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Nairobi, Kenya – The United States Government, represented by the United States Trade Representative, and the East African Community (EAC) today issued the following statement outlining further progress under the U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Partnership:
Today, 19th October 2012, the East African Community and the United States have taken important steps to advance the U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Partnership – a new initiative that supports the economic integration of the EAC and enhances the U.S.-EAC trade and investment relationship. This new Partnership is built on the recognition of the important role that trade and investment play in economic and social development including job creation, both in East Africa and the United States.
The EAC and the United States agreed on a framework to move forward on the establishment of a Commercial Dialogue, which will be formally launched in late November 2012.
The EAC and the United States also agreed that their respective technical teams will meet at the soonest possible date for further consultations toward negotiation of a proposed investment treaty and a trade facilitation agreement. The technical teams will further discuss and agree on the trade capacity building assistance, including identification and agreement of priority areas to support the Trade and Investment Partnership. The EAC acknowledged that the United States already provides substantial assistance to the EAC Partner States and the Secretariat, including an additional amount of up to $10 million (ten million United States Dollars) that the United States will provide over the next five years to the EAC Secretariat to support regional economic integration.
As the next step, the EAC Ministers responsible for Trade and Investment, and the U.S. Trade Representative agreed to advance the U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Partnership within their respective administrations. They also agreed to hold their next Ministerial meeting on the margins of the 2013 AGOA Forum.
The statement follows a Ministerial meeting on October 19, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya attended by Ministers from the EAC Partner States, the Deputy United States Trade Representative, the representative of the EAC Secretary General, Senior Officials from the EAC Partner States, and senior U.S. Government officials from a number of U.S. Government agencies, including the Departments of State, Commerce, and Transportation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The EAC and the United States announced this new Trade and Investment Partnership at the AGOA Forum in Washington D.C. earlier this year. The initial items the EAC and the United States have agreed to explore under this new Partnership include an investment treaty, a trade facilitation agreement, continued trade capacity building assistance, and a commercial dialogue. Building upon the foundations of our existing trade and investment relationship, the Partnership will help to promote EAC regional integration, social and economic growth, and expand and diversify U.S.-EAC trade and investment. It could also serve as building blocks towards a more comprehensive trade agreement over the long term.
The U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Partnership is an important component of the U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, which President Obama announced in June 2012.
ITEC coordinates closely not only with USTR, but with government agencies to which companies and individuals most frequently report barriers and trade-related concerns. These agencies' reporting processes remain in effect, and American stakeholders are encouraged to continue to use them. Issues that cannot be resolved through these processes may be referred to ITEC for further action.
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Q: When was the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC) established?
A: On February 28, 2012, the President signed Executive Order 13601 establishing ITEC to enhance enforcement of U.S. trade rights and domestic trade laws.
Q: What is ITEC's mission?
A: ITEC is charged with fighting for American workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses by bringing a more aggressive "whole-of-government" approach to addressing unfair trade practices around the world. ITEC will be supported by the Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and the Treasury, as well as the intelligence community. The personnel from these agencies will enhance U.S. trade enforcement capabilities and facilitate increased engagement with foreign trade partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and elsewhere through the creation of an expanded team of language-proficient researchers, subject matter experts, and economic analysts. ITEC is designed to help leverage and mobilize resources and expertise across the federal government to develop trade enforcement actions that will address unfair foreign trade practices and barriers that could otherwise imperil our nation's export promotion and job recovery efforts.
Q: How is ITEC different from existing trade enforcement programs?
A: ITEC is unique in that it constitutes a more dedicated "whole-of-government" approach to addressing unfair trade practices and trade barriers. This new approach will provide a primary forum within the federal government to bring together experts from executive departments and agencies to coordinate trade enforcement. ITEC will permit a sustained focus on particular issues not possible previously.
Q: Doesn't the U.S. government already have the capacity to address unfair trade practices and trade barriers?
A: A priority of the Administration is to better leverage the government's trade enforcement activities by focusing its existing resources to address unfair trade practices and foreign trade barriers more effectively. ITEC will link, leverage and align both existing and new resources more efficiently across the executive branch and with stakeholders. The key here is efficiency. ITEC's goal is to build upon existing capacity to give U.S. companies, workers and producers every chance to compete on a level playing field in today's global marketplace.
Q: How many people will be working at ITEC at any given time?
A: By October 2012, ITEC had more than a dozen full-time and part-time staff and that number should increase substantially by the end of FY13. These figures are subject to change as issues, priorities and available funding change.
Q: How do you determine the issues for priority attention and action?
A: The Director and Deputy Director, along with the various offices within USTR, and in cooperation with other agencies will examine various trade issues and will establish priority projects for investigation. As is currently the case, a variety of factors will be taken into account in setting those priorities, including economic impact of the issue, systemic impact of resolution on international trading practices, ability to document and demonstrate the problem, available resources, and broad trade goals.
Q: Is ITEC's purpose to bring more trade remedies and WTO cases against Chinese products?
A: ITEC's purpose is to help ensure that all of our trading partners play by WTO rules and abide by their obligations, including commitments to maintain open markets on a non-discriminatory basis, and to follow rules-based procedures in a transparent way.
Q: What countries will ITEC be working on?
A: ITEC will be addressing trade enforcement issues originating in a variety of regions across the globe. It is USTR policy not to discuss publicly cases that it is developing to avoid giving advance notice to governments overseas.
Q: What will the role of ITEC be in administering domestic trade laws?
A: The Department of Commerce has statutory responsibility for administration of the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) laws and will continue to administer them. The International Trade Commission (ITC) will continue to make injury determinations with regard to all AD/CVD investigations and sunset reviews. ITEC was not intended to duplicate the efforts that are assigned by statute to particular agencies. ITEC will be looking for areas where it can add value to the work already being done.
Q: What will the role of ITEC be in dealing with circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty orders?
A: Import Administration's Customs Unit and U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to take the lead on issues related to circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Deliberate evasion of AD/CVD duties by providing false information in a customs declaration constitutes customs fraud, and is a breach of U.S. law, punishable by fine or imprisonment. In addition, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (NIPRCC) plans to step up enforcement of commercial fraud laws related to evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties.
Q: Will ITEC be involved in "self-initiation" of antidumping or countervailing duty cases?
A: Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations may be initiated as the result of a petition filed by a domestic interested party or at the Secretary of Commerce's own initiative. Self-initiation of such investigations has been a very rare occurrence. However, should the Secretary of Commerce request ITEC assistance in such a self-initiation, ITEC will provide support as appropriate.
Q: How will ITEC engage with the NIPRCC and the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC)?
A: The NIPRCC's focus is on the law enforcement response to IPR theft, primarily coordinating investigation and prosecution of IPR infringers under the criminal laws of the United States. The NIPRCC also is a key participant in international cooperation on criminal enforcement activities involving various other partner governments and international police organizations such as Interpol and Europol. ITEC's focus is enforcement of U.S. rights under trade agreements across a wide set of issues – including intellectual property. ITEC has and will continue to coordinate with the NIPRCC and the IPEC.
Q: Will ITEC serve a rapid response function, including with respect to identifying subsidies in overseas markets?
A: ITEC will be focusing on enforcement of U.S. rights under trade agreements which require some time to investigate, develop, and coordinate. However, to the extent ITEC becomes aware of issues requiring a rapid response through its monitoring or outreach functions, it will bring such issues to the attention of that part of USTR or another agency best positioned to take more immediate action.
Q: How will ITEC help small and medium-sized enterprises? What is the difference between what ITEC does and what the Trade Compliance Center at the Department of Commerce does?
A: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to continue to report their specific market access problems to the Trade Compliance Center (TCC) at the Department of Commerce. If the TCC is unable to resolve an issue, especially when it has noted a trend, the TCC will report the problem to ITEC. By leveraging the expertise of the TCC, ITEC will have a head start on dealing with trade issues that are affecting SMEs. Small and medium-sized enterprises may also work through their associations to bring industry-wide problems to the attention of ITEC.
Q: How will ITEC interact with other parts of USTR that may already be engaged in working on an issue of concern to certain companies or industries?
A: ITEC is in close contact with the various offices within USTR. USTR sector experts and negotiators are aware of ITEC activities and vice versa to ensure full coordination. Parties which have been working closely with USTR offices on issues of concern should continue to do so.
Q: What role will ITEC play in section 301 cases?
A: Interested persons may file petitions with USTR under section 301 of the Trade Act. Depending on the nature of the petition, ITEC may be involved in doing additional research during the 301 investigation phase. It is important to note that, although USTR can initiate a section 301 investigation itself, USTR does not need to do so in order to initiate WTO dispute settlement action. With regard to the majority of WTO dispute settlement actions, we anticipate that ITEC will be doing some of the same types of research that outside parties would typically do themselves in order to file a 301 petition.
Q: What role will ITEC play in section 201 cases?
A: Section 201 investigations will continue to be carried out by the International Trade Commission, which has statutory responsibility for implementing this section of U.S. trade law. Although it is a historically rare occurrence, the President or USTR can request the ITC to conduct a section 201 investigation. ITEC may have a role in providing information that can be used to inform the decision as to whether the President or USTR should make such a request.
Q: Will ITEC monitor the new free trade agreements to ensure that trading partners are not erecting new non-tariff barriers that would limit the benefits U.S. companies are supposed to gain from the agreements?
A: While ITEC will monitor certain issues, it does not have the staff to monitor every aspect of every FTA. ITEC continues to work with other offices within USTR to ensure compliance with FTAs and will continue to request that industry and companies bring problems to ITEC's attention.
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The environment chapter of the U.S.-South Korea Trade Agreement contains groundbreaking elements that were first outlined on May 10, 2007 in a Bipartisan Agreement on Trade Policy. South Korea has already demonstrated a significant commitment to environmental protections. Under the agreement, the South Korean government's environmental commitments will be held to the same level of accountability as other commitments in the agreement, such as market access and intellectual property protection.
The agreement's environmental commitments require both countries not only to maintain current levels of environmental protection at home, but to strive for higher environmental standards. In particular, both the United States and South Korea commit not to weaken existing environmental laws or to reduce environmental protections in any way that will give domestic producers an advantage over the other country's exporters – and both commit to effective enforcement of their respective environmental laws.
The United States and South Korea are already parties to seven international environmental agreements that seek to protect threatened and endangered species, protect the ozone layer, conserve fisheries, and protect whales. The U.S.-South Korea agreement requires both countries to live up to these commitments, and establishes a formal dispute settlement process within the bilateral agreement to ensure that each country is accountable for its commitments.
The landmark, bipartisan May 10, 2007 Bipartisan Agreement on Trade Policy benefited greatly from the input of American environmental groups. Likewise, the U.S.-South Korea agreement ensures that civil society can continue to share its perspective on whether the agreement's environmental commitments are being met and also how to improve practices as the agreement is implemented. Both the United States and South Korea will set up a formal mechanism for interested stakeholders to submit their views on implementation of the agreement's environment chapter. The United States and South Korea will also establish an Environmental Affairs Council of senior-level staff to oversee implementation of the environmental chapter and to involve the public in its work.


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Hulu's Parents Battle Over Direction for Site
Disney and News Corp., which own stakes in streaming video site Hulu, are at odds over the site's business models as the streaming video field gets more crowded, John Jannarone reports on digits. Photo: Hulu.
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Amanda Bynes threatens to sue Perez Hilton, 'Us Weekly'
Another day, another bizarre tweet from actress Amanda Bynes. The Easy A star, who in recent months has been in a downward spiral of strange behavior, took to her favorite medium this afternoon to warn the gossip media to stop writing about her.
"I'm suing @usweekly & @perezhilton for continuing to act like I'm doing something wrong by tweeting and walking to photoshoots. (Expletive) you!!!!" she wrote.
On Wednesday, Us Weeklyposted a story about Bynes wandering through Times Square the previous day with a shirt covering her head and face. Witnesses described her as "pretending to be a ghost" and reported that she made a trip to McDonald's and ordered two drinks, which she sipped simultaneously.
Perez Hilton questioned whether Bynes is mentally unstable and even went so far as to ask two psychiatrists to weigh in on her antics.
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I have a small server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. On it I wanted to set up IRC with SSL support. it appears that ircd-hybrid is most popular. I am not married to using it so other options are welcome. However, I am not seeing other options.
I have installed using apt-get. That isn't the problem. The problem is that the apt-get install version doesn't enable SSL. Try connecting to the SSL port 6697 using SSL and it will not work. Hence the work to build it myself. If you actually follow the source of the ircd-hybrid package the configuration requires that you edit it and add the "USE_OPENSSL = 1" option.
Because hybrid doesn't support OpenSSL by default, you have to do a manual patch to get it working.
Anyway, I followed the instructions (I listed a couple at the end) and install ircd-hybrid no problem. It's actually running now. However, I noticed that SSL isn't working. The port is never being listened to. Digging deeper, I look back at the building process and notice that OpenSSL isn't being included.
So I have been trying to build and just to clarify, here is the ./configure output:
Compiling ircd-hybrid 7.2.2
Installing into: /usr
Ziplinks ................ yes
**OpenSSL ................. no**
Modules ................. shared
IPv6 support ............ yes
Net I/O implementation .. sigio
EFnet server ............ no (use example.conf)
Halfops support ......... yes
Small network ........... no
G-Line voting ........... yes
A few line up in the output of the ./configure script I notice that it seems that all the encryption algos are unavailable!
checking for OpenSSL... /usr
checking for OpenSSL 0.9.6 or above... found
checking for RSA_free in -lcrypto... yes
checking for EVP_bf_cfb... no
checking for EVP_cast5_cfb... no
checking for EVP_idea_cfb... no
checking for EVP_rc5_32_12_16_cfb... no
checking for EVP_des_ede3_cfb... no
checking for EVP_des_cfb... no
Which if you look into the configure script you'll see that at least one of the encryption libraries need to be enabled. This is a hunch as I am not entirely positive about this. It seems that OpenSSL has disabled RC5 and a couple other algos.
I've rebuilt and installed OpenSSL with the enable-rc5 and other flags but no dice.
This is on Ubuntu 12.04. Help? Anyone? I'd like to enable SSL on IRC on my personal server. It doesn't have to be ircd-hybrid.
I have been looking at the forums on Ubuntu and generally following these instructions.
EDIT I have been chatting with the fella that figured out the solution on the first link I posted above. He was able to successfully build and run with SSL on a clean 12.04 install using the default OpenSSL package and the patched pircd-hybrid package. The system I am on was originally built using 10.x. I wonder if doing those upgrades to 12.04 LTS somehow broke something along the way. For example, his running of the ircd-hybrid configuration yields these in the crypto part of the setup:
checking for OpenSSL... /usr
checking for OpenSSL 0.9.6 or above... found
checking for RSA_free in -lcrypto... yes
checking for EVP_bf_cfb... yes
checking for EVP_cast5_cfb... yes
checking for EVP_idea_cfb... no
checking for EVP_rc5_32_12_16_cfb... no
checking for EVP_des_ede3_cfb... yes
checking for EVP_des_cfb... yes
I am running the latest open ssl:
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
Not sure why the configure script isn't seeing those cipher algos.
EDIT 2: Just installed a VM on my ESXi box. Brand new 32-bit install 12.04 LTS. Same problem. Installs fine via apt-get but SSL is not enabled. Tried the patch and it is also missing the algos as I listed above.


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If you use Facebook to "check in" to your favorite restaurants or shops, you can now expect to see rewards and discounts from companies looking to drum up business and lure in loyal customers.
Facebook is looking to bridge online advertising with people's offline behavior as it announced a service called "Deals." It's an extension of Places, the check-in feature the company unveiled this year. Rising with the explosive growth of smart phones, services based on people's location help them find coupons, earn quirky merit badges or simply share with friends where they are.
As part of the Deals service, the Gap plans to give away 10,000 pairs of jeans on Friday.
"Check-in at any Men's & Women's Gap using Facebook Places and you could win*. Just show any Gap employee your check-in and you could score a free pair. If you're too late don't worry, we'll let you shop with 40 percent off any regularly priced item**," according to the promotion's Facebook page.
You'll notice some asterisks in that deal. Basically, it's "a first come first served basis," and don't even think about getting jeans at GapKids, babyGap, GapBody, Gap Outlet, Gap Factory Store, The Gap Generation stores, or online.
As for the rest of the fine print, check out the event, "Gap Free Jeans Giveaway Event - this Friday!"
The Gap is just one of 23 companies in on the test version of Deals, including 24 Hour Fitness, North Face and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a small theater chain that serves food and drinks along with movies.
The number of people using such services is still small -- just 4 percent of the U.S. Internet population have ever used it and just 1 percent on any given day, according to a survey released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
But it's growing, and businesses ranging from small mom-and-pop stores to national chains are starting to take notice.
Starting Monday, Alamo plans to give away limited edition pint glasses to people who check in to one of its cinemas. Tim League, Alamo's founder and CEO, said Facebook is his company's "primary marketing tool," and offering check-in deals will help increase customer loyalty.


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Sam Hopkins is an artist whose work responds to the specific social and political context within which he is living, exploring and re-imagining elements of daily life. As his practice is triggered by a context, it exhibits a broad spectrum of both media and content. Much of his work orbits around issues of public space and the negotiation of participatory practice. Critical to this engagement is a keen attentiveness to the ways in which media produce realities, as opposed to simply transmitting them.
Sam grew up between Kenya and England and studied Art in England, Cuba and Germany, returning to Nairobi in 2006. He has participated in a broad spectrum of local and international exhibitions, is currently a PhD research candidate at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and works as a Kulturstiftung des Bundes Fellow at the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth. He was recently named one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 by Foreign Policy (FP) Magazine


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That's such a sweet drawing! I enjoyed looking through your gallery. :) And thank you for the nice comment!
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Cute *-* Great idea :D But I'm afraid that the snow Saint Family won't survive next year... You should buy a comfortable fridge for them xD
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About 4 months ago, i participated in an art showcase battle for one of my crew member in her school. I just got the footage today from another family crew member and I wanted to share it to everyone. I guess art does come in just about any form. something that is "limitless". on this particular subject, I believe the artist is trying to capture the movements on the ground. ever heard the quote: "the floor is my canvas, and my body is the brush"...hehe..not sure if thats the exact term...somewhat close I guess this is close to the idea.
Art Showcase battle from Joseph Reyes on Vimeo.
Im the one in adidas pants with stripes and my crew member saigon is the one on the opposite side.


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Cyclobenzaprine is a drug used to relax muscles. Experts do not
know exactly how this drug works to improve
fibromyalgia. Cyclobenzaprine is chemically similar to
amitriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant. So experts believe
that the two drugs may work in similar ways.1
Doctors may prescribe cyclobenzaprine to treat the pain, stiffness,
and sleep problems that occur with fibromyalgia.
People with fibromyalgia who take cyclobenzaprine seem to notice an
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CitationsGoldenberg DL, et al. (2004). Management of
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2388–2395.Tofferi JK, et al. (2004). Treatment of fibromyalgia
with cyclobenzaprine: A meta-analysis. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 51(1): 9–13.Bradley LA, Alarcon GS (2005). Fibromyalgia section of
Miscellaneous rheumatic diseases. In WJ Koopman, LW Moreland, eds.,
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In Chapter 25, Festus tells Agrippa that he brings Paul to him because he can see no reason for Paul to be judged and doesn't know what to write to the sovereign about the case that has been brought to him.
In Chapter 26, the story continues as Paul is brought before King Agrippa. When Agrippa gives him permission to speak, Paul says he is glad to appear before Agrippa because of his knowledge of the Jews and their customs and controversies.
Paul asserts he is the same man who grew up and held high office with the Jews and understood the promise of the Messiah in their teachings. As a Pharisee, he punished and condemned those who spoke against the Jews.
Then, Paul tells of his conversion on the road to Damascus where Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, spoke to him. Jesus ordered him to serve and testify to Jesus as Messiah and show people to go from darkness to light and from Satan to God. Through this, they would receive forgiveness of sins and be allowed to be among those sanctified by faith in Jesus. Paul questioned how the Jews could condemn him for saying what the prophets and Moses said would take place. He had witnessed it.
Festus first called Paul crazy from being too well read. Paul countered that he was not out of his mind and that Agrippa knew it. Agrippa commented on Paul trying to convert him. Finally, as they rose to leave, Agrippa and the others agreed that Paul had done nothing wrong. Unfortunately, since Paul had asked to be heard by the emperor, he could not be set free.
And so, Paul would have to be sent to Rome to be judged.
I pray for the faith and strength of Paul.
Paul had such faith! He didn't shrink from any controversy. His will was strong because of his faith. In the presence of such hatred, condemnation and cries for his death, he continued to testify to Jesus' message and try to lead people to Christ. How many of us will "stick to our guns" if our opinions are not popular? How do we behave when someone in our presence is un-Christian? Do we support our beliefs or just turn from him and decide to stay away from him in the future? How many of us are afraid to speak out when we see injustice?


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Discovery Acquires Treehugger.com
Your friendly, neighborhood tree hugger is going corporate. Discovery Communications has acquired Treehugger.com for an undisclosed sum.
Treehugger, which took home a Webby Award earlier this year, has provided eco-centric content to the Internet masses since 2004.
The site was approached "by over 15 large companies" over the last year about a possible acquisition, Graham Hill, Treehugger's founder, said in a note posted on the site. Treehugger eventually "concluded that we needed a partner with a sizeable, international audience, a kindred brand and a high level commitment philosophically and financially to green."
Discovery met those requirements with its audience of 1.5 billion, expansive Web properties and plans to expand its green content, Hill said.
Discovery plans to incorporate Treehugger content into its Planet Green initiative, which includes a variety of Web sites and a 24-hour green-focused TV channel set to launch in 2008.
I'm not really sure what that channel will entail, but I imagine that "An Inconvenient Truth" or Leonardo DiCaprio's eco-documentary "The 11th Hour" will eventually be broadcast as often as "Office Space" runs on Comedy Central. Whatever they come up with, it's going to have to be pretty impressive to beat out the glory of Discovery's Shark Week. Live every week like the polar ice caps are melting?
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Despite the government shutdown, Twitter will still proceed with its $15 billion initial public offering this week, according to reports.
Twitter will still post its IPO documents on the Securities and Exchange Commission website and offer a glimpse of the microblogging service's financial situation, CNN reported. The reason? Despite the shutdown, the SEC is allowed to keep its doors open until all funds are depleted, SEC spokesman John Nester told CNN. While other agency employees are furloughed until further notice, SEC workers will be there until the money is completely gone -- which will be in a few weeks.
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The Ewald Brothers Have Been There, Done That, And Are Doing It Again
Nostalgia done right makes the present better. The story here isn't just that brothers Don and John Ewald found the BankAmericar Top Fuel slingshot dragster that Don campaigned in the late '60s and early '70s and restored it, but that in doing so they made today better for both them and for everyone who cares about drag racing. In other words, the best thing about this car isn't what it was 35 years ago, but what it is now. Still, it all starts back in the '60s.
Don Ewald started racing around Southern California in 1962 with a series of Gassers and Altereds. Back then he worked as a parts manager at Boulevard Buick in Long Beach to finance a competitive sportsman effort. By 1966 he was bitten by the nitro bug, and using tubing bought from Woody Gilmore, he built a Junior Fuel rail (injected, lots of nitro, no blower) and occasionally drove Top Fuelers for other people. After going through a second Junior Fuel car, he and partner Fred Smith went Top Fuel racing full time in 1969.
"Richard Lockerman had ordered a [Junior Fuel] car from John Buttera at R&B Race Cars in Kenosha, Wisconsin," Ewald recalls. "That car was so nice that I called up Buttera and said I wanted a big brother to that car… in other words, a Top Fuel version. As luck would have it, he had just finished building such a car for himself, and he was planning to move to L.A. We agreed that I'd buy the car when he got here. I paid him $1,750. All I had to do was put a chute, engine, wheels, and tires on it and I was ready to go. I ran it at the U.S. Nationals in 1968, qualified, and got beat in the first round."
When Buttera moved to Southern California, he was thrown straight into the maelstrom that was Mickey Thompson's shop-where land speed and drag racing programs meant more than enough work for everyone who worked there. "When I moved to California, I didn't have the time or money to run it," says Buttera, "I met Ewald and he wanted the car." With all that was going on at Thompson's, Buttera wasn't lacking for excitement. "What I was doing was a lot more fun," he says, "so I didn't worry about it." The car was Ewald's.
It was also the last front-engine dragster Buttera built in his own shop before moving to California, even though it's hardly the last in the long line of glory-hogging Funny Cars and dragsters he's built since.
Though the specifics would change, the Ewald and Smith dragster always ran a blown 392 Chrysler sending power through a CrowerGlide three-disc clutch system to the direct-drive rearend. The blower was a 6-71 (sometimes Mooneyham, sometimes Littlefield) and the injection was by Enderle. Reath Automotive did all the machine work and Valley Head Service did the heads. "We were always experimenting and always working on a budget," says Ewald. "We had some product sponsors like Crower with the CrowerGlide clutch program. We did a tire test for Firestone in 1970, which is good because Firestone is using the car today in promotions. We had a lot of product sponsors but no money sponsors."
The car's name came from painter Kenny Youngblood. "Credit cards were still pretty new back then," says Ewald, "and I had a BankAmericard. In fact, that's how I financed the last stages of getting the car done. We were joking around and I pulled out the BankAmericard and Kenny looked at it and the idea just came out of his head. The BankAmericar." (BankAmericard changed its name to Visa in 1976.)
Campaigning at Lions, Irwindale, and Orange County, the BankAmericar was always competitive on the West Coast, prompting Ewald to leave the Buick dealership to go racing full-time. The digger's best e.t.: 6.28 at 228 mph. It won a race at Fremont and finished second at the AHRA Winternationals, but the team could never really afford to travel, so its presence on the national level was below the radar. In fact, finances were so slight that when they rented the car to a film production (1971's The Young Graduates), that small amount of money is what kept them racing.
Finally in the summer of 1971, Ewald retired the car and ordered a new RCS rear-engine car. "I don't even remember who we sold the BankAmericar to," says Ewald. But he knows he got $750 for it.
Ewald stayed in racing and eventually went to work for engine-builder Keith Black in 1974. He stopped driving and parked the Trotter & Ewald Top Fuel car in 1976 when Black asked him to concentrate on the business. By 1978 he was gone from racing altogether. He got a job as a cameraman at CBS Television City studios in L.A.'s Fairfax district. After forming his own commercial production company and raising his daughter into adulthood, he finally settled in Grants Pass, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and constructs Web sites, the most prominent of which is www.wediditforlove.com, which features over 30,000 photos of classic drag racing from the '60s and '70s.
"I put pictures of the car up on the site, saying I was looking for it," Ewald says. "The photos were up for probably a year when I got an e-mail from a guy in Atlanta saying 'I think I have your car' and he sent me out some photos. There had been some alterations, but there were still some things that were distinctive."
Unfortunately for Ewald, Mark Polson was still racing it in 2001 as the Dixie Flyer in nostalgia events with a blown 468 Chevy. "He was still going 200 mph in it," says Ewald. "Finally in November of 2002 he called me up and was ready to sell it. What we got was the complete car with the original body and original rollcage which, thank God, they hadn't thrown away."
It took about four months to figure out how to transport the car from Atlanta back to Southern California, and that's where Don's brother John, a commercial printer who was once the track photographer at Lions, came in. "John sent him a check for the car and from then on in it was John's money" says Don. "I owned the car back then and John owns it now."
The car arrived back in Southern California in April 2003 and just about everything was intact. It had all the original pipe and front wheels plus some extraneous items like kidney bars. Bruce Dyda at Dyda Engineering led the restoration.
"Our goal was to take the car to the 2003 Hot Rod Reunion," says Don Ewald. "Fortunately we had a ton of photos my brother had taken, and Bruce poured over them looking at every single detail. He nailed it. It's indistinguishable now from what it was back then."
While Dyda worked on the car, the Ewalds gathered parts for the engine. A 392 Hemi block was donated to the project, Valley Head Service worked on the heads again, and literally dozens of the Ewalds' oldest friends (and some who knew him only through his Web site) donated time and effort to get the car done. Even Kenny Youngblood recreated the paint he had applied years ago.
Then they started the car for the first time and blew the side of the block out of it just as they were leaving for the Reunion at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield. Don told us, "We just said to ourselves, 'We'll figure out something.' When we got there, Don Green, who has the Rat Trap Fuel Altered, had a spare Donovan and he said, 'Take it!' We spent all day Friday making a Donovan fit in a car never built for it. And we had it on the racetrack Saturday at one o'clock doing a push start. When I got in that car at Bakersfield in my firesuit, I swear to you it was like I had been in it two weeks before. It was absolutely incredible. It was the loudest car at the Cacklefest and we won the award for the car that best represented the era."
What it represents is a time when guys in their 20s could lay out a car based as much on experience and intuition as actual engineering knowledge. Now those guys are in their late 50s and early 60s and the car allows them to recall their youth while showing those of us accustomed to Top Fuel cars that run 4.40s at 330 mph that it took some real effort to get to that point.
When dragstrip owner and pioneer C.J. "Pappy" Hart died earlier this year at 93, it was the BankAmericar that gave him a thundering eulogy at his funeral. "Right after they put the casket down," Don Ewald reports, "John fired up the car and let it run until it ran out of fuel. You couldn't have sent him out a better way."
We couldn't agree more.
Quick Inspection: '68 Buttera Top Fuel Dragster
John Ewald * Brea, CA
Engine: '57 Chrysler Imperial 392 Hemi iron block, Valley Head Service-modified stock heads with Donovan valvetrain assembly, Arias flat-top Fuel pistons, Brooks aluminum connecting rods, Henry Velasco-modified stock crank, Chet Herbert cam duplicating the Howard 70, Mooneyham 6-71, Enderle mechanical fuel injection, Cirello Frankenstein MagnetoPower: "Somewhere around 2,000 hp at 2,500 rpm" according to John EwaldTransmission: Donovan geardrive, Shaeffer two-disc clutch pack inside a Lakewood aluminum bellhousing
Rearend: Chrysler 8 3/4, 4.56:1 gears, locked differential
Frame: '68 Buttera Front Engine Dragster, restored in 2003 by Bruce Dyda
Suspension: Solid front axle, fixed rearend bolted to chassis
Brakes: Hurst Airheart rear discs
Wheels: 17-inch unknown motorcycle wheels, front; 15×12 Ansen aluminum wheels, rearTires: 22-inch-tall Avon motorcycle tires front; 12×15 Firestone Drag 500s, rear
Body: Tom Hanna aluminum tub
Paint: Paint-N-Place applied the Candy Blue, Candy White, Candy Gold PPG paint; Kenny Youngblood graphics
Interior: Hanna aluminum seat, upholstered by Baer's Canvas and Upholstery; NHRA-legal (1968) three-point rollcage


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Fire heavily damages Fremont home
Fire heavily damaged a Victorian home in Fremont on Monday, authorities said.
The fire destroyed about 70 percent of the one-story home at 38569 Overacker Ave., with damages estimated at $300,000 to the structure and $100,000 to contents inside, said fire Capt. Diane Hendry.
The blaze broke out at 3:24 p.m. inside a bedroom and spread to the attic, Hendry said. It took firefighters about 40 minutes to extinguish the flames. Multiple residents who were home at the time were not injured.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. City code enforcement officers were called in to investigate if several construction modifications were completed in compliance with city law.
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Home Opener postgame
John Gibbons posed a question to the pack of reporters inside his office after Monday night's 9-1 win over the Royals. Toronto's manager was simply curious how long the home opener lasted.
"That's it?!" responded Gibbons, when informed the game was 3 hours, 8 minutes long. "I would've said four."
That summed up the Blue Jays' home opener. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't quick, but it was an overwhelming win for Toronto. Starter A.J. Burnett's performance wasn't pretty, it wasn't quick, but he held the Royals to three hits and one run over 6 2/3 frames. Burnett worked out of two bases-loaded jams, and walked off the field to a standing ovation from the 50,000-plus in attendance.
How about the production from the Nos. 6-9 hitters? Alex Rios, Aaron Hill, Gregg Zaun and Royce Clayton combined to go 7-for-15 with six of the nine runs scored. Hill led the group with three hits — two doubles — and Rios had two singles as well. Vernon Wells belted his second homer of the year, knocking Hill out as Toronto's team leader in moonshots.
"I told you it wouldn't last long," Hill laughed after the game.
LOUDEST CHEER: Scratch that, and make it "loudest boos." The sellout crowd let out a resounding boo for the fan wearing a New York Islanders jersey who appeared on the jumbotron during the game. That's a lot of disgruntled Leafs fans.
SHOW UP EARLY: On Sept. 2, the Blue Jays will have Frank Thomas Kids Pillow Giveaway Day at the Rogers Centre. I'm sure the people who weren't big fans of the recent TV commercial where Thomas has a pillow fight with his "son" will be the first ones in line.
ON DECK: RHP Josh Towers takes the mound for his first start of the year. Not only is he coming off a 2-10, 8.42 ERA in 2006, he'll be starting after nine days of rest. It will be interesting to see how Towers performs in his first start under those circumstances.
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Hey Jordan … I know it's still early, but do Gibby/J.P. have a contingency plan if Zaun struggles at the plate for an extended period? Take it easy man. Check out my blog if you're interested …
I have never had the chance to be at a home opener as I live in Halifax, NS, however I was lucky enough to be in Toronto for the past two weeks on business and was even luckier to get a couple tickets. WOW! The atmosphere was so intense, and the fact that the Jays had such a big win was even more exciting. I truly hope that the attendance keeps up, the team deserves it.


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Some GOPers OK with defense cuts
It's been an article of faith for the GOP: Thou shalt not cut defense spending.
But with the sequester threatening to slash hundreds of billions from the Pentagon budget, a surprising number of Republicans are ready to violate that commandment.
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The sequester cuts, they say, are better than no cuts at all.
This new generation of conservatives in Congress, freed from the ideologies of the Cold War and Reagan-era defense buildups, is pushing Republicans to buck their tradition and put defense on the chopping block in pursuit of a truly smaller federal government.
The group includes GOP rookies like Reps. Justin Amash of Michigan, Paul Gosar of Arizona and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas who simply aren't concerned by the blunt slash to defense spending as long as it accomplishes the goal of deficit reduction. Others, like Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, aren't particularly thrilled with the way the sequester cuts are made or the way the debt deal was done to begin with, but they're ready to talk seriously about how to make cuts to mandatory military spending. And South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, one of the most conservative members of the House, led a group of Republicans and liberal Democrats that sent a letter to the White House and congressional leaders calling on them to include serious defense cuts in a fiscal cliff deal.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP tries to quell dissent on taxes)
Mulvaney, who teamed up with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) earlier this year to pass an amendment that froze defense spending, said the sequester is the wrong way to cut the Pentagon's budget and believes there are alternative ways to come up with the cuts. But, he said, "the only thing worse [than the sequester] would be to not cut spending at all." Mulvaney has been outspoken about the need to find savings in the defense budget.
"If we don't take defense spending seriously, it undermines our credibility on other spending issues," Mulvaney told POLITICO. "When we speak candidly about a spending problem and we then seek to puff up the defense budget and it leads people to believe that we aren't taking the problem seriously."
These conservatives joined Congress as the U.S. has been trying to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the more libertarian idea of scaling back U.S. involvement in the world has caught on with some of the congressional rookies.
( Also on POLITICO: Cliff chaos: Hundreds of billions apart)
In an op-ed in the Arizona Republic, Gosar argued that Congress needs to let the sequester cuts go through.
"We either have a spending problem or we don't," Gosar said in an interview. "Going back to the military budget of 2009 — we're still going to have the biggest military in the world. If we can't go over this bump, we'll never be able to get anything big done."
"A little pain allows the medicine to go down," the former dentist added. "We'll at least be treating the problem in order for us to get well again."
Other fiscal hawks have a problem not with the cuts per se but with the fact that they are made across the board. Still, they are open to looking at tightening the Pentagon's purse strings.
"The problem with the sequester is not the cuts, but how the cuts are made. It cuts things that are not necessary at the same level it cuts things that quite honestly are necessary," said Georgia's Scott. "We've been operating under continuing resolutions for years now in this country and that means that we've maintained things that we probably should have gotten rid of a long time ago; that you simply can't get rid of in a continuing resolution."


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The Silver Lining of the North Sea Storm
A North Sea storm surge wreaked carnage last week, flooding homes and forcing evacuations along the UK coastline. In a silver lining of sorts, offshore winds were forecast and a hardy group of surfers took to the water, scoring barrels at spots which seldom show their faces. Surfer and photographer, James Cummings, was on hand to photograph and surf this rare swell event.
Take a jagged coastline strewn with shapely sandstone reefs and curved sandy beaches, introduce a swell which statistically bears a resemblance to an Indian Ocean classic, and watch as perfection rolls in... right?
The North Sea is an incredible place to be a surfer. It frequently puts the reasons one might choose to be a surfer under the microscope, not least because the majority of quality swell comes in the winter months.
Siberian winds, as the weather forecasters like to call them, drive swell from the small gap between Greenland and Norway through what is effectively a bottleneck of water. This in turn means that every exposed rocky outcrop up and down the coast enjoys a surprising degree of quality, from what might seem like relatively small, short period swells.
Last week, word of the swell event of the year sent a whisper of excitement through this community. Isobars stacked up in favourable lines. Pressure charts from previous legendary swells were compared and bigger boards were sought.
The character of its surfing populous is a match for the low temperatures, both on land and in the water. Pick up a sports section of any national newspaper to hear the mainstream media talking about the 'steadfast fans' of the area's famed Football clubs. And 'steadfastness' is what every North East surfer needs in order to cope with the prolonged flat spells. All are driven to the edge of reason as they stare in vain at perpetually lacklustre forecasts, to the inevitable breaking point of climbing in their vans and driving the eight hours North to take on Thurso, armed with a bottomless flask of tea and an acceptance that wetsuits are permanently wet, and sometimes even frozen.
Last week, word of the swell event of the year sent a whisper of excitement through this community. Isobars stacked up in favourable lines. Pressure charts from previous legendary swells were compared. Bigger boards were sought. The BBC even ran headline news stories on the predicted high seas, and the effects of the storm surge that would precede it.
Large areas of low lying coastal regions were evacuated, and otherwise moderate spring high tides were bolstered with several feet of extra wind driven water. Every home and business with a doorstep less than 8 meters above chart datum started buying sand bags. The tide duly rose and, as forecast, rivers swelled, towns were flooded, bridges became submerged and sand dunes were silently washed away amidst a digital deluge of twitter 'iphonography' covering the carnage.
Meanwhile, the eyes of the nation's surf community began widening in expectant disbelief, including those of your author, who knew that this two day swell event was going to comprise 200+ miles of driving, coinciding with two consecutive nights working late as a DJ.
So with diesel bought, batteries charged, multiple wetsuits at the ready and favours called in, was this it?
Words: James Cummings
Photos: James Cummings and assistant photographer Chris Ibbotson.
Thanks to Northcore, all the surfers and bystanders we saw along the way spreading good vibes, and also to the 'other halves' who let us boys go off and do our own thing.


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Hi all!
I've been absent for a loong time..
Want to say Congratulations!!( looong time overdue i know ) to all the new mommies- Kim, Vicky and Denise..
I'm so glad to hear you all are doing well!
We are doing very well.
Sher, like Sienna, Dhruvaa is her own person and we are so full of joy watching her learn and play.
She's going to a montessori here and loving it!
Just popped in to say hi to all of you lovely ladies
Wishing you and your love,luck and laughter!


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Obama, GOP battle over flight delays
While thousands of passengers deal with longer waits at U.S. airports, politicians in Washington trade blame and seek political advantage.
Congressional Republicans seek to pin the flight delays on President Obama, saying the budget cuts under the sequester do not require all the new furloughs by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight?" tweeted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. "FAA can re-prioritize."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has tweeted out similar messages with the hashtag "Obama Flight Delays."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the FAA has no choice under the automatic budget cuts brought about by congressional Republican budget priorities. Carney said the GOP can eliminate the sequester by approving a debt reduction plan that includes taxes from the wealthy through the closing of loopholes.
"Republicans in Congress could decide that the victory party is over and it's time to get serious about the economy, get serious about the effects of the sequester on Americans across the country in a variety of ways," Carney said.
Look for the political battle over flight delays to heat up as the lines lengthen and the days roll by.


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I love technology. I'm writing this in the car, on the sea to sky highway from Vancouver to Whistler, with my Rogers rocket stick, on my laptop posting to my blog. Dean and I talked about this a while ago. Some people say I wish I lived in this era, or back in that era, but Dean and I love living right now. Then we started imagining living during a time when there were no flushing toilets etc. Please. I am too weak. I could never. I can't even camp. Never mind camp, I can't even trailer.
Anyway, the point is I was happy already turning on my laptop in the car driving along the coast and it's so beautiful and Marcus is snorting in the backseat, thrilled to be out of the heat, and I open up my photo site and there's Phylicia Rashad and Latifah looking so close on the set of Just Wright in New York and it lifted my spirits even more.
Aren't these beautiful pictures?
Aren't these beautiful women?
I will always love Phylicia Rashad. Because I will always love The Cosby Show. This might be the saddest thing to say, that a tv show can have such great meaning, but it was a big part of my life growing up. To this day I cannot ignore a Cosby Show rerun.


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A Romantic Museum Wedding at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Jennifer Pluymert (23 and a neonatal nurse) and David Rietema (23 and a business strategist) held their wedding at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "We have both lived in Grand Rapids our entire lives and loved that the museum offered a view of the Grand River and downtown," Jennifer says. Inspired by the modern look of the museum, the couple went with a romantic, modern theme for their wedding. Minimal decor brought out the natural beauty of the museum, like the large whale skeleton hanging above the reception hall. A standout detail? The indoor museum carousel was open all night for guests to enjoy. Check out more photos by Kelly Braman Photography, below.


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In 2005, Australian songstress Delta Goodrem paired with former Westlife member Brian McFadden to release Almost Here, a sort-of-ballad, that managed to do considerably well in the countries where it was released. The song, however,
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Growing up in a thoroughly middle-class, suburban white household in the heartland (Pennsylvania), I was subjected to cuisine that was pretty much thoroughly middle-class, suburban white bread, meat and potatoes and a squishy vegetable on the side because someone said it was supposed to be good for you. No big deal really. That's just the way it was and I'm pretty sure I didn't suffer any lasting trauma as a result.
As for beverages, let's just say that tea was an unimaginably exotic sort of thing, perhaps not so out there as mangosteens or monkey brains served fresh from the skull and still steaming, but pretty damned close.
We did actually have tea in the house at times, but it was iced tea from a powdered mix that came in a jar and I never developed a taste for it - imagine that.
What I did have a taste for in those tender years was milk. I drank the stuff in sufficient quantities to keep quite a few cows off the unemployment line. As for my preferences, it was mostly white milk at home and occasionally some chocolate on visits to my grandparents. I also liked soda, but that was strictly rationed and thus I never developed too much of a taste for it.
There wasn't much coffee around our house either, if you can imagine such a thing, though both my grandparents drank it regularly. At a rather tender age, I too became a coffee drinker, feeling rather grown up and proud of myself as a result. But this phase was brief since I ultimately realized that coffee was pretty nasty no matter how much you doctored it up.
As I grew up and the parental yoke loosened and finally fell away I made up for some lost soda drinking time, eventually switching over to diet when I was diagnosed with a blood sugar condition. By this time milk had fallen by the wayside. Then, at some point in my late twenties or early thirties, a new beverage appeared on the scene, at least for me - tea.
I don't recall how this came about, but for a decade or so I was only an occasional tea drinker and mostly consumed it during the winter months as a way to keep warm and only herbal teas.
Of course, somewhere along the line I discovered "real" tea, starting with Stash tea in bags, if memory serves correctly. Then, at some point quite a bit further down the road, and again thanks to Stash, I began to dabble with loose teas. And the rest is pretty much history, if only personal history and one still in the making.
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Evolution of a Tea Drinker
2 comments:
- Tim G said...
Hi Bill, Great story!!
I was a two pot a day coffee drinker as well, until my doctor suggested I STOP drinking coffee, and consider tea.... I thought tea... hmmm... then I met a tea broker in India who started sending me samples to try and I was HOOKED... at the time I owned an online grocery deilvery business... I got really interested in the business of tea... 4 stores, a wholesale business and a franchise later... I'm still loving it!!!!
Great Blog!!!
- William I. Lengeman III said...
Thanks. I guess no one will ever accuse you of doing things halfway.
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Three preseason games down, and the Philadelphia Eagles win their third. This time backup quarterback Nick Foles takes the start while Mike Vick gets some rest for his ribs. Foles continues to do very well, showing great things as a future starter with this organization. The Eagles beat the Cleveland Browns 27-10 under his leadership. We talked about how Vick needs to protect himself during this season and not put himself out there on every play if there are huge risks. He has to throw the ball away or slide (feet first, of course.) What we want overall, besides a safe quarterback, is a controlled and balanced Offense this year. With the caliber of running backs we have, this Offense could be deadly if balanced correctly.
Our guest this week is EFC contributor Holden Fulco, and he brings up an former Eagles player who is also not doing well, in the name of Kevin Kolb. The conversation then shifts to what the organization sees that we as fans do not, and most of the time the players that leave the Eagles do not thrive.
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I have a Fiat 500 press car at the moment, and am enjoying it a lot. While crawling around in the driver's footwell (don't ask) I noticed something you usually don't see behind the pedals: the steering column's U-joint.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think positioning this inside the actual cabin of the car is pretty uncommon. Even the Subaru Sambar kei truck I drove, while it had a very prominent steering rod, at least had the U-joint hidden outside of the cabin.
I don't dislike this, as it would make replacing it pretty easy, it looks like. It's just that I can imagine myself jumping in with some boots on, long laces flying akimbo, and as I clutch and brake one of those long tendrils starts to wrap around the steering column, coiling and winding ever tighter with each twist of the wheel, until the tension on my brake or clutch or both feet becomes unbearable, causing me to accelerate off an overpass and land comically inside a stakebed full of marshmallows and straw.
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Vision is a complex process that enables individuals to recognize objects, detail, color and contrast. This ability gradually diminishes with age, but it can also be affected by injury, illness or disease.
According to the National Eye Institute, more than two million people over the age of 40 suffer from low vision – a visual impairment severe enough to interfere with an individual's ability to perform daily activities. Ophthalmologists and optometrists often prescribe special lenses or other optical devices to help maximize sight. At Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, our specialized occupational therapists work closely with low vision patients to maximize usable vision, develop compensatory skills, and gain confidence to maintain as independent a lifestyle as possible.
Low vision is often caused by macular degeneration or other deterioration of the eye function, as well as by a stroke, brain injury or diabetes. As a result, individuals have great difficulty reading, identifying objects, seeing obstacles such as furniture, steps, walls and curbs, and may even experience problems recognizing familiar faces.
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With Valentine's Day coming up there is much talk about Love.
Very little however, resembles true love. The type that is patient, kind, humble, pure, selfless, that holds no grudges and holds no records of wrongs. This is the kind of love we all desperately need. This is the kind of love our children need.
We can't give it to them, we can't love them unless we, ourselves, receive that love.
Love for our kids and family can only start when we love ourselves.
We can only love ourselves when we receive love.
Love that is freely given; grace for our mistakes and hope for our future.
Remember: You Were Made to Be Loved.
The more we look at truth, the more it becomes ingrained in us. The more we look at truth, the more we remember the truth.
The more we know truth, the more we can teach it to our kids.
The truth that we are loved with an eternal, perfect and everlasting Love.
Love that brings us peace and contentment and fills our hearts to love our children with patience, with kindness,selflessly….
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U.S. Workers Can't Get No (Job) Satisfaction
Fewer than half of American workers were satisfied with their jobs in 2013, according to a new survey from the Conference Board.
In almost every individual measure—from wages and retirement plans to vacation policies and commutes—workers are less content with their jobs than they were in 1987, when the research group started tracking the topic. Back then, 61.1% of workers said they were satisfied with their work.
The decline suggests a steady erosion of trust and loyalty between employers and employees, said Rebecca Ray, leader of the organization's human capital research unit.
"Certainly, the employer contract is dead for the most part," she said, noting that benefits such as pension plans, 401(k) matches and robust healthcare coverage, which once glued employers and their employees together in a long-term relationship, are disappearing.
Among the areas with the largest gaps between satisfaction then and now, according to the survey: job security, health coverage, and sick leave policies. While some of these measures have returned to pre-recession levels, the longer trends are decidedly negative.
The only measures on which workers were happier compared with 1987 were the physical environment and quality of equipment at their workplaces. Also, those working 41 to 50 hours are happier now than they were then.
On a shorter-term horizon, employees are marginally happier now with their pay, bonus plans, career development and flexible-work opportunities than they were in the period from 2005 to 2007. And overall satisfaction rose a touch from 47.3% in 2012. It reached its lowest point in 2010, at 42.6%.
Workers' favorite things about the daily grind? Their colleagues and their interest in the work they're doing, with 59.3% and 57.9% of workers citing satisfaction in those respective areas. Receiving the very lowest scores: promotion policies (23.8%) and bonus plans (24.2%).
In a nod to the notion that American workers inhabit separate worlds these days—one for high earners reaping the benefits of broader economic changes, one for low earners taking on the increasing number of service jobs, and one for a shrinking middle—those at the top end of the wage scale are the most satisfied with their jobs.
About 64% of people earning more than $125,000 say they're satisfied with their jobs, while just 24.4% with incomes under $15,000 said the same. In the middle ranks—those earning between $35,000 and $75,000—the figure hovers around 45%.
Scarred by layoffs during the recession, plenty of workers said they worry about the security of their jobs. Layoff rates in 2013 were the lowest they've been in at least a decade, because companies are already operating as leanly as they can, the authors write.
The survey, which the Conference Board has conducted every year since 1987, bears some resemblance to the 'employee engagement' surveys that companies and polling firms engage in regularly these days. The Board distinguishes its target by saying that satisfaction is focused instead on more measurable components such as pay and benefits and "does not explore the full range of emotional and behavioral ways employees interact with their workplaces."
A more official view of job dissatisfaction—one that illustrates a combination of worker intentions plus labor market strength or weakness—is the Labor Department's monthly data on the rate at which workers are quitting. The 12-month moving average for quits stood at just under 1.5% of the workforce at the end of 2013, a level not seen since early 2009. However, that's still below the more robust 1.7% rate from 2007.
The Conference Board survey is based on responses from 1,673 workers.