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The growing interconnectivity of Americans though electronic means is a permanent trend, but exactly how it all plays out depends on a number of factors, according to experts.
The sales surge in smart phones and TVs, tablets, and other wireless devices shows no signs of abating. American consumers love their gadgets and retailers anticipate continued growth in the future.
But regulatory policy and political climate will have some bearing on the future shape and direction of the industry, and that was the subject of "A Telecommunications Agenda for 2012 and Beyond," an April 11 symposium sponsored by CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law & Policy and the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, in association with the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Hosted by the law firm Wiley Rein at its downtown conference center, the day-long symposium brought together nearly two dozen experts from the telecommunications field to discuss issues such in wireless, wireline, and media from the perspective of industry, government, and other stakeholders, specifically focused on how these issues may be shaped by the election.
The keynote address was delivered by FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn, who began her talk by acknowledging the influence and presence that Catholic University law school alumni have within her agency, which has long been a magnet for graduates of the law school's communications law program.
"The influence of Catholic's law school is literally all around me:in the FCC's bureaus, front offices, and in telecom subcommittee offices on the Hill," said Clyburn. "Catholic alumni have entrenched themselves so deep within our nation's powerful organizations, it is almost as if you are attempting to achieve global dominance."
"Perhaps we should write a screenplay and see if any studios would jump at it," she quipped.
Clyburn emphasized the need for all Americans to have affordable broadband access to enjoy its numerous benefits, such as the use of digital books. She also pushed for continued progress on the Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
The six discussants for the day's first panel, "What's Next for the Wireless Market?" spent more than an hour prognosticating on what the next big wave might be for the mobile industry and what policies could affect it.
A major concern to all was the availability of usable spectrum in the market for mobile devices. One expert noted that consumers today expect basic services from their mobile devices: including video, voice and video data, and fixed location data. All require large amounts of limited bandwidth space, so the group spent some time on the question of spectrum auctions.
Panelists agreed that while the party that captures the White House after the next election may impact the overall telecommunications regulatory climate, the pressing need for more spectrum to accommodate demand by mobile devices is a bipartisan issue.
Another morning panel discussed intercarrier compensation reform and the FCC's media ownership rules, the latter moderated by Donna Coleman Gregg, director of the law school's Institute for Communications Law Studies. Gregg's panel included former FCC Commissioners Michael Copps, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, and Deborah Taylor Tate.
The symposium's luncheon discussion featured newly-appointed FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlshausen in a conversation with Bryan Tramont, managing partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP.
The Columbus School of Law was heavily represented throughout. Much of the symposium's organizing was done by Jessica Elder, president of the Communications Law Students Association; and Ian Forbes, editor-in-chief of CommLaw Conspectus (at left). Forbes also moderated the day's final panel discussion, "Election Year Debate: Alternative Visions of Communications Policy for 2012 and Beyond."
Other participants included alumni Kathleen Ham, 1986, vice president, federal regulatory, T-Mobile USA; and John Kneuer, 1994, former assistant secretary for communications and information, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under President George W. Bush.
A summary paragraph of the symposium appeared in the April 12 edition of Communications Daily.


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rhealth needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Looking for a designer to capture a certain peruvian feel with this website for a peruvian health and superfoods retreat. Possible opportunity for more work!
Looking for a one page site design that will have links, but those pages don't need to be laid out.
This should capture the beauty of peru and incorporate the styles of peruvian art. Should also be strongly image based.
I've set up a VERY simple mock design. I would expect the design to be much better than this :-)
Here's where you can find that design...
Also, here's where you can pull pictures from...
Focus in on the landscape and the foods.
I've never had anyone do a web mockup here... so please ask me any questions... I imagine there might be some revision with this... :-)
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- Peruvian feel
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The Duke of Cambridge was the Queen's representative during the State Visit of South Korea's president Park Geun-hye.
Prince William took part in the ground breaking ceremony on Tuesday morning for the Korean War memorial along with President.
This was Prince William's first time acting as representative for Her Majesty on an official State Visit in this country. Prior to today's State Visit, the only State function he attended was with the Duchess of Cambridge, meeting President Obama and The First Lady on their 2011 State Visit.
With an increase in his royal duties after finishing his RAF career in Anglesey this past September, "we see this as a significant moment for him. He is stepping up to the plate," a senior royal aide told The Telegraph.
William had the honour to meet a few of 82,000 British military personnel who served in the Korean War. The war lasted from 1950-1953 and approximately 1,000 British servicemen lost their lives during the three year battle.
"[The Duke] asked about the conditions in the camp and about the climate. It means a great deal to have the future king of England here," commented Tommy Clough, a former POW of the war. The memorial will be located at the Victoria Embankment Gardens in London.
President Park is staying at Buckingham Palace during her three-day State Visit. She addressed the crowd, heralding the many "sacrifices made by British soldiers – many doing National Service – in the war against Communist North Korea," Gordon Rayner reports in The Telegraph.
"It is said that a friend in need is a friend indeed," she said. "This memorial will remind future generations of the remarkable fruits of British friendship which will forever be etched in the hearts of the Korean people," President Park concluded.
The scale model of the stone memorial was unveiled during today's ceremony. The statue that is part of the 18 foot memorial will be sculpted by Phillip Jackson. It depicts a "British soldier in winter kit looking down as if in front of a battlefield grave to say goodbye to a fallen comrade."
The memorial funded by private and corporate South Korean donors will be completed in summer 2014.
"It means everything to have this. So many people don't know about the war. It came too soon after the end of World War Two and the country had had enough of war," Dick Fair, a veteran of the war, commented.
"It's taken a while. It's an honour to be here. It's the least I could do. It's been a good opportunity for me to catch up and learn a bit more about the war," William commented while speaking to the veterans.
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What Ales You?
You'd have to drink a lot of beer to actually time travel, probably so much the trip would definitely not be worth it, but Mike Kuethe '13 does it without sipping a drop. A history major (with minors in anthropology and English) who's specifically interested in early medieval European history, Kuethe is brewing his own ale to study just how well the fermentation process can purify water tainted with bacteria.
"One assertion almost every historian makes is that beer was so important because the water was frequently contaminated," says Kuethe. "My question was, how effective is the production of alcohol in purifying water?" Kuethe, from Severna Park, Md., conceived the idea in Professor William Schindler's experimental archaeology class, in which students are encouraged to work with primitive technologies. One such technology is fermentation. It's still used today, Keuthe says (yogurt and cheese, for instance), but "the way our food system is set up we're not engaged in the process." We just go the Acme, buy it, and eat it.
Kuethe wanted to find an early medieval ale recipe, then follow the entire process that someone would have done in, say, Wales in the 1500s. Starting from the ground up—literally—he wanted to grow his own grain, harvest it, steep it in a vat of water to let the grain sprout, then roast it in a fire pit or oven to dry it out, shell it, grind it, and ferment it. Right away, though, he learned something interesting: "There are almost no primary sources on what is done" after the grain is prepared. This would make sense in context; making ale was so common, everybody did it, so why would anyone need a written recipe?
The other issue he ran into was time. Ultimately, he brewed the ale using a malt extract and yeast, the first batch to confirm fermentation, then the second two together, one as a control and one to which he added a strain of E. coli bacteria. Then he waited. And watched. He measured fermentation rates using a hydrometer, as well as observing and counting the CO2 bubbles escaping an airlock mechanism at the bottles' necks.
Final tests detected no bacteria present in the ale. "In theory, this indicates that fermentation is as effective as the historians claim for purifying unsanitary water," Kuethe says. "For me, though, the value in the experiment was designing the procedure and seeing what challenges presented themselves. I would also like to look into the historical methods of brewing and be able to re-do the experiment with accurate recipes and techniques of the past."


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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says the Bush administration's farm bill proposals would provide a "strong safety net" for farmers who don't exceed an average $200,000 in adjusted gross income per year over a three-year period.
But a new study by Texas Tech University's Cotton Economics Research Institute says net farm income for cotton producers would fall 15 percent during the first year if the administration's farm bill language became law and continue to dip the next four, averaging an 11 percent decline over the five years.
And that's before CERI researchers try to factor in such "unknown" variables as new payment limit rules and the Bush administration's proposed extra assistance for beginning farmers.
According to the CERI computer forecasting model, some of the major effects of the administration proposals:
Direct payments would go up.
The CCC loan rate would go down.
Changes to the counter-cyclical program would result in lower payments.
And, finally, the overall market price for cotton would go up.
The latter is expected to occur because of the reduction in overall acreage that would result from the loss of government support under the administration proposal. In addition, the returns of other competing crops are predicted to be relatively high.
"Acreage declines are marginal, about 2.5 percent over a five-year period," said Samarendu Mohanty, an agricultural economist and associate director of the institute. "There's a big shift initially, and then smaller as farmers adapt."
CERI researchers said the big question is whether market prices will go up enough to compensate for the losses in government support for cotton, and the answer is no.
"We lose more in government support than we gain in increased market returns, and so cotton farmers are worse off by 11 percent over a five-year period," said Mark Welch, a research scientist with CERI.
The Texas Tech World Fiber Model baseline projections are based on assumptions of normal weather patterns and current farm policies, along with estimated economic fundamentals such as population and income growth, and prices for crops that would compete with cotton.
Besides reducing the adjusted gross income limit for farm program eligibility from $2.5 million to $200,000, the administration is recommending that Congress eliminate the three-entity rule that allows some farmers to participate in payments in more than one farming operation.
Because of the difficulty in gauging the impact of such a change, Texas Tech researchers did not include the three-entity rule elimination factor in the computer model nor did they attempt to calculate the impact of providing more assistance to beginning farmers.
The administration also wants to adjust the limits for direct payments, counter-cyclical payments and marketing loan gains within the overall $360,000 payment limit and some officials have discussed eliminating the use of generic commodity certificates.
Secretary Johanns announced April 25 that USDA has begun writing legislative language for the farm bill at the request of several congressmen he said had expressed interest in the administration's proposals.
The Tech researchers said the cotton world price during this five-year period would rise slightly, in part, due to the small drop in U.S. production. If U.S. production acreage falls — even slightly — it will have a ripple effect on the world market.
Cotton Economics Research Institute agricultural economists provide cotton economic analyses for policymakers and others interested in agricultural economy. The group conducts economic research on all aspects of cotton production, marketing, trade and processing.
A copy of the briefing paper, which was written by Texas Tech's Suwen Pan, Mark Welch, Mohamadou Fadiga and Samarendu Mohanty, can be found at www.ceri.ttu.edu/policy.


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About the Contest
The "A Book That Shaped Me" Summer Writing Contest encourages rising 5th & 6th graders to reflect on a book that has made a personal impact on their lives. The contest is administered through local public library systems in the Mid-Atlantic region, and top winners are honored at the Library of Congress.
When does the contest run?
May 12, 2014 – August 11, 2014
Who can participate?
Rising 5th & 6th Graders (students who will be entering 5th or 6th grade next fall).
How to enter?
Write a short essay on a book that has had a personal impact on your life.
Books have the power to shape us by changing the ways we think and feel. Think about a book that made a difference in your life. It could be your favorite book, one that you read at school or as part of this year's summer reading program. How did it make you feel? Did it change the way you see yourself, your family or the world? Choose one book – it can be fiction or nonfiction – and write a short essay about how it had a personal impact on your life.
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- Your essay will be judged on content, structure (spelling and grammar) and creativity.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
I grew up at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Webster Groves, Missouri. This was during the early 1960's, the last gasp of Episcopal traditionalism. That meant that there were still, at least at my parish, rather stringent rules about who could take the Eucharist and when.
Consequently, little kids like me had to be ushered out at some point. This usually took place at the gradual hymn(for non-Anglicans, that's a hymn sung both before and after the Gospel reading) when an acolyte would lead us up to a lovely little chapel upstairs where we would have what was basically children's church.
If I remember correctly, this was loosely based on Morning Prayer(if you're an Episcopalian and you've never experienced one of those, ask you grandparents) and was usually conducted by a junior member of the clergy. But what brought this back to my mind where the vestments that that junior member of the clergy wore.
They wore exactly the same relatively restrained vestments(this was also well before the idea of making an Important Artistic StatementTM with one's chasuble had taken root) the clergy for the grown-ups wore.
When you're a kid, what is the one thing in life you most don't want to be? A kid. You want to get around town on a vehicle you don't have to pedal. You want to eat pizza whenever the mood strikes you. And you don't want to have to ask the big people for money.
More than anything else, you want to be taken seriously.
I didn't know exactly what was going on in kid's church back then(it took me years to figure it out) but I think that on some level, I knew that I was doing something important. So while I might not have fully realized it, I really think that I would have been insulted if the minister had ever come in wearing something as condescending as this.
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There seems to be a Silence of the Lambs quality to this. Creepy!
- November 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM
- November 18, 2010 at 5:53 PM
there is a souls screaming from purgatory aspect of the design.
Sadly, children are still ushered out of the Eucharist regularly. The last church I worked in, they were corralled in the basement for baptisms - even if a sibling was being baptized.
Children aren't aliens - they can pray, and sing, and listen just like adults. Or they can learn. Their young brains are hard-wired for learning. Years of working with them has taught me they often "get it" a lot more than the grownups sitting over their heads.
- November 19, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- Cunjo said...
I couldn't agree with you more. Kids absorb everything. But most of stuff they absorb is not what we say to them but how we act in the meantime.
They absorb living EXAMPLE.
- November 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- St. Blogwen said...
What's with the oversized necktie?
Stoles and so on using this "children of the world" tapestry has always irritated me. "It's not about you" means "It's also not about your cute kids." (Curmudgeonly Commenter is curmudgeonly.)
That said, I think the current practice of having unconfirmed children come up for a blessing at the Eucharist is a good one. To echo what previous commenters have said, it integrates them into the life of the church, to help them be ready for full participation when the time comes.
- November 19, 2010 at 8:42 AM
At my church, children are ushered IN for the Eucharist! But none of our clergy (even the ones who do the contempoary services) would be caught dead in something like this. -- Elle
- November 19, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Paul Woodrum said...
This children's tapestry I've seen in United Methodist Church catalogs reminds me of a water color print in the church school nursery of my youth showing Jesus with the children of the world gathered about him. Of course, we only accepted white children -- another rant -- except here Jesus seems absent.
I'm not sure that from a distance it's any worse than Portugese tapestry sold by Almy and others.
- November 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Jim said...
What was it that JESUS said about letting the children come unto him, not hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these? Some churches need to brush up on their Bible - Matthew 19:14 comes readily to mind.
- November 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM
Again I say, THE 70S ARE OVER! Nothing wrong with children at Mass, however.
- November 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM
It is one thing to let children come to Jesus. Quite another to use children as a cover for idolatrous worship of youth.
- November 21, 2010 at 7:28 AM
- Deacon David said...
Hey, I found Waldo!
- November 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM
OK! I have actually used this childrens tapestry to make one stole in the past. Our Episcopal Church has a daily school for children P-K thru Kindergarten. They attend a little church service each morning to begin their day. Our Priest will ocasionally wear this stole during that children's daily service only. The children like it, and I do not think it is sending a negative message to them. They seem to relate to the look and it creates a curious nature in them as they wonder why a Priest "wears all that stuff on Sunday? Even though they are taught this on Sunday morning in Catechism class, I see them remember the
Children's Stole and make a connection that helps them understand the basic concept as they are taught the "why" of vestments in the church.
- November 22, 2010 at 2:03 PM
May be my monitor, but looks to me like caricatures, not pictures, of children. Ugh! off2
- November 23, 2010 at 1:28 AM
I have had the pleasure of seeing Desmond Tutu wear these vestments. Well, it was a pleasure being at a eucharist with ++Tutu. Unfortunately, this set is quite popular and has the seal of approval from the likes of his grace.
- November 23, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- .....CLIFFORD said...
Darn. Deacon David beat me to it. My entry was "Where's Jesus?"
- November 24, 2010 at 9:55 PM
- Catherine S. said...
I completely agree. I grew up at another Episcopal church in STL, in the '80's. Our children's chapel services were based on Morning Prayer, we sang hymns from the hymnal (the easier ones: "I sing a song of the saints of God," "All things bright and beautiful," etc.), the officiant wore the same basic vestments as the rest of the clergy, and those of us in the junior choir would complain mightily if we had to sing children's music. We especially hated it when we had to sing anything by Natalie Sleeth; we wanted to sing *good* stuff -- for some reason, we seemed to have a particular fondness for Bach -- and whenever possible, we wanted to sing it in the original Latin, German, French, etc.
Nowadays, in my opinion, children's chapel involves way too much cutesy stuff -- no real hymns, no real similarity to the "adult" service, etc. -- and the "sermons" are the most condescending claptrap I think I've ever heard. And frankly, it bothers me when children who are clearly *way* too young to have any idea what they're doing take Communion. I don't clearly remember when we were allowed to start receiving Communion -- I don't think we waited until after Confirmation (in 8th grade), but I do know that it wasn't until at least 6th or 7th grade.
- November 30, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- Caleb said...
There's actually (and unfortunately) a stole made of this material at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN for sale in the bookstore. I imagine it will remain for sale...
- December 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Sbdn. Benjamin Harju said...
It strikes me as ironic, since becoming an Orthodox Christian, that a minister wears a Eucharistic vestment featuring children, but the children don't receive the Eucharist.
When I was at CTS they didn't have this stole in the bookstore, but they did have the Rainbow Galore stole. Sometimes a visiting missionary would wear one like it in the chapel. Beware the missionaries ...
- December 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Cantor Nikolaos said...
What is even more funny is this vestment is available from Shoop's DIY Pest Control on eBay! Shoop's DIY Pest Control is located in Wichita Falls, TX.
- January 2, 2011 at 4:48 PM
The Dean of Saint Mary's RC Cathedral in Perth wore a stole with the exact same pattern just a few weeks ago. Sad, but true.
- January 23, 2011 at 8:01 PM
The entire idea of a separate church for kids while the liturgy is going on is anathema. Either children are part of Christ's Church or they're not. Thank God I'm Orthodox.
- April 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Christopher said...
My mother just bought me the stole version of this as a graduation present.
- June 6, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Phil said...
I own a stole sort of like this. And I wear it gleefully whenever I preach at a church setting wear vestments are the norm. It was a present to me from a group of addicts I minister to; they told me, "Those kids: that's us."
- June 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM


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Domesday Book put on touchscreen at Bletchley Park
If Minority Report had been about medieval peasants ...
The first Domesday book was published on vellum in the 11th century. 900 years later when the BBC wanted to mark the anniversary of Britain's oldest surviving dataset, they gathered a whole new clutch of information about Britain in photos, videos and text, and because it was 1986 saved it all on laser discs.
Unfortunately the laser discs of the BBC's Domesday project have kept less well than William the Conqueror's dried calfskins. Few machines can read the discs anymore, so BBC have just refreshed how they store the cache of maps, pictures, stories, videos and comments taken from over a million people. They've set up a giant 52" touch screen at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and loaded all "Domesday Reloaded" information on it in an app.
Unveiled today, the Domesday Touchtable will let four users at a time browse through the 50GB of info including 25,000 photographs. There are two Domesday Touchtables in the country - the second is in the BBC's Manchester MediaCity campus.
The collection of pictures, videos, maps and text were etched on the discs in a LaserVision Read Only Memory (LV-ROM) format, which contained not only analogue video and still pictures, but also digital data.
Viewing the discs required an Acorn BBC Master expanded with a SCSI controller and an additional coprocessor controlled a Philips VP415 "Domesday Player", a specially produced laserdisc player, according to Wikipedia. It was fiddly, and meant few people actually got to see the completed archive. It has been available online since 2004. ®
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|My love of vintage carries through on these tissue
wrapped New Years Eve Poppers.
First, I needed to create some decorative papers in the color palette and with the textures I wanted. The portable Flip Scan © mobile scanner came in handy. I took it's cover off, flipped it upside down to direct scan silver glitter I spread in a shoe box lid. I also scanned some burlap, an old book and one of my wife's sweaters.
|Because the scanner can be inverted you can lay it on
a variety of surfaces to direct scan.
|My palette of decorative papers
|I filled 4 inch cardboard tubes with a variety of treats.
Wrapped them in natural white tissue papers and tied off
the ends with various ribbons.
|Scanned images from an old book, burlap, glitter and a knit sweater
combined with a few metallic papers complete the look.
I cut the decorative papers into a variety of strips for both wrapping the tissue tubes and to create folded pinwheels. I added some 12's and clip art of an old pocket watch. To add a little sparkle I daubed a few elements with hot glue and dipped them into silver glitter.
Our guests, especially the kids will enjoy the treats and we have nice festive poppers that will look great for our party and will coordinate with our Christmas decor that we love to keep up for New Years Eve.
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Jail Escapee Charles Beeney Indicted on New Charges
HURON - A man serving a two-year prison term in South Dakota for stealing a pickup truck and leading authorities on a chase last December faces new charges in connection with his escape from jail last month.
A South Dakota radio station reports that 45-year-old Charles Beeney has been indicted on charges of escape, aggravated assault against a jailer and grand theft. He has not yet entered pleas.
Authorities say Beeney escaped the Beadle County Jail on Jan. 8 after accosting a guard with a makeshift weapon. He was captured later the same day in Sioux Falls after allegedly stealing a pickup truck.
Beeney also has a criminal history in Kansas and North Dakota, including an escape from a county jail in North Dakota and an attempted escape from the State Penitentiary in that state.
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Ed Sheeran Stands Up for Taylor Swift, Squashes Dating Misconceptions
Taylor Swift has made it clear that she loves to talk about love, heartbreak and every emotion that comes along with a dating relationship -- her music is her outlet. But although speculation swirls around every male that Swift smiles at, she actually hasn't dated that many people, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran insists.
"The rumor that she dates a lot of people is a misconception," he states, according to NY Daily News.
Sheeran surely knows more of Swift's personal life than the headline-hungry tabloids, as he's currently on her 2013 Red Tour and has become close to the star. "In the time that I've known her, which has been almost two years now, she has dated two people. Fact," he shares flatly.
Sheeran co-wrote 'Everything Has Changed,' a duet with Swift which is set to be her next single from 'Red,' and he's quick to jump to her defense when the rumor mills begin circulating -- especially since he was rumored to be dating the songstress earlier this year.
"In her entire life I think she's dated around five or six people," he assures. "I don't like when people take shots at [Taylor] because I do know her personally and I think people get the wrong end of the stick."
The 23-year-old is ever at the front lines, it seems, and she too has defended herself before, also revealing that she's only dated two people since 2010. "She's so successful and she's so nice and sweet to everyone that she meets," Sheeran adds. "There is nothing bad to say but she was being pictured with a lot of dudes!"
Swift has divulged that she may get married someday... or could possibly stay single forever. Like her friend and esteemed country music icon Tim McGraw recently said, Taylor Swift can do whatever she wants.


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Today we celebrate Tax Day with the release of the latest Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the best accounting employers to work for in North America. Recently, we asked more than 10,000 accountants to rate their peer firms in terms of prestige; we also asked them to rate their own firms in numerous workplace categories, including culture, work/life balance, hours, compensation, training, overall satisfaction, and business outlook. And in this year's Accounting 50—which takes into account prestige as well as workplace category ratings—although there was some movement near the top of the rankings, the same firm came in at the very top: PwC.
PwC: On top againNot only did New York-headquartered PwC again rank No. 1 in the Accounting 50 (and thus held onto its title of "best accounting employer to work for") but it also again ranked No. 1 in our Prestige Rankings. In fact, it was the sixth year in a row that PwC took the top spot in prestige. And this year accountants at peer firms told us that PwC is "still the gold standard," "the firm to beat," "a good firm for large clients," "highly thought of," "top notch," and "the best of the Big 4." But peer accountants also called PwC "conceited" and said the No. 1 firm in America "will work you to the bone and spit you out."
In addition, PwC ranked No. 1 in three new categories. This year, for the first time, we asked accountants to rate their peer firms in three practice areas: tax accounting, forensic accounting, and audit and assurance. PwC ranked No. 1 in all three. PwC also fared very well in our diversity rankings, earning the top spot for LGBT diversity, military veteran diversity, and overall diversity.
And PwC rated higher than its Big 4 competitors (Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and KPMG) in nearly all of our Quality of Life Rankings, which are typically (and were again this year) dominated by midsize accounting firms. PwC ranked No. 2 in formal training, No. 4 in business outlook, No. 13 in firm culture (it jumped four spots in this category), No. 15 in work/life balance (also up four spots), No. 13 in compensation (up two spots), and No. 18 in overall satisfaction (which might seem like a less than impressive ranking but it was better than the rest of the Big 4 firms fared in this category).
Ernst & Young: Gaining groundDespite PwC's exceptional performance this year, it was challenged by a formidable opponent in Ernst & Young, which jumped two spots to No. 2 this year in the Accounting 50. New York-based Ernst & Young's performance was bolstered by a strong showing in prestige: it repeated its position at No. 2 and saw its raw prestige score rise by 3 percent. In addition, the firm showed a remarkable improvement in business outlook and compensation. It ranked No. 8 in business outlook after not making the top 20 last year, and ranked No. 2 in compensation after being shut out of the rankings last year.
According to accountants at peer firms, Ernst & Young is "the most respected firm," "competitive and well run," "good to its employees," "impressive," a "great firm," "talented and aggressive in tax positions," "the best for employees and clients," and the "most competitive firm to PwC." At the same time, accountants noted that Ernst & Young is "weak outside the US" and "its benefits are less than impressive."
Deloitte: Down a notch but doing wellErnst & Young's success came at the expense of Deloitte, which fell one notch to No. 3 in the Accounting 50. Still, Deloitte put in a strong performance in the rankings. Deloitte repeated as the No. 3 firm in prestige and saw its raw score in that category rise by 4 percent. In addition, Deloitte went from being unranked in compensation last year to landing at No. 9 in that category this year. Meanwhile, accountants outside Deloitte called the firm "aggressive," "prestigious," "highly reputable," and "hardworking," and lauded it for its "global footprint" and "high quality work." However, they also said Deloitte "overworks everyone," resulting in "high burn-out and attrition rates."
KPMG: No longer a distant fourthKPMG, the perennial punching bag of the Big 4, rose two spots to No. 4 in the Vault Accounting 50 based in part on its strong showing in prestige; although it still trailed its fellow Big 4 firms in the category, KPMG's raw prestige score increased by 6 percent this year (which was the largest score rise by any of the Big 4). KPMG also scored the No. 1 spot in formal training, beating out all of its Big 4 competitors. Accountants at peer firms called KPMG "highly prestigious," "a great company to work for," "cool," "laid-back," "fun-loving," and a "well known firm with a global presence." But they also said the firm is still "dealing with past trouble and needs to clean up its image."
Here's how the entire top 10 of the Vault Accounting 50 looked this year:
1. PwC 2. Ernst & Young 3. Deloitte 4. KPMG 5. Grant Thornton 6. BDO USA 7. McGladrey 8. Plante Moran 9. Baker Tilly Virchow Krause 10. Crowe Horwath
And here are the links to all of the new accounting rankings: Vault Accounting 50, Accounting Prestige Rankings, Accounting Quality of Life Rankings, Accounting Practice Area Rankings, and Accounting Diversity Rankings.
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Proving yet again that the editorial standard at Fox Nation appears to be, "Does this story reflect poorly on Obama? Print it!" they are now featuring the following "report" on their homepage:
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A Weekend Visitor...
This is the first time I've had any time with the Solaris since NAMM...and, sadly, I only get to enjoy it for a few days.
It's at O.S. version 0.8 now and there's been some solid progress...there are lots of features active and present that were conspicuous by their absence when I demoed it for folks at NAMM. Just a ton of stuff is now implemented. I'm extremely jazzed - This is very quickly turning into my favorite synth!
There will still be a bit of a wait for the production model...after a slow start, Sonic Core had to finish up some of their own stuff first before turning their attention back to the Solaris. John is justly proud of his baby and is working like crazy to get it finished in a timely manner.
It's a blast to program with this knobby/visual interface! Everything is right at the top, no menu diving. No mod matrix either - If I want to add modulation, I just go to the destination on the control panel, select a mod source and dial in the amount.
I've recorded a quick little song with just the Solaris:
Permanent Sunrise
Everything is Solaris except drums, which are Korg Electribe ES-1. I'm not completely comfortable posting the MP3 because people will want to judge the sound of the synth by it, lossy compression and all, which would be unfair. The WAV file sounds much, much better but its really enormous. I'll see if I can do a FLAC version...
This tune is mostly PPG-style wavetable patches. The droney bass thing throughout is a wavetable patch, so is the "plucky" sound throughout and also the weird sound at the two breaks that have a pitch-up at the end.
The background string pad is a simple "multi-saw" pad using just two oscillators - each multi-saw osc is equivalent to seven detuned saws with detune amount being a mod destination.
The synced lead is very nice - John has tried to get the sync to sound as close to a P5 sync as possible - there's some one-to-one wav file comparisons of that in the forum section of his website.
Since there are no strictly "VA" patches in the song, other than the sync lead, it won't sound particularly "analog" though the Solaris excels in that area too, I'll see what I can do, time permitting, to portray its VA personality...or maybe something a bit "darker". Once again, in my song the drums are Electribe though, when the Solaris ships, there will be sample playback as well that you could conceivably stuff with drum hits. However this beast won't really be a "rompler" per se but, in a pinch, it may be all you need.
If you want sound samples unadulterated by MP3 compression and artifacts, go check out the examples over on John Bowen's site http://www.johnbowen.com/ - There's some on the main "Solaris" page and many more in the forum.
It looks like things are on track now that Sonic Core is on the ball again. There'll be another prototype (with the vector joystick and some other notable physical changes) before too terribly long but, in the meantime, the O.S. has been progressing in a really thrilling way!
UPDATE: Well, I had to give it back, John had just received a new OS for it.
...so, anyway, I wrapped up the thing I was working on with a metallic plucky lead and a few snippets of piano from the Nord Stage.
Rhythm is Electribe again.
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how wonderful to see you back, charlotta. you will NOT believe this, but just last night I was thinking of you!!!
how are the kids? and you? hope you are all well and enjoying life.
so wonderful to see your post today...hope this is the signal of your return.
love, donna
a post from YOU!!
yeah charlotta, you have been so very missed. as donna mentioned, i sincerely hope this is a sign of more to come
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Jackie played many sports in college and professionsl football, but soon had to stop to join the army for World War II. People still treated Jackie very badly, even during the war. "Hey black man. Get to the back of the bus where you belong." Later on, Jackie finallly was allowed to play on the Brooklyn Dodgers. The fans yelled bad things to Jackie, but he had one true teammate. His name was Peewee Reese. Pee Wee stood up for Jackie. Soon, lots of black people started playing in major league sports. Jackie won lots of awards such as: MVP and Rookie of the Year. When Jackie retired, he became a spokesman for black rights. Several years after Jackie stopped playing baseball, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read this book to find out all the hard times Jackie had to face in order to become equal.
We think this book is totally awesome because Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play professional baseball and this is the story of his life. "Jackie, Here is your cousin," the other team said as they through a black cat onto the baseball diamond. We thought that was really mean of the other team. We thought it was sad when Jackie's rag ball broke. This book is all about prejudice, tolerance, and acceptance.
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This profound and intense debut novel is the story of a young African American woman from West Philadelphia who finds her path to a bright future in gentrified Brooklyn, New York, blocked when she can't let go of the love she lost.
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In the early 1990s, selling condoms was highly controversial in Vietnam. For so long, condoms had been distributed to each household throughout the country for free for family planning use only. Condoms were not used for promoting safe sex. It was extremely difficult to convince the media to advertise condoms, very hard to convince the government that it was possible to generate revenue from selling condoms. People found it embarrassing to buy condoms in shops or drugs stores.


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I went straight from trainer kite to the water, so I never tried land kiteboarding. I'm moving next year so I'll be 2.5 hours from kitesurfing.
Is it worth it to landboard, or is it a step back from kitesurfing? How fun is it in comparison?
I've read the debate on a landkiting forum. Some suggest land injuries are worse but less often fatal. Though I've crashed hard at speed from great heights and the water sure feels hard, I'm much more worried about crashing on the land.
Others say that you can landkite in less wind. But as I understand it, with the right gear you can kite in super low wind. Maybe my money is better spent on a huge kite or a race board to make marginal days in the water more fun?
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Paddling the length of the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the Golden Gate seems an almost inevitable Valley adventure. But few people ever do it.
Paddling the length of the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the Golden Gate seems an almost inevitable Valley adventure. But few people ever do it.
It's a long journey, upwards of 200 miles. There aren't many public spots along the way. The surroundings are often vacant and eerie. And a stretch of the river runs dry.
Now, however, an intrepid CNN columnist is kayaking the river. John D. Sutter is talking to residents along the way, using Twitter to involve people.
The sunburned Sutter paddled into Stockton over the weekend. We met at Nena's waterfront restaurant.
"It's cool and strange to be in a city and eat prepared food," said Sutter, 31. After two weeks of roughing it, the weary Sutter joked he came gratefully into civilization "like huddled masses."
Sutter explained his mission. "I go to bottom-of-the-list places and advocate on their behalf."
He decided to explore the San Joaquin after seeing it ranked America's most endangered river.
First he hiked to the headwaters far above the dam (add scores more miles to his journey). There he saw the San Joaquin as Nature creates it: clear, cold, tumbling. Full of life.
Then, on June 14th, he put in a kayak just below Friant east of Fresno. There, too, the water swirls fresh and cold.
And runs swift in places. On one of Sutter's first days, a strong current dragged him into a thicket of trees. The kayak dumped. His go cam went. His wallet went with it.
Since then, "I do think I have gotten better," Sutter said. "The main thing is to read the water. And go where it wants you to go."
Kayaking downriver, Sutter soon realized the San Joaquin is not dead, as some say. He witnessed a baptism. And a wedding. He met a man bringing at-risk boys to fish. A man who hunts clams with his feet. One farm woman reading his tweets waited by the river for two hours to meet him.
"People are responding and helping me understand and changing the way I see things," he said. "It's something I didn't foresee."
Sutter talks with farmers, enviros, characters he encounters randomly, much of which he tweets. A sample tweet:
" 'There are farmers who are going to commit suicide ... You're working with a gun to your head.' George Delgado."
The river flows healthily until the Mendota Pools. That switchyard diverts fresh water to farms. Farms return brown, recirculated water. "From there on it's clearly not the water I was hanging with, where the water is cold, blue, fresh, clean," Sutter said.
Still, Sutter resists a polarized view of the water wars.
"I don't think you can write off people who are offended by the settlement," he said, referring to south Valley farmers who chafe at the San Joaquin River restoration program, the outcome of a historic lawsuit to revive the river.
Opponents of the settlement and supporters of the Delta tunnels plan are not evil, Sutter said. Some are ma and pa farmers, not land barons or corporate ag.
"The whole system is spread over so many people who don't mean to do wrong. But you have this system that in the macro sense is failing."
It's a human failing, he said.
"One of the things about water is it makes people look beyond their own self-interest. People have to depend on each other. But you have lawsuits, not dialogue."
Nowhere is the failing starker than the place where the river runs dry.
"Standing in the spot where the river dries up, it felt kind of surreal," Sutter recalled. "Really sad. I was mad at the river, mad at the system that made it that way."
"This is the second biggest river in California," he tweeted. "Once home to a vibrant salmon population. Tapped out."
Sutter slogged through deep sand in summer heat with no shade, his water running out.
He reached water again, and he paddled on. One day he woke to find tidal water lifting a kayak he had hauled onto dry land. "And I was like, 'Oh! I must be in the Delta.' "
He took a side trip to the Tracy pumps on Monday. Now he's probably well on his way to the Golden Gate, having drawn attention to an overlooked river.
Follow an epic reporting feat at #endangeredriver.
"It's a troubled river," Sutter said. "It has a lot of problems. But it is a living river. A lot of people love it."
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The map that my project deals with
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My functions that deal with my problem
(defun look (direction loc)
(cdr (assoc direction (choices loc))))
(defun ValidMove(direction loc)
((eql nil (look direction loc))nil)
(t t)))
(defun move(direction)
((validmove direction loc)(setq loc (look direction loc)))
(t '(Ouch! Robbie hit a wall.))))
So here is what's going on. I made a "validmove" function to determine whether or not moving a direction from a location will lead to nowhere. Based on that, I made a move function to move to that location if that move can happen.
My problem: The "move" only works once at a time. If I do 2 move commands in a row, it says "Ouch! Robbie hit a wall." for any case. I'm guessing it has to do with the "(setq loc (look direction loc))) " in my move function, which makes sense. Everytime I comple the move function I need to do a "setq loc" to a room then do a move again. However, I do need loc to change once a move has been made to another room. So how can I fix this?


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Such a cap is opposed by many in the contractor community, and the Obama administration has favored a lower cap that would apply only to senior executives.
The amendment, approved by voice vote, was offered by Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
Under current law, a contractor can charge taxpayers $693,951 for the salaries of each of its five highest-paid employees, based on a formula adopted in the late 1990s.
"Taxpayers should not be on the hook for exorbitant government contractor salaries," Boxer said in a statement. "This amendment ensures that no defense contractor will make more in taxpayer funds than the president of the United States."
Grassley said, "We can't afford to waste increasingly limited defense dollars. This amendment goes after an unnecessary expenditure by containing runaway spending in a type of contract used extensively by the Department of Defense."
The House-passed version of the Defense bill would extend the current cap of slightly less than $700,000 to all employees.
The Boxer amendment is opposed by an alliance of contractors called the Acquisition Reform Working Group. In a Nov. 29 letter, the group warned it "could force companies to reduce its employees' compensation; in turn, these shrinking salaries will make the defense sector less attractive to top talent, which could then negatively impact DoD missions."
The harm to defense companies from lowering the cap, the contractors continued, "would be further compounded by broadening the scope of application to cover all federal contractor employees; highly skilled innovators and technology experts would likely focus their skill sets on the commercial market, thus eliminating the government's ability to develop effective critical mission solutions."
Debate on the Senate floor was tinged by the week's broader political dispute over whether to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for an extension of a "holiday" on Social Security taxes.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said, "while targeting the middle class, Republicans proposed to do nothing to cut back on excessive subsidies for many large corporations that benefit from government contracts." Reid said the contractors, who now total 5 million, "caught fire during the Republican control of the presidency."
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said his party's proposal to pay for the Social Security holiday by extending the freeze on federal pay, "is a much smarter approach to extending the temporary payroll tax cut than the one proposed by Democrats involving permanent tax hikes on job creators."


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Greetings from Texas. I had to leave town for the Pirates series — the last of this terrific Nationals homestand, so bear with me as the site is a little behind on the presidents race standings. I can piece it together later, but if you were at any of the games and saw who won, please share here!
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First off, i wrote this thread the first time and had it it gcc, and i went back to the main page and it wasnt there, so if it happens to turn up i apologize, but im not seeing it. So with that aside, I was checking around for linux security guides and I came across this site http://www.intelinfo.com/free_computer_books.html
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Mission Operations
The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) is a collaborative venture between NASA, ESA and JAXA, which is under study for launch in 2020. Initial design studies have been performed in ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) at ESTEC with the support of ESOC and by NASA's Mission Design Laboratory (MDL) at the GSFC. This article describes the mission operations concept that has been derived by the ESA studies.
IXO will have a launch mass of around 6600 kg and will be about 10 metres long and 4 metres in diameter in its launch configuration. The nominal mission lifetime is five years, with consumables sized for 10 years of operations.
IXO will be launched on either an Ariane 5 ECA or Atlas V 551, with direct injection towards a large-amplitude halo orbit around the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Sun-Earth system. The main advantages to this orbit are a very stable thermal environment and minimal shadowing by the Earth or Moon. The journey to L2 will take just over 3½ months.
Transfer orbit
IXO's orbit has been designed to be eclipse-free during the transfer and for at least the nominal mission lifetime of five years. No deterministic manoeuvres are required. However, correction manoeuvres are needed to compensate for the dispersion of the injection state vector caused by launcher accuracy limitations.
After the injection by the launcher, two days will be needed for obtaining tracking data. This time will be also be used for initial spacecraft commissioning. Two days after injection, a correction manoeuvre will be performed. Sufficient Δv budget has been allocated to allow a fixed launch orbit, simplifying the interface with the launch service provider.
More tracking will be needed after this first correction, which will again be performed in parallel with operational activities. A second correction manoeuvre will be performed 10 days after injection.
The deployment of the instrument module can take place following the day-10 manoeuvre, after which the remaining spacecraft commissioning tasks will be performed.
Operational orbit
IXO's operational orbit about L2 has a semi-major axis of 800 000 km. No insertion manoeuvre is required.
In the selected L2 orbit, it is possible to always have the same side of the spacecraft nominally pointing towards the Sun. However, to increase the instantaneous coverage of IXO, the spacecraft has been designed for a pitch angle of up to 20 degrees. Therefore, at any time the IXO telescope can access a 40-degree wide wedge of sky at all ecliptic latitudes. In addition, the spacecraft has been designed to enable a roll angle of up to
Ground segment
In the ESA concept, routine communications between IXO and Earth could be via a single ESA ground station, nominally the 35-metre antenna at the New Norcia station in Western Australia. The Cebreros ground station in Spain will be used if the spacecraft elevation is too low or the weather is too bad at New Norcia.
Communications with the spacecraft will be possible for about three hours per day, with a telemetry data rate of 8.7 Mbps allowing 90 Gb of data transfer per day. The spacecraft's mass memory will be sized to store science data from two days of observations at the highest data rate, in order to be able to cope with a failed telemetry downlink sequence.
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