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Understanding past and future impacts of climate change in agriculture: implications for adaptation planning
Understanding past and future impacts of climate change in agriculture: implications for adaptation planning
Climate change poses a serious risk to food security and agriculture in China. Agriculture is of critical importance to China, because 54 per cent of the country's population lives in rural areas. This policy brief outlines the key research highlights to date on the impacts of climate change on agriculture. This work is part of the ongoing research by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS) for the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project.
Key findings:
- Average temperature in China is increasing at a slightly faster rate than the global average, leading to a lengthening of the growing season which affects current cropping systems and management practices.
- Droughts cause the largest direct economic losses in China.
- Wheat, rice and maize yields seem to be decreasing in the southern parts of China, where crops are already grown close to their temperature tolerance.
- Improved understanding of climate change impacts on agriculture in China could improve the design of adaptation strategies.
- There is potential to increase food production with the right strategies and technologies.


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Pierre Arditi's Sexy Filmography
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The very very handsome mature French actor Arditi strips off after sneaking away from his Sengelase mistress and tries to quietly go to bed next to his wife but she and her sister turn the light on and expose a very naked Pierre in a very funny scene, You see his aged but nice body full body-full frontal just before he cups a hand over his penis and balls in dismay and embarrasment at the 2 ladies seeing him naked, and exposed. As he leaves the room to get a phone you see his aged but plumpish bum.Nice views all round and full on nudity.from a 60plus suave handsome, charismatic French man. And he has some very funny scenes throughout.

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Hyperstaticity, module, tension, weft, mark. The pattern and the repetition against nature helps to explore the differences and similarities of the natural and organic systems and the abstract and non tangible systems. The colour contrast makes the system collapse with the organic nature and at the same time, because of the modularity, get closer to natural patterns of vegetative growing. Mimesis and contrast. A modular system of hyperstatic growth.
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
This belly held twins- each 7 lbs! I can squish it together and make it talk to the kids :)
-- Michelle, 32
Here's my belly, covered in lines from the day's tights and including my weird rib (and I say that with all love -- it's just, the one side sticks out and the other doesn't).
-April, 29
My daughter says that my fat is the best pillow lol. She also says that about my chesticles too, though.
-- Shawnna, 28.
The scars you see are from surgeries I've had to treat a condition I had when I was born. Most people look at the scars and are horrified/grossed out. Me, I don't mind them. They remind me how lucky I am to be born in Canada rather than in Vietnam where I certainly would have died.
Anna, 31
I love my little "pooch" that is my belly. So cute, I named it sunshine.
-- Sabrina, Age 19
The belly of someone who lost a shit ton of weight and still feels like an impostor.
Even though its my period I had to send you a picture because I'm so into this! I love my stomach because it is strong and lets me do siiiick yoga poses like arm balances and headstands!
-- Kelsey, 22
This is after 11 months of changing my food habits and exercising 20 mins a day and losing 40lbs. I've never been more proud of myself or loved my body more. So happy. =)
A good thing about my belly is how nice and soft my skin always is there.
-- Grace, 21
Please consider my cozy and full size-14 belly for the gallery.
-- Lindsey
This is my belly, with my current catheter site and all the scabs, scars and rashes the old ones have left me with. I have an incurable, rare and fatal disease called Pulmonary Hypertension (it's awareness month!) and this subcutaneous infusion is quite literally keeping me alive. My little belly bulge that I've carried, and hated, my whole life is exactly what's saving it now (you need enough fatty tissue in order for the medication to absorb properly).
Each new site is incredibly painful for the first 9 days or so though, and I'm being admitted tomorrow to the hospital for a Hickman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickman_line ) placement so that I can switch to IV delivery. I'm terrified and excited all at once, but the freedom of movement and pain relief it will provide is going to give me a greater quality of whatever life I have left!
-- Angela
My belly has been all different sizes, from gaining weight and dieting and gaining more weight and bearing three kids and dieting and gaining even more weight -- it is soft and supple and MAGIC.
-Abi, 30
It's a funny looking size 18 saggy, wrinkly belly, but it grew two huge babies!
My belly and a portion of the enormous boobs I bring to work each and every day. I love my belly because it feels so good when it's rubbed and because I've spent a lot of time learning to love all of my body.
-- Julia
I took this a while back for my Flickr account -- 365 days of pictures of myself. I posted a few "unflattering" ones in my own little attempt to normalize at least this body.
-- Maggie
My squishy stretched belly is probably my favorite part of my whole body, second only to The Mighty Clit. I like it so much that I wear belly shirts in the summer time, in part cuz it gets hotter than a motherfucker around here, but also to scandalize/empower women and their bellies(kinda depends on how they take it, I'm pretty pleased with both of these outcomes).
I got those sick ass flower tattoos to decorate my noncurves. They're pretty convincing, no?
Once upon a drunk ass new year's eve I brought home this fine man for an auld lang sye bang (don't even condomplate my position on safer sex -- always pack the rubbers and the saran wrap, don't be fooled, kids!). This kid's sitting on my bed while I'm showing him my glorious self(which was about 50 pounds lighter than in these pics) and he says "Oh baby, I've always loved chunky girls." Something about this comment rubbed me the wrong way, although I probably would have let it slide had he not passed out before I even got a smoke break's worth of the dirty.
So... I kinda threw him out. Right then and there. Told him to call up his friends and said you don't have to go home but you ain't stayin here.
I celebrated the first of the year with my girlfriends by getting a lusciously fattening, icing-dripping-down-the-side nine-kinds-of-real-sugar cupcake right in the smooshy part.
Just to make it known that if you can't get down with my belly, you aren't getting down with me.
-SJ in Oklahoma
I love how my belly hair collects enough lint that I get to clean out my belly button at least once a day. I think it's actually very neat-o!
This is my belly. Stretch marks, scars, grandma skin (i'm 38), lotsa hair, genie bra.
-- Stephanie
Two kids and a few pounds (almost 30) later, i love my belly! I highly recommend treating oneself to the finest delicates (panties, etc) to showcase the delightful belly!!! (I like to match mine!)
I struggle with my stomach more so than any other part of my body, especially after recently gaining back 20 pounds I lost last year, so when I saw the call for belly shots, I suddenly realized I'd never really taken a good look at my belly.
It was in some ways hard -- it surprised me that it looked bigger than I expected -- but I also liked that it reminded me a little of Aphrodite in her famous pose. I'm 35, 5'9" and 235 lbs, have had one pregnancy and one surgery, and have pretty much spent a lifetime in disordered eating. I love seeing all the varities of bellies. It's amazing!
I luv how my belly is white and my belly button is so tiny.
--Ana Sofia, 22
Good thing I am the HR person of our company because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have liked walking in on me photgraphing my tum. Btw. It looks like I'm missing my b button but that's the best I could do on my own!!
My name is Emma, I'm 23, and my favorite part of my belly is my ring scar! My whole life I've been a classic overthinker -- every big decision I've made I've thought and worried about until it made me sick, I never open my mouth without thinking, etc. etc. When I was 19 I went to a tattoo parlor, made sure they had a clean needle, and got it pierced. I barely thought about it at all -- quel horreur. I recently took it out and expected to be horrified by the scar- but I love it. It reminds me to allow myself to be impulsive and frivolous and to enjoy my life.
Here's my belly. I'm 33 and I would like to be able to remove the belly button ring, but I took it out during my pregnancy and the hole never closed. I think the ring looks better than the hole!
Preggo with a laparoscopic scar.
Annonymous, age 38. I have three children and I gained a lot with each pregnancy (80 lbs each time). Though my stomach looks ripplier, I like that I was able to get back to a healthy place with yoga and a lot of healthy food. I used to be a junk food junkie (think two extra value meals a day and vodka for dinner) and I love how much better I feel.
I love this belly because it saved me. Dramatic, yes, but true. Injecting Lovenox into my stomach after having two DVTs in my leg (thank you birth control and a broken 5th metatarsal) kept those clots from traveling to my lungs and then who knows what could have happened? At 33 years old this was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me and I started to love my belly for being fatty enough to give me plenty of room for the medicine. Looking at my belly now motivates me to stop being irritated at my boyfriend for gulping when he drinks, it motivates me to pick up the phone when my sister calls even though she'll probably have nothing to talk about and waste my valuable time with my DVR. Seeing those bruises reminds me that if my mother wants to go to 5 different stores to find the best deal, only to end up back at the first one, I will take her and go gladly instead of acting like an ass. Perhaps this is a little too "chicken soup for the soul," but it is the first thing I though of when I saw your posts on bellies. I hated my belly, but now I thank it for reminding me that my apathetic existence was doing nothing but distancing me from people that I would be devastated to leave.
After a big meal my stomach will significantly expand. I like to rub it and imagine I'm a cartoon bear. It cracks me up.
-- Danielle, 26
I love this. Here is my belly fresh out of Extreme Core class. Love my belly because it has held me up for two marathons and 10 half-marathons. Next stop, Big Sur Marathon 4/29/12!
-- Lela (heck yeah use my name!)
"The Thin Red Line" isn't just a Terrence Malick film...there's always a thin red line on my porcelain tummy.
-- Emily S., 23
It's carried 2 of my babies (so far), it's where I put my food, and my husband's name is tattooed on it. What's not to love?!
-- Shannon, 35
I like my freckles, my belly button, and the way it curves on the sides. I LOVE how much smaller it looks in these pictures than in my mind.
-- Vanessa, 32
I wanted to show you one of me the last time I was comfortable taking a picture of my bare tummy: when I was 8 months preggo with my twins. 5 years ago!!! Yep, it's taken me that long to embrace it again
-- Muffy
Thing I like: It's been very forgiving! Plus I like you can still see where my piercing was, even though it's healed up now.
-- Rhiannon, 26.
Here's my lovely, soft belly. I like that it's squishy, it's the way bellies should feel.
-- Holly
I have worked hard for 2 years to get this belly! Its all mine!
After 2 babies, I love that my belly has character!
Tricia, 38.
It's strong! With one single ab to prove it!
-- Tricia, 25
The state of my tummy post baby. But its doughy-ness is proof that I was once a living vessel for my beautiful baby! For that I can't help but love it, stretchmarks and all.
-- Rosie
This is my belly, and it's alright by me. I like that it has a set of parallel freckles, which are all over my body in various places for some odd reason. It also features a belly button piercing which I never wear, an innie, and lines from my belly folds when I sit down. It also stores yum yums, which I appreciate.
Good thing about my belly: The visible hole from my former belly button piercing. Who didn't have their belly button pierced at some point?!
-- Rena, 26
Here is my belly pic. love the rounded shape of my belly, especially around my waist and the little soft spot in front that is usually invisible behind underwear and jeans.
-- Erin, 32
This belly has been well covered since I was a teen some twenty-*cough* years ago ...until last week in bellydance class. I thought I'd be horrified to expose my pasty-white midsection, but I find I'm surprisingly okay with it.
-- Jen
Try not to be jealous of my basketball shorts. Also note: That is a birthmark, not chocolate ice cream.
I used to hate my hips and stomach so much that I'd wear sweatshirts in 80 degree weather (unfortunately not an exaggeration). I've come to like having a little extra tummy these days -- I'm curvy everywhere else, so it just makes me look more proportionate! Also, I've come to realize that the kind of men I like aren't into hard-bodied models.
- Lauren (25 yrs old)
I like how my belly has a birthmark that looks like the continent of South America right under it. I used to hate wearing one piece bathing suits because of this. But then I thought, my belly has culture!
-- Jacki, 21
Here is a photo of my belly being rubbed by my one of my daughters. This belly is not what it used to be before two little girls took up residence in it, but I'm slowly coming to terms with that. The fact that they like to snuggle up to it when they need comforting, reminds me of it's purpose and it's beauty.
-- Ange, 34
It's my belly. I've learned to appreciate the way a little swell in the belly really does fill out the lines of a pencil skirt the way I like.
-- Samantha, 28
After a baby & cancer!!
My belly has always been my least favorite part, and made me the most self conscious. A navel piercing scar, stretch marks from carrying a child...but whatever. It's mine, and I am learning to love and accept my body more every day!
-- Erin
Currently shown brandishing lines from my terrible slouching and the tights I wore today. I love that there is a triangle of my belly that WILL NOT tan. I find it hilarious and it keeps me from spending any time tanning which is SO for the best. Thanks, belly!
-- Dana, 29.
i am proud of my belly...i would rather enjoy a good beer and slice of pizza than be rail thin & not be able to enjoy life fully :)
My photo's upside down, sorry -- I had to lie on my kitchen floor and take it with my phone.
I have good days and bad days with my belly -- sometimes we get along and sometimes we argue about who's retaining water and who's been eating too much salt. For the most part, though, I love my belly, because that's where my phoenix is, reminding me that no matter how I burn, I'll always rise up again.
-- Em!ly, 30
Attached is a snapshot of my mole-covered belly. As a belly dancer, I make it my mission to encourage women to embrace their jiggle.
-- Naomi, 23
My buddha belly is super soft and strong. I'm positive that underneath my lovely cushion is a six pack (that I'll never see) holding it down.
-- Mai, 24
So here's my stomach. I am sort of kind of starting to maybe slightly like having a little extra belly. (And apparently my stomach magically looks 25 lbs. flatter in phone pics!)
-- Kate
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With a little bit of vanity I must say I've just had dinner (that would be two piadinas, one of which with nutella. Like, a loooot of nutella). Oh, who am I trying to fool... this is really awkward. I like my belly, though. When I was little I used to stick my forefinger into my belly button and play with it, as if it was a suction pad (is that how they're called?). Again, who am I kidding... I still do it ;)
-- Federica
My stomach has a permanent wrinkle above my belly button. I'm convinced it's because I slouch all the time -- walking, sitting, standing, running. Slouch. I love doing it though so I don't see that crease leaving anytime soon.
-- Kristin, 30
My belly is just the way it is supposed to be. It's full of wonderful organs, and I would never wish it harm.
-- Allison, 29
It's not perfect, but it's the product of lots of change and hard work, and it has the Life Aquatic submarine tattooed on it :)
-- Jackie, 28
I love how no matter how much I work out or try to tone up, it only takes one big meal to look five months pregnant again. So I will always be able to pretend on front of the mirror :) I also love my 2-year-old's fleeting obsession with my belly button.
I have two big puncture wounds (couldn't get them to show up in pics) on my side from lung surgery a few years back, and sometimes I stroke them when I'm nervous. My natural state of doing the twist has given me some good muscles, but my other natural state of eating has given me some lovely softness. Overall, I love the whole thing.
The one good thing about my belly is this is the result of having two kids...still trying to accept the belly is one bad thing about it...
Veronica, 36
Here is my belly. Here is what I learned from this experience: a) It is harder than I thought to take a picture of your belly without sucking it in. Especially when the whole point is not to suck it in. and b) I'm more fond of my midsection than I thought. It's really alright. The thing I like best about it is my admittedly lame Latin tattoo, which translates to "Fortune favors the brave." Ha. How fitting.
-- Renee
I'm 46; still working on loving my belly, but looking at this picture, I see how strong this area of my body is.
-- Hanna
Myspace style! -- Haley
This is my belly. - Joslyn
This is my stomach. You can see my ileostomy, which usually has a bag covering it, but in this photo it does not. The red bit is called a stoma. It is where shit comes out of my body. The stoma is my small bowel that has been sewn to my abdomen because I had my entire large bowel (colon) removed. I have been critically and chronically ill for 15 years. I never thought I would turn 30 years old. 3 weeks ago, I turned 30. Even though it's been 3 weeks, some days I still feel euphoric that I exist. I hope I live forever, but I probably won't.
- Brianna
I'm 32, have 2 kids...lost a little, gained a little. For once I'm happy to find pants that dont fall off my hips and I finally have a butt :) Its not all bad
Here it is...I was always ashamed of my belly, but everyone that has sent in their pics really inspired me.
Here's mine. One gorgeous son and 37 years. Thanks for reminding me to love all of myself.
This is my non-airbrushed belly as of a few months ago. It has not really changed much in fifteen years (I'm 30), and it's one of my favorite parts of my body, but I almost never let it see the light of day. I'm too self-conscious about the other parts of me, like my cellulite and leg hair to want to be naked much. But damn does my belly make me feel like I can conquer anything!
I love that everything inside my belly is healthy. I do core exercises to keep those shielding-muscles strong and protect my organs, instead of to look better.
I also love my barbell. I went thru a hard thing a couple of years ago, and I acted out by piercing my belly button! No one could see it, so no haters could judge me! It was my pretty secret. It was the beginning of an emotional transformation that lead me to running a half marathon, becoming a yoga instructor, and pursuing other athletic goals!
here's my belly...and I love it!!!
I've always been self-conscious about my belly, knowing I would never have a supermodel six pack. When my son left my belly stretched, scarred, and flapping over my groin I just knew my bikini days were done.
But this deflated balloon belly sheltered and nourished a beautiful, perfect little boy and there's no shame in that! My fiancé doesn't see anything to be ashamed of either - he misses my huge pregnant belly and thinks my stretch marks look cool. :)
-Jillian, 22
Hi! Not sure whether or not you're still taking submissions, but I figured I'd send mine just in case you were. This is a picture of my stomach when I was about 30-40lbs heavier than I am now, but I actually prefer the way it looked back then. I think women should be curvy and soft! I especially love my stomach because I chose to have a special message tattooed on it after I went through an all-time low point in my life, and was having some pretty dark thoughts. I slapped myself into the right frame of mind and pulled myself out of it, though, and I got this tattoo to celebrate and to remind myself that I can get through anything life throws my way. Since then, all of Life's little obstacles have been real cake walks.
I think this project is truly beautiful, and what you guys are doing could have an extremely positive effect on the relationships women have with their bodies. Keep up the amazing work! :)
This was more difficult than I thought. Especially the part about not sucking in. I do love my belly when it is just the 2 of us...it is very soft and rotund. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable when it is around other people. I think this project is making me feel more comfortable with it though. It feels good to bare my belly to you!
When I sent out the request for belly photos last week, you guys immediately turned my inbox into a non-stop belly parade. I so enjoyed seeing your bellies and hearing your stories of belly acceptance, and I'm even more excited to show you the gallery. It's mesmerizing, isn't it?
It's the day after Thanksgiving, when a lot of people are traditionally lamenting the state of their bellies, but I hope that you'll click through these 75 real girl bellies and cut yourself a little slack. Viva la belly!
UPDATE: For a second gallery full of even more amazing of bellies, CLICK HERE.
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
The holidays always start with the best intentions, but they might end in disaster.
Winter is a great time of year to do a bit of "spring" cleaning.
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Maddie's Vineyard is located along Westside Road, just south of the town of Healdsburg, in the area of the Russian River Valley commonly referred to as the Middle Reach.
Sited on the bench land on the western edge of the river, the soils of Maddie's Vineyard are a mixture of river gravel, sand, silt, and fossil alluvium. They overlay the coastal belt of the Franciscan rocks, remnants of the oceanic plates that fractured while colliding with the western edge of North America. Rich in various minerals, the soils are naturally well drained and the roots of the vines run deep.
At just 3.5 acres, Maddie's Vineyard is quite small by California standards, and only 0.75 acres is planted to Chardonnay. Aggressive pruning, green harvesting, cluster selection, and multiple passes through the vineyard further limit crop yields. Despite its tiny size, the vineyard is harvested in three separate picks to ensure optimum ripeness for each and every cluster. One pick for the chardonnay, one for the single vineyard pinot noir, and the balance goes to our Russian River Valley wine.


text: Back Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn 06 Apr 2017 Islington Council protects financial help for hard-working families Islington Council is protecting Council Tax Support payments for working families – a move that will prevent many families losing more than £150 a year. Last year, central government decided to cut Housing Benefit for new recipients from working families, by removing an allowance called the 'Family Premium'. Islington's Council Tax Support scheme usually uses the same premiums as the national Housing Benefit scheme in order to work out how much Council Tax Support is awarded to each applicant. However, the council has decided not to apply this reduction in premiums for its Council Tax Support scheme. This will mean new applicants from working families not losing £3.11 a week of Council Tax Support - or about £150 a year. Islington Council's executive member for finance, performance, and community safety, Cllr Andy Hull, said: "We want a fairer Islington where everyone has the chance to enjoy a good quality of life. "Protecting Council Tax Support for hard-pressed working families means not pilfering the pockets of some of the people who need this money most and helping our residents to cope with rising living costs. "Despite ongoing massive government cuts, wherever we can we will maintain these sources of extra financial support for lower-income residents." By 2020, the council will have lost 70 per cent of its core government funding since 2010. For more information contact: Eugene GrantSenior Media Officer 0207 527 firstname.lastname@example.com Notes to editors From May 2016, central government stopped the family premium of £17.45 for all new Housing Benefit claims. Islington's Council Tax Support scheme ordinarily uses the same rates of premium as the national Housing Benefit scheme. Were the council to abolish the family premium it would have to do so for new claims from the new financial year, starting this month. Downloads Share release Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Back


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Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter'
What happened that night?
Your final night.
So begins "Last Letter," a poem, or rather draft of a poem, by Ted Hughes published in the October 11 issue of the British magazine the New Statesman. "Last Letter" was clearly intended to take its place in Hughes's 1998 collection of poems to Plath, Birthday Letters, but it's also clear that he never managed to finish it before he died on October 28, 1998. I suppose anything a poet as famous as Hughes didn't get around to destroying before he died is likely to end up in the public domain eventually, and certainly a poem that at last sets out what he was up to on that fatal, freezing weekend of February 9 and 10, 1963, was not going to languish in the British Library's archive forever.
The decision to publish the poem was taken by Melvyn Bragg, guest editor for that issue of the New Statesman and a longtime friend of the poet, and Hughes's widow Carol. The poem was instantly praised by the current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, who on Channel 4 News compared its power to that of Shakespearean tragedy, and declared:
It seems to me to be the darkest poem that he wrote about the death of Sylvia Plath. There is a kind of deafening agony, blinding agony to this new poem. It seems to touch a deeper, darker place than any poem he's ever written.
There's undoubtedly plenty of agony in the poem, but its power to move is closer to that of an uncontrolled diary entry than of a speech by King Lear or Macbeth.
"Last Letter" is unlikely to do much to rehabilitate Hughes with those who hold him responsible for the death of the great young star of American poetry—and for the suicide of Assia Wevill, his companion after Plath's death, some six years later. (Like Plath, Assia gassed herself, and killed her four-year-old daughter by Hughes, Shura, as well.) It was his affair with Assia, begun in the summer of 1962, that precipitated his separation from Plath, and a decisive moment in Birthday Letters, his narrative of the events leading up to Plath's suicide, comes in the poem "The Inscription," which recounts an occasion when husband and wife nearly got back together; in the course of this almost-reconciliation, however, Plath's eyes happen to fall on Hughes's edition of Shakespeare, a volume that in a fit of fury she had earlier ripped to pieces. The book has been miraculously "resurrected":
Wondering, with unbelieving fingers,
She opened it. She read the inscription. She closed it
Like the running animal that receives
The fatal bullet without a faltering check
In its stride….
The resurrector of the book who inscribed it…
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Michigan Clips No. 18 Notre Dame, 38-34
Sept. 12, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -A dropped TD pass didn't deflate Tate Forcier. The Michigan freshman simply threw another one on the next play.
After LaTerryal Savory bobbled and dropped a reception that would've been a go-ahead touchdown with just seconds remaining, Forcier hit Greg Mathews for a 5-yard score with 11 seconds left, lifting the Wolverines to a 38-34 win over No. 18 Notre Dame on Saturday.
"It will go down in history as one of the greatest games in the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry," Mathews said. "I'm glad I got a chance to play in it."
Armando Allen ran for a touchdown and got the 2-point conversion on a nifty Statue of Liberty play with 5:13 left after Jimmy Clausen threw his third touchdown pass to give the Fighting Irish (1-1) the lead. But Charlie Weis chose to throw instead of trying to run time off the clock and Notre Dame's defense could not deny Forcier and the Wolverines (2-0).
"I think it was mistake that they were throwing the ball because they let us save our timeouts," Forcier said. "Those timeouts definitely came in handy.
"I wasn't expecting them to throw the ball. It really helped us."
Weis defended his choice to put the ball in the air after running for a first down and a short gain to start a drive deep in Notre Dame territory.
"They loaded up the box and made it clear that they weren't going to let us do that, so we had to throw the ball," Weis said. "On third down, we could have run and made them use a timeout, but we were trying to win the game."
Forcier's 31-yard TD run on a fourth down gave the Wolverines an 11-point lead early in the fourth quarter. He threw an interception on his next drive to aid the Irish's comeback, but the freshman bounced back by converting a third down with a pass before his clutch connection with Mathews in the front corner of the end zone.
Savoy dropped a sure score in nearly the same spot on the play before. Forcier made a series of heart-stopping jukes to jitterbug away from tacklers in the backfield with no time outs before he found Savoy, who almost appeared surprised by the ball.
A season after losing a school-record nine games, Rodriguez has college football's winningest program at 2-0 for the first time since 2006 with a rout of Western Michigan and an emotional win over the rival Irish, whose winning percentage ranks second in the nation - behind Michigan's.
Weis, meanwhile, will likely face a lot of questions and second-guessing as he tries to address what went wrong at the Big House and why he hasn't been able to win many big games in his five seasons. Two years ago, Notre Dame lost a school-record nine under Weis and dropped six more last season. That included a loss to a bad Syracuse team coached by current Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Robinson.
The former Super Bowl-winning offensive coordinator with the New England Patriots fell to 30-22 with the Irish.
Weis also called two long passes when Notre Dame led by three points and probably could have iced the game with a first down. Instead, the Irish had to punt, leaving Forcier time for a winning drive.
"This is a very disappointing, disheartening loss," Weis said.
Rodriguez, though, was not in the mood to offer sympathy.
"We've all lost close games," Rodriguez said. "You think they would've felt bad for us?
"Charlie is a good football coach and he's got a good football team. They're going to win a lot of games. The quarterback is an NFL guy. They've got two of the best wide receivers I've seen in years and their running back is a big-time player. And did you see the size of the linemen? They could eat peanuts off our guys' helmets."
Forcier was 23 of 33 for 240 yards, two TDs and an interception. He ran for 70 yards and a score - squirting up the middle on 4th and 3 to put Michigan up 31-20.
Brandon Minor ran for 106 yards and a score and Kevin Koger caught a TD pass.
Mathews had five catches for 68 yards, filling in for Junior Hemingway, who did not dress because of an ankle injury, a week after he caught two TDs.
Darryl Stonum returned a kickoff 94 yards to give Michigan a 14-3 lead.
Clausen completed 25 of 42 passes for 336 yards and three TDs, but he missed some throws throughout the game that proved to be costly.
Michigan struggled all day to cover Notre Dame's star receivers, Golden Tate and Michael Floyd. Tate, who infamously burned the Wolverines last season on a play in which he was the only receiver to go out for a pass, had nine catches for 115 yards and two TDs.
Floyd had seven for 131 yards and a score, but left the game late in the fourth quarter.
Allen ran for 139 yards - including the TD and a 2-pointer that put Notre Dame in a position to win - only to see it slip away, leaving Clausen to address the Irish after Weis did.
"I told them the same thing that Coach said," Clausen said. "We have to decide how we're going to go from here."


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Archive for June, 2012
Security is owning . . . but not in a bubble.Written by admin on June 30, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Ask any real estate agent and they will tell you security is owning your own home!!.
Ask America's Generation X and they are likely to tell you something very different.
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) for 2010 has reported what could be unprecedented levels of wealth destruction in the three short years between 2007 and 2010.
Median Family net worth across all age groups has fallen from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 USD in 2010, a fall of 38.8 per cent.
But it was families headed up by a person between the age of 35-44 that suffered the most destruction in household wealth. This group has seen median family net worth fall 54.4 per cent from $92,400 to $42,100 USD.
What did this cohort do so wrong?
As they started families, Generation X leveraged up into the housing market, towards or at the top of the bubble. When the bubble burst, they were left with mortgages on homes worth more than they paid for them.
Food for thought.
» Federal Reserve Bulletin, Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2007 to 2010: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances – U.S. Federal Reserve, June 2012.
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Appetite for housing debt continues to fallWritten by admin on June 29, 2012 – 12:21 pm
Data released from the Reserve Bank of Australia today, show Australian's are continuing to shun housing debt despite interest rate cuts.
Annual Housing credit growth has hit lows of 5.1 percent in May, continuing its downwards trend.
» Financial Aggregates, May 2012 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, 29th June 2012.
Posted in Australian Housing | 9 Comments »
Census debunks housing shortageWritten by admin on June 22, 2012 – 7:15 pm
The 2011 census has shown the foundations of Australia's housing boom may not be as concrete as first thought. The property industry has frequently said an acute shortage of homes in Australia will put a floor under Australia's overpriced housing market.
Bloomberg told the world last night, "Australia has almost 1 million fewer households than assumed in government forecasts of a housing shortage, raising doubts about a supply shortfall cited as the main reason the nation will avoid a U.S.-style crash."
The government forecasts comes from The National Housing Supply Council, an independent group set up by the Australian Government in May 2008 to monitor housing demand, supply and affordability. Chairman Owen Donald, told Bloomberg, "On the face of it, 900,000 is a gigantic difference,"
"We need to get to the bottom of what's in the statistics bureau numbers."
» Vanishing Households Undercut Claim of Australia Shortage – Bloomberg, 22nd June 2012.
Posted in Australian Housing | 9 Comments »
Housing starts plungeWritten by admin on June 20, 2012 – 10:34 pm
Housing starts have fallen a seasonally adjusted 12.6 per cent in the March 2012 quarter to just 30,623 starts. This is the lowest number of commencements since 2001 and further evidence not all is well in the housing market. For the year, housing starts have plunged 24.5 percent.
Short term stimulus in the form of the First Home Owners' Boost (FHOB) and various state government incentives helped prop up an unsustainable housing market after the GFC. Most of this stimulus has now gone, removing any artificial support.
In New South Wales, starts are at the lowest level since records starting in September 1984. Last week, the NSW government announced more stimulus to help its faltering housing building sector. The state grant for first home buyers building a new home under the value of $650,000 will increase from $7,000 to $15,000 on the 1st October 2012. In addition, other buyers will get a $5,000 new home grant for new home purchases up to $650,000. It is possible buyers may hold off purchases until the 1st of October in order to qualify for the new incentives.
» 8750.0 – Dwelling Unit Commencements, Australia, Preliminary, Mar 2012 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics, 20th June 2012.
» First home buyers grant doubled in NSW – News Limited, 12th June 2012.
Posted in Australian Economy, Australian Housing | 8 Comments »
Westpac Boss: Australians rejecting high levels of debt.Written by admin on June 14, 2012 – 7:43 pm
On Friday, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens said the housing price boom in the decade to 2007 was "unusual" and was unlikely to re-emerge any time soon.
Today it is Westpac's managing director, Gail Kelly singing the same tunes.
News Limited reported today :
In a closed session, Ms Kelly told business leaders that the years of compound growth in house prices were over for good.
She also said Australians were rejecting the high levels of debt that allowed them to borrow vast sums against the equity in their house.
Figures from the Reserve Bank of Australia show credit growth for housing continues to sit at the lowest rate since records started 35 years ago, supporting Kelly's claim. January, February, March and April have all recorded annualised growth rates of just 5.3 per cent.
According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released last year titled "Debt and deleveraging: Uneven progress on the path to growth", at 105 per cent of GDP Australia has some of the highest levels of household debt in the developed world.
» Westpac managing director Gail Kelly says compound growth in house prices are over for good – News Limited, 14th June 2012.
Posted in Australian Economy, Australian Housing | 15 Comments »
Abolishing negative gearing would cause distortions to the property market : PMWritten by admin on June 12, 2012 – 9:52 pm
Prime Minister Julia Gillard joined the ABC's Q&A program Monday night to answer the questions and concerns of everyday ordinary Australians.
Robyn Tracey from the audience asked the Prime Minister a couple of questions on tax reform including this one on negative gearing:
Why hasn't negative gearing been abolished despite recommendations from the Ken Henry tax review and leading economists in the country?
It's a great question.
In April last year under the headlines, Talks test the water on negative gearing change, The Age reported, "THE Gillard government has sounded out unions over steps to cool Australia's housing market, with measures that range from a new sales tax for investors sitting on large property portfolios, to curbing the popular strategy of using negative gearing for multiple properties."
The Ken Henry Tax Review prepared in 2008/09 had warned elements of our tax system could affect macroeconomic stability. The report stated "The existing tax system is also likely to encourage excessive leveraging in pursuit of tax-preferred income. Where capital inflow is used to finance less productive assets [residential housing], this can also affect long term macroeconomic stability. In this regard, recommendations to provide a more neutral tax treatment of savings, to reduce the benefits from negative gearing and eventually abolish stamp duties on housing would also help improve macroeconomic stability."
The report recommended a more uniform savings income discount be applied across most asset classes to prevent tax distortions created from negative gearing.
In a two day tax forum held in Canberra last October, Saul Eslake, an economist with the Grattan Institute said "There is no country in the world that allows negative gearing as generously as the Australian tax system does."
Debate was reignited in April this year by NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson. A day later, Treasurer Wayne Swan indicated "The government has committed to the current arrangements and is not contemplating any changes."
Reaffirming Treasurer Wayne Swan's statement on negative gearing earlier this year, Ms Gillard told the Q&A audience:
"For negative gearing we didn't agree with the Henry Tax review, we ruled that out. We think an abolition of negative gearing would cause distortions to the property market we didn't want to see."
It is an interesting comment, considering many economists and tax experts actually believe negative gearing causes the distortions, encouraging property "investors" to leverage up into, what is now, low yielding, unproductive investments in the pursuit of a favourable tax treatment.
Others believe abolishing negative gearing will cause all the rental accommodation to simply evaporate overnight. On Q&A's facebook page, one viewer wrote "If you abolish negative gearing millions more will need public housing which the government now relies on investors for. Those on rental assistance won't have anywhere to live."
You have to wonder how other countries address this very issue, considering only very small few in the world have adopted negative gearing, including Canada, New Zealand, and of course Australia. Perhaps non-owners in all the countries without negative gearing sleep on park benches at night?
But there could be some substance to what Gillard is saying in the short term. Unfortunately, negative gearing is a legal tax rort in Australia and an immensely popular one at that. According to figures from the Australian Tax Office for the 2009-10 financial year, there are 1,110,922 negatively geared property investors with total losses on investment properties totalling $4.8 billion. (In 2007-08 losses totalled $8.6 billion.)
As Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens said on Friday, the decade up to 2007 was quite "unusual". Household debt grew at astronomical levels and asset prices such as residential property surged. The likelihood on seeing a similar phenomenon anytime soon is close to zero.
But as house asset prices surged, rents barely grew faster than inflation. This has created a reasonable deterioration in rental yields. At first, this didn't faze the property investor as what they lost in yield, they made up for in capital gains. Well that was, until recently. House prices have now been falling for almost a year and a half and there is no end in sight.
The warm and fuzzy feeling of avoiding tax blinds many to the low yields property is currently returning and acts like a slow decaying force field, holding them into the market. Slowly the investor will wake and cut their liabilities, but they won't all leave at once, on mass.
This is important in the political blame game. Just like the carbon tax is the cause of anything and everything remotely negative happening now, the Gillard government doesn't want the abolition of negative gearing to be the public cause of the property correction.
In May last year, the Australian reported on a 32 year old couple "selling because they are frightened the government may abandon negative gearing on investment properties." According to the article, "The house has been on the market for more than 180 days and, although there have been many viewers, there have been no real offers and the agent has already persuaded them to drop the price by $20,000 to $290,000." I could be mistaken, but I only heard about the negative gearing debate a month earlier, so either they had a tip off five months earlier, or this is some political point scoring. It could be July 1985 all over again.
I believe the Gillard government (subject to still being in power), will abolish negative gearing, but not now. They will do it in a couple of years when the time is right and when negative gearing is no longer effective.
» Australia's Future Tax System Review (Ken Henry Tax Review) – Australian Government, 2nd May 2010.
» Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins Q&A – ABC TV, Monday 11th June 2012.
» Time to axe negative gearing – Saul Eslake, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 25th, 2011.
Posted in Australian Economy, Australian Housing, Negative Gearing | 18 Comments »
The right sort of confidence: SustainableWritten by admin on June 10, 2012 – 6:43 pm
Despite Australian's love affair for residential property, Australia's housing market might just be losing friends at a faster pace than facebook.
The latest loss is the Reserve Bank of Australia after governor Glenn Stevens said on Friday it should not "engineer a return to a housing price boom."
Speaking in Adelaide to the American Chamber of Commerce (SA) AMCHAM Internode Business Lunch, Mr Stevens said he believed the household sector could be the reason behind such low levels of confidence especially after Wednesday's ABS posting of a "quite respectable" 1.3% rise in GDP for the March quarter.
He described the decade or more leading up to 2007 as quite "unusual". It was a decade when real asset prices (mostly residential housing) per person appreciated at 6 per cent or more per annum and household debt started to really pile up. The increase in perceived wealth caused household consumption to grow faster than incomes for a lengthy period and household savings to fall through the floor.
Mr Stevens said Australia was not the only country to experience these trends, but avoided linking high household debt levels and years of irrational exuberance to the root cause of the GFC. He did note, however, that the GFC has reverted households back to more prudent and sustainable behaviour. Household net savings is now hovering around 10 per cent of household disposable income and household's appetite towards leveraging for the purposes of asset speculation is waning.
Consumption is down and there is no surprise retailers are hurting with Mr Stevens saying "The gap between the current level of consumption and where it would have been had the previous trend continued is quite significant."
However, ignoring the unusual and unsustainable boom period of last decade, current real consumption growth "is in fact, quite comparable with the kind of growth seen in the couple of decades leading up to 1995. It is in line with the quite respectable growth in income."
For this reason, Stevens believes Australians should be happier than they currently are. But with fond memories of the boom times, Australians don't see it that way. They want a return to these times, no matter how unsustainable they were, and there lies the problem.
"The decade or more up to about 2007 was unusual. It would be quite surprising, really, if the same trends – persistent strong increases in asset values, very strong growth in per capita consumption, increasing leverage, little or no saving from current income – were to re-emerge any time soon."
House prices
Another area of dissatisfaction could be falling house prices. Real Estate agents have sold the expectation that house prices double every 7 to 10 years but as Mr Stevens points out – this is quite "unusual".
Cuts to official interest rates in November and December last year, and a big 50 basis point cut in May has done nothing to help stabilise a declining market.
The RP Data-Riskmark Home Value index shows house price falls are picking up the pace, declining a further 1.4 per cent in May despite the 50 basis point cut. Melbourne led the falls with a 2.66 per cent drop for the month.
Earlier this week, data from SQM Research showed stock for sale on the market increased 2.4 per cent in May to 380,215 dwellings. In Melbourne, stock increased 7.6 per cent in the month.
On Tuesday, the RBA cut a further 25 basis points taking the cash target rate to 3.50 per cent. Many had expected another 50 basis points.
In addressing the implications for monetary policy, Mr Stevens said the RBA should not "engineer a return to a housing price boom" or "foster a renewed gearing up by households."
Instead, we need the "right sort of confidence."
"The kind of confidence based on nothing more than expectations of ever-increasing housing prices, with the associated willingness to continue increasing leverage, on the assumption that this is a sure way to wealth, would not be the right kind."
Stevens also points out there is too much focus on the minority of the population – the just over a third of people who owns a mortgaged dwelling. The RBA cannot neglect those who live off their savings, adding "returns available to savers in deposits (with a little shopping around) remain well ahead of inflation, and have very low risk."
Mr Steven's speech could mean any future expectation of rate cuts is unlikely, barring any sharp external shocks to our economy. And when they do cut, they will make sure it won't fuel our housing bubble. "As it happens, our judgement is that the risk of re-igniting a boom in borrowing and prices is not very high, and this was a key consideration in decisions to lower interest rates over the past eight months."
» The Glass Half Full. Address to the American Chamber of Commerce (SA) AMCHAM Internode Business Lunch – The Reserve Bank of Australia, 8th June 2012
» More houses put up for sale – The Sydney Morning Herald, 5th June 2012.
» Housing market remains soft despite rate cuts – RP Data, 1st June 2012.
Posted in Australian Economy, Australian Housing | 16 Comments »
Property crash goes mainstreamWritten by admin on June 1, 2012 – 1:09 pm
Fairfax Media, with vested interests in Australian Property Monitors (APM) and the Domain has today published headline articles in both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne's Age on-line portals about "diving" house prices.
Reporting on house price data for May released today by RP Data-Rismark, Fairfax printed "Home values fell the most in at least six years in May defying Reserve Bank efforts to spark a recovery in the nation's lacklustre housing market with interest rate cuts."
According to the statistics from RP Data-Rismark, home prices fell 1.4 percent in capital cities around the country. Melbourne lead the plunge, recording a 2.7 percent fall for the month.
In Adelaide, AdelaideNow has published data from the Valuer-General's department showing "Every metropolitan council has suffered falls in property values – some as much as 7 per cent – in the past year."
Today's update of the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index supports comments we made a month ago suggesting a rate cut of 50 basis points would do nothing to support a housing market drowning under the weight of household debt.
» Home prices extend national retreat – The Sydney Morning Herald, 1st June 2012.
» Home prices extend national retreat – The Age, 1st June 2012.
» Property values tumble across SA – Adelaide Now, Friday 1st June, 2012.
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Huron's Click Portal is a comprehensive suite of software solutions for managing the business of research. Click streamlines workflow and facilitates compliance for research organizations.
Seattle Children's Research Institute has implemented two modules in Click. The first is the Financial Disclosure Module, which helps research teams and the Office of Research Compliance (ORC) identify and manage potential conflicts of interest.
The second is the IRB Module, which helps research teams conform to federally-mandated management of human subjects research, including increased efficiency and greater standardization across documents and processes used by the IRB, and increased visibility during the review process.
The two modules are integrated, bringing further efficiency to research teams by checking compliance reporting of all study team members, and providing real time visibility to the work flow of studies in progress.
Click is secure, which means only authorized individuals with a valid Seattle Children's username and password have access to it. Click users only have access to information and actions pertinent to their roles. If you need access to Click and have never accessed Seattle Children's network or want to confirm that you have access, please contact Research HR.
Click can only be accessed from within Seattle Children's network, either at a Seattle Children's location with an established local Seattle Children's network, or offsite by establishing a secure network connection via remote access. Wi-fi connectivity is not recommended when using Click. If you need assistance logging in remotely to Seattle Children's network, please contact Seattle Children's IS Help Desk at 206-987-1111.
Once logged on to Seattle Children's network, follow the steps below.
1. Click on the Citrix icon to open up the list of viewable applications.
2. Select the Click application icon from the list. This will open Click IRB in an Internet Explorer 9.0 session.
3. If you do not see the form shown below, click the Login link located at the top right corner of your screen. Use your Seattle Children's user name and password to access the system.
After you initially log in to the system, you can set your preferences to log you in automatically when you access Click.
To turn on Autologin, check the Remember me box the next you log in to Click IRB.
Important! Do not enable autologin if you are using a shared or public computer. Autologin could cause a security breach by allowing others to take actions as though they were you.
To turn off Autologin, click the Logoff link in the upper right corner. When you receive the logoff confirmation, select Clear Autologin.
Once you log in, you are taken to your Inbox work space (My Inbox), which lists the items that need your attention. From your Inbox, clicking the arrow next to the Financial Disclosure or IRB topic expands the menu and provides actions available to you.
For questions and help related to your financial disclosures, contact the Office of Research Compliance or visit the ORC web page.
For questions and help related to your IRB submissions contact the IRB or visit the IRB web page.


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In this day and age, sometimes entering or writing down our tasks is not enough, especially for more complicated projects involving multiple items. I am always searching for a different solution to my to-do list woes, and have tried, unsuccessfully, different productivity and to-do applications that offer capabilities either not found in the Remember app or better suit my needs and the demands of the task at hand.
SlickTasks for BlackBerry 10 is one of many such programs available. It is one that utilizes the GTD workflow method of grouping tasks and projects and rearranging them in a comprehensive order to know which one requires completion first. Tasks can be shown in outline view that displays the whole project in a task tree with siblings and sub-tasks branching off from the main one. You may collapse or extend the to tree hide all or only certain tasks, filter by tag (in this case personal or business though a custom one can be created in settings), or group by frequency, priority or tag.
Unlike other to-do applications, SlickTasks goes a step further and organizes them by project so that tasks can be group or dragged and dropped together. This way you can monitor your progress and tick off items and sub-tasks as they are finished without panicking. Visually speaking, you get a much better sense of your progress, knowing what the next steps are, and how to manage your time.
It comes with a no-nonsense interface and easy controls to get things done. Tasks, siblings, and sub-tasks are arranged in a branch layout. Users can customize the color, height, divider and font type, backup and restore via the device or the developer's cloud service, or export as a PDF file.
What does set this apart from other applications is that they utilize their own cloud service to backup and sync tasks. This means that users can access, create, edit, and archive their tasks from any computer via the web.
Tasks are integrated with the hub and this means that after establishing a due date for any given task, while it does not sync with the native calendar, it does create a notification under that heading. This is a decent workaround for due dates but keep in mind it must be running as an active frame. For reminders, a pop-up is displayed which you can either dismiss, mark complete, or ask to remind you later.
The one thing I know most will be put off by is the hefty price tag of $9.99 for features readily available using a combination of other native applications. Regardless of cost, this is a powerful task management system. The interface is simple without being overwhelming, is easy to read especially if you choose to color code items, and presents no issues when navigating. It supports the the Z10, Q10, and Q5.
- Arranges tasks in a hierarchical or tree-like structure
- Enlists color coding to distinguish tasks
- Offers reminders and pop-ups in hub and the ability to set recurring tasks
- Active Frame support displays snapshot of pending items when minimized
- Manage and sync tasks via their cloud service and web portal
- Backup data to your SD card
The Bad
- No integration or syncing with local calendar
- Font size can be small at times
- Unable to sync with other services besides theirs (i.e. Dropbox)
The Bottom Line
As someone who clutters up her calendar with reminders, I do see this application helping users become more disciplined in how they organize themselves so that nothing important slips through the cracks. If you don't mind the steep price tag or are just looking for something with more functionality than the native app, I would say give this a try. In addition, the developer will be releasing an update to include adding an entry into your BlackBerry calendar.


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ATRI and FHWA Release Bottleneck Analysis of 250 Freight Significant Highway Locations
Sep 21, 2011, 01:59 ET
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today released the findings of their annual report on congestion at freight significant highway locations. The research, which assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 250 locations on the national highway system, uses ATRI-developed analysis methods, customized software tools and terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion severity ranking for each location. This ongoing research, which is part of the Freight Performance Measures (FPM) initiative, is sponsored by FHWA's Office of Freight Management and Operations and operated by ATRI.
Kevin Knight, Chairman and CEO of Knight Transportation, said, "strengthening the efficiency of supply chains is becoming a critical component of U.S. economic growth. Challenge number one is identifying the freight bottlenecks. Fortunately, ATRI's report goes far in using real-world data to tell us where the impediments lie."
The "FPM" congestion monitoring effort combines anonymous truck GPS location information with sophisticated software applications and analysis techniques to assess the levels at which truck-based freight was affected by traffic congestion in 2010. The result is a clear documentation of system chokepoints, especially during peak travel times in urban locations.
"The impact of traffic congestion on truck travel is well known, but rarely in a fashion where we can pinpoint projects for resource allocation and reconstruction," said Keith Bucklew, Manager of Multimodal Planning for the Indiana DOT. "The FPM program continues to provide real value to public sector transportation managers."
For access to the full report, including detailed information on each of the 250 monitored locations, please click here to go to the report website.
ATRI and FHWA will be building upon the list of 250 locations for future analyses; if there are freight-critical transportation points that should be added, stakeholders can offer suggestions through the website highlighted in the report.
ATRI is the trucking industry's 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation's essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.
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Advisers should be aware of big changes coming to all Facebook's brand pages soon. On March 30, ready or not, all pages will be converted automatically to Facebook's new Timeline format. Until then, firms can experiment with the new design before publishing the page, but the deadline is looming.
A feature that is new is the large cover image on each brand page that goes across the top. This one image might be the most important visual to tell your story.
According to Facebook's guidelines, cover images must be at least 399 pixels wide and may not contain price or purchase information, contact information, references to user interface elements (for example, asking for likes), or calls to action. Covers must not be false, deceptive or misleading, and must not infringe on third parties' intellectual property.
The original profile picture has been the highlight, but will be secondary, since it will be much smaller. (It needs to be 180 pixels.) This image will continue to show up at the top and on news feeds, etc., so it is still important. For most firms, the logo might be a good option.
The pages also allow for a wall that is much more visual. Page administrators can customize the space visuals occupy online via starring (this will make an image half the width of the page) and making images into milestones (expanding them across the page). There is even functionality to pin a post created by the page to get it to appear at the top for seven days, rather than have it be buried down the page in reverse chronological order.
No More Landing Pages
One important change: the new design does away with landing pages as a default option. Those landing pages — which are separate from the regular brand page's Facebook wall — are a main design feature still used by many companies to get users to like their pages. As part of the new design, the option to like the page will appear under the cover image, and all brand pages will have the same design in that regard.
The new design also means administrators will have more control over messages that appear on the page than they did before.
New Control Center
A dashboard allows those managing the page the ability to track activity, such as new likes, posts and reach. Facebook defines reach as the number of unique visitors who have seen any content associated with your page (including any ads or sponsored stories pointing to a page) during a selected date range.
Better communications
The new brand pages will also allow fans and visitors to contact a brand directly through private messaging via a message button, also found underneath the cover image, rather than just making public posts on a wall. This will be a plus for advisers concerned for compliance reasons about making public posts.
At its recent marketing conference in New York, Facebook gave this advice over and over: Transition from advertising to telling a story. In other words, make sure you have good content.
Facebook has become more visual, giving businesses greater ability to better tell a story by using photos. If organizations avoid selling and instead engage visitors and followers, they may see the creation of more brand advocates. As always, check with your compliance department for specific rules on social networks, especially on archiving all social media communications.
Mike Byrnes is the founder of Byrnes Consulting which provides consulting services to advisers. He writes for Financial Planning, a SourceMedia publication.
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Sunday, 13 November 2016
4 Outfits Perfect For Summer
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soooo cute!!! xxReplyDelete
Such a great outfitsReplyDelete
Have a lovely day:)
New Giveaway on my blog, good luck :)
thank you! you too :)Delete
Love all the picks, perfect outfit for summer! :)ReplyDelete
I'm glad you liked them! :)Delete
You're already thinking of summer, I thought I'm the only one this crazy! :DReplyDelete
That first peach dress is so so beautiful!! It seems perfect for any occassion <3
Have a great time! xx
It's already 37 degrees here today in Aus! so definitely have to think about Summer :)Delete
Love them all, so so cute.ReplyDelete
glad you liked them xoDelete
The pink lace dress is so beautiful! Love the detail and I bet it looks amazing when you wear it! xReplyDelete
yes it's one of my favourites too! xDelete
Your Daisy perfume <3 I miss so much summer :( I live in France and this is very cold here, rainy weather :(ReplyDelete
Enjoy your summer, perfect outfits!
I love the daisy perfume! definitely one of my favourites :)Delete
aw France is so beautiful! you're very lucky x
Great outfits :) My faves are the first one and the last one xReplyDelete
Pink FrenzyReplies
aw I'm glad you liked them! xDelete
These outfits are super cute! I love the first dress - I wish we were going into Summer again. Now we're getting prepared for snow LOL.ReplyDelete
Lindsey Elyse | lindseygingeReplies
I'm glad you thought so! you're so lucky to have snow! xDelete
Really great outfits. Love the first one most.ReplyDelete
Sunset DesiresReplies
aw I think the 1st is one of my favourites too! xDelete
They all look cute! <3 Although my favorite outfit pairing would probably be the third one. Looks simple and dainty!ReplyDelete
xx, The Diary QueenReplies
I'm glad you liked them! thank you for stopping by :)Delete
These are cute picks!ReplyDelete
thank you sweet! xDelete
Love the 3rd and 4th one!! <3ReplyDelete
Little Miss Miera | www.littlemissmiera.blogspot.comReplies
aw yay! I'm glad, thanks for stopping by ♥Delete
these outfits are so cute Liz. nice blog you have here.ReplyDelete
have a beautiful day.
aw thank you so much! I hope you have a beautiful day too :)Delete
I really like the first dress, but living in Germany I dont think I will get much use out of it for the time to come.ReplyDelete
Linda, Libra, Loca: Beauty, Baby and BackpackingReplies
aw I'm glad you like it! that means you'll just have to come to Aus! :pDelete
Gorgeous outfits!!ReplyDelete
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Wish it was summer here! How lucky are you! Love these outfits you have put together as well, especially that first one - that jumper is absolutely stunning!ReplyDelete
Rae | Love from BerlinReplies
aw thank you! xDelete
GIrl I absolutely love the first one, such a pretty tone and beautiful details!ReplyDelete
aw I'm glad you love it! I think it might be my favourite too! xDelete
Oh, I wish I could wear all these beautiful outfits but actually it's winter now in Europe ;)ReplyDelete
Nati xx
I love the colder months so I'm loving seeing everyone's Fall outfits! xDelete
How exciting that summer is just around the corner over there - I'm looking forward to seeing gorgeous sunny photos over the next few months on the Australian blogs I read!! I love your outfit selections, particularly the first one - so pretty :)ReplyDelete
yes it's definitely warming up quickly on this side of the world! thank you for stopping by! xDelete
These outfits are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
aw I'm glad you think so! xDelete
It's not quite summer here in England, more like the complete opposite, so i'm v.jel of the weather in Australia haha. I love the first dress its so cuteReplyDelete
S x | SHELISES WORLDReplies
aw I'm v.jel of you having a cold Christmas! xDelete
Ooh, love these outfits, especially the first dress. The lace detail on it is so pretty! The best thing about living where I do is that even though it's nearing winter I could probably still wear these outside lol.ReplyDelete
Sam | My Beauty CloudReplies
aw I'm so glad you liked them! I think the first is my favourite as well :)Delete
I love all of these.. so girly and simple to acheive xReplyDelete
LAURA | Laura Thinks AboutReplies
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fall maxi skirt
Maxi skirts and dresses seem to be a lingering fashion trend (experts, correct me if I'm wrong!), which is great since I've been wearing maxi dresses since college. Recently I've noticed them in heavier fabrics which make them perfect for fall layering. When I wear a long skirt I feel as comfy as I do in pajamas but it looks like I put a bit of effort into getting dressed, which is always good.
This teal maxi skirt outfit is what I wore back in September when we went out for my
birthday dinner
. I was comfortable all night, warm enough with my layers and, best of all, I had no annoying waistband digging into my stomach while I stuffed myself with a delicious pulled por
k sandwich.
That's our neighbor's house behind me...oops!
please disregard that spiderweb/nest on our garage door...
knee socks were awesome under this dress because they kept my legs warm without added bulk to my waist like tights would have.
Made my me
Top: Joe Fresh
Belt: ??
Skirt: Dress from Old Navy
(seen here)
Sock: H&M
Booties: Spring
I'm really liking this outfit combo and will probably be wearing a variation of this repeatedly over fall and winter!! Can I talk about my booties for a second? I got them in fall 2011 and think they are so cute. They aren't the best quality and I have to keep them laced loosely or else they hurt my wide feet but they look great! David calls them my Little Bo Peep boots, haha:)


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Our holistic, research-based model is built upon five interrelated areas of focus that are integral to a learning organization's development. The five focus areas or "strands"—Leadership, Pedagogy & Curriculum, Assessment for Learning, Learning Environment, and Student & Family Support—serve as the foundation for our Alliance professional development solutions and are all essential to promoting behaviors intended to increase and successfully maintain student achievement.
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An important first step in an Alliance partnership is a holistic school needs assessment designed to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. The Collaborative Quality Analysis (CQA) provides a prescriptive lens through which we can effectively recommend and apply professional development solutions. Five essential questions guide our experts to areas of growth and necessary next steps.
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We offer flexible pathways for professional development to address the varying needs of the schools and organizations that we support. Our solutions range from one-day (or less) workshops and institutes, to comprehensive consultative programs lasting up to one year, to intensive targeted or whole-school transformation initiatives that may last several years.


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About this font family
What if the Ramones had been fontdesigners, would the result have looked like this? Probably not.
And {ths} is not the Ramones, he probably doesn't even know them because constantly listens to Elvis, or Barry White for a change. So we should not have bored you with the talk about the Ramones, but we had to, because this font speaks so much for itself that there isn't anything for us to say about it.
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Appalachian Crafts - Craft Heritage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina
The North Carolina mountains and foothills have become the geographic center of handmade crafts in the United States. The region fostered the country's traditional craft movement (1800s to early 1900s) as well as the contemporary craft movement (1940s). Today, over 4,000 craftspeople live and work in Western North Carolina, where the traditional and contemporary crafts flourish side by side, and create a craft economy of more than $206 million in the region.
View this video from American Craft Week 2015 to hear about this history and meet some of the artists who call this region home.
Craft Heritage Stories that Celebrate Appalachian Crafts and Traditions in North Carolina
Listen to some interesting stories about our Craft Heritage in our Sights & Sounds Gallery. Just click on the links below:
Our Sights & Sounds Gallery shares stories of traditional crafts, Cherokee crafts, Blue Ridge attractions and Appalachian history in North Carolina. Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains have been home to a wide variety of people including the Cherokee Indians, African immigrants and many different European settlers. It is part of what makes this region so diverse and unique.
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I'm trying to see the data being passed from a microcontroller to a computer over RS232 link, I have hooked up Picoscope's probe to the transmit wire and I can see the data being sent. However when I compare the data shown on Picoscope and TeraTerm's terminal window, they are different.
I'm sending the ASCII character 'a' as a test before I try to send the actual data. On terminal window, I'm getting 'a' as expected, but on Picoscope, I'm getting an unknown character or hex value of 0xEA (see screenshot attached below).
The serial decoder is correctly set to RS232/UART, as well as correct baud rate and parity settings. Threshold and hysteresis are set to 0V.
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Large Yellow Cup
Large Yellow Cup
Our large porcelain cup screen printed with one of our 87 original illustrations, and dipped in our buttery yellow glaze. Our yellow glaze is opaque, so the bridge illustrations will lose some detail, and the double penguin option will not show the moon above.
Approximately 4" tall, 3.5" at rim. 12 oz.
Dishwasher and microwave safe. Lead-free glaze.
This piece is made to order in our Cincinnati studio and will ship in 4-6 weeks. Contact us for information about our in-stock options or visit our "Ready to Ship" page.
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Your contribution is needed to help continue these critical programs for seniors, people with disabilities, including psychiatric disabilities, minorities, and families with low and moderate incomes struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
You can make cash donations at any time towards a specific program or for use where the need is greatest.
Donations may be sent to:Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.470 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 410White Plains, NY 10605
Or sent electronically.
Won't you help WRO to locate and keep decent, affordable housing for our Westchester County neighbors?


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Although the Subclass Change Certificate is no longer available for purchase in the L2 Store or L2 Galleria, this page serves to explain how the item works, for those players that still possess the item.
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Max Kostikov is an investment manager and sales advisor with more than six years of experience in commercial, residential and mixed use sales throughout Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. Mr. Kostikov joined Winick Realty Group's Investment Sales Division in 2017 following a three-year stint at a capital holdings firm, where he focused on commercial sales, leasing and acquisitions. During this time, Mr. Kostikov became adept at locating and identifying off-market properties and developments, working closely with both buyers and sellers to complete transactions.
Mr. Kostikov, who began investing in real estate in 2005, started his career in residential sales, working alongside family friends at Korr Realty. At the same time, he was serving as CEO at Lighten Group, his family's private medical practice aimed at serving the Jewish and Russian-American communities. When the 2008 recession hit, Mr. Kostikov, who is fluent in Russian, abandoned his original goal of opening his own medical practice and decided to focus on real estate full time, recognizing opportunity at a time when others were far more pessimistic. Seizing on that opportunity, Mr. Kostikov has been able to grow in his career, gaining expertise in office leasing, retail leasing, residential and commercial sales. This combination gives him a well-rounded understanding of markets and properties, allowing him to analyze assets in a uniquely nuanced way. His expertise includes planning, negotiating, market research, client analysis and integration of new customer prospecting campaigns.


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Transforming automotive sales landscape to deliver an omni-channel customer experience
Diverse consumers yet common expectations: a seamless brand experience throughout the customer life cycle
Evolving customer expectations and the advent of new mobility solutions have transformed how customers interact with OEMs. The trend toward on-demand mobility has placed customers' loyalty at risk.
Therefore, it is critical for automakers to provide a personalized and consistent brand experience that blends digital and physical channels throughout the customer life cycle.
In order to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of customers, OEMs need to redesign their business models to serve the needs of two extreme customer groups: the traditional classic buyer and the dynamic mobility user.
To meet the needs of these diverse groups will require automakers to embark on a holistic transformation journey to provide a best-in-class omni-channel customer experience.
Delivering a best-in-class omni-channel customer experience
To deliver an omni-channel customer experience, OEMs will need to undertake multiple initiatives, each of which will require a diverse set of competencies.
The required competency portfolio will include skills from across various functions, ranging from strategy planning and IT transformation to financial services and regulatory compliance. A decisive success factor will be the collaboration with stakeholders both within and outside the company and even other industries.
Moreover, a clear change management strategy led by OEMs will enable dealers and NSCs to steer new initiatives more effectively and to position the organization in the evolving mobility ecosystem.
The eight competency sets OEMs need to deliver an omni-channel experience