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In "I Am the Table," we learn that Esteban believes he's furniture, Andy believes he's Moses, Nancy believes a mundane life would be scary, Celia believes pills are her salvation, Silas believes he's one lucky dude, Shane believes he's destined to be victimized by bullies, Isabelle believes her parents are worthless, Doug believes he's going to see his MerMex, Maria, along some 2000 mile stretch of the U.S. Mexican border and I believe that very few of them would pass a psych evaluation. But hey, that's what makes it so much fun!
Surprise! Nancy has taken a shine to Esteban. I'd prefer she take a shine to Celia but frankly, Celia is a drugged out pharma-pill taking mess at the moment — not sexy. So until Celia gets it together I guess Esteban is it. Sigh. Oh, wait? Has Nancy met Silas's main cheese, I mean, squeeze? I bet they have a lot in common.
Oh yeah, the real story — so Esteban meets with Nancy and Guillermo and tells Guillermo it's not OK for him to kill Nancy, which of course, is good news because a dead Nancy is not funny. Esteban then invites Nancy to his favorite restaurant for lunch and he's promptly greeted with a hail of gunfire in an assassination attempt. Being the most macho of all macho men, he insists on finishing his meal with this huge pain in his neck. No, not Nancy. Shrapnel!
Esteban, using a placemat map of Mexico along with salt and pepper shakers on the table, names other drug families interested in killing him. Basically we learn though that he's not salt or pepper nor is he the hot sauce bottle but he's the actual table. I think it means he controls all of Mexico or at least he thinks he does. This type of power has to give our thrill seeking Nancy a major rush of squee!
Speaking of major rushes, Celia is not in one. She barely wakes up in the morning and even when she manages to get to the store, she falls asleep on the cash register allowing pregnant looters to have a field day. And in a pot-meets-kettle moment, even the gun-toting dude guarding the hole in floor can see that she's letting pregnant thieves fleece the place. He gives her snorts of other drugs to get her hyped enough to work like a maniac and stay awake. Where oh where is my Celia Hodes? Where oh where can she be?
As for Andy and Doug, their market research indicated that it wasn't the U.S Immigration Service that tends to catch those entering the country illegally rather it's regular citizen vigilantes that patrol the border. So Doug joins the vigilante group. His ethnic politics really would fit in quite nicely with the vigilante mind set if he hadn't fallen for his MerMex, Maria.
Ultimately, Doug is left alone on vigilante duty and Andy gets all Old Testament on the group of immigrants he's working with as he leads them to the promised land. Doug and Andy actually pull off a successful coyote trip. Typical though, Andy forgot to collect the fee from each person so this first time out was an unintentional freebie. Oh, well, we knew they'd figure out a way to botch it up. But Andy will have bigger worries soon because the coyote that Andy shot in the leg has been looking for him and now knows that Andy is in the coyote business. Uh oh.
Silas continues his adult education classes at the cheese shop. I don't think the classes will lead to his GED, though. His new instructor learns that he grows pot and offers him the use of her back room as his grow headquarters. The only thing more pungent than a room filled with marijuana is a store filled with cheese. Frankly, I can see Nancy being more annoyed by the grow house arrangement (where's her cut of this deal?) than by this woman, Lisa, who is Nancy's age, schooling her son and giving him extra credit assignments over and over and over.
Speaking of school, Shane and Isabelle return to school. Neither is thrilled by the idea of being the new kid but at least they have each other. At lunch, in a preemptive strike, Shane walks up to the most popular kid and smacks him silly with a food tray. Probably not a great idea.
By the end of the episode Nancy goes with Esteban as he checks in on a rare untamed lion that he is exporting to one of his zoos in Mexico. The caged beast is fed a cute little live lamb and rather than be disgusted at watching first hand the food chain sacrifice on exhibit it apparently serves as a huge libido trigger for Nancy and Esteban. They end up back at his place as he ravishes Nancy to her delight leaving very deep scratches on her back. Nancy likes it kind of rough. Poor sweet Conrad didn't stand a chance, did he?
So was it Guillermo that tried to kill Esteban? Will Nancy remember she has kids? Will Celia just say no to drugs?

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Soft Pretzels
Soft pretzels, what comes to mind when you think of these? Baseball games, the state fair, festivals? For me they remind me of going to the Ohio State Fair when I was younger. Going to the fair when I was a little girl meant looking at some farm animals, eating, walking through the marketplace, eating, touring the dairy farm, eating, watching a horse competition, eating, riding rides on the midway, eating…hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here! I guess the real reason we went to the fair was to eat! 🙂 It became a tradition to get a big soft pretzel every time we went. My love for pretzels still continues to this day. It seems every time I walk through the mall I am tempted by the aroma of Auntie Anne's Pretzels. I usually go for the original soft pretzel with cheese dipping sauce or maybe the cinnamon-sugar pretzel. Either way, I know that it is going to taste fabulous. So I was thinking, why couldn't I recreate these wonderful fresh, hot, golden brown pretzels? After all, it is fair season, right? I have never tried to make my own pretzels and I was very shocked at how simple they are to make! As I was rolling out the dough, I could not help but think of playing with play-doh. This would be such a fun recipe to make with kids. They would have so much fun rolling out the dough! This recipe makes 12 pretzels, so I decided to make 6 regular salt pretzels and 6 cinnamon-sugar pretzels. In my book they both equaled pretzel perfection-fresh, hot, golden-brown.
Soft Pretzels
- 1 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1 cup warm water (110 degrees)
- 3 tablespoons baking soda
- 2 tablespoons coarse salt, poppy seeds, or sesame seeds
Using a slotted spoon, gently place the pretzels into the boiling water, top-side down, and boil for 30 seconds. You should be able to place 3 or 4 pretzels in at a time. Using tongs, carefully flip the pretzels over and boil for 30 seconds longer. Remove pretzels with a slotted spoon, drain well, and place back onto the prepared baking sheet. Pretzels will not rise too much in the oven, you should be able to place all 12 on one baking sheet. Sprinkle with coarse salt and bake for 12 to 16 minutes, or until pretzels are well-browned, turning the baking sheet halfway through baking. Remove from baking sheet and transfer to a wire cooling rack.
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That looks so good. I have been meaning to make pretzels.
I'm going to have to make these. They almost look like doughnuts!
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I finally made this recipe. Ive made pretzel but this recipe is a little different than how I normally make them. They came out great. My family loved them! Im going to attempt the other pretzel recipes soon. Thanks for sharing all your recipes?
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe. I've featured it in my News of the Day today.
It was a family tradition to stop and grab an Auntie Anne's pretzel whenever we went to the mall together. Now, my little sister hates pretzels because she was quite young when we started and got sick of the smell! haha! I think she's crazy! 😉 I love that they are so easy to make at home!
I made these today, and they were SO good! Mine didn't turn out the prettiest for the first time I made them, but nothing a bit (okay, a lot) of butter and cinnamon sugar couldn't fix. 🙂
I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed the pretzels!! Thanks so much for letting me know how they turned out! 🙂
This is a wonderful recipe! I found it on Pinterest while trying to find something for my kids and myself to do on our second consecutive snow day :). I was considering using another recipe because it took a lot less time, but I am so glad I didn't! The extra effort resulted in WONDERFUL tasting pretzels! I did use one cup of whole wheat flour and two cups of white flour (in an attempt to convince myself they would be healthier that way. Lol).
We did one batch with salt and another batch we cut up into pretzel bites and coated them with butter, cinnamon and sugar. YUM!! Thank you for the great recipe!! And for helping us tackle the snow day boredom!
Yay! I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed the pretzels Jill! They are definitely worth the extra time to make! I love that you made some into pretzel bites…I'll have to try them that way next time I make them! Thanks so much for letting me know how they turned out for you! 🙂


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(Moon Township, PA) – R.J. Boyd (Punta Gorda, FL) scored his first collegiate goal, but the Robert Morris Colonials beat the Sacred Heart Pioneer men's hockey team 5-1 Saturday night.
After skating through a scoreless first period, the Colonials used three second period goals to go ahead for good. James Lyle scored on the power play at 5:49 to open the scoring, followed by Colin South's tally at the10:23 mark and Denny Urban's one-time blast at 14:46. Boyd put the Pioneers on the board with a goal-mouth pass that deflected off a Colonials' defenseman and through the five-hole of RMU goalie Brooks Ostergard (30 saves) with 1:23 left in the second. Chris Brown (Sherrills Ford, NC) and Chad Filteau (Regina, SK) got the assists.
However, RMU made it a four-goal cushion in the third period on goals by Zach Hervato at 6:54 and Adam Brace at 10:48. Nathan Longpre set up four of the Colonials' five goals on the night.
Robert Morris outshot Sacred Heart 36-31 for the game, with Steven Legatto (Kelowna, BC) making 28 saves for the game and Olivier St. Onge (Wickham, QB) stopping all three shots he faced in relief.
The Pioneers return to action when they host the Holy Cross Crusaders Friday, November 19 at the Milford Ice Pavilion at 7:05 p.m.


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Cell Division and Inheritance
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What are Chromosomes?
Really long molecules of DNA
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What is a DNA molecule made from and what does it contain?
A DNA molecule consits of two long strands coiled to form a double helix. It contains All the instructions to put an organism together and make it work
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What is a Gene?
A section of DNA which contains the instructions to make a specific protein
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How many chromosomes do Body cells have?
two sets of 23, 46
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How do cells make proteins?
By stringing amino acids together in a particular order
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What is the structure of DNA called?
Double helix structure
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What is special about DNA?
Almost everyone's DNA is unique, except Identical twins and clones
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What are two uses of DNA fingerprinting?
Forensic Science and Paternity Testing
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What is Mitosis?
The division of body cells to produce new cells
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Why does Mitosis occur?
For growth and repair and in asexual reproduction
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What happens during Mitosis?
The genetic material is copied and then the cell divides once to form two genetically identical body cells
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What is Meiosis?
When a cell divides to form Gametes,
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What are sex cells called?
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What happens during Meiosis?
Copies of the genetic material are made, the cell then divides twice to form four gametes each with a single set of chromosomes
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Are the sex chromosomes identical in females?
Yes, they are both X
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True or false, in males the sex chromosomes are identical
False, in males one sex chromosome (Y) is much shorter than the other (X)
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What is an Allele? give an example
Different forms of the same gene for example the gene that controls eye colour has two alleles blue or brown
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What is a Dominant Allele?
An allele which controls the development of a characteristic when it is present on only one of the chromosomes
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What is a Recessive Allele?
•An allele, which controls the development of characteristics only if the dominant allele is not present, is a recessive allele.
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What's a Phenotype?
A description of how a characteristic is expressed, This can be influenced by genetic or environmental factors.
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What is a Genotype?
A description of the alleles an individual possesses for a characteristic.
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What is a Homozygous Genotype?
A genotype with 2 identical alleles
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What is a Heterozygous Genotype?
A genotype with 2 different alleles for a gene
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When do most animal cells differentiate?
At an early stage of development
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When do plant cells differentiate?
Most plant cells can continue to differentiate throughout their life
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Where are the female and male gametes made?
female gametes are made in the ovaries, male gametes are made in the testes
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Why is their variation in sexual reproduction?
Because each gamete is different and when they fuse the new individual will contain alleles from both parents
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What are stem cells?
Undifferentiated cells, they can develop into any kind of cell depending on the instructions they are given
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Where are stem cells found?
Early human embryos, bone marrow, umbilical cords
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What are stem cells used for? give an example
Medicine uses adult stem cells to cure diseases such as blood diseases which can be treated by bone marrow transplants
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What can scientists do with embryonic stem cells?
They can extract them and grow them into new different types of cell
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Why are some people for/ against Stem cell research?
Against: human embryos shouldn't be used since each one is a human life, For: curing existing patients is more important than the rights of embryos, embryos used can be unwanted ones from fertility clinics (saving them from being destroyed)
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Who is Gregor Mendel and what did he do?
An Austrian monk, he did genetic experiments with pea plants and discovered how characteristics in plants were passed on from one generation to the next
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What is Monohybrid inheritance?
When a characteristic is determined by just one pair of alleles
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What is Cystic Fibrosis and what is it caused by?
A genetic disorder of the cell membranes producing thick sticky mucus in the air passages and the pancreas caused by a recessive allele carried by about 1 in 25 people
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What is Polydactyly and what's it caused by?
A genetic disorder where a baby's born with extra fingers or toes, caused by a dominant allele
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What is Embryo Screening?
Where people can check their embryos to see if they have any genetic disorders, during IVF before the embryo is implanted a cell can be removed and analysed, embryos with 'good' alleles would be implantec, those with 'bad' alleles would be destroyed
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What are the reasons against Embryo Screening?
Everyone may start screening their embryos to pick the most 'desirable' one, the rejected embryos are destroyed - they could have developed into humans, implies people with genetic problems are 'undesirable' causing prejudice, screening is expensive
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What are the reasons for Embryo Screening?
It will help stop people suffering, there are laws to stop it going too far, during IVF most of the embryos are destroyed anyway- screening just allows the selected one to be healthy, treating disorders costs the government and taxpayer lots of money
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This week we received exciting news! Forty-nine percent of students in Nueva's Class of 2017, a total of 35, have earned academic honor through their success on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). This test serves as the initial screening of students into the National Merit Scholarship Program.
As a result of their outstanding performance on the PSAT, fourteen Nueva seniors have been named as National Merit Semifinalists. Their scores have landed them in a select group of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists nationwide, representing <1% of the 1.6 million high school students who took the PSAT/NMSQT in the fall of 2015.
Semifinalists are eligible to pursue Finalist status and ultimately compete for a National Merit Scholarship. To become a Finalist, these students are invited to submit a detailed scholarship application form and additional evidence of their abilities, skills, and accomplishments. It is expected that approximately 90% of all Semifinalists will earn Finalist distinction, and that about 50% of Finalists, or about 7,400 students, will go on to win one of three different types of scholarships offered in the spring of 2017.
In addition to these fourteen Semifinalists, one additional Nueva senior was selected as a National Hispanic Scholar for scoring within the top 2.5%, and an additional twenty Nueva seniors are designated as Commended Students, recognized for scoring within the top 5%, bringing the total of honored students to 49% of Nueva's Class of 2017. While these students do not continue in the competition, they will be honored with Letters of Commendation sent to them through Nueva, and may be candidates for other scholarships through corporate sponsors.
The National Merit® Scholarship Corporation administers the National Merit Scholarship Program. The program began in 1955 as a way to award academically talented young people from all parts of the United States, and to stimulate support from organizations that wish to sponsor scholarships for outstanding students. Honorees are designated by NMSC on a state-by-state basis, with qualifying scores by state dependent upon each state's percentage of the nation's graduating seniors. The College Board administers the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Read more at National Merit Scholarship Corporation and College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program.
We extend our hearty congratulations to these thirty-five Nueva seniors!
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What does it truly mean to belong—to be citizens of a neighborhood, a city, a nation, or a world? It's a deceptively simple question, but the fierce debates it inspires (both at home and abroad) tell a different story.
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Our Lady of Mercy School has cancelled EXPLORE test administration for Saturday due to potential road closures and winter weather. A reschedule date for the EXPLORE test will be available at ACT.org or by calling 800-553-6244, extension 1510.
In Ascension Parish, the school board has canceled the SAT test that was scheduled for Saturday at Dutchtown High School. The test will be rescheduled for a later date; all testers will be notified by Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, about the new testing date, according to the School Board.
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I like it, but not the hood...just the grill. Similar to the GTI....or GLI fronts.
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Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016 has been published and includes three types of measures.
The Bill amends the Companies Act 2014 and includes three types of measures:
Those unlimited companies which will be obliged, from the effective date (not yet known), to file publicly available financial statements is set out at section 76 of the Bill.
The provisions incorporate both the circumstances in which a UK unlimited company is required to file and also incorporate wider principles which were set out in the underlying 2013 Accounting Directive. This is to require unlimited companies to file financial statements which ultimately, directly or indirectly, have members which are in a form which affords limited liability protection.
Broadly, as currently drafted, the financial statements filing obligations would appear to apply to an Irish incorporated unlimited company which:
While companies must present full financial statements to their shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, depending on the type and size of a company, it may have the option of filing abridged financial statements when it files its annual return.
In that regard, the Bill proposes a new concept of a micro company and increases the existing thresholds for companies to be regarded as small or medium.
A company must meet two out of the following three criteria to be regarded as micro, small or medium both for the relevant financial year and the immediately preceding financial year (unless the financial year concerned is the company's first financial year).
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The Bill generally will take effect from a date to be specified in a Ministerial Order (which has not yet been made). The effective date for filing financial statements for designated unlimited companies is not yet known and consequently it is possible that, once enacted, such unlimited companies would be required to file financial statements when filing their next annual return.
The Bill is due to be reviewed by the Oireachtas once the Dáil and Seanad resume sessions in the last week of September. As yet, it is not known when precisely the Bill will be scheduled for debate.
It is possible for companies to apply certain defined measures for earlier financial years (than those set out in the Ministerial Order). These are set out at section 4 of the Bill and, in the main, comprise relieving provisions which could, for example, allow micro and small companies to avail of a number of reduced reporting and simplified financial statements preparation requirements set out in the Bill.
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Few presidents are as little understood as Calvin Coolidge.
Most Americans know only two things about our 30th president, neither of which is true — that he got the nickname "Silent Cal" for being so quiet, and when he spoke at all it was as a mouthpiece for industry, peddling bromides such as "the business of America is business."
This cartoonish portrayal remains lodged in the popular imagination largely because New Deal historians wanted to downplay Coolidge's popularity and to write his successes out of the history books.
But the real Coolidge was a practical joker who could be downright chatty. And far from worshipping at the altar of business, Coolidge, one of our most religious presidents, was a serious thinker.
The man from Vermont eschewed luxury and believed that prosperity wasn't the goal, but a happy result of a well functioning society. Perhaps as a cautionary tale about the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, he warned that there is "no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character."
Only by understanding Coolidge as he understood himself and the politics of the day can we hope to learn what he has to teach about American life, economy, and the constitution.
He earned the silent nickname because of his reticence at parties. But in his public life, Coolidge published three collections of speeches, an autobiography, hundreds of letters and a syndicated post-presidential column. He gave more than 500 press conferences during his 5 1/2 years as president, but he was careful to mind what he had to say.
"The words of the president have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately," he later wrote.
Coolidge was popular for what he had to say. A young Ronald Reagan listened to him on the radio and developed a lifelong devotion. "When a man has gone into 20 elections and has won 19, he had something in him which compels confidence and which represents the popular will," wrote William Allen White, one of Coolidge's first biographers.
In a lesson contemporary conservatives would do well to learn, Coolidge understood that republics are made of public opinion and so, ever the statesman, he set out to shape it. He spoke to issues very similar to our own.
In the Boston Police Strike of 1919, then-Gov. Coolidge dealt a major blow to public-employee union excess. As president he disentangled America from a decade of military adventurism and a wandering foreign policy.
Throughout his career, Coolidge worked hard to bring new groups — immigrants, Jews, women, blacks and Native Americans — into the Coolidge Prosperity. The free fall in the number of lynchings, the advances made by women after suffrage, the first ballots cast by Native Americans and the cars and radios rolling off the assembly line — these were the scenes of his presidency.
He is popular among conservatives for cutting both government regulations and tax rates. But even liberals may find something to like in the Coolidge boom: the tax code became more progressive. Those making less than $5,000 a year paid 15.4% of total income taxes in 1920 but only 0.4% in 1929. Those earning more than $100,000 paid 65.2%, up from 29.9% over that same period.
Government got more revenue, too. The economic expansion led to a 28% increase in the proportion of the budget paid by federal income taxes.
This was possible because Coolidge understood the chief meaning of economic freedom, "the right of the individual to possess, enjoy, and control the dollar which he earns." Liberty "would be . . . a mockery unless it secured to the individual the rewards of his own effort and industry."
Coolidge fundamentally understood the American character. Americans hate class warfare because they "believe in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that [Americans are] envious of those who are already prosperous."
"The wise and correct course," Coolidge said, was "not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful."
Coolidge's thinking seems tailor-made for today's conservative activists: "Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. In no other nation on earth does this principle have such complete application.
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
Why does Coolidge matter today? Because we haven't learned all he has to teach.
Charles C. Johnson is the author of "Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President" (Encounter Books ), out this week.


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The jury is out! Some schools think incentives are necessary to attract people to try to walk or bike to school, and get them to stay at it especially when the weather is not so good. Others think that rewards for behavior that one should be doing anyway does not change that behavior and will not be sustainable when the rewards are taken away.
Maybe start with some small incentives, make them random and look to ongoing contests where people collect points to earn healthy, active prizes at the end of a term or year. We had a school wild about the possibility of winning a soccer game between the winning class and the teachers or lunch with the Principal and the School Resource Officer.
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Quick BioNicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California. The son of August Coppola and Joy Vogelsang, Cage is also the nephew of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola. After having worked on several films, Cage decided he did not want to use his family name because of the expectations attached to it.
Cage's acting career has taken many twists and turns through drama, thriller, action, comedy, and back to drama again. One such memorable thriller was Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with costar Angelina Jolie. Cage also took on a role in a WWII drama, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) with Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz. He then played a neurotic con artist in the curiously funny Matchstick Men (2003) with Alison Lohman and Sam Rockwell. From there, Cage was seen in Disney's National Treasure (2004) and the poignant Lord of War (2005) alongside Bridget Moynahan and Jared Leto. And in 2006, Nic starred in the re-release of the '70s thriller The Wicker Man and in a 9/11-themed drama, World Trade Center.
It seems there's no stopping Cage. He was given a chance to revisit his cool image in the film Ghost Rider (2007) starring Eva Mendes. Along with comic book heroes, Cage also took on another drama-thriller, acting alongside Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel in Next (2007). The forthcoming sequel to National Treasure, National Treasure: The Book of Secrets (2007), will see Cage leading the actor pack again.
Our colleagues at IGN had a chance to sit down with the Hollywood vet to talk about his role in Next.
IGN got the chance to speak with Oscar winner Nicolas Cage last year on the San Pedro set of Next, a science-fiction thriller costarring Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel. The Lee Tamahori-directed pic -- based on the Philip K. Dick story The Golden Man -- follows Cris Johnson (Cage), a man with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Relentlessly pursued by the FBI (led by Julianne Moore), which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist threat, he is ultimately faced with the daunting choice of saving the world or Liz (Jessica Biel), the woman he loves.
What appealed to you about this particular role in Next?
Nicolas Cage: When I first read it, it was very different than what it is now. I reread after the powers that be worked on it for about six months. But the initial interest was that I had not done a film that had science-fiction undertones to it before. I'm always of the mind to try to explore a little bit of everything -- being an eclectic type of person. So that was intriguing to me. It seemed like a new frontier for me. I was a fan of Philip K. Dick. I like his pedigree and the notion of trying to make real a character who can see two minutes into the future. Making that real for the audience seemed very exciting to me.
Why only two minutes?
NC: Well, I'm not the sort of fellow who wants to broadcast my own contributions, but as I said when I read the script there were a lot of changes made and it occurred to me I needed to do something to revitalize the character. Specifically, I've been thinking a lot about the notion that there are people who may or may not have powers and what would you do if you were born with powers that could possibly be very terrifying and uncomfortable for others around you. For example, seeing your future. So it occurred to me, how could I play that part? And what could I do with that part that would seem real and also protect the character from being labeled a freak? So I thought, well, he could hide in plain sight. He could be a magician in Vegas and these people -- sometimes you see them and you go, "How do they do that?" So my thinking was, have him use the magic act as a disguise for the reality, which is that he really does have powers. So that was the main thrust of the change that I made and I'm very excited about it. I think it's working really well and I'm blessed to work with Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel. They're both doing a great job. I have to admit it was a bit of an adjustment for everybody. I just went to screen-test in a tux with a ruffle shirt so I could play a magician. So it was like, "Whoa, what are you doing? What is this? I'm not sure if I want to be in this movie."
Quick FactNicolas Cage bought a 2-million-Euro Bavarian castle called Schloss Neidstein. The 500-year-old castle sits on a hill In Etzelwang, Germany. It boasts 28 rooms, including 10 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.
How much of Nic Cage is in this character?
NC: I try to put a little in every role. Is it by some definition me or some expression of me? Maybe now as I'm approaching my 25th year in the business, I think I've relaxed into trying to bring as much of my experience into each part so that it rings true. Even when I'm doing material where I'm not as "singer-songwriter" about it -- I'm doing other people's dialogue -- I try to find a way to fill those words intrepidly that will have some sense of my own life experience.
Can you talk about what you see as the enduring appeal to Philip K. Dick stories?
NC: He's edgy and he's uncompromisable and his life is interesting from what I've read about it. This is a man who allegedly heard the TV going when the TV wasn't plugged in. Then his wife, after he passed on said, "Yeah, I heard it too." That's pretty powerful stuff, however you want to look at it. There's no doubt he's inspired and he has a unique voice in his writing, and it translates well.
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The creators of the haunted house in Vedado Park in West Palm Beach billed it as ``moderately scary,`` but the frights inside were enough to spook the daylights out of 3-year-old Brea Burney on Halloween night.
The little girl emerged tearfully from the house of horrors, a maze of darkened, narrow cobwebbed walkways. She had seen a haunted dining room complete with rubber glow-in-the dark bugs and snakes, a fake rat gnawing on a shrunken head, ghostly mannequin diners and a monster plunging a stake into Dracula`s heart.
She passed beneath a corpse suspended from the ceiling, through an eerie cave, and by a coffin containing a restless skeleton.
Along the way, live ghouls -- actually costumed Forest Hill High School Key Club members and other volunteers -- jumped out of the darkness booming heart- stopping boos.
``It was scary,`` Brea, of West Palm Beach, said, wiping her tear-streaked face. ``Someone comes out and grabs you.``
Natalie Micire, 8, trick-or-treating with her 9-year-old brother, Mark, nearby on Paseo Andalusia, did not feel brave enough to venture inside.
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Chair-House (2017). 5.5 x 2.5 x 2 meters. Wood and glue. Installed in the main gallery of the China Academy of Art during the architecture department's 'RE-EXPERIMENT' exhibition.
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Chair-House (2017). 5.5 x 2.5 x 2 meters. Wood and glue. Installed in the main gallery of the China Academy of Art during the architecture department's 'RE-EXPERIMENT' exhibition.
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Last Sunday the China Academy of Art School of Architecture opened its ten-year exhibition, 'Re-Experiment.' The opening ceremony was followed by the start of 'A Return to Reality,' CAA Architecture's two-day international forum on the future of architecture education. In this way the work in the exhibition served as both the evidence and framework for discussing how to educate architects in the 21st century.
Wang Shu, dean of CAA School of Architecture, spoke of the project to discover experimental thinking within a critical historical tradition. I think that when walking through the exhibition, viewers are able to sense the tension between these two ideas. The student projects often make use of traditional craft techniques or rural spatial strategies, while at the same time exhibiting a sense of grandiosity and monumentality in the overall structure. One of the most interesting aspects of the show is that a lot of the work appears quite unfamiliar to us: mountains of chairs, maps of traditional gardens, and interactive displays of Chinese calligraphy. The exhibition succeeds the most when these traditional techniques and practices are put into tension with contemporary issues such as rural development, new building programs, and industrial production.
How do we rediscover historical tradition within, or through, experimental thought? This issue has been received very differently in the US or Europe than in China, whose architectural concerns range from the financial to the technical to the ethical. Compared to China, for example, American craft is an expensive and time-consuming process; new technologies provide viable, less-expensive alternatives despite their non-traditional forms. At the CAA, and in the context of China's inexpensive labor market, experimental craft revolves around re-signifying the historical language of China's building lineage.
This is one way to locate a school of architecture, with a specific identity for itself, here in China.
The exhibition is visually stunning, although the sheer volume of work on display can make it difficult to focus on individual works. The quality of the work, however, is consistently measured and precise. Certainly in the context of China – a country largely concerned with rapid urban and economic development – the CAA school of architecture has embraced more basic and local problems of building: environment, climate, material, and technique. These are not new concepts by any means, yet the work in the show is rich, unfamiliar, and layered. Several successful projects, for instance, focused on how to renew the the traditional courtyard house typology by experimenting on its construction and material systems, as well as its ability to adapt to new programs other than strictly housing.
Even though it was a ten-year exhibition, 'Re-Experiment' only included works produced during the 2016-17 academic year. I was asked to deliver some introductory remarks at the exhibition's opening ceremony, which focused on what this work tells us about the school and its development. From its concerns about traditional language and vernacular systems, the identity of the school hinges on the relationship between the architect and the systems they require, produce, and utilize. The decision to include only one year's work is part of this visual ethics; the work in the show is not intended to be the best work the school has ever produced. Rather, the exhibition shows the trajectory of the school as it continues to hone in on details, places, and methods.
The Italian philosopher Umberto Eco proposed a theory of 'opera operta,' or open work. Eco's theory proposes an equation between the degree of openness, the degree of information, the degree of ambiguity, and the degree of adherence to conventions in a work, but is fundamentally disinterested in describing things as good or bad, art or non-art. There are many similarities between these ideas and the school's leadership in Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu. As teachers, they guide the pedagogy and research objectives of the school with an open point of view. As architects with their own practice, they have developed an extremely specific vantage point from which to understand building in contemporary China.
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have created a 'school of thought' in the classical sense. The school's students and professors are dedicated to the task of establishing a new form of vernacular architecture in China, even though there is a huge degree of variety and difference in this work. The juxtaposition of 'Re-Experiment' and 'A Return to Reality' – a local exhibition and an international forum – is evidence of a pedagogical system gaining resolution between the methods of experimentation (the student) and the conditions of what is possible (the place). This is a further reflection of the practice Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have established here in Hangzhou.Read More
These survey documents are my study of a farmhouse in Zhejiang's Wencun Village, which is also the site of Wang Shu's most recent village renovation. In this case the roof was deemed structurally beyond repair, but the sequence of courtyards that it served within the small block became integral to the design phase. Even though the roof was removed, its construction techniques and spatial characteristics were retained in the renovation design.
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Women at work in Evora, Portugal. In the background, Alvaro Siza's social housing project was under construction in 1978.
Siza's building project for low-income housing residents who could no longer afford the city center has clear social and practical considerations. This image of the building under construction, with local women at work in the foreground, is a part of that social project. Rather than see them (building or resident) as complete subjects, we see only the details of their relationship. In 1979, Siza wrote,
Most of my works were never published; some of the things I did were only carried out in part, others were profoundly changed or destroyed. That's only to be expected. An architectonic proposition whose aim is to go deep . . . a proposition that in- tends to be more than a passive materialization, refuses to reduce that same reality, analyzing each of its aspects, one by one; that proposition can't find support in a fixed image, can't follow a linear evolution. . . . Each design must catch, with the utmost rigor, a precise moment of the flittering image, in all its shades, and the better you can recognize that flittering quality of reality, the clearer your design will be. . . .That may be the reason why only marginal works (a quiet dwell- ing, a holiday house miles away) have been kept as they were originally designed. But something re- mains. Pieces are kept here and there, inside ourselves, perhaps fathered by someone, leaving marks on space and people, melting into a process of total transformation.
This image and project have both been powerful for me for a long time. It seems fitting to share it now given the current political situation.
Construction escalated quickly after the 2016 Chinese New Year, when millions of residents returned to Hangzhou after the annual visit to their ancestral villages. It was March, six months before Hangzhou hosted the G20 summit and its attendant fleets of polished black cars. In the downtown West Lake area, mazes of street-level scaffolding, looming dust-clouds, and provisional traffic barriers were the first signs of a strategy for city-wide intervention.
Teams of workers crashed through the city's streets, hammering into Buddhist temples and hair salons alike. Within days, a road was repaved into a slick black surface without blemish or measure. Within a week, housing blocks had shed their scaffolding and debris nets to reveal reframed wooden windows, restored stone cladding, and uniform boxes concealing air conditioning units. Straddling a temple roof three stories up, workers let slip a replacement beam and shattered the stone sidewalk below. Pedestrians take note. Freshly hewn blocks (delivered daily) were hammered into place by teams of greyscale men and women emerging from clouds and mounds of stone dust.
The year-long preparations for the G20 rendered Hangzhou a construction site with 8 million residents. The muted surfaces of traditional grey-brick housing blocks were at once patterned everywhere onto local malls, and the temples had wifi and security checkpoints installed; where old and new buildings differed in activity and scale, fresh paint, cladding and stone pavers furnished the edge and closed the image gap. The irony is crucial: in September, when twenty world leaders and their finance ministers arrived, the year of construction had rendered the entire city and its population a political invisibly of architectural proportions.
The renovation of six hundred fifty-one infrastructure projects in less than a year is not the backdrop for a summit on the stabilization of global economic policy; it is an entry ticket, a form of authorization. The cloud of stone dust is not a visual metaphor for economic power floating into China, but is itself the material evidence of widespread political authority in action: the clumsy process of filling in, smoothing over, and taking away made manifest. Conversely, the image that is still seen by world leaders, TV cameras, and residents alike is that of the mythologized capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, where as much as been removed as has been preserved. In images as in global politics, not everyone is invited.Read More
Hangzhou has an earnest, if sometimes invisible, connection between what it used to be and what is has become. Nearly everyone you encounter here is a tourist or has been living here (outside the city center) for the last few years; the residents live in older housing blocks behind commercial streets, small shops, and plastic surgery advertisements that line some of the more visible areas of the city. In many ways their storefronts act as barriers, an economic and spatial fence, between a more strictly consumer and tourist society and the more traditional values associated with housing and habitation in Chinese cities. The storefronts are a buffer zone allowing inhabitants within the block to sell small goods to tourists on the street, removed from the conditions of their housing areas.
The temples and preserved landscape areas – West Lake in particular – are physically immune to the forces of political and economic modernization that characterize this relationship. Their preservation turns them into cultural monuments whose stable meaning serves as a specific and continuous backdrop for what is an otherwise constantly changing social and political system. It is presumptuous, however, to say that traditional housing blocks and preserved monuments are examples of a battle going on between ancient and modern China. China, or more specifically Hangzhou, has already begun the process of physically and mentally industrializing as a society, and it will continue to do so according to its own principles. Rather than suggesting winners and losers of a battle between historical culture and images and the contemporary consumer economy – when what we mean is a simplistic battle between backwards tradition and progress – we should rather look at these different kinds of images and ask how they co-exist together as parts of a modern Chinese city.
It seems important, then, not to ascribe a false sense of time to either of these conditions; it should be clear that they both exist now and are greeted with the same enthusiasm by residents and visitors alike. West Lake, and the innumerable surrounding pagodas, are curtained off from rapid urbanization in a similar way that the older housing blocks are from the busy street. In this way it is easy to misinterpret the modern city as a discrete marker of economy, and the landmark as a discrete marker of culture. West Lake is a tourist destination for millions of Chinese every year, and this fact alone makes it one of the most striking symbols of economy. That very same economy allows governmental oversight and planning in defining the geographical regions of preserved landscapes, and funds not only the more visible forces of 'modern' urbanization at large, but also the modernization of culture and its images as well.
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A couple pairs of booties that the heel was just slightly "wrong" for me. Sold to a happy happy lady:
Some baking items I wasn't using:
A perfect juicer that was just taking up counter space (it turns out I prefer blender smoothies over juice):
And just today, I decided I wanted to clear more space in my closet.... These items are good, but I can honestly live without them:
My pantry is full, but not crammed full. My closet is full but not stuffed. My bookshelf has variety but not piles stacked all around the house and my house is cozy but not ridiculously cluttered anymore! These are all amazing accomplishments for me! I have trust that my life will provide. Which means I can let go of what doesn't fit my life RIGHT NOW.


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SOURCE: Cisco
November 12, 2015 16:05 ET
Strong Results and Great Execution in Q1, Guided for Growth in Q2, Well Positioned for Second Half
Strong Results and Great Execution in Q1, Guided for Growth in Q2, Well Positioned for Second Half
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2015) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, today reported its first quarter results for the period ended October 24, 2015. Cisco reported first quarter revenue of $12.7 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.4 billion or $0.48 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $3.0 billion or $0.59 per share.
"Q1 was a very strong quarter. We are accelerating our ability to deliver on growth opportunities, aggressively driving our cloud business, and delivering continued strength in our deferred product revenue, as we sell more of our portfolio in software and cloud models," said Chuck Robbins, Cisco chief executive officer.
"We guided to solid growth in Q2. Our guidance reflects lower than expected order growth in Q1, driven largely by the uncertainty of the macro environment and currency impacts. Despite these headwinds, I believe we are executing very well. We are moving very fast to capture new opportunities and I feel good about how we are positioned for the second half of the year."
A reconciliation between net income and EPS on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis is provided in the table following the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Supplementary information related to other GAAP and non-GAAP measures is also provided in the tables below.
Financial Highlights for Q1 FY16
(All comparative percentages are on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise noted)
Revenue -- Total revenue was $12.7 billion, up 4%. Product revenue increased by 4% and service revenue increased by 1%. Total revenue by geographic segment was: Americas up 4%, and each of EMEA and APJC up 3%. Product revenue growth was led by Data Center and Collaboration at 24% and 17%, respectively. Wireless and Security each grew 7%, Switching grew 5%, NGN Routing decreased 8%, and Service Provider Video decreased 2%.
Gross Margin -- On a non-GAAP basis, total gross margin and product gross margin were 63.2% and 62.3% respectively. The increase in non-GAAP product gross margin as compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 was driven by continued productivity improvements, partially offset by pricing and to a lesser extent product mix. Non-GAAP service gross margin was 66.2%. Total gross margins by geographic segment were: 63.5% for the Americas, 64.2% for EMEA, and 60.0% for APJC. On a GAAP basis, total gross margin, product gross margin, and service gross margin were at 61.8%, 60.9% and 64.9%, respectively.
Operating Expenses -- Non-GAAP operating expenses were $4.1 billion, down 1%, and at 32.7% of revenue. Headcount increased from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 by 230 to 72,063, reflecting additional headcount from acquisitions and investments in key growth areas such as security, cloud and software. On a GAAP basis, operating expenses were $4.8 billion, down 5%.
Operating Income -- Non-GAAP operating income was $3.9 billion, up 8%, with non-GAAP operating margin at 30.5%. GAAP operating income was $3.1 billion, up 31%, with GAAP operating margin of 24.3%.
Provision for Income Taxes -- The non-GAAP tax provision rate was 23.0%. The GAAP tax provision rate was 22.5%.
Net Income and EPS -- On a non-GAAP basis, net income was $3.0 billion, an increase of 8%, and EPS was $0.59, an increase of 9%. On a GAAP basis, net income was $2.4 billion and EPS was $0.48.
Cash Flow from Operating Activities -- was $2.8 billion an increase of 11% compared with $2.5 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2015.
Cash and Cash Equivalents and Investments -- were $59.1 billion at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2016, compared with $60.4 billion at the end of fiscal 2015. The total cash and cash equivalents and investments available in the United States at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2016 was $5.0 billion.
Deferred Revenue -- was $15.2 billion, up 10% in total, with deferred product revenue up 16%, driven largely by subscription based and software offerings, and deferred service revenue up 7%. Cisco continued to build a greater mix of recurring revenue as reflected in deferred revenue.
Days Sales Outstanding in Accounts Receivable (DSO) -- was 34 days at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2016, compared to 38 days at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.
Capital Allocation
In the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Cisco declared and paid a cash dividend of $0.21 per common share, or $1.1 billion. For the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Cisco repurchased approximately 45 million shares of common stock under its stock repurchase program at an average price of $26.83 per share for an aggregate purchase price of $1.2 billion.
As of October 24, 2015, Cisco had repurchased and retired 4.5 billion shares of Cisco common stock at an average price of $20.92 per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $93.9 billion since the inception of the stock repurchase program. The remaining authorized amount for stock repurchases under this program is approximately $3.1 billion with no termination date.
"We delivered a strong first quarter as we executed on our financial model of driving profitable growth, managing our portfolio and delivering shareholder value," said Kelly Kramer, Cisco executive vice president and chief financial officer. "Despite a challenging environment, we are executing very well and making the right investments that position us for future growth. We are continuing our commitment to shareholders as we returned $2.3 billion of our free cash flow back through dividends and share repurchases in Q1."
During the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Cisco completed the acquisitions of OpenDNS, MaintenanceNet, and Pawaa Software to further complement its security, services, software, and cloud offerings. These moves are consistent with Cisco's strategy of increasing innovation and R&D investment in growth areas. Cisco also recently announced the acquisitions of Portcullis, ParStream, Lancope, and 1 Mainstream in the security, data analytics and video areas, all of which are expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal 2016.
Business Outlook for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2016
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, Cisco announced an agreement to sell the Client Premises Equipment portion of its Service Provider Video Connected Devices business (CPE business) to Technicolor. The transaction is currently going through regulatory approval and Cisco is working to close it during the second quarter of fiscal 2016. In order to provide a clear view of Cisco's continuing expected financial performance, the guidance for the second quarter of fiscal 2016 is normalized to exclude the CPE business for both the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and the second quarter of fiscal 2015. The corresponding revenue in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 for the CPE business was $361 million.
Cisco expects to achieve the following results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016:
The non-GAAP tax provision rate does not include any effects of a potential reinstatement of the U.S. federal R&D tax credit. If the U.S. federal R&D tax credit is reinstated, Cisco would reflect that benefit in the effective tax rate.
Cisco estimates that GAAP EPS will be lower than non-GAAP EPS by $0.10 to $0.14 cents per share in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 as follows:
Share-based compensation expense is expected to impact Cisco's results of operations in similar proportions as the first quarter of fiscal 2016. Amortization of purchased intangible assets, and other acquisition-related/divestiture costs will be reported as GAAP operating expenses, cost of sales, or other income/(loss) as applicable.
The range for restructuring and other charges includes a pretax charge of up to $100 million as a result of the restructuring that Cisco announced in August 2014. During the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Cisco recognized pretax restructuring charges of $141 million to the GAAP financial statements related to these actions and expects that the total charges related to these actions will be approximately $700 million for this plan.
Except as noted above, this guidance does not include the effects of the divestiture of the CPE business, and any future acquisitions/divestitures, asset impairments, restructurings, and tax or other events, which may or may not be significant unless specifically stated.
Editor's Notes:
Forward Looking Statements and Non-GAAP Information
This release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding future events (such as our ability to accelerate on growth opportunities, deliver profitable growth and deliver continued strength in our deferred product revenue, our strategy to drive our cloud business and to transition to software and cloud models, the impact of the macro environment and currency exchange rates on our performance, our financial strength and financial guidance, and our ability to manage our portfolio and strategic investments, and return shareholder value) and the future financial performance of Cisco that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due to a variety of factors, including: business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, our customer markets and various geographic regions; global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment; overall information technology spending; the growth and evolution of the Internet and levels of capital spending on Internet-based systems; variations in customer demand for products and services, including sales to the service provider market and other customer markets; the return on our investments in certain priorities, including our foundational priorities, and in certain geographical locations; the timing of orders and manufacturing and customer lead times; changes in customer order patterns or customer mix; insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; variability of component costs; variations in sales channels, product costs or mix of products sold; our ability to successfully acquire businesses and technologies and to successfully integrate and operate these acquired businesses and technologies; our ability to achieve expected benefits of our partnerships; increased competition in our product and service markets, including the data center; dependence on the introduction and market acceptance of new product offerings and standards; rapid technological and market change; manufacturing and sourcing risks; product defects and returns; litigation involving patents, intellectual property, antitrust, shareholder and other matters, and governmental investigations; natural catastrophic events; a pandemic or epidemic; our ability to achieve the benefits anticipated from our investments in sales, engineering, service, marketing and manufacturing activities; our ability to recruit and retain key personnel; our ability to manage financial risk, and to manage expenses during economic downturns; risks related to the global nature of our operations, including our operations in emerging markets; currency fluctuations and other international factors; changes in provision for income taxes, including changes in tax laws and regulations or adverse outcomes resulting from examinations of our income tax returns; potential volatility in operating results; and other factors listed in Cisco's most recent report on Form 10-K filed on September 8, 2015. The financial information contained in this release should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Cisco's most recent report on Form 10-K as it may be amended from time to time. Cisco's results of operations for the three months ended October 24, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of Cisco's operating results for any future periods. Any projections in this release are based on limited information currently available to Cisco, which is subject to change. Although any such projections and the factors influencing them will likely change, Cisco will not necessarily update the information, since Cisco will only provide guidance at certain points during the year. Such information speaks only as of the date of this release.
This release includes non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP gross margins, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income and margin, non-GAAP effective tax rates, non-GAAP net income per share data, non-GAAP inventory turns and free cash flow for the periods presented. It also includes future estimated ranges for gross margin, operating margin, tax provision rate and EPS on a non-GAAP basis.
These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. In addition, these non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. Cisco believes that non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with Cisco's results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only be used to evaluate Cisco's results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures.
Cisco believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to its financial condition and its historical and projected results of operations. In addition, Cisco believes that the presentation of non-GAAP inventory turns provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to inventory management based on the operating activities of the periods presented. Cisco believes that the presentation of free cash flow, which it defines as the net cash provided by operating activities less cash used to acquire property and equipment, to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors because of its intent to return a stated percentage of free cash flow to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock repurchases. Cisco further regards free cash flow as a useful measure because it reflects cash that can be used to, among other things, invest in its business, make strategic acquisitions, repurchase common stock, and pay dividends on its common stock, after deducting capital investments.
For its internal budgeting process, Cisco's management uses financial statements that do not include, when applicable, share-based compensation expense, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, impact to cost of sales from purchase accounting adjustments to inventory, acquisition-related/divestiture costs, significant asset impairments and restructurings, significant litigation and other contingencies, the income tax effects of the foregoing, and significant tax matters. Cisco's management also uses the foregoing non-GAAP measures, in addition to the corresponding GAAP measures, in reviewing the financial results of Cisco. In prior periods, Cisco has excluded other items that it no longer excludes for purposes of its non-GAAP financial measures. From time to time in the future there may be other items that Cisco may exclude for purposes of its internal budgeting process and in reviewing its financial results. For additional information on the items excluded by Cisco from one or more of its non-GAAP financial measures, refer to the Form 8-K regarding this release furnished today to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Sherlyn Chopra is today one of the sexiest actress in Bollywood. She is bold enough to give the most sizzling of bombshells a run for their money. She aspires to dethrone Mallika Sherawat as the boldest woman in India and is ready to go to any extent for it. Drawing inspiration of her dressing from none other than Jennifer Lopez this Bollywood hottie is her to carve a niche for herself in the industry and go a step further than what most bold actresses in the industry have gone so far
Her skinny flicks failed to impress the audience in Red Swastik and the movie bombed in the box office. Sherlyn recently featured in the magazine Maxim which is the largest selling male magazine in the world. The actress is releasing her musical album Outrageous with the ad guru Prahlad Kakkar. She claims it talks about her own story and her struggle in personal life. If the title of the album is anything to go by it seems assured that Sherlyn has given her personal touch to it.


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Spell checkers are politically incorrect
Apparently, spell checkers do not display suggestions for swear words.
So I was writing this email where I wanted to emphasize that I thought that the recipient was a motherfucker but in the hurry I misspelled the insult as mutherfucker.
I noticed that FireFox had underlined the word with the usual red squiggly line but so I went ahead and right-clicked the word and, to my surprise, the only suggestion was "rutherfordium".
So I giggled at the suggestion and corrected the misspell myself by changing the "u" for an "o" and then noticed that after doing so, FireFox removed the red squiggly line indicating that the spell checker recognized the word as a valid/correct one.
I repeated the same steps with Chrome, IE and even Microsoft Word and they all behave the same: they do not provide the correct suggestion although each one varies on the provided suggestion(s).
How stupid is that?
So why hide it?
I just find these kind of things so stupid and ignorant… being politically correct is actually a bad thing!


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Dr. Russ Cheatham: Shaping Success in Criminal Justice
Few professors have left so indelible an impression on an academic program as Dr. Russ Cheatham. Having directed Cumberland's Criminal Justice and Public Administration (CRJ) program since its inception in 1995 until 2012, Cheatham helped develop the course of study from a fledgling B.A. initiative into a thriving program that now produces graduates that often outperform their peers from other universities.
Having also served as various times as the division chairperson and interim dean for two schools and as the director of a graduate program, Cheatham has only recently stepped back into the sole role of professor.
What Cheatham hasn't stepped back, however, is his passion for the program that he still recruits, teaches, and mentors students for every day.
"We have a great program," Cheatham said. "We offer a number of courses that are not offered elsewhere, and our combined Criminal Justice and Public Administration degree greatly differentiates us from similar programs. We're constantly working to make the program unique and cutting-edge."
It is a program that began in its modern form in 1995, when Cheatham first joined Cumberland. Prior to arriving at the university, Cheatham earned his doctorate in public administration from Tennessee State University in 1993, adding it to an earlier master's degree in criminal justice from Middle Tennessee State University in 1987. While completing his studies, Cheatham served as a probation officer and later as a criminal investigator with a district attorney's office.
Ironically, however, it might have been Cheatham's first job as a salesman that aided him the most as he helped establish the new CRJ program in 1995.
"People think of me as an ex-cop, but I was an ex-salesman first," Cheatham said. "Having been in sales, I knew that you either sell price or quality. I stressed quality, trying to develop an excellent program with a great deal of uniqueness and innovative courses."
Over the next 17 years, Cheatham directed the CRJ program as it emerged into a unique course of study offering classes with an academic and practical foundation. Cheatham would pioneer or advocate for a number of those courses himself, including a fraud examination class unique to Cumberland and courses in subjects such as forensic anthropology and criminal profiling. The program would also become distinguished by its added emphasis on public administration, an area critical to students wishing to assume management positions.
As the number of successful Cumberland CRJ graduates in positions in agencies across Sumner County and Middle Tennessee proves, employers have taken notice.


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As the Crown of the Continent, Glacier is the headwaters for streams that flow to the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and to Hudson's Bay. What happens here affects waters in a huge section of North America. Due to a detection of invasive mussel populations in central Montana, Glacier has closed most park waters to motorized and trailered watercraft until further notice. Read More
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Current Conditions
What are the current conditions in the park, and how to prepare for them?
Road Status
During spring and fall, conditions are constantly changing. Check here for updates on which roads are open for driving, hiking, and biking.
The Continental Divide makes for unpredictable weather in Glacier's mountains.
International Designations
In addition to being a national park, Glacier is an international peace park, biosphere reserve, and world heritage site.
Nearby Attractions
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It continues..! Join us for our series of interactive classes run by Mini Professors Science Classes Cambridge North at Stir this autumn. Kids are invited to come and perform experiments (this may get messy!), sing songs and hear stories. You even get your own lab coat!
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We believe that science should be accessible to all. As with any language, children can easily absorb and learn from an early age. That is why we endeavour not to dumb down scientific terminology but explain scientific principles in simple terms with fun experiments. We encourage our Mini Professors to explore for themselves and interact as much as possible.