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Values into action: Martin Luther King Jr/
We arrive here today from all our different activities and obligations
Involved in lives that distract and pull at us
Inside, each of us carries great hopes and desires
We bear values that shape our vision of who and what we long to be
By the light of this flame, may our deepest commitments come into sight and be forever in our view
May they guide us toward the actions that will fulfill our dreams
Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Excerpt)
Delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition…
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism…
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. *We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."* We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream..."
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day…
Message, by Andy Pakula
On this day, eighty-seven years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.
He died in 1968, at the age of thirty-nine, killed by an assassin's bullet.
For the last thirteen years of his life - from his mid-twenties until his death - he was engaged in American civil rights struggle. In that short time, he became a central figure in that struggle, talked with and met US presidents and foreign leaders, spoke before more than a quarter million people at the 1963 March on Washington, inspired many millions more, helped to eliminate racist laws and practices, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Some years after his death, a national holiday was created to honour his legacy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader. He was a strategist. He was a visionary. Martin Luther King, Jr. took action.
Today - as part of our three-month exploration of 'values into action' we will look at his life and his work. We will look for inspiration. We will look for understandings about strategy. We will look at the very human side of how any person can overcome the enormous challenges that can easily keep us from putting our own values into action.
Last week, we explored the life and work of Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the most successful and best known British campaigners for women's voting rights.
We had a number of questions in mind as we did that and as we will do today.
Does anyone live in a way that their actions perfectly match their values?
What accounts for the gap between our values and our action?
How do we take effective action?
Can anyone take effective action or is it something that only some can do? Can it be learned?
How do the strategies we choose relate to our values?
What makes one person act while another turns away from oppression or is paralysed by it?
How do our values and actions depend on our level of privilege?
Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, Martin Luther King was not born with that name. He was Michael King and his father was also Michael King. Michael King Sr. was a Baptist pastor. He had a chance to travel to Germany for an international Baptist conference when his elder son was five years old. Inspired by the history of Martin Luther, the great protestant reformer, he changed his name and the name of his elder son to Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King, Jr. came from a family of Baptist preachers. His father, of course. And on his mother's side, both his grandfather and great-grandfather were Baptist preachers. Martin would say that he became a preacher himself more because of the family tradition than because of any intense sense of divine calling.
Martin Luther King, Sr., who came to be called 'Daddy King', had grown up in a desperately poor family in rural Georgia. Racism, for him, was a brutal and constant reality. In just one of many ways that racism showed up in his life, his own father had to hide in the woods for months to avoid being lynched.
Daddy King left his rural home and moved to Atlanta, where he became pastor at the important Ebenezer Baptist church where he would stay for four decades, wielding great influence over Atlanta's black community and even some respect from the city's white community.
The elder King was also an early and prominent member of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. was thus born into an environment with a personal knowledge and experience of oppression, a commitment to the values of freedom and equality, a family history of leadership in the African-American community, and an established tradition of activism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood was very different from that of his father. Atlanta was a place where racism - although pervasive - was not the constant terrifying and life-threatening reality it had been for his father.
Martin did not grow up in poverty. The household was relatively prosperous. He was able to get a good education, attending the high school is maternal grandfather had helped to found and to the college that his father attended.
Lest we think that Martin was from childhood an obvious leader destined for his future role, it is important to see that the indications were far from clear. Martin was not particularly good in school. His father, Martin Sr., was very demanding and strict. He beat Martin until he reached the age of 15. And it seems that Martin suffered from depression for most of his life - probably beginning in his early years.
When Martin was 19, it was arranged for him to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in the north in Pennsylvania.
Martin Luther King, Jr. may have come to be thought of as some kind of saint. He was most certainly not - at least in the sense of having perfect morals and a deep sense of selflessness. At Crozer, he developed a very strong pride in his appearance - a pride that approached vanity. He also began, as biographer Godfrey Hodgson put it, a 'habit of sexual adventure' with women. It was a habit that would continue into his marriage and through the rest of his short life.
In 1951, at the age of 22, Martin entered a PhD programme at Boston University's theological school.
In his first term in Boston, we can see aspects of his personality that would help to propel his future leadership. King attracted admiration and respect. As Hodgson described it, King '...became a figure of some distinction among the many African-American students in the city.' And Hodgson quotes one friend's recollection: 'He was like a prince.' King did not lack for presence, for charm, or for charisma.
It was also in Boston that King met his future wife, Coretta Scott. They were married in 1953 and had four children over a period of eight years. Their gender roles were very traditional. Martin was what we would now call sexist. Coretta was not permitted to be part of his life and work. He would limit her role to mother, wife, and homemaker. It was only after his death that she became an activist and leader in her own right.
In 1954, at the age of 24, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the pastor of Montgomery, Alabama's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Dexter - while not the largest - was the most prestigious Baptist church in Montgomery. The young King was now Montgomery's highest paid African-American minister and one of its most visible.
It would not be long before Martin was propelled into the civil rights struggle. It was the year after Martin took up his pastorate at Dexter that Rosa Parks - an African-American woman - famously refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested. Contrary to some tellings, this action was not spontaneous. Parks was deeply involved in the civil rights movement and her action was an intentional challenge to the system of segregation on the Montgomery bus system.
Although King had not been the planner of this campaign, when the Montgomery bus boycott began, King - with his eloquence, intelligence, visibility, and charisma - was chosen to be the leader.
The boycott lasted more than a year and led to a court ruling that desegregated Montgomery's public buses. King spent time in jail, his house was bombed, he received constant threats, and he gained enemies not only among the white population but among African-Americans as well.
This was to set the pattern for most of the future actions King would undertake. There was always danger - both to the leadership and to the many unsung heroes who risked their lives for the cause.
There was always division among the civil-rights advocates with their own leaders, their own strategies, their fears and their jealousies.
There was always a delicate and impossible to resolve conflict about strategy and tactics.
There was the need to keep the many civil-rights factions happy but also the importance of applying enough pressure to get results but not so much as to alienate white allies.
King would go on to co-found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It was through this organisation that he led actions that defined and shaped an era in American civil rights, including those in Birmingham and Selma Alabama where the non-violent tactics of African Americans and their white allies were met with brutal treatment from authorities.
King's strategy was non-violent resistance. To some extent, these could be successful because the white establishment needed the African Americans for their labour and their business. This was the case in the bus boycott, where 90% of bus riders were black and the bus companies were dependent on them.
The strategy also worked because the stories and images of suffering that emerged from the clashes between white authorities and black and white protestors shocked the nation. It had been easy to ignore racism in the abstract. It was much harder to do so morally and politically when barbaric action by authorities was splashed across newspaper front pages.
Non-violent resistance was a strategy that made King and his colleagues too radical for some prospective allies and too tentative for others. He was invariable pulled by civil rights forces demanding both less and more aggressive action.
King was not a pacifist and was not a complete adherent to non-violence. His appreciation of Gandhi's example apparently came later and seemed to grow on him over the course of his life and work. Was his choice of non-violence a matter of faith and of morality or was it a matter of necessity.
All the power and most of the weaponry was in the hands of the enemy - the white establishment. To take a more aggressive approach to civil rights would have been futile and likely suicidal.
In 1964, the US congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legally putting an end to segregation. In 1965, it would pass the Voting Rights Act to make illegal the pervasive suppression of black voting in the south.
In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work against racism.
Although the civil rights struggle was not over - it continues to this day in many forms - the actions of congress changed the struggle and its focus.
In the mid 1960s, King's focus began to broaden. From the brutal and overt racism of the south, he began to focus on the more civilised and yet pervasive racism of the north. He began, too, to move his efforts beyond the African-American community. He spoke out strongly against the US war in Vietnam.
He began to focus on role that poverty played in destroying the lives of people of all kinds. In 1968, he and his colleagues began the Poor People's Campaign. The intention was to create "a multiracial army of the poor" that would engage in activism and protests until congress passed an equivalent of the Civil Rights Act - an "economic bill of rights" for poor Americans.
It was during this new work that King was killed.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an imperfect man who gave much to the American people and the people of the world. His work arguably accelerated the advent of civil rights for African Americans. He also brought focus to the struggles of economic inequality and lent his weight to the opposition of the war in Vietnam.
And King made a large and lasting contribution to non-violent activism, demonstrating that this approach could bring victory to the oppressed over oppressors who seemed to have all the power and tools of the state at their disposal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a human being. He did what he did not alone, but with many allies and many many more unsung followers willing to risk their security, safety, and their very lives for the cause.
Why was King able to put his values into action in such a powerful way?
He was a relatively privileged member of an oppressed people. He was born into relative comfort. He gained a good education. He grew up with the influence gained from the position of religious leaders in the African-American community. All of these advantages helped him.
King was also deeply committed. He was driven by his values and by his ambition. As the eldest son and the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Baptist preachers, he knew he could have influence and he knew that the expectations upon him would be high.
And King was courageous, which is perhaps simply of way of saying that he could tolerate pain in himself and in others. The many many times he was imprisoned, the constant risk of injury and death, the many times he was attacked, the very real danger to his family and the imprisonment, assault, and death of his followers - these were a constant in his life - a constant that he managed to accept to move toward his vision.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was imperfect, which is to say again that he was a human being. He was vain and he was ambitious. He was unfaithful time and again to his wife and spent only minimal time with her and their children.
In his academic work, he is accurately accused of plagiarism, although - given the scope of his life and work - this seems to pale in significance.
None of us will be like Martin Luther King, Jr. The way we put our values into action will be very different from his, and yet there is much we can learn from his life.
There are skills and strategies to be learned. Even King failed often and the challenging, uncertain work of activism is not something to be entered into without careful planning and thought.
Sacrifice is an inevitable part of confronting power. Each of us must know this as we think about putting values into action in the world. We must be clear about the relative weight we ascribe to our values and to the well-being of ourselves and others. We must consider what we are willing to risk for justice, for equality, for peace.
Activism can be done without compromising our values. We do not need to return hate with hate or violence with violence.
And there are many roles to play in the work of making a more just world - roles large and small - visible and recorded by history, but mostly the smaller and often unnoticed roles that are as essential to change as are its known leaders.
As we contemplate the ways we put values into action on the larger stage of the community, the city, the nation, or the world, we must consider the skills and talents we bring. We must explore our values and the ways in which those values are crushed by the powerful. We must analyse how we can be effective. We must consider what we can and are willing to bear.
And then, we must act. Values mean nothing without putting them into action.
May we be among those who put values into action - helping to create the just world of which we dream.
In a world where oppression continues
In a world where injustice is a constant reality
Let us know and stand by our values
Let us, each according to our nature and talents, take action
Let us do our part to realise the dream of a world of justice


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After splurging this weekend we have tried to eat a little lighter during the week. Last night was skillet seared salmon with seasoned broccoli. It was tasty!
I made sure the salmon fillets were thoroughly thawed and heated up the iron skillet very hot on the outside grill. The salmon was only seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic. Cooking was done within 10 minutes. We microwaved broccoli and dinner was done.

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I ended on the couch with my dog and watched ELF with Will Ferrell. It is so good. I think tonight I might do Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase- can't go wrong there! Anyway I am feeling a bit better today, still really crappy but not totally laid out like a couple of days ago. I hope I can have my energy up enough to be able to visit some family for Christmas. Thats my goal for this week, I just hope to be able to have a somewhat "normal" christmas.
Best wishes everybody for a happy holiday season!


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- Clatsop County, OR. September 28th: A public health advisory has been issued due to higher-than-normal levels of bacteria in ocean waters at Seaside Beach in Clatsop County.
- Sacramento, CA. September 29th: Effective June 11, 2011, all food handlers in California will be required to be certified in safe food handling procedures. Currently, restaurants are only required to have one certified person on staff – usually the manager. Only employees working at temporary facilities will be exempt from this requirement, which could form a model for other states to follow.
- San Diego County, CA. September 29th: The Boil Water Order has been lifted for Potrero County Park Water System.
- Brookenby, UK. September 29th: Company boss Roland Saldanha and Allen Rich Seafoods Ltd. were found guilty of six breaches of hygiene between August and November 2008. Saldanha also was convicted on four charges under the animal by-product regulations. During the court hearing, environmental health officers testified that the premises were infested with rats and some frozen stock was covered in dead maggots. Sentencing will take place next month.
- Glasgow, Scotland. September 29th: Fifteen guests and four staff members at The Marriott hotel in Glasgow's city center have developed gastroenteritis, thought to be due to Norovirus. The affected guests have been asked to stay in their rooms to limit potential spread of the virus, and ill staff members are remaining at home until they have recovered.
- Elche, Spain. September 30th: The Department of Public Health is investigating the cause of food poisoning that has affected 14 people who attended a wedding in an Elche restaurant on Saturday night. The restaurant is cooperating in the investigation.
Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands
- Hong Kong. September 29th: The Centre for Food Safety reports that nine out of 179 meat samples tested as part of a targeted surveillance program contained sulphur dioxide, a preservative that is not permitted in fresh, chilled or frozen meat.
- Hong Kong. September 29th: The Centre for Food Safety released the findings of its food safety report for August. Fourteen out of 3,900 were found to be unsatisfactory.
- Taiwan. September 29th: Twenty-two people have been arrested for the sale and adulteration of non-prescription slimming products; 22,000 pills were confiscated as part of the police action.
- Iloilo City, Philippines. September 29th: The public is warned of high coliform levels in the water at Villa Beach.
- West Africa. September 29th: An epidemic of cholera which began earlier this summer has caused approximately 20,000 illnesses and 1171 deaths so far this year in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. Medecins Sans Frontieres has set up 18 treatment centers in the four countries.
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Cape Froward, Chile. September 29th: A fisherman was rushed to hospital with symptoms of red tide poisoning after consuming three snails collected on the village beach.


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News -
Dirt bike rider airlifted after crashing into barbed wire
A dirt bike rider has been flown to hospital after crashing into a barbed wire fence north west of Toowoomba.
The 19-year-old was riding on a private property in Kingsthorpe when he lost control on a turn and slammed straight into the thorny fence.
The RACQ CareFlight Rescue helicopter from the Clive Berghofer CareFlight Centre in Toowoomba landed on the property around 4pm.
CareFlight's Critical Care Doctor and Flight Intensive Care Paramedic treated the young man for a suspected pelvic injury and cuts.
He was airlifted to Toowoomba Base Hospital in a stable condition.
This is the third air-medical rescue the Toowoomba RACQ CareFlight Rescue helicopter has been tasked on today.
The crew responded to a quad bike accident in Beaudesert, where they airlifted a child with suspected head, spinal and abdominal injuries to the Mater Children's Hospital.
Read the full details on this rescue mission.


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johnny, eat your heart out…
The holidays always makes one nostalgic, doesn't it?
Among the many things I'm thankful for this holiday season is my childhood, which was filled with so much adventure and good food. And they went hand-in-hand – almost literally – in this tidy little tin box that I carried to school every day from pre-school through kindergarten. Okay, maybe part of first grade too. I really can't remember.
At some point, I graduated to the paper bag, which was so much more sanitary (lunch boxes have this unmistakable "locker room banana" smell that I still can't shake), disposable, transient, and imagination-killing.
Luke, Bo, Daisy, Uncle Jesse, Boss Hogg – the whole gang – kept me company through countless colouring books, field trips, and the dreaded nap times. It was the envy of many a rambunctious classmates, and a few girls too. Thanks mom and dad – you were and still are the best!
What was your first lunch box?
To see the rest of this lunch box, CLICK HERE. (The title of this post is an inside joke – he'll understand when he sees it.)
9 Responses to "johnny, eat your heart out…"
I never needed a lunch box in elementary school because I went home for lunch except on Fridays when I went to my grandmother's. But I think one of J's is still on a shelf in our garage.
@ u.e., When we're back in NJ, I'll look for it.
I'm not sure — the Scooby Doo lunchbox is a contender, but I think my first lunchbox was from a 1975 TV show called "Space – 1999." I had the 1st version in this series of images, and I DEFINITELY had the Thermos bottle that came with it. http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4926808
My favorite was a Empire Strikes Back Box….It was sweet
I found J's (very dusty) lunchbox on the shelf in the garage. Green gingham-checked background. No characters from t.v. shows or movies; instead, (and I know you are going to love this) — watermelons! On the cover and bottom. But on the cover, they are obscured by a whole bunch of stickers, each with a different animal picture and the words "Good Work." Obviously, a diligent nursery school student.


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Sorry for the delay in this post, But committee members swapping files takes time. I will be more organised at the next competition and have the files organized by the following day. So at last please see the below images from the pearl competition, all digital entry's that were in the top ten are included, Clearly any prints are not present.
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Last time I showed you our Halloween mantel and since then I have been busy adding more spooky décor for our upcoming annual Halloween bash. First I want to share our invitation which I created using a vintage sheet music background that I found at the Graphics Fairy. I added all the text and embellishments on top.
The party really isn't in Fallen Oaks… but that is the spooky city name that Michael came up with. :) Anyway, I think our invitation is pretty cool. If I keep upping the creativity scale every year soon I will have maxed out my creative potential. Onwards, to the décor!
Here is where we left in the living room:
And since then I have added decorations in purple, black and silver to the bookcase on the short wall.
It's sporting a purple and black tinsel garland and some white lights along with an assortment of accessories on top, including a witch hat and glitter broom! :)
Here it is all lit up at night and with some purple LED candles added. These are really pretty up close! They were on clearance at Michael's.
Gotta love these smartphone camera pics that are all weird sizes. :)
We are bringing back the graveyard from last year, but this time instead of painting it on the wall, we decided to cut it out of foam board so we can keep it from year to year. I love it!
And instead of creepy cloth which Mama didn't like over the graveyard, I hung a few spooky branches from the ceiling and perched some ravens on top. It is awesome (if a bit dangerous to sit under??). Here's Dracula drifting beneath on the other side.
The banister got a spruce with some garbage bag garland and purple beads and bows and purple lights. I haven't taken a good shot of that yet. And the mice have infested the stairway again. Those mice! Can't seem to get rid of them this time of year. ;)
In the rest of the house, I've decked the dining room with a trick or treat theme (since that's where all the delicious sweets will be) and a colorful scheme of green, orange, black and purple.
The glittery jack-o-lanterns are from Walmart, and they light up! Piles of pumpkins are on the buffet until the desserts will replace them at party time.
I made this banner with scrapbook paper and printed letters. I saw the idea here and decided to make it myself.
And the parlor is festooned with hanging bats and creepy cloth, which I will show you next time! I still have tons of stuff to add, so I'll be back to share more as it gets closer to Halloween! :)
Only two weeks to go!


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Cheat Sheet
The GRE Test For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Getting into a graduate program means passing the GRE (Graduate Record Examination). Remember these tips for doing well on the Verbal Section, Math Section, and Analytical Writing section, as well as info on how to deal successfully with the computerized GRE.
Tips for Mastering the Verbal Section of the GRE
Unless you're an English geek, the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) Verbal section probably intimidates you more than any other. But you can master the GRE Verbal questions using the following tips and approaches for each section of the test. However, first, pay attention to these general tips:
Use roots, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the gist of an unfamiliar word.
Guess quickly if you're stumped. The computer won't let you go on until you've marked and confirmed an answer, and believe it or not, answering a few questions incorrectly hurts your score less than not finishing a section.
Approach Antonym questions by
Creating an approximate definition of the word in your mind
Predicting the obvious opposite
Remembering that words can have more than one meaning
Avoid getting stuck on a Reading Comprehension question by following these tips:
Choose positive or neutral answers, not negative ones.
Guess quickly and move on when you encounter Roman numeral and negative/exception questions, because they're often tricky and time consuming.
Avoid picking an answer simply because it's true. Always make certain that it answers the question correctly.
When faced with Analogies,
Create a sentence that shows the relationship between the two words and then use that sentence on each answer choice.
Beware of answers with inverse relationships (for example, part to whole when the question was whole to part).
For Sentence Completion questions, be sure to
Read the entire sentence to get its gist before looking at the individual blanks.
Search for key connector words (such as because, although, and however) that may change the meaning of the sentence from what you'd expect.
Predict whether the blanks need positive or negative words.
And last, but most certainly not least, remember: This test is rated PG — Proctor Guarded. Proctors have been genetically altered to have eyes in the backs of their heads; they'll catch you if you bring crib notes, so do all your prep before taking the test.
Tips for Taking the Computerized GRE
In the age of electronics, even the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) is computerized, and the electronic version presents questions based on your previous answers. Don't be intimidated, though; taking the computerized version should be no problem for you if you remember these three tips:
The first five or so questions in each section are critical, so take your time to answer them correctly.
You can't skip and go back to a question, so guess quickly and move on when you're stumped. Remember: You benefit from answering every question more than you lose by getting a few wrong.
Keep an eye on the clock. Sprint to the end if you have to, being sure to fill in something for every answer before time runs out.
Tips for Mastering the Math Section of the GRE
Success on the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) Math section has a great deal to do with applying logic and common sense. Following are some tips for how to do your best on this section of the test:
Before you start
Lose the calculator (it's not allowed). The proctor will provide scratch paper.
Remember that the GRE tests algebra, geometry, and arithmetic, not calculus or trigonometry.
Memorize formulas before you take the test. The GRE doesn't provide them.
Following are some tips for those tricky Quantitative Comparison questions:
Triple-check your answer before hitting the Confirm button on the computer, because the answers to Quantitative Comparison (QC) questions often aren't the obvious, first-response answers.
Remember that the answer choices are the same for every question. Choose A if Column A is greater; B if Column B is greater; C if the two columns are equal; and D if insufficient information is given. E is never a choice in the QC-question realm.
If the columns seem to be equal, do the required calculations to prove that they are.
Play the "what if" game by plugging in 1, then 2, 0, –1, –2, and 1⁄2. If the answer depends on what you plug in for the variable, choose D.
And now for some Problem Solving tips:
Note what the question specifically asks you to find: perimeter, area, length, degree, fraction, percentage, and so on.
Before you begin working on a problem, read the answer choices. You may be able to estimate and answer without working out the solution.
Plug answer choices into the question to see which one works. Do the easy choices first; you may not have to do the hard ones.
Tips for Mastering the Analytical Writing Section of the GRE
When you sit down to begin the Analytical Writing section of the GRE (Graduate Record Examination), you must argue your perspective on an issue presented in the test and to analyze an argument as well.
Keep these tips in mind as you do your analytical writing:
Answer the question specifically, making your opinion known to the readers in the introductory paragraph.
Use all 45 minutes to create a three- to five-paragraph essay, giving supporting reasons and examples for your perspective (and anticipating and addressing counterarguments).
Create a final paragraph that summarizes, not merely repeats, the points of your essay.
When you analyze an argument, use these pointers:
Identify the assumptions the writer is making and discuss how reasonable they are.
Provide outside counterexamples or supporting information to strengthen or weaken the argument.
Avoid giving your opinion on the topic; the point here is to discuss how well-argued the essay is as written.


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JACKSON, MISS. – As Tropical Storm Nate moves into the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is preparing for the storm to make landfall as a hurricane along Mississippi's coastal counties.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. NHC forecasts Nate to make landfall as a Category 1 storm (winds near 80 mph) late Saturday night into early Sunday morning.
"What many people don't realize is that MDOT crews are considered first responders when severe weather, including tropical storms and hurricanes, move through the state," said Melinda McGrath, MDOT executive director. "MDOT is on the scene immediately after the storm passes to remove debris from affected roadways and clear a path for emergency, law enforcement and disaster relief personnel."
MDOT began preparing response efforts Thursday. Crews throughout South Mississippi are stocking supplies and traffic control trailers, fueling vehicles and equipment, sharpening tools such as chainsaws, programming dynamic message sign (DMS) boards, staging equipment for quick response times and securing active highway maintenance and construction projects. Crews are lowering some high-mast lighting systems today along the Coast to prevent them from becoming projectiles during high winds.
MDOT has announced the following updates for impact to travelers.
- The I-55 pavement rehabilitation project in McComb has been halted, and both northbound lanes are open to traffic throughout the weekend.
- On the Interstate 10 widening project in Jackson County, two lanes will be open in both directions. Traffic barrels will remain in place on a 10-mile stretch of this project between Vancleave and the Alabama state line.
- Sand removal crews are on standby and equipment-ready along U.S. Highway 90 on the Gulf Coast.
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- Motorists should be prepared to encounter congestion near drawbridges in coastal counties. There is potential for the drawbridges to be in use more frequently as marine vessels seek shelter.
- Highway 57 at Red Creek in Jackson County remains closed after recently being struck by a truck carrying a track hoe. Motorists are advised to continue following posted signage and utilize State Route 26, State Route 63 and I-10 as alternate routes.
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For current traffic and travel conditions, visit MDOTtraffic.com and follow @MississippiDOT on Twitter. For hurricane preparedness information, visit GoMDOT.com/hurricanes. For tips on driving in severe weather, visit GoMDOT.com/drivesmartms.


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Penn State men's hockey: Nittany Lions put up tougher test but fall to Ohio State
For 20 minutes, it appeared the Penn State ice hockey team was poised for its first Big Ten victory.
The Nittany Lions were skating crisply, making the right plays, getting stellar goaltending and building a two-goal lead.
Then the Big Ten's leading scorer began to heat up his game.
Ryan Dzingel scored once and set up the other two goals in the second period as Ohio State erased the early deficit and put away Penn State 5-2 Saturday afternoon to complete a sweep of the two-game weekend series.
Tanner Fritz, Anthony Greco, Max McCormick and Darik Angeli also hit the net for the Buckeyes (14-9-1, 4-5-1).
Dylan Richard and Casey Bailey each scored in the first period for the Nittany Lions (4-17-1, 0-8), who have lost 14 of their last 15.
Penn State returns to Pegula Ice Arena for another tough test next weekend, hosting No. 12 Michigan on Friday and Saturday.
The Nittany Lions, who had trouble putting the puck past Ohio State goalie Christian Fry on Friday night in a 5-1 loss, beat him twice in the first seven minutes.
Connor Varley intercepted an attempted clearing pass by the Buckeyes and fed it back down to Richard in the right circle. The freshman circled around and whipped a shot past Fry for his second goal of the season.
Bailey then made it 2-0 when he grabbed a rebound in the slot and fired the puck through traffic. Richard and Jacob Friedman assisted on the shorthanded tally, Bailey's third tally of the season, two seconds after the Buckeyes went on a power play.
By the end of the first period, the Lions had a couple more solid scoring chances and a 13-6 advantage in shots.
But that ended the offensive highlights for Penn State.
Dzingel had a breakaway in the first minute of the second period, although Matthew Skoff kept the junior at bay to preserve the lead for one of his 19 saves.
But Skoff could not keep the Buckeyes quiet much longer.
A minute later Dzingel started a pretty tic-tac-toe play for Ohio State, finished by Fritz on a power play.
Fritz then fed the puck to Dzingel on another power play, with the junior blasting the shot from the point past Skoff to tie the game just 3:36 into the second period.
Ohio State had the lead with 1:07 left in the second, when Dzingel snagged an attempted clearing play by Penn State and fed the puck from the boards to the middle as Nick Oddo and Greco raced toward the net, with Greco finishing the play.
McCormick scored from the point right after carrying the puck across the blue line 1:39 into the third period, and Angeli finished the scoring with 2:27 left with an empty net score, right after Skoff went to the bench.
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It is said that if a woman is splendid with jeans and a shirt, no elegance or fashion can resist. If he does well with a tracksuit, is something almost miraculous but not go so far. Jeans and shirts are aided and perfect for travel clothes but how celebrities wear them?
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Irina Shayk in New York these days and looks casual touch I like most of all. A knee boots and a good bag accompanying an unstructured coat with large lapels. The only thing missing, as all looks, is a bit of color.
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Noam Chomsky turns eighty-four today, more than a half century after he exploded onto the scene of linguistics, in in the late nineteen-fifties, as a young professor at M.I.T. His career began perhaps most notably with a book review that helped launch an entire field of linguistics (known as generative grammar) and laid waste to another (the behaviorist view of B. F. Skinner that then dominated psychology). From that moment forward, linguistics truly has never been the same.
He remains as influential, and divisive, as he was when Larissa MacFarquhar wrote a Profile of Chomsky in The New Yorker nearly a decade ago ("The Devil's Accountant"). He has at least three new essays on linguistics coming out soon, and if time has slowed him down, it's not by very much. A few months ago, I sent him a manuscript and he replied, with comments, in less than half an hour.
I can't speak to his politics, for which he is equally well known. But since his earliest days, Chomsky's scientific concerns have been as much about philosophy as linguistics. For most of us, words and sentences are tools for communicating. But for Chomsky, words and sentences are tools for understanding the nature and origins of knowledge. Chomsky sees himself, correctly, as continuing a conversation that goes back to Plato, especially the Meno dialogue, in which a slave boy is revealed by Socrates to know truths about geometry that he hadn't realized he knew. Plato's question was whether any of what we know about the world is innate as opposed to acquired through experience. For Chomsky, the interest in linguistics isn't so much whether one language uses infinitives and another uses subjunctives but whether all languages are, at some level, deeply related and constrained by what Chomsky dubbed "universal grammar."
That idea of universal grammar didn't just change linguistics, it had repercussions for virtually every field that concerns the mind. In developmental psychology, for example, no idea has ever been as controversial, or as pivotal. How much do children know about language before they even begin to talk? Do they learn language simply by imitating their parents, or is there a built-in language-acquisition device (or what Steven Pinker called a "language instinct")? Parallel questions soon arose in other aspects of cognitive development as well.
Part of Chomsky's argument begins with the observation that language is infinite, with no end to the number of possible sentences that you can produce and comprehend. Take Chomsky's sole entry in Bartlett's Quotations, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"; even if you don't know what it means, you can still immediately apprehend that the sentence is grammatical, whereas "green furiously ideas colorless sleep" is not. Yet any given child's experience is finite; we constantly encounter sentences that we have never heard or seen before. For Chomsky, the question of linguistics is how children bridge the gap between finite and infinite, from the finite input that they have heard to the infinity of what they can comprehend. In framing the problem in this way, Chomsky took an ancient and seemingly imponderable question—about nature versus nurture—and turned it into something that is actually testable.
One of Chomsky's most remarkable traits is his willingness to change his own mind, like Bob Dylan suddenly going electric to the consternation of his early fans. Take for example the distinction that he once made between "deep structure" and "surface structure." In its crudest form, the notion is that an active sentence ("John loved Mary") and a passive sentence ("Mary was loved by John") might seem superficially different; yet they have some important underlying commonality, both in meaning and in their representation in the brain. It's a neat idea that makes certain very specific claims about how language is represented in our mind, and how sound relates to meaning; decades of linguistic work have been based on it. It also (somewhat uncharacteristically for Chomsky) makes for a perfect sound bite; there are plenty of people who know nothing about linguistics, but have the sense that what he was talking about was "deep versus shallow"; there was an even a Nobel Prize winner, Niels Jerne, who used the metaphor in his Nobel address about language and the immune system. Most people would have lived off a metaphor that good for the rest of their careers; Chomsky has spent the past twenty-five years arguing that he made a mistake. Although the basic metaphor is simple, the distinction between deep structure and surface structure required a great deal of behind-the-scenes technical examination in order to make it work with the complexities of different languages. In its place, Chomsky has recently been trying to develop a simpler, more elegant theory (known as the Minimalist Program) that encompasses the spirit of the original. (Not all of us are convinced about the success of that approach; my own view is that language is irreducibly messy, and that the elegance that Chomsky seeks will not be forthcoming.)
More recently, in a co-written 2002 paper, Chomsky seemed to open a door to a view that he'd long criticized: the idea that the "faculty of language," as he called it, might draw on parts of the brain that weren't specialized for language. Up to then, Chomsky had been known in part for idea called "the autonomy of syntax," which, in crude terms, suggested that grammar was cognitively separate from other aspects of the mind (like our understanding of the world and our desire to eat pizza for dinner). I was so surprised by the dramatic shift that I wrote to him to ask. "A lot of people take [your new] paper to be a renouncing of your earlier arguments." Was that really the case? His response, as immediate as ever, "As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking."
Nine academics out of ten never change their mind about anything; most (though there are salient exceptions, like Wittgenstein) lock into a position earlier in their careers and then defend it to the hilt. Chomsky, in contrast, has never stopped critiquing his own theories with the same vigor with which he has criticized others. For fifty years, his search for linguistic truth has been relentless.
At times, Chomsky can be maddening. He is not a particularly good listener, and he aims to win every argument, preferably by taking the most contrarian stance possible, like arguing that language evolved not for communication but for internal thought. The odder the arguments are, the more he seems to enjoy himself. A friend of mine was a student of Chomsky's in the mid-seventies, and he recalls his strategy for meeting with Chomsky. Instead of the usual one-on-one meetings that most students have with their advisors, my friend would bring a classmate along. The two students would take turns debating Chomsky, one stepping in when the other ran out of things to say. Chomsky would win every argument (or at least never admit defeat), and the two would go home exhausted, but also elated. Each debate with Noam brought them a step closer to understanding the true nature of language and mind.
Chomsky can also be dismissive, in ways that still rankle—and stir people to action. He has, for example, never been kind to the field of semantics (which is about meaning) as opposed to the field of syntax (which is about grammar). He has also paid too little attention to the experimental data of psycholinguistics, which focusses on the dynamics of how people understand sentences as they unfold, millisecond by millisecond. Because Chomsky has a kind of first-mover advantage, his views in any area tend to dominate, even in areas, like the evolution of language, in which he is not an expert. When he makes a bad choice and unfairly dismisses an important question (like the way in which meaning is represented in the brain), linguists who aim to answer the questions that Chomsky neglects often face unnecessary resistance, as if the guru hasn't sanctioned their mission. A good way for a young linguistics graduate student to make a name is to develop an intriguing idea that Chomsky mentions in one of his footnotes; it's a riskier move to study something that Chomsky doesn't find to be important.
A year and a half ago, at a symposium at M.I.T., Chomsky said, somewhat flippantly, that he didn't think that statistical data mining approaches to language had contributed significantly to our understanding of how language worked. A more polite person would have put that sentiment more gently; a less influential person would simply have been ignored. Instead, one of the world's busiest and most influential software engineers—Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google—wrote an eight thousand four hundred word blog post, extensively footnoted, critiquing Chomsky's remark. It was two hundred or so paragraphs in response to a handful of Chomsky's sentences. In practically any other context, it would be unseemly for a leading researcher at one of the world's largest companies to spend so much effort picking on an off-the-cuff remark made by a man in his eighties. But I see it in a different way: two titans facing off, with Chomsky, as ever, defining the contest.
When I was a second-year graduate student at M.I.T., Chomsky taught a class on philosophy, which I was lucky enough to sit in on. The class itself was an event, almost a circus; people came from all over Boston, not just M.I.T. Grad students in my department (brain and cognitive science) would walk over en masse, facetiously chanting, as if it was a mantra, "Noam… Noam… Noam." We would poke fun at Chomsky's body language, and his teaching habits, as if we were above it all. But the truth is that few of us have ever been to a course that stimulating, before or since. To my eternal chagrin, I became exceptionally busy that semester (working on a language acquisition project that had just taken off), and had no choice but to drop the class when I realized I wouldn't have time to write the required paper.
Sometimes I think of my whole career since as a kind of penance, still trying to wend my way through the philosophical stage that Noam had set. None of the questions Chomsky has posed has yet been fully answered, to his satisfaction or to anybody else's, but no scholar of the mind has ever been more influential. Chomsky may not always have the right answers. But he has always had the wisdom to pose the right questions.
Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at N.Y.U. and the author of "Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical At Any Age," has written for newyorker.com about the facts and fictions of neuroscience; moral machines; and Ray Kurzweil's new book.
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RESTON, Va., May 2 (UPI) -- Rolls-Royce has received a $315 million contract for technology that enables a variant of the F-35 aircraft to perform short take-offs vertical landings.
The order for 17 Rolls-Royce LiftSystems for F-35B Lightning II jets was given by engine-maker Pratt and Whitney. The LiftSystem comprises a Rolls-Royce LiftFan, Roll Posts and a 3-Bearing Swivel Module.
Rolls-Royce, a subcontractor to Pratt and Whitney, said the 17 systems will be produced this year. It is the fourth lot of low-rate initial production LiftSystems and that a fifth LRIP is expected to be received before the year is out. So far, 32 of the systems have been delivered under earlier orders.
"Rolls-Royce continues to focus on increasing efficiency as we provide this vital capability to the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program," said Neil Mehta, Rolls-Royce LiftSystem Program director. "We anticipate continuous cost improvements as production volumes ramp up to meet the needs of the F-35 program."
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I'm glad you all (hopefully all of you, anyway) enjoyed my latest update. I would like to apologize in advance for the many, many tags. It is because I'm an awful person.
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- Unitasker Wednesday: Corn Desilker
In all of my years of shucking, cooking, and eating a ridiculous amount of corn, I have never once thought I needed a device to remove the silk from an ear. However, someone out there apparently thinks I am wrong and believes a special tool is necessary for doing a very simple task that your hands can do. Exhibit A: The Corn Desilker.
- Breaking projects down into simple, achievable steps
When you break projects down into simple, achievable steps, you set yourself up for success. You are more likely to complete a project when the steps to "done" are clear.
- Organizing advice from classical Greeks
More than 2,000 years ago, famous Greek philosopher Socrates and a man named Isomachus were having a discussion about how Isomachus wished his wife would run their home (the conversation is recorded by Xenophon in chapter eight of his writing Oeconomicus). Isomachus told Socrates he had asked his wife to keep house by finding a place for everything and having everything in its place.
- Unitasker Wednesday: Coffee Grinder Brush
Sadly, this specialized brush can't do the job of getting particulates out of your grinder any better than a pastry brush (which you probably already own if you're grinding your own coffee and spices).
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Okay, my new science fiction novelette is finally out.
You can check it out here:
US Amazon: Automatic Rebellion
UK Amazon: Automatic Rebellion
It's mostly about artificial inteligences, robots, robotic warfare and some other things, dealing with warfare in space conducted by computers, sort off.
Actually, some of the ideas I presented in several of my previous posts, Blue Brain Artificial Intelligence, Blue Brain Hostile Artificial Intelligence, and Will We Have to Fight an Artificial Intelligence, have been instrumental in the story. Of course, all of these coming from a direction which I hope will be unexpected to the readers.
Everything is also laced with what I hope is the right amount of action and combat, because that's what I like and that's what I think should carry over my points. Naturally, artificial intelligences and robots do not fight the way we do. This should also come out in the story.
Well, have fun reading, please put reivews of the story up, and I will certainly put up a post about a new story about artificial intelligences and robots, again from a very different point of view.
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text: Halma Share Price, Forecast & Analysis (LON:HLMA) Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Halma plc Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add GBX 1,880 +7.00 (+0.37 %) (As of 11/17/2019 11:02 AM ET) Add Compare Today's Range 1,869.50Now: GBX 1,880▼ 1,897.5050-Day Range 1,814MA: GBX 1,896.33▼ 1,97152-Week Range 19.03Now: GBX 1,880▼ 2,099Volume1.09 million shsAverage Volume921,195 shsMarket Capitalization£7.14 billionP/E Ratio41.96Dividend Yield1.00%BetaN/A ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendInsider TradesHeadlines Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Halma plc provides process and infrastructure safety, medical, and environmental and analysis products worldwide. Its Process Safety segment offers safety systems for warehousing and hazardous industrial processes; gas detection instruments; pressure management products; interlocking systems for safeguarding dangerous machines; pipeline corrosion monitoring products and systems; and process safety systems. Read More… Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange LON Industry Security & Protection Services Sub-IndustryN/A SectorIndustrials Current SymbolLON:HLMA Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIKN/A Webhttp://www.halma.com/ Phone+44-1494-721111Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio26.79 Current Ratio2.28 Quick Ratio1.51Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio41.96 Forward P/E Ratio0.36 P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales£1.21 billion Price / Sales5.89 Cash FlowGBX 21.40 per share Price / Cash Flow87.85 Book ValueGBX 258.80 per share Price / Book7.26Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on EquityN/A Return on AssetsN/AMiscellaneous Employees6,341 Outstanding Shares379,644,992Market Cap£7.14 billion Next Earnings Date11/19/2019 (Estimated) OptionableNot Optionable LSE:HLMA Rates by TradingView Receive HLMA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for HLMA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Halma (LON:HLMA) Frequently Asked Questions What is Halma's stock symbol? Halma trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "HLMA." How often does Halma pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Halma? Halma declared a dividend on Tuesday, June 11th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 11th will be paid a dividend of GBX 9.60 per share on Wednesday, August 14th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 11th. This is a boost from Halma's previous dividend of $6.11. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Halma's Dividend History. When is Halma's next earnings date? Halma is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Halma. What price target have analysts set for HLMA? 11 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Halma's shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 1,400 to GBX 2,075. On average, they anticipate Halma's stock price to reach GBX 1,714.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Halma. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Halma? 11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halma in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Halma. Has Halma been receiving favorable news coverage? News stories about HLMA stock have been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Halma earned a media sentiment score of -2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Halma. Who are some of Halma's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Halma include G4S (GFS), London Security (LSC), Marlowe (MRL), CompX International (CIX), Wrap Technologies (WRTC), Wrap Technologies (WRTC), Hills (HIL), Redflex (RDF), Thruvision Group (THRU), Xtek (XTE), Nanotech Security (NTS), Avante Logixx (XX), Command Security (MOC), Ava Risk Group (AVA) and Synectics (SNX). What other stocks do shareholders of Halma own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Halma investors own include Rotork (ROR), Hill & Smith (HILS), Renishaw (RSW), DS Smith (SMDS), Montage Resources (MR), Berkeley Group (BKG), Randgold Resources (RRS), Celgene (CELG), Becton Dickinson and (BDX) and Xing (O1BC). Who are Halma's key executives? Halma's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Andrew J. Williams, Group CEO, Member of Exec. Board & Exec. Director (Age 52)Mr. Adam J. Meyers, Chief Exec. of Medical & Environmental Sectors, Member of Exec. Board & Exec. Director (Age 57)Ms. Jennifer Ward, Group Talent & Communications Director, Member of Exec. Board and DirectorMr. Marc A. Ronchetti, Group CFO & Exec. DirectorMr. Paul Simmons, Chief Exec. of Infrastructure Safety Sector & Member of Exec. Management Board How do I buy shares of Halma? Shares of HLMA and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock. What is Halma's stock price today? One share of HLMA stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 1,880. How big of a company is Halma? Halma has a market capitalization of £7.14 billion and generates £1.21 billion in revenue each year. Halma employs 6,341 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Halma. What is Halma's official website? The official website for Halma is http://www.halma.com/. How can I contact Halma? Halma's mailing address is Misbourne Court, Rectory Way, AMERSHAM, HP7 0DE, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1494-721111. MarketBeat Community Rating for Halma (LON HLMA)Community Ranking: 2.1 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 377 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 500 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 877MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Halma and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe HLMA will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe HLMA will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 11/17/2019 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: How Do You Make Money With Penny Stocks?


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No time to go out? Feeling shy? Tired of being forever alone? Still bitter over your last failed relationship? Whatever your hang-ups might be, there's no excuse to not get out there, meet new people, and enjoy life with the company of others. Start the year right by joining a speed dating event that will benefit a charity! It's like hitting two birds with one stone—you get to meet new people and potential dates while you get to help out orphaned kids.
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According to keenesentinel.com, a new campground at Monadnock State Park will open next week.
The Gilson Pond Campground boasts 40 campsites, including five walk-in sites, and a new campground and bathhouse.
The campground is the first built by the N.H. Division of Parks in 40 years and replaces a 21-site campground at the headquarters of the park built in 1935.
The headquarters campground will now be used for youth group camping, according to a news release from state parks officials.
A grand opening celebration for the new site is scheduled for Aug. 18 at 1 p.m.
Monadnock State Park, which has over 40 miles of trails, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. It is one of the state's most visited parks.


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