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Come mid-October, Dee Truluck-Williams, 49, and her husband Jason, will pack up their Wolfeboro, N.H. home and head south to Venice, Fla., just as they have since 2010, when they bought their snowbird home. "When it starts to get cold in New Hampshire, we head down," says Truluck-Williams. "Within a few days, we're texting our kids' pictures—beer in hand, sitting on the beach," she jokes.
The couple didn't set out to become snowbirds, but after visiting an aunt down in Venice a few years ago, they were enticed by the real estate deals and the warm weather. They're not alone: Vacation-home sales (which are often in warm-weather destinations) rose 7% in 2011, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors—and analysts at the firm expect this rise to continue.
The average age of a vacation-home buyer was 50; the typical buyer purchased a property that was a median distance of 305 miles from his primary residence; and roughly three in four vacation homes were bought in the South and West.
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Among recent vacation home buyers, one in three bought because of the good deals on real estate, according to a 2012 study by vacation rental site HomeAway.com. "There's definitely been an increase in interest [in buying second homes] because people know there are great deals right now," says Karyn Glubis, a real-estate broker in Tampa. "A bunch of my clients are snowbirds from New York and the Northeast."
To be sure, there are risks as well as rewards to buying a snowbird home. Second-home markets tend to get hit particularly hard during recessions, says Steve Henley, national tax practice leader at accounting and tax firm CBIZ MHM.
And getting a loan to buy a second home isn't easy, which may explain why 42% of all vacation home buyers in 2011 paid all cash for their home, according to NAR.
It's also important to find the right locale. "Vacation there at least two or three times and rent there for a while before you buy," says Boyd Lemon, author of "Retirement: A Memoir and Guide," who spent years as a Boston-to-south Georgia snowbird before permanently moving south. "First impressions can be deceiving."
When visiting, you should investigate things like what residents are like, activities and community safety: More than eight in 10 snow birds say personal safety is key to their satisfaction in their warm-weather communities, 78% say the social opportunities are, and 63% cite the outdoor activities, according to a study published in January in the journal Tourism Management Perspectives.
It's also important to investigate health-care options in the area, says Michael Nuschke, a retirement adviser who splits his time between Ajijic, Mexico and Nova Scotia. Search online for rankings of nearby hospitals and talk to people who live there about what the options are, he recommends.
Then, there are the financial considerations. In addition to finding a good deal on a home, here are some money matters that aspiring snowbirds should consider.
The income tax issue can get complicated, especially if you hope to save on taxes by treating the snowbird state, rather than your home state, as your state of residency, says Henley. There's the simple part of the equation—what the new state's income-tax rate is (seven states, including Florida and Texas, levy no income tax) and whether and how the state taxes things like Social Security—which you can learn about at TaxFoundation.org.
Read related column from Robert Powell: The most tax-friendly states for retirees.
Then there's the harder part: Are you truly a resident of the new state so you qualify to pay income tax there, rather than your prior home state? "You need to seek professional advice when figuring this out because each state varies and it's really complicated," says Clarence Kehoe, executive partner of accounting firm Anchin, Block & Anchin.
In general, you usually have to understand two things, says Kehoe. First, what does it take to establish residency in the new state, and second, what does it take to break residency in your prior home state? To establish residency in the new state, the rule is typically that you have to live there for more than half the year, though there is a lot of nuance for that, he explains.
"Breaking residency in your home state can be much more complicated," says Kehoe. He uses the example of New York: "First they look at your days spent in New York and whether you maintain a permanent place of abode there; then they will also look at what your 'intent' is—is your new home really your permanent residence?," he says. To determine this, they may look at things like: Are most of your family business and social connections still in New York, do you still go to all your doctors in your home state, where do you keep possessions that are of value to you? "New York has recognized that people who say they move to Florida really are still New Yorkers," he says. "They raise tens of millions of dollars auditing people on this." New York isn't alone in this, so it's important to talk to your tax adviser., he says.


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And you thought John Key's bit on Letterman was a sad attempt at scaring up tourists. In Denmark the state tourism organisation filmed a fake YouTube appeal in which a hot Dane woman admitted her fling with a foreign visitor produced a child
So, have American tourists started calling up, expressing interest in the Cinnabon at Auckland Airport yet?
John Key's recent, odd appearance on Letterman was really designed to shape his profile back home with supporters, right? Duncan Garner's suggestion of a "tourism bonanza" was surely just generated by the excitement of being in New York. (Even Obama's election failed to achieve much of a tourism boom for his birthplace.)
Key awkwardly showed that he is not afraid to make an utter fool of himself for a good cause, and... well... apparently many New Zealanders find that a good thing.
For those who cringed watching the stand-up attempt, rest assured: it wasn't the strangest recent attempt at national self-promotion.
Denmark, where I live, could easily have taken the obvious road and used a late-night TV show gimmicky top-ten-list to offer Americans a free-ride from the airport in Princess Mary's chariot, or to highlight the 20% of Danish electricity generated through wind. ("Hey, They Don't All Have To Be Funny. Ergh").
But Denmark (which is about the same size and population as NZ) already has the American TV circuit covered: last week, Oprah came here for the Olympics 2012 decision and shot a show about how lovely life is for Danish people. And Danes believe that all eyes will be on Copenhagen and its wind-power this December, when leaders gather here to negotiate a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.
So, after great contemplation, they cheerfully decided to highlight the desire of hot, blonde, Danish women to have unprotected sex with tourists.
I'll explain this from the beginning.
Recently, a video shot on a webcam popped up on YouTube.
A woman—calling herself Karen26—introduces the viewer to her cute baby son, August. Karen26 reveals she is hoping to find a man who had visited Denmark eighteen months earlier. She asks him to contact her. August, she explains sweetly (and with a touch of embarrassment), is the result of a one-night stand she had with the tourist:
"We met and then decided to have a drink and, yeah, it's really embarrassing but it's more or less what I remember. I don't remember where you're from or even your name. I do remember though that we were talking about Denmark and that thing we have here with hygge that foreign people always ask about ... so I guess I decided to show you what hygge is all about, because we went back to my house and yeah, we ended up having sex.
"The next morning when I woke up, you were gone. I just want to let you know that August is here and he exists. I feel I owe that to both you and him."
She ends by promising that she is "not a bimbo": the tourist is the only possible father.
Hygge is a fundamental part of Danish culture which conveys coziness, fellowship, security, reassurance and well-being. VisitDenmark has a whole page trying to explain the concept, which it obviously hopes will make bleak, dark, cold winter sound more attractive to foreign tourists at this time of the year.
Although the media believed her tale at first, it took about five minutes for Twitterers to call fake, and another 12 hours for Karen26 to be outed as a (childless) actress, and for (taxpayer-funded) VisitDenmark to be revealed as the video's makers.
Sadly for the creative souls commissioned by VisitDenmark at great expense to create the viral campaign, the media dubbed the stunt "grotesque". Not so much because the video might promote unsafe sex, but because Danish women are already sick of tourists harassing them, and portraying the nation as a sex tourism destination went just a little too far, even for liberal Danes.
VisitDenmark was defiant, declaring it "modern story telling on YouTube in [Danish fairytale writer] HC Andersen's spirit". They argued that "the film is good exposure for Danish self sufficient and dignified women" and that it was "a nice and sweet story about a modern responsible woman that lives in a free society and takes responsibility for her choices".
But, about 24 hours later, the VisitDenmark chief executive resigned, and the video was deleted from YouTube. It has popped up in dozens of other places ever since, of course.
Instead of attracting more tourists to Denmark, it seems it just ended up scaring male tourists who'd been here 18 months ago.
But was it really such a failure? Sure, it got dubbed "the worst tourist advertisement ever produced" by Foreign Policy magazine. But it created a buzz. It even got that much sought-after late-night American TV attention (Bill O'Reilly hated it) without needing to embarrass the prime minister.

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Which 'Twilight' Fanfic Should Land A Publishing Deal Next?
As the big-screen iteration of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" draws to an end, it seems the fanfic her series inspired is about to enjoy its own moment in the sun.
To wit, E L James' erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey," and its sequels have already sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, with a film version in the works. And, just yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that another Twific "The Office" (retitled "Beautiful Bastard") will be making its way to bookstore shelves soon. Indeed, it's a good time to be a fan-fiction writer. All of which got us wondering which other "Twilight" takeoffs are worthy of prime placement at Barnes & Noble. We reached out to several in-the-know fanfic enthusiasts to get their opinions.
Check out their reading lists after the jump, and sound off with your own suggestions in the comments!
"The Blessing and the Curse"
"If the publishing world wants another 'Twilight' fan fiction series to snap up, key in a few name changes, and sell like hotcakes, they might want to give 'The Blessing and the Curse' by The Black Arrow a look-see. In this story, Bella was orphaned at a young age and raised by Esme, Edward's mother. Though she's engaged to another man, she pretends to be head over heels for Edward for oh-so-romantic-minded Esme's sake. Only, Edward the telepath knows better and makes it a mission to make her affections real. The life-long relationship between Bella and Edward is intense—at times almost too much so—which makes for an intoxicating, roller coaster-esque read. The plot and characters are just different enough to distinguish from the saga, and people love this fic a lot." —Amanda Bell, Twilight Examiner
"Wide Awake"
"I was introduced to the world of 'Twilight' fan fiction back in late 2008 through our message board over on the Twilight Facebook page. To this day, I am deeply invested and utterly in love with a story called 'Wide Awake,' written by AngstGoddess003. When talking about that story I tell others that it was so good, that staying up until 4 a.m. just reading it almost kept me from passing my classes that semester. Along with 'The Office,' that story continues to be one that I would pay money to read in print." —Lauren Suero, Twilight Facebook page
"There Will Be Blood"
"There are a lot of 'Twilight' fans who are fan-fiction lovers. A lot of them are quiet about their fanfic love. Others are more open about it. Personally, I read my fanfic on my eReader so no one knows what I'm REALLY reading. But embarrassment aside, fan fiction has introduced me to some amazingly talented writers. One of my favorites is JohnnyBoy7. I first read his story, "There Will Be Blood," at the recommendation of a friend and was immediately engrossed in the story about a family involved in the mafia. I'm pretty excited about the number of fan-fic authors that are getting publishing deals. I can't wait to see who's next. —Elena Raines, Twilightish
Have you read any of these fanfics? Which ones do you want to see land a publishing deal? Tell us in the comments and on Twitter!
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… Maru Sushi and Grill opened at 1583 Spinnaker Drive at the Ventura Village Harbor. The Korean fusion cuisine and barbecue restaurant offers fresh fish, lobster and crab for selection straight from the tank as well as indoor and outdoor dining. Karaoke on Friday and Saturday nights. … Very Ventura Gift Shop and Gallery recently held its grand-opening party at 79 S. California St. in Ventura. The gift shop offers locally made products, including photography, jewelry, specialty foods and more. … Curator and designer Jamie Kohler has made her exquisite and unique merchandise available to the public on echoesofopal.com. The site will serve as a vintage marketplace for home decorators, collectors and casual fans of beautiful old things. … Now open and coming soon at The Collection at RiverPark in Oxnard: Ben & Jerry's ice-cream shop, offering a wide variety of super-premium ice cream and ice cream novelties made with high-quality ingredients. J. Stephens is a retail shoe company specializing in both men's and women's high-end comfort shoes such as Pikolinos, Taos, Naot and more. Kriza Aveda Salon offers hair care and a variety of beauty services by a team of dedicated and talented professionals. Larsen's Grill will offer an extensive menu with the finest prime steaks and freshest seafood. The steaks are aged for four to six weeks in a unique, large facility with a highly skilled butcher present at all times to monitor airflow, temperature and humidity. Lazy Dog Restaurant and Bar serves a variety of meals: pastas, sandwiches, burgers, wok-fried dishes, brick-oven pizza and much more. The restaurant has takeout as well as a full bar and happy hour specials. Maria's Italian Kitchen, the "neighborhood Italian Restaurant," will offer a wide selection of dishes including, pasta, risotto, pizza, seafood, baked dishes, calzone and hot and cold sandwiches. Sabra Fish Grill will specialize in high-quality fresh fish dishes that are prepared quickly at affordable prices. Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill is a country-themed bar offering sandwiches, ribs, burgers, meatloaf and more, with beer served in mason jars. It will feature an 85-foot guitar-shaped bar and a venue for live performances. White House/Black Market, a boutique offering unique, individual collections of clothing, jewelry, shoes and accessories.
La Valle Mexican and Italian Restaurant reopened under the same owner as Ca' Marco Ristorante Italiano at 1002 E. Ojai Ave., suite C-D, in Ojai. The restaurant offers an authentic Italian menu, including pizzas, pastas, dishes with chicken, lamb, fresh fish and more.
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Steve Delsohn won the prestigious Peabody Award for a series of stories on the head trauma crisis in professional football. Delsohn is an on-camera reporter for ESPN and the varsity coach at La Reina High School. … The Ventura Chamber of Commerce (VCC) received the 2014 President's Circle Award from the California Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes chambers for excellence in business advocacy and helping their members comply with California employment laws. VCC was one of 26 local chambers of commerce to receive the honor.
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Tim Allison, Martel Fraser, Tony Skinner and Yesenia DeCausus were elected as the new leaders of the Tri-Counties Central Labor Council. Allison of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 770 has been appointed to the top position as executive secretary-treasurer. Fraser of UFCW Local 770 will serve as president of the board, Skinner of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and DeCausus of the United Domestic Workers will serve as vice presidents. … Tim Blaylock, chief professional officer of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, will join the national organization Boys & Girls Clubs of America as the director of major metropolitan area clubs. Blaylock will be based in Oxnard and will oversee nine states in the Pacific region.
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… Margo Byrne was recently promoted to chief operating officer at Channel Islands YMCA and was also named as a Top Woman in Business in nonprofit by the Pacific Coast Business Times. Byrne was selected from 110 nominations as the editor's pick.
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Hugh Ralston, president and CEO of the Ventura County Community Foundation, will resign after 11 years of leading the organization through a time of record growth. Ralston plans to take on new challenges in nonprofits and through philanthropy; he will stay on through Sept. 30.
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The Ventura County Community Foundation and the Ventura County Housing Trust Fund partnered to create the first permanent revolving fund in Ventura County dedicated to building farmworker housing. The $100,000 fund will provide loans to developers who build units for agricultural laborers and their families. … Avenue Wheel Shop (AWS) donated a 2003-model Ford E250 van to the Boys & Girls Club of Ventura. The van is customized specifically for the organization's use and AWS will maintain and repair it free of charge for five years.
… Students from DeAnza Academy of Technology and Arts presented the Ventura County Medical Center with hand-stitched quilts to be used by oncology patients undergoing cancer treatment. The students are members of the Kiwanis Ventura's Builders Club and they spent four months making the quilts during their lunch hours. … Ted Mayr Funeral Home announced a renewed effort to collect gently used cell phones to support Cell Phones for Soldiers, a nonprofit dedicated to providing cost-free communication services to active-duty military and veterans. Cell phones and accessories can be dropped off daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the reception area at 3150 Loma Vista Road in Ventura. … Wheel Fun Rentals renewed its partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) for the "Biking Buddies" Program, providing free rentals to underprivileged children and their mentors around the nation. More than 5,000 Biking Buddies passes have been distributed to BBBS chapters this year, equating to $125,000 in rentals for 2014.
Lizabeth Hoppe was named Ventura County's Teacher of the Year through the Ventura County Office of Education's California Teachers of the Year program. Hoppe is a language arts, math, history and science teacher at Charles Blackstock Junior High School in Oxnard. Hoppe has been teaching in the county for more than 15 years and the award makes her eligible for the 2015 California Teacher of the Year. … Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, a California Lutheran University professor, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at the University of Tokyo and Tsuda College in Japan during the 2014-2015 academic year. Rodriguez-Kiino is an assistant professor in the graduate school of education; she will teach courses on the history of diversity in American higher education and she will also establish relationships with Japanese officials and other Fulbright Scholars. … George Thompson, owner of George Thompson Diamond Company, awarded 180 students in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties with "Diamond in the Rough" scholarships. The scholarships were awarded to the top-10 high school seniors from 18 local high schools whose GPAs increased the most from their junior to senior years. Each student will receive a $100 check along with a framed certificate. … Santa to the Sea, a nonprofit, in association with the Oxnard College Foundation and Gene Haas Foundation, gave a $500 scholarship to each of 75 incoming Oxnard College students. … The Ventura College Foundation awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships to nearly 200 Ventura College students. The awards ranged from $500 to $9,000.
The Ventura River Trail is now being recognized as a National Recreational Trail by the National Park Service. On June 7, from 11 a.m. to 2p.m., the Ventura Hillsides Conservancy and Friends of the Ventura River will celebrate National Trails Day and host a trail dedication ceremony, REI grant award presentation, guided tours and a raffle. The event is free and open to the public. … The city of Oxnard was awarded the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) GREEN REGION Sustainability Award for its Groundwater Recovery Enhancement and Treatment Program. The SCAG award recognizes projects for exemplary integrated land use and transportation and environmental planning that best exemplify the core planning principles of mobility, livability, prosperity and sustainability.
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Forest City Enterprises, the developer of the 835 Market Street project in downtown San Francisco, and Westfield America, the owner of the San Francisco Centre, today announced a business agreement to integrate, develop and market the two sites, creating one of the nation's largest urban retail destinations. The interconnected venues will boast the second largest Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in the country, a state-of-the-art theatre complex and over 200 specialty stores.
"Two of the nation's leading real estate companies have come together to develop a premier retail and entertainment destination that will provide substantial benefits to the City of San Francisco," said Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. "This one-of-a-kind project will give San Francisco's retail core a huge boost by attracting millions of new shoppers. Businesses from Union Square to Yerba Buena will benefit from the increase in consumers drawn to the area, and the City will benefit from a surge in tax revenue, thousands of new jobs and millions in community contributions."
The agreement between Forest City and Westfield leverages the companies' strengths to effectively develop, lease and manage the property. Forest City is the developer of 835 Market Street with approved plans to revitalize the site into a Bloomingdale's Department Store, nine-screen cinema, retail shops and offices. Westfield is the largest retail landlord in the State of California and owns the San Francisco Centre. As part of the agreement, Westfield will lease and manage the new San Francisco Centre.
Research estimates the new San Francisco Centre will attract over 25 million shoppers each year. At the 1.5 million square-foot center, there will be a total of 3,350 permanent jobs. Additionally, the project will generate 770 new union construction jobs. The new San Francisco Centre is expected to generate $500 million in annual sales.
"Our combined development experience, leasing capabilities and capital gives us a variety of tools to build a spectacular world-class retail and entertainment destination," said James Ratner, President and CEO, Forest City Commercial Group.
"Joining these properties creates one vision for a world-class shopping experience that will tremendously benefit the City of San Francisco while becoming one of the premier retail destinations in the world," said Peter Lowy, CEO, Westfield Corp. "The collaborative partnership of Forest City and Westfield provides the combination of expertise and capability to bring this project to life."
At yesterday's news conference, Forest City and Westfield also announced: Groundbreaking for the new project is scheduled for fall of 2003. Nordstrom and the existing San Francisco Centre will remain open during construction; The new facility will open in summer 2006. The two properties will connect at five levels; Designs feature the famed 102-foot-wide glass and steel dome and rotunda and historic facade of 835 Market Street, which will be restored and, the unique oval-shaped atrium that currently illuminates the San Francisco Centre; Leasing begins immediately.
Upon completion, Federated will own and operate Bloomingdale's as part of a long-term operating agreement.


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Any thoughts on why DNA testing is required for utility Breeder Awards (or VCs or VC Breeder Awards)? I really struggle to see the point.
I recently noticed that one of our litters from a few years ago qualified for a Utility Breeder's Award. I submitted the form, then heard back that I would need DNA on the dogs. I am not going to go back and ask the owners to DNA their dogs, so I just dropped it. We have a few other litters that have 2 qualified UT dogs, with the 3rd running this fall that could also qualify for UT Breeder's Award, although I am not sure if I will mess with the DNA. Yeah, it may only be $25 or so (I don't really know), but why require DNA for a performance testing award? NAVHDA isn't American Field with intense competition, or the need to outcross to a pointer to win.
So why? Personally, I think it is dumb idea to require DNA for a performance test award. No, it's not that difficult, but I have a hard time accepting rules that were added to just to be added.


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In 2007 talented director Frank Oz (and voice of Fozzy Bear) released a brilliantly funny British farce called Death at a Funeral in America. No one saw it. Except me that is. I showed up at an empty theater and watched it, laughing my ass off, all alone. A day later its theatrical run was over, it never had a chance. Because it wasn't ever really marketed, Frank Oz's farce never found an audience. Instead it ended up on our list of the most overlooked movies of the decade. Now only three years later, Sony's remaking it.
It's not as if the original movie was inaccessible. Sure most of the actors were British, but as Americans, we speak the same language. No subtitles required. But now Death at a Funeral has been repurposed as a Chris Rock vehicle and so in an effort to understand why I've decided to let both versions duke it out, head to head, in a scene by scene comparison.
The scenes used below were chosen not by me, but by Sony, based on the clips they've released from their new movie to the press. This should then, in theory, give Death at a Funeral 2010 the advantage since Sony has chosen the scenes they'd most like to represent the new movie and I'm forced to simply pull the equivalent scene out of the original film regardless of whether it's a good representation of Frank Oz's work or not. Game on.


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Oops! Michelle Obama calls herself 'single mother'
One little slip of the tongue and everybody notices.
First lady Michelle Obama accidentally described herself as a "busy single mother" during a television interview on Thursday before quickly correcting her mistake and laughing off the gaffe.
"You know, when you've got the husband who's president, it can feel a little single — but he's there," Obama told a CBS station based in Vermont.
She then described herself as a "busy working mom."
The first lady has long discussed the challenges of working parents.
"Before coming to the White House, I was in that position," she confessed. "Working, driving kids to practice, not having enough time to shop or cook, not having the energy."
The first lady briefly forgot the guy she's married to when talking to a TV reporter and called herself a "busy single mother." VPC


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I saw this idea last year in Family Fun magazine and tried it, and to my surprise my girls actually ate it! Now, I'm talking about girls who previously didn't want anything to do with meat. In fact, they renamed the meatloaf "mommy cake". They really don't know what a mummy is, I guess they think I'm saying mommy? Anyways, this makes for a nice warm and festive meal to give your kids before they head out in the cold to go trick-or-treating.
You can use your favorite meatloaf recipe {or try this one that I love} and shape it with your hands to look somewhat like a mummy. I could have done a better job, but you get the idea.
3 Tbsp. light molasses
|Here's my mummy all ready for the oven.
3 Tbsp. vinegar
4 Tbsp. catsup
1 c. milk
2 unbeaten eggs
1 env. dried onion soup mix
3 c. bread crumbs
1/2 tsp. oregano
3 lb. ground beef {I actually used 2 lb. ground turkey here}
Bake 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees F. Cover with the following sauce the last 10 minutes.
Mix for the sauce:
1/4 melted margarine
1/4 c. sour cream
1 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/4 c. catsup
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 Tbsp. water
2 Tbsp. vinegar
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
After the meatloaf is completely cooked, add strips of sliced white cheese in a "wrapped" pattern and add some sliced olives for the eyes. Depending on the type of cheese you use, it will either melt right on the hot meatloaf or you may stick it back in the oven for a minute or two to let it melt a little.
What other festive foods do you like to make for Halloween? We also like to do a dinner baked inside a pumpkin I plan to share next week!


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Is a House a Home in the Segregated 1950s?Culture Watch
tags: Bruce Chadwick, segregation, theater reviews, Luck of the Irish, Boston
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Luck of the Irish
Claire Tow Theater/Lincoln Center
150 West 65th Street
New York, N.Y.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Boston was the capital of the anti-slavery movement. The capital of Massachusetts was the home of several well-known abolitionist newspapers; the state was led politically by anti-slavery champions such as Senator Charles Sumner and Governor John Andrew, and the 54th Massachusetts -- the first African American regiment in the Union Army -- was mustered near the city in 1863.
In the middle of the twentieth century, though, Boston was a hotbed of racism. The Boston Red Sox was one of the last teams to be integrated (Pumpsie Green in 1959) and housing in the Boston area was still segregated. The New England city had actually made enormous backward strides over the prior century.
This is the backdrop for Luck of the Irish, a powerful drama about how a white couple "fronted" for a black couple so they could buy a house in the fictional Boston suburb of Billington. It was a practice known as "ghost buying" and widely used all over the country at the time.
In Kirsten Greenidge's play, which opened last week, upwardly mobile African American Dr. Rex Taylor and his wife move to Greater Boston in the mid-1950s, ignoring nearby Medford, which was integrated, and purchased a home in a lovely town full of green, tree-lined streets and houses owned by white families. A white couple, the Donovans, signed the mortgage papers for them. They settled in and led a reasonably good life. Now, sixty years later, descendants of the couple that "ghosted" for them claim that the original purchase agreement contained a technicality and now, after all this time, they want the house back. An uproar follows.
Luck of the Irish has a dreadfully slow first half hour filled with endless chatter about nothing. We learn that Dr. Taylor's two grandchildren now own the house and are afraid they will lose a court battle to the Donovans. Talk, talk and more talk, all going nowhere.
As soon as the second act begins, the play soars. It is then that we learn the terrible secrets involved in the arrangement between the two couples back in the 1950s. The second act is full of deceit, chicanery, jealousy and greed, but it is full of hope, trust and triumph, too. The Donovans want that house, Mrs. Donovan wails near the end of the play, because working-class white people like them deserve more out of life than a middle-class black doctor.
Greenidge's play shines a spotlight on racial housing problems of the 1950s, in the days before the civil rights crusades against discrimination in housing (the playwright's own grandparents used "ghost buying" to get a home). The struggles of minorities to buy homes were mostly overlooked, rarely reported in newspapers and kept secret.
Playwright Greenidge does a fine job of outlining the racism in suburban America at that time. Mrs. Taylor, for instance, has to keep smiling at the tawdry "welcome wagon" food that her incensed white neighbors bring her, highlighted by frozen Sarah Lee pound cake. She also keeps track, daily, of the number of "for sale" signs that go up in the neighborhood when they arrive. Her husband, the doctor, has to work harder than the white doctors to prove himself. Mrs. Taylor has to continually downplay her background (she is well-educated and a world traveler). It is an angry and focused look at the resentment of some whites in suburbs in that wonderfully "innocent" decade of the 1950s.
The play, that takes place on a stage filled with sparse furniture, is nicely directed by Rebecca Taichman. She has the actors underplay just about everything and, in the end, the result is a low-key racial wallop to the stomach. The play has been compared to the very successful Clybourne Park, which tracked racial animosities in Chicago in that same time period. Luck of the Irish is powerful, but in a slow burning way. Clybourne Park was a racial tsunami.
Director Taichman gets wonderful performances from Carra Patterson and Marsha Stephanie Blake as Nessa Hannah, the 2013 sisters, Victor Williams and Elsa Davis as Rex and Lucy Taylor, Robert Hogan and Jenny O'Hara as the elder Joe Donovan and the elder Mrs. Donovan and Dashiell Eaves as the younger Joe Donovan and a superb Amanda Quaid as the younger Mrs. Donovan.
PRODUCTION: Sets: Mimi Lien, Costumes: Dana Botez; Lighting: Justin Townsend; Sound: Matt Tierney. The play is directed by Rebecca Taichman. Through March 10.
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Wildlife Officials Investigating Dove Deaths in West Texas
AUSTIN – State and federal wildlife officials are investigating a series of active dove mortality events in and around the West Texas communities of Midland, Odessa and Big Spring. The cause has yet to be determined, but poisoning has not been ruled out. At this time, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department simply desires to provide hunters information on this localized event.
Dove samples have been submitted to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WI, where initial necropsy findings revealed no conclusive cause of death, according to Dr. LeAnn White, a wildlife disease specialist. Additional disease screening and toxicology test results are pending.
Although there are no known human or animal risks associated with the mortality events at this time, Dr. White recommends precautions should be taken. One Midland resident reported his dog died shortly after consuming several dead doves, but no autopsy was performed and cause of death was not determined. Conversely, several residents have reported dogs and cats consuming dead doves with no ill effects.
Reports of dead doves and sparrows first surfaced in late July and have been sporadic but ongoing, although the total number of birds impacted so far is believed to be less than 250, mostly Eurasian collared dove and white-winged dove.
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"The Sin City-type environment in Dead Rising 2, Fortune City, is a natural playground for the Playboy Bunnies," explained Capcom senior director of licensing Seon King in the announcement. "We have integrated the Playboy brand throughout the game in ways that bring even more life to Fortune City and add to the user experience."
Metal Gear Solid 4 replaced the stealth series' generic girly magazines with copies of Playboy, while Mafia II features over fifty Playboy covers and centrefolds to collect, which will apparently "bring sophistication and classic imagery" to 2K Czech's mob tale.
Dead Rising 2 hacks its way onto PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on August 31 in North America, cutting into Europe on September 3. A "downloadable prologue" titled Case Zero will be available exclusively on Xbox 360 at some point before release.


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Classification: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)
Specimen number: FMNH ME 2639, sp. 22
Specimen mass: 710.8 gram
Allende (Carbonaceous chondrite CV3)
A huge fireball lit up thousands of square miles of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States after midnight on February 9, 1969. The Allende meteorite shower spread over more than 150 square kilometers and yielded thousands of carbonaceous chondrite fragments with a total mass of 2 metric tons. Allende contains abundant chondrules, and large Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions (CAIs) embedded in a dark matrix. The CAIs are the Solar System's first solid condensates and are 4.567 billion years old. The matrix contains hundreds part per million nanodiamonds, some of which are presolar.
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The problem I am working on is:
Big Ben, the Parliament tower clock in London, has an hour hand 2.70 m long with a mass of 300 kg, and a minute hand 4.20 m long with a mass of 100 kg (see figure below). Calculate the total rotational kinetic energy of the two hands about the axis of rotation. (You may model the hands as long, thin rods rotated about one end. Assume the hour and minute hands are rotating at a constant rate of one revolution per 12 hours and 60 minutes, respectively.)
(Converted) Angular Speed of Clock Hands:
Hour Hand $1.45\cdot10^{-4}~rad/s$
Minute Hand $1.75\cdot10^{-3}~rad/s$
Rotational Moment of Inertia:
Hour Hand $I=1/3(300~kg)(2.70~m)^2=729~kg\cdot m^2$
Minute Hand $I=1/3(100~kg)(4.20~m)^2=243~kg\cdot m^2$
Rotational Kinetic Energy:
$K_{rot}=1/2(729~kg\cdot m^2)(1.45\cdot10^{-4}~rad/s)^2+1/2(243~kg\cdot m^2)(1.75\cdot10^{-3}~rad/s)^2$
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Koedoe vol.53 no.1 Pretoria ene. 2011
Meeting the challenges of game ranch management
Reviewer: Roger Collinson
Change Management Advisor, Etosha National Park, Namibia
Book Title:
Game ranch management
Book Cover:
J. du P. Bothma; J.G. du Toit
Van Schaik Publishers, Pretoria; 2010, p. 979, Hardcover: R769.95*
Since the publication of the Afrikaans version of Game ranch management in 1986 and the appearance of the first English edition in 1989, the game ranching industry in South Africa, and in neighbouring states such as Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia, has grown in leaps and bounds. The role this book has played in facilitating this phenomenal growth has been undoubtedly significant. Accordingly, the book's editors, contributing authors and publishers need to be highly commended for this - especially with regard to their efforts over the past 25 years in providing regularly updated Afrikaans and English editions in response to an ever-increasing knowledge base.
At first sight, the most striking feature of the recently published fifth English edition of Game ranch management is its large size. In comparison with the first and the other earlier editions, this striking feature gives the impression that the latest edition has more than ably kept abreast of the rapid growth of the industry it addresses. On closer examination, this first impression is largely confirmed by the wide range of topics covered by the book contents - inclusive of some theoretical but mainly very practical matters. More specifically, the topics covered include inter alia research, ecological principles and monitoring, vegetation types, game ranch planning, the biology and diseases of game ranch species, capture, hunting, captive breeding, as well as other aspects of commercial wildlife utilisation such as habitat management and rural development in the game ranching context.
Despite its voluminous content, the editors mention in the book's preface that the knowledge base of game ranch management has grown exponentially over the last few decades, to the extent that it now exceeds the maximum page volume for a single book. One way of dealing with a challenge of this nature would have been to split the book into two volumes; instead, the current editors and publishers wisely elected to meet this challenge by excluding material which is readily available in separate, more specialised books on game ranch management topics. Accordingly, the book often refers the reader to other publications currently available, such as Intensive wildlife production in southern Africa (edited by J. du P. Bothma and N. van Rooyen and published by Van Schaik Publishers in 2005) and The capture, care and management of wildlife (authored by Mike la Grange and published by Van Schaik Publishers in 2005).
Whilst the original intention of this book was to produce a text for the benefit of wildlife management students and wildlife producers, its content is also of some relevance to people with either a professional or armchair interest in wildlife conservation and/or ecotourism. Book sales of previous editions support this contention, as the latter group of people has been a major market source over the years - not only in South Africa but also elsewhere in Africa and the world. Thus, the relevance of the book to this wide ranging readership is yet another one of its strengths.
However, these strengths are countered to some extent by a weakness that cannot go unmentioned here. The essence of this weakness is encapsulated in the 'Acknowledgements' on page vii of the book, where the editors state at the start of the first paragraph '... the extensive production of wildlife, or wildlife ranching as it is also known, has moved from being based mainly on experience to being based mainly on fact'. This statement holds only for what may be termed 'hard-edged' technology such as that developed and refined over the years for game fencing, game capture, disease treatment, other veterinary technology, intensive game breeding, remote tracking, road construction, water point infrastructure, et cetera. However, with regard to what may be termed 'soft-edged' technology or applied ecologically based science, I believe that the editors' statement, as quoted above, is somewhat misleading. Important examples of where applied ecological science is relevant are the optimisation of multispecies game stocking rates and the management of natural habitats for maximising financial returns from a game ranch. Given the many complexities and variables that exist within and between individual game ranches, such as rainfall, soils, vegetation and other landscape features, there are no (and probably never will be any) readily available textbook recipes, solutions or facts for reliably informing the game rancher on these applied ecological issues.
Accordingly, it is now recognised that the most useful approach to this seeming dilemma is for game ranchers to determine individualised (i.e. their own tailor-made) solutions for their specific set of objectives and environmental circumstances, ultimately through a process of trial and error. For the successful application of such an approach, the role of applied science should be to provide game ranchers with an objective decision-making framework for guiding them accordingly - whilst, at the same time, equipping them with an understanding of the many ecological and monitoring principles and techniques involved. This type of objective decision-making framework or process is known more formally as adaptive management. Unfortunately, no elaboration of the concept of adaptive management could be found when reviewing this book and the term is absent from both the table of content and the index at the end of the book. In the absence of an understanding of this concept and a framework for applying it, game ranchers involved with extensive wildlife production in multispecies 'natural systems' are left groping in the dark with a kaleidoscope of untested and misunderstood ecological variables and principles. In these circumstances it is not surprising that game ranchers are expediently moving more and more towards single species intensive production systems (e.g. sable, roan and buffalo breeding schemes and 'put and take' production systems), where the environment can be simplified and rigorously controlled by way of 'hard-edged' technology that has been well developed, refined and documented and, hence, where there is greater certainty and less risk. Thus, whilst the fifth English edition of Game ranch management provides an expanded, robust source of information for game ranch managers, additional emphasis on these 'soft' issues would provide further value.
On the basis of the aforementioned, it may be said that whilst building on this substantial volume, the future challenge is to produce and publish a specialist book that addresses the concept of adaptive management specifically and also provides game ranch managers with decision-making frameworks for dealing with a variety of applied management topics. Imperative topics in this regard are optimum stocking rates, sex and age structures, sustained yield harvesting, fire management, bush encroachment, predator prey relationships and water distribution - to name but a few. A publication of this nature would not only be of benefit to game ranching systems where commercial production is the primary objective, but also to wildlife ranches, private game reserves and formally protected areas where biodiversity conservation and/or ecotourism is of prime importance.
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Young Worker Injuries
Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention (SHARP) Research for Safe Work
- Sixteen to seventeen year old workers have a higher rate of accepted workers' compensation claims and a lower rate of compensable workers' compensation claims than workers over the age of 24 years.
- Eighteen to twenty‑one year old workers have a higher rate of accepted and compensable workers' compensation claims than workers over the age of 24 years.
- Workers' compensation costs of young worker injuries are a small portion to the overall workers' compensation costs for workplace injuries; this could be due to less time‑loss duration for young worker injuries and wage differences between age groups.
- For 16‑21 year old workers, 19% of all state fund compensable claims are in the construction industry and account for 35% of state fund compensable claim cost.
- Washington State's Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has several programs to address young workers and occupational safety.
In Washington State, the Employment Standards Division and L&I enforce regulations restricting children less than 18 years of age from hazardous work. Employers of these workers are required to obtain a minor work permit endorsement on their business license, signed permission from the youth's parent and school, and comply with state and federal laws which restrict when and what work young workers perform.
Despite laws that regulate and restrict the work activities of teen workers (TeenWorkers.Lni.wa.gov) there are still tragic injuries that occur. In Washington State, Miller and Kaufman (1998) reported that accepted workers' compensation claims rate for workers aged 16‑17 was almost double the rate of workers 18 and older from 1988‑1991; 19.4 accepted claims per 100 full‑time equivalents (FTEs) compared to 10.6 accepted claims per 100 full‑time equivalents. Workers under the age of 18 are not the only young workers population that suffers from tragic injuries. From 1998‑2007, the average number of young worker (ages 15‑24) fatalities in the United States was 572, 93% of these fatalities occurred to workers aged 18‑24 years.2
L&I's Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP) team is analyzing injury rates for workers from 2005‑2007. The analysis compares rates of minors (ages 16‑17) and other young workers (ages 18‑24) to older workers (ages 25 and older). The analysis does not calculate injury rates for 14 and 15 year olds because employment data to calculate injury rates are not available.
Injury rates used L&I's workers' compensation claims database for injuries and the American Community Survey data to estimate the number of full time equivalent employees (FTEs) for different age strata. L&I collects age and employer data on all workers' compensation injury and illness claims that occur in Washington State. Injury rates for all accepted claims and for those claims that were compensable can be calculated. An accepted claim is one that meets eligibility criteria for workers' compensation benefits. Compensable claims are those that result in more than 3 lost workdays, or where the worker was kept on salary, or had total permanent disability.
The American Community Survey (ACS) was utilized to determine the number of estimated FTEs for each age group. The ACS uses the decennial census long form to gather population and housing information for a sample of the U.S. population annually, rather than every 10 years. Rates were calculated per 10,000 FTEs. FTEs are calculated by multiplying the average hours worked per week by the average weeks worked per year for a specific population and dividing the resulting product by 2000. One FTE is equivalent to 2000 hours in this study.
While age data is available for all workers' compensation claims in Washington State, regardless if the employer self‑insures or insures through L&I, only claims data in L&I's workers' compensation database provides the cost of the occupational injury or illness. The Washington State's workers' compensation insures 99.75% of Washington employers and approximately 70% of the eligible workers. We adjusted the cost of the claims for inflation by utilizing the Consumer Price Index inflation calculator with 2007 as the reference year.
According to 2005‑2007 ACS estimates, the top five industries employing the greatest number of workers aged 16‑17 years old were: Restaurant/Food industry, Retail Grocery Stores, Entertainment and other Amusement Establishments (e.g. bowling alleys, fitness centers, and golf courses), Retail Department/Discount Stores, and Construction (Table 1).
There were a total of 489,498 accepted workers' compensation claims and 138,104 compensable workers' compensation claims in Washington from 2005‑2007. Table 2 shows the age distribution and percentage of both accepted and compensable workers' compensation claims.
Figures 1‑4 provide information regarding injury rates by age and industry, the median cost of the state fund compensable claims for select industries, restaurants/food service industry and construction industry, and the workers' compensation median time‑loss duration by age and industry. The overall cost of the compensable state fund claims was $3.5 billion dollars with an average and median claim cost of approximately $26,000 and $5,000, respectively.
|Table 1: Top Five Employers of 16‑17 Year Olds in WA from 2005‑2007**
|North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code and Description
|Estimated Number of Workers
|% of Workforce Aged 16‑17
|722 ‑ Restaurants and Food Service
|4451 ‑ Retail Grocery Stores
|713 ‑ Entertainment Other Amusement
|45211 ‑ Retail Department/Discount Stores
|23 ‑ Construction
|All Other NAICS Combined
|**Estimated number of workers is a total number over 3 years and workers could be counted more than once over 3 year time period.**
|Table 2: Number of Accepted and Compensable Claims by Age Group, Washington 2005‑2007
|Age of Injured WA Workers
|Total Accepted Claims (%)
|Total Compensable Claims (%)
|3,338 (.7%)
|401 (.3%)
|42,737 (9%)
|7,021 (5%)
|40,507 (8%)
|7,786 (6%)
|237,277 (48%)
|64,403 (47%)
|165,639 (34%)
|58,493 (42%)
The accepted claims rate for workers aged 16‑17 years old and workers aged 18‑21 are considerably higher than the older worker populations, 25‑44 and 45‑64 years old (Figure 1). For compensable claims the rate for 18‑21 year old workers exceeds that of the minor workers, and all other age groups except the oldest workers in the restaurant/food service industry (Figure 2). This observation of increased injury risk for workers aged 18‑21 in the workplace might be due to both the entry of new workers into the workforce and the absence of the additional protections afforded to minor workers restricting their work activities.
The median cost per claim for young workers (less than 25 years old) was less than the median cost per claim of older workers (25 years and older). This difference in cost could be due to the lesser time‑loss duration for younger age groups (Figure 4) and wage differentials between age groups; generally older workers are compensated at a higher wage. For all industries combined, workers aged 45‑64 have median time‑loss duration of 56 days; 16‑17 year olds have a median time‑loss duration of 16 days.
The rates and cost of the injuries within the construction industry for workers aged 16‑17 and 18‑21 is especially troublesome. Construction has the highest rate of injury for both accepted and compensable claims within these age groups (Figures 1 & 2). Median claim costs and median time‑loss duration in construction exceed those of other industries possibly indicating more severe injuries when compared to injured young workers in other industries. (Figure 3 & 4). The distribution of state fund claim costs by industry for 16‑17 year old injured workers indicates that construction injuries account for only 7% of claims but over 26% of all this age group's state funded compensable claims costs. The injuries that occur in the construction industry for 18‑21 year old workers, like 16‑17 year old workers, are more costly than injuries in the restaurant/food service industry. Thirty‑five percent of all state funded compensable claims costs for workers aged 18‑21 are due to an injury that occurred in construction, compared to 5% due to the restaurant/food service industry.
L&I is committed to reducing the number of occupational injuries that affect young workers. L&I utilizes programs that increase awareness, educate, and enforce current laws and regulations to reduce young worker occupational injuries. Employment Standards, Public Affairs, and the SHARP team all are working on addressing this serious issue. Some of the activities that are currently in place include outreach, education, and activities to teachers, teens and employers; the Injured Young Worker Speaker Series, and the continued enhancement of a young worker research and surveillance program.
In addition, through collaboration between the University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and L&I's Employment Standards Program, health and safety curricula (www.uwworksafe.com) have been developed and are available to download. These materials provide information to educate young workers about how to recognize and avoid hazards in the workplace, their rights at work as well as what is expected of the employer. The curricula are available to Washington State educators, employers, or other youth‑based organizations. For more information contact Steve Hecker at the University of Washington at firstname.lastname@example.com or 206‑543‑9540.
The Injured Young Worker Speaker Series is an education and awareness campaign. This campaign utilizes speakers from WorkSafe BC (www.WorkSafeBC.com) who have suffered a severe occupational injury while they were between the ages of 16‑24. These speakers visit schools and skills centers around the state and share their stories with students to encourage them to take steps to protect themselves at their job. For more information contact Xenofon Moniodis with Public Affairs at email@example.com or 360‑902‑6458.
Young worker research and surveillance program monitors characteristics of young worker injuries, creates reports and distributes information to ensure that prevention programs and materials are targeted towards areas of need. For more information on young worker surveillance contact either firstname.lastname@example.com or 360‑902‑5667 toll free at 888-667-4277 or Mary Miller of Employment Standards at email@example.com or 360‑902‑6041. For more details on other strategies to protect young workers go to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health young workers website (www.cdc.gov) or see Miller et al. (2007).3
- Miller, ME., & Kaufman, JD. (1998). Occupational injuries among adolescents in Washington State, 1988‑1991. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 34, 121‑132.
- Estes, CR., Jackson, LL., & Castillo, DN. (2010). Occupational injuries and deaths among younger workers‑‑‑United States, 1998‑2007. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 59(15), 449‑455.
- Miller, ME., Handelman, E., & Lewis, C. (2007). Protecting young workers coordinated strategies help to raise safety awareness. Professional Safety, June, 38‑45.


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Romney gave five network television interviews... on Friday. While it was true that a bunch of Securities and Exchange Commission filings submitted into the new millennium described Romney as Bain Capital's boss, that was a technicality, he told CNN.So... he used the word "entity," and I guess if you don't have much familiarity with the world of business or law but you have watched television, "entity" sounds like something from outer space to you.
Well, actually, he said, "I was the owner of an entity that is filing that information." Also that there's a difference between an owner and "a person who's running an entity."
Bain Capital is a Limited Liability Company, which is "a flexible form of enterprise that blends elements of partnership and corporate structures." Romney said "entity" for simplicity and accuracy. He was speaking like a normal, knowledgeable person.
But law and business are just too hard. Why not act childish? Entity?! That's silly. Collins continues in this style:
While he was in Utah getting the luge runs in shape, Romney was also still getting a six-figure salary for being a Bain "executive." Perhaps for Mitt, that was just the going-away equivalent of a monogrammed briefcase. Although it does sort of take the steam out of his principled refusal to accept any money from the Olympics until his turnaround was successfully completed....We can't possibly understand a business arrangement. It's really hard. Like all that science stuff we don't want to understand.
If we ever manage to really get our heads around Higgs boson, perhaps we will also be able to understand the Mitt Romney Olympics period.
Are Democrats abandoning the idea that they are the smart party?
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ADDED: Let's pay attention. I think what is going on right now is an effort to create a mindset, and emotional orientation toward Romney. Business is an alien entity. It's scary and mystifying, and Romney is part of that. You can't understand it, so don't even try. Collins is planting the seed of fear. You laugh now. You won't even feel it. But it will grow. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


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A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Lake Rotoaira and its association with the renowned 'Ka mate' haka.
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The famed 'Ka mate' haka – well known for being performed before rugby games – was composed by Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha as he hid from pursuers on an island in Lake Rotoaira. He was concealed in a kūmara (sweet potato) pit, with the local chief's wife squatting above him. The lake is also a reservoir of water for hydroelectric power generation.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The tragic death of the young son of two members of the Penn State community on New Year's Eve is launching a scholarship to benefit a member of the Penn State soccer team that will honor the boy's memory and the sport he loved.
The Penn State community learned of the sudden passing of 8-year-old John William McKenzie Brady, known affectionately as Mack, earlier this week. Mack, the son of Schreyer Honors College Dean Christian M. M. Brady and his wife, Elizabeth, a lecturer in the College of the Liberal Arts' Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, died unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 31, at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center as a result of a blood infection that spread rapidly.
In announcing the scholarship being established in Mack's honor, Brady said that through such an award helping a player each year his son "will, in some sense, 'be on the field' that he had hoped to play on someday."
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Two days after the death of the 23-year-old gangrape victim, Delhi Police today said it has finalised around 1,000-page charge sheet in connection with the incident and plans to submit it in court on Thursday.
A senior police official said the charge sheet, which is being vetted by legal experts, has cited 30 witnesses in connection with the December 16 incident in which the physiotherapy student was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi. The victim died in a Singapore hospital on Saturday morning.
Investigators said they will seek death penalty for the accused in the case. Six persons, including a 17-year-old boy, was apprehended in connection with the incident, which evoked widespread outrage and anger and triggered violent protests in India Gate and Raisina Hill.
The charge sheet, to be filed in the Saket court, will detail the role of five men while mentioning that a separate report would be sent to Juvenile Justice Board for the trial of the minor boy allegedly involved in the case, the official said.
The charge sheet gives details about the sequence of events, the treatment, shifting of the patient to a Singapore hospital as well as her death, the official said.
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Jason Collins would always make excuses for why he wasn't interested in the women his twin brother and sister-in-law would set him up with on dates.
Jarron Collins still never figured out that Jason was gay.
Jarron joked Wednesday on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that he missed "red flags" about Jason, who recently came out as the first active gay male athlete in one of the major U.S. sports.
The brothers, who played together at Stanford before playing in the NBA, appeared together on the show and discussed how Jason finally let Jarron know after being hesitant for so long.
"He's my best friend and any time you come out to someone, you always have that apprehension that they're going to reject, even though I knew that that wasn't going to be the case," Jason Collins said.
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We haven't seen any articles recently about the issue of Saudi women driving in the world press. For a while there were almost weekly stories about the issue, now nothing. In the quiet between bursts of news, why not think positive and try to visualize the actual process of women getting permission to drive.
OK, imagine you've been given the job of implementing a new law permitting women to drive. So how would you do it? Instead of thinking about how many obstacles you'll face, all the conservative males who will be in an uproar, just concentrate on how to implement the new law.
Obviously, no one has asked me, but this is how I'd do it if I were put in charge.
1. Open a driving school for women in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam; and hire and train a staff of women to teach there. The women teachers could be Saudi women who have international drivers licenses and pass a driving test. The schools would be on the outskirts of the city and would have practice streets where the women could get used to driving, parking, etc.
2. Design a driving test, written and practical, to be administered to ALL young drivers, not just women. For women, the test would be given on-site at the schools. Perhaps in this way, young men can be trained to be respectful and responsible drivers.
3. When the driving schools are up and running, permit advanced women student drivers to be on the roads with their instructors in marked cars.
4. As women pass their driving exams, give them their licenses and voila, slowly, they will appear on the roads. And hopefully, it will turn out to be a smooth transition.
There has been talk about limiting the times of day when women can drive, and also the ages of women drivers. If I were in charge, I would not restrict such things. Each individual family can be as careful as they like.


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Summertime by George! is a free concert and festival put on by the Rotary Club of St. Cloud at the newly renovated Lake George! The area will be transformed into a fun and active place every Wednesday with free live music from local and regional bands, local vendors, artisians, and a kid's zone for the entire family to enjoy!
Sponsored by St. Cloud Rotary Club, this free 12-week event will be held every Wednesday starting June 13th, 2018 and running through August 29th. It will run from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. each night, with the featured artist starting at 6:30 p.m.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
This Is the Face of Genealogy: The Comments to Go with the Picture
When I opened up Google Reader, post after post was entitled "This Is the Face of Genealogy." I decided not to wait to put up my own post, and posted a picture of my great-grandmother Angeline Elizabeth Floyd. However, I had just written and posted a fairly long article, so I did not write anything to go with the picture.
I am going to do so now.
Sometimes I think people can be kind of thin-skinned, too quick to take offense. But this is not one of those times. As many pointed out, the picture that was posted with the article makes fun of groups that are still considered "safe" to ridicule. The offensive picture has been taken down, but the steam is still coming out my ears.
I avoid "If you believe X, post Y" memes like the plague. But not this time.
I do not believe in the gratuitous use of bad language. But there is no other way I can say it: I was so PO'd when I saw that picture.
I hate the way people with southern or country accents or country ways are ridiculed.
I hate the way some people impose their own prejudices when they venture to describe what kinds of people do genealogy.
I hate the way poverty and lack of adequate health care - and the effect that may have on appearance - are equated with ignorance.
I hate the way the cheapest of cheap jokes is taken to be hip/cool/sophisticated.
I hate the way this kind of irresponsible flippancy is passed off as "cutting-edge journalism."
I hate the way a wonderful genealogy event, the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, can suffer by association with this travesty.
If you have read this far, I thank you for your patience with my bad language and bad temper.
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I'm with you, Greta. I typically also avoid memes and jumping on bandwagons, but that picture really torqued me. The picture was insulting on so many levels.ReplyDelete
I used to read "that publication" fairly regularly when I lived in the L.A. area, and at one time thought it a quality publication. I'm having second thoughts now. At least they got the message and removed the photo, although I'm sure someone had a good laugh when it was posted.
"Only in L.A." Let's hope.
Well said, Greta.ReplyDelete
Elizabeth - It's amazing how a group of people who aren't really conformists at heart were able to unite in this matter.ReplyDelete
Janice and Theresa - thank you for your encouragement.
There was one sentence I forgot to add: "I hate the way our ancestors, who suffered and struggled, have been reduced to a caricature."
Well said, Greta!ReplyDelete
Amen. Well said. I suspect you speak for most of us on this, Greta. I was grateful for Thomas's suggestion for it allowed me to respond without putting my feelings into words other than those I sent to the author and newspaper. I'm grateful you counted to ten (at least) and shared your words with us, as well as the lovely photo.ReplyDelete
Wow! Well said, Greta.ReplyDelete
You go, girl!ReplyDelete
You definitely hit the nail on the head! Thanks for taking the time to elaborate so eloquently on the issues surrounding the ridiculous picture.
Thank you Greta - it's too true that there are still some things that people feel "safe" to ridicule. And it's too bad. I think you summed it up so well - I have already sent my comments to the editor or I would be inclined to just send them a link to this article!ReplyDelete
Nancy and Debbie - Thank you!ReplyDelete
Susan - Actually, I counted to about 100. Couldn't print what I would have said otherwise.
Mary - It really helped me to blow off some steam.
Diana - Thank you for your kind comments, and thank you also for writing that letter!


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Frida Giannini swathed the runway in bright colors and vivid prints for Gucci's Spring '13 collection. Inspired by the works of Richard Avedon, (specifically his photos of Marella Agnelli, Talitha Getty, and Gloria Vanderbilt), the show opened up with jolt of sleek saturated pink dresses decorated with luxurious ruffles and bell sleeves, and while the silhouettes looked fairly modest in the front, Giannini showed off some skin with elegant back cutouts. A bright brigade of cobalt blue, turquoise, and citron followed suit, providing even more resplendent looks to fawn over. For added texture and contrast, Giannini provided luxurious reptilian print jacquard minidresses and skirt suits — we especially loved the pink python print combo worn by Joan Smalls. If there was any question about Giannini's '70s vibe, the designer provided silky pajama-like printed tunics and pants. No doubt about it, Giannini designed for the bold, impactful, and confident woman; one we can see in red-carpet stunners like Jennifer Lopez and Zoe Saldana.
- Trends: Exaggerated ruffles, leather, bell sleeves, reptilian prints.
- Colors: Bold pink, cobalt blue, turquoise, yellow, white, black, green citron.
- Key Piece: The bold pink ruffled long-sleeve gown was magnificent.
- Accessories: Patent ankle-wrap sandals, oversized sunglasses, statement earrings and necklaces, leather clutches and bags.
- Who Should Wear It: Women who crave a dramatic flair like Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Lopez, and Li Bingbing.