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To intercede or not to intercede
The other day my friend Henry was hurrying along 14th Street near Seventh Avenue when he overheard a woman asking a passerby how to get to Times Square by subway.
"Just walk one block over to the A train, and then take it uptown to 42nd Street, said the man, pointing west with cheerful confidence. Henry, of course, knew these were poor directions; not only was the woman currently only steps away from the entrance to the 1/2/3 train, but taking the A would necessitate her walking the long, crowded avenue block along 42nd, to get from Eighth Avenue back to Seventh. Henry slowed, considered turning back to correct the passerby, then thought better of it. He did not want to embarrass the man, and he figured the woman would get to her designation eventually. And after all, it was really none of his business.
But five minutes later Henry found himself feeling slightly guilty. He knew he could have saved the woman about 20 minutes's not to mention a lot of walking. But wouldn"t it have been presumptuous for him to step in, unasked? Most of us are happy to stop and help when someone approaches us directly, but when you offer unsolicited help, are you being a Good Samaritan or just a Nosy Parker? Is it a New Yorker"s duty to butt in when it comes to matters of mass transit or urban geography? And if you don"t, are you complicit in sending the stranger in the wrong direction?
The problem is that talking to strangers can be daunting enough, but interrupting someone else"s two-way conversation goes against our social instincts. When you are interrupting with the sole purpose of correcting someone, you are risking embarrassment all around. The person who is giving the wrong directions may be embarrassed because you have criticized his knowledge. (He may even argue with you.) The person who is doing the asking may be embarrassed to seem to need help from more than one person. And you may end up embarrassed, should the first two turn to you with annoyed, "Who asked you? expressions. The question is, does being right justify being a busybody?
One of the important factors in deciding whether or not to intervene is the magnitude of the error. If you know the mistake is really going to cost someone (for example, if he is about to be sent to the Bronx instead of to Brooklyn), you are pretty much obligated to interfere's otherwise it is like seeing a crime being committed and doing nothing about it. But what if the directions you are overhearing are not wrong per se, but are just not great?
If it is just a question of your route being a little more efficient's like the difference between two cross-town buses's you may want to keep your preferences to yourself.
It is a different situation if you are on the subway, or standing in a line. In a group of standing-still strangers, it is a natural thing for anyone within earshot to jump in and say, "This train does not stop at Franklin Street. On the other hand you can take helpfulness too far. Information is one thing, but unsought opinions are another. It might not be considered heroic to intrude into someone"s conversation with, "Wait, you"re trying to get to Bed Bath and Beyond? I know a better place!
Certainly there is a good way and a bad way to go about contradicting an erroneous direction-giver. You definitely don"t want to leap in with, "That"s nuts! The 2/3 train is right here! Be nonjudgmental and polite while correcting the mistake, and try to offer some kind of face-saver. ("Excuse me for interrupting, but actually the 2 or 3 train's right behind you?'s goes directly there. Some find the A train can be more reliable/less crowded, but right now the 2/3 is running just fine. It"s really much more direct. ) Or you can wait until the person with the bad directions is gone, and then approach the direction-seeker with, "Sorry, but I couldn"t help overhearing you talking to that other gentleman. That route he suggested will take you out of your way; the best way to get there is to take the 2 or 3 right over there.
New York City can often be hard to navigate, so I believe in erring on the side of interceding. But remember: When you decide to swoop in and second-guess someone else"s directions, better be sure you are armed with accurate information. There is nothing worse than a Know-it-all who doesn"t know his Noho from his Nolita.
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Going abroad for medical treatment can cut costs and offer access to procedures that are hard or impossible to get in the US. Still, Americans are largely reluctant to do so.
Medical tourism has been promoted as an inexpensive and even enjoyable way to see the world while getting high-quality cosmetic and elective surgeries for pennies on the dollar, compared with U.S. health care costs.
Yet despite that rosy prospect, most Americans are not interested in leaving the country for their health care needs.
The underlying conditions needed to support medical tourism are largely being met, experts say. The quality and depth of foreign medical facilities has continued to improve. Costs are still a bargain for many procedures, and medical tourism travel brokers have become better at putting together the packages needed for a successful experience.
Forecasts for attractive growth rates for medical tourism ran head-on into the recession, notes Paul H. Keckley, the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a unit of the consulting firm that closely follows medical tourism trends. If that wasn't enough, the expected support of employers and health insurers has failed to materialize.
"We had estimated that employers would drive the medical tourism market," Keckley says. "We thought they would approach the medical insurance companies and tell them that they needed to add (medical tourism) benefits.
"But the major employers are not clamoring for medical tourism right now," he continues. Health care inflation has been under 4% each of the past two years, he notes, so employers are under less pressure to trim health care expenses. And while such savings are still a major priority, "medical tourism doesn't show up as a top-tier issue."
It's also not a top-tier priority for consumers. Deloitte conducts an annual survey of U.S. and global health care trends. Among consumers from a dozen countries, Americans are the least likely to go outside their home country for health care.
Only 3% of Americans would definitely consider traveling outside the United States for either necessary or elective care, Deloitte reported in its 2011 survey. And only 1% actually did so in the past year.
Uninsured consumers are more likely to practice medical tourism, Deloitte reported. And the willingness to travel varies with age. More than 30% of younger consumers say they would at least consider travel outside the United States for health care. The percentages decline for progressively older age groups and are only 21% for baby boomers and 17% for seniors.
While the total market for medical tourism may be flat, that's not true for all markets and providers, says Geoff Moss, a vice president at Planet Hospital. Based in Los Angeles, it specializes in medical tourism and has developed its own network of recommended physicians and hospitals. Moss estimates that company business has been growing at a 30% annual clip for several years.
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I traveled to Mexico some years ago for a face lift and to have my ears pulled back. It was a wonderful experience, combined with a fine few days seeing San Miguel de Allende.
Five years ago I traveled to Costa Rica for dental implants which was a necessity because after three different plates, I could not get one that fit correctly and could only wear them for roughly three hours at a time. That was a good experience, also.
Presently I'm going to start looking into having another piece of "vanity" surgiery done, to remove the many fine wrinkles on this 72-year old face. I'll price it here as well as else where and then make my decision on where to have it done.
I wouldn't hesitate to use a good Medical Tourist broker to make my itinerary and deal with the necesarry physicians.
I had many fillings done in Thailand for only $30 each rather than the $350 to $500 American dentists charge. It's American filling material and American technique, but cost effective due to operating a small office in a market that isn't so expensive by a dentish who is also usually the proprietor that isn't greedy. They don't have to charge arms and legs to earn a decent salary, it's just the American business people in charge of our offices are so greedy, stingy, and selfish. I got the most sincere high quality work out of those people over there who live by strong traditional values, spiritualism, and a culture of national pride to live by. I find Buddhists and Hinduists to be just perfect as service providers of all sortsn in my many travels while teaching English in Korea.
And after you get a scaling cleaning and 10 fillings for an affordable $335, you can get pampered with foot and body massages for $5 to $8 an hour; not $4000 for the dental services and $150 an hour for the massage like you'd pay in the US,. The quality was actually very high and incomparable to anything back home, but medicine is familiarly Westernized. Many say Thailand is a dirty 2nd or 3rd world poor country, but so is the USA as well today. All streets in all countries are dirty and contain poor dirty people in need, but the offices are clean and staffed by professionals. I trust going to Thailand and possibly India for care since I don't have benefits in the US like you'd have if living in a Western European country such as Germany as most of our jobs don't offer a decent benefits package nor do we have a social system to prevent the uninsured from falling through the cracks.
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Ok this may just be my weird thinking or maybe this is other peoples thinking as well. in my oppinion hybrid classes such as druids and paladins shouldnt be able to tank as well as warriors. ok a druid and a pally can heal themselves maybe not while tanking but they still can for example ZA on bear boss when boss switch's forms the druid tank can shift forms and heal himself many other examples like this as well a warrior cant. Bandaging only goes so far. hybrid classes shouldnt be the best at anything they should be good at alot. a hybrid class shouldnt top the DPS or healing charts it should be the classes where that is really the only thing they can do.
"hybrid classes shouldnt be the best at anything they should be good at alot. a hybrid class shouldnt top the DPS or healing charts it should be the classes where that is really the only thing they can do."
The best part of this post is that he doesn't realize Warriors are a hybrid class.
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I think that if you can spec for it, get gear and put time and effort to learn your class, you should damn well be EQUAL with other players.
People QQing about "their jobs" are stuck in the old mentality of defining their essence by their class NOT by their skill. Sorry, your class doesn't carry you anymore, learn to play.
I'm glad they fixed it so that people who played Hybrids (6 out of 9 classes btw - not counting the 10th till it's out) had a decent chance at being competetive. It's amazing the self-serving nature of the "pure" classes who want to hold them back simply because they're afraid people will find out they have no real skills.
I wasn't aware there was a "pure" healing class. Did Blizz add one?
Priests can go shadow and are therefor hybrid heal/dps.
Shammys can go elemental or enhance and are therefor hybrid heal/dps.
Druids can go dps or tank and are therefor hybrid dps/tank/heal.
Pallys are like druids and can do all three.
So where is this pure healer topping the heal charts?
Interesting example. Of course this is one particular fight and the heals of a feral druid are quite weak, i would think for most successful groups they wouldn't be the breaking point. I've always preferred to use druids to tank the bear phase anyway as their strengths were better used there. There are very few fights where it's worthwhile for a druid tank to pop out of form to heal, they have the weakest heals around and expose themselves to a lot of risk to do so.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
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We recognize the necessity for the government to protect properly classified information and to ensure that information that would clearly cause harm to our national security is not incautiously released. However, the revelation today that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press is deeply disturbing. Seizing the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines exceeds anything that could be justified by any specific investigation of disclosures of classified information to the media.
The Justice Department has laid out strict rules for efforts to get phone records from news organization: a subpoena can only be considered after "all reasonable attempts" have been made to get the same information from other sources; and a subpoena to the media must be "as narrowly drawn as possible" and "should be directed at relevant information regarding a limited subject matter and should cover a reasonably limited time period." In this instance, the government, in its letter to the AP, cited an exemption that holds that prior notification can be waived if such notice might "pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation." According to AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt's letter and attorneys for the AP, though, the Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure in its letter to the AP.
We find this unconscionable. We join the AP in its demand for the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
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Whilst true that holy pali is the training wheels for the real healers, or just for the lazy, you may want to change the gender reference to neutral one - just incase some of the more picky readers get upset.
I also agree that advert for warhammer was completely and utterly unneeded, or wanted. How much did they pay you for that?
Absolutely nothing. And I'd advertise it again, the same way Mike's been raving about GTA4 or Adam about Battlestar Galactica. While we're at it, let me advertise IRON MAN. Awesome movie.
The point is that when Paladins, a MELEE class in plate, specs Holy, the entire play style changes and removes Seals from the equation. The Seal system is key to a Paladin's uniqueness and it's REMOVED from the equation entirely if you spec for heals. Blizzard could've taken advantage of that unique game mechanic but it seems to have opted not to.
As for more gender neutrality, I use 'she' as my pronoun of choice in almost all my articles. Most people use 'he'. I'm sure if I'd used 'he', I suspect no one would have their knickers up in a bunch. =p


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This news comes from a Luxury4Play forum member who was told by a principle of a Lamborghini dealership in Houston that the former president rode off in a shiny black Aventador. This tidbit of information got so much attention that the Director of Communications from the Bush's office emailed the forum politely asking them to correct the issue. Apparently, media outlets everywhere were calling the office in an attempt to confirm the purchase. Who says automotive websites don't carry clout?
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The program thanks all who attended and supported the program, especially Chris Paladino of the New Brunswick Development Corporation, as well as Alan Syzdek and Leslie Levy who made special donations to the party.
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Wow, Al, no.
Wow, Al, no.
I urge you to watch the actual cinematic, it is made clear they have no idea who they are and don't care, no witnesses was the order, it would not have mattered who happened in on the battle, the Alliance would have annihilated them in that instance.


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To take a journey in art is to follow a path that is never ending; you will never know all there is to know or see and discover all there is out there. You will find yourself 10 years down that path still discovering new things, getting excited and inspired by the most ordinary of things, question the media to which we are exposed, whether it be the design of a C..
Illustration personal statement
Creative activities have always drawn my attention, from a young age I would draw, colour, cut and create! I'm still very much like this, I find myself losing track of time and working into the small hours..
Product Design personal statement
As I have come through life, I found out that even though I enjoyed various jobs I took, the best of them all is the one the heart is sat on. Until recently I would have only dreamed to study within the Art and Design industry..
Fine Art personal statement
My intense passion for art first sparked at a very early age, largely due to the influence of my father and my cultural upbringing. As a child, the concept of interactive instillations fascinated me; I soon steered away from my father's lead and became actively involved in children's drop-in workshops at Tate Liverpool..
Art and design personal statement
Although I pursued an academic rather than creative path in school, I have always been fascinated by the patterns that occur in art, architecture and the natural world, and drawing and painting have heightened my appreciation of them..
Creative Arts, Curator, Advertising, Management personal statement
Although Chinese woodblock printing has a tradition of 2000 years, Chinese print artists have been absent from the international art scene for decades. Over the last years a few exhibitions about modern Chinese printmaking took place outside China, but some major exhibitions at such renowned museums like the British Museum would probably lead to a breakthrough in the international art scene..
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Everything has the ability to be improved in some way to suit the current environment; materials, construction, shape and function alter with time. Looking at various things in everyday life, I often see possible ideas for these improvements and analyse their current design..
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Fine Art personal statement
When I was young, my friends always wanted to come round to my house after school because my mum would let us paint. We had a big easel, a large supply of powder paints, felt tip pens and pencil crayons..
Photography Personal Statement
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Animation Personal Statement
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( note this is still in its draft stage, if any one can add or deduct anything please help thank you ) I have often found that, what drives me to achieve anything is purely down to my questioning nature, I love the exploration of the unknown and to visualise things in a different perspective from others, art is one of those unique and diverse subjects that allows ones ideas to be expressed via a number of mediums, one is not restricted to just pencil and paint..
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I am anxious to become a creator. I wish to help people to live in appropriate and attractive homes. My intention is to learn to provide beauty and cosiness to their lives. And I believe I can achieve that through hard work, great effort and devoting a sufficient amount of time..
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Photography personal statement
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At university I hope to study graphics design, the reason for this is because from a young age I've always had a very high interest in advertising and graphics design everything that is around us has been designed and this has always fascinated me, I've wanted to be involved and a part of this, in my spare time I normally educate myself looking at tutorials on either web design, video editing and graphics such as Photoshop and Indesign, my strongest software experience is Photoshop and Indesign and I spend my majority of my time designing abstract and random graphics in affect this means that I'm very familiar with the adobe products interface and the majority of the panels, my video editing skills are very mild which means there's room for improvement..
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And there was baseball!Posted on March 1st, 2007 – 12:16 AM
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Turned on the car's XM a bit before 7 — and the screen flashed: Red Sox 2, Twins 1. It didn't matter that the Twins were losing. There was a baseball game on the radio, even if it was with the Boston announcers, and it didn't matter that another snow dump was on the way.
It was fun to hear the other team's announcers wax on about the Twins — the way they blasted back into the AL Central race, the individual awards, the trepidation at facing Johan on Sunday, even if it's a meaningless game in March. It was cool to hear them laud Matt Garza for his 2 perfect innings and to point out how unusual it is for a pitcher to be yanked midway through an exhibition inning, which is what happened to Scott Baker in the 4th.
It was 4-1 Boston when I pulled into the Cub parking lot and 4-4 when I pulled out. The radio guys were still recounting Joe Mauer's opposite-field homer when the Red Sox came to bat and, being midway through the earliest of exhibition games, it was fun to hear them try to keep up with the unknown players coming into the lineup. Denard Span took over for Torii Hunter in the 5th and Glenn Williams got some innings at 1st base. Mauer got to leave after his homer and it sounded like the rest of the night's pitchers were going to be guys with unnaturally high jersey numbers and no chance of making the roster.
It was a good introduction for what's to come, a toe in the water for a season that will last more than 200 games if the Twins make the postseason. Feel good about Garza, worry (some more) about Baker, wonder whether that high-numbered substitute in 2007 will be a major leaguer in 2011. I'll take s'more of that action, please.


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The politics behind Oscar snubs and surprise nominations
Academy sees the big picture – not just what's on the big screen
Another year, another wave of Oscar snubs and surprise nominations, and after the awards are handed out on Feb. 24, no doubt we'll be reconvening to dissect the big wins and lament who should have never left the night empty-handed. Since rating art is a purely subjective process, you can be sure there are plenty of personal and political motivations coming into play when the 6,000 members sit down and ponder their selections. Here are five factors, subconscious or not, which could have swayed voters' decisions when nominating (and overlooking) candidates this year:
What's in the past, isn't always in the past
Academy voters have long memories, and sometimes nominations and big wins come after an accumulation of impressive work over the years, or as an apology for having overlooked a stellar performance in the past. Aussie actress Naomi Watt has been getting plenty of buzz for her role in The Impossible, but it's her consistent body of work since her breakout role in Mulholland Drive in 2001 that likely helped secure this year's nomination. Likewise, Denzel Washington's surprise Oscar for Training Day in 2002 came after he was overlooked for wins with Malcolm X and The Hurricane.
Playing hard-to-get really works
"The Rules" don't just apply to dating; apparently they work at the Oscars too, at least in the case of Joaquin Phoenix, who just scored a best actor nomination for The Master despite insisting in October he could care less about the sought-after statue. "I think it's total, utter bull---, and I don't want to be a part of it," he told Interview magazine. "I don't believe in it. It's totally subjective. Pitting people against each other ... It's the stupidest thing in the whole world." When someone doesn't want you, doesn't it make you want them more?
Desperation can be a turn-off
You can't want it too badly either, or Academy members may be turned off by the stench of desperation, which is what may have happened this year with Argo's Ben Affleck, who most assumed would be in line for his first director nomination, having already scored a screenwriting Oscar for Good Will Hunting in 1998. In the months leading up to award season, the father-of-three paraded his kids from cake-making sessions to the farmer's market and anywhere else with enough natural light to capture his good-natured grin, and the date nights with wife Jennifer Garner also seemed to spike during his feverish campaign. And after all that valiant effort, it appears the snub has certainly left Affleck with a bad taste in his mouth, if his acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Awards last night was any indication. "I would like to thank the Academy..." he quipped before adding: "This is the one that counts."
Old Boys Club' alive and well
When Barbra Streisand opened the envelope in 2010 and saw Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow's name as the winner, she exclaimed to the audience: "The time has come!" The history making moment saw Bigelow become the first female director to take home Oscar gold, but just two years later, has the time already gone? Critics were shocked when Bigelow's name was left off the nominations list for 2012's critically acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty, nominated for five Academy Awards including best picture and best actress. It's clear Tinseltown is still very much an Old Boys' Club, and the Bigelow slight is proof it's not going to change anytime soon, especially in the world of directing. "For guys the competition is fierce, but for women you are more likely to win the lottery," Martha Coolidge, the former president of the Director's Guild of America, once said.
The family card trumps
He's been nominated for three Oscars (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator and Blood Diamond), and despite attaching himself to Academy-worthy projects year-after-year, Leonardo DiCaprio has yet to be called up on stage, this year snubbed again for his role in Django Unchained. While you can't deny the 38-year-old's consistent work ethic and raw talent, what is it about the actor that seems to have turned off Academy voters? It could very well come down to the same reason actresses Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman played up their love of motherhood while gunning for Oscars in recent years. Just as Academy voters have a soft spot for acceptance speeches that tug at the familial heart strings, they likely have little time for those with harems of Victoria Secrets models waiting in the wings. Had DiCaprio married BFF Kate Winslet years ago, it's highly likely they'd have matching Oscars on their mantel by now.


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I decided to take the UNC Business Essentials program this summer because I knew that it would improve my knowledge about the business world, while also looking great on my resume. As an environmental science major, I often feel that I do not receive much information about business and economics unless it is to teach me about how much a company is polluting during their production process, or how profit driven marketing is causing an overconsumption crisis. My ultimate goal for my career is to be able to bring both of these disciplines together in my own sustainability consulting firm, but in order to do that I needed to acquire some quality business knowledge. UNC Business Essentials was the perfect Read More
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For a long time I was adamant about wanting "nothing to do with the business world". I thought I could escape from ever having to deal with anything business related. Well, that was fairly naïve of me. Luckily I'm graduating with two degrees from an incredibly prestigious school, but then again, so are a lot of other students. I needed something that could set me apart from the competition when recruiters were looking at my resume and deciding whether or not to interview me. I came across the UNC Business Essentials Certificate program in an email I received, and decided it was worth looking in to. And was I ever right. This program taught me about everything from business finance Read More
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I initially chose to get involved with Business Essentials because I thought it would look great on my resume, but I soon found out how much more value the program has to offer. As a result of completing the certificate program, I have the skill set to expand my career options. With a thorough understanding of financial accounting, economics and finance, marketing, business operations and business communications, I've made myself more marketable for employment. This is tremendously valuable in today's competitive job economy. Completing the Business Essentials program in association with the Kenan-Flagler signals your self-drive and commitment to academic excellence – attributes highly valued by employers. I know this from experience. During an interview at a congressional office this Read More
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I am terrible with numbers. What possible other reason could there be for the decision I made to take 20 hours per week of class this summer while working another 35 hours? But, in all seriousness, I am a bleeding-heart liberal arts major who always figured I could save the world without ever managing a budget. My assumption was extraordinarily incorrect. I have been faced with the challenge of setting and sticking to a budget several times, and each time I have found the task incredibly daunting. Enter UNC Business Essentials. Business Essentials offered me education in a skill set that I never would have chosen to study as part of my four year plan to see the world, learn Read More
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Plans by a Lake Norman developer to build 408 homes on the Mecklenburg-Cabarrus line are upsetting nearby residents who say he's trying to pack too many homes into an area that has always prized its secluded setting.
Developer Mike Shalvoy's proposed River Pointe at Davidson development also raises the affordable housing issue: In an area near Davidson where housing prices are out of reach of most middle-income earners, should there still be a place for them?
Shalvoy is scheduled to seek rezoning approval from the Kannapolis Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday for River Pointe at Davidson, which is off Davidson Road near Rocky River.
On July 22, the Kannapolis City Council voted four to three to annex the 133 acres. The site is about 8 miles from the center of Kannapolis and 4.8 miles from the village green in downtown Davidson.
Some residents in nearby subdivisions in North Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties oppose Shalvoy's plans, because Kannapolis zoning laws would let him build up to three homes per acre. Some live in zoning districts that allow only one home per 2 acres.
But Shalvoy says his development will be a move up for residents of his adjoining development and will be well laid out, with homes costing up to nearly $400,000.
Resident Jimmy McKnight wrote Kannapolis City Council in July that River Pointe at Davidson's proposed density is six times greater than that allowed on North Mecklenburg land he owns across Rocky River from the site.
River Pointe's density would be at least three times greater than the nearby subdivisions of Hamilton Crest in Cabarrus County, Runneymede in North Mecklenburg and River Run in Davidson, McKnight wrote.
McKnight is a longtime developer whose Mooresville-based Realco Investment Properties has developed at least 35 subdivisions in North Mecklenburg, southern Iredell County and Virginia. He and his wife, Gail, live on Shearer Road outside of Davidson and operate a beef cattle farm there.
McKnight said River Pointe at Davidson's proposed home prices are less than a third of what homes cost in nearby neighborhoods "and, if built, will adversely affect tax values in our area." Shalvoy says the price difference isn't that great.
Current listings of homes for sale in Runneymede range from $389,000 to $849,900. Homes in Hamilton Crest are on the market for up to $449,900.
McKnight also criticized the proposed layout of River Pointe at Davidson, calling it "an excellent design for a military base but not for a residential neighborhood. The parallel layout and perfectly straight streets remind me of the zMAX Dragway in Concord. This plan lacks all of the features of a nice neighborhood. This is a plan for a SLUM not a neighborhood."
McKnight told council members that their decision on River Pointe at Davidson will affect the type of development that follows on surrounding properties.
"Kannapolis, like every city, needs an area for modest-priced homes, but placing them in an area that is becoming very upscale would be a mistake," he wrote.
Kannapolis Planning Director Kris Krider told the Observer that a counter argument could be made that neighboring zoning districts that allow far fewer homes promote sprawl.
But Shalvoy said moderately priced homes already are common in the area. The new development will be adjacent to a development he owns – the 400-home The Farm at Riverpointe, where the average sale price was $191,000 last year. Eventually, The Farm will have 800 homes. "We have a cross-section of America in there – police officers, nurses, schoolteachers, firefighters," Shalvoy.
River Pointe at Davidson, where homes will cost from the $230,000s to $390,000s, will provide a "move-up market" for residents of The Farm, he said, adding that his layout follows the land's natural contours.
Because they'll also pay a city tax, River Pointe at Davidson residents will get better services, Shalvoy said, including curbs and gutters on their streets and city water and sewer, as opposed to wells and septic systems.
He said homes in River Pointe at Davidson will have no vinyl siding, but better-quality siding. Seventy-six phase-one lots will be 70 feet wide and the remaining two lots will be 60 feet wide, he said. He originally proposed 50-foot widths but responded when city planners requested wider lots, Kannapolis Assistant Planning Director Kassie Watts said.
Cabarrus County Schools officials are studying his offer to have an elementary school and a middle school in the development to which most children could walk, he said. He will also create an access point, or "trail head," along Rocky River to connect the development with the multi-county Carolina Thread Trail, he said.
Shalvoy, whose Wayne Patrick Holdings LLC development firm is based in Mooresville, said he's leaving 47 acres, or 36 percent of the development, as open/green space.
His rezoning request would pass if a super majority of the Planning & Zoning Commission voted in favor of it, Watts said. That means seven of the panel's nine members would have to vote in favor. Opponents would have 15 days to appeal the decision, she said.
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Al Furqan Media has released the second episode of British hostage John Cantlie's video series today. You can view it here (If You Tube removes it, you can get it here.)
The topic is President Obama's speech on 9/11 against ISIS. These propaganda videos are becoming redundant. What's new in this one? A flat-out denial of Obama's claim that ISIS kills innocent women and children. He says it's an undeniable fact that ISIS did not kill the Yazidi women and children of Mosul and Sinjar (whom he refers to as Christian). He says ISIS does not regard the Shia as Muslims and thinks they are worse than Americans. He says Isis regards the Shia as apostates claiming to be Muslim while worshiping the dead.
After disparaging the ground forces Obama says will be assembled from reconstituted Iraqi soldiers and syrian rebels, he ends with, "For their part, the Islamic State states they welcome meeting Obama's under-construction army."
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An employee at a luxury hotel in Brasilia has been taken hostage, handcuffed, strapped in a suicide vest and paraded on the balcony of a room on the 13th floor, with a gun to his head. The hotel has been evacuated and police are trying to get the hostage taker to release him. Photo here.
Unconfirmed reports are that the hostage taker checked into the hotel this morning, is a minor public official who is demanding the President of Brazil step down. (There was a televised debate last night in the upcoming presidential election.) Negotiators are on scene.[More....]
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I'm always interested in how countries halfway around the world say they would address a problem here. I'm not talking about legal problems since laws in other countries vary too much, but in hands-on tackling of a problem that affects society. Like ISIS.
Here's three articles I recommend, all from the same paper in the Middle East. Two are op-ed's and one is an editorial.
The bottom line for all three is that military force cannot solve the problem of ISIS. They come up with other suggestions, which read like something I might have written. If the answer is so obvious to them (and me), why is our Government so obtuse? War is usually never the answer. Links to the articles belos: [More...]
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It's that time of year again...this year it's a big one. I should be happy because I'm done with outrageous heath insurance premiums (now it's just Medicare, a supplemental policy, and a drug plan which together cost 1/3 of my monthly health insurance premium last year.)
But aging is never really a happy experience, even when you have good health and a good life. Every day there's a reminder of some part of the face or body that used to be "up to here" and has now shifted "down to there." [More....]
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Well, that didn't take long. Jabhat al Nusra, al Qaida's branch in Syria, has been fighting with ISIS for months, refusing to pledge allegiance to the self-declared Caliphate State. But now that the U.S. has targeted it in air strikes, resulting in the loss of its headquarters, a leader or two and some civilians, the gap between the two groups is quickly closing. Nusra spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri published a video statement threatening retaliation against the U.S. and any allies involved in the bombing.
So far, ISIS is not weakened by the strikes. It is fighting hard in Kobane against the Syrian Kurds, who are still trying to flee to Turkey. Turkey's President is now saying Turkey might provide military support to the U.S. led coalition, but it doesn't seem to mean boots on the ground fighting ISIS. [More...]
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Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky -- now the proud parents of Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said at a press conference today the Pentagon is spending $7 to $10 million a day in the fight against ISIS.
"We're generally spending roughly, since this effort started, $7 million to $10 million a day. That's being funded out of OCO, overseas contingency operations," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said at a Friday press conference. Commonly referred to as war funds, the money isn't subject to congressional budget caps.
He said the Pentagon will ask Congress for more funding.
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Yesterday, the U.S. added additional suspected terrorists and groups on its designated terror list. More than one are connected to kidnappings and beheadings.
Among the new names I recognize: Amru al-Absi
As of mid-July 2014, Amru al-Absi was selected as ISIL's provincial leader for Homs, Syria, in the Aleppo region. As a principal leader of ISIL in Syria, he has been in charge of kidnappings.
I wrote about him here, but check the source articles I relied on, here and here. [More...]
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FBI director James Comey says the U.S. has identified the black clad executioner of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines. It is not releasing the information, hoping to capture or kill him. The FBI is still working identifying the two English speakers in the Flames of War video, believed to be American or Canadian.
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Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning. But he is still initiating long overdue policies that have immediate welcome effect.
Yesterday he issued a memo to U.S. attorneys telling them not to use recidivist charges (called 851 charges after the statute number) as a leverage tool or a hammer:
Holder sent a memo to U.S. attorneys Wednesday urging them not to use sentencing enhancements known as "851" tools to gain leverage in plea negotiations with defendants — in essence, threatening defendants into avoiding trial with huge amounts of prison time.
He is also in the process of issuing a memo telling prosecutors not to put appeal waivers for ineffective assistance of counsel in plea agreements (something many districts have banned as unconstitutional). He will issue new racial profiling guidelines that "will make clear that sexual orientation, ethnicity and religion are not legitimate bases for law enforcement." suspicion.[More...]
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jury trial will remain in Boston. The judge denied a change of venue yesterday. He did grant a two month continuance, until January, 2015. The 10 page order is here.
I recommend reading the defense expert's report. It is very well written and really gives a sense of the factors that need to be considered. It is available here.
It's dinnertime here -- and then there's the finale of Big Brother and first episode of a new season of Survivor. I'm already missing Senor de Los Cielos and it only ended two days ago. A new narco drama is now airing on Telemundo, Senora Acero (review here), but it was so over the top violent, I doubt I'll keep watching. It's about a simple caring young mother who marries a drug dealer. He gets killed on their wedding night. She goes on to become the biggest drug lord in Mexico. Or something like that (It's in Spanish, and while there are subtitles using an antenna instead of cable, I haven't seen a detailed English plot summary.) In the first episode last night, the bride was kidnapped by black clad killers who descended on her wedding and looked just like ISIS -- it was very jolting to watch. [More...]
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My name is Paul. I have wandered this forums for ages, but never had the courage to make a sketchbook. I've been drawing for quite a while as a hobby with some stops in-between but decided to really take it serious now.
Also the things that dan and dave sad in there live streams pushed me to finally get out there. So here we go!
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I really need to boost my anatomy so I started it in the loomis books.
Also some vilpuu.
Tha Clint.
Some old studies I did for color from mapcrunch.com
Back to Loomis now!
Awesome start, I like the road paintings you have there, maybe you can push the contrast a bit more? The bottom painting doesn't seem to have a clear light source for example.
Thanks Kudaku!
I'm doing loomis as we speak now. later on I will make some new road paintings and will keep your crit in mind and try to push the contrast more.
Love the Batman picture. Don't be afraid to get into those darker values in your other pieces! They'll give them a lot more depth. Keep on going with the Loomis, though. I can never stress how important that man was to my development.
blindshot: thanks! I wil try to add more value to all my drawings. Trying to get a hang on loomis but I will get three sometime.
Some loomis, have more but need to scan them when I get home.
Some value studies and portraits I did some years ago.
Really dig those portraits Paul, especially the first one. Has some very nice form to it.
Man I'm slacking like hell. hate myself for that!
I've just taken a week off from work so if you don't see a huge art dump here by the end of next week you can kick my ass.
to start it off here's a study I did this week.
Another Study
Wolverine study is looking really good! Keep it up!
Crazy Pills: Thanks man, I'm trying to keep it going
RennYinford: The link to your images are broken, so I don't really understand what you are trying to say.
Another road painting sketch I need to do a lot more of these enviros. Had a hard time with this one. Trying to suggest the details without painting every freaking leaf.
Any tips are more then welcome.
Another one.
Some Loomis studies. more more more!!
Working on a piece from imagination. There are so many flaws in it. comp, design, colors, etc. So if you guys have any tips it's more then welcome, it would make my day
Changed the comp and lightning after some crits. I'm going to take this pic on in stages doing studies in between.
The environment studies are very decent, good job!
Hi! Looks like you really understand value well...your pencil sketches, like the portraits in #9 have so much depth to them.
Lovin Clint and Wolverine. Keep those Loomis and Vilpuu studies coming!
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Hey nice updates since I last stopped by.
I have a crit for you on that comp of the Conan-looking guy in the throne.
1) The framing of that shot is VERY static and kind of uninspired. I think you could give it a lot more dynamicism by simply changing the angle of the camera 10-20 degrees up or down. It'll tell a lot more of a story. I'm imagining it as if our viewpoint was close tot eh floor. It will enhance the triangle composition and make him even more powerful. You'd have to tweak it to find the perfect angle, but I definitely think a VERY powerful image is hidden away in this sketch. It looks like you already took the camera angle down a little from the first one, I'd push it even further.
2) The foreshortening on the legs isn't really showing. The knees don't appear to be very far forward away from the body.
3) The pose and expression. This one's kind of just taste, but his pose is also pretty static, especially with his current expression. This just goes along with the framing really because it's all pretty straight forward.
Anyway, I hope you push this piece because I think you could really do a lot with it given your skill. Keep on pushing! NEVER SURRENDER! *evil laugh*
Long time since I post. I have some up and down's when it comes to drawing. I sometimes lose interest or just to busy with work and stuff. I have some more free time now so hope I can get back in and hold on this time. I sometimes can shoot myself for slacking. but here we go...
Some screenshot studies and an sergent study. Do you guys have any tips how to approach a study such as sergent? With this one I studied it for value and brush strokes.
Quick Enviro study. Man do I have some problems with these need to learn how to suggest things with strokes.
Some fun I had with perspective, a still life and a painting I made for my brother of his child.
Loving the Sargent and the close up of the face. The unfocused look on the left eye is sweet.
Don't stop!! No slacking!
Man do I have a hard time with these landscape studies. Any tips are more then welcome.
Another one. I will just keep going till I get the hang on it I'm trying to make this a daily routine.
Landscape of today. Hope to do some more and some head studies. Decided to focus on heads and landscapes for the comming weeks. I'm still lost when it comes to landscapes. Can't wrap my head around all the small details.
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But the arms that were gently wrapped around him weren't anywhere near ready to let go.
He had to leave.
And soon.
Or they'd risk being found out.
He slowly pulled himself free from the other boy's arms.
He whispered something comforting in the boy's ear.
They shared one last lingering stare into each other's eyes, before he stepped away from his love.
His life.
His everything.
He walked away quickly, not wanting to look back and see the tortured look on the boy's face.
He could still feel his warm arms around his waist, even though they were not there.
And might never be there ever again.
But he didn't think about that.
He just kept walking until he could see his street.
He slowly crawled into his open window and slid it shut behind him.
His room was freezing from the night air.
He dragged himself into his bed and curled up under the large, cosy cover.
He tried to imagine that he was with the person he longed to be with, but he couldn't.
He just lay there and waited for the time when his mother would wake him.
Then he would be leaving.
Leaving for what would feel like forever.
Anytime without his love would feel too long.
His eyes eventually slipped close, and he dreamt of happy times and of his lovers kiss.