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Ask a mom if she's happier now that she has a child and she'll usually say yes. In fact, around the world, children top the list of the most enjoyable things in life. But psychologists who study happiness -- a new field in the past decade -- often report a different picture.
Being the mom of a young child (especially one under 3) is rich and rewarding, but also a real strain on your mood. "Moment to moment, you may be exhausted, frustrated, sometimes angry," says Peter Ubel, M.D., a professor of medicine and psychology at the University of Michigan. "You may be squabbling with your spouse more. You have more negative emotions." The time you spend taking care of your child may not even be the high point of your day.
On their list of pleasurable activities, moms rank it lower than eating, exercising, or watching TV, according to a University of Michigan study of 900 women. In fact, kid care rates only slightly higher than housework, working, or commuting! "This finding shocks people," says Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Harvard University and author of "Stumbling on Happiness."
"They think psychologists are saying you don't love your children. Of course you love your children beyond measure! And kids do bring joy. They bring transcendent moments in which you feel so happy that it outweighs all the hard work you've done. It's just that children do not increase your average daily enjoyment." (Parenting.com: "When I'm a mom, I'll never...")
The Happiness Paradox
One reason for the discrepancy between moms and experts: selective memory. When psychologists ask moms in a general way whether they like spending time with their kids, the overwhelming majority say they do because they're thinking of fun activities such as reading a book or playing in the park. When they're specifically asked to describe their actual daily routine, they remember the hours they spent struggling to get their child dressed or ready for bed.
Maybe, though, the cold calculus of psychological science is missing the intensity of joy that time spent with your child can bring. "There are little moments that are grand-slam home runs," says Gilbert.
Luckily, those moments can overcome your daily frustrations. "Happiness is more than just that smiley feeling," says Karen Reivich, Ph.D., a research associate in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. "It's also feeling a connection to something larger than yourself. When people are in service to something bigger, they describe their lives as filled with meaning. It's not the smiley face, but when it's all over, you realize you'd do it again."
And being needed is a rewarding experience as well. "You get back tenfold everything that you put into it," says Elizabeth Howard, mom of Reilly, 2, in Anaheim, California. "I don't think people should have a child just to make them happy, but it's opened up a whole part of my heart that I didn't even know was there."
The first step to being a happier mom, then, is to value what you do -- to feel that it's important. The next step is to find ways to make it more enjoyable. Not only will you be doing the best thing for yourself, but you'll also become a more effective mom.
Say you're with your 2-year-old and she wants her juice in the red cup, but the red cup is missing. "If I'm in a grumpy mood, I may just say, 'Drink it in the blue cup,'" says Reivich. "But if I'm feeling more positive, maybe I'll take some red construction paper and tape it around the blue cup. I've transformed something that might get ugly into something playful and fun." The good news for all moms is this: You can learn to focus on the positive -- and learn to make it a daily habit. Here's how:
Admit when you're stressed
Ironically, once you stop expecting motherhood to feel warm and fuzzy all the time, life as a mom gets easier. "It really helps to realize that it's OK to feel frustrated, angry, tired, or irritable sometimes," says Dr. Ubel. "You're not a bad parent. It's not even a bad parenting experience. It's just normal." (Parenting.com: Get over new mom guilt. )
Get enough sleep
Most of us know that money can't buy happiness, but who knew that a good night's sleep just might? That's a key finding of that University of Michigan study. "Making $60,000 more in annual income has less of an effect on your daily happiness than getting one extra hour of sleep a night," says study author Norbert Schwarz, Ph.D., a professor of psychology. So how can you sneak in that extra hour or two?
Misha Sauer, mom of 1-year-old Riley, says her husband is good about taking over on the weekends so she can sleep in or nap. "It absolutely makes a difference in the way I feel," says the Culver City, California, mom. "And I'm more willing to do something active, like take my daughter to the park. If I'm tired, the most I can do is sit there and read to her."
(Re)consider your priorities
It may sound simplistic, but one key to being in a more positive mood is to structure your day so you do more things you enjoy. "It's how you spend your time, not your money, that counts," says Dr. Ubel. "If you have any financial flexibility that lets you maximize your family time, use it now. For instance, do you really need to be the one to clean the house? How about paying someone to help out? And if that's not an option, think about how clean your house really needs to be -- do you need to make the beds, or is bed-making time better spent drawing pictures with your kids?" And if you work outside the home, consider exploring whether you can afford to go part-time rather than full-time.
Go with the flow
Time seems to slow down when you're doing what you enjoy, whether it's gardening or running laps. People who experience this level of engagement -- which psychologists call "flow" -- are happier than people who rarely do. And you're lucky to have a master of it right before you: your child. "To you and me, every leaf and ant is pretty much the same, but not to a two-year-old," says Reivich. "So try to actively notice things as your child does -- that ant is dragging a big piece of bread, for instance."
Bringing more of your best qualities -- your strengths -- to the often mundane tasks of child rearing can also help you feel more engaged. "One of my strengths is humor," Reivich says. "I was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for my kids one day, and I started talking like it was a cooking show: 'Now I'm browning the bread, now I'm applying a thin layer of peanut butter.' It transformed a mundane task into something all of us could enjoy."
One mom she knows loves architecture and got passionate about explaining the history of columns as her 4-year-old made sand castles. Her preschooler may not have gotten all the references, says Reivich, "but it was entertaining for both of them."
Savor the moment
One way to nourish positive emotions is to take a moment to appreciate, well, the moment. Just map out two- or three-minute activities that you can do that day to relish that time.
In the morning, for instance, instead of trying to do ten things, take your cup of coffee to the window and sip it while your child watches a video. Notice what's going on. Will it change your life? No, but you'll probably feel calmer.
Gilbert has an even shorter version: "Take ten seconds every hour and look at what you're doing from a higher place." While you're at it, appreciate what a wonderful child you have -- those chubby cheeks, the endearing things she says -- and share that joy with someone who'll rejoice in it with you. That's another way to grab on to the good stuff and prolong your happiness.
Take the long view
Having a sense of perspective will also improve your attitude. "It gives you more patience, and it certainly awakens you to the preciousness of the moment, which is fleeting," says M.J. Ryan, author of "The Happiness Makeover" and mom of Anna, 9. She remembers the times when her daughter wanted to sit on her lap and watch SpongeBob. "Yes, I had other things to do. But I said to myself, 'How long will this last?' I'm grateful for that time with her."
If the drudgery is getting to you, think about life without children. "You've signed on for a hard job -- it's not supposed to be fun most of the time," says Gilbert. "It's easy to get caught up in the details, but you need to step back and realize how empty your life would be without these people in it."
Reconnect with your spouse
A supportive group of friends and family is one of the cornerstones of a happy life, and for many moms, the center of that social circle is their partner. That's why it's so important to keep the lines of communication open, especially during the "diaper years" -- from infancy to around age 3 -- that experts say are the most stressful (until your kids become teens, that is!) on a marriage.
"You can't say, 'I'll handle the relationship later,'" says Reivich. "A healthy and realistic goal is to ask, 'What are some small, manageable things we can be doing to keep our connection to each other strong during this rough time?'"
For instance, she and her husband try to have a glass of wine together at night once a week, after their four kids (all under age 9) are in bed. "It's not a date-- we don't need a baby sitter-- it's just 15 minutes. But it's a change to sit together and unwind, and sometimes a chance to dream."
When she works with couples, Reivich helps them figure out what they can do for a couple of hours together that interests both of them. With one couple, one partner was very curious, the other really appreciated beauty, so they spent an afternoon museum hopping.
"It can be as easy as going food shopping together," she says. Once you make little steps, it's easy to move on to bigger ones, like a night out. Even discussing how stressed you both are can help. "It's affected our relationship a lot; we've both noticed it," says Sauer. "If you can both just say, 'Raising a kid is hard,' putting it out there diminishes the strain." She and her husband are working on having more time together-- by themselves. "We just went on our first date since the baby was born," she says.
Another way to strengthen your connection is to practice what shrinks call "active constructive responding." When your spouse comes home and shares some good news, don't just say, "That's nice." Ask questions that let him tell you about his day, even for a minute or two. At least for that minute, the two of you will be celebrating what's good about your lives.
Say thanks
Feeling grateful is a mood booster. It can be as simple as saying grace every night or finding new ways to acknowledge others.
"When our extended family gets together for a birthday, we go around the room and say one thing we appreciate and the one thing we like best about that person," says Elizabeth Howard.
Another effective way is to put what you're thankful for down on paper: Write the three best things that happened today. It might be something positive that happened to you, your kids, your spouse or friends, or in the world. It might just be something funny that your child said at breakfast. Experts say that if you do that every day for two weeks, your feelings of well-being will increase.
Of course, even if you do all of these things, you'll still have bad days. But at least you'll be less likely to think there's something wrong with you. And the more you engage in positive thinking, the more you'll realize how much happiness is under your control. Not all of it, but perhaps more than you were aware of.
"When I started to research happiness, I thought it was a feeling, and you had to wait to have it happen to you," says Ryan. "But feelings follow thoughts -- they don't precede them. I think of happiness as three things -- enjoyment, satisfaction, and fulfillment. Mothering can give us any one of those at any given moment -- if not necessarily all of them at the same time!"
Robert Barnett is the former health editor of Parenting.
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Vox Populi – 1/13/10
These past three days have been among the most rewarding I've ever had. F1@1F is still in its infancy and its mission still far from accomplished, but my first week at the Court has been a rousing success. I would like to thank everyone who spoke with me on and off the record in the freezing cold as well as Above the Law for blurbing over thousands of visitors to the web site on Monday.
Today's crowd for American Needle v. NFL featured a sports law guru; two beaming UVA 2Ls; a headlamped, brief-reading, lawn-chair sitting college senior; and a DC lawyer who works for the firm representing the NFL and clerked for the Seventh Circuit judge whose opinion was at issue this morning. And they were only numbers two through six in line.
But for all the lawyers and law students in the general admission line before dawn this morning, two lay persons will stand head and shoulders above all in my memory. Literally.
Jim and Meade Klingensmith, a father and son from Pittsburgh, PA, and both, by my estimate, standing about 6'6″, waited in line each day this week. And next week, when I will be sleeping in and going to class, they will be back out there in line, making wimps out of the rest of us.
Meade, a sophomore at Oberlin College, is in DC on his winter term, where he is pursuing an independent study. His project?
"I'm going to all five hearings," said Meade, "and for each one, I will be writing down how I would come down in the case and how I think it will actually come down." Awesome.
Jim, Meade's father, just retired and was visibly thrilled to have the time to share this unique experience with his son. His wonder at the Court remained equally palpable since we met on Monday.
"It's very impressive to see the judicial system at work," Jim said through a smile. "It really affirms your belief in the law. Everything you're seeing, you'd expect to see, but it's good to actually see it."
And for a college student who could still be on break had he so desired, Meade had a surprisingly positive attitude about his grueling mornings. Whereas waking up at 2:30am was the hardest part for me, Meade claimed that nights are harder because he knows he'll be sleeping for fewer hours than he'll be standing in the cold. But, said Meade, "once the morning comes, I just go for it."
Nearly every person I spoke to had his or her own fear about these mornings: not enough sleep, too cold, going alone, hard to wake up, may get there too late to get in. But once these mornings came, we all went for it. And once we get in line and meet our neighbors, our fears melt away, even if our toes turn to ice.
"It's been fascinating to hear each person's story," reflected Jim.
I couldn't agree more. Thanks to everyone in line who shared theirs with me.
I hope to see you all again next month for the next batch of newsworthy cases. And if any of you readers want to come on out, well, you know where to find me.
Until then, I will continue to blog regularly, sans Court reports, here at F1@1F. Subscribe by RSS or email, bookmark the page, or check in whenever. I enjoy your comments and feedback, so please keep the hits coming.
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We're very flattered Mike. It's been a blast sharing our mornings with you, and this blog is fantastic.
Best of luck keeping this going and finishing out law school. And really, you should invest in some boots as soon as possible.
What do you mean by sleeping in next week?
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Ooooh proper standard of review for ERISA denial-of-benefits case. That would be interesting, if anyone (on the bench or otherwise) actually understood ERISA.
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Review #39
by Nicola Monaghan
(Scribner, April 2007)
I have to admit this is one of those books that induced a groan when I got it in that Jiffy Pak mailer. Maybe it was the candy pills on the front cover, or the back cover copy comparing it to Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING. THE KILLING JAR looked like a sneering, adolescent, gratuitous drug trip of a book; not my favorite genre, as it tends to combine the self-dramatizing, overwritten prose I first encountered in my high school literary magazine with the self-righteous, damn-the-man self-destructiveness of drug culture. 'Scuse my snarkiness – I'm just not the Trainspotting audience, I guess.
But Nicola Monaghan's story of growing up screwed up on one of Britain's "council estates" (suburban low-income housing projects) surprised me. Maybe it was the Nottingham dialect that pulled me in (sample sentence: "It must of been summat what you did") – it's hard to write dialect that's both readable and feels authentic, and Monaghan never crosses the line into impenetrable caricature of lower class British speech. This is probably because she grew up on the council estates, a fact which I imagine will be used a great deal in marketing the book.
But the biggest draw of the book was the narrator, Kerrie-Ann, known as Kez (in that weird and charming British nicknaming tradition that makes Madonna into Madge). She's a tough, smart kid, into science, especially butterflies, who because she's born to a heroin addict turns her brains to the only business she knows: dealing drugs. After an extremely brief childhood, Kez rides the wave of the rise of Ecstasy and raves to a cosy little business with her childhood friend and lover Mark, taking care of her little brother John. Her mother's boyfriends treat her badly; her mom disappears; she's seduced and dumped and has an abortion at 14. But she gives as good as she gets, and does some pretty horrible things herself. She's believable and self-aware, not always sympathetic, but always readable, and a far cry from the self-justifying, overdramatizing teen I was expecting. She knows her life is crappy, even when she's having fun, and struggles with competing desires to get ahead and to get out. This is a literary novel about the equivalent of the ghetto, and it's infuriating and heartbreaking as real poverty and addiction and unnecessary violence can be. It won't be out until spring, but if it sounds like your thing, bug Scribner for a galley – Monaghan is the real thing.
Review #40
by Joann Sfar
(First Second Books, September 2006)
I'd been meaning to read this since the supernice folks at First Second Books agreed to have Joann Sfar come to our store for an event – everyone seems to agree he's the best thing in French cartooning right now (and it's quite a scene, has been for longer than comics have had cred in the U.S.) I read it in an evening and it's SO good. This is Part 1 of a saga set in Eastern Europe and Russia between the World Wars, and begins the story of a group of misfit klezmer musicians playing in the Jewish towns and cities of the continent. Sfar's drawings seem looser than the ones in THE RABBI'S CAT and VAMPIRE LOVES (both of which I've glanced through with pleasure), which adds to the sort of dreamy folktale feel of the story, where characters' appearance and surroundings can shift subtly from panel to panel.
It's an energetic, often funny story, but it begins with a massacre: bandleader Noah Davidovitch is the only survivor (a Biblical trope?) when a rival klezmer orchestra kills all of his bandmates. He gets his revenge in a very Jewish folktale way, and as he leaves town is joined by a pretty, forceful girl who prefers the romantic itinerant singer's life to her boring hamlet. Then the action skips to a promising, but disgraced (and very cute) yeshiva student, who wanders into the world having given up on God. He meets a much more neurotically dedicated student who has also been expelled, and the two of them accidentally rescue a persecuted Gypsy. Turns out the Gypsy is a guitarist, the neurotic a virtuoso violinist, and Cute Yeshiva Kid knows some good Jewish songs. They make their way to Odessa, which in this book has a very Casablanca air of romance, and of course are bound to run into Noah and the singer.
Sfar somehow gets the music of the klezmer bands into the book, filling whole page spreads with no dialogue except the onomotopaiec (ha! spelling) sounds of the instruments and swirling, dancing revelers. There's so much life and energy in these pages, and also the deep melancholy of anti-Semitic persecution and a feeling of abandonment by God. Sfar's mother was an Eastern European Jew, and he's clearly deeply invested in this culture; at the end of the book is an impassioned essay on safety, terror, and the contemporary world. I can't wait to meet the author of this rich text; it's highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the medium, the time period, the music, or the culture – or anyone who loves a swinging good read.
Review #41
by Nell Freudenberger
(Ecco, September 2006)
Let me admit that I was a little lukewarm about Nell Freudenberger's short story collection LUCKY GIRLS when it came out in 2003. I read the whole thing, and met the author at a reading (who was rather shy but super nice and professional), but I thought it was fine rather than great, and joined the throng of skeptics who wondered if she got famous just because she was young, cute, and worked at the New Yorker. (But I felt the same so-so way about the much-touted INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri – maybe I've got some weird prejudice against multicultural short stories by women.)
But a recommendation from a fellow bookseller (thanks, Amanda!) made me pick up Freudenberger's novel THE DISSIDENT anyway, and it's freakin' great. If you haven't heard all about it, it's the story of a Chinese artist, famously jailed in his own country as a political dissident, who comes to the U.S. and stays with a well-off (but seriously messed up, of course) Los Angeles family while teaching art at a girl's school and preparing for the first U.S. showing of his work. Ironically, I think a lot of its strength comes from the sense of an artist meditating on the arbitrariness of artistic fame, and the half-truths, plagiarisms, self-betrayals, and poses that can be part of the process for even the most talented and sincere artists and works.
The sometime narrator and eponymous dissident "Yuan Zhao" is a retiring sort who feels something like guilt for the acclaim he's getting in the U.S. (and the reasons for that become more and more clear to reader and characters as the book progresses). His story is his own, and the suggestion of the clash of Chinese and Los Angeles cultures is well done but never over done (a strength of Freudenberger's which I'm always impressed by). But I couldn't help thinking of him as in some ways a stand-in for Nell herself, rather baffled by the acclaim she's received and wondering how on earth she can live up to and follow up on her early success. All I can say is, she's done herself one better – if the first book's success was partially a fluke, this one is entirely deserving of praise. (Ironically again, the reviews haven't been entirely favorable.)
There are some loose ends that I wanted tied up – the Los Angeles mother's abortive affair with her brother-in-law, the son's offstage violent episode and new Hispanic girlfriend, and some other stories that seemed begun but abandoned when the dissident's own story became too interesting to leave. But I finished the book with a great sense of satisfaction, the kind that comes when a story has left your heart aching at its sadness and confusion and injustice but with a saving remnant of hope, and a new understanding of an idea or two. Is copying a master a talent equivalent to creating something original? Is it art because the artist says so, or because someone is paying attention? What good are good intentions, and what obligation do we have to those who don't appreciate our efforts? Are there other satisfying roles besides that of the artist?
Me, I think so. The gallery owner, the teacher, the Mrs. Dalloway-esque housewife – those are the artists that appeal to me, making a space for original work to grow and be noticed. Maybe that's one of the reason's I'm such a fan of this book. Nell Freudenberger, unlike her characters, doesn't need to act like an artist or live an "artist's life". She is a serious artist, and potentially, a great one.
Review #42
Edited by Jacquelin Cangro
(Plume, September 2006)
I missed the website (www.thesubwaychronicles.com), which is kind of an open forum for telling true tales of subway life, inspired by a conversation the editor/webmaster had with friends over a Thanksgiving dinner, everyone trying to top the other. But I love the idea and the book. Some of the pieces in here I've read before and loved – Jonathan Lethem's "Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn", Colson Whitehead's "Subway" chapter from COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK. Some are from favorite writers I hadn't heard on the subject – Vivian Gornick, Calvin Trillin, Francine Prose, Johnny Temple. But the majority are from writers I've never heard of, who as far as I know could be the guy across from me on the D train, and that's what makes them great.
Riding the subway for a New Yorker takes up a big chunk of life, and sometimes the most interesting one. Usually, it's reading time (and I read a lot of this book on the subway, which was kind of meta). It's also where you encounter your fellow citydwellers at close quarters, for better or worse, and that makes for a lot of good stories. I love April Reynolds' theory in her essay that
"every New Yorker has his or her own private stock of cocktail party-worthy subway stories that fall into three major groups: the stinky story, the Good Samaritan story, and the scary story. These are broad categories that can conflate or morph at will."
I'd add the preacher story, but the basic theory holds. This paperback original may be the perfect collection of such stories. They're like the best of Studs Terkel-style themed oral history, except written by real writers, and all immensely readable.
Riding the subway for New Yorkers is part of our identity, I think. One of the reasons I moved here (or rather, stayed here) is that I hate driving, and I've traded it for an experience that's new every day, for better or worse. I'm grateful to Cangro for making space for these stories to be told outside the cocktail party. They're great fun, and only as long as my commute. I hope there's a sequel.
Review #43
by Cornelius Medvei
(HarperCollins, April 2007)
I hate to end on a down note, but this was the only one of my recent reads I found disappointing. I'd had it mightily pitched to me, and it seems like the sort of thing I would like given my love for FIRMIN: a brief, illustrated chronicle of the city life of a persecuted talking baboon. But unlike with FIRMIN, I ended up thinking it was a mistake to publish this work as anything other than a quirky short story. The journalistic description of Mr. Thundermug's education, housing, romance, arrest, trial, and happily ever after were told with such a deadpan brevity that I didn't have time to feel anything about it. Actually, I read this in one sitting at a bar while waiting for a lunch date, and didn't even mention it to them when they arrived.
In its defense, the character of the City where Mr. Thundermug lives is more interesting than the character himself; it reminds me of the hybrid all-city of the brilliant animated movie TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, which was supposedly a composite of Paris, New York, and Montreal. This city is a more ancient English one, but seems to have elements of Indian or Southeast Asian ruins and North American technological dependence. It's a strange and fascinating place, and makes for a melancholy, whimsical little book. It wasn't exactly to my taste, but maybe it will be to yours.
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Hours before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died, his second-in-command accused enemies of giving him cancer and announced the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats for an alleged plot to destabilize the government.
"There's no doubt that Commandante Chavez's health came under attack by the enemy," Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in an address to the nation from the presidential palace.
"The old enemies of our fatherland looked for a way to harm his health," according to Maduro, drawing a parallel to the illness and 2004 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which some supporters blamed on poisoning by Israeli agents.
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Networks are critical to just about everything we do in tech, and keeping those networks safe and working is a topic that got a lot of attention this week. Ars wrote about the ubiquity of tools that let users hack into WiFi networks, the low overhead on Internet surveillance, and why you just can't seem to connect to WiFi at major sporting events. The entertainment industry is also finding that it will live or die by how it defines its relationships to networks: HBO announced that it would bring a streaming-only service to European cord-cutters, and Ars took an in-depth look at how video streaming has been constrained by copyright law.
Check these 10 stories out if you didn't catch them earlier this week!
- HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe
For a small fee, some Europeans get access to the full complement of HBO content.
- Trying to have it all: Acer's Timeline M5 gaming Ultrabook
Is this laptop a great jack-of-all-trades or a disappointing compromise?
- How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat
Readily available tools make cracking easier.
- Review: Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG that actually respects your time
Don't fret if it will "dethrone the king," GW2 is a step forward for the genre.
- Why your smart device can't get WiFi in the home team's stadium
As cellular and WiFi get congested, fans might actually have to watch the game.
- Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap
Deep packet inspection, petabyte-scale analytics create a "CCTV for networks."
- Robot cars on public roads? California says yes
Legislators pass new law that would set safety and performance standards.
- Piecing together sixth-gen iPhone rumors: what we know so far
A new iPhone is on the way, it's just a matter of what will be in it.
- Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane
Deploying 10,000 tiny antennas makes no technical sense—but the law demands it.
- Apple v. Samsung juror: we "wanted to send a message"
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England's World Cup-winning cricket team have met Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street.
Both England and New Zealand scored 241 runs from their 50 overs in Sunday's final at Lord's, before Eoin Morgan's side won after a dramatic super over.
The victory meant England won the World Cup for the first time after losing in the finals of the 1979, 1987 and 1992 competitions.
May and Morgan were pictured sharing a joke before they posed with the trophy.
Cricket fan May was at Lord's on Sunday and tweeted 'well done' to the team after their victory.
Another former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, who is an honorary life vice-president of Surrey County Cricket Club, was also at the reception at Downing Street.
"You have helped the nation fall in love with cricket once again," May told the England players.
"The final was not just cricket at its best but sport at its best – courage, character, sportsmanship, drama, incredible skill and even the odd slice of luck – all combining to create a real thriller, one of the great sporting spectacles of our time.
"It was a fitting end to what has been a great tournament – and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in once again making our country a sporting showcase for the world."
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Running the Internet giant Google requires a lot of electricity. Industry experts claim its 13 data centers continuously draw 260 million watts. An estimated billion searches a day alone consume 12.5 million watts.
Offsetting this huge consumption, Google has cash reserves exceeding $50 billion and is investing heavily in renewable energy, adding to a billion-dollar portfolio of green power.
The company recently announced its 14th investment in renewable energy through a partnership with the investment firm KKR to build six utility-scale solar facilities in California and Arizona. Google will invest approximately $80 million in these projects, which are being developed by Recurrent Energy. The projects will have a combined capacity of 106 megawatts (MW) and generate enough electricity to power more than 17,000 U.S. homes.
In 2013, Google also made a $103 million commitment to Mount Signal Solar, a 265.7-MW solar photovoltaic plant in Imperial County, Calif., and made its first investment in Africa, $12 million in the Jasper Power Project, a 94-MW solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa's Northern Cape province.
In 2012, Google made an equity investment of $75 million in a small wind farm in Iowa and $200 million in one in Texas.
In 2011, there was a host of green investments: $94 million in four solar facilities near Sacramento, Calif.; $75 million in a fund to help California homeowners go solar; $280 million to create a fund to help finance solar installations across the country; $168 million in a concentrated photovoltaic project in the Mojave Desert; $157 million in Alta Wind Center in the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California; $100 million in the Shepherds Farm Wind Park in Arlington, Ore.; and $5 million in a photovoltaic plant in Germany.
In 2010, Google made a $38.8 million investment in two North Dakota wind farms and, showing "green diversity,'" bought a 37.5 percent equity stake in the Atlantic Wind Connection, an offshore grid project intended to support offshore wind turbines.
These investments are all part of Google's strategy of building a clean- energy future where renewable energy is abundant, accessible and affordable.
Google claims its ownership in renewable power generation currently amounts to more than 2 gigawatts, the equivalent of the power output of the Hoover Dam. Furthermore, recent investments have pushed the company's renewable power generation even higher.


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DENVER (AP) – More than a hundred municipalities across Colorado are holding elections this week on everything from tax increases and marijuana to plastic bags.
Buena Vista is considering a $3 million sales tax revenue bond for street fixes and DeBeque, Erie, Montrose, and Winter Park are among the places considering tax increases or extensions on Tuesday.
Crawford, Fruita and Lyons will vote on banning the sale of medical marijuana products.
Basalt and Carbondale are voting on whether to ban plastic shopping bags. Ault will decide whether to allow hens in residential neighborhoods.
The Colorado Municipal League says at least 144 places will have elections.
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Cate Blanchett arrived in Cannes today with her son Ignatius. Cate is at the festival of course for Robin Hood and the opening night gala on Wednesday with Russell Crowe ahead of its world release on Friday. It's a battle between Robin Hood and Iron Man at the box office this weekend. And it's an opportunity after a long, long spell to see Cate on a major carpet working her incomparable style.
She was nursing Ignatius when I interviewed her in Cannes 2 years ago. I had just broken my arm. I had just been released from the hospital and Laura found me a salon to have my hair washed because my elbow was in a sling and then sent me straight up to the Carleton for the junket. Cate asked me what happened and I told her and complained about my ugly accessory and then, in her breezy elegant way, she told me I should just tie a Louis Vuitton scarf around it and done.
Please. Of course it made my life. Of course I walked around all summer with an arm scarf, my signature accessory, only it was a McQueen in blue with pink skulls.
Cate seems to make it to Cannes every two years. In 2006 it was for Babel. Last time, in 2008, it was for Indiana Jones. Coincidentally her Indy co-star Shia LaBeouf is also back with Michael Douglas this time for Wall Street 2. They were putting him up at the Carleton today.
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Ten minutes into my tour with Chesapeake Bay watermen, and I'd just asked the landlubber question of the century: What's the difference between a male and a female blue crab?
"How could you stand there and say that?" joked Calvin "Pee Wee" Matthews, a third-generation waterman who had just hauled up a net of wriggling crabs from his boat on Maryland's West River, a tributary of the bay.
"She's from D.C.," my tour guide, John VanAlstine, said helpfully from our boat, the Patricia Anne, which we'd brought alongside Matthews's Little Rascal II.
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The matter was soon cleared up, thanks to some District landmarks, no less: VanAlstine showed me that the female crab has a rounded abdomen— the shape of the Capitol dome — while the male's is needle thin — think the Washington Monument.
It's not every day that you can shoot the breeze with some watermen — the shrinking group of men and women who make a living oystering, crabbing and fishing on the bay — but the Watermen Heritage Tours program has made it possible.
In 2008, after a decade of plummeting crab populations, the federal government declared a fishery disaster, and Congress designated money to support the bay's 5,200 licensed watermen — a group that's far smaller than in the past, although historical numbers are unknown, according to the Maryland Watermen's Association. Some of those funds went into a tourism-training program, led by the Chesapeake Conservancy in partnership with the Coastal Heritage Alliance and other bay organizations, which since 2010 has certified 80 watermen to lead trips throughout the bay. (Another training course may take place in 2014.)
The idea is this: Tourism opens up another source of income for watermen while giving the public a chance to experience such centuries-old practices as baiting crab pots and tonging oysters. Or, if you're the less hands-on sort, listening to a fish tale or two on a sunset cruise or a kayak trip. "When I think of the Chesapeake Bay, there's nothing more iconic than a waterman on the water in his white workboat," said
Joanna Ogburn, director of programs for the Chesapeake Conservancy, when we chatted before my tour.
And so, as a Marylander curious about my state's history, I found myself one chilly September morning on such a workboat, turning the key to start the steady rumble of the Patricia Anne's engine. I'd met VanAlstine in Galesville, a small riverside town south of Annapolis where he has moored his boats for 15 years.
VanAlstine gave me a quick orientation of the 40-foot-long vessel — the "house" is the little room that contains the steering wheel and two seats, for instance — and then we chugged north across the flat bluish-gray river, where silhouettes of watermen at work speckled the horizon. While steering the boat, VanAlstine filled me in on the life of a waterman — unpredictable harvests, rough weather, unreliable paychecks, bad backs and knees — all balanced by the freedom of working for yourself, continuing old traditions and just the joy of being out on the water.
"Doing this job isn't to get rich. It's a quality of life. Fifty percent of my paycheck is the enjoyment of what I do," said VanAlstine, 47, who was born in landlocked Howard County but became a waterman in his 20s and eventually earned the community's respect.
Matthews, 68, feels the same way. He's now retired from full-time work — a sign on the front of his boat reads "Hardly Working" — but he still crabs in the summer. "I love it," he told me. "I used to work on land, and it was the most boring job I've ever had in my life."
Unfortunately for watermen, 2013 is a bad one for crabs — the crustaceans are down in number by 60 percent, the worst in VanAlstine's 18-year career. Part of the reason may be that a 2012 spike in numbers caused young crabs to eat one another, according to state officials.
Most of VanAlstine's crab pots — square metal cages with a pocket in the center for bait — were onshore due to the poor crab season, but we headed for the more open waters of the bay to check on the few that he did have out. When we arrived at his pots, VanAlstine donned orange overalls, work gloves, a long shirt to avoid jellyfish stings and then, with surprising speed, started yanking the pots into the boat.
Only a few crabs scuttled out of each pot. He separated, or "culled," the creatures based on factors such as size and sex and then threw the pot back with a fresh bait fish. (People on longer tours can participate in crabbing and take some of the catch home to eat.)
VanAlstine proudly says that he's known for having some of the best crabs: Each has to pass his "squeeze test," which means pinching the corner of each crab's shell to feel whether it's hard. This means that the crab is mature and thus has more meat. He'll later sell these beefiest crabs directly to buyers at a retail price.
Our next stop was VanAlstine's oyster grounds, which he leases from the state. The oyster population is still less than one percent of its historic numbers in the Chesapeake Bay, but the numbers are climbing slowly due to oyster sanctuaries and habitat restoration.
Each year, VanAlstine buys oyster larvae from the state hatchery, puts them on oyster shells and releases them into his oyster grounds, hoping that the babies, called spats, will grow on the shells and become marketable adult oysters in a few years.
He idled the boat over an oyster ground that he'd seeded earlier this summer and pulled out the 16-foot-long oyster tongs, essentially two long wooden poles with a metal basket attached to the bottom that opens and closes like toothy jaws. VanAlstine stepped up onto the edge of his boat, lowered the basket into the oyster bed and opened and closed the poles with rapid, scissorlike movements, scraping up the oysters.
"What I'm doing now you could do 100 years ago," he said, pulling up the tongs and spilling a mess of oysters onto the boat. He picked through the pile and showed me the rough shells on which babies are growing. And then it was my turn to oyster.
I struggled to maneuver the heavy tongs, managing to heft a few oysters onto the boat. I couldn't imagine doing this for hours at a time, much less in sleet and snow in the dead of winter. But then I thought of all us office workers "on land," spending our days indoors sitting at computers, and I understood what Matthews had said: "If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing."
Dell'Amore is a freelance writer in Washington. Her Web site is christinedellamore.com.


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WELCOME BACK: Eagle Mark LeCras will play his first AFL game since 2011 this weekend. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: The Sunday Times
WEST Coast goalsneak Josh Hill says he feels more comfortable at the Eagles now, and is looking forward to combining with Mark LeCras this year to create a series of highlights.
Hill booted 36 goals in 22 games for the Eagles last year, cementing his spot in the side after fellow small forwards LeCras (knee) and Mark Nicoski (hamstring) suffered season-ending injuries.
With Nicoski still on the long-term injury list, Hill is expected to retain his place in the best 22 this year, and says he can't wait to team with LeCras in what's shaping up as a formidable forward line.
While Hill and LeCras will do the damage at ground level, spearheads Josh Kennedy and Jack Darling are set to dominate in the air, with ruckmen Nic Naitanui and Dean Cox also providing valuable marking power.
LeCras is one of the classiest medium-sized forwards in the game, and has the ability to kick freak goals in open play from the tightest of angles.
The 26-year-old is equally adept at taking strong marks on the lead, and earned All-Australian honours in 2010 for a campaign that yielded him 63 goals.
Hill played 66 games over five seasons for the Western Bulldogs before being traded to West Coast at the end of 2011.
The 24-year-old enjoyed a solid debut season at the Eagles, and said the return of LeCras would give opposition sides an even bigger headache.
"I know he's got his flair that he brings. I'm going to try to bring my side and work on improving," Hill said ahead of Saturday's western derby against Fremantle.
"Like last year, I'm going to start off with my defensive side of my game and look to use that to get involved.
"I feel a lot more comfortable now that I've got a year under my belt at the club.''
When asked who had the more flair out of him and LeCras, Hill replied: "He'll probably say him, but I might say me.
"But when you've got Nic Nat there jumping around on shoulders, it's hard to get a touch.
"When the ball's there, we'll all be fighting for it. We're all pretty excited to see what each of us can bring."
The Eagles are warm favourites to beat the Dockers despite missing Naitanui (groin), Daniel Kerr (knee), Matt Rosa (quad), Sharrod Wellingham (ankle) and Nicoski.
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A few years after publishing his most sentimental and autobiographical novel, "Brideshead Revisited," in 1945, Evelyn Waugh satirized its plot in his prizewinning war trilogy, "Sword of Honour," referring to it as "Shakespearian in its elaborate improbability." The truth, however, as Paula Byrne makes vividly clear in Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, is that the real story behind Waugh's top-selling novel is even more fantastic than his fictionalized distillation.
Byrne's engaging book will resonate especially for those who fondly remember Granada Television's consummate 1981 adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited," featuring Jeremy Irons, Sir Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, and Sir John Gielgud.
"Mad World" is part of what Byrne flags as a growing 21st-century trend in literary biography toward the "partial life" – as opposed to "the heavily footnoted biographical doorstopper [which] had its heyday in the second half of the 20th century." Freed from "the shackles of comprehensiveness," biographers explore their subjects via a seminal theme, year, or event. The result, at least in this case, is more streamlined and focused, but still remarkably thorough.
Byrne, the author of "Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson" and "Jane Austen and the Theatre," embarked on "Mad World" determined to correct what she considered to be Waugh's persistent misrepresentation "as a snob and a curmudgeonly misanthropist." She marshals friends' testimonials and previously unpublished letters to resurrect both his literary and personal standing.
In the course of her research, Byrne realized that "his relationship with a single family: the Lygons of Madresfield ... provided a key that could unlock the door into Waugh's inner world."
Waugh, like the narrator pf "Brideshead," Charles Ryder, was born into a middle-class family in 1903. His father worked in publishing. Both attended second-tier boarding schools, and then Oxford in the early 1920s on scholarship. Waugh was unhappy there until a friend introduced him to the Hypocrites, a drinking club whose elite members were high-spirited in every sense of the word.
Among Waugh's intimates was the charming, heavy-drinking Hugh Lygon, second son of the seventh Earl of Beauchamp – a model for Sebastian Flyte in the novel, who also succumbs to alcoholism. Byrne posits that he was one of Waugh's three homosexual relationships at Oxford. Drawn to beautiful, fragile boys – and later, beautiful, fragile women – Waugh considered homosexuality a passing phase in his development. Byrne examines the "secret that dared not speak its name," particularly prevalent at all-male schools, with sensitivity and more than passing consideration.
Unlike his aristocratic friends, Waugh needed to earn a living after leaving Oxford. After a short stint teaching, he followed his older brother Alec – who had published a bestselling novel while still in his teens – by creating a splash with his very first novel. "Decline and Fall" captured the zeitgeist of the disaffected "bright young things" of his generation, caught between two great wars.
Throughout his life, Waugh retreated from society periodically to either gather material or write. He was enormously prolific, turning out a book every year or so, including such trenchant novels as "Vile Bodies" and "A Handful of Dust," several prize-winning biographies, and books about his dangerous travel adventures in Africa, the Arctic, and South America.
For more than a decade – until his 1937 marriage – Waugh did not maintain a home but instead bounced among friends. Chief among these were Hugh Lygon's sisters, Sibell, Mary (Maimie), and Dorothy (Coote), whom he befriended in 1931 and stayed close to until his death in 1966. Madresfield Court, their imposing ancestral estate in Worcestershire, was affectionately called "Mad" – hence Byrne's title.
As another friend, writer Nancy Mitford, commented after first reading "Brideshead," it was, "So true to life being in love with a whole family." As smitten as he was with Hugh and his sisters, Waugh was also taken with their cultivated father. He was much affected by Lord Beauchamp's plight: a leading liberal politician forced into exile for homosexuality. (In "Brideshead," the source of Lord Marchmain's disgrace was altered to an exotic mistress.)
Among the papers Byrne gained access to for the first time is Countess Beauchamp's 1932 petition for divorce, which had been sealed through 2032 and which explicitly spells out her husband's many homosexual liaisons – at a time when homosexuality was still a crime subject to prosecution in England.
As Byrne makes clear, Madresfield was Waugh's Arcadia, encapsulating his "search for an ideal family" and his lifelong "theme of exile and exclusion." Waugh's world changed irrevocably with World War II – which explains the elegiac nostalgia that suffuses "Brideshead." Deftly interweaving biographical details and textual analysis, Byrne makes the connections between Waugh's art, Roman Catholic faith, and life dance.
Heller McAlpin, a freelance critic in New York, is a frequent Monitor contributor.


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EL PASO, Texas A federal judge sentenced the former superintendent of El Paso Independent School District to more than three years in prison Friday for his participation in a conspiracy to improve the district's high-stakes tests scores by removing low-performing students from classrooms.
Lorenzo Garcia's scheme to prevent hundreds of sophomores from taking the accountability tests fooled authorities into believing that academic standards had improved in his West Texas district, resulting in a boost in federal funds and personal bonuses totaling at least $56,000.
Garcia pleaded guilty to two fraud counts in June; one in the testing scandal and another in which he misled the school board so that his lover would receive a $450,000 no-bid contract to produce school materials.
On Friday, the judge sentenced him to 42 months in prison on each fraud count, to be served concurrently. Garcia was also fined $56,500, the exact amount of money he took as a bonus from the district for its success on test scores.
Court documents indicate at least six other people helped Garcia organize the testing scheme. An FBI investigation continues.
Garcia, who was hired in 2006, implemented a plan with several other administrators that allowed for the pre-testing of 10th-graders to identify those who were likely to fail the standardized tests. He had one employee photograph students crossing the border so they could be forced out on the grounds that they were living in Mexico rather than within the school district.
The whole idea, said former state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, was to make those students "disappear" so they would not be counted among the students who were tested.
Jesus Salas, a junior at Irvin High School, told CBS affiliate KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas that he thought it was horrible that kids were trying to do their best in school, and they were forcing them to stay away so they wouldn't ruin the district's scores.
"It is kind of messed up the way that EPISD is missing money and the school needs money, and that guy is just taking everything. That's not right," said Salas.
In the short term, the strategy worked. Test scores improved in most high schools and the district's overall rating improved from "academically acceptable" in 2005 to "recognized" in 2010, the second-highest rating possible.
The Texas Education Agency cleared Garcia in 2010 of allegations made by Shapleigh. But in late 2011, the El Paso Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request for correspondence between the federal Education Department and the school district. When the attorney general ruled that the records must be released, the district acknowledged the scandal.
State officials placed the district on probation, named a monitor to oversee it and said the schools showed "utter disregard" for the students' needs.
Garcia resigned Nov. 8, 2011, and his final day as superintendent of the El Paso Independent School District was on Nov. 30, 2011, KDBC-TV reported. In his resignation letter, he wrote that his leaving his job was not an admission of guilt. Although he was not given severance pay, he was entitled to up to 150 days of already earned leave, which added up to $177,414. He also received a $12,500 retention bonus.
"At this point all we can do is move forward and make sure we take all the steps we can take to prevent a similar situation in the future," school board president Isela Castañon-Williams said to reporters at the time.
Other large districts have been ensnared in scandals to raise test scores, most recently in Atlanta, where educators gave answers to students or changed answers after tests were completed. But none has been so brazen as to cast off low-scoring students.


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FAQ: Catan Card Game (out of print)
Artisans & Benefactors
Traveling Theater - Is a resource trade deemed a trade with the bank in the sense of the Merchants' Residences and the Master Merchant's Guildhall?
Note: The Merchants' Residences and the Master Merchant's Guildhall belong to the theme set "Barbarian & Traders", which is part of the Catan Card Game – Expansion Set.
Village School - If I own the Windmill Token, do I get a star and a resource from my opponent, or just one of the two?
You get a resource from your game partner and a star.
Special Cards
Benjamin the Loyal Vassall - Does Benjamin affect regions I received after the dice roll?
Irmgard the Keeper of the Light - Can my opponent take Irmgard away from me?
No. The only risk is that he might be the first one to place Irmgard.
Irmgard the Keeper of the Light - Do I receive the resource from the bank?
What are Special Cards?
Special cards are cards which, on occasions such as the annual game fair in Essen/Germany, have been published in honor of Klaus Teuber's family or people who contributed to the success of the Catan games. Only 500 copies of each card have been printed, all of them signed by Klaus Teuber. Some of the motifs on these cards were painted by Klaus Teuber himself and others by Franz Vohwinkel - except for the last one, which was painted Franz Vohwinkel's colleague Klaus Scherwinski. These cards do not belong to the regular card pool, and both players or, if applicable, the organizers of a tournament must agree to include these cards in the game. The cards have been published in German only. Some of them can be downloaded from the Catan GmbH website.
The following cards have been published in the context of the old Card Game:
Johanna, die Kriegerin (Johanna the Warrior-Maiden), published in 2002. The card could only be downloaded by players who finished the Prof. Easy Tutorial for the Card Game, and it is the only card that comes in two versions.
The text on version 1 for the base game and the expanded base game read as follows:
Each knight of your opponent is worth 1 strength point less. Requires: Church.
Version 2 - which was also printed for the expanded base game with Science & Progress and the Tournament Game - displayed a different text:
Each of your opponent's Cannon is only worth 2 strength points. Johanna is immune against Lady Imelda and Bribery. Requires: Church, and no Citadel.
In 2003 the card was added to the new Barbarians & Traders Theme Set (English version published in 2006), and its effect was extended to the Dragons of the Wizards & Dragons Theme Set.
Guido, der große Diplomat (Guido the Great Diplomat), published in 2003:
If your opponent has more victory points than you and you play this card at the beginning of your turn (before rolling the dice), retrieve the topmost attack action card in the opponent's discard pile. May not be targeted by the Spy.
In 2006, the card was slightly changed and added to the new Artisans & Benefactors Theme Set (English version published in 2009), and in 2010 - again slightly changed - the card was included as Guido the Ambassador in The Rivals for Catan.
Benjamin, der treue Vasall (Benjamin the Loyal Vassal), published in 2004:
You once more receive the resource of each region whose number you rolled at the beginning of your turn.
In 2010 the card was included as Benjamin the Traveling Scholar in The Rivals for Catan.
Irmgard, Bewahrerin des Lichts (Irmgard, Keeper of the Light), published in 2005:
If your opponent plays a Merchant or successfully plays the Brigands card, you receive any 1 resource of your choice.
In 2010, after changing its function the card was included in The Rivals for Catan.
Emi'Ly, Bewahrerin der Harmonie (Emi'Ly, Keeper of Harmony), published in 2006:
You may repeat each of your production die rolls exactly one time. If you roll an odd number, you draw Emi'Ly into your hand or pay 1 gold.
Arnd, der findige Knappe (Arnd, the resourceful Squire), published in 2007:
Place a knight on this card. Both cards now count as one knight unit and are protected against Lady Imelda, Civil War, and Bribery. If the knight is removed, Arnd is placed on the discard pile.
Gustav und Reiner, Helfer der Ratlosen (Gustav and Reiner, Helper of the Helpless), published in 2008:
If you have at least 3 victory points less than your opponent, you may immediately start another turn.
Franz vohm Winkel, published in 2009:
Pay the building costs and place this card on a Church. Both cards together are worth 2 victory points. If the Church is removed, Franz is also lost.


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AUSTIN, TEXAS, March 31, 2014 --The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on March 27 unanimously approved an application by Electric Transmission Texas, LLC (ETT) and Sharyland Utilities, L.P. (Sharyland) to build a 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line from a substation northwest of the city of Edinburg to a substation located east of the city of Brownsville. The cost of the project is estimated to total $309 million and is expected to be completed during the summer of 2016.
The PUCT commissioners approved construction of the new approximately 96-mile line that would extend from the existing AEP Texas Central Company North Edinburg Substation to the existing Brownsville Public Utilities Board Loma Alta Substation located near the Brownsville Ship Channel. The western half of the line will be constructed, owned and operated by ETT, while the eastern half will be constructed and operated by Sharyland Utilities, L.P. The midpoint is approximately one mile east of the Hidalgo/Cameron county line.
The approved route runs generally east from the North Edinburg Substation and, after approximately 7.5 miles, turns south continuing past the city of Donna. Approximately 2 miles north of U.S. Highway 281, the route turns east, roughly paralleling the north side of U.S. Highway 281 until the city of Rangerville, where it turns north-northeast toward the city of San Benito. It then continues east around the northern and eastern sides of Brownsville, ultimately terminating at the Loma Alta Substation.
"When we first filed our joint application in July 2013, we emphasized that this transmission line is needed to ensure continued reliable electric service for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, which is forecast to have continued electrical demand growth," said ETT President Calvin Crowder. "The need has grown since that time, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has determined this project is critical for the reliability of the ERCOT system and, specifically, the Brownsville area."
"This project will not only improve both the reliability and stability of the grid in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, it also will provide a real engine for economic growth in communities throughout the region," said Sharyland President Mark Caskey. "A reliable, large-scale source of electric power is absolutely critical in attracting new investment and economic development, especially for communities like Brownsville."
ERCOT endorsed the project in January 2012. Since that time, ETT and Sharyland have worked with an experienced routing consultant to perform an environmental assessment and routing analysis for the proposed transmission line. In addition, public input was gathered at jointly hosted public open houses in October 2012 and February 2013.
The application was filed in July 2013 under PUCT Docket No. 41606 – Joint Application of Electric Transmission Texas, LLC and Sharyland Utilities, L.P. to Amend Their Certificates of Convenience and Necessity for the Proposed North Edinburg to Loma Alta Double-Circuit 345 kV Transmission Line in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties, Texas.
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1966 – Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta. He has spent the better part of the last decade attempting to make the ultimate street art documentary. Meanwhile, inspired by his subjects, he started hitting the streets, from Los Angeles to Paris, with spray painted stencils and posters of his pop art inspired images.
He rapidly emerged as a renowned figure on the international street art scene. In June 2008, Mr. Brainwash made his art show debut with one of Los Angeles's most memorable solo exhibitions; Life is Beautiful, held at the historic CBS Studios on Sunset Boulevard. In addition to his widely recognized images, Life is Beautiful featured larger than life installations which included a 20-foot robot made of old televisions, a life-size recreation of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and a pyramid made from 20,000 books. Originally scheduled to open for only two weeks, the exhibit was extended for three months, attracting more than 30,000 visitors.
Mr. Brainwash's work continued to garner recognition from art collectors and street-art enthusiasts alike. By 2009, Madonna approached him to design the cover of her greatest hits compilation entitled, Celebration. In addition to the CD album, Mr. Brainwash created 15 different covers for the accompanying vinyls, singles and DVD releases.
On February 14th 2010, Mr. Brainwash made his New York solo debut as he unveiled Icons, a 15,000 square-foot exhibition in the heart of Manhattan's Meatpacking District. The show featured paintings and silk screens of world icons, portraits of music legends constructed of broken records and large-scale sculptural installations such as a giant boom box and a NYC cab in a life-sized Matchbox packaging. The sold-out show was extended until early May 2010. Not only were major collectors acquiring Mr Brainwash's works but also prestigious auction houses including Christie's and Phillips.
Due to its overwhelming success, the show was extended until the end of September 2010 under the name ICONS REMIX. It featured the addition of 20 large-scale paintings using mixed media and sculptures made out of recycled tires, notably a life sized horse.
Considered as one of the most prolific and talked about artists of today, Mr. Brainwash is also the subject of Banksy's documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop", which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010. Using Guetta's street art footage, Banksy eventually turned the camera on the only man who ever filmed him. The collaboration resulted in a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype.
Mr. Brainwash ended 2010 with a bang by taking Miami Art Basel, the most important art fair in the US, by storm. Within 10 days, without any announcement or promotion, he turned a 25,000-square foot empty retail space in the heart of South Beach into another art spectacle entitled "Under Construction". Surrounded by cut-out Storm Troopers, and featuring a monster made out of traffic cones, the art show created an energy and excitement at the art festival and soon became the obligatory stop for collectors and art lovers during Art Basel. The show mixed the ever-evolving urban environment with Mr. Brainwash's trademark positive message and playful spirit. Show highlights include a giant 40 ft x 12 ft mixed media mural on canvas and the AmeriCAN flag made out of 1400 empty spray cans. After 4 days and thousands of visitors, Mr. Brainwash packed up Under Construction and left Miami almost as quickly as he arrived, in what some might call a successful art hit-and-run.


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Hello I am need of some assistance. I have an assignment I am working on that is supposed to do the following. • The company has recently changed its total annual compensation policy to improve sales.
• A salesperson will continue to earn a fixed salary of $50,000. The current sales target for every salesperson is $80,000.
• The sales incentive will only start when 80% of the sales target is met. The current commission is 12% of total sales.
• If a salesperson exceeds the sales target, the commission will increase based on an acceleration factor. The acceleration factor is 1.3.
• The application should ask the user to enter annual sales, and it should display the total annual compensation.
• The application should also display a table of potential total annual compensation that the salesperson could have earned, in $5000 increments above the salesperson's annual sales, until it reaches 50% above the salesperson's annual sales.
Here is my code thus far.
the problem is when I run the program my input methods work as they should but the results are not correct.Here is the results I get after I runpublic static void main(String[] args) { String input; //Input of user double salary; //This is the annual sales value double commissionrate; //This is the commission rate double commission; //This is the amount of commision made double pay; //Salesperson's pay double sales; //annual sales double incentive = 0; //sales incentive DecimalFormat dollar = new DecimalFormat(""); DecimalFormat percent = new DecimalFormat(""); input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the annual salary."); salary = Double.parseDouble(input); input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter current commission rate."); commissionrate = Double.parseDouble (input); input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the current sales target."); sales = Double.parseDouble (input); commission = commissionrate * salary; pay = commission + salary; JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Commission rate is " + commissionrate + ". The amount of pay is " + dollar.format(pay)); if (sales>= (.80* sales) && sales<= 150000) incentive = (.80* sales); else if (sales >150000) incentive = (1.3 * .75 * sales); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Total Sales" + "Total Compensation" + dollar.format(sales) + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) ) ); System.exit(0); } }
commission rate 12,the amount of pay is 650,000
The total annual compensation is 120,000,120,00096000
The amount of pay in incorrect as well as the Total annual compensation. Not for sure why the calculations is happening the way it is. Help me understand and what I need to change to make it function properly.


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Marking the 40th anniversary of John Denver's best-selling album Rocky Mountain High, Dave Matthews-led ATO Records has announced a tribute album. The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver is set for a Feb. 2013 release and features acts like Sharon Van Etten, My Morning Jacket, and Matthews himself covering the late singer-songwriter's most popular songs. Part of the album's profits will help fund some of the environmental initiatives that Denver championed during his life. A tracklist is below.
The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver tracklist (more to be announced)
1. "Take Me to Tomorrow"—Dave Matthews
2. "Leaving, on a Jet Plane"—My Morning Jacket
3. "Sunshine On My Shoulders"—Train
4. "Wooden Indian"—Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
5. "Some Days are Diamonds"—Amos Lee
6. "TBA" — Lucinda Williams
7. "Take Me Home, Country Roads"—Brandi Carlile
8. "Back Home Again"—Old Crow Medicine Show
9. "Darcy Farrow"—Josh Ritter and Barnstar
10. "All of My Memories" – Kathleen Edwards
11. "Prisoners"—J Mascis and Sharon Van Etten
12. "Annie's Song" —Brett Dennen and Millow
13. "Eagle and the Hawk" — Blind Pilot
14. "I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado" —Mary Chapin Carpenter


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Halloween Activities
Halloween Toddler Activities
Halloween Activities
Halloween is great for building up your child`s imagination and making them realize that this world can scare them but they shouldn`t bother much about it. You can plan ahead for the theme of Halloween and buy things accordingly. With the help of your kids, you will definitely make a house that is beautiful and spooky. Your kids will need to learn that Halloween is more than just candies and this can be done by introducing Halloween activities to them. They can see parents carving pumpkins and making food for them, and they can also help along with many activities.
How Will Halloween Activities Help Kids?
- Kids need to be active in their life as they have to have a brain that can take all new things in. So, an activity sheet that lets them draw or make stickers are really helpful.
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