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1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC (Tha Lincoln)
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For sale, let me know if interested, great car, runs very strong, NO rust, shifts smooth, needs starter wire work.
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|113,000 miles
Well it was owned by my sister a couple years ago, she said it drove like ****, had problem after problem, I still dont see where she got that from, recived it with about 92,000 miles on it, it currently has about 108,000 running very strong...
It has a 302 5.0 HO with about 225 hp and has 300 pounds of torque. Automatic with 17 city and 24/ highway MPG.
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Continental Mark VII, later called just the Mark VII, was a large and luxurious rear wheel drive coupe from Lincoln. Introduced in 1984, the Continental Mark VII shared its platform with the Ford Thunderbird, Ford Mustang, and Lincoln Continental (the Ford Fox platform from the code name of the first program using the platform. The platform was originally based on the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr in the early 80s. It was manufactured at the Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Michigan through 1992. It was replaced by the Lincoln Mark VIII in 1993.
The Mark VII had most comfort/convenience options that were available in the 1980s. This included all power accessories, leather seating, keyless entry, an onboard trip computer/message center, digital instruments (on all except the LSC models after 1986). All Mark VIIs came with full air suspension with an electronic ride control system
The Mark VII was the first American vehicle with electronic 4-channel antilock brakes (November 1984, 6 months before the Corvette). It was also the first American vehicle with composite headlights.
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While the results are generally geared towards getting you to buy E-Myth products and services, the questions themselves and the simple results might get you thinking.
PS – For those wondering what the E-Myth is, I'll put a review of Michael Gerber's book, The E-Myth Physician, up in the next few days.
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Sugary treats out at fundraisers?
House bill gives feds the power to limit school bake sales
Published 12:49 am, Saturday, December 4, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Don't touch my brownies!
A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama -- and championed by the First Lady -- gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.
Republicans, notably Sarah Palin, and public school organizations decry the bill as an unnecessary intrusion on a common practice often used to raise money.
"This could be a real train wreck for school districts," Lucy Gettman of the National School Boards Association said Friday, a day after the House cleared the bill. "The federal government should not be in the business of regulating this kind of activity at the local level."
The legislation, part of First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign to stem childhood obesity, provides more meals at school for needy kids, including dinner, and directs the Agriculture Department to write guidelines to make those meals healthier. The legislation would apply to all foods sold in schools during regular class hours, including in the cafeteria line, vending machines and at fundraisers.
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It wouldn't apply to after-hours events or concession stands at sports events.
Public health groups pushed for the language on fundraisers, which encourages the secretary of Agriculture to allow them only if they are infrequent. The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., this week that he does not intend to do that. The USDA has a year to write rules that decide how frequent is infrequent.
Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says the bill is aimed at curbing daily or weekly bake sales or pizza fundraisers that become a regular part of kids' lunchtime routines. She says selling junk food can easily be substituted with nonfood fundraisers.
"These fundraisers are happening all the time," Wootan said. "It's a pizza sale one day, doughnuts the next... It's endless. This is really about supporting parental choice. Most parents don't want their kids to use their lunch money to buy junk food. They expect they'll use their lunch money to buy a balanced school meal."
Not all see it that way.
Palin mocked the efforts last month by bringing a plate of cookies to a school speech in Pennsylvania. Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, the senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, said the federal government "has really gone too far" when it is deciding when to hold bake sales.
Several school districts and state education departments already have policies suggesting or enforcing limits on bake sales, both for nutritional reasons and to keep the events from competing for dollars against school cafeterias.
In New York City, a rule enacted in 2009 allows bake sales only once a month, and they must comply with nutritional standards and be part of a parent group fundraiser.
Wootan says she hopes the rules will prompt schools to try different options for fundraising.
"Schools are so used to doing the same fundraisers every year that they need a strong nudge to do something new," she says. "The most important rebuttal to all of these arguments is that schools can make money other ways -- you don't have to harm kids health."


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Fred Willard insists he wasn't worst-in-show at an adult movie theater last night.
After saying he was doing "fine" and "keeping busy," the comedic actor told a TMZ cameraman today that his arrest on suspicion of lewd conduct at the Tiki Theatre in Hollywood was "a big misunderstanding."
"It's all being straightened out," Willard said. "I have great respect for [the police], there's just a difference of opinion" as to what happened. "It's all being straightened out as we speak...It was a strange situation."
He's telling us!
"It did not happen...It'll all be straightened out. My attorney said, you know, 'let them [handle the situation]," were his last words as he climbed into his car.
Speaking of Willard's attorney, Paul Takakjian said in a statement to TMZ that they would be "working vigorously to clear his name in this matter."
"With all due respect to the individual officer, our belief is that Fred did nothing in violation of any law," he said.
The 76-year-old actor and comedian was busted Wednesday by officers from the LAPD's Vice Unit during an inspection of the Tiki Theatre at around 8:50 pm. Willard, who is accused of committing a lewd act, was booked and released on his own recognizance.


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Google Calendar is a such a great tool for organising and managing the daily meetings, I have already synced up with google calendar on my iphone, but suddenly I realized that I need to sync up my windows 7 Calendar with online google calendar.
The main purpose for me to sync my google calendar is that I want to get notified for some daily and weekly events I had created in my google calendar, after some googling I found a little windows 7 desktop gadget called Windows Live Calendar Gadget which I can sync up with google calendar, Below if the step by step procedure to configure this calendar gadget. You can use this desktop gadget on vista and windows 7.
1. Login to your google account and open google calendar, at calendar.google.com
2. Now, navigate to google calendar settings
3. Under google calendar settings, scroll down the page and locate Private Address of your google calendar
4. Right click on the green colored label, and copy link address
5. Download and Run the Windows Live Calendar Gadget [ Download Link Given Below ]
6. Open this gadget settings and copy and paste the link address you had copied in step 4
Locate some alarm sound, which you would want to listen for calendar notifications [ optional ] and click Ok
7. Once, you click ok, it will synchronize itself with google calendar
Note: There is one drawback of using this widget for windows 7 or vista, you can't add event and task into your google calendar using this windows gadgets but you can sync those added through google calendar.
Here is how it will display notifications when a calendar event appears
Some Key Features of This Windows Calendar Gadget
- significantly improved handling of repeating events
- heavily optimized
- added notifications of new versions
- added tiny reminder application which uses new features of Win7 taskbar
- added tiny progress bar under ongoing events
- added small icon labelling repeating events


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Les Haughton wants to help businesses, because that also helps the University of Virginia.
Haughton, the director of supplier diversity in U.Va.'s Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services, works to improve the University's relationship with small and women- and minority-owned businesses. In this context, "small" is a company with fewer than 250 employees and less than $9.5 million in sales, and a woman- or minority-owned business must have at least 51 percent ownership by women or minorities.
Haughton has also formed the Charlottesville Minority Business Network, which officially launched in January.
"This is primarily to find businesses to supply the University, because that is my job," Haughton said.
Ten businesses have joined the network thus far, including a limousine service, a caterer, a Web designer and a computer repair service. He stressed that the network is not for start-ups and that all the network members are established firms.
Haughton, 58, helps steer qualifying "SWaM" firms through the sometimes-complex process of becoming certified to do business with U.Va. He said because the University is decentralized, once the businesses are in the system, they still must sell themselves to many centers, divisions and departments that may require their services.
Haughton, who has had extensive experience in operating retail concerns, said he does not tell those in the network how to run the business.
"I just point in a direction and they are the ones who run with the ball," he said. "I have dealt with some of the biggest companies in the world and with start-up companies. I can tell who has the right stuff. I just advise and mentor."
He has made presentations about the network to the Board of Visitors and groups of administrators. He said he has also talked with the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County about the network.
"If I see or hear about an opportunity, I say 'Go talk to these people,'" he said.
He said the businesses also work with each other, providing opportunities and contacts.
Haughton has been the director of supplier diversity for about 10 months, coming to the University after a career in retail and consulting. He retired in 2003 from Target, where he had been vice president and divisional merchandise manager, overseeing $4.5 billion in annual volume of health and beauty aids and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals.
Haughton, who had become involved with diversity concerns at Target, formed the Business Leadership Group, a consulting firm, in the process moving his family from Minnesota to Central Virginia. In that capacity, he ran executive searches for women and minority businesses and helped Fortune 500 companies with their diversity initiatives.
He's worked with the largest black-owned, hair-care distributor in the U.S. and with a Darden School of Business graduate who developed the world's smallest and most portable microwave oven. And there was a Swedish firm that developed a biodegradable diaper and sought American markets.
"I also worked with small companies – some too small to pay me, but with promising futures," he said. "I did it for no charge because it was the right thing to do."
But after 6 1/2 years on the road, he decided it was time to stop. "I was burned out from the travel," he said.
He was looking for other opportunities when the position at U.Va. opened up.
"I like it here," he said. "This is very comfortable and I know I can add value."
In the past three fiscal years, the University has spent about $169 million with SWaM businesses. The University is also a member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council and the Virginia Association of State College and University Purchasing Professionals SWaM committee, and is a three-time winner of the "Soaring Eagle" award for top public-sector supplier diversity programs in Virginia.
In the current fiscal year, the supplier diversity initiative has hosted six vendor training sessions and five workshops on building a business, participated in more than 25 local and statewide supplier events and represented the University at national supplier diversity events.
Haughton said the University is meeting its goal of purchasing 42 percent of its supplies and services from SWaM businesses. The state's goal is to purchase 40 percent from SWaM suppliers.
By encouraging small businesses, Haughton sees an advantage for the surrounding area.
"A lot of things are community-related," he said. "Maybe the most important thing for business and for U.Va. and for Charlottesville is for the minority firms to prosper and grow, and the important thing here is to reach out and help them."
Haughton is passionate about business and about helping people. He sees his current job as a combination of these.
"I was in retail for 28 years and I realized it was time to make a 100 percent commitment to diversity," he said. "I really enjoy what I do because procurement fully supports supplier diversity.
"I care about business and community and how important ethics are and how to help the community," he said. "Charlottesville is the smallest city I have lived in and I know my impact can be bigger here. It doesn't take much effort to make an impact. You just have to be committed."
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Similar to the notice boards, there are chalkboards that hold a special place in the business houses. They are majorly used in the conference rooms where the people discuss various issues and plans for the further betterment of their business. You will majorly find these chalkboards in schools and colleges as this is the place where every professor will explain the things to their students.
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CNN has revealed the identity of the pilot of Flight 1549 and he is Chesley B. "Sully†Sullenberger.
Chesley Sullenberger is also the head of an aviation safety firm and he also served in the United States Air Force.
Chesley Sullenberger walked the plane couple of times to make sure no passengers were left behind when everybody was being evacuated.
According to two passengers on the ill fated plane, Jeff Kolodnay and Alberto Panero, Sully advised them to be ready for the impact at the time of the landing. Sully knew what he was doing and what it would involve.
Chesley Sullenberger is definitely a hero and is responsible for piloting the plane to a safe landing on the water after the incident with the flock of geese.
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Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III is a captain for a major U.S. airline with over 40 years of flying experience. A former U.S. Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot, he has served as an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member. He has participated in several USAF and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident investigations.
His ALPA safety work led to the development of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular. Working with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists, he coauthored a paper on error inducing contexts in aviation. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Crew Resource Management (CRM) course used at his airline and has taught the course to hundreds of his colleagues.
Sully is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (B.S.), Purdue University (M.S.) and the University of Northern Colorado (M.A.). He was a speaker on two panels at the High Reliability Organizations (HRO) 2007 International Conference in Deauville, France May 29-31, 2007. He has just been named a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Nelsen Says : Brad Is The Best
Ryan Nelsen has move to praise Brad Friedel and has highlighted how he feels he is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League following his latest super show against Manchester United.
Blackburn Rovers' consistent skipper reckons Friedel is the best anywhere, and has been for a number of years.
The massive American, 36, kept United out almost single-handedly on Saturday, pulling off a string of world class saves, particularly in the second half, to thwart Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez amongst others.
But rather than being surprised by Friedel's remarkable one-man show, Nelsen, like every other Blackburn fan, knows he and his team-mates have now come to expect that kind of performance from the Rovers' legend, because they regard him as the most consistent stopper in the top-flight. This is now almost to the point where it is taken for granted.
Nelsen said to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph: 'I think Brad is quite comfortably the best in the Premier League.
'Some of the saves he made against United were unbelievable. Two were just world class, and no other keeper would have made them.
'It's like he's got eight-foot arms and six-foot legs!'
Friedel is now regarded as possibly the best free signign ever as he left Liverpool with a reputation for being a little inconsistent!!!
Since then, Friedel, who clocked up his 183rd consecutive appearance at the weekend, has been a model of consistency, having not missed a game since 2003-2004, establishing himself as one of the greatest men in Rovers' history.
And Nelsen believes the former United States international is that good, it is remarkable Rovers have been able to keep him out of the clutches of the big four' for so long.
The Kiwi said: 'Who am I to judge Brad Friedel? But I think he probably went to Liverpool too early in his career.
'If he'd been to a smaller club first and then later on went there, I think he would have had a fantastic career because he could play for any club in the world - he's that good.
'But I'm just so glad he's behind us, and he's a great professional as well.
'I think he will be remembered at Blackburn for a long time.'
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CHICAGO, Feb 12, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of the U.S. Trust and Processing Banks (referred to as Trust Banks) following a peer review committee. The four banks included in this peer review are Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BK, rated 'AA-/F1+'), State Street Corporation (STT, rated 'A+/F1+'), Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, rated 'AA-/F1+'), and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH, rated 'A+/F1+'). The Rating Outlook for BK, NTRS, and BBH remain Stable and the Rating Outlook for STT remains Positive. A complete list of ratings is included at the end of this rating action commentary.
The Trust Banks' ratings affirmations reflect their solid business models that have high barriers to entry due to scale which have allowed each firm to build a strong franchise in asset custody and asset management. Their strong franchises are supported by sound funding and liquidity positions, strong capital ratios, and good asset quality metrics. The Trust Banks maintain high ratings, among Fitch's highest globally for financial institutions.
Offsetting these strengths is an elevated level of operational risk inherent in the Trust Bank's business models, which can serve as a limiting factor to upwards rating momentum. Additionally, the Trust Bank's earnings performance, while satisfactory from a credit perspective, remains constrained by the protracted low interest rate environment. As a result, each publicly traded firm's return on equity (ROE) continues to hover around 10%, which is well below these firms' long-term historical averages.
The Trust Bank business model is mature, and characterized by significant economies of scale and sticky relationships that have created significant barriers to entry. Collectively, these four firms provide custody and administration services for over $60 trillion in assets globally and asset management services for over $4 trillion in assets. This scale has given these firms a cost advantage, as well as the ability to sell clients several ancillary services such as foreign exchange trading and securities lending products.
Further, the Trust Banks' strong competitive positioning does not necessarily translate into explicit pricing power for any one firm, but it does shelter each of their businesses from the threat of new entrants to the industry trying to steal their clients. Therefore, management is afforded the ability to focus on improving operational processes to improve scale economies, managing the expense base, and deepening client relationships through moderate cross-selling opportunities. To the extent that management is successful in these efforts it creates stronger barriers to entry industry wide.
Fee revenue over the last year has grown for each firm due to some new business wins as well as tailwinds from rising equity markets. These improvements continue to be offset by weakness in net interest income (NII), foreign exchange trading, and securities lending activities. Growth in NII, one of the largest sources of the Trust Banks revenue, continues to be constrained by the protracted low interest rate environment.
The weak net interest margin (NIM) for the Trust Banks continues to constrain earnings expansion, though each firm's NIM has been supported by modestly higher long-term interest rates over the course of the year. Lower prepayments on mortgage backed securities (MBS) has reduced premium amortization rates and also improved some re-investment yields. The NIM continues, however, to be much more sensitive to short-term interest rates, and Fitch would not expect a meaningful increase in NII, and therefore earnings, until short-term rates eventually rise.
Given the Trust Banks challenging earnings environment, they all have worked to reduce costs, optimize their respective workforces, and make significant technology investments to streamline operations. These expense management initiatives should help increase the Trust Bank's operating leverage, driving significant earnings momentum in a rising short-term interest rate environment.
The technology investments also have the benefit of helping each firm to better quantify and therefore reduce some of its operational risk elements. That said, Fitch continues to believe that the main threat to each Trust Bank's business model and ratings could result from a technological mishap or operational loss that is idiosyncratic to one company and results in reputational damage causing clients to stop doing business with the firm. While Fitch believes these risks to be well monitored and controlled, these types of risks are inherently difficult to predict and quantify. As a result, a large occurrence at any one firm would likely prompt Fitch to review ratings to determine if a negative rating action was appropriate.
An industry wide event that causes a significant operational loss that affects each firm equally may still impact ratings, but may also allow each firm to better maintain its client base.
The Trust Banks, particularly relative to other financial institutions benefit from a solid liquidity profile. Loan to deposit ratios tend to be extremely low, and securities portfolios are primarily comprised of highly rated short duration government, agency, and structured securities. These factors contribute to high short-term IDRs for the Trust Banks and support STT's 'F1+' rating.
As noted above, the Trust Banks ratings are some of Fitch's highest ratings globally, which owes to their strong business models and high barriers to entry. In some cases, however, there may be the potential for some modest upwards rating momentum.
Should BK continue to develop its vast product array, thereby further leveraging its strong competitive positioning as a leading global custodian, or should BK make further enhancements to its operational risk initiatives, this could lead to a Positive Rating Outlook over a medium term time horizon. Should these enhancements lead to higher and sustainable earnings performance this could lead to modest upwards rating momentum over a long-term time horizon.
Should STT's overall risk management initiatives continue to season and be effective, and the company maintains an overall conservative balance sheet, this could lead to upward rating momentum over the next 12 months. This is reflected in STT's Positive Rating Outlook. Should STT significantly expand its balance sheet into riskier assets or loans in pursuit of higher yields, the Rating Outlook could be revised to Stable.
NTRS and BBH both continue to be solidly situated at their current rating level and Stable Rating Outlook, which despite their smaller size relative to peers, continue to be supported by a long history of a conservative operating culture.
Risks to ratings are primarily due to operational risk elements noted above. Additional risks include more difficult market environments, regulatory risk, as well as trying to grow above industry averages.
As a result of the Trust Banks' significant exposure to equity markets, fixed income markets, and interest rates, Fitch has stressed revenue and expenses for each of the Trust Banks under several scenarios that include equity markets declining 40%, fixed income markets declining 5%, and interest rates remaining flat at today's current low levels. In this scenario, Fitch believes that each firm's annual earnings should remain around break-even absent any large charges or operational losses. This adds support to each firm's ratings and Rating Outlook.
An additional risk surrounds proposed regulatory changes regarding the proposed supplementary leverage ratio (SLR) by U.S. regulators for BK and STT at both the holding company and the operating bank level. This regulatory proposal is not final, and still could be changed by the time it is implemented. While the current SLR of BK and STT are near the regulatory minimums at the holding company (5%) and main banking subsidiary (6%), there is a risk that in a flight to cash scenario for clients, each of these firms could potentially cause BK and STT to fall below their proposed SLR requirement. Fitch notes that given their smaller size, NTRS and BBH are not subject to SLR requirements.
Should there be a market crisis, it is possible that each firm's clients sell securities and increase their cash holdings or deposits at either BK or STT. This additional balance sheet growth could cause these firms' SLR to fall below proposed regulatory minimums without either regulatory relief or management actions. Examples of regulatory relief could include exempting central bank deposits from the SLR calculation or waiving the SLR requirement in times of severe market stress. Examples of management actions could include moving some client cash balances into off balance sheet money market funds or other off balance sheet short-term cash vehicles.
If either BK or STT were to fail to make progress in achieving their proposed SLR minimum over the phase in period, ratings could be downgraded, though Fitch views this risk as remote. Alternatively, if either firm is forced to move its clients' money to other firms to meet proposed SLR requirements, this could jeopardize the sticky relationships that clients have with each firm, which could reduce the strength of the business model and potentially impact ratings over a longer-term time horizon.
Should management try to expand beyond its core asset servicing and management activities and its current suite of market based revenues into more esoteric products with the hopes of growing overall revenue and profit margins above industry averages it could slowly alter the risk profile and competitive positioning of a particular firm. Additionally, while Fitch views the Trust Banks business model as very stable, should competitive dynamics become more intense or should the emergence of a disruptive technology begin to erode some of the barriers to entry implicit in the business model, ratings could come under pressure over a longer-term time horizon.
KEY RATING DRIVERS AND SENSITIVITIES - Support Ratings and Support Floor Ratings:
The Trust Banks' long-term IDR is equalized with their Viability Ratings (VRs), which for STT and BK remains above their Support Rating Floor of 'A' and Support Rating '1'. Support Rating Floor factor in government support in the event of need for BK and STT and other U.S. G-SIFIs.
Fitch published two special reports on its view of bank support in September 2013, 'The Evolving Dynamics of Support for Banks' and 'Bank Support: Likely Rating Paths' and updated this view with a report in December 2013, 'Sovereign Support for Banks: Update On Position Outlined In 3Q13' which detail changing views on sovereign support for banks. Fitch may change its Support Rating Floor as a result of evolving sovereign support. At the banks' current VRs, the long-term IDRs would not be affected by a change in Support Rating Floor should Fitch's view of support change.
Both NTRS and BBH are not considered G-SIFIs and as such have Support Ratings of '5'.
KEY RATING DRIVERS AND SENSITIVITIES - Subordinated Debt and Other Hybrid Securities:
Subordinated debt and other hybrid capital issued by the Trust Banks and by various issuing vehicles are all notched down from the holding company or its bank subsidiaries' VRs in accordance with Fitch's assessment of each instrument's respective non-performance and relative loss severity risk profiles. The Trust Bank's subordinated debt has been affirmed due to the affirmation the Trust Bank's VRs.
Ratings are primarily sensitive to any change in the VRs, where the notching would be realigned in conjunction with any change in the VR.
KEY RATING DRIVERS AND SENSITIVITIES - Subsidiary and Affiliated Company Rating:
The IDRs and VRs of the Trust Bank's bank subsidiaries are core to each company's business and therefore IDRs and VRs are equalized across the group.
Ratings are primarily sensitive to any change in the VRs of the associated bank subsidiaries.
Fitch has affirmed the following ratings:
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (The)--Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Long-term senior at 'AA-';--Long-term subordinated at 'A+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Commercial paper at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Preferred stock at 'BBB';--Support Rating at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A'.
The Bank of New York Mellon--Long-term deposits at 'AA';--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Long-term senior at 'AA-';--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support Rating at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A'.
BNY Mellon National Association--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable--Long-term deposits at 'AA';--Long-term subordinated debt at 'A+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support Rating at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A'.
BNY Mellon Trust Delaware--Long-term deposits at 'AA';--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support Rating at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A';.
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association--Long-term deposits at 'AA';--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support Rating at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A'..
Mellon Funding Corporation--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Long-term senior at 'AA-';--Long-term subordinated debt at 'A+';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Short-term debt at 'F1+';--Support Rating at '5';--Support Rating Floor at 'NF.
The Bank of New York Mellon (International) Ltd--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Support at '1.
The Bank of New York (Luxembourg) S.A.The Bank of New York (Luxembourg) S.A. - Italian Branch--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Support at '1';--Rating Outlook Stable.
The Bank of New York Mellon S.A./N.V.--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Long-term deposits 'AA-';--Short-term deposits 'F1+';--Support at '1';--Rating Outlook Stable.
BNY Institutional Capital Trust A;Mellon Capital III--Trust preferred securities at 'BBB+'.
Mellon Capital IV--Trust preferred securities at 'BBB'
State Street Corporation--Long-term IDR at 'A+'; Outlook Positive;--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Viability Rating at 'a+';--Support at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A';--Long-term subordinated notes at 'A';--Commercial paper at 'F1+';--Junior subordinated debt at 'BBB';--Preferred stock at 'BBB-';--Long-term senior debt at 'A+'.
State Street Bank and Trust Company--Long-term IDR at `A+'; Outlook Positive;--Senior Debt at 'A+'--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Viability rating at 'a+';--Support at '1';--Support Rating Floor at 'A';--Long-term deposits at 'AA-';--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Long-term subordinated at 'A'.
State Street Capital IState Street Capital IV--Trust preferred securities at 'BBB'.
Northern Trust Corporation--Long-term IDR at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Long-term senior unsecured at 'AA-';--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Short-term commercial paper at 'F1+';--Subordinated Debt at 'A+'--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support '5';--Support Floor 'NF'.
Northern Trust Company (The)--Long-term IDR 'AA-'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term IDR at 'F1+';--Short-term deposits at 'F1+';--Long-term deposits at 'AA';--Subordinated notes at 'A+';--Viability Rating at 'aa-';--Support '5';--Support Floor 'NF'.
NTC Capital I and II--Preferred stock at 'BBB+'.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.--Long-term IDR 'A+'; Outlook Stable;--Short-term IDR 'F1';--Viability Rating 'a+';--Support '5';--Support Floor 'NF'.
Additional information is available at www.fitchratings.com.
Applicable Criteria and Related Research:--'Global Financial Institutions Rating Criteria' (January 2014);--'Rating FI Subsidiaries and Holding Companies' (January 2014);--'Assessing and Rating Bank Subordinated and Hybrid Securities' (January 2014);--'The Evolving Dynamics of Support for Banks' (September 2013);--'Bank Support: Likely Rating Paths' (September 2013);-- Sovereign Support for Banks: Update On Position Outlined In 3Q13 (December 2013).
Applicable Criteria and Related Research:Global Financial Institutions Rating Criteriahttp://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=732397Rating FI Subsidiaries and Holding Companieshttp://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=679209Assessing and Rating Bank Subordinated and Hybrid Securities Criteriahttp://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=732137The Evolving Dynamics of Support for Bankshttp://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=715000Bank Support: Likely Rating Pathshttp://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=715001Sovereign Support For Banks: Update on Position Outlined in 3Q13http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=726698
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What are the main economic problems due to overpopulation?
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One of the main economic problems for any country with an overpopulation problem is the shortage of food, minerals, fuel and other resources. This applies particularly to third world countries where harvest failure and famine are frequent. Populations which survive on subsistence farming are particularly badly hit, as without their crops and animals they will starve. Such people are only able to support themselves in the most basic way, and do not have disposable income to pay taxes with. The result of this sort of overpopulation is that there is no money in the country's kitty or treasury to provide social security, pensions or a basic health service for a burgeoning population. Some countries have even put a limit on the number of children families can have.
Overpopulation means that more goods are required to support the population. When overpopulation occurs it also means that there is not enough supplies to sustain the population. There is a shortage of goods and supplies. There is also usually a shortage of water.
Education is another major concern related to overpopulation. Educating too many children becomes an issue. It can lead to a reduction in funds available for schools and teachers as well. Classrooms become overcrowded and children do not receive a high quality education.
Another major concern with overpopulation is housing all of these people. Sometimes it can be difficult to find places for all of these people to live.
While the first answer is somewhat correct, a growing population does not necessarily mean that demand will grow faster than supply.
In some ways, there is no such thing as overpopulation. There can only be too much population compared to economic capacity.
If there are too many people compared to a country's economic capacity, the country will experience low GDP per capita. It will probably have poor human resources (lack of education, for example) and will have low productivity.
When a term like "overpopulation" is used, it automatically implies that the population of people in the economy is more than what can be supported by the economy in terms of providing full employment and a reasonable standard of living.
The capability of an economy to employment is dependent on existence of a base of capital assets that need people for its operation. An economy that is overpopulated does not have enough of such capital assets. Further the rate of increase of such capital assets by way of installation of new industries in he economy is slow because the saving rate is lower. The total production in such economy is consumed by more people than are required to generate such production, thereby lowering lower per capita income, which tends to reduce the saving percentage. Thus it becomes difficult for economy to grow fast.
Overpopulation generally means there will more demand.
The economic problem of scarcity will become more serious as supply of necessities such as natural resources are limited.


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Cleveland Browns Offense: Finding Postives in a Yet Another Tough LossDecember 18, 2011
In a season where the Cleveland Browns have regressed in overall performance, it is usually hard to find positives in yet another loss and another blown lead in the fourth quarter.
However, Seneca Wallace was a bright spot for the Browns franchise on Sunday and lit a spark in Cleveland's offense that had been missing for quite a while before his arrival.
Wallace finished the game against Arizona connecting on 18 of 31 pass attempts and boasting a quarterback rating of 91.6. But more importantly, Wallace connected on a 76-yard touchdown pass with Greg Little that registered as the longest play from scrimmage that Cleveland has had during the entire 2011 season. In fact, Little's catch was the longest reception from a Browns receiver since Braylon Edward's 78-yard grab from Derek Anderson during the 2007 season.
Little now has 57 catches on the season for 669 yards and two touchdowns.
Cleveland's offensive unit as a whole seemed to play much better against the Arizona Cardinals, but still failed when the game mattered the most. Cleveland only connected on 35 percent of their third-down attempts and failed to score more than 17 points for the 11th time in 12 games.
However, there are positives for the Browns to build off of, especially if Colt McCoy remains sidelined for another week. Wallace hooked up with eight different receivers for the Browns and even manged to get Jordan Cameron in the action with Ben Watson sidelined for the remainder of the season. Mohammed Massaqoui even seemed to have a connection with Wallace, as he put forth one of his better games since Week 4.
The biggest positive for Cleveland's offense has to be the emergence of Peyton Hillis back into the offensive gameplan. Hillis found the endzone for the first time since Week 2, as he pounded in a 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Hillis finished the game with 99 yards on the ground, his highest total of the 2011 season.
The Browns may have lost yet another game against Arizona, but look as if they are continuing to play hard under Pat Shurmur and may be beginning to gel in the West Coast offense. Wallace looked to have understood the offense a little better than McCoy and didn't make the bad throw that McCoy has made over the last few weeks.
It will be interesting to see how the Browns handle facing Baltimore and Pittsburgh in the next two weeks before they head home watch the NFL playoffs from their living rooms. The Ravens and Steelers always bring top defenses into their games, and Cleveland knows too well how much of a beating they can receive at their hands.
The Browns playmakers have to continue to grow in this offense if Cleveland has any hope to win more games this season or become relevant in 2012. In the meantime, we will continue to look for the positives as we look forward to next weekend.


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How does one interpret the subscript on a gamma function? For example, in the two parameter Gamma Cumulative Distribution Function:
What does the subscript mean in terms of how I should evaluate the gamma function.
I believe that denotes the incomplete gamma function.
There is no closed form expression for this guy as a function of . If you fix and try to write as a function of you can sometimes do that, particularly if is a positive integer.
You can but it probably will not be so useful for whatever you are doing. To take derivative wrt you may interchange integration and differentiation. So
To take derivative wrt you can use (chain rule + fundamental theorem of calculus). You can't get rid of the integrals though.


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Toronto hosts quantum info and quantum control conference
|(Nanowerk News) The University of Toronto will host the world's leading scientists in physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics to review major advances in quantum information and quantum control during a conference running August 24 27.
|"Future developments in the field of quantum computing and quantum control are eagerly anticipated. This is a rare opportunity to bring the best minds together to share the latest research and insights," says Daniel James, director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control. Quantum Information is a revolutionary approach to computing and communication which exploits the phenomena of quantum mechanics the fundamental theory of nature at is most basic, sub-atomic level to vastly enhance the capabilities of today's computers and internet communication.
|The conference will also mark the inauguration of the biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for research on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics and their application. The prize is named for the late John Bell, whose insight has changed our view of reality. The first recipient is Professor Nicolas Gisin of Geneva, who is being recognized for his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics. The Bell Prize will be presented by Alain Aspect, whose famous experiments on Bell's Inequalities ushered in the quantum age, in a public ceremony on August 25, 10 a.m., Room 102, McLennan Physics Labs. Following the award presentation, Prof Gisin will deliver a public lecture on "Quantum Nonlocality: How did Nature perform the trick ?!?".
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Where do you live ? In witch time zone ? London ?
For me the difference is 2 and will be 1 tomorrow, with the end of the daylight saving time.
Your test will not change and give always an alert.
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Where do you live ? In witch time zone ? London ?
For me the difference is 2 and will be 1 tomorrow, with the end of the daylight saving time.
Your test will not change and give always an alert.
I added an alert.And these are my findings.Code:
dObj = new Date();
dslChk = (dObj.getUTCHours() - dObj.getHours());
alert("Day Light Savings is observed on this machine at the moment");
alert("Here's Winter... DLS ended\r\nthe difference is: "+dslChk+" Hrs between UTC & GMT");
Your test is only valid in Greenwich Mean Time zone !
It's the difference between UTC and local time in summer and in winter wich can help to know if the DSL is or not observed.
<script type="text/javascript">
dObj = new Date();
dltObj = (dObj.getUTCHours() - dObj.getHours());
datSummer = new Date(dObj.getFullYear(),5,21,12,0,0);// difference on June 21
datWinter = new Date(dObj.getFullYear(),11,21,12,0,0);// difference on december 21
dltSummer = (datSummer.getUTCHours() - datWinter.getHours());
dltWinter = (datWinter.getUTCHours() - datWinter.getHours());
if(dltSummer!=dltWinter){msg="Day Light Savings is observed in your time zone...";
if (dltSummer==dltObj) msg += "\nDay Light Savings is observed at the moment.";
else msg += "\nDay Light Savings is not observed at the moment.";}
else msg = "Day Light Savings is not observed in your time zone !";
Two interesting links for further development with time zones Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript and a jsTimeZoneDetect script.
The differences between local time and UTC are given (in minutes) directly by an dObj.getTimezoneOffset().
What people need to understand is that its the time on the LOCAL machine obtained by a date object, compare this with a time reference GMT to get any DLS offset.
So if the users machine ia in a timezone +6hr from GMT then the local area observes DLS, the local machine would return a +1 hour difference based on the local machines DLS rules or observations.
This however is not 100% in any measurement system devised to tell if DLS is in effect becayse some countries fluctuate and have no set rule, many do not and it would be dependent on the user changing the clock.
This is why UTC exists because it does not observe any movement forward or back in time. if you want to know more about UTC go here
Let's be clear, we work with javascript and do not make literature...
1/ - With javascript toGMTString() and toUTCString() give exactly the same date. Only the terms GMT or UTC change (see this page).
2/ - The only difference is that toGMTString() is deprecated (see the list of Date object methods on this page).
3/ - The difference between UTC and Local time is done by getTimezoneOffset().
4 / The following script (which come from this page), with comments for Alaska, shows the method to determine DSL, hemisphere (the sign of the difference is significant) and the common denominator for the time zone (the true timezoneOffset ?).
function get_timezone_info() {
// Alaska offset in january is -540 minutes from UTC
var january_offset = - new Date(2011,0,1,0,0,0,0).getTimezoneOffset();
// Alaska offset in june is -480 minutes from UTC
var june_offset = - new Date(2011,5,1,0,0,0,0).getTimezoneOffset(); // returns 480
// There's a -60 minutes offset difference between january and june in Alaska
var diff = january_offset - june_offset;
// Diff = -60, so we know that this region uses daylight savings,
// and is in the northern hemisphere. Also we know that the January
// offset is the common denominator for the timezone, i.e 540 minutes = 9 hours
if (diff < 0) {
return {'utc_offset' : january_offset,
'dst': 1,
'hemisphere' : 'HEMISPHERE_NORTH'}
// This is where we end up for southern hemisphere daylight savings time zones
else if (diff > 0) {
return {'utc_offset' : june_offset,
'dst' : 1,
'hemisphere' : 'HEMISPHERE_SOUTH'}
// this is returned for non DST time zones
return {'utc_offset' : january_offset,
'dst': 0,
'hemisphere' : 'HEMISPHERE_UNKNOWN'}
Object.prototype.toString=function(){var i,c='Object get_timezone_info';for (i in this) c+='\n'+i+' => '+this[i];return c}
One never be able to know if the user has set correctly his computer's time/zone/clock and whether his country's DST adjustment is on or off, thus the client's clock will never be 100% deductible. There is absolutely no way to fight against the human error, at least not in this case :)
You may, probably, detect his IP on the server-side and deduct the country/zone, but nor even this method is 100% accurate. The user might be connected trough a proxy, thus your server will see the IP of the proxy, not of the user...
Obviously ! I wrote «there is so many Universal Time that servers or machines » (a little bit excessive for servers after checks, however only a stopped watch give the exact time twice a day !). I simply wanted not to let believe that the simplistic method proposed by JunkMale was valid.
Thanks for your intervention.


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PARIS (Jul. 10)
For the second time this year, vandals have desecrated plaques commemorating the seven Jews who were executed on the orders of convicted war criminal Paul Touvier.
Vandals set a fire sometime last week that charred the memorial on the wall of the Rillieuxla-Pape cemetery — located near Lyon, in southeastern France — where the seven hostages were executed on June 29, 1944.
The vandals painted the memorial plaques with swastikas, Stars of David and anti-Semitic inscriptions such as "We won't be the Palestinians of Europe" and " Jews Beware."
In April, Touvier, 79, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the executions of the hostages in reprisal for the murder by the French Resistance of the Vichy propaganda minister, Philippe Henriot.
Touvier was at the time the local head of the intelligence service of the militia, the 30,000-member collaborationist civilian armed force created by the Vichy regime.
Touvier is the only Frenchman to be convicted of crimes against humanity. He was given the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Less than a month after Touvier was convicted, the plaque at the Rillieux-la-Pape cemetery was smashed and thrown into a nearby field.
On June 28, French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua unveiled three new plaques and lashed out against the "bad smell of racism and anti-Semitism and the allegations of those who do not want to recognize the shameful parts of our past.
"In the name of the government of today, we reaffirm that what happened under the occupation" is "forever held in contempt," he said.
No suspects have been charged in either of the two acts of desecration, and no groups have claimed responsibility.


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Rising Up with Sonali, April 19, 2016
Performing New Lives Panel in NYC at the East Side Institute to introduce the power and potential of theatre in prison, April 15, 2011.
WATCH THE moving 7 minute 2010 VIDEO trailer of Performing New Lives which draws together original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre. Book available here.
Pen New England Freedom to Write Forum, "Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing," April 19, 2007, sponsored by WGBH, Boston MA.
Marblehead Community Access TV "Changing Our World," April 2012
Selected Radio
Cyrus Webb on Conversation Pieces, Blog Talk Radio, April 18, 2016
Reforming the Justice System with Jan Miyasaki, May 4, 2016
WHMP Radio: The Bill Newman Show, May 17, 2016
Al Vuona, Public Eye, April 17, 2016, podcast
Guy Rathbun Ideasphere, April 11, 2016
Killer Legal Reality Radio, Amazing People, a 3 part series, April 21, 2016
Radio With a View, April 10, 2016, a show about Boy With A Knife
A Prisoner's Story of Murder, Remorse, and Justice , March 30, 2016 Radio Boston with Karter Reed.
"You are Here," a show about prison education, interview on WERS Boson by Maria Nifakos, October 18, 2015.
http://www.rapstation.com/shows/4937/trggr-radio.html Rap Radio out of U Mass Amherst on Juvenile Justice and Massachusetts harsh sentencing laws, 2014.
Four Stories, Boston pre-eminent reading series presents Crime and Punishment: Stories from the Big House, featuring Jean, Tracy Slater, TJ Parsall and Elaine Lee. Click here to get the mp3 and scroll down to 10/30/06
Interview with Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor,"Putting Drama into Prison's Stark Life."
Interview, All Things Considered, NPR on Shakespeare Behind Bars, March 21, 2001.
Jean's Changing Lives Through Literature program has also appeared on The Today Show, and Jean has appeared in numerous TV/radio interviews such as The Connection with Chris Lydon, and Here and Now with Robin Young.
Sample Web/Blogs about JT
CarolineLeavittville; A Young Prisoner fights for Justice in Jean Trounstine's extraordinary true narrative of murder, memory, truth and redemption, in Boy With A Knife, April 11, 2016
CarolineLeavittville: The Bard and women behind bars: Jean Trounstine talks about Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women's Prison, December 3, 2014.
"Women Who Dared" award from the Jewish Women's Archives. Featured interview at online JWA.
"The Quality of Mercy:" Online review of Shakespeare Behind Bars by Scott Ruescher for Arts/Editor,
2001 & 2006 Interview by Doug Holder of Ibbetson Press on Almost Home Free
Jean on Changing Lives Through Literature
BlogCritics Book Review by Katie Tratner of Why I'm Still Married, July 29, 2007.
Selected Print about JT
"This Boy's Knife" by Chris Faraone at digboston April 19, 2016.
"Boy With A Knife Makes the Case for Justice Reform" by Carly Metz at Boston Magazine, April 13, 2016.
"Prison Is No Place for Kids: An Interview with Author Jean Trounstine," by Chris Zoukis on Huffington Post, December 15, 2015.
"A Novel Approach to Sentencing has Criminals Hitting the Books," by William Boles, American News Service, 1997
"Taking Shakespeare into a Women's Prison," by Bob Blaisdell, San Francisco Chronicle, April1, 2001.
"Prison Buff: Peeking Behind the Curtain of Incarceration by Amanda Eyre Ward, Austin Chronicle, April 6, 2001
Review of Why I'm Still Married , by Jan Gardner The Boston Globe, "With Hope and Honesty, Essays Show How Marriages Endure," March 8, 2006.
"Get Your Groove On: Improvisation as a Path to Participation Lowell Civic Collaborative/Middlesex Community College, 14-19, 2006.


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Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi has expressed concern over the lack of a stable home ground for his team.
Keshi, 50, told SuperSport.com that the inability to have the Super Eagles play at a particular ground is "worrisome."
He blamed the situation on the growing trend of artificial pitches being built in most of the stadia across the country.
"It is a worrisome case that the national team no longer have a home ground of their own. Most of the stadia in the country have artificial turfs, which is not decent for the players. In my days, the National Stadium in Lagos was usually our home and we settled in there very well for our matches.
"Last time before the team went for the friendly against Egypt in Dubai, they trained on artificial pitch. But in Dubai, the pitch is natural grass and the players just had to adapt to it. If countries with harsher climates still keep natural grasses for their pitches I don't see why most of the stadia here (in Nigeria) have artificial pitches," he lamented.
The Super Eagles are billed to play one 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier and a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Nigeria but the country's football federation is yet to name a venue for the games.
"I hope we get to know the venue where we will play these games soon so that we can just move there and start preparing and get used to the place," he remarked.
The Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna had been picked to play host to the matches but security concerns knocked off the facility in the northern city.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has carried out checks on three stadia with natural grass but has delayed its decision on picking one of them.
The UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar, the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan and the Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri are in contention to play host to the qualifiers in June.


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Writer's Digest Poetry Awards Competition
Deadline: December 15, 2010
Rhyming, free verse, haiku—regardless of style, if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, we want them all.
First-Place winners receive $500 and a trip to the Writer's Digest Conference in New York City. The names and poem titles of the First-through Tenth-Place winners will be printed in the August 2011 Writer's Digest, and afterward their names will appear on www.writersdigest.com. All winners will receive the 2011 Poet's Market. http://www.writersdigest.com/poetryawards


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Chamber of Commerce Admits They Accept Bailout Money to Fund Anti-Worker Ads
Yesterday, I posed the question: "Is the Chamber of Commerce Using Bailout Money to Attack Workers?"
The Chamber took to their blog and ambiguously wrote, "No. No we are not."
It's well documented by Sam Stein at The Huffington Post that bailout recipients have been asked to funnel money to groups that are running anti-worker ads like the ones announced yesterday by the Chamber.
So I wrote, "Let me pose a more specific question: Is the Chamber actively rejecting money from bailout recipients?"
The Chamber responded:
Another one quickly answered, the U.S. Chamber continues to accept as members companies which receive both public and private funds. In addition we do not believe that the receipt of taxpayer money abrogates an individual or groups' rights under the First Amendment.
My original answer to the original question still stands, beyond question.
Actually, it's not beyond question -- and Jonathan Martin at Politico agrees:
Adam Green over at OpenLeft pushes the Chamber of Commerce to say that they're still accepting dues from bailed-out companies.
The goal is to make the case that the Chamber is using taxpayer dollars to help fund their anti-EFCA campaign (of which they have launched new ads targeting moderate Democratic senators).
The Chamber's Brad Peck says they're not using bail-out money for the campaign.
I've asked how exactly they know that to be the case.
A bunch of folks have joined the Facebook group asking the same question, and have used the contact info posted in that group to email Chamber execs directly.
And last night, Anna Burger added SEIU's voice to this issue:
Adam Green is cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), dedicated to helping progressive candidates run progressive campaigns and win.
He is also interim CEO of Change Congress, a reform group formed by Prof. Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi to reform congressional elections and special-interest influence on Congress.
Adam formerly served as Director of Strategic Campaigns and Civic Communications Director for MoveOn.org.


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Hollywood star Perry King to host 2010 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is pleased to announce that Hollywood film and television star Perry King will host the 2010 ...
Hollywood star Perry King to host 2010 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is pleased to announce that Hollywood film and television star Perry King will host the 2010 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 19, at the Red Rock Casino and Resort in Las Vegas.
King, whose career spans more than 40 years, is perhaps best known for his portrayal as Cody Allen in the popular 1980s television series "Riptide." King rose to prominence alongside up-and-comers Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler with the 1974 release of "The Lords of Flatbush," in which he played the character Chico Tyrell. Today, his list of roles numbers in the hundreds and, most recently, he has appeared in the HBO hit "Big Love."
King hosted last year's Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and is a natural fit for the role of emcee. Not only is he a seasoned professional actor, he is also an avid motorcyclist and a member of the AMA Board of Directors.
"Perry lends the perfect blend of consummate professionalism with down-to-earth approachability to our ceremony," said AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman. "We are really thrilled to have someone as talented and as passionate about motorcycling as Perry for our emcee, and we're very fortunate that his schedule allowed him to return this year."
"I'm really honored to demonstrate my support for the Hall of Fame in this way," King said. "Last year, there were several moments when everyone in the room was choking back the tears during the inductee speeches. I was one of them. Their words were genuine and heartfelt, and they touched all of us deeply. That's what I love about motorcyclists. We're like a huge family, and if you love to ride you're welcomed with open arms, no questions asked."
The Hall of Fame Class of 2010 includes legendary two-stroke engine tuner Eyvind Boyesen, dirt-track racer Don Castro, sidecar roadrace champion Larry Coleman, off-road rights activist Clark Collins, AMA 250cc Roadrace Champion David Emde, off-road gear pioneers John and Rita Gregory, desert racing champion and team manager Bruce Ogilvie, and championship team owner Mitch Payton. Also honored will be legendary motocross hero and Hall of Famer Bob Hannah. Hundreds will attend, including inductees' families, friends and fans, dozens of Hall of Fame members, industry leaders, and AMA and AMHF (American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation) board members.
In addition to the induction ceremony, the three-day AMA Legends and Champions Weekend features a full slate of activities. On Saturday, Nov. 20, the 2010 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Concours d'Elegance will showcase some of the country's most impressive original and restored classic motorcycles. Then at noon, the AMA honors the best of the amateur racing community at the 2010 AMA Racing Championship Banquet. Saturday evening marks the Las Vegas debut of the movie "Carlsbad USGP: 1980," a look at an iconic motocross race that some have dubbed "the Woodstock of motorcycling." Sunday caps off the weekend with self-guided rides in the surrounding area.
For more information, including tickets and reduced-rate accommodations, visit AmericanMotorcyclist.com/LegandsAndChampions.
About the American Motorcyclist Association
Since 1924, the AMA has protected the future of motorcycling and promoted the motorcycle lifestyle. AMA members come from all walks of life, and they navigate many different routes on their journey to the same destination: freedom on two wheels. As the world's largest motorcycling rights organization, the AMA advocates for motorcyclists' interests in the halls of local, state and federal government, the committees of international governing organizations, and the court of public opinion. Through member clubs, promoters and partners, the AMA sanctions more motorsports competition and motorcycle recreational events than any other organization in the world. AMA members receive money-saving discounts from dozens of well-known suppliers of motorcycle services, gear and apparel, bike rental, transport, hotel stays and more. Through its support of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, the AMA preserves the heritage of motorcycling for future generations. For more information, please visit AmericanMotorcyclist.com.
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text: My Bloody Valentine Announce Australian Side Shows jimmy 02/10/2012 shoegaze Wishes have been granted! In addition to My Bloody Valentine's 2013 festival appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties in Melbourne, the Irish legends will play side shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Tickets on sale Thursday October 18, set your reminders! Dates below… Saturday, 16th Feb Westgate Entertainment Centre, Altona, Melbourne Monday, 18th Feb Enmore Theatre, Sydney Wednesday, 20th Feb Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane Friday, 22 Feb Palace Theatre, Melbourne Tickets available from Ticketek / Visit My Bloody Valentine online @ Facebook.


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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics out of Sidney has reason to be encouraged by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding religious freedom and mandated health care. The business was headed to the U.S. Supreme Court because the company's owners have objected to the government's mandate to provide birth control to employees.
The owners' attorney, Frank Manion told 2 NEWS he sees Monday's ruling as a "resounding victory for religious liberty." Manion believes there will be no need for his case to go any further.
For now the high court's ruling is specific to the objections of two businesses, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties. Both have religious owners. The court stressed that this ruling only applies to corporations under the control of just a few people, where there is essentially no difference between the owners and the corporation. 2 NEWS spoke with Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region. Rick Pender, Vice President Development & External Affairs, said he does not believe the impact will be that great, however, the organization is disappointed.
Pender said, "I don't think anybody is going to be flat out unable to get it. It's available in a variety of ways, but it can be expensive depending on the form you take. Even if we continue with simply the pill for instance, you could be paying anywhere up to $600 a year for enough medication to cover that sort of thing."
Pender expects Congress is not done with this question of religious freedom as it pertains to health care.
Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Health care decisions should be made by women and their doctors – not by their bosses. This Court's deference to corporations is once again all too apparent, and I'm disappointed that the Supreme Court opened the door so that corporations can make personal health care decisions for their employees. We must work to ensure that all employees affected by today's decision maintain cost-free access to women's health care. If religious freedom is to mean anything, Americans must be able to have their own beliefs, rather than their employers' beliefs imposed upon them. Corporations are not people.
Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman said he was pleased with the ruling and sent this statement:
Today's ruling reaffirms our nation's commitment to religious freedom. The government should not force citizens to violate their religious beliefs in order to operate a business, and Obamacare's contraception mandate infringes upon religious liberties. I am pleased that the Court has ruled that the mandate is unlawful.


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In our changing world, the festive season is becoming known not only for giving a boost to retailers but with an ever-increasing online presence, it is going to be a bumper year for e-tailers as well. If the Black Friday trend is anything to go by, consumers are taking to the internet to do their shopping with major online stores reporting sales in the millions.
The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) issued some useful tips to business owners to protect themselves and their businesses against becoming the victims of crime this festive season. Their tips include:
The country's most dedicated franchise exhibition, the International Franchise Expo, will take place at the Sandton Convention Centre from the 16 – 18th April 2015 under the auspices of the Franchise Association of South Africa (FASA), which has represented the interests of franchising for the past 35 years.
Short-term insurer Santam, working closely with the South African Police Services (SAPS) and Business Against Crime (BAC), have some useful safety tips to offer South African shoppers.
The FASA offices will close on the 24th December 2014 and re-open on Monday 5th January 2015.


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SHARKS have been having an impact at North Haven recently, with a sighting of three in the river and a mauled dolphin washing up dead on the beach.
Last Thursday early morning surfers and joggers were surprised to see a very dead, decomposing dolphin on the beach near the breakwall, with three obvious bites made by something sizable leaving two big chunks missing from the carcass.
See the video taken by a local fisherman here.
North Haven residents John Hart and Shannon Cook detoured to look at the sad spectacle about the same time the Courier arrived.
Mr Hart said the size of the bites on the dolphin made him think it had been attacked by a white pointer shark.
White pointers are found all around Australia, he said, and "they like dolphins ... and turtles".
Mr Cook wondered whether the dolphin's death might be associated with three sharks he and numerous others had seen in the river two days earlier.
He had been walking on the breakwall and wondered "what the fuss was at the wash bay". When he went to look he saw two sharks in the water competing for fish frames thrown into the river by a fisherman.
Other bystanders told him there were three sharks, although he saw only two, the larger of which he said was "12 to 15 feet long, at least".
He had gone home and looked up information on sharks, leading him to believe they were grey nurses, because of the shape of their tails.
While only recently moved to North Haven, Mr Cook said he had "been coming here for 25 years" and that was the first time he had "seen sharks in there".
One surfer was already catching waves and several more walked past the dead dolphin on their way to the surf.
Asked by the Courier if the sight put him off going into the water, one surfer said with a shrug that it didn't.
Another commented that "there are always sharks out there, it's where they live".
Parks and Wildlife ranger Andy Marshall also inspected the carcass that morning, telling the Courier it was a coastal bottle nose dolphin, which from its state of decomposition looked to have been dead for from three days to a week.
It was also difficult to know if the bites had been inflicted before or after its death, he said.
Parks and Wildlife staff liaised with Port Macquarie Hastings Council, which organised a local team to move the decomposing dolphin from the popular surfing spot.
For a short video of a grey nurse shark in the Camden Haven River near Hughes Road visit www.camdencourier.com.au or see our Facebook page.


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Have a look at our design for the Ottawa Underpass project! This design is for the Carling and Kirkwood bridge. Our goal was to incorporate elements of the surrounding area with wildlife. The colourful patterns go from cool to warm colours as you pass by showcasing the diversity of the neighbourhood.
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The Paroli betting system is a favorite of blackjack and craps players, but you can also employ the Paroli system for sports betting.
Much like the parlay betting system, the Paroli sports betting system is a "positive progressive" meaning that you bet more when you win, and then pull back your bet size after any loss. Bet more when you win, less when you lose—what a concept.
Of course, for most people who enjoy betting, it is difficult to control the urge to "win it back" when you lose. And this may be the most appealing aspect of the Paroli sports betting system, is that it gives the player a structured framework so that loss-chasing does not get out of control.
Overall, the Paroli betting system is one of the most successful of all methods. Many people do not know that this technique can be applied to sports betting, but it definitely can.
Count Your Progressions
Just like the parlay betting system, the Paroli betting system asks first that the player establish an initial bet size. Naturally this bet size should be calibrated according to the overall size of your bankroll. If your bankroll is $100, your initial bet size cannot be $50 to use this system.
According to the rules of the Paroli betting system, you will "let it ride" after a win, and then after a loss, you will pull back to your original bet size.
Unlike the parlay system, though, the Paroli betting system offers a stricter structure about how many times you should let it ride before you go back to your initial bet size. This is referred to as the number of "progressions," and this number, too, should be determined ahead of time.
So for example, you might choose a $20 initial bet size, and aim for three progressions. This would mean that you would bet $20, if you win you would then let it ride for a $40 bet, if you win that, you let it ride once more, a third time, for a $80 bet.
But then, even if you win that third bet, you would pull back to your initial bet size, because you have already met your predetermined number of progressions.
Counting your progressions in this manner can help prevent greed from getting the best of you, and can help you book a profit even if you are not "red hot" during the whole session.
Sports Betting, Too, Is a Game of Streaks
As noted, Paroli betting principles are most commonly used in blackjack and especially craps. Sports bettors, perhaps because they are more regularly betting, as opposed to the craps player who only goes to the casino once in a while, may not be accustomed to this system.
Nevertheless, implementing the Paroli system into your sports betting can be a good choice if only because this system recognizes that betting, by nature, is a game of streaks. So many sports bettors lose money simply because they never win any significant amount of money. They are always playing "small ball" and trying to recoup their past losses.
The Paroli sports betting system, with its predetermined initial bet size and its predetermined number of progressions, can give the sports bettor a viable plan to win money, not just a plan to not lose money.
At the same time, by calling for pullbacks to that initial bet size after each loss, the Paroli system helps keep losses manageable.
Gambling, over the long run, is a losing proposition and everyone should know that; the odds are in the house's favor and that's not going to change. By using the Paroli system, though, players can maximize their chances that a hot streak will result in a net profit.
Just remember to count those progressions and stick to that initial bet size, at least until you have gained a profit and are playing with the house's money.


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As a sugar-lover with a soft spot for a good cause, the pairing of these 2 attributes in a venture always seems especially sweet! For example…
The Flour Pot – an adorable cookie boutique – has teamed up with Alex's Lemonade Stand – a foundation working to aid in the fight against childhood cancer – on this adorable lemon cookie gift set. ($25/set of 6) Each set features 6 individually wrapped lemon shaped cookies, and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each box is donated to Alex's Lemonade Stand.
The bright, sunny yellow color of these treats makes them a great summer hostess or thank you gift… but they'd also be great as party favors for a citrus or yellow themed baby shower or bridal shower! Each cookie is individually wrapped and tied up with a bow, so the party favor prep work is already done for you!
To learn more about Alex's Lemonade Stand, visit www.alexslemonade.org.
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These cookies are so cheery! Great find!
Have always LOVED the flour pot! Such great inspiration. What a great treat to just cheer yourself up! :-)
Oh wow those are uber cute! They would make awesome favors at a wedding.
I love Flour Pot cookies! So cute and creative!!
What flavor are the cookies?


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MacBook, Disassembled
Date: Wednesday, May 17th, 2006, 09:03
Category: MacBook
Mitsunobu Tanaka, Ph.D, a.k.a. Kodawarisan, has disassembled the new MacBook.
Mitsunobu Tanaka, Ph.D, a.k.a. Kodawarisan, has disassembled the new MacBook.
PowerPage Podcast Episode 15 is now available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
Episode 15 (31:42, 13 MB, AAC) of the PowerPage Podcast is all about the spankin' new MacBook. Rob Parker and I break down Apple's new consumer notebook.
You can subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (AAC) or you can add the PowerPage Podcast RSS feed in a newsreader of your choice. Remember to vote for us on Podcast Alley.
You can also download the file directly (31:42, 13 MB, AAC).
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Yesterday Apple announced the long-awaited iBook successor, the MacBook and there are a couple of things worth noting between it and the MacBook Pro.
Video: The MacBook uses Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 with 64MB of shared video memory versus the MacBook Pro's dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (running on the PCI Express bus.) The MacBook isn't going to be a screaming game machine, nor will it be chosen by high-end graphic or video professionals. These users will chose the MacBook Pro just for the video processor.
Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
AppleInsider is reporting that the new MacBook has a secret door under the battery bay for quick access to the machine's hard drive making upgrading super easy. AI also has the skinny on the MacBook's permanent feet – no podiatry issues here:
Where the MacBook really struts its stuff is under the hood. There, innovation takes center stage — primarily in the front-most portion of the computer, beneath the wrist-rests.
Flipping a MacBook upside down and removing its rectangular lithium-polymer battery reveals two RAM slots, placed side-by-side on one wall of the battery cavity…
Below the two RAM slots (at the base of the battery cavity) is where you'll find the MacBook's hard disk drive. Without disassembling the notebook, users will be able to quickly removing some protective aluminum shielding and lift the drive out of the computer.
AppleInsider | Apple's MacBook sports user-replaceable hard disks
AI also has some pretty sweet close-up photos of the MacBook too, although none of the inside of the battery bay.
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