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The Joys of Urban Tech
Goodbye, office parks. Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities
For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's Research Triangle and other "nerdistans." But in recent years, high-tech has been taking a decidedly urban turn.
Silicon Valley remains the world's pre-eminent center of high-tech industry, of course. But even in the Valley, denser, more mixed-use and walkable places, like downtown Palo Alto, are becoming the preferred locations for start-ups and smaller firms. And many other start-ups—Pinterest, Zynga, Yelp, Square and Salesforce.com, to name just a notable few—are taking up residence in downtown San Francisco.
New York City's Silicon Alley—after a false start during the tech bubble of the late 1990s—is now home to more than 500 new start-up companies like Kickstarter and Tumblr, not to mention the gigantic Google satellite in the old Port Authority Building on Eighth Avenue between 15th and 16th streets.
Across the Atlantic, London's once- derelict Shoreditch district—now known as Tech City or Silicon Roundabout—has been transformed into a thriving high-tech district housing 3,200 tech firms and 48,000 jobs, according to a recent report from the Centre for London.
In Los Angeles, Silicon Beach, a roughly three-mile strip between Santa Monica and Venice, has become a notable start-up hub, because its walkability and urban-like amenities make it the place where young techies prefer to live, work and play, according to L.A.-based venture capitalist Mark Suster.
Seattle's South Lake Union District development, pioneered by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is transforming a once moribund manufacturing area into a major center for new technology, with Amazon's new headquarters at its hub, as well as a number of biotechnology research centers.
Out in the Nevada desert, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is looking to remake downtown Las Vegas as a creative center, moving the company's headquarters to the old city hall and luring start-ups from California. "When you're in a city," Mr. Hsieh told Fortune magazine, "the bar or the restaurant becomes an extended conference room." Since the neighborhood lacked them, "the idea went from 'let's build a campus' to 'let's build a city.' "
"I love the idea of an urban corporate campus with all the energy and variety that provides," Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted last February, after opening his company's new headquarters in a formerly derelict Art Deco building in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood.
Venture capital icon Paul Graham notes that, for all its advantages and power, Silicon Valley has a great weakness. The high-tech "paradise" created in the 1950s and 1960s "is now one giant parking lot," he writes. "San Francisco and Berkeley are great, but they're 40 miles away. Silicon Valley proper is soul-crushing suburban sprawl. It has fabulous weather, which makes it significantly better than the soul-crushing sprawl of most other American cities. But a competitor that managed to avoid sprawl would have real leverage."
Still, escaping sprawl is only part of the explanation. There are also the distinct lifestyle advantages of setting up shop in the hurly-burly of real urban districts. Compared with previous generations, today's younger techies are less interested in owning cars and big houses. They prefer to live in central locations, where they can rent an apartment and use transit or walk or bike to work, and where there are plenty of nearby options for socializing during nonwork hours.
"It's not that young people wanted to live in Mountain View in the past," Mr. Suster blogged. "In fact, so many did not that companies like Google & Yahoo had free buses with Wi-Fi from San Francisco to their Palo Alto and Sunnyvale headquarters."
Or, as one high-tech entrepreneur told the authors of the Centre for London report: "We moved here out of pressure from the [software] developers to move somewhere better. And by better, I think they mean somewhere which has lots of bars and lots of places you can eat."
But it goes well beyond the young and trendy. With all their cultural and intellectual amenities, urban centers are also the preferred locales for many leading scientists and engineers. Microsoft opened its new research lab in New York City last May because the top scientists it wanted to bring on board preferred to stay in the city.
An even bigger part of the story is rooted in the changing nature of technology itself. A generation or so ago, the fastest-growing high-tech companies were more like factories. They developed proprietary software systems, designed and manufactured chips, built computers and created the infrastructure that made the Internet possible. Whether it was Microsoft or Apple, they deployed big engineering teams—and they needed big suburban campuses to house them.
The changing nature of technology—cloud-based applications in particular—enable new start-ups to succeed more quickly, with smaller teams and much smaller footprints.
The speed of technology has also accelerated. The companies that succeed are the ones that stay in the closest contact with their end-users and first adopters, as MIT's Eric Von Hippel has shown. When a company is located in a city, many of those end-users can be found right on its doorstep.
At the same time, high-tech products and industries are more multidisciplinary than they used to be. Success often requires excellence in more than one field of technology and in other lines of business. East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative—and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.
Software for social media and apps requires intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces that seamlessly convey information. Design is central to successful new hardware products as well, the most obvious examples being Apple's iPads and iPhones. Design talent is overwhelmingly concentrated in big cities, with their leading design schools and multiple industries that draw upon such skills.
Other areas of high-tech are premised less on breakthrough innovations and more on the application of technology to massive new markets in retailing, advertising, media, financial services, education, publishing, communications, fashion and music. Big cities like New York and London are where those industries—and the talent that powers them—are most concentrated.
Cities are central to innovation and new technology. They act as giant petri dishes, where creative types and entrepreneurs rub up against each other, combining and recombining to spark new ideas, new inventions, new businesses and new industries.
—Mr. Florida is the author of "The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited." He is a professor at the University of Toronto and New York University and a senior editor at the Atlantic.
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Service to community is taking the place of service to country for many young veterans upon their return to the states.
"When you come back from serving your country, people place you on a pedestal," said young veteran David Ingram of the U.S. Army. "Especially kids. They are proud of your service and you're proud to have served."
What exactly does it mean to hold a "Confederate Memorial" and how can anyone who believes in equal rights for all attend such an event?
Some people might ask why we should have anything to do with the word "confederacy" at all.
Usually when a small town like La Grange asks professionals for an urban design and planning assessment, the cost is between $150,000 to $200,000.
Linda Goin, executive director of Discover Downtown La Grange, said the city is lucky to obtain the expertise from the University of Cincinnati students for only $10,000.
And, taxpayers aren't footing the bill.
Just a dollar. Maybe two.
There's a saying that you can't put a price tag on original artwork – but many of the objects presented for sale Saturday at the Cedar Lake Lodge arts and crafts fair were offered for reasonable prices.
Sculptures dotted the pathways leading through the beautiful foliage of Yew Dell Gardens Friday evening.
Some small, others massive, some were semi-hidden while others were boldly placed for spectators to fawn over at Yew Dell's fourth annual sculpture show.
May 20 marked a celebrated opening night, but viewing opportunities continue now through July 31.
The key to success is about being in the right place at the right time.
Of course, it doesn't hurt if you're bursting with natural talent, such as South Oldham High School graduate Sarah Peak.
A touching ceremony took place Tuesday at La Grange Baptist Church.
The Peace Officers' Memorial Service honored the 165 law enforcement officers and three K-9s nationwide who laid down their lives in 2010 and 2011.
The Oldham County Schools Arts Center's Lavelle Smith Dance Camp returns in June with its biggest camp to date.
The Little Colonel Players present Andrew Bergman's "Social Security," the final show of their 2010-11 season at the Little Colonel Playhouse in Pewee Valley.
Directed by Rick Reinle, Social Security offers a humorous look at family, parenting and love in the "golden years."
The annual Pewee Valley Cemetery Cleanup project began when a student from Covenant Classical Academy noticed two things while walking along Maple Avenue: the Confederate Cemetery across the street was immaculate, but the other cemetery, known as "the Black cemetery" was grossly neglected.
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This weekend, teenage bride Courtney Stodden threw a premiere party for the release of her new music video for her single "Reality." She showed up in a floor-length, transparent gown—the kind that strippers wear when they're working the floor selling lap dances—that revealed her illuminated panties. It turns out that the marriage between technology and lingerie is almost as gross as that of a 16-year-old girl and a 51-year-old man.
Once inside the party, Courtney changed into a different, um, outfit? There was not a stripper pole, but she managed to repurpose a cage to create the same effect. And she showed nipple. It's unclear if this was a mistake. I mean, it's aaaaalllllll a mistake, frankly, but the visible nip may have been intentional.
From left to right: Courtney with her mother, Courtney with her fucking father, and Courtney with her husband, who is older than her father.
And the video for "Reality" which stars a super-teased out mess of ratty extensions.


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Age of Empires II: The Conquerors > Game Mods > v1.4 RC
v1.4 RCby UserPatch - 122495 downloads
There exists a newer patch for this version:https://www.voobly.com/gamemods/mod/493/v14-FinalTest version of UserPatch v1.4 on Voobly. This remains subject to change, and compatibility is not guaranteed with the final release.Core Features of v1.4
- Population caps have been extended up to 250, or optionally 1000.
- All available video resolutions, including widescreen, are selectable.
- Choose either the standard widescreen interface or the centered style.
- Mirror player civilizations with the new Team Random civ option.
- Select a maximum age for advancement using the "Starting Age" dropdown.
- Each map script generates 4,294,967,296 unique maps from 32,768 in v1.0c.
- Single player mode now operates at 60fps instead of 20fps in v1.0c.
- Browse saved and recorded games from subfolders in your SaveGame folder.
- Check real-time achievement statistics while watching recorded games.
- With the new Relics victory condition, capturing the relics is an instant win.
- The patrol system responds like The Age of Kings with little to no delay.
- New Random button above game settings for new styles of play.
- Flares are now bold and render player colors on the mini-map display.
- New higher resolution 1:1 and 1:2 full map captures with "Ctrl+F12".
- Age advancement notifications are now shown in each player's color.
- Restored games can now be recorded in all game modes.
- The vote panel/serial sync bug has been fixed for multiplayer.
- New auto-save if a problem occurs to ensure that resuming is possible.
- Optional multiple building queue to auto-distribute unit training.
- Many bug fixes for the core game and improvements for the AI system.
- The installer will correct any color problems on Windows Vista and later.
- Performance improved significantly for single player and the rec viewer.
- Multiplayer CPU processing overhead reduced for human-only games.
- Double-click .mgz and .mgx recs in the SaveGame folder to open them directly.
- Team Random will mirror itself, preselected civs, Random, and Full Random.
- The interface now updates at 60fps for HP counters, progress bars, and more.
- Optional hidden civilization selection for lobby launched multiplayer games.
- Double-clicking on hero units will not select similar looking hero unit types.
- Barracks and castle huskarls are still selected together with a double-click.
- Set the Patrol Default state to On (10s delay) or Off (2s delay) with "Ctrl+F1".
- Hold "Ctrl" when clicking the patrol destination point to use the other delay.
- Always-on-top and Background modes now display onscreen notifications.
- Hover help can be toggled independently from event notifications with "F1".
- Background mode is now tri-state: on, off, view lock.
- Additional bug fixes are included for the core game.
- Hosts can control this with the spectator button at the bottom of the setup screen.
- Watch single player games, campaigns, and even 4v4 multiplayer games.
- Enable restricted viewing or allow up to 32 people to spectate at once.
- Spectators can late-join a game for about 10 minutes in game time.
- If "Record Game" is off, your game is recorded to "rec.mgz" and overwritten each new game.
- If "Record Game" is on, your rec file is uniquely dated: rec.yyyymmdd-hhmmss.mgz.
- Never miss an epic event in single player if you chose not to enable unique recording.
- For multiplayer games, if "Record Game" is off, it is completely disabled, as usual.
- The rate hotkeys (usually numpad+ and numpad-) switch players without dropdown box lag.
- The flare button/hotkey (usually Alt+F) will toggle the fog of war setting.
- Replay speed now spans from 0% to 100% (0% = original slow, 100% = fast/unbounded).
- The Slow button reduces speed by 25%, while the Fast button increases it by 25%.
- Hold the "Shift" key when clicking these buttons for finer adjustments.
- The Normal button will return playback to 50% speed (75% when spectating).
- Trigger elements are named and prefixed: C (condition), R (reverse condition), or E (effect).
- Fixed trigger corruption when attempting to select more than 25 units for a patrol effect.
- The Set Objects button will perform changes more reliably, avoiding unintentional deselection.
- Objects in the "Others" category will not be reset when returning to a trigger.
- Hosts can control this with the SQ/MQ button at the bottom of the setup screen.
- Select SQ for v1.0c style single queuing or MQ for the new multiple queuing.
- With MQ, if multiple buildings are selected, any units trained will be auto-distributed.
- Changing this in single player mode will preserve the default for future games.
- Team Random: mirrors civs on other teams, randomizing only if necessary.
- Random: the original Random, which attempts to give you a unique, random civ.
- Full Random: truly random, giving you the first pick, without regard for uniqueness.
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remember when i did a drawing a day? i was thinking about how that was such a great project in so many ways. and how i missed that practice. so i took up
so i will. for as long as i can keep it up. something in front of me- probably on a table. and then i mark what it is and the date. it's another attempt to document the mundane moments of day-to-day life.
in the above my favorite is the little ceramic cup in which i keep my q-tips in the studio.
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i found this great app for putting iphone pics together... i wish it had a bit more flexibility in terms of layouts - but really. it's free. it does something that would take me much longer to do in photoshop... i likey. pic stich
i also broke down and bought myself a little gift. i've been lamenting lately that i have a million bags - bags that i don't use because transferring my stuff from one bag to the next is just more effort than i'm willing to put in on a regular basis.
and then i got this email about this bag-in a-bag concept. and this could solve all my problems ! check it out and be sure to watch the little video.... this is the same company that brought you the iphone stitch case - my version pictured in my value of art education post
that is all. more framing going on here tomorrow. so excited to have a former student helping me. did i mention i was excited for help ?!?


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Some associate the Los Angeles Kings with silver and black. I remember Forum Blue and Gold.
Some extol the virtues of Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille and Anze Kopitar. My heroes were Marcel Dionne, Rogie Vachon and Butch Goring.
Some get a kick out of watching the Kings in front of a sell-out crowd at the ultra-modern Staples Center. I derived just as much joy seeing the Kings in front of a half-empty arena at the venerable Inglewood Forum.
With the Kings just one game away clinching their first Stanley Cup Final championship in the 45-year history of the franchise, I can't help but to wax nostalgically about a team that had essentially become the Rodney Dangerfield of the NHL. And like many long-suffering fans, a title is something we thought we would never witness.
When we were young, my friends and I didn't attend Kings games because they were popular or because it was the thing to do. Quite the contrary; we supported the team because we were fans and we were ice hockey enthusiasts. Even when the Lakers were winning championships, we still held our allegiance to the hapless Kings, because they were our hapless Kings.
I've talked with some of my friends who are long-suffering Kings fans. They are put off by what they perceive as "bandwagon fans" who have hitched their wagon to the team because of its winning ways this season. But that doesn't bother me in the least. I say the more fans the better. I would be ecstatic to see a victory parade and local media coverage in the L.A. area of a Kings championship, just like we experienced in the past with the Lakers, Dodgers and Raiders.
I grew up just a stone's throw from the "Fabulous Forum" in Inglewood, the place the Kings first called home beginning in 1967 and lasting until 1999. Even when my family moved to nearby Hawthorne, I lived just a couple of miles from the venue.
When I was a kid, my brother Chris and I would ride our bikes or walk to the Forum and the adjacent Hollywood Park race track. There was a huge drainage pipe that led from the street and ran under Hollywood Park, and we would sneak through the dark and damp corridor and end up just on the fringe of the infield of the race track.
We would also romp around the Forum parking lot, walk around the outside of the facility and fish for stray golf balls at the golf course that was right next to facility.
Through the years, I spent many a glorious night taking in Kings games with by brother and friends. Although we went to our share of Lakers games throughout the years — even seeing them win the NBA Finals in Game 6 of the 1982 playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers — most of the time, when we made our way to the Forum it was to see the Kings.
As students, we could get into the games for $5. You could roll up to the box office just minutes before a contest and still get good seats. The five-spot bought a nose-bleed seat at the extreme top of the Forum in the highest section. Sometimes we were so high in the rafters our heads would nearly hit the roof and in some seats you had to duck down to look past the overhang that circled the stadium.
Our only saving grace was that we rarely stayed in those seats for long. In the late-1970s and early-to-mid-1980s, it was rare for the Kings to sell out a game at the Forum. On most occasions, we would retire to our elevated seats and stay there for a period or less, all the while scouting groups of empty seats in the lower bowl. At intermission, we would buy a handful of food and just casually walk past the ushers (they wouldn't ask for your ticket when you were loaded up) and we would take our seats near the glass or in spots we could never afford to sit.
Although the Forum's capacity was 16,005, it was almost never filled back in the day. We would routinely go to contests that were attended by as little as 8,000-9,000 fans. And if the Kings were playing popular Canadian teams like Montreal or Quebec, the local fans were usually outnumbered by French Canadians, who could be heard carrying on in French throughout the entire venue.
The Forum had an allure and a homey feeling that you just don't get in many of today's modern venues. Unlike Staples Center, you weren't segregated into sections and you didn't have the feeling of being separated into the haves and have-nots. Because of the concourse that surrounded the inside of the Forum, the affluent patrons would rub elbows with the regular folks, whether it was getting a hot dog or looking for a souvenir. It was a perfect symbiotic existence.
There were also no luxury boxes, and big wigs and VIPs were relegated to small areas up in the stands surrounded only by a small plexiglass railing.
We made good use of the concourse, cursing for girls or looking for celebrities at the intermissions between periods. We would often stop in front of the press area to listen to what veteran announcer Bob Miller was saying about the contest. Sometimes we would climb into the stands to say hello to Joe Tripoli as he tickled the ivories on the Forum Organ, or try to elicit a comment by shouting to owner Jerry Buss, who was always accompanied by a bevy of beauties in his private suite.
After the game, we would stick around and hunt for Goal magazines that were left behind, or wait to get players' autographs at the tunnel that led out of the Forum.
It wasn't very rewarding to be a Kings fan back then. Many seasons the team didn't even qualify for the NHL playoffs, and when it did, it usually suffered a quick exit. But we loved the team nevertheless, and we loved the players.
We were enthralled with the "Triple Crown Line" that included Dionne, Dave Taylor and Charlie Simmer, and we respected standout players like Bernie Nicholls, Larry Murphy, Mike Murphy, Jerry "King Kong" Korab, Mario Lessard, Jay Wells, Jim Fox, and Mark Hardy.
However, where were also forgettable players like Don Howse, Dave Morrison, Mike Blake, Warren Holmes, Dave Gans, Gary Laskoski, Markus Mattsson, Darren Eliot and Allan Tuer.
Although I attended my share of memorable Kings games over the years, one contest will forever be elevated above the rest. It occurred on April 10, 1982 and it is known as "The Miracle on Manchester." The Kings completed the biggest comeback in NHL playoff history, going from being down, 5-0, to winning the game, 6-5, in overtime against the Edmonton Oilers on a goal by Daryl Evans. What followed was the most deafening, most exuberant and most fulfilling experience I have ever experienced in sport.
Those are the kinds of memories I think about with the Kings on the cusp of winning the Cup.
If the Kings do indeed take home Lord Stanley's Cup for the first time — which they can do with a win in Game 4 tonight against the New Jersey Devils — it will mark the culmination of years of strife and a tremendous relief for throngs of Kings fans. Although a clinching win at Staples would be fulfilling, those of us who grew up watching the team will never forget the years and the joy we derived from seeing the Kings compete in their first home — the Forum.


text: Im gonna tell you what we have to do here in Kansas. Go down to the county courthouse with your car's title and a valid proof of automotive insurance. They will charge you for the personal property taxes on the car, and they will get you a new registration and send the title off to Topeka so that it can be changed to your name. They will then give you a new license plate. Of course, Im assuming that you wish to acquire new license tags illegally so you wouldnt have to go through this much hassle. The preferred way to do this is to find your victim car, its usually in a store parking lot, and take a screw driver and remove the plate from the car. Warning, this is illegal. Oh wait, I guess since you are on this site you are asking how to do this from a computer. My only suggestion is the same as the last method except bring a laptop along. By the way, come to the irc chat someday, its been boring lately.


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Good morning and/or afternoon depending on your time zones, Arsians! This installation of the Dealmaster marks a significant change—for the first time, we're including a limited set of international deals. Right now, we've got a small section of items for folks in the UK and a couple for our northern Canadian neighbors, but our partners at LogicBuy will continue to work on bringing in some more international deals as time goes on! It's a matter of finding merchants that sell and ship globally, so international deals will be listed out separately from the "standard" deals (which are generally US-only).
For our top deal this week, we're going with a shiny Alienware gaming laptop for just a bit over $1,000, but there are plenty of other things below if you're not in the mood for a laptop. We also have a good deal on a Sony NEX-3NL/B interchangeable-lens camera, too—those can be great supplemental cameras if you already have a DSLR, and they're an excellent way to step up from a point-n-shoot if you don't!
We've slotted the UK & Canadian deals below the regular ones, so if those are what you'd like to see, scroll down a bit. Feedback on the types of items featured is always welcome—we're starting small, but there will be more!
Top deal:
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- Netgear VZSM2200 VueZone Wireless Video Monitoring System for $119.99 with free shipping (normally $159.99)
- Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ 16 GB USB Flash Drive for $19 with free shipping (normally $29.99)
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- Sony NEX-3NL/B Compact Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera w/ 16-50mm Lens + 32GB Memory Card for $389.99 with free shipping (normally $499)
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- 40" Samsung UN40EH5300 120Hz LED Smart HDTV + $125 Gift Card for $477.99 with free shipping (normally $529.99 without gift card)
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- Brenton Studio Merido Collection Bookcase for $111.99 with free shipping (normally $169.99 - use coupon code SAVE20)
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- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 16GB Sim Free Smartphone (Ceramic White) for £341 with free shipping (normally £379)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Z500 Core i5 Laptop w/6GB RAM, 1TB Hard Drive, GeForce GT 635M for £429.99 with free shipping (normally £599.99)
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2016: Obama's America, an anti-President Obama documentary, finished at number eight in the box office this past weekend. Its strong anti-socialist message and emphasis on American patriotism, as well as its unabashed criticism of President Obama, propelled it to the top 10 position, surpassing the Open Roads film comedy Hit and Run and the Warner Bros. horror film The Apparition.
The film was distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures, which has released several conservative films in recent years, including An Inconsistent Truth, which rebutted a number of Al Gore's assertions found in An Inconvenient Truth, and Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
CNS News reports on 2016: Obama's America, "The documentary is a conservative critique of what the country would look like four years from now if President Barack Obama is re-elected." But the documentary does more than that. It outlines the roots of President Obama's radical ideologies. It is based on Dinesh D'Souza's books, The Roots of Obama's Rage and Obama's America. In fact, D'Souza helped co-direct the film with John Sullivan.
"What's happening is that people are really hungry for new information about Obama. There really is this sense that he remains an elusive figure," D'Souza said. "Then there's a second sense that the American dream is in the balance, the American dream is at stake, and that gives people a sense of anxiety about where the country is going."
Originally intended for limited release, the documentary was expanded into a nationwide release and earned $6.2 million, finishing at number 8, an impressive jump from number 13 in its seventh weekend in release. It opened in theaters in the middle of July, and as a result of its strong showing in the box offices, was expanded into over 1,000 theaters across the country, "leading all other wide releases with an average of $5,717 a cinema," observes CNS.
According to D'Souza, the film will continue to expand to more theaters across the country and will likely remain in theaters until early October. It will also likely be followed by a quick DVD release in the time period leading up to the November 6 elections.
"It's extremely rare for a documentary to break into the top-10, but August can be a land of opportunity for smaller films," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "Also, there's the fact that this is a very conservative film. Normally, it's Michael Moore-branded documentaries, the liberal documentaries that make all the money."
For example, Michael Moore's critical documentary of George W. Bush, Farenheit 9/11, opened at Number 1 in June 2004 with $23.9 million, and went on to become the top-grossing documentary in history.
D'Souza believes that some of the success of Fahrenheit 9/11 is that conservatives were drawn to the theaters to watch the film out of curiosity, and believes that the same may be in store for Obama's America.
2016: Obama's America is certainly intriguing enough to draw crowds from all political ideologies. D'Souza's books, and this documentary that was modeled after them, make several interesting and significant claims about President Obama, his background, his political ideologies, and the reasons for his political success.
This documentary makes the claim that Obama's campaigns have largely rested on the race issue in the United States. In particular, D'Souza contends that President Obama used his biracial status to his advantage and relied heavily on the fact that he would be the first black president if elected.
The film also explores President Obama's relationship with his father, who was both abusive and neglectful toward Obama. Though Obama's father ultimately abandoned his family, D'Souza asserts that his father's political views resonated with Barack. In fact, D'Souza argues that Obama's father installed a hatred toward America in his son.
The documentary explores the influences within Barack Obama's political sphere, such as Frank Marshall Davis, a communist in Hawaii. Obama's relationship with Marshall has been documented several times, in fact. Bestselling author Paul Kengor, a professor at Grove City College, wrote a book about Davis entitled, The Communist. Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. According to Kengor, Davis was a 20th-century American member of the Communist Party USA who wrote pro-Soviet propaganda in newspaper columns. Kengor also asserts that Davis' writings bear a "haunting similarity to some of Obama's statements."
D'Souza's documentary also explores the influence of Bill Ayers on Obama's political career. Ayers is infamous for his terrorist endeavors while a member of Weather Underground. In fact, Ayers founded the Weatherman group, and summed up the organization's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents." Ayers' book Fugitive Days reveals his unrepentant demeanor toward his acts of terrorism against the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.
2016: Obama's America outlines the influence of Reverend Jeremiah Wright on Barack Obama's political ideologies, particularly the influence of Wright's religious creed, Black Liberation Theology, which takes a Marxist interpretation of the Holy Bible.
The documentary also follows the path the United States has taken since Obama has been elected, and renders a guess as to what the nation would look like four years from now, were Obama to be reelected. 2016: Obama's America takes a critical look at Obama's policies that have resulted in increased national debt, Obama's oil moratoriums, Obama's destructive energy policies, and his foreign policy.
2016: Obama's America takes a largely critical view on anti-colonialism and points out that anti-colonialists have left a number of countries in Africa and Latin America at the hands of tyrannical regimes.
Overall, the documentary is a fascinating one, as it covers a great deal of material and seems to move effortlessly from one subject to the next. D'Souza's patriotism and love of country is evident in the film, though there are also doses of neo-conservatism, particularly as the film deals with foreign policy.


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Rescued Tawny Owls at RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Centre
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A group of owls is called a parliament, and these young'uns certainly must be holding court at the RSPCA's West Hatch Wildlife Centre in Taunton, England. Thirty-three baby birds found their way to the center between January and July, most likely due to the UK's turbulent weather this year. These tawny owlets are awaiting their release back into the wild . . . and hopefully not more ferocious wind!


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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea has completed preparations for a missile test that could come any day, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said as Pyongyang prepares to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power.
In Pyongyang, however, the focus Wednesday was less on preparing for war and more on beautifying the city ahead of the nation's biggest holiday. Soldiers hammered away on construction projects, gardeners got down on their knees to plant flowers and trees, and students marched off to school, belying a sense that tensions on the Korean Peninsula have reached their highest point since the Korean War ended nearly 60 years ago.
Last year, the days surrounding the centennial of the birth of Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current ruler, was marked by parades of tanks, goose-stepping soldiers and missiles, as well as the failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket widely believed by the U.S. and its allies in the West to be a test of ballistic missile capabilities. A subsequent test in December went off successfully, and that was followed by the country's third underground nuclear test on Feb. 12 this year, a step toward mastering the technology for mounting an atomic bomb on a missile.
The resulting U.N. sanctions have been met with an unending string of threats and provocations from the North, raising tensions on the peninsula to their highest point since the end of the Korean War in 1953, according to some experts.
The moves are seen as an attempt by North Korea to scare foreigners into pressing their governments to pressure Washington and Seoul to avert a conflict, and boost the militaristic credentials of its young and relatively untested leader, Kim Jong Un.
Pyongyang advised foreign embassies to consider evacuating their citizens by Wednesday, and warned tourists in South Korea to leave Seoul in case of an outbreak of war. However, most diplomats and foreign residents appeared to be staying put.
In Seoul, the defense ministry official said the North appeared prepared to carry out a missile launch at any time. He spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
He said Pyongyang's military is capable of conducting multiple missile launches involving Scud and medium-range Rodong missiles, as well as a missile transported to the east coast recently. He refused to say how Seoul obtained the information.
Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday that he concurred with an assessment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., calling the tension between North Korea and the West the worst since the end of the Korean War.
"The continued advancement of the North's nuclear and missile programs, its conventional force posture, and its willingness to resort to asymmetric actions as a tool of coercive diplomacy creates an environment marked by the potential for miscalculation," Locklear told the panel.
He said the U.S. military and its allies would be ready if North Korea tries to strike.
Despite such tidings of war, the people of Pyongyang went about their daily lives.
Associated Press journalists in the North Korean capital saw soldiers wearing hard hats rumbling past in the back of a truck as they prepared for another day's work doing construction. In recent years, military personnel have been pressed into helping build the many urban renewal projects that have been prioritized since Kim Jong Un came to power in December 2011.
In a sign they have been diverted away from preparing for conventional warfare, they are commonly referred to as "soldier-builders," and are also called upon to help plant and harvest rice and other crops in a nation that suffers chronically from food shortages.
North Korea sporadically holds civil air raid drills during which citizens practice blacking out their windows and seeking shelter. But no such drills have been held in recent months, local residents said.
"I'm not at all worried. We have confidence in our young marshal" Kim Jong Un, a cleaning lady at the Koryo Hotel said as she made up a guest's bed. "The rest of the world can just squawk all they want but we have confidence in his leadership.
"We are resolved to stay and defend him until the end," she said. "It may be hard for the rest of the world to understand, and those who are worried are welcome to leave," she said in the typical nationalistic style that North Koreans use while talking to foreigners.
But there was no sign of an exodus of foreigners from Seoul or Pyongyang. Britain and other governments with embassies in Pyongyang said they had no immediate plans to withdraw but would continue assessing the situation.
North Korea has been escalating tensions with the U.S. and South Korea, its wartime foes, for months. The tightened U.N. sanctions that followed the nuclear test drew the ire of North Korea, which accused Washington and Seoul of leading the campaign against it. Annual U.S.-South Korean military drills south of the border have further incensed Pyongyang, which sees them as practice for an invasion.
Last week, Kim Jong Un enshrined the pursuit of nuclear weapons — which the North characterizes as a defense against the U.S. — as a national goal, along with improving the economy. North Korea also declared it would restart a mothballed nuclear complex.
Citing the tensions with Seoul, North Korea on Monday pulled more than 50,000 workers from the Kaesong industrial park, which combines South Korean technology and know-how with cheap North Korean labor. It was the first time that production was stopped at the decade-old factory park, the only remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the Koreas.
Pyongyang also has moved to its eastern seaboard what is believed by U.S. and South Korean intelligence to be a mid-range missile capable of hitting targets in Japan, such as the U.S. military installations on that country's main island. Another possibility is that Pyongyang would launch such a missile into the sea as a display of its military prowess.
The United States and South Korea have raised their defense postures, as has Japan, which deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo. And Locklear said the U.S. military would be ready to strike back if provoked.
One historian, James Person, noted that it isn't the first time North Korea has warned foreign embassies to prepare for a U.S. attack.
He said that in 1968, following North Korea's seizure of an American ship, the USS Pueblo, Pyongyang persistently advised foreign diplomats to prepare for a U.S. counterattack. Cables from the Romanian mission in Pyongyang showed embassies were instructed to build anti-air bunkers "to protect foreigners against air attacks," he said.
The cables were obtained and posted online by the Wilson Center's North Korea International Documentation Project.
Person called it one of North Korea's first forays into what he dubs "military adventurism."
"In 1968, there was some concern there would be an attack, but (the North Koreans) certainly were building it up to be more than it was in hopes of getting more assistance from their allies at the time," Person said by phone from Alexandria, Virginia.
"I think much of it was hot air then. Today, I think again it's more hot air," he said. "The idea is to scare people into pressuring the United States to return to negotiations with North Korea. That's the bottom line."
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has sought to re-engage North Korea with dialogue and humanitarian aid since taking office in February, expressed exasperation Tuesday with what she called the "endless vicious cycle" of Seoul answering Pyongyang's hostile behavior with compromise, only to get more hostility.
Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, Nicole Winfield in Rome and Matthew Pennington, Donna Cassata and Richard Lardner in Washington contributed to this report.
Follow AP's Korea bureau chief on Twitter at twitter.com/newsjean.


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Martin Skrtel is convinced Liverpool are currently moving in the right direction and can finish in the top four at the end of the season.
The Reds have found themselves at the centre of controversy following the Luis Suarez affair, but more pressingly their form has been in-consistent recently, culminating in the 2-1 defeat against Manchester United on Saturday.
However, Skrtel is convinced that Kenny Dalglish has got the Reds moving in the right direction, and that all of their early season aims are well within reach.
That includes claiming trophies, and with a Carling Cup final less than a fortnight away and the FA Cup fifth round tie against Brighton set for Sunday, winning some silverware is a realistic possibility.
"At the start of the season our targets were to qualify for the Champions League and to win some trophies," said Skrtel.
"Now we are in the Carling Cup final, still in the FA Cup and close to the top four - our targets are still reachable. It's up to us to ensure we qualify for the Champions League.
"When you look at our games with the teams who are in those positions at the moment I don't think they are that much better than us. We've had close games with (Manchester) City, (Manchester) United and Spurs and we beat Chelsea. I believe we can get there.
"We just need to focus on the next game and try to win that. Then, when all the games are played, we'll see how many points we have at the end."
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Steve Ertelt at Lifenews reports that five pro-life seats were added to the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives. "This will be only the second time in 30 years that the number of pro-life Democrats increases instead of decreases," said Kristen Day, head of Democrats for Life America. The organization supported several pro-life candidates for House seats.
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An additional race pitting a Catholic Democrat underdog against an incumbent Republican is still too close to call in Virginia's 5th District Congressional race. At the moment, Democrat Tom Perriello is running 800 votes ahead of incumbent Republican Virgil Goode.
Unfortunately, if Perriello wins, he won't be adding to the number of pro-life Democrats in Congress. Perriello, the co-founder of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, ran as a pro-choice candidate. Go figure!
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September is the end of summer although we're often lucky to have an Indian summer with blue skies and sunshine, nothing is certain with the weather. The bulk of the harvest comes home now and as crops come out the plot begins to empty
The main crop potatoes should be ready now. To repeat August's advice regarding harvesting potatoes:
When you harvest your potatoes take care to remove all the tubers. Any left will not only sprout next year and becomes a weed but will also be a reservoir for disease and potato blight spores. It's often worth forking over a few days after harvesting potatoes because more seem to miraculously appear.
If blight has struck your potatoes the best method to preserve the crop is to remove the haulm and dispose of it then leave the potatoes in the ground for a fortnight or longer to stop the spores getting onto the tubers.
It's best to harvest potatoes fairly early in the day, rinse them off as they come from the ground and then leave in the sunlight for a day to thoroughly dry off and harden the skins before storing.
Sort carefully and place perfect specimens into Hessian or paper sacks in a cool dark but frost free place. Damaged tubers should be used first before they have a chance to rot and spread their rot to the rest of the sack.
It's worthwhile to empty the sacks after a few weeks or a month and check that there are no potatoes going off. Discard these before they rot the sack. You might like to pop a few slug pellets into the sacks as well. It's amazing how the slugs can appear no matter how careful you are. If you are concerned about slug pellets, remember these are in store and present no risk to wildlife.
You may well have reasonably sized parsnips now but they will stay perfectly happy in the ground and do taste better after they have had a frost on them.
The runner beans and French beans will be continuing to produce and the last of the peas should be coming in. Compost the foliage of the peas but leave the roots in the ground as the nodules on them contain nitrogen.
The harvest will be in full swing and in addition to the above you should have:
Globe Artichokes
Spring Onions
From the greenhouse you should be picking aubergines, chilli and sweet peppers as well as cucumbers and tomatoes.
If you grow fruit then the picking should be in full swing there as well:
Apples, pears, plums, peaches from the trees, blackberries and raspberries from the canes and strawberries from the bed.
Sowing, Planting and Cultivating
There's not a great deal to sow now but surprisingly it's the right time to sow winter lettuces such as Arctic King for spring harvests.
The other salad crop is the winter hardy spring onion. I'd suggest White Lisbon but ensure it is the winter hardy version.
Green Manure
Early September is the time to sow green manures. If you do not need to dig over your plot as you do with heavy soils or intend to spread manure on a patch then following on the last of a crop with a green manure is a great idea.
The first benefit is that the green manure will hold onto soil fertility that would otherwise be washed out by the winter rains. In fact, sowing a legume such as Winter Tares will fix nitrogen from the air.
Secondly, they will prevent weed growth so you will have less work to do.
Finally they help improve the soil structure. In the spring you just need to dig over and allow them to rot down for a few weeks.
One of the best green manures for winter growth is Hungarian grazing rye. It continues to grow, albeit slowly, in cold weather and should be around 15" tall come the spring from an early September sowing. Not only will you have a lush mass of foliage but it also produces a mass of roots that will provide humus for bacterial breakdown.
Planting Out
Your spring cabbage plants can be planted out now and over wintering (Japanese) onion sets can go in for an early onion harvest.
You can plant out garlic as well although I prefer to plant it out later in the year.
Keep feeding your tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. It's not really worthwhile feeding other plants at this time of year as they are nearly finished and the nutrients are best saved for the spring. Keep the side shoots in check on the tomatoes.
Tidy up the summer fruiting raspberries, cutting off the canes that have fruited and tying in the new shoots that will bear next year.
The summer fruiting strawberries can be attended to now as well. Cut off the foliage about 1" from the ground, clearing and weeding as you go. Any runners can be planted up to replace 3 year old plants that are best replaced now.
General Tasks
Keep an eye on your brassicas for butterfly eggs and caterpillars; these will most probably be under the leaves. The greenhouse pests should be declining but keep an eye out if the weather is good.
Making Compost
If you've not already done so, empty your compost bins. The compost that is ready can be spread on the ground and the compost only partially rotted returned to the bin to finish off.
You will probably have quite a bit of foliage ready to compost and building a heap properly will help the transformation from green waste to valuable compost. At the base of the heap place woody material, sweetcorn stalks etc to allow some airflow up into the heap. Next place a six inch layer of green material and add some sulphate of ammonia or dried blood to add nitrogen. Just a small sprinkling is sufficient; about 50g per square metre (2oz per square yard) is about right.
Another layer of green material but this time lightly sprinkle with lime to keep the pH up. Repeat the process and top off with a piece of old carpet or some plastic sheeting to stop it getting too wet in the rain and to keep the heat in.
The heap should heat up after a few days and be ready to turn in four or six weeks. The smaller the particles the more surface area they have relative to weight and the faster they will decompose. If you have a shredder, this will be ideal but otherwise cut things up with shears, crush things like brassica stems and they will go down much faster.


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Aviary offers an improved application perfect tor editing stock photos on the go, with new filters, adjustments, and manipulation tools.
If you are an android user who loves snapping, tweaking and sharing photos from your Smartphone online, here's some good news. Aviary, a photo editing service has already announced a major update to its Android photo editing application. The recently released version 3.0 of Aviary for Android features a redesigned interface. This can only mean one thing; things will look so much better than what we had previously witnessed. It also comes with some essential new features meant to beautify users' photos. The improved Enhance tool is probably the most notable feature of the apps additions. The best part is the fact that Aviary is absolutely free to download, and it is made readily available in the Google Play Store. This means that users wont have to incur extra costs just to have photos that are extremely pleasing to the eye.
Unlike the previous single-tap tool that was used for smart automatic adjustments, the Enhance tool now comes with three distinct settings including Illuminate, Color Fix and Hi-Def. Each of these three settings has a way of manipulating settings such as brightness, contrast and sharpness, and they are all collaborating to bring the most magnificent colors out of your photos. Another noteworthy aspect of this latest version is that it helps to save a little space on the devices since the app's file size has been reduced by 10 percent.
Another feature that will be popular with Android users is the Woodland Effect Pack, which is a set of filters that is designed to enhance outdoor photos. This feature has been available for iOS for some time, and Android users can now have a glimpse of how it works. Aviary also made an addition of stickers that are installable through an in-app store, an advanced Focus tool, as well as a Color Splash to version 3.0. As far as the changes to the interface are concerned, users will be pleased to realize that the pages of tools have been removed, and a scrolling toolbar has been made available to take their place.
Aviary is undoubtedly the best option for photo editing for your website or app for a number of reasons. Most users commend it for its powerful and customizable nature. Its integration also takes a few minutes, making it quite efficient. aviary comes preloaded with a numerous intuitive features that users cant fail to love. In addition, the premium partners are usually eligible for revenue share through the optional in-app purchases, which can be automatically deployed within updating their apps. Another noteworthy aspect about aviary is that it allows users to customize the toolset, choose their preferred languages and match the look and feel of the editor to their apps for a completely flawless user experience. Premium partners also enjoy the benefit of choosing to utilize the custom icons and entirely removing the Aviary branding among many other things. Aviary also works hand in hand with all major platforms to ensure that users have the greatest photo editing experience in all the web and mobile apps they check.
The huge update featured a sleek and streamlined interface that is highly optimized to highlight photos by switching over to a darker theme as well as reducing padding throughout the photo editor. The company has also drastically improved the very popular enhance tool by adding up a new Hi-Def feature, which sharply defines and smartens an illuminate function. This illuminate function is ideal for improving photos that are poorly lit, as well as renaming Balance to Color Fix, which does incredible color correction to photos. In addition, the Text Tool now supports multiline text editing. Just like all SDK releases, Aviary 3.0 Android includes many under-the-hood tweaks as well improvements, including support for whopping 30 megapixels for premium partners, and a 10% reduction in SDK bundle size. The 10% reduction means that a smaller file size for Android app developers, and less precious hard disk space on the devices. If you are an Android user, you can take this opportunity to utilize this tool and get to enjoy all the benefits that are associated with this technology that has hit the Smartphone and tablet market.


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During the final week of November, Einstein's Global Health Center offered a series of informative and inspiring events as part of its annual Global Health Week.
"The aim of Global Health Week is to provide students with exposure to physicians who are integrating global health work into their careers," explained Caitlin Jones-Bamman, who organized the week with fellow student and Global Health Club board member Hadas Reich.
"We want students to realize that it's possible to be involved with global work in addition to practicing in the United States," added Ms. Reich. "This facet of medicine is not in our curriculum."
The week kicked-off with a meet-and-greet session through which the more than 70 medical students in attendance could learn about fellowships offered each summer for studying abroad.
"Most medical schools have limited funding, and the programs offered at Einstein are very unique," said Ms. Jones-Bamman.
Among the most compelling of the event offerings was a book reading by Dr. Nergesh Tejani, clinical professor of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health and author of I Hear a Song in my Head: A Memoir in Stories of Love, Fear, Doctoring, and Flight.
She shared her experiences following her move to Uganda after medical school to practice obstetrics (women's reproductive health). During her 11 years in Uganda, Dr. Tejani became aware of the issue of birth-related deaths in developing countries. She discussed the root of these issues and addressed questions and concerns brought up by the medical students in attendance.
Dr. Tejani then read the title passage from her book. She paused occasionally during the reading to provide anecdotal medical advice to the aspiring doctors-in-training. The reading was followed by a book signing, which gave students the opportunity to talk with Dr. Tejani one-on-one.
The week's other events included an interactive discussion with Dr. Matt Anderson, assistant professor of family and social medicine at Einstein, comparing the pros and cons of bringing foreign physicians to a Bronx community of Mexican immigrants versus those associated with American doctors working abroad; a lecture by Dr. Prabhjot Singh, of the Earth Institute, about working with community health workers; and a screening of the film "A Walk to Beautiful."
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Here's a behind-the-wreckage tidbit for ya: when you send in your submissions, they get labeled according to what you think is wrong with them. So, if you say your cake looks like a poo-covered-patriotic-pirate-cat cake, it goes in the poo-covered-patriotic-pirate-cat cake folder.
(Note to self: write post about poo-covered-patriotic-pirate-cat cakes.)
Now, my favorite to browse is the "suggestive" category, because, frankly, you guys see naughty bits in everything. It's actually kinda cute, in a maturity-of-a twelve-year-old-boy kind of way.
The only problem is you're corrupting my wife. Seriously. For example:
Me: "What's wrong with this one?"
Jen: "Umm...Oh! I see it now. It's boobs. On the face. [head tilt] In fact, if you cross your eyes a little it almost looks like a scruffy guy with his face pressed..."
Me: FORGET I ASKED.
Me: What about the cute little babies on clouds?
Jen: Clouds? Really? Is THAT what you see there? REALLY?
Me: What? Hey, you're not the judge of me!!
Jen: And I suppose you didn't snicker at ALL over the guy with the giant pole sticking out of his lap.
Me: He's FISHING.
Jen: Well, those fish are definitely getting the shaft, then. HEYOOO! Up high!
Me: YOUR PARENTS READ THIS BLOG WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Me: Ok, I'll bite: what's wrong with the gavel?
Jen: Er. Actually, I have no idea. I think some of our readers just have their minds in the gutter.
Me: I know, right?
Jen: Like that bathing suit one. Seriously, what's the problem there?
Me: Yeah, beats me. People are so weird.
"Is nice for you! Not."
Thanks to Lindsey W., Leslie W., Deb K., Ashley I., & Jane A. for today's mind-trip. To the gutter.


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Quotes are powerful. No matter where you are in your life, a good quote can make you smile, give you that extra motivation you needed, or help you learn about yourself.
Your job search is no different. I've done some research and found six valuable quotes from presidents and television personalities that can help just about any job seeker looking for that extra boost.
Read these through and think about how they can help you find the right job. Maybe one of these will find themselves on your bulletin board or fridge!
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
Mickey Rooney
Got rejected? Flubbed an interview? Maybe you were late to an important meeting. Whatever the case may be, when you face a fork in the road make decision and march forward. The only bad decision is indecision or quitting. Rarely does one simple mistake mean that you're doomed forever.
"No man ever listened himself out of a job."
Calvin Coolidge
Whether you're networking, interviewing, or working, remember what our 30th president says about listening. While your perfect job involves you offering your own ideas, every employer wants to know that their employees are listening to them. Think before you speak so that you sound intelligent and thoughtful.
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success you could possible have imagined."
Johnny Carson
Johnny loved his job and you should too. You might be thinking about the tough job market and that you should value the job you have, even if you don't love it. That's also true.
If you're not happy in your job, hold onto it while still networking and getting your foot in the door at other companies. As long as you're fair to your current employer, you have every right to look for a job that makes you happy.
"All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them"
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Whether you want to start your own business or become an official ice cream taster, know that your dreams are valid. Your life is short, so you should try for the things that you want.
Evaluate your goals and plan a path to meet them. It might take a month or it might take ten years. Be realistic with yourself and you'll get what you want in due time.
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
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Are you a passive job seeker or an active one? Passive folks do the bare minimum in their job search and wait for the job offers to come rolling in. Active job seekers, on the other hand, do what is needed and are constantly seeking new ways to get the job they want.
Instead of waiting for opportunity to knock, build a door by reaching out to employers, making yourself more accessible, and joining a discussion in your social network.
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Nothing more needs to be said. This sums it up for me. Visualize your goal, construct a plan to get there, and then work that plan. It's the only way to be sure you are on the right track and that you are making progress toward the job you want and a fulfilling career.
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America's appetite for austerity in paychecks and benefits for government employees is spreading.
Voters signaled their agreement in elections this week, one in Wisconsin and two more in city elections in California. In Wisconsin, the solid decision by voters to keep Republican Gov. Scott Walker in office after a tough recall drive appeared to politically validate his move to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees. In California, voters' approval of pension cuts for current and future city workers in San Diego and San Jose suggested a bigger threat for public-sector unions nationally, one that could spawn similar moves in other cash-strapped cities and states.
"The fact that these ballot initiatives took place, and they passed by significant margins, will probably embolden reformers in different places around the country to take on these issues," said Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.
The election results were a clear setback for public employees and their unions, but perhaps to varying degrees.
"In Wisconsin, you have a governor that reversed 50 years of union rights, so this was very obviously a politically motivated attack that extended far beyond economic necessity," said Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education.
"San Diego and San Jose are much more about desperate cities trying to make ends meet," Wong said. "You have a very severe state budget crisis so, given municipalities' interest in curtailing expenses, it doesn't surprise me that those initiatives might pass in those two cities."
While Ohio voters in November repealed a Wisconsin-like measure that ended collective bargaining rights for state workers, conservative Republican lawmakers – and growing numbers of Democrats in cash-starved states like California and Illinois – continue to target public-sector workers for concessions.
Last year, 18 states increased employee pension contributions for state workers, up from 11 in 2010. Sixteen states increased age and service requirements for state employee retirements.
States including Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Dakota have moved to postpone or cut cost-of-living adjustments on state employee pension benefits.
Across the country, nearly 600 bills have been introduced in state capitals seeking to limit the collective bargaining activity of public-sector workers and their unions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. States that passed such laws included Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
In total, 30 states and Puerto Rico passed 69 collective bargaining bills in 2011.
"There were far more bills on collective bargaining introduced than in previous years," said Jeanne Mejeur, principal researcher for legislative management at the NCSL.
This year's state legislative session isn't producing the same volume of legislation or the vitriol that marked public clashes when Walker first pushed his plan in Wisconsin. Experts said election years typically bring slowdowns in controversial legislation. Most states also are in the second year of their two-year legislative cycles, meaning a glut of holdover bills is clogging the dockets.
Also, the money and effort needed for a ballot initiative makes it unlikely that the San Jose and San Diego proposals will be duplicated elsewhere in time for the November elections, Biggs added.
That said, public employees are still in the crosshairs, as cost-cutting states continue to trim their jobs, pension benefits and retiree health benefits.
"We're not seeing the kind of broad-based 'completely eliminate collective bargaining rights' kind of bills. But other than that, there are still very similar pieces of legislation being introduced this year in the same pattern as last year," Mejeur said.
These include proposals that restrict the way union dues are collected, the rights of state workers to organize and the political activity that public unions can engage in.
It's mainly the benefits that draws budget cutters. Public employees earn about 7 percent less on average than comparably trained, educated and experienced workers in the private sector, studies show.
"It's in benefits where the pay differences between public- and private-sector employees are the largest," Biggs said. "The salaries are not hugely different. The benefits are."
And as public-sector employees retain more of the benefits that private-sector workers are losing, their compensation packages have come under scrutiny.
"What we find is that pensions, vacations, sick pay, health benefits that many public sector workers have, used to be the norm for most major companies across the country," Wong said. "But with such a steady erosion of those types of benefits, they now seem like the exception rather than the rule."
Labor activists aren't ready to concede the hard-fought benefits of public employees.
Earlier this year, Maryland legislators overturned a so-called "doomsday" budget loaded with spending cuts, in favor of a new budget that included new tax revenue to retain jobs and fund pay hikes for state workers. In Missouri, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees lobbied successfully for a 2 percent pay increase for all state workers making $70,000 or less.
"Remember that collective bargaining rights were taken from workers in Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio and Puerto Rico – yet they all ultimately won them back," said AFCSME President Gerald McEntee.
"This struggle is far from over," he added, vowing to fight to reverse the Wisconsin verdict someday. "Make no mistake, the battle in Wisconsin will not end until workers in the Badger State win back their stolen right to a voice on the job."


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Richard's coffee shop and military museum in Mooresville, N.C., is a down-home place where veterans from all our modern wars gather most days to talk and feel comfortable in ways they only can among their fellow warriors. At the very beginning of my third annual U.S. road trip, on June 1, I had coffee with a bunch of them, assembled by Iraq veterans John Gallina and Dale Beatty, the founders of Purple Heart Homes, which builds houses for disabled veterans. That conversation set the tone for much of what has followed on my journey in ways that I couldn't have anticipated.
Most of those who spoke with me were Vietnam veterans, and they were not thrilled with the way the country was going. When I asked them how they'd rate Barack Obama as Commander in Chief, they started to laugh, which I thought was unfair and disrespectful. But it turned out they didn't have much use for Mitt Romney either. When I asked them who the last President they liked was, it was unanimous: George H.W. Bush. "He's the last one who really served," said Larry Nosker, a retired truck driver and Air Force veteran. "Air National Guard reserve don't count."
It turned out that these vets, like many I've met, simply didn't trust anyone who hadn't been through boot camp--and so their pool of acceptable leaders was diminishing dramatically and their sense of alienation was increasing just as fast. Practically everyone--women simply didn't make it onto their radar screen--had served in World War II. A lot of people had served in Vietnam. Fewer than 1% had served in Iraq and Afghanistan--and while they believed the new veterans might include some potential leaders, there still weren't nearly enough grownups to run a country. I asked if there was anything we as a nation could do about that. "Bring back the draft!" said Ray Pennipede, a former New York City police officer and member of the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam, without hesitation. There was applause. "There isn't an 18-year-old boy who doesn't need to get his butt kicked," added Nosker, "by someone in a position of complete authority."
This theme kept coming up in meeting after meeting during my first five days on the road, though usually in less vivid fashion. I traveled through North Carolina and Virginia, both in areas of deep blue and crimson red, and it was clear neither side trusted the other very much. For the conservatives, the country had changed beyond their imagining; not just civil rights but gay rights (a contentious referendum recently banned gay marriage in North Carolina), and new ethnic groups that seemed foreign--the South Asians who all of a sudden seemed to run half the convenience stores, the Latinos who didn't seem to want to speak English. Why, even the President of the United States was something strange, neither black nor white. For liberals, it was all about intolerance. You couldn't have a half-decent conversation with these Tea Party people, they said. "My mouth is bloody," a woman from Smith Mountain Lake, Va., told me, "from biting my tongue all the time."