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I've seen Yontz spelled as Yonts, probably on some document, and changed the name to Yonts on my site several years ago.
Anyway, starting from John Bruner FULKERSON. He figures out to be in the 9th generation of Fulkersons in America. Hem. Mary YONTS, dau. of Rachel FULKERSON and 'Sam' YONTS, 10 Jan 1866, and they had the following known children:
Rachel FULKERSON.....1868-
Joseph FULKERSON.....1873
I.C. FULKERSON....1875- (female)
Lura FULKERSON.....1878-
Lemuel FULKERSON.....1880-
John Bruner FULKERSON's father was:
Thomas Y. FULKERSON..........b. 15 Jan 1816; m. cousin Susan A. FULKERSON on 12 Dec 1836 in Ohio Co., KY, had 6 children; after her death in 1852, m. Martha GRIGSBY on 1 Feb 1854 (I recall it took me quite a long time to locate info on this Thomas and sort out his 2 marriages).
Thomas was a son of:
Philip Bruner FULKERSON............b. 1 Jan 1785, d. 14 Feb 1845; m. Sarah Ann (Sally) TAYLOR, ca. 1809. Remained in Ohio Co., KY, where all 13 (or 14?) children were born. A great-granddaughter stated he was a shoemaker and a cooper, having a yard where barrels and kegs were made.
Philip Bruner FULKERSON was the son of:
Captain Philip FULKERSON, baptized at New Brunswick, New Jersey on 23 Mar 1753. He was a Captain in the 2nd Battalion, Somerset County Militia, beginning in 1775. He married Elizabeth Bruner about that same year. (Have corresponded with many Fulkerson-Bruner descendants, all of whom report they've been unable to trace the Bruner family...not even Elizabeth's parents.)
Philip took his family to Jefferson Co., Kentucky (then part of Virginia) by 1782. There are two Mercer Co., KY records concerning Philip: he and brother Jacob appraised the estate of a John Gordon in February 1792, and his son John was born there about 1795. He moved to Nelson Co., KY about 1803. He was living in Ohio Co., KY when he made his will on 21 Jun 1813. His will was proved in August 1813.
Further information about Philip's military service, his will and other records about him are located at Captain Philip FULKERSON in the American Revolution, at
The info above, plus links to all the info on Capt Phil's line of ANCESTORS (Fulkard, Volkert, Philip, Volkert, Dirck)are at http://home.attbi.com/~apr1jan/phildesc.htmlhttp://home.attbi.com/~apr1jan/phildesc.html
Hope this helps.
Bob Fulkerson
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The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and Lycamobile have reached a mutual agreement about the ownership of the Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel franchise, which will see Lycamobile relinquish ownership of the franchise with immediate effect.
The joint decision has been taken ahead of the next round of franchise sales, and CPL is in advanced discussions to identify and secure a new owner for The Red Steel, who have already attracted significant interest from a number of potential owners.
Damien O'Donohoe, CEO of Caribbean Premier League, said: "Our goal is to create long-term meaningful partnerships with franchise owners that benefit cricket in the region. We part on good terms and we are both keen to establish other ways in which we can work together in the future to help develop the CPL brand globally."
A spokesperson from Lycamobile said: "Lycamobile has a long tradition of supporting cricket and cricketing communities and we look forward to aligning our cricketing interests to the continued expansion of the Lycamobile global footprint. We will continue to look at opportunities across the world and we wish the team the very best for the 2014 season."
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In her new role, Roth will be responsible for all technology for Synovus, including network systems, data center operations, e-channels, and application development and support.
She began her career with Synovus in 1994 as Product Manager overseeing ATM applications. Since that time, she has held various positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Senior Group Executive of Operations. Prior to joining Synovus, she held positions as Assistant Director of Human Resources and Director of Check Operations for the Federal Reserve Bank.
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New York–If you want some fashion this weekend, head on over to FIT.
In addition to its rotating roster of special exhibitions, FIT also has a permanent collection encompassing more than 50,000 garments and accessories and 30,000 textiles dating from the 18th centure to present.
Currently, in The Fashion and Textile History Gallery, the museum is showing Fashion A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part One. And you better get there fast because it closes Tuesday, May 8.
Luckily, Part Two will commence May 23 and run through November 10.
Unlike many exhibitions at FIT, which are organized chronologically, these are arranged alphabetically—from Armani, Balenciaga, and Chanel all the way through the alphabet to Vivienne Westwood, Yeohlee, and Zoran.
The show focuses on modern and contemporary fashion and accessories from the collection; a nice departure from much of the historical shows often presented.
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October 20, 2000I just found the coolest-yet quote about my comic. It can be found here as part of the September 17th review of another strip. And I quote:
It [Goats] also has some of the most memorable comic characters outside of Sluggy Freelance (or Schlock Mercenary for that matter.)
Wow. I got compared favorably to Goats and to Sluggy. Again I say "wow." You might be interested to know that the first strip-style webcomic I read was User Friendly, and the second was Sluggy Freelance. In fact, their success inspired me to launch Schlock Mercenary, so if you love Schlock, you owe it to yourself (and to me) to go read Sluggy. Unless you already do, which I suspect accounts for most of you.


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Essex Court Chambers' Toby Landau QC and David Joseph QC will go head-to-head at the Singaporean High Court next week in a mammoth $300m legal battle for Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan and the Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group.
It is the first time British QCs have been allowed to conduct advocacy in the Singaporean Court since the enactment of the Singaporean Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill in February (15 February 2012). Sources close to the case said it had been eight years since a silk had been instructed inside a Singapore court room.
The corporate face-off will be closely watched across Asia as enforcement orders granted by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) are put to the test by the Singaporean court.
Krishnan, Malaysia's second-richest man, has control of Astro All-Asia Networks, which in February 2010 secured arbitration orders totalling $300m against subsidiaries of the Lippo Group, including First Media, in a fight over a joint venture gone wrong.
Landau has been instructed by Braddell Brothers partner Edmund Kronenburg to challenge the order for the Lippo Group.
Joseph, meanwhile, has been instructed by Wong Partnership partners Chou Sean Yu and Lim Wei Lee for the respondents, Astro All-Asia Networks.
The five-year battle between the juggernauts has been bitter, with allegations of criminal wrongdoings levelled against Astro's top executives by the Lippo Group. In May, Astro said such allegations were unsubstantiated.
Astro has registered arbitration awards in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia but needs to secure enforcement awards from the domestic courts before proceeding to seize the assets of the Lippo Group.
Astro has also gone to Hong Kong courts to enforce its award there over a $44m loan made by First Media to its controlling shareholder AcrossAsia. The hearing is set down for 3 August.
Landau took silk in 2008 and is considered among the best arbitration specialists at the bar. Last year he was instructed to appear for the International Chambers of Commerce by Allen & Overy alongside Matrix Chambers' Thomas Linden QC in the landmark Jivraj v Hashwani dispute (1 August 2011).
Joseph took silk in 2003 and is also highly regarded in arbitration circles. He is one of several silks at Essex Court to have taken rooms at Singapore's Maxwell Chambers. Essex Court was among the first of the commercial sets to take rooms in Singapore, unveiling a move in June 2009 (22 June 2009).
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India's Most Watched Advert Has a CGI Baby Promoting MTS
Published on: 13th Jun 2014
Note -- this news article is more than a year old.
MTS India is submitting a hugely popular advert for an award at the Cannes festival next month, even though to western eyes it seems rather uncomfortable to watch.
The advert, created by Creativeland Asia and directed by Guy Shelmerdine features a mother giving birth to a CGI generated baby that then starts messing around with tablets and mobile phones in the hospital as if born to them.
The whole thing is done to "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross and at nearly 25 million views on YouTube is said to be the most watched online video in India.
The newly born child looks up medical advise online, cuts his own umbilical cord, puts on his own shirt, grabs the doctor's smartphone, takes a selfie and Google Maps his way out of there.
Some commentators note that it makes use of the CGI baby, a concept that dates all the way back to the original "dancing baby" of early internet fame, but has been upgraded to the point that it seems less cute than ever so slightly unsettling.


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Mitchell Nichter, an attorney with Paul Hastings, a global law firm, says no one should be surprised by any of the new rules. "A number of bills were incorporated to become Dodd-Frank," he says. "Most of these issues have been batted around for a while, so there really shouldn't be any surprises."
But even if a firm isn't surprised by Dodd-Frank, it still will present a major obstacle for CIOs in 2011 and beyond. Modifying systems and processes for compliance will soak up resources and divert focus from projects that may grow the business. After all, no IT organization's budget is infinite, and in today's world of doing more with less, something always suffers.
Within Citi's ICG, the firm's Beyman acknowledges, Dodd-Frank compliance undoubtedly will divert resources from some projects. "We have a big budget, but it's not unlimited," he says. "In any year, there are always some things that get crowded out because of mandatory development," such as compliance initiatives. "When I build an annual technology budget, we look at mandatory development before discretionary. If the mandatory number gets larger, we have to spend less on discretionary [projects]."
The secret sauce that will help a firm be successful, according to experts, will be the ability not only to comply with Dodd-Frank, but also to gain some useful business processes out of the exercise. "Eight out of 10 companies will just focus on Dodd-Frank compliance," contends Mark DeBenedictus, VP of global financial services at HP. "But," he adds, "if in the process of complying, you simplify processes and deliver better information, you can improve business processes and comply with Dodd-Frank at the same time. In the end, getting a better grip on information can help the business change the way it makes decisions," which will create value for the organization.
Creating value for the business while simultaneously complying with Dodd-Frank regulations is the holy grail, asserts John Burchenal, managing director of market growth at Omgeo. "Firms are taking a broad look at the organization and they are taking the opportunity to do things that may not have gotten done" without Dodd-Frank looming over their heads, he says. "For instance, Dodd-Frank may finally be the driver that has firms get data management in order. They have known for a while that they need to break down the data silos and create a consistent process across the enterprise, but there hasn't been the will to do it."
Instead, business units traditionally have insisted on building their own data repositories, risk metrics and reporting capabilites, at the expense of the larger enterprise. "Now Dodd-Frank compliance is driving the need [for better data governance]," Burchenal adds. "Business units may lose some functionality on an individual basis, but the firm will gain in the long run by having consolidated data and technology."
Dodd-Frank Hiring Boom?
Although all firms are devoting resources and personnel to Dodd-Frank compliance, most do not anticipate increasing staff to meet compliance demands. "We haven't had to increase staff for Dodd-Frank, and we don't plan to," reports Citi's Beyman.
Marty Leamy, president of the Americas at Orc Software, a provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, also says firms are not planning to increase staff to meet Dodd-Frank's requirements. "For the most part, firms are trying to meet compliance demands with the same amount of people," he says. "Hiring has yet to take off in the U.S."
HP's DeBenedictus attributes the lack of hiring to frozen technology budgets. "I haven't heard of firms staffing up for Dodd-Frank or, for that matter, that there is a significant hiring push anywhere in financial services right now," he relates. "I do hear that budgets are frozen and there is a need to do more with less. That certainly hasn't changed."


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It is Tuesday 6PM and a group of about 125 Zimbabweans gather to discuss one of the most pertinent topics at the moment. The group is a mix; it comprises the young, old, black, white, everyday people, entrepreneurs, politicians you name it. The discussion of the evening is 'Race relations in Zimbabwe'. Issues determined by race are some of the thorniest in the country and this group – most participants who've never met even met before – has gathered to share their views on it. Unlike other gatherings though, there's one thing unique about this one; it's all taking place on Twitter.
It's called #263Chat and it's a weekly Twitter discussion started by Nigel Mugamu (@SirNige on Twitter) with the assistance of other Twitter users locally. The group has discussed topics ranging from Corruption, Dual Citizenship & Voting Rights for the Zim Diaspora, to current hot issues like Indigenisation. The first #263Chat was held on 25 September and with each successive week more people have joined in the discussion.
To participate, Twitter users follow the #263Chat hashtag and they tweet their views and responses to the discussion. For those of you not on Twitter, a hashtag is simply a one word description with the hash symbol to categorize tweets. They basically make it easy to search for tweets on a topic and are there useful in following a discussion (More here).
A topic for discussion comes from suggestions by the community and once one has been selected, Mugamu tweets it days in advance of the discussion under the #263chat hashtag. Some discussions, like the one on Indigenisation last week, can have well over 600 tweets and retweets easily making the hashtag trend locally on Twitter. Mugamu says mention of #263Chat by some local radio presenters has also helped make #263Chat a dialog platform that the community looks forward.
"Dialogue is vital to me," explains Mugamu when we contacted him recently to discuss the initiative. "We already have unplanned discussions about particular issues so I figured why not formalise it? I asked a few people around me who understand my desire for dialogue amongst fellow Zimbabweans and/or Africans and here we are today."
To ensure the discussion stays relevant, Mugamu moderates the tweets, asking for views and basically steering the conversation. Because old tweets are hard to find on Twitter, after each #263Chat session Mugamu summarises the discussion on his blog and archives some of the tweets on Storify, a tool that organizes and preserves the tweets for others to read later.
Mugamu says #263Chat is designed to find solutions to common challenges in the country. He explains that his experience with #263Chat since it started reinforces that Zimbabweans should find solutions to their problems through dialog. "#263Chat could prove to be a useful tool for gauging the mood and people's various thoughts and ideas." he says and it's easy to agree. The beauty of Twitter is that people can choose the name they want to be identified by, and this anonymity option means there's nothing stopping participants from speaking their mind.
Will you be on #263Chat this week? Does this finally sound like a good reason to join Twitter?


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Tennessee State University will receive an $8 million chunk of $600 million in federal Race to the Top funding heading to Tennessee and Delaware.
The funds will be used to continue and expand the university's Strengthening Teaching in Elementary and Middle Schools: Mathematics (STEMS) project.
STEMS is an expansion of an original project implemented in 2007, that was developed to help K-4 teachers instruct their students in math.
Ten universities will be identified that offer Teacher Preparation programs in mathematics to partner with four elementary and middle schools from low performing school districts to participate in TSU's STEMS project. Schools will be chosen from each of the state's three grand divisions.
"We hope to identify the challenges students face and discover the opportunities that may help us close existing achievement gaps in mathematics. This grant will help us create a program that will improve the quality of teaching in general, with a specific goal to strengthen mathematics instruction at the elementary and middle school levels," said Peter Millet, dean of the TSU College of Education.
Millet plans to direct the project by targeting pre-service teachers, university math and math education faculty, school district math coaches, principals, and in-service teachers from low performing schools.
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The Peloponnesian League (c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCE) was a loose confederation of Greek city-states led by Sparta. The League was the oldest and longest-lasting political association in the ancient Greek world. For Sparta, the League gave it protection from uprisings within its own borders and eventually secured its dominance in the region and later, following victory in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE, the whole of Greece. Then, coming up against a rampant Thebes and their brilliant general Epaminondas, Sparta was defeated at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE. Without its dominant leader the League dissolved shortly thereafter.
Membership & Responsibilities
The name of the League derives from the geographical location of its member states in the Peloponnese of southern Greece. The Greeks themselves referred to the association as 'the Lakedaimonians and their allies'. Unlike other confederacies such as the contemporary Delian League, the Peloponnesian League had no single binding agreement but was, rather, a collection of city-states (poleis) each having negotiated their own terms with dominant Sparta. In this sense, the League was no league at all as when not engaged in collective warfare city-states were even free to wage war against each other. Common features, though, of this loose association were the requirement of members to swear to hold common 'friends and enemies', promise reciprocal assistance, and follow the military ambition of their leader (hegemon), Sparta. Only in the case of a religious obligation (e.g. the necessity to observe a particular religious festival) could members refuse participation.
The League began in c. 550 BCE, according to Plutarch, so that Sparta might protect itself against both a possible uprising of Sparta's helots (semi-free agricultural labourers) and regional rival Argos, in the north of the Peloponnese. The first member was Tegea which, after resisting Spartan attack, was compelled to form an alliance. By 510 BCE the League encompassed all of the Peloponnese and, under the leadership of Cleomenes I, even spread further to include such cities as Megara and parts of Attica. In c. 494 BCE Argos was defeated (but never became a member) and, according to Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.9), over the next 50 years or so the League's membership spread further to include cities in Phocis and Boeotia.
Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War describes the workings of the League. Members sent delegates to meetings where each city held one vote. This assembly was led by an ephor and decisions about such matters as military campaigns and new memberships were taken by majority. Interestingly, Sparta itself did not vote as their position had already been voted upon by the Spartan assembly. At the same time, there was a provision that Sparta would never have to act against her own interests. Unlike in the Delian League where Athens compelled members to pay a tribute under any circumstances, the members of the Peloponnesian League had only to contribute militarily when required. The exact number of troops demanded from each city was decided by Sparta. During the dangerous times of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE - 404 BCE) against Athens and its allies, though, Sparta did go so far as to impose a military governor (harmost) on its allies.
Peloponnesian & Corinthian Wars
Besides having the largest and most formidable army, Sparta's domination of the Peloponnesian League was ensured by the fact that the League's military force was always led by a Spartan - either one of the two Spartan kings or a senior Spartan commander. Sparta also directly interfered in the domestic affairs of member states, often promoting rule by an oligarchy favourable to Spartan policy. Following victory in the Peloponnesian War against Athens in 404 BCE and the consequent addition of new Aegean allies, Sparta held an even tighter grip on member states and the harmosts were left in place.
In 404 BCE, tired of Elis' increasing sense of self-importance Sparta campaigned against its old ally and put the city-state in its place by 400 BCE. Continued Spartan ambitions in central and northern Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily once again dragged the city and the League into another protracted conflict, the Corinthian Wars. This pitted the League against Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Persia from 396 to 387 BCE. The result of the conflict was the 'King's Peace' where Sparta ceded its empire to Persian control but Sparta was left to dominate Greece.
Defeat to Thebes & Dissolution
Sparta's policy of interfering in the government of League members continued with their heavy-handed treatment of both Mantinea in 385 BCE, dividing up its villages, and with war against Phleious 381-379 BCE. From 382 BCE League tribute was required in money, not just arms and men as Sparta became ever more ambitious. However, Sparta over-reached itself in trying to crush long-time rival Thebes. The initial success of establishing a garrison at Thebes between 379 and 376 BCE only resulted in antagonising the Thebans. Sparta lost the Battle of Tegyra in 375 BCE to Thebes, now a rising power and about to enter its most glorious phase in history. The Spartans then lost the even more crucial Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE against the brilliant Theban general Epaminondas. Thereafter, the League declined and, with the treaties formed between Corinth, Phleious and Thebes, the Peloponnesian League was, in effect, dissolved by c. 366 BCE.
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TimelineVisual Timeline
c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCEPeloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
494 BCE - 493 BCETelesilla of Argos defends her city against the Spartan forces with an army of women.
Aug 480 BCEBattle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.
464 BCE - 463 BCEEarthquake in Sparta, followed by slave revolt. Surrender of Thasos.
460 BCE - 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War.
431 BCE - 404 BCEThe 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
427 BCEPlataea finally falls to the Spartans after a two year siege.
424 BCESpartan general Brasidas takes Amphipolis, Thucydides failed to prevent this and is exiled.
424 BCESpartan Brasidas' campaign in Thrace.
424 BCEA force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
422 BCESpartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.
421 BCESpartan soldiers return from campaigning Thrace, some as Neodamodeis.
420 BCESparta is excluded from the Olympic Games for breaking the ekecheiria or sacred truce.
413 BCEOn the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans take over the Athenian-held fort of Dekeleia.
410 BCEAlcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
c. 407 BCEThe Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
394 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II defeats a Theban coalition at the battle of Coronea.
390 BCEAthenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.
378 BCE - 377 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II campaigns in Boeotia.
371 BCEThebes, led by Epaminondas, defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra.


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Sieger Design: Bathroom Inspiration
Dept. of Friday. As we await more submssions for the My Bathroom Rocks! competition, here's some eye candy from Sieger Design. All of this was done for various companies such as Alape, Dornbracht and Duravit. MGR
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Apple, Those Jerks! | RANT
- By Brett Miller
- 14 December, 2012
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Disclaimer: I'm a huge Apple and Steve Jobs fan. I own just about every product they sell and will continue to buy them blindly. Well, maybe. Here are 4 of the recent JERK moves Apple has made that are slowly wearing me down from fanboy to foe.
1.) Antennagate
Companies make mistakes, I understand that. Even though the iPhone 4′s antenna issue was a HUGE F'ING MISTAKE. The hardware's malfunction wasn't really what bothered me. Apple's reaction to the mistake is what set me off. By simple holding the phone normally to my ear I would immediately lose signal and drop the call. I took the phone into the Apple store and the "geniuses" were trained to tell me I should "losen my death grip." Another "genius" told me that my phone was dropping calls because it was in 3G mode and that I needed to turn off data every time I want to send or receive a call. True story.
2.) The Bumper Case
So, instead of apologizing for the massive hardware design flaw, Apple decided to monetize it. Did anyone else find it odd that Apple had never sold cases for any other previous iPhone but coincidentally released a bumper case whose sole purpose was to cover the antenna of the iPhone 4? Ridiculous. Apple did offer the case for free for a limited time as a peace offering. Everyone I know who ended up with a bumper case said it fell apart in a few months. Thanks Apple.
3.) iPad Covers
The magnetic iPad covers are really slick. They come in all different colors and are available in polyurethane and leather. The jerk move? If you want a subtle color like white or black (the two most popular colors) they are ONLY available in leather for $70! In order to get the most popular colors they make you shell out an extra $20. Ugh!
4.) The Lightning Adapter
Apple has maintained their own standard iPhone/iPod/iPad cable for years. In order to continue making the devices smaller and more efficient they upgraded to the Lightening Connector. It's durable, small and best of all, two-sided. Now after years of collecting compatible cables, they're all obsolete. Don't worry about it, Apple took care of it. For a measly $30 you can get an adaptor. Wait… $30!!!!???? That's more than I've ever paid for a cable, let alone an adaptor. To make matters worse Apple installed a special chip inside the device to discourage 3rd party developers to manufacture cheaper, affordable versions. It makes me sick.
Bonus: Apple Maps
Apple Maps sucks. There's no denying it. Creating bad software doesn't make you a jerk, but automatically removing the good stuff (Google Maps) when upgrading to iOS6 does. PS. Google Maps is now available again in the App store. It's brilliant.
Apple, your brand is incredibly powerful, but if you keep pulling moves like this people will eventually get tired of it and move on. Don't believe me? Ask Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.
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My apple rant centers on the iPhone5 commercials. They're basically saying the size and features of the phone and accessories are, duh, second nature, meanwhile they've made 4 generations of hardware without these specs and features. What's the slogan, apple, we were idiots until we made the iPhone5? I'm referring mainly to the phone/finger size and earbud shape..
I agree with the rant, but damn they make some good stuff. The iphone5 is way better than the other phones. The commercials are stupid because samsung has made it so dumb. Its like the PC vs Mac battle but instead of apple being on the offense they are being defensive. I encountered the ipad case thing and could not believe that they would sell a basic color for more. Many people are pissed about the new charger but they had the old one for what, 20 years? No one still uses the first ipods so we shouldn't charge our new products with one. The charging speed now is sick. That being said instead of buying an ipad mini I bought a kindle fire HD.
Here are several why I would not:-You caonnt multitask. You can only do one task at a time. If you want to surf the web and type into a document, you can't. You need to exit one and then open the other.-No flash support. Enjoy the web without much of its content!-Doesn't use a real operating system, like Windows or Mac OSX. It runs like an iPhone, not a laptop.-It doesn't have an SD card slot or USB slot. You want to load all your photos and music on it? You need to buy a special dongle and attach it to the iPad. Ah yes, that's convenient and cost-effective.-Apple wants to say it will be great for reading books and magazines, but it has a bright, glossy LCD screen. Meanwhile, electronic book reader devices use an electronic ink technology that doesn't strain the eyes and can be used in the sun. Electronic book readers can run on battery for days, whereas the iPad claims up to 10 hours, but probably has much less.-You need to lay it flat and look straight down at it to type on it. It's not like a netbook or laptop where the keyboard is flat and the screen is in front of your face.-You can buy a keyboard accessory — you can spend extra money to turn a low-power netbook-type tablet into a non-portable desktop computer. Meanwhile there are products like Lenovo U1 Hybrid where you can slip the tablet into a netbook shell and turn it into a portable, foldable laptop.-It costs $ 500, minimum, and has a 1 ghz processor. You're paying $ 500 for something that has about the same capabilities as an iPod Touch, but is huge. Products with similar specs and abilities as the iPad cost less than that. If you want the model with enough disk space and 3G to make it worth your while, it's $ 800.My netbook has a 1.6 ghz Atom processor and cost me $ 200. And my netbook has an SD slot so I can make the hard drive space as large as I want. And my netbook has USB ports. And I can do multiple tasks on my netbook. Fact is, tablets have been around forever and the mainstream market didn't want them. Just because they've slapped an Apple logo on it, should people suddenly want it?


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Four Algerian Christians face jail terms after being convicted of establishing a church without a permit.
Under a 2006 law, establishing any house of worship in Algeria requires a permit from the government. Four Protestants were sentenced to 2- and 3-month prison terms for holding services in a church without a permit.
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City Lights Bookstore welcomes Ralph Nader for the release of his new book, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think published by City Lights Books. Elaine Katzenberger, publisher and executive director of City Lights, opens the event. Matt Gonzalez introduces Ralph who talks about the main thrust of his new book, namely what normal citizens can do, right now, to break through corporate power and make change happen.
In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging—and often winning—David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment and the quality of national life today. Nader makes an inspired case about how the nation can—and must—be democratically managed by communities guided by the U.S. Constitution, not by the dictates of big businesses and the wealthy few. This is classic Ralph Nader, a crystallization of the core political beliefs and commitments that have driven his lifetime of advocacy for greater democracy.
Ralph Nader is a two-time Nieman Fellow who has been awarded for his political activism that focuses in the areas of consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. His work has been affected the passing of several pieces of legislation, such as the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the Whistleblower Protection Act. Nader was the subject of the documentary film, An Unreasonable Man, which showed at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.


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There seems to be a perception among many people in Juneau that the cruise ship companies are not interested in the people and culture of Juneau. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Illustration by Lawrence Diggs Author Lawrence Diggs is shown welcoming tourists onto his Discover Alaska Tours bus.
While the ships do a great job at entertaining their guests while on the ship, the cruise has to go someplace or the whole thing will seem rather pointless to many people. When they sell the journey they also have to sell the destination.
The local people are the destination.
Who knows Juneau better than people who live here? Who knows how to get things done better than locals? Who can bring a story of pride and passion about Juneau better than the local people?
It is in the cruise ship's interest to be able to sell this excitement to their guests. They want their guests to experience an authentic Juneau. They need partners who can make things happen. If they didn't realize this, it would be up to the locals to make them aware of it. But they are well aware of how much they need to partner with Juneauites.
Juneau residents are well positioned to create new venues for tourists to experience. When there is a fair or festival, the locals should be partnering with the cruise ship companies to bring busloads of people there. When there is no festival or fair, there should be. There should be at least one a month and they should be coordinated with market appropriate ships, their shore excursion managers and even their marketing teams to the mutual benefit of everyone involved. And every artist and craftsperson should have a booth to sell things at these festivals. Food vendors with special Juneau treats should be making money as well.
And where are the Native Alaskans and culture? Native Alaskans sharing their stories, explaining their culture and offering demonstrates of their culture, crafting and art is gold waiting to be picked up.
Many local companies in Juneau have been able to tap into this profit stream. They take people on nature walks. They show them how to take pictures of Juneau. They help them appreciate how beautiful the city is - and they make money doing it. These people have managed to partner with the cruise ship companies to sell their services.
What's needed now is more players, more people with more ideas, and more things to sell. The cruise ships and the local economy needs more venues to take people to. They need more interesting "Juneau-flavored" shopping experiences for their guests.
That could mean creating entertainment or atmosphere. That could mean more demonstrations like the artisans who blow glass on Franklin Street.
The shore excursion people need Juneau-flavored products to sell in order to make their guests happy and to make a profit. The cruise ship companies are the customers of the local economy. If you can make their customers happy, you will make them happy and that should make you happily profitable.
I live in South Dakota most of the year and I was able to land a job as an operator and guide with Discover Alaska Tours - even though I'd never been to Juneau before.
Any person in Juneau capable of getting a commercial driver's license, telling a good story while safely operating a vehicle, possessing good work habits along with a flexible personality and a positive attitude about customer service, should be able to take my job next year.
Everything I learned about Juneau came from talking to local people, reading local papers and observing life here. Any local with the aforementioned skill set could do a better job than I do. There are many shore excursion companies that also need help accomplishing their mission of good customer service for their cruise ship patrons.
Hiring locals is a better deal for the shore excursion businesses. Every year they have to recruit and train new people who don't even know the streets of Juneau. Every year they have to worry about housing these people. Every year they have to sweat whether the people they hired will complete their contracts. And then season is over by the time most of us become useful.
This is very expensive, time-consuming and inefficient for shore excursion companies. It would be much better for these companies if more local people took these jobs. And if I can come from South Dakota and make it lucrative, a local should be able to make even more money.
Every season Juneau locals leave a lot of money on the table. All they have to do is pick it up. Next week I'll share a few low cost and no cost tips to get you started.


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Skip to comments.White House Refuses to Comply with Another Subpoena
Posted on 02/26/2012 10:43:19 AM PST by John Semmens
Citing what it called a key precedent recently established by a Georgia case, the Obama Administration declined to submit documents subpoenaed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the loss of over $500 million of taxpayers money on the Administrations Solyndra loan guarantee.
If you will recall, Press Secretary Jay Carney told Committee Chairman Representative Fred Upton (R-Mich), the Administrations refusal to provide documents or even to appear in answer to a subpoena was upheld by Judge Milihis decision in the Presidents favor.
Its a separation of powers issue, Carney explained. The president was independently elected by the American people. He is answerable only to the American people. No judge, no congressman, no one, has the standing to challenge anything he does unless he deigns to acquiesce in the inquiry. If Mr. Upton isnt satisfied he can try to convince his peers to use the only Constitutional option available to Congress and impeach the President. Then the President might respond.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...
The usurper knows that since he has some black genetics and has basically 98% unconditional support from the black segment, ain't nothing going to be done to him, for fear of rioting reprisal.
These jackasses are not even pretending that they're not running a dictatorship here in the United States.
Geeez, everyone thought that Nixon was bad.. this guy is 1,000s of times worse!
LOL, you had me.
Oops! I got punked by the satire site!
Still, this administration really is behaving as a dictatorship.
I've got a better one than this, but the Secret Service would be at my door in seconds.
I'll keep praying!
The House evidently likes what Zer0 is doing since they have voted FOR every "continuing resolution" since the R's took over in naught 10. They voted FOR every debt ceiling increase that Zer0 has wanted...they have denied him nothing....provided him everything he wants....
...so what gives anyone the idea that Zer0 has any respect or fear of Congress?
I have heard little whispers of contempt of Congress charges, but Zer0's contempt for this Congress is exceeded only by his arrogance and contempt for "We the People".....Zer0 has no fear and does not give a rat's ass what the Congress does, or what the People think.
Nothing will change until the House exercises their power and cut off funds for the administration...right down to gas for AF1...
We could release some limited edition impeachment sneakers! Oh wait.
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She says it was love at first sight. He says, nah, it wasn't. She'll be taking up the matter with him later. She's Jewish. He's Italian. On this, he says, they agree: "We never eat spaghetti and fried squid on the same night we eat bagels and lox." She's in a hit TV series. He's out of one. Yet there are no hard feelings. "Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too," she says.
This is hardly the kind of wedded bliss you might expect from Danny De Vito, 39, and Rhea Perlman, 35, two of TV's feistiest shoot-from-the-lip characters. He starred for five years as Taxi's tyrannical dispatcher, Louie De Palma, a man whose tenderness you could fit in a thimble and still have room for your finger. Perlman's performance as man-hungry, smart-mouthed barmaid Carla Tortelli on NBC's Cheers earned her an Emmy nomination this year as best supporting actress. (She lost to Taxi's Carol Kane.) "She'll get hers next year," says Danny, who won one in 1981.
The plain truth is that after 13 years of living together (the last two as husband and wife), the diminutive pair—he's 5'0″, she's 5'1″—records not a shudder on the marital Richter scale. "Ours is not a fighting relationship," says Rhea. "We both always feel terrible after even a small amount of harsh words." His meanest act, insists Rhea, "was refusing to tickle my back when I asked him." (He denies it.)
The arrival last March of their first child, Lucy Chet (Chet was Danny's father's nickname), has added to their contentment. Until baby made three, both were skeptical about having children. "I hated the very thought of a child's birthday party," says Rhea. "Now I can't wait." Why the change of heart? "Everything in our lives started coming together," she says. "We started looking at kids in a certain way, and suddenly it became a big desire."
Now their Hollywood (foot) Hills house resembles a Toys "R" Us showroom. When he's not working, De Vito plays the doting dad. A vegetarian, he whips up natural fruit and vegetable concoctions for Lucy, rather than prepared baby food. He does diaper duty ("Every day she changes, and every day we change her—about 30 times") and takes her swimming in their pool. "You name it, I do it," he says. "I'm the baby man."
Their personal high has been matched by professional ones. At first depressed by Taxi's demise, De Vito isn't short on work these days. "The competition is pretty flimsy for roles around 5′," he explains. He has received glowing reviews for Terms of Endearment, has finished Romancing the Stone, a feature with old pal Michael Douglas, and just completed a gangster spoof, Johnny Dangerously. He also plans to play New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in a TV movie that his company, New Street Productions, will produce.
Perlman, who played De Vito's girlfriend on four episodes of Taxi, is thrilled with her success as Carla. "I like being someone who can say whatever she wants," says Rhea. "In real life I don't always have a great shot to get off at somebody I'm pissed at." Perlman was chosen, says director James Burrows (he also directed Taxi), because "we wanted fresh faces and she'd been very good on Taxi." Observes Perlman's sister, Heide, Cheers' story editor: "Rhea has the same earthiness but isn't bitter like Carla."
Perlman and De Vito met in 1970 when Rhea went to see a friend in a short-lived off-Broadway play, The Shrinking Bride. But it was De Vito, playing a stable boy, who commanded most of Perlman's attention. After the show Rhea went out to eat with the cast and ended up sitting across from De Vito. He was different from others she had dated. "He was a lot more fun and a lot more sexy," Rhea reports. De Vito felt sparks too. "She was vibrant, with a great sense of humor, and real warm," he recalls. Playing it cautiously, the pair waited two whole weeks before moving in together.
Eleven years went by and, impetuous types that they are, the two decided to make it official. "It just hit us," says Rhea. The big day was Jan. 28, 1982—a Thursday. When the bride could not choose between "a sweat suit and an attractive T-shirt," she settled for a rented antique wedding dress. The groom, meanwhile, rushed home during a Taxi lunch break. The rain-soaked garden ceremony was performed by a French-horn player with the Los Angeles Philharmonic who doubles as a licensed minister. As for the wedding march, the happy couple chose a recording of Our Gang's Alfalfa trilling I'm in the Mood for Love. Marriage, says Danny, has not altered their relationship. "After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?"
In a business littered with crumpled relationships, their endurance is noteworthy. One secret is that they've never been competitive about their careers. Although struggling at the time herself, Rhea was delighted by Danny's success on Taxi. "I might be jealous about a girlfriend getting a great part but never Danny," she says. They trade career advice and discuss everything—well, almost everything. "If it's a surprise party, I don't want to discuss that," he says. "And I also put my foot down on trying on anything I'm going to be given for Christmas. Call me a beast."
Perlman was born in Brooklyn's Coney Island, to a doll-parts company manager and a bookkeeper; De Vito in Asbury Park, N.J. to a housewife and owner of a pool hall and a luncheonette. Bypassing college, Rhea scrambled for work off-Broadway (her first role was in an experimental play called Dracula Sabbat) but supported herself with odd jobs—erasing book markings for a publishing company and testing for allergies for a psychiatrist. A real-life pre-Cheers stint as a waitress ended in disaster when she spilled spaghetti on David Rockefeller's dining companion at Manhattan's Rainbow Room and quit. After moving to Los Angeles with De Vito six years ago, she landed small parts in such TV films as I Want to Keep My Baby and Intimate Strangers.
Danny, a former altar boy, attended a Catholic boarding school and later the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1966 he met Michael Douglas in summer stock. After working off-and off-off-Broadway he appeared in such forgettable features as Lady Liberty and Scalawag. His breakthrough came in 1975 when he played Martini in the Douglas-produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That was followed by parts in Car Wash and Goin' South.
In addition to those four episodes of Taxi, De Vito and Perlman have made a couple of short films together and were recently co-hosts on Saturday Night Live. It's doubtful that they will ever collaborate on a serious film. How come? "They've already done Wuthering Heights," figures Danny.
Family togetherness is a top priority. Both are up at 7 a.m. to share baby duties. The couple's weekday sitter (they don't have live-in help) later drops by Paramount with Lucy for her daily visit with Mom. The baby has her own studio pass. Danny divides his time between home and his Paramount-lot office. When Danny was on location in Houston and Mexico, Lucy and Rhea visited. De Vito just turned down a part in the Ridley Scott film Legend because Rhea and Lucy would have been unable to make the trip to London.
Perlman and De Vito are virtual homebodies. They relax by watching TV and rented movies on an oversize screen in their cluttered family room, playing pool and entertaining friends like Douglas and Taxi's Tony Danza. "We don't have real dinner parties," says De Vito. "We just call up friends and tell them we got some food and come on over and eat with us." Danny, who does most of the cooking (red beans, brown rice and escarole are specialties), converted Rhea to vegetarianism early on. "I used to be a Hostess-cupcake person," she says.
Whatever the formula for their successful showbiz marriage, it's unfortunate that they can't market it. "There's a balance to their relationship, and they protect it zealously," says Douglas. "There's a magic about them." Yes, this is one solid marriage. Okay, how solid is it? It's so solid, says Rhea, that "you'd really have to work hard at breaking us up at this point." And that's no joke.


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Yes! Here is the Valentine Day bootcamp extravaganza I presented to my athletes this morning.
In addition to my variation above to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43, I found 5 other awesome "lovey-dovey" poems: See if you can spot the hidden exercises!
1) "I Love You" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
...I love your arms when the warm white flesh touches mine in a fond embrace."
That one is easy...arms. In fact, it mentions "arms" two other times, so we hit a push-up and banded upright row reverse ladder. 10's, 8's, 6', etc.
2) "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove...
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
Sit upon = situp! We did 50 "little baby" crunches - keep the knees up and the low back mashed into the ground. Just fire the core with the spine staying long.
3) i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
I am never without it...
Heart means it is cardio time. We tackled a suicide challenge. On a basketball court, we ran to half court and did 10 mountain climbers. Run back to the base line, then run to the opposite free throw line and do 10 jumping jacks, and run back. Run to the end of the court and do 10 lateral hops and 10 forward and back hops, then run back to start. We did all of that again for two complete suicides with fun stops along the way.
4) "Her Voice" by Oscar Wilde
The wild bee reels from bough to bough
with his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
now in a lily cup, and now
setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
In his wandering; sit closer love;
it was here I trow,
I made that vow
Bell a-swing makes me want to celebrate love with some kettlebell swings. We performed 50 phenomenal reps.
5) "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom...
Bear = bear crawls. We went full court down and back with regular bear crawls, then it got interesting. We went backwards and sideways to half court, then tried a single-leg hop backwards version with more sideways action back to start.
I had these waiting on clients on small pieces of paper (see photo) in heart boxes, so the order was randomly selected. We took them one at a time (ladies chose first, of course) and our actual order were situps, 50 kettlebell swings, 25 burpees (various ways), 2 suicides, bear crawls for the length of the gym and a half, and the push-up and banded upright rows reverse ladder.
Also, thank you to Spotify for their cheesy Valentine playlist. Burpees get harder with Bette Midler's "The Rose" blarring in the background.
Happy Valentine's Day and live with strength!


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May 18
Army road crews open a new road to the Rim to replace what had been built in 1905. This route reaches Rim Village just east of the present Employee Dorm and continues north to the Lodge, veering west from there to begin the Rim Drive.
July 12
The "Mail Tribune" reports that the Hall Taxi Co. will run a round trip to Crater Lake for $13.00. "This is exactly what the trip costs", says manager Court Hall. Other reports say that that the driver, Seely Hall, charged $18. The taxi would leave Medford at 8 a.m. in a custom-built 1911 Cadillac and stop at Prospect for lunch, arriving at the Lake around 5 p.m. The driver also carried milk, eggs, vegetables and mail to Crater Lake Lodge.
A.C. Allen of Medford shoots the first successful motion picture of Crater Lake. According to Allen, most motion picture photographers of the day did not adjust for the high elevations and because of this their exposures were off. The scenes Allen shot of the Lake were included in a 30 minute promotional motion picture, "Graces Visit To The Rogue River Valley", which was shown repeatedly at the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco, 1914 – 1915.
September 21
"After we discovered the lake in 1853, we mounted our animals, turned to the left, and rode past what is called Wizard Island where there was no snow. I was riding in the lead when my mule left the turf and got on the rocks. He flinched very visibly, supposing his feet were tender, I jumped off to relieve him of my weight, in doing so I stooped toward the ground, and I really thought I could feel heat issuing from the surface, anyway I called to the men say, "We were near Hell for I could feel the heat". Everyone in the party thought the same thing, but until now I have never written about. J. W. Hillman, from a letter to William Steel.
Twenty miles of new government roads finished in the Park.
October 2
The Medford M.T. reports that Seely Hall and William Steel make a round trip to Crater Lake in only 17 hours.
1914 Season
An additional $75,000 was granted to the Park by Congress to be used to get road construction underway.
Steel and his family lived in the Park during the summers and eventually moved into a small log cabin located slightly to the southeast of the present Headquarters building. The cabin was torn down in 1934. The main road ran through the present parking lot and in front of Steel's house. The Rim Road was moved east 100 feet to its present location when the Headquarter building was constructed. Steel would move to Medford during the winter to a residence located across the street from the old Post Office and Federal Building. The Steel family may have lived a summer or two in one of the lower Stone Houses, when they were first built.
Seth Bullis speeds to the Lake and back to Medford in the amazing time of one day. Most wagons required 5 days. A new Fort Klamath Road is built by the War Department. The East Road Shelter cabin is built on Fort Creek. 2,000 Rainbows and 15,000 Brown Trout are liberated in Crater Lake.
A shelter cabin is built at Devil's Backbone. "The Government should acquire all hotels and lease the facilities." (Steel)
Mr. Mark Daniels of San Francisco, who served as General Superintendent of the NPS, 1913 to 1915, designed and wore what was in all probability, the first regular Park Service Uniform.
Mark Daniels, part-time NPS landscape architect begins work on the design for a new grand lodge to be placed on the Rim. In his writings and description of the project, Daniels casually uses the term "Rim Village" as the location of Parkhurst's new grand lodge.
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Lets face it, dirt track racing is dangerous in general. Every class that pulls on to the track has the potential to produce great racing, and sometimes even scary crashes. A good example of this is the Non-wing sprint cars that are wildly popular throughout the united states.
Non-wing sprint cars always put on a great show and their drivers always push their machines to the edge of their capabilities to get to the front. When these open-wheel racing machines touch wheels anything can happen and usually does. This was certainly the case in 2006 when the O'Reilly Sprint Bandits showed up for the $30,000 to win Ultimate Challenge at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The action was all caught on video as Kent Christian #1c touches wheels with Critter Malone #7 and goes for one of the wildest rides ever in a non-wing sprint car.


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Amanda Masters again
British born former model Amanda Masters is a master at design excelling in modern eclectic and global styles. Lots of bold fabrics were used in her spaces, such as suzanis which I am not sure I can ever tire of (nor can Jo as she just purchased a gorgeous one on eBay - check it out on her page!). Jo also blogged about Amanda back in '08 so for more eye candy check out her post here.
( P.S. On 'kim's page' I've got some pretty big personal news I had to share. :-) )


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If you have watched Danny Boyle's award-winning "Slumdog Millionaire," you probably think you have an idea of how life is for millions of poor children on India's streets. The truth lies in-between; street children are victims of serious crimes, but there have been several initiatives in recent years to empower them. While there is no recorded official statistic of street children in India, international agencies have estimated that more than 11 million children live on India's streets—most of them confined to the country's expanding metros. But Ashoka Fellow Rita Panicker has been instrumental in re-defining their destinies by giving these children an opportunity that others have long overlooked—access to financial security—through her organization, Butterflies.
We chatted with Panicker about the philosophy behind Butterflies and her plans for the future.
Street children face serious social problems, health problems, malnutrition, and lack of opportunity, but you chose to work on empowering them through financial literacy. Why did you decide to do this, over all the other alternatives for intervention that you could have chosen?
My engagement with children living on the streets began when I was teaching at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai way back in 1984. We observed that children earned money or got pocket money from their parents, but at the end of the day they spent it all. They just didn't know how to use it. They also did not have a place to keep it safe. That's how the idea of starting a children's saving scheme struck us. This way, they could save their money with us. We chose to work with financial literacy because we realized that for street children, basic food and clothing was available for them. It was more important to help them make economic decisions with the money they were earning so they could access all their needs better. It was important to me to make sure children were not becoming slaves of consumerism but to instill these values into their day-to-day living.
The Children's Development Khazana is a life skills education program that was instituted by Butterflies, which teaches children democratic values, financial management (not just literacy), skills training, and entrepreneurship. Older members are supported to get skills training that would help them land a job or become entrepreneurs. There are significant numbers of adolescents who have taken advances to continue higher studies and have the capital to start life and to businesses. Supporting adolescent members to have a career plan is very important. CDK gives them the security to think of a future where they can be self-reliant. To put it simply, CDK is a lifeline for them.
Are there specific challenges that you have faced in making your model a reality?
In the beginning, there were quite a few "doubting Thomases". Most adults thought children are not capable of handling money or making responsible decisions. Therefore, it was a challenge to convince adults to allow children to manage CDK and not to make decisions for them or overrule their decisions. There were complaints in the beginning from children that the adults interfered and were not allowing them to function, especially when it came to giving advances to their members. Adults were worried that some member would take an advance and disappear; but children had their checks and balances. The advance committee had younger children as members who are not eligible to take advances. Furthermore, they knew their members well enough to know who are stable, reliable, and responsible.
You have worked with so many children through Butterflies. Could you share one story that has touched you deeply?
Bishwanath, originally from Kabilasi village in Nepal, was a young child when he was introduced to our group. He used to stay very close to Nizamuddin Railway Station and sell coconuts and groundnuts there. After a few days, one of our educators from Butterflies met him and invited him to join our program. He did not trust our educator in the beginning, but when he observed that quite a number of children used to congregate at one place at the railway station and that the educator taught them, played with them, and read stories to them, he gained trust. Through Butterflies, we motivated him and helped him enroll for his class 12 under the National Institute of Open Schooling. We encouraged him and supported him to do full-time studies beginning in January 2009. He cleared the entrance exam and is now doing his apprenticeship with a chartered accountancy firm. He will become a qualified chartered accountant in two years' time. His story is deeply inspiring to other children and to us as well.
How can your model be replicated in other countries? Tell me a bit about the scale aspect of Butterflies.
Today, we have the Children's Development Khazana in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, and Ghana; there are 132 branches, which so far have saved more than 6 million Indian rupees. More than 400 advances have been given to older adolescents so far.
I would like to work with the Reserve Bank of India to see how we can support an initiative such as this to reach out to more children where children can experience budgeting, saving, and accounting and learn collective responsibility.
This post was written by Meera Vijayann (@meeravijayann), who manages communications for Ashoka India. Her articles and blogs have previously appeared in The Guardian, Open Democracy, CNN and The Deccan Herald among other publications.


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I've never been a fan of New Year's resolutions. They seemed a silly habit; for most people they were an admittedly pointless joke, made with the full knowledge that they would be abandoned in weeks, while for others they were a boast, a way of showing off their superior abilities at getting things done, at changing their lives. And for me, they seemed obvious – do the things I'm supposed to be doing, but don't. Why bother to enumerate one's own shortcomings?
Gradually, I've changed my position. I think they may be useful.
If you plan nothing, there's a good chance you'll achieve what you plan, so it makes sense to make a plan for your life, both professionally and personally. For me, the first week of January seems like the ideal time to do that – it's the beginning of a relatively quiet time at work. Granted, it would have made sense to plan this time months in advance, but those are the times that are just too busy.
And while making plans for your professional life, why not make some plans for your personal life, some plans for self-improvement? While making short-term plans, why not stop to consider the longer term? Well, maybe it isn't a good idea to get ahead of yourself. Maybe planning for the longer term is something that's worth making a short-term goal.
Will I achieve any of this? I have no idea. But one of those items on my yet-to-be-completed list – or plan – is to use this blog. After all, if I hit "publish" right now, I've beat my record for 2016.


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Next story: The Journey Into the Abyss
Abraham Verghese Brings His "Bedside Medicine" to BABEL
by Barbara Cole
If you or a family member have ever been a patient who feels lost without a map in the medical system; or if you have ever visited a foreign country or new city and felt out of place; or if you find yourself fully immersed in a career and yet can't help daydreaming about writing a book, maybe even a runaway best-seller, then you should find your way to hear Abraham Verghese at Just Buffalo Literary Center's BABEL series at 8pm on Tuesday, April 8.
Born in 1955 in Addis Ababa, Verghese grew up in Ethiopia, completed the majority of his medical training in India, and did his medical residency in the United States, where his insights into America's class-driven medical system combined with the relationships he developed with his patients led him to pursue an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Verghese is perhaps best known as the author of Cutting for Stone, a gripping tale that opens with the birth of twin brothers in an Ethiopian mission hospital, born to an Indian nun mother who dies in childbirth and the forbidding British surgeon who failed to save her—and that is just the opening! This complex narrative sweeps across continents and contexts, weaving together medical miracles with family saga, revolution with love and betrayal.
Drawing comparisons to the Odyssey and Shakespearean tragedy as much as to Chekhov, Naipaul, and Cormac McCarthy, Verghese's much-beloved novel spent more than two years on the New York Times best-seller list and ranks on Amazon's list of "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime."
Most astonishing is the fact that Cutting for Stone is only Verghese's first attempt at fiction. Previously, he published two best-selling memoirs: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story, which chronicles his experiences in 1980s rural Tennessee during the emergence of the AIDS crisis, and The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss, detailing his friend's losing battle with addiction.
AIDS and addiction don't necessarily make for upbeat topics and yet Verghese succeeds in offering inspiring books, infused with the compassion and respect for individual lives which have defined his career as a physician.
As the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Verghese distinguished himself as a path-breaker in advocating for patients' rights, emphasizing the importance of "bedside medicine" in an era in which health care is too often synonymous with, as he describes it, "the sterile hallways of modern medical-industrial complexes, where physicians and nurses are hunkered down behind computer monitors, and patients are whisked off here and there for all manner of tests."
Verghese has been working tirelessly to change that, not only in his teaching and medical practice but also in his writings. He has published extensively in the New England Journal of Medicine as well as in The New Yorker, Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal on the need for reform, calling for a return to the treatment of patients as people rather than faceless files.
His commitment to patient care led to his recruitment by Stanford's School of Medicine where he is currently Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Verghese will bring his unique perspective as cutting-edge physician and best-selling author to the BABEL stage at Kleinhans, followed by a Q&A with questions from the audience and a book signing. Just Buffalo will kick off the evening by announcing the 2014-15 BABEL lineup—one of the best-kept secrets in Buffalo.
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One day after his wife, Joey Feek, lost her six-month battle to cervical cancer, Rory Feek is back home in Tennessee.
The country singer posted a photo on Instagram that showed his adorable toddler with Joey, Indiana Feek, riding on his shoulders and getting a kick out of two horses on a ranch.
Rory kept his caption short for the emotional photo by writing, "home."
Yesterday, he penned a lengthy post on his website announcing that his wife had passed away at age 40.
"My wife's greatest dream came true today. She is in Heaven," he wrote. "The cancer is gone, the pain has ceased and all her tears are dry. Joey is in the arms of her beloved brother Justin and using her pretty voice to sing for her savior."
Rory continued, "When a person has been through as much pain and struggle as Joey's been through, you just want it to be over. You want them to not have to hurt anymore, more than you want them to stay with you…After four-and-a-half months in Indiana, we will soon be back home in Tennessee. My, and our little one, with our older daughters. It's hard to imagine being there without Joey, but at the same time…it is where she wants us to be."
He concluded by saying that Joey's presence will be felt everywhere in their home and farm, from "the mind growing beside our back deck" to the "sweet-corn frozen in our freezer."
"Joey will still be with us. Everywhere."


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The team I am trying to create will be mainly used for competitive battling. It is the first time I attempted to make a team and it isn't the best so could someone tell me what to improve please?
EVs: 252 Sp.Att / 252 SpD / 6HP
Rash nature
Focus Blast
Shadow Ball
Machamp w/ Choice Band or Expert Belt
EVs:252 Atk / 252HP (or Def) / 6 SpD
Adamant nature
Dynamic Punch
Stone Edge/Earthquake
Ice Punch
Thunder Punch
Oh yeah, it will have No Guard.
Eelektross w/ Leftovers
EVs: 252HP / 252 SpA / 4 Def
Modest nature
Acid Spray
Grass Knot
Not sure of what the last move should be :P
Garchomp w/ Life Orb
EVs:252 Atk / 252 SpD / 4HP
Jolly/Adamant Nature
Dragon Rush
Fire Fang
Togekiss w/ Choice specs/Choice Scarf
EVs: 252 Sp.Atk / 252 SpD / 6HP
Ability: Serence Grace
Tri- Attack
Air Slash
Aura Sphere
Grass Knot
Togekiss w/Leftovers
EVs: 252 HP / 228 Def / 28 SDef
Calm Nature
Ability: Serene Grace
Air Slash
Nasty Plot
Baton Pass
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This recipe was totally inspired by one of my friends from school. She's been talking about pumpkin chili for at least a month now, and I've been itching to try it myself. So when I found out that this month's Recipe ReDux theme is slow cookers, I jumped at the chance to make chili. I have talked extensively about how much I love my crock pot and how amazing it is to come home to a hot bowl of soup or stew waiting for me. Now that the days are (finally) getting colder, I've pulled my crock pot out of hibernation and am putting it to good use.
This chili is full of pumpkiny goodness, which is really all I want in life around this time of year. The typical pie spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice) highlight the pumpkin, while the beans, quinoa, and vegetables make this a hearty, protein-filled dish. I added in a habanero pepper because I had one from my CSA, but you can absolutely opt out for a milder dish (or just mix in some cooling avocado or sour cream at the end). Just be careful with the habanero. Despite washing my hands several times, I managed to ruin a fresh pair of contact by getting my peppery fingers all over them. It was not fun trying to put those in my eyes the next morning (I very quickly gave up). I think I'll wear gloves next time I use one of these peppers.
What I love about using my slow cooker is that I can do most of the work the night before, mix it all together in the morning, set the cooker on low before I leave for the day, and come home to something delicious. Oh, and this chili would also be great if you used beer instead of or in addition to water. Either way, this is a fall-friendly dish that is healthy, filling, and ready for you to eat the minute you walk in the door at the end of a long day. What more could you ask for?
Pumpkin Chili
Serves 8-10
2 clove garlic, minced
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
1 habanero pepper, seeds removed and diced (optional)
2 carrots, diced
2 cups dry cannellini beans, soaked overnight
3/4 cup uncooked quinoa
2 cans pumpkin puree
3 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon cumin powder
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Dash nutmeg
Salt and pepper, to taste
Your favorite chili toppings (scallions, sour cream, diced avocado, etc.)
1. The night before, put the beans in water and chop all the vegetables. Throw the vegetables together and put them into the fridge overnight.
2. In the morning, drain the beans and pour them, along with all the vegetables, into the slow cooker bowl. Add in the spices, quinoa, and pumpkin puree and add enough water to fill the crock pot. Give everything a good mix. As you walk out the door, turn the cooker on low. It can be on low for 6-8 hours. It could probably continue cooking after that, but you should add more water to it.
3. Turn the cooker off when you're ready to eat. You may need to add a little hot or boiling water to the chili until it reaches the desired consistency (I added about a cup). Mix and taste for salt and pepper. Spoon the chili into bowls and top with your favorite chili toppings. Serve immediately.


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Gay Talese on Willie Morris
Interview by Glynn Wilson
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In 1965, I left The New York Times and I started writing pieces for magazines, and then long books, beginning with The Kingdom and the Power. There was no enthusiasm for this idea. I wanted to write about that awareness I had of the paper, the family and the characters, etc. Nobody in the book publishing industry thought it was a story because, they said, who wants to read about journalism?
So I started writing this book and it took me four years. After I wrote about half of it in final form, I showed it around and gave it to my publisher, but they wouldn't give me any more money and I couldn't finish it. I had a daughter in 1964, and I had more expenses than I could deal with. I went to Willie Morris who was then editor of Harper's, the top of his career as I recall. I showed him part of the book, and he liked it enough to give me $10,000.
He took what I had written and published two excerpts in Harper's. One was the lead piece and the other followed the next month. Only because of the money that Morris gave me was I able to finish the book, which became a big best-selling book. You always hear about what he did for Mailer and Styron and Halberstam and people that knew him really well. He didn't know me that well. He only knew me through Halberstam. David Halberstam and I were very close friends during our New York Times years and after, when he quit to work for Harper's and [write] the books that would follow. I did get from Halberstam the introduction, for which I'm grateful on many counts not the least being the generosity of Willie.
I saw Willie about a year or so ago at Winston Groom's and was able to tell him that. We had a little seminar that Groom oversaw with students in North Carolina. That book launched me. I had written a couple of little books before that didn't go anywhere. I was very much on the margin in terms of money. That book gave me the money to do other books and it was really that important two-part series, each 5,000 words, 10,000 total guaranteed, that in 1970 turned my whole life around.
Now it's almost 30 years since then. I wouldn't have ever done anything else probably if I had not done that book. I don't know what I would've done. It made me able to support myself as a full-time writer. Otherwise, I would've had to look for a job on magazines or do something else.
The Kingdom and the Power, which is still in print as a paperback, launched the media books. All the books that would later on be about The Washington Post, or about journalism, or figures in it. Before that, there wasn't much about the world of journalism except biographies. Histories of The New York Times had been published, more or less under the auspices of the paper. But mine was the first that was outside the authorized biographies, or institutional books.
I think he respected me as a working writer, but I also don't ever dismiss my Alabama years as having some connection with his true Southern background. Mine was kind of like I got a scholarship to the South. And now, I'm not Mississippi, I'm more Alabama in my sentiments, but I certainly know the South and keep going back to it.
He certainly affected, among the many lives, Mailer's first Pulitzer Prize it really bailed Mailer out as a novelist. It was in non-fiction through the pages of Morris that Mailer's Steps of the Pentagon revived his career. So Morris has been a great force in the future of other people.
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Chief Due served as an intern with the University Police in 1986, left to serve as a deputy sheriff until returning to the University Police Department on January 23, 1989.
School of Police Staff and Command,
Northwestern Illinois Univ., 2002
FBI National Academy Graduate, Univ. of Virginia, 2001
MS in Education, Guidance & Counseling, EIU, 1992
Police Training Institute, Univ. of Illinois, 1988
B.S. Law Enforcement Administration, WIU, 1986
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Association Memberships:
International Association of Chiefs of Police
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police
Central Illinois Association of Law Enforcement Executives
International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators
Illinois Campus Law Enforcement Administrators
FBI National Academy Associates
Illinois Police Association
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
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Children's Advocacy Center of Eastern Illinois Board Member
East Central Illinois Task Force Board Member
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FBI National Academy Graduate
Northwestern University Center for Public Safety SPSC Graduate
Past President EIU Police Fraternal Order of Police Lodge
Past Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Board Member of the Illinois Police Association Kickapoo Division
Louisiana State University Weapons of Mass Destruction Instructor
RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) Instructor
Firearms Instructor
Pressure Point and Control Tactics Instructor


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- Tourist attractions
- Underground stations
- Train stations
- Museums