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You know that farm, the one that's downtown, in Cabbagetown, the one with the farm animals – what's it called?
Isn't there a white-water rafting place on the Ottawa River? How do you get in touch with them?
Or that apple farm, the one down the 401, where you pick your own apples and the kids get to play on slides and roll around in the hay – where is it exactly?
If you're a parent with small kids looking to keep them busy, or you have friends in from out of town looking for something special to do, you've probably struggled with those very questions and many more.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of activities available in and around Toronto, but who can keep track of them all and which is the best choice?
There may not yet be "an app for that," so a couple of aggressive entrepreneurs have come up with a solution that brings together old and new technologies.
Elisa Palter and Shari Wert recently published their Summer Fun Guide, Ontario's Comprehensive Guide to Year-Round Fun. They also launched a website, www.SummerFunGuide.ca, which contains all the information found in the printed guide along with updates to keep it current.
Much of it is family oriented – as in Riverdale Farm and Chudleigh's – but there are also listings for adult activities like casinos and horse racing.
Activities are divided into 16 categories in seven regions, and they range from the commonplace to those that are a bit off the wall. Of course, there are the festivals, fairs and shows that attract thousands every summer, plus boat and train excursions. But there's also information about a helicopter tour of Ontario, the location of the highest bungee jump in the province and the address for the St. Mary's Quarry, which is today the largest pool in Ontario. "There are a lot of cool things here," Palter said.
Though the website was launched about a year ago, the print version of the guide came out only in May. Palter and Wert had 250,000 copies printed and they're available in numerous locations across the province. ONroute, the service centres on Highway 401 is the guide's main sponsor and it stocks the directory, as do hotels, restaurants, attractions and other venues.
The partners were pretty confident the guide would be a hot seller. In 1994, they had teamed up to produce Help! We've Got Kids, a print and now Internet directory. They sold it in 2009.
"We loved dealing with the clowns," Palter said.
"But it's 17 years, time to move on," Wert added.
In the years between the two businesses, Wert and Palter each celebrated bar or bat mitzvahs.
"Afterwards, we said, 'what now?'" Wert said.
Hence, the Summer Fun Guide.
Over the years, businesses became comfortable advertising in their first directory and they developed the credibility they needed when they approached them with the idea for a new guide.
Business school graduates, Palter and Wert conducted their own market research, financial analysis and marketing plan and sunk their own money into the fun guide.
It's a results-oriented business, they said.
"It has to drive the business for advertisers," Wert explained.
Opening the website allowed potential customers to see how their ads looked and, along with their track record of more than 17 years, they built a level of credibility for the product.
So far, advertisers are comfortable with the product and they've managed an 80 per cent retention rate, Palter said.
"Most people renew because our intention is to make it work. You always have to keep the end-user in mind. So far, the feedback has been positive," Wert said.
In the first months of operation, the website generated 15,000 visits a month, and that number has climbed to 40,000 monthly hits.
The partners won't reveal their revenues, but Palter and Wert acknowledge it's in the six figures. Revenue is based on fees for boxed and display ads.
Printing the booklet and setting up the business are the biggest costs. "Margins in the directory business are very high," Palter said, "more than 50 per cent."
"If you do everything right and make it work, and advertisers and readers are happy, then it can be an annuity" business, Palter said.
And, there's room for growth. Unlike Help? We've Got Kids, which was aimed at something of a niche market, the fun guide appeals to people at all stages of life. They plan to expand it from 80 pages to 120 next year.
"One of the things we learned was to broaden our target market," in terms of both demographic and region, Wert said.
An important consideration today, as it was 18 year ago, was to find a way to use their business skills while raising a family.
"We were looking for balance," Wert said.
"Our goal was to be in business and to have balance in our lives," Palter said. "But we're not dabbling."
"We're working our Jewish butts off," Wert added.


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Junior captain Kettell 'loves to hit'
For Glen Rose head baseball coach Chase Meyers, junior Brandon Kettell is the "kind of kid everyone loves to coach."
"He is extremely smart on and off the field," Meyers said.
The 17-year-old son of Melissa and Flynn Kettell, who plays second base and bats second for the Beavers, is what his head coach calls an "overachiever."
"In my book, that is about the best compliment you can give a person, because it means that he has worked to get where he is," Meyers said."He is not blessed with amazing talent or ability, but he excels where others do not."
When asked if he has a hero, Kettell said, "My hero is not a ball player; he is my dad. He is always at my games when he can be, and he is always helping me out for whatever reasons, whether it be school, athletics or just stuff."
Kettell also plays football and plans to attend the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His favorite subjects are history and athletics, and he began playing baseball at the age of 7 after seeing a flyer asking students to play.
"My favorite thing about baseball is hitting," Kettell said. "I just like it when you're in a clutch, and you're the one who hits the runs in."
Going into Glen Rose's game last week against Pulaski Academy, Kettell had a .513 batting average with an on-base percentage of .578 and slugging percentage of .590.
In 14 games, he recorded 20 hits, including three doubles, and scored 19 times (three on error) while driving in 14 and stealing 13 bases. He struck out four times and walked five times.
Out in the field, in 43 chances Kettell had a fielding percentage of .837 with 23 putouts and 13 assists while committing seven errors.
"Defensively, Brandon combines quickness with a good glove," Meyers said. "He plays second base most of the time, but has played in the outfield and third for us this year also. He can also play catcher or pretty much any other position we might need him to play."
Meyers said, "Offensively, Branson has turned into our go-to guy. He is at the top of the list in every offensive category for us.
"He is not a power hitter, but like everything else, he does exactly what we coach and hits hard ground balls and line drives up the middle."
Meyers said, "He brings a great attitude every day. He is the kind of person that leads by example."
Kettell said, "Coach Meyers is a good coach and always tells us to compete in everything we do. We even compete in the drills at practice.
"The team tries to encourage one another whenever we make a bad play or have a bad at bat. We know we will make mistakes, but we also know we have to learn from them and just shake them off."
For Kettell, being a member of the Glen Rose Beavers "means that you are expected to compete and have the attitude and effort to go do what is necessary to be the best."
Meyers said, "He is like a sponge that soaks up everything you say and tries to put it to practice. Even when I am coaching up another player, Brandon is listening."


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The IBM Industry Application Platform (IAP) pre-configured stack on the Virtual Loaner Program is now available with AIX 7.1 in addition to AIX 6.1 and AIX 5.3 systems. We have also updated the software components and user guide.
The IBM Industry Application Platform is a pre-configured instance of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2 and WebSphere MQ that is available for your IBM AIX 7.1, AIX 6.1 and AIX 5.3 operating- system images on the IBM Virtual Loaner Program (VLP). You can use VLP to develop, test and validate applications by using these products. After reserving your VLP partition, which includes choosing the hardware configuration and operating system, install the IBM Industry Application Platform on that partition. This is a great way to reduce middleware setup time for ISVs!
For details on how to use the IAP on VLP, see the user guide - www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/static/pdf/IBM_Industry_Application_Platform_VLP_Guide_v1.pdf
The IBM Industry Application Platform contains the following software components:
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Obama Presses Syria Gamble
Reversing Course, White House Races to Get Congressional Backing for Strikes
WASHINGTON—The White House raced on Monday to persuade Congress to authorize military action in Syria, after President Barack Obama, in one of the biggest gambles of his presidency, handed the volatile issue to lawmakers who have given him few recent legislative victories.
The president's surprise reversal put on hold a military mobilization that had appeared on the verge of launching missiles and sparked urgent lobbying for a Congressional resolution authorizing force. The president must win over those Republicans calling...


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On the night Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were traded, all of the speculation circulated around whether Garnett would be willing to waive his no-trade clause.
Pierce was aware of all of the rumors surrounding a possible trade to the Brooklyn Nets and decided to do something.
"That's when I made the call [to Garnett]," Pierce said, according to CSNNewEngland.com.
Pierce's reason for wanting out of Boston matched that of new Clippers coach Doc Rivers—neither wanted to encounter a rebuilding at this stage of their career.
"Like I said over the last couple of years, it would be tough to go back to an environment that wasn't trying to win a championship," Pierce said. "When you get that taste of success ... you don't want to go backwards. That's how I felt. I think Doc [Rivers] felt the same way. Kevin [Garnett] felt the same way. That's why we all put ourselves in these situations where we could try and win."
Pierce, Garnett and Jason Terry join a roster with stars Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson, forming a group that on paper looks like it should contend in the Eastern Conference.
On Thursday, it appeared the reality he was no longer a Celtics finally set in for Pierce. He compared leaving Boston, where he played for 15 years, to breaking up with your first love.
"The first girl you was in love with," Pierce said, "and y'all broke up, you cried, thought about her, probably sent letters; she rejected them. You cried some more, and then you moved on."
Pierce did recognize those feelings have the potential to come flooding back the first time he returns to TD Garden as a visitor.
"It's going to be difficult," Pierce said. "It's definitely going to be emotional. My life was there. I spent almost half my life in Boston. It's definitely going to be tough."


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"Trading Democracy for "Security""
The violent Boston rampage triggered a local and federal response that, according to journalist Glenn Greenwald, adds a new dimension to troubling questions about government secrecy, overreach, and what we sacrifice in the name of national security. Greenwald joins Bill on this week's Moyers & Company (check local listings) to peel back layers that reveal what the Boston bombings and drone attacks have in common, and how secrecy leads to abuse of government power. Also on the show, political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann tell Bill that Congress' failure to make progress on gun control last week -- despite support for background checks from 90% of the American public - is symptomatic of a legislative branch reduced to dysfunction, partisan ravings and obstruction. D
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text: SALINA � It was a tight race for most of the afternoon at the Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division I Girls' Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday at the Salina South pool, but in the last five events, the Newton Railers were able to pull away for a comfortable win. Newton downed Salina South 318-267 for the team title. Salina Central was third at 249, followed by Hutchinson at 199, Derby at 123, Campus at 76 and Maize at 49. Newton and South captured titles in four events each. Central claimed two events. Derby and Hutchinson each won one event. The Railers claimed 11 of the 36 medals, followed by Central with nine and South with eight. "The last couple of meets, some girls were holding steady, some were cutting a little time and some were adding time," Newton coach Philip Schmidt said. "Overall, the girls swam great today. This is the time of year to be peaking. Some girls cut some significant time. We made some state times. Those new state times takes some pressure off me. We had some kids make state times in events that they may not be able to swim because we're so deep this year. Everybody who made state times will be able to swim in something." Newton scored in 11 of 12 events. The Railers have no divers this season. "We took 11th and 12th in the 50 (freestyle)," Schmidt said. "I wasn't expecting much out of those, and those girls stepped up with season best times. I was really pleased with how pumped up they were, how much support the girls gave each other. It made it much easier to coach. We did not have any issues this year. We had really good practices." The Railers win their second straight league title, eight in the last nine years and 15th overall. Seniors Kartrina Gerbrand and Hana Robinson each won two individual events and were members of two second-place relays. "It was kind of tiring on my legs, but they kind of stalled (before the 400-yard freestyle relay), which was nice," said Robinson, who had to swim the final two events of the meet on little rest. "I think that's what I will be doing at state. The coach was trying to prepare me for what that will be like. I cut two tenths off my breaststroke. I've been trying to break 2:16 on my breaststroke, so it was nice to do that today. Overall, the day went successful. The team did really well. We still have state." "(My times were) season bests, which was good," Gerbrand said. "That's what I was shooting for, and that's what I've got. I still have work to do before state. I need to work on my breatstroke leg in the (individual medley). We're hoping to do well at state as a team. ... I'm proud of all these girls. I can't do it by myself. We got a lot of good swims today, but we pulled it out." Newton's first win of the meet came in the 200-yard individual medley, where Gerbrand won in 2:22.87, a 1.81-second time cut. Gerbrand won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:05.40, a 1.58-second time cut. Emilie Holler finished third in 1:08.79. Erin Bergren finished in 1:09.70 to qualify for state. Robinson won the 500-yard freestyle in 5:51.38, a .36-second time cut. Holler was second in 6:00.66, a 4.57-second time cut. Olivia Sailors took fourth in 6:08.91, a 3.65-second time cut. Robinson won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:15.91, followed by Stucky in third in 1:21.24. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Holler, O'Meara, Robinson and Gerbrand finished second in 4:03.95. Newton edged Central for second by .01 seconds. The team of Gerbrand, Robinson, O'Meara and Holler took second in the 200-yard medley relay in 2:04.62, a season-best time by .24 seconds. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Jessi Stucky, Sophia Miller, Courtney Spreier and Rebecca Schrag finished fourth in 1:56.86, a 2.75-second time cut. The team competed in the slow heat. In the 200-yard freestyle, Rebecca Schrag took second in 2:14.57, followed by Spreier in third in 2:16.97, Couchman in fourth in 2:17.26 and Jessi Stucky in fifth in 2:18.54. Schrag cut 4.74 seconds off her time and qualified for state. Spreier cut 1.81 seconds and Couchman cut 1.48 seconds. Schrag cut 2.15 seconds off her time in the 100-yard freestyle to finish in 1:02.12, meeting the state consideration time. Despite swimming in a slower heat, Schrag finished third. In the 100-yard butterfly, O'Meara took fourth in 1:08.78. The Class 5-4-3-2-1A State Swimming and Diving Championships are Friday and Saturday at the Capital Federal Natatorium, Hummer Sports Park in Topeka. Prelims are 4 p.m. Friday. Finals are 3 p.m. Saturday. "We need to focus on the next three days and bring that energy to state," Schmidt said. "At state, it's a lot harder. ... Now it's just the girls putting in another strong, hard week to get ready."


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The thriller "Erased" divides neatly by influence. When Brussels-based tech security expert Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) shows up for work one day, there's no trace of his company anymore, a la "Three Days of the Condor." Like the "Bourne" movies, he's then targeted for elimination, (when we learn he's actually ex-CIA and highly skilled at killing). He's also a single dad with a teenage daughter (Liana Liberato) in tow, and that creates its fair share of peril, "Taken" you very much.
As with many one-man-against-an-international-conspiracy movies, details like who did what, when, for which piece of information and why it's so important mean little once the chases, spy moves and fights hit cruise control.
As warmed-over as the material is, director Philipp Stölzl ("North Face") does show flair for the kind of cool action best achieved in European urban locales. But screenwriter Arash Amel's dialogue is simply the chunkiest mix tape of clichés ("It was an executive decision!" "I don't even know who you are!" "How did you become everything we fought against?!"). Eckhart and Liberato may not act as if they're in Retread-land — Olga Kurylenko, meanwhile, as a CIA handler, barely acts at all — but this "Erased" is eminently forgettable.
"Erased." Rated R for violence. Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes. Playing at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres.


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Microsoft to Announce Mini Tablet PCs
On March 2 Microsoft will unveil a mysterious new miniature Tablet PC product family. Code named Origami and previously code named Haiku, the new devices will be the size of a PDA but will include a full Windows OS. I don't know yet whether that OS will be Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or some version of Windows Vista, but my guess is that it will be Vista based.
Indeed, we know very little about the devices at this point. At the 2005 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the software giant described Haiku as an ultra portable laptop convertible based on Vista. Microsoft intended this device to showcase how a Tablet PC enabled version of Windows could be applied to a much wider range of devices than PC makers target today. The device was described as weighing 1 to 2 pounds, having an all day battery life and costing from $500 to $1000.
Origami is even more mysterious. It is promoted on an enigmatic Web site called Origami Project which suggests only that the device will be ultra portable and feature a touch screen, a feature promised for the Tablet PC software in Windows Vista. Currently, the site offers mostly questions such as "do you know what I can do?" and "do you know how I can change your life?"
Here's my take on this. Some of the rumor sites on the underbelly of the Web have been suggesting that Origami might be Microsoft's xPod, or iPod killer. Origami is not that product. Instead, Origami is clearly aimed at pushing the boundaries of the Tablet PC platform and will instead be the long promised 9 Tablet PC that Microsoft first started touting two years ago. It's just the next version of Haiku.


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(Riddle poses with Anthony Johnso…er…Christopher "Big Black" Boykin, a guy so cool that he forces the *fighters* to fist pose in pictures with him. Via Riddle's Twitter.)
TUF 7's Matt Riddle may lack the ability to rid his body of marijuana metabolites in time for a scheduled fight, but don't let that fool you into thinking that he lacks his own strict moral code. Case in point, following Riddle's second positive post-fight test for the banned substance at UFC on FUEL 7 and subsequent firing, Riddle told reporters that, should the UFC suddenly want him back after he racks up six or seven wins in the next year or two, he would probably turn them down. It was a bold statement to make, especially considering the "sickening, depressing nightmare" life outside the UFC has been described as by people like Todd Duffee, who have actually had to experience it.
But as we often (and somewhat ironically) say, "actions speak louder than words." And if Riddle was seeking to eliminate even the possibility of a UFC return down the line, he has successfully pulled it off. It has recently been announced that Riddle's Legacy FC contract has been bought out by Bellator, which if recent reports are any indication, is where he shall now remain for the rest of his natural life. Riddle will thusly be participating in the promotion's upcoming Season 9 welterweight tournament, as he told MMAJunkie:
I had so many options after I left the UFC, but knowing that I was able to compete in a tournament against guys like Paul Daley, Ben Saunders and Douglas Lima, signing with Bellator was an easy decision. This division is just so stacked, and being able to fight in a tournament makes it even better. Bellator is doing a lot of great things right now (Author's note: Gee, I wonder what he's REEFERring to *tap dances off stage*), and I want to be a part of it.
"Oh, you'll be a part of it alright…FOREVER!!! MU HU HA HA HA!" – Bjorn Rebney by way of Ben Goldstein.
Bellator's welterweight tournament is set to get under way starting in the fall, although no specific dates or venues have yet to be named. Anyone give Riddle a decent chance of making some waves in his new promotion?


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The Philippines is a sugar-producing country, growing it mainly on the islands of Negros, Luzon, Panay and Mindanao. Recently, the Philippine government passed the Biofuel Act of 2006 (or Republic Act 9367) which created a certain market for ethanol investors in the Philippines and paved the way for the development of a new industry: fuel ethanol production.
Sugarcane is expected to be the predominant source of feedstock for ethanol production. Commercial production of ethanol from sugarcane will help the country diversify its fuel portfolio and ensure its energy security.
Presently, sugarcane farmers produce an average of only 65 tons of cane/ha potentially yielding only 70 liters (18.5 gallons) or 4550 liters/ha/year (145 gallons/ha/year) of ethanol per metric ton using sugarcane as feedstock.
This ratio is very low when compared to the potential cane yields (120 to 150 tons/ha) achieved in Brazil, India, South Africa and other regions growing sugarcane with drip irrigation and fertigation. Therefore, new and innovative sustainable technologies are needed, not only to raise and sustain sugarcane productivity per hectare, but also to enable the consistent supply of feedstock to bio-refineries at lower costs and to meet domestic sugar demands.
As both the food and energy industries use scarce and expensive resources such as water and fertilizers, a solution is required to ensure a more competitive position, especially within the global market.
Food and agro-industrial crop Climatic change and water scarcity concerns Rising fertilizer and labor costs Leaching and washing away of nutrients by runoff Low water and fertilizer use efficiency Low cane productivity/ha Favorable biofuel policy
Why is drip needed?
Economic importance of sugarcane in meeting sugar and fuel ethanol demands and to generate employment. To conserve water, increase water and fertilizer use efficiency.
To optimize cane yields.
Sugar mill name
San Carlos Bio Energy Incorporated
Farm details
Location: San Carlos Bio Energy Incorporated, Hacienda vasconia, brgy. Palampas (09° 30′ 0″ N-latitude, 122° 40′ 0″ E-longitude), San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Area: 7.2 ha
Crop varieties: 88-39, 84524, 87599
Crop spacing: Row to row – 1.5 m and plant to plant – 0.15 m
Seed rate: 50000 number of three-bud setts/ha
Plant population at harvest: 130,000 millable canes/ha
Crop season: Sowing March 28, 2007 & April 3, 2007
Climate: Equatorial humid climate with dry winter, frost free
Maximum temperature: 32.9°C
Minimum temperature: 24.2°C
Mean vapor pressure: 29 hPa
Mean wind speed: 3.7 km/hour
Rainfall: 2608 mm/year; effective rainfall: 1278 mm/year
Reference crop evapotranspiration: 1478 mm/year
Moisture availability index: 1.76
Other climate-related indicators:
Day length: 12.1 hours; sunshine duration: 6.0 hours
Soil physical properties: Clayey soil texture Soil pH: 6.6
Bulk density: 1.3 g/cm3
Water table: below 6 m
Soil chemical properties: N (0.05%), P (6 mg/kg), K (0.4 meq/100 soil), Ca (39.0 meq/100 soil), Na (0.5 meq/100 soil)
Soil salinity (ECe): 0.45 dS/m
Water source: Canal water
Power source: Diesel pump
Agro-solution: What has been done?
Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system Head control unit, main and sub-main pipes besides DripNet PC integral dripline 16 mm diameter, with a lateral spacing of 1.5 m, emitter spacing of 0.5 m and emitter flow rate 1.0 Liters/hour. Each crop row was irrigated with one dripline installed at 0.3 m below the soil.
Year of drip system installation: 2007
Agronomic and technical support
Crop water requirement and irrigation scheduling: Depth and frequency of water application; water quality consideration, measurement of applied water. Fertigation scheduling: Soil and water analysis, estimation of nutrient dose, selection of fertilizers and compatibility, application skill via drip system and foliar diagnosis for nutrient deficiencies. System operation and maintenance: Pressure reading and maintenance, valves operation, measurement of applied water. Cleaning of filters, fertilizer tank, acid treatment, chlorination, etc.
Training and capacity building: Soil water plant relationships, drip irrigation and fertigation principles, benefits, limitations and utility; water quality and herbicide usage.
Improved cane yield: Conventional overhead sprinkler irrigation – 70.0 tons/ha and with subsurface drip yield increased by 90% (133.5 tons/ha). Improved cane quality: Increase in sucrose content by 5.2% in comparison to overhead sprinkler irrigation.
Water requirement and saving: Conventional overhead sprinkler irrigation – 13000 m3/ha (1300 mm/ha) and with subsurface drip – 3000 m3/ha (300 mm/ha). The water saving by drip over center pivot sprinkler is 70% or 10000 m3/year/ha. As an illustration, the saved water can irrigate 3.3 ha.
Economic indices: Higher net returns by subsurface drip (919 US$/ha) in comparison to overhead sprinkler irrigation.
Other benefits: Savings in fuel expenses, uniform intermodal length, higher cane diameter, improvement in fertilizer use efficiency, management flexibility, less weed growth, uniform irrigation of sugarcane on undulated terrains.
Drip irrigation of sugarcane in Philippines is a feasible eco-technological and economically viable technology. Sustainable use of scarce water resources in sugarcane cultivation in order to bring a larger area under cane cultivation near the sugar mill. Higher productivity and sucrose content, food security and increased income for farmers. Farmers and ethanol bio-refineries are willing to expand drip irrigation to remaining cane areas. Approximately 217 ha of the sugarcane area is being brought under subsurface drip irrigation during 2008. Sugarcane best management practices: Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) and fertigation scheduling.
Grow More: 90% cane yield
With Less: Water conservation 70%


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FDH needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 487 designs submitted by 92 freelance designers.
Elite City Deals
Elite City Deals will be an online coupon portal offering consumers daily discounted deals at local merchants. Elite City Deals plans to scout U.S. cities with the mission of uniting smart consumers with quality merchants by offering bargains on the experiences consumers love the most…be it restaurants, bars, salons, spas, theater, classes, sporting events, etc.
We intend to emulate quality, high-end sophistication to our consumers and merchants. We want the consumers that are buying our deals online to feel they are getting first-class deals and service; and for the merchants that feature their products/services with us, we want them to feel they are affiliated with THE superior site to showcase, support and help grow their business.
U.S. men & women, 18-40
U.S. city merchants
Ideally the winning logo will incorporate themes that reflect sophistication and superiority; we would like to see cityscapes or city skylines incorporated into the logo if possible. Something like a black tie/bow wrapping around a city would emulate 'Elite City,' but feel free to be creative. We are open to any great design but prefer nothing too cartoonish.
The name "Elite City Deals" is subject to change, so please account for that in your design - Don't do anything graphically with the letters in "Elite City Deals". Just use a sophisticated font that we can transfer to a new name if need be.
Please use vibrant, primary colors – again we want to emulate quality, high-end sophistication to our consumers and merchants; primary colors reflect strength as oppose to soft, pastels - thus, possibly use rich blue or green colors...don't be afraid to use black or white as well.
Please reference the following sites that we will be competing against:
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Goldstein v. Marshall et al
Plaintiff: David Scott Goldstein
Defendant: John Marshall, Shannon Taylor, Ralph Northam, Juan Conde, Mark Herring, Isreal Hamilton, Dr. Leonaro Levin and Mark Tenia
Case Number: 3:2017cv00783
Filed: November 22, 2017
Court: Virginia Eastern District Court
Office: Richmond Office
County: Richmond
Referring Judge: Roderick C. Young
Presiding Judge: John A. Gibney
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983
Jury Demanded By: None
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Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita publishes top 10 list of investor scams Hoosiers should avoid
Aug. 5, 2010
List highlights common investor traps and gives simple tools to protect against investment scams and deceptive professionals
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita today published a list of this year's common fraudulent traps investors should avoid when seeking ways to jump start their portfolios or recoup earnings lost during the national recession. An example is the "Off the Books" scheme where a broker may offer its client an investment on the side instead of through his or her company. The complete list of 2010 investor traps is now available at http://www.indianainvestmentwatch.com/.
"As we begin to recover from this economic downturn, fraudsters are on the lookout for those wanting to quickly regain their financial position and will put individuals' nest eggs in so-called guaranteed, high-yield investment options," Secretary Rokita said. "Through Indiana Investment Watch, Hoosiers can learn about the top investor scams we're seeing throughout the country and learn ways to protect themselves against these bogus deals."
Compiled in cooperation with the North American Securities Administrators Association the oldest international investment organization dedicated to protecting investors from deceptive scams, the list contains the most prevalent investor traps seen this year.
Other schemes and traps to beware of include:
· Green schemes
· Oil & Gas schemes
· Gold and precious metals schemes
· Foreign exchange trading schemes
· Affinity fraud
· Undisclosed conflicts of interest
· Private or specials deals
· Unsolicited online pitches
For detailed information on each of the top 10 investor traps, visit http://www.indianainvestmentwatch.com/.
About Indiana Investment Watch
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita created the Indiana Investment Watch program to increase financial literacy in Hoosiers and to educate them about various types of securities and mortgage loan broker fraud. The program is not funded by taxpayer dollars, but rather by the money collected from settlements in securities fraud cases.
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Ribosomes are supramolecular assembly of RNA and proteins, responsible for translating the genetic information. Ribosome consists of two unequal subunits (40S and 60S). The small subunit decodes the mRNA, whereas the large subunit catalyzes the formation of peptide bonds. The eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis is a complex multistep process where approximately 80 ribosomal proteins and 4 rRNAs are assembled into mature ribosomal particles (Kressler et al., 1999). More than 200 additional proteins and snoRNAs are needed for the biosynthesis of a eukaryotic ribosome. The basic process of ribosome biogenesis is conserved within eukaryotes, but the most detailed results have been obtained with S.cerevisiae as the model system owing to its excellent genetic and biochemical suitability. My lab´s primary interest is to understand the processing and assembly of ribosomal subunits. The four mature rRNAs that form the ribosome are transcribed from a rDNA which is organized as a tandem array by two distinct RNA polymerases with RNA polymerase I synthesizing the larger 35S rRNA precursor and RNA polymerase III synthesizing the smaller pre-5S rRNA (Fatica and Tollervey, 2002). After being transcribed in the nucleolus the nascent 35S pre-rRNA assembles with the machineries that catalyze the successive steps in rRNA processing, modification and folding as well as assembly of ribosomal proteins into a 90S particle.The 35S pre-rRNA is chemically modified and cleaved at three positions, A0, A1, and A2, to generate the intermediate 33S, 32S, 27SA2, 20S RNA precursors which then follow to independent routes through 20S and 27SA2 to the generation of either the 18S rRNA or 5.8S and 25S rRNA which are the components of 40S and 60S ribosomal subunits, respectively (Dragon et al., 2002). During the processing of the 35S rDNA, it is also chemically decorated with various modifications like 2´O ribose methylation, base methylation and pseudouridylation. Our group is presently working on the identification and significance of such modifications in the 25S rRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Lab Members
- Anatoli Lioutikov (Graduate Student)
- Britta Meyer (Post Doc.)
- Jun Yang (Graduate student)
- Peter Watzinger (Technical Assistant)
- Stefanie Lamberth (Technical Assistant)
- Sunny Sharma (Graduate Student)


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Chapter I:
To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers me from His Holy Hill
Throughout sacred history, mountains and hills have held great significance as places of encounters with God. To test his faith, Yahweh commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mt. Moriah - a sacrifice Yahweh spared Abraham. On Mt. Horeb, Moses saw a burning bush and from it heard the voice of the Lord. It was there that he received his commission as deliverer of the Hebrew people. Later in sacred history, Moses was called by the Holy Spirit to Mt. Sinai where he received the tablets of testimony (law) written by the finger of God. Mt. Carmel was the site where Elijah was fed by an angel of the Lord. Both Elijah and Moses appeared with the Lord Jesus Christ on a mountain when he was transfigured and glorified before the eyes of Peter, James and John.
The Lord often calls His followers to come to a high place for prayer. Jesus frequently prayed on the Mount of Olives. So it is that many pilgrims, as if to follow in His footsteps, have come to climb the steep path through the woods to the top of Holy Hill. They have come broken in body and broken in spirit. They have cried out to the Lord and he has answered them from His Holy Hill. It is an echo to the psalmist prayer quoted above. It is my testimony and that of the thousands who come here to pray each year.
Healings occur when and wherever the Lord is encountered. Some healings are gradual while others are dramatic and instant. Even before the building of the first log chapel, pilgrims left crutches, leg braces and canes at Holy Hill as witness to answered prayer. This practice continues today by pilgrims who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has healed them through the powerful intercessory prayer of Mary His mother.
Visitors come to Holy Hill for a variety of reasons. Many ethnic groups continue a tradition of yearly pilgrimages that can be traced to Holy Hill's earliest beginnings. Others come as sightseers or hikers. Families frequently come to participate in Sunday liturgy and remain to picnic on the wooded grounds.
Holy Hill is an easy drive from several urban and suburban areas and yet is very isolated (especially in winter). This makes it an ideal place for a private or group retreat. If making an overnight retreat is not possible, just to come and spend the day at rest in the presence of the Lord can be a very healing experience. One lone pilgrim came to Holy Hill and remained as a hermit for many years. Our history begins with his story.
Chapter II:
The Hermit of Holy Hill
Francois Soubrio, a native of France, was known as the hermit of Holy Hill. A local farmer discovered his presence sometime between 1862 and 1864.' After a time of mutual suspicion between Soubrio and the area farmers, a friendship developed as the result of growing openness between them. The farmers then began to assist Soubrio by giving him food and other necessities. Eventually they banded together to build a small cabin for him.
There are two accounts about Soubrio's mysterious presence at Holy Hill. In the older account (1889), a narrative written about Holy Hill by W. A. Armstrong, the hermit is said to have come in penance for the murder of someone he loved. Armstrong's narrative also says that the hermit was miraculously healed of a partial paralysis after spending the night in prayer on the hill's summit. In J. M. LeCount's history of Holy Hill he is described as a religious eccentric. Although the accounts differ in their opinion of Soubrio's personality, both accounts agree that he was a man of great inner pain who sought comfort in God.
Before coming to Holy Hill, Soubrio traveled extensively. His travels eventually brought him to Quebec, Canada, where he worked as an assistant to a retired professor. While working in the professor's library, Soubrio found an old French diary and a parchment map (dated 1676). The map showed the Wisconsin - Lake Michigan area and the route used to reach a very high cone-shaped hill in southeastern Wisconsin. Soubrio's attention was drawn to the entry in which the author described his journey to the hill's summit where he erected a stone altar, raised a cross (margin notes on the map indicated a cross) and dedicated the place in the name of Mary as holy ground forever. Studying these documents created a deep longing within Soubrio to come to the holy site. Many assumed the documents belonged to Fr. Jacques Marquette.
Chapter XIV:
The Main Sanctuary
Chapter XII:
Reverence for Mary
Chapter XIII:
The Shrine Statue
Chapter X:
The Discalced Carmelite Friars of Holy Hill
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We are very excited to introduce our exclusive Epicurean RyuSen knife line and believe this to be among the best performing knives ever made.
Super Gold II (SG2) powdered metallurgical (PM) steel is combined with the beauty of damascus. RyuSen starts with ultra-modern, limited production, SG2 PM stainless steel and forges this between layers of stainless damascus steel. The resulting cutting edge is tempered to Rc 62 - 64 (very hard!) for exceptional edge holding, but is easy to sharpen due to the small grain structure. Ninety-six layers of alternating steel are combined to create the deeply etched, intricate damascus.
It is common, when slicing, for food to stick to the knife. This knife employs two techniques to decrease this problem. The sides of theses knives have been convex ground, making food naturally fall away. Second, by etching the surface, rather than simply polishing the damascus, wet foods cannot form a suction to the side of the blade.
Following in the best tradition of knife making, a steel ferrule is forge-welded to the tang to ensure that food particles cannot become lodged between the tang and cocobolo wood handle. Natural cocobolo has a dramatic wood grain and deep, warm tones. It is is riveted to the full-length tang and is set with a central mosaic pin.
The spine and area behind the choil have both been rounded for a grip that is extremely comfortable. Both the blade and tang are distal tapered for the best possible balance and performance. The blades are fully honed and some of the sharpest knives we have ever found. Each knife is packed in a special kiri wood presentation box.
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Lonar Crater Lake is an oval shape Saline Soda Lake in the Buldana District of Maharastra, India, created due to a meteor or comet impact called Pleistocene epoch, which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago. View of the meteorite crater at Lonar Crater. Lonar Crater Lake is world's third largest crater, which is a vast expanse of sky blue water…[Continue reading]
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About Author: George T. George
I am George T. George, blogger and owner of the website, touristinindia.com. This blog is for tourists, pilgrims and travelers to India. I started this blog in 2013, as a destination guide for Indian destinations. It has the information on most of the tourist and pilgrimage destinations in India. Currently, there are 435 destinations on the website, as of the last week of 2017. And the list is growing. I started with website related tasks in 1996. Initially, I worked with website design and hosting for my clients. I moved on to web programming and later on to local citations and search engine optimization. This website is my small contribution to those looking for information on Indian tourist destinations. Please mail me at [email protected] . com (remove the spaces around dot), if are looking for any additional information.


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adidas Unleashes Explosive Energy with Springblade
Unlike standard EVA midsoles that deliver energy return in a vertical direction, Springblade features 16 forward angled blades made out of a high-tech polymer. The highly elastic blades instantaneously react to any environment, compressing and releasing energy to create an efficient push-off that feels like you have springs under your feet. Each blade is precisely tuned in geometry, thickness and position for each phase of a runner's stride to provide support and a full range of movement. Additionally, Springblade's flexible construction was designed to hug the top of a runner's foot, locking it in to harness the energy returned from the springs on the outsole.
aIT (adidas Innovation Team) tested hundreds of materials to ensure each spring produced maximum energy efficiency with every step and conducted rigorous ballistics tests to maintain long-lasting durability. For top performance in all environments, Springblade is seven times more temperature resistant than shoes with adidas' standard EVA cushioning.
Springblade is available for $180 on August 1 at adidas.com and retailers nationwide including Finish Line, Foot Locker, Dick's Sporting Goods, Eastbay and select running specialty stores.
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Rio Tinto Denies Plans To Halt Development Of Oyu Tolgoi Copper And Gold Mine In Mongolia
Rio Tinto Group, the Anglo-Australian mining giant, is denying it may pause development of a $6.2 billion copper and gold project in Mongolia in an apparent dispute with the government over how to divide profit, according to a published report.
The $6.2 billion Oyu Tolgoi mine, which lies in the southern Gobi Desert near the border with China, has been expected to begin producing this year, with annual output rising over the next five years to about 500,000 tons per year of copper and 330,000 ounces of gold.
Bloomberg News said Wednesday the company, with some 77,000 employees in more than 40 countries, could temporarily halt construction over government demands for more profit than earlier agreed upon.
The government's current stake in the Rio Tinto subsidiary handling the project is 34 percent. In 2011 government officials expressed the desire to raise that to 50 percent and also increase royalty payments.
"Whilst a shutdown would be negative in the short term, the fact such a move is under consideration suggests Rio is prepared to play hardball to retain its stake in the project," Richard Knights, a mining analyst at Liberum Capital Ltd. in London, told Bloomberg.
Rio Tinto quickly denied the news report and reaffirmed its expectation that commercial production will begin in the first half of this year.
"The power is secured, first ore produced and the concentrator switched on," Rio Tinto spokesman Illtud Harri, told Reuters. "We are on schedule for first commercial production in the first half of the year."


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Whether it's on Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Google or some other mobile check in platform, if you're a business owner, there's no way in hell you should ever be checking in to your own business. Why?
It's lame.
You're there everyday. Say hello to us, comment on our check ins. But quit stealing our thunder.
Check ins. Highly social. Very much a game. I fight other users for my dukedoms on Yelp. And it's cool, cuz we're on a level playing field. But the minute a business has its owner or one of the employees as the duke, mayor, whatever other "winner" of the game, I stop checking in. And when I stop checking in, I stop telling my friends where I'm frequenting the most. It's cool to be the most "regular" of regulars at the shops I love. It's shitty when I have to compete with business owners, employees and anyone else that has an ulterior motive. And frankly, as innocent as it may seem, I put it in the "black hat" social media tactic category.
So if you're in the habit. Please stop. A better alternative? Become a player yourself. Check in to the businesses you love… but here's the real kicker… make sure they're ones you aren't affiliated with. Then you're one of us, we trust you and we're all better off.


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Ageism and Retirement
Lynn McDonald
Retirement is a modest social institution that appeared in most industrialized nations near the start of the 20th century. The aim of retirement was to solve the societal dilemma of an increasingly aged labor force by moving older workers systematically out of their jobs so as to not cause them financial harm (Atchley, 1980, p. 264). Although retirement has been considered benign since its inception, the history of retirement indicates that it is one of the main progenitors of ageism in society today (Atchley, 1982, 1993; Haber & Gratton, 1994; McDonald, 2013; Walker, 1990). Retirement and its accompanying stereotypes have been used as a tool for the management of the size and composition of the labor force contingent on the dictums of current markets in any given historical era. Ever-changing ideologies about older adults that extend from negative to positive ageism have been utilized by business, government, the public, and the media to support whatever justification is required in a particular era, with little thought to the harm perpetrated on older adults. Unfortunately, society has subscribed to these justifications en masse, including older adults themselves. In this article the ageism embedded in retirement is examined to make what is implicit explicit to social work practitioners and policymakers in the field of aging.
Client Violence
Christina E. Newhill
Client violence and workplace safety are relevant issues for all social workers across practice settings. This entry addresses why and how social workers may be targets for a client's violent behavior, and what we know about who is at risk of encountering violence. Understanding violence from a biopsychosocial perspective, identifying risk markers associated with violent behavior, and an introduction to guidelines for conducting a risk assessment will be discussed. The entry concludes by identifying and describing some general strategies for the prevention of client violence.
Leadership and Leadership Development
James Woolever and Jim Kelly
The study of leadership has a long history in disciplines outside of social work. Theorists have struggled with a myriad of definitions of leadership, as well as trait, behavioral, and situational leadership models. They have identified leadership types from transformational and charismatic to motivational. There has been much speculation and some study of the traits and characteristics of effective leaders, as well as effective leadership styles, abilities, and practices. Social-work theorists have contributed to this field by identifying the critical and unique characteristics of social-work leadership, such as adherence to social-work norms and orientation to the needs of disadvantaged groups. In the early 21st century, social workers have begun to elaborate technologies for creating tomorrow's leaders through practices such as formal training, mentoring, and peer networking. There has always been, and will be, a critical need for leadership in social-work endeavors. Leadership development can be viewed from two perspectives: the individual and organizational. From the individual perspective, the system begins with a critical assessment of the individual's strengths and limitations, along with the opportunities and threats for professional growth. Ultimately, the organization is responsible for providing resources to enable individual development. The long-term goal is to implement a developmental mind-set throughout the organization. Leadership development must be intended for all employees, not just a select few. Both individual and organizational job performance are ultimately dependent on the leadership developmental structures embedded within each organizational unit. The issue at hand is designing and delivering leadership development programs that meet the leadership requirements for today's complex, yet changing organizations.
Leadership, Foundations of
Darlyne Bailey, Katrina M. Uhly, and Jessica Schaffner Wilen
The concept of leadership has evolved from focusing on innate abilities, to learned skills, to recognition that leadership is composed of both skills and abilities. Recently, theorists and practitioners have identified core elements of leadership for social-work organizations. These elements encourage social-work leaders to understand their organizations as living systems within an interdependent world and aid them in connecting humanistic intentions with effects. Acknowledgment and enactment of these competencies secure skills of communication and guidance needed for engagement in dialog and action. Social-work students and leaders can learn and hone these qualities in social-work programs, schools, and professional development opportunities for effective leadership in the field.
Selena T. Rodgers
Racism is pervasive, endemic, and historically rooted in systematic assumptions inherent in superiority based on race and requires the critical attention of all social workers. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has made strides in tackling racism as demonstrated by the social worker and civil rights activist Whitney Young Jr. (1921–1971), other pioneers, and more recently, the NASW zero-tolerance racism policy. Undergirded in empirical discussion, this article leads with the etymology of race(ism), followed by a discussion of Racial Formation Theory and Critical Race Theory. The article gives a historical sketch of racism, followed by examples of its contemporary indicators—throughout social institutions—in the United States. Racism is pervasive and impinges on micro-level and macro-level systems. It is, therefore, beyond the scope of this article to address how racism impacts each group in America. Social work scholars and other experts have provided extensive empirical documentation about the historical trauma and sufferings of other racial groups (e.g., Native Americans/Native peoples/American Indians, Mexican Americans) discussed elsewhere. Specifically, the racism endured by blacks in America is the emphasis of this article. Themes of "colorism" and historical trauma are provided to contextualize advances in national reform and encourage a broader conversation about the racism that blacks experience globally. In addition, this article highlights strides by the social work profession to eradicate racism. Implications for social work are discussed.
Social Work and Coercion
Tomi Gomory and Daniel Dunleavy
Social work is perhaps most distinctive for its clear and outspoken commitment toward improving the well-being of society's vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, while still emphasizing the importance of respecting and defending personal rights and freedoms. Though there is a fundamental necessity for coercion, or its threat, for eliciting civil social behavior in a well-functioning society, it is professionally and ethically imperative that social workers make explicit our rationales for, justifications of, and the evidence used to support or reject coercive practices in our work. Social work's engagement with coercion inevitably entails the ethical and social policy arguments for and against its use, as shown in a review of the empirical evidence regarding its impact on the professions' clients, exemplified by three domains: (1) child welfare, (2) mental health, and (3) addictions. Recommendations for future improvements involve balancing the potential for harm against the benefits of coercive actions.
Social Work Education: Human Behavior and Social Environment
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
This entry provides a brief history of social work's changing knowledge base about human behavior and identifies the current knowledge base as multidimensional, multispherical, multicultural, multidirectional, multidisciplinary, and multitheoretical. It provides an overview of eight broad theoretical perspectives currently used in social work: systems, conflict, rational choice, social constructionist, psychodynamic, developmental, social behavioral, and humanistic perspectives. Each perspective is analyzed in terms of its central ideas, practice implications, and empirical evidence. The entry ends with a brief discussion of trends and directions.
Social Work Practice: Theoretical Base
Jerry Floersch
This essay broadly examines theory, practice, and the role of theory in practice. Theory has an abstract and philosophical side and a concrete, empirical, or practice side. Theories need practitioners to activate their power, which is to name the attributes, qualities, limits, and potentials of client and social work realities. No theory is so powerful it knows or explains everything, thus practitioners must use their in vivo perceptual skills to fit the best theory to the level of practice reality that confronts them. This essay broadly examines the role of theory in social work practice. To do so, one must answer three related questions: what is theory?, what is practice?, and, what is the role of theory in practice? In answering the first question, it is useful to examine the etymology of the word theory, identify its various meanings, and specify which meanings are relevant to a discussion of the role of theory in practice, and second, it is useful to understand the philosophical assumptions that inevitably influence the process of theory building and application.


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My kids fight more in December. It's the one month our family focuses most heavily on love, giving, and the life of Jesus Christ so you'd think with all the lights, the magic, and the wonder, they'd be so happy that a naturally outpouring of love and kindness would overcome them. But I've often observed an outpouring of something less pleasant and it makes me tired all over. When did Christmas become more about what material items we will get and less about what we can give of ourselves?
This year, in an attempt to change that pattern, I formulated a plan whereby we would do one act of service for someone outside our family every day in December. We're busy and I knew we would give up halfway through if the tasks were too difficult, so we decided to go small and go consistent. Also, my kids are eight, six, and two so I decided to pick things we could all participate in or, in the two-year-old's case, be present for.
We started with something that could capture everyone's imagination – serving at the fire station! That got their attention. What we ended up doing at the fire station was wiping down tables in a training room, but from the excitement on the kids' faces, you'd have thought we were polishing the fire pole or taking the engine out for a spin. It was ten minutes of pure joy and they immediately asked, "Can we do another one right now?"
I considered blindfolding them, taking them home, and telling them we were cleaning the firemen's bedrooms, putting away the firemen's laundry, and doing the firemen's homework but I opted for honesty.
"We need to get our own work done at home. Let's do another one tomorrow."
And we did.
Too young and crazy to volunteer at a homeless shelter or the local food bank, we've done a lot of cleaning and manual labor. We helped a neighbor with her raking, loading leaves into yard waste bags, returned strangers' carts at the grocery store, dusted the shelves and instruments at the school where the kids take music classes, and went shopping for a couple of kids whose names we found on a giving tree.
There have been a couple of days where things have gotten hairy here at home and we've resorted to saying things like, "Laylee performed in the community theater play today so she served the whole community for us." But for the most part, we've found something we could all do together.
My favorite might have been one Sunday when we were leaving church and I had the kids hurry and clean up the little bits of trash and junk off the carpet in the children's primary room. We rushed around cleaning, while I periodically peeked through a crack in the door and told them the next congregation was on their way and we had to hurry so our service would be a secret. We got done just in time and sneaked out a side door, so relieved that we didn't get "caught" doing secret service!
Has the kids' behavior change dramatically overnight? The first week I would have said – NO. I wanted to string them up by their toes actually, because although they were enjoying the service and asking if we could do it again next year, they were also fighting over who got to use the good duster and whining and tattling once we got home.
But over the last week, ever so slowly, I've noticed a change. Laylee's been more likely to encourage Magoo and be patient with him and he's been slower to anger. They've both been noticing service opportunities everywhere and are more excited about shopping for each other than they are about what they're getting this year. Now, Wanda's been a ball of unholy fire and rage but I'm chocking that up to age and croupiness.
They're still themselves and as flawed as I am, but the positive changes I'm noticing in all of us are worth the little effort it takes to plan a 15-minute act of service daily. I'm grateful to friends and neighbors who've let us come by and "serve" them when I'm sure that sometimes it's less than convenient and less than helpful. I don't know anyone who sits around thinking, "I wish a six-year-old and a two-year-old would come and wash my windows!"
Things still on our list (that may or may not get done) are – walk a neighbor's dog, take treats to the checkers at Safeway, feed our neighbor's chickens, "babysit a friend," make dinner for someone, play with a wheelchair-bound friend, read or to someone at a nursing home, gather canned goods for the food bank, run errands for someone, sweep someone's porch, disinfect toys in the church nursery, donate toys and clothes to Good Will, make our friends' beds, wipe the neighborhood mailboxes clean.
Even if this whole experiment doesn't make us behave better today, I hope that it's something my kids will remember as they get older and they're choosing how to spend their time. My main goal as a parent is to teach my kids how to live in a way that they will be happy and successful adults. If I'm not modeling service with them now, they won't live it when they're older and they'll miss out on some major opportunities for happiness.
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COLUMBIA - South Carolina lawmakers voted to send $12.4 million in unclaimed lottery cash to pay for school buses, easily overriding Gov. Nikki Haley's veto of the original budget item.
By a vote of 31-8 in the Senate and 103-6 in the House, the override equates to upgrades in the state's aged fleet.
Last year, the South Carolina Department of Education bid on 87 buses and won 85 in an auction for the state of Kentucky's discarded school buses. The average price was $3,800, and the purchase allowed the state to retire South Carolina's 26- and 27-year-old buses and put Kentucky's 18-year-old buses on the road instead.
Haley's veto message said she objected to the unclaimed lottery money being spent on school buses because the state should be focused on privatizing the bus system.
"The bottom line is that the state of South Carolina does not need to be in the business of running a bus system," she wrote. "Our time, dollars, and focus need to be on educating children."
Lawmakers said that may be the case. But they said school children still need to have safe, reliable transportation to school, while state officials investigate the benefits of privatization.
"A couple years ago I put my child on a school bus for a field trip, and I walked up and talked to the bus driver and said, 'How many miles do you have on this bus?'" said Sen. Joel Lourie, D-Richland. "He said, 'Sir, I couldn't tell you. The odometer is broke.'"
The Republican governor's veto of the $12.4 million was among dozens she issued, which were taken up by state legislators on Wednesday. They are part of a $6 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning in July.
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Mother lode
Mother lode is a principal vein or zone of veins of gold or silver ore. The term is also used metaphorically to refer to the origin of something valuable or in great abundance.
The term probably came from a literal translation of the Spanish veta madre, a term common in old Mexican mining. Veta madre, for instance, is the name given to an 11-kilometre-long (6.8 mi) silver vein discovered in 1548 in Guanajuato, New Spain (modern-day Mexico).[1]
California Mother Lode
In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to a long alignment of hard-rock gold deposits stretching northwest to southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California. It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush. The California Mother Lode is a zone from 1.5 to 6 kilometres (0.93 to 3.73 mi) wide and 190 kilometres (120 mi) long, extending from Georgetown in El Dorado County on the north, through Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties, south to Mormon Bar in Mariposa County.
Following the elucidation of the theory of plate tectonics, the Mother Lode was found to coincide with the suture line of a terrane, the Smartville Block. The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best-known historic mines of the gold-rush era. Individual gold deposits within the Mother Lode are gold-bearing quartz veins up to 15 metres (49 ft) thick and a few thousand feet long. The California Mother Lode was one of the most productive gold-producing districts in the United States. Now it is known as a destination for tourism.[2]
The California gold rush, as with most gold rushes, started with the discovery of placer gold in sands and gravels of streambeds, where the gold had eroded from the hard-rock vein deposits. Placer miners followed the gold-bearing sands upstream to discover the source in the bedrock. This source was the "mother" of the gold in the river and so was dubbed the "mother lode".
- ↑ Alan M. Bateman (1942) Economic Mineral Deposits. New York: Wiley, p.465-466.
- ↑ A.H. Koschman and M.H. Bergendahl (1968) Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States. US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 610, p.55


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Sex education
To help prevent teen pregnancy, it is essential to educate teens on sex and birth control methods. Sex education is important for both girls and boys, and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy has effectively implemented programs that promote healthy decision-making among the teen population. These decisions include delaying sexual activity, reducing the number of partners an individual has, and increasing the use of contraceptives and condoms.
ACOG recommends that girls begin visiting an ob-gyn between the ages of 13-15. This increases the chance that she will have had her first visit before becoming sexually active. Ob-gyns are well equipped to offer accurate information about sex, pregnancy, and STDs. They can discuss pregnancy prevention, such as types of birth control methods, as well as educate teens on the importance of safe sex practices. Teens are often too embarrassed to ask certain questions, and ob-gyns can address the subject in a thorough and professional manner.
Although doctors are a good resource for information on sex, parents play a major role as well. Teens are less likely to become sexually active if they feel their parents disapprove of it. The National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health found that the more connected teens feel to their parents, the less likely they are to begin having sex at an early age. Research has shown that positive communication between parents and their children helps young people to establish values and make healthy decisions. And, according to the Advocates for Youth, teens who receive accurate information about sex from their parents are more likely to delay becoming sexually active, and to use contraceptives when they do.


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Our award-winning restaurant offers you fresh local seafood with a great view of Galway Bay.
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Visit our sister restaurant in the heart of Galway City for more fine cuisine.
Our sister restaurant is located in the heart of the medieval centre of Galway, close to most central attractions.
Having opened its doors in 1996, Kirwan's Lane is one of the oldest restaurants in town. With the recent introduction of the Seafood Bar @ Kirwan's Lane, it has rapidly become a gathering point for lovers of this fine cuisine. We also offer an extensive A la Carte menu with the best of modern Irish food on offer.
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Don't cut funding to programs that assist our seniors, and don't put a limit on itemized deductions which could reduce or even eliminate donations to nonprofit organizations in our community
Lately, you cannot turn on the TV or look at the newspaper without the term "fiscal cliff" appearing. Both the president and Congress are frantically trying to come up with solutions to our nation's financial problems before we "go over the cliff." The solutions involve a combination of tax increases and spending cuts. There are several alternatives being proposed and some of them could have detrimental effects not only on the services that Marion Senior Services (MSS) provides, but to all local charities.
There are two immediate threats that need to be addressed. The first involves sequestration, or automatic across-the-board spending cuts. The 2011 Budget Control Act requires a $109 billion sequestration on Jan. 2, unless Congress finds equivalent savings elsewhere.
For nondefense discretionary programs like the Older Americans Act (OAA), this represents an 8.2 percent cut in funding. On a nationwide basis, this means a loss of more than 17 million meals under the OAA programs. For MSS, this would mean a reduction of more than 10,000 meals in our congregate meal program, or 12,000 meals in our home-delivered meal program in 2012.
Our congregate meal program enables many seniors to enjoy a hot meal and socialize with friends at one of our 12 meal sites around Marion County. For our home-delivered meal clients, not only do they receive a hot meal but, more importantly, a well-check to ensure they are doing OK. They are able to visit with someone when their meal is delivered, who in more cases than not is the only person they will see during the day.
Cuts to these programs would have a severe effect on the well-being of our clients in these programs. In addition, these cuts would come at a time when we are seeing an increase in demand and need for our services from seniors right here in Marion County, as we already have waiting lists for our services, including meals.
The second threat that needs to be addressed is the potential changes that are being proposed to the charitable tax deduction. Not only is this a threat to donations to MSS, but to all charities nationwide.
There are two main proposals.
First, there would be a limit on higher-income taxpayers to reduce the deduction for charitable giving from the current level of 35 percent to 28 percent. This means that someone who donates $1,000 currently would receive a $350 deduction, but would only receive a $280 deduction under the proposed change.
Second, the overall limit for itemized deductions for all taxpayers would be between $25,000 and $50,000. This limit would include deductions for state and local taxes as well as the home-interest deduction. Deducting for just these items could exhaust the limit of $25,000 to $50,000 quickly and not leave much, if any, available for charitable deductions.
Many charities, including MSS, rely on donations from our faithful supporters to help fund the vital services we provide our clients. Any measure that would place a limit on itemized deductions could have a detrimental effect not only on MSS, but other worthwhile charities, too.
So what can be done? I urge you to join me in writing, emailing or calling your local, state and federal representatives and explain to them the importance of not cutting the funding to these vital Older American's Act programs that assist our seniors in so many ways, as well as not putting a limit on itemized deductions which could reduce or even eliminate donations from many people who financially support nonprofit organizations in our community.
Yes, something has to be done to prevent even more serious consequences to our nation's financial future. Just don't let the answer be to the detriment of our vulnerable senior population.
Sarah Stroh is executive director of Marion Senior Services Inc. in Ocala.


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10. THEATER: A Very Tawny Christmas
Obie-winning actor-writer-director David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) brings his new drag creation, disco one-hit wonder and showbiz survivor Tawny Heatherton, to his hometown of Baltimore for two nights only, December 28 and 29, in A Very Tawny Christmas at Spotlighters Theatre. The show is a benefit for Spotlighters, and proceeds will assist the company with renovation of its space.
9. FILM/DVD: Scrooge & Marley
This variation on A Christmas Carol gives us Ebenezer Scrooge as the greedy, Christmas-hating owner of a Chicago gay bar. Of course, he learns kindness and generosity in the end, thanks to a few ghostly visitors. The cast includes David Pevsner, Tim Kazurinsky, Bruce Vilanch, David Moretti, and Megan Cavanagh. You can see the movie on the big screen in Chicago or Vancouver, Canada, in the coming days (with holiday music as an extra at the Chicago dates) or buy it on DVD or Blu-ray to enjoy at home.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fletcher Martin: The Art of War
* If You never saw my previous posts on this remarkable artist, you can read them at these links:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part5
* Fletcher Martin's work is represented by The Fletcher Gallery
* My Fletcher Martin Flickr set
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What an interesting style - very muralistic. Like Benton meeting DeChirico. Thank you for sharing this, Leif.ReplyDelete
Great posting Leif. If you would like to see the study drawing for the December 27, 1943 cover of Life, it was a recent gift to the Norman Rockwell Museum collections and is currently hanging in a gallery called "Curator's Choice: Selections from the Norman Rockwell Museum Collections."ReplyDelete
Thanks, Joyce K. Schiller
Curator, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies
Norman Rockwell Museum
The drawings presented are very fine and inspiring. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.ReplyDelete
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