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Employee Benefits News examines legal developments that impact the employee benefits and executive compensation employers provide, including federal and state legislation, rules from federal...
Nov. 23 — State-backed open multiple employer plans aimed at expanding private-sector retirement savings options are poised to take off—although not without significant challenges—under recent Department of Labor soft guidance.
Phyllis C. Borzi, assistant secretary of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, described the state-backed open MEPs initiative as "virgin territory."
"We want them to succeed, we want anybody to succeed, public or private sector who tries to expand coverage, because goodness knows, we need to do that," Borzi said Nov. 19 during a program on EBSA developments.
Borzi's comments came days after the DOL rolled out guidance on state-run open MEPs (RIN 1210-AB74), as well as state-sponsored payroll deduction individual retirement accounts.
Open MEPs are single retirement plans involving two or more unrelated employers. The new DOL guidance relaxes prior rules that required participating employers to share a common employment-based nexus or other genuine organizational relationship unrelated to the provision of benefits.
Challenges to state-backed open MEPs may come from two angles: industry opposition and the need for implementation guidance.
The concept of allowing unrelated employers to team up in an open MEP is supported by an assortment of strange bedfellows in the retirement world, such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Securities Industry and Financial Management Association and AARP.
Although the concept has its share of support, the package of DOL guidance has its detractors, who say that it's anti-competitive. But Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, founder of the Center for Retirement Initiatives at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, told Bloomberg BNA that the facts argue otherwise, and necessitate the states take action.
"Basically, you've got a situation where 50 percent of employers don't offer a retirement plan. They just don't. And 50 percent of Americans don't have a retirement plan," Townsend said.
It's going to take a "massive dedication of resources" for the states to launch open MEPs since so much implementing guidance will be needed, Robert J. Toth of the Law Office of Robert J. Toth LLC in Fort Wayne, Ind., told Bloomberg BNA. The DOL, the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department, the states and even the Securities and Exchange Commission will play a hand in developing the guidance, he said.
"When you get to the close details of these things, they're hard to do. They're hard to administer properly on a regular basis, even for a highly skilled organization," Toth said.
One issue that will need to be resolved is how or if a state sponsor can fix plan errors through the IRS's Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System, Toth said.
"We're walking into a brand new world by doing this, and we're talking about massive complications," Toth said.
Under the guidance, open MEPs can also be formed across state borders depending on whether the individual states have the extraterritorial authority to do so.
Some New England states have approached the DOL for guidance about creating a regional MEP, Borzi said. "And we told them we'd be happy to work with them as they try to design it, but I don't see any theoretical problem with doing that," she said.
In addition to addressing cross-border authority, guidance is also needed for instances in which a group of states try to bring in employees from nonparticipating states, David N. Levine, a principal at Groom Law Group Chartered in Washington, told Bloomberg BNA.
The department's reasoning in its guidance on the state-run open MEPs that the states have a "unique representational interest in health and welfare of their citizens" raises the question of whether that logic holds when a MEP is opened up to the citizens of a state not already in the plan, Levine said.
The answer isn't clear, but the proposed rule on payroll deduction IRAs, issued the same day as the interpretive bulletin that included the MEPs guidance, may give some indication, Levine said. In that proposal, the DOL asked about whether there should be requirements on employers to have certain connections to the state. "So you put those two pieces together, if the department is now going to say one state can allow people of other states in their open MEP, that's a whole step forward," Levine said.
Industry opposition may get "amped up" if states are allowed to broaden their reach to other states, Levine said.
But on a positive note, Levine said that legislation for extending retirement access to more people "could easily" be expected in 2016, with open MEPs perhaps the first to go forward.
Open MEPs have attracted bipartisan support over the past several years, and if legislation does go through next year, "it will establish a framework for the public and the private on a consistent set of rules on how to move forward with open MEPs," Levine said.
The open MEP approach is "much more valuable in importance than" the payroll-deduction IRAs because MEPs have the advantages that ERISA brings, Steven Kreisberg, director of collective bargaining for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO, told Bloomberg BNA. Those advantages include plan design flexibility, the ability to accept contributions from both participants and sponsors, and lifetime benefit payments, he said.
Townsend cited other advantages, such as higher contribution rates, pooled funding with lower fees, more asset classes to choose from and, under the DOL guidance, state fiduciary responsibility for the plan, providing relief for the adopting employers.
Said Kreisberg: "Ultimately I think it's going to help achieve retirement security objectives in ways that" IRAs can't.
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Abydosaurus was recently discovered in the Cedar Mountain Formation. A plant-eating sauropod (long-necked dinosaur) with narrow teeth, Abydosaurus lived during the Cretaceous, which makes making it the most recent Dinosaur National Monument superstar in terms of geologic time.
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I absolutely adore Nivea. Always have & most probably always will! It wasn't often I moisturised daily because I never really found a moisturiser that didn't feel greasy or look greasy on the skin - especially for one you want to wear for the day! Night time does't bother me too much about what it feels like because I'm off to bed anyway! But nothing felt worse on the skin in the day than a thick moisturiser, yack! Until I found these super lovely products from Nivea.
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Regenerating Night Cream - Although this cream is on the thicker side, I did mention I don't mind that so much if it's a cream I use before bed. & this just so happens to be a night one! Waheyy! :D So yeah, this cream is thicker than I would prefer but it does the job & is very moisturising on the skin. IT really does make your skin super soft after it has soaked in.
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Gentle Facial Cleansing Wipes - These right here are my holy grail! I cannot live without facial wipes & these are so moisturising I love them! They're that good, I sometimes be super lazy & miss out on using my creams, just because these wipes are so nice. They are quite pricey though, well, they're £3, so it's not bad really. Unless of course you go through them like no tomorrow & use them to take off your makeup like I do. Ooops! Haha!
All of these Nivea products are on offer at the moment at Tesco too. Well, they are at my Tesco in Prestwich anyway haha! XD I got them for almost 50% off which is fabulous considering they're super good value for money anyway, with the creams ranging from around £4. Be sure to try them out if you can. Nivea have ranges of products for all skin types too. I tend to get a mixture of 'dry to normal' or 'dry to combination' as my skin seems to change now & then the little bugger! :)


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I remember as a teenage 16-17 years old, having a calender in my room of beautiful landscapes of the Alps, Italy, Germany and many places in Europe. I would look at the photos often and dream of one day traveling to these far off places. Years later I was shuffling through old keepsakes my mom had kept for me and come across this old calender. It put a smile on my face as I thumbed through the pages, because I had managed to visited and photograph all the beautiful landscapes that were in the calender. Who would have "thunk" it! Be careful what you dream 'fore someday it may come true. I gained a love for photography back in those days and my 1st camera, Minolta 101 was never far from my side.
I love travelling to new destinations and try to do so as often as possible. Climb aboard and join me on this lifetime journey as I explore new places and experiment with HDR photography along the way. My goal is to put down a photo every day. There may be times while travelling that I will be out of cyber-range, but that's part of the journey in the field. Hopefully during these times I have more exciting destinations to share with you my fellow "Shutter Bugsters". Tutorials are forthcoming and feel free to contact me with questions about HDR photography and photos I have taken. Keep shooting!.."The Travel Bugster".


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Here are a few pictures from LA last month. We were only there for like 3 days but we managed to see the Hollywood sign and walk of fame, a tour of the stars' houses, Rodeo Drive, Santa Monica and Venice Beach. We also ate in James' Beach which is where they filmed part of 'I Love You, Man'. Which i thought was amazing since i love Jason Segal!
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TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan is the latest and greatest version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the game franchise that just keeps on giving.
This particular game features the four turtle brothers Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael sweep the city of Manhattan and battling hordes of bad guys. While this has in fact been the modus operandi of the game for a long time now, what's changed now is the sheer visual quality of the game, which is pretty breathtaking.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a game that brings up lots of nostalgic memories for gamers of a certain age, and while some TMNT games in recent years have disappointed, the Mutants in Manhattan game is sure to become an absolute epic that will satisfy gamers with its blend of spectacular visuals and engaging gameplay.
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I'm Candice Reyes, a photographer & "explorer" based in Manila, Philippines. I got an 8-5 day job as a corporate photographer while I sing, write, explore places and shoot more in between.
I believe the act of gazing outside is also a chance to gaze deeply into people's hearts & inside ourselves too.
everydaygaze started as a "virtual memory box" in 2013, where I put "memory snapshots" . I attempted to post one photo a day, but wasn't able to finish the year-long photo project.
But there are thousands of images still waiting to be seen, thoughts to be shared, so here I am, resurrecting this blog in 2015.
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New year, new mix. Can't think of a better way to kick off '13.
Our latest hour-long definition of what "good hip-hop" is. Much thanks to Steele and Sean Stillwell for working through the holidays to get the audio and visual done.
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Oil currencies dip, euro and yen gain
LONDON: The dollar edged down on Monday as renewed selling on oil markets drove investors into their safe havens of choice, the euro and yen, and weakened the currencies of major crude exporters.
After an upbeat session in Asia, stock markets quickly turned negative in Europe and oil fell almost 3 percent, driving roughly half-percent falls in the Canadian dollar and Norwegian crown. CAD=D4 EURNOK=D4
The oil price fall turned investors' focus back onto the broadly negative view of the outlook for the world economy that has dominated since the start of 2016.
That has tended to benefit the euro, yen and Swiss franc at the expense of the dollar.
"We cannot sound the all clear, there is clearly a lot of uncertainty out there," Commerzbank strategist, Thu Lan Nguyen, said.
"The main theme this morning is of commodity currencies being under pressure. A lot depends on the oil price. If we see a sharp drop back to the levels we saw last week, we can see another round of the market nerves we have been seeing."
The dollar fell about a third of a percent against the yen to 118.40 JPY=, well off last week's one-year low of 115.97. The euro was also up about 0.25 percent at $1.0816 EUR=EBS. Norway's prime minister and central bank governor were set to meet at short notice on Monday and expectations for the outcome of the meeting helped the crown steady at 9.47 crowns per euro by 1221 GMT, down 0.3 percent.
"Extra spending would be temporarily supportive for the crown but would not change the longer-term bearish currency story against the dollar unless there is a quick pick-up in non-oil sectors," Morgan Stanley analysts said in a morning note.
Bullish bets on the dollar fell for a fourth straight week through Jan. 19, according to Reuters calculations and the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, released on Friday.
Focus is on the pace of Federal Reserve tightening as risk aversion and volatile markets push investors to pare bets on any US near-term hikes, with rates widely expected to be held on Wednesday.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) will conclude a two-day policy meeting on Friday, at which sources familiar with its thinking say it is likely to cut its core consumer inflation forecast for the coming fiscal year to possibly below 1 percent. Downbeat data has raised speculation of more BoJ easing by April.


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This is a Challenge Blog with this week's challenge theme - Must have Stars with the fabulous sponsor being Cute as a Button!!!!!
For this challenge, and I chose to play with the July freebie on Facebook with my use of stars being my background paper and my cute little duckie is on an action wobble
- size A2 card using coral Recollection card stock and DCWV Nana's Nursery for the background
- image was colored with Whisper Stroke Markers, Prisma Colored Pencils with gel pen accents with an Action Wobble (no, the 2nd picture was not a test to see if you had been drinking - I was busy making it wobble!
- buttons were added for the eyes with Queen & Co. black tiny little baby pearls for the center
- feathers were added for him to shake his "tail feathers"
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I've got a huge string of onions hanging in the garage which I grew earlier in the year, and a packet of dried blood in the freeze, so as soon as I get the time some there will be a Spanish style 'morcillas de cebolla'...
Now the question I have about dried blood is - Will it clot?
In Portugal we have an ingredient called 'sangue cozido' - this is fresh blood that has been allowed to clot when the pig is slaughtered (i.e. it is not stirred vigorously with wine to be used in black puddings), then poached in water until done. It is available commercially ( http://www.montalva.pt/pt/produto/1_5+1 ... ue-cozido/ ) but it's not available in the specialist deli's in this neck of the woods.
We use it in 'Sarrabulho' that come from the north of Portugal, or the very similar 'Sarapatel' from the Alentejo region of Portugal. They are basically thick blood soups/stews with plenty of meaty bits cooked in a thick collagen rich broth flavoured with local herbs, onions, vinegar and cumin (the cumin defines the northern dish, but is usually absent from the Alentejo version). Tastes great if you like the flavour of black pudding, but is probably your dish from hell if you don't as it has the colour and smell of oxidised blood.
Anyway if dried blood will clot/can be made to clot it might be interesting to capture the tastes of the Alentejo in my kitchen.


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It's that time of year again! The West Virginia Association of Professional Psychologists will be having our Fall Conference event on Friday, September 28, 2017 (from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.). As always, the Conference will be held at the Day's Inn and Conference Center in Flatwoods, WV, which is located off Interstate-79.
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We have two phenomenal presentations scheduled for you, each of which will be worth 3 CEUs! Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis will be completing a presentation on Mindfulness from 9-12. Dr. Jeffrey Harlow (and other members of the WVBEP) will be presenting on Ethics from 1-4pm, All CEs (including ethics) have been approved by the West Virginia Board of Examiners of Psychologists. Presentation details COMING SOON!


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More Pixies have come to play with Wren and Robin :-)
Beautifull work:)
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Oooh Beth, my favorite is Finch she looks like an angel to me, and I so admire the felines. This is awesome. This is how I see them Nettie is humble, Sparrow looks frightened or surprised, and my favorite Finch looks like an angel. I'm working on some felt friends myself...I'm excited to finish and post them.
These little cuties are just gorgeous!!! So tiny...
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They are so cute.
You do wonderful work.
Thank you so much for your good words, Shelly, Carolyn, Sandra, and Creativedawn :-)
Carolyn, I like your characterization of the girls, and look forward to seeing your felt creations.
As usual, lovely creations! They are so cute!ReplyDelete
How darling! I love the kitty. :)ReplyDelete
I've been follow you for a long time and I just ask where do you find wood bases for your faboulous dolls...! I'd like to know if there's a site where I could find too...
Thank you so much. :)
Hi Dona,
I use small wooden plaques and I get them from Michaels or Hobby Lobby. You might try to google 'wooden plaques' and see if there are some online sites. At Michaels they cost 59 cents apiece. The round ones are four inches in diameter.
Thank you so much, Beth! :)ReplyDelete
I came over to your blog after reading the comments from Nuno Life (where the cat pattern originated.) I like how you made yours stand up. Can you explain how you did that? I also REALLY love your dolls. I've spent at least an hour looking at your blog. You are very talented.ReplyDelete
Thank you very much for your kind words, Heather. To make the cat stand up, I cut a circle of felt for the bottom of the cat, and stitched the bottom of the body pieces to this circle, instead of just stitching the two body pieces together at the bottom. The tails on the two awake cats help them to balance standing up.
Warm regards,
Thank you so much for replying! I am going to attempt to make a cat that stands up! I appreciate the explanation. I'd love to make darling little dolls like you do. If you ever start to sell your creations in an Etsy store, please let me know. leefamilee5 (at) gmail (dot) com
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Alekyan Bagrat
Alekyan Bagrat Gegamovich, born on April 15, 1951, in Yerevan (Armenia) to the family of public servants. He is married and has a daughter.
In 1968 he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the Yerevan State Medical Institute. After the graduation (1974) he moved permanently to Moscow and since February 1975 to June 2016 onwards he worked in Department of Interventional diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular diseases at the Bakoulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.
From 1975 to 1976 Senior Laboratory Technician
From 1976 to 1980 Research Assistant
From 1980 to 1991 Senior Research Fellow
From 1991 to 1992 Chief Researcher
From 1992 through June 2016 Head of the Department.
Since June 2016, he is currently the Deputy Director of scientific work at the Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery.
In 1980, he defended his thesis on "Coronary arteries, hemodynamics and myocardial contractile function in patients with coronary heart disease and postinfarction myocardial sclerosis in terms of surgical treatment". In 1986, he defended his doctoral thesis on "Modern diagnostic aspects of complete transposition of great vessels according to interventional diagnostics".
The main direction of scientific research – interventional diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
Since 2005 – the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Since 2011 – academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Since 2013 – academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2012 – the foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
Member of the editorial boards and the editorial boards of the following journals: "Creative Cardiology", "Cardiovascular pathology in children", "Clinical and experimental surgery n.a. Academician B.V. Petrovski", "Complex problems of cardiovascular diseases".
Alekyan B.G. is also a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal "Structural heart diseases."
Since 2014 – Editor-in-Chief of Endovascular Surgery Journal.
Since 2007 he sponsors scholarships for students of Yerevan State Medical University n.a. M. Heratsi.
Since 2013, he is the President of the Association of Physicians of the Union of Armenians In Russia
Nine monographs are published under his editorship:
1997 – "Ultrasound diagnostics of brachycephalic lesions."
1999 – "Endovascular and minimally invasive cardiovascular surgery in children."
2001 – "Endovascular surgery for brachiocephalic lesions."
2002-"Interventional therapies for coronary artery disease."
2006 – "Acute coronary syndrome. The possibilities for diagnostics and treatment".
2008 – Handbook on interventional treatment of cardiovascular diseases (in 3 volumes).
B.G. Alekyan has written several chapters in following publications: Lectures on Cardiovascular Surgery (ed. L.A. Bokeria, 2001); Lectures on Cardiology (ed. L.A. Bokeria and E.Z. Golukhova, 2001); Physician's Handbook "Heart diseases" (ed. R.G. Oganov, I.G. Fomina, 2006); Cardiology. National Guidelines (ed. E.V. Shlyakhto, 2013). He is one of the authors of the books published abroad: Endovascular Therapy Course Coronary and Peripheral (France, 1998), Peripheral Vascular Interventions (The United States, 2004); Peripheral Options Interventions (second edition, USA. 2008).
He supervised eight doctoral and 47 master's theses, as well as over 1000 scientific publications.
Since 1999 till 2012 he was the Director of Moscow International Course on Endovascular Therapies.
From 2012 onwards he is the Director of the International Congress TCT-Russia.
Since 1999 – Head of Endovascular Surgery Division in the Russian Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons.
Since 2002 President of Russian Scientific Society of Endovascular Surgeons and Interventional Radiologists.
From 2010 onwards he is the chief non-staff specialist at the MOH Russia in endovascular diagnostics and treatment.
He is a member of the Russian Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons, Russian Association of Angiologists and Vascular Surgeons.
In 2009 he was elected a member of the American Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).
In 2012 he was elected a member of the European Society for Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery.
1997 – Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow."
2000 – Silver Burakovskiy Medal for excellence
in teaching young professionals for cardiovascular
2001- Annual Burakovskiy Prize and
Gold Medal "For the outstanding achievements
in endovascular treatment of cardiovascular diseases".
2003 – Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for the Developing
Medicine and Public Health.
2009 – Awarded by the RAMS Presidium with Bakulev Prize for publication of the book "Handbook on interventional treatment of cardiovascular diseases" (in 3 volumes, ed. by L.A. Bokeria and B.G. Alekyan).
2010 – Awarded with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation "For significant contribution to the social and healthcare policy implementation".
2006 – Awarded with the "Order of Friendship" by presidential decree.
2014 – Awarded with the "Order of Honor" by presidential decree.
2015 – Laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize in the field of science and technology.


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London photo of the day: cuz vampires come out at night
Insane mobs of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of stars at the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 tonight. (I was not there in any official capacity, just passing through Leicester Square.)
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Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you have all have a fun and relaxing one.
Here are a few Christmas quilts that are scattered around our house at the moment.
All were made many years ago.
Santas made by Val Carr and sitting on a coffee table in the family room
A Primitive stitchery sitting on the dining room table with candles.
A wallhanging in the lounge
Two quilts over a hall stand at the bottom of the stairs in the hall.


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Education on the U.S. Constitution. Many American students know nothing about the U.S. Constitution. This essay endeavors to do somethign about it.
From the site:
The United States of America, a comparatively young country, has the world's oldest written constitution. In 1787, this Constitution was a striking innovation, a breakthrough in the establishment of republican self-government. Since 1787, this Constitution has been the preeminent symbol of American nationhood and a practical instrument of free government (popular government limited by law to protect the liberty and security of individuals). Furthermore, this Constitution has had an enormous influence on governments around the world. According to Albert Blaustein, a specialist in the comparative study of constitutions, "The United States Constitution is this nations's most important export" (1984, p. 14).
The bicentennial of the Consitution provides a special opportunity for renewal and improvement of education on basic values and principles of American constitutional government, which are essential elements of national unity and cohesion in a pluralistic society. These ideas are relevant and valuable to all Americans, regardless of their social differences, and must be understood and used by all who would exercise fully their rights and responsibilities of citizenship. What is the status of education on the Constitution in American secondary schools? This ERIC digest examines (1) treatment of the Constitution in the curriculum of secondary schools, (2) public opinion and knowledge about the Constitution, and (3) guidelines for improvement of education on the Constitution.


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text: Roosters coach Ricky Stuart has hit out at referee Sean Hampstead's decision to sin bin Brett Finch late in the second half of yesterday's knife-edge 26-24 loss to the Dragons. Finch and Dragons prop Justin Poore were both sent off to cool down after a brawl erupted late in the second half when Poore and Jason Ryles tackled Michael Crocker. Stuart warned that Hampstead's decision had set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the season. "He's set a precedent, so everytime there's a stink on, the first bloke in to throw a punch has to go. So let's see if that happens - I bet you it doesn't." I wonder if Stuart would say half the stuff if he looked at the facts before mouthing off. Did witt not get sent off for the same thing???????? Stuart, you are a goose of the highest order who now has to learn to coach a **** team. Deal with it without blaming others.


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Family, friends remember Saline native who died after crash in Tennessee
Caulk, 27, a graduate of Gabriel Richard High School in Ann Arbor, died Thursday following a massive trauma-induced stroke that affected his brain stem, said his sister, Christa Caulk Stewart.
Caulk, a senior at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., was critically injured in a car crash Oct. 14 outside of Nashville, Tenn.
Stewart, his older sister, said his injuries were complicated by a condition with which he was born. She said doctors told their family when they arrived at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center that there was nothing they could do because there was so much damage and no brain activity.
"We just kept asking for a miracle," Stewart said, adding that pastors from places from as far away as Florida showed up at the hospital to pray with the family. She said about 20 students from Lee University also came to the hospital, remaining in the chapel to pray for Caulk.
Caulk, a Saline native, had served in the U.S. Navy in the "Seabee" construction battalion. He rededicated his life to serving God last year, Stewart said. He died surrounded by his family.
"It was time for him to go home," she said. "He was with his family, and we told him it was OK to go."
In addition to Stewart, of Ann Arbor, Caulk is survived by his parents, Michael and Missy Caulk, and three other siblings — Matthew, Andrew and Allyssa.
Stewart said her family is close, talking as often as possible and attending University of Michigan football games together over the years. She said she felt blessed to have attended one last game with her brother about a month ago.
Music was a big part of Caulk's life. Stewart said her brother taught himself to play the piano and the guitar and would write and record himself performing worship music. She said his funeral will feature a video of him performing.
Stewart said her brother's dream job was to work as a sports broadcaster for ESPN — a goal she said didn't seem far off given his determination.
Caulk was recruited to play football at Adrian College before he decided to pursue a career in broadcasting at Lee, where he was the multimedia editor for the student newspaper. Stewart said he was applying for internships in an effort to reach his goal.
"He was just so charismatic," Stewart said. "He was literally the funniest person I've ever met in my entire life."
She said people were drawn to her brother, who loved to make everyone laugh and smile. "He would sit and talk to you for hours," she said.
Stewart said that so many people were praying for him is a true testament to who he was. Hundreds of people have joined a Facebook group dedicated to his life.
"He was that guy that every girl wanted to date and marry," she said. "He just loved to make people happy."
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at United Methodist Church in Saline and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. A celebration of life service will follow at 1 p.m.
You can see a video of Caulk singing and playing a keyboard below:
Jamie Caulk - Holding On from Matthew Caulk on Vimeo.
David Rhoads
Sat, Oct 22, 2011 : 12:42 p.m.
I did not know Jamie, but I did have an opportunity to work with his mother, Missy, on several occasions. I can only imagine the type of person Jamie was, but based on the qualities of Missy, I am sure that he was an excellent young man. My condolences to his family and friends.
Sat, Oct 22, 2011 : 12:32 p.m.
Prayers to the family. RIP
Marilyn Wilkie
Sat, Oct 22, 2011 : 11:27 a.m.
Christa and Julie. Thank you for bringing the story of this wonderful young man to us. I was amazed at his talent. It is plain to see that he could have been anything that he wanted besides being a wonderful human being. He knew exactly where he was going, which is rare. I know that he was an inspiration for those who knew him, and now for those of us fortunate enough to have been introduced to who he was. Thank you.


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The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival begins this weekend and while the play may be the thing, there's live music too.
During performances of The Winter's Tale, there are three musicians on stage, including resident composer Greg Mackender on percussion and mallets, Sascha Groschang on cello and Laura Parks on violin.
"I left a lot of openings for impromptu types of things," says Mackender. "There are other spots where they can get a little livelier, we can play around a little bit."
One piece composed by Mackender called "Time" is heard early in the second act; it dramatizes the passage of 16 years within the play.


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Helen E. Glunt, 89
Helen Elizabeth Glunt, 89, McConnellsburg, died Sunday, October 20, 2013, at Fulton County Medical Center.
She was born February 20, 1924, in McConnellsburg, Pa., the daughter of the late Bruce and Elmira (Black) Ray.
She was employed by Sagner Company in Mc- Connellsburg as a presser until she retired.
She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Mc- Connellsburg.
She is survived by one son, Kenneth E. Glunt of Marysville, Wash., and one daughter, Pat Wetzel of Gardners, Pa.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grand daughters; and one brother, Donald Ray of McConnellsburg.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Bruce and Elmira Ray, and one brother, Charles Ray
Funeral services will be private and at the convenience of the family.
Memorial services will be held Friday, October 25, at St. Paul Lutheran Church at 2 p.m.
Kelso-Cornelius Funeral Home, McConnellsburg, will be handling the arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.kelso-corneliusfuneralhome.com


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Caroline Lewis, author of the Serenity Quilts blog, has launched an appeal to all quilters!
I just wanted to draw your attention to an appeal I am making for hearts to make a quilt to raffle off as a prize and in the process raise money for a worthy cause: Cancer Research UK.
I require as many blocks as possible of 8″ square white/cream/red or pink fabric squares with a heart theme embroidered, appliqued, pieced etc onto the backing fabric. I am blogging about this over on thecontentedquilter.blogspot.com .
So far I only have about 30 blocks and would dearly love enough to make more than one quilt. I would be very appreciative of your help.
Cancer Research is a charity close to my heart, my dad had his stomach and spleen removed 2 years ago at the age of 78 and thanks to his amazing surgeon and team of carers he is doing well and has his 80th Bday next month. My husband is the latest casualty of cancer having schwannoma (cancer of the nerve cells) in his leg. I would love to help this amazing charity to continue its good work and find a cure soon.
Thank you
Caroline xx
I hope to make a block or two, although it has been years since I did applique. A few weeks ago, my mother got an email from her brother (my uncle) to say that his wife (my aunt) had just been diagnosised with secondary breast cancer, despite the fact she had been given the all clear a few years ago. It was a shock to everyone.
So please spread the word, even if you cannot make a heart!
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June 12, 2016.
June 24, 2012, I not only attended, but I marched in my first Pride Parade. That winter I had finally stopped wrestling with the theological implications of being attracted to women. I finally felt loved by God and free to begin to pursue a relationship.
I was 32 years old and hadn't dated in 12 years. I longed to feel loved. I longed to feel a part of a community. I saw something online about The Center on Halsted looking for people to march, so I signed up.
As I marched down the parade route with the group and surrounded by an estimated 850,000 people, I felt proud that I stepped out of my comfort zone. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune talked to me as I marched and when asked what I felt marching in my first Pride seeing people from all walks of life gathered in one place – I was quoted "It makes you feel not so alone".
I craved community. Previously, it was easy. I had been a member of a church for almost a decade. I worked as a youth group leader. I did all kinds of tasks and regularly brought the pastors coffee. I felt like community was built into my life. When I moved to Chicago in 2010, I lost that. I couldn't find it. Looking back on that Tribune article, I see that I was still desperate to feel connection.
April of 2015, I found a subreddit that started to give me a feeling of community. I would read the posts of guys like me who were questioning their gender identity or beginning to transition. This group would answer my questions, ask me for my take on their situations, and give me support when I felt I had no one who I could talk to.
September 8, 2015, I finally started my medical transition to male. I got my prescription for testosterone and gave myself my first injection. I felt like I finally was doing what I should be doing. I remember after texting my wife that it was done my next task was to tell that group of guys on reddit that I finally had my prescription. I got to share my joy.
February 6, 2016, I stepped out of my comfort zone (and against my social anxiety's wishes) to a meetup with other trans guys. Malcolm (the FTM Traveler) set up a dinner with some brothers, so I went. The next morning we had another meetup for breakfast. I got to bring my wife and met more amazing guys whom I now consider friends. My community was expanding.
June 12, 2016, I awoke to the hateful massacre at Pulse in Orlando. The count of dead souls rose from 20 to 50 as I was reading the news.
June 12, 2016, I came home from a day of church and a neighborhood festival to read about a man who was arrested on his way to commit a similar act at LA Pride.
The truth is, whether I felt it or not – whether I was lesbian, gay, cis, trans, bi, queer, etc. – what happened in Orlando, what could have happened in L.A., it is still my community. We are all connected. We are connected through our humanity. We don't need a certain facet of our life to be what connects us. The mere fact that we were born and breathe oxygen is enough – or should be anyway. Yes, it is much easier to relate to someone who has gone through similar struggles, but we are to love our neighbor – not just the one with the similar roof – the one with the peeling pink paint and Munsters themed doorbell chime (I made that up, but wouldn't that be amazing???).
Community is a choice. Let's choose to be in community with others. Let's choose to love. Let's choose to protect those who are the most vulnerable. Use whatever privilege you have to help the oppressed. Last week I was riding the L and saw a situation that I felt required action. I have the privilege of being seen as a white male, so I used that to try to help some women on the train feel safe. It ended up not being a big thing that I had to do, but I could see the relief on one particular woman's face and knew it was a big deal to her.
I'm not saying it is right that there is such a thing as white privilege or male privilege (especially white male privilege), but I am saying that it does exist and until we can dismantle the patriarchal system, we need to find a way to use it to the advantage of the oppressed.


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The Ladykillers
- This article is about the 1955 film. For the remake, see The Ladykillers (2004 film). For other uses, see Ladykillers.
|The Ladykillers
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Original film poster by Reginald Mount
|Directed by
|Alexander Mackendrick
|Produced by
|Michael Balcon
|Written by
|William Rose
|Music by
|Tristram Cary
|Otto Heller
|Edited by
|Jack Harris
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Release dates
Running time
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|United Kingdom
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Katie Johnson, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, and Jack Warner.
American William Rose wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. He claimed to have dreamt the entire film and merely had to remember the details when he awoke.
Plot summary
Mrs. Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding "lopsided" house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatever.
She is approached by an archly sinister character, 'Professor' Marcus (Alec Guinness), who wants to rent rooms in her house. She is not aware that he has assembled a gang of hardened criminals for a sophisticated security van robbery at King's Cross Station: the gentlemanly and easily fooled con-man 'Major' Claude Courtney (Cecil Parker); the comedic Cockney spiv Harry Robinson (Peter Sellers); the slow-witted and "punch drunk" ex-boxer 'One-Round' Lawson (Danny Green); and the murderous, cruel and vicious continental gangster Louis Harvey (Herbert Lom). As a cover, the "Professor" convinces the naive Mrs. Wilberforce that the group is an amateur string quintet using the rooms for rehearsal space. To maintain the deception, the gang members carry musical instruments and play a recording of Boccherini's Minuet (3rd movement) from String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5 during their planning sessions.
After the heist, "Mrs. W" is deceived into retrieving the disguised "lolly" from the railway station herself. This she successfully manages to do but not without serious complications owing to her tendency to righteous meddling. Now the real difficulties begin. As the gang departs her house with the loot, 'One-Round' accidentally gets his cello case full of banknotes trapped in the front door. As he pulls the case free, banknotes spill forth while Mrs. Wilberforce looks on. Finally, smelling a rat, she informs Marcus that she is going to the police.
Stalling, the gangsters half convince Mrs. W that she will surely be considered an accomplice for holding the lolly. In any case, it is a victimless crime as insurance will cover all the losses and the police will probably not even accept the money back. She wavers but when she rallies the criminals finally decide they must kill her. No one wants to do it so they draw lots using matchsticks. The Major loses but tries to make a run for it with the cash. As the oblivious Mrs. W dozes, the criminals cross, double-cross and manage to kill one another in rapid succession. The Major falls off the roof of the house after being chased by Louis; Harry is killed by One-Round who thinks Harry has killed Mrs. W after having a change of heart; One-Round tries to shoot Louis and Marcus when he overhears a plan to double-cross him but leaves the gun's safety catch on and is himself killed by Louis; Marcus kills Louis by dislodging his ladder under the tunnel behind the house causing Louis to fall into a passing railway wagon. Before falling into the carriage Louis fires a last shot at Marcus which nearly hits him. Finally with no one else left Marcus himself is struck on the head by a railway semaphore signal over the tunnel and drops into another wagon. All the other bodies have been dumped into railway wagons passing behind the house and are now far away.
Mrs. Wilberforce is now left alone with the plunder. She goes to the police to return it but they do not believe her story. They humour her, telling her to keep the money. She is puzzled but finally relents and returns home. Along the way, she leaves a banknote of enormous denomination with a startled "starving artist".
- Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus
- Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce
- Herbert Lom as Louis Harvey
- Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson
- Danny Green as 'One-Round' Lawson
- Cecil Parker as Major Claude Courtney
- Jack Warner as the police superintendent
- Philip Stainton as the police sergeant
- Frankie Howerd as the barrow boy
- Phoebe Hodgson as Constance
- Helene Buris as Appolonia
- Evelyn Kerry as Amelia
- Edie Martin as Lettice
- Kenneth Connor as the taxi driver
- Harold Goodwin as the railway parcels clerk
- Fred Griffiths as the scrap metal collector
- Lucy Griffiths as Miss Pringle
- Vincent Holman as the station master
- Stratford Johns as the security van guard
- Jack Melford as a detective
- Leonard Sharp as the pavement artist
The comedian Frankie Howerd has a small role as an agitated barrow boy, as does Kenneth Connor as a taxi driver. A young Stratford Johns (Charlie Barlow from Z-Cars) plays the driver of the security van that gets robbed.
Guinness based Professor Marcus on the actor Alastair Sim.[1] Sim's daughter has claimed in interviews that many assume that her father actually played the part.[citation needed]
The film poster was by Reginald Mount.[2]
Awards and nominations
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role - Katie Johnson
- BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay - William Rose
- Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - William Rose
- BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source
- BAFTA Award for Best British Film
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Ladykillers the 36th greatest comedy film of all time, and The Guardian labelled it the 5th greatest comedy of all time in 2010.
Film locations
Mrs. Wilberforce's house, No. 57, was a set built at the western end of Frederica Street, in Barnsbury, North London. In the 1970s a new housing estate was built in that area. The closest point to the location of Mrs. Wilberforce's house, is now at the southern end of Conistone Way. It was directly above the southern portal of Copenhagen Tunnel on the railway line leading out of King's Cross railway station. However, the views from her house are of Argyle Street, some distance away, with the tower of St Pancras railway station in the background. The scene of the security truck turning into King's Cross used the route from Goods Way, passing gas holders, turning left into Battle Bridge Road and right into Cheney Road. Goods Way was realigned northwards as a part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link works and the gas holders were removed. A short length of Battle Bridge Road survives, but Cheney Road was largely removed to accommodate a realignment of Pancras Road that was originally to run to the east of the German Gymnasium, but now runs between St Pancras railway station and the German Gymnasium.
- In 1966, the film was adapted into an opera by the Czech composer Ilja Hurník under the name The Lady and the Robbers (Dáma a lupiči).
- A radio adaptation of the film, by Bruce Bedford, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 January 1996 starring Edward Petherbridge and Margot Boyd.[3]
- In 2004, the Coen Brothers directed an American remake of the film, starring Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J. K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst. For the remake, the setting of the film is moved from London to Saucier, Mississippi, home of a riverboat casino.
- In 2011 the film was adapted as a play by Graham Linehan. It premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in November that year before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre in London.[4][5]
- A new adaptation of the film arrived to London Vaudeville Theatre[6] on their 2013 summer tour around the UK and Ireland.[7] A big part of the cast has been changed [8] for this new season.
See also
- ↑ "screenonline.org.uk, part of the British Film Institure (BFI)". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Reginald Mount". The Art of War. The National Archives. Retrieved 7 January 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "BBC radio programmes catalogue entry". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Graham Linehan. "How Graham Linehan dynamited The Ladykillers". Guardian. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Play details on Gielgud Theatre site". London-theatreland.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Vaudeville Theatre". Vaudeville Theatre. 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "» Latest News". Theladykillers.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Ladykillers Review - Best of Theatre News". Bestoftheatre.co.uk. 2013-07-15. Retrieved 2014-01-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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text: Baystreet Staff - Monday, February 05, 2018 U.S. Non-Mfg Index Surpasses Expectations The rate of growth in the U.S. economy's service sector perked last month after its pace eroded in the prior two months. The Institute of Supply Management said its index of non-manufacturing activity hit 59.9 in January, well above the 56.5 expected by a survey of economists. Non-manufacturing economic activity had slipped to 55.9 in December. While the index of 17 non-manufacturing industries, such as real estate and food services, showed slowing growth in the past two months, it also shows service sector has still seen mostly unbroken expansion for eight consecutive years. In October, the ISM non-manufacturing survey recorded a 60.1 reading — the highest level since its debut in 2008. A reading above 50 for the index indicates expansion in the service sector, and a reading below 50 signals contraction.


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How many times we've seen Snow White and Dora's Pirate Adventure.
How adorable and involved you are at Gymboree.
The way you call Cabello's name when you want to give him a treat.
How much you love cheese.
How well you take care of your babies; feeding them, patting their backs, getting them in bed with their pillow and blanket.
The way you smile or giggle when you see something funny.
How fun you think it is to snuggle with your blankets in your bed.
The way you can get your daddy to do anything you want.
How you manage to have your socks and shoes off every time I go to get you out of your car seat.
How excited you get over the mail.
The way you pretend to read your books.
How you grab my hand and tell me "Come on".
The way it feels to snuggle with your head against my chest.
The way you don't like me out of your sight.
You are such a sweet little momma's girl!
Happy Half Birthday Aurora!


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We all know there is a lot of pressure in society for females in particular to look a certain way. We've all had to deal with stereotypes based on our looks, with judgement and criticism, and I'm sure that most of us, at some point, have been ashamed of our bodies, or at least certain aspects of them. I have been ashamed of aspects of my own body, and struggle with body image on a daily basis. I was bullied in school, first for having freckles and wearing glasses, and later for being "too thin". I was called anorexic, I was called "horse face" (my head is kinda long) and was ashamed of the body and face I was born with. When I was in year 8, the bullying (not just about my body, but about other stuff too) got so bad that I developed severe depression and was having thoughts I'm not proud of. It all culminated in me getting a ball to the face (deliberately), which pushed my glasses back into my eye sockets and bruised my face, with me snapping and hitting the main antagonist back (open palm, but to this day the only thing I regret about the situation is not doing it sooner, and not doing it with a clenched fist), and a change of schools which made me infinitely happier, and ended the bullying (for the most part. Teenage girls can be mean!).
The incessant bullying, the comments on my body, they stuck with me. I won't pretend that "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger", because that is bullshit. The comments these people made to me, the confrontations, the name-calling and the insults have all stuck with me. They're branded in my mind and soul and I have to battle those demons every day. The things that have stuck most are the comments about my glasses. I know the word "nerd" is seen as endearing and "in" right now, but believe you me that when you're a preteen struggling to come to terms with being female, with society's ideas of what is "pretty", being called a nerd is not cool.
For years I struggled to accept the fact I need to wear glasses. I've had them since I was seven years old and so spent all of my teen and preteen life feeling ashamed of my freckly face and the metal frames that were perched on it. Despite needing to wear glasses pretty much all day every day, you will be lucky to find a photo of me wearing them in my teenage years. Every time someone whipped a camera out, my glasses came off. To my silly little brain, glasses were ugly, and wearing them made me an ugly nerd.
I'm happy to report that somewhere along the line, once I left school I had a change of heart. Thanks to the sudden attention of boys, my confidence built. I'm totally ashamed to say that it took a male's approval to shake me out of my silly, unconfident, glasses-hating ways, but it's true. A guy told me I was beautiful while I had glasses on, and kissed me and I remember excitedly telling my mum when I got home "He thinks I'm beautiful with my glasses on!" as if it was a total miracle. I started wearing eye make up to accentuate my eyes behind the lenses, I bought a pair of attractive designer frames and I began to own those glasses! I began to accept them as a part of me! I wear them as if they're a banner saying "I'm an attractive, well-educated, intelligent and classy woman, dammit! And my glasses frame my face and draw attention to my sparkly green-brown eyes!"
Recently, I have begun considering getting laser surgery on my eyes to fix my short sightedness. It's something the teenaged me wanted for years, but 20 year old me is in two minds about it. Over the past three years, as I have come to accept and even love my freckly, glasses-wearing face, I've begun to feel like my glasses are a part of me. Contrary to my teenage years, these days you're lucky to find a photo of me not wearing my glasses! I feel as if my face looks naked without them, and as much as I'd love to not have to constantly wipe my glasses in the rain or wear safety goggles over my glasses like a fool in my lab classes so I can see my experiments, I think I would kind of miss them if I didn't have to wear them anymore.
It's been a long road to acceptance of my body and face and self-love for me, but I know I'm not alone in my experiences. Is it really so crazy to think that I may miss my glasses, which gave me such hell growing up, if I were to have my vision fixed? Won't I still be the attractive, well-educated, intelligent and classy woman without them? I'll just have to find something else to draw attention to my eyes and frame my face.


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Naim home cinema in a box
I like Naim. They're a uniquely British hi-fi company who insist on doing things their way because they claim it's better. For example they are one of the few (only?) companies to still use 5 pin DIN connectors for their interconnects because it's supposed to sound better than the standard phono jack the rest of the world uses. Convenience? Pah! "Whatever it takes to make it sounds good" seems to be their guiding principle. The kit lasts for ever too – ten year old amplifiers still change hands for scary amounts of money.
After dipping a toe into the home cinema waters with previous offerings it looks like they're ready to leap enthusiatically into the 21st century with the announcement of the n-vi. Combining a DVD player with a 5 channel amplifier this should be on every audio/videophile's shopping list.
The price? We don't know yet but it's a safe bet that if you have to ask, you need to do some more saving….
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The following is a translation of a letter by Allen C. Chen that appeared in the China Times on 29 December 2011.
China Times
29 December 2011
By Allen C. Chen
Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration yesterday held a meeting to review research on the environmental impact of expanding the Formosa Plastics Group's Sixth Naphtha Cracker complex located on Taiwan's central-west coast. The meeting addressed the findings of a study conducted by a team of researchers from National Taiwan University and National Sun Yat-Sen University commissioned by Formosa Plastics. The researchers found that wastewater discharged by the plant is likely to adversely affect the endangered Taiwan humpback dolphins* and cause their population to dwindle. This finding surprises no one.
The humpback dolphins are not the only victims of pollution by the Sixth Naphtha Cracker plant. Residents of the neighboring area suffer increased mortality from air pollution emitted by the plant. The local humpback dolphin population, already struggling to find enough food in the area's over-fished waters, must breathe the same polluted air, and swim in seawater that is acidified by effluent from the plant. This harsh treatment of the critically endangered humpback dolphins calls to mind the recent eviction of homeless people from a Taipei park in wintry weather by city workers armed with water hoses. Do we really need more costly studies when the plight of these dolphins is already plain to see? Furthermore, in taking a close look at the team's research, this author has found it contains an alarming and misguided proposition that may prove to be the final twist of the knife for the Taiwan humpback dolphins. The problem is a serious misuse of the concept of "hotspot," creating a skewed picture of the humpback dolphin ecology.
The term "hotspot" is rigorously defined in the field of biology. Wikipedia, for example, defines "biodiversity hotspot" as a "biogeographic region with a significant reservoir of biodiversity that is under threat from humans". An example of a generally recognized biodiversity hotspot is the Coral Triangle region between Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, a region with over 800 species of tropical coral and 1,500 species of fish and shelfish. The Formosa Plastics research team's arbitrary use of the term "hotspot" to describe the frequencies of appearances by members of a single humpback dolphin species is a fundamentally mistaken analogy.
The concept of hotspots has been misused and bandied about to mislead the general public ever since the environmental impact assessment for the Kuokuang Petrochemical project, and has even given rise to absurd claims that the Taiwan humpback dolphins are capable of "steering their own way" out of danger. This flawed research adopts the false premise that the humpback dolphins reside only in the "hotspots" and merely "transit" through other areas of the waters they inhabit. This has led, in the research and planning of protection zones, to a misguided focus on defining the "hottest hotspots." The researchers have accepted successive rounds of funding from the public and private sectors to conduct study after study based on the same old false premise.
Accumulating data by observing cetaceans in the wild is a long and time-consuming process. This research team has declared its data on the distribution of the Taiwan humpback dolphins to be "classified" and has denied other groups access to the data for comparative study. It has not submitted its findings for review by any international scholarly publication. By taking this approach, it has continuously postponed the formulation of follow-up conservation policies. The result is that efforts to save the dolphins are being snuffed out with the passing of time.
By contrast, a number of papers by other experts already published in rigorously reviewed international publications show that the full range of the humpback dolphins' habitat off of Taiwan's west coast is one integral territory that cannot be divided up into zones, and certainly not into so-called "hotspots." Yet these facts have been entirely disregarded by the government authorities in charge of conservation, to the dismay of the international community of cetacean experts. Even though half a year has passed since the suspension of the Kuokuang Petrochemical project, the conservation authorities have not taken any action. They remain in thrall to the absurd "hotspot" theory that has never been subjected to peer review, and that is killing the humpback dolphins. The present author and numerous international experts have written directly to President Ma and to the Minister of Agriculture to stress the crucial point that the humpback dolphin habitat cannot be divided up, but our voices have been ignored, and the false concept of "hotspots" has continued to spread.
The Taiwan humpback dolphin faces five devastating threats: disappearing habitat; declining inflow of fresh water, affecting food sources; domestic wastewater and agricultural and industrial chemical pollution; underwater noise; by-catching in gillnets. This conclusion, backed by ironclad evidence, was confirmed by international cetacean experts back in 2007, and published in an international journal and a book, but 5 years later the Taiwan government has yet to listen to the admonitions of these experts. In the face of this snail-paced bureaucracy and flaw-ridden local research, this author must pessimistically predict that the eastern Taiwan Strait subpopulation of humpback dolphins will be stricken from the "critically endangered" category on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species within the coming few years—not because we will have succeeded in our conservation efforts, but because the dolphins will have disappeared forever from the Taiwan Strait. When that day comes, there will be no question about who killed the Taiwan humpback dolphins.
Author Allen C. Chen, PhD, is a Research Fellow of the Biodiversity Research Centre Academia Sinica, Taiwan, a member of the Eastern Taiwan Strait Sousa Technical Advisory Working Group, and a specialist on working groups of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
*Taiwan humpback dolphin commonly called Taiwan pink dolphin.


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Putting the final touches on an operating system is always very satisfying. When that operating system is Slackware, this is especially true. Slack is one of the quintessential "hands on" distributions where you really get down and dirty with the essentials of just exactly how your OS functions. Doing a full install of software with Slack will give you a plethora of tools with which you can build your own programs. The only portion I did without was KDE, as there is no way I will obtain any kind of performance with it.
A great resource is www.slackbuilds.org. slackbuilds are so useful because of their excellent documentation, and they build slackware packages with proper permissions and install locations. Slackbuilds.org also lists dependencies that need to be built before the slackbuild will compile correctly. It can be a tad annoying tracking down all the dependencies before building the program you wish to use, but it would be FAR more annoying trying to build the program and not having the dependencies already installed. I won't bore you with how to set up a user account... One of my arch linux blogs documents this, and the functionality is the same in slackware.
The second step was to get the wireless functional as this laptop does not have an ethernet port, so connecting to the internet would have to be accomplished by the belkin wireless card that utilizes the broadcom 4306 wireless chip. The native stx broadcom driver does not include support for the 4306, so I would have to use either the b43 module or ndiswrapper. Slackbuilds.org has slackbuilds for the b43, so I built the b43 module against the proper firmware and I was in business. One of the first things you'll want to do with slack is to build your own custom kernel. Without gnome or kde running things for power-management, I decided to compile in support for tuxonice to enable hibernation. Trimming unneeded items out can take some time on a custom kernel, so be sure to take your time and get it right the first time.... that and compiling on a 600 mhz celeron will take HOURS. I found best results with hibernation from the command line. So exiting out of x and issuing the /usr/sbin/hibernate command saved an image of what was running, and resuming brought the system back up in 10 seconds flat. Not bad for an old 600 mhz celeron.
The window manager selection was easy for me to decide on. Openbox is both lightweight and yet very robust in it's configurability. Had I not upgraded the ram to 320 megs, I would have gone without a panel to save on resources, and simply used alt-tab. Since I do have over 256 megs of ram however, installing a panel is perfectly acceptable and won't impact performance. There are many good choices for panels, such as pypanel and lxpanel, and I could have installed stalonetray or trayer just for a dock, but I tend to like having a menu accessible on my panel, so I chose fbpanel.... not because fbpanel is any easier or better than the other afore-mentioned panels... but because I've used fbpanel for a long time and I'm intimately familiar with just how it functions and how to configure it. In fact, now that I think about it, I do tend to reuse many of the same programs, as I find it more productive than constantly learning new ways to achieve exactly what I want. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. The slackbuild for pcmanfm compiled and installed perfectly, and I was set with a lightweight filemanager which can also handle desktop icons.
Getting volwheel to work with Slackware was a tad difficult, only because of the fact that there is no slackbuild for it, and also no slackbuild for it's needed dependency (perl-gtk2-trayicon). This required little in the way of real innovation. The aur in arch linux has a pkgbuild for perl-gtk2-trayicon, which also includes what it depends on which is perl-extutils-pkgconfig, which does have a slackbuild. Then I followed the instructions in the pkgbuild for perl-gtk2-trayicon, which involves downloading the source of gtk2-trayicon, unpacking the tarball and issuing the following command to build it with perl.
Then, I was able to utilize volwheel normally. It was good to see the documentation updated with very specific install instructions by the way. Props to Oliwer!
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL
make install
I also have enough ram to utilize wicd to handle accessing different wireless networks. The command line or a script would of course use fewer resources, but I wanted to see how the system would respond with 320 megs of ram and wicd. I installed wicd from /extra and the system didn't seem to suffer in usability, so I told it to start on bootup by adding wicd-client to my autostart.sh.
With conky installed I had access to some common features that I like to be aware of... such as ram usage, cpu usage, cpu temp, battery charge, file system usage, and network usage.
alignment top_right
background yes
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color cornflowerblue
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
gap_x 25
gap_y 15
maximum_width 225
max_port_monitor_connections 64
max_specials 512
max_user_text 16384
minimum_size 330 10
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
#wm_class_name Conky
own_window_colour black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window yes
stippled_borders 2
update_interval 2
uppercase no
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.8
xftfont arial:size=9
${color #9DCAFF}${font impact:size=12}$sysname $kernel ${alignr}$color${time %l:%M:%p}
${color #9DCAFF}$nodename
${font arial:size=5}
${color #0077ff}${font arial:bold:size=12}System:
${color #0077ff}${font arial:size=9}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color #0077ff} Load:$color $loadavg
${color #0077ff}CPU 0(${freq}mhz):${alignr}$color ${cpu cpu1}%
${color #0077ff}${cpubar cpu1}
${color}CPU Temp: ${color #0077ff}${acpitemp}${color}Celsius
${color #0077ff}RAM Usage:${alignr}$color $mem${color #0077ff}/${color}$memmax - $memperc%
${color #0077ff}$membar
${color #0077ff}Swap Usage:${alignr}$color $swap${color #0077ff}/${color}$swapmax - $swapperc%
${color #0077ff}${swapbar}
${color #0077ff}${font arial:bold:size=12}File Systems:
${color #0077ff}${font arial:size=9}/ ${alignr}$color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}
${color #0077ff}${fs_bar /}
${color #0077ff}/home ${alignr}$color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home}
${color #0077ff}${fs_bar /home}
${color #0077ff}${font arial:bold:size=12}Processes:
${color #0077ff}${font arial:size=9}Top CPU ${alignr}CPU% MEM%
$color ${top name 1} ${alignr}${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
$color ${top name 2} ${alignr}${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
$color ${top name 3} ${alignr}${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color #0077ff}Total Processes:$color ${processes}
${color #0077ff}${font arial:bold:size=12}Network:
${font arial:size=9}${color #0077ff}
${color #0077ff}Net Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} k/s
${color #0077ff}${downspeedgraph eth0 104E8B 0077ff}
${color #0077ff}Net Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color #0077ff}${upspeedgraph eth0 104E8B 0077ff}
${color #909090}AC Adaptor: ${color0}$acpiacadapter
${color #909090}Battery: ${color0}${battery}
blogger.com never seems to format this correctly, so if you need my conkyrc and can't figure out where blogger screwed it up, just drop me a line.
Here's a list of what I chose
Window manager = Openbox
File manager = pcmanfm
Panel = fbpanel
Terminal emulator = sakura
Graphical text editor = geany
Mplayer = movie player
Mplayerplugin = movie player in firefox
Browser = firefox
Music Manager = Quod Libet
Card games = Pysolfc
Chat program = pidgin, xchat irc
Email client = thunderbird
Bittorrent client = transmission
Word processor = abiword
Calculator = galculator
Graphical archiver = peazip
These are all lightweight, or fairly lightweight applications that function well on older hardware. There are of course ways to go with even lighter software, but I didn't feel the need as these all function well and are easier to use (IMHO) than their more lightweight alternatives.
The 5000e has an 8 meg ati m3 graphics chip that utilizes the r128 module in xorg.conf. Changing the driver to this and a couple of other tweaks allowed me to achieve 530 FPS in glxgears. I know... I know... glxgears is not a benchmark, but it showed that 3d was working and I could utilize basic 3d functions. Installing frozen-bubble confirmed this. It was very slow at the default settings, but turning it down one notch (removes the penguin firing the bubble animation) allowed decent play.
Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA Framebuffer"
Driver "r128"
VideoRam 8192
Option "AGPMode" "2"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
I love to encourage people to still utilize their older hardware. It's always great to have the latest and greatest to run the newest version of kde or gnome with all the bells and whistles, but the funny thing is that older hardware like this laptop are still perfectly usable with the right choice of window manager, software, and available hardware upgrades.
This has been a fun project, and I encourage you all to dig out that old desktop or laptop and resurrect it to usefulness.


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How about a little reveal....
Title: Stealing Promises
Author: Brina Courtney
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Book Blurb:
What if love was like gasoline? Light a match and become engulfed in it's flame. Chase Harper is a little bit of a bad boy, but he's good for Hannah and she knows it. Their childhood crush quickly ignites into attraction and takes over their entire lives. But when disaster strikes, what can Hannah do to keep her world from falling into the darkness? Her life could fall apart at any moment, just one match and everything goes up in the blaze. Don't get too close to the flame, or you're bound to get burned.
This is a NA upgrade and extension of Brina's sweet and fabulous Their Promise Novella.
About Brina Courtney
Brina Courtney is a young adult author obsessed with chocolate, crime shows, and fantasy movies. She's spent the last few years as an elementary teacher and a high school cheering coach. She lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with her husband and two very loud, small dogs. Links Blog Facebook Twitter Goodreads