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Great songwriters spend their lives baring their souls onto the page, hoping some sliver of truth reaches and resonates with the masses.
But for Matthew West, multiple ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner, American Music Award and Billboard Music Award winner and four-time GRAMMY® nominee, the masses have come to him, baring their souls and sharing their stories.
And forever changing the way he approaches the music he makes.
Produced by Pete Kipley (MercyMe, Crowder, Phil Wickam, Robert Randolph)Live Forever finds Matthew West digging deeper into the well of stories —over 40,000 true stories shared with him by people
all over the world—stories that six years and three albums later have had a profound ripple effect.
"If I've learned one thing, it's that storytelling is contagious," West says. "So many people have been made to feel that their story is insignificant, that they don't matter, or that their story is somehow disqualified because they've got too many messed up parts to it, and 'Why would it matter?'"
But West has answered that question before in Story of Your Life (2010), Into the Light (2012) and now in Live Forever. "Each story told, awakens something in people who have yet to find the courage to tell their own," he shares. "They begin thinking, 'If God can use that person's story, maybe He could use mine,' and a chain reaction begins. One story goes out and more stories come back. One by one, these songs encourage people to be the storytellers in their own lives, wherever they are, because your story can help someone else and their story can help someone else. Telling our stories reminds us that we are not alone."
He continues, "With my last two records, I was inspired by chapters in our stories that have already been written: life in a broken home, the loss of a loved one, forgiving someone who has hurt you, the guilt of past mistakes. Many people share with me the chapters that are behind them, the ones that still haunt them, ones that haven't found redemption yet. With Live Forever, I felt it was time to acknowledge that none of us have a perfect story. Every story has its share of broken chapters. But then ask the questions, 'Is this it? Are we just supposed to walk wounded through the rest of our stories?' We could spend the rest of our lives focusing on the past, or we could dare to look ahead, and choose to believe that with God we've been given a chance to start new, and the best of our stories have yet to be written."
This is the direction West had in mind as he returned to that cabin in the woods of Tennessee, a songwriter's retreat where his previous two albums were envisioned. To make a record bursting with color and life – not just the life we have here, but the life that is to come. "With so much defeat all around us, people need to know there is victory. Maybe my job in reading a lot of these desperate stories is to extract the hope. I wanted to write songs that encourage people to remember that this life is not the destination. It's a journey to the place of our ultimate hope, Heaven. This was a very decisive record in that way."
TODAY is ONLY THE BEGINNING
Each of the eleven songs on Live Forever echo the same refrain: whatever your story, you can outlive the number of your days – that today is just the beginning of forever.
"Live Forever" is an anthem challenging listeners to make the most of the dash, that mark between the day we're born and the day we die. "The world tries to sell us on YOLO, you only live once," he says, "but there is a big difference between living for the moment and living in the moment. The dash in between is our opportunity to make what God has given us count for something bigger than ourselves."
It's day one of the rest of my life,
It's day one of the best of my life… the future has begun
The contagious first single "Day One" follows suit, declaring in no uncertain terms that every day is a new beginning no matter what your past looks like. The song was inspired by a young man named Josh who met Jesus during his time in prison. Released after ten years, like so many ex-convicts he struggled to find work and get his life back together. But then one day a Christian couple gave him a chance, hiring him to work part-time in their pizza shop. Today he is the restaurant's manager, living with a renewed sense of worth.
This world's never gonna change you 'cause you're gonna change the world…
Inspired by 13 year-old Alyssa, diagnosed with brain cancer, "World Changers" reveals how one act of selfless can changes lives forever. The Make-A-Wish Foundation came to her wanting to grant her wish. She chose to give her wish away – to build a clean water well in Africa. "She gave her wish away?! Who wouldn't be changed by her story?" West asks incredulously.
A couple of weeks before the album's release, Alyssa heard her song live during one of West's tour stops during his Live Forever Tour, a complete surprise and tribute to a her character and courage.
No more tryin', no more tryin'
Tryin' to be anybody other than me
Michaela was made fun of because of her looks in high school. She has long since struggled with her self-image. But Michaela has turned the pain of her bullying into a purpose. Combining her own personal experience of learning to see herself the way her Creator does with her love of photography, she has started a ministry reaching out to other young women and giving them their own photo shoot so they can see how beautiful they really are.
With every track on the album, Live Forever carves out new musical terrain for Matthew West. "My goal has always been to evolve, musically speaking," West says, "but this record is probably my biggest jump forward. The whole record's theme is about moving forward, so I didn't want to revisit places I'd been before, lyrically or musically. I wanted new melodies, fresh phrasing, something different."
FURTHER into THE DEEP END
Long before he had the idea to invite people to share their stories, Matthew West's talents as a songwriter had not gone unnoticed. His songs have been recorded by Rascal Flatts, Amy Grant, Casting Crowns, Michael W. Smith and many others. But if success had ever been the driving force, everything is different now.
"A great irony revealed itself throughout he course of my career," West says. "I've always had this desire to connect to the hearts of people through the songs that I write. But the past six years have kind of ruined me for ordinary. It's at such a deeper level now because nothing is more meaningful than sitting down to write songs from these stories. And it's freed me up, really. I'm just not interested in songs for hits sake. As long as people write to me, I'll keep writing their songs, pointing people to the greater story being told through all of us."
Live Forever, a collection of songs about what it means to outlive your life, embodies the work of an artist who is learning to get out of the way. "Maybe the main way for any of us to outlive ourselves is to open our eyes to the world around us," West says. "For me, it's about finding fulfillment by becoming a character in someone else's story. That's when life gets good, when it's not all about me. When it's no longer about us."
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Matthew West And Daughter Sing 'Before You Ask Her' - Christian Music Videos
Christian music artist Matthew West and his daughter Lulu perform a beautiful song about the questions any young man interested in dating his daughter must ask himself and answer first.
Dating can often be a difficult, tricky and awkward process. Dating can also be weird for fathers of young ladies. Sooner or later, all fathers know that young men will start taking an interest in their daughters. However, fathers want to protect their daughters from physical and emotional hurt at all costs. If it means having a slightly awkward, tense conversation that is what they'll do.
Matthew's song "Before You Ask Her," perfectly expresses the fears and hopes any father has for their daughter when it comes to dating and marriage. As the song title indicates, Matthew has a series of questions for the young man and others that his daughter's potential suitor should also ask himself.
The opening verses detail a conversation between Matthew and the young man and all the questions he has for him. Like any father, Matthew loves his daughter and only wants the best for her.
"Will you hold the door? Be polite?
Pick up the tab? And treat her right?
Have her home by ten
And not a minute after?"
As the song continues, his daughter and the young man in the track have reached a big step in their relationship: marriage. But before that happens, Matthew has more questions and requirements for his daughter's potential husband.
He asks whether he will always encourage her in everything, all her hopes and dreams. Finally, Matthew wants to know if the young man will always put his daughter and Jesus Christ in the top spots in his life.
What a beautiful song about the love a father has for his daughter. He only wants the best for his little girl. He understands how special she is and wants to ensure her future husband also knows this.
Psalm 103:13 "As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers."
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Sellout (2002 Indie Release)December 2039
Album Tracks
- Just Like You
- This Ordinary Life
- Sellout
- Love Has No Walls
- Mr. James
- Open Wide My Heart
- Be Strong
- Stand
- Heart of Every Man
- Forever and Beyond
Into the LightSeptember 2012
Album Tracks
- Do Something
- Forgiveness
- Forgiveness (Acoustic)
- Hello, My Name Is
- Into the Light
- Love Stands Waiting
- Moved By Mercy
- Restored
- The Power of a Prayer
- The Story Behind the Song "Forgiveness"
- Unchangeable
- Waitin' On a Miracle
- We Are the Broken
- Wonderfully Made
The Heart of ChristmasSeptember 2011
Album Tracks
- Christmas Makes Me Cry (feat. Mandisa)
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Day After Christmas
- Come On, Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- The Heart of Christmas
- Leaving Heaven (feat. Vince Gill)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- One Last Christmas
- Silent Night (Interlude)
- Give This Christmas Away (feat. Amy Grant)
- O, Holy Night
The Story of Your Life (Deluxe Edition)October 2010
Album Tracks
- The Story Behind Broken Girl
- The Reason for the World
- The Healing Has Begun
- The Story Behind the Reason for the World
- Hold You Up
- My Own Little World (Acoustic)
- One Less (Acoustic)
- The Reason for the World (Acoustic)
- The Story of Your Life
- The Story Behind the Healing Has Begun
- My Own Little World
- Strong Enough
- Family Tree
- To Me
- One Less
- Two Houses
- Survivors
- Broken Girl
- The Story Behind the Story of Your Life
- The Story Behind My Own Little World
- The Story Behind Strong Enough
- The Story Behind Family Tree
- The Story Behind to Me
- The Story Behind One Less
- The Story Behind Two Houses
- The Story Behind Survivors
Something to Say (Deluxe Edition)May 2010
Album Tracks
- A Friend In the World
- All the Broken Pieces
- Stop the World
- The Motions (Acoustic)
- Save a Place for Me (Acoustic)
- Intro
- Something to Say
- The Motions
- You Are Everything
- The Center
- Save a Place for Me
- Life Inside You
- Safe and Sound
- The Moment of Truth
- The Motions
- Save a Place for Me
The Writer's Room: An Acoustic EPApril 2009
Album Tracks
- Something to Say
- You Are Everything
- Only Grace
- More
- My Favorite Part
- The Day Before You
Something to SayJanuary 2008
Album Tracks
- A Friend In the World
- All the Broken Pieces
- Stop the World
- Intro
- Something to Say
- The Motions
- You Are Everything
- The Center
- Save a Place for Me
- Life Inside You
- Safe and Sound
- The Moment of Truth
HistoryJune 2005
Album Tracks
- Out of Time
- A Few More Days
- History
- Next Thing You Know
- Only Grace
- Get Away
- The Day Before You
- I Know You're There
- Nothing Else
- The Last Ones
- The Light of Eternity
HappyMay 2004
Album Tracks
- My Finest Hour
- Curtain
- More
- Happy
- The Turnaround
- I Can't Hear You
- You Know Where to Find Me
- The End
- Out of My Hands
- The Lie
- Every Second


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I've just returned from a research trip to Canada to investigate the wine industry in British Columbia (watch for my upcoming report). The wines were very good and the scenery spectacular, but for some reason my attention kept being diverted to small storefront do-it-yourself wine making facilities. So herewith a report on a Canadian phenomenon: Wine Kitz stores.
The Old Pandosy Street Connection
Somehow we found ourselves on Pandosy Street in Kelowna, B.C.; I checked out the Wine Kitz store while Sue investigated a yarn shop on the next block. It was a very interesting visit. I have seen many stores that sell wine-making kits and supplies, including grape juice concentrate, yeasts, jugs, hoses, bottles and so forth, but this Wine Kitz was something else — it really got my attention.
Kim McLean and her husband James operate this shop, which has been in Kim's family since 1976, first an an independent DIY wine operation, now as part of Wine Kitz. Wine Kitz is a franchise chain, started in 1959 as "Wine Art" with 70 stores across Canada. There were three stores in Kelowna, a wine, tourism and agriculture town of about 120,000 population, with another store just across the bridge in West Kelowna. There must be a lot of DIY wine on tap here to support four stores!
Wine in a Box
Wine may be made in the vineyard, as they say, but it comes in a box at Wine Kitz and similar stores. Each box makes 23 liters of wine, or about 30 bottles from whichever sort of wine grape juice you choose. There are three quality tiers of juice available, starting with the Wine-Art line (CND 120 per kit) and moving up to Tradition (CND 138) and Ultimate (CND 185). (One USD equals about 1.03 CND at today's exchange rate — that's roughly par when you take FX fees into consideration.) The cheaper products have a higher percentage of juice concentrate while the more expensive tiers have more natural juice (and less manipulation). You can dial up the quality level depending upon your preferences and bank account balance.
The juice comes mainly from California, Australia and Italy. The juice selection is really quite broad. Merlot, Chardonnay and Shiraz, of course, but also Barolo, Chianti and Valpolicella. You can even make sherry and port-style products as well as various dessert wines.
The Secret of DIY Success
Why are kit wines so popular in Canada? One reason is the high retail price of bottled wine. Wine that you can make in a Wine Kitz shop for about CND 6 per bottle would sell for perhaps CND 20 or more in one of the province's government liquor shops, Kim told me.
Checking around I found that Chateau Ste Michelle Columbia Valley Riesling sells for CND 14 in BC and CND 17 in Alberta. You can buy it for less than USD 6 at Costco in the U.S. That's a pretty strong incentive to make your own wine if the quality is anywhere close. You can, of course, set up your own home winery using the packaged juice as raw material to bring the cost even lower.
The ongoing recession is a second factor, Kim said. People are a bit more interested in saving money when the economy is uncertain. You can think of this as a trading down (to lower prices) effect, but I'd argue that it is more like "trading over" (to different wine experiences) since the product is both cheaper but also a bit more personal and fun.
A final reason is that it is easy to make this wine — much easier that you might think. A loophole in liquor laws allows Wine Kitz to streamline the winemaking process.
Amateur Antinoris need invest only about 45 minutes per batch of wine — 20 minutes to initiate fermentation and another 25 minutes filtering and filling bottles when the wine is ready to go in a few weeks. All the work in between can be done by Wine Kitz staff on their premises using their equipment. You can be as involved as you want to be as long as you put in that minimum 45 minutes but you can also leave it to Wine Kitz. Honestly, you can't get much easier than that.
One important rule: once you bottle your wine you must remove it from the store immediately. I asked Kim if her operation was highly regulated and she said it was — and that the easiest thing to do was simply to follow all the rules to the letter and avoid legal problems. Sounds like a good plan to me.
Back Room Confidential
The back room of the Kelowna store I visited was filled with glass carboys in various stages of fermentation and a satisfied young couple (from Switzerland if my ear is any guide) were happily bottling their latest vintage. Perhaps Canada's longstanding policy of welcoming immigrants is another factor in DIY wine's popularity — maybe they bring an interest in home wine making with them. But that's obviously not the whole story. When I asked Kim about her customers she said they are just thirsty — they don't come from a particular socioeconomic class or walk of life. They just want to make wine. Interesting — wine-making as a popular home craft like scrap-booking.
I didn't ask to sample any of the wine — this isn't a wine rating blog and my opinion wouldn't matter anyway. What does matter is what the people who come to stores like Wine Kitz think and there are apparently many happy wine drinkers among them (enough to keep four stores busy in a medium-sized town).
DIY wine is an interesting reaction to both the expense of commercial wines (especially in Canada) and the desire of many to be more a part of the products they consume (even if boxed juice is involved) — to be participants as well as consumers.
Thanks to Kim McLean for taking time to show me around her Kelowna store and explain her DIY operation. The photos shown here are for typical Wine Kitz locations — not the Kelowna store I visited. Watch for additional reports form my BC fieldwork expedition.


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There exists a great division between scientists and the general public. But who cares? Scientists go about their happy lives indulging in research and the public gets to reap the benefits. The public receives better health, massive communication networks, global trade, and copious amounts of energy because of scientists; and in return scientists get to keep doing what they love, exploring the natural world. Both parties are satisfied, making everyone happy, right? In a perfect world this would be a wonderful situation (and an interesting example of symbiosis), but I'm pretty sure we can all agree this is anything but a perfect world.
The rift between scientists and the public creates societal turmoil. On one hand you have the scientists, they present the public with new ideas, gadgets, and ways of living, but they don't take much time to explain how their ideas, gadgets, or ways of living operate. On the other hand you have the public, which seems to show little interest in how scientist's ideas, gadgets, and ways of living operate. Not a single party is at fault, each situation reinforces the other. Why would the public be interested in scientific endeavors when scientists are so reluctant to explain to the public what they are doing? And why would scientists want to explain to the public what they are doing if the public doesn't seem to care? So why do these two problems create societal turmoil?
Today's public live in an era of unprecedented amounts of information and change, stem cell research, the Large Hadron Super Collider, space travel, global climate change, fusion reactors, nuclear reactors, ecological services, cloning, artificial intelligence, food production, computer security, genetically modified foods, vaccines, and gene sequencing represent just a fraction of the scientific contributions the public has to evaluate. But is the public ready to evaluate such earth shattering ideas? We live in a democracy, which means people react as a whole to decide what gets done. If the public is not equipped with a basic understanding of how these scientific ideas operate, because of the self reinforcing problems stated earlier, how are they going to react appropriately? We can already see how this misunderstanding creates serious problems, scientists working on the Large Hadron Super Collider have received death threats, only 47% of the U.S. population is expected to get the H1N1 vaccine, evolution is being downplayed in public schools, and recent surveys indicate that only 35% of U.S. citizens think global climate change is a serious problem.
To solve these problems we need more effective communication between scientists and the public. Scientists need to suck it up and take time to understand the public, in order to explain their research in a digestible fashion. The general public also needs to take some responsibility and educate themselves. This website is my small contribution to the solution; it is my attempt to spark some interest in scientific ideas and thinking. I believe that one problem in scientific communication is that people simply don't have a frame of reference to help them understand foreign ideas. Using analogous personal experiences can help create a frame of reference for understanding foreign ideas, for example using the flow of water to explain electricity. When possible, though, allowing people to become a literal part of a foreign idea does away with analogies altogether and provides a positive personal experience as well as a more concrete frame of reference in which to better understand foreign ideas. The pages that follow are a combination of strategies that attempt to provide a frame of reference. Content and updates are added the website pretty regularly now, so stop by when you get the chance.
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A walk around the Olympic Forest Park on Tuesday evening revealed that autumn passerine migration is beginning to get going… First, I flushed a Richard's Pipit from a path near the 'underwater corridor', then a Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler flew across the path and dived into deep cover, showing the white tips to the outer tail feathers. Just before dusk a snipe circled a couple of times before dropping like a stone into the edge of a reedbed. I grabbed a few very poor images and I suspect it was a Pin-tailed Snipe or Swinhoe's. Its flight was subtly slower than Common Snipe, it lacked an obvious white trailing edge to the secondaries and the legs appeared to protrude relatively far beyond the tail. Images below and opinions welcome. Swinhoe's and Pin-tailed Snipe are notoriously difficult to separate so best to go down in the book as a "Swintail"…!
There were also some dragonflies on the wing. In addition to the usual Sympetrum kunckeli, these presumed Deielia phaon were patrolling the edge of the reedbed.
The trickle of passerine migration certainly whets the appetite for what will be, I am sure, another brilliant autumn of migration here in north-eastern China. I have just booked my flight to Dalian for late September, where we will have a group of birders covering the Laotieshan area for at least a couple of weeks this autumn. After the fantastic Spring experience, I can't wait to return to see if the autumn migration matches my expectations.
On the way back from the Olympic Park to the metro station, I enjoyed watching the local Beijingers using the public spaces built for the Olympics. Great stuff!


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Researchers at Stanford University have made progress toward designing a battery with a lithium anode, a development that could increase battery power in electronics.
Reporting in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the researchers described how they designed a lithium-metal anode in order to boost the energy storage density.
The anode of a battery discharges electrons into the current cycle. In a regular lithium-ion battery, it is usually made of graphite or silicon.
Lithium is known for its high energy density and lightweight properties, but it has proven problematic in battery research.
Using it as an anode results in metal deposits that pose serious safety concerns and low energy efficiency during charge and discharge cycles, according to the team, which includes former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
However, lithium metal would be the optimal choice as an anode material because of its high energy density.
In its approach described in the report, the team managed to coat a lithium metal anode with a special protective barrier. It consists of a honeycomb-like structure of hollow carbon nanospheres about 20 nanometers thick.
The coating isolates the lithium metal depositions, according to the researchers.
"The cycling Coulombic efficiency can be highly stable at (about) 99 percent for more than 150 cycles," the researchers wrote, adding that the efficiency must be improved to over 99.9 percent for practical batteries.
In rechargeable batteries, Coulombic efficiency is often expressed as a percentage to describe the energy used during discharge compared with the energy used when charging.
"The lithium metal anode technology we developed can impact consumer electronics such as smartphones and laptops, and electrical vehicles," Yi Cui, an associate professor in Stanford's Department of Chemistry, wrote in an email.
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Jack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade seriesthe Magic Tree House!
Time-traveling brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie have to find a certain kind of foodthe fourth thing needed to save Merlins beloved penguin, Penny. The magic tree house whisks them off to a village in the mountains of southeast China, close to a world-famous panda reserve. Will it be their easiest adventure yet? Not a chance! Jack and Annie don't know it, but theyve arrived on the day of a historic earthquake!
How will Jack and Annie survive when the giant quake strikes? Will they be able to rescue the pandas? And how will they ever get back to the tree house so that they can fulfill their quest to save Penny as well?
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Subpart 13 – Excellence in Economic Education
- This subpart may be cited as the 'Excellence in Economic Education Act of 2001'.
- (a) PURPOSE- The purpose of this subpart is to promote economic and financial literacy among all students in kindergarten through grade 12 by awarding a competitive grant to a national nonprofit educational organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of the quality of student understanding of personal finance and economics.
- (b) OBJECTIVES- The objectives of this subpart are the following:
- (1) To increase students' knowledge of, and achievement in, economics to enable the students to become more productive and informed citizens.
- (2) To strengthen teachers' understanding of, and competency in, economics to enable the teachers to increase student mastery of economic principles and the practical application of those principles.
- (3) To encourage economic education research and development, to disseminate effective instructional materials, and to promote replication of best practices and exemplary programs that foster economic literacy.
- (4) To assist States in measuring the impact of education in economics.
- (5) To leverage and expand private and public support for economic education partnerships at national, State, and local levels.
- (a) AUTHORIZATION- The Secretary is authorized to award a competitive grant to a national nonprofit educational organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of the quality of student understanding of personal finance and economics through effective teaching of economics in the Nation's classrooms (referred to in this subpart as the grantee').
- (b) USES OF FUNDS-
- (1) DIRECT ACTIVITIES- The grantee shall use 25 percent of the funds made available through the grant for a fiscal year —
- (A) to strengthen and expand the grantee's relationships with State and local personal finance, entrepreneurial, and economic education organizations;
- (B) to support and promote training of teachers who teach a grade from kindergarten through grade 12 regarding economics, including the dissemination of information on effective practices and research findings regarding the teaching of economics;
- (C) to support research on effective teaching practices and the development of assessment instruments to document student understanding of personal finance and economics; and
- (D) to develop and disseminate appropriate materials to foster economic literacy.
- (2) SUBGRANTS- The grantee shall use 75 percent of the funds made available through the grant for a fiscal year to award subgrants to State educational agencies or local educational agencies, and State or local economic, personal finance, or entrepreneurial education organizations (referred to in this section as the recipient'). The grantee shall award such a subgrant to pay for the Federal share of the cost of enabling the recipient to work in partnership with one or more of the entities described in paragraph (3) for one or more of the following purposes:
- (A) Collaboratively establishing and conducting teacher training programs that use effective and innovative approaches to the teaching of economics, personal finance, and entrepreneurship.
- (B) Providing resources to school districts that desire to incorporate economics and personal finance into the curricula of the schools in the districts.
- (C) Conducting evaluations of the impact of economic and financial literacy education on students.
- (D) Conducting economic and financial literacy education research.
- (E) Creating and conducting school-based student activities to promote consumer, economic, and personal finance education (such as saving, investing, and entrepreneurial education) and to encourage awareness and student academic achievement in economics.
- (F) Encouraging replication of best practices to promote economic and financial literacy.
- (3) PARTNERSHIP ENTITIES- The entities described in this paragraph are the following:
- (A) A private sector entity.
- (B) A State educational agency.
- (C) A local educational agency.
- (D) An institution of higher education.
- (E) An organization promoting economic development.
- (F) An organization promoting educational excellence.
- (G) An organization promoting personal finance or entrepreneurial education.
- (a) GRANTEE APPLICATIONS- To be eligible to receive a grant under this subpart, the grantee shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require.
- (b) RECIPIENT APPLICATIONS-
- (1) SUBMISSION- To be eligible to receive a subgrant under this section, a recipient shall submit an application to the grantee at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the grantee may require.
- (2) REVIEW- The grantee shall invite the individuals described in paragraph (3) to review all applications from recipients for a subgrant under this section and to make recommendations to the grantee regarding the approval of the applications.
- (3) REVIEWERS- The individuals described in this paragraph are the following:
- (i) Leaders in the fields of economics and education.
- (ii) Such other individuals as the grantee determines to be necessary, especially members of the State and local business, banking, and finance communities.
- (a) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS- The grantee and each recipient receiving a subgrant under this subpart for a fiscal year may use not more than 5 percent of the funds made available through the grant or subgrant for administrative costs.
- (b) TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS- In carrying out the teacher training programs described in section 5533(b)(2)(A), a recipient shall —
- (1) train teachers who teach a grade from kindergarten through grade 12; and
- (2) encourage teachers from disciplines other than economics and financial literacy to participate in such teacher training programs, if the training will promote the economic and financial literacy of those teachers' students.
- (c) INVOLVEMENT OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY- In carrying out the activities assisted under this subpart, the grantee and recipients are strongly encouraged to —
- (1) include interactions with the local business community to the fullest extent possible to reinforce the connection between economic and financial literacy and economic development; and
- (2) work with private businesses to obtain matching contributions for Federal funds and assist recipients in working toward self-sufficiency.
- (d) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE- The grantee shall —
- (1) meet such other requirements as the Secretary determines to be necessary to assure compliance with this section; and
- (2) receive from the Secretary such technical assistance as may be necessary to carry out this section.
- (a) FEDERAL SHARE- The Federal share of the cost described in section 5533(b)(2) shall be 50 percent.
- (b) PAYMENT OF NON-FEDERAL SHARE- The non-Federal share may be paid in cash or in kind (fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services).
- (c) REPORTS TO CONGRESS- Not later than 2 years after the date funds are first made available to carry out this subpart, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report regarding activities assisted under this subpart.
- Funds made available to carry out this subpart shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds expended for the purpose described in section 5532(a).
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 22, 2005) - Competition at the third annual Niswonger Track and Field Invitational wrapped up Saturday afternoon in the Memorial Center at East Tennessee State University.
It was another day of record setting events as Ladji Doucour�, who recently finished eighth in the 110-meter hurdles at the Olympics in Athens, Greece for the French National team, set a new Memorial Center record in the 60-meter hurdle finals. He finished with a time of 7.63, which replaces the previous record of 7.65 set by Allen Johnson in 1997.
USA Track and Field's Miguel Pate, who is sponsored by Nike, won the long jump with a mark of 7.89m. The Niswonger Invitational is Pate's first meet competing back at 100 percent since an ACL injury in 2002. Pate was the 2002 and 2003 USA Indoor champion and placed third at the 2003 World Indoor Championships. In 2002, Pate claimed the NCAA Indoor Championship and in 2001, he was the World University Games champion and placed fourth at the World Outdoor Championships. He holds personal bests of 8.59m in the long jump and 16.62m in the triple jump.
ETSU alumni Catherine Berry, a native of Surrey, England. Berry easily took the 3000-meter invitational with a time of 9:18.55. Her closest competitor trailed her by over 30 seconds. Last year Berry competed at the IAAF Grand Prix II meet in Heusden, Belgium and reached the Olympic �B' Standard (15:20.45) in the 5000 meters with a time of 15:19.72 a new personal best. During her career at ETSU from 1997-2000, Berry earned All-American honors in the 5000 meters and made six trips to NCAA meets, three for cross country and three for track and field. Berry holds the Buccaneer record in the outdoor 3000 meters with a time of 9:29.91 set in 1999.
Berry has also seen success as a coach and is currently the volunteer assistant coach for the women's distance runners at ETSU. Three of her athletes Maggie Hunter, Christine Ward, and MacKenzie LaBonte all competed well in the distance session of Niswonger held earlier Saturday morning.
For the ETSU women, senior Chantelle Vernon (Markham, Ontario) competed in the 60-meter dash finals and placed fourth with a time of 7.60.
Up next for the Bucs is the Appalachian State Invitational next Friday, Jan. 28.


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We all know Sonja Morgan as the flamboyant, confident, fur hat with yoga clothes wearing housewife who has a taste for luxury on The Real Housewives of New York. Sonja, whose money struggles has been highlighted this season, is now opening up on her unfavorable situation and what she plans to do to get out of it.
Sonja, who was forced to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy after being sued for a failed movie venture, reveals to the NY Post that her never-ending divorce is adding to her financial troubles. She states, "I'm sure the world thinks, 'Sonja doesn't have to worry, she's got that husband there for her.' But I'm on my own." The absent husband she is referring to is her ex, 80-year-old John Adams Morgan, who, according to court papers filed by Sonja, owes her a $3 million divorce judgment and over $300,000 in alimony.
Sonja, 47, also claims that her ex-husband, whose family tree includes J.P. Morgan and President John Adams, has prohibited her from using, visiting or selling the properties the couple still co-owns. For someone who lives on his own private $19 million island, Sonja feels her ex is being a tad stingy. Because the divorce remains unsettled, Sonja fears she will have to sell her $6 million Upper East Side home featured on RHONY. Through his attorney, Adams Morgan tells his reason for the delay in payment. He believes the divorce judgment exceeds the amount he promised to pay in pre and post-nuptial agreements, and he is appealing the judge's order.
A source also tells E! News that Sonja, who earns $275,000 a year from RHONY, is "devastated" and hoping she can keep the home for her daughter. "She wants to sell it back to her ex husband, so she can make that money off it and her daughter can live there, but he's refusing. She wants to keep it for her daughter, but it seems she'll have to sell it and lose it altogether," states the source.
Meanwhile, Sonja has a plan to get back on track financially, and that plan includes emulating former Housewife cast member Bethenny Frankel. Sonja tells Popeater, "I'll be like Bethenny. I'll do the deals first, then the baby, then get married. Bethenny is funny as hell. I enjoyed my time with her. I'm going to be on E! Hollywood Story for Bethenny. She's one smart cookie, and I'm following right behind her."
Sonja also opens up about the business deals that added to her money woes. "I woke up one morning and decided to be a movie producer. I put a slate of five movies together, and I started Sonja Productions. I had a movie come out with Forrest Whittaker and Gabrielle Anwar, and we got two awards, and it was on a roll. And then one of my movie deals, it was one big misunderstanding, and then they sued me and I wasn't adequately represented, and I lost. That's ok I'm a survivor. I'll be fine. I'll take care of Sonja. What goes around comes around, and the universe always gives back. And I'm such a giver."
Of course, as we all know, where Bethenny made her fortune from Skinnygirl, Sonja is hoping to do the same with toaster ovens. More power to you, Sonja! Sonja is pictured above with her daughter Quincy Morgan at the June 29 World premiere of Cirque du Soleil 'Zarkana.
Photo credit: Joseph Marzullo/Wenn.com
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Intelligent alien life is likely relatively rare throughout our Milky Way galaxy, with fewer than one in a million solar systems harboring civilizations advanced enough to send out radio signals, a new study reports.
A research team that includes famed alien hunter Jill Tarter — the model for astronomer Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan's famous book "Contact" — surveyed dozens of planet-hosting stars for radio signals from alien civilizations. They turned up nothing.
"No signals of extraterrestrial origin were found," the researchers conclude in the study, which has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
Searching for signs of intelligent life
The team selected 86 stars using data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, and also observed 19 stars that serendipitously fell within range as they searched the primary targets. (One planet candidate turned out to be a false positive, reducing the total number of targets to 104.) [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]
The researchers were working with the catalog of Kepler planetary candidates, which at the time included 1,235 possible exoplanets. (That number is now up to 2,740, with 105 of them confirmed to date.)
The astronomers limited their search to stars that host five or six planet candidates, some of which reside within the habitable zone — the range of distances from a star where liquid water can exist on a world's surface. The selected stars are about 1,000 light-years to 1,500 light-years from Earth.
Radio signals in narrow, focused bands are a possible indication of intelligent life, given that humans generate such signals here on Earth.
So, using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the team probed each star system for five minutes between February and April 2011. They examined the planets in a radio-frequency range of 1.1 to 1.9 GHz, which is between the cell phone and television bands used on Earth.
This range of frequencies includes a so-called "watering hole" between 1.4 GHz and 1.7 GHz, where hydrogen and hydroxyl (both components of water) emit signals from quantum processes detectable in radio telescopes.
"The analogy is, it's the water hole where animals go in the desert, so perhaps this band of frequencies is a common gathering place for E.T.," study lead author Andrew Siemion of the University of California, Berkeley, told SPACE.com.
Researchers scrutinized the data for planets transmitting signals in a narrow band of 5 Hz, which is considered too narrow for transmission from a natural source. They came up empty.
One in a million
Based on their findings, the researchers calculated that fewer than one in a million stars in the Milky Way likely harbor a civilization advanced enough to send out detectable signals.
But there could still be millions of civilizations out there waiting to be found, the scientists added, since billions of Earth-like planets are thought to populate the Milky Way.
The team also cautioned that searching for one particular type of signal could have reduced their odds of finding something.
"In particular, we can offer no argument that an advanced, intelligent civilization necessarily produces narrow-band radio emission, either intentional or otherwise," the study states. "Thus we are probing only a potential subset of such civilizations, where the size of the subset is difficult to estimate."
The researchers acknowledged that narrow radio signals are subject to interference from the interstellar medium — a thin gas floating between the stars — and the solar wind, which is a stream of particles coming from the sun. However, they did not foresee these phenomena interfering unduly with their observations in the current study, given the distance of the stellar targets.
The team will use the Green Bank Telescope again to refine their search in the coming months, looking particularly at stars that have two planets aligning in relation to Earth. The scientists hope to listen in as the planets communicate with each other, if the planets are transmitting signals in the first place.
They also plan to "piggyback" on regular observations by the telescope to automatically monitor for signals as other science teams do separate investigations.
This was the first time the telescope was used for such alien-hunting work, Siemion added. In the future, more sensitive radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, might be able to find even weaker signals than we can detect now, he said.
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Leviathan DLC Walkthrough Part 1
To access the Leviathan DLC, check Commander Shepard's email on the Normandy. There will be an email from Admiral Hackett prompting a visit to the Citadel to meet with Dr. Bryson. When arriving at the Citadel, there will now be an option to go directly to Dr. Bryson's laboratory.
Click here for Part 2.
Mission Details
Fail Conditions
- War Asset: Ann Bryson
- War Asset: Leviathan Enthrallment Team
- AT-12 Raider Shotgun
- M-55 Argus
- Dominate
- Pistol Cranial Trauma System
- Ultralight Pistol Materials
- Assault Rifle Omni-Blade
- SMG High-Velocity Barrel
- SMG Recoil System
- Currently the new weapon modifications do not carry over when you import your ME3 character for another playthrough.
Mission Enemies
After receiving this email from Admiral Hackett, head over to the Citadel to meet Dr. Bryson. Talk with him and his assistant, until issues arise.
After investigating the lab, and applying filters to the lab's galaxy map, determine that Dr. Bryson's assistant, Dr. Garneau, is located at the Caleston Rift, specifically on Mahavid, an asteroid. Before leaving, make sure to grab all of the Weapon Modifications that are in the lab.
First, scan for Mahavid, so you know where to go. After landing on the dig site, and fixing the elevator with the repair drone, make your way to the crew quarters. Once there, work towards the medical bay, where you will meet Dr. Garneau. Give chase after he starts to run. After rescuing the research assistants, head back to the Citadel.
Once back in Dr. Bryson's lab, do some more investigating and research. It seems that there is a strange artifact that has a way of indoctrinating people, but it isn't Reaper tech. It seems that Bryson has a daughter who is working on figuring everything all out. Go find and meet up with her on the planet of Namakli in the Plyos Nebula.
For Part 2 of the Leviathan DLC walkthrough, continue to Leviathan DLC Walkthrough Part 2.
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Megan Fox Speaks In Tongues and Is Symmetrical: an Analysis of Esquire's Terrible Profile
Megan Fox is a cuckoo clock rooster crowing "Wack-a-doodle-doo" at the midnight moon, and still the primary focus of her new Esquire profile is that Megan Fox is pretty.
The following is just a brief sampling of the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of insane things Megan Fox says to the magazine this month:
"I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded."
"When war breaks out in the Holy Land, like it is right now, if that is a sign of the immediate end times, then where are the other signs?"
"[Speaking in tongues] feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head. I'm going to sound like such a lunatic - and then your whole body is filled with this electric current."
Over the course of roughly 2,400 words, the actress reveals that she believes in aliens. She believes in leprechauns. She keeps a giant "red-and-gold Byzantine icon of a crucified Christ" surrounded by "rows of white candles" in her hallway. She is a Pentecostal church-goer who has been speaking in tongues since age eight, and she believes this glossolalia (generally regarded by linguistics as gibberish) is "the language that's spoken in heaven."
All this, and still the main takeaway in Stephen Marche's profile is that Megan Fox is pretty. Not even pretty, actually, but very symmetrical.
The symmetry of her face, up close, is genuinely shocking. […] It's not really even that beautiful.
The piece opens with Megan Fox and Marche "discussing" an Aztec ritual ("Megan Fox is not an ancient Aztec," we're told) in which a "perfect youth" is sacrificed to the gods of heavy handed metaphor as retribution for Megan Fox's (relative) beauty and celebrity.
This discussion, we are informed, takes place "deep in [Fox's] house," a phrase that suggests, perhaps, that Megan Fox lives in the famous "Winchester Mystery House," a maze-like Queen Anne-style monument to paranoia, boasting some 160 rooms. Later, it becomes clear she's just in her basement.
Megan Fox is attractive, Marche explains. She is attractive in a way that is physical. Many people know about her because of her physical attractiveness. She is more attractive than Lena Dunham, Adele, Lady Gaga, and Amy Adams (poor Amy Adams):
Lena Dunham and Adele and Lady Gaga and Amy Adams are all perfectly plain, and they are all at the top of their field.
Yes, she is quite attractive indeed.
Unfortunately, every time Megan Fox attempts to peel back one of her attractive, symmetrical layers to show the hometown Florida crazy that lies underneath, the profile jumps back—trips over itself—to remind us that she is famous and also attractive.
"She believes that people are inherently bad," begins one paragraph and, wow, that's an interesting, bold stance for a starlet to take. Let's hear more about that.
"When she read about the nanny who allegedly murdered two young children in New York, she fired her own." Holy shit – this is great stuff. How did that happen? Did she do it the same day? What did she say to her nanny? What did the nanny say to her?
We never find out. From there, the narrative jumps to a boring explanation of how she kept the birth of her son private. (She just went to the hospital and had a baby and then told everyone, but not right away.)
Maddeningly, Marche wraps things up with a series of half-quotes, any of which, if pursued to their inevitable crazy conclusion, would have made for more interesting reading than endless variations on the theme of Megan Fox owning her prettiness.
"Loch Ness monster - there's something to it...."
"There's the Bell Witch..."
"We should all believe in leprechauns. I'm a believer...."
With that, the profile ends as it began: suffocating under the weight of a giant honking metaphor.
In the ancient story of the flood, Noah and his family are the only ones who escape the general destruction of the corrupt world.
Megan Fox's son's name is Noah.


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If you are a new, early stage or established business owner, we will match you with an experienced business mentor.
Your EI mentor can help you identify and overcome obstacles to growth, providing the tailored advice, guidance and support you need to grow your business.
Enterprise Ireland's Mentor Network has a panel of more than 400 highly experienced business people. These are entrepreneurs, founders and senior executives with international commercial business development experience. They can offer practical advice and guidance based on their own business experience, on a one to one basis.
Mentors do not act as consultants. They are a confidential sounding board, advising you on key operational and strategic issues.
Our panel of Mentors can help you with a range of business activities such as: Commercialisation of new products and services
Think about what aspect of your business you need help with and what experience and skills you would like your mentor to have. Then talk to your EI Development Advisor (DA). When your application is approved, we will match you with a shortlist of mentors that are experienced in your sector, issue or new market.
The final choice of the mentor is yours. If you have a number of issues you would like to address in your business, for example, a strategy related issue and a finance one, then more than one mentor can be assigned to you consecutively. We will make every effort to ensure you get the best mentor for the specific needs of your business.
All Mentors sign a strict confidentiality agreement with Enterprise Ireland. Once you choose a mentor, agree the objectives and goals you want to work towards. Then meet with your mentor 3, 5, or 10 times over 3, 6 or 12 months – depending on your business's needs.
The Mentor Network is open to Enterprise Ireland clients who are manufacturing or internationally traded services companies employing between 10 and 249 people and High Potential Start Ups (HPSUs).
Enterprise Ireland provides grant support to qualifying companies towards the cost of a mentor for up to 10 sessions (to a total of €1,750). EI pays this directly to your mentor on your behalf.
While mentors volunteer to advise our clients, we pay them a per diem or honorarium of €175 per meeting to secure their commitment and we reimburse them for expenses such as local mileage.
There is no cost to you, but to secure your commitment to the programme, and where there is some distance between you and your mentor, we will ask you to travel to your mentor's location for some of the sessions or meet half-way.
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The Mentor Network Programme is open for applications all year round.
Enterprise Ireland's Mentor Network panel is open to applications from potential mentors all year round. Send your CV to firstname.lastname@example.com to find out more about the programme.
New mentors are recruited to the programme throughout the year. We start by looking at gaps on our mentor panel. We then assess the depth of a potential mentor's experience in starting and scaling a business internationally. We consider their experience in light of the requests for help we get from our clients, and the sectors they are in. The mentor team reviews all CVs against these criteria on a weekly basis. If successful, you will be asked to complete a detailed profile form and attend our monthly mentor recruitment day.
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Garfield's Defense 2: The Food Invaders Strike Back
Garfield is back, now with multiplayer! Join the fat lazy cat in this epic struggle against ridiculous alien overlords! Only Garfield can protect the world from the menace of the Food Invaders; these nasty aliens did not take kindly to their defeat in the first installment of this series and now they're targeting the whole world! So begins Garfield's Defense 2: The Food Invaders Strike Back!
Get ready for another alien-whacking adventure – FREE! Garfield's Defense 2: The Food Invaders Strike Back is brought to you by Web Prancer, the people behind the original Garfield's Defense, Feed Garfield, Garfield's Diner, and other top-rated Garfield games.
After getting crushed by Garfield and the rest of the Arbuckle household in the first awesome game, the Food Invaders withdrew to plan revenge on our little blue planet. The aliens abandoned their plans to capture Jon's fridge, and now plot to take over all food, everywhere. It is a dark time, and the fate of our planet hangs by a thread. The aliens are descending on New York, Paris… even Santa Claus in his North Pole retreat is not safe!
But the Food Invaders must first overcome our heroic defenders: choose to play as Garfield, Odie, or Nermal, and command legions of characters from the beloved Garfield comics including Wade the duck, the sheep Lanolin, Orson the pig and more!
Arm yourself with new skills and new game mechanics to wage cartoonish battle against the Food Invaders in three gorgeous locations around the world! Garfield's Defense 2: The Food Invaders Strike Back combines the best elements of action, siege, tower, strategy and defense games with colorful graphics straight out of the original comic.
New in this sequel: challenge your friends to a battle over the last slice of pizza in the new player-versus-player mode! Also: three new locations, new skills, new items, and Liz, Jon's girlfriend! All this and more in one delicious free game!
– Play as Garfield, Odie, or Nermal
– A challenging mix of tower-defense, siege, and strategy mechanics
– Amazing graphics, straight out of the Garfield comics
– Rout the aliens in 60 different levels at New York, Paris, and even Santa's workshop
– Enlist the aid of Garfield's friends from U.S. Acres
– Pummel the food invaders with a variety of wacky special moves
– Obtain and upgrade a wide array of weapons to help you beat back the Food Invaders
– Upgrade your army and improve your defenses against the alien threat
– Battle it out with your friends in PvP


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For Bayonne readers, who will see this column after the election, the impact of Gov. Christopher Christie's name at the top of the ticket will already be known. But in the closing days of the election, many wondered if his moves to position himself in the political mainstream would actually hurt the Republicans on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Christie is looking for bi-partisan window dressing that will allow him to pile up an election landslide over state Senator Barbara Buono so as to make him an appealing candidate for president of the United States in 2016.
But has he been too friendly with Democrats, making friends of those who endorse him or build up his ego?
His success will hinge not on the total number of votes he gets in his reelection bid, but how many Republicans he carries into the state legislature on his coattails, and some political observers believe he actually may lose some seats.
A perfect example Republicans cite is in the 33rd District, where state Sen. Brian Stack, a Democrat, has endorsed Christie, guaranteeing not only a large turnout for the governor, but nearly guaranteed election of Stack's Democratic runningmates Carmelo Garcia of Hoboken, and Raj Mukherji.
How does Stack's Republican challenger, James Sanford of Hoboken, hope to get himself and his two Assembly runningmates, Jude Tiscornia of Jersey City and Armando Hernandez of Union City, elected?
Republican Maria Karczewski of Bayonne has the same problem when facing off against Democratic Sen. Sandra Cunningham. Christie and Cunningham are close and so she and her runningmates Assemblymen Jason O'Donnell and Charles Mainor are likely to benefit more from a Christie landslide than Karczewski or her running mates Gerard Pizzillo and Juanita Lopez.
While Republican Paul Castelli of Kearny and his Assembly runningmates Maria Malavasi-Quartello and
Buono, of course, is the sacrificial lamb that Democrats have put up against a very popular Republican governor, but as local Democrats in Hudson County point out, this is Christie's last statewide election, and if Democrats come out ahead or even break even this time, they will be in a good position to retake the statehouse in 2017 – or at least, set the agenda that a weaker Republican governor might not be able to overturn.
A Christie landslide will not likely have much of an impact on the election of the Hudson County sheriff, where the incumbent Frank Schillari is opposed by Republican Fernando Villar, and independents John Butranavage, Anthony Di Iorio, and Herbert H. Shaw.
E. Junior Maldonado is running unopposed in a special election for the 4th District Freeholder seat. Guttenberg Mayor Gerald R. Drasheff and his council ticket of Monica Fundora, John D. Habermann, and Efrain Velez are also running unopposed. So is Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli with his ticket of council candidates that include Robert Costantino, Mark Dehnert, and William McKeever.
Hoboken is a mess
Guttenberg, Jersey City, and Hoboken are all having school board elections.
Hoboken has a contested school board election with nine candidates seeking three seats in a classic battle that has an odd crossover influence on the municipal elections taking place at the same time. Combined with a ballot question on rent control, the Hoboken election is one of the most confusing and time-consuming to follow.
The municipal elections are distracting from the school elections, all of which were moved to November as a kind of budget-saving measure (although this year Mayor Dawn Zimmer is expected to get something of a boost from running with Christie.)
With the mayor and council race largely taking center stage, school elections may not get the same attention they otherwise would deserve.
Polls are scarce recently, but there have been two. One, done apparently for the mayoral campaign of Assemblyman Ruben Ramos, shows Zimmer in the lead with 40 percent of likely voters, Ramos close behind with 35 percent, and Councilman Tim Occhipinti far behind both with something just short of 15 percent. This leaves about 10 percent undecided. (Alternative poll numbers have Zimmer at 40, Ramos at 30, Occhipinti at 15 with 15 percent undecided.)
Ramos supporters believe they can win the election partly because his voters tend to be unrepresented in polls and they believe undecided voters tend go against the incumbent.
This would make the race neck and neck going into the last week of the election.
But this could change dramatically. Behind the scenes reports claim that Ramos campaign is just about out of money, leaving the well-funded Occhipinti campaign with enough cash to blanket local media and shift not only undecided votes to Occhipinti, but shake some loose from the Ramos camp as well.
But it is also possible that the constant negative campaigning of the Occhipinti camp could drive his voters to Ramos instead.
The second poll, apparently done for Occhipinti, seemed more focused on the City Council race, a much more difficult number to evaluate since most of the candidates are bracketed. In this poll Frank Raia came up with the most name recognition. This explains the heavy push from the Occhipinti camp to go after Zimmer's council candidate, Ravi Bhalla, hoping to shake voter confidence in Bhalla in favor of Raia.
The problem is with so many alternative candidates running, even if the ploy is successful in damaging Bhalla (unlikely among his supporters) voters have too many choices to guarantee a Raia victory.
Opposition to the Zimmer ticket also blundered. While the negative campaign against Bhalla makes some political sense, recent attacks against Jennifer Giattino (who is not running) over her legal residence may just galvanize the Zimmer voters. Giattino was accused of not living in the ward where she serves as council person. She was displaced as a result of Hurricane Sandy, winning her increased sympathy as the victim of a senseless political attack, and by default, undoing some of the successes the opposition has against Bhalla.
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The next Final Cut Pro, X, is coming out this June for $300. The video editor will be written as a full 64-bit application with support for Grand Central Dispatch (Apple's technology that allows a piece of software to dynamically utilize many processor cores, utilizing a modern CPU more effectively and rendering video more quickly.) Note the iMovie like interface in the image above. Photography Bay liveblogged the details here: [Photography Bay via Macrumors]
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by Mary Carlomagno
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 1, 2011)
Do you find yourself constantly multi-tasking? I know I'm guilty of it. You might be surprised to learn that a landmark study covered in the New York Times recently found Americans don't necessarily accomplish more by multi-tasking. As a matter of fact, they found we get less done because we don't give our full attention to the tasks at hand. Hmm... this multi-tasker may have finally found some reasoning behind my ever-growing pile of UFO's!
Live More,Want Less: 52 Ways to Find Order in Your Life just might hold some of the answers many of us have been searching for! Author Mary Carlomagno provides a solution to our distracted existence through this guide to living more simply and with more clarity by subtracting stuff and adding experiences.
Live More, Want Less is a user friendly, non-judgmental guide to simplifying life in an easy to achieve, week-at-a-time format. Get ready to toss the chaos and clutter out the window, and welcome in order and sereknity! Each weekly theme is presented in a fun way with a list of daily practices to follow. Topics covered include procrastination (tops on my personal list), possession obsession, weight loss, traveling, book collections (who else has a very overflowing bookshelf... or five?), eliminating "should" from your vocabulary and how to merge two people's stuff into one household.
Packaged in an easy to manage paperback, you can tuck a copy of Live More, Want Less into your bag and take it on the go - just don't read it while you're knitting or playing fetch with Fido. The format of the book is along the lines of the theme - it's easy on the eyes, the chapters are concise and the illustrations provide some prettiness to the pages without cluttering them up. I'm ready to learn how to live with less and find what truly counts this year - more living, more love and more meaning! How about you?
About the Author: Mary Carlomagno is the founder of Order, a company that specializes in clutter control, urban apartment solutions, office spaces and shopping addictions. Mary has been on Oprah, The Today Show and CBS News, and her articles have appeared in Woman's Day, Newsday, Real Simple and the New York Daily News. She is a columnist for Care.com and a regular contributor to Design NJ. Mary lives with her husband and children live in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Muslim cab drivers make their case in hearing
The rule at the airport cab stand is, if passengers are dangerous or intoxicated, drivers are not required to serve them. Cabbies who refuse service for any other reason must go to the end of the taxi line. It can take up to three hours to reach the front again. Drivers can lose time and money.
"It's worth it to me because of my belief," says driver Omar Farah.
Farah says his Muslim faith does not allow him to serve anyone carrying alcohol. He says he's refused several passengers for that reason.
"If I do that, I participate with a sin. That person is committing a sin and I am participating with him. That's what the belief is," he says.
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An estimated 70 percent of the roughly 900 taxi drivers serving the airport are Somali immigrants who are predominantly Muslim. Not all of them refuse passengers carrying alcohol. There are reportedly some Muslim drivers, though, who are also refusing rides to passengers traveling with pets.
Farah says he doesn't have a problem with animals. But, he says, some drivers are concerned about close contact with a dog or cat.
"In his mouth, if you touch on your body or something else," he says, "that's considered contaminated, or something bad."
Farah says most of those cabbies can live with going to the back of the line. But, if the MAC starts suspending or revoking taxi licenses, as it's proposing, Farah feels the MAC would be "breaking its promise," as he puts it.
MAC officials say taxi drivers need to remember they're in the business of customer service.
"It's always been MAC's policy, period, that people get served," says Commissioner Mike Landy
The MAC is moving in a fast track to tell the drivers either do it in a certain way or you have to basically give up your license, which is pretty unfortunate.
According to Landy, the MAC receives dozens of complaints--sometimes nearly 100 a month--from people who've been refused service, most because of alcohol. He says MAC staff have proposed new rules with more "teeth," and that's what the public hearings are about.
The first offense would bring a 30-day suspension to cab drivers refusing service for any reason other than safety. And if it happens a second time, the MAC would take away a cabbie's airport license.
Landy says the proposed ordinance emerged after an earlier compromise fell through. The initial proposal would have put colored lights on top of cabs that would not take alcohol or animals. He says that would have been a seamless solution, and he supported it. But the proposal got international attention and brought thousands of complaints. Landy says the MAC scrapped the idea because it feared passengers would misuse the accommodation.
"Someone could walk up and say, 'I don't want a Muslim cabdriver. I'm unhappy with the notion they won't carry my alcohol.' They may not even have alcohol. It's this clash of cultures is what it amounts to," Landy says.
But leaders in the local Muslim community like Hesham Hussein say the MAC shouldn't have dismissed the colored-light proposal so quickly.
"The MAC is moving in a fast track to tell the drivers either do it in a certain way or you have to basically give up your license, which is pretty unfortunate because I thought the solution that was reached between the two groups should have been given an opportunity at least to be tested," Hussein says.
Hussein, president of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, has acted as a facilitator between MAC officials and the taxi drivers on this issue. He estimates that hundreds of Muslim cabbies could lose their jobs if the ordinance goes through.
He says he'd like the MAC to slow down, keep the conversation going, and stay open to other solutions.
Landy says he wonders if the proposed penalties go too far, but he hasn't yet made up his mind.
Landy and two other commissioners will take public testimony on the new penalties and make a recommendation to the rest of the 15-member panel. If the commissioners approve the ordinance, it would take effect in May.


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Surprise frustrations
So, I am using way more soap than usual when washing my hands, which has been drying out the skin a lot. To try to counteract that I've been using lotion a lot more. But it turns out that this leads to more tactile stimulation on my fingers (basically I constantly feel like I've just been soaking in the bathtub for an hour) which in turn leads to a sensory overload/pain flare, and it doesn't even help with the dry skin anyway, and the dry skin also leads to its own level of sensory issues too. And Fiona's insistence on sitting on my lap while I work isn't helping at all. Just before lunch I had a bit of a meltdown because of it.
I guess I need to figure out a better way to periodically clean my hands without leading to other issues.
I could also really use a haircut, because my wild scraggly hair getting in my face is making this worse. Of course all the hair stylists are (rightfully) closed right now. I suppose I could break out my Flowbee but that feels like it's taking the "mental stress due to isolation" look a bit too far. (Plus I don't want my hair to be that short right now. I need every femininity cue I can get these days.) Maybe it's time to finally learn how to use hair clips, but I suspect feeling them bouncing against my face would make me flare too.
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US Pre-clearance Facility
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility at Terminal 3 in Abu Dhabi International Airport is a purpose-built facility that allows U.S. bound passengers to undertake all immigration, customs and agriculture inspections in Abu Dhabi, prior to departure.
Abu Dhabi International Airport is one of only a handful of airports in the world that offers the CBP facility. Having cleared CBP, guests can check through their baggage to their final destination in the United States. On reaching the U.S., guests will be treated as domestic arrivals, which allows for faster processing at their arrival airport.
Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosksAutomated Passport Control (APC) kiosks is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that expedites the entry process for U.S., Canadian and eligible 'Visa Waiver Program' international travelers by providing an automated process through CBP's Primary Inspection area.
When flying with Etihad Airways, you can use the APC self-service kiosks to submit your Customs declaration form and biometric information. APC is a free service, does not require pre-registration or membership, and maintains the highest levels of protection when it comes to the handling of personal data and information.
Travelers using APC experience shorter waiting times and faster processing when passing through Abu Dhabi International Airport.Overview of requirements
If you are traveling to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) you must:
- Apply for authorisation to travel under the VWP using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ESTA website no less than 72 hours prior to travel.
- Add API (Advance Passenger Information) to your booking up to 1 hour in advance of the first flight on your itinerary.
- Know the restricted and prohibited merchandise you can bring to the U.S.
- Hold an individual machine readable passport and a confirmed return or onward ticket (or e-ticket) for departure from the United States within 90 days.
- Complete relevant CBP Customs Declaration form at Abu Dhabi International Airport on the day of departure.
If you are travelling to the U.S. with a valid visa you must:
- Know the required documents for your trip.
- Know the restricted and prohibited merchandise you can bring to the U.S.
- Complete relevant CBP Customs Declaration form at Abu Dhabi International Airport on the day of departure.
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Department of Homeland Security 'U.S. Visit' Program
Since January 5th, 2004, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been implementing the 'U.S. Visit Program'.
This program applies to all visitors. It does not apply to U.S. citizens or U.S. legal residents. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers will use an inkless fingerprint scanner to automatically read the fingerprints of these visitors. The Customs and Border Protection officer will also take a digital photograph. This biographic and fingerprint data will be used to verify the identity of the visitor. For additional information visit www.dhs.gov/us-visit
U.S. Immigration – Terminal 3 (T3) Abu Dhabi International Airport
Select flights to the U.S. must pre-clear U.S. Customs and Immigration in Terminal 3 (Abu Dhabi) before departure.
Please review the U.S. CBP pre-clearance requirements before arriving at the airport.
After check-in or arrival in Abu Dhabi International Airport, guests on these flights should follow the airport signage for the U.S. Pre-clearance facility. The entrance to the U.S. Pre-clearance facility is adjacent to gates 58-61. Please proceed to the facility not later than 60-minutes before departure.
Duty Free goods including cigarettes and alcohol cannot be sold on-board flights which pre-clear U.S. Customs and Immigration in Abu Dhabi. Do not buy Duty Free liquor or perfumes in excess of 100ml.
Liquids, aerosols and gels, (LAGS) in limited quantities, are safe to bring on board an aircraft. Each traveler is allowed one bag in order to limit the total volume of liquids, aerosols and gels. Consolidating products into one bag and X-raying them separately from the carry-on bag enables security officers to quickly clear all items.
The 3-1-1 rule:
3-1-1 for carry-ons = 3.4 ounce (100ml) bottle or less (by volume); 1 quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag; 1 bag per passenger placed in screening bin. One-quart bag per person limits the total liquid volume each traveller can bring.
Each time TSA searches a carry-on it slows down the line. Practicing 3-1-1 will ensure a faster and easier checkpoint experience.
Declare larger liquids. Medications, baby formula and food, and breast milk, are allowed in reasonable quantities exceeding three ounces and are not required to be in the zip-top bag. Declare these items for inspection at the checkpoint. Officers may need to open these items to conduct additional screening.
This means that liquor and perfumes bought at duty free are not allowed through a TSA check, even if they are in a STEBs bag (Secure Tamper-Evident Bag).
Check-in for all flights to the U.S. will close 120 minutes before departure for guests who are commencing their journey in Abu Dhabi.
Customs Declaration Forms will be available at Etihad Airways check-in counters and onboard flights. Guests joining from other destinations will also be able to get the forms at Abu Dhabi check-in counters.
Travel information on electronic devices
All guests traveling to the U.S, UK or Canada, from Abu Dhabi International Airport, are required to turn on all electronic devices in their possession prior to boarding. Guests must ensure that all electronic devices in their hand luggage or on their person, including mobile phones, tablets and laptops, are charged, to minimize any potential disruption to their journey.
Abu Dhabi International Airport does not have a facility to store devices which cannot be powered up and Etihad Airways cannot take responsibility for devices which are left behind.
This requirement is part of enhanced security measures by the authorities of these countries. Failure to comply may result in not being allowed to take the device(s) onto the aircraft or being denied access to fly.
U.S. Premium Lounge
First and Business Class guests traveling from Abu Dhabi to destinations in the United States can now use our U.S. Premium Lounge, after having cleared U.S. Immigration and Customs. The lounge offers comfortable seating and light refreshments while you wait for your flight to board.


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This tutorial exists for these OS versions
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- Linux Mint 13 (Maya)
- Linux Mint 12 (Lisa)
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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 11 (Katya)
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 11 (Katya) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 11 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 11.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.
I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
To fully replace a Windows desktop, I want the Linux Mint 11 desktop to have the following software installed:
- The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
- Shotwell Photo Manager - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
- Google Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos
- Firefox
- Opera
- Chromium - Google's open-source browser
- Flash Player 10
- FileZilla - multithreaded FTP client
- Thunderbird - email and news client
- Evolution - combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions
- aMule - P2P file sharing application
- Transmission BitTorrent Client - Bittorrent client
- Vuze - Java Bittorrent client
- Pidgin - multi-platform instant messaging client
- Skype
- Google Earth
- Xchat IRC - IRC client
- Gwibber Social Client - open-source microblogging client (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
- LibreOffice Writer - replacement for Microsoft Word
- LibreOffice Calc - replacement for Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Reader
- GnuCash - double-entry book-keeping personal finance system, similar to Quicken
- Scribus - open source desktop publishing (DTP) application
Sound & Video:
- Amarok - audio player
- Audacity - free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor
- Banshee - audio player, can encode/decode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods
- MPlayer - media player (video/audio), supports WMA
- Rhythmbox Music Player - audio player, similar to Apple's iTunes, with support for iPods
- gtkPod - software similar to Apple's iTunes, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini
- XMMS - audio player similar to Winamp
- dvd::rip - full featured DVD copy program
- Kino - free digital video editor
- Sound Juicer CD Extractor - CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs
- VLC Media Player - media player (video/audio)
- Totem - media player (video/audio)
- Xine - media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs
- Brasero - CD/DVD burning program
- K3B - CD/DVD burning program
- Multimedia Codecs
- KompoZer - WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich (yet)
- Bluefish - text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages
- Quanta Plus - web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor
- VirtualBox - lets you run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop, so you don't have to entirely abandon Windows
- TrueType fonts
- Java
- Read-/Write support for NTFS partitions
All desired applications are available in the Linux Mint repositories.
As you might have noticed, a few applications are redundant, for example there are two CD/DVD burning applications in my list (Brasero, K3B). If you know which one you like best, you obviously don't need to install the other applications, however if you like choice, then of course you can install both. The same goes for music players like Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox, XMMS or browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chromium).
I will use the username falko in this tutorial. Please replace it with your own username.
2 Installing The Base System
The installation of the base system is easy as 1-2-3 because the Linux Mint installer doesn't offer a lot of options to choose from, so you cannot go wrong.
Download the Linux Mint 11 DVD iso image from http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php, burn it onto a DVD, and boot your computer from it (please note that I used the DVD iso image instead of the CD iso image; the DVD comes with some additional software such as Java or VLC that get installed by default, whereas they are missing if you install from the CD; if you use the CD, you must install these applications from the Synaptic Package Manager):
The system boots and starts a desktop that is run entirely in the RAM of your system (the Linux Mint installation DVD is also a Live-DVD) without changing anything on your hard disk. This has the advantage that you can test how Linux Mint works on your hardware before you finally install it.
This is how the Linux Mint desktop looks. Double-click the Install Linux Mint icon on the desktop to start the installation to the hard drive:
The installer starts. First, select your language:
On the next screen you see a few requirements for the Linux Mint 11 installation (the system should have at least 4.8GB available drive space, should be plugged into a power source (to make sure that the system doesn't shut down during installation because of an empty battery), and should be connected to the Internet). Click on Forward:
Now we come to the partitioning of our hard disk. Usually Erase disk and install Linux Mint is a good choice, unless you need custom partitions and know what you're doing. Erase disk and install Linux Mint will create one big / partition for us:
Select the hard drive that you want to use for the Linux Mint installation:
Then choose your time zone:
Change the keyboard layout, if necessary:
Type in your real name, your desired username along with a password, and click on Forward:
Afterwards, Linux Mint is being installed. This can take a few minutes, so be patient:
After the installation, you will be asked to reboot the system. Click on Restart Now:
At the end of the shutdown process, you are asked to remove the Linux Mint installation DVD from the DVD drive. Please do this now and press ENTER:
Your new Linux Mint system starts. Log in to the desktop with the username and password you provided during installation:
When you log in for the first time, you will see the following help window. Click on Close:
This is how your new desktop looks:
Now the base system is ready to be used.


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