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Thomas Krause, a former Marine sergeant, is now a sophomore at Rutgers University. He credits the school's veterans-support program for keeping him enrolled.
Without the veteran-support hub on his campus, former Marine sergeant Thomas Krause can quickly calculate the odds that he long ago would have dropped out of Rutgers University.
"If this service was not provided for me, there's probably a 1 percent chance I would still be here," said Krause, a pre-business sophomore. He volunteers as well at the Rutgers Office of Veteran and Military Programs and Services, which supplies returning service members with academic tutors and advice on how to socially blend into university life. After starting classes last September, Krause walked into the veterans' office two months later and immediately — finally — connected with fellow students. He spoke from that office on Wednesday.
"Here, I met a bunch of guys who had also served and who were going to school, the same age group, the same mentality," said Krause, 24. "Because I'm in class with 18 year olds, it's a weird transition. So I go out with my friends here, and I currently even live with one of the guys I met here. It's pretty much: This place is my Rutgers life."
Rutgers is often cited by groups that aid college veterans as one of the nation's top schools for helping ease former military personnel into and through the rigors of higher education.
On Wednesday, a new survey of 690 U.S. colleges was released showing that 62 percent of those schools offer programs and services specifically designed for military service members and veterans — up from 57 percent in 2009, when the same survey was previously conducted.
The survey, "From Soldier to Student II: Assessing Campus Programs for Veterans and Service Members," was completed via a partnership between the American Council on Education (ACE), the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and NAVPA, the National Association of Veteran's Program Administrators.
Other key findings showed across-the-board improvement since 2009, when the post-9/11 G.I. Bill went into effect, massively boosting available financial aid for homecoming veterans:
- Seventy-one percent of institutions that offer programs and services for military and veteran students have a dedicated office serving those students, up from 49 percent in 2009.
- Eighty-four percent of the institutions that offer services for veteran and military students provide counseling to assist with post-traumatic stress disorder, compared to 16 percent in 2009.
- Fifty-five percent of the institutions that offer services for veteran and military students have staff trained to assist with physical disabilities, up from 33 percent in 2009, and 36 percent have staff trained to assist specifically with brain injuries, up from 23 percent in 2009.
- Forty-seven percent offer a veteran student lounge or gathering place, up from 12 percent in 2009.
Steven Harriott
Thomas Krause during his days with the U.S. Marine Corps.
"It is very encouraging," said Young M. Kim, a research analyst at the Center for Policy Analysis and one of the study's four authors.
"But while there are areas of improvement, I don't think everything we're sharing today is, by any means, close to indicating that everything is very well off," Kim added. "There are places where there are still gaps.
"One that comes to mind is the transitional issues — veterans coming back from combat theaters really can be (better) helped by faculty and staff members on campus with their transition on campus. And for service members who get redeployed, and that happens quite frequently with a lot of men women, they sometimes struggle with re-enrollment when they come back from military services."
The authors received survey responses from 262 public four-year colleges, 238 public two-year schools, 164 private not-for-profit four-year schools, but just 26 for-profit schools. A few dozen for-profit colleges were openly chastised earlier this year for hawking their campuses as veteran-friendly yet failing to meet that sales pitch. Returning servicemen and women on the G.I. Bill make attractive enrollment candidates for many schools because their G.I. tuition reimbursement is paid directly from the federal government to the colleges.
Related: Company accused of deception turns GIBill.com over to Veterans Affairs
"We were somewhat disappointed to get so few responses from for-profit institutions," Kim said.
At Rutgers, veterans freshly back from Iraq, Afghanistan or other service locales can turn to the military-support office for almost any question they have about launching or maintaining a college career, Krause said. Even better, it allows veterans to mingle with similar people. Another key: that center is run by a former Army officer, retired Col. Stephen G. Abel.
"They make everything so easy for us. They make everything flow," Krause said. "Any problem we have, they can guide us in the correct manner or they can take care of it themselves."
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Dear Carolyn:
If it is actually true that the gal [in Monday's column] has strongly held but extremely uninformed beliefs about politics, then be prepared for her to have strongly held but uninformed beliefs about marriage, parenting, child care, etc. And yes, I'd say that if the political affiliations and/or genders were reversed.
Such a great point and, yes, it works no matter how you shake up the specifics.
Stubbornness is a pain to deal with in a relationship anyway, but when it arises from a place other than facts or reason, it's an anger factory.
It's especially painful to watch when a child is involved, and This Myth or That Myth is applied with extremist zeal to some consequential element of child-rearing, while the other parent wrestles with the following choice: Watch helplessly or touch off epic fights. Awful. I've seen it up close.
Re: Politics:
I think where the political differences stem from, and how this affects your view of money and child-raising, is important. Is it important to you to give to charities, but does she see it as a waste of money? How will this affect things when you move from your money/my money to our money? Are there personal values that these political views express — and would it bother you if your children were taught hers over yours?
Anonymous 2
These are excellent conversation-starters, thanks.
Re: Politics:
I always ask myself when faced with political differences in a potential relationship: "Is this person sufficiently kind?" I find that political differences that turn out to be deal-breakers are evidence that the person is not kind enough for me to want to spend time with them.
Anonymous 3
Not just a good suggestion, thanks, but one that's applicable well beyond politics.
I didn't mean to sound as if I don't respect my girlfriend, because I do. I often go to her for advice, and she's genuinely a nice, caring person. But maybe I'm not giving her the respect in the area of politics that I should. Thanks for pointing that out.
Also, when I say "heated," I don't mean we scream at each other, act sarcastic, etc. We just get noticeably frustrated. I guess I'm just worried about what will happen down the road, and how politics can affect child-rearing, finances and other major life decisions.
Deal-Breaker, again
What would happen if you were both to offer the other something to read that supports your view? Treat it as the equivalent of bringing in a neutral third party — emotionally, not politically, although getting it from a bi- or nonpartisan source would be aces. And not in a "See?!" way, but in an anthropological one, where you offer something new and see how the subject reacts or responds to it.
As for the "how politics can affect child-rearing," I think the Anonymous conga-line has argued well that it's about values, kindness and the willingness to reconsider a position in the face of new information, which applies to both of you, of course, and not just to her. Close-mindedness, stubbornness, zealotry, extremism and an unwillingness to consider or admit fault — these are a couple's undoing, even if they largely agree on beliefs.
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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event March 14, 1986: Inslaw Warns Justice Department against Use of Enhanced PROMIS Software. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
The Justice Department's PROMIS project manager, C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, writes a memo about potential developments in the project. In the memo, he says he is concerned about the possibility Inslaw, the company that is implementing the PROMIS software, may go bankrupt, and that staff at the Executive Office for US Attorneys may need to take over the project. Brewer also mentions the possibility that the contract with Inslaw could be terminated by the department. Inslaw will enter bankruptcy in 1985, at least partially as a result of the department withholding payments from it (see February 1985). [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, US Department of Justice, Inslaw, Inc.
Timeline Tags: Inslaw and PROMIS
Inslaw implements its enhanced PROMIS software at 20 US attorneys' offices. The implementation is performed pursuant to a contract signed by the company and the Justice Department in 1982 (March 1982). [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: Inslaw, Inc., US Department of Justice
Justice Department procurement counsel William Snider issues a legal opinion stating that the department lacks legal justification to terminate part of a contract on the installation of PROMIS software for default. The department's PROMIS Oversight Committee had decided on this course of action in December (see December 29, 1983), as it said that Inslaw, the company installing PROMIS, was not performing the contract properly. However, the committee decides to terminate the portion of the contract anyway, but for convenience—meaning Inslaw may receive some compensation—not default. PROMIS project manager C. Madison Brewer then notifies INSLAW owner William Hamilton that Deputy Attorney General Lowell Jensen has decided on partial termination. [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Lowell Jensen, William Hamilton, C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, William Snider
Inslaw, the owner and developer of the enhanced PROMIS software, declares bankruptcy, applying for Chapter 11 reorganization at the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia. Inslaw's poor financial condition is at least partly due to a dispute with the Justice Department over the software, as the department owes it a minimum of $1.6 million in contract payments for implementation, but is withholding them. [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, US Department of Justice, Inslaw, Inc.
The Justice Department makes enhanced PROMIS software available at multiple locations, outside the framework of its contract with Inslaw on the application's installation and over protests by the company. The software is first installed at 25 US attorneys' offices in addition to 20 still covered by a contract between Inslaw and the department (see Between August 29, 1983 and February 18, 1985). According to Inslaw's counsel Elliot Richardson, an enhanced version of the software is then illegally copied to support an additional two sites. Finally, 31 additional sites are brought on line via telecommunications. These additional, smaller US attorneys' offices had initially been covered by the contract with Inslaw, but this portion of the contract was terminated in 1984 (see February 1984). Inslaw will repeatedly protest about this installation (see March 14, 1986), and a bankruptcy court will find it is in violation of the law (see September 28, 1987), although this ruling will be overturned (see May 7, 1991). [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: Elliot Richardson, US Department of Justice, Inslaw, Inc.
Inslaw complains about additional installations of enhanced PROMIS software by the Justice Department. Inslaw and the department had a contract for the company to install the software in 20 large US attorneys' offices and then dozens of smaller ones (see March 1982), but the portion of the contract for the smaller offices was terminated (see February 1984), and the department is installing an enhanced version of the software Inslaw says it owns in these smaller offices (see Between June 24, 1985 and September 2, 1987). The complaint is made in a letter by Inslaw president William Hamilton to H. Lawrence Wallace, the assistant attorney general for administration. "I am extremely disturbed and disappointed to learn that the Executive Office for US Attorneys has begun to manufacture copies of the PROMIS software for customization and installation in additional US attorneys offices, specifically those in St. Louis, Missouri, and Sacramento, California," Hamilton writes. "This action occurs at the very time that the Department of Justice and Inslaw are attempting to resolve, by negotiation, Inslaw's claim that the US attorneys version of PROMIS contains millions of dollars of privately-financed enhancements that are proprietary products of Inslaw and for which Inslaw has, to date, received no compensation." [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: H. Lawrence Wallace, Inslaw, Inc., US Department of Justice, William Hamilton
A lawyer acting for Inslaw warns the Justice Department that the department's use of the enhanced version of PROMIS software contravenes bankruptcy legislation. Inslaw, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a dispute between itself and the department (see February 1985), writes to the department's contracting officer saying that the software's use without Inslaw's consent and the payment of licensing fees would contravene Inslaw's property rights and its rights as a debtor in possession of the software under the bankruptcy code. In addition, Inslaw argues it is "a wrongful exercise of control over property of the debtor's estate in violation of the automatic stay now in effect." The automatic stay is a legal mechanism that prevents creditors—such as the Justice Department—harassing a debtor—such as Inslaw—in bankruptcy. Inslaw also says that the department's dissemination of the software to third parties could damage or destroy the product's commercial value, possibly wrecking the company. [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Judge George Bason of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia issues an oral finding that the Justice Department "took, converted, and stole" the enhanced version of Inslaw's PROMIS software by "trickery, fraud, and deceit." The ruling is issued at the end of a trial that lasts over two weeks and involves sworn statements from over 40 witnesses and thousands of pages of documentary evidence. Bason finds that a key departmental official, project manager C. Madison Brewer, was biased against Inslaw (see April 1982, April 14, 1982, and April 19, 1982). In addition, Brewer's boss Lowell Jensen (see December 29, 1983 and February 1984) is said to have "a previously developed negative attitude about PROMIS and Inslaw," because he had been associated with the development of a rival case management system while he was a district attorney in California, and this affected his judgment throughout his oversight of the contract. Further, the department violated bankruptcy protection legislation that applied to Inslaw by using and exercising control over Inslaw's property—the enhanced PROMIS software—without negotiating a license fee. This oral finding is confirmed in a written opinion issued on January 25, 1988. In the written finding, Bason adds, "[T]his court finds and concludes that the department never intended to meet its commitment and that once the department had received enhanced PROMIS pursuant to Modification 12 (see April 11, 1983), the department thereafter refused to bargain in good faith with Inslaw and instead engaged in an outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent game of 'cat and mouse,' demonstrating contempt for both the law and any principle of fair dealing." [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Lowell Jensen, George Bason, C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, Inslaw, Inc.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reverses two rulings in favor of Inslaw in the dispute over enhanced PROMIS software, following an appeal by the Justice Department (see October 12, 1990). The rulings had been issued by Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia (see September 28, 1987) and the US District Court for the District of Columbia (see November 22, 1989). The reversal is granted on what a House Judiciary Committee report favorable to Inslaw will call "primarily jurisdictional grounds." The appeal court says the bankruptcy court was the wrong place to litigate the issues it decided and, in any case, the department has not violated automatic stay bankruptcy provisions. However, the appeal court notes that both lower courts found that the department had "fraudulently obtained and then converted Enhanced PROMIS to its own use," and that "such conduct, if it occurred, is inexcusable." [US Congress, 9/10/1992]
Entity Tags: House Judiciary Committee, Inslaw, Inc., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, US Department of Justice
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Immigration is again becoming a hot potato for the government so naturally there's a reaction to calm us all down and let us know that 'something is being done' even if it's too little, too late. As the real damage was done years ago by the previous government and its determined drive to rub the rights nose in multiculturalism whoever the right might be. Mostly though it was done by people who didn't have to live with the effects it had on their communities and those people could easily be labelled racist bigots, though as Gordon Brown found out it was best not to do it in front of a live microphone.
Authorities believe they have disrupted a major people-smuggling network after carrying out dozens of co-ordinated raids in England, France and Belgium.
UK Border Agency officers raided 35 addresses in England on Wednesday, while about 40 raids were carried out in France and Belgium.
More than 150 UKBA officers joined the crackdown on gangs trafficking illegal immigrants in the back of lorries.
It is understood many of the immigrants are from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
No, I'm not suggesting they're all salfist Jihadi's, most will have come here to try for a better life only to discover our idiot government and some of their own countrymen seem hell bent on turning here into the sort of piss poor pestilential corrupt hellhole that they're trying to escape from. Problem is the minute the government via UKBA knock one ring on the head, another will spring up in its place as it's worth the risk because of the money involved and would still be worth the risk even if the UK government had a policy of shooting illegals if caught. After all, the real big fish won't be based here, just the minnows. Because of the EU we no longer control our own borders, we don't even really check if the people legally here under a visa actually leave. It also means that illegals can get into the EU via its porous southern borders and make it to France and simply wait their chance to get in here because more often than not English is their second language and/or they have family/tribe already here to hide them and get them into work.
Nor have these communities ever felt under pressure to integrate with our society unlike earlier immigrant waves so what we are getting are enclaves or ghetto's where there could be thousands of illegals and no attempt by the communities as such to rid them of the parasites, after all, the government and authorities are under instruction to leave them alone as it's their traditions and culture and must not be messed with because if you do you're a racist bigot and so on etc.
The cracks are showing though and sooner or later it will become uncontrolable one way or the other, either the illegals will be granted an amnesty or their communities to big to deal with. or the indigenes will rise up and hang all irrespective of race creed or colour including those who caused it.
Except those who did won't be here when it happens…
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Landon got his first piece of "real" mail yesterday. He gets excited about all of his mail (junk mail, ads, anything colorful), but this time it was different. It was from a real person (well...sort of).I'm sorry it's blurry, but it is from our old neighbor Nila, and her dog Roxie! The card was a Valentine's Day card written to Landon as if Roxie was writting it. It was so sweet, and he was so proud of himself. He keeps looking at it and says "Mommy....Puppy ...heart" and laughs. We need to do something special in return for that good ole dog Roxie! Thanks Nila!
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As a preface, let me note in advance, that this reading does not conform to most expectations. It will seem at times tangential and pointless but, I assure you, it builds a network of semantic associations that is designed to serve as a supportive net of words. Mind is only as healthy as the words that support it.
Mind, just like stomach, is subject to conditioning and programming. Ivan Pavlov, the first psychologist to be awarded a Nobel prize for the theory of Classical Conditioning in 1904, understood that the mind (just like body) imprints onto environmental stimuli like an orphan duckling and that the environment always works to enslave the mind in return. Pavlov, a Russian who knew his Slavic history, understood the stimulus-response dynamics of slavery. Let us break for a bit of etymological safari to clarify the sentence above.
Slave (n). circa 1290, "person who is the property of another," from O.Fr. esclave, from M.L. Sclavus "slave" (cf. It. schiavo, Fr. esclave, Sp. esclavo), originally "Slav," so called because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.
(continue the mind-flow)
Pavlov, a Slav-descendant of slaves, whose scientific career spanned from pre-Soviet Russia into the era of Stalinist purges, did not allow himself to be turned into a propaganda dog of cultural conditioning. Instead he openly barked on the fast-growing sequoia of Stalinist dictatorship. While treasured by Lenin, Pavlov was only being tolerated by Lenin's successor, Stalin, but he refused to be conditioned and to have his mind enslaved. Pavlov, ever a free-mind responsible for his own de-programming and re-programming, wrote appeal-letters to no one less than Stalin, in what would have been construed, by the standards of that time, as nothing less than a daring tone. He knew how not to be a robot. Let us break for another bit of etymological safari to clarify the sentence above.
Robot (n). 1923, from Eng. translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "slave," from robota "forced labor, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave."
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The Soviets (just like Nazis) knew how to build a reflex. We did send up a couple of well-trained Pavlov-dogs into space - no small feat! We knew how to tow a party-line, but, as descendants of slaves, we also knew how to rebel against mind-numbing. The tradition of Soviet dissidence counts among its fallen hundreds of thousands of minds that dared not to be conditioned. During the Gulag days of the USSR, minds that refused to become robots became slaves in the Gulag. In the post-Gulag days, minds that refused to be conditioned turned off the TV and had heated debates about what's what in the privacy of Russian kitchens. Which brings me full-circle back to Pavlov's classical conditioning. But, as you guessed, let us break for yet another bit of etymological safari.
Paul (n.). masc. proper name, from L. Paulum (nom. Paulus), literally "small" (see paucity). Cf. O.Fr. Pol, It. Paolo, Sp. Pablo, Rus. Pavel
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Pavlov, semantically a son of "small," "is a pillar of modern psychology and his contribution to this discipline is, probably larger than the contribution of any other person with the exception of Freud" (as Rubin Ardila noted in American Psychologsit in1969). I, just another English-speaking Russian with a name "Pavel," born in 1969, the year of American moon-landing, am positioned to make a much smaller difference, but one that, I believe, might be of personal interest to you. As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights. And then bam! We pause for some silly etymological safari and look into the history of words. We break the mind-flow, awaken a bit, and then continue the mind-flow. What's happening here is designed to parallel the process of de-conditioning/re-conditioning that just might come in handy with the problem of overeating. That's right, my dear reader, I am still writing about mindless eating and how to make it mindful. You see, mindless eating is a classic conditioned reflex: for example, if you eat in front of TV, then after a while, TV and eating become associated with each other, so that when you turn on the TV, you automatically turn on your appetite and vice versa, when you sit down to eat, you turn on your appetite for TV. The result is - you guessed it - mindless programming and conditioning of the mind to go blank when you open your mouth. Let us break for one final etymology safari before we summarize all this tangential sleight-of-words into practical advice.
Television (n). formed in English or borrowed from Fr. télévision, from tele- + vision. The word "tele" stems from Greek tele- which means "far, far off." The word "vision" stems from videre "to see," from Proto-Indo-European base weid- which means "to know, to see" (e.g. Sankrit veda "I know").
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As you see, the word "television" basically means "seeing what is not here," i.e. not seeing and not knowing what is here and now right in front of you. The Soviet way of de-programming from cultural programming was to come home, boil a few potatoes, warm up yesterday's cutlets and/or borsch, to maybe pour yourself a shot-glass of vodka or, for minors, a glass mug of kvas, and to talk about the Orwellian nonsense that is happening outside the family's kitchen, about where to find a pair of American denim jeans that fade on knees so as to not remain on slave-knees of Soviet propaganda. I'm stereotyping my own people, of course, but I don't think they are that ego-frail to mind. In a nutshell, the Soviets kept themselves awake... over eating... by turning off the official TV and tuning in to each other and their own selves. The American way, unfortunately, is in just the opposite direction: the land of the free has been enslaved by TV, by watching what is not here and by mindlessly ignoring what is in front of one's own nose. American mind, for decades, is being programmed to be an eating zombie. Americans aren't to blame: after all it was another Russian scientist, Boris Rosing, who invented the cathode ray tube in 1907 and gave the world a slave-driver in each living room.
So, here's my small, name-proportionate, attempt at waking up the sleeping/overeating beauty of America: make a small change, kill the TV-eating reflex. How? For starters, eat in the kitchen, not in the living room. Reclaim your eating moments one meal a time: small changes, you know, add up to new reflexes.
Break the pattern to restore your mind-flow. Program the following noun for yourself:
Self (n). - a slave to eating or a master of eating?
Make a choice of what to serve yourself: a sense of self-presence or another portion of mindlessness. Break out of your associative chains! Is it doable? Heck, you guys put a man on the moon...
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I agree with every point they make, but there's a more fundamental problem with the measure. From the moment Wiener came to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board last November with a group of like-minded earnest folk to tout this scheme, a little voice in the back of my head kept repeating: Don't you people have anything better to do?
I thought voters elect officials to solve civic problems, not rummage through people's habits for an excuse to devise a "first city in the nation" nanny tax.
In that same headline-hunting spirit, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., has introduced the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax Act of 2014, which would levy a 1-cent federal tax on every 4.2 grams of sweetener. She calls it the SWEET Act; the name alone could induce diabetes.
The San Francisco soda tax would levy a 2-cents-per-ounce tax on sodas and other SSBs; that's the City Hall wonk abbreviation for sugar-sweetened beverages. The idea is to dissuade San Franciscans and tourists from drinking too many soft drinks. Choose Health SF -- the pro-tax political committee -- warns that in 2010, 32 percent of San Francisco children were obese or overweight. And: "Soda is the largest single source of added sugar in the American diet." A tax, say boosters, should slim the city's waistline and, hence, save the city millions of dollars in health costs attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages.
The San Francisco Office of Economic Analysis predicts that the new tax would bring in $35 million to $54 million. After administrative costs, 40 percent of the new revenue would go to the San Francisco Unified School District for nutrition classes and such; 25 percent would go to the Department of Public Health and the Public Utilities Commission for healthful-food initiatives; 25 percent would go to the Recreation and Park Department for sports programs; and 10 percent would go to community-based groups. Thus, representatives of these fields support the measure -- a necessary condition, as the measure requires a two-thirds vote to pass.
The city controller recognizes that less-educated and poor populations allocate "a larger proportion of their spending on sugar-sweetened beverages than other groups."
The city controller also predicts a reduction in soda consumption by up to 31 percent, but with the caveat that consumers might use today's soda money to buy other high-calorie food and drinks. Ice cream? Beer?
La Follette School of Public Affairs health economist Jason Fletcher researched the evidence and found "large increases in soft drink taxes are unlikely to reduce total caloric intake. The impact of soft drink taxes on the body mass index is small in magnitude and not statistically significant."
In short: The soda tax would be a regressive measure that probably wouldn't do much to reduce obesity. But stores and pizza parlors that stand to lose out if consumers change their eating habits should not complain, because the sponsors mean well.
There was a time when no City Hall pol would dare oppose this sort of headline-seeking "first in the nation" nanny bill. No longer. San Francisco supervisors approved the measure for the November ballot by a 6-4 vote. As Chronicle staff writer Heather Knight reported, the four supes who voted no -- London Breed, Jane Kim, Katy Tang and Norman Yee -- are people of color who represent neighborhoods with many minority voters. You can imagine the talk around their constituents' kitchen tables.
You cannot walk down Market Street without seeing street people who engage in all manner of unhealthy behaviors. When adults are dysfunctional to the point of being threatening, they get a pass. But if there's one group City Hall feels it can lecture, levy and scold, it's fat people who buy Big Gulps.
How did Sin City turn into Sin Tax City? People who drink lots of soda have to be looking at Wiener and thinking that he ought to have better things to do than levy a soda tax that falls disproportionately on poor people and doesn't yield the promised results. There's an old saying in the schoolyard: Why don't you pick on someone your own size?


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How to Build a Keyword List
Reviewing what You've learned
Following are effective strategies for building a list of search terms:
- Start by writing out your topic in a sentence or two, then go through and underline the main words.
- List alternate spellings and abbreviations of your words.
- Skim articles in subject encyclopedias or other tools and "mine" them for keywords. Just like mining for gold, you could find some real nuggets.
- For each of the main words, brainstorm related words, phrases, synonyms, broader terms, and narrower terms. Ask someone to help you. You'd be surprised what you can come up with in just five minutes.
- Look up your terms in a general thesaurus, like Roget's [pronounced row-zhays] Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to identify synonyms for your words.
- Look up your words in the Library of Congress Subject Headings to find broader and narrower topics, as well as synonyms.


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Holiday Beef Tenderloin
Wrap a tender beef roast in garlic, rosemary, and pink peppercorns and you've got a dinner party. Hint: You can roast the garlic a day or two ahead of time while you are grilling something else.
For the paste:
1 whole head of garlic
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 beef tenderloin, 3-1/2 to 4 pounds
3 tablespoons whole pink peppercorns
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
To make the paste: Remove the loose, papery outer skin from the head of garlic. Cut about 1/2 inch off the top to expose the cloves. Place the garlic head on an 8-inch square of aluminium foil and drizzle 1 teaspoon of the olive oil over the cloves. Fold up the foil sides and seal to make a packet, leaving a little room for the expansion of steam. Grill over Indirect Medium heat until the cloves are soft, 30 to 45 minutes. Remove from the grill and allow to cool. Squeeze the garlic from the individual cloves into a small bowl. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons of olive oil and mash the garlic and oil together with a fork to form a paste.
Trim the tenderloin of any excess fat and silver skin. Spread the paste on the tenderloin, rubbing it into the meat.
In a small bowl combine the peppercorns, rosemary, salt, and pepper. Mix well and press into the paste on the top and sides of the tenderloin.
Allow the tenderloin to stand at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes before grilling. Grill over Indirect Medium heat until the internal temperature reaches 135°F for medium rare, 30 to 40 minutes.
Remove from the grill and allow to rest for 5 to 10 minutes. The temperature will rise 5°F to 10°F during this time. Cut into 3/4- to 1-inch slices and serve warm.
Makes 8 to 10 servings.
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How to Create a Forex Portfolio to Diversificate Your RiskSmithJr Posted 9 Sep. in #Risk #Portfolio #Diversification
Most novel forex traders trade only one pair at time trying to make money using indicators, trading systems and money management. In this article I will explain an easy way to stick to the trend in Forex diversifying your risk through a portfolio of currency pairs. In other words, readers will learn to compose portfolios of pairs so that the losses of some pairs should be compensated, at least, or even exceeded, by the benefits of rest.
To diversify our risk in Forex we are going to create a "Ranking of pairs" using an homogeneous measure. There are several techniques about how to create a ranking of pairs. In this article I will give a very practical view of a general method that readers can use to compose their own Forex portfolio. This method is illustrated with an example based on the Schelling's approach[4], which I think that it can be very interesting for this community.
The article starts describing shortly some considerations (concepts and indicators) necessary to understand the example. Then all the steps of the method are detailed through an example using the Schelling's approach. Next, the article discusses a brief strategy based on the created portfolio showing how to exploit it. Finally and before the references, some interesting conclusions are presented.
- Diversification: "In finance, diversification means reducing risk by investing in a variety of assets" ([1]).
- RSI: The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a "technical indicator ... intended to chart the current and historical strength or weakness of a stock or market based on the closing prices of a recent trading period." ([2])
- The Rate of Change (ROC) is a "simple technical analysis indicator showing the difference between today's closing price and the close N days ago" ([3]).
- SMA: A Simple Moving Average (SMA) is "the unweighted mean of the previous n datum points" ([5]). For this article, we consider SMAs of 10 and 30 periods.
- In all the examples we use daily data taking at the closing time in New York (22.00 h. CET).
3.1 STEP 1. Select an homogeneous measure for all the pairs.
To illustrate the method we follow the Schelling's approach[4] but readers are free to use any other indicator. Schelling uses the RSI ([3]). However, RSI can be very volatile on daily charts so we will soften it using two Simple Moving Averages (SMAs) of 10 and 30 periods respectively. The chart below shows an example applied to the EURUSD:
We are going to use those averages to create a ratio of the strength or weakness of the pair. To do this, we divide the SMA of 10 periods of the RSI by the SMA of 30 periods, and we multiply the result by 100, obtaining a smoothed measure of the relative force of the pair. The result is shown in the graph below (RatioMA_RSI at the bottom of the image):
3.2 STEP 2. Measuring the momentum.
We already have an indicator of the strength of the trend of a pair. Now we need an indicator to measure the speed or momentum of the movement of the pairs. Following with the Schelling's approach, we will use for our example the ROC indicator (Rate of Change [3]) but again, readers are free to use any other indicator:
3.3 STEP 3. Computing the ranking.
All we need to do now is to export all these values to our favorite spreadsheet editor such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or Excel. This will allow us to have an overview of the forex market. In the next image, the red and green colors show:
- If the RSI is below or above 50.
- If the RSI and the ROC are below or above 100.
3.4 STEP 4. Create the portfolio.
Now it's time to create the ranking of currencies based on the previous values. If we look at the following table, we see that the GBPJPY pair has an average ratio of 110 on RSI and a "time" measured by the ROC of 100, while the previous day's average ratio RSI marked 112 and the time was 104. In any case, by having all its values in green is clear that the pair GBPJPY was more bullish. We then sort all the pairs from the most bullish or "strong" (all values in green) to the most bearish or "weak" (all values in red).
Now we present a strategy based on this information: buy stronger pairs and sell the weakest, adjusting the positions daily as information is changing in our spreadsheet. Coming back to the example and depending upon the size of your account, each day we will have long positions in the three or four strongest markets and short positions in the three or four weakest pairs in our created portfolio. Remember to adjust the positions when necessary.
We have shown a general method to create a portfolio of pairs of currencies. The method has been illustrated with an example from the Ron Schelling's article about Ranking Forex Markets, but readers are free to use any other indicators to customize their own portfolio.
In conclusion, what Schelling's approach makes is very close to the "heatmap" concept (out of the scope of this article) and can be applied to other financial markets using other indicators to create portfolios. Note that the Schelling's approach does not use the RSI as an oscillator of overbought / oversold but of the strength or weakness of the pair.
If you want me to upload my JForex implementation (indicator RatioMA_RSI) that exports data to a spreadsheet following the Schelling's approach, feel free to ask me for it in the comments or by private message and I will send it to you with pleasure.
All the images of this article belongs to the original article from the Schelling's approach and are used for educational purposes only in the framework of this contest.
[1] Diversification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversification_(finance)
[2] RSI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_Strength_Index
[3] ROC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_change_(technical_analysis)
[4] Ron Schellingan's article: "Ranking Forex Market" available to the public here.
[5] SMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Simple_moving_average
A different representation is a scatter plot of RSI (vertical axis) and ROC (horizontal axis) as shown below (left):
In the above chart (left) we have high values of RSI and ROC in the upper right corner, while values appear at the bottom left represent pairs with low values for RSI and ROC.
We can also see the evolution for each pair of RSI and ROC over the last five days to see if the pair is gaining or losing strength (right).
This article is the first one of the Practical Forex Portfolio Management Series. They will cover very practical approaches (like this article with only the necessary theory), concise and precise information, and JForex implementations of the concepts.
If you like them, please let me know so I can continue with the series.


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My blogger friend Bill West, whose music and family stories tastes seem to run right along with mine, has challenged his readers to find poetry or song lyrics that are ancestrally related. Here are his rules and my responses to them:
1. Find a poem by a local poet, famous or obscure, from the region one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a legend, a person, or even about some place (like a river)or a local animal.Or if you prefer, post the lyrics of a song or a link to a video of someone performing the song.
I love the option of "obscure," because that is exactly what this poet was. She was my grandmother and, even during the time I knew her (my early childhood) I think "obscure" would have been the perfect label. Her poetry usually was religious, but she often wrote poems to honor a friend, family member, or well known person. However, she had a humorous side to her and that would come out in odd ways in her poetry. Because this challenge is asking that the poem be about an event, person, or place, etc., I think that this particular piece (though not stated as being autobiographical, obviously was) fits perfectly.
2. Post the poem or song to your blog (remembering to cite the source where you found it.)
Author: Pauline Elizabeth Miller
Title: "Going Home at Night"
Date: November 13, 1899
Location: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Source: Papers of Pauline Elizabeth Miller Wilcox in possession of Jean Wilcox Hibben, Riverside County, California
Oh, how many aching feet
Can be found at night,
When the street car is so full
And we're packed so tight.
Don't you talk about a seat,
Such a thing is rare,
As there's hardly standing-room
For the people there.
Some of them have stood all day,
And their feet do ache,
But to stand and hold a strap
That just takes the cake.
And the straps are up so high
That it is no snap
For a girl who's naturally short
To hang on a strap.
But the worst of all is this:
If some heavy form
Comes along and plants his foot
Right upon your corn.
Oh, what dreadful agony
We do have to bear.
But we're just compelled to pay
The same five cent fare.
3.Tell us how the subject of the poem or song relates to your ancestor's home or life.
Pauline Elizabeth Miller met my grandfather about ten years after writing this poem. Prior to their meeting at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, my grandmother lived in Chicago and had to take the street car to get to work (she was a stenographer). Her reliance on public transportation obviously was not always enjoyed, but her sense of humor, plus the need for her income to augment what little the family had, surely saw her through the worst of it.
During her adult, single life, she cared for her mother and helped to put her younger brother through school. She was a devout Baptist, besides attending Moody, in later years she worked for Paul Rader at the famous Chicago Tabernacle, doing secretarial work for him, still commuting by street car and, later, buses.
Pauline was a short woman who had suffered from whooping cough as a young child. For some reason, her doctor had her wear a body cast and then the physician just disappeared (he may have died; no one is certain), leaving her body in the cast for many months, causing an unusual spine curvature which resulted in her small stature that probably would not have been her lot had the cast been removed in a timely matter.
apart in age and Pauline was about four in this photo, being after she
was out of the cast, but the damage was done).
Photo ca. 1883, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Throughout her unmarried adult life, Pauline wore shoes that were fashionable, in spite of the pain they caused her feet. As a result, she was plagued with foot problems so severe that, in later life, the podiatrist would make house calls. She always told me to "wear shoes for comfort, not fashion," and I have followed her advice throughout my life. These various details of her life are all expressed in this poem, making me believe that it is autobiographical.
Lee Alfred Wilcox, my grandfather, and Pauline, 1955, Wilmette, Cook, Illinois
(notice Pauline's stature)
4.Submit your post's link here to me by November 18th and I'll publish all the entries on Thanksgiving Day, November 25th!


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Back in 1967, "Itchycoo Park" was just about the most psychedelic hit single on Top 40 radio. It's probably the best-known song by The Small Faces in America, since the band was never quite as popular here as it was in England. Written by vocalist-guitarist Steve Marriot and bassist-vocalist Ronnie Lane, "Itchycoo Park" has a seductive melody and synthesized drums that sound like rockets or jet fighters. It's done in a call and response vocal arrangement, as a lad tries to lead his classmates astray with promises of a mystical destination.
For us kids, it was hard to decipher all the lyrics; we thought "But why the tears there?" was "But why's the cheese there?" Still, we could certainly identify with "You can miss out school/Why go to learn the words of fools?" The repeated line, "It's so all too beautiful" sparked visions of a hippie paradise where everyone gets high.
I bought this particular copy on Record Store Day last year at the Reckless Records in downtown Chicago. At $11.49, it was one of the pricier 45 rarities, but it is a limited edition re-issue on the Immediate label, and included a limited edition postcard. 2012 was the year that The Small Faces were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Record Store Day will take place on April 20th this year.


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Fort Worth Travel & Tourism Week Celebration
- May 5, 2013 3:30 PM
In recognition of National Travel and Tourism Week, the Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau (FWCVB) hosts a special event in the Cultural District at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Sunday, May 5th at 3:30pm. The event celebrates the rich arts and culture that Fort Worth is so well-known for and includes special participation by Mayor Betsy Price. The event features free admission to the Modern Art Museum, a free Spanish language tour at 2 pm and a free concert by a Cliburn pianist on the Museum's front lawn. The FWCVB will be offering special giveaways such as sunglasses, bandanas and Molly Pins at the event (while supplies last). All ages are welcomed and encouraged to attend. For more information on Travel and Tourism Week.


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Dr. Pierce Hubert (1854 – 1933)
Special thanks to Bryan Shaw for sharing contributions to this post.
Dr. Pierce Hubert was among the medical men of Ray City, Georgia in the 1920's. Dr. Hubert was a philanthropist, civic activist, Mason, checker champion, and public administrator.
It appears that Dr. Hubert and his wife moved from Louisville, GA 190 miles south to Ray City, Georgia sometime after 1920. An account statement from his medical practice shows that he was treating patients here in 1923, one being Francis Marion Shaw. A bill for the doctor's treatment of Shaw's "last illness" was found in the death papers of the deceased. Dr. Hubert was still using office stationary imprinted with his old place of business in Louisville, GA, carefully crossed out, and overwritten with his new location, in Ray City.
Ray City, GA., March 1st, 1923
Mr. F. M. Shaw
In account with
Dr. Pierce Hubert
Sept 20 Visit &c self 2.00
" " Night Visit self 3.00
Georgia, Berrien County
Personally came before me Dr. Pierce Hubert, who being sworn says the above account of Five dollars is for professional services rendered the said F. M. Shaw, during his last illness and that the same is due, just and true and unpaid.
Sworn to & subscribed
before me Mch 2nd 1923 Pierce Hubert M.D.
Dr. Hubert was also among the men present at the start-up of the Ray City Power Plant in 1923. The operation of the first electric lights was a big event in the small town.
Dr. Pierce Hubert grew up with his family in Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia. He was born in 1854 in Georgia, a son of Dr. Robert Wallace Hubert and Ann B. "Nancy" Turner. He attended medical school and graduated in 1876 from the Medical Department of Georgia University (now known as University of Georgia), as a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.). After achieving his degree, he returned to his parent's house in Warrenton, GA and began practicing medicine.
In 1877 Dr. Hubert married Stella Hill Cody in Warren County, GA. Her father, James Cody, was a retired drygoods clerk. The 1880 census shows the young couple living in his parents household at Warrenton, GA.
In 1880 Dr. Hubert was a member of a small, private charity group of four prominent Warrenton citizens, which contributed to the Hood Orphan Memorial fund. The fund was to provide for the 10 orphan children of Confederate General John Bell Hood.
After the Civil War, General John Bell Hood moved to Louisiana and became a cotton broker and worked as a President of the Life Association of America, an insurance business. In 1868, he married New Orleans native Anna Marie Hennen, with whom he fathered 11 children over 10 years, including three pairs of twins. He also served the community in numerous philanthropic endeavors, assisting in fund raising for orphans, widows, and wounded soldiers. For awhile he flourished. But his insurance business was ruined by a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans during 1878–79 and he succumbed to the disease himself [on August 30, 1879], dying just days after his wife and oldest child, leaving 10 destitute orphans.
Personal mentions in the Atlanta newspapers noted in November, 1880 Dr. Hubert visiting in Sparta, GA, about 24 miles southwest of Warrenton. His wife, Stella Hill Cody Hubert, died about September 15, 1882 and was buried at Warrenton Cemetery.
It appears that by 1884, Dr. Pierce had established his household at Sparta. He joined the American Legion of Honor, a Fraternal Beneficiary Society, which was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. On July 17, 1884 at the Savannah meeting of the Georgia Grand Council of the American Legion of Honor, Dr. Hubert was elected Grand Secretary of the state organization. In 1888, he was again elected Grand Secretary; at that time he had returned to reside in Warrenton, GA. He attended the annual meeting of July 16, 1891 in Griffin, GA and was returned to the post of grand secretary; he had moved to Louisville, GA by that time.
In its heyday, the American Legion of Honor was one of the best known benefit societies. Membership was open to white men and women eighteen to fifty years of age. Originally the upper age limit was sixty four, but this was reduced in 1885. There were initiation ceremonies but, if the candidate objected, these could be dispensed with and a formal obligation could be taken at any time and place. Like Woodmen of the World and other fraternal benefits organizations, the American Legion of Honor provided life insurance to its members. The Legion reached its membership high point at the end of 1889 with 62,457. Like many fraternal organizations, the Legion ran into financial difficulties in 1895 and 1896. These were caused by a number of factors, including the Panic of 1896, an increased death rate, increased expenses and debts, "unusually high" assessments in 1896 and a lack of new members. The order went into receivership in August 1904.
About 1886 Dr. Hubert married Carrie De Beaugrine. She died in 1889 and is said to be buried in Sallie Hill Cemetery, Warrenton, GA.
By 1891, Pierce Hubert had moved to Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia, where he was elected to serve on the county Board of Education in 1896.
In 1896, Dr. Pierce Hubert married a third time, to Hunter V. Fay. By the census of 1900 he appears with his wife and family in Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia.10 He remained a resident and practiced medicine in Louisville for the next twenty years. In addition to his practice, he continued to serve on the Jefferson County School Board, his name appears in the Georgia Department of Education Records for 1897, and in 1904 serving a term through 1908.
When the American Anti-Tuberculosis League met in Atlanta, April 17-19, 1905, Dr. Pierce Hubert was a delegate from the 10th congressional district of Georgia. There were representatives appointed by the governors of every state in the union and from many foreign countries – No representatives were named from south Georgia. Governor J. M. Terrell tendered the Hall of the House of Representatives to the Georgia State Capitol for the use of the League during the meeting, and he delivered an address to the League at the opening session. [ It should be noted that at the time, nearly 80 percent of all tuberculosis deaths were African-Americans, but the medical response to the disease was as segregated as every other aspect of American life in the early 20th century. It was not until 1909 that a Colored Anti-Tuberculosis League was formed in Georgia, and among its stated purposes were shifting the burden of cost for care to African-Americans and reducing transmission of the disease from blacks to whites.]
In 1908 a Pierce Hubert appears in the Official proceedings Grand Lodge, Free Accepted Masons, State of Georgia, as a member of Stonewall Lodge No. 470.
Dr. Hubert, a serious devotee to the game of checkers, was regarded as one of the best players in the state of Georgia. He played in the first championship match of the Southern Checker Association in Atlanta in 1908.
The tournament was played in the firehouse at the corner of Washington and East Hunter streets, directly opposite the state capitol.
In 1910, the Huberts were in Augusta, GA. The Atlanta Constitution, November 27, 1910 reported,
Dr. and Mrs. Pierce Hubert and General John W. Clark, accompanied by his wife and a few friends, went down to Savannah for the unveiling of the Oglethorpe monument. John W. Clark, a Confederate veteran, successful businessman, and one of the most prominent citizens of Augusta, was among the foremost promoters of reunions and monuments to honor Confederate soldiers.
Dr. Hubert was a founding member of the Jefferson County Medical Association, organized February 7, 1911, and was the group's delegate to the state association.
In 1917, Dr. Pierce Hubert was one of four men appointed by Governor Nat E. Harris to the WWI Draft Registration Board for Jefferson County, GA. In Berrien County, the men appointed were Sheriff Joe Varn Nix, Clerk of the Superior Court James Henry Gaskins, Ordinary Joel Ira Norwood, and Dr. Lafayette A. Carter.
Sometime before 1930 Dr. Hubert retired from his medical practice. He and Mrs. Hubert moved on to Valdosta, GA. He died at the age of 78 on March 15, 1933 in Bibb County, Georgia. He was buried at Warrenton Cemetery, Warren County, GA.


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Ex-worker arrested after bomb scare at A&M
He may also be linked to an earlier campus threat
A former Texas A&M University employee has been arrested by University Police in connection with the bomb threat at the Clayton Williams Jr. Alumni Center on Friday.
Michael Francis Thomas, of College Station, has been charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony. He was arrested in Bryan and is being held in the Brazos County Jail. A judge denied bond for the suspect.
Thomas also is a person of interest in the bomb threat at Kyle Field on Wednesday, but has not been charged in that case. Kyle Field and adjacent athletic facilities were evacuated after the bomb scare, which proved unfounded.
In an unrelated case, Thomas also was charged with credit card abuse by Texas A&M University police.
The latest investigation was launched Friday after someone discovered the word "bomb" written on a mirror in the alumni center. Police immediately evacuated the building and issued a Code Maroon alert. Police completed the search of the building and it reopened shortly after 11 a.m.
No other details were available. A press release issued by Texas A&M police did not indicate what job Thomas held at the university.
More Information
Wednesday's alert: Kyle Stadium evacuated
Oct. 2012 scare: Connected to Texas State threat
Man with gun: Report never verified
Officer killed: 2012 shooting near campus


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Raymond James (RJF) said Tuesday that a former Merrill Lynch (BAC) team managing some $250 million in assets has joined its employee-advisor channel in Virginia. This news came one day after several advisors with about $175 million in assets joined the same unit in Florida from UBS (UBS) and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MS).
"I'm thrilled to welcome such an accomplished team to Raymond James [from Merrill Lynch]," said Tash Elwyn (right), head of the Atlantic region of Raymond James & Associates, who was recently tapped to replace Dennis Zank in 2012 as head of RJ&A (when Zank becomes COO) in a press release. "Blue Ocean Wealth Advisors is an extremely talented group who bring extensive knowledge and a multitude of experiences to our firm. We could not ask for a stronger team to open the first RJ&A office in the southeast Virginia area."
The team joining in Virginia Beach includes four financial advisors: Robert Krebs, Brian Pennell, Jennifer Duffy and Sandra Peters, who recently formed Blue Ocean Wealth Advisors.
"Before joining the firm, we conducted extensive due diligence and in the end chose Raymond James because of its reputation for exceptional client service," said Krebs in a statement. "The firm treats financial advisors as their clients, and that enables us to provide the highest level of service to our clients every day."
In Miami, Raymond James says it has recruited Pedro Harth-Silva, Luis Alayo and Miguel Rodriguez, according to Frank Amigo, South Florida complex manager.
"I'm extremely pleased to welcome Pedro, Luis and Miguel to our Miami team," said Amigo in a statement. "They bring a valuable combination of knowledge and experience in assisting their clients and are a great addition to our global wealth management group, which focuses on international business and serving nonresident clients. Most important, they share our firm's values of independence and client-first service."
Harth-Silva came to Raymond James from UBS Financial Services, where he managed $105 million in client assets and produced over $1 million in annual fees and commissions.
"Raymond James provides a highly reputable, stable environment for me and my clients," said Harth-Silva in a press release. "The firm's experienced management and support of its advisors will allow me to manage and preserve my clients' assets outside of their home country."
Alayo and Rodriguez both joined RJ&A firm from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MS), where they managed $72 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of $784,000. (Alayo began his career with Raymond James & Associates in 1998 before moving to Citigroup and then Morgan Stanley, while Rodriguez began his career with Ameriprise Financial in 2005.)
"We joined Raymond James because the firm offers the combination of the culture of independence, integrity and empowerment along with the scale of resources, technology and support of a much larger firm," said Alayo, in a statement. "It is a great decision for our clients and our team."


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PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The website Wikipedia is the single leading source of medical information for U.S. patients and healthcare professionals, an information services company says.
A report by IMS Health, a global information and technology services company, examined the current state of consumer behaviors on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The researchers developed the IMS Health Social Media Engagement Index, which assesses reach, based on the total number of individuals exposed to a message via likes, shares or re-tweets; relevance, the degree that content is found useful and shared across social networks; and relationship, the level of direct interaction around specific content.
The top 100 Wikipedia pages -- in English -- for healthcare topics were accessed, on average, 1.9 million times during the past year. Rarer diseases, which often have fewer available information sources and are less understood by patients and clinicians, show a higher frequency of visits than many more common diseases, the report said.
In an assessment of 50 major disease-specific Wikipedia articles, the institute found a strong correlation between page views and medicine use. Content used or updated on healthcare-related Wikipedia pages is subject to constant change, often overseen by informal or formal working groups.
Social media engagement lags significantly within the population segment that uses healthcare services the most -- the older generation. Age is one of a few differentiating factors in the use of social networking sites, the report said.
Younger people tend to conduct online investigations before the start of therapy, but, patients age 50 or older tend to begin their treatments prior to seeking information online, the report said.


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"My Gift to Jesus," Friend, Dec. 2012, 4–5
My Gift to Jesus
All God's children, come to adore, bringing gifts of love evermore (Children's Songbook, 40).
"Time for family home evening!" Dad called.
I hurried to the living room. We always did fun things on the first family home evening of December.
My younger sister, Michelle, ran ahead of me and jumped into the soft blue armchair.
"No fair!" I exclaimed. "You got to sit there last week. It's my turn."
"I got here first, so I get to sit here," she argued. "You can sit on the couch."
"I don't want to sit on the couch," I snapped.
I stormed over to the rocking chair and turned it so I wouldn't have to look at Michelle. She made me so mad sometimes! She thought she could have whatever she wanted. Whenever I complained, Mom told me I needed to be unselfish.
After our family sang a hymn and prayed, Dad said, "Christmas is an exciting time, and we need to remember the true meaning of the holiday. Tonight we are going to start with our gifts to Jesus."
Our gifts to Jesus. I had forgotten about that! We did it every year.
"We celebrate Christmas because Jesus was born," Dad continued. "He made it possible for us to receive the greatest gift—eternal life with Heavenly Father."
"And what has He asked us to do in return?" Mom asked.
"To follow Him and keep His commandments," my brother answered.
Mom gave us each a card and pen. We were supposed to write how we would show Jesus we love Him. That was our gift—to choose something we would do to be more like Jesus.
I knew immediately what my gift should be. Jesus taught us to love others, even if they made us angry. I knew Jesus wanted me to love my sister. I wrote, "I will be nice to Michelle."
We put our cards in a box wrapped in gold paper. We put the box under the Christmas tree. Every time we looked at the box, we were supposed to remember the Savior's gift to us and our gift to Him.
A few days later, I saw that Michelle had taken my favorite shirt without asking. I wanted to yell at her. Then I looked at the gold box and remembered how much I loved Jesus. I could show Him love by being kind to my sister. I said, "You look really pretty today, Michelle."
She smiled. "I'm sorry I didn't ask to wear your shirt. You weren't here when I got dressed, and I wanted to look extra nice for my class Christmas party today."
I felt warm inside. I was glad I had chosen to be nice to Michelle instead of getting angry at her.
For the rest of the month, I tried to remember that good feeling and my goal to be like Jesus. I got better at being patient and loving.
On Christmas Eve, Dad read the nativity story, and the rest of us acted it out. I decided to be the angel instead of arguing with Michelle over who got to play the part of Mary.
Next we opened the gold box and read our gifts to Jesus out loud. When I read mine, Mom said, "I've noticed that you've been extra nice to Michelle. I'm so proud of you!"
I was proud too. I hadn't unwrapped any presents yet, but I had already received something special: a feeling from the Holy Ghost telling me I had done the right thing.


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by Susan Eisenhauser, J.D., Former Executive Director, JLAP
Volume 24, No. 1. Indiana Trial Lawyers Association quarterly journal, The Verdict. Reprinted with permission.
".. the greatest fallacy about suicide lies in the belief there is a single immediate answer - or perhaps combined answers - as to why the deed was done."
- William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
On a Sunday in January, I received a message at my home from a judge. I knew immediately something was wrong. And something was. Terribly wrong. Judge George Heid of Tippecanoe County had been found shot, an apparent suicide. I remember the emotions I heard running through the judge's voice as we spoke - shock, disbelief, sadness, worry - but most of all that incessant question - why?
Later that week I had many different people express many of the same emotions as they tried to come to grips with the terrible reality that a respected member of the legal family - a judge - had chosen to end his own life. Perhaps most poignant was the Tippecanoe County lawyer who agonized over what he failed to see, what he might have done had he looked "just a little closer, paid just a little more attention."
With the deadline for this piece so close, Terry and I started to think about what we might write that could not only make a small contribution to assist those friends and colleagues of Judge Heid who might read it, but that also might - just might - deter the next attorney or judge who needs help but thinks there is no where to turn. Let them know they are not alone. What came to us was to let one of your own colleagues speak to you about his experience with suicide.
Gary Bakke is a Wisconsin attorney who served as President of the State Bar of Wisconsin. I am a member of that Bar and proud to have had a leader such as Mr. Bakke who was willing to share his personal story in hopes of helping his fellows. Mr. Bakke's suicidal thoughts arose out of his depression and we know that depression can be one factor that increases one's risk for suicide. We at JLAP do not know whether Judge Heid suffered from depression, but what we do know is he lost his life. So Mr. Bakke's article is below, reprinted with permission. It speaks quite eloquently for itself. We sincerely hope you will take a few minutes to read it.


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Paleo Cookie Pancakes!
With the holidays upon us, seemed a good time to share our recipe for Paleo Pancakes. These are a bit different than many similar recipes online as we designed them to be high density protein with a good dose of veggies – basically, a balanced paleo meal for times without the ability to cook. Turned out, they are tasty anytime!
Better yet – they taste a bit like cookies!
They are a sugar free, gluten free, organic, ready to go meal.
I'm sure the hemp powder we use can be substituted for other nut flours, we just needed the big protein gains during cold times without cooking.
Paleo Cookie Pancakes:
1 cup mashed squash
1/2 cup hemp powder
1/2 cup walnut flour
1/2 cup coconut milk
6 eggs
Lots of cinnamon (to taste)
Light cloves
1 tbl ginger powder
1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
Mix the hemp and walnut flour with the coconut milk. Mix in the mashed squash. Add eggs and mix well. Add spices or substitute for pumpkin pie spice.
It should have the consistency of thick pancake batter. Can add a few chopped nuts or berries to the batter for texture and bursts of flavor.
Scoop 1/4 cup of mixture onto a hot skillet or griddle, use plenty of butter or coconut oil to prevent sticking. Cook on a low heat, they burn a little easier than other pancakes.
Flip each pancake when the bottom side firms up, like normal pancakes. Cook some more until done!
These tend to be thin, but fluffy due to the egg content. Two pancakes each makes a filling meal for us. I did not write down how many the recipe makes, but its around 9-12 cakes.
We usually eat these plain, but for special occasions (like birthdays) we'll put a little vanilla ice cream on top. Wow they are good!
It would be easy to substitute many of the ingredients. The squash helps balance the acidic nut flours, helps provide carbohydrates, and keeps the pancakes moist. Bananas, pumpkin, yams, etc would all work well in its place. There are different types of nut flours, you can experiment with finding the one that suits your taste buds the most.
Enjoy and Happy Holidays!


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Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky have just begun their 13th annual "State of the World" conversation on The Well. (2011's State of the World here.)
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permalink #6 of 13: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Wed 4 Jan 12 18:06
It's surprising how little vitality these have nowadays. Instead of fanaticallly dedicating themselves to narrow, all-explanatory cults, people just sort of eyeblink at 'em and move on to the next similiar topic. In a true Network Society, all fringe beliefs about the future seem to be more or less equivalent, like Visa, American Express and Mastercard. "Conservatism" conserves nothing; there is no "progression" in which to progress.
Peak Oil. Oil probably "peaked" quite some time ago, but the "peak" itself doesn't seem to bother markets much. The imaginary Armageddon got old-fashioned fast. Peak Oil has peaked.
Islamic Caliphate... With the collapse of so many Arab regimes, these guys are in the condition of dogs that caught a taxi. "Sharia Law" is practically useless for any contemporary purpose, and Arabs never agree about anything except forcing non-Arabs to believe.
Chemtrails. These guys are pitiable loons, but they're interesting harbingers of a future when even scientific illiterates are deathly afraid of the sky. It's interesting that we have cults of people who walk outside and read the sky like a teacup. I've got a soft spot for chemtrail people, they're really just sort of cool, and much more interesting than UFO cultists, who are all basically Christians. Jesus is always the number one Saucer Brother in UFO contactee cults. It's incredible how little imagination the saucer people have.
BitCoin. An ultimate Internet hacker fad. You'd think ...


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Love and Haight
Susan Carlton BS '81 writes a young adult novel about being 17 and pregnant in 1971, right in the middle of San Francisco's flower-power heyday, but before abortion was legal. The book was nominated for an award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (in the category of best fiction for young adults) and made the Amelia Bloomer list (recommendations of feminist literature for kids and teens).
Henry Holt and Company, 2012. 192 pages.


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Submitted by Gary Evans of Global Macro Monitor
Crisis, Contagion, And The Need For A New Paradigm
In his lecture at the Latsis Symposium 2012 "Economics on the Move" in Zurich, Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz nails the fundamental problem and crisis of modern macroeconomics, which failed to predict the financial crisis.
If you say…what is good science is prediction… and you can't predict the most important event in 75 years, what good are you? In particular, it might be very nice you can talk about the likelihood of an one tenth increase in GDP growth rate…and you miss a major economic downturn….or worse, they said the things can't happen…
Here are the money quotes,
We all know the shock in this crisis…was a credit bubble and we have had those credit bubbles since the beginning of capitalism…So it was remarkable the intellectual bubble led people to believe there were no such thing as credit bubbles when there was 200 years of history of that…..How could people be so stupid?
…The theory was with well functioning financial markets, spreading risk, diversifying risk, risk is contained. They came to believe the models and that's always dangerous.
Say it ain't so, Joe. Say it ain't so!


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