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- Definition: Percentage of infants born prior to 37 weeks of gestation.Number of infants born prior to 37 weeks of gestation.
- Data Source: California Dept. of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics, Birth Statistical Master Files; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Natality data on CDC WONDER; Martin et al. (2015), Births: Final Data for 2013. National Vital Statistics Reports, 64(1) (Mar. 2015).
- Footnote: Calculated from date of last reported mensus. The county-level data reflect the mother's county of residence, not the county in which the birth occurred. LNE (Low Number Event) refers to data that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 preterm births. N/A means that data are not available. Data exclude infants for whom preterm birth information is missing.
Learn More About Low Birthweight and Preterm Births
- Measures of Low Birthweight and Preterm Births on Kidsdata.org
For this topic, kidsdata.org offers the following measures:
- Percent and number of infants born at low birthweight, by age and race/ethnicity of mother. Low birthweight is defined as babies who are born at less than 2,500 grams (or about 5 lbs, 8 oz).
- Percent and number of infants born at very low birthweight, which is less than 1,500 grams (about 3 lbs, 5 oz).
- Percent and number of infants born preterm, which refers to births before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. More than two-thirds of low birthweight babies are born preterm (1).
1. March of Dimes. (2014). Your premature baby: Low birthweight. Retrieved from: http://www.marchofdimes.com/baby/low-birthweight.aspx
- Low Birthweight and Preterm Births
- Demographics
- Breastfeeding
- Infant Mortality
- Teen Births
- Prenatal Care
- Why This Topic Is Important
In addition to being at higher risk of death during the first year of life, babies born weighing less than 5.5 pounds are at increased risk of long-term disabilities, including developmental delays, learning disabilities, and autism (1, 2). Cardiac and/or respiratory distress, brain hemorrhaging, and vision impairments are also problems that low birthweight infants may face (3). Women who are more likely to give birth to low birthweight babies include those with low incomes or education, smoking habits, and those under age 17 or over age 35 (1, 3).
Babies born prematurely may face adverse outcomes as low birthweight infants (4). Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant death in the U.S. (5). Some preterm babies require specialized care in a newborn intensive care unit (4). Women who are most likely to give birth preterm include those who have had a previous premature birth, those pregnant with twins, triplets, or more, and those with certain uterine abnormalities. In addition, demographic and behavioral factors can increase the risk of delivering preterm, including low socioeconomic status, being under age 17 or over age 35, receiving inadequate prenatal care, and smoking during pregnancy (6). About 1 in 9 pregnancies in the U.S. result in preterm birth (3).Sources for this narrative:
1. Child Trends Databank. (2015). Low and very low birthweight infants. Retrieved from: http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=low-and-very-low-birthweight-infants
2. Pinto-Martin, J. A., et al. (2011). Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adolescents born weighing <2000 grams. Pediatrics, 128(5), 883-891. Retrieved from: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/5/883
3. March of Dimes. (2014). Low birthweight. Retrieved from: http://www.marchofdimes.com/baby/low-birthweight.aspx
4. March of Dimes. (2013). Premature babies. Retrieved from: http://www.marchofdimes.org/baby/premature-babies.aspx
5. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2013). Preterm labor and birth: Overview. Retrieved from: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/preterm/Pages/default.aspx
6. March of Dimes. (2014). Preterm labor and premature birth. Retrieved from: http://www.marchofdimes.org/pregnancy/preterm-labor-and-premature-birth.aspx
- How Children Are Faring
The percentage of California babies born at low birthweight increased from 6.1% in 1999 to 6.9% in 2005, and has remained fairly steady since then. At the local level, percentages range from 4.9% to 9.8% in 2013 among counties with available data. The state and all but five counties with data in 2013 met the national Healthy People 2020 objective of no more than 7.8% of infants with low birthweight. However, figures vary by demographic group. For example, California mothers age 45 and older consistently have the highest percentages of low birthweight babies (20.4% in 2013), compared to younger mothers. Among California's racial/ethnic groups with available data, African American/Black mothers consistently have the highest percentages of infants at low birthweight (11.7% in 2013).
California babies born at a very low birthweight has remained steady since 1995, hovering between 1.1% and 1.2%. The state and all but two counties with available data in 2013 met the Healthy People 2020 objective of no more than 1.4% of infants with very low birthweight.
In 2013, 8.8% of infants were born preterm, which represents a decline from the high of 11.2% in 2005. At the county-level, figures range from 6.3% to 13.6% of infants born preterm in 2013. Among counties with available data, all but two met the Healthy People 2020 objective of no more than 11.4% of infants born prematurely.
- Policy Implications
Some of the risk factors for low birthweight and preterm birth can be influenced by public and institutional policy focused on education, prevention, and treatment. These factors include smoking, drinking alcohol, or using illicit substances during pregnancy; being a teenage mother; and being overweight or underweight (1).
According to research and subject experts, policy options that could influence low birthweight and preterm births include:
For more policy ideas and research on this topic, see kidsdata.org's Research & Links section, or visit the March of Dimes. Also see Policy Implications on kidsdata.org under the Prenatal Care, Infant Mortality, Teen Births and Teen Sexual Health topics.
- Providing access to early and regular high-quality prenatal care, including ensuring that pregnant women get appropriate nutrition and avoid increased risks of delivering early due to overweight and obesity (1, 2)
- Ensuring that health care systems train clinicians on identifying smokers among pregnant women, and that evidence-based tobacco cessation services are available to pregnant women and reimbursed by insurance (1)
- Sustaining adequate funding for universal screening for substance use among pregnant women, and for treatment services specifically designed for pregnant women who use alcohol or illicit drugs (3)
- Addressing depression and depressive symptoms in pregnant women as depression has been found to have an impact on the incidence of preterm labor and low birthweight (4)
- Supporting a comprehensive approach to women's health (1), including integration of reproductive planning into women's routine health care by ensuring access to medical and dental services; included in this approach should be a focus on increasing interpregnancy intervals (at least 12 months), recognizing that short intervals are associated with increased risk for preterm birth (5)
Sources for this narrative:
1. Shore, R., & Shore, B. (2009). Preventing low birthweight (KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief). Annie E. Casey Foundation. Retrieved from: http://www.aecf.org/resources/kids-count-indicator-brief-preventing-low-birthweight/
2. McDonald, S. D., et al. (2010). Overweight and obesity in mothers and risk of preterm birth and low birth weight infants: Systematic review and meta-analyses. British Medical Journal, 341, c3248. Retrieved from: http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3428
3. Chasnoff, I. J., et al. (2008). Perinatal substance use screening in California. NTI Upstream. Retrieved from: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/healthyliving/childfamily/Documents/MO-ChasnoffPerinatalSubstanceUseScreeningReport-10-24-08.pdf
4. Grote, N. K., et al. (2010). A meta-analysis of depression during pregnancy and the risk of preterm, low birth weight, and intrauterine growth restriction. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67(10), 1012-1024. Retrieved from: http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=210887
5. Wise, P. H. (2008). Transforming preconceptional, prenatal, and interconceptional care into a comprehensive commitment to women's health. Women's Health Issues, 18(Suppl. 6), S13-S18. Retrieved from: http://www.whijournal.com/article/S1049-3867(08)00109-6/fulltext
- Research & Links
- Websites with Related Information
- California Dept. of Public Health: Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division
- California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative
- California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative
- California Preterm Birth Initiative, University of California San Francisco
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Before Pregnancy
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Preterm Birth
- CityMatCH, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- March of Dimes
- National Institute for Children's Health Quality
- Preterm (Premature) Labor and Birth: Resource Overview, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Maternal and Child Health Bureau
- Key Reports and Research
- Avoidance of Nonmedically Indicated Early-Term Deliveries and Associated Neonatal Morbidities, 2019, Obstetrics and Gynecology, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Health Equity and Birth Outcomes, March of Dimes
- Infant Mortality by Age at Death in the United States, 2016, NCHS Data Brief, Ely, D. M., et al.
- Maternity Care in California: Delivering the Data, 2016, California Health Care Foundation, Joynt, J.
- Playbook for the Successful Elimination of Early Elective Deliveries, 2014, National Quality Forum
- Policies to Promote Child Health, 2015, The Future of Children
- Preconception Care: Maximizing the Gains for Maternal and Child Health, 2013, World Health Organization
- Premature Birth Report Cards, 2018, March of Dimes
- Preterm Birth, 2018, World Health Organization
- Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight, 2019, Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
- Race, Age, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Low Birth Weight Disparities Among Adolescent Mothers: An Intersectional Inquiry, 2016, Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, Coley, S. L., & Nichols, T. R.
- The Outcomes of Very Preterm Infants: Is It Time to Ask Different Questions?, 2017, Pediatrics, McCormick, M. C., & Litt, J. S.
- Trends in Infant Mortality in the United States, 2005–2014, NCHS Data Brief, Mathews, T. J., & Driscoll, A. K.
- Worry About Racial Discrimination: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle of Black-White Disparities in Preterm Birth?, 2017, PLoS ONE, Braveman P., et al.
- County/Regional Reports
- Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan, Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health
- Full-Term and Normal-Weight Births by Region in Los Angeles County: Recent Progress and Why It Matters, 2017, Children's Data Network, McCroskey, J., et al.
- Key Indicators of Health by Service Planning Area, 2017, Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health
- Live Well San Diego Report Card on Children, Families, and Community, 2017, The Children's Initiative & Live Well San Diego
- Santa Monica Youth Wellbeing Report Card, Santa Monica Cradle to Career
- The 24th Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County, 2018, Orange County Children's Partnership
- Youth Need Data, Get Healthy San Mateo County
- More Data Sources For Low Birthweight and Preterm Births
- 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- CDC WONDER, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau: National Survey Publications and Chartbooks, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA), California Dept. of Public Health & University of California San Francisco
- PeriStats, March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center
- Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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1/6th of recipe (2 taco salads): 119 calories, 2.5g total fat (1g sat fat), 446mg sodium, 15.5g carbs, 2.5g fiber, 1.5g sugars, 8.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 3* -- SmartPoints® value 3* These guys have all the crunch and flair of big taco salads, but they're adorably itty-bitty. Awwwwwww... Ingredients: 12 small square wonton wrappers (stocked with the tofu in the refrigerated section of the market) 1 cup frozen ground-beef-style soy crumbles (like the kinds by Boca and MorningStar Farms) 1/2 cup fat-free refried beans 1 tsp. taco seasoning 1 1/2 cups shredded lettuce 1/2 cup shredded reduced-fat Mexican-blend cheese 1 tbsp. sliced black olives, chopped 6 tbsp. chunky salsa or pico de gallo 2 tbsp. fat-free sour cream Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray. Place each wonton wrapper into a cup of the muffin pan, and press it into the bottom and sides. Lightly spray wrappers with nonstick spray. Bake in the oven for about 8 minutes, until the bottoms of the wrappers begin to brown. Set aside to cool. Once completely cool, place baked wonton shells on a plate or tray and set aside. In a microwave-safe bowl, combine soy crumbles, refried beans, and taco seasoning. Microwave for 1 1/2 minutes, or until hot. Stir well and set aside. Evenly distribute shredded lettuce among wonton shells, 2 tbsp. each. Top lettuce with soy-crumble mixture, about 1 tbsp. per shell. Evenly distribute cheese and chopped olives among the shells. Finish off each mini taco salad with 1/2 tbsp. salsa and 1/2 tsp. sour cream. Serve and enjoy! MAKES 6 SERVINGS
1/6th of recipe (2 mini pies): 170 calories, 3g total fat (1g sat fat), 450mg sodium, 24g carbs, 1.5g fiber, 2g sugars, 10g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4* -- SmartPoints® value 5* Look at these tiny entrée-style items! Now imagine the teeny shepherd who inspired this dish. CUTENESS OVERLOAD! Ingredients: 12 small square wonton wrappers (stocked with the tofu in the refrigerated section of the market) 1 cup instant mashed potato flakes 1/2 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 1/4 tsp. plus 1/8 tsp. salt, divided 1/4 tsp. black pepper, divided 1/4 cup chopped onion 8 oz. raw lean ground turkey 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 3/4 cup fat-free turkey gravy 1 1/2 cups frozen petite mixed vegetables Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray. Place each wonton wrapper into a cup of the muffin pan, and press it into the bottom and sides. Set aside. In a large microwave-safe bowl, combine potato flakes with 1 1/2 cups hot water and stir until moistened. Add butter, 1/4 tsp. salt, and 1/8 tsp. pepper. Mix well and set aside. Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat on the stove. Add onion and cook until softened, 3 - 4 minutes. Raise heat to medium-high. Add turkey, garlic powder, remaining 1/8 tsp. salt, and remaining 1/8 tsp. pepper. Cook and crumble for 4 - 5 minutes, until turkey is fully cooked. If needed, carefully drain any excess liquid from the skillet. Evenly distribute turkey mixture among the wontons in the muffin cups, about 1 tbsp. each. Top each with 1 tbsp. gravy. Evenly distribute frozen veggies among the cups, about 2 tbsp. each, followed by the potato mixture, about 1 tbsp. each. Bake in the oven until the tops are slightly crispy and brown, about 15 minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Then serve and enjoy! MAKES 6 SERVINGS
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ArkGeo Board Meeting - July 11, 2008
Present: Bert Drake, Wayne Lunsford, Frank Philpott, Beth Daniel, Pat Vaughn, Mike Pinkston, David Spicer, and Rich Swanson (via phone).
Not Present: Jerry Turner
Guests: Richard Lee and Mike Beavers
Call to order: Frank Philpott, president, called the business meeting to order at 6:35.
Roll call: As stated above
Minutes from last meeting were accepted as posted and discussed on line.
Presidents Report: Frank Philpott presented the following 10 goals for ArkGeo for the coming year:
1. Membership -- Increase membership to 200 by 5/31/09. (Owners - Frank Philpott and Wayne Lunsford)
2. Fund raising -- Implement 2 fund raising initiatives to increase ArkGeo bank balance to $2500 by 5/31/09 (Owner - Rich Swanson)
3. Events -- Hold 1 general membership meeting by 6/15/09. (Owner - Pat Vaughn)
4. Events -- Hold 1 CITO event by 6/15/09. (Owner - Pat Vaughn)
5. Events -- Hold 2 "Eat & Greets" by 6/15/09 in each of the following regions of the state: NE (Owner - Mike Pinkston), NW (Owner - David Spicer), Central (Owner - Wayne Lunsford), SE (Owner - Pat Vaughn), and SW (Owner - Jerry Turner).
6. Community Relations -- Work with Ouachita NF officials to reach agreement on the waiver of, or significant reduction in, geoache permit fee for geocaches placed within the Ouachita NF, by 12/31/08. (Owner - Jerry Turner)
7. Community Relations -- Publicize ArkGeo through an article in one of the state's newspapers or TV news coverage of an ArkGeo event, by 5/31/09. (Owner - Jerry Turner)
8. Elections -- Recruit at least 5 nominees for next Board election, by 1/1/09. (Owner - Beth Daniel)
9. Elections -- Meet each of the ArkGeo Election Schedule milestone dates. (Owner - Frank Philpott)
10. Website -- Complete move of website to a new host server by 11/1/08. (Owner - Bert Drake)
A motion was passed that the Board resolve to meet these goals. Owners of each goal were directed to report the status of the goal at each Board meeting.
Treasurers Report:
Income from merchandise sold: $687
Donations received: $35
TOTAL Income: $722
ArkGeo donated 5 shirts and 10 medallions for door prizes.
Website Managers Report: Recent problems with the web site host are forcing us to accelerate our schedule to switch to a new host and new web site software. This may be done within the next couple of weeks, at least for testing. Other items relating to spammers and the handling of inactive and deactivated accounts were discussed.
Election Committee Report: New committee members are as follows:
Etta Flowers (ettabrowneyes) - Events
Nikki Garrett (nini2002) - Events
Keith Saveall (SaveAll4Love) - Community Relations
Clark Gray (cfd29) - Community Relations
Richard Lee (IdRatherBeHiking) - Events
Brenda Bain (bluesybreeze) - Fund Raising
Fund Raising Committee Report: Rich Swanson was approved as liaison to the Fund Raising committee. Committee was directed to elect a chairperson. Max Slaughter, Ron Laster, and Maribeth Laster have left the Fund Raising Committee. Information, records, and the inventory of ArkGeo tee shirts, hiking staff medallions, and geocoins has been turned over to Beth Daniel. At the Clarksville event, ArkGeo sold 29 shirts and 25 medallions. At the Lake Catherine event, ArkGeo sold 8 shirts and 6 medallions. We are now making a profit on shirts and need to sell $146.22 to make a profit on the medallions. ArkGeo's current inventory is 30 shirts and 65 medallions. ArkGeo still has 9 geocoins from 2006 in our inventory. One of these coins will be retained by ArkGeo as an archive. The remainder will be turned over to the fund raising committee to sell. eBay was discussed as a possibility.
Community Relations Report: Committee was directed to elect a chairperson. Prior to the Board business meeting, Mike Beavers addressed the Board concerning the Ouachita National Forest geocache policy issue, to suggest that a couple of well-mannered, well-spoken members make themselves available as a liaison committee to Senator Pryors office to make appropriate information available. David Spicer and Jim Sick (members of Community Relations Committee) as well as Frank Philpott were suggested as appropriate folks to take care of this. The Committee was approved to take the lead on this issue going forward.
Events Committee Report: The Events Committee met Thursday night, July 3rd in the ArkGeo chat room with all members present. Richard Lee (Idratherbehiking) was elected chairman. Regarding the Lake Catherine event, all comments received by the Events Committee have been positive. The Events Committee would like to thank the Community Relations Committee for their great cooperation in regard to seeking donations for the event. A couple of other members helped with setup and their help was greatly appreciated as well. The Committee has also discussed locations for future ArkGeo annual events.
The Board voted to amend the standing rules to allow donations to member-sponsored CITO events in Arkansas.
A motion was approved to donate merchandise not to exceed $20 to a CITO event hosted by jclaudii on September 20, 2008 in the Ozark National Forest. A motion was approved to authorize the Events Committee to investigate co-hosting this CITO event.
The following revisions to the Bylaws were approved:
1. Article II, Section 2 rewording: "Each applicant for membership shall be required to provide ArkGeo with their name, address, phone, email address, and geocaching alias, as well as other information deemed necessary for contact and identification of a candidate. Any applicant who has provided ArkGeo with the above information, supports the goals of ArkGeo as described in the Mission Statement, is at least 18 years of age, and is a resident of the State of Arkansas or bordering states will be considered a member of ArkGeo. Any member who is in good standing with ArkGeo will be eligible to vote."
2. Article II, Section 2 rewording: "Membership revocation/withdrawal. Membership revocation shall require a majority vote by the Board. In the event of a tie, the Chair of the Board's vote will serve as tiebreaker. Any member may withdraw his/her own membership, without penalty and to be effective immediately, by giving written notification to the Board."
3. Article II, Section 2: Remove "Active Member. Any member who logs in to the ArkGeo website, using their username and password, at least once per year shall be considered an Active member." and remove "Voting Member. Each applicant for Voting membership shall be required to provide ArkGeo with their name, address, phone, email address, and geocaching alias, as well as other information deemed necessary for contact and identification of a candidate. Any Active Member who has provided ArkGeo with the above information, is at least 18 years of age, is a resident of the State of Arkansas or bordering states, and is in good standing with ArkGeo will be eligible to vote."
4. Article II, Section 3: Change "Voting Members" to "ArkGeo Members".
5. Article II, Section 5: Change "All Voting Members shall have one (1) vote per member." to "Except in the case of Board member elections (See Article III, Section 3), all members shall have one (1) vote per member."
6. Article III, Section 3: Change "Voting membership" to "membership" and change "Active members" to "members".
7. Article III, Section 3, "Eligibility" paragraph: Change "Voting member" to "member"
8. Article III, Section 3, "Nominations" paragraph: Change "Active members" to "members" and change "Voting members" to "members"
9. Article III, Section 3, "Election" paragraph: Change "Voting member(s)" to "member(s)"
10. Article IV, Sections 1 & 2: Change "Members will be notified of meetings via e-mail or telephone discussions." to "Members will be notified of meetings via telephone discussions or electronic means."
11. Article VI, Section 1, "Selection of Committees" paragraph: Change "Voting member" to "member"
The following additions to the Standing Rules were approved:
1. In an effort to provide timely communication to the membership, a draft of the Board meeting minutes will be provided to the Board within one week following the date of the meeting. There will be a one-week period in which the Board may make corrections to the draft minutes. At the end of this one-week period, minutes will be approved as they read and will be posted to the web site by the Secretary.
2. The Election Committee will post election results to the web site within one week of the close of the election. These results will include all candidates names (real name and ArkGeo username), the percentage of people who voted for each candidate, and the total number of votes cast.
3. Members may address the Board at regularly scheduled Board meetings. Members must contact the President or Secretary to reserve a place on the agenda at least two weeks prior to the meeting. Member speeches will occur before the business session starts and will be limited to 10 minutes.
Some proposed committee charters will be made available to the Board. After a two-week period of discussion and amending, these charters will be accepted as posted.
Next Board meeting is October 10 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
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why does the denominator factor into sqrt(7 - (2x-4)^2) I don't remember why that is. I know how to complete the square,
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Long Island Fire District Had Barred Firefighters Over 65 from Receiving Service Credits in Retirement Benefits Program, EEOC Charged
NEW YORK – The Eaton's Neck Fire District on Long Island will pay $213,840 to settle a class age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The damages will be made in retroactive payments to a group of 15 firefighters who had been discriminated against based on their age and provide increased monthly pension amounts going forward to several firefighters.
The EEOC's suit had alleged that the Fire District refused to let volunteer firefighters over age 65 accrue credit toward a "length of service award" (LOSAP), the equivalent of a retirement pension, because of their age. As a result, senior firefighters lost pension amounts after they turned 65, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), a federal law that protects workers age 40 and older from age discrimination. The EEOC filed suit, Civ. No. 08-5089, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
Eaton's Neck is located in Western Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.
"This fire department's system in effect penalized older firefighters because of their age, and that was simply illegal," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "We welcome the fire district's decision to settle this case in a way that ensures that these brave firefighters, who do heroic work, do not receive different retirement benefits simply because of their age."
Spencer H. Lewis, Jr., the EEOC's district director in New York, said, "This case should remind all employers that federal law prohibits targeting older workers for discriminatory treatment, including in relation to pensions or retirement benefits."
Peter Farrell, who passed away in September 2008, filed the initial EEOC charge. His widow, Bernadette Farrell, said from her home in Olympia, Wash., "My husband brought this EEOC charge because he felt as though the older firefighters were not being given the compensation they deserved and that they were being overlooked based on their age. He felt justified in bringing his matter forward and he was looking forward to having it settled for the benefit of everyone in a fair manner. We are pleased that Peter's efforts led to this resolution for all of the affected firefighters and their families. I know Peter would have been sincerely pleased with this equitable outcome."
EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Sunu P. Chandy added, "It is honorable when people like Peter Farrell have the courage to pursue their civil rights, both in terms of standing up for their own dignity and furthering the cause of justice on behalf of their colleagues. The EEOC appreciates people like Mr. Farrell who bring these kinds of issues forward to our agency's attention so that the federal government can vigorously pursue these matters in the benefit of the public interest."
The EEOC enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination. Further information about the agency is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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The number of Americans living, particularly retiring, overseas is unknown, but the number of those renouncing their citizenship mainly because of onerous tax-reporting requirements is easier to get a hold of.
Kathleen Peddicord, publisher of a popular journal on overseas living, estimates that some 1.4 million Americans are retiring abroad out of a total of 2.4 million expatriates (excluding government and U.S. military personnel).
And while the number of Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship is small, the trend has been accelerating dramatically.
While we don't yet have final numbers for 2013, as of the third quarter they already exceeded—at 2,369 renunciations—the previous peak year of 2011, when the annual total stood at 1,781, according to attorney Andrew Mitchel, who tracks expatriations.
No less than the IRS' ombudsman, Nina Olson, who recently released her annual report to Congress on the most serious problems faced by U.S. taxpayers, identified the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA as it is known, as needing urgent attention—and openly questioning whether the law's enforcement benefits justify the compliance burdens.
The real-world implications for Americans living, or wanting to live, overseas should not be minimized, says David Henderson, an international tax attorney and CPA with the Chicago law firm of Duggan Bertsch.
"I see more and more stories saying "Hey, you should move to Belize because you can take your Social Security and your dollars will buy more," Henderson told ThinkAdvisor.
"But is this person really going to be able to conduct his financial affairs," he says, adding "are you going to have the level of advisors needed to keep up with due diligence" or risk having to "pay a 27.5% penalty in retirement when you can no longer make up for it?"
That obscure sounding 27.5% figure is probably well known to those Americans renouncing their citizenship. It's after a citizen comes clean and pays his taxes through the government's voluntary disclosure program, and is assessed on the highest account value over an 8-year period.
"So if you have an account that had a high value in 2007 and then the market tanked — that's in essence phantom gains you never realized. That penalty is very high can be very damaging financially," Henderson says.
And it is not uncommon for Americans living abroad to be unaware of the many and increasing disclosure requirements.
"From what I see, the vast majority of people with these undisclosed or unreported account issues are not trying to evade tax or are willfully neglecting their duties to report these accounts."
Not everyone is Ty Warner, the Beanie Baby creator with massive accounts overseas. For the vast majority of clients, that's not the case. They have money overseas form an inheritance, from currently working abroad; they have a past account, moved back to the U.S. and forgot about it" or the like, he said.
So, for ordinary Americans who just want to stretch their dollars and get the benefits of a Caribbean beach, Henderson says they should also be aware of that U.S. law requires a deep relationship with the IRS while living abroad, which can complicate relationships in their new home.
"The biggest issue is conducting financial transactions," says Henderson, who estimates that between 5% and 10% of his firm's clients are Americans living overseas — in virtually every part of the world and for a wide variety of reasons.
Because FATCA imposes onerous reporting requirements on foreign financial institutions — or intergovernmental agreements require another country to impose on those institutions or U.S.-born residents — it has become common for financial institutions to simply shun U.S. citizens.
"I have clients that have had accounts closed," Henderson says. "Sometimes it's as simple and friendly as 'we need to find a new home for your account' all the way to 'your account is being closed and in a very short time you need to find a new place for your money.'"
Not only does that complicate, say, paying a mortgage on a home overseas, but the paperwork requirements far exceed the 10 minutes it may require to open a bank account in the U.S.
Moreover, in some cases Americans returning from some overseas destinations are "questioned a little more intently," Henderson warns.
While the U.S. has been unique in the intensity of its tax-reporting demands, the Duggan Bertsch attorney says the U.S. example is beginning to find imitators.
"Many of these countries are coming up with their own FATCA-type agreements; it's morphing into a global tax net [as other countries] try to catch their own people that may be avoiding their own home country taxes. So it's squeezing the potential for avoidance down, but exponentially increasing disclosure requirements," he says, adding: "The world of tax information sharing is really, really increasing at this point."
Also increasing, for U.S. citizens, are reporting requirements. For example, until recently, U.S. citizens reported foreign investments when making tax elections. Now they must report foreign mutual funds and the like every year, regardless of tax elections.
"The Treasury wants more and more reports because more sunlight means everyone is paying the appropriate level of tax. I have had more and more discussions about expatriation" as a result, Henderson says — as well as actual expatriations.
A Britain-based client, for example, might come to the conclusion that having a British passport is as acceptable as a U.S. passport when it comes to international travel.
Henderson notes a disturbing trend. Whereas the expatriation procedure was once accomplished quickly, "now there is an 8-month wait to see a U.S. consul general."
"It's not so much driven wholly by tax considerations," he says. "But if people have a bona fide connection to another country," the calculation then could be: "All these forms have a cost every year because of the need of specialized counsel and accountants like us. At the end of the day, I'm already living here for X reasons and I'm gonna stay here. So why put up with these burdens?"
Those burdens include the risk that the expat's CPA makes a mistake for which the client is ultimately liable.
Henderson has had clients pay penalties in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, something that can ruin an imagined dream retirement.
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Think the 64-bit Linux .deb package is corrupt:
lzma: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Very good renovation
Thank you for your comments!
@Garpu: I've confirmed that there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the 64-bit Linux packages being served, and there aren't any trends in Linux installation failures.
My recommendation would be to try to install again cleanly, either through a package manager (eg: "sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable"), or directly from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/.
I hope it works for you!
Has anyone else had issues with NTLMv1 authentication and the latest Chrome version? It seems v41 does not authenticate Google's own domains, but does authenticate other domains.
Figured it out. Works fine on my end! (Slackware)
Everything is good, but again YouTube videos in 1080p are a bit laggy for me, and on YouTube the main search gap, when you write some text here, the text strange goes up and it is ugly. That problem is with writing to the upper gap in Chrome, when you are searching web pages, and when it turns blue, it is not symmetrical. But very good update at all. Bye.
And searching is a bit slower and more laggy than before.
We have also an issue with Chrome v41 and NTLM-Authentication against our Squid-Proxyserver. With V40 everything is good, with v41 Chrome can not authenticate himself / the logged on user against the Squid-Proxy via NTLM.
Anybody else with this problem?
garpu - you said you figured it out...do tell.
I'm getting the same error on slackware 14.1 64 stable
Has anyone had an issue with computers on a domain keep asking for the proxy credentials? They all have to be using the proxy. Supposed to be controlled in Explorer.
@Christian Reichenberger
We also had a similar issue this morning. NTLM authentication was not working when accessing HTTPS sites. We are using McAfee Web Gateway. The issue turned out to be with chunked encoding. Once we enabled the browser to negotiate chunked encoding HTTPS sites started working. Hope this helps.
Unfortunately Massdrop.com is still broken, guys! I can't log in. Firefox is fine, as were the other previous Chrome releases besides the last 2 (and this one, obviously).
This is on a freshly formatted PC containing Windows 8.1 x64.
Sorry, my mistake. On YouTube the main search gap, when you write some text here, the text strange goes up and it is ugly. That problem is with writing to the upper gap in Chrome too, when you are searching web pages, and when it turns blue, it is not symmetrical.
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So I was expecting sites with SHA-1 certificates expiring in 2017 or later to start showing the red strike-through https in the address bar, but for some reason I am not seeing this.
Was this change left out or delayed? As far as I can see, the behaviour is the same as in 40.
And now I look silly after all the warnings I have been giving people about this change, lol.
Hello folks,
We are actively looking into the authentication issues: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463937.
Thank you for your patience and failure details.
Please can someone tell me what does "your connection to example.com is encrypted with OBSOLETE CRYPTOGRAPHY mean"?
Is it bad? because it shows up on sites like Paypal when I view the site's information.
Is CVE-2015-0204 fixed in this release? It's not mentioned in the release notes but according to the researchers at https:/www.smacktls.com/ it's fixed in Chrome 41.
Also, are OS X and Android the only platforms where Chrome is affected by CVE-2015-0204?
We have the same problem exactly like Christian Reichenberger.
We have also an issue with Chrome v41 and NTLM-Authentication against our Squid-Proxyserver. With V40 everything is good, with v41 Chrome can not authenticate himself / the logged on user against the Squid-Proxy via NTLM.
The same problem.
Chrome v41, Squid, NTLM
We have also an issue with Chrome v41 and NTLM-Authentication against our Squid-Proxyserver. With V40 everything is good, with v41 Chrome can not authenticate himself / the logged on user against the Squid-Proxy via NTLM.
Hi Misty, for "your connection to example.com is encrypted with OBSOLETE CRYPTOGRAPHY", this means the website you were visiting is using obsolete SSL/TLS. For details see: Deprecation of TLS Features/Algorithms in Chrome
@Saro Jooren
Thank you for your help.
Thanks for all the reports about the authenticating proxy regression in M41.
If you are interested in tracking progress on the bug, you can look at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463937
A question about "affirmatively secure:" how will this actually appear in my browser? I'm currently using Chrome 41 to access one of my SHA-1/2017-expiration sites, and apart from "https:" appearing in gray like a non-HTTPS site, there's no indication that the site is insecure. In other words, how has the behavior changed since Chrome 40? How is/was it supposed to change?
Hi John, for a description and picture of what we thought Chrome 41's "affirmatively insecure" is supposed to look like, see the Chrome 41 section in Gradually sunsetting SHA-1
Could you bring back all the features of Google Hangout without the need for Adobe Flash?
For instance, screen sharing.
Thank You.
I also have the issue with NTLM, SQUID and Chrome v41.
Has anyone tried a fix at all?
The font of Chrome's UI changed to some blurry awful thing. Barely any reports about this, what's going on, why'd it change?
Linux HiDPI still does not exist, it appears that the scaling option was removed from //flags, and now Google Keep doesn't adhere to HiDPI at all. I am not happy with this release!
The Google Keep problem really hurts my eyes
I have Chrome distributed to 3,500 PCs in an enterprise environment with auto update enabled. Since the update from version 40 to 41 we are having problems where Chrome 41 will crash immediately at start up, on both Windows XP and 7. Process monitor does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. There are no Chrome crash logs created. Has anyone else experienced this?
Dito what Erwin Zengerink said. I'm also having problems with Chrome crashing all of the sudden on startup. I have around 650 pc, and I'm starting to get multiple reports of this. We use redirected directories and roaming profiles. If I delete the "Local State" file in the profile directory I can get it to start again, but only once.
When page compression in desktop Chrome?
My problem appears to have been a GPO issue. Resolved with Issue 464616 solution to remove trailing backslash from user profile path.
Ever since this latest Chrome update, I have been having a ton of issues with youtube videos only playing sound and gifs on twitter not loading.
"...The font of Chrome's UI changed to some blurry awful thing. Barely any reports about this, what's going on, why'd it change?..."
I have the same issue on both my home PC and office, running on Windows 7 64bit..
I just cant get when Chrome will finally resolve the aweful font rendering under Windows...
I can't remove profiles on Google chrome. I have my account and my grandpas account and I can't remove either account. Is there (a) any way to fix this or (b) is this a bug in update 41.0.2272.76?
Sometimes NACL stops and i must refesh the page.
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The new update has some issues with font .. the size of the font has become smaller .. specially on Google Spreadsheets, which I use most of the time .. I am not sure why there is a need to finger in things which are working perfectly ..
I have a problem that when going to Facebook the Shockwave Flash plugin crashes and the page becomes unresponsive. I have tried recommended solutions on Google search and nothing is working (only one SW Flash plugin showing). I never had this problem before this latest update. Running Windows 7 Home Edition on a 64 bit machine. Is SW Flash player so built into this update that it does not show up as a plugin?
MASSIVE problems with Chrome 41 on Windows 7 64bit. It is practically unusable, It lags and crashes all the time, takes 3-4 seconds to switch tabs, the transparency doesn't work in the title bar, and YouTube videos play like crap. What is going on google? this thing goes through around 3 stages before it is released, and you never catch any of these problems?
Same problem as Kevin Haldeman and Erwin Zengerink.
We use roaming profiles and redirect google chrome folders with GPO. Everything worked in previous versions. With version 41 Chrome does not start. If I delete the users chrome data catalog in %appdata% it will open once, the folders will be recreated but if the user closes Chrome it will not open the next time again.
Found the solution:
"Our environment was working perfectly until Chrome 41, as users upgraded we found they couldn't open their browser at all. After much troubleshooting we found that it was all down to how we had specified out UserDataDir - we previously had '{$roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\', which worked fine. Note that we set this using Chrome group policy.
As of Chrome 41, the trailing backslash causes the above issue. Removing the backslash fixes the issue."
Visual effects in Windows settings (performance options) changes the blurry smoothing UI font in Chrome. Uncheck the option "Smooth edges of screen fonts" BUT then the fonts in Outlook or other apps are awful, even in web pages... so I hope there will be some other correction for this bug.
I got the font problem too using Windows 7 64-bit. To temporary fix this issue, you can enable "Disable DirectWrite" in "chrome://flags/".
DirectWrite isn't the problem as far as I'm aware.
Something changed in Chrome 41's core that affected text rendering.
Disabling DirectWrite helps a bit, but the font still doesn't look like it used to; it's still off.
I'm just glad I don't use Chrome for anything except video (twitch/youtube 60fps), so I don't really care that much about it to the point where I'd downgrade, otherwise I would go back to v40 as this is unacceptable.
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Thanks to Kevin Haldeman and unknown. I discovered the same behaviour and have now set the UserDataDir back to default. It does raise the question how Google missed this in UAT...
The Chrome UI and webpages no longer respond to mouse events properly (especially mouseovers and dragging) when using Chrome 41 for Linux (Xubuntu 14.10) in VirtualBox for Windows 7. Version 40 worked fine.
A workaround seems to be disabling the mouse integration, but that needs to be done every time I boot up the virtual PC, so it is annoying. No other program seems to be suffering from this issue.
After update to 41 I have all the time error Program stopped working. No way to run the app.
Also sam thing as DAOWAce said:
The font of Chrome's UI changed to some blurry awful thing. Barely any reports about this, what's going on, why'd it change?
Please fix this or tell me how to rollback to 40 version
After updating Chrome to 41.0.2272.89
Click-to-Play under Plug-Ins doesn't work anymore.
To disable the ugly blurry UI font without messing up with the Windows setting (which affects other applications), start chrome with the following cmd line:
Add it in your Chrome shortcut, it should you like:
X:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-directwrite-for-ui
@Antipika - Thanks! That worked for me.
I work for a company making web games. We use easel canvas and now with v41 we get a strange color being rendered over the top of the canvas. Anyone else had similar issues?
We have a JS app, with a lot of canvas, DOM access, etc. The app hasn't been updated for 2 months, but we've been receiving reports of tab crashes on chrome for the last week.
Anyone getting something similar ? We're having troubes figuring out what is crashing chrome.


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File it under "cold case."
Not closed, but certainly cooled off after the Sox pounded 13 hits, including six home runs, in a 10-7 victory over the Dodgers, who statistically have the best pitching staff in baseball.
Josh Fields led the sudden spurt of offense with a single that broke an 0-for-16 slump and two home runs. Alexei Ramirez, Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko and Jayson Nix also joined the fun with homers.
The six homers were the most for the White Sox since June 8, 2004, against the Phillies, also at the Cell.
And to think the Sox came into the game hitting just .217 at home and were playing without two of their big power producers, Carlos Quentin and Jim Thome.
"I know we take it one day at a time, that what happened tonight doesn't mean anything tomorrow," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "But hopefully the enthusiasm will carry over and the bats will [stay] hot. Now that we are seeing the ball carry a little more in the ballpark, hopefully we take advantage of that."
Sox starter Gavin Floyd made it through six innings before his pitch count did him in.
He allowed six hits and three runs, only one of them earned.
In his last seven starts, Floyd's ERA is 1.60, compared to 7.71 after his first eight starts.
Floyd was staked to a 1-0 lead in the first on Ramirez's fourth homer in his last seven games.
The lead vanished in a sloppy three-run second inning that featured a leadoff walk from Floyd, errors by Gordon Beckham, his fourth of the year, and Ramirez and a passed ball by A.J. Pierzynski.
Dye cleaned up that mess in the third inning, socking a long home run with Ramirez on base to tie the game 3-3.
Then Fields gave the Sox the lead for good with a two-run, fourth-inning shot off Dodgers starter Randy Wolf.
Fields, who has lost his third-base job to Beckham, started at first base.
Thursday afternoon he will be back at third with Beckham getting the day off.
"It was a much-needed game," Fields said. "We've struggled offensively at home and to go off like that is good. I hope we didn't use it all today and we saved some."
Konerko and Nix joined in on Fields' day in the fifth inning. Konerko's shot made it 6-3, Nix's three-run blow put an end to Cory Wade's short relief night and Fields greeted James McDonald with his second of the game.
Even Dewayne Wise enlisted, getting the Sox's first pinch hit in 33 at-bats, a single.
Even though Sox reliever Jimmy Gobble gave up a three-run, eighth-inning homer to Matt Kemp -- making it necessary for Bobby Jenks to come on for his 18th save -- the Sox finally went to bed with a good feeling at home.
Offense will do that to you.
"It seems like the team has a little more life, fans get into game," Guillen said. "When you score runs, it seems like everything goes nice and the players feel good about themselves."
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LOS ANGELES — The state medical board has revoked the license of the fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments, according to a decision made public Wednesday.
The Medical Board of California said it was necessary to revoke Dr. Michael Kamrava's license to protect the public. The revocation takes effect July 1.
The Beverly Hills fertility doctor has acknowledged implanting 12 embryos into Suleman, then 33, prior to the pregnancy that produced her octuplets. It was six times the norm for a woman her age.
That was a mistake, according to the board, which rejected an earlier recommendation to give Kamrava five years of probation to dole out the harsher punishment.
"While the evidence did not establish (Kamrava) as a maverick or deviant physician, oblivious to standards of care in IVF practice, it certainly demonstrated that he did not exercise sound judgment in the transfer of twelve embryos to (Suleman)," the board said in its 45-page decision.
Kamrava's lawyer Henry Fenton did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
Since Suleman's octuplets were born in January 2009, the medical community and public have puzzled over how a doctor could have implanted so many embryos into a patient and how the babies were carried to premature birth.
In practice, fertility doctors avoid mega-births, as high number multiple births are sometimes called, because the process can put the mother at risk for serious complications and death. Crowding in a mother's uterus could also result in premature birth, cerebral palsy, developmental delays or other health problems for the babies.
To date, Suleman's octuplets are the world's longest surviving set. When they were born, the unemployed single mother already had six children — also conceived through Kamrava's treatments — and was living with her mother in a small house that would soon be foreclosed on.
In early interviews, Suleman praised Kamrava's care and wrongly claimed that she had only been implanted with six embryos, with two of the embryos splitting to become twins.
With a tearful apology, Kamrava testified at his hearing last year that he implanted Suleman with 12 embryos because she insisted on it and she consented to undergoing fetal reduction if too many of the babies became viable.
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The board responded to that defense, writing, "A fetal reduction procedure has risks, including the loss of all pregnancy, and to assign even a scintilla of responsibility to a patient who becomes pregnant and then elects not to follow through with a procedure that may jeopardize her (and possibly her family's) prized objective is troubling and telling."
In the hearing, Kamrava said before implanting 12 embryos, he "tried all sorts of conservative ways to help this young woman become pregnant and she wanted to have a large family."
"I'm sorry for what happened. When I look back, I wish I had never done it," said Kamrava at the Oct. 21 hearing, wiping at tears. "It's a very risky, unhealthy pregnancy. She's lucky she made it through, both for the babies and her."
Kamrava said that months passed after the treatment, and he never heard from her, despite efforts to contact her. He says he only heard from Suleman again after the babies were born.
The state also found that Kamrava was negligent in the care of two other patients — a major factor in the decision to revoke his license.
"This is not a one-patient case or a two-patient case; it is a three-patient case and the established causes of discipline include repeated negligent acts," the board decision reads.
Kamrava was found to have implanted seven embryos in a 48-year-old patient, resulting in quadruplets. One fetus died before birth.
Kamrava said at his hearing that he recommended four embryos be implanted, but he implanted seven because the patient insisted.
In another case, Kamrava went ahead with in vitro fertilization after tests detected atypical cells, which can indicate the presence of a tumor. The patient was later diagnosed with stage-three cancer and had to have her uterus and ovaries removed before undergoing chemotherapy.
Kamrava said he should have referred her to a gynecological oncologist but simultaneous to her treatment, news broke about Suleman's octuplets and he became too distracted to follow up the patient's care.
In February, a judge recommended the board put Kamrava on five years of probation, but the ultimate licensing decision belonged to the board. Citing negative publicity surrounding Suleman's case, the judge had said it was unlikely Kamrava would make similar mistakes again.
The board "adamantly" disagreed with that assessment, saying the doctor had already used bad press as an excuse for failing to care properly for the fertility patient who should have been referred to a cancer specialist.
"Accordingly, the board is not persuaded that relying on the public or the media to fulfill or supplement the board's public protection role is sound policy," the decision reads.
Medical board spokeswoman Jennifer Simoes said Kamrava could petition for the board to reconsider the revocation, but it's unlikely it would change the outcome since the board chose to make its own call on Kamrava's license rather than accepting a proposed decision.
By law, Kamrava can petition for reinstatement three years
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You may not have heard of them, but our Twitter 100 architects are winning work online, says Christine Murray
The AJ, like most media outlets, was quick to embrace Twitter. It helps us to source news, and to broadcast our online content and building studies. Our Twitter account, @architectsjrnal, now has three times more followers than our print rivals, and twice as many as the RIBA.
The power of Twitter for a magazine is more than just PR; it's a way to extend our reach. When someone in China posted a tweet about Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House catching fire, moments later our news desk confirmed the story and posted an article online. Similarly, a few months back, when a blogger revealed on Twitter that Eduardo Souto de Moura had won the Pritzker Prize, the revelation had the prize's press office scrambling to release a statement when they weren't going to announce the winner for another week.
While AJ subscribers will have noted the 89 covers we printed for our RIBA Awards issue (AJ 16.06.11), more than 400,000 people on Twitter heard about it when it was tweeted by architects, bloggers and magazines such as Creative Review, with 20,000 people having viewed the covers – featuring your built work – on Flickr.
It's also a great way to keep in touch with readers. I've fielded a number of questions through my personal account @tcmurray, from subscription queries to comments on our coverage.
This week, we reveal the results of the AJtCn100, the ranking of the 100 most influential architects and practices on Twitter. We've compiled it with partners at The Construction Network (tCn) and Twitter expert Su Butcher of practice Barefoot & Gilles.
You may be surprised not to recognise any of the names in the top 10 (which Butcher would have topped, had she not been a partner in promoting the ranking). There's nary a starchitect in sight, even though from Adam Architecture to Foster + Partners, there are plenty of high-profile practices tweeting. But the PeerIndex algorithm, which was used to calibrate the list, reveals that on Twitter influence isn't necessarily married to celebrity. These top tweeters may not yet have brand power, but they are building themselves up as architectural experts in a new digital ecosystem.
This influence gives these early-adopters an advantage over their rivals. We were struck by how many tweeters claim to have won work through this free-to-use networking and marketing tool. Most of them have built relationships with other practices, consultants, construction professionals and clients (not to mention the media) through their interactions on Twitter.
Elrond Burrell (@ElrondBurrell) was one of several architects who mentioned hearing about tender opportunities early via Twitter, while Mark Cotton (@the_marchitect) says using Twitter considerably expanded his network beyond local geography. Dave Cornett (@snowarchitects) says he's recently been to see a potential job in Lichfield via a Twitter contact.
Twitter is more than an opportunity to tell people you've just made yourself a cup of tea. It's a digital tool, ideal for small practices looking to market themselves online, build relationships, share ideas, or research clients and competitors. I suggest you join the conversation, or start listening in.
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Congratulations to those top 100 architects. In fact well done to all architects who have a presence on Twitter. I have found it a great medium to engage architects and to build (pun intended) relationships. The level of help and interest to a 'dilemma' or 'scenario' is high and with the wealth of knowldege combined to me re-affirms the 'worth' of an architect that sometimes gets clouded with clients...
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For the love of reading
Since I was a small child, I grew up surrounded by books. My parents inculcated the love of books in me because they both loved to read. My father, a career teacher has always had a personal book library and as a child, I would go there and pick up books I could hardly read, but was happy enough to "read" the pictures in them. He also bought us educational books where we learnt things we were not taught in school.
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Yes that software is on the site as well. It is written in the language called Processing so will run on any platform. It is all in the software bundle you can download.
Mike's page does say that he has software (written for Processing) that feeds the Arduino the Gcode.For other Arduino firmware that reads Gcode take a look at: http://www.reprap.org/wiki/FirmwareFor something comparable to Mike's Processing-based code try: http://replicat.org/
What sort of errors?I have used Inkscape with a Gcode plug in to convert text into Gcode for engraving. However it does produce some gcodes that are not implemented by a lot of rep rap controllers?If you look at the Processing section of my site I have some Gcode generators and viewers for PCB engraving.


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Effect of Property Accounting on Tax Returns
Presented before the National Association of Cost Accountants, St. Louis Chapter — November, 1955
Fixed assets, property, bulk large in the balance sheets of the great majority of industrial companies. In some companies, such as utilities, they often dwarf other asset categories. But solid as they may be physically and as representing financial strength, their real importance
is the contribution they make to production, operations, and profits.
In this light, physical properties represent expenses: expenses of current production and also expenses of future production. Just as the utilization of the physical assets represents a major part of the over-all profit making activity, so the accounting treatment of the cost of the assets, including its attribution to the proper accounting periods, represents a major part of the accounting function of profit determination.
This accounting profit determination on an annual basis is also the same thing which lies at the heart of tax determination. For the most part, taxable income is the same as accounting income, although there are some important differences to be kept in mind. However, more important than the effect of the differences is the tremendous impact that the selection and application of accounting methods in property accounting can have on the tax return.
Before discussing some of the specific tax problems involved in property accounting, let us remember that there are three unfortunate things that can happen to an accounting expenditure before it becomes a tax deduction. One of these pitfalls that our would-be deduction must skirt might be called "deduction lost." The second might be labeled "benefit partially lost." An example of this would be an expense that had to be offset against capital gain instead of ordinary income. The third pitfall might be called "deduction deferred."
We all recognize the disadvantages of losing deductions in full or losing part of the tax benefit. But sometimes we can lose sight of the disadvantage of deferring a deduction. It is true that a deduction


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OKLAHOMA CITY, April 5 (UPI) -- Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant combined for 52 points Thursday in helping Oklahoma City fight off San Antonio 100-88.
The Thunder closed within a half game of the Spurs for the best record in the Western Conference.
Oklahoma City finished the game on a 13-4 run after the Spurs had moved within three points midway through the final quarter.
Westbrook scored 27 points to go with his seven rebounds and seven assists. Durant had nine rebounds along with his 25 points.
The Thunder hit 12-of-24 from 3-point range and held the Spurs to 40 percent shooting.
Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard both had 24 points for San Antonio. Tony Parker, who had missed the Spurs' previous game with a sore ankle, scored just two points in 25 minutes.


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Know the potential health worries that can hinder your sex life and take appropriate action to stop them from doing so.
Not now honey, can we do it tomorrow... I am too tired darling, not today please... Are these phrases haunting your bedroom daily? Some passion-killers can affect your sex life causing your marriage to hit the rocks. Know the potential health worries that can hinder your sex life and take appropriate action to stop them from doing so. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Back pain can greatly rip you off your desire to make love but, there is a solution to it. The trick is to find the most comfortable position for you. You may have to adopt a 'trial and error' method for it. Your partner may be too pleased to help you. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Regular lack of sleep can make you too tired and grouchy to even think about sex. The solution is to make sure that your bed is only ever used for sleep or sex. Leave all other disturbing elements outside- be it phone, TV, or laptop. So if you're lying awake fretting, you've got two choices: make love or get up and leave the room. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Menopause is again a very serious sex-drive killer. Lower oestrogen levels can lead to vaginal dryness, so use plenty of lubricants. Try pelvic floor exercises, too: contract the muscles as if trying to stop yourself peeing, hold for a count of 10, then relax. Repeat 10 times. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Yes, the one stop cause of all other problems in life- stress lowers your testosterone levels, quashing your libido in turn. A healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise will help lift your mood – and you could try a relaxation technique such as meditation or yoga. Or try having sex in the morning when you're less consumed with the day's worries. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
If arthritis affects your hips or back particularly, sex can prove to be a real challenge. There are also plenty of ways to lessen any discomfort and feel more relaxed- like sensual massages that can be incorporated in your foreplay. A massage or a hot shower with your partner will help relax joints and muscles. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Asthma causes breathing difficulties, coughing, and wheezing which can adversely affect your sex life. Talk to your doctor about taking a couple of your prescribed preventative medicine around 15 minutes before sex. Changing position may also be a good idea: the missionary can exert too much pressure on the chest, for example. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
You shouldn't allow headache to ruin your sex life really. Change your attitude! In fact, sex can actually treat a headache. According to a recent US study, around 61% of women experience some kind of relief from headache after sex. It is because sex releases the feel-good hormone oxytocin which helps you relax. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
The skin condition can make you uncomfortable and self-conscious about your body during sex. See your doctor and get the condition under control. Also, stop sulking by yourself, talk to your partner about how you feel. The chances are he doesn't mind your condition; he may not even have noticed how your eczema looks. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
This is another condition that requires an attitude-change. Of course, it better not to be overweight for your all-round health but, if you are embarrassed about taking your clothes off because you don't want your partner to see your lumps, think again! Numerous surveys have shown that men actually prefer curvy women. Learn to embrace your curves- they are sexy! Image Courtesy- Getty Images
The hormone surge during pregnancy and your changing body causes your sex drive to go yo-yo. That's normal. But if you're experiencing a 'normal' pregnancy without any complications, it's totally safe to continue having sex. You may want to experiment with positions as the baby bump grows. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
Whoa! Depression is the ultimate damager of – well, everything. Depression can affect your sleep, spontaneous activities, including sex. Scientists don't know enough about chemical changes that occur in brain during depression. Admittedly, in some cases, some depressed people manage to maintain normal sex lives. You can try to be one of them. Make a little more effort. Image Courtesy- Getty Images
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As farewell parties go, this one ended in happy tears for the departing, though not without some gatecrashers threatening to ruin proceedings. David Beckham ended the playing part of his American adventure with a second consecutive MLS Cup, as LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo stuck to the Hollywood script with a Galaxy win.
Galaxy won decisively in the end, largely thanks to two goals in five frantic minutes changing the game just after the hour mark. They fell behind just before half-time to a spirited Houston side, who were heatedly contesting the midfield battles and threatening to frustrate the supply lines to the dangerous Galaxy attacking tandem of Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane.
Houston had shown up with all the tools to spoil the Beckham (and possibly Donovan) farewell. After last year's toothless performance at the same stage and stadium, they had a much revived midfield capable of supplying their frontline. And they drew first blood – the Scotsman Adam Moffat lofting a ball over the top for forward Calen Carr to race through and slam the ball past Galaxy keeper Josh Saunders, who had looked shaky in his decision-making early on but could do little about the goal.
With space at a premium and the game played at a high tempo, Beckham was limited in his contributions early on, and Galaxy depended more on their hard-tackling central midfielder Juninho than the English No23. In footballing, rather than romantic narrative terms, the game went much as expected for Beckham, with the younger players around him defining much of the shape of the match.
One of those players changed the game for the Galaxy. Omar Gonzalez, the young defender whose absence had threatened to derail their season earlier in the year, and who had put in a typically solid performance here, got up to head a ball back across Houston keeper Tally Hall from the corner of the six-yard box and send a roar of relief around the stadium.
Sensing blood, Galaxy surged forward. A couple of minutes later, Keane had the ball in the net on a knockdown from a Beckham free-kick, but there was an infringement and Houston breathed again.
Not for long though, as a couple of minutes later Galaxy were in front. Ricardo Clark, playing in his first MLS Cup final after being injured for his last two chances, found himself penalised for a handball, and Donovan, stroked the resulting penalty low to the keeper's left, to cap what may be his last appearance in a Galaxy shirt. Houston rallied and threw on the veteran Brian Ching to try to force a goal but despite a couple of half chances, they were not truly troubling the LA side.
Finally as the game drifted into injury time, a ball over the top was chased down by Keane, who wriggled past Hall, and was clipped as he rounded the keeper. The Irishman stepped up and killed the game.
With the Cup secured, the Galaxy coach, Bruce Arena, took off Beckham, who seemed to hug every team-mate as he edged his way reluctantly from the field.
Before to the game, the LA Riot Squad supporters, at one time Beckham's nemesis, held up a banner aimed at their Houston counterparts in the opposite corner: "This is Los Angeles. We win trophies. Get used to it."
If they are to maintain something like a dynasty – a task Arena believes to be impossible within the forced parity of the MLS system – they will have to do so with a new lineup of leading lights, with Donovan perhaps feeling that this win makes for a natural break in his career, if not retirement, and Beckham leaving.
The tractor beam of media attention had been drawn relentlessly to Beckham all week, following the announcement of his departure.
He is not the key player on this Galaxy team – Keane, with six goals in these play-offs, or Donovan, the best American player of his generation, can make more legitimate claims. But for better or worse, he has been the face of this team since 2007, and leaves with a second successive championship.
After last year's final, which Galaxy also won, Beckham elected not to take up an offer from Carlos Ancelotti's newly minted Paris St-Germain and to play another year in LA.
It is a decision that bought him a definitive sporting encore to depart on. As for what is next, Beckham mentioned Ancelotti again this week, as a coach who has spoken highly of him, along with Harry Redknapp and Sam Allardyce.
Other rumours say Australia, or China. Wherever he goes next, this particular exit may not be final – Beckham has been strongly linked with exercising his contractual right to buy a low-priced MLS franchise, by buying into the Galaxy themselves.
That is for a future act in the movie however. This one ended in a trophy being kissed.
LA Galaxy: (4-4-2) Saunders; Dunivant, Gonzalez, Meyer, Franklin, Magee, Juninho (Stephens), Beckham (Sarvas), Wilhelmsson (Buddle), Keane, Donovan
Subs not used: DeLagarza, Gaul, Noonan, Perk
Houston Dynamo: (4-4-2) Hall; Ashe, Taylor, Boswell, Sarkodie (Ching), Moffat (Barnes), Clark, Davis, Garcia, Bruin, Carr (Kandji)
Subs not used: Weaver, Hainault, Camargo, Deric
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QB Melvin Burston, Fr., Maryville (Tenn.)
Burston completed 26 of 36 passes for 302 yards and three touchdowns while also rushing 18 times for 134 yards and another score in a 42-20 win against Greensboro.
OL Bryan Elliott, Jack Ruddy, Weston Kitley, Quintin Burkett, Jake Shaffer, Wabash
The starting five, along with Mark Riffle and Chris Daniel, helped Wabash rush for 238 yards (despite minus-37 yards on three kneeldowns and a bad punt snap) against Wittenberg in its conference-title clinching game Saturday. The Tigers came into the game holding opposing teams to 134 rushing yards per game.
RB Kyle Kovach, Jr., Rose-Hulman
Established school records with 246 yards rushing on 40 carries and 419 all-purpose yards to lead Rose-Hulman to a 53-50 victory over Anderson. Kovach scored on touchdown runs of 2 and 6 yards and hauled in touchdown catches of 80 and 6 yards in the victory to finish with six catches for 119 yards.
RB Matthew Biggers, So., La Verne
Biggers ran for a career-high 235 yards on 24 carries (9.8 yards per rush) and a pair of touchdowns in the Leopards' 52-7 conference win over Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday to notch his first-ever 200-yard rushing game.
WR Cody Pearcy, Sr., Huntingdon
Had TD receptions of 69, 65 and 39 yards to finish with six catches for 233 yards in a 45-10 win against LaGrange. It broke his own school record for receiving yards in a game.
WR Darnell Williams, Sr., Louisiana College
Williams set school single-game receiving yards record with nine catches for 244 yards in a loss to McMurry, to go along with a touchdown. His longest reception was for 49 yards as he averaged 27 yards per catch.
TE Austin Goetsch, Jr., UW-Eau Claire
Goetsch had a career day against UW-Whitewater as he caught 11 passes for 177 yards. He played a crucial role in setting up the Blugolds' final score of the day as he had back-to-back long receptions (one of 43 yards and another of 35 yards) to get the Blugolds down the field quickly.
DE Corey Scruggs, Sr., Averett
Scruggs recorded his fourth multi-sack game of the year, with two sacks and three tackles for loss.
DT Peter Bulandr, Sr., North Central (Ill.)
Bulandr contributed two of North Central's four sacks in the Cardinals' 33-7 win over then-No. 13 Wheaton. He was credited with eight QB hurries as the Cardinals held Wheaton's high-powered offense without a passing touchdown.
DE Ray St. Laurent, Sr., Worcester State
St. Laurent registered a game-best 10 tackles, eight solo, with two sacks and a pass breakup in a 27-13 triumph over NEFC Bogan Division champion Framingham State to help head coach Brien Cullen earn his 150th career win.
LB Ben Robinson, Sr., Trinity (Texas)
Robinson led the defense in tackles on Saturday, as the Tigers clinched a spot in the playoffs by defeating Centre. Robinson posted a team-best 11 tackles, recording seven solo stops, and three tackles for loss of 6 yards. He also had a sack.
LB Kyle McGivney, Sr., Luther
Kyle set the Division III record for career tackles with 535. He finished with nine tackles, eight solo, and was also credited with one sack, one interception, one pass breakup and one blocked kick.
LB Dustin Massey, Sr., Birmingham-Southern
Massey had six tackles, three solo, as well as an interception in the Panthers' 54-0 win against Rhodes.
LB Jaden Rosselli, So., Willamette
Roselli led all players with 13 tackles, five solo, in Willamette's 57-28 win over previously undefeated Lewis and Clark. He intercepted a pass and had a tackle for a 5-yard loss. He returned the interception 34 yards to the L&C 31-yard line in the third quarter to set up a touchdown two plays later.
CB Noah Timm, Jr., UW-Whitewater
Timm had two interceptions for 16 yards and blocked a field goal in a 37-22 Warhawk victory against UW-Eau Claire. He also was credited for three solo tackles and helped hold the Blugolds' offense to 69 rushing yards on 30 attempts.
S Bryan Cary, Jr., Waynesburg
Gary clinched the biggest victory in recent team history for the Yellow Jackets when he sacked Thomas More quarterback Robert Kues, forced the ball loose and fell on it for a fumble recovery with five seconds to go in the game. Gary recorded nine tackles on the day, including six solo stops and two tackles for loss, one of which was the game-clinching sack.
S Demetreus Johnson, Jr., Coe
Johnson intercepted two passes Saturday for his third multi-interception game of the season. Dubuque quarterback Wyatt Hanus had only been picked off five times entering the game.
CB Zack Wethersby, Sr., Texas Lutheran
Weathersby had four tackles -- one for a loss -- two interceptions, a fumble recovery and three pass breakups in a 36-16 win at Mississippi College. Weathersby and company shut out the Choctaws in the first half and forced seven turnovers, four of which led to scores.
Special teams
K Long Ding, Sr., Norwich
Ding hit a school record 51-yard field goal as part of a 3-for-3 day in field goal attempts and extending his consecutive made extra point attempts streak to 13 straight, scoring 10 points in Norwich's ECFC clinching 16-9 win against SUNY-Maritime. His other kicks were from 36 and 38 yards.
P Alex Blakeslee, So., Worcester State
Blakeslee averaged 49.5 yards on six punts with two that landed inside the 20 as he helped propel Worcester State's defensive effort in a 27-13 upset over NEFC Bogan Division champion Framingham State. He broke the single-game mark for punting average and his 80-yard blast in the second quarter eclipsed the previous school record.
ST Logan McAnany, So., Waynesburg
McAnany blocked a Thomas More punt, which was recovered by teammate Pat Depizzo and returned 40 yards for a touchdown in Waynesburg's 26-23 win against the Saints.
RET Justin Haulcy-Bateman, Sr., Cal Lutheran
Haulcy-Bateman took Cal Lutheran's opening kickoff return 95 yards for a touchdown during a 61-31 road win over Chapman.


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Waterbrook, May 2004, 13.99 ISBN: 1578567769 In Virginia Beach, Thomas and Theresa Hammond place their faith in prayer as they are deeply religious adhering to a strict fundamental interpretation of the Lord's word. When their youngest child two years old Joshua becomes gravelly ill and with the Hammonds having no money, they pray to the Lord to heal their son. Three days later the child is rushed to the hospital, but it is too late and he dies....