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There's a lot of conflicting information about credit scores on the internet. Even if you don't research credit scores online, you can still get misinformation from well-meaning people in your life like your parents and friends who don't fully understand how credit scores work.
Should you carry a balance on your credit card? Should you take out a personal loan you don't need? Should you close old credit cards? How hard is it to get a perfect score of 900? Depending on who you ask you could get two or more completely different answers.
But credit scores aren't complicated. Despite the fact that no one outside of the credit bureaus Equifax Canada and TransUnion Canada knows how they're calculated, they're actually not hard to understand.
Your credit score isn't for you. It's for banks and lenders. You can have a high credit score and still be in financial trouble.
You should never pay any interest you weren't planning on paying. Doing things like carrying a credit card balance and taking out a loan might improve you credit score, but so does paying your credit card on time every month. The only thing you're doing when you take out additional, unnecessary loans is throw your money away on interest charges.
Don't worry too much about your credit score. Focus on making good financial decisions, and your credit score will naturally go up.
A credit score is a number (between 300 and 900 in Canada) that shows lenders how likely you are to pay back your debts.
It has nothing to do with how much money you earn. A person with very little income can have an amazing credit score so long as they pay their bills in full and on time. And it's not unheard of for "wealthy" people to declare bankruptcy which causes their credit score to plummet.
Your credit score is calculated based on 5 factors (listed in order of importance):
- Your history of on time payments
- The amount of credit you're using, compared to how much credit you have available
- The length of your credit accounts
- The variety of credit accounts
- The number of "hard pulls" on your credit report
Notice that your income, savings, assets, and even the amount of debt you have doesn't matter. It only matters that you're not using too much of your total available credit at any given time.
That means you can have a large amount of debt (like a mortgage) and still have a great credit score. It also means that having a large asset (like home equity) doesn't result in a higher score.
Many people think that a higher score is always better, and if their score drops a few points it can have disastrous consequences. However, that's not the case.
Credit score is not a linear progression. 900 isn't better than 800. Actually, there's no difference between 800 and 900 except the number. You'd get the best mortgage rates at either score.
Credit score goes up in steps, not in a line. And it doesn't go up evenly, either. If your score is below 550, you'll have trouble getting a loan, and the ones you do get offered will have high interest rates. Above 550, you'll find it progressively easier to get loans, and at about 760 you'll reach the ceiling.
Small changes to your credit score month-to-month are normal and expected. Unless your score drops by dozens of points at once, you shouldn't worry too much about dips.
Your credit score is just to give lenders an indication of how likely it is you'll pay back your debt.
At any credit score, there's a risk of delinquency or default. Delinquency is missing a payment by a certain number of days (usually measured in multiples of 30), while defaulting on a loan means that you don't make a payment at all. Defaulted loans can be sent to collections, which means the lender sells the debt you owe them to someone else, who then will try to get it from you.
Since lenders know that a portion of all loans will never get paid, they charge interest based on how likely a loan is to be repaid. Higher credit scores have lower risk of delinquency or default, so they charge less interest.
At lower credit scores, interest rates are much higher because there's a larger risk of never getting their money back. The higher interest rates help mitigate their losses.
Sometimes non-lenders will want to take a look at your credit report. For example, landlords like seeing a high credit score because it shows that you're responsible with money. When looking for place to rent, having a high credit score can help your chances.
If your credit score is really low, lenders might decide you're too risky to lend to, so you'll have trouble getting a mortgage, loan, or credit card.
This is the single most important factor that determines your credit score. If you remember anything from this article, remember this:
Always make your payments on time and in full, but;
If you can't make your payments in full, then make partial payments on time, however;
If you can't make your payments at all, get in contact with your creditors as soon as possible.
Why is it so important to make your payments in full and on time?
Your credit score isn't affected by how large your payments on your debts are, only that you pay the minimum by the due date. In fact, your creditors would prefer if you didn't pay your debts in full because then they can charge you interest.
Making payments on time improves your credit score, and making payments in full saves you money in interest. For credit cards, if you make your payments in full every month, you'll never spend a dime on interest charges.
If you can't pay in full, you can still make a partial payment and preserve your credit score. Your minimum payment is the least amount of money you can pay to avoid being considered delinquent. As long as you pay as much or more than your minimum, your payment history will remain spotless.
That's why I suggest you at least make the minimum payment on your credit card if you absolutely cannot afford to pay the full balance.
Your utilization is calculated as:
(how much money you're currently borrowing) ÷ (your credit limit) × 100
For example, if you had a credit card with a $10,000 limit and spent $3,000, your credit utilization would be
$3,000 ÷ $10,000 × 100 = 30%
The lower your credit utilization, the better.
Your credit score takes into account both the utilization of all your products and the utilization of each one individually.
If you had 3 credit cards, with limits of $1,000 each, and spent $1,000 on one, your overall utilization would be low, but one card's utilization would be high. If you spread out your spending over all 3 cards, your combined utilization would be high even though your individual utilization is low.
The best way to keep your utilization low is not to spend more than you can afford to pay off. If it's unavoidable, try to use your lower interest products before your higher interest products. That will help avoid paying too much in interest.
Unlike every other factor, credit utilization has no memory. If you have high utilization one month, but pay it off the next, it will immediately stop affecting your credit. You can boost your credit score by several points quickly this way.
Whenever you apply for a credit product, the lender will perform a "hard pull" on your credit. Unlike a "soft pull," which doesn't affect your credit, a hard pull will drop your score by a few points. If there are many hard pulls in a short amount of time, your score can drop by quite a lot.
The good thing is that your score recovers quickly after a hard pull. The effects of a credit inquiry began to fade off in just a few months. The inquiries remain on your report for longer, but stop affecting your score after about half a year.
The longer you have a credit account open, the better. Having an open credit account means that the lender has faith in you paying your debts.
If you regularly miss your payments, your lender can close the account. For some products, like a line of credit, the bank can "call" it (ask for it to be paid in full) at any time, even if it is in good standing. This might happen after they learn of a job loss, for example, and they're worried that you won't be able to pay them.
Because some people are aware that having credit for a long time is better, they may think that they should never cancel an old credit account.
My advice is that it's generally fine to keep open no-fee accounts, but it's not worth to pay for cards you don't use. Length of credit is only a small portion of your overall score. Cancelling a card, even if it's your oldest card, won't drop your score by a lot – and since credit score works off tiers rather than linearly, a drop of a few points can have literally no effect on your ability to get loans.
Remember how I said earlier that credit score is for the banks, not you? This is a prime example.
If you have multiple types of credit, it's more likely that you'll use them. Someone with just one credit card can only ever use that credit card. Their ability to pay the bank interest is limited.
Someone with a mortgage, 5 credit cards, a line of credit, and a car loan are paying interest on a variety of products, which makes the bank happy. So their credit score goes up a little bit to let them get other products more easily.
If you never pay interest, you're worth less to the bank than a customer that does. Why extend credit you're not likely to use? It costs them money to set up the account for you (in the form of employee salaries), and they want to see a return on that investment.
Typically, it's absolutely fine to have as many no-fee accounts as possible. They're there if you need them and they don't cost you anything.
However, if you have too much credit, that may set off alarm bells. You could decide to max out all your lines beyond your capacity to repay them and then no one gets their money back.
You can check your credit score for free online at sites like borrowell.com or creditkarma.ca.
No! Carrying a balance does not help your score. It actually hurts it because of credit utilization – and you have to pay interest too.
A little bit, but it's much worse to be paying for a credit card that you don't use than it is to lose a couple points. I always say there's no reason to cancel a no-fee credit card, so long as you can control your spending.
My first recommendation would be a secured credit card, rather than a loan. A secured credit card requires a cash deposit, but can be used interest-free as long as you make your monthly payments on time.
How many credit cards should you have? The best number of credit cards is however many you need to maximize your rewards without spending too much in annual fees. If you have trouble with overspending, then you should limit your total number of credit cards.


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From the Illinois
Nurserymen's Association
Gardening Tips
April 2001
7, 2001]
has sprung, and now it's time to get your garden growing! Your local garden
centers will be coming alive with new products and information. The ICN Pro at
your local garden center will be anxiously awaiting your visit. He or she will
be able to answer your gardening questions and offer great advice.
are many things to do in your yard and garden in April. Following is
a short list of reminders.
bulbs will continue to pop up and bloom. After they bloom be
sure to let their foliage ripen. That means you should allow the
foliage to die away on its own — do not cut it back, tie it in
knots or otherwise destroy it. The foliage provides food for the
bulb, allowing it to grow and produce a flower the next season.
Once the foliage is completely brown, then it is time to cut it
you are planning to install a new garden area or revamp an old
one, now is the time to do your bed preparation. If your soil is
poor, you should work an organic material (like mushroom
compost) into the soil when your do your bed preparation.
Application rates can vary depending on your soil type. An ICN
Pro at your local garden center will be able to help you
determine the amount your soil requires.
will be arriving at your local garden center throughout the
month of April. Most of the perennials can be planted beginning
in April. Some perennials will tolerate cold better than others,
so to be absolutely certain ask the ICN Pro at your garden
center. Visit your local garden center frequently to see what
new perennials are in bloom. There will be something new almost
every week.
planting your annuals you need to think about the danger of
frost. Some annuals, like Johnny-jump-ups and pansies, can
tolerate a frost; others will not. Most annual planting should
be delayed until the frost-free date for your area passes. Your
ICN Pro will be able to tell you which ones you can plant now
and which ones you should wait on.
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treatments should be applied BEFORE the crabgrass can be seen. A
common practice is to apply lawn fertilizer and crabgrass
preventer at the same time. This is a granular formulation that
can be applied with a spreader. Some garden centers will have a
spreader available for you to borrow or rent.
is a good month to sow your grass seed. Remember that you CANNOT
apply crabgrass preventer on your newly seeded areas!
the end of April you can spray the weeds that are growing in
your yard. It is a good idea to wait until the end of April to
spray weeds because by then most of the weeds are actively
trees need to be sprayed before they bloom and then again after
they bloom. It is very important that you DO NOT spray while the
tree is in bloom. Spraying at this stage will kill the
pollinating insects, including honeybees, and severely reduce
your fruit production.
is the month to treat for peach leaf curl. If you have cherry,
apricot or other Prunus species, they need to be sprayed before
the buds break. Products that are effective are lime sulfur and
captan. If you have questions, an ICN Pro at your local garden
center will be able to help you.
more gardening information, visit your ICN Pros at your local garden
center! While you're there, be sure to check out the spring
blooming perennials, shrubs and trees! We'll be back next month
for May's Gardening Tips.
Tips" is provided monthly
by the Illinois Nurserymen's Association,
1717 S. Fifth St. in Springfield.]
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grandparents raising grandchildren
24, 2001]
number of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren is on the rise. In
Illinois, about 70,000 children are raised in homes where a grandparent is the
sole caregiver.
who have become parents again come from all walks of life and from
all cultural and economic groups," explains Molly Hofer, family
life educator with University of Illinois Extension. "They
often feel overwhelmed and alone when they take on the parenting
an effort to address concerns that grandparents face, U of I
Extension is offering a free newsletter, Parenting Again. This
monthly newsletter offers practical tips on issues like finding
support groups and resources, helping grandchildren succeed in
school, taking care of your own health, effective discipline, and
unique challenges for second-time parents.
newsletter also covers seasonal topics like summer activities,
holiday gift-giving and school enrollment," says Hofer.
find out more about the Parenting Again newsletter, contact the U of
I Extension office in Logan County. You can subscribe by phone,
(217) 732-8289; fax, (217) 735-5837; or e-mail, email@example.com.
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the trip
Travelers get info,
deals online and visit their travel agents for a personal touch
24, 2001]
widespread use of the Internet for online travel arrangements may have had an
impact on most local travel agencies' business, but customers still seem to
prefer a personal touch.
agent Becky Grapes of World Travel in Springfield said her customers
may shop around for travel deals on their personal computers, but
they come back to her for booking and purchases.
are using the Internet, but it doesn't seem to be affecting us.
They like the personal service and know that if they have a problem,
they have someone to come back and talk to. On the Internet, there
is no one to talk to. People are very leery of that," she said.
"Customers are still going to use a travel agency in a lot of
has definitely changed the way people plan their vacations, with
everything from electronic tickets, online price wars and an
abundance of websites devoted to all aspects of the travel industry.
despite the wealth of information now available which allows
consumers to compare prices and find the best deal, local travel
agents are hearing complaints from dissatisfied customers who used
the Internet to make their own travel plans. Most of those former
customers have returned to a brick-and-mortar travel agency after
going it alone. The unique aspects that make up a wireless world of
travel seem to be the same things driving consumers back to their
local travel agents.
hear that once or twice a day — complaints from people booking
travel plans through websites, and then customers not getting what
they were promised. There's no recourse," Grapes added.
find more advantages dealing with a travel agent than through the
Internet, she said.
"It's (Internet) very restrictive. Often tickets purchased
online cannot be exchanged or
returned. With us, if there is a cancellation, they still have
credit. That still means a lot to people," she said.
"Customers use the Internet for research and find out what they
want, and then call us. They feel more comfortable by having a
person to talk to and an actual ticket."
the downfalls, however, shopping for travel online has proved useful
not only for
customers but also for the travel industry. Grapes uses the Internet
for research so she can offer her customers more information. She
says it has worked to her advantage, because customers really
appreciate the fact she can offer them additional information and
point them to websites for virtual tours, photos and details she
once had to look through brochures or make numerous phone calls to
said most agents don't use the Internet for airline fares, which
are booked through the airlines, but do utilize it to book hotels,
packages and tours.
definitely helped us with research. It's nice to be able to tell
someone what the website is at the resort they are looking at. Some
are very informative, with pictures and virtual tours," she
survey of travel agencies conducted by Travel Weekly found about 78
percent of U.S.
agencies now can access the Internet on-site, and indications are
that number will continue to grow.
Martin, manager of Bergner's Travel in White Oaks Mall, said her
business has decreased about 10 percent due to people making travel
plans online. Most of those customers, however, have returned to her
agency after bad experiences and dissatisfaction. "They know
they can come back [to us] if there's a problem," she said,
which often isn't the case when making travel plans online.
said she's noticed a decrease in the volume of business during the
past few years,
with many former customers saying they now use the Internet to make
travel plans.
many of those customers have been unhappy. "They thought they
were getting one thing, and they were getting something else,"
she said.
to Forrester Research, online travel sales are predicted to reach an
$7.4 billion in 2001.
of the biggest concerns for travel agents trying to compete with
this increase in online sales is the growing number of suppliers
enticing travelers with offers that can be found only on Internet
sites or in weekly e-mails.
acknowledges that it's hard to compete with those offers but isn't
worried that the computer age will replace the hands-on art of doing
business with a travel agent.
Groves, owner of Monique's Travel in Springfield, agrees. "At
first, maybe the Internet had a negative impact [on our business].
But now what we're seeing is that consumers do research and then
come to us," she said. "The Internet is a powerful tool
that sometimes makes it easier, but sometimes you're [travel
agent] just an order-taker."
said about 85 percent of people who do research on the Internet then
call her office to buy tickets, if she can match the prices.
"More people are doing that. A lot of tour companies and
vacation-package companies offer information on the Internet. Then
customers ask me about what they've seen and come in and book with
us," she said.
think it's confusing. Recently, an elderly woman purchased a
ticket on the Internet.
When she got the ticket — a non-refundable — her sister in
Florida who she was going to visit passed away. She came in and
asked me to fix it," she said. "It's the personal touch
people are wanting. If they run into a problem, sometimes the
Internet company is hard to get a hold of.
time new technology comes out, doomsayers say travel agencies are
going to be
out of business. But we adapted to the computer in the early '80s
when computer airline
registrations came out. Now we've adapted to the Internet,"
she said.
most local travel agents feel that information alone is not enough
to sell travel.
National statistics support their theory that consumers feel the
Internet simply can't match the range of personalized services a
professional can offer.
to a study by the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) — the
world's largest and most influential travel trade association —
many consumers feel the Internet can't give them many things a
travel agent can: firsthand experience; personalized service; expert
advice; professional assistance with problems such as flight
cancellations and missed connections; convenient one-stop shopping;
follow-up service; ability to reissue, void or change tickets; human
interaction; and special requests like wheelchairs, pet care and
dietary needs.
mentioned by consumers in the study who made their own travel plans
included not understanding the restrictions, being unable to get
advertised fair or quoted prices, concerns about reputation of a
company, paying more than necessary, and feeling the process was
time-consuming and confusing. Booking the wrong date or time, having
their credit card denied but not being notified, and having no
assistance with changes in their tickets were also common
said her agency charges a service fee, to make up for a 50 percent
commission cut
made five years ago by the airline industry, but feels it's
justified because "we do feel like we do a service. We do
research, obtain seats for customers, help with problems or changes.
We feel we bring a value to what we do, but the service fee has
nothing to do with decreased business due to Internet
competition," she said. "There's too many things that
are complicated about travel. People still need us."
Tax Time
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Tax Service
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Pulaski, Lincoln
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for Lunch Mon.-Sat.
Open for Dinner Tues.-Sat.
here to view our
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These animals and
more are available to good homes from the Logan County Animal
Control at 1515 N. Kickapoo, phone 735-3232.
Fees for animal
adoption: dogs, $60/male, $65/female; cats, $35/male, $44/female.
The fees include neutering and spaying.
Logan County Animal
Control's hours of operation:
Sunday – closed
Monday –
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tuesday –
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Wednesday –
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday –
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Friday –
8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Saturday –
Warden: Sheila Farmer
Assistant: Michelle Mote
In-house veterinarian: Dr. Lester Thompson
Be prepared to take the necessary time when you bring home a
puppy, kitten, dog, cat or any other pet, and you will be blessed.
County Animal Control is thankful for pet supplies donated by
individuals and Wal-Mart.]
a very loving pit bull mix puppy,
is 3 months old.
are three of these adorable puppies:
two brown and one black.
They are about 3 months old, very sweet and would make
good farm dogs.
female border collie is about 1 year old.
She is very sweet and would be a good farm dog.
friendly black mix is 1 or 2 years old, with a
disposition. He
would make a good farm dog.
Ten reasons to adopt a
shelter dog
I'll bring out your
playful side!
I'll lend an ear to
your troubles.
I'll keep you
fit and trim.
We'll look out for each other.
We'll sniff
out fun together!
I'll keep you
right on schedule.
I'll love you
with all my heart.
We'll have a
tail-waggin' good time!
We'll snuggle
on a quiet evening.
We'll be
best friends always.
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County Animal Control is thankful for pet supplies donated by
individuals and Wal-Mart.]
Purdy is a 1-year-old male Siamese-Himalayan
mix, light orange and white. He is neutered, housebroken and
good with kids.
is a female, long-haired, gray calico.
She is 1 year old.
female calico is good cat.
She is 1 year old and friendly.
is a friendly, gray calico.
She is about 1 year old.
gray and white cat is friendly
and would made a good farm cat.
A taste
of New England just off Route 66
It's maple sirup time at Funks Grove
Penny Zimmerman-Wills
20, 2001]
amid a grove of towering timber just off a quiet stretch of old
Route 66 near Bloomington sits a slice of New England. At the end of
a curved dirt lane is a modest shingled home, a low-slung brown sap
house spouting large clouds of steam, and rows and rows of trees
with aluminum buckets attached to their trunks. Ancient gnarled
oaks, slender saplings and majestic maples give the place an almost
mystical feeling. A small red building with simple, black painted
letters spelling out Funks Grove is nestled among the virgin timber
and provides a wonderful burst of color in what is otherwise a sea
of gray bark.
Grove is actually a township. There once was a town with a post
office and a few businesses, but as Bloomington grew, the town dried
up. Funks Grove now is a church, cemetery and a Sugar Grove Nature
Center, which gives visitors a chance to see how the land once
looked when settlers arrived," Mike Funk said.
area once supported six syrup camps, but only his family has managed
to stay in the business, Funk said.
cold weather crop season only lasts four to six weeks, beginning in
February and March, and during that time the Funks gather between
40,000 and 60,000 gallons of maple sugar from the stand of trees,
which yields between 800 and 1,200 gallons of syrup.
shop sells bottles and bottles of the stuff until they run out,
which is usually about the
beginning of August.
brown sap house is where the action takes place and where the watery
collected from the trees is turned into syrup. Customers flow in and
out of the adjoining
gift shop, which offers light syrup and dark syrup, in jars and jugs
and log-cabin cans. You can buy maple candy and maple cream or Funks
Grove Honey. There are also nature books, cookbooks, T-shirts
("Just naturally sweet") and plenty of Route 66
memorabilia, plus the romance and children's novels written by
Funk's sister.
who also has a part-time job and farms, said he usually takes a
vacation from his other jobs during this time of year to manage the
Nature can actually be given the credit for knowing when it's time
to start the process. In the early spring, a freezing and thawing
cycle is required to generate the flow of sap, according to Funk. A
tree must be 40 years old and 10 inches in diameter to support one
tap. Holes up to 2 inches deep are drilled into the trees with a
power drill. Metal spouts are hammered into the trees and metal
buckets are hung on the majority
of the 4,000 taps drilled annually. The rest are connected to a more
modern pipeline tubing system. When warm thawing temperatures follow
a hard freeze, the sap begins to run. Under ideal conditions, a
150-quart sap bucket can fill in 10 hours.
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crew member totes two five-gallon gathering pails and moves from
tree to tree, pouring the sap from their buckets into the pails.
When the pails are full, they are poured into a tank pulled through
the woods by a tractor. The collected sap is stored in an
underground cistern to keep it from getting too cold or warm.
process of evaporation makes 50 gallons of sap become one gallon of
syrup. The liquid is pumped from the cistern into the evaporation
tank, which is a series of connected metal pans. As the level of sap
in the pans decreases through the evaporation, more sap is metered
into the pans by a flat device, and the temperature must be raised
six degrees. After being drawn off the evaporation tank, the liquid
is finished in the gas-fired finishing pan, where the liquid is
raised another degree, pressure-filtered and then bottled while it's
hot. The entire process from cistern to bottling tank can be done in
less than three hours, according to Funk.
dealing with sticky fingers several months of the year, how does
Funk actually use the stuff? "Mostly in the traditional way, on
pancakes and waffles, hot cereals or biscuits. It's also good on
ice cream," he said. And most customers don't hesitate to
indulge despite a trend toward healthier, light eating these days.
a natural sugar, it's not processed sugar. You can use it in
baking as a sugar replacement. We say there's no fat, just all
calories," Funk said with a smile.
the buds on the maples begin to swell, it signals the end of the
season. Buckets and
bags come down, spouts are pulled off and the camp receives a good
spring cleaning. But
even after the sign at the end of the road says "Closed for the
Season," customers still
wind their way up the wooded lane looking for a taste of New
Woodlawn Rd. in Lincoln
1-888-455-4641 or 735-5400
Ask for Terry Lock or Sharon Awe
19, 2001]
amid a grove of towering timber just off a quiet stretch of old
Route 66 near Bloomington sits a slice of New England. At the end of
a curved dirt lane is a modest shingled home, a low-slung brown sap
house spouting large clouds of steam, and rows and rows of trees
with aluminum buckets attached to their trunks. Ancient gnarled
oaks, slender saplings and majestic maples give the place an almost
mystical feeling. A small red building with simple, black painted
letters spelling out Funks Grove is nestled among the virgin timber
and provides a wonderful burst of color in what is otherwise a sea
of gray bark.
scene could easily be found in the eastern region of the country,
but it's here at Funks Grove Sirup Camp ("sirup" with an
"i" is the preferred spelling at Funks Grove). This tiny
spot in central Illinois is where the Funk family has been making
the sweet liquid since the early 1920s. On a recent sunny winter
day, three bus loads of senior citizens and school children toured
the site, and all seemed fascinated with how maple syrup is made.
Young and old alike squealed with delight as they tested samples and
eagerly purchased more to take home.
and Debby Funk, who now operate the business, took turns giving
tours of the operation and explaining the process from the beginning
stages in the woods to the end result, which appears in glass
bottles in the gift shop. Pure maple syrup is produced commercially
at only a handful of places in the Midwest, which explains part of
the appeal of the place. The other reason is that because of its
location on a historic road it's often found by visitors who might
not otherwise know about it.
get a lot of visitors from Route 66," Debby Funk said.
"During the summer months we get groups on motorcycles or
antique cars, doing the Route 66 trip from Chicago to California. It's
fact, there are so many visitors from so many places, she keeps a
world map in the gift shop and has customers mark the country or
city where they're from. Some people, from as far away as Brazil,
Australia, Africa, Japan and Germany, have drawn their home on the
back of the map.
business, which is listed on the Route 66 Hall of Fame and was
designated a Registered Natural Landmark by the National Park
Service, has become a common stop for many repeat customers who can't
get enough of the sweet, sticky stuff.
start getting phone calls in January and people say they are running
out of syrup and need more," Mike Funk said. "We still get
people who remember we were here and always wanted to stop by. Once
the nostalgia associated with Route 66 hit, people started traveling
from Chicago to Los Angeles, and they stopped in out of
must admit, I was one of those people who had always noted the large
billboard advertising Funks Grove while traveling north on I-55 but
had never bothered to stop. I'm so glad I finally did, because the
hospitality of the Funk family is as welcoming and soothing on a
crisp winter day as the warm syrup they produce.
timber where the camp is located is actually owned by the trust fund
of Hazel Funk Holmes, a nature-loving relative who intended a walk
though the camp to be an educational experience. By the terms of her
will, her woodlands will be preserved and maple syrup will continue
to be produced at Funks Grove as long as its feasible, Funk said.
all started when great-grandfather Isaac Funk, the pioneer founder
of what was later known as Funks Grove, settled in 1824 in an area
rich in maple trees and discovered the art of making maple syrup and
maple sugar, which during that time was the only way to get readily
available sweetener. Isaac's grandson Arthur opened the first
commercial syrup camp at Funks Grove in 1891, selling the sweet
stuff for $1 a gallon as a luxury item. Arthur's brother Lawrence
later ran the operation and passed it on to his son, who is Mike
Funk's father.
father, Stephen, 76, and his mother, Glaida, 74, took over the camp
in 1948. Although they officially retired about 12 years ago, they're
still on hand most days, helping out at the business. It's hard to
get away, not only because they enjoy it but also because they live
in the shingled house just yards away from the sap house and the
center of activity. "It's a part of their life, it always
will be," Funk said.
Funk has passed the family tradition on to his three children. His
two daughters and son grew up helping out in the family's seasonal
business, and his daughters liked to make maple candy sold in the
gift shop as a way to earn extra spending money.
was made possible by Isaac's granddaughter Hazel, whose trust
provides the forest and capital needed for producing syrup. She was
also was the person who insisted "sirup" was the preferred
spelling. Noting that the U.S. Agriculture Department uses the
spelling, the Funks decided to stick with it out of respect for
Funk Holmes had 160 acres of timber that we operate on and also some
farm ground. We also rent trees from other trusts, so there are
probably 500 or 600 acres altogether," Funk said.
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CNBC Europe interviews Hinde Capital's Davies on gold paper risk
10:52p ET Thursday, July 8, 2010
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
On Tuesday CNBC Europe gave nine minutes to Ben Davies, CEO of Hinde Capital in London, to explain how the exchange-traded funds for gold and the so-called physical gold market are relying on paper gold rather than real metal, how London metals trader Andrew Maguire documented a metals market manipulation to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and how governments want precious metals prices suppressed. As you may recall, Davies lately has been doing heroic work to spread the word of gold price suppression with an appearance on CNBC Europe in May (http://www.gata.org/node/8683) and a report published in June (http://www.gata.org/node/8738). Davies' latest appearance on CNBC Europe is headlined "Potential Gold Bubble Forming?" and you can watch it at the CNBC Internet site here:
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Prophecy to Become Coal Producer This Year
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Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY) announced on May 11 that it has entered into a mine services agreement with Leighton Asia Ltd. to begin coal production this year. Production will begin with a 250,000-tonne starter pit as planned in August, with production advancing to 2 million tonnes per year in 2011. Prophecy is fully funded to production and its management team includes John Morganti, Arnold Armstrong, and Rob McEwen.
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Sona Resources Expects Positive Cash Flow from Blackdome,
Plans Aggressive Exploration of Elizabeth Gold Property
On May 18, 2010, Sona Resources Corp. (TSXV: SYS, Frankfurt: QS7) announced the release of a preliminary economic assessment for gold production at its flagship Blackdome and Elizabeth properties in British Columbia.
Sona Executive Chairman Nick Ferris says: "We view this as a baseline scenario for gold production. The project is highly sensitive to the price of gold. A conservative valuation of gold at $1,093 per ounce would result in a pre-tax cash flow of $54 million. The assessment indicates that underground mining at the two sites would recover 183,600 ounces of gold and 62,500 ounces of silver. Permitting and infrastructure are already in place for processing ore at the Blackdome mill, with a 200-tonne per day throughput over an eight-year mine life. Our near-term goal is to continue aggressive exploration at Elizabeth and develop a million-plus-ounce gold resource, commencing production in 2013."
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The body, which represents a nexus of concepts and social constructions and is the locus of a wide range of religious techniques and technologies, is at the center of what defines Hinduism. There is no one understanding of body, as multiple delineations coexist and change according to theological-philosophical, devotional, and gendered contexts and perspectives. Sanskrit terms such as śarīra (from the root śrī-, "to be easily destroyed or …
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The leadership of the northern provincial council has come to the defence of state minister Vijayakala Maheswaran who is under fire for having said that the province was more secure and free during LTTE control, according to radiogagana.com.
The chairman and the chief minister of the NPC say what Maheswaran has said is true.
North is insecure today
CM C.V. Vigneswaran has told the media in Jaffna that there was nothing wrong to comment on the prevailing insecurity of the northern people.
Other than the sufferings of the war, the province underwent no other hardship during LTTE control, according to him.
Saying that does not make us terrorists, said Vigneswaran.
During the war, a girl wearing jewelry could go in the road safely in the night. But, incidents of rapes, violence and drug use are very high today, he said.
The CM said that was why the NPC was asking for police powers to control these menaces, but southern politicians were sowing seeds of racism without understanding the truth.
NPC chairman C.V.K. Sivagnanam too, agrees, but says the manner in which the state minister aired her views was faulty.
During LTTE control, there were no gangsters or rapes in the north, the culture was safeguarded and the people were safe, he told journalists.
Those days, criminals could not escape, but they get away very easily now, he said.
Vigneswaran said Maheswaran should be allowed to serve the people and also invited southern politicians for a dialogue on the matter.
Courtesy:Sri Lanka Mirror


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Strategic Framework Plan
Justin Hollander, PhD, AICP, looks closely at Detroit's new Strategic Framework Plan and finds a compelling plan to manage depopulation. The plan takes a realistic view of what it would take to make Detroit a great city without growing.
After two years of work, hundreds of meetings, and 70,000 survey responses and comments from participants, Detroit will today release the strategic framework plan that will guide the city's long-term recovery, reports Leonard N. Fleming.
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FRAMINGHAM (07/31/2000) - For many people in the computing industry, the fight card for the next several years is dominated by one colossal battle for supremacy: Windows vs. Linux. At first glance, the issues seem simple.
Microsoft Corp. will offer software compatibility and stability, while Linux will counter with low cost and full access to everything under the hood. Some see it as a battle between being coddled (or regulated) and being free.
When the issue is framed in these terms, it's often very easy for some information technology managers to choose sides. Retraining staff to use another word processor or spreadsheet application would be expensive. Microsoft Word and Excel run on the PC and the Macintosh. So choosing to stick with Windows seems to be a simple and safe decision.
Hidden in the shadows, outside the spotlight of hype, however, is a serious open-source software project that is aiming to give Linux, Unix and other operating systems the chance to provide 100 percent software compatibility with Windows applications. This project, known as Wine, could give Linux the chance to offer both freedom and coddling to the world.
What Is It?
The Wine project is an open-source initiative designed to clone the most important functions that the Windows operating system offers to programmers.
These features, known as the Win32 application programming interface (API), include all the basic functions for standard tasks like accessing disk drives and memory, interfacing with peripherals such as printers and scanners, moving data across the Internet and the thousands of other tasks a modern operating system does for its programs.
Wine is a recursive acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator," an inside joke that revolves around the basic design elements of the project. The group is cloning Windows by rewriting raw source code instead of simply emulating it. Several companies already make Windows emulators, programs that run noticeably slower because they must translate each instruction. Connectix Corp., for instance, sells Virtual PC, which lets a Macintosh run Windows software by painstakingly translating every x86 instruction into something the Macintosh can understand.
It also requires a license from Microsoft.
The Wine project is turning out native x86 code written in C language. Anyone can compile it and link it with a program to produce working Dynamic Link Libraries and other libraries. The group aims to produce a package just like Windows.
When the Wine group is finished, ordinary Windows programs will run on any computer with an Intel x86 chip, even if there's no software from Microsoft on the machine. Many project members are concentrating on combining Wine with Linux, but the work could be combined with other operating systems. One related project, named Odin, is aimed at making Wine work with OS/2. Software destined for other platforms like the Mac will be much easier to translate using the Wine libraries.
Programmer Robert Coeyman, who donates time to the Wine project, says such tools let "the Windows-only programmers start supporting alternate operating systems with limited effort. You can almost develop two products in the same time now, and when the project is completed, you will be able to create one code base for many operating systems."
The open-source project draws on a wide range of volunteers, including some who are paid by their employers. Some are in it for the technical challenge. Some want to save the cost of a Windows license. Some just want to see Microsoft cut out of the loop.
Corel Corp. in Ottawa is one of the highest-profile corporate contributors to the project. The company wants to port its graphics and productivity software to the Linux platform, so its programmers are contributing new code to Wine as the most efficient route. Corel has been a leader in many areas of the project, including making sure that Wine correctly handles database calls made through Open Database Connectivity. The project's leaders say these details are done - at least until Windows is revised again.
Dave Hawkes, a software engineer at CADLink Technology Corp. in Boylston, Mass., says he's experimenting with Wine because his company's product is often run on stand-alone machines where users rarely access the features of Windows.
If CADLink can save its customers the cost of a Windows license, they can pass the savings on to their customers.
"We're very much in a vertical market, so the platform isn't as important to us. They use our software to run a business, and Windows or Linux is a small part of the cost," says Hawkes.
Wine performs "surprisingly well," he adds. "Our software has a surprisingly long history. Its roots go back to Windows 2. It's a medium-size project.
You're probably talking about 500k lines of code. There are a number of issues."
Many companies are experimenting with using Wine to save costs. One programmer, who asked not to be identified, said he was working on replacing the Citrix Systems Inc. server with Linux boxes running Wine. In the current setup, the central Citrix Windows NT server runs the software and displays the results on client machines. With more than six or seven users, however, the server is too slow. This programmer says he wants to save the cost of the NT licenses for all the client machines. Putting Wine on the low-cost Linux machines saves the price of these licenses and offers better performance at peak times.
How Good?
Right now, the Wine project is far from finished, but participants can report some startling successes. Many popular programs like Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer run well, if not perfectly. Almost all the features are available. In many cases, games are also well supported, largely because many developers in the project care about games and frequently test the system with games, using the results to look for new sections of Wine that must be improved.
Wine participants track the project's success with a central database of reports on how well Wine runs each application. Programs like Autodesk Inc.'s AutoCAD, Napster and Starcraft Broodwars receive a rating of 5, which means they run almost perfectly.
Not all reports end as well. Some users can't get Microsoft Word running.
Others find strange glitches. One report said, "Adobe [Acrobat] opened up fine.
[But] after opening a PDF file, the page was horribly rendered. Text was small and highlighted in blue, no graphics were shown for this document."
Many reports fall in between. "Getting it installed meant holding your nose just right, etc., and there are occasional screen glitches, but that is usually fixed by minimizing and restoring the window," one person wrote. "I only use limited facilities [in Quicken], though. I don't use the Web or inventory stuff or the address book, just use the accounts and some reports. For those things, it's been working perfectly!"
Wine developers use these reports to decide what to work on next. Often, the people who find a bug are the ones who try to fix it. And each contributor has a personal reason for being on the project. George Boutwell, a developer, says, "My next goal is to get a little less-known accounting program to work nice in Wine. If I can get that working, my wife and I would be quite happy to never boot Windows again."
Judge Jackson's Part
The Wine project is also caught up in the breakup of Microsoft ordered by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. One proposed remedy for the case would force Microsoft to make its source code and APIs available to competitors that want to ensure compatibility. Wine is one such group. One member of the Wine group, who requested anonymity, says the decision could "be a great victory for the Wine project. . . . And it would remove the need to illegally reverse-engineer parts of Windows to get the answer."
Coeyman says, "It depends on what Microsoft really does as opposed to what it promises. Complete, open and honest documentation would help us." But no one seems to think this help will come soon.
The Wine group isn't waiting, in part because it wants to write cleaner software. It gets the benefit of hindsight when programmers clone the architecture, and this makes it much easier to create something better. The Wine code is consistently smaller than the corresponding code from Microsoft.
The group can't claim it's less buggy, since it aims to duplicate the bugs perfectly to ensure compatibility. Still, the group hopes to make the API more transparent to programmers. People who have trouble getting their software to work with Windows may now try to get it working with Wine first.
In fact, the Wine code is sort of a living, breathing compendium of the non-Microsoft knowledge of the Win32 API. It isn't perfect, but it can be a big help to a programmer trying to understand Windows.
The biggest winners may be the software users and IT professionals everywhere.
The new upgrade prices for Windows are steep, and Microsoft includes a number of features related to manageability and efficiency that encourage an organization to upgrade all its machines at once. This can be a big burden for small businesses, where most workers are still quite happy with Windows 95.
Wine lets them run old software on a new operating system without paying heavily. As one Wine user said, "Yes, it's not perfect, but neither is Windows." So maybe they're doing a great job cloning the effect.
Wayner is a freelance writer in Baltimore. You can reach him at email@example.com.
Why Wine?
Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of the open-standard X Window System and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows-compatibility layer. Wine provides both a development tool kit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run with Intel Unixes. Wine works on most popular Intel Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. It doesn't require Microsoft Windows because it's a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100 percent Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system Dynamic Link Libraries if they're available. Wine comes with complete sources, documentation and examples and is freely redistributable, under licensing terms similar to those of BSD.


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Sharing the bill for one special night of music, is LA Funk pioneer, DaM FunK and Iconic Warp Records mainstay Nightmares on Wax (DJ set) who both boast releases in 2018.
Detroit's legendary hip hop lyricist ROYCE 5'9" hits up Australia for his first ever Australian headline shows!
No other rapper from Detroit has been as prolific as Royce 5'9″ when it comes to releasing music. In addition to his solo work, over the span of his career, Royce has collaborated with long-time friend Eminem as a member of Bad Meets Evil, been a member of the lyrical assassins known as Slaughterhouse and DJ Premier as a member of PRhyme.
The Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff is set to hit Australian shores this November. While having been in the spotlight in his early years starring in Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he is also a hip hop pioneer who has won three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two NAACP Awards, two Soul Train Music Awards and an MTV Music Award. He has recorded with co-star Will Smith and continues to turn out truly majestic albums including 'The Return of the Magnificent.'
L.A. based R&B duo, THEY. will be hitting Australian shores this year in support of 6LACK's national tour. They will also be hitting up Sydney and Melbourne for their very own headlining shows at Oxford Art Factory and Howler. Joining them, will be special guest, 14 year old rap prodigy The Kid Laroi.
6LACK returns to Australia as a part of his From East Atlanta, With Love world tour. Kicking off in Perth, the two-time Grammy-nominated artist will also hit Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland. Breakout hip-hop duo THEY. and the newest Shady Records signee, BOOGIE, will also be along for the ride for all Australian dates.


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The preternatural two-wheeled virtuoso lives in the here and now. Blessed by the cycling gods, Sagan doesn't worry about the weight of history, even when he's making it. Those concerns are for mere mortals.
"I do not know what is going to happen in life," Sagan said. "Why do I have to think about that? I am here now."
After a winter of hibernation, the Sagan Show was back under the spotlight at the WorldTour season opener in Australia. A stage win and the points jersey at the Santos Tour Down Under to open the 2018 calendar suggests he's poised for a big season.
While journalists grit their teeth trying to paint him into a box, Sagan is simply enjoying the ride. (And helping out when he can).


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He was attending a corner meeting in Narowals Kanjrur Tehsil when the incident occurred, the police was quoted as saying by Dawn News. President Mamnoon Hussain said difference of opinion must not be expressed through violence. Taking a jibe at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, he said that "a cricket player is giving [government] lectures on development". He said that the attacker was initially identified as Abid Hussian and his age was said to be between 20-22 years.
The mind of this Jastrzebie Coal Co., Daniel Ozon, explained the newest miner spared from your Zofiowka colliery had been shot into a undercover foundation Sunday, where a health care provider would test him. After the quake hit, four miners were rescued quickly but seven others went missing. The two rescued miners were taken to a hospital in Jastrzebie-Zdroj city in "relatively good condition" and could walk unaided, Ozon told reporters on Saturday.
Unidentified armed men abducted six Indians and one Afghan employee of an Indian infrastructure company in Afghanistan's Baghlan province on Sunday, a media report said. The Taliban , although being blamed by the local press for both the incidents, is yet to claim responsibility. Last month, a suicide bombing outside a voter registration center in Kabul killed at least 57 people and wounded 119 others.
According to Fox News , Christopher Clay Rudd appeared in court Monday in response to claims that he did not complete drug treatment classes he had previously been ordered to attend. Mapleton Police arrested Rudd on April 26 for theft, possession of a unsafe weapon by a restricted person and drug-related charges. Editor's Note: EastIdahoNews.com doesn't typically publish videos associated with self-injury or possible suicide attempts.
The White House has said the first meeting ever between sitting United States and North Korean leaders could take place in the coming weeks. The spokesperson said that Washington is misleading public opinion that the North's commitment to denuclearization stated in the Panmunjeom Declaration was the results of the US sanctions and pressure.
More than 3.6 million people are eligible to vote in the one-day election. President Michel Aoun's position is not up for renewal but his Christian party is a key player in the vote, for which a reformed, more proportional electoral law is in force.
Friday. Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey , whose office brought the charges against Hefner, also said Rosenberg should leave the chamber. Since stepping down from his leadership post, Rosenberg has been stripped of most of his staff and relegated to a temporary office located in the basement of the 220-year-old State House, a major downgrade from the handsomely appointed Senate President's suite on the building's third floor.
Hizbul Mujahideen commander Saddam Padder , a close associate of slain militant Burhan Wani, and a missing assistant professor of the Kashmir University, Dr. Meanwhile, two vehicles of Fire and Emergency Service department were torched by violent mob near the encounter site. Earlier on Saturday, protests had rocked the university over Bhatt's disappearance, following which the university's vice chancellor met the students and assured them that all efforts would be made to trace the missing ...
Accidents are frequent in the province's mines, where safety measures are basic and much of whose workforce is drawn from labourers from other parts of Pakistan. A local leader informed media that the bodies of three miners were recovered during the rescue operation. Twelve coal miners have also been injured in both the incidents.
Trump's overall approval among black Americans also almost doubled, with a jump from 8.9 percent to 16.5 percent. In Wolff's analysis, Kanye's wearing of the Make America Great Again hat is his version of the spade, while the Trump-era conservative movement would be the "coyote" with which he is locking himself in a room in order to confront.
The two sides, though, committed to resolving their trade disputes through dialogue, state-run Xinhua reported. Chinese proposal: China proposed increasing imports from the United States; asked U.S.to let its government and companies freely buy and use Chinese technology products and services; asked the U.S.to resume imports of cooked poultry from China.
Promoting Marx is seen in part as a way for Xi to strengthen ideological control and counter critics within the ruling Communist Party unhappy with his moves to consolidate power. China's President Xi Jinping said China's communist party will forever remain guardians and practitioners of Marxism, while Vietnamese leader Tran Dai Quang also paid tribute to Marx.
Telling the court that the larger issue has to be looked into, he said the National Judicial Appointment Commission may have to be considered again. A three-judge bench headed by justice Agrawal had rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) a year ago asking for a court-monitored, independent probe into the alleged medical admission scam in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a former judge of the Orissa HC.
Terming the remarks against the spirit of the Constitution and its mandate, the election body, in a statement, said that it was completely ready to conduct the independent 2018, adding that the ECP was entirely independent to discharge its legal constitutional responsibilities.
Other countries did not mention China's development lender explicitly, but did say the ADB needs to cooperate more with other organisations. He also said ADB should substantially expand its private sector operations, especially equity financing and investment in new instruments of financing, such as infrastructure investment trusts.
Labour has made steady progress in its London target seats, consolidating support (other than in Barnet - where the antisemitism controversy has been utilised by political opponents to tarnish the party's reputation). "We are delighted to have got Andrew Dabbs in Drayton and to get Aiden Ramsey in in Abbey North", said Councillor Ritchie. In Wandsworth, where the Conservatives hung on to control, May was in a more buoyant mood.
The protesters call it the "party Rules", because the meeting coincides with the first anniversary of President. The President of France Emmanuel macron arrived on Thursday, may 3, on the island of New Caledonia, representing the special administrative unit of France.
James A. Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI and one of former FBI Director James Comey's closest advisers, also resigned Friday, according to a source familiar with Baker's departure. He was tapped as the FBI's top lawyer in January 2014, but was reassigned from his post as general counsel elsewhere in the agency previous year. "He has protected the country and the rule of law throughout his career and leaves an inspiring legacy of service", Comey said .
While moderates used to encompass a decent proportion of the party's whole, the general shift in ideology has taken a few steps towards the right on the political spectrum since Trump's 2016 campaign. Still bearing a black eye and scar from surgery, McCain gave a thumbs-down signal in a decisive vote to scuttle a Trump-backed bill to repeal the Obamacare healthcare law.
The hospital, which he didn't name, had "blood all over the floors" from knife crime, he said. He added: "Knives, knives, knives" - punctuating each word by miming a stabbing. Trump added "we're doing just fine" in the same year over 15,000 people were killed by guns in the U.S. (excluding suicides). The surgeon suggested that colleagues had compared their work at the hospital to previous experience at Camp Bastion, a former British military base in Afghanistan.
The South Carolina Senate is considering a bill with an amendment that would ban 97 percent of all abortions in the state - and it was proposed by a Democrat, The State reported. "It's created to give the court an opportunity to revisit Roe v. Wade ", said Senate majority leader Shane Massey (R-Edgefield), according to The StateSen.
Soon after Conroy's resignation was announced, Ryan suggested that the chaplain was failing in his duties, which include leading the House in a prayer each morning and offering to counsel lawmakers. Ryan's retreat came quickly. But Conroy disputed those claims, and his resignation prompted a massive backlash from members of Congress, particularly Catholics, who felt they were left in the dark about the reasons surrounding Conroy's departure.
With a resurgent Russian Federation, the US announced Friday that it will re-establish a fleet of its Navy that it abolished almost seven years ago as a cost-cutting measure. Fleet Forces is responsible for manning, training and equipping more than 125 ships, 1,000 aircraft and 103,000 active-duty service members and government employees to provide forces to numbered fleets and combatant commanders around the globe, according to the Navy.
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The Azkals, ranked an all-time high of 113th in the world and 19th in Asia in the latest Federation Internationale de Football Association rankings, are in Group C of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup along with powerhouses Korea (61st overall, fourth in Asia) and China (73rd overall, sixth in Asia) and fellow newcomer Kyrgyz Republic (75th overall, seventh in Asia).
Thousands of demonstrators denouncing Putin's upcoming inauguration into a fourth term gathered Saturday in the capital's Pushkin Square. The unauthorized protest was part of a day of nationwide demonstrations under the slogan "He is not our czar".
The engineer was killed at a bar in the city of Olathe in Kansas past year. Kuchibhotla is survived by his wife Sunayana Dumala . The murder was a racially motivated hate crime and the tragic death had sparked global outrage. Kuchibhotla grew up in Hyderabad and thereafter went to the USA to pursue engineering at the University of Texas.Kuchibhotla worked as an aviation systems engineer and programs manager.
About 8 p.m. Wednesday, a tornado warning was issued for Grady, Cleveland and McClain counties as a storm intensified as it tracked through Chickasha toward Moore and Norman. This low will move from the central Plains to the central Great Lakes Thursday and Friday . We finally start to transition to quiet, peaceful conditions after two days of destructive thunderstorms with large hail, torrential rains, frequent lightning and some damage from tornadoes and straight-line wind.
Bowman is the third top EPA official to leave the agency this week, following the resignation of Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, who headed Pruitt's security detail, and Albert "Kell" Kelly, an Oklahoma business associate of Pruitt who led the agency's superfund cleanup program.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday dubbed the BJP's Karnataka manifesto as a "poorly crafted fantasy built around a weak plot" and asked the voters not to waste their time on it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a public meeting in Tumakuru as per of his campaign for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily too had called JD (S) as the B-team of BJP.
But is that a fair comparison? I'm confident we'll see temperatures way over the previously seen high of 24C on Bank Holiday Monday in 1999. "The best of the sunshine and the highest temperatures are expected across England and Wales away from the coast and for Bank Holiday Monday itself it is possible that temperatures could be record-breaking".
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A Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), was formed to probe the case, Singh added. The issue was raised in the village Panchayat on Friday morning. The panchayat asked the accused to pay Rs 50,000 to the victim to settle the matter, reported IANS. Police are investigating if the woman was in a relationship with the accused.


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The Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) has entreated all Heads of Department to take ownership of their payrolls and take steps to validate the payroll on time every month.
It also said Heads of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies should ensure that only staffs belonging to their Management Units are paid and separate staffs deleted without delay.
The Controller and Accountant General, Madam Grace Azore made the remarks in an address read on her behalf during the training of 1,000 Heads of Departments and Management Units of the Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service and other Departments of Yendi Municipal and Mion District on the Electronic Salary Payment Voucher System (E-SPV) at Yendi in the Northern Region.
Madam Grace Azore said after a long period of development and stakeholders consultations, the Department has introduced the E-SPY, which she believes will go a long way to address most of their concerns regarding the management of their payrolls.
According to her, the E-SPY is an electronic version of the manual salary payment voucher that must be validated through the internet before salaries are paid.
Madam Grace Azore announced that the policy was in line with the Financial Administration Regulation, 2014 (LI 1802) Regulation 306, which required Heads of Department or a Head of Management Units to examine and certify the personal emolument payment vouchers to ensure the accuracy of the payroll data.
She indicated that E-SPY was introduced against the backdrop of concerns regarding the high wage bill of public servants and the commitment of government to inject sanity into the payroll system to minimize the payroll irregularities and unauthorized payments.
In a welcome address read on his behalf, the Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Issah Zakaria, said with the introduction of the Electronic Salary Payment Vouchers System in Greater Accra, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions, the public wage bill, which stood at about 70 per cent of the national revenue with the introduction of the Single-Spine Salary Structure, had dropped to 57 per cent.
Mr Zakaria stated that as the system was rolled out in other regions the wage bill would further drop for the nation to get more revenue for development.
The Yendi Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr Sarfo Kantanka, who read the address on his behalf, advised them to ensure timely validation and Strict Scrutiny to ensure that only staffs belonging to their Management Units are validated.
The Northern Regional Director of CAGD, Mr Daniel Quayson, said the roll-out in the Region commenced on January 20, 2015, with 16 Districts having successfully gone through the roll-out of the E-SPY.
Mr Quayson said Tolon, West Mamprusi, Cerntral Gonja and Zabzugu are currently undergoing the roll-out with Mion, Saboba, Mamprugu – Moaduri, East Gonja, Chereponi and Yendi following later.
Mr Ajowak Stephen Elvis, the Yendi Municipal Finance Officer said past governments had done their best to confront this canker of ghost names.
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First, students created a plan that included a background and foreground. Second, using their plan as a template, students spread a thin layer of plasticine over thick paper to create their background (there were a lot of sore thumbs afterwards). After, students worked on creating their foreground images and added texture using a thin stick.
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I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I want to share something about this topic and then bury the whole debate where it belongs. This debate is pathetic and does not warrant the time the media and politicians are spending on it… Why you ask?
Perth "shark debate" in a nut shell. Stop distracting us with the ridiculous and moronic. People kill more people than sharks. Sanctioned and unsanctioned through war, poverty and other forms of economic and social violence. Wake the hell up and have a debate on that if you're so concerned about deaths.
Oh and if you want to stop shark attacks, stop eating fish… I'm serious. The reason they are coming so close to shore is we are raping and pillaging the ocean of food sources. Is the entire population of Perth really that stupid!? I hope not. Cause and effect people!


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Previous stop - Pinsk Next stop - Minsk
Sixth stop Lahishin, Belarus - home of the Klausners and Greenbergs
I prefer to use the Yiddish name for the town because that's how my ancestors knew it, its current name is Logishyn. We know from Russian archival records that my great great grandmother Leya Enta (Lena) Greenberg Klausner's family had lived in Lahishin since 1816, if not before. Those same records show that her brother Zalman Mordukh and his son Mendel Itsko, voted in elections for the local Rabbi in 1914. Sadly, Zalman Mordukh's second son, Iosel, had been drafted into the Russian army in 1909, the same year his brother Aron, at age 14, decided not to report for military duty as required and left the area for parts unknown. Five years later, Zalman Mordukh's only daughter Golda was granted a passport at age 23 and left as well.
Leya Enta's husband Chaim Wolf and his brother David Movsha had lived in Lahishin since the mid-19th century although Chaim had been born in another shtetl, Lyubeshov, not too far to the south, in present-day Ukraine.
You can view some of the documents from my research about the Klausners and Greenbergs.
Our first stop was to an elementary school where we were welcomed by the Principal, Assistant Principal and teacher Svetlana Yushkevich, the History Room manager. We learned that the town's coat of arms contains an image of a wolf, an animal that is able to change shape. One version showed a wolf with stork's legs while another had deer legs and hooves. Svetlana pointed to the first part of the exhibit about Lahishyn's prehistory, which included fossils and rocks from the area. She said it was so important for the students to actually touch them and physically feel a connection to the past. I immediately liked her.
When we got to the section about the two World Wars, Svetlana pulled from a cabinet two badly charred and malformed pieces of vellum with barely legible Hebrew letters; they were pages from a Torah. It was a profound moment for me, despite my atheism. While I am a secular Jew, I felt sad and angry seeing and holding a nearly destroyed piece of iconic Jewishness. I later learned that Joseph Liberman's Pinsk congregation had repeatedly asked for the return of these objects because when Torah pages become unusable they are supposed to be buried. The school had declined to return them. I was glad that they would be used to teach students about genocide but also can see the merit of them being returned.
Svetlana told us that after Belarus left the Soviet Union the teachers were able to include wording in some of the exhibits that would have not been previously acceptable, although I did not get specific examples of what they had changed.
We left the school accompanied by Svetlana and walked a short distance to the Jewish cemetery in a wooded area adjacent to some houses. We made our way down a path and soon saw some grave stones peeking through fallen branches and leaves. It was very similar to the Jarosław graveyard – some head stones standing, others toppled over, the forest encroaching on signs of a destroyed culture. Once again we were only able to see a small area because the undergrowth was too dense outside of an area about 20' by 20'.
Svetlana, who appeared to be in her 40s, said that when she was a child the area looked like a real cemetery. She said that she had brought some students to clear leaves and brush a few years ago but you couldn't see any of that effort anymore. She related how she had applied for a grant from the local authorities to clean up the area but had been refused. She applied again, some time later, and the authorities told that they would do something to help, but she seemed skeptical that anything would happen. The sadness I felt was juxtaposed with an appreciation of the beauty of several storks in the pond on our left as we walked out of the woods.
Svetlana proceeded to take us to the still cobblestoned street where the Jews lived to show us typically Jewish architecture. Many of the single-family houses are painted in bright blues, greens and yellows.
At the end of the street, Katya asked Svetlana to show us the "site of mass extermination." This phrase shocked me when I heard it then for the first time and it continued to amaze me when I heard it again and again over our trip. It was at once so banal and ordinary and yet so deeply distressing. It refers to places in Eastern Europe where the Germans took Jews, starting in June 1941, to be shot. Frequently it was a large meadow in which ditches had been dug; the Jews would be lined up on its edge and either the Germans or local militias would fire at them so they fell into the ditch. Some people were killed immediately but others who were only injured were buried alive by the thousands of bodies tumbling on top of them. A lucky few played dead and managed to escape into the woods after the perpetrators had left.
We walked through the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic cemetery to see the memorial erected to commemorate the 555 Jews killed there in August 1941. The beauty of the meadow and trees was once again marred by the brutality bringing us there.
I was so moved by meeting Svetlana, as I had been meeting Iwona in Kłodawa – women who have gone out of their way to keep the memory of Jewish communities alive and to educate people about their loss. When I finally met Yuri Dorn in Minsk I told him of our encounter with her. I suggested that I could help finance the reconstruction of the cemetery there if a way could be found to get the work done. Yuri contacted Svetlana and she said that she would get a survey done of the full physical extent of the cemetery that would help determine the cost of the project. Further, an agreement would be worked out so the school would be responsible for its upkeep.
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10/17/2017 | News release | Distributed by Public on 10/17/2017 05:49
FIDE and RCF congratulate the RCF Board of Trustees Chairman D. Peskov on his birthday
Athens, 17 October 2017
Mr. D. Peskov
RCF Board of Trustees
Dear Mr. Peskov,
On behalf of the World Chess Federation and its 188 Federations I would like to congratulate you on your anniversary!
We have been enjoying our close collaboration with the Russian Chess Federation in organization of the flagship FIDE events in Russia: Chess Olympiads, World Championships and Women's World Championships, Candidates' tournaments and Grand-Prix events and look forward to many years of fruitful cooperation to come.
We are confident that your kind participation in the management and supervision of the chess life in Russia will result in many more successful stories of our sport in your great country! Please accept our most sincere wishes of the best of health, energy, optimism, prosperity and happiness!
Sincerely yours
Georgios Makropoulos
Deputy President
Letter to Mr. Dmitry Peskov (pdf)
Dear Mr. Peskov!
On behalf of the Russian Chess Federation I would like to congratulate you on your anniversary! Through your kind involvement chess is regaining its popularity in Russia and has extended coverage in mass media. Russian politicians pay more attention to chess and chess players and gladly visit high-level chess tournaments, like the all-Russian team competition for schools Belaya Ladya and World Championships among men and women.
Also I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you for visiting the World Chess Championship Match between Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Calrsen in New York. Your support was very important for the Russian candidate for the title.
We highly appreciate your participation in such significant events of the Central House of Chess Player as the opening ceremony of the RCF Chess Museum and celebration of the House's 60th anniversary. The RCF Board of Trustees has really shown their thoughts for the Russian chess and chess players!
Today I would like to wish you robust health, energy, optimism, success, happiness, and well-being!
Andrey Filatov
President of the Russian Chess Federation
Chairman of the RCF Board of Trustees Dmitry Peskov Celebrates his Anniversary


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BOGOTA: Conservative candidate Ivan Duque took a commanding lead in Colombia's presidential election today, partial results showed, but fell well short of the 50 per cent threshold needed to avoid a second-round runoff next month.
A 41-year-old senator, Duque will face his leftist rival, former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, in the run-off on June 17.
With most of the vote counted, Duque had polled 39.7 per cent of the votes, compared to Petro's 24.8 per cent.
Petro beat off a late challenge from former Medellin mayor Sergio Fajardo to narrowly take the second runoff spot.
It was the first presidential poll in half a century free of the threat of the FARC, though Duque, 41, has campaigned strongly on a pledge to rewrite a peace agreement with the former rebel movement.
Polling closed on schedule at 2: 30 am IST after eight hours of "totally normal" voting, said electoral authority chairman Juan Carlos Galindo.
Bogota and other major cities reported a high turnout in a country where voter abstention is traditionally around 50 per cent.
The peaceful election was an achievement celebrated by outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos after casting his ballot in Bogota.
"So far not a single voting station has had to be moved for security reasons," he said in a televised speech.
"It's been many decades since that has happened. In other words, these elections are going to be the most secure, the calmest."
Ironically, the peace Santos made with the FARC, which is now a political party, has opened sharp divisions, reflected in the leading candidates to succeed him.
Duque has vowed to rewrite an accord he sees as too lenient on a group that waged a decades-long war of terror in Colombia before transforming itself into a political party.
"I want a country of legality, a full-on fight against corruption, a country where peace can breathe throughout the land," said Duque after casting his ballot in Bogota.
Outside one Bogota polling station, Paula Rubio, 38, said she voted for Duque "to maintain order in the country."
Petro, a former member of the disbanded M-19 rebel group, has defied expectations in a country where presidential elections have traditionally been the domain of the right.
Petro said he wanted a Colombia "present and future" without hatred or vengeance and to leave behind "the machinery of corruption."
The 58-year-old rallied many Colombians with his campaign speeches against inequality and corruption, making him the country's first leftist candidate going to the second round of a presidential poll.


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