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Arthur J. Altmeyer
|1935 Speech
The New Social Security Act
I APPRECIATE this opportunity to discuss briefly the Social Security Act which has just gone into effect because I believe that it is the most important act of the many important acts passed by the Congress that has just adjourned. Even though it will vitally affect the daily lives of the industrial workers of this country its specific provisions are as yet little known, nor are its full implications thoroughly understood. This is chiefly due to the fact that the Social Security Program is one that goes into effect only gradually and, therefore, is not of so much importance as the Work-Relief Act, for example, which undertakes to furnish jobs before the year is out to employable persons on relief
Perhaps the term Social Security is too general. Certainly it might be argued that all of the government's programs to save the homes, farms, businesses and banks of this country is intended to promote greater social security. A more exact term would be workers' security because the new and distinctive features of the Social Security Act are aimed at eliminating two of the most dreaded threats to the wage-earners' security -- unemployment and old age.
The Social Security Act contains a number of sections (or what are technically called Titles). These sections can be grouped into two categories. One category includes various grants-in-aid by the Federal Government to the states to help them finance not only old age, blind and mothers' pensions, but also certain types of public health and welfare activities. The other category provides for a system of insurance against the two hazards already mentioned -- unemployment and old age.
It is important to keep in mind the distinction between these two categories, which is best illustrated by the state old age pensions which the Federal government will help finance and the straight federal system of old age insurance. State old age pensions are paid only to persons who can establish they had no adequate means of support, but the benefits that will be paid under the Federal old age insurance system will be paid as a matter of right to qualified individuals who have been paying their contributions into the Federal Treasury.
I should like to discuss first the various grants-in-aid that the Federal Government will make to the states. In so doing, I shall refer to the amounts contained in the third deficiency bill which failed of passage because of a filibuster during the closing hours of Congress. The effect of the failure to pass this third deficiency bill will be discussed after I have described the various features of the Social Security Act itself. There was provision for an appropriation of $2,850,000 to aid the states in carrying on maternal and child health activities. This aid to the states will permit them to increase the amount of pre-natal and post-natal care for those who are unable to provide it themselves, and undoubtedly will have a most favorable effect not only on the maternal mortality rate, but on the infant mortality rate as well.
There is also an appropriation of $2,137,500 for aid to the states in furnishing treatment to crippled children, as well as an appropriation of $1,125,000 for assisting the states in strengthening child welfare services for the protection and care of homeless, neglected, and dependent children in danger of becoming delinquent.
Besides the grants-in-aid for the foregoing activities having to do with maternal and child welfare services, there is an $8,000,000 appropriation to be distributed among the states to assist them in establishing and maintaining adequate public health services. There is also an additional appropriation of $630,750 for grants-in-aid to the states to enable them to finance the vocational rehabilitation of the physically handicapped.
The grants for the maternal and child welfare work are made under the supervision of the Children's Bureau. The grants for public health work are made under the supervision of the United States Public Health Service, and additional grants for vocational rehabilitation are made under the supervision of the Office of Education.
Let us now turn to a consideration of the grants-in-aid for state old age pensions, blind pensions and mothers' pensions which are under the supervision of the Social Security Board just established. Probably foremost in the public mind is the Federal aid to the states in financing old age pensions. The Social Security Act provides that for every dollar, up to $15.00 per month per individual, that a state expends for paying such pensions, the Federal government will contribute an additional dollar. Thus, if a state pays an individual any amount up to $30.00 the Federal government will meet one-half of the cost. However, the state is not prohibited from paying a smaller or larger pension as the need of the individual requires. Thus, if a state paid a given individual a pension of $20.00 the Federal government would contribute $ 10.00 and if the state paid a given individual a pension of $50.00 the Federal government would contribute $15.00. In order that a state may obtain this financial assistance from the Federal government its old age pension law must conform with certain minimum standards.
The third deficiency bill included an appropriation of $37,312,500 to cover the grants-in-aid to the states for financing old age pensions. Unquestionably, this amount would have enabled the states to pay more liberal pensions as well as pay pensions to the many qualified individuals who are now not receiving such pensions.
Besides making an appropriation for this purpose, the third deficiency bill also made an appropriation of $3,000,000 for grants-in-aid to the states to assist them in financing blind pensions. These grants-in-aid would be made under substantially the same conditions as in the case of old age pensions.
In addition to financial aid for financing old age pensions and blind pensions the third deficiency bill also included an appropriation of $18,562,500 for making grants to the states to help them in financing aid to dependent children, sometimes called mothers' pensions. The Federal assistance to the states to finance aid to dependent children is on the basis of the Federal government paying $ 1.00 for every $2.00 expended by the state itself. However, in many states it has been necessary to suspend orto curtail expenditures for aid to dependent children because of lack of finances. Therefore, in this field as well, Federal aid is necessary to make the state efforts really effective and accomplish their beneficient purposes.
I should now like to turn to a discussion of the old age and unemployment insurance systems provided in the Social Security Act which, as I have already stated, fall into an entirely different category than the foregoing activities. First of all, is the Federal system of old age insurance which will provide benefits to qualified individuals in direct proportion to the total wages earned by such individuals subsequent to January 1, 1937, when they must commence making contributions to a Federal fund. The minimum monthly benefit will be $ 10.00 and the maximum will be $85.00. These payments will commence January 1, 1942, and will be paid to qualified individuals who become 65 years of age after that date and retire from regular employment. It is most important to again emphasize that these payments will be made as a matter of right and not on the basis of a showing of need. That is to say, qualified individuals will receive these benefits regardless of the amount of property or income they possess, just as they would receive benefits from a private insurance company to which they had paid premiums. Because of administrative difficulties, certain classes of employment are excluded from coverage at this time. However, all normally employed industrial workers are covered. The rate of contribution, which must be shared equally by employers and employees, is 2% of wages not in excess of $3,000 per year for the three years beginning January 1, 1937. This rate of contribution is increased by 1% at three year intervals until it reaches a maximum of 6% on January 1, 1949. Several concrete examples will best illustrate how much the monthly benefit will amount to. Let us first take the case of a young man, 35 years of age, who enters the system on January 1, 1937, and remains in the system for 30 years. If he earned an average of $100 per month during that period he would receive a monthly pension of $42.50 for the remainder of his life. Now let us take the case of an older person who was 60 years of age when he entered the system on January 1, 1937, and earns an average monthly wage of $100. When he retires 5 years later he will receive a monthly pension of $17.50. The young man, during the course of his life, would have contributed $900, and his employer would have contributed $900, but if he lives out a normal life expectancy, he would receive in benefits, $5,610. The older men would have contributed only $72 and his employer in equal sum, but he would receive in benefits, if he lives out his normal life expectancy, a total of $2,310. This Federal system of old age insurance supplements perfectly the state old age pension laws and is an illustration of why it was necessary toinclude in the Social Security Act all of these various provisions. The state old age pension laws will take care of the present aged population who are in need. The Federal old age insurance system provides an orderly method whereby people not yet old may contribute to a common fund out of which they will receive regular benefits when they have reached the end of their working life.
So much for the Federal old age insurance system. Now let me describe briefly the unemployment insurance system that is provided in the Social Security Act. The unemployment insurance system is based upon the plan of cooperative Federal-State action by which a state is induced to enact an unemployment insurance law best suited to its individual needs but conforming to minimum Federal standards. The Federal government creates the inducement on the part of the states to enact such laws by levying a uniform Federal payroll tax on employers employing 8 or more persons. This Federal payroll tax must be paid by employers regardless of whether or not they operate in a state that has an unemployment compensation law. However, if they operate in a state that does have a satisfactory unemployment compensation law they will receive credit for their contributions made under such a state law up to 90% of the Federal tax. Until the Social Security Act appeared likely of passage there was only one state in the Union that had an unemployment compensation act. However, due largely to the Social Security Act, 6 others have now enacted unemployment compensation acts, and it is probable that all of the important industrial states will have such acts within the next six months. The reason a Federal-state system of unemployment insurance is provided is that it was considered highly desirable not only to permit variations in benefit provisions in order to meet the particular needs of a given state, but also in order to keep administrative responsibility as close as possible to the persons directly affected by the system. Because of actuarial difficulties it is impossible to have an old age insurance system operate successfully as a state basis, or to permit variation in benefits as between states.
From the foregoing description it will be observed that the Social Security Program goes into effect by easy stages. Thus, the grants-in-aid to the States for pensions and welfare activities would have gone into effect immediately if it had not been for the failure of the third deficiency bill. The first tax levied in connection with unemployment compensation goes into effect on January 1, 1936. The old age insurance tax does not go into effect until January 1, 1937. Even when all of these taxes for unemployment compensation and old age insurance go into full force and effect more than 13 years hence, they will amount altogether to 9%; 6% to be paid by the employer and 3% to be paid by the employee.
When we realize the numerous wage adjustments that are always made in periods of prosperity, which seldom amount to less than 5 or 10%, we can better appreciate the relative burden that these taxes will impose. Moreover, and this should never be lost sight of, these taxes merely meet costs that are already present. Regardless of whether or not we levy these taxes, it will still be necessary to maintain persons who become dependent in their old age and it will still be necessary to feed the unemployed. These taxes merely undertake to make a more equitable and a more systematic distribution of existing costs.
Because of the failure of the third deficiency bill carrying appropriations to finance grants-in-aid to the States, due to the last minute filibuster, it appears impossible to provide these grants-in-aid until Congress reconvenes in January. This is most unfortunate because it means not only financial embarrassment to the States that have enacted laws with the prospect of receiving immediate Federal aid, but it also means hardship to the old people and children who would have otherwise received the benefit of this financial aid. Undoubtedly Congress when it reconvenes in January will take immediate steps to provide funds, since the need is so imperative. In the meantime states that desire to qualify for grants-in-aid under the Social Security Act should make certain that their laws and the administration thereof conform to the Federal standards. Many states will need to enact new legislation and other states will need to amend their present laws. It is the intention of the Social Security Board to give all states requesting it such technical assistance as they desire in drafting and amending their legislation. The Social Security Board will also be glad to answer inquiries of those desiring further information whether or not they are officials or private citizens.


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Nocturnal Delight.
Model: Gabriela Cortes
Studio: The Loft cs
Entire set can be viewed here imgbyalejandro.com
Newburgh Open Studios 2014
We opened our doors for our studio doors for the 4th annual Newburgh Open studios tour making our debut. I was featuring a new editorial titled Nocturnal Delight along with my good friend Jose Muniz featuring a few mixed media canvases. Turning the working studio into a gallery space was a thing of beaut… The works were all shot, edited, and featured within our same space for the tour makes for a feeling of fulfillment.

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We're so not done swooning over Kate Middleton's wedding dress yet, but we're going to turn our attention to the fabulous royal guests for a few minutes! Want to see who wore what? Check out our picks for the 10 best dressed...
Prince William's royal cousins--Beatrice and Eugenie--totally turned heads in their Phillip Treacy hats. Eugenie's electric blue number is by Vivienne Westwood, while Beatrice went with a detailed Valentino number.
The second most-watched couple of the day? Posh & Becks, but of course! Victoria Beckham wowed us with her version of maternity wear--a dress of her own design, paired with a Phillip Treacy topper and sky-high Christian Louboutin heels--while her hot husband showed his way with a Windsor knot.
You'd probably never see a maid of honor wearing white in the U.S., but Pippa Middleton pulled off this cowl-neck Alexander McQueen number with perfect grace. It shows off her gorgeous figure, but there's not a chance she could have upstaged her glowing sister on this day.
Queen Elizabeth II went with one of this season's hottest colors--bright, bold yellow!--in a perfectly tailored suit by Angela Kelly.
Who knew Joss Stone had such a sense of refinement? Her monochrome coral ensemble was perfectly chic--especially with that fabulous hat!
Speaking of fabulous hats...Princess Anne's daughter, Zara Phillips, gets our vote for the day's chicest! Hers is also by Phillip Treacy, and it gives the bride-to-be an air of total elegance.
Talk about royal blue! Tara Palmer Tomkinson, a British It-girl and TV personality, was no wallflower at this event. Her off-the-shoulder electric dress was even more wow-worthy thanks to a matching hat, gloves, clutch, and heels.
The prime minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, went traditionally British in a teal pleated sheath dress by Burberry. An Erdem statement necklace, orange scarf, and nude shoes completed the look.
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Caught it June 9th on a Suick. Chippewa Flowage Squaw Bay. Released of course.
Awesome Muskie!!!!!Congrats Dave….........
Beautiful fish! I'm heading up to lac courte oreilles on Friday for a week. I'll be sure to bring some suicks.
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Center for Student Support Services
The Center for Student Support Services is the major link between academic and student affairs to improve student retention through positive communications and relationships with students, faculty, and staff at Bradley University. The Center offers academic support services to assist students in their academic goals. The Office for Student Accessibility arranges for reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students with physical limitations. Students with medical emergencies can ask their physician to notify the university by contacting the executive director at (309) 677-3658. The Center for Learning Assistance provides accommodations for students with documented learning disabilities.


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Jan 08, 2017 Ali Hibbs Albany County, Art, Food and Drink, The Spot, Theatre, Towns 0Next weekend, from Thursday, Jan. 12, through Saturday, Jan. 14, the City of Albany and the Board of Directors of the Albany Chefs' Food & Wine Festival will host the 8th annual event at the...
Aug 27, 2016 John McIntyre Albany County, Galleries, News, The Spot, Towns 0The annual Travers Wine Tasting event to benefit the programs of Senior Services of Albany was at the Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs on Aug 26. More than 500 attended the event. Our...
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Our offices will be closed Monday, May 27th in honor of Memorial Day. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 28th at 8AM. Hope to see you then! ... See MoreSee Less
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Our offices will be closed Monday, May 27th in honor of Memorial Day. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 28th at 8AM. Hope to see you then! ... See MoreSee Less
CEO Carm Basile talks about a national trend that will be piloted right here in the Capital Region and how it will change the mobility landscape. ... See MoreSee Less
It sounds expensive. Will this be a way of subsidizing sprawl at the expense of denser urban areas that more efficiently support transit? Would there be more benefit to providing greater service to urban routes, instead?
Great idea Carm
Carmen a blast from the past
And would these vehicles be accessible? That would be a HUGE plus since STAR does not serve Clifton Park.
The plan they had for the bus route in Clifton Park was a total failure. The bus that ran between Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park called the 409, went between two bedroom communities and not down to Latham Farm and not even to the Walmart in Clifton Park. If someone wanted to work at Global Foundries had to take a bus from Troy out to Schenectady then take the bus from Schdy up to the Saratoga. A person would then take a bus down to where Global Foundries. It would have been easier if the 409 had went from Latham Farm up to Saratoga where Global Foundries was between those two. If a person live in the Bronx and worked in Manhattan, a person would have had to go up to Yonkers, then over to Rockland County, down to Jersey and finally into Manhattan.
I always wished there was a bus between Latham and Clifton park
It's something that's LONG overdue! I think it's gonna be a huge plus!
Take a ride on our complimentary Electric City Trolley in Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation this weekend!🚎🚎
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Capital District Transportation Authority - CDTA is at The Glen Sanders Mansion.
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Well deserved god bless 🤓
Congratulations boss such an honor to witness this awesome event!
Awesome Gary! Congratulations You deserve it and many more.
Congratulations Gary!!!
Congratulations family
Great job Gary!
Congratulations Gary. GREAT JOB!
This is awesome!! Congratulations Gary 😊
Way to go!! You have a great team.
Good job i miss working over there.
Congrats to my boss , one of the many reasons , i love my job
Congratulations Gary!!!!!
Congratulations Gary!! Well-deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Congrats Gary Guy on your well deserved award!! Proud that CDTA is a major sponsor and you are part of the MLK Coalition!
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Extraordinary men do extraordinary things. Congratulations Gary Guy and well deserved!
Proud to work for you Boss!! Gary Guy is a staple for CDTA!!
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If I lived there! I must come for a tour and to put my name in your long wait list!
If the water is not too cold.
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HOUSTON — Maybe the first sign of progress was that this time Royce White didn't react to the notion of being assigned to the NBA D-League by fire-bombing the Rockets organization via Twitter.
In fact, the 16th pick in the draft, who suffers from anxiety disorder and has butted heads with Rockets management since training camp, did not even Tweet a hint that he was joining the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in Bakersfield, Calif. and would be available to play in Sunday night's game against the Jam.
The 6-foot-8 forward out of Iowa State has been at odds with the Rockets due to what he claims is their unwillingness to accommodate his condition. The team had re-worked his contract to make provisions for White to sometimes travel between games by bus, since anxiety about flying is one of the symptoms of his illness.
White did not report to the Rockets' training camp in Hidalgo, Tex., home to the Vipers and, after getting no playing time in the first five games of the regular season, he went AWOL following a game at Memphis on Nov. 9. He remained at odds with the club when management insisted that he attend therapy sessions with a psychologist of their choosing, but has since agreed to terms and evidently been working to heal the wounds.
White resumed working out at the Toyota Center during the past week while the Rockets have been on the road. Sources have indicated that the next step in having him go to the D-League is part of a multi-week plan to fully integrate White back into the Rockets organization.
There is no timetable for White to return to the Rockets roster.


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Regarding the zip patch that moe made.
Its great!
However three slight ajustments i'd like:
1: If there is a directory mounted as a drive you can't mount a zip inside the "drive" as another drive. This could be default behavior of dosbox for files or also for directories (haven't tested it)
2: you can't drag and drop a zipfile into the dosbox.exe since dosbox refuses to mount a file.
3: A big one. I'd like that a special file is established in the dosbox directory for the case o f the mounting of zips that has (for example) the crc's of the zip file followed by the open files modifications only (in a format maybe like the diff program), that is persistant. A lot of work, and it merits some warnings about diskspace, but it would enable games that write to files, that can't possibly work with the way its implemented now.


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If reader mail (electronic and old-fashioned dead tree) is any indication, Maui is Orange County's favorite destination in Hawaii. I was recently on the island for the better part of a week, visiting from Kaanapali to Kihei, Paia to Wailuku. Here are a few interesting items I picked up along the way:
"Freight Trains" saved: The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation and the United States Army Corps of Engineers have indefinitely shelved plans to expand the harbor at Maalaea, according to Surfline.com. A plan to build out the breakwater was opposed by local activists and the Surfrider Foundation. It raised environmental concerns, and opponents also worried that it could ruin the "Freight Trains" surf spot by re-orienting waves. Surfrider Foundation CEO Jim Moriarty called the move as significant as the foundation's successful efforts to stave off development near Trestles, the famed surf spot on the border of Orange and San Diego counties.
New hotel at the airport: A Courtyard Marriott is nearing completion at the airport in Kahului, with a target opening date of late June. I found rates starting at $195 per night for mid-week in July, for visitors who are members of Marriott's Rewards program. The 138-room hotel is among the small but growing number of "second tier" brands of major hotels to appear in the islands. The hotel will target business travelers and airline crews, but it has meeting space for groups. With most of the resorts a long drive away on the west side of the island, it might help travelers looking to be close to the airport the night before their departure.
Hawaiian restarts L.A.-Maui service: Hawaiian Airlines announced it will resume nonstop service this summer between Los Angeles and Maui. The service will run June 21 to Aug. 18. American, Delta and United airlines also operate nonstop service on the route. Be prepared for price shock – many nonstop flights in the peak summer period are north of $1,000. Even with changing planes in Honolulu, most fares I found to Maui begin at $700.
Beach erosion: A U.S. Geological Survey report says Maui has the highest rate of beach erosion in the state, The Maui News reported. Based on data from 1899 to 2007, Maui beaches averaged 6.7 inches lost each year. The worst impact is at Baldwin Beach Park, which is losing 5 feet each year. Erosion rates were higher in the Kaanapali area than in Kihei or Wailea.
Hotel blessed, but still building: At the end of last year, a traditional Hawaiian ceremony blessed the upcoming Andaz Hotel, a 355-room Hyatt project that will renovate the long-closed Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort on the southwest coast. The project is now looking at a spring 2013 opening and promises a high-tech experience for guests. The Maui News reports the project will include 19 vacation homes that will be sold instead of rented.
No additional hostess bars: Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa vetoed an effort by the Liquor Commission to lift the cap on Japanese-style hostess bars. Arakawa left the 12-bar limit instituted two decades ago in place, reported the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Hostess bars feature women who serve alcohol and sit with customers, though they do not drink. They are common in Japan. Arakawa said he had received letters from constituents worried that more hostess bars would encourage sex trafficking. The bars are primarily in the non-touristy areas of Wailuku and Kahului (near the airport).
B&B anniversary: The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono is celebrating its 15th anniversary. It's testimony to owners Janice and Tom Fairbanks that a B&B in Wailuku could not just exist, but thrive and win lodging awards. Rates from $165 per night, plus tax. The seat of Maui County (which also includes the islands of Molokai and Lanai), Wailuku is a workaday town far from beaches and high end-shopping. But the city is close to the airport in Kahului and has a funky old-Hawaii charm that's worth a day and a night, especially if you have an early-morning flight off the island.
Deer problems: Axis deer have caused at least $1million in damage to farms, ranches and resorts on Maui, The Associated Press reported. The deer, native to India and Sri Lanka, were brought to Oahu and Molokai in 1868 but didn't arrive on Maui until 1959. There are up to 5,000 deer on Maui, which eat voraciously. A "working group" is drafting a plan on how to reduce their numbers.
Hana hotel changes: The Travaasa Hana resort is coming up on its one-year anniversary. If you've never heard of it, it's because the new owners ditched the venerable name Hotel Hana-Maui, perhaps because it had become too venerable since it opened in 1946. The 69-acre resort has effectively divided its 70 units into two hotels. The Sea Cottages are geared for longer, all-inclusive stays that include meals and activities. The Garden View Suites on the original grounds are targeted for overnight guests driving the 52-mile Hana Highway. Rates vary widely depending on accomodations and type of package. Garden View Suites with no meals start at $200 per person, per night, plus tax. There a several packages, special rates and longer stay discounts. I think the name change is a mistake, but it certainly drew renewed attention to the resort.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. —Several strong individual performances helped UC Santa Barbara to sweep of the men's and women's dual meets over Blue-Green Rival Cal Poly on Saturday.
The Gauchos, who won 22 of the 38 events, swept the Mustangs, with a 102-96 win for the women and a 101-96 triumph for the men.
Both meets came down to the final events. Danielle Moreno set-up the UCSB women's victory with a 9:57.55 time in the 3,000 meters, besting three Mustang runners. Albert Hughes equaled the feat for the Gaucho men by winning the discus with a toss of 159 feet, 4% inches on his final throw.
A second-place finish in the discus would have clinched the overall victory for the Gauchos, but Dolan wasn't about to tell Hughes to just maintain.
Earlier, Hughes took the hammer with a throw of 177-5.
Veronica Gines won the long jump with a season- best 19-1/2, about two inches off her personal record and landed second in the triple jump with a 33-9 3/4, adding a second place behind teammate Irene Kujore in the hammer with 166-6.
Kujore easily bested the competition and her season-best with 193-4 3/4 in the hammer, nine feet better than her previous best — then topped her season-best in the discus by five feet at 159'09.5.
Derek Masterson, who injured his hamstring at the Sam Adams Multi Event meet a few weeks ago, returned to action and won the javelin with a throw of 205-6 1/2.
Grace Esslinger won the women's 100 in a personal best 11.86.
One of the more impressive feats on the day was in the women's 4x400 relay. The Mustangs loaded for bear with their two top runners up front and had a commanding lead to start the third leg of the race, but 200-meter winner Jennifer Carey was having none of it.
Carey made up more than half the distance, then handed the baton to Amanda Rodriguez — the 400-hurdles winner — who took care of the rest, passing the Poly runner with about 200 meters to go and cruising to a 2 1/2-second victory at 3:49.41.
The men's 4x400 had a convincing 3:13.10 win, and like the women had a large cheering section to push them to victory.
UCSB returns to the track on May 3 when it competes in the Big West Multi Events competition. The Gauchos will also travel to the Occidental Invitational on May 4 and then the Big West Championship meet the next weekend.


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Get directions to Wabash College Fine Arts Center
The Wabash College Brass Ensemble and Jazz Band will present a fall concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 12, in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
The Brass Ensemble, under the direction of Peter Hulen, Assistant Professor of Music, will perform several selections.
The Jazz Band, under the direction of Steve Robinett, will perform music composed by several jazz legends. "Ow," by Dizzy Gillespie; "Now's The Time," by Charlie Parker; "All Blues," by Miles Davis; "St. Thomas," by Sonny Rollins; and "Take Five," by Paul Desmond.
Admission to the concert is free. The public is cordially invited.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell Thursday, with the S&P 500 tallying its first two-day losing run this month, as a weak regional manufacturing index and uncertainty over U.S. monetary moves hit sentiment.
"We're facing sequestration, gas prices are higher and the payroll tax just went up, so people are starting to realize the impact on their paychecks," said Schwab director of market and sector research Brad Sorensen.
The approach of the March 1 deadline for federal budget reductions, known as sequestration, also kept investors on shaky ground, with the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX VIX, -4.96% rising 9.5% following a 19% rise on Wednesday, its greatest leap since late 2011.
But Main Street and Wall Street are suffering from "government crisis fatigue — as we've been down this road so many times, so it's another thing that goes into the mix," said Sorensen.
After falling as much as 93 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.11% closed down 46.92 points, or 0.3%, to 13,880.62, with two thirds of its 30 components in the red.
Moderating the drop, component Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, -0.05% rose 2.4% before reporting first-quarter results after the close. Read more on movement in tech stocks.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.36% climbed 1.5% after the retailer reported a fourth-quarter profit that beat estimates and hiked its dividend.Read more on Wal-Mart.
The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.19% retreated 9.53 points, or 0.6%, to 1,502.42, with information technology falling the most among its 10 major sectors.
"The S&P 500 is coming up on first support at 1,495. On a clear break, our downside target is the 1,474 area. This is the home of the 50-day moving average and the January break," noted Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus & Company.
Verifone Systems Inc. US:PAY fell nearly 43% after the manufacturer of credit-card terminals projected second-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates due to Europe's soft economic climate.
Safeway Inc. US:SWY shares leapt 14% after the grocery-store chain reported a rise in fourth-quarter net income, with its chairman and chief executive telling a conference call there had been no noticeable impact from the payroll-tax cut that reduced paychecks for many. Read more on Safeway's results.
The Nasdaq Composite index COMP, -1.58% declined 32.92 points, or 1%, to 3,131.49, leaving it down 0.3% for the month.
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For every stock rising more than two fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where nearly 814 million shares traded. Composite volume exceeded 4.2 billion.
Keeping drop in perspective
Investors were looking for a reason to pause an advance that has the S&P 500 index currently up more than 5% for the year, said Schwab's Sorensen. "Typically after the run we've seen I wouldn't be surprised by a pullback in the 3% to 5% range. We probably needed a bit of a selloff to get some of the speculative money out of there," he said.
On Wednesday, stocks fell sharply after the release of minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting revealed talk of scaling back economic stimulus by varying the rate of Fed asset purchases.
"There were a few Fed members that talked about the possibility of adjusting their asset purchases. And certainly there are some on the street that believe they should stop, or at least reduce them, and let the economy start running on its own. It's encouraging they believe the economy is strong enough to handle that now," Sorensen said.
Equity investors "might have been looking for an excuse to take profits," said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. "If it wasn't the Fed minutes, it might have been something else," he added.
While the market is likely in for near-term declines, stock prices should trend higher, given the Federal Reserve's policy of monetary easing, said Schiff, who opposes the economic stimulus. "I don't think stock prices are going to go up as fast as gas prices, for example," Schiff said.
In economic news, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's index fell to minus 12.5 in February from minus 5.8 the month before. Read: Weakening new orders hit manufacturing.
Other economic reports had the index of U.S. leading indicators climbing for a second month in January, and the sale of previously owned homes up 0.4% in January. Read: Home sales inch up in January.
The Labor Department reported jobless claims rose by 20,000 to 362,000 last week and that consumer prices were little changed last month, with a decline in energy costs helping to offset rising prices for goods and services. Read more on jobless claims.


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SOCORRO, N.M. May 8, 2002 -- Nick D. Pattengale, a December 2001 graduate of New Mexico Tech, is one of six U.S. university students who recently were named winners in the IBM Linux Scholar Challenge.
Out of more than 1,400 students from 64 countries entering the inaugural international competition, Pattengale was among a select group of 25 students from 14 countries who were awarded IBM ThinkPad laptops for their successful efforts in developing and submitting the most innovative Linux applications.
While still an undergraduate majoring in computer science at New Mexico Tech, Pattengale began studying both operational and functional improvements to Linux-based systems, seeking ways to improve the Linux user interface.
In the course of his research, Pattengale says he became convinced that by following superior interface design principles,
developers could make Linux stand out from the pack as the premier computing environment.
"In the paper I submitted to the Linux Scholar Challenge, I argued for human-computer interface improvement for the Linux user," Pattengale says. "I then implemented a software demo/testbed of the concepts outlined in the paper.
Pattengale is now a software engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he currently works on adaptive control systems and diagnostic visualization tools for particle accelerators.
"I hope to go on to grad school in the not-too-distant future to pursue human-computer interface research," he says.
While at New Mexico Tech, Pattengale was a member of several teams that participated in various computer programming contests, one of which won the 2001 New Mexico Tech Invitational Programming Competition, as well as three others which all placed second in other regional programming contests.
"I can't say enough about New Mexico Tech," Pattengale says. "It was a strange occurrence that I ended up in Socorro after living in Los Angeles; however, someone must have been looking out for me. . . . The computer science curriculum at Tech was very relevant to today's job market.
"Although, the most outstanding aspect of New Mexico Tech is the peer groups," he adds. "I wouldn't be near the intellectual level I feel I have achieved if it weren't for my 'way too intelligent' friends and colleagues at the university."
Announced in August 2001, IBM developed the Linux Scholar Challenge to familiarize university students with the open source Linux operating system and the workings of the open source community, encouraging these young programmers to develop cutting-edge projects based on Linux systems and technology.


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We strive to remain current on the most recent developments in the medical arena. This includes the changing technologies, reimbursement rates, and legal/regulatory issues that face our clients every day. Because of the ever-changing nature of healthcare, we try to create flexible design responses that not only look at the short-term solutions, but also the long-term ramifications. We pride ourselves on our integrity, and if for any reason your project does not appear viable, we will not hesitate to recommend not proceeding forward. You don't succeed in this business for more than a quarter century by selling your clients short.


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The Twilight Zone: Unassisted Triple Play
If you missed this game, I pity you. Complete insanity. But let us begin at the beginning:
Going back to New York for the first time since leaving the Mets, Pedro Martinez had an eventful day on the mound.
However, his start on the mound was actually preceded by his first turn at the plate. The Phillies absolutely destroyed Mets starter Oliver Perez taking him deep twice in the 1st; both Jayson Werth's and Carlos Ruiz's homers scored 3 runs each. Down 6-0 with 2 outs, Perez had to face his old teammate and Martinez stood at the plate while Perez tossed three straight balls to him. With that 3-0 count, the Mets manager sprung from the dugout and took Perez out of the game mid-batter. To sum up the inning for Perez: total humiliation.
But the bottom of the 1st inning was no less eventful. The first batter of the game for the Mets hit what looked like a ground rule double to centerfield. As the ball jammed itself under the outfield padding, Shane Victorino threw his arms up in the air to tell the umpires that the ball was unplayable. Raul Ibanez saw that the umpires did not react and quickly snagged the ball and threw home, but the throw arrived too late and Angel Pagan wound up with an inside-the-park home run. Apparently, Victorino was unaware of the ground rules in the new Citi Field and balls stuck under the padding are still considered playable.
Both sides must have felt like they were entering the Twilight Zone after the weird start to the game. Martinez looked uncomfortable on the mound and was missing his spots badly. He allowed 4 runs in the first 3 innings but just when it looked like it was going to be a very bad day for him, Martinez settled in and pitched lights out for the next 3 innings. He was so good the last two innings, it looked like he might go out for the 7th, but Charlie Manuel decided to go to the bullpen. The Phillies are probably trying to continue to ease Martinez into longer outings little by little and did not want to risk an injury.
The Phillies scored a few more runs in the game and even Martinez helped himself to a hit and an RBI in the game. Victorino took a career high 3 walks in the game and Eric Bruntlett had 3 hits in a rare start at second base. But the insanity continued into the 9th inning and most of it had to do with Bruntlett.
Bruntlett hit a line drive to right field in the 9th and it was just barely caught by the outfielder; the umpire ruled he trapped the ball and it looked like Eric had a triple. But the Mets argued and the officials overturned the call; a call that, by the way, was NOT reviewable. Replays showed he did make the catch but he did not show the transfer from glove to hand to the umpire.
Then in the bottom of the ninth Brad Lidge took the mound and all hell broke loose. Ryan Howard missed a ball that rolled past him and gave the Mets a triple when it should have been the first out. The next batter hit the ball to Bruntlett who bobbled it for error #2; the run scored and still no outs. Daniel Murphy hit a single to make it 1st and 2nd, still no outs. And then the unbelievable happened; Jeff Francour, the same Met who caught the Bruntlett liner in the top of the 9th, hit a line drive to guess who? Eric Bruntlett. The runners were off on the pitch so Bruntlett caught the ball for one out, stepped on second for the next out and then tagged Murphy to complete the unassisted triple play! The unassisted triple play to END the game no less. OMG!
The announcers said that this was the first time ever that an unassisted triple play ended a game; but it is actually the 2nd time. Johnny Neun did it on 5/31/27 for the Tigers. But in all of baseball history, it was only the 15th time the unassisted triple play has ever happened. Two of those have now been completed by Phillies; Mickey Morandini did it on 9/20/92 for the Phils. You just saw history people; more rare than the no-hitter or even the perfect game; the unassisted triple play – AMAZING.
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Florida, N. Hampshire races cap primaries
Voting held in 12 states and D.C. on 'Super Tuesday'
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Janet Reno is internationally recognized and a former U.S. attorney general and one-time guest of Saturday Night Live, but she's now struggling to win the Democratic primary nod to challenge President Bush's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
In New Hampshire, U.S. Sen. Bob Smith will learn whether Republicans have forgiven him for bolting the party and calling the GOP a "fraud."
Mayor Anthony Williams restored Washington's fiscal dignity, but he now faces a humiliating write-in bid for a second term.
And no one's missing the irony in North Carolina, where Bill Clinton's top aide during the Monica Lewinsky saga is favored in a potentially close race for the Democratic nod to succeed the legendary Clinton critic, Republican Sen. Jesse Helms.
All of this happens Tuesday,the so-called "Super Tuesday" of primaries for the 2002 election cycle.
Primaries will take place in 12 states and Washington, D.C. Voters will nominate candidates in 10 gubernatorial races and four Senate races, several of which are among the most closely watched in the country this year.
In Florida, the Democratic race for governor has boiled down to a face-off between Reno and Tampa attorney Bill McBride, a political newcomer who nonetheless has drawn key labor endorsements.
Reno has seen her sizable lead in the Democratic field disappear; she is now locked in a dead heat with McBride, whom polls show would pose a more serious threat to Bush. State senator Daryl Jones trails in polls and fund raising.
Bush, whose own polls show McBride ahead, has taken a page from California's Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and has launched a big TV ad campaign against McBride.
Nonetheless, Bush has significant leads over both Reno and McBride in head-to-head matchups. He sits atop a formidable war chest and can surely call upon his brother for help if needed.
New Hampshire Republicans, scorned by two-term incumbent Smith, are sharply divided over whether to reward him with another nomination or switch horses and back U.S. Rep. John Sununu.
Smith bolted the GOP in 1999 in a futile effort to revive his presidential bid and took to the Senate floor to denounce the Republican Party.
"Republicans' commitment to gun rights and to the rights of the unborn is a fraud and everyone knows it," he told his colleagues during a 50-minute floor speech.
Smith returned to the GOP, but only after Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Chafee died in October 1999 and Smith was in line to take the committee gavel.
Sununu, son and namesake of the former New Hampshire governor and chief of staff to the first President Bush, is running a strong race, and polls show he poses a greater threat to the likely Democratic nominee, Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who ranks on several Democrats' short list of VP prospects.
Recent polls had showed Smith was cutting into Sununu's lead, but a new poll conducted after a recent debate showed Sununu had opened up a 22-point lead. Insiders expect a closer race, but most still say it's Sununu's to lose.
In New York, Cuomo drops out
Almost a year to the day after the terrorist attacks postponed primaries in New York City, Empire State Democrats will choose a challenger to Republican Gov. George Pataki. Pataki's approval ratings rose considerably after September 11, but not to the sky-high levels of Rudy Giuliani or George W. Bush.
The suspense in that race disappeared last week, however, when Andrew Cuomo, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary under President Clinton, dropped out and endorsed state Comptroller Carl McCall, an African-American.
Look for the former president and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, to play heavily in McCall's race this fall.
Following a four-month delay, Tar Heel voters will nominate Senate candidates to replace Helms. Little suspense here, at least until this fall.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, Republicans will select former Red Cross president and 2000 presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole, while Democrats are likely to choose Erskine Bowles, who served as Bill Clinton's chief of staff during the Monica Lewinsky saga.
Dole is widely favored over two little-known GOP rivals. Bowles faces North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and state Rep. Dan Blue, a former House speaker who is African American.
Neither Blue nor Marshall has raised enough funds to remain competitive in the closing days of the Democratic race. The North Carolina primary was delayed due to a legal battle over the state's legislative redistricting plan.
Citing the delay, Tar Heel analysts expect relatively few voters to participate in Tuesday's primaries. Indeed, with the Senate contest being held at a time unfamiliar to North Carolina voters, and the news being dominated by talk of war with Iraq and the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, only roughly one-sixth of voters are expected to take part.
That could be the makings for an upset, and Blue, who has worked all summer to develop a strong grassroots get-out-the-vote network, stands to benefit the most.
Although he's a popular incumbent and faces no major opposition, D.C. Mayor Williams may have a suspenseful primary night due to widespread forgeries and other irregularities on his nominating petitions.
With that in mind, the local elections board kept him off the Democratic primary ballot. Still, Williams should prevail with relative ease. A Washington Post poll conducted late last month showed Williams leading Wilson 44 to 10 percent.
Democrats eye Morella's House seat
A fiercely competitive Democratic primary for a House seat is taking place just outside Washington in suburban Maryland, where state Delegate Mark Shriver, a Kennedy nephew, is battling with state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen for the right to challenge vulnerable Rep. Connie Morella, a Republican.
Shriver leads in recent polls, but Van Hollen has shown some recent momentum, drawing endorsements from major newspapers, including the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. Former Clinton administration aide Ira Shapiro and Deborah Vollmer also are running.
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In order to standardize names of organisms, back in the the 1700s, a Swedish botanist named Carl Linnaeus developed a two-name system. Referred to as, binomial nomenclature, it is the system with which we use–even still today–for naming organisms.
The word binomial means "two names." So it is by using two names that we fully name each organism, in the same way that you have both a first and a last name. In binomial nomenclature, the first of the two names indicates the genus name. A genus is a group of closely related species. The second name is the species name; often it is a Latinized version of a word that describes a trait of the species, a location where the species can be found, or even an influential person in the discovery or science of that particular species. See the accompanying image.
Finally, you need to know how organisms are classified. Scientists try to make maps, or trees, called cladograms to show the relationship between different species. It used to be that organisms that were organized in cladograms based on physical similarities the species shared with one another. For example, as the name implies, the horseshoe crab looks like a crab. In fact, it's actually more related to spiders than it is to crabs!
Now that science has advanced greatly in the past half-century or so, cladograms are built using information scientists gather from DNA and RNA sequencing. We're finding out that like the horseshoe crab, some things we thought were related aren't really all that close! Have you ever heard of a panda or a koala being referred to as panda bear or koala bear?
Bears are members of the family Ursidae. The bears you think of when you hear the term "bear", like the grizzly bear and the polar bear are in genus Ursus. Ursus is one of the genera of family Ursidae. Pandas are members of family Ursidae, but their genus is Ailuropoda. So they're technically bears!
Koalas share the same class as the bears, Mammalia. That's as close as they're related. Koalas aren't bears any more than dogs or whales are bears.
One last note: as you see in the image, the proper way to discuss a species is using the full name and italicizing it. The genus name gets capitalized, but can also be abbreviated by the first initial. For example, koalas would be Phascolarctos cinereus or P. cinereus and pandas would be Ailuropoda melanoleuca or A. melanoleuca.
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Nicholas C. Petris, who was a leading liberal voice for nearly four decades as a California state senator and assemblyman representing his hometown of Oakland and other East Bay cities, has died. He was 90.
Petris, who retired in 1996 because of term limits, died Wednesday at the Oakland retirement facility where he had lived in recent years, his former chief of staff, Felice Zensius, said. The cause was old age, she said.
A Greek American known for his eloquence from the floor of the state Senate, Petris championed a host of liberal causes during his career, offering legislation on behalf of the poor, the sick and the elderly. A Democrat, he also wrote laws that increased environmental protections and expanded the rights of farmworkers and tenants.
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"He was the last of the real giants of the old Senate," former state Sen. John Burton, now chairman of the California Democratic Party, said Thursday. "He never compromised his principles and was true in what he believed — a real intellectual liberal."
Legislation that bears Petris' name, the 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, bars the involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals of most people with mental illness. He also wrote laws that required redevelopment agencies to build housing for low- and moderate-income residents, and prohibited smoking on airplanes, trains and buses in the state.
As an assemblyman, he was also the co-author of legislation that was credited with saving San Francisco Bay from overdevelopment.
"He felt that government was for people who needed help, that the wealthy are good on their own," said Zensius, who worked for Petris for 25 years, the last 10 as his chief of staff. "So when crowds of lobbyists came to our office, it was people advocating for the mentally ill, the farmworkers, the elderly. That's what he cared about."
He was sometimes controversial. In the late 1960s, he introduced a bill calling for elimination of the internal combustion engine, sparking outrage in the auto industry. The bill failed, but Petris' efforts were credited with leading to stricter controls on air pollution in California.
Nicholas Christos Petris was born in Oakland on Feb. 25, 1923, the son of Chris and Mary Petris, who were both Greek immigrants. He spoke mainly Greek until he started school.
He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and a law degree from Stanford University. He served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, then worked as a lawyer before he was elected to the Assembly in 1959 and to the state Senate in 1967.
Petris was known for his oratory and for peppering his Senate speeches with quotations from Greek philosophers and politicians. "For Christ's sake, Nicky, you're doing Pericles," Burton said he would tease Petris, a reference to the great statesman of ancient Athens.
In 1991, Petris was among the many who lost their homes in the Oakland Hills to a devastating wildfire that destroyed more than 2,700 residences. The blaze also claimed his beloved personal library, filled with volumes of Greek philosophy, Greek history and English literature.
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Soon after, his colleagues in the Senate lined up and one by one presented him with books to help fill the bookshelves in his new library. "I was in tears the whole time," he told the Modesto Bee several years later.
Anna Vlahos Petris, his wife of 60 years, died in 2010. Survivors include his brother Gus.


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It hurts. It's painful. It didn't have to be done, but I'm grateful that Barry Rubin has undertaken a close reading of one of Thomas Friedman's recent profusions of inanity. Rubin begins with an apt quotation from Bob Dylan and then says in his own words:
The entertainment director on the ship of fools that constitutes so much mainstream analysis of the Middle East—I refer, of course, to Thomas Friedman—has produced a wonderful paragraph that beautifully characterizes the problem, exquisitely expressing a Western mentality that not only makes it impossible to understand the Middle East but even to set up the question in a way people that could help people even begin to confront the truth. So perhaps it is worth disassembling. Sound like fun? Let's go!
Now how can you resist an invitation like that?
Related: "Thomas Friedman, you pitiful fool" and "Thomas Friedman, you pitiful fool, cont'd."


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The secret to Italian fluency is your language intuition
The key to infusing a language into your brain so you can actually speak it, is to train your language intuition. If you spend a lot of time just memorizing Italian grammar rules and stuffing the analytical part of your language brain, you will never become fluent in Italian. Unfortunately, grammar rules is what most teachers in classrooms spend most of the time on. You have to target your language intuition.[expand title="So what is the language intuition? Click here to read more" swaptitle="Close this section" swapalt="Click here to go back"]
Let me ask you a question: What do you think is most important for learning a new language:
learning facts about the language?
or begin using the language?
One of the most revolutionizing and surprising discoveries by language scientists is that these two are not the same, not even close.
Learning facts about a language – like reading about grammar rules – enables you mostly to talk about … grammar rules! It really does not help you much to speak the language.
When you hear someone speak Italian and want to understand it, it doesn't matter how many tables of verb endings you have memorized. There is no time to check the verb endings and "look them up" in your mental verb charts – in real time. At a speed of perhaps 100 words per minute this analytical part of your brain is much too slow.
When you use a language actively, like listening, reading, or speaking Italian, you are not using your slow analytical brain-sector but your language intuition – a superfast language processor in your brain. This part of your mind can interpret a language at lightning speed, so that you can understand and speak a language live in real-time.
Just think about a language that you already know, like English. When you use this language (like reading this webpage), do you have to think consciously word for word about verb forms, word order, noun endings, and other grammar rules?
No of course you don't.
You might happen to know about the rule that plural nouns in English end with an -s, that adverbs end with -ly, and that most past tense verbs receive an -ed ending (like in "received"). But you don't think consciously about those rules when you read and speak English, because it is a very different part of your brain that can use a language in real time ('the language intuition') than the part that understands grammar rules (the 'analytical' part of the brain).
This is where so many language teachers and courses go wrong. They overemphasize grammar rules and training the analytical brain sector.[/expand]
How you train your language intuition to understand Italian
The secret solution according to the research: by reading and listening to large amounts of understandable Italian.
This is how you learned your mother-tongue as a kid, and this is how you must learn Italian if you want to actually understand and speak it. Read large amounts of text in Italian, listen to spoken Italian, do some games and activities where you are 'forced' to think in Italian, and so on.
Our Online Italian course is based on this scientific insight and it does exactly this.
How Transparent Online Italian trains your language intuition
Our Italian Online course uses this breakthrough discovery. It is light on grammar (just the basics that you need to memorize), and then it trains your language intuition over and over until Italian is infused into your brain.
What our Online course does is let you listen to a lot of spoken Italian while you see the words on the screen and get them translated to English so you can understand them.
When you wish to learn some more about grammar-rules, there are some short videos explaining the most important aspects of Italian grammar, and we email you 50 days of tiny grammar rules to read each day. But most of the time in our course you use Italian rather than studying facts about it.
In addition to reading and listening our Online course has fun games and activities where you have to use the language actively, you are 'forced' to think in Italian.
When you are on the go, you use the app on your smartphone (Android or iPhone) or tablet (iPad or Android).
What is the secret 'micro-session' factor?
Scientists have discovered that that when it comes to language learning frequency is a vital key. 60 minutes of study time spread throughout the day in a number of shorter sessions is a lot more valuable then a single 60 minute session in the evening. Your brain needs to be exposed to Italian several times during the day. Review and repetition infuses Italian into your mind.
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meow wrote:Nizzy wrote:-Mike Rupp isn't a scorer, but he came in here and put in 6-7 goals one season. You need SOME production from the 4th line guys.
-This is why I was against the Adams signing because now you have 2 guys on the 4th line that just don't score, ever.
I don't understand this. The Pens led the league in goals for during the regular season. Why exactly do we need more goals?
the way we exited the playoffs was a pretty good example of why scoring depth is important. but the 3rd line is a better example of failure than the 4th in that regard.


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Howard Eskin has been one of Philadelphia's biggest sports radio personalities for more than 20 years. His reign as the city's self-professed "king" of the genre came to an end last month, however, when WIP switched to an FM format and his radio duties were cut back to a couple of hours on Saturday mornings, though he still does a lot of work as a television reporter. Eskin made his bones by never being shy about expressing an opinion, but his credibility took a hit with many listeners in recent years because he often refrained from being as critical of the Eagles (and head coach Andy Reid in particular) as he was with just about everyone else in the city.
Friday afternoon, Eskin took some of his renowned Eagles homerism on the road. He appeared on the Bay Area station KNBR and backed up his prediction about yesterday's 49ers-Eagles game after first making a guarantee. "There is no chance the 49ers win—zero. This is a stone-cold mortal lock," he said. At that point, his San Francisco interlocutors asked if he was sure enough about that to do something like walk between the cities if the Eagles were to lose. Eskin didn't flinch: "I'll take a bike from Philadelphia to San Francisco [if the Niners beat the Eagles]. Yes. There's no way the Eagles go 1-3. None. Absolutely none. ... They can't lose to the 49ers."
Eskin can't hide from this, either. KNBR has a podcast of his appearance on its website, and the part where Eskin gets bold begins at the 10:30 mark. In 1989, former Pirates announcer Jim Rooker said he'd walk from Philly to Pittsburgh if the Pirates blew a 10-0 first-inning lead against the Phillies, which they eventually did. After the season, Rooker made good on his promise and walked the 300 miles that separates Pennsylvania's two largest cities. But Philadelphia, it should be noted, is approximately 2,900 miles from San Francisco.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Senior guard Shaun Keaton (Albany, Ga.) of the Georgia College & State University men's basketball team (22-6) was named the GCSU Athlete of the Week for the week ending March 8. This is the fifth honor for Keaton and the seventh for the Bobcat men's team this season.
Keaton had two amazing games at the Peach Belt Tournament, hitting for a career-high 34 points in the win over North Georgia, and adding 20 in the loss to eventual champion Augusta State University. He hit six threes and nabbed five rebounds in the 34-point game, the most scored by a Bobcat since 1995. Keaton got 8-of-9 from the line against ASU, adding five more boards.
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Did Courtney Love crack the case? The 49-year-old singer claimed on Twitter Monday, March 17 that she may have found Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
"I'm no expert but up close this does look like a plane and an oil slick . . . prayers go out to the families #MH370," Love wrote, with a link to crowd-sourcing service Tomnod.
She also posed a photo of her evidence, with a diagram of where she believes the plane to be. "Really? look closer? check it out @DR24 #MH370 and its like a mile away Pulau Perak, where they "last" tracked it," she captioned her photo analysis. Click here to see photos of Courtney Love.
Love told New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer that she found the location herself. "Yeah I went to the satellite site and just uploaded tons and tons of pictures," she explained. "I really doubt aliens took it. It's got to be somewhere. I'm a little obsessive."
The rocker said she wanted to do her part to help locate the flight, which vanished on March 8, in order to help the families of the 239 passengers.
"I saw an article asked people to help search on Tomnod.com so I decided to give it a shot," she told Daily Intelligencer. "I figured a plane would still be leaking some fuel so I searched for signs of an oil slick. I found one and there appeared to be an object nearby. I don't know if it is the plane or not, but I figured I'd do my part and bring some awareness to the site, for the sake of all the families involved."
Tomnod, however, previously ruled out Love's possible location of the plane, saying, "Although it is still an interesting clue, it is looking much more like the other boats operating in the region."
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I'm trying to find a standard name or standard reference for two simple-to-prove relations involving binomial distributions.
$b(n,r,p) := \binom{n}{r}p^r(1 - p)^{n-r}$
i.e., it is the probability that, out of n coin tosses, exactly r turn up heads if the probability of a heads in each coin toss is p.
Then, the first identity is:
$b(n,r,p) = pb(n-1,r-1,p) + (1 - p)b(n-1,r,p)$
This can be proved directly using probabilistic arguments, or through algebraic simplication combined with the use of Pascal's identity. I thought it should be called the "probabilistic Pascal's identity", but Google doesn't agree with me.
The second identity for which I'm looking for a name is:
$\frac{\partial}{\partial p} b(n,r,p) = n(b(n-1,r-1,p) - b(n-1,r,p))$
This is easy to prove algebraically, using another recurrence relation for the binomial coefficients along the way; it probably also has a probabilistic proof.
These identities came up in the proofs of some theorems in an economics paper (models of utility functions of discrete variables) and the person writing the paper asked me if there are standard names/references for the identities, so that they can be referred to using those names without having to do the algebra in the paper.
Also, if anybody knows a place where one can enter an identity and determine whether it has a standard name or reference, that would be great.


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Regular Power Line Forum readers know that my favorite Forum is Patsy's, where culture and the arts are discussed and sometimes debated. So that's the logical place to locate discussion of this post on Libertas, a site devoted to critiques of motion pictures from a conservative perspective.
The post critiques the Sundance Film Festival that has just ended, replete as usual with depressing, anti-American films, and is titled, "Gloomy Sundance Reflects Lazy Filmmaking." An excerpt:
Not always, but for the most part, a dark, cynical take on things is the easy way out for an artist. Politics aside, the glut of these kinds of films reflects a dearth of talent in contemporary filmmaking. Successful art makes its audience feel something. So, a piece of art in the form of a film that makes the viewer feel ugly, dirty, depressed, or ill is in itself successful, but it


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Not everyone in Chicago is expecting a once-in-a-lifetime event come October.
But with so many Cubs fans already pronouncing this is "the year," their cautiously optimistic brethren make up a silent minority.
This championship-or-bust mentality is heady stuff for a franchise that hasn't won a World Series in 107 years, but there's no getting around the fact the Cubs have the talent to end their epic drought.
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Unfortunately, Ida fears her father's criticism
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home to try and talk to her father, Ida runs
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Cavaliers look to get well against slumping Suns
PHOENIX -- Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue admitted what the numbers shouted Sunday: the Lakers in general -- and power forward Julius Randle in particular-- strong-armed their way through the Cavaliers in a 127-113 victory.
The Cavaliers will look to reverse roles against a Phoenix team that despite putting up a lot of fight at Charlotte on Saturday has not had the results to match when the teams meet Tuesday at the Talking Stick Resort Arena.
Randle had a career-high 36 points and 14 rebounds Sunday while at times going against LeBron James, who had 24 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. The Lakers had a 51-37 rebounding edge.
"I thought he just out-toughed us," Lue said of Randle. "He bullied us all night and we had no answer for him."
After winning four in a row with victories over Boston and Oklahoma City amid the euphoria of the team remake at the trade deadline, the Cavs (38-28) have lost six of 10, including consecutive games against the L.A. teams in the second and third games of their season-long six-game road trip.
The Suns (19-49) have lost five in a row, 15 of 16 and 20 of 22, with two five-game losing streaks and a 10-game losing streak in that stretch. Their only victories have come at Memphis and home to Dallas. They have said they are not trying to lose to enhance their draft position.
James' only appearance against the Lakers at Staples Center this season engendered the usual speculation about his possible relocation to the cap-savvy Lakers, who will have money to spend on big-time free agents this summer, when James can opt out of the final year of a three-year, $100 million contract and become a free agent
James, 33, was positive in his short assessment of Lakers coach Luke Walton, which could be read as a neutral observation or a sign of interest.
"Since Luke took over, they've improved every single season, I think," James told reporters. "They just try to implement that ball movement, that body movement that he got when he was (an assistant coach) in Golden State."
James is averaging 26.9 points a game and has 39 double-doubles and 13 triple-doubles.
Cleveland is in fourth place in the tightly contested middle of the Eastern Conference playoff pack as the teams scramble for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
The Cavaliers are one-half game behind third-place Indiana, one-half game ahead of fifth-place Washington and another game head of sixth-place Philadelphia. They have scored at least 110 points in six of their last seven road games while winning five. They have scored at least 110 points in 35 games.
The Suns, meanwhile, are playing for next season for the second season in a row. They played without their top three scorers in a 122-115 loss at Charlotte on Saturday.
Devin Booker, who is ninth in the NBA with a 25.3 scoring average, missed the game with a left triceps strain and TJ Warren (19.7 points per game) was held out because of back spasms. Rookie Josh Jackson (11.5) also missed the game because of a knee injury suffered in a Thursday loss at Oklahoma City.
Booker, Warren and Jackson are considered probable for the Cavs after practicing Monday, when the Suns also signed backup point Shaquille Harrison to a multi-year deal as his second 10-day contract was about to expire. He had 14 points and four assists in 21 minutes at Charlotte.
Even though the Suns dressed only 11 players, including three who have spent most of the season in the G-League, they trimmed a 22-point deficit to two in the final two minutes of the Hornets' game while scoring 43 points in the fourth quarter, a season high for any quarter.
"We had a lot of guys really step up," interim coach Jay Triano told reporters. "I was really pleased with the complete effort."
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She was excited to be pregnant, excited enough that she brought the new sonogram of her unborn child to show coworkers.
But hours later that day in late March, R.L. -- as she came to be known in the pile of criminal court documents that followed -- felt sick, with cramping and pain.
R.L. went home and bled heavily the next day. She began to suspect the antibiotics her boyfriend had given her weren't really antibiotics at all.
Then, on March 31, doctors in Tampa, Fla., confirmed the worst: Her unborn child was dead.
Her boyfriend, James Andrew Welden, had given her an ulcer pill that, as a side effect, can induce abortion.
Welden, 28, pleaded guilty in federal court in Tampa on Monday to an elaborate plot to end R.L.'s pregnancy.
A judge will decide whether to accept the plea bargain, in which Welden agreed to spend nearly 14 years behind bars on wire fraud and tampering charges in exchange for prosecutors' dropping a murder charge.
Welden's attorney, Todd Foster of Tampa, told The Times in a phone interview that the government would not have been able to prove a murder charge because "it was a fact that was not scientifically capable of being demonstrated" that the pill definitely caused the miscarriage.
Still, Foster said of Welden, "He's taking full responsibility for his actions."
"I think the case is tragic from all sides," Foster said. "It's just a very bad situation from every angle -- it's terrible for the lady, it's terrible for the family, it's bad all around."
U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara warned that he may impose a harsher punishment in a Dec. 5 sentencing, according to the Tampa Bay Times. (Prosecutors didn't immediately respond to a request for comment after hours Monday.)
The sad details of the case poured out in the plea agreement:
Welden and R.L. had been dating since July 2012, and Welden learned about her pregnancy in mid-March.
"Text messages sent to and from the defendant to R.L.'s cellphone confirm the fact that R.L. wanted to keep the baby, but the defendant did not," the plea agreement states.
With the help of an unidentified co-conspirator at a pharmacy in Lutz, Fla., Welden procured a bottle of misoprostol pills -- an anti-ulcer drug with some worrisome side effects for pregnant women.
"Misoprostol administration to women who are pregnant can cause birth defects, abortion, or premature birth," the drug's warning states. "Uterine rupture has been reported when misoprostol was administered in pregnant women to induce labor or to induce abortion beyond the eighth week."
Welden's father is an OB-GYN. On the day after Welden ordered the pills by forging his father's signature, he accompanied to R.L. to an appointment at his father's practice to confirm the pregnancy.
The fetus, his father would later tell investigators, was healthy: a viable embryo measuring 8.26 millimeters, or about a third of an inch.
But "healthy" was not what Welden told R.L. the next day when the pills came in. He scratched off the markings on the anti-ulcer pills and put an antibiotics label on the bottle.
Welden told his girlfriend that his father had said she had an infection and that he would bring her some antibiotics. She took a pill, and the next day, as she stayed home sick, Welden "came to her house, brought her soup and feigned being supportive as R.L. expressed concern over the health of the baby," the plea states.
It was too late.
"So in the end ... what's going to happen when you give her the medicine?" a detective asked Welden, according to court records.
"Usually she'll have a miscarriage," Welden replied.
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Been a really cool experience out there, seeing the sets get build. You feel a different type of connection with the movie I believe. Just gorgeous stuff, looks like its going to be a great film!
So.. after drawing whales and ships for..a bit of time.. I had to get some machines out of the system, while having the time to test some different techniques.
Hope you enjoy!
I should mention this design is heavily influenced by Aaron Beck + Greg Broadmore and their awesome collaboration with BLR on Keloid II Check that stuff out!
Btw if you have an art blog using blogspot, watch out for uploading .jpgs.. looks like blogger messes with the colors. Seems you can avoid this by uploading a .png instead... silly blogspot.