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or intranet against unauthorized access from the Internet or other outside networks. It restricts inbound and outbound access and can analyze all traffic between an internal network and the Internet. Users can configure a firewall to pass or block packets from specific IP addresses and ports.
Answer option C is incorrect. Setting hidden attributes on files cannot protect computers from unauthorized access, adware, and malware.
Answer option B is incorrect. Configuring auditing will not protect computers from unauthorized access, adware, and malware. Auditing is used to track user accounts for file and object access, logon attempts, system shutdown, etc. This enhances the security of the network.
TechNet, Contents: " Chapter 2 - Malware Threats"
Which of the following types of attacks entices a user to disclose personal information such as social security number, bank account details, or credit card number?
Password guessing attack
Replay attack
Phishing is a type of scam that entice a user to disclose personal information such as social security number, bank account details, or credit card number. An example of phishing attack is a fraudulent e-mail that appears to come from a user's bank asking to change his online banking password. When the user clicks the link available on the e-mail, it directs him to a phishing site which replicates the original bank site. The phishing site lures the user to
provide his personal information.
Answer option B is incorrect. Spoofing is a technique that makes a transmission appear to have come from an authentic source by forging the IP address, email address, caller ID, etc. In IP spoofing, a hacker modifies packet headers by using someone else's IP address to his identity. However, spoofing cannot be used while surfing the Internet, chatting on- line, etc. because forging the source
IP address causes the responses to be misdirected.
Answer option D is incorrect. Replay attack is a type of attack in which attackers capture packets containing passwords or digital signatures whenever packets pass between two hosts on a network.
In an attempt to obtain an authenticated connection, the attackers then resend the captured packet to the system.
Answer option A is incorrect. A password guessing attack occurs when an unauthorized user tries to log on repeatedly to a computer or network by guessing usernames and passwords. Many password guessing programs that attempt to break passwords are available on the Internet. Following are the types of password guessing attacks:
Brute force attack Dictionary attack Reference: " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing"
Which of the following devices does SCSI support? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Tape drive
Sound card
CD drive
Hard disk drive
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) supports CD drive, tape drive, and hard disk drive. What is SCSI? Hide
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is the second most popular drive interface in use today after the Integrated Drive
Electronics (IDE) interface. SCSI is faster than IDE and supports more devices. SCSI devices, such as hard disk drive and CD-ROM drive, are better suited in a network
environment in which many users access shared drives simultaneously. SCSI has three
standards: SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3.
TechNet, Contents: "Storage Management Operations Guide"
Which of the following wireless standards has a transmission speed of up to 720 Kbps?
IEEE 802.11a
Bluetooth is a standard for short-range radio links between laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, and other portable devices. Bluetooth devices contain a transceiver chip. The transceiver transmits and receives data with the frequency of 2.45 GHz. It has transmission speeds of up to 720 Kbps and the network range of 33 feet.
Answer option A is incorrect. Infrared is a communication medium used for wireless networks to transfer data between devices. Infrared can transmit signals at high rates because of the high bandwidth of infrared light. An infrared network can normally broadcast at 10 Mbps.
Answer option D is incorrect. The Wi-Fi (802.11b standard) wireless technology is used to offer Internet access in public places. The 802.11b standard, defined by IEEE, is an extension of the 802.11 standard of wireless network. It is also referred to as 802.11 High Rate. It operates in 2.4GHz band and brings data rates up to 11Mbps.
Answer option C is incorrect. The maximum data transfer rate of the 802.11a wireless standard is 54 Mbps.
How many pins are available on a PS/2 Mini-DIN connector?
A PS/2 Mini-DIN connector has 6-pins , while only four are used. Pin 1 is used for keyboard data signal, pin 3 is ground, pin 4 has +5 Volt DC, pin 5 is used for keyboard
clock, and pins 2 and 6 are not used. The PS/2 6-pin Mini-DIN connector is used for both keyboard and mouse. Older keyboard connectors use 5-pin DIN connector.
You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows- based network. You do maintenance work on a Windows 2000 Professional computer. You require to perform the following jobs: Exhaustive disk checking. Locate bad sectors (if any). Recover readable information. Which of the following commands will you use to accomplish the task?
CHKDSK /v
CHKDSK /i
CHKDSK /f
CHKDSK /r
In order to accomplish the task, you will have to run the following commanD. CHKDSK /r
The CHKDSK command verifies the integrity of the hard disk installed on a computer. Using the command with different parameters can resolve a number of issues, which are described as follows:
CHKDSK /f It fixes all the errors on the hard disk of a computer. CHKDSK /vIt displays the full path and name of every file on the disk. CHKDSK /r It locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.
CHKDSK /l It changes the log file size to the specified number of kilobytes. If the size is not specified, it displays the current size.
CHKDSK /i It performs a less vigorous check of index entries. CHKDSK /c It skips checking of cycles within the folder structure.
TechNet, Contents: "Chapter 27 - Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems"
Which of the following statements about Bluetooth are true? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
It forms a network whenever two Bluetooth devices come within a range of ten meters.
It has a maximum transmission range of 200 meters.
It does not require a line-of-sight connection between devices.
It requires a line-of-sight connection between devices.
Bluetooth is a standard for very low powered and short-range radio connections. As a radio technology, it does not require a line-of-sight connection as an infrared connection does. Bluetooth is used to link Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), mobile phones, and laptops, and provides them with Internet access via hot spots. It uses the 2.4 Ghz spectrums with a data
transfer rate of about 1
Mbps. Bluetooth networks are not permanent as compared to other networks where a central communication point is needed such as a hub or a router. A Bluetooth network can be formed when two Bluetooth devices are within a range of ten meters, enabling them to communicate directly with each other. This dynamically created network is known as a piconet. A Bluetooth-enabled device can support up to seven other Bluetooth devices in a master-slave relationship; the first Bluetooth device is the master, and all the other devices are slaves that communicate with the master in one piconet. The maximum transmission range of Bluetooth is around 10 meters.
Answer option D is incorrect. The infrared devices require a line-of-sight connection between devices.
Answer option B is incorrect. The maximum transmission range of Bluetooth is around 10 meters.
" www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth/"
You have an older Windows 98 computer. You wish to upgrade to Windows Vista Home Basic. What must you do?
First upgrade to Windows 2000 then upgrade to Vista Home Basic.
First upgrade to Windows XP Pro, then upgrade to Vista Home Basic.
Simply buy and install the Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade.
First upgrade to Windows XP Home, then upgrade to Vista Home Basic.
You will have to first upgrade to Windows XP home, and then to Vista Home.
Answer option C is incorrect. Windows 98 cannot be directly upgraded to Windows Vista. Answer option B is incorrect. Windows XP professional cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista Home
Basic, but it can be upgraded to Windows Vista Business or Ultimate.
Answer option A is incorrect. Windows 2000 cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista.
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Financial records, computers, car keys salvaged in racquet club fire
Codi Wilson and Sandie Benitah, CTV News Toronto
Published Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:34AM EST
Last Updated Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:48PM EST
Not everything was destroyed in a fire at historic midtown racquet club.
In a letter sent out to members, management said they were finally able to walk around the Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto Thursday, two days after it was gutted by a six-alarm fire.
"The purpose of this walk through was to identify items of value to be removed from the building for evaluation and possible restoration," the email said. "This includes artwork, computers and servers, financial records and club archival materials. We are very happy to report that many items seem to be salvageable."
Managers told members that while the ladies locker room is still considered unsafe, people should be able to recover their contents from the men's locker room by Wednesday.
The email also cautioned members to refrain from coming to the site until further notice.
"We have been made aware of Members entering the site and even entering the Club to take photos. We cannot stress enough how dangerous this is," the letter said. "The Club is still an unsafe site and only those authorized and escorted by engineers are allowed in the Club."
In the meantime, residents displaced by the fire still don't know when they will be allowed to return to their homes.
The fire, which happened in the city's Deer Park neighbourhood near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue, broke out shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday and it took more than 20 hours to get the situation under control.
Several people were evacuated from condos and businesses in the area and some residents have not yet been able to return home.
Some of the buildings impacted by the fire sustained minor smoke and water damage.
Hydro was restored to the buildings last night and Toronto Fire Services says it is now up to the building managers to decide when the buildings can be reoccupied.
The number of displaced occupants has not been released but officials say those people are currently receiving services from the Red Cross.
Additionally, Toronto Fire Deputy Chief Jim Jessop said Wednesday that there will be a couple of orders prohibiting occupancy at some businesses on Yonge Street due to concerns about an unstable wall.
Crews remained on scene on Wednesday night.
"Toronto police and Toronto Fire (Services) were on scene all night long for a bitterly cold night," Jessop told CP24 Thursday morning.
"The building now is going to be turned over to the property owner."
Jessop said the owners will now have to bring in an engineer and decide how to proceed with the property.
Officials say they do not believe there was any structural damage to buildings adjacent to the racquet club.
"Quite frankly, even the smoke damage was minimal," Jessop said.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Fire Marshal and investigators with Toronto Fire completed the physical scene examination and Jessop said it has been determined that the fire is not "suspicious."
The intersection of Yonge and St. Clair, which was shut down following the fire, had almost completely reopened to traffic by 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on Writing and Grammar
This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and the Bookish is "Top X Genre Books." I'm preoccupied with preparing my students to write their fieldwork assignments, so I've got grammar and writing on the brain. Hence . . .
My Top Ten Books on Writing and Grammar
1. On Writing Well by William Zinsser. A classic, and rightfully so. I also highly recommend Zinsser's Writing to Learn.
2. Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle.
3. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. A new favorite, this book got me over my writing blocks and into writing my dissertation.
4. The Careful Writer by Theodore Bernstein.
5. The Art of Fiction by John Gardiner.
6. Getting the Words Right: How to Rewrite, Edit, and Revise by Theodore Cheney. I'm not a fan of some of Cheney's other works (especially Writing Creative Nonfiction), but this book is a great overview of the revision process.
7. Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan Garner.
8. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey. An entire book on sentence diagramming!
9. Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood.
10a. The Gregg Reference Manual by William Sabin. A nuts-and-bolts workhorse of a book that lays out the basics of professional communication.
10b. Words Into Type. Another classic. Words Into Type isn't so much about writing and grammar, but about the whole process of turning a manuscript into a final printed work. An extremely useful primer for would-be authors.
I currently have in my reading queue The Subversive Copy Editor, How to Write a Sentence, and Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, so I may be adding to this list in the coming weeks.


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What are important studies that your field of Psychology gives credence to, but which--as far as you know--have not been replicated in any published follow-up work? (Up to 3 votes per person--see links below to vote for one of the studies already nominated--or nominate & vote for another study of your choosing.) (What is the goal in creating this list?)
|Discussion of Study
|Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., & Master, A. (2006). Reducing the racial achievement gap: A social-psychological intervention. Science, 313, 1307-1310.
|Writing brief paragraph on important values improves academic achievement over subsequent year
|Discuss (6 postings)
|Jaeggi, S., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., Perrig, W. (2008). Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. PNAS 105(19), 6829-6833.
|10 - 20 sessions of doing n-back task raises fluid IQ as measured with Ravens
|Discuss (14 postings)
|Baumeister, R.F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D.M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1252-1265.
|Eating radishes instead of chocolate cookies caused participants to give up working on unsolvable problems sooner than participants that ate the cookies.
|Discuss (2 postings)
|Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth influences interpersonal warmth. Science, 322, 606-607.
|Holding warm vs. cold cup of coffee influence warmth ratings of a target other.
|Discuss (1 postings)
|Ramirez, G. & Beilock, S. L. (2011). Writing about testing worries boosts exam performance in the classroom. Science, 331, 211-213.
|Huge exam-score increases resulting from anxiety-reducing interventions deserve replication. I
|Discuss (1 postings)
|Anderson MC, Ochsner KN, Kuhl B, Cooper J, Robertson E, Gabrieli SW, Glover GH, Gabrieli JD. Neural systems underlying the suppression of unwanted memories. Science. 2004 Jan 9;303(5655):232-5.
|Famously "debunked" by Bulevich et al., 2006, directed forgetting still thrives...
|Anderson, M. C., & Spellman, B. A. (1995). On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: Memory retrieval as a model case. Psychological Review, 102, 68-100.
|Cue Independent Retrieval Inhibition (Experiments 1 or 2)
|Gardner, M., & Steinberg, L. (2005). Peer influence on risk taking, risk preference, and risky decision making in adolescence and adulthood: an experimental study. Developmental Psychology, 41(4), 625-635.
|Greater risk-taking in adolescents when peers are present.
|Discuss (2 postings)
|Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. (1966). Teachers' Expectancies: Determinants Of Pupils' IQ Gains. Psychological Reports, 19, 115-118
|Students who are believed by teachers to be intellectually gifted (but are randomly selected) show greater gains in IQ than do control children.
|Discuss (1 postings)
|Moreno S, Bialystok E, Barac R, Schellenberg EG, Cepeda NJ, Chau T. (2011). Short-term music training enhances verbal intelligence and executive function. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1425-33.
|twenty days of music training in children increases verbal IQ (Wechsler vocabulary subtest)
|Stewart, L.H., Ajina, S., Getov, S, Todorov, A., Bahrami, B., Rees, G. (2012) Unconscious evaluation of faces on social dimensions, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 715-727
|The authors report that untrustworthy faces are suppressed more than trustworthy faces in a continuous flash suppression paradigm.
|Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2005). Unconscious affective reactions to masked happy versus angry faces influence consumption behavior and judgments of value. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1, 121-135
|Seeing subliminal smile-faces makes people drink more kool aid; seeing frown-faces makes them drink less.
|Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature, 390, 279-281
|"objects deï¬ned by a conjunction of four features can be retained in working memory just as well as single-feature objects"
|Discuss (2 postings)
|Beilock, S.L., Gunderson, E.A., Ramirez, G., & Levine, S.C. (2010). Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 107(5): 1860–1863
|Female and not male students of math-anxious teachers are more likely to endorse gender stereotyped beliefs about math ability and perform worse on math tests.
|Wheatley, T., & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe. Psychological Science, 16(10), 780-784.
|Disgust induced while under hypnosis affected moral judgments
|Troisi, J.D., & Gabriel, S. (2011). Chicken soup really is good for the soul: "Comfort food" fulfills the need to belong. Psychological Science, 22, 747-753.
|Eating comfort food increases completion of word fragments with relationship-related words
|Levy, B. (1996). Improving memory in old age through implicit self-stereotyping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1092-1107.
|Subliminal priming of negative aging stereotypes decreases memory performance in older adults.
|Levy, B. (2000). Handwriting as a reflection of aging self-stereotypes. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33, 81-94.
|Subliminal priming of aging stereotypes affects older adults handwriting.
|Haselton, M. G., & Gangestad, S. W. (2006). Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 49, 509-518.
|Ovulating women (n=38) report more flirtation by mates, but only when mates are "low in sexual attractiveness relative to investment attractiveness"
|Discuss (2 postings)
|Bargh, J.A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Lee-Chai, A., Barndollar, K., & Troetschel, R. (2001). The automated will: Nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1014-1027 (Experiment 1)
|People exposed to words like 'bother' 'disturb', 'brazen' and 'impolitely' were quicker to interrupt the experimenter with a question.
|Discuss (1 postings)
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A follow up to Pub and Marriage by Alexa Lash – a writer, editor, and on-the-spot poet. Former Floridian and resident Bostonian, she has written for the Seminole Chronicle, Momslikeme, and the Central Florida Future, and is currently working in the Journalism Department of Emerson College. Header image by Jessica Hische.
I tried to stop smiling, but failed: the crime scene layout, perfected with the chalked margins of the body, was just so, just so, beautiful. In all my years of working this job, I couldn't believe the color of it—the magenta from the woman's dress, the yellow of her hair contrasted against the black pavement, the cyan of the sky at twilight casting an eerie light on her frame. I was too distracted by those colors to focus on the red: a candy apple red darkening into maroon, a devil's gradient of blood on the pavement outside the Bezier Hotel. But it was my job to capture those graphic images; to provide focus, most literally, for the investigation. I take pictures, solve crimes. I'm a private eye.
I was hired by Mr. Bezier to supplement the police work, to take the elements they overlooked and reorder for clarity. He wanted a fresh perspective, a sense of balance. What he didn't know was that he was a suspect in this search for The CMYKiller, so labeled by those creative folks at the local paper, The Graph—tall, about 6'3″; standard width; hair in grayscale. Or maybe he did know. The lovers should always know.
I didn't suspect Mr. Bezier. Not because he hired me, but because the man was transparent. You could see through his pomp, the layers as easy to pull back as the wrapper of a Mars bar. The man had no creativity, no affinity for criminal design. Money with a mouth.
"I'm tellin' you, I was framed."
I'd heard it too many times, folios upon folios of confessions.
"I know, Mr. Bezier. The woman had symmetrical bruising. You're right-handed. It isn't possible for you to leave those marks."
Bezier let out a breath as if he'd been punched in the gut.
I did the usual work: I questioned witnesses, employees, relatives, tenants, guests; kept separate files of each with their statements and photos. Backed the files up. Added more. They were clean, all of them. I took prints, samples. Visited the morgue, then the lab. I canvassed passersby—the page of my search as blank as my mind.
If I could only paste the clues together, watch the colors meld from blood red to crystal clear. I could see it. This was the third murder The Graph had covered. They were always first to the scene, always caching the stories as if they were old books, their personal library of murder. I wanted to write an explanation of the crime as easily as they seemed to.
CMYKiller PAINTS TOWN RED
"…Before she fell to her death, she had been at Mr. Bezier's apartment, wrapped in sheets as pink as her lingerie…."
There were midtones of detail here, providing the missing content, the missing links of this investigation. But how the hell did they know the color of her lower layers?
I walked into the office of The Graph to talk to their Editor-in-Chief, Hue Vector, a man esteemed for his coverage of the death of the print industry, and in this particular case, women. He looked uncomfortable as I walked in, his tie too narrow, something off in comparison to the coloring, the rest of his office. He lifted both hands with equal grace, a man unfamiliar to asymmetry.
"Our reporters are very thorough. We had express permission to see the body."
"But you didn't." I'd checked the records. The documents, the proof: nonexistent.
I'd read article after article from Vector. The language was keen and measured, with details he often could only have seen if he had been there. The crime scene zoomed in, the situation at 0 percent opacity.
"It was you, wasn't it?" My feet anchored to the floor. Vector smiled, mouth expanded out into the most sinister of grins.
"What point are you getting at, Dewey? You don't think I'd murder a girl for readers, do you?"
"Well, I wasn't going to say it that simply."
I could feel the color palette of my face go white. I wanted to press undo, Ctrl+Z the situation as if I'd never admitted what I'd known. I should have rasterized my response, brought my unlikely tale to the police once I'd sharpened my story. I was going to be cropped out of the picture, my body left under the cyan sky. If I could just invert the image, make him believe I was on his side …
"But I'm with you, Vector. The paper would be nothing without a story of passion, corruption, blood." My mind, now embedded with fear, locked itself to staying alive."She had to die for the greater good. The Graph needs a killer comparable to The Extractor." Oh, that was the worst name for a killer if I had ever heard one.
"The Extractor was decent, but The CMYKiller is on a larger scale. We'll sell this story to every market. We'll be back on the bitmap."
I could feel my heart export from my chest. I didn't want to die. Not here. Not with Vector. I could preview the postscript of my life: young private eye, single, unsuccessful. A pain in the ass, sometimes.
Then I remembered my knife, compressed to my leg like lips to a dame's cheek. If I could just get him to rush at me, hurry the job of killing without thought of how it'd come together as a whole.
"If you killed me, it'd make front page news, don't you think? Its own spread? Headlines taking over the grid?"
He was considering it, this I was sure of—his face unreadable, as if pixelated, but his body language a thumbnail of his intentions. It was then he lunged, crossing the border between us, deleting the lines of separation.
"Print will never die," he said as he grabbed toward my neck, weight distributed equally to each hand.
His face twisted into a grimace. My knife stuck from his chest as if suddenly cut and pasted there. I'd hit him high-res, dug into the heart of him, coloring his face from a raspberry pink to an airbrushed paleness I'd only seen in fashion magazines. He dropped below his desk, a shadow of a man now lain across the floor.
"RIP, Vector."
The next day, the headline:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF THE CMYKiller
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Assalamu alaykum Brother/Sister,
The number 666 is the meaningless number of the beast of the earth mentioned in the Bible. You see, they (the Christians) believe in the Beast of the Earth as well, but they don't even know what it is, what it looks like, or where it is.
Muhammad (SAW) knows about it. It's a 'she'. Her name is Al Jassasah. She wears the ring of Solomon (AS) and the cloak of Musa (AS). She will come striking out when the sun rises from its setting (i.e. the west) and give every disbeliever and believer their mark on their forehead- this is obviously, during the end times prologue.


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What is the 'FTSE'
The FTSE is a company, similar to Standard & Poor's, that specializes in index calculation. While the FTSE is not part of any stock exchange, one co-owner is the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The Financial Times is the other owner and the partial namesake of the company.
The most well-known index, among many at FTSE, is the FTSE 100. This index, synonymous with FTSE, is comprised of blue-chip stocks that are listed on the LSE.
Specifically in the trading world, the initials FTSE are synonymous with the FTSE 100 Index, more commonly noted as the FTSE 100. Still, FTSE, short for Financial Times Stock Exchange, has a number of indices and index series.
The FTSE 100 Index
This index, more colloquially known at the Footsie, is arguably the most popular and widely used stock market index around the globe. This index is representative of approximately 80% of the market capitalization of the LSE in its entirety. Larger companies comprise a greater portion of the index because it is weighted by market capitalization. The FTSE 100 is managed by the FTSE Group. The name is a mashup of its co-owners. It is calculated in real time, and when the market is open it is updated and published every 15 seconds.
The FTSE 100 is often regarded as an indicator of prosperity among qualifying United Kingdom companies and the economy in general. However, a rather large section of the companies included in this index are based in other countries around the world. Thus, in reality, the movements of this index are not a relatively strong indicator of how well the UK's economy is doing. Another of the FTSE's indexes, the FTSE 250, is comprised of a smaller proportion of international companies and thus acts as a better indicator of the UK's economy in general terms.
Constituents, or, companies that will make up the FTSE 100, are determined on a quarterly basis, usually the Wednesday following the first Friday in the months of March, June, September and December. Any changes to the constituents of the index are made based on values taken from companies after the close of business the night before reviews are conducted.
Other Indexes
The number of other indexes attached to the FTSE Group is a prolific list. The FTSE has a vast number of index series that focus on different aspects including those targeted towards specific companies, those that are alternatively weighted and those focusing on fixed income among a variety of others.


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The extremely popular and useful Refineries Myth, in which an alleged shortfall of oil refineries within the United States becomes a major contributor to rising fuel costs, appears in two common varieties. The two varieties are distinguished by their objects of ultimate blame, to satisfy the widest possible range of ignorant consumers.
First of all, the wingnuttery section of the country has been devouring the Refineries Myth, and of course the environmentalist is assigned the role of villain in this version. The poor companies would love to help us out by building more refineries, but those dang enviro-fascists are always getting in the way. Regulation. Stifling communist regulation. Until we can burn the environmentalists themselves for fuel we need more durn refineries! God I love driving my Durango and I deserve for it to be much cheaper than it is.
On the other side of the Refineries Myth coin, the intellectually lazy brand of liberal pins the blame on the oil companies. Big Oil, you know. Big Oil operates in collusion to fix gas prices at unnaturally high levels. They don't want to build any new refineries because they want to make it as expensive as possible for me to drive my Prius. And because they're evil. God I love driving my Prius and I deserve for it to be much cheaper than it is.
As with all successful myths, there is a kernel of truth in each version of this one. There are regulatory hurdles to building refineries, and companies do the best they can to make money. However, those on the right or the left who swallow the Refineries Myth accept two basic premises which are flatly false: That no new domestic refining capacity has been created in decades, and that adding more refining capacity would exert significant downward pressure on fuel prices.
Imagine a run-up in the price of wooden chairs because the product's raw material (wood) has become much more expensive. Maybe lumber has become more scarce or there is suddenly a lot of speculation in old growth forests. Importantly, there is no shortage of chairs on the market. Demand for finished chairs stays constant, or even declines, but the cost of making the things has skyrocketed. Would building more chair factories lower the price of wood? I don't think so. But for some reason people are eager to grant a hypothetical new oil refinery the mysterious power to reduce the price of the raw material that is fed into it. I think that's just a simple yet common mistake in reasoning, aggressively exploited by the myth traffickers. The mistaken reasoning of the Refineries Myth is made ever more powerful by its ability to remove any responsibility from the individual who buys into the myth, placing it instead onto hated faceless enemies-of-the-moment. Like other energy myths this one takes toxic responsibility and moves it off the balance sheet. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you're on, pointing the blame out and away is always an attractive option.
Okay, you say, but we have to import finished gasoline, doesn't that prove there aren't enough refineries in the US? Indeed we've been importing a small percentage of our gasoline fix for a good long time. Would importing the entirety of our daily oil consumption and refining it all here somehow cost less and provide more energy security than importing most of the oil and a little bit of the finished product? You have to import the same volume of petroleum either way, Killer. Building new American refineries won't conjure more American oil or make us more independent. (It would however conjure more American industrial pollution and some jobs.)
Domestic refining capacity has increased by a few million barrels per day since 1976, contrary to the Refineries Myth. Data in British Petroleum's Statistical Review of World Energy 2009 shows US refinery capacity ramping up about 1.4 mbd from 1998 to 2008:
Over the same period, refinery 'throughput' -- the total amount of feedstock actually processed in refineries in the US -- increased lethargically until 2004, then fell back a bit until '07, then dropped off sharply in crazy 2008, leaving refiners with that unused capacity. Refiners operated at about 92% capacity in 1998, and roughly 83% in 2008 (BP data again). US refiners actually processed less crude in '08 than they did in '98, after adding 1.4 mbd of capacity over the decade. Not a good business plan.
It's important to realize that the refiners and the Exxons and Conoco-Phillipses of the world are not the same entities anymore. When Exxon is making a killing producing crude from their ever-dwindling patch as prices slide over 100 per barrel, the refiners are getting killed. They can't pass all of the spike in their feedstock costs on to you, because you would have a royal cow, so they end up eating a lot of it. In the meantime, regardless of whether or not they're getting killed by high oil prices, the refineries churn out plenty of petroleum distillates, not only to keep the country's vital organ systems humming along but also enough for every American to burn as much as they darn well please in the most frivolous pursuits imagineable. Excepting certain post-hurricane supply fiascos, gasoline shortages have not been a feature of American life for 30 years. As a chorus of nutbags continues to blame a lack of new refineries for the cost of fuel, gasoline stocks hover at historically high levels. It's time to look for alternate explanations, nutbags.
There is a lot of noise being made lately that oil and refining company execs suspect that the all-time peak in demand for their products has already been passed. Peak Demand -- it could be just a kinder and gentler way of calling the peak in production, which may cause similar practical effects but a nastier psychological shockwave. If they believe any such thing, building new facilities at this point would be pretty silly from a business perspective. Whether the country should hold more gasoline in reserve to guard against acute shortages (like that which occurred in the southern states after hurricanes Ike and Gustav in '08) is another matter.
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For those of us on the other side of the debate, significant support for our position arrived recently in the form of a joint statement by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry stating that "viewing entertainment violence can lead to increases in aggressive attitudes, values and behaviors, particularly in children."
Afterward, in a Congressional Forum, a voice of recognized authority finally announced what many of us have long known that if we pump our kids' heads full of violence and rage (or foul language and promiscuous sex), they're going to act out.
Unlike the Hollywood apologists, Most Americans understand why advertisers routinely pay millions of dollars for a few seconds of the public's attention because it affects our behavior. Tell us we need a certain nasal spray enough times, and eventually we're going to go out and buy some.
This is how we respond to thirty second spots. Imagine how three straight hours of depraved violence or an entire CD of misogynistic rantings are going to make a frustrated, pimple-faced teenager feel. I remember as a kid wanting to put the gloves on after every episode of Batman. Why would a kid feel any differently today after cyber-killing 15 of his buddies playing the video game Quake III?
More and more, the die-hards of Tinseltown are sounding like tobacco executives who persist in claiming that smoking isn't harmful to your health. But the message from last fall's Congressional Public Health Summit regarding violence is clear.
"Its effects are measurable and long-lasting," the four health groups said in their statement. "Moreover, prolonged viewing of media violence can lead to emotional desensitization toward violence in real life."
Not surprisingly, neither the Motion Picture Association of America nor the National Association of Broadcasters commented forthrightly on the medical associations' statement. All they and the International Recording Media Association seem to care about are copyright and piracy issues. They just want to ensure that they keep getting paid for the "entertainment" they're beaming nonstop into our homes.
The Joint Statement on the Impact of Entertainment Violence on Children, based on over 30 years of research, left Big Media little or no wiggle room. Consider these excerpts:
• "Viewing violence may lead to real-life violence. Children exposed to violent programming at a young age have a higher tendency for violent and aggressive behavior later in life than children who are not so exposed."
• "Children who see a lot of violence are more likely to view violence as an effective way of settling conflicts. [They] are more likely to assume that acts of violence are acceptable behavior."
• "Entertainment violence feeds a perception that the world is a violent and mean place. Viewing violence increases fear of becoming a victim of violence, with a resultant increase in self-protective behaviors and mistrust of others."
Mark Honig, executive director of the Parents Television Council (PTC), a family-oriented media advocacy group based in Los Angeles, believes the statement confirms what his organization and these medical groups have been saying independently for years. "There is clearly a causal effect between violence in the media and violence in society," Honig said. "The only people still denying it are some in the entertainment community itself."
Although less research has been done on the impact of violent interactive entertainment (video games and other interactive media) on young people, preliminary studies indicate that the negative impact may be significantly more severe than that wrought by television, movies or music.
All this is not meant to suggest that today's entertainment choices are all bad or that music or TV themselves are the sole or necessarily even the most important factors contributing to the social situation we find ourselves in today. Peer influences, the disintegration of the traditional family, and the receding influence of religion are just a few of the other factors contributing to the problems of youth violence and aggression in our society.
But there are some steps we can take to limit the negative effects of irresponsible media. They include:
• Not allowing your children to see shows or purchase music or games known to be violent or gratuitously sexual.
• Voicing to your children your disapproval of programs, including cartoons, that deal with dark, evil themes.
• Emphasizing the belief that violence is not an acceptable way to solve problems.
• Opening a dialogue with the parents of your children's friends and agreeing to enforce similar views on media exposure.
• Contacting TV stations and advertisers and expressing concern about inappropriate material marketed to children.
We as parents must take responsibility to form our children's moral conscience. We must endeavor to protect their innocence for as long as they are in our care. Besides controlling the channel-changer and making greater use of the "mute" button, we need to sit and watch TV with them and explain that there are consequences to the behaviors they are viewing, even though they may not be seeing it in the program itself. We need to monitor what our kids see and read and listen to in the same way we monitor their hygiene and diet and sleep. In a word, we need to be vigilant.
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Some news anchors go their entire career without achieving viral success. Newbie anchor A.J. Clemente did it in the first few seconds of his first time on air by uttering, "F--kin' s--t."
The incident—which occurred on Bismarck, N.D.'s local KFYR-TV—happened while an oblivious Clemente was practicing pronouncing London marathon winner Tsegaye Kebede's name and finding it quite difficult.
From the looks of it, it may have also scarred coanchor Van Tieu for life. Calm down, Van Tieu!
(Warning: This video contains language that may be offensive to some listeners.)
Clemente, who made it no secret on Twitter that he was nervous about his first day, tweeted afterwards, "That couldn't have gone any worse!"
And that's apparently not an exaggeration on Clemente's part. It literally could not have gone worse.
KFYR released a statement explaining that, "He did not realize his microphone was on, but still, that's no excuse. WE train our reporters to always assume that any microphone is live at any time" and revealed that, pending further review, Clemente had been "suspended."
Today, as Van Tieu began treatment for her PTSD, Clemente took to Twitter again to announce that he'd been fired. "Unfortunately KFYRTV has decided to let me go," he tweeted. Thank you to them and everyone in ND for the opportunity and everyone for the support."
He good-naturedly continued, "Rookie mistake. I'm a free agent. Cant help but laugh at myself and stay positive. Wish i didnt trip over my 'Freaking Shoes' out of the gate."
Look on the bright side, A.J.: Everyone knows your name! And everyone seems to love you:
"Everyone makes a mistake now and again, so let them off the hook and proceed as normal," one commenter on KFYR's Facebook wrote, racking up nearly 800 likes. "We can all have a sympathetic chuckle. (And feel a little better about our own goofs.)"
So we have a feeling you'll bounce back just fine, A.J. And we have our fingers crossed that you'll bounce back emotionally too, Van Tieu!


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Amanda Jones
January 10, 2012 by
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Missing Since: 08/14/05
Missing from: Hillsboro, Missouri
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: 10/06/78
Age at disappearance: 26
Weight 215 – 225 pounds
Caucasian female.
Jones had blonde highlights in her hair at the time of her disappearance. She wears wire-framed eyeglasses or contact lenses; she was wearing the contacts when she went missing. Her ears are pierced and she has a tattoo of a dolphin on her left breast.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A pink sleeveless shirt, a pink and white flowered skirt, pink flip-flop sandals and earrings.
Medical Conditions: Jones was eight and a half months pregnant with a boy at the time of her disappearance; she was due to give birth in late August. She also suffers from Graves Disease, an autoimmune disorder.
Details of Disappearance
Jones met Bryan Lee Westfall at the horse show grounds at the Hillsboro Civic Center in the vicinity of the 10300 block of Highway 21 in Hillsboro, Missouri at 1:00 p.m. on August 14, 2005. She was last seen in the parking lot of the center at 5:00 p.m. that same day. She has never been heard from again. Jones's blue 1997 Pontiac Sunfire was later found unlocked and abandoned in the parking lot. Her purse, keys, wallet and cellular phone were missing.
Jones claimed Westfall was the father of her unborn child, a boy whom she planned to name Hayden, but he always denied it. She met him on the day of his disappearance to find out what, if any, input he wanted into the baby's life. They were supposed to have lunch together at the Off the Hook restaurant. Westfall has cooperated with the investigation and maintains his innocence in Jones's disappearance. He stated they spoke for about an hour in the parking lot of the Hillsboro Civic Center and she was fine when he left her, and talking to someone on her cellular phone.
Jones is divorced and left behind a young child, whom she had custody of. Her former husband is not considered a suspect in her case, and he died in November 2007. After his death, their daughter was placed in the care of her maternal grandparents. Jones was employed as a loan administrator at the Eagle Bank in Festus, Missouri in 2005. Her loved ones stated it was uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning, and she could not walk easily as a result of her pregnancy. There has been no activity on her cellular phone or credit cards since her disappearance, and no evidence that she checked into any hospital to deliver her baby. Her last known credit card purchase was at a drugstore; she bought a soda and hair spray hours before she went missing.
Jones's case remains unsolved.
Website Dedicated To Amanda's Disappearance
Aug 14, 2015- FBI asks for clues on 10-year anniversary of Amanda Jones disappearance
Aug 29, 2008– Nationwide Missing Person Tour Comes to St. Louis
Nov 24, 2007- Missing Pregnant Woman's Ex-Husband Dies
Aug 1, 2008- Investigators Believe Amanda Jones Letter Not Viable
Aug 14, 2008- Police Still Hope to Find Amanda Jones Three Years Later
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Lt. Tommy Wright
(636) 797-5526
If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.
All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.


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The Sermon On The Mount's Lost Ending (Warning: Obscenity)
"Really?" he asked. "No one's going to call me on any of this? You're just going to hit me with those stupid grins like I handed you a plate of butter cookies, because I said a whole bunch of stuff about being nice and everyone likes hearing about being nice...
"Is that it?
"No, you just don't understand. Let's all put our brunch plans on hold, because if you really heard what I said, you'd be absolutely terrified. You'd want to run or give up your faith, or kill me right now, because what I said was impossible. What I said is absolutely going to break you. If you're lucky.
"Let's review: First, every powerless loser on the planet is doing better than you are right now. The meek, the mourning, the poor in spirit - they're all going to win. And that means every single bit of privilege you're spending your whole life chasing after is useless. And before you can really comprehend how upside down you are, let me just reaffirm every crazy rule and regulation in the original Law. The shellfish, the pork, and that utterly bizarre stuff about killing birds to cure your leprosy. It's in effect until the end of the earth. So you've got that nonsense rattling around in your brain forever.
"But wait. I'll make it even harder. You can't get angry without cause. You can't wrong anybody for any reason. You can't get divorced, and you can't even look at a woman with lustful thoughts - I mean, seriously, how many of you people have been checking out some talent just now while I said that? You have to be willing to mutilate yourself to be perfect. Give your enemy every advantage, and pray that God Himself helps him. Donate money whenever you're asked, and never, ever be showy about any of this. And be cheerful while it's happening - did you catch that? - I'm commanding you to smile while the world tortures you. You must literally have no thought for your own survival.
"I hope you were listening. Because if you were, you'd know that you will absolutely fail at what I'm asking of you. You will fall short almost every single hour of every day you are conscious, and with the kinds of standards I'm setting, you're probably going to break some of these laws in your dreams.
"What reasons could I have for this insanity? Won't this just put anyone who tries to follow me into a constant moral crisis? That can't be the point, can it?
"Because one of two things would happen:
"You might spend the rest of your life desperately trying to be good and cheerful at the same time, interrogating your motivations for everything, chasing your own thoughts, and never turning down a chance to help anyone you come across. You will destroy everything you've built up for yourself; you'll throw it all away, and it simply won't be enough, and the only thing that will keep you going is you just know that you can do more. You'll be exhausted and happy, because good cheer is part of your task. You'll have to forgive everyone, because that will be your only hope of survival. You will be utterly certain you aren't better than others. You won't care. You won't have time for any of that. And I'll have an army of you.
"Or you might just lawyer up. Argue. Quibble. You might convince yourself I didn't say what I just said. Someone will have a convenient vision about the crazy dietary stuff. Someone will go back to the old text and search for other loopholes. Every one of you will find a thousand ways to excuse yourselves and a thousand ways to convict others, to make the full weight of my commandments crush everyone without power, everyone you don't like, while you always find a way to wriggle free. While you always find a preacher who will help you. I see a guy with a spider tattoo on his face cooking barbecue at a church fundraiser on a Saturday, and in between mouthfuls of greasy abomination he's talking about how he and his third wife decided that the government needs to enforce Biblical family values. I see powerful clergy convincing you it's necessary to be mean-spirited and jealous and small, only they don't say it that way - they use words like love and compassion. I see a man on a golden throne praying for the souls of the poor while he takes their money. The history of your faith will be a long, sordid, pointless account of people using the burden of my words to bury each other alive.
"And if I mean this, if I really mean it, that's because I want it to be one or the other. I want victory or destruction. I want an end to any question about whether I exist and whether I own the world. Whether you even deserve a God, this earth, or your very lives. And I'm counting on you people, you ridiculous people, to make my case for me. Either you will flip the world inside out with love... or turn every church into an obscenity.
"Who says I don't play with dice?"
Posted by Paul Bibeau at 10:06 AM
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Wow. Wow.ReplyDelete
Very, very powerful. Also heartbreaking because we really, really blew it, didn't we?Replies
It is. But I don't think it's over yet. I think the fight against evil is ancient and ongoing, within the Christian church and without.Delete
That was a good reply, Paul.ReplyDelete
Thank you.
"I see a man on a golden throne praying for the souls of the poor while he takes their money."ReplyDelete
Who is that man?
"and in between mouthfuls of greasy abomination" -- Too funny! Wonderful line! The whole piece, in fact, was great crafting!ReplyDelete
"(Warning: Obscenity)" -- LOL! And I bought the bridge you were selling. Shame on you -- this time.
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The immature PURPLE GALLINULE found Sept. 30 at North Pond, Sandy Hook, continues there as of Sat. Oct. 6, at the north end of the pond, where it was viewed on Sat. by a hundred people in the company of VIRGINIA RAILS, SORA RAILS and SNIPE. Unfortunately Graham-Ruddman closed the Hook late on Saturday morning to Monday. We expect it is open as of tape time. Also at the Hook this week, CLAY-COLORED and SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, BLUE GROSBEAK at [parking area] K and at the garden; ORANGE-CROWNED and LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and at least ten PEREGRINES.
Hawk totals at Raccoon Ridge Oct.5 -6 included one grey phase GYRFALCON, 18 PEREGRINES, and 8 BALD EAGLES.
An EURASIAN WIGEON was at Allendale Celery Farm Oct. 5 in the company of AMERICAN WIGEON, off the bench at the first left from the trail. An adult BALD EAGLE and a COMMON GALLINULE were reported this week from Great Swamp. At Merrill Creek Reservior Oct. 8 there were 8 COMMON LOONS, COOPERS HAWK and OSPREY. At Brigantine NWR Oct. 7, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, and GOLDEN PLOVER were all present on the north dike.
A new birding place of interest to the birding community is the new Manasquan Reservoir in Howell Township, off Interstate 195 at Rt. 9. This giant reservoir close to the Parkway and the coast may become an obligate Big Day stop. A 5-mile dike for walking runs around the reservoir. There are 2 official access parking areas, at Georgia Tavern Rd. and Windeler Rd. To get there, exit I-195 at Rt. 9 North and turn right immediately on Georgia Tavern Rd. Follow the signs to the parking access for the Manasquan Reservoir. Several birders logged good warbler totals of 18 and 20 on late Sept.-early Oct. days, and recently the reservoir has held SNOW GEESE, OSPREY, EGRETS, numerous PIED-BILLED GREBES, and a few early ducks. It is operated by the Monmouth County park system.
The Voice of NJ Audubon [(908) 766-2661] is a regular weekly report on birding in New Jersey. The tape is changed regularly on Wednesdays, more often when necessary. [Compiled by R. Kane, NJ Audubon; transcribed for National Birding Hotline Cooperative by L. Larson, llarson@ pucc.princeton.edu.] To report birds to the tape, call (908) 766-5787, or fax (908) 766-7775. For updates between tapes call the NJ Audubon Bird Mailbox, (201) 983-9152. Good birding, and thank you for calling.


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A friend sent me this article a couple weeks ago 46 reasons My 3 year old might be freaking out , and I was dying. On the floor, crying and laughing at the same time; but mostly, just so happy to know that all toddlers have these kinds of meltdowns at one point or another (or multiple points AND another).
So I knew that I had to make my own list based on my experiences with Niall. The things that set these little guys off is too funny...
Reasons my 3-year-old might be freaking out:
1) I put his milk in the wrong sippy cup
2) I said "you're welcome" after he said "thank you"
3) His pull-up has a submarine on it
4) I sang along to the song on his TV show
5) Brendan looked at him
6) I'm making him wear "hard pants" but he wanted to wear "soft pants"
7) The Thomas toothpaste tastes different than the Elmo kind
8) Brendan tried to share a toy with him
9) Only dad can read him stories
10) Only mom can put his socks on
11) Blowing your nose is "mean"
12) I gave him his dinner before putting his drink on the table
13) The dump truck's dump feature is in the wrong position
14) I picked the wrong melody on his white noise machine
15) I thought he was talking to me but he was actually talking to his imaginary friends
16) I bought the wrong "flavor" of hand soap
17) The bath water is "too medium"
18) I'm not allowed to have the same favorite color as him
19) The door was open instead of shut
20) I put a toy away in the wrong basket
Love being the mom of a 3 year old :)


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Ron Paul Suggests He'll Vote For Gary Johnson
"There are other people who are technically capable of winning because they're on a lot of ballots."
In a Fox Business interview Wednesday, Rep. Ron Paul refused to say who he was planning on voting for — but ruled out voting for Mitt Romney or President Obama, leaving only one plausible option.
"I obviously haven't announced in support for Romney, so that means that's very unlikely," Paul said. "And I don't think anybody think's I'm going to vote for Obama. So it's back to that frustration level in not seeing a dramatic choice in how the system works."
"Tonight there's a debate going on," Paul said. "And if you come to the conclusion that the candidates aren't all that different, why do we have to just listen to two of them?"
"There are other people who are technically capable of winning because they're on a lot of ballots," Paul said, to which his interviewer said "Like Gary Johnson, for example."
"Yeah," Paul said. But he wouldn't confirm that he was definitely voting for Johnson.
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Already operating thin after a wave of staff cuts in recent years, Metro Public Works could be forced to end several popular services if asked to reduce its budget by another 7.5 percent this time around.
Among potential cuts are the elimination of eight recycling drop-off centers; the closing of the Bordeaux Composting Center, where residents take brush and leaves for recycling; and a decrease in the number of streets that would be cleared by the department during snow or icy weather.
In all, a 7.5 percent cut would reduce the department's budget by $3 million and force 38 employee layoffs. Department staff has already been reduced from 522 employees in 2004 to 363 employees today.
The grim news came from Billy Lynch, director of Public Works, as he sat down with Mayor Karl Dean and others from the mayor's office Wednesday to discuss the effect of a 7.5 percent cut for the next fiscal year, which all department heads have been instructed to analyze.
"This hurts us," Lynch said. "It really does."
The cuts raised by Lynch, however, are far from set in stone as Dean prepares to hand the Metro Council a finalized budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year by May 1.
"No decision has been made on what percentage of reductions are going to be made," Dean stressed. "This is just a useful step for everybody to go through to determine where we can find savings."
Nonetheless, with the loss of the department's eight lowest-producing recycling drop-off centers, only four would remain — centers in Bellevue, Hermitage, Elysian Fields and at Hillsboro High School. Closures could disturb a program that delivers money to Metro schools based on the number of weight collected at each center.
According to Lynch, cuts could also mean the closing of both the Omohundro and Anderson Lane residential waste and recycling facilities; the elimination of the department's environmental education instructor; and the loss of eight employees in the engineering division and two workers in the safety and finance division, among other job losses.
Dean recognized Public Works has endured some of the biggest hits in recent years and said his goal is to ensure that Metro is providing the most services it can to the public.
"We'll work our way through this and come up with a number that we can live with," Dean said.


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MDUSD fills some administrative positions, but is still interviewing for others
By Theresa Harrington
Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 8:22 pm in Education.
Based on continued questions from readers about administrative assignments in the Mt. Diablo school district and the district's failure to publicly announce many of them to the entire community, I have compiled the following list of assignments that have been announced (in some instances only to the school site communities) or confirmed by the district:
Here are assignments or appointments that have been approved by the school board:
Bill Morones: Director of Secondary Education (4-1 vote; promotion from Ygnacio Valley HS principal)
Charla Hernandez: Ayers Elementary (from Brentwood)
Lianne Cismowski: Cambridge Elementary (promotion from MDHS vice principal)
Jon Pierce: Fair Oaks Elementary (from Oakland)
Kristan Martin Meyer: Sun Terrace Elementary
David Ramirez: Westwood Elementary (promoted from El Dorado MS vice principal)
Marie Schirmer: SASS administrator (promoted from Cambridge Elem. principal)
Here are reassignments that Superintendent Steven Lawrence has made without board approval (under his own authority):
Gretchen Jacobs: After-school administrator (transferred from Sun Terrace principal)
Cheryl Champion: Delta View Elementary (transferred from Fair Oaks Elementary)
Jenny Vargas: Sunrise/Shadelands special education (transferred from Westwood Elementary)
Sue Brothers: Principal of Ygnacio Valley HS (transferred from Clayton Valley HS)
José Espinoza: Vice Principal, Ygnacio Valley HS (transferred from Clayton Valley HS)
Stephen Brady: Vice Principal, Northgate HS (transferred from Ygnacio Valley HS)
Jon Campopiano: Vice Principal, Oak Grove MS (transferred from Northgate HS vice principal)
Additional principal openings:
Pleasant Hill Elementary, Valle Verde Elementary, Woodside Elementary and Riverview Middle School
Are you satisfied with the administrative appointments made so far?
JULY 30 UPDATE: It has just come to my attention that the district is also seeking a new administrator for Prospect alternative HS: http://www.mdusd.org/alternativeed/Pages/nshs.aspx
AUG. 9 UPDATE: I have just received the following email from Julie Braun-Martin, in response to a request for the names of newly hired principals:
"Here is a list of the newly hired principals:
Kristan Martin-Meyer: Sun Terrace Elementary
Jon Pierce: Fair Oaks Elementary
Thom Kwiatkowski: Riverview Middle
Jenny Cronan: Woodside Elementary
Angela Hotchkiss: Pleasant Hill Elementary
Beverly Tom: Valle Verde Elementary"
AUG. 10 UPDATE: Here's the email response I received from Julie Braun-Martin, after I asked whether the the appointment of the Riverview MS principal is contingent on board approval, since the board did not authorize Superintendent Lawrence to fill that position:
"The superintendent had the authority during the month of July when the Board was not meeting to proceed with hiring all adminstrative vacancies, so we could be ready for the opening of school."
Here is the response I sent her:
"Julie, Here is the authority the board granted to Superintendent Lawrence, according to the June 25 agenda report:
'Member (Linda Mayo) Moved, Member (Lynne Dennler) seconded to approve the Originalmotion 'Approve allowing the Superintendent to enter into contracts for the above stated positions prior to the August 13 Board meeting.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 3 Nay: 2.
Here is a list of the 'above-mentioned positions,' which was attached to the agenda:
'Elementary School Principal 3.0 FTE
Student Services Coordinator 9-12 .60 FTE
Vice Principal, Continuation School 1.0 FTE
Administrator, NSHS 1.0 FTE
Student Services Coordinator 6-8 .60 FTE
Coordinator, After School Program 1.0 FTE Classified Position
(If approved by the Board)'
The agenda report also stated:
'Only positions that are currently authorized by the Board can be filled.'
The staff recommendation stated: 'Approve allowing the Superintendent to enter into contracts for the above stated positions prior to the August 13 Board meeting.'
What is the basis for your assertion that the superintendent was authorized to fill vacancies not disclosed in the June 25 agenda report?"
Here is a link to the June 25 agenda report: http://esbpublic.mdusd.k12.ca.us/public_itemview.aspx?ItemId=5592&mtgId=345
Here are links to portions of the board's discussion regarding this:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/KNTiw6TRYWc
Part 2: http://youtu.be/qxY5JWBkGJA
AUG. 15 UPDATE: Since the district still has not released a comprehensive list of new administrators, it appears information will continue to trickle out.
Here's an announcement about new administrators at Foothill MS, from the principal's letter to parents:
"…As you and I continue our journey this year you will see some new faces at Foothill. With the retirement of Mike Mattos, we have David Roe joining us in the Vice Principal position. Dave comes from Sequoia Middle School where he has been an administrator for over six years. Previously he taught history for a combined total of 15 years at Clayton Valley High School and Pine Hollow Middle School. Dave looks forward to working with the entire school community to continue Foothill's long tradition of academic success. You might want to catch one of his infamous "Coffee with Dave" morning gatherings coming to you this fall. Dave will be overseeing the 6th grade.
Also joining us is Theodora Pappas in the Student Services Coordinator (SSC) position. Theo is very excited to join the team here at Foothill and get to know students, staff, and families. Last year she worked between Pine Hollow and Riverview Middle Schools as a SSC and previously she was a middle school Assistant Principal in San Ramon. Before beginning her administrative career, Theo taught high school government, economics, and world history. Theo spent her summer in Greece and is a life time resident of Berkeley. She will be overseeing the 7th grade…"
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Avebury stone circle
There are sacred rocks (iwakura) all over Japan, but I've never seen a date put on them. The supposition is that they date to the Yayoi Age (300 BC-300 AD), when waves of immigrants brought new gods and forms of worship. By contrast, the megaliths of Britain are much older, and the great circle of Avebury where I recently attended a seminar dates back to approximately 2600 BC.
Avebury is constructed on a massive scale, and compared to the contemporaneous Stonehenge it's like a cathedral to a church. Both were erected in different stages, and Avebury's final form featured a circular ditch with a massive diameter of 420 meters. Inside it is an outer stone circle of 98 (possibly 99) large sarsen stones, enclosing two smaller circles. In the middle once stood a large obelisk, 5.5 meters high.
In the fourteenth century, at the prompting of the Christian priest, villagers destroyed some of the large rocks to use in walls and housing. (The death of a surgeon when a rock fell on top of him persuaded the villagers that the devil was protecting the monument.) Markers now indicate where the fallen stones would once have stood.
In keeping with the demonisation of pagan ways, Christians came to refer to a chair-like ledge in one of the rocks as the Devil's Seat. Our seminar leader, Peter Knight, thought it might have served in fact as seat for the shaman welcoming pilgrims who had travelled from outer parts for one of the great seasonal festivals that took place at the stone circle.
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The sacred rocks of Japan derive from their association with the spirit world, and it's no coincidence that to my mind the most persuasive theory about Avebury is that it was a ritual centre dedicated to ancestor worship.
For the pioneering scholar, Mircea Eliade, standing stones were part of a prehistoric 'cult of the dead': 'in all probablility, these stones constituted a sort of "substitute body", in which the souls of the dead were incorporated,' he wrote. In this way the rocks came to represent ancestral spirits, and were consequently a source of power revered by the living descendants.
As we proceeded around the stone circle, seminar leader Peter Knight highlighted some of the characteristics. One was the sequence of 'male' phallic rocks alternating with broader, more rotund 'female' stones. Did ancient Britons have a yin-yang consciousness? They certainly had a concern with fertility, for the female rocks bear quite definite yoni holes or vaginal clefts. Since the stones were left in their natural state, they had been clearly been carefully selected.
Many of the rocks have suggestive shapes, a trait I've noticed too in some of the sacred rocks of Japan. The outline of faces, or the shape of a totem animal are particularly notable, as if embodying the spirit of the rocks. These would have loomed large in the moonlit imagination of worshippers during shamanistic rites.
Pagan rites
Neo-paganism and neo-shamanism have made great strides in recent years, with the rising interest making itself evident in various forms. Pagan rites are commonplace, and honoring the spirit of place has returned to the national consciousness.
Healing, meditation, dowsing and drumming comprised the focus of the seminar. At the end we formed a circle around a symbolic centre, mirroring the stone circle within which we had met. Thanks were given to the ancestors for our inheritance, and to Mother Earth for nurturing our existence.
Gratitude; ancestral spirits; nature worship – here indeed were the very elements of Shinto in pagan form. Primal religions the world over share a common outlook, showing how crass are the claims of uniqueness and national divisions. In the rebirth of paganism lies recovery of the ties between east and west, offering hope for convergence and a meeting of the twain. Blessed be!
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NFL players – and especially NFL players of color – took a knockout blow yesterday…
On Wednesday, Chicago Bears wide out Sam Hurd was busted by the DEA for buying one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cocaine. On top of that, Hurd had ordered 1,000 pounds of weed and up to 10 KIlograms of coke per week. That's a wholesale value of just under a million bucks a week. Meaning this guy is a major supplier to dealers. Many of the dealers we are told being current and past NFL players.
In the double digits according to the Feds.
I heard about it first on 610 Sports with Nick Wright (and by the way, Nick and I made up).
Nick made two important comments. ONE: a guy buying this much ain't selling a bag of weed to his pals. This is serious weight – Scar Face weight. SECOND: many other players will be named, this could be the worst criminal event ever for the NFL – way worse than the Michael Vick scandal.
This is a HUGE DRUG RING.
Heres a player, Sam Hurd, making $5 million for three years, nearly $2 million a year. And that's not good enough? Most television stars don't make that much money a year. And Sam's a third string receiver – he's only caught nine balls so far this season. Two million bucks? Scar Face Time…
You remember the Chiefs go-to-prison group; Tamarick Vanover and Bam Morris. Dealing, stealing cars etc. This is much worse.
The majority of NFL players today are black. And as Sports Illustrated wrote: "Almost all of the these players are broke or declare bankruptcy within five years of leaving the NFL."
Wow, each year 30 to 50 former players are arrested for drugs, stabbings, shootings, beatings and so on.
Look, steroid use is almost understandable in a League of MEN TOO BIG AND TOO MUSCLED UP.
I use them legally because I'm older and can get a prescription for steroids. If you are under 35 your body usually produces them naturally.
But dealing recreational drugs at these levels is pure greed and really stupid.
Lets hope no Chiefs are involved. Sam was buying the coke at $25,000 a kilo, and that's high. So it almost had to be pure stuff. His boys would probably buy it, cut in half, then cut it in half again. The weed at $450 a pound was also probably good quality and would be sold at $1,000 or more a pound. Weekly.
That would supply this entire city and Chicago. These are huge deals.
Another black eye for the black athlete, which proves that being paid millions of dollars still doesn't work. You still need an education which ALMOST NONE OF THESE PLAYERS HAVE.
Nick I'm sorry, but it's true. These players are dumbasses for the most part.
Sure there are exceptions, but very few. The results have not been good so far off the field.
And now Sam will rat out everyone he knows.
I was a drug agent and I can tell you he will give up his mommy not to do the 40 years to life.
After he's done, he'll still get 15 years. What a shame. I hear he's kinda a nice guy.
Two million dollars a year. Not enough, damn.


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Stolen manhole lids worry locals
Residents of P D'mello road aren't just worried about the potholes in their locality, but open manholes as well
Residents of P D'mello road aren't just worried about the potholes in their locality, but open manholes as well.
Around 25 sewage lids have been stolen, making a simple walk down the road hazardous.
Resident of P D'mello road have written a letter (copy with MiD DAY) to wards A, B and E of the BMC and police stations of Byculla, Dongri and MRA Marg, as the lids were stolen from areas under their jurisdiction.
Cops have demanded that the complainants be physically present to point out the stolen covers.
Complainant Afzal Khan said, "More and more lids are being stolen. How could this happen when beat marshals are on patrol? The lids that were stolen were public property, and thus the cops should lodge FIRs themselves."
Padmakar Juikar, senior police inspector of MRA Marg police station, said, "The complainant should be present physically, and point out the spots. There are other priorities, such as the many terror threats that have been issued since the blast."
P Kadam, Chief Engineer Sewerage Projects, said, "I cannot comment on the matter, but the police should lodge an FIR."
Several attempts to get in touch with DMC Milin Sawant, in charge of wards A, B, C, D and E proved futile.


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Is Virgil Goode Running for President?
My hope for the 2012 presidential election is that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell decides to save the GOP from itself (and Mitt Romney) and enters the field to seek the Republican nomination. He could beat the bunch of stiffs that currently make up the GOP primary field without even trying.
Barring that, however, I STILL may be able to vote for a Virginian for President - there is speculation that my friend, Virgil Goode, may run for President on the Constitution Party ticket:
... The Constitution Party is gearing up for the presidential election year, and its 2012 ballot access campaign. Former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, has expressed a strong interest in seeking the Constitution Party Presidential nomination in 2012 and at its meeting this past weekend, the Constitution Party National Committee unanimously passed a resolution inviting him to do just that...I'm going to lay it out for you. Virgil is the sort of person I'd be inclined to vote for anyway. I voted for him several times when he was my Congressman, including voting for him back when he was still a Democrat (one of only two Democrats - the other being Congressman Ralph Hall of Texas before he became a Republican - for whom I've ever voted for national office). But if the GOP nominates Mitt Romney, I will happily vote for Virgil Goode in a Goode vs. Romney vs. Obama match-up.
Run, Virgil, run!!!
(Hat tip: Shaun Kenney via his Facebook page)
Labels: Conservatism, Elections, Republicans, The Old Dominion


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Today I'm posting about Five Ways to Stretch a Roast Chicken on a Tight Budget over at The Humbled Homemaker. Below is an excerpt.
One of the most frugal homemaking practices I've adopted is roasting a whole chicken each week. My husband and I live on his tight pastor's salary, desiring to be good stewards of the money God has given us, while still eating as healthy as possible. This habit has proved very helpful as I've sought to find joy in my calling as a homemaker.
As we wait for God to bless us with children through adoption, I'm thankful that I've had this season to exercise my gift of creativity in the kitchen. It's a fun challenge for me to create delicious and nourishing meals, making sure that nothing goes to waste.
You can read more at The Humbled Homemaker!


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We've been talking a lot about chores lately, even going so far as to create a gallery of kids helping out.
Now we want your tips for getting kids to do their fair share without a lot of cajoling, arguing, screaming, threatening, bribing.
Maybe it's a Chore Chart with gold stars. Maybe it's allowance.
What do you do? Give us your tips.