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San Francisco – Only a week after an election signaling a rollback in public-employee retirement benefits, new Federal Reserve data show a sharp decline in family wealth. The effect is especially acute for non-whites and Hispanic households.
The compounding factors of deep losses in U.S. family wealth, sharp declines in pensions and calls in Washington to reduce Social Security could tarnish Americans' golden years for generations to come, particularly for economically vulnerable groups of older women and ethnic elders.
Recession Cuts Retirement Savings
The Fed's new Survey of Consumer Finances for 2010 reveals that while white non-Hispanic families saw a 10 percent decline in their wealth since 2007, nonwhite or Hispanic families saw their mean assets plunge by 26.8 percent.
Overall, only one in seven Americans are confident "in their ability to retire comfortably," according to a survey published in March by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The findings, says the report, are at "historically low levels."
The Fed's latest figures add to the troubling picture of future retirement for today's workers. Last week's victory of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his policy terminating collective-bargaining rights by state workers, and the California votes in San Jose and San Diego negating existing pension agreements, were only the latest development in the great retirement squeeze.
Since the recession began in 2008, according to U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO), 35 states have cut pensions for many of the country's 27 million teachers, police and other public employees.
Furthermore, GAO's March 2012 report says that nationwide, one in four state and local government employees cannot fall back on Social Security, because many states opted to stay out of the national retirement program.
Unintended Consequences
The crunch on public pensions follows years of declining private-sector retirement plans, including the shift to smaller 401(k)s that swing their value with the stock market. Although eight in 10 public employees in the U.S. have traditional pensions, with their guaranteed retirement benefits and annual cost-of-living increases, government budgeteers nationwide were eyeing the San Diego vote on June 7, which authorized the city to shift new workers into 401(k)-style plans.
Many pension experts, though, say that the cuts-only approach to the nation's old age security is likely to result in long-term instability for individuals, families—and government budgets, too.
"Transforming [public-employee pension benefits] to 401(k) type plans in order to reduce benefits will produce a number of negative unintended consequences that taxpayers might have rejected had they been considered or known," said Teresa Ghilarducci, author of When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them (Princeton University Press, 2008).
"Sadly," said Ghilarducci, a behavioral economist at the New School in New York City, "the citizens of San Diego have built in destabilizing elements in their regional economies."
Ghilarducci's research has shown that while older-style pensions keep household incomes steady, 401(k)s actually "magnify the effects of a recession."
6.3 Million Californians Lack Employer Pensions
"The election results are certainly troubling," said Nari Rhee, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education.
Cuts in both public and private pensions will lead to "even higher poverty and near-poverty rates for younger workers when they reach retirement age," Rhee explained in an e-mail interview.
Rhee is the author of a study the center released June 9 showing that 6.3 million Californians—two-thirds of them non-white—lack access to pensions from private employers. Almost half of the total (46 percent) are Latino workers stuck in such low-wage jobs as hotel accommodations, food services, residential construction and long-term care.
Prior to the election, Rhee and her colleagues calculated that more than half of younger California workers ages 25 to 44 "are going to retire without enough income to meet basic expenses."
"It's a social disaster waiting to happen," she said, "and it's getting lost in the war against public pensions."
The long-range results of such policies, Rhee noted, will "increase the need for subsidies and publicly-funded services, exerting strain on the state budget."
That includes an accelerating number of people, many middle-class professionals among them, who will find themselves having to take Social Security's early-retirement benefits starting at age 62. Doing so reduces one's benefits by about 25 percent.
Forced to Take Early Retirement
The financial stress on tomorrow's seniors and their families will be particularly sharp in ethnic communities, especially if union protections continue their steep decline. In 2011, says the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 15 percent of black workers were represented by either public and private unions, compared to 12.8 percent of white, 11.2 percent of Asians and 10.8 percent of Latinos.
Union members or not, as ethnic workers reach their middle or later years, their often lower-end jobs don't get easier. A 2010 study by Hye Jin Rho at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, "Hard Work in the Public Sector," revealed that among state and local public employees approaching retirement, about two in five (1.4 million in 2009) worked in physically grinding positions, such as law enforcement, janitorial jobs or bus driving.
Social Security and Obama's "Grand Bargain"
Currently, too, politicians of both parties are nodding at proposals to reduce benefits in Social Security by raising retirement ages, all in the cause of—as the bipartisan chairmen of President Obama's 2010 Fiscal Responsibility Commission put it in their proposal—keeping "the promise of America to give our children and grandchildren a better life."
The aim is to strike a political "Grand Bargain," the well-known term President Obama has used for the deal. It would trade off partisan bargaining chips like modest tax increases and military spending aimed at pleasing liberals, against cuts in social entitlement programs, a goal of conservatives—before, proponents on both sides hope, the November election.
Some political observers say it's all partisan showmanship that will never yield a compromise. But there's a lot of power behind the idea.
As recently as March 15, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, whose billionaire founder is a long-time critic of Social Security and other entitlements held a Fiscal Summit.
Not just any conference, this one has a speaker's list including former President Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. They heard Peterson, their grandfatherly host, declare, "Entitlement reform, therefore, must be part of any serious effort to reduce our long term debt."
Also on hand was former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Utah, co-author of the budget-slashing "Simpson-Bowles plan," grandly titled "Moment of Truth." It is widely regarded in Washington as the centerpiece of efforts to reduce future government spending—even though Social Security is a self-funded program through payroll taxes that adds nothing to the national debt.
There are other kinds of solutions to the country's long-term stability, however, that don't find their way into the debate over budgets.
For example, the 2011 report, Plan for a New Future: The Impact of Social Security Reform on People of Color and the more recent study, Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling: A Proposal to Modernize Women's Benefits, provide background and recommendations for updating the program to be fairer to two of the fastest growing but least advantaged groups of seniors.
According to the latter report, Social Security provides 90 percent of the income for more than half of older unmarried women of color and of Latinos and African-American seniors.
As worrisome as the racial and gender undercurrents of these trends are, most troubling is the relentless obsession of policymakers, pundits and mainstream media with a budget-only approach to what is essentially a human dilemma, one with serious consequences for domestic national security.
Cutting Seniors' Homelessness and Hunger
The New School's Teresa Ghilarducci is among numerous economists over the years to design proposals for government-managed individual retirement accounts to supplement Social Security.
The California legislature has shown interest in Ghilarducci's plan, and in March the New York City Comptroller John C. Liu announced that his office is considering Ghilarducci's plan for New York City Personal Retirement Accounts in which the city would collect and pool employee and employer contributions—with no public dollars—into retirement funds the city would protect and oversee.
Noting that New York's homeless shelters have seen about a 25 percent increase in the last two years, Comptroller Liu stated in a media release, "If we don't help people save for retirement during their working years, the later strain on the city's social services will be overwhelming.
"We are not, nor do we want to be, a city that lets our retirees go hungry and homeless," Liu added.
This and other plans need to go through prudent discussion, debate and testing, of course. But so should the one-sided notion that budget slashing alone has intrinsic value. As Americans look at their teetering retirement future, they might ask their political and media leaders, "What'll these budget cuts do my children and grandchildren when they retire—and our community?"
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ClipFlair Forums. Create discussion topics and get answers
You can upload links or (attach to replies) text files licensed for educational or free use. Please mention the license under which the material is available and the needed attribution.
George Orwell's works: http://georgeorwellnovels.com/
Hi George,
I'm modifying some activites and would llike to make a link to provide the answers to the exercices. My question is:
where can I put/save the file with the key to the exercices to link it in the instructions? Would it be possible to have a folder with the keys to the exercicies in the social within a group? If so, how can I do that?
Yes, you can upload the files on the wall of a group (attach them to a post) or at that group's forum and then right click the attached file (say SomeActivity_answers.clipflair) and select to "Copy shortcut" (or called Copy target URL etc. in some browsers). Then can use that shortcut to point to the answers, or go to http://tinyurl.com and make the long URL shorter and then use the short one (tinyurl even allows you to give a unique short name for the url instead of getting an autogenerated short name/number for it)
I'd avoid the work "key" and use "answers" - not all people (e.g. Greeks) may understand that key means answers (or could use "solution" or "replies" or something). Maybe we should arrange with Stavroula some more standardization on this aspect of the naming
Thank you George,
I've just tried it here: http://social.clipflair.net/MonoX/Pages/SocialNetworking/Groups/GroupView/TZRyluiBWEaRfqEEAMKMmA/Learning-Chinese/ and I cannot see the file anywhere.
I tell you what I did:
1. browse for the document (I attached a pdf)
2. wrote: Here's the answer to the exercise: zh_2_resultatius
3. post it
I cannot see the file anywhere. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Sorry to be so stupid with this little detail.
see comments I added there, you have to add some text to the message to post it and also have to wait for the upload to finish first, else the text will be uploaded without attachment(s)
it's me again. I can attach pdf and make links in the activities that seem to work.
Now I'd like to do the same but with a html file (this is the file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2875809/questions.htm )
I cannot upload it here so that I can link it in the activity, any suggestions as to how I can do that?
Thank you very much!
If I add a link in the ClipFlair Studio Text component with the URL above, it works fine (either with https:// [secure HTTP] or http:// protocol prefix). If you mean how you can host the .htm file here (since it's a self-contained file with no external image etc. assets), I could allow uploading .htm and .html files as attachments to the forum.
So you can use Dropbox for now till somebody (maybe Thanassis PhD student?) implements some components for ClipFlair to load HotPotatoes content (get a URL of a HotPotatoes-generated page, say of a multiple choice activity or of a crossword, parse the HTML and show it with Silverlight-based User Interface). I'm interested myself to make a Crossword app to sell in the Windows Phone marketplace with HotPotatoes-import functionality, so I might implement the crossword one myself to use in Studio.
However I guess you're interested about the multiple choice activity-type, so you could ask Thanassis it his student is indeed interested (it's easier to implement I think). If he is I can provide guidance (there are also other types of HotPotatoes activities [like matching via drag-dro activity] for which separate components could be implemented for Studio with import HotPotatoes data from page URL or local file capability). Also the Java code of HotPotatoes is now opensource I think (it's authoring UI is running in Java, but it produces plain HTML+Javascript, the output doesn't need Java). What I'm suggesting is to have components that can import HotPotatoes HTML output and parse it to get the data from there (have seen their HTML output and it's not very hard)

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§11-3-9. Property exempt from taxation.
(a) All property, real and personal, described in this subsection, and to the extent limited by this section, is exempt from taxation:
(1) Property belonging to the United States, other than property permitted by the United States to be taxed under state law;
(2) Property belonging exclusively to the state;
(3) Property belonging exclusively to any county, district, city, village, or town in this state and used for public purposes;
(4) Property located in this state belonging to any city, town, village, county, or any other political subdivision of another state and used for public purposes;
(5) Property used exclusively for divine worship, or used exclusively for divine worship and the operation of a pre-K school, primary school, middle school, secondary school, daycare center, or church camp for children, which school, daycare center, or church camp is operated by the church which owns the property or is operated by another not-for-profit organization or entity;
(6) Parsonages and the household goods and furniture pertaining thereto;
(7) Mortgages, bonds, and other evidence of indebtedness in the hands of bona fide owners and holders hereafter issued and sold by churches and religious societies for the purposes of securing money to be used in the erection of church buildings used exclusively for divine worship or for the purpose of paying indebtedness thereon;
(8) Cemeteries;
(9) Property belonging to, or held in trust for, colleges, seminaries, academies, and free schools, if used for educational, literary, or scientific purposes, including books, apparatus, annuities, and furniture;
(10) Property belonging to, or held in trust for, colleges or universities located in West Virginia, or any public or private nonprofit foundation or corporation which receives contributions exclusively for such college or university, if the property or dividends, interest, rents, or royalties derived therefrom are used or devoted to educational purposes of such college or university;
(11) Public and family libraries;
(12) Property used for charitable purposes and not held or leased out for profit;
(13) Property used for the public purposes of distributing electricity, water or natural gas or providing sewer service by a duly chartered nonprofit corporation when such property is not held, leased out, or used for profit;
(14) Property used for area economic development purposes by nonprofit corporations when the property is not leased out for profit;
(15) All real estate not exceeding one acre in extent, and the buildings on the real estate, used exclusively by any college or university society as a literary hall, or as a dormitory or clubroom, if not used with a view to profit, including, but not limited to, property owned by a fraternity or sorority organization affiliated with a university or college or property owned by a nonprofit housing corporation or similar entity on behalf of a fraternity or sorority organization affiliated with a university or college, when the property is used as residential accommodations or as a dormitory for members of the organization;
(16) All property belonging to benevolent associations not conducted for private profit;
(17) Property belonging to any public institution for the education of the deaf, intellectually disabled, or blind or any hospital not held or leased out for profit;
(18) Houses of refuge and mental health facility or orphanage;
(19) Homes for children or for the aged, friendless, or infirm not conducted for private profit;
(20) Fire engines and implements for extinguishing fires, and property used exclusively for the safekeeping thereof, and for the meeting of fire companies;
(21) All property on hand to be used in the subsistence of livestock on hand at the commencement of the assessment year;
(22) Household goods to the value of $200, whether or not held or used for profit;
(23) Bank deposits and money;
(24) Household goods, which for purposes of this section means only personal property and household goods commonly found within the house and items used to care for the house and its surrounding property, when not held or used for profit;
(25) Personal effects, which for purposes of this section means only articles and items of personal property commonly worn on or about the human body or carried by a person and normally thought to be associated with the person when not held or used for profit;
(26) Dead victuals laid away for family use;
(27) All property belonging to the state, any county, district, city, village, town, or other political subdivision or any state college or university which is subject to a lease purchase agreement, and which provides that, during the term of the lease purchase agreement, title to the leased property rests in the lessee so long as lessee is not in default or shall not have terminated the lease as to the property;
(28) Personal property, including vehicles that qualify for a farm use exemption certificate pursuant to §17A-3-2 of this code and livestock, employed exclusively in agriculture, as defined in article X, section one of the West Virginia Constitution: Provided, That this exemption only applies in the case of such personal property used on a farm or farming operation that annually produces for sale agricultural products, as defined in rules of the Tax Commissioner;
(29) Real property owned by a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is youth development by means of adventure, educational, or recreational activities for young people, which real property contains a facility built with the expenditure of not less than $100 million that is capable of supporting additional activities within the region or the state and which is leased or used to generate revenue for the nonprofit organization whether or not the property is used by the nonprofit organization for its nonprofit purpose, subject to the requirements, limitations, and conditions set forth in §11-3-9(h) of this code; and
(30) Any other property or security exempted by any other provision of law.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of §11-3-9(a) of this code, no property is exempt from taxation which has been purchased or procured for the purpose of evading taxation whether temporarily holding the same over the first day of the assessment year or otherwise.
(c) Real property which is exempt from taxation by §11-3-9(a) of this code shall be entered upon the assessor's books, together with the true and actual value thereof, but no taxes may be levied upon the property or extended upon the assessor's books.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, this section does not exempt from taxation any property owned by, or held in trust for, educational, literary, scientific, religious, or other charitable corporations or organizations, including any public or private nonprofit foundation or corporation existing for the support of any college or university located in West Virginia, unless such property, or the dividends, interest, rents, or royalties derived therefrom, is used primarily and immediately for the purposes of the corporations or organizations.
(e) The Tax Commissioner shall, by issuance of rules, provide each assessor with guidelines to ensure uniform assessment practices statewide to affect the intent of this section.
(f) Inasmuch as there is litigation pending regarding application of this section to property held by fraternities and sororities, amendments to this section enacted in the year 1998 shall apply to all cases and controversies pending on the date of such enactment.
(g) The amendment to §11-3-9(a)(27) of this code, passed during the 2005 regular session of the Legislature, shall apply to all applicable lease purchase agreements in existence upon the effective date of the amendment.
(h) Nonprofit youth organization exemption. — Limitations, conditions, collection, and administration of one and one quarter percent fee, limitations, and distribution of moneys.
(1) The exemption from ad valorem taxation provided pursuant to the provisions of §11-3-9(a)(29) of this code does not apply to a property owned by a nonprofit organization otherwise qualifying for the exemption but which property or facilities are used for profit or outside the primary purpose of the owner which result in unrelated business taxable income as defined by Section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, unless the income is generated by an activity upon which the one and one quarter percent fee authorized by §11-3-9(h)(2) of this code is applied as provided in §11-3-9(h)(3) of this code.
(2) The owner of real property exempt from ad valorem taxation under §11-3-9(a)(29) of this code shall pay an amount equal to one and one quarter percent of the gross revenues the owner receives in accordance with this subsection. For purposes of this subsection, "gross revenues" means the gross amount received by the owner as payment for use of the property or the facilities thereon.
(3) Gross revenues derived from the following facilities, uses, activities, and operations are subject to a fee of one and one quarter percent of such gross revenues:
(A) Gross revenues derived from the use of lodging and campground facilities by persons participating in meetings and multiday spectator sports or multiday recreational, celebratory, or ceremonial events held onsite where onsite lodging or camping is offered as part of the program. For purposes of this section the term "meeting" means, and is limited to, a gathering, assembly, or conference of two or more persons who have deliberately convened at a single specific location at a single specified time and date for a common specific purpose.
(B) Gross revenues derived from any retail store located at the facility that is open only to those persons who are attending meetings, spectator sports, recreational, celebratory, or ceremonial events held onsite at the facility.
(C) Gross revenues derived from operations of gift shops at a welcome or information center located adjacent to a public highway operated by the nonprofit organization which is open to the general public.
(D) Gross revenues derived from the leasing of zip-lines, canopy tours, wheeled sports, and climbing facilities used by the general public on a for-profit basis: (i) Under a written agreement with a licensed commercial outfitter operating a business utilizing zip-lines, canopy tours, wheeled sports, or climbing areas of a similar nature in the same or an adjacent county where the facilities are located; and (ii) when the property or facilities are used as part of a training or advanced experience offered by the licensed commercial outfitter.
(E) Gross revenues derived from the use or operation of zip-lines, canopy tours, wheeled sports facilities, or activities, climbing facilities or activities and the use or operation of other sporting facilities on the exempt property that are leased on a for-profit basis for spectator events, such as concerts, spectator sporting events, or exhibitions or similar mass gathering events.
(F) Gross revenues derived from leases or agreements for use of the property for meetings and multiday spectator sports or events or multiday recreational, celebratory, or ceremonial events, held onsite.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, programs or activities occurring on the property or its facilities held in conjunction with a government organization or sponsored by other nonprofit organizations serving youth, veterans, military services, public service agencies including, fire, police, emergency, and search and rescue services, government agencies, schools and universities, health care providers, and similar organizations or groups which are designed to provide opportunities for learning or training in the areas of leadership, character education, science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) programs, physical challenges, sustainability, conservation, and outdoor learning shall be considered a charitable or nonprofit use for the purposes of this section and not subject to the one and one quarter percent fee.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, activities open to the public through individual visitor passes allowing tours and access to the property and its facilities for the purpose of viewing or participating in demonstrations, programs, and facilities providing information and experiences consistent with the owner's nonprofit purposes where zip-lines, canopy tours, wheeled sports, or climbing facilities are merely components of the demonstrations, programs, and facilities used shall be considered a charitable or nonprofit use for the purposes of this section and not subject to the one and one quarter percent fee: Provided, That such individual visitor passes may not include the rental or use of onsite overnight lodging or camping facilities.
(6) Administration. —
(A) The sheriff of the county wherein the majority of the acreage of the property is located as specified in the deed to such property, shall collect, on a monthly basis, all moneys derived from the fee of one and one quarter percent of the gross revenues imposed under this subsection.
(B) The sheriff of the county wherein the majority of the acreage of the property is located as specified in the deed to such property, shall prescribe such forms and schedules as may be necessary for the efficient, accurate, and expeditious payment and reporting of the one and one quarter percent fee specified in this subsection on gross revenues.
(C) The sheriff of the county wherein the majority of the acreage of the property is located as specified in the deed to such property, shall administer the fee imposed under this subsection, including refunds and adjustments.
(D) Payment, administration, and compliance of fee payers and administrators shall be subject to audit by the Office of Chief Inspector.
(E) All moneys so collected, net of refunds and adjustments, shall be paid into a special account in the State Treasury, which is hereby created, and the amount thereof shall be distributed and paid annually, by the State Treasurer, on October 1 of each year, into the funds and to the distributees specified in of this code in the amounts specified therein.
(7) Distribution. —
(A) Twenty-five percent of moneys so collected, net of refunds and adjustments, shall be paid annually to the Tourism Promotion Fund established pursuant to §5B-2-12 of this code.
(B) Twenty-five percent of moneys so collected, net of refunds and adjustments, shall be paid annually to the sheriff of the county where the property is located which, but for the exemption provided in §11-3-9(a)(29) of this code, would be entitled to receive ad valorem taxes on the property. The sheriff shall treat all such payments in the same manner as payments in lieu of taxes, and such payments are subject to the adjustment mandated under §18-9A-12 of this code. For properties located in more than one county, the amount paid to the sheriff of the county shall be in proportion to the total number of acres located in each county at the close of the fiscal year, as specified in the deed to such property.
(C) Fifty percent of moneys so collected, net of refunds and adjustments, shall be divided equally and paid annually into separate accounts established and maintained by the sheriffs of the county or counties wherein the property is located and the sheriffs of any other county that is within the jurisdiction of the same economic development authority as the county or counties wherein the property is located to be used solely for the establishment and delivery of a science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) program in conjunction with the owner of the exempt property. The funds shall be divided equally for use in each county and the programs must be approved by the respective county superintendents of schools. Expenditures from the accounts shall be authorized by the county superintendent of schools.
(8) If lodging is furnished as part of a retreat, meeting, or multiday spectator sport or event being held onsite wherein onsite lodging or camping is offered as part of the program, any applicable hotel occupancy tax and state and local consumers sales and service tax and use tax shall be paid based upon the actual location of such lodging.
(9) If merchants are allowed to do business on the property, the owner or lessee of the property shall offer space to local merchants on terms at least as favorable as are offered to other merchants.
(10) For the purposes of this subsection, owner includes the owner holding record title to the property and its affiliates to the extent they are commonly owned, controlled or have the power to appoint the governing body of the affiliate.
(11) The Tourism Commission shall include in its annual report submitted to the Governor and the Legislature a summary of funds paid into the Tourism Promotion Fund and recommendations pertaining to the administration of this section.
(12) This subsection may not be construed to prohibit the owner of property otherwise subject to this section from having portions of the property severed from the remainder of the property, assessed and taxed as if nonexempt and thereafter conducting business on such property the same as any other nonexempt property: Provided, That the area of property to be severed shall be approved by the county commission wherein the property lies so as to include in the severance all property substantially supporting the for-profit or business activity giving rise to the specific purpose of the severance and excluding all property entitled to the continued benefits of this act.
(i) To assure the implementation of §11-3-9(h) of this code does not harm local and regionally located businesses by use of the tax-exempt facility in a manner that cause unfair competition and unreasonable loss of revenue to those businesses, studies shall be periodically conducted to assure that further legislation is in order regarding the uses of the tax-exempt facility. The county commission of any county where such a property is located shall report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the first day of January every five years after the effective date of this section. The report shall include information on any unfair business competition resulting from the establishment of the nonprofit status, and include a report of the costs and benefits to its county of the tax exemption and associated fee, including an audit of that county's use of the net revenues. The West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research in coordination of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Marshall University, by January 1, 2020, shall undertake a study and report to the committee, the economic impact of this tax exemption and fee to the county and that region of the state, and make any recommendations regarding the benefits and disadvantages for continuing the provision of this tax exemption and fee, included, but not limited to, the impacts to other small and large businesses in the county, the costs to the county has incurred as a result of use of the facility, and any other relevant data that the universities may deem relevant.


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Steven Tyler Convinced Jennifer Lopez to Leave 'American Idol'
Rumors of Jennifer Lopez supposedly leaving 'American Idol' flooded every kind of news wave imaginable. Yet Aerosmith frontman and 'Idol' judge Steven Tyler was the first to announce his exit from the reality show competition. And, as we all know now, Lopez followed suit soon after and confirmed her departure from the show.
Apparently the move for the hot mama to leave 'Idol' was very well planned, and that it was Tyler who "cemented" her decision to leave. "We had magic," said Lopez to ABC News. "I don't know, with him gone, it might be a different formula." Well, that's one way to leave a show dangling by one judge.
But of course, Lopez doesn't rule out returning to 'Idol' in the future, and she even has suggestions for replacements. And they're um… pretty extravagant. "I think like Bono, or Bon Jovi, or Mick Jagger," she said of who she'd like to see as a judge. "You know me, I think big."
We're not sure what we think of her judge picks. That's like getting Paul McCartney to be on the show. We think they should leave the legends alone. What do you think PopCrush readers? Sound off your comments below.
Watch the Jennifer Lopez 'Dance Again' Video


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Soaked in their own blood : a search for community empowerment principles in John Mbiti's theology and their relevance for the empowerment of the poor and marginalised.
The absence of an Evangelical African theology of Development has highly motivated me to embark on this study. Through this study, one hopes that more writings from many evangelicals who are committed to the church's ...


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When a build file is generated, it is automatically added to the project. If you create a build file manually, or reuse an existing one, you might need to add it to the Ant Build Tool Window.
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Author by Nicholas Irving
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Editor : St. Martin's Press
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 320
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Preorder REAPER: GHOST TARGET now, Nick Irving's debut thriller that Brad Thor calls "one hell of a read"! The Instant New York Times Bestseller by Co-Star of Fox's American Grit and Legendary Ranger Nick Irving Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable career total, including probables, is unknown. Irving shares the true story of his extraordinary military career, including his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, when he set another record, this time for enemy kills on a single deployment. His teammates and chain of command labeled him "The Reaper," and his actions on the battlefield became the stuff of legend, culminating in an extraordinary face-off against an enemy sniper known simply as The Chechnian. Irving's astonishing first-person account of his development into an expert assassin offers a fascinating and extremely rare view of special operations combat missions through the eyes of a Ranger sniper during the Global War on Terrorism. From the brotherhood and sacrifice of teammates in battle to the cold reality of taking a life to protect another, no other book dives so deep inside the life of an Army sniper on point.


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Pro team surfers Courtney Conlogue and Coco Ho and their good friend Molly Payne met up in Maui for a perfect day of surfing – proving that competition takes second place to friendship.
In the OUT/IN series finale, three talented surfers come together to take over the waves in Hawaii, the birthplace of their sport. At the beginning, surfing wasn't about titles or trophies – it was a part of the local culture. The sport and skill level on display has evolved over the decades, but the fact that it brings like-minded nature-lovers and daredevils together remains the same.
Every day, Courtney and Coco train for competition. But even on a day off with Molly, a Maui local, they still grab their boards and rip. It's obvious that they're doing what they love with their favorite people, and this zest for life is what Swatch is all about.
"Life is definitely better sharing experiences with friends," Molly says.
Rejuvenated by being outside and on the water, Courtney says that surfing makes it possible to ground yourself with nature. With the beautiful Hawaiian backdrops and clear blue ocean, Maui is a picture-perfect paradise that makes connecting with Mother Nature almost inevitable.
Beyond that, the greatest motivation comes from each other – seeing their friends get a good wave or getting barreled in front of surfing companions.
"I just get so stoked when I see someone else rip!" says Courtney. "As long as you have great company, that's what it's all about."
"Seeing your friend get a good one is motivating because it makes you want to go out and get a good one too," Coco says.
There's more to life than winning. Throughout the OUT/IN series, our surfers have invited us into their lives and talked about their habits, families, philosophies and inspiration. Though their paths to victory may be different, they have their positivity and passion in common and it's clear that their love for the sport is greater than their love for the space on top of the podium. And when your competitors also happen to be your friends, it makes the whole experience that much sweeter.
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Safety & health
Safety underpins everything we do
We are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for every one of our people with the aim of eliminating all permanent injuries.
Through strong safety leadership at all levels and our Strive for L▪I▪F▪E (Leighton Incident Free Environment) initiative, we are constantly assessing the workplace for health and safety risks that can place our people in danger.
Once the risks are identified, we work together to find innovative ways to eliminate or control those risks. From design to tender and final project delivery, we hold ourselves to the highest health and safety standards.
We prioritise safety at all levels of our organisation through safety training and rigorous workplace standards and strive to improve the industry in every one of our markets through leadership and innovation. We hold international certification OHSAS18001:2007 for our occupational health and safety system.
Find out more on our Strive for L▪I▪F▪E programme
Leighton Asia's successful Strive for L▪I▪F▪E safety programme was born out of a bold vision to effect genuine positive change and a cultural shift towards the elimination of Class 1 incidents.
L▪I▪F▪E stands for Leighton Incident Free Environment and is what we are seeking to achieve.
The programme officially kicked off on 25 November 2009 in Hong Kong and Macau and was subsequently rolled out across Asia with a number of ceremonies and key initiatives.
We set up the Leighton Asia Board Safety Subcommittee and started a site safety inspection process called the Strive for L▪I▪F▪E safety walk. We developed a Safety Leadership Programme to educate our managers and supervisors and put our workforce through Health, Safety and Environment Induction Programmes.
In October 2010, we opened the state-of-the-art Strive for L▪I▪F▪E Knowledge and Skills Training Centre in Hong Kong, where our workers undergo classroom instruction and practical training on our safety standards. By embracing safety as a core value, we actively encourage a safety culture on site.


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Making Room for Neighbors : Strengthen Relationships, Cultivate Community
Join Oak Hills Church in an outreach program designed to help Christians rediscover the importance of true engagement with self, family and neighbors.
Life in America is fast approaching warp speed; there's so much to do and so little time! Families barely get to see one another–even dinner is often simply a matter of grabbing some food and eating on the run. Instead of us managing our lives, life seems to manage us.
Randy Frazee, Senior Minister at Oak Hills Church, and Max Lucado believe that it's time to change all that. MAKING ROOM FOR NEIGHBORS, based on a successful pilot outreach program at Oak Hills Church, is a five part series designed to help Christians get back to the things that really count, like the importance of sitting around the dinner table together! By mindfully engaging with family, friends and neighbors–and ourselves (Making Room to Chill)–we live more deeply, minister more effectively and help to grow the body of Christ.
The curriculum is a catalyst to help Christian men and women intentionally go deeper and get more engaged in personal relationships with friends, family and neighbors, organized around five themes:
– Session One–Making Room for Life
– Session Two–Making Room for Family
– Session Three–Making Room for Neighbors
– Session Four–Making Room to Chill
– Session Five–Making Room for Service
Enjoy the rewards of the kind of relationship that Jesus modeled for us, a life of engagement with others that builds true community.


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I am fascinated by the subject of ethnic stereotypes and frugality.
I grew up in an upper middle class white family, as I was continually being reminded by my father, who grew up very poor. There was a big difference in his and my attitudes towards money and consumption. He did not take money for granted, but was very flashy and status-conscious. I did take money for granted (I assumed it would just always be available to me somehow), but have always been relatively unconcerned about material posessions.
It wasn't until I grew up and moved to an African-American neighborhood in a big city that I understood my father, which I found amusing; my Dad pretty much embodied the stereotype you describe, although he is white.
I now live in a middle class neighborhood which is about half white and half black, the blacks having been here for decades, the whites only in the last five or six; and what I see is my black neighbors are all like the dad in Everybody Hates Chris - they can squeeze a ton of value out of every last cent.
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Toddler With Lab-Made Windpipe Dies
A two-year-old girl who was implanted with a windpipe grown from her own stem cells has died.
Hannah Warren, who was born without a windpipe, was the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.
Hospital spokeswoman Shelli Dankoff says Hannah died Saturday at Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. Her family has asked for privacy.
The hospital says in a statement that Hannah couldn't "overcome additional health issues that were identified as her care progressed.''
The stem cells came from Hannah's bone marrow. They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took a few days for them to multiply and create a new windpipe, which was implanted April 9.
Hannah was born in South Korea and traveled to Illinois for the surgery.


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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
I'm thankful for...
I have a lot of those – my amazing agent, my three-book deal with Sourcebooks, my wonderful family, my super-hot husband, Wacoal bras, double-salt licorice, multiple orgasms, wool socks, and that great bottle of Pinot Noir I'll be taking to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
But here's one thing I'm especially grateful for right now – the hilarious, smart, fabulous, stupendous, dedicated, supportive readers of this blog who show up to banter or just lurk. Seeing your comments on my posts and your hits on my Google Analytics tracker gives me a reason to feel warm and fuzzy every single day. In just nine months, we've created this wonderful little corner of the blogosphere that makes me proud to have my name at the top of the page.
Thanks, guys. You're the best.
And thanks for understanding that I'm taking the next couple days off to eat turkey and buy socks. You can find me at The Debutante Ball on Friday where we're talking about Gratitude/Thanksgiving this week.
What are you grateful for? Please share in the comments, let's keep those warm and fuzzy feelings going.
Happy holidays, and I'll see you on Monday!
28 comments :
- Angela Perry said...
I'm grateful for your posts. I don't always comment, but I always enjoy reading them. You are my guaranteed smile for the day. Thank you!
- November 24, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Patty Blount said...
Have a wonderful holiday, dear Tawna!
I'm grateful my mother's with us for another holiday...
I'm grateful for the chance I'm getting to repair the relationship with my dad that's been strained since I was a teenager.
I'm grateful for the two young men that delight, surprise and make me proud every damn day of my life.
And I'm profoundly grateful for the wisdom, advice, and giggles I've collected since finding all of my twitter pals - like you!
- November 24, 2010 at 7:21 AM
I'm so honored to be at the top of that amazingly diverse list of things you are grateful for.
I'm grateful for your writing-on the blog, in your emails, and in your books (which will soon be shared with the world!)-which never fails to make me laugh.
Happy Thanksgiving!
- November 24, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- Sierra said...
Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm thankful for my wonderful and supportive parents, for the fact that I'm able to be continuing my education right now, for technology that lets me communicate with family that's far away, and for the fact that I was lucky enough to find the most amazing guy to spend my life with. :)
- November 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Linda G. said...
I'm thankful I can always count on your blog for a laugh.
Happy Turkey Day! :)
- November 24, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- Sierra said...
I almost forgot! I'm also thankful for the Betties, and for the hilarious and fantastic blog you share with us.
- November 24, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- Alexa O said...
I'm thankful for all the usuals: hot older boyfriend, happy healthy kid, loving family, and table full of amazing food.
I'm also thankful that I have so many people in my life who support my writing and who accept me for who I am: a cheerful, sometimes ditzy, dizzy artiste who can't manage to string two paychecks together but who loves her family more than she can possibly say.
Viva La Thanksgiving!
- November 24, 2010 at 8:06 AM
- Danica Avet said...
I'm thankful for the all of marvelous blogs I follow which get me laughing or thinking. I'm thankful for the wonderful people I've met through this social networking machine who are both supportive and entertaining.
I'm extremely thankful for my family who've given me so much to write about.
- November 24, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Nate Wilson said...
I'm grateful for the rare blogger such as yourself who's not only consistently entertaining, but also appreciative of both commenters and lurkers.
Because of that, let's add another tick to that Google Analytics report, shall we?
And have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
- November 24, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Laura Fenske said...
Happy Thanksgiving, Tawna! Adam and I love having you and Pythagoras in our lives. Now to just get rid of these pesky kids so we could see you more. I love having your blog to read, it is nice to have the daily connection with you.
- November 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- Laura Maylene said...
I'm grateful for pumpkin pie, the four-day weekend, naps, coffee, and family. Not in that particular order.
- November 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Penelope said...
I just wrote a thankful post, too!
More than anything, I'm thankful for my healthy, bright 5yo. I'm also quite grateful that, for the first time in my life, I get to share Thanksgiving with the man of my dreams.
- November 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM
I have been so thankful for your blog. This is a tough business, and it is easy to start taking life too seriously. I always know I can count on a great laugh when I come by here.
Thanks for being an awesome peep and for dedicating so much time and energy to make us smile :D.
Your biggest fan,
Kristen Lamb
- November 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- CKHB said...
That's so sweet! But don't pretend we're better than multiple orgasms. I mean, COME ON.
- November 24, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Kadi Easley said...
I'm thankful for my two wonderful boys and for the two fantastic young women they've brought into my life. I raised to son's, but I have four children now and I couldn't be happier.
Happy Thanksgiving Tawna!
- November 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
You're too kind Tawna. I'm thankful for all the writers out there with more experience than I have who are so willing to lend a hand (yes you are one, duh).
- November 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Teri Anne Stanley said...
I'm lovin' this whole blog love fest, too. I'm really grateful for how nice and supportive all of us writer types are.
Oh, and I'm grateful for my husband, even though he has a tendency to go all Alpha-not-so-attractive-in-real-life on me. A couple of weeks ago he told me he loves my butt and I laughed because it's far from my best feature. He asked what I think my best feature is, and when I said, "My brain",he didn't laugh.
- November 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Unknown said...
Even though we already had our Thanksgiving up here in Canada, I'm greatful for finding your blog via Janet Ried. I've had many a good morning reading what you have to rant about! :D
- November 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm thankful for my family...my wonderful children who are, and always will be, my best work. I'm thankful for my husband. He's more gorgeous than the day I married him and just as understanding and supportive. I'm thankful I have a job that helps me make a difference in the lives of children.
I'm thankful for my health.
I'm thankful for all the wonderful writers I've met on Twitter and through blogs...the camaraderie is overwhelming and keeps the dream from becoming a nightmare.
Happy Thanksgiving.
- November 24, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Happy Thanksgiving and cheers! I'm thankful for your fabulous posts that keep me giggling (I've learned not to read them even when I'm on a break at work...people look at me funny when I bust out laughing).
Have a great one!
- November 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Deborah Small said...
I am grateful for my amazing friends and family, and my writerly family. I'm also grateful for my cat who is currently curled on my lap purring, keeping me warm and reminding me of the small gratitudes that make a life happy.
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
- November 24, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- demery said...
Thanks for your fab blog! So glad for your success. Happy Thanksgiving :)
- November 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM
- Claire Dawn said...
I'm thankful for my fantaby job, which doesn't ask that much of me, and gives me the opporunity to live in Japan.
- November 25, 2010 at 3:52 AM
- Jessica Lemmon said...
I don't always comment, but I'll tell you - I often read your blog out loud to my (also hot) husband and he finds it as entertaining as I do!
Congrats on the book deal, awesome agent and fantastic blog -- I've watched the follow count over there and continue to be astounded!
Happy Thanksgiving to you & fam!
- November 25, 2010 at 4:59 AM
- Kate Robertson said...
I had to laugh becuase we do the sock thing too.Yes I'll be at Fred Meyer with all the crazies once more. Wishing a fun time tomorrow morning...
- November 25, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- abby mumford said...
i'm grateful for far too many things to list, so i'll leave it at i'm grateful for my gratitude book -- and that i can list 5 things in it everyday that i'm grateful for. optimism for everyone!
happy thanksgiving!
- November 25, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Abby Minard said...
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and fun..buying those socks..
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NetLogger is a methodology and set of software tools for debugging and performance analysis of complex distributed applications.
The NetLogger Toolkit is a comprehensive set of APIs and Python tools:
The following is an excerpt from the Logging Best Practices document:
Real-time status outputs from running software, or logs, are instrumental to performance analysis, problem diagnosis, and security auditing tasks such as incident tracing and damage assessment. Too often, though, logs are only useful to the author of the program, poorly structured, or missing important information. The solution to this should be obvious: logs need to be well-structured and complete. If we apply the same discipline and consistency to logging as we apply to coding standards, logs can be readily useful to the wider community of administrators, users, middleware developers -- and the log-consuming programs that all these people create.
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Whitney Houston died this afternoon … a rep for the singer told the Associated Press.
Our sources tell us a member of Whitney's entourage found her in her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel … and called hotel security — who then dialed 911. When paramedics arrived Houston was found unresponsive.
We're told police arrived to the scene within minutes and fire was already there on an unrelated call. According to our sources, paramedics performed CPR but it did not work and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.
Our sources say there were no obvious signs of foul play, but BH PD detectives have begun a full investigation. We're told she was ID'ed by family and friends.
The singer famously battled drug addiction for years.
Houston was seen out in Hollywood Thursday night for a Grammy party … and she did not look well. She even briefly took the mic and performed a song while she was there — what would become her last performance
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Eye Clinic Markham Tips on how to manage digital eye strain in Markham, Ontario.
If you're like most people, you're probably inseparable from your electronic devices – phone, laptop, tablet, etc…, but wish you could part with the headaches and eye strain it's causing.
On the average, American spend between 2 and 11 hours each day absorbing and processing digital media. This extended screen time can lead to a range of uncomfortable, or even painful visual symptoms. Most commonly, people complain to eye care professionals about dry eyes, blurry vision, headaches, eye twitching, red eyes, neck and shoulder pain. According to statistics reported by The Vision Council, 59% of people who use digital tech regularly experience these symptoms.
Topics: Digital eye strain, Digital eye strain glasses, Digital eye strain symptoms, How long does digital eye strain last
Getting to the root of the problem
What's really causing digital eye strain? Several reasons are to blame. According to the American Physical Therapy Association, a main problem is the posture we use when starting at a digital screen. When using a mobile device, you probably view downwards, straining your neck. In fact, a 30-degree tilt of the head is said to create a 40 lb. strain on your neck!
At our eye clinic, we also treat many patients who have dry eyes from viewing screens all the time. That's because people tend to blink less frequently when gazing at a digital device. Blinking is a vital reflex that keeps your eye surface lubricated with fresh, healthy tears. Every time you close and open your eyes, it clears environmental allergens and impurities from your eyes. When using a computer, studies show that you blink a third less times per minute. Consequently, your tear film is decreased – leading to burning, gritty feeling in your eyes, and blurred vision. Over time, reduced blinking may also damage the tear-producing glands in your eyes.
Many eye diseases can be quickly and easily diagnosed during a Comprehensive eye exam, Pediatric eye exam and Contact lens eye exam. If you were diagnosed with an eye disease, such as Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular degeneration, Diabetic retinopathy, or Dry eye, you may be overwhelmed by the diagnosis and confused about what happens next. Will you need medications or surgery – now or in the future? Is LASIK eye and vision surgery an option for you ? Our Markham eye doctor is always ready to answer your questions about eye disease and Contact lenses.
Why is blue light bad?
Blue light is a hot topic nowadays, and many of our eye care patients want to know the bottom line about this high-energy short wavelength.
First of all, the sun emits about 100 times more blue light than your phone. However, the sun is millions of miles away from your eyes, while your phone is only inches only. The blue light from your phone can therefore have a powerful effect. One critical way in which blue light affects your health is by disturbing your sleep cycle. When your eyes react to blue light (interpreted as sunny daylight), they send signals to your brain that it's time to be awake. So using your smartphone in bed can seriously disrupt your body's daily/nightly rhythm. Overexposure to blue light has also been associated with speeding up the aging process of your eye.
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- Adjust your work area. Make sure you are physically comfortable, sitting with good posture – not tilting your head or hunching over to look down at a laptop or tablet for long periods of time. The opposite can also be a problem – make sure your screen isn't too high. The top of your screen should be at eye level with your head, allowing your eyes to look downward slightly towards the middle of the screen.
- Check your lighting. Brighter light can help prevent or reduce eye strain. Light fixtures should also be angled in a way that doesn't cast glare on your screen or shine into your eyes. Ambient lighting that matches the brightness of your screen causes the least amount of stress on your eyes.
- Take a break every 20 minutes to look about 20 feet into the distance for 20 seconds – and blink as you do this! You'll reset your eyes' focus and disperse tears across the surface of your eyes. Getting up and taking a short walk can also be beneficial for preventing headaches.
- Declare the two hours before bedtime as a no-screen zone. Listen to music, read a book, take a bath, or engage in any bedtime routine that doesn't depend on a screen.
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A Sherlock Carol
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.
When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge, The Great Detective must use his tools of deduction to get to the bottom of the crime. But it is a dark and treacherous Christmas Eve, and once again the holiday is haunted by the spirits of the past, present, and future.
Cast: Drew McVety (Billy Elliot, Spamalot) as Sherlock, Allen Gilmore (The School for Scandal, Yale Rep's Choir Boy) as Scrooge, Joanna Carpenter (Actors Theater of Louisville's A Christmas Carol, Sunfish) as Emma Wiggins and others, Dan Domingues (The Tempest, Wild Goose Dreams) as Crachit and others, Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Isabel Keating (The Boy From Oz, It's Only a Play) as The Countess and others, Mark Price (Mary Poppins, Chicago) as Dr. Watson and others, and understudies Joe Delafield (Tartuffe, Fashions for Men), Alexandra Kopko (Peter and the Starcatcher, A Nantucket Christmas Carol), and Byron St. Cyr (My Fair Lady national tour, Miss Saigon national tour).
Creative team: Written and directed by Mark Shanahan (The Dingdong, A Merry Little Christmas Carol; NPR's Ghost Light Series), resident director is Jen Waldman (Wicked, Titanic), scenic design by Tony Award nominee Anna Louizos (School of Rock, In the Heights), costume design by Tony Award winner Linda Cho (Take Me Out, Anastasia), lighting design by Obie Award-winner Rui Rita (Skeleton Crew, Velocity of Autumn), original music & sound design by Tony Award nominee John Gromada (The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful), and hair & wig design by Emmy Award nominee Charles G. LaPointe (Hamilton, Ain't Too Proud).
- Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, opening night is Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance is on Sunday, January 1, 2023.
- Regular performances will be Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm & 7pm.
- Visit ASherlockCarol.com for a complete preview performance and holiday performance schedules.
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Tickets are $49-129, and are on sale now through Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200, or by visiting the box office at New World Stages.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. – Shane Larkin knew all about Erick Green when he arrived at Cassell Coliseum on Wednesday night. Now Green knows all about Larkin, too.
Larkin scored 25 points and No. 14 Miami used a 13-2 second-half run to beat Virginia Tech 73-64 for its eighth consecutive victory.
"These are the funnest games, playing against the best players in the nation. Erick Green is definitely one of those guys," said Larkin, who made five 3-pointers and had three steals.
"I love playing against the best players and when they're doing good, I want to do just as well as them. Tonight was a great game for that. It was just fun."
Larkin saved his biggest shot for the biggest spot, too.
After the Hokies closed to 60-56 with two minutes left, the sophomore calmly dribbled the clock down, then slipped behind a screen and swished a long 3 from the top of the key with 1:47 to play.
"The last one I hit was pretty deep. I didn't really pay attention," Larkin said of the basket that deflated the crowd hoping for a closing flurry by Green and the struggling Hokies. "I just saw the dude go under the screen and I just got my shot ready."
"It's always fun to shush a home crowd," he said.
Kenny Kadji added 18 points and Trey McKinney-Jones had 12 for the Hurricanes (16-3, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who trailed by 12 in the first half before putting together a 22-6 burst spanning halftime. Larkin had half the points in the run.
"I think he took it upon himself that he has to play well," Kadji said of Larkin. "He came out, he did everything for us. The first half, he kept us in the game and that last (3-pointer), that was a big one for us."
Green, the nation's leading scorer with a 25.2 average, led Virginia Tech (11-9, 2-5) with 30 points and Jarell Eddie had 14, but the rest of the Hokies struggled after a fast start. The loss was the seventh in the last nine games for Virginia Tech.
Trailing 28-16, the Hurricanes used their big run to grab a 38-34 lead with 16:43 left. Virginia Tech seemed on the brink of getting run out of its building, but Green hit three 3-pointers in under 2 minutes and the Hokies led again, 43-41.
With the crowd roaring, McKinney-Jones hit a long 3-pointer, and Larkin and Rion Brown followed with 3s after a bucket by Cadarian Raines for the Hokies. Two free throws by McKinney-Jones and a dunk by Kadji capped the 13-2 run, putting Miami back in control.
Virginia Tech made one last charge, but Larkin's big 3 turned the Hokies away.
Green had lots of scoring help early on, but less as the game went on.
Robert Brown scored eight points, all in his first few minutes, but took just two more shots. Eddie did much of his scoring late, and half of the 10 Hokies that got on the court did not score, including two starters.
"Yeah, they need to look for their shots more. They've got to be more aggressive," Green said of his teammates.
Brown agreed, and he came into the game having missed 30 of his last 38 shots.
"People that are supposed to make plays aren't making plays," he said.
Green and Brown each scored eight points during a 22-8 spurt that gave the Hokies a 28-16 lead with 5:57 left in the half, but a 3-pointer by Eddie and a free throw by Green was all Virginia Tech could manage the rest of the half.
Miami closed the first half with a 13-4 burst, including nine points from Larkin.
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|$15,001 to $30,000
|$350,001 to $400,000
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Exactly one hundred years ago today, an ocean liner struck a block of ice and sank in the North Atlantic. The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times. This story is about the block of ice.
The photos you see up top and down on the left are quite possibly the only known photographic evidence of the actual iceberg that was struck by the Titanic. Understandably, nobody had bothered to snap any photographs while the ship was actually sinking, so it's impossible to make an absolutely confirmed positive identification. But both photographs feature the telltale sign of a collision with a ship, and likely a recent one at that: a streak of red paint.
The photo up top was taken by the chief steward of the German ocean liner SS Prinz Adalbert, which on April 15 was sailing through the North Atlantic mere miles away from where the Titanic had sunk the night before. At the time, the chief steward hadn't yet learned of the Titanic's fate, so he wasn't even on the lookout for icebergs. He simply spotted a streak of red paint along the iceberg's base, which most likely meant a ship had collided with it in the last twelve hours.
This next photo was taken by a Captain De Carteret of the Minia, one of a few cable ships - vessels ordinarily used to lay deep sea cables, such as those for telecommunications - sent to the site of the shipwreck to recover corpses and debris. The captain claimed this was the only iceberg in the area, and the red paint was again a clear sign that a ship had recently struck it. There's some disagreement over whether this was the only iceberg in the area, but it certainly seems likely that something had hit it, and the odds are good that that something was the Titanic.
If you were to trace the story of the Titanic to its earliest human origins, you couldn't really go much further back than 1907, when the White Star Lines first drew up plans to build the three largest ocean liners the world had even seen: Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic, which was later renamed Britannic and sank in the Mediterranean during World War I. From conception to sinking, the Titanic really only lasted about five years, although obviously its memory has endured far longer.
But by comparison, the iceberg began its slow journey to the North Atlantic over three thousand years ago. Again, we can only guess at the exact details, but the story likely began with snowfall on the western coast of Greenland somewhere around 1,000 BCE. After a few months, this snow has been turned into a more compacted form called firn, which then over subsequent decades is compressed into dense ice by the weight of newer snow on top of it.
The frozen water in these glaciers is slowly forced further westward towards the sea. When they finally reach the coast of the Arctic Ocean, the lapping tides break off chunks of the ice, and icebergs are calved from the glacier, some thirty centuries after their source water was first deposited. The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey as a rough contemporary of King Tutankhamun, entire civilizations rising and falling while it made its slow march to infamy.
But once all that's done, the iceberg's life was a short one. We know that because the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, rather than the Arctic, which means the currents must have taken it far south of where it was calved. Starting on the Greenland coast, it would have moved from Baffin Bay to the Davis Strait and then onto the Labrador Sea and, at last, the Atlantic.
The Titanic iceberg was one of the lucky ones, so to speak, as the vast, vast majority of icebergs melt long before they reach that far south. Of the 15,000 to 30,000 icebergs calved each years by the Greenland glaciers, probably only about 1% of them ever make it all the way to the Atlantic. On April 15, 1912, the iceberg was some 1,5000 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
The water temperature on the night of the Titanic sinking was thought to be about 28 degrees Fahrenheit, just below freezing. Such a temperature was of course lethally cold for all those passengers who had been forced to take to the open water to escape the sinking ship.
But such temperatures are far too warm to sustain icebergs for very long. The average life expectancy of an iceberg in the North Atlantic is only about two to three years from calving to melting. That means it likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913. In all likelihood, the iceberg that sank the Titanic didn't even endure to the outbreak of World War I, a lost splash of freshwater mixed in imperceptibly with the rest of the North Atlantic.
Sources and Further Reading
Icebergs in the Northern Hemisphere: FAQ
Titanic & Nautical Research Center
Icebergs across the North Atlantic
Titanic-Titanic.com: Icebergs
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Amazon is reportedly planning to take on the Google Nexus 7 with its Kindle Fire 2 tablet.
The firm has places an order for two million units of the Kindle Fire 2 with a Taiwanese manufacturer, according to the China Times. Amazon will supposedly launch the tablet in August to 'counterattack' the Nexus 7. See also: Google Nexus 7 tablet vs Amazon Kindle Fire comparison review.
"Quanta has received the first wave of 2 million orders, Amazon has not yet Quanta to inform the second batch of shipments and estimated number." said the China Times.
Google's Nexus 7 tablet will ship from 19 July and offers a superior specification to the existing Kindle Fire for the same price of $199 in the US. The 8GB Nexus 7 is priced at £159 in the UK.
The Kindle Fire 2 will have a 7in screen with future 8.9in and 10in models possible. China Times said that Amazon will announce the Android tablet on 31 July.
It will have an upgraded specification to the original including a higher screen resolution, a metal case instead of plastic and better content in order to close the gap to the Apple iPad.
It is also thought that Apple will launch a 7.85-inch iPad Mini in October.
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