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New York Times reporter James Risen must say at a trial whether former CIA official Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information, was a source for his book, a federal appeals court ruled.
In a 2-1 decision Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., reversed a lower court's ruling that found that Risen's testimony, sought by federal prosecutors, was protected by the 1st Amendment.
"He is the only one who can identify Sterling as the perpetrator of the charged offenses, and he is the only one who can effectively address Sterling's expected efforts to point the finger at others," U.S. Circuit Judge William Traxler wrote in the majority opinion.
Sterling is charged with leaking information to Risen in violation of the Espionage Act. The information was made public in a chapter in Risen's "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," which revealed a covert operation involving an attempt to supply Iranian officials with flawed nuclear weapons plans.
His trial was put on hold while the appeals court considered challenges to evidence the jury may hear.
Sterling is one of at least seven Americans charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 during President Obama's administration, twice as many as in the previous 90 years. All were accused of leaking secrets to journalists in violation of a law that prohibits disclosure of national defense information to anyone not authorized to receive it.
Before Obama took office, the Espionage Act, signed by President Woodrow Wilson, had been primarily employed against some of the most damaging double agents in U.S. history. They included Aldrich Ames, a CIA official convicted in 1994 of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, and Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent convicted in 2001 of similar offenses.
"We are disappointed by and disagree with the court's decision," Joel Kurtzberg, a lawyer for Risen at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York, said in an emailed statement. "We are currently evaluating our next steps."
Bloomberg, parent of Bloomberg News, was among the news organizations filing court papers on Risen's behalf.
The ruling comes one week after the Justice Department tightened guidelines its prosecutors use in investigations that involve members of the news media. The new rules were designed in the wake of criticism from lawmakers, journalists and free-press advocates over the handling of cases involving the Associated Press and Fox News. The guidelines restrict the use of subpoenas and search warrants for journalists.
In a letter to the appeals court Friday, Kurtzberg said the department's new policy meant Risen need not testify because of a common-law legal privilege.
"The DOJ's recent change of position is nothing less than an admission that the legal standard it asks this court to apply provides wholly inadequate protection for the interests at stake in this case," Kurtzberg wrote.
The Justice Department is "examining the next steps in the prosecution of this case," spokesman Peter Carr said in an emailed statement.
The 1st Amendment doesn't protect reporters who are called to testify in criminal proceedings about criminal conduct they may have "personally witnessed or participated in, absent a showing of bad faith, harassment or other such non-legitimate motive," Traxler said.
Traxler also said Risen has information that the government cannot obtain through other means, such as witnesses or documents.
"Risen is without dispute the only witness who can offer this critical testimony," said Traxler, whose opinion was joined by Judge Albert Diaz.
In a dissent, Judge Roger Gregory said the majority's decision was "contrary to the will and wisdom of our founders." He also accused his colleagues of overstating the importance of Risen's testimony.
He referred to affidavits filed in the case by journalists explaining how confidential sources were integral to informing the public of the government's actions, such as the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and the Watergate scandal.
"The paramount importance of the free press guaranteed by our Constitution compels me to conclude that the 1st Amendment encompasses a qualified reporter's privilege," Gregory said.
The decision underscores the need for a shield law protecting journalists from revealing their sources, said Gregg Leslie, a lawyer at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The U.S. should stop prosecuting people who reveal to the media important information about government operations without intending to damage the United States, he said in a telephone interview.
"If the only evidence is having the reporter testify, the better thing to do -- the judicious thing to do -- is maybe say, we won't prosecute this case," said Leslie, whose group filed court papers in support of Risen, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
Prosecutors allege that Sterling was the source for a chapter in Risen's 2006 book that detailed a failed effort by the CIA to have a former Russian scientist plant flawed nuclear weapons blueprints with the Iranians.
Sterling was charged in a 10-count indictment in December 2010 with unauthorized retention and communication of national defense information, unauthorized conveyance of government property, mail fraud and obstruction of justice.
The case is U.S. v. Sterling, 11-05028, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Richmond).
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What is Culture, Literature & the Arts?
The Culture, Literature & the Arts major (CLA) inquires into the make-up of diverse cultures and societies, and their literatures and arts.
Students in the major study written and visual texts, interactive and performative modes of practice, and philosophical and theoretical accounts of those texts and practices.
Students gain an understanding of the complex relations among lived, represented, and speculated existence. CLA courses focus on the historical, social, and aesthetic dimensions of arts and culture, with special attention to the intersections among gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, disability, and other vectors of power and privilege.
CLA majors graduate with an ability to pursue inquiry across a broad range of endeavors and to become engaged, reflective, and productive global citizens. The major is excellent for careers that demand strong written and verbal communication capabilities, such as law, publishing, public relations, journalism, web content production, museum and bookstore management, and teaching. CLA majors may also advance their studies by pursuing graduate degrees in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields that engage the humanities. Here is more information about career possibilities or pursuing graduate school.
While there are no official prerequisites beyond the requirements for admission into the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, students choosing this major will find it helpful to be able to write an analytical paper and should have at least two courses in literature, the visual arts, or performance. Historical knowledge and competency in foreign languages is also highly desirable. At UW Bothell, students may benefit from taking one of the 200-level gateway courses for the major: BIS 206 Engaging Literary Arts; BIS 209 Engaging Visual and Media Arts; BIS 212 Engaging Performing Arts; and/or BIS 215 Literature into Film
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The IPR requirement can be completed through elective credits or it can overlap with major coursework.
25 credits must be completed in each Area of Knowledge. The Areas of Knowledge are: Visual, Literary and Performing Arts (VLPA), Individuals and Societies (I&S), and Natural World (NW).
Multiply-designated courses may not be double-counted as fulfilling two Areas of Knowledge. Courses may apply to both an Area of Knowledge requirement and an CLA major requirement.
Of the credits applying to CLA major requirements, a minimum of 48 must be completed at the Upper Division (300-400) level.
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Students admitted to the AES major prior to Autumn 2016 may be eligible to complete an older set of major requirements. For more information, please check Requirement Changes Autumn 2016 page.
The Culture, Literature & the Arts curriculum advances the four core IAS learning objectives. Students taking courses and/or majoring in Culture, Literature & the Arts:
1) Engage the complex question of what cultures are and do;
2) Analyze diverse forms of cultural production and consumption, including literature and language, film and media, music and sound, visual arts and images, performing arts and kinesthetics;
3) Appreciate the richness and complexity of artistic communication, language, and imagination;
4) Investigate the importance of form, design, and genre across the arts;
5) Understand how creativity and artistic expression are embedded within larger social and cultural contexts;
6) Understand how artistic practices and cultural production vary across time and space.
Please contact the CLA Faculty Coordinator if you have any questions, concerns or ideas about the Culture, Literature and the Arts major. To declare the CLA major, please contact the First Year & Pre-Major Program.
Learning to read complex texts is the cornerstone of CLA. Of all the things I've taken from my education at UW Bothell, learning to look at every thing from every angle is the most valuable. CLA taught me not only how to experience texts of all sorts, but also how to create a richer understanding of the world.

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How far we have come from 1609, when Galileo Galilei first aimed his telescope towards the little twinkly dots in the sky and saw stars and planets. Turning his sights on Jupiter in 1610, he noticed that some stars near the planet disappeared over the following nights—he had discovered some of the Jovian moons.
But Galileo never saw Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede, as clearly as in this photo, a composite of three images from the Hubble Space Telescope. (The planet's Great Red Spot wouldn't even start storming for another 100 years after Galileo viewed the swirling Jovian atmosphere.)
Galileo noticed the moons because they disappeared over days. What would he have thought of this video that shows Ganymede moving behind Jupiter in just two hours?
Video courtesy of NASA, ESA, E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and G. Bacon (STScI)


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Frittering: To spend, bit by bit, on trifles
To break into small fragments
First known use: 1728
"whittle away," 1728, from fritters "fragment or shred," possibly from a noun sense, but this is not recorded as early as the verb; perhaps an alteration of 16c. fitters "fragments or pieces," perhaps ultimately from O.Fr. fraiture "a breaking," from L. fractura. Or perhaps from a Germanic source : rags)
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau
On the other hand, Nietzche: "I feel as though I've frittered my life away for what else is there to do with a life?"
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This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
In August 1881 the naturalist John Muir was sailing off Alaska aboard the steamerThomas Corwin, searching for three vessels that had gone missing in the Arctic. Off Point Barrow he spotted three polar bears, "magnificent fellows, fat and hearty, rejoicing in their strength out here in the bosom of the icy wilderness."
Were Muir to sail off Point Barrow in August today, any polar bears he'd see would not be living in a wilderness of ice but swimming through open water, burning precious fat reserves. That's because the bears' sea-ice habitat is disappearing. And it's going fast.
Polar bears ply the Arctic niche where air, ice, and water intersect. Superbly adapted to this harsh environment, most spend their entire lives on the sea ice, hunting year-round, visiting land only to build maternal birthing dens. They prey mainly on ringed and bearded seals (it's been said that they can smell a seal's breathing hole from more than a mile away) but sometimes catch walruses and even beluga whales.
Sea ice is the foundation of the Arctic marine environment. Vital organisms live underneath and within the ice itself, which is not solid but pierced with channels and tunnels large, small, and smaller. Trillions of diatoms, zooplankton, and crustaceans pepper the ice column. In spring, sunlight penetrates the ice, triggering algal blooms. The algae sink to the bottom, and in shallow continental shelf areas they sustain a food web that includes clams, sea stars, arctic cod, seals, walruses—and polar bears.
Experts estimate the world's polar bear numbers at 20,000 to 25,000, in 19 subpopulations. Bears in Svalbard (the Norwegian archipelago where Florian Schulz made most of these photographs), the Beaufort Sea, and Hudson Bay have been studied the longest. It was in western Hudson Bay, where ice melts in the summer and freezes back to shore in the fall, that the creatures' predicament first came to light.
Ian Stirling, now retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service, has monitored polar bears there since the late 1970s. He found that they gorged on seals in the spring and early summer, before breakup, then retreated to land as the ice melted. In a good year, breakup found bears packing a thick layer of fat. Ashore, the bears entered a state known as walking hibernation, their metabolisms on idle to hoard their fat stores. "Until about the early 1990s at Hudson Bay," Stirling says, "bears were able to fast through the open-water season of summer and fall because hunting on the spring sea ice was so good."
During subsequent years of bear-watching, Stirling and a colleague, Andrew Derocher, began to see an alarming pattern. They observed that although the bears' population held steady, the animals were getting thinner. The western Hudson Bay bears were missing vital weeks of peak seal hunting, and the later winter freeze-up was extending their fast. By 1999 the biologists had correlated a steady decline in most measures of polar bear health with a decline in sea ice. Bears didn't grow as large, and some came ashore notably skinnier. Females gave birth less often and had fewer cubs. Fewer cubs survived.
When that same year Stirling and his colleagues published their findings, it was still possible to doubt that warming in the Arctic had already affected polar bears. In a 1999 interview Steven Amstrup, chief scientist at Polar Bears International, who had studied bears in the Beaufort Sea since 1980 for the U.S. Geological Survey, said he hadn't yet seen the kind of changes Stirling had. Or had he? "My aha! moment," Amstrup recalls, "was when I realized the difficult time I'd been having getting out onto the ice to conduct my autumn fieldwork was not just an odd year or two but a prolonged and worsening trend. Shortly thereafter we began to see the same biological changes in our bears as well."
The world didn't know it yet, but during the summer in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice had been melting earlier and faster, and the winter freeze had been coming later. In the three decades since 1979 the extent of summer ice has declined by about 30 percent. The lengthening period of summer melt threatens to undermine the whole Arctic food web, atop of which stand polar bears.
Data have since bolstered the early warning signs. Since Muir set out in the Corwin,greenhouse gases have contributed to an average warming of the Earth of about one degree Fahrenheit. This may seem negligible, but even one degree of warming can noticeably disrupt an environment of ice and snow. It's as if a giant hand has trained a magnifying glass over the Pole.
The sea ice above the shallow continental shelves provides the richest sustenance for polar bears, but recently the ice has been retreating far from those areas, reducing the summer habitat bears need most to survive. Whether a polar bear lives in Hudson Bay or the Beaufort or Barents Seas, it faces the same problem. Sea ice on which to hunt is available for progressively shorter periods, forcing bears to fast for longer periods. And because thinner sea ice is more easily shifted by winds and currents, bears may be swept into strange territory, forcing them to make longer, more arduous swims in open water to find favorable sea ice or to get to land.
Polar bears are strong swimmers, but swimming long distances in open water is draining and can be fatal. In 2008 a radio-collared bear with a yearling cub swam an astounding 427 miles to reach the ice off the northern Alaska coast. The cub didn't make it. Researchers counting bowhead whales in September 2004 spotted four dead polar bears afloat after a storm in the Beaufort Sea. Scientists estimated that as many as 27 bears may have drowned in that one storm.
Females face especially hard times. Malnourished males may kill and eat cubs—and even their mothers—behavior scientists believe may become more common as food diminishes. Increasingly, getting to ancestral denning places on land can be an ordeal. On one island in Svalbard, when the sea has frozen late in the year, scientists have seen few, if any, dens the following spring. That's when they'd normally see 20 or more, Jon Aars, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, says. Whether females find other sites or skip a year of breeding, Aars can't say.
From childhood we create a picture of our physical world: The sky is blue, the Arctic is white. But before this century ends—and perhaps much sooner—most of the Arctic is predicted to be blue water every summer.
Can a blue Arctic support polar bears? Only in the short run, Amstrup and Stirling say.
Currents still cram drifting sea ice against the Canadian Arctic Islands and northern Greenland in summer, creating pockets that may retain enough ice to support polar bears through this century. If we can reduce the warming of the atmosphere, Amstrup says, it will not be too late for polar bears, but "if the world keeps warming, ultimately even those last refuges will fail to sustain the icon of the Arctic."


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"My initial concept for this work was to produce a piece of artwork, combining my paintings with poetry - a piece of sculpture resembling closely the form of a book.
To me, the individual images and words become the framework of the sculpture."
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Stocks fall after weak reports on hiring, growth
Stocks declined Wednesday, after payroll processor ADP estimated that private employers added 158,000 jobs in March and service industries reported slower growth and falling orders in March.
Adding to the market weakness is news out of Washington, where Defense Decretary Chuck Hagel said that North Korea, which has been engaging in saber rattling with the U.S. in recent weeks, presents a "real and clear" danger to the U.S. and its allies. The defense secretary also said the U.S. was moving some missile defense systems to Guam.
The rise of a fresh geopolitical threat could be enough to rattle the market, which hit fresh record highs on Tuesday and which some Wall Street pros say is ripe for a correction, says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank.
"If investors are inferring some sort of an escalation of tensions then I think, yes, there is cause for concern," Ablin says, adding that the "unpredictability" of the situation could give investors pause.
The Dow Jones industrial average had its worse day in five weeks, losing 111.66 points, or 0.7%, to 14,550.35. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 16.56 points, or 1.05%, to 1,553.69 as all 10 of its sectors closed lower. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite index lost 36.26 points, or 1.11%, to 3,218.60.
In energy markets, oil prices fell nearly 3%, pressured by a bigger-than-expected increase in last week's U.S. crude supplies. The price of a barrel of crude oil for May delivery was down $2.77, or 2.8%, to $94.42 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 12 cents to finish at $97.19 per barrel on the Nymex on Monday.
Investors fled to the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to 1.81% from 1.86% Tuesday. Prices, which move inversely to yields, soared.
The price of gold continued its sell-off. After losing nearly $19 an ounce Tuesday, the price of gold was off $17.70 to $1,558.20 Wednesday.
In currency trading, the euro was stronger against the dollar, trading up 0.2% to 1.2847. The dollar was weaker against the Japanese yen, down 0.5% to 92.95.
On Tuesday, the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at record highs. Stocks rallied following positive news on Medicare reimbursement and rising U.S. factory orders in February.
The Dow rose 0.6% to 14,662.01. The S&P 500 climbed up 0.5% to 1,570.25. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite index gained 0.5% to 3,254.86.
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In Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 3% to close at 12,362.20 on Wednesday. The country's central bank started its first policy meeting under a new governor committed to aggressive monetary action to end years of economic malaise.
However, other benchmarks in Asia were down. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite index fell 0.1% to 2,225.29. South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.2% to 1,983.22. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index closed down 0.1% to 22,337.49.
In Europe, benchmark indexes were lower. Britain's FTSE 100 index closed down 1.1% to 6,420.28, while Germany's DAX 30 index finished 0.9% lower to 7,874.75. France's CAC 40 index ended down 1.3% to 3,754.96.
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Elusive search for Irish ancestors
July 8, 2009 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
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Donegal Ancestry I have explored a lot of different avenues on our elusive search to find the Irish origin of our KERR ancestors. It also means I'm on lots of Irish mailing lists. I just heard of this update with regards to County Donegal. New records added to Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System The [...]


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Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is located on the northern coast of Jamaica--67 miles east of Montego Bay. Blue-green mountains, white-sand beaches, lilting breezes wafting across flower-adorned hillsides - Jamaica is a sensual feast. Stunning natural beauty and a unique society molded by British, African, Spanish and Asian influences make Jamaica an unforgettable port of call in the Caribbean. Ocho Rios is a superb slice of Jamaica. The area is named for its spectacular rivers and waterfalls, including famed Dunn's River Falls.
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Jamaica's world-famous waterfall cascades 600 feet down a giant rock staircase to the Caribbean Sea. Climb to the top or use the adjacent walkways if you prefer not to get wet.
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Explore the lush tropical jungles, waterfalls and sparkling pools of this beautifully landscaped garden and adjacent historical museum built on grounds dating back to British colonial times.
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Venture away from commercial areas for a tour of one of Jamaica's historic Great Houses or plantation estates, where bananas, sugarcane, coffee and allspice are still cultivated today.
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The exciting attraction which opened in 2008 serves up incredible views, and features the Sky Explorer Chairlift, Jamaican Bobsled ride, interesting displays, an infinity pool and a value-priced restaurant. Fun for the whole family!
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As hybrids become more popular in the marketplace the choices are also getting better for consumers. The Toyota Prius V is another breakthrough for hybrids, offering a ton of space and excellent fuel efficiency.
You can quickly recognize the Prius V as a member of the Prius Hybrid family, and the striking Barcelona Red paint with real spoiler made this wagon a looker. While keeping air resistance low, Toyota didn't sacrifice styling as the flush surface from the front of the vehicle through the front pillar works with side "aerocorners" for exceptionally clean airflow. Our test model sported LED headlights with auto level control, auto on/off feature front fog lamps, and power folding and heated side mirrors. The combination of the sleek design and 17-inch alloy wheels make for an attractive exterior on the 2012 Prius V.
Active folks are going to fall in love with the interior of the Prius V as this hybrid is very generous with space. There is no doubt that Toyota has it right in that "the Prius V emphasizes overall proportion with spaciousness and flexibility for active families. Comfortable interior space and good visibility have been assisted by a high seating position, ample head room, and an impressive 38-inch couple distance, providing generous rear legroom. A low, wide-opening rear hatch reveals 34.3 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats, making it the most spacious dedicated hybrid vehicle on the market."
For even more space for loading whatever it is you choose, the Prius V's sliding second row seats allow for easier ingress and egress and rear-storage flexibility, with a 45-degree recline for greater comfort. We appreciated such options as the 7-inch touch screen back up camera and display audio, navigation, Entune, XM radio, USB and Bluetooth, rear bench seat with armrest and adjustable headrests, digital instrumentation with trip info, softex heated front seats with power lumbar, climate control, remote keyless entry and push button start, tilt/telescopic steering wheel with controls, 8 JBL GreenEdge speakers, advanced voice recognition, text to speech with programmed text responses, and a Panoramic view moon roof with power sunshades for a totally incredible view of above. The overall feel of the interior is pretty conservative with top notch fit and feel of the interior surfaces.
The V stands for "versatility," and that includes driving preference and how the driver wants the Prius V to perform. The Prius V utilizes the same proven Hybrid Synergy Drive system as the third-generation Prius, with the advantages of high mileage, low emissions, and never needing to be recharged, and that's a big plus for us. We learned from Toyota that "the Hybrid Synergy Drive system in the Prius V is essentially the same as the current third-generation Prius. The system uses two high-output motors: one 60kw (80 hp) unit that mainly works to power the compact, lightweight transaxle, and another, smaller motor that mainly works as the electric power source. Maximum motor drive voltage is 650 volts DC. The proven and practical nickel-metal hydride battery pack is the same as on the third-generation Prius liftback, but with a cooling duct located under the rear seat.
As with current-generation Prius cars, Hybrid Synergy Drive is a series-parallel hybrid system that can provide power either from the engine alone, the motor alone, or any mix of both. A hybrid control computer manages the system so that optimum power is delivered according to driver demand. It uses a start/stop system and regenerative braking to conserve fuel and recharge the battery upon deceleration. Hybrid Synergy Drive is built around a specially adapted, efficient 98-horsepower1.8-liter four-cylinder engine that runs on the Atkinson cycle and contributes to a total system horsepower of 134. Key components include an electric water pump that requires no belts and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system that helps warm the engine quickly, reducing fuel consumption when the engine is cold. Compact and lightweight, the engine produces minimal noise and vibration. Sophisticated valve control, injector design, and other technologies reduce emissions to allow the Prius V to qualify for SULEV and Tier2 Bin3 emissions standards. This translates into 44 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway for a combined 42 mpg overall. That's impressive for a 5-passenger vehicle with the looks of the 2012 Prius V.
The Prius family has been very successful for Toyota Motor and there is no doubt the new and improved Prius V will be an important vehicle for the company. The V doesn't stand out as much as a hybrid on the road, which is partly because styling has evolved for Prius designs. Our test model was loaded and we enjoyed driving the car which seemed to go forever with the gas gauge barely moving. The sticker of our 2012 Prius V came in at $36,330, which starts to really put hybrids in a competitive range versus conventional cars. From single adults to active families, many buyers will enjoy what the new Prius V has to offer.
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John Arias Madriz, member of the CFCA-Costa Rica team, center, leads a prayer in the mothers group in a community served by the Santa Ana project during a training trip to El Salvador.
Mother's Day is May 8. We believe in the wisdom of mothers and work to provide opportunities for mothers to use their wisdom for the good of their children and families.
In the past year, CFCA in Costa Rica has been exploring mothers groups as a vehicle to encourage the participation of mothers of sponsored children.
"Our mothers come from difficult realities,î said Rafael Villalobos, the Costa Rica coordinator. ìMost are single mothers and live in violent environments. Our primary goal is to create groups where the mothers identify with each other, learn to solve their problems and live with peace and solidarity.î
Earlier this year, staff members from the Costa Rica visited CFCA communities in El Salvador to learn from Salvadoran mothers groups.
"During our visit to El Salvador, we saw how women are empowered," Villalobos said. "They have voice and vote in the decisions made in CFCA. This is important because mothers are no longer just recipients of benefits. They are building their childrenís future."
Since they began in 2001 in Hyderabad, India, CFCA mothers groups have evolved and spread to other parts of the CFCA world. They were introduced two years ago in El Salvador.
"We see a bigger sense of belonging to CFCA among mothers of sponsored children who are part of our mothers groups," said Yessenia Alfaro, CFCA coordinator in El Salvador.
"This model has enabled the mothers to be active participants in building a better future for their children, and to discover their hidden talents and put them to the service of their own community."
The CFCA mothers group is a community self-help group that offers mothers of sponsored children an opportunity to organize themselves and participate in the planning and decision making of CFCA benefits and activities.
Mothers in Hyderabad now have choices about their childrenís benefits, and microfinance programs offered by the groups provide access to loans for small business startups, college tuition or emergency expenses.
The visit to El Salvador has allowed the Costa Rica team to see the potential of mothers groups as a tool for families to build a path to self-sufficiency.
"We returned home and shared the beauty and the value of mothers becoming the leaders of their sponsorship program, their communities and their childrenís pathway in life," Villalobos said.


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A city councilman who chairs the influential taxation committee is holding up $107 million in infrastructure financing for the Harbor Point development as he seeks more detailed information he says is needed to justify the deal.
Proponents of the $1 billion project, a mixed-use waterfront development between Harbor East and Fells Point that could break ground as early as August, say Councilman Carl Stokes also is delaying the creation of badly needed jobs.
"They're holding it up," said Rod Easter, president of the Baltimore Building & Construction Trades Council. "It's thousands of construction jobs. The council needs to get off its butt and get people to work."
Stokes has been an outspoken critic of the subsidies proposed for the development. He said he would not hold a hearing on the proposal until he receives an analysis from the Baltimore Development Corp., the city's quasi-public development arm, and other information. Such a hearing would be needed before the City Council could vote on the proposal.
"They want this matter expedited, but I don't think we should expedite" so large and complicated a financial matter, Stokes said. "As chair, I have a responsibility to do due diligence on this matter."
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration has asked the City Council to approve $107 million in tax increment financing for infrastructure and other improvements for the development, which would house a regional headquarters for the energy giant Exelon Corp.
According to her administration, the Harbor Point project would create about 7,200 construction jobs, and roughly 9,200 jobs would be supported by the businesses that move in.
Supporters contend the public would benefit from plans by Michael S. Beatty's Harbor Point Development Group LLC to use the financing to build public parks and a promenade on the 27-acre property. And they say the project would spur more economic development, boosting poorer areas of southeast Baltimore.
But opponents note that the development has received other government assistance — it has been granted property tax breaks and is eligible for a tax assistance program because it would be built on a contaminated site.
In approving tax increment financing, the Baltimore Development Corp. determined that the project could not happen without such financing.
But Stokes said the development agency has not provided him with that analysis.
"I want to know why 'but-for' the city's dollars this project cannot be done," he said, adding that it's common for legislation to take months to advance through the council.
Ryan O'Doherty, a spokesman for Rawlings-Blake, said the mayor's office released hundreds of pages of documents about the project after introducing the financing legislation. He said the amount of detail supplied by the city is "unprecedented," and if Stokes wants more, he should schedule a hearing to question the developer and city agencies.
"Since the bill was introduced, we made a deliberate effort to put out as much information as possible and be transparent about it," O'Doherty said. "If the objective is to do fact-finding, the best way to do that is to hold the public hearing, so that factual information can be made public in an open and transparent way."
Last year, the council voted to include the Harbor Point site in the city's enterprise zone — meant for economically challenged areas — allowing it to avoid paying about $53 million in local property taxes over 10 years.
Stokes and Councilman Nick Mosby voted against the measure, arguing that the program was meant to encourage development in poor areas, not in upscale neighborhoods.
Stokes called the way the Baltimore Development Corp. redrew the enterprise zone map "indecent." By including census data from Perkins Homes public housing and other poor areas nearby, the Harbor Point site was able to qualify for a break it could not have received on its own, Stokes said.
But even with the enterprise zone tax break, administration officials say the city would take in $143 million in taxes from the project over 10 years.
Stokes said he plans to introduce a resolution Monday asking that developers contribute one-third of their tax savings to the people of Perkins Homes. A resolution is symbolic and carries no weight of law.
"I want a third of the $53 million given to the people of Perkins, so that money and resources can be given to the children for after-school programs, job training and other programs," he said. "If you're going to use these citizens, then let's give them a part of what you're getting."
Marco E. Greenberg, vice president of the Beatty Development Group, said the development team looks "forward to a council hearing at the earliest possible date, so that there can be a thorough public airing of the facts about Harbor Point."
He said the company wants to do its part to grow Baltimore by creating jobs and contributing "millions of dollars in new tax revenues to support Baltimore."
If approved, the $107 million in tax increment financing would be the second-largest of its kind in Baltimore. The city-owned Baltimore Hilton hotel was financed with $301 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds in 2006.
Under tax increment financing deals, the city issues bonds to pay for property acquisitions, infrastructure improvements and other project costs, then uses the increased tax revenue generated by the development to pay off the bonds.
The former site of the Allied Signal chromium plant, Harbor Point now sits mostly vacant. The developer expects work to start this summer on a 23-story skyscraper to house the Exelon headquarters, space the company would lease from Beatty for about $120 million over 15 to 20 years. The site also would be home to Morgan Stanley and other tenants.
Harbor Point would include apartments, hotel rooms and more than 3,000 parking spaces.
The developers would spend $60 million of the tax-exempt bond funding to build seven small parks, $21 million on a promenade and $10.4 million on a bridge extending Central Avenue. They also would make a $2 million contribution to a nearby charter school, the Crossroads. The rest of the money would go to fund infrastructure improvements along the development's streets and piers.
In documents submitted to the Maryland Public Service Commission in 2011, Exelon pledged to build a new regional headquarters in the downtown or harbor area of the city. The company told the regulatory body that approved its purchase of Constellation Energy that its new Baltimore headquarters would add more than 1,100 jobs.
The Baltimore Sun also has sought some of the documents requested by Stokes. Assistant City Solicitor Mark J. Dimenna denied the request made under the Public Information Act, saying the documents were "protected by the deliberative process privilege."
Stokes compared the tax increment financing to a student applying for financial aid at a university or a business seeking a loan from a bank. He said lenders want detailed financial information to ensure that they are investing funds wisely.
"They ask for your tax returns and bank accounts," he said. "I want to see the company's and the CEO's financials, the way any college wants to see mine."
Lester Davis, a spokesman for Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young, said Young is "well aware" of Stokes' concerns but believes the project should move forward.
"He definitely respects Councilman Stokes' position," Davis said. "At the end of the day, he's confident they can be on the same page."


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Likely government budget cuts and the prospect for messy political fights over fiscal policy will weigh on the U.S. economy this year and hold growth to a tepid 2.4 percent, according to a survey of forecasters published on Monday.
The National Association for Business Economics said that more than 95 percent of the 49 economists who participated inits latest quarterly survey believe fiscal policy actions or concerns would slice into gross domestic product.
More than half the panelists thought the uncertainty surrounding fiscal policy would subtract less than half a percentage point from economic growth, while nearly one third expect it to cut between a half point to a full point. Only about 13 percent think the impact would be larger, it said.
The government is staring at a series of big decision points on budget policy. On March 1, $85 billion in automatic spending cuts are set to start kicking in absent congressional action,and late in the month legislation funding the government runs out. Separate legislation, allowing the government to increase its debt to pay bills, expires on May 19.
(Read more: Fault-Finding Grows Intense as Cuts Near)
Nearly 60 percent of the economists polled expect the automatic budget cuts to take hold as scheduled, either fully or partially, while more than a quarter expect them to be delayed.Only about 13 percent of panelists thought they would be abandoned altogether.
The tightening of fiscal policy should shrink the federal deficit to $900 billion this year and $761 billion in 2014 from last year's $1.09 trillion.
While the fiscal tightening is expected to keep the economy sluggish, the jobless rate, which stood at 7.9 percent in January, should slowly drop.
The economists forecast an average unemployment rate this year of 7.7 percent, with a further drop to 7.2 percent in 2014.That would be the lowest level since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
While growth in consumer spending is seen unchanged from last year's 1.9 percent rate, the economists expect it to accelerate to 2.4 percent in 2014.
The outlook for the housing market was also positive, with expected improvements in housing starts and home prices.Residential investment is expected to grow 14.8 percent.


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By Chuck Pleiness @wingsfrontman
DETROIT – One of the best things about this shortened NHL season is that after a clunker one night, you have a chance to redeem yourself a day later.
The Wings did just that Monday night at Joe Louis Arena.
Jimmy Howard made 22 saves and the Wings got goals from Justin Abdelkader, Daniel Cleary and Damien Brunner to skate past Colorado, 3-2.
'That's the best part about this season is we get a game right away to clear our minds and get refocused,' said Abdelkader, who has seven goals this year. 'Sunday's game was obviously not the way we wanted to play, a big disappointment but it was a better effort tonight.'
The Wings lost to Chicago on Sunday, 7-1.
'It was good to get right back at it,' said forward Johan Franzen, who had a pair of assists. 'No one was happy with the way we played (Sunday). We came out stronger tonight. It got tight in the end, but we pulled it off.'
'It was great for us,' said Howard, who was pulled after allowing four goals to the Blackhawks. 'The key was keeping it simple early. We just got the puck deep and went to work and went to work. We weren't turning it over like we were (Sunday afternoon). That was huge for us and we were able to build a lead.'
Jamie McGinn and Steve Duchene each scored third period goals for the Avalanche, while Semyon Varlamov made 10 saves before being pulled for Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who stopped all seven shots he faced.
'We took care of the puck, we were prepared to play, we got good goaltending, the whole thing,' Wings coach Mike Babcock said. 'We weren't very good last night. The guys responded. On a back-to-back it was a real big win for our team. We needed it. I thought we could have been more solid in the third period but still a good win for our team.'
Abdelkader opened the scoring with just over four minutes left in the first period, batting in a puck out of midair. Franzen's shot hit Varlamov high on his blocker, bounced straight up and Abdelkader bunted it home.
'I did my best to try and get my stick on the puck and with the Tigers opening the season I wanted to see how I would stack up bunting the puck into the net,' Abdelkader said.
Cleary made it 2-0 Wings with a power play goal.
Franzen had all the time in the world at the side the Colorado goal after taking a feed from Pavel Datsyuk before feathering a pass to Cleary, who jammed it home.
Just over three minutes later, Brunner scored to snap a 15-game goal-less streak.
Gustav Nyquist did a great job keeping the puck in the zone, working it back in and then firing a pass to Brunner for the one timer that spelled the end to Varlamov's night.
Brunner then gave Nyquist a embrace.
'It was good for him, real relief for a goal scorer,' Babcock said. 'Like most goal scorers he's probably streaky. When you get it going you feel it, next thing you know you're shooting the puck more. Gus made a real nice play for him.'
Brunner is tied for the team lead in goals scored with Datsyuk. They both have 11.
'He's a goal scorer,' Franzen said. 'It's tough when you don't score when you're a goal scorer. He found a great spot and it was (Nyquist) that made a great pass to him and he doesn't miss from there. He's got a great shot, so good for him.'
The Wings let their foot off the gas in the third as Colorado made things close.
McGinn spoiled the Wings' shutout bid, backhanding a puck past a seemingly defenseless Howard when his stick was knocked out of hands after a mad scramble ensued in his crease. The goal came on the power play six minutes into the third period.
Then Duchene made it real interesting, gloving down a puck in the Wings' zone and firing a shot past Howard.
Howard preserved the win by robbing P.A. Parenteau with glove save with seven seconds left in regulation.
'It was trying to take everything away,' Howard said of the save. 'He was at a bad angle and if that goes in, it's completely on me.
'They're a hardworking team,' Howard added. 'They don't quit. They're young, they're fast. They want to get into a track meet with you. For us to be successful against them, you got to play the grind game, keep them on the wall and not let them come flying through the neutral zone.'
Colorado has lost 12 straight on road.
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S4 E19 Episode 419
PITCH: Baby Loves Disco
BEST PART OF THE PITCH:Heather and Andy tour the country in a custom-fitted disco van throwing incredible parties. The reason their parties are so much fun is because of their clientele. They cater to families so the kiddies can join in on the dancing. They are party promoters for kids. They average about 350 people per party. They've grossed $2 million in the last five years.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Mark believes Heather and Andy polluted their pitch when they started talking about sponsorships and other stuff. He's out. Daymond is also confused as to what their plan is going forward. He's out. Kevin doesn't understand how he could possibly make money with these two. He's out. Lori is also confused by the business model. She's out. Robert also can't buy into the business concept. Baby Loves Disco is dead to the sharks.
ENTREPRENEURS: Ryan "Cowboy" Ehmann
PITCH: Lose 12 Inches with Any 12 Workouts
ASKING FOR: $120k for a 25% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: Ryan was a rodeo rider on the pro circuit. He suffered from chronic lower back pain. He got certified as a personal trainer to learn more about his body. He developed a workout that shredded his body fat down to 4.3% and returned to the rodeo circuit to win a championship. Ryan created a software program that calculates your heart rate for a training program to work more efficiently. He developed a machine called "Rodeo Abs" that gives you a full body workout. The machine made a million bucks in sales overseas.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Kevin believes there's someone out there who is the right investor for Ryan, but it's not him. He's out. Mark believes Ryan is probably a great trainer, but he can't figure out who this guy is. He's out. Robert thinks Ryan's energy is infectious, but he can't get in business with him. He's out. Lori believes there's something potentially great here, but she's afraid of the claims Ryan is making. She sees too many challenges here, so she can't be his cowgirl. That leaves Daymond.
THE RESULT: Daymond likes Cowboy Ryan more than the product. That's why he's prepared to give him the $120k for 25%. YEEE-HA! Cowboy Ryan screams with delight as gives Daymond a big hug. He promises to make him proud. Daymond knows he will do just that.
UPDATE: The Painted Pretzel
In Season 3, Raven Thomas sealed a deal with Mark for her candy company. Her sales have gone from $75k in sales to almost $350k. She's been able to hire a small team to keep up with orders. Her pretzels are now sold in Landmark Theaters thanks to Mark. Raven can finally enjoy financial security for her family.
ENTREPRENEUR: David Artuso & Mike Kane
PITCH: CellHelmet
ASKING FOR: $160k and a 20% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: David and Mike created a brand of accessories to include a safety net of accidental coverage for your mobile device. If a CellHelmet case fails to protect your device, the guys will repair or replace it for 50 bucks. They've sold 1,300 cases in four months with about $60k in revenue.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Kevin believes the guys have a horrible idea. He's out with extreme prejudice. Robert isn't a big fan of the "case" business. He believes David and Mike are trying to make money off people who are afraid their phone is going to break. He doesn't buy into the strategy. He's out. Lori and Daymond follow his lead. Mark understands the business plan, but worries that other people with more money will come in and crush them. He's out.
ENTREPRENEURS: Byron Young
PITCH: Cordaroy's
ASKING FOR: $200k for an 20% stake
BEST PART OF THE PITCH: Byron feels he has come up with the most versatile and comfortable beanbag-like chair in the world. The chair actually unzips to become a bed. Lori tries it out and finds it to be very comfortable. Byron has a utility patent that he's enforced twice against much larger companies. They did $1.4 million in sales in their most recent year. Byron wants to use his money for marketing and wants a strategic partner.
DO THE SHARKS BITE? Daymond can't really give Byron the assistance he needs, so he's out. Mark likes what Byron is doing, but doesn't like the fact that a lot of the business depends on impulse buying. He's out. Kevin doesn't believe that the company is worth what Byron says it is. He's out. Robert will give $100k for 40% if Lori will partner with him. But Lori doesn't want a partner for this. She offers $200k for 60% of the company.
THE RESULT: Robert goes out when he realizes Lori won't partner with him. Byron would like to maintain control of the company. He wants $200k for 40%. Lori thinks she'll have to do too much work. She offers to reduce her equity to 58%. Byron says he came into the tank to make a deal. He trusts Lori to make his product a household name. Hopefully they'll both be sitting pretty in the chair biz.


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SPRINGFIELD --- Strip clubs that sell booze or let people drink alcoholic beverages would face a new tax under a measure the Illinois House sent to the governor today.
Lawmakers approved the strip club tax 92-23, with three voting present. The money would go to support rape crisis centers, which have seen funds drop about 28 percent over the past five years.
A strip club operator would have two options under the measure. The operator could charge a $3 admission fee or pay taxes based on how much money they take in.
An operator making $2 million or more per year would pay a $25,000 tax. Those making $500,000 to $2 million would pay $15,000 annually. Operators making less than $500,000 a year would have a $5,000 tax.
Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, asked why the industry is being singled out and questioned whether the government should be "picking losers and winners" when it decides who to tax. He then voted "present."
Sponsoring Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, a Chicago Democrat, countered funding for rape crisis counseling centers has been cut significantly in recent Illinois budgets. In addition, violent crime is higher in areas near clubs that serve alcohol, Feigenholtz said.
"I feel as though we have found a creative way to help these victims," she said.
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, a Democrat, hailed the negotiations with the club industry that brought about the legislation and the support from both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate.
"This is an example of how the process should work. All parties worked together for the good of our state," Simon said.


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Paula Bel
Paula Bel voice and delivery are undeniably strong and crass, not your average female or comic. It's the unexpected truths along with her delivery that are hilarious. You might've seen her on "Last Comic Standing" giving hell to the judges or her recent comedic appearances on Nick@Nite and TV Guide network bashing pregnant teens and reality shows. Not one adverse to writing or performing "blue comedy" she's appeared on Showtime's Full Frontal Comedy and HBO's Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Paula's talented stand-up delivery had her headlining on the 2012 "Just for Laughs" Montreal Festival Nasty Show as well as the off-season "clean" tours throughout Canada. As a successful crossover act, Paula has recently taped BET 2013. Her numerous credits also include 'The View" and "Comics Unleashed." Only six years into her stand-up career, she performed on "The Tonight Show." Headlining in clubs across the country, Paula's numerous television appearances and writing style make her one of the most unique female comics performing today.


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LONDON The BBC faced growing fallout Monday over sexual abuse allegations against a popular children's TV entertainer, as Prime Minister David Cameron accused the broadcaster of changing its story about why it killed a news segment on the accusations.
The powerful broadcaster tried to stem the damage, saying in a statement that a top editor had stepped down from its BBC Newsnight program after he was found to have given incomplete, inaccurate explanations for the decision to keep an investigation of the late Jimmy Savile from being broadcast in December.
The scandal is one of the worst to rock the BBC, long a key player in British public life and often cited as one of the most trusted sources of accurate, unbiased information.
"The BBC is a public service broadcaster that depends on the public trust, and anything that suggests it hasn't been truthful undermines that trust," Conservative Party lawmaker Rob Wilson told The Associated Press. "That's why this is such an important issue for them."
Police are investigating accusations against Savile and say there may be more than 200 potential victims of the entertainer, the longtime host of the BBC's "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It," recognized for his garish track suits and platinum hair.
The BBC's tough statement about editor Peter Rippon deepened the suspicion that there had been a cover-up. It is suspected of pulling the Newsnight segment because of its harsh portrayal of Savile, who was hailed as a popular fixture in children's TV when he died at 84 last year.
Wilson said the BBC has tried to evade responsibility for its long tolerance of Savile.
"They were sidestepping the story, hoping it would go away," he said. "The BBC was saying the cultural issues that led to this were in the past, but when we saw BBC looking at the Jimmy Savile issue and finding out uncomfortable things, they appeared to want to cover it up."
The BBC's backtracking prompted unusual criticism from the prime minister.
"The nation is appalled, we are all appalled by the allegations of what Jimmy Savile did and they seem to get worse by the day," Cameron said, accusing the BBC of changing its story about why it decided not to broadcast the piece.
Tim Burt, a managing partner of the Stockwell Communications crisis management firm, said the BBC faces a major blow to its reputation at a time when it is entering delicate negotiations with the government about the terms of its charter.
"So to have a civil war inside on a matter of editorial judgment and the handling of potentially criminal investigations could not have come at worse time," he said.
The BBC plans to air its own investigation into its actions on a show Monday night.
Rippon is the first BBC figure directly blamed for the broadcaster's failure to properly report on the abuse claims. He is stepping down immediately for the duration of the investigation.
The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, conceded there had been "inaccuracies in the BBC's own description of what happened in relation to the Newsnight investigation."
The BBC says Rippon's explanation of his decision in a blog post earlier was "inaccurate or incomplete in some respects."
The BBC is publicly funded through its license fees and various commercial enterprises; it enjoys a large degree of independence from the government but is subject to legislation passed by Parliament.
Bob Calver, a lecturer in broadcast journalism at Birmingham City University, said the BBC can expect harsh treatment at the hands of Britain's newspapers, particularly those that are part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, which has been shaken by revelations about criminal phone hacking by its reporters.
"The print media will not let this story go," he said. "Because BBC was not implicated in the phone hacking scandal, it was pointing the finger at the print media, which has long felt that the BBC is smug and gets special treatment. This is an opportunity for the print media to come back at them."
In a statement released Monday, the BBC cited three problems with Rippon's initial statements about why the segment was not aired.
The BBC said Rippon's blog indicated that Newsnight staff had no evidence against the BBC when in fact there were allegations that some of the abuse happened on BBC premises.
It also faulted Rippon for saying that all the abuse victims interviewed by the program had told police about the abuse, when in some cases the women had not done so, meaning that police were "not aware of all the allegations" against Savile.
In addition, the BBC said Rippon had indicated that there was no evidence that anyone working at the Duncroft school for emotionally disturbed girls was aware of allegations that Savile had abused girls there, when in fact there were indications that "some of the Duncroft staff knew or may have known about the abuse."
The Crown Prosecution Service also revealed Monday afternoon that it had received reports from four women who complained in 2009 that they had been abused by Savile in the 1970s but did not recommend that the cases be brought to trial.
Prosecutors had previously admitted only one such case coming to their attention. The entertainer was still alive and could have faced criminal charges.
"The original allegation was that Savile had indecently assaulted a girl under 16 at Duncroft children's home in the late 1970s," said the prosecution statement. "The three further potential offenses were an alleged indecent assault on a girl under 16 at Stoke Mandeville hospital in or around 1973; an alleged incitement of a girl under 16 to engage in a sexual act at Duncroft children's home in the late 1970s; and an alleged indecent assault on an adult in Sussex in 1970."


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Mad Mad Modes for Moderns Mondays - Swimsuits in the Winter!
It's the end of January and I am totally sick of winter! I've been dreaming of a tropical vacation to stave off the funk that comes with the chilly wind and slush. But, since that isn't in the cards right now, I'm going to live vicariously through this 1970 "Mad Mad Modes for Moderns" featuring bright and sunny swimsuits!
How about you? How are you doing? You have probably noticed that things have slowed down again here at Sequential Crush. Well... I have another big relocation on the horizon. Those of you who have been around reading for a while know that in 2011 I moved to Denmark. It has been very exciting and a time of growth, but for both personal and professional reasons, I have decided to move on back to the United States! And, my friends, that move will be taking place at the end of this week! I am pretty excited, and of course scrambling about to get everything prepared! I have prepped a few posts for the coming weeks, but we'll just see how things go. So, long story short, if things are a little quiet, no worries -- I'll be back! As always, thank you for being the best readers around!!!


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Super Mutant Behemoth 1
The first Super Mutant Behemoth we recommend you fight (other than the one at Galaxy News Radio that you have to fight during the main quest) is at Evergreen Mills. Evergreen Mills is located at the southwestern portion of the Capital Wasteland, and is due east of Smith Casey's Garage. The garage is a good place to spring off from if you are heading to the mills for the first time, since you're forced to visit it during your main quest. Be absolutely certain you don't go here expecting to find only the Behemoth, however. If you've yet visited this place and cleared it of its ridiculous Raider population, be prepared to do so before engaging the Behemoth.
We recommend heading to this Behemoth first because he's the only one you can fight without every actually having to fight him. What do we mean? Well, this Behemoth is caught in a cage, and as long as the cage's electrical flow continues (as in, the nearby generator isn't destroyed), he won't be able to escape. So, you can fight him will he's still in the cage, but don't waste ammunition trying to fight him on the ground level.
Instead, seek a platform leading up to the train car adjacent to the cage. From here, you have an awesome view of the inside of the cage, where you can start chucking all sorts of weapons his way. Plasma Grenades and Frag Grenades can be chucked at your leisure for okay results, but if you want to kill this foe like a fish in a barrel, consider equipping a Minigun and laying into him with a few full clips of that powerful weapon. There's nothing quite like aiming a favorite weapon of the Super Mutants on some of their very own. When he's felled, you should be sure to open the cage after disabling the generator; the Behemoth likely has some Bottle Caps on him.
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Here are some screenshots of various parts of the Glom user interface. They give some idea of what Glom is capable of, and how easy Glom is to use. See also the screenshots of some example Glom systems.
As an operator:
- Connecting
- Choosing a Table
- The List View
- The Details View
- The Details View - Related Records
- Producing Reports
As a developer:
- Designing Fields
- Designing Fields in detail
- Designing Fields - lookup
- Designing Fields - calculation
- Designing Relationships
- Designing the Details Layout
- Designing the Details Layout - Related Records
- Designing the List Layout
- Designing the Layout - Related Fields
- Designing the Layout - Formatting
- Designing the Layout - Buttons
- Designing Reports
- Designing Users and Groups
- Designing Translations
As an Operator
When you open a Glom file it will try to connect to your database server, where the data is stored. Your administrator will give you a username and password.
Choosing a Table
Each database has several tables, such as Contacts, Invoices, Products, etc. Choose a table to see the records.
Developers can add new tables, define the fields in each table, and define the relationships between the tables.
Developers can also see extra hidden tables, such as Invoice Lines, that would only be visible to an operator as related records from another table, such as Invoices.
The List View
The list view shows all records in the table, or all currently-found records. When you enter data in the fields it is saved immediately. Choose Edit, or double-click, to see a record in detail.
Developers can choose what fields to show by designing the layout.
Developers can choose who may view or edit these records, as well as who can create or delete records here, by designing the users and groups.
The Details View
The details view shows the whole record, with the fields arranged conveniently.
Developers can choose what fields to show by designing the layout.
Developers can choose who may view or edit these records, as well as who can create or delete records here, by designing the users and groups.
The details view can show records from a related table. Just enter new data in the list of related records to create a new record in the related table.
Note that this example shows related records from the Invoice Lines table. When you add a new row here, a new related record will be created with the appropriate value in the key field.
Producing Reports
The Reports menu lists reports that the developer has created for you. Just choose the report from the menu.
As a Developer
Designing Fields
Each table has several fields, containing information about the items in the table.
Unlike traditional (difficult) database systems, there are only a handful of field types - text, number, data, time, boolean, and image. So you don't need to choose between signed or unsigned values, small numbers or big numbers, string lengths, or date storage formats.
Each table must have one primary key. The primary key value identifies the record and can be used to build relationships between tables. When you create a new table, the primary key will be created for you automatically.
Feel free to rename fields and change their type if you change your mind. The details and lists layouts will be updated automatically.
Designing Fields in detail
Choose Edit to see the full details for the field. Here you can specify a human-readable title to be shown on the list and details views. You can also define a default value, a lookup, or calculation, and whether the field should have a unique value.
Designing Fields - lookup
Some fields should copy their value from another table. For instance, an invoice should store the price of a product at the time the invoice was created. So you could specify that the Product Price field in Invoice Lines should get it's value from the Products table whenever the Product ID field changes in Invoice lines. If you have already defined the relationship between the two tables then you just need to choose the relationship, and the field from which to copy the value.
Designing Fields - calculation
Some fields should be filled in automatically by calculating a value based on other fields. You can do this with the python programming language, using the Glom Calculated Fields API.
Designing Relationships
The tables in a relational database are related, so that the data from one table can be used by another table. A relationship can be used to lookup data from a field in another table, or to show a list of related records.
You can specify whether the relationship should automatically create related records. For instance,
- You would want to automatically create new Invoice Lines from the Invoice details, via the related records, without first creating the records in the Invoice Lines table itself.
- When you show the customer's name on the Invoice, using a related field, you probably don't want to create a new customer record by entering data in to the related field. Of course, if you don't even want to edit an existing customer name record via the Invoice then you can just make the related field non-editable.
Designing the Details Layout
There are no complicated display options - dates and times are displayed and interpreted appropriately according to the user's current locale, but are always stored in the database in standard ISO format. And boolean fields are represented by a check box.
You can arrange fields and related records in groups which are layed out automatically, instead of wasting time with difficult manual positioning. This also allows your layout to be displayed in different languages and fonts, without manual changes.
You can can choose who may view or edit records in this table, as well as who may create or delete records, by designing the users and groups.
For numeric fields, you can specify formatting, such as a currency symbol, or the number of decimal places to show.
You may also specify possible choices for data entry, such as "Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss" for a contact's title, or a list of product IDs (with the product names shown too) from the products table. These will be shown in a drop-down menu for the field.
Designing the Details Layout - Related Records
Right-click on the related records portal to choose the relationship that it shows, and which fields to show from the related table.
Designing the List Layout
Designing the list layout is simple - just choose the fields and their sequence. As on the details view, data will be shown and interpreted appropriately for the user's locale, and you may specify choices for the field data.
Designing the Layout - Related Fields
Both the Details and List layouts may contain fields from related tables. Just choose the relationship, and then choose from the list of fields in the related table.
Note that you can prevent editing of fields. For instance, maybe you don't want to edit the customer's name via the Invoice details, because this would then be seen on every other Invoice for that customer.
Designing the Layout - Formatting
The normal formatting for your locale is usually acceptable, but sometimes you need to make small changes. For instance, for a number field, you might want to show only two decimal places, or not show the thousands separator. Or you might want to show a currency symbol. You can either specify this in the Default Formatting for the field, or specify custom formatting for the field on a particular layout.
You can also prevent editing of fields. For instance, maybe you don't want to edit the customer's name via the Invoice details, because this would then be seen on every other Invoice for that customer.
Designing the Layout - Buttons
If the standard Glom features are not enough for you, you may use the full power of the Python programming language to add your own functionality. Just add a button to the layout and specify what python code should run when the button is pressed. Your python code has access to the record details.
Designing Reports
For each table, you can create reports that will be available to the operators. For instance, this report lists each contact, grouped by country, and then grouped by town.
Designing Users and Groups
Not everyone should have equal access to all parts of the system, so you can assign users to groups which have appropriate permissions. For instance, people in the Personnel Department are allowed to create and delete records in the Staff table, but are not allowed to edit records in the Products table.
Designing Translations
Maybe your company has offices in several countries, or maybe you want to sell you product all over the world. Glom allows you to translate the names of tables, fields, relationships, layout groups, reports, etc, and shows any appropriate translations automatically when your Glom system in the relevant locale. You can even test your translations without restarting Glom.
Of course, the standard parts of the Glom user interface, such as the menus, dialogs, and buttons, are already translated into several languages.


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Thomas Jefferson, the first secretary of State, reigned over a whopping staff of five – a chief clerk, three subordinate clerks, and a messenger boy.
He was the first, but certainly not the last, secretary of State to have his access to the president short-circuited by another cabinet member: in his case, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.
Jefferson failed to resolve one of the big diplomatic challenges of his tenure: unbridled American navigation of the Mississippi River. Later as president he would solve his old bête noire, access to the Mississippi, by buying the river as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
John Quincy Adams served as secretary of State under President James Monroe and wrote what became known as the Monroe Doctrine, putting European powers on notice to butt out of the Americas.
Daniel Webster, a prominent senator who served twice as secretary of State in America's antebellum years, was also a thrice-unsuccessful candidate for president.
William Seward was best known for "Seward's Folly," the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
Charles Evans Hughes had the good fortune to serve as secretary of State to President William Harding, who had little interest in foreign policy, giving Hughes free rein. Hughes was influential in post-World War I disarmament talks and revitalized relations with Latin America.
George Marshall lent his name to the Marshall Plan, which generously provided for Western Europe's reconstruction as democratic, free-market economies after World War II. The plan, for which Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize, still serves as a touchstone of successful US diplomatic intervention.
Dean Acheson is considered the consummate modern American statesman and architect of an American world order in the cold-war era. He encouraged President Truman to take the side of South Korea against a bellicose North, and defended State Department officers from the accusations of treason launched by Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Henry Kissinger fashioned President Nixon's groundbreaking trip to China in 1972. Serving concurrently under Nixon and then President Ford as secretary of State and national security adviser, Kissinger is a high priest to foreign-policy realists but remains controversial for policies in Southeast Asia and Latin America, particularly the US role in the 1970 coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende.
George Shultz, secretary of State under President Reagan, revitalized the career diplomatic service and guided Reagan in undertaking a tough but pragmatic dialogue with Soviet leaders, in particular Mikhail Gorbachev.
James Baker constructed the 34-nation coalition that upheld the principle of national sovereignty by removing Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War. Mr. Baker also orchestrated the Madrid (Middle East) Peace Conference, reinforcing his reputation as the secretary of State with a finger in everything.
Madeleine Albright was named, after more than 200 years of American independence and 63 male predecessors, the first woman secretary of State. Ms. Albright pressed President Clinton to take NATO to the Balkans if Europe would not, and she called America "the indispensable nation."
Colin Powell, the first secretary of State of color, gave President George W. Bush instant international heft. But his marginalization from White House decisionmaking left him out of the Bush foreign-policy loop.
Powell's international reputation was used famously by the administration when he was called on to deliver to the United Nations a justification for the looming Iraq war featuring what turned out to be cooked-up evidence.


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Happy the man,and happy he alone, He,who can call today his own; He who,secure within,can say, Tomorrow do thy worst,for I have lived today.
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Cynthia Hanna
Hailed by the Washington Post for her "bright, luminous mezzo-soprano of vast power and potential," Cynthia Hanna sings her first performances of Idamante in Idomeneo with Florentine Opera in the 2011-12 season in addition to Emilia in Otello with Sarasota Opera and Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Dallas Opera. Last season, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Spohr's Die letzten Dinge and Fanny Mendelssohn's Musik Für die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie with the American Symphony Orchestra. She returned to Washington National Opera for the Page in Salome and sings Meg Page inFalstaff with Utah Opera, Maddalena in Rigoletto at Beijing's Reignwood Theatre alongside Placido Domingo, Mademoiselle Dangeville in Adriana Lecouvreur with Washington Concert Opera, Third Lady in Die Zauberflötewith the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Mercedes in Carmen with Glimmerglass Opera in addition to joining the company for the world premiere of Tesori's A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck. Further concert performances included Brahms' Zwei Gesänge on the National Symphony Orchestra's Kennedy Center Chamber Players Series and Stravinsky's Les Noces with the Post Classical Ensemble.
She recently made her international operatic debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at the Savonlinna Festival. As a former member of Washington National Opera's prestigious Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, she sang Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos, of Mercedes in Carmen, Flora in La traviata in the company's young artist production in addition to excerpts of the title role of Carmen in concerts at the Kennedy Center. She joined Opera North for Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte following previous performances Ines in Il trovatore, for which she received the company's Brunson Young Artist Award. She sang Maddalena in Rigoletto with Commonwealth Opera and Flora in La traviata with the Carolina Master Chorale and Long Bay Symphony and while member of San Francisco Opera's prestigious Merola Opera Program, she sang scenes of Amneris in Aida and Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel on the Schwabacher Summer Concert as well as excerpts from Giovanna Seymour from Anna Bolena and Marquise Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims.
On the concert stage, she has joined the Utah Symphony for Mozart'sRequiem, Debussy's La damoiselle elue, and Bernstein's Mass. Other concert appearances include Handel's Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, previous performances of Mozart's Requiem and Handel's Messiahwith the South Carolina Philharmonia and concert of opera favorites at the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. She sang performances of Bach'sChristmas Oratorio in Columbia, South Carolina and joined the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra as soloist for Beethoven's Mass in C, Bellini's Messa a quarto voce, and Mozart's Regina Coeli. She has also joined the New York City Ballet to cover the demanding solo role in Leonid Desyatnikov's Russian Seasons.
Ms. Hanna holds a Master of Music from the University of South Carolina where she also sang Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri and Charlotte in A Little Night Music and won the University of South Carolina Concerto and Aria Competition. Additionally, she is the 2010 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the North Carolina district as well as the third place winner of the Southeastern region.


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The main area in your blog where past posts are stored – a link to each archive will normally appear in the sidebar of the blog and will allow you to look back at posts in terms of when they were poosted. You can usually choose the length of time that these categories cover but in most blogging platforms, the standard is monthly and this is probably the best option for most bloggers.
A term in Public Relations to describe an organised PR project, campaign or action which is designed to give the impression that it has happen spontaneously as if from a "grassroots" effect – the analogy is that it looks as though it has come from the grassroots but is in fact not the case, in the same way that astoturf looks like grass but is in fact fake.
The term "blog" is a contraction of "Web Log" which rightly shows how blogs were initially used, that's to say as a "log" or diary (remember 'Star Trek' and the Captain's Log?) which was published on the internet. Now blogs cover many different sorts of writing from business to personal and also refers generically to the technology used to create them. (see also Blogging Platform)
The act of creating and posting a blog
Blogging Platform
This will usually refer to the software which is used to create the blog – there are many different options in the market which range according to the requirremnets of the blogger. Some of the most popular are WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type and Joomla.
Someone who blogs – a personal blogger may maintain their blog as a type of personal online journal, sharing their thoughts and opinions. A blogger who focuses more on the business side will have a more focused content, generally with a view to demonstrating their expertise in their an area or niche.
A overall term given to the blogs on the internet
A set of links to other blogs that a blogger considers to be particularly valuable to read either with specific reference to their own blog or their own tastes. Basically a recommended reading list.
Business Blog
The use of blogging technology for business uses. This will ususally be set up with a business purpose in mind and will focus on a particular area or subject with the end goal of creating business relationships with a set of people or campanies.
In some blogs you can categorise each individual post under one or many Categories that you have set up in your blog – this allows visitors to easily find posts on a particular topic or area.
One aspects of a blog which defferentiates it from websites is the ability of the visitors to post remarks or ask questions regarding a certain blog post. These remarks etc are generally refered to as "comments" and hence teh functioanlity is referred to in this way.
This will normally refer to an RSS feed which allows you to subscribe to receive information that you consider to be of interest. You will need a Feed Reader (or Aggregator) to be able to read these and, generally, RSS feeds are identified by small orange rectangles with RSS or XML in them although a new orange symbol is now being adopted by most of the major players.
A permalink is the permanent URL or address of a post on a blog which allows it to be found and referenced easily. For example, in this blog, it you click on the title of the post, you will be taken to its individual page – if you then look at the 'address' bar in your browser (which starts http://www.betterbusinessblogging.com/) then this is the posts permalink.
In terms of blogs, a ping is where you automatically inform blog search engines and tracking services that you have updated your blog. The search engine then visits your blog to immediately record and index the new content – this means that these search engines contain literally up to the minute information of what is being written about, unlike mainstream search engines which visit less regularly. You can set this up to happen automatically or you can manually "ping" them, perhaps using services such as Pingomatic or Pingoat which will inform many servers at the same time for you.
This refers to an individual article that appears on a blog – it is also known as a posting.
Short for either Really Simple Syndicatin or Rich Site Summary depending who you are speaking to. A great way to share information with others or to collect information if you look at it from the other point of view
RSS Reader
Also known as an RSS Aggregator, this is the piece of software that you need to receive and read RSS feeds that you subscribe to
A contraction for "Spam Blog" which is a blog that has been created automatically and then filled with a non-sensical set of words, or articles which have been taken from other sites with the sole intention of creating links through to a separate "target" site
A trackback is used to help follow and track conversations going on between different blogs on the subject and allows a blogger to show that they have commented on an orginal post in their own blog. If I respond to or expand on a post on somebody's blog, then when I post it, I include a trackback which automatically sends notification to the original author and creates a link to my post in their comemnts section. So for example, to create a trackback to this page, you would make sure that you were on the individual page (ie. just click on the post title) and then you would find the trackback address in the "Archived Entry" box in the right hand sidebar. Adding this into the trackback box in your blog software when you write your post woud create the link.
Stands for Uniform Resource Locator but, to you and me, the URL is effectively the address of the page on a website or a blog


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Stargate SG-1: Unleashed is due "soon" for the App Store and Google Play.
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Time for another of my Ancestor Anniversaries. This time it is to mark the Baptism on this day in 1715 at Caversham, Oxfordshire for Stephen Read. Stephen is the son of Edward Read and his wife Mary Fairbrother and is the eldest of their four children. Stephen is also the cousin of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read.
No matter how much I have searched, I have not been able to discover anything else about Stephen. I know that he is not buried in or around Caversham, so maybe did not die as a baby or young child. I have searched the Oxfordshire Marriage Index and know if he lived that long, then he certainly did not marry in Oxfordshire (if he married at all). I haven't come across anyone who could be this Stephen Read in Buckinghamshire either, so it looks like there is more searching to do for him!!
These Ancestor Anniversaries are certainly helpful in reminding me of those ancestors I need to follow up on. If I come across anything else about Stephen then I will certainly add it to this blog – perhaps I need to make a "Long Lost Ancestor … " section?


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End of the line for aging Aryan Brotherhood gang general
Moments before he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison without parole, an aging and ill general in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas conceded that just about any sentence would mean he'd die behind bars.
"I am done. I am fixin' to be taken out of the game," 68-year-old Charles "Jive" Roberts said as he stood in shackles before U.S. District Judge Sim Lake on Thursday afternoon in Houston. "I have pulled the wagon as far as I can."
It was the end of the line for Roberts. He has been in prison for most of his adult life and was first pulled into crime decades ago. As a young man, his own father took him along on a string of bank robberies that ended with a shootout with police in Austin.
Roberts wasn't disrespectful or defiant as he addressed the judge, but matter-of-fact about his crimes and punishment. The Beaumont man already pleaded guilty to racketeering and waived his right to a trial.
"I just want a decent place for my retirement," he said, asking that the court consider sending him to a prison with a good hospital. "You give me 20 years, 30 years, life, I don't care. If you need to make an example of somebody, here I am."
Lake, who conceded that even a minimum punishment would "basically be a death sentence" for Roberts, said there was little choice given his criminal history that includes admitting he had six people killed on behalf of the gang in 2011.
The prosecution is the latest in a string of indictments that have charged 73 alleged members and associates of the gang. The case was taken over locally by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Braley, who picked up the sword in April after a previous prosecutor on the case bowed out over alleged threats from the gang.
Whether there were ever any real threats against the prosecutor has not been made public. He left the case as authorities investigated whether the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas was behind three murders in Kaufman County, including the district attorney there, his wife and an assistant prosecutor.
It turned out the gang had nothing to do with the killings, but its reputation for violence remains.
The gang, which has about 2,500 members, was born in the Texas prison system in the 1980s as a way for white inmates to defend themselves but grew into a widespread criminal enterprise behind bars and in the streets. Membership is for life and betrayal brings death.
Defense lawyer Todd Dupont stressed to the judge that Roberts wanted records of the proceeding to be open to the public so that other members of the gang would not mistakenly believe he'd betray the gang in exchange for leniency.
As Roberts was sentenced, a relative quietly looked on from a wooden bench in the courtroom's empty gallery.
The relative had known him for 40 years and wanted nothing to do with him at first, but later thought he would turn around.
The relative described Roberts as smart, charismatic and a guy who wasn't given the best start in life.
"Back when he was a kid, his daddy had him out stealing stuff and his daddy decided to start robbing banks, so there they were," the relative said.
The relative acknowledged to knowing about Roberts and his actions but that he kept the relative shielded from the law breaking.
"We have got a bond like I have never had with anyone else," the relative said.
Speaking to the judge, a gray-haired and slumped Charles Roberts acknowledged that the relative has stood by him by a lot.
"I am the character," he told the judge. "(The relative) is the square."