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What Brown Can Do for You in 2012 . . . It is a New Year, and California needs a new game plan. For more than a decade, California has been following the same policies. The budget and economic problems facing California are serious. We have unemployment that is currently in the double digits and among the worse in the Nation. We have perennial budget problems along with the highest combined tax and regulatory burden in the Country – which is, in large part, the cause of our high unemployment and deficit problems. It is a vicious cycle.
They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Well, rather than simply rely on the policies of the past, Governor Jerry Brown has a chance to make a real difference in 2012 – and it won't be that hard to do.
The term "New Year's" began around 100 B.C. in Rome, when the Romans sought to forgive enemies and extend an olive branch for the coming year.
In the spirit of this New Year and with the Legislature back in Sacramento, Governor Brown ought to approach the Republican leaders with a proverbial olive branch. Brown should pick a government program, however small, on which there is consensus on the need for reform or possible savings. Brown should work relentlessly with his Democrats and the Republicans to reach agreement on reforming that single program. Once they reach agreement, they should announce the reforms, pass and sign legislation if necessary and hold a joint press conference on their bi-partisan solution.
From there, Brown should keep going – continuing to pick achievable reforms and looking for savings – not waiting until the fall to sign legislation but doing it week by week – building trust and restoring faith in California. No solutions would be too small.
Otherwise, California will continue down the path of gridlock with Republicans who simply cannot abide by tax increases on the hardworking people of California, and Democrats pushing for more government programs who can find little common ground with their Republican colleagues on the State budget. Often, the two sides don't even speak to one another about governance or the state budget until May or June. This is no way to govern a state of our size.
This week, Governor Brown will deliver his State of the State address. In every way, he can and should demonstrate that we can bridge the divide. Then Brown – as the Governor of this State – can demonstrate to the people that this state can, in fact, be governed and that bi-partisanship cooperation is possible. Hope is possible. It would signal a change in California. That is a worthy New Year's resolution and would change California for the better. It is not a question of a way, it is a question of whether he has the will.
When Brown, Perez and the California Democrats break out from their Building Trades/CAJ Union-Body Snatched/brainless behavior to finally kill the unaffordable High Speed Rail in California, then we'll know that they are serious about state education, animal shelter welfare, child, adult, elderly healthcare, public protection, and saving parks funding, and other human and infratructure issues. If the rail-fetish nutcase, Moonbeam Jerry Brown, ever realizes that the "futuristic" "every other country has it" replaying mouthed recording pro-HSR false blather, makes HSR actually like the 1969-futuristic "SST"--SuperSonicTransport passenger airplane, that have all crashed or are museum relics, then California can return to greatness and compete in the real world. JB-this old man, has not adapted to the real, modern world--even yet--and we Californians hurt for it. Many BT/CAJ jobs can be had in other SoCal and NoCal construction jobs (i.e., BART up the Peninsula, Unmet Freeway Need widenings, Dams, water and other infrastructure work, etc)
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Thank you, I've added the photo of the cemetery sign to my uncle's memorial at Greenwood cemetery, Shreveport, LA.
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Heather, Your cemetery sign photo may not appear because my memorial was added before you submitted the cemetery sign photo. Thanks for letting me copy it.
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Heather, My uncle Hans Due Sommer (born June 30, 1889 Denmark, died Sept. 7, 1951 Haughton, LA) is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport, LA. I have a photo of his grave marker on his memorial, but do you mind if I add a photo of the sign for the entrance of the cemetery to his memorial? There isn't one added.
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Heather - Louie Hobson Benson, #102173371 and Dean Pepper Benson, #102173488, are my father-in-law and mother-in-law. My wife and I would be very pleased if you would kindly transfer their memorials to us.
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Thanks for linking T.J. Cummings to his wife and my second cousin Daisy Emma Lunsford Cummings. I have asked someone to look for his obituary in the Shreveport Times and if they find it, they are going to send it to you for inclusion on your Memorial for him.
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Thank you so much for transtering the two memorials to me. They also, have a son in that cemetery. He was around 4 when he died.
Their daughter recently died, she was a dear lady. Not only was she a friend, but a fellow church member.
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Apr 9 2013: I learned a few things based on love in relationships during my childhood. One is that, even if someone is wronged by a person they love, the love will still stand strong (wish more people learned this). Another is that physical attributions to love in a relationship should typically be shared before and after a duration of not seeing each other, such as before bed, or before leaving. This deriving from the goodnight and goodbye kiss, as well as the welcome home hug and kiss. I also learned to share (three brothers and two sisters).
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If you're anything like us, you've by now accumulated more tote bags than you know what to do with. If you have a bunch in designs you like, it might be fun to take a cue from the Open Space gallery in Beacon and display them as art. Hang them on a grid of pegs and simply grab one on your way out the door each day:
The bags shown here are from the Tote Bag show at Open Space, where each tote was sold for charity. We love the way they're displayed, and see it as a great way to make your bags work doubletime at home, too. Plus, this would serve as a great reminder to take one with you when you're headed out.
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This looks great, but sadly, I don't think it would look so nice in my home. While all of these totes are beautiful and crisp, most of mine are bedraggled from actual use.
Wow, I wish my totes look this good.
if you rotated the use of a collection of bags, as suggested above then the won't look so bedraggled, greenbayou.
angel street thrift shop did a display in the window like this, see racked.com archive for an image.
username26, look at it this way design is attaracting people to conserve plastic by using appealing design. And why not show off good design if that's important to you. Or you could just keep using one ratty bag over and over again.
I tried this at home, and overall, it was a DON'T. The pic above looks great, but I ran into problems because my (quite large) collection of totes is multicolored, multitextured, all different shapes and - what turned out to be the biggest problem - with all different length straps. In the end, the only way I could make it look semi-decent was by tacking the corners of the bags and letting the straps dangle. But the tacks kinda took away from the grab-one-and-go idea.
I never take home decorating advice from a retail outlet. My goal in life is not to push merch.
The display is definitely too much for a residence, but a smaller collection, maybe 6 or 8 bags, might look ok.


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Fox Sports Oklahoma launched on October 29, 2008 as a spinoff of Fox Sports Southwest, in order to serve as the cable broadcaster of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder (which relocated to Oklahoma City that year from Seattle).[1] It originally split the rights to Thunder game telecasts with then-independent station KSBI (channel 52), but on August 3, 2010, the team signed a new multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma beginning with the 2010-11 season, rendering the team's games cable-exclusive.[2]
In addition to the Thunder, it also broadcasts sporting events from the Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State Cowboys, including basketball, baseball and football telecasts.[1] Fox Sports Oklahoma also has exclusive broadcast rights to Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association state championships. Fox Sports Oklahoma has broadcast Class A-6A Championship games in football and periodically runs OSSAA Championship Spotlight, which highlights various high school sports depending on the time of year.[3]
Fox Sports Oklahoma also broadcasts pregame and postgame shows for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Oklahoma Sooners and Oklahoma State Cowboys-related programs (such as coaches' shows). Outside of programming exclusive to Fox Sports Oklahoma, the channel runs programming supplied by Fox Sports Southwest (including sports interview and discussion programs focusing on Texas sports) as well as some sports telecasts such as Texas Rangers baseball, Dallas Stars hockey and Dallas Mavericks basketball games.
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Fox Sports Oklahoma Plus, also branded as "FOX Sports Oklahoma +" or FS OKLAHOMA +", is a channel used by Fox Sports Oklahoma as an alternate feed to simultaneously show multiple events on two channels in the same market.[4] Fox Sports Oklahoma Plus primarily serves an overflow feed in the event that multiple regional teams that would be shown on Fox Sports Oklahoma are playing at the same time, mainly games that are televised on Fox Sports Southwest that may otherwise also air on Fox Sports Oklahoma (such as Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars or Dallas Mavericks games) are playing at the same time as the scheduled telecast of a Thunder, Sooners, Cowboys game or other high school or collegiate sporting event involving an Oklahoma team.
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What would Christianity look like if the focus were birth, not death; human flourishing, not suffering; and this world, not the next?
How is God inviting you in the coming days and weeks to echo some form of Mary's words of humble openness and acceptance: "Yes, I see. I'm ready. Let it be with me just as you say."
Let It Be
The Rev. J. Carl Gregg
Luke 1:34-38
5 December 2010
Broadview Church; Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
Last Sunday, we heard the angel's words to Mary that inspired the beginning of the Ave Maria: "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." Her first response to the Gabriel's appearance understandably was stunned silence. In the words of scripture, "she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be." Accordingly, I invited you for the first week of Advent to ponder how God may be calling you to move against the grain of our frenetic, consumeristic culture. I invited you to consider how you may be called in these weeks before Christmas to slow down, open your eyes in wonder, and expectantly wait for is already in the process of being born.
The Advent invitation to wait patiently for what is already in the process of being birthed resonates with Mary's shock that God was taking the initiative: Mary didn't ask for a messenger from God to appear; he simply showed up unexpectedly. The parallel for us here at Broadview may be that — although I expect that we need to hit the ground running in the new year if we hope to continue to grow our congregation — is that God is always birthing new life in our midst in ways that we are not consciously aware of beforehand. I believe that one of the lessons we are invited to learn in this current season of the liturgical year is that God always being at work in surprising ways — in all ages, not only in the first century. The 14th-century German mystic Meister Eckhart phrased this idea provocatively when he wrote: "What is the good if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 2000 years ago, if I do not give birth to God today? We are all Mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born."
Last week, I named that one of the most stunning part of the "Hail Mary" prayer is the title attributed to Mary, "Mother of God." The conception of Mary as "Mother of God" has provided a much-needed feminine balance in the heavily male-dominated Roman Catholic tradition. The Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition also has a strong emphasis on Mary as the Mother of God, which can be seen in the frequent use of the term Theotokos in Orthodox Christian writings. The Greek word theo-tokos literally means "God-bearer." It speaks most specifically to Mary as the one who gave birth to God, but more generally to the way all Christians are called to emulate Mary's willing vulnerability to use her life, her body, her very self to bear witness — to birth — God into the world.
Jesus' life shows us what it looks like when God is birthed into the world. Jesus also pointed us toward what birthing God into the world looks like whenever he talked about the "Kingdom of God." Martin Luther King, Jr. was likewise calling us to birth God into the world when he called us to become the Beloved Community.
Life, birth, and growth: Mary's unexpected pregnancy, Jesus' life, and the lives of all those like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Dorothy Day show us what it looks like to birth God into the world. Tragically, male-dominated Christian theology too often has pointed us in the opposite direction: toward death, suffering, and loss. But in recent decades feminist theologians such as Grace Jantzen have proposed that we should shift our focus from theologies that are "preoccupied with violence, sacrifice, and death, and built upon mortality" — and instead "begin with birth, and with the hope and possibility and wonder implicit in it."
The image that comes to mind is wave after wave of children rushing in wonder and excitement to pet the animals at yesterday's Living Nativity. This image helps me begin to answer the question of, "What would Christianity look like if the focus were birth, not death; human flourishing, not suffering; and this world, not the next?" Advent is a time for pondering these possibilities.
Last week, we saw Mary silently pondering these matters of birth, life, and hope. But this week we see Mary's reply. She asks first, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" My inclination is to proceed cautiously because I believe the most important point being made here is not about biology, but about theology and politics. Jesus was neither the first nor the last person whose origins were attributed to a "virgin birth." Perhaps most significantly in this case, Julius Caesar was said to have been born of a virgin. Decades before Jesus' birth — in 19 B.C.E. to be precise — Virgil published the Greco-Roman classic The Aeneid, which claimed a divine origin for the line of Caesar: "From this noble line shall be born the Trojan Caesar, who shall extend his empire to the ocean, his glory to the stars, a Julius name descended from the great Julus!" So, first and foremost, the story of Jesus' virgin birth is similar to the declaration that "Jesus is Lord" — that is, both are different ways of declaring one's allegiance to Jesus instead of to Caesar.
That being said, there are many different aspects of the virgin birth story to consider. When I toured Israel as an undergraduate, one of the places we visited in Nazareth was the Basilica of the Annunciation, a church built on the spot where tradition holds that the angel announced Jesus' conception to Mary. While there I remember some of us discussing — half-jokingly and half-seriously — how exactly Mary broke the news to her parents. Since the angel appeared to her and not to her parents, what was she supposed to say? Something like, "Don't worry, Dad, it's God's baby?" Settling aside any potential blasphemy for a moment, I believe that we are so familiar with this story that we sometimes fail to consider the many difficult implications of Mary's situation as an unwed teenager. At the same time Advent invites us to focus, not only on Mary's socially-suspect pregnancy, but also on the hope, possibility, and wonder associated with all births.
And challengingly, Mary's second response, following her incredulous initial question, is humility. Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." And just as Gabriel's greeting, "Hail Mary," inspired the Ave Maria prayer that has been prayer countless times and rendered into unforgettable music, so too, Mary's response, "Let it be" has also inspired artists — perhaps most famously as the title track of the Beatles' 12th and final studio album: Let It Be.
Last week we listened to Aaron Neville's unique rendition of the Ave Maria, and this week I invite you to listen hear the Beatles' "Let it Be" as if for the first time. Listen from the perspective of Advent. Listen with the words of Mary echoing in your ear. Listen with an openness to how God may be calling you to slow down, open your eyes in wonder, and expectantly wait for is already in the process of being born. How is God inviting you in the coming days and weeks to echo some form of Mary's words of humble openness and acceptance: "Yes, I see. I'm ready. Let it be with me just as you say."
Cue track of the Beatles' "Let It Be":
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in his Advent book Ponder These Things, writes that: "There is a poem by Rilke, 'The Angel,' in which the poet warns us against inviting angels into the house, because they will turn the whole place upside down and seek out all the hidden corners and mould us into new shapes."
When we open ourselves to God, when we echo Mary's prayer, "Let it be," we may find ourselves turned upside down and our prioritizes rearranged — as Mary experienced when Gabriel appeared in her house. As we continue our study of Luke chapter 1, we will see a model of reshaped priorities in Mary's Song, called "The Magnificat." For now, we will pause in a few moments for about two minutes of contemplative silence. During this time, I invite you to continue to ponder:
How God is surprising me this Advent season?
How am I being called to slow down or let go?
How does it feel to begin to pray an echo of Mary's open-hearted response, "May it be so. Just as you say. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be."
1 Grace Jantzen, Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy, 2.
2 This paraphrase of Mary's words is adapted from Eugene Peterson's translation, The Message.
3 I was unable to located the exact Rilke poem titled "The Angel" to which Williams refers. Perhaps he is quoting from memory and couldn't find the exact poem either since he doesn't footnote a reference! If you know where I can locate a copy of the poem, please let me know in the comments section.


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LIKE MOST BUSINESSES that
offer a service, cable-televi-
sion companies probably want their customers to feel they're getting good service.
To a point. That point being when providing good service at a reasonable cost goes from being lucrative to just profitable.
Cable TV is sort of like God: People worship it but they don't always understand it. Like God, cable companies are unregulated, and if people have a complaint, they have to take it on faith that their cable provider is really listening.
Having grown up in a large city, where all you needed to watch TV was a TV, I only grudgingly decided 17 years ago to take the leap into cable. I got all I wanted--broadcast channels, some cable channels, and even FM radio--for about $15 a month.
Today I pay three times that to Adelphia for service that includes many cable channels I never watch, no premium channels, and no FM--which Adelphia (nee Prestige) inexplicably fails to offer. There's no excuse for that.
My issue with the cable-television industry, aside from excess channels, exorbitant cost, and lack of FM service, is its autonomy. No matter what your cable company would like you to believe, there's no real dialogue between you and it. You pay your bill and you get what you get. Must I really pay for home-shopping channels? Switching to a dish would give me hundreds more channels I don't want.
There is little cable regulation. There is usually no competition. There are no standards. Our cable rates went up twice last year after Adelphia took over from Prestige. The reasons given were an alleged improvement in service, an alleged increase in the cost of cable-network programming, and the alleged cost of operating in a high-growth area.
It doesn't matter whether you believe what they say or not. The fact is that cable companies don't even need a reason to increase rates.
I've always believed that cable companies should be held accountable for their actions just as other utilities are--and be just as dependable as flipping on a light switch or turning on a water faucet. There was a time when the cable would go out whenever there was a stiff breeze. A thunderstorm? Forget it. Power still works. Phone still works. Cable dead as a doornail.
That situation has improved somewhat, but reception generally remains nothing to brag about, and sometimes it's downright awful.
Other utilities need to apply
to the State Corporation Commission for rate increases and supply detailed support documentation. Though certain increases are allowed pending an SCC ruling, customers are given refunds when the SCC grants a lesser increase or denies it altogether.
When was the last time your cable company reduced rates or gave you a refund?
There is no such SCC watchdog for the cable companies. But there should be. The Spotsylvania Cable TV and Telecommunications Commission wants residents' detailed complaints about cable service. But while it can pass those complaints along, it doesn't have any real clout to get Adelphia to respond.
Consider also that an average
of seven people per day come to Spotsylvania County to live. Say that's two families. It's probably not seven individuals, but it could be. Many of them, if not most, will sign up for cable. Any way you look at it, that's a lot of new customers. Many of them will get that service with a flick of a switch. New homes will need to be wired. Once.
If the houses in an area are too far apart to fit a cable company's definition of "feasible," it won't provide service. Wouldn't the phone company or power company love that option?
The bottom line is that Adelphia keeps raising rates even though its expanding customer base keeps increasing its revenues. How expensive can it be to lay cable? And if the cost of programming is really rising as much as they'd have you believe, then they need a better negotiator.
And advertising. Cable promos are always telling us what a great deal it is to advertise on cable. Could it be that viewers are subsidizing it?
If they are continuously upgrading their technology--a boilerplate excuse at every rate increase--then they should offer me a check-off menu to order channels à la carte.
Perhaps companies such as Adelphia are spreading themselves too thin with other new technologies to offer good service in any one area.
Judging from the letters to the editor in this newspaper, there is displeasure with the Internet service and high-speed cable-modem service that Adelphia provides, not to mention regular old cable TV. They also offer long-distance phone service. Uh, no thanks.
Tacked onto my cable bill this month was a copy of Adelphia's "Customer Care Mission" statement. It was decorated with Valentine hearts and told me that I'm No. 1.
Cut my rates 30 percent, though, and we can even play footsy.


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Here is a list of the deal sites that are part of this.
To make all this happen, we've partnered with the best deal providers in the industry including Dealfind, DoodleDeals, Gilt City, GolfNow, HomeRun, Juice in the City, kgbdeals, Mamapedia, Plum District, PopSugar Shop, ReachDeals, Active.com Schwaggle, TIPPR and zozi. Now, with one account you can easily purchase, manage and redeem all your offers in one place.
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The hotel has 44 personalised rooms ranging in size from 27 to 120 sq m. Other prominent features include patios, gardens and terraces. A large number of rooms have balconies with panoramic views over the Guanabara Bay, of the Teresópolis Mountains and the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Furniture and artefacts from Brazilian artists and designers such as Sérgio Rodriguez, Zemog, Studio Vitty, Rock Lane, Carassa and Oficina de Agosto reflect the strong Brazilian flavour of the interior design.
The hotel Santa Teresa, overlooking the Guanabara Bay, is located 50 meters above the Largo dos Guimarães, the main plaza of Santa Teresa, where most of the traditional bars and restaurants of the neighbourhood are located. Over the tracks of the last historic trolley of Rio, access from the hotel to the historic centre and Lapa is direct and simple and takes only five minutes.
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The Faculty of Arts gains funding for its teaching and learning activities from a variety of sources. These sources include:
Teaching Improvement and Equipment Scheme (TIES)
TIES is comprised of two grant schemes. A Small TIES Grants Scheme for applications $10,000 and under and a Large Grants Scheme, otherwise known as the Teaching Improvement Projects Scheme (TIPS) for applications over $10,000.
The Small Grants Scheme is administered by the Faculty's Teaching and Learning Committee, in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education).
The Large Grants Scheme, or Teaching Improvement Projects Scheme (TIPS), is administered through the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education). When the amount applied for exceeds $50,000, the amount over $50,000 is matched $ for $, with the Faculty meeting the additional funding request.
Application forms, and a TIES calendar, can be found here.
Information about current TIES projects can be found here.
All applications for both TIPS and Small TIES grants should be forwarded to Ian Maxwell, the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning, either through the Faculty Office, or sent directly to Ian Maxwell, Department of Performance Studies, A20. The date for 2010 will be confirmed mid year.
This will allow the Teaching and Learning Committee to ensure that the suite of TIPS applications being made are consistent with the priorities of the Faculty's Strategic Plan. These applications will be signed off by the Dean.
Small TIES applications will be assessed by the Teaching and Learning Committee at its December meeting.
Contact Ian Maxwell with any inquiries.
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The purpose of the Scholarship Index is to provide financial rewards to departments whose staff members contribute to teaching quality through the scholarship of university teaching.
A Scholarship Index timetable, criteria, contact and submission details, as well as Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
Learning and Teaching Performance Fund
The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF) was introduced in 2006 to reward universities for excellence in learning and teaching for undergraduates. Over three funding rounds it has provided more than $220 million to Australian universities.
The LTPF is an evidence-based reward program that provides untied funding that allows universities to respond to their strategic aspirations. While the funding can be used for any purpose, almost all of the universities that have received LTPF funding have used it to support learning and teaching.


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Guide to the
1997 Economic Census
Retail Trade: 1997 Economic Census Reports
|What's New?
|Geographic Area Series
|ZIP Code Statistics
|Subject Series
|What's New for 1997?
Retail Trade redefined. NAICS changed everything!
Nonemployer report. Data for establishments with no paid employees are published in the separate Nonemployer Statistics report.
Most other census reports cover only establishments with paid employees.
Variable thresholds for data. Statistics by detailed kind of business in geographic area reports are provided for counties and places with 350 or more retail establishments with paid employees.
The 1982 criterion was 500 or more establishments, including those without paid employees. Under the new criterion, there are data for about the same number of counties and places as in 1982.
No rankings or derived measures. Tables incorporating ratios or rankings based on the published numbers are no longer included since any user can derive that information from databases on the Internet and CD-ROM.
Comparative statistics moved. Statistics from the previous census are no longer shown in Geographic Area Series reports, but are included in the separate Comparative Statistics report.
Measures of Value Produced, Capital Expenditures, Depreciable Assets, and Operating Expenses moved. This subject report is consolidated for several sectors into Business Expenses.
New Summary report. Only one retail trade report will be printed, the Summary, to be issued after all other reports are available in electronic form, and serving as a convenient summary of data from the other reports. This should not be confused with the U.S. Summary in the Geographic Area Series, which includes only national data.
EC97R44A-1 to -52 Geographic Area Series, @ #.
A separate report is issued for the United States, each State, and the District of Columbia. Each report contains statistics for establishments with payroll (see separate Nonemployer Statistics) on the number of establishments, employment, payroll, sales, and two data-quality items, by industry. Each state report presents the basic data items by industry for the state, for each metropolitan area, for each county, and for each place with 2,500 inhabitants or more. The number of kinds of business shown depends on the diversity and size of retailing in each area.
The two data-quality items shown on each data line help the user evaluate the reliability of the data: the percent of sales information obtained from administrative records of other federal agencies (typically income tax records), and the percent of sales information estimated, typically imputed by multiplying payroll as reported for payroll tax purposes by sales-to-payroll ratios reported by the same company in an earlier census, or by industry averages where historical information for the same company is not available. The sum of these two percents reflects two factors: the design effect of not sending census questionnaires to most very small companies, and nonresponse.
The U.S. Summary, EC97R44A-52, provides corresponding data at the national level.
The four key statistics, excluding first-quarter payroll and the data-quality items, are repeated for each industry and area in the Economy-Wide Key Statistics file for convenience in data manipulation across sectors.
This format appears in
EC97R44Z ZIP Code Statistics Series, @ #
ZIP Code Statistics includes data by retail NAICS codes for each five-digit ZIP Code on number of establishments in various sales-size and employment-size groups (see_____). These establishment counts by size class are not considered to be a disclosure of confidential information, so a data line is present for every kind of business with one or more establishments within a ZIP Code. Also included for each five-digit ZIP Code, for retail trade as a whole (not by kind of business), are statistics on sales, annual payroll, and number of employees.
Subject Series, EC97R44S-1 to -3:
EC97R44S-1 Merchandise Lines Sales # @ reveals what kinds of stores sell which kinds of merchandise and in what quantities. For example, it shows the different kinds of merchandise sold by radio and television stores as well as which other kinds of stores sell radios and televisions--important facts for marketers in related industries. Only national data are available included in viewable (pdf) reports. Internet and CD-ROM databases contain data for States, for MSA's, and for the area within each State outside any MSA.
The illustration for table 1 shows the 41 broad lines presented. In addition, more detailed lines are shown for certain kinds of business in table 1. Table 2 reorganizes the data to feature the kinds of business that carry each broad line.
EC97R44S-2. Establishment and Firm Size (including Legal Form of Organization) @ # presents data on the number of establishments, sales, payroll, and employment, cross-tabulated by kind of business by size of establishment, by size of firm, and by legal form of organization, for the United States. Establishment data are presented by sales size and employment size; data for firms, by sales size (including concentration by largest firms), by employment size, and by number of establishments operated.
EC97R44S-3. Miscellaneous Subjects # @ presents specialized data for the Nation as a whole and for States on floor space in general merchandise stores and food stores, and on class of customer for all retailers. (See chart.)
EC97R44??. Summary
After the publication of all area and subject reports for retail trade, a single volume will be published that summarizes the most widely used statistics from all of the previously issued retail trade reports. This summary reports will be the only retail census report actually issued in print.


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Definition of emigration in English:
emigrationLine breaks: emi|gra¦tion
Pronunciation: /ˌɛmɪˈɡreɪʃn /
noun[mass noun]
The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad: mass emigration from Ireland to the United States
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- The sale of fields, followed by the sale of the farm itself, and William's emigration to the USA suddenly made sense.
- There can hardly be a family in Ireland which did not lose sons or daughters to emigration during the 1950s.
- Tens of thousands sought emigration abroad every year in the years immediately following the crackdown.
moving abroad, moving overseas, expatriation, departure, withdrawal, migration, evacuation; exodus, diaspora; relocation, resettling; defection
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Tomorrow night will be the big finale of our July residency at the Echo. The night will start with VUM at 9, then Gothic Tropic at 10, and us at 11.
It is going to be a special night, undoubtedly, and the "release" of the night will be our hand made residency shirts. Completely free for those of you who stay through the end of the night. Coupled with that, the merch table will be transformed into a donation merch table. That means we will be accepting donations for our materials, rather than charging the regular. We want to say a proper thank you to everyone who joined us for the residency, and we are going to thank you through these gifts!


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This was a part of the story I had never heard.
And the minute that I heard it, something happened. It was as if a trap had snapped shut, to hold these words in my head. I did not exactly understand what use I would have for them. I only knew how they jolted me and released me, right away, to breathe a different kind of air, available only to myself… —
From "Family Furnishings," a story by this little-known writer named Alice Munro. These sentences, whether I think consciously about them or not, are with me every time I sit down to write a story.
Fiction: "The Gargantuans" by Daniel Hornsby, published by The Journal -
A gorgeously weird story about giants and captive children from a gorgeously weird young writer.
Writing Lessons: Chris McCormick | Ploughshares -
I wrote a dorky (but true, hopefully) mini-essay for Ploughshares' "Writing Lessons" feature. Check it out!
To say you've fashioned a novel from stories is to say you've fashioned an adult by standing one child on the shoulders of another. — William Giraldi, in a thought-provoking if not totally convincing essay on short story collections and novels at The Rumpus.
Fiction: "Carlos, Davy, Micah: Teenagers from Mars" by Ezra Carlsen, published by Sundog Lit -
A Misfits-inspired punk story from my co-blogger, Ez.
So to show my utter thankfulness upon waking, I make a pass of the Old City the next day. I stop in every quarter, pray at every place of worship I find. That's my secret, a flittingness. I favor no gods. Establish again and again my lack of allegiance … Staying alive means never blinking and never taking sides. — From Nathan Englander's brilliant short story, "In This Way We Are Wise," about a couple who survive an attack in a Jerusalem cafe.
The Southern Review is a great journal, and I wrote about why.
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A great story by an important emerging writer from the Bahamas.
Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery. — from Miranda July's short story, "Birthmark"
If you can still see how you could once have loved a person, you are still in love; an extinct love is always wholly incredible. — Michael Chabon's short story, "Ocean Avenue," begins with this line, one I happen to think about on a daily basis.
Fiction: "The Ten Headless Dead" by Ian Bassingthwaighte, published by Flavorwire -
Really love this story about ghosts, grief, and partnership. Check it out.
Fiction: "Wedding" by Elizabeth Ellen, published by elimae -
One of the stories from Elizabeth Ellen's book, Fast Machine. There's a gritty heaviness to even the shortest of her stories, but then a moment will come along that seems to clear everything up. Like the lights coming on toward the end of this story, for instance.


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Moon-day! Set your clock for the lunar eclipse
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Monday night's marvels are worth staying up late for: Not only will Mars be bigger and brighter than it's been for more than six years, but you'll also be able to see the first total lunar eclipse in more than two years.
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Want to name for a Mars Crater? It'll cost you $5
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS file)
Uwingu, a commercial venture that raises funds for space science, is following up on its exoplanet-naming campaign with a new effort that's closer to home: soliciting name suggestions for hundreds of thousands of Martian craters.
Opportunity rover finds fresh signs that ancient Mars was life-friendly
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Ten years after it landed on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover has hit pay dirt again: This time, the rover's scientists are reporting new evidence that garden-variety life could have thrived on the Red Planet billions of years ago.
India plans to launch first Mars mission, test large rocket this year
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India plans a feverish schedule of satellite launches in the second half of this year, including liftoff of the country's first robotic Mars mission and a crucial test of an indigenous rocket designed to loft large spacecraft to high-altitude orbits and deep space.
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'Mars rat' taking Internet by storm
(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A Mars rock that bears a passing resemblance to a rodent is scuttling across the Internet with gusto, even inspiring some fans to set up a Twitter account in its name.
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Aloha, Mars! What we'll eat, wear and play with to ease boredom in space
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One month into a NASA-funded simulated space mission, a team of "gastronauts" on the slopes of Mauna Loa is already figuring out what to have for dinner on Mars.
78,000 apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars
(Photo: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg)
Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteading on Mars.
Sex in space? Millionaire to send married couple to Mars
(Photo: Inspiration Mars)
Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito's plan to send two astronauts on a 501-day flight that zooms past Mars and swings back to Earth would set plenty of precedents on the final frontier — but the most intriguing precedent might have to do with the astronauts that are to be sent: one man and one woman, preferably a married couple beyond childbearing years. We're talking about sex in space, folks.
(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured its first nighttime view of the Red Planet using a camera and ultraviolet light on its robotic arm.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS)
The scientists behind NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover mission on Mars on Tuesday explained the nature of a tiny, gleaming "flower" embedded in Red Planet rock, and revealed where they'll be using the SUV-sized robot's drill for the first time.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo)
The cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover have been clicking away over the holidays — gathering enough pictures for a 360-degree panorama of its rocky surroundings at Yellowknife Bay, plus a close-up view showing a "Martian flower" seemingly sprouting from the surface.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech file)
NASA today announced a $1.5 billion plan to build another Mars rover based on the design of its current Curiosity rover, with the intention of sending it to the Red Planet in 2020 and perhaps storing up samples for later return to Earth.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech)
Although NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't yet confirmed the detection of organic compounds on Mars, it's already seeing that the Red Planet's soil contains water and more complex chemicals — including signs of an intriguing compound called perchlorate.
(Photo: NASA)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first soil analysis of the Red Planet with no sign of organic material, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday.
"Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect," NASA said in a statement. "At this point, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics."


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Kpop has had its share of non Korean members; Amber&Henry from F(X) and SUJUM are from Canada, Victoria from F(X)'s Chinese, Dara & Thunder from 2NE1 and MBLAQ are Filipino; but there has yet to be any Caucasian idols, or groups of idols all originating from some place outside of Asia. Yeah, well we won't be able to say that anymore.
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The day after Christmas, wrapping paper lines the floor, new acquisitions sit in a pile on your bed and you feel both relieved and disappointed for the madness and excitement to be over. This is the exact feeling of coming home after SXSW. Trash lines the streets, endless swag fills your Jansport backpack and you're at once excited to sleep but sad that the party's over. Before getting back to real life, let's reminisce on the past week (and ahead for next year). Here are a few tips for SXSW 2011:
1. Get a hotel near the convention center with friends. Before heading to Austin, check out where the convention center is and find a hotel around the area early on. There are shuttles that go to the hotels further out, but if you can shell out the extra $20 or so a night, definitely go for it. When you're trying to get to your hotel after Fang Island (the best set ever) at 2 am and the shuttle's load of drunken losers kill your buzz, you'll wish you had spent the extra money. Also, go with friends! Not only will it be cheaper, but sharing the entire experience will make it 100x better.
2. Pick up your badge first. When you get to Austin, pick up your badge and complimentary bag at the convention center first, and then go check in to your hotel. They often give you free swag when you first arrive, so it's best to drop everything off in your room at once rather than having to go back to your hotel right away.
3. Use the SXXpress badge and plan ahead. A new feature this year, the SXXpress badges are for those attendees who have music or platinum badges. SXXpress allows you to jump the line at one venue each night. However, if a show's at capacity, you can still be denied entry. If one show is sold out, have a backup plan ready to put into action immediately. You have to move and think fast in order to get into everywhere you want to. You can pick up these badges up on the 4th floor of the conference center.
4. Pack appropriately. Obviously this is a no-brainer. However, Saturday's cold weather left many people unprepared. You might want to throw in a hoodie or raincoat just in case. Also, ladies, don't wear heels. Chicks will look at you like you're crazy and creeps will try to take you home. Basically, wear comfortable shoes, don't get sunburn, but stay warm.
5. Stay hydrated and healthy. No, not with alcohol. Drink tons of water during the day; don't binge on tacos. A slice of pizza or two is great, but when you ate a whole pizza at noon and it's 8 pm and you're running to and from shows, it's not so great.
6. Wear earplugs! It doesn't matter how uncool you feel or how dorky they look. Standing next to the monitors at Visqueen and Sharon Jones was unreal, but getting to She & Him and only hearing static was so not worth it. So take care of yourself, and the experience will be a ton more enjoyable.
Above all of these things, the one thing you definitely should do is GO! The memories, sun and incredible music make everything at SXSW worth the money and time. Round up a group of friends and make it happen! This is a moment in life you will never regret making happen, but look back on and smile.


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Ringo Flinthammer said...
Alpha player here, starting with human push.
There were a number of problems with Ironforge 1.0, leading to lots of complaints on the alpha boards:
1) The elevator down to Tinker Town (where the tram tracks were) was horribly bugged and most of the time when you went down there, you'd fall through and die.
2) There was a TON of wasted space. Lots of empty areas that had nothing in them. Imagine if the Stormwind Canals had nothing in them.
3) They apparently decided to not do whatever instances were going to be down in Old Ironforge, more's the pity.
The revamp actually occurred pretty early on. As I recall, we only had the first Ironforge for the dwarf push (the second push of alpha) and by the time we got back there with the night elf push, it was redone.
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They could've fixed the buggy elevator and "wasted" space is a good thing IMO... The current old world cities do have some residential looking stuff but still not enough to make it look like a real city where people actually live and this only got worse with Shattrath and now Dalaran has no living quarters at all except maybe the inns... Where the hell do all those shop keepers sleep and eat? I love the random buildings with nothing but beds and tables and food and different objects in them because it give the impression that someone actually takes residence in the city and its not just a glorified strip mall...


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The evosport technicians installed the Mini Mania Stage 2 kit easily, giving us plenty of time for the fun part: testing the system on evosport's 248C Dynojet dynamometer. Just to be safe, evosport went ahead and monitored the air/fuel ratio to make sure we were always under 13.0:1.
With the Stage 2 kit installed Project Street S spun the dyno rollers, registering 176.2 whp at 7000 rpm with 152.6 lb-ft of twist at 4000 rpm. Peak increases were a very significant 24.5 hp and 19.1 lb-ft of torque right where the supercharger whines the most: at 6750 rpm. Testing was done on California's 91-octane, ping-prone fuel. But the car showed only smooth pulls without any sign of knock or pre-detonation.
After hearing the news, Mini Mania was somewhat disappointed, as the company had been dynoing around 185 whp with its Stage 2 kit. But it was the software that told the story. Right at 4500 rpm the car dumps so much fuel that the modestly rich reading of a mid-11 air/fuel ratio goes down off the chart-under 10:1-and stays there through redline. It's right in this area where the torque isn't quite as flat as it could be.
When asked about this, Mini Mania's Ken Suzuki said that all of their customers had been seeing normal air/fuel ratios, with several peaking over 180 whp. After being asked to put around 50 more miles on the car, Project Street S's new dyno runs revealed the same problem, too much fuel. At least it's not leaning out anywhere-we're definitely on the safer side of that spectrum.
Despite this, I was still excited to check it out the modifications. After warming it up properly, and within an instant of my first wide-open-throttle application, I was pleasantly amazed. The power increase was obvious throughout the entire rev range. and the car seemed to pull with total anger. The new sound of the considerably louder exhaust system and supercharger whine surely contributed to that sensation as well. Although the dyno showed the rich conditions, I couldn't detect any hesitations or sluggishness from the motor-this car hauls ass, and the motor sounds like it's still begging for more.
In the meantime, Mini Mania will be looking into the rich condition from 4500 rpm-on, which should be solved by the time you read this. So far, we are only 24 hp away from the desired 200. Perhaps some custom yet mild tweaks are in order-stay tuned to see how we getProject MINI closer to our goal.
Author's note: Special thanks to evosport for the install and dyno testing of the Mini Mania Stage2 power upgrade.


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April 02, 2012
COOPERSTOWN, NY – The National Pastime has bonded families throughout more than two centuries of baseball games in America and around the world.
On Thursday, April 12, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates that bond with Sibling Day in Cooperstown. In honor of Sibling Day, the Museum is offering a special buy-one, get-one free ticket offer to siblings of any age. The offer must be redeemed on arrival at the Museum's Ticket Booth.
The connection of generations on the diamond will be told through a special Authors Series program on April 12 with noted children's author Audrey Vernick. The 1 p.m. event in the Museum's Bullpen Theater will feature Vernick discussing her new book "Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team." A book signing will follow the program, which is included with the cost of Museum admission.
The book focuses on the Acerra Brothers, a Long Branch, N.J., family which fielded a 12-man semi-pro baseball team from 1938-52. The team played under the guidance of their father, Louis "Pop" Acerra, and competed throughout the Eastern United States.
For more information on Family Day, please visit www.baseballhall.org.
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This is why...: ...I chose Satanism.
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Wow Bogie, what amazing images! I have so many ideas for my campaign maps...
A couple of house roofs, I don't think I ever posted these here before ( but I could be mistaken )
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These resources are so awesome that it made my stomach turn. Rep!!!
Do you happen to have more of these houses somewhere? They look great for some city-mapping :) Perhaps a wall/gate element?
Thanks, Glad you like them.
Most of the the houses I made are posted at Dundjinni Forums, this link will take you to that post.
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I never made a Wall/Gate element, but this link will take you to a great set made by TheSim
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Thank you! I will have a ton of fun with these!
They will help me tremendously
Absolutely awesome houses Bogie.
Here's a simple wall I made. Should be able to chop it up easy enough. Textures are from one of the sites you mentioned :D.
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I could of textured the right and left side for added realism. Didn't think of it until just now. Will catch it later when I've got more time.
I also left the strokes bold, I like the way it makes the object kick.
After seeing some of your work, I'm motivated to get down on some serious texturing. Though, some of the angles you can hit while texturing are crazy, such as on your houses. I'd love to see the PDF of them.
Did you mean you would like to see the Photoshop PSD file? If so, I don't really know what I'm doing with Photoshop and I usually just throw stuff together and play with it till I like how it looks. Lots of trial and error - cut and paste. I don't often think of saving the .psd file, just the png file at the end.


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The Green Party wants the Auditor-General to look into how SkyCity was chosen as the preferred bidder to build a national convention centre in Auckland.
Co-leader Metiria Turei has written to Lyn Provost claiming a potential breach of state sector guidelines and rules for the procurement of public services over the process.
She has asked for an investigation into the roles played by Prime Minister John Key and Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and well as the expressions of interest process.
"It is important that all the normal rules around government procurement have been followed.
"If the rules have not been followed, and SkyCity has received an unfair advantage, then the process needs to start again," she said.
A deal for SkyCity to build the $350 million centre in Auckland is being negotiated and Mr Key says it has almost been sealed.
It has been criticised because of SkyCity's wish to increase the number of pokie machines in exchange for building the centre.
The Greens and other opposition parties are against it and claim the government is "selling legislation".
"The Green Party believes it is wrong to change the law so SkyCity can get hundreds more pokie machines when all credible research shows that increased opportunities to gamble equals increased social harm," Mrs Turei said.
Mr Key says the centre will employ 800 once it opens will need 900 to build it and will result in 200,000 more visitor nights a year once it is operational.
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Grambling State (0-9, 0-6) remained winless after Texas Southern scored on Jamal Small's 3-yard run to end the overtime.
Texas Southern (2-6, 1-5) overcame a 17-7 deficit. D.J. Williams threw for 261 yards and two touchdowns for the Tigers.
The Grambling State players returned to the prctice field Monday after staging a six-day walkout, including a boycott of an away game at Jackson State which was ruled a forfeit.
The players were unhappy over the firing of head coach Doug Williams in September, while also saying their travel by bus to some road games was over excessive distances and that they have been subjected to unhealthy, dangerous facilities.
Defensive coordinator Dennis "Dirt" Winston was named the team's interim head coach last week, following the firing of George Ragsdale, who replaced Williams.
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High levels of indoor pollutants can affect every office environment. A NASA study has shown that plants effectively remove indoor pollutants, cleaning the air for office workers, helping to create a better and safer work environment. EPA studies have shown indoor air pollutants can be 20 to 100 times higher than the level of outdoor air pollution.
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"Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution, based on research conducted by NASA.
NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) today announced the findings of a 2-year study that suggests that common indoor plant may provide a natural way of combating "sick building syndrome". An acute incidence of indoor air pollution that can occur in closed or poorly ventilated offices and residences.
Research into the use of biological processes, as a means of solving environmental problems both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wolverton, a senior research scientist at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Based on preliminary evaluations of the use of common indoor plants for indoor air purification and revitalization, ALCA joined NASA to fund a study of about a dozen popular varieties of ornamental plants to determine their effectiveness in removing several key pollutants associated with indoor air pollution.
Each plant type was placed in sealed, plexiglass chambers in which chemicals were injected. Philodendron, Spider plant and the Golden pothos were labeled as the most effective in removing formaldehyde. Flowering plants such as the Gerbera daisy and Chrysanthemums were rated superior in removing benzene from the chamber atmosphere.
Other plants demonstrated to be effective air purifiers include the Bamboo palm, Peace lily, Ficus, Dracaena massangeana cane, Mother-in-Law's tongue (Sanseveria), English Ivy and Chinese evergreen species.
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