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OK, maybe it's not quite pumpkin season yet, but it's getting close to October, and that's good enough for me. This cocktail is a dessert in a glass without being too cloying. Jon Gilbert and I came up with this one night in a boozy attempt to use up leftover canned pumpkin. Betraying my extreme enthusiasm for bitters, there are two kinds here – the Tiki bitters add an essential spiciness, and the orange bitters contribute a nice roundness. Experiment as you like.
1 oz pumpkin puree
1 1/2 oz Cruzan Black Strap Rum (or substitute regular dark rum and double the molasses)
1/2 oz Laird's Apple Brandy (another brandy might be nice? Try it.)
1 tsp molasses
1-2 dashes of Regans' Orange Bitters No. 6
Squirt of Tiki Bitters
Shake well with ice, strain into martini glass. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream, freshly grated nutmeg and cinnamon.
PS: Any kind of pumpkin will do, but don't use canned pumpkin pie filling, which already has sweetener and spices. It is the sort of cocktail that goes down rather easy, and an evening can slip away in a haze of spicy rummy goodness without you realizing it. Not that I have any experience in that.


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Worst still it will stop and terminate there. This is only a new thing and it never use to do this before.
Yes I have uninstalled it and reinstalled but it keeps happening at random times. I have fiddled about with the settings but I cant see anything that will turn this need for the internet off.
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2011 Crozes-Ermitage, Le Grand Courtil, Domaine Ferraton
Red | Drink now | Maison Ferraton | Code: 17066 | 2011 | France > Rhône > Crozes-Hermitage | Syrah/Shiraz | Medium Bodied, Dry | 13.0 % alcohol
The Grand Courtil demonstrates brilliantly how Crozes-Hermitage and a proportion of new oak (30 % in this case) can work together. We do not always buy this particular wine but when it works, as here, it works exceptionally well. Black olives and tapenade share the honours with ripe, expressive fruit.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer
Ferraton is owned by Chapoutier, but run as an autonomous entity. For a long time it seemed to underperform, almost as if shocked in the headlights of the energetic charisma of its benefactor. The potential of the vineyards, some of which are located on the very best sites on the Hill of Hermitage, has never been disputed. Now, with Bordelais winemaker Damien Brisset firmly in control, one begins to see, at last, the realisation of potential. I am pleased to have 'stuck with' them over the years, as the maturing vintages seldom fail to please and the quality of the current vintage gets better and better.
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PARKER - The three most spectacular wines in Ferraton's 2011 portfolio include the 2011 Crozes-Ermitage Le Grand Courtil, which displays plenty of chocolaty espresso notes intermixed with creme de cassis, blackberries, charcoal and a hint of truffles. The complex aromatics are followed by a full-bodied, supple textured, front end-loaded, plump, fleshy red that is hard to resist. This 2011 should drink beautifully when released in 2013, and age nicely for a decade.
The quality of Ferraton's wines has been increasing with nearly every new vintage thanks to the efforts of Michel Chapoutier and his number one assistant, P.H. Morel, who has the responsibilities for these wines. I have included a few Southern Rhones that were not reviewed in Issue #203. Some of the 2011 white wines are in bottle, but the more serious cuvees are still in barrel. Ferraton produced four lieu-dit offerings in 2011, which I tasted with Michel Chapoutier and Pierre-Henri Morel.
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #204, Dec 2012
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The Producer
Maison Ferraton is a very fine Northern Rhône wine estate that was run for many years by Michel Ferraton. It is now run by Samuel Ferraton, the fourth generation of the family, who worked for a while in conjunction with Chapoutier frères. The firm has vineyard holdings in Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage and its wine cellars are located immediately behind those of Marc Sorrel in the heart of Tain l`Hermitage.
Samuel Ferraton is very much an artisan winemaker- yet he employs many modern techniques that he picked up while working with the Chapoutiers.
Consequently, the wines are a marvellous marriage of the old and the new, displaying good structure and well-defined fruit characters, allied with very judicious and limited use of new oak. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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The Grape
A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
The Region
Crôzes-Hermitage is the largest AC in the Northern Rhône, producing 10 times the volume of Hermitage and over half of the Northern Rhône's total production. The appellation was created in 1937 with the single commune of Crozes, which is situated northeast of the hill of Hermitage. Wines are now produced from 11 different communes.Its vineyards surround the hill of Hermitage on equally hilly terrain where richer soils produce wines that are softer and fruitier, with a more forward style. The Syrah variety is used, but legally Marsanne and Roussanne can be added to the blend (up to 15 percent). In the north, the commune of Gervans is similar to Les Bessards in Hermitage, with granite soil producing tannic reds that need time to evolve.
While in Larnage, in the south, the heavy clay soils give the wine breadth and depth (albeit they can sometimes be flabby), the soils to the east of river on higher ground comprise stony, sandy and clay limestone, making them ideal for the production of white wines.
The best reds are produced on the plateaus of Les Chassis and Les Sept Chenin, which straddles the infamous N7 road to the south of Tain. Here the land is covered with cailloux roulés, which resemble the small pudding stones fond in Châteauneuf.
The wines can vary hugely in quality and style, and the majority of the reds tend to be fairly light. Many of the wines are made by a variation of the macération carbonique technique, bottled no later than one year after the vinification. The best producers, however, use traditional fermentation techniques.
There are small amounts of white wine made from Marsanne and Roussanne, accounting for approximately 10 percent of the appellation. The finest whites are produced from around Mercurol.
Recommended producers: Paul Jaboulet, Chapoutier, Colombier, Ferraton
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AutoCarUK reports that Rolls-Royce's next model has been confirmed to be a convertible based on the Wraith. Word reportedly came from Rolls-Royce's CEO, Torsten Muller-Otvos, who also reportedly stated that the brand's interest in producing an SUV are dwindling.
The reason for the decline in desire to produce an SUV is apparently due to the fact that Rolls isn't confident that an SUV will reflect the driving characteristics of "a truce Rolls-Royce." However, Muller-Otvos said that they're keeping their options and their mind open.
The anticipated Rolls convertible on the other hand is reportedly the priority with the goal of making the Wraith coupe and convertible the most powerful production Rolls-Royces ever built.
The addition of a convertible based on the Wraith will boost sales of the Wraith line by at least 1,200-1,500 units. Though despite the increase, Muller-Otvos promised that no outsourcing will occur and that all models will be built at home base in Goodwood.
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Back to school shopping can be quite expensive if you go unprepared.
I've compiled a list of things you can do to get the most out of your shopping experience and take advantage of the many back to school sale offers.
Organization Matters! – Knowing what is on your child's school supply list (most schools provide these as a guideline of what is needed during the upcoming year) will not only save you money but it can save you time as well.
Clip Coupons – Search through the Sunday sales ads, scour the internet and do a little homework yourself before heading out. You might find some great deals, especially when buying in bulk, which leads me to our next tip.
Buy in Bulk – Buying pencils, papers, erasers, notepads and other items of frequent use in bulk can save you money in the long term. Ration what you purchase in books throughout the year and if your lucky you might have some supplies left over for next year, plus having enough supplies on hand means less impromptu visits to the store throughout the year when supplies are typically more expensive.
Built to last – Look for quality items on sale. You can buy cheap pencils, markers or other items and save money upfront but if those items wear out fast you will be replacing them much sooner than you would quality items. Now is the time to take advantage of some top name brands on sale.
Need it now, want it later – Take care of the needs and basics now. If your child wants something, like the next trendy classroom thing, and it isn't a 'needs' item from your list, you can wait before deciding. Some items that look fun might not be accepted in the classroom because they are viewed as distractions. Remember, its okay to ask the teacher if you have any questions.
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I never cease to be amazed at the ability of animals to adapt to changes in their environment. Thus my belief in micro-evolution - adaptations for survival - continues to be enforced. Macro-evolution, now that's another matter altogether. Trans-species changes seems a little far fetched. Where's the proof? But I digress.
One day at the neighborhood pool, I noticed a large black and white bird with tern-like swept wings soaring over our neighborhood park. Now, I don't usually spend my time at the pool staring at the sky trying to see what happens to be overhead at the time. In fact, given the preponderance of ravens, crows and police helicopters passing over throughout the day - each equally annoying in their own way - you can become desensitized to the sight of birds in the sky, an activity that I once had fun with. At first, I passed it off as a large sea bird until it perched on a tall tree in the park. Then it's hawk like features became evident.
I then noticed the nest perched in the highest part of the tree, and then the quiet calls of some young in the nest. My curiosity was switched on, and thus began our spring of watching the birds in the park.
The adult bird looked familiar to a Kite that I'd seen living in a nearby natural area. There are two types of Kites that live in the West - the Mississippi Kite and the White Tailed Kite - but only the White Tailed Kite lives this close to the coast. The white tail of the bird soaring overhead gave up its identity. Some White Tailed Kites were nesting in the neighborhood!
Over the past few weeks, the young have been growing in size and volume, to the point of easily giving up their location for all who entered the park. It has been fun watching for the adults to bring food to the young.
Then came this past Friday when the situation turned very interesting. At the pool Friday evening, as we were preparing to leave for home, Mardi noticed a group of teenagers congregating around something on the ground. "Jonathan, a baby Kite is on the ground!" she yelled out. And sure enough, there it was.
It was a beautiful juvenile (see example image at right), almost ready to fledge, but not quite there. I obviously had fallen from the nest. It was wobbly walking on the ground, and looked weak. The worst part, however, was how the teenagers were treating it. I don't know what it is about some kids, but they can be quite mean hearted and cruel with defenseless animals.
The kids were crowding around it, spitting at it and blowing smoke in its face. Poor thing! Mardi, Sarah and I were shocked at their actions, and were not going to put up with it!
We all walked over to the bird and just stood there next to it, not saying anything but just waiting to see what it, and the teens, would do next. The teens "blinked" first, and decided that we weren't going to leave anytime soon. So, they left. Score for the good team! I don't have a problem with nature taking its course. But, I did have a problem with nature being circumvented by a bunch of unruly teenagers.
We were concerned for the safety of the bird. The adults were nowhere to be seen, and another juvenile was in the nest high above. We decided to wait with the bird until nightfall (about 1 hour away) and then let nature take its course. While I stuck around, Mardi and the girls went home and called the Animal Rescue folks, but we were told that since it was a wild animal, they wouldn't interfere. Usually, they said, the parents would help the juveniles find shelter and continue to feed them until they were able to fly. They took a report anyway, and the Irvine Police came by to check it out. (I'm sure the police also were interested in checking out reports of a group of unruly teenagers loitering in a park smoking and obviously not up to any good!) Kudos to the Irvine Police Department (Irvine is the safest city in America with populations over 100k)!
So, I hung out with the Kite until dark, and left it alone. I do hope the adults were able to help it to shelter. We tried to find it the next day, but found no sign of it. The second juvenile still is in the nest. We do hope it successfully fledges.
We live in an amazing area of congestion, development and, surprisingly, great diversity of animal life. Along with the Kite, we regularly see and hear coyotes (a pack woke me up one night recently whooping it up as they walked down our street!), lots of hawks overhead and hear the occasional stories of bobcats and mountain lions in the nearby hills. I've even seen a Road Runner on a nearby path. It's a very cool place indeed.


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L. Frank Baum is said to have died from congestive heart failure in 1919 at age 62, almost 20 years after the first of his legendary "Wizard of Oz" stories was published. Doctors at that time had limited means of diagnosing or treating heart problems.
With the benefit of hindsight provided by multiple biographies and papers that were written about the famous Central New Yorker, Harold Smulyan MD, a professor of medicine in cardiology at Upstate, questions some of the assumptions about Baum's health and death.
Listen to the interview with Dr. Smulyan
Baum, born in 1856 in Chittenango, a village east of Syracuse, concocted the adventures in the Land of Oz only after a "heart specialist" prescribed a sedentary job.
"Many productive authors have had their careers cut short by serious illness, but this was not true in Baum's case. It is probably accurate to say that heart disease finally enabled him, after a life of repeated failures in several occupations, to find his true calling," Smulyan wrote in The Pharos journal this summer with co-author, Robert Pinals MD. Pinals was part of the Upstate faculty before joining the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey.
Baum's oldest son and biographer blames a congenital heart defect for Frank being a frail, sensitive child, less physically active than other children and prone to "heart attacks," in which he fainted when emotionally stressed. Smulyan and Pinals suspect these episodes were not cardiac in nature. The stethoscope, which can detect heart murmurs, was widely used by doctors during Baum's lifetime. Cardiac birth defects usually are accompanied by heart murmurs or a blueness of the skin — signs that the physicians say were never used in describing Baum.
Some biographers theorize Baum had rheumatic fever, but Smulyan and Pinals aren't convinced of that diagnosis either. "It is possible that he could have lived to age 62 with congenital or valvular heart disease, but this would not account for the progressive chest pain, which was his most prominent symptom," they write.
At the age of 12, in 1868, Baum had an especially severe fainting episode after being disciplined at the military academy he attended in Peekskill. He had another at the age of 26, prior to his marriage to Maude Gage, the daughter of Matilda Gage, a leader in the Women's Movement. "Afterward, he was apparently stable for many years and able to work at various occupations to support his growing family," Smulyan and Pinals write, listing his various occupations: farmer, actor, playwright, variety store owner, business manager for a baseball team, newspaper publisher, traveling salesman.
In 1897 at age 41, Baum developed severe nosebleeds with gripping chest pain. A doctor in South Dakota diagnosed "angina," a term first used in 1772 to describe chest pain that was associated with exertion and which often radiated to the left arm. Today we know this as a symptom of coronary heart disease, but back then angina was not known to be related to a heart disorder.
As for the care Baum might have received, Smulyan and Pinals say "it is possible that Baum's blood pressure was never measured." The first measurement of blood pressure by feeling a patient's pulse was taken in the late 1800s, but the device used to take blood pressure today was not in wide use until around the time of Baum's death in 1919. They add that it is also possible that Baum never underwent chest X-ray to estimate his heart's size. Even though the first X-ray images were produced in 1895, General Electric did not refine the technology until 1913, and it was not until near the time of Baum's death that equipment was commercially available.
Cardiology was not an established specialty when Baum relocated his family to Chicago where a "heart specialist" suggested he find a sedentary occupation. At that time only a few general physicians, with post-graduate training at European medical schools, called themselves heart specialists, and their tools were limited. EKG machines weren't commercially available until after Baum died.
Dr. James B. Herrick, the most notable of these pioneering heart doctors, had an office a little more than a mile from Baum's home. He may have been the doctor who treated Baum. Herrick was the first to suggest that angina was a symptom of heart trouble. He wrote papers describing how a sudden blockage in an artery that feeds the heart – which causes chest pain, or angina – was not always fatal. But most of his peers did not believe in such a connection at that time.
Baum's life changed when he switched occupations. He began publishing a trade journal and in his spare time made up stories to tell his children and their friends about the fantasyland of Oz and a girl named Dorothy.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was published in 1900 and then made into a movie. Its financial success allowed Baum to lead a less healthful lifestyle, raising his risk for coronary heart disease. Smulyan and Pinals write: "He chain-smoked good cigars and upgraded his diet. He had meat and eggs for breakfast, with five cups of coffee laced with heavy cream and sugar. His dinner usually included a thick cream soup, roasted meat and a rich dessert."
Baum moved his family to a Hollywood mansion in 1909. Bad investments led to bankruptcy, and by 1914 he was grappling with a series of health problems. He suffered painful tics to one side of his face. His chest pain and irregular heartbeats became more frequent. He developed trouble breathing and abdominal pain.
In December 1917 he had his gallbladder removed, along with what was described as his "badly inflamed" appendix. The surgery was said to have further damaged his heart. Baum also developed "kidney trouble." After five weeks in the hospital, he went home and was confined to his bed, where he remained for the rest of his life. Baum continued to write, smoking cigars and taking morphine for pain. He finished "Glinda of Oz" before lapsing into a coma.
Just before death, his heartbeat was erratic and his breathing difficult. "This might reasonably be ascribed to atrial fibrillation or frequent atrial or ventricular premature beats and congestive failure," Smulyan and Pinals say, describing common cardiac diagnoses of today. "Even if Baum died, as we suspect, of coronary heart disease, his physicians would probably not have been able to recognize it."
Listen to the interview with Dr. Smulyan.


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Something which has been catching the attention of the travel media, as well as many recent guests, is the addition of an exclusive private balcony into the glamorous ships which make up the popular Scenic Fleet of river cruising vessels.
The Scenic 'Sun Lounge' is an innovation which allows passengers to not only soak up the sun as you glide along Europe's most pristine waterways, but also to gaze out at the stunning views even if the weather takes a turn for the worse via the simple touch of a button. You will not need to share your full-sized balcony with anyone but your cruising partner, so total privacy and tranquillity is assured at all times.
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There has never been a great dance company without a great ballet or dance school.
The School of Cleveland Ballet boasts a long year history of providing the highest quality training in the structured and disciplined techniques of ballet and the related arts. Its graduates have gone on to perform in professional and college dance companies nationally.
We are committed to train and produce artists of the highest competence and to bring a vital art form to the community. In achieving these goals, the philosophy of the School of Cleveland Ballet is to produce artists of the highest caliber capable of fulfilling the aesthetic needs of major ballet and dance companies while at the same time enhancing all aspects of a child's life, by reaping the rewards of dedication, desire and discipline, as they become successful young adults.
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By Barry Bennett
To understand why a record number of Oregon schools have just been labeled "in need of improvement," one need only read The Oregonian's recent preview of the musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," about the seventh president. The headline read, "And you thought history was boring," while the conclusion quoted the director promising that the play was funny even though it was about "the dry stuff we all slogged through in high school history class."
The preview took for granted that everyone agrees that one of the basic subjects we study in school is boring. And history is hardly the only subject our culture disdains: Few of us read literature, and probably fewer still know or care anything about science or math -- today's poster children for important school subjects.
We tell our students that what they learn in school is important, but the way we live our lives sends a much different and far more persuasive message. Yet we expect the schools to excite our children about subjects we casually dismiss. We believe that education is essential because we fear falling behind China and other rising powers in the great economic competition of our time. Although we think we care about education, we value it only as an instrumental good, not as something valuable in itself (hence the low priority on art and music).
We cannot expect children to value education for its geopolitical implications. Nor can we expect them to love learning when everyone they know is huddled together watching American Idol. Children raised on video and electronics enter school not only unprepared to learn but often hostile to the very notion of reading. The school reform movement pays only lip service to the importance of parents. Although children spend 90 percent of their time between birth and age 18 outside of school, we ultimately blame only teachers and schools when children fail. We consider parents "consumers" of educational services rather than active participants.
This is the fundamental mistake in all educational reform efforts. We assume that, like automobile companies, schools can control the quality of their product. But General Motors can set clear specifications for its parts suppliers, reject those parts that don't satisfy its standards, and assemble its cars itself. Schools are trying to mold human beings. They can control only so much -- and given the myriad influences on children outside of school, their degree of control is small and probably shrinking.
Critics of education cite successful schools to rebut the notion that outside factors prevent educational success. In a country as vast and diverse as ours, there will always be success stories. The same critics never point to successful students in supposedly failing schools and ask why, if the schools are so bad, many students succeed.
As long as the educational reform movement concentrates on the schools, it will fail. Hard as it is to accept, schools are far from the most important element in education. History, for example, is actually fascinating -- but to realize that, one must overcome the massive conditioning that tells us it is only tedium (and, no, history classes are not just a bunch of names and dates, except to the extent they're forced into that mold by the misguided testing culture). As large a task as school reform seems, the true task is almost incomprehensibly larger. That is why we pay it lip service but ultimately ignore it.
We will educate all our children when we address the cultural conditions that subvert even our best efforts. Instead we continue down the same blind pathway of school reform. May we one day emerge on the other side with the wisdom and the commitment to face the real challenge.
Barry Bennett is a lifelong educator and has taught at eight universities at the undergraduate or graduate level. He currently teaches in the Marylhurst University MBA program.


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Wisdom Centre is a beautiful venue with excellent facilities, suitable for conferences, staff training, meetings, holistic therapies and retreat days. The Centre is an oasis of calm set amongst gardens, and is located in the heart of the small historic market town of Romsey in Hampshire.
As well as welcoming organisations, groups and individuals who wish to hire the Centre's facilities, Wisdom Centre also runs its own programme of events. Wisdom Centre is a ministry of the Daughters of Wisdom (an international Congregation of Religious Women) and welcomes people from all walks of life and from all faiths and none.Learn More »


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ConsumerLab.com Reveals How Much Caffeine is in Energy Drinks
-- Also Finds Some Drinks and Dietary Supplements Don't Contain Claimed Amounts of B Vitamins --
White Plains, New York — September 27, 2012 — Energy shots and drinks are promoted to keep you alert and energized, attributing their effects to special formulas often "packed with B vitamins and nutrients to make it last," as a commercial for 5-hour Energy proclaims. But could it just be a lot of caffeine? "Certainly," says ConsumerLab.com President, Tod Cooperman, M.D. "Many products don't disclose how much caffeine they contain, but our tests show that a single small bottle of some of these drinks contains more caffeine than two full cups of coffee." ConsumerLab.com purchased and tested three of the most popular energy drinks: 5-hour Energy, Monster Energy M-3 Concentrate; and Red Bull.
The energy drinks were tested as part of a larger Product Review of B Vitamin Supplements and Energy Drinks. B vitamins are the largest segment of the U.S. dietary supplement industry after multivitamins and sports supplements, with sales of $1.46 billion in 2011, according to Nutrition Business Journal. Out of 20 "B complexes" and single B vitamin supplements ConsumerLab.com selected for testing, 5 failed to accurately list amounts of one or more vitamins, containing far less(31% to 87%) and/or far more (182% to 230%) of what was expected. B complexes were more likely to fail testing than single B vitamin supplements. Two of the three energy drinks also failed to contain their listed amounts of folic acid, one of the B vitamins.
ConsumerLab.com cautioned that consumers should be mindful of potential side effects due to the large amounts of caffeine and vitamins attainable within the suggested daily serving sizes of energy drinks. "Just two bottles of 5-hour Energy or Monster M3 Concentrate puts you over the tolerable daily intake level for niacin, which can cause skin flushing and tingling, on top of the potential jitteriness of several hundred milligrams of caffeine," says Dr. Cooperman.
The Product Review of B Vitamin Supplements and Energy Drinks is available online at ConsumerLab.com. Twenty-three of the products reviewed in the report were selected and purchased by ConsumerLab.com. Twelve additional products which passed ConsumerLab.com's Voluntary Certification Program are included in the report, as well as information about two products similar to another which passed testing. All products were purchased by ConsumerLab.com and tested in independent laboratories. Failures to meet label claims were confirmed in a second independent laboratory. The following products are included in the report:
– 5-hour Energy
– Andrew Lessman's High Potency B-Complex
– Bluebonnet Biotin
– Country Life Biotin
– CVS/pharmacy Timed Release B-12
– Isotonix Activated B Complex
– Jamieson Natural Sources B12
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Clear The Stage Ross King Key: E Verse 1: E E/G# Clear the stage and set the sound a lights ablaze A B If that's the measure you must take to crush the idols. E E/G# Jerk the pews and all the decorations too A B Until the congregation's few then have revival. E E/G# Tell your friends that this is where the party ends, A B Until you're broken for your sins you can't be social E E/G# And seek the Lord and wait for what he has in store, A B And know that great is your reward so just be hopeful Chorus 1: A C#m7 Cause you can sing all you want to, F#m7 B Yes you can sing all you want to. A C#m7 You can sing all you want to, F#m A/B E E/G# A B But don't get me wrong, worship is more than a song. Verse 2: Take a break from all the plans that you have made And sit at home alone and wait for God to whisper. Beg and plead to open up His mouth and speak And pray for real upon your knees until they blister. Shine the light on every corner of your life Until the pride and lust and lies are in the open Read the Word and put to test the things you've heard Until your heart and soul are stirred and rocked and broken. Chorus 2: A C#m7 And I can sing all I want to, F#m7 B Yes I can sing all I want to, A C#m7 I can sing all I want to, F#m7 And still get it wrong... (repeat chorus 1)


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Counselling is a type of talking therapy. Counselling involves talking with a professional about your feelings and concerns, and working through these concerns. There are many forms of counselling available for a wide range of problems and many counsellors specialise in particular areas such as addiction or bereavement. All approaches emphasise non-judgemental, attentive listening and respect for the client. Counselling aims to enable people to take control of their own lives, and the counsellor may not adhere to one particular theory.
Your first one or two meetings should involve you and the counsellor getting to know each other and deciding to work together. The more information you have about what to expect, the less likely you are to be disappointed. A good counsellor will expect questions and be happy to answer them. You might want to talk with the counsellor about:
The counselling approach he or she offers.
The length of sessions and how often they are held.
How long the counselling might last for and how it will end.
How long before you can expect to feel some benefit from the counselling.
Is it possible to contact the counsellor between sessions, if you need to do so.
The counsellor's training, years of experience and accreditation.
Some counsellors are qualified psychologists, but many are not. Those who are not may have a basic degree or training in other areas and/or relevant work experience (e.g., teaching, nursing, etc.) plus a counselling qualification. These qualifications can vary from Masters degrees to short-term courses.
Whether he or she has experience working with people with similar issues to you.
Are the sessions confidential and when confidentiality might be broken.
When might the counsellor refer you to another professional.
What is the cost per session and whether there is a cancellation fee.
If you are thinking about arranging an appointment with a counsellor, ask about their qualifications and whether they are registered with an accrediting body.
A G.P. can also recommend counselling services in your area. These might include free, low cost or private options.
Other options include:
Counselling in primary careMedical card holders aged 18 and over can access counselling in primary care, if your G.P. thinks it would be of benefit. This is a short-term service offering up to eight sessions with a counsellor. This counselling is suitable for those with mild and moderate depression and other mental health difficulties. Find out more about counselling in primary care.
Community and non-statutory servicesMany community and non-statutory organisations offer free or low-cost counselling. Charities such as Pieta House offer counselling specifically for those who are having suicidal thoughts. Agencies such as Aware and Grow offer support groups. Jigsaw offers support to young people. Turn2Me provides online support groups and counselling. Search for supports in your area in our Find Services section.
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Taking a hard line toward Mr. Bollore's attempt to be represented on Aegis' board, the U.K.-based media services company today said that it will vote against the two candidates, Roger Hatchuel, the former owner of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, and Philippe Germond, a former executive of French telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel, as directors,
Aegis said it is rejecting the candidates because of "fundamental conflicts of interest."
Mr. Bollore is the chairman of Aegis rival Havas, and through his own Groupe Bollore he holds his recently increased 27.56% stake in Aegis. The board believes it is not possible for any director appointee proposed by Groupe Bollore to be sufficiently independent to act in the interest of all Aegis shareholders. Also, the board is focused on delivering full value for all Aegis shareholders and will not favor any shareholder group above others or all shareholders as a whole.
Aegis directors called for a full shareholder turnout at the company's annual general meeting to give them a better chance of victory against Mr. Bollore. The board also postponed the meeting by three weeks to June 14 to give extra time for shareholders to consider Mr. Bollore's resolutions.
Aegis' board held a special meeting today to consider the two candidates. Mr. Bollore's nominations were made yesterday afternoon, only hours before the passing of the seven-day deadline for submitting a resolution for inclusion at the annual shareholder meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for May 24.
Carat's Verklin up for re-election
Five directors are up for re-election on the 11-member board, including Carat North America CEO David Verklin. (Carat is a unit of Aegis.) Aegis does not limit the number of directors on its board, and to get on the board, a majority of votes from current directors is required.
If Mr. Bollore's Aegis holdings nudge up to 30%, he is obliged by U.K. rules to make a takeover bid for the company.
Analysts aren't giving Mr. Bollore's picks much of a shot. Deutsche Bank analysts in London said today that "it [is] unlikely that the Bollore nominations will be successful. The circumstances around this forthcoming [meeting] are very different to those of the Havas [meeting last year, where Mr. Bollore ousted the chief executive and took control of the company] which was effectively a vote of no confidence in Havas' management."
Deutsche Bank believes that if Mr. Bollore wants to take control of Aegis, he will have to make an offer for the company, and that a merger between Havas and Aegis is "not necessarily desirable from Aegis' perspective."
Latest development
The latest developments in the saga indicate that Mr. Bollore has a serious long-term game plan for Aegis Group, possibly involving creating closer links between Aegis' media networks, Carat and Vizeum, and Havas' media buying-and-planning unit, MPG.
This could also pave the way for a sale of Synovate, Aegis' market-research arm, which has consistently interested WPP Group Chief Executive Martin Sorrell. Mr. Sorrell and Mr. Bollore are believed to be on good terms, and Mr. Bollore has recently restated that he would like to do something "in our mutual interest." Calls to WPP and Mr. Sorrell were not returned at press time.
Starting on May 25, WPP Group will be free to make a bid for Aegis. Mr. Sorrell considered a proposal for buying Aegis Group in conjunction with private equity firm Hellman & Friedman last fall, but when a solid offer did not materialize by Oct. 28, 2005, WPP was precluded from making another offer until May 28, 2006.


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Going in to the Oscars ceremony last night, there was really no doubt that Jared Leto would walk away with the Best Supporting Actor trophy. His phenomenal turn as the transgendered female Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club won hearts and voters from the moment the movie opened. Shocking absolutely no one, Anne Hathaway announced Leto as the winner of the show's first awarded trophy, leading to him give an acceptance speech as memorable as his performance.
The actor and 30 Seconds to Mars front man received his trophy looking dapper in a white jacket, black pants and carmine silky bow tie, courtesy of Saint Laurent designer and friend, Hedi Slimane. From the moment he began speaking, Leto was eloquent, humble, and endearing.
The 42-year-old star, looking no more than 32, began his speech by telling the audience about a teenage girl from Louisana. He described her as a high school dropout and single mom who "somehow managed to make a better life for herself and her children," and who encouraged them to "be creative and work hard and do something special." He revealed that that woman was his mother Constance, who sat next to him throughout the awards ceremony. She was his date to the Oscars, along with Leto's brother Shannon, a percussion player and member of 30 Seconds to Mars.
"Thank you for teaching me to dream," he told his mom. He also thanked Shannon for sharing in the dream that is their rock band.
In addition to the sweet shout outs to his family, Leto also brought attention to the telecast's worldwide viewing audience, taking a moment to recognize the embattled nations of Ukraine and Venezuela. "As you struggle to make your dreams happen to live the impossible, we're thinking of you tonight," Leto said.
Lastly, Leto spoke directly to members of the community he represented through his stellar performance. He finished his speech by acknowledging the "36 million people who have lost the battle to AIDS," as well as anyone "who ever felt injustice for who you are and who you love."
"Tonight I stand in front of the world for you," the first-time Oscar winner said, again gaining fans and touching hearts.
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The following is a guest post by George Lin and originally appeared on his blog. George is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here.
On the third day of class, we learned a term called "yak shaving". The idea is that you want to do something, let's say change a lightbulb, but that ends up requiring you to do something else, which in turn requires you to do something else, which requires you to do something again… After diving into subtask after subtask, eventually you find yourself shaving a yak when all you wanted to do was change your lightbulb!
Etymology: the term is thought to have been coined at the MIT AI Lab circa 2000, as inspired by an episode of Ren & Stimpy. Here are some definitions from various sources: MIT, Urbandictionary, Seth Godin (who helped popularize the term)
I didn't think much about the term until pretty recently. In the last 2 weeks or so, as I've been diving heavily into code, I've found myself shaving yaks constantly – I can see why it's a "thing" in programming now!
Case in point – the jukebox. As my teammates can attest, I've been building a command-line interface jukebox which when given a list of songs, will retrieve the songs' artists and genres, and allow the user to browse or choose by category and select a song to "play" (it only displays the song & doesn't actually play it yet, haha). Well technically, this was an assignment everyone had to do, but since I liked the idea I decided to take it a lot further. (Also, to order to generate a song list, we parsed a directory for mp3 files and built a library of artists, songs, and genres)
My current version of the CLI jukebox can not only browse by "artist", "song", or "genre", but it can also search by artist, song, or genre, and whatever the results are of the current search or browsing results, you can keep entering input to further filter results, as well as choose a result by number (thanks Ning for some of the inspiration!)
Here are some examples of yak shaving while making the CLI jukebox:
- In order to get the program to understand so many different kinds of user inputs, I ended up having to learn regular expressions (Rubular is awesome!). Specifically, valid commands that the program understands are stored in class constant:
This allows for the program to understand the input "artist(s)", "song(s)", "genre(s)", as well as the input "artist [name or number]", "song [name or number]", "genre [name or number]".
Here is what my code for seeing whether or not a valid command is recognized looks like:
This doesn't work though. After some banging my head on the wall, I ended up reading the "grep" documentation in the Ruby Enumerables module, and discovered the problem:
Simple enough. We open the class and give it a new method grep2:
- After creating this program on my own computer, I wanted to import this to the web so that it could run as a CLI "web app" over the internet. I was inspired by a few command-line interface websites: xkcd, goosh, After many futile attempts at finding an answer which made me question my google-fu, I finally found something reasonable which had been staring at me in the first page of google results: a Ruby gem called Rack Webconsole! After installing, more banging my head on the wall and finagling, I finally got it to work:
Now I need to learn how to get "puts" and "gets" to work in the webconsole interface instead of on the server-side console:
- I also learned about a little bit about XRSF, a way for bad people to hack into your website, as I was learning about Webconsole. In retrospect, using this gem probably isn't the best idea to use in production, though it's pretty awesome in development. Maybe I'll learn enough javascript by looking at the source code of sites like xkcd and goosh to make this work someday.
Enjoying the view and striving for the destination
There's always more to learn, and to do something I thought would be so simple ended up requiring hours and hours of banging my head on the way. However, in retrospect it was all a great learning experience and helped me become a better coder, as I suspect yak shaving can oftentimes be.
It's the journey that matters, not the destination. However, a program that doesn't work right isn't useful either. So I guess both are important – enjoy the view along the way, but to learn the most, don't stay satisfied until you reach the destination.
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Mississippi was the most obese state in the U.S. in 2013, according to a new Gallup-Healthways poll —and locals are attributing the title to the state's cultural attitudes.
According to the poll, Mississippi had an obesity rate of 35.4 percent in 2013 and has ranked among the top 10 obese states in the nation since 2008. Comparatively, Montana, the least obese state, had an obesity rate of 19.6 percent.
Kim Waldrup, a 54-year-old from Yazoo City, Miss., said poor eating habits are engrained in the state's culture.
"We're used to fried food so much it's just an old school thing," Waldrup told Fox News junior reporter Kyle Rothenberg. "But they need to start in the schools to fix it."
The state's laid-back lifestyle may also be to blame, according to Mississippi State University student Will Prater.
"Obesity has been a problem for Mississippi. Complacency is not only characteristic of the sedentary lifestyles leading to high obesity rates, it is also characteristic of a cultural attitude towards the issue itself," Prater, 22, told FoxNews.com.
Retired air traffic controller Paul Donaldson, of Starkville, Miss., said the state's obesity problem is obvious.
"If you just walk around Mississippi you'll see… one out of three people are obese," Donaldson, 58, told FoxNews.com.
He believes his fellow Mississippians need to start paying more attention to improving their health and eating healthy.
"We're like a machine. You put in bad gas, you'll run bad," Donaldson said. "You put in good gas, you'll run good."
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Frank William Grunder, a retired Baltimore police lieutenant who ran the department's polygraph lab, died of kidney failure Saturday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Linthicum resident was 96, and the father of a slain city police sergeant.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Fort Avenue, he graduated in 1926 from Calvert Hall College High School, where he played tennis and football. As a young man, Lieutenant Grunder rowed for the old Arundel Rowing Club in the Patapsco River and was an alternate for the 1932 Olympic games held in Los Angeles.


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Don't Get Locked Out Again: The Key Things To Remember
Unless you're one of those very lucky people for whom things never go wrong, you'll have spent some of your life locked out of somewhere. House, car, workplace or garage, you'll be familiar with the experience. It's one of those endlessly stressful experiences that no-one ever wants to repeat. The moment it happens, we will tell ourselves straight: "This must never happen again, I'll be careful from now on!".
Now, hands up if it has happened again to you. I'm expecting that there will be a lot of hands showing right now, because let's face it, you didn't deliberately get locked out first time. People make mistakes. You're in a rush, and you don't do all the checks you normally would. You're half asleep and your keys are in your jacket, inside. Or you're naturally disorganised and, with the best will in the world, this happens.
Being locked out of your property is a very disempowering feeling. You think about ways around it. "I'll just call my spouse and get them to bring a spare. Oh, my phone is in the car I'm locked out of." That kind of thing. You'd like to sit somewhere warm and wait for a locksmith or mechanic, but you can't because you are locked out. It's endlessly frustrating, and getting it sorted out can end up taking hours.
While human nature is such that we will continue to get locked out of things until locks cease to exist, there are things that we can put in place. These can make it easier to deal with lock-outs, prevent them from happening to begin with or shorten the time they take to resolve. And as anyone who has experienced the above nightmare can tell you, that's a major relief.
Locked Out Of Your Home?
Most homes have a fairly simple lock system, which requires the use of a basic key. Getting a new one cut takes a matter of minutes and doesn't cost much at all. You've probably had it done yourself. The weird thing is, we almost always just get one or two copies. Given the low cost of this process, doesn't it make sense to get five or six spares?
Then, hide a couple outside in spots you'll remember but possible intruders won't guess at. It's simple, it's analog, but it works. And it will make a big difference should you get locked out in future. If you have a more complicated locking system, it may cost more to get duplicates. You should still make sure you have at least one spare in any case. An emergency locksmith can get quite expensive.
Locked Out Of Your Car?
The standard these days is to sell all new cars with one key fob and a spare. Now, could you say right this moment where your spare car key is? If you can, that's great. If not, then you are advised to find that duplicate and guard it with your life. Additionally, you might be best advised to get another spare. Usually, we keep one at home, but if you lose your key when you are far away, what do you do?
It can never hurt to have a spare key to keep somewhere safe where you will always be able to access it. If your most common journey is to work, for example, keep the duplicate in your desk drawer or locker. Speak to a key fob duplication service today to find out if they can clone your key and get a quote. This will then help you out if you find yourself patting your pockets at the end of a long day and your keys aren't there.
Car keys will cost more to get cloned than spare house keys. Partly, this is because they are a lot more advanced. Partly it is because no-one can take your house and drive away in it, so there's a lot more jeopardy involved. But it makes sense to get a duplicate now, before you have to, rather than waiting for the emergency callout and paying a higher fee.
What You Need To Know
The legality of cloning keys is not a cut-and-dried issue. For obvious reasons, a duplication service will not clone your keys just because you ask them to. You'll need to provide some proof that they key is yours before they'll do anything with it.
Additionally, there are some keys you can't get copied. for example you use a key card for access at work, you cannot get a copy of this from a duplication service. If you work in local government and require a card to get in and out, as well as to access your computer, they won't clone that. The reasons for this are fairly clear: these are cards you have to turn in when you leave a job. If you keep spare copies, that isn't great in the eyes of the law.
Keys and locks provide security, and for that reason we cannot expect that spare keys will be handed out on a whim. We cannot expect that locksmiths will gain entry for us without seeing some ID first, either. It is therefore necessary that we take an element of responsibility for our access and security.
If you're forgetful and often forget work access cards, then it's something you need to address with your employer. Unfortunately, former employees with a grudge sometimes return to their workplace to address it. Would you want to be in a workplace that anyone could gain access to?
No-one likes to be locked out. Sitting on the outside, waiting to get in, you will blame yourself and the worst thing is that you're at the mercy of others. By taking some ownership of the possibility before it happens, you give yourself a chance of not having to go through that again. Once you leave your home or your car, it needs to be locked. With the right actions, you can make sure that that security is not at the expense of your convenience or comfort.


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What a difference 5 weeks makes! No.1 in the "top telly" hit parade at Casa C-P is my bespectacled counterpart – Count Arthur Strong himself. We've been totally won over week-on-week by his hilarious high jinks, scrapes and escapades. Episode 5 saw dog walking/pooper-scooping calamities, mental images of monkeys' bottoms, and CAS causing an almighty kerfuffle in the hospital emergency room.
With Martin about to undergo a biopsy for rabies – "RABIES!!! I thought that went out in the 70s?!" – having been bitten by a stray dog, I nearly fell off settee one as the anaesthetic kicked in and Doctor Two appeared and declared: "It's outside my area of expertise. I'm AFRAID!!!"
It was however, a very moving and touching finale when the shadow of death unexpectedly came calling for Arthur's "Polish Princess" Katya, resulting in a taxi ride home just for two.
FOOTNOTE: Anyone out there see last week's Count Arthur Strong? Disaster befell the C-P household after our Sky+ malfunctioned and cut the recording short just at the crucial moment where the entire cafe eagerly tuned in the wireless to listen to CAS's radio performance playing the role of Paul – "I'm in it all the way through…" Cue end of programme – blue screen, press "back up" to return to listings, and a scathing glare in my direction from His Nibs over on settee 2!


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New Jersey is hurting. It's hurting so bad that the only way the governor could pay for his proposed tax cut is to borrow the money from our kids and grandkids. Float a bond for $260 million to pay for the $200 million or so tax cut proposed for this budget year. Benefits to future taxpayers? Zero. No matter, we can all enjoy a night out with the reduced taxes and let our kids pay. Given the amount we'll get back, most of us can reserve a spot at the nearest White Castle.
This is not the condition one would expect of the "Comeback" state. But it gets even worse.
The United States has suffered a cut in its prime credit rating because Congress wouldn't provide timely funds to repay the nation's debt.
To add to our growing burdens, the House of Representatives has passed a plan that is supposed to balance the federal budget without increasing revenues. It's called the Ryan Plan for its Wisconsin sponsor, Paul Ryan.
The first-ever state-by-state analysis of the Ryan Plan released this week by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities presents the bad news. The plan, if approved, would dig the New Jersey hole even deeper, about $760 million deeper in the budget year that begins next July.
That may not sound like enough money to worry about in a $32 billion state budget. But the reason the governor was driven to borrow money for his tax cut was that tax collections came in $700 million short between the time he delivered his budget message in February and when the receipts were counted in May.
$1.5 billion in the red
By July, the non-partisan legislative research arm estimated the hole was $1.5 billion; Moody's -- the credit rater -- suggested that it was closer to $2 billion and counting.
So, a reduction in federal aid of $760 million has significant and negative consequences for New Jersey citizens. Is the state helping to pay the bill for your grandmother in a nursing home? If so, you might have a problem since Medicaid -- the federal-state program that pays for most nursing home care -- is due to take a one-third cut between 2013 and 2021.
Other programs would suffer as well -- programs for special education kids, for putting cops on the streets and for providing emergency aid following fires, floods and hurricanes.
The companion proposal to the Ryan Plan is to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The combination of repealing the act with its Medicaid expansion and the one-third cut proposed by Ryan is to add another $500 million per year to the budget burden.
This time the addition comes because there will be no expected reduction in the charity care payments to hospitals that treat uninsured patients. With the health care act and the existing Medicaid population, the state could assume a sharp falloff in its hospital payments (that now total about $1 billion).
Balance cuts with revenue increase
As New Jersey residents, we might hope that our governor would use his influence with Governor Romney and the national Republican Party to call on the House of Representatives majority to balance some of its tax cuts with revenue increases. Not only would such a move increase the chances of avoiding the "fiscal cliff" we all jump off on Jan. 1 if there's no agreement on taxes and budgets, but it would do less harm to New Jersey, which is still crawling out of the Great Recession.
So far, instead of making the call for New Jersey, the governor has applauded Ryan, hailed the cuts in Medicaid and remained silent about the negative consequences facing his state. It's not too late for him to show that he puts New Jersey above party politics.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It was an unbelievable sight as massive flames shot out of the roof of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue at East 85th Street and Lexington Avenue on Monday night.
Firefighters battled the four-alarm fire and got it under control around 9:50 p.m. An FDNY spokesman said about 170 firefighters responded to the fire, which started at around 8:30 p.m.
Buildings next to the synagogue were evacuated. Members watched helplessly in horror.
"It's terribly painful. It's like watching a member of the family being injured," Brenda Bernstein told CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez.
Lee Stahl witnessed the blaze and captured some amazing video with his phone.
1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon spoke to members of the synagogue about the raging fire.
"The flames are unbelievable. I mean it went right through the building. It went right through all the floors. You could see the flames right through the stained glass," he said.
"My brother called me and he told me to get out. I had no clue what's happening. I immediately just ran out and I saw what was happening and I was shocked," Avery Brown said.
Fire Chief Robert Sweeney said that the majority of the roof had collapsed.
"We have structural concerns of the building at this present time. We're still maintaining an exterior presence," he said.
The synagogue was built in 1872. It was empty and undergoing renovations since May and was set to be completed by the holy days in September.
All religious articles had been removed before the construction. The rabbi and life-long members were devastated to see the destruction.
"I have complete faith that our community, which is 140 years old, will respond. We will rebuild whatever has been lost and with God's help. We'll go on," Rabbi Haskil Lookstein said.
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Visiting Scholars
Each year, the Stern School of Business invites outstanding doctoral students from distinguished universities abroad to engage in research and scholarly interaction at Stern for one or two semesters. Visiting Scholar PhD students are provided with an NYU ID card, library and data access, and the opportunity to sit in on PhD classes with the instructors' permission. Students will also benefit from participation in a wide range of seminars and from interaction with a large group of fellow doctoral students. A desk may be provided if one is available, but it is not guaranteed. Visiting scholars are not provided with housing or housing services. Visiting scholars are not permitted to function as employees at NYU.
The Doctoral Program
The Stern School offers doctoral studies in the following areas:
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For further information on the research taking place and courses being offered in each area, please see the related links under the Fields of Study.
Who May Apply
The PhD Visiting Scholars program is intended for current PhD students who are sufficiently proficient in their disciplines to engage in scholarly interaction that would benefit both Stern as well as the visiting scholar. As such, applicants must be doctoral students who are near the end of their required coursework or in the dissertation phase.
Visiting Scholar PhD students are charged a $8,000 fee per semester. In addition, in order for NYU to provide a visa, they must certify that they have health insurance and adequate financial support for the duration of their stay. Financial support can be from external sources, such as the student's home university or government, or from personal or family savings. PhD Visiting Scholars must make payment to the NYU Stern Doctoral Office prior to arrival.
Newly appointed scholars must pay a $100 fee to the Department of Homeland Security before a J-1 visa may be issued or a change to such status granted. A J-1 exchange visitor will be required to pay only one fee for the duration of the program.
This program and its requirements and procedures are subject to change without notice.
Application Procedure
In order to apply to be a PhD Visiting Scholar, students must first find a Stern faculty sponsor. A faculty sponsor should be a research professor who is interested in your research and is available to work with you. A directory of Stern faculty along with a description of their research interests and contact information can be found in the Faculty and Research pages.
To be considered, applicants must complete and submit our online application: http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/visiting/application.
Once accepted, students will be advised on the J-1 visa application process and will need to provide documentation of sufficient funding.
Interested students should apply at least four months prior to the start of their intended visit.
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LoL, I can't wait to see what the Lamers say about this one.
it's a great game. Too bad it was already released as a EURO version.
Yup. I've already got hooked to the EURO Version, which I think I'm gonna buy. It gets a little tricky in some places, though.
I've got the euro ver. but anyway...
This Damn game is getting always advertised on the tv.. Heh.
w00t! no bitching.
This is for the North Americans that want to get addicted to this game aswell I guess.
Dude rayman looks stoned in that 2nd screenshot!
he totally does!
and yes, im addicted to spongebob
You people are amused far too easily. Does anyone know if this game still uses the Rayman 2 sound effects or the new Rayman 3 sounds? I know the Euro one still used the Rayman 2 ones... but Rayman 3 has professional voice talent behind it's cutscenes, it would've made more sense for them to use the new stuff...
The game though is indeed good, but I'm stuck on one of those sodding lava levels where you get carted around on those floating platforms all over the place.


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As more is learned about the impacts of urban runoff on waterways, more regulations are developed in an attempt to mitigate those impacts. These regulations are generally developed at a federal level by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally-adopted Clean Water Act. The State of Oregon, through the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), has accepted delegation from EPA, meaning they are responsible for implementing the federal regulations at the state level.
DEQ has adopted two stormwater regulations that affect Albany:
- Willamette River Basin Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL); and the
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Phase II.
DEQ has determined that the Willamette River does not meet water-quality standards for temperature, mercury, and bacteria. Since Albany discharges stormwater and treated wastewater to the Willamette River, we have been identified as a Designated Management Agency (DMA) and are required to submit a TMDL Implementation Plan to help restore the water quality of the Willamette River. Many elements of the plan are related to stormwater. Albany is required to provide an updated plan every five years. Albany has been increasing its efforts towards TMDL compliance each year. Find more information about Albany's TMDL Implementation Plan here.
Now that Albany's population exceeds 50,000, we must comply with NPDES MS4 Phase II requirements. DEQ manages NPDES compliance through issuance of a permit that requires preparation and approval of a Stormwater Management Plan specific to Albany. The permit will specify many activities Albany must complete. DEQ is currently developing new permit processes and requirements for NPDES MS4 Phase II communities. Albany expects to be required to apply for the new permit in mid 2017. Details of the permit and required plan are complex and all generally fall under what federal rules call the six minimum control measures. Each measure is listed here with a link to the EPA fact sheet that describes it.
- Public Education & Outreach
- Public Involvement
- Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Construction Site Runoff Control
- Post-Construction Runoff Control
- Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping
These fact sheets provide a general understanding of basic regulatory requirements for a community of Albany's size. However, states that have accepted responsibility for implementing stormwater permits can impose more stringent requirements if they determine additional action is necessary to protect water quality. Based on review of DEQ's draft permits, Albany believes DEQ will attempt to impose much more than the federally-identified minimum requirements.
Albany staff along with their legal counsel are closely monitoring the DEQ permit development process. In addition, staff is participating in a DEQ advisory committee in an attempt to ensure stormwater program permit requirements are reasonable, implementable, and within the scope of the regulator's legal authority. Once a permit is issued, non-compliance is not an option. Regulated entities in Oregon that do not comply can be fined up to $37,500 per violation per day by EPA and $25,000 per violation per day by DEQ. When Salt Lake County, Utah, recently failed to comply, they were fined $280,000 and still must fully comply with their permit requirements (DOJ Case No. 90-5-1-1-10984). Third-party, citizen lawsuits can be filed to force compliance, and criminal prosecution is a possibility if the non-compliance is found to be intentional.
Visit Past Presentations and Public Meetings to see memo, presentation, and meeting minutes where the City Council discussed state and federal regulatory requirements.


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Republican Mitt Romney, in describing nearly half of Americans as being docile dependents of the state, and saying it's a "foreign concept" for government to redistribute income, is outlining a philosophy that's not only sharply at odds with President Obama's views. It's also difficult to square with the facts of how Social Security, Medicare, the tax code and scores of other institutions work.
Romney's claim that 47 percent of Americans won't take "personal responsibility," which he linked to their failure to owe federal income taxes, instantly crystallized his philosophical differences with Obama when the remarks came to light Monday.
Romney, trying to control the message amid widespread criticism, went further on Tuesday. He told Fox News that it's "an entirely foreign concept" for government to "take from some to give to the others."
The remarks echoed complaints often raised by conservative groups, including tea party activists, who denounce "redistribution of wealth."
But the remarks overlook basic facts, such as how the costly and popular Social Security and Medicare programs shift billions of dollars from younger people — who pay payroll taxes — to older people, who receive the benefits.
Similarly, the nation's progressive income tax system requires wealthy people to pay proportionately more, shifting some of their wealth to poorer people in the form of government services and welfare.
Federal excise taxes, along with sales taxes imposed by many states, work in the other direction, regressively. Because they are levied without regard to the payer's income, they take a disproportionately larger bite from poor people.
In the Fox interview, Romney took a calculated risk that most voters resent, or can be coaxed to resent, the government's redistributive role, even if millions benefit from it.
Some conservative activists, originally tepid about Romney, cheered his much-debated remarks about the "47 percent."
Obama talks much more than Romney does about society's responsibility to help the needy. His it-takes-a-village approach depicts government as a force for good – not only for the downtrodden, but also for entrepreneurs who rely on public schools, roads, police and firefighters to build their businesses.
"We have some obligations to each other," Obama told CBS's David Letterman on Tuesday. There's "nothing wrong with giving each other a hand."
Romney often portrays government as an over-regulating, over-taxing nuisance that hampers hard-charging "job creators." In the secretly recorded remarks to Florida donors in May, Romney described nearly half of all Americans as people "who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to take care of them, who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."
He was referring to the roughly 46 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax, although many of them pay sales taxes, payroll taxes, and state, local and excise taxes.
"So our message of lower taxes doesn't connect," Romney said at the May fundraiser. "And so my job is not to worry about those people," he said. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Democrats, and some Republicans, noted that these Americans include millions of elderly people, military personnel and working-class parents.
They also include a handful of very wealthy people. The IRS reported that, thanks to complex tax breaks, six of the 400 highest earning families in 2009 owed no federal income taxes.
The debate seems to be widening the philosophical gap between Obama and Romney.
In truth, both visions of America — as a society that cares for its elderly and downtrodden, and a society fueled by hard-working, self-reliant people trying to get ahead — have deep roots in the nation's history.
But recent events have made the two visions appear more at odds than they truly are.
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 contributed to big spikes in food stamp users, now about 48 million. The median U.S. household lost nearly 39 percent of its wealth from 2007 to 2010.
At roughly the same time, the tea party movement accelerated the Republican Party's shift toward a more solidly anti-tax posture. Refusal to raise taxes — even on the wealthiest Americans, and even in the name of slowing the federal debt's dramatic growth — has become a priority for many Republicans, especially in the House.
Democrats, meanwhile, note that federal taxes, as a share of the total economy, are at their lowest level in 60 years.
Some conservatives say the number of Americans receiving government benefits, and not paying income taxes, is alarming. Nearly half of all Americans receive some form of direct federal benefit. More than a quarter of Americans are on Medicaid, 16 percent receive Social Security, 15 percent are on Medicare and nearly 16 percent receive food stamps.
"When the number of people riding in the wagon outnumber the people pulling the wagon, how do you ever reform?" said Dan Mitchell, an economist for the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
Neera Tanden, head of the Democratic-oriented Center for American Progress, called that "a complete misunderstanding" of society. Americans, she said, "are the most religious, most hard-working people in the world. We are a nation of strivers."
The United States trails other industrialized countries, she said, "in the support that government provides to people. We are among the stingiest in the world."
In 1998, when he was an Illinois state senator, Obama told a college audience: "The trick is figuring out how we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody has a shot."
Obama and Romney are giving voters one of the most clear-cut philosophical choices in recent presidential history.
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If you have been researching online driving school marketing with a website, you would have probably come across the term SEO expert, and some driving instructors seem to think they have a magical solution that will make their new website get to page one on google within a few days just because they are charging you a fee!
I was speaking to a franchised driving instructor the other day who was thinking about becoming independent in a couple of months, so I advised him to setup his own marketing driving school website now rather than waiting till he actually has made the transition, but he gave me all sorts of excuses why he shouldn't do that, and finally capped it with 'all I need to do once ready is to contact an SEO expert who will get my website up and running within a couple of days'!
Anyone can pass themselves off as an SEO expert in order to get your money, and they can even provide you with fancy website templates or even point you to other 'customers' they have helped to get onto page one of google for a particular search term, but the truth of the matter is that it takes time, effort and knowledge to gain an advantage over your competition in the search engine wars, and the earlier you start, the better it is for you and the more easy it is for your optimisation efforts to be rewarded.
Organisations like the AA, RED, BSM and the likes of LDC have been around for a very long time, have aged domain names that have earnt trust, are well known brand names and have thousands or even millions of links from a diverse range of internet websites, forums, blogs and even they still consult SEO companies to keep them at the top using various means backed by a large budget, so don't think you are just going to start overnight and dominate your local niche just because you are will to give some £250!
Over the last year and half or so that this blog has been in existence, I have shared various tips to help you as a driving instructor market your business not only online with a website or blog, but also off-line via your car, business cards and even enlisting the help of your current learner driver clients.
One thing that you will always note is that I mention hard work, consistency and a continual process. If you have some extra money that you want to give away, then send some my way, but there is no secret to becoming a sucessful business owner, time always has to take its toll, buy your driving school domain today, and get started, even if you have a franchise, I'm sure you would be happier turning away learners rather than hoping for more than is being provided. I am a SEO expert, and I have successful driving school in nw3 to prove it.
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