text: CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras. In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains. The waves swished along the smooth beach; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba-trees; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter. Suddenly the town was full of excitement. A native boy dashed down a grass-grown street, shrieking: "Busca el Señor Goodwin. Ha venido un telégrafo por el!" The word passed quickly. Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio. The cry for Señor Goodwin was taken up by a dozen officious voices. The main street running parallel to the beach became populated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch. Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and plaintively carolled: "Un telégrafo por Señor Goodwin!" The comandante, Don Senor el Coronel Encarnación Rios, who was loyal to the Ins and suspected Goodwin's devotion to the Outs, hissed: "Aha!" and wrote in his secret memorandum book the accusive fact that Señor Goodwin had on that momentous date received a telegram. In the midst of the hullabaloo a man stepped to the door of a small wooden building and looked out. Above the door was a sign that read "Keogh and Clancy"— a nomenclature that seemed not to be indigenous to that tropical soil. The man in the door was Billy Keogh, scout of fortune and progress and latter-day rover of the Spanish Main. Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores. Outside the shop were set two large frames filled with specimens of their art and skill. Keogh leaned in the doorway, his bold and humorous countenance wearing a look of interest at the unusual influx of life and sound into the street. When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted: "Hey! Frank!" in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamour of the natives was drowned and silenced. Fifty yards away, on the seaward side of the street, stood the abode of the consul for the United States. Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call. He had been smoking with Willard Geddie, the consul, on the back porch of the consulate, which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio. "Hurry up," shouted Keogh. "There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you. You want to be careful about these things, my boy. It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way. You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a revolution." Goodwin had strolled up the street and met the boy with the message. The ox-eyed women gazed at him with shy admiration, for his type drew them. He was big, blonde, and jauntily dressed in white linen, with buckskin zapatos. His manner was courtly, with a sort of kindly truculence in it, tempered by a merciful eye. When the telegram had been delivered, and the bearer of it dismissed with a gratuity, the relieved populace returned to the contiguities of shade from which curiosity had drawn it-the women to their baking in the mud ovens under the orange-trees, or to the interminable combing of their long, straight hair; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the cantinas. Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep, and read his telegram. It was from Bob Englehart, an American, who lived in San Mateo, the capital city of Anchuria, eighty miles in the interior. Englehart was a gold miner, an ardent revolutionist and "good people." That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the telegram he had sent. It had been his task to send a confidential message to his friend in Coralio. This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English, for the eye politic in Anchuria was an active one. The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard. But Englehart was a diplomatist. There existed but one code upon which he might make requisition with promise of safety the great and potent code of Slang. So, here is the message that slipped, unconstrued, through the fingers of curious officials, and came to the eye of Goodwin: "His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB." This screed, remarkable as it was, had no mystery for Goodwin. He was the most successful of the small advance-guard of speculative Americans that had invaded Anchuria, and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction. He had taken up political intrigue as a matter of business. He was acute enough to wield a certain influence among the leading schemers, and he was prosperous enough to be able to purchase the respect of the petty officeholders. There was always a revolutionary party; and to it he had always allied himself; for the adherents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours. There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores. If the wheel successfully revolved, Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior. Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a |


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Breitbart: Hold on to Your Socks, More Weiner Info Tomorrow; UPDATE: New Woman Comes Forward
I already linked this in the update to the post below. But it seems like it deserves a post all its own.
Breitbart tweets:
Last chance to join the #FollowBreitbart juggernaut! (Well, not really.) #Weinergate taking new turn tomorrow in AM.
Boom! Weinergate taking a new turn. TOMORROW.
UPDATE: Andrew has the announcement at Big Government:
A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely Rep. Weiner's explanations that he was the victim of a "prank" or a "hack."
The detailed new information suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.
BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com were approached regarding this information more than a week prior to the separate, independent event of Friday, May 27, 2011, when a link to the now-infamous "gray underwear" photograph appeared publicly on Rep. Weiner's Twitter feed.
We will be updating BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com throughout the day with photographs, timelines, and other clarifying details. However, we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.
I guess you could call that changing the dynamic.
The first post and photograph is fairly innocuous.
This is TOTAL SPECULATION and I KNOW NOTHING . . . but I have this weird feeling that "me" card is going to resurface in another picture . . . this time pointing at something besides his face.
Unlike other times, when I signal something I already know is coming, this one is just a guess on my part. I promise.
Stay glued to Big Government all day for more.
And remember: always trust content from Patterico.
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To the uninitiated, a Winemaker dinner can sound like a stuffy affair of wine snobs, rich food and some guy walking around telling you how great his wine is. Well, sometimes they are like that, but not usually. Bacchus and Beery Wine Blog, as you might imagine, has attended many winemaker dinners but never one so fun, entertaining and interactive as the wine dinner and blending contest recently put on by Australia's Mollydooker Wines at Morton's Steakhouse in the Denver Tech Center. Let's not call this a winemaker dinner, not even an event. It was more like a carnival of wine, in the best of ways. Continue reading »
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Listen: Like To Get To Know You / Spanky & Our Gang
God, I hated Spanky & Our Gang when they were current. As a kid, they just sounded like safe sonic sludge, a cross between The Mamas & The Papas and The Letterman. Being impatiently addicted to the English group image, this bunch were simply hideous visually, out of shape and way too American.
Add to that, they were signed to the US Mercury/Philips/Fontana labels. As far as I was concerned, any money and manpower directed toward them took away from The Herd, The Troggs, Manfred Mann, The New Vaudeville Band, The Pretty Things and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Trust me, this did not sit well.
Truth be told, I was kind of wrong. Indeed, they probably did rob those other acts of company resources, but musically, they were pristine. To be fair, as the years passed, I found Spanky & Our Gang to be a nagging guilty pleasure, and one that eventually carried no guilt. Their collection of hits and non-hits sound even better with age. In fact, very psychedelic, aided in no small way by some of the earliest stereo 7′ pressings I can recall.
Check out both the production and arrangement of any Spanky & Our Gang single, start with 'Like To Get To Know You'. This was on the radio constantly in '68 and rivals Richard Harris's Jimmy Webb written/produced 'MacArthur Park' for the flowery mini symphony slot of the era.


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Everybody has a theory about what's wrong with the kids these days. Some scream that they play too many video games. Others say that they eat too much fast food. Some say it's the teachers, whereas others say it's the parents. Some argue it's cell phones and others argue it's street gangs. But if all of these people have one thing in common, it's that they believe there is something wrong with this generation of children.
Newspaper columnist and child advocate, Richard Louv, threw his hat into this never-ending argument with his book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder. And ironically, Louv agrees with pretty much every theory postulated above. Indeed, he links the vast majority of the problems with youth in America today to living inside with a focus on technology in conjunction with a systemic lack of outdoor and nature related experiences. He calls the result of this modern lifestyle, "nature deficit disorder."
Louv takes a close look at many of the chronic problems that children have today and relates them directly back to wilderness and nature oriented experiences. On the one hand there are the creative elements that evolve in children who spend time outdoors. They create games and fantasies, build forts and take on characters. On the other hand they develop a number of higher function cognitive and psychological skills by spending time in such an environment. They do this through self-imposed rules that evolve out of unstructured play.
Louv provides an apt example with a discussion about a treefort. Children learn a great deal from both the building of the fort, as well as the subsequent play in the fort. First, there's the construction. That's where they learn about architecture, mathematics and geometry. Then there's the use of the finished product. Suddenly, it's no longer a bunch of wood haphazardly nailed to a tree, but a spaceship or a castle. This unstructured play allows children to stretch their imaginations. Their fantasy worlds have rules (i.e. the tree is a monster and if you touch a certain branch it will eat you). The playacting that takes place in a tree fort allows children to work on their executive function. This cognitive skill is incredibly important to a child throughout his or her entire life. Strong executive function helps students concentrate in school; it helps them control themselves and it helps them understand abstract concepts.
Louv offers a number of dire warnings in his book. Children who don't spend time outdoors will not value green space or fight for the environment in the future. Children who don't go camping or spend time in national parks will not become stewards of parks and wilderness areas. Children who don't spend time outside are far more likely to develop childhood obesity, ADD or ADHD among a number of other ailments.
Ultimately, Last Child in the Woods is not all gloom and doom. Louv passionately argues that a return to the "way it was when we were kids" when parents just let their kids run around the neighborhood to climb trees and dig holes and ride bikes and play will at least partially heal a number of these social ills. He argues that it's time for our culture to reacquaint our children with the outdoors. There is no doubt that those who read this book will be convinced. The only problem with his argument is that he is likely to be making it to the very people who already encourage their children to spend time outside.
--Jason D. Martin


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HIMSS Workforce Survey Shows Positive Outlook for Healthcare IT Hiring
HIMSS Analytics released the results of the first HIMSS workforce survey, sponsored by Medix IT, which examines hiring trends and barriers for healthcare provider organizations and IT vendors. The report, based on a survey of 224 executives working for hospital/healthcare system IT and vendor organizations, provides human resource leaders insights into the current hiring environment, recruitment and retention tactics, hiring plans for 2013 and resources currently employed by health IT providers and vendors.
"As healthcare organizations become increasingly sophisticated with their IT initiatives, human resource leaders are experiencing a new set of hiring challenges," said Jennifer Horowitz, senior director of research for HIMSS Analytics. "By identifying those challenges and hiring trends, we hope this new report will be considered a resource for career development professionals as they plan their strategic personnel efforts."
More than 85 percent of survey respondents indicated that their organization hired at least one employee in 2012. Only 13 percent reported implementing layoffs during the same time frame. While the health IT hiring environment has been very positive for both healthcare provider organizations and vendors, vendors were more likely to report hiring staff than were healthcare providers. Looking ahead, 79 percent of organizations also plan to hire additional staff in the coming year.


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University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) seeks adjunct faculty to teach, on-site and online in the Graduate Business Administration program.
Specifically, we are seeking faculty for the following course(s):
Business Analytics
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- Terminal degree in Business Administration or a related field from an accredited institution of higher learning.
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Who We Are and Who We Serve
UMGC—one of 12 degree-granting institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM)—is a mission-driven institution with seven core values that guide us in all we do. At the top of the list is "Students First," and we strive to do just that for our 90,000 students at home and abroad. From its start in 1947, UMGC has demonstrated its commitment to adult learners. We recognize that adult students need flexibility and options. UMGC is proud to be a global, 24-hour, institution of higher learning. The typical UMGC student is an adult learner juggling a career, family, and other priorities. Roughly 80% work full time, half are parents, and half are minority students. They are continuing their education to better themselves, their families, and their professional opportunities. UMGC is also a leading higher education provider to the U.S. military, enrolling 55,000 active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members, veterans, and family members annually. We are proud of our military heritage and are committed to this service.
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(Nairobi) – The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group has increased its attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR) since the beginning of 2012, putting civilians in affected areas in need of urgent protection, Human Rights Watch said today. Attacks also continue in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The LRA carried out at least 53 new attacks in Congo and CAR between January and March, abducting 90 civilians and killing nine others, according to new research by Human Rights Watch in CAR and United Nations (UN) documentation. The number of attacks in southeastern CAR is a significant increase over attacks reported in 2011.
"The increase in LRA attacks shows that the rebel group is not a spent force and remains a serious threat to civilians," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The African Union, United Nations, and governments in the region should take urgent steps to implement comprehensive civilian protection measures and put real muscle into making them work."
During a three-week research mission to CAR and Uganda in March and April, Human Rights Watch interviewed 23 victims and witnesses to the attacks, as well as local leaders, civil society representatives, military officials, and UN and African Union (AU) representatives.
Two sisters from Agoumar, ages 43 and 62, told Human Rights Watch that they had gone fishing on February 27 when the LRA abducted them. They were taken by a group of three fighters, who forced the women to carry honey, peanuts, and heavy bags of flour that had been looted from a nearby granary.
"We were fully loaded with goods and had to walk in the forest for three days and three nights without stopping," one of the women said. "They beat us in a horrible way, and when my sister got seriously ill after the third night, the fighters decided to let us go. Our brother and nephew who were abducted on the same day are still missing, and we fear they may have been killed."
Civilians across the region visited by Human Rights Watch said they live in fear of the next LRA attack. Over 400,000 people remain displaced due to LRA attacks, including at least 2,000 newly displaced in 2012. Many civilians told Human Rights Watch they desperately needed protection.
In the area around Ngouyo, a village 30 kilometers south of Djema, the LRA has carried out 12 attacks in the past two years, including two attacks in December 2011 and three in March 2012. Only two soldiers from the CAR armed forces are based in Ngouyo. Since the attacks in December the Ugandan army has deployed soldiers to Ngouyo, but villagers are afraid to leave the village and fear the Ugandan soldiers might soon depart, leaving them at the mercy of the LRA.
"It is very difficult for us to cultivate our farms, and now people are suffering from hunger," a local leader in Ngouyo told Human Rights Watch. "Since the attacks started, we only go to our farms in groups and only to the farms within five kilometers of the village center. But since the recent attacks in the area, no one has left the village to go to their farms for the past two weeks."
There is no phone network in Ngouyo or radio communication, so villagers often have no means of reporting LRA attacks.
On March 8, suspected LRA fighters attacked a group of seven people from Ngouyo who were fishing in the Ouara River, about 15 kilometers north of the village. An elderly mother of 10 who witnessed the attack told Human Rights Watch what happened: "They told my son to get down on the ground, and then they tied his hands behind his back. They looted all of our goods, and left with my son and our belongings. When I cried out to protest, they hit me on my arm with a bayonet and told me not to follow them." The woman's 29-year-old son is still missing.
Human Rights Watch documented other attacks in the region that may have been carried out by the LRA, including a massacre of 13 artisanal gold diggers in the Cawa Safari camp area around March 20. Further investigations are required to determine if the attack was carried out by the LRA or other actors, although the massacre resembled previous LRA attacks in Congo. The victims were beaten to death with machetes and pieces of wood. Some were tied up or stripped naked before they were killed. The LRA is the only armed group suspected to have been active in the camp area recently.
CAR judicial authorities are currently investigating the massacre.
Whereabouts of the LRA Leaders
The LRA's leader, Joseph Kony, is wanted on an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 2002 and 2004 in Uganda. The Ugandan military reports that they suspect he is hiding in the Darfur region of Sudan with an estimated 100 to 150 fighters, family members, and abducted children and adults. Two other LRA leaders also sought on ICC arrest warrants, Dominic Ongwen and Okot Odhiambo, are reported by the Ugandan military to be hiding in the remote forests around the Vovodo and Chinko Rivers in CAR with an estimated 100 fighters divided up into small groups. Both Kony and the other LRA leaders forcibly hold an unknown number of abducted children and adults.
Col. Binansio Okumu (also known as Binany) and another LRA commander known as Obol are suspected to be in Congo, possibly near Garamba National Park, where the LRA were previously based. These commanders were responsible for the Makombo massacre in December 2009 which left 345 civilians dead and over 250 abducted.
"No government should give safe haven or support to Joseph Kony or other LRA leaders wanted for mass atrocities," Van Woudenberg said. "If Kony is in Darfur, then the government of Sudan should join the regional efforts to apprehend him and send him to The Hague."
In recent months, the LRA has mostly operated in small groups, raiding fields and abducting civilians to transport looted goods. Some abductees who managed to escape told Human Rights Watch that Kony and other senior LRA leaders may have given instructions to LRA fighters to avoid large-scale killing to keep their locations hidden from the armed forces pursuing them.
A 19-year-old from southeastern CAR, interviewed by Human Rights Watch, spent over a year with the LRA before she escaped in January. She described the LRA's current strategy as looting when supplies were needed, but not to kill since the LRA were under constant pressure from the Ugandan army and the leaders did not want to reveal the group's locations.
But LRA violence against those abducted continued, Human Rights Watch said.
"As soon as I was abducted, the LRA taught us their language, Acholi, and told us their rules," the young woman told Human Rights Watch. "We had to wash three times per day, prepare the food well for the fighters, keep their clothes clean, and if we tried to escape, we would be killed. Two people who were abducted from Agoumar tried to escape, and the LRA forced us, the other children, to beat them to death with heavy sticks. The LRA fighters treated us horribly. If we committed an error, they would beat us terribly and we even risked being killed. That's why I had to escape. I managed to flee when they sent me to look for water."
Other armed groups, armed cattle herders and bandits also operate in this region of CAR, adding to the insecurity in the area and sometimes making it difficult for residents to identify who attacked them. For example, since early 2012, the Popular Front for Recovery (Front Populaire Pour le Redressement, FPR), a Chadian rebel group led by Baba Laddé and formerly based in northern CAR, is reported by military authorities in CAR to have moved south toward the areas where the LRA also operates.
Lack of Civilian Protection
Armed forces from the region and the UN have adopted few measures to protect civilians who live in the areas where the LRA operate, most notably in CAR. Only around 100 CAR soldiers are deployed to the vast eastern region. In many towns there are only two to five ill-equipped soldiers with limited transport and communications means. Some villages and towns have no soldiers deployed at all.
The Ugandan army has an estimated 600 to 800 troops deployed in CAR as part of the joint operation against the LRA, but few are deployed to population areas to protect civilians and instead are focused on tracking the LRA's leaders.
In late 2011, the United States deployed 100 special forces personnel to the LRA-affected region as military advisers to the armed forces carrying out operations against the LRA. In CAR, these advisors are based in Djema and Obo. The US deployment has helped improve civilian-military relations, coordination between the armies of the various countries, and the conduct of the Ugandan soldiers, who previously were accused of drunken disorderly conduct and some cases of sexual violence. Ugandan army officers told Human Rights Watch that intelligence gathered recently from US aerial surveillance has also permitted their forces to more accurately deploy troops to areas where the LRA is present, and that intelligence is now shared with the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) in a more efficient way.
The US military advisers' impact on civilian protection has been limited, however, by the lack of authorization from the US Defense Department to move outside of the towns where they are deployed to assess the impact of LRA attacks on communities, to facilitate humanitarian assistance, to expand demobilization activities, and to accompany regional forces on patrols.
Human Rights Watch called on the US advisers to develop concrete measures to protect civilians from retaliatory attacks by the LRA as part of the joint military planning.
"Despite the presence of foreign armies and their own security forces, civilians in CAR have shockingly little protection from the LRA's brutal attacks," Van Woudenberg said. "Tackling this protection gap and apprehending the LRA's leaders wanted on ICC arrest warrants are both urgently needed to end the LRA's abuses."
The UN has a peacebuilding mission in CAR, known as BINUCA, which was mandated by the UN Security Council in December to report on LRA attacks and support demobilization and disarmament activities for LRA combatants. But no BINUCA personnel have been deployed to the LRA-affected areas to date.
In March, the AU announced a Regional Cooperation Initiative to strengthen efforts to combat the LRA, including the deployment of a 5,000-member Regional Task Force incorporating soldiers from Uganda, Congo, CAR, and South Sudan, most of whom are already deployed in the region. The European Union and other donors have said they would support this initiative.
It is not yet clear how the current military forces conducting operations against the LRA will transition to a new joint command structure or if they have the capacity to deploy the troops needed to protect civilians adequately. While there have been efforts to improve coordination and information sharing between the armed forces, this too has been far from adequate, especially on planning for civilian protection. Tensions between the Congolese and Ugandan armies have hampered the operations. In late 2011, ahead of Congolese national elections, the Congolese government ordered all Ugandan soldiers to leave Congo. They have not yet been permitted to return.
Human Rights Watch also called on the AU and its partners to enhance communication and road infrastructure, and to improve demobilization efforts of LRA fighters, especially in CAR.
"It's civilians who pay the price when the governments of the region are unable to resolve their differences or coordinate their efforts," Van Woudenberg said. "The AU and the UN's promises to help coordinate and strengthen these efforts cannot wait a day longer."


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Hollywood has lost one of its leading ladies. Lauren Bacall has died. She was 89. Her death was confirmed today by the Humphrey Bogart estate, but no details have been announced. Lauren Bacall was born Betty Jean Perske in New York City. She was loved by audiences for her smoky voice and alluring gaze from the 1940s through the end of the last century. Joining me now is NPR's Neda Ulaby to talk about her life, her loves and the legendary career of Lauren Bacall. Neda, what made Lauren Bacall so legendary?
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Well, she hated to be called a legend. But it started with her perormance in the 1944 movie "To Have And Have Not" in which she uttered one immortal line.
LAUREN BACALL: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything - not a thing - oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
ULABY: Now, Lauren Bacall delivered that line with something that became known as the look which kind of epitomized cool screen acting - this lowered lids, these upward gaze. But she felt anything but cool doing it, as she told NPR in 2005.
BACALL: I just found I was so nervous because I was tense - tense and terrified. I discovered that when I bent my head down - I lowered my chin and then looked up, was a way for me to hold my head steady - to keep it steady. And of course then somebody decided it was the look but, I mean, I didn't decide that. I just did it just to save my skin.
SIEGEL: How did Lauren Bacall get started in the movies to begin with?
ULABY: As a model, actually. She was only 16 years old, a recent high schoool graduate when she attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She got through a year, ran out of money, they wanted her to stay, but at that time there were only scholarships available for men. So she dropped out, started modeling, caught the attention of Diana Vreeland and ended up on the cover of Harper's Bazaar in 1943. Then everyone wanted her including Howard Hawks who directed "To Have And Have Not."
SIEGEL: I mentioned the confirmation of her death by the Humphrey Bogart estate. She was, of course, part of that famous film marriage with Bogart. How did that come about?
ULABY: The chemistry you saw on screen in that movie, "To Have And Have Not," was not just acting. She married Bogart when she was 20. He was 25 years older - his fourth marriage. And he died from lung cancer only about 12 or 13 years after their marriage. After that she went on to date Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, and she married Jason Robards - couple of very hard-living guys. And I mention this partly because it's Hollywood glamour but it also did affect her career. during her 8-year marriage with Jason Robards, Lauren Bacall made only three movies.
SIEGEL: So what did she do after the movies?
ULABY: She did some time on stage. She was on broadway in "Cactus Flower" and the musical "Applause." She made a few other movies. A lot of people might remember "Murder On The Orient Express." But she - it made her so happy to work being directed by a woman, Barbra Streisand, in 1996, "The Mirror Has Two Faces," the movie that finally got her an Oscar nomination. Now, we have a little piece of tape of her acting with Streisand in that movie.
BARBRA STREISAND: (As Rose) Cappuccinos - would you like cappuccinos? How about that, huh? Greg, why don't you come to the kitchen and help...
BACALL: (As Hannah) Rose, why don't you go put the coffee on?
STREISAND: (As Rose) Mother, I made dinner. Why don't you put the coffee on?
BACALL: (As Hannah) I raised two daughters. I buried a husband. I've made my coffee.
ULABY: Lauren Bacall - when you think about it, she was the cinematic equivalent of a cup of coffee - bracing, beautiful - she went straight to your nervous system.
SIEGEL: Thank you, Neda. That's NPR's Neda Ulaby talking about actress Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall has died at age 89. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Study of the process of coal transfer by means of auger effector within the aggregate of boiling bed
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Purpose. The development and analysis of operation of a boiling bed aggregate with auger effector to feed and transfer coal inside a working chamber in the process of its thermal destruction.
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While Virginia studies whether to expand Medicaid eligibility under President Obama's health care law, the state's hospitals have lobbied hard to accept billions in federal funds as part of the expansion deal.
Under the current system, hospitals receive federal funding through Disproportionate Share Hospital grants they use to cover part of the expense of health care costs for Medicaid-eligible residents. Those grants are expected to see significant cuts under Obama's law, but to make up the gap the federal government plans to pump billions of dollars of funding to states that expand their Medicaid eligibility rolls.
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that states couldn't be forced to expand Medicaid, the question of whether federal funds would be accepted came to the forefront, potentially leaving a vacuum where the DSH grants once stood.
The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association has been lobbying hard to expand the program.
"The cuts have already started under Medicare," said Katharine Webb, senior vice president for the VHHA. "Medicare for most of the hospitals in Virginia is a significant source of revenue. I have got a couple of small hospitals where it's 80 percent of their revenue. We've had some hospitals [have] some downsizing."
No Economic Benefit for Expansion
VHHA tried to drive home the point in January with an economic report that projected Virginia would receive $3.9 billion in annual economic benefits and 30,000 jobs through Medicaid expansion, but Charles Blahous, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, said the benefits wouldn't outweigh the expansion in costs.
"In general the economic benefit argument for Medicaid expansion is unpersuasive," he said. "There are certainly other health and social policy arguments in favor of Medicaid expansion, but most health care policy experts agree that an important policy imperative is to slow the growth of national health spending down to sustainable rates, not to increase it."
Higher Tax Burden
Some fear the state budget could balloon with the additional health care costs. In 2009, Virginia spent $9.5 billion on Medicare and $5.48 billion on Medicaid. Those costs would rise as Virginia accepts a greater share of Medicaid costs with the federal funds.
An Urban Institute study published in November 2012 projected Virginia would spend $52.68 billion on Medicaid from 2013 to 2022 if it accepted the expansion. Without the expansion, Virginia is projected to spend $50 billion in the same period. The Heritage Foundation has calculated, based on the Urban Institute's assumptions, that accepting the expansion would require an additional $902 million from taxpayers through 2022.
Gov. Bob McDonnell formed the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission to study how and whether Virginia would accept the expansion, but the outcome of the upcoming governor's election between Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe may effectively decide the issue.
Carten Cordell ([email protected]) writes for Virginia Watchdog.
Internet Resources:
Heritage Foundation: "Obamacare and the Medicaid Expansion: How Does Your State Fare?"


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How different types of investment income are taxed
Learn how interest income, capital gains, dividends and retirement income are treated at filing time.
The federal tax system is not exactly straightforward. There are myriad deductions and credits, various tax brackets, additional payroll and Medicare surtaxes, and a slew of different categories to help us define our income … for tax purposes.
You'd think there'd be only two: regular income and investment income. Regular income would be what you get in your paycheck, and investment income would be the money you earn from investments. But even something as seemingly simple as investment income has subcategories, each taxed differently from the next. Let's break it down.
Interest income
There are certificates of deposit and high-yield savings accounts (rare these days), and bonds. Interest income becomes part of your regular income and is generally taxed at your marginal rate during the year in which you receive it, even if it's reinvested. This is what gets reported on your 1099-INT forms.
Capital gains
When you sell a security, any positive difference between what you paid and what you earned is called a capital gain. If you bought 1,000 shares for example, at $14 each and sold them for $20,000, you'd have a $6,000 gain that would be subject to taxes. For most people, securities held over a year (long-term capital gains) will either incur a 0%, 15% or 20% tax. Short-term capital gains are taxed at your ordinary income tax rate.
Dividend income is derived from equities that pay shareholders dividends on a regular basis. Qualified dividends are treated to the same preferred rates as long-term capital gains.
Retirement income
Withdrawals from traditional IRAs, 401(k)s or annuities and pension income are typically taxable, while withdrawals from Roth IRAs or employer-sponsored plans funded with after-tax contributions are not taxable. But some subcategories are trickier. If you make more than $25,000, or $32,000 if married filing jointly, up to 85% of your Social Security benefits will be taxed. Income from an immediate annuity is taxed if the annuity was purchased with money that has never been taxed, say in an IRA. Interest income from municipal bonds is generally exempt from federal taxes, but it could still be subject to state or local income taxes, alternative minimum tax, or partial taxation of the income in certain instances.
These examples are merely guidelines. It's important to remember that taxes aren't the only thing to consider. Your personal tax and financial advisors can help you select appropriate income-generating securities for your needs and determine your exact tax liability.
Next steps
As you plan for what taxes you'll pay on your investments, start by:
- Understanding the different types of income
- Considering your entire investment portfolio
- Asking your advisor about the tax liability for each of your investments
Raymond James does not provide tax services. Please discuss these matters with the appropriate professional.


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Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio
Don't you remember you told me you love me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby
I love you, I really do
Loneliness is such a sad affair, and I can hardly wait
To be with you again
What to say, to make you come again?
Come back to me again, and play your sad guitar
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Coral can recover from climate change damage
A study by the University of Exeter provides the first evidence that coral reefs can recover from the devastating effects of climate change.
Published Monday 11 January in the journal PLOS One, the research shows for the first time that coral reefs located in marine reserves can recover from the impacts of global warming.
Scientists and environmentalists have warned that coral reefs may not be able to recover from the damage caused by climate change and that these unique environments could soon be lost forever. Now, this research adds weight to the argument that reducing levels of fishing is a viable way of protecting the world's most delicate aquatic ecosystems.
Increases in ocean surface water temperatures subject coral reefs to stresses that lead quickly to mass bleaching. The problem is intensified by ocean acidification, which is also caused by increased CO2. This decreases the ability of corals to produce calcium carbonate (chalk), which is the material that reefs are made of.
Approximately 2% of the world's coral reefs are located within marine reserves, areas of the sea that are protected against potentially-damaging human activity, like dredging and fishing.
The researchers conducted surveys of ten sites inside and outside marine reserves of the Bahamas over 2.5 years. These reefs have been severely damaged by bleaching and then by hurricane Frances in the summer of 2004. At the beginning of the study, the reefs had an average of 7% coral cover. By the end of the project, coral cover in marine protected areas had increased by an average of 19%, while reefs in non-reserve sites showed no recovery.
Professor Peter Mumby of the University of Exeter said: "Coral reefs are the largest living structures on Earth and are home to the highest biodiversity on the planet. As a result of climate change, the environment that has enabled coral reefs to thrive for hundreds of thousands of years is changing too quickly for reefs to adapt.
"In order to protect reefs in the long-term we need radical action to reduce CO2 emissions. However, our research shows that local action to reduce the effects of fishing can contribute meaningfully to the fate of reefs. The reserve allowed the number of parrotfishes to increase and because parrotfish eat seaweeds, the corals could grow freely without being swamped by weeds. As a result, reefs inside the park were showing recovery whereas those with more seaweed were not. This sort of evidence may help persuade governments to reduce the fishing of key herbivores like parrotfishes and help reefs cope with the inevitable threats posed by climate change".
Professor Mumby's research was funded by National Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Reef facts
- A coral reef is made up of thin layers of calcium carbonate (limestone) secreted over thousands of years by billions of tiny soft bodied animals called coral polyps.
- Coral reefs are the world's most diverse marine ecosystems and are home to twenty-five percent of known marine species, including 4,000 species of fish, 700 species of coral and thousands of other plants and animals.
- Coral reefs have been on the planet for over 400 million years.
- The largest coral reef is the Great Barrier Reef, which stretches along the northeast coast of Australia, from the northern tip of Queensland, to just north of Bundaberg. At 2,300km long, it is the largest natural feature on Earth.
- Coral reefs occupy less than one quarter of one percent of the Earth's marine environment, yet they are home to more than a quarter of all known fish species.
- As well as supporting huge tourist industries, coral reefs protect shorelines from erosion and storm damage.
To download high quality reef videos by Professor Peter Mumby: www.reefvid.org
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is dedicated to conservation and restoration of living oceans and pledges to champion their preservation through research, education and a commitment to Science Without Borders®.
Date: 6 January 2010


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There's more to education than reading, writing, and math. Children need to learn how to control their growing bodies, deal with complex emotions, and navigate social situations.
Academic schools are great for educating the mind, but what about the rest of the child? Recent budget constraints have cut funding for physical education, music and art education, and many other "nonacademic" disciplines.
Let's look at some of these "nonacademic" areas:
Physical Fitness
Children need healthy exercise, but they also need to learn good eating habits to stay healthy, as well as gross and fine motor skills to develop their coordination and body awareness. Unfortunately, many schools don't address these needs.
Mental Discipline
It seems more and more children these days exhibit symptoms of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), and with our short-attention-span society, they need a structured way to learn to focus or concentrate. Many recent laws have stripped the ability of public schools to enforce discipline.
Emotional Self-Control
In many ways, the difference between a child and an adult is emotional control. Temper tantrums seem to come naturally to children, who have to learn over time that they cannot always get their own way and must control their emotions in order to be considerate of others. Emotional education is not part of your average school curriculum.
Social Confidence
Learning to deal with other people is a skill set that can be learned. Unfortunately, character education — the very foundation of treating people well – is not a proper academic subject.
So, where can concerned parents turn?
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As a herd of nature lovers, they continually strive to "go green" as they move toward becoming a plastic-free company. In a nutshell, Lazy One is all about keeping folks feeling warm and fuzzy, from super comfy PJ's to cozy slipper socks — all served with a hearty dose of hilarity. At Lazy One, we believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of laughter. And since the mind craves humor like the body craves comfort, we take great pride in combining both comedy and coziness in every product! So go ahead—sleep, sprawl, and snicker with Lazy One.


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Episode 154
Homesteading with Children – Teri Page
Homesteading with children has been Teri's normal. They were homesteading when their children were born and they continued homesteading after – only now incorporating the children in the daily tasks as is age appropriate. That might mean carrying the baby on the back while tending to the garden and animals or scheduling certain tasks around naptime. Continue reading


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Write for BoSox Injection: New Season Brings New Opportunity
By FanSided
Pitchers and catchers have reported across Florida and Arizona. Baseball is back. We can all breathe again.
Just as the players we watch are gearing up for the 2014 season, we are too here at FanSided MLB. In the spirit of a new season, we're opening the doors and looking to add staff at all of our 33 MLB sites. Our goal is always to bring the most coverage we can to our readers, so this could be the perfect chance to help bring your voice into that mix.
There are staff writer opportunities at all of our individual team sites (including this one), our main MLB site (Call to the Pen), our minor league site (Grading on the Curve), and our fantasy baseball site (Fantasy Baseball Cracker Jacks).
Prior online writing experience is not necessarily required, but we are going to want to see a strong example of your writing abilities. Demonstrating a strong knowledge of the team and sport, while being able to back up your opinions is a must. Staff writers should be able to commit to a minimum of 1-2 posts a week, but topic selection generally at your discretion.
There are also potential editor/co-editor opportunities for our Angels, Brewers, Reds, Orioles, and Rockies sites.
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2017 Chinese Astrology for Chicken Year
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2013 is Year of the Snake and it will arrive on February 4, 2013. (Note: Chinese New Year Day is on February 10, 2013. The first day of 2013 Chinese Astrology Year is on February 4, 2013.) Many people must be eager to know if they will have better luck in the coming year than previous years. Here, we want to use Chinese Astrology Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth) theory to explain people's fortune in 2013 and foresee what will be happening to them in the year of the Snake.
According to Chinese Five Element Astrology Calendar, 2013 is the Year of Water Snake . The color of Water in Five Elements system is related to Black. Therefore we can say 2013 is a Black Snake, Water Snake or Black Water Snake year.
Chinese Astrology is a Balance Theory of Five Elements. Each animal can be converted into Five Elements. Snake contains mainly Fire. It also contains some Metal and Earth. Snake is in the File group. Water of 2013 and Fire of Snake are opposite element. Therefore most of people will have mixing good and bad luck.
Water Snake is Fire under Water. Snake is a clam, shy, cautious and low-key animal. Snake won't attack people, unless it's disturbed or hungry. If Fire is not your favorite element, then you should keep a distance from Fire in 2013. Otherwise, if you fool with Fire, then you may get burn.
Snake is the 6th animal in the Chinese horoscope order sequence. Six (6) is an even number, Chinese horoscope treats Snake is a Yin (female) animal. But Snake contains Male Fire , Male Metal and Male Earth . The outside of Snake looks soft, but the inside is tough. Male Metal in the Snake is very special. Metal's mother element is Earth and Earth's mother element is Fire. Snake is a birth place of Male Metal. Male Metal will become mature when the autumn comes. If there are Chicken and Cow in the birth chart, then Male Metal will become very active during the fall season. Since Fire and Metal are opposite elements, people's fortune might start to change direction after summer.
Snake is a no-limb animal with fork-like tongue. Although, Snake uses its tongue to smell. People don't like the spitting tongue, which is associated with the argument from the mouth. Therefore, the snake has the potential to hurt people relationship, especially, when Tiger and Monkey are around.
2012 Year of Black Dragon was the last year of Wood cycle. 2013 Snake year is the beginning year of the Fire cycle (Snake, Horse and Sheep). If people's lucky element is Wood, then their fortune will slow down. If the people's lucky element is Fire, then their fortune will begin to take off. The energy of Wood is on the East side. The energy of Fire is on the South side. The luck of element is turning from East to South in 2013.
Before predicting your luck in 2013, you have to know what Type of Element you are and what your Lucky Element is from your Astrology Birth Chart. The Lucky Element is the major factor to determine people's fortune. 2013 is the Year of the Black Water Snake, which contains Fire, Metal and Earth. If your Lucky Element is Fire, Metal or Earth, then 2013 will bring you some degree of fortune. Since 2013 is Water Snake year, people whose lucky element is Water will obtain fortune in 2013. Fire is the opposite element of Water. People whose lucky element is Fire can get some benefits, but will reach the limitation.
For more details and an accurate prediction, the first step to knowing your fortune is know which elements and animals are in your birth chart. You can find that information from the Chinese Astrology Lucky Element page using your birthday and birth time.
The following is the example of the Chinese Astrology Birth Chart.
The Birth Chart of June 15, 2008 |
Fire represents the person. This Birth Chart shows Fire-Type Person |
This person was born on June 15, 2008. The symbol of the upper row of the Day Column (a.k.a. Day Master) represents the person. So we can say Day Master is Male Fire, which represents the person. The birth chart has too little Metal and needs more Metal to balance the Five Elements. Therefore, the Lucky Element is Metal.
2013 is Female Water Snake year. Snake contains mainly Fire. Horses of Birth chart are in Fire Group. Snake will make Fire spreading more on the ground. Female Water of 2013 and Male Earth (Soil) have attraction relationship into Fire. This relationship helps Fire burning toward the sky. 2013 becomes a very strong Fire year to this person. What's meaning of this?
There are too much Fire in the birth chart. Fire is the unlucky element. Fire is related to the siblings, friends or same generation relatives of the person. Metal is related to money. There is only a little bit money in the birth chart. Year of 2013 will have more people (Fire) coming to share the tiny amount of money. This implies the person have financial problem. Debt is expecting. The trouble will come from siblings or friends. The summer is hot, which is Fire season. The money pressure will arrive during summer time.
Fortune Basic - Lucky Element and Day Master Type
2013 is the Water Snake year. If your lucky element is Water and did well in 2012, then your luck will most likely continue during the year of Snake. Snake contains Fire. People whose Fire score is low will receive benefits from Snake. Snake also contains some Earth. 2013 will bring some luck for people whose Lucky Element is Earth. Snake contains little Metal, too. Since Metal is afraid of Fire. People whose lucky element is Metal won't gain too much advantage from Snake in 2013.
The following table shows people's luck in 2013 based on their Luck Element.
Lucky Element | How good is my luck in 2013? |
Metal | It's not too good. But there is a chance. Metal is the mother element of Water. So Water can weaken the Metal. Fire can melt down Metal. Metal is required courage and strength to fight Fire. In short Water and Fire make Metal weak. Luckily, Water can cool down the Fire. This will release some pressure off of Fire. Fundamentally, 2013 won't bring significant luck for people whose lucky element is Metal. Luckily, Snake also contains Male Metal, Metal becomes active and strong in autumn. If Chicken is found in the birth chart or Major Cycle, then unexpected positive surprise may come in fall season. |
Water | It is good. 2013 is a Water Snake year. Definitely, 2013 will be a good year for you. Fire in Snake is the opposite element of Water. Therefore, you will feel good luck coming, but it's not enough. You will wish you had more fortune at the end of 2013. You have food to enjoy, but this is not all-you-can-eat. |
Wood | It is fair. Water can help Wood (tree) growing. That means Wood can become strong with the support of Water. However, Wood is the mother element of Fire in Snake. Wood will burn itself for Fire. Wood receives energy from Water and gives away its energy to Fire. That implies the luck of 2013 comes and goes. |
Fire | It is good. Fire is afraid of Water. If too much Water comes, then Fire has a chance to extinguish. Again, the Earth inside Snake can stop Water and protect Fire little bit. As long as Snake can survive in the Water. 2013 will bring some good fortune in. Note, there may be some challenges to overcome and achieve more luck. |
Earth | It is good. Snake contains Fire and Earth. Fire is the mother element of Earth. So Earth receives the good support from Snake. But strong Water can wash away Earth. That means the opportunity is there. To gain more luck needs more Earth to fight with Water. If you have strong Earth in your birth chart, then you will have better opportunity in 2013. Also, you will have better luck between the change of four seasons, because Earth is stronger during that period. |
The following table tells people's what event might happen in 2013 based on their Day Master Element Type. Day Master is the upper row symbol in the Day Column of the Birth Chart.
Day Master Type | What will happen in 2013? |
Metal | Water of 2013 represents your outlook, performance, speech, behavior,
freedom or expression. Therefore, it
relates to your fame or reputation. Your social
life makes you busier. You will have more opportunities to show your talent. If
people accept your attitude, then you
should earn a good reputation from them. If people don't like your way, then
people still talk about you, however, negatively. Certainly, taking care
of such a busy life will consume your energy when you have many activities
with people. Basically, if your Metal is strong, people will give you
compliments about your behavior. If your Metal is weak, then Water of 2013
will make you tired. You will not receive too much support from people around
you, even
though you attempt to please them. Snake of 2013 mainly contains Fire. Metal is afraid of Fire. Therefore, Fire is related to your pressure, job, career, boss, teacher, police or law. If you are a career person, 2013 brings you more job responsibilities in your position. If you have high score of Metal, then this will be a good job opportunities for you. If you have more Fire than Metal in your birth chart, then you have to prepare to do overtime for your daily work. If you are a woman, then Fire connects to your boyfriend, husband or love opportunity. Therefore, a single woman will have more chances to meet opposite sex. A married woman will care more her husband or her own career. |
Water | Water of 2013 represents your siblings, relatives or same generation
You will spend most of your time with them in 2013. If the Water score is low in
your birth chart, then your sibling or friend will provide you good advice
whenever you need. If you own a company, your friends or business partners
will help your business growing. But, if the Water score is excessively high,
then siblings or friends might bring you trouble. In most cases, the trouble
will connect with money. You might have to spend some money on them. The major element of Snake is Fire. Water can overcome the Fire. Fire connects to money or property. That means the major event of 2013 is regarding money, investments and financial issues. Water of 2013 and Fire of Snake are opposite elements. No matter how high the score of Water is or how low in your birth chart, your money luck won't be consistent in 2013. Depending on your circumstances, if you first have strong money income, then you might spend it later. On the flipside, if you have money loss first, then you will recover some of it later in the year of 2013. |
Wood | Water of 2013 is the mother element of Wood. Water represents parents, mentors,
elders, protection, teachers, knowledge, education, medicine or health.
Therefore, You may spend more time to watch your health. You will often contact people who care about you. You will expend time acquiring knowledge from teachers, mentors or elders. They will provide you good advice, support and reputation. If Water is your Lucky Element, then this will help your career development or money investments. But if Water is your Unlucky Element, then either they cannot provide you good recommendations or you wouldn't accept their opinions. This may result in unwise decision-making and you may lose your career, money and potential opportunities. Fire of Snake is the Child Element of Wood. Fire relates to how your behavior, expression, and performance are projected to people. Your social life will be more active. Wood will give away its energy to Fire. Fire will make Wood weak. Water of 2013 is the mother element of Wood. That means you receive energy from Water, which you then pass onto Fire. This gives us the following hints. You acquire the knowledge from teachers, then you teach new knowledge to someone else. You receive supports from people, but they leave you later. Your gain better health from medical care, but you might lose your health again. Or the result of the event is the other way around. Something bad may occur first and then you can have a happy conclusion. |
Fire | Water of 2013 can extinguish the Fire. Because of this, Water brings pressure to Fire.
Therefore, Water relates to your job, career, supervisor, police or law.
This is not a good sign for career and health unless you have very strong
Fire in the birth chart.
Fire of Snake relates to your friends, coworker, same generation of relatives. If the score of Fire is your birth chart is low, then 2013 will have many friends around waiting to help you whenever you encounter the pressure or trouble. If the score of Fire is your birth chart is high, then your friends or relatives might bring in trouble regarding money, career or law. Water of 2013 and Fire of Snake are opposite elements. Your career luck in 2013 will be up and down. You might feel pressure at the beginning of the year. Then you receive the help from coworkers or friends during mid-year. You could encounter frustration again when your helpers or supporters are not around. One way to eliminate the pressure from Water is to ask the help from Wood. Wood can take away the energy in Water and pass it over to Fire. |
Earth | Water of 2013 represents money or wealth to Earth. Therefore the major event in
2013 will be money related. If you have strong Earth in your birth chart, then
you will have better money
opportunity. Your income, investments and wealth
will be increase. But if you have a weak Earth in the birth chart, then
you will feel money pressure soon or later. Fire in Snake is the mother element of Earth. Fire will bring the support or protection to you. You can expect to make contact to parents, mentors, teachers or elders. If you experience financial troubles, then people who care and love you will be there to help you. Or the other way around is you have to provide financial support to parents, relatives or elders you love. The money luck of 2013 is in and out. Unless you are pretty sure about your financial plan, otherwise, any risky investments are inadvisable. |
Fortune Variation - Five Elements and Animal Relationships
2013 is Male Water Snake year . If your birth chart contains Male Earth , then your social relationship with people will be good. If Male Earth is your Day Master (upper low of the Day Column in the birth chart) and you are a female, then it's possible that a love relationship, engagement or marriage will come to you in 2013.
Female Metal and Male Earth have a Stem Attraction Relationship into Fire. Snake also contains Fire, therefore, if Fire is your lucky element and you have Male Earth in your birth chart, then 2013 will be a peaceful and wonderful year to you.
Monkey and Snake have a Branch Attraction Relationship into Water. If Monkey is in your birth chart, then your people relationship will be good. If the Monkey is in the Day Column of the birth chart, then the love opportunity will appear for people seeking love, and the love relationship will be deeper for people in love. If you also were born in the year of Dog , then that's a sign of marriage or engagement relationship.
Monkey and Snake have attraction relationship. In the other hand, Monkey and Snake also have Branch Hurting Relationship. The actual relationship is mixing love and hate. Tiger and Snake have Branch Hurting Relationship, too. If both Monkey and Tiger appear in the birth chart or current 10-year Major Cycle, then the love relationship of Monkey and Snake will be taken away; the person will have very poor people or relative relationship in 2013.
Female Metal and Female Fire have a Fighting Relationship. Pig and Snake have a Fighting Relationship. Both of fighting relationships imply poor social relationship, which is hard for people to find a close friend or love relationship.
If the Female Fire Pig or Female Earth Pig in the Year Column or Day Column of the birth chart, then this is the case of a Double Stem-Branch Fighting Relationship. This is a bad sign of instability, accident, separation, dispute, hostility and poor health. These type of people should use a conservative attitude and approach to avoid any dispute, quarrel and challenges in 2013.
Chicken and Snake have some attraction relationship. If Metal is also your lucky element, then you will do well in social activities. If both Cow and Chicken are in the birth chart, then they will join with Snake to form a very powerful Metal combination. That means Metal lucky element people will have a big surprise year. If Metal represents your Money Star, then you will see your wealth grow in 2013. August of 2013 is the Metal Monkey month. September of 2013 is the Metal Chicken month. Both of months have very strong Metal. Good news might arrive during these two months. But if Metal is the unlucky element, then watch your money, otherwise the debt will be coming to you.
Both Horse and Snake are in Fire Group. If both Horse and Sheep are in the birth chart or current 10-Year Major Cycle, then three of them form the strongest Fire combination. That means this will be a wonderful year for people whose luck element is Fire. The best month of the year will be the Snake month (May) and Horse month (June).
People whose lucky element is Wood will continue their luck from 2012. February of 2013 is Wooden Tiger. March of 2013 is Wooden Rabbit. Tiger and Rabbit are strong Wood elements. February and March are very favorable for Wood lucky element people.
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There are expectations Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator, will return to Washington at the end of the week and rejoin talks
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For five weeks, top officials from both the United States and Mexico have logged many hours of face-to-face talks in Washington on the North American Free Trade Agreement. With signs of progress apparent, the high-level American-Mexican meetings stretched through the weekend.
But even with brightening prospects, Ottawa has remained absent from summertime discussions on a continental pact that's deeply important for the Canadian economy. A timeline for Canada's return to the table has yet to be mapped out.
The federal government insists it hasn't been frozen out of the talks, and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said she's been in regular contact with both her counterparts, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo.
Canadian officials have argued the bilateral period has been necessary for the U.S. and Mexico to sort out tough issues such as rules of origin for autos.
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But trade experts say Canada's omission is—at least in part—a tactic by the White House to divide and conquer as it applies extra pressure on Ottawa to accept what could be a less-palatable deal.
Peter Clark, a veteran Ottawa-based trade strategist, said the U.S. is letting Canada cool its heels in what he calls a unique approach to negotiations.
"It's not unusual to have bilateral sessions, but not to this extent," said Clark, who considers a Lighthizer a good tactician.
"It's an Ambassador Bob special."
Derek Burney, a former Canadian ambassador to Washington, agrees that keeping Canada away from the table in recent weeks is part of the U.S. strategy.
"Crude and rude to be sure. But not necessarily damaging," Burney wrote in a brief email, adding that Canadian officials "will have to wait and see, while holding our ground without flinching."
Ohio-based trade lawyer Dan Ujczo said the bilateral U.S.-Mexico talks are necessary because the two countries' one-on-one issues are more significant at this point in the year-long negotiations—but he added that leaving Canada on the sidelines has an added effect.
"I think it was just a negotiating reality, but there's no question in my mind that it was designed to impose maximum leverage—as any negotiator would," said Ujczo, who works for the law firm Dickinson Wright.
For several weeks, Canada's team has been expected to rejoin the talks in Washington, but its anticipated return has been delayed and it remains unclear when it will be invited back.
Even when Canada is asked to rejoin, its negotiating team might have to begin without Freeland. She's on a diplomatic visit to Europe until Thursday, with stops in Germany, Ukraine and France.
Clark said there are expectations Freeland will return to Washington on Friday. From there, he thinks Lighthizer might hold separate bilateral talks with both Canada and Mexico before restarting trilateral discussions that have been on hold since the spring.
"It's not a negotiating style. He's just trying to get everything he can out of each side and he prefers to do that one on one," Clark said.
There are also concerns Canada's two NAFTA partners have gone much deeper into trilateral issues during Ottawa's absence.
Over the weekend, Reuters reported that Jesus Seade, the chief negotiator for Mexico's incoming government, said the U.S. had softened its demands for the inclusion of a so-called "sunset clause" within NAFTA. Canada has flatly rejected the addition of a sunset clause, which would see NAFTA renegotiated every five years.
On Sunday, a Canadian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks, said any U.S.-Mexico agreements on matters that concern all three countries would still require Canada's signature.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that his government "will only sign a good deal for Canadians."
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has made efforts to amplify the pressure on Ottawa.
He suggested earlier this month that his administration had deliberately iced Canada out of the NAFTA talks. On Saturday, he said the U.S. "relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour" in a tweet that made no mention of Canada.
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"A big Trade Agreement with Mexico could be happening soon!" Trump tweeted.
Some say the White House is also feeling some heat to strike a deal.
Ujczo said because of political and procedural hurdles on the horizon in the U.S. and Mexico, the coming week will be crucial for NAFTA's renegotiation. He believes the White House will want to lock down a deal soon to ensure it's completed before the incoming Mexican government takes office on Dec. 1.
"There is a very short window to close this deal and claim victory, and it's an important political priority for the president," he said.
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Heras Positive
Multiple news services are reporting that Liberty-Seguros rider Roberto Heras' B sample from the 20th stage of the Vuelta Espana has returned a positive result for EPO. Heras won the Vuelta, his fourth win, but the victory will now be given to runner-up Denis Menchov. The positive brings an automatic two year suspension from cycling.
Heras has repeatedly denied taking EPO, and has stated that he will appeal the result (if it came back positive), by proving that the testing procedure is flawed.
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