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Matthew Southgate got his reward for three rounds of unerring accuracy at the Macdonald Spey Valley Golf Course after a four under par 67 saw him take a two shot lead going into the final round of the Scottish Hydro Challenge.
The young Englishman, in his first year as a professional, has been in sparkling form from tee to green in the Scottish Highlands as he surged through the field to post a 13 under par leading score, two clear of first and second round leader Chris Doak of Scotland, Italy's Federico Colombo and Frenchman Edouard Dubois.
Another Scot, Greig Hutcheon, posted the lowest round of the day, a fine six under par 65, to move back into contention on nine under alongside the English duo of Ben Evans and Lloyd Kennedy, but it was Southgate who took command of the tournament with 18 holes to play.
The 22 year old, who turned professional after a successful trip to last year's Qualifying School ensured him full playing rights on this season's Challenge Tour, is finally finding the professional form that saw him win the prestigious St Andrews links Trophy as an amateur last year.
"It was a good day – I have been playing great all week and I just tried to keep to the same swing thoughts as yesterday because I really was in the groove," said Southgate.
"I actually hit 36 greens in regulation over the past three days – I missed the 12th green in the first round and then hit every one yesterday and hit the first 11 holes today so I am striking as good or better than anyone else. I have just had that great feeling of putting the club in the slot and hitting it.
"I'll wake up tomorrow and be pretty nervous but that is a good thing in my opinion. If you are not nervous then it can't be important and you always have to try and remember that everyone else around you will probably be just as nervous as me.
"I might be shaking like a leaf when I wake up but it'll calm down a bit and then all I can really do is hit the first tee shot, find it and hit the next one and see what happens."
Southgate would dearly love to win his first professional event in the Home of Golf. He may have a strong English accent, but there can be no argument that he is, certainly in golfing terms, a surrogate Scotsman having been a member of the world famous Carnoustie Golf Club since he was 16.
He was introduced to the world famous links by his father, himself a Member there for 30 years having competed in the 'Tassie' a famous amateur matchplay completion that has been played on Scotland's east coast since 1927.
"I just love playing in Scotland and coming up here to play," said Southgate. "I have been a Member of Carnoustie since I was 16. My dad has been a member there for about 30 years, since he started going up to play in the Tassie. To do that you have to be pretty good at golf and very good at drinking and the old man beats me hands down at that so he was always pretty happy there!
"He actually became a Member there during his first trip there. He played the practice round for the Tassie and after it he walked into the Snug Bar in the Clubhouse unaware that it was a Members Only bar. So, sure enough, the Captain and Secretary approached him and asked him to leave but he got chatting to them and ended up becoming really good friends with them and loads of the other Members.
"He still is, and the support that I have had from the people there this week has been superb, from past Captains to my own friends there. I have had so many phone calls and texts and it has been great. There is a past Captain there called John Lawrie who actually caddies for me at the St Andrews Links last year. I have spoken to him every day.
"My dad must have become a Member 30 years ago. There is a very strong connection between my family and Scotland in terms of golf and I just love the place. My grandfather was Scottish but I wouldn't say he was a proper Scotsman!
"I try to get up a couple of times a year and I always try to make the Lindsay Shield, which is a match between Carnoustie and St Andrews. It's a real honour to put on the Carnoustie shirt and take on St Andrews. As I said, I just love the place."
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On any given day last summer, the smoke-choked skies over Missoula, Montana, swarmed with an average of twenty-eight helicopters and eighteen fixed-wing craft, a blitz waged against Lolo Peak, Rice Ridge, and ninety-six other wildfires in the Lolo National Forest. On the ground, forty or fifty twenty-person handcrews were deployed, alongside hundreds of fire engines and bulldozers. In the battle against Rice Ridge alone, the Air Force, handcrews, loggers, dozers, parachutists, flacks, forecasters, and cooks amounted to some nine hundred people.
Rice Ridge was what is known as a mega-fire, a recently coined term for blazes that cover more than 100,000 acres. The West has always known forest fires, of course, but for much of the past century, they rarely got any bigger than 10,000 acres. No more. In 1988, a 250,000-acre anomaly, Canyon Creek, burned for months, roaring across a forty-mile stretch of Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness in a single night. A few decades on, that anomaly is becoming the norm. Rice Ridge, for its part, swept through 160,000 acres.
At this scale, the firefighting operation is run by an incident management team, a group of about thirty specialists drawn from a mix of state and federal agencies and trained in fields ranging from aviation to weather forecasting and accounting to public information. The management teams are ranked according to experience and ability, from type 3 (the least skilled) to type 1 (the most). The fiercest fires are assigned to type 1s. Teams take the name of their incident commander, the field general, and some of those names become recognizable, even illustrious, in the wildfire-fighting community. One such name is that of Greg Poncin, who is to fire commanders what Wyatt Earp was to federal marshals.
The pinhal interior, a wooded region of hills and narrow hollows in rural central Portugal, used to be farmland. Well into the latter half of the past century, the fields were worked by peasants from the old stone villages. Portugal was poor and isolated, and the pinhal interior particularly so; when they could, the peasants left. There is electricity and running water now, but most of the people have gone. The fields have been taken over by trees. Each year the forest encroaches farther, and each year the villages grow more lonely. There are remnants of the earlier life, though, and amid the trees the holdouts of the older generations still work a few small fields. The pinhal interior cannot yet be called wilderness, then, and that, in large part, is why it burns.
Thousands of fires burn in the region each summer, almost all of them started not by lightning or some other natural spark but by the remaining Portuguese. (The great majority of the blazes are started unintentionally, though not all.) The pinhal interior—the name means "interior pine forest," though today there is at least as much eucalyptus as pine—stretches along a sort of climate border between the semiarid Iberian interior and the wet influence of the Atlantic; vegetation grows exceptionally well there, and in the summers fire conditions are ideal. Still, most of the burns are quickly contained, and although they have grown larger in recent years, residents have learned to pay them little mind. The creeping fire that began in the dry duff and twigs of an oak grove on June 17 of last year, in the district of Pedrógão Grande, therefore occasioned no panic.
A local woman, Dora da Silva Costa, drove past the blaze in the midafternoon, by which time it had entered a stand of pines. Firefighters were on hand. "There were no people in the streets," Costa told me. "It was just another fire." She continued on her way. It was a Saturday, and she had brought her two young sons to visit their older cousin in Vila Facaia, the village of small farms in which she'd been raised.
On a blistering morning in July 2017, Ghazi Luaibi rose before dawn and set out in a worn black sedan from his home in Zubair, a town of concrete low-rises in southern Iraq. He drove for a while along sandy roads strewn with plastic bags. On the horizon, he could see gas flares from the oil refineries, pillars of amber flame rising into the sky. As he approached Basra, the largest city in the province, desert scrub gave way to empty apartment blocks and rows of withered palms. Though the sun had barely risen, the temperature was already nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous year, Basra had registered one of the highest temperatures ever reliably recorded on earth: about 129 degrees, hot enough to cause birds to drop from the sky.
Ghazi, a sixty-two-year-old with stooped shoulders, an ash-gray beard, and lively brown eyes, would have preferred to stay home and wait out the heat. But he hadn't had much of a choice. He was the president of the local council of Mandaeans, members of a gnostic religion that appeared in Mesopotamia in the early centuries ad. Today marked the beginning of their new year, and Ghazi, who was born into the Mandaean priestly class, was responsible for making sure everything went smoothly: he needed to find a tent to shield worshippers from the sun and, most importantly, a location near flowing water where they could carry out the ceremony.
Mandaean holidays are celebrated with a mass baptism, a ritual that is deeply rooted in their scripture and theology. Mandaeans follow the teachings of Yahia Yuhana, known to Christians as John the Baptist. Water is central to their religion. They believe that all life originates in the World of Light, a spiritual realm that is the starting point for a great river known as Yardana, or Jordan. Outside the World of Light lie the lifeless, stagnant waters of the World of Darkness. According to one version of the Mandaean creation myth, a demiurge named Ptahil set out to shape a new world from the World of Darkness, which became the material world we inhabit today. Once the world was complete, Ptahil sculpted Adam, the first man, from the same dark waters as the earth, but his soul came from the World of Light. In Mandaean scripture, rivers are manifestations of the World of Light, coursing from the heavenly Jordan to the earth to purify it. To be baptized is to be immersed in this divine realm.
Serving as a US Air Force launch control officer for intercontinental missiles in the early Seventies, First Lieutenant Bruce Blair figured out how to start a nuclear war and kill a few hundred million people. His unit, stationed in the vast missile fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base, in Montana, oversaw one of four squadrons of Minuteman II ICBMs, each missile topped by a W56 thermonuclear warhead with an explosive force of 1.2 megatons—eighty times that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. In theory, the missiles could be fired only by order of the president of the United States, and required mutual cooperation by the two men on duty in each of the launch control centers, of which there were five for each squadron.
In fact, as Blair recounted to me recently, the system could be bypassed with remarkable ease. Safeguards made it difficult, though not impossible, for a two-man crew (of either captains or lieutenants, some straight out of college) in a single launch control center to fire a missile. But, said Blair, "it took only a small conspiracy"—of two people in two separate control centers—to launch the entire squadron of fifty missiles, "sixty megatons targeted at the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea." (The scheme would first necessitate the "disabling" of the conspirators' silo crewmates, unless, of course, they, too, were complicit in the operation.) Working in conjunction, the plotters could "jury-rig the system" to send a "vote" by turning keys in their separate launch centers. The three other launch centers might see what was happening, but they would not be able to override the two votes, and the missiles would begin their firing sequence. Even more alarmingly, Blair discovered that if one of the plotters was posted at the particular launch control center in overall command of the squadron, they could together format and transmit a "valid and authentic launch order" for general nuclear war that would immediately launch the entire US strategic nuclear missile force, including a thousand Minuteman and fifty-four Titan missiles, without the possibility of recall. As he put it, "that would get everyone's attention, for sure." A more pacifically inclined conspiracy, on the other hand, could effectively disarm the strategic force by formatting and transmitting messages invalidating the presidential launch codes.
When he quit the Air Force in 1974, Blair was haunted by the power that had been within his grasp, andhe resolved to do something about it. But when he started lobbying his former superiors, he was met with indifference and even active hostility. "I got in a fair scrap with the Air Force over it," he recalled. As Blair well knew, there was supposed to be a system already in place to prevent that type of unilateral launch. The civilian leadership in the Pentagon took comfort in this, not knowing that the Strategic Air Command, which then controlled the Air Force's nuclear weapons, had quietly neutralized it.
This reluctance to implement an obviously desirable precaution might seem extraordinary, but it is explicable in light of the dominant theme in the military's nuclear weapons culture: the strategy known as "launch under attack." Theoretically, the president has the option of waiting through an attack before deciding how to respond. But in practice, the system of command and control has been organized so as to leave a president facing reports of incoming missiles with little option but to launch. In the words of Lee Butler, who commanded all US nuclear forces at the end of the Cold War, the system the military designed was "structured to drive the president invariably toward a decision to launch under attack" if he or she believes there is "incontrovertible proof that warheads actually are on the way." Ensuring that all missiles and bombers would be en route before any enemy missiles actually landed meant that most of the targets in the strategic nuclear war plan would be destroyed—thereby justifying the purchase and deployment of the massive force required to execute such a strike.
Among students of nuclear command and control, this practice of precluding all options but the desired one is known as "jamming" the president. Blair's irksome protests threatened to slow this process. When his pleas drew rejection from inside the system, he turned to Congress. Eventually the Air Force agreed to begin using "unlock codes"—codes transmitted at the time of the launch order by higher authority without which the crews could not fire—on the weapons in 1977. (Even then, the Navy held off safeguarding its submarine-launched nuclear missiles in this way for another twenty years.)
Following this small victory, Blair continued to probe the baroque architecture of nuclear command and control, and its extreme vulnerability to lethal mishap. In the early Eighties, while working with a top-secret clearance for the Office of Technology Assessment, he prepared a detailed report on such shortcomings. The Pentagon promptly classified it as SIOP-ESI—a level higher than top secret. (SIOP stands for Single Integrated Operational Plan, the US plan for conducting a nuclear war. ESI stands for Extremely Sensitive Information.) Hidden away in the Pentagon, the report was withheld from both relevant senior civilian officials and the very congressional committees that had commissioned it in the first place.
From positions in Washington's national security think tanks, including the Brookings Institution, Blair used his expertise and scholarly approach to gain access to knowledgeable insiders at the highest ranks, even in Moscow. On visits to the Russian capital during the halcyon years between the Cold War's end and the renewal of tensions in the twenty-first century, he learned that the Soviet Union had actually developed a "dead hand" in ultimate control of their strategic nuclear arsenal. If sensors detected signs of an enemy nuclear attack, the USSR's entire missile force would immediately launch with a minimum of human intervention—in effect, the doomsday weapon that ends the world in Dr. Strangelove.
Needless to say, this was a tightly held arrangement, known only to a select few in Moscow. Similarly chilling secrets, Blair continued to learn, lurked in the bowels of the US system, often unknown to the civilian leadership that supposedly directed it. In 1998, for example, on a visit to the headquarters of Strategic Command (STRATCOM), the force controlling all US strategic nuclear weapons, at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska, he discovered that the STRATCOM targeting staff had unilaterally chosen to interpret a presidential order on nuclear targeting in such a way as to reinsert China into the SIOP, from which it had been removed in 1982, thereby provisionally consigning a billion Chinese to nuclear immolation. Shortly thereafter, he informed a senior White House official, whose reaction Blair recalled as "surprised" and "befuddled."
In 2006, Blair founded Global Zero, an organization dedicated to ridding the world of nuclear weapons, with an immediate goal of ending the policy of launch under attack. By that time, the Cold War that had generated the SIOP and all those nuclear weapons had long since come to an end. As a result, part of the nuclear war machine had been dismantled—warhead numbers were reduced, bombers taken off alert, weapons withdrawn from Europe. But at its heart, the system continued unchanged, officially ever alert and smooth running, poised to dispatch hundreds of precisely targeted weapons, but only on receipt of an order from the commander in chief.
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It's about time we got down to serious business with this years Christmas reviews so kicking us off this week we have one of Hotel Chocolat's newest seasonal offerings. Taking centre stage this fine Monday morning we have these Hotel Chocolat Alternative Mince Pies which have been developed entirely for the new 2011 season. Hotel Chocolat caramel and praline chocolates have come in for some serious praise here on ChocolateMission in the past, so the billing of 'milk chocolate cups filled with layers of praline and salted caramel' filled me with great excitement and anticipation.
I'm going to endeavour to factor price increasingly into my reviews this year as I understand its significance has grown considerably as of late. These six chocolates came in a pack that weighed 95.0g in totality and are listed up on the Hotel Chocolat site (See HERE) priced at £7.50. I wouldn't say value for money was a strong point of this product given the £/Kg ratio looking rather lopsided on the £'s side of things - for only six chocolates even I think Hotel Chocolat are pushing things here. Pricing issues aside I liked the look the packaging and presentation. I don't think it can be argued that these didn't look very appetising - just look at the photograph the 'Old Man' captured with the caramel ooze.
With Hotel Chocolat's 40% and 72% recipes being involved here, I never had any qualms about how delicious the chocolate was going to taste - in a nutshell both were of course simply delightful. Indeed both types provided rich tasting initial base flavours - the milk obviously more cream and sugar derived, and the dark a little more subtle with it's strong cocoa tones and more refined sweet milky undertones. Whilst both chocolate types provided compelling flavour journeys, full expression of the woody praline and salt noted butterscotch caramel fillings were allowed to take steer of the taste. The flavour experience provided by these chocolates was one of luxury and progression, and these were given the rubber stamp of approval from all those lucky enough to nab one before the six count packet was fully scavenged.
Overall these were some high quality chocolates, though they were not received without a few pretty relevant questions being asked by the JCM tasting panel. Firstly the name of the product was called to question - why were these called 'alternative mince pies'? On reflection I have to agree the name is partially misleading, as apart from their shape these weren't anything to do with the aforementioned festive treat. Secondly the small sized chocolates (10p coin size) proved to be sufficient served as after dinner coffee chocolates, but the issue of price at £7.50 was seen to be an area of potential contention with some wanting a little more 'bang for their buck'. Those minor issues aside these were received well for what they were i.e. tasty chocolate praline caramels. Judging them on that basis alone I would be prepared to give them a JCM thumbs up.
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The second annual student essay contest sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection and Farm Press Publications is upping the ante and expanding into more states.
The Future of Southern Agriculture Student Essay Contest is now offering a total of $20,000 in scholarship awards to winning entries. Four prizes will be awarded with two $6,000 winners and two $4,000 winners. In addition, the contest will expand to now include 11 universities from the Mid-South, Southeast and Texas.
Participating universities have been divided into two regions – Southeast and Delta/Southwest. One undergraduate essay and one graduate essay from each region will advance to the national final. Of the four finalists, the undergraduate essay and the graduate essay writers with the highest cumulative score will be awarded $6,000, and the runners up will each receive $4,000.
Michael Boden, head of the Syngenta Southern Field Crops business unit said Syngenta, "It is our goal to build on the momentum established last year with the Future of Delta Cotton Student Essay Contest. We are asking students to share their vision of the future of southern agriculture and what steps should be taken now to turn this vision into reality. We encourage all graduate and undergraduate students at the eligible universities across the southern region to visit the Future of Southern Ag web site for more information and to submit their essay online."
To enter, submit an essay of 750 to 1,000 words on the following subject: By 2050, the world's population is expected to increase to more than 9 billion, up from the estimated 6.7 billion as of January 2009. Taking into account commodity price fluctuations and variable input prices, what is the best agricultural business model to deal with this environment? How can the U.S. southern farmer continue to compete in the export markets and/or against foreign imports to sustain agriculture as a viable business? What processes should be put into place to ensure the safety, quality and availability of U.S. food, feed and fiber production?
All undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled for the spring 2009 semester at Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, University of Arkansas, University of Tennessee, University of Missouri, Texas A&M University, Auburn University, University of Georgia, Clemson University, Virginia Tech University and North Carolina State University are eligible to apply.
Essays and entry forms must be submitted electronically. Visit Future of Southern Ag online for complete information on the contest. For a list of grand prize and honorary prize winners, check the site after Aug. 15.
Essays are being accepted online now through April 15, 11:59 p.m. CST. Judging will take place May through early July, and winners will be determined in late July. Judges will include Farm Press editors Paul Hollis of Southeast Farm Press, Ron Smith with Southwest Farm Press and Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press, along with other industry experts.


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I finally have to turn here for help... I just don't get Gamma 3, where you have to assist alpha (?) units...
I wiped the map clean but the timer still ticked. So I discovered a greyish black transporter, sitting in the farmost north west upper corner. I figured that must be the reason the stage didn't finish. But I went to shelling it for 20 minutes with everything I had and it still doesn't get destroyed.
So, everytime I start schelling it, throwing everything but the kitchen sink to it, but the timer just dies and I get "you were defeated"
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Circa 1990, from the monthly VHS-format periodical Dance International Video Magazine, a segment set in the future describes a hypothetical fashion movement known as HyperStyle. Swathed in "barcodes, plastic fabrics, logo wear, Nusilk fabric, virus accessories", HyperStyle adherents destabilize the corporate order by co-opting and devaluing brand identities…including barcode-vision goggles and NASA sweatpants:
Today's crisis can be tracked back to 1990. During one of the first green-house summers, a new fashion appeared, that pirated the emerging corporate culture.
Perpet[r]ators of this style hijacking corporate technology graphics and exploited them through wearable clothing. First seen in London, England, c1990.
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I'm a songwriter, not a doctor. I'm a performer, not a medical expert. But I have one huge credential in writing this post that no male doctor can put on his resume:
I used to get PMS. Now, I don't.
Here are the five simple (and surprising) things I did…
1 – Stop calling it the curse
In fact, stop any and all menstrual-berating period. (Uh, no pun intended.) I read and hear all kinds of period-trashing in supposedly feminist humor – jokes about bleeding and tampons and how men are somehow either lucky or less-than because they don't have to deal with this kind of suffering. (In fact, you probably have one of these in your email in-box as you read this.) This level of thought is so not a service to women. It just continues the idea of the menstrual cycle as something bad.
I was embarrassed to write this article at first. "Uh-oh," said I to myself. "This is too, uh, feminine. Everyone will laugh." That attitude is the very basis of why we get things like PMS. It's shame. Plain and simple.
Now, that's not to suggest that we start tossing tampons at men and throwing our self-righteous hear-me-roar crap at everyone. That's just inflammatory and annoying. It serves no one to get angry or self-righteous about a very natural normal cycle. Do you get angry and self-righteous when you notice that the moon is full?
2 – Have Red Tent Days
I loved Anita Diamant's novel The Red Tent. I read it on the beach a few summers ago, and I found myself wishing I lived in a culture where women could just go away when they got their periods. I was envious and a little sad. Then, I took my own advice about jealousy. I created my very own Red Tent Days.
Now the first day of my period is officially called a "Red Tent Day." I don't go to the Y. I don't leave the house if I don't feel like it. I hunker down. Of course, there are times when I can't do this. For instance, if I'm on the road performing at The American Theatre, for instance, I can't very well call them and say, "Yea, I know you've sold all those tickets. But it's a Red Tent Day!" Sometimes Red Tent Days don't happen. But since I've created Red Tent Days, I feel happy on that day. "Oh Boy! A day off!"
Even if you have a job, can you go in late, or make some kind of ritual for a Red Tent Day? Any gesture can do wonders for changing your attitude towards your period. I'd like to see women take that day off. You don't have to announce it. But try it once. See how it feels.
3 – Minimize Tampon Use
I know. I know. I'll get all kinds of hate email about this one. But hear me out…
Much of what creates poor health is our addiction to the notion of "convenience." It's not convenient to make dinner, so we toss something pre-made, over-salted and processed into the microwave. (Then years later, we wonder why we have health issues.) It's not convenient to sit with a child and listen to her cry about something that happened to school, so we plop her down in front of the television. (Then we wonder why so many girls get eating disorders.) It's not convenient to get our period – so we all use tampons and continue the frenetic pace of our daily rounds.
The only problem here is that your body is actually cleansing itself when you bleed. Your body is doing what it's supposed to do. It's not an inconvenience. There's a huge difference in mindset when you wear a tampon versus when you wear a pad. The latter forces you to acknowledge that this cleanse is happening. And that it's supposed to happen. And that there's no real need to fight it, except for this odd mental illness called "convenience." It actually reminds you of this blessedly important gift you have called your body.
Years ago, I was on tour in Colorado, and I was sick. Through various connections, I got to visit a prominent Japanese acupuncturist/acupressurist. The author of several books, he talked with me for quite a while about my approach to my periods. He told me that tampons actually keep toxins trapped in the system. He said that when those toxins aren't allowed to flow out, problems develop. Some people would call that a bunch of crap. I took it to heart because I sensed this man's wisdom. He wasn't trying to sell me anything. And his advice may have saved my life.
4 – Do Some kind of Energetic Exercise
Take lots of hikes throughout the month. Go on vigorous walks. Even if it's cold in the morning. Visit the gym for a 20-minute romp on the ArcTrainer. (Oh how I love the Arc Trainer.) Exercise because it helps your mood. That might motivate you more than weight loss or some other magazine-induced goal. Exercising every day – even for 20 minutes – can do wonders for PMS.
5 – Eliminate Dairy from Your Diet
Going vegan was the last step for me to healing PMS. I've had no symptoms at all since giving up dairy. And this is not some granola-crunching-Birkenstock-wearing-Asheville-residing hippie advice here. The first time I learned about doing this was from Dr. Christiane Northrup, in her book Women's Bodies. Women's Wisdom.. She makes a case about all the hormones and chemicals being added to dairy products today – and how deeply those things affect women's bodies. She suggests eliminating dairy, or at the very least going totally organic. I was totally organic for years. Then I eliminated dairy altogether. The difference is huge. Try it for two months. You'll be amazed.
Final note: When I read this post aloud to my husband, he said, "You didn't mention the part about your husband rubbing your back and how much that helps." And I will add that it does help to have a compassionate and loving partner who takes time to be extra sweet throughout the month. You absolutely deserve that.
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text: Some parents want to embarrass their children. But not all parents can reach the level of humiliation that stay at home dad Dale Price did. If a "nerdist" is someone who turns their nerdiness into art, Price fits the bill perfectly. For over six months, he waved his son off to school like many other parents. But unlike other parents, Price added a superhero/gamer flair to those special moments. From Wonder Woman to Mario, he had a different costume EVERY DAY specifically for his 30 second cameo. Remember, there are no small parts, only small actors! Price's dedication alone makes him an awesome nerdist, and even his son is now amused by the gag. Here are some of Price's zealous creations.


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A new robotic instrument has allowed surgeons to operate on a beating heart. The device developed by researchers from Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston uses 3-D ultrasound images to predict the heart's motion 70 to 100 milliseconds in advance, and then compensates the heart's motion by moving surgical tools in concert.
Tests of the new robotic device to perform mitral-valve surgery on a pig have now confirmed its effectiveness. The instrument has the potential to increase the safety of the 50'000 mitral-valve surgeries performed in the US per year by avoiding the risks of bypass surgery. It may also lead to shorter recovery times and would allow the surgeon to get instant feedback on the effectiveness of the procedure.
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GRO The General Register Office (GRO)of the Republic of Ireland has an online website that no Irish family history researcher should miss. The site is full of information regarding birth, marriage, and death records (and adoption and stillbirth records). The GRO does not perform genealogical research, but will provide copies of the public records to persons who supply the needed information and fees. Remember, also, that records for certain years for both the Republic and for Northern Ireland are found at the GRO. For example, birth records from January 1864 to December 1921 are available for both the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Records can now be ordered ONLINE from the GRO.
Check out the GRO website: http://www.groireland.ie/
IGP Also, it is time once again to check out the updates to the Irish Genealogical Projects' databases (IGP)(thanks to Christina Finn Hunt):
IRELAND Country - Miscellaneous
Fenianism and School Teachers 33 names
ANTRIM - Headstones
Ballintoy (CoI) Cemetery - Part 2 (updated)
ARMAGH - Headstones
Tynan RC Graveyard (partial)
DOWN - Headstones
Belfast, Knockbreda Parish Church of Ireland (Walled) Cemetery Pt1
Belfast, Knockbreda Parish Church of Ireland (Walled) Cemetery Pt2
Dundonald, St. Elizabeths Parish Church (CoI) Graveyard
DUBLIN - Headstones
Mount Jerome, Dublin - Parts 16 - 18
GALWAY - Vitals
Tuohy, Julia May 4, 1886
LEITRIM - Headstones
Drumshanbo, St. John's Church of Ireland - partial
LIMERICK - Cemetery
Mt. St. Lawrence Cemetery, Limerick, Co. Limerick - Gilligan 1855-2008
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MONAGHAN - Headstones - All Partial sets
Aghabog Parish Church
Ballinode Church - Tydavnet Parish, St Dympna's
Ballybay, 2nd Presbyterian
Cahans Presbyterian Church Graveyard
Carrickmacross, St Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
TIPPERARY - Vital Records
Fitzgerald, Maria - Donovan, Edmond February 20, 1897
Talbot, Mary - Doyle, James November 9, 1834
WICKLOW - Headstones
Kilquade Cemetery, Pt. 2
St. Patrick's Church, Enniskerry - Part 4
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March 15, 2011
Please support Japan disaster recovery efforts
Like people around the world, we watch in horror the news and images of devastation coming out of Japan. We are particularly moved here in Hawaii and at the university, where so many people have ties to family members, friends and colleagues in Japan. So I take this opportunity to reach out to our alumni, students, parents, staff, faculty and all others associated with the University of Hawaii and ask for your help.
To malama, to care for, our friends, loved ones and even strangers is never more important than it is today. It will take so much from the people of Japan to recover from the disaster they have suffered. We must step up and kokua them as much as we can. Opening our homes, our hearts and our pocket books and sharing our resources, however bountiful or humble they might be, has always been a hallmark of local culture. Our many ties with Japan compel us to do what we can to assist in the recovery and rebuilding effort.
Just today I learned that the American company Microsoft, so integral to the way we are connected in the 21st century, has pledged $2 million dollars to earthquake relief. Our U.S. Navy has ships steaming to the area equipped with medical equipment and personnel, supplies and rescue machinery. You can even text the word "Japan" to 80888 and The Salvation Army will register your donation of $10, which will appear on your next cell phone bill.
Please join me in helping out, in whatever way you can, either through the international Red Cross or the local Hawaii chapter, or you can text REDCROSS to 90999 for a $10 donation as well. You can also make a donation at any branch of First Hawaiian Bank or Bank of Hawaii.
Thank you for your participation and support, and take care.
Aloha no,
M.R.C. Greenwood,
President, University of Hawaii
March 17 Update
UH organizations have responded quickly with just a week before spring break. Among the responses mounted on various campus, are these:
- An effort to "send a thousand prayers" by folding origami cranes and a fund drive at Hawaii Community College sponsored by Hawaii CC students from Japan. Read the article
- Crane folding workshops and collection of messages and donations at UH Hilo, coordinated by the UH Hilo Geography Department and the Center for Global Education and Exchange. Learn more
- A collection of cash donations and origami cranes at the UH Manoa Campus Center March 17 and 18 and a cell phone "candlelight" vigil planned March 18, sponsored by the International Student Association, International Business Organization and other student groups. Learn more
- Collection of more than $3,000 at Leeward Community College in a "circle of friendship" drive supported by the Student Government and Student Life Office. During a brief gathering, Philippine Deputy Consul General Paul Cortes offered a song and optimistic message: "May bukas pa na naghihintay&hellipSisikat din ang iyong araw" (There is still tomorrow waiting…Your sun will again rise.)
UH issues a media alert concerning UH students on study abroad programs in Japan.
In a news release, UH experts say risks to Hawaii from the situation at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are extremely negligible.


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text: RINGGOLD Leon Walker, 69, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, with his wife of 35 yrs. by his side.Leon was a lifelong resident of North Georgia and a member of Gods family through his Baptist faith. He was member of the VFW and American Legion, retired from TVA and was a man who loved his big boy toys.Leon was preceded in death by his parents, L.M. and Nellie Walker.He is survived by his wife, Marie Walker; sons, Tony Walker and Todd Walker; brother, Bill Walker; grandsons, Christopher; who was raised by his grandparents and Cody; and several nieces and nephews.The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in the funeral home chapel, with the Rev. Ray Dotson officiating.Entombment will follow at Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park.The family will receive friends after 1 p.m. today and prior to the service on Monday. Arrangements by W.L. Wilson and Sons Funeral Home, Fort Oglethorpe.


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Just signed up to EA Access for PC. Its only £20 for a year and although I can expense it I am mightly impressed, its really cheap given what you can get access (get it).
I might also try out Microsoft Game Pass but I have stopped at PS Now. First its expensive and secondly its streaming. Although Sony should be given credit in thinking big in regards to subscription service, PS Now does feel like the worst option


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At 18:43 1996-06-07, Eng C. Born wrote:
> It is a good idea to support Sanscrit and Pali. But, what do you mean
>by Brahmin harmonization? I saw a Sanskrit alphabet table in a dictionary
>once and it bears some simalarity to the present Khmer script. In my opinio=
>the code assignment should be arranged as close as possible to the way
>each script are used and taught in school.
Brahmic harmonization means ensuring that the repertoire and code positions
for scripts derived from the Brahmi script (practically all the scripts in
Southeast Asia) are as close to one another as possible. This has the
advantage (in India where the practice was established) of enabling people
to read data in their preferred script. This is especially useful for
languages which are closely related, such as the Indo-European or Dravidian
languages. Imagine walking into a telephone booth in Trivandrum and
dialling up an electronic telephone directory. It comes up in Tamil, which
you don't read -- but you press a button and the display switches to
Gurmukhi, or Devanagari -- or even Khmer or Burmese. So you find your
friend's name easily. All based on the same data.
Why members of WG2 have believed that Brahmic harmonization was a good idea
is that it means that basic software for all Brahmic scripts would be
pretty much the same, only relatively small script-specific changes need be
made to support other Brahmic scripts, whether they be major scripts like
Khmer or Burmese or Sinhalese, or minor scripts like Manipuri or Lepcha or
Tai Lu. Sorting and word-breaking algorithms would be written specifically
for each script, whether or not harmonization is used, because of
peculiarities in each of the scripts which make it necessary.
Another important reason for harmonization is the importance of Sanskrit
and Pali, both as religious and scientific languages in their own right and
as source languages for modern words used in Khmer, Burmese (etc.). The
corpus of Sanskrit and Pali data is of such an enormous size -- and of such
enormous cultural importance to Asia and to all the world -- that the
notion of making data transfer for common texts more difficult should shock
us. In this sense it is also a shame that Thai and Lao use a very different
set of coding conventions -- but note that they are harmonized with one
another for the same reasons discussed here. You have said: "In my opinion,
the code assignment should be arranged as close as possible to the way each
script are used and taught in school." This makes data transfer (for
instance for _common_ texts like the Buddhist Canon) far more difficult
than it need be, and requires new software to be written for each and every
script, where harmonization allows a common source core to operate for each
script. This is less expensive -- not a small concern for the users of
these scripts. Not to do this -- to base each script's code table on "what
is taught in school" -- can certainly be done, but what is the advantage?
The ordinary user won't see the code table. In the Latin script, just
transferring data from the PC to the Macintosh can be a problem or an
irritation for people, who know nothing about _why_ their vowels come out
wrong. We should not cripple the users of Asian scripts with the same
thing. (It's true folks: much as I love the Macintosh (and gods know I do),
I wish the code table were Latin 1. Hmm... No, I don't. I wish it were
Brahmic harmonization is a term I use because the scripts are based on the
Brahmi script of King Ashoka. Hugh Ross has used the term Indic
harmonization, and others have referred to ISCII, the Indian national
standard. I don't like to do this because 1) what is in 10646 is not
identical with ISCII and 2) the harmonization is based on structural and
historical similarities and not on anything particularly Indian.
Best regards,
Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King College finished second for a second straight season in the 2011 Southeastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Division II road standings, as announced by the organization, which included two individual division crowns for the squad.
King collected 354 points throughout the season for second. Mars Hill (N.C.) College won the Division II crown with 643 points. The College of Charleston (S.C.) was third with 239 points, Cumberland (Tenn.) University and Brevard (N.C.) College finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
Overall King was fifth as Division I champion finished with 674 points, Florida State was next with 555. Mars Hill landed third with Clemson third in Division I and fourth overall thanks to 399 points. Florida was outside the Top-5 with 288 points, 66 behind King.
Ellie Ferguson (Knoxville, Tenn.) totaled 527 points to share the Women's 'B' crown with Warren Wilson (N.C.) College's Eva Wilson. Ferguson outscored Wilson in the criterium by 25 points but Wilson had the advantage in both the road race and time trials for the season totals. Ferguson improved from her seventh-place finish in the standings last season.
Zach Nave (Gray, Tenn.) used a 13th-place finish in the Men's 'A' to secure a second straight national bid. He finished with 331 points including the most individual time trial points where 296 of his points came from. The next closest rider in the time trial standings was Mars Hill's Michael Robinson with 223. A season ago Nave finished 16th in the standings.
Casey Stallard (Bristol, Va.) was the 'C' champion thanks to his 240 points. He scored 116 points in criterium events which topped the standings. His 65 time-trial points was the second most and Stallard was third in the road race standings.
T.J. Killelea (Chattanooga, Tenn.) closed his freshman season out third in the Men's 'B' with 373 points. He led the entire division with 192 time trial points. Killelea was fourth in the road race with 141 points in 2011.
Brent Baker (Kingsport, Tenn.) was eighth in the 'B' standings after scoring 204 points. He had Top-10 point totals in both the criterium and individual time trials.
Reid Yoder (Hoagland, Ind.) and Brad Hughes (Gray, Tenn.) finished seventh and eighth, respectively in the 'C' standings. Yoder collected 99 points, two more than Hughes. Hughes made it back-to-back Top-10 finishes.
Caroline Gentry (Bristol, Tenn.) was sixth in the Women's 'B' with 221 points. She was just five points out of the Top-5.


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Blue 40s DuBarry Dress
Added Mar 17, 2013
by aur0ra
Nashville , Tenn...
For this dress, I used a DuBarry pattern from the 1940s (I included a pic in the project photos).
I made several alterations to the pattern. I didn't add the yoke (I don't like high necklines), and I used bias tape and top-stitched around the neckline. I adjusted the shoulders at the neckline to account for the missing yoke. Many vintage patterns have unbelievable amounts of ease, and this one was no exception. So, I took the dress in a tad on the sides. I also made the sleeves tighter than they were originally. Unfortunately, I ended up making them a little too tight for my taste, but they work. The dress is also significantly shorter than the original pattern.
If you would like to see more pictures or details, feel free to take a look at this post.
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CINCINNATI -- Few of Jim Hendry's off-season moves have worked out the way he wanted, as evidenced by the Cubs' first-half malaise.
But the deadline deal that brought left-handers Tom Gorzelanny and John Grabow from Pittsburgh has paid early dividends.
Gorzelanny pitched the Cubs to a 6-3 victory Tuesday night over the Reds, throwing seven shutout innings before Sean Marshall allowed an inherited runner to score in the eighth.
"What a nice game Gorzelanny pitched," manager Lou Piniella said. "Great way to break in here."
The Cubs improved to 14-5 since the All-Star break and remained tied with the Cardinals atop the National League Central.
Gorzelanny, the 27-year-old Evergreen Park native who spent the last two months pitching for Pittsburgh's Triple-A team in Indianapolis, looked like he was back to his 2007 form, when he won 14 games for the Pirates. He gave up only three hits over 7 1/3 innings -- including a first-inning triple that Alfonso Soriano missed at the wall -- and walked only one.
When he walked off the mound in the eighth, Gorzelanny received an ovation from the pro-Cubs crowd of 17,992.
"It was great," he said. "It shows how big this team is, having more fans here than the home team. It's definitely a different feeling, coming from where I came from. It was something I'll remember for a while."
There were probably more Chicago fans at Gorzelanny's Cubs debut than on a typical night when he pitched at home in Pittsburgh.
"I can pretty much guarantee that one," he said.
Kosuke Fukudome started the Cubs off with a first-inning home run off Johnny Cueto, his first leadoff homer in his major-league career. Fukudome is hitting .338 since replacing Alfonso Soriano as the leadoff hitter, looking more comfortable by the day.
Fukudome's secret? He's doing it Frank Sinatra-style: "My way."
"Regardless of the result, I'm doing it the way I want to do it," Fukudome said, joking he closed his eyes when he hit the homer.
The Cubs knocked out Cueto with a four-run sixth inning that featured Koyie Hill's two-run double and run-scoring singles from Gorzelanny and Fukudome. Derrek Lee added a homer in the seventh, the 150th of his Cubs career, to give the Cubs a 6-0 lead.
Marshall gave up a run-scoring single to Joey Votto to spoil the shutout in the eighth, and Wladimir Balentien poked a two-run shot off Angel Guzman in the ninth.Gorzelanny will pitch either Sunday or Monday in Colorado, depending on how Piniella rearranges his rotation after Thursday's off-day. While he has been promised only three starts until Ted Lilly returns, Gorzelanny isn't worried about what happens next.
"I knew coming in what I came here to do, and Ted was going to be back soon," he said. "I just want to do my job until then ... and go from there."
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Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures 2012
How to Cope with Eating Problems
in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
There is no special diet required for people with Alzheimer's disease, unless they have another medical condition that needs consideration. Eating well-balanced and nutritious meals is extremely important.
A person with Alzheimer's disease and their caregiver face numerous eating challenges.
1. Poor nutrition due to Alzheimer's may be related to depression, forgetting to eat, diminished sense of hunger and thirst, difficulty feeding, eating, chewing and/or swallowing or the inability to obtain or prepare foods.
2. Check for food and drug interactions; look for any medications that may decrease appetite or affect nutritional status.
3. Constipation maybe a problem. Drink enough fluids, stay active and include fiber rich foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
4. Dry mouth might be a side effect of some medications or a symptom of Alzheimer's. Provide and encourage the drinking of water and other fluids. To soften foods, dip them in fluids or add broth, gravies or sauces. When eating, take a sip of a beverage between bites, this will aid in swallowing and moisten the mouth. To increase the production of saliva and moisten the mouth, use a frozen ice pop or sour candy.
5. Problems with dentures and/or oral health.
6. As Alzheimer's progresses, an individual may not recognize foods and easily becomes distracted.
7. Weight loss or weight gain may occur.
1. Allow plenty of time to eat and remove any distractions.
2. A person should be calm before providing food and drink.
3. Make sure a person is positioned properly to allow for safe swallowing.
4. Communicate about the food and temperature of the foods.
5. If a person has difficulty-using utensils, try finger foods. Finger foods are prepared so a person can eat with one's hands. The use of finger foods allows for independence.
6. If finger foods are a problem, feeding may be necessary.
7. Make meals colorful and appealing.
8. Offer small mini meals throughout the day. Use smaller plates and cups. Too much food on a plate may be overwhelming.
9. Add herbs, spices, chutney, and/or sauces to add flavor.
10. Make sure food and fluids are consumed.
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Mission: To eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Vision: A world without Alzheimer's.


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Harris's science party was a blast! Harris was in his element (forgive me but it had to be said) and I'm fairly sure that Bryce, aka Dr. Dad, enjoyed it as much as any of the children! It was also special that his Gran, Grandpa Al and Grandma were in attendance as well as his Aunt Jeni and Uncle Bill! I'm going to break up the party into two posts- tomorrow I'll share our experiments.
One of my favorite parts of planning my children's birthday parties is the cake and the food. This year we kept it simple but fun! Harris's Periodic Table of the Elements of Harris was the perfect backdrop for the food!
Cantaloupe balls were meant to resemble a molecule of water. I feel sure that every one of the five year old boys understood and appreciated that touch!
Decorated science cookies were given to children to take home. I finally feel like I got the whole "flow" technique of icing cookies. It was fun to use sprinkles and balls to look like bubbling concoctions.
We marked clear glasses to look like beakers and served toxic juice! I even pulled out my never used and neglected fat separator to use as a pitcher because I thought it looked like lab equipment!
My next post will be all about the fun science experiments the children did!


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Currency union 'the best route'
A formal currency union with the rest of the UK would be the "best route" for an independent Scotland, the chair of an expert group which advises Alex Salmond's Government has insisted.
Crawford Beveridge, chair of the Fiscal Commission Working Group, said their "clear recommendation" was for such an agreement to be reached if there is a Yes vote in next month's referendum.
A formal currency union, if such a deal could be agreed, would allow Scotland to continue to use the pound and have the Bank of England as its lender of last resort if it left the UK.
First Minister Alex Salmond has been under pressure to explain his Plan B
But the three main parties at Westminster have dismissed this, with Chancellor George Osborne, Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls and Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander all stating they would not sign up to it.
Now with just under a month to the vote on independence, those campaigning for the Union have sought to put pressure on the nationalists to set out their "plan B".
Mr Beveridge, who will set out the Fiscal Commission's views on the economic foundations of an independent Scotland in a lecture tonight, said the group had devoted a "considerable body of work" to such issues.
He said: " Since the First Minister established the Fiscal Commission Working Group in 2012, it has been a privilege to work with this group of eminent economists and experts - professors James Mirrlees, Joseph Stiglitz, Frances Ruane and Andrew Hughes Hallett - in setting out the macroeconomic framework that we believe would be in the best interests of an independent Scotland.
"As we approach the referendum this is an opportunity to bring that considerable body of work together, including our consideration of currency options for Scotland.
"Our clear recommendation is that a formal currency union is the best route for both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom in the event of an independent Scotland.
"The design of our framework includes flexibility over fiscal and economic levers within an overall position of fiscal sustainability."
Jack Perry, a former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, insisted that a currency union "would not work for Scotland" and there would be "serious consequences" if the country used the pound without a formal agreement after a Yes vote.
Mr Perry, Sir Brian Stewart, former chairman of Standard Life, Professor Ronald MacDonald and Professor Adam Tomkins from Glasgow University, and Stuart Patrick, chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, are all due to take part in a roundtable event focusing on currency organised by the pro-UK Better Together campaign.
Speaking ahead of that, Mr Perry said: " A currency union would not work for Scotland. From day one, Scotland's economy would start to diverge from the UK's, and the currency link would collapse.
"That's why the nationalists need a plan B, and we need to know what it is.
"If it is just to use the pound anyway without a currency union, as they hint at, there would be serious consequences for Scotland's public services.
"Scotland would have to run a fiscal surplus - cutting spending and increasing taxes - to have the cash to make that plan work. Our scope to borrow on the international markets would be very severely limited.
"Instead the nationalists promise taxes would go down and spending would go up, and we would borrow more. This is not remotely credible. Their plan would be disastrous for our economy and catastrophic for our public services - including our NHS."
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I've encountered plenty of retirees who are very savvy about money. On average, I'd say they understand the value of savings and the dangers of debt better than most young people. I've met some who know more about the stock market than I ever will.
Yet I've also met too many others who have lost huge chunks of their savings by falling for bad investments some sweet-talking salesman convinced them was a sure thing. So what's the answer?
The two profs, George Korniotis and Alok Kumar, focused their attention on how aging affects the ability to manage a stock portfolio. They analyzed the portfolios of more than 75,000 investors who had self-directed accounts at a large U.S. brokerage firm from 1991 to 1996.
Here's what the professors found:
- Older investors took fewer risks. The stocks they owned were less volatile and more likely to pay dividends.
- Older investors traded less frequently, which other studies have found generally improves returns.
- Older investors were more likely to sell losing stocks to take tax losses, indicating they were more tax savvy.
- Older investors owned more stocks and more mutual funds, which could be a sign they understood the value of diversification.
But those smart approaches to investing weren't enough to give older investors an advantage over younger investors. In fact, the study found the returns of older investors were about 2 percent less each year, on a risk-adjusted basis.
Korniotis and Kumar concluded that older investors had more investment wisdom than those who were younger, but had difficulty applying it.
"The investing principles learned over several years are likely to reside in investors' long-term memory, which remains almost intact as people grow older," they wrote. "However, the effective application of those principles requires efficient information processing, which relies on investors' attentional ability and the efficiency of their short-term memory."
For example, older investors didn't diversify effectively even as they bought more stocks.
The professors found the decline in ability, measured by the reduction in investment return, greatest among those who had relatively less income and education or who lived in neighborhoods that were predominantly black or Hispanic.
Thankfully, they did not suggest that retirees give up on managing their own money, but rather that they should be aware of their limitations and seek advice from qualified financial professionals.
Financial author Larry Swedroe (The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need) agreed, but he noted that the study found both older and younger investors underperformed stock market averages. "All investors would be better off if they stopped trying to outperform the market and simply accepted market returns by investing in index funds, or other passively managed funds," Swedroe said. "This advice becomes even more important the older the investor."
You can read the study online for yourself by going to the Social Science Research Network (http://papers.ssrn.com) and putting the name of one of the authors in the search field.
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7.A.1 Guidelines
(A) The goal of the admissions policy of the University of Colorado is to provide higher education opportunities to qualified individuals from all segments of the Colorado population and other national and international populations.
(B) The admissions decisions of the university seek to identify applicants having a high probability for successful completion of their academic program at the university.
(C) The university reserves the right to deny admission or readmission to applicants whose total credentials reflect an inability to assume those obligations of performance and behavior deemed essential by the university and relevant to any of its lawful missions, processes, and functions as an educational institution.
7.A.2 Criteria
Admission is based on evaluation of many criteria; among the most important are:
(A) evidence of scholarly ability and accomplishment, as indicated by scores on accepted tests of scholastic aptitude and achievements;
(B) general level of academic performance before admission to the university, as indicated by the evaluation of work taken at other educational institutions; and
(C) motivation and potential for academic growth and ability to work in an academic community, as indicated by trends in the student's record, by letters of recommendation from teachers and others qualified to comment on the student, by accomplishments in outside academic work, and by other similar evidence.
7.A.3 Evaluation
Materials submitted on behalf of an applicant are to be evaluated by appropriate university admissions officers and faculty members according to the criteria mentioned above, supplemented by more detailed requirements as these are established by the faculties of the various schools and colleges.
7.A.4 Rules and Procedures
(A) The chancellor or designee shall ensure that rules and procedures appropriate for carrying out these policies are prepared.
(B) In formulating rules and procedures for admission to the university, appropriate consultation should be held with, among others, members of the faculty of the university and appropriate officials of the state of Colorado, since the university's procedures should reflect the internal standards of the university and be in harmony with the intent of the state to provide opportunities for higher education to its citizens.
7.B.1 Responsibilities as Members of the University Community
(A) By enrolling as a student in the university, a person shall assume obligations of performance and behavior established by the university relevant to its lawful missions, processes, and functions.
(B) As members of the academic community, students have responsibility, equivalent to that of the faculty, for study, learning, academic integrity, and ethical behavior,and for protecting the university as a forum for the free expression of ideas.
[See Article 5 Part D of these Laws]
7.B.2 Voluntary Discussion of Student Concerns
Administrators of the university shall be authorized and encouraged to discuss with students problems of mutual concern regarding the curriculum and the operation and administration of the university. No such discussion shall be required under conditions of coercion or intimidation, or where force and violence are present or threatened.
7.B.3 Improper Conduct Defined and Prohibited
(A) Students shall refrain from conduct disruptive of university functions; from injury to persons or damage to property on the campus; and from impeding freedom of movement of students, school officials, employees, and invited guests to all facilities of the university. Interference in any manner with the public or private rights of citizens, conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person, and damage to property are prohibited.
(B) Hazing in any form is prohibited.
(C) Violators may be subject to disciplinary action by the university and/or to such penalties as may be imposed by law.
7.B.4 Student Code of Conduct
The chancellor or designee shall develop a student code of conduct in consultation with the respective student governance group.
7.B.5 Determination of Facts, Findings, and Remedies
For allegations of student misconduct, the chancellor or designee shall prescribe procedures for the determination of facts, findings, and assessment of remedies. These procedures shall contain the basic elements of procedural due process.
7.C.1 Summary Suspension
The chancellor or designee may summarily suspend those involved in misconduct pending final disposition of the case by the appropriate body having jurisdiction thereof. Where summary suspension is employed, charges shall be filed before the appropriate body within 24 hours of the time of suspension, and the matter thereupon expeditiously determined.
7.C.2 Compulsory Withdrawal
(A) Subject to such procedures as may be prescribed, a student may be required to withdraw from the university indefinitely (expulsion) or for a specified periods of time (suspension).
(B) The university reserves the right to withdraw financial assistance, regardless of form, and to deny university employment of any kind to students who have been expelled or suspended for improper conduct. Withdrawal of financial assistance or denial of employment shall not be imposed as a part of summary suspension.
(C) The compulsory withdrawal decision shall be made only by the disciplinary body after a hearing, as provided herein.
(D) A student may be readmitted conditionally, subject to such criteria as the chancellor or designee of each campus may require.
7.D.1 Student Government Bodies
(A) The student governments exist and derive their power from the authority delegated to them by the Board of Regents.
(B) There is an Intercampus Student Forum that shall serve as the universitywide representative body for communicating with the administration and the Board of Regents matters of concern to the students on all campuses. The chair of the Intercampus Student Forum shall be the spokesperson for the students when addressing the Board of Regents on student matters.
(C) There are four campus student governments known as University of Colorado Student Union, Associated Students of the University of Colorado at Denver, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Student Government Association, and Health Sciences Center Student Senate. The Board of Regents recognizes these organizations as the student representative bodies at each campus.
(D) Campus student government constitutions, and amendments thereto, are to be brought to the appropriate campus chancellors for discussion and approval prior to being brought to a student body vote. The chancellor's approval shall not be interpreted as being a chancellor's preference either way on the subject matter of the student vote, but shall only be the chancellor's agreement that the chancellor will support the outcome of the vote, whatever it may be.
(E) The operating and budgetary agreements shall describe how campus student governments will be involved in the development of campus policies relevant to student issues excluding academic matters under the control of the faculty.
(F) Campus student government operations and budgets are subject to auditing in accordance with Board of Regents fiduciary oversight responsibilities.
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PCs have been getting smaller for ages, but generally the dinkiest of models are woeful when it comes to playing games thanks to a reliance on underpower integrated graphics. Anything much more demanding than Minesweeper and they're found wanting.
Happily that's not the case with a new Brix model from Gigabyte. Just 4.5 inches square and a couple of inches tall, it's a barebones PC featuring an Intel Haswell chip with Iris Pro graphics. Now, Iris Pro is integrated into the Haswell processor, but Intel says it offers around three times the performance of the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chip it's replacing – about as powerful as a non-integrated Nvidia GeForce GT 950M graphics card, in fact.
A pocket rocket
The Verge has played Dirt II at 1080p on the Iris-equipped Brix II and report that it looked and ran "fantastic". Apparently it can even run the intensely demanding Crysis 3, albeit with the settings tuned down.
The Brix II will cost around U$500-$600 (£320-£380) when it launches this December and, aside from the Intel processor, features Wi-Fi, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, four USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and a 3.5mm audio jack. But as a barebones machine, you'll have to shell out extra for RAM, a 2.5in hard drive and an operating system.
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Hannah Mead is a former assistant editor for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, having worked there from July 2009 through August 2011. Before this, she worked twice as a summer intern for the Center's communications department.
Mead holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hillsdale College, having graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors. In her senior year, she received the economics department's Adam Smith Award for academic achievement, and she was selected to present a paper on constitutional political economy at the 2009 conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education in Guatemala City.
Mead is from the state of Washington.
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(AAPL) Earnings Season Looks Presentable
The fourth quarter earnings season is in full swing and the overall tone of earnings reports thus far has been quite reassuring – we have yet to see the ugly numbers many of us had started fearing in the run up to this reporting season.
The focus today is on Apple's (AAPL) report after the close, but in many respects the iPhone maker is not a 'normal' company and its results don't represent the broader corporate world in general or the Technology sector in particular. The strong results from Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), DuPont (DD) and CSX Corp (CSX) on Tuesday are better representations of what's happening on the earnings front.
In this morning's batch of reports, McDonald's (MCD) and United Technologies (UTX) beat on earnings, but missed on revenues, while Coach (COH) came short on both counts.
Google's results are important because of what they tell us about the impact of the secular shift from the desktop to the mobile interface, which besides Google has been concern with other Technology players like Facebook (FB) and Zynga (Z).
The key takeaway from the company's report is that the persistent downtrend in its average cost per click, the cost that advertisers pay Google each time a user clicks on an ad, over the last many quarters may have started to stabilize. The company's cost per click dropped 6% in the fourth quarter from the same period last year, a much lower drop than the 15% year over year drop in the third quarter. Sequentially, it was up 2%. This was the reassuring part of the Google report even as it missed revenue expectations.
The scorecard as of this morning shows fourth quarter earnings reports from 98 S&P 500 companies or 19.6% of the index's total membership that account for 28.7% of the index's total market cap. Total earnings for these 98 companies are up 1.7% from the same period last year, with 65.3% beating earnings expectations and a median surprise of +2.7%. Revenues are up 5.2%, with 54.1% of the companies coming ahead of top-line expectations with a median revenue surprise of +0.6%.
This is a better performance than what this same group of 98 companies reported in the third quarter. The composite growth rate for the fourth quarter, where we combine the results of the 98 companies that are out with the 402 still to come, is for a drop of -0.4% in total earnings and an equivalent drop on the revenue side.
Perhaps expectations had fallen enough before the season got underway that coming ahead of them didn't require much effort. But while that would account for the ratio and magnitude of surprises we are seeing at present, the overall tone of company guidance has not been that bad either.
That said, earnings growth has come down to a crawl and margins remain under pressure. We will have to wait and see how the rest of the earnings season unfolds. What we have seen thus far may not be ugly, but it isn't necessarily pretty either.
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Muschamp said the many injuries during the preseason may have depleted some depth, but they have not taken a bit out of the Gators' morale heading into the season.
True freshman cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III is back practicing after missing two weeks with an injured shoulder. Defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin said Hargreaves will see playing time Saturday.
"Vernon's doing great," Durkin said. "He's practicing and doing well. We expect to have him out there."
Durkin said defensive tackle Damien Jacobs is back in the mix after missing two weeks with a patella injury.
"He's looked good. He's a tough, tough guy," Durkin said. "He's practiced well. It's really one of those things where if you didn't know, you probably wouldn't know he had an injury.
"That's what great players do and tough guys do, not only play through an injury, but play through it to the point where you can't tell the difference. That's how he looks in practice. We'll continue to manage his snaps as we go. He'll be ready to go."
Gators' psyche fine
Muschamp said the many injuries during the preseason may have depleted some depth, but they have not taken a bit out of the Gators' morale heading into the season.
"Absolutely not," Muschamp said. "Man down, man up. That's part of the deal at the University of Florida when they sign that scholarship. You come here to compete for championships and do it the right way on and off the field. One man's misfortune is another man's opportunity. That's the way we view things."
Safeties step up
Heading into camp, inexperience at the safety positions was a big concern. Muschamp seems to be feeling a lot better about the situation at safety heading into the opener.
"Cody (Riggs) has done a really nice job of transitioning inside and a guy that covers extremely well in the slot," Muschamp said. "He's got really good range. A guy that's tackled well in camp. He's done a nice job for us really communicating things from a coverage standpoint."
"Marcus Maye's been very consistent. He's a guy that can play very well in the box, can play on the deep part of the field. Again, really good range, can finish on plays. An extremely good tackler in space. He's got good coverage ability.
"Jabari (Gorman) is a very smart guy that can get us in the right things. We play a tempo team in Toledo, we'll probably play an upwards of 85-88 snaps. All of those guys are going to have to play. Jaylen Watkins is a young man that gives us a lot of flexibility, that can move inside and play safety."
Muschamp said true freshman Keanu Neal also is going to see playing time at safety and on special teams Saturday.
Orr coming on
After struggling with consistency the past two years, defensive tackle Leon Orr appears to be on track going into his junior season.
"I tell you what, Leon has played his best football throughout this camp," Durkin said. "He's done really well. He's embracing the role of being a veteran now, a guy that's going to be counted on to play more snaps for us. And he has shown evidence on tape to be more ready to do that.
"He's another guy I'm looking forward to see get out there and play. I think he's going to do a great job."
Coaches, they do worry
Muschamp said that like every coach heading into a new season, he has his worries.
"You're going to have some unknowns, with young players especially," Muschamp said. "You don't always know how some of these young men are going to react in front of 90,000 people. Those things, to me, are concerns. They've been sitting on my stomach since last weekend, thinking about it night and day.
"I don't know that you ever get over that. I hope you do someday, but what I've heard from some of my older coaches, it sits in the pit of your stomach every day as you go into an opening game. All you can rely on is the concepts you taught on offense, defense and special teams."
Surgical success
Muschamp said wide receiver Andre Debose and true freshman linebacker Matt Rolin both have undergone successful knee surgery, Debose on Wednesday and Rolin last week. Both sustained torn ACL injuries early in preseason camp.
"Andre had surgery today and it went very well," Muschamp said. "Matt had his surgery last week and it went really well."


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The Chapman University campus in Orange, California is an understandable source of pride for Chapman. Palm trees line the sidewalks. Stately Memorial Hall with its grand neoclassical columns stands in contrast to the sparkling contemporary lines of the Argyros Forum student center.
Like our curriculum, which connects different disciplines, our campus blends historic and modern architectural styles with beautiful pieces of sculpture to create a campus that's both serene and inspiring.
Why is this important? A beautiful campus lifts the heart. Art sparks the imagination. A bench near a flower garden invites conversation. It all conspires to make us better students and scholars.
From light-filled residence halls said to resemble "resort communities" and skateboard friendly sidewalks to fully wired (and wireless) classrooms and pieces of public art, the Chapman campus reflects our commitment to the Four Pillars:
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Remember the bubble gum cards that young lads once swapped in the school playground? Now grown men bid for them at London auction houses for hundreds of pounds and then some. This book chronicles the post-war era of Everton Football Club through bubble gum and other football cards.
"I remember that it was a couple of seasons after signing for Everton and I was included as card No. 37 in the series produced by A & BC along with my team-mates Jimmy Gabriel, Tony Kay, Brian Labone, Alex Scott, Roy Vernon and Alex Young. I was proud of my new status and was amused to learn from the Goodison grapevine that the Gordon West card was rare and, as a consequence, highly collectible. I even heard rumours that local schoolboys were prepared to exchange two Brian Labone cards for one Gordon West."
Brian Labone
"My team-mates received very little media attention. I do recall that it was a really big event to appear in Charles Buchan's magazine. Believe me it was a bigger deal to appear on bubble gum cards because they became the benchmark of your status away from home. "
Alex Young
"As a professional footballer, I had the pleasure of seeing my two sons carry around pictures of me. However, these feelings evaporated when my wife informed me that my eldest son had traded two of his Alex Young cards for one of Hearts legend Dave Mackay."
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The weather forced Durango High Schools hand to move up its opening day.
Those hands were ready.
DHS baseball followed up its opening-day 19-6 victory Thursday at Canon City a game originally scheduled for Saturday with a 17-7 win Friday at Pueblo South. The Demons followed up their 17-hit effort with 13 more Friday to start their 2013 season 2-0.
The guys are swingin it well, DHS head coach Rob Coddington said. Weve had a pretty good first couple of games.
So good, Coddington thinks this is the Demons best start in his six years as skipper.
Im really impressed with their effort, he said.
In his first game since transferring from Pagosa Springs High School, Sean Blanchard took the ball and the mound and earned the win for DHS. Blanchard, a senior, allowed four runs three earned on three hits in five innings.
He did a great job throwing strikes, Coddington said. And really, we couldve got him out of a couple of jams, but we made a couple of defensive mistakes; but its early in the season.
Jeremy Szura and Blake Dunlap each pitched an inning of relief.
Offensively, Dunlap was 4-for-4 with a triple, two stolen bases, two runs batted in and three runs scored.
Connor Dugan was 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
Isiah Mayberry was 2-for-4 with a three-run home run in the seventh inning.


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The Brooking Institution recently issued a report that compared per-capita gross domestic product and changes in employment data from 2010 to 2011 in 200 of the world's largest metropolitan areas. The report found these areas produced 48 percent of global output despite accounting for only 14 percent of the world's population and employment.
In other findings: Ninety percent of the fastest-growing economies were outside North America and western Europe; U.S. metropolitan areas outperformed the national average when it came to income growth; and global metropolitan areas that specialized in business services, financial services and commodities showed the strongest performance.
"If you have a high level of worker productivity, typically you enjoy a higher standard of living," said Alan Berube, senior fellow at Brookings and co-author of the Global Metro Monitor Volatility, Growth and Recovery report.
Click ahead to see which were the most productive cities in the Brookings Institution's study.
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Dr. John G. Thometz came to the department in 1985 from a Harvard University-affiliated post-graduate fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Children's Hospital in Boston. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS,) the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA,) Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), and Wisconsin Orthopaedic Society (WOS.) Currently, he is the medical director of the Pediatric Division at the Medical College of Wisconsin and chief of Pediatric Orthopedics at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Dr. Thometz attended Northwestern University in Chicago and Loyola University in Rome, Italy, during his undergraduate years. He earned his medical degree from Northwestern in 1978 where he later served his residency in orthopaedic surgery.
Dr. Thometz subspecializes in spine-related pediatric orthopaedics such as scoliosis. He also has an interest in pediatric hip and foot deformities, particularly congenital clubfoot. His research publications and national presentations include articles on hip dysplasia, gait analysis, scoliosis in cerebral palsy, spinal instrumentation, talipes equinovarus, tendon transfers for the spastic hand, and hip dislocation in cerebral palsy, the cavus foot, and neuromuscular scoliosis. He has been awarded "Teacher Of The Year" in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery twice.
Dr. Thometz is currently involved in research on surgically correcting scoliosis without spinal fusion and has done extensive work on conservative care of spinal deformities. Recently, he has led the SRS committee on Non-operative Management of the Spine. He has extensive experience caring for children with clubfoot and helped build a diagnostic center for spinal deformity assessment, foot and gait abnormalities. He is a member of the International School Screening committee.
Dr. Thometz is the author of numerous papers and presentations, especially in the areas of scoliosis and pediatric foot deformity. He is currently a reviewer for SPINE journal and an author for Orthopaedic Knowledge Update.
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