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Unfortunately, we can't necessarily become proficient in everything we'd like to, but we can become knowledgeable about a specific topic. Here are some steps you can take to set yourself up as an expert:
1. Pick a niche
The topic needs to be narrow enough that you don't have a lot of competitors, but it also needs to be wide enough that it's relevant to a fair number of people in the industry.
First, look at your experiences and see what they all have in common. I've worked in digital media, traditional marketing and PR for a variety of fashion, beauty and lifestyle companies, but I didn't want to be a marketing or social media expert because there are so many people established as experts in those fields already. I thought a bit harder and realized the thing that tied them all together was luxury. However, that was too broad as well. I then attached a geographical location to it, China, and narrowed it down again to e-commerce. I therefore established myself as as an expert in luxury e-commerce in China.
If you don't have that much experience, simply consider the one topic that you just can't get enough of. Read everything about it and then try to narrow it down from there.
2. Have an opinion, even if it's a difficult one
This is a great time to stand out! Don't be a contrarian just for the dramatic effect, but if you truly feel differently from others on a topic, it's likely that this will gain you more attention. Journalists are often looking for balanced articles, so you may get quoted more often if you're willing to offer the other side of things.
On the one hand, when you're taking a very steadfast stance, you're more vulnerable, which allows people to relate to what you're saying. On the other hand, be ready to defend your opinion!
3. Stay updated
Set up Google Alerts: Set up Google Alerts for your industry terms so that you make sure you don't miss the breaking news on the topics you're an expert in. You can also contact the author of relevant or interesting articles to offer them ideas or expert opinions for future pieces.
Use source tools: Websites like HARO (Help a Reporter Out), Bottlesource, MediaKitty, MediaSpot (apply via LinkedIn) and ExpertEngine (Beta version) are all free tools that help you get noticed. Journalists and other members of the media constantly need sources for specific articles they're writing—the perfect opportunity for you!
Utilize SEO: In your website's titles and content, put your name next to words like "expert," "source" and "expertise" for your topic. Oftentimes, reporters just Google the topic and the word "expert" and contact the top hits. Here's a place where having a particularly niche topic is very beneficial.
4. Start local
Set your sights on more national or international goals, but remember it's okay to start small. However, don't overextend yourself with too many local commitments, either. Just because they're small publications doesn't mean they're small time commitments. It's better to write one quality article than five small ones.
Here are some ideas:
- Write for a local newspaper column. It needs to be a pretty broad topic, though, so be wary.
- Reach out to organizers of events and offer yourself as an expert for a panel.
- Speak at universities or schools. Classes always need real-world speakers.
- Volunteer at your Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau to give a presentation on your topic.
- Organize events yourself and invite industry leaders. Afterwards, write up a summary of the points the panel discussed and pitch it to a blog.
- Write for free everywhere.
5. Guest blog
Contact the top blogs in your industry (often you can find lists already online) and pitch them a guest post idea. Do your research and make sure to send a specific pitch to each, rather than a general idea. Give them a couple of options, but offer them fresh, new ideas that are relevant to topics they've covered before. If you can, try to pitch yourself as an expert and get yourself noticed.
6. Interview real experts
Not to say you're not an expert, but there are clearly people even more knowledgeable than you are, so take advantage! Act as the middle man—pitch the media source to the expert, and pitch the expert to the media source. Many experts love to get quoted, but may not be inclined to write an article themselves, which is where you come in. Everyone wins.
How do you establish yourself as an expert? Tell us in the comments!
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This lesson has been sitting in my drawing folder for the past three days now, and I think it's because I have developed an aversion to writing out a description for Pokemon characters from drawing them so much. Today I will start the day by submitting this tutorial on "how to draw Onix", step by step. Onix is a rock snake species of Pokemon, from the rock type genre. If you're familiar with this Pokemon, you already know that it's appearance looks more like a bunch of misshapen rocks that are all chained up or bunched together. This is due to the fact that when Onix is young, the body's texture is rough around the edges. As it ages, the shape of it's body becomes more rounded and smooth. When Onix gets to be at it's full grown stage, you will end up with a species that is nearly twenty nine feet long. A lot of Pokemon species have a mainly dominate male gender. With Onix, males and females are equal. This means that your chances of getting a male is about the same as getting a female. As for their special abilities, let's just say that they are practically neighbors with groundhogs, and moles. This is because they dig holes underground at nearly fifty miles an hour. Another cool thing that Onix can do is regrow it's body if it where to shatter or fall apart from a powerful blow. No matter what kind of damage this creature sustains, one thing is certain, it's definitely a Pokemon I want under my belt. I guess that does it for this tutorial description for "how to draw Onix", step by step. I will be back one more time with another lesson that you should enjoy. Meet me back here for more drawing fun as I upload yet another cool character for you all to learn how to draw. Peace peeps!
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Urban Investigations are project-based curricula that enable high school students to explore fundamental questions about how the city works, using collaborative research and design.
Each investigation begins with a key question. Where does our water come from? Where does our garbage go? Who owns the Internet? To find answers, students go beyond standard classroom learning and engage in rigorous field research: visiting real sites and interviewing decision-makers and stakeholders. After researching the issue, students collaborate with a teaching designer to produce innovative, engaging multimedia teaching tools. These products are taken up by neighborhood organizations and advocacy groups and used to educate others.
By participating in Urban Investigations, students gain the skills to investigate their own communities. They gain access to the decision-makers that affect the world around them, and engage in active citizenship. Students learn how to creatively communicate their ideas through design. Project-based learning allows students to shine in multiple ways: from interviewing to illustration, from audio production to writing. Students see the city as the product of a decision-making landscape and are empowered to participate in it. The products that students create with a visual artist find real audiences and impact communities outside of the school in arts and social justice fields.
Our work grows from a belief that the power of imagination is central to the practice of democracy, and that the work of governing must engage the dreams and visions of citizens. CUP believes in the legibility of the world around us. What can we learn by investigation? By learning how to investigate, we train ourselves to change what we see.
Urban Investigations work best in afterschool programs or school programs that can accommodate semester-long projects that meet three to four times a week and give the project team the flexibility to leave the classroom for site visits and interviews.
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The teens partnered with NYC Votes and the Center for Urban Pedagogy to create "Our Voice, Our Choice," a 14-page guide they introduced at a June 29 roundtable at the Bronx Music Heritage Center in Soundview.Download PDF
Monday night, the students presented a 12-minute video they made during a summer course with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). It explains everything from who appoints the MTA board to the size of the gap in the capital budget.
Students from Lyons Community School in Brooklyn and CUP teaching artist Leigh Davis worked together to examine the restaurant grading system in the city.
CUP teaching artist Chat Travieso worked with a small group of students to create a powerful tool to make the discussion of this new housing model accessible to a greater population.


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NEW YORK -- Former PBS anchor Jim Lehrer says a debate moderator should be like a baseball umpire _ get out of the way and let the candidates play. That philosophy may have compounded his troubles during the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as he tried and failed to stay out of the spotlight, an increasingly impossible dream for a moderator in the age of social media.
Even before Wednesday night's debate ended, Twitter was ablaze with criticism of Lehrer for losing control of it and not being sharp in his questions. The candidates frequently bulled past Lehrer's efforts to hold them to time limits.
Lehrer, in a statement issued Thursday night, said he thought the debate format accomplished its purpose of promoting direct exchanges between Obama, a Democrat, and Romney, a Republican, on substantive issues.
"Part of my moderator mission was to stay out of the way of the flow and I had no problems with doing so," he said. "My only real personal frustration was discovering that 90 minutes was not enough time in that more open format to cover every issue that deserved attention."
Moderators have to walk a fine line between being criticized for not doing enough or doing too much by forcefully interrupting candidates and being showy in their questions, said Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief and professor at George Washington University.
Moderators are selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has sponsored the forums since 1988. Candy Crowley, of CNN, and Bob Schieffer, of CBS News, will moderate the next two Obama-Romney debates, with Martha Raddatz, of ABC News, handling the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Commission Co-chairman Paul Fahrenkopf told the Poynter think tank recently that the commission looks primarily toward experienced TV journalists for the moderator role. He said it seeks a moderator who is comfortable having someone shout instructions in an earpiece, is fair and balanced and "does not have an ego."
Lehrer had moderated 11 presidential debates before Wednesday. Last year he wrote a book about his debate experiences and said he had no interest in doing any more. But he agreed when asked this time, comparing the request to a civic responsibility or a draft notice.
But Lehrer, 78, has been semi-retired and off TV since last winter. Some in the business believe that layoff can cost even an experienced broadcaster a few feet off his fastball.
Lehrer came back to a hyper-partisan environment with millions of TV critics sitting with laptops in their living rooms, eager to let their opinions be known.
There was a political dimension Thursday to critics of Lehrer's critics. Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren wrote on her blog that Lehrer was being attacked because Democrats "expected the moderator to run interference for their candidate and the moderator didn't bail out their bored, fumbling and unprepared candidate."
"Instead," she said, "moderator Jim Lehrer did the unthinkable _ he let the candidates debate."
Lehrer said last year that he felt his best job as a moderator came during a 2004 debate between President George W. Bush and John Kerry because nobody talked about what he did. He said his advice to future moderators was "get out of the way whenever you possibly can. Facilitate the debate. That's what you're there to do."
What may have struck viewers as a hands-off approach may have something to do with a new format that called for Lehrer to introduce subject areas and give each candidate two minutes to speak, then several more minutes of back-and-forth, said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of "Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV."
"It seems to me the job of a moderator is to set up the issues and get out of the way, and I think he did that," Schroeder said.
Some who watch debates prefer sharper, more challenging questions. But there are dangers to that approach, too, as illustrated last winter when Newt Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his ex-wife's accusation that he had asked for an open marriage.
While acknowledging that moderating is a difficult job, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen said Lehrer lost control of the time and the topics during the debate.
"He didn't really ask questions," Rosen said. "I don't know where he got the idea that saying `talk about the differences between you' is a question. It's not a question. It's just an invitation to talk."
Candidates often are coached to ignore the questions being asked, anyway, just to get across points that they want to emphasize, Sesno said.
After a rough night Wednesday, Lehrer didn't even have to wait until "Saturday Night Live" to catch a parody of his performance. NBC's Jimmy Fallon aired a skit in which Obama and Romney could agree on one thing: They wanted Lehrer to shut up.


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LightSquared is calling for an investigation of the source of possibly leaked data from the recently completed GPS interference tests conducted by the U.S. government that evidently contradict more favorable test results recently promoted by the company.
The tests LightSquared performed with GPS equipment makers Javad GNSS, PCTel and Partron were touted as demonstrating that concerns over the threat posed by the company's proposed wireless service to GPS users were overstated (Aviation Daily, Dec. 9). LightSquared also was a party to the government tests. LightSquared has rights to two 10-MHz swaths on the Mobile Satellite Service band, where it was conditionally granted permission to operate a 4G wireless broadband network based on as many as 40,000 high-powered, ground-based transmitters, raising concern about overload jamming of GPS receivers.
Earlier tests this spring, which focused on the so-called upper band, 1545-1555 MHz, closest to the 1559-1610-MHz GPS band, showed significant, possibly catastrophic interference to virtually all classes of consumer, military and precision agricultural GPS receivers. Subsequently, LightSquared said it would not immediately use the upper band, and a second round of testing was conducted near Holloman AFB, N.M., focusing on LightSquared's lower band, 1526-1536 MHz, farther away from the GPS band. It was the preliminary report of these last tests that was seen and reported by Bloomberg News on Dec. 9. The report said that 69 of 92 GPS units, or 75%, "experienced harmful interference" at the equivalent of 100 meters (109 yards) from a LightSquared base station, Bloomberg reported.
LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja says the leaked draft report was an "incomplete, selective and slanted analysis of the testing of general location/navigation devices," in a letter to government officials and in a press call Dec. 12.
The official interference report, expected to be released imminently, probably will shed more light on the subject.


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Bvitale needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
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I'm the founder and portolio manager of Galt Asset Management, a privately held small-cap equity fund, which i started in 1999. I'm interested in starting an online small-cap newsletter and sharing my fifteen (15) years experience with the online retail investor.
Between my associate and I, we have more content than we know what to do with, having generated 1,000's of pages of analysis on 100's of different publicly-traded small and micro-cap companies over the last 15-20 years.
We're both great stock pickers and have a great understanding of the small-cap market. We'd like to establish a website/blog that allows us to actively communicate with our future audience through the use of email, blogs, twitter, facebook, the message boards, online financial communities, chat rooms etc.
Expect to target the online retail investor who's open to hearing about great investment opportunities in the low-priced micro-cap market. Can also target high net-worth individuals, family offices and small cap hedge funds.
To start, i do not want to narrow our focus and are more interested in just building the engine before we start to target market our content and expertise.
Again, looking for a very user friendly website that allows my partner and I to post commentary on a daily basis. Since we are delivering financial content, i'm not too concerned in the beginning about the the types of colors and logo's etc though i do want the project be done in wordpress.org
And since access to the website (and daily content) will be free to everyone (to start), the primary call-to-action will be to simply capture as many emails as possible, with the intention of moving to a sub model in the future.
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smallcapinvestor.com - like the 3 section format with most of the daily content posted in the middle of the home page. I think the navigation format is fine as well
jamesaltucher.com - like the simple email capture box and pic of the individual
fool.com - pop-up ads are annoying, may want to provide the day's stock market activity
iancassel.com - like the simple call to action for the social medians like twitter, Linked in and facebook.
Other sites include thestreet.com, lebed.biz (past performance section), magicdiligence.com (too generic, missing call-to-action on homepage), timothysykes.com (too promotional and the FB and twitter pop-up at the bottom of page annoying, but probably effective), jbhcapita.net (simple yet not open to the public w/out paying first).
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I would like emacs to place the whole word range on the next line at the 80 character mark.
Right now emacs will type past 80 characters and and cut the word at the terminal edge.


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Exclusive: Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie Gets Animated for Fox
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It's business time: Bret McKenzie, half of the popular music-comedy duo the Flight of the Conchords, is developing an animated comedy for Fox. The New Zealand native came up with the idea for the untitled show, set in the world of NASA. Fox has given… Read more


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How to Buy Antiques at Bargain Prices!
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From yard sales to New York auction houses, learn how to buy antiques at rock-bottom prices. The author, a collector and dealer for over 35 years, shows you all the secrets of buying and selling. A complete listing of all antiques and collectibles by category, with trends and values, is included. Important tips on searching garage sales, auctions, malls, and shows are a valued feature of the book.
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A Guide to Italian Wines
Italians know their wine. But there are so many varietals from its sunny, breezy climes that sometimes the rest of us forget the difference between a Barbera and a Barbaresco. No fear: this handy guide will keep you straight.
Italian Reds:
- Amarone: From the Veneto region come Corvina grapes, which are partially dried to make this big, full-bodied wine that has a surprising undertone of sweetness.
- Barbaresco: Like Barolo? Try this lighter, more easy-drinking alternative.
- Barbera: Mainly from the Piedmont region, this medium-bodied, very fruity wine is a crowd-pleaser and a great choice at a restaurant.
- Barolo: This dry, full-bodied wine is complex, with berry flavors as well as earth, herbs and even tar. Delicious and often priced to match.
- Brunello di Montalcino: From grapes grown in the Montalcino zone of Tuscany, this wine is dry and tannic.
- Chianti: That perpetual favorite of homey Italian restaurants, Chianti is dry, moderately tannic, and usually flavored of tart cherries.
- Lambrusco: A sparkling red wine that is often sweet.
- Montepulciano d'Abruzzo: Smooth, flavorful, and great with food.
- Salice Salentino: Dry wine from the Puglia region. Often has aromas of ripe fruit with a rich, chewy texture.
- Valpolicella: Dry and moderately tannic with intense cherry flavors.
- Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: Like Chianti, but bigger.
Italian Whites:
- Asti: Sparkling wine made from Moscato grapes, this wine is sweet and fresh.
- Frascati: Mainly made of Trebbiano grapes, this wine is dry, light, and easy to drink.
- Gavi: A medium-bodied wine, typically dry with aromas of apples and minerals.
- Orvieto: A medium-bodied wine, often with flavors of pear and apple.
- Pinot Grigio: This popular wine is light, dry, and crisp with no oakiness.
- Soave: Generally dry, crisp, and medium-bodied. From the Soave zone in the Veneto region.
- Verdicchio: From the Marche region, Verdicchio grapes make this wine dry, crisp, and pleasantly mineral.


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Gayle Gibson: Tutankhamun: A Body of Evidence (Audio)
March 18th, 2010
Was Tutankhamun murdered? Was his tomb cursed? We review the physical evidence revealed by medical science and recent scholarship to determine what did happen to the young man, and consider what his bones reveal about his life.
Featuring Gayle Gibson, Educator, Royal Ontario Museum.
Recorded: February 24, 2010 @ Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
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Marcel Allain (1885-1970) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.
The son of a Parisian bourgeois family, Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. He then became the assistant of Souvestre, who was already a well-known figure in literary circles. In 1909, the two men published their… (more)


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The MIT men's track and field needed a win in the final relay event to capture the New England Division III Indoor Championship by just two points over Williams College. The Engineers earned their 12th regional title in program history thanks in part to the first-place finish by the 4x800 meter relay in the last race of the day. MIT displayed tremendous depth, winning the title despite taking first place in just three individual events.
One of the best examples of that team depth came in the 200 meters, where three Tech runners placed in the top five, picking up 17 important points. Josh Duncavage took second with his time of 22.69 while Babajide Akinrobi and Tyler Singer-Clark placed fourth and fifth, respectively.
Stephen Serene collected first-place points in the 1000 meters, as the junior beat a pair of runners to the line by less than three-tenths of a second, finishing in 2:32.70. Kyle Hannon was also a winner in the mile with a time of 4:17.56.
Nathan Peterson was the third individual champion, winning the pole vault with a jump of 15-5.00 feet, six inches better than his closest competitor. Kenneth Cooper gave MIT a pair of NCAA provisional level performances, taking fifth place in both the shot put (47-9.25) feet and the weight throw (56-6.50).
The relays really shifted the meet in the Engineers' favor though, as they outscored Williams, 24-16, in those three events. The Distance Medley group of Richard Prevost, Nick Leonard, Justin Bullock and Eric Safai started things off with a first-place time of 10:21.04. Then, trailing by three entering the final event, the 4x800 meter relay clinched the team title thanks to their win over host Springfield by just 1.36 seconds. Logan Daum, David Way, Gilbert O'Neil and Dawit Zewdie made up the heroic relay quartet.
Tech will return to action next weekend at the All-New England Championship, hoping to qualify more athletes for the upcoming NCAA Division III Championship. The meet will be hosted by Boston University and begins on Friday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m.


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iFit Active : Get To -500
How can iFit Active help me lose weight?
iFit Active is your daily companion and all around smart fitness tracker.
From counting your steps, to calculating your metabolic burn, iFit Active is the perfect weight loss companion.
Our specific algorithms calculate how many calories you burn throughout the day and the night, so you can more effectively manage your weight.
iFit Active takes the guesswork out of your weight loss journey. Now you know how much to eat, how active you have really been, and how much quality sleep you are actually getting.
With all this information right at your fingertips there is no telling what you can accomplish!
What is the purpose of net calories?
Your net calorie score is the number that really matters.
Net calories is a simple calculation with a huge impact…
Calories In – Calories Out = Net Calories
If your net calories are negative, then you are on track to lose weight, and vice versa. If your net calories are positive, you are on track to gain weight.
Can you get to -500?
Scoring -500 net calories every day will mean that you will lose one pound a week which is a great place to start on your weight loss journey.
iFit Active does the work for you be calculating your Net Calorie Score. Log your meals using the iFit Track app, or the quick calorie log button right on the iFit Active.
Every evening you can evaluate where you are at, and that score can give you the extra motivation you need to take that extra stroll around the block to reach your goal.
What is healthy weight loss?
Let's dive into the numbers that equal weight loss.
Healthy weight loss is considered losing 2 lbs or less per week. Anything more than that means that your body is not getting adequate nutrients, which could cost your metabolism in the long run. The last thing you want to do is put your body into a starvation mode.
Translating that to net calories means you want to keep net calories between -500 and -1000 daily, but never more than -1000.
There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat, so 7 days at -500 will be one pound lost, and 7 days at -1000 will be 2 pounds lost. iFit Active can help you find maximize success as it calculates your net calories for you.
What do I need to be careful about?
Your iFit Active can help you live a healthy and functioning life, but it is still up to you to fuel your body well.
For women it is key to never let your total calorie intake for the day drop beneath 1200 calories, or 1600 calories for men.
If you are unable to keep your net calories as low as you would like, increase activity level instead of dropping intake below those thresholds.
Health always comes first, and starvation is not a safe or effective way to reach those goals.
What can influence my weight loss?
While it would be great if life always perfectly followed mathematical equations, this is not always the case, sometimes life gets in the way of your weight loss.
If you are not seeing the results you think you should, it might be time to evaluate a few potential culprits.
Stress. When stress levels are high, your body releases hormones that impede weight loss. Try stress management techniques to keep stress in control. Yoga, running, and meditation can be helpful tools in managing stress. The key is to find what works for you.
Inaccurate Logged Information. Be sure you are accurately recording calories, and that you keep your personal information up to date. If you have lost 10 pounds, and haven't changed that information, then your calorie burn will not be accurate. This isn't your driver's license, so no need to fudge the numbers.
Medications. Sometimes medications can interfere with weight loss because of the alterations they cause on your body's natural chemistry. Don't let this discourage you, just be aware of the side effects of new or current medications.
Sleep. We often value sleep as simply a way to make us not feel tired anymore but it is so much more than that. Sleep affects just about every part of our body, and it is something that cannot be ignored. Don't skimp out on sleep.
Quality of the Calories. While it's commonly said that a calorie is a calorie, all foods affect the body in different ways. It will be easier to stay with a negative net calorie count if you are eating your fruits and vegetables, not to mention your body will thank you.
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Planned Giving
Donors have a variety of ways to support the charities that are important to them and have been a part of their lives. Periodic and annual gifts support operations for not-for-profit organizations and make their missions possible from year to year. Network Knowledge and its three PBS stations rely on such giving to maintain services and the treasury of quality programming which includes children's educational programs as well as the highly acclaimed series of Downton Abbey.
Some donors prefer to periodically support the capital project fund and do so by contributing a brick in the sidewalk outside the headquarters building in Chatham. That fund can be used to purchase new computers, software upgrades and replace deteriorating office equipment.
While showing support for annual operations, some donors plan ahead in order to make a meaningful and lasting gift that ensures the quality they have enjoyed will be available for a future generation. Donors often plan ahead in order to make a major gift that will have an enhancing effect on their charity. Such gifts are often embedded in estate plans but can also be placed in a trust or charitable instrument that follows the advice of an attorney or an accountant.
These "Planned Gifts" can create benefits of a lasting and major nature.
There are numerous financial instruments and techniques through which a person with charitable intent can benefit those causes he or she supports while gaining many practical benefits. Those benefits include the reduction of a tax burden on an estate, the ability to pass resources to family members without increasing their tax liability, the pleasure of knowing a meaningful tribute has been paid to someone of special significance and the possibility of securing a cash flow for the remaining years of life without concern about the vagaries of the financial markets.
Such gifts should be carefully discussed with a tax professional and, in the cases of financial instruments such as trusts and annuities, with an attorney. If you have an interest in ascertaining more information about planned giving and its benefits contact Dr. Ed Strong, Director of Advancement of Network Knowledge for an introduction to how planning can benefit you and your intended recipient of a gift at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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CT State Parks and Forests Main Page
Park Location and Contact Information
DinosaurState Park 400 West StreetRocky Hill, CT 06067(Directions)
Park Info Line/
Office Line:
(860) 529-5816
{Link to Purchase a State Park Season Pass}
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This park offers:
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Exhibit Center
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Picnic Tables
The park is open Tuesdays -Sundays from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The hiking trails are open Tuesdays Sundays from 9:00 am to 4 pm. The grounds are closed on Mondays. There is no public access to the park on Mondays.
Pets on a leash are permitted on the park grounds, but are not allowed on nature trails or in the Exhibit Center.
(860) 424-3200
(860) 424-4070
This property was acquired and/or developed with the assistance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Dinosaur State ParkRocky Hill
If you like dinosaurs, you'll love our 200 million-year-old fossil trackway, interactive exhibits and the chance to cast your own dinosaur footprint to take home.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dinosaur State Park
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{Picnicking} Picnicking
{Exhibit Center} Exhibit Center
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{Hiking} Nature Trail Hiking
{Track Casting} Track Casting (available May 1 - October 31)
Geocaching - EarthCache at Dinosaur State Park. An EarthCache is a place where you will find an interesting geologic feature or process that will enrich your outdoor experience.
EarthCaching at other locations in CT
Mining for Gems and Fossils (available May 1 - October 31)
School Group Programs (Offered September -June)
Educational Mineral Collecting for Mineral Clubs, Nature Centers, Schools and Connecticut Museums
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Bathrooms, Exhibit Center, Bookshop, Picnic Tables, Picnic Pavillion
{Dinosaur} Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill
Exit 23 off I-91 in Rocky Hill. Follow parks signs east on West Street for approximately 1 mile. The park is directly off West Street. Watch for signs and a large geodesic dome.
Passport to Parks eliminates day-use parking fees for all those entering in Connecticut registered vehicles. There is still a daily admission fee at Dinosaur, Gillette Castle and Fort Trumbull State Parks.
Adults (ages 13 and up) are $6, youth (ages 6 - 12) are $2, and children under 6 are free. Connecticut seniors over 65 years of age are eligible for a Charter Oak Pass (proof of residency is required).
The park accepts Visa, Master Card, and Discover Card for admission costs over $10. Admission costs less than $10 must be paid with cash or a check. Debit cards or American Express cards are not accepted.
State Park/Forest Fees | Season and other Park Passes
Heritage PassportThe Heritage Passport allows the bearer to gain admittance to three facilities (Dinosaur, Fort Trumbull and Gillette Castle State Parks) for unlimited visitation until the end of the calendar year in which it was purchased. The Heritage Passport cost is $67.00 and will allow a family (2 adults and up to 4 children) unlimited admittance to the three facilities.The Heritage Passport can be purchased at any one of the three facilities.
Park Map Arboretum Map
The Connecticut Valley has a long history of fossil track discoveries. Outstanding specimens uncovered in 19th century brownstone quarries found their way into museums throughout the world. A new chapter in the history of such discoveries was written in 1966 when hundreds of tracks were exposed in Rocky Hill. This remarkable site became Dinosaur State Park.
Video - Dinosaur State Park- Uncovering the Past
This video documents the uncovering of a portion of the dinosaur trackway at the park in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. This large trackway has been buried since it first was discovered in 1966. Archival footage from the original discovery is showcased along with present day interviews at the visitors center.
Video Tour of Dinosaur State Park (link to The Outdoor Enthusiast - CT Public Broadcastings Media Lab online project)
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Other Nearby State Recreation Areas Include:
Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middlefield Location: 2 miles southwest of Middletown on Route 157Activities: Cross-Country Skiing, Hiking, Mountain Biking, Picnicking, Stream Fishing, Swimming
Related Links
Connecticut Tourism Information
Friends of Dinosaur State Park
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1) India Gate and other monuments in Delhi in the video of the original song served as settings in important songs of the more recent Aamir Khan films Rang De Basanti (2006) and Fanaa (2006). Anyone remember the songs?
2) Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke was also the title of a 1992 film starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla. Juhi won a filmfare for her performance as the lead actress, and Aamir won the hearts of children who longed for a 'cool' uncle :)
Here is the original song and my attempt at a translation. From the movie Nau Do Gyarah (1957) starring Dev Anand and others. Vocals by Kishore Kumar, music by S. D. Burman, and lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Enjoy.
We are the followers of the path to love [1]
Do not tell us anything
Whoever meets us with love, we are theirs
We are theirs
Whoever meets us with love, we are theirs
We accept pain, we accept peace
We have sewn all types of flowers into the garland
Whoever meets us with love...
Sunlight was in our destiny, so we breathed in the sunlight
When we received moonlight, we slept in it too
Whoever meets us with love...
Trusting our heart, we lived like this:
Laughed at one step, cried at another. [2]
Whoever meets us with love...
We have been lying at the path for a while, swear by you [3]
At least look at us, say oh say [something]
Whoever meets us with love...
1: 'Hum' is literally translated as 'we', but is often used in the singular form in Urdu. My understanding is that 'hum' is more formal than 'main/mein', which is 'I'. If one were to replace 'we' with 'I' above, the translation would not lose its essence, although the subject would be slightly altered (a thought: maybe they are referring to more than one person, as in the community of lovers?! This makes it easier for the audience to relate to).
2: The literal translation would be 'cried at one step', as opposed to 'cried at another'. This is done to retain the flow of the syllables while sounding poetic.
3: 'Aap ki qasam', translated as 'swear by you', is one of the strongest forms of commitment that can be offered in the language. Find the context it is used in here quite interesting. One could take it as desperation (as in: 'trust me!') or as seriousness (as in: 'you better believe it').
Lastly, here is the song used in Dil Hai Ke Maanta Nahin. That [white] sailor cap is right up there with the 'Friend' cap from Maine Pyar Kiya (1989):
PS: This song also reminds me of one of my all-time favorite old songs, from the film Tum Sa Nahin Dekha. Hope to discuss that soon as well.


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Should There Be a Price on Carbon?
What price carbon? That question is splitting even those who agree that government should be pursuing policies to promote clean energy.
Supporters say making industries that burn fossil fuels pay to spit out carbon dioxide would encourage a shift to cleaner, alternative-energy sources by making it more expensive to burn coal, gasoline or natural gas. Some favor a cap-and-trade system, which sets a limit (the cap) on emissions and creates a market where companies can buy and sell permits to discharge carbon dioxide (the trade). Others favor a simpler tack: Tax companies on the carbon they emit.
Critics, meanwhile, say any price on carbon is misguided. A better, less costly approach, they say, would be for governments to invest directly in clean-energy technologies.
The Wall Street Journal asked three experts—David Weisbach, a professor of law at the University of Chicago; Eileen Claussen, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; and Ted Nordhaus, chairman of the think tank Breakthrough Institute—to debate the issue.
Here are edited excerpts of their discussion:
Reducing Emissions
WSJ: Do we need a price on carbon? If so, what's the best way to do it?
MR. WEISBACH: We need a price on carbon for the simple reason that activities that result in emissions don't bear their full cost.
A carbon tax ensures that when people choose to use fossil fuels or engage in other activities that emit greenhouse gases, they see the full price. Without a carbon tax, people don't consider all of the costs of their activities when making choices, such as how much to drive, how big a house to buy and so forth. Without a tax, it is as if we subsidize pollution relative to its price in a complete market.
MS. CLAUSSEN: There are many reasons to put a price on carbon, the most important being that climate change is already costing society (through extreme weather events), and we need to take action to limit those costs.
A cap-and-trade system has the advantage of letting policy makers decide the policy objective (to reduce emissions by a certain amount), and letting the market find the lowest-cost way of doing so. With a tax, the government decides the amount of the tax and hopes that the level selected meets a particular objective.
MR. NORDHAUS: Accelerating the rate of technological change through direct support for technological innovation and commercialization will prove to be vastly more important to how much it costs to deal with climate change or, for that matter, whether we do much of anything about it at all.
We deal with all kinds of harms without pricing them. We conquered cholera and other diseases, cleaned up our rivers and our skies, and dramatically improved the safety of our roads, all without pricing. U.S. emissions are declining faster than any place else in the world today without a price on carbon.
MS. CLAUSSEN: And why are our emissions declining? One reason is certainly the state of the economy. I would rather have a robust economy and declining emissions, and that is why I believe pricing carbon should be the cornerstone of our effort.
MR. NORDHAUS: The European Union economy has also suffered, yet U.S. emissions have declined faster without a price on carbon than EU emissions have declined with one.
U.S. emissions are declining more rapidly because cheap natural gas, made possible in significant part thanks to three decades of public investment in unconventional gas technologies, is rapidly displacing coal. The EU, despite its vaunted cap-and-trade program, continues to build new coal plants. History suggests that outside of economic recessions and depressions, the only measures that have succeeded in driving long-term decarbonization rates have been policies to directly encourage the shift to cleaner energy supplies—nuclear in France and Sweden, gas in the U.K., and dirty coal to cleaner coal in Germany after reunification.
That is what we did over three decades with gas. Federal investments were key to virtually every critical technology—horizontal drilling, multidimensional imaging, downhole motors, super-efficient gas turbines—that made the gas revolution possible. We will need the same kind of commitment to develop cost-effective renewables, nuclear and transportation technologies in order to sustain the current emissions declines that new gas technologies are driving and that will be even more important in the developing world, where the lion's share of future emissions will come from.
MS. CLAUSSEN: While the switch to gas has displaced conventional coal and therefore reduced emissions, it is also likely to displace nuclear and renewables. Keep in mind that gas still emits a lot of carbon.
A price on carbon can help create a level playing field that will increase the demand for all low-carbon and no-carbon technologies. To dismiss that idea, particularly in lean budget times where we aren't likely to see huge investments in clean technologies, seems awfully foolish.
Boosting Viability
WSJ: Would a price on carbon make other technologies—wind, solar, nuclear or carbon capture—more attractive and viable?
MR. WEISBACH: A price on carbon would make natural gas relatively less expensive than coal, so we would shift even more away from coal and into gas. It also makes carbon-free energy more attractive then gas, so wind, solar, etc., would be relatively more competitive. With a carbon tax, clean energy can compete with fossil fuels on an even footing.
MR. NORDHAUS: There is little evidence that pricing consistent with anything that anyone thinks even remotely plausible politically would create sufficient incentive to deploy substantially more wind, solar, nuclear, or really anything other than gas.
The only two nations in the world that have ever achieved long-term rates of decarbonization consistent with mitigating climate change are France and Sweden. Both did so through direct, public deployment of the only zero-carbon technology we have capable of displacing large amounts of fossil energy: nuclear power.
MS. CLAUSSEN: [Under a cap-and-trade program], the ability to trade is an added incentive to innovate and have extra allowances to sell.
But another issue is certainty going out into the future. If the cap-and-trade program has a clear set of objectives over time, companies will have an easier time making the capital expenditures [needed for technology development]. Public utility commissions would also have the policy rationale to approve higher-cost technologies, knowing they would be necessary in the future.
MR. WEISBACH: A carbon tax doesn't require an initial allocation of permits. Thus the temptation to give the permits to politically favored industries doesn't present itself. I think this is a very substantial benefit of a tax.
Mitigating the Pain
WSJ: Since economies benefit from cheap energy, how would you mitigate the cost of making energy more expensive by pricing carbon?
MS. CLAUSSEN: Tax revenue raised from a carbon tax can be used to mitigate costs or to reduce taxes on other productive resources like employment. Similarly, allowances can be distributed to those impacted, or they can be sold and the revenue used to mitigate the costs and/or reduce other taxes. Under a tax, a likely outcome is that you get a lot of tax exemptions, which undermines the environmental effectiveness of the program.
Under cap and trade, you get a lot of free allowance allocation, where you still get your environmentally effective program.
MR. WEISBACH: A tax provides a steady and easy-to-see price signal. Businesses would know exactly what the price is and could make plans given that price. With a cap-and-trade system, the price is constantly changing based on market whims. What probably matters even more than whether we have a tax or cap and trade is how we manage the transition to a carbon price and how we deal with industries that are exposed to competition from businesses operating in countries without a price.
MR. NORDHAUS: What will determine the success of climate mitigation will be how rapidly you can drive down the cost of zero-carbon alternatives. Making fossil energy more expensive won't have much impact on emissions unless the alternatives get much cheaper. By contrast, making clean energy much cheaper will have significant impact on emissions even if you don't price carbon.
Mr. Totty is an editor for The Journal Report in San Francisco. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Corrections & Amplifications
The carbon-dioxide emissions figures in the chart accompanying this article are in millions of metric tons. An earlier version of the chart incorrectly omitted that they were in millions.
The Readers Weigh In
Should there be a price on carbon-dioxide emissions? Here are selected comments from an advance poll on WSJ.com:
Yes! Better to tax something harmful than tax beneficial things like payroll, income, investments.
Yes, let's all stop using the main ingredient that makes our economy work. Brilliant idea!
Andy Engle
Companies are only going to get serious about clean investments once it makes business sense. The simplest way to make emissions reduction economical is to tax emissions. For economists, that's a no-brainer. It's also a no-brainer that revenue from a carbon tax would allow us to lower taxes on payrolls and income. Why should pollution be free and hard work be punished?
How do you justify a tax to reduce fossil fuel consumption that will likely do more damage to the economy when there is no realistic alternative for the vast majority of users?
Christopher Reid
Just what America needs: more taxes! Because you know the average person can totally afford it now!
Brian Olson
I can see a tax on coal and oil as long as the money goes to investments in alternative energy sources to reduce our energy dependence.
Why not make those who dirty the air pay for it to be cleaned? I'd also like to see better incentives for using clean, alternative energy, and solar panels for home use.
Ron Smiley
Taxing industry is the same as taxing the people. They will pass the extra cost on to us.
Riley Florence
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I knew it was going to make a great Project Life organizer for all the little elements I want to keep handy as I start my first PL-esque album. I just removed the slots as needed to "customize" the cubby sizes and viola!
Now everything is right at my fingertips and ready to go!


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Tom Watson
"Deeply concerned" Vaz tables EDM for MW3, Watson reacts
He's back at it. Labour MP Keith Vaz has tabled an Early Day Motion on Modern Warfare 3 in Parliament. [Spoilers for MW3 after the break]
Tom Watson headlines
Politician proposes tax breaks for UK game devs
British Labour MP Tom Watson has come out in support of the games industry, calling for reforms to the Research and Development Tax Credit system.
Modern Warfare 2: Watson bites Vaz over Mail comments
Labour MP Tom Watson has told the BBC that remarks made by anti-game stalwart Keith Vaz about Modern Warfare 2 todkay ared a bridge too far. "Everything that comes out of Parliament in relation to video games is relentlessly negative," he said. "There are thousands of people employed in this industry, there are 26 million […]
Children should play more games, says Cabinet minister
Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson's told the Mirror that children should be encourage to play more videogames. Watson, who is in charge of encouraging new technology across Government, said: "Basically, I think playing games is a good thing. "I'd rather my boy be playing on his Wii than passively watching telly. "Most games are educational. […]


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So happy to have you as a friend on Atheist Nexus. I look forward to learning more about you, your ideas, your hopes, dreams, desires.
Ah, you just got out of college or something, and you haven't decided where you want to move to ... or something along those lines?
Hi. I extend a friendly hand in welcoming you to A.N. I love W. Neb--the Sand Hills (and Mari Sandoz), fossil sites, lore, etc.
Greetings BT
It is good to have you join us. Welcome to this cheerful friendly Internet community of rationality and peace, common sense and freethinking evidence-based wisdom.
We invite you to join the busy group "ORIGINS: Universe, Astronomy, Life, Earth, Humans, Religion, Gods, Atheism, Evolution, Darwin..." with 900 discussion topics and 4100 members. http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/originsuniverselifehumankindanddarwin
There are 1100 groups in Atheist Nexus. Do go visiting.
I can imagine what it must be like reaching out and finding others to talk to. Oklahoma and Nebraska are about on a par, in terms of default religiosity, right?
BT, welcome to Atheist Nexus. I looked up Scottsbluff, NE and my goodness, what an interesting sight!. A lot of history there and I understand fossil hunting offers treasures of many kinds. I think you will find many topics that will interest you and the people here are intelligent, wise and sometimes funny.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
January 2004
Better understanding of the sensitivity of the earth's climate system to changes in greenhouse gases critically important
AS&GCD's Ruby Leung's research and recent work by Jae Edmonds at the Joint Global Change Research Institute demonstrate the critical importance of better understanding the sensitivity of the Earth's climate system to changes in greenhouse gases. In an invited presentation at the Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Stabilization Scenarios held January 21-22, 2004 at the National Institutes for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba Japan, Edmonds explored the interplay between the physics of the climate system and policies that would need to be enacted to deal with the negative impacts of climate change. One of Edmond's principal observations is the importance of climate sensitivity, i.e., the change in global mean surface temperature to a doubling of CO2 concentrations, in determining the concentration at which future CO2 concentrations must be stabilized. If increases in global-average surface temperatures must be limited to no more than 2C in order to avoid unacceptable damage to the environment, a climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling of 1.5C means that the concentration of CO2 could safely rise above 700 ppm, while a climate sensitivity of 4.5C means that the CO2 concentration would have to be stabilized at 400 ppm. Both of these climate sensitivity values are within the current range of uncertainty.
Edmonds' study also emphasized the economic consequences of better understanding of climate sensitivity. If climate sensitivity is on the low end of the current uncertainty range the cost of achieving stabilization of CO2 concentrations will be trillions of dollars cheaper that if it is on the high end of this range.


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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski, 1933–, Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned to Kraków, Poland, when he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his mother died at Auschwitz, but Polanski, living partly on his own, escaped the Holocaust. He began to act after the war and later (1954–59) studied filmmaking in Łódź, where he made a number of notable shorts, e.g., Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958). His first feature-length work, the Polish-language Knife in the Water (1962), a sexually charged psychological drama, brought him international acclaim. From his earliest efforts and throughout his career, Polanski has exhibited a taste for dramatic situations presented with a cool lack of sentimentality and marked by unexpected violence and a sense of irony, black humor, and isolation and dread. Moving to England, he made three films, the best known of which is the intense, erotic, and terrifying Repulsion (1965).
Polanski went on to Hollywood in 1968 and that year made his American debut with the horror classic Rosemary's Baby, his greatest commercial success. In 1969 his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and a group of their friends were murdered by members of the Charles Manson "family." Subsequently, Polanski settled in France but returned to the States to make the award-winning noir detective thriller Chinatown (1974). After pleading guilty to statutory rape in 1977, he fled (1978) before sentencing to France, where he had become (1976) a citizen, and has not returned to the United States. In 2009 he was arrested in Switzerland on an outstanding warrant arising from the case and placed under house arrest, but he was not extradited (2010) and was released. A request for extradition from Poland was also denied (2015–16).
Polanski's subsequent films include Tess (1980), based on a Thomas Hardy novel; the thriller Frantic (1988); the erotically compelling Bitter Moon (1992); and Death and the Maiden (1994), based on an Ariel Dorfman play. After a few largely forgettable films, he directed The Pianist (2002), a brooding, intimate, and fear-haunted drama based on the true story of a Holocaust survivor, for which Polanski received an Academy Award. His next major film was The Ghost Writer (2010), a moody contemporary political thriller that combines menace with irony. He also has acted in and written screenplays for a number of his films.
See his autobiography (1984); biographies by T. Kiernan (1981), V. W. Wexman (1985), and C. Sandford (2008); studies by I. Butler (1970), B. Leaming (1981), J. Parker (1993), and D. Bird (2001); A. Corcetti, dir., Roman Polanski: Reflections of Darkness (documentary, 2000); M. Zenovich, dir., Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (documentary, 2008).


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Rowdy crowds waiting in line for a July Fourth pool party featuring Sean "Diddy" Combs forced the event to be shut down before the rap and fashion mogul had a chance to enter.
Police shut down the party early Monday, forcing some 1,800 guests out of the Harrah's Resort Atlantic City nightclub known as The Pool.
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On his Twitter feed, Diddy wrote, "I just shut down Atlantic City! The party was so crazy I couldn't even get in! 10 thousand people showed up. … I was ready to party!"
Casino staff said that the actual crowd was not nearly that large but that they decided to cancel the event in the name of safety.
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"Because of the large response on the 4th, we made a proactive decision to postpone the originally scheduled nightlife activities," said Jay Snowden, the casino's senior vice president and general manager, in a statement.
The trouble began around 12:30 a.m. when an estimated 500 people in line tried to force their way in, authorities said. All the casino's bars were also closed early because of the brouhaha.
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May 21, 2007
Favorite Day
Win yesterday boosted the Phillies Sunday record since Citizens Bank Park opened to 35-10. No wonder Sunday season ticket customers have smiles on their faces.
RHP Adam Eaton turned in his third consecutive quality start, the 11th in the lasts 14 games for the starting rotation.
Shutting the Door
Brett Myers has a 0.90 since moving to the bullpen. In 20 innings as a reliever, he has struck out 30. The Phillies are 14-1 in his last 15 appearances.
Brett topped out at 97 mph in recording his sixth save yesterday. He struck out two of the four hitters he faced. "I stuck with my fastball. I was going to keep throwing it until they hit it. I said '(They) are going to have to hit my best stuff,' and fortunately, I had a good fastball," he was quoted in Scott Lauber's story this a.m. in the Wilmington News-Journal.
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Phillies completed a 7-3 homestand, averaging 38,309 per game . . . 2,783 total pitches were thrown in the 10 games . . . Pat Burrell had five homers in 30 at-bats; drove in 11 runs . . . Greg Dobbs hit .414, Abraham Nunez, .353 . . . Cole Hamels won two games, 18 strikeouts in 15 innings . . . Brett Myers had a win and three saves . . . Shane Victorino had three assists . . . Since April 19, the Phillies and Mets have the most wins in the NL, 19 each.
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The annual Phillies Phestival, which raises funds for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), is on tap tonight. Gates open at 5.
It is a total team effort, players and their wives, coaches, Charlie Manuel, broadcasters, ball girls and the front office staff, will all be pitching in to help strike out ALS. Players meet sponsors and ALS patients and then sign autographs for two hours. They board a charter flight around 9 for Miami and a three-game series against the Marlins starting tomorrow night.
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The Central Bank's trading bracket for the US Dollar ended the week at [1,501-1,514] implying an end of week average LL/USD exchange rate of 1,507.50.
Lebanon's balance of payments (BoP) recorded a cumulative surplus of $25.50 million in the first 8 months of 2000, compared to a deficit of $31.1 million in the same period last year. The BoP registered a surplus of $70 million in August compared to a $100.4 million surplus in July and a deficit of $34.7 million in August of last year. The August surplus was caused by an increase of $131 million in the Central Bank's net foreign assets and a drop of $61 million in those of banks and financial institutions. The balance of payments registered a surplus of $267.7 million in 1999.
Figures released by the Finance Ministry show that Lebanon 's net public debt totaled $21.716 billion at the end of August, constituting an increase of 10.14 percent in 2000 and a rise of 15.68 percent on a yearly basis. Net domestic debt reached $15.83 billion, increasing by 11.65 percent in 2000 and rising 13.24 percent year-on-year, while foreign debt rose 6.23 percent so far this year to $5.883 billion. Foreign currency borrowing accounts for 27.1 percent of total net public debt and reflects the ongoing restructuring of the debt as the Lebanese government is gradually shifting towards foreign financing in order to borrow at lower cost and over a longer period of time.
The Central Bank's index of economic activity in Lebanon, an average of 12 weighted economic indicators, reached 200.8 in August compared to 195.5 in July and 181.8 in August 1999. The yearly average for the index was 185 in 1999 and ended the year at 196.6. Based on the index's 1999 results, the Central Bank stated that the Lebanese economy grew by 1 percent last year. The results continue to reflect the prevailing economic slowdown in the country.
Imports reached $4.602 billion in the first 9 months of 2000, a 1.07 percent drop compared to the same period last year, while exports totaled $531 million, up 12.97 percent over the same period last year. The trade deficit amounted to $4.182 billion, down $111 million, or 2.65 percent, from the first 9 months of 1999. The export to import ratio was 11.54 percent, improving from the 10.11 percent registered during the corresponding period last year.
The decline in imports is attributed to higher customs duties, and reflects the prevailing tight liquidity and continuing weak consumer demand. Italy was Lebanon's main source of imports followed by France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. The United Arab Emirates was the main export destination with $59 million, or 11.12 percent or the total, and was followed by Saudi Arabia with 10.36 percent, Switzerland with 7.65 percent, the United States with 5.65 percent and France with 5.47 percent.
Customs revenues reached $953.3 million in the first 9 months of 2000, down 9.11 percent from the same period last year. Customs revenues stood at $106.2 million in September compared to $119.4 million in August and $107.5 million in September 1999. Income from customs and tariffs accounted for 44 percent and 47 percent of government revenues in 1999 and 1998, respectively.— ( Lebanon Invest)


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Cystic Fibrosis and the Digestive System
How does cystic fibrosis affect the digestive system?
Children with cystic fibrosis (CF) have a protein in their cells that doesn't work right. The protein is called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR). CFTR controls the flow of water and certain salts in and out of the body's cells. As the movement of salt and water in and out of cells changes, mucus becomes thickened.
In the digestive system, CF mainly affects the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ that puts out (secretes) substances that help with digestion and control the body's levels of blood sugar.
The abnormality in CFTR causes the secretions from the pancreas to become thick. The thickened secretions can block the ducts within the pancreas. This blockage then causes a drop in the amount of digestive enzymes the pancreas secretes. Because of this, a child with CF has trouble absorbing fats, some proteins, and fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
The problems with the pancreas can become so severe that some of the hormone cells in the pancreas can be destroyed. This may lead to glucose intolerance and type 1 diabetes. About 35 percent of CF patients develop cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in their 20s, and more than 40 percent develop the disease after age 30.
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Frequent, bulky, greasy stools
A rare condition in which the end part of the bowels comes out of the anus (rectal prolapse)
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Fat in the stools
Stomach pain
Poor weight gain and growth
The child may also have bloating, flatulence, belly pain, and watery diarrhea caused by an overgrowth of bacteria.
The liver may also be affected. A small number of children may actually develop liver disease. Symptoms of liver disease may include:
Enlarged liver
Swollen belly
Yellow color to the skin (jaundice)
Vomiting blood
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HOTSEAT- Hello, Dolley: James Madison dishes on the state of the union
Talk about your tough interviews. Just getting on former President James Madison's calendar was a logistical nightmare, mainly because, well, he's dead. But with the help of those who know him best– and a little channeling– his exclusive interview with the Hook reveals that the Father of the Constitution is a remarkably modern man.
Don't let his short stature fool you. Of the Founding Fathers, five-foot-four James Madison was the brains behind the most enduring republic ever and the architect of the Bill of Rights, with its brilliant simplicity that encapsulated in just a few words in the First Amendment what Americans cherish most– freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to complain to our government.
Two hundred years after he was elected fourth president of the newly United States, and 221 years after his baby, the Constitution, was signed on September 17, 1787, the Orange County resident is pleased that the principles upon which he constructed a lasting democratic government in his library at Montpelier have remained sound.
Not that he brags about it. He does mention the fate of the French constitution and its attempt to "reinvent mankind" that led to the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. He understood that government could be the greatest tyrant, and that without good government, you don't have liberty.
Madison is pretty shrewd in his understanding of human nature, and he expects people to act in their own self-interest. "There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust," he says, quoting himself from the Federalist Papers.
He still likes the principles of "separation of powers" and "checks and balances," and he confesses that he finds it a bit worrisome how the executive branch bypasses Congress in some of its decisions on war and national security. "That is an imbalance," he warns.
On the other hand, he praises the Supreme Court's recent decision that prisoners held in Guantanamo cannot be held indefinitely without their day in court. He quotes with satisfaction Justice Anthony Kennedy: "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
James Madison is a modest man. Even when he was president, he didn't sit at the head of the table– that honor went to first First Lady Dolley Madison, the bride he took when he was 43, and he sat on the side.
He explains why he was happy to let "Father of Our Country" George Washington lead the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: He knew Washington's stature as a war leader would give credence to the constitution and government Madison envisioned.
Although he lived just 30 miles from the man at Monticello, Madison didn't meet his neighbor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson, until 1776 at the Virginia Constitutional Convention in Williamsburg, when the two began a 50-year friendship.
Jefferson was nine years older than Madison, and knew that his brilliant, Princeton-educated friend was the one to articulate the basis of government for the new nation. "If God is in the details, James Madison is right there to greet him," said Jefferson.
And like Thomas Jefferson, Madison has descendants of his slaves claiming that he fathered a child, although there were never the rumors of a slave mistress as there was with Sally Hemings. Did he or didn't he? Madison looks pained, and deftly changes the subject.
He does admit to one disappointment: That Constitution Day never took off as a holiday the way Independence Day did.
With his beloved home shorn of its pink stucco and finally coming back as he remembers– before Dolley had to sell it to cover his stepson's debts– and becoming the site of the Center for the Constitution, Madison says this is far better than having his picture on a coin or a big monument on the Mall.
Age: 257
Why here? There's no place like home.
What's worst about living here? Mr. Jefferson's shadow.
Favorite hangout? Mr. J's place (hey, he's still my best bud)
Most overrated virtue? Fame
People would be surprised to know: I tell a good joke and a few racy stories.
What would you change about yourself? Six inches taller; six-pack abs.
Proudest accomplishment? The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
People find most annoying about you: My stepson
Whom do you admire? Paul Jennings, my manservant
Favorite book? Tom Jones, when I get tired of re-reading The Federalist Papers
Subject that causes you to rant? My height and weight being under estimated
Biggest 21st-century thrill? The Bill of Rights still going strong.
Biggest 21st-century creep out? No one studies Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
What do you drive? Liberty, my favorite horse
In your car CD player right now: 1787: the Musical (I commissioned it)
Next journey? The west coast.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? The War of 1812
Regret: Never took Dolley to Europe
Favorite comfort food: Hostess Cakes
Always in your refrigerator: Sillabub (a milk-based alcohol concoction) and Dolley's ice cream in the freezer
Describe a perfect day: I tend to my grapes and figs at Montpelier while Dolley cuts flowers. Later, we sit on the front portico and sip Madeira while gazing at layers of blue-violet mountains.
Walter Mitty fantasy: Andrew Jackson wins the Battle of New Orleans before we negotiated the end of the War of 1812.
Who'd play you in the movie? I don't care as long as Angelina Jolie plays Dolley.
Most embarrassing moment? Being jilted by 16-year-old Kitty Floyd in 1783.
Best advice you ever got? Wait for the right woman to come along (she did).
Favorite bumper sticker? Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
– with additional reporting from the Montpelier Foundation and A.E. Dick Howard.
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Yours is an interesting reflection, but ... I might offer these observations.
1. No disrespect to Paul Jennings, I think Madison's tutor, Donald Robertson might have been his more immediate reply.
2. As to what he would change of himself, I think he would have been more inclined to discuss his physical ailments rather than his height or appearance.
3. His favorite book at least for leisure would have been the volumes of the Guardian, the Spectator, and/or the Tatler.
4. His favorite "hangout" more probably would have his library.
5. The subject which riled him more would have been unnecessary and counter-productive aquiescence to Great Britain in foreign affairs.
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Coast Distribution System Inc. today (March 31) reported its operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2008.
The Morgan Hill, Calif.-based supplier of aftermarket replacement parts, accessories and supplies for the RV, marine and outdoor recreation industries reported a net loss of $2.3 million on sales of $16.9 million for the fourth quarter 2008, compared with a loss of $1.5 million on sales of $26.7 million a year earlier.
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Monday afternoon at Allen Arena the Lady Bisons were out of synch from the start, falling to North Florida 57-53.
"For some reason we came out flat," Bennett said. "I don't know if it was the time of day or being the second game. I don't know if we played to their record. I don't want to make excuses, but for some reason we didn't play like we are capable of playing.
"We weren't really ourselves. We did a pretty good job of hanging in there and putting ourselves in a position where we had a chance. But we never could put a stop and score together to get over the hump."
Guards Miaca Bowman and Jenna Bartsokas each scored 11 points to lead the Lady Bisons.
Bowman is not known for taking many shots in a game. Her 3-pointer with 23 seconds left to play tied the game at 53-53. She was three-of-four from beyond the arc. The 11 points set a career and season high for Bowman.
"Miaca had a great look," Bennett said. "I was glad to see her take it. She has been wanting to take more shots."
Center Brittany Duerk and forward Hannah Phillips tied for the team lead in rebounding with six boards apiece.
The Lady Bisons shot 27.3 percent from the field, hitting 18-of-66 shots. North Florida, the winner of its first A-Sun game of the season, shot 50 percent, 23-of-46.
"We had too many defensive breakdowns," Bennett said. "We got frustrated and didn't shoot the ball with confidence either.
"We played flat. It is hard to ever get out of that. We missed a lot of pretty good looks. Defensively, we weren't jumping on the ball. We weren't helping."
North Florida also held the advantage on the boards hauling down 42. The Lady Bisons had 29.
Guard Brittany Taylor scored a game-high 14 points for North Florida. Forward Taylor Smith added 13.
Forward Larkira Jones pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds for North Florida.
"We gave them too many good looks," Bennett said. "They did a nice job of defending us and making us go to second, third or fourth options. We have to give North Florida credit."
The Lady Bisons return to action Thursday night when they make the short trip to Belmont for the first women's "Battle of the Boulevard" of the season.
The Lady Bisons are 7-8, 4-2 in the A-Sun. North Florida is 3-11, 1-4 in the conference.
"It's my fault for not having us ready to play," Bennett said. "We can beat any team in this league. We can also lose to any team in this league. We have to expect a battle every time.
"We can take this one of two ways. Hopefully, we will be more determined and have more fight this week."
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This piece is part of Michal Greenboim's "Orchard Trail" series, which creates photographic diptychs. These artworks were taken individually over the years while simply responding to the world, as if a visual journal, and then later paired. When examining the photographs, Michal realized that she had "subconsciously been photographing her childhood." Upon discovery, she said, "the pictures in front of me held deep memories of curiosity, innocence and wonder. They were my remembrances, like wandering in the backyard, exploring ephemeral moments like the sound of a tree or a bird in the sky."
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