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January 23, 2014St. Charles License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the St. Charles License Office to License Management, LLC of St. Charles. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
The St. Charles License Office will remain at its current location at 2499 Raymond Dr.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 167,000 transactions were conducted at the St. Charles office, generating approximately $559,266 in agent processing fees. License Management's contract includes an annual commitment to return 10 percent (approximately $55,926) of future processing fees to the state.
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Region 5: Labor Law: Week #2
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This course is not intended to train members to become mini-lawyers. But is designed to introduce many of the laws that impact workers in the workplace so that there is a familiarity of what some of the Federal and state statutes exist to protect workers. Some of the laws covered include: National Labor Relations Act; Chapter 150(e); Fair Labor Standards Act; Family and Medical Leave Act; Massachusetts Small Necessities Leave Act,; Workers Compensation; Occupational Safety and Health Act; Americans with Disabilities Act; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; among others. The Schwartz books Your Rights on the Job: A Practical Guide to Employment Laws in Massachusetts and The FMLA Handbook are provided, as well as Hurt on the Job: A Guide to the Massachusetts Workers Compensation System by Western MassCOSH.
Classes run from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the regional office, with a light meal provided at 5 p.m.
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More than 26,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 were caught watching live TV without a TV Licence in the past year, according to new figures released today by TV Licensing. This includes 953 young adults in Northern Ireland.
With 75 per cent of first year undergraduates aged 25 and under*, TV Licensing is reminding freshers that they could face prosecution and a fine of up to £1,000 if they are caught watching live TV, on any device, without a TV Licence.
Recent research** by TV Licensing shows 29 per cent think TV Licensing can't catch people watching live TV on a computer, laptop or mobile device and just over half of students believe that people in general are unlikely to be caught if they watch live TV without a TV Licence.
Over the summer, a 21-year-old woman from Co. Down was found guilty of watching live TV without a licence, and ordered to pay a £25 fine and £16 court costs.
Karen Grimason, spokesperson for TV Licensing Northern Ireland, said:
"Every year myths circulate around campus about when you do and don't need a licence. We want to make sure students know that one is needed by law to watch or record live TV, on any device including a laptop, tablet, mobile phone or games console. A TV Licence costs on average £12.13 a month which goes towards services like Radio 1's Big Weekend, BBC iPlayer, Newsbeat and BBC One Match of the Day.
"To avoid the risk of prosecution and a fine of up to £1,000, we encourage students to check if they need a licence on our website – www.tvlicensing.co.uk/studentinfo – or by calling 0300 790 6113."
When asked, two in three students had a positive opinion of the BBC and 67 per cent thought the TV Licence offered value for money**.


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The European Commission is preparing to launch a major trade investigation into Chinese networking companies Huawei and ZTE, after it emerged that they may have benefited from illegal state subsidies.
The commission has been piecing together the case for months, according to a report in the Financial Times, and a formal case could be brought as soon as next month.
EU officials reportedly told representatives from member states in a closed-door meeting last week that there is "very solid evidence" of illegal Chinese subsidies to the firms. They also accused Huawei and ZTE of selling products in the EU below cost – a practice known as "dumping".
If the Chinese companies are found to be guilty of the charges, they could face punitive tariffs when selling their products into the European region. Neither firm had responded to Techworld's request for comment at the time of publication.
The case would mark the first time the European Commission has launched its own trade investigation, rather than responding to a complaint from a member state or a company. EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht, recently said that such cases were necessary to counter Beijing's practice of silencing European companies with threats of retaliation.
The news comes just as Huawei steps up its push into the UK market. Only last month, the company signed a managed services contract with mobile operator Telefónica to plan, implement and manage its core transmission, mobile access and network in the UK.
Meanwhile, ZTE has been showing off its WDM-based optical networking equipment, capable of transporting data at 1.7Tbps. The company also plans to be among the first device manufacturers to launch both smartphones and tablets based on Intel's Atom smartphone chips.
Huawei recently filed its own antitrust complaint with the European Commission against wireless R&D company InterDigital, claiming the company is abusing its patents to force Huawei into a "discriminatory, unfair, and exploitative" license.


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What They're Wearing at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Whether it's baking cookies in the test kitchen, dyeing fabrics in the crafts studio, or appearing on television for a holiday decorating segment, the 500 or so employees at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's West Chelsea office in Manhattan embrace a creative aesthetic.
"Martha as a company is sort of like an art school," said executive creative director Kevin Sharkey. "I can tell who's in the gardening department, who's in crafts, weddings, food."
Assistant editor Erin Furey favors colorful and fun clothing that harks back to her teenage years. "I've always loved Martha and made craft projects from the magazine since I was a little kid," she said. Because she might be hammering nails one moment and sewing the next, she says her clothes "can't be too precious."


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It's official. Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez is a galactic beauty.
The 18-year-old brunette was crowned "Miss Universe" on Sunday at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas after besting rival finalists from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Kosovo and Australia. Miss Dominican Republic Ada Aimee de la Cruz won runner up. (Miss USA made the top 15).
Fernandez was crowned by last year's winner, Dayana Mendoza, who is also from Venezuela. The Latin American country has won six titles overall.
The competition featured MTV "Hills" star Heidi Montag's first live musical performance, half of which NBC blocked out as the finalists were being introduced. Montag appeared in tight sequined pants and a matching bra and seemed a little "stilted" while singing "Body Language" off her debut album, The Associated Press reported. But fans still applauded the performance. Earlier, gossip site TMZ had reported that pageant production staffers worried the reality star would not be able to pull it off.


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It is my distinct pleasure to serve as Division Superintendent for Essex County Public Schools where we are creating Pathways to Excellence, and serving the individual needs of our students.
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Banque du Liban et d'Outre-Mer SAL (BLOM), Lebanon's largest bank in terms of assets and customer deposits, declared net profits of $58.76 million for the first 9 months of 2000, an 11.8 percent increase from the same period last year.
Total assets reached $5.59 billion—up 18 percent since September 1999. Customer deposits totaled $4.8 billion—an 18.3 percent rise year-on-year. Loans grew 15 percent to $1.21 billion.
BLOM's loan provisions rose from $2.72 million in September 1999 to $5.2 million this year, due to the economic recession. The ratio of loans-to-deposits in foreign currency was 34.6 percent, well below the 75 percent ceiling set by the Central Bank—while the overall ratio stood at 24.95 percent.
The bank's Tier One capital rose 18.4 percent on a yearly basis to $297.3 million. Earnings per share rose to $4.24 from $3.79 in the first 9 months of last year.
Banque Audi SAL, one of Lebanon's top 5 banks, posted net profits of $27.81 million for the first 9 months of the year, down 7.07 percent from the same period of 1999.
Total assets reached $3.64 billion, an 18.16 percent rise year-on-year. Customer deposits totaled $3 billion, up 18.35 percent from the same period last year. Loans grew by 6.75 percent to $910 million.
Banque Audi attributed the decline in profits to the ongoing economic recession, higher rates on deposits and an increase in provisions for bad loans. It also blamed a 2.2 percent drop in capital inflows to the country and a 9.6 percent drop in the velocity of money for the lower profits.
The bank's operating commissions rose by 20 percent to $11 million due to an 87 percent rise in retail banking activity and an 8 percent increase in commissions from commercial banking activity.
Audi expressed interest in expanding to Syria but is waiting for the Syrian government to pass clear banking laws.
Its cost-to-income ratio rose to 60.24 percent from 56.26 percent in September of last year. The higher operational expenditures were due mainly to the opening of 13 new branches—an aggressive advertising campaign, investment in information technology, and a rise in payroll. Annualized earnings per share were $2.34 compared to $2.37 last year.
Banque Européenne pour le Moyen-Orient SAL (BEMO) declared net profits of $3.08 million in the first 9 months of 2000, up 47.83 percent from the same period last year.
Total assets reached $433.19 million, up 22.73 percent from September 1999. Customer deposits totaled $346.41 million, a 27.77 percent rise year-on-year. Loans grew 16.26 percent to $127.83 million. — ( Lebanon Invest )


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"There's no such thing as free money," Joanne, a middle-aged African-American mother of two sitting across the table from me declared. "But for me, getting this college degree depends on whether I have enough money to afford it."
Solving the problem of college affordability lies at the heart of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $3.3 million Reimagining Aid Delivery & Design project, which has spurred a series of reports covered weekly in the news this year. While the reports run the gamut of possible suggestions, from tying aid to students' academic backgrounds to replacing the Pell Grant with a federal-state matching grant, they all have a similar refrain: Whatever the solution, it must be cheaper—it simply isn't possible to request any additional spending.
Similarly, when I visit Washington policy makers and talk about the needs of the Pell Grant recipients I've been studying for the past five years, and describe how financial scarcity is affecting their lives, most listen sympathetically and then apologize, sadly, noting there's no more money to be found. I get it: They are pragmatists and politicians, unfailingly realistic, and simply asking me to get in line with the new normal.
So if there's "no free money" and yet more money is essential, what are we to do? First, it's time to search for answers outside of Washington. And second, we have to consider the possibility of finding solutions outside the narrow higher-education-policy space. Maybe we can learn new things in communities across the country, where hard-working people are thinking beyond the usual silos, connecting the dots to develop new approaches.
Back when I was a graduate student, I spent time conducting research at community colleges across the country as Bill Clinton's infamous welfare reform was enacted. I watched as programs providing supports to low-income, parenting, community-college students were shuttered, in the name of a "work first" approach to poverty alleviation. While many students were receiving federal financial aid, the additional child care and transportation they got met their many unmet needs above and beyond the stated institutional "costs of attendance." Welfare reform ended those supports, and widened the gulf between America's education and poverty-reduction agenda. College for all, my colleagues and I wrote in our book, Putting Poor People to Work (Russell Sage, 2006), was clearly more hype than reality.
In 1998, as welfare reform was getting under way, Joanne began attending classes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She came for a few sessions and was excited about the opportunity to get an education, but quickly realized that the cost of her 45-minute subway commute was draining her budget. She began hopping the subway turnstiles, trying to stay in school and get by. She looked for help at BMCC and didn't find it. And after a month, she decided that hopping turnstiles wasn't OK, wasn't what she really was about, and she dropped out of school.
As advocates like those at the Center for Law and Social Policy have pointed out, transportation is a common barrier to community-college success, as is a lack of housing and food. But usually, community colleges do not have the power or resources to provide vouchers or free rides, nor are they in the business of coordinating social services. And post-welfare reform, they were explicitly disarmed from doing so.
Fast-forward more than a decade. The recent recession hit Joanne hard. She lost her job, and in 2011 re-enrolled at BMCC to try again. This time, as she walked through the doors of her school, she saw a new green sign: Single Stop USA. She walked in a Pell Grant recipient, and walked out equipped with food stamps, transportation vouchers, and child-care benefits.
This wasn't a typical city social-services office with long lines and suspicious counselors who often treat poor women like Joanne with disrespect. Right in the middle of campus, between her classes, she had a 15-minute appointment with an electronic evaluation process facilitated by a knowledgeable counselor who equipped her with the money and support it seems she needed to make a degree possible. This spring, she will complete her associate degree.
Single Stop sprang into being in the years following welfare reform, arising to pull together the fragile strings of the remaining social safety net and knit them well enough to give the working poor a bit of a landing. Originally located in community-based organizations in New York City, where it was homegrown by the Robin Hood Foundation, in the last three years, the small Harlem-based nonprofit has found homes in 17 community colleges around the country.
In the last 12 months alone, Single Stop served almost 20,000 students. All told, its efforts brought an additional $38-million into the hands of those students, not by increasing the Pell Grant or encouraging them to take on debt, but simply by helping them navigate complicated social services to get the benefits already allocated for their use. Using trained professionals who help students see the importance of efficiently using existing resources to push toward a college degree, and by working closely with colleges to promote a focus on the whole student in order to promote academic success, Single Stop complements the development of both individuals' soft skills and their financial resources. For every $1 the program costs, it brings $14 in benefits students wouldn't have otherwise had.
Can we assume that additional money is pushing students like Joanne toward degrees? It's too soon to tell—there haven't yet been any rigorous comparison-group evaluations. Thus far this year, I've tried to find out by visiting six community-college campuses in New York and Miami where Single Stop is functioning, and interviewing administrators, staff, and students.
Good stories like Joanne's abound. So do horror stories of tremendous need—community-college students sleeping on grates, suffering strokes, going without food for days—which would make anyone wonder about cruelty of the college-for-all rhetoric unbuttressed by sufficient support.
But even before demonstrating clear impact, Single Stop USA has already proved one thing: If money really matters for college degrees, we may be able to find a lot more of it by bridging unreasonable divides between public agencies, reducing paperwork, and repositioning the community college as a point of connection as well as education. That's a pragmatic solution we may be all able to live with, and it's a good place to start.


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We are a registered 501(c)3 organization. Your donations fund resource guide development and outreach, as well as research and education projects geared towards maximizing quality of life for afflicted kids and their families.


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Space limitations forced a design-build company to use a novel approach to critical load transfer without interruption. Continuous facility operation drove the use of a very detailed sequence of construction to replace existing distribution equipment.
Floor space for new electrical equipment always seems to be scarce in buildings, especially those undergoing renovation. We hit this problem head on in a recent upgrade of one of our own design-build projects completed some 20 years ago. The new project, located at First Security Service Company's (FSSC's) Central Operations Building in Salt Lake City, involved electrical equipment replacement in an existing electrical room built in 1976. The basis of the new project was improved electrical system performance and reliability.
Part of the renovation was to replace existing non-bypass, non-isolation automatic transfer switches (ATSs) with drawout-style transfer equipment that could be maintained without shutdown.
Problem: The existing switchboard enclosure wasn't large enough to be retroffitted with this type of transfer device.
The solution: Use freestanding bypass ATS units and install them in an old 400Hz UPS room, which is adjacent to the main switchboard room.
Other distribution equipment also needed attention We recommended the owner replace all circuit breakers in the existing switchboards with drawout-style breakers.
Another problem: The existing 400Hz UPS room was just barely big enough to house the new drawout switchgear, even with the dividing wall removed. (As shown in Fig. 3 (in the original article's page 56, the wall separated the existing 60-Hz electrical room from the existing 400-Hz electrical room.) With the new switchboards in place, we had only a few in. of clearance between the new board and existing board. There simply wasn't enough space available to install freestanding, bypass, isolation ATS units. They would have added at least 8 ft to each switchboard, for a total of 16 ft to each lineup.
What we thought was the solution: Replace the existing ATS units and their associated switchboards with new low-voltage power circuit breaker switchboards using an interlocked-breaker automatic transfer scheme. (An interlocked breaker consists of two circuit breakers interlocked so only one can close at a time.) (Fig. 2) The interlocked-breakers would transfer the critical load from utility power to the standby generators.
Still a problem: This solution required additional space.
The "final" solution: Use the existing low-voltage power feeder circuit breakers in the existing generator synchboard as one half of each interlocked-breaker. This required the rewiring of each of the existing synchboard feeder breakers to interface with the new switchboard breakers.
How did we arrange this interface? We connected the position contacts on the new breakers to the control circuit of the existing breakers (and vice-versa) to prevent each pair of breakers from closing to the load bus at the same time.
The utility voltage sensing relays and transfer control devices for each interlocked-breaker are installed in a control compartment in each respective new switchboard. The interlocked breakers in Switchboards B and C (these power various low-priority building loads) operate independently.
However, we had to design Switchboards A and D interlocked-breakers to operate in tandem because their load-side busses each feed the new UPS input switchboard. A no-break transfer happens when the preferred feeder breaker remains closed while the alternate breaker is closed to the same bus and then the preferred breaker is opened. We wanted a no-break transfer of the UPS input switchboard from the preferred feeder (Switchboard D) to the alternate feeder (Switchboard A). Such an arrangement would allow the owner to do maintenance work on the preferred feeder breaker without interrupting power to the UPS units. This transfer requires both the preferred and alternate feeder sources either be synchronized together (during transfer) or have the same source voltage. With the interlocked-breakers for Switchboards A and D operating in tandem, the preferred and alternate feeder breakers always have the same source voltage.
We still had to replace the existing switchboards while keeping the facility in full operation. FSSC was very concerned about shutdowns of power to the input of the UPS system, since it could cause a loss of power to the data center. FSSC would allow controlled shutdowns, but only on Sunday nights and only for a few hours. Obviously, there wouldn't be enough time during one shutdown to disconnect the existing feeders, remove the existing switchboards, install the new switchboards, test the new systems, and then reconnect the existing feeders. We had to replace the switchboards in increments.
To allow the contractor to transfer only a few feeders at a time during one brief shutdown (limiting the exposure to the data center), we decided the new switchboards be installed adjacent to the existing switchboards, and then be paralleled together both on the normal power and standby power sides. (See Fig. 3). This approach allowed us to install, test, and put the new switchboards and transfer schemes into operation before connecting critical loads.
Since this paralleling procedure and the switchboard replacement method was somewhat complicated, we developed a "Sequence Of Construction Instructions" to help communicate our thinking to the contractor and FSSC. This planned sequence required the existing switchboards to remain in service during the installation of the new switchboards.
After we placed the new switchboards into service and paralleled them with the existing switchboards, we could relocate the existing feeders. Then we could remove the paralleling connections along with the existing switchboards.
We gave the following note and the "Sequence Of Construction Instructions" to the contractor as part of the construction documents to help come up with a construction schedule.
"The existing facility has a computer system and support infrastructure that cannot tolerate unplanned shutdowns of power. We planned all shutdowns required for tie-in of temporary parallel connections, replacement of existing switchboards, feeder cut overs and similar work, on weekends in close coordination with the owner. See drawing plans, details and specifications for detailed scope of work."


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Dree and Drake wear Spring's essentials
Actors Drake Burnette and Dree Hemingway model this season's essential must-haves and talk realness and sisterhood.
After a winter of rainy, dark clouds, Los Angeles is sunny again. Dree Hemingway squints at the sun as she rests her head on Drake Burnette's shoulder. Dree is in a white silk shirt and flowy black trousers, also made from silk. Drake wears a soft pink, silk mix v-neck. "A lot of people say we look like sisters, which I find funny", says Dree. It is easy to see the resemblance. Even though Dree comes off as the bubblier, more spirited one on set this day, she and Drake share the same energy.
"The thing I love most about Dree is how she is, almost radically, present in the moment. Her energy is relentless and contagious and causes me to feel immediately comfortable around her because she is so free," says Drake.
The duo was set up to be friends by their agent, who knew they would get along.
"We both have acting in common, we are older [than most models] and we are kind of nerdy", says Dree.
"I need everything to be real. If you'll just do small talk, everything on the surface, we're probably not going to be friends. Drake is instantaneously real with everybody. She is also very smart and very interesting."
After all that rain, the hills surrounding LA are extraordinarily green. Looking down on them from high up above the clouds (today's location is dreamy) puts everybody in a good mood. Dree and Drake change into one look after another: crisp white shirts, perfectly washed denims, a striped wrap dress, silk blouses and the collection's key pieces: a fantastic trench coat, a wrap skirt and a pair of wide trousers, made from a thick cotton fabric. They are all part of H&M's Premium Essentials, a capsule collection of high quality must-haves and our current wardrobe obsessions.
Dree and Drake take turns in front of the camera. When asked if modelling and acting is about tapping into the same kind of creativity, neither of them agrees.
"Modelling is… lighter," says Drake. "It is about reading the room and finding your 'character' – that isn't necessarily being clearly communicated. For me, modelling is about charming a room full of strangers by giving them the fantasy version of you."
With acting, both Dree and Drake say they are drawn to characters that have a certain rawness about them. "To be able to be really raw and vulnerable on camera is almost like a drug, in a weird way," says Dree. Her latest films are, however, of the comedy kind. In LA Times – which premiered at the Sundance festival earlier this year – she plays a woman trying to figure out love and how to make the right decisions. And even though comedy scares her a bit – "I am always insecure that I am not funny enough, since I am not a comedy trained actor. I couldn't compete with Tina Fey or someone like that" – she is currently filming another one.
"It is called In A Relationship. When I first read the script it seemed like a typical rom com, but it is very realistic. And it is funny because it is real."
Drake Burnette is also tapping into her funny side, but for her it is more about tragic comedy, she says. Marfa Girl 2, the sequel to Larry Clarke's 2012 film, is set to premiere in early summer with Drake repeating her role.
"As with all of Larry's films, the story is about consequence, and we see the characters as they struggle against the deeply disturbing circumstances of their lives. But within all that struggle is the heart of the story, which is about curiosity, humour and love."
DRAKE: "Sisterhood for me is about honesty, inclusion, love, safety and understanding."
DRAKE: "Our persevering capacity for empathy despite the inherent oppression and repression of and within our lives."
DREE: "Women are incredible. I had the most inspiring lunch at Sundance with some amazing women in film; Shirley MacLaine and [directors] Jill Soloway and Kim Peirce, among others. I don't want to be hired because just I am a woman, I want to be hired because I kick ass at what I do. Women really need to stand up for each other, show that we kick ass. That is sisterhood."
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WHAT: Actor and model
WHERE: Los Angeles
DRIVES: A red Mercedes named Ethel. "I asked a woman outside a restaurant if she wanted to name her. I am a really good driver. And fast."
INSTAGRAM: @dreelouisehemingway
WHAT: Actor and model
WHERE: Los Angeles/New York
FEMALE HEROES: Nina Simone, Anaïs Nin, Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, Joan Didion. "And Rihanna has been fuelling a fire in my heart ever since Anti hit last year."
INSTAGRAM: @drakeburnette
PHOTOGRAPHER: Nick Dorey | D + V Management
STYLIST: Columbine Smille | LundLund
HAIR: Conrad Dornan | Bridge Artists
MAKEUP: Emi Kaneko | Bryant Artists
MODELS: Dree Hemingway and Drake Burnette | DNA Models


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Sakura Gari
Of all the Japanese manga I have encountered, Yuu Watase's Sakura Gari is possibly the first that has intrigued me.
Before I go any further, do know that it is a work that evolves mostly around a gay relationship, so if that is somewhat distasteful for you, stop reading this post. [ Continue Reading ]


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The Kansas City Chiefs' offseason was only a day old. Owner Clark Hunt had just fired his coach, Romeo Crennel, and was still four days away from whacking his general manager, Scott Pioli.
And as we talked, even in a league where deception is sometimes considered as essential as breathing, the executive was clear: Amending the team's quarterback situation was going to be priority No. 1.
"Clearly, a position we have to be better at is quarterback," Hunt told me. "That's not a knock on the guys that were here; there were a lot of things that went into poor play at the quarterback position, other than just the individuals. But we have to be better at that position if we want to compete."
Since then, Hunt hired coach Andy Reid and GM John Dorsey, and those two have been armed with, among other things, the top overall selection in April's draft to start fixing what went wrong with the previous regime.
So the Chiefs' top need is at quarterback, and their top resource for addressing that problem is the first pick.
But in this situation, one plus one doesn't necessarily equal two, because the operative figure might actually be zero -- as in the number of draft-eligible quarterbacks who, at this point, appear worth taking with the No. 1 selection.
"The class as a whole is very average," one AFC personnel exec said. "But if you don't have one, you're looking for one -- always. Are there potential starters? Yes. But there's no clear-cut, first-day, walk-in-the-door franchise player. For all these guys, there'll have to be a maturation process. Now, some may walk into a situation where they need to start. But this class doesn't have a ready-made starter."
And that puts quarterback-needy teams in a sticky spot.
The consensus among a handful of evaluators polled over the weekend is that West Virginia's Geno Smith is the lone player widely viewed in college scouting circles as a "starter." That doesn't mean others can't or won't start; Smith is just the one looked at with some certainty in that regard.
On balance, most teams are likely to place a low first-round/high second-round grade on Smith, but thanks to the paucity of prospects at the position, he'll probably get pushed up the board. Because that's the way it works.
"Geno, if he goes in the top 10, he's not gonna be graded the same as the guys that go around him," an AFC college scouting director said. "But he's a first-round quarterback. He's gonna get a low '1' or a second-round grade. The problem, then, is you might have a guy after him who's a backup going in the first round. Geno goes, and after that, you're gonna have someone who feels like they have to do something."
That "something" sometimes winds up being a monumental, franchise-altering mistake.
The past two years can provide perspective. Most feel that the class of 2012 was close to being drafted properly -- Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III belonged at the top, and while Ryan Tannehill (No. 8 overall) and Brandon Weeden (No. 22) might have been slight reaches, their draft spots weren't considered crazy.
It was a different story in 2011, when quarterbacks Jake Locker (drafted No. 8 overall), Blaine Gabbert (No. 10) and Christian Ponder (No. 12) went much higher than most had them graded. All three provide examples of the pitfalls of the process. In the cases of Locker and Ponder, clubs fell in love with the people. With regard to Gabbert, it was the skills. In all three instances, people inside an organization believed so strongly in one side of a prospect that they resolved to work around, or even fix, the deficiencies.
"We have them graded on traits and skills," one AFC college scout said. "Then they go to all-star games, and a player can really help himself there. Colin Kaepernick goes to the Senior Bowl, has a phenomenal week, coaches get to see him throw next to other quarterbacks, and say, 'God, he can spin it.' ... Then there's the interview process. You talk X's and O's, become comfortable with their personality, leadership traits; you talk schematics. Coaches get comfortable. They'll say, 'Wow, he's football smart.' "
According to the scout, "The interview process can help quarterbacks more than any other position."
And so, as we move forward, the perception of this class will change; guys with 30 or 40 college games on tape will suddenly rise and fall in the mind of the public.
The cannon on N.C. State's Mike Glennon will likely lure some into believing he's another Joe Flacco. Likewise, taped images of the trouble Oklahoma's Landry Jones had taking hits will probably fade as his physical ability is showcased, with him in shorts and without a pass rush bearing down.
Meanwhile, USC's Matt Barkley, who elicited wildly varying assessments from these evaluators, is such a fantastic leader and dynamic personality that he's sure to win some over in the interview room. The AFC college scouting director, though, compared Barkley physically to former Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore, while one NFC GM said that if Barkley ends up in the right system -- probably a West Coast-style offense -- there's "a side to me that says he winds up being the best."
Then there's Arkansas' Tyler Wilson, called the sleeper of the class by three of the people I talked to. The AFC scout lauded Wilson for his incredible toughness and for sticking out a horrific situation in Fayetteville this year. "He's the toughest quarterback I've seen," the scout said. "Anyone else would've tapped out." Which makes it easier to forget he was the sixth-rated quarterback in the SEC.
So what's the real danger here for teams? Making sure they're not creating something that doesn't exist.
"They touch the ball on every single offensive snap," the NFC GM said. "Obviously, they're valuable. It's the most important position; that's why they get pushed up, that concept of supply and demand. You get into economics, there's a limited supply. What you can't do, when you're looking for one, is listen to the noise, and what people might say the day of (the draft) or the day after."
In the next breath, the GM added, "You also can't get cute and say, 'Let's see where the world sees him valued at.' "
That is to say, if you like a guy, it's best not to roll the dice and wait. If you have the 10th pick and can't count on the quarterback still being there at No. 42, you might just pull the trigger.
To be sure, this is a complex issue. The NFC GM pointed out that, with offenses creatively playing to their strengths, Flacco and Kaepernick were able to knock off Tom Brady and Matt Ryan, respectively, in the AFC and NFC Championship Games, serving as shining examples that there's more than one route to the promised land.
It's also clear that, as the AFC personnel exec said, teams without a quarterback can be consumed by the search for one.
And it's just as apparent that one such team, Kansas City, is now on the clock.
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Having observed a vow of silence concerning the Liberal Democrats for a full week, I'm tempted to point out what happens when that party is free of the restraining influence of my scrutiny. But unfortunately this is no matter for facetiousness:
A Liberal Democrat MP sparked outrage last night by saying she would consider becoming a suicide bomber if forced to live like Palestinians.
Pro-Israel politicians were incensed by Dr Jenny Tonge's remarks.
But a defiant Dr Tonge, the party's former international development spokeswoman, told a pro-Palestinian lobby that life under Israel could be intolerable.
"That sort of thing repeated on a daily basis made me understand how people can become suicide bombers," she said.
"I think if I had to live in that situation - and I say that advisedly - I might just consider becoming one myself."
Dr Tonge didn't disclose whose advice it was on which she had acted advisedly, but the evidence suggests it was someone concerned to dig a hole still deeper for her:
Dr Tonge issued a further clarification of her remarks through the Lib Dem press office, but they seemed unlikely to satisfy her critics.
The MP said: "I do not condone suicide bombers or terrorism. But I do understand, having been to Palestine myself and having seen the daily barrage of humiliation and aggravation [sic] faced by Palestinians, why suicide bombers opt for this most desperate of actions.
Unsurprisingly the political reaction across parties – though not, apparently, including the Liberal Democrats themselves - has been swift and deprecatory. It should be obvious – though I fear that to some of the shriller Liberal Democrats it isn't obvious at all – that Dr Tonge's remarks are incompatible with any reasonable conception of public service in a constitutional democracy, but it's worth spelling out why the empirical claims and the political principles underlying her views are inflammatory nonsense.
First, Dr Tonge's insistence that she "understands … why suicide bombers opt for this most desperate of actions" is factually wrong. She doesn't understand. She has made no attempt to understand. Instead of so attempting, she has merely retailed an idle stereotype that shifts the moral responsibility for acts of barbarism on to the victims and away from the perpetrators.
What drives and characterises terrorists is a question to which an economist at Princeton University, Alan Krueger, has devoted statistical expertise and dispassionate analysis. Writing in the New York Times last year he noted that Palestinian terrorists do not fit the conventional image of being desperate and impoverished:
The stereotype that terrorists are driven to extremes by economic deprivation may never have held anywhere, least of all in the Middle East. New research by Claude Berrebi, a graduate student at Princeton, has found that 13 percent of Palestinian suicide bombers are from impoverished families, while about a third of the Palestinian population is in poverty. A remarkable 57 percent of suicide bombers have some education beyond high school, compared with just 15 percent of the population of comparable age.
This evidence corroborates findings for other Middle Eastern and Latin American terrorist groups. There should be little doubt that terrorists are drawn from society's elites, not the dispossessed.
With a Czech collaborator, Jitka Maleckova, Professor Krueger published his research findings in detail in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper in 2002 (available for download here for a nominal fee). He concluded that there was in fact some positive correlation between privilege and terrorism, and drew a parallel with those who engage in political activity:
More educated people from privileged backgrounds are more likely to participate in politics, probably in part because political involvement requires some minimum level of interest, expertise, commitment to issues and effort, all of which are more likely if people are educated and wealthy enough to concern themselves with more than mere economic subsistence ... Terrorist organizations may prefer highly educated individuals over less educated ones, even for homicide suicide bomb attacks. In addition, educated, middle or upper class individuals are better suited to carry out acts of international terrorism than are impoverished illiterates because the terrorists must fit into a foreign environment to be successful.
It's possible that Dr Tonge has read this research and uncovered flaws in the data and methodology (though it is should be noted that Professor Krueger, whose specialist area is the economics of the labour market, is highly familiar with research areas that require analysis of data), and has simply decided to keep her findings secret. It's also possible that she's a silly woman who has no idea what she's talking about. I merely state the possibilities: you decide.
But Dr Tonge's pronouncements are worse than merely ignorant. Her protestation that she does not condone terrorism is a disingenuous and indecent rhetorical trick intended to absolve her of responsibility for doing exactly what she claims she isn't doing. The point about this type of reasoning has been made with pellucid clarity by the political philosopher Michael Walzer, author of one of the most important books of our age on the ethics of war. Shortly after September 11 he identified the type of moral evasion that Dr Tonge exemplifies, and named it the 'Politics of Ideological Apology'. He lists and dissects several spurious rationalisations for terrorist acts:
The fourth excuse plays on the notion of innocence. Of course, it is wrong to kill the innocent, but these victims aren't entirely innocent. They are the beneficiaries of oppression; they enjoy its tainted fruits. And so, while their murder isn't justifiable, it is ... understandable. What else could they expect? Well, the children among them, and even the adults, have every right to expect a long life like anyone else who isn't actively engaged in war or enslavement or ethnic cleansing or brutal political repression. This is called noncombatant immunity, the crucial principle not only of war but of any decent politics. Those who give it up for a moment of schadenfreude are not simply making excuses for terrorism; they have joined the ranks of terror's supporters.
I have no hesitation in declaring the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park an ideological apologist for terrorism. The response of her party so far has been muted or even collaborative. Dr Tonge put out her 'clarification' through the party's Press Office. One very young member of her party even commended her 'honesty' – evidently unaware that honesty is the last characteristic Dr Tonge displays in her moral evasions, and that in any event reticence in proclaiming one's views is much the more honourable course where those views stand outside the bounds of civilised political discourse.
A principled democratic party cannot afford to categorise Dr Tonge's opinions as 'personal views', as if they were merely a legitimate minority opinion within a latitudinarian whole. They are abhorrent, they need to be described as such, and Dr Tonge must be given the choice of retracting her remarks or losing her party's whip. Today.
UPDATE: I asked for action today, and she was sacked from her party's front bench this afternoon. This is a minimal step. If, as Charles Kennedy declares, Dr Tonge's views are incompatible with Liberal Democrat principles, it raises the question of why she has not also been deprived of the Liberal Democrat whip. Nonetheless, it would be churlish of me to dispute that Dr Tonge's sacking and the speed with which it was accomplished are to Charles Kennedy's credit, and I don't dispute it.


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Thingomatic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 213 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
I need a logo for my new online advertising network, to be used on the web and in printed materials.
The company matches independent sellers of physical products with readers of blogs and other web sites, somewhat of an "Ebay meets Google AdSense." We want to convey a professional, trustworthy image, but because our sellers and publishers are mostly small businesses, there's an opportunity to have a little fun so as not to come across as too cold and corporate. (The name itself is a bit of a play on late-night direct-response television commercials.)
- The deliverable should be a scalable vector graphics or Adobe Illustrator file.
- The logo should be a combination of graphics and the name "Thingomatic" (in all caps or with just the leading T capitalized). I have no font preference, so long as it's clear and readable when scaled up or down.
- The logo should use no more than 3-4 colors, and should work against a white or gray background. I don't have a particular color palette in mind, but for logos tend to prefer bold, primary colors. Ideally the logo will also work in black-and-white.
- The logo (or a component of it) should be simple enough that it can be scaled down and used on the product ads themselves (think of the size of the "Ads by Google" tag on Google AdSense banners).
- The logo can be square or rectangular. Ideally there's also a roughly-square graphical component (sans name) or other simplified variant that can be used as a favicon.
- Please no clip art or photos.
- We may incorporate a tagline at a later time; for now the logo should just include the name.
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Fashion photography is about more than just clothes: good fashion photos are like time capsules. Initially, they simply documented what people were wearing, but they have evolved into an expressive and highly stylized means of telling a story in a single frame.
Some of the most interesting and avant-garde photographers in the world have used fashion as a way to create a totally new style and look, and have influenced photography as a whole. So, rather than submitting pictures of clothes, focus on how fashion affects your subject and how that photo might tell a story. What does fashion mean to you?


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Signature Series - Dyavol - 9 inch, Titanium tipped supported spindle in Black Heart Sassafras, River Oak with Abalone Inlay and Dymondwood
Signature Series - Dyavol - 9 inch, Titanium tipped supported spindle in Black Heart Sassafras, River Oak with Abalone Inlay and Dymondwood
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Whorl - Black Heart Sassafras
Trim - River Oak
Shaft - Dymondwood
Inlay - Abalone Inlay
Tip - Titanum
Weight - 27 g ( 0.95 oz)
Length - about 23 cm ( 9 in )
Width - about 4 cm ( 1.6 in )
Signature Series is made with the same care and attention as all my spindles, however, the Signature Series is made from the most pretty bits of wood i have, the downfall to those super pretty bits of wood is that they are usually very out of balance and need a lot more care and attention to get to the wobbleless spin i have for all my spindles. this means more of my time is needed and therefore i put more care and attention then usual. i also try to enhance the look if each spindle with the most special of inlays. Every Signature Series spindle will be the best spinning and best looking spindle i can make, if it has the Signature Series seal then you know you will be receiving something very special indeed.
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Guy Metals, Blaine, MN, a warehousing and processing service center that specializes in stainless steels and aluminum alloys, has purchased a new precision blanking line from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL. The line, scheduled to begin operating during the summer of 2009, will process coils to 40,000 lb. at widths to 72 in. and material thickness to 0.375 in., and will produce blanks with length tolerance to ±0.005 in. Included is a heavy-gauge peeler breaker, dual Herr-Voss levelers, flatness-inspection table, PVC and paper applicator and automatic part diverter.
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"Lee Daniels' The Butler" is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as survivors of "The Paperboy" may have feared. An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around the experience of black Americans in general and the civil rights movement in particular, it undercuts itself by hitting its points squarely on the nose with a 9-pound hammer.
Strongly acted by a cast top-lined by Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo, "The Butler" has its share of strong dramatic moments in a story inspired by the real-life career of a White House employee who served eight presidential administrations for a total of 34 years from 1952 to 1986.
Written by Danny Strong (HBO's excellent "Recount" and "Game Change"), "The Butler" cheerfully abandons specific reality, with its main characters — Cecil Gaines (Whitaker), his wife Gloria (Winfrey) and their son Louis (Oyelowo) — crafted as composites to allow a wide swath of history to fit tidily into one family's tumultuous story.
Getting involved in this kind of general audience material is something new for the director, a lover of excess ("Precious" as well as "The Paperboy") who candidly commented in publicity material: "As a filmmaker I really had to restrain myself. It's hard to do a PG-13 movie being Lee Daniels."
Though that rating imposes some constraints, the director's contempt for subtlety, weakness for cliché and perennial determination to wring every last drop of emotion out of a situation are inevitably factors here.
Nevertheless, "The Butler" reveals Daniels' ability to create believable black middle class situations that are so hard to come by on mainstream screens. (It took the combined efforts of close to 40 different producers to finally make this film a reality.)
But paralleling this gift, and hampering "The Butler," is Daniels' tin ear when it comes to white folks, individuals who do not have a fraction of the recognizable humanity of the black characters even in the rare moments when they're not being racists or morons or both.
Five name actors, from Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower through Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, play presidents Cecil Gaines served and not one of them is remotely believable. Movie audiences who've suffered for decades with unrealistic portrays of African Americans and Native Americans in multi-racial pictures are now being asked to do the same with Caucasians.
"The Butler" starts with a brief moment in the White House entrance hall with an aged and long-retired Gaines patiently waiting, we find out later, to meet a newly elected (but unseen) Barack Obama.
Then the film flashes back nearly eight decades, to 1926 in Macon, Ga., to an overly schematic (to put it mildly) world where 8-year-old Cecil's happiness to be picking cotton with his father Earl (David Banner) is shattered when a drooling bigot (Alex Pettyfer) rapes his mother (Mariah Carey) and murders that father — on the same afternoon. But not before Earl has a chance to warn his son: "Don't lose your temper with the man. It's his world, we're just living in it."
The drooling bigot's mother (a thankless part for Vanessa Redgrave) turns young Cecil into a house servant. He leaves home when he's of age (no surprise) and another mentor helps him land a job at a hotel in Washington, D.C. That leads to work at the White House, where he's told by his new boss, "You never listen or react to conversation. You hear nothing, you see nothing, you only serve."
Fortunately for Cecil, and the film, his African American co-workers are a gregarious lot, especially Carter Wilson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and James Holloway (Lenny Kravitz), and the banter they exchange both on and off the job is one of the film's strengths.
The same is true for Cecil's strong union with his wife, which is helped by the obvious acting bond formed by the effective work of Whitaker and Winfrey. These two are especially good when Cecil's long hours at the White House cause his wife to understandably feel neglected, which leads to a prolonged flirtation with the rascal next door (the always effective Terrence Howard).
When it comes to how Cecil and all those presidents interact, "The Butler" does not achieve a similar realism. Whenever a president needs a sympathetic ear, or a presidential child like young Caroline Kennedy is in search of a patient reader, Cecil manages to be magically around.
Where "The Butler" really starts to give off mixed messages is when Cecil's son Louis comes of age. A thorn in his father's side who sees the old man as an accommodating Uncle Tom type, Louis heads off to Fisk University to begin both the study of nonviolent protest with James Lawson (Jesse Williams), and a relationship with classmate Carol Hammie (Yaya Alafia).
Though the generation-gap clashes between father and son over how best to confront institutional prejudice — and over Sidney Poitier's acting abilities — are another of the film's strong points, the plotting here becomes too contrived to be effective.
"The Butler" turns poor Louis into a kind of African American Zelig, present at every key civil rights era turning point. That's Louis sitting in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, getting fire-bombed on a Freedom Rider bus, getting assaulted by a fire hose in Birmingham, being with Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis just before he died, donning a beret and becoming a Black Panther as Carol's hair morphs into an Angela Davis afro.
It's not that all this stuff didn't happen (see Stanley Nelson's excellent Emmy-winning doc "Freedom Riders" to get the full story), but it strains credulity to have it all happen to one person, and all in the context of a strained father-son relationship.
Daniels' pulp instincts do lead to vivid sequences such as the intercutting of a White House dinner with that Woolworth sit-in, but this is one significant film where less would have been a whole lot more.
'Lee Daniels' The Butler'
MPAA rating: PG-13 for some violence and disturbing images, language, sexual material, thematic elements and smoking
Running time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Playing: In general release


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Apple reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beatWall Street's expectations on Tuesday, sending its shares higherin extended-hours trading.
After the earnings announcement, the technology giant's shares rose 4percent in trading after the closing bell. (Click here to get the latest quotes for Apple.)
In the past two weeks, Apple stock has dropped 12 percent, falling into correction territory, after rallying 75 percent from late November to a closing high of $636.23 on April 9.
The company posted fiscal second-quarter earnings excluding items of $12.30 per share, up from $6.40 a share in the year-earlier period.
Net income was $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per share, up from $6 billion, or $6.40 per share, a year ago.
Revenue shot up 59 percent to $39.2 billion from $24.67 billion a year ago.
Analysts had expected the company to report earnings excluding items of $10.04 a share on $36.81 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
"Apple once again surprises on the upside despite expectations that iPhone sales would lag," said Michael Yoshikami, CEO of YCMNet Advisors. "Clearly iPad results are driving results, as well as international sales. This is consistent with Apple continuing to capture market share against Android."
Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, up 88 percent from a year ago; iPad sales more than doubled to 11.8 million; and Mac sales increased 7 percent to 4 million. Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15-percent decline from a year ago.
Apple, true to form, projected guidance that was lower than analysts currently expect: The company said it sees earnings of $8.68 a share on revenue of $34 billion for the fiscal third quarter; the current consensus is for earnings of $9.93 a share on revenue of $37.4 billion. Apple is typically light on guidance and beats analysts' expectations as they did in this latest quarterly report.
The company said its stash of cash, short-term and long-term securities added up to $110 billion. To put this into perspective, Apple's cash hoard tops the individual market caps of all but 20 companies in the S&P 500.
Some mobile providers' earnings reports have reported weaker iPhone sales at their companies.
Earlier in the day, AT&T reported quarterly profitthat beat estimates as iPhone sales declined, which reduced the amount of cash that the mobile provider had to pay Apple and boosted its margins. Rival Verizon also posted fewer iPhone activations in its quarterly earnings report.
On Tuesday, a judge for the International Trade Commission ruled that Apple infringedon a Motorola Mobility Holdings patent in making its iPhones, iPads and other products.
The judge said in a preliminary ruling that the company infringed on a patent for eliminating noise and other interference during voice and data transmissions.
The full commission will now review the judge's decision and issue a final ruling in August.
Several Apple product suppliers, including Broadcom , NXP Semiconductors , Qualcomm , Texas Instruments and TriQuint Semiconductor , also posted gains in after-hours trading.


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When the 1040 was first introduced in 1913 it had little more than 30 lines and carried one page of instructions. One hundred years later, the form is 87 lines long, not including signatures. The accompanying set of instructions, 206 pages long.
The increased complexity of the flagship income tax form is a reflection of the ever-changing tax code, experts say. Since it was first created, the federal income tax has gone from a program meant to collect revenue from the wealthiest 1% of Americans to a broader tax impacting most of the country. Today, it is also one of the government's main tools for implementing economic and social policy, tax experts say.
That evolution of the tax code has also meant, for most Americans, a more complicated tax-filing process. Different types of income must be reported in different ways and not all income is taxable. Each credit and deduction intended to give taxpayers a break must typically be reported separately, sometimes requiring taxpayers to fill out additional forms and attachments. "As we try to make the tax system do more and make it a more sophisticated tool for managing the economy, we are invariably going to create more complexity," says Joseph J. Thorndike, a tax historian with Tax Analysts, a nonprofit that publishes tax information. "And that's going to add more complexity to the form."
Also adding to the density of the form is the fact that the tax code is being used to implement social policy changes. Tax-deferred retirement accounts encourage people to save for their golden years. The earned-income tax credit incentivizes parents in low-income households to work. Starting this year, the tax code is also being used to help Americans pay for health insurance and to penalize those who don't get covered. "All of those complicate our tax-filing requirements," says Roberton Williams, an economist for the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
But while some taxpayers might assume that a simpler tax form might lead to an easier filing process, the opposite may be true. That first, relatively simple Form 1040 fell short in several ways, says Thorndike. Average taxpayers did not get much guidance on what deductions they could claim, and the tax-collection agency, then known as the Bureau of Internal Revenue, was still figuring out how to collect needed information, he says. By providing more detailed explanations of the various tax credits and deductions, the Internal Revenue Service, which gained its current name in 1953, is helping taxpayers learn which credits they might qualify for and what they can skip over, tax experts say. And most taxpayers find only a small portion of the hundreds of pages of instructions actually apply to them, says Williams.
Some of the lines and items added to the 1040 over the years have actually made the filing process easier. For instance, when the standard deduction was introduced in 1944, a few more lines of explanation and math guidance were added to the form. But it also simplified the filing process just as the share of Americans required to pay income tax was growing: It hit more than 20% of the population after World War II, up from 1% when the tax was first introduced in 1913, says Thorndike. The standard deduction saved many taxpayers from having to run the numbers on several deductions, allowing them to write off a flat amount — then $500 for an individual.
Even with the IRS offering more detailed tax tables and hundreds of pages of instruction, few have to deal with flipping through those pages — or any paper at all — since most taxpayers file electronically. Many taxpayers meet the April 15 deadline without once seeing hard copies of their tax forms, says Thorndike.
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Definitions of Types and Levels of Emergencies
A combination of circumstances resulting in a state that calls for immediate action. Such circumstances can cause death or significant injuries to people, disrupt operations, cause physical or environmental damage, or threaten the University's reputation. Minor emergency or critical incident - Any incident, potential or actual, which will not seriously affect the overall functional capacity of the institution. Examples: a minor one-room fire contained immediately, a minor laboratory spill confined to a small area.
Major emergency or major crisis
Any incident, potential or actual, which affects members of the community and/or an entire building or buildings, and for which emergency relocation will probably be required, as well as major efforts from campus support services. Major policy considerations and decisions will usually be required from the University.
A sudden or great misfortune; an unforeseen event bringing with it destruction of property or loss of life. It is any event or occurrence, which has seriously impaired or halted the normal operations of the University. Major disasters are called catastrophes. A disaster may have its origin on campus and affect residents in the geographical location of Gallaudet, or may occur somewhere in the city affecting the University community. In those instances one should anticipate delays in off-campus emergency services and city/federal services.
Emergency Levels Defined
Level One Emergency - University Crisis
A Level One emergency is a major emergency, major crisis, or disaster that requires an extensive response and commitment of resources from many departments/units and usually requires outside assistance. It also is an event or activity with the potential to negatively affect the reputation or credibility of the University. This classification will be made by the President or his/her designee.
The Crisis Leadership Team is responsible for making decisions to resolve a Level One emergency. University personnel at the site of the emergency are responsible for those immediate emergency decisions necessary to protect life and property and to stabilize the situation until the Crisis Leadership Team has convened. Designated essential emergency personnel must remain or arrive on campus to respond to a Level One emergency.
Level Two Emergency - Situational Emergency
A Level Two emergency is one that requires a major response and the significant commitment of resources from several University departments or units, but will still be within the capabilities of the University to control (i.e. student with bacterial meningitis, bomb threat, utilities failure). Such emergencies may involve outside agencies responding to give specialized assistance. This classification will be made by the President or his/her designee.
The primary decision-making responsibility rests with the department that would normally handle the situation, but also requires a cooperative effort with other departments that are responding in support. The Crisis Leadership Team is notified in most instances, and will assume responsibility for primary decision-making if the situation warrants it. That decision will be made by the President and/or Chair of the Crisis Leadership Team.
Level Three Emergency - Critical Incident
A Level Three emergency is a minor emergency or critical incident that has the potential to require more resources than the responding department has available (e.g. single injury, small and easily contained fire.) This level will be declared only if the situation has the potential of escalating to a higher classification. This classification will be made by the Director of the Department of Public Safety, Director of Campus Life, Manager of Physical Plant, or their designee(s).
The primary decision-making responsibility rests with the department that would normally handle the situation. No university-wide action is required.


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III Draakon is an old-fashioned pub wherein all the meals cost 1-3 units of money. But double is demanded for the drinks! All the hungry should thereof tuck 1 and the thirsty 2 units of euromoney into their purse otherwise there's no thought of coming. Whoever is brisk enough to angle out a morsel from the pickles barrel will be rewarded for the trouble and is asked no charge for it. A visitor with a heftier purse is the king yet the lady of the house is always right!
You can access the rigorous care of the lady through the door
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7 Naked AIDS Protesters in John Boehner's Office
At least seven nude protesters stormed House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) office in the Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday, according to reports from Sahil Kapur of Talking Points Memo and others who were there. The group was protesting cuts to HIV/AIDS funding that is possible as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations.
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Cruzer Contour's Unique Slider Brings Out and Hides the USB Connector, With High Capacity, Fast Transfer Rates and Strong Security on the Inside
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, June 25, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced availability of Cruzer® Contour™, a sleek USB flash drive that brings together high-end design and blazing speed. Much like a fine wristwatch, Cruzer Contour is a luxury personal accessory as well as a piece of functional technology.
What especially sets apart Cruzer Contour, with its glossy black top and silver metallic body, is the drive's unique sliding USB connector. Using a thumb to slide the top of Cruzer Contour back and forth brings out or hides the connector. There's no visible switch, and no cap to lose.
"Cruzer Contour is a showpiece of innovative design, bringing a new look to the category of USB flash drives," said Roy Ramati, vice president of marketing for the USB business unit at SanDisk. "And the beauty here is more than skin deep, with Cruzer Contour's expansive storage capacity, fast data transfer, strong security and generous bundle of pre-loaded software."
Available in 4 gigabyte (GB)1 and 8 GB capacities, Cruzer Contour's features include:
Pricing and Availability
Cruzer Contour became available in the United States in mid-June, and will become available in Asia in early July and in Europe in August.
The 4GB model has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $99.99 in the U.S., and the 8GB model has a U.S. MSRP of $189.99.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
2 Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may be lower depending upon host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: www.sandisk.com SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from www.sandisk.com/corporate/mediakit/
SanDisk, the SanDisk logo, Cruzer and CruzerSync are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Cruzer Contour is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. U3 is a trademark of U3, LLC. Skype and the Skype logo are trademarks of Skype Technologies S.A. SignupShield is a trademark of Protecteer, LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, specifications, applications, markets, pricing, customer acceptance and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, our products may not be available at the prices, dates or in the geographies we anticipate, our products may not perform as expected, no security technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
SanDisk Corporation
Mike Langberg
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Shark Tank, the critically acclaimed and multi-Emmy® Award-winning reality show that has reinvigorated entrepreneurship in America, returns this fall to ABC for its tenth season. The Sharks – tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons – continue their search to invest in the best businesses and products that America has to offer. The Sharks will once again give people from all walks of life the chance to chase the American dream and potentially secure business deals that could make them millionaires.
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Budding entrepreneurs work to persuade a panel of tycoons to invest in their business proposals in return for a percentage of equity in the company.
An inner-city teacher tries to sell the Sharks on his unique way to get children to learn; the owner of a gourmet food business watches the Sharks fight for a piece of the action; an astonishing offer is made for one life-saving idea.
An entrepreneurial novice makes a less-than-stellar presentation to the sharks; a father-son duo pitches a proposal for a revolutionary new musical product.
An entrepreneur originally from Ghana wants an investment for an Internet business; a man from California wants to franchise his graffiti-removal business.
Three of the sharks make a deal for an innovative Internet company, but before the deal can be sealed, a battle ensues and one of the sharks is ousted.
A young Chicago entrepreneur plays hardball with the sharks while seeking funding for an innovative Internet business.
A housewife from Charleston, S.C., charms the male sharks; a college student pitches a product made from soy that he creates in his mother's kitchen.
A young entrepreneur's overconfidence could blow a deal with the sharks; Kevin O'Leary follows an entrepreneur out of the Shark Tank to get the last word after being outbid by another shark.
A veterinarian's product claims to prevent cancer in pets; virtual arcade; a Texas designer pitches a line of fashionable clothing for women.
A man wants an investment from the sharks to create an extension of his already successful business; a urologist has an unusual business proposal.
Things get heated when the sharks ask a husband-and-wife team to clarify the actual value of a childcare business; a chef's salad dressing mix is removed from store shelves because of offensive packaging; a golf ball cleaner.
Two Texas bicyclists have an idea for a portable hand degreaser; a college student is passionate about his environmentally friendly clothing line; the sharks find out if lifelong entrepreneur Cactus Jack lost at least 35 pounds to seal a deal.
A California entrepreneur wants to bring back old-fashioned ice cream men; a couple's pitch is about providing legal services at a coffee house; an update on the sharks' venture with an Arizona woman and her unique plush toys.
A woman begins her presentation with shoe fashions; sisters from Chicago present a hilarious pitch; a man from Florida reinvents the umbrella.
An entrepreneur from Chicago hopes the sharks can dig him out of a financial hole; a single mother believes her aromatic lip gloss can help women.


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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
ReadHowYouWant.com, Nov 13, 2008 - Education - 266 pages
Every idea in this book is focused on increasing your overall levels of productivity, performance, and output and on making you more valuable in whatever you do. You can apply many of these ideas to your personal life as well. Each of these twenty-one methods and techniques is complete in itself. All are necessary. One strategy might be effective in one situation and another might apply to another task. All together, these twenty-one ideas represent a smorgasbord of personal effectiveness techniques that you can use at any time, in any order or sequence that makes sense to you at the moment. The key to success is action. These principles work to bring about fast, predictable improvements in performance and results. The faster you learn and apply them, the faster you will move ahead in your career - guaranteed! There will be no limit to what you can accomplish when you learn how to Eat That Frog!
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