC competition.
Freshman Brittany Mendelson also placed fourth for the Blue Devils Sunday. She followed up her 4:51.31 performance from Saturday's prelims with a 4:40.54 showing in the finals.
In the 4x100m relay, a squad consisting of Gonzalez, Tuttle, freshman Sherise Truman and junior Ronea Saunders finished fourth in an ECAC qualifying time of 47.66.
After finishing eighth in the 800m prelims yesterday, junior Taylor LePage pulled out a fifth-place performance with her time of 2:18.40 on Sunday to contribute four more CCSU team points.
The 4x400m squad finished sixth in 3:53.13 while in the field events, sophomore Chelse Terry registered a distance of 37.83 meters to total another four points, collectively.
LIU Brooklyn claimed the women's championship with 134.50 points, followed by Sacred Heart (132) and Robert Morris (131.50). Mount St. Mary's took fourth (96) while Saint Francis U rounded out the top five with 80 points. The Blue Devils registered 57 to tie Bryant for seventh.


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Attorney: Victim of fatal police shooting never posed threat to troopers
Shawn Knight, 50, shot by police responding to domestic call at North Union home
The attorney for the family of a North Union Township man who was fatally shot by state police said the victim never brandished a gun at troopers, nor did he pose a threat to them.
"From the eyewitness accounts that I have already reviewed, it is very clear that Mr. (Shawn) Knight was killed while posing no threat to these police officers, and if our investigation concludes that these facts are indeed true, then we will be filing suit against the officers who opened fire on this former Marine," attorney Joel Sansone said at a Tuesday press conference.
State police in Uniontown said troopers were responding to a domestic call at Knight's home on Rose Boulevard about 10:40 p.m. Friday when Knight, 50, met them with a handgun in each hand and pointed the guns at the officers.
Investigators said Knight was ordered by police to put down the weapons several times before officers were forced to shoot him, but Sansone said the domestic situation was already resolved when troopers arrived and that Knight thought he was protecting his family from an intrusion.
"I understand the need for the police to check and see in a domestic situation if everything is OK in the house. I do not understand how that ended up with a dead individual when those police were never threatened by this individual, either verbally or with a handgun. The accounts that say he came out of the house brandishing two handguns can't be true, based on the forensic evidence that apparently exists," said Sansone.
Surveillance video from a neighboring home shows that the confrontation lasted about one minute. The neighbor's video shows a pair of troopers arriving at Knight's house and walking up to it with their flashlights out. The troopers climbed the porch steps and, within moments, ran back outside and took cover behind parked vehicles on the street. Then, flashes of light were seen in the nighttime video as shots were fired at Knight, a former Marine who often kept weapons nearby for protection.
"The neighbor's video shows a very short time elapsed, during which these officers were engaged in the scene, and much of that time is spent being told by the women, 'There's no problem here.' Their reaction to what occurred happened so quickly, it does not appear to me there was time for them to determine they were in danger. I believe the shots were fired either in fear or over reaction," said Sansone.
Knight's house has a surveillance camera system that, according to his family, would show what happened with him and the police. The family said the video was confiscated by investigators.
"What I'm hoping is that we find that these police officers at least had some justification for their conduct, and the reason I'm hoping that is because this community -- Uniontown and, particularly, this neighborhood -- has seen too much violence at the hands of the police. Too many times police officers have, in this neighborhood, unholstered their weapons and opened fire. We know that in the past they have done so and killed innocents. In this instance, it looks like they did it again," said Sansone.
No police were hurt in the shooting. The troopers who were involved have not been identified and are on administrative duty while an investigation continues. Police have not commented beyond an initial police release that was issued Saturday.


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The gentleman above is Dumitru Cârstea, a businessman from the western Romanian city of Timişoara. After receiving a wheel clamp on his black BMW X5 for parking it illegally, Cârstea protested by taping blocări ilegale ("illegally clamped") to the window of his car, then waving his exposed penis in the general direction of parking police who approached him with a video camera.
You may watch an entirely SFW version of the footage on the website of the Romanian newspaper Adevărul. It's all very strange if you don't speak Romanian. Dudes in leather jackets and trainers, mostly.
One has to admire the unashamed virility of Romanian men with big cars. Just recall the classic video of Gigi Becali and his crowbar, as applied to a dent on his Maybach.
(Hat tip to, as with all things silly and awesome, Markoferko!)


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Need to switch your PAB from Outlook 2003 to 2007? Zubair shows you how.
A: If you've tried to add a PAB in Outlook 2007, you might have noticed that the option isn't there. This is because Outlook 2007 no longer supports PABs.
Contacts are much more flexible and offer better customization than the .PAB file, so Microsoft decided to drop .PAB file support in Outlook 2007. This, of course, means that in the Outlook 2007 client, you can neither create nor add a PAB.
However, you can import an existing book into Outlook 2007 and then convert it to Outlook Contacts. Your Contacts list will then be visible in Outlook Address Book.
To import addresses from your old PAB into the new Outlook 2007, follow this procedure:
If you have multiple locations to choose from -- for example, if you have an Exchange profile and a Personal Storage File (.PST) -- click Change Destination to select the appropriate Contact's list, and then click Finish.
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Atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are widespread pollution clouds that can at times span an entire continent or an ocean basin. ABCs extend vertically from the ground upward to as high as 3 km, and they consist of both aerosols and gases. ABCs consist of anthropogenic aerosols such as sulfates, nitrates, organics, and black carbon and natural dust aerosols. Gaseous pollutants that contribute to the formation of ABCs are NOx (nitrogen oxides), SOx (sulfur oxides), VOCs (volatile organic compounds), CO (carbon monoxide), CH4 (methane), and O3 (ozone). The brownish color of the cloud (which is visible when looking at the horizon) is due to absorption of solar radiation at short wavelengths (green, blue, and UV) by organic and black carbon aerosols as well as by NOx. While the local nature of ABCs around polluted cities has been known since the early 1900s, the widespread transoceanic and transcontinental nature of ABCs as well as their large-scale effects on climate, hydrological cycle, and agriculture were discovered inadvertently by The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international experiment conducted in the 1990s over the Indian Ocean. A major discovery of INDOEX was that ABCs caused drastic dimming at the surface. The magnitude of the dimming was as large as 10–20% (based on a monthly average) over vast areas of land and ocean regions. The dimming was shown to be accompanied by significant atmospheric absorption of solar radiation by black and brown carbon (a form of organic carbon). Black and brown carbon, ozone and methane contribute as much as 40% to anthropogenic radiative forcing. The dimming by sulfates, nitrates, and carbonaceous (black and organic carbon) species has been shown to disrupt and weaken the monsoon circulation over southern Asia. In addition, the ozone in ABCs leads to a significant decrease in agriculture yields (by as much as 20–40%) in the polluted regions. Most significantly, the aerosols (in ABCs) near the ground lead to about 4 million premature mortalities every year. Technological and regulatory measures are available to mitigate most of the pollution resulting from ABCs. The importance of ABCs to global environmental problems led the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to form the international ABC program. This ABC program subsequently led to the identification of short-lived climate pollutants as potent mitigation agents of climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.
Keywords: air pollution, climate change, brown clouds, China and India air pollution, hydrological cycle, monsoon rainfall, public health
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Naples sits within the Bay of Naples in south eastern Italy and is the capital of Campagnia. It has a rich history for art culture and food – so much so that the city is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. At one end of the Bay sits Vesuvius dominating the southern skyline of the city.
The city has some of the most important museums in Italy including the National Archaeological Museum and the Museo di Capodimonte. The latter is also a very important art gallery featuring major works by some of Italy's finest artists. There are also a host of churches with the most famous being the Cathedral of Naples.
In the bay itself you can visit the islands of Capri, Ischia and Procida and of course the famous ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum are a must to see.


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Michael Koplow draws some important lessons from the recent clash between Israeli diplomats and Israeli politicians, to which I'll add a PS:
During the Israeli Foreign Ministry's ambassadors conference on Monday, the assembled diplomats were given a tongue lashing by Israeli National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror, who took exception to a question posed by UN Ambassador Ron Prosor about the decision to start the zoning and planning process for E1. After Prosor asked why the government decided to make the E1 announcement and received a round of applause from the room, Amidror responded by saying that American and British diplomats would never applaud someone who criticized the policy of their own government, and that ambassadors are merely clerks tasked with carrying out rather than questioning the government's directives. He further suggested that any diplomats unhappy with this should either go into politics themselves or resign. …
Amidror's response to Prosor was a real overreaction, and all the more surprising given that he was not speaking to a group that could in any way be deemed a hostile audience. One of two things, and possibly both simultaneously, are going on here. Either the government is actually feeling a lot more pressure on settlements and E1 than it lets on, which would explain Amidror's hair triggered short temper, or the government is feeling a lot more pressure over its declining pre-election poll numbers than it lets on and was willing to use a clash with its ambassadors to score political points.
Here's the promised PS. I know Ron Prosor, and he is not only one of the very shrewdest diplomats Israel fields, but also in no sense a soft-liner. If Prosor is warning that an Israeli government's position is inadvisedly provocative, then attention had better be paid.


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in electrical and radio engineering, a component of an electron or ion device, such as an incandescent lamp, a fluorescent lamp, or an electron tube. The base is used to install the device in, for example, a socket and to provide the connection between the elements within the device, such as the filaments or the electrodes, and the external electric circuit.
Any chemical species, ionic or molecular, capable of accepting or receiving a proton (hydrogen ion) from another substance; the other substance acts as an acid in giving of the proton. Also known as Brønsted base.
(chemical engineering)
The primary substance in solution in crude oil, and remaining after distillation.
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The region that lies between an emitter and a collector of a transistor and into which minority carriers are injected.
The part of an electron tube that has the pins, leads, or other terminals to which external connections are made either directly or through a socket.
The plastic, ceramic, or other insulating board that supports a printed wiring pattern.
Foundation or part upon which an object or instrument rests.
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A transparent plastic film on which a photographic emulsion is applied.
A side or face upon which the altitude of a geometric configuration is thought of as being constructed.
For a logarithm, the number of which the logarithm is the exponent.
For a number system, the number whose powers determine place value.
For a topological space, a collection of sets, unions of which form all the open sets of the space.
Station or installation from which military forces operate and from which supplies are obtained.
1. The lowest (and often widest) visible part of a building, often distinctively treated. A base is distinguished from a foundation or footing in being visible rather than buried.
3. Lower part of a column or pier, wider than the shaft, and resting on a plinth, pedestal, podium, or stylobate. Also see Asiatic base, Attic base.
4. A baseboard; skirting.
5. A preparation for a finished surface, as for flooring, stucco, paint, etc.; a surface to which the base coat of plaster is applied. Also see backing, ground.
6. In paint, either the medium or the main chemical ingredient.
7. In asphaltic or portland cement concrete paving, the prepared bottom course of crushed stone or gravel upon which subsequent courses are laid; serves to distribute localized wheel loads over a larger subbase and hence to improve load-bearing capacity.
8. The lowest point of any vertical pipe.
i. A location where aircraft with all facilities are based. Refers to an air force base, naval air station, and fixed base operator.
ii. In air traffic control phraseology and when transmitted on the radio, it means turning onto the base leg of the circuit pattern. The base leg, as it is known, is flown at right angles to the runway, just before turning to the final direction for landing.
iii. In photogrammetry, the distance at the scale of the stereoscopic model between adjacent perspective centers as reconstructed in the plotting instrument. Also called an air base.
iv. In military radio telephony usage, it means the airfield from which the mission was launched, as in "return to base."
v. The same as base course.
1. a chemical compound that combines with an acid to form a salt and water. A solution of a base in water turns litmus paper blue, produces hydroxyl ions, and has a pH greater than 7. Bases are metal oxides or hydroxides or amines
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d. the initial instance from which a generalization is proven by mathematical induction
8. Logic Maths the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
9. Electronics the region in a transistor between the emitter and collector
10. Photog the glass, paper, or cellulose-ester film that supports the sensitized emulsion with which it is coated
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12. Baseball any of the four corners of the diamond, which runners have to reach in order to score
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b. holding land by villein or other ignoble service
2. Music an obsolete spelling of bass
base(1) A starting or reference point.
(2) In a bipolar transistor, the elements that act as a switch. In NMOS and PMOS transistors, which make up CMOS circuits, the base is called the "gate." See transistor.
(3) A multiplier in a numbering system. In a decimal system, each digit position is worth 10x the position to its right. In binary, each digit position is worth 2x the position to its right.
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Old Dominion and Georgia State are out. Stony Brook and Albany are in. New teams. New coaches. Transition.
The Colonial Athletic Association's football wing kicks off Wednesday, with preseason media day at M&T; Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
The event won't draw 1,200 media members over three days, as the Southeastern Conference gathering did, but there's no shortage of topics.
How will new members Albany and Stony Brook fare? Are they suitable replacements for Old Dominion and Georgia State, which exited the league so their upwardly mobile football programs could play in the Bowl Subdivision.
Can the CAA in general, and a couple of teams in particular, regain their competitive mojo? The league, arguably the best in FCS from 2006-2010, landed only three teams in the playoffs last season. No CAA team has advanced past the quarterfinals since Delaware in 2010.
Prior to Wednesday's gabfest, thumbnails on the league's 11 teams, in no particular order:
William and Mary: Coach Jimmye Laycock rejected Brent Caprio's suggestion that the Tribe's starting quarterback be determined by a chipping and putting contest at Kingsmill.
It will be decided the old-fashioned way: Caprio and the other hopefuls must call out coverages in the video room while dodging ninja throwing stars hurled by new coordinator Kevin Rogers; most right answers and fewest wounds gets the job.
W&M; had better talent than its 2-9 record indicated last season and does so again. But the CAA is a fast tumble and a tough climb.
James Madison: Mickey Matthews will update his Facebook page and live-Tweet conversations with stud linebacker Stephon Robertson when the Dukes have the ball this season.
This will provide new offensive coordinator Mike O'Cain and O-line coach Curt Newsome more freedom to open up the offense, and will reduce the chances for Matthews' head to explode when O'Cain calls for consecutive pass plays inside the JMU 15.
We're told that quarterback Michael Birdsong, a kind of Logan Thomas Lite, will chuck it around a bunch more than is the norm in Harrisonburg. We'll believe it when we see it.
Richmond: The NCAA invoked the One Rocco Rule on the Spiders for 2013, ruling that Virginia transfer QB Michael Rocco must sit out a year before playing.
A blow, certainly, but Uncle Danny returns 17 starters from an 8-3 team that tied for the regular-season title and won its past four. Key among them are Ben Edwards (York), the versatile and productive receiver who blurs positions, linebacker Aaron Roane and defensive lineman Kerry Wynn.
Villanova: The Wildcats' 8-4 record and return to the playoffs mean that Andy Talley doesn't have to walk the streets of the Main Line telling old Brian Westbrook and Brian Finneran stories.
The Wildcats return 16 starters from the last CAA team to beat Old Dominion and are one of the preseason faves. They feature All-CAA noseguard Antoine Lewis and lineman Rakim Cox on the defensive side, and quarterback John Robertson, last year's Jerry Rice Award winner as the best freshman in the country, and running back Kevin Monangai.
Towson: Probably the CAA's second-best team at the end of last season, but the Tigers didn't go to the playoffs because they couldn't overcome two losses to FBS teams that saddled them with a 7-4 record.
As restitution, former athletic director Mike Waddell has mowed coach Rob Ambrose's lawn and washed and waxed his car all summer. And not with one of those easy-wipe compounds on TV commercials. Oh no. Old-school Turtle Wax. No power buffer, either.
Holes to fill, particularly on the defensive line and at quarterback, but Towson returns all five starting offensive linemen, monster tailback Terrance West, all three linebackers and a pair of top-shelf corners in Jordan Love and Tye Smith.
New Hampshire: Further proof of coach Sean McDonnell's wizardry lies not only in the Wildcats' ninth consecutive FCS playoff appearance from the football hotbed of Durham, N.H., but the fact that UNH received a first-round bye after getting dump-trucked by Towson (64-35) in the regular-season finale.
Meanwhile, 'Nova, which received the CAA's automatic bid, had to play a first-round game. UNH returns 15 starters and both quarterbacks. The issue, again, is a defense that gave up 30 points and 437 yards per game, and 1,139 yards in its final two games last season.
Still, a sorcerer as powerful as McDonnell is not to be trifled with.
Rhode Island: The Rams' about-face, from the CAA to the Northeast Conference and back, was reflected in their records the past couple of years.
They have a slew of returning starters, including seventh-year senior quarterback Bob Bentsen and all three linebackers, and 32 new faces. Notable among them are running back Justin Semmes, from MAC champ Miami of Ohio, and 6-3 wideout Jawaun Wynn from Rutgers.
Darkhorse pick to finish upper half of the conference.
Delaware: Evidently, K.C. Keeler was far more tolerable when his teams went to the playoffs than with sub-.500 records. Just two years removed from an FCS title game appearance, he was sacked after a 5-6 season.
New coach Dave Brock doesn't get the helmets, either, and hates it when VP Joe Biden swings through Newark and does donuts on the practice field in his Corvette. But he'll put up with a little inconvenience for no state sales tax.
It doesn't hurt that Brock has plenty to work with, particularly on offense. All five linemen and big-time running back Andrew Pierce return.
Maine: Jack Cosgrove, as Maine as a lobster roll, enters his 21st year as head coach and has taken part in more than 300 Black Bears games as a player and coach. This merits a statue or therapy or both.
Cosgrove, who once arm-wrestled Sasquatch (he is too modest to say how he fared), somehow continually produces interesting, competitive teams at the CAA's northern outpost. He will do so again, with 17 returning starters, including better-than-you-think quarterback Marcus Wasilewski and defensive end Michael Cole.
Stony Brook: One of two new CAA football members, the Sea Wolves won the past four Big South titles and bounced Villanova in the first round of the playoffs last year. Don't ask why a school on Long Island competed in the Big South.
Stony Brook lost Payton Award finalist Miguel Maysonet, but replaces him with Iowa transfer Marcus Coker, who rushed for 1,384 yards two years ago. The offensive line returns intact and includes 6-8, 335-pound Michael Bamiro, who moonlights as part of the New York skyline.
The Sea Wolves' northeast-heavy roster is dotted with kids from California and Florida and a smattering of FBS transfers. They're positioned to make immediate noise in the CAA.
Albany: The Great Danes are the CAA's other newbie football member. They had a darn fine 14-year run in the Northeast Conference, concluding with back-to-back FCS playoff appearances. How well or quickly that translates to their new home is up for debate.
Albany's 75-year-old head coach, Bob Ford, enters his 44th season at the school. In his bio photo on the athletic department website, he's wearing a wide-brimmed, straw-colored hat, along with a coat and tie, signifying that he's either a football coach or a loan officer at the First Bank of the Serengeti.
For the love of Tubby Raymond, let the games begin.


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Viewers will be witness to the 19th Annual Critics� Choice Movie Awards at 8 p.m. Thursday live on the CW Network.
Viewers will be witness to the 19th Annual Critics� Choice Movie Awards at 8 p.m. Thursday live on the CW Network. Since it began presenting awards for best in filmmaking, the Critics� Choice has become the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations than any other film group. The group is comprised of more than 250 television, radio and online film critics from across the U.S. and Canada, and I have been a voting member since 1995.
To find the full list check out criticschoice.com online.
Here is a look at my votes and my predictions:
Best Picture
My Vote: �12 Years a Slave�
My Prediction: �12 Years a Slave�
Best Director
My Vote: Alfonso Cuaron � �Gravity�
My Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron � �Gravity�
Best Actor
My Vote: Tom Hanks � �Captain Phillips�
My Prediction: Chiwetel Ejiofor � �12 Years a Slave�
Best Actress
My Vote: Sandra Bullock � �Gravity�
My Prediction: Cate Blanchett � �Blue Jasmine�
Best Supporting Actor
My Vote: Barkhad Abdi � �Captain Phillips�
My Prediction: Jared Leto � �Dallas Buyers Club�
Best Supporting Actress
My Vote: Scarlett Johansson � Her
My Prediction: Lupita Nyongo � �12 Years a Slave�
Best Original Screenplay
My Vote: Spike Jonze � �Her�
My Prediction: Spike Jonze � �Her�
Best Adapted Screenplay
My Vote: John Ridley � �12 Years a Slave�
My Prediction: John Ridley � �12 Years a Slave�
Best Film Ensemble
My Vote: �American Hustle�
My Prediction: �American Hustle�
Best Comedy Film
My Vote: �American Hustle�
My Prediction: �American Hustle�
Best Comedy Actor
My Vote: James Gandolfini � �Enough Said�
My Prediction: Leonardo DiCaprio � �The Wolf of Wall Street�
Best Comedy Actress
My Vote: Julia Louis-Dreyfus � �Enough Said�
My Prediction: Amy Adams � �American Hustle�
Best Animated Feature
My Vote: �Frozen�
My Prediction: �Frozen�
Best Foreign Film
My Vote: �Blue is the Warmest Color�
My Prediction: �Blue is the Warmest Color�
Best Cinematography
My Vote: Sean Bobbitt � �12 Years a Slave�
My Prediction: Emmanuel Lubezki � �Gravity�
Best Costume Design
My Vote: �The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug�
My Prediction: �The Great Gatsby�
Best Costume Editing
My Vote: �Rush�
My Prediction: �Gravity�
Best Makeup/Hair
My Vote: �Lee Daniels� The Butler�
My Prediction: �American Hustle�
Best Score
My Vote: Steven Price � �Gravity�
My Prediction: Steven Price � �Gravity�
Best Song
My Vote: Let it Go � �Frozen�
My Prediction: Let it Go � �Frozen�
Best Art Direction
My Vote: �The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug�
My Prediction: �The Great Gatsby�
Best Visual Effects
My Vote: �Gravity�
My Prediction: �Gravity�
Best Action Film
My Vote: �Star Trek: Into Darkness�
My Prediction: �The Hunger Games: Catching Fire�
Best Actor in an Action Movie
My Vote: �Brad Pitt � World War Z�
My Prediction: �Mark Wahlberg � Lone Survivor�
Best Actress in an Action Movie
My Vote: Sandra Bullock � �Gravity�
My Prediction: Sandra Bullock � �Gravity�
Best Sci/Fi Horror Film
My Vote: �Gravity�
My Prediction: �Gravity�
Best Documentary
My Vote: �20 Feet from Stardom�
My Prediction: �The Act of Killing�
Key thoughts about the year's best
Although Scarlett Johansson will not win in the best supporting actress category, her off-screen performance as a very different kind of love interest opposite Joaquin Phoenix in �Her� provided one of the most unique characters on film in 2013. I was quite impressed with the chemistry between Phoenix and Johansson as well (which is difficult to do when you never physically see the two together visually once during the film). The credit for that success is to be offered to both performers.
One of the best films of 2013 wasn�t nominated, yet is now on my all-time favorites list. �About Time� was written and directed by Richard Curtis and was a beautiful and original story about the search for love, the importance of family � and time travel. It was brilliantly written and provided a creative approach to romantic comedies.
Sandra Bullock deserves the credit and accolades she is receiving for �Gravity.� Reminiscent of Tom Hanks� performance in �Castaway,� Bullock offers viewers a look inside a damaged person stranded alone by forces beyond her control. She faces the challenges of trying to find hope and the will to live when every fiber of her being is asking, �What is there to live for?� Bullock brought out the pure loneliness and vastness of space through her character while also exploring the moments of chaos in the claustrophobic environment of relying on technology for one�s very survival. It was a wonderful film and performance.
Tom Hanks continues to prove why he is one of the world�s best. His final 15 minutes on-screen in �Captain Phillips� was one the most compelling and believable performances of any actor or actress in 2013.
The most fun I had at a film in 2013 was stepping in the time machine and experiencing �American Hustle�. This film was an absolute package of stellar performances, excellent writing and direction, eye-catching costumes and danceable music.
The most complete film of 2013 was �12 Years a Slave�. As I watched this film, I was reminded of the same feelings I had when viewing �Schindler�s List.� Both films served as a reminder of the pain, suffering and evil that humans can inflict on one another without so much as a worry or care. Yet, both films also capture the human spirit and power of perseverance and hope within hopeless situations. �12 Years a Slave� captured 13 nominations this year for the Critics� Choice Awards, including performance and technical achievement categories. When a film can earn recognition for nearly every area of the filmmaking experience, it is truly worth calling it �the complete package.�
I have always been a fan of the role a film score (or film soundtrack) can play on a film. If done successfully, music can actually become the essential supporting cast member. It becomes imperative to the story, and the feel of the film. Such is the case this year with Steven Price�s score on �Gravity.� I had the opportunity to interview this Critics� Choice Award Nominee about his life in music and film and his approach to �Gravity.�
While the full audio interview can be found at the following link, soundcloud.com/wgwgdotorg/steven-price-Gravity-composer, here are some direct thoughts from Price on his work on �Gravity.�
Noel T. Manning II � WGWG.org: Let�s talk about �Gravity,� the film with Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. What was your process with this film and giving this film a voice? In many ways this is a character driven film with your score serving as the support for audiences. Talk about your process with making this movie come alive with the score and sound design.
Steven Price, composer and sound designer for �Gravity�: Well �Gravity,� from my first meeting with Alfonso Cuaron, the director, it was really clear that music was going to have big role. You�re talking about space and there is no sound in space. So Alfonso was very clear that the sound design in the film was going to be very different, it wasn�t going to be traditional. It was going to dealing with vibrations and the things that characters would hear through their space suits. The sound would be transmitted in a different way, so all of a sudden music was being asked to not only do the emotional side of things and underscore the story but also kind of express tonally some of the things that sound design would have ordinarily done. So from the word �Go,� it was kind of a really open brief, and it was a case of finding music that would work in this kind of unconventional soundscape. You weren�t really dealing with the conventions of scoring because in �Gravity� there is a lot of action sequences in it and it is a real thriller, really. It is a massive experience and a thrill ride, and yet the music for that didn�t have to be conventional and have to do the things that a normal action score would do because you are not competing with crashing cars or explosions. It was a very different and more open canvas. It was kind of interesting, once you realized you didn�t have to follow those conventions you start to think well �How can we do it?� and it was just experimentation from the word �Go�, really. I try, I would spend a few days in my studio here, and I would try to make things and I would try thematic ideas and put ideas together and I would present them to Alfonso and we would go through and sort of look at what we�ve got asking �Is this working? Is this doing what we need it to do?� It kind of meant you were always thinking of unconventional ways to achieve what you were looking to do. If you were looking for tension�how could you get that? Ordinarily, you would have percussion and these sorts of things but perhaps we could do it with intensities of sound and also a lot of things moving around you there were also a lot of interesting things we did with the overall soundscape and making it very immersive. There were a lot of interesting things we did with this one, some things I have never come across or never even thought of before. So everyday was a real kind of eye opener.
NM: It is pretty amazing to be able to have that kind of freedom and I guess in many ways while it is freeing it also can be a bit daunting�
SP: Oh yeah, terrifying! What would normally happen is that we would have these meetings, and we would start talking and thinking about different ways of doing it and we would start discussing various bits of music we�ve heard or experiments and I would play some things�that would lead to a new concept and we would start talking about this other concept. We would get very excited about it and as I would leave the meeting I would have all these ideas about how it was going to be and I could hear it and it would be the following day in the studio and think �Oh God! How am I going to do that?� Then you just kind of have to rebuild and start from scratch and try and workout each sound belonging in this world and if these notes are going to reflect the character. It was very much focused on Sandra Bullock�s character and her emotions. If she was overwhelmed I wanted to the music to be overwhelming and when she was despairing I wanted the music to feel broken and damaged. It was so much experimentation and so many different versions of things but it was always pushing and seeing what was around the next corner. The great thing about working with Alfonso, really, was that he pushes you to do that, and he supports your experiments as well. You never felt like you were exposed and out on the limb getting yourself in trouble. You always felt like you trying and finding something that would play a scene in a correct and interesting way.
NM: What are some other things you did to capture that sound of �space� in �Gravity�?
SP: The way the film is covered with color and sounds, many pure sounds and glassy sounds made me stretch my mind a bit. We had to find what was appropriate and was suited the shot and the way the camera was floating around all these slow moving things in the score and slow moving melodies, kind of fluctuating and pulsating things really set the mood of the setting. From there it was trying to make every note count as much as we could.
The full audio interview of Steven discussing his influences and work as a composer can be found here: soundcloud.com/wgwgdotorg/steven-price-Gravity-composer
About Noel T. Manning II: Noel is a charter member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and hosts two weekly radio shows on WGWG.org dedicated to the world of film. He has been reporting on entertainment news since 1989 and has interviewed numerous stars of music, film and TV including Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award winners. Noel is also an adjunct professor of film studies at Gardner-Webb University.


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Zesty carrot & ginger loaf
Nutrition and extra info
- Can be frozen un-iced
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal379
- fat13g
- saturates7g
- carbs66g
- sugars48g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.44g
- 100g unsalted butter, plus extra for the tin
- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 50g black treacle
- 50g golden syrup (or use more black treacle if you like your ginger cake really dark)
Golden syrupgoal-dun sir-rup
Golden syrup is a translucent, golden-amber coloured, sweet syrup…
- zest 1 orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- zest and juice 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 1 large carrot, grated (you will need 140g/5oz flesh)
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 5 balls stem ginger from a jar, finely chopped
- 175g self-raising flour
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
- 2 tsp ground ginger
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 2 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 140g icing sugar
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter then line a 900g loaf tin with a strip of baking parchment. Put the butter, sugar, treacle, syrup and half the zests into a large saucepan. Heat gently until everything has melted together.
Add the carrot, ¾ of the chopped ginger, all the flour, bicarb, ¼ tsp salt, the ground ginger, pepper and eggs to the pan and stir well until you have a smooth batter. Pour into the tin and bake for 45 mins, or until dark brown and risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool for 20 mins in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack.
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add the remaining zests, then stir in enough lemon juice (about 4 tsp should do it) to make a smooth, thick icing. Cover the surface of the icing with cling film until ready to decorate the cake.
When the cake is completely cool, spread the icing over the top and let it dribble down the sides. Scatter with the reserved chopped ginger. Allow to set, then cut into slices and serve.
Recipe Tip
Make aheadLike most ginger cakes, this will mellow and improve over a couple of days. If you can bear to wait, put it into an airtight tin, un-iced, then finish the decoration on the day you want to eat it.


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US Department of Labor awards grant to Rhode Island to enhance state's Self-Employment Assistance program
BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded a grant of $159,734 to the state of Rhode Island to enhance and promote its Self-Employment Assistance program. Rhode Island plans to use the funding to implement intensive training as well as one-on-one mentoring to assist potential entrepreneurs in starting their own businesses.
"Rhode Island is taking an important step forward to help its unemployed residents create their own jobs and perhaps start hiring employees of their own," said Jane Oates, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training. "This funding will provide aspiring entrepreneurs with financial support while they access the resources, information and training they need to get a business off the ground."
Funding for this initiative is part of a series of innovative reforms to the federal Unemployment Insurance program made possible through the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. The grant includes $136,915 for improved administration of the program and $22,819 for promotion and enrollment activities.
Participants in voluntary Self-Employment Assistance programs are provided with financial assistance equal to their Unemployment Insurance benefits while they receive important entrepreneurial training and access to resources to help launch their own businesses. In order to allow participants to devote full-time attention to creating new businesses that have the potential to create additional jobs, state work search requirements are waived.
For more information about Self-Employment Assistance programs, read the Unemployment Insurance program letter at http://s.dol.gov/S5.