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An exchange-traded fund of technology stocks is providing the highest returns of China-focused ETFs in the U.S. as the nation's growing middle class stokes demand for smartphones.
The Guggenheim China Technology Exchange-Traded Fund Trust 2 returned 6.9% this year, outperforming all Chinese ETFs listed in the U.S., according to data compiled by Bloomberg. NQ Mobile Inc. surged 43% after raising its sales outlook last week, while NetEase Inc., China's second-largest online games website operator, jumped to a four-month high. The Bloomberg China-US Equity Index of the most-traded Chinese equities in the U.S. rallied for the first week in five.
China had 1.1 billion mobile subscribers through January, up 52% from 2010, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Fourth-generation mobile services will probably be widely available in about a year, Industry and Information Technology Minister Miao Wei said March 8. The country has pledged to support greater urbanization, with as many as 300 million people to move from the countryside by 2030, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates show.
"The penetration is increasing and the potential there still has a lot of room to grow," Michael Ding, the lead manager of the China Region Fund at U.S. Global Investors Inc., which oversees $2.2 billion, said by phone March 7 from San Antonio, Texas. "The growing middle class of course will help because of their increasing purchasing power. Mobile shopping is a new way of life."
Beating Property
The Guggenheim China Technology ETF beat a 0.6% jump in the Guggenheim China Real Estate ETF and the 0.3% advance in the Global X China Industrials ETF, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund, the largest Chinese exchange-traded fund in the U.S., gained 1.2% last week to $39.08, and is down 3.4% in 2013.
Smartphones provide a way for technology companies from mobile game developers to Internet search engine operators to engage China's growing consumer class, Ding said.
"On smartphones you can play things, do social networking," Ding said. "It's an emerging opportunity."
NQ Mobile, China's biggest mobile-phone security company, raised its 2013 sales outlook March 6 to as much as $183 million from an earlier forecast of up to $155 million. The Beijing- based company also unveiled a partnership with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil SAB to provide products for security, privacy and family protection to subscribers in Latin America. NQ's American depositary receipts soared to $9.86 in a record weekly gain.
Phoenix Upgraded
NetEase, based in Beijing, rallied 7.1% to $54.23 in New York last week, the highest close since Nov. 8.
Phoenix New Media Ltd. gained 1.8% to $4 March 8, the highest price since Aug. 13 amid trading volumes more than two times the daily average over the past three months. Deutsche Bank AG raised the ADRs to buy from hold. The Beijing-based provider of TV and mobile news reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 35 cents per ADR March 6, beating the average of two analysts' projections for adjusted EPS of 17 cents.
Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd. rose for the first week in three as the Chinese government said that it's seeking to open new railway lines in 2013. The ADRs jumped 8.9% to $13.35 last week, the steepest advance since November.
China Lodging Group Ltd., which runs the nation's fourth- largest economy hotel chain, tumbled 8.1% last week after reporting fourth-quarter net income that was 36% below the average of four analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The ADRs rebounded March 8, adding 4.4% to $17.24, the biggest jump since Jan. 14.
'Disposable Income'
ADRs of WuXi PharmaTech Cayman Inc. climbed 2.6% to $17.75 March 8. The Shanghai-based provider of pharmaceutical research forecast 2013 adjusted earnings of $1.49 to $1.53 per ADR, above the average $1.46 per ADR expected by analysts.
"The Chinese consumer's disposable income growth is pretty robust, and stocks of companies that are consumer-facing look like they're reporting good results," Charlie Awdry, a portfolio manager for Henderson Global Investors' 500 million pound ($746.4 million) China Opportunities Fund, said by phone from London March 8. "There's a really good long-term growth driver there."
Suntech Power Holdings Company Ltd., the largest solar- panel company by shipments in 2011, jumped 3.3% to $1.26 March 8. The ADRs pared their decline last week after the company reached a settlement with an affiliated company, GSF Capital Pte Ltd., and a former sales agent, Javier Romero, involved in a potential fraud.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index jumped 1.5% to 11,484.35 March 8 for a weekly advance of 1.2%. The Shanghai Composite Index of domestic Chinese shares slid 0.2% to 2,318.61, capping a 1.7% decline for the week.


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Medical marijuana supporters like Committee Chair Tom Ammiano and longtime opponents from law enforcement groups and the League of California Cities all praised each other for working on a regulatory and licensing framework – not just for dispensaries but for growers, processors and physicians.
"We are feeling very optimistic," says Ammiano."And I very much appreciate the cooperation of everyone at the table."
The League of Cities' Tim Cromartie says his group recognizes the need for strong marijuana regulations.
"California in the long run may very well legalize it, and we don't want a situation – which is what they have in Colorado – where you have chaos," says Cromartie.
The bill would make the state Department of Consumer Affairs responsible for regulation of medical marijuana, subject to local rules set by cities and counties. There are still some sticking points, such as how to pay for the regulatory efforts and who should be eligible to get licensed.
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Comedian and actor Mike Myers' stunning Soho penthouse has gone on the market, listed with a cool $13.95 million price tag.
Marketed by Compass, the 3-4 bedroom apartment features a private roof deck and sits 7 storys above Soho's cobbled Mercer Street.
According to Curbed New York, Myers first listed the property in 2015 for just under $17 million. He didn't sell it at that time, and now the price has dropped by just over $3 million.


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Some rules, like records, are made to be broken. Thank goodness that Jerry Reinsdorf didn't let one of his unwritten ones get in the way of his baseball franchise a few years back.
Reinsdorf is a strong believer in limiting ownership's risk by not signing players, especially pitchers, to extended contracts. He had drawn a line in the sand for pitchers at three years, and it almost cost the White Sox the services of one Mark Buehrle.
Let's hear it for compromise.
About three months after Buehrle no-hit the Texas Rangers, Reinsdorf agreed to give his cornerstone left-hander -- one of the best pitchers in the game both then and now -- a four-year offer. Buehrle had wanted to stay in Chicago all along, and the $56-million deal allowed him to forego an impending round of free agency. He would have been snapped up by somebody -- Yankees, Red Sox, his beloved Cardinals.
And the Sox would have known what it was to experience a loss like the one the Cubs did when they allowed Greg Maddux to sign with the Braves.
I sometimes have referred to Buehrle as "the left-handed Maddux," to the amusement of at least one friend who worships the ivy at Wrigley Field. But look at him now. Look at him real hard.
Buehrle, barely 30, added a perfect game to his resume Thursday at U.S. Cellular -- an instant 5-0 classic against the Rays that will be remembered more for the acrobatic, uncannily well-timed catch defensive replacement Dewayne Wise made as any of Buehrle's 116 pitches.
But man, were these good pitches -- never two in the same spot, rarely one that a hitter could anticipate.
Just ask Michel Hernandez. He struck out on a 3-2 changeup for the 26th out, one after Wise robbed Gabe Kapler for No. 25, and one before shortstop Alexei Ramirez handled Jason Bartlett's grounder for No. 27.
You have a perfect game on the line and you throw a 3-2 changeup? That's Buehrle.
The ability to throw the perfect pitch at the perfect time, without even looking like he's breaking a sweat trying, is the true signature of Chicago's best pitcher since Maddux. He now has as many no-hitters as the times he was cut by his high school baseball team. And look at the company he is in.
Five pitchers before Buehrle had thrown more than one no-hitter and at least one perfect game. Those guys -- Addie Joss, Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, Jim Bunning and Randy Johnson -- are either already in the Hall of Fame or awaiting future induction.
And Buehrle?
He just may be on his way, if he keeps pitching. He's 133-90 in his 10 seasons, and is as much of a cruise-control, 15-plus victory guy as there is in the major leagues. He doesn't get as much attention as the hard throwers -- CC Sabathia and the rest -- but he thrives in a hitter's park in a muscle-bound league. Try that sometime, Jake Peavy.
Buehrle has been as durable as they come since he arrived as a wide-eyed rookie on the Sox's 2000 playoff team, setting a great example for the pitchers who have come behind him.
Buehrle said after Thursday's game that he has surprised himself throughout his career. He never expected to throw a no-hitter, let alone a perfect game. He never thought he could hit a home run (he got that earlier this season).
There are two things he wants now, he said -- a Gold Glove (he long has been deserving, as pickoff victims will attest) and a Cy Young Award. This could be the season he makes a run at the latter, as the perfect game put him in the forefront of voters' minds and he seems capable of winning 18-plus games.
This is only the second year of the four-year contract he signed after he moved within half a season of entering the free-agent market. It's too early to talk about a new contract or any of that.
The question may be whether he wants to keep pitching when this contract expires at the end of 2011. He told me earlier this year that this might be the last one of his life, as he misses his family (wife, children, father, mother and siblings) badly when he is away, especially for long stays like spring training.
Was he kidding? I don't think so. He's about as sincere as they come.
Buehrle is one of the players who really gets it. He's willing to share his experiences -- all of his experiences -- with fans via every form of media known to man.
He was making the rounds of talk shows after the perfect game. At the end of one interview, a host referred to him as "a class act."
"Thanks," Buehrle said. "That means a lot."
He's as good as it gets.
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Nearly two weeks after what is widely considered a flawed presidential election, the Iranian government continues its brutal crackdown on protestors. Their latest tactic seems one of to be removing agitators.
The family of Neda Soltan, the girl whose death was captured on film and used as a rallying point for the opposition, has been evicted from their home, according to The Guardian newspaper.
"We just know that they [the family] were forced to leave their flat," a neighbor of the family told the newspaper.
The opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi reports another strongarm move by the government on his official Web site. Mousavi claims that his access to people is being restricted and that he is being pressured to withdraw his election challenge.
According to his Web site Kalemeh, Mousavi said there were "recent pressures on me aimed at withdrawing" the challenge."
Furthermore, 70 university professors were detained in
in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with Iran's key opposition figure,
, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged presidential election.
The professors were detained on Wednesday, immediately after meeting with Mousavi, said the Kalemeh site, which is affiliated with the opposition leader. The report said it is not clear where the detainees were taken.
Hundreds of protesters and activists are believed to have been taken into custody since the June 12 vote, in which Iran's ruling clerics declared hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner by a landslide.
The government has also set up a special court to deal with the cases of people arrested in more than a week of unrest and threatened harsh sentences.
Widespread protests erupted after the election, amid allegations of massive fraud. Since then, at least 17 people have been killed as authorities gradually intensified their crackdown.
The state-owned newspaper, Iran, reported Thursday that in addition to the 17, seven members of the pro-government Basij militia were killed in post-election clashes, and dozens more injured by weapons and knives. The report could not be independently verified.
The professors detained Wednesday were believed to be among a group that has been pushing for a more liberal form of government. The detentions signal that the authorities are increasingly targeting members of Iran's elite.
In recent days, demonstrators have found themselves more and more scattered and struggling under a blanket crackdown that Mousavi's wife compared to martial law.
In clashes Wednesday near Iran's parliament, thousands of police crushed hundreds of Mousavi supporters, using tear gas and clubs.


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Costello audit recommends Queensland asset sales
Queensland unions have vowed to run 'the mother of all campaigns' to fight the privatisation of state-owned assets.
The Queensland Government has released part of the Costello Commission of Audit report advising the state to sell assets and restructure the public service.
The Commission was chaired by former federal Treasurer Peter Costello.
The 1000 page report contains 155 recommendations but the public will not get to read them for about two months, while they are considered by Cabinet.
The report says Queensland must sell assets to reduce debt and regain its AAA credit rating.
The state's $25 billion worth of electricity companies, networks, and power stations are the report's prime targets.
However, it also recommends giving private providers contracts to deliver public transport, health services and public sector corporate services.
It says the Queensland Government will not be effectively able to reduce debt without selling assets.
It recommends a taskforce be set up to oversee the implementation of the recommendations.
Treasurer Tim Nicholls says the recommendations include restructuring the public service and selling government-owned corporations.
"It says we still need to fix up the way those companies are operated to make sure they're running efficiently and effectively," Mr Nicholls said.
Mixed response
John Battams from the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) says the campaign against privatisation will be relentless.
"It will be a consistent and well-resourced campaign from now through to the next election - and if necessary the election beyond that," Mr Battams said.
"Make no mistake - the Queensland trade union movement does not believe it is necessary to privatise the people's assets for short term political gain."
The Australian Industry Group (AIG) has thrown its weight behind asset sales.
AIG state director Matthew Martin-Jones says electricity infrastructure is an obvious choice, and it should involve CS Energery, Stanwell Corporation and Powerlink.
"New South Wales and Victoria have both privatised their generators and their distribution," Mr Martin-Jones said.
"Queensland being the last large state on the eastern seaboard it still has the bulk of its generation and all of its distribution in public hands - operating in a national market.
"It does make sense to start looking at those assets."
However, union leaders say the cost of power will escalate if the government sells off state-owned electricity infrastructure.
Jason Young from the Electrical Trades Union says consumers will bear the cost.
"It's happened in South Australia and Victoria so it's not like we're just scare-mongering here," Mr Young said.
"This is absolute proven fact - in South Australia their cost for an average power bill is between $200 to $400 more expensive than here in Queensland."
Opposition treasury spokesman Curtis Pitt says the Government wants the report to justify its privatisation agenda.
"This Government is hell-bent on privatisation," Mr Pitt said.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that everything that they're doing has lent itself to looking after their mates, giving out contracts and outsourcing whatever they can."
Mr Pitt says the government should release the full audit and not just the executive summary.
"We want to see something that has some detail in it," Mr Pitt said.
"Queenslanders have well and truly learnt over the last 12 months the devil is in the detail with the LNP."
The first audit report released in June 2012 forecast a blow-out in state debt to more than $90 billion in four years.
It recommended increases in a number of taxes and charges to return the Queensland budget to surplus.
That report suggested a capping on wages growth in the public service and has already been used by the government to justify job cuts.
However, Mr Nicholls says the Government would go to an election before any assets are sold.
"This is going to be part of the debate that the people of Queensland need to have and shouldn't be afraid of," he said.
"It should be a mature debate about what is the best way to spend the funds that are tied up in government-owned Corporations and would that funding be better spent somewhere else?
"And that's the debate we need to have as a community and as a government."
The Commission also included the Public Service Commission chairman Doug McTaggart, and James Cook University vice-chancellor Sandra Harding.
It cost taxpayers around $2.2 million and Mr Nicholls says it was money well spent.
"These are people of the highest standing with a great knowledge of public finances of the state of Queensland," he said.
"This is a thorough, researched and effective report and I think the people of Queensland can be satisfied that they can get good value from the work that's been undertaken over the last six months."
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Ruggiano, Marlins focus on playing small ball
NEW YORK -- A handful of games into the season is certainly a small sample size, but the Marlins are starting to understand the big picture.
Aside from Giancarlo Stanton, the lineup is not built for power. So to generate runs, it will take a collective effort.
On Friday night, the Marlins did just that with a five-run seventh frame -- taking walks, bunting and getting some timely two-out hits in a 7-5 win over the Mets at Citi Field. It was their first multi-run inning of the season.
"We're going to score runs," said Justin Ruggiano, who had two hits and two RBIs in the game. "We're going to manufacture runs. I think with our team, we're going to have to start playing small ball. That's what we're going to have to do. I know we're all open to it."
The one exception, of course, is Stanton, who has the luxury of trying to drive the ball a long way every time up.
"We don't expect him to [play small ball], anyways," Ruggiano said.
As for the rest of the lineup, look for an emphasis on the basics.
"Hitting and running, bunting, whatever it takes to put up runs," Ruggiano said. "At the end of the day, that's how you win games.
"We can't play for the big inning. We don't have guys who are going to hit 25-to-30 home runs throughout our lineup. We have to do the small things. It's going to come around."


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There are eight main islands: Oahu, the Big Island of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Lanai and Molokai.
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How the Hawaiian islands and the spirit of aloha came to be.
Geologists believe that the Hawaiian Islands were formed millions of years ago, born of earth, wind and fire. More than a thousand years ago, Polynesian voyagers arrived on Hawaiian shores bringing to life the spirit of aloha (showing love, kindness and compassion). Since then, many pages have been turned in Hawaii's history—from Western contact and the Hawaiian monarchy to the plantation era and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor—but the aloha spirit has endured. It remains a living personification of the very best of Hawaii and its people.
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Job dissatisfaction drove three women to overhaul their careers — and in the end, transform their lives.
Morgan Robinson, 42, Business ownerHusband Eric Robinson, 45 Children Angus, 14; Porter, 11; Quinn, 6Hometown Collingswood, New Jersey
Morgan Robinson had always wanted a career in the nonprofit sector. Her dream was realized as an editor for a nonprofit medical organization, although over the years her workplace more than tripled in size, changing the culture. She realized it was no longer the right fit for her. "It was terrifying to leave a well-paying, respected job in the midst of a crumbling economy," she says. But she also valued her happiness, so two and a half years ago she quit.
If she was going to make such a drastic change, Morgan decided her new career would have to benefit her family and allow her to spend more time with her kids. A lifetime of thrift shopping and an artsy hometown filled with young families, people of varied income levels and an influx of hipsters led her to open Frugal Resale, which sells gently used and vintage clothing, shoes, handbags, puzzles and other items for women, men and kids. Every month the shop donates 2% of sales to different local and national charities.
The Robinsons live a block from Frugal Resale, making it practically their second home. When her husband isn't at work or their kids aren't at school, they can often be found moving clothing racks, bagging up blocks and puzzles, or sweeping the sidewalk. But even though the family was spending more time together, Morgan was often distracted by her new responsibilities. She knew she needed to honor her promise and take advantage of her new schedule, and she wanted to dedicate a day just to her kids. Last summer she gave herself every Monday off to take the kids on adventures. Morgan hopes that when they are older they won't just remember the paperwork and merchandise that shared their home but also these special outings.
While Morgan never envisioned running her own store, she's rewarded by learning something new every day. She explores her creative side with marketing as well as designing the store's window and interior displays. While she spends most days in her shop, it never really feels like work.
The joys of owning her business are great and small: She plays the music she likes, wears what she wants, throws special events like Ladies' Nights and Mother/Daughter Days, and participates in the town's various festivals. Morgan feels a sense of ownership in every meaning of the word, although there are things she misses, such as the freedom of having Saturdays off. "Every change is a trade-off, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat," she says. "I don't get paid vacation days, and I have to pay for my own benefits. But the quality of my daily life has improved tenfold. I'm simply happier."
Vicky Kuo, 46, Flight instructorChildren Danielle, 24; Elena, 23; Tina, 20; Christopher, 16Hometown Cranston, Rhode Island
Vicky Kuo was 5 years old when she went on her first plane ride. "I felt like I was in heaven skirting the tops of the clouds," she says. Back then, though, she didn't know there was another way to fly besides being a passenger. She entered college when she was 16 to pursue her parents' dream of her becoming a doctor. At 22, she married and suspended her full-time studies, became a lab researcher at a university hospital and started a family. She told herself that once her youngest was in kindergarten, she could begin training again to become a physician. That plan was derailed when her third daughter was born. "If I went to medical school, they would have no mom," she says. "The children came first."
In 2005 Vicky's kids, then ages 8 to 17, were still her main focus. Her flexible researcher's schedule allowed her to ferry them to early morning swim practice and music lessons, and still prepare dinner every night. While her discoveries about Alzheimer's disease were recognized, the work seemed repetitive. Alone in her lab, Vicky felt cut off from the world. In her mind she hadn't succeeded as a doctor. And though to outsiders she and her husband looked like the perfect couple, they had grown apart. "I felt like a failure at everything," Vicky says. "It took all I had to do my job."
Realizing Vicky was unhappy, her husband surprised her with a gift certificate for flying lessons. Immediately Vicky began reading one of the textbooks that accompanied the gift — then snapped it shut and put it away. "It looked overwhelming," she remembers. "And I'd had enough of school." But nine months later, Vicky changed her mind. "I thought, 'Instead of burying yourself in books, just fly.' " It took only one time behind the controls of a plane for her to become hooked. "It's this sense of freedom and an adrenaline rush that comes from defying gravity," she says. "The need to get back up in the air was so strong I scheduled a flight for the following day."
That November, after consulting her family, she quit her job and began training to become a pilot. "It was a huge leap," Vicky says. "Either I was going to fail or I was going to make it."
Vicky delved right in, but studying up to eight hours a day for her pilot's license took a toll. Her already shaky marriage crumbled further, and the kids weren't used to not having her full attention. "I wasn't the perfect mother anymore," says Vicky, who felt so guilty that she considered returning to the lab. "It was a rocky time emotionally," she says. "I needed to talk to someone to let out my anxieties." A consultation with a life coach convinced Vicky that she was entitled to take time for herself. But despite all their efforts, Vicky and her husband divorced in 2007. "We had tried for years to make the marriage work," she says. "Whether I flew or not, it would have happened."
Earning an instrument license allowed Vicky to fly. Gaining her commercial license in 2008 enabled her to start teaching at Horizon Aviation in Providence, where she had trained. In 2011 Vicky was named chief flight instructor. "I was ecstatic," Vicky says, and she was thrilled to be able to pass on her love of flying to her students. "People come in here with a dream, and it's my job to empower them the way I was empowered."
Now on good terms with her ex-husband, Vicky is grateful for his gift that allowed her to take wing. Don't drive yourselves too hard, she tells her children. Instead, leave room to discover your dreams. "They've seen the hard work, the stress and the achievement," she says. Vicky believes that if her parents had shared their failures as well as successes, she might have found her own passion sooner. "The exhilaration I experience every day when a plane takes off is almost indescribable," she says. "I've become the person I'd always wanted to be — it's a wonderful feeling."
Robin Martinelli, 45, Private investigatorHusband Doug, 52 Children Kristi, 25; Coleman, 23; Kelly, 19Hometown Grayson, Georgia
When Robin Martinelli became a single mom at age 20, she urgently needed one thing: health insurance. She visited a sheriff she knew for advice and left with a job as a deputy. Robin turned out to be a natural, but the 12-hour shifts didn't jibe with being the mom her son needed. Coleman was hyperactive, and full-time day care was tough for him. Understanding as her commanding officers were, they couldn't let Robin walk beats with a toddler in tow. Looking for a more family-friendly career, she found one when she hired a process server to obtain some of Coleman's medical records. Robin talked the company into taking her on as a trainee on her days off. After two years of working two gigs, she finished her on-the-job training, quit the sheriff's department and opened her own company, Coleman and Associates.
Coleman went to work with his mom almost every day. Process serving was an adventure for him. "We would track down people at the gas station, church, their girlfriend's house," says Robin. "It was perfect for a kid with attention problems." But some of the recipients of subpoenas, summonses and complaints were uncooperative. "Once a man came out with his Rottweiler," Robin recalls. "The dog was faster than he was, so I threw the papers, grabbed Coleman and ran for our car." Robin had kept the car running. "The dog was clawing at the door," she recalls.
Robin realized that in addition to a job that let her make her own schedule, she needed something less prone to confrontation — and more lucrative. Also, her family was about to grow. Robin had been volunteering as a baseball coach, and several boys on her team insisted on introducing her to a widower from their church. On her 32nd birthday, Gwinnett County Police Department Corporal Doug Martinelli showed up for a game. The two were married six months later. She adopted his two daughters, and he adopted her son.
As Coleman had a decade earlier, all three kids now inspired Robin to make another change, to become a private investigator. Robin studied, trained and earned her individual license in 1999. "Sure enough, within weeks I secretly filmed while we were out 'shopping,' and snapped photos of a cheating husband while we were 'looking for our lost dog.' " Soon surveillance was the shared family pastime.
Growing a business together turned out to be a perfect way to build a new family, says Robin, since you have to share goals and be a team. When eldest daughter Kristi turned 18, she earned her PI license, most likely becoming the youngest PI in Georgia. The other two Martinelli kids followed suit, as did Robin's mother, Connie, now 70, making her among the oldest PIs in the state.
Coleman recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan with the marines and is working as a PI with Robin. Kristi, an aspiring police officer, is a process server for her mom, and Kelly is a supply specialist in the army. "It's not surprising they're all choosing work where you have to have your brother's back. That's a core value they were raised on," says Robin. "I hope they also learned that it doesn't take a lot of money, just determination, to turn a dream into a reality."
Originally published in the May 2013 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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The Ford Kuga has evolved in this improved second generation form into a more desirable proposition that'll be equally attractive to Qashqai-like Crossover and RAV4-style soft roading SUV buyers. The single five-seat bodystyle is properly family-sized and gets some clever technology that segment buyers will like. In other words, if you're shopping in this sector, here's a car you have to consider.
By now, you ought to be pretty familiar with the second generation Ford Kuga. You are, right? It's like the first generation car but bigger, more efficient and smarter inside. There's still no seven seat option, but Ford reckoned that this was something only a small percentage of compact SUV buyers actually wanted. The latest model has come in for a bit of a wash and brush-up, with a restyled front end, extra safety tech and lots of fresh media connectivity inside. Otherwise, it's much as you were. The Kuga established its reputation as being one of the best compact SUVs to drive and this one should be no different. At first glance then, the news seems all good.
Driving Experience
Under the bonnet, things are much as before, which means that the petrol range is based around a 1.5-litre EcoBoost engine, though this unit is now available in three guises. The 120 and 150PS versions of this unit are familiar, allied exclusively to front wheel drive. If you want more, there's a top 176PS variant of this unit, which can only be ordered with a 6-speed automatic gearbox and AWD. Many Kuga buyers though, are going to want a diesel. Possibly the 120PS 1.5-litre TDCi unit that only comes with front wheel drive. But more probably the 2.0 TDCi engine that kicks off with a 120PS front-driven auto-only variant. Most Kuga customers though, opt for the 2.0 TDCi diesel in 150PS form, because in this guise, they're offered the choice of either front or four wheel drive, manual or Powershift automatic transmission. If you want more power, there's a 2.0 TDCi 180PS variant at the top of the range that only comes with AWD. This has always been one of the very best family-sized SUVs to choose if you like your driving. There's a torque vectoring control system to reduce the sort of understeer you'd expect in a car of this type and the Kuga has always performed well in terms of ride quality and refinement.
Design and Build
This improved Kuga features Ford's latest design language for a bolder, sportier look that's shared with the company's EcoSport compact SUV and Edge large SUV models. A large upper trapezoidal grille and a smaller lower grille are flanked by sleeker headlamps incorporating LED daytime running lights. Restyled taillights complete the changes, along with revised alloy wheels, available in 17, 18 or 19-inch rims. Inside, the updates are subtle, but quite effective. So the steering wheel and air-conditioning controls are more intuitive and feature fewer and more easily distinguishable buttons and switches, making the controls easier to recognise and navigate. The steering wheel is offered with optional heating to improve comfort in cold weather, while all automatic Kuga models now feature paddle-shift controls that enable drivers to manually select gears while keeping their hands on the wheel. Extra convenience features include an electronic parking brake that frees up room for improved storage in a centre console that now also features a storage area capable of accommodating a variety of bottles and cups. There's also a new USB connection point for integrating and charging mobile devices. Otherwise, things are much as before. Which means that inside, there's decent headroom all round and reasonable rear legroom too. Out back, there's a 438-litre boot.
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Prices see a starting point of just over £23,000, rising up to around £37,000. You get a lot of technology for that though, in this current model. Take the 'SYNC 3' connectivity system. It delivers fast performance and supports the 'Apple CarPlay' and 'Android Auto' smartphone connectivity systems, so you can use your favourite apps on the dashboard's 8-inch colour touchcreen. This Kuga also features Ford's Perpendicular Parking technology that helps drivers park handsfree in spaces alongside other cars. Plus there's the 'Active City Stop' collision avoidance system. And Ford's 'Adaptive Front Lighting System' for optimised visibility in low light. Further advanced technologies include a 'Hands-Free Liftgate' powered rear hatch that you can activate by waving your foot beneath the bumper. The latest generation 'Ford MyKey' technology allows Kuga owners to programme a key for younger drivers that can inhibit incoming phone calls, restrict top speed, prevent deactivation of driver assistance and safety features, reduce audio system maximum volume and disable the audio system altogether if occupants are not using safety belts. The MyKey system also offers a great number of choices in both the speed limiter and speed minder settings. It's all very reassuring.
Cost of Ownership
Ford has pulled out all the stops to try and make this Kuga competitively efficient. For example, an Active Grille Shutter is fitted to all versions. This closes the front grille, reducing aerodynamic drag when the radiator isn't in need of additional cooling and then reopens it upon demand. Auto-Start-Stop is also standard across the range. Features like an Eco Mode and a Gear Shift Indicator help keep your right boot out of the carpet. The figures generated though, are a little way behind the best that comparable mid-sized competitors can manage. The 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol variant manages 35.3mpg on the combined cycle in both 120 and 150PS guises. And 160g/km of CO2 (120PS) and 164g/km (150PS). Go for the 1.5 EcoBoost 182PS variant and those figures fall to 29.1mpg and 209g/km. As for the diesels, well the 1.5 TDCi powerplant manages 46.3mpg and 137g/km. And the front-driven 2.0 TDCi 150PS model manages 39.2mpg and 151g/km - or 39.2mpg and 164g/km if you order it with AWD. With the top 2.0 TDCi 180PS AWD derivative, it's 37.7mpg and 181g/km.
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- Solid - Blazer blue
- Solid - Race red
- Solid paint
- Manual rear child locks
- Towbar preparation
- Cloth - Charcoal black
- 17" 5x2 spoke sparkle silver finish alloy wheels
|Body Glass
|Power front and rear windows
|Electrically operated front and rear windows with global closing
|Quickclear heated windscreen
|Tailgate wash/wipe
|Electronic Stability Programme
|Electric traction assist system
|Hill start assist
|Intelligent all wheel drive system - Active Driveline
|Hands free telephone
|Bluetooth connectivity
|Driver Aids
|Cruise control + speed limiter
|Driver Information
|Trip computer
|SYNC Emergency Assistance
|Driving Mirrors
|Electrically heated door mirrors
|Electrically operated and heated door mirrors with side indicators
|Audible text messaging, voice control and USB connectivity
|6 speakers
|USB Connection
|DAB radio/CD with SYNC, voice control + emergency assist
|Ford DAB radio/CD with six speakers
|4.2-Inch Colour TFT Screen
|Voice control, hands free calling and USB connectivity
|Remote audio controls on steering wheel
|Auxiliary socket for external device
|Exterior Body Features
|Twin exhaust pipes
|Rear diffuser
|Twin exhausts and rear diffuser
|Body colour rear spoiler
|Body colour bumpers
|Exterior Lights
|Front fog lights
|Halogen headlights
|Daytime running lights
|Manual air conditioning
|Interior Features
|Leather steering wheel
|Leather gearknob
|Leather steering wheel and gear knob
|Tonneau cover
|Cloth upholstery
|Reach + rake adjustable steering column
|Tie down hooks
|Auxiliary power socket in luggage area
|Stowage unit in upper instrument panel
|Centre console with stowage tray/bottle holder/CD stowage/front and rear 12V power point
|Interior Lights
|Front/rear reading lights
|Variable intensity instrument illumination
|Footwell courtesy lights front and rear
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|Drivers knee airbag
|Driver and passenger airbags
|Driver and passenger side airbags
|Front and rear curtain airbags
|MyKey system
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|3 point seatbelts on all 3 rear seats
|Tyre pressure monitoring system
|Intelligent Protection System (IPS)
|Airbags - front driver/passenger, front & rear side, curtain, drivers knee
|Driver/passenger seats fore/aft adjustment
|Driver seat lumbar adjustment
|4 way manually adjustable passenger seat
|6 way manually adjustable driver's seat with lumbar support
|Rear head restraints
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These words strike fear into the hearts and minds of everyone who hears them, especially in the military. Let's face it, regardless of who you are, where you are, or where you are going everyone dreads the picking up roots and settling in a new area.
There are a variety of reasons but regardless, the house is fine, you just got everything put away from the last move and now it is time to start all over again. Different base, different town, different state, and in some cases a different country. It is never easy.
The children are happy and don't want to leave their friends. The teens are happy and don't want to lose their starting position on sports teams, their boy/girlfriends, or start out as the new kid in class. The wife doesn't want to go through the headaches of organizing and over seeing the packers. You really don't want to go and have to re-establish your reputation. But what can you do?
Well, we can't move for you. Sorry. But we have assembled some useful information and some freebies that should make the hassle of moving a little easier.
Oh and before we forget -- here is a link to the online finance center's section on per diem, moving rates, travel regulations, etc.
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Clinical Practice Information
The clinical practice experience (formerly known as student teaching) is a ten credit hours field experience for a full semester term in a selected classroom setting and is the last semester of your education program.
A two credit hours seminar is scheduled concurrently with the clinical practice experience. The first seminar meeting is an orientation to the clinical practice experience which includes a review of the clinical practice handbook and a discussion of the expectations for each participant in this experience—teacher candidate, mentor teacher, and university supervisor. An application for your Georgia teaching certificate is also completed at this meeting. Seminars, in addition to this orientation, will be scheduled by your department during the clinical practice experience.
A teacher candidate who receives a grade of Unsatisfactory (U) for clinical practice may apply for clinical practice only one additional time. The teacher candidate will be required to complete a prescribed program of remediation before being permitted to student teach the second time. Any teacher candidate who receives a second grade of "U" for clinical practice will be permanently dismissed from all teacher education programs in the Dewar College of Education and Human Services and will not be recommended for teacher certification by Valdosta State University.
Below, you will find additional documents and information regarding the clinical practice experience.
- Clinical Practice Application and Placement Information
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- Clinical Practice Schedules
- Mentor Handbook
- Clinical Practice Handbook
- Supervisor Handbook
- Important Dates for Spring 2020
- Formative/Summative Evaluation Information
- COE Observation Instrument (COMD Students Only)
- COE Observation Instrument Instruction (COMD Students Only)
- COMD Instructions
- CAPS (Candidate Assessment on Performance Standards)/Intern Keys User Guide
- CAPS (Candidate Assessment on Performance Standards)/Intern Keys Rating Sheet
- Professional Behaviors and Dispositions Assessment Rating Sheet
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Clint Eastwood's appearance and speech to an empty chair at the GOP convention stupefied us, Felix Baumgartner's jump from 24 miles above the Earth astounded us and Gabby Douglas' Olympic performance thrilled us. But now that it's on the wane, we can step back and report that, all in all, 2012 held relatively few major surprises. Perhaps one reason for the year's ho-hum factor is that several long-anticipated events — the Mars Curiosity rover landing; the London Olympics; the Queen's Diamond Jubilee; the U.S. elections — set a tone of predictability for a year that, in large part, failed to ignite.
Granted, there were some genuine scandals, which always raise eyebrows (if not the level of national discourse): the Petraeus affair, Lance Armstrong's fall from grace and pictures of a naked royal prince gallivanting with friends — in Vegas, of all places.
In front of the ubiquitous TV cameras, Angelina Jolie courted publicity at the Oscars, while Rihanna and Chris Brown shamelessly courted controversy everywhere. That it was all so baldly contrived hardly stopped the media from buying right into it.
A calculated, cautious and utterly uninspiring American presidential campaign contrasted with the hope and optimism of four years ago. The promise of the Arab Spring gave way to protests against the new government in Egypt, a deadly attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi and a bloody civil war in Syria that shows no signs of a resolution.
The surprises, when they did come, were brutal shocks rather than thrilling or uplifting wonders. The shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., left us three parts numb and one part seething with a kind of violent despair.
We marked solemn anniversaries, like the 100th year since the sinking of the Titanic and the 50th since the death of Marilyn. Mick, Keith and the rest of the Stones kept rolling to mark their own 50th anniversary, but they did so with an utterly foreseeable bombast.
It was left to a Korean YouTube sensation riding an invisible horse to truly surprise and entertain us this year. But even then the novelty and fun rapidly wore thin, as Psy tributes from the likes of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Eaton school boys and countless others lay siege to the Internet.
And yet ... in the face of what can really only be called a rather disappointing year, TIME presents a gallery of images from the past twelve months that did, despite everything, manage to surprise us: pictures that, we hope and trust, will in some small way redress the flaws of a year that, despite spectacles as wondrous as a man falling to earth from space and a Hollywood icon chatting with a chair, ultimately fell a little flat.


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Colors: Orly Girly, Essie Sand Tropez, Wet n Wild Party of Five Glitters, Confetti Tiara
I applied two coats of Girly for the outside cookie ring, then only one coat of Sand Tropez for the frosting. Two coats of Party of Five Glitters makes up the sprinkles, and then one coat of Tiara to help give it a sugary sparkle and texture. Unfortunately, Girly doesn't show up extremely well in the photos, but looks pretty in the light. Since it's a nice shimmery pink ... I'm doing this for Pink Wednesday!!!! Hooray!!!!!


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Jennifer over at Moving Hands has just posted about a book she picked up at her local library in Tokyo.
The book is a guide to all the crafty stores to be found around Tokyo. What a lovely idea. It looks like it's all in Japanese, which might not help most of us, but the pictures look enticing nonetheless.
Now I'd love a local library where Japanese craft books were available in abundance to borrow.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Just our thing
Posted by Kristine at 8:27 PM
5 comments:
- Corrie said...
oh lovely! When we were there i'd just take my cotton time down with the shop name (all in japanese) and get the front desk/concierge to translate and give me directions!
oh imagine if we could just pop down and borrow japanese craft books! wouldn't that be lovely!
- December 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- Raptor Plateado said...
I love Tokio!!!
- December 11, 2009 at 3:58 AM
- life in yonder said...
what an excelent idea Corrie! I want that book! :-)
- December 14, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- Peter said...
Lovely Crafts from Japan! Some of them look like david swensen origianls! Amazing. I love the site so much. Go TOKYO!
- April 16, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- garcia.sol said...
I love books like these! I just discovered one for New Zealand where I live, and Crafty Girls Road Trip! Looks like you'll need to take a Tokyo road trip and travel around :)
- August 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM
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The combined company will serve nearly one-third of the national TV audience, more than 40 percent of the national cable TV audience, and about 30 percent of the nationwide radio audience. In addition the merger will increase Bell's vertical integration and its power over distribution systems used by competitors. This later factor is particularly important because Canada lacks much of the regulatory control seen in Europe and the US over business practices of distribution systems that are also used by competing firms.
The merger will benefit the two companies by giving them more market power and permitting efficiencies at the corporate and divisional levels. It is also likely to produce efficiencies at the operational level by using more common content, something that is especially likely in its radio operations.
Investors will see benefit in the future. Share prices often go up before mergers as speculators jump into the market and then sell before the merger is completed, but prices typically decline after mergers when the realities of the costs of integration reduce short- to mid-term performance. It will take some time before the benefits of the consolidation reach investors as dividends and heightened share value.
The downside of the merger will be borne by consumers and advertisers because the combination will create more market power to push up prices and reduce incentives for better service and quality. Competitors will also face a stronger company that controls the distribution infrastructures for their products and this should lead to higher prices. Additionally, one can expect social harm because the merger reduces plurality of those selecting content and the original content made available—particularly in radio—will probably be diminished.
How the CTRC will respond is unknown. However, Canada has traditionally permitted far greater media concentration than other countries arguing that it helps strengthen Canadian ownership. It has permitted media concentration levels 2-3 times higher than those found in US and Europe and has one of the most concentrated media markets in the world.
Most other countries have been using broadcasting law and competition law in recent decades to reduce concentration in content provision and those policies have been quite successful. Why not Canada?
Canadian policy has been hampered by its nationalistic rhetoric, a significant degree of regulatory capture, and also because there are inconsistencies among broadcasting and competition policies that allow regulators to downplay public and consumer interests. The CRTC deals with station ownership, for example, but has set a market cap of 45% on total national television audience—about twice that in most countries. The Competition Bureau can review media mergers, but has tended to be concerned only about effects on advertising prices. Existing policies do not effectively address cross media ownership effects.
Ironically, the public service broadcaster (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) was heavily criticized when it served about 40 percent of the television audience. Commercial firms were particularly vocal arguing that having such a large firm distorted the market and their complaints led Parliament to reduce support for the CBC and over time its audience has been cut in half.
It will be interesting to see whether CRTC is willing to take a broader view and is willing to stand up to the interests of Bell and Astral when it considers this massive merger.


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ROCKFORD — Bear sightings — with a capital B — could be more commonplace in the Rockford area if Tim Dimke's dream comes true.
The Rockford Park District leader hopes the multimillion upgrades underway at Sportscore Two in Loves Park could help put the city in the market to land the Chicago Bears' summer training camp.
For now, it's just a dream. And a long-term one at that. The Bears are under contract to hold summer camp at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais through 2022.
Up to now, talk of bringing the Bears to Rockford has been little more than fleeting mentions at a few meetings of the Winnebago County Regional Tourism Facility Board. It also made its way into Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen's remarks from the podium at the official kickoff to the $30.5 million expansion of Sportscore Two and the Indoor Sports Center last week. The expansion is part of a project dubbed Reclaiming First for its goal of making Rockford a top destination for amateur sports.
"I look forward in a few years, when the Chicago Bears camp is right here, Tim," said Christiansen last week addressing Dimke and nearly 200 project supporters, who met the idea with a mix of cheers, applause and a few chuckles.
Dimke said the vision of hosting Bears training camp is just one of many things being considered to keep the new facilities in use year-round. He said the timing of training camp fits into a regular late-July/early-August lull in soccer tournaments. He expects to see new hotels built in the area to serve the thousands of young athletes that will attend tournaments at Sportscore Two. Those same hotels could also provide the summer camp housing the Bears need, he said. The expanded indoor facility will boast 70-foot ceilings with natural light and enough artificial turf for a full-sized football field.
The Chicago Bears passed on Rockford 13 years ago when the team was looking for a new location to hold its summer training camp. Rockford University was one of 12 colleges the team visited in 2001 when it decided to move camp to Illinois after 18 years at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. But the team said Rockford University, then Rockford College, didn't have the space needed. Olivet Nazarene was ultimately selected from a final four that included Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Millikin University in Decatur and Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
The Bears could give the area a huge economic boost, which is one of the goals of the Reclaiming First initiative.
Approximately 100,000 fans travel to Bourbonnais each year to watch the Bears training camp, said Gary Griffin, director of alumni and university of relations for Olivet Nazarene. He said having the Bears in town generates about $2 million per year in private spending, but that's just a portion of the economic benefit. The bigger benefit, Griffin said, comes from families who visit Bourbonnais to watch the Bears and discover that it's a great community to raise a family or start a businesses.
"That's the real economic impact," Griffin said. "And we've seen that happen in the last 13 years."
Olivet, Griffin said, will enjoy another record year of enrollment this fall.
The University has made several upgrades to its facilities in recent years including new artificial turf, weight room and exercise equipment, re-sodded practice fields and a bigger locker room. The upgrades were done for Olivet's student athletes but serve the Bears as well.
Bourbonnais shouldn't necessarily feel threatened by Dimke's dream to host Bears camp. Bears General Manager Phil Emery has expressed high satisfaction with Olivet's facilities, and the training grounds are just about an hour's drive from downtown Chicago, a bit closer than Rockford.
Dimke also stressed that his goal is not to set the district on a course to poach the team away from another Illinois town. But should the Bears go shopping for a new site like they did in 2001, Dimke wants Rockford to be ready.
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Buses and subway trains stopped running in Athens on Thursday as Greek workers began to stage a nationwide strike in protest against the "sudden death" of state broadcaster ERT, switched off in the middle of the night by the government.
Greece's two biggest labour unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill during the 24-hour strike against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's decision to close down ERT, which they describe as "coup-like move… to gag unbiased information."
The government described its decision to shut the 75-year-old broadcaster as a temporary measure before its relaunch in slimmed-down form. But the move infuriated the coalition partners keeping Samaras in power, restoring an atmosphere of crisis in a country that had seemed to be emerging from the political drama accompanying one of the worst peacetime economic collapses in history.
Iron shutters blocked the entrance to the state-run Athens subway stations early on Thursday and city buses did not run. Several marches are expected to culminate in demonstrations outside ERT's headquarters, where workers have gathered since the closure was announced.
But there was little sign of private businesses joining the strike. City streets were full with commuters and car traffic, supermarkets were open for business and cafes were serving customers as usual.
"The lowest ERT employee is making in a day what I'm making in a week, so why should I strike for them?," said vegetable vendor Yannis Papailias as he sorted out his wares.
"Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs. Who protested for them?", said waitress Maria Skylakou as she served coffee to customers. Representing about 2.5 million workers, the unions have gone on strike repeatedly since Europe's debt crisis erupted in late 2009, although action has been less frequent and more muted lately than last year when marches frequently turned violent. The last nationwide strike was in February.
"In a systematic and autocratic way, the government has abolished the rights of workers and citizens one by one," said the public sector union ADEDY, which is organising the walkout with its private sector sister union GSEE.
"We call on every worker and every citizen to fight to overthrow the government's catastrophic plans," ADEDY said. Separately, a union representing journalists in Athens has called an indefinite strike of members, preventing some newspapers from appearing and forcing commercial broadcasters to air reruns of sitcoms and soap operas instead of the news.
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT has shed viewers with the rise of commercial television, and its three statewide channels had a combined audience share of only 13 percent. Many Greeks regard it as a wasteful source of patronage jobs for political parties. But the abruptness with which it was shut – with newscasters cut off in mid-sentence – was a shock.Samaras said he would press ahead with plans to reform ERT and relaunch it as a leaner and more efficient organisation, dismissing the broadcaster's defenders as hypocrites who would block needed reforms.
Shutting the broadcaster was proof of the political will needed to transform Greece from "a real Jurassic Park, the only place on earth where dinosaurs survived", he said. The opposition's rhetoric was no less heated. Left wing leader Alexis Tsipras, addressing protesting ERT workers in Greece's second biggest city Thessaloniki, called on Greeks to defend democracy.
"What we experienced yesterday was unprecedented, not only for Greece but for all of Europe," Tsipras said. "Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.
Most public sector activity is expected to come to a halt during Thursday's strike, with train and bus employees and bankers among various groups joining the walkout. Unemployment has climbed to almost 27 percent in Greece after more than 850,000 jobs, most in the private sector, were wiped out since the beginning of Greece's six-year recession.
About 2,600 ERT employees are to lose their jobs. Some of them are to be re-hired in the new broadcaster which is expected to employee about 1,200 people.


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West Germany take first title
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In 1980 the UEFA European Under-18 Championship replaced the 32-year-old International Youth Tournament, hosts West Germany lifting the trophy.
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In 1980 UEFA set up new youth championships for Under-16 and U18 national teams as part of their commitment to developing the game in Europe. For U18s the competition replaced the International Youth Tournament which had begun in 1948, and was won for the last time in 1980 by England, who also took the inaugural title and a record eight overall. However it was the reigning senior continental champions, West Germany, who took the first UEFA European U18 Championship trophy on home soil having never won its predecessor.
Thirty-two countries entered the competition, West Germany qualifying automatically for the 16-team finals. In the very first match Norway won 1-0 in Denmark, but the Danes prevailed 3-2 on aggregate. Four-time International Youth Tournament winners the Soviet Union lost to Czechoslovakia on penalties.
It was the hosts who lit up the opening day of the finals with a 5-0 win against Group A rivals Wales. Belgium also defeated Greece, but both those teams then lost to West Germany and Wales. With only one team going through the hosts moved into the semi-finals.
In Group B Poland followed a 1-1 draw with Sweden by beating both Romania and Czechoslovakia 3-1. That was enough to top the pool as Sweden then produced further 1-1 results against their group rivals, finishing second ahead of Romania who had defeated Czechoslovakia 3-2 in their opener.
Group C began with two draws – Italy scoreless against France and Bulgaria finishing 2-2 versus Denmark. France were to prevail, though, 2-1 against Denmark and 3-0 versus Bulgaria as Italy beat the Bulgarians 1-0 but lost 2-1 to Denmark.
England put their reputation as U18 masters on the line in Group D but began by losing 2-1 to Spain while Scotland claimed the only goal against Austria. The Scots then repeated the trick against their English rivals, but Spain's 3-0 win against Austria left them top on goal difference and a 1-1 draw against Scotland took them through, England gaining some consolation with a 7-0 win against Austria.
Both semi-finals went to penalties. In a prelude to the following year's FIFA World Cup, West Germany beat France 4-3 on spot-kicks after a 1-1 draw. The other semi-final was scoreless and the shoot-out went into sudden-death before Poland prevailed 6-5 against Spain.
The third-place match ended in similar fashion, France drawing 1-1 against Spain and then winning 2-0 on penalties. However, in front of a crowd of 56,000 in Dusseldorf, West Germany won the final in 90 minutes, Holger Anthes scoring the goal that beat Poland. That autumn the West Germans proved it was no fluke by winning October's FIFA U-20 World Cup in Australia, defeating Qatar 4-0 in the final. Romania beat England for third place.


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Our generation has been called out for being over-coddled by our moms and dads and unwilling to grow up, among other charming labels. (Thanks, America.)
But while receiving all of those gold stars from teachers and parents as kids may have messed with our heads a bit, we're actually pretty damn mature about certain things, especially when it comes to our bank accounts.
Perhaps the crap job market, tidal wave of student loans, and rude awakening that our dream careers pay a heck of a lot less than we thought are to blame, but millennials are actually less likely to use credit cards than previous generations—and we're already thinking ahead toward retirement, according to new research.
We're conservative with our cash in other ways, too: Our generation is also more likely than older ones to cook at home and use homemade beauty products so we can save a little extra dough. And while this penny-pinching is likely a by-product of being worried about the unknowns of the future, being money smart will totally pay off in the end. Hey, if we eat EasyMac now, we can totally dine on filet mignon—worry-free—in five years. At least, fingers crossed...
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It was only last year right before Christmas that we finished building this mantel. Since this only our second Christmas with an actual mantel to decorate I was a little bit excited to decorate it this year. We've been slowly adding Christmas around the house, little touches here and there. The mantel took a little while to put together. I kept adjusting and moving things as I went along.
This year I knew I wanted to add a little element of my favorite Christmas movie of all time, White Christmas. The small trees that line the mantel are inspired by the movie's "Snow" scene on the train where they create an impromptu winter scene with a blue scarf, white napkin and a few bottle evergreen trees.
No idea what I'm talking about? Here's the clip from the movie.
I bought a package of green bottle brush trees and Buffalo snow blanket, laid the blanket on the mantel and cut it to size then I just placed my trees every so often on top of the snow. I tried to group them in odd numbers varying the size of the trees along the way. The PomPom garland I whipped up also made it's way to the mantel.
Going with the classic theme poinsettias flank the stove along with the paperwhites that we planted just a couple of weeks ago which have been growing at a crazy fast rate. I feel like every time I walk out of the room and come back they've grown some. It's been crazy and fun to watch them take off so fast.
I went back and looked at last year's mantel I honestly hadn't remembered what it looked like and I was a little surprised by how differently it looks. It's fun to change things up every once in a while.
The mantel makes me smile every time I walk into the room so I would call that a blazing success. Has anyone else had time to deck their halls for the holidays yet? Do you start taking out your Christmas decorations like we do or do you wait a bit longer? I have friends who have a family tradition of putting everything up Christmas Eve.


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Rams men crack Top 70 in RPI
Here's more proof Colorado State men's basketball has moved up closer to the Mountain West's so- called "Big Four" than the bottom quartet.
According to the first official NCAA version of the men's RPI report, the MWC spans the gamut. BYU leads at No. 4; San Diego State (No. 6 in AP poll) is No. 9, UNLV ranks 21st and rebuilding New Mexico is a very bubble-like No. 57.
Then CSU weighs in at 68.
Next best is TCU at 148th, AFA at 158th, struggling Utah at 163rd and Wyoming at 326.
BYU probably isn't as good as the fourth best team in the country but if Jimmer Fredette stays healthy the Cougars should be able to leave the MWC with at least a No. 4 NCAA seed.
Wyoming clearly isn't in the worst percentile. Desmar Jackson is a talent in the tradition of many Cowboys over the past few decades. When Heath Schroyer gets a healthy lineup for a deeper rotation, the Cowboys will surprise some folks in the MWC.
Of course, No. 68 isn't a ticket to the NCAA. The Rams will move up as they play the MWC's heavy weight. The key is a breakthrough or two against the top four.
Here's just one very good sign of the team's chemistry: After beating Wyoming in the MWC opener, Rams Pierce Hornung and Adam Nigon were talking about next week's game at New Mexico, not their overdue rest from competition. CSU played eight games over a 16-day stretch.
Rams coach Tim Miles, who is propelling himself to the post-season hot list of coaching candidates, said in a text Wednesday "RPI is earned. We are improving but have a long way to go to get on the NCAA tourney board!"
Here's another sign of CSU's balance: during the eight-game stretch, five different players took or shared scoring honors. Not to be ignored is Pierce Hornung. He became the first rmas this season to lead the rebound column aside from Andy Ogide or Travis Franklin.


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Jimmy Fallon's Hacker 9000 is capable of instant voicemail hacking. If you are were an audience member on last night's Late Night, you may have feared certain humiliation at the hand of Fallon's "gadget."
Even more humiliating, however, may have been Fallon's mockery of your smartphone. [Late Night With Jimmy Fallon]


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In starship classification, a warbird was a type of warship. They generally resembled large predatory birds. (TOS: "Balance of Terror"; TNG: "The Defector")
Three cultures are known to have operated warbirds:
- Klingon Empire
- Romulan Star Empire
- Reman
- Scimitar, a prototype referred to as a "Reman warbird" (Star Trek Nemesis)
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|attack cruiser • attack fighter • battle cruiser • battleship • bird-of-prey • blockade runner • captain's yacht • carrier vessel • colony ship • combat cruiser • corvette • cruiser • destroyer • diplomatic vessel • dreadnought • escort vessel • exploration vessel • flagship • freighter • frigate • garbage scow • heavy cruiser • holding vessel • interceptor • light cruiser • medical ship • military vessel • mining vessel • patrol ship • penal deportation vessel • pilot vessel • prison ship • raider • robot ship • runabout • science vessel • scout ship • star cruiser • starliner • starship • supply ship • support vessel • survey ship • tanker • timeship • trading vessel • training ship • transport ship • troop transport • tug • warbird • warship
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The term "warbird", as used within the Romulan Empire, dates back as far as 2154, as the Romulan drone ship was a modified warbird; this, however, was most likely a warbird of a much earlier design than that of the D'deridex class. The term was known to Starfleet as early as a 2344 encounter with the USS Enterprise-C. It is, however, unclear if this specifically refers to the D'deridex-class design or that of yet another unknown warbird class.
The word in the Romulan language apparently is "D'deridex", as what Data refers to in the episode "Tin Man" as a "D'deridex-class cruiser" is also referred to as a "Warbird-class starship" by Picard in "The Defector".
Prior to Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek Nemesis, "warbird" or "Romulan warbird" were used exclusively to refer to D'deridex-class starships. Brannon Braga has mentioned that the use of the term "warbird" to describe Klingon ships in "Broken Bow" was a mistake, implying that the production team only wished Romulan ships to be identified as warbirds.
External linksEdit
- Warbird at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Warbird at Wikipedia


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NEW DORP BEACH — Almost a month after Hurricane Sandy decimated neighborhoods along Staten Island's eastern shore, nearly 1,000 residents in the borough still have no power.
As of Tuesday, approximately 919 Con Edison customers in Staten Island lacked electricity because of damage from the storm, a utility spokeswoman said.
To get power back, residents need to hire a licensed contractor to make repairs because the remaining damage is inside their property.
But many said insurance companies and FEMA had refused payments, and they couldn't afford the fixes themselves.
"I had to go into my pocket to get what I got done," said Joseph Ingenito, 47, who paid an electrician to repair the electricity in his New Dorp Beach home on Topping Street.
"I'm broke now. I am broke. I need help."
Last week, Ingenito and his wife Debbie finally got power back after he paid an electrician to replace his fuse box and rewire his home, but he can't afford to put in new boilers to heat his property.
His first floor and basement — where his fuse box was — got completely submerged in water during the storm, and he has been living off generator power in his second floor.
He was installing a hot water heater himself and said he had spent more than $10,000 of his own money in repairs, with no reimbursements from his insurance company for the work.
Now he's worried his pipes will freeze because of the cold weather before he can afford to buy a new boiler, adding to his expenses.
"We need boilers. Our pipes are going to start freezing now it's getting cold," he said. "My pipes freeze on the top floor then I got nowhere to live."
He said he's been calling the insurance company several times a day, but still hasn't gotten any reimbursement or money from them.
"They just say fill out the paper work. 'You fill out the paper work, you'll hear from us in five to 10 days.' It's a month," he said.
"They're just brushing us right off," he said. "I can't wait no more. I want to be reimbursed for what I did. That's why I pay insurance."
While Ingenito got power back, many of his neighbors couldn't afford to do the work at all.
This weekend, a house a block away from Ingenito on Center Street caught fire when the owner's wood burning oven, his only source of heat, sparked a blaze, the New York Post reported.
Eddie Saman, 57, who was uninjured in the fire, had been living without heat or power in his gutted bungalow since the storm hit, the Post reported.
Ingenito said he was one of the only houses on his block to have power back.
"It's the whole community. Nobody's getting checks," he said. "Nobody can afford it. That's why these people aren't doing it."
FEMA said that they have been giving out money faster than during almost any other disaster.
"We're putting more money to more people faster than practically any disaster that I've ever worked on," said agency spokesman Ed Conely, who's worked with FEMA for 30 years.
"Our goal is to get them everything that they're eligible for from FEMA as quickly as possible."
Conley said that 18,716 households in Staten Island signed up for FEMA, and the agency has given out $71.8 million in grants to residents. He said the grant money FEMA hands out can be used to rent a home temporarily or to make repairs.
Ingenito said he already received a little less than $3,000 from FEMA, but that wasn't nearly enough to cover the electrical repairs in his house.
The average electrical repair cost for homes in New Dorp Beach has been between $1,000 to $5,000, said Vasili, an electrician working in the neighborhood who didn't want to give his last name.
Vasili, an electrician for 30 years, said that damage to the homes was the worst he's ever seen, and in some cases all of the electrical wires needed to be completely replaced.
"It's a complete mess," he said. "In my opinion, it's going to take at least six-plus months to get back to normal."
Many residents complained to Vasili that they couldn't afford the repairs, he said.
"Some people, they don't have money, they don't want to pay, they think it's very expensive," he said.
"We give them a receipt with a description of what we did and they have to submit to the insurance company to get the money back. The insurance companies have been playing some games, they try to avoid some responsibility."
Last week, all homes without damage to their electrical systems in Staten Island had their power restored, Con Edison said. Before a home or business can receive power, they have to be given a certification by a licensed contractor that they are safe to get energy back.
But for Ingenito's neighbors, the wait and the money are too much.
"We all need help here," he said. "It's the whole community."