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This morning our nanny called to say that her son is sick and she has to stay home with him. I felt bad about being stressed out by this – I should be elated at the chance to spend more time with my daughter – but I was. It's Monday, I have meetings and calls scheduled, and I was hoping to be super-productive at work this week so that I could leave early on Friday to spend time with my daughter. Change of plans.
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This happens to working moms all the time – the nanny is out, your kid is sick, daycare is closed for a snow day. You have to find a way to take care of your child and not lose your mind at the same time. Here are some tips I came up with to help me when this happens to us; I hope they can be useful to you as well.
Check you work calendar right away
As soon as I got off the phone with the nanny, I opened my Outlook and went over my work schedule. Sure I thought I remembered what was going on, but especially after the weekend, it was good to check. In fact, there was a meeting scheduled that I forgot about.
Talk to your husband about splitting the day
I know I am lucky to have a husband who not only sees it as his responsibility to stay home when someone needs to be here with our daughter but that he also has a job that allows him to do this. We quickly talked about our schedules and decided that I'd go into work in the morning and he would go in the afternoon.
Send an email to your boss or colleague to let them know you are out
This seems obvious but there have been plenty of times when I forgot to do it.
Create some work time during the day
Even if I split the day with my husband I need to get some work done when I am at home. I try to find two half-hour chunks of time when my daughter can either watch TV (no, it is not evil!) or play on her own by my side while I type emails or do a quick call. (Yes, this means some baby talk can interrupt a conference call but I try to not worry about that too much.)
Do something fun together
However stressful and hectic, getting a chance to spend extra time with my daughter is great and I try to do something fun with her (as long as she is not the one who is sick and miserable). Go out for pizza, spend some time at the library, make a mess cooking something in the kitchen. You have the time together – enjoy it!
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Great article! My hubby and I often do the day-splitting thing, too. It was easy to decide who goes when last year, because I taught all of my classes in the a.m. and could be home by 12:15. Then he would work late to make up for lost time, sometimes until 7 or 8. I would usually go in really early - like at 6 a.m. - to be sure I could get things together for a sub if I had to stay home for another day, or grade papers, or whatever.
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- Does PDT include a debugger? Where can i find one?
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Questions about the use of PDT in user projects that are not addressed in this FAQ should be posted to the PDT newsgroup. Questions and comments regarding the implementation of PDT itself should be posted to the PDT mailing list.
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PDT like all Eclipse projects, uses Bugzilla as its bug and feature tracking system. Entering a bug or a feature report is as simple as filling in a web form on the eclipse bugzilla page. The first time you enter a bug you will need to create a new bugzilla account for yourself by providing an email address and choosing a password. Before submitting a bug, please be sure to check the list of open PDT bugs and recentely closed PDT bugs.
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The simplest is to grab the All-In-One bundle from the project's download site, if one is provided for your platform, eg., PDT 1.0. Note too that if you're on 64-bit you need a 64-bit bundle (which may not exist).
But if:
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- use the Update Manager to install the prereqs and the project you want, too.
Note that if you're installing from multiple update sites, you have to expand each one before you hit 'Select Required' for the wizard to be able to scan those sites and resolve all your dependencies. See bug 203473.
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Keep calm and carry on. In the world of crisis PR, that British wartime slogan is the standard mantra, but Steve Cohen, founder of beleaguered hedge fund SAC Capital, seems to be taking it to heart. The hedge fund, center of a long-running investigation into insider-trading, was in the headlines again last week when one of Cohen's key lieutenants was arrested. The news capped a week of astonishing headlines.
As arrests mount and a $600 million penalty to settle some civil claims is in the works, founder Cohen's PR response has been to carry on as normal. But what is normal for one of the world's largest and most successful hedge funds? A spending spree to change the mood.
Three items made the news: the purchases of a Picasso painting for a cool $155 million, and of oceanfront property in East Hampton for $60 Million. Then throw in the sale of a Manhattan condo for $115 million and it's clear that at SAC, the recent headlines are not putting the firm into crisis. They're distracting, yes, but apparently, the show must go on.
THE PR VERDICT: "C" (Distinctly OK) for SAC capital and its business-as-usual PR tactic.
THE PR TAKEAWAY: Chutzpah has its merits – until it strays into willful arrogance. There is some wisdom in brazenly continuing with a business-as-usual approach while others might describe the sky as falling. Keeping calm and carrying on reassures investors, clients, and above all employees that this too will pass. In this case, however, SAC's actions seem akin to thumbing their proverbial nose at authority. In a fight over potentially criminal allegations, SAC has less leverage than it thinks. This might be the moment to lay a little lower and not inflame prosecutors wanting their day in the sun.


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My father remembered stories about his mother being a swimmer and participating in events at Grand Lake near Celina, Ohio, but didn't have any details. I was lucky enough to find the picture above that includes my grandmother and her twin sister in their Celina swimsuits! The picture shows The Celina Boosters for the Grand Reservoir near Celina, Ohio on June 26, 1928. My grandmother Anna Lee Pulskamp Creeden is on the far right in this photo and her twin sister Emma Lee is #5. I found this picture in the Celina, Ohio Sesquicentennial book by Joyce Alig of the Mercer County Historical Society and Joyce kindly gave me permission to post it.
This excerpt is from an article in the Lima News, published on July 15, 1928, shortly after the picture was taken. The one-day tour on which the Celina Boosters Friday visited 12 Ohio and Indiana cities, proved an efficient method for spreading publicity and accumulating good will for Celina and especially Grand Lake and the parks... The initial stop was at Rockford. The delegation then proceeded to Ohio City, Van Wert, and Decatur, Ind. The Celina band gave concerts at each city. At Decatur, the party was served ice cream at the Cloverleaf creamery. Sounds like quite a party!
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The kids turned 4 on April 3rd and it's hard to believe that 4 years have passed by since the first moment I got to hold them in my arms. I struggled with ideas of what to do for their birthday. I wanted it to be special, but wasn't having too many ideas. They wanted to have their friends from school over. Hunter wanted a Batman cake and the girls wanted a Princess cake and they wanted their friends to sing the happy birthday song to them. Well,unfortunately, their birthdays fell the day before Easter, during Spring Break when many of the families are out of town. Additionally, our home is 40 miles from the school AND 7/11 kids in the class have April birthdays. So, having friends over was vetoed by mom. The teacher accomodated a special day for them March 30th, before spring break. I brought a cake and the kids did get to have "happy birthday" sung to them by their friends :)
We focused on making them have 2 very nicely decorated rooms. I say WE, but my husband did all the work - I just shopped and selected things while he painted 2 rooms! The girls have an updated flower room with some neutral paint. We plan to add some things later, but funds were already tapped out. We gave Hunter a baseball room. They really love their new rooms.
I still struggled with ideas of how to spend THEIR DAY. I ended up taking them and the 2 older kids to the horse stables for riding. While we were there, they got to hold bunnies, baby chicks, and baby goats. They absolutely fell in love and didn't want to leave.
The day pursued on with the CAKES - yes batman AND princess cake. We still have cake left over!!!
We also played in the backyard and they swam in their kiddie pool. Of course, the best part was the special people that got to be a part of their day - their older brother and sister, mom and dad, and GRANDMA!! Just when I was questioning, did I do enough???, Hunter came up and gave me a hug and said "Thank you mommy. It's the best birthday EBER (ever)!" So sweet and made me feel fulfilled. I worried for nothing.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
— Using newly available biological technology, researchers have
developed the first molecular portrait of multiple gene activity in
diseased heart tissue taken from dogs near death from a devastating
disease. The discovery sheds new light on the heart's response
to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disease of large-breed dogs.
New microscopic technology allows researchers to place tens of thousands of genes on 1.5-inch-square slides known as a microarray. In this case, researchers used the GeneChip Canine Genome Array, a newly available commercial microarray specifically designed for dogs and containing more than 23,000 genes. With it, they performed global genome-expression profiling to focus on the transcription (the level of genetic coding into messenger RNA) of the genes taken from five healthy dogs and two Dobermans with DCM.
In the affected dogs, 478 transcripts were significantly different from those in the tissue of the control animals. Of these transcripts, 173 were increased (up regulated) while 305 were lowered (down regulated). From this pool, the researchers identified 167 genes that may play a role in the development and progression of DCM.
The findings of the work, which was done at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and the State University of New York at Albany, are reported in the July issue of the American Journal of Veterinary Research.
"Finding altered activity of a gene doesn't necessarily mean that it is a cause of the disease," said Mark A. Oyama, a veterinary cardiologist in the department of veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "What a gene microarray tells us is more about the overall patterns of disease and how the heart responds to it. Genes that are up or down regulated may be the root cause, but we don't know that."
"What this experiment really does," Oyama said, "is narrow down the population of 23,000-plus genes to those that we should study in more detail."
Oyama and co-author Sridar Chittur of the Center for Functional Genomics at the State University of New York at Albany separated the 167 identified genes into eight categories to help them interpret the heart's response to DCM.
They noted that pathways involved in cellular energy production, cell structure and signaling/communication generally were down regulated, while those tied to cellular defense and stress responses were up regulated. Among the 167 genes they identified were several that may play a significant role in DCM.
The miniaturization of technology, Oyama said, has made it possible to look at thousands of genes at once, rather than the tedious, time-consuming gene-by-gene analysis required until recently. The new microarray technology, much of it developed for human medicine, he added, is allowing veterinary researchers to begin looking more closely at animal diseases, especially in increasingly popular breeds.
"It has been estimated that more than 40 percent of all Doberman pinschers are going to get DCM as they age," Oyama said. "It is progressive and invariably fatal."
DCM typically occurs as dogs reach middle age, causing the heart to enlarge and lose its strength. Dobermans, Great Danes and boxers are predisposed to the disease, but it also commonly strikes the Scottish deerhound, Newfoundland, Irish wolfhound and golden and Labrador retrievers.
"We don't know the root cause. In people, several different genetic abnormalities have been identified. We suspect a similar cause in dogs," Oyama said. "But we don't really know what's going on in the heart muscle. We also don't have a very good idea about the changes occurring in heart muscle cells once the disease starts. The body responds by activating a whole cascade of events that cause the progression of the disease. By better understanding which genes are turned on and which genes are turned off, we can begin to think about manipulating the sequence of events to stop or reverse the disease."
The researchers are now sampling a larger population of dogs so that a more sophisticated analysis can be done. "We want to understand the morphology of DCM and the pathways of genes that are crucial in the development and progression of the disease," Oyama said. "We are looking at everything that's going on all at the same time in all of the genes. Our approach kind of uses a wide-angle lens rather than a microscope. If we can better understand what the heart is doing, we may be able to arrest the disease."
The Chicago Veterinary Medical Association and the Max and Ginger Levine Research Fund supported the research.


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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to establish a searchable database of military valor awards and medals, hoping for a technological fix to the problem of people getting away with lying about earning military honors.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said details have yet to be worked out, but the intention is to have a digital repository of records on a range of valor awards and medals going back as far in history as possible.
The move is in response to a June 28 Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a law making it a crime to lie about receiving the Medal of Honor and other military decorations. An authoritative database would make it easier to check on award claims, and perhaps would deter some who would make false public claims.
The high court ruled that the 2006 Stolen Valor Act infringes upon speech protected by the First Amendment.
Veterans organizations and some in Congress have long argued that the Pentagon needs such a database. As recently as 2009 the Pentagon argued that it would be too costly and could pose Privacy Act problems. It also argued that any government database would be incomplete because a 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis destroyed millions of personnel records, including those citing medals and awards, and that even a complete database would do little to reduce the number of false award claims.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., which had expressed sharp disappointment in the Supreme Court ruling, believes that publicizing the false claims of military valor can be an effective deterrent to others.
VFW spokesman Joe Davis said Tuesday that his group welcomes the Pentagon's new approach.
"The cost is minimal compared to the verifiable proof it provides to honorable service members, veterans and all their families," Davis said.
Little said no final decisions have been made about the type of government database that would be created. He said the goal would to have it include information not only about recipients of the Medal of Honor, which is the nation's highest military award, but also those who hold other decorations for valor, such as the Silver Star and Bronze Star.
"There are some complexities involved in looking back into history," Little said. "We would obviously hope to be able to go as far back as possible, but we also want there to be integrity in the data. So these are factors that are being weighed, and we're in the process of exploring those options. So the door is open."
Members of Congress, meanwhile, are taking their own steps to address the problem of fraudulent claims.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., who served in Vietnam as a Marine officer, announced Tuesday that he will introduce legislation which could bring criminal penalties to any individual making a false claim to have served in the military or to have been awarded a military medal or decoration in order to "secure a tangible benefit or a personal gain."
"Profiting from the misrepresentation of military service or the award of a decoration or medal for personal gain undermines the value of service and is offensive to all who have stepped forward to serve our country in uniform," Webb said.


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The petite "Scream" star and her towering boxer boyfriend have ended their tabloid-fodder relationship.
The visually peculiar pair - she's a 21 year-old sunny, 5' 2" blonde starlet and he's a 35 year-old hulking 6' 5" Ukranian heavyweight champion - turned heads and fed endless rumors during their brief time together (they began dating two years ago). Panettiere even admitted on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" that the most frequent fan question she gets is how, exactly, the couple manage their physical differences in the bedroom.
"Even though we've decided splitting up is best for both of us, we have an amazing amount of love and respect for each other and remain very close friends,"Panettiere tells People, regarding the split.
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Klitschko, who was last seen with Panettiere at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the documentary about himself and his brother, Vitali called "Klitschko," admitted that it wasn't so much the physical differences that separated them, but the physical distance.
"We had a great time together, but it's not that easy to manage a relationship between two continents," he says. "I have a lot of respect for Hayden as a person and as a friend, and I believe we'll keep our friendship even after the separation."
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Arab artists will be highlighted in the Texas FotoFest 2014 Biennial, where they will exhibit photography, video and multi-media installations that tackle various aesthetic and societal values influencing contemporary Arab culture. The 15th International Biennale of Photography and Photo-related Art, which will take place in the spring of 2014 in Houston, Texas, will showcase work by more than 40 contemporary Arab artists, drawing on the emergence of photography and video as expressive media in modern-day Arab societies.
"The FotoFest 2014 Biennial will present a focused selection of the best contemporary photography, video and photo-based installation art being done by Arab artists in the Middle East and North Africa," says FotoFest Senior Curator and Artistic Director Wendy Watriss. "The Biennial will emphasise ideas and subjects important to contemporary Arab artists working with these media."
Karin Adrian von Roques, an expert who has spent 20 years working in the Middle East surrounded by contemporary Arab art, will be the commissioned curator for FotoFest 2014. "The FotoFest 2014 Biennial will be the first presentation of contemporary photo-based and video art from the Arab countries to be done in the United States in recent years," she says. "We are looking at the work of the most important artists from several Arab countries."
FotoFest 2014, scheduled to run from 15 March to 27 April, 2014, will showcase works with a number of recurring underlying themes, including the emergence of secular art and culture in modern societies, the desert as metaphor, religion and faith in everyday life, a sense of belonging and feelings of estrangement, the complexities of East-West relations, the rapidity of social, economic and environmental change, particularly in the Gulf, the position of women in Arab societies and the recent political changes.


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Julianne Moore (pictured left, with Steven Webber) told WENN about her cameo return to As the World Turns: "There is no time continuum in soaps, so I just came back as one of the sisters. The other one was stuck somewhere else!
"As The World Turns was my first big job and everyone was wonderful and incredibly professional and very supportive and loving. It was a great job for me, so when they said the show was ending it was incredibly sad because you don't want to see anything end like that.
"I was happy to go back and glad to be there near the end of it. I was glad to see the people who played my parents and the woman who played my sister and to see a couple of the crew members who were still there. It was cool to be able to have that opportunity and to thank people."
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Julianne Moore on Her Return to ATWT
Julianne Moore (pictured left, with Steven Webber) told WENN about her cameo return to As the World Turns: "There is no time continuum in soaps, so I just came back as one of the sisters. The other one was stuck somewhere else!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Days: Such a Tease!
* Will confides to Kate that Mia was two-timing him.
* Daniel tells Bo (Peter Reckell, pictured) about Vivian's threats.
* Stephanie warns Philip to keep an eye on his wife.
* Brady insists that he still wants to marry Arianna.
* Adrienne realizes that Justin is in love with Hope.
Thursday – Vivian has it out with Bo and Carly.
Friday – Nicole tries to derail Brady.
Interview (Days) Shelby Young Is Anything But a Mean Girl
Shelby Young is part of the new "youth revolution" on the set of "Days of Our Lives." What with Will growing up and the introduction of Mia, Chad and a host of other teens into current story lines, you could say that "Days" is experiencing a teenage renaissance.
Shelby, who is a native of Boca Raton, Fla., was thrilled when she got the part of manipulative and scheming queen bee Kinsey. Shelby tells me: "I am not gonna lie to you; I jumped up and down when I found out. I was so excited, not only to be working on such a great show, but to be working with Taylor Spreitler (Mia), who I've been friends with forever."
Fans of the show know that Kinsey is one sassy gal, and she is a hoot for Shelby to play. "I love the lines they give me. They are so mean, but they are so funny. Sometimes I feel like Kinsey doesn't exactly know that what she's saying is so mean; it's just that she doesn't have a filter. It's a little therapeutic in a way, because I get to say things that I'd never say in real life."
So, does Shelby think Kinsey is relatively harmless, or will this bee sting if you get in her way? "If you cross her, she could be pretty vindictive — with Mia, she started these rumors trying to ruin her life just because she didn't like her from years ago at the other school.
"The best part about acting is embodying the characters and getting to be someone else. So it's always such a good time to be this mean girl and get inside her head. But I would like to expand from just being 'the mean girl' to more scheming, perhaps. She's pretty tough — I want them to give me a catfight; that would be so awesome."
How do the reigning teens get along — is it all fun and games on the set? "It's so much fun. We're all really good friends, so we see each other outside of work, and we're always goofing around on set. Of course, we take our work seriously, and when it's time to work, we buckle down and get it done. But when we have some off time, like during hair and makeup, we're just joking back and forth and having a lot of fun."
Shelby got her start in showbiz at the ripe old age of 5. "Basically, I was watching TV and I said, 'Mom, I can do that!' Luckily I have a very supportive mother who took a lot of her time to help support my dream."
Commercials in Florida led to musical theater in New York, where she met Taylor and became roomies, and this lead to independent films. "I realized I wanted to do something more episodic, as well as film and soaps, and the place to be is California if you want to do all of those things."
Her first major casting coup was when she landed the role of Ruby in "Wild Child," which happened to be Natasha Richardson's final film. Of Natasha, Shelby gushes: "She was such a lovely woman. She was so beautiful and warm and talented. It is so sad that she had to pass at such a young age."
Next up for Shelby, film-wise, is "The Social Network," which also stars Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg, and is directed by David Fincher ("Fight Club," "Seven," "Panic Room" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"). She couldn't tell me much about the movie or her role in it, as everything about the filming is so hush-hush. But the movie is about the founders of the social-networking site Facebook. "I am such a huge fan of 'Fight Club,' so the chance to work with David Fincher, I just couldn't pass that up."
Monday, March 15, 2010
VIDEO: Daniel Cosgrove on His New ATWT Role
Daniel Cosgrove discusses joining the cast of As the World Turns:
ATWT: Such a Tease!
(As the World Turns will be pre-empted on Thursday, March 18 and Friday, March 19 due to CBS Sports coverage of NCAA Basketball.)
Y&R: Such a Tease!
* Ashley makes a shocking plan involving Faith.
* Will Lauren (Tracy Bregman, pictured) be able to convince Kevin not to go to Michael about her scandalous photos?
* Will Lily tell Cane the truth about her test results?
* Kay has a heartwarming confession for Jill.
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Sayville's Matt Leshinger wins 132-pound final
For the second year in a row, senior Matt Leshinger of Sayville reeled off four straight victories in the Division I state wrestling tournament. Last year, Leshinger lost in the quarterfinals but was able to wrestle back in the consolation bracket to finish third.
This year, as the top seed at 132 pounds, Leshinger never stumbled and finished his senior campaign with a dramatic 3-1 victory in the finals over Brandon Lapi of Amsterdam.
Leshinger scored his final two points late in the match and held on to give Sayville just its second ever state champion and the first since Peter Yozzo in 1983.
"I knew I was going to win it then," he said about that last takedown. "I knew what to do to finish the match."
Leshinger also overcame elbow surgery in the offseason and had a year to think about how close he was to a state title.
"It was a great tournament he had last year," coach Gary Pesko said. "He had a mismatch of styles in the quarterfinals and he knew he was better than that and finished how he should with only one loss.
"Coming back this year in his mind -- and we didn't really talk about it -- but I knew in his mind, winning a state title was what he was shooting for," Pesko said.
Mepham's Louis Hernandez wasn't as successful as Leshinger last season but the two-time defending Nassau champ at 145 pounds came to Albany with the same goal in mind.
"I trained so hard during the offseason and every day, I thought to myself 'state champ, state champ!' " he said. "Every day, I looked in the mirror and said 'state champ.' I go to sleep and I dream 'state champ' and I wake up and I think 'state champ.' "
A late takedown helped Hernandez secure a 4-2 victory over Eric Lewandowski of Lancaster. "I knew when I was there and I got in on the shot, I had to finish and I knew I had to achieve my goal," he said. "I finished it and I got it."
In Division II, Locust Valley's Nick Casella (113) and Port Jefferson's Matteo DeVincenzo (99) lost in their finals.


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To date, my work has focused on how to advance Marxist critiques of political economy after the critique of "essentialism". Refusing to accept contemporary interpretations of Marx's own discourse as "determinist", I have focused on the antinomies of the logic of capital in the work of Marx to pursue a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to say, "The commodification of labor power?" I've answered this question by elaborating upon Marx's concept of "surplus populations" and exchange, which has led me to examine the relationship between contingency and repetition in the process of commodification. But more historically, my research never ignores the many ways in which imperialism and colonialism pervert the antinomies of the logic of capital through discourses (among others) of national culture, race and multi-ethnic pluralism. My book, The Proletarian Gamble: Korean workers in interwar Japan (Duke UP 2009) fleshes out these questions and concepts while also mining the Japanese colonial and metropolitan archives of the 1920s and 1930s. My current research involves the first English translation of Uno Kozo's Theory of Crisis; studies of biopolitics, commodification, and the "commons"; and, finally, practices of poesis and becoming in music and art.
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- B.A.(Honours) and M.A. in History, University of Chicago;
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Michelle has worked across the value chain with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and tier one suppliers. She has led large-scale margin improvement efforts in the automotive sector and worked extensively in the aftermarket parts and service businesses.
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Bowtie Fans Rejoice! GM To Build New Camaro
Next generation of classic sport coupe goes into production in late 2008, on sale in 2009; will be almost identical to wildly popular concept unveiled at NAIAS
TRAVERSE CITY, MI - Dear sports car fans: General Motors heard you loud and clear!
GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced today that GM will build an all-new version of the Chevrolet Camaro sport coupe based on the award-winning concept that stole the spotlight at the North American International Auto Show and has ignited the passion of car enthusiasts around the world ever since - even spurring consumers to start petition drives and send in certified checks in hopes of placing early deposits.
"The overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to the Camaro Concept continues to remind me of the uniquely iconic place our products can have in customers' hearts," Wagoner said. "Camaro is much more than a car; it symbolizes America's spirit and its love affair with the automobile."
The all-new Camaro will begin with early production versions at the end of 2008 and will go on sale in the first quarter of 2009. "The new Camaro will be almost identical to the concept, a thoroughly modern interpretation of the 1969 model, considered by many to be the best design of the car's first generation," said Ed Welburn, GM's global vice president of design, who owns a 1969 Camaro SS. The front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sport coupe will feature an independent rear suspension, and will be offered in a variety of models with the choice of manual and automatic transmissions and V-6 and V-8 engines.
Chevrolet General Manager Ed Peper said the new Camaro will appeal to both men and women, and unite customers with fond memories of previous Camaros with those who first experienced a Camaro when the concept was unveiled in January.
"We intend to make the all-new Camaro relevant to younger buyers while retaining its appeal to current fans," said Peper. "The beauty of the best Camaros is that they have always been beautiful to look at with performance that rivals expensive European GTs. Yet they were practical enough to drive every day and priced within the reach of many new-car buyers."
In fact, the Camaro Concept design team embodies the universal appeal that Chevy envisions for the car: The core team reporting to the lead designer ranges in age from 27-35 and came from all over the world, yet they all had similar experiences growing up with a love for the Camaro and American performance cars. Their concept redefines the Camaro for both existing and new generations of fans in a contemporary way with responsive performance and modern technology.
Peper said Camaro will complement Chevy's already-popular portfolio of performance vehicles led by Corvette and including its broad SS lineup.
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The Camaro has touched many lives - and graced many garages - with nearly 4.8 million produced between 1967 and 2002. More than 1,000 Camaro clubs exist globally, and thousands of Camaro web sites pay homage to the sports coupe. A recent report on America Online's Top Searches of 2005 placed Camaro in the Top 10 car searches for the year.


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Property that appears as if the owner deliberately left it with no apparent intention to return and claim it. For example, a car left on the side of the road for several days may be considered abandoned property. In general, abandoned property becomes the property of its finder, though, in some cases, it may become the property of the state. See also: Abandonment, Mislaid Property, Lost Property.


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Stylish Star Allu Arjun is unstoppable and his latest outing Duvvada Jagannadham has been rocking all over despite of poor reviews and negative word of mouth. Directed by Harish Shankar, Duvvada Jagannadham carried massive expectations all over. Pooja Hegde played the female lead and Bunny has been presented as a Brahmin cook in Duvvada Jagannadham. The movie has been made on a massive budget and it is bankrolled by Dil Raju on his Sri Venkateswara Creations banner. Duvvada Jagannadham carried massive expectations and it released in over 1000 screens across the globe.
Duvvada Jagannadham received mixed response from the audience however the collections have been quite strong all over. Despite of the poor word of mouth, Duvvada Jagannadham made some decent figures in four days of its box-office run. Duvvada Jagannadham made Rs 42.51 crores in four days of its box-office run across AP and Telangana. Devi Sri Prasad composed the music and Ayananka Bose is the cinematographer. A grand success meet has been arranged which took place in Hyderabad last night. Here are the area-wise collections of the film:
Nizam: Rs 14.20 Cr
Ceeded: Rs 7 Cr
Vizag: Rs 5.30 Cr
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London, United Kingdom, 21 November 2012—A new report from the World Bank, IFC, and PwC finds that governments continue to reform their tax systems despite global economic uncertainty, with 31 economies having taken steps from June last year through May 2012 to make it easier and cost less for small and medium businesses to pay taxes.
Released today, the Paying Taxes 2013 study looks at tax regimes in 185 economies and finds that the most common tax reform is the introduction or improvement of online systems for tax compliance, which occurred in 16 economies.
"Electronic filing and payment reduces paperwork and complexity in tax systems and can help increase tax compliance and reduce the cost of tax administration," said Augusto Lopez Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, World Bank Group. "The report finds that over the last several years there has been a gradual reduction in the number of payments and in the number of hours spent by a medium-sized company to comply with its tax obligations. This reduction across all regions of the world in the burden of tax administration is a welcome development."
The report finds that on average a medium company pays a Total Tax Rate of 44.7 percent of profits, making 27.2 payments, and spending 267 hours to comply with its tax requirements. In the eight years since the study began, the time to comply has fallen by 54 hours, almost seven working days, and the number of payments has declined by more than six, while the Total Tax Rate has fallen nearly 1 percent for each year.
"We are seeing tension between the need for governments to raise tax revenue and at the same time provide a system that encourages economic activity and growth," said Andrew Packman, a tax partner at PwC UK. "Governments seeking to create a more business-friendly tax climate need to focus not only on rates, but also on minimising the time and effort needed to comply."
An economic analysis undertaken by PwC senior economic adviser Andrew Sentence and featured in the report shows that in economies where action was taken to reduce complexity in tax administration – both in terms of the number of payments and the time taken to deal with tax matters – there has tended to be higher economic growth.
Reforms continue around the world. However, the report finds that the number of economies reforming has fallen from 35 last year to 31 in the most recent study. The focus continues to be on reducing the administrative burden of the tax system. In 2011, the time to comply fell by an 8-hour day and the number of payments dropped by almost two, while the Total Tax Rate fell by only 0.3 percent.
Paying Taxes 2013 measures all mandatory taxes and contributions that a medium-sized firm must pay in a given year. Taxes and contributions measured include the profit or corporate income tax, social contributions and labour taxes paid by the employer, property taxes, property transfer taxes, dividend tax, capital gains tax, financial transactions tax, waste collection taxes, vehicle and road taxes, and other small taxes or fees.
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Tom Brady completed ten straight passes in the second half, four of them for touchdowns, as the Patriots basted the surprisingly fiesty Lions for a 45-24 Thanksgiving Day win.
But the Lions made it a heck of a game by controlling the first half.
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You knew something was a little off for these Patriots when they made it to the Lions' two yard line with five minutes left in the first quarter, then settled for a field goal try.
Intoxicated by the unexpected show of respect from the Patriots' coaching staff, the Lions drove 94 yards on the ensuing possession and scored on a Shaun Hill 19-yard touchdown pass. Calvin Johnson-owning fantasy football players across America rejoiced.
The shotgun formation was working for the Lions' offense, and the Patriots gave the 13 colonies Thankgiving indigestion when they gave up another six-minute touchdown drive later in the second quarter. This thing was 14-3 Lions six minutes before halftime.
But New England collected themselves, taking momentum back with their own 83-yard touchdown drive. BenJarvus Green-Ellis hit paydirt with a 15-yard touchdown run.
Devin McCourty picked off Shaun Hill on the Lions' second play from scrimmage in the second half. Four plays later, Brady hit Wes Welker on a five-yard touchdown pass to tie it again at 17 points apiece.
The relentless Lions would not go away. They responded by scoring on a gutsy fourth down touchdown on an end-around from the two-yard line.
See that Belichick? You go for it on fourth down inside the two.
The barn-burning would only continue when the Pats got the ball back. Deion Branch had perhaps the most impressive catch-and-run of the season on a 79-yard touchdown.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz mouthed a quick "What the f*** just happened" on national television, and the game was again tied 24-24. And yeah, that's touchdowns on four consecutive Lions and Patriots posessions right there.
The Lions would burp first. They missed a 46-yard field goal attempt on their next possession, while the Patiots continued their touchdown-on-every-posession streak in the second half, making it 31-24 on the merits of another 22-yard touchdown to Deion Branch.
Then another 16-yard touchdown catch for Wes Welker made it 38-24.
Devin McCourty completed the full rout with his second interception with six minutes left in the game giving us reason to be thankful that these turkeys didn't ruin your Thanksgiving by getting upset in Detroit.
Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who apologizes profusely and didn't realize you had meant to use that bottle of brandy for cooking.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and run an arms dealing operation out of your basement. Lotta money to be had in selling old Russian AKs to your local warlord. LET'S GO!
MILDRED PIERCE – 9:00PM Sunday (HBO) HBO may as well just show two hours of a dump truck being filled with Emmys. This miniseries comes to you in five parts, although two parts happen back-to-back tonight, which I think is cheating because it's really only one part. Todd Haynes ("Far From Heaven") directs Oscar winner Kate Winslet in this story of a mother whose daughter is, like, really really mean to her. I have a daughter, so all I know all about daughter-on-mother verbal abuse. "You're yucky!" is one particularly overused bon mot. Also starring are Guy Pearce (he's awesome) and Evan Rachel Wood (she frightens me). Expect lots of very pretty sadness. ANTICIPATION: PEDIGREED!
SHARK TANK – 8:00PM Tonight (ABC) ABC's business pitch reality show is back, this time with nutty billionaire Mark Cuban in the fold. Tonight's premiere showcases a lady who wants to start a toy renting business. Because why buy toys when you can rent them pre-boogerized and covered in pneumonia germs from a stranger? It's a foolproof business model. ANTICIPATION: CASH!
NATURE – 8:00PM Sunday (PBS) Learn about the Outback Pelicans, birds that fly over 1,000 miles into Australia's barren interior to feast on lake shrimp and fish. And watch them share child-raising duties with each other! Awwwwwww. Pelicans are the new penguins, people. You watch. ANTICIPATION: PELICANS!
600-POUND MOM – 9:00PM Sunday (Discovery Fit & Health) I wish I had had a 600-pound mom. Imagine what you could get away with. What's she gonna do if you set off a cherry bomb in your neighbor's toilet? Chase you? Fat chance! ANTICIPATION: SAD!
LISA LAMPANELLI – 10:00PM Sunday (Comedy Central) The bawdy comedienne takes on such original and totally fertile targets as Tiger Woods, "Jersey Shore," and Lindsay Lohan. It's the best jokes 2009 has to offer! ANTICIPATION: SWEARY!
Weekend Watch List: Winslet + Sadness = Emmy Gold!
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Theodosius (Ivashchenko) of Seattle
Archimandrite Theodosius (Ivashchenko) is bishop-Elect of Seattle, Vicar Bishop of the Diocese of Western America (ROCOR).
Archimandrite Theodosy (Ivashchenko) studied at the Kiev Institute of Technology before attending Kiev Seminary, becoming a monk, and being ordained Hieromonk. He served a parish 60 km. from Chernobyl, Ukraine for two years before being transferred to the Holy Land, where he served at monasteries on the Mount of Olives and in Hebron. After moving to the USA and living in a monastery in Minnesota for several years, he came to San Francisco and was assigned to serve at St.Tikhon's Russian Orthodox Church. Fr. Theodosius was also a teacher at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Russian School and at St. John's from 2001 to 2008.[1] He was elected bishop in May 2008, and is awaiting confirmation by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, and pending that confirmation is scheduled to be consecrated on September 7, 2008, at the Cathedral of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow".[2]
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by Chris Banescu | 4/13/2010
Some Orthodox leaders and scholars have argued that same-sex civil unions, while not recognized and blessed by the Orthodox Church, should nevertheless be accepted and protected by the state in the spirit of democracy. In a 2005 interview regarding debates about gay couples being able to marry, Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, expressed his views on this matter:
"They [homosexuals] should have the benefits and civil rights of the state, but this is not a sacramental union our church will ever sanctify," he said. "But civil marriage, in the spirit of American democracy, they have the right to ask for that."
These positions seem to present a fair and reasonable perspective that maintains a balance between the Orthodox Church's unwavering support for traditional marriage and her absolute rejection of all homosexual unions, and the secular and democratic society we live in. On closer inspection however, the reality of such moderated and accommodating views exposes a danger that may not have been considered when such support was given for these legalized civil unions.
Developments in the Catholic Church over the last few years confirm that advocating for any legislative support of legalized civil unions that have similar legal standing to traditional marriages is unwise. Even if, in the beginning, such secular civil unions do not have the full bundle of societal "rights" that marriages enjoy, it will not take long for our legal system to grant them such protections and privileges.
Looking at what has already happened in states like Massachusetts and recently in Washington D.C. with Catholic Charities, one of the nation's oldest adoption and foster-care placement agencies, gives us a hint of what can and will occur. Catholic Charities was forced to cease operations when their adoption services were deemed discriminatory to homosexuals because of Massachusetts and Washington D.C.'s same-sex "marriage" laws. Faced with prosecution by the state unless it compromised its religious beliefs, this Christian organization closed its social services operations, ending an 80-year history of helping vulnerable children in need of traditional parents and families. The Catholic News Agency reports:
"Although Catholic Charities has an 80-year legacy of high quality service to the vulnerable in our nation's capital, the D.C. Government informed Catholic Charities that the agency would be ineligible to serve as a foster care provider due to the impending D.C. same-sex marriage law," […]
"Foster care has been an important ministry for us for many decades. We worked very hard to be able to continue to provide these services in the District," said Ed Orzechowski, president and CEO of Catholic Charities D.C. "We regret that our efforts to avoid this outcome were not successful." […]
The D.C. City Council's law recognizing same-sex "marriage" required religious entities which serve the general public to provide services to homosexual couples, even if doing so violated their religious beliefs. Exemptions were allowed only for performing marriages or for those entities which do not serve the public.
While at first glance these legalized civil unions do not appear to hurt anyone or interfere with the Christian Church's mission, in at least two instances we see the devastating consequences of the state demanding that Christian institutions place children in same-sex "families" in direct violation of the doctrines of the Church and the member's religious beliefs and practices.
"To operate in Massachusetts, an adoption agency must be licensed by the state. And to get a license, an agency must pledge to obey state laws barring discrimination—including the decade-old ban on orientation discrimination. With the legalization of gay marriage in the state, discrimination against same-sex couples would be outlawed, too."
The closures of Catholic Charities hurt not only the countless innocent children that will no longer be placed in traditional families, but also the many couples that wanted to adopt these children and would have raised them in a home with a mother and a father.
Once such civil unions are given any legal standing, other states and even the federal government will quickly follow the legal precedents set in Massachusetts and DC. The state can then compel all religious institutions that support traditional marriage in their social services to either recognize same-sex unions and act contrary to their religious and moral beliefs, or cease operations altogether. These legalized civil unions are the unfortunate stepping stones the state has and will use to promote an anti-Christian and anti-traditional marriage agenda to the society at large, to the detriment of innocent children and traditional couples looking to adopt.
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Mandy Rose's WWE career is off to a good start.
Rose a.k.a. Amanda Saccomanno, a graduate of Yorktown High School, won her first match on RAW Monday night, teamed with her Absolution stablemate Paige to defeat Mickie James and Bayley.
The villainous Rose got the pin on James after Paige kicked her in the head.
Later on RAW, Absolution got their comeuppance when the rest of the women came out to attack them, leading to Rose taking a forearm to the face.
Rose, whose family runs Arthur Avenue Deli in Carmel, first came to WWE when she was a finalist on "WWE Tough Enough," a show where aspiring wrestlers compete to win a WWE contract.
Though she finished in second place, Rose was still signed by the company and began training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando while appearing on the company's reality show, "Total Divas."
In 2016, Rose got engaged to her boyfriend, Michael, who runs Traditions in Granite Springs and Rose Room in Mount Kisco.
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Burger City Guides: Jason McLeod's Favorite Burgers in San Diego
Lists of top 5 burgers.
Jason McLeod is San Diego's only Michelin-star chef, having earned a pair of stars in Chicago. He's helmed kitchens and opened restaurants everywhere from Whistler to Costa Rica, but has settled down in San Diego, and was recently tapped to be the new Executive Chef for all of the Consortium Holdings restaurants, including Neighborhood, Underbelly, Craft & Commerce, and Polite Provisions/Soda & Swine, a dual-concept spot slated to open in December.
He loves a classic burger and says a great bun is essential (and often woefully overlooked). At home, he's all about the Dutch Crunch buns at O'Brien's bakery, and when it comes to toppings, he plucks a few items from the fast food column (Thousand Island dressing and American cheese), but also loves homemade pickled veggies, like thin slices of zucchini, fennel, and carrot on top of his patty.
In-N-Out's Double-Double (Animal Style) is his go-to burger because it's cheap, quick, and tasty, but he also praised several other options. Here, Jason describes his top five burgers in San Diego:
I'm a huge In-N-Out Double-Double fan, Animal Style of course. I could eat those all the time. I just love the simplicity of it all. I even love the french fries, which i know a lot of people don't. I love it when people visit because I get to take them there, especially my family, because we don't have In-N-Out in Canada.
Multiple locations in San Diego in-n-out.com
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I like Bankers Hill because their burger is simple and pretty classic. They also serve pickled onions with it, and I love those. I love homemade pickles and I think that the onion brings a great pickle flavor. It's nice and a bit different than just serving regular pickles. A lot of burgers are really rich, so I like the contrast and bite the onion gives it.
2202 4th Ave., San Diego CA 92101 (map); 619-231-0222; bankershillsd.com
I love the burgers at Beaumont's. Their Beaumont Burger has puréed sundried tomatoes folded into the beef—it's got an almost tart, tomatoey bite to it. It's served with feta cheese and balsamic onions, and I'm a big fan of feta cheese. That burger is really great. They sell millions of them; it's their number one seller, by far. It's just a good value.
5662 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla, CA 92037 (map); 858-459-0474; beaumontseatery.com
I love a fried egg on a burger. The first time I ever had an egg on a burger was back in 1999 in Coffs Harbour, Australia and I'm a huge fan. Quality Social adds some beautiful house cured bacon, fried onions, and Gruyère cheese. Hard to beat this combo.
789 6th Ave., San Diego CA 92101 (map); 619-501-7675; qualitysocial.com
Burger Lounge does a good turkey burger. I'm not a huge fan of their beef burgers, but I was really impressed by their turkey burger. Anything with Thousand Island on it is good; it really helps. I like the cheese they put on it, too.
6 locations in San Diego, full list at burgerlounge.com
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Coronavirus: Measures in the summer and winter semester
The FAQ provide up-to-date information on the situation at TU Dortmund University and give an outlook on the coming semester.
E-bike Designed at TU Dortmund University Sets Guinness World Record
Dr. Dennis Freiburg has constructed the lightest e-bike in the world, confirmed GUINNESS World Records.
Senate and University Council Elect Four New Rectorate Members
On Friday, 3 July, the University Elective Assembly of TU Dortmund University elected four new prorectors.
Start of Exams in Westfalenhalle 3
Over 700 students have taken their exams under strict hygiene measures on the first supplementary date in the Westfalenhalle exhibition center.
TU Dortmund University Awarded UNESCO Chair
Professor Thomas Schröder is head of the new UNESCO Chair for research on international vocational training systems.
Another Important Award for Professor Gabriele Sadowski
She is the first woman to receive the "Distinguished Lecture Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties" from the EFCE.
Construction of New Chemistry Laboratory Building on Schedule
A six-floor building with floor space of about 3,300 m² is springing up on Otto-Hahn-Strasse.
Dortmund Home to New European Blockchain Institute
North Rhine-Westphalia's regional government grants TU Dortmund University and the two Fraunhofer institutes in Dortmund funds of € 7.7 million.
Construction of CALEDO Research Center to Start in 2021
TU Dortmund University's new building will offer perfect conditions for research into liquid phases.
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The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dortmund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dortmund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from Campus Nord to Campus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop "Dortmund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dortmund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dortmund Universität S".
Dortmund Airport offers flights to several destinations in Central Europe. There are regular connections to Katowice, Kraków, London and Munich. For the approximately 20km-trip from Dortmund Airport to TU Dortmund University, you can use a shuttle bus to the railway Station "Bahnhof Holzwickede", from which trains depart to Dortmund main station (please visit Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr for more information). Normally, the fastest way is to catch a taxi at Dortmund Airport.
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
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Current trends in inequality are captured in three standard categories of inequality measures: top income shares, poverty, and the Gini coefficient. Read More
A crucial and often overlooked fact about inequality is that it varies widely over the geographical landscape. One tendency seems to stand out: inequality tends to be greatest where median incomes are lowest. States with high median incomes tend to be the most equal while the poorest states are the most unequal. Read More
There are those who recognize growing inequality but conclude that it is not a major concern. Inequality is an unavoidable part of a modern economy and a free society, they say, and public or governmental action to arrest it would only harm overall economic performance. We marshall evidence challenging the notion that citizens believe income disparity to be unimportant. They perceive inequality to be lower than it is and wish it to be lower still. Read More
If inequality is high and rising, perhaps the most important questions of all have to do with causation. One view is that globalization and technical change reduce opportunities for the least educated workers and increase the economic opportunities of the most educated. According to this view, income inequality will inevitably continue to increase. Another view, however, is that intentional public policy over the last 35 years has disproportionately benefitted those at the top of the income ladder. According to this view, increases in inequality were not inevitable, and could be reversed by changes in public policy that favor the 99%. Read More
We propose a specific step to help policymakers understand the impact that proposed policies would have on inequality. We recommended a measure of policy impact on inequality, the Economic Inequality Impact Assessment (EIIA), which would accompany all economically significant legislation in the State. We note parallels to the Environmental Impact Statement, used throughout our regulatory realm since the 1970s to ensure that new proposals and projects do no impose undue burdens upon our environment and natural resources. Read More


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MH17 crash: Dutch take charge, first step in bodies search begins
Kiev: It was a tough choice between the head and the heart. In the end, the Dutch went with their hearts.
A week since MH17 fell from the sky over Ukraine, the Dutch team investigating the crash has made its first decision: between the forensic integrity of the crash site, and the need to bring home the bodies of the dead.
They chose the victims.
On Thursday the Dutch Safety Board – on its first day officially in charge of the investigation - gave permission for local workers on the site to move wreckage in order to salvage the bodies that still remain at the site.
"The Dutch Safety Board considers it of the utmost importance that as many victims as possible can be returned to the Netherlands so that they can be identified and returned to their next of kin," the DSB said in a statement justifying the move.
The Dutch-led team, assisted by experts from Australia and several other countries, was made the official leader of the investigation in a ceremony on Thursday at Kiev's imposing presidential palace (after a false start at the foreign ministry on the other side of town, possibly because the Ukraine government was going through a political crisis on the same day).
The documents were signed by the Netherlands foreign minister Frans Timmermans and Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko.
The ceremony was witnessed by Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop, during a 90-minute meeting at the palace.
After a day of criss-crossing Kiev with Mr Timmermans in a convoy of diplomatic cars behind a siren-wailing police car, Ms Bishop said Australia was now "days, not weeks" away from getting experts onto the crash site in significant numbers.
She believed the transfer of responsibility was the key, because the separatists in control of the site and surrounding regions would be much more willing to deal with the Dutch.
"Now that Ukraine has transferred legal responsibility to the Netherlands we feel we will get more progress with the separatists," Ms Bishop said.
However she had not yet been able to secure access to the site, instead leaving negotiations with the separatists to a team of independent observers.
"Wherever we went today (in Kiev)… everyone had the same goal, and that is to be able to give assurance to the families in the countries affected that we are in the process of bringing their loved ones home," Ms Bishop said.
She was confident that work could start on the site "without much further delay".
However she did not say whether Australia would bring in the 50 AFP officers it has on standby in London to secure the site.
Ms Bishop met with international observers Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, to take advice on how best to secure the site and get more experts through the surrounding civil war zone.
She will rely on their negotiators to smooth the way, she said.
"This site is in territory that is held by the Russian-backed separatists who have weapons, are heavily armed with very sophisticated equipment," she said.
Each country has had to negotiate a time and a place for each person accessing the site, and the local militia had restricted them to only three on Thursday.
"We are taking (OSCE's) specific advice and working very closely with them… to ensure we get the co-operation of the separatists," she said.
"As part of the negotiations with the separatists we will see what the result is.
"I feel confident that over the next few days we will see significant progress."
Practical issues of security at the site would be worked through by Australian officials over the coming days, Ms Bishop said.
"We will protect our people," she said. "We will not put them in unnecessary danger but we have to achieve the goal of securing the site so a proper air crash investigation can take place.
"From now on the Netherlands is in charge of an investigation on that site."
On Friday, Ukraine time, Ms Bishop and Mr Timmermans will travel on to Kharkiv, to meet forensic team putting the bodies so far recovered from the crash on planes back to the Netherlands.
Both will then fly back to Amsterdam.
Nick Miller is Arts Editor of The Age.


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Many of our clients operate their farm operation as either an S or C corporation and in many cases the only employee of the corporation is the farmer and perhaps their spouse and children. Many of these farmers do not report any wages to them until the fourth quarter of the year. In these cases, the wages reported in this quarter can easily exceed $20,000.
What many farmers do not realize is if the wages reported for any quarter exceed $20,000, the corporation is now subject to paying Federal Unemployment taxes (FUTA) and in most cases state Unemployment taxes (SUTA). Although FUTA can be fairly minor (perhaps $42 per person), it can increase to around $400 per person if SUTA is no handled or paid correctly.
In many states, once you are subject to SUTA it can take a minimum of two years to get out of paying it since it requires you to be under the $20,000 quarterly threshold for the current year and the previous year. Also, these states usually require you to be in the highest rated pool and your tax rate can exceed 3.5% and you would owe SUTA on up to $35,000 in wages or more.
Let's look at an example, assume the farmer pays himself $50,000 per year in wages all in the fourth quarter. Let's assume his SUTA rate is 3.5% on the first $35,000 of wages. His SUTA liability would be $1,225. His normal FUTA liability would be 6% of $7,000 or $420, however, since he paid into the State, he is allowed a credit to reduce this liability down to $42 (some states do not get the maximum credit. We recapped that in a post about two weeks ago). Therefore, his total SUTA and FUTA liability for 2012 is $1,267.
Now, if the farmer has spread out his wages evenly over the four quarters, he would not owe any FUTA or SUTA. Also, the payment of commodity wages is exempt from FUTA and SUTA (although you need to check your state rules).
Every state seems to have different rules on the application of SUTA to shareholders of a corporation, but at a minimum if you keep your total wages under $20,000 per quarter, you can save some payroll taxes.


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The Best (And Worst) Commercials Airing During Super Bowl LIII
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter
February 3, 2019
It's Super Bowl Sunday, which means everyone is on the edge of their seat, waiting for all the action to unfold on their screens. We're talking about, of course, the commercials.
For many, the commercials airing during the Super Bowl are just as (if not more so), important to them than the game between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. Monday's are just reserved for Monday-morning quarterbacking, it's also a great time to bond over the best and worst commercials that aired during the game.
After all, thanks to the Super Bowl's enormous audience (an estimated 103 million people watched last year's game), one 30-second spot can cost more than $5 million. The price of ads have doubled over the past ten years as the event grows in viewership.
So here are some of the commercials you'll be talking about with your friends, family and co-workers on Monday.
Amazon Alexa
If it feels like Alexa is everywhere now, you're probably not imagining things. But did you know the company has tried adding their virtual assistant to some of your other appliances at home? Let's just say, it didn't go well.
Amazon enlisted several celebrities including Forest Whitaker, Harrison Ford (in an adorable battle with his dog), and Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer to test out their new products and it's safe to assume we won't be seeing them on store shelves any time soon.
Amazon Prime Studios
Speaking of Amazon, another division is flaunting some of their original content. Amazon Prime Studios released a sneak peek for "Hanna," an upcoming series from the streaming service set to debut in March. Amazon Prime members will have the opportunity to stream the first episode for 24 hours after the Big Game.
(The commercial is also noteworthy for including an amazing cover of Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" performed by Karen O.)
The beer company has always been at the forefront of Super Bowl commercials, with some of the most talked about commercials every year. Between the inspiring "Halftime Speech" by Clint Eastwood, or the Clydesdale horses racing out of the barn in a post-9/11 tribute, you can't say that Budweiser doesn't know how to make a Super Bowl ad.
This year appears to be no exception with the beer company announcing that they had committed to brew their beer with 100% renewable electricity generated by wind power.
Sure, you've heard of La Croix and are probably desperately addicted to it, but did you know that there's another sparkling water company that's just as good? Bubly debuted their thirty-second spot that features singer Michael Bublé, who is a touched confused on how you actually pronounce the sparkling water's name.
Valentine's Day is only a few days away (11 to be exact), so this is the perfect opportunity for all those single folks watching the Super Bowl at home to download a new dating app and give finding love a try. Serena Williams stars in this ad that encourages women to make the first move, in work, in love, and in life.
This year, the snack food company recruited Chance the Rapper to remix the Backstreet Boys's iconic song "I Want it That Way" in their commmercials introducing a brand new Doritos flavor "Flamin' Hot Nacho."
Christina Applegate is chaperoning some particularly unruly passengers on her way back from the grocery store. It's probably safe to say, no one will ever mess with the Emmy Award-winning actress ever again after her appearance in this commercial promoting the new M&Ms Chocolate bar.
Michelob ULTRA and Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold
Robots and an island getaway are the focus for the two commercials promoting Michelob Ultra and its Ultra Pure Gold brands. In the Ultra commercial, a Robot is able to beat humans at just about every activity except having friends (sad horn).
In the Michelob Ultra Pure Gold commercial, we're whisked away to an island paradise where Zoë Kravitz has some fun with ASMR (seriously, wear headphones while watching this one for the full effect).
Microsoft highlighted the power of technology in its Super Bowl ad airing this year as we follow an inspiring group of gamers who are using Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller. The nearly two minute long spot shows how Microsoft uses and designs their tech to improve the lives of disabled individuals.
Pepsi, another longtime contributor to legendary commercials that air during the Super Bowl, is back again this year with another great one. Steve Carrell, Cardi B, and Lil Jon all confront customers with the big question: "Is Pepsi OK?"
The minute-long spot achieves legendary status when Carrell attempts his impressions of Cardi B and Lil Jon.
If you've lived your life without ever seeing Mr. Peanut drive recklessly through suburban streets while Motley Crue is blasting on the soundtrack, I gotta tell you, you just haven't lived.
Adding to the surreal nature of the ad is Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen who after watching Mr. Peanut tear across a construction site, remarks idly, "And people think I'm nuts."
It's Crunch Time and Mr. Peanut is there with one of the nuttier (hah) commercials you'll see during Super Bowl LIII
With virtual assistants everywhere these days, it's easy to forget that those tiny electronic helpers may be going through some stuff too. An Alexa-type device (as seen here in the Pringles commercial) faces her existential dread of never knowing what it's like to combine a spicy nacho chip with a BBQ seasonings one.
Fortunately, there's always the dulcet tones of Lipps Inc to help us move on.
Stella Artois
Thanks to a teaser released by Jeff Bridges, for one glorious moment, Lebowski Achievers across the world believed a long-awaited sequel starring a little Lebowski might be announced during Super Bowl LIII.
As it turned out, The Dude and Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrey Bradshaw were just looking to change up their usual. Bradshaw orders a Stella Artois instead of her customary cosmo and nods in approval when the Dude asks for a Stella instead of his White Russian.
It's nice to see that after all these years, the Dude still abides.
Bonus! Banned Commercials
Of course, the other way to get a ton of press and exposure for your product during the Super Bowl is to film a totally controversial, over-the-top ad and get it rejected by the committee.
Devour Bites debuted a particularly.... spicy... commercial for fans of their ready-to-eat meals. It's one of those things you really have to see to believe.
A cannabis company was also denied airtime by CBS for their commercial about the benefits of medical marijuana.


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At just 400m from Lagos' marina and its historic city centre, along with being only a short walk to the closest beach, you couldn't be anymore excellently located. This development certainly benefits from a prime location, making it suitable to use as a holiday home, rental investment or even permanent residence.
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