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Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the 95th Congress, ladies and gentlemen:
Two years ago today we had the first caucus in Iowa, and one year ago tomorrow, I walked from here to the White House to take up the duties of President of the United States. I didn't know it then when I walked, but I've been trying to save energy ever since. [Laughter]
I return tonight to fulfill one of those duties of the Constitution: to give to the Congress—and to the Nation—information on the state of the Union.
Militarily, politically, economically, and in spirit, the state of our Union is sound.
We are a great country, a strong country, a vital and a dynamic country—and so we will remain.
We are a confident people and a hardworking people, a decent and a compassionate people—and so we will remain.
I want to speak to you tonight about where we are and where we must go, about what we have done and what we must do. And I want to pledge to you my best efforts and ask you to pledge yours.
Each generation of Americans has to face circumstances not of its own choosing, but by which its character is measured and its spirit is tested.
There are times of emergency, when a nation and its leaders must bring their energies to bear on a single urgent task. That was the duty Abraham Lincoln faced when our land was torn apart by conflict in the War Between the States. That was the duty faced by Franklin Roosevelt when he led America out of an economic depression and again when he led America to victory in war.
There are other times when there is no single overwhelming crisis, yet profound national interests are at stake.
At such times the risk of inaction can be equally great. It becomes the task of leaders to call forth the vast and restless energies of our people to build for the future.
That is what Harry Truman did in the years after the Second World War, when we helped Europe and Japan rebuild themselves and secured an international order that has protected freedom from aggression.
We live in such times now, and we face such duties.
We've come through a long period of turmoil and doubt, but we've once again found our moral course, and with a new spirit, we are striving to express our best instincts to the rest of the world.
There is all across our land a growing sense of peace and a sense of common purpose. This sense of unity cannot be expressed in programs or in legislation or in dollars. It's an achievement that belongs to every individual American. This unity ties together, and it towers over all our efforts here in Washington, and it serves as an inspiring beacon for all of us who are elected to serve.
This new atmosphere demands a new spirit, a partnership between those of us who lead and those who elect. The foundations of this partnership are truth, the courage to face hard decisions, concern for one another and the common good over special interests, and a basic faith and trust in the wisdom and strength and judgment of the American people.
For the first time in a generation, we are not haunted by a major international crisis or by domestic turmoil, and we now have a rare and a priceless opportunity to address persistent problems and burdens which come to us as a nation-quietly and steadily getting worse over the years.
As President, I've had to ask you, the Members of Congress, and you, the American people, to come to grips with some of the most difficult and hard questions facing our society.
We must make a maximum effort, because if we do not aim for the best, we are very likely to achieve little. I see no benefit to the country if we delay, because the problems will only get worse.
We need patience and good will, but we really need to realize that there is a limit to the role and the function of government. Government cannot solve our problems, it can't set our goals, it cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation or save our cities or cure illiteracy or provide energy. And government cannot mandate goodness. Only a true partnership between government and the people can ever hope to reach these goals.
Those of us who govern can sometimes inspire, and we can identify needs and marshal resources, but we simply cannot be the managers of everything and everybody.
We here in Washington must move away from crisis management, and we must establish clear goals for the future-immediate and the distant future—which will let us work together and not in conflict. Never again should we neglect a growing crisis like the shortage of energy, where further delay will only lead to more harsh and painful solutions.
Every day we spend more than $120 million for foreign oil. This slows our economic growth, it lowers the value of the dollar overseas, and it aggravates unemployment and inflation here at home.
Now we know what we must do—increase production. We must cut down on waste. And we must use more of those fuels which are plentiful and more permanent. We must be fair to people, and we must not disrupt our Nation's economy and our budget.
Now, that sounds simple. But I recognize the difficulties involved. I know that it is not easy for the Congress to act. But the fact remains that on the energy legislation, we have failed the American people. Almost 5 years after the oil embargo dramatized the problem for us all, we still do not have a national energy program. Not much longer can we tolerate this stalemate. It undermines our national interest both at home and abroad. We must succeed, and I believe we will.
Our main task at home this year, with energy a central element, is the Nation's economy. We must continue the recovery and further cut unemployment and inflation.
Last year was a good one for the United States. We reached all of our major economic goals for 1977. Four million new jobs were created—an all time record and the number of unemployed dropped by more than a million. Unemployment right now is the lowest it has been since 1974, and not since World War II has such a high percentage of American people been employed.
The rate of inflation went down. There was a good growth in business profits and investments, the source of more jobs for our workers, and a higher standard of living for all our people. After taxes and inflation, there was a healthy increase in workers' wages.
And this year, our country will have the first $2 trillion economy in the history of the world.
Now, we are proud of this progress the first year, but we must do even better in the future.
We still have serious problems on which all of us must work together. Our trade deficit is too large. Inflation is still too high, and too many Americans still do not have a job.
Now, I didn't have any simple answers for all these problems. But we have developed an economic policy that is working, because it's simple, balanced, and fair. It's based on four principles:
First, the economy must keep on expanding to produce new jobs and better income, which our people need. The fruits of growth must be widely shared. More jobs must be made available to those who have been bypassed until now. And the tax system must be made fairer and simpler.
Secondly, private business and not the Government must lead the expansion in the future.
Third, we must lower the rate of inflation and keep it down. Inflation slows down economic growth, and it's the most cruel to the poor and also to the elderly and others who live on fixed incomes.
And fourth, we must contribute to the strength of the world economy.
I will announce detailed proposals for improving our tax system later this week. We can make our tax laws fairer, we can make them simpler and easier to understand, and at the same time, we can-and we will—reduce the tax burden on American citizens by $25 billion.
The tax reforms and the tax reductions go together. Only with the long overdue reforms will the full tax cut be advisable.
Almost $17 billion in income tax cuts will go to individuals. Ninety-six percent of all American taxpayers will see their taxes go down. For a typical family of four, this means an annual saving of more than $250 a year, or a tax reduction of about 20 percent. A further $2 billion cut in excise taxes will give more relief and also contribute directly to lowering the rate of inflation.
And we will also provide strong additional incentives for business investment and growth through substantial cuts in the corporate tax rates and improvement in the investment tax credit.
Now, these tax proposals will increase opportunity everywhere in the Nation. But additional jobs for the disadvantaged deserve special attention.
We've already passed laws to assure equal access to the voting booth and to restaurants and to schools, to housing, and laws to permit access to jobs. But job opportunity-the chance to earn a decent living—is also a basic human right, which we cannot and will not ignore.
A major priority for our Nation is the final elimination of the barriers that restrict the opportunities available to women and also to black people and Hispanics and other minorities. We've come a long way toward that goal. But there is still much to do. What we inherited from the past must not be permitted to shackle us in the future.
I'll be asking you for a substantial increase in funds for public jobs for our young people, and I also am recommending that the Congress continue the public service employment programs at more than twice the level of a year ago. When welfare reform is completed, we will have more than a million additional jobs so that those on welfare who are able to work can work.
However, again, we know that in our free society, private business is still the best source of new jobs. Therefore, I will propose a new program to encourage businesses to hire young and disadvantaged Americans. These young people only need skills and a chance in order to take their place in our economic system. Let's give them the chance they need. A major step in the right direction would be the early passage of a greatly improved Humphrey-Hawkins bill.
My budget for 1979 addresses these national needs, but it is lean and tight. I have cut waste wherever possible.
I am proposing an increase of less than 2 percent after adjusting for inflation-the smallest increase in the Federal budget in 4 years.
Lately, Federal spending has taken a steadily increasing portion of what Americans produce. Our new budget reverses that trend, and later I hope to bring the Government's toll down even further. And with your help, we'll do that.
In time of high employment and a strong economy, deficit spending should not be a feature of our budget. As the economy continues to gain strength and as our unemployment rates continue to fall, revenues will grow. With careful planning, efficient management, and proper restraint on spending, we can move rapidly toward a balanced budget—and we will.
Next year the budget deficit will be only slightly less than this year. But one-third of the deficit is due to the necessary tax cuts that I've proposed. This year the right choice is to reduce the burden on taxpayers and provide more jobs for our people.
The third element in our program is a renewed attack on inflation. We've learned the hard way that high unemployment will not prevent or cure inflation. Government can help us by stimulating private investment and by maintaining a responsible economic policy. Through a new top-level review process, we will do a better job of reducing Government regulation that drives up costs and drives up prices.
But again, Government alone cannot bring down the rate of inflation. When a level of high inflation is expected to continue, then companies raise prices to protect their profit margins against prospective increases in wages and other costs, while workers demand higher wages as protection against expected price increases. It's like an escalation in the arms race, and understandably, no one wants to disarm alone.
Now, no one firm or a group of workers can halt this process. It's an effort that we must all make together. I'm therefore asking government, business, labor, and other groups to join in a voluntary program to moderate inflation by holding wage and price increases in each sector of the economy during 1978 below the average increases of the last 2 years.
I do not believe in wage and price controls. A sincere commitment to voluntary constraint provides a way—perhaps the only way—to fight inflation without Government interference.
As I came into the Capitol tonight, I saw the farmers, my fellow farmers, standing out in the snow. I'm familiar with their problem, and I know from Congress action that you are too. When I was running Carters Warehouse, we had spread on our own farms 5-10-15 fertilizer for about $40 a ton. The last time I was home, the price was about $100 a ton. The cost of nitrogen has gone up 150 percent, and the price of products that farmers sell has either stayed the same or gone down a little.
Now, this past year in 1977, you, the Congress, and I together passed a new agricultural act. It went into effect October 1. It'll have its first impact on the 1978 crops. It will help a great deal. It'll add $6 1/2 billion or more to help the farmers with their price supports and target prices.
Last year we had the highest level of exports of farm products in the history of our country—$24 billion. We expect to have more this year. We'll be working together. But I think it's incumbent on us to monitor very carefully the farm situation and continue to work harmoniously with the farmers of our country. What's best for the farmers, the farm families, in the long run is also best for the consumers of our country.
Economic success at home is also the key to success in our international economic policy. An effective energy program, strong investment and productivity, and controlled inflation will provide [improve] our trade balance and balance it, and it will help to protect the integrity of the dollar overseas.
By working closely with our friends abroad, we can promote the economic health of the whole world, with fair and balanced agreements lowering the barriers to trade.
Despite the inevitable pressures that build up when the world economy suffers from high unemployment, we must firmly resist the demands for self-defeating protectionism. But free trade must also be fair trade. And I am determined to protect American industry and American workers against foreign trade practices which are unfair or illegal.
In a separate written message to Congress, I've outlined other domestic initiatives, such as welfare reform, consumer protection, basic education skills, urban policy, reform of our labor laws, and national health care later on this year. I will not repeat these tonight. But there are several other points that I would like to make directly to you.
During these past years, Americans have seen our Government grow far from us.
For some citizens, the Government has almost become like a foreign country, so strange and distant that we've often had to deal with it through trained ambassadors who have sometimes become too powerful and too influential—lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists. This cannot go on.
We must have what Abraham Lincoln wanted—a government for the people.
We've made progress toward that kind of government. You've given me the authority I requested to reorganize the Federal bureaucracy. And I am using that authority.
We've already begun a series of reorganization plans which will be completed over a period of 3 years. We have also proposed abolishing almost 500 Federal advisory and other commissions and boards. But I know that the American people are still sick and tired of Federal paperwork and redtape. Bit by bit we are chopping down the thicket of unnecessary Federal regulations by which Government too often interferes in our personal lives and our personal business. We've cut the public's Federal paperwork load by more than 12 percent in less than a year. And we are not through cutting.
We've made a good start on turning the gobbledygook of Federal regulations into plain English that people can understand. But we know that we still have a long way to go.
We've brought together parts of 11 Government agencies to create a new Department of Energy. And now it's time to take another major step by creating a separate Department of Education.
But even the best organized Government will only be as effective as the people who carry out its policies. For this reason, I consider civil service reform to be absolutely vital. Worked out with the civil servants themselves, this reorganization plan will restore the merit principle to a system which has grown into a bureaucratic maze. It will provide greater management flexibility and better rewards for better performance without compromising job security.
Then and only then can we have a government that is efficient, open, and truly worthy of our people's understanding and respect. I have promised that we will have such a government, and I intend to keep that promise.
In our foreign policy, the separation of people from government has been in the past a source of weakness and error. In a democratic system like ours, foreign policy decisions must be able to stand the test of public examination and public debate. If we make a mistake in this administration, it will be on the side of frankness and openness with the American people.
In our modern world, when the deaths of literally millions of people can result from a few terrifying seconds of destruction, the path of national strength and security is identical to the path of peace.
Tonight, I am happy to report that because we are strong, our Nation is at peace with the world.
We are a confident nation. We've restored a moral basis for our foreign policy. .The very heart of our identity as a nation is our firm commitment to human rights.
We stand for human rights because we believe that government has as a purpose to promote the well-being of its citizens. This is true in our domestic policy; it's also true in our foreign policy. The world must know that in support of human rights, the United States will stand firm.
We expect no quick or easy results, but there has been significant movement toward greater freedom and humanity in several parts of the world.
Thousands of political prisoners have been freed. The leaders of the world-even our ideological adversaries—now see that their attitude toward fundamental human rights affects their standing in the international community, and it affects their relations with the United States.
To serve the interests of every American, our foreign policy has three major goals.
The first and prime concern is and will remain the security of our country.
Security is based on our national will, and security is based on the strength of our Armed Forces. We have the will, and militarily we are very strong.
Security also comes through the strength of our alliances. We have reconfirmed our commitment to the defense of Europe, and this year we will demonstrate that commitment by further modernizing and strengthening our military capabilities there.
Security can also be enhanced by agreements with potential adversaries which reduce the threat of nuclear disaster while maintaining our own relative strategic capability.
In areas of peaceful competition with the Soviet Union, we will continue to more than hold our own.
At the same time, we are negotiating with quiet confidence, without haste, with careful determination, to ease the tensions between us and to ensure greater stability and security.
The strategic arms limitation talks have been long and difficult. We want a mutual limit on both the quality and the quantity of the giant nuclear arsenals of both nations, and then we want actual reductions in strategic arms as a major step toward the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
If these talks result in an agreement this year—and I trust they will—I pledge to you that the agreement will maintain and enhance the stability of the world's strategic balance and the security of the United States.
For 30 years, concerted but unsuccessful efforts have been made to ban the testing of atomic explosives—both military weapons and peaceful nuclear devices.
We are hard at work with Great Britain and the Soviet Union on an agreement which will stop testing and will protect our national security and provide for adequate verification of compliance. We are now making, I believe, good progress toward this comprehensive ban on nuclear explosions.
We are also working vigorously to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons among the nations of the world which do not now have them and to reduce the deadly global traffic in conventional arms sales. Our stand for peace is suspect if we are also the principal arms merchant of the world. so, we've decided to cut down our arms transfers abroad on a year-by-year basis and to work with other major arms exporters to encourage their similar constraint.
Every American has a stake in our second major goal—a world at peace. In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere. We are trying to promote harmony in those parts of the world where major differences exist among other nations and threaten international peace.
In the Middle East, we are contributing our good offices to maintain the momentum of the current negotiations and to keep open the lines of communication among the Middle Eastern leaders. The whole world has a great stake in the success of these efforts. This is a precious opportunity for a historic settlement of a longstanding conflict—an opportunity which may never come again in our lifetime.
Our role has been difficult and sometimes thankless and controversial. But it has been constructive and it has been necessary, and it will continue.
Our third major foreign policy goal is one that touches the life of every American citizen every day—world economic growth and stability.
This requires strong economic performance by the industrialized democracies like ourselves and progress in resolving the global energy crisis. Last fall, with the help of others, we succeeded in our vigorous efforts to maintain the stability of the price of oil. But as many foreign leaders have emphasized to me personally and, I am sure, to you, the greatest future contribution that America can make to the world economy would be an effective energy conservation program here at home. We will not hesitate to take the actions needed to protect the integrity of the American dollar.
We are trying to develop a more just international system. And in this spirit, we are supporting the struggle for human development in Africa, in Asia, and in Latin America.
Finally, the world is watching to see how we act on one of our most important and controversial items of business—approval of the Panama Canal treaties. The treaties now before the Senate are the result of the work of four administrations-two Democratic, two Republican.
They guarantee that the canal will be open always for unrestricted use by the ships of the world. Our ships have the right to go to the head of the line for priority of passage in times of emergency or need. We retain the permanent right to defend the canal with our own military forces, if necessary, to guarantee its openness and its neutrality.
The treaties are to the clear advantage of ourselves, the Panamanians, and the other users of the canal. Ratifying the Panama Canal treaties will demonstrate our good faith to the world, discourage the spread of hostile ideologies in this hemisphere, and directly contribute to the economic well-being and the security of the United States.
I have to say that that's very welcome applause. [Laughter]
There were two moments on my recent journey which, for me, confirmed the final aims of our foreign policy and what it always must be.
One was in a little village in India, where I met a people as passionately attached to their rights and liberties as we are, but whose children have a far smaller chance for good health or food or education or human fulfillment than a child born in this country.
The other moment was in Warsaw, capital of a nation twice devastated by war in this century. There, people have rebuilt the city which war's destruction took from them. But what was new only emphasized clearly what was lost.
What I saw in those two places crystalized for me the purposes of our own Nation's policy: to ensure economic justice, to advance human rights, to resolve conflicts without violence, and to proclaim in our great democracy our constant faith in the liberty and dignity of human beings everywhere.
We Americans have a great deal of work to do together. In the end, how well we do that work will depend on the spirit in which we approach it. We must seek fresh answers, unhindered by the stale prescriptions of the past.
It has been said that our best years are behind us. But I say again that America's best is still ahead. We have emerged from bitter experiences chastened but proud, confident once again, ready to face challenges once again, and united once again.
We come together tonight at a solemn time. Last week the Senate lost a good and honest man—Lee Metcalf of Montana.
And today, the flag of the United States flew at half-mast from this Capitol and from American installations and ships all over the world, in mourning for Senator Hubert Humphrey.
Because he exemplified so well the joy and the zest of living, his death reminds us not so much of our own mortality, but of the possibilities offered to us by life. He always looked to the future with a special American kind of confidence, of hope and enthusiasm. And the best way that we can honor him is by following his example.
Our task—to use the words of Senator Humphrey—is "reconciliation, rebuilding, and rebirth."
Reconciliation of private needs and interests into a higher purpose.
Rebuilding the old dreams of justice and liberty, and country and community.
Rebirth of our faith in the common good.
Each of us here tonight—and all who are listening in your homes—must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community, a beloved community, all of us. Our individual fates are linked, our futures intertwined. And if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit, together, as the Bible says, we can move mountains.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 9 p.m. in the House Chamber at the Capitol. He was introduced by Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives. The address was broadcast live on radio and television.
Jimmy Carter, The State of the Union Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of the Congress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245063


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Stability is a must, if for no other reason than the production environment supports the entire business. It is the primary network, the critical applications, the nervous system through which all business signals – good and bad –flow. Disruption is not acceptable. The blast radius from a downtime triggering misconfiguration or other error is significant. Stability must be balanced against the need to improve the velocity with which applications travel from developed to deployed.
This is a non-trivial task primarily because of the complexity of the environment. This is not simply a new server, a couple of pieces of software and a network. This is a highly integrated set of connections comprising not only the app infrastructure but the app service infrastructure, too. That app service infrastructure is also not as simplistic as our network diagrams might suggest. It is not simply a firewall, a load balancer, and then the app. It is, in fact, a more robust set of services across security, scale, performance, and access. Each one of which may need to be newly provisioned, absolutely needs to be configured, and certainly requires the appropriate network support to ensure proper traversal from the ultimate consumer to the actual application. Organizations on average employ 11 different app services to deliver and secure an application. And given that said organizations support on average 500 different applications, you can see exactly why the production environment is actually a highly complex internet of services itself.
This is the reality of an app deployment, and why the network is often perceived as still being "in the way" of realizing improved time to market and greater efficiency of deployments.
Balancing speed and stability is exactly what efforts like SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) is designed to do. By bringing automation and orchestration through a central data center command and control system, organizations can better manage not only the wealth of app services required to deliver and secure an application but also monitor, measure and improve the processes by which they are deployed.
The problem is no single vendor on their own spans the broad set of services required of a truly enterprise-class deployment pipeline. The provider of network services is not the provider of all app services, etc…
That means that if you're going to actually optimize and reduce variability in the deployment pipeline by automating and orchestrating provisioning and management, you're going to have to take an ecosystem approach. An ecosystem of integrated partners who work together not just on paper but in production to ensure a consistent, seamless, and repeatable set of production deployment processes.
Partners like VMware and F5 who, for many long years now, have proven their commitment to developing and implementing joint solutions that enable organizations to succeed on initiatives – like the SDDC.
Achieving operational agility for services considered key to delivering the performance, availability, and security services applications (and business) requires can be a challenge. Doing so consistently without consuming the bulk of available IT resources makes it even more difficult. By deploying VMware and F5 together - using VMware NSX and/or VMware vRealize Orchestrator - organizations can rapidly and programmatically provision the app services they need to keep apps available and secure. We (VMware and F5) have combined forces in the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) to improve orchestration of application networking services for a wide variety of applications.
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That's important because this is not just a cloud world now, it's a hybrid cloud world. At least that's what we're told by 81% of respondents in our latest State of Application Delivery survey. That means it's not enough to integrate with orchestration and management solutions like VMware NSX or vRealize Orchestrator, it's also imperative that the services responsible for delivering and securing apps in the cloud can be deployed in the cloud. That's why we also offer the ability to deploy F5 software in vCloud Air to address availability, performance, and security of apps no matter where they're deployed. The consistency of a single service delivery platform with F5 and integrated provisioning and management through VMware in both the data center and vCloud Air results in greater agility, lower costs, hardened security, higher performance, and better reliability.
It gets "the network" out of the way of faster time to market and gains in operational efficiency without sacrificing the stability and predictability business needs.
Knowing that all sounds good, but the proof is in the pudding, as they say, F5 will demo this new SDDC orchestrated and automated solution to scale VMware Horizon to meet business demand at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. Attendees will have two options to experience this demo—during breakout session NET6320-SPO on September 2 at 8:00 a.m., and in booth #1513 throughout the event.


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This workshop takes participants through the process of analyzing, critiquing and developing their resumes. Pt. 1 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Pt. 2 1:00 pm -3:00 pm
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Most employers require applicants to submit a resume. A well-written resume will show employers how your skills, experiences and qualifications can contribute to the workplace and meet their needs. They look for a specific set of skills that match the skills necessary to perform a particular job. A well-prepared resume shows employers you are serious about finding a job and should get them interested in calling you for a job interview. Employers receive many resumes and are usually in a hurry. They don't spend time on resumes that are hard to read, sloppy or incomplete. The average amount of time that an employer spends skimming a resume is 10 to 15 seconds. If you think about how long that really is, you don't have a lot of time to waste! Every second counts, so make sure you design a resume that looks great and grabs your reader's attention. Creating a winning resume can make the difference between ending up in an employer's "to be interviewed" pile or the "not interested" pile.


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Bedroom is the most relaxing and happiest place for me after a long working day. But it looks like we do not usually spend much money and time on this room. I know, upgrading a bedroom can be expensive. Today, I've collected 62 cozy master bedroom decor ideas on a budget that you can DIY. With a small budget, you can transform your room into a cozy and stylish oasis.
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From October 15 to December 7 each year, Medicare enrollees have the option to change their insurance plans. For prescription drug coverage, which is only offered by private insurance companies, it pays to shop around. Even if you have been happy with your current plan, drug prices and premiums change from one year to the next. It's a good idea to compare. There could be hundreds of dollars at stake.
The federal government makes Medicare prescription plan rules, so some things are the same no matter the company. For instance, the point at which the initial coverage stops and the coverage gap begins—sometimes called the "donut hole"—is up to $4430 in 2022. But how soon you get to that number depends on drug pricing, which varies from one insurance company to the next.
Here are some factors to consider:
- The price of your medicines. To compare plans, you must research the prices in each plan's "formulary" for each of your prescriptions. A plan that charges $200 for a month's worth of pills will land you in the coverage gap sooner than a plan that charges $100.
- The cost of the deductible. This is what you must pay before insurance kicks in. Some policies have a $0 deductible. Others go to the 2022 Medicare maximum: $480.
- The cost of copays. Typically, once the deductible is met, you need to pay a set fee per prescription or a percentage of the price of each drug. This is called the "copay." It varies widely from one company to another, as does the price or percentage that is required in the coverage gap.
- The price of the monthly premium. The lower the premium, the higher the copays.
- Customer service. Each plan has a Medicare star rating based on customer satisfaction and other performance factors. These are updated yearly. A rating of fewer than four stars probably indicates slow service, which could cost money or cause health problems.
- Other services tied to the drug plan. If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, prescriptions may be bundled with your coverage for doctors and hospitals. A plan that might be better for medicines may not include the doctors you have been seeing. You may need to choose which is more important.
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This article appeared originally in the Vol 15, No. 3 issue of Code One in 2000.
The unassuming fuselage bump at each inlet on the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter performs miracles that only aeronautical engineers can fully appreciate. At high aircraft speeds through supersonic, the bumps work with forward-swept inlet cowls to redirect unwanted boundary layer airflow away from the inlets, essentially doing the job of heavier, more complex, and more costly approaches used by current fighters.
The overall inlet design, called a diverterless supersonic inlet or DSI, moved from concept to reality when it was installed and flown on a Block 30 F-16 in a highly successful demonstration program. The flight test program consisted of twelve flights flown in nine days in December 1996. The first flight on 11 December addressed initial envelope clearance and functional checks. Subsequent flights addressed performance characteristics of the unique inlet design in both level and maneuvering flight. Rapid throttle transients during these flights confirmed the compatibility between the inlet and engine.
The flight tests covered the entire F-16 flight envelope and achieved a maximum speed of Mach 2.0. The modified aircraft demonstrated flying qualities similar to a normal production F-16 at all angles of attack and at all angles of sideslip. Lockheed Martin test pilots performed two inflight engine restarts and 164 successful afterburner lights, with no failures. Fifty-two afterburner lights were performed during hard maneuvers. No engine stalls or anomalies occurred during the test flights.
The new inlet showed slightly better subsonic specific excess power than a production inlet and that verified the overall system benefits of eliminating the diverter. Test pilots remarked that military power settings and thrust characteristics were very similar to standard production F-16 aircraft with the same General Electric F110-GE-129 engine. Considering the overall goal of the flight test program was to demonstrate the viability of this advanced inlet technology, the results were excellent.
Tactical aircraft pose a formidable challenge for inlet designers. A fighter inlet must provide an engine with high-quality airflow over a wide range of speeds, altitudes, and maneuvering conditions while accommodating the full range of engine airflow from idle to maximum military or afterburning power. The inlet designer must also consider the constraints imposed by configuration features, such as nose landing gears, weapon bays, equipment access panels, and forebody shaping. The design must produce the lowest drag, lowest weight, lowest cost, and highest propulsion performance. It must also meet stringent low observable requirements.
Historically, inlet complexity is a function of top speed for fighter aircraft. Higher Mach numbers require more sophisticated devices for compressing supersonic airflow to slow it down to subsonic levels before it reaches the face of the engine. (Jet engines are not designed to handle the shock waves associated with supersonic airflow.)
These compression schemes involve the conversion of the kinetic energy of the supersonic airstream into total pressure on the compressor face of the engine. Speeds over Mach 2 generally require more elaborate compression schemes. The F-15 inlet, for example, contains a series of movable compression ramps and doors controlled by software and elaborate mechanical systems. The ramps move to adjust the external and internal shape of the inlet to provide the optimum airflow to the engine at various aircraft speeds and angles of attack. Doors and ducting allow excess airflow to bypass the inlet.
Inlet designs for fighter aircraft must also account for a layer of low-energy air that forms on the surface of the fuselage at subsonic and supersonic speeds. (These layers also form on the inlet compression surfaces.) This layer of slow moving, turbulent air, called a boundary layer, can create chaos when disturbed by the shock waves created by the inlet. The result can be unwanted airflow distortions at the engine face. If the shock wave/boundary layer interaction is severe enough, the engine will stall. The boundary layer thickens with increased speed and increased forebody distance, the length from the nose of the airplane to the inlet itself.
Designers of supersonic aircraft deal with this boundary layer phenomenon by redirecting the layer before it reaches the engine and placing the inlet away from the boundary layer in the freestream, where airflow is unaffected by the boundary layer phenomenon. On the F-16, a structure called a diverter provides a 3.3-inch gap between the fuselage and the upper lip of the inlet. The size of the gap equates to the thickness of the boundary layer at the maximum speed of the F-16. Other fighters remove boundary layer airflow with combinations of splitter plates and bleed systems. The latter redirect the unwanted airflow through small holes in the compression ramps to bleed ducts within the inlet. The DSI bump functions as a compression surface and creates a pressure distribution that prevents the majority of the boundary layer air from entering the inlet at speeds up to Mach 2. In essence, the DSI does away with complex and heavy mechanical systems.
The DSI traces its roots to work done by Lockheed Martin engineers in the early 1990s as part of an independent research and development project called the Advanced Propulsion Integration project. The concept was developed and refined with Lockheed Martin-proprietary computer modeling tools made possible by advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD. CFD is the science of determining a numerical solution to the governing equations of fluid flow and advancing this solution through space or time to describe a complete flow field of interest—in this case, the flow field of a fighter forebody, inlet, and inlet duct.
CFD, considered a branch of fluid dynamics, provides a cost-effective means of simulating airflow. The development of more powerful computers has furthered CFD advances to the point that it has become the preferred means of evaluating aerodynamic designs.
Basic research of the inlet concept continued through the mid-1990s. Traditional wind tunnel testing of small plastic inlet models built with stereolithographic techniques augmented a CFD-based development process for the DSI. Engineers made enough technical advances during this period that two US patent applications were filed, one dealing with the overall design and the second dealing with the integration process of the new technology. (Both patents were granted in 1998.) The diverterless inlet designs built and tested with this combination of CFD and small-scale wind tunnel models formed a database of inlet configurations that would subsequently prove valuable to the Lockheed Martin JSF design.
The DSI flight-tested on the F-16 in 1996 was designed on computer workstations using three-dimensional solid models. It was developed with minimal airframe impacts and maximum use of existing hardware to reduce design and manufacturing costs. The F-16's modular inlet design allowed development of a DSI-equipped inlet module without significant impacts to the aircraft forebody or center fuselage. As with the existing inlet design, the new inlet module formed part of the forward fuselage extending from the inlet leading edge to the interface between the forward fuselage and center fuselage. The compression surface was attached to the existing forward fuselage below the cockpit without affecting the rest of the forebody or the chine. New duct lines were developed to form a transition from the new inlet aperture to the existing duct.
The upper surface of the F-16 inlet module forms the floor of the forward fuel tank. This fuel tank is located directly behind the pilot. The lower surface of the fuel tank floor forms the upper surface of the F-16 inlet duct. This fuel tank floor offered an ideal starting point for the structural layout of the new inlet module since it is an assembly that can be procured directly from the F-16 production line. The diverter support beam was also retained and, in combination with the fuel tank floor, formed the primary means of attaching the new inlet module to the forward fuselage.
The inlet module consisted of 300 parts, which included 113 machined parts and eighty-three formed skin panels. The bump, more accurately termed a fixed, three-dimensional compression surface, was formed from graphite epoxy at LM Aeronautics facilities in Palmdale, California. Most of the substructure consists of aluminum. The inlet module was built and installed at LM Aeronautics facilities in Fort Worth, where the flight tests took place.
The DSI concept was introduced into the JAST/JSF program as a trade study item in mid-1994. It was compared with a traditional "caret" style inlet. The trade studies involved additional CFD, testing, and weight and cost analyses. The new inlet earned its way into the JSF design after proving to be thirty percent lighter and showing lower production and maintenance costs over traditional inlets while still meeting all performance requirements.
The flight tests on the F-16 validated the aerodynamic properties of the inlet, which will be validated further on the upcoming flights of the Lockheed Martin JSF demonstrator aircraft in 2000. The flight test also proved that the analytical performance and inlet flow stability predictions from the CFD analysis matched operations in the real world. The JSF program further refined the production version of the DSI design using these CFD tools.
The DSI inlet used on the JSF has evolved through several design iterations. The shaft-driven lift fan on the STOVL JSF required the use of a bifurcated duct with one inlet on each side. The initial version was essentially the same design used on the lower surface of the F-16 rotated up onto either side of the JSF forward fuselage.
This design had a cowl that was symmetrical about the centerline of the bump. This version of the inlet appears on the X-35 demonstrator aircraft. Later CFD analysis and testing led to refinements of the design to improve its performance at high angles of attack by shifting the upper and lower cowl lips to take advantage of the side-mounted location and to improve high angle-of-attack performance. This later version has been fully tested in the wind tunnel and will be used on the EMD and on production aircraft.


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And, so it is for much of the physical environment we live in, which has been shaped by a myriad of such events, whether horrific or unnoticed. Little consolation to the bereaved, but perhaps humbling to those outside the Japan earthquake zone.
The New York Times
March 13, 2011
Quake Moves Japan Closer to U.S. and Alters Earth's Spin
By Kenneth Chang
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline and changed the balance of the planet.
Global positioning stations closest to the epicenter jumped eastward by up to 13 feet.
Japan is "wider than it was before," said Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey.
Meanwhile, NASA scientists calculated that the redistribution of mass by the earthquake might have shortened the day by a couple of millionths of a second and tilted the Earth's axis slightly.
For the complete story, see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14seismic.html?hp


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Voyageurs' trip to arena seen as plus for future of box lacrosse
MIDDLEBURY — This past weekend's inaugural visit of the Vermont Voyageurs semi-pro box lacrosse team to Middlebury's Memorial Sports Center went well enough that the team's management is considering another weekend-long visit next summer.
The Voyageurs' senior and junior teams played a series of games at the Sports Center on Saturday and Sunday, drawing a decent crowd at $7 a pop on Saturday night and at least some fans for an early afternoon game the next day.
Voyageurs general manager Jeff Curtis said the Sports Center staff was "very accommodating," that he appreciated the efforts of local organizers Dan McIntosh and Tim Hodson for bringing the Voyageurs to Middlebury, and he would like a return engagement.
"Overall, we were very pleased with the event and we hope to return in the summer of 2014," Curtis said in an email. "The Memorial Sports Center is a first class municipal arena, well equipped for box lacrosse. I was pleased with the attendance on Saturday evening. We generally have a drop off in attendance on Sunday afternoon. We did well with the sales of Voyageurs branded merchandise (shirts/hats) and introductory box lacrosse videos."
Hodson said on Saturday night, when the Voyageurs took on the United States box lacrosse developmental team, the arena's stands were "half to three-quarters full," while there were fewer fans on Sunday.
Of course, Hodson said there was decent daytime weather — giving residents outdoor options after weeks of clouds and rain — which may have also played a role in the lower Sunday numbers.
"Of course, those were the two days it didn't rain over the past two weeks," he said.
Box lacrosse is similar to outdoor field lacrosse, but it is played on an ice hockey rink with a smaller goal and a 30-second shot clock. Some observers say the game is complimentary to ice hockey, but also similar to basketball. Everyone plays offense and defense. The goalie is covered in padding. Checking is limited.
Hodson said the event also helped convince local box lacrosse enthusiasts that the sport has a future at the Sports Center, which invested in such a shot clock before this past weekend.
"Hopefully everyone agrees it's kind of laying a foundation," he said. "We saw people there who had never seen box lacrosse before … From that standpoint it was furthering the game."
Hodson expects a recent uptick in Thursday night box lacrosse pickup numbers to continue, and said there is even talk of a box lacrosse youth team that could operate out of the Sports Center and lure players from the Addison, Rutland and Chittenden county areas. Such a team could be a "cheaper alternative" to expensive club lacrosse travel teams, he said.
Hodson also hopes more box lacrosse might help drive fundraising to help bring artificial turf that was donated by Middlebury College out of storage and finally put into place on the Sports Center rink.
"The vision for the turf became more clear, that we could put box lacrosse lines and soccer lines on it," he said.
This past weekend also showcased some current and former local players. Onetime Middlebury Union High School athlete Evan Roberts, who has since played for Bryant University as well as Team England in Lacrosse World Cup competition, is a Voyageur regular.
Roberts recorded a goal and two assists in the Voyageurs' 12-6 win over U.S.A Development on Saturday night. Vermont also beat the national development team on Sunday, 9-5.
Hodson said many of Roberts' family members and friends showed up to root him on.
"There was a big Evan Roberts contingency there," he said.
Area teens Seamus Eagan and Jerry Niemo also stepped in to play for the shorthanded junior U.S.A. Development team that split two games with a Quebec Midget squad, winning by 9-8 on Saturday and losing, 11-8 on Sunday.
Hodson said the two local youths "held their own" in the high-level competition.
Also, the Vermont Junior Voyageurs, featuring many current college athletes, played twice. On Saturday, they dropped a 16-14 decision to the Quebec Provincials despite three goals and three assists from Skidmore's Josh Berger. On Sunday, the Onondaga Junior Redhawks edged the Junior Voyageurs, 14-11, despite three goals and an assist from Dartmouth College's Adam Fishman.
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Recyclemania is Back!! The goal, of course, is to both reduce the amount of 'stuff' we throw out in the trash by thinking before we buy AND if we do need to discard something AND it is recyclable, to put it in the appropriate recycling bin.
Recyclemania is a friendly yearly competition with other colleges and universities in North America and Canada to see who can do the best job of reducing, reusing and recycling. During the eight weeks of February 3 – March 30, we'll be having our waste hauler record the amount of waste and recycling removed from ALL our campus dumpsters. That volume is converted to weights and entered in the RecycleMania database for all to see … and compare our progress against other schools!
In Wisconsin, the following schools are competing in RecycleMania: Carroll University, College of the Menominee Nation, Lawrence University, Saint Norbert College, UW – Madison, UW – Milwaukee, UW – Oshkosh, UW – Plattville, UW – River Falls, UW – Stout, UW – Whitewater, and Western Technical College. How will we fare against this competition?? That depends on you and your buying/recycling habits!
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November 23rd, 2010
A splendid war
As my friend Senator John aptly tweeted during the grand finale of the year-long Cocktail Wars at Woodward Tavern in the Ames Hotel, "If you dropped a bomb on the Ames Hotel, we'd be drinking light beer and screwdrivers for months."
Arguably Boston's three best bartenders — Jackson Cannon of Eastern Standard and John Gertsen and Misty Kalkofen of Drink — competed against each other and Miami's finest, John Lermayer, in a showdown that capped a series of drink-mixing battles between Boston bartenders (and sometimes their colleagues from other cities). And there to cheer the competitors on was seemingly every other bartender of note who wasn't on the stick that night. Thankfully, no bombs were dropped. Except for this one: the guy from Miami won.
That's right, John Lermayer, who tends bar at the Florida Room and consults for hotel bars around the world, bested his Beantown colleagues fair and square. I should know, because I was one of the judges. His winning cocktail, the Misty Morning Sour (see below), hit all the criteria admirably: quality, creativity, presentation and use of surprise ingredients — persimmon and Barenjager honey liqueur. Misty Kalkofen took second place for her mezcal-based Per Simon. In the quality department, all the cocktails got high marks on my ledger — particularly considering they were each created in an astonishing 20 minutes.
Here are some pics from the bash, plus the recipes that each of the four competitors came up with. What a pleasure it was to literally drink in their talents.
Misty Morning Sour
John Lermayer
Persimmon (a couple slices)
Strawberry (one or two)
1 1/2 oz Plymouth gin
3/4 oz Aperol
3/4 oz Barenjager
3/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz simple syrup
2 drops orange blossom water
Egg white
Muddle persimmon and strawberry in a mixing glass. Add remaining ingredients and dry-shake. Shake all again well over ice. Strain into cocktail glass with sliced strawberry and persimmon garnish. The name: inspired by how John imagined his fellow contestant, Misty, would feel the next morning.
Per Simon
Misty Kalkofen
Half a persimmon
2 oz Del Maguey Mezcal Vida
1/2 oz Plymouth sloe gin
1/2 oz Barenjager
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz agave nectar
1/2 oz Amontillado sherry
6 drops Bittermens grapefruit bitters
Nutmeg garnish
Muddle persimmon in a mixing glass. Add all other ingredients except nutmeg and shake well over ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with fresh grated nutmeg. The name: a play on one of the surprise ingredients and on the name of one of the judges, Simon Ford, international ambassador for Plymouth gin.
Once in a Blue Persim-moon
Jackson Cannon
Persimmon (couple slices)
1 1/2 oz Barenjager
1 oz Plymouth gin
1/2 oz lemon juice
1 egg white
Dash Peychaud's bitters
Sparkling wine
Dry-shake first four ingredients and strain through a tea strainer. Dry-shake strained ingredients with egg white. Shake all again with ice. Strain into a champagne flute, top with Peychaud's and sparkling wine. The name: inspired by the blue moon in the sky that evening.
Wasp Bite
John Gertsen
2 oz persimmon infused* Plymouth gin
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz Barenjager
1 tsp black pepper
Barenjager soaked persimmon skin "twist"
Muddle pepper in mixing glass. Add all ingredients except twist. Add ice, shake and double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with the twist. The name: a play on Drink's peppery Bee Sting, which is itself a play on the classic Bee's Knees.
*The Plymouth Gin was infused using a quick infusion technique known as nitrogen cavitation. Gertsen used a 1 liter iSi profi whip canister, added 375 ml of Plymouth Gin and the pulp from 4 medium-sized persimmons, and charged the canister twice with nitrogen.
Except for top photo, all photos by Mark Andrew Deley of Crammed Media.
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The August 21, 1960 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip about "Universal Language Boxes" of the future.
In the world of tomorrow, you'll be able to talk in English and be understood by a Japanese who knows only his own tongue, or by an Ottoman Turk who's acquainted with his own language and no other.
A robot translating machine has already been developed by our Air Force. Right now it operates at only 40 words per minute and is bulky and complicated. But miniaturization, combined with magnetic tape, suggests far more dramatic possibilities for the future - a translating box that might listen to one vernacular and instantly relay a verbal translation. Any language would than be usable anywhere, universally!
See also:
Language of the Future (1982)
Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future (Part 1, 1993)
Vision (Clip 1, 1993)
Vacations of the Future (1981)
Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)


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Raspberry Tart with Pastry Cream
Pies, dumplings, galettes. Let us count the ways pastry can make love to fruit. None, however, in our view, approaches the elegance of a low, fluted pastry shell embracing a crown of berries. The crisp, melting properties of fine pâte sucrée; the chilled, simple lushness of perfectly cooked pastry cream; the signature scent and flavor of ripe, supple berries dabbed with currant glaze—these elements unite in a particularly expressive way. When the balance is just right, the result is so dazzling that it steals the season.
But there are, inevitably, problems associated with fruit tarts. We feel compelled to name a few: crusts can be underbaked, too hard, too thick, or lacking flavor; pastry creams come gummy, lumpy, too thin, and too sweet; berries might be underripe, sour, or tasteless, or the tart might have too few of them. Neglect of a single element will douse the whole effect. And there's more. Something a fresh berry tart will absolutely not put up with is a two-day stint in the fridge. In fact, were a fruit tart truly expressive, it would probably say, "Eat me quick!"
This recipe represents a double engagement for Anson Mills aristocratic Colonial Style Fine Cloth-Bolted Pastry Flour. It is so ethereal, so like angel dust, that the tart pastry falls into layers like mica rather than forming the round, fine-pored crumb associated with butter cookie dough. The finished pastry is shattery-crisp, its flavor at once clean and buttery, a lovely balance of just-sweet, just-salt, and just-vanilla.
We use this flour in the pastry cream, too, with luscious results.
Baking Notes
We chose raspberries for this tart because they are easy to prep, unnecessary to clean, and simple to arrange. They are also tender and gentle, thrillingly fragrant, and jellied on the tongue. We build the center of the tart a bit higher for maximum visual impact and eating enjoyment—there is nothing quite like a party of raspberries in your mouth. Strawberries, sliced or whole, would be lovely here, too. Or mixed berries, season permitting. Just remember: ripe, seasonal, and organic. Most organic berries can go without a shower, which is good, because strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries really hate getting wet. (An exception to this rule would be super-sandy strawberries.)
equipment mise en place
To make the pastry cream, you will need a 2-cup liquid measuring cup or a medium mixing bowl; a whisk; a fine-mesh strainer; a deep, narrow bowl; a heavy-bottomed 3-quart saucepan; a wooden spoon; a ladle; and a rubber spatula.
To finish the tart, you will need a thin metal spatula, a flat serving plate or 9-inch cardboard cake round, a small saucepan, and a pastry brush.
for the pastry cream:
6large egg yolks
2cups half-and-half
0.75ounces sifted Anson Mills Colonial Style Fine Cloth-Bolted Pastry Flour (about 3 sifted tablespoons)
7tablespoons sugar
Pinch of fine sea salt
1.5ounces (3 tablespoons) cold European-style butter, cut into 3 pieces
1½teaspoons vanilla extract
1recipe Sweet Pastry (Pâte Sucrée), baked and cooled
1cup red currant jelly
3half-pints fresh, ripe organic raspberries, unwashed
Make the pastry cream: Combine the egg yolks and 2 tablespoons of the half-and-half in a 2-cup liquid measuring cup or medium mixing bowl and whisk well to combine. Add the sifted flour and whisk vigorously until the mixture is satiny smooth and free of lumps. Set a fine-mesh strainer over a deep, narrow bowl.
Heat the remaining half-and-half, the sugar, and salt in a heavy-bottomed 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat until simmering, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon to dissolve the sugar. As soon as the mixture reaches a simmer, pull the saucepan off the burner and ladle about ½ cup of the hot half-and-half into the yolk mixture to warm it (fig. 2.1). Whisk the yolk mixture well. Repeat with another ½ cup of half-and-half and whisk the yolks well. Return the saucepan to the burner and pour the warm yolk mixture back into the saucepan all at once, scraping the measuring cup or bowl with a rubber spatula and vigorously whisking the half-and-half in the saucepan. Reduce the heat to medium and continue whisking until the mixture thickens and bubbles burst on the surface, 20 to 30 seconds. Allow the pastry cream to bubble for 10 seconds. (Unlike crème anglaise, pastry cream is supposed to boil.) The pastry cream should be thick and glossy (fig. 2.2).
Remove the pan from the heat and whisk the cold butter and vanilla into the pastry cream to cool it (fig. 3.1). The cream will become glossier. Pour the pastry cream into the strainer, scraping the saucepan with a rubber spatula. Knock the cream through the mesh by tapping the rim of the strainer with the handle of a wooden spoon (fig. 3.2). Press the plastic wrap directly against the surface of the pastry cream and refrigerate until cold, about 4 hours or overnight.
Remove the outer ring from the tart pan in which the pâte sucrée was baked (fig. 4.1). Slip a thin metal spatula between the tart pan bottom and the bottom of the pastry crust, then slide the tart shell onto a flat serving plate or a 9-inch cardboard cake round. Spoon the cold pastry cream into the shell and smooth it with the back of the spoon.
Bring the jelly to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and cook until slightly thickened, but don't allow it to reduce and thicken too much. (If it does, add a teaspoon or so of water and return to a simmer.) Meanwhile, arrange the raspberries tapered ends up on the pastry cream in concentric circles, starting at the center and using the tallest berries; the height of the berries should gradually descend as they move toward the edge of the tart. Using a pastry brush, drip the hot jelly over the raspberries without striving to paint each berry. The beads of jelly will look beautiful as they gel. For optimal enjoyment, serve the tart within a few hours.


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Buoyed by President Barack Obama's campaign slogan, many had hopes for change after his election. And not just a change in the policies from those of the previous administration, but a change in the country's attitude about race. An inkling into the latter might be glimpsed in that mirror of the country's unspoken fears and desires: the movie screen.
On the bright side, in the year since Obama's inauguration, Hollywood has released three major films that feature a black president. In two of the films, however, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (in which the president is Obama himself) and 2012, the African-American chief executive presides over a worldwide catastrophe. In the third, Invictus, the president is considerably more successful, but he is President Nelson Mandela of South Africa. So far, it doesn't seem that Obama is inspiring much confidence, at least in the movie world.
Similarly, the screen image of ordinary black people, in three films that turn the focus from the big picture of national leadership to the intimate microcosm of the family, don't seem to be faring much better — even though, at first glance, this looks like a landmark year for films about race. The Blind Sidehas made more than $200 million at the box office, was nominated for an NAACP award, and its star Sandra Bullock, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama, is most likely en route to the same honor on Oscar night. Precious hasn't made as much money, but it has earned critical kudos, and its stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique and itsdirector Lee Daniels also appear to be on track for Oscar nominations. And The Princess and the Frog is the first Disney animated film to feature a black heroine. But each of these films has aroused controversy. The films and the responses to them suggest that, far from entering a post-racial era, we are just starting to confront the racism that still abides.
In fact, watching some of these films, you might wonder how, in a nation where some are more equal than others, Obama ever even got elected. Could it be that he triumphed because he is himself an embodiment of one of these stereotypes — what some film scholars refer to as the "black saint," or in Spike Lee's blunter term, the "magical negro"? The actor Sidney Poitier typified this figure, playing characters who, as described by Donald Bogle, one of America's leading black cultural critics and author of Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks, is "the perfect dream for white liberals anxious to have a colored man in for lunch or dinner."
Bogle's description of Sidney Poitier echoes what then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said about Obama when he opposed him for the Democratic nomination in 2008, that he was "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Or what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (another fellow Democrat), as quoted in the new book Game Change, said about Obama: that he was electable because he was "light-skinned," "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
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Hi everyone, I hope our UK followers have their woolies unpacked from the mothballs? Brrrr, a definite chill in the air, autumn is definitely here!
We're really loving what we're seeing, some beautiful entries already entered, thank you! For those of you who have yet to get your mojo working we have another gorgeous project today from Helene, one of our Guest DTMs this month, a Top 3 winner from August. Helene has come up with another very different make...
Helene Huber is known in the cyber craft community by her toddler bonnet
photo and the name 2amscrapper. She considers herself a paper crafter
who likes to dabble in altered art and mixed media. Currently she
writes for Unruly PaperArts blogozine and is on the design team for:
Gecko Galz, My Artistic Adventures, and Rogue Redhead Designs, LLC.
She plays at Tag Tuesday and likes to enter on-line craft challenges
whenever time permits. She has been published in Take Ten and Stampers Sampler magazines. Her blog is LOTSA SCRAP found at http://2amscrapper. blogspot.com/
My current passion is the Prima doll stamps created by Julie Nutting. I've taken one of the stamps to create Glinda the Good . Sparkle and shine
for her dress and crown come from Core'dinations silver glitter
cardstock, wide shimmery ribbon, and Starfoam heart stickers. There's a
glitter star for her wand and Stampendous silver dot sparklers to
shimmer in the night sky. I used Graphic 45 papers to create a
Halloween theme. For those of us who like to dress up on Halloween and want to be good while treat or treating....
We're loving your style Helene! A very different take on Halloween and such a beautiful interpretation of Doreen's theme - thank you!
How are you all doing out there? Do you have something in mind? If not then perhaps Helene's project will inspire you to something you'd like to make. We have lots more to show you with projects being posted every other day. (The days we don't post here we are posting on the shop projects blog so do pop over there and take a look too if you have time! >:o) )
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Query Results for Hawaiʻi Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Data - Injury - number of concussions, past 12 months, Middle Schools, State-level
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Hawaii Overall Filter: | Hawaii State |
Year Filter: | 2017, 2019, 2021 |
Data Grouped By: | Year, Injury - number of concussions, past 12 months |
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Data Notes
Question Wording:
During the past 12 months, how many times did you have a concussion from playing a sport or being physically active?Suppression of Estimates
According to CDC guidelines, a minimum of 100 students must answer a question in order for it to be reported. Where the number of students is below 100, not reportable, will appear in the tableWeighted Survey Data
The percentages reported above have been produced by weighting the sample so that the results better represent the population of Hawaiʻi.
Data Sources
'''Citation''': Hawaii State Departments of Education and Health, Hawaii Health Data Warehouse, Hawaii School Health Survey: Youth Risk Behavior Survey. [Chart Title, appropriate years(s)]. Published [update date]. Accessed [query date]. [URL]Data Issues
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YRBS uses a two-stage, stratified random sampling method to identify the sample. The sampling frame includes all students currently enrolled in grades 6-12 in a public school in the state of Hawaiʻi. Two samples are taken: one for middle school (grades 6-8) and one for high school (grades 9-12). Results are weighted by sex, grade, and race/ethnicity to ensure accurate representation of the population.Hawai'i Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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