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I have been getting 'holiday' catalogs almost daiy since August. In the last 6 weeks or so there has been on many days a dozen or more in my mailbox at a time. Many of the same ones are repeated every week...just have a different cover on it. Really! How many of these do these companies think we need? Does it really help their sales to send out so many. Yesterday there was 13 in my mail box, last Friday 15. Eleven of those 28 were duplicates of ones recieved the week before. The rest I have also recieved within the past month or so. I do like the merchandise and order from some catalogs, so don't want to shut them off but it seems once you order from one, the world has your name and the catalog flood starts. |
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That's so funny, because my neighbor used to get hundreds of them, and she would give them to me later, I would look. And then throw away. Now, she has moved, and I probably have gotten TWO this season, I miss them!! |
- Posted by adellabedella (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 14:24
I don't bother to look at them. I throw them straight in the trash. The catalog stuff is stuff I buy on the internet anyway. Why even bother looking at the catalog. |
- Posted by marie-ndcal (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 14:27
I like to look thru them for ideas and also the babies love the pictures. They can color, tear etc and the they get tossed. |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 14:48
I love to look at catalogs and used to order quite a few catalogs. Certain companies do send out a new small catalog almost weekly which I agree is over kill and many of those go to the trash. But I love to sit in my chair while watching tv and browse a catalog then if I find something I like I look it up on my tablet or computer to get a better view. I tend to order from online rather than the catalog. I miss some that I used to get but no longer get since I moved. |
You can opt out of paper catalogs by going to the vendor website and requesting to be taken off their catalog mail list, or you can go to this catalog opt-out website and do it all in one place. Much better for the environment than throwing them out. |
I haven't bought from catalogs in years, and eventually they do drop you. About the only one I get regularly is Land's End, and I enjoy looking at it. Stop shopping from them, and request to get off mailing lists, and you'll cut way back on the overload. |
I don't buy from catalogs either. I do get two or three, about a couple times a year. Maybe, because I moved enough? LOL But really, if I get some I don't want/need, I call their 800 number and ask to be removed from their list. They are usually very nice about it, and it quits after one or two more catalogs. Moni |
- Posted by Marilyn_Sue (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 17:01
I don't receive any catalogs, I would look at some if I did get them. Gardening ones I do get. Sue |
I love looking through them and get quite a few. Crate and Barrel and Harry and David's are two of my favorites. I have a stack to look through one of these days. If I like something I will do like Raven and look it up on the internet and order from there. I'd really like to work at Crate and Barrel :-) |
I get handsful every day. The majority go directly into the recycling bag. What a waste. |
- Posted by juellie1962 (email@example.com) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 17:51
I got 8 of them today. And yes, they are the exact same ones I got last week; just a different cover. I love the fact that you can curl up and look at them and then wander over to the computer, order and in a couple days, there's your item! Sure beats the days of filling out an order form, mailing it, and waiting weeks to get your item! :) I LOVE LOVE LOVE online shopping! |
- Posted by silvercomet (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 20:36
I highly recommend opting out of catalogs - it really seems to work! I opted out a while ago on dmachoice.org, and it drastically cut down on the junk mail. Just lately I've gotten a few mail catalogs from companies I've ordered from online, and noticed that some companies have a way to opt out of their catalogs in your online profile, although it's often buried a bit. Stopping the catalogs at the source is definitely my favorite option! |
Here is a link that might be useful: FTC Article on Opting Out of Catalog Mail
- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 20:43
I get Lands End and L.L. Bean, but I love to look at catalogs. So..........I check out the recycle basket at our PO and take any catalogs I might want to look at. They all get recycled before long. |
I'm actually happy to see the return of all the catalogs. I used to get several and then when the recession hit, retailers stopped spending the money. To me, seeing the catalogs coming back is a sign of a small recovery. At least they are spending money again. |
- Posted by dorothy_oahu (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 22:04
We don't get them anymore. I guess because we didn't order anything. I kind of like to look at them but I spend too much time on the computer and I can look up anything I might need ~ mostly to see if it's a good product. I love that Amazon has people that rate things. |
- Posted by LuAnn_in_PA (My Page) on Tue, Nov 27, 12 at 23:06
I love to get and look through catalogs. The ones I did not want - I opted off their mailing lists AND asked that they NOT pass my name along to others. |
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There is a rumor circling tonight in celebrity gossip circles that teenage singing sensation Justin Bieber has been named on a list of the top 50 most researched women on the web. Apparently, the teen boy did not just make the top 50 list -- he came in at number 7. Want to know who else was on the list? Keep reading... More good news and green gossip on this [...]


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This is in response to the article by Caroline Mutoko "The women of my generation kinda blew it" published in the Star on June 25. The women of your generation did not blow it. And no generation has blown it actually. The struggle to change the status of women is a process; it will not happen in one generation but through many generations. It may seem not have borne fruit but it has and will continue to do so incrementally. The challenge is to have very sharp indicators that are able to sense change however small. Back in the day, we felt that there had been positive change in the area of domestic violence when Politicians spoke about it in public meetings: when religious leaders spoke about it from the pulpit. We knew that those were the necessary steps towards awareness.
And so the fact that many women are still not taking up leadership positions should not dishearten. Look at the number of women who have actually taken up those positions starting from your dear self. Look at every Industry and there they are: more women in leadership than ever before. Look at our Universities and see the number of women taking up evening classes? The streets of Nairobi at about 8.00 p.m. after evening classes empty are awash with women; young women, mothers and wives alike rushing home to catch up with their chores and other responsibilities.
Look at the chamas and apart from the economic energy, just witness the empowerment that happens at the chama meetings: women learning from each other and even inviting guest speakers to such forums. The women of your generation do not have to start where their mothers and sisters started: our mothers started the conversation form very far: we started from fighting for human rights to be considered as women's rights: claiming women 's right to own property: claiming that governance and other structures cannot be construed as properly constituted without at least 1/3 of each gender: whether a woman had the same right as a man to pass on citizenship to a foreign spouse: those conversations are now crystallized in the Constitution of Kenya.
As our younger sisters and daughters, your generation's responsibility is to run with the Constitution and claim those rights: to let those rights become common place. Remembering that apart from the National Constitution, our generation and the ones before started to rewrite many other constitutions: the family constitution so that we have a greater voice whether with our parents, our spouses or children: the work place so that we will not tolerate sexual harassment or less pay for equal work: the market place so that the market dynamics are changing and our participation is growing: please complete those Constitutions and live them!
We have been challenged to consider that the boy child is retrogressing as the girl child is progress sing. Could your generation also be tasked to ensure that both genders achieve parity in word and deed? That our goal remains equality and that no one gender will ever again be as alienated as women have been. In a nutshell, we have passed on the baton to you to push the race forward. Your strategy may be as different as the starting point but however different it may be, you are not allowed to drop the baton.
The journey is long and it is far from done but rest in the comfort that every step forward is a step in the right direction. For now we are still around and keeping vigil: we will not close an eye lest what we have achieved is negated: that is why we will go to Court for every breach of the Constitution.
Judy Thongori is a Nairobi-based family law expert.


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Low-cost of mobile Internet war, from the smart phone market spread to the Tablet PC market. It is reported that Google will carry Asustek to push low-cost tablet PCs; Amazon's new Tablet PC the Kindle Fire, will be this year's third quarter, its price may be around U.S. $ 199-299; Tablet PC market leading chipmaker Nvidia has said, will launch low-cost chip, the cost savings will make the Tablet PC is down to $ 199.
No shortage of optimistic prospects for the development of low-cost tablet PCs on the market. Market research firm ABI Research believes that the low-cost tablet PCs will account for 60% share of the market in 2016. All the manufacturers of low-cost strategy is the need to expand the market, but chose occupy absolute advantage in the context of the Apple iPad. The development of the Tablet PC market in virtually walking poles: one pole is the Apple iPad thriving, the other pole is the beautiful and fragrant flowers blooming, many low-cost tablet.
The flat panel manufacturers compete to push low-cost flat-panel
Tablet PC market is blowing low-cost wind, major manufacturers competing to reposition itself in the low-priced products.
Amazon Kindle promise to be cheap in the end. Since the launch, Amazon tablet has always insisted on low-cost strategy for victory, overwhelmed by the latest Kindle product still continues past the cheap route. Amazon plans to market three new Kindle Tablet PC in 2012, including a low-end market. Allegedly, Amazon in order to reduce production costs, has been up and the other from the Taiwan region of China, Foxconn, PVI (Prime View) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics signed a cooperation agreement, these factories will Amazon Tablet PC assembly components and display.
Google gains success in the smartphone market is not weakness. It is said that Google and Amazon, competition will be and Asustek Computer, cooperation, published in the May-June 2012, seven inches and the price is not expensive tablet PCs. It is understood that in order to deal with the fierce market competition, the current macro? And Lenovo, 7 inches tablet computer prices have been reduced to about $ 279.
Tablet PC chip market price reduction news. Reported that the well-known chip development maker Nvidia has released a new computer chip architecture, and commitment to provide a sharper image, reducing the energy consumption of desktop and ultra-this. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that its latest chip architecture contains enough low-cost commercial components, the cost savings will make Android tablet PCs to lower prices this summer to $ 199.
There are indications that a low-cost surge is invasion of the Tablet PC market, and the gathering is very fierce.
High-and low-side polarization trend of deepening
Tablet PC market has been the formation of a crowded situation. Statistics said that three years ago, Apple launched the first iPad tablet so far, the global market, more than 220 types of Tablet PC. At the same time, wind and water of the Tablet PC market is attracting more and more manufacturers to join them. Even in the development of the smart phone market has been less smooth Nokia, vigorously develop the WP smart phone at the same time, also intends to R & D Tablet PC. Although the flat-panel market looks the chaos, but brushed aside the representation is easy to see, now the Tablet PC market structure is like a seesaw, one end of the Apple chasing the other end of the gathering together. The price is also entirely different, iPad, clinging to the high-end market, and the other heroes to avoid Apple's edge, to seize the low-end market.
iPad "hegemony" is obvious to all. In fact, since Apple introduced the iPad, firmly grasp the leadership of the Tablet PC market. In the first half of 2011, Apple accounted for 3/4 of the market share; last year on a global scale, the iPad market share of 63 percent, a recent IDC flat market share, Apple iPad accounted for 61.5 percent of the global market. March released in mid iPad sales climbing higher and higher, the report said, its listed only within 3 days of sales broke through the 3 million, setting a new sales record for Apple.
Market analysis is also quite optimistic about the prospects for the development of low-cost tablet PC market in the the other end of the seesaw, Market research firm ABI Research believes that the next five years, priced less than $ 400 Tablet PC will be strong growth in 2016, the share of the market share low-cost tablet PCs will reach 60 percent, while the market priced at $ 400 Tablet PC demand will be reduced. In this regard, ABI Research, consumers who led the team said Jeff Orr, Jeff Orr, many priced at $ 400 the following new models of Tablet PCs to enter the market, these products primarily in India and China, emerging markets sales in the next few years, emerging countries, the Tablet PC market will see strong growth on the global market play a catalytic role. "
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Designer and manufacturer of audio solutions Plantronics today announced its smallest and lightest wireless headphones in the form of a drop - BackBeat GO. The new headset is ideal for making calls from mobile phones, listening to music and podcasts, video with sound quality on smartphones, tablet PCs, MP3-players and other mobile devices that support the format of Bluetooth. BackBeat GO relieve users from the discomfort that arises because of the constantly interfering cord headphones while traveling on public transport, sports, walking down the street and in any outdoor activity.
As promised by the manufacturer, the compact creates a surround sound headset, and also supports echo cancellation and noise, making the sound clean. With built-in controllers can receive calls, scroll through tracks, adjust the volume on smart phones, MP3-players and other devices. Main technical characteristics of new items:
Bluetooth profile A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile);protection from ambient noise;USB-adapter 2 in 1 headset for simultaneous charging and Smartphone;display the charge level on the headset screen smartphones based on Android and iPhone;the time of talk and music - up to 4.5 hours;While working in standby mode - 10 hours;Weight - 13 grams.
The suggested retail price Plantronics BackBeat GO is 2999 rubles. In the Russian market the novelty will not too soon - only in June 2012.
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April 10, according to foreign media reports, according to the rumors that Intel Ivy Bridge processors will launch in April 23. However, is not all of Intel's Ivy Bridge series processor chip is launched on this day.
In fact, only a handful of Ivy Bridge processor will be launched in April 23, although this 22-nanometer processor has been postponed for a few months released. For users who have ordered (or buy) a suitable motherboard, the mainstream desktop processors are not much better than anything.
After the release of the mainstream for desktop computers Ivy Bridge processor, Intel will launch in June this year, this processor for mobile devices. However, before the end of this year, Intel will not launch Ivy Bridge processor for high-end desktop and dual-socket workstation / server.
Intel is likely to be introduced in the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, or other meeting of these powerful processors.
Intel will launch next year of a processor core 10 Ivy Bridge the EP processor. This processor is faster than the current Xeon E5 processor speed of 14-20% (Xeon E5 processor clocked at 2.4Ghz, 3GHz and 3.3GHz).
In addition, the 10 kernel Ivy Bridge, the EP processor cache is 25MB or 30MB, the power consumption from 95 watts to 130 watts.
Intel will also launch the Ivy Bridge, the EX the Xeon seven processors. This processor will Patsburg the I / O chipset, DDR3-1600 server memory (and possibly DDR3-1866 memory), and 15-16 cores, configuration, Ivy Bridge, the EP processor is also a large cache.
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Yesterday, Qualcomm announced a strategic cooperation agreement with GOME, GOME will joint the three operators, such as purchasing 12 million intelligent terminal, which mainly uses the Qualcomm Xiaolong chipset supports the intelligent terminal. At present, the proportion of intelligent machines in the country the United States mobile phone sales from 13% in the first quarter of 2010 jumped to 51 percent.
It is reported, the United States and Qualcomm will join the three major telecom operators and manufacturers in the smart phone customization, forward-looking trend research for deeper cooperation. This is the chip of the mobile phone industry R & D providers, operators, handset manufacturers and retailers for the first time the whole industry chain cross-border cooperation.
The same day, the United States and Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Sony, HTC, Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, Cool, Tianyu, Haier, Hisense and other manufacturers have signed a 12 million mobile phone Procurement single.
The Gome communications pressure this year. According to plan, to the end of this year, the United States communications to achieve sales of 15 million, an increase of 36 percent, with sales of close to 20 billion yuan.
A communications industry analyst, said MediaTek in low-cost smart phone chip market share. Qualcomm in order to boost performance, but also hope to expand the market of low-cost intelligent machines.
Qualcomm in the past focused on high-end mobile phone chip market, but considering the low-end handsets will be the main driving force of the future market growth, especially in China.
To get into the low-end mobile phone market, Qualcomm copied MediaTek (MTK) model of success in China, and actively promote the QRD, through a combination of hardware and software vendors to provide a comprehensive mobile phone development platform provides proven hardware and software, mobile phone companies mobile phone design can be done quickly and dramatically reduce development costs and cycle. Qualcomm also a further reduction in chip prices, not only the price war also confronted with MediaTek.
The analyst said that the current consumer can enjoy the thousands of intelligent machines in the market. However, the phone works hard to make money in these low-end products. If the United States to provide the cheap smart chip of Qualcomm's mobile phone factory OEM each phone to earn a fee of OEM products underwritten by the country the United States, Distribution cost savings, mobile phone manufacturers are willing to make money at the same time earn share.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The bad news of the Japanese electronics industry is still emerging. The Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony intends to cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide this year to restructure the business and reduce costs.
Yesterday said a number of mainstream media exposed the above message, the job cuts account for about 6 percent of Sony's global workforce, the details of the new CEO Kazuo Hirai, Sony's restructuring plan which is also just took office on April 1, latest surfaced .
The restructuring will be the second major change in the Sony four years. As of March 2011, the company's global workforce of about 16.8 million.
The Xinhua Overseas Finance, citing sources, said the layoffs will be in two financial years ended March 2014, but in the end time has not yet been determined. Expected that the layoffs will be announced on the Sony strategy meeting held on the 12th.
Sony China said yesterday that Sony (China) Co., Ltd. There are currently no layoff plans. In fiscal 2011, Sony (China), despite the impact of the earthquake in Japan, Thailand, floods, etc., but maintained a healthy business in China, a good development.
The two restructuring "to cut 5,000 jobs
Sony has previously said would carry out reforms and can not change the field. But the tenure of employees of Japanese companies, layoffs become extremely difficult.
Sony is expected to be resorting to layoffs in the corporate headquarters as well as domestic and international enterprise group development, production, logistics and business sector. In the restructuring process in the past, Sony mainly promote the sale and integration of the production base, but will move ahead to improve efficiency in management and other departments, including the entire group.
Is expected that about half of the layoffs will be the implementation of Sony's previously announced two restructuring plans. Sony announced last month that the agreement has been reached, will the chemical products business was sold to Bank of Japan, to enable the companies to focus on electronic products business. At the same time, Sony also small and medium-sized LCD department stripped shown to the Japanese company, which is a new joint venture company established by the Government of Japan, Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi support. Sony said the two agreements will allow the company to reduce up to 5,000 employees.
The report quoted people familiar with the news that the remaining job cuts are expected to have a part of Sony's TV division. The TV business losses is the main drag on Sony for four consecutive losses of the fiscal year. Sony has revealed the need to streamline the TV business, and annual sales of 22 million to 20 million units.
"Tied to accompany" The cuts are also responsible for the 2011 fiscal year the company operated by Sony all seven executive directors, they will give up to receive year-end bonuses, including the former CEO and current Chairman of the Board's Howard Stringer (Howard Stringer) .
New CEO to start reform
By the television business downturn and other factors, Sony is expected at the end of March 2011 financial year to 220 billion yen (about $ 2.7 billion) net loss for four consecutive years in a net loss television sector for eight consecutive years deficit. Sony said that the market competition, weak demand, falling prices, the appreciation of the yen, the main factors affecting the performance.
Hirai said that before he took office to create a new management team, four major reforms will be implemented in business strategy, that is, strengthening the core business of game consoles and mobile communications-based, to reshape the loss-making television manufacturing operations, the reform of company business structure, speed up technological innovation.
In 2008 after the Lehman crisis, in December of that year, Sony has announced to cut 16,000 jobs in the world, the world's original nine TV factory reduced to four.
Japan's electronics industry across the board recession
The other major electronics companies in Japan in recent years have also introduced layoffs, wage cuts and other programs. Panasonic basically completed by the end of March this year, established plans to cut 40,000 jobs. In addition, NEC Corporation also decided to lay off 5,000 people within the group, while reducing the external commission business, which is equivalent to reduce the workload of the 5,000 people on the end of January.
In almost every day the bad news for Japan's electronics industry, in addition to a few exceptions such as Canon (Canon), the loss of other giants of the industry in the current fiscal year is expected to reach $ 17 billion. Standard & Poor's has Sony and Sharp's credit rating fell to BBB +, only two levels above junk level.
Japan's electronics industry has declined significantly in the past 10 years, shocking. From 2000 to 2010, the Japanese electronics industry's output dropped by 47 percent, exports decreased by 27%, the industry's trade surplus plunged 68%.
Analysts said the Japanese electronics companies into the plight of the direct reason is that the wrong product strategy, trying to cheap capital and manufacturing technology rather than through product innovation and Samsung upstart competition.
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April 9 news, Gome, today announced that 12 million the largest single purchase signed with the major mobile phone manufacturers, while sales listed, these new mobile phone will be held during May in the country Gome, when the proportion of Gome's stores smartphone will enhance to 80%.
It is reported that Gome Group and Qualcomm entered into a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing, the two sides will join the three operators in China, the world's leading manufacturers in the smart mobile terminal device customization, forward-looking trend research for deeper cooperation.
Insiders said that this is the chip of the mobile phone industry R & D providers, operators, handset manufacturers and retailers to reach the whole industry chain of cross-border cooperation will be beneficial to improve the efficiency of China's mobile phone industry chain, to accelerate product replacement, and reduce the smartphone development costs.
According to MIC statistics show that in 2012 global smart phone shipments are expected to increase to 614 million, an increase of 35.8%. The PRC data show that in 2012, the smartphone market will keep 104% of the market growth rate, market sales expected to exceed 140 million units.
The rapid growth of the smartphone also can be reflected from Gome and other national chain channels. The data show that currently 13% of the country U.S. smartphone sales accounted for from the first quarter of 2010 and quickly jumped to 51 percent.
Although the market is high end smartphone attention, but the higher price has been the popularity of smart phones obstacles, ZDC statistics show, the 2011 smartphone market average price of 2321 yuan, and the majority of consumer demand for mobile phones priced between $ 800-1500. Industry experts said, to realize the national popularity of smart phones, thousands of smart phones should first promote the popularity of the beginning, but this is not enough only to rely on the strength of the retailer or manufacturer, must unite the power of the whole industry chain.
It is understood that Gome with the cooperation with Qualcomm, a joint industry chain to discuss customized 3G smartphone, which not only created the custom mode of the whole industry chain, and enhance the operational efficiency of the industrial chain, will radically reduce the price of smart phones .
It is reported that as early as the 2011 Gome has begun to test the water and Qualcomm joint China Telecom signed a cooperation agreement with the mobile phone brand manufacturers, customized based on thousands of intelligent machines, Xiao Long, Qualcomm processor, respectively. listed on the first pin 11 and New Year last year. This custom smartphone sales of 16 million units in the country Gome.
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Located in western Kenya, the Sauri cluster lies in Yala Division, Siaya District, Nyanza Province. It is the first and largest site in the MVP, with 11 villages covering 132 square kilometers. Sauri's well-watered humid and semi-humid zones support arable agriculture and hence a high population density.
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•The average maize yield increased from 1.9 to 5.0 tons per hectare, and a community cereal bank was set up to store surplus crops and sell them at a good price, to the World Food Programme among others.
•Income diversification through bee-keeping and fish farms has been very successful.
•A new dairy cooperative gathers 300 members and pasteurizes over 600 liters of milk per day.
•Over 21,000 children in all schools are provided a daily meal during the school year.
•Just 4% of children under two are now underweight, down from 26% at baseline, and more than 97% of children have been immunized, up from levels below 50%.
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•Households' access to improved water supplies has more than doubled, and dozens of families have been connected to the power grid.
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Sixteen people are running in the Jersey City Board of Education election on April 20, but only three will prevail.
The election will fill three seats on the nine-member board for three-year terms. The responsibilities of board members include voting on school policy and approving the annual school district budget, which is proposed as $618.8 million for the next school year.
The 16 candidates running in this year's election are: Kevin Armstrong, Sebastian D'Amico, L. Terry Dehere, Evelyn Farmer, Carol L. Lester, Gerald Maurice Lyons, Gerald McCann, June A. Mulqueen, John R. Muniz, Marimer Navarrete, Aura Ordonez, Hiral Patel, Anthony Sharperson, Angel Valentin, Sterling Waterman, and Arthur Zigman.
Dehere, McCann, and Valentin are incumbents running for another term.
Taxes up, 373 possible layoffs
Also up for a vote is the $618.8 million school district budget for the 2010-2011 school year, down 5 percent from $654 million for 2009-2010. The budget was approved by the Jersey City school board on March 29 by a 5-4 vote.
Also up for a vote is the 2010-2011 school year budget.
The tax levy increase could result in a school tax increase this year of $148 per $93,500 assessed value of residential property. Residents pay an overall tax amount that includes that school tax, as well as taxes for the county and city.
Gov. Christopher Christie has withdrawn some state aid to districts across the state in an effort to plug a state budget deficit, and school districts are forced to make up the difference through taxes, layoffs, other spending cuts, or by using their surplus funds. As it is, the proposed budget is expected to lead to 373 layoffs of Jersey City teachers and other employees starting at the end of the school year.
If the public votes the budget down, it will likely be sent back to the board for even more cuts.
Who are the candidates?
The 16 people running for the school board are all Jersey City residents, a requirement for candidacy, and come from various backgrounds:
• Armstrong works as a driver for the U.S. Postal Service and also drives for the Hudson County Transcend program
• D'Amico is a retired employee of the Jersey City school district;
• Dehere, the owner of Sanai at the Summit House Restaurant in Journal Square and former NBA player, has served on the board since 2007;
• Farmer works for a public relations firm in Jersey City;
• Lester is both an established singer/songwriter of music for children and a yoga instructor;
• Lyons works at High Tech High School in North Bergen as a teacher, media specialist and supervisor;
• McCann, the former Jersey City mayor and current employee of the Jersey City Incinerator Authority, has served on the board since 2007;
• Mulqueen is a retired teacher from the Jersey City public school system;
• Muniz is a church pastor and college administrator, and works in management for the U.S. Postal Service;
• Navarrete is a journalist working in New York and serves in the New Jersey National Guard;
• Ordonez is the co-owner of a restaurant in the Jersey City Heights;
• Hiral Patel was employed until recently at CTB McGraw Hill in New York as an Implementation Specialist;
• Sharperson is a business owner, and a former substitute teacher and football coach in the Jersey City public school system;
• Valentin works as a special grants manager for the city of Jersey City, and has served on board since 2005;
• Waterman is the president of the Public School 16 Concerned Parents Association and has worked in accounting, administration and facilities fields;
• Zigman did not return a call for comment.
This year, the Jersey City Education Association (the school employees' union) endorsed Valentin, Waterman, and D'Amico while downtown City Councilman Steven Fulop has endorsed Valentin, Waterman, and Lester. Also, school board member Sean Connors, who has served on the school board since 2009, has endorsed McCann, Dehere and Patel.
Turnout usually low
With such a large number of candidates, that means more choices for the voter, but that does not necessarily translate into a large voter turnout. Last year, only 14,516 voters went to the polls, equivalent to 10 percent of the approximately 139,000 registered voters in Jersey City at that time.
Candidates find a way to differentiate themselves from the pack in order to pick up votes by getting endorsements from political groups or politicians.
Candidate forums
Which issues will the candidates tackle if elected or reelected to office?
Residents, especially parents of children in the school district, will find out at candidate forums organized by different groups across the city. The Jersey City branch of the NAACP held a forum on April 8, and two more are coming up this week: on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Public School 16 Auditorium at 96 Sussex St., sponsored by the Historic Paulus Hook Association, and on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Public School 11, 886 Bergen Ave., sponsored by the Jersey City Families for Better Schools group and the Jersey City PTO Coalition.
However, some members of the public already know the issues they want to see dealt with.
"The proportion of failing students in this city is not acceptable," said Mahaley Stewart Bowles, the parent of an eighth grader at Academy I Middle School on Bergen School and herself a substitute teacher in the Jersey City public schools. "Whoever is elected to the board should hold teachers accountable to make sure they teach the curriculum that is present and anything else that is needed to help students pass."
Bowles, so far, plans to vote for Valentin and Dehere, but is undecided on a third candidate. She said she will choose one after seeing how the remaining candidates conduct themselves at the upcoming candidate forums.
The Jersey City school system had been put under state control in 1989 due to due to failing test scores, and has been slowly coming off state control for the last several years. The public has been able to vote on the Board of Education budget since last spring's election.


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India: India have a lot of questions to answer when it comes to team composition. Should they go in with only 4 bowlers? Should Rohit Sharma still play? Should Ajinkya Rahane replace Virender Sehwag? Going purely by form and logic, most of the answers to these questions are fairly straightforward but they are tough calls for MS Dhoni, especially ahead of a must win game. If India do choose to go with 5 bowlers, they have the option of picking leg spinner Amit Mishra, or uncapped medium pacer Shami Ahmed, but it is likely that Dhoni will go with Ravindra Jadeja given his ability with the bat and brilliance on the field. Whatever team the management chooses, it''s up to the top order to stand up and be counted. Their non-performance in the first ODI (India were 29/5 at one stage) was not spoken about much thanks to a stunning century from the skipper, but everyone will know that such knocks don't happen regularly. Virat Kohli's fitness is a concern after he injured himself while bowling, but all indications are that he will recover and take field.
Quite surprisingly, India's bowling is not as much a concern as their batting. The pacers have been impressive so far; Bhuvneshwar Kumar is proving to be the find of the series with his swing-bowling, while Ishant and Dinda have given him good support. However, a couple of drop catches (and probably poor umpiring) has proved them costly and India will have to fix that soon.
Pakistan: It's not too often that one gets to say this, but Pakistan look a settled unit in all departments. Nasir Jamshed's century in the first ODI should do wonders for the visitors as they seem to have found a steady opener who can bat long. Younis Khan, Misbah and Shoaib Malik provide a wealth of experience in the middle order while Kamran Akmal is an excellent option at number 7. The batting unit appears steady and there is no place for Umar Akmal; he wasn't a part of the team in the first ODI and Pakistan is likely to go in unchanged at Kolkata.
In the bowling line up, all the focus has been on Mohammad Irfan (his height, to be more specific) but it was fellow left arm pacer Junaid Khan who stole the show at Chepauk. His ability to get movement at good pace blew away the Indian top order before Dhoni's rescue act. With Gul, Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez forming the rest of the line up, Pakistan perhaps boast of the best bowling attack in limited overs cricket at the moment.
Final word: India has never defeated Pakistan in a 50 over game at Kolkata. The two sides have met three times at the Eden Gardens and India lost all three. India needs to change this small historical stat to keep the series alive till the last ODI at Delhi.
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Venice Beach painter, Greg Miller, makes his first solo debut in Texas. Considered a Neo-Pop and Post-Pop artist by art critics, Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank, Miller draws from the mid-20th century – a period of time when advertising and text became indelibly encrypted into the American experience of everyday life.
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PEVETO is honored to welcome GREG MILLER for his first solo exhibition in Texas entitled, OVER TIME. Opens to the public January 24, 2013 with an Artist Reception and will continue through March 9.
Miller's work is steeped in mid-20th century popular culture including Advertising, Literature, Film and Street Graffiti; if you are a fan of Pop-Art, you are automatically a fan of Greg Miller. These 12 new works are rich constructions on canvas that seem to be lifted from the streets of Hometown, America – decades of accumulated, overlaid advertisements and graffiti that populate the sides of time-worn buildings. The physicality of the paintings, something between painting and sculpture, gives the viewer an archaic and nostalgic record of time.
"Labeled a neo-pop and post-pop artist by such critics as Donald Kuspit and Peter Frank, Miller does indeed draw from the pop-culture imagery that saturated American consciousness during the 1950s and 1960s. It was a time during which advertising and text became indelibly encrypted into our experiences of everyday life". – Artweek.LA
A special exhibition catalogue with an interview between Greg Miller and Los Angeles arts writer, Peter Frank is available. The interview reveals Miller's readiness as a cultural participant and as a contemporary storyteller.
Greg Miller received his Masters of Arts from San José State University and Bachelors of Arts from San Francisco Art Institute and has been exhibiting since 1975. His work has been collected by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, San José Museum of Art, and the Kemper Museum of Art; private collections include the Charles Saatchi Collection, Playboy Enterprises, Sharon Stone, Toby Maguire, John Paul, Eloise DeJoria, Kyle Ransford and Jessica Alba.
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Rahul Kansal, chief marketing officer, The Times of India (left) and Shahrukh Hasan, group managing director, Jang Group Pakistan shared the story of the peace initiative Aman Ki Asha launched by their media groups with a rapt audience.
One of the most well-received and moving sessions on the first day of the INMA (International Newsmedia Marketing Association) 4th Annual Conference, was a case study presented by Rahul Kansal, chief marketing officer, The Times of India, New Delhi and Shahrukh Hasan, group managing director, Jang Group, Karachi. The duo behind Aman Ki Asha took turns at the microphone before a packed hall at New Delhi's plush Lalit Hotel, revealing the story of the Indo-Pak peace initiative and speaking about how it was launched in the media as a regular brand.
Sticking to the day's theme, 'Redefining the Newspaper Business', Kansal began on a generic note. He noted that in the sub-continent, print media is growing, despite TV and new media. Giving a peek into the history of the Jang Group, Hasan informed, "The Jang was launched in 1939 as a four-page tabloid from Delhi that reported on war, hence the name."
The Aman Ki Asha campaign, which saw the light of day on January 1, 2010 in both countries, in a sense succeeded a campaign called Zara Sochiye ('Just Think') in Pakistan, which campaigned against the imperfections in the controversial Hudood Ordinance, an anti-women law. This gave way to Aman Ki Asha, a campaign launched to improve relations with India - an imperative for facilitating greater overall growth in Pakistan, stressed Hasan.
The campaign, Hasan told the INMA delegates, had commerce, people-to-people contacts and cultural exchanges as key drivers together with dialogue on the contentious issues.
By August 2009, it was learned that youngsters were unanimous in the belief that there needs to be an opportunity for India and Pakistan to view one another in a holistic manner. This revelation paved way for the Aman Ki Asha team in India to visit Karachi; they returned with the pleasant knowledge that tremendous levels of sincerity prevailed on either end.
"Aman Ki Asha had to be launched as a brand," said Hasan, before revealing how the name 'Aman Ki Asha' and its accompanying logo were arrived at. "After considering scores of logos from both the Times of India and Jang Group teams, we narrowed down our options to two logos - one, a product of the Indian stable and another a product of the Pakistani team. The 'winner' was determined by a vote from those present - four Pakistanis and eight Indians. We thought we would be out-voted for sure, but it was delightful that the Indians unanimously voted for the Jang Group's creation, which shows how fair they were, and how much above petty nationalism," narrated Hasan.
Even the name, 'Aman' (Urdu) and 'Asha' (Hindi), was a combination of different names coined by the TOI and Jang teams. The final name was a deliberate merger of the two, signifying all that the campaign stood for. Just like any other brand, this one too was launched with a well thought out logo, meaningful name, mission statement and a brand philosophy.
The Aman Ki Asha anthem was then conceived, with lyrics by Gulzar, a poet with deep roots in both nations. Shankar Mahadevan of India composed the music for the anthem, and sang it, along with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan of Pakistan. Amitabh Bachchan lent his voice for the narrated version.
The launch, revealed Kansal, was carried out in consultation with stakeholders of the Times Group, and politicians in power on both ends were brought on-board. "With or without government support, we were going to launch this. Interestingly, in Pakistan, support was received, amongst others, from rightist group, Jamaat-e-Islami."
Following this, the much talked about joint editorial - a first of its kind - was developed. It was a front-page joint statement, by editors of both groups. Additionally, a joint survey (with common questions) was conducted in both countries. This brought to the forefront the voice of the silent majority that is screaming for peace between the two nations.
Aman ki Asha activities include the Peace Hankies Campaign and The Tug of Peace Campaign, which were combined into a spectacular show at the Wagah Border, where handkerchiefs bearing 'peace messages' from both nations were tied in a symbolic knot. More than 200,000 school children participated in making these hankies. A Public Interaction Campaign was held at Park Towers, a popular mall in Karachi, where people signed huge banner for peace. TOI Mumbai's bureau chief Balakrishnan, who happened to be in Pakistan, also participated in this activity and was the centre of much attention, said Hasan.
Another event was Poetry for Peace, a gathering of Indian and Pakistani poets in Karachi. In Talking Peace - a conference in where editors and anchors from India were invited to meet their counterparts in Pakistan - they discussed the role of the media in worsening, instead of abating, tense Indo-Pak situations. Both sides agreed that the media does tend to fan existing tensions between the two nations and vowed to obtain the other point of view more diligently.
Other activities included Common Destiny (a strategic conference); Milne Do (A campaign against visa restrictions, lobbying for the need to make it easier for Indians and Pakistanis to acquire visas for each other's country; issues such as single-city visas were discussed); and The Water Conference in New Delhi (that addressed the issue of tensions based on water issues, concluding with an agreement that while India was not re-directing water as some in Pakistan alleged, telemetry and monitoring systems were essential).
Additionally, advertisements on the "Indo-Pak Express" were carried, in the wake of India's Bopanna and Pakistan's Qureshi teaming up for several international tournaments. Music and food festivals in key cities in both nations were a major part of this campaign too.
Kansal mused, "The campaign was based on culture, commerce and conflict resolution," adding, on a forward-looking note, "In the pipeline are events such as Love All -- an exhibition tennis match; TV exposes; a strategic seminar series; Art Across Borders; Foreign Minister Conclaves; and the London Peace Conference to be held in the spring of 2011."
Hasan concluded emotionally, "We are still waiting for a happy ending for our story."
Courtesy: afaqs! India www.afaqs.com
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Between her self-titled show on HLN and her time spent on The View, Joy Behar, is a very busy woman and Rachael wants to know if she can keep it up and remain on CNN for as long as Larry King. "How long has he been on there, like 50 years? … I have no idea – I live in the moment," Joy explains. To prep for her shows, she reads everything – including the National Enquirer! "I must have the Enquirer, I'm not one of these people who sneaks it at the supermarket, I have a subscription… I read everything, you have to!" Her newest adventure, a part in a major motion picture, Hall Pass, was an unexpected addition to her resume! "The Farrelly brothers called me and they had to have me for this part," says Joy, who was thrilled to grant that wish. "I flew to Atlanta and played this shrink … who tries to explain to these two girls who are talking about possibly their husbands cheating, that maybe you should give them a hall pass and let them find out what it's all about, so that's my part."
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Hand out a deck of cards for thorough shuffling. Take it back and fan it face-up, commenting on how randomly mixed it now is. Casually drop several clumps of cards on the table, and set the rest of the deck to one side. Straighten up the clumps of cards into three stacks of five cards, which will look something like this:
Address one of your audience. "When I turn away in a moment, I want you to remove any one of the cards in these three piles, noting its position carefully, and replace it with a card of your choice from the remainder of the deck, switching red for black or vice versa. Make sure you remember the new card, and insert it in the same position as the removed card in one of these piles. Finally, hide the jettisoned card in the rest of the deck, and set it aside."
Once you are convinced that these instructions have been understood, turn away, and have the switch done. Turn back, gather up and combine the three stacks in any order, and turn the resulting packet of fifteen cards face down. Deal face up from left to right into three overlapping columns or piles. For instance, in the gathering and combining stage, if the pile above with the 6♣ is placed on top of the pile with the 8♤, and these are placed on top of the pile with the Q♥, the result of the dealing would be three columns or piles like this:
Say, "You may be familiar with a trick in which the magician deals three piles of cards like this, and then asks you to mentally pick one card, but not reveal which one it is. This isn't that trick."
Let that sink in, then continue, "Of course, you've already got a special card in mind, please note its position here, but don't tell me anything."
Point at the three piles and say, "It's customary now for the magician to ask you to indicate which pile your card is in, and then gather the piles so that the one you indicate is in the middle." Pause, and then say, "This isn't that trick. You may think about which pile your card is in, but don't point or say a word. If you like, try to communicate the information to me with brainwaves."
Gather the three piles, face up, from right to left. In the situation above, the pile with the 6♣ on top goes on top of the pile with the J♦, on top, and the pile with the 9♦ on top goes underneath those. Turn this packet face down, then deal the cards face up into three new piles from left to right. For the piles above, the second display looks like this:
Say, "At this point it's not unusual for the magician to ask you a second time to indicate which pile your card is in, and then gather the piles once more so that that pile is in the middle." Pause again, and say, "This isn't that trick. Again, feel free to note to yourself which pile your card is in, but this time don't try any of that brainwaves stuff. I must remain completely in the dark."
Gather up the three piles a second time, face up, from right to left. Turn this packet of fifteen cards face down, then deal the cards one more time, face up, into three new piles from left to right. For the last piles shown above, this third display will look like this:
"Would you be impressed if I could now identify your card?" you ask nonchalantly. Regardless of the answer—and brushing aside as necessary any suggestions that you might have a photographic memory, and can actually recall all of the original fifteen cards used—continue. "Alas, I can't do that. Remember, this isn't that trick." Act as if the trick is over, picking up and pocketing the set-aside deck.
Message | Check digits |
00 | 000 |
01 | 011 |
10 | 101 |
11 | 110 |
Given that the three pre-switch stacks of cards are correctly coded, it's not difficult for Jeff to quickly check the final display, and figure out which card is decidedly "off-colour".
To see why, one must understand the relationship between (1) The arrangement of the cards in the three initial stacks (before or after one switch), and (2) The resulting display after all of the pickups and dealing.
We purposely hid most of the cards in the initial stacks earlier to obscure this connection. It's time to put all of our cards on the table. This is what the original three stacks at the very start above would have looked like, after the card switch, and before any gathering and dealing, had they been spread out for all to see:
Can you now guess what Jeff looks for when he sees the third and final display? It would be more fair to ask this question after showing the following display, in view of the order in which we earlier suggested picking them up.
(Such a display would be picked up in the oft-suggested "right, center, left order" so as to lead to the first display of three piles above after one round of dealing.) Compare that with the third display of three piles above and you should notice something significant! Jeff can now locate the three runs, and check each one as to whether it's correctly coded, knowing full well that exactly one of the three will fail. He then figures out how to correct that run, hence honing in on the switched card.
To make the before/after display relationship easier to follow, forget all about coding, and simply focus on the obvious patterns in these (error-free) piles:
These represent the original three stacks, regardless of card switching, displayed as columns. It doesn't matter in which order the piles are picked up the first time; just to keep it simple assume that it's right, center and left as in all of the subsequent pick-ups. After this first pick-up and new deal we have:
After the second pick-up and new deal we have:
After the third pick-up and new deal we have:
While this isn't perfect—the original three piles are only half way to being reconstructed—upon reflection, or more correctly upon rotation, the starting piles can be read off from here. The middle one is intact, but reversed, and the other two are close to being intact (and also reversed). Curiously, we seem to have a rotation with three fixed points!
Jeff first scans the middle pile bottom to top seeing if it's correctly coded (in which case the switched card is not there), or not (in which case he can tell which of these is the switched card). If this middle pile is okay, he moves on to consider the bottom four cards in the first pile together with the first card in the last pile. If those are okay---in the sense that there's no error detected---he looks at the top left card followed by (in reverse order) the top four cards of the last pile. In all cases he will be able to identify the one card that is out of place.
For the cards shown earlier on, in the third display of three piles, he'd find that the 5♤ is the odd man out: indeed looking at the zeroth display of three piles above, we can see that the first column (read from top to bottom) is not consistent (i.e., correctly coded) because of the black card in the second position.
The famous (though admittedly tedious) trick which we've modelled the above presentation on is generally done with three piles of seven (or nine) cards. We opted for five cards in each pile as the dealing is quicker, and it ties in with the "baby" linear binary code used, whose associated mental gymnastics can---with practice---can be done speedily. It turns out that such five by three arrays cycle back to their original configurations after six rounds of picking up and dealing, and even better, their initial arrangements can be deduced half way through this process, i.e., after only three rounds of picking up and dealing.
More ambitious readers may wish to try the effect using three piles of seven cards, together with the standard entry-level Hamming binary code which encodes four bits with three check bits. It's more work to find three appropriate runs of seven cards in a shuffled deck, however many more types are now available. It's also more work for an accomplice to decode and stop the one error known to be there after a single red/black (or parity) switch.
The good news is that such seven by three arrays cycle back to their original configurations after just four rounds of picking up and dealing, and even better, their initial arrangements can also be deduced half way through this process, i.e., after only two rounds of picking up and dealing.
Oddly enough, the situation for six by three arrays is not nearly as nice.
Colm Mulcahy (email@example.com) completed his PhD at Cornell in 1985, under Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. He has been in the department of mathematics at Spelman College since 1988, and writing Card Colms---the only MAA columns to actively encourage lying on a regular basis---bi-monthly since October 2004. For more on mathematical card tricks, including a guide to topics explored in previous Card Colms, see http://www.spelman.edu/~colm/cards.html.
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