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There is no denying that the dating industry is in a financial growth period. With the addition of mobile applications, streamline payments and a younger generation embracing the Internet, the dating industry is poised for continued growth for years to come.
Starting your own online dating business can be done in an affordable and scalable manner. You can start in one city and expand as you grow. You can widen the reach and focus on a specific region of states or you can go national and international.
Here are ten tips on how to start your own site:
1. Focus on a niche market. This can be a religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, age or more obscure such as a food choice (ie: vegetarian) or hobby. By narrowing down the category for the dating pool, you can attract more users that fit the specific demographic.
2. Name your site. Once you have chosen your focus, name your site. Try to use words that would easily appear in an online search or include "dating" in the title.
3. Claim your site. Purchase the domain name through GoDaddy.com or another hosting site. For a professional appearance, sign up for the email package so users can contact you at your site address.
4. Build a website on your own or through a white label service. There are numerous platforms available that let you utilize their programs to build a site. Dating Factory is a free service that enables you to build a site semi-customized to your needs.
5. Establish a social networking presence. Your site is online so your visibility should be online, too. Start a Facebook page and group, create a Twitter account, start an Instagram page, sign on to Pinterest, and create a Google+ account. Be sure to use your brand name for all the accounts.
6. Build a blog. Content marketing is a key component to attracting users. If you are a writer, write 3-5 articles a week about relationships, dating and love on your blog. You can also enlist the help of guest bloggers or use backlinks to trackback to other dating articles. The more relevant content you provide to your users, the more traffic you can generate to your site.
7. Submit press releases. Submit press releases to your local papers and to the national wire. This is a good way to announce the site, its service mission and any unique qualities about the site.
8. Offer specials and discounts. Free trials, buy one month get one month free and complimentary searches are all good ways to build a database. If you are offering any promotions, make the announcement via a press release and on your social network channels.
9. Join dating groups and attend conferences. The dating industry is a wheel that doesn't necessarily need to be reinvented. Learning from the industry giants can help you build your business and generate users. You can gain helpful sales tips, learn about affiliate marketing and learn about industry trends.
10. Network. Go to local singles events and mixers to meet other singles and market your site. The more locals you have in any one area helps to build your search database.


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How do I re-use existing XAML code in my Metro style apps?
Please reference the "Guidelines for porting existing XAML code to Metro style code" article for tips on accomplishing this.
Dan Reagan | Microsoft | Windows 8 Support
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we currently have a (quite large) WPF code base that we are successfully reusing (by compile switching where needed) for Silverlight and WP7 versions of the same app. This is all good and works fine, and of course will be the path to bring our app to Metro (the pieces that make sense anyway).
The real issue though is with XAML: there are differences between WPF and SL (and of course differences now with Metro XAML). We have been able to workaround some of these differences by using slightly different constructs but sometimes it is just not possible, and we end up having a duplicate XAML file for SL where 99% of the file is the same and one tiny little attribute is different - which kills maintainability (have to remember to update all the versions of the same file).
Would it be possible to add some special construct (a new comment type or something) to XAML in order to achieve "compiler-switch" functionality? This way it would be much easier for users targeting multiple platforms (WPF, SL, Metro, WP7) to reuse their existing assets.Sunday, September 18, 2011 11:25 AM
I'm currently working on a blog series on how to accomplish this starting here: http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2011/09/15/WinRT-vs-Silverlight-Part-0.aspx
My worry is the opposite of yours. For the XAML case I haven't found much difference other than the why you declare xml namespaces. This of course does mean you will be having a copy of your xaml and have to maintain both copies since we don't have if-defs in XAML. It could be accomplished through a little build task as well to automate this process though. At least the change here is straightforward and the rest of your xaml carries over.
For the code portion however, I see a much larger problem. I've been cross-compiling sourcecode for WPF, Silverlight and WP7 for quite some time now with pretty good success. So like you I thought I could just continue down that road for WinRT. However the more I work on this, the more I realize that that is probably not a very good idea. First of all there's a lot of syntax changes, so you will need a lot of compiler directives, almost to a point where it gets unreadable. Next is that the new API's are very focused towards the new async pattern, and you will have to have your code match that. That means your code flow will be very different in the different versions. At the very least you will have to write quite a lot of abstraction logic that is going to affect all your build targets if you want maintanability. I know some of these things are going to get a little better as we move toward a solid beta, but the async pattern alone forces quite some changes on to your code.Sunday, September 18, 2011 4:00 PM
Has anyone considered creating a XAML code generator that would take a source platform agnostic XAML file and "generate" a platform specifc one that would then be compiled? Auto searching and replacing for the namespace differences and other minor differences should not be too hard. From my very limited knowledge of T4 Design-Templates this seems like something that would be easily accomplishable.
I realize that this would most likely prevent the interactive designers from working but I would rather that then duplicating all of the XAML files multiple times.Saturday, September 24, 2011 1:21 PM
I recently blogged about a way to use ObservableCollection with WinRT, using a value converter to adapt the ObservableCollection to a IObservableVector interface, which the WinRT XAML UI requires:
Colin E.Monday, October 17, 2011 9:32 AM
Hi ccifra,
Here is what I do. I moved my code that is unique to WinRT or Silverlight to XAML code behind. Platform specific code is wrapped in preprocessor statements. For differences in XAML namespace declarations I wrote a utility to switch namespaces back and forth between Silverlight and WinRT conventions. There is a feature in Visual Studio to run external commands (Tools -> External Tools). So I have one command called "make Silverlight" which replaces "using:" with "clr-namespace" and another called "make WinRT" with the reverse option.
I use a Silverlight application for the web as my base project for all files and the WinRT project references these XAML and CS files as external links. Through this approach I am able to share source between Silverlight and WinRT. I can't dual compile simultaneously, but using the aforementioned external command, I can compile each project individually with relative ease.
If you are building a business application the above approach may not be sensible because it can be challenging to work within 'Metro' design principles without using WinRT libraries. But if you are building a game or your WPF/Silverlight app shares Metro design principles, this option may work for you.
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Dual compiling, interesting idea.Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:01 AM
If the only thing you are after is to be able to use the "using" syntax for namespace declarations, the solution is very simple.
Add the following attribute to the Silverlight assembly
[assembly: XmlnsDefinition("using:PlaybackManager", "PlaybackManager")]
to be able to use the "using:" namespace in Silverlight XAML.
I was working on porting my WP7 app to Windows 8 and discovered this today. Hope you find this useful!Monday, December 3, 2012 8:14 AM
Hi Louri. I was hopeful and I gave your approach a try. It seems to work fine for external assemblies but for controls referenced within an assembly, I get "The name [insert class name here] does not exist in namespace [using:myNamespace]. So if my assembly is Foo, I cannot use XmlnsDefinition within Foo to reference classes contained within Foo. I am thinking that your approach may not work for large projects. It's a shame, because it would be a succinct solution.Wednesday, December 26, 2012 8:22 PM
I have only ever used it for classes inside the same assembly. I spent some time to try and found out why I missed the issue.
I used Windows Store application project to design the control - that works fine. At runtime, both projects work fine. At designtime, however, the Silverlight (Windows Phone in my case) project's designer is broken with the error you describe.
This was a workable trade-off for me, but may not suit others. The workaround is to move classes referenced from XAML into a separate assembly for SL/Windows Phone projects, but it's not worth the hassle for me.
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(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The Romney campaign is using Attorney General Eric Holder as their latest foil for raising campaign cash.
In an email sent to supporters, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan writes "donate now to vote Barack Obama and Attorney General Holder out of office on Election Day -- so that Mitt Romney and I can restore justice to the Justice Department."
The letter begins with Ryan calling for Holder to "step aside" because of the Fast and Furious gun investigation scandal.
"He's misled Congress, and entirely botched the investigation of the Operation Fast and Furious debacle -- yet he still leads our nation's Justice Department," Ryan writes in the fundraising letter. "It's just another example of the Obama Administration's transparent hypocrisy that despite the tragic and very human toll of this scandal, Attorney General Holder refuses to resign -- and President Obama refuses to remove him."
Ryan became the 131st House Republican to call for the attorney general's resignation Sunday when his spokesperson told the Daily Caller that Ryan agreed with Mitt Romney that Holder should resign over the scandal. Romney called for Holder's resignation last December.
Ryan is currently at debate camp in Virginia preparing for his face-off against Joe Biden on Oct. 11. An aide said the preparation included a lengthy set of debate exchanges with former Solicitor General and Biden stand-in Ted Olson, a series of meetings, and time for reading policy materials.
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This is the 47th Super Bowl, and -- follow closely here -- two teams play in each game, which means there have been 94 Super Bowl slots open over the years. There's parity in the NFL, and that extends to the biggest game: 28 NFL franchises have played in at least one Super Bowl.
But four have never made it.
Everybody will be focused this week and next on Baltimore and San Francisco, but let's take just a minute to play the sad trombone for the Failed Four. We'll look at them in order of accumulated pain, from least to most.
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Houston Texans, 0 for 11 (began playing in 2002)
Closest to Super Bowl: Lost in divisional round in 2012 (to New England, 41-28) and 2011 (to Baltimore, 20-13).
The Texans haven't earned much sympathy yet, but the city of Houston has. The Oilers won a couple of titles in the old AFL, but went 0-for-31* in the Super Bowl era before the team moved to Tennessee in 1997. Tennessee, of course, went to the Super Bowl in just its third season and fell one yard short against the Rams. (Do any Houston fans count that one as theirs? This will come up again later.)
*The closest the Oilers got was the AFC championship game in 1978 and '79, when teams led by the great Earl Campbell lost back-to-back to the Steelers. I remember sitting down to watch that '78 game. I loved the Oilers and hated the Steelers. The Steelers won 34-5.
It took the Texans all the way until 2009 just to get on the right side of .500, but for the last two years, they've been one of the better teams in the AFC. They've got Pro Bowlers on both sides of the ball (RB Arian Foster, WR Andre Johnson, OT Duane Brown, DE J.J. Watt). They're a couple of defensive players away from a serious run. Hang in there, Houston. It might not be long.
Odds of a Super Bowl soon: Good.
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Jacksonville Jaguars, 0 for 18 (began playing in 1995)
Closest to Super Bowl: Lost AFC championship game in 1999 (to Tennessee, 33-14) and 1996 (to New England, 20-6).
That first AFC title game was a huge surprise -- the Jags barely made the playoffs, but beat Buffalo in the wild card game, then upset Denver at Mile High and threw Broncos fans into existential despair that John Elway would never win a Super Bowl. (Elway, with help from Terrell Davis, took the Broncos to the next two Super Bowls and won them both.)
The Jags used to be fun to watch, back when Tom Coughlin was screaming on the sidelines and Mark Brunell was throwing bombs to Jimmy Smith -- from 1997-99, they went 11-5, 11-5 and 14-2. But they've won just one playoff game since then, and now they're the least-interesting, least-loved team in the league. They came into the NFL the same year as the Carolina Panthers, and although the Jags have a slightly better overall record (145-154 to 138-160), the Panthers did make the Super Bowl in 2003. Almost won the thing, too. Stupid Adam Vinatieri.
Right now the Jags have one Pro Bowl-caliber player (RB Maurice Jones-Drew), one quarterback nobody believes in (Blaine Gabbert) and a lot of guys you've never heard of. Despite all that, they drafted a punter in the third round last year. They're playing a home game in London the next four seasons to raise some extra money. None of these seem like promising signs.
On the other hand, their owner has retired the trophy for best mustache in the league.
Odds of a Super Bowl soon: Sigh.
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Detroit Lions, 0 for 47
Closest to Super Bowl: Lost NFC championship game in 1991 (to Washington, 41-10).
In some ways, the Lions qualify as the worst of the worst. They have just that one conference championship game, and they haven't made it past the wild card round since. They've played just 11 playoff games in the Super Bowl era -- that's the same as the Jaguars, and Detroit had a 29-year head start.
The Lions have been around since 1930 and were one of the dominant teams in the '50s - they won the NFL championship in the pre-Super Bowl years of 1952, '53 and '57. But since then, most of the highlights have been lowlights. They lost a 1970 playoff game to Dallas 5-0. (Three-run homer by Craig Morton in the eighth.) They went 0-16 in 2008. In fact, look at their record from 2001-2010:
That's like the track listing to a Smiths album.
Things are looking up … sort of. The Lions went 10-6 two years ago behind QB Matthew Stafford, DT Ndamukong Suh and all-galactic WR Calvin Johnson. But this season Detroit backslid to 4-12. They have that San Diego Chargers vibe -- lots of talent that's rarely pointed in the same direction. Although Chargers fans are probably insulted to be compared to the Lions.
Odds of a Super Bowl soon: Decent -- if all those talented players peak at the same time.
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Cleveland Browns, 0 for 44 seasons (no team from 1996-98)
Closest to Super Bowl: Lost AFC championship game to Denver (1989, 37-21; 1987, 38-33; 1986, 23-20).
My friend J.* is a huge Browns fan, and he hated it when Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore… but he's claiming the Ravens for the Super Bowl anyway. He even calls them the Bravens. He knows it violates every rule of Sports Fidelity. He can't help it. He just wants to see some team he cares about in the Super Bowl.
*I'll leave his full name out of it in case any Browns purists are already lighting torches.
The Browns claim eight football titles: Four from the old All-American Football Conference, and four pre-Super Bowl NFL titles. But the last one of those was in 1964. Since then, the Browns have nothing but a bottomless well of playoff agony. The Drive. The Fumble. Red Right 88. Minnesota and Buffalo are both 0-4 in Super Bowls, and that is its own kind of pain. But those teams were conference champions. They got to stand on the big stage, even if the lights were too bright. The Browns get one step from the top, then fall all the way back down the stairs.
The last five seasons for the Browns: 4-12, 5-11, 5-11, 4-12, 5-11. At least they're consistent. In a season where rookie QBs lit up the league, the Browns' rookie QB, Brandon Weeden, did not. Plus, he turns 30 next year.
There are a few positives. Trent Richardson looks like a top-shelf running back. OT Joe Thomas is one of the best in the league. A couple of potential studs are out there on defense. They're better than Jacksonville. And historically, they're still better than Detroit. But sometimes the pain of losing is worse than the pain of never getting there.
Then again, if you want to talk about never getting there: The Detroit Pistons, Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings have all won titles in the past 30 years. That lonely Browns championship from 1964 is the last one for any Cleveland team in a major sport.
Which is another way of saying, when it comes to sports suffering, the winner is always Cleveland.
Chances of a Super Bowl soon: Let's just not talk about it, OK?
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Questions? Comments? Challenges? Taunts? You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @tommytomlinson. Ten teams have made a Super Bowl but haven't won: Arizona, Atlanta, Carolina, San Diego, Seattle and Tennessee (all 0-1); Cincinnati and Philadelphia (0-2); and Buffalo and Minnesota (0-4)


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The Transforming Potential of the 2012 Elections
Mark Solomon, December 5, 2012
Post-election analyses on the left have acknowledged the unprecedented impact of demographic changes, great advances for women, significant victories in cultural battles, resistance to voter suppression and to Super- Pac billions There is a consensus that a powerful grass roots movement is essential for moving the Obama presidency in a more progressive direction. There has been less discussion of the alignment of social forces both in the election and after the election, of the internal political conflicts raging in ruling circles and how those conflicts impact mainstream voters and progressive struggles as well as affecting concrete opportunities for major advances.
Some pundits have noted that the 2012 election marked one of the most ideologically divisive contests in memory. There has been very little acceptance of that estimate among progressives. Many on the left have generally contended that the election did not alter a broad ruling class consensus on global neo-liberalism (untrammeled pursuit of maximum profits shorn of legal constraint and undergirded by military muscle). Without doubt, the ideological distance between campaigns was contained within a somewhat narrow space. For many, especially engaged activists, the ideological distance at best was hard to perceive.
However, that picture is inadequate. It does not acknowledge actual divisions within the ruling class that undergirded the political stands of the major candidates and parties, engendering an especially vitriolic contest. The dividing line was between unbridled neo-liberalism in global and domestic policies versus what can be called "corporate Keynesianism."
The Republican-Romney campaign was a model of virulent neo-liberalism -- pushing a destructive race to the bottom, taking deadly aim at organized labor, stoking racism, sexism and anti-immigrant currents, ramping up military spending, ridiculing the environmental crisis, abandoning any vestige of commitment to a social safety net and financial regulation. Heavily underwritten by Wall Street, energy, real estate and gambling interests, that wing cultivated a base built largely upon manufactured racial, gender and anti-immigrant grievances. It was activated by racist "dog whistles" and pseudo-populist tales about "big government" redistributing wealth from productive citizens to "moochers" and "takers."
That Romney-led current was contested by an incumbent administration even as the latter continued to fashion its domestic and foreign policies with fidelity to corporate power. Its landmark health care reform was thus anchored on the insurance industry. Its foreign and security policies remained in the grip of the military-industrial complex, the national security state and global imperial objectives. At the same time, its approach to major foreign and domestic issues sought relative nuance: tamping down expensive and politically difficult wars; seeking multilateralism in promoting its global economic and strategic interests, engaging in advocacy of nuclear disarmament while conducting drone warfare and targeted assassinations.
The administration's domestic mission, reflective in some measure of its traditional working and middle class base, was to adopt moderate reforms aimed at preserving social stability by controlling growing and potentially ruinous economic inequality. Crucially, it sought to apply the core mantra of Keynesianism: government intervention through investment in the economy to make up for collapsing private financial investment.
The election then turned on resistance to the class warfare pursued by the Romney-Ryan campaign. Millions of voters were less concerned with Obama as the lesser evil (a preoccupation on sectors of the left), than with the battle between the Republicans' blatant pursuit of inequality versus the Democrats' tax policy that advocated modest redistribution of wealth. Thus taxes emerged as a decisive class issue.
Among the electorate there was little familiarity with ideological labels like Keynesianism and neo- liberalism. But there was urgent concern with the class warfare issues spawned by those competing currents. In light of a divided ruling class, working people aligned with the formation that best represented their class interests, that would checkmate rampant reaction and thus would create space for progressive advance. In addition, the inseparable intersections of race, class and gender brought into the coalition newer forces themselves under attack from Republican neo-liberals: women striking back against the war on reproductive choice; Latinos responding to right wing attacks on immigrants; African Americans reacting to voter suppression and to racist disrespect of the President; gays resisting bigotry and denial of civil equality; young people responding to undermining of their interests as students and workers.
While those forces aligned with "corporate Keynesians" as a strategic imperative, there is compelling evidence that an emerging progressive majority is not bound by the limitations of coalition with elements of the ruling class and is open to demands of greater magnitude.
A striking example of the readiness of a majority to breach the limits of the Obama-led coalition was the remarkable "Budget for All" referendum launched by an alliance of more than sixty labor, peace, civil rights and community organizations in Massachusetts.It took weeks of intense effort to arrive at a consensus on the content of the proposal, especially on how to formulate a succinct referendum that reflected the many concerns of participating organizations -- including labor unions that were initially hesitant about cuts in military spending.
The non-binding referendum was advanced as an alternative to the regressive "Grand Bargain" to supposedly avert the mythical "fiscal cliff." The proposal echoed HR 733, the Congressional Progressive Caucus's anti-austerity bill. The Massachusetts resolution called for no cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits housing, food assistance and other social programs; job creation through investing in manufacturing, green energy, housing, schools, transportation and other public services; new revenues to be raised by ending tax loopholes, offshore tax havens and taxing incomes over $250,000; redirection of military spending to human needs and ending the Afghanistan war now.
A small, but highly motivated group of canvassers managed in often sweltering summer heat to get the referendum on the ballot in 91 cities and towns representing 1,300,000 voters. The results were astounding. Despite few funds for publicity and outreach, over 623,000 voted for the proposal, 209,000 against. "Budget for All" won big (mostly 75 percent and higher) in every city or town where it was on the ballot. It won big in towns that gave 31 percent of its vote to incumbent Senator Scott Brown; its smallest margin of victory was 53 percent in Dover, the exclusive redoubt of the one percent. It won massively in Boston's working class wards and in middle class suburbs; it won overwhelmingly in African American and Latino communities; it won over 90 percent of the Asian vote.
The coalition that forged "Budget for All" has remained intact and is determined to create an ongoing collaborative organization. It is reaching out to the hundreds of thousands who voted for the referendum, urging them to tell the Obama administration that they will not tolerate accommodations with the right wing. It has already held a demonstration at the office of Senator John Kerry; it is planning town meetings with every Congressman (five Massachusetts representatives had endorsed the proposal); it will organize large demonstrative actions to generate a public clamor against a destructive "Grand Bargain." and build support for the alternative Progressive Caucus legislation.
The"Budget for All" referendum owes its success to the qualitative growth of an emerging progressive majority of voters in 2012 determined to push back against growing inequality and related injustices. New awareness has emerged about corporations, social class and economic injustice. The burgeoning Occupy Wall St. movement contributed mightily to that rising consciousness that was manifested in the outcome of an election that delivered a blow to the far right and that brought more progressive politicians, especially women, into office. At this crucial moment on the eve of a 2nd Obama administration, there is ample evidence of a vast constituency not only poised to pressure political forces given to vacillation, but to take the entire political discourse to a higher more transforming level. That is both a source of encouragement and a challenge to left and progressive forces to help nurture and consolidate that majority.
Mark Solomon is a past co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.- Senior guard Royal Thomas (LaGrange, Ga.) of the Georgia College men's basketball team (5-6, 1-3 PBC) was voted the Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the week ending Jan. 5. This marks the first such honor for Thomas and third for Bobcat men's basketball this season.
Thomas averaged 19.5 points over two games this week, shooting an amazing 70 percent (14-20) from the field in the process. His best contest came in the loss to the University of North Georgia Saturday, matching his career high with 26 points, including a perfect 8-for-8 from the free-throw line. Thomas netted 19 of that 26 in the second half Saturday, aiding the Bobcat comeback late. He added five rebounds and two assists to the game's line. Thomas is 19th in the PBC in scoring at 13.6 points per game this season, and ranks 10th in shooting at 57 percent.
The Bobcats are back in action tonight, Jan. 8 at Flagler College at 7:30 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Here, for the first time in any Western language, are the sacred biographies of six great tantric meditators from the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. These life stories—or namtar—are actually tales of liberation. Part of a distinct tradition in Tibetan Buddhism, they are meant not only to inspire but also to instruct others on the path to enlightenment.
In Professor Willis's introduction and detailed annotations, you'll gain a wealth of information about how to read and interpret namtar texts, as well as some valuable insights into the religious and political worlds in which these early Tibetan masters studied, practiced, and became enlightened beings in their lifetimes.
Read the biographies of these masters at the Treasury of Lives:


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The Crest of Akkadia
We are no rag-tag bunch, rather the most organised special operations unit in the galaxy. The Akkadians don't even own a planet, and have converted to be a completely space-faring civilization to avoid detection. Think of us perhaps, as the Brikverse's Mafia, only somehow also combined with CERN and NASA and various other scientific organisations, all headed by a secret society governed by a league of assasins.
Our primary objective is to produce profit, not necessarily capital profit, but technological profit. Much like the Spytron faction of old, the Akkadians devote a large portion of their time to collecting things. It doesn't really matter to them what sort of things they are collecting, so long as they are powerful, rare, or technologically advanced things.
Akkadian science is a bit different than the science of most other star-nations. It's illegitimate science "Mad-science" if you will, based on combining random things and seeing what works rather than actual experimentation or something like that. Many Akkadian creations are highly volatile and likely to fail, or even explode within the first couple months of use, but eventually stabilize as Akkadian mechanix work out the fleebnorks. This science will stop at nothing, combining mechanical, biological, heroic, and even magical components in order to produce favored results.
What the purpose of all this development, weaponisation and collection is for, is unknown to all but the ruling council and their Public face, Piltogg
Notable creations: 1. The Juggernaught capital ship -- Essentially the Akkadian's home planet. Where all of their collections are eventually stored, and where their most secret laboratories and mechanix workshopz are located. The Juggernaught is also the location of the Akkadian ruling council. The ship's specifications and outward appearance are not generally known, as if it has ever been seen before, there were not any survivors, but it is common speculation that it is probably some form of space-hulk with super-natural capabilities.
2. Personal Teleporters: The akkadians have managed to work up a working teleportation device, although it's still pretty unstable, it has proven to be highly effective in anti-SHIP combat.
3. Matter creation/destruction weapons: These weapons are not yet widely distributed, but have seen some action during the campaign near Krysto. It is unknown how they work or why it would be necessary to use them.
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Bullying and social exclusion may affect language and word choice, according to two Clarkson University undergraduate students who will present their research in New York City next month.
Jamie Nassar '13 and Michelle Morales '14 will share their findings at the Eastern Psychological Association's annual meeting March 1-4. The two worked with to determine how past and present stressful experiences can affect speech.
Morales' research centered on students who remembered past experiences, while Nassar conducted a study using a virtual ballgame where participants thought they were being excluded.
The students in both experiments were more likely to speak in the future tense when experiencing or remembering social exclusion, bullying and stress. They were also more likely to use personal pronouns like "they," "them," "we," and "us" and less likely to refer to themselves as "I," Nassar said.
Nassar and Morales are looking forward to presenting their research, "Examining the Linguistic Style Used to Recall Past and Current Pain Experiences," at the conference.
"We're really interested in the results, to see what other people think of it and to see if they have any other ideas we haven't thought of yet," Nassar said.
The link between stress and language can provide another window into the mind, Knack said. The project is part of a larger program of Clarkson research seeking to understand the outcomes of being bullied and experiencing acute social pain.
"It's one more potential indicator for tapping into the psychological state someone is in," Knack said.
Knack praised Morales and Nassar for their research, which will also be submitted for publication in a professional psychological journal.
"It's really exciting for both of them," Knack said. "It's a testament to how much effort they've been putting in."
Morales is from Los Angeles, Calif., and is majoring in psychology and humanities & social sciences. As a McNair Scholar, Morales began research with Knack last summer and continued her work throughout the fall semester. She has also co-designed a new study examining whether forgiveness alters memories of pain; data for this study will be collected during the spring semester. After graduation Michelle would like to attend graduate school for clinical psychology.
Jamie Nassar is from Norwich, N.Y., and is an Honor's Program student majoring in psychology. After graduation Nassar would like to attend graduate school for occupational therapy. In her senior honors thesis, she's examining how people respond to acute social stressors, and how stress hormone levels change when excluded versus included in social activities.
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Photo caption: Clarkson University undergrads Jaime Nassar and Michelle Morales will share their findings at the Eastern Psychological Association's annual meeting March 1-4. The two worked with Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Knack to determine how past and present stressful experiences can affect speech. Left to right: Knack, Nassar and Morales.


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ETSU aims to start anew in the outdoor campaign
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 13, 2013) – The ETSU men's and women's track & field teams will kickoff the outdoor season when they travel to Charlotte, N.C. to take part in the 2013 Charlotte 49er Classic at the Irwin Belk Track & Field Center March 14-16.
ETSU will not compete in Thursday's heptathlon and decathlon but will participate in events starting on Friday, beginning with the women's hammer throw at noon. The Buccaneers will continue the afternoon on Friday with both field and running competition throughout the day, consisting of a share of both running event prelims & finals as well as a number of field event finals. The meet will conclude on Saturday with additional running & field event finals as well.
Joining the Buccaneers will be nearly 50 other track & field squads including host Charlotte, Clemson, Cumberlands, Davidson, East Carolina, Gardner-Webb, King, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, UNC-Asheville, USC Upstate, Winthrop and Wofford, among many others.
"We look forward to the start of the outdoor season this weekend at the Charlotte 49er Classic," said Director of ETSU Track & Field/Cross Country George Watts. "We ended the indoor season in good health and I am optimistic that we will continue to improve on our current bests."
The Buccaneers will be sending approximately 35 student-athletes to compete in a number of events. A handful of seniors will also begin the last outdoor season of their careers, highlighted by Kelly Monteleone (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Ifrish Alberg (Paramaribo, Suriname) who look to build off of their strong outdoor seasons of last year. Monteleone will aim to improve on the 1.52m personal best high jump of last outdoor season, while Alberg will look to continue his strong performances in the 100M and 200M dash in which he posted personal bests of 10.46 and 21.63, respectively.
"We have a very strong senior class and we wish them well in their last season of competition for the Bucs." said Watts.
After a solid showing in the indoor season this year, including a top-15 team finish in the south region, the ETSU men's track and field squad looks to continue the momentum into the spring. They will do so with the help of with sophomore K'Vonte Scott (Virginia Beach, Va.), who finished the indoor campaign ranked sixth in the south region in the heptathlon, and junior Tyler Stepp (Dandridge, Tenn.), who also stood sixth in the region, this time in the long jump.
The women's track & field team also gets a chance to get off to a fresh start this outdoor season. Following their stellar performances this season indoors, expect the Buccaneers to be led outdoors by Lexie Burley (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Emani Harrison (Columbia, S.C.), who each came up short of qualifying at this year's NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.
"Our team goals remain the same," said Watts. "We want to be in position to battle for a conference championship and qualify people to the NCAA championships. I hope our first meet will set the tone for the remainder of the year."
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Calculating Simple Interest
Suppose you want to get a loan to buy a car? What would you want to know about the loan? Would you want to know the amount of your monthly payments? Would you want to know how much you would have to repay including interest? In this lesson, you will learn how to calculate simple interest.
When banks use simple interest they consider the principal, the interest rate, and the length of time of the loan. In this lesson, you will learn how banks calculate the amount in dollars you will repay when you borrow money.
So, how do banks calculate the amount of interest paid on a loan? In this lesson, you will view a Livescribe Pencast and/or Youtube Video to learn how to find the dollar amount in interest that is due at maturity. This lesson uses different time periods such as days, months, and years in the calculation as well as varying interest rates.
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In this lesson you will learn how to calculate the interest in dollars when given the principal, rate, and time for a loan. The principal, interest rate, and time will vary so reflect changing economic conditions. You will be calculating simple interest on small loans, converting the interest rate expressed in percent to a decimal, expressing time as a ratio when time is expressed in days and months, and finding the total amount due in dollars when the loan matures.
1. Your teacher will instruct you how to calculate the interest in dollars on a loan. The interest that will be shown to you is called "Simple Interest." Make sure you understand how to express the interest rate as a percent. Make sure you express time as a ratio when time is expressed in days and months.
2. Your teacher will present several practice problems in class. Have your calculator ready so you can learn how to make sound financial decisions when applying for a loan.
3. Use the resources to review how to calculate simple interest. One of those is a YouTube Video (if your school allows it). The other link is the Pencast located on the right, which can be viewed by pressing the "play" button. Complete any reading in your textbook if your teacher assigns it. If not, complete the reading on the Worksheet that gives you examples how to make simple interest calculations.
4. Complete the Worksheet distributed by your instructor.
5. If your teacher requires it, complete the extension activity as required by your teacher.
In this lesson, you have learned how to calculate simple interest. This knowledge will help you make informed financial decisions when using credit.
As you have seen, the higher the interest rate or the longer the time period of the loan, the higher the interest in dollars. You will find it wise to shop around for the best rate that will allow you to use the principal but make repayment easier.
Assessment Activity
Your teacher will evaluate the Simple Interest Worksheet completed in the Process section based on the number that you got correct.
Extension Activity
1. Check your answers to the worksheet using the interest calculated on the EconEdLink website: Interest Calculator. (Note: Enter 6 months as ".5" since the time on the calculator is in years. They will have to make similar entries for days.)
2. Inquire at your bank what the interest rate is on a home with a 30-year mortgage and report it to the class. Also, inquire at your bank what the interest rate is on an automobile loan for three years and report that to the class. Be sure to take in the proper mortgage and automobile loan situations to your bank, and record these rates on something that you can bring back to class.
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St. Stanislaus Church To Reopen
Vigilers gathered at the church to mark the end of the of their long watch.
Rumors about the reopening of the historic Polish church had been circulating since mid-week but the official word was given at the afternoon Mass at Pope John Paul the Great Church.
"Bishop McDonnell has given his approval and blessings to a plan that I have submitted that would restore the status quo of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church," the Rev. Daniel Boyle told the some 500 parishioners packed into the church.
The parish will be "fully utilizing" St. Stan's, including Sunday Masses at 8 a.m. beginning on April 1 and on Holy Days, and funerals, weddings and baptisms as requested.
"As we prepare to begin our annual Lenten journey focusing again on reconciliation and peace, we have the unique opportunity in the Parish of Pope John Paul the Great to begin healing the division and strife that seems to have splintered our parish and even our town," Boyle said.
His announcement was met with silence (and a few quiet claps) but soon after the bells of St. Stan's rang out in joy as church members who'd sat vigil in the church for years waved to horn-tooting motorists.
Richard Wisniowski said he'd asked if Boyle thought ringing the bells would be OK: "He thought it would be very appropriate."
"We pretty much received what people here expected we'd get," said Eugene Michalenko, of the planned Masses. "We got weddings and funerals, too, they could have denied that and they didn't."
The announcement brings closure to the three-year vigil to keep the church open after the Diocese of Springfield ordered it closed along with a number of other churches in Berkshire County and the Springfield as part of nationwide consolidation of parishes.
The very active parish at St. Stan's, however, didn't bend so easily. Just days before the official closure at Christmas, a group of dedicated members began a round-the-clock vigil to keep the doors open as an appeal by the Friends of St. Stan's worked its way up the heirarchy to Rome.
Last year, the suppression of St. Stan's parish was upheld but not the closure of the church itself. Both sides again appealed and the Apostolic Signatura affirmed the parish suppression in November; on Saturday, the diocese said the Apostolic Signatura had agreed that "adequate cause had not been demonstrated to reduce St. Stanislaus Church building to 'profane' status."
The plan by Boyle to continue the church as a mission chapel within the Parish of Pope John Paul the Great (comprised of the former St. Thomas, Notre Dame and St. Stanislaus parishes) was approved by the diocese.
"I pray that the entire Catholic community of Adams rejoices today," said Bishop Thomas McDonnell in a statement. "I am grateful that, in consultation with others, Father Daniel Boyle has developed a plan which not only provides a sustainable solution for the Catholics of Adams but promises as well to be a vehicle for healing and growth."
A number of parishes around the country, particularly in Boston, attempted vigils; a few are still going on but fewer still have been successful.
"It went to the Vatican and came back ... a little town in Massachusetts ... I don't think any other churches have been reopened," said Michalenko. "I was at a nursing home this afternoon and I was tellimg this woman they were going to open the church. She couldn't believe it."
Church members had continued to collect funds and support programs and missions of St. Stan's during the three-year vigil.
The end of the vigil at 5 p.m. on Day 1,150 was bittersweet. The tribulations had brought together a devoted group that numbered at times more than 200 over long, sometimes cold, nights.
"I made a lot of friends sitting here," said Wisniowski. "I came every day at 6 a.m. and stayed overnight on Thursdays."
Helen Lipinski and Louise Charron spent their Fridays at the churuch. "We had a therapy class," said Lipinski. "If we had a problem we brought it here," chimed Charron.
Michalenko said he enjoyed his Wednesdays at the church and will miss the people he'd spent time with.
"I'm glad the strife is over," he said. "That there's healing and reconciliation and hope. Whatever bad feelings there had been are now over ... we are looking forward to a comfortable future."
In his missive, Boyle called for healing of a division that had affected the parish and the town.
"This is truly a time for us to look ahead ... not back," he said. "It is a time for us to resume our spiritual journey together as one faith community moving always toward the Resurrection and joy of Easter Sunday."
The Rev. Daniel Boyle's letter to the Parish of John Paul the Great:
"As we prepare to begin our annual Lenten journey focusing again on reconciliation and peace, we have the unique opportunity in The Parish of Pope John Paul the Great to begin healing the division and strife that seems to have splintered our parish and even our town.
During the next forty days our parish will begin preparing for the reopening of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church as a chapel/mission of The Parish of Pope John Paul the Great.
While the Vatican has ruled in favor of the suppression of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, it also has decreed that traditional worship should be allowed at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. Bishop McDonnell has given his approval and blessings to a plan that I have submitted that would restore the status quo of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church.
The first Mass is planned for Palm Sunday, April 1, at 8 a.m. when we can come together again to worship as a unified parish that is filled with praise and thanksgiving.
This is truly a time for us to look ahead … not back. It is a time for us to resume our spiritual journey together as one faith community moving always toward the Resurrection and joy of Easter Sunday.
There must be sensitivity and care shown to embrace those who might still feel estranged. There will be challenges and we all must focus on the future, forgiving and forgetting as Jesus has taught us. As we move forward this isn't about winning or losing, instead it must be about building up our faith community, our traditions and most importantly our parish.
What will this mean as we go forward? Quite simply we will begin fully utilizing the St. Stan's church building for worship, and Kolbe Hall and the rectory as needed. Sunday Mass will be celebrated at St. Stan's at 8 a.m. as it was previously. Mass will also be celebrated there on all Holy Days of obligation and special occasions. Funerals and wedding liturgies will be celebrated at St. Stan's when requested, as well as Baptisms.
The spiritual center for The Parish of Pope John Paul the Great will continue to be the former Notre Dame Church, where parish communal liturgies will be offered.
The goal of the pastoral team will be to retain, renew and nourish the varied needs and traditions of our Catholic faith community striving to always be inclusive and not exclusive.
Additional details on the actual specifics will be shared as plans are finalized.
With great joy, the faith community of Adams will soon be able to stand together again as one parish worshiping our one true God."


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Nutritional Supplements Help Boost Piglet ImmunityBy Marty Clark
July 8, 2005
Fish oil and other nutritional supplements added to swine diets could help boost immunity in piglets and could replace growth-promoting antibiotics traditionally given to the young animals, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
Many countries are phasing out antibiotics in animal feed because antibiotics are expensive and because animals are developing resistance to them.
Jeff Carroll, research leader of the ARS Livestock Issues Research Unit, Lubbock, Texas, and his colleagues are testing spray-dried plasma, fish oil and other nutritional supplements to find alternatives to antibiotics.
Antibiotics have been used to help piglets as they are weaned. Piglets are usually weaned at 18 to 21 days, but sometimes as early as 10 days. This can leave them vulnerable to diseases because their immune systems are not yet fully developed. ARS researchers are investigating diets that not only help boost the immune system, but also maintain growth rates acceptable to swine producers.
Spray-dried plasma, a byproduct of the meat-packing industry, is often used to enhance growth and feed efficiency. The plasma protein is fed to piglets for the first few weeks after weaning, starting at a 5- to 7-percent ration and reduced gradually to 2.5- to 3.5-percent as their immune systems become more mature. According to Carroll, plasma may increase immunity in piglets by preventing pathogens from binding to the intestines.
To enhance immunity further, a 7-percent mixture of menhaden fish oil is incorporated into the piglet diet rations. Menhaden oil contains high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which help build immunity in the animals' cells, according to Carroll.
Read more about the research in the July 2005 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief research agency.


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Little Monsters 'Monster Against Madonna' Campaign Viewed as Racist
Lady Gaga's little monsters are a rabid, dedicated and devoted bunch. In fact, some might say that they are disciple-like in their unwavering worship of the Mother Monster. However, they may have taken their love for their heroine a bit too far as they launch a backlash campaign against Madonna, who has been taking swipes at Gaga while she promotes her new film 'W.E.' and new album 'M.D.N.A.'
First off, Madge has remained tight-lipped about Gaga for the past year, barely uttering a peep about the sonic similarities between Gaga's smash 'Born This Way' and her own 1989-hit, 'Express Yourself.' Until now. In her much-recycled ABC interview, she called the song "reductive." The literal translation is "crude," but there was a lot of pointed meaning packed into that million dollar word. In essence, Madge, while calling Gaga talented, reduced her to a copycat. Madonna is the biggest pop star of the last century and she can never be topped, so she doesn't even need to resort to such cattiness. But the the monster contingent ain't having any of it and has rushed to the aid of the Mother Monster with the spirit of angry Rottweilers.
While their intentions may be good, some of the rhetoric they are spewing is crossing the line. The Examiner reports that civil rights activists in Chicago got together at the Windy City's Martin Luther King, Jr. library to discuss his legacy, since tomorrow (Jan. 16) is MLK Day. The conversation shifted to the little monsters and their comments about Madonna in the wake of her criticisms of their idol.
The monsters have a blog dubbed 'The Lady Gaga Project,' whose mission statement and sole purpose of existence is to further the Gaga cause with a take-no-prisoners approach. Their tag even states that the blog is "where Little Monsters come together to help Mother Monster with her music and causes." One blogger posts, "Let's continue our anti-Madonna campaign. Remember to post negative things about her." Madge is even referred to as "an old whore."
The Chicago group pointed to several racist and bigoted comments against black people and older folks on the blog. While it's important to recognize Gaga herself did not launch this counterattack (since Madonna's statements can be viewed as the first attack) and likely does not condone such comments since she opens her arms to monsters of all walks of life, colors and creeds, the little ones are sparing no one's feelings as they fight for Gaga's honor. Their passion is amazing, but we have to agree that they need to cease with the racist and inappropriate comments. Case in point: a photo of Madonna holding her young, adopted son and saying that's her next boyfriend, given her penchant for dating younger men.
Ignorant comments aside, this contingent is serious about making life hell for Madge.
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Get ready, Folks. Starting on Monday, March 26, Little Monsters everywhere are going to make it one week of Hell for old lady Madonna and her psychotic followers. During this week, we will literally destroy the hit potential of "Give Me All Your Love" by negative tweets, negative messages, and calling radio stations personally to ask them to stop the song.
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- Reagan's "Welfare Queen" re-emerges in presidential race
- Was story of infamous welfare cheater true?
- Surprising discovery about the actual Welfare Queen
- Scholar: "The ghost of the Welfare Queen is still lurking"
She's out there, lurking in the 2012 presidential race like a horror movie villain who refuses to die.
She has 12 Social Security cards, mooches on benefits from four fake dead husbands, and collects food stamps while driving a Cadillac. She rakes in about $150,000 a year in welfare benefits and, of course, people assume she must be African-American.
President Ronald Reagan gave America a sunny "Morning in America" optimism, but he also gave it the "Welfare Queen," an infamous character who has re-emerged in this year's presidential race.
Critics have accused the three leading Republican presidential candidates of resurrecting Reagan's Welfare Queen by calling President Obama the "food stamp president," implying that blacks live off other people's money, and by declaring that America is moving toward an "entitlement society."
Yet few people have examined the story behind the birth of the Welfare Queen. Did she really exist? Why do people still talk about her when welfare ended 15 years ago? Can her story still swing voters at a time when the great recession has forced more whites to rely on government assistance?
For some, the Welfare Queen is an epic political lie. Reagan invented her, and Americans keep buying the lie.
"It's one of those persistent symbols that come up every election cycle," says Kaaryn Gustafson, author of "Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty."
"This image of the lazy African-American woman who refuses to get a job and keeps having kids is pretty enduring. It's always been a good way to distract the public from any meaningful conversations about poverty and inequality. ''
For others, the Welfare Queen reveals an uncomfortable truth: More Americans have turned the social safety net into a hammock.
"You hear these horror stories going around that people are buying junk food with food stamps and paying cash for vodka and beer and things not covered with food stamps -- that gets people mad," says Steven Hayward, author of "The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980."
The Welfare Queen has become such a legendary character in political circles that her existence is treated like Bigfoot. Most scholars say she never existed, while a few insist the truth is out there.
Gustafson went in search of the Welfare Queen and discovered something surprising.
There wasn't one Welfare Queen, she says. There were three.
The birth of the Welfare Queen story
Here's how Reagan first told the story when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976. At virtually every campaign stop, he attacked welfare chiselers by bringing out the same character, according to press accounts.
"There's a woman in Chicago," Reagan said, according to an article in the now-defunct Washington Star. "She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards. ... She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income alone is over $150,000."
It was a powerful story, but reporters investigating it concluded it wasn't quite true. Some said it may have been based on a then-47-year-old woman in Chicago, but that Reagan wildly exaggerated her abuses.
In time, though, it didn't matter what reporters said. People started repeating the story as true.
"It hangs together as a good story because it's consistent with people's perception of the real world," says Craig R. Smith, who was a speechwriter for former President Gerald Ford and a consulting writer with President George H.W. Bush.
"Like in any good mythology, you need heroes and villains and in the Welfare Queen, you had a villain who was taking advantage of the system."
Was the Welfare Queen a racist story?
Smith doesn't think so. He says Reagan always opposed segregation, and had a "terrific record" combating racism as president of the Screen Actors Guild.
"Reagan was very sensitive about being called a racist," says Smith, author of "Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History." "The minute anybody would say something about that, he would get upset. He would say fraud is fraud."
Others say the Welfare Queen story stuck because it exploited white America's racial fears.
Reagan never said the Welfare Queen was black, but he didn't need to. People assumed she was because of rhetorical clues Reagan dropped, says John Hinshaw, a history professor at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
"The Welfare Queen driving a pink Cadillac to cash her welfare checks at the liquor store fits a narrative that many white, working-class Americans had about inner-city blacks," Hinshaw says. "It doesn't matter if the story was fabricated, it fit the narrative, and so it felt true, and it didn't need to be verified."
For at least one woman on welfare at the time, the story was brutal.
Madeleine Burbank grew up in the 1950s in a white family in which everybody worked. She says she was forced to go on welfare in the 1970s after her marriage suddenly ended and she had to raise three children alone.
She still remembers the humiliation of going into crowded, dirty waiting rooms to answer embarrassingly personal questions posed by welfare screening officials.
Reagan's story validated some of the worst assumptions some Americans have about poor people, she says. Burbank escaped welfare after enrolling in a government program that retrained her as a counselor. She eventually retired as a psychology teacher at a community college.
Still, she remembers being ashamed to tell people she was on welfare, even those who were close to her.
Once, she was standing in a supermarket checkout line when her sister whispered disparaging comments about a woman in front of them who was using food stamps to buy junk food.
"When I told her I was on food stamps, she told me that I was different. I wasn't somehow like 'those people," ' Burbank says. "She couldn't' stand the reality that I really wasn't that different. It's too painful for people to admit that their life can be like that."
Resurrection of the Welfare Queen?
Are Republican presidential candidates offering voters an updated version of the Welfare Queen?
That's the question ricocheting around political circles today as commentators argue over recent comments made by Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney.
Many have heard snippets of them by now:
While campaigning in Iowa, Santorum said "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money." He later said he didn't mean to say black people, but meant people.
Romney has repeatedly said that Obama wants to transform America into an "entitlement society."
Gingrich has attracted the most attention for his language. He called Obama a food-stamp president, questioned poor children's work ethic, and said poor people should want paychecks, not handouts.
There was nothing racist about any of that language, or the Welfare Queen story, says Hayward, author of "The Age of Reagan," and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, which includes conservative leaders such as Lynne Cheney, wife of former vice president Dick Cheney.
Gingrich was simply being factual when he said more Americans are on food stamps under Obama than any other president, he says. He was making a point about an unhealthy economy.
"Gingrich would say that if Obama was white," Hayward says.
The candidates are using such language to highlight philosophical differences between liberals and conservatives, Hayward says. Liberals believe that government can offer the best path to advancement. Conservatives believe a growing private economy provides more upward mobility than government.
The "entitlement society" phrase has nothing to do with race, either, Hayward says. It reflects the belief that people should create their own opportunities, not government.
"Somewhere in the entitlement mentality is the idea of redistribution: You transfer resources from the relatively richer to the poorer," Hayward says.
The problem Republicans run into when they talk about race and economics is that most don't know how to talk about race, says Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington.
What some people perceive as racism is often just a Republican politician's poor choice of words, he says.
"They trip over themselves and it sounds terribly awkward. By and large, they tend to live in white communities, and they don't know how to talk to blacks because they don't do it. ''
Former Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp was an exception in Tanner's mind. Kemp sounded comfortable talking to a black audience, Tanner says, noting that he was a former NFL quarterback.
"He shared locker rooms with black players. He knew them on a personal level in a way that Romney or Gingrich don't."
Demise of the Welfare Queen
Candidates will no doubt need to learn how to better communicate with nonwhite voters in the future: They're going to be the majority by 2050, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Demographic changes will do to the Welfare Queen story what fact-checking couldn't do -- discredit it, says Saladin Ambar, a political scientist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. No candidate in the future will be able to win over a majority of voters by spouting racially loaded messages.
Ambar says Republican presidential nominee John McCain received about 59% of the white vote in the 2008 presidential election, but still lost.
"He got the same percentage of the white vote that Reagan got in 1980, but lost by seven points to Obama," Ambar says.
Welfare Queen-like rhetoric won't work anymore, because the face of poverty is no longer dark, others say.
Recent census data revealed that a record number of Americans, 48.6%, live in a household receiving some form of government benefits, the Wall Street Journal reported.
"The Welfare Queen has lost its potency during this recession because all over this country you see white people lining up to get unemployment, feeding their families at food pantries, sleeping in cars and using food stamps at the local grocery," says Mark Naison, a history professor at Fordham University in New York.
Perhaps the Welfare Queen actually should have died a long time ago. President Clinton and a Republican-controlled congress ended welfare in 1996. Its successor is called TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
Gustafson, author of "Cheating Welfare," says TANF is not an unconditional entitlement. It comes with time-limits and work requirements and recipients have to go through a bureaucratic gantlet to verify their eligibility.
"A lot of poor people are working," she says. "They are the people giving you change when you buy coffee in the morning or handing you your dry cleaning. These are the people who rely on public benefits."
Still, an actual Welfare Queen did exist, Gustafson says.
A database search of all major newspapers turned up the first use of the term in 1974, when a woman in Chicago was given the label.
Two additional women were also dubbed welfare queens in subsequent years by local newspapers. Both were based in Los Angeles. One collected $377,458 in welfare benefits in seven years and lived in a house with a swimming pool. She did drive a Cadillac, along with a Rolls Royce and Mercedes Benz, Gustafson discovered.
Reagan merged the identities of all three and exaggerated their abuses, Gustafson says.
"Reagan twisted them around and created one character, and tried to leave everyone with the impression that it was happening all over the place," Gustafson says. "It's totally false that these women typified welfare recipients."
While others believe the Welfare Queen will be dethroned, Gustafson remains unconvinced.
"I would love to think that will happen," she says. "But I'm hearing politicians say poor people need to learn how to work or that we need to drug test welfare recipients -- it makes me think that even if people aren't directly invoking the Welfare Queen stereotype, they are indirectly.
"The ghost of the Welfare Queen is still lurking."


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Help is on the way, but it's looking more and more like it will arrive too late to revive the Blackhawks' fading postseason aspirations.
Rookie Jonathan Toews and veteran Jason Williams are edging closer to returns from injuries, and barring setbacks could be in the lineup for the Hawks' game against the Blue Jackets in Columbus next Wednesday.
But before they can get closer to full strength the Hawks have to tend to business in Canada, and they couldn't manage it Wednesday night as they fell to the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 before a crowd of 16,839 at Rexall Place.
The defeat was the Hawks' fifth straight and dropped them four points behind 13th-place Edmonton in the Western Conference playoff race as they prepare to face the Flames in Calgary on Thursday and the Canucks in Vancouver on Sunday.
"This is a game we knew we had to win," Hawks forward Patrick Sharp said. "I don't really know what happened out there."
Sharp gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead when he tipped in a shot from Duncan Keith at the 19-minute-17-second mark of the first period. After that it was all Edmonton as it scored three second-period goals and added another during the first minute of the third.
"Some of the goals we let in were very preventable," Hawks defenseman James Wisniewski said. "They were just kind of mental mistakes, and they capitalized."
In the second period the Oilers got goals from Jarret Stoll and Dustin Penner on the power play and Ethan Moreau at even strength, all from within close range of Hawks goalie Patrick Lalime. Joni Pitkanen's third-period goal capped the scoring.
Oilers goalie Mathieu Garon took over from there as he stopped 40 of the 41 Hawks shots. Dustin Byfuglien had 11 shots, while Martin Havlat wasn't credited with any.
Toews is participating in full practices with his teammates as he recovers from a knee injury suffered Jan. 1. He has been lobbying to play against the Canucks but coach Denis Savard said "no chance" and indicated Wednesday at the earliest.
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- User groups
- Other Free Operating System Projects
Software that is DFSG compliant
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- The kernel behind Debian GNU/Linux.
- Debian is a complete implementation of the GNU operating system.
- The X.Org Foundation
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- The most widely used web server in the entire world.
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Blood stains and a make shift memorial for 18-year-old Jamal Jones is seen where police found him with gunshots wounds to the shoulder and chest over the past weekend, on Chicago's Southside, Monday, June 17, 2013. Chicago Police are investigating several shootings after a violent weekend that left at least seven people dead, including Jones, and more than three dozen wounded. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.
Should he zero in on Illinois' deep pool of political corruption with the resolve of his predecessor, who sent two governors to prison? Or should he devote even more resources to the gang- and drug-related violence that has claimed hundreds of lives, including in neighborhoods near President Barack Obama's own house?
The urgency of the question was highlighted by a weekend of violence that left seven people dead and more than three dozen wounded. But it's unclear what, if anything, U.S. attorneys can do to stem the bloodshed that has not already been tried.
The same question has arisen in other big cities, including New York and Los Angeles.
"Some think federal prosecutors can ride in on a white horse and end street crime. They can't," said Laurie Levenson, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. "The question is — how do you coordinate efforts of local and federal authorities? There's a role for both."
Other federal prosecutors have used the power of their office to attack urban crime. Rudy Giuliani became New York City mayor after first gaining prominence in the 1980s as a crime-busting U.S. attorney in Manhattan. And New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie built his political career on his reputation as a U.S. attorney who convicted public officials.
The pressure on Zachary Fardon has been especially intense.
After the White House recently named him to replace Patrick Fitzgerald, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin — the Senate's second-most powerful member — and Republican Sen. Mark Kirk called on Fardon to target guns, gangs and drugs. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has also urged Fardon to make city violence a top priority.
The city's murder tally topped 500 in 2012, the first time since 2008 it hit that mark. Though the murder rate has declined in 2013, the killing early this year of 15-year-old honor student Hadiya Pendleton a mile from Obama's home put the issue back in the national news.
Kirk called on Fardon to use racketeering statutes to jail what he said were up to 18,000 Gangster Disciple members in the Chicago area, saying it would be "payback" for Hadiya's killing. Rep. Bobby Rush, a Chicago Democrat, dismissed the notion as a simplistic "white boy" solution to a complex problem.
But it's not as if the federal prosecutors didn't pursue violent crime during Fitzgerald's 11-year tenure.
Already, a third of the roughly 130 criminal prosecutors at the Chicago office are assigned to its gangs-and-drugs division, according to figures from office spokesman Randall Samborn. There are around 10 prosecutors in the public corruption and organized-crime division, though prosecutors often work together across divisions.
Despite the splash they make in the news, political corruption cases are relatively rare. Even at the height of the investigation surrounding disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, there were never more than a half a dozen politicians indicted a year.
Drug cases account for around a third of total prosecutions, according to data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for the year ending in September 2012. That number is mirrored in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have already used racketeering statutes to go after street gangs. Fitzgerald used them to send Latin Kings leader Augustin Zambrano to prison for 60 years last year. Nearly 30 gang members were convicted in the same investigation.
But drawing on federal drug or gun laws to go after gang members is more common because those laws can carry stiffer sentences and are often less labor-intensive than racketeering, or RICO, laws.
"RICO is often designed for the big hit, to take out the leadership of a gang and to send a larger message," Levenson said. "But RICO cases take a huge amount of resources and are far more complicated."
Observers have noted that Fitzgerald's success taking down heads of big street gangs had the unintended consequence of splintering gangs into dozens of factions, leading to fighting that has fueled some of the recent killing.
No matter what federal prosecutors do, city police and state prosecutors remain on the front lines of battle to reduce violence.
Just last week, local authorities took advantage of a new state racketeering law to arrest dozens of reputed leaders of the Black Souls street gang who allegedly engaged in beatings, kidnappings and killings to maintain their multimillion dollar narcotics operation. It's one of the first prosecutions using the new legal tool.
Fardon himself has been mum in public since his nomination last month. He has declined media interviews while awaiting a Senate confirmation vote, which hasn't been scheduled but should happen within a few months.
Tackling violent crime isn't what Fardon is best known for, at least up to now.
As an assistant U.S. attorney, he was a member of Fitzgerald's trial team that convicted former Republican Gov. George Ryan of corruption. And as a private defense attorney in Chicago in recent years, he focused in part on white-collar crime.
Fardon will also be under pressure not to scale back on the commitment to fighting corruption.
"The U.S. attorney's office, for all practical purposes, has been the sole check on corruption in Illinois," said Dick Simpson, a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "And there is no indication corruption is on the decline."
But it could be difficult to shift more resources into violent crime without adjusting other obligations. That's especially true because congressional budget constraints have frozen staff at current levels. As a result, the annual office budget of around $35 million is unlikely to increase anytime soon.
The federal prosecutor's office in Chicago is one of the nation's busiest, with a staff already stretched thin handling more than 1,500 pending cases a year, according to the prosecutor's office.
And any hope of a dramatic reduction in violent crime would require the office to assign more prosecutors to smaller drug and gun cases.
"In a perfect world, you would grow the size of the office and hire more prosecutors and assign more to violent crimes units," said Julian Solotorovsky, a former assistant attorney in Chicago. "But the Department of Justice isn't in the hiring mood right now. ... That will complicate things for Fardon."
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Grants and Awards
There are many sources of funding that can potentially support fire prevention activities if you give attention to the objectives of the funder and show them how your organization will help them succeed in their efforts. Fire Prevention projects often include broader elements of environmental management and community cooperation. When applying for funding you can emphasize the potential positive impacts on wildlife, air quality, water quality/erosion prevention, water use, invasive and native plant species, recreation, and of course the protection of homes, cultural resources, and community members. Projects that include collaboration and provide opportunities to youth and community organizations are often the focus of funding opportunities. Some funders, especially government agencies, may have multiple funding opportunities depending on the objectives of their various programs.
Funding programs and links can change from year to year, so be sure to contact potential funding organizations directly for current opportunities and verify that you have reached the official site of an organization before submitting any information. The list below is a sample of organizations and types of organizations that offer funding opportunities for fire prevention or environmentally focused projects. The general categories below are government grant resources, private companies and foundations, and grants and awards that focus on youth and education. This list should give you a place to start as you research current funding opportunities.
Government Grant Resources
Many grant opportunities are available through federal government agencies. These may be focused on specific management areas or offered to a broader range of applicants in the state or nationally through sites like the California Fire Safe Council Grants Clearinghouse or Grants.gov. You can also look for funding opportunities locally by getting to know the local agency representatives and making them aware of your organization's activities and objectives.
"Grants.gov" This is the location of multiple funding announcements from the federal government.
Bureau of Land Management
California Fire Safe Council Grants Clearinghouse
Corporation for National and Community Service
Department of Labor
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Hwy Administration
National Endowment for the Humanities
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USDA Rural Energy for America Grants
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self – Determination Act: Title II and III funds
The Nature Conservancy
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
Private Company or Foundation Grants
When private companies and foundations offer grants they are often focused on community participation and environmental stewardship. There are many opportunities available, especially if you look at organizations and businesses that are active in your area. The categories below are the types of organizations that often have funding opportunities that can support local fire prevention efforts.
Companies producing "green" or high quality products
Conservation organizations
Outdoor gear and clothing companies
Large companies that employ members of the local community
Recreation organizations
Grants and Awards that focus on Youth Action and Education
Working with local youth groups or schools can be an opportunity to provide outreach and also give youth a chance to participate in community service. There are many grants and awards available for youth service work and environmental education. If you are able to work with local fire management professionals and environmental educators, you may be able to develop a program that teaches about safety, fire behavior and ecology, or restoration. If you have a student member of your organization, you may be able to point them toward scholarships and awards based on their community participation and service. The following list is a sample of organizations that have offered funding for youth environmental programs or awards for youth.
Department of Labor: YouthBuild Grant
Disney Friends for Change
Do Something Awards and Seed Grant
Earth Island Institute: Brower Youth Awards
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Google Global Science Fair
Intel Community Grants
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
National Geographic Young Explorers Grants
President's Environmental Youth Awards
Project Learning Tree: 26 GreenWorks! Grants
Scholastic's Be Big Fund
Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grant
State Farm Youth Advisory Board Grant Program
USDA Forest Service: Children's Forests and More Kids in the Woods Challenge Cost Share
Volvo Adventure Awards