text:
It figures. The Obama campaign lambasted Hillary Clinton in 2008 for using images of Osama Bin Laden in her television ad – "Kitchen."
But that was sooo 2008.
Now the Obama Campaign is running their own Osama ads (but he won't let you see any pictures!)
ABC reported:
The Obama campaign opened up a new line of attack on Mitt Romney Friday, suggesting that as commander-in-chief Romney might not have made the same decision to order an attack by U.S. forces to kill terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden that President Obama did.
Advertisement - story continues below
In a new web video titled "One Chance," the Obama team features former President Bill Clinton praising Obama for deciding to launch the strike last year. "Why path would Mitt Romney have taken?" the clip asks.
But four years ago this April, the Obama campaign criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using Osama bin Laden in a political ad.
TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Killer Cuomo Not Only Murdered Thousands of Elderly In Homes, He Also Targeted Adult Care Facilities and Group Homes for People with Disabilities
On the eve of the 2008 Pennsylvania primary, Clinton's campaign released a television commercial featuring an image of bin Laden and invoking President Harry S. Truman's quote: "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen."
The ad never mentioned Obama by name, but it was part of the Clinton campaign's effort to brand the Illinois Senator as inexperienced, especially in the foreign policy arena.
Advertisement - story continues below
"Who do you think has what it takes?" the ad's narrator says as an image of Clinton flashes on the screen. (The ad showed a brief clip of bin Laden as well as images of Pearl Harbor, the 1920′s stock market crash, Fidel Castro, the fall of the Berlin Wall). "You need to be ready for anything, especially now."
The Obama campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, accused the Clinton team of playing "the politics of fear" just like George W. Bush.
"When Senator Clinton voted with President Bush to authorize the war in Iraq, she made a tragically bad decision that diverted our military from the terrorists who attacked us, and allowed Osama bin Laden to escape and regenerate his terrorist network. It's ironic that she would borrow the President's tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points. We already have a President who plays the politics of fear, and we don't need another," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.
Of course, the fact that Obama is playing the Osama card today when he ridiculed it in 2008 surprises no one.


text:
The holidays are a time for giving and receiving. As any nonprofit in Durango will tell you, we are lucky to live in a town that has such generous, community-minded businesses that make sure we not only survive but thrive.
This month, I am taking off my naturalist hat and putting on my nonprofit hat to recognize some of the many creative ways that businesses give back to our community.
Andy Corra, owner of 4Corners Riversports, annually sponsors our Mountain Film Festival and generously gives to our annual online auction.
Corra said: It is special to be part of this great community and something we shouldnt take for granted as this connectedness becomes more rare in the world. This means doing what we can to support our many worthy organizations.
Owning a seasonal business with fluctuating cash flow means that monetary contributions are not always possible, but we feel it is important to be creative in how we support the community that supports us. Product donations, labor hours or opening our store for fundraisers, events and meetings are some of the ways we strengthen our ties to the community.
Tom Bridge, owner of Durango Nursery and Supply, hosted a fundraiser for Durango Nature Studies this summer at which he donated a percentage of his sales for the day.
We at Durango Nursery and Supply feel the need to balance the overabundance of virtual information that we all derive from books and Internet knowledge with the real, tactile and intimate understanding of our world that can only come from touching the soil, rocks, plants and animals of the natural world around us, Bridge said. Durango Nature Studies provides the curriculum for our youths to make the connection from modernism to naturalism and optimistically to cultural sustainability.
Kristi Streiffert, owner of For the Birds, sells coffee and hosts monthly bird walks for donations to Durango Nature Studies. She also steps in to donate auction items and birdseed. Streiffert said: For the Birds has a mission statement that is very straightforward: to help people connect with nature. When we can walk alongside DNS (literally in the case of the bird walk), we can see both of us directly fulfilling our mission. It makes us feel good!
Alpine Bank asks its customers to give back through its give back program. It also sponsors all of our events and provides radio ads to promote them.
Alpine and all its employees share in the common vision and goal to support our local nonprofit organizations. Our success has been built on the desire to make our communities a better place for all who live there, said Vice President Brian Rose.
Marias Bookshop pairs authors with nonprofits to help raise awareness and money.
Libby Cowles, community-relations manager for Marias, said: One of the most important things we can do as a locally owned community bookstore is to find ways to support local nonprofits, since its their work that keeps our community thriving. I love finding ways to pair up with community organizations in our author events.
To sum it up, Ill quote from Jim Carver, co-owner of Carver Brewing Co. and local philanthropist. Carver donates beer for groups to sell at events, hosts many dine-outs for charity at the restaurant and, most recently, has put in time and resources to maintain our Nature Center.
I can do a little, and it helps other people a lot. Everything you do through giving becomes magnified, Carver said.
The aforementioned businesses provide only a handful of the generosity we and many nonprofits experience. From the folks I talked about to Backcountry Experience donating tents for our summer camp, Mercury sponsoring scholarships for summer camp, Kohlers Printing & Copying printing all our Nature Club fliers, and many more, the one thing all these businesses have in common is a love for our community and the understanding that we all are connected.
So, this holiday season, show your support by shopping locally and say thank you for making Durango a wonderful place to live while youre at it.
sallydurangonature-studies.org or 382-9244. Sally Shuffield is executive director of Durango Nature Studies.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
TAP INTO YOUR MONEYSend money to almost anywhere in the world in just seconds. Manage all the ways you send, receive, and spend money at a glance - it's all here.SEND MONEY IN SECONDSSend Money to PayPal account holders in over 100 countries using just their email address or mobile number. When the money arrives in their account (usually in seconds), they can spend the money online or withdraw it with just a tap. And it's completely free when you send money to friends in the US from your bank account or PayPal balance.
GET PAID WITH EASESend a request for money that allows people to pay you back with just a tap. Whether you're collecting money for a group gift or something you sold online, we make it easy for them and even easier for you.
STAY ON TOP OF IT ALLWhenever you send, receive, and spend money with PayPal, the app sends an instant notification to help you keep track of it all. Whether you use PayPal Credit, your balance, your bank, or your debit and credit cards to pay with PayPal - you can find everything and anything you need to simply manage it all in this secure app.


text:
S01:E60 - Season 1, Episode 60
29 min
Pan-seok finds out Jun-geun was suspended from his job. In-sung tries to figure out where to take her relationship.
Season 1
S01:E01 - Season 1, Episode 1
Ae-ja and her daughters re-unite for her husband's 60th birthday. Ae-ja's gift shocks everyone.
S01:E02 - Season 1, Episode 2
Jung-geun finds In-sung's bag in his back seat. Ae-ja changes her house door password.
S01:E03 - Season 1, Episode 3
Ji-sung's mother-in-law throws out the porridge Ae-ja made. In-sung finds Jung-geun kicking her car.
S01:E04 - Season 1, Episode 4
Jung-geun finds out that In-sung his is new team leader. Sung-geun purposely scares off a possible tenant.
S01:E05 - Season 1, Episode 5
Jung-ki and Ae-ja continue to fight over their house. Seung-geun wants to study psychology.
S01:E06 - Season 1, Episode 6
In-sung gives Jung-geun a hard time at work. Ji-sung and Woo-jae get into an argument.
S01:E07 - Season 1, Episode 7
Pan-seok tries to get a refund from Home Shopping. Jung-gi tries to prepare his father's memorial service before his mother arrives.
S01:E08 - Season 1, Episode 8
Ae-ja and Jung-gi go to a real estate office to sell their home. Jung-gi's mother is sent to the ER.
S01:E09 - Season 1, Episode 9
In-sung takes Jung-geun into a boxing ring. Seung-geun becomes Ji-sung's TA.
S01:E10 - Season 1, Episode 10
Jung-gi tries to rent a room from Pan-seok. Hee-sung manages to wake up her grandmother.
S01:E11 - Season 1, Episode 11
Pan-seok protests against Ae-ja in front of the company and makes it on national news. Mi-na bickers with her husband about their in-laws.
S01:E12 - Season 1, Episode 12
Ji-sung worries about her mother and goes to visit her with Mi-na. Director Ahn apologizes to Pan-suk for the publicity of the company.
S01:E13 - Season 1, Episode 13
JW Group go on a company hike. Ae-ja and her team try to come up with new items for their home shopping show.
S01:E14 - Season 1, Episode 14
In-sung attends the company hike for a work meeting with Eun-sook. Pan-suk tries to catch Jung-gi stealing food red-handed.
S01:E15 - Season 1, Episode 15
Jung-geun and In-sung end up in the same room. Jung-gi's mother has trouble with her memory.
S01:E16 - Season 1, Episode 16
Jung-gi's mother might have dementia. Ji-sung and Woo-jae get into an argument about their house work letter of consent.
S01:E17 - Season 1, Episode 17
Jung-geun confronts In-sung about what happened at the cabins. Eun-sook forces Ji-sung to terminate her household contract.
S01:E18 - Season 1, Episode 18
In-sung keeps picturing Jung-geun topless. Mi-na has a fever.
S01:E19 - Season 1, Episode 19
Ae-ja figures out that her mother-in-law is faking her dementia. In-sung goes to the hospital to get her eyes checked.
S01:E20 - Season 1, Episode 20
Ae-ja tries to get in contact with Jung-ki to get a shirt back from his mother. Ji-sung continues to argue with her husband about household duties.
S01:E21 - Season 1, Episode 21
Ae-ja's mother-in-law intentionally ruins her button shirt. Jung-gi and In-sung have dinner together.
S01:E22 - Season 1, Episode 22
In-sung confesses to Jung-geun that she's been picturing him naked. Ji-sung cancels her lecture at the cultural center.
S01:E23 - Season 1, Episode 23
Ji-sung goes to the hospital. Pan-seok and Jung-gi find out they were in the Marines together.
S01:E24 - Season 1, Episode 24
Ji-sung's mother-in-law confronts her at the hospital. Jung-geun tells his siblings the story of their dad in the Marines.
S01:E25 - Season 1, Episode 25
Eun-sook decides cancel the appearance of her designs on Home Shopping last minute. Ae-ja loses her last opportunity to regain her position in the company, causing In-sung to confront the director.
S01:E26 - Season 1, Episode 26
Ji-sung gets discharged from the hospital. Ae-ja gets fired from the home shopping network.
S01:E27 - Season 1, Episode 27
JW Distribution decides to not launch Designer Huh's brand. Ji-sung gets upset at her mom.
S01:E28 - Season 1, Episode 28
Woo-jae and Ji-sung work things out. Pan-seok tries to help Jung-gi by calling Ae-ja.
S01:E29 - Season 1, Episode 29
Jung-geun imposes on In-sung and Senior Director Kim's lunch. Jung-gi and Pan-seok go to the sauna.
S01:E30 - Season 1, Episode 30
Ahn Jin-bong flirts with Hee-sung at the hospital. Pan-seok and Seung-geun find out that Jung-ie has been lying about work.
S01:E31 - Season 1, Episode 31
Ji-sung tries to make her own porridge. Pan-seok finds out that Jung-gi doesn't get paid.
S01:E32 - Season 1, Episode 32
Jung-gi and Pan-seok run into Ji-sung's father-in-law at the sauna. Ji-sung gets upset at her mom for picking up Mi-na from school.
S01:E33 - Season 1, Episode 33
Pan-seok tries to find a way to help Jung-gi get a divorce settlement from Ae-ja. Eun-sook suggests Woo-jae and Ji-sung to move into her home.
S01:E34 - Season 1, Episode 34
Pan-seok finds out that Jung-gi's wife is Hong Ae-ja. In-sung meets up with her sisters to discuss a way to help their dad.
S01:E35 - Season 1, Episode 35
Ji-sung tells her mother-in-law that they will move in. Pan-seok demands Jung-gi move out in a few days.
S01:E36 - Season 1, Episode 36
Jung-geun goes to In-sung's house to get an apology from her and her mom. Ae-ja is upset over the fact that Ji-sung agreed to move in with her in-laws.
S01:E37 - Season 1, Episode 37
Jung-gi gets mad at Pan-seok for accepting In-sung's money. Woo-jae and his dad try to talk his mom out of having them move in.
S01:E38 - Season 1, Episode 38
Ji-sung and Woo-jae argue about moving into Woo-jae's parents' house. Jung-ie gives her dad the money she earned from her part-time job.
S01:E39 - Season 1, Episode 39
Ji-sung's and Woo-tae's families meet to discuss them moving in. In-sung gets mad at Jung-geun.
S01:E40 - Season 1, Episode 40
In-sung confesses her feelings to Jung-geun. Ji-sung's mother-in-law doesn't send Mi-na to kindergarten.
S01:E41 - Season 1, Episode 41
In-sung and Jung-geun try to keep their relationship a secret. Woo-jae tries to sneak Mi-na out, but gets caught.
S01:E42 - Season 1, Episode 42
Jung-gi convinces Pan-seok to hire him to work at Victory Real Estate. Hee-sung finally meets Ha-young's dad.
S01:E43 - Season 1, Episode 43
Ji-sung ruins her mother-in-law's interview upon finding out that she lied about Mi-na. In-sung and Jung-geun try hard not to get caught at work.
S01:E44 - Season 1, Episode 44
Jung-gi finds out that In-sung and Jung-geun are dating. Dr. Kang continues to give Hee-sung a hard time.
S01:E45 - Season 1, Episode 45
Ae-ja and Pan-seok get into an argument. Mi-na returns from camp early.
S01:E46 - Season 1, Episode 46
Woo-jae brings Mi-na back to Ji-sung. Hee-sung gets in trouble by Dr. Kang for a colleague's mistake.
S01:E47 - Season 1, Episode 47
Sun-jae shocks the So family with his knife skills. Jin-bong finds out that Hee-sung's mother is Ae-ja.
S01:E48 - Season 1, Episode 48
In-sung and Jung-geun make things worse between their parents. Hee-sung is mad that Dr. Kang hasn't included her in any surgeries.
S01:E49 - Season 1, Episode 49
Pan-seok finds out about In-sung and Jung-geun's relationship. Hee-sung and Ae-ja also find out about their relationship.
S01:E50 - Season 1, Episode 50
In-sung and Jung-geun run away to a nearby spa. Hee-sung takes Mi-na to her work.
S01:E51 - Season 1, Episode 51
In-sung and Jung-geun return to ask Ae-ja and Jung-gi for the approval of their relationship.
S01:E52 - Season 1, Episode 52
Insung makes an effort to get approval from Jung-geun's family.
S01:E53 - Season 1, Episode 53
Jung-geun takes the food In-sung prepared for his mother's memorial causing tension among his family.
S01:E54 - Season 1, Episode 54
Jung-geun gets jealous after seeing how close In-sung and Hyun-woo are.
S01:E55 - Season 1, Episode 55
Hee-sung walks out of the hospital during her shift. Jung-geun manages to convince his dad to return home.
S01:E56 - Season 1, Episode 56
Ae-ja hits In-sung and Jung-geun. Hee-sung returns to the hospital drunk.
S01:E57 - Season 1, Episode 57
Sun-jae's mom finds out where he's been staying. Pan-seok asks Jung-geun to bring In-sung to their home.
S01:E58 - Season 1, Episode 58
Pan-seok throws water at In-sung. Hee-sung and Dr. Kang get stuck in an elevator.
S01:E59 - Season 1, Episode 59
Woo-jae suspends Jung-geun from the company for three months to help Ae-ja break-up In-sung's relationship.
S01:E60 - Season 1, Episode 60
Pan-seok finds out Jun-geun was suspended from his job. In-sung tries to figure out where to take her relationship.
S01:E61 - Season 1, Episode 61
In-sung decides to break up with Jung-geun and leave for America.
S01:E62 - Season 1, Episode 62
Hee-sung finds out that In-sung was Sarah whom Dr. Kang spoke of all along.
S01:E63 - Season 1, Episode 63
Pan-seok assumes In-sung is pregnant, leaving Jung-geun and In-sung to go along with the lie to keep their relationship.
S01:E64 - Season 1, Episode 64
Ae-ja arrives at In-sung's workplace with a pregnancy test.
S01:E65 - Season 1, Episode 65
Jung-gi gathers Ae-ja, Panseok, and their children to settle their differences before the wedding.
S01:E66 - Season 1, Episode 66
In-sung and Jun-geun's parents start preparing for the wedding by deciding who to invite.
S01:E67 - Season 1, Episode 67
Ji-sung and Woo-jae argue over their marriage and Hyun-suk.
S01:E68 - Season 1, Episode 68
Hee-sung goes to Dr. Kang's home to get Ha-young's comic book.
S01:E69 - Season 1, Episode 69
In-sung and Jung-geun's family have a formal gathering at a neighborhood restaurant.
S01:E70 - Season 1, Episode 70
Seung-geun talks to Ji-sung about the secret behind In-sung's wedding.
S01:E71 - Season 1, Episode 71
In-sung and Jung-geun's respective relatives visit before the wedding.
S01:E72 - Season 1, Episode 72
Pan-seok loses the ring right before the wedding ceremony.
S01:E73 - Season 1, Episode 73
In-sung and Jung-geun leave to Pyeongchang for their honeymoon.
S01:E74 - Season 1, Episode 74
Jung-geun's siblings and Sun-jae barge into Jung-geun's hotel room.
S01:E75 - Season 1, Episode 75
Dr. Kang is thinking about the conversation he had with Hee-Sung. Hee-Sung runs to the stairwell. In-Sung and Jung-Geun are sleeping and In-Sung wakes up to make breakfast.
S01:E76 - Season 1, Episode 76
Hee-Sung comes home and asks her mom if she is pretty and attractive. Dr. Kang comes to Hee-Sung's house to tell her not to misunderstand him buying her perfume for anything more than her being smelly.
S01:E77 - Season 1, Episode 77
Hyung-Suk and Ji-Sung are walking towards her house together when Ji-Sung's mom comes out to see them.
S01:E78 - Season 1, Episode 78
Pan-seok and Jung-gi find out that In-sung is not pregnant.
S01:E79 - Season 1, Episode 79
In-sung and Jung-geun return home to ask for forgiveness.
S01:E80 - Season 1, Episode 80
Pan-seok agrees to forgive In-sung under the condition that she seals a contract with him to strictly fulfill her duties as a daughter-in-law. Ji-sung finds out what her mother did to Hyung-suk 10 years ago.
S01:E81 - Season 1, Episode 81
Pan-seok is demanding with In-sung on holding up her duties with no regard to her career obligations. Hee-sung goes to Dr. Kang's house to deliver food and finds Dr. Kang feverish and ill.
S01:E82 - Season 1, Episode 82
In-sung is struggling to make kimchi by herself but Ae-ja brings in reinforcement. Ae-ja is heart broked at the contract that In-sung is bound to.
S01:E83 - Season 1, Episode 83
Pan-seok finds out that In-sung had help making the kimchi and threatens to throw her out. Jung-geun comes back from the spa with Mr. Ma and Pan-seok gets jealous.
S01:E84 - Season 1, Episode 84
Ae-ja is cleaning out Pan-seok's fridge and injures her foot. Ae-ja throws everything away out of frustration. Pan-seok is distraught over the replacement of his kitchenware, especially his frying pan.
S01:E85 - Season 1, Episode 85
Ae-ja goes to Hyung-suk's studio to findn Hyung-suk and Ji-sung walking out together. Dr. Kang calls In-sung to ask about a job offer in America and he leaves the hospital earlier than promised.
S01:E86 - Season 1, Episode 86
Pan-seok finds Jung-geun preparing shrimp in the kitchen and tries to hide the fact in front of his brothers.
S01:E87 - Season 1, Episode 87
Jung-geun yells at In-sung at the dinner table. Woo-jae tells with his mother and mother-in-law that he wants to reconcile with Ji-sung. Hyun-woo visits a life changing person of his past.
S01:E88 - Season 1, Episode 88
In-sung decides to take her own approach to her duties as a daughter-in-law contract.
S01:E89 - Season 1, Episode 89
Jung-gi and Ae-ja are getting tea with Jin-bong. Pan-seok decides to take In-sung with him to the grocery store to rate her grocery shopping skills.
S01:E90 - Season 1, Episode 90
Woo-jae is at Hyung-suk's office and gets suspicious over a phone call that Hyung-suk receives.
S01:E91 - Season 1, Episode 91
Ji-sung is warned about the surveillance camera but she discovers it a little too late. In-sung comforts Jung-ie and asks about the reasons behind Jung-ie's choices in life.
S01:E92 - Season 1, Episode 92
In-sung criticizes the mentality that the So family has been living with up until now about women having to do all house chores. Tensions build between Mr. So and In-sung because he doesn't want to comply with the chore chart that she suggested.
S01:E93 - Season 1, Episode 93
Pan-seok is conducting a hunger strike at home by himself against In-sung's chore system. Ji-sung has run out of time with her mother-in-law and must now suffer the consequences.
S01:E94 - Season 1, Episode 94
News of Ji-sung's alleged affair hits the Internet, leaving Ji-sung helplessly exposed to harsh criticism. Jung-ie is having trouble facing the reality of her family's standard of living compared to Sun-jae's more lavish life-style.
S01:E95 - Season 1, Episode 95
Pan-seok abandons In-sung with a huge list of preparations for the upcoming ancestor memorial as an attempt to teach her a lesson. Ji-sung continues to face the aftermath of her mother-in-law's rampage.
S01:E96 - Season 1, Episode 96
Ae-ja receives notice of the divorce conditions that Ji-sung will face and is desperate to find a solution for her daughter. In-sung delegates everyone to a task and successfully prepares everything Pan-seok demanded.
S01:E97 - Season 1, Episode 97
Eun-sook pays a visit to Pan-seok to discuss the relationship between Jung-ie and Sun-jae. Hyung-suk exposes Eun-sook's evil nature to the world in order to save Ji-sung.
S01:E98 - Season 1, Episode 98
Ji-sung's scandal comes to a close with all the perpetrators having been exposed. Pan-seok is concerned about Jung-ie's whereabouts and confides in In-sung about his concerns.
S01:E99 - Season 1, Episode 99
Ji-sung argues with her mother about her childhood. Woo-jae holds a press conference to dismiss his mother as Director of JW. Pan-seok finds out where Jung-ie is and goes to find her.
S01:E100 - Season 1, Episode 100
Hee-sung finds out that Dr. Kang intends to pursue the foreign medical program so Hee-sung declares that she will go with him. Sun-jae and Jung-ie hide out at Sun-jae's while In-sung tries to persuade Jung-ie to come back home.
S01:E101 - Season 1, Episode 101
Hee-sung reveals her relationship with Dr. Kang to In-sung and asks her to get her into Dr. Kang's medical team. Pan-seok keeps ruining In-sung's efforts to bring Jung-ie home by screaming and intimidating Jung-ie.
S01:E102 - Season 1, Episode 102
Summary: Hee-sung secretly quits the hospital job to pursue her relationship with Hyun-woo, but her plan backfires when her mother finds out.
S01:E103 - Season 1, Episode 103
Summary: Hyun-woo briefly connects with Jung-ki, who donated his son's heart to Hyun-woo in the past. Ae-ja discovers Hee-sung's deception and confronts the couple to express her displeasure at the relationship.
S01:E104 - Season 1, Episode 104
Summary: Hee-song is forcibly sent back home, and bitter arguments ensue between Ae-ja and her daughters. Jung-ie finally discovered and is forbidden from dating her boyfriend for the time being.
S01:E105 - Season 1, Episode 105
Summary: Hee-song convinces Hyun-woo to register their marriage without her parents' knowledge. Ae-ja discovers that her health is failing, and is hospitalized for treatment.
S01:E106 - Season 1, Episode 106
Hee-sung's marriage causes a bigger rift in the family, as Ae-ja is unable to accept the situation. Meanwhile, Pan-seok tries in vain to get his family to remember his birthday.
S01:E107 - Season 1, Episode 107
Ji-sung holds a makeshift wedding ceremony for Hee-sung, but sparks fly when their furious father arrives on the scene. Ae-ja discovers that her health is failing fast, and tries to make peace with her emotions.
S01:E108 - Season 1, Episode 108
After a day of disappointment, Pan-seok finally gets his wish when his children remember his birthday at last. Ae-ja leaves a parting gift to her daughters as she prepares to leave her current life behind.
S01:E109 - Season 1, Episode 109
Ae-ja pays a visit to her mother, whom she has not seen in a long time. Pan-seok begins demanding a grandchild in earnest, much to In-sung's annoyance.
S01:E110 - Season 1, Episode 110
Jung-gi finally accepts Hee-sung's marriage when he discovers that Hyun-woo is the one who received Min-sung's heart. Ae-ja's family is shocked when they receive news regarding her illness.
S01:E111 - Season 1, Episode 111
After learning about Ae-ja's rapidly failing health, her family panics as they realize that she must have left the house to never return. On a hunch, Jung-gi sets out to find Ae-ja.
S01:E112 - Season 1, Episode 112
Ae-ja is in critical condition after a near-death episode, and is in dire need of a kidney donor. Beset with guilt, her daughters offer their support but Ae-ja refuses to acknowledge them.
S01:E113 - Season 1, Episode 113
Jung-geun takes Ae-ja out from the hospital and gets her to vent some pent-up anger. Jung-ie is distressed to find out that she is pregnant, and asks In-sung for help.
S01:E114 - Season 1, Episode 114
Ae-ja is initially angry after finding out that Hyun-woo received Min-sung's heart, but she eventually decides to accept him. Pan-seok is overjoyed, mistakenly believing that In-sung is pregnant.
S01:E115 - Season 1, Episode 115
Hee-sung and In-sung are dismayed to learn that they cannot donate their kidneys to Ae-ja. Pan-seok gets the shock of his life when he finds out about Jung-ie's pregnancy.
S01:E116 - Season 1, Episode 116
Though shocked and distraught, Pan-seok gives Jung-ie permission to marry Sun-jae. An anonymous kidney donor is found, and Ae-ja is confirmed for surgery.
S01:E117 - Season 1, Episode 117
Ji-sung's sisters discover that she is the kidney donor and confront her about keeping it a secret. A disgruntled Pan-seok struggles to keep control over Jung-ie.
S01:E118 - Season 1, Episode 118
Ae-ja's surgery is a success, but Ji-sung experiences complications from the procedure. Eun-sook returns home and is not pleased to learn about Jung-ie's pregnancy.
S01:E119 - Season 1, Episode 119
A year after the surgery, Ae-ja is back to her old self and hard at work. In-sung receives a promotion at her company, much to Pan-seok's consternation.
S01:E120 - Season 1, Episode 120
Everyone gathers to celebrate Ae-ja's 60th birthday, but the men have something more pressing on their minds. Hee-sung has a surprise announcement in time for the festivities.
- iOS
- Android
- Roku
- Amazon Fire


text:
Click on the individual names for more information about each commemorative, or go back to the main Historical Markers page.
PA Historical and Museum Commission Roadside Marker
Centre Furnace roadside marker
Birthplace of Educational Television
American Chemical Society marker
Watering Trough from the Old Dairy Barns
General James A. Beaver monument
Bell of the Battleship U.S.S. Pennsylvania
Penn State Dickinson School of Law


text:
Category View
Health & Beauty Events in North Nottinghamshire
No events for HEALTH & BEAUTY EVENTS
Hurrah! Lockdown is easing and outdoor spaces are opening up and Events are popping up all over the place!
Keep up to date with the latest events with our In North Notts What's On Events Guide - the best local events, all in one place.


text:
internalize(redirected from internalises)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical.
Related to internalises: internalized
A trade between an investor and his/her brokerage. That is, the client makes an order to the brokerage to buy or sell a security and the brokerage fills the order from its own inventory of the security. This can be advantageous to the brokerage because it is less expensive than going out and finding another buyer or seller. Some exchanges prohibit these trades, and brokerages are required to report internalization on exchanges that permit it.
To send a customer order from a brokerage firm to the firm's own specialist or market maker. Internalizing an order allows a broker to share in the profit (spread between the bid and ask) of executing the order.


text: Extra preview matinee performances added for The Audience Posted on Jan 22, 2013 | By London Theatre Direct Extra preview matinee performances have been added for Stephen Daldry's production of Peter Morgan's The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre. Two further preview matinee performances (16 and 27 February 2013 at 2.30pm) have been scheduled for Stephen Daldry's production of Peter Morgan's The Audience. Joining Helen Mirren as The Queen in this world premiere are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth will be played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams. The Audience will preview at the Gielgud Theatre from 15 February 2013, with press night on 5 March 2013 and is currently booking to 15 June 2013. Designs are by Bob Crowley with lighting by Rick Fisher, sound by Paul Arditti, music by Paul Englishby and video by Ian William Galloway. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. In turn, the Queen can't help but reveal her own self as she advises, consoles and, on occasion, teases. From young mother to grandmother these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister. The Audience is produced in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries. News Reviews


text:
Cactus Lions Club Hosting 36th Annual Spaghetti Supper at Abilene High School February 9th
The 36th annual Cactus Lions Club and John Massey Memorial Spaghetti Supper will take place at the Abilene High School cafeteria. The Lions Club brags that they have a "famous secret spaghetti sauce," Pete Beretta says that the real secret is in how he infuses the garlic and butter onto the bread, being that he is in charge of and CEO of the "bread buttering and browning."
This is the Cactus Lions Club's biggest fundraiser of the year and all the monies raised will benefit "Handicapped Children" in Abilene and through West Texas and numerous children's charities. The Lions Club members say their sauce take time to prepare and is a secret recipe that is highly protected and only two members of the club ever know the recipe and any given time. What I know from past experience is that the spaghetti is good and it's all you can eat, so come hungry. Remember to leave room for desert, as many of the club members wives prepare and sell 'homemade' deserts like; pies, cakes and cookies.
Cactus Lions Club 36th Annual Spaghetti Supper
Date and Times
Saturday, February 9th, 2013. From 4 PM till 8 PM.
Abilene High School Cafeteria 2800 N 6th St. Abilene, TX 79603
$8.00 Adults, $4.00 Children ages 10 and under.
More Info.
Tickets may be purchased in advance from any Cactus Lions Club member or they can be purchased at the door. Deserts are available at an additional cost. Coffee, iced tea and water are included with the price of the meal. The Texas Lions Camp at Kerrville, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing, without charge, a summer camp for children with physical disabilities and Type 1 diabetes from the state of Texas regardless of race, religion or national origin. This is an 'all-you-can-eat' fundraiser.


text:
The World's Most Popular Web Automation Solution
iMacros web automation software works with every website to make it easy for you to record and replay repetitious work, including sites use dialog boxes, frames, Javascript, Flash, Flex, Java and AJAX.
Support for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome
With iMacros you can create and automate tasks across all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. There is no new scripting language to learn, you have full programmatic control over the web browser, so even the most complex tasks can be scripted.
Automate and Work More Efficiently
iMacros can run multiple instances simultaneously ("multi-threading") and it can be scheduled to run in the background while you work in other programs, or during non-work hours. iMacros provides visual recording and playback of all web activity and the macros you create in one browser can be played back or edited in another, as needed.
Form Filling
iMacros eliminates the tedious repetition of checking the same sites every day, remembering passwords, and filling out web forms. iMacros is the only form filler that can autofill web forms that stretch over several pages. All information is stored in human-readable, plain text files that can be edited easily. Passwords are stored securely with secure 256-Bit AES encryption.
Web Automation with Image Recognition
iMacros' image recognition support lets you automate and test websites using images instead of cumbersome X/Y coordinates. You tell iMacros how a button looks like and iMacros finds it on the page. Even when the button has moved or if it has changed color or screen resolution. Since iMacros relies only on the images that are rendered in the browser, it works independently of the underlying technology.
Excel Web Queries
iMacros integrates directly with Excel and other MS Office applications, and comes with a complete Excel VBA project that includes sample macros, scripts and the VBA program with source code. You can easily customize the project to meet your needs.
Where Other Software Fails…
iMacros can interface your software with online databases and websites sites like Amazon, Ebay or salesforce.com, use a programming interface (API) to control (script) Internet Explorer or Firefox, and automate upload/download of data via a local, Intranet or Internet web interface.
iMacros can upload data from a spreadsheet to a website, or populate an Excel sheet with data from a website.
iMacros can login to websites and navigate to a page, delete forum posting (which includes several clicks like: "Are you sure?", "Return to forum", …). You can check for available jobs or items, entering data to online search forms, and you can run these manually or have the action performed regularly on an hourly basis or triggered by another program or script.
With iMacros you can automate almost anything.
Please contact our sales team, we'd be happy to talk with you about iMacros products.
What Our Customers Say
A Scalable Toolset
To give you some sizing – our website is over 1\4 million lines of code with complex business rules\logic. Our defect rate is well below industry standards through two major releases last year. One of the releases impacted over 40% of site pages...
Cross Browser Testing
Thanks! This solution is killer for our cross platform / cross browser testing! I have a VM setup in VirtualBox, and I pointed all of the paths to the same place on the host, so I have one folder for macros, shared by IE / XP , Firefox XP and Fire...


text:
Ryecroft Road, London, SW16
An impressive, generously proportioned and freshly refurbished end of terrace home on sought-after Ryecroft Road. The ground floor offers three spacious, oak floored, flexible living spaces and WC, including a...
Leigham Court Road, Streatham, SW16
Offers in excess of £800,000
A detached four bedroom period family home for sale situated close to Streatham Hill Station, Streatham Common and good local schools. The accommodation comprises 21' reception room, dining room, kitchen,...
139 results


text:
BERLIN (Reuters) - German parliamentarians questioned Deutsche Bank's (DBKGn.DE) compliance chief Stephan Leithner and former board member Hugo Baenziger on Wednesday over how banks including the German lender manipulated global benchmark interest rates.
The London interbank offered rate (Libor), which is used to price billions of dollars worth of financial contracts, was put under the spotlight in June when UK and U.S. authorities fined British bank Barclays (BARC.L) a record $450 million for manipulating rates during the credit crunch.
Deutsche Bank is cooperating with investigations in the United States and Europe over the setting of rates between 2005 and 2011. It said in July an internal probe found that no members of the management board behaved inappropriately.
But the bank said two of its former traders may have been involved in colluding to manipulate global interest rates.
The German lawmakers are widely expected to press Leithner and Baenziger on details of the individuals involved, including how senior they were, and what sort of payoff they received.
They had hoped to question Deutsche's co-Chief Executive Anshu Jain, a former head of investment banking, but the bank decided to send board member Leithner in his place, sparking criticism from Jain's former boss, Josef Ackermann. The hearing was due to start about 6:30 EDT.
The probe will likely strain the already tense relationship between bankers, who prefer to keep out of the public eye, and politicians, who are eager to demonstrate their grip on the risk-hungry world of global finance.
Germany's Bundesbank has urged Berlin's lawmakers not to interfere in efforts to overhaul a system for setting global benchmark interest rates, a filing to the parliamentary hearing in Berlin showed.
In a letter addressed to Birgit Reinemund, the Free Democrat (FDP) head of the lower house's Finance Committee, Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret said the choice of which benchmark rate to use should remain a matter for markets to decide.
"Any change to a different reference interest rate should be a matter of free choice for markets and not imposed through lawmakers," the letter said.
Libor remains in use as a reference for pricing billions of dollars worth of debt across the globe. Because Libor remains so entrenched in financial markets, regulators are working on ways to reform, rather than replace Libor.
Libor rates submitted by banks are compiled by Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO), parent company of Reuters, on behalf of the British Bankers' Association.
Regulators fear that Libor remains vulnerable to manipulation as banks are asked to submit only a hypothetical estimate about their expected borrowing rate, rather than disclosing the actual prices of completed transactions.
Because Libor is so widely used, coming up with alternative benchmark interest rates can only be a medium to long-term goal, Buba's Dombret said.
He also said in his filing to the committee that benchmark rates should take greater account of actual transactions, rather relying only on estimates.
Reporting By Edward Taylor; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle


text:
Browning® BLR Lightweight '81 .30-06 Springfield® Lever Action Rifle
With a timeless beauty that's more than skin deep, the BLR Lightweight '81 is ready and waiting to be your lever action hunting rifle. The gloss finish on the straight-grip walnut stock contrasts beautifully with the deeply polished blue finish. But, like we said, the beauty goes much deeper than the surface.
Each barrel is triple-checked for straightness, then individually finished with a hand-reamed chamber, making for tighter tolerances and precise headspace. The rotating multi-lug bolt head offers maximum-strength lock-up. And the generously-sized ejection port and drilled-and-tapped receiver makes it a perfect match for any scope you choose. This is what a serious lever action rifle should be, and what every other lever action wishes it was.
But we've barely scratched the surface... read on for more on what makes the BLR Lightweight Lever Action Rifle one of the most versatile and trusted hunting rifles in the USA.
Order today!


text:
Back to school
Stay hardy with nutritious food and good hygieneBy Magen Howard, CCC
Back-to-school preparation means more than just toting a list of classroom items to the store or buying a new pair of jeans and sneakers. Consider these issues before the first bell sounds.
You are what you eat
Packing lunch ensures that you control what fuels your child's body. The National Institutes of Health recommends making lunch a family activity—kids usually want to eat what they've helped prepare.
Let your child choose from a variety of easy-to-pack snacks, like cheese sticks, baked chips, fig bars, whole fruits and whole-grain crackers. And if your morning is rushed, try packing lunch in the evening before bedtime.
But sometimes packing isn't always practical, and school-provided lunches become necessary. In January 2012, the federal government raised standards for school meals—the first revision in 15 years—that made them healthier. Requirements include an offering of fruits and veggies every day, along with more whole-grain foods and less saturated fat, trans fats and sodium in the foods than before.
All the preparation in the world, though, won't help if your child gets to school and swaps his or her carrot sticks for someone else's pudding cup. Like most habits, healthy eating begins at home. If good food choices are what a child has grown up with, he or she will be more likely to continue making good choices at school and beyond.
Wash, wash, wash your hands
Schools are breeding grounds for illness, thanks to myriad shared surfaces and hygiene habits that are still a work in progress. Handwashing remains the first line of defense in preventing the sniffles.
Warm running water and soap are the preferred tools to clean hands. But in a pinch, alcohol-based hand sanitizers work, too (unless hands are grubby—then soap is the only way to go), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Teach your child good handwashing techniques, which include scrubbing the backs of hands, between fingers, and under nails, and washing for at least 20 seconds. A trick is to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice to time yourself.
Handwashing is necessary around mealtimes (both for eating and preparing food) and after using the bathroom, touching animals or handling trash.
Also, instill in your child the necessity of using a tissue when sneezing or coughing (or an elbow or shirt sleeve if tissues aren't handy), and washing hands after.
Videos show you how to buy healthy
A free, online video series called "Aisle by Aisle: Choosing Foods Wisely" shows you how to read ingredient lists and choose healthy foods for you and your family. Topics include Healthy Beverages, Whole Grain Breads, Fresh and Frozen Produce, Cereal and Cereal Bars, Frozen Desserts, Shopping for Seafood, and Frozen Meals.
Each video, about two minutes long, is accompanied by a downloadable tip sheet with specific aisle suggestions. You can view all 12 videos, created by the N.C. Division of Public Health and N.C. Cooperative Extension, at MyEatSmartMoveMore.com.


text:
If you're heading to NCCE this year, I hope to see you there. I'm leading a Scratch workshop Wednesday morning, so whether you're there with me or not, I'd like to share some great Scratch resources with you.
- ScratchEd | scratched.media.mit.edu – A resource rich directory of Scratch lessons, tools, and ideas. Definitely the first place to go when looking to bring Scratch into your classroom.
- Scratch Wiki | wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki - A wealth of documentation and tutorials. When a students asks a question I can't answer, we head straight to the wiki.
- Scratch Forums | scratch.mit.edu/discuss – When you can't find the answers anywhere else, head to the forums and ask the experts.
- Scratch Cards | scratch.mit.edu/help/cards - Printable flash cards for basic Scratch concepts
- Scratch Resources | resources.scratchr.org – General Scratch resources.
- Getting Started Guide | A brief and color PDF that walks you through creating a simple animation.
- Video Tutorials - These videos are quick and simple, great for visual learners.
- Curriculum Guide – A comprehensive curriculum to teach computational thinking through Scratch.
- Creative Computing Class – 6 week online course for educators.


text:
S2 Services in Business / Office Suites & Tools
Corrupt XLSX Salvager is designed to salvage data from corrupt Excel 2007 - 2013 'Office Open XML' XLSX extension files and convert worksheets to CSV format. XLSX files are really conventionally zipped collections of mostly XML files. The main unformatted data is contained in the sharedStrings and numbered worksheet XML files. XML is a very unforgiving medium when it comes to data corruption, thus if the sharedStrings and or worksheet XML files become even slightly corrupt, Excel sometimes has difficulty recovering the unformatted data. Corrupt XLSX Salvager uses a command line unzipping program that will unzip partially corrupt worksheet[#].xml and sharedStrings.xml files and then utilizing Perl regular expression data extraction routines which don't use XML techniques that care about well-formed XML, a stumbling block for some other Excel 2007-2013 recovery programs and for Excel itself, extract the strings and data and put the data into the right cells. Admittedly Excel itself now has strong data repair abilities, but Corrupt XLSX Salvager often will recover additional data. New features include zip repair pretreatment and an 'Alternatives menu' with links to other software and services from recovering from Excel file corruption. Included in these is a link to Recoveronix' Online File Repair Service, accompanied with a free coupon code 'S2SERVICES', good for a $39 value free recovery. The coupon code will not expire until November 1, 2014.
A PDF maker for creating PDF forms that can be filled out with free Adobe. Free download of PDF Maker Pilot 2.3.1046
Home Print Publisher. Free download of Home Print Publisher 1.5.1
Post to WordPress from MS Word. Free download of Word2WP 1.20.00
This useful utility print code 128 barcodes on Labels pages. Free download of GenCb128 1.13
Join multiple MSG files into one.. Free download of Join Multiple MSG Files Into One Software 7.0


text:
During a visit to Harper High School in Chicago, where several students have been shot and killed in the past year, First Lady Michelle Obama recalled the death of Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed one week after performing at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Obama said he's already me the GOP "more than halfway" on deficit reduction. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
First Lady Michelle Obama got emotional today in Chicago during a speech about gun violence. In front of a group of Chicago business and civic leaders the first lady's voice cracked as she talked about meeting with the classmates of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed earlier this year.
"It is hard to know what to say to a roomful of teenagers that are about to bury their best friend. But I started by telling them that Hadiya was clearly on her way to doing something truly worthy with her life. I told them that there is a reason that we're here on this earth. That each of us has a mission in this world and I urged them to use their lives to give meaning to Hadiya's life." The first lady continued, her voice breaking, "I urged them to dream as big as she did and work as hard as she did and live a life that honors every last bit of her God-given promise."
First Lady Michelle Obama makes an emotional plea for a vote on gun reform while remembering Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot in Chicago after performing at President Obama's inauguration.
Obama was the featured speaker at a luncheon that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel organized to urge local business leaders to raise $50 million for programs that serve at-risk youth. But her appearance was also a part of a coordinated White House effort this week to push Congress to vote on gun violence measures. The effort started with President Barack Obama's appearance Monday in Connecticut and will culminate with Vice President Joe Biden sitting down for a roundtable on gun violence on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," set to air Thursday morning.
The first lady echoed her husband's State of the Union speech: "Right now my husband is fighting as hard as he can and engaging as many people as he can to pass common-sense reforms to protect our children against gun violence. And these reforms deserve a vote in Congress."
And Obama spoke candidly about how she felt attending the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton.
"What I realized is Hadiya's family was just like my family. Hadiya Pendleton was me and I was her. But I got to grow up and go to Princeton and Harvard Law School and have a career and family and the most blessed life I can imagine. And Hadiya, well we know that story."
She slammed home her point about the need for community engagement as she continued to compare herself to the slain teen.
"See, at the end of the day, this is the point I want to make: That resources matter. ... I had a community that supported me and a neighborhood where I felt safe. And in the end that was the difference between growing up and becoming a lawyer, a mother and First Lady of the United States, and being shot dead at the age of 15. And that is why this new fund that you have created here in Chicago is so important."
Following her speech, Obama met with 19 students at a South Side high school where gun violence has had a profound impact on the student body. In the last year, Harper High has seen 29 current or former students shot. Eight of those victims died from their wounds.


text:
"Fans of Kincaid's A Dog Named Christmas will welcome another story featuring the McCray family and their rescue dog, Christmas…. Dog lovers and anyone looking for a heartwarming Christmas story will enjoy Kincaid's latest." –Library Journal
"A Christmas Home is a heartwarming read and not just for the holidays. It shows the deep connection and love between humans and animals, and how anyone, no matter their limitations, can find their passion. Well written and uplifting, this story is sure to please animal lovers." —New York Journal of Books
"In A Christmas Home, Greg Kincaid again treats us to a story rich in the courage of people who, in overcoming their own limitations, teach us a lesson in how to prevail, no matter the odds, no matter the trials." – Steve Duno, author of Last Dog on the Hill


text:
There have been a number of surprises for investors in 2014. Bonds have markedly out-performed stocks for the year-to-date. The S&P500 is up 2.4% since the start of 2014, as compared to the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, which is up by 3.5%. Even more striking, the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) is up by 12.5% YTD and the Vanguard Long-Term Bond fund (VBLTX) is up by 11.4% YTD. Interestingly, REITs have been also experienced a substantial run-up in 2014 so far. The Vanguard REIT Index fund (VGSIX) is up 16.1% YTD and the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF (IYR) is up by 14.4% YTD.
To understand the rally in REITs, it is useful to start with an overview of this asset class. REITs are neither stock (equity) nor bond (fixed income). A REIT uses investor money, combined with borrowed money, to acquire real estate. The properties that they acquire can be office buildings (BXP, SLG), apartment buildings (EQR, UDR), healthcare facilities (HCP, HCN), or even digital data centers (DLR). The returns vary between the specific types of property owned. REITs make money from renting their facilities out. Please note that I am discussing only equity REITs (those which own property). There is a secondary form of REITs that buy baskets of mortgages. These are called mortgage REITS (mREITs).
REITs are classified as 'pass-through' or 'flow-through' entities and pass at least 90% of their taxable income to their shareholders each year. For this reason, REITs are often favored by income-oriented investors.
REITs have their own unique measures of value and drivers of performance. Rather than price-to-earnings ratio, a measure of the valuation of stocks, the preferred measure of valuation for REITs is price-to-funds from operations (FFO). A notable feature of REITs is their exposure to interest rates. In general, stocks go up when interest rates rise, while bonds fall. When interest rates decline, the reverse tend to be true: stocks decline and bonds rise in value. REITs tend to have a fairly neutral response to changes in interest rates, although this varies. To the extent to which REITs need to borrow in the future due to rolling credit or new financing, their costs rise when interest rates rise. REITs often also have the ability to raise rents, however, so that their revenue can also rise when the costs of residential or commercial real estate rise with inflation. In addition, because REITs own a physical asset (property), the value of the assets owned by the REIT tend to go up with inflation.
An examination of the performance statistics of REIT funds illustrates their properties quite clearly.
REIT funds vs. major asset classes (10 years through April 2014)—Source: Author's calculations
The returns above are the arithmetic average of returns over the past ten years, including reinvested dividends. Beta measures the degree to which an asset tends to amplify or mute swings in the S&P500. The betas for VGSIX and IYR show that these funds tend to rise 1.3% for every 1% rise in the S&P500 (and vice versa). These broad REIT funds tend to do well in rising stock markets and will also tend to perform worse than the S&P500 when the market crashes. The S&P500 fell 36.8% in 2008, for example, and IYR fell 39.9%, for example. The high beta is only one factor that determines the returns from these REIT index funds, however. Despite a massive decline in real estate in 2008, the average annual return for these two REIT funds has been very high over the past ten years. The volatility levels exhibited by these REIT funds is, however, very close to that of emerging market stocks, as shown above.
The best way to understand the unique features of REITs is to look at the correlations in the returns between asset classes, bond yields, and the returns from a traditional 60/40 portfolio (60% stocks, 40% bonds).
Correlations between monthly returns over the past ten years (through April 2014) for major asset classes, 10-year Treasury bond yield, and the returns from a 60/40 portfolio—Source: Author's calculations
Equity indexes tend to have positive correlations to Treasury bond yields (because yield goes up when bond prices go down, and vice versa). This effect is evident in the table above. S&P500 stocks (represented by SPY) have a +30% correlation to the 10-year Treasury yield. The same relationships hold for the other major equity classes in the table above (EFA, EEM, QQQ, and IWM), with correlations to the 10-year Treasury yield ranging from 20% (EFA) to 36% (IWM). In 2013, Treasury bond yields rose and stock indexes gained substantially. By contrast, the returns of bond funds (AGG, TLT) are negatively correlated to the 10-year Treasury bond yield. The returns from these funds tend to be positive when Treasury yields are falling and vice versa.
Treasury bond yields follow interest rates and inflation. When rates or inflation rise, bond yields rise because investors sell Treasury bonds to avoid getting caught with relatively low-yield bonds in a higher rate environment. The selling continues until the yield on the bonds is in line with new rates. This is why returns on the two bond funds are so negative correlated to Treasury yield. When yields go up, bond prices fall and vice versa.
VGSIX and IYR have 6% and 7% correlations to the 10-year Treasury yield—which means that these REIT funds are not highly sensitive to movements in bond yields. While investors were betting on rising yield in 2013, opinion seems to have shifted in 2014. If you are looking for asset classes that don't require a bet on whether interest rates will go up or down, REITs look pretty attractive.
The correlations between the returns from each asset class and the returns from a 60% stock / 40% bond portfolio show the degree to which adding these asset classes to a simple stock-bond mix is likely to provide diversification benefits. The higher the correlation, the less diversification benefit you can expect. The key idea in diversifying a portfolio is to combine assets with low correlations so that when one is losing money, others are likely to be doing something different (hopefully rising in value). As compared to the major equity asset classes, the REIT funds have a lower correlation to the 60/40 portfolio. This, in turn, suggests that REITs can provide more diversification benefit than equities to a portfolio that currently holds stocks and bonds.
In summary, the basic narrative to explain the rally in REITs goes something like this. REITs provide substantial income compared to bonds and equities, as well as being essentially interest rate neutral. While REITs are a volatile asset class, the relatively low correlation between REITs and equities provides diversification benefit to a portfolio of domestic stocks and bonds, as well as providing some modest protection from rising interest rates. REITs appear have come back into favor after being sold off during and after the so-called taper tantrum of 2013, with yield-hungry investors leading the charge. In a slow-growth environment, with the Fed indicating that they foresee an extended period of low rates, REITs look quite attractive. The caveat to the positive view on maintaining an allocation in REITs is that there are substantial differences between the yield, risk, and interest rate exposure and that REITs have historically been a volatile asset class. Unless you firmly believe that you can outsmart the broader market, REITs should be thought of as a long-term income producer and diversifier. For those investors who have maintained a strategic allocation to REITs, the gains in 2014 YTD have helped to bolster portfolio returns as equities have provided very little to investors beyond their dividends. The downside to this positive narrative, however, is that increased prices for REITs translate to lower yields for today's buyers.
Related Links:
- Understanding How Fund Performance Comparisons Overstate Returns
- Estimating the Real Costs of Investing
- Is Twitter the Canary in the Coal Mine?
The brokerage with a better way. Securities products and services offered through FOLIOfn Investments, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC.


text:
This Website was paid for by -
Auer Endowment
People of French-Canadian and Acadian descent are fortunate in having ancestors who are among the best documented people in the world. French-Canadian pedigrees are primarily constructed on the basis of marriage records and can usually be extended ten to fifteen generations in every line back to the immigrant ancestor. In many cases, the parish or village of origin in France can also easily be found. All that is needed to begin a search are the names of a couple married in Quebec and an approximate date of marriage.
^ Back to Top
The primary source is the Catholic parish register. These records are nearly complete from 1621 to the present, and most are accessible in the publications listed here. Most researchers will begin their search in the marriage index to the Drouin Collection or in the Loiselle Marriage Index, both described below. Locate an ancestral couple's marriage record and the names of both sets of parents will be given. Then locate the marriage records of those two couples, and so on, until an entire genealogical tree is constructed. Please keep in mind the following tips:
For abbreviations preceding vital record dates: b=baptized and s=buried.
Many families had "dit" names or aliases reflecting geographic origins, physical appearance, etc., which often replaced the family name. An ancestor's record may be filed under a variant surname. Lists appear in some of the sources given below.
As all children were given the additional name Joseph or Marie at baptism, an ancestor's record may be filed under that name, or the other half of these common combinations:
Rose Alma
Some families in Loiselle have several A-Z sequences of first names. Names in the Drouin Collection marriage index are not always filed in strict alphabetical order.
Entries in the indexes filed under "Inconnu" indicate surname unknown.
If a pre-1755 marriage is not in the Quebec indexes, try the Acadian sources.
The French priests used an "8" to indicate a sound in a native language, sometimes translated as "ou." If there is an "8" in the name, you have found an Indian ancestor.
Bouchard, Leonard. Morts tragiques et violentes au Canada 17e et 18e siecles. 2 vols. Les Publications Audiovisuelles, 1982. /Gc 929.17 B66m/ Information on 1500 people who died a tragic or violent death in Canada during the years 1608-1799, with an appendix on 625 women who died in childbirth.
Brunelle, Claude. Index for Drouin Microfilm Collection. Woonsocket, RI: American French Genealogical Society, 2003. /Gc 971.4 P39fa/ A guide to the Drouin Collection listed below.
Drouin Collection. Woonsocket, RI: American French Genealogical Society. /microfilm/ Filmed original parish registers and vital records from all religious denominations in Quebec from their origins until about 1935-42, covering baptisms, marriages, burials, and notarial acts. The collection includes records to mid-1968 for Hull and Gatineau. It also includes records for predominantly French-Canadian areas of Ontario (Ottawa to mid-1968), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the U. S.
Drouin Collection: Repertoire Alphabetique des Mariages des Canadiens-Francaise, 1760-1935. Woonsocket, RI: American French Genealogical Society, 2000. /microfiche/ An index by bride and groom to marriages in the Drouin Collection.
Charbonneau, Hubert et Jacques Legare, ed Repertoire des actes de bapteme, mariage, sepulture et des recensements du Quebec ancien. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1980-90.47 vols. /Gc 971.4 R29/ For an explanatory Key to the Repertory in English see /Gc 971.4 R29a/ This comprehensive demographic database extracts almost all information from the parish registers: dates (year-month-day), full names including witnesses and their spouses, sex, age, marital status, occupation, kinship, places of residence and origin, etc., of every person mentioned. Quebec's early nominal censuses are also included. The full range of records covered up to 1765 includes: recantation, baptism, confirmation, hospital sick list, list of migrants, marriage, marriage contract, census, burial and marriage annulment records. All spelling variants must be checked because register entries have been transcribed exactly as recorded.
Denissen, Christian. Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936 Revision. 2 vols. Harold Frederic Powell, ed. Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1987. /Gc 977.4 D41ga/
Fairbault-Beauregard, Marthe. La population des forts francais d' Amerique: Repertoire des baptemes, mariages et sepultures celebres dans les forts et les establissements francais en Amerique du Nord au XVIIIe siecle. Montreal: Editions Bergeron, 1982 & 1984. /Gc 929.14 B38p/ 2 vols. Church and census records (1695-1821) from 15 French outposts on the frontier.
Index des baptemes, marriages, sepultures de protestants de fa region de Quebec ca 1790-1875. Quebec: Archives Nationales du Quebec, 1983. /Microfiche/ Covers the regions of Quebec,
Levis, Lotbiniere and Portneuf. Check the microtext catalog for collections of non-Catholic registers from other areas of the Quebec province.
Institut Genealogique Drouin. Dictionnaire national des Canadiens francais (1608-1760) 3 vols. Montreal, 1965 /Gc 929.17 D56/ Dictionary of marriage records often giving the place of origin for the immigrant.
Jette, Rene. Dictionnaire genealogique des familles du Quebec des origines a 1730. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1983 /Gc 971.4 J51d/ Genealogies of families settled in Quebec by 1730. Compiled from Catholic registers, censuses, notarial contracts, etc. An appendix lists surnames and variants. Updates Tanguay, but still contains errors.
Jette, Rene et Micheline Lecuyer. Repertoire des noms de famille du Quebec des origines a 1825. Montreal: Institut Genealogique J. L. et Associes Inc, 1988. /Gc 971.4 J51r/
Leboeuf, J. Arthur. Complement au dictionnaire genealogique Tanguay. 3 vols. Montreal: Societe Genealogique Canadienne-Francaise, 1957, 1963, 1964. /Gc 929.17 Tl5da/ Corrections to Tanguay's work, with 15,000 additional marriages before 1800.
Loiselle, Antonin. Loiselle Marriage Index (1640-1963) and Supplement. /Microfilm/ Abstracts of marriages from 460 parishes, indexed by both bride and groom. Entries include: names of bride and groom, parents' names, date (year-day-month) and parish of marriage. Lists of abbreviations and parishes covered are on each reel.
Pepin, Jean-Pierre-Yves. Inventaire des 2365 microfilms du fonds Drouin. [Longueuil, Québec]: Éditions historiques et généalogiques Pepin, 1997?-1998? /Gc 971.4 P39f/
Tanguay, Cyprien. Dictionnaire genealogique des familles canadiennes. Montreal: Eusebe Senecal, 1871-1890. 7 vols. /Gc 929.17 Tl5d/ Genealogies compiled from the archives of 161 parishes. Useful appendices include: 1) a comprehensive list of "dit" names; 2) lists of the 528 parishes founded in Quebec by 1871; 3) an alphabetical list of French villages in 1631; and 4) names of whites married to female natives.
White, Jeanne Sauve. Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1993. /Gc 971.4 W58g/ This work contains a county listing of Quebec parishes to 1900 providing the date of formation and the oldest record available for the parish. In addition, it provides a diocese-by-diocese inventory of the parish covered in Loiselle, a listing of organizations that publish parish records, finding aids, background data and other useful research aids.
Marriage "repertoires" are indexed abstracts of all marriages recorded in a particular parish, county or region for a specific time period. Hundreds have been published and some include baptisms and burials. Most are available in the Genealogy Department. Check the online catalog under the name of the town, parish, and county of interest.
Notarial records are the second most valuable source for researchers. The notary functioned as a general local official in the French colonies, recording civil marriage contracts, inventories, wills, guardianships, land grants, sales, and other transactions. In case of a missing parish register, the marriage contract will supply parents' names. Microfilmed notarial acts are included in the Drouin Collection cited earlier.
Roy, Pierre-Georges. Inventaire des contrats de mariage du regime francais conserves aux Archives judiciaires de Quebec. 6 vols. Quebec: Archives de la province de Quebec, 1937-38. /Gc 971.4 Q3in/ An inventory of 17th and 18th century notarial marriage contracts arranged alphabetically by both bride and groom then chronologically within each surname.
Roy, Pierre-Georges, Antoine Roy, et al. Inventaire des greffes des notaires du regime francais. 27 vols. Quebec: Archives, 1943-76. /Gc 971.4 R8li/ Chronological item inventories of the records of 81 notaries (1637-1769) which are preserved in the archives of the province of Quebec.
There are name indexes following the records of each notary in volumes 9-27, and a separate
cumulative name index for volumes 1-8.
The Quebec censuses dating from 1666-1901 are the third most valuable source for researchers. For a list of published pre-1851 census returns refer to the periodical Lost in Canada? vol. 10, no. 3, August 1984, pp. 163-4. The online 1881 Canadian Census found at the FamilySearch website [www.FamilySearch.org] and the 1871 Ontario Census Index currently provide the only province-wide indexes for the major post-1825 Quebec censuses. Once a specific place of marriage has been discovered, however, it is fairly easy to search the film for that locality and find the family. Agricultural schedules accompany some censuses, and in 1851 and 1861 wives are listed with their maiden names. The 1901 census gives exact birth dates.
Quebec census /Microfilm/1825, 1831, 1842 - heads of families 1851 (taken in 1852), 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 - nominal census
The French colony of Acadia was founded in 1604 and covered what is now Nova Scotia and parts of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Maine. The territory was a perennial battleground for the French and British, and in 1755 more than 7000 Acadians were deported to the American colonies. Thousands more were exiled to France. By 1785 many had found refuge in the Spanish colony of Louisiana. Unlike Quebec, Acadian parish registers and notarial records have suffered extensive losses. Important published sources are listed below.
Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et genealogie des Acadiens. rev. ed. 6 vols. Ottawa: Editions Lemeac Inc., 1978. /Gc 929.171 Ar7hi/ An important work on Acadian genealogy and history to 1755. [see next entry]
Arsenault, Bona. History of the Acadians. rev. ed. Ottawa: Editions Lemeac Inc., 1978. /Gc 929.171 Ar7hb/ English translation of vol. 1 above, including a glossary of key French words.
Bergeron, Adrien. Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec 1625-1925. 8 vols. Montreal: Editions Elysee, 1981. /Gc 971.4 B45g/
Deville, Winston. Acadian Church Records 1679-1757. Mobile, AL: The compiler, 1964. /Gc 971.6 D49a/ Miscellaneous records dating 1679-86 and 1753-57.
Hebert, Donald J. Index and Key Words to Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens by Bona Arsenault. Cecilia, LA: The Author, 1979. /Gc 929.171 Ar7hia/
Jehn, Janet B. Corrections & Additions to Arsenault's Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens. Covington, KY: The Author, 1988. /Gc 929.171 Ar7h suppl./
Morrison, Phoebe Chauvin. Acadian Church Records Index, with Annotations. Houma, AL: P. C. Morrison, 2001. /Gc 971 M833a/
Rieder, Milton P., Jr., and Norma Gaudet Rieder, ed. Acadian Church Records. Metairie, LA: The editors, 1976-83. /Gc 971.6 D49a/ [For vol. 1 see DeVille] vol. 2 -Beaubassin 1712-1748 vols. 3-5 - Port Royal 1702-1740
White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Genealogique des Families Acadiennes: premiere partie, 1636 a 1714, en Deux Volumes. Moncton, NB: Centre d'etudes Acadiennes, Universite de Moncton, 1999. /Gc 971 W585d/ The key work on early Acadian genealogy.
______________. English Supplement to the Dictionnaire généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, NB: Centre d'études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 2000-. /Gc 971 W585da/ Pt. 1. 1636 to 1714.
The following contain data useful in connecting the Acadian settlers of Louisiana (1764-85) and other colonies, with those expelled from Acadia (1755-63).
Hebert, Donald J. Acadians in Exile. Cecilia, LA: Hebert Publications, 1980. /Gc 929.171 H35a/ Includes: Acadian records in Canada, France and the West Indies; Acadian censuses of 1671, 1686, & 1714; history of the Acadian migrations; and inventory of resources.
Jehn, Janet. Acadian Exiles in the colonies: Covington, KY: The author, 1977. /Gc929.171 J38ac/ Includes lists of Acadians in the American colonies, Acadian prisoners at Halifax 1763, and vital records of Acadians in the civil state of Guyana 1763-1792.
Morrison, Phoebe Chauvin. Early Acadian Census Index, 1671-1714, with Annotations. Houma, LA: P. C. Morrison, 2001. /Gc 971 M833aa/
______________. Louisiana's Acadian Coast Census Index: 1766, 1769, 1777 with Annotations. Houma, LA: P. C. Morrison, 2001. /Gc 976.3 M833L/
Rieder, Milton P., Jr., and Norma Gaudet Rieder, comp. The Acadian Exiles in the American Colonies 1755-1768. Metairie, LA: The compilers, 1977. /Gc 929.171 R44a/ Lists for Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, S. Carolina, Massachusetts, & Maryland.
Rieder, Milton P., Jr., and Norma Gaudet Rieder. The Acadians in France. 3 vols. Metairie, LA: The authors, 1967. /Gc 929.14 R44a/ Rolls of Acadians living in France 1762-1776, and lists of deportees, 1758-63.
Rieder, Milton P., Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder. The Crew and Passenger Registration Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785. Metairie, LA: The authors, 1965. /Gc 976.3 R44c/ A listing of the Acadians who migrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Robichaux, Albert J., Jr. The Acadian Exiles in Nantes, 1775-1785. Harvey, LA: The author, 1978. /Gc 929.171 R55ac/
Robichaux, Albert J., Jr. The Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo 1758-1785. 3 vols. Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981. /Gc 929.171 R55acs/ The third volume covers marriages in the departments of Cotes-du-Nord, ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Loire-Atlantique, and also supplements the author's book on exiles in Nantes.
Robichaux, Albert J., Jr. Acadian Marriages in France: Department of Ille-et-Vilaine, 1759-1776. Harvey, LA: The author, 1976. /Gc 929.171 R55a/ Includes an excellent brief history of the Acadians exiled to France.
Bouchette, Joseph. A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada. London:
Longmans,1832. /Gc 971.4003 B66t/
Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972-. /Gc 929.17 D561/
Elliot, Noel Montgomery, ed. The French Canadians 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places and Vital Dates. 3 vols. Toronto: The Genealogical Research Library, 1992 /Gc 971 F88/ 468,000 references compiled principally from city and town directories, land records, and marriage records.
Gagne, Peter J. King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: the Filles du Roi, 1663-1673. Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2001. /Gc 971.4 G122k/ Data on women recruited in France to marry settlers in North America in exchange for a dowry from the king, 1663-73.
Laforest, Thomas J. Our French-Canadian Ancestors. Palm Harbor, FL: LISI Press, 1983-98. 30 vols. /Gc 971.4 L13o/ Documented biographies of immigrant ancestors. Useful appendices in each volume including: bibliographies of sources, maps and a glossary of terms.
List of lands granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to 31st December 1890. Quebec: C. F. Langlois, printed by order of the legislature, 1891. /Gc 971.4 Q352L/
Répertoire toponymique du Québec, 1987. Québec: Gouvernement du Québec, 1987. /Gc 971.4 R299/ Locates approximately 100,000 place names of all types within a census division.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. The Jesuit relations and allied documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791. 73 vols. Cleveland: Burrows Bros., 1896 1901. Index in v.72-73. /Gc 971 J49/
Auger, Roland-J. "Tracing Ancestors through the Province of Quebec and Acadia to their place of Origin in France", French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review, vol. II, no. 4, Winter
1969, pp. 259-78. Quebec: Centre Canadien des Recherches Genealogiques. /Gc 971.005 F887/ An excellent guide to the wealth of Quebec and Acadian manuscript sources. Includes numerous references to published inventories and indexes.
Boudreau, Dennis M. Beginning Franco-American Genealogy. Pawtucket, RI: American-French Genealogical Society, 1986. /Gc 929.171 B66b/
Geyh, Patricia Keeney. French Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists. Orem, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 2002. /Gc 971.4 F887/
Normandeau-Jones, Lea. Finding Your Acadian Ancestors. Toronto, Ontario: Heritage Productions, 2001. /Gc 971 N789f/
Researchers should consult the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) for relevant articles available in the Genealogy Department. Several search options may net consequential data. First, one can search the surname section under the family name being researched. One can also use the "Search for U. S. and Canadian Articles by Location and Keyword" option for a listing of many other articles. Key French language periodical sources are described below.
Le Bulletin des recherches historiques. Lévis, Québec: A. Roy, 1895-1968. 70 vols. /Gc 971 B87/ A goldmine of anecdotal articles and genealogical essays. For an index covering 1895-1925 see /Gc 971 B87a/.
Memoires de la Societe Genealogique Canadienne-Francaise. Montreal: 1944-current /Gc971.4 SO1255m/ A 2 vol. name index to vols. 1-26 (1944-75) contains 140,000 references. Indexed at /Gc971.4 SO1225ma/.
Rapport de l'Archiviste de la Province de Quebec. 54 vols. Queens Printer, 1920-77. (defunct) /Gc 971.4 Q354a/ These reports contain data published from manuscripts in the archives. Major series include: censuses 1666-1805; lists of militia officers 1641-1760, and fur-trade employees 1788-1822; genealogies; and bibliographies of family and parish histories.
Check the online catalog, found at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us, under the family name for compiled
genealogies, and under the name of the parish, town or county for local histories and other records pertaining to families of a particular area. Many references can also be found under Acadians, French, and Quebec as subjects.
Remember that important French-Canadian sources are available only on microfilm or microfiche. Check the microtext catalog drawers labeled Canadian, French Canadian, and Canadian Census for lists of holdings.
"Discovering your roots just got easier!"
© 2010-2018 ACPL The Genealogy Center. All Rights


text:
Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, is proud to announce Literati Academic's selection as a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Choice's 2014 review emphasized the "huge potential" for students and faculty and concluded that Literati Academic is "highly recommended."
"It is hard to overstate the importance of reference in research and instruction," said Credo CEO Mike Sweet. "Literati Academic helps students to build research skills, allowing librarians to see positive learning outcomes without having to dedicate extra class time and resources."
Literati Academic is an online research platform and library teaching tool which offers point-of-need instruction and supports students' self-directed research. The world class reference content included in Credo's Academic Core Collection is paired with instructional videos and tutorials that are integrated and embedded into the platform.
Literati addresses several problems faced by students, librarians and professors alike. By making information discoverability more intuitive, librarians need to spend less time helping students find basic sources at the beginning of their research project. Professors can take a flipped learning approach and direct students to on-demand videos and tutorials to hone their research skills, rather than consuming valuable in-class time. Students can find and use tutorials while they are doing research, without logging in to another resource for help or instruction.
The Literati platform is available for Academic, Public, and K-12 libraries, and has been awarded several prestigious honors in recent years. Literati School was named the 2014 CODiE "Best Education Reference Solution," and Literati Public the 2013 CODiE "Best General Reference Service."
Of the thousands of titles reviewed by Choice each year, only a small percentage are named an Outstanding Academic Title.


text:
ESA Urges Gamers to Join the Video Game Voters Network in Fight Against Proposed California Law
The fear, according to the ESA, is that video game stores will stop selling certain titles all together as "they won't know what titles fall under a particular state's laws and which don't." Were this situation to take place, it is possible developers would begin to soften its content to fall within vague government regulations in order to make it to store shelves.
"Imagine walking into your local game retailer and finding out they don't sell games you want because they're worried about government intervention. This isn't hyperbole; it's a very real scenario that could happen if California succeeds," the ESA's Rich Taylor wrote in a post on the Official PlayStation Blog.
To combat this possible scenario, the ESA recommends gamers of voting age register at the Video Game Voters Network, a site set defending the video game industry throughout its never-ending legal battles for legitimacy. Recently, comic book legend Stan Lee addressed his concerns for the video game industry in a lengthy post on the VGVN website. In it, Lee discusses the mainstream reaction to his created works in the 1950s. Comic books, Lee explains, were at the center of its own "national hysteria," saying opponents of the industry claimed the medium had a "dangerous effect" on youth and contributed to "juvenile delinquency."
The comic book industry lost its initial battle for legitimacy as a Senate subcommittee postulated the country could not "afford the calculated risk involved in feeding its children, through comic books, a concentrated diet of crime, horror and violence." Eventually, the State of Washington made it a crime to sell comic books without a license, while the city of Los Angeles made the sale of all comics completely illegal.
In fighting the upcoming battle at the Supreme Court, the ESA announced that over 180 leading First Amendment experts, non-profit organizations, associations, researchers, national organizations, and social science experts filed briefs in favor of the ESA's position on Friday, September 17. The amicus briefs urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which originally struck down the California state claim in 2005, endorsed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
According to Game Politics, arguments made in the amicus briefs approach the situation from very different angles. Some make the more common argument that restricting the video game industry is tantamount to throwing First Amendment rights out the window, others claim the proposal is an overreach by the state of California, and others say the law will put a burden on law enforcement who should focus on catching "real criminals."
The ESA has posted over 20 of the amicus briefs in favor of its position and the video game industry itself. Included in the listing are developer id Software's arguments [PDF link], which focus, in part, on how the game industry is influenced in some aspects of design by the film industry and therefore should be given the same consideration.
California isn't the only state fighting the game industry. Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas and Virgina have all filed amicus briefs in favor of California's proposed law.
Although the argument appears to only focus on the sale of video games to minors, its execution and ultimate definition may distort the freedom developers have when creating titles. This isn't only about saying children shouldn't play mature titles--the industry knows that and has a rather successful, self-imposed rating system in place to stop that from happening--this is about limiting "questionable" content from all games to all gamers. The danger with this concept is the simple question, "Who decides what is and isn't questionable?" The vagueness of that potential answer puts the danger in the hands of retailers who will effectively have the government's foot on their throat as they attempt to sell software. In order to protect themselves, it's possible retailers will refuse to sell titles with content it feels may catch disapproving glances from U.S. government; thus giving the government power to shape content made by game developers.
While this is not the first time lawyers will argue on both sides of the industry's future, it is the first time a court of such high standing will hear the arguments.
Oral arguments for Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association/Entertainment Software Association begin at the U.S. Supreme Court on November 2.
[Update] The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and International Game Developers Association (IGDA) are among the organizations that have submitted amicus briefs favoring the ESA's position against the proposed California state law. "Video games in all of their iterations are deserving of the same protections our Constitution has provided film, television, music and literature," AIAS president Joseph Olin said in a statement on the matter.
There is also an amicus brief in favor of the ESA's position from the State Attorneys General [PDF Link] of Rhode Island, Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Utah and Washington State.


text:
Santa Fe is a city made by hand; a place of no hard edges or sharp departures, whose centuries old past stretches indelibly into the future. Well known from the art it has inspired, the Royal City of the Holy Faith, dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, startles first-time visitors. Above the jagged crest of La Bajada to the south, it rises against the backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, blood-tinged at dusk. At seven thousand feet, the heavens draw near and the unfiltered sun bleaches the Santa Fe landscape to a desiccated palette of straw, sage, lavender, ochre, and salmon.
The city's vibrant art trade began near its historic plaza, where the Museum of New Mexico was founded a century ago. Galleries still circle the old town square and extend from its center along San Francisco Street and Palace Avenue.
From the Plaza, it is a fifteen minute walk to Canyon Road. With its dense concentration of shops, roughly eighty at last count, this picturesque thoroughfare is the heart of the city's gallery scene.
West of the Plaza, the revitalized Guadalupe District offers more galleries, some housed in the Design Center, a former Chevrolet dealership.
Much of the Santa Fe we see today is the product of a local version of the colonial revival, which began here around the time that New Mexico achieved statehood in 1912 and dictated a codified architectural style.
Those who hungered for an urban landscape free of historical conceit got their wish with the opening of SITE Santa Fe, the contemporary arts exhibition center anchoring the Railyard. Santa Fe's newest arts district is home to cutting-edge galleries, a cultural center, and a performance space, as well as the terminus of New Mexico's new rail service linking Albuquerque and Santa Fe.