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The real estate market in Maricopa is still a buyer's market, but how should young couples looking to own a home prepare themselves? We went to the experts to find out.
What do you see as the biggest challenges for young couples trying to buy a home in Maricopa in today's market?
"The biggest challenge for younger buyers seems to be having enough cash for closing costs. In addition to a down payment, they typically need $4,000 to $5,000 additional cash to pay their closing costs, unless they can convince the seller to pay the costs on their behalf. Also, the lenders will review their bank statements and stipulate a minimum amount a cash 'reserves' to have after closing." – Dayv Morgan, HomeSmart Success
"One of the biggest challenges for a young couple buying a home in the Maricopa real estate market today is to make sure they budget everything into their monthly expense and not just look at the cost of their monthly mortgage and impounds. I make sure I disclose the cost of utilities so they can factor that into their total monthly expense." – Pat Lairson, The Maricopa Real Estate Company
"The newlyweds' biggest issue will be financing and down payment. That's why is it's never too early to visit with your Realtor and put together that checklist of their 'must haves,' wants and needs to determine what the price range may be." – Terry Sperry, Coldwell Banker
What should be on their financial checklist before they contact a Realtor?
"Before contacting a Realtor, any buyer should make sure that they have a pre-qualification letter from a lender that has done a thorough review of their financial situation. I've seen many hopeful home buyers end up disappointed and without a home because they got a pre-approval based on verbal information that was incomplete, or they started looking for homes in a price range that they later found out they could not afford." – Morgan
"A Realtor and lender can help you get a financial checklist in order so if you don't have one first, don't worry. Call your Realtor anyway. It is good to know your FICO score before deciding if you even want to proceed with buying a home. There is a loan bond program out right now that is perfect for couples or individuals just starting out that could help them get into a home for little or no money down. Ask your Realtor for more details." – Lairson
"Best tips are not to change jobs or residence during the process. Do use your credit as normal but stay current on all payments. However, don't make any large purchases or make large deposits or financial contracts without discussing first with your lender." – Sperry
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Findings demonstrate that hypoxia-induced arginase II expression and cellular proliferation depend on autocrine epidermal growth factor production leading to epidermal growth factor receptor activation in human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells.
KLF15 is a critical regulator of pulmonary endothelial homeostasis via repression of endothelial Arg2 expression. KLF15 abundance and nuclear compartmentalization are regulated by SUMOylation/deSUMOylation-a hypoxia-sensitive process that is controlled by SENP1.
xpression profiles revealed miR-1299 downregulation concomitant with arginase-2 (ARG2) upregulation in hyperpigmented skin of melasma patients.
ARG2 promotes tumorigenesis, and HCMV may contribute to GBM pathogenesis by upregulating ARG2.
fetal dendritic cells promote prenatal T-cell immune suppression through arginase-2; results reveal a previously unappreciated role of dendritic cells within the developing fetus and indicate that they mediate homeostatic immune-suppressive responses during gestation
Schizophrenia patients had increased arginase II protein expression in the frontal cortex compared to controls.
our data provide compelling evidence that human cytomegalovirus reduced the level of microRNA-613 which functions as an anti-onco-miRNA in glioblastoma, primarily by downregulating the expression of arginase-2
overexpression of AMPK induced arginase II protein expression and viable cells numbers in human Pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell .
Data show that transfection with Arginase II-small interfering RNA prevented hypoxia-induced cell proliferation.
circulating Arginase 2 concentrations increase in clinical erectile dysfunction (ED) and are associated with increased risk for ED
arginase 2 impairs endothelial autophagy independently of the L-arginine ureahydrolase activity through activation of RPS6KB1 and inhibition of PRKAA, which is implicated in atherogenesis
High arginase II expression correlates with poor survival for patients with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma suppresses T-cell proliferation via arginase II expression and activity.
high fat diet enhanced arginase-II expression/activity and p38mapk activity, which was associated with eNOS-uncoupling as revealed by decreased nitric oxide
Arg1 expression is decreased, and Arg2 expression is increased in the newborn congenital obstructive nephropathy and in the mouse model.
Arg-II, p38, and S6K1 form a positive circuit which regulates endothelial senescence and cardiovascular aging.
OxLDL triggers retrograde translocation of arginase2 in aortic endothelial cells via ROCK and mitochondrial processing peptidase.
These results demonstrate that S6K1 and arginase-II form a positive circuit mediating the detrimental effects of chronic L-arginine supplementation on endothelial cells.
We speculate that cytomegalovirus may contribute to endothelial dysfunction via ARG II induction and reduced eNOS production.
study identified arginase II as a new target of miR-17-5p in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (hPASMC), with miR-17-5p involved in the hypoxic induction of arginase II in hPASMC; also found evidence supporting a feedback loop between arginase II and miR-17-5p, such that arginase II regulates miR-17-5p expression in hPASMC
Data indicate that arginase II (Arg II) expressions were higher in breast tumor tissues compared to the matched normal.
Arg2 is a critical effector of the hepatic glucose fasting response.
in vivo and in vitro experiments demonstrate that Arg-II negatively regulates AQP2 and the urine-concentrating capability in kidneys via a mechanism that is not associated with the modulation of the cAMP pathway.
Arg II was identified as a factor promoting EAE likely via an Arg I-independent mechanism; Arg II may promote EAE by enhancing dendritic cells production of Th17-differentiating cytokines; specific inhibition of Arg II could be a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis
The possibility that the Gas6-Mer-PI3K/Akt-STAT1-LXR-Arg2 pathway plays an essential role for resolving inflammatory response in acute lung injury.
ARG2 which hydrolyzes arginine into ornithine and urea, is induced upon obesity, and silencing or loss of ARG2 markedly suppresses pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
the finding of this study is that ARG2 contributes to the immune evasion of H. pylori by restricting M1 macrophage activation and polyamine metabolism.
diabetes-dependent increase in renal arginase-2 expression also requires arginase-1 expression in macrophages
Arginase II expression is reduced in aortic endothelial cells and macrophages following PARP-1 knockout.
This study shows for the first time that neurovascular injury after retinal ischemia/reperfusion is mediated through increased expression of Arginase 2.
Arg2 KO female (not male) mice are protected from age-associated glucose intolerance and reveal greater glucose induced-insulin release, larger islet size and beta-cell mass, and more proliferative and less apoptotic beta-cells compared with the age-matched WT controls. Arg2 is mainly expressed in acinar cells and is upregulated with aging, which enhances p38 MAPK activation and release of TNF-alpha.
Arginase 2 deletion prevents hyperoxia-induced retinal vascular injury by preventing NOS uncoupling resulting in decreased reactive oxygen species formation and increased nitric oxide bioavailability.
ERK2 and p38 regulate arginase II induction in LPS-stimulated macrophages, but iNOS induction by LPS is dependent on p38 activation
Suggest that retinal arginase is involved in the hyperoxia-induced neuronal degeneration in the OIR model, through the regulation of polyamine metabolism.
miR155-induced repression of Arg2 expression is critical for the ability of dendritic cells to drive T cell activation by controlling arginine availability in the extracellular environment.
HDAC2 is a critical regulator of Arg2 expression and thereby endothelial nitric oxide and endothelial function.
Activity of arginase before and at the time of parturition might be a potential marker for occurrence of metritis, especially in cows that develop retained fetal membranes.
results indicate that arginase induction depends in part on epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor activity, and that EGFR inhibitors may attenuate vascular remodeling without affecting nitric oxide release
Kidneys from circulation-restricted fetuses showed arginase-2 protein induction.
In heart failure, increased iNOS and arginase II expression results in unchanged NO species and protein S-nitrosylation; with substrate limitation, uncoupled iNOS produces superoxide anions and contributes to contractile dysfunction.
Arginase catalyzes the hydrolysis of arginine to ornithine and urea. At least two isoforms of mammalian arginase exists (types I and II) which differ in their tissue distribution, subcellular localization, immunologic crossreactivity and physiologic function. The type II isoform encoded by this gene, is located in the mitochondria and expressed in extra-hepatic tissues, especially kidney. The physiologic role of this isoform is poorly understood\; it is thought to play a role in nitric oxide and polyamine metabolism. Transcript variants of the type II gene resulting from the use of alternative polyadenylation sites have been described.
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Marsden Hartley's Maine is at Colby College's Museum of Art through November 12, 2017, after a successful run in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Breuer galleries. It's worth a trip to Waterville, if you're interested in unique interpretations of Maine and some unusual brush work. Non-flash photography is allowed. This one is Hartley's Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2 (1939-40):
The Met's handsome and informative (but expensive) show catalog book also is worth the price or worth waiting in line for at libraries that have it (including Brooklin's Friend Memorial Library).
Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1877 and died in Ellsworth in 1944. He promoted himself as "The Painter from Maine" to revive his career, which had peaked in Europe, but had to be discontinued because of World War I.
His moody and abstracted views of Maine in the show run from childish, to stunning, to homo-erotic. Of particular interest to us were his Cézanne-influenced series on Maine's Mount Katahdin during the seasons. (Waterville, Maine)


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Two Police Officers and Suspect Injured During Shooting in Benton County
Oregon State Police– 08/12/12 The suspect involved in the shooting with law enforcement officers is identified as DEMECIO CARDENAS JR, age 32, from Los Angeles, California. CARDENAS is wanted as a fugitive from justice on an outstanding warrant for Parole Violation out of California. He is being treated at a Portland-area hospital and his condition status is not available. No photograph available for release at this time.
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The suspect was also struck by gunfire. He was flown via air ambulance to a Willamette Valley hospital. His status is not known.
So how many Americans have to die before we start enforcing immigration Laws and deporting illegals? This Mexican Male for California may very well be illegal or an anchor baby involved in the Criminal Underclass anchor babies join with such enthusiasm. Why couldn't they have just put a bullet through his head, now he running up a tab on the taxpayers money. Illegal mexicans get busted all the time in Oregon, they are released on bail and either re-arrested for another crime or they skip the state, or they get new fake ID yet it is racist to enforce Immigration laws.
A Benton County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) sergeant and Salem Police Department (SPD) corporal were shot and injured Saturday night in an incident involving police and an adult male following an attempt to elude law enforcement about 2 miles north of Adair Park just south of the Benton/Polk County line. The suspect also received gunshot wound injuries. Oregon State Police Criminal Investigation Division detectives are leading the investigation with the assistance of Benton County Major Crime Team, Keizer Police Department, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Salem Police Department, and Benton County District Attorney's Office.
Information authorized for release indicates on August 11, 2012 at approximately 10:25 p.m. an Albany-area woman called 911 to report a man armed with a gun was in her backyard. The man, who the caller said she knew, reportedly left in a possible stolen green 1994 Acura Integra two-door displaying Oregon license plates. Law enforcement agencies in the area were notified to be on the lookout for the vehicle that was subsequently confirmed stolen out of Salem. BCSO spotted the vehicle about eight minutes later and it attempted to elude deputies along Highway 20 into rural Benton County.
At approximately 10:37 p.m., the driver lost control of the vehicle at the intersection of Independence Highway and NW Springhill Drive where he abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot into heavy brush north of the intersection. Officers responded to the area to assist BCSO and established a perimeter to try and contain the suspect driver. A Salem police canine unit came to the scene to assist in finding the suspect.
As the search team with the canine started searching the area before midnight, the suspect emerged from the brush and was encountered by law enforcement officers. During the encounter, shots were reportedly exchanged between the suspect and law enforcement. During the exchange of gunfire, BCSO Sergeant David Peterson and SPD Corporal Andrew Connolly were shot. The suspect was also shot multiple times. A SPD patrol vehicle was also hit by several rounds.
Law enforcement officers from BCSO, Albany Police Department, Corvallis Police Department, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Linn County Sheriff's Office, and Salem Police Department were at the scene. Adair Fire Department personnel were also in the area.
The male suspect was seriously injured and transported by air ambulance to Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland for treatment. He is expected to survive. He has been tentatively identified as a 32-year old Hispanic male from California. His name is withheld while investigators positively identify him and make an attempt to notify next of kin.
BCSO Sergeant Peterson, age 29, was seriously injured and transported by ground ambulance to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis. He is listed in serious condition. Peterson has been employed with Benton County Sheriff's Office for 6 years and was promoted to Sergeant nine months ago. He previously worked as a Reserve Deputy and Marine Deputy.
Salem Police Corporal Connolly, age 46, was transported by ground ambulance to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released for a single gunshot wound. Connolly has worked for Salem Police Department for 13 years.
"Law enforcement officers are put in harms way every day, and when members of our law enforcement family are injured in the line of duty it affects our entire community. Our thoughts and prayers are with Corporal Connolly and Sergeant Peterson for a complete and speedy recovery from their injuries," said Salem Police Chief Jerry Moore.
"We consider ourselves very fortunate that both Sergeant Peterson and Corporal Connolly survived this incident and we look forward to recovery and return to their careers. We are privileged to have outstanding collaboration with all of our law enforcement partners during this incident, and we know that without them this could have had a more deadly ending," said Benton County Sheriff Diana Simpson.
Photographs of the officers are not for release at this time. Questions about involved officers should be directed to their respective agency.


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Robert, Nat, and Cody take a journey back to the early days of the talkies, and prior to the Hayes Code, with 1933's THE INVISIBLE MAN.
It's safe to say that there's not much disagreement with the conventional wisdom on this film, but we talk about it at length. Plus a Cinecast tradition of mispronounced names lives on! You have to listen to find out who is continuing that tradition.
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Amherst has a zoning bylaw that restricts the number of unrelated individuals that can live in a home to four. If you have a family of more than four, however, that is not an issue. The reason for the bylaw restricting the number of those who are not related is to get a grip on the large population of students and their impact on housing and the neighborhoods in which they reside. However, will Amherst's occupancy restrictions have the desired effect of mitigating the impacts of off-campus student housing or will it do more harm than good? Moreover, are they discriminatory and a direct violation of Massachusetts fair housing laws.
A colleague said that he had heard of municipal laws of the 19th and early 20th century that sought to prevent the establishment of houses of ill repute, known as brothels, which limited the number of women who were not related from living together. He said that they may be the precedent that set the stage for Amherst's modern day occupancy restrictions. Always looking for fodder for an interesting blog post, I decided to look into it to see if this could actually be the case. So I broke out my Google machine to see what turned up.
It turns out that, according to the sources I could find, these so-called "Brothel Laws" are more of a myth, but occupancy restrictions are not. However, there is a state law on the books that seems to address brothel-like activities in lodging houses.
Further, there is currently a case out of Worcester that is being appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. A landlord is appealing a lower court's decision that the city can limit occupancy to 3 or less per unit based on a 1918 definition of lodging house as, "let to four or more persons not within second degree of kindred to the person conducting it…". This could have deleterious consequences for renters throughout the commonwealth. One brief refers to this possible unintended consequence as an "Orwellian twist" stating, "the [lower] Court has expanded the notion of "lodging house" to encompass each and every dwelling unit in the Commonwealth that is rented to four or more persons (not just adults, i.e., mother, father/ two or more children), unless at least one of the persons is a parent, child/ grandparent, grandchild, brother/ or sister of the 'person conducting it'."
So I sent an email to Amherst's Planning Director, Jonathan Tucker, to see if he could offer any insights into the history of Amherst's occupancy restriction. He advised me that Amherst's zoning bylaws restricting the number of unrelated individuals were adopted in the mid-1960's as a response to the growth of UMass and that, understandably, brothels were not a concern at that time.
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"The overriding issue from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s was the exponential growth of the University and the resulting impacts on Amherst's existing housing stock," Tucker stated in an email. "It is almost certain that the four unrelated definition was adopted as an attempt to get a handle on unregulated informal student residences that began appearing throughout Amherst."
Tucker explained that Amherst didn't have any zoning until the 1920's, but there was a law that prohibited the use of property that was "harmful to public morals". However, there were not restrictions regarding unrelated people living together at that time.
Although I learned through my Google machine that other municipalities throughout the country have similar bylaws, Tucker was kind enough to send a legal opinion from the town's attorney, Joel Bard of Kopelman and Paige, that cited United States Supreme Court cases that defend these types of bylaws. He also sent a list of towns in the commonwealth with similar bylaws, which include Easthampton, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Pelham, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Williamsburg, and Whately. However, I do not know to what degree these bylaws are enforced.
Evanston, Illinois is the home of Northwestern University, which also has a so-called brothel law on the books and started enforcing it only in the last couple of years, according to local news reports (these news reports actually refer to it as a brothel law). In their effort to convince the community that their brothel law is not effective, the North Shore-Barrington Association of REALTORS® brought in UMass, Amherst Associate Professor of Regional Planning Ellen J. Pader, who they billed as a leading scholar of occupancy issues, to give a talk at their local public library in front of a reported 80 attendees and quoted her in their position paper on the issue, Defining an Evanston family: An analysis of the City of Evanston's definition of family and its impact on housing and the community.
The NSBAR paper makes 8 key points that dispute the notion that these types of occupancy restrictions are a solution to the issues student housing brings. The UMass professor was cited to support the REALTOR® association's first two key points, that "the number of unrelated individuals in a dwelling unit and over-occupancy are separate and distinct issues" and those such laws, "provide an outdated, artificial, arbitrary and culturally biased definition of a family."
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Citing a 1999 paper, Restricting occupancy, hurting families, NSBAR quote Pader to complement their contention that arguments that claim restricting the number of unrelated individuals is a safety matter are disingenuous as she stated: "While appearing to be neutral, and purported by their supporters to be in the interest of protecting the physical and mental health and safety of all, property owners and municipalities have long used overly restrictive occupancy codes explicitly to keep out unwanted populations…". The ellipsis ends the quote because the sentence ends with, "and maintains a particular ethnic status quo in a community." So in the paper she is referring to racial housing discrimination, which is illegal under fair housing laws. (In a news report covering Pader's visit, Pader explains that occupancy laws originate from colonial America to deal with immigrants from different cultures living in the same neighborhoods because they didn't mesh well.)
Regarding how occupancy restrictions are outdated an arbitrary, Pader is quoted in the same paper and an earlier one dating back to 1994 from the 'Lectric Law Library in NSBAR's contention that occupancy restrictions are discriminatory.
"What we're really talking about here is a culturally constructed definition of appropriate family composition and the apportioning of domestic space masquerading as a neutral, and even healthy and necessary, social policy," Pader was quoted as stating. "Occupancy standards 'are based on a middle-class, Anglo-saxon concept of family relationships and living space.'"
The other arguments that NSBAR make are:
- The law does little to curb student nuisance.
- The law exasperates neighborhood nuisances.
- The law decreases housing affordability.
- The law discourages investment and likely reduces property values.
- Property owners and real estate licensees are placed in the position of people's relationship status.
As a REALTOR®, I have had first-hand experience regarding Amherst's occupancy restriction discouraging investment and reducing property values. I had a listing near UMass that several investors were interested in the property because of its proximity to campus, but because of the town's occupancy restriction, the numbers did not work for what the seller wanted. If investors were unencumbered by the restriction, it is likely that they would have been willing to pay more for it.
Also, as a REALTOR®, it would be illegal for me to steer a consumer away from a property because of their familial status, so these occupancy restrictions and other that address a certain segment of a community make me uncomfortable. Further, Massachusetts Fair Housing Law seems to trump these housing restrictions as it states that, among other things, you can't discrimination based on marital status nor age. Most students are young and single. Regardless of the fact that an individual is a student, they are still being discriminated against because of their status as young and single people. The fact that they are also students is irrelevant, in my opinion.
So while these laws may not be traced to a need to prevent the establishment of brothels, they may fail at their intended goals and find that they are discriminatory. Despite the fact that town counsel offered an opinion that lends credibility to the law that included a 1970's U.S. Supreme Court decision, as UMass political science professor Sheldon Goldman told Masslive in 2009 regarding one of the cases cited in Kopelman and Paige's opinion, ""But since then privacy law has been liberalized although to the best of my knowledge the precise question before the Court in Belle Terre has not been reconsidered. A good legal argument can be made on both sides of the issue."
There is no doubt that there needs to be accountability among Amherst's student population and among the landlords that rent to them. Students should also respect their neighbors when they decide to live off-campus. However, restricting the number of people who can live in a residence simply because they are not related to one another is a burdensome solution on many levels that will likely do more harm than good. In a liberal and intellectual community such as Amherst, I would expect a more intelligent solution than one as capricious as occupancy restrictions.
For me, the fallacy of the notion that occupancy restrictions will solve the impacts caused by off-campus student housing is as frustrating as the fallacy, adopted by some, that the global warming that we are experiencing is a natural cycle of climate change. The problems regarding the impacts student housing lies with student and landlord accountability, not with the number of people living in a home.
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In a study of 28,618 referrals to the Alaska juvenile justice system, the Justice Center found considerable disparity between white and minority youth in the rate at which they were referred, the frequency of their referrals and the types of offenses which brought them to the attention of juvenile justice personnel.
A referral comprises paperwork which identifies the youth to the Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS), specifies the offense behavior and may extensively describe the circumstances surrounding the behavior. Youth usually are referred by law enforcement agencies and the referral may include arrest and detention. The police may have responded to a citizen complaint or acted on a warrant; they may, in the case of shoplifting, for example, have accepted custody of the youth from store personnel; or they themselves may have discovered juveniles engaged in illegal activities. In addition, field probation officers refer youth either for new offenses or for violating the conditions of probation.
Each time an incident is reported to DFYS the details are entered into a data base known as PROBER. Though PROBER contains a substantial amount of additional information, in this article we focus on referral events, using data from 1992-1995.
Demographics of Referrals
We confined our analysis to youth who were 10 to 17 years old at their first appearance in the data set and who were categorized in one of three racial groups—white, Alaska Native and African-American. These three races accounted for 90 per cent of all referrals.
The data are incident-based; thus, the number of youth referred is considerably smaller than the number of referrals. The 26, 618 referrals accumulated over a four-year period involved only 14,145 individuals, an average of two referrals for each youth in the data set. This information is displayed in Table 1 by race and gender. Note that males accounted for nearly three-quarters of all referrals but were just two-thirds of all youth referred. Although white youth of both genders were two-thirds of all youth referred, they accounted for less than 60 per cent of all referrals recorded, while a smaller proportion of minority youth accounted for a larger percentage of all referrals. These differences are clearer in an examination of the mean (average) number of offenses per youth. Each Native youth accumulated an average of just over 2.4 referrals and each black youth slightly less. White youth, on the other hand, had fewer than two referrals per person.
Rates of Referrals
Another way of examining racial disproportionality is to examine the rate at which each race accumulates referrals. We used as a base for computing such rates Alaska Department of Education (DOE) enrollment figures for grades 5 through 12. Figures, broken down by race and area, were available for each of the four years studied. During each year Alaska Natives constituted about 23 per cent of all youth enrolled in grades 5 through 12 and African Americans around 5 per cent.
We computed a rate of referral for each 1000 persons in the racial population in question using the enrollment figures and found them consistently higher for minority youth than for white youth (Table 2). The referral rate for each 1000 Alaska Natives in the youth population ranged from a low of 14.2 in 1992 to a high of 16.8 in 1994. The referral rate for white youth ranged from 8.5 to 8.9 per 1000. Referral rates for African Americans were significantly higher than for either other race, ranging from 17.7 to 20.5. (These rates were computed based on DOE enrollment figures. Dropout estimates provided by DOE for the 1995-96 school year suggest that the enrollment-based rates presented in this study may be understated by as much as 4.1 per cent for Natives, 2.5 per cent for African Americans, and 2.7 per cent for whites.)
By this measure, as well as by measures of proportion, minority youth are overrepresented at the initial entry point of the Alaska juvenile justice system. The referral data cannot show us why they are overrepresented, but it can provide information on the reasons for the referrals, i.e., the offenses for which the youth are referred.
Reasons for Referrals
Offense information was entered in the data based on the most serious charge at referral (if there was more than one charge). We initially categorized referral events as crimes against persons, property crimes, public order crimes and other offenses. However, because these categories include both very serious and very minor offenses, we decided to control for offense severity. We therefore based most of our offense-based analyses on selected crimes either because they were the most numerous in their category or because there was particular public interest in them (Table 3).
For example, of 4,078 referrals for crimes against persons, only 40 (less than one tenth of one per cent) were for the crimes of murder in the first or second degrees, manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide. The majority (61%) were for misdemeanor assault (assault in the fourth degree) so we used this charge in our analyses of crimes against persons. For crimes against property we focused on burglary (the only felony), criminal mischief and misdemeanor theft: these accounted for two-thirds of all property crime referrals. Referrals for possession/consumption of alcohol were the most numerous in the public order category. We also included referrals for misdemeanor drug possession because drug abuse is perceived as a growing problem.
The row percentages in Table 3 show the proportion of referrals for each offense attributable to each racial group. For offenses against persons, minority youth are represented in proportions greater than their representation in the general youth population.
For referrals on the three selected property offenses of burglary, criminal mischief and theft in the third or fourth degrees, Native youth were overrepresented in the first two, but represented slightly under their proportion in the general population for theft. Misdemeanor theft is the only referral offense for which white youth were represented in proportions which approximated their percentage of the general youth population. They were responsible for approximately 70 per cent of all thefts in the data base, while they constituted 72 to 73 per cent of all youth enrolled in school in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
Referrals for alcohol offenses were accumulated by Alaska Native youth in greater numbers than for any other racial group. They accounted for 54.5 per cent of all referrals for minor alcohol offenses, while white youth accounted for 44.7 per cent. African American youth were seldom referred for alcohol violations: only 34 of 2,500 referrals of black youth were for this behavior.
There are regional differences in referrals for this offense. Because the regions differ greatly in population, the rates of referral for this offense make a better comparison. In the northern region, where the Alaska Native population is high, some communities exhibit strong legal proscriptions against drinking. In this region the rate of referral per 1000 Native youth in the region ranged from 3.6 to 4.3. In Anchorage, on the other hand, there were only 323 referrals for alcohol in all four years. The rate per 1000 Native youth in Anchorage only went above one per 1000 in 1995 (1.1). In 1992 it was 0.2. Clearly there are regional variations in the types of offenses for which youth are referred as well as differences by race.
Data on Individuals
Because the referral data are incident-based, we have been discussing incidents rather than people. As we have already noted, there are more referrals than people since some individuals accumulate several referrals. Indeed, 116 youth accumulated 15 or more referrals during the period studied. Three had 18 referrals—the highest number listed. Two-thirds of the youth appeared only once in the data set; of these, 70 per cent were white, 65 per cent were black and 60 per cent were Native. We limited our analysis of individuals to those whose full referral history was in the data set by selecting only those individuals whose history indicated no prior record. This left us with a sample of 11,799 youth referred one or more times in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. We examined the data on individuals on the basis of gender as well as race. Table 4 describes these youth and includes the mean number of referrals committed by each individual in that category. For example, the 2,696 white females in the data base accumulated a total of 3,938 referrals—an average of 1.46 referrals per person.
The gender differences are instructive. The percentage of individual females (34.3%) is greater than the percentage of referrals attributed to them (29.9%). They are presumably more likely than male youth to be referred only once. There are, however, differences by race, with a larger percentage of referrals of Native females (33.0%) than of either African American (25.0%) or white females (29.2%). Indeed, Alaska Native girls amassed a higher average number of offenses (1.89) than white boys (1.79).
Studies conducted in other states have suggested that girls are more likely to be entered into the juvenile justice system for their own protection, while boys are more likely to be referred for the protection of the public. We therefore continued to use gender in our analysis of offense behavior by race. Because 73.6 per cent of the individuals were referred for the first time for the offenses we selected to control for severity, we have confined our analysis to these in Table 5. This table includes only those who had no prior record noted in their PROBER file.
Among Native youth, numerically more girls than boys have been referred for possession/consumption of alcohol. This charge accounts for 35 per cent of all first referrals for Native females. More white girls than Native girls were referred for this offense, but as a percentage of all of their first referrals it was a distant second. For white females, the primary first referral charge was misdemeanor theft; 48.3 per cent of white girls were referred for this. An even larger percentage of African American girls was referred for theft (63.3%). Theft was first for a greater proportion of white (30.9%) and black boys (39.8%) as well, but in neither case do their proportions approach those for girls. We note also that a larger percentage of girls than boys was referred for misdemeanor assault. This difference was found among the minority groups; white boys and girls were referred for assault in the fourth degree in nearly equal percentages.
The data presented in this article cannot be used to assess the degree to which race influences the decision to refer youth to DFYS. Certainly minorities are disproportionately referred. The extraordinary number of referrals of Native youth for possession/consumption of alcohol suggests that the agencies making the referrals view this behavior differently for Native than for white or black youth. The data also show strong differences between highly urban Anchorage and the more rural parts of the state in the types of activities for which youth are referred. While these may result from different law enforcement priorities, they may also result from greater criminal opportunities in the city. The differences by region will be the subject of a future Forum article.
Nancy Schafer is a professor at the Justice Center. Richard Curtis is a research associate with the Center. Cassie Atwell of the Justice Center also contributed to the data analysis presented in this article.


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Durban - Yes, it's that time of the year when the who's who of the travel and tourism world head to Durban for Africa's Travel Indaba.
This year's annual tourism event is themed "Africa's Stories. Your Success".
It takes place at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre from May 8 to 10 with more than 1 000 exhibitors from 21 African countries in attendance.
The Indaba has become a huge financial boost for Durban, contributing more than R85 million to eThekwini's GDP. It raised close to R6m in government taxes last year alone.IOL


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Lion Max took a trip from the east coast to visit some children at the Phoenix Children's Hospital in July 2014. With Team Max Cure Superhero capes in hand, he joined some friends to serve smiles in the summer heat.
The Tucson Brownie Troop who has dedicated their service project to Dunk Your Kicks joined Lion Max and Little Lion Max (Jayden, a 6-year-old Chandler resident) and his sister (Angelisa, age 12) and handed out capes and other fun gifts to the kids receiving treatment that day. Troop leader Nicole Hopkins said "visiting the children and staff at Phoenix Children's Hospital really helped our girls connect with their Take Action Project, and has given them renewed vigor in their desire to help these families. Meeting Max the Lion was pretty cool also. The girls really want to visit again and spend more time with the kids, and they ALL promise to sing this time!"
It was a privileged to watch the beauty behind their innocence, wanting to make a difference but too young to really understand. Little Lion Max and the girls were a bit nervous at first. Not fully understanding what these kids were at the hospital for, or what their exact purpose there meant, it was a little difficult at first to warm up but by the time everyone left, Chloe (age 8) even sang "Bumble Bee" for everyone. It was fun to watch children, parents, nurses and a big lion squishing "bees" with their hands and laughing!
Kiersten, a local Mom and Max Cure Volunteer also joined us. Even though she has never personally been affected by pediatric cancer, she makes it her mission to become a voice for these children. "For nearly two years I've been fighting for children with cancer, but I never had the opportunity to actually meet who I'm fighting for. When Erica invited me to join, I can't deny how nervous I was!! I fight for these kids, because I'm a mother myself!! Our kids need more treatment options!!" She stated.
"Running races and raising awareness for childhood cancer is one thing, going in and spreading happiness with children fighting for their lives is another. So I took the advice I was given, didn't put on my mascara and headed for the Phoenix Children's Hospital. I walked through those doors and what I found was the most strong, brave and courageous little people I've ever meet!! No tears streamed my face, I was in awe of these kids spirit and strength!! They have more strength in their young years than I could gain in a lifetime!!"
It was a special day for us all at Max Cure and we hope we were able to give the same to the children we met. The Brownie Troop has set an aggressive goal so they may adopt families in our Roar Beyond Barriers Arizona program. We solute them and hope you will support them in their efforts. To date they have donated 154 pair and have a goal to reach 5,000 which would support 3 families for 6 months.
Imagine living in a one-room apartment with five family members. In this family, the Father is disabled and the Mother has to provide for the children leaving her unable to find a job that will be flexible so she can support her family needs. (more…)
The pediatric cancer community through the Alliance for Childhood Cancer on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, went to Capitol Hill to meet with Senators and Congressmen from all 50 States. The Max Cure Foundation joined forces with over 60 other CAC2 organizations (The Coalition Against Childhood Cancer – A Collaborative Group) and other advocates from the childhood cancer community to both virtually and physically storm Washington, D.C. (more…)
Richard Plotkin, Vice Chairman of The Max Cure Foundation (MCF) visited one of the Roar Beyond Barriers, NYC, families during the holidays at their new home on Staten Island. The Christmas tree was decorated with festive and religious ornaments, signaling the joy and serenity of this holiday season and the hope along with the anticipated prosperity for the year ahead. Grace, age 9, had made the paper snowflake hanging from the ceiling over the tree. Her proud parents were all smiles as MCF brought gifts donated by a friend (who has requested to remain anonymous) of Max Cure Foundation for Grace and Nikki, her 8 year-old sister. (more…)
The Max Cure Foundation is proud to announce that we will be teaming up with the Hamptons Marathon this year and the Bridgehampton Half Marathon in 2015. The Hamptons Marathon gives 100% of their proceeds to different charities each year, and Max Cure is thrilled to have been selected as one of them for this year's race.
Considering that David Plotkin, Max Cure founder, spent his summers growing up in the Hamptons, and also that Max spent many days recuperating from treatment in Amagansett, we are especially excited to return to our founder's roots, the site of where it all started for our foundation. We know that we will have an enormous amount of support from our followers in that area, in addition to the support of the Hamptons Marathon, which is very pleased to have us at their events.
The Hamptons Marathon has invited Max Cure and to collect sneakers for our Dunk Your Kicks initiative on their packet pickup days and on the race days. The Dunk Your Kicks program has been crucial to our efforts over the years, and we are very grateful for the opportunity to further expand those efforts at the races in September of this year and May of next.
Through the Dunk Your Kicks program, the Max Cure Foundation will collect used sneakers from participants at the race. For each pair of sneakers donated, The Max Cure Foundation will receive up to $1.00 from an international shoe recycler called Rethink Nation. The sneakers will then be sold by Rethink Nation at an affordable price in developing nations, saving the shoes from landfills and putting them to good use. The money Max Cure receives through Dunk Your Kicks goes towards funding research for innovative medical techniques to fight pediatric cancer, and also to low-income families of children with pediatric cancer, whom we help through our Roar Beyond the Barriers campaign.
The Hamptons Marathon will take place on September 27, 2014 in East Hampton, New York. There will also be a half marathon at the event, with a 5K. You can register for both the 5K and the Hamptons Marathon at their website, where you can also find directions to the race. Packet pickup dates for the Hamptons Marathon will take place on September 22 and 23 on 140 W 72nd Street in NYC, and on September 26 and 27 at the Spring School in East Hampton. There will also be a 5K on race day, as well as a half marathon in Bridgehampton, New York in May 2015.
We look forward to seeing Max Cure supporters at the Hamptons Marathon and Bridgehampton Half Marathon, where we hope to make yet another stride in our battle against pediatric cancer.
Want to join Team Max Cure and run? We have a few bibs available but fundraising must be completed by August 15, 2014. Email us here for more information.


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The chance is high that you know and visit several websites of a specific niche that you are interested in.
If you know Ghacks for instance, you may also know Freeware Genius, Make Use Of, Lifehacker or Download Squad.
But sometimes sites slip just past you and you do not know what you are missing until you discover them.
You get to know about some of these sites in time as sites that you visit may link to sites that you do not know yet eventually.
The Firefox add-on Similar Web reduces the time it takes to discover related sites by offering suggestions in the web browser.
It displays related sites in a small sidebar on the left by default and offers options to move the listing to the right sidebar or a toolbar button instead if you prefer that.
The related sites are displayed with a thumbnail image, their page title and url. A click on an item opens it in the same tab by default. This can be changed in the settings so that each new site is opened in a new tab instead. A middle-click and right-click to open a link in a new tab works however as well.
But Similar Web can not only display related websites. It can also display articles about the active site, or recent Twitter buzz.
The suggested sites are often spot on, especially when popular websites are accessed. The tool seems to have more problems finding related sites for niche sites where it may not offer any suggestions.
The suggestions are not limited to English websites. Our tests with German sites revealed solid results as well. Users can suggest similar sites and vote for existing sites by moving the mouse over the thumbnail image.
Lastly, it is possible to stop the add-on at any time by clicking on its status bar icon, which unfortunately is placed at the left side of the status bar, a highly unusual place, especially since it stays on the left side of the status messages that are displayed in the status bar. The icon can be disabled in the add-on's options.
Similar Web makes it a lot easier to discover related websites on the Internet. Firefox users can download and install the add-on via the official Firefox add-on repository. The add-on is compatible with all versions of the Firefox web browser.
Update: The similar sites feature is still available but additional features have been added to the add-on in recent time. It includes traffic information, network sources, related mobile apps and engagement among other information. Most of these are useful to Internet marketers, SEOs and managers.
One change is that it is no longer possible to place the information in a browser sidebar as you can see on the screenshot above.
Advertising revenue is falling fast across the Internet, and independently-run sites like Ghacks are hit hardest by it. The advertising model in its current form is coming to an end, and we have to find other ways to continue operating this site.
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Thanks alot for the share! it makes web surfing really cool, i can easily find the same niche websites more easily!
i am now surfing an hour or so with this extension and when i go to national orientated websites, other than english, you get some very strange links.
Let me give an example a computer website and the link being a catholic (and look a likes ) website(s) i really do not see the connection between those to. And even with English/American websites i am not really getting some of the related links.
Paulus it largely depends how those related sites are added, it seems as if users can suggest sites. Not sure if there is a manual approval process or if they just assume the sites are related that are suggested. That might explain the unrelated sites in the suggestions.
I was using this for months and gaining a lot of useful information using this addon
I've known this extension for some time now, but always hesitated to try it. This article got me decided, and it's worth it. Nice add-on (eve though the 'extensions.similarweb.gSessionId' reference, you can change it in about:config, choose 'reset' makes the value blank, new different value recreated afterwards). Nice add-on.
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Who really won the Super Bowl?
Dr. E. Faye Williams | 2/8/2019, 6 a.m.
As far as I'm concerned, neither of the teams on the field won the Super Bowl. Something wonderful happened along the way, and we had a consciousness-raising event.
So many who could have been performers for the halftime show said "No" to invitations to be there. Others made it known they would not perform if asked because they are supporting former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
What they did was spectacular. But the issue is bigger than Mr. Kaepernick. They were making a score for black dignity. Some of them have made mistakes in the past, but on this issue, they're right.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell claims that NFL teams don't believe Mr. Kaepernick could win games for them. A similar excuse is one many of us have heard all of our lives when it comes to getting an opportunity to try. Even when we have super proven skills and a massive amount of education and training above our competitors, we often lose to those who are inferior on all accounts.
I've had my problems with some of those who are supporting the cause for which Mr. Kaepernick took a knee. But their speaking out now says to me they at least know right from wrong.
I'm not so sure if others get it — whether they understand the power of unity. Jermaine Dupri didn't have to support the event. His work already is well known and appreciated by many people. He already has earned a lot of money, so why? The Super Bowl needs people like him more than he needs the Super Bowl. It's no sacrifice for him to support the cause. But instead, he chose to host a concert series called Super Bowl Live. I guess social justice has no meaning for him.
Maybe nobody told those who insisted upon performing that Mr. Kaepernick does not protest for himself. He does it to raise awareness of police brutality, racial inequality and other social issues.
The performer that hurts most is Gladys Knight, who sang the national anthem. I realize Atlanta is her hometown, but she didn't need the exposure. She has long been a superstar.
Those who refused to support the Super Bowl are the real winners. I can only hope that those who could not resist performing will do something to redeem themselves.
In the black community, we always have important causes for which we have to fight, so all is not lost for them. They can still help to do something good for Black America. There is a bill in Congress on Voting Rights and Anti-Corruption they can support. Bennett College urgently needs funds to stay open, as do many historically black colleges and universities.
Congresswoman Lucy McBath from Atlanta already has challengers for the next election after winning her race in November. She could use early support to protect her seat. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is leading the Democratic presidential nomination race and could use help. The Progressive National Baptists need support for their campaign against Wells Fargo for causing so many in the black community to lose their homes. They ask that we stop banking with Wells Fargo.
The National Congress of Black Women, National Black Alliance and Clear the Airwaves need help with the Respect Us campaign by refraining from spending money with McDonald's, Subway Restaurants, Kohl's, JC Penney's and Adidas so long as they spend their advertising dollars on radio stations that play hateful, derogatory and misogynistic rap.
Those are some of the ways all of us win something bigger than the Super Bowl.
The writer is national president of the National Congress of Black Women.


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Good news! You do not have to be a professional makeup artist in order to have a flawless face with perfect makeup! All you need is some basic knowledge and extra tips and tricks. Moreover, you do not have to spend hours doing your morning makeup routine. In fact, once we tell you about the makeup tricks nobody told you about, you will see how makeup can accentuate your features, and how fun it can be!
Keep a plastic spoon near you
Yes! A plastic spoon! If you are one of the ladies who are not good in applying mascara, put a plastic spoon under your bottom lash line, and this is how you will not smudge your under eyes, ruining the concealer you have already applied.
Do not blush your face before knowing its type
Blush is a great tool that accentuates your cheek bones and contours your face. In order to have the perfect blush application, get to know your face shape for better results.
Scotch tape is a must
You see all the "cat eyes" eyeliner applications, and you have no idea how to do it! Put a piece of scotch tape on the side of your eyes, with an inclination that depends on how high you want your eyeliner to be. This way, you will have a perfect look with a better eye definition.
Eye Highlights trick
Where you apply eye highlights has a big effect on how gorgeous your eyes will look. In fact, eye highlights should only be applied on your eye corner, under your brow bone, and on the middle of your eye crease.
Use eye drops
Not for your eyes, but for the dry mascara. In fact, a dry mascara can cause lumps on your lashes, which is not a good thing. Eye drops help softening your mascara making it look like a new one!


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Javier celebrated his first birthday today. He was not sure what to expect, but it turned out we all got great food with a lot of sausage. Now I cannot wait until it is my first birthday. The older dogs say it is soon Christmas, which is even better, but I do not know about that. We will have to see.
Monday, December 16, 2013
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This blog is about various boat and environment related topics that I care to comment on. First and foremost, this blog is about skin on frame boats, their construction and use, as well as paddle and other stuff related to skin boat use.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Paddle Design - Stability
Not surprisingly, there is more than one way to make paddle orientation easier to control. I will examine three different ways all of which can be used in various combinations. I should also mention that the intended use of the paddle, whether it is meant for racing, cruising, surfing or rolling will have an impact on how it should best be held.
Most traditional paddles have oval or egg shaped looms with the longer dimension of the oval perpendicular to the face of the paddle blade. The oval shape makes it easier to keep the loom from twisting in the hand than a loom with a circular cross section.
A second way to keep the loom from twisting in the hands of the paddler is to hold the paddle at least partly by the root of the blade where it joins the loom. For instance, in a shouldered Greenland paddle, the index finger and the thumb circle the loom while the other fingers and the rest of the palm circle the root of the paddle blade. The flat part of the blade resting against the flat of the palm gives the paddle stability and keeps it from rotating in the hands of the paddler.
I thought at one time that it was only the Greenland paddles that were held this way, but there are some photos of Unangan (Aleut paddlers) that also show them holding their paddles so that at least part of their hand is on the root of the blade and part on the loom.
A third way to stabilize a paddle is to design it so that the paddle blade naturally wants to orient itself in the right direction when the paddler pulls on the loom. This trick only works for paddles that are asymmetrical, that is paddles that have a front face that is different from the back face. When you pull this kind of paddle through the water at some random angle, it will have one face that will naturally orient itself in the direction of travel while the other face orients itself away from the direction of travel. It is like a wind vane which if put sideways into the wind will turn its head into the wind and its tail out of the wind. Examples of this kind of paddle are the Unangan (Aleut) paddle and bent shaft paddles in which the face of the blade slightly trails the loom as the paddle is being pulled through the water.
In these two closeups of Unangan paddlers from the same boat, both paddlers are holding the paddles with the flat face toward the back. The interesting thing with these paddles is that the weather vane effect would favor holding the paddles flat face toward the front but the shape of the paddle in the areas where paddlers held it also make the opposite orientation stable. The photo was no doubt posed and both paddlers are just holding the boat in position rather than paddling forward. They may actually be paddling backward. So it is hard to tell whether this is the way they held their paddles when moving along, but regardless of what was happening when the picture was taken, it seems that the shape of the loom allows the paddle to be held in a stable manner regardless of orientation.
This also brings us to the question why so many commercial paddles have looms with round cross sections while traditional paddles almost without exception have looms with oval cross sections. I suspect the reason is that is simply so much easier and cheaper to manufacture looms with round cross sections.
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Great website and blog, I'm in the process of building your design of the short Baidarka and I'm Hopeing you can answer a couple questions the size of the hull stringers & do they go to the stern deck block & vert bow plate?any advice on sewing the open jaw design(skin)? Thanks so much
- March 22, 2012 at 4:30 AM
- Wolfgang Brinck said...
hull stringers go as far as the ends of the gunwales both fore and aft. Hull stringers are 3/8 inch square or round in cross section. Sewing the jaw - start at the front top, sew around the bow slit down to the bottom of the keelson and then sew the deck.
If you have more questions, contact me directly at boats at wolfgangbrinck dot com.
- March 22, 2012 at 7:12 AM


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•An up to date take on Leo Fenders ubiquitous bass from the 1960s that has had a modern makeover including: high specification pickups, precision bridge and stunning German build quality. The MM pickup has a coil tap switch for added versatility and the preamp has active and passive control with the treble control doubling as a passive tone. Weight: 3.8kg/8lb 7oz
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This is the new TM bass, hand made in Germany by Sandberg. The bass features an alder body with high gloss black finish and optional ebony fingerboard. These Sandberg Basses are finished with a High gloss finish. It features two Delano Pickups, one jazz and one MM for a big, clear tone with plenty of tonal options and features a coil tap switch to go from classic tones to more modern. The MM style pickup can be run in single coil mode giving all those classic J style tones. The Hardware is of a high quality standard and features the new lightweight tuners and high mass bridge and is designed by Sandberg and comes with a deluxe padded Sandberg gigbag.
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Electronic - Sandberg 2 band active/passive bass/treble, passive tone control, pickup coil tap switch
Weight: 8lb 11oz/3.8kg
All Sandberg instruments has been fully Plek'd - see below.
What is a Plek?
The Plek is a computer controlled fret leveling machine. It can level frets to within .001 mm accuracy. This kind of precision can not be matched by doing the job by hand.
How to get the best playing guitar?
Most players dream of having comfortable, smooth action on a guitar. With the PLEK, the most optimal string action possible for any instrument can be realized. This gives the individual musician an instrument that plays exactly the way he has dreamed of. Optimal playability on a guitar makes it sounds better with notes that ring true and clean. There is no fret buzz under normal playing conditions and the intonation problems that occur because of high string action, are eliminated. You can hear and feel the difference.
Plek scans neck with strings up to pitch?
When we take a look at a guitar neck, it is important that the guitar is under string tension and in playing condition when measured. The Plek measures the instruments neck and fret height with the instrument strung up to pitch. The computer ascertained a 3-D like graph of the fret board surface, including the position and height of the strings. Thanks to the PLEK SCAN the relief of the neck made by the string tension is taken into account while calculating the process-parameters. The operator then has the ability to manipulate the parameters to give the player an optimal playing instrument.
Can any guitar or bass be Plek'd?
Almost all acoustic and electric instruments, from any manufacturer can be put on the machine.


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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Find Yourself Some Happiness Today.
On my New Year's weekend girls trip, every morning we opened the doors toward the beach and drank coffee with my favorite creamer (
This one
. I just call it the purple creamer.) We also made coffee every afternoon, and talked about how it felt like such a treat, and how we looked forward to something so simple...the whole bottle of creamer cost $3, but you'd of thought we were drinking some rare, expensive thing.
Sam is a teacher, and when she went back to work, she bought a bottle of the purple creamer to keep in her break room. Because if something so simple makes you happy, why shouldn't it be a part of your everyday life?
My friend Lindsay wrote
this post
about allowing yourself to feel pleasure and joy, and it hit home with me.
If I really stop to think about it, some of the simplest things truly bring me happiness. A good book. An afternoon by the pool. Tacos. FaceTiming friends. A new notebook. Nail polish. Lunch with a friend.
Of course, there are big things that bring me happiness. Big trips and shopping sprees. But there's a ton of simple, little, easy things, too.
So this is me reminding you: You deserve to be happy. You deserve to have happiness as a part of your everyday life, not just on special occasions.
Make your own list. What little things bring you happiness? You should do those, buy those, plan those. Every day, you should be happy.
And if you don't know where to start, I highly recommend the purple creamer.
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I guess he wouldn't have to ask the Russians to do it for him.
Beto O'Rourke — yes, the same skateboard-riding, baby faced, recently declared presidential candidate who narrowly lost a senate campaign to Ted Cruz — just added another cool notch to his Gen X-cred belt. According to a forthcoming book by Joseph Menn, and as he reported in Reuters, the three-term congressman once belonged to the legendary hacking crew known as the Cult of the Dead Cow.
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That's right, Beto was in a hacker group. In the 1980s. But before you accuse the periodontal exhibitionist of some nefarious plot to infect Grandma's machine with adware or hack an election, it's worth reading Menn's fine print. Basically, O'Rourke was a teenager, and his relationship to the group mostly involved pirated games and conversations on message boards. Read more...
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After making the move from hand-drawn animation to computer animation, the next step for Walt Disney Pictures' big screen fairytales is apparently photorealism. The studio has a slew of live-action family films based on its well-loved animated properties in development, and the huge box office success of Cinderella and Maleficent is sure to add even more momentum to these kinds of projects.
There are live-action adaptations of Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book in the works, but the busy development slate doesn't mean that Disney is going to ignore the sequel potential for its recent hits. Maleficent, which starred Angelina Jolie in the title role as the 'wicked' fairy from Sleeping Beauty, made over $758 million at the global box office and was the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2014, so it's no surprise to learn that a sequel is now in development.
According to Deadline, Maleficent screenwriter Linda Woolverton has signed a deal to write the script for a sequel. Based on this report it seems that Jolie's original contract didn't include sequels, which means that in order to bring her back for Maleficent 2 Disney will need to arrange a new deal. Apparently Jolie is being kept in the loop and the script is being written based on the assumption that she will reprise the role.
It's currently unclear whether Robert Stromberg, a visual effects artist and production designer who made his feature directorial debut with Maleficent, will return to direct the sequel, but Joe Roth is back on board as producer. Woolverton has been with Disney for many years, writing the screenplay for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and co-writing one of the studio's biggest hits, The Lion King.
Maleficent starts out as a prequel to Sleeping Beauty but eventually catches up with that movie's storyline and makes significant changes to how events play out (though the broad strokes remain the same). Although the movie was marketed on the basis of Jolie playing up the evil side of her character, Maleficent is more about telling the supposed villain's side of the story and showing that she's actually got a lot of good in her heart - terrifying appearance notwithstanding.
Between Marvel Studios movies, Star Wars movies, Pixar movies and other live-action adaptations, Disney's release schedule is filling up fast and the studio has the freedom to be very picky about which projects do and don't go ahead. That said, Maleficent made enough at the box office that, provided Jolie agrees to reprise her role, there should be few barriers to Maleficent 2's progress.
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