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In the job-search process getting invited to an interview is a big deal, especially when it entails going in front of interviewers at the target company and exchanging topics that allow you to explore the mutual fit. My own anecdotal data shows that about 50% of the well-targeted rsums (not the shot-gunned ones or the spray-and-pray types) typically get the first screening call. In almost all cases this is from someone in the HR, or occasionally, from the hiring manger, depending on a variety of factors. From that screening only about 10%-20% get invited for a face-to-face interview to decide if the candidate is worth their salt.
So, despite this abysmal statistics (5%-10%) who are invited for an in-person interview I am often surprised how ill prepared many are to deal with the most commonly expected behaviors that can be show-stoppers and that can set you back to square one; such a waste! Im not talking about giving the wrong answer or fumbling a technical question; rather, I am talking about your own behaviors that can scuttle your chances for going ahead to the offer stage with how you manage this stage. In this blog I plan to list some Dos and Donts in interviews when they are face-to-face.
- Be aware that as soon as you enter the premises you may be on camera, watched by someone who may report to the decision makers your objectionable behaviors. So, from the guard at the entrance to the parking lot to how you park your car to how you deal with the person in the lobby are places where you must be on your best behavior. Do not ask someone at the reception desk to get you coffee or be rude to them. Many companies ask these employees to report how you impress them as a part of the interview score.
- Do not pace up and down or show your impatience at the desk person if your appointment is delayed. People often get stuck in important meetings. So, at the appointed hour ask the desk person to announce you and wait for their response. If they do not get back to youeven when you are sitting across from themdo not pace up and down, impatiently looking at your watch. Remember, the person at the desk has a job to do, so they may be on the phone, while your appointed hour is up. So, do not breathe down their neck as you stand by the desk and keep looking at your watch impatiently as the receptionist is on the phone doing their business. Thank the receptionist for giving you an update on your meeting and give them a smile.
- As the interviewer escorts you to the interview room, have a pleasant chat about something that is not controversial: Weather, last nights ball game, or a movie. Do not complain about how hard it was to find parking, or how cold the coffee was.
- When you shake hands or as you enter the interview room hand over your rsum (especially if you have updated it since your original submittal) and your business card. This way you can ask for their business card. Having their business card helps you email them a Thank-you message after the interview directly.
- During the interview take notes using a notebook and pen, NOT your laptop or a tablet. First, ask if it is OK to take notes during the interview. If they object then write down as soon as you can about the discussion, while it is still fresh. These notes will help you during subsequent rounds. Do NOT use recording devices even if they allow it.
Recently, one of my clients went for an executive-level interview and cleared three rounds with senior executives. The final round was with the CEO. One of the first questions the CEO asked him was: Whom did you meet and what is your opinion of their views of how we should grow? My client had not taken any notes during the previous rounds, nor did he remember the names of the executives he had met. As you can imagine that interview was over in about 10 mins. (it was scheduled for one hour).
- It is virtually impossible to have all the answers to the questions you are asked. The instinctive response is to wing it and hope that you do not get caught. In such cases it is best to be honest and say, I do not know, but here is how Id approach it or here is my best guess of what that might be (based on the context of the discussion). Saying, I dont know does not diminish your ability to impress the interviewer, but certainly does when you get caught in a lie.
Yet another client during a recent interview faced a question about a particular software application commonly used in the work that was his forte. My client had not used that app, but thought he could get away with a lie. As soon as he said that he had the next question was from the interviewer who wanted to know the biggest flaw in that app. My client fumbled and could not continue that lie. That interview ended abruptly, too!
- Do not ask how the interview went. This shows insecurity. If you must know ask what the next steps and their timeline. The way they respond to the question speaks volumes. If their response is: Oh, we have many other candidates and you are the first one we interviewed, then you know you better continue looking. The converse can also happen: The interviewer may ask: How am I doing? In response do not be critical of the interview or of them. In one recent case my client had not interviewed for nearly 10 years, so he blurted out: Oh, it is hard for me to tell how you are doing as Ive not interviewed for 10 years. Bad response!
Most of these tips are common sense, but somehow during interviews commonsense goes out the window for many. So, read through these tips and see how you can improve your chances of clearing the interviews and getting that offer you want.
Good luck!
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All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert.
The pump jacks have long been here, in good times and bad, a symbol of this city's long status as the heart of America's petroleum industry. Even when U.S. oil production was dropping and many feared the Permian Basin, which feeds Midland's oil economy, was all but exhausted, the pump jacks continued their work – even when the result seemed hardly worth the effort.
Now, their up and down motion seems all but unstoppable, a symbol of an energy revolution that seems likely to transform the globe.
"Everything has changed," said Jim Henry, 78, who's worked in Texas' oilfields most of his life .
A surge in U.S. oil production has in just a few short years propelled the United States from a country largely dependent on oil imports to one that soon could become the world's top oil producer. The goal of North American energy self-sufficiency, the holy grail of American politics since the Arab oil boycott of 1973, seems to be within grasp.
The revolution has taken place almost unnoticed – and in a way that few foresaw less than a decade ago, when the emphasis on breaking America's foreign oil dependence was almost entirely on persuading Americans to drive less, turn the thermostat up in the summer and down in the winter, and open protected areas to oil exploration.
No one, it seemed, foresaw what actually happened – a production revolution that in the past five years has seen the amount of crude oil produced in the United States shoot up 40 percent, after declining every year for the previous 20. The International Energy Agency predicts the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by the year 2015. America already has become the largest producer of natural gas.
In October the United States started producing more oil than it imports for the first time since 1995.
The American energy turnaround isn't expected to stop there.
Citigroup's head of global commodity research predicts that by the end of the current decade the only foreign oil the U.S. might need will flow from Canada. Other analysts agree the potential is vast.
"New and unanticipated energy abundance is within our reach, and it provides a historic opportunity to solve some of our country's most difficult economic challenges," James Jones, a former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, declared at this year's Deloitte Energy Conference in Washington.
Questions remain about how quickly the U.S. fields will decline and whether the boom can last. The production surge is owed in large part to use of a controversial drilling process known as fracking – hydraulic fracturing – in which high-pressure water and chemicals are pumped underground to break up shale rock and release the oil and gas trapped inside. Environmental groups argue it poses a threat to air and water.
Deep disposal of fracking waste has been linked in some studies to small earthquakes. Four cities in Colorado voted to ban fracking earlier this month. New York and North Carolina don't permit the technique, and other states are still debating the subject.
The drilling is also under attack from those who fear that the expansion of oil and gas supplies will simply increase the world's dependence on fossil fuels, speeding global warming and cutting the incentive to find renewable energy alternatives. Cheap natural gas increases the challenge of attracting investment to develop solar and wind energy.
"Those who might have relied on the fact that we would run out of this resource and therefore be forced by lack of available resource to switch to something cleaner, this is not going to happen. Not in my lifetime. Maybe not even in my children's lifetime," said Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at the University of California, Davis.
But the benefits of the U.S. fracking bonanza offer powerful arguments in its favor. They include resurgence in American manufacturing and a reshaping of U.S. relationships around the world, where America's thirst for oil has long been blamed for interventionist policies in the Middle East and elsewhere.
In a sluggish U.S. economy, oil and gas employment surged by 40 percent over the last five years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, adding 162,000 new jobs. That compares with just a 1 percent increase in total private-sector jobs over the same time period.
The surge has also played a role in keeping U.S. gasoline prices under control. While those prices have remained high, many analysts argue that they could have gone much higher, caught between increased Chinese demand and a lower world supply caused by the U.S.-backed sanctions on Iranian oil sales. Without the surge in U.S. production, these analysts argue, oil prices, which are set globally, might have skyrocketed.
President Jimmy Carter wore a cardigan sweater for his first energy speech in 1977 and urged Americans to turn down their thermostats. "We must face the fact that the energy shortage is permanent," Carter said then.
Now, however, President Obama asserts that the nation has a supply of natural gas that can last for nearly 100 years. His administration in September approved a fourth terminal for exporting America's natural gas bounty. The federal government keeps upping its estimates of how much crude oil could be drilled in the U.S.
For the first time since 1949, the U.S. sends more of its refined petroleum products such as diesel, heating fuel and gasoline to other nations than it is bringing in.
The boom is returning places like Pennsylvania and Ohio to their historic roles as centers of the oil and gas industry, while production skyrockets in unexpected places like North Dakota. Even in oil-producing states where the fracking boom has not delivered the vast economic benefits that had been hoped for, production is up. Kansas, for example, saw a 5 percent production increase last year, reversing 40 years of decline.
The surge is especially visible in Texas, long the core of the United States oil industry. Twenty-five percent of all drilling rigs in the world are working in Texas, according to the rig count compiled by the oilfield services company Baker Hughes.
Workers fled Midland in the 1980s after the last big bust in the Permian Basin oilfields. Equipment rusted, office buildings emptied and West Texas oil was pronounced dead. Now, Midland is booming, ending last year with the nation's lowest unemployment rate. Developers want to take advantage by building a 53-story tower, featuring a rooftop bar, luxury hotel and spa, and office space in a town where the county population is 150,000.
It could be the tallest building between Houston and Los Angeles, visible from 30 miles away in the flat desert landscape of West Texas. Local critics say it smacks of Midland trying to be the "Dubai of Texas," and that the tower would appear like a giant middle finger rising from the plains.
"I have seen a lot of booms and busts but I've never seen a boom like this," said Mary Hardin, who runs a social services organization in Midland. "It's crazy."
How far that boom might go is still anybody's guess. Many states contain rock formations that are ripe for fracking, including California, which once was at the center of the U.S. oil industry and could be so again.
The energy revolution has been a boon to American manufacturing. Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris told Congress this year that America's natural gas bounty is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and the resource is "the first indispensable ingredient for everything that is made and consumed in this country." Natural gas prices in the U.S. are at near record lows, far cheaper than in Europe and Asia.
Natural gas is used for manufacturing and electrical generation, and the cheap price is convincing utilities to switch to it from the more polluting coal.
The German industrial trade group BDI warned last year that America's cheap natural gas could put European firms at a serious economic disadvantage.
"This is now issue No. 1 for German industry, this fear of loss of competiveness against the United States," said Pulitzer Prize-winning oil historian, author and analyst Daniel Yergin.
Other countries have their own worries. Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal wrote an open letter in July to his country's oil minister, saying that the Saudi economy is vulnerable to the threat of surging U.S. oil. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which includes Saudi Arabia, is bracing itself for a drop in U.S. demand. In September, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest importer of oil.
America's energy surge is already allowing it to flex muscles internationally, according to analysts. The U.S. production surge helped the United States persuade European allies, for example, that petroleum sanctions against Iran wouldn't create a global oil shortage and force price spikes. Those sanctions were in large part responsible for Iran's more compromising approach in recent talks on its nuclear program.
"Without this increase in U.S. supply," Yergin said, "these sanctions simply could not have worked as effectively as they have."
Expanded American energy production also creates issues for Russia, which wields tremendous economic and political power by supplying Europe with natural gas via pipeline. The expansion in U.S. supplies means that countries that had planned to export natural gas to the U.S. are instead selling it to Europe, giving competition to Russia, according to Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University.
The United States isn't the only country with oil and natural gas locked in shale rock, but it's the only country currently in a position to take advantage of it, analysts say.
In Europe, the environmental opposition to fracking is deeply held and widespread. Elsewhere, most countries simply don't have the technology or the infrastructure to exploit deposits that require fracking. America is even helped by its property laws, which allow most landowners to hold onto subsoil mineral rights, giving hopes of cashing in, unlike in many countries where oil and gas activity just means problems without any hope of economic reward.
"This is unique to the United States and North America," Deutsche Bank energy analyst Paul Sankey said at a recent Bipartisan Policy Center energy forum in Washington. "In my view this revolution will not occur globally except possibly in the next decade and soonest in China."
Drilling and fracking are expensive, and shale wells tend to decline quickly, so new drilling is constant, according to a Harvard University study. Only the United States, with 60 percent of the world's supply of drilling rigs, most of which can do the horizontal drilling fracking requires, has the wherewithal to maintain the pace. For comparison, the Harvard study noted, the U.S. completed 45,468 oil and gas wells last year ; the rest of the world outside of Canada completed just 3,921.
"We are the only country in the world where individuals own the property rights down to the center of the Earth on land they sit on," said Joseph Stanislaw, who helped found the consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "It's an economic advantage that doesn't exist anywhere else."
No one saw America's energy revolution coming, including the people who helped make it happen. Floyd Wilson remembers drilling the Fayetteville shale in Arkansas, an area where the wells previously could not even produce 50,000 cubic feet of natural gas in a day. Then he used the kind of fracking and horizontal drilling techniques pioneered by Texas driller George Mitchell, who drew on years of federal research.
"We drilled a couple of wells and one came in at 6 million cubic feet a day," Wilson said. "It just shocked us."
Wilson went on to make a major discovery in Texas' Eagle Ford shale. He took his $60 million investment in Petrohawk Energy, sold the company for $12 billion, and started a new firm.
Analysts and drillers warn, though, against counting on this continuing. There is no guarantee the boom will last and plenty of room for problems.
"There are a lot of risks above ground and below ground, and questions about costs," Yergin said.
Wilson said he's noticed many of his fellow operators drilling wells closer and closer together at the major fields in Texas and North Dakota. That makes money quickly and satisfies shareholders. But then the wells start competing with one another for the same oil and decline quickly, he said.
The much touted American energy self-sufficiency is going to be difficult to achieve, he said.
"On paper you can do it," Wilson said. "But I don't know."
The International Energy Agency predicts the U.S. reign as the world's largest oil supplier will last from 2015 to the early 2030s. But the agency also forecasts that America's oil production will start its decline in the 2020s as the Texas and North Dakota "sweet spots" run out, though it does not foresee the United States' dependency on Middle East oil returning.
In Midland, they've seen booms go bust before.
"This one they're saying will last several years because the new technology made drilling more profitable," said Paul St. Hilaire, executive director of the George W. Bush Childhood Home museum, a modest rambler near Midland's downtown. "We'll see."
Midland driller Henry said the boom will ease as soon as the price of oil drops and makes the $7 million cost of drilling a horizontal fracking well too expensive.
But technological improvements will bring down the drilling cost, he predicted, and the oil will be waiting in the shale rock for the next big boom.
Fracking opened up a new world, he said, and it won't close any time soon. Henry reckons it's doubled the amount of oil that drillers can reach.
"It's like discovering a field as large as the whole United States," Henry said. "And it's not just the United States. It's all over the world."


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Friends of Michael Patterson, the fund set up to help the 43-year-old Rockmart, Ga., resident who was critically injured Saturday as he saved the life of a 4-year-old girl at the Rockmart Dam has passed the $50,000 mark just days after being established. The fund's goal is to bring in $250,000 in donations.
Previous reports indicate that Patterson broke his neck in three places and severed his spinal cord after he dove into the dam near the Silver Comet trail to save Javeh Jones, who had been swept underwater by the current.
"In the water, all I saw was the top of her head, and I was just yelling, 'Grab her. Somebody grab her,'" said Carlisa Jones, Javeh's mother.
Jones said that Patterson didn't hesitate to dive in and help save the girl. Authorities are calling him a hero and Carlisa Jones said that he's more than that.
"He's a God-send, basically," said Jones. "He was there. He was supposed to have been there."
Patterson's friends and family say that he was visiting the creek with his son when he heard the cry of a mother as she noticed her daughter was in trouble. Javaeh was playing in the water when she waded into an area over her head and was swept away by the swift current of the creek.
Patterson dove in and rescued the child, but after his injury was reportedly floating face down in the water and unconscious for approximately three minutes before anyone realized what had happened.
He was eventually pulled from the water and was not breathing when emergency personnel arrived. Upon arrival, EMT's performed CPR on Michael and then transported him to Redmond Regional Medical Center. He is currently at Emory Medical Center and his family hopes to get him into the Shepherd Center in Atlanta for rehabilitation. They told Atlanta's Fox affiliate that their funds are limited because Patterson's father has cancer and his grandfather is bedridden.
"Michael had just started a job two weeks prior to the incident, and he does not have insurance," says a statement on the Friends of Mike Patterson Trust, the online fund created for the man who is now reportedly paralyzed from the waist down. "We are trying to help his family raise money for this hero."
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Last semester in my French class I was given the assignment to create a digital storytelling project on some aspect of the Francophone world. I decided to do mine on the story of my French ancestors and their journey to the United States.
My 3rd great-grandparents, Joseph and Marie (Seltz) Drach came from the town of Benfeld, in the Bas Rhin region of France. Around 1843 they took their two daughters - Ernestine and Marie Aloise, and left Benfeld for Le Havre. Joseph's brother Antoine, his wife Marie Anne (Gastiger) and their five children. They apparently stayed there for a time, as Emil and Josephine were born there, and Ernestine died.
They sailed from Le Havre on the ship William Goddard and arrived in Boston on August 26, 1847 and traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts. There is a large French community there, although it is primarily Quebeçois.Joseph Drach became a naturalized citizen in Lowell in 1894. His son-in-law, Hugh Gillon, was one of his witnesses.
Emil enlisted in Company K, 31st Massachusetts Infantry in February of 1862, and by December he was dead, killed by a sniper's bullet. But that's another blog.
The parents of Marie Aloise's husband, Theodore Antoine Vautrinot, were Jean Antoine and Marie Rosalie (Munier) Vautrinot. They came from Liepvre in the Haut Rhin region. They sailed on the ship "Mary & Adele" (637 tons) from Le Havre and landed at the Port of New York in January of 1855. From New York they traveled to Boston. Marie Rosalie gave birth to two more girls, but by 1862, she and the two girls had died. Theodore was their oldest child, and by this time he had already married Marie Aloise and started a family of his own. Jean Antoine took Marie Louise and Jean Jr. and moved to Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
This is one of the great family mysteries. First, why didn't they stay in NYC when they landed in 1855? Then, after Marie Rosalie died, why pull up stakes and go to NJ? Egg Harbor City was a planned community as a safe haven for German immigrants, mostly Moravians. The Vautrinots have traditionally been French Roman Catholic.
The Vautrinot and Munier families have made their own individual marks in American history. Donald Vautrinot was a member of the Army Air Corps stationed in the Philippines at the start of WWII, and survived the infamous Bataan Death March only to die in a prison camp shortly before its liberation.Mary Canning, daughter of Ernestine Vautrinot Canning was an Army Nurse in the African and Italian campaigns and finished the war in Tokyo. Many other Vautrinots fought to defend their country in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Madeline Vautrinot was a well-known artist in New Jersey, and was commissioned to paint several WPA murals, including one in the Atlantic City Post Office. Her father was a banker who established a scholarship at the local high school which still exists today.
Ferdinand Munier was a bit player in 1930s Hollywood, acting in movies with the likes of Fred Astair and Lucille Ball. He played Santa Claus in Laurel & Hardy's "Babes in Toyland," and a senator with Will Rogers in "Ambassador Bill" that you can watch on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2MYMiHpdU
In 2002, I was privileged to be able to travel to France to see the beautiful towns of Benfeld and Liepvre and drive through this beautiful region.
If I ever get the audio straightened out on my project, I might just post it on my blog!


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So yeah, Google totally just won the conference showdown by easily beating both Apple and Microsoft. Not only did Google announce Android 4.1 with some really cool new features, a cheap but non-crippled tablet, and a new Android device called the Nexus Q, but they also opened up pre-orders for Google Glass. So yeah.
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Unfortunately no one seems to be in control of it except Apple. Even MS flunk the fragmentation test when they've announced that current WP users will be left in the lurch.
They won't be "left in the lurch" - framework stays largely the same, most apps will certainly work. Except, notably, the most complex & demanding (native) games ...which is basically the case on iOS too, older devices often not supported by latest gaming titles.


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The Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition of the Adirondack Region has established Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites throughout its three-county service delivery area to provide free tax preparation to individuals and families with low or moderate incomes.
The St. Patrick's Parish Center in Port Henry is a local site. For an appointment call 873-2341.
Household incomes of $50,270.00 or less may be eligible.
"People may be missing out on a federal refund of up to $5,891.00 because they are not aware of the Earned Income Tax Credit" said Kathy Snow, director of development, of the United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. "Our coalition is working hard to promote the service and reach eligible people and families throughout the region."
The IRS estimates up to one in four eligible taxpayers may fail to claim the credit. The coalition also provides information and education about asset building, including banking and savings.
Trained volunteers will be at each site to electronically file returns for low or moderate income residents, even if they do not qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
E-Filing provides faster refunds, electronic payment options, less chance of error and proof of acceptance within 48-hours.
Coalition members include: Coalition members include: The United Way of the Adirondack Region Inc, OneWorkSource, Adirondack Community Action Programs, Inc. (ACAP), Senior Citizens Council of Clinton County, Office for the Aging, Department of Social Services, Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Joint Council for Economic Opportunity, Inc. (JCEO), AARP Foundation, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Family Welcome Center of CVES, Cornell Cooperative Extension, UFirst Federal Credit Union, Champlain National Bank, Akwesasne Housing Authority, North Country Community College, North Country Workforce Investment Board and SeaComm.


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[DJ Khaled]
We do this for the hood!
We do this for the street!
We do this for the ghetto!
There's a whole lot of hood superstars on this remix!
This the Shawty Lo Foolish Remix!
I'm the hood maestro of this hood music!
DJ Khaled!
We global now~! Listen~!
[Shawty Lo]
Bankhead, yeah! These rappers just rappin'
Stick to the movie, they just actin'
What you doin' Lo? I'm just laughin'
How you laughin'? Like "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
In a Bugatti I fly right by
And when I'm in the sky G5 I fly
Cross your T.'s and dot your I.'s
I'm the real Bankhead man that's no lie!
Yeah, yeah, I done said it before
I'm a real D-boy you can't be me fool!
Yeah, I'm like "Nah! Nah! Nah!"
Laughin' at these suckers like "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
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As easy and enjoyable as the season, this delightful dress is styled just for her with ruffles at the front and back neckline, crochet trim at the cap raglan sleeves and hem, and a twirl-tastic tulip hem that moves as she grooves. Crafted in airy linen and cotton. * Relaxed fit * Ruffles at front and back neckline * Cap raglan sleeves * Tulip hem * Knee length * Linen/cotton * Imported
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Girls' Allegra Embroidered Dress
A walk in the park or a spin around the dance floor — whatever the occasion, she'll want to wear this charming dress. In a comfy blend of linen (for texture) and cotton (for less-wrinkly softness), with colorful folkloric embroidery at the front bodice (for fun). * Relaxed fit * Scoop neckline * Sleeveless * Embroidered front bodice * Slightly higher waist * Keyhole closure at back * Knee le....
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Girls' Everly Eyelet Gauze Dress
As refreshing as a summer breeze, this everyday-easy cotton dress boasts a sensational seasonal weight with keep-cool breathability. The unique combination of crinkled gauze and eyelet detailing provides extra-special status. * Relaxed fit * Easy, pull-on style * Halter neckline; elastic straps * Gathered elastic waist for a perfect fit * Eyelet detailing at front bodice and around hem; crinkled g....
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Girls' Embroidered T-Shirt Dress
A T-riffic slubbed jersey-knit cotton dress that's perfect for any season — she'll wear it with a sweater, tights, and boots in winter and solo with sandals in summer. In addition to its effortless style, she'll love the embroidery details and the custom fit of an adjustable drawstring at the waist. * Relaxed fit * Pull-on style * Notched boat-neckline with center-front embroidery * Short sl....
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Girls' Racerback Cover-Up Dress
Dress for the occasion — even a dip in the pool! Cast in our fast-drying, UPF 50+ swim fabric, this clever cover-up is perfect at lunch or the water park, on the sand or in the surf. With its swingy shape and peppy prints, extra sun coverage has never looked so sweet. * Coordinates beautifully with our swim collections * Slight A-line silhouette * Scoop neckline * Racerback * Side slits at h....
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Girls' Olivia Organic-Cotton Dress
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Girls' Pima Cotton Boatneck Dress
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Girls' Zoe Lace Knit Dress
On her most important days (from class presentations to parties) and every day in between, this dress rises to the occasion with pretty lace-overlay raglan sleeves with mini pom-poms at the cuffs and a lace-trimmed hem. Pull-on ease, with a comfy elastic waist. In soft brushed cotton jersey. * Brushed and garment-washed for softness * Pull-on style * Slightly fitted bodice; full skirt * 3/4 raglan....
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Girls' Fine-Knit Sweater Dress
This seasonless sweater dress will be a star in her wardrobe rotation. In heathered lightweight pima cotton, with charming details: a bit of gathering at the waist and delicate pointelle stitching at the seams. * Slightly fitted bodice; slight A-line skirt * Pull-on style * Crew neckline * Short sleeves * Ribbed trim at neckline and cuffs * Elastic waist with slight gathers below * Pointelle detai....
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Girls' Angelina Embroidered Dress
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Girls' Amelia Embroidered Jumper
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Girls' Organic-Cotton Color-Wheel Dress
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Deadly Race 1.0
Racing Games to Play provides a constantly growing collection of free racing games of a wide variety of different sub-genres.
Here you can find many completely free and full version casual games without any risk of unwittingly installing malware and other unwanted programs on your computer. Instead, you can enjoy these many free games in confidence making Racing Games to Play a great site to visit if you want to unwind at the end of a working day. All of the games on this site are conveniently organized into categories. You can see the greatest hits and highest rated games on the front page as well. For every game, there is an overview of its features accompanied by several high resolution screenshots and a list of (usually very modest) system requirements. One game which you may want to try is Deadly Race. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Deadly Race combines plenty of fighting action with high-speed racing. Find out more about Deadly Race and the many other games on offer at http://www.racing-games-to-play.com.


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June 18 - 22, 2013
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The 1920s was the decade of American opulence and cultural shifting. It "roared" in large measure because America was caught in the grips of a titanic cultural shift - when the forces of tradition battled it out with the forces of modernism. This decade was not just fun and frivolity, but struggled with deeper social and cultural forces reworking society.
The 2013 Oklahoma Chautauqua is pleased to present audiences with a chance to meet five of history's most illustrious characters: Bessie Coleman, Babe Ruth, Will Rogers, Henry Ford, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Evening performances and day time workshops are free and open to the public.


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Beacon HiLl is ideal terrain for town-gown battles. Foot-loose students from Suffolk University and no-nonsense homeowners are pressed tightly together. The university needs elbow room but receives little quarter from the historic preservationists who pop up from behind every bush or the Beacon Hill Civic Association — the Special Forces of Boston's community groups.
Yet peace reigns on Beacon Hill while the fight over institutional development intensifies in other parts of the city, including neighborhoods bordered by Harvard and Northeastern universities. So how did Suffolk, which didn't open an office of community relations until 2006, become such a symbol of contentment?
On Valentine's Day, city officials approved Suffolk's plan to demolish a building on Somerset Street on the edge of Beacon Hill and build in its a place a 10-story academic building with classrooms for 1,200 students. The project got the blessing of its Beacon Hill neighbors partly because of its sharp contrast with Suffolk's original proposal — an out-of-scale 31-story dorm. But the project also benefitted greatly from Suffolk's efforts over the past few years to genuinely listen to the concerns of neighbors, leading to a "non-expansion'' pact on residential Beacon Hill. Suffolk opted instead to branch out into Downtown Crossing, where it has built new dorms and renovated a historic theater.
John Nucci, Suffolk's vice president for community affairs, led the peace-making efforts. The campus and student body are small compared with other universities in Boston. Still, the success is so great that Suffolk deserves to be a case study in town-gown relations.
"I treated it like a political campaign, walking the streets and listening to people,'' said Nucci, a former Boston city councilor. "I realized that this job is about earning trust and credibility. You can't go to neighborhoods only when you are looking for something.''
Ears should be burning at Harvard University, where long-range plans to expand into Allston stalled along with the economy in 2010. Now the university is eager to move ahead with plans for everything from an enormous science center to a residential and retail complex along Western Avenue. But the university's relations with its Allston neighbors have hit the skids. In January, the Harvard Allston Task Force — a group of local leaders who advocate for the neighborhood — complained to city officials that Harvard was taking a "piecemeal'' approach to planning as well as backing away from specific commitments, including the construction of a three-acre park.
"Until Harvard has agreed with the community on an Allston/Brighton Community Master Plan,'' they wrote, "we intend to oppose all other Harvard projects and zoning requests.''
Harvard officials predict the resumption of a healthy dialogue with their neighbors as early as next week. They point to Harvard's inclusion of community members on the committee that chose a developer for a residential and retail complex at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. But task force member Harry Mattison said that the imbalance of power is omnipresent.
"Everything Harvard wants speeds along at 70 miles per hour,'' said Mattison. "Everything the community wants gets stuck in a ditch.''
Across town, several elected officials, including city councilors Tito Jackson and Michael Ross, are charging that Northeastern University has abandoned its commitment to house its undergraduates on campus. That leaves working families in the Fenway and Mission Hill areas at a disadvantage when trying to compete for apartments. In a recent letter to the city's planning agency, the politicians charged that "the number of undergraduates living in these neighborhoods is at an all-time high.'' Now the signers are refusing to support the filing of the university's master plan.
Northeastern officials cite plans to add 720 new dorm beds next year. They argue that the university can't concentrate solely on new dorms when the campus requires new recreational facilities for students already living on campus. But it is the communication breakdown — not the arguments and counterarguments — that leaps out in this case, especially at a university that cultivates a close relationship with City Hall.
Northeastern officials, said Ross, "ought to have their ears to the ground.''
University officials actually do a lot of listening. But what they hear rarely leads to deep changes in university development plans. Neighbors, meanwhile, say they are sick of scraps. And that's why Suffolk University stands out. For once, neighbors actually sat down at a university's table and came away full.Lawrence Harmon can be reached at email@example.com.


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Remember a few months back when the AAP released new breastfeeding recommendations, based on the growing, impressive body of scientific evidence that breast milk makes for healthier babies (and communities and economies, too)? Remember how those guidelines not only suggested babies breastfeed exclusively for at least six months, but also held hospitals, pediatricians and workplaces (not moms alone!) accountable for having a role in helping to make this doable for moms? Remember how I also blogged about the difficulty I had in getting in-hospital breastfeeding support, two years ago, when I gave birth in New York? And how – also meanwhile – a recent study has shown that because workplaces (and society as a whole, really) is not exactly breastfeeding-friendly, moms actually suffer economic loss in direct proportion to their breastfeeding durations (therefore making those AAP guidelines for hospitals, pediatricians and workplaces all the more relevant)? WELL. Here's some cool news. New York City's Mayor Bloomberg has launched a new initiative in the city intended to support nursing moms, from the hospital to the workplace, and everywhere in between… including the public eye.
In some unfortunate and mystifying news, however, this initiative has been met with a bit of public resistance, most notably this past week from Whoopi Goldberg, who called lactation consultants "boneheads" in front of millions of Americans on her daytime TV show, The View. Here, watch the video:
It strikes me as wholly bizarre that a high-profile (if, like, D-list, and now pretty dumbed-down) celeb would bash an effort to support people who need and want support. A lactation consultant is just that: support. For someone who wants it. (No one's marching through hospitals and demanding new moms breastfeed, as Whoopi seems to believe.) And since the proof is there that 1) women have more breastfeeding success when they receive more breastfeeding information and support; 2) women aren't getting enough breastfeeding support (see the AAP guidelines' cited studies); and 3) breast milk is really good for babies (again, check out the AAP report), an effort to put the new AAP guidelines into practice in America's largest city by providing more breastfeeding support to new moms seems appropriate. And awesome. Breastfeeding rates among African-American moms still lag behind other groups, too; that an African American woman would be so quick to bad-mouth this effort is not only weird, it's also detrimental to the hard work of many who are attempting to support these women and thereby boost their breastfeeding rates.
When I read this writer's response to Whoopi's comments , calling them irresponsible, I had to agree. Whoopi's choice to get all fired up about an already controversial topic (although it doesn't affect her personally at all) seems like a cheap maneuver to get attention and drum up drama on TV. Unfortunately, because of her visibility, she's perpetuated unnecessary divisiveness among women – among moms – in the process. Much like the working mom versus stay-at-home-mom debates, if we expend our energies judging each other's decisions and insisting "MY way is better", the public is let off the hook when it comes to supporting women and families. These issues are distorted as 'women's' issues alone, as mere cat-fights, when in fact we need society to recognize these issues as legitimately shared by all, and as meriting public policies that support ALL women and families. The AAP guidelines shifted the conversation back to scientific and social research-based rationale, making recommendations for society as a whole, and Mayor Bloomberg did the responsible thing and acted on those guidelines. Now Whoopi wants to go and start the less relevant, less intelligent (also, in this case, staged) conversation up again, and is inaccurately portraying both the role and current reality of in-hospital breastfeeding support -- and for what? For some ratings?
Sure, it's just bad daytime TV, but unfortunately a lot of people form their opinions based on what they see on television, whether or not the messages they receive are actually fact-based, or promote total fallacies (cough *FOX News* cough). Public perception is a major focus of Bloomberg's new initiative because public perception makes a difference to how employers, voters, family members and community members approach and support (or don't support) nursing moms -- remember, breastfeeding moms are still regularly kicked out of stores, churches and buses in our country, and some have even been arrested. Whoopi would do well to remember that her thoughtless commentary has far-reaching implications, and that she could use her visibility and celebrity to improve people's lives, rather than make them even more challenging. At the very least, she should get out of the way of those who are actually taking concrete steps toward making positive change, especially when said change benefits babies.
In other good news, though, Beyonce's now publicly advocating breastfeeding (we knew she would)! And she's totally A-list-baller-amazing. She's also far more influential than Whoopi, and I think more reflective of the changing tide when it comes to women's choices, and society's attitudes. So, keep at it Bloomberg, Beyonce, and Breastfeeding consultants! And moms – whether you're nursing, formula-feeding, or somewhere in-between (as so many of us are, or were; this doesn't have to be either/or!) – let's remember not to take the bait to fight amongst, and therefore against, ourselves. We have better things to do with our talents and time.
What's your reaction to Whoopi's comments?


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Dorje Ling Buddhist Center's mission is to make the Jonang Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism available to residents of the Greater Atlanta area.
Dorje Ling Buddhist Center
3253 Shallowford Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Dorje Ling Buddhist Center represents the 700-year-old Jonang Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of Tulku Tashi Gyaltsan Rinpoche.
It is the first Jonangpa Buddhist Center located in the West. Jonang is the name of a retreat location in central Tibet, in today's District of Lhaze in the Shigaze Area.
Since this tradition was developed from that place, followers of this school are called Jonangpa. It is one of the old schools of philosophy in Tibet.
The Jonangpa tradition is famous because of its strong historical connection dedicated to the instruction and practice of Kalachakra Tantra. The Jonang tradition differs from other Buddhist schools of thought due to its philosophical viewpoint on the nature of reality.
All Buddhists believe the basic nature of all phenomena is emptiness. In Tibetan Buddhism the viewpoint of emptiness is divided into two: self-emptiness and other-emptiness. Most Tibetan Buddhist scholars follow the viewpoint of self-emptiness.
However, from Master Dolpopa to Taranatha to the very present day, the followers of Jonang hold the philosophical viewpoint of other-emptiness. Today in Tibet there are more than 50 Jonangpa monasteries throughout the country, supporting approximately 10,000 monks.
Comparatively the Nyimapa, Sakyapa, Kagyupa, and Gelugpa have more than 300-1000 monasteries each in Tibet. The Jonang maters are highly trained, both experientially and intellectually in the Kalachakra Tantric system. Dorje Ling Buddhist Center teaches the fundamental Buddhist way of living along with the profound deity-visualization meditation.
We introduce the unique spiritual value of both the Tibetan religion and culture through weekly practice, workshops and special empowerment ceremonies.
Teachers of other Tibetan Buddhist Traditions are also invited to the center to share different viewpoints within Tibetan Buddhism.
Ceremonies for traditional Tibetan Buddhist Holidays are open to the public. In the recent past, the center offered the preliminary teachings and practice for the Kalachakra to numerous American students of diverse cultural backgrounds. Additionally teachings of the Highest Yoga Tantra, the Six-Branch Yoga of Kalachakra were offered to students. Teachings are provided in both the English and Chinese languages.
Dorje Ling Buddhist Center was established in 1991 in Brooklyn, NY. Eight years later a second center was established in Atlanta, GA. It is the vision of Tulku Tashi Gyaltsan Rinpoche to revitalize the Jonang tradition in Tibet and bring that same tradition into the western world. Charitable work of the Dorje Ling Buddhist Center is funded through the US Taranatha Society.


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Demarquise Johnson Commits to Washington StatePosted by Connor Pelton on October 24th, 2011
Up until Saturday, Ken Bone's 2012 recruiting class was a solid bunch of two star players. That all changed late Saturday morning when Demarquise Johnson became the Cougars' fourth commitment of the 2012 class. Johnson is the type of player that can and will make an immediate impact in a Ken Bone system. He is considered by many to be one of the best players in this year's class from the state of Arizona, and the Cougars beat out schools like Gonzaga, UNLV, and Washington to get him. At 6'5″ and 190 lbs, the Westwind Prep (AZ) product is an explosive scorer, precisely the kind of guy Bone wants to build an offensive attack around. While Johnson may receive comparisons to former Cougar Klay Thompson, do not expect him to light it up by any means as a jump shooter. He will however get to the basket faster than Thompson and will be more physical in the paint. The only fault in Johnson's game that I can find is in his rebounding ability and willingness to go up against a 6'7″ guy for the ball, but that is certainly something he can work on by the time he is in a crimson uniform. ESPN had this to say on their scouting report of Johnson:
Johnson has that quintessential frame for the two or the three and the skills as well. He can stroke it from deep and he gets great lift and rotation on his shot. In addition, he has a terrific burst off the dribble and can slash his way to the basket exhibiting excellent body control. Johnson is one of the elite scoring guard prospects in the country. If he is willing to improve his all-around game (rebounding, defense, making others better) he should be an excellent Division I player.
In addition to Johnson, the Cougars have also gotten commitments from Richard Longrus, Brett Boese, and Richard Peters, who is also from Westwind. The trio are all small forwards, so it appears that Wazzu will have a big logjam at that position. The Cougars will also add Kansas transfer Royce Woolridge, a guard, to next year's class. Recruiting, especially in basketball, can take on a sort of momentum, and since Washington State is still trying to get three-star small forward Jordan Tebbutt (Oak Hill Academy, VA) and three-star center Zach Banner (Lakes High, WA), this most recent committment is huge. Johnson, nor anyone else, can't officially sign on the dotted line until the early signing period begins on Nov. 9. But the fact that his commitment came so late, and he has no more official visits, is a telling sign that he will stay a Coug.


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Not a switcher!
I'm far from new to buying Macs. I bought my first Mac somewhere in 2004 - an iMac G4, one of Apple's most beautiful machines of all time - and since then, have purchased several other Macs, both new and used. My favourite by far was my trusty 12.1" iBook G4, but I've also owned a PowerMac G4 Cube, a MacBook Air, an original iMac, and I still have a partially disassembled PowerMac dual G4 450Mhz lying around somewhere.
Even though I grew up with DOS, Windows 3.x, and the MSX (I personally never owned one - my best friend at the time did), I laid my eyes on BeOS in 2001, and since then, my perspective on computers changed completely - and it never changed back. BeOS made me realise just how much the popular platforms of the time sucked, and when Be went under, it felt like somebody took my wonderfully perfect Italian espresso away and tried to force me to drink those sugared-and-milked-to-death crap some people have the guts to call coffee.
I didn't like Windows XP. I liked Linux, but at the time - 2002-2003 - it still had a while to go before it reached a state where I could actively rely on it. Not entirely unsurprisingly, I ended up in Apple's arms, and became an instant fan of both Panther and Tiger. I've virtually always owned a Mac since then, except for the last 12 months or so. I didn't like the iOS-ification of Mac OS X, and in the meantime, Windows had made huge strides, culminating in Windows 7 which I find a very good operating system all things considered.
But yes, I still believe we'd have been further along had BeOS succeeded.
In any case, my personal life changed completely as well. I've now got two university degrees, and two years ago I started my own business which supplies me with a decent enough income. This means that instead of computers being a hobby thing, the computer has suddenly become one of my most valuable possessions - if my computer breaks down, I can't earn money. If I can't earn money, I can't buy coffee. And if I can't buy coffee, I'll go nuts.
These past few months I've come to realise that when your computer is that of a crucial aspect of your life, you simply can't rely on self-built computers anymore. I had three desktop computers - main, backup, and emergency - and within the timespan of a few weeks, they all died. As in, some deep motherboard troubles that I can't fix. Of course, all just out of warranty. And even if they were still within warranty, the process of dealing with faceless Asus or whatever and sending over my equipment sure didn't seem appealing.
So, I decided I needed to do things differently. I needed a new computer - and instead of just wanting the cheapest and fastest machine possible, I now had to take things like service and proximity of authorised repair points into account. And you know the cold and harsh truth?
Apple bests every other player in this business when it comes to this aspect.
There's no Dell store. There's no authorised HP repair service I can just walk into with my machine. There's no Asus store close by. In fact - they don't exist at all. There's no one to talk to face-to-face. There's no place where I'm valued as a customer instead of a wallet with legs.
By this point, I'm sure some of you are already hitting up the comment section, arguing that I'm just as much of a wallet with legs for Apple - and of course, you're right. However, this is where it's very good to be Dutch, because we have a very old - founded in the early '80s - chain of independent Apple retailers. They grew out of an attic a few towns south of where I live, and they're now the number one Apple retailer of the country, by far. We're talking stores all over the country (26 of them), but their oldest store, the one that started it all three decades ago, is still only a few towns south.
I've been a long-time customer there, and in 2005, I interviewed the original founder and then-owner of the company for OSNews. The most important thing to remember here is that even though they're the largest chain of Apple retailers in The Netherlands - far larger than Apple itself, which only has one store in Amsterdam - they're not actually owned by Apple.
This means that when you talk to their employees, you're not talking to Apple employees who are forced to abide by Apple's rules and employee handbooks; you're talking to people who can say whatever they want about Apple. This means they go the extra mile for loyal customers, something ordinary Apple Store employees won't do. An off-the-record extra here, a small beneficial change there, a few honest conversations about the dark and shady sides of Apple to boot.
This may seem small and inconsequential, but it actually means a world of difference. This is the only real store with actual people in it that I can talk to whenever I have a problem with my computer. No other brand has this, at least not in The Netherlands or near the hick town in the middle of nowhere I call home. This has huge value to me.
And so, opting for a Mac was actually not that odd of a choice.
'The next big thing'-syndrome
Several people in the OSNews comments, on Twitter, and yes, even the store employees themselves pointed out that right now might not be the best moment to buy a new iMac, since a redesign is supposedly right around the corner. I was actually aware of this before I drove to the store, but I still opted to forge ahead. Why?
First, even if a new iMac is right around the corner, it will probably not be announced in the coming two weeks. Add to that another few weeks before it's available in The Netherlands, and another week of shipping delays, and I'd be without a desktop computer for 5-6 weeks. This would mean I'd have to rely fully on my ZenBook - since it's my only computer left, if it'd break, I'd be without a computer, and thus, without income.
Second, since rumour has it we're looking at a complete redesign, it'll most likely suffer from its far share of bugs and early adopter issues. As a long-time Apple customer, I learned one thing: don't buy rev. A Apple stuff. There's a considerable chance it'll break, fall apart, have weird issues, or otherwise not perform as it's supposed to. This won't be an issue with the current iMac.
Third, there's always something new right around the corner. Today people are telling me 'wait for the redesigned iMac!'. When the redesigned iMac is here, they'll say 'wait for rev. B to fix the issues!'. When rev. B is here, they'll say 'wait for the next refresh, when it gets better processors'. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Take from it what you will
And so, I settled on a 21.5" 1920x1080 iMac, with a Core i5 2.5Ghz processor, Radeon 6750 512MB graphics chip, and 8GB of RAM. I had the sales guy replace the crappy Magic Mouse with a Magic Trackpad (since I have my own mouse preference anyway) just for the hell of it - and I find myself actually using the Magic Trackpad with my left hand for switching virtual desktops and scrolling and such.
And it may take the most powerful machine I've ever owned (yes, it is for me), but it seems Apple has finally gotten its act together performance and responsiveness-wise. No longer do window operations feel covered in sticky syrup, and application loading and effects are all buttery smooth and instant. Multitasking and resource allocation have improved considerably these past few releases - a friend of mine and I started recording for our own let's play YouTube channel (first video and second video - and yes, this is a shameless plug), and the iMac can easily render 1080p videos and still dynamically allocate enough power for me to continue to do other stuff without even so much as a hiccup.
Lastly, I have to mention that Windows 8 has played a role in my decision - a small role, but a role nonetheless. I tried, I really did, for months - but Metro just plain sucks balls. There's no way around it. I'm about as open to different platforms and operating systems as is humanly possible, and while I think Metro will be great for tablets, it has absolutely no place on desktops and workstations, and it boggles my mind that Microsoft is actually forging ahead with this.
The desktop is legacy, and will receive little to no attention from Microsoft. I see nothing in Metro that is not utterly detrimental to my job - in fact, I can't even do my job in Metro. I have no intention of investing in that platform, and when I spend well over a €1000 for a computer, I'm buying for keeps.
So, there you have it. Do with it as you please, and take from it what you will. While OS X still has enough that annoys me (my eyes still burn whenever I look at crap like Address Book or iCal), at least it's a proper desktop operating system.


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City contractors began work Monday on the remediation of Boulder's 13th Street Plaza, where dangerous chemicals were detected in the groundwater in 2010.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment approved the city's "voluntary cleanup plan" application last October and chose Envirocon for the job.
Beginning this week, the environmental remediators will remove manufactured gas plant infrastructure, soil, fluids and debris associated with the contamination.
"On the 14th Street parking lot, right behind the (Dushanbe) Teahouse, we found a large concrete container, below grade, and it contained an oily liquid substance, which Xcel pumped out and then filled the void back up with a type of foam," Boulder Facilities and Fleet Manager Joe Castro said Monday.
"So part of this follow-up phase in the cleanup is taking out the foamy substances and then testing the tank, and underneath the tank, to see if there's contamination where to the whole tank has to be removed."
Further investigation last March turned up another, older brick tank that contained a similar oily sludge near the pine trees in the 13th Street Plaza.
Castro said workers likely will have to dig down 18 feet to reach that tank and remove the substance. The city also suspects there are two tanks below the middle of the plaza and will excavate that area to investigate.
Six monitoring wells were installed at the site in September 2010 and revealed the presence of benzene and naphthalene, common byproducts of coal gasification. Experts believe the chemicals came from the Federal Gas Company's coal gasification plant that was on the site from 1902 to 1952.
Benzene can damage the immune system or cause cancer, as well stop production of red blood cells, leading to anemia. Naphthalene also can lead to anemia and damage to the liver, and can cause neurological damage in infants.
During the excavation, the site will be covered by a temporary tent to "control any fugitive vapor and odor emissions," according to a news release. A ventilation system will filter the air before it is released, and Castro said the air inside the Dunshanbe Teahouse is still safe.
"We did indoor testing back in September 2011. The levels of impurities in the air were way below EPA standards. We don't have any concerns about indoor air contamination," he said.
The tent is expected to be in place through late February, when the excavation ends and the city will begin to replace and restripe the asphalt. The 13th Street Plaza later will be redesigned to improve circulation and parking for Boulder Farmers' Market patrons, as part of the Boulder Civic Area Plan.
"We're going to go through a design and conceptual phase in 2014," Castro said. "This happened so fast we didn't really have time to design something for that space."
The city hopes to open up the west side of the plaza sooner, depending on how the work goes.
The estimated cost of the cleanup is $4 million, according to the city.
Xcel Energy will help with the costs, but an agreement has not been reached on how much it will contribute. Xcel, which formerly owned the site, contributed $50,000 toward a $210,000 study of the extent of contamination in November 2012.
"We've been working in partnership with the city on the project since it began," Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said Monday.
The city will front the cost of the cleanup, Castro said, and reach an agreement with Xcel when the project is completed.
Most of this week will be dedicated to setup at the site, and Castro predicts that crews will begin digging next week.
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CISPA Wouldn't Actually Solve The Reasons Congress Is Giving For Why We Need CISPA
from the it's-the-little-things... dept
But, here's the thing that no one has done yet: explain why this bill is needed. With President Obama's executive order in place, the government can more easily share threat info with companies, so really the only thing that CISPA piles on is more incentives for companies to cough up private information to the government with little in the way of oversight or restrictions on how that information can be used. And given how frequently the government likes to cry "cyberattack" when it's simply not true, it's only a matter of time before they start using claims of "cyberthreat!" to troll through private information.
And they still refuse to explain why this is needed. We hear lots of scare stories, but no explanation for how this bill helps. For example, Ruppersberger has written up an oped for the Baltimore Sun in which he lays out the reasons we need CISPA, but it's all scare stories, without a single explanation for how CISPA would help. And that's because it wouldn't.
March: Hackers allegedly steal the credit card numbers from 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard customers by breaking into the computer systems of the company's payment processor in New York. The thieves stockpiled the stolen credit card numbers for months before beginning to use them.Payment processors already have some of the best security people in the world and have a large and widespread community of folks who do nothing but think about security issues for this industry. At what point would that lead the payment processor or Visa or Mastercard to need to hand information over to the government?
August: Cyber attackers disrupt production from Saudi Aramco, the world's largest exporter of crude oil, taking out 30,000 computers in the process, according to press reports.Saudi Aramco is a Saudi Arabian company. Not sure why they would be sharing info with the US government or how CISPA would relate to them at all.
January: PNC Bank announces to its 5 million customers that its website is getting hit with high traffic consistent of a cyber attack meant to delay business with its online banking customers.Again, why would PNC need to give information to the government? And, if they could alert their customers to the threat, they can also alert the government. None of that requires the ability to share customer info.
These are just three reported examples of cyber attacks in the past 12 months. Each could have had a devastating impact on the U.S. and global economies. That's more than a bad dream — that's a full-blown nightmare.These are just three scare stories of cyber attacks in the past 12 months, none of which would have been impacted by CISPA. So why do we need it again?
Highly trained Chinese, Russian and Iranian hackers are probing, pilfering and plotting every second of every day. They're often after personal data: In November, reports suggested a hacker was able to access nearly 4 million tax returns in South Carolina with a single malicious email. And they're often after the trade secrets of our companies: The media has reported that Coca-Cola may have fallen victim to hackers from a Chinese beverage company.Again, what does any of that have to do with CISPA?
Many believe that what is happening to American business may be the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. It's costing our companies billions of dollars, and it's costing our country thousands of jobs.Many believe that's pure hogwash. It's not the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. It's not costing companies billions of dollars and it's certainly not costing our country thousands of jobs.
Preventing the U.S. government from sharing information about malicious computer code it detects is akin to preventing forecasters from warning citizens about a hurricane.Except the government already could share a lot of information, and with the executive order can now share more. So why do we need CISPA?
Our legislation doesn't just protect companies. It will also protect every American citizen who, for example, uses electricity or banks online, or whose doctor compiles medical records electronically.How? It's a serious question. You can talk about all of these hacks, and you can say "yay, cybersecurity bill!" but if you don't explain specifically how that bill does anything to actually stop those attacks or to protect Americans, you're full of it.
It's important to note that under my legislation, your private information will also be kept private from the government. Information-sharing between companies and the government will be entirely voluntary. Businesses do not have to share information with the government in order to receive information from the government. The bill does not authorize the government to monitor your computer or read your email, Tweets or Facebook posts. Nor does it authorize the government to shut down websites or require companies to turn over personal information.The first sentence is simply not true. Your private information can be shared with the government, so to say that it absolutely will be kept private is simply wrong. The second and third sentences are misleading. Yes, the information sharing is "voluntary" but since there are broad immunity exemptions, if the government is coming to most companies and saying "share this info for cybersecurity reasons, and you can't get sued for doing so," how many companies are going to stand up to the government and say no? There may be a very small number, but for the most part, companies will hand over the info. The fourth and fifth sentences are simply meaningless, because they are unrelated to the legitimate privacy concerns raised.
Once again, we're left in the same boat as before. Lots of scare stories but no explanation of why CISPA is needed or how it actually helps. The whole thing is just way too broad, with vague justifications that simply don't make much sense when you look at the actual threats compared to what the bill would allow.


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Event: Close pals & Celebs attended director Kunal Deshmukh's new restaurant Trikaya opening and also celebrated director Mohit Suri's birthday on the auspicious occassion in Pune.
Guest List: Soha Ali Khan, Sonal Chauhan, Imraan Khan, Kunal Khemu, Anjana Sukhani, Arjan Bajwa, Smilie Suri, Emraan Hashmi, Adhyayan Suman, Mahesh Bhatt, Mohit Suri, Mrinalini Sharma, Kunal Deshmukh, Parveen Hashmi, Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Bhatt, Kumar Taurani, Mohan Agashe
Date: 10-Apr-2009
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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To report an emergency in progress, call 911.
Patrol Division personnel are the first to respond to emergencies within the county. Patrol Deputies handle the enforcement of criminal and vehicle code regulations, and investigate misdemeanors and felony crimes. Patrol Deputies are also responsible for the enforcement of some of the County Code ordinances, including parking and snow removal violations.
The Patrol Division is staffed by approximately 120 uniformed officers and supervisors who provide 24-hour coverage through a three-shift system. Officers also work special assignments including Motorcycle patrol, Bicycle patrol, Snowmobile patrol, Helicopter patrol, Marine patrol, Canine, Explosives Ordinance Disposal (E.O.D.), Special Enforcement Team (SWAT) and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.). There are also four Transient Liaison Deputies. Patrol resources are directed to those areas of the County where specific crime trends are occurring. This type of directed patrol activity has resulted in the apprehension of numerous criminals. Twelve canine officers and their dogs are used for the search of suspects, missing persons and the location of evidence. Three of these canines specialize in narcotics detection.
The Sheriff's Reserve and Explorer programs are also coordinated by Patrol Division staff. Sheriff's Reserves are citizens who have interest in serving their community by assisting with law enforcement activities. After extensive training, they are used for supplementing the full-time staff in enforcement activities. The Explorer program provides an opportunity for high school and college aged young people to pursue their interest in law enforcement by participating and assisting in various department activities including ride-along's, special events, etc.
The Placer County Sheriff's Department also has a very active Citizen Volunteer program. Approximately 100 volunteers in Auburn, Granite Bay, Foresthill, Kings Beach and West Roseville provide hundreds of hours of support by taking counter reports, filing and other office tasks that free up department personnel.


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An Indian restaurant in Old Glossop is thought to be the first in the High Peak to serve non halal curries.
From next month, the Bulls Head, on Church Street, will offer their full menu with the choice of non halal or traditional halal meat, following a customer's request.
Halal meat, which Muslims are allowed to eat under Islamic law, is prepared by slaughtering the animal with a sharp knife by cutting the throat, windpipe and the blood vessels in the neck while the animal is conscious.
The slaughter must be performed by a Muslim and the animal must be blessed.
Regular Ivan Bell said: "I have had a long, friendly and illuminating discussion with the management, who could see my point of view and are willing to provide this alternative curry as well as their traditional curry.
"I have to admit there will be no difference in the taste and an excellent curry can be obtained here at a very reasonable price.
"I hope their customers both regular and new will take advantage of this new concept in UK curries which if successful may spread to other progressive curry houses in the UK and assist with the welfare of our farm animals."
The news comes after the emergence of the UK's first halal organic farms, who are calling on British Muslims to become more aware about where their meat comes from.


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Winning the lottery does not turn out as sixth-grader Hailee Richardson had imagined.
Yes, she does get the new bicycle and cellphone that were high on her list of needs, but she also gets sent to a different school, prestigious Magnolia Academy. New and nervous, Hailee becomes consumed with Facebook and is targeted by an older risk-taking classmate who threatens to get this previously good kid, who doesn't even swear, into trouble. Soon she's alienated a new friend and said something terrible to an old one. Dramatic and imaginative, Hailee is both quick-witted and quick to justify herself. In her first-person, present-tense narration, she promises to tell readers the truth, and she does, in her lights. But readers will see through this unreliable narrator, recognizing her jealous moments and her social insecurity. They may even be relieved by her father's "intervention," which curbs her cellphone addiction. Hailee's love for the hard-to-control bougainvillea vines and the ever-changing swamp maple outside her Florida window reflect her own issues. Her parents' sensible approach to their newly acquired wealth contrasts nicely with their daughter's exaggerated dreams. Haworth effectively captures the self-consciousness, self-absorption and limited experience of a preteen, and the seductive charms of Facebook friendships for that age.
Realistic, modern and still familiar, this is a middle school story both children and their parents should read. (Fiction. 9-12)


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NYC workers to begin searching for human remains at site where possible 9/11 plane part found
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NEW YORK – Workers for the New York City medical examiner's office will begin sifting soil for possible human remains at a site near the World Trade Center where a part believed to be from a plane hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 was found.
Officials say sifting will start on Tuesday after the area is first tested for possible toxicity.
The aircraft part was discovered on Wednesday wedged between an apartment building and a mosque that in 2010 prompted virulent national debate about Islam and freedom of speech because it's just blocks from ground zero.
Authorities believe the part is from one of the two hijacked planes that brought down the trade center on Sept. 11, 2001. Of the nearly 3,000 victims, remains of about 1,000 were never recovered.


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According to the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-16), the wise men or Magi followed a star to the birth place of Christ. It was written that they were from the east and that they brought three gifts to Christ; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Since there were three gifts, it has been inferred that there were three Magi.
The names for the Magi vary in different traditions. In Latin tradition dating from the seventh century, they are given as Gaspar (or Caspar/Jasper), Melchior and Balthasar. The Eastern feast day of the Magi is December 25.
There are numerous variations of the names of the Magi in Greek, but the most common variation is for the name Gaspar which in Greek is Ιάσπερος (yiasperos) which translates into English as Jasper.
The name day for Jasper/Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, according to Orthodox Christianity is December 25.
External Links
- Article in The Catholic Encyclopedia
- Article on "Biblical Magi" on Wikipedia


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The escalation of the Gaza crisis will continue to boost the risk premium in benchmark oil prices though well-stocked global inventories and weak demand will cap any move higher.
"We believe this bounce has a little bit more to go but are bearish for the coming few weeks," said Kirk Howell, Partner at Spy Ridge Capital. "While the downside is limited as missiles fly in the Middle East, the over-supply and dropping demand will outweigh the knee-jerk reactions higher over time."
World oil markets are well-supplied despite the loss of nearly 1 million barrels a day of crude from Iran following sanctions by the United States and European Union, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told Reuters on Monday.
U.S. oil demand fell 2.3 percent in October from a year earlier, to 18.4 million barrels a day, the American Petroleum Institute said Friday. Demand was the weakest in October in 17 years, the trade group said, and was up 1.3 percent from September. Demand in the first 10 months of the year was 2.1 percent below the same period in 2011 at 18.562 million barrels a day.
(Read More: OPEC Says 2013 Oil Demand May Underperform)
Eleven out of 15 of this week's CNBC survey respondents, or about nearly three-quarters, expect oil prices to climb this week. Justin Harper, Market Strategist at IG Markets said of the firm's clients currently trading oil, 81 per cent hold long positions, or bullish bets.
Four out of the 15, or just over a quarter, forecast a decline. "Despite 'continued' unrest in the Middle East, WTI crude will meander near current levels before moving toward the low $90's," said John Licata, Chief Commodity Strategist of Blue Phoenix, an independent energy and metals research company in New York City. "As of right now, I'm not very optimistic any strength in WTI will hold in early 2013 and I'm currently thinking prices could fall sub $80."
Brent crude - widely perceived as more sensitive to flashpoints in the Middle East - rose $2.75 to settle at $111.70 a barrel on Monday, fueled by supply concerns as violence in the Middle East escalatedand as investors grew more hopeful that a U.S. budget crisis will be averted. Front-month January Brent crude traded as high as $112.20 a barrel during intraday activity, the highest level since Oct. 19.
U.S. December crude rose 2.7 percent on Monday on optimism that legislators will reach a deal to tackle the nation's fiscal crunch, with additional support coming from escalating tensions in the Middle East.
International pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip puts Egypt's new Islamist president in the spotlight on Tuesday after a sixth day of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes that have killed over 100 people.
(Read More: Emerging Nations Step on the Gas, Drive Oil Demand)
Israel's leaders weighed the benefits and risks of sending tanks and infantry into the densely populated coastal enclave two months before an Israeli election, and indicated they would prefer a diplomatic path backed by world powers, including U.S. President Barack Obama, the European Union and Russia, Reuters reported.
'Critical Phase'
"The confrontation with Hamas is not over yet, it is unclear when it's going to end and we may have to act more extensively and more aggressively," The Jerusalem Post quoted Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak as saying on Sunday. Barak said the IDF will not hesitate to start a ground operation in Gaza if it is necessary, but that Israel is also prepared to stop the operation if Hamas stops firing rockets at Southern Israel.
(Read More: Your Currency Trade on Rising Oil)
ANZ analysts said the conflict, according to many observers, is now entering a critical phase. "There are talks of ceasefire in Cairo, but this could take a while to be negotiated," the bank said in a report on Tuesday.
"Deteriorating circumstances in the Middle East mean there is a strong likelihood of higher oil prices this week and over the coming weeks," added Gavin Wendt, Founding Director & Senior Resource Analyst at MineLife Pty Ltd in Sydney. "I think this has every possibility of spiraling out of control."
Though oil markets are moving on speculation that the Gaza conflict may disrupt region oil supplies, the crisis has yet to have any material impact on physical volumes and export flows, and as long as the hostilities remain localized, price gains will be limited, said Johannes Benigni, managing director at JBC Energy.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia - unlike in 1973 - will not use oil as an economic weapon, said Spy Ridge Capital's Howell. "Now, Saudi Arabia will likely continue to pump as much oil as possible to keep prices stable and further weaken Iran's influence in the region," Howell said. "Unless events drastically worsen, which of course is always possible, oil flow is unlikely to be disrupted. We'd reassess our position if Egypt and Turkey take a more aggressive stance."
(Read More: US Crude Oil Rises to End at $89 on Mideast Tensions)
The outlook for China's economy, Beijing's structural reform program and a resolution to avoid the fiscal cliff in the U.S. are more pressing drivers for the oil markets, Benigni argued. "China having a new leadership structure may help to get decisions executed and send money to work," he said. "The U.S. has an elected President but I am afraid the lame ducks in Congress will kick the can down the road before they will come to an agreement in Jan."
Oil prices will likely trade sideways in the short term "with more potential on the upside...refining margins are expected to stay relatively weak as refining capacities comes back to work," he added.
(Read More: Middle East Trouble Could Steal Focus From Growth Concerns)
Domestic tensions in Jordan meanwhile added to the uncertain political outlook in the Middle East. Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated on Monday outside the prime minister's offices in protest against fuel price hikes that have met with public outcry over the past week, the AFP reported. Friday also saw unprecedented protests sparked by the fuel issue that included calls for King Abdullah II to go.
"The situation in Jordan piles on the risk premium," said David Kotok, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer at Cumberland Advisors. "Flames of war are spreading in region."
—By CNBC's Sri Jegarajah