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A mother, a gun enthusiast and the first victim
Published: December 17 2012 - 9:30AMA gun-loving survivalist who home-schooled her son, Nancy Lanza became the first victim of his shooting spree, carried out with some of her guns.
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Nancy Lanza loved guns, and often took her sons to one of the shooting ranges in the suburbs northeast of New York City, where there is an active community of gun enthusiasts, her friends said. At a local bar, she often talked about her gun collection.
It was one of those guns that was apparently used to take her life on Friday. Her killer was one of her sons, Adam Lanza, 20, who then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 26 more people, 20 of them small children, the authorities said. He then shot himself.
Nancy Lanza's fascination with guns has become an important focus of attention as investigators sought to determine what caused Adam Lanza to carry out one of the worst massacres in the US's history.
Investigators have linked Nancy Lanza to five weapons: two handguns, a semi-automatic rifle and two traditional hunting rifles. Her son took the two handguns and the semi-automatic rifle to the school.
Law-enforcement officials said they believed the guns were acquired lawfully and were registered.
Nancy Lanza was also reportedly a "survivalist" whose fear of an impending global financial collapse led to her becoming self-reliant, the UK Daily Mail reported.
Nancy Lanza's sister-in-law, Marsha Lanza, 57, said: "She was stockpiling food. We talked about prepping a lot. She was getting ready for the economic collapse.
"I think she had the guns for self-defence because she lived alone", adding that Nancy was "meticulous" and would "never leave the guns out".
The Lanza family had been disrupted by divorce in 2008. Nancy Lanza split from her husband of 17 years, an executive at General Electric, court records show, and he moved out. Adam stayed with his mother.
In a statement on Saturday night, the father, Peter Lanza, said he was co-operating with investigators. "We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can," he said. "We too are asking why."
He added: "Like so many of you, we are saddened but struggling to make sense of what has transpired."
Nancy Lanza lived in a large colonial home with her son, and had struggled to help him cope with a developmental disorder that often left him reserved and withdrawn, relatives, friends and former classmates said.
At some point, he had dropped out of the Newtown school system. She had an older son, Ryan, who did not live with them.
Marsha Lanza said that Adam Lanza had been home-schooled for a time because his mother was not "satisfied with the school".
His former classmates described Lanza as nervous.
"He was always different — keeping to himself, fidgeting and very quiet," said a classmate, Alex Israel.
"But I could always tell he was a super-smart kid, maybe just socially awkward, something just off about him. The same went for when I went to his house. His mother was always nice to me, she was a kind, typical suburban mum as far as I remember. As time went on, he continued to keep to himself and I branched out more, so not much contact with him after middle school.
"By the time high school came around he did sort of disappear," she added. "I'd see him in the halls walking quickly with his briefcase he carried, but I never had a class with him and never saw him with friends. I was yearbook editor and I remember he declined to be photographed or give us a senior quote or baby picture."
News reports on Friday suggested that Nancy Lanza had worked at the elementary school, but at a news conference the school superintendent said there was no evidence that she had ever worked at the school as a full-time or substitute teacher, or in any other capacity.
The authorities said it was not clear why Adam Lanza went to the school.
Whatever problems Nancy Lanza's son had, she herself was sociable and active in the community, friends said. Lanza, 52, was a slender woman with blonde shoulder-length hair who enjoyed craft beers, jazz and landscaping. She was generous to strangers, but also high-strung, they said, as if she were holding herself together.
She often went to a local restaurant and music spot, My Place, where at beer tastings on Tuesday evenings, she often talked about her gun collection, recalled an acquaintance, Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping company in Newtown.
"She had several different guns," Holmes said. "I don't know how many. She would go target shooting with her kids."
In a statement on Saturday, other members of the Lanza family called Nancy Lanza a "kind, considerate loving young lady", but did not answer questions about her guns or about her son.
"On behalf of Nancy's mother and siblings," the statement said, "we reach out to the community of Newtown and express our heartfelt sorrow for the incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence that has affected so many."
Many of those who knew Nancy Lanza were at a loss to describe what she did for a living. Louise Tambascio, the owner of My Place, said she had not been working full-time but volunteered occasionally in the community. "She stayed with Adam," Ms Tambascio said, adding that, as a younger child, he "couldn't get along with the kids in school."
Nancy Lanza spoke often of her landscaping, Mr Holmes recalled, and later hired him to do work on her home. Last week, he dispatched a team to put up Christmas decorations at her house - garlands on the front columns and white lights atop the shrubbery.
After the work was complete, she sent Mr Holmes a text: "That went REALLY well! Two people took care of the gardens and gutters and one decorated. Very efficient and everything looks great! Thank you!"
Jim Leff, a musician, often sat next to her at the bar and made small talk, he said in an interview on Saturday.
On one occasion, Mr Leff said, he had gone to Newtown to discuss lending money to a friend. As the two men negotiated the loan, Nancy Lanza overheard and offered to write the man a cheque.
"She was really kind and warm," Mr Leff said, "but she always seemed a little bit high-strung."
He declined to elaborate, but in a post on his personal website, he said he felt a distance from her that was explained when he heard, after the shootings, "how difficult her troubled son [Adam] was making things for her".
She was "handling a very difficult situation with uncommon grace", he wrote.
She was "a big, big gun fan", he added on his website.
There are many gun enthusiasts in this area, residents said.
When some people who live near the elementary school heard the shots fired by Adam Lanza on Friday, they said they were not surprised.
"I really didn't think anything of it," said a resident, Ray Rinaldi. "You hear gun shots around here all the time."
Neighbours recalled Nancy Lanza as sociable, a regular at Labour Day picnics and "ladies' nights out" for a dice game called bunco.
"We would rotate houses," said Rhonda Cullens, 52, a neighbour since Nancy Lanza moved to Newtown with her husband and two children. "I don't remember Nancy ever having it at her house."
Ms Cullens said Nancy Lanza had not discussed an interest in guns with her, but spoke often about gardening - exchanging the sorts of questions typical of the neighbourhood: What can you plant that the deer would not eat? Is such maintenance worth the trouble for a house like the Lanzas, perched on the back of a steep hill and scarcely visible from the street? "She was complaining, 'Here, I'm doing all this landscaping up here and nobody can see it'," Ms Cullens recalled.
But for many of those on Yogananda Street, where the Lanzas lived and where the police had cordoned off much of the block, the recollections were incomplete.
"Who were they?" said Len Strocchia, 46, standing beside his daughter as camera crews came through the neighbourhood. "I'm sure we rang their door bell on Halloween."
He looked down the block, then turned back to his daughter. "I'm sure of it," he said.
Marsha Lanza, also struggled to make sense of events. "I just don't have an answer," she said, starting to cry. "I wish I had an answer for you. I wish somebody had saw it coming."
New York Times, with Adrian Lowe
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-mother-a-gun-enthusiast-and-the-first-victim-20121216-2bi6h.html


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Obama: U.S. Will Assist Malaysia Airlines Crash Investigation
Video: Obama's remarks
WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama on Thursday said the U.S. would assist in determining the cause of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane near the Russia-Ukraine border, telling Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko in a call that evidence at the crash site must "remain in place" until international investigators arrive.
Mr. Obama called the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane near the Russia-Ukraine border an apparent tragedy. He added he had directed his national security team to stay in close contact with the Ukrainian government.
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"The United States will offer any assistance we can to help determine what happened and why," he said in brief remarks ahead of a planned speech on infrastructure in Delaware, noting officials were trying to determine if American citizens were on board.
"The world is watching reports of a downed passenger near the Russia-Ukraine border," he said. "And it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy."
Mr. Obama spoke with Mr. Poroshenko by phone later to offer "all possible assistance immediately," the White House said.
Both leaders warned against tampering with the wreckage. "All evidence from the crash site must remain in place on the territory of Ukraine until international investigators are able to examine all aspects of the tragedy," the White House said.
In another call, Mr. Obama offered condolences to Prime Minister Najib Razak and told the Malaysian leader the U.S. stood ready "to provide any assistance or support necessary," the White House said.
Mr. Obama, while visiting New York City for a fundraiser, spoke with members of his national security team for an update on the Malaysian Airline crash, and directed them to offer "whatever assistance is necessary to advance the international effort to determine what happened," the White House said. Mr. Obama was briefed by CIA Director John Brennan, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other officials.
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday also spoke with Mr. Poroshenko and offered U.S. assistance to determine the cause of crash.
Mr. Biden, speaking at a conference in Detroit, said Mr. Poroshenko had accepted the offer and the U.S. would send a team to Ukraine "to determine what happened." Additional details, such as timing or the team's makeup, weren't immediately available.
Mr. Biden said the plane "apparently had been shot down — shot down, not an accident, blown out of the sky." He said this "is a truly grave situation" and "there are many questions that need to be answered, and we'll get those answers and then we'll take the next steps accordingly."
U.S. intelligence agencies believe the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and reports of the downed jet were briefly discussed. A White House official said the president was also briefed about the crash. The president didn't note the conversation or conflicting reports of how the plane crashed.


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The Salt Lake City School District, under the handle @slcschools, recently reached 1,000 followers on Twitter. Its Facebook page is covered with accolades for teachers in the district, recaps of holiday service projects and a picture of Santa Claus next to a statue of a ram at Highland High.
Social media, a growing force around the world, is growing in schools around the valley as well. It not only links parents and students to important stories and happenings inside the districts, but also will be an important component to keeping children safe in the future.
Granite was the first district in Utah to embrace social media. Under the guidance of communications director Ben Horsley, Granite's twitter feed, @GraniteSchools, has grown to more than 3,400 followers. Horsley started the feed in 2009, initially to communicate with the media, but has seen rapid expansion among Gen-X parents.
"It's a demonstrated fact that parental engagement is key to student success," Horsley said. "Our overriding goal is to increase community engagement, and Facebook and Twitter are tools we've found to be very successful at doing that."
While many educational feeds, consisting mostly of event updates, remain distant and faceless, Horsley says interacting with users makes a big difference in quality. Horsley joked around with students in recent weeks complaining about shortened holiday schedules and also uses the Twitter account to answer direct questions from parents.
Ryan Shattuck, a social-media expert who updated and maintained the Twitter account for presidential candidate Gary Johnson, says that's the best approach to keeping the feeds relevant.
"Too many corporations and organizations make the mistake of keeping their social-media feeds so professional-sounding that they come across as personality-less automatons," hesaid.
With recent safety debates rising in public schools, Horsley has also seen, firsthand, the importance social media will play in awareness and security. When West Lake Junior High was put on lockdown just after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., the Twitter feed became like a town hall, providing updates and answering up-to-the-minute questions from concerned parents.
"Often, we get more responses or connections to our social media than we get through traditional methods like phone messages and email," Horsley said. "The feedback portion is also critical. It gives people an outlet to report unsafe behavior anonymously and keep us informed about what's going on."
Shattuck agrees.
"It takes a couple of minutes to make a phone call or send an email about a potential issue with school safety," he said. "It takes only 30 seconds to post a tweet or post to Facebook."
Twitter: @sltribWest
At a glance
Granite School District has tweeted more than 3,200 times, often making it a point to update multiple times per day.
Salt Lake City and Granite school districts have made Twitter and Facebook updates part of their emergency-preparedness plans.
Along with the district feeds, Granite spokesman Ben Horsley says it is important for parents to follow the feeds at individual schools. Each school maintains its own account.


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Revolutionary 3D laser scanner brings a modern twist to ancient Egypt's treasures
22 November 2012
Visits to museums on rainy afternoons have just become
a lot more interesting thanks to revolutionary technology that allows
artefacts to be scanned and modelled in 3D and then studied from all
angles in a way the original could never be. UCL's Petrie Museum has
benefited from a shared-use agreement between the university and
Canadian firm Arius3D, which makes the colour laser scanners.
The six-year collaboration, negotiated by Dr Anna Clark, UCL Corporate Partnerships, is one of the university's most enduring business relationships. The technology has attracted interest from a range of disciplines, from engineering to biomedicine, architecture to psychology. Arius3D has benefited from its association with a world-class university.
To curators and conservators of museums everywhere, restoring and preserving the priceless objects in their care is an ongoing concern. For a small but important museum like UCL's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, which houses items such as one of the oldest dresses and a fragment from the earliest calendar, this presents a dilemma: you want the treasures to be seen and studied by as many people as possible, but you need to keep them in the dark – literally. "We have to keep the lighting low to protect the artefacts from deterioration. We offer visitors the loan of torches," says Tonya Nelson, Manager of the Petrie Museum.
The challenge
For the past five years, a very 21st century object has, well, shone a light on the way ahead. It is a state-of-the-art 3D colour laser scanner, made by Canadian firm Arius3D, and it has provided a new way of bringing the collection out of storage (only 10%, or 8,000, artefacts are on display at any one time). Scanning is a painstaking process, as the laser must pass over an artefact many times to capture it from all sides and then the scans must be assembled into a model. But afterwards, says Tonya, "the models can be rotated and viewed from angles and perspectives not possible in the real displays. 3D scanning and visualisation not only preserves objects but enhances the visitor experience, letting people see things in ways they never have before."
The partners
That UCL is now taking a leading role in setting international standards and practice in 3D laser technology and visualisation in the heritage sector is largely due to the close collaboration between the university and Arius 3D. That relationship began when Dr Anna Clark, Director of UCL Corporate Partnerships, heard about the scanner through Professor Bernard Buxton, then Dean of UCL Engineering Sciences, and began a two-year process of negotiations with the company that involved the Canadian High Commission, the multidisciplinary UCL Chorley Institute, Prof.
Stuart Robson of UCL Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering and Sally MacDonald, Director of UCL Museums and Collections.
late 2006 the scanner, worth £500,000 and the first of its kind in
Europe, was installed on loan in a specially refurbished area within the
Chorley Institute. Arius3D maintains the scanner, develops appropriate
software and trains staff in its use. Dr Clark says: "Arius3D was the
first outside company to have a presence in UCL, with its name on the
door." Six years on, UCL has renewed its contract with Arius3D for the
second time, for a further two years. "It's a most unusual and
groundbreaking deal, spanning two continents and bringing arts and
sciences together around the table. The original teams are still in
place, which adds to the sense of continuity," says Dr Clark.
The outcomes
the creation of 3D image libraries and digital learning tools based on
the Petrie Museum collection, the scanner has helped generate more than
£3.5 million of research funding proposals. Workshops and seminars have
attracted UCL staff from a wide variety of disciplines as well as
external institutions such as the British Museum and the National Trust.
association with one of the top universities in the world has given
Arius3D, a young (established in 1998) and small (less than 50
employees) company, a global profile. Susan Dineen, Business Development
Manager, says: "It gives us credibility. People can read about us
independently in UCL's research papers. It helps to convince people that
we are doing something special." The collaboration has also led to
technical improvements – the firm has now automated the process of
assembling the scans into a model.
which also works closely with Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum scanning
its Native American artefacts, won the UCL Small to Medium Enterprise
Partner of the Year Award in 2011.
Ongoing developments
is becoming a scanning 'centre of excellence', with applications for a
range of sectors including engineering, biosciences, medicine,
dentistry, anthropology, art and architecture. UCL is exploring
expanding its scanning research to its Qatar campus, which offers
degrees in archaeology and conservation. The Petrie Museum is looking at
licensing agreements and royalty provisions which will be administered
by UCL Business.
Tonya says: "People remain
fascinated by all things Egyptian. Look at the popularity of the recent
Book of the Dead exhibition at the British Museum. Or the number of
blockbuster films that draw on this period of history, like The Mummy.
Bringing ancient Egypt's treasures to life in 3D on their computer
screens is an exciting way to move that obsession into the future."


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ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross showed up unannounced at practice with a camera crew. He was asked to leave by a USC official.
Sports information director Tim Tessalone said Ross was not allowed at practice because he was not previously approved and did not fill out the necessary paperwork.
Also, USC football coach Lane Kiffin will attend a news conference in El Paso, Texas, today and said he expects questions about linebacker Tony Burnett's critical comments about the city and the Sun Bowl.
"We discussed it with Tony immediately," Kiffin said. "We were disappointed with what Tony said. We're excited about (going to El Paso for the Sun Bowl)."
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A man who shot and killed a Caltech employee on campus in 1995 has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Fifty-seven-year-old Raul Romero was sentenced Thursday. He also was told to pay $9,000 to the victim's family for funeral expenses.
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Just to give you an idea of how bad it is, no one knows exactly how bad it is. In a world where various media outlets clamber all over you for something like this, the brute fact that no one knows just how huge the clusterfuck is should be telling you something. I dare you to go to Playstation's official blog and comb through their Q&A sessions, and then tell me exactly how bad this was. I double dog dare you. I know that, after reading those Q&As, I find myself terrified for the safety of my XBox Live stuff and I don't even have a credit card attached to that account. That's how bad this is sounding. It's sounding so bad that people can actually worry about competing products.
Frankly, as bad as the PSN going down for almost a week is, what's worse is how the company decided to handle how it informed its customers of this 'malicious intrusion' and exactly what it means to them. Days of silence. If you shut down an entire online social gaming network because someone managed to penetrate your security and stole credit card information from it, the time to tell us is when it happens. Customers should not be reading about how the network may have been breached five days later. The first discussion of what exactly happened to people's personal information on the PSN servers shouldn't be six days later.
The intrusion and theft are bad, awful, horrible for consumers. But Sony's decision to basically tell them nothing for days and days while also not providing the service they paid for in this fashion was just a terrible choice on their part. People should have known within a day or two why they couldn't connect. They should have known if they needed to change their credit card or debit card information, even if it wasn't actually compromised, just to feel safe. Sony should have given their customers a chance to take that action and get that sense of security as a gesture of respect to the people who pay for the service. Cover their asses before you cover your own.
I'm not currently a PS3 owner, but I did play a Sony MMO for a while, and right about now I'm glad I didn't give them my credit card or debit card information. Based on how they handled this situation I would absolutely not want Sony to have that information. That's not how you deal with a crisis. You don't make it so that your customers sigh in relief that they used a pre-paid credit card to play your game. It's not the kind of opinion that gets people to come back.


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Was Babe Ruth Under Paid?
This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index, using baseball players' salaries for purposes of illustration. Babe Ruth's salary from 1931 is adjusted to account for changes in the price level and is then compared to the salaries of those playing major league baseball players today.
Consumer Price Index (CPI), Inflation, Price
- Use the consumer price index (CPI).
- Understand that changes in the rate of inflation relative to changes in earnings can improve or worsen purchasing power.
- Understand that constant dollar figures are more useful for making comparisons than current dollar figures.
In 1931, Babe Ruth made $80,000 per year. Was the Great Bambino overpaid or underpaid according to today's standards? On average, Major League Baseball (MLB) players today earn $2,272,620 per year. This lesson will provide you with tools for answering this question. [Explain to the students that prices have also risen over this time period making this question more complicated than it appears.] Determine whether Babe Ruth was overpaid or underpaid in comparison to today's MLB players. This question can be answered by using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to adjust Ruth's salary for changes in the price level.
CPI: US City Average Chart: This chart provides data CPI December 2005.
USA Today: This site presents data on salaries for today's MLB players
What is a Dollar Worth?:This site provides an inflation calculator
What is a Dollar Worth: This site contains information regarding Consumer Price Index (CPI) data
This is a calculator that can be used for any math problem.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) can be used to compare dollar figures from different times accurately. The students may have heard their grandparents telling them that they remember when a gallon of gas cost a quarter or a loaf of bread cost a dime. But those numbers by themselves don't tell us how expensive things were in the old days compared to now. It's the same with salary figures from the past. For example in 1931 when Babe Ruth had a batting average of .373 with 46 home runs and 163 RBIs, an ice-cream cone cost five cents and going to a movie in a theater cost a quarter. Ruth's salary then was $80,000 per year. But it is not clear from that salary figure alone whether Ruth enjoyed better or worse purchasing power than today's players.
In order to investigate this question, a couple of concepts from economics must be introduced. First, the inflation rate: It is the percentage of increase in the price level of the economy as measured by the CPI. The CPI tracks the overall price change for a fixed basket of goods and services bought by a typical working-class urban family over time. It is a measure of price changes in consumer goods - also known as the "cost of living index." The CPI "basket" contains goods and services that have been chosen for the CPI survey. Imagine a shopping basket loaded up with fruit, chocolate, meat, chips and other items from each of the nine groups of goods and services used in the CPI . The items in the basket must be identical in quantity and quality over a period of time. Some changes in prices may be due to increased quality or improved packaging, but these are not "pure" price changes. When this happens, price adjustments are made to remove the effect of these changes.
We can also distinguish between current dollars and constant dollars. The value of the income (or purchase) at the time it was actually earned (or spent) is measured in current dollars. Current dollars are dollars from other time periods converted into present-day dollars, in order to factor out the effects of inflation. Adjusting a current dollar figure to show the impact of inflation on the purchasing power converts the figure into constant dollars. Constant dollars eliminate the changes in the purchasing power of the dollar over time. The result is a series as it would exist if the dollar had a purchasing power equal to its purchasing power in the base year. For example, it is more useful to compare the change in annual wages measured in constant dollars than in current dollars because of the effect of inflation on purchasing power. While wages in current dollars may have risen over time, wages in constant dollars may have declined because prices of goods and services that workers bought rose more than wages.
Given all of this, how do we actually make the comparison? Well, this is done using a simple formula as follows:
Note: * = multiplication
Salary in Constant Dollars (Recent Year) = Salary in Current Dollars (Old Year)*(CPI in Recent Year/CPI in Old Year)
[Using data on the consumer price index from the web page above we can determine what Ruth's constant dollar salary was as follows:
Ruth salary in 2005 Constant Dollars= Ruth Salary in 1931 Current Dollars * (CPI in 2005/CPI in 1931)
$1,027,895 = $80,000 * (195.3/15.2)
[Ruth's salary in constant 2005 dollars was about $1 million per year. This is clearly lower than even the average baseball player makes today, and much less than the stars make (Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees is the highest-paid MLB Player at $22 million per year). In 2005, 426 MLB players made the same as or more than the great Babe Ruth.]
President Hoover made $75,000 per year in 1931. President Bush earned $400,000 in 2005. Who earned more in constant or 2005 dollars?
[$963,651 = $75,000 * (195.3/15.2)
Hoover was paid significantly more than Bush when changes in the price level are considered.]
This lesson introduces the idea of inflation and the consumer price index. Students learn how to adjust dollar figures from previous times and compare them to dollar figures today by using a formula or by using the inflation calculator.
Show the students this Inflation Calculator
from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Have the students choose a dollar amount and year: the calculator will determine what that dollar amount is worth in today's dollars.
Have the students fill in the following activity using the formula [Salary in Constant Dollars (Recent Year) = Salary in Current Dollars (Old Year)*(CPI in Recent Year/CPI in Old Year)], CPI Data
and the CPI Inflation Calculator.
President Truman made $100,000 in 1949, today President Bush makes $400,000. How much would President Truman's salary be in 2005? [President Truman's salary would be $817,647.05 in 2005.]
Legendary Colts quarterback, Johnny Unitas, made $7,000 in 1956. Is this more than the $535,000 current quarterback, Peyton Manning makes? [Johnny Unitas' salary would be $50,080.88, which is not more than Peyton Manning's.]
Lyndon Johnson made $200,000 as President in 1969. Would this be more than President Bush's salary of $400,000? [Lyndon Johnson's salary would be $1,060,490, which is much more than President Bush's today.]
- Michael Jordan made $33,140,000 during the 1997-98 season. How much would this be in 2005 dollars? [Jordan would be making $40,180,959.50 in 2005 dollars.]
[Answers may vary slightly due to rounding.]
"Fantastic! Relevant, contemporary use of essential economic concepts. All students will enjoy and learn useful information and skills."
"The students really enjoyed this lesson, as did I! Using relevant information to teach this difficult concept was wonderful!"
"This exercise is quite simplistic. The Yankees and baseball had much, much lower revenue levels; much lower attendance; no TV and cable (this is huge!); no internet; etc."
"Great info on the Babe, but could the Babe hit today's hard throwing pitchers? Back when he played, there was hardly any relief pitching and the Babe most likly faced a tired-out starter, thus giving him a better chance to drive in runs or hit another homer. Still, the Babe was worth it and if he was here the Yanks would give him a boatload of money. 2008 numbers? 50 homers, 140 RBI, 125 Runs, 0.333 Ba.=20 million per year"


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Excellent location, access to beach, pools, included breakfast Extremely loud and weak air conditioner. Terrible shower with extremely weak water pressure.
The location was great, the facilities were mostly cleaned (except for the one item I'll address in the next section), the staff was fairly helpful and we always felt secure. About half of the breakfast items were uncovered so flies were constantly around or on the fruits and pastries. They clearly put a lot of effort into the morning preparation so I don't understand why they would leave so much of it uncovered. The hotel restaurant was pretty bad. The free breakfasts were good (except for the flies) but the lunches and dinners were very poor. The menu looks great but the actual food itself seemed very low quality. Luckily the hotel is surrounded by good restaurants so the poor hotel restaurant was not a huge issue for us.
Everything was excellent but the food, which was just ok - except the fresh Red Snapper we caught off shore that the hotel chef prepared Casado style. Clearly the highlight resort facility at Tamarindo, the staff was prompt, courteous, and attentive. We found excellent food an easy walk away, both beachfront brew house, fish shack, sushi, and high end seafood. The complimentary breakfast and beach front bar food were average.
Great Location
Location,location ,location Food was great A/c was very weak even after staff adjusted it. Beds outdated
Resort was very nice and in a great location. Room was clean and right on the beach. Staff was friendly and very helpful. No guests are allowed in rooms.
You get a little bit of beach and a little bit resort and a little bit local town, all in one great, compact resort...though it is not small by any means. Great breakfast! Nope. Liked it all a great deal.
Felling of being safe and close to beach Nothing
Front desk staff was not friendly and did not try to be accommodating to family traveling together. We had booked two rooms but was given two rooms that were on opposite ends of the resort.
Location is perhaps the most convenient in Tamarindo, the outdoor facilities by the beach are pretty ay-ok The staff wasn't very accommodating / helpful. The king suite with balcony -- which seemed to be the nicest room available -- was mediocre. Quite a boring hotel experience overall for $250/night.
The grounds were amazing. View of sunsets are perfect. Terrible overpriced food. Staff seemed cranky.
Beautiful views on the coast, the facility was wonderful and had great service. Rooms were large enough for four of us to share for a week. The resort is far from just about everything else. It's a 15 minute ride to the nearest town and $7 per person each way for a shuttle. All the adventures are at least a 2 hour bus ride, or more.
Arco Iris had a great feel to it. The pool is very nice. Richard is a super cool guy and is extremely friendly. We had to leave at 4:00 am to catch our flight and Richard gave us some fruit, muffins, and juice. He offered that up without us even asking. We were very happy with the location. You are just far enough from the noise of the main street, but still able to walk to everything. The beach is maybe a 5 minute walk. There is a walking path from the hotel to a road with tons of great restaurants. If you feel like staying in for a nice meal, they lease their dining space to one of the best restaurants in Tamarindo, Seasons by Shlomy. We traveled to 4 different cities in Costa Rica and this hotel was our favorite by far. The air conditioner in our room was kind of weak. It worked a little better at night. We weren't around much during the day so it didn't bother us much.
Nothing The place was disgusting, I should had listen to reviews bout rooms not being clean but I gave it the benefit of doubt. First the pillows had hair on them, the towels in the bathroom were like stain with paint or something and worse part is the bathroom smelled like week old sweaty clothes( not exaggerating). There was a shirt hanging on curtains from previous guest. There was a fridge but it didn't work! I left the place, there was no way I could sleep there let alone shower and use those towels. The pics are deceiving and I don't know who reviewed this place but my experience was. Awful!
We had a room right by pool. We were assured the pool would be closed at 10:00 pm. People kept us up until 3:00 am. A few hours later it was loud people outside the door and shortly thereafter were cleaning ladies with trash cans making their rounds. It was horrible. I didn't stay the other two nights I booked and was told they weren't responsible for returns since I purchased with a third party. When my third party tried to reach them, they didn't answer all day.
Really good value for the money. The reception staff were friendly and helpful. The grounds are generally fairly charming. Convenient, decent little view of the water from the restaurant pool area. The room was fully adequate. Housekeeping was good. When I requested an ironing board it came very promptly. Not right in town but a very short walk from the beach. Good restaurants within easy walking distance either way down the road. Bar serves plenty of beer and fine drinks. The rooms and overall grounds are a bit tired and dated. This isn't a high-end luxury experience. The bar/pool/restaurant are equally sort of mid-range. Nothing wrong with them, but not swanky or particularly nice. The restaurant/bar is called Crazy Monkey... that should give you a notion. Just need to have appropriate expectations.
I really liked the location of the hotel, even though it wasn't directly on the beach. But it was right in front, less than a 10 minute walk!! The pool area has a beautiful view of the beach to relax and enjoy. The reception office is a bit of a walk to get to but they are all helpful. They gave me advice regarding traveling by bus. The room is nicely decorated and the shower is pretty big! The bed was a tad small but overall great room. I didn't like that you couldn't order room service, or I did not know how. I also didn't like the size of the bed but I understand I booked by third party so bed type isn't guaranteed.
Location location location close to nice Tamarindo beach! Staff was cordial and rooms were decent with the breakfast reasonable. Very Noisy adults only type party at bar on Friday night- could not sleep till past 2.15! Not what I had bargained for when booking the place. Facilities are ok- you get what you pay for.
The hospitality
Kevin and the staff were fantastic. From start to end they were so welcoming, helpful, and friendly. The breakfast every morning really started the day out correctly. So good! The rooms are amazing and the whole chill, chic, vibe of the place made for a great complement to the Tamarindo experience. A little oasis from the beach and the town. Seeming complaint at first is really a strength; little tricky to get to but the map they provide is immensely helpful. Nice that it's a street or two away from the main strip.
Hotel Luna Llena was amazing we were traveling with a 8 month old so we really enjoyed the quiet setting, just a block away from the beach and the main part of Tamarindo, we had a car rented but didnt have to drive unless we left town. Clean rooms and friendly staff we stayed in bungalow 6, it had a loft with two twin beds and the main floor had a king bed with a kitchen and bathroom. Cable TV, we don't speak spanish but was good to have cartoons for the little one. All the rooms are centered around the pool offering food and drinks from noon-3 and 6-9PM. The landscaping was very nice, providing privacy, quiet and just a calm vibe, very relaxing, we enjoyed spending time there. Wifi signal was weak in the room, good around the pool. Beds were a little too hard for our liking.


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(NEWSER) – The US government should pray nothing happens to Edward Snowden because his death would expose yet more of its secrets in a leak that would be its "worst nightmare," according to the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald. He told an Argentinan newspaper that Snowden doesn't want the information—including "blueprints" of the National Security Agency's workings—to become public, but he has distributed thousands of documents to several people as an "insurance policy," NBCreports. They "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it."


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My 'puter ate the time & date…LOL! How do I get it back in the taskbar. I have Windows 7.
Lise – United States
I hate it when that happens, Lise. Here's how to get your computer to cough it back up. Ready?
You should see a little arrow symbol the taskbar right where the time and date used to be. Click it and you'll get a pop up menu like this:
Choose "Customize" and you'll see this window. Near the bottom of this window select "Turn system icons on and off."
You will open yet another window. It's called Windows for a reason. Up near the top, you'll see a clock icon, just select "On."
You will also find "Volume Control," "Network" and "Power" there. I am forever accidentally losing volume control, so this is a handy trick to know. Hope this helps.
– Cynthia.
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Works great never even thought about trying to update my video drivers...
Man does BT in widescreen look good...
Thankyou thankyou thankyou is all i can say for that, even if it was not intentional.
I had tried with other distro's like openSuse and KnoppixDvd without success (due to my n00bness apparently) but these steps ensured 3d capable drivers for my Nvidia and better resolution on my 19" tft
Install BT2.0 Final to hard disk
reboot into HDD install of BT
download the latest Nvidia drivers from nvidia.com (can't post links yet sorry)
log out of KDE
open console and type:
sh /path_to_download/xx-xx-nvidia-xx-xx.run
click YES to all prompts EXCEPT to download the kernel source when it complains about not finding one.
click YES to the prompt that asks to configure X on next run
hey presto, run your startX (should see an NVIDIA splash) and click on your "start-menu" then go to system and see a brand spangly new NVIDIA control panel to set up the resolution you require.
Works great never even thought about trying to update my video drivers...
Man does BT in widescreen look good...
Aliosity, thanks for the tip! Following your instructions I successfully got my NVidia-equipped laptop running at resolution higher than 1024x768! Thanks!


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Make the Holidays Special (Rules)
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OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES for "Make the Holidays Special" Pinning Challenge
2. Eligibility. Melissa & Doug's Make the Holiday Special Contest (the "Contest") is open to U.S. residents (excluding Puerto Rico), 18 years old or older at the time of entry; and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec), that have reached the age of majority in the province in which they reside by the start date of this Contest as identified below. Employees of Melissa & Doug, LLC. and each of its respective affiliated companies, subsidiaries, and advertising or promotional agencies, and the immediate family members of, and any persons domiciled with such employees, are not eligible.
3. Entry. The Contest will begin at 12:01a.m. (EST) on November 16, 2012, and all entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (EST) on December 14, 2012 (the "Contest Period"). The following rules apply to each submission:
Step 1: Create a "Make the Holidays Special" Board (hereinafter "Board") on Pinterest. Renamed boards are acceptable. Winning boards will be selected at random.
Step 2: Pin inspiring holiday ideas and your favorite Melissa & Doug, LLC. toys to your Board. Up to $200 worth of toys will be granted to a weekly winner. A minimum of 5 toys must be pinned.
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I really enjoyed making my board. I hope you enjoy it too… Happy Holidays!!! My Board Url: http://pinterest.com/neelz2012/make-the-holidays-special/ … Thanks
Pinned and filled out the form–http://pinterest.com/mami2jcn/make-the-holidays-special/
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I love Melissa and Doug Toys they are the best!! Thanks for have this contest. http://pinterest.com/sdbrazier/make-the-holidays-special/
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Chantal is a middle aged woman who lives with her somewhat younger lover, Jean-Marc, whom she helps support financially. She had a young child who died several years earlier, and she feels like the best part of her life is over. The couple is comfortable together, but Chantal begins to feel restless and thinks that she is no longer attractive to men. To raise Chantal's hopes, Jean-Marc sends her an anonymous love letter. He expects that Chantal w...
Irena is a Czech �migr� living in France. After the fall of communism she decides to have a �Great Return' to Prague to visit her old friends. At the airport she bumps into Josef, an old acquaintance of hers, who she wanted to have an affair with 20 years before. They agree to meet up in Prague. However Josef doesn't remember who Irena is. Irena finds her friends aren't interested in her life in Paris. When Irena and Josef meet up they end up in be...
Life is Elsewhere
This is the story of a poet from his conception to his early adulthood. The boy is always a poet and always struggles for his independence from his overbearing mother whose greatest accomplishment in life is having the poet. The poet grows to fall in love with a woman but his love is shortlived when he becomes insanely jealous of his girlfriend's past love experience. The poet never achieves manhood and dies after betraying his girlfriend and fails to ma...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
This book is made up of several chapters and it reads more like a series of interconnecting short stories than a novel. The main character is Tamina, a sympathetic young woman in Eastern Europe who is just drifting along without any real goals. Her husband died after they fled their country, and now she is all alone in another country with no friends or family. Her husband was her whole life, and she fears that she will lose her memory of him. Throu...
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Reversible Scarves: Curing the Wrong Side Blues
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Are we ready to overthrow the Wrong Side yet? I mean, when was the last time it did anything nice for us? In Audrey Knight's new pattern collection, discover classic scarves that lay flat, play nice and look super from all angles. Along with education galore, each design includes thoughtful details - so you won't merely know how to knit it, you'll know who to knit for!
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If you flashed the firmware, you need to restore your original firmware.Code:bccmd -d hci0 psset -s 0x0000 0x02bf 0x0001
Hey how's it going guys? This tutorial was very helpful loved it!!!
bt ~ # bluebugger -m WINDOWSMOBILE23 -c 3 -a xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx dial xxxxxxxxx
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I am at that point and it jsut shows the little white box how long does it take?
hey, if you work in an enviorment with a lot of palm pilots, you can have a lot of fun with this... I found that (at least my palm lifedrive) does not like to be pinged. as soon as i sent the command, my lifedrive crashed and rebooted with this log message
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hi andy90 im having exactly the same problem...seems no one knows the answer,and like you have done google comes up blank when trying to find out fixes,anyone help????


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This Week's Reading
What We're Loving: Real Struggle, Real Soul, Real TennisBy The Paris Review
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle—judging by the half that's been translated into English—is a tough book for a critic to grapple with: a six-volume autobiographical novel that can spend fifty pages describing a teenage beer run or a second-grader's first day at school. The book was a sensation when it appeared in Norway, five years ago; since then it has fascinated (and puzzled) many readers in America, from James Wood and Zadie Smith to Jonathan Lethem. Volume Three is my favorite so far, though no doubt the effect is cumulative: I've never read such a vivid depiction of ordinary child abuse—the legal, non-sexual kind—from a child's point of view; I have never seen a writer evoke the world of child's play so vividly, or the view from the back seat of a car on a long drive. Not everyone feels the love. In The Nation, the irascible William Deresiewicz dismisses My Struggle as a "giant selfie," wishes Knausgaard wrote more like John Updike or Saul Bellow, and chalks up the enthusiasm of his fans to narcissism: "The spectacle of a fellow author's self-revelation . . . has obvious professional significance." It's rarely a good sign when a reviewer vents his spleen on other readers. For a corrective, see Ben Lerner in the London Review of Books. Lerner notices all the same things as Deresiewicz—Knausgaard's use of cliche, his digressions, his seeming lack of form or invention—then tries, brilliantly and persuasively, to explain why they work. Lerner places My Struggle in a long tradition of novels at war with novelistic convention, a tradition that he associates with the avant garde and that others might call realism itself. Agree with it or not, this is actual criticism. As Lerner writes: "It's easy to marshal examples of what makes My Struggle mediocre. The problem is: it's amazing." —Lorin Stein
On Wednesday night, I had the great pleasure of seeing an interview with D'Angelo, perhaps the most gifted, elusive artist working in R&B—he's ascended into the pantheon with Sly Stone and Prince, visionary but inscrutable. With 2000's Voodoo, D'Angelo made what remains the definitive soul record of the past fifteen years, a languid, earthy tour de force that borrows in equal measure from the church and the street. Since then, he hasn't released a thing; he's scarcely even performed in public. So his appearance on Wednesday had a sense of anticipation: would he announce a new album? He didn't, but he was such a gracious, remarkable, casual speaker that it didn't matter. NPR has posted a transcript of the conversation, which was held before a sold-out crowd at Brooklyn Museum. It touches on his adolescence in Richmond, Virginia; his painstaking, deeply hermetic recording process; and his gospel-inflected approach to songwriting. Nelson George, the interviewer, put it best when he told D'Angelo, "You're one of the few people who has mystique, you know that. I mean in the age of TMZ and all that stuff … there's an aura still about your career. It's very unusual today for anybody to have any mystery left." —Dan Piepenbring
I recently unearthed a 1999 LRB review by Edward Said of a tennis anthology edited by the novelist Caryl Phillips. When I think of tennis, I don't think of Said (nor do I imagine Phillips, for that matter)—all the more reason to give it my attention. I also have a vested interest in tennis. My father grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and played near the West Side Tennis Club (the club wouldn't let Jews join, but he did see early professionals such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, and a sixteen-year-old Chris Evert play there); his father played competitive tennis into his early nineties (the pool of players in his age group was quite small, as you might imagine); and I grew up watching tennis matches on television with my parents and trying to learn the sport myself. Though I only sometimes watch Wimbledon or the US Open now, I can tell the stakes have changed. As Said bemoans, tennis has largely lost its amateur class, and its league of professional players are "technical specialists" ruined by commercial interests. Federer is lovely to watch, but his recent dominance of the game was boring. The women's game, Said points out, retains its "human pace" and "inventiveness." That no single woman dominates the sport makes the matches more fun to watch, more exciting, more … sporting. —Nicole Rudick
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John Kuna, Psy.D.
Licensed Psychologist
189 Market Street, Kingston, Pennsylvania 18704
In the most general sense, psychotherapy is the relationship between a client and therapist in order to cope with daily living stressors as well as helping individuals reach their full potential. There are a variety of psychotherapy approaches, but our practice provides and eclectic approach, utilizing aspects from various psychotherapy orientations.
David Gallick, MSW, LSW, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
480 Pierce Street, Suite 300, Kingston, Pennsylvania 18704
As a Psychotherapist, I work with from an "Integrative" and "Strength Based" perspective. I help people achieve their goals and overcome issues using a variety of techniques and therapeutic modalities. I work hard to join with people in forming a trusting therapeutic relationship whereby clients feel safe to be vulnerable and understood. The relationship we develop helps clients fee comfortable as they challenge themselves to accomplish the goals they set for themselves.
Harlene Arenberg, MS, LPC
6 Pen Y Bryn Drive, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18505
Psychotherapy treats mental health problems. Mental health providers consider individual situations, physical symptoms and environmental circumstances and often interact with the patient before determining professional techniques that will be integrated into treatment. Individual sessions and/or group sessions are reasonable directions that can be implemented in the healing process. Counselor Harlene Arenberg from Scranton, Pennsylvania, 18505, is available for psychotherapy sessions in the Scranton area.


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AoL reached their greatest heights on Vee Vee, but it's also the album where they overplayed their hand. Indie rock deserves to be clowned as hard and as often as anything, but when you reach the point where you're screaming "Nostalgia!" at your audience, or towing around the flatulent "Underachievers March and Fight Song", you might just need a vacation.
I said it once; I'll say it again: Just because it's a rock review, doesn't mean you can say ANYTHING.
"Sure, the drummer is ham-fisted, but ham with sweet potatoes and green beans on the side makes for a mighty fine Easter dinner. Christ is risen!"


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Arcadia, CA, Jan. 12 -- HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, will continue to strengthen and expand its equestrian programming line-up when it partners with acclaimed clinician Clinton Anderson for a weekly series involving Anderson's award-winning "Downunder Horsemanship" Method, premiering on Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. ET.
The first 13-part series will air in one-hour blocks each Tuesday evening. The shows will chronicle, in-depth, the re-training of Tricky Warrior (nicknamed Tricky), a 3-year-old gelding whose career on the track has concluded.
"HRTV is pleased to welcome the highly-respected celebrated Clinton Anderson to the network," said Scott Daruty, President of HRTV. "This series of shows further bolsters our equestrian programming line-up. The introduction of Thoroughbred re-training as the main component of these shows add to the appeal of our programming for both our equestrian and racing audiences."
A lifelong student of horsemanship, Clinton has accumulated an immense amount of knowledge on gaining the trust and respect of horses and learning to communicate with them. The culmination of his knowledge is the "Downunder Horsemanship" Method – a step-by-step approach to safely training horses.
"When we were approached by HRTV to join their network, it seemed a natural fit for 'Downunder Horsemanship,'" Clinton says. "We look forward to having the opportunity to provide horse owners with another means to learn the 'Downunder Horsemanship' Method."
Tuesday's initial episode emanates from Ruidoso Downs Racetrack in New Mexico, where Anderson takes Tricky and begins the first stages of transitioning him from the rigors of being a racehorse to establishing a meaningful "second career" off the track.
Subsequent shows will highlight the continual progression with Tricky, and features Anderson sharing the proven results of his horsemanship method. It will culminate in Tricky's successful transformation from racehorse to trusted riding partner.
Anderson's practical instruction offers something for every level of rider. A top-level reining and working cow horse competitor himself, the native Australian often visits respected trainers in various disciplines to get a firsthand look at training practices and goes behind the scenes with industry leaders for in-depth interviews.
About HRTV
HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users worldwide at www.hrtvlive.com. In the U.S., the HRTV television network is available via telco, cable and satellite in over 19 million homes.
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Howrah Overview
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Howrah is a city in Southeast Bengal in India, just to the west of Kolkata. Howrah is situated on the west bank of Hoogly River in Kolkata. Howrah which is said to be the twin city of Kolkata, from where the River Ganges cuts it way is an ideal tourists destination. The panoramic view of the River Ganges from where one can enjoy the enthralling dawn and dusk. There are a few interesting places that you can visit in the city. You can also opt for a ferry ride on the river and take a day trip to the city of Kolkata. If you are looking for car rental Howrah let us know and we will be happy to provide you with best budgeted deals for . Book cabs in Howrah


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LISTEN: Linkin Park & Steve Aoki - 'A Light That Never Comes'
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Linkin Park has a semi-new album in the works. The band will return next month with Recharged, which will feature new interpretations of songs from last year's Living Things album.
Recharged won't be out until October 29th, but fans can now listen to the first single, a collaboration with popular producer/DJ Steve Aoki called "A Light That Never Comes."
Linkin Park's singer & guitarist Mike Shinoda says the new song is indicative of the band's "commitment to experimentation and pushing boundaries."
Last week fans got a taste of the song by playing a free 3D Facebook game "LP Recharge." The action strategy game unlocked "A Light That Never Comes." Once the track was unlocked, fans were able to listen to it on Xbox Music.
Steve Aoki originally unveiled the song as a surprise during his performance at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, where he was joined on stage by Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, and now the song is getting its world premiere on the radio.
Listen to "A Light That Never Comes" below:
Check out some footage from Steve Aoki's set during the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, when Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington joined him on stage!


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Happiness may not come from your family, friends, or wealth, at least according to a new study. Rather, it comes from a peptide.
Led by the University of California Los Angeles, an international team of researchers has linked levels of hypocretin (a human peptide and neurotransmitter) to happiness. They found that the levels of hypocretin soared when we are happy, and also decreased when we are sad.


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Mother's Day Ideas for Moms in Tyler
Mother's Day will be here before you know it. For most of us, our mothers played the most important role in our lives and have helped us mold into who we are. Mother's Day is the one day a year that we set aside to celebrate and thank them for all they have done.
Pinot's Palette
Pinot's Palette is becoming one of Tyler's newest hot spots. Sign you and your mother for this upscale BYOB painting studio – you bring the drinks and snacks while they provide everything else.
Let's Cook!
Let's Cook! is a cooking school designed to develop the skills and knowledge needed to make cooking fun and easy! This is perfect for mothers or daughters of all ages.
Blueberry Hill Farms
Blueberry Hill Farms is a one of a kind place to take your mom for mothers day. Take your mom to hand pick blueberries and blackberries, and have a chance to shop at their cute organic country store.
Rose Spa at the Cascades
The Rose Spa at the Cascades is one of the top notch day spas in town. They have all kinds of packages for your mom/wife. You can get her a massage package, or get one for the both of you to experience together.


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BREVARD, N.C.- The Brevard College football team outscored North Greenville University 21-10 in the second half, including 14-0 in the 4th quarter, but it wasn't enough to overcome the Crusaders' strong start in a 41-28 loss at Brevard Memorial Stadium on Saturday night.
The Tornados looked to have the advantage early, marching 73 yards for a touchdown on the game's opening drive and then forcing the Crusaders into a three-and-out on their first possession.
Brevard used 12 plays on the initial scoring drive, highlighted by a 13-yard rushing touchdown by BC quarterback Tanner Wright.
North Greenville, however, scored 38 unanswered points over the first three quarters before BC righted the ship.
Trailing 38-7 following a Trey Walker 36-yard touchdown catch with 11:48 left in the 3rd quarter, the Tornados outscored NGU 21-3 over the rest of the game.
The Tornados engineered a 77-yard drive on their next possession to make it 38-14, scoring this time on a Wright three-yard touchdown run with 4:27 left in the 3rd. Wright rushed for 79 yards and pair of touchdown on 15 attempts in the game.
The Tornados held North Greenville to a field goal on their ensuing possession, and responded with another touchdown. Jordan Ollis, who ran for a game-high 161 yards on 26 carries, found the end zone on a three-yard run to make it 41-21.
The BC defense forced NGU to punt on their next possession and then crafted a seven-play, 85-yard scoring drive to cut the Crusaders lead to 41-28 with 4:44 remaining in the game.
The drive featured a game-long 46-yard scamper by Ollis to put BC in the red zone, and was capped by a five-yard touchdown run by Kelvin Jeter. The senior was BC's other 100-yard rusher, gaining 136 yards on 17 rushes.
The Tornados attempted an onside kick following the score but weren't able to recover. North Greenville wasn't able to move the ball, picking up just two yards on three plays, but burned more than two minutes off the clock to put the game effectively out of BC's reach.
The Tornados rushed for 411 yards on the night, averaging 6.4 yards-per carry.
NGU quarterback Nelson Hughes collected 385 yards and four touchdowns through the air to lead the Crusaders offense, finishing 27-for-32 on the night.
The Tornados resume South Atlantic Conference play next Saturday as they visit the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears at Moretz Stadium for a 2 p.m. kickoff.


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Oreck® Grab-It & Steam-It®
The Oreck® Grab-It & Steam-It® replaces multiple cleaning supplies with one simple, easy-to-use tool for quick cleanups, deep cleaning and can sanitize hard floor surfaces by focusing steam for at least 15 seconds.† Just add water, plug it in and in about a minute it's ready to go. A turbo broom and steam mop in one, Grab-It & Steam-It® offers dual function cleaning that can be operated independently or simultaneously. Help fight dirt and grime at the same time!™
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Grab-It & Steam-It® does double-duty cleaning:
one tool to sweep and steam clean, saving you time and money
Fight dirt and grime at the same time.™
This unique two-in-one tool easily grabs spills and debris and steam cleans messes, too. It works well on low pile carpet and rugs and hard floor surfaces*. The turbo broom cleans up quick spills while the steam mop deep cleans and it can sanitize hard floor surfaces, such as tile or sealed hardwood.†
Grab-It & Steam-It® features a large capacity removable water tank for easy filling. It can hold 21 ounces of water that will provide about 30 minutes of steam. Less time refilling means cleaning gets done faster! Variable steam control allows the user to match to steam output to the cleaning task.
With its low profile and swiveling head, Grab-It & Steam-It® makes cleaning under and around furniture and in tight spaces a snap. A 30-foot cord means fewer stops to change outlets and that means speedier cleaning. It comes with two washable microfiber steam mop pads. The water filter is replaceable.
|Sweeper broom works on low pile carpet and rugs
|Low profile, swiveling head for cleaning under furniture and in tight spaces
|Broom function is perfect for spot cleanups of dust and debris on hard floors
|Adjustable steam settings up to 1400 watts deep cleans and can sanitize hard floor surfaces when steam is focused for at least 15 seconds†
|Debris cup opens and empties at the press of a button
|Attaching or releasing micropad is easy with step pedal
Blogger Reviews
|In a household with a toddler and a 110-pound sheepdog, achieving "pristinely steamed" hardwood floors is "no easy feat," says AP. Grab-It & Steam-It™ changed all that. See how at I Love You More Than Carrots.
|"It's super easy to switch modes on the Grab-It & Steam-It™," says Pamela. "From straight vacuuming to straight steaming, it all happens with the simple turn or press of a button." Her favorite room to use it? The kitchen. See the full review at Our Love Nest.
|"Grab-It & Steam-It is the only mop I have ever used that makes me feel like my kitchen floor is really deep-cleaned and sanitized," says Susan. See her awesome photos of this "multi-tasking workhorse" at Living Rich on Less.
- One-step, quick and easy cleaning on multiple floor surfaces
- Lightweight: Weighs approximately 8.1 pounds with the cord but without water
- Heats up fast; ready to steam in about a minute
- Low profile, swivel head gives easy access to tight spaces, around furniture
- Reusable microfiber pads
- Replaceable water filter
- Comes with 2-year limited warranty.**
*Not for use on fine silks, velour, very thin plastics, unsealed hardwood, laminates, engineered hard floor surfaces, ceilings, drywall and exterior paint of automobiles, electronics or items using electricity.
†To sanitize hardwood surfaces, focus steam while mopping for at least 15 seconds. Results based on lab testing under controlled conditions. Results will vary based on use of the Grab-It & Steam-It® and the surface to be cleaned.
**Some limitations apply. For details, see warranty.


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System of Care Community Breakfast Outreach 2013
Mental Health Association of New York City
Friday, May 10, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Annual Children's Mental Health Awareness Week & Mental Health Awareness Month
System of Care Community Breakfast Outreach
May 10, 2013
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
(2,3,4 and 5 trains to Borough Hall Station)
The Brooklyn Borough Based Council promotes the well-being of children and youth who have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional or behavioral disturbance.
The purpose of the breakfast is:
- Improving the social and emotional well being of New York's children and their families
- To celebrate Children's Mental Health Awareness Week & Mental Health Awareness Month
- Guest Speaker on identifying ADHD symptoms in children
- Network to share community resources in Brooklyn
- Invite any new Multi-System service partners and family members that would like to join us in identifying solutions & strengthening the service infrastructure for children with serious emotional and/or behavioral issues
- Guest Speaker on building & strengthen partnerships with family and providers through a system of care
- Provide city, state, and community based organization's Resource Tables with staff to answer questions
OCFS Family Advocate and BBBC Co-Chair Family Member
Metro Cards available for parents, caregivers & youth while they are available
Generous support was provided by: The Brooklyn Borough Based Council, BBBC Parents, Youth, and Caregivers Planning Committee, Families On The Move of New York City, Inc., NYS Office of Children & Family Services, Mental Health Association of New York City, Inc., the Child Mind Institute, Citywide Oversight Committee
When & Where
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon St.
Friday, May 10, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM (EDT)
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Mental Health Association of New York City
Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC) is a nonprofit organization that addresses mental health needs in New York City and across the nation. It is a local organization with national impact and has a three-part mission of services, advocacy and education.
MHA-NYC identifies unmet needs and develops culturally sensitive programs to improve the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness while promoting the importance of mental health.


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Central venous catheters - portsCentral venous catheter - subcutaneous; Port-a-Cath; InfusaPort, PasPort; Subclavian port; Medi - port; Central venous line - port
A central venous catheter is a tube that goes into a vein in your chest and ends at your heart.
Sometimes this type of catheter is attached to a device called a port that will be under your skin. The port and catheter are put in place in a minor surgery.
The catheter helps carry nutrients and medicine into your body. It will also be used to take blood when you need to have blood tests. Having a port attached to your catheter will cause less wear and tear on your veins than just having the catheter.
Why Do I Need a Central Venous Catheter and Port?
Catheters are used when you need medical treatment over a long period of time. For example, you may need:
- Antibiotics or other medicines for weeks to months
- Extra nutrition because your bowels are not working correctly
Or you may be receiving:
- Kidney dialysis several times a week
- Cancer drugs often
Your doctor will talk with you about other methods for receiving medicine and fluids into a vein and will help you decide which one is best for you. Other methods are:
How Is the Port Placed?
A port is placed under your skin in a minor surgery. Most ports are placed in the chest, but they may also be placed in the arm.
- You may be placed into a deep sleep so you do not feel pain during surgery.
- You may stay awake and receive medicines to help you relax and numb the area so that you do not feel pain.
You can go home after your port is in place.
- You will be able to feel and see a quarter-sized bump under your skin where your port is.
- You may be a little sore for a few days after surgery.
- Once you have healed, your port should not hurt.
Taking Care of and Using Your Port
Your port has 3 parts:
- Portal or reservoir -- a pouch that is made of hard metal or plastic
- Rubber top -- where a needle is inserted into the portal
- Tube or catheter -- carries medicine or blood from the portal to a large vein and into the heart
To get medicine or nutrition through your port, a trained nurse or doctor will stick a special needle through your skin and the rubber top and into the portal. A numbing cream can be used on your skin to decrease the pain of the needle stick.
- Your port may be used in your home, in a clinic, or in the hospital.
- A sterile dressing (bandage) will be placed around your port when it is used to protect you against infection.
When your port is not being used, you can bathe or swim, as long as your doctor says you are ready for activity. Check with your doctor if you plan to do any contact sports, such as soccer and football.
Nothing will stick out of your skin when your port is not being used. This decreases your chance of infection.
About once a month, you will need to have your port flushed to help prevent clots. To do this, your health care provider will use a special solution.
Ports can be used for a long time. When you no longer need your port, your health care provider will remove it.
When to Call our Doctor
If you notice any of these signs of infection, tell your doctor or nurse right away:
- Your port seems to have moved.
- Your port site is red or there are red streaks around the site.
- Your port site is swollen or warm.
- Yellow or green drainage is coming from your port site.
- You have pain or discomfort at the site.
- You have a fever over 100.5 oF (38.0 o C).
Rosovsky RP, Kuter DJ. Central venous catheters: Care and complications In: Chabner BA, Longo DL, eds. Cancer Chemotherapy & Biotherapy: Principles & Practices. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006.
O'Grady NP, Alexander M, Burns LA, et al. 2011 Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. April 2011. Accessed March 5, 2012.
Review Date: 5/17/2012
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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(6/8/2010) (NEW HAVEN)--On Monday, June 7, 2010 the Board of Aldermen of the City of New Haven unanimously voted to extend, until 2015, the Small Construction Business Development Program Ordinance (Chapter 121/4 of the New Haven Code of Ordinances) The program was originally approved by the Board of Aldermen November, 2001 and went into effect January, 2002.
Through this ordinance, the City has made a commitment to small and minority contractors to provide opportunities and to establish parity in New Haven construction contract procurement. Since this program was implemented, many small and minority contractors have received and performed City construction contracts for the first time in their professional existence. At the start of the program, only 5 % of City contracts we awarded to small or minority owned businesses. Today, the percentage has risen to 16; a 300 % increase.
There are 201 small and minority owned contractors who are registered to participate in the program. To date $61,448,760 has been awarded to small contractors from the school construction program and $16.2 million in non-school construction projects. The 360 State Street project has awarded $10 million dollars to minority contractors and two prime contractors are participating in mentoring relationships with two New Haven minority contractors (each receiving a $200,000 - $300,000 contract). .
�Participating in the program is more than just having your name on a list. Contractors are notified of bidding opportunities and receive one-on-one technical assistance reading bids and specifications� says Kelly Murphy, the City�s Economic Development Administrator. In addition, my office works in close partnership with the Contractor�s Alliance to conduct professional development workshops through the New Haven on subjects ranging from �How To Do Business with The City of New Haven�, to how submit a payment requisition.
Contractors who are interested in participating in this program should contact Lilia Snyder at 203-946-6550 or visit: Small Construction Business Development Program


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Chocolate chip cookies are made with real chips, whereas chocolate roll out cookies are made with melted chocolate or cocoa powder. Chocolate chip cookie dough is slightly sticky, so it is portioned directly onto a cookie sheet with a portioning scoop or a tablespoon. Roll out dough is slighly firmer and is meant to be rolled thin and cut with cookie cutters.