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Definition of a Short Sale
A short sale differs greatly from a foreclosure. If you've ever wondered What is a Short Sale, a short sale is when an owner makes an agreement with the lender to sell the house for less than the mortgage is worth. However, because the sales price does not compensate for the seller's entire mortgage, the seller's credit will suffer and they may also be susceptible to tax consequences. In addition, short sales require that the lender accept the buyer's offer as opposed to in a normal sale where the seller accepts the buyer's offer.
Short Sale Process
The first factor in a short sale is that the market value of the property must be less than the total of the mortgages and liens. This is usually demonstrated through missed mortgage payments. Once this qualification is met, the lender has to agree to discount the balance of the mortgage due to a borrower's financial hardship. The property owner is then allowed to work with a real estate agent to sell the property for less than the balance of the mortgage. The real estate agent will list the property in the Multiple Listing Service also commonly known as the MLS. When the agent finds a buyer, the seller must be willing to move forward with their offer and the then next step is in the hands of the lender. Unlike normal property sales, in a short sale, the owner's lender must approve the buyer's offer through a review of all transaction documents. If the offer is approved, the transaction will close and the seller will not receive any monetary compensation.
The length of the short sale process depends largely on the seller. From the time that a seller is willing to move forward with an offer, the process can take on average anywhere from three to six months. Unlike popular belief, the time frame does not depend on the lender's loss litigation department. The seller is largely responsible for the speed of the process. If the seller actively participates in providing timely and complete documentation to the loss litigation department, the short sale process will move much quicker.
Credit Implications of doing a Short Sale
While banks incur a small loss from a short sale, the sellers' credit implications can vary greatly. It has been reported that on average, your credit score will reduce anywhere from 30 to 300 points after a short sale. While a short sale will appear on public record, the good news is that it may be reported as "paid-settled," which is less negative than the alternative of "pre-foreclosure in redemption." The difference in severity is whether or not the seller missed mortgage payments.
Additional implications include the ability to secure future loans. For instance, if you go through the short sale process and would like to purchase a new home, you have to wait a minimum of two years if you want an FHA loan. There are loan types with no time requirements, but you will most likely have a higher interest rate.
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The team at Miami Condo Investments is here to guide you through the short sale process. In our experience, we have seen that on average it takes anywhere between three and six months to receive a response from the bank after an offer has been submitted on an unapproved short sale. As previously noted, the time frame depends on the loss litigation department, but also on the accuracy of the paperwork that the seller has submitted to the bank. When buyers work with a Realtor® in purchasing a short sale, they have the comfort of knowing that the title of the property they purchased is free and clear.

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Jeanette McCulloch, IBCLC
Jeanette McCulloch, IBCLC, provides strategic communications support to MANA, including overseeing MANA's social media and member communications. She partners with MANA's team of volunteer online community managers (OCMs) to ensure MANA has a consistent online presence. She provides the OCMs with training, support, and strategy development. She also partners with the Communications Chair as the acting press officer. Jeanette is the co-founder of BirthSwell and a true believer in the power of communications to create change. BirthSwell is an organization improving infant and maternal health - and changing the way we talk about birth and breastfeeding - by simplifying communications and new media for birth and breastfeeding professionals and advocates. She has been using strategic communications and messaging to change policy, spread new ideas, and build thriving businesses for more than 20 years. Jeanette is honored to be working with local, statewide, national and international birth and breastfeeding organizations and advocates that are committed to increasing women's access to high-quality care and information. Jeanette unplugs while splashing around with her two children in the gorges of her hometown, Ithaca, NY.


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Beanie Sigel Busted For Weed
AllHipHop Staff
Philly rapper Beanie Sigel was arrested in a New Jersey suburb on Sunday (August 15), after police stopped a car he was traveling in and found a stash of marijuana.
Sigel, born Dwight Grant, was stopped in Wrightstown, New Jersey shortly after 12:30 AM, according to New Jersey Stat police.
The rapper was supposed to perform at a private event at Kellys Bar, which is owned by local councilman Scott Timberman.
According to the Burlington County Times , Sigel and two other men in the vehicle were charged with marijuana possession under 50 Grams and released.
Sigel, 35, was forced to cancel the performance due to the arrest as well.
In related news, Beanie Sigel is working on a new album titled The Broad Street Bully, which currently has a tentative release date of September 1.


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Quantitative Developer and Co-Founder, IEX New York, NY
Dan Aisen is a co-founder and quantitative developer at IEX. He is responsible for building and evolving core functionality for the IEX trading venue, namely its True Price™ matching engine and smart order router. Previously, he spent his entire career at RBC starting with a summer internship in cash equity trading before moving into algorithmic trading, where he was part of the product team developing THOR, RBC's flagship trading product. Dan graduated with honors from Stanford University in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Mathematical and Computational Science.
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Surprise Surprise is hosted by Holly Willoughby, who rewards the country's most extraordinary people with spectacular surprises.
This Christmas special, to air on Boxing Day night, will feature a number of emotional surprises and a dramatic family reunion, as Holly celebrates those who do so much for others and expect nothing in return.
On the show, international and multi award winning boy band One Direction give two deserving sisters a surprise of a lifetime.
Eve Hooley, 42 from Newcastle, is nominating her daughters Rachel Hooley, 11 and Kate Hooley, 15 for their bravery and support.
Kate was just 11 when in January 2012 out of the blue her sister Rachel approaching her 8th birthday became seriously ill. Rachel sadly experienced a complete heart failure and was on a life support machine with her life hanging in the balance. Rachel's only hope of pulling through was to receive a heart transplant. Her older sister Kate was by her sister's side every minute she was able and was the rock of the family.
Incredibly a suitable heart had become available and luckily Rachel's body responded well. With the daily encouragement and support from her big sister, Rachel pushed herself to surpass all recovery expectations.
Her family have never forgotten the donor, their families' loss and the importance of organ donation. So much so that Rachel and Kate now do everything they can to raise money and awareness of organ donation.
Also on tonight's show, rower and double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell surprises an unbelievable and heroic ex -serviceman.
Bronwyn Royce, 53 from south africa is nominating her son Cayle Royce, 29 for his amazing bravery and determination against all odds.
Cayle was born in south africa but in 2006 he moved to England and fulfilled his dream of joining the British Armed Forces.
In 2012 Cayle was deployed in Afghanistan on a mission with the Brigade Reconnaissance Force when his life changed. His brigade were tasked with searching Helmond Province for Taliban compounds when they were ambushed. On their escape, Cayle stood on a land mine. More horrifying still, the land mine was intended for vehicles rather than humans and on impact lost both legs, most of his fingers on his left hand and severely injured his face, he bruised his lungs and heart and broke his neck in three places. He fought for his life, and after coming out of a 48-day coma, astonishingly he survived.
Cayle defied all the odds and has gone on to do extraordinary things. He has since gone on to row the Atlantic, hand cycle across America, and para-trike across both Kenya and America, raising awareness and money for charity. This Christmas he will embark on the first all disabled row across the Atlantic.
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First Time Client Offer: $99 3D Tour5867
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Screen Grab (above) from a Matterport Service Provider website
Hi All,
I noticed this special offer on a Matterport Service Provider website today (29 November 2017).
What is your First Time Client Offer?
Happy holidays,
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|Well it's not $99. So my question would be did we have to agree with this as a listed Matterport provider beforehand or we have the agent tell us after we talked with them? I wish they would tell the provider when they do this.
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For clarification, the offer has nothing to do with the MSP Program. This is simply a Matterport Pro making his/her offer.
Does that help?
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|It's a good loss leader.
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|Ouch,.. although, I would hope that there would be significant add-ons, hosting, extra charges for video, floorplans etc...
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|Ok Dan thanks I read over it and thought it was directly from Matterport,
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New York City
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|Tripod OPTIONAl. For $99 I HOLD the camera over my head. For $300-$600 I'll use a tripod.
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|@3dvuz you might have alignment issues
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Las Vegas
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|Dropping my price to $150 isn't going to be enough now? Crap, I'm soo behind the curve on pricing!
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|I have seen a provider's offer for "$99 for a scan". It's a race to the bottom. Once a "$99" price is set, a customer will expect it again and again or something close. He is following the Cable TV/Satellite TV pricing scheme. (If he is following the cell phone marketing scheme -- he is hitting them with a TON of hidden extra fees.)
Let's look at the costs:
Travel Expense (presume 20 miles round trip): $9.00 (using a rate of $0.45 per mile)
Model Processing fee: $19.00 (presuming he has used up his "free processing for the month)
Model hosting fee ($1.50) (presuming an amortized fee of $0.50 per model per month for full utilization)
Matterport camera amortization: $7.70 (presuming $3,900 cost, amortization over 3 years, 50 weeks, 1 scan per day)
Out of $99.00, costs have taken $37.20, leaving $61.80 gross profit. (Presuming 2.5 hours on site, 1 hour post-processing to make an entry point, find stills for the highlight reel, send the link to the client by email. This is an apparent labor rate of $17.66 per hour)
But it gets better:
In the USA:
There is a 15.3% Social Security Tax on the income ($9.46)
He will probably pay 15% or more income tax ($9.27)
Depending on where he lives, there may be local occupation or income taxes. But we won't consider them.
(I have not included any pre-sales time or amortization of office costs.)
So, out of $99.00, this service provider will have less than $43.07 for the work in his pocket.
Far better for all of us in the market to price our services and products fairly and at a rate that will pay our bills, make a decent profit and allow us to stay in business for some lengthy period of time.
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The writingsnippets crew reads first pages of YA classic and contemporary novels to see what sold in the past and what sells now. We compare hooks, voice, viewpoint, description, setting, character, and more. We'll be giving away one of the books we evaluate this month, so be sure to leave a comment if you want to be entered in a drawing, and let us know which book you'd prefer to win.
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Minden man denies assault with a deadly weapon, other charges
A Minden man denied charges of assault with a deadly weapon, destruction of property and child abuse and endangerment.
Justin A. Moore, 44, was arrested Sept. 28 when deputies were dispatched to Ironwood Drive and Highway 395 in reference to a traffic accident. Emergency calls to dispatch said a man in a white truck was ramming into an SUV with a woman and baby inside. On scene, deputies saw people in the road around a white truck and SUV that appeared to have been in an accident.
Deputies made contact with Moore, who said there was a road rage incident and he intentionally struck the vehicle because he did not want the woman to leave the scene. Reports said the female had run into a hotel nearby to escape from Moore.
Moore and his attorney, Mathew Ence, asked for a trial to be set out longer than 60 days from Monday, however prosecutor Ric Casper said he preferred to have a trial within 60 days. The parties will be notified by the court next week about when a trial date will be scheduled.
Update: District Judge Tom Gregory congratulated Cassandra B. Robertson on July 15, and ordered her charges dismissed after she completed her treatment program. She completed an inpatient program.
A Gardnerville woman admitted to an alternative sentencing violation in Judge Thomas Gregory's court on Monday.
Cassandra B. Robertson, 20, admitted to taking NyQuil, thus testing positive for alcohol in her drug test. She was originally arrested for burglary, obstructing an officer and minor consuming alcohol.
Deputies responded to a trespassing call to the 1300 block of Mary Jo Drive in Gardnerville, where they met with the reporting party who said her daughter, Robertson had entered into her home without permission through a "dog door" and drank one and a half bottles of wine from her home.
The reporting party told deputies Robertson might have been at another relative's home. Deputies made contact with Robertson's cousin at the residence, when Robertson came to the door she closed and locked it without letting officers in. The officers then got permission from Robertson's cousin, the owner of the home, and placed Robertson under custody. Robertson's blood alcohol content was 0.141.
Robertson was granted a diversion program at her last hearing. Her aunt, admitted in court to giving Robertson the NyQuil without knowing it contained alcohol. However Gregory said it was Robertson's responsibility to make sure she didn't violate again. Robertson was allowed to continue her diversion program.


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Creamy spinach soup
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal226
- fat14g
- saturates8g
- carbs17g
- sugars0g
- fibre3g
- protein10g
- salt1.22g
- 50g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 medium potato, peeled and chopped into chunks
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 450ml chicken or vegetable stock
- 600ml milk
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- 450g fresh spinach, washed if necessary and roughly chopped
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…
- finely grated zest of half a lemon
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- freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
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- 3 tbsp double cream, to serve
Melt the butter in a large lidded saucepan, add the onion and garlic and fry gently for 5-6 minutes until softening. Stir in the potato and continue to cook gently for 1 minute. Pour in the stock and simmer for 8-10 minutes until the potato starts to cook. Pour in the milk and bring up to a simmer, then stir in half the spinach and the lemon zest. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes until the spinach has completely wilted down. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes.
Pour the soup into a blender (preferably) or food processor, add the remaining spinach (this will keep the soup bright green and fresh tasting) and process until silky smooth – you may need to do this in batches depending on the size of your machine. (The soup may now be frozen for up to 1 month. Defrost in the microwave or overnight in the fridge. The soup may lose some of its vibrancy on freezing, but the flavour won't be impaired.) Return to the pan and reheat. Taste and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. You may like to dilute the soup with a little extra stock if too thick. Ladle the soup into bowls and swirl in the cream
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Getting it bright greenThe secret of a fresh-flavoured, bright green soup is to cook half the spinach briefly in the soup for depth of flavour, then add the remaining raw spinach when liquidising.


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London, United Kingdom – May 2015 – The success of the online business magazine RichTopia.com comes from a desired mix of valuable content on business innovations, market analysis, real estate, finance, and economics. All of it is offered on an easy to maneuver digital platform. Founder and CEO Derin Cag is leading a stable of more than twenty contributing writers from a variety of professional business backgrounds into a brighter future of business journalism. The content is designed to help propel the everyday business man and woman forward in the world of business and finance.
Contributions from top leaders and thinkers such as Stephen Shapiro (Author & advisor to global companies like NASA, Nike and Microsoft), Kara Goldin (CEO & Founder of Hint Inc.), Dr. Suzanne Rosselet (International professor & Former Deputy Director of IMD's World Competitiveness Center), Mae Merriweather (Professional Freelance Writer, Business Consultant and Accountant) and many other professionals make it the place to read the best articles on making life richer.
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Derin Cag states that "the aim of RichTopia.com is to make it easier for people to lead a richer lifestyle." So far it has exceeded expectations in bringing the human element of business and finance out of the shadows. It is the one digital business magazine that helps level the playing field to make success possible for anyone.
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In less than 16 months (started counting Sep 2009) I witnessed three different frozen yogurt bars pop up in Greensboro, NC: Feeney's, Frozato, and Taste. Now there's a grand total of four frozen yogurt bars (Red Mango, the fourth, may have been here before I noticed the proliferation) to serve the ~260K residents of Greensboro. Each seems to have staked out a particular location - well away from each other - and the corresponding demographic.
How can / will each bar differentiate itself? Do they have to? Can all four be successful? Will there be a fifth? I'll have to check back in a few years and see.
The point is that when my students were tasked to brainstorm new ideas, they would get frustrated because they often couldn't invent something never-before-seen new. I kept reminding them that you may not have to come up with the new idea first, just be better at executing it. After all, Google didn't invent search - whether or not they've perfected it is an oft debated matter of opinion. L. didn't invent the condom but they sure are making headlines with their approach. There are countless others, but the result is the same: it may not always be a matter of invent, but re-invent, differentiation via the execution.
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INNside the 'Verse Episode 27
Welcome to INNside the 'Verse Episode 27!
We have a pretty short episode for you today. This week, we have myself, Commander Cruisin' Tom, and Nehkara.
All three of us were pretty exhausted when we recorded this episode, as this was recorded the morning after INN's super special superthon marathon of awesome (Video coming soon) + Wing Commander with Ben Lesnick.
It was a crazy night, and we talk about it a fair bit in the cast.
That said, here are this week's topics!
1:40 – Fan Spotlight – The awesome crazies that stuck with us the entire day, throughout the whole stream. You guys are the best.
3:11 – Ben and Wing Commander
9:00 – News with Nehkara!
15:50 – What does CIG have to do to bring more fans to Star Citizen?
As always, thanks to everyone who listens! If you're interested in supporting us, we have a Patreon! If you want to help out with INN, writing, video, pictures, etc… check out our 'Get Involved' page!
That's it for us this week!
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Bush's proposal for welfare moms and the real White House agenda
Buried in the details of
the regressive, militarist, and fiscally irresponsible budget plan released by
the White House in early February is a weak but revealing proposal of marriage.
At this writing, the Bush administration is asking Congress for $100 million of
federal welfare money to pay for experimental state programs to promote marriage
among the nation's single welfare mothers. The proposal is based on the
right-wing notion, trumpeted by reactionary think tanks like the Heritage
Foundation, that the root causes of poverty and related alleged "welfare
dependency" among the nation's most disadvantaged citizens are out-of-wedlock
child births and the collapse of the traditional two-parent family. It's a
convenient notion for policymakers who wish to avoid honest discussion of how
the so-called welfare reform bill of 1996, which kicked millions of single
mothers off public assistance and into the supposedly high-opportunity U.S. job
market, has predictably worsened the plight of the nation's most disadvantaged
children. That bill, titled the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act" (PRA) was prefaced by the official Congressional "finding"
that "marriage is the foundation of a successful society."
Proponents of "marriage as the
solution to poverty" wield a superficially impressive array of statistics
showing that children born to unmarried parents are more likely to be born at a
low birth weight, develop poor cognitive and verbal abilities, experience abuse,
and "fail" in marriages than their counterparts in two parent homes. They cite
solid and standard evidence that children in two-parent families do better
financially and emotionally than children in single-parent homes. They note that
the majority of adult welfare recipients are single mothers struggling with the
task of paying for children they lack the earnings to support. They conduct
counterfactual "microsimulation analyses" to "show" that the child poverty rate
would be 3 to 4 points lower if the "the proportion of children living in
female-headed families [had] remained constant" rather than increasing from
nearly 11 to more than 23 percent between 1970 and 1998.
Armed with such
findings and with the often quite literally religious belief that the two-parent
heterosexual family is the indispensable "foundation" of the good society, some
state policymakers have already introduced a number of programs to promote
marriage among the nation's disproportionately black and urban population of
welfare moms. The measures include cash payments ($100 a month) to welfare
mothers who tie the knot (West Virginia), marriage education for couples
receiving welfare (Oklahoma), and marriage skills courses and a "healthy
marriage handbook" for single welfare mothers (Arizona). Bush hopes to make the
expansion of such experiments across the country into a central component of the
federal welfare bill, which Congress is scheduled to re-authorize this year.
The influence of
the idea that marriage is the solution to poverty in the Bush administration was
evident last spring. That's when the White House appointed Wade Horn, founder of
the "pro-marriage" Fatherhood Initiative, to become Assistant Secretary for
Family Support at the Department of Health and Human Services. Insisting that
poor mothers are poor because they are not married, Horn has called for the
federal government to give preference to children from two-parent families over
children of single parents in admissions to the Head Start program.
Bush, Horn, and
Heritage childishly confuse cause and effect when it comes to grasping
fundamental relationships between poverty and family structure. It is one thing
to find that children and families tend to do better, materially and otherwise,
when they are organized along stable two-parent lines. Since correlation is not
causation, however, it is quite another thing to extrapolate from that basic and
uncontroversial finding to conclude that declining marriage and rising single
motherhood are the causes of poverty and related alleged "welfare dependency."
The best poverty
and family research suggests precisely the reverse, showing—and this finding was
absent from the preface to the PRA—that the traditional family has been
declining for the last 30 years under the pressure of growing socioeconomic
inequality. This polarization has made stable family life next to impossible for
millions, especially those who lack the job skills and/or education and/or union
protections required to make a livable wage. It has generated an all-too
realistic sense of hopelessness on the part of disadvantaged rural and inner
city youth, who see no future higher earnings or education to be endangered by
engaging in pre-marital sex. It has been accompanied by rising rates of domestic
violence and a relative decline of male earnings that has made men more
dispensable in the minds of poor women seeking to escape abusive
relationships—something with unintentionally positive consequences from a
feminist perspective. It has also come alongside a related massive wave of
arrest and incarceration directed especially at black males. The Bush marriage
proposal says, in essence "let [the poor] eat wedding rings," to use the
appropriately sarcastic phrase of Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller of the
Alternatives to Marriage Project in Boston.
Nothing reveals the sorry
nature of Bush's marriage proposal more than the way these patterns have
generated a critical shortage of both jobs and marriageable black males in those
communities. To focus on the job issue, consider the situation of a hypothetical
African-American welfare mother named Sharron Williams, 31 years old with 2
children and living in North Lawndale, a 99 percent African-American
neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Williams and her children could certainly
use another adult breadwinner. Consistent with conservative claims, more than 27
percent of people in families headed by a single mother live beneath the federal
government's poverty level, compared to 6.8 percent of people living in
two-parent families. Even when single mothers work, the poverty rate for
families headed by single mothers falls only to 19.4 percent.
Thanks to her
location, education, gender, and race, it is likely that Sharron and her
children are considerably poorer than the national population of single-mother
households. Like more than 72 percent of the state's adult welfare recipients
she lacks a high school degree. Like 73 percent of the same group she is
African-American and like 98 percent she is female. It doesn't make for a
terribly good labor market combination. According to the latest numbers from the
U.S. Current Population Survey, black female high school dropouts have an
average annual income, including public assistance, of $13,288. That is roughly
consistent with the commonly reported median hourly earnings of former welfare
recipients ($7.00 an hour). In Sharron's neighborhood, more than two-thirds of
families are female-headed and just 13 percent of the residents have more than a
high school education. Only 4 percent have more than 4 or more years of college
and more than 4 in 10 people live below the poverty level.
We only begin to
scratch the surface of Williams and her children's material difficulties by
noting that her income is below the federal poverty level for a family of three
($14,600). Official U.S. poverty thresholds are absurdly low, based on a
ridiculously antiquated formula that fails to make adequate space for the
medical, childcare, transportation and other costs faced by people in the real
world. That formula does not properly account for regional variations in the
cost of living or for differential costs associated with variant family
structures. A far better measure of Sharron's real cost of living is provided by
the Economic Policy Institute's recent basic family budget estimate, calculated
with the best available measures of minimally mainstream housing, food,
clothing, childcare, transportation, tax and other costs and adjusted for
geographical difference across every metropolitan area in the country. By EPI's
calculation, it costs $35,307 dollars a year for a family of one parent and two
children to meet basic family needs. Even if she lived in a less desperate
neighborhood, Sharron's likely income would equal just more than a third of her
family's real world requirements.
Sharron's chance
of escaping poverty through employment is low. The job loss resulting from the
current economic recession is both concentrated in the industries where many
welfare recipients find employment and highly racialized. In December 2001 the
official unemployment rate for black workers was 10.2 percent, up from 7.5
percent one year ago, nearly double that of whites, and it is considerably
higher in the inner city. In Sharron's neighborhood at last full count, 27
percent of the civilian labor force was unemployed. Of the 22 Chicago
neighborhoods that were more than 90 percent black in 1990, all had double-digit
unemployment rates and 12 had rates of 20 percent and higher. Like the poverty
rate, moreover, the official U.S. unemployment rate is deceptively optimistic.
It deletes the considerable contingent of jobless people who have given up
seeking work or never did so and leaves out part-time workers who would prefer
to be full-time. It also omits the two million incarcerated Americans, half of
whom are black.
Sharron's job
possibilities did not improve much during the recently concluded "economic
boom." Between 1991 and 2000, 98 percent of job growth in the Chicago
metropolitan area took place in the predominantly white suburbs and not in the
city, which houses two-thirds of the area's African-Americans. Slight employment
expansion did occur in the city as a whole, but Chicago's 19 disproportionately
black zip codes lost jobs during the "Clinton boom" and the three zip codes
covering North Lawndale lost nearly 3,000 jobs between 1991 and 2000.
At the end of the
vaunted Clinton expansion, the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern
University reports, 30 percent of African-Americans ages 20 to 24 in the
nation's 50 largest central cities were both out of school and out of work and 6
of every 10 African-Americans ages 16 to 24 in Chicago were jobless. Chicago,
the Center found, was home to nearly 60,000 "disconnected" (out of school and
work) 20-24 year olds, equivalent to nearly one in four of the city's young
adults. The ratio was certainly much higher in the city's predominantly black
and high poverty neighborhoods.
These findings
are consistent with labor market research conducted by the Midwest Job Gap
Project during the middle and late 1990s. In the Chicago metropolitan area,
including even the relatively job-rich suburbs, the Project found, there was
only one unskilled job opening in 1998 for every four unskilled workers who
needed jobs, including former public assistance expected to find positions under
the rules of welfare-to-work. In the city, there were more than 30 such workers
for every unskilled job opening that paid at least poverty level wages for a
family of three. This was in a period that saw the lowest official U.S.
unemployment rate in more than 25 years.
a Man?
Likely to be frustrated in
her struggle to achieve what policymakers like to call "self-sufficiency"
through wage labor, Williams is free to follow the advice of the Heritage
Foundation. Moving into what conservatives are now calling the "second phase" of
welfare reform, from "get a job" to "get a husband," she can commence the search
for a man.
One problem that
quickly emerges and should concern even the most lukewarm feminist is that she
probably has some very good experience-based reasons to be uninterested in that
search. On the basis of a major research project that interviewed hundreds of
inner city Chicago residents, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson
reported, in When Work Disappears (1996), that "the relationships between
inner city men and women, whether in a marital or non-marital situation, are
often fractious and antagonistic. Inner city black women routinely say that they
distrust men and feel strongly that black men lack dedication to their
Putting aside
this by-no-means minor problem, the next roadblock on Williams's path to
poverty-slashing marital bliss is the shortage of "marriageable" males in her
immediate social milieu. Thanks to remarkably high and interrelated rates of
unemployment, mortality, and incarceration in inner city neighborhoods, the size
of the pool of marriageable men in Sharron's community is woefully inadequate.
According to Wilson and other researchers, the increase in single mother black
households since 1970 is directly related to a drastic decline in the "male
marriageable pool index," defined as the ratio of employed men per 100 women of
the same age and race, during the last third of the 20th century. Wilson
discovered that that index fell from 67 to 44 for 24 year olds nationally
between the early 1960s and 1980. At the heart of this decline, Wilson found,
was the exodus of manufacturing employment from the central city, something that
had a gravely disproportionate impact on the employment and earnings potential
of black males.
At latest count
from the Department of Labor, there are 63 employed black men 20 years and older
for every 100 black females in the same age group. The comparable ratio of
employed males to females in whites of the same age cohort is 84 to 100. For
20-24 year olds, the racial difference in employed males to same-race females is
quite stark: 54 to 100 for blacks and 92 to 100 for whites. These are national
level numbers however and the ratio is certainly far worse in neighborhoods like
Likely To Survive in Bangladesh
In a chilling article
published in the academic journal Demography in 1998, sociologists Avery
M. Guest, Gunnar Almgren, and John M. Hussey found that an unemployed black male
from the South or West Side of Chicago or Harlem is more likely to survive the
next few years in Bangladesh than he is in his own neighborhood. Infant
mortality rates, they discovered, were higher in the highly impoverished Third
World nation, but working age mortality (ages 25 to 64) in Chicago's "extremely
economically distressed" neighborhoods—defined as having unemployment rates 25
percent or higher—was considerably worse. They found a shocking death rate of
22.4 for black male residents of those neighborhoods ages 35 to 44. The
mortality rates for American white males (2.4) and even Bangladeshi males (4.2)
paled by comparison. "If you survive infancy and early childhood," Almgren
subsequently noted, "you are better off almost anywhere in the world than in
your own American neighborhood if it is extremely economically distressed." At
last full socioeconomic census count, 9 of Chicago's 77 officially designated
and highly segregated Community Areas fit Almgren et al.'s definition of
"extremely distressed." One in 5 of the city's African-Americans lived in those
neighborhoods, all of which were more than 93 percent African-American.
Welfare Moms Meet Ex-Cons
Many of Sharron's
potential marriage partners are currently locked up in a sprawling
prison-industrial complex that provides family-supporting jobs for predominantly
white "downstate" communities far removed from the Chicago area. Between 1972
and 2000, the number of people behind bars in the United States rose from
330,000 to more than 2 million or 461 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. citizens. That
rising and very disproportionately (nearly 50 percent) black, male (more than 90
percent), and urban-based population is now curiously roughly equivalent to the
number of disproportionately black, female, and urban adult heads of welfare
households. An estimated 11 percent of African-American males in their 20s and
early 30s are incarcerated and on any given day 30 percent of African-American
males ages 20 to 29 are "under correctional supervision": in prison or jail or
on parole or probation. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has estimated that a
young black man age 16 in 1996 faces a 29 percent chance of serving time in
prison during his life. In predominantly black inner-city communities across the
nation, incarceration has become so commonplace that it has become something of
a "normative experience" ("no big deal") for black males. Seven percent of the
nation's black children have at least one parent behind bars.
A recent Time
magazine article reports that more than 630,000 people, half of them black, will
be released from prison in 2002—the largest prison exodus in history. A hugely
disproportionate number of these ex-offenders will be returning to a relatively
small number of high-poverty inner-city neighborhoods, which also provide
leading concentrations of single mother welfare households. Numerous studies
have pegged these ex-offenders' "unemployable" rate at higher than 60 percent.
The minority of those who find "legitimate" work, Time reports, have done
so in low paying "off-the-books" jobs.
Sharron's city,
neighborhood, and state are no exceptions to the national pattern. In Illinois,
home to the third largest population of prisoners in the nation, the prison
population has grown by more than 60 percent since 1990. More than 60 percent of
the state's nearly 46,000 prisoners are black males. Seventy percent of these
black male prisoners come from the Chicago metropolitan area, where Chicago's
Cook County is home to 81 percent of the state's adult female welfare
recipients, up from 64 percent in 1995, when welfare "reform" was moving into
high gear at the state level. According to a recent analysis by the Chicago
Reporter, 1 in 5 black men ages 20 to 29 in Cook County are either in prison
or jail or on parole. For Cook County whites of the same gender and age, the
corresponding ratio is 1 in 104. As of last June, there were nearly 20,000 more
black males in the Illinois state prison system than the number of black males
enrolled in the state's public universities. There are more black males in the
state prisons than in all of the state's post-secondary educational institutions
including community colleges. Seventy percent of the men between ages 18 and 45
in Sharron's neighborhood are ex-offenders.
Nearly 50 percent
of the state's African-Americans released from prison return within at least 3
years. They carry what many of them call an "X" on their backs—a felony
conviction that is readily evident to the 49 percent of American employers that
conduct criminal background checks on potential employees and of whom more than
half report that they never hire ex-offenders. They emerge equally unprepared to
engage as loving husbands or fathers.
It's all part of
a self-defeating "feedback" loop that has been deepening over time. Directly
related to the economic marginalization of black males in post-industrial
America, the decline of the two-parent inner-city family is strongly associated
with urban violence (itself a major contributor to black male mortality) and
crime. As "family disruption" increases, sociologist Robert Sampson notes, the
"community social ties" and "informal networks of social control" that tend to
keep younger black males out of illegal activities collapse. This feeds high
urban crime rates that are exaggerated to provide the pretext for the rise of a
racially disparate mass-incarceration state that decreases yet more the ratio of
urban black males to females and deepens the economic and social-psychological
incapacitation of black males.
If Poor Parents Got Married?
Last year, Princeton
University researchers using data from the Fragile Families Wellbeing Study
examined nearly 5,000 births to unmarried mothers in 20 large U.S. cities,
analyzing age, educational, wage and other factors to estimate likely outcomes
if the mothers got married to the fathers of their children. In counterfactual
scenarios where the female of the newly married pair stayed home, they found
that 22 percent of the families would be below the poverty line and 59 percent
would be below 150 percent of the poverty level. Even if both of the newly
married parents were to work outside home, they determined, 28 percent of the
families would still be below poverty. Part of the explanation for these poor
outcomes, the Princeton team found, was that unmarried parents are considerably
younger and have less education and earnings potential than married parents.
"Yes," concludes
Solot and Miller, "on average married couples are less likely to be poor than
unmarried couples. But it does not follow that marriage would end poverty among
unmarried couples." The latter's often considerable economic difficulties
"cannot," according to the Princeton researchers, "be magically altered by a
marriage license." Consistent with this conclusion, there is little correlation
between marriage and child poverty rates on an international scale. Solot and
Miller note that "the four countries with some of the lowest child poverty rates
in Europe (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and France) all have unmarried birth rates
far higher than the United States. Sweden's child poverty rate is seven times
lower than the rate in the U.S., despite the fact that the majority of babies
there are born to unmarried parents." The main difference is the presence of
social-democratic welfare states in the European nations and the related
prevalence in those nations of the judgment that children born into a family and
world they never made should not grow up in poverty. Blaming single-parenthood
for poverty is an elite American mechanism for avoiding the inhumane
consequences of the disturbing fact that U.S. policy makers do not share that
Bush Was Serious
Faced with such stark
contradiction between proposed policy and social reality, the temptation is
strong to write off the White House's marriage-for-welfare-moms enthusiasm as,
well, stupid. It is stupid, however, only on the assumption that Bush is serious
about wanting to improve the life circumstances and even the marriage chances of
the welfare poor. That is a very bad assumption, as is suggested by the fact
that the Bush budget plan slashes federal job training expenditures, eliminating
20 of the government's 48 job-training programs while requesting $590 billion in
further Reaganite tax cuts and $550 billion in new military spending over the
next decade. If Bush was even moderately serious about improving the marriage
chances and reducing the fragility of the nation's poor families he would be
advocating the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (one of the few federal
policies that actually works to alleviate poverty for working families) and the
reduction of marriage penalties in that program. He would also call off the
racially disparate war on drugs and call for the revision of harsh mandatory
sentencing laws, a moratorium on new prison construction, and a real attack on
racial profiling. He would advance a major expansion of state and federal
programs to replace mass incapacitation (the literal official objective of
modern American penology) with rehabilitation and other policies (e.g., job
placement, drug treatment, mental health services, transitional housing, and
educational services) that meaningfully support the reintegration of
ex-offenders into the community.
When it comes to
smaller state programs that hold promise for poor families, a sincerely
anti-poverty president would forget about the ineffective marriage promotion
schemes carried out by a few state welfare programs. He or she would seek,
rather, to publicize and build on the model of Minnesota's Family Investment
Program (MFIP). Unusually generous amongst the state welfare programs ushered in
by the 1996 welfare bill, MFIP allows parents on public assistance to continue
receiving benefits as long as their earnings do not exceed 40 percent of the
official poverty threshold. By reducing at least some of the economic stresses
that cripple impoverished households, MFIP has unintentionally increased its
recipients' likelihood of getting and remaining married. It receives no
recognition whatsoever from the Bush White House.
Also certain to
be ignored by the Bush team is the fact the combined percentage of poor and
near-poor (twice the poverty level) children living in single-mother households
actually fell between 1995 and 2000. The reduction likely reflected the moderate
increase in family-enabling wages for lesser skilled workers that occurred
during the second half of the Clinton boom. It suggests that the
single-motherhood "problem" was declining when Bush and his conservative
anti-social policy advisers seized the White House with a little family
assistance from five partisan Supreme Court justices.
It is curious
also to note that welfare reform has long been justified by the widely
propagated and dear-to-Republicans' belief that the expansion of liberal welfare
policies and rising benefit levels during and after the 1960s provided the chief
cause of the rise of female-headed families and the out-of-wedlock births.
Interesting, then, that five years after the abolition of the welfare
entitlement, with public family assistance caseloads at less than half their
mid-1990s level, the "problem" of the poor female-headed family remains very
much alive and well in the minds of policymakers. Perhaps this is part of why
the Bush administration is not putting all that much money into its marriage
proposal to welfare mothers. The White House is not exactly going all out for
the engagement ring. It wants to pay for the marriage experiments by eliminating
the ineffective financial bonuses (paid out of welfare dollars) the federal
government has been giving to states that reduce out-of-wedlock births across
the board.
and Mean
Still, Bush's proposal is
reflective of the real White House agenda. More mean than stupid, that agenda
has nothing to do with solving poverty or easing the crisis of poor families. It
is shaped by some very different and interrelated priorities greatly assisted by
the events of last September and the fear and repression they engendered. More
than slightly reminiscent of the Reagan years, those priorities are to
distribute wealth yet further upward, to reward big money corporate campaign
contributors, to expand the military budget like never before, to eviscerate
social expenditures, and to keep the religious right on board.
>From the
perspective of these goals, the marriage proposal is smart and incredibly cheap.
It shifts responsibility for taking care of poor children from government and
the capitalist labor market to society's truest victims and does so in a time
when poverty is dramatically on the rise. It is advertised in a way that
addresses the qualms of politically significant social moderates by creating an
illusion of compassionate concern for the plight of the poor. It throws a bone
to the ever-valuable political dogs of the sexist "family values" right, for
whom the single-mother-headed household is an abomination in and of itself,
whatever its real relationship to poverty. It diverts attention from the real
causes of poverty, focusing voters and obedient media lapdogs on the
"irresponsible" behavior of the poor. Better to focus on the victims than the
forces of economic inequity and race and gender discrimination and the
irresponsible behaviors and values of "elite" citizens that combine to generate
misery at the bottom of a savagely unequal social structure. Countering those
forces would require a level of public and social investment that is anathema to
conventional neo-liberal policy wisdom and particularly ruled out by Bush's
commitment to slashing taxes for and funneling billions of dollars to his
super-opulent friends and corporate paymasters. Seen in the context of the
overall agenda of which it is part, Bush's sorry little marriage proposal is
very smart indeed. Z
Paul Street
is a social policy researcher, freelance writer, and civil rights activist in


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Yet, the funny thing about all of this is that nothing else is really planned out. Although we just dropped $110 combined, we have yet to figure out our flights, hotel, and, since I will be 25, my first ever car reservation. Still, in all of the uncertainty and impetuousness, I am thrilled! Traveling across the country, hanging out with my little sister, and rockin' a concert will be the pièce de résistance of this year. This is going to be quite an adventure and it has already begun. . .
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Henk van Oort trained as a primary teacher before taking a Masters Degree in English at the University of Amsterdam. His forty years' teaching comprises work as general teacher, teacher of English and headmaster. He is also a teacher trainer on the PILGRIMS summer courses at Canterbury, England. He recently wrote 'Challenging Children' with DELTA in which he published 100 activities for the English lesson in the primary classroom.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Age Group: 8 - 12
Divide your class into seven groups according to the seven days of the week. Each group makes a hat according to the text below either in the handicraft lessons or at home.
1. Ask your pupils to stand up.
2. No text is to be seen. Introduce difficult words orally only: they repeat the words after you
have said them.
4. Only when you are content with their pronunciation you show them the full text.
5. Each group says the assigned text of the day in chorus. Only the last lines are said by the
whole group.
Don't forget to explain the expression My hat! expressing utter amazement.
This activity will be a success on parents' nights and such occasions. Parents like to see their children being dressed up and speaking a foreign language.
Choral speaking is a big help in foreign language teaching. Unknowingly pupils help each other by speaking aloud together. Memory functions are stimulated. The oral approach guarantees a correct pronunciation because there is no written image that might influence pronunciation. Fun for all.
I have got a hat
I have got a Sunday hat
A hat with ribbons
Ribbons all around my Sunday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Monday hat
A hat with flowers
Flowers all around my Monday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Tuesday hat
A hat with feathers
Feathers all around my Tuesday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Wednesday hat
A hat with leaves
Leaves all around my Wednesday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Thursday hat
A hat with pearls
Pearls all around my Thursday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Friday hat
A hat with rings
Rings all around my Friday hat.
I have got a hat
I have got a Saturday hat
A hat with stars
Stars all around my Saturday hat.
Hats, hats, hats
A hat for every day
Hats, hats, hats,
Hats are here to stay
My hat!!!!!!
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The celebrity chef came under fire earlier this week after admitting to having used the 'n-word' and planned a "slavery-themed" wedding reception in a leaked deposition.
Deen has since issued a number of public apologies regarding the deposition, which was initially in relation to a sexual harassment and racial discrimination suit against her restaurant in Georgia.
The Food Network, for which Deen has hosted several cooking shows, recently announced that it will not be renewing her contract at the end of the month in light of her comments.
The 66-year-old may now lose another contract, as TMZ reports that the shopping network QVC is considering letting her go.
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The spokesperson added: "We are closely monitoring these events and we are reviewing our business relationship with Ms Deen. In the meantime, we have no immediate plans to have her appear on QVC."


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Early College Academy of Columbus (ECAC) is an excellent school located in the heart of the historic district in Columbus, Georgia. Our beautiful Waverly Terrance campus has been a part of the community since the early 1920s. It features an open courtyard overlooking a picturesque landscape with tall, green palm trees. This school is what many students would call home with its intimate and inviting atmosphere as well as the welcoming staff who knows every child by name. Established in 2006, Early College Academy of Columbus has a proven track record of high academic achievement and student success long after students graduate.
Award Winning
Dual Enrollment
Fine Arts
Early College Academy of Columbus caters a positive learning experience for the committed learner. Over half of our junior and sophomore students are dually enrolled each year at Columbus State University or Columbus Technical College where they take college classes. In fact, Early College Academy of Columbus has the highest number of dually enrolled students in Muscogee County School District.
2017: 9th Literature 1st- 67%
2017: American Literature 54%
2017: Analytic Geometry 57%
2016: 9th Literature 1st – 87%
2016: American Literature 1st – 85%
2016: Analytic Geometry 2nd -74%
2016: Biology 1st – 93%
2016: U.S. History 1st – 80%
2016: Economics 2nd- 79%
2015: 9th Literature 1st- 83%
2015: American Literature 1st – 89%
Early College Academy of Columbus has been recognized by the U.S. News & World Report's Best High School Rankings as 77th in the state and earned a bronze medal. Schools were ranked on their performance on state-required tests and graduation rates, which Early College Academy of Columbus boasts a 100% graduation rate.
Early College Academy has consistently maintained the highest EOCT scores in the Muscogee County School District in Language Arts for 2 consecutive years in a row from 2012-2013 as well as the highest growth in the district in the areas of 9 th Grade Literature and Composition and U.S. History for the 2015 Georgia EOC Milestones assessments.
In addition, in the 2016, 9 th grade Literature, American Literature, U.S. History, and Economics—all scored the highest growth in the Muscogee County School District on the Georgia EOC Milestones Assessment. With a 97.3% or a five star climate rating on the College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI) score, Early College Academy of Columbus displays a positive atmosphere for students who are motivated for success.
The main goal of Early College Academy of Columbus is to help students, who have a desire to take college coursework on a college or university campus as a dual enrollment student. The benefit of attending Early College Academy of Columbus is that ECAC specializes in dual enrollment unlike other high schools. ECAC falls under the dual enrollment system of the State of Georgia, which means that tuition, books, and transportation are completely free for our students.
Our small enrollment allows the teachers, staff and personnel to really get to know our students.
Students that attend Early College Academy of Columbus are family. Our small enrollment allows the teachers, staff and personnel to really get to know our students. The level of dedication and assistance that ECAC's staff is able to provide is above and beyond what students experience at larger schools. However, Early College Academy of Columbus is not for everyone: our classes are rigorous, our school has no sports team, and the extracurricular classes located on campus are limited; we only offer business education, business technology, creative writing, and physical education during school hours. Also, every student that applies is not admitted.
Early College Academy of Columbus has been the recipient of the Title I High Progress Achieving award for multiple years. Also, students are required to pass the ACCUPLACER test to gain admittance to the dual enrollment program. This test ensures that only students who are academically ready for such challenging coursework are permitted to take classes on the college campus for college credit. This increases the chance of student success. In addition, classroom schedules are amended so that dually enrolled students can complete college coursework without sacrificing the high school credit needed for graduation; and, these students also maintain the ability to attend traditional high school events such as pep rallies, school dances, and fieldtrips.
Students are offered a wealth of extracurricular clubs to choose from, which allows students to broaden their horizons artistically and academically, and also gives students the opportunities to earn scholarships, internships, and awards.
Also, Students compete with the State Bar of Georgia in the Five Star Mock Trial Team. They also compete in clubs such as Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Robotics, Spoken Word Poetry Club, and academically with the national Page Georgia Academic Decathlon Team. Students learn fine arts by participating in our Cougarettes dance team, our Cougar Noise Choir, and the ECAC Art Club.
Students also practice responsibility through organizations such as Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), Sources of Strength, Student Government, ECAC House Representatives, Ambassadors of Compassion and the National Honor Society. Students also have the opportunity to compete for the Governor's Honors Program and the U.S. Senate Youth Program.


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Nirsoft is one of the good guys in the otherwise messy landscape known as CxC+ C— Crapware Times Crapware Plus Crapware.
Just for example, this tool, called ShellMenuNew, enables/disables items in the context menu, under New. No fuss, no install. <- *that* is a goodguy, goodgal, goodgeek.
All geeks in their right mind have spoken well of Nirsoft. I thought I'd add myself to the choir.


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In computer science, reflection is the process by which a computer program can observe, do type introspection and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.
In many computer architectures, program instructions are stored as data;
hence the distinction between instruction and data is merely a matter of how the information is treated by the computer and programming language. Reflection is most commonly used in high-level virtual machine programming languages like Smalltalk and scripting languages, and less commonly used in manifestly typed and/or statically typed programming languages such as Java, C, ML or Haskell.
In this article, we will look at reflection in Java to get information about a class without needing to know the type of class. In the example program below, we take a Java class name as a command line argument and then display all of the methods and field names that are in the class. Here is the code:
package reflectTest; import java.lang.reflect.*; public class ReflectionTest { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { if (args.length != 1) { String usage = "example usage: ReflectionTest java.util.Calendar"; System.out.println(usage); System.exit(0); } Class aClass = Class.forName(args[0]); Field[] fields = aClass.getFields(); System.out.println("Number of Fields = " + fields.length); for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) { Field field = fields[i]; System.out.println("[" + field.getName() + "] " + "with value [" + field.get(aClass) + "]"); } Method[] methods = aClass.getMethods(); System.out.println("\nNumber of Methods = " + methods.length); for (int i = 0; i < methods.length; i++) { Method method = methods[i]; System.out.println("[" + method.getName() + "] " + "returns [" + method.getReturnType() + "]"); } } }
In the above program, we are accepting a string in the command line and then finding the class by name. The first few lines show an example of usage and then exit if the program is called incorrectly. On line 14, we are locating a match for the class object that was passed in and if it finds one, it is getting an array of all the fields and displaying their name and values. It does the same thing for the methods. As you can see, if it doesn't find the passed-in class name, it throws an exception.
You may have also noticed the reference on line 21 to
field.get(aClass), which is getting the value. This is a useful way of getting the same listed response by passing in an instance of a class object. You would then be able to see the field values for that particular instance, which can be pretty handy. The rest of the program displays the name and return type for each method in the class, which looks like this:
Here are the results of the program being run on java.util.Calendar as an argument: Number of Fields = 41 [ERA] with value [0] [YEAR] with value [1] [MONTH] with value [2] [WEEK_OF_YEAR] with value [3] [WEEK_OF_MONTH] with value [4] [DATE] with value [5] [DAY_OF_MONTH] with value [5] [DAY_OF_YEAR] with value [6] [DAY_OF_WEEK] with value [7] [DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH] with value [8] and so on....... Number of Methods = 46 [hashCode] returns [int] [equals] returns [boolean] [toString] returns [class java.lang.String] [get] returns [int] [clone] returns [class java.lang.Object] [add] returns [void] [isSet] returns [boolean] and so on ...
Reflection is one of the tools that frameworks utilize to make things happen automatically. For example, if you create a Java Bean you can make a .JSP page automatically take form values and populate the bean using the setter methods. When Tomcat was being written they couldn't predict what your particular object would look like, so they used reflection to look inside your object and find the appropriate methods to call.
Reflection is a good way to build future-proof functionality. You can come up with a way of doing something that will work with any class you give it without needing to know about that class ahead of time or force the class to implement an interface. It is a powerful tool that can help you achieve a great deal of simplicity.


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Suitable for all PowerPoint users or anyone new to the application. If you are new to PowerPoint, or want to brush up your skills, this course will benefit you.
Suitable for All Levels
1 Day Classroom
Certification Awarded
Includes Free Online Course
Skills You will have at the end of the Course
Create professional presentations
Design on screen slide shows for overheads
Incorporate graphs, clipart and graphics
Incorporate multimedia like animation into a presentation
Course overview
This course will enable attendees to produce effective and powerful presentations using all the full features and functionality of the package. To be able to include clipart and graphics in a presentation, import, edit and update graphs and modify master slides.
No prior knowledge is required
At the end of the course, you'll be Certified by the Irish Academy of Computer Training
Who would benefit
Anyone who presents to people, and would like their presentations to flow seamlessly in an engaging manner.
Why take the Course
To become proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint to be able to produce a wide range of different presentations efficiently. The course will explain how to harness PowerPoint to produce eye catching, effective and professional presentations that look a step above the rest.
Online Option
Course curriculum
Section 1: PowerPoint Essentials
In this first section, you'll learn the essentials of navigating PowerPoint;
- Opening the PowerPoint Application;
- Opening A New PowerPoint Application;
- Tour of The PowerPoint Screen;
- Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation;
- Opening an Existing Presentation;
- Customising The Quick Access Toolbar; and Exiting the PowerPoint Application.
- Changing PowerPoint's Default Options
Then you progress to;
- Creating a Presentation Using a Built In Template
- Creating a Presentation from a Blank Slide
- Switching View Modes
- Working with the title slide;
- The Slide and Outline Panel In Normal View
- Working Directly on a Slide In Normal View
- Rearranging Slides In Slide Sorter View
- Adding Notes To a Slide
- Copy and Paste Options;
- Formatting Text;
- Using Text effects
- Text Alignment;
- Line and Paragraph Spacing;
- Indents; Basic Bullets and Numbering;
- Find and Replace Options
Section 2: Viewing and Saving a PowerPoint Presentation
The second section covers everything you need to know about viewing and saving, including;
- Window Options;
- Different Views Available in PowerPoint;
- Showing Ruler and Gridlines;
- Viewing Multiple Pages at Once;
- Saving a PowerPoint Presentation;
- Saving as a PDF;
- Saving as a PowerPoint show
- Opening a PDF in PowerPoint;
- Saving as a Template;
- Spelling and Grammar Options;
Section 3: Slide Layout
- About Slide Layout About Slide Layout
- Adding a Slide To a Presentation With a Particular Layout
- Text Placeholders Within Layouts
- Content Holder: Tables
- Content Holder: Charts
- Content Holder: SmartArt
- Content Holder: Picture from File
- Content Holder: Clipart
- Content Holder: Media Clip
- Changing a Slides layout
Section 4: Slide Design Themes and Animations
- Changing the Presentations Design Theme
- Slide Transition Effects
- Slide Animation Effects
Section 5: A Slide Master
- What Is a Slide Master?
- Viewing the Different Slide Masters Available
- Editing the Slide Master Placeholders
- Adding an Image to a Slide Master
- Adding Headers and Footers To Slides
Section 6: Text Boxes and Drawing Objects
- Inserting Text Boxes
- Formatting Text In Text Boxes
- Adjusting Paragraph And Line Spacing
- Editing Bullets And Numbering
- Drawing Tools
- Rotating And Flipping Objects
- Adding Shadow Effects To Text And Shapes
- Adding a 3D Effect
- WordArt
Section 7: Arranging and Grouping Objects
- Aligning Shapes
- Distributing Shapes
- Grouping and Ungrouping Shapes
- Order of Shapes
Section 8: Presenting A Slide Show
- Running a Slide Show View
- Rehearse the Timings of Your Presentation
- Annotating and Navigating Whilst Giving a Presentation
- Hiding and Un-Hiding Slides
- Creating Custom Shows
Section 9: Printing and Saving Formats
- Printing a Presentation View
- Printing Handouts
- Save And Send
- Using the Help Function
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If you are limited to what organics you can find or afford check out this list of foods that are safe to buy non-organic and foods that you should always buy organic: Dirty Dozen Food List
written by Kerie Campbell
If you've decided to get rid of commercial diet completely, and go natural, here is a list of the recommended human-grade beginner foods. These are the highest in nutrition and will make a good base for adding fresh fruit, vegetables and meat too.
Extra Virgin Coconut Oil (olive oil will do in a pinch) for cooking eggs, etc.
Hemp seed meal (very high in HUFAs, and extremely nutritious)
Spirulina (if you can get only one algae product, this alone can just about
replace commercial diet)
Rooibos (high in many nutrients, and vitamin C)
Pure, unprocessed, local honey
Dandelion leaf and root
Flax seed or seed meal
Red raspberry leaf
Add a couple of the following dried flowers or flower products:
rose hips and petals
Add some dried fruit (unsweetened and free of sulphur dioxide or other additives):
If there is still room for more purchases, here is the list I recommend you choose from:
amaranth or quinoa
almonds or walnuts
raw pumpkin or sunflower seed
blue corn meal
kelp powder
wheat germ
chlorella or blue-green algae
The more variety you can provide your crabs, the better they will eat. This list represents the most nutritious foods on the main Epicurean Hermit food list. They will have the highest impact when mixed and offered with fresh foods, and will provide an excellent base for creating homemade crab food.
We highly recommend keeping worm castings and greensand on hand and in your tank daily. Both are highly nutritious and are loved by hermit crabs.
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The title reflects also a bit of the presentation. The presentation contains 162 slides so you better prepare yourself for a long journey.
Here a summary of the lessons learned. I divided the presentation into categories.
Section Java language fundamentals
A lot of focus on this. Not so much news here.
Section Java Domino Objects
- Only implements the "Back End" objects.
- Exposed via:lotus.domino.*
- No Notes Client UI access.
- You (the Domino Developer) already know 98.67 percent of all of the Java class names for the Domino Back End Objects.
- Drop "Notes" from the front of the LotusScript class names equals Java class names.
LotusScript Class Name
- NotesSession
- NotesDatabase
- NotesView
- NotesDocument
- NotesItem
Java Class Name
- Session
- Database
- View
- Document
- Item
These Java Classes don't exist in LotusScript:
- AgentBase
- AppletBase and JAppletBase
- NotesError
- NotesException
- NotesFactory
- NotesThread
- Java has no "Variant" data type.
Section Java Agents
- Java Agents MUST extend AgentBase
- Java Agents MUST use the NotesMain() method as the entry point for their functional code
- The getSession() method creates a Session object
- The Default Agent Code only catches generic exceptions
- Add an additional catch block for NotesExceptions:
import lotus.domino.*;
public class MyFirstAgent extends AgentBase {
public void NotesMain() {
try {
Session session = getSession();
AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();
// (Your code goes here)
}catch(NotesException ne){
} catch(Exception e) {
DDE Tip Snippets Eclipse view
An overlooked feature in DDE how to store and share re-usable code, e.g. Java code.
Java in XPages
- Java Code can be called from any Server Side JavaScript (SSJS) event in the XPage
Section Third party Java libraries
Using Third Party Java Libraries in XPages:
- Unzip the downloaded file to an accessible drive.
Add to the Application or Deploy to the Server?
- Access to the library API can be accomplished two ways:
- Adding it directly to the (every) application that will be using it.
- Not a best practice but sometimes necessary for portability or when deploying .jars to the Domino server is not an option.
- Adding it to the Domino server.
- Best practice.
- It is then available to all applications that will utilize it.
- It can be "upgraded" to the next version and then is globally available
- Adding it directly to the (every) application that will be using it.
Regardless of the choice, the code is written the exact same way.
- This allows for deployment using either option and then changing it later
Adding the Jar to the Domino Server.
- Library class and jar archives can be added to the xsp folder in the Domino program directory.
Adding the Jar to a Specific Application
- The POI jar can also be added to a specific application.
- Switch to the Package Explorer view.
- Expand the Virtual Project folder.
- Expand WebContent | WEB-INF.
- If a "lib" folder already exists, add the jar file to this folder.
- If the "lib" folder does not exist, then create the folder and add the jar file.
Example XAgent Code
The XAgent (an XPage with no UI design elements) code will be used by all three use cases to create the spreadsheet.
- The code is in the beforeRenderResponse event.
Import the Needed Packages in XPages.
- This makes the classes in the included jar file available to the SSJS code.
- The org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel package contains all the classes needed to create the Excel spreadsheet.
//import the appropriate java packages
3 Use Cases
There are three primary use cases explained for exporting Domino data to Excel:
- All documents in a view.
- Selected documents in a view.
- Document collections from a query.
This session gives a good introduction of Java fundamentals, introduces Java for LotusScript developers and touches Java in XPages.
In the XPages section 3 use cases for an XAgent is explained that uses a third party Java library.
I am not sure if the code of the export use cases is available for public?


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Welcome to the Heights Eye Center serving patients in Hasbrouck Heights. Dr. James Aversa is proud to provide extensive eye care services ranging from vision exams to ortho-k. We also provide eye wear and contacts, as well as extensive eye treatments here at your Lodi optometrist. Discover the difference that Heights Eye Center can make for your family eye care needs.
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Vision and Eye Care Services
Here at the Heights Eye Center we offer complete vision and eye care services at your optometrist in Hasbrouck Heights. We begin with a comprehensive eye exam, which we recommend you have done at least once a year. We test your eye function and treat any eye problems, such as blepharitis, conjunctivitis, and early detection of macular degeneration. During the annual eye exam Dr. Aversa also conducts vision testing. If you have vision correction issues we have an optical center where you can choose your next pair of eyeglasses. We also provide contact lens evaluations, as well as contact lens fittings.
Advanced Eye Care Needs
If you have been diagnosed with blepharitis, we can treat this eye condition using the deep cleaning method of BlephEx. We also offer GEMS genetic testing to help you determine the best defense against eye diseases and age-related vision loss. Finally, if you are in need of emergency eye care services, such as a sudden loss of vision or a scratched cornea, we are glad to provide this type of treatment for you and your family.
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Check out our new patient center to get started with the paperwork needed prior to your first appointment. Everything you need to get started as a Heights Eye Center patient is located conveniently online. Please complete the medical history and patient information to get started today.
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We are excited to provide vision care services for the patients in Hasbrouck Heights. Whether you need emergency eye care services or want to schedule your annual eye exam, we have you covered. Contact the Heights Eye Center for family eye care by calling Dr. Aversa at (201) 288-1109. We look forward to treating you and your family with professional vision and eye care services.


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The greatest rock 'n' roll vampire comedy ever made, "Suck" stars rock royalty Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins, and brilliant performances from Moby and British screen legend Malcolm McDowell ("A Clockwork Orange"). The Winners are a struggling band desperate to make it to the top and strike a record deal. After another mediocre gig, Jennifer (Jessica Paré "Hot Tub Time Machine") the sexy female bassist, disappears with a young vampire and returns the next morning sprouting fangs and a taste for blood. One by one each member succumbs to the dark side and leaving a trail of lifeless groupies in their wake, they soon reach the heights of success that they could only dream of as mere mortals.
2009 – Certificate: 15 – Canadian Film
Rating Details: Strong language and comic gory horror
7.5 out of 10
Yesterday I walked to work at my new office for the first time. No longer do I need to trek thousands of miles (well it felt like thousands) each day, face death as I cross the busy A4, deal with selfish pavement hogs along the Oxford Road, heroically climb 'The Mountain' or risk loss of sensory deprivation as I bisect the country-sized Tesco car park. My journey now takes about 15 minutes and I don't need to set up a series of resupply depots and emergency evac protocols to enable me to take the trip. A number of other differences were apparent too. For a start, I had to battle my way through two (yes two) school runs, as I passed two primary schools. A pavement jam-packed with slow-moving mothers, toddlers in pushchairs and chaotic, hyper-active youngsters, who randomly change direction with no respect for The Rules. I'm an experienced Pavement Warrior, but this was something else. It's only going to be a matter of time before I accidentally mow one of these tiny terrors down and end up in jail forever as a child killer. Then there were the others, a mixture of students going to the Tesco Metro (I didn't realise any got up that early) and men and women in business suits, power-walking into the centre of Reading. On my previous journey, I'd count myself unlucky to be overtaken by even one person, but yesterday it happened twice, as I was left choking on the burning rubber left behind by the soles of two pairs of fast-moving, expensive shoes, worn by who I can only assume are relatives of Usain Bolt. Unless I'm carrying a heavy bag, being overtaken by someone is a direct challenge to my sexuality, questions my prowess in bed and lessens my status as an Alpha Male. Clearly more of a sprint than the marathon I'm used to, I'll not be caught out next time. Game on… This film is about a group of people who make a change to how they do their job.
Sadly, this movie wasn't so bad that I'm able to say it sucks. Nether was it some sort of unimaginatively named 70's porn. It's actually quite a lot of fun and does feature a number of real rock stars amongst its cast. (By the way, who originally came up with the expression "rock royalty"? It's an unspeakably dreadful term.) The cast put in generally spirited performances and the whole thing is really quite endearing. It's got Malcolm McDowell in it as well, as vampire hunter Eddie Van Helsing; and let's not forget that this is the guy who killed Captain Kirk! That's real ultra violence. And while we're on the Star Trek theme, it's also got Ezri Dax in it. Moby (who's vegan and thus awesome), plays a character called Beef Bellows, lead singer of rock band The Secretaries of Steak. See, even vegans have a sense of irony. Jessica Paré, who plays bassist Jennifer, was a bit disappointing. I'm not quite sure why, but she didn't quite pull off the vampire diva 'thing' that was meant to propel the band to stardom. Much more of a comedy than a horror, this movie's a good excuse to while away 91 minutes of your life.
A film about a band needs to have good music, but unfortunately this one suffered a similar fate to so many others and features a lot of mediocre, bland, forgettable, indie rock. It's a film about a band of vampires, but the music's about as gothic as One Direction. The performances are pretty good though.
Recommended for rock stars, would-be rock stars and vampires (and the undead in general).
No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Top badass moment? Nicole de Boer has a part in this film. That's badass.


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Hullabalook for product detail pages
We believe that product pages can be a bit of a dead end for shoppers, so to fix this we have created a way for you to build navigation into your product pages that takes your customers directly to listings pages or other product pages that will show them exactly what they want to purchase.
Have you tried to build navigation into your product pages by implementing a "find similar" type solution? Why not allow shoppers to tell you exactly what it is that they like (or don't like) about the product they are currently viewing, and use that information to in real-time find them a more suitable product to purchase?


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Always seeking to learn or achieve something new, I like to tinker both with software (C/C++/ASM) and hardware (MCUs, FPGAs).
Here an NXP LPC1114 Cortex M0 MCU emulates up to 5 GROM memories. The SD Processor board is also wired up, but just to provide bank switching for the cartridge ROM to support TI Extended Basic.
A simple Sinclair ZX Spectrum design running on a Nexus 2 1200 board. Not cycle exact, but still fun!
This is a PS2 keyboard interface for the ZX81. Uses an ATMega88 micro controller and Altera EPM3064 CPLD.
An implementation of a TMS9995 system with memory paging and SD card support implemented by a Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA.
A board design with CPLD and NXP ARM micro controller, supporting USB and SD card interfaces as well as a 5V tolerant bus interface for retro computers.


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Across the globe, stone, wood, and other raw materials resembling a phallus have been dug up at different archeological sites. Now let's fast forward a couple of centuries. The rubber dildo did not bounce onto the scene until the 1960's. Really makes you cringe as to what people were using before. Right?
Now, someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn't manufacturers' use PVC filler for a while to make dildos? G-R-O-S-S! Then someone figured out, "hey this stuff works great with pipes too." And the rest is history.
I'm gonna do something a bit different here. Last week, I was asked to review some of the toys at my site.
If you have not been to the site…. well here is the address www.keeping-secrets.com. Anyway, here are my thoughts on Dick, Peter, and Mr. Johnson…. .
Basix 12in Dong W/Suction Flesh– The color was not appealing. And I really did not understand the suction flesh thingy. But, the feel was really rather real. It was super easy to clean.
Scene Stealer Solid Dong, Natural- The 47 other folks who reviewed this were right on target (mini SW episode I reference). This is just fantastic. The look, feel, size,…..everything is great.
Black Label Cyberskin Gonzo Cock– My friend James tried this one. James said the cyberskin is what made this different. The sensation was really smooth. Kinda sounds like a booze reference not a dick review.
Lastly, here are some vital points that I think most folks should understand. One, have fun. Dildos are about pure pleasure so enjoy. Two, get your toys from a dealer you trust. Many sex toy sellers/resellers get product(s) from China, Russia, and other countries whose product standards are not as high as the U.S. Lastly, please be careful. When you use these things on yourself or someone else pay attention to the curves and byways of the body. Rammin' it in can cause alotta pain. Didn't someone once say precaution is better than band-aids?
I always wanna hear from you.
Let me know what you think.
Miss Toy