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[In this searing edition of his Persuasive Games column, academic and developer Bogost takes a look at the core tenets of gamification and argues that not only is it not "games" but that the entire discussion must be reframed.]
I had been trying to ignore gamification, hoping it would go away, like an ill-placed pimple or an annoying party guest or a Katy Perry earworm. But a recent encounter with the concept has made me realize that plugging my ears and covering my eyes to it is a losing strategy. Even if our goal is opposition, we need to better understand gamification's appeal in order to practice that opposition more effectively.
In early April I spoke at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC, or 4Cs). 4Cs is to the college writing and rhetoric community what the Game Developers Conference is to the video game community. It's almost as large, with dozens of simultaneous sessions.
And just as GDC has its swank soirées run by big devs, publishers, and hardware hawks, so 4Cs boasts parties sponsored by textbook publishers. Instead of peddling platforms, companies like Pearson and Bedford St. Martins hope to lure the elbow-patch and twin-set set to purchase large quantities of their profitable wares.
My second book, Persuasive Games, is all about video games and rhetoric, but it's had slow uptake among the more traditional, slower-moving rhetoric community. This was the first year I was allowed to speak at the conference, and I was eager to spread my ideas among this large and influential, if traditional, set of scholars.
After all, everyone who attends college is subjected to writing classes. Since we communicate increasingly often with software, we ought to insure that the teachers in charge of these courses understand how computation works. This is generally new territory for most instructors, including college writing and communication professors.
But during the Q&A session following my panel, I was surprised to hear one of the attendees ask explicitly about the possibility of using "gamification" to improve students' performance with and engagement in the writing classroom. Here was a scholar of rhetoric who didn't know my ongoing work on procedural rhetoric, but who was familiar with a very recent marketing gimmick. What's going on?
The Power of Words
Ironically, the answer has everything to do with rhetoric, and nothing to do with games. We like to think that the substance of ideas matters more than the names we give things, but that's not true. Names offer powerful ways to advance a position.
UC Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff has built much of his reputation on this principle, arguing that the way people conceptualize or "frame" the world in their own discourse has a greater effect in politics than do politicians' actions. For example, conservatives oppose social welfare programs partly by framing taxation as theft.
And conservative political scientist Frank Luntz has built a business around carefully developing these verbal contexts. He's the guy you can thank for terms like "war on terror" and "climate change," phrases that have enjoyed general adoption across the political spectrum even though they advance deliberate partisan positions.
"War on terror" suggests that the complex extra-governmental motivations of ideological groups like al-Qaeda are winnable conflicts between "good" and "evil," clashes identical to two-party state-based conflicts. And "climate change" suggests that global warming is a phenomenon of adjustment rather than disaster. After all, change can be good!
As Luntz puts it, what matters is not what you say, but what people hear. And when we're talking about games, people often hear nothing good. Making games seem appealing outside the entertainment industry is a daunting task, and a large part of the challenge involves deploying the right rhetoric to advance the concept in the first place.
The Rhetoric of "Serious Games"
We've been through this scenario many times before -- political simulation in the 1980s, and edutainment in the 1990s, for example. Most recently, Serious Games have offered another, more general attempt to expand games' scope. These are games made and used "beyond entertainment," to use Serious Game Initiative co-founder Ben Sawyer's latest tagline. Application domains for serious games include business, health, the military, education, and public works, to name but a few.
The games industry has never much liked the phrase "serious games," because it seems reductionist and derogatory, as if to claim that other sorts of games are worthless or pointless. Even among those of us who have worked to bring games to other domains, the name "serious games" has sometimes posed problems.
People know that there's something magical about games. They don't always express that opinion positively, but even condemnations of video games acknowledge that they contain special power, power to captivate us and draw us in, power to encourage us to repeat things we've seemingly done before, power to get us to spend money on things that seem not to exist, and so forth.
While not everyone agrees that games are culture, or media, or art, everyone seems to agree that games are powerful. And that power is mysterious and wild, like black magic. You don't have to like games to want a piece of it.
But games are also terrifying, for just the same reasons. "Games" seem both trivial and powerful all at once.
"Serious games" has a specific rhetorical purpose. It is a phrase devised to earn the support of high-level governmental and corporate officials, individuals for whom "game" implies the terror just described; something trite and powerful, something that trivializes things, even if that trivialization is precisely part of its power.
Whether you like the term or not (I don't, for the record), "serious games" has served this purpose reasonably well. It has given its advocates a way to frame the uses of games in governmental and industrial contexts, by making the claim that games can tackle consequential topics and provide profound results.
When people complain that "serious games" is an oxymoron miss the point: it's supposed to be an oxymoron. When people hear "serious games," this contradiction is foregrounded and silently resolved.
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DOVER, NH — Planet Fitness and World Gym signed a purchase agreement last month for Planet Fitness to purchase World Gym's franchise operation, but final details were still being hammered out as of press time.
Assuming nothing occurs to stop the deal, Mike Grondahl, founder of Planet Fitness, and his team are putting in place support for the 300 World Gyms to be added to the 140 Planet Fitness clubs. Christopher Rondeau, CEO of Planet Fitness franchising, will become CEO of World Gym, and Mike Uretz, former CEO and president of World Gym, will work with the company, although his exact role was not stated.
First on the agenda? To rebrand World Gym, moving it away from its bodybuilder brand to a brand that has broader appeal, Grondahl says. The rebranding will include a new logo.
"We're going to take a great brand to the next level," Grondahl says, adding that his company will also bring marketing expertise to World Gym franchisees who had to rely on marketing consultants in the past, something Grondahl says has kept World Gym from reaching its full potential.
Grondahl plans to keep Planet Fitness and World Gym as two separate divisions, allowing World Gym franchisees to continue offering group fitness and day care and to continue charging higher prices.
"We're not trying to change World Gym into Planet Fitness," says Grondahl. "We're taking the best practices of Planet Fitness and putting it into World Gym."
Even though World Gym licensees can continue as World Gym facilities, the facilities in suburban markets may want to switch to a Planet Fitness, Grondahl says, because he sees Planet Fitness clubs fitting into suburban markets and World Gyms fitting into urban areas. When World Gym licensees renew their licenses, they will not be required to switch to Planet Fitness.
"I believe there's enough of a market in certain areas where they both compete and there will be enough [members] for both," Grondahl says about the possibility of competitition between the two brands. He sees the two brands working together as part of people's natural progression in fitness where they might start at a Curves, move to a Planet Fitness when they become more comfortable, and then move to a World Gym when they want group fitness and need child care.
For his part, Uretz says he's excited about the changes. "I'm more excited about this than anything else that I've done in my career," he says. "They have the infrastructure and the wherewithal to add the things that all World Gym and all gym owners need to be successful. It'll be a wonderful opportunity for hundreds of gym owners."
The deal has been in the works since last spring and was suggested by Roger Bates, co-founder of Frog's, formerly an athletic club in Southern California. He now has an area development agreement for California with Planet Fitness and knows both Uretz and Grondahl.
The World Gym deal won't be the last deal for Planet Fitness, Grondahl says. He has already entered into confidentiality agreements with two other club companies for possible purchases.
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The debate we have just witnessed has shown Washington, D.C. to be not just broken, but corrupt. The American people are disgusted watching politicians play political chicken with the nation's economy and future. In such a bitter and unprincipled atmosphere, whoever has the political clout to enforce their self-interest and retain their privileges wins the battles. But there are two casualties in such political warfare: the common good and the most vulnerable.
So how will vulnerable people fare under this deal? "The Circle of Protection," a diverse nonpartisan movement of Christian leaders, has been deeply engaged in the budget debate to uphold the principle that low-income people should be protected. But it is hard to evaluate a deal that averts a crisis when the crisis wasn't necessary in the first place. Over the past few weeks, our economy has indeed been held hostage as politicians negotiated the price of the release. Ultimately, I think most of us wish that no hostages had been taken in the first place, and this was no way to run a government or make important budget decisions.
The deal just passed by the House and Senate raises the debt ceiling with enough room that the issue won't have to be revisited until 2013. The first phase is a set of agreed-upon cuts of nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years. The second phase sets up a committee of legislators that is tasked with finding another $1.5 trillion in cuts over the same time period. If the committee fails to come up with a deal, then a "trigger" is pulled and automatic cuts are enacted. These triggered cuts are designed to be distasteful enough that, in theory, both sides will stay at the table until they have an agreement.
It appears that the voice of the faith community was at least heard and made some difference in the outcome of the default debate. We met with the president and Democratic leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and all of them fought to defend low-income people as we asked them to do. The White House protected low-income entitlement programs from automatic cuts in the "trigger" and successfully defended Medicaid. We also pleaded for low-income people in meetings with Republican Paul Ryan and with the staffs of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. They told us they agreed with the principle but did not uphold it in their final proposals. We hope and pray that the protestations of the faith community will work on the hearts of both Republicans and Democrats as the details of this plan are worked out.
Genuinely reforming federal programs, including entitlements, with a special eye to protect the most vulnerable, is something the faith community has supported, but slashing programs for the poor while exempting the rich from sacrifice is repugnant to our spiritual values and contrary to scripture. This plan could still go either way.
The most glaring problem with the deal is that it doesn't, at this point, include revenues. There is no balancing between spending cuts and tax increases, and this deal, so far, falls completely on the side of spending cuts. It is possible that revenues will be revisited in the new super committee, but given the insistence of a cuts-only approach by the Republican leaders, it is not clear how likely a more balanced approach will be.
Corporate tax loopholes for the very rich were protected, while the core safety net for the most vulnerable is still in great jeopardy. The private jet industry mobilized to protect its tax deductions; the most profitable oil companies in the country will continue to get their public money for offshore drilling subsidies. But programs like WIC and SNAP -- providing critical nutrition help for low-income mothers and their kids -- and malaria bed nets and vaccinations for children in Africa are threatened. If the wealthy are not asked to share in the sacrifice, then cuts will undoubtedly come from those who can least afford it. But if sacrifice is shared, we can both reduce the deficit and reduce poverty as our country has done before.
We heard from those inside the negotiations that the voice of the faith community was heard -- your voice mattered. The 18,202 people across the country who joined the "Circle of Protection" have shown that poor people do have a constituency looking out for them -- and that's what matters in these debates, according to the people involved in them.
This national debate about our priorities and, indeed, our character, is far from over. When all is said and done in any final deal, the faith community will be watching to see if the most vulnerable are being protected or savaged for the financial sins of the rest of us. If low-income people are not exempted from deficit reduction, the result will be a fundamental moral default. With your help, we will continue to remind our legislators to remember that God is watching them too.
Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners. He blogs at www.godspolitics.com. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
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- Neo 1973 (GTA01B_v4)
- Battery (1200mAh)
- Stylus
- Headset
- Phone Pouch
- Lanyard
- SanDisk 512MB MicroSD Card
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First generation of prototypes that was given to internal OpenMoko software developers.
Unfortunately not useful at all due to non-working touchscreen.
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Second generation of prototypes that was given to Harald +Mickey.
Unfortunately still not useful due to half-working touchscreen.
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This is the bluetooth-enabled fork of GTA01
This is the first produced version of the bluetooth-enabled version.
- ATAG_REVISION: 0x00000220
This is the second produced version of the bluetooth-enabled version. It contains mainly GPS-related fixes.
- ATAG_REVISION: 0x00000230
This is the version that is shipped in Phase 0.
GTA01Bv3 Errata
PMU unable to resume from suspend
Due to use of wrong GPIO/EINT pin, the PMU cannot wake-up the phone after suspend. This means, specifically, the following events can not bring the phone back from suspend-to-ram:
- PMU RTC Alarm
- Power button press
- Charger events (charger insertion/removal/error)
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Stand-by time extremely low
This is due to a design bug resulting in at least 30mA additional standby current, since we cannot properly switch off the power supply to the S3C2410 PLL's. There is nothing we can do to change this with post-production fixes. GTA01Bv4 will address this issue.
GSM doesn't resume phone from suspend
The GSM modem currently doesn't signalize a wakeup interrupt to the S3C2410 in case there's some noteworthy event, such as incoming call, loss of network, incoming SMS or the like.
This is a serious issue, but can be fixed with a GSM Modem Firmware update.
GSM Sidetone too loud
The local feedback sidetone (see [1]) is too loud. This will be addressed in a GSM firmware update
Bad block
Due to an error in the production process, the factory-programmed NAND bad block information has been lost. This means that some blocks in the flash will wear out rapidly, which might become as bad as rendering the device unusable.
This is the version that is being shipped in Phase 1
This is what the GTA01Bv4 PCB looks like without the shielding cans, which will be fitted later.
There were two versions of GTA01Bv4: some were given away (red mainboard), and some were sold (green mainboard). The given-away have one transistor too many.
Changes from GTA01Bv3
- Fix all Errata items from GTA01Bv3
- Add I2C, SPI and one irq and wakeup capable GPIO pin to debug port plus have test pads for all these signals (for soldering wires directly on the pcb)
- Fix a number of production related details and minor hardware details that are not user-visible


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Icahn to Seek Removal of Yahoo CEO Yang: ReportBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-06-03 Print
Carl Icahn wants Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gone.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn would seek to remove Jerry Yang as chief executive of Yahoo Inc if Icahn succeeded in a proxy battle against the company over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft Corp, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Icahn has proposed an alternate slate of directors for Yahoo's board, but has yet to directly target Yang over the breakdown in talks early this month for a $47.5 billion deal.
"It's no longer a mystery to me why Microsoft's offer isn't around," the Journal quoted Icahn as saying. "How can Yahoo keep saying they're willing to negotiate and sell the company on the one hand, while at the same time they're completely sabotaging the process without telling anyone?"
Icahn cited details from court documents related to a shareholder suit that were unsealed on Monday. The documents showed how Yahoo had taken steps to rebuff a Microsoft takeover bid months before the software maker made its offer public on February 1.
The shareholder lawsuit argued that Yahoo had taken aggressive steps to block a deal, including the adoption of a costly plan to retain employees, leading up to a breakdown in negotiations.
The Journal said Yahoo's board was due to meet on Tuesday. Icahn and Yahoo officials were not immediately available.
Yahoo shares were down 35 cents or 1.3 percent to $26.05 on the Nasdaq.
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Following deals and compromises that ended only shortly before the hearing began, the House Agriculture Committee last week passed HR 3795 — more commonly known as the "derivatives oversight" legislation —by a bipartisan voice vote.
"This is the third time we've moved on this legislation," said Rep. Colin Peterson of Minnesota, chairman of the committee, at the outset of the hearing. "This builds on the bill we passed in February, HR 977.
"We've made significant improvements, incorporated ideas from the (Obama) administration, and from a lot of other folks we've talked to. We have a bill here that will bring all these dark markets into regulation and transparency and preclude the kind of problems we've had in the financial system from happening in the future."
The committee's action, said Oklahoma's Frank Lucas, ranking member of the committee, "is the next part of the process — most assuredly not the final step — in bringing a regulatory structure to an unregulated market. … Let's finish this today so we can move to the next step and, ultimately, come up with a good piece of legislation that can be signed into law."
To see the bill go to www.agriculture.house.gov.
While the legislation strengthens regulation of derivatives — an industry worth nearly $450 trillion — that are often pointed to as a chief villain in the current financial crisis, Peterson is sure to face criticism for exempting some of the transactions from tough scrutiny he'd promised in earlier hearings. By doing so, Peterson bucked the Obama administration and many in his own party who wanted all over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives to be under federal regulation, to pass through a clearinghouse or be traded on exchanges to ensure terms are public.
If the legislation is passed into law, transactions with "end users" — including airlines, manufacturers and utilities — would be exempt from clearing and terms allowed to remain in the shadows. End-users, said Peterson, weren't responsible for the current financial situation, hadn't been given federal bail-out funds and thus shouldn't be held to the most rigorous oversight standards.
Peterson also insisted the exemptions wouldn't apply to the vast majority of deals and were not loopholes financial market-players could exploit. To further shore up the market's safety, the legislation calls for customized contracts to maintain higher margin and capital requirements than cleared swaps.
A statement from the House Agriculture Committee says the bill "institutes a clearing and trading requirement for all OTC swap transactions between dealers and large market participants that are accepted by a clearinghouse. Non-cleared swaps must be reported, with major participants and dealers adhering to strengthened capital and margin requirements. The bill exempts commercial end users who use derivatives markets to hedge their price risk from the clearing requirement.
"The bill also contains provisions from H.R. 977, passed by the House Agriculture Committee in February, including the strengthening of position limits on futures contracts for physically-deliverable and OTC commodities as a way to prevent potential price distortions caused by excessive speculative trading."
The bill, in the works for over two years, provides "clearing and exchange trading requirements, along with strong position limits provisions, (that) will increase transparency in the marketplace," said Peterson. It "will benefit end-users by not submitting them to onerous cash collateral requirements, and will hold swap dealers and major swap participants to new standards for capital, margin, business conduct and other requirements to reduce their ability to again place our financial system in such dire straits."
According to the statement, provisions included in the bill would:
• Institute a clearing requirement for swaps and security-based swaps, with derivatives clearing organizations determining which swaps must be cleared.
• Provide for exceptions from the clearing requirement for commercial end users who are not swap dealers or major swap participants.
• Hold swaps dealers and major swap participants accountable through margin, capital, business, and other conduct requirements.
• Require cleared, listed swaps to be traded on regulated exchanges.
• Require reporting and public disclosure of swap transactions.
• Allow the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to impose position limits on swaps and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to impose position limits on security-based swaps.
• Provide for exclusive jurisdiction of swaps products under the CFTC, with security-based swaps products under the exclusive jurisdiction of the SEC.
• Call for the CFTC and SEC consultation in rulemaking regarding swap and security-based swap provisions.
• Require the CFTC to set trading limits for physically-deliverable commodities, in order to prevent excessive speculation.
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I'd be more inclined to keep Ballard and dump Booth, unless Booth has a spectacular year when he comes back.The_Pauser wrote:My very rough projection for next season:
Sedin (6.10) - Sedin (6.10) - Kassian (0.870)
Booth (4.25) - Kesler (5.00) - Burrows (4.50)
Jensen (0.894) - Schroeder (1.25*) - Hansen (1.35)
Volpatti (0.600*) - Lapierre (1.50*) - Weise (0.700*)
Hamhuis (4.50) - Bieksa (4.60)
Edler (5.00) - Tanev (1.50*)
Garrison (4.60) - Corrado (0.600)
Schneider (4.00)
Lack (0.750)
Forwards: $33.114M
Defense: $20.80M
Goalies: $4.75M
Team: $58.664M
Cap space: $5.336M
We have just over $5M for 2 depth defensemen, 1 depth forward (assuming the same set-up as this year, and to include whatever NHL assets we get back from a Luongo trade and a Ballard trade.
I like how Higgins & Raymond have been playing. I wouldn't want to rely on Corrado or Jensen until they've had a few months in the big leage. What kind of depth defenceman would you get in the $1.5 mil range? Alberts?
Jensen should be on the 3rd/4th line until he learns & proves he can play at this level, maybe drop Hansen to the 4th line. Corrado will get time on defence when one of the top 6 gets injured (and you know that they will)
No point in spending $6 mil to buy out Ballard unless there is a replacement at least as good.
Kassian needs to show that he can give solid effort for a 60 minute game before he can be a top line winger
We need a blue chip D and a 1st/2nd line center for the future, I'm guessing that GMMG is asking for a top prospect and/or high pick in return for a goalie. I doubt that we will be getting a current #1 D or 1st line center, nobody can afford to give them up.
Sedin (6.10) - Sedin (6.10) - Burrows (4.50)
Raymond (2.5) - Kesler (5.00) - Kassian (0.870)
Higgins (2.0) - Schroeder (1.25*) - Hansen (1.35)
Volpatti (0.600*) - Lapierre (1.50*) - Jensen (0.894)
Hamhuis (4.50) - Edler (5.00)
Garrison (4.60)- Bieksa (4.60)
Tanev (1.50*) - Ballard (4.2)
Schneider (4.00)
Lack (0.750)
Weise (0.700*)
Corrado (0.600)
Forwards: $32.75M
Defense: $24.40M
Goalies: $4.75M
Press box: $1.3M
Team: $63.35M
Cap space: $1.1M


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Profiting From Member Referrals
We all know that the most effective way to get new members is through our existing members. That's no secret. Over the last 25 years, I have tried more than 100 different ways to get our members to bring in their friends to join. Some worked well; some were disasters. If experience is the name we give to our mistakes, I am one of the most experienced people in the club industry.
I won't waste your time with all the things that don't work. After studying those that have worked well, we've developed some specific principles we now use for our member referral campaigns.
* You don't ask, you don't get. We must ask our members to bring in their friends. You can ask through posters, mailers, certificates, staff buttons and by walking up to a member and saying, "Mary, do you know anyone who should be exercising who isn't?"
* Get leads the day they join. The new member is by far the most enthusiastic member you will ever have, and he knows a lot of nonmembers. So just say, "John, if you'll write down the names of two of your friends who might like to exercise on this VIP guest sheet, I'll make sure there is a guest pass waiting for them at the front desk."
* The three most important things we can do with referral leads: Follow up, follow up, follow up.
* The referring member gets something impressive if his friend joins. Forget a free month's dues or a club shirt. Give referring members something that will grab their attention and entice them to take action, such as their name on a special wall at the club; their picture on a bulletin board for bringing in a friend; or a prize such as $100, a mountain bike, new shoes, a club pullover or a club bathrobe.
* New members should also get something when they join. Not as costly as the incentive for the referring member, but everyone brought in by an existing member should get something whether it's a free fitness assessment, a reduced joining fee, a club T-shirt or a gym bag.
* The same incentive for each campaign. Don't give the members a choice. Everyone gets exactly the same incentive.
* Rotate incentives. Each campaign should have a different incentive than the previous campaign. If you use the same incentives all the time, members get tired of them.
* Use the most effective incentives during your busi-est time of the year. If you do this, you'll find that your sales will soar.
* Give deadlines; they really work. This way your members know they have to act by a certain date to get the incentive. For example, "Offer expires Dec. 24 or when 100 bathrobes have been given away, whichever occurs first."
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Is The American Community Survey Real? [POLL]
A couple of weeks ago I received a large envelope addressed to Resident in the mail. It immediately went into the trash can as that is common practice for that kind of correspondence. Fast forward to just a couple of days ago when a similar envelope presented itself in my daily gathering. Intrigued, I took a little more time and examined the envelope.
It was titled the American Community Survey and was distributed by the U.S.Census Bureau. There was instruction to complete the form either on-line or by regular mail and to do it as soon as possible under penalty of law and possible fines.I went straight to the computer to get this filled out and do my civic duty.
Question #1 What is your name? Got this one. #2 male or female? Easy enough. Question #3 What is your age and date of birth? Now wait a minute. Age, I can see, but date of birth? Now we are getting into information that i don't give to just anyone.
It is time to look at this questionnaire a little closer. Question #18: Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, does this person have serious difficulty concentration, remembering, or making decisions? Question #22: How many times has this person been married? Question # 33: What time did this person usually leave home to go to work last week? Question #47: Wage, salary, commissions, bonuses, or tips from all jobs, interest dividends, rental income, retirement income? And it goes on and on; how much is your mortgage, cost of insurance, electricity, number of bedrooms and baths, what date did you occupy your residence, how many cars do you own, who do you work for, how many days were you out sick last year? When did you get married, have you had any children in the last 12 months, address of where you lived a year ago? And these questions must be answered for every member of your household.
I am not sure, but i don't think that anybody except my wife and I know the answers to ALL these questions. Forget it I am done with this. But wait how about that penalty by law? How about those fines? Refuse to answer? $100 fine. Lie? $500 fine. PER QUESTION! PER PERSON!
Now it's time to hit the web to find out more about this missive.
Yup according to all the government websites, this is a legal and proper quiz that is sent out to 250,000 people on a monthly basis. And with over 5,000 census workers on staff, there are plenty of people to follow up and make sure that this information is gathered.
On a number of other websites you will find any number of people who have refused to answer these rather intrusive questions only to be harassed repeatedly by census workers to follow thru and answer to the letter of the law. Now hold that thought...the letter of the law....I was a pretty good student and seem to remember something about the census in the Constitution.
The provision for the Census is found in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution. It is confined to determining the number of Representatives in the House and imposing direct taxes among the several States.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Number… The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.
That's right, a count of noses, not all this other nonsense. But then again it is all in the interpretation and nonsense and Washington go hand in hand.
In my research I have found that in fact the American Community Survey is indeed real. The penalties and fines associated are very real. However there are also a growing number of people who are refusing to answer the additional questions and in turn questioning the need for the information being gathered.
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HILLSBORO, Ore., July 22, 2011 – SolarWorld, the largest U.S. manufacturer of solar panels for more than 35 years, will showcase the maiden U.S. appearance of a zero-emissions electric aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 in Oshkosh, Wis., starting Monday. SolarWorld and Germany's PC Aero are working together to pioneer the world's first comparatively affordable electric aircraft system complete with solar-equipped aircraft and solar-charging hangar.
of electric flight, including a talk as part of the SolarWorld-sponsored World Electric Aircraft Symposium on Friday, July 29. Elektra One will be on display in AirVenture's Innovation Hangar, except at midday Wednesday, July 27, when it is expected to fly.
The single-seat Elektra One is designed for more than three hours of flight, a range of more than 250 miles, a cruising speed of more than 100 mph and zero emissions. With 1,400 propeller rotations a minute at cruising altitudes, Elektra One is nearly silent. The plane weighs 440 pounds, including battery, and can carry a payload of 220 pounds, including pilot.
SolarWorld and PC Aero are developing a new aviation filling station and hangar fitted with the company's high-performance solar panels to service small aircraft, including the Elektra One, which also will bear SolarWorld photovoltaic cells to extend its range up to 30 percent.
"Elektra One is emblematic of a future in mobility that relies on efficient and environmentally sound electric vehicles," said Frank Asbeck, CEO of SolarWorld. "We need to stop depending on fossil fuels – and their dirty, noisy use of scarce resources – to get from one place to another. Solar power, abundant and pervasive, is the obvious choice for travel in the skies."
The Elektra One made its maiden flight in March in Augsburg, Germany, where Gologan's vision of marrying the aircraft with a solar-charging hangar was conceptually demonstrated. PC Aero will begin taking orders for the aircraft in Europe and the U.S. in 2012. Gologan intends for a complete system – solar-equipped airplane combined with a hangar – to be priced around $145,000, or 100,000 euro.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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Safety features don't vary by model; each of the Yukon trims include GM's StabiliTrak stability control, along with anti-lock brakes, seat-mounted front side airbags and head-curtain airbags for the first and second rows, as well as the OnStar suite of services, such as Stolen Vehicle Slowdown and Automatic Crash Response. A side blind-zone alert system is optional. Also no matter which specific model, tow ratings are strong. The Yukon can tow up to 8,500 pounds, while the Yukon Hybrid can tow up to 6,200 pounds and the Yukon XL can handle trailers up to 8,100 pounds. A heavy-duty 2500 version of the Yukon XL offers a tow rating of up to 9,600 pounds.
Most Yukon models include seating for up to eight, with two buckets in front plus second and third-row bench seats good for three across, but a front bench is available on the Yukon XL to fit up to nine. Several upholsteries and styles are offered and both the first and second rows can be heated. Top Denali models include upgraded wheels and chrome trim, plus a navigation system with XM satellite radio and XM NavTraffic, Bose Centerpoint surround sound system with ten speakers, heated and cooled front seats, perforated leather upholstery and extra power outlets, among many extra features. Among the noteworthy options on the Yukon and Yukon XL are navigation, DVD rear entertainment, remote start, tri-zone climate control, Ultrasonic Rear Park Assist, a rearview camera system and a power-folding second-row seat.
GMC Yukon Hybrid models for 2011 get the latest Gen 9.0 version of OnStar for better voice recognition. Head restraints for the second row have been revised.
On 2011 Yukon and Yukon XL models, a better trailer brake controller is introduced for 2011 and new chrome-clad wheels are now available.
Across the Yukon lineup, Mocha Steel Metallic is a new exterior color.
The Yukon and Yukon Hybrid are all sturdy full-size SUVs, oriented toward carrying heavy loads of passengers or cargo and towing large trailers, such as those used for boats or horses. Both available V8 engines provide strong performance, while the Yukon and its big brother, the Yukon XL handle much better--even around town--than their mammoth size might suggest. Ride quality and interior refinement are other high points. In addition, the Yukon Hybrid remains one of the most efficient full-size SUVs yet fully capable of heavy loads and tow duty.
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A highly competitive grant from NASA is supporting a Hope College physicist's research into the presence and nature of the rotating stars known as pulsars.
A highly competitive grant from NASA is supporting a Hope College physicist's research into the presence and nature of the rotating stars known as pulsars.
Dr. Peter Gonthier, a professor of physics, is leading a three-scholar team from two continents in an effort to investigate the potential relationship between positrons - which are a form of electrically charged particle--and gamma ray pulsars. They are using the information to refine computer models, which Gonthier has been developing for NASA for several years, to better understand and locate the stars, which cannot be seen by the naked eye or even detected from earth.
The project is supported by a one-year, $45,161 NASA Fermi Guest Investigator grant that took effect in July.
The research follows what Gonthier described as the major break-through in data-gathering concerning the stars since the 2008 launch of the highly sensitive Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. Where the Fermi telescope's predecessor had discovered seven to eight gamma pulsars during its entire nine-year life, Fermi found about 60 in its first year.
Fermi and other sensitive instruments have also enabled scientists to better locate and track the behavior of the electrically charged positrons that are traveling through space, particles that may offer a clue in the search for the gamma ray pulsars. The pattern that has emerged, Gonthier noted, suggests that some of the positrons are coming from the pulsars.
"There's a lot of excitement over this - what might be happening in our vicinity and where these might be coming from," he said. "It could be that the local source of positrons could be pulsars, particularly millisecond pulsars."
Pulsars are extremely dense neutron stars which have the mass of one and a half of the earth's sun packed within a ball 16 miles in diameter. They rotate rapidly, completing a revolution in a range between once every 10 seconds and a thousand times a second. Highly magnetized, they shoot out a beam of radiation that, given the spinning, makes the star seem to pulse as the beam passes into view.
Pulsars were discovered in the 1960s, when scientists observed radio waves coming from them. The range of electromagnetic radiation, however, is much broader, covering also microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays and, at the highest end, gamma rays.
Gonthier said that the pulsars that produce radio waves remain the best known - some 1,880 have been recorded - because their emissions are detectable from earth. The gamma radiation, in contrast, requires space-based instruments to discover because earth's atmosphere blocks it. Some pulsars emit gamma radiation but no radio waves, which means that they've been harder to find.
The computer models, Gonthier noted, can help researchers anticipate the presence of additional pulsars by making deductions regarding their presence based on those that are already known and how they behave. The presence of the positrons adds another tool to the mix.
His co-investigators on the project are Dr. Alice Harding, who is on the staff of the Astrophysics Space Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Dr. Christo Venter, a member of the space physics faculty of the Potchefstroom Campus of North-West University of South Africa. Gonthier has been conducting research with Harding on a variety of NASA-related projects since 1992. All three scientists worked together on the project while at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center this summer. Gonthier is continuing his work at Hope during the current school year.


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Robert Vanderham, one of the founding faculty members of the Department of Sociology at Hope College, died on May 26, 2013 in Holland, Mich. He was 91.
Professor Vanderham was an Assistant Professor of Sociology, including chair of the department, from 1966-69 and later a Teaching Associate through 1975. He also coached the cross country team in 1965.
Even in retirement, Professor Vanderham was very engaged with Hope students as noted in his death notice: "Bob Vanderham was not only successful, he was also a bit of a Rock Star on the campus of Hope College in his retirement years, encouraging, counseling and teaching a whole new generation of students. He particularly enjoyed the past four years when he was "adopted" by several Hope College students who became his extended family, visiting him daily at Warm Friend where he encouraged them to paint, read and talk about whatever was on their hearts. These kids became the lights of Bob's life. They gave him purpose and he gave them unconditional love."
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The Ashes is just two weeks away, and for many months numerous leading analysts and former players have predicted an easy win for England - Ian Botham even went as far as predicting a series whitewash.
Despite this, there is certainly a divide, people have cast doubt over whether England will be as dominant as suggested, and England's embarrassing ICC Champions Trophy Final defeat to India has cast more doubt in people's minds.
Australia, at first glance, may look to be in crisis after firing their coach 16 days before the start of the Ashes and exiting the ICC Champions Trophy at the first hurdle - in the group stage.
Also, they don't have the likes of legends Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting at their disposal.
Despite this, they do have some very good players that are very much capable of performing at the highest level, and also some promising youngsters.
Notably they have captain Michael Clarke, and Mitchell Johnson, the latter might not have performed very well in previous Ashes series', but he is capable on his day.
Australia are a good team, and of course have a huge reputation, just because they aren't a team full of world class performers doesn't mean they aren't capable of making things very difficult for England.
In my opinion, England are the stronger team nowadays - captain Alistair Cook, Graeme Swann and James Anderson are all superb players, and those three will be integral in winning the series.
They also (luckily) have Kevin Pietersen back, who put in a dazzling display on his return to Cricket for Surrey against Yorkshire. If KP can perform, England are guaranteed to have a massive chance, when KP performs, so do England.
In addition to the established test players, England have the likes of Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root who are progressing well and may be the ones to watch if they feature in one of the test teams.
The point is, England are easily the favourites for The Ashes - it just isn't written in stone that they will win.
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Podcast: Another Week, Another Record
Stocks finished the quarter with a bang, as the S&P 500 became the most recent index to join the record-high club.
In this week's edition of MarketBeat Week, our Friday podcast, the crew chatted about what's in store for stocks in the second quarter with most of the major indexes trading in record territory.
The Dow rose 11% over the first three months of the year, it's best first-quarter performance since 1998. The S&P 500 jumped 10% in the quarter, finishing Thursday at 1569.19, a fresh record high. Many financial markets were closed Friday in observance of Good Friday.
With stocks up and bullishness running rampant, one worry heading into the second quarter is the seasonal weakness that typically takes place this time of year. Spring selloffs began in April in each of the past three years. After such a strong start to 2013, few would be surprised if history repeated itself.
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Power Your Farm with Propane
September 4, 2014 | By Simmons |
Content originally posted by the Propane Education & Research Council
Nearly 900,000 farms in the United States use propane, and with good reason. Propane is a clean-burning, reliable, and efficient energy source. Farmers can depend on propane to responsibly run their operations both in and out of the field.
Lower Costs
Farmers, like other businesses, are constantly striving to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Propane offers several solutions that can help do just that. For instance, today's propane-powered irrigation engines can cost considerably less to purchase than diesel irrigation engines, and they can reduce fuel costs considerably.
Abundant Supply Produced in the U.S.
Propane is made in America, primarily from domestic natural gas, and we have plenty of it; in fact, the United States is a net exporter of propane, producing more than we actually use.
Fewer Emissions
Propane-powered irrigation systems produce 11 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than diesel systems and 24 percent fewer than gasoline systems. They can also lower emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) compared with other fuels. It's a cleaner, more efficient way to fuel farms.
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Propane offers proven refueling options delivered right to the farm. No matter the size of an operation, a local propane supplier can customize the perfect fueling plan.


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I have written an ebook on buying websites, specifically what to look out for when analysing a potential site. The book covers all of the different areas to research and check to feel more confident in buying a site that may cost thousands of dollars, over the internet. A key theme is by following the advice, suggestions and checklist in this book, the buyer is able to reduce their risk of purchase. It is similar to doing 'due diligence' when buying a traditional business. It also includes a 'checklist' that allows the buyer to structure their research and findings before they make an offer on buying a site.
I have attached the first 10 pages of the draft to give a better idea of the content of the book.
I need a cover designed for this ebook. The graphic design should be in a format that can be put together with the word document and converted together to pdf format. It would be good to have a modern, web 2.0 feel to it. It would also be good to perhaps have a graphic of a checklist with ticks as part of the design.
The title will be:
"Keys to Discovering & Buying A Website Winner"


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The Columbia researchers will investigate in animals how a specific receptor, which resides on the surface of both immune and nerve cells, signals normally during cell development and how it malfunctions and leads to abnormal cell development.
The receptor is called "CXCR4." It is involved in both the developing immune and central nervous systems and is a critical factor in the normal development of the body's organs. Defects in the receptor's signaling processes, however, can alter cell development in both the immune and nervous systems. Specifically, deficient signaling can alter the development of white blood cells (lymphocytes) as they grow in bone marrow. Overactive receptor signaling can induce the death of neurons, astrocytes (which contribute to the formation of the boundaries of the blood-brain-barrier) and microglia (immune cells that reside in the brain). Still unknown are the key cellular and molecular determinants of normal and impaired CXCR4 signaling.
The Columbia researchers will use both genetic and cell biology methods in mice to determine the role of CXCR4 in central nervous system organization and immune function. The investigators will examine whether the receptor's signaling pathways play different roles in cell death, lymphocyte (white blood cell) development, and guidance of motor nerve axons (those involved in movement). Understanding CXCR4 signaling in immune and nerve cells is anticipated to have direct clinical relevance, helping to determine how this fundamental signaling pathway is modified to suit the specific functions performed by cells in both systems.
CXCR4 is a G-protein coupled serpentine receptor for the CXC chemokine, CXCL12. CXCR4 and CXCL12 are expressed by cells of multiple lineages in the immune system and by many other tissues. Genetic studies have revealed essential roles of CXCR4 signaling in the development of many organs, notably the hematopoietic and central nervous systems. In both organ systems, CXCR4 signaling has been shown to trigger cell proliferation, to enhance cell survival, and to induce chemotaxis towards focal sources of CXCL12 ligand. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the transduction of these CXCR4-mediated cellular responses remain obscure, and thus it remains unclear whether the interpretation of CXCR4 signaling by neural and hematopoietic cells involves common or divergent biochemical pathways. In addition, since mice lacking CXCR4 function die perinatally, the later physiological roles of CXCR4 remain poorly understood.
The primary goal of this proposed project is to elucidate the physiological function of CXCR4 in the immune and nervous systems, its potential pathogenic role in neuroinflammation, and the precise biological effects contributed by different signaling pathways downstream of the ligand-activated CXCR4. Toward this goal, we have generated mouse strains carrying CXCR4 gene mutations that can be deleted conditionally in specific tissues and under precise temporal control, and additional strains that are mutated in sequences encoding conserved signaling domains.
We plan to use both biochemical and cellular assays to characterize the physiological defects evident in both the hematopoietic and neural cells, in these selective CXCR4 mutant animals. These studies will permit identification of fundamentally conserved CXCR4 mediated signaling pathways shared by both the immune and nervous systems. Furthermore, using a mouse model for neuron injury and nervous degeneration, we will also investigate the pathogenic role of CXCR4 signalling in linking inflammatory responses to neuronal degeneration. Results gained from our studies could facilitate the development of new therapeutic strategies in immune and neurological disorders.
Lieberam I., Agalliu D., Nagasawa T., and Jessell T.M. A Cxcl12-CXCR4 chemokine signaling pathway defines the initial trajectory of mammalian motor axons. Neuron. 2005 Sep 1;47(5):667-79.
Nie Y., Waite J., Brewer F., Sunshine M.J., Littman D.R., and Zou Y.R. The role of CXCR4 in maintaining peripheral B cell compartments and humoral immunity. J Exp Med. 2004 Nov 1;200(9):1145-56.
Lieberam I., Agalliu D., Nagasawa T., and Jessell T.M. A Cxcl12-CXCR4 chemokine signaling pathway defines the initial trajectory of mammalian motor axons. Neuron. 2005 Sep 1;47(5):667-79.
Nie Y., Waite J., Brewer F., Sunshine M.J., Littman D.R., and Zou Y.R. The role of CXCR4 in maintaining peripheral B cell compartments and humoral immunity. J Exp Med. 2004 Nov 1;200(9):1145-56.
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يحتل اسم المهندسة المدنية أمل عثمان الناشطة في مجال حقوق النساء عناوين الصحف في السودان منذ عدة أسابيع بعد إلقاء القبض عليها عندما رفضت أن تغطي شعرها.وتواجه أميرة احتمال الحكم عليها بأربعين جلدة إذا أدينت بمخالفة المادة 152 من القانون الجنائي الصادر عام 1991.وقالت أميرة إنها كانت في مكتب لتسجيل العقارات يوم 27 أغسطس/ آب بصحبة أختها لاستخراج شهادة وبعد انتهائها من الإجراءات صادفت مجموعة من أفراد الشرطة الذين علقوا على ملبسها.وأضافت أن شرطيا أمرها بأن تغطي شعرها فرفضت، فهددها زملاؤه باقتيادها إلى مقر شرطة النظام العام إذا لم تمتثل.
GENEVA (6 November 2013) – Flogging women, including for "honour-related offences" amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in international law and must stop, two independent UN human rights experts said Wednesday in the wake of recent cases involving women in Sudan.
This volume looks back at a wealth of women's peacebuilding practice documented by Accord since 1998. Case studies from Cambodia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda, Papua New Guinea–Bougainville, Northern Ireland, Angola, Sudan, Indonesia–Aceh and Somalia (presented in the chronological order in which the original Accord issues were published) shed light on what women peacebuilders have done to overcome conflict and the challenges they encountered. The cases reflect women's practice in particular contexts yet also provide general insights for peacebuilding practitioners and policymakers – insights into what women peacebuilders can achieve and how they can be effectively supported in their efforts.
Our Sudanese allies have come together to denounce the violence perpetrated by the Sudanese government. Below you will find their message and petition. Please sign and circulate widely amongst your respective networks.
September 2013 saw hoards of people taking to the streets of Sudan in protest, sparked by the government's lift on fuel subsidies in the already impoverished country. Sudanese police and intelligence forces shot more than two hundred people dead. The fact that the authorities' guns were aimed at people's chests and heads indicates that the aim was to "shoot to kill."
On Monday October 21st Elsafie DafAllah and Hyatham Karar will hold a hunger strike in front of the White House (October 21st-25th).
تدين شيكة "النساء في ظل قوانين المسلمين" ومنظمة آري ومجموعة نساء النوبة ن قتل مئات المحتجين السودانيين وجرح العديد منهم، نتيجة استخدام قوات الأمن السودانية للقوة المتعسفة وغير القانونية المستخدمة ضد موجة من الاحتجاجات في الخرطوم والعديد من المدن الأخرى في البلاد.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), Arry and the Nuba Women's Group condemn the killing of hundreds of Sudanese protesters and the many more injured, as a result of arbitrary and unlawful force being used by Sudanese security forces in a wave of protests in Khartoum and several other towns in the country.
Amira Osman is awaiting trial for refusing to cover her hair. She is one of thousands of Sudanese women who are being arrested under Sudan's criminal code, sentenced, and publicly lashed.
"I am a Muslim woman but I will not cover my head, a piece of cloth should not determine my spirituality" - Amira Osman. While the anger is accumulating in Sudan and peaceful demonstrators are being injured and killed by the Sudanese regime forces, this comes as a natural result of years of injustices. Sudan has been exposed to the brutality of the dogmatic ideology of political Islam, and the people have been stripped of their dignity. The story here is just a tip of the iceberg. Sudanese women are the mirror of the cruelty and disparity imposed by the ruling regime.
Khartoum. 27th September 2013. Sudanese Human Rights Monitor (SHRM) follows with great concern the gross human rights violations that accompany the ongoing peaceful protests since 22nd September 2013, especially in Medani and Khartoum. People were protesting in different locations in Medani, Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman against the government decision to cut subsidy of oil products, and consequently increase prices of fuel and food items. Police and security have dealt with these protests violently leading to killings in several cases.
The death toll of Sudanese protesters dramatically increased after the night protests and the resume of the internet services at 2:00PM. The Sudanese Doctors Union, an independent union, announced to the media that there is confirmed 110 deaths in the Khartoum hospitals alone from Wednesday, 25 September, 2013 protests. The increase in the death toll also came in result of the lack of enough medical care for injured peoples, putting in mind that Sudan has no ambulance and emergency health care system that can transfer the injured victims with the international medical protocols that protect the patients' lives. Moreover, there is serious fear among protesters from going to hospitals, in fear from being arrested. According to witnesses the numbers of injured peoples is beyond the hospitals capacities, and there is many injured peoples couldn't have any medical care for hours or even left public hospitals to seek private medical care, which is not available for most of the poor protesters.


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Checks (Postdated)
A bank is not obligated to pay a check that is presented more than six months after its date of issue, but may do so if it wishes. (Commercial Code § 4404)
There is no law that prohibits a check writer from postdating a check (giving it a date in the future). However, a bank has no duty to respect that limit, and may pay the check in advance of its stated date, unless the customer gives notice to the bank of the postdating, describing the check with reasonable certainty. (Commercial Code § 4401)
It is a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Law for a debt collection agency or a creditor who regularly collects its debts to deposit a postdated check before its due date. (15 USC 1692f(4))
"The presentation of a postdated check is not subject to the civil or penal sanctions" that would normally apply to someone who wrote a check with insufficient funds because the postdated check promises "to discharge a present obligation at a future date" and that money would be available to meet the debt when the check is cashed.
Should the question arise the check is "postdated", there should be no problem if the debtor wrote the words "postdated" above the date of any of the checks submitted, however, without this kind of documentary evidence, it may be difficult for the debtor to prove the checks were "postdated". A judge might have to see whether the checks given in evidence bear sequential serial numbers, or appear to have been written at the same time. Such evidence infers the "checks" were postdated.
Special rules apply if a check postdated by more than five days is given to a debt collection agency or a creditor who regularly collects its own debts. The payee must give notice to the check writer at least three days, but not more than ten days, prior to depositing. (15 USC 1692f(2))
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Lady Gaga's 'Swine' Leaks [VIDEO]
With the release of Lady Gaga's 'ARTPOP' only a few weeks away, leaks are springing. The latest track to make it to our ears? 'Swine,' which is probably one of our favorite tracks that we've heard so far.
The song is a loud, dance floor-ready banger with plenty of mechanized beats sure to get little monsters and fans dancing until their ankles ache and are swollen.
We love the pre-chorus when Gaga sings, "I know you want me / You're just a pig inside a human body / Squeal / You're so disgusting / You're just a pig inside." Yes, those are extremely harsh words, but it's how she delivers those words that packs punch. She alternates between a sex kitten voice -- anyone else hear a little Lana Del Rey with the dramatic enunciation? -- and an angry, throaty roar.
There's passion and fire in Gaga's delivery. Whoever inspired this track certainly got Gaga mad and you can hear it in the song. It's angry Gaga disco.
There's a lot going on in this track from start to finish. You'll never, ever be bored. She keeps it so unpredictable.
Let the sweating and dancing like maniacs begin.


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NASCAR Fight Involves Hair-Pulling, Not Much Else [VIDEO]
During the NAPA 200 race in Montreal on Saturday, Nationwide Series driver Steve Wallace bumped into fellow racer Patrick Carpentier, spinning him out. This enraged Carpentier's crew chief Jerry Baxter, who approached Wallace's car during a pit stop and grabbed a handful of Wallace's blond hair.
Commenting on the incident afterward, Wallace expressed regret that he had knocked Carpentier out of race. Then he reminded Baxter that "only girls pull hair." Something tells us NASCAR isn't going to be featuring this tiff in any of their official highlights.
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Vietnam is grappling to deal with 15.7 million tons of coal ash a year.
Vietnam is in need of urgent measures to treat a large amount of waste from thermal power plants, which have become the the major source of the country's electricity, experts say.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the country has about 20 coal-fired power plants, discharging 15.7 million tons of coal ash each year.
By 2022 the country will raise the number to 43 plants and more than 29 million tons of ash will be discharged, as a result.
The huge amount of coal ash is now mainly buried around thermal power plants or transported to landfills, posing threats to the environment and causing respiratory diseases for local residents.
The problem may not go away anytime soon as Vietnam still relies on coal power as the main source of electricity.
Nguyen Manh Hien, former head of Vietnam's Energy Institute said: "Renewable energies are environmentally friendly but they require large investment and depend on natural conditions so we can't easily adjust production capacity to meet our demand."
"Coal thermal power plant has the lowest investment cost but its production capacity can triple that of a wind power plant and quadruple a solar plant's," Hien said.
Last year, coal-fired plants accounted for 30.4 percent of Vietnam's total electricity. The figure is expected to reach 53 percent by 2030, equivalent to 300 billion kWh.
The industry ministry estimated that Vietnam will need about 129 million tons of coal a year to meet its rising demand of energy, which will leave the country with at least 32 million tons of coal ash.
The waste can be used as raw materials for other industries rather than being viewed as toxic waste, according to Truong Duy Nghia, head of the Vietnam Thermal Science and Technology Association.
He said that coal ash can be used to produce cement and adobe bricks, which is the most efficient way to mitigate environmental impacts of coal-fired power plants.
This method, though already adopted by some companies, is facing barriers as no specific mechanism for the reproduction of coal ash has been introduced.
Nguyen Van Thanh from Vung Ang thermal power plant in the central province of Ha Tinh proposed the government introduce a mechanism and allow cement companies to buy coal ash for production again so that his plant can reduce the amount of this waste material.
His plant had been selling the waste to cement producers but recently stopped doing so, after learning that such a practice is still pending official approval from the government.
"If the problem prolongs, we may have to close the plant," Thanh said.
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National Register of Historic Places
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is responsible for the stewardship of more than 470 historic properties. These properties represent the work of prominent architects and are valued for their significance in American history, architecture, art, archeology, engineering and culture. GSA takes great pride in its inventory and strives to preserve, protect, and utilize historic properties as established in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Currently, more than 300 GSA properties are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, GSA is actively working to nominate approximately 140 eligible properties.
The shortcut to this page is www.gsa.gov/nationalregister.