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NA: Not applicable.
X: The measure is undefined (for instance, the percentage of a nonexistent category).
B: The percentage has been suppressed because it is statistically unreliable. Percentages are not shown when the denominator is less than 75 thousand.
Poverty in the United States is measured by comparing family income with one of 48 poverty thresholds--the dollar amounts used to determine who is poor.
The poverty thresholds vary by size of family and the ages of the members.
1. Universe: All people except unrelated individuals under age 15 (such as foster children). Since the Current Population Survey asks income questions only to people age 15 and over, if a child under age 15 is not part of a family by birth, marriage, or adoption, we do not know their income and cannot determine whether or not they are poor.
Those people are excluded from the totals so as not to affect the percentages.
2. People in families: People who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. People who are related to each other but not to the householder are counted elsewhere (usually as unrelated subfamilies).
3. People in unrelated subfamilies: People who are not related to the householder, but who are related to each other, either as a married couple or as a parent-child relationship with an unmarried child under 18.
4. Unrelated individuals: People who are not in primary families (the householder's family) or unrelated subfamilies.
5. Ratio of income to poverty: People and families are classified as poor if their income is less than their poverty threshold. If their income is less than half their poverty threshold, they are severely poor (below 50% of poverty); less than the threshold itself, they are poor (below 100% of poverty); less than 1.25 times the threshold, below 125% of poverty, and so on. The greater the ratio of income to poverty, the more people fall under the category, because higher ratios include more people with higher incomes.
6. Percentage below x% of poverty: The number below x% of the poverty threshold, divided by the number in "all income levels," then multiplied by 100. The poverty rate is the percentage below 100% of the poverty threshold.
7. Householder's poverty status: The poverty threshold and income were based only on his or her family members, if any were present. Anyone not related to the householder had no impact on the householder's poverty status.
8. Householders living alone: Does not include people in "group quarters " (such as halfway houses or boarding houses) who happen to be living alone.
9. People in families with related children: People living in a family where at least one member is a related child--a person under 18 who is related to the householder but is not the householder or spouse.
10. Primary families (the householder's family): Excludes people who are not related to the householder.
11. In married-couple families the householder may be either spouse.
12. Refers to the race or ethnicity of the householder. People within the same family may be of different races or ethnicities.
13. Families with related children: A family in which at least one member is a related child--a person under 18 who is related to the householder but is not the householder or spouse.
14. Related children: People under 18 who are related to the householder, but who are not themselves the householder or the householder's spouse.
15. Own children: Sons and daughters, including stepchildren and adopted children, of the householder.
16. Work experience: Refers to the longest job held in the previous calendar year. The work experience categories are based on the number of weeks worked, and the number of hours worked per week.
Full-time year-round: Worked at least 35 hours per week, for at least 50 weeks last year (including paid sick leave and vacations).
Not full-time year-round: Worked for at least 1 week last year, but for less than 50 weeks, or less than 35 hours per week, or both.
17. Tallies by age and sex include people age 16 and older. Tallies by household relationship only include ages 16 to 64.
18. Includes related children ages 16 and 17 and own children 18 years and over.
19. Standard error: A measure of an estimate's variability. The greater the standard error in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.
20. Mean income deficit: Obtained by adding up the deficits across all poor families, then dividing by the number of poor families.
Mean income surplus: Obtained by adding up the surpluses across all nonpoor families, then dividing by the number of nonpoor families.
21. Median income deficit or surplus: The median deficit is the dollar amount that divides the number of poor families into two equal groups: one-half of the families have a smaller deficit than the median, and the other half have a greater deficit than the median. If all poor families were lined up by the size of their income deficit, the median deficit would be in the middle. Similarly, the median surplus divides nonpoor families into two equal groups.
22. Deficit or surplus per capita: Deficit per capita was obtained by adding up the deficits across all poor families, then dividing by the number of poor people in those families. Surplus per capita was obtained in a similar way, but for nonpoor people.
23. Based on the highest grade completed. Applies only to people age 15 and older. People under 15 are included in the totals only.
24. Natives are defined as people born in the United States, Puerto Rico, or an outlying area of the United States, and those born in a foreign country but who had at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen. All others are foreign- born regardless of date of entry into the United States or citizenship status. The Current Population Survey, the source of these data, does not extend to Puerto Rico or to the outlying areas of the United States, and thus those living there are excluded from these poverty statistics.
25. Enrollment: Attendance or enrollment in a high school, college or university. Defined only for people ages 16-54 who are not serving in the armed forces. Enrollment or attendance as of the week prior to interview. People under age 16, people 16 to 54 serving in the armed forces, and people 55 and over are shown in the totals only. In 2014, the universe for the school enrollment questions changed from ages 16-24 to ages 16-54.
26. The averages include householders with and without children.
27. The averages only include householders with children.
28. When assigning poverty thresholds, the number of "related children" is the number of people in the family under 18, who are related to the family reference person but are not themselves the family reference person or his or her spouse.
29. Weighted average poverty thresholds: Some data users want to get a general sense of the "poverty line," rather than the full detail of all 48 thresholds cross-classified by size of family and number of related children. These weighted average thresholds provide that summary, but they are not used to compute poverty data. They are "weighted" averages because within a family size, some child/adult combinations occur more frequently than others. Therefore, the weighted average thresholds take into account how many families each threshold applies to when the Census Bureau computes the number of poor.
30. Totals show the number of people who currently live in census tracts that had poverty rates of 20 percent or more (poverty areas), 30 percent or more, 40 percent or more, and less than 20 percent (outside of poverty areas), according to the 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Among those people, "below poverty level" shows the number and percent who were poor in the current year.
Census tract: a small geographic area usually containing 2,500 to 8,000 people.
31. Region and division: The four regions of the country are as follows:
Northeast: New England Division (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)
Middle Atlantic Division (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Midwest: East North Central Division (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin)
West North Central Division (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas)
South: South Atlantic Division (Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida)
East South Central Division (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi)
West South Central Division (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas)
West: Mountain Division (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada)
Pacific Division (Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii)
32. Receipt of Assistance: People who lived with someone (a nonrelative or a relative) who received aid. Not every person tallied here received the aid themselves.
33. Earnings below weighted average poverty threshold for a 4- person family: Identifies how many people do not earn enough at their job, or if they are self-employed, their farm or business, to keep a family of 4 out of poverty, even when their earnings were combined with their other family members' earnings.
This measure is different from the official poverty measure, which uses all sources of money income (except capital gains), not just earnings, and uses thresholds that vary by family size.
34. A.O.I.C.: "Alone or in combination" with one or more other races.
New Race Categories: The 2003 CPS asked respondents to choose one or more races. White alone refers to people who reported White and did not report any other race category. The use of this single-race population does not imply that it is the preferred method of presenting or analyzing data. The Census Bureau uses a variety of approaches. Information on people who reported more than one race, such as "White and American Indian and Alaska Native" or "Asian and Black or African American," is available from Census 2000 through American FactFinder. About 2.6 percent of people reported more than one race in 2000.
Black alone refers to people who reported Black and did not report any other race category.
Asian alone refers to people who reported Asian and did not report any other race category.


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Not every traveler finds their experiences overseas to be rewarding and if you read enough travel blogs, you will come across posts and comments from people who were actually quite disappointed with the destinations they visited. Most of the disappointment stems from arriving in a town or city or even country that turns out to be far more touristy than anything they had imagined and as a result, they find themselves struggling to engage in authentic local interactions and local experiences, which are the type of experiences they had hoped for.
These travelers often claim to feel as if they are merely a tourist in a zoo when they arrive in such places, where the only option is to stare at locals as if they were on display and enter into interactions that exist only because of tourism. And so it is natural for some people to simply want to leave a particular region or country once they conclude that there is no way to experience anything real.
While I've heard people mention their disappointment with many countries around the world, one of the countries that seems to pop up more often than others in such conversations is India, the country I am flying to today, in one hour from now actually.
And this is what I sometimes read about India…
There are too many tourists. You can't have a conversation with anyone without them trying to sell you something. Nothing is authentic.
Okay, are there crowds of travelers in India, especially in places such as Goa and McLeod Ganj and Varanasi and Udaipur? Yes, there is definitely no shortage of travelers in many regions of this country.
Does this eliminate all chance of having authentic travel experiences? In my opinion, not at all.
When we travel, the only person who decides where we go and what we do each day is us. We determine the destinations we visit, we choose the places we eat and the activities we participate in and we even choose the streets we walk down. Therefore, we also determine whether or not we end up as a tourist in a zoo or if we fill our days with the kind of local experiences we hope for.
And it's not so difficult to make the right decisions. Even in McLeod Ganj, the small Indian town in the foothills of the Himalayas where the Dalai Lama lives, and a town that is full of foreigners almost year round, you can choose to eat in a local Tibetan restaurant instead of the German bakery or the Italian restaurant, both of which cater only to travelers. You can choose to mingle with the other travelers or you can choose to head down to the Buddhist temple and strike up a conversation with a Buddhist monk.
While it might still be disappointing to find yourself in a town that is so touristy, we must realize that we are not the only people who want to travel and the reason why so many of us flock to the same destinations is because those destinations have something to offer.
I remember the last time I was in India and I traveled to Agra with two friends in order to visit the Taj Mahal, which is India's most visited sight. After spending a few hours at the monument, we decided to get away from all of the other travelers and so, without hesitation, we flagged down a bicycle rickshaw. We then asked the driver to take us away from Taj Ganj, the main tourist area by the Taj Mahal, telling him to just cycle us to an area without any foreigners.
Ten minutes later we were in a random neighborhood, standing in front of a local cinema where a crowd of Indians were waiting in line to enter. We joined the crowd, went inside, bought three tickets for the next Hindi film being played and within moments, found ourselves trying to communicate with a large group of people who had never spent any time with foreigners in their entire life. We talked, we sat together in the cinema, we laughed, we watched the film, we chatted afterward while sipping chai and eating samosas. This was as local of an experience as it gets, even though we were in the most visited city in all of India.
And it took no effort at all. In fact, it's so simple to get away from the 'zoo' that I'm confident there is no place on this planet where travelers would not be able to find such an opportunity.
Even when I lived in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, another major tourist and vacation destination, all it took was a short walk away from the beach for me to find myself in a local tostada eatery (like the one where I gave a demonstration on how to stuff your face properly) or in a cafe without any foreigners around or in a park full of local vendors selling local specialties and without a word of English being spoken.
There were even sections of the beach where I could grab a patch of white sand and spend the day among locals, without any beach bars, jet skis or beach vendors anywhere in sight.
Again, little effort required. It just took a few conscious decisions.
In addition, if we really feel that a particular destination is far too touristy to give us the kind of experiences we seek, nothing is stopping us from hopping on a bus or train and getting off at a random station, wandering into a random town, being the only foreigner around, and seeing where the adventure leads.
If we remember that it is our responsibility, not the responsibility of the destinations we visit, to create these positive experiences, then there is no reason why we should ever throw up our hands in disappointment and claim that a particular town, city or country does not offer authentic travel experiences.
Have you been to a destination where you feel it was impossible to have an authentic experience? What kind of experiences do you seek out or will you seek out when you're overseas?

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Why Cyprus matters for investors
The tiny nation of Cyprus was bailed out by its eurozone partners and the IMF this weekend. That much is barely news. The bailout of a country with a broken banking system is now known as a slow Sunday.
But there was something different about Cyprus' bailout that sent shivers through the global banking system.
Deposit holders in Cyprus banks are being forced to pay for part of the deal. The original deal, which looks like it's now being revised, says those with 100,000 euros or more in Cyprus banks will have 9.9 per cent of their deposits levied – or taxed, or confiscated, or whatever you want to call it. Those with less than 100,000 euros will take a 6.75 per cent haircut.
This is rare, if not unprecedented, in modern bank bailouts. Deposit holders have long been considered sacrosanct. A bank's shareholders can lose everything when it screws up. Bondholders can take a hit, too. But deposit holders, particularly small retail deposit holders, are typically untouchable.
Another side to this story
If Cyprus had its own currency, it would be dealing with its economic problems by printing money. That would eventually cause inflation. How much? Let's say 6.75 per cent. In that case, those with cash deposits in Cypriot banks would lose 6.75 per cent of their money in real terms – the same amount being directly confiscated on most deposits through the IMF bailout.
Think of it that way, and Cyprus' bailout fee is only unprecedented in a semantic way. When a government directly takes 6.75 per cent of deposits, people freak out. When the government takes money indirectly through 6.75 per cent inflation, few are concerned.
There are two takeaways from this.
Best of a bad lot
The obvious one is that Cypriots are getting a raw deal – only if you consider the bailout fee in isolation. Compared with what would have likely occurred without a bailout, it isn't bad at all. Most estimates I've seen of what would happen if Cyprus were forced to leave the euro and return to its old currency predict a devaluation of 40 per cent to 60 per cent. The country was in a terrible position with no easy solutions. It took the least bad option.
The other takeaway is that when it comes to cash, the difference between inflation and a direct levy is minimal.
Most don't think of inflation as a fee because they don't see money being directly removed from their bank accounts. But the effect on wealth is the same in the end. While depositors might rarely (if ever) lose money from bank deposits the way Cyprus is proposing, an untold amount of deposit wealth has been lost to inflation.
There will always be inflation, and dealing with it is more useful than grumbling about it. There are plenty of options to invest money at rates of return above inflation.
Charlie Munger once said: "I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not."
Foolish takeaway
The problem is that so many investors have willingly made themselves subject to inflation's mercy, ploughing into cash and bonds that yield little more than inflation. They are subjecting themselves to their own mini-Cyprus bailout fee year after year.
What's unfortunate is that they may not even know it. Cypriots are well aware of their fee. They see the headlines. They'll see the withdrawals. Money here today will be gone tomorrow. Other people around the world who invest in the comfort of cash and bonds yielding very little, I'm afraid, are much less aware.
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Daily Slice: Eldsmiðjan in Reykjavik, Iceland
A different slice profiled each day.
Last weekend I ventured to Iceland, hoping to see the Northern Lights. On the first night I was there, the sky was overcast, so I stayed in town and decided to see what sort of pizza options were available. Usually when I travel, I try to sample as many traditional local foods as possible, and clearly pizza does not fall under this category in Iceland. Still, I had sampled delicious lobster soup and a malt extract beverage at Saegreifin for lunch, and I was curious about what sort of pizza one eats in Reykjavik.
I opted for a visit to Eldsmiðjan, a mini-chain whose name means "fiery forge". I found it tucked away on a corner of two residential streets near Halgrimskirkja, the city's main church and most prominent landmark (think the Eiffel Tower, but made of concrete, and shorter). Through the window I could see the fiery forge itself, in this case one of the few wood-fired pizza ovens in the country. Iceland lost much of its forest cover by the nineteenth century due to a mix of over-logging and volcanic activity, so ovens fired by wood are pretty rare there. What makes this particular wood-fired oven experience unique is that the fuel of choice is the local birch. I won't claim to have a palate so sensitive that I could taste the birch-wood flavor in the pie, but the whole restaurant did smell of birch, which made for a pleasant experience on a cold November night.
The menu listed plenty of variations, and I hoped to find something distinctly Icelandic for toppings: smoked puffin, maybe? They had one combination called Pizza del Mare, which featured smoked salmon, shrimp, tomato, onion, broccoli, tarragon and Parmesan (reyktur lax, rækjur, tómatar, laukur, brokkoli, estragon og parmesan, in Icelandic). They also had one called Pizza al Vulcano (Hekla), with ground beef, mushroom, jalapeno, black pepper and tomato. Hekla is the most destructive volcano in Iceland. Yes, Eyjafjallajökull has gotten more press lately, but its impact pales in comparison with Hekla, which has been credited with famine and even, by some historians, triggering the French Revolution.
While I did not want to snub any of the local volcanoes, I opted for the Margherita (Margarita in Icelandic, but who's counting?). The crust had a nice char, as you might expect from a wood-fired oven. The cheese was baked too long and came off the pie too easily. The sauce tasted too much of oregano. At 1295 krona (about $11.50 at the current exchange rate) for a 12-inch pie, you are getting an affordable meal in a town where dining can be very expensive, but you're not really getting a memorable meal, which is a shame in a town with many good restaurants.
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Dr. Vandana Shiva from India joins Rabbi Michael Lerner under a banner of Spiritual Progressives to promote Internationally Environmental and Social Responsibility by Corporations and Government Bodies.
Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on December 23rd, 2014
by Pincas Jawetz (email@example.com)
Dr. Vandana Shiva, the environmentalist from India who works for seed integrity against international corporations that are seeking control over every inch of the agricultural process, has joined with Rabbi Michael Lerner of Berkely, California, and became the international chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
Rabbi Lerner is promoting ESRA that stands for – the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – that he and Peter Gabel co-authored and which is being circulated as per salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/525…
(ESRA): The Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
(As proposed by Rabbi Michael Lerner and Peter Gabel and advanced through the work of The Network of Spiritual Progressives.)
The intent of the framers of this Amendment is to:
a. Protect the planet and its inhabitants from environmentally destructive economic arrangements and behavior, and to increase environmental responsibility on the part of all corporations and government bodies.
b. Increase U.S. citizens' democratic control over American economic and political institutions and ensure that all people, regardless of income, have the same electoral clout and power to shape policies and programs.
c. Promote the well-being of citizens of the United States by recognizing that our well-being depends on the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants, which in turn requires an end to poverty, wars, and violence, and the rise of a new global ethic of genuine caring and mutual interdependence.
Article One: The Pro-Democracy Clause
A. The First & Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution shall apply only to human beings, and not corporations, limited liability associations, and other artificial entities created by the laws of the United States.
B. Money or other currency shall not be considered a form of speech within the meaning of the First Amendment to the Constitution, and its expenditure is subject to regulation by the Congress and by the legislatures of the several States.
C. Congress shall regulate the amount of money used to disseminate ideas or shape public opinion in any federal election in order to assure that all major points of view regarding issues and candidates receive equal exposure to the greatest extent possible. Congress shall fund all major candidates for the House, Senate and Presidency in all major elections and in primaries for the nomination for president of major parties (those which have obtained at least 5% of the vote in the last election for president).
D. In the three months prior to any election for a federal position, all media or any other means of mass communication reaching more than 300,000 people shall provide equal time to all major presidential candidates to present their views for at least an hour at least once a week, and equal time once every two weeks for congressional candidates during that media agency's prime time. The candidates shall determine the form and content of that communication. Print media reaching more than 300,000 people shall provide equal space in the news, editorial, or most frequently read section of the newspaper or magazine or blog site or other means of communications which may be developed in the future. During the three months prior to an election, no candidate, no political party, and no organization seeking to influence public policy may buy time in any media or form of mass communication or any other form of mass advertising including on the Internet. Major candidates shall be defined as:
a. those who have at least 5% of support as judged by the average of at least ten independent polling firms, at least two of which are selected by the candidates deemed "not major," 3 months before any given election,
b. or any candidate who can collect the signatures of 5% of the number of people who voted in the election for that office the last time that office was contested in an election. These petitions can only be signed by people eligible to vote in the relevant electoral districts. Every state shall develop similar provisions aimed at allowing candidates for the governor and state legislatures to be freed from their dependence on wealthy donors or corporations.
Article Two: Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility
A. Every citizen of the United States and every organization chartered by the U.S. or any of its several states shall have a responsibility to promote the ethical, environmental, and social well-being of all life on the planet Earth and on any other planet or in Space with which humans come into contact.
This being so, corporations chartered by the Congress and by the several States shall demonstrate the ethical, environmental, and social impact of their proposed activities at the time they seek permission to operate.
In addition, any corporation with gross receipts in excess of $100 million shall obtain a new corporate charter every five years, and this charter shall be granted only if the corporation can prove a satisfactory history of environmental, social, and ethical responsibility to a grand jury of ordinary citizens chosen at random from the voting rolls of the community in which the primary activities of the corporation take place, or, if there is dispute between stakeholders and the corporation on where those primary activities take place, then in Washington, D.C.
Factors to be considered by the grand jury in determining whether a corporation will be granted a charter shall include but not be limited to:
1. The degree to which the products produced or services provided are beneficial rather than destructive to the planet and its oceans, forests, water supplies, land, and air, and the degree to which its decisions help ensure that the resources of the earth are available to future generations.
2. The degree to which it pays a living wage to all its employees and the employees of any contractors with which it does business either in the US or abroad, and arranges its pay scale such that none of its employees or contractors or members of its board of directors or officers of the corporation earn (in direct and indirect benefits combined) more than ten times the wages of its lowest full-time wage earners; the degree to which it provides equal benefits including health care, child care, retirement pensions, sick pay, and vacation time to all employees; and the degree to which its employees enjoy satisfactory safety and health conditions; and the degree to which it regularly adopts and uses indicators of its productivity and success which include factors regarding human well-being, satisfaction and participation in work, and involvement in community service by its employees and members of its top management and board of directors;
3. The degree to which it supports the needs of the communities in which it operates and in which its employees live, including the degree to which it resists the temptation to move assets or jobs to other locations where it can pay workers less or provide weaker environmental and worker protections.
4. The degree to which it encourages significant democratic participation by all its employees in corporate decision making; the degree to which it discloses to its employees and investors and the public its economic situation, the factors shaping its past decisions, and its attempts to influence public discourse, and the degree to which it follows democratic procedures internally
5. The degree to which it treats its employees, its customers, and the people and communities in which it operates with adequate respect and genuine caring for their well-being, and rewards its employees to the extent that they engage in behaviors that manifest genuine caring, respect, kindness, generosity, and ethical and environmentally sensitive practices.
6. The degree to which its investment decisions enhance and promote the economic, social, and ethical welfare and physical & mental health and well-being of the communities in which its products may be produced, sold, or advertised and/or the communities from which it draws raw materials.
7. When assessing the environmental and social responsibility of banks, stock markets, investment firms and other corporations whose activities include the lending or investing of monies, in addition to the issues 1-6 above, the jury should also consider: the degree to which the financial institutions direct the flow of money to socially and/or envrionmentally useful activities, including non-profits serving the most disadvantaged of the society and including the financing of local business cooperatives and local community banks and to support low-income and middle income housing with affordable mortgages, rather than directing the money to speculators in finance, real estate, or other commercial activities; the degree to which it forgives loans previously given to poverty stricken countries; the degree to which it engages in misleading advertising or hides the costs of its services in small print or engages in aggressive marketing of monies for loans or preys on the most economically vulnerable; the degree to which it offers no-interest loans to those with incomes below the mean average income in the society; and the degree to which it seeks to fund directly socially useful projects and small businesses.
In making these determinations, the jury shall solicit testimony from the corporation's board of directors, from its employees, and from its stakeholders (those whose lives have been impacted by the operations of the corporation) around the US and around the world. The U.S. government shall supply funds to provide adequate means for the jury to do its investigations, to hire staff to do relevant investigations, and to compensate jurors at a level comparable to the mean average of income in the region in which the deliberations of the jury takes place, or at the level of their current income, whichever is higher.
If the grand jury is not satisfied with the level of environmental, social, and ethical responsibility, it may put the corporation on probation and prescribe specific changes needed. If after three more years the jury is not satisfied that those changes have been adequately implemented, the jury may assign control of the board and officers of the corporation to non-management employees of the corporation and/or to its public stakeholders and/or to another group of potential corporate directors and managers who seem most likely to successfully implement the changes required by the jury, but with the condition that this new board must immediately implement the changes called for by the jury within two years time, or else the jury can reassign control of the corporation to another group of potential board members.
B Any government office or project receiving government funds that seeks to engage ln a contract (with any other corporation or limited liability entity) involving the expenditure of over $100,000 (adjusted annually for inflation) shall require that those who apply to fulfill that contract submit an Environmental and Social Responsibility Impact Report to assess the applicant's corporate behavior in regard to the factors listed above in point A of Article II. Community stakeholders and non-supervisory employees may also submit their own assessment by filling out the Environment and Social Responsibility Impact Report. Contracts shall be rewarded to the applicant with the best record of environmental and social responsibility that can also satisfactorily fulfill the other terms of the contract.
Article Three: The Positive Requirement to Enhance Human Community and Environmental Sustainability
A. Earth being the natural and sacred home of all its peoples, Congress shall develop legislation to enhance the environmental sustainability of human communities and the planet Earth, and shall present a report annually to the American people on progress made during the previous year in ameliorating any conditions deemed by an independent group of scientists to be adverse to the planet's long-term environmental welfare. The objectives of such legislation shall include but not be limited to alleviating global warming, reducing all forms of pollution, restoring the ecological balance of the oceans, and assuring the well-being of all forests and animal life. The President of the United States shall have the obligation to enforce such legislation and to develop executive policies to assure the carrying out of its objectives.
B. In order to prepare the people of the United States to live as environmentally and socially responsible citizens of the world, and to recognize that our own well being as citizens of the United States depends upon the well being of everyone else on Earth and the well being of this planet itself, every educational institution receiving federal funds whether directly or through the several states, shall provide education in reading, writing and basic arithmetic, and appropriate instruction including at least one required course for all its students per year per grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade, and in any college receiving funding or financial aid or loan guarantees for its students, in:
1. the skills and capacities necessary to develop a caring society manifesting love, generosity, kindness, caring for each other and for the earth, joy, rational and scientific thinking, non-violence, celebration, thanksgiving, forgiveness, humility, compassion, ethical and ecological sensitivity, appreciation of humanity's rich multicultural heritage as expressed in literature, art, music, religion, and philosophy, non-violence in action and speech, skills for democratic participation including skills in how to change the opinions of fellow citizens or influence their thinking in ways that are respectful of differences and tolerant of disagreements, and how to organize fellow citizens for non-violent political action and engagement in support of causes not-yet-popular; and in
2. the appropriate scientific, ethical, and behavioral knowledge and skills required to assure the long term environmental sustainability of the planet Earth, and to do so in ways that enhance the well being of everyone on the planet.
Congress shall provide funding for such courses in all the educational institutions receiving public funds or loans or loan guarantees for students, and shall provide funding for similar courses to be made available to the non-student populations in each state.
All such courses must teach caring not only for the people and economic, social and environmental well-being of the people of the United States, but also for the economic, social and environmental well-being of all the people on the planet Earth and the well-being of the planet as well!
The measurement of student progress in the areas covered by sections 1 and 2 being, like artistic and musical skills, difficult or impossible to measure by quantitative criteria, educational institutions supported directly or indirectly by public funds shall develop subtle and appropriate qualitative ways of evaluating adequate progress on the part of students in the areas specified, ways that contribute to and not detract from students' ability to love learning and to enhance their capacities to cooperate rather than compete with their fellow students in the process of intellectual and emotional growth. Teachers shall be funded to learn the skills described in points A and B and the methods of evaluation appropriate to this kind of values-oriented subject matter.
Article Four: Implementation
A. Any corporation which moves or seeks to move its assets outside the U.S. must submit an Environmental and Social Impact report to a grand jury of ordinary citizens, and the jury shall similarly receive testimony from other stakeholders and the employees of the corporation in question to determine the impact of the moving of those assets outside the U.S. The jury shall then determine what part of those assets, up to and including all of the assets of the corporation, shall be held in the U.S. to compensate those made unemployed or otherwise disadvantaged by the corporate move of its resources elsewhere, and or to pay for other forms of environmental or social destruction of the resources or the well-being of the United States or its citizens. Conspiracy to evade this provision shall be a crime punishable by no less than twenty years in prison for all members of the board of such a corporation.
2. Any part of the Constitution or the laws of the U.S., or any of its states, deemed by a court to be in conflict with any part of this ESRA Amendment shall be null and void. Any trade arrangements, treaties, or other international agreements entered into by the United States, its citizens, or its several states, deemed by a court to be in conflict with the provisions or intent of this Amendment are hereby declared null and void.
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Even senior programmers of 4 to 6 years experience in Java programming, sometimes fail to solve questions like designing coffee-maker, coding Vending Machine or sometimes even recursively reversing a linked list. I may be just moving off from becoming a better programmer, but it's important to know your limitation and then work out to resolve those.
If you feel resistance in coding, then you should code as much as possible, if you feel stressed and lost in designing using Object-oriented analysis and design, then you should do designing using pen and paper as much as possible. This resistance is what actually preventing you from being a better programmer.
I have personally found that coding and designing presents a lot of resistance to an average programmer, because in most of them in their professional job don't do enough coding and development.
By the way, there could be numerous tips to become a better programmer, I will stick with my list, which I personally follow and which has continuously helped me.
10 Tips to Improve Programming Skill and Become Better ProgrammerIn order to become a better programmer, you need to be really good at the data structure, algorithms, designing using OOPS, multi-threading and various programming concept e.g. recursion, divide and conquer, prototyping, and unit testing.
Programming is a combination of many skills, which means it's not possible to learn it in quick time, rather it will come with time and experience, but that won't happen automatically.
You can spend 5 years doing a Java programming job, without being a good programmer. Since most of Java, interviews focus on theory rather than programming and coding skills.
Not many programmers practice these essential programming skills. If there is a mandatory problem-solving programming test, I would bet, the average programmer would have been much better. Anyway, here is my list of things, which can help you to become a good programmer.
1) Coding, Coding, and Coding
Why have I Coding at the top of this list? because it's difficult and same time its central piece of programming.
By doing coding, you also realize your mistakes in designing, error handling, threading and then go back to those respective skills to improve. You just can not work in designing only, coding produce output, which is important to learn and act as a success.
By the way, do not stop just after solving the problem, it's always better to throw away your first solution, that is just a prototype, your next solution should address issues, missing requirements which you have found building a prototype.
You can also see Clean Code: Writing Code for Humans to learn more about writing production quality code.
2) Reading Books
Coding is easier said than done, and there is a huge difference between good code and bad code, but how do you know? Until you have seen a good code and know why a particular code is good, you can not understand the difference.
This is where books come to help, more often than not authors are great programmers themselves. They offer their experience in the form of a book. I love books, but one book, which is particularly helped me is Clean Code by Uncle Bob.
By reading this book, I have found myself finding problems in my code and applying the advice given in this book every now and then. My advice is if you ever find such books, grab them. I also recommend reading this classic books many times and refer them every now and then.
Another similar book is Effective Java by Joshua Bloch, which is full of good advice. . Also, by reading books you are learning from someone else's experience, and there are only two ways to improve yourself, either by learning from own experience (which is very limited) or learning from others experience (which is unlimited).
Remember more is not always good, rather than reading 5 books, I suggest read two books, which you enjoyed reading multiple times. These two books are also from of my list of must read books for Java programmer
3) Contributing to Open Source, Signing-up mailing lists
Contributing on the Open source code, especially from Apache, Google, and some other projects is another way to improve your programming skill and become a better programmer. Just signing their mailing list and the following discussion teaches you a lot.
Since most of the discussions happen between good programmers, by listening to them and understanding problem and their approach, solution, and view, automatically develop good programming habits on you.
To get most of it, do not just sit passive, ask questions, offer your view, but same time value others as well.
4) Practicing data structure, Algorithms, and Design related problems
I was thinking to put that as the second item, but it ended up fourth. In my opinion, this is the most critical of things to do to become a better programmer. Most of the good programmers I have seen and met are really good in data structures, algorithms, and basics.
By learning these things, you take better advantage of what is available. Since data structure is a key piece of any program, solid knowledge of them helps during problem-solving.
Similarly, knowledge of key programming principles, search and sort algorithms and other well-known algorithms develop programming skills on you.
You can refer these books to improve your knowledge of data structure and algorithms.
5) Reading Good Blogs
Reading good blogs is a small part of reading books. How does reading blogs help you to become a better programmer? Well, it does. Since blogs are often written by programmer themselves and most of them share their personal view, experience, you often find them relevant.
Also, blogs are a small piece of information so it digests well. A blog also helps to learn new technology and new features of existing language and API.
Many times, I have seen something subtle or missed things from a really well-known part of Java described in a small blog post.
6) Reading Code
If reading blogs help to become a good programmer, then reading code help more than that, but same time reading blog is easy but reading the code is tough. Do you see resistance? then you should do it. Look code of open source projects, your fellow programmer's code, your existing proprietary code, code from Java SDK and try to understand how they work, try to see what they are doing and why they are doing.
Find patterns, develop navigation skill, initially you will find it boring and difficult, but with time you will develop a good code sense, which will alert you when you do a mistake, help you to spot others mistake, gaps, and code smell.
This Code sense is one of the signs of the better programmer, they often tend to look, what you missed.
7) Writing Unit test
Unit test complement thinking and coding process, and subsequently help you to design better. Anything which is difficult to test has a chance of improvement. Also, writing unit test helps a lot in finding better names, better abstraction, better interface and abstract class design and overall improves code quality.
But like coding and designing, unit testing is also a tough job for average programmers, you will see a lot of resistance there. Some programmer writes trivial test, instead of thinking hard on usage scenario.
Remember there is no substitute of think through the process, after analysis, design and development, unit testing is another opportunity to think through scenarios and gaps in your code. Make it a rule, always write a Unit test for your code.
8) Doing Code review
Like Unit testing, Code review is another thing which helps to become a good solid programmer. Code review helps both reviewer and author, reviewer improves his code sense and offers genuine advice while author learns from his mistakes.
It often helps that the code you think is rock solid, has some bugs which only other programmer can see, Code review and four eye check does that for you.
If you are lucky and get a chance to work in a company which has unit testing, code review as discipline then you are likely to be a better programmer than rest. These two things immensely help to improve programming skill.
9) Talking to fellow programmer
Reading is passive event compared to talking. Talking a program and discussing that with a fellow programmer, often leads to a better solution, it's natural because your mind tends to involve more when you talk and listen to other.
I have then found gaps, missing requirements, bugs and design flaws while discussing with teammates. In the software industry, where programmers tend to isolate them with their computer, talking, sharing and doing whiteboard sessions helps immensely.
Don't just sit and code, talk, listen and think and hang out with fellow programmers. participating in the event also helps.
10) Participating Stack Overflow and forums, Commenting in Blogs
This is another form of activity, which helps to revise knowledge. By sharing knowledge, the first person who benefits is the one who share. Since programming is big and vast, you tend to forget most of the things which you don't use for more than 3 months.
Participating in StackOverflow and answering others queries, commenting on blogs and forums is a nice little way to revise knowledge and same time correct your misconception.
By putting our knowledge in front of others, we not only helps others but also put them to the test. Many times you will see, someone benefiting from your knowledge but also you is getting your misconception corrected.
Every programmer wants to become a better programmer, but not everyone succeeds. Apart from the natural talent of programming and problem solving, it requires a lot of hard work, constant learning, and perseverance to become a better programmer. The more you do real work e.g. Coding, Designing, Unit Testing and Code review, the better you will become. If you just want to do one thing at this moment, I would say go and read clean code.
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"I would like to thank the team for your hard work on the NOPR. I know you have been working together as a cross-functional team for some time, and have spent considerable time in outreach with people across the country on these issues.
I believe today's rulemaking reflects the increasing importance of variable energy resources in the nation's power supply, and their impact on energy markets and grid operations. As stated in the NOPR, the U.S. has 35 GW of wind energy installed, with another 85 GW projected by the end of 2012. Solar already provides 2 GW. Not surprisingly, issues of how variable energy resources fit into both market rules and grid operations have come before the Commission more and more frequently in specific cases from different regions of the country. We recognized that it is more equitable and efficient to address some of these issues as a rulemaking rather than continuing to address them on an ad hoc basis.
Today's rulemaking seeks to adapt certain market and grid rules to ensure just and reasonable treatment of variable energy resources. However, at the same time, it would place obligations on those variable resources to ensure that their operation does not affect other resources in an unjust or unreasonable manner. This reflects the maturation of variable energy resources. To use a sports analogy: renewables are no longer just pilot projects playing at the intramural level; they are now playing at the varsity level, and have to step up and follow the varsity rules. This is important for efficient operation of markets, fair treatment of all types of resources, and especially for system reliability. As the number of variable energy resources grows, it is important that they fit into grid operations without operators having to take special actions for every project.
I look forward to the comments on this NOPR, and continuing to work to update our rules to reflect changes to the resource mix and new technologies."
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Adobe snarfs up electronic signature automator
EchoSign to bolster PDF inventor's online doc services
Adobe Systems has acquired the online electronic-signature and signature-automation provider EchoSign.
"We're extremely pleased to announce that EchoSign is now part of the Acrobat family," enthused EchoSign CEO Jason Lemkin and Adobe Acrobat headman Kevin Lynch in a post on the just-acquired company's blog – and, yes, that's their own ebullient emboldening.
In his own blog post, Lynch explained that EchoSign will be "integrated with Adobe's other document services including SendNow for managed file transfer, FormsCentral for form creation and CreatePDF for online PDF creation."
EchoSign's automated – and wind-powered – digital-signature service currently has more than three million users worldwide, according to Adobe's announcement of the acquisition – a number that's almost certain to grow now that Adobe's branding and marketing muscle will be available to bolster it.
As might be expected, Lemkin certainly agrees with that sentiment. "With Adobe's brand, reach and trust in the document space, I fully expect that electronic signatures will soon become the common way for people to sign documents," he said in the acquisition announcement.
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Scenes with Angie at hospital and Jesse at PV Hotel.
Posted: May 11th, 2009 @ 5:36pm
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At Pine Valley Hospital, we see Angie with Ryan...
Angie: Oh, hi, Ryan.
Ryan: Hey, hey.
Angie: How are you?
Ryan: Pretty good, pretty much just here to check in on Ian and Kendall.
Angie: Well, from what I hear, they're doing pretty good. You know that Ian, he's a little miracle.
Ryan: Yeah, you look like you could use one of those right around now. Hey, you were there for me not so long ago. Let me return the favor.
Angie: It's, uh -- Frankie. He was injured in Iraq.
Ryan: Oh, my god. But -- but he's ok.
Angie: He -- he's alive. They've flown him to a hospital in Germany, but nobody will tell us much.
Ryan: Well, will they tell you where he's hurt?
Angie: His hands. They were caught under some kind of machinery. His hands, Ryan.
Ryan: Oh, my god. I am -- I'm so sorry. Is he -- is he going to be coming home soon?
Angie: I would think yes, but i don't know when or who he'll be when he comes back.
Ryan: And to have to be here and be dealing with everybody else's problems when you have so much going on yourself.
Angie: Well, that's my job, right?
Ryan: And for the record? You are very good at it.
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Angie: And my job beckons. Thank you.
Ryan: Ok, you take care, ok?
Angie: Yeah.
Ryan: Ok.
End scene. (All My Children - Hubbard Recap)
Chief Jesse Hubbard at the Pine Valley Hotel
Scott found Dr. Chappell hanging from the ceiling in his hotel room and called JR told him to get his butt over to the hotel. Police were notified and the scene goes as follows...
Jesse: So what brought the two of you to Chappell's room?
Scott: My family's company bought the rights to the doctor's heart valve --
J.R.: I can answer any questions regarding chandler enterprises.
Jesse: Be my guest.
J.R.: Well, when Dr. Chappell sold us his heart valve, I guess he didn't think it was going to be as successful as it was.
Jesse: Wouldn't success be a good thing?
J.R.: If he received a cut of the profits, but he signed away his rights.
Jesse: So this guy lost out on a huge windfall.
J.R.: I knew he was making a mistake, just didn't think he would kill himself.
Jesse: Anything to add to that?
Scott: No. No, that's pretty much it.
Jesse: Hmm, I'll go to the station, file a report.
J.R.: Jesse, if there is any way that you could keep this out of the press --
Jesse: My job is to protect that man's privacy, J.R., Not your company.
End scene...
Jesse arrives, finding Adam, JR, Scott together and begins to question them. Adam doesn't know about Chappell yet and is surprised to learn of his suicide. Zach watches and enters the room as David tells him that there was something wrong with the heart valve. Zach demands to know what and David tells him to ask Adam.
J.R.: Is it the valve?
Adam: We're still waiting for word.
Jesse: I need to ask you a few questions.
Adam: Jesse, can't you see we're in the middle of something here?
Jesse: What a coincidence. I'm in the middle of little something, too, a pesky little thing called a suicide investigation.
Adam: What the devil are you talking about?
Jesse: You didn't tell him? I just had your friend Dr. Chappell delivered to the morgue.
Adam: He killed himself?
David: You were right. Something's wrong.
Zach: What? The valve?
David: Yes.
Zach: What's wrong with it?
David: Ask him.
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A look at the main UK housing market data.
- House prices
- Affordability of housing
- Interest rates
- Supply of housing
House price inflation
Nationwide data
- Annual house price inflation running at 5.3% in Q1 2016
- London showed strongest housing market with prices rising more than other areas.
- Price of a typical home is £198,564 (Q1 2016)
UK House prices in past few decades
- In 1969, average house prices were: £4,312
- In 1975, average house prices were: £10,388.
- In 1980, average house prices were: £22,676
- In 2016, average house prices are: £198,564.
Real house prices
Real house prices are adjusted for the effects of inflation. This gives a more meaningful guide to how house prices have increased compared to typical prices in the economy.
This shows the real increase in house prices – rising faster than inflation.
Real house prices since 1975
- In 1975, – average house prices (at 2014 prices) was £83,126.
- In 2014 – average house prices – £188,810
126% increase in real house prices.
2. Affordability of Housing
First Time Buyers – House Price to Earnings Ratio
For UK first time buyers, the average house price is 5.1 times average earnings. In London, house prices are 9.2 times average earnings, whereas, in the north, house prices are only 3.4 times average earnings.
Affordability of Mortgage Payments
Mortgage payments as % of income reached a peak in late 1989/90 due to record high-interest rates. Rising house prices meant that the % of mortgage payments grew in the 2000s. However, in 2009, interest rates were cut to 0.5% leading to lower mortgage payments for homeowners.
Affordability index
The nationwide also produce an affordability index. Index base year 1985=(100)
Interest rates in the UK
interest rates at the Bank of England
There has been a dramatic fall in Bank of England base rates (which has continued to remain at 0.5%) but the bank's standard variable rates have fallen at a much lower rate. See more at explaining the gap between base rates and commercial lending rates.
Further reading: UK housing affordability
4. Housing Supply
During the post-war period, construction of local government housing increased supply. Home builds reached over 400,00 a year in the late 1960s. However, from the 1980s, the government retreated from building houses, leaving it to the private sector and a small contribution from housing associations. Due to strict planning legislation, the supply of housing has failed to meet government targets.
Understanding supply constraints in UK Housing market
For example, in 2007, the government estimated they would need to build 240,000 homes a year until 2016, to keep up with growing demand. However, after the credit crunch, housing completions fell to 100,00 a year.
more data on housing market supply and future population trends
Housing Construction
UK housing construction. see also UK construction
Trends in housing tenure
Source: English Housing Survey 2013-14
Between 1950 and the early 1980s, the percentage of homes which were bought, steadily increased, and the renting sector fell. Mrs Thatcher encouraged this trend in the 1980s, with a policy of encouraging home ownership and selling off council homes. Mrs Thatcher allowed the sale of council properties to their tenants. The stock of social housing has fallen since the early 1980s.
However, the trend in home ownership has been reversed in the last decade, due to declining affordability of home ownership.
local authority housing stock has plummeted due to the popular right to buy scheme and transfer of housing stock to housing associations.
source: JRF Housing & Neighbourhood studies
Regional house prices
Regional trends in house price to income ratios
See more at: regional house prices
Historical House Prices
The volatility of UK house prices. Though it should be noted these statistics show nominal house price changes. In the 1970s, high inflation rates magnified the nominal house price rises.
House prices adjusted for inflation
Even adjusted for inflation, we have seen strong growth in house prices. Real house prices
Mortgage defaults and arrears
Mortgage default rate statistics are produced by Council of mortgage lenders (CML). See repossession rates
Housing Benefits
Just under 5 million receive housing benefit, at an average of £93 a week. This is a rough annual cost of £23 billion.
More on UK Housing benefit
Renting sector
Mortgage rates
Source: B of E
Despite base interest rates of 0.5%, The standard variable rate for mortgages has crept up fro 4% towards 4.7% in 2016
Five year fixed rate mortgages (on 75% LTV) have fallen below 3%
Quantity of mortgage lending
Collapse in mortgage lending post 2007 financial crash.


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San Juan Island Scenic Tour
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Perfect by Car, Shuttle (May – September) or Bicycle
San Juan Island is part of WA State's Scenic Byways; here you'll find charming views around every curve and hill. So slow down and admire the scenery; stop and breathe in the fresh air; stretch your legs on a walk; enjoy a picnic lunch in one of the many parks and trails. The roads are narrow and few have shoulders, and they are shared with bicyclists, mopeds, pedestrians and vehicles; please remember to observe the speed limits and drive defensively.
To start your tour, take Spring Street away from the Ferry Terminal and turn left onto Mullis Road. Mullis turns into Cattle Point Road. Follow Cattle Point Road all the way to the turnaround where you can park your car. There you will find a pathway to the cliff side where you can walk around and view scenery of the southern part of the Island, and a short walk to the light house.
As you leave Cattle Point and head North, stop at Jakle's Lagoon and South Beach for scenic views, photos, a picnic, or to rest and read a book. Stop at the Ranger Station in American Camp, one of our two National Historic Park sites, for an informative short film about the Pig War, and pick up a trail guide for the short historical walk. From the visitors center there are several short hikes to coves along the west side. Numerous trails in densely forested Mt. Finlayson are accessed from Jakle's Lagoon.
Continue North along Cattle Point Road to False Bay Drive; turn left onto False Bay Drive. In a mile or so, the road turns into hard-packed gravel. False Bay will be on your left. There are a few spots to park so that you can walk and take in the scenic view. This is a great place for Tide Pooling during low tide. Keep an eye out for whales in the channel or seals in the bay.
Continue along False Bay Road and turn left on Bailer Hill Road. This will take you to the west side of the Island. Before heading to the west side, turn right on Wold Road to visit Pelindaba Lavender Farm. Go back to Bailer Hill Road and make a right to the west side.
Bailer Hill Road turns into West Side Road and will take you to Lime Kiln State Park. This is the prime whale watching location, especially in the summertime, and also a great place for hiking, picnics and watching sunsets. A hiking trail to the north leads to a restored lime kiln.
As you leave Lime Kiln State Park continue on West Side Road to Mitchell Bay Road. If you turn left it will take you to Mitchell Bay and Snug Harbor Resort. If you turn right, Mitchell Bay Road will dead end into West Valley Road. Turn left on West Valley Road and on your left you will see Krystal Acres Alpaca Farm. The alpacas are adorable and friendly, and the gift shop has beautiful hand-knitted clothing.
Continue along West Valley Road to English Camp, the other National Historic Park site. There is a serene parade ground and formal garden along Garrison Bay. The one-mile long Bell Point Trail at the far end of the parade ground is a lovely, flat walk around the edge of both Westcott and Garrison Bays. Enjoy one of the most scenic vistas on the Island with the hike to Mt. Young. The trail head is on the opposite side of the parking lot from the path to the historical barracks. At the top of Mt. Young, enjoy sweeping views of the Olympic Mountains, Victoria and the northern San Juan Islands.
Continue north or left out of English Camp on West Valley Road; turn left onto Roche Harbor Road. The northern most hamlet on San Juan Island is Roche Harbor. Here you may go kayaking, exploring, shopping, and dinning at one of three restaurants. During the summer, Island artists have kiosks in the main square by the docks. Visit the chapel, mausoleum, lime kilns and Hotel de Haro where President Teddy Roosevelt stayed.
After you leave Roche Harbor, enjoy a visit to the Westcott Bay Sculpture Park on your right, just across from the airstrip. There are about 130 outdoor sculptures on a large 19-acre property. As you head south on Roche Harbor Road reward yourself with wine tasting at San Juan Vineyards – located on the left off Roche Harbor Road. Just across from the vineyard, you can pay a visit to Mona, the Islands beloved Dromedary Camel who lives in the pasture across the way from the winery. Mona loves to visit with folks, but please do not feed her – she is on a strict diet for medical reasons.
Continue south on Roche Harbor Road back to Friday Harbor. Take a left at the stop sign onto Guard Street to Second Street. Go to the next STOP sign and make a left on Spring Street. Friday Harbor is a wonderful seaside village with lots of great shops, historic buildings and restaurants. You may want to park at the Inns and walk to town to explore. After your busy day of touring, consider joining us for a quiet, intimate dinner at Coho Restaurant – featuring Fresh from the Islands Cuisine, with a Mediterranean Flair.


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The Research Funding Toolkit helps academics to write better research grant applications. It consists of a book, published in May 2012, and this website.
The toolkit solves the grant-writing problem, which is the fundamental problem that academics face when they try to write research grant applications. The grant-writing problem has an analogy in football. This video shows what a great goal looks like. But watching the video doesn't teach you how to score goals. The grant-writing problem is similar. It is easy to explain what a good research grant application looks like. It is hard to teach an academic how to write one.
The toolkit grew out of a project called the grants factory. In summer 2009 we ran a series of workshops that took a group of academics from first idea to finished grant application. The group worked together to test our solutions to the grant-writing problem. We learned that the grant-writing problem has two parts. First, the natural style and learned habits of academics make it very difficult, even for senior academics, to write the structured, clear, simple, memorable, compelling prose that convinces a grants' committee to fund a research project. Second, many academics find it difficult to design the kind of research project that can be described in a well-written grant application.
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I spent my youth in a huge house overlooking my hometown Perugia. My parents where civil servants and in their free time took care of the large garden, the olive trees and the pets.
To be precise, my father took care of breeding the pets and my mother fought against the proliferation of pets. We had a dog and a cat and the occasional gold-fish of course. Even a guinea pig once.
That was fine with my mum.
The dog and the cat were actually treated to pasta al ragù just like us. Even with a sprinkle of Parmesan on top.
The problem was, my father had pet chickens. They were allowed to do anything they wanted. He talked to them. They kept each other company. They – the chickens – ravaged the geraniums.
We never ate them. You don't kill your pets do you? Occasionally he would deem one of the oldies suitable for a meal. They were so tough they were invariably only good for stock. For a roast or a stew like this one, she went to the market and bought a good freeranger from her favorite butcher.
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- 1/2 free-ranging chicken cut into serving pieces
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2-3 cloves garlic, very finely minced
- 1 tablespoon capers,
- 4 tablespoon spoon good quality olives, not pitted
- 1 sprig rosemary,
- a handful sage leaves
- 1 cup dry white wine
- zest of 1/4 lemon
- juice of 1/4 lemon
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- extra virgin olive oil
"In bianco" means with no tomato sauce. If you use chicken of excellent quality, there is no need of a thick sauce to mask all flavors.
Using a large thick bottom or non stick pan, sear chicken pieces in one tablespoon olive oil until golden on all sides. Good quality chicken should not produce any fat, but if it does drain it and wipe clean the pan before proceeding.
Turn heat to low, return chicken to the pan, add onion and stir frequently until caramelized. Add minced garlic cloves, capers, olives, rosemary and sage leaves.
Please don't use the inexpensive, pizza style, bland black olives. They are generally unripe green olives that have been dyed with iron salts (ferrous gluconate) after artificial ripening.
Season with just a sprinkle of salt and black pepper.
When everything is fragrant add one cup of wine, cover and simmer very slowly until the chicken is tender. This might take 45 min to 1 and 1/2 hours depending on size and quality of the bird. Add some water if the sauce gets too dry while simmering.
When ready to serve add the lemon juice and zest and balsamic vinegar. Taste and add more lemon if desired as it brings out the flavor of all other ingredients.
This dish is lovely with a side of steamed greens dressed with a fruity extra virgin and a splash of lemon juice if you like. If you need your starch, accompany it with homemade potato puree or polenta. Italians would never serve it on pasta or rice.
Serves 3-4 depending on initial size of chicken.
This recipe is submitted to the #TuscanyNowCookOff competition


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–Barry Hofstetter
We're putting together a new suite of digital texts and tools for classicists—a research application with Greek and Latin language resources that synchronizes across your mobile device and desktop computer. Its name is Noet.
Noet will be available this fall as a mobile app and web reader. In 2014, Noet will be available as a desktop application for Mac and PC and as a social platform for collaborative reading and research.
Noet ebooks differ from ebooks in other platforms (Kindle, Nook, etc.) in that they're tagged with data. When used in the Noet platform, Noet ebooks support a host of unique features that allow for deeper textual engagement. For example, the Noet mobile app includes:
• High-powered search tools that allow you to search your entire Noet library or an individual ebook for an English or original-language word or phrase.
• Split-screen view that allows you to sync related texts so that they scroll together as you read them. Sync Homer's Odyssey and a commentary, so that as you turn the page of one text, the other automatically follows. Or sync a translation of the Iliad with an original Greek edition.
• A Look Up tool that allows you to select an original-language word and access its gloss, lemma, and morphology.
• A Word Study tool that allows you to link from an original-language word to its entry in a lexicon.
We're launching with several bundles of classical texts, and then expanding into new titles and disciplines. The Classical Greek Bundle with LSJ is our flagship product for classicists which includes the Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon and the Perseus Greek Classics. With over 198,000 links to Perseus, the Noet edition of LSJ allows for instant lookup of related texts without ever having to open a print book or flip through pages in search of a citation.
Noet equips classicists with cutting-edge, time-saving tools for research in the digital age. Visit www.noet.com to learn more. You can also preview a video of the Noet mobile app here.
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Outgoing Missoula Police Chief Says Official Goodbyes [AUDIO]
Outgoing Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir said his official goodbyes to well-wishers at a farewell coffee on Thursday, December 19 in the basement of city hall.
After a 22 year career, Muir said he knew he was leaving at just the right time.
"I know that I'm taking the right step, it's time to move on," Muir said. "I have spent the last five, or should I say, the last 23 and a half years preparing these people to fill the void after I leave, and I have no doubt that they will do that."
The next step for Muir is to wait for his application to the University of Montana law school to be approved.
"Law school is still an option," Muir said. "I'll find out more about that in March."
Muir's official retirement date is Friday, December 20, the same day that his replacement, Mike Brady will take over as Missoula's new police chief.
On hand to say goodbye to Muir were Missoula Mayor Jon Engen, Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg along with dozens of police officers and office staff.
Retiring Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir