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FORT HOOD, Texas — Military prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
After calling nearly 90 witnesses in 11 days, prosecutors said they had completed their case during the trial of Maj. Nadal Hasan. The soldier, who also is accused of wounding more than 30 people during the attack on the Texas military base, is acting as his own defense attorney but questioned only three of those witnesses and raised few objections.
Witnesses, including several soldiers who were shot during the rampage, described how a lone gunman wearing Army fatigues shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" — before drawing a laser-sighted pistol and opening fire inside a medical building on the sprawling Army post. The building was crowded with unarmed soldiers, many preparing for deployments, getting vaccines and tests.
When asked to identify the gunman, witnesses pointed at Hasan, who was left paralyzed and wheelchair-bound after being shot by officers responding to the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting.
Testimony from medical examiners revealed that at leave five of the people killed had been shot while lying down. An FBI agent testified that Hasan's apartment was nearly barren when searched the night of the shootings, with little more than a folding table and prayer mat.
Hasan questioned only three prosecution witnesses. He mumbled through a series of rambling questions of his former supervisor, retired Lt. Col. Ben Phillips, talking about "medical personnel initiating mercy killings" and a water supply in Iraq being contaminated with gas. But he was cut off by prosecutors' objection, which was upheld by the judge.
But the judge handed prosecutors a setback on Monday when she blocked much of the evidence that they said would explain Hansan's motive, including references to Hasan Akbar, a Muslim soldier sentenced to death for attacking fellow soldiers in Kuwait during the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Prosecutors wanted to prove Hasan's attack was a "copycat," but the judge said such material would "only open the door to a mini-trial" of Akbar and result in a "confusion of issues, unfair prejudice, waste of time and undo delay."
Hasan is facing numerous counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
However, Hasan has done little to defend himself so far. He even acknowledged, during his brief opening statement at the beginning of the trial, that the evidence would show he was the shooter. Before his trial began, Hasan indicated that he would call just two witnesses, and it wasn't clear whether he planned to testify in his own defense.
Hasan has hinted at his defense in the form of media leaks, including authorizing the release of a report from mental health experts who determined he was fit to stand trial. The report includes a statement from Hasan in which he speculates he could still be considered a martyr if convicted and executed by lethal injection.
The military defense attorneys ordered to help Hasan during the trial have accused him of trying to secure himself a death sentence. They have asked that their responsibilities be cut back, but the judge overseeing the trial, Col. Tara Osborn, has denied their requests.
The specter of an almost-certain appeal has hung over the long-delayed case. If Hasan gets a death sentence, the case will automatically go to the military appeals courts, which have overturned most of the death sentences they have reviewed.
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Goals: 6 at Connecticut College (10/5/13)
Assists: 2 vs. John Hopkins (9/15/13)
Steals: 2 (3x) vs. MIT (11/9/13)
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Finished his first year with 34 goals, 11 helpers and 19 steals ... Contributed a steal in his first collegiate game against St. Francis at the Bruno Fall Classic Sept. 7 … Tallied his first hat trick of the season and added a steal as Harvard claimed its first win of the season against Washington and Jefferson Sept. 8 … Registered a goal and an assist against Navy at the Princeton Invite Sept. 14 … Buried three goals and had two assists versus John Hopkins Sept. 15 … Netted two goals and had a steal at then No. 14 St. Francis to snap an 11-year win streak at home for the Terrier's Sept. 22 … Recorded three goals versus Connecticut College Sept. 28 … Scored a season-high five goals against MIT Sept. 29 … Named CWPA Rookie of the Week for the week of Sept. 30 … Buried a career-high six goals at Connecticut College Oct. 5 … Added a goal and a theft in the win over Brown in Providence, R.I., Oct. 11 … Registered a goal in a loss to Brown Oct. 20 … Netted 2 goals and added an assist and a steal against Santa Clara Oct. 26 … Contributed an assist in the win over Cal Baptist at the Bronco Invitational Oct. 26 … Had an assist and a steal against Fresno Pacific Oct. 27 … Tallied an assist and a steal versus Fordham Nov. 2 … Added two steals against MIT and a goal and a steal against St. Francis at the CWPA Northern Division Championships Nov. 9-10 ... Recorded a steal against Princeton Nov. 22 ... Named Player of the Game after registering his sixth hat trick of the season against MIT Nov. 23 ... Had two goals and an assist in the fifth place game against Brown at the CWPA Championships.
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No Maintenance Costs or Repair Bills
A definite advantage that renters have is that they have no maintenance costs or repair bills to pay off. When you rent a property, your landlord is responsible for all maintenance and repair costs. Homeowners, on the other hand, are responsible for all of their own repair, maintenance and renovation costs.
Access to Amenities
Another financial benefit to renting is having access to apartment amenities that would otherwise be a huge expense. Luxuries such as a pool or a fitness center come standard at many apartment communities with no additional charge to residents.
No Real Estate Taxes
An obvious benefit that renters is that they do not have to pay real estate taxes. Real estate taxes can be a hefty burden for homeowners and vary by county. Property tax generally determined based on the estimated property value of your house.
No Big Down Payment
Renters have the better financial deal upon signing. There is no huge down payment to move into a rental property.
Shaky Market Creating More Renters
While many experts claim the housing market is making a full recovery, others aren't so sure. An article written by International Business Times claims that as of yet the word 'recovery' is unwarranted. As foreclosures continue, many are scared off of buying. By renting, you are avoiding potentially owing a mortgage that is more than the house's worth.
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Property values go up and down, and while this may affect homeowners in a big way, it does not affect renters. In a rocky housing market, renters are not as adversely affected.
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Today many people struggle to make ends meet. By renting, you have the option to downgrade into a more affordable living space at the end of their lease. When you are a homeowner, it is much more difficult to break free of an expensive house.
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Rent amounts are fixed for the span of the lease agreement. While landlords can raise the rent with notice, you are able to budget more efficiently since you know the amount of rent you are required to pay. Meanwhile, mortgages and the amount of the property tax can fluctuate.
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Scattered showers are helping some farmers in the Texas Southern and High Plains, but large areas of drought still exist and water resources are being stressed to meet weekly crop needs. Recent rainfall in some South Texas areas has broken a drought cycle but could set up some pre-harvest problems for cotton and grain farmers.
Monti Vandiver Texas AgriLife Extension Integrated Pest Management agent serving Bailey and Parmer Counties, says recent crop progress has been good.
"Based on area average long term weather data from 1981-2010, crops have progressed very well over the last 10 days or so," Vandiver says. "Slightly lower temperatures have helped moderate moisture demands a bit. A few scattered and very isolated rains certainly helped those fortunate enough to be in their paths. We are still in need of a good area wide rain as crops are demanding more moisture than most irrigation systems can supply."
He says area weather stations have recorded 4.19, 5.46, 4.29 and 7.3 inches of rainfall year-to- date versus the 30-year area average of 10.10 inches. "This shortfall continues to tax irrigation systems at an elevated rate," he says. "Some crops will stress more than others without timely rainfall soon."
Potential weekly water use—crop Inches per week—show that corn needs 1.98 inches; cotton 1.95 inches; and sorghum 1.5 inches per week.
Haves and have nots
Kerry Siders, IPM Hockley and Cochran Counties, says the area has been "in pretty good shape up to this point. However, I am concerned that we are again seeing, as last year, 'the haves and the have nots' of irrigation water.
"Decisions about prioritizing fields that share water, or portions of fields with limited irrigation capacity and lack of rainfall must be made now to limit crop/yield losses. When I compare our cotton crop to the same time the last couple of years, we still are in a good situation if the weather would just cooperate. So I do hold out some optimism about our yield potential."
He says cotton conditions for the average field in Hockley and Cochran Counties would be:
- Average number of total nodes is 16 (range 10 to 18);
- Fruiting branch at node 7.3 (range 5 to 9;)
- Square retention of first positions is 88 percent (range 72 to 99 percent);
- Node length is 1.1 inch (range of 0.6 inch to 2.6 inch);
- Plant populations average 39,780 per acre (range 23,500 to 59,500;
- Average blooming plant has 8.7 nodes above white flower (NAWF).
"I am seeing a few more blooms and small bolls daily. The milder weather over the past couple of weeks has allowed the plant to make very good progress in terms of both vegetative and reproductive growth. We are going into bloom with close to 9 nodes above white bloom. This places first bloom (50 percent of all plants in field with bloom) on most early fields at July 14, with most fields hitting first bloom at around July 23. This is a full week earlier than last year."
Siders says local grain sorghumfields should be monitored for aphids, mites, head worms and midge. "No major problems have been detected or reported. Stay on top of weeds."
He says peanut farmers should monitor fields closely for foliar diseases and pod rots. "Wrap up any fertilizing and stay on top of weeds. No major issues were reported or found this last week."
Upper Coast
Clyde Crumley, IPM agent for the Upper Gulf Coast, says the dry weather pattern that has persisted for several weeks has been "broken up by a series of gulf disturbances, with rainfall this past week varying from 2 inches to more than 4 inches.
"Grain sorghum and corn harvest should be occurring now, so some rain would not have hurt us too much. Unfortunately that is not always the case and we are seeing seed sprouting in the sorghum heads and some minor lodging in corn."
Crumley says most of the area's cotton is at physiological cutout. "The next hurdle for cotton will be protecting the bolls from insect damage. Research has shown that small bollworms will not feed on bolls that are more than 350 heat units past bloom; stink bugs will not feed on bolls past 450 heat units; lygus 350 heat units. For verde plant bugs, we are not 100 percent sure, but our best guess would be it is similar to lygus."
Crumley sees a distinct possibility that some fields will experience re-growth. "With this restarting of the crop all of the issues that go with that are possible. In the case of cotton—where a lesser amount of rain was received and fields are well drained, where multiple treatments were applied for various insects and where a plant growth regulator was used at sufficient rates—the crop still looks good. With continued rain, boll rot is not only a concern but a real possibility."
He says most of the crop has been made and bolls are present to the upper tier of the plant. "With all that said, we are continuing to monitor for bollworms, fall armyworms, stink bugs, spider mites, aphids, Lygus and verde plant bugs. Beneficial insect numbers in cotton are moderate to high, with lady beetle adults, larvae, big eyed bugs, and tremendous numbers of minute pirate bugs observed."
The Valley
John Norman, editor of Pest Cast Newsletter and retired Texas Extension entomologist saysmost of the week in the Lower Rio Grande Valley "was hot and dry with occasional sea-breeze-driven scattered showers thrown in for good measure. Most fields around the Valley received little or no rain, but a few isolated fields, particularly in southeastern Cameron County, received in excess of 4.5 inches."
Norman says other spots in western Willacy County received more than 1.5 inches.
"Grain sorghum and corn harvests were continuing with most of the grain harvest finished," he said. "Corn still has a little ways to go and cotton harvest will probably go to near the end of August.
He says many cotton fields were scheduled for defoliation this week and even more will be next week. "Harvest was increasing, but most of the area fields will not be harvested for at least another two weeks. A few fields were being irrigated for the final time this week.
He says Whiteflieswere about the only pest of concern in less-than-mature cotton.


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Orlando Bloom: Shirtless With Flynn in New Zealand!
A shirtless Orlando Bloom carries his adorable son, Flynn, after taking a morning dip on Saturday (December 10) in Mapua, New Zealand.
The 34-year-old actor is in town to continue working on The Hobbit, where the cast is expected to return to Canaan Downs for some more scenes.
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Last month, Orlando's wife, Miranda Kerr, appeared on Chelsea Lately, where she discussed his silk boxer shorts.
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NEW YORK — John Fogerty says he's annoyed that Taraji P. Henson's new film, "Proud Mary," borrows from his popular song's name without his involvement.
Fogerty does not own the rights to his classic song. In a statement released Thursday, he says "it irks me when people seek to capitalize on the popularity of my music" for their own financial gain.
Henson plays a hit woman in "Proud Mary," to be released on Friday. Its trailer uses Tina Turner's version of Fogerty's 1969 song.
Fogerty says the movie "has nothing to do with me, or my song." The 72-year-old adds that no one ever asked him about using his song that way.
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RUTLAND — Saturday's conditions at Rutland High School seemed perfect for the balanced offense of the No. 1 Otter Valley Union High School football team to win the Division III title — no wind to slow the potent OV passing that complements the team's bruising ground game led by running back Carson Leary.
VERGENNES — The Middlebury Union High School girls' hockey team claimed the program's first state championship on Wednesday at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse.
But it wasn't easy. The 19-3-1, top-seeded Tigers weathered a third-period storm in which they were outshot by 13-1 and played shorthanded for seven minutes to edge No. 2 Burr & Burton, 2-1, for the Division II crown.
BARRE — One of the many fans of the Vergennes Union High School boys' basketball team at the Barre Auditorium on Saturday held up a "Vermont Strong" sign before the Commodores' Division II title game vs. Mount St. Joseph.
The Commodores were Vermont Strong this winter, defeating every D-II team they played except MSJ, which earned the D-II title by besting VUHS, 56-48.
GRAFTON — The Middlebury Union High School girls' Nordic ski team dominated the Division II field in both Friday's freestyle competitions in Jericho and Tuesday's classic races in Grafton and won the school's first state championship in the sport since 1989.
In the midst of news surrounding Town Meeting, the presidential primaries, the Dow cruising over 13,000, North Korea agreeing to cut back on its testing of nuclear weapons, and the continuing threat of war with Iran by the same neoconservatives that pushed us unnecessarily into a war with Iraq, let's pause for a moment to applaud a local milestone: the MUHS Nordic girls' ski team won the D-II state championship this week.
It was the first state championship of any MUHS Nordic ski team since 1989.
It's a special achievement for several reasons:
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Happy Friday everyone! Sorry to be MIA - things have been crazy! My son is winding up the school year, the gardens are growing and growing and growing and my Etsy shop is very busy! Enjoy todays selections!
1.) Lake Erie 7, Moonrise
2.) Pelican Surf
3.) Open Waters 8 x 10
4.) Photograph of Empty Little Boat on Philippine waters
5.) Pacific Northwest Blue Water Landscape
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This is gorgeous! I LOVE it!
- Fri Jun 17, 02:37:00 PM EDT
- Mattos said...
beautiful and tranquil
I need a piece of that, as I know you do.
I have been to lake erie, we used to visit hubby's family there, nice memories.
- Fri Jun 17, 02:54:00 PM EDT
- Jan said...
Wow thanks for posting my photograph (the one with the boat). It was a very beautiful day. Hot too.
- Fri Jun 17, 02:57:00 PM EDT
- PoetessWug said...
Beautiful images! My favorite is the Open Waters.
- Fri Jun 17, 03:49:00 PM EDT
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So beautiful and relaxing.
- Fri Jun 17, 07:12:00 PM EDT
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Thank you for including my photograph on your blog! Nothing like a beautiful beach :)
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- Alicia said...
Such a wonderful collection. Thank you so much for including my photograph!
- Sat Jun 18, 11:14:00 AM EDT
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Lovely composition! Thanks for featuring my Pacific Northwest photo of Mount Rainier.
Julie Magers Soulen Photography
- Sat Jun 18, 05:39:00 PM EDT
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So refreshing! I can smell the beach air. Thank you for including me!
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Back in 2010, AT&T led the way toward the elimination of unlimited data plans and now the carrier is at it again. On Jan. 22, the wireless carrier will raise the minimum cost of a usable smartphone data plan from $25 to $30 per month. This comes as the carrier begins widespread deployment of its 4G LTE network across the country.
Here are the new data plans:
- $20 per month for 300MB
- $30 per month for 3GB
- $50 per month for 5GB
- $15 per month for 200MB
- $25 per month for 2GB
- $45 for 4GB (with tethering access)
Much like how AT&T doubled the minimum cost of a texting plan to $20 earlier this year, the company is spinning these price increases as better "value" for customers. Unfortunately, the reality is that subscribers now have to pay $30 instead of $25 for a smartphone plan with enough data to actually use your smartphone and those poor unfortunate souls who opt for the cheapest plan available will now have to pay $20 for 300MB instead of $15 for 200MB, meaning they are being ripped off even more than they were before.
Overages for users on the cheap plan have gotten worse as well. Those who try to save some money by opting for the least expensive option get dinged with overages that are more than six times higher ($20 for another 300MB) than the $10 for an extra 1GB that those with the 3GB plan get.
Here is the new base price of an individual AT&T smartphone plan (with texting and a usable data plan more than 1GB):
- $40 per month for 450 minutes of talk
- $20 per month for unlimited texting
- $30 for 3GB of data
- Total: $90 before fees and taxes
Sadly, Verizon's prices are almost just as bad, except that it still offers a $10 per month texting plan (1000 texts) and does not have a somewhat malicious 200-300MB plan. If AT&T truly wanted to offer a $20 plan, then it should offer 2GB for $20 and 1GB for $10. Its prices are higher because it wishes to create a plan that is almost unusable to force overages or its users to bump up to a more expensive plan.
We suppose this is one way for AT&T to pay off the $4 billion in damages it now owes T-Mobile since the merger fell through.
AT&T's last big rate change was slowly followed by Verizon. Will other carriers raise rates now as well?
Update: Small correction in T-Mobile payout amount.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - endopod design, crit? Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "endopod design, crit?" endopodjunior memberMember #Joined: 10 Jan 2001Posts: 2Location: Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 9:13 pm New design, took out a lot of old lame content, better layout. What do you think? http://endopod.com/ ------------------ __ pod endopod.com firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top Matt EldermemberMember #Joined: 15 Jan 2000Posts: 641Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 3:55 am Wow you've got some really cool stuff. I really dig the 'pod' animation bit. If you can, I'd suggest a different one for each page. Some of the images in your gallery were quite interesting as well. What r they done in 3D Studio or similar? How about a guest book, I know there was the email but I think a guest book would be kewl! ------------------ See ya on da flip side Matt http://www.mattelder.com Back to top KomemberMember #Joined: 17 Feb 2000Posts: 457Location: Aarhus, Denmark Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 4:36 am Hi there I like the "Faucet of Youth" piece.... Twisted in a cool kind of way! Great design! Ko Back to top Clockwork BaconmemberMember #Joined: 12 May 2000Posts: 69Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 6:03 am Awesome homepage. I love the viney fishbowl thing, heh. That's really cool. I would nudge it up closer to the top of the screen though, there's alot of wasted space at the top...unless you plan on having banner ads. I'd also put the text buttons around the sphere. I messed with a screenshot in Photoshop to show what I mean... That's my crit. Hope it was helpful. BTW, I like some of your other pod designs in your gallery too. ------------------ firstname.lastname@example.com Digisaur's Lair Back to top endopodjunior memberMember #Joined: 10 Jan 2001Posts: 2Location: Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 10:17 am Thanks for the comments! I took some space off the top of it, and it does look beter. I'll have a forum up there soon so that takes care of the guestbook Matt That's a good idea Clockwork, with the menu to the side like that, but I think I'll keep it on the bottom, I like how it aligns with the content under it. Ya I use max 3 and photoshop 5. ------------------ __ pod endopod.com firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top jcterminalmemberMember #Joined: 13 Nov 2000Posts: 316Location: Vault 13 Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 10:46 am damn pod, that's a damn good looking site now. the only thing i recommend is balancing it somehow by placing a smaller pod with a little bit of tendril-ness on the bottom right of the page. visually, it looks a little top heavy. but outside of that, you've got a great eye for design, and those wallpapers are great. i'd turn one into my desktop, but i've got cem gul on right now. :D ------------------ j.c.terminal mind body soul Back to top edible snowmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 998 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2001 6:57 pm wow, i would try to give you some advice if i had any idea how to do that. Back to top Ben BarkermemberMember #Joined: 15 Sep 2000Posts: 568Location: Cincinnati, Ohier Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 3:35 pm Now this is a good use of Flash. It adds to the page, and there is no stupid, irrelevant intro. Back to top HightopmemberMember #Joined: 20 Sep 2000Posts: 205Location: Mölndal, Sweden Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 12:20 am It looks rally great.... Think i have visit you're site befor, but that must have been a long time ago, cause i can't remember any of the work... But i do remember you're name "pod" and you're style..... god... i really must continue mpre with the webdesign part of my life.... I throwed it away when i got my wacom graphire tablet..... WHY DID I DO THAT.... "snyft".... The only design i have done is the ugly one i have now, and 3 others.... And i really must get max soon.... well.... that's all from me... ------------------ Hightop As i turn and look into the sun the rays burn my eyes happy happy happy everybodys happy now like a turtle the sun looks ------------------------- dbl design Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Digital Art Discussion All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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TORONTO — Small businesses are less satisfied with Canada's five largest banks than retail customers, says a J.D. Power and Associated study that ranked Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) in top spot in terms of satisfaction among this key banking customer.
The inaugural Canadian small business banking satisfaction study found that overall satisfaction averaged 728 on a 1,000-point scale, 25 points below satisfaction among retail customers.
Respondents who ranked their bank poorly were more than three times more likely to switch banks. That's a potentially costly decision for financial institutions since small business customers have almost double the deposits of the average retail customer and four times higher loans.
"The in-person experience is extremely important to small businesses and banks need to get it right to maintain and grow these relationships," said Jim Miller, senior director of banking at J.D. Power.
Scotiabank led the survey with a ranking of 733 points on the scale.
It was followed by Royal Bank of Canada (725), TD Canada Trust (724), Bank of Montreal (711) and CIBC (689).
The study measured small business satisfaction in a number of categories: account activities, account manager, facility, fees, product offerings, account information, credit services and problem resolution.
It found that nearly two-thirds of Canadian banks assign account managers to small business banking customers, compared with just half of U.S. banks.
Yet satisfaction was dragged down severely among small business customer who found their account manager fell short of expectations.
For example, although overall satisfaction was 828 among small business customers who perceived their assigned account manager "completely" understood their business, it dropped to 685 among those customers who perceive their account manager did not fully, or only partially, understood their business.
That, in fact, was lower than overall satisfaction rating (693) among those not having an account manager assigned at all.
The J.D. Power survey polled 1,200 small business owners or financial decision-makers in July and August who used business banking services. Included were the big five Canadian banks — Royal Bank (TSX:RY), Scotiabank (TSX:BNS), CIBC (TSX:CM), Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) and TD Bank (TSX:TD).
"Having a relationship manager is a great contributor to small business customer satisfaction, but only when the manager is knowledgeable of the customer's business and can provide tailored advice and personal attention," said Lubo Li, senior director of Canadian financial services at J.D. Power and Associates.
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We've all made mistakes when it comes to managing our money, but our financial future is our top worry. According to a recent Edward Jones survey of financial mistakes, not saving enough for retirement ranks No. 1.
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"The biggest thing we found from almost all age brackets is folks are not saving enough for retirement," says Scott Thoma, investment strategist for Edward Jones. "They feel they haven't done enough to prepare for retirement."
According to Thoma, retirement planning has become such a major concern because the savings responsibility falls more on the individuals as pensions fade out. What's more, the future of Social Security is murky, putting many people, particularly those nearing retirement, in panic mode.
"Usually when we hear people say they don't believe they saved enough for retirement they also say they didn't work with an advisor to set up a plan," he says. It doesn't help that many financial firms send the message that people need to save 'X' amount for retirement, which can be overwhelming and unobtainable.
Here are consumers' other top monetary concerns and how to remedy them to get finances back on track.
Mistake No.1: Not Tracking Spending
Thirty-five percent of survey respondents in the 18-and-34-year-old bracket cited not paying enough attention to their spending as their biggest money mistake.
Most people view each purchase in isolation as they go throughout their day, says Thoma, not realizing their purchases are adding up to a hefty tab.
To help get a better picture of your spending habits and identify any unnecessary spending, track every purchase for two weeks.
"If you were saving an extra $100 a month that could mean an extra $100,000 for retirement," says Thoma. "It's as simple as a cup of coffee a day."
Mistake No. 2: Carrying Too Much Debt
While there are acceptable debts like a mortgage or car payment, many consumers are overspending on credit cards and carrying a balance and up paying a lot more than they owe with high interest rates.
To get out from under that debt, Thoma says to track spending and to create a budget that includes paying down debt--starting with the credit cards with the highest interest rate. "If you are paying 18% on a credit card, that's the first place that needs to be addressed because your are not earning an 18% return on an investment," he says.
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"Changing allocations in a 401(k) on a daily basis or changing strategies on the ebbs and flows of the market" cause a lot of those mistakes, says Thoma. "Whenever the market is up they feel good and whenever risk rises, they want to get out." He advises people avoid reacting to every market gyration. "You can't let the outside environment dictate every single change you make."


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Betsy Speert, whose mastery of color and pattern to create a look of comfort and warmth has made her a longtime favorite with Traditional Home readers, wanted her winter home in Florida to have a completely different feel from her abode in Massachusetts. Speert, who has closed her design firm to fulfill her passions for designing furniture, selling antiques, and writing design books, says, "When I got my Florida house was when I first discovered eBay. My theme was tropics. I wanted something that was different. Everything I did was tropical birds or tropical prints, but I didn't want a clichéd Florida look. I went for a more West Indies tropical look."
Here's an exclusive look inside the designer's exuberant Florida getaway, where, Speeert says, she allows herself to be a little bit silly. "I was so giddy with the reality of living where there were palm trees I just wanted the house to reflect that joy and surprise."
You'll see examples not only of her finds, but also of the way she reinvented them to achieve the insouciant look she was going for. "Trial and error," the designer says, "is the key to reworking old stuff." Speert is an indefatigable collector who has a unique sense of humor. Her Florida home shows both.
Speert found the hat rack in the front entry of the home at an antiques store. The image in the center of it however, came from a tambourine, and was an embellishment by her.
The armoire in the living room originally had mirrored doors on it. To create a West Indies vibe, Speert removed the mirrors and instead set woven raffia into the panels.
Above, the drafting table in the living room where Speert likes to sit and draw. The chairs in this photo have since been replaced with peacock chairs that have more of a cottage feel. For more photos, visit Speert's Web site, badass bungalow.
"Those wooden chairs [flanking the shelf] were the first pieces of furniture I bought, and they kind of set the tone for the whole house," said Speert of her eBay purchases.
The lamp, birds, and shell were all eBay finds.
Speert bought all of the items on the side table from eBay to elaborate on the tropical theme of the home.
The designer chose a palette with colors that flow from room to room. Here, the blues of the living room give way to the blues and greens of the study. Faux bamboo detailing on the imperial desk adds a touch of the West Indies flair that characterizes the house.
Paint-by-numbers pieces decorate the walls in the study. Says Speert, "I don't remember what gave me the idea, but it just seemed like such a fun thing to do and such a silly thing to do. I wanted this house to have a little bit of silliness in it because it's my vacation home. "
Not many of us would look at an antique drying rack and think "chandelier." Speert added some metal wiring to fashion the antique into a light fixture.
The bar in the dining room is ideal for a second home where entertaining and relaxation are frequent.
In the kitchen, Speert changed the original drawer and cabinet door fronts, changed the countertop to mahogany, and continued the tropical theme of the home by adding a backsplash made of seafoam green subway tiles.
The nightstand lamps in the guest bedroom were an antique store find that Speert thought were too wonderful to pass up. Finding the right lampshades took time, but, she says, "One of the advantages of decorating your own house is that you can put in temporary stand ins until you find what you're looking for--you can't do that with a client's house." For photos of the new lampshades, visit badass bungalow.
At first, the bird paintings that hang above the bed were too crisp and white for the look the designer was going for, so she scrubbed them with tea to give them a more aged appearance.
"The fun thing about [second homes] is that you're starting with a blank slate. You can go in any direction you want," said Speert. It also gave her the green light for collecting. "I like collections. Once I've got more than one of something I'm in trouble." The most prominent collection in the Florida home is 1940s ceramic figurines of tropical birds.
The top of the guest room armoire is the perfect place for displaying Spert's collection of vases.
The mirrors in the master bath were originally a dark mahogany, but the designer repainted them to resemble bamboo and better fit the tropical theme of her home.
All of the rooms in the house are covered in bamboo wallpaper. "I liked the woody tropical texture," Speert says. "If there's a wall to put wallpaper on I will. I find walls that have wallpaper on them are cozier."
In order to avoid cords visible on the counter and dangling behind the vanity, Speert drilled holes in the countertop. The result: a cleaner-looking counterspace.
The fabric on the draperies in the master bedroom has an allover print, while the fabric on the furniture has a subtle stripe in the background. Speert has since re-covered the chair cushion with the same fabric as the draperies.
"This is one of my favorite fabrics. I just think it's beautiful. Although it has somewhat of a tropical feel, it's reminiscent of the cabbage rose prints that I like," says Speert of the pattern that appears throughout her bedroom.
The flower painted on the back of the worn chair next to the dresser gives it a cottage feel.
Photos of Speert (front) and her mother (rear) sit atop the dresser, giving the room a homey feel.
The layout of Speert's U-shaped house allows for lanais access from both bedrooms and the living room. Here is the view from the master bedroom.
Speert wanted the inviting pool area under the lanais to function like an outdoor living area. Outdoor curtains and awnings have since been added.
One of Speert's favorite things to do in Florida is to spend time relaxing by the pool. "I love to sit by the pool on one of the club chairs with my feet up on the ottoman and drink a cup of coffee while I read my newspapers and talk with good friends on the phone."
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Alfresco's New Enterprise Version 2.2 Powers Online Community Sites
Leading Web 2.0 Sites Use Alfresco to Deliver Community-Driven Web Experience
LONDON—May 13, 2008— Alfresco Software announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, which in particular is designed to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New feature enhancements support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites that can be developed using any web application language. These enhancements are a result of the company's work with the most advanced interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries. With this new release, companies can easily move beyond the traditional marketing oriented Web site to provide users with a rich and interactive site that fosters community and customer relationships around a product or service.
"The corporate website is moving from a product brochure to a community around that company's product or service," said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. "Alfresco is powering some of the leading web properties in the world and version 2.2 represents a milestone in this direction. By using open source, our customers can build highly interactive, community-driven sites that are easy to manage, scalable and cost effective."
Industry leaders such as Electronic Arts, Activision and Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive use Alfresco to provide advanced user experiences, create communities around their products, and deliver this at dramatically lower cost through the benefit of open source. These new community oriented product micro-sites need to be highly-scalable with the ability to integrate rich media with user generated content, and support rapid content updates for a fresh customer experience, while promoting a consistent brand.
Specific sites powered by Alfresco include:
- Online Gaming: http://www.easportsbig.com; http://www.activision.com
- Online Sports: http://www.easportsworld.com
- Online Learning: http://www.kaptest.com
- Online Publishing: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu
Experience with these next generation websites has driven the enhancements in Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 including:
- Web Farm Deployment Configuration – supports advanced deployment rules for web 2.0 scalable, 3-tier web application architectures.
- Web Application Preview and Test – provides the ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, Groovy, STRUTS, JSF, TILES and .NET.
- Site Templating and Branching – enables rapid creation of new sites from existing templates and ability to baseline major site updates by branching existing site.
- Asset Reuse – allows content to be updated and shared across web projects.
Alfresco Enterprise is the certified build of Alfresco, designed for production environments in corporations and government organizations that are looking for a stable, supported application. It is certified against commercial as well as open source stacks and offers commercial Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Alfresco Community is designed to be the research "Community Lab" for new features enabling developers to access a nightly build with the latest bleeding-edge functionality. It is unsupported by Alfresco and does not include the certification, QA (quality assurance) and services for production deployment.
Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 is immediately available for enterprise customers.


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Education Program to Promote Female Condom Use
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00062634
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified October 2004 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 12, 2003
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2005
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|HIV Infections
|Behavioral: Female condom skills training
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AIDS incidence among women has grown at alarming rates since 1985. Heterosexual contact is now the greatest risk for HIV infection in women. Women in the United States urgently need more options to protect themselves against HIV. Nonetheless, limited prevention efforts have targeted women. The female condom is a potentially important option for HIV prevention in women. However, little research has been conducted to identify effective approaches to promote the female condom as the only female-controlled barrier method available to date. This study will develop a theoretically and empirically based intervention to increase female condom use among ethnically diverse women who engage in multiple sexual partnerships.
The proposed female condom skills training intervention applies social cognitive theory. It also incorporates our extensive previous research that examined female condom acceptability and identified the attitudinal, interpersonal, and sociocultural factors affecting female condom use. The intervention consists of four sessions: 1) individual safer sex education and condom use skills training; 2) group discussion of barriers to female condom use; 3) group condom negotiation skills training; and 4) individual condom use counseling. The efficacy of the intervention will be assessed by comparing it to a control condition intervention that focuses on women's general health issues unrelated to HIV/AIDS. The control condition intervention has four sessions: 1) individual health education; 2) group discussion of women's health problems and related risk behaviors; 3) group discussion of healthy living; and 4) individual health risk reduction counseling.
This study will use a randomized clinical trial design. Study participants will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: female condom skills training or women's general health promotion. All participants will be interviewed at study entry, 3 months, and 6 months. Attitudinal, psychosexual, and behavioral data will be collected to evaluate the intervention.
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|Female Condom Intervention Trial
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- percent of sex acts protected by female condoms
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- African American, Asian American, Latina, or White
- Two or more male sexual partners in the year prior to study entry
- English speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- Commercial sex workers
- Planning to move within 6 months of study entry
- Allergic to polyurethane, latex, or lubricants
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00062634
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|Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco
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Keywords provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
Female condom use
Male condom use
AIDS education
AIDS prevention
HIV Seronegativity
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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This article describes how to clear Single Bit Error (SBE) logging
If the Single Bit Error (SBE) log is full, you can use these methods to clear it out.
These methods can be used during and after troubleshooting. Using it during troubleshooting allows you to capture new errors.
NOTE: Clearing the ESM and alert logs alone does not re-enable the error count.
The command to clear the error count is dcicfg32 command=clearmemfailures
Depending on the version of OpenManage that is installed you may find dcicfg32 in a variety of locations.
In some versions of Open Manage, this is located at c:\program files\dell\openmanage\omsa\bin\. In others, it is located at c:\program files\dell\sysmgt\omsa\bin\.
Another command that can be used, using mpmemory, is mpmemory -ptech -tlogclr.
NOTE: This requires you boot to mpmemory utility and does not work on 6650 systems. (See Article 608490)
Another method is using the OpenManage Server Administrator Live CD.
1. Boot to the OM Live CD
2. Login to Linux
3. Clear the System Event Log (SEL) in Server Administrator
4. Right click the desktop and select Open Terminal from the list
5. Type dcicfg32 command=clearmemfailures
6. Press <Enter>
a. If you get an error at this point about the "command not found" then the path is not valid. You will need to type in an additional command to change directory to the Open Manage folder
i. Type cd /opt/dell/srvadmin/omsa/bin
ii. Press <Enter>
b. Type ./dcicfg32 command=clearmemfailures
c. Press <Enter>
7. Type exit
8. Press <Enter>
9. Check to make sure error is gone in Server Administrator
If the SBE is actual, it will return within a very short time.
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text: This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure.Sure, it can be fun to travel with your partner or a group of friends. I personally prefer having my husband there to share the experience and enjoyment of traveling together. But I firmly believe that everybody should travel solo — sometimes. There's a lot you can get out of a solo trip that just doesn't happen when you're not on your own. Let me give you some reasons why traveling solo can be so worthwhile. Fit In and Immerse Yourself If your goal is to really interact with the culture you're visiting, then solo trips will give you a much greater chance of doing this. A single person slips into the background; you often won't look like a tourist, and you'll be able to stand and observe the locals without drawing much attention. Shopkeepers and bus drivers naturally offer more to the solo traveler. I've even had free restaurant meals simply because I turned up alone, squeezed into a table in the corner and chatted with a friendly waiter. Solo in Venice © AngelsWings Meet Other Travelers More Easily This almost goes without saying, but it's also very true. Just imagine that you're in a cafe or a pub, or staying at a hostel, and you see a couple in one corner and a girl sitting by herself in the other. Who are you going to talk to? Solo travelers simply invite company by being there alone. And once you start meeting other travelers, you get a lot of options that you probably wouldn't have had with your traveling companion by your side. A bunch of other single travelers decide to go sightseeing together and invite you, for example, and another group are going on a canoe trip. You make your choice and have fun with new friends. Doesn't that sound great? Subscribe to Our Under the Radar Newsletter Get our freshest + most popular travel stories, exclusive travel deals, and loads of pretty pictures + travel inspiration! Do Exactly What You Want, When You Want And that segues neatly into my next reason: if you're traveling solo, you are the boss and decision maker. You can get up every morning — or afternoon, if you're so inclined — and plan your day according to your own whims and fancies. Want to take in a museum or two? Go for it. Feel more like a shopping spree at the local markets? No problem. Sometimes I forget how many compromises you make when traveling with a friend or group. I probably wouldn't have visited that military museum in Ho Chi Minh City if I'd been alone; I definitely would have skipped the aeronautical display in Seattle. When I travel alone, I adore the prospect of choosing exactly the cafe or restaurant I'm going to splurge in for a great lunch, where I can sit with my book and enjoy my favorite food, uninterrupted. Avoiding the conflict that often comes with traveling with others is another bonus of the solo trip. It's inevitable that spending virtually all your time with another person, even your beloved partner, will produce a few sparks of conflict, especially in the sometimes stressful negotiations of budget travel. But most people won't argue with themselves. Alone on the Beach, Lazio, Italy © Geomangio Reigniting Your "I Can Do Anything" Spirit Something about making all my own choices in a foreign place seemed to be giving me that "I can do anything" attitude that I sometimes forget in daily life. I've had a few real moments of clarity while traveling alone that never seem to occur when I'm traveling with someone else. Standing in an art gallery in Hamburg, I vividly remember staring at an exhibition about designer apartments in New York. "I could go and live in a place like that," I remember thinking to myself, somewhat insanely. "In fact, I can go anywhere I want." Something about making all my own choices in a foreign place seemed to be giving me that "I can do anything" attitude that I sometimes forget in daily life. Traveling alone and independently also does wonders for your power of self-reliance and even your self-esteem. Taking responsibility for all the tasks involved in traveling, without having someone else to talk over the possibilities with or to make the decisions for you, is a really empowering thing. It's especially powerful if you're navigating through a foreign country, perhaps using some knowledge of a foreign language, and managing to find your way from place to place all alone. But Don't Travel Alone All the Time Personally, I wouldn't recommend being a 100% solo traveler. There are some experiences you might really want to share with someone special, be it a partner or a friend; and being able to reminisce about a trip is one of the long-lasting benefits. There are also some destinations where, as a woman, I'd feel more comfortable traveling with someone else. And finally, if you're always on the road alone you do run the risk of developing some slightly selfish, hermit-like tendencies. So where possible, mix up your travel mode. Travel with friends, family, partners, groups of strangers, whatever takes your fancy: but always remember to savor the trips you have the privilege of taking alone. 20 Responses Donna September 26 Great article Amanda. I've done a couple of longer-term trips on my own, and while it was lonely at times, I also forged really close connections with other travelers. Looking back, those friendships are what made the trips truly special. I included your article in a post over at BootBlog: Should I travel solo? Reply Bonnie September 26 I really like this article. I was always afraid of traveling alone. One one of my last trips, I traveled with my partner and met up with people in the same city, but then parted ways and spent a significant amount of time alone and it was an incredibly liberating experience. I think really just to have those amazing "awakening" moments that traveling allows us, it's necessary to go alone sometimes and confront some of your own boundaries. I got lonely. I got upset and faced some difficulties traveling alone (even though it was only a few days alone) – but I also had some amazing moments – one that is now in my top 5 travel moments ever. I visited a garden that I've always wanted to see and being there alone was a gift that I wouldn't trade for anything – even to share it with people I love. It was all mine! -bonnie Reply Scribetrotter September 27 I traveled alone – for three years across Africa and Asia. I started off for a few months, and then, the rhythm kicked in and I just kept going… I know for certain that my trip would have been vastly different had I been with someone. There are many things I wouldn't have done and many people I wouldn't have met, for all the reasons you mention. Instead, I look at that trip as the high point of my life, not only because I saw a large chunk of the world, but because I changed as a person. I became more self-sufficient, independent, adaptable, accepting… It was scary at times and at others it was lonely, but I'd do it again in a second, solo. Reply boldlygosolo September 28 I really enjoyed this post. It's always nice to have travel options, although I suspect it's a little more difficult to take solo vacations, Amanda, if your husband likes to travel with you? Maybe not. Maybe he also enjoys his solo jaunts. For some of us, the only choice is to travel alone or don't travel, simply because of the way we like to travel or the things we want to do. For instance, right now I am trying to choose a vacation in Central America so I can take Spanish lessons and immerse myself in a Spanish speaking culture. I don't have a single friend or acquaintance who would like to spend a vacation at a language school! But there's no way the lack of a companion is going to keep me home. I've ventured out alone enough times to know that it is an amazing experience most of the time. For about a year, I've been writing about my travel experiences, and those of others, at boldlygosolo.com. Reply Amanda September 29 @Donna, thanks for the kind words and link. @Bonnie, traveling with a partner but then splitting up sometimes is an excellent idea too – a good compromise for the benefits of traveling solo and traveling in company. Loved your garden experience! @Scribetrotter, wow, 3 years alone! I can just imagine how much that must change you. Not everyone could manage that – good on you! @boldlygosolo, I still get a good mix of travel modes because I can get away from other work commitments easier than my husband can (but yes he'd like to come with me every time!). Good luck for your Central America adventure and keep up the solo travel! Reply Are These 4 Excuses Keeping You From Realizing Your Travel Dreams? February 12 […] solutions. The most obvious one is to go solo. Many people are (understandably) anxious about traveling on their own, but in fact most people who do so find it an incredibly rewarding experience. As far as budget […] Reply Alana March 3 Great article. A couple of years ago I did 7 months across Australia alone, and had I been with someone else I never would have been able arrive in a place, planning on staying a few days, think to myself, "Hey, I like it here," and go out and get a job the next day, staying for a couple of months. I also love traveling with friends, but between coordinating time off and negotiating budgets, it is often difficult on longer trips. I'm about to do the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and am lucky enough to be doing the first 600km alone and then meeting up with my mother for the last few days. A great compromise! Reply Trey N. August 15 Love this article. I feel I make better, deeper connections with the locals when I'm alone. It's like you said though, people alone are much more inviting. It seems like many more doors open for you if you're solo. More than anything though, it is definitely a growing experience. Everyone should do it at least once, you'll definitely feel like a better, stronger you. Reply Michele September 29 I really like to travel alone, mainly for two reasons: first, it's easier to blend with the locals, which is always what I aim for; secondly, I'm a photographer, thus it's easier to take photos when you're alone, because you don't feel constrained and you can do whatever you want whenever you want. But then it's good to travel with a friend every now and then, it makes for great experiences that you'll love to look back at in the future. :) Reply It's Free to Be Green: Creative Travel Options | Your Daily Thread - YDT October 19 […] Images from creativecaravan, couch surfing, hospitality club, and vagabondish.com […] Reply Sola: A Fetal Manifesto and Healing Tattoo « Lonely Girl Travels December 14 […] There's plenty of articles and blogs out there lauding the benefits of solo travel. Solo Friendly and Solo Traveler are devoted entirely to solo travel, with service-oriented tips and how-tos, while Women on the Road focuses exclusively on encouraging women to backpack. Independent-traveler sites BootsnAll and Matador have featured articles discussing pros and cons, and urging readers to take the solo plunge. The benefits promoted are fairly obvious—the freedom to do what you want when you want—as are the chief drawbacks discussed: safety and loneliness. Nearly every article and site on solo travel I've encountered has urged all travelers to go at it alone at least once. […] Reply Todd August 12 All excellent points. One thing that's great about traveling solo is it allows you to break out of any shell you may have. If you're a shy, self-conscious person, solo travel is a great way to get over it. I also just finished up writing an email newsletter for my blog followers about solo travel about 15 minutes before reading this, small (internet) world. Reply Arctic Nomad August 13 Totally agree that everyone should travel solo sometimes. I have been traveling solo since January, and what that means is that I've actually rarely traveled alone. Especially in central and south America you always meet other travelers to tag along with. And like you say, it's especially easy to meet others when you are traveling by yourself. Right now I am traveling with my sister is SE Asia, and yeah it is great traveling with someone you know occasionally. I think I can handle traveling with friends for maximum of two months. I wouldn't imagine traveling a year with someone. Much easier by yourself :) Reply Billsboard: Hajde Novak! | penguinorchestra September 14 […] Vagabondish. (http://www.vagabondish.com/everybody-travel-solo-sometimes/) […] Reply SoloMate Travel March 12 So true – you are much more likely to make friends with the locals if you are traveling alone because you are less intimidating to approach when you are by yourself. Reply istanbul August 6 i travelled 23 countries in 2,5 years alone when i was 21yrs old it was the best thing i did… Reply gokhan October 10 My first trip to abroad was alone. Now I'm a pretty experienced traveler and i can definitely say that traveling alone sounds hard but it's definitely the best thing you can do for your own good. Both to travel around the world and travel inside your own. Reply ChinaMatt April 25 Definitely. Traveling alone can be great, but it's also difficult. I think the worst part about it is eating alone. After my current 6 months of solo travel, I'm rather tired of the lifestyle. And I still have plenty of time to go (at least I get to spend a week traveling with my parents in a few months). Reply Web pirouette: Travel solo, busy bee | Not a Ballerina June 12 […] Great Reasons to Love Returning Home After Your Trip and Why Everybody Should Travel Solo … Sometimes, both at […] Reply Katherine Belarmino | Travel the World August 6 When I travel with my husband, I am still the boss and decision maker. :) But I do enjoy traveling alone too. There have also been times when we have traveled together but he's gone golfing or stayed behind for a nap and I've explored on my own. Sometimes these are nice little breaks to have when traveling as a couple. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Let's Make Sure You're Human ... *Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. + 6 = eleven Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.


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"The Many Faces of George Washington," a national traveling panel exhibition examining the multi-dimensional, real-life man behind the myth, makes its first stop in South Texas for the 116th Washington's Birthday Celebration Association (WBCA) Feb. 5 – Feb. 25, 2013 at Texas A&M International University's (TAMIU) Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library. The exhibit continues Mon-Fri from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sat-Sun from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The exhibit has opened to rave reviews in museums across the country.
It is the first event of the three-part Laredo Portrait Project, which uses the portraiture and image of George Washington as the unifying theme to pay tribute to his life and legacy. All three components of the Laredo Portrait Project are first-time, free events for Laredo.
Produced by George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York, this exhibit presents Washington's leadership through dazzling color graphics of paintings, photographs, and iconic Mount Vernon collections objects.
The panel exhibit explores seven facets of George Washington's life: Virginia Childhood, Risk Taker, Realistic Visionary, Wise Decision Maker, Impassioned Learner, Visionary Entrepreneur, and At Home at Mount Vernon. It has been made possible by a generous grant from the F.M. Kirby Foundation. Local sponsors are TAMIU, Toni L. Ruiz, and Southern Distributing Company.
Carla Killough McClafferty, author of the award-winning book about the Mount Vernon project, "The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon," will be in Laredo on Tuesday, Feb. 5 to share the extraordinary story behind the creation of the exhibit. Presentations to student groups at TAMIU and Laredo Community College throughout the day will address the question: did George Washington really look like the picture on the dollar bill?
In the evening, TAMIU will host a public lecture by McClafferty at the Killam Library to commemorate the official opening of the exhibit. George Washington's favorite dessert will be served at a gourmet ice-cream reception preceding the lecture. The evening's events begin at 6:30 p.m. UBS is an event sponsor.
McClafferty's book inserts biographical information about Washington as it details how Mount Vernon gathered together experts in a myriad of scientific and academic fields in order to uncover our first president as never before. The ambitious project, initiated in 2005, brought the image of Washington to life by creating three-dimensional full body representations of him as he looked at the ages of 19, 45, and 57.
Additional components of the Laredo Portrait Project of interest to the public include:
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 6:30 p.m., a special unveiling will take place in honor of a historical milestone for the City of Laredo and TAMIU as the university becomes one of only a handful of institutions of higher learning in the U.S. to exhibit an original Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum ("Dollar Bill") portrait of George Washington. Carol Wyrick, a nationally acclaimed art historian and former director of Education at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. will present opening remarks prior to the unveiling in the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library. The portrait remains on exhibit through Thursday, Feb. 14 only, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily in the Killam Library.
On Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m., the final event in the three-part Laredo Portrait Project bows with the American Historical Theatre's premiere of "Portrait of a Patriot," sponsored by WBCA at the TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts. John Lopes will portray George Washington while Bob Gleason will portray the portraitist Gilbert Stuart. Admission is free of charge.
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Davis Minton has his own bank, and it's full of green stuff. But Minton isn't rubbing elbows with "The Donald" these days. Minton's bank is a rich vista of wildlife converted from agricultural use. And rest assured, he and his family's contributions to the environment of Dexter, Mo., will last a lot longer than any of Donald Trump's lavish hotels.
Minton is a mitigation banker, the first one ever in the United States, and hopefully, the first of more to come. His goal is to help fellow farmers who need to drain wetlands. It's a profitable venture, but the Minton family isn't in it completely for the money.
Rather, they have a passion to recreate the cypress-tupelo swamps and hardwood bottomlands of their childhood, when on stress-free afternoons, they would cast hopeful hooks into lively waters or draw a bead on a fast-moving duck.
The Mintons — Davis, his father, Keith, mother, Betty, and brother, Bradley — began their quest to create a mitigation bank when former president George H.W. Bush announced a no-net-loss wetlands policy for the United States. For agriculture, the policy meant that if a landowner drained a wetlands on one part of his land, he had to mitigate the loss by creating another wetlands somewhere else on the property.
Minton, an environmentalist with capitalist bent, figured he could use the policy to create a natural wetlands and make some money doing it. "We thought that if a farmer wanted to drain one of his wetlands, he could buy some of our property, mitigate his wetland to my property, then I could buy it back at a reduced value.
"But we found out that the surveys, the legal fees and the county fees were going to eat up whatever moneys that might have been made."
The Mintons didn't give up. They contacted Chris Hamilton, Wetland Reserve Program coordinator with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, who told the family about a mitigation bank concept for commercial enterprises. Hamilton suggested they consider doing a pilot project for agriculture and offered his assistance.
"It took us four years to get all the agencies involved who had to sign off on it to give us a document that allowed the mitigation process to occur," Minton said.
Assistance came from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis and Little Rock districts; Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; NRCS; and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The Mintons spent about $600 per acre to build the first mitigation bank for agriculture on 73 acres. No government funding offset the expense. "We brought the land full circle," Minton said. "In the 1950s, we filled it in, cleared the bottomland, hardwood timber, graded it and farmed it for 40 years. Then to create a wetlands, we dug out the fill dirt, hewed out the ground, built the levees back and re-established the hydrology."
The Mintons went on to build a second mitigation bank of 140 acres, open to any entity looking to mitigate wetlands. They have plans for a third bank of around 250 acres, also open to any entity.
In a nutshell, the mitigation bank for agriculture works like this, according to Minton. "If you have a piece of wetlands in a field that you want to (drain or convert to cropland), the first step would be to contact the NRCS in your district, who will come out and do a determination on how many wetlands you have. You'll have to have a 404 and a 401 certification from the Corps of Engineers.
"The Corps of Engineers will determine the ratio — how many acres of wetlands you have and how many credits you have to buy from the mitigation bank to offset the process of destroying the wetlands on your farm.
"NRCS will concur with the ratio, then you will be issued a certification. The farmer makes a payment, or credit (for the ag bank, it's $2,300, but this is not a standard fee).
"After that, you have absolved yourself of protecting that wetlands forever. It's as though it never existed on your property. Since it is a financial expense for you, it is also a tax deduction, so there is some offset to the credit."
"It's good for the resource, too," Hamilton added, "because you mitigate to a wetlands complex versus a single piece of land in the corner of a field where a lot of farmers don't have the management capabilities to deal with it."
When mitigated acres from all sources reach the number of acres in the bank, the bank is considered full, and it cannot offer further mitigation.
It's also important that anyone considering building a mitigation bank first determine that mitigation opportunities exist, according to Minton.
NRCS chief Bruce Knight, touring the Minton farm as part of the Bush Administration's Earth Day activities, called the bank, "a landmark effort of how to go to the next level on conservation.
"There is a lot of interest throughout the Administration in voluntary wetlands solutions," Knight said. "What is wonderful about this is that no regulation is saying you have to do this. The next generation of conservation is going to have to incorporate trading concepts, the ability for us as an agency to not just provide cost-share assistance, but also help insure that trades can occur."
Mitigation banks can be created for other purposes, too, according to Knight. "If there is a need to do those same sorts of trades for water quality and air quality, it's incumbent upon this agency to facilitate those things."
The Minton's wetlands complex still has a way to go before it matures into the setting that Minton remembers, although shovelers, blue-wing teal, a few pairs of nesting mallards, Canada geese and bald eagles inhabit the area already.
"What you see is the first step in the reclamation of the landscape back to what it originally was — a cypress and hardwood timber system," Minton said.
The family also has a farming operation of 5,000 acres and raise rice, corn, soybeans, wheat and sunflowers. Conservation is a high priority there too. "We do precision land leveling, underground pipe to make sure that water is delivered to the site in the most economical and practical means.
"We are involved in a tailwater recovery system, so any water that runs off the farm, we can pick up and reuse. We use surge value irrigation, which allows us to water fields at a much more effective pace, using less water and less fuel. We use irrigation drop pipes and permanent outside levees around most of our farming operation.
"The whole concept of the mitigation bank is a passion," said Minton, "a belief that something better could be done with the land, that there were alternative land uses that could make a viable economic impact on our farming operation.
"The only way our program can be a success is that it has to be economically and politically successful and environmentally sound. If you fail in any one of those three, the process will break down.
"I'm committed to this," said Minton. "I pulled the farm out of production because somebody had to commit. Somebody had to be the first."
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Rubio Tapped for GOP State of the Union Response
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address in both English and Spanish. WSJ's Siobhan Gorman joins The News Hub with details.
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Apple Is Testing an iPhone for Your Wrist
Apple is experimenting with designs for a watch-like device that would perform some functions of a smartphone, according to people briefed on the effort. Dow Jones Newswires Tech Editor George Stahl reports on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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In Phoenix and across the US, the health system is in a good position to address a variety of health issues in many populations, treating everything from genetic diseases to chronic behavioral disease. And, with health care technology expanding rapidly, our ability to detect, treat and prevent health issues is increasing to match.
Technology and innovation in health care often brings increases in costs, however, and so this science café will explore how diverse sets of knowledge and skills can be best brought to bear on the changing face of health care for the Nano City. It will pay particular attention to equity and equality in the distribution of health care services that may be enabled by future technologies.
In a typical Science Café each speaker has fifteen minutes and then the floor is open for questions and discussions with the audience.
Dr. Anna Barker recently joined Arizona State University to plan and direct efforts in transformative knowledge networks – specifically directed toward addressing major problems in healthcare. The Transformative Healthcare Networks initiative (THN) will serve as a foundation for the development of new research models to better prevent and treat acute and chronic diseases. Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Barker served as the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and as Deputy Director for Strategic Scientific Initiatives.
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