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Most postmortems of the 2012 elections have focused on its implications for the future of the Republican Party, the rise of the Latino vote or the continued polarization of the country by party and region. But here's a takeaway you probably haven't encountered: Catholics are coming on strong.
This is from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: "Catholics have seen the biggest gains among the 533 members [of Congress] who are scheduled to be sworn in on Jan. 3. Catholics picked up seven seats, for a total of 163, raising their share to just over 30%. Protestants and Jews experienced the biggest declines in numerical terms. Jews now hold 33 seats (6%), six fewer than in the 112th Congress, where Jews held 39 seats (7%). Protestants lost eight seats, though they continue to occupy about the same proportion of seats (56%) as in the 112th Congress (57%)."
If this were Northern Ireland, not America, the phrase "Catholics have seen the biggest gains" would have some political content. But, as we all know, Catholics these days encompass all sorts of partisan and ideological identifications. Paul Ryan is a Catholic; so is Joe Biden. The "Catholic vote" is considered important by political scientists these days because it is so representative of the overall vote.


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It killed me that I couldn't post every look and have this ready to go for you all this morning! I was so excited to see some of the looks from the Met Gala yesterday evening and then a part of me knew that I would hate some looks as well. With the theme being, "China: Through the Looking Glass," I was concerned that there would be jabs poked at stereotypes and Asian trends that would make me cringe. Of course there were, but like all things, we have to move on and not dwell on them. In the interest of saving time (and space!) I am choosing not to include looks that I felt were in poor taste.


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Just like last year, the Hendersonville Bearcats are the last area baseball team remaining in the state playoffs. They relied heavily on their pitching, starting with ace Sam Linn, as well as their hitting and that got them to the 1-A state Regionals where they fell in two games to South Stanly.
But this year, along with those two components of the game, the Bearcats have thrown in one more element that is crucial for success: Their defensive prowess.
"Last year at this time our bats really got hot and we started hitting the ball really well in the playoffs; this year we've got that two-headed dragon where we're hitting the ball and playing the field well," said Hendersonville head coach Mark Cook. "If we hadn't had our defense we wouldn't have gotten past a very good West Wilkes team on Tuesday."
The Bearcats scored 42 runs in the first four games of last year's playoffs, but they're facing stiffer competition, and earlier. They slid past West Wilkes at the Den earlier this week in a 3-1 battle that was close to going into extra innings.
Tonight at The Den in the third round of the 1-A state playoffs the Bearcats (18-5) will host a team that certainly can't be judged by its record. No. 3 seed Elkin (11-12) has made it through two slim-margined upsets, first over Thomas Jefferson (3-1) and then top-seeded Alleghany, 2-1, in eight innings.
Blazing the trail for the Buckin' Elks has been Jamey Cranford, who has thrown all 15 innings of Elkins' two postseason games. He allowed one earned run on five hits against Alleghany and struck out 10 batters.
With the teams tied at 1 heading into the eighth inning on Tuesday, the Buckin' Elks put up one more run on the board and Cranford finished off Alleghany for the win.
"(Cranford) threw 116 pitches on Tuesday so I don't know whether we'll see him or (Brandon) Bradley. Whichever one we see, that's who we see. We've just got to put the ball in play, move people, make plays in the field and do what we've been doing," Cook said.
So far the Bearcats have taken down North Wilkes, 7-3, and then West Wilkes, 3-1, in postseason play. Linn (12-0) nabbed the win last week in the first round, followed by Derrik Doyle (6-2) on Tuesday.
Sophomore catcher Justin Sparks has led the Bearcats all season at the plate. He is currently sitting at a .465 batting average and is 4-for-6 with three doubles, a triple, two RBIs and two runs in the postseason.
Right fielder Shawn Rogers (.286) is 3-for-6 in the playoffs and had four put outs in Tuesday's game alone. Bradley Schmidt (.333) is the only other Bearcat who has gotten at least one base hit in both playoffs games, going 3-for-7.
"Bradley is doing a great job; he's stepped it up more during the playoffs now, and he's also playing the field well at second base," Cook said. "Everybody's been putting the bat on the ball, it's just that we've been putting it right at people. We haven't had that many strikeouts, so we've done pretty well in that part of it. Hopefully (today) we'll take our time and be patient at the plate."
Things will get started today at The Den with the first pitch at 5 p.m.
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Just like last year, the Hendersonville Bearcats are the last area baseball team remaining in the state playoffs. They relied heavily on their pitching, starting with ace Sam Linn, as well as their hitting and that got them to the 1-A state Regionals where they fell in two games to South Stanly.


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Voyage of the Nano-Surgeons
Only this isn't Hollywood. This is real science.
Right: Tiny capsules much smaller than these blood cells may someday be injected into people's bloodstreams to treat conditions ranging from cancer to radiation damage. Copyright 1999, Daniel Higgins, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Researchers funded by a grant from NASA recently began a project to make this futuristic scenario a reality. If successful, the "vessels" developed by these scientists -- called nanoparticles or nanocapsules -- could help make another science fiction story come true: human exploration of Mars and other long-term habitation of space.
"The purpose of these nanoparticles is to introduce a new type of therapy -- to actually go inside individual cells ... and repair them, or, if there's a lot of damage, to get rid of those cells," explains James Leary of the University of Texas Medical Branch. Leary is leading the research along with Stephen Lloyd, and Massoud Motamedi, also from the University of Texas; Nicholas Kotov of Oklahoma State University; and Yuri Lvov of Louisiana Tech University.
Their project will focus on a problem related to cancer -- the high radiation doses experienced by astronauts in space, especially on journeys to the Moon or to Mars, which require leaving the protective umbrella of the giant magnetic field surrounding the Earth.
Even the advanced materials used for radiation shielding on spacecraft can't fully insulate astronauts from the high-energy radiation of space. These photons and particles pierce the astronauts' bodies like infinitesimal bullets, blasting apart molecules in their path. When DNA is damaged by this radiation, cells can behave erratically, sometimes leading to cancers.
Right: High-energy cosmic radiation can cause damage DNA and make cells behave erratically. Image courtesy NASA/OBPR.
Because shielding alone probably won't solve the problem, scientists must find some way to make the astronauts themselves more resistant to radiation damage.
Nanoparticles offer an elegant solution. These drug-delivery capsules are tiny -- only a few hundred nanometers, which is smaller than a bacterium and smaller even than the wavelengths of visible light. (A nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter.)
A simple injection with a hypodermic needle can release thousands or millions of these capsules into a person's bloodstream. Once there, nanoparticles will take advantage of the body's natural cellular signaling system to find radiation-damaged cells.
The trillions of cells in a human body identify themselves and communicate with each other via complex molecules embedded in their outer membranes. These molecules act as chemical "flags" for communicating to other cells or as chemical "gates" that control entrance to the cell for molecules in the bloodstream (such as hormones).
When cells become damaged by radiation, they produce markers in a particular class of proteins called "CD-95" and place these on their outer surfaces.
By implanting molecules in the outer surface of the nanoparticles that bind to these CD-95 markers, scientists can "program" the nanoparticles to seek out these radiation-damaged cells.
Left: A two-layered membrane separates the cell interior in the bottom-right of this image from the surrounding environment. Complex molecules in this outer membrane control how the underlying cell interacts with its surroundings. Image copyright Scott Barrows, University of Illinois at Chicago.
If the radiation damage is very bad, nanoparticles can enter the damaged cells and release enzymes that initiate the cell's "auto-destruct sequence," known as apoptosis. Otherwise, they can release DNA-repair enzymes to try to fix the cell and return it to normal functioning.
Humans and other organisms have natural enzymes that tend to DNA and repair mistakes, but some do a better job than others. "There are organisms that can [absorb high] radiation doses and do just fine," Leary says. By studying such species, scientists have already fashioned DNA-repairing enzymes that could be delivered by nanoparticles.
Leary's team is also studying ways to attach fluorescent molecules to the nanoparticles. These could be designed to light up at certain stages of the process, even employing different colors for different stages. These fluorescent tags would provide a way to monitor the nanoparticles within the body.
Above: In this illustration nanocapsule walls are partially dissolved, then allowed to reform, trapping fluorescent-tagged drug molecules inside. Such vessels can be made of self-assembling polymers or of semiconductor materials such as cadmium telluride. Courtesy Yuri Lvov, Louisiana Tech University.
"To assess the degree of radiation damage, an astronaut would put on something like a pair of glasses, but those glasses peer inward onto the retina," Leary explains. "And you use the flowing of [fluorescent] nanoparticles on cells through the retina as sort of an in vivo assessment instrument." (In vivo means "within the organism.")
Related technology already exists -- it's used to measure blood flow changes in the retina due to various diseases. NASA is interested in such non-invasive ways to monitor health because astronauts might need to act as their own doctors on extended missions.
"Eventually, astronauts might wear these glasses to sample what's going on in their bloodstream. And then if they need treatment, they have a hypodermic needle with the appropriate nanoparticles for the job," he says.
Nanoparticles are a radically new approach to biosensing and medicine delivery, and as such the technology will require many more years to become mature and dependable. But it's not a pie-in-the-sky fantasy. All the elements of this idea have already been demonstrated separately -- the DNA-repair enzymes, the nanoparticles, the fluorescent tags. The trick is getting them all to work together reliably.
"This is a very difficult problem, and we're not going to be able to do it all in three years," which is the duration of the grant. "We're trying to do some pretty innovative science here -- it's a bit of a jump," says Leary. "But that's why it's a lot of fun to work on."
This work was funded by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research as part of a collaborative effort with the National Cancer Institute to develop biomolecular sensors.
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The Village of Lewiston complex once known as Fairchild Manor has been sold and is slated to become a 24-unit condominium complex. Brooklyn-based Goldin Management purchased the former nursing home.
"For the last two years, it's been vacant and vandalized," David Giusiana of Giusiana Architects and Engineer told the Village Planning Board Monday. Speaking on behalf of Goldin Management, he said his client intends to "renovate the building into permanent multi-family housing, specifically 24 condos."
The building and grounds total almost 1.6 acres. Giusiana said the condos would be townhouse-style, and divided into 18 two-bedroom units and six one-bedroom units, based on the building's E-shape. The courtyard and side yard will remain intact. Porches and sidewalks will be added, and the front circular drive (on Fairchild Place) will be removed and replaced with individual driveways. Three-fourths of the 40-plus parking spaces will be on the back end of the property (Onondaga Street).
"We're not changing the footprint, but we are changing, substantially, the sort of institutional look by adding all the slopes, the shingled roofs and then the porches," Giusiana said.
"I think it's a great idea, I really do, because it's better than having an empty building there," Planning Board member Ernie Krell said. "And I know the quality of craftsmanship's gonna be there when you build something like this."
"I'm glad to see the place cleaned up," Planning Board member Loretta Frankovitch added.
Giusiana said the Fairchild complex is ideal for conversion into condominiums.
"The really great thing about that particular building is that those long hallways are not structural walls, so the fact that it's kind of E-shaped, each one of the wings, the outside walls are bearing. It allows us to remove all the interior walls and do whatever we want to do. The dimension of each one of those fingers of the E, if you will, are proportioned nicely where on one side we can have a living space and keep the bathrooms and kitchens and closets and laundry rooms in the middle where they don't need natural light, and then bedrooms on the other side."
He said construction should take only a few months. The sticking point, he expects, will be paperwork. New York condominium projects have to be reviewed by the state attorney general's office.
"It will probably end up being well over a year by the time all is said and done because of that attorney general issue," he said. "That's not just this one, that's all condominiums."
Giusiana said the demand for condominiums in Lewiston is "phenomenal." The Village of Lewiston also has a proposal from Richard Hastings and Hormoz Mansouri for a condominium project next to the Frontier House.
The Planning Board voted 4-0 in favor of approving the Fairchild plan. Giusiana, a member of the board, recused himself.
The total assessed value of the property is $1,662,000. Goldin Management purchased it for $25,000 through DLZ Capital LLC. It also paid the back taxes. On its website, Goldin Management is listed as "a full service real estate company which specializes in property management."
In June 2011, the state Department of Public Health approved a plan for Fairchild Manor to close and cease operations. That was shortly before a federal grand jury indicted former owner Marc Korn on charges of fraud and making false statements.
The 75-plus residents were relocated.


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Gov. Gray Davis has promised he would sign the ag tax package.
The package, included in the state's $101 billion budget, is considered the biggest political victory for California farmers and ranchers since the defeat more than a decade ago of the Big Green Initiative, which would have severely restricted the use pesticides in the state.
"This tax relief package is a dollars and cents issue that will give immediate relief to a struggling California agricultural economy. Big Green was a philosophical issue that would have had a big impact had it passed, but this comprehensive tax relief for production agriculture is immediate and positive," said Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual, one of the political architects of the package that:
Permanently eliminates the state sales tax on farm equipment, parts, service, rental and leasing beginning next month.
Permanently eliminates the state sales tax on diesel fuel used for agriculture immediately.
Permanently eliminates the sales tax on agricultural propane sales.
Funds a $5 million "Buy California" consumer education program.
"When a farmers now buys a $65,000 swather, he will no longer be required to pay $3,000 in state sales tax and he will save $4,000 in taxes on the diesel used to operate the machine," said Jeff Huckins, chairman of the Far West Equipment Dealers Association's government affairs committee who has been working for a decade to eliminate the sale tax on farm equipment.
California now joins 38 other states that exempt farm equipment from state sales taxes.
"The provisions of the tax relief package are not commodity specific or geographically specific, but will help all farmers big and small regardless of where they farm in California," said Huckins.
The package was lobbied hard to both houses of the California legislature by a new agri-coalition that includes California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association; California Rice Growers; Citrus Mutual; Nisei Farmers League and the Far West Equipment Dealers along with nurserymen and the seed sales industry.
"I think we were successful because this new coalition is far more aggressive than agriculture has been in the past," said Nelsen. "Ag is always explaining the impact of this law or that law.
"Economic times are too hard today for farmers not to be as aggressive and tenacious as we can," said Nelson. "Not since Big Green has agriculture drawn a line in the sand like it did on this ag relief package."
The president of Citrus Mutual believes "most legislators in Sacramento want to do the right thing and when we presented them with the facts and figures of what these taxes are doing, it made sense.
"I don't think most of them knew that consumers do not have to pay sales taxes on propane yet agriculture as an industry was required to pay sales tax on propane," said Nelsen.
"We walked the halls…everyone worked hard…talked to those on both sides of the aisle and laid out the facts. That is how we got support," said Nelsen.
"And, this new coalition is going to be a lot more visible from now on not only in Sacramento, but Washington as well," Nelsen said.
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Fraser Lundie, Co-head of Credit at Hermes Investment Management, explains why security selection is a crucial element of his investment approach.
We look at credit in a different way to the majority of our peer group. Within the credit world, there is a sense that if you get the company right and avoid default you will have done your job as a bond investor. While this is a neat premise, we believe it is a gross oversimplification of the asset class.
By only focusing on the quality of a company you have only dealt with the equity risk – not the fixed income risk. You haven't tackled convexity, duration, illiquidity or volatility by getting the company right.
For us, it is crucial to drill down deeper and get the security right within the company. Hence, we will do our bottom-up analysis like everybody else, but as important for us is - what is the most appropriate risk-adjusted way of accessing that company's risk? Is it through bonds, loan or CDS. Is it through dollars, euros or sterling? Is it through 3-year, ten-year or 30-year issues? By emphasizing this part of the decision making process, we think investors can mitigate the fixed income risk attached to the company.
For example, if we look at the gold sector, we prefer issuers that are positioned lower on the cost curve, are less exposed to geopolitical risk and have demonstrated a strong track record amid lower gold prices. Taking these factors into account, we believe Barrick Gold is the most attractive opportunity in the sector.
However, when we analyse a company, we like to apply a different lens and look at the capital structure from a bondholder's perspective. In the case of Barrick Gold, it is attractive due to its liquid capital structure which includes a CDS contract. We think that shorter maturities are expensive, given the market expectation that they will be redeemed at some point in near future. The very long end looks expensive as well. So instead we like CDS due to the limited debt owing between now and the current five-year CDS expiry date, and Barrick's strategy to buyback short-end bonds to lower interest expense and gross debt.
Furthermore, Barrick has engaged in activities which favour bondholders over shareholders, a tendency which should prove helpful in preserving value for lenders in volatile times: it has a history of raising equity, tendering for bonds and selling assets to reduce debt.
Taking this approach requires a wide mandate. The reality is that many portfolios do not allow the breadth of flexibility required if an investor wants to find different ways of accessing the capital structure. It also means having the ability to invest across geographies and across the yield curve. It is this unconstrained and flexible philosophy that we employ across our absolute return, global high yield and multi strategy credit vehicles.
The need for flexibility is vital at a time where a lot of money is trapped in narrow mandates. This is exacerbated by our point in history: a post-financial crisis world where valuation and liquidity have had profound structural changes. We now live in world where so much of mispricing in credit is down to other people's inflexibility: the relative value between loans and bonds or CDS and bonds, or euros and dollars, or between Europe and US.
When you ask deeper questions you often find you need unforeseen flexibility. We have always believed in unconstrained investing and don't believe you can optimise fixed income credit investing by taking a narrow approach.
The above information does not constitute a solicitation or offer to any person to buy or sell any related securities or financial instruments. Stock names were chosen for illustrative purposes and are in no way a recommendation to purchase. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.
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Rare commemorative bandanna issued in celebration of the Baltimore Orioles' 1894 National League Championship. The square linen textile (17 x 17 inches), intended for use as a decorative pillowcase cover, features portrait illustrations of the following sixteen team members: Ned Hanlon (Mgr.), John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, Hughie Jennings, Dan Brouthers, Wilbert Robinson, Joe Kelley, Kid Gleason, Steve Brodie, Boileryard Clarke, Heinie Reitz, Sadie McMahon, Bill Hawke, Duke Esper, Gorge Hemming, and Frank Bonner. "1894 Champions Baltimore Base Ball Club" is lettered above the portraits. The Orioles captured their first of three consecutive pennants in 1894. The team also won World Championships in 1896 and 1897, thus firmly establishing the Orioles as the top team of the decade. The Orioles, aside from their obvious talent on the field, are also remembered today for their fiery demeanor and, at times, their total disregard for the rules of the game. Led by future Hall of Famer John McGraw, the team adopted a "win at all costs" mentality that included tripping and holding opposing players as they ran the bases, spiking players, and hiding balls in the tall outfield grass on defense. The linen piece is lightly soiled, including a few areas of scattered staining. The reverse displays a thin line of adhesive residue along the entire border area from having once been mounted in a framed display. In Very Good condition overall. This is a very rare and substantial display piece commemorating the first championship team of the legendary 1890s Baltimore Orioles dynasty. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000++. SOLD FOR $2,644
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The merchandise trade deficit ballooned in May, rising from a revised gap of $43.6 billion in April (initially estimated at $43.7 billion) to a staggering total of $50.2 billion. Expectations had been that the trade gap would rise less dramatically, to $44.8 billion. By comparison, the deficits for the first four months of this year had been $47.9 billion in January, $46.0 billion in February, $46.8 billion in March, and the aforementioned $43.6 billion in April.
Contributing to the sizable pickup in the trade imbalance was a decline of $1.0 billion in exports and a sharp rise of $5.6 billion in imports. The nation's gross domestic product, which is composed of domestic economic activity plus exports minus imports, will be negatively affected by this expansion in the trade shortfall. In the first quarter, the nation's GDP had increased by a tepid 1.9%. Expectations, which had been over 3% for the recently ended quarter about a month or two ago, and which have come down to the 2.0%-2.5% range, now could well come in shy of the 2% mark, as it did in the opening period, if this trend in the trade balance is not reversed somewhat in June. Second-quarter GDP data will be issued late this month, and then revised in late August and late September.
Our sense is that with oil prices having come down rather sharply in June and thus far in July, with a barrel of crude falling from a 2011 high of about $115 to something south of $95, that the June trade deficit will narrow somewhat. However, the economic troubles in the euro zone could again hamper our export trade, thus capping any decline in the trade balance for June, which will be out in the middle of next month.
As for the May report, the Department of Commerce noted that exports eased in May by the aforementioned $1.0 billion to $174.9 billion, while imports rose to $225.1 billion. May imports were $5.6 billion more than April's import total of $219.4 billion. As for an average of the trade deficit, for the three months ended in May, the deficit was an average of $46.9 billion a month. For the three months ended in April, the average monthly shortfall was $45.5 billion. By way of further comparison, the trade gap in 2010 ranged from a low of $37.5 billion in January, to a high of $46.9 in June. In 2009, a weaker economy--the nation was just exiting the most severe recession in more than a generation at that time, the deficit ranged from a low of $25.5 billion in May to a high of $38.7 billion in December. Clearly, a cost of better economic growth is a widening in the merchandise trade deficit.
However, the latest totals are very sobering, as they come during a period of decelerating business growth, with the nation, unfortunately, not veering far from a path of stagflation, or stagnant economic growth and rising inflation. We are not yet on that unenviable road, which we were a regular traveler on during the 1970s, but we could be veering in that direction should the employment and housing markets not start to firm up soon and oil again reverse course and trend higher.
Looking ahead, to a hopefully narrower trade imbalance for June, we also see, albeit with not a whole lot of conviction, a somewhat better second half for the nation's economy, with estimated GDP growth of close to 3%.
At the time this article was writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Many well-intentioned people are making hurricane donations of items that aren't appropriate.
Last Friday morning I found myself at the scene of a house fire on Grand Avenue in Hannibal. While I carried out my duties as a reporter, a part of me couldn't help but feel for this family which pretty much was losing everything they owned except the clothes on the back.
As they watched the dark smoke billow from their home of close to two decades, both the husband and wife expressed concerns about what they were going to do next.
I felt so inadequate. I was wanting to do something, but knowing there was little I could do to relieve their loss. Then it hit me. I ran to my car and pulled out a happy face umbrella from the back seat.
"Here you go. I know this will help."
An umbrella?
You're undoubted thinking I inhaled a bit too much smoke if it made sense to offer an umbrella in a situation like that.
To be sure, I didn't present such an inappropriate gift. Yet the example illustrates what has been happening on a much larger scale on the East Coast in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
In the aftermath of the powerful storm, which did an estimated tens of billions of dollars in damage, Americans have frequently been asked to do what they could to help with the relief efforts. And to their credit, many Americans have stepped forward.
According to The Associated Press, as of last Friday the Red Cross was reporting it had raised $117 million in donations and pledges. The Salvation Army had collected $5 million.
Relief campaigns sponsored by NBC and ABC generated a combined $40 million. Many celebrities were either reaching into their own pockets to help (Lady Gaga donated $1 million) or were lending their name and/or talents to fund-raising benefits. The Humane Society of America and some other corporations are donating 40,000 pounds of food and medicine for displaced pets.
However, there also have been numerous accounts of people giving items that are creating what one relief expert is calling the "second disaster after the disaster."
It is not uncommon for people to be donating items such as vases and vacuum cleaners, pots and pans, opened cases of bottled water, and used clothing to people who in many cases have lost their homes and possessions.
One fire department out east organized a relief effort that consisted of 11 trucks of donated supplies. But the firefighters were left to figure out what to do with a pile of clothes 7 feet high that filled up a bay where a truck at the department's headquarters is usually parked.
A spokeswoman for the American Red Cross, was quoted in an AP story as saying that "well-intentioned, yet inappropriate" donations can divert relief groups and government agencies.
Despite pleas from relief agencies for people to either give money or the specific supplies that are needed, it hasn't halted well-intentioned people from going ahead and collecting items that simply aren't needed.
One New Jersey native said she was willing to accept anything people wanted to send. Among the items she was asking people to provide were grills and charcoal to cook for aid workers. Her plan was to take a caravan of trucks from place to place unloading whatever is needed. But what happens to the donated items that no one needs, or wants?
It was Winston Churchill who said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
But when we give a gift that won't meet the immediate needs of someone, are we really a help or a hindrance?


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Sunday, 19 January 2014 07:17 PM
Jay Leno will close out his 22-year run as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" with a nod to the future and to the past.
His heir apparent, Jimmy Fallon, will kick off Leno's final week with a guest appearance on Feb. 3. Fallon is taking over the gig after hosting NBC's "Late Night" since 2009.
Leno's final night, on Feb. 6, will feature Billy Crystal, who was Leno's first guest in May 1992 when he succeeded Johnny Carson. Country superstar Garth Brooks will also appear.
Leno's last week will also include Betty White, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, country singer Blake Shelton, musician Lyle Lovett and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley.
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The coastal stretch from Pottuvil to Panama on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka is blessed with a wide array of tourist attractions.
These include bays famous for surfing and bathing, coastal waters rich with fish resources, lagoons providing ideal niches for prawns, crabs and lobsters, rich mangrove stands – a heaven for aquatic fauna and birds, wide sandy beaches for beach lovers and tall sand dunes for those who seek adventures. ArugamBay is one of the best surfing areas in Asia. A famous WildlifeNational Park and several archaeological and cultural sites are also located close to the coastal area.
These attractions draw a large number of local and international tourists to the area making it a tourism "hot spot".
At a seminar on Tourism and Coastal Zone Management in Sri Lanka held in November, 2010 during the Mangroves for the Future - Regional Steering Committee meeting # 7, the need to examine the tourism development plans for the coastal stretch from Pottuvil to Panama in the light of the current interest in tourism expansion vis‐à‐vis coastal zone management was expressed. In order to fulfill this commitment, IUCN in partnership with the National Academy of Science, Sri Lanka organized a workshop on Tourism Development and Coastal Management on the Southeast Coast on 23 December, 2010 in Pottuvil.
A total of 38 participants representing the government agencies, an NGO and local tourism sector attended this workshop. The government agency representations were from the Coast Conservation Department (CCD), Ministry of Environment, Department of Fisheries, Sri Lanka Tourism, Forest Department, Central Environmental Authority, Divisional Secretaries of Pottuvil and Lahugala, and the Pottuvil Pradeshiya Sabhal.
The plenary session had presentations from CCD, Sri Lanka Tourism, the National Academy of Science Sri Lanka, Hoteliers' Association of Sri Lanka and Arugam Bay Tourism Association. These provided a wealth of information to the participants. The panel discussion which followed the plenary session, brought out a number of issues such as difficulties faced by the tourists (inadequate local transportation, harassment, lack of basic facilities), hotels operating without a license from Sri Lanka Tourism, need for a tourism Master Plan for the area, inadequate support from some key state agencies, unauthorized constructions and non-adherence to the coastal setbacks, land ownership, blocking of lagoons and estuaries and consequent ecosystem damages and conflicts with fishermen who have been traditionally using the beaches.
It was agreed that these issues should be brought to the attention of the relevant government agencies with a view to resolving the key outstanding matters to have a more sustainable tourism strategy in the area.


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Judge stops at accident scene, helps defendant
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A northern New Mexico judge stopped at an accident scene on a snowy highway and helped an injured person who turned out to be a defendant due in her courtroom.
District Court Judge Sheri Raphaelson and a court bailiff were driving from Espanola to court in Tierra Amarilla the morning of Feb. 4 when they came upon an overturned pickup that had skidded off the highway.
Raphaelson says she recognized an injured passenger who was removed from the truck as burglary defendant Isaac Martinez. He had a pretrial hearing scheduled the same day in Raphaelson's court.
Raphaelson covered Martinez with her jacket as they waited for help and she tried to calm him.
Raphaelson is trained as an EMT and is also a midwife, but she didn't have her medical kit with her, only a stethoscope.
She used it to listen to his lungs and also checked the pulse of Martinez, who was bleeding from his hand and head.
"I could see blood everywhere and I tried to see where it was coming from," she told the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/MbLcvM).
Others helping at the scene included several defendants also on their way to court. They held a makeshift tarp to keep falling snow off Martinez.
After helping Martinez for an hour, Raphaelson went on to the Rio Arriba County courthouse. She convened court after changing out of her bloody clothes.
When she called out the name of Martinez, she recalled in an interview Tuesday, she told herself that he was in the hospital.
"I will not issue a bench warrant for his arrest," she recalled saying to herself.
That night, the judge went to the hospital in Santa Fe to check on Martinez, but he'd already been released.
Raphaelson said she will now have to consider recusing herself from the cases of all the defendants who were on the roadside.
"If I could make all of their charges go away, I would," she said. "What I saw of their character in that incident tells me so much more about their characters than I could learn from their police files."
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DETROIT (AP) — A pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a Detroit hotel.
Evan Reed plays for the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens but was with the Tigers when the alleged assault occurred.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Wednesday that Reed is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Reed is accused of an act of penetration through force or coercion at the MotorCity Casino Hotel on March 30. Worthy says the 45-year-old woman felt odd after consuming alcohol earlier at a bar in suburban Detroit.
Defense lawyer Ben Gonek (GAWN'-ick) says his client will be exonerated. Reed is not scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
He was 0-1 with a 4.88 ERA for the Tigers before being sent to Toledo in June.
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Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara hasn't won a Stanley Cup yet. But he does have one title to defend — he's won the NHL Hardest Shot competition two years running.
Saturday in Montreal, Chara will go for a third straight championship, the NHL announced today. Chara will battle Edmonton's Sheldon Souray, Montreal's Mike Komisarek, Tampa Bay's Vinny Lecavalier, Nashville's Shea Weber and the New York Islanders' Mark Streit in the 2009 Cisco NHL Hardest Shot competition as part of the Honda/NHL SuperSkills at the Bell Centre the night before the 2009 NHL All-Star Game.
The Bruins will also be represented in the McDonald's NHL Accuracy Shooting competition by center Marc Savard, who was one of competitors — including defending champion Tomas Kaberle of Toronto — named by the league today.


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"I did get to use the StudioLive at FOH on a few occasions," Reynolds reports, "and Capture enabled me to record a soundcheck and immediately play the mix for the band. Plus, I was able to solo, mute, and change individual levels. Very cool. We also brought in the StudioLive to do a live gig at a radio station in a very small room, and I was able to multitrack, give everyone their monitor mixes, and mix the show for the live audience."
For the rest of this month Presonus are also offering a PRM1 reference mic free when you buy a StudioLive 24.4.2 console. So that's onboard effects, flexible routing, Firewire audio interface, great sound and a room tuning system all in one package. If you're looking for a workhorse that can cover monitors, FOH mix and is at home in the studio as well then the StudioLive consoles are a complete package.
Presonus aren't just a favourite on stage, they have some massive fans in the studio too. Teddy Riley worked with Michael Jackson, producing half of his Dangerous album and is currently working on MJ projects due for future release. Using previously recorded sessions, Terry is working on fresh new sounds and often simply vibing around the original vocal take. How does he get his ideas down while inspiration is fresh, by using the streamlined workflow of Presonus Studio One of course. Terry also packs a Presonus Faderport and Presonus audio interface.
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According to this website, Ann Landers ran an article on History According to Students.
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/sho … p?t=118594
The following is reproduced from the site above, and I have converted relevant eggcorns and malapropisms into bold print. I may have missed a few.
Mistakes made by students and selected by teachers over many years. The students involved were American, in the 8th grade through to college (i.e. 14-20 years old).
Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.
Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
Queen Elizabeth was the Virgin Queen. As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "Hurrah".
It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.
Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
Well, I looked over the provided text and concluded that most of the slip-ups fall in the malapropism category—largely because kids don't know they are substituting one word for another. I will try elaborate on the few that I would consider eggcorns. Analysis by Joe Krozel.
1. Biscuits/ Discus
In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
Here, it's conceivable that a kid would believe that biscuits are literally hurled in a sport. (By contrast, I do not believe a kid would understand the term "java"—and if he did, a kid would certainly not believe that anyone would throw it as a sport).
2. Romans ..."Roamans?"
History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
Here, the writer explains that a "Roman" is a person named for their tendency to roam. (Can it still be an eggcorn if there isn't a spelling change? I say, "yes.")
3. Burnt to a steak/ at the stake
Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak
I'm prone to believe that a kid could imagine a person resembling a steak upon being burned. (Sorry for getting graphic here).
4. Midevil/Medieval
In midevil times…
I had already concluded this to be an eggcorn in another post. (See my comments there). Incidentally, this is how I accidentally stumbled upon the current text.
5. Feudal/futile
The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer
Children can easily come away with the notion that Medieval times were "midevil" and that feudal times were futile. Since times were so hard back then, any effort must have seemed futile.
6. Removable/movable type
Gutenberg invented removable type
Although it is properly referred to as "movable type" the notion that the type is "removable" isn't far off from the truth since individual letters on the press can be moved—and yes, removed—as needed. An eggcorn, but perhaps not a very profound one.
7. Islamic/iambic pentameter
He wrote tragedies, comedies, ... , all in Islamic pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a foreign enough concept for a kid. And, if the kid had been exposed to the short and long stress marks used to meter out the syllables of a poem—pardon my clumsiness with the description here—they might actually think they look like Islamic writing in Arabic. Just a speculation.
8a. Tax/tacks
One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea.
A child might not understand the concept of a tax, but when someone puts tacks in your tea, that's plenty enough reason to go to war.
8b. Taxes/taxis
Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
Same comment as 8a… "Taxis" are a much more tangible concept to a kid than "taxes."
9. Backwards/ back-to-back?
Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards
Presumable, the cat (pelts?) were rubbed back-to-back to generate charge. I guess that's "backwards!"
10. Bear/bare arms
Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
This would be a simple misspelling if it were not for the word "keep." The child clearly understands the concept of "keep(ing) one's arms bare" more keenly than "bear(ing) arms."
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I took another pass at the text, and eggcorns just keep coming out…
11. Myth/moth
A myth is a female moth.
This is half-way to being an eggcorn because the utterer does us the favor of defining the eggcorn term—and quite succinctly. Unfortunately, what is missing here is the context. What particular myth (or discussion about myths) might have engendered this misconception? Without that, no eggcorn.
12. Sculptured/ cultured
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history.
I missed this one the first time through because I didn't realize that "sculptured" was replacing "cultured." This is an obvious eggcorn because of the existence of Greek sculptures and because "sculptures" are so much more, shall I say, concrete than "cultures" are to kids.
13. cannonized/ canonized
Joan of Arc … was cannonized by …
Not sure about this one. It might just be a misspelling unless the kid believes that Joan of Arc was shot through a cannon. I don't know for sure, but that's what I suspect.
14. porcupines/ concubines
Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
Clearly, a kid hears the word "concubines," doesn't know what it means, and replaces it with the only word that makes sense: "porcupines." As far as a kid is concerned, other cultures are simply bizarre, and someone might actually have the need for seven hundred porcupines. But, let's approach this from a different angle: this is more that just a malapropism because the utterer understands and truly believes the sense of the word he has chosen. Hence, its an eggcorn.
15. horse/ house
Franklin … declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand."
The quote works whether it applies to a horse or a house. But to a kid, it more readily makes sense to think that a horse (rather than a house) cannot stand for whatever reason.
With this kind of material, there's always the question of its authenticity. Did this stuff really come from young students writing seriously, or is some or all of it jokes made by adults? A similarly popular page of "Bad Analogies Written by High School Students" which has been circulating on the 'Net for years is actually a page of winners from a 1995 Washington Post Style Invitational contest. So mining such stuff from the 'Net for real eggcorns is chancy.
Beat to the punch bowl again.
Anyone daring to suggest that any of these statements is untrue will be pilloried, mocked, even burned as a steak for their insights.
He is a mortal. I guess I had better be careful saying that since I might be burned as a steak for such blasphemy.
you are Satan's spawn, and consequently you will be burned as a steak for it.
Myth / female moth is clearly a play on words as if "Miss" is said with a lisp. I suspect this one is an adult addition to the list for humerus porpoises.
The "tacks in their tea" could easily be genuine, and I think definitely rates as an eggcorn find.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
jorkel wrote:
13. cannonized/ canonized
bq. Joan of Arc … was cannonized by …
Not sure about this one. It might just be a misspelling unless the kid believes that Joan of Arc was shot through a cannon. I don't know for sure, but that's what I suspect.
Here's the one I encountered the other day, spurring me to resurrect this thread:
I hate when some posthumously cannonize people who were absolutely insufferable twats their whole lives.
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"Cannonize", while obviously a misspelling in many or most cases, could also be an eggcorn if the perp is imagining a ceremony wherein cannons are fired in honor of the one being "cannonized", as in a 21-gun salute and other such ceremonies.
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High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?
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Inconsistencies between the user interface and user's expectations, i.e. the user model, are an important source of bugs. In absence of comprehensive information on how the software works, the user will have an impression that the its behavior is unpredictable. According to Leonardo Vernazza, this results from the fact that the user and the UI do not talk the same language and therefore need translation.
He asserts in his recent blog post that "the bigger the difference between the languages, the bigger is the probability to produce translation errors between them" and the bigger is the testing burden to ensure the consistency of the translation. Hence, in many cases the right approach would be to offer a "high abstraction language" that both the user model and the user inerface would share, i.e. a DSL. This would be instrumental for avoiding translations and the nececessity to test them. More generally speaking, argues Leonardo, upgrading the level of abstraction reduces the testing burden and this can apply to any other models, e.g. software design, implementation, etc.:
when you express things at the right abstraction level, testing is useless, […] Would you test that the += operator is working properly in C# or Java?. I wouldn't.
Andres Aguiar has also been arguing on his blog that if enough efforts are put in refining the abstraction, there would be no need for TDD and even for Unit Testing. However, some issues should be taken into consideration.
Using DSLs in order to reduce the testing burden requires a thorough testing of the DSL itself. Leonardo Vernazza asserts that "in most of the cases this is a far simpler and better limited task than testing all the user interfaces". And such approach allows to "redistribute responsibilities", moving the testing burden onto DSL authors. Gareth Jones however believes that "many DSL authors won't test a very high number of language variants against their code generators."
Commenting on Andres Aguiar's post, Scott Bellware also highlighted, that determining "the inherently optimal level of abstraction" is not an easy task whereas Brad Head points out that this is precisely what TTD is about: "challenging your design abstractions by "trying it out"". Moreover, Ron Scott argues that TDD is instrumental for finding out whether changes in code break something. Bellware stresses indeed that a design-tuned DSL is "statically locked down" and would not deliver the same value if the business or technology environment evolves.
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it's just a new automation strategy
jiang yan
phase consistent, keywords index, or tags( for category).
but speaking of test execute, which means automation,
using DSL is nothing more than a new strategy.
Before DSL, we use data-driven strategy, and when everything goes into table, it really looks like a DSL draft.
actor action result
admin login index.page login successful
admin delete something things are gone.
now we have DSL, sequences of a table will be cut into cases/steps, but still. nothing changed.
Problem we face, we still need to face.
Maybe, now we don't have testers to do all these development work, we blame DSL-coders when things go wrong. :)


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Mueller says his experiences fighting cancer have given him even more of a drive to help others who are also going through cancer treatment. In 2005, several years after beating prostate cancer, Mueller was on the first organizing committee that brought the Relay for Life cancer research fundraising event to Moab. He's served on several committees for the event throughout the last eight years.
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