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Every day, hundreds of appreciative citizens in our community join millions of their fellow volunteers across the country in thanking veterans by serving them at the Coatesville Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center. They may vary in age, gender, income, education, race and ethnic background, but all of our volunteers share one thing in common - they are driven with a patriotic spirit to use their unique talents and skills toward improving veterans' lives.
At the Coatesville VA Medical Center and our Spring City and Springfield outpatient clinics, in 2012, almost 900 volunteers provided more than 42,692 hours of service to veterans. They, and others in the community, gave $85,420 in monetary donations and $461,191 in items to thank the veterans who receive world-class VA health care at the medical center.
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Nicole Le Saux is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Ottawa *
As physicians we should be concerned about the inappropriate use of antibiotics. Have you ever had a patient with an extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL), E. coli or Klebsiella urinary tract infection, a Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) or a drug-resistant N. gonorrhoeae?
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It seems to me that より has virtually no meaning when used as shown below.
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Best of 2012: Olympic Posh & the other Spices
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Best of 2012: No Name Twins
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer welcomed twins some time in September. Or maybe it was August. We don't know. We don't know because they haven't told us, as their reps only released a statement confirming that the birth happened but not when or how and whether or not she had any drugs or used an epidural and how dilated she was when she went into the hospital. Full Story
Worst of 2012: Johnny Depp
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Best Love of 2012: Michelle Williams & Jason Segel
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Best of 2012: Zoe Saldana at the SAGs
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Best of 2012: Ryan Lochte, dum-dum
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Adam Sandler was recently horrified to discover his maid had been rubbing poison ivy all over his body as he slept as payback for having to handle the actor's dirty underwear.
The Big Daddy star had no idea how he had contracted the itchy skin rash, and so he turned to his household security camera footage to ensure he wasn't rummaging through his yard in his sleep.
And Sandler reveals he was shocked to discover who was responsible for all his discomfort.
He tells US TV host Jay Leno, "It was a horrific event. When you get that as a kid it makes sense, but a man my age, it doesn't make too much sense because I don't even go… in the woods… So I thought maybe I was sleep walking or something like that…
"The security camera in my house, I put it on me in my bed to see what I do, and a housekeeper kept coming in and rubbing poison ivy all over my body while I slept and I was like, 'What the hell is going on? Why is this lady doing that to me?' So I wake up in the morning, I said, 'Hey, what's the deal? It's itchy, what you're doing to me is wrong. I caught you. Why (did) you do that to me? I'm very nice to you.'
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Arkestra Discos impresses once again by showcasing Noaipre and his manic aural offerings from Barcelona
Following the Kosmic Lovers single from Bflecha, the newest release on the Spanish Arkestra Discos imprint comes from Noaipre, who already feels like a proud brother-in-arms to the current UK beat scene. His recent comparisons to Guido and Ikonika are complimentary and relevant within the context, yet the attention given to such comparisons shouldn't detract from his individual style. Although being aligned with such a relatively small pool of like-minded producers is a notable achievement with a debut, there is a fresh playfulness to his sound that makes it very much his own. He must have a grin to rival that of the Cheshire cat by now, as his Pretty Psycho single is being lapped up by critics and fans alike – and rightly so. Pretty Psycho is an impressive first release; where catchy snaps of r'n'b melt into frantic smatterings of what can only be described as orchestral garage, that then explodes into a driving bass in its massive, synth-led impact. And to compliment the A side, Anxiety Square on the flip is hallucinogenic 'Eski beat' by way of A Coruña. With Noaipre, Arkestra Discos have clearly nailed their sophomore release.
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Die Hard 4.
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My bike.
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Sandals with socks.
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To pay my bills!
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I usually have a good sense of direction but while walking through this area I feel lost.
I walk through a seemingly endless sprawl of dwellings in an area south of old Cairo called Fustat. It's densely built up with three to four storey houses. I notice the lower floors are made up of walls made of red exposed bricks while the higher floors are nothing but a open concrete structure. The buildings seem to be in an eternal stalemate, incomplete skeletal, housing the residential mass of Cairo. In the narrow alleyways between the settlements I see children playing in the streets. There are Internet cafe's, hole in the wall shops, and local coffee shops where men sit around watching TV, smoking their water pipes like I all over Cairo. The difference in this neighbourhood is its unpaved walkways as they expand and contract making sudden twists and turns. I usually have a good sense of direction but while walking through this area I feel lost, unable to find any logical layout of the district. There are no main roads to follow and those that I do follow end like little mountain streams hitting into blind walls or fields of garbage suddenly enclosing the space. Even though I have never visited this particular neighbourhood, the chaotic infrastructure reminds me of similar districts I visited in China's Pearl River Delta and other world cities. It seems there is an inevitable shape in the way cities grow
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Pattinson, 27, stars in two films headed to Cannes this spring
With two films set to be screened at Cannes this year, it's safe to say Robert Pattinson has officially left his sparkly vampire past far behind him.
The trailer for one of those movies, The Rover, was released Thursday, and it finds the Twilight actor bloodied and desperate in post-apocalyptic Australia.
A mysterious criminal named Eric (Guy Pearce) drags Pattinson's Reynolds around the dusty, barren landscape, searching for Reynold's brother and his rival gang. The music is eerie, the cinematography dark and the tone ominous. But we're treated to a a few seconds of Pattinson shirtless, so it seems the scary scenes are worth the stress.
The trailer ends with a bang – literally – as Eric fires a gun and Reynolds contemplates God's love. Viewers will have to wait to see how the violent family drama plays out when The Rover premieres at Cannes in May and hits theaters stateside June 20.


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Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and NRA Withdraw From Gun Show Where AR Rifles Are Prohibited
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has pulled out of a Pennsylvania gun show because the show's organizers are refusing to allow certain types of legal rifles to be presented.
The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show website includes non-specific language concerning the types of arms that will be disallowed. The site merely states that "this year we have made the decision not to include certain products that in the current climate may attract negative attention that would distract from the strong focus on hunting and fishing at this family-oriented event and possibly disrupt the broader positive experience of our guests."
According to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation spokesman Mark Holyoak, "AR style modern rifles" are not allowed at the show. Reed Exhibitions which is conducting the gun show has been contacted with a request to explain which types of arms are prohibited, but there has been no response so far.
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"The bottom line is we support the second amendment," says Holyoak. "A ban was put in place by the promoter of this show back east. A ban that targets legal firearms, legal accessories and also targets the folks that legally market them. This caused us to kind of perk our ears up a bit and monitor the situation and we decided that we needed to let people know how we stood on the issue. So, we will not be taking part unless the promoter decides to change their mind."
Originally, RMEF planned on conducting an elk bugling competition at the gun show as well as being an exhibitor.
In their official press release, RMEF advises Reed Exhibitions to "reconsider its policies to avoid a divisive and political atmosphere so RMEF can take part in an event that generates needed revenue for important on-the-ground conservation and hunting heritage projects in the region."
Just this past week, Reed Exhibitions put on one of the nations largest gun shows in Las Vegas. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation was in attendance, however, AR rifles were not prohibited at the 2013 Shot Show.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is not the only organization to withdraw from the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show because of the ban on certain weapons. The National Rifle Association also published that it would not be at the show only hours after RMEF backed out.


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SoxNet.net has learned that the Chicago White Sox have had preliminary discussions with the Anaheim Angels and San Diego Padres on a potential 3 way deal which would involve Paul Konerko, Adrian Gonzalez, and Angel and White Sox prospects. …
The exact details aren't known but the main premise is the Sox sending Konerko and prospects and getting Adrian Gonzales from the Padres.
Stats: B-R: Paul Konerko, Adrian Gonzalez. Fangraphs: Paul Konerko, Adrian Gonzalez.
Why would the Padres and the Angels do that? Are the Sox emptying the farm?
UPDATE: Mark Gonzales tries to analyze the situation. He says the Padres would want Dan Hudson, Tyler Flowers, Jordan Danks and another minor-league prospect, perhaps from the Angels. That sounds like a lot. That would be a complete cleaning of the farm. Cot's says '2010:$4.75 million, 2011:$5.6 million club option (no buyout)' about Gonzales' contract (2011 was 5.5 but due to the 2008 All-Star selection it increased to 5.6). That's 2 cheap years but the price is too steep. Gonzales had a very good 2009 (B-R: .958 OPS, 166 OPS+, 119 BB / 109 K, .278 BABIP; Fangraphs: .402 wOBA, 6.3 WAR, .280 BABIP), but you still trade 18-24 years of cost-controlled production for 2. The Sox would be giving up a lot. I wouldn't empty the farm for 2 years of Adrian.


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Monday is the 70th anniversary of one of the most harrowing chapters in the history of the U.S. military — the defeat of U.S. and Philippine forces defending the Bataan Peninsula, a 60-mile-long strip of land east of Manila.
In the days and months that followed the fall of Bataan, the Japanese forced American and Filipino troops to walk more than 60 miles to a prison camp. More than 15,000 of the troops died during what came to be called the Bataan Death March.
The daughter of one Filipino veteran is helping to organize a commemoration of the fall of Bataan, to be held Tuesday on the Cal State East Bay campus.
"When I was growing up in the Philippines, I used to hear about the war from my father, who survived the Death March, as well as his incarceration," said Cecilia Gaerlan, whose 92-year-old father, Luis, a San Francisco resident, has difficulty speaking because of a traumatic brain injury.
Cecilia Gaerlan, of Berkeley, has written a novel titled "In Her Mother's Image" that describes the experiences of a young girl in the Philippines during the war and as an adult 30 years later.
She said the commemoration was inspired by the sponsors' concerns that, unlike Pearl Harbor, the events at Bataan have been largely forgotten.
"I was surprised to learn that not too many people know about it," she said.
The fall of Bataan came during the darkest days for U.S. forces in the Pacific after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
On Dec. 8, the Japanese attacked the Philippines, where the U.S. Army Air Corps had concentrated the bulk of its Pacific forces.
By January 1942, 12,000 U.S. and 63,000 Filipino troops had withdrawn to Bataan, in eastern Luzon. They held out for three months as rations dwindled and disease spread among the troops.
After the allied surrender, the Japanese marched the surviving defenders more than 60 miles to Camp O'Donnell, a prison at the southern end of the peninsula. Along the way, more than 15,000 of the troops died of disease or malnutrition, or were shot or bayoneted to death.
Many more died in the camp in the weeks that followed, and many of those who survived spent the rest of the war in forced-labor camps in Japan and throughout the occupied territories.
"They went into captivity in very bad shape," said Fred Baldassarre, of Hayward, whose father, James, was a Bataan survivor. "In the weeks before they surrendered, 50 to 200 men a week were dying of diseases or starvation. They had no business marching around anywhere."
James Baldassarre was in Manila when he received orders to go to Bataan after the Japanese attack, Fred Baldassarre said
"After the death march and Camp O'Donnell, he was sent to Manchuria," he said. "The first winter was pretty horrific, where guys were coming from the tropics and having to deal with arctic conditions."
After the war, James Baldassarre testified at the war crimes trial of Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander during the invasion, Fred Baldassarre said. Homma was convicted and executed in 1946.
The fall of Bataan came at the beginning of a battle for the Pacific that was to continue for more than three years, culminating in the atomic attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender. The few surviving Bataan veterans are getting up in years.
"There are no more than 10 left in the Bay Area and the three youngest ones are 88," said Fred Baldassarre, who heads the historical society Battling Bastards of Bataan. "They joined the army when they were 16."
Many affected by the war were even younger. John Ream, of Kensington, a former civilian prisoner of war, was 10 when his family was sent from Manila to a prison camp in the mountains. He and his father, mother and three sisters sat out most of the war there, where he said conditions were bad, but better than those in the military prisons and labor camps.
"We had two missionary women who shared the same toothbrush for three years," said Ream, of the Bay Area Civilian Ex-Prisoners of War, and one of the sponsors of Tuesday's remembrance. "Cooking oil was impossible to obtain, so we were using cold cream as cooking oil when we could find something to cook."
J.D. Merritt, of Cape Coral, Fla., a friend of Fred Baldassarre, was in an army field hospital on Bataan when it was overrun by Japanese troops. He said he fled into the jungle when the Japanese began bayoneting the patients.
Merritt, 92, eventually was captured and spent the war in forced labor as a stevedore on the Manila docks. He said his Filipino girlfriend died in a refugee camp when Japanese troops burned it to the ground.
Only about 13,000 of the 75,000 U.S. and Filipino forces that surrendered at Bataan were still alive at the end of the war, Merritt said.
COMMEMORATION OF 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF bATAAN DEATH MARCH
When: 4-6 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Cal State East Bay Theater, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., East Loop Road, Hayward
Cost of admission: Event is free of charge to the public


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ITW Rocol North America, Glenview, IL, introduces Accu-Lube JL-12, an opaque gel formulated specifically for tube-bending applications. Fabricators can either pump or hand-apply the lube directly to the tube or to the bending mandrel. No cleaning is required before welding, and in applications requiring painting or plating, the gel is easily removed. Compared to using conventional lubricants that flow down tubes, Accu-Lube JL-12 will reduce consumption, improve housekeeping, and prolong tool or mandrel life, according to company representatives. The gel is available in 5- and 55-gal. containers.ITW Rocol North America: 847/657-5343; www.rocolnorthamerica.com
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ADR is a process in which a third party neutral assists the disputants in reaching an amicable resolution through the use of various techniques. ADR describes a variety of approaches to resolve conflict which avoid the cost, delay, and unpredictability of the traditional adjudicatory processes while at the same time improving workplace communication and morale.
In 1990, the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act (ADRA) required each federal agency to adopt a policy on ADR use. In 1996, ADRA was reenacted as the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 (ADR Act). In 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) required all federal agencies to establish or make available an ADR program during the pre-complaint and formal complaint stages of the EEO process. Additionally, EEOCs regulation, 29 C.F.R. § 1614.603, requires agencies to make reasonable efforts to voluntarily settle EEO discrimination complaints as early as possible in, and throughout, the administrative process.
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In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has decided that London's Jewish Free School practiced racial discrimination when it gave lower admissions priority to a pupil on grounds that he was not ethnically Jewish:
The school, which has far more applicants than it has places, gives priority to those children whose mothers are Jewish. M, the student in question, was raised in a practicing Jewish home, but his mother is a convert from Catholicism, and converted in a reform temple. (However, those students whose parents are atheists would still be given priority, were the mother "ethnically" Jewish.) When M.'s father took the school to court, he won; however, the school appealed - hence the Supreme Court ruling.
While this may not seem to be a big issue - how many non-Jews, after all, are going to be eager for a strict parochial education, so how much will the new "religious practice" tests matter? - it could have wide-ranging implications for all faith-based schools. And, says England's orthodox community, for modern Judaism as a whole. Said the President of the United Synagogue, to the Guardian, "Essentially, we must now apply a non-Jewish definition of who is Jewish...These are matters of principle. If we don't fight this, what do we fight? These are germane to everything we believe in."
Jewish School Loses Appeal [Guardian]
Jewish School Loses Places Fight [BBC]


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While the folks in Chicago are lamenting the loss of Jay Cutler for perhaps the rest of the season (or enough of it to ruin the team's playoff chances), there was another discouraging NFC North injury yesterday, with Packers RB James Starks suffering a sprained knee against the Bucs:
Starks was injured during the fourth quarter when he was bent over backwards in a pileup after a short run and his legs were caught underneath a defender. He had to be helped off the field by trainers and wasn't able to put much weight on his right leg.
Obviously, losing Starks isn't exactly a death blow to the Packers' quest to remain unbeaten. They still have Aaron Rodgers to go out there and casually throw for his usual four TD passes. But Starks' injury is significant because he's been the only bright spot in what has been an otherwise moribund Packers running game. Ryan Grant has shown no sign that he's as good as he used to be (take it from one of his fantasy owners). It's Starks who has been icing game after game with critical late first-down runs, causing opponents to throw their hands up in frustration. Starks is averaging 4.5 yards a carry. Grant averages only 3.7. The difference between the two has become more pronounced each week.
It's that little hint of a running game that has helped the Packers become historically dominant. Without Starks, the Packers run game is essentially a tool for keeping defenses honest, so that the passing game can do all the heavy lifting. We've said all season long that the Packers have three main weaknesses: the pass protection (diminished in impact by Rodgers' quick release and mobility), the pass defense, and the running game. But for ten weeks, the running game has been jusssssssst good enough, just effective enough to add something to the Packers' attack. Without Starks, it becomes an afterthought. So if you see the Packers fall to the Lions on Turkey Day, keep in mind how important Starks is to a perfect team. Much as it seems like it, Rodgers can't do it all on his own.


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My last posts addressed how the changing world of economic units and households is diminishing the effectiveness of our current methods and increasing their costs, at a time of great fiscal pressure. This post comments on a way forward.
The future is likely to value more timely statistical information, while certain populations may become more difficult to measure directly. However, many of these difficult-to-measure businesses, households, and persons will be included in administrative data systems (data already supplied by the units) that could be used as companions to survey data. This future will require using multiple alternative sources of data simultaneously.
Now, most of our Economic and Demographic surveys tend to use single sampling frames, often based on mailing addresses, from which we attempt to cover the entire population. Generally, we need to find contact information when we switch from one data collection mode to another (e.g., requesting phone numbers in wave 1 face to face interviews to prepare for wave 2 telephone interviews). It means we use separate systems to manage each mode's assigned sample, give work assignments to interviewers, monitor the progress of data collection, and perform data editing and estimation in post-data collection.
The economic directorate at the Census Bureau has already combined administrative data with survey data in inventive ways. It has more experience in simultaneously dealing with paper forms, internet responses, and telephone interviews. It has also grappled with decision rules that define what preliminary estimates shall be and what ingredients are required for revisions of those preliminary estimates. Timeliness of economic indicators has in the past been valued more highly than timeliness of demographic estimates. The future is likely to increase the demand for more timely information and the increased use of preliminary estimates.
In short, the future will require a blending together of multiple sources of data, real-time processing of data, and the production of more timely estimates. We need the infrastructure to facilitate this.
One could imagine a three-step evolution to this future.
Step 1. Consolidation of Frame Data and Paradata for Active Use during Data Collection. The first step would require no change in our current frames and the current assignment of the first mode to cases. Sample designs would not be altered and would be implemented as currently performed. It would add, however, the capability of changing the mode of data collection to one preferred by the sample unit more quickly. It keeps track of how the sample unit reacted to the initial approach to complete the measurement in order to tailor the request to their lifestyles (based on "paradata" or process data). Current management procedures, based on human judgment of supervisors for assigning cases to mode, would continue to be used. In essence, the innovation in this phase of the evolution would be a) the integration of the sample management systems across modes into a single unified system, b) a unified software module that provides a cross-mode progress monitoring capability.
Step 1 is already taking shape. We have launched the developmental effort for the "Unified Tracking System," which contains a repository of frame data, process data on field activities, cost/effort data, call record data, and questionnaire data on sample cases. The repository will be updated daily. Statistical analysis of the data will produce new monitoring and reporting information for survey management. Such analysis will also permit better costing of future surveys.
Step 2. Real-time Mode Assignment. The second evolutionary step would add mode assignment based on a set of software-driven business rules that would guide real-time movement across modes. Some of the business rules would be based on statistical models run in background and used to update mode assignments every 24 hours. The rules will never replace some of the unique knowledge held by field supervisors, but they would greatly increase efficiency of case management for a large majority of cases. Hence, the management would also have capabilities of manual assignment to modes, when direct intervention is desirable.
Similar business rules would guide subsampling of nonrespondents for followup modes (as currently done in the American Community Survey). Thus, step 2 enhances the data-based direction of cases from mode to mode to completion, exploiting more powerful statistical models to direct these. At the same time, it provides managers with full control capabilities over the course of the sample administration. It acts on the timeliness of data production.
To move from Step 1 to Step 2 we need a new group of statistical analysts to create the cost, effort, and quality indicators of survey data during their collection. We need statistical models of the likelihood that the next followup on a case will generate a completed measurement. Analysis of such data will lead to statistical models that form the business rules of mode-switches. Such analysis will permit better budgeting and cost controls.
When we achieve this step we can control/reduce costs within controls on qualities differences across modes. This is the value of a unified mixed-mode operational control system.
Step 3. Real-time Estimation During Data Collection. The third evolutionary step would add to the second step the real-time estimation routines each 24 hours of a data collection. This real-time estimation would have real-time imputation, nonresponse adjustment, and variance estimation as part of the process, with an assessment of whether the imputation variance inflation was acceptable or whether increased effort at nonresponse followup was necessary. It integrates the editing and imputation step into the data collection process.
It thereby provides the survey management with a new source of information on whether a case should be shifted to another mode for followup – if high quality imputations can be made at a given point, the cost efficiency of followup may be too low to tolerate. Of special application is the use of pre-loaded administrative data for the case, which may have item missing data rates higher than the full data record from another mode. (In one sense, Step 3 adds imputation as another "mode" of data collection.)
Similarly, tracking of key survey estimates on a real-time basis can provide useful information on whether continued attempts to gather data are cost-efficient. If estimates are unlikely to change in important ways with further efforts, the data collection could be halted.
The movement from step 2 to step 3 requires advancing the editing and imputation step in all modes as much as possible. Two monitoring tools would be used during data collection to help make tradeoff decisions about when to terminate efforts on a case for a given mode: a) active tracking of the key statistics based on the fully imputed/adjusted estimates, b) measures of imputation variance and sampling variance of estimates. With data on the costs of moving a case with partial data to another mode and some assessment of bias and variance impacts of accepting imputed data, more nearly optimal estimates can be achieved. Step 3 is likely to be taken first for surveys that require more timely estimates.
The use of multiple sources of data takes advantage of the diverse resources describing our sample businesses and households. The use of multiple sources is the device to "fill-in" the missing data. For the self-report part of surveys, real-time assignment of new modes (e.g., internet, phone, mail, face to face) can be enhanced with active statistical analysis of paradata and survey data, in order to optimize the alternative uses of imputation versus original data collection. In this sense, imputation itself can be viewed as an alternative source of data.
The use of multiple modes together with administrative data provides new control over costs of our programs that will well-serve both our clients and ourselves. When active statistical modeling is used during data collection, it offers survey managers the possibility of making some cost-quality tradeoff decisions with greater confidence. For programs desiring to increase the timeliness of their products, the real-time management of multiple modes can offer gains.
This future ties together Census Bureau successes in individual programs. It takes advantage of our assembly and record matching of administrative data; our use of web, CATI, CAPI, and paper questionnaire technologies; our experience with running paper, CATI, CAPI, and web surveys; our development of paradata; our strong field interviewing staff; our building of statistical staff in the regional offices; our access to many data sets unavailable to other data collection organizations.
We will not move through these steps in a year. Getting to Step 3 may take more than five years, I suspect. I am, however, fully convinced that we must move in this direction. I am also convinced that we can succeed and indeed thrive in this new environment because we can gain access to more alternative data sources than most organizations. We, more than most organizations, have fully elaborated systems for alternative modes of data collection. We, more than most organizations, have the broad measurement mandate that provides us with more data resources within our security firewalls. Finally, we have the talent to get from "here" to "there." Getting "there" will assure our place in the future.


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What is Ag (Age Grading)?
Age-Grading is a way to measure your running performance taking into account your age and sex. It enables you to produce a percentage score for each run based on how old you were when you did the run. It also takes into account your sex so you can use the percentage score to compare your performance with other runners, regardless of both age and sex.
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The calculation uses data collated by the World Association of Veteran Athletics, to adjust your performance for age and sex. It takes World Record performances for each age and distance, for men and women, and uses these as benchmarks.
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Young adult outreach "is the critical problem in the Catholic Church today," according to Father John Cusick, Director of the Archdiocese of Chicago's Office of Young Adult Ministry. Father Cusick spoke throughout the Archdiocese of Boston during the week of April 20, at a series of workshops entitled "Preparing a Place: Becoming a Young Adult Responsive Parish."
These workshops were offered to all parishes of the archdiocese in response to a survey taken at the onset of the ARISE Together in Christ process of spiritual renewal. In that survey, almost 40 percent of parish respondents felt that it was important to, "engage young adults in our parish faith community and address the needs of young families," ranking it in the top three out of 10 stated parish needs.
Priests and leaders from more than 100 parishes came to hear practical strategies for inviting young adults back into the life of the parish. Father Cusick was the keynote speaker in a line-up that included Kathy Motyka and Sr. Honora Nolty, OP, representing RENEW International, and Father Matt Williams, Director of the Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults in the archdiocese.
Father Cusick is considered one of the preeminent experts on young adult ministry in the United States. He is best known for his role in the founding and expansion of Theology on Tap, a popular young adult ministry that has spread across the United States and beyond. He has written books and consulted to the United States Catholic bishops on the topic of evangelization of young adults. Father Cusick also serves as a consulting presenter for RENEW International, the Catholic organization that developed ARISE Together in Christ.
Father Cusick shared his insights into the religious attitudes and behaviors of young adults gained through his many years as a parish pastor and as a minister to young adult Catholics. Acknowledging that young adult Catholics have become less affiliated with organized religion, with many young people considering themselves, "spiritual but not religious," Father Cusick offered attendees a message of hope that this group, while sometimes hidden, is definitely reachable.
Topping the list as the most important dimension for young Catholics coming to Sunday Mass is their desire for hospitality. While "singable" music and a good homily are also important to this age group, they are especially drawn by the sense of being welcomed and valued. In his own parish in Chicago, Father Cusick promotes communion among the people by encouraging parishioners to reach out to those they do not know. He also invites members of his parish staff to welcome people after Mass once a month and take referrals on areas in which people need assistance.
For many young people, their opportunity to re-encounter the parish occurs in the sacraments of matrimony and baptism. Father Cusick describes the three "moments" that sacraments provide which can draw young adults into greater involvement in their Catholic faith. The first moment is preparation; the second is the actual celebration; the third is follow-up. Father Cusick promotes this so-called "3rd Moment of a Sacrament" by actively building relationships with young adults in the years following the sacrament, to send the message, "you matter and I care."
Inviting young adult Catholics in their 20s and 30s into the life of the parish has never been more important than today. This group's talents and energies are needed for our Church's present and future.
"We must find our replacements and mentor them." Having a "preferential option for young people" means that when the next spot opens up for a lector or eucharistic minister, the pastor can tap into a young person to fill that spot, Father Cusick said.
The "Jesus method" of organizing works best: direct personal invitation. Jesus began his public ministry by preaching, but, "He did not invite people to put their names on a sign-up sheet for a meeting Tuesday night in the basement of the synagogue," joked Father Cusick.
Finally, Father Cusick spoke about the ongoing opportunity for religious education using the phrase, "Presume little; explain lots."
For example, he said, each parish could prepare a brochure explaining every symbol, statue, and window in the church so when the child asks the parent, "what's that mean?" the parent has a ready answer.
Likewise, when the young person asks, "Why should I go to church on Sunday?" Father Cusick's short answer is, "We go to church so we will remember who we are. We are people of God." Father Cusick addressed this important question with a gathering of young adults at a Theology on Tap event at Hennesy's, the popular Boston watering hole, on April 22.
Commenting on her experience, Pat Kennedy, who attended the training session on behalf of Our Lady Help of Christians Parish in Newton, said, "I am so thankful for this dynamic workshop. It covered truths we have known, but presented them in a wonderful way. I am now excited and hopeful about reaching young adults."
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Talk about a zinger.
Chris Rock zapped David Blaine with more than jokes during the daredevil's latest stunt — using a computer hookup to shoot him with volts of electricity.
The comic was among dozens of passers-by Friday night who pressed a button controlling the timing and intensity of power surges from one of seven Tesla coils connected to Blaine's chain-mail body suit.
Actors Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone also stopped by Pier 54 in Chelsea but declined to charge him, said Blaine's publicist.
Luke Alexander, 8, of Harlem, zapped Blaine yesterday, then said, "Awesome! He knows magic really well, so I wasn't worried. I wouldn't do this, though — it seems really dangerous!"
Blaine, who has passed ongoing mental and physical exams so far, intends to stay awake 72 hours, or until the stunt ends tomorrow night.
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Federal Regulatory Activities
The U.S. Congress creates laws and delegates authority for implementation of the laws to federal regulatory agencies. The agencies then draft regulations for implementing the laws, and this process involves a public comment period. On behalf of its members, the AVMA monitors, reviews, and responds to proposals made by federal regulatory agencies that impact the profession and the practice of veterinary medicine.
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In the middle of the Korean capital, a new attraction has been laid out – a newly renovated town hall square with a 12,000 square metre lawn.
The grass-grown square provides the setting for cultural arrangements and invites visitors and the 10 million city-dwellers to relax. And a refreshing fountain with Grundfos pumps accentuates the good atmosphere.
The heart of the fountain consists of 21 submersible pumps, which send 120 cubic metres of water though 121 nozzles every hour, 24 hours a day. The choice of pumps has won recognition, because the installation only requires little space and because the noise from the pumps is minimal.


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Places are not always about what's there, but what's not there — what used to be but is no more.
A good example of this would be the ruins of Sutro Baths, next to the Cliff House and down the steep hillside off Point Lobos Avenue on the edge of San Francisco and the rest of the world.
What's there now isn't super-attractive stuff. We're not talking the ruins of the Parthenon by any means. In fact, against the glorious backdrop of crashing waves and a denim-blue sea, there are haunting remnants of crumbling cinder-block walls, some with the requisite graffiti (really, people, does everything have to be tagged?). Seawater collects and stagnates in the footprints of the old foundation, now hosting algae and ducks. Rusty pipes jut out from rocky slopes. And there's a tunnel that goes nowhere and often serves as a receptacle for stray plastic water bottles.
Indeed, the "what's not there" is more intriguing. If you look hard enough, you can mentally reconstruct the great public natatorium that opened in 1896 — a massive structure of glass, iron and wood built by mining tycoon and former San Francisco mayor Adolph Sutro. At the time, it was the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. A classic Greek portal opened onto a huge glass enclosure with seven pools — one freshwater and six saltwater baths ranging in temperature.
Much frolicking was done by thousands of visitors, thanks to water slides, trapezes, springboards and a high dive. During high tide, the sea would rush in and fill the pools with 1.7 million gallons of water in just one hour. And at low tide, a powerful turbine inside a sea-level cave pumped water in.
But it wasn't just the pools. There was a great hall that held an audience of nearly 8,000 for band concerts and talent shows. There were three restaurants and an extensive museum with sculptures, paintings and artifacts — even Egyptian mummies — from Sutro's world travels. All this for a 10-cent adult admission, according to a 1906 program, meeting Sutro's wish to provide a wholesome, recreational facility that was inexpensive enough for all to enjoy — not just for the well-heeled of the day.
Sutro died two years after the opening, and while the baths were popular for many years, interest declined during the Depression. It was all converted into an ice rink for a while, then eventually sold to developers who started to demolish it, but a fire in 1966 took care of that for them.
As a Bay Area native, I've been to the Cliff House and Ocean Beach dozens of times, but I'm ashamed to say I'd never ventured down to the Sutro ruins or bothered to learn the history. And even when my husband and I finally made it there a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't on purpose — our original plan was a de Young Museum visit, but we were thwarted by impossible parking, so we kept driving and ended up at the Cliff House to grab a bite. Finding the restaurants mobbed, we went back outside, stood there for a while gazing down at the ruins and watching people use it like a jungle gym. We looked at each other, shrugged and decided to explore.
First, though, we walked up the hill and stopped in the sleek Lands End visitors center that opened in 2012. We studied old photos of the baths, bought to-go turkey sandwiches at the small cafe, then headed down the steep stairway to the ruins. (Warning: It's steeper on the way back up!) It's sandy and mucky down there, so wear good hiking shoes.
Then we sat on a piece of crumbled wall, munched our provisions, watched the breakers and some dumb people trying to rock climb beyond the section that's cordoned off with a no-nonsense sign: "Cliff and surf area, extremely dangerous. People have been swept from the rocks and drowned."
We ventured into the tunnel, once part of the water recycling system. It dead ends about 50 yards in, but a large crack in the rock wall inside provides a fun view of the swirling tide and thundering waves.
Some say the ruins are haunted, but I asked a friend who's a well-known Bay Area parapsychologist, and he's only heard a couple of local psychics say there are "imprints" of past events but all generally positive. Mostly, people just say things like, "Sutro Baths ought to be haunted … just look at them!"
Indeed, if there are ghosts there, they're all splashing and squealing and having a good old spooky time. The living like it there too, taking photos, balancing on what's left of the old foundation. Tracing the edge of what was.
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Sutro Baths, Point Lobos Avenue, San Francisco
Parking: Some metered street parking runs along Point Lobos Avenue, and there are two parking lots up by the Lands End visitors center.
Nearby eats: The cafe in the visitors center has delicious, reasonably priced fare. Right next door is Louis' Restaurant, in business since 1937, with great omelets and sandwiches. And at the Cliff House, there's the Bistro and Sutro's restaurant.
Info: The Sutro Baths ruins are now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 415-561-4700, www.nps.gov/goga.


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eleika wrote:Ditto for Something Positive. Mind you, I got hooked on SP when it did the crossover with Queen of Wands, and my sisters got me hooked on that ...
I, too, read the entire archives in one sitting. And while I fell in love with the comic, it was one comic in particular that elevated the artist to status of godliness for me (as far as webcomic artists go).
I'm a second-generation SF/F reader, and I'm still going through my dad's collection of stuff. I started in on Spider Robinson's Callahan books after his recent appearance at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival (he's a local in these parts). So when Murdock introduces Foster to Txffu, I was like, "I KNOW that name ..." and then came the best line ever: "Just call me 'Finn'."
Out of curiosity, have you ever considered contacting Spider, and showing this to him? I know he'd be absolutely tickled.
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Despite being rooted in centuries-old traditions, the South Korean capital is unabashedly trendy and forward-looking.
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THERE MAY BE NO PLACE IN THE WORLD where the gap between ancient enchantment and modern attractions is more pronounced than in Seoul. Due to a legacy of invasion (by the Japanese, the Mongolians, the Chinese), the city has rebuilt itself numerous times since becoming the capital of the Joseon Dynasty in the 14th century. Its latest incarnation is divided into two zones: the design-forward, tech-savvy and trend-loving southern part of the city—where alleyways crowded with irresistible boutiques intersect wide streets lined with luxury condos and restaurants—and the more crowded area north of the Han River, where narrow streets are home to historical sites, traditional residences and packed outdoor markets. The city remains fiercely proud of its traditions and monuments while wholeheartedly embracing commercial growth. It's a major metropolis with pockets that feel untouched by industrialization. The joy of a visit is in plunging into both sides of Seoul—the old and the new—and imagining where the city will go from here.


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General Relief Program
The General Relief (GR) program is a county-funded general assistance program for indigent county residents, which offers repayable benefits. The GR Program provides necessary assistance to eligible persons who are without resources to meet their minimum basic needs for food, housing, utilities, clothing and medical care. The medical care is provided through the County Medical Services Program (see page 19). GR staff also determines eligibility for cremation services, another County-funded general assistance program for indigent County residents.
GR housing payments are issued directly to the recipient's landlord. Food Vouchers may be issued directly to the recipient, but are only redeemable at participating grocery stores. An allowance for personal needs such as soap, toothpaste and household paper goods is also available to eligible recipients and is issued in conjunction with the Food Voucher.
Unless disabled, GR recipients must participate in the General Relief Work Program and actively search for employment in order to continue to receive benefits. GR staff assigns each able-bodied recipient to a specific unpaid work assignment. Work hours are determined based on the amount of assistance received. Vouchers for food and personal needs are not issued until the completion of the work assignment.
If the GR recipient is disabled, they must apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, State Disability Insurance (SDI) or any other potentially available income. If a GR recipient is approved for SSI benefits, the County receives a payment to repay the benefits received. GR recipients may also be eligible to receive assistance under the Food Stamp Program.


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Like the free Xbox 360 deal Microsoft is running, Sony will give students who buy a Vaio laptop a free PS3 or PS Vita (or $200 off Playstation gear). The deal works with any S, T, Z and L-series Sony PCs.
It's a great back to school offer that's offered for college students and faculty members and though some might not exactly see a free PS3 or PS Vita as an incentive to buy a laptop, it's certainly a better deal than what Apple is offering. Looks like the cheapest laptop starts at around $750. [Sony via The Verge]


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How will marmots fare as climate change reshapes the French Alps? And what can they tell us about how humans will fare?
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In the French Alps, marmots are known for the whistles they use to warn of danger. They may also be sounding an alarm that we humans need to hear.
Join researchers in the breathtaking La Grande Sassière Nature Reserve as they monitor the marmot population they've been working with for over 20 years. You'll help track the size and makeup of marmot families and watch as they play, groom, snuggle for warmth, mark their territories, and fight—in short, as they live out their daily lives. You'll also get to know individual marmots by setting and checking traps baited with dandelions and recording data on any critters you catch.
You won't spend all your time with marmots on this expedition; you'll also become immersed in the rest of the Alpine world as you monitor plant life and weather. By combining this environmental information with the trove of data you will have helped collect on the marmots, researchers can make valuable connections between climate and how the marmot population is faring and changing.
Alpine areas are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Resident species are highly specialized, and can't just relocate if their habitats change to the point where they are unable to survive. By examining the Alpine marmot, you can help uncover the characteristics that influence whether a species can cope—or not—with climate change, and determine how they evolve as a result of the global phenomenon.
10,000 years ago, marmots died out in another Alpine environment—the Pyrenees—due to rising temperatures (they have since been reintroduced). Help protect this population from meeting the same fate.
The Alpine marmot isn't just charming to watch. It's also a keystone species—one that plays a critical role in maintaining ecosystem balance.
Marmots matter. They foster plant diversity and are a main food for predators in their environment. Researchers know that climate has a huge impact on the breeding and survival rates of wild animals: it can mean the difference between a species thriving or going extinct. It's critical to understand how these marmots will respond to climate change, not just because they are so important to the natural world of the French Alps, but also because Alpine regions feel the effects of climate change before many other environments. By investigating this key species, we hope to learn more about how all living species may respond to this major global shift.
Investigate how marmots are faring in the face of climate change.
Researchers on this project focus on the demography of Alpine marmots: in other words, they are learning how behavior, survival, breeding success, and population growth are affected by external factors, such as characteristics of the environment a species lives in, and internal factors, such as the sex and age of individuals. They also look at how marmots behave as their climate changes. By understanding these creatures, we may find ways to protect their population, and maybe even our own.
You'll spend most of your time in La Grande Sassière Nature Reserve, which is home to an incredible variety of plants and animals. You're likely to see ibex, chamois, foxes, and maybe even an elusive roe deer. Birdwatchers will enjoy the opportunity to spot bearded vultures, golden eagles, rufous-tailed rock thrushes, black grouse, and wallcreepers. You'll encounter beautiful scenery every day as you work in a gently sloping meadow along a small river, surrounded by stunning mountains dotted with glaciers, lakes, and pastures.
In the valleys are small villages that depend mainly on tourism for income. Within a 30-minute drive of the accommodations, you can visit Val D'Isère, another famed ski resort. You can also hike in the mountains, join guided nature walks with national park rangers, and visit the farm of l'Adroit to learn how French cheese is made.
This is a summary:
Join this expedition for either one or two weeks:
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You'll rise bright and early to head into the field, where you'll be guided by staff at every step on the Alpine as you work:
• Baiting traps: Hike to find spots to set-up and check marmot traps, helping record biometric measurements of marmots, while collecting and and labeling biological samples.
• Observing marmots: Record the number, age, and sex of marmots. You'll search for marmot pups and record their emergence date and litter size; and you'll film their behavior.
• Monitoring vegetation: Record the abundance and distribution of native plant species, examining leaf emergence, and whether plants are flowering or fruiting in relation to climatic conditions.
• Lab work & data entry: Process, organize, store, and index biological samples and enter data into the database back at the Chalet.
• Community outreach: Communicate research activities to tourists, and support the project's partnerships with the schools in the Tarentaise Valley.
Lunch will be at the chalet or in the mountains. In the evenings, you'll have time to relax, and even help prepare dinner. The team leader will brief on the next day's objectives and assign tasks. Throughout the expedition, you'll hear informal lectures on the impact of climate change on wildlife.
Note: Field conditions and research needs can lead to changes in the itinerary and activities. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.
Observe marmot behavior in the French Alps.
Collecting biological samples.
Dr. Aurélie Cohas has always appreciated marmots. Now she's an expert on how they live with each other and their Alpine environment.
You'll stay in a beautiful Alpine chalet overlooking Tignes-Le-Lac, one of the most famous and picturesque ski resorts in the Alps. The chalet offers free wireless Internet service, as well as a sun deck, an open living area with a fireplace, and a dining area. Hiking trails that wind through the Alps begin just beyond the chalet door.
Cooking is an important and convivial part of French culture, so you'll take turns preparing typical French meals with the help of a field assistant. You'll enjoy a range of delicious, locally sourced and organic foods, including cheese, polenta, and raclette (a regional dish of melted cheese over bread or potatoes). During the research day, the team will either have lunch back at the chalet or take a picnic lunch out into the Alps.
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SAN DIEGO -- Drug smugglers from Mexico have been creeping farther north along the California coast in an attempt to evade authorities, and it appears the cat-and-mouse game was behind the death of a U.S. Coast Guardsman.
Two Mexican nationals -- Jose Meija Leyva and Manuel Beltran Higuera -- were charged Monday in Los Angeles with killing a federal officer while the officer was on duty.
Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne, 34, died Sunday after he was struck in the head by the suspects' vessel, believed to be laden with drugs, near the Channel Islands, west of Los Angeles and about 180 miles northwest of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Horne is the first law enforcement official to die off California since a spike in illegal activity began several years ago, said Ralph DeSio, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman.
At least six people aboard suspected smuggling vessels have been killed since the 2010 fiscal year.
The Halibut, an 87-foot patrol cutter based in Marina del Rey, was dispatched after a Coast Guard C-130 plane spotted the 30-foot "panga" vessel was spotted without lights near Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the eight Channel Islands, according to a criminal complaint.
The cutter contains a 21-foot-long rigid-hull inflatable boat that the Coast Guard routinely uses on missions that require more speed and agility than the cutter can deliver.
As Horne and his team came within about 20 yards of the suspect vessel in their inflatable boat, the suspects' vessel gunned its engine, knocking Horne and Brandon Langdon into the water, according to the complaint. Langdon was treated for a knee injury and two other crew members aboard the inflatable boat were unharmed in the collision at 1:20 a.m.
Coast Guard spokesman Adam Eggers said waiting for the vessel to make landfall would have introduced other risks and logistical challenges. The Coast Guard's mandate, he said, is to interdict at sea.
"As of right now, there are absolutely zero questions about whether they followed proper protocol," Eggers said.
Coast Guard crews followed the suspects by air and sea for nearly four hours until the vessel's engine died 20 miles north of the Mexican border, according to the complaint. An officer used pepper spray on both suspects.
Meija Leyva identified himself as the captain and told authorities he was taking gasoline to lost friends, according to the complaint. Beltran Higuera told authorities he was offered $3,000 to deliver gasoline to another boat that was waiting for them, but they never found it.
The complaint makes no mention of drugs being found on the boat.
Attorneys for both men did not immediately respond to phone messages seeking comment. A judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for Dec. 17.
In growing numbers, smugglers are turning to the California coast to bring people and drugs to the United States from Mexico. The number of Border Patrol agents on land has doubled in the past eight years and hundreds of miles of fences and other barriers have been erected, driving smugglers to the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. authorities spotted 210 suspected smuggling vessels on California shores during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 15 percent from 183 incidents the previous year and more than quadruple the 45 incidents in 2008.
More than half the sightings are in San Diego County, which borders Mexico, but boats are turning up as far north as San Luis Obispo County on California's central coast. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 14 incidents were in Los Angeles County last year, seven in Ventura County and 11 in Santa Barbara County.
Migrants pay thousands of dollars to launch from beaches and small fishing villages south of Tijuana, Mexico. They typically use old, single-engine wooden fishing skiffs known as "pangas."
In one typical case in October, a Mexican woman told authorities she agreed to pay $12,000. A criminal complaint says she was among 16 people -- all but one a suspected illegal immigrant from Mexico -- found in a 31-foot vessel that appeared to be taking water in the Newport Beach harbor.
In September, authorities seized 3,475 pounds of marijuana from a boat that landed near Hearst Castle on the central coast.
The Halibut's commanding officer, Lt. Stewart Sibert, choked back tears at a news conference Monday, saying he and his crew were devastated by the loss of Horne and that the Redondo Beach man the best shipmate he ever knew.
"He was my friend, he was my confidante," Sibert said. "He was the glue that held my crew together."
-- Associated Press writer Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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So the first thing that jumps out at you, if you've been following the other guest week comics, is that Randall did not re-draw the traditional Dinosaur Comics panels in his own webcomic's style, as the other four did. I was actually really looking forward to this, but apparently he was perfectly happy to just type some words into the ordinary template and hit copy and paste and resize and bunch of times.
This is a tiny point that probably only bothers me, but - it really irritates me that T-Rex refers to telling a "dinosaur comics story." None of the characters ever refer to they are in a comic so it doesn't sound like "T-Rex" as much as "Some dude impersonating T-Rex" but since no one else probably noticed this I'll move on.
Let's see - we have the traditional "my concept of 'the sexy' is filled with sadness" that we've come to know and love so much, so that's reassuring. We have the odd notion that T-Rex "got closer and closer to" telling his story when he did no such thing (I mean you never get closer than 'It starts like this' which you just get to read over and over again) and just in case you missed it you are reminded that Randall has channeled Zeno's Paradox which is a mathematical concept that Randall knows about, you see. Even if this comic only relates to the paradox in terms of the rectangles getting smaller and smaller each time; the story does not, I think, get closer and closer to anything. Or lose a race to a turtle.
on a totally unrelated note, I love the current chainsawsuit comic.
Update: Reader Ariel points out that this comics recursiveness is rather reminiscent of the very first Abstruse Goose. Not saying Randall copied it, just something to remember when all the Munroe Fanboys are all like "ooooh that's so creative no one has EVER thought of that it has like literally infinity jokes omg omg omg" and then also I would add that this comic does, actually, approach an ending in a Zeno-like fashion, unlike the xkqwantzcd comic.


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Canada's real estate bonanza of the past decade has come to end and the long-term trend as one of the most profitable places to invest is also not encouraging, a new research paper from the TD Bank argues.
The "special report" from one of Canada's largest banks makes the case that gains in housing prices have been exceptionally strong over the last 10 years, even when accounting for a sharp drop during the 2008-09 recession. But now is the time for a bit of a payback.
The report does not predict a collapse in house prices as some analysts have suggested. In fact, it sees prices rebounding after a few years of a correction to as high as eight per cent.
However, the longer term trend is for home price gains to average about two per cent over the next 10 years — flat once inflation is taken into account, says TD chief economist Craig Alexander.
"I do not think we have a housing bubble in Canada," said Alexander. "We have had abnormal strength in the market during a period of low interest rates and when rates go up over the next three years, you will get a cooling and weaker prices, but not a permanent shock and not a sharp correction."
The bank says tighter rules for borrowers and lenders are only part of the reason to expect prices to moderate. Other contributing factors include the aging population, modest growth in both the population and the economy and, eventually, higher interest rates.
The bank thinks the market could correct by as much as eight per cent over the next three years, but Alexander said it is possible that prices won't fall as much as that.
Some forecasters, including Capital Economists, have predicted a bigger correction is in the offing, arguing that houses in Canada may be overpriced by as much as 25 per cent.
But Alexander says that exaggerates the problem, believing the overvaluation is closer to 10 per cent.
The problem with the housing collapse scenario, says Alexander, is that typically a sharp correction needs a trigger in terms of a steep increase in interest rates or unemployment, both of which appear unlikely at this point.
Still, the report makes clear that the next decade for housing will be significantly weaker than the previous three.
Since 1980, home prices have climbed on average by 5.4 per cent annually, including a spike of seven per cent a year in the last 10 years. By contrast, TD expects prices to fall in the next two or three years, rising to average annual increases of 3.5 per cent after 2015 for an average annual gain of two per cent overall in the upcoming decade.
In terms of return on investment, real estate will not reap the bonanza of the past decade, but remains relatively attractive because profits on a primary residence are tax free, the report points out. It estimates the annual pre-tax return to be about 4.4 per cent over the next 20 years, which is higher than expected yields on bonds but not equities.
Somewhat surprisingly, the report predicts Vancouver and Toronto, along with Victoria, Edmonton and Calgary will continue to outpace the national average in terms of home prices over the next 10 years.
Vancouver and Toronto are regarded as cities with the most inflated prices — despite recent corrections — but TD argues that the two cities will realize the biggest influx of immigrants, so demand will remain higher. The Alberta cities will do well because of both population growth and higher than average income growth.
Alexander says the two biggest factors in trend home prices are population growth and housing formation, which both favour Toronto and Vancouver.


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