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Girls of Color in Fantasy vs. Realistic Fiction
Two young adult novels, published one year apart, have reached similar audiences and transformed expectations for teen fiction. One novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is set in the imagined African nation of Orisha, where a tyrannical monarchy seeks to suppress the maji, a group of individuals who possess fantastical gifts. The other, The Hate U Give, takes place in Garden Heights, a predominantly black neighborhood in the United States that becomes the center of media attention when a black teenager is shot by a police officer there. Both books, which feature communities rife with violence and prejudice, depict racism through the lens of young black girls who must overcome their fears to find justice.
Zelie, a maji who is able to conjure ghosts, is one of the narrators in Children of Blood and Bone. Outspoken and impulsive, Zelie embarks on a quest to restore the powers of the maji, who currently cannot harness their abilities. Amari, a sheltered but fierce princess, escapes her family in order to protect an ancient relic that can revive the maji's powers. Both narrators' lives coincide due to their common purpose, and they form a hesitant alliance to help the oppressed maji rise up against the monarchy. This book highlights a strong bond between two girls who are initially wary of one another but grow to respect each other's unique traits. Thus, the theme of female empowerment for women of color is prevalent throughout the novel, especially since the book denounces the assumption that women have to share a common social background in order to become friends. Rather than including one-dimensional female heroines, the book juxtaposes wise matriarchs such as Mama Agba with ruthless leaders such as Commander Kaea, a woman who kills out of blind loyalty to the king. Additionally, this fantasy novel points out discrimination within the African community. Light-skinned members of society are seen as desirable and elevated compared to the dark-skinned maji, who are forced to work as slaves and live in hiding. However, Orisha is not just a nation of moral decay; it possesses a rich history based on West African mythology and the Yoruba religion. Tomi Adeyemi, the author of the novel, weaves together different aspects of African religions and languages to create a society made of clans that are each devoted to a specific god or goddess. Although the book's context and attention to historical detail are distinct, the plot mimics that of many adventure-based young adult novels. When the royal guards etch the word "maggot," an epithet for the maji, into Zelie's back with a knife, the moment seemed to echo a scene from the Harry Potter series in which Bellatrix carves the slur "Mudblood" into Hermione's arm. Overall, the book provides an irresistible escape into a fantasy world while addressing current issues.
In The Hate U Give, Starr Carter is a conflicted African American teenager who lives in Garden Heights but attends the largely white school Williamson Prep. Torn between both microcosms, Starr manipulates her outward appearance to match society's expectations of herself. She wears Jordans and selects her words carefully at Williamson, but she remains on the sidelines during parties and uses teenage vernacular in Garden Heights. When she witnesses her friend's murder at the hands of a policeman, Starr realizes that her delicate balance of everyday life has been shattered. Starr seems more relatable than the characters in Children of Blood and Bone due to her accounts of anxiety and peer pressure. One theme that this book elaborates on is the power of social media to both bring people together and pull them apart. Moreover, Starr describes both peaceful rallies and violent riots that seek to combat police brutality, highlighting the imperfect approach that many protesters take in order to facilitate change. The dual nature of Starr's character, social media, and protests creates a consistent narrative, which explains that the killings of innocent black people is not a black-and-white issue. A narrator that injects humor and current cultural references into her story, Starr develops into a more confident and courageous person who finally recounts the events of the murder on national news. While her determined personality is similar to that of Zelie and Amari, Starr has more time to grow throughout the novel in a genuine manner, especially since her greatest enemies are her own fear and self-doubt. Tackling issues such as the damaging influence of drugs on communities and the need for more oversight in the police force, The Hate U Give imparts the message that one life is not worth more than another.
Both books describe unforgettable girls of color who manage to overcome obstacles and bolster their own self-confidence during the process. Although one lies in the realm of fantasy and the other is realistic fiction, the two books contain characters that are equally compelling and worlds that are just as complicated as our own.

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Fear the Walking Dead on location Filming in New Braunfels, TX (2019)
Layers Screening
Last week we held our screening for the mixed martial arts TV-pilot Layers. The show stars UFC top 10 bantamweight fighter in the world, Aljamain Sterling, from Showtime's Ray Donovan, Dominque Columbus, actress Morgan Harvill, and Instagram star Oscar Miranda.
I worked on the project as a Producer, First-Assistant Director, and Editor.
Find more info on IMDb and stay posted for future updates.
Layers Event Screening Announcement
Chelsea's 30th Birthday Celebration!
Blaze's 4th Birthday Party!
Annaliese's 8th Grade Graduation
Kailani's 2nd Birthday!
San Diego 360° (Fixed Perspective)
This is the 'Fixed Perspective Version' of San Diego 360°. The original 360-video was created in 2015.
Over the years 360-degree videos have not always been user friendly. Depending on what device, browser or app the viewer was using effected the way in which a 360-video was viewed. For example, if I tweeted out a 360-video uploaded to YouTube, it would playback embedded within YouTube as a equirectangular format or flat view, giving the viewer zero capabilities of looking around a scene. Only if the user viewed the 360-video within the YouTube app (on mobile devices) would they have these capabilities, and on YouTube on the desktop only using the Chrome browser at that time.
Another example was for a time 360-videos uploaded directly to Facebook would not always playback for viewers depending on which device, or browsers they were using. This is just another example of how 360-videos were not supported by some of the main apps at the time on certain devices.
In December of 2015 I submitted San Diego 360° to The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for eligibility to win an Emmy Award. It was the first year they were accepting 'Online Broadcast' material. I was having doubts on any chance of being nominated due to many playback issues, let alone the various categories it could be submitted under with only being able to select one. All 'Online Broadcast' material was to be shared on a particular website, which played the videos in the JW Player which did not have 360-video capabilities. Within my submission I outlined a detailed description on the proper way of viewing the material, which is a hurdle in itself being that whomever was going to be judging it would have to be on the right device, and browser. Being that this was the first time 'Online Broadcasts' were being accepted, I highly doubted the judges would spend the minor but extra attention needed for proper playback. I exchanged several e-mails with 2 NATAS individuals about this, one stating "You might be a little ahead of your time on this one."
Since the start of creating San Diego 360° I wanted to make a fixed perspective version for all the reasons mentioned above. Hopefully, those who come across it will get a glimpse at what's possible as a viewer and that leads them onto having a look around San Diego 360° for their own experience.
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Episode 5 of the Ray Roman Podcast I teach how to start a podcast. It's as easy as using your mobile device for beginners! For the more advanced you'll need a sound recorder, video camera and computer system which can run a couple thousand dollars. Below are a list of items mentioned within the podcast that you could purchase to begin your own podcast. If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment!
Sennheiser EW 112P G3-A Lavalier
7 Filmmaking Cameras You Can Get for Under $1,000 (article mentioned within the podcast)
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There is an old preacher story, so old it is a cliche of bad sermons now, that goes like this: An angel awoke who had slept through the first two centuries after Jesus had gone down to earth and ascended back to heaven. The angel went to the Lord and asked, "Where did you go?"
Jesus replied, "I've been down on earth."
|Omaha Beach, Normandy, 6 June 1944
The angel asked, "How did it go?"
Jesus said, "They crucified me."
The angel protested, "You must have had a wide influence."
Jesus said, "I had twelve followers, and one betrayed me to my death."
The angel asked, "What will become of your work?"
Jesus said, "I left it in the hands of my friends."
"And if they fail?" asked the angel.
Jesus said, "I have no other plans."
That punchline, I think, is why D-Day remains so compelling. The specter of defeat on June 6, 1944 was overwhelmingly dreadful. The Allies had no other plans. There was no Plan B in case the landings were repulsed.
There are many "pivot" days in human history, when the course of human events swung in a new direction because of discrete actions. It is hard to find another moment in all history when so much rested on an outcome of one day as rested on the success of the Allies' landings on Normandy.
The Soviets, pushing toward Nazi Germany from the east in 1944, had clamored for years for America and Britain to open a second front against Germany from the west. A second front would compel Germany to draw soldiers and materiel away from the Russian front. Allied claims that operations in North Africa, southern Europe and indeed, the UK-US bombing campaign constituted a second front were scorned by Stalin.
Placating Stalin was one reason the Allies had to invade Germany through France. All the military and political leaders remembered early 1918, when the newly-in-power Soviet government under Lenin had made a separate peace with Imperial Germany. Even though all the Allies had agreed early in WW II that no separate peace agreements would be made, the nag was always there.
Moreover, neither Roosevelt nor Churchill had any desire at all to see all Germany overrun from the east and fall under the hammer and sickle. The only way to prevent that was to place American and British soldiers on the ground inside Germany.
Invasion through northern Europe was the only way to do that (Churchill's claim that an invasion from the south, through Europe's "soft underbelly," proved fantastical in rolling up the Italian peninsula. Whatever Europe's underbelly was, it wasn't soft.)
The Allies could afford to succeed by a mere whisker on the Normandy beaches. Indeed, the planned American and British timetable for operations commencing June 7 proved wildly optimistic. But they did succeed, rather handily most places, as it turned out, and that was enough.
But any failure could have been only catastrophic. As in all major military operations, logistics was the central issue. The moon and tide conditions were acceptable on only some days in May, June and July; in fact, May 19 was seriously discussed as the invasion date for some time. But the Allies' supreme commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, postponed the invasion to June 5 because doing so would yield him an additional 100 landing craft, mostly LSTs, used to land tracked and wheeled vehicles directly onto the beach. (Bad weather caused the invasion to be postponed again until June 6.)
A little-known fact is that America was continually shuttling landing craft, both for vehicles and personnel, back and forth from Europe to the Pacific. The availability of landing craft was almost always the key point in setting landing dates for both areas.
A German victory at Normandy would probably have destroyed stocks of American landing craft by two or three years production. Not only could there not possibly been another landing even attempted in Europe for a very long time, Pacific operations would have been dramatically slowed. America was set to take the Philippines back from the Japanese beginning in October 1944. The invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, both in the first half of 1945, were to follow. Significant loss of landing craft at Normandy would have thrown that timetable badly off.
Allied failure on the French coast would have meant enormous American and British casualties. Both the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions would have been entirely destroyed because they could not have been relieved, having dropped inland. All their soldiers would have been killed or captured. The loss of life that defeat on the beaches would have entailed would have degraded the Allies' capability to try again soon almost as much as the loss of landing craft.
The Soviets certainly would not have slacked their offensives had Normandy failed. If anything, they would have pressed all the harder, but would have pressed equally hard for a much larger share of American war production, insisting that they were making better use of it than we were. As they would have been the only dog in the fight, the demands would have been hard for Roosevelt to resist. Not only would all Germany have become communist, so would France, whose communist cells were very active and which would have benefited greatly from having the Soviet army literally next door. Imagine the Iron Curtain falling at the English Channel. The Soviet bear would have easily swallowed countries like Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium. Likewise, Greece's postwar communist insurgency would have succeeded. Italy might easily have turned communist also.
(Alternatively, the Nazis might well have shifted hundreds of thousands of soldiers from France to the eastern front. If so, they almost certainly would have shredded Soviet formations because, battalion for battalion, the German army was greatly superior and better led. The Soviets would still have won out, but it would have taken longer and at much greater cost all around.)
European Jews, of course, would have been wiped out since the "final solution" would have proceeded apace. Israel would not exist today. The Soviet Union might have become dominant in the Middle East and there's no point in even trying to speculate on what the next decades would have held for the Arabs (or Persians, since the Russians had long cast a covetous eye on Iran's year-round warm-water ports).
Roosevelt, of course, would not have been reelected that fall. He certainly would have sacked Eisenhower and Eisenhower's boss, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. (Eisenhower would certainly have tendered his resignation. Marshall had survived the post-Pearl Harbor headrolling, but could not have survived failure at Normandy.) There's no point speculating what Republican President Thomas E. Dewey would have done with the office, but it is fair to say he would not have pushed for the creation of the United Nations, which was mainly Roosevelt's brainchild (for good or ill, take your pick), nor would there have been any reason for Stalin to cooperate with its formation, anyway.
Britain's people were incredibly war weary by mid-1944. Success in Normandy emboldened them to see the war to its bitter, bloody end. They remembered all too well the defeat of Dunkirk, when the British army had been evacuated from the French coast at the war's beginning, leaving behind its dead, almost all its vehicles and most of its weapons. Failure at Normandy would have caused Prime Minister Churchill's unemployment faster than Roosevelt's.
I have little doubt that some form of British peace party would have gained the Parliamentary majority and the PM's office. Might the Brits have sued Hitler for a separate peace? Maybe. Already strongly tended toward socialism, it's not hard reasonably to imagine that the UK itself would have turned communist by the 1950s had the Soviets dominated all western Europe.
Without Britain (and I'm treading very speculative ground here, I admit), America could not have continued to oppose Hitler, nor have offered any resistance to Soviet dominion of practically all Europe after they had cleaned up the Nazis. We would have continued to make war against Japan, of course. But consider that with sea-land operations slowed greatly by loss of materiel at Normandy, Japan would probably have been bombed into true oblivion; the Pacific War's end would have been greatly postponed at terrible cost of human life - American, Japanese and persons under Japanese occupation, who were dying in 1945 at the rate of 500,000 per month. Whatever Japan's postwar history would have been, it would not have resembled what it actually was.
All these things lay in the hands of fewer than 200,000 American, Canadian and British soldiers stepping onto French soil on one day. It was a burden that we should pray will never rest on human shoulders again.
End note: What of the atom bomb? It was originally envisioned for use against Naxi Germany, but Germany surrendered before the bomb was ready. With a lengthened war in Europe, could the atom bomb have restored US-UK fortunes there? I would argue that an expanded use the A-bomb from the two that actually were used is no victory. However it might have reestablished US power on the continent, such cannot be considered positively by any stretch of the imagination.


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Postpartum depression impacts up to 19 percent of women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include crying more often than usual, feeling angry, withdrawing from loved ones, feeling guilty about not being a good mom or doubting your ability to care for your baby, feeling numb or disconnected from your baby, and worrying that you will hurt your baby. Postpartum depression is different from the "baby blues," which typically clear up on their own in a few days.
The first step in getting help with postpartum depression is often talking to those close to you. "We certainly want women who are suffering to let their partners know," Karen Kleiman, L.C.S.W., director of the Postpartum Stress Center, and author of The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety, tells SELF. Kleiman says women tend to have a faster and smoother recovery from postpartum depression when their partners are involved, which is why she suggests having your partner be a part of your recovery and even attending some therapy sessions with you. "If they don't know how to support you, it's even more important that they be part of treatment," she says.
Women's health expert Jennifer Wider, M.D., tells SELF that it's crucial for women not to bypass their partners in seeking help. "I wouldn't discount the help of your partner so quickly," she says. "Oftentimes, it's people who love you and surround you who notice you are not functioning normally and can gently advise you to seek help."
Reaching out to friends and family, especially those who are moms as well, can also help, Alicia H. Clark, Psy.D., tells SELF. Most cities have P.A.C.E (Parenting and Child Education) groups that can help connect you with other new moms in a supportive environment.
However, as helpful as partners, family, and friends can be, Julie Lamppa, A.P.R.N., a certified nurse midwife at Mayo Clinic, tells SELF that it really is best for a woman experiencing postpartum depression or anxiety to also seek help from a professional. "It is important, however, that her partner or others close to her understand what she is going through," she says.
You shouldn't seek outside help because you're worried about burdening your loved ones, but because they might not be equipped to give you the help you need. "It's possible that even loving, supportive partners can say the wrong thing or lead a woman the wrong way unintentionally with comments like, 'You don't need medication,' 'You're strong,' or, 'You're going to be fine,'" Kleiman says. Clinical psychologist John Mayer, Ph.D., author of Family Fit: Find Your Balance in Life, tells SELF this is part of why professionals are useful: "A professional is trained to help in these situations, whereas those close to you have never been given a 'manual' on what to say, how to react, or how to behave."
If you have family members or friends who you know wouldn't understand, it's OK to not share your feelings with them, as they might just make you feel worse, Kleiman says. However, she adds, there's a difference between choosing who you tell and telling no one. If you have postpartum depression, you don't want to isolate yourself, because there's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
The most important thing for women who are suffering from postpartum depression to do is to talk about it, period, Yvonne Bohn, M.D., an ob/gyn at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, tells SELF. "A lot of times, that will start with a partner, friends, mother, or grandmother," she says. "But some women feel really ashamed of it. They might feel more isolated and may be better off seeking professional help immediately." If visiting a therapist isn't viable for you or you know it will be hard for you to make regular appointments, try talking to your ob/gyn as a starting point.
"Trying to ignore postpartum depression only makes it worse," Clark says. "No matter who you turn to, the goal is to feel helped, supported, and strengthened. Anyone who makes you feel more shame and guilt is likely not the right person to lean on in this situation."
Bohn stresses that, above all, you shouldn't feel ashamed or embarrassed about suffering from postpartum depression. "It's not your fault," she says. "There's something chemical going on in your brain. The key is to ask for help."
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Christmas 2017
Sometimes I think, who wants to read these kinds of posts. Probably no one. BUT I started blogging for myself, and I love love looking back to old posts and remember what we did, so I need to do a better job at this! Jasper got a baby book, and an almost daily blog. Tindra got half baby book and a semi frequently blog...Soren gets a page filled out in a baby book and sporadic blogs to look back on...sorry third child.
Christmas of course came and went all too quickly.
Christmas eve I had signed up to volunteer for one of the church services with the kiddos, so I had to be at church at like 2:30 and the rest of the gang came after 5. The service was of course Amazing. Really really amazing.
Drew had invited a friend to come to church with us, so I left to take the kids home, and his friends car didn't start so they spent quite a while dealing with that so Drew wasn't home in time to put kiddos to bed. So by the time he came home kids were in bed and I was playing Santa.
The kids first woke up at like 4:45 (every year Jasper sleeps in Tindras room on Christmas eve, maybe next year Soren will join them as well!) and after I told them Santa might not have come yet and they needed to go to sleep right away they did and woke up again around 6:15. Much more manageable hour to start the day!
*Side note- does Santa wrap presents at your house or leave them? Here he doesn't wrap, and they are assembled and ready to go*
So kids came down, saw what Santa had brought (light up sketchers, an emoji pillow and a 'tricks' scooter for Jasper, a mini trampoline, the same sketchers, and a fire truck for Soren (who only asked for a fire truck, 'his own lipstick' and a pacifier for Christmas) and a big kid bike, barbie car and art isle for Tindra) and opened their stockings, while I got made coffee and breakfast. We do monkey bread and bacon every year!
After we ate we spent all morning opening presents and putting together new toys. I remember the first Christmas we didn't get 'toys' to play with, because we weren't playing with toys anymore, and remember thinking what are we supposed to do all morning now? And how big of a change it was. Jasper is already starting to approach that, and I'm So dreading the day when no one wants to play with toys anymore!
Some of the kids favorite gifts- Jasper it was all the santa stuff (he really really wanted those things and it was the only things he asked for) plus a picture frame Tindra made him at school with a picture of her, he said over and over how special it was, and a digital picture I had made of Remi. Tindra loved her bike the most plus her mermaid tail blanket thing. And soren..well he loved it all and didn't want to stop playing with any of it!
Drew surprised me with a huge mirror that I've been wanting forever! Soren got me a beautiful Swedish pillow and Jasper...oh jaspers gift made me ugly cry. He had been working on it in private for months! Which is hard to do in this crazy house. He got a board and took pictures of me and scanned them with the printer (i didn't even know how to do this and have no idea how He figured out how to dot hat) and taped them on a board, along with a list of things he loves about me...sweetest boy ever? He just might be. He also got me a great pair of shoes (with the help of his dad) Last year after hearing the song 'Christmas shoes' he took a pair of my shoes and traced it so he he would know my shoe size, and picked me out a pair of shoes. Such a giver that one.
After naps Drews parents came and I got started on dinner (swedish julbord!) and later his brother and sister in law joined us.
We didn't have any snow, but thats the only thing that can make Christmas even better! Sledding/playing in the snow...one of these years we will have another white Christmas!


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Nevada hotel has US Constitutions in rooms instead of Bibles
Guests at this Nevada hotel can easily brush up on the subtleties of the country's founding document: There are copies of the United States Constitution in each room.
A Reddit user posted a photo of the pocket-sized Constitution on Friday, and it was up-voted tens of thousands of times within hours. The copy features a photo of George Washington on its cover, as well as elaborate script from the document's "We the people" preamble.
"Been traveling a lot for work and this is the first time I've found the a copy of the Constitution instead of a bible," the person who posted the photo wrote. "Made me smile."
Staff who answered the phone Friday afternoon at the Henderson, Nevada, Hilton Garden Inn — just outside of Las Vegas — confirmed that each hotel room has its own Constitution. But staff directed other questions to an operations manager for the company who didn't answer the phone.
SFGate also reported that hotel management confirmed each room features a Constitution.
Reddit users clearly enjoyed the photo.
"One of the Gideons has gone rogue," one Reddit user wrote, referring to the Gideons International, the group that provides the countless Bibles commonly found in the drawers of hotel rooms across the country.
But do people actually read those Bibles?
According to the Gideons, yes.
"Each Bible placed in a hotel room has the potential to reach up to 2,300 people in its estimated six-year life span," the group writes on its "Frequently Asked Questions" webpage. "Research from the hotel industry tells us that approximately 25% of travelers read the Bibles in their hotel rooms."
One Redditor joked about Constitution enthusiasts proselytizing for American democracy.
"Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior George Washington?" the user wrote.
Reddit has gone wild for Constitution content before — namely just five months ago, when a user posted photos the user said were from a hotel room in Philadelphia that had copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
"When I checked out just now, I told the guy at the front desk how impressed I was about it," the Redditor wrote, adding that the photos were from the Independent Hotel.


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[DIY; without the Pinterest level work]
Number One: Family Photos
What you need is a cute family picture [preferably one that evokes all those good, happy holiday feels] and a kitchen clip or a clothespin… even a paper clip could be used. If you don't have any of the above, good ol' Scotch tape will do the trick. Do whatever you want to the photo to make it Christmas tree worthy…maybe cut it into a weird looking heart as I did and pin that little guy onto a branch. I think it looks like a cool retro kindergarten meets vintage grandparents ornament.
Number Two: Transform Your Kid's Toys into Ornaments
Oh, you don't have toys laying around that your kids don't really use? I don't believe you… For me, a simple choice was one of my daughter's rubber teething toys. Hold up… Why would you want a rubber teething toy on your tree though?
Well my friends, because all you need is a sharpie to adjust it into a festive Christmas ornament that your grandkids will one day gawk over and say "WOAH! 2017! I didn't know they had toys back then." Scribe who it belongs to and the year. I love this because it can be done every year and you get to see the growth and change in your kids come alive on your tree. Now, if that doesn't scream Christmas spirit… I don't know what does.
Number 3: Keychains or Sentimental Tokens
This year I bought my daughter a unicorn keychain to play with to try to get her to play with that instead of my keys. Do you think that worked? No, it didn't. So now I just have a random unicorn key chain. All I am saying is… make it into a scavenger hunt with your kiddos while jamming out to Christmas tunes.
I know you have some cute goodies around your house representative of this year or a special time that deserve to be displayed on that tree! Spot the gift bag of chocolate kisses from my baby shower in the background.
Number Four: Christmas Cookie Cutters
You know, those ones from grandma that sit in your drawer. Ok, maybe Christmas shaped cookies is a special tradition for you and you really do use them. But you can spare one cutter in the name of timeless decor, right?
Whip out that sharpie and write whatever you want evocative of your family and 2017.
Number 5: CD-Rom and Flowers
You probably don't listen to CDs very much anymore… or maybe you're like me and that is still one of your methods of musical entertainment in your vehicle. Either way, you probably have a CD that you don't listen to anymore but reminds you of a special time. String a pretty ribbon through it and exhibit it each Christmas. This is one the grandkids will really be impressed by [or maybe your kids will be too…]
Maybe you were gifted or gifted yourself a bouquet at Thanksgiving… dry up the flowers and nestle them onto the tree. If you like this idea but have no flowers… I got some faux Christmas flowers at the dollar store. Might I add, my local dollar store has some really sweet non-tacky non-cheap looking Christmas decorations this year!
The point being, you don't have to spend a ton just because it's Christmas season. There is a collective consumerism in the air that is tangible and very real. Kids will not remember the prices… they will remember the feelings you created together during the holidays. Creating warm and happy holidays requires a bit of consciousness. I don't mean you must be frugal… there's just no need to get yourself into a stressed out mess over the material. We can enjoy the material, and there is nothing wrong with that. As long as we remember what these holidays really are about for us and our kids. That can be different person to person, or family to family. It may be worth pondering and setting a family intention for the holiday season.
Are you a REAL parent [/step parent/grandparent/family member]? I hope reading this got your Christmas juices flowing. Let me know what you think below. Did you think of or have any other ideas of making Christmas decorations/ornaments for free [or relatively free]! Do conscious parenting and Christmas go together?
May the Holiday Season nourish you in all ways.
Written by: Mary Ehlers


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We have been in our new house for almost 8 months now... and I love it... really, I do. Buuuuutttttt.... nothing will ever take the place of Zara's first nursery in our old house. It was by far the best room in the house.
I keep daydreaming about creating another room just like it in our new house, but alas, I think this room was one-of-a-kind and will just have to claim it's title in the "best-room-hall-of-fame." I loved everything about the look of this room... but what made this nursery incredibly special was that every.single.detail was thought out with great love and care. So many of the items in this room were made and given to us from friends and family. Many of the pieces in the room have a story to them... stories that I can't wait to share with Zara as she gets older.
Obviously, the star of the show is the barn wood wall. It's my favorite. Months before we brought Zara home, I scoured the internet and pinterest for nursery ideas. One evening I casually mentioned to Lance that I really loved the idea of a cozy, barn wood room. And wouldn't you know, just a few days later, my rock star husband came home with a truck load full of gorgeous reclaimed barn wood.... sigh, my hero.
Once we had a game plan together, we painted the walls and trim (for the 3 walls we knew weren't getting covered in barn wood), then Lance set out to start putting up the barn wood. From my limited carpentry knowledge, this seemed to be a fairly easy process if you have the right tools... (of course, this all said by the girl that did little more than hold barn wood in place). We only finished about half of the wall before we left for Uganda to go pick up Zara, but thanks to our incredibly kind and amazing friends, the barnwood wall (and the rest of the room, for that matter) was completely finished when we returned home.
The rocking chair is incredibly special to me. My Nana rocked my dad and and my two uncles in it when they were babies... And then it was passed down to my mom, who used it to rock me and my sister to sleep when we were little ones... And now, I rock my own sweet babe to sleep in it. My mom had the cushions reupholstered for me as a gift. I love it so much. The sweet burlap pillow was a gift from Zara's princess birthday party/welcome home shower last January.
A dear friend (and co-worker) made the amazing fabric garland as a gift to me when we were in Uganda. I had collected various fabric scraps in navy and pink, thinking I would have time to create the garland myself. But once we knew when we would be traveling, I knew I would never get it done. My friend simply told me to give everything to her and she would take care of it... and she did:)
Another sweet friend custom made this adorable hair bow organizer (and heaven knows baby girl's got some hair bows) with Zara's name on it. It's already overflowing with headbands and bows:)
Underneath Zara's hair accessories is a small beat-up shelf that I found at a thrift store a few years ago. It's the perfect size for Zara's favorite books and other small treasures.
We purchased the little blue elephant when we were in Uganda. I adore it. The beautiful quilt was designed and made by a sweet family friend. She is amazingly talented and even donated two other quilts for our adoption fundraising. But this one she made especially for Zara. The triangles are the perfect mix of pink and navy and Zara's full name and birthdate are monogramed on the inside. It's perfect and is displayed over her crib when we're not using it. The vintage trunk was Lance's grandfathers when he was in the service.
I love that this nursery includes so many treasures... both old and new. Stories of the past, and promises of the future. This room will always hold a special place in my heart. Yes, partly because of the great thought and care that went into completing it... and sure, partly because that barnwood wall is just flippin' awesome... but really, it's because of this...
To see Zara finally sitting in her room... by her crib... with her toys... surrounded by her family...
Yep. That's my favorite part.


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The Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council advises the San Mateo County board of supervisors on issues affecting the Pescadero area. Bicycle rides have a significant impact on the small rural Pescadero community. The PMAC does not approve rides but works closely with ride organizers to ensure safe and enjoyable ride for participants and Pescadero area residents.
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HEIRSOUND, the colorful alternative pop duo of Alexa San Román & Dane Petersen (formerly of Love, Robot) have just announced their upcoming debut EP!
The release is called Merge and it is set to come out on August 5th!
The band has been releasing music videos from the album. Each song represents a color, which represents a theme. The color theme is present in the music videos. You can watch the videos for "My Own" and "Do It Over" right here!
Petersen and San Román formed HEIRSOUND in December of 2014 as the two were moving on from previous musical outlets.
The band has said that "this EP represents to us both the collaboration of two artists from different hometowns, as well as a metaphorical bridge from both of our older bands' previous sounds to what HEIRSOUND is now. As our old bands were more heavily rock-influenced, this EP has both elements of that as well as more electronic sounds letting long-time fans ease into this new sound."
Keep an eye out for more music videos in the lead-up to the release of Merge. Here is the tracklist, along with the corresponding color theme to each song.


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Microbiota modulation of behavior and stress responses : implications for neuro-immune research in zebrafish
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The gut microbiota (GM) consists of a large microbial community whose collective set of genes encodes a vast array of functions. These microbes play a major role in many physiological processes within the host and are essential for survival. Ongoing research suggests that the GM is not only involved in gut physiology but may also have significant effects on brain function and behavior. The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional route of communication between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system via neural, hormonal, and immunological pathways. The influence of the GM on gut-brain signaling is not well characterized. This dissertation research is aimed at investigating the role of the GM on stress-related brain function and behavior, as well as developing unique approaches for neuroimmune research. My first project was to investigate the influence the GM has on behavior in genetically identical mice. First, I isolated a subset of bacteria that colonize the ileum of mice from a particular vendor that has been shown to produce mice with very diverse GM. Isogenic colonies of mice were then generated with and without this subset of microbes and subjected to stress testing and behavioral analysis. From this study we were able to determine that the GM does play a significant role in stress-related brain function and behavior. However, dissecting out individual microbes and mechanisms by which the GM uses to communicate through the gut-brain axis proves to be a challenging task. In order to address some of these questions we began to explore more basic model systems, such as zebrafish. Zebrafish are an emerging high-throughput model system that exhibit many behaviors that have been correlated with those seen in human neurological disorders. The ability to easily control and manipulate the microbial environment in developing zebrafish makes neuroimmune research in zebrafish advantageous over other model systems. This research characterizes the ability of the GM to alter stress- and anxiety-related behavior and to mitigate stress responses in zebrafish. Furthermore, this research investigates potential pathways of communication to provide insight for mechanisms by which the GM influences the gut-brain axis. Since neurobehavioral research in zebrafish is an evolving field, my initial zebrafish project was to determine an optimal euthanasia agent for use in stress studies. This was crucial for eliminating euthanasia-induced stress responses which could confound results in our experiments. My next project was to generate gnotobiotic zebrafish in order to examine the significance of the GM in anxiety-related behavior and stress responses. Lastly, through bacterial metabolite experiments and probiotic studies, we began to investigate mechanisms of communication through the GM-gut-brain axis. This research sets the foundation for using zebrafish for neuroimmune research and will help elucidate the role that the GM plays in modulating brain function and behavior. A better understanding of the influence microbes have on the gut-brain axis will facilitate the potential for probiotic therapeutics targeting neurological disorders.
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text: NEWS Chart Beat Chat 2/3/2006 Fred discusses "High School Musical," musical siblings, Bedingfields, Lee Greenwood and much more with readers. NEVER HEARD OF A HUDGENS, NOR AN EFRONFred, Has anyone, especially an obscure singer such as Zac Efron, had a better week? He had two debuts last week (at No. 86 and No. 100) and now he has three songs in the top 40, including a ridiculous 82-point jump with his song "Breaking Free" (now at No. 4; it's a duet with Vanessa Anne Hudgens, who I've never heard of either). He also has a 77-point jump with a solo track, "Get'cha Head in the Game" (which looks set to become his second top 20 hit in two weeks [as it is at] at No. 23), and the Hot Shot Debut at No. 28 with his third song (another duet with Vanessa Anne Hudgens called "Start of Something New"). Was there a drastic change in chart rules to allow him to make this sort of amazing jump? The debut at No. 34 and No. 35 of "We're All in This Together" by the "High School Musical" Cast and "What I've Been Looking For" by Lucas Gabreel and Ashley Tisdale is also somewhat notable. Who are these people, and why are they debuting so high and rising so fast on the Hot 100? Another question: What happened to Gavin DeGraw? I love his song "We Belong Together," but this week it drops from the top 20 all the way out of the top 50. That seems, to say the least, somewhat abrupt. Nathan AlbrightTampa, Fla.Dear Nathan,Zac Efron does indeed rewrite chart history, with a week most recording artists would envy. Ironically, Efron is an actor, albeit an actor who has sung since childhood. He was born in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and now lives in the Los Angeles area, where he is a senior in high school. He starred in the Disney Channel TV movie "High School Musical," along with the other actors who have shown up on the Billboard Hot 100: Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Lucas Gabreel and Ashley Tisdale. These chart moves are a by-product of the digital era. The TV movie was popular enough with viewers to result in sufficient paid digital downloads to fuel the big jumps and high debuts.I don't think I would use the word "ridiculous" to describe the 82-point jump of Efron and Hudgens' "Breaking Free." "Amazing" or "impressive" would be more apt. The song had enough sales of digital downloads to debut last week at No. 86. If it had been released a few days later, it would have debuted at No. 4 instead of jumping 86-4, so timing had a lot to do with the history-making leap.Sales of digital downloads are creating different patterns on the Hot 100. Gavin Degraw's "We Belong Together" drops 26-75 this week as sales of paid downloads plummet. On the Hot Digital Songs chart, DeGraw's song drops 8-36. SIBLING REVELRYHi Fred,[In your item about Natasha Bedingfield and Daniel Bedingfield both having top 10 hits], perhaps you were only giving examples and not a complete list of brothers and sisters hitting the top 10 separately but one omission may get you a lot of e-mails. How about Janet and Jermaine Jackson? So many people forget poor Jermaine. I think there was another brother named Michael who hit the top 10 a few times too. But that doesn't matter. The big news this week on the Hot 100 is the charting of numerous singles from "High School Musical."These songs are benefiting from digital downloads and are making a big impact. I wonder how long they will remain on the Hot 100 as they are getting no airplay. I believe their chart lives will be short. Do you have any thoughts regarding this? Carl LeemanNew Brunswick, CanadaDear Carl,If "High School Musical" was a film released in theaters, the songs would stand a better chance of remaining on the chart, as new people would be exposed to them week by week. However, it is only because a few million people saw the film at the same time that the sales required to power large chart moves have occurred in such a short period.If the Disney Channel re-runs "High School Musical" soon, it could help keep the songs on the chart. Otherwise, they may suffer the fate of the Gavin DeGraw song mentioned above.You're right that many people wrote in about the Jackson siblings, though most of the others forgot to mention Jermaine. Some even said that I wrote the Osmonds and the Cherrys were the only other brother-sister teams to have separate top 10 hits, but I never used the word "only." I was citing examples, not providing a comprehensive list, but given the response I probably should have mentioned Michael and Janet. 'BLESS': THE BROKEN CHART?Hi Fred,[Looking in Joel Whitburn's book, I noticed] the CD single of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" re-issued in 2001 was a re-recording of the 1984 original. I bought this CD single but never opened it up until now and listened to it.This made me wonder if Billboard screwed up this chart info. I'd like your input on this. I sent this info to [Whiturn's] Record Research as well for their opinion.The country chart is an airplay-only chart, and I feel that the 1984 original was the one that got airplay and was the one that re-entered at No. 16 (that's why Billboard called it a re-entry, and started adding to its total of weeks on the chart). In Joel's book, this was listed as 73,128 and as a new recording. It should be listed as the same recording, but a newly recorded version was released as a CD single on CURB 73128.When the song re-entered (the week of Sept. 29, 2001) it was listed as MCA Nashville album cuts (the Curb info was changed later). This should never have been changed by Billboard on the country chart. When "American Country Countdown" played the song in the countdown they played the 1984 version as well, which is why I believe that the 1984 recording is what received airplay.Moving on to the Hot 100: Since the song never appeared on the Hot 100 before it was listed as a new entry on Sept. 29 at No. 16, once again as MCA Nashville Album Cut, I believe the airplay that earned that debut was the 1984 recording. However, after the song dropped [over] the next four weeks down to No. 84, it then soared back up to No. 37, based on sales of the re-recorded Curb/Capitol version CD single. To me this should have been a new entry again, as it was a different recording.This is no different than in 1990 when the Righteous Brothers charted [with] their 1965 [recording of] "Unchained Melody" (thanks to the movie "Ghost"), [based] on airplay and scant sales of a 45 (no cassette or CD single was issued). The Righteous Brothers re-recording (on Curb) was released as a cassette and later as a CD single. The song was literally on the Hot 100 twice -- [the] same song by the same artist listed twice (Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" did this too)."Unchained Melody" was on the chart because the 1965 version charted solely based on airplay and no sales, and the 1990 one charted based solely on sales and no airplay. Thus the Greenwood single should have been listed on the Hot 100 twice on Nov. 3, the 1984 [recording and] the CD single.I know this will never fly officially but I feel this is accurately what happened. What's your opinion, Fred? I know this is old news, but [I'm] curious.Thanks,John JayneDes Moines, IowaDear John,My main opinion is that this is, as you say, old news -- and probably not worthy of as much attention as we're giving it, but I do know from your e-mails over the years that you are a chart fan and can understand why you would question what seems like an anomaly.Before I address the issue, let me assure you that Billboard did not screw up. You've made a lot of assumptions that have led you down the path to that conclusion, so I'm glad you wrote in to find out what really happened.When there are unusual circumstances surrounding a song or a single, Billboard has to make an informed decision about how to treat that song or single on the charts. Record labels are usually consulted, and know how a song is going to be listed before the charts are published. If a label has strong objections, they can make them known, although the final decision rests in the hands of the Billboard chart department staff.I consulted with Wade Jessen, director of country charts for Billboard, about what happened in 2001 with Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." Wade replied that Greenwood re-recorded the song twice, so there were actually three versions getting airplay after 9/11: the original on MCA, a re-recording on Capitol and a re-recording on Curb. Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems tracked airplay of all three versions, but since airplay was split among the different versions, credit was split evenly among the three labels on the airplay-based charts per long-standing Billboard policy. While it may not have said so at first, the credit on airplay-based charts eventually read: MCA Nashville/Capitol/Curb. On sales charts, the credit went only to Curb, as it was that label's single that was selling after 9/11. It's likely that Joel Whitburn is pulling that credit from the sales chart; you'll probably want to ask the Record Research folks if that is so.Regarding the Hot 100, the chart operated under different rules in 1990. In 1998, the Hot 100 became a song chart instead of a singles chart, with airplay-only tracks allowed to appear whether there was a commercial single or not, so the rules that applied to "Unchained Melody" would be different from the rules that applied when "God Bless the USA" made its debut in 2001. MAKING A J-TURNDear Fred, First, let me thank you for your weekly dispatch of informative answers. I enjoy reading them so much that I think you deserve an entire magazine of your own. As a big fan of Japanese pop music, I am curious to find out how many Japanese artists have managed to chart in the United States. Many such artists released albums especially for the American market (Dreams Come True, Toshinobu Kubota and Hikaru Utada, to name a few) but I don't know if they ever charted. Many thanks! Massimiliano PapetteNew YorkDear Massimiliano,An entire magazine of "Chart Beat Chat?" I don't think I would have time to answer that many letters, but I appreciate the sentiment.I'm a big fan of J-pop as well. I visited Japan in 1993 and again in 2001, and both times exchanged large amounts of cash for large stacks of CDs. I was fortunate enough to have advice and support from Billboard's Japan correspondent, Steve McClure, who walked the record store aisles with me helping me to choose albums I was likely to like.As a result, my collection includes numerous records by artists such as Tatsuro Yamashita, Chage & Aska and Southern All-Stars. Yamashita is heavily influenced by Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and doo-wop but as far as I know, he has not tried to crack the American market.Of the artists you asked about, only Hikaru Utada has appeared on the Billboard charts. Her single "Devil Inside" went to No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart the week of Oct. 30, 2004. That song peaked at No. 5 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales list and No. 10 on the Hot Dance Radio Airplay tally. On the Hot Singles Sales chart, "Devil Inside" went to No. 57. Another Utada single, "Exodus '04," reached No. 9 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and No. 24 on the Club Play tally. The two singles were included on the Island album "Exodus," which stalled at No. 160 on The Billboard 200. COUNTRY ROUND-UPHello Fred! Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take the Wheel" is standing pat at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week on Billboard's Hot Country Songs list. Not only is "Jesus" the longest running single by a female soloist since Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman" spent five weeks on top in May/June 2004, but it is also the longest running No. 1 hit by an "American Idol" alumnus. Also, Kenny Rogers has joined a small list this week. With his "I Can't Unlove You" moving to No. 39 on the Hot Country Songs chart, he becomes only the third country act to score a top 40 country hit in each of the past five decades. The other two artists to accomplish this feat are Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton. Parton and Brad Paisley are within striking distance [of pole position] at No. 3 with "When I Get Where I'm Going." If this song can hit No. 1, Parton will become the only female soloist to have a No. 1 country hit in the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s. John MaverickOmaha, Neb.Dear John,Thanks for the country chart trivia. There is a lot more to Carrie Underwood's reign with "Jesus, Take the Wheel." See "Chart Beat" for details.On the country chart, the only other "American Idol" finalist to reach No. 1 was Josh Gracin, with "Nothin' to Lose." When it comes to all Billboard charts, other "Idol" finalists have racked up more weeks at No. 1 than Underwood, but she may not be ready to give up pole position just yet. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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So investors seem to be deciding to rally around bank shares today. For our part, we're stunned by the one deafness of the regulators statements. Once again, they trotted out the lie about banks being "well capitalized," which might as well be the epitaph of so many of our failed financial institutions.
- "Currently, the major U.S. banking institutions have capital in excess of the amounts required to be considered well capitalized," the FDIC, The Treasury and the Federal Reserve said in their joint statement today.
We take no assurance from this "well capitalized" talk. Why not? Well, look at the history of well capitalized banks.
- "To be clear, we do not expect to use proceeds of this equity offering to further decrease leverage, but rather to take advantage of future market opportunities, which are abundant. And over all, we stand extremely well capitalized to take advantage of these new opportunities. From a risk management perspective, we continued to operate in our disciplined manner we're known for," said Erin Callan, the CEO of Lehman Brothers, in June of 2008.
- "At all times, the firm had a capital cushion well above what is required to meet supervisory standards," SEC chair Chris Cox wrote of Bear Stears...after the firm had collapsed.
- "Both [Fannie and Freddie are adequately capitalized, which is hour highest criteria," said James Lockhart, director of the regulator of the GSE's, on July 8, 2008.
But don't worry. After so many "well capitalized" financial companies collapsing, what are the odds it could happen again? Aren't Black Swans rare things? Should we be due for at least one failing bank to survive?
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Thursday night at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver looked and felt more like the weekend as an adrenaline-charged crowd began filling the venue shortly after doors opened. Fans had been waiting for this show for months and needed little in the way of a warmup, but nobody gave Like Moths To A Flame the memo. The band turned out a riveting performance to start off the four-act evening.
Ice Nine Kills followed, practically tearing the roof off with a set that had fans going wild from start to finish, clamouring to reach the stage. You'd have imagined they were the headliners from the reception they received. With acrobatic leaps from elevated platforms and arms outstretched to an eager crowd, their return to Vancouver was nothing less than triumphant.
Every Time I Die are no strangers to the Rickshaw, delivering performances that have been talked about for weeks on end. Living up to their reputation, the energy never abated as both band and audience revelled in the moment. Members of the audience were lifted by the crowd towards the stage, others reeled in the frenzy of the pit. Some musicians put on a show, Every Time I Die consumes you in theirs!
Tying up the night with slick, gritty ease, headliners Motionless in White are the kind of steely polished band that have found their style, their sound, and in turn their utterly dedicated following. Entering to deafening applause under cover of darkness and the dim glow of eerie graveyard decor, the band launched first into fan favourites 'Rats', 'Reincarnate' and 'Necessary Evil'. Motionless in White understand that when you put on a show, every aspect matters – the music, the visuals, even the theatricality are all a part of the experience. And they delivered in spades.
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Published on 20 Sep 17 by WESTERN AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, THE TAX INSTITUTE
This paper covers a case study and solutions on transfer balance cap and CGT relief.
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Jemma Sanderson CTAJemma Sanderson, CTA is a Director at Cooper Partners Financial Services, heading up their SMSF specialist services. Jemma provides strategic advice on SMSFs, estate planning and wealth management to clients, as well as technical support to accounting, legal and financial planning groups. Jemma is a regular presenter on superannuation and SMSFs for The Tax Institute and other professional bodies across Australia. Jemma is the author of the popular SMSF Guide published by The Tax Institute, currently in its 9th edition, and is the author and convener of The Tax Institute's Graduate Diploma of Applied Tax Law Advanced Superannuation unit. Jemma was recently named as SMSF Adviser of the Year for the second year running at the 2018 National Women in Finance awards, and SMSF Adviser of the year at the 2018 WA SMSF and Accounting Awards.Jemma was the recipient of the Chairman's Award at the 2018 SMSF Association National Convention for her contribution to the industry. - Current at 05 April 2019
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Friday, 18 May 2012
15 die, 6 injured in maiduguri auto accident
Fifteen persons on Thursday lost their lives while 6 others were injured when a commercial bus collided with a car on Maiduguri-Damaturu road.
Eyewitnesses told newsmen in Maiduguri that the accident involved a mass transit bus owned by the state government's transport company, the `Borno Express' and a golf saloon car.
One of the eye witnesses, Mr Simon Mamza, said that the incident occurred around 2.35 pm in Jakana village, about 35 kilometres from Maiduguri.
He said the crash was caused by wrong overtaking.
"The whole thing happened at a bend near the Jakana village, as one of the vehicles ran into the other's lane.
"Within a twinkling of an eye, the vehicles collided killing about 15 passengers in the bus and injuring about six others," Mamza said.
He said that most of the victims died before the arrival of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) rescue team.
A senior FRSC official, Mr Amos Thizha, confirmed the story.
"I heard about the accident but I don not have the details yet, our rescue team has already evacuated the injured victims to the hospital for treatment."
He said some of the dead victims had been buried at the Gwange cemetery in the metropolis, while other bodies were deposited at the Specialist Hospital morgue. (NAN)
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15 deaths in a car accident??? OMG!!! I'm so scared when I hear about this kind of fatal accidents! Nowadays, speed and Toronto careless driving are the major causes of these fatal crashes. Drivers should be more careful because innocent people can be injured or even killed.ReplyDelete
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Isn't this layout a little bit of Paradise? Our son Will is in his final year at the United States Coast Guard Academy (Go Bears!) and he has tremendous opportunities to travel and see some amazing places while working in the US Coast Guard. In these layouts I'm highlighting one of his ports of call...Bermuda. The layout uses a Cut Above Layout Kit (now retired I believe - sorry). These kits come pre-designed and often pre-cut for scrapbook layouts, cards, tags or other projects for a crafter with a need to create but not a lot of time to do it. This is also a great way to start scrapbooking or card making as the challenge of designing is done for you. I will be highlighting additional kits in the coming weeks. While this particular kit may no longer be available you can see other Cut Above Kits HERE.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The U.S. economic downturn has taken a wicked toll on some metropolitan areas, with Silicon Valley the hardest hit among them.
Slumping demand for such products as computer software, furniture and textiles sent local jobless rates skyrocketing from Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Vancouver, Wash., in the last year. Nationally, the unemployment rate rose to 5.4 percent last month from 4.9 percent in September, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday.
"Where there's major manufacturing ... unemployment has been increasing," said Lisa Williamson, a Labor Department economist.
But it was the tech hotbed around San Jose, Calif., that saw a quantum leap in local joblessness through September, the last month for which regional figures are available. Silicon Valley unemployment soared to 5.9 percent from 1.8 percent a year earlier, according to nonseasonally adjusted Labor Department data.
Austin, Texas, also has been hit hard after enjoying one of the nation's tightest labor markets -- another example of the toll last year's technology bust is taking on municipalities, said Lori Kletzer, a University of California at Santa Cruz economics professor.
Those two markets' misfortunes show "the extent to which it's not just manufacturing but also software development" companies cutting staff, Kletzer said. "Employers were begging for workers in San Jose and Austin, so this is a really dramatic turnaround."
The 10 metro areas bearing the brunt of downsizing, in order, with a breakdown from local officials:
- Silicon Valley was No. 1 with a 4.1 percentage-point rise in joblessness. Layoffs at Cisco and Intel, among other technology bellwethers, drove the increase.
- Hickory, N.C., checked in with a 3.7 percentage point increase, with unemployment reaching 6.5 percent in September. The area, which includes the towns of Morganton and Lenoir, is heavily dependent on manufacturing, textiles, furniture and tobacco, Williamson said.
- Danville, Va., now has 7.6 percent unemployment, compared with 4.3 percent last year, a difference of 3.3 percentage points. The North Carolina border town has endured shutdowns at Hooker and Lane Furniture plants and layoffs at Goodyear Tire and Dan River Textile Mill.
- Sumter, S.C., grew its jobless rolls by 3 percentage points during the year. Unemployment stands at 7.3 percent, up from 4.3 percent in 2000. The city of 40,000 suffered a blow when EnerSys, a battery manufacturing plant, closed, shedding 600 jobs over the year.
- Unemployment in Kokomo, Ind., has doubled since last year. Mirroring the national average, Kokomo now checks in with a 5.4 percent jobless rate, 2.7 percentage points higher than last year. The community is still absorbing layoffs by DaimlerChrysler that started earlier in the year, Williamson said.
- Sherman-Dennison, Texas, at the end of the North Texas Technology Corridor, also had a rise of 2.7 percentage points. Its unemployment jumped to 6.3 percent in September from 3.6 percent in the year-ago period. The area saw layoffs at a Texas Instrument chip plant and an MEMC Southwest chip wafer plant.
- Tuscaloosa, Ala., saw a rise of 2.6 percentage points, with unemployment now at 5.5 percent from 2.9 percent last fall.
- Austin-San Marcos, Texas, also saw a rise of 2.6 percentage points when it hit 4.6 percent this year from 2 percent in September 2000. The city's seen numerous layoffs at technology companies.
- Rockford, Ill., counts 6.6 percent of its population as unemployed, up from 4.1 percent last year, a difference of 2.5 percentage points. The area lost about 1,000 positions to DaimlerChrysler's layoffs, and several hundred jobs to cuts at commercial aviation supplier Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technology Corp. It's also had job losses at Newell Rubbermaid, as well as in local retail and construction operations.
- The metro area of Portland, Ore.-Vancouver, Wash., also had an increase of 2.5 percentage points. Its local joblessness grew to 6.2 percent in September from 3.7 percent last year.
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Meanwhile, some municipalities -- particularly those with multiple and diverse employers -- escaped drastic increases at the benefits lines since last fall.
The New York City area registered a negligible change of 0.8 percentage points in that timeframe, with joblessness now at 5.8 percent. And despite Chicago's O'Hare Airport being the hub of United Airlines, the rise in Chicago's unemployment was only 1.3 percent.
Other regions even managed to see their jobless levels drop. Cities with the biggest declines in unemployment were Yuma, Ariz., which is host to many seasonal workers, followed by Gadsden, Ala.; Albany, Ga.; Fresno, Calif.; and Johnstown, Pa.
The Labor Department will release its metropolitan area unemployment rates for October on Nov. 28.


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