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College Financial Aid Help Available at More Than 300 Locations Across North Carolina on Saturday, February 23rd
Jan 18, 2013, 11:49 EST
FAFSA Phone-In also offered every Tuesday in February
RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- College financial aid officers and specialists will be available across North Carolina on Saturday, February 23rd to help high school seniors and families complete and submit their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms online. There will be free FAFSA Day programs in all 100 counties with most sites open from 9:00 a.m. until noon.
Completing the FAFSA form is a requirement to be considered for all federal and most state financial aid for college, including scholarships and grants. This year's statewide FAFSA Day is sponsored by College Foundation of North Carolina, the North Carolina Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and State Employees' Credit Union.
Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. More than 300 sites will be available, including campus sites and State Employees' Credit Union branches. The Credit Union can assist SECU members in any of its branch locations; however, in counties where there are no campus sites, the Credit Union can serve members and non-members. A list of all locations and registration is available at CFNC.org/FAFSAday or by calling 866-866-CFNC toll-free.
To be fully prepared to complete the FAFSA on February 23rd, participants should either file their 2012 federal taxes in advance or bring the following items: both the student's and parents' federal 1040 tax forms for 2012 (or W-2 forms and other income and asset documents if completed tax forms are not available); the student's and one parent's Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) obtained in advance from the U.S. Department of Education website, www.pin.ed.gov; and a FAFSA on the Web Worksheet with as much information entered as possible. The online Worksheet is available at www.fafsa.gov.
"It's important to complete the FAFSA early to take advantage of all of the financial aid opportunities available for North Carolinians," said Robbie Schultz, of the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority and CFNC coordinator of the FAFSA Day program. "Students and parents don't need to worry if they aren't sure how to answer all of the questions on the form. That's why we have arranged to have experienced financial aid specialists available to help on FAFSA Day."
Schultz also stated, "Filing 2012 federal taxes early really simplifies FAFSA completion. Those who file well in advance of FAFSA Day can use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on the FAFSA form to transfer their tax information directly onto their FAFSA."
He continued, "If a student or parent hasn't yet filed taxes, they can estimate income information on the FAFSA, and then use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool to submit FAFSA corrections at a later date. See the video section on the Pay page at cfnc.org."
Another option for students and parents with a few questions on completing the FAFSA is the FAFSA Phone-In offered every Tuesday night in February. Financial aid specialists and experts will be available to answer specific FAFSA questions on the toll-free number, 866-866-CFNC (2362), between 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Additional free college planning information is available at the College Foundation of North Carolina website, CFNC.org. Families can find financial aid videos, college cost estimators, listings of scholarship, grant and loan opportunities, information about North Carolina's 529 college savings plan, career information, virtual tours of more than 100 of the state's college campuses and online college admission and financial aid applications.
About CFNC
College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) is a free service of the State of North Carolina that helps students plan, apply, and pay for college. CFNC is a partnership of Pathways, the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority, and College Foundation, Inc.
- Pathways, created by the N.C. General Assembly in 1999, is a state-wide initiative to increase the college-going rate of North Carolinians by providing: comprehensive college and career planning resources; electronic applications and transcripts accepted by all 110 North Carolina colleges and universities; and, information on student financial aid and college affordability. Pathways is administered by The University of North Carolina General Administration in collaboration with the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the N.C. Community College System, and the N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities.
- The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA), established in 1965, is the State agency that promotes access to higher education by administering financial aid and savings programs, informing students and families about paying for college, teaching educators about financial aid administration, and advocating for resources to support students.
- College Foundation, Inc. (CFI), administers a large portfolio of education loans, several major grant and scholarship programs for students attending N.C. colleges and universities, and the tax-free "529" college savings program on behalf of the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority. CFI also delivers information to North Carolina students and families about paying for college and provides technology services for CFNC.org.
- State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) is a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members. SECU has been providing the employees of the State of North Carolina and their families with consumer financial services for 75 years. With close to 1.8 million members, SECU provides services through 245 branch offices, nearly 1,200 ATMs, 24/7 Contact Centers and a website, www.ncsecu.org.
CFNC offers resources toll-free at 1-866-866-CFNC and at CFNC.org.
SOURCE College Foundation, Inc.


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The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt was a folk myth prevalent in former times across Northern, Western and Central Europe. The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it. It is often a way to explain thunderstorms.
The Torness Trows
The Torness Trows - an eyewitness account
This account was written in response to an article on trows published in a Scottish magazine in the 1960s. It came from an Englishman who had spent nearly two years on the island of Hoy during the Second World War:
"One stormy day in winter I was walking or struggling along the cliff top at Torness. The wind was high and howled about, low-lying, swirling clouds part-enveloped the land in misty rain. At times the pressure was so great that I was forced to bend and clutch at the heather to retain a footing.
Elidor and the Golden Ball
Giraldus Cambrensis in ITINERARIUM CAMBRIAE, the account of his journey through Wales in 1188, gives a remarkable narrative of a boy's visit to Fairyland. It contains so mush information in so short a space that it deserves to be included in full. It is one of the best of the early fairy anecdotes:
" Some time ago I heard about a priest called Elidor, who had had a strange event, when he was a boy. 12-years old Elidor, who wanted to avoid his severe teachers hard discipline and beating, that continued on an on, ran away one day, and hide in river´s cliff. He had been there for 2 days, when 2 dwarf´s size men came to him and said:
" If you want to come with us, we´ll take you into a kingdom, wich is full of joy and fun." Elidor consented the men´s suggestion and left with them.
Cherry of Zennor
A version of the story of the Fairy Widower, which appears in Robert Hunt's, Popular Romances of the West of England, pages 120-126. It is very closely allied to 'Jenny Permuen', also to be found in Hunt. 'Cherry of Zennor' is a curious story, and throws a number of side-lights on fairy beliefs. Sometimes one is tempted to believe that the story had a naturalistic foundation, and that it is an unsophisticated girl's interpretation of a human experience. On the other hand, it gives one quite a picture of the real traditions of underground Fairyland, such as that which was entered by True Thomas.
Elf Bull
Jamieson's Northern Antiquities gives the story of the most famous of the Crodh Mara, the cow bred by the visit of a water-bull and of the farmer too mean for gratitude.
The elf-bull is small, compared with earthly bulls, of a mousecolour; Mosted [crop-eared], with short corky horns; short in the legs; long, round, and slamp [supple] in the body, like a wild animal; with short, sleek, and glittering hair, like an otter; and supernaturally active and strong. They most frequently appear near the banks of rivers; eat much green corn in the night-time; and are only to be got rid of by certain spells .
Ainsel the Fairy
A widow and her little boy lived in a cottage near Rothley, Northumberland. One Winters night the child was very lively and would not go to bed as he wished to sit up for a while longer, "for," said he, "I am not sleepy." The mother finding remonstrance in vain, at last told him that if he sat up by himself the faries would most certainly come and take him away.
Dando and the Wild Hunt / Dandos Dogs
There are many tales to explain the origin of the spectral wild hunt, this one is from the Parish of St Germans in Cornwall. It explains how a priest with low morals became a demon huntsman.
In the medieval period the priest of the parish of St Germans was called Dando. Dando was not a figure of priestly virtue but abused his powers to enjoy earthly delights.
The Faeries Dancing Place
When Lanty M'Clusky married he set about building a house for his bride, and chose for it's site a beautiful green circle such as the faeries might choose as a playground. Although he was warned against this he thought the place was much too nice and he had no intention of building elsewhere no matter what the faeries thought of it.
The Harper in Fairlyand
A Story from Celtic sources
As retold by Beth Vaughan
The King, Sir Orfeo, could play the harp like no one else. When he played, birds stopped singing, just to listen. It was a small harp, one he could tuck under his arm and take with him wherever wanted.
Tale - The Doctor and the Fairy Princess
Late one night, so the story goes, a great doctor, who lived near Lough Neagh, was awoke by the sound of a carriage driving up to his door, followed by a loud ring. Hastily throwing on his clothes, the doctor ran down, when he saw a little sprite of a page standing at the carriage door, and a grand gentleman inside.
"Oh, doctor, make haste and come with me," exclaimed the gentleman. "Lose no time, for a great lady has been taken ill, and she will have no one to attend her but you. So come along with me at once in the carriage."
The Fiddlers of Inverness
Tomnahurich is a steep wooded hill just on the outskirts of Inverness. It is said to be a fairy hill into which people could be lured often never to return. This tale of two fiddlers recounts the story of just such an unfortunate pair…
The two travelling Fiddlers were staying in Inverness and they made their living by playing in pubs or at social events. They were very good at what they did but had been having a hard time making ends meet, when they were approached by an old man who offered to pay them well for a nights work. Naturally delighted the two fiddlers accepted and followed the old man to Tomnahurich, coming to a stone doorway that they had never seen before, which appeared to lead directly into the side of the hill. A little worried but thinking of what they would earn the two fiddlers followed the old man through the doorway and down winding, torch lit, passages, arriving in a huge and beautiful hall filled with young, beautiful people.

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: POST OFFICE
List entry Number: 1062572
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District: Liverpool
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16/1309 No. 1 - (Post Office)
Post Office. 1905. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Central 3 bays of 2 storeys with attic, flanking one-storey, 6- and 4-bay blocks. Stone base, flush bands and flush stone quoin strips. Centre has cornice to central bay and angles of flanking bays. Ground floor has Diocletian windows with rusticated voussoirs, keystones and segmental open pediments. All windows are sashed with glazing bars. 1st floor 3:1:3 round-headed windows with eared architraves and triple keystones, that to central bay has flanking engaged Ionic columns; open pediment above contains dated cartouche, parapet above. Flanking bays have coped gables with round windows with swags below and triple keystones. End bays have Diocletian windows and segmental parapets. Other bays have windows in architraves with triple keystones, some paired. Central entrance is round-headed with rusticated stone piers and voussoirs and segmental open pediment. Plaque with 'POST OFFICE' above. Entrances to 5th and 12th bays have architraves and small-paned overlights with triple keystones.
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Employee Benefits-IRS Issues Letter Allowing A Plan To Offer A Lump Sum Payment Option To Participants Already In Pay Status Without Violating Code Section 401(a)(9)
In a Letter Ruling, dated April 19, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") faced the question of whether section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") would be violated if a qualified defined benefit plan is amended to offer-once, for a limited period of time of no less than 60 days and no more than 90 days- a lump sum option to participants already in pay status, that is, participants already receiving annuity payments. Under the lump sum option, a participant who elects the lump sum would receive the remaining value of his or her annuity in a lump sum payment, in lieu of receiving any more annuity payments.
In analyzing this question, the IRS said that the proposed amendment would result in a change in the annuity payment period. The change is associated with the payment of increased benefits due to the lump sum. Those who elect the lump sum will be treated as having a new annuity starting date, which will be the first day of the month in which the lump sum is payable. Since the ability to select a lump sum option is available only during a limited window period, increased benefit payments will result from the proposed plan amendment, and as such are a permitted benefit increase under Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.401(a)(9)-6, Q & A-14(a)(4).
As a result, the IRS concluded that the amendment in question will not cause the plan to violate section 401(a)(9).


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A Smithfield Middle School teacher's experience at integrated schools gives her empathy for the special-needs students she teaches.
Shirell Blount was one of the first black students to attend Smithfield High School in 1965, and the only black student in her sixth-grade class.
Isle of Wight schools were fully integrated in 1969 -- Blount says school was better for her then, because more black students came to her classes and black teachers came to the school, bringing back the high expectations for black students that were present at the segregated Westside High School.
In high school, Blount was the first black student on the girl's basketball team. She was elected homecoming queen in 1971. Blount graduated in 1972 and attended Virginia State University.
Blount, 50, is now a special education teacher at Smithfield Middle School, in the building that used to be Westside. She says her background and the hardships she faced in integrated schools give her empathy for students with special needs. "I think coming up as I did, you sort of root for the underdog."
"My sixth gradE teacher ... This is probably one that hurt me the most. You know how you have your spelling assignment, and we'd have to go the board, write the word and the definition. So this particular day she moved me from my normal seat to another seat.
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"It's taken me a long time to get over that. I've gone through being angry about it. Now I am extremely proud of who I am and my heritage. I couldn't be prouder.
"In some ways back then I was angry with myself for letting myself get in that position, but it wasn't me who did that. That was something that they were trying to do to me to try to lower my self-esteem. Or to attack me in whatever way they could.
"In '69 things began to get a lot better, because we had more black students. I think in a way athletics helped that somewhat. When the two schools merged, Westside brought with them an undefeated football team. A small town football team, everyone likes to win. So they would rally behind the football team and support them.
"I was very athletic also, and I was on the basketball team. It seemed like things were OK if you were an athlete. You gained acceptance quicker being an athlete than you did being an academic student. They didn't really want you to excel academically, it seemed. But it was all right if you excelled athletically.
"Now, as a whole, basically I was accepted by the team.
"They would do things in the locker room, say things in the locker room, but by then I knew how to block it out and just keep going. I wouldn't say anything, but just do what I had to do and play the game." *


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The forthcoming The Hangover Part III, which franchise director Todd Phillips is currently shooting, doesn't involve a wedding or a bachelor party, but it does take the Wolfpack (Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Justin Bartha) and their familiar debauchery out on the road.
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The Hangover Part III, which also features Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor andJamie Chung, opens in theaters on May 24, 2013.
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Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality is "unnatural"
Kirk Cameron was a guest on Piers Morgan's CNN show Friday and gave a definitive answer on his opinion of homosexual men and women. Find out what was so controversial about what he said.
Former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron drew some intense criticism after he appeared on Piers Morgan's CNN talk show Friday night and commented on homosexuality and marriage.
Namely, the evangelical Christian actor doesn't believe in it.
"Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the Garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either," he said. "I think that it's unnatural. I think that it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."
"So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."
Cameron — now involved in the evangelical ministry The Way of the Master — added that he wouldn't support it if one of his six children came out to him.
Kirk Cameron slams Stephen Hawking on religion >>
"I wouldn't say 'That's great, son, as long as you're happy.' I'm going to say, 'There are all sorts of issues we need to wrestle through in our life. Just because you feel one way doesn't mean we should act on everything we feel,'" the older brother of actress Candace Cameron Bure told Morgan.
His words angered gay rights groups, prompting a scathing statement from GLAAD.
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"Cameron is out of step with a growing majority of Americans… with an increasing number of states recognizing marriage equality, Americans are seeing that marriage is about committed couples who want to make a lifelong promise to take care of and be responsible for each other and that gay and lesbian couples need equal security and legal protections. That's not 'redefining' anything."
The Fireproof actor found an unlikely ally in someone, though: Piers Morgan. The outspoken talk show host — also known for his controversial comments — commended Cameron for sticking up for his beliefs, even if they are "antiquated."


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Brooke of Alberta, Canada and Nirav of Pleasanton, CA
Play it again, Sam.
Materials Needed
3 glasses of each of 3 different sizes and shapes (9 glasses total)
4 glasses of the same size and shape
different liquids like vinegar, water, milk, tomato juice, maple syrup, oil or apple juice
Check with a grown-up before you begin.
In the ZOOMsci,
Glass Xylophone
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Tunes & Spoons
, you can experiment with the different sounds made by glasses holding different amounts of the same liquid.
Now's your chance to experiment with other variables like the kind of liquid in the glass or the size and shape of the glass itself.
First, find out if different kinds of liquids change the sound made by tapping the glass with a spoon.
Pour the same amounts of different kinds of liquids into the same kind of glass. Try liquids that are thick and gooey like maple syrup as well as liquids that are runny like water.
Tap the same spot on each glass. Do the different liquids produce different sounds? How are the sounds different?
Touch the glass after you tap it with the spoon. Do the vibrations from each glass feel different? What is it about each liquid that might change the sound the glass makes?
Next, find out if the shape or size of the glass makes a difference in the sound made by tapping the glass with a spoon.
Pour the same amount of the same liquid into three glasses of different sizes and shapes. Tap each glass with the spoon. Does it make a different sound than the other glasses? How are the sounds different?
Touch the glass after you tap it with the spoon. Do the vibrations from each glass feel different? What is it about the shape and size of the glass that changes the sound?
Ready for the science scoop? When an object vibrates, it sends a disturbance through the air in the form of waves. These are called sound waves. It's like when you drop a pebble into water and the waves ripple out in all directions. Sound waves in the air are sort of like waves in the water in the way that they move farther and farther out from the center where the disturbance was created.
When you tap a glass filled with liquid, the liquid slows down the vibrations or sound waves. Different liquids slow down the sound waves by different amounts. The differences in the sounds you hear are called pitch. The pitch of a sound depends on how fast the object making the sound vibrates (how fast the sound waves move away from the object.) A glass that vibrates slowly produces slow sound waves and a low pitch sound. A glass that produces a high pitch vibrates quickly, making sound waves move fast.
See how many different pitches you can make using glasses and liquids. Can you play a song with them? Give it a try and
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Shayla, age 10
It made high sounds
Tre, age 14 of Jefferson City, MO
The glasses made different sounds no matter what the variable was. If the liquids were different, but the glasses were the same, it was different. If the liquids were the same, but the glasses were different, it was still different. When everything was different, it was completely different.
We used glass containers and glass cups and they were all different sizes. We used oil, vinegar, and water. The oil was the thickest and the vinegar was the thinnest. The water was in between. We tried to use all three liquids in three different glasses and put the sounds in order. It sounded like a messed up xylophone. When we put the same liquids in three different glasses then the sounds were different. We did different liquids in the same type of glass. They all made different sounds. The oil made the lowest sound and the vinegar mad the highest sound. The water was in between. It was fun!
Nicki, age 11 of Jefferson City, MO
It made different sounds depending on the glasses we used. We used vinegar, water, and used vegetable oil. The vinegar was the highest because it was the thinest, the water was in the middle and the used vegetable oil made the lowest sound. The glasses we used were 3 tiny wine glasses, 3 glass tostitos salsa containers, and 3 regular glass cups.
Roslyn, age 13 of Jefferson City, MO
Well when we did it, we could almost play a song from a commercial. It was really fun. Even though our xylophone wasn't all the way in order, it was good enough.
Clara, age 11 of Bexley, OH
I just used water but at different levels and it made sounds that were higher when I had less water in them and sounds that were lower when I had more water in them. Also, I had a tall and a short glass and they were both filled up to the top and I tapped them and the taller one made a lower sound and the shorter one made a higher sound.
Nicole, age 13 of NY
I used water, syrup, and water as my liquids. I poured them in the same type of glass and they all sound the same.
Madeline, age 12 of Davison, MI
That the glass that had the most water was the lowest sound and the least water was the higher sound.
Marylin of Las Cruces, NM
It made these crazy sounds all over the place.
Ellie, age 11 of Colorado Springs
It was neat it made all different types of sounds!!!
Lily, age 11
It was really cool because it sounded great! My little sis said that I should become a musician when I grow up.
Ethan, age 4 of Villa Park, IL
It was fun. I used milk, vinegar, water, and cherry juice. They made different sounds.
Mallory, age 10
I tried the glass xylaphone part 2 and found out that when you wet your finger and go around the top of the glass it makes a squeaky noise but I aldo found out that it doesnt work on plastic glasses.
Amelia, age 5 of Centennial, CO
We tried using a wine glass with some water and some ice in it to make a sound when you rub your finger around the rim. It didn't make a sound.
Alyana, age 9 of Manchester, CT
I tried it when I was on Spring break it was very messy, but fun. I tried it with the same amount of diffent liquids and they didn't sound diffent and I thougt it was cool. Then I tried it with diffent amount of liquids. IT WAS FUN!!! TRY IT!!!
Briseida, age 11 of Houston, TX
When I performed the experiment, different sounds came from each of the glasses. Also, different kinds of liquids make different kinds of sounds.
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A new opinion piece from Bart on deredactie.be, the news website of the national Flemish public broadcaster VRT.
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Railway budget largesse to Kerala leaves LDF unimpressedFebruary 25th, 2011 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 25 (IANS) Poll-bound Kerala got a dozen new trains besides the long-demanded Sabari line in the railway budget Friday, but the ruling Left Front appeared dissatisfied.Close to a dozen stations in the state are to be renovated, two new passenger terminals will come up at two stations besides a budget hotel in the capital city — among other sops for Kerala that the Railway Budget has proposed.
State Congress president Ramesh Chennithala, expressing happiness, said that "never before has Kerala been showered with benefits like this".
"Out of the 82 new trains, 12 trains are for Kerala, is it not a giant slice for Kerala. Besides these, the Palakkad Coach Factory will soon be a reality, and the wagon manufacturing factory near Alappuzha is through," said Chennithala.
M.P. Rajesh, Communist Party of India-Marxist MP from Palakkad, while agreeing that there are "some good things", said the demand for new trains from Kerala to Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai has been left out.
"Moreover, the Palakkad Coach Factory has been hanging fire for long," said Rajesh.
The youth wing of the CPI staged a protest march in Kochi saying that the demand for a separate railway zone has again not been considered.
Speaking to IANS, senior opposition leader P.C. George (Kerala Cong-M) welcomed the Rs.83 crore earmarked for the proposed Sabari rail project.
"This has been a long standing demand so as to make the Sabarimala pilgrimage a smooth affair," said George.
In the last railway budget the state got seven new trains.
- UPA's encomiums, opposition salvos for Mamata's budget (Roundup) - Feb 25, 2011
- Work on long-delayed Palakkad coach factory to start Oct 22 - Sep 19, 2011
- Railways to get new coach manufacturing plant - Feb 16, 2012
- Trivedi awaits report on modernisation of railways - Feb 21, 2012
- Kerala expected more from rail budget: Chandy - Mar 14, 2012
- Kolkata dailies laud Mamata's budget, CPI-M critical - Feb 26, 2011
- Kerala to get eight new trains, two world class stations - Jul 03, 2009
- Kerala MPs demand PM's intervention on Mullaperiyar dam - Nov 28, 2011
- Mamata's railway measures to boost West Bengal economy - Feb 25, 2011
- Highlights of Railway budget 2011-12 - Feb 25, 2011
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- CPI-M blasts rail fare hikes - Mar 14, 2012
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Last Night on Late Night: 'Alex' Baldwin Explains the Difference Between the House and the Senate
Plus, Mike Birbiglia equates our review of his show with a mean uncle yelling "you're fat, but you're funny!"
Last night, Alec Baldwin explained the giant difference between lobbying the House and lobbying the Senate, Mike Birbiglia visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! and called out his critics (and a certain magazine in particular) for lacing positive reviews of his show with references to his "pudginess," Jesse Heiman — the "greatest extra in the world" — told Jay Leno about his illustrious career and pertinent drinking games, and Stephen Colbert demonstrated to occasional busters of myth Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman why he would be a terrible member in their pitch meetings. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.


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With so much written about death, from Solon ("Call no man happy until he is dead") to Trey Parker and Matt Stone ("I promise I will never die"), it takes a brave soul to take up the challenge of saying something new.
That person is Margaret Drabble, who in The Dark Flood Rises gives us a timely and relevant novel about the way we live (and die) now. The title is taken from D.H. Lawrence's poem The Ship of Death: "Piecemeal the body dies, and the timid soul has her footing washed away, as the dark flood rises."
The book's central character, Francesca Stubbs, is in her 70s, but she is no "timid soul." She is energetic and peripatetic, driving across England for her job with a charity foundation that aims to improve living arrangements for the elderly. While she had been "walking steadily on a plateau, for years, through her sixties and into her seventies ... now she's suddenly taken a step down. ... It's not a cliff or fall, but it's a descent to a new kind of plateau, to a lower level."
Her family, including an ex-husband and two children, and a circle of friends and co-workers are the spokes that radiate out from the center in this discursive, anthropological novel. Death in its many varieties is here: sudden and unexpected, lingering and agonizing, even a slow decline into the grave that one character seems to be enjoying immensely.
But The Dark Flood Rises is far from being a dour meditation on mortality. Fueled by Drabble's penetrating intelligence, the book offers launching points for further investigation — into theater (Beckett's Happy Days), climate (the Canary Islands), the Spanish Civil War (Miguel de Unamuno), refugees (another kind of "flood"), art (Cesar Manrique), religion and literature. Drabble's gaze is expansive and unblinking.
The text is studded with epigrams, like "Old age veers toward the inappropriate," and poignancy and keen perception go hand-in-hand: "Claude and Fran live in the world of obituaries now, in the malicious and crepuscular light of memorial services."
Observations about old age and infirmity strike home: "She's noticed that one of the subjects that old people love to discuss, when gathered freshly together, is the time that they go to bed. The topic is at once indescribably boring and not without some interest." Nowhere is there a whiff of mawkishness.
And the way Drabble dabbles with rare or archaic words will please readers who go for that sort of thing. She has one character declare: "I apprehend caducity." In her previous novel, The Pure Gold Baby, Drabble gave a place of honor — the first sentence, no less — to the word "proleptic."
Reading Drabble is like having a brilliant and companionable acquaintance delve into the ways of the world across a dinner table. The subject may be death, but she still brims with life.
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Learn about the Slide Area in PowerPoint 2013, and what you can do to make your slide editing easier and more productive.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
OS: Windows 7 and 8
Introducing the Slide Area
The Actual Slide
The Slide Workspace
The Scroll Bars
Many new changes have happened within PowerPoints 2013 -- but the tri-paned interface has still not changed a lot for the last 20 years and successive PowerPoint versions! So why is the interface called tri-paned -- are there three distinct regions within the PowerPoint 2013 interface? The Slide Area is one of three principal regions in PowerPoints 2013 -- the other two are the Slides Pane and the Notes Pane.
The Slide Area comprises everything within the highlighted region as shown in Figure 1 -- this is where you work the most --
typically though adding and editing slide objects.
Figure 1: Slide Area within PowerPoint 2013 interface
The Slide Area includes three elements, as marked in Figure 1, above:
We discuss each of these individual interface elements next.
This is the actual slide where you can add slide objects such as text, pictures, charts, etc. When you use
Slide Show
view to display your PowerPoint presentation, you only get to see objects that are placed within this area.
You normally click on a text placeholder and type some text to replace the dummy text in the placeholder, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Add text in an existing text placeholder
PowerPoint provides three extra interface features that help in placing the elements properly on the slide. These are part of the Slide Area but you'll not be able to see them until they are activated.
This is the grey area behind the slide -- although any objects you place here can be edited and animated, they won't show up in Slide Show
This makes the Workspace a convenient place to store stuff that you might want to use later -- or maybe slide object animate from the Slide Workspace into the actual Slide! Also any sound objects you place in the Workspace plays -- fortunately, sound is only heard and not seen!
Figure 3 shows a slide that has objects within the actual Slide and in the extended Slide Workspace.
Figure 3: A slide object placed outside the Slide in the Workspace
There are two scroll bars:
See Also:
Slide Area in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Slide Area in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
Slide Area in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Slide Area in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
Slide Area in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows
Have your ever used keyboard shortcuts and sequences in PowerPoint? Or are you a complete keyboard aficionado? Do you want to learn about some new shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented?
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Sculptor: Felix de Weldon (Austrian, 1907-2003)
Date Made: 1963
Medium: Bronze, Italian marble
Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 12 inches
A bronze bust of President Kennedy on marble pedestal. The silver inscription plaque on the front of the pedestal bears an excerpt from President Kennedy's Inaugural speech, "Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need…", above this is an engraved image of Jacqueline Kennedy's Christmas angel, and below is an engraved Presidential Seal.
In early 1963, Mr. Felix de Weldon was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to produce the sculptural portrait of President Kennedy that was to be a featured item in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. President Kennedy posed for the work in the White House. At the time of the tragic event of November 22, 1963 the bust was unfinished. The sculpture was removed to de Weldon's studio where the artist was encouraged to complete the effort.
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ARTIST: Virgeons O.R Pigeons
ALBUM: Place No Reliance
LABEL: Darkest Labyrinth
REVIEWER: Matthew J.
Based out of Greece but signed to Japan's Darkest Labyrinth label, Virgins O.R Pigeons are clearly enamored with the fashion and aesthetic of the visual kei scene, but the trio's debut album is pure EBM club candy. Starting off with the dark ambient introduction of "Hypnosis," the album soon enough segues into "Pestilence," a thumping EBM track in the classic mode, all reverbed vocals, echoing keyboard lines, and pulsing kicks. Much of the group's material falls more or less into the category of terror EBM; "Existe" borders on formulaic with its guttural vocal treatment and repetitive sampled phrase, but "On Virgins or Pigeons" is a wonderfully grim expression of anti-religious sentiment set to pounding beats, while "State Your God" is more stark, raspy vocals set against a clean but effective sequence of electronics. It's the band's more melodic offerings that prove most memorable, however. "Reach Out" is no less heavy than the rest of the album, but relatively clean and melodic vocals provide a catchy hook to go alongside the relentless drum machine, with electric guitars filling out the texture. "Let Them Die" is also a stunner; paired with synthesized choirs, the distorted vocal lines give way unexpectedly to actual singing on the chorus. Though the transition is a bit jarring the first time you hear it, it makes for a song that truly stands out, and clearly the band thinks so as well, providing a bonus remix featuring gothic rock guitars as a bonus track. Having collaborated with groups like Blood, Virgins O.R Pigeons seem poised for a quick assent in the Japanese gothic rock and visual kei scene, but with such solid EBM credentials, this album is sure to get plenty of play in the industrial clubs, as well.
Visit the band's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/virgeonsorpigeons for more information.
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During this trip, you will have a chance to discover in depth about the Miao people's culture and life, and to learn more about Dong, Zhuang and Yao people's unique cultures. Explore and come into close contact with local people. Visit some highlights such as Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou, and the karst landscapes and Longji terraced fields near Guilin.
- Observe the Miao people's traditional way of making paper from tree bark
- Become experts in minority culture by visiting several Miao villages, such as Datang Short Skirt Miao Village
- Observe the Dong people's unique life and culture in Zhaoxing Dong Village
- Head to Longsheng Zhuang Village and terraced fields
- Appreciate Guilin's beautiful karst landscape on the Li River cruise
- Cycle through Yangzhou's peaceful countryside
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- Entrance to the attractions listed in the itinerary
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Hotel in Guiyang: Hotel Novotel Guiyang Downtown(4-star)
Your private guide and driver will be ready and waiting for you when you arrive in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou Province. Check-in at your hotel, with the help of your guide.
Meal: breakfast & lunch
Enjoy a relaxed breakfast in the hotel. After breakfast, you will set off on the 2.5-hour journey to Huangguoshu Waterfall. The waterfall is the largest in Asia. Your guide will take you to walk around and see the best angles of the waterfall.
In the afternoon, you will experience local opera – Ground Opera – in Tianlong Village. Local people dress up and wear masks to display their unique traditional culture. You will learn more about some battles that happened in Guizhou, such as the wars between the Chu and Han, and some history from the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Meal: breakfast & lunch & dinner
Hotel in Kaili: Kaili Teng Long Hotel (4-star)
Travel to Shiqiao Miao Village to view a rare and traditional way of making paper from the bark of mulberry trees. This paper-making process has been handed down over more than a thousand years. Local people even extended it to make colored paper. It's rarely seen elsewhere in the whole of China.
You'll be warmly welcomed in the traditional Miao way as you enter the village. You will have to drink three cups of local rice wine when toasts are made by a Miao girl. This is the local way of welcoming friends from afar. Explore more Miao culture with the help of your guide.
Meal: breakfast & lunch & dinner
Hotel in Rongjiang: Dongxiangmi Hotel (3-star)
In Kaili Ethnic Minority Museum, you will see more ethnic handicrafts, paintings and folk arts, etc. Learn more about local Miao and Dong culture in Qiandongnan (the southeast of Guizhou Province.)
See more different Miao villages, such as Datang Short Miao Village and Jidao Long Skirt Miao Village. Compare the two villages and discover differences in clothing and other things. Appreciate traditional Dong drum towers in Chejiang.
Meal: breakfast & lunch & dinner
Hotel in Zhaoxing: Zhaoxing Hotel VIP Wing (3-star)
Today you will visit Basha Miao Village and Zhaoxing Dong Village. Basha Miao Village has been well-preserved for more than one thousand years. Local people still live by their own traditions, not so affected by the outside world. They still live in wooden houses and maintain their own unique religious beliefs.
You will arrive at your first Dong village Zhaoxing, one of the largest Dong villages in China. See some drum towers and their corresponding wind-and-rain bridges. Stay at a hotel in the village.
Meal: breakfast & lunch & dinner
Hotel in Sanjiang: Sanjiang Dongxiang Guest House (4-star)
In the morning, you will continue to explore the culture of the Dong people in Tang'an Dong Village. Have a grand view of the terraced paddy fields decorating the village. Later, you will be taken on a 3.5h journey to Sanjiang County.
Enjoy the Chengyang wind-and-rain bridge in Sanjiang and Dong villages. The bridge is currently the largest Dong wind-and-rain bridge, with more than a hundred years of history. There are 8 Dong villages scattered in the Chengyang area. Local Dong people typically get married between 1st and 15th days of the Chinese New Year. Stay at a hotel in Sanjiang county town.
Meal: breakfast & lunch
Hotel in Guilin: Guilin Park Hotel (3-star, central location and by the lakeside)
You will be driven to the Longsheng terraced fields and enjoy a magnificent view of the rice fields. The terraces are built into the hillsides, and look like great chains or ribbons as they wind round according to the contours of the land. Zhuang and Yao minority villages are dotted through the area, and feature traditional architecture, where no nails are used in construction.
Arrive in Guilin and stay at a hotel in the city center.
Meal: breakfast & lunch
Hotel in Yangshuo: Yangshuo Aiyuan Hotel (3-star)
Take a 4-hour Li River cruise down to Yangshuo. This trip is a must-do thing in Guilin. You will see the beautiful Li River surrounded by unusual karst hills. Observe some local farmers working in the fields and water buffaloes eating grass at the side of the river. You will see the picturesque traditional Chinese countryside life. Lunch is served on the cruise and you'll arrive in Yangshuo in the early afternoon.
Feel free to explore Yangshuo yourself, after hotel check-in. West Street is famous as a street for foreigners and has an interesting night life.
Meal: breakfast & lunch
In the morning we'll take you by private vehicle from the busy town streets to the countryside roads to start your biking experiences. The scenery along the Yulong River is breathtakingly beautiful, with karst peaks, rice fields, clear waters, and green bamboo.
On the way, you trade your bicycle for a bamboo raft on the river itself. The river's current is quite gentle, meaning even first-time rafters have no trouble navigating. After a while, all signs of the modern world gradually melt away. Every bend in the river reveals different wonders, and it's easy to focus solely on the scenery. The rafting takes an hour.
Leaving the raft behind, you once again mount a bike. This time you ride to Moon Hill, a magnificent sight, its name referring to the rock formation's wide arch. At the top of the mountain, you will have a panoramic view of villages around Yangshuo and of many karst peaks at the top of the mountain. Usually it takes about an hour to go up and down the mountain.
In the afternoon, you return to your hotel. After a shower, you could relax lying on a beach chair, or with a cup of coffee.
Meal: breakfast
You will be taken directly to Guilin airport from Yangshuo. The journey will be around 2.5 hours. Your private guide will help you and see you off at the security gate. Have a good journey back home.
Trip Notes
1. About Huangguoshu Water Wall
The rainy season at the waterfall is June and July. The dry season is March to May, with smaller waterfalls.
2. Best time to visit
August to October is the best time to visit Guizhou.
3. Road Conditions
Some areas you'll visit are very remote, so be prepared for twisty mountain roads, some of which are rough. Most car journeys on this tour take around 2 hours between spots.
4. Hote l& Restaurant
Hotels: The facilities and service standards at hotels in Guizhou may not be as good as those in larger cities. Air conditioning is available in some better hotels. Hotels in some towns may only serve Chinese, not western, breakfasts. Usually only basic Chinese toilets are available during the tours.
Restaurants: Local restaurants offer Chinese food, in a basic environment.
5. What to pack
Temperatures can differ greatly between day and night, so some warm clothes are required even in summer.
Bring shoes suitable for walking. Mosquito-repellent may also necessary when touring village areas in summer.
6. More Trip Information
Want to learn more about this trip? Please click here to see details about traveling in China, booking, payment and responsible travel.


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The Famous "Burma Banks", Myanmar
Correcting a Common Misconception
The banks were first visited in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, this was the only place we were allowed to visit in Burma because the Banks lie in international waters (although the Myanmar Government claims economic rights). However, a couple of things happened to change our habit of visiting the banks. One, the Myanmar government, in 1997, granted us permission to dive in the islands closer to shore (there are hundreds of islands and rocks). Two, in the late 1990s, long-line fishermen and finning fishermen did a devastating job of killing almost all of the shark population of the Burma Banks. Although these days we occasionally get lucky and see sharks there, generally we do not and the conditions are such that it's a big risk to go. If we don't see any sharks, there are no dive sites near enough to get to, so we're forced to spend the entire day there. Quite honestly, most people don't like the type of diving at the banks unless they see sharks; the currents are vicious, the landscape uninteresting, and the average depth makes bottom times short.
Unfortunately, many dive magazines continue to report incorrectly even today that boats from Phuket visit the Burma Banks and they don't even mention the Mergui Archipelago. The Burma Banks are just one small part of the Mergui Archipelago. The name "Burma Banks" was created by dive shops and liveaboard operators, it's not an official name of anything.
The Burma Banks
The Burma Banks are a series of large underwater flat-topped sea-mounts that lie approximately 180 kilometers (100 nautical miles) northwest of the Similan Islands. The banks' surrounding water is over 350 meters deep and large areas rise to within the depth limits of recreational scuba diving. The name derives from the fact that this 1,500 square kilometer area lies within the exclusive economic zone of Burma. The banks offer some exciting, stimulating diving, but since this is true open-ocean diving, they certainly are not for everyone.
These mountains rise very gradually from the depths and are covered with hard coral growth and large patches of sand. Although the huge plate corals (some of these 'plates' could seat all the knights of the round table easily) are in many areas fantastic, that is not the reason for traveling so far out to sea. The reason is for different types of environments not found in Thailand or in the Mergui Archipelago proper.
These days, most boats are spending more time in the Mergui Archipelago proper (further inshore) than out at the banks for five reasons. First, the diving inshore is so good. Second, we tend to see more sharks like gray reef sharks inshore and not here at the banks. Third, the currents can get very strong out here, and novice divers have no business being here at all. Forth, there is no protection from any kind of weather. Fifth, the distances out to the banks are far, and often times not worth it. Your divemaster is going to be in the best position to make this decision. See the Mergui section for more information.
When you see sharks at the banks, the most common type of shark is the nurse shark that grows to over 3 meters in length. Where else can you go to see nurse sharks freely swimming nose-to-tail over the top of the reef, which have so little fear of divers that they sometimes accidentally swim harmlessly (for both parties) into us? They are truly the clowns of the banks as it is difficult not to laugh at their frenzied movements. Not enough? How about large silver tip sharks that when attracted by bait swim within range of your Nikonos 15 mm lens?
If the nurse sharks are the clowns, then the silver tips are the stars. Reaching an impressive length of two to three meters, these sharks-often compared to the Galapagos shark and easily identified by the white trailing edge on their pelvic, dorsal, and caudal fins-are full-bodied, serious predators.
In addition, you'll see larger reef fish than in other areas of Thailand, such as huge sweet lips and the occasional grouper. The most common diving technique at the banks are large drift dives over the mountain flats. Currents can be quite tricky here-sometimes changing in direction 90º to 180º very quickly-and very fast. It is common to drift over one kilometer on certain dives-assuming the current is taking you in the directly you originally planned! All dive operators that dive at the banks are strict with safety rules. Although these vary slightly from operator to operator, it is roughly agreed that all divers must dive with a 'safety sausage', a whistle or other signaling device, and that either the dingy or the larger vessel should follow the diver's bubbles on the surface. Finally, it is a must that buddy pairs stay together at all times, and in fact some operators insist that divers dive in a group of at least four. To become separated from your dive boat this far from land would surely spell disaster.
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Again, sharks are not as common as they once were in Mergui, at the Banks, in Thailand or anywhere in the world. They have been hunted mercilessly. They continue to be hunted, very few countries have put any kind of shark on any endangered species list and it may be too late to save the shark populations of our oceans. For more information, please visit this website and maybe you can do something to help.
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Everyone wants to see big fish underwater, but with the uncontrolled fishing going on in the world today, it's getting more difficult every year to see big fish. If it's sitting on the grocery's shelves, it's not swimming at your favorite dive site.
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John Williams has written, co-authored, or contributed to four diving guides on Thailand, the Mergui Archipelago, and the Andaman Islands. These are the award-winning Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling series, Periplus Editions Diving Southeast Asia, Asian Diver Scuba Guides and Singapore's Times Edition Diving Thailand. He has lived in Phuket and dived in Thailand's waters since 1987.
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