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The world's second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the frontlines of the Occupy Wall Street protests came to the G20 summit in Cannes, France this week to advocate for the same thing.Bill Gates came because French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked him to give G20 leaders recommendations on how to raise funds to meet the needs of the world's poorest. Among Gates's proposals: a small tax on trades of stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments, also known as a financial transactions tax (FTT), Wall Street speculation tax, or the Robin Hood tax.
According to an advance copy of Gates's report, "FTTs already exist in many countries, where they generate significant revenue, so they are clearly technically feasible. According to the IMF, 15 G20 countries have some form of securities transaction tax. In the seven countries where the IMF estimates revenue, these taxes raise an estimated $15 billion per year."
"It is very plausible that certain kinds of FTTs could work," Gates told the Guardian. "I am lending some credibility to that. This money could be well spent and make a difference."
Gates has a net worth of $59 billion. So forget the 1 percent, he'd be in what, the top 0.001 percent? Meanwhile, representatives of the 99 percent were outside the summit security zone, plugging the same idea.
National Nurses United, the largest union representing U.S. nurses, came to France from the Occupy Wall Street protests across the United States where they have been providing first aid for the encampments. In Cannes, they dressed in their scrubs and joined nurses from Australia, France, Ireland, and Korea. This global group then administered an FTT saline drip to an ailing world economy — represented by a man painted in full body art as the Earth.
"The economic decline is literally making our patients sick," said one of the U.S. nurses. "We see more and more children with conditions related to poor nutrition and stress." The solution, according to the nurses, is a Wall Street tax that could generate the revenues needed to address human needs.
Bill Nighy, an actor famous for his roles in "Love, Actually" and other British films, jumped right into the world economy's hospital bed and posed for photos. "People around the world are dying of illnesses that should have been eliminated hundreds of years ago," Nighy said, noting that a new Wall Street tax could help raise the money required to stop those scourges.
One of his contributions to the campaign for such a tax in the UK was a video that went viral, in which he plays a banker trying to argue against the idea. Ultimately, his character can't find a good reason why not to raise huge amounts of money for the things people need through a tiny tax on financial transactions.
Back inside the summit venue, there's a frenzy of last-minute lobbying going on to try to line up a group of G20 governments to launch a "coalition of the willing on FTT." The Obama administration isn't expected to be on the list.
But RoseAnn DeMoro, National Nurses United's executive director, said, "Nurses don't give up on people and they won't give up on this." The union also spearheaded a rally in Washington, DC today, with more than a thousand nurses and their allies targeting opponents of the Wall Street tax in the Treasury Department and Congress.
Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the .


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Today I was saying at work my new favourite numbers in the world are 0-7-1.
It looks like 0-8-1 (and even 0-7-2) are out of the picture, as with 15:07 left in the 3rd period the Maple Leafs are leading Anaheim 4-2. Unless Anaheim can remember who the hell they are playing, Toronto is going to get its first win of the season and end how funny this joke is.
At this point its like the Blue Jays' 10-game losing streak: a win won't help them much (moreso in this case as Toronto gave up their draft pick to Boston in the offseason), and a loss might as well just keep them trying for losing in an historically famous manner.
Update, 11:13pm: They did, indeed, win. Begin planning the parade route, deluded Make-Me-Laugh fans!
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Today I was saying at work my new favourite numbers in the world are 0-7-1.
'Tis a shame
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McKinleyville Gets Cypress Grove Goat Dairy – August 10, 2011
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ARCATA/McKINLEYVILLE – Cypress Grove Chevre announced Wednesday, Aug. 10 that it has gone into escrow on a new, 38-acre parcel in McKinleyville's Dows Prairie area for its goat dairy.
The renowned cheesemaker canceled plans to locate the 1,400 goat dairy on the Arcata Bottom in June following harsh opposition from neighboring residents.
Since then, with the assistance of Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace and the county's Community Development Services Department have been helping CGC identify new possible locations.
Below is Cypress Grove's press release announcing the news.
Cypress Grove Chèvre Press Release
McKINLEYVILLE – Humboldt County-based Cypress Grove Chevre announced today that it has agreed on terms and entered into escrow on a 38-acre site on Dow's Prairie Road in nearby McKinleyville. The land is adjacent to other agricultural properties and will be home to Cypress Grove's new goat dairy, which will supply much needed milk for the growing demand of the company's line of award-winning goat cheese.
"I'm pleased that we found such a suitable piece of land nearby the creamery," said Mary Keehn, founder of Cypress Grove Chevre. "The fact that it is so close to our first site makes it a little nostalgic for me," added Keehn, referencing her original dairy, creamery and home, which was also located on Dow's Prairie Road when she started Cypress Grove Chevre in 1983.
Substantial funding provided by Cypress Grove owner Emmi of Switzerland will enable Cypress Grove to build a modern, humane dairy by following proven best management practices. Herds will be maintained within well-ventilated and naturally lit indoor spaces while also enjoying outdoor access. Included in the plan will be efficient manure management that meets all government regulations and allows for productive re-use as fertilizer and soil amendment.
The goat herd will begin with 200 carefully selected does and is expected to grow to approximately 1,200 to 1,400 over the next five years. The new dairy will create 12 living-wage, fully-benefited jobs between the McKinleyville and Arcata facilities and will help ensure Cypress Grove's future in Humboldt County.
"We are thankful for the great number of property referrals we received from citizens," commented Pamela Dressler, general manager of Cypress Grove Chevre. "It's gratifying to know that we have a lot of friends and supporters out there." Dressler went on to thank the Arcata City Council, Humboldt County Supervisor Mark Lovelace and the community development directors of the City of Arcata and Humboldt County; Larry Oetkter and Kirk Girard respectively. "Our final decision is pending positive results from further inspections of the parcel, but timely and informative support from local government was a great help to us in refining this property search."
Cypress Grove Chevre is the leading producer of fine American goat cheese, including the top-selling American artisanal classic, Humboldt Fog. Founded in 1983 by Mary Keehn, Cypress Grove continues a tradition of innovation by introducing original American cheeses to the marketplace, such as Truffle Tremor and new Herbs de Humboldt. Based in Humboldt County, CA, where the Redwoods meet the Pacific, Cypress Grove's award-winning family of products can be found at fine retail outlets and restaurants across the country. Cypress Grove's mission is to provide its customers with an innovative and unique selection of cheeses while taking care of its employees, community, dairies and the environment.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After guiding Ohio State to the Final Four, two-time All-American forward Jared Sullinger figured he might as well see what he could do for an NBA team.
The 6-foot-9 sophomore announced on Wednesday he is giving up his final two seasons with the Buckeyes to make himself available for the NBA draft in June. Most projections have him going in the top 10.
"Going to the Final Four with a team that many people said we weren't good enough, weren't strong enough, weren't mentally tough enough, and still being able to get to the Final Four with all the ups and downs we had, I think that was tremendous for this basketball team," Sullinger said, flanked by his parents and coach Thad Matta. "Once we got to the Final Four, we were trying to win it. But unfortunately, we fell short. I feel at peace with the decision I'm making."
The Buckeyes lost to Kansas 64-62 in the national semifinals on Saturday.
Sullinger averaged 17.5 points and 9.2 rebounds a game while shooting 52 percent from the field, 77 percent at the line and 40 percent on 3-pointers while leading the Buckeyes to a 31-8 record and a Final Four berth. He was 63-10 as a starter.
"I've always said he's one of the most intellectual players I've ever coached," Matta said. "He came in that way as a freshman. The thing is that people don't know he studies the game. Not only the college game, but the NBA game. He can tell you a lot about a lot of NBA issues. For him, the timing is definitely right."
Sullinger's father, Satch, was his coach at national power Northland High School in Columbus. He believed the youngest of his three sons, all of whom played Division I basketball, had the ability to play in the NBA. But he also knew he wasn't ready a year ago when Jared was considered a top-five pick.
"The skill set's always been there. But last year, at this time, I wasn't comfortable as a parent with the option of him possibly going to the NBA," Satch Sullinger said. "Jared's had it pretty easy in basketball, he's been relatively injury free. This year I watched the peaks and valleys and I watched him mature. There's only one way to get experience and that's by being inexperienced in a situation. I watched him be immature in certain things and work his way out of it. I saw that consistency start to come back during the end of the season run all the way through the Final Four."
Jared Sullinger came back for his sophomore season with a dramatically different team -- missing three senior starters from a top-ranked team that finished 34-3 -- and with a dramatically different body. He shed 25 pounds and was much more mobile. Rather than get all of his points with his back to the basket on the block, he frequently popped outside to shoot over defenders. He became one of the Buckeyes' top 3-point threats.
He battled through back spasms and a foot injury early in the year. Sullinger was at his best down the stretch, scoring a huge basket in the closing seconds at Northwestern that kept the Buckeyes in the Big Ten title hunt. They then won at Michigan State in the final regular-season game to tie Michigan State and Michigan for the championship.
Deshaun Thomas, a 6-7 sophomore at Ohio State, is also considering the NBA.
Matta said he was still compiling information for Thomas, who is mulling his decision. Sullinger said he had not spoken to his teammate.
Sullinger's brothers, J.J., who played at Ohio State, and Julian, a former Kent State player, were also in attendance at the news conference. Jared said they made his decision easier.
In particular, he said he was thankful that J.J. had gone to Matta several years back, "begging him to recruit the little short fat kid."
Matta joked that he had already offered a scholarship to J.J.'s 5-year-old son.


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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Why There Will Not Be a Taylor Swift II
(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
I've always maintained that country music more or less has run in 10-year cycles since its beginnings, which most historians agree lie with its first commercial recordings in 1927. The problem has always been that it's not completely feasible to look at its history in neat 10-year blocks.
For one thing, events don't tend to be orderly and measured and to follow neat calendar blocks. For another, musical artists and songwriters and record labels and radio stations and all of their ilk don't either. Nor does the listening and buying audience. No one wakes up one morning and says, "Eureka! A new decade is dawning. It's time to forge a new musical sound!" Change is mostly organic. So you can't just sort it all out in orderly little decade-long files.
Then the other day, I was reading about an economic theory that is based on pi, the mathematical constant. That theory -- simply stated -- posits that all events in the money market (and, by inference, all happenings in nature and the universe and in human behavior and in everything else) are governed by a universal cycle that is based on pi. Which -- and this begs your imagination a bit -- shows that everything runs in cycles of 8.6 years. That time span equals 3,141 days -- or the number pi multiplied by 1,000. The theory has gained quite a bit of credibility. It has shown that cycles in the financial market pretty much follow the 8.6 pattern. And obviously pi is the model in the natural world. Therefore, the assumption goes, a geometric pattern governs everything. A universal rhythm -- emanating from somewhere -- controls all.
If you look at country music history -- beginning in 1927 in blocks lasting roughly in a rhythm of 8.6 years instead of in blocks of 10 years -- based on the pi principle, it begins to make a little more sense:
• In 1927, there was the Big Bang creation of country music with Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family in the first commercial recording sessions.
• Circa 1935: Bob Wills and Western swing music rose to prominence.
• Circa 1943-44: The emergence of Ernest Tubb and his newly-electrified honky-tonk brand of music.
• Circa 1952-53: Hank Williams and his music rule the roost.
• Circa 1961-62: Patsy Cline and the country pop sound take over country music.
• Circa 1970-71: Songs become the star and trump artists: "The Fightin' Side of Me," "Sunday Morning Coming Down," "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Rose Garden," "For the Good Times," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife."
• Circa 1979-80: Songs still trump, but they edge back towards country pop: "Tulsa Time," "Every Which Way but Loose," "Amanda," "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life," "All the Gold in California," "Coward of the County," "Lady," "Smoky Mountain Rain."
• Circa 1989-90: Enter Garth Brooks.
• Circa 1998-99: The Dixie Chicks hit with a new sound and their first No. 1 single, "There's Your Trouble," about the time of Shania Twain's last No. 1 country hit ("You're Still the One") and Garth Brooks' last No. 1 hit of his active era ("To Make You Feel My Love").
• Circa 2007-08: Taylor Swift begins to dominate.
So what does this portend as to what's next? Good question, and one that's impossible to answer. There will likely not be Taylor Swift Twos and Threes and Fours because the original Taylor pretty much Hoovered up the market for teen girl angst songs by a peer group singer-songwriter. It was a brilliant move, one of the smartest ever by a shrewd music artist, and it will not likely be repeated. Certainly not by Taylor, who -- by the time you read this -- may well have signed her first major movie deal. Or her first something-else major deal. It's hard to imagine her moving on to writing and singing heartfelt songs about being twentysomething, which she will soon be.
But -- and I think this is very important -- Taylor is leaving a message to a huge audience of young female fans, ranging in age from 7 or so and up throughout their teens and into their early 20s, that they are individuals, that they are important, that they have their own identity, that they can be their own persons and that they don't have to take crap. I don't see anyone else stepping up with a similar message for this audience.
There are now a lot of young chick singers -- for want of a better term -- who are vamping for the next star slot on the center stage in country music, but most of them are doing it wearing short jean skirts and tight tops and even tighter jeans and sending a transparent message that sex is what sells. So what? Everybody knows that. Taylor has had a genuine message, not a sales pitch. She had songs. Look at those who came before her who hit it big in country. They had songs to offer, not sales pitches or tight whatevers. People seek songs.
There was no Hank Williams successor, there was no Patsy Cline successor, no Elvis Presley successor, no Johnny Cash successor, no Garth Brooks successor, no Shania Twain successor. No successor to any of country music's blockbusters. And there will be no Taylor Swift successor, no one just like her. Such phenomena cannot be credibly replicated in popular music. They are, by their very nature, unique and fresh and thus appealing and desirable. And if the pi theory is correct, the cycle will turn for another 8.6 years. But there will be something else new in the music, there will be someone new. Because there always is. Nature, as well as the human audience, does not like a vacuum.


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As if a new Mac mini and iPhone pre-orders weren't enough, Apple on Tuesday also announced the release of Mac OS X 10.6.4, the latest update to its Snow Leopard operating system. The update includes a variety of enhancements, stability improvements, and security fixes that are recommended for all users.
Apple details three types of of updates contained in Mac OS X 10.6.4: general fixes and improvements, fixes and improvements for Aperture 3, and fixes and improvements for external devices.
Those who plan to purchase one of the new Mac minis will be especially interested, as Apple has dropped a pair of special 10.6.4 updates for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server pertaining to the new desktop model. They address two specific issues: improved compatibility and performance for graphics issues and better compatibility with larger format SDXC memory cards, no doubt for the mini's new SD card slot.
General fixes in 10.6.4 include improved compatibility with some Braille displays; a fix for a problem where the keyboard or trackpad becomes unresponsive; more reliable VPN connections; a fix for a display sleep issue and a speaker volume issue in MacBook Pros (Early 2010); better copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB servers; and several more. Safari 5, released last week, is also included in the package.
Aperture 3 gets a pair of improvements: the addition of tethered shooting support for more digital cameras and a fix for compatibility issues with IPTC metadata.
External devices also reap a few rewards under Mac OS X 10.6.4, including RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras, a fix for a problem with third-party USB Webcams, a fix for a noise problem when using third-party FireWire audio devices, and resolution for pairing problems with Apple remotes.
Apple also released Mac OS X Server 10.6.4 on Tuesday, with improvements for Wiki Server, Software Update Server, vacation mail notices spanning multiple days, improved reliability of VPN connections, and more. The update is recommended for all current users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server.
Also incorporated in both the client and server versions of 10.6.4 are a number of security patches. Included are an updated version of the Flash Player plug-in that patches multiple issues, several printing related fixes, an updated version of Webmail client SquirrelMail, a pair of fixes for ImageIO related to maliciously crafted media files, and a patch for iChat that fixes a vulnerability that allowed the arbitrary uploading of files onto a remote filesystem. The same security patches are also available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server as a separate download, Security Update 2010-004.
Mac OS X 10.6.4 and Mac OS X Server 10.6.4 are available via Software Update and via Apple's support downloads page as well; both are available as straight updates or combo updates (incorporating previous updates as well).
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Hey, did you hear the one about the two women fighting in a Wal-Mart? It's a real gas! No, really, that's not a punchline. Two women threw ammonia and bleach at one another and created poisonous gas in a Wall-Mart:
Two woman involved in an altercation at southern Baltimore County Walmart store threw bleach and another chemical on each other, causing possible injuries for other customers on Saturday, police and fire officials said. Baltimore County Fire Department's hazardous materials units responded to the scene around 11 a.m., and at least one patient has been transported to Wilmer Eye Clinic, spokesman Glenn Blackwell said in an email. Two additional people were taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, police spokesman Shawn Vinson said in an email.
So far one person has been arrested. And, in case you were wondering about what happens when you combined ammonia with bleach it's pretty nasty—and potentially deadly!
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The fumes are what get ya, although with a little extra ammonia the concoction gets explosive. Stay away! In the event of contamination, move in the opposite direction from the chemicals and call 911. Also, don't get in a chemical fight in the middle of a Wal-Mart. Falling prices? Cool. Falling dead people...not so much. [The Baltimore Sun]


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Was there ever a nation so marinated in hypocrisy as America? At home and abroad, President Barack Obama trumpets Uncle Sam's virtues and dispenses patronizing homilies to other nations on how to behave themselves and honor freedom and democracy. This last week, it's been Europe's turn to hear these self-righteous preachments.
A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Clinton attacked China, contrasting untiring efforts by the U.S. to encourage human rights around the world, at a time when the Chinese "are trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. They cannot do it. But they're going to hold it off as long as possible."
A week earlier, Obama signed an expanded trade pact with Colombia, where in 2010, 51 Colombian labor organizers were murdered, many of them by government-sponsored death squads. As Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO remarked, he doubted the trade agreement would be moving forward if 51 CEOs had been killed.
If there's one state in the Middle East where the U.S. surely has clout, it's Bahrain, which just happens to be the base for the U.S. Fifth Fleet. While Clinton was wagging her finger at China, details were surfacing of the ferocious repression of Bahrain's Shiite majority by Bahrain's Sunni rulers, backed by Saudi troops.
Masked squads raid Shiite villages at night. At least 27 Shiite mosques and religious meeting places have so far been wrecked or bulldozed flat. If this were Libya, Clinton would trumpet the repression as further justification for NATO's onslaught. Not so in Bahrain.
As my brother Patrick Cockburn reported here a couple of weeks ago: "Facing little criticism from the US, otherwise so concerned about human rights abuses in Libya, the al-Khalifa family is ruthlessly crushing opposition at every level … al-Jazeera revealed … that the Bahraini police has been raiding girls' schools, detaining and beating school girls, and is accused of threatening to rape them."
Amid Obama's grandiose eloquence about freedom, he has effectively excluded Palestinians from his supportive embrace, and amid meaningless verbal froth collapsed yet again in the face of Israeli intransigence and the lobby here. U.S. diplomacy and strong-arming, supervised by Obama and Clinton, will of course be dedicated to efforts to hold back history and strong-arming the U.N. into attempting to do the same.
Wearisome though these exhibitions of the U.S.'s double standards abroad may be, they pale before the macabre spectacle of Obama and Clinton extolling the moral credentials of a country with a vast gulag of some 2.3 million behind bars — some 743 prisoners per 100,000 population, compared to Russia's 580, China's 186, England and Wales' 154 and India's 32. African-Americans, who are one-eighth the nation's population, are almost half its 2.3 million prisoners; and Latinos, about one-sixth of the U.S., are more than a quarter of those locked down. In America today, more than 7 million people are under correctional supervision.
At the start of last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population, currently running at 143,335, by more than 30,000. The state's prisons, at anything even remotely approaching standards not in violation of the Eighth Amendment, forbidding cruel and unusual punishment, can accommodate 80,000.
Not for the first time, the ghastly conditions of California's prisons have been unsparingly described: people with terminal cancer in spaces the size of telephone booths left to die without treatment or even painkillers, convicts crammed three tiers high in prison gyms … California rarely executes prisoners in San Quentin on death row. Informal executions are a different matter. A California court found that "an inmate in one of California's prisons needlessly dies every six or seven days due to constitutional deficiencies."
Everything awful about California's prison system is duplicated in other state penal systems across the country. One million of the 2.3 million prison population are inside for non-violent offenses, predominantly related to drugs. More than 800,000 are arrested each year for marijuana alone. Prison rape across the country is a given — at least 216,000 in 2008. Most of the rapists (according to the libertarian magazine Reason, which recently published an excellent special issue on the U.S. penal system) aren't other prisoners but corrections officials.
Gov. Jerry Brown has suggested nonviolent prisoners be sent from the state prisons to local jails, but California has no money to beef up these hoosegows to accommodate the flood of prospective inmates. Meanwhile, policies deriving from the '90s and before feed more and more prisoners into the system, many of them under the three-strikes law, which hands out 25-year sentences for a third offense as trivial as stealing a $2 pair of socks. In California, at any given time, about 140,000 are out on parole, which can be — and is often — revoked for the most trivial of reasons, swelling the prison population once more.
America's penal conditions make a mockery of the Constitution and foster crime, all against a backdrop of statistics — the FBI dispensed another batch last week — showing that crime rates have been steadily falling to levels unseen for a generation or more. America's current depression has not seen a surge in robberies and violent crime, as many expected. Attempts to prove the efficacy of harsh codes of imprisonment and sentencing speedily collapse under the weight of rationally assessed statistical data.
America's prison population and treatment of citizens and immigrants trapped in the judicial system are foul blots on our society and political culture — but not ones that Obama has shown the slightest interest in confronting. Indeed, his Justice Department is intent on adding more "mandatory minimum sentences" to the sentencing guidelines.
These days, it's conservative governors reeling in the face of budget-draining mandatory sentencing laws who are trying to shift resources into treatment programs and so forth. In this context, Reason cites Perry of Texas and Sanford of South Carolina before he left office and reports that "in the first few months of this year, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama and Oklahoma have all hopped on the reform bandwagon. None of these states was carried by Barack Obama in 2008."
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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some stellar articles on how to start saving money, successfully taking in a roommate, and throwing a frugal Fourth of July party.
The Power of Starting Small, How to Start Saving Money — When money is tight and you are saving for lofty goals like retirement, starting off by simply saving $25 per week can help you achieve your goals. [Generation X Finance]
13 Secrets to Successfully Taking in a Roommate — Successfully take in a roommate by discussing house rules before they move in and defining your personal space. [TheDollarStretcher.com]
How to Throw a Frugal and Festive Fourth of July Party — Decorate your 4th of July party on the cheap by heading to the Dollar Store! [PopSugar Smart Living]
Are these 5 Money Lies Threatening Your Marriage? — If you are hiding a job loss or spending in secret, you may be lying to the point where you are threatening your marriage. [Cash Money Life]
Want that Job? The Little Things Matter More Than You Think — Being slow to respond and sharing too much information about your personal life are just a couple little things you can do during a job interview that may mess with your chances of getting the job. [Money Smart Life]
11 Ways to Tell Your Friends About Your New Frugal Lifestyle — To tell your friends about your new frugal lifestyle, tell them you are working on eliminating your debt. [And Then We Saved]
How Long Should You Work Before Switching Jobs? — If you are still learning and growing at your current job, it's OK for you to stick around! [Young and Thrifty]
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The creators of ZiP, a Noisebridge Zine-in-Progress, would like to compile an anthology of people recounting their first time at Noisebridge: how and when they were introduced to the space.
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A stroll down memory lane: A quick video piece on women's tennis fashion throughout history.
(OT) Sleeping in transit: My buddy Matthew designed a jacket called Excubo which helps create private 'nap time' space when you're out in public. Check out the segment CNN produced on "cutting edge designs" which featured this piece. (photo via gizomodo)
Fashion week sighting: Boris Becker at L.A.M.B. — that's Gwen Stefani's line. NYT's Cathy Horyn skewers the collection. Too bad.
Advantage, Tennis: Portfolio.com laments the loss of Anna Wintour and Stefano Tonchi to the U.S. Open finals (when they should have been front row at a few fashion shows). Boo hoo?
Virginia Slims at Michael Kors: The latest presentation from Michael Kors harked back to the days of Virginia Slims (think Chrissie Evert and Billie Jean King). The show got great reviews, including one from Suzy Menkes. The models strut out to the Xanadu soundtrack:
"The Kors show was as fast and as direct as a hard hitter on the tennis court. Out came shorts, dresses and then every angle on American sportswear, from a lean safari jacket and pantsuit to trapeze minidresses shaded in a cocktail of mint, lime, orange and peach. They had a tropical vitality, while white served as a symbol of freshness, as it does on the tennis court."
Pavarotti, R.I.P.: Tennis lost another fan in Luciano Pavarotti, who died this past Thursday at the age of 71. Bud Collins writes a great piece on how the great tenor loved the sport.
Macao != Times Square?: While the folks behind The Venetian Macao — the world's largest casino — hope that their brand can withstand the shadiness of that Chinese territory, we're just glad that the stage is set for one of the R-Fed vs. Pistol Pete exos this fall. (UD and IHT)
(OT) Palazzo Versace breaks ground: The Dubai outpost of Palazzo Versace in Dubai has started construction. (spa business)


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A federal judge's ruling that the military must stop its "don't ask, don't tell" policy comes amid conflicting concerns of gays who think the government is moving too slowly to let them serve openly and Pentagon officials who believe that moving too quickly might disrupt a military engaged in war.
Gay rights groups have said they are disappointed that legislation to override the ban is likely to languish in Congress until next year, when Democrats could have fewer seats and less power to override Republican objections.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, the military's top uniformed officer, have supported lifting the ban on gays serving openly. But Gates and Mullen also have warned that they would prefer to move slowly.
Meantime, despite a federal judge's ruling in San Diego on Tuesday, the battle in the courts over gays in the military may be far from over.
The Justice Department's first response may well be another trip to the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in San Diego to seek a stay, or temporary freeze, of her ruling. If Phillips turns down the request, the Justice Department likely turn to the federal appeals court in California.
It was unclear whether Phillips' injunction against the 17-year-old policy on gays in the military would affect any ongoing cases.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, traveling with Gates in Hanoi, Vietnam, said, "We have just learned of the ruling and are now studying it. We will be in consultation with the Department of Justice about how best to proceed."
If the government does not appeal, the injunction cannot be reversed and would remain in effect. If it does appeal, that would put the administration in the position of continuing to defend a law it opposes.
With so much uncertainty, it also was unclear whether the ruling would have any immediate effect on the midterm election campaigns that so far have focused far more on economic than national security issues.
Gay rights groups warned gay troops not to disclose their identity for now. Aaron Tax, the legal director for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said he expects the Justice Department to appeal the case to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
"Service members must proceed safely and should not come out at this time," Tax said in a statement.
Gates, a Republican, and Mullen face disagreement among the most senior general officers on whether lifting the ban would cause serious disruption at a time when troops are fighting in Afghanistan and winding down a long battle in Iraq.
For example, the incoming Marine commandant, Gen. Joseph Amos, and his predecessor, Gen. James Conway, both have told Congress that they think most Marines would be uncomfortable with the change and that the current policy works.
In part to resolve the question of how the troops feel, Gates has ordered a study due Dec. 1 that includes a survey of troops and their families.
Obama agreed to the Pentagon study. Obama also worked with Democrats to write a bill that would have lifted the ban, pending completion of the Defense Department review and certification from the military that troop morale wouldn't suffer. That legislation passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by Republicans.
Democrats could revive the legislation in Congress' lame-duck session after the Nov. 2 elections.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins accused Phillips of "playing politics" with national defense.
"Once again, an activist federal judge is using the military to advance a liberal social agenda, disregarding the views of all four military service chiefs and the constitutional role of Congress," he said.
Perkins urged the Justice Department "to fulfill its obligation to defend the law vigorously through the appeals process" and said "Congress should make clear that it will not tolerate this judicial activism."
Gates has said the purpose of his study isn't to determine whether to change the "don't ask, don't tell" law, which is something he says is probably inevitable but for Congress to decide. Instead, the study is intended to determine how to end the policy without causing serious disruption.
Coming just three weeks before voters go to the polls, Tuesday's ruling seemed unlikely to force a final weeks' change of strategy or message as candidates pounded home their plans to help put back to work the 15 million Americans lacking jobs.
Polls suggest the economy is driving voters' choices, pushing national security and social issues down on their list of concerns.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press


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Berry Vitamin-Packed Smoothie
serves 3 - 5
½ cup strawberries
½ cup blueberries
½ cup blackberries
½ cup chopped carrot
1 cup milk
1 cup apple juice
2 cups ice
Pour liquid ingredients into the blending jar.
Add all frozen ingredients.
Blend at "PULSE" setting for 30 seconds; then blend at "LOW" setting until smooth. While the machine is running, move the Stir Stick around counterclockwise to aid mixing. Serve immediately.
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Compass Box Magic Cask
(Vatted) Malt Scotch Whisky
Limited Release, 480 bottles
46% abv
In the autumn of 2006, the LCBO (the wine and spirits state monopoly in Ontario) launched a marketing campaign called "The Whisky Generation." It consisted of pictures of cool-looking urbanites mostly under 30, with the text, "The Whisky Generation" beside their pretty faces. The LCBO webiste was adorned with the music of some cheesy twangy guitars and faces of 20-something male and female hipsters. I refuse to comment on what informed the decision to launch such a campaign or the successes of the campaign (from what I understand, at every tasting event the LCBO held that month, there were seldom ANYONE under 30.) Do I think mixing Crown Royal with ginger ale is an effective way to turn young spirits consumers onto whisky? Hell no, but bless them for trying. Everyone is trying. And (nearly) everyone is failing. Again, I will not use this space to hypothesize as to why.
John Glaser created this product as an experiment that he had no use for, until now. He thought it suited Canada well as we have a law that stipulates that in the making of Canadian whisky, 9.09% can be "other". I am not sure of the origin of this law, but it means that distillers can, and have been able to, add whatever they like to their whisky such as other types of whisky, fortified wines, sugars, fruit juices, etc.
Real quality control.
Mr. Jan Westcott (President and CEO, Spirits Canada, Association of Canadian Distillers) says: "In Canada, for as far back as we've been making whiskey, we've looked for ways to differentiate our product from other products. One of the ways we do that, and have done that, in Canada--some of the records I've looked at go back over 100 years--is to flavour our whiskey with other whiskies and wine. If you go back many, many years, the rule of thumb was about 10%. In converting that to codification, the actual conversion worked out to be 9.09%. That compares, for example, with what happens in the United States. When they make a blended whiskey in the United States, they can add 80%. Therefore, our provisions are quite modest and they're Canadian. Other countries do other things and we respect that."
So what results with the Magic Cask is a NEW sort of whisky from Compass Box. John Glaser has never released a whisky from a cask that once held wine/sherry/port, etc., rather he uses whiskies from American oak ex-Bourbon casks or new European oak. This one is a 17yr old Linkwood that spent the last year of maturation in a "magical" Madeira barrique. This is blended with a 14yr old Clynelish.
First of all, I usually dont mention colour but I am going to today. It is a strange pinky orange. And every bottle I have had/shared/seen has sediment on the bottom. Unusual with whisky. Must be from wine cask.
Nice rich nose. Malty but sherried and candied. Red Lifesavers. It has a strong grape and cheese (stilton?) aroma. Bit of a nose prickle.
Tastes creamy, malty sweetness offset by a strong wine/sherry/madeira element, but a certain smokiness pokes through as well. Slightly harsh and burning in the middle. The finish hangs about with candied orange and tobacco. LONG and lingering. Smoky again. Wintery. Christmas-y.
I love the label. Not everyone does. I like the whisky. Not everyone does. I dont like the price. Yeah, it is a bit rare and therefore pricey, but I would say it's worth the experience if you have the cash. Or do like we did when I was back in Toronto: all throw a few bucks and share the bottle with a dozen or so friends. Oooo... sharing... SCARY.
Pretty good stuff from a guy who is a real innovator, and ballsy to boot cuz he is willing to take chances.
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Do I think trying a different scotch every day and e-writing about is is an effective way to turn young spirits consumers onto whisky? Hell yeah, and bless you for trying.
what are you selling again and where do i buy it?
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2pac:Thug Passion
|"Thug Passion"
|All Eyez on Me (1996)
Intro: 2Pac
Aight, new drink
one part alazhay one part chrystal
Thugs Passion baby
y'all know what time it is
This drink is Gauranteed to get the pussy wet and the dick hard
now if ya with me
Pour a glass and drink with a nigga
know what I mean ?
I ain't trying to turn you all niggas into alcholics
Alcholics [ha ha]
I'm just trying to turn you into muthafuckin thugs
So come and get some of this thug passion Baby
Verse One: Dramacydal
I could pull out the drink
and be good 'till it's relavent but
I'm a straight solider, I'll roll up a nigga
like its Heaven sent
Tripping over dead presidents
they got these derelicts
I throw was down with this business
Tryin' clown and get a cent
and so rather
than stand forever, been thinking
drinking over a felony
and hell of me and how it will be some other shit
People telling me to cool out
But they ain't feeling me
a mutha fuckin fool 'bout
my fuckin cheddar cheese
and it pleases, passion of mine
Thuggin huggin plenty of G's
and laughing while I pass through times
And all thes back stabbers be watchin
Just keep it plain
I'm a keep it the same partner
Just take it the simple game
I can pinkle with the rain twinkling
diamonds and thangs go plinklin
enough to hold me, til' I'm, old and wrinklin
and These adversaries
they gonna have to be worrying
cuz I'm a be illing
Fufillin my Passion
Till I'm burryin'
My Thug Passion
Chorus: Jewell
I heard it's the bomb
and you got it going on
give me some of your Thug Passion Babby
You got me dripping wet
from the way you make me sweat
give me some of your Thug Passion Babby
Verse Two: Dramacydal
Now what if me
turn this Henessee
into a robbery
the Prophecy probably suddenly
switch and How it supposed to be?
And Dirty money
Can't be evil cuz it's filling up my tummy see
Born in a position
Death collision
was futuristic
twisting riches
But there is only one way to make mo'
so I'm standing on the corner
trying to hustle in the snow
and My bigga bro
couldn't know
but buy a four four
blasting at playa hating
wantin' mo'
with a Thug Passion
Verse Three: 2Pac
Putting down mashin'
control by this Thug's Passion
unlike them other bustas pistol blastin'
I'm asking, What Happened?
To the niggas who kept it real
like they claim to
that's when I bang do
see thang true
Traveling this road my poor soul
has been consolidated
with all this bullshit I done tolerated
How I made it
can easily stated
it's like my heart be gripped with the Passion
to be the fucking greatest
Load up and take shit
Make this to some high dollar gangster shit
jack a stack till we got enought bank to split
Verse Four: Storm
Creep with me
through that Imortal flow
Thug Passion got you tremblin'
like Death on the Row
make your move
so I can throw your mind a curve
while i'll be blowin up tha scene
like my nigga Mr. Herb
take a toke
as your heart goes full arrest
I got tha bomb
so nigga, fuck tha rest
ya need a 3rd to get ya flowin'
and let that loc see smoke
feelin' tha strokes of tha nine squeeze tight and slow
Verse Five: 2Pac
They say money don't make tha man
but damn i'm makin' money
observin' you muthafuckers
cause some of you bitches funny
say you want it
but you bullshitin'
lickin' them lips
you got me about to act a fool quick
sippin' on some Alazay and Cristal, meanwhile
buy me a drink
and get to winking at me
she smiles
a niggas full of passion
Satisfaction is everlastin'
How does it feel ?
what i'm askin'
while i'm rubbin' on that ass
why you laughin' ?
see, i'm diggin' as if i'm curious
full blown and furious
baby get a grip
when I be doin' this
It's so physical
my attraction
driven by alchol
beware of my reaction
baby i'm born to ball
thugged out on Death Row
You better recognize
and picture what I said so
Now you can feel it
it's a potion for my niggas in motion
forever blastin'
Chorus 4X


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Did you know you have more than 600 muscles in your body? They do everything from pumping blood throughout your body to helping you lift your heavy backpack. You control some of your muscles, while others — like your heart — do their jobs without you thinking about them at all.
Muscles are all made of the same material, a type of elastic tissue (sort of like the material in a rubber band). Thousands, or even tens of thousands, of small fibers make up each muscle.
You have three different types of muscles in your body:
Smooth muscles — sometimes also called involuntary muscles — are usually in sheets, or layers, with one layer of muscle behind the other. You can't control this type of muscle. Your brain and body tell these muscles what to do without you even thinking about it. You can't use your smooth muscles to make a muscle in your arm or jump into the air.
But smooth muscles are at work all over your body. In your stomach and digestive system, they contract (tighten up) and relax to allow food to make its journey through the body. Your smooth muscles come in handy if you're sick and you need to throw up. The muscles push the food back out of the stomach so it comes up through the esophagus (say: ih-SAH-fuh-gus) and out of the mouth.
Smooth muscles are also found in your bladder. When they're relaxed, they allow you to hold in urine (pee) until you can get to the bathroom. Then they contract so that you can push the urine out. These muscles are also in a woman's uterus, which is where a baby develops. There they help to push the baby out of the mother's body when it's time to be born.
You'll find smooth muscles at work behind the scenes in your eyes, too. These muscles keep the eyes focused.
The muscle that makes up the heart is called cardiac muscle. It is also known as the myocardium (say: my-uh-KAR-dee-um). The thick muscles of the heart contract to pump blood out and then relax to let blood back in after it has circulated through the body.
Just like smooth muscle, cardiac muscle works all by itself with no help from you. A special group of cells within the heart are known as the pacemaker of the heart because it controls the heartbeat.
Now, let's talk about the kind of muscle you think of when we say "muscle" — the ones that show how strong you are and let you boot a soccer ball into the goal. These are your skeletal muscles — sometimes called striated (say: STRY-ay-tud) muscle because the light and dark parts of the muscle fibers make them look striped (striated is a fancy word meaning striped).
Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles, which means you can control what they do. Your leg won't bend to kick the soccer ball unless you want it to. These muscles help to make up the musculoskeletal (say: mus-kyuh-low-SKEL-uh-tul) system — the combination of your muscles and your skeleton, or bones.
Together, the skeletal muscles work with your bones to give your body power and strength. In most cases, a skeletal muscle is attached to one end of a bone. It stretches all the way across a joint (the place where two bones meet) and then attaches again to another bone.
Skeletal muscles are held to the bones with the help of tendons (say: TEN-dunz). Tendons are cords made of tough tissue, and they work as special connector pieces between bone and muscle. The tendons are attached so well that when you contract one of your muscles, the tendon and bone move along with it.
You may not think of it as a muscular body part, but your face has plenty of muscles. You can check them out next time you look in the mirror. Facial muscles don't all attach directly to bone like they do in the rest of the body. Instead, many of them attach under the skin. This allows you to contract your facial muscles just a tiny bit and make dozens of different kinds of faces. Even the smallest movement can turn a smile into a frown. You can raise your eyebrow to look surprised or wiggle your nose.
And while you're looking at your face, don't pass over your tongue — a muscle that's attached only at one end! Your tongue is actually made of a group of muscles that work together to allow you to talk and help you chew food. Stick out your tongue and wiggle it around to see those muscles at work.
Skeletal muscles come in many different sizes and shapes to allow them to do many types of jobs. Some of the biggest and most powerful muscles are your calf and thigh muscles. They give your body the power it needs to lift and push things. Muscles in your neck and the top part of your back aren't as large, but they are capable of some pretty amazing things: Try rotating your head around, back and forth, and up and down to feel the power of the muscles in your neck. These muscles also hold your head high.
Because there are so many skeletal muscles in your body, we can't list them all here. But here are a few of the major ones:
Reviewed by: KidsHealth Medical Experts
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While most Australians are able to house themselves without government assistance, such assistance remains important for various population groups, especially low income earners and social security recipients. Housing assistance is provided by the Commonwealth Government and the state and territory governments through a range of housing and other programs. Assistance for people with low incomes is provided through public housing, home purchase assistance and rent assistance schemes. Assistance is also provided to community organisations and local governments for refuges and crisis accommodation.
Public housing
Public housing comprises dwellings owned and managed by state and territory housing authorities and which are made available at low cost to tenants. Rents are generally set at a maximum of 25% of income, thereby providing low cost housing to people on low incomes. The median weekly housing cost for those renting from a state or territory housing authority in 1999-2000 was $58, compared to $150 for those renting from a private landlord. Expenditure under the CSHA on public housing and related assistance was approximately $1.3b in 1999-2000.
Over recent decades, public housing has been increasingly targeted towards those most in need. In 1999-2000, 402,000 households (6% of all households) were living in public housing; of these, about 82% were in the lowest 40% of the household income distribution. Government pensions and benefits were the main source of income for the majority of households in public housing.
Home purchase assistance (HPA)
HPA is provided by some states to assist low-to-moderate income households to purchase a home or to provide help with mortgage repayments. Some of the mechanisms used to assist low-to-moderate income earners include loans, shared equity schemes, deposit assistance and mortgage relief. States offer HPA options in line with local market conditions. The emphasis given to loan products varies significantly between jurisdictions. Western Australia and South Australia placed the greatest emphasis on various forms of subsidised loan products, partly due to lower housing prices, which make home purchase feasible on lower incomes. Other jurisdictions such as New South Wales gave greater emphasis to mortgage relief for home purchasers experiencing hardship.
Rent assistance
The Commonwealth Government pays Rent Assistance, a non-taxable income supplement, to eligible social security customers who pay rent in the private rental market. Rent can include private rent, lodgings, board and lodgings, site fees, fees to moor a vessel, or service and maintenance fees in a retirement village.
To be eligible for Rent Assistance, a customer must first pay rent above a certain threshold level, then Rent Assistance is paid at the rate of 75 cents in each dollar above the threshold, until a maximum amount is reached. Maximum rates and thresholds vary depending on a person's family situation.
Rent Assistance is indexed twice-yearly in March and September to the consumer price index.
As at June 2002, there were 943,877 income units in receipt of Rent Assistance, where an income unit is defined as a single person with or without dependants, or a couple with or without dependants. The average rent paid by Rent Assistance customers in June 2002 was $253 per fortnight while the average Rent Assistance received was $72 per fortnight.
A large proportion of Rent Assistance customers are either lone persons or sole parents. In June 2002, 54% of Rent Assistance customers were single without children, 23% were single with children, 15% were couples with children and 8% were couples without children.
Under CSHA, the state and territory governments also assist low income earners with the costs of rent, bonds and relocation in the private rental market. In 2000-01 almost $80m was provided through these arrangements.
Table 8.22 provides details of the number of Rent Assistance customers, average fortnightly rates of Rent Assistance and average fortnightly rents. Outlays on Rent Assistance are included in the total expenditure on pensions, allowance and family tax benefits - see footnote (a) to table 7.7 in Income and welfare.
Crisis accommodation
Governments also provide assistance in meeting the short-term accommodation needs of homeless people who are identified as a priority target group under the CSHA. The Commonwealth Government provides funding of $40m per annum for crisis accommodation through the Crisis Accommodation Program under the CSHA. The Commonwealth Government and the state and territory governments also provide assistance to people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, through the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP).
Within the context of the SAAP IV Bilateral Agreements 2000-05, national funding (i.e. Commonwealth and state/territory contributions) will be over $1.4b. Total recurrent funding for the SAAP program during 2000-01 totalled $268.8m. Such funding consisted of a Commonwealth contribution of $157.7m and a state/territory contribution of $111.2m.
In 2001-02, the AIHW's Supported Accommodation and Crisis Services Unit published the 2000-01 SAAP national data collection report (AIHW 2001a). The report showed that 91,200 clients were provided with support or supported accommodation through SAAP in Australia in 2000-01. These contacts comprised a total of 168,200 occasions of support in 2000-01. For 20% of support periods the main reason for seeking assistance was either usual accommodation unavailable or eviction/previous accommodation ended.
Nationally, males aged 25 years and over presenting alone at SAAP agencies accounted for the largest proportion of all support periods (34%), followed by 19% for female clients with children. Overall, 6% of support periods were for couples with or without children, while males with children accounted for 1% of all support periods. Indigenous Australians constituted 16% of SAAP clients and on average had more support periods than other clients.
For clients who specifically sought assistance to obtain independent housing there were significant changes in accommodation type before and after support. In particular, accommodation in public or community housing went from 8% of support periods before support to 21% after. The proportion of support periods in which clients were renting privately also increased (from 17% before support to 26% after) (AIHW 2001a).
Housing assistance program for Indigenous Australians
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) administers a number of programs to improve the living environment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Its second largest program is the Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP) which has the aim of providing appropriate, safe and affordable housing, and improving community and individual health and wellbeing.
CHIP provides funds for the construction, purchase, repair and management of community housing as well as for the provision and maintenance of housing-related infrastructure (essential services such as water, sewerage, electricity and community roads) and recurrent funding for the provision of municipal services. Through CHIP, grants are provided to:
In 2001-02, CHIP expenditure totalled $240m, of which around half went to the provision of housing. Over 500 houses were purchased/constructed and over 1,100 upgraded/renovated. The program has a particular focus on environmental health-related infrastructure through a specific sub-program called the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHS). NAHS projects are generally large-scale projects targeting priority housing and infrastructure including power, water and waste removal, mainly in rural and remote Indigenous communities. In 2001-02 more than $90m in grant funds was provided under NAHS.
ATSIC engaged the ABS to undertake a Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS) during 2001. The timing of CHINS was to align the process with the 2001 Census. The CHINS 2001 report, which was released in May 2002, provides a comprehensive picture on Indigenous housing circumstances across all tenures at a single point in time.
ATSIC's Community Housing and Infrastructure Program supplements the efforts of state/territory governments, which also receive earmarked Indigenous housing funds from the Aboriginal Rental Housing Program ($91m per annum) of Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS).
The Commonwealth Government, through FaCS and ATSIC, has been implementing bilateral housing agreements with state and territory governments to maximise program efficiency and effectiveness and to better coordinate all housing programs specific to Indigenous people. At 30 June 2002, agreements had been signed with the Northern Territory, Western Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Queensland, while negotiations with Tasmania and Victoria are continuing.
In December 1999, the Agreement on National Indigenous Housing Information was signed by the Chief Executive Officers of the Commonwealth and state and territory agencies administering Indigenous housing assistance (AIHW 2000b). The ABS and the AIHW are also signatories to the agreement and the AIHW provides secretariat support. The agreement provides a framework to improve how outcomes for Indigenous housing are measured, with a focus on developing national data sets.
Following the establishment in 2001-02 of the Housing Ministers' Advisory Council's Standing Committee on Indigenous Housing, the National Indigenous Housing Information Implementation Committee (NIHIIC) now reports directly to this Standing Committee. The Standing Committee has responsibility for the implementation of Housing Ministers' 10-year statement Building a better future: Indigenous Housing to 2010. The development of data is one of the key implementation areas in the Standing Committee's work plan.
In 2001-02 the ABS and the AIHW worked with agencies responsible for Indigenous housing assistance at the Commonwealth and state/territory level to develop an Indigenous Housing Information Management Strategy and Action Plan. The strategy and action plan represent an important first stage in the process of the Standing Committee and NIHIIC developing administrative data for national Indigenous housing.
National Indigenous housing reforms
The Commonwealth State Working Group on Indigenous Housing developed processes to coordinate a national effort, and provide a valuable forum for ATSIC, the Commonwealth and the states to share information and strategies. This Group is now superseded by the Standing Committee on Indigenous Housing.
Agreement has been achieved in a number of key areas including:
The Commonwealth and State Housing Ministers and the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, in May 2001, agreed on a 10-year plan to improve Indigenous housing outcomes, Building a Better Future: Indigenous Housing to 2010. Strategies to achieve these outcomes will include: identifying and addressing unmet housing need; improving the capacity of IHOs; involving communities in planning and delivery; and achieving safe, healthy and sustainable housing.
In line with the agreed outcomes, all funding agencies, including the State Housing Authorities, will be developing strategies to achieve the agreed outcomes within their jurisdiction. This will include the development of criteria for capital and recurrent funding and, in particular, strategies for ensuring that IHOs achieve effective and efficient management practices.
Home ownership
The ATSIC Home Ownership scheme aims to reduce the disparity between the rate of home ownership in Indigenous communities and that in the wider Australian community. The rate of home ownership for Aboriginal family and lone-person households was estimated in the 2001 Census to be 32%. This compares with a national non-Indigenous figure of 71%.
ATSIC provides home loans at concessional interest rates to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. The Home Ownership scheme targets low income families with the capacity to repay a long-term loan, but who have difficulty obtaining finance from traditional lending institutions. The loan portfolio administered by ATSIC includes 3,824 loans valued at $316m. In 2001-02 about 494 new loans were provided.
Other programs
The Commonwealth Government, through the Department of Health and Ageing, finances and regulates residential care for frail older people. The residential care is usually provided by the non-government sector, including religious, charitable and private sector providers. A small number of residential services are operated by the state and local government sectors. Capital assistance for upgrading or construction of facilities is made available to those aged care services catering largely for residents with special needs or on low incomes, and those in rural and remote areas of Australia (see the section Residential aged care program in Income and welfare).
Under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement, the Commonwealth provides funds to assist the states and territories in the planning, policy setting and management of accommodation and other related services for people with disabilities. The state and territory governments are responsible for administering these services (see the section Support for people with a disability in Income and welfare). Areas such as advocacy, and research and development, continue to be a responsibility of both levels of government.
The Commonwealth also funds the AIHW. The AIHW's role is to gather, analyse and disseminate national data on health and welfare services, including housing assistance, in order to support both government and community organisations' planning and policy making. The Housing Assistance unit of AIHW is involved in describing the need for, provision and use of housing assistance in Australia, supporting the development of standard terminologies, definitions and classifications for use in measuring housing assistance and contributing to the development of nationally consistent data.
In December 2001, the AIHW published Australia's Welfare 2001: Services and Assistance (AIHW 2001b) which contains chapters on housing assistance and services for homeless people. Included in these chapters is information examining the need for assistance, government expenditure on services and assistance, the characteristics of recipients of assistance and outcomes.
A housing authority also exists in each state and territory, which is responsible for the provision of public rental housing and often other housing related services such as home loans. These authorities are:


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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and LHS Health Network Create New Patient-Centered ACO
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) and the LHS Health Network announced today the launch of a collaborative Patient-Centered Accountable Care Organization (ACO) to improve care and patient outcomes for over 17,000 Horizon BCBSNJ members. Approximately 90 primary care doctors practicing at approximately 40 practice locations in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties are participating in this Patient-Centered ACO that began on January 1, 2014. "Our new collaboration with Lourdes is another vital step toward transforming how patient care is delivered in New Jersey with an eye toward stronger care coordination, a better patient experience, and lower cost of care for Horizon members," said Jim Albano, Vice President of Network Management and Horizon Healthcare Innovations at Horizon BCBSNJ. "We are extremely pleased to be developing this innovative model of service with Horizon, who share our vision for providing high quality, high-value care to the Southern New Jersey community," commented Alexander J. Hatala, President and CEO of Lourdes Health System and the LHS Health Network. ACOs are built on a strong primary care foundation. Participating physician groups help create a healthier patient population through a coordinated, accountable approach to care among providers within the ACO. ACOs are designed to achieve measured patient quality outcomes and decrease unnecessary and duplicative medical tests and treatments. Under this Patient-Centered ACO agreement, Horizon BCBSNJ will provide care coordination payments to the ACO to take on additional accountability for improving the health and patient experience as well as controlling the cost of care for its Horizon BCBSNJ patients. The ACO and its affiliated practices, provided the ACO meets certain health improvement, patient satisfaction and cost goals, have an opportunity to share in the resulting financial savings with Horizon BCBSNJ. Horizon BCBSNJ has a number of Patient-Centered Programs, including Accountable Care Organizations, Patient-Centered Medical Homes, and programs focused on different Episodes of Care (i.e. joint replacement, pregnancy). More than 500,000 Horizon BCBSNJ members are now benefiting from Horizon BCBSNJ's Patient-Centered Programs that are working to improve patient care while controlling costs. About Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the state's oldest and largest health insurer, is a tax-paying, not-for-profit health services corporation, providing a wide array of medical, dental, and prescription insurance products and services. Horizon BCBSNJ is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, serving 3.7 million members with headquarters in Newark and offices in Wall, Mt. Laurel, and West Trenton. Learn more at www.HorizonBlue.com. About the LHS Health Network Formed in 2013, the LHS Health Network seeks to provide the highest value medical care for beneficiaries through coordinated, comprehensive care across physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers.


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In the shadow of my sister.
Heather Corinna replies:I feel like I'm always in my sisters shadow, and it's driving me nuts! I'm really happy the way I am, and I wouldn't change it, but whenever I'm around people I know, and she's there, I'm always second best. When I mean "people I know" it goes down to friends, boys, everyone who we're acquainted with! I know VERY well that I don't need a boy, but it feels nice to have attention sometimes. Maybe it's because me and my sister are very close in everything we do. My sister also is a very thin individual, and weighs less than me, even if she is older and taller. I sometimes feel some pressure from her and my friends because I am more careful of what I eat. I am very curvy (it's my body type), and the rest of the people I know are very thin. Their constant nagging drives me crazy, and beside them I feel like a big lumbering pig, even if I am the average weight for an adult my height. I am very happy with my weight and body/breast size, but this is really getting annoying. Thanks for listening.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Smart words from a smart lady, and one who certainly also didn't fit the beauty ideals nor a lot of people's ideas about how women should be in her day.
Of course it feels nice to have some attention sometimes: that's just human on your part. And of course, when how you look isn't as close to a given beauty ideal your sister might meet, it's going to be a bit tough.
But you know, beauty ideals change constantly. The older you get, the more you'll watch that. Fifty years ago, those ideals were all about big curves. Twenty years ago, it was about muscles. Right now, it's about being thin. Those ideals have about as much relevance and staying power as the height of fashionable hemlines. Maybe some of the folks you're talking about aren't wise enough to know that, but you can be. How beautiful you are doesn't change based on what's fashionable at a given time, nor does in change in comparison to someone else.
You're not second best, and I'd encourage you to really feel that and do your level best to make it something real that you just plain know. Goony as it may sound, if you don't really feel that and don't really project that, people are going to pick up on the subtle signals you send which speak to how you feel about yourself, and incorporate those into how they see you. If you know, without a doubt, that you're just as fabulous -- albeit differently -- as your sister, you'll find that others are going to be in agreement with you.
Do you already eat healthfully? If so, then stop having what and how you eat influenced by other people. being able to eat well is a marvelous luxury, and controlling how we eat not for our health, but out of insecurity or anxiety isn't healthy physically or emotionally. You don't want to have to deal with crawling out of disordered eating in your life: that's a challenge nobody needs.
Are they really nagging you? Then you need to gather up some gumption and tell them to cut it out, pronto. Stand up for yourself, gal. There you are with some marvelous curves of your body, so how about integrating them into your personality? Be bodacious in your mind as well as your body. If you can find it in yourself to be assertive and tell the naggers to bug off, they're likely to do just that. Again, letting people make you feel this way is something you do have some control over, and you want to be sure you project, loud and clear, that you're nobody's whipping girl. heck, for all you know, some of that nagging is coming from a place of their insecurities about you: when people diss on other people's bodies, that is usually where it's coming from.
Since you say you and your sister are close, you might even want to have a heartfelt conversation with her about all of this. Let her know you're feeling pressure from her and that it's really getting you down. Let her know you'd like to enjoy your differences rather than resent them. You might even ask for a little distance in your social lives if it's feeling claustrophobic to you.
Also know that it can be a lot tougher to be sister in adolescence than it can be later in life. As you both get older, your lives and social lives will be less connected. You'll have your own thing, she'll have hers, and you'll both be compared to one another a lot less often. You'll likely be able to better appreciate your differences, rather than having them be painful. By all means, you can forge some of that independence now, too: get involved in some things that are just for you, just about what you enjoy and are talented in and inspired by. Take steps towards that independent life now by throwing in a curve ball.
Start asking yourself: what would Eleanor do?
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The Creative Technologies Academy's Board Policy Manual contains the following policy which is applicable to all Title I schools. CTA does NOT receive Title I funds, nevertheless it adheres to the following policy:
In accordance with the requirement of Section 1111 of Title I, for each school receiving Title I funds, the School Leader shall make sure that all parents of students in that school are notified that they may request, and the Academy will provide the following information on the student's classroom teachers:
A. whether the teacher(s) have met the State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade level and subject areas they are teaching;
B. whether the teacher(s) is teaching under any emergency or provisional status in which the State requirements have been waived;
C. the undergraduate major of the teacher(s) and the area of study and any certificates for any graduate degrees earned;
D. the qualifications of any paraprofessionals providing services to their child(ren);
In addition, the parents shall be provided:
E. information on the level of achievement of their child(ren) on the required State academic assessments;
F. timely notice if the student is assigned to a teacher who is not "highly qualified" as required, or if the student is taught for more than four (4) weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified.
The notices and information shall be provided in an understandable format, and to the extent possible, in a language the parent(s) understand.
Instructions materials—right to inspect
Parents have the right to inspect any instructional materials used as part of the educational curriculum for their student. Instructional material means instructional content, regardless of format, that is provided to the student, including printed or representational materials, audiovisual materials, and materials available in electronic or digital formats (such as materials accessible through the Internet.) Instructional material does not include academic tests or academic assessments.


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I've just now had the chance to read Heather Jackson's engaging essay "What's Biography Got to Do With It?" in the June 2011 ERR (this was her plenary at the 2010 NASSR, a conference I sadly had to miss; from the papers in ERR, it looks like it was extraordinary!). I'd been meaning to get to this article since the issue arrived and I'm glad I finally did. Jackson looks back at the world of Romantic-era literary biography in order to think about why our own students (and the general public) often seem so stubbornly invested in talking about writers' lives when we want them to talk about literary works, and she comes up with some provocative answers—for instance:
What we normally think of as literary biography, the large-scale, original, comprehensive, authored account of a writer's life, has less to do with the evolution of any writer's reputation than you might think, but the short, derivative, introductory, often anonymous summary that appears in prefaces and works of reference has more. […] When we ask why readers are not satisfied with the works just as they come and why they turn to biographical sources when they want more — why biography should be the default solution —we have […] the fact that ancient prefatory traditions have always organized information that way and thereby formed a habit that it may be impossible to break. (370)
"Is that a problem?," Jackson wonders. I've been thinking myself a good deal about the role of biography in our (my) teaching of Romanticism, and it's been a topic particularly on my mind this week: the bookstore's been nagging me for the booklist for the honors seminar on "Romantic Lives" I'm teaching this spring, and we've just been doing The Prelude in my graduate British Romanticism seminar and "Tintern Abbey" in my undergraduate Romantic Poetry survey, so the idea, or problem, of the authorial life has been front and center in our discussions and in my planning for class. Reading Jackson's essay prompts me to post some of my own thinking on the topic here, and to invite readers of this blog to conversation: what role does the biography of writers—either biography as a literary genre, or the idea of the writer's life—play in your teaching of Romanticism? How is the writer's life, or even the writer as personality or character, an element of the way you present the writer's work to your students, or the interpretative frames you put into play? Do you assign biographies, or teach biography or autobiography as a genre, or talk about how and why the writer's life became an object of interest? How do you deal with the power of mythic versions of author's lives? How do you combat the rush to Wikipedia or other internet capsule biography as an answer to anything and everything?
Like many of us I'm sure, I find myself often frustrated by the way students wield as very blunt instruments supposed biographical "facts" they've gotten by googling, or heard from friends, or vaguely remembered from high school. What disturbs me is not so much the recourse to biography itself as the eagerness to reduce not only the complexity of the work, but also the complexity of the writer's life, to a single determining biographical fact or myth. It's strange, really, that students can imagine anyone's life in the monodimensional terms in which they sometimes seem to imagine the lives of the authors they read. This retreat from complexity is no doubt partly an anxiousness about the work of interpretation (they're worried they don't know how to do it) but it also has parallels in the media attention given to each latest diagnosis granting a long-dead writer or artist a medical or psychological condition that "explains" his or her "genius"—an impulse to pathologize and explain away creativity that reflects both a lack of imagination and a fear of imagination. Still, I've come increasingly to think that in answer to what Jackson calls "our biographical woes in the classroom" (365) we need more biography in the classroom, not less. If students too often rely on reductive biographical readings, it might be because they don't have enough exposure to more sophisticated, complex versions of biography, nor enough experience with more nuanced understandings of the interactions of life and text. In other words, if students are all too eager to fall back on biographical fallacy or weak biographical criticism, this might be an effect of the institutionalization (at the high school as well as college level) of a pedagogy so hyperanxious about the possibility of biographical contamination that it pretends to rule biography itself out of court. I say pretends because the author's life persists as an organizing principle of our pedagogy in many often unacknowledged ways, as Jackson argues, and because of course we don't presume any such strict separation of biography and criticism in our own work as critics. In our effort to convince students not to read everything as directly self-expressive, we give them the confusing message that the author's life isn't something to be read.
Curiosity about writers' lives isn't a bad thing for students to have if they know how to research those lives capably, if they can understand that writers were real people—and so not fully "knowable"—living in real historical circumstances different from their own, and if they can recognize that the authorial personality they imagine they encounter or the authorial voice they imagine they hear is a fiction, a product of specific reception histories and of particular desires and needs (their own, the writer's, a culture's). So how then to help students become more savvy about the uses of biography, and how to make curiosity about the author's life work for us, as teachers of literature? Here, we have an advantage as Romanticists, since so many Romantic literary works blur the boundaries between life and text in ways we can use to get students asking better questions about how life and work connect. For example: Frankenstein refuses straightforwardly autobiographical readings yet on so many levels seems to refract or transpose aspects of Mary Shelley's own experience as writer, mother, daughter, and wife—and then reflects in such complicated ways on the problem of telling, or hearing, a life story—that it can lead marvelously into rich discussions of the complexity of the competing pressures Shelley experienced and the complicated nature of the way autobiography is woven, along with many other strands of meaning, into the web of the novel. Don Juan's extraordinary along these lines as well. Conversely, explicitly autobiographical texts such as The Prelude or "Lines...Tintern Abbey" gain in significance for students when they think about the choices (of genre, of emphasis or omission, of language) the poet makes in presenting experience in a particular, public form, and when they come to see the poem as an argument about what that experience has been and what it means. This helps them shake their biographical literalism. In teaching "Tintern Abbey," I usually foreground the dialogue with "Frost at Midnight," and we consider Dorothy Wordsworth's journal writing alongside these poems to help students think about public and private modes of writing the self.
I agree with Heather Jackson's suggestion that students would benefit from a greater familiarity with biography as a literary genre, and I think full-length biographies of writers can be a useful contextualizing tool. In some smaller seminars, I've experimented with asking students to choose from among a list of modern biographies of writers we're reading; in the assignments I give them for reports on these biographies, I ask them to pay attention to formal and rhetorical aspects of the biography, and we compare how different biographers represent the same episodes from a subject's life. The goal is to have the students understand biography as representation, interpretation, and argument, rather than something simply to be mined for facts. The better biographies also gave students a vivid sense of the historical and intellectual contexts of the writers we were studying, and a sense of their existence in a particular time and place. In larger classes, I've found myself using more biographical anecdotes about writers—which can feel kind of donnish, but which works both to help situate the writers in a historical context and as a lure for students, who might then feel engaged by the idea of the writer as a person who works through, in his or her writing, particular sets of more or less urgent personal and political and philosophical concerns, even if not necessarily in the mode of self-expression.
However, I still find all of this kind of tricky. There's a part of me that's very uneasy about giving authorial personality too much presence in the classroom, even if it's in a more deconstructive mode emphasizing the textualization of the life. There's the recognition that neither as an undergrad nor in grad school was I ever actually assigned even an excerpt from a biography as far as I can recall, so now I feel a bit on shaky ground when I try to do it. There's the problem of time on the syllabus and in class discussion: how can we squeeze it all in? There's the risk that students will still reach for biography as reductive explanation, or that they'll want to turn class discussion into a debate, daytime-talk-show-style, on whether the writers we're studying were good or appealing people, or that we'll be reinforcing mythologies of the author or of genius. Then there's what I've come to think of as the "five summers with the length of five long winters" problem—if you're teaching, say, "Tintern Abbey," practically speaking, in the limited discussion time you have, what do you do to describe that five-year gap? Do you talk about the gap between WW's first visit and his return solely in terms given by the poem itself (entirely possible and effective)? Do you talk about the gap by discussing his evolving philosophical or political thinking in biographical terms, or do you place the poem in wider intellectual or cultural contexts? Do you talk about what he did and where he was specifically in those five years—how literal do you get about the "lonely rooms" or the "fretful stir/unprofitable" (in my experience, students often ask for more detail here)? Do you emphasize the historical resonances of the date (e.g., Corday/Marat)? Ideally, one pulls together these various registers, so that students can think about how Wordsworth negotiates a relationship between his life and broader sweeps of history. When that works, it's great, but it's hard not to feel like either the individual life or the historical sweep gets the short end of the stick. And I haven't yet taken on a class where we talk substantially about the history of literary biography—though that will come in the spring, with the "Romantic Lives" class, and I'm wondering how it will work. More on that upcoming class--and on this topic--soon, I hope.


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- From: Gregg Kellogg <email@example.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:22:27 -0400
- To: Semantic Web <email@example.com>
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I've prepared an updated Microdata to RDF Working Draft for review [1]. Please note that, as this is a Note of the Semantic Web Interest Group, and the HTML Data Task Force is complete, the official place for feedback is firstname.lastname@example.com. This update adds support for vocabulary expansion, principally to support features such as schema:additionalType. Microdata vocabulary expansion is a subset of RDFa vocabulary expansion, and is fully compatible with RDFa, such that toolsets which process both RDFa 1.1 and Microdata to RDF can use a single vocabulary expansion algorithm, although its use in Microdata is mandatory, whereas it is optional in RDFa 1.1. To support vocabulary expansion, additional features are added to the registry: within a vocabulary, a property can be either specified as "equivalentProperty" of another IRI, or "subPropertyOf" another IRI, to use either owl:equivalentProperty or rdfs:subPropertyOf expansion rules. The default registry has been updated for additionalType as follows: { "http://schema.org/": { ... "properties": { "additionalType": {"subPropertyOf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"} ... } } Note that the current published registry [2] has not been updated. The version of the registry used for this working draft is available in the supplement [3], and in the mercurial repository [4]. Additionally, when a vocabulary is detected, an rdfa:usesVocabulary triple is generated, which enables the RDFa 1.1 vocabulary expansion toolchain. If at some point schema.org includes OWL2 expansion rules supported by RDFa within the vocabulary definition, this will allow full use of this through RDFa tool chains which support Microdata to RDF. The draft references the test-suite [5], which now has a number of tests (currently 74) available to help developers check processor conformance. This includes all of the current schema.org microdata examples. After a reasonable feedback period, this working draft will update the current published note [6]. Thanks to Ivan for invaluable help in preparing this update. Gregg Kellogg email@example.com [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/htmldata/raw-file/default/ED/microdata-rdf/20120919/ [2] http://www.w3.org/ns/md [3] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/htmldata/raw-file/default/microdata-supplement/index.html [4] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/htmldata/raw-file/default/microdata-namespace/ns.json [5] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/htmldata/raw-file/default/microdata-rdf/tests/ [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20120308/
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