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Excellent guidance and clear information of a kind that the family needs... The authors offer the realistic advice that sometimes it is better to concede the patient's frailties than to try to do something about them, and that a compassionate sense of humor often helps.(New York Times)
An excellent, practical manual for families and professionals involved in the care of persons with progressive illnesses... The book is specific and thought-provoking, and it will be helpful to anyone even remotely involved with an 'impaired' person... Highly recommended, especially for public and nursing libraries.(Library Journal)
Continues to be the 'bible' of recommendation for any caregiver whose family member suffers from dementia.(Bookwatch)
Recommended to all caregivers and families of persons with dementia as an indispensable source of valuable information on a very wide range of topics.(Kathryn Oliphant Case Management Journals)
An excellent guide with general information for family caregivers of persons with dementia... The text is person focused and describes the complexity and depth of the care required not only for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia but also for caregivers.(M. Jean Keller, EdD Activities, Adaptation and Aging)
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Seems like we have a sexual theme going today on the blog so I thought i'd add another post to the mix by sharing this great interview with Italian photographer Manuel Vason on one of my favorite new art&design blogs Yatzer. The interview is a great read so make sure to give it a look.
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Ghosts & Other Practical Visual Jokes
Robert Gligorov's work attempts to shock the viewer. Each piece tantalizes the imagination, awakening it from a state of lethargy. Confronting a society accustomed to sophisticated and extreme forms of visual communication, Gligorov amplifies the shock value of his work in order to compete with the deluge of images that cloud our visual field. Gligrov lives and works in Milan, Italy and is represented by Aeroplastics Contemporary in Belgium, and Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris. More images of his work after the jump.
Eric Yahnker: Naughty Teens/Garbanzo Beans
If you didn't make it out to Erik Yahnker's show at Seattle's Ambach&Rice gallery make sure to visit the galleries site for some images from the show. Erik's latest body of work does not disappoint mixing his trademark mastery of drawing with his hilarious and gruesome sense of humor. My favorite piece has to be Helen Keller Joke #4. More images after the jump.
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This animation by Michael Lomon is sick in the best of ways. Michael describes it as "A 'slice of life' drama piece based on my time as 'chef' at a certain Nottingham rock pub.Hand painted backgrounds. Other elements hand drawn, scanned and coloured in Flash."
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I'll start this post by saying that I'm not a fan of Lady Gaga's music but you can't deny that this video is one of the most bizarre, creative, disturbing music videos that has been made in the last couple of years.
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Madonna, Prodigy), the epic 8 minute video starts slow but right around the 3 minute mark all hell brakes loose as she is tossed off a balcony and left a bloody mess, riding around in a tricked out wheelchair with a bedazzled neck brace, dancing in crutches and bustier and matching helmet. The costumes alone deserve an award.
Who Killed The Electric Car?
If you don't remember last year gas prices were through the roof in the states. Immediately everyone was wondering why we weren't switching to futuristic electric vehicles. This movie has some of the answers for why we are going at a snail pace towards a cleaner, more efficient world.
With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future; issues which affect everyone from progressive liberals to the neo-conservative right. Written by Richard D. Titus
Confessions Of A Superhero
This documentary is from 2007 but is still one of my favorites to date. If you live in LA or have visited Hollywood Blvd. you'll be familiar with these masked performers that stand out side the Chinese Mann theater and pose in photos with tourists.
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO is a feature length documentary that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal look into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame.


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I am a newbie, both on here and to the Triathlon scene. I have teamed up with a friend and two trainers to blog my triathlon training progress. I am lucky to have two friends that are triathletes and marathon runners, I never realized the mental hurdles I am having to overcome. As far as blogging their progress, has anybody here ever tried something like this? You can check out my blog at 365daytriathlon.com Any advice is more than welcome!
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Definitely! Blogging is a great way to learn from and remember an important experience, especially training for a triathlon.
I'm glad you've started both & hope your training is going well!
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Shirley Jean Lang, 79, of St. Augustine, died Dec. 27, 2003, at Moultrie Creek Nursing Home. The native of Elgin, Ill., was a Baptist, a homemaker and had lived in St. Augustine since 1964.
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Survivors: Daughters, Carol Ann Nester, Betty Jane Haynes, Connie Jean Steed, Jeanne Lynn Hersey, all of St. Augustine; son, Kenneth Lang Jr., of South Elgin; brother, Harold Bradley Jr., of St. Augustine; 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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Afghan Hajigak Iron Ore Gets Bids From India, Iran, Canada
Afghanistan's richest iron-ore deposit drew bids from an Indian government-backed group, two Iranian contenders and Canada's Kilo Goldmines Ltd., an Afghan official said.
Afghanistan's mines ministry opened the bids yesterday for the estimated 1.8 billion metric tons of ore at Hajigak, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Kabul, said Abdul Jalil Jumriany, a ministry director-general. The tender is the biggest on offer in a country that the U.S. government estimated last year holds $1 trillion in untapped minerals.
Seven Indian steel and mining companies, led by state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd. and NMDC Ltd., offered a bid that is part of an effort by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government for a bigger role in a nearby country whose stability it calls essential.
In neighboring Pakistan, the politically powerful army "would have concerns about India having such a new role" in Afghanistan, said Bashir Ahmed, a senior fellow and retired army brigadier at the Institute of Regional Studies in Islamabad.
"Many in the Pakistani establishment are quite sensitive to India's presence in Afghanistan," seeing it as a security threat, he said.
The Indian group includes state-owned Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd., and private-sector companies JSW Steel Ltd., Jindal Steel & Power Ltd., Monnet Ispat Ltd. and JSW Ispat Steel Ltd. A separate Indian contender is Corporate Ispat Alloys Ltd., said Jumriany in a text message listing the bidders.
Iranian Interest
Two Iranian bidders are Gol-e-Gohar Iron Ore Co., one of Iran's biggest iron ore producers, and Behin Sanate Diba Co., a privately run group of 10 investment, mining and industrial companies, some of which are partly state-owned, said Leyla Rashno, the group's director for tenders.
Rashno declined in a phone interview in Tehran to say whether the group's bid has been encouraged or backed by Iran's government.
Toronto-based Kilo Goldmines, which trades on Canada's TSX Venture Exchange, focuses mainly on gold mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The other bidder for Hajigak is Acatco LLC, whose owner, Afghan-American businessman Nasir Shansab, lives near Washington and said in a phone interview his partnership, which employs 30 people, would bring in unnamed additional partners to develop the mine.
Indian Strategy
Indian authorities decided to facilitate their country's group because "it makes business and strategic sense to have a presence in mining in Afghanistan," Indian Mines Secretary S. Vijay Kumar said in January. Hajigak also may offer India an investment foothold in Afghanistan to rival that of state-owned Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd., which is developing the country's biggest copper deposit, at Aynak.
India and Afghanistan accused Pakistan's army of secretly backing the July 2008 Taliban bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul, one of at least three deadly attacks on Indians in the city since that time. Pakistan denied the accusation.
Stalled Parliament
The mines ministry will this month recommend one bid to receive the license, plus one alternate, or reserve, bid, for each of four blocks at Hajigak, a ministry statement said. Ministry spokesman Jawad Omar said the awards will require approval by the cabinet and by Afghanistan's parliament, where sessions have been stalled by a dispute over which candidates should be seated following disputed elections a year ago.
Hajigak is a range of treeless mountain ridges with a thin population of villagers who graze animals and farm the valleys below. The costs of developing mines will be increased by the need to build paved roads or rail lines to connect the site to potential markets.
While the ultimate cost of mining Hajigak is unclear, Indian companies "should have every reason to go for the Hajigak mines" if the cost of acquisition is about $1 to $1.5 per ton, said Ravindra Deshpande, an analyst with Mumbai-based Elara Securities Ltd.
While the bidders do not include the world's biggest mining groups, which President Hamid Karzai's government had hoped to attract, the six contenders represent progress in attracting investors' interest. Afghanistan canceled a previous tender last year when only one of seven initial competitors showed up to visit the Hajigak site.
Corruption Issue
The U.S. Defense Department has backed efforts to draw in international investors that it says are essential to stabilizing Afghanistan. Still, the decade-old war and corruption remain obstacles. Afghanistan last year tied with Myanmar for the second-worst ranking among 178 countries in Transparency International's perceived corruption index.
Karzai's government has pledged to manage and publish its mining contracts under the provisions of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, or EITI, a voluntary anti-corruption regime, Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani has said.
EITI, based in Oslo, Norway, advocates rules for improving the transparency of contracts and payments in mining and oil and gas extraction. The group rates 11 countries, including Nigeria, Norway, Liberia and Azerbaijan, as fully compliant, while 23 states, including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Indonesia, are pursuing the two-year process to achieve that status.


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Seattle Adopts Bold Climate Action Plan, Aims To Be Carbon Neutral By 2050
The ambitious plan, crafted by city officials and community members, provides a long-term vision for reducing the city's greenhouse gas emissions while building vibrant, prosperous communities.
Specifically, the plan focuses on three areas where Seattle can benefit the most from improvements: transportation and land use, building energy and solid waste.
"We can do something meaningful, not just for the planet, but also to create the city we want to live in, one that is safer to walk and bike and has cleaner air and water," said city councilman Mike O'Brien.
The plan includes improving and expanding the city's bus system, building the infrastructure to make it safer to walk or bike around, and building out the region's light-rail system. These moves would help reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent, according to the Seattle Times.
To curb building energy costs, the plan details the continuation of projects to weatherize homes and to develop a way to rate home energy performance when a house is listed for sale.
Ways to conserve of electricity and water were identified as areas to improve upon and preparing for the possible impacts of climate change on at-risk populations, such as the poor.
The plan also includes strategies to prepare for adverse climate effects that the city could be subject to, such as identifying flood prone areas and creating land use plans that would adapt for rising sea levels.
In addition to the city council's climate plan, Mayor Mike McGinn announced an energy efficiency initiative that will cut emissions and could save homeowners 35 to 50 percent in energy costs.
Many cities have prioritized plans for climate change in the wake of unprecedented extreme weather and rising average temperatures. On Monday, 45 mayors from cities across the country pledged to take action to prepare and protect their communities from the increasing disasters and disruptions fueled by climate change.
And in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, released an extensive climate resiliency plan last week. PlaNYC includes 250 recommendations to address the reality of climate change and prepare for its impacts.
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Great news but not nearly bold enough and the target should be 2020.
With accelerating extreme climate events, if we do not act fast enough, highly vulnerable cities may become non viable and things of the past
For god's sake, you live in SEATTLE!! you'll be burning your furniture from October till June to stay dry and warm.
so now we see how leadership plays the key role in addressing climate.
I agree, it should be this year or next, but I think all the Wall Street bond holders have their paper committed to 2050.
Yes, the world's major cities should get around the scale of truly effective action that they can achieve net zero in about five years or less.
As a back of the envelope example, New York City must seriously consider spending something like $200 billion per year to go net zero in five years.
The article linked regarding the Mayor's announcement of energy efficiency initiatives is not the most in depth of the stories on the new approach. It also suggests that the initiative is focused on homeowners. It is not. It is focused on commercial buildings.
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Record-high stock prices and sputtering profit growth make uneasy bedfellows. What keeps U.S. investors up at night isn't the drama in Cyprus, but whether weakening profits will unravel the rally.
There's some suspense as to what companies will report, come April. Corporate profits had rebounded strongly as central-bank support dragged the U.S. from recession. Operating profits jumped 206% in late 2009 and 31% in 2010. Since then, however, year-over-year profit growth had slowed steadily until it reached zero in 2012's third quarter, amid the uncertainty over U.S. elections and government policies. Revenue shrank 0.8% that same quarter, the first year-over-year decline of this recovery. The year ended on a brighter note, with profits rebounding 6.2% in the fourth quarter and revenue expanding 3.6%. But this sets up a cliffhanger: Is the worst behind us, or was that just a preview of more to come?
The tension has been heightened by the recent pummeling of stocks that dared miss the mark, like FedEx FDX 1.4898049365570356% FedEx Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD160.77 2.36 1.4898049365570356% /Date(1469221322241-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1224415 AFTER HOURS USD160.77 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8778 P/E Ratio 24.964285714285715 Market Cap 42688292494.9145 Dividend Yield 0.9952105492318218% Rev. per Employee 441798 More quote details and news » (FDX) and Oracle ORCL 0.024348672997321647% Oracle Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD41.08 0.01 0.024348672997321647% /Date(1469221346950-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10334214 AFTER HOURS USD41.08 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 92120 P/E Ratio 19.845410628019323 Market Cap 169361755146.6 Dividend Yield 1.4605647517039921% Rev. per Employee 272404 More quote details and news » (ORCL). Companies also are rushing to nudge down expectations. So far, 102 companies have told investors to brace for weaker-than-expected earnings, versus just 23 that raised projections, says Gregory Harrison, Thomson Reuters' earnings analyst. This produces a 4.4 negative-to-positive ratio—the worst since 2001.
THERE'S NO QUESTION Wall Street's vocationally bullish analysts are choosing to look on the bright side. The consensus sees macro-economic fears receding, consumers spending, and the U.S. housing and jobs market slowly mending. So analysts expect Standard & Poor's 500 companies to report per-share operating profits of $25.74, $27.67, $28.56 and $29.90, respectively, over 2013's four quarters, according to Harrison. This sets up an impressive recovery in year-over-year profit growth of 1.5%, 6.2%, 10.3%, and 13.6% over the next four earnings confessionals.
Joseph Tanious, global market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, thinks earnings estimates are "overly optimistic." Many companies have already cut costs to the bone, so revenue must rise for earnings to keep expanding. Historically, revenue has kept pace with nominal global economic growth, which should average 4% to 6% over the next two years. "We expect earnings growth to be in the mid-single digits as well," Tanious writes.
Still, slower earnings growth doesn't have to derail stocks. "With fewer macro headwinds in sight and lower-yet-sustainable earnings growth ahead, multiples, rather than earnings, are likely to do the heavy lifting," Tanious says. Since the recession, corporate profits have grown faster than their valuations, so price/earnings ratios had become compressed. Today, the S&P 500 trades at less than 14 times projected profits—higher than the 12.9 times a year ago, but still below the 15-year average of 16.6. Tanious expects valuation multiples to expand about 4% a year, versus the 2% annual contraction during the period of double-digit profit growth as the U.S. first sprang from recession.
THE BOOM IN U.S. NATURAL-GAS production gives local manufacturers access to cheaper energy and helps energy-intensive businesses like chemical producers and steel makers (see "The Next Boom," Jan. 28). Less apparent is how it's also fueling demand for a host of support services, like those from water-treatment companies, environmental consultants, and testing-equipment makers.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, pumps chemically treated water through rocks to extract oil and gas. Roughly 70 billion to 140 billion gallons of water are used in the 50,000 U.S. wells each year, enough to fill 150,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, and all that water must be transported, treated, recycled, or disposed of. "Some of the best investment opportunities are in the suppliers helping the industry to operate more efficiently, reducing pollution, and meeting increasingly strict environmental controls," notes Simon Gottelier of Impax Asset Management. "We could be about to witness a modern-day equivalent of selling shovels during the gold rush."
Among Impax's investments are companies that supply and remove water for shale exploration, including Aqua America WTR 1.3787034320915224% Aqua America Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD34.56 0.47 1.3787034320915224% /Date(1469221321575-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 507405 AFTER HOURS USD34.56 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1222 P/E Ratio 30.05217391304348 Market Cap 6126520673.13355 Dividend Yield 2.060185185185185% Rev. per Employee 504938 More quote details and news » (WTR), American Water Works AWK 2.0825631546518792% American Water Works Co. U.S.: NYSE USD82.84 1.69 2.0825631546518792% /Date(1469221321081-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1375755 AFTER HOURS USD80.37 -2.47 -2.981651376146789% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10299 P/E Ratio 31.260377358490565 Market Cap 14721827483.3472 Dividend Yield 1.8107194591984548% Rev. per Employee 478258 More quote details and news » (AWK), Heckmann (HEK), and Veolia Environment (VE); and those that help inject and remove fracking water, like Xylem XYL 0.47068891741548996% Xylem Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD46.96 0.22 0.47068891741548996% /Date(1469221275509-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 755241 AFTER HOURS USD46.96 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7850 P/E Ratio 24.84656084656085 Market Cap 8401003105.25787 Dividend Yield 1.319420783645656% Rev. per Employee 289685 More quote details and news » (XYL) and Gorman-Rupp GRC 0.28735632183908044% Gorman-Rupp Co. U.S.: NYSE MKT USD27.92 0.08 0.28735632183908044% /Date(1469221246666-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20251 AFTER HOURS USD27.92 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 290 P/E Ratio 30.384154967896396 Market Cap 728265271.765442 Dividend Yield 1.504297994269341% Rev. per Employee 319603 More quote details and news » (GRC).
Xylem, for instance, was spun off from ITT ITT -0.6174745291756715% ITT Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD32.19 -0.2 -0.6174745291756715% /Date(1469221322395-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 564200 AFTER HOURS USD32.19 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 76 P/E Ratio 8.361038961038961 Market Cap 2900318827.14844 Dividend Yield 1.5408511960236098% Rev. per Employee 258350 More quote details and news » (ITT) in 2011 and is known as a pump supplier, but it also monitors pollution and treats water. Xylem reported no increase in 2012 revenue over 2011's, as customers put off spending amid global fiscal worries. At $28, the shares fetch 15 times projected profits—in line with the machinery sector and a discount to water-treatment stocks. Yet Xylem has a solid cash flow, a 1.6% dividend yield, and one of the broadest arrays of water services in a fragmented, growing industry.
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U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Chaplain (MAJ) Kevin Pies led Strong Bonds training for 20 Officers, Warrant Officers, Noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers with Alpha Detachment, 1st Space Company (JTAGS-Europe) in late August.
The Strong Bonds program is a preventative and educational program that advocates making better decisions on the front end of relationships, as well as better communication techniques and conflict resolution methods while in a relationship. The training was conducted Aug. 20-24 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Caen, France. The location of the one-day training event gave the attendees some memorable sightseeing opportunities as well. Highlights included Normandy Beach, Normandy National Military Cemetery, the Normandy American Cemetery, the Belleau Wood Memorial and the 1st Infantry Division Memorial.
Sgt. 1st Class Charles L. Robinson III, who previously deployed to Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division before being assigned to Alpha Detachment, 1st Space Company, was promoted on Normandy Beach in front of the 1st Infantry Division Memorial. Robinson, along with Sgt. 1st Class Wilfredo Cabili and Spc. Kenneth Kamrowski, reverently laid a wreath at the Normandy National Military Cemetery.
Soldiers and family members from both Charlie Detachment (JTAGS Korea) and Delta Detachment (JTAGS Japan) are currently conducting Strong Bonds training at the Westin Resort in Busan, Korea and the Hilton Resort in Tokyo Bay, Japan, respectively.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881)
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.
Harry Fosdick (1878 - 1979)
One watches people starting out in life quite adequately, handling life with active vigor, as they run, one after another, into experiences where something deeper than vigor is needed. Serious failure, for example. Some night in his lifetime everyone comes home to find a new guest there-disappointment. What he had set his heart on has gone. . . . If one is to come through difficult experiences unembittered, unspoiled, still a real person, one needs deep resources. . . . Not alone in such experiences as sorrow and failure does this need arise but in man's search for the indispensable spiritual requirements of a satisfying life - inner peace, for example, some serenity in the soul to come home to at night and to out from in the morning. Who does not need that? But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need. Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us.
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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GOP's hatred of Obama is blocking all progress
We constantly hear how bad our economy is and, as usual, the blame falls on President Obama and his administration. Let's go back to when Obama took office. We were coming off the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression. Instead of the Republicans stepping up to win some confidence from their staunch supporters, they met behind closed doors, led by House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell, to map their strategy to discredit and block any reforms Obama had to pull us out of this Great Recession.
This was a slap in the face not only to this administration, but to the American people. Who would think these elected officials would stoop so low as to bring more misery and suffering to us Americans, and then blame someone else? They showed us that they put their own political future ahead of America. This, I am sure, was more directed toward the millions of voters who turned their party down.
Four years later, they are doing the same dastardly deeds that are keeping America from moving forward. There are still bills in the House that could bring employment up and stop giving tax breaks to companies that leave our soil. Do they think for one minute that Americans don't see the discrepancies between the rich and the middle class? They are trying their best to do away with so-called entitlements, which many of us earned, and that many children, senior citizens and the military are in desperate need of.
Let them pressure the wealthiest 1 percent or 2 percent of Americans who have gained so much more wealth thanks to a record-breaking stock market. This, by the way, was with no help from the radical GOP. I can imagine how the late President Dwight Eisenhower views his party now. He will go down in history as the "last" of the great Republican presidents and administrations.
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I love the textures and the colors that you chose for this peice. I think it fits the song very nicely.
God, the detail on this is actually devine; the atmosphere about the artwork is actually chilling. I really love the way in which you contexturalize the structures in the background and seemlessly link them to the gore in the foregroud. Your artistic skill is actually astounding sjdhjsak. May I also gawk over the lighting and how you drew that wolf.
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RemusDB: transparent high availability for database systems
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In this paper, we present a technique for building a high-availability (HA) database management system (DBMS). The proposed technique can be applied to any DBMS with little or no customization, and with reasonable performance overhead. Our approach is based on Remus, a commodity HA solution implemented in the virtualization layer, that uses asynchronous virtual machine state replication to provide transparent HA and failover capabilities. We show that while Remus and similar systems can protect a DBMS, database workloads incur a performance overhead of up to 32 % as compared to an unprotected DBMS. We identify the sources of this overhead and develop optimizations that mitigate the problems. We present an experimental evaluation using two popular database systems and industry standard benchmarks showing that for certain workloads, our optimized approach provides fast failover (\(\le \)3 s of downtime) with low performance overhead when compared to an unprotected DBMS. Our approach provides a practical means for existing, deployed database systems to be made more reliable with a minimum of risk, cost, and effort. Furthermore, this paper invites new discussion about whether the complexity of HA is best implemented within the DBMS, or as a service by the infrastructure below it.
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About two years ago, I dated this boy for six months. I was madly in love with him, but he didn't feel the same about me. It took me two years to accept this and move on. Last year, I moved to a new school. My locker was next to a boy that I became good friends with. He gave me his number and we started texting one another, but I always sort of knew he liked me. I asked him if he did after Valentine's day, and he said he did, so we started dating. Around March, I found out he liked me the whole year, which makes me feel guilty because I really feel nothing for him. I told him I loved him, but that feeling I had with my ex just isn't there. I know I need to tell him eventually, but I just don't know what to say. He keeps telling me how he wants to move forward in our relationship, but I can't build up enough courage to do what he wants to (to clear this up, I mean kissing and acting all lovey-dovey around school).
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ST. JOHNSBURY A Vermont man is facing marijuana charges after his father turned him in to police, saying his son was growing it in some bedroom closets.
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"Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan are currently delighting old and new fans across North America on their highly successful Grits and Glamour Tour"--From web site for gritsandglamour.com.
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Award-winning recording artists, Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan have joined together to form Grits and Glamour and their new CD Dos Divas. It features solo performances by Morgan and Tillis as well as collaborations and duets. Highlights include original material written by the duo as well as songs penned by some of country music's most talented songwriters. The 14-song collection shows their remarkable range, showcasing everything from traditional country to cutting edge contemporary.
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San Francisco/New Delhi: Sony's sleek PlayStation 3 consoles have made debut in US markets, as per news reports.
PlayStation 3 consoles boast of 250-gigabyte hard drive that enables better storing of games, films, and music.
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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- Record Label: RCA
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2007
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Entertainment WeeklyIt isn't long before you realize how frickin' right it all sounds, how damn near flawless the tone of the whole set feels. [28 Sep 2007, p.104]
There's no getting away from the fact that the goofy guy who used to play drums for Nirvana just made a classic album.
What remains are incredibly sharp and distorted fist-pumpers, chock full of guitars and monstrous drums, and a handful of slower numbers that fall short of matching the impact of songs like 'Everlong' and 'Learn to Fly.'
MojoIt's charming, understated and has to be heard in context. [Oct 2007, p.100]
Q MagazineEach of these tracks makes the case for Foo Fighters' horizons successfully expanding, in the way the acoustic side of "In Your Honor" didn't. [Oct 2007, p.87]
Dave Grohl and company have assembled a strong assortment of the band's familiar, well-built tuneage, from muscular rockers and sinuous ballads to good-natured power-pop and riff-heavy radio anthems.
Grohl often shows off his sky-high vocal range, award-winning ear for bridges and choruses and penchant for ending opuses with dark, pitch-perfect shrieks.
The instrumental "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" showcases Grohl's acoustic guitar chops, while the piano-driven "Home" provides a lovely ending to an excellent album.
The record sounds lush and epic, with a variety of genres and sounds all peeking their heads through the band's established heavy-melodic-rock sound. There are mellow, intimate tunes and amps-to-11 anthems alike, and plenty that split the difference.
On their sixth album, Foo Fighters have renewed their membership in the "if it ain't broke . . ." school of songwriting. And essentially, there's nothing wrong with that.
The Foos' sixth and most accomplished album sees the band comfortable with arena tricks such as wistful Led Zeppelin-y acoustic guitars and choruses to learn and scream.
Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'.
This is not the best Foo Fighters record, but it's the shrewdest one.
Grohl is hookier than Nickelback, which is saying something.
The remainder of Echoes is considerably more diffuse, engaging in levels of genre-hopping that might seem a little desperate were it not for the fact that most of the songs hold up.
By and large this is as consistent a record as the Foo Fighters have ever made.
Foo Fighters' sixth studio album is a transitional rather than definitive piece of work, but one that sees them growing older with 'patience and grace'.
This is an anthology of strong new songs by a great bunch of bands, all calling themselves Foo Fighters.
On the last Foos album, "In Your Honour" rock and acoustic music were exiled to different discs. Here, a satisfactory compromise is brokered between the two: the excellent 'Summer's End' is easy on the ear, easier still on the brain, and sets him up in the radio-friendly 'Wonderwall' district one imagines is his spiritual home.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace sticks to what it's good at: undemanding arena rock that's just--just--leftfield enough not to jar alongside Grohl's previous incarnation.
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is another quality entry in a fantastically average career.
The Foos can sometimes feel like a bit of a chore if they lean too heavily in one direction--as they do here, where despite the conscious blend of acoustic and electric tunes, the rockers weigh down Echoes more than they should, enough to make this seem like just another Foo Fighters album instead of the consolidation of strengths that it was intended to be.
Echoes has some characteristic Foo Fighters rockers, but even they sound quieter: Producer Gil Norton keeps the guitars, along with everything else, subdued. And without the usual standout hits (though 'Long Road To Ruin' is solid), Echoes will probably leave fans wanting.
BlenderThroughout, the Foos are as tight as ever, even if the songs are mostly unmemorable. [Oct 2007, p.108]
They're sounding less and less relatable, leaving us pining not just for the days of a little grunge trio from Seattle, but for the relentlessly catchy and charismatic Dave Grohl of the Foos' still-fantastic self-titled debut and the better half of "The Colour and the Shape."
Grohl and Company sound like Bob Seger fronting for your garden variety modern hard rock group.
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Dec 11, 2012This is a great album. Is it Foo Fighters' best, hmmm not really, but it is still excellent. The main single and first track - The pretender,This is a great album. Is it Foo Fighters' best, hmmm not really, but it is still excellent. The main single and first track - The pretender, will be a classic for years to come. Other gems include the quick rising build-up songs - Let it die, Come alive and But honestly, the casual and catchy - Summer's end and Long road to ruin and the stunningly beautiful acoustic ballad - Stranger things have happened. I would recommend this album to all Foo fighter fans, fans of Rock music and well...all general music lovers.… Full Review »
Dec 21, 2011I'm not a major Foo Fighters fan - appreciate some of their best tracks but overall wouldn't be a favourite of mine, however this is a reallyI'm not a major Foo Fighters fan - appreciate some of their best tracks but overall wouldn't be a favourite of mine, however this is a really good album. Probably the bands most consistent from start to finish.… Full Review »
Mar 8, 2013Foo Fighters never stop making great music. This is another example of good rock. One of their best album with some of their greatest songsFoo Fighters never stop making great music. This is another example of good rock. One of their best album with some of their greatest songs (The Pretender, Long Road To Ruin, Let It Die). Well Done!… Full Review »


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Talaat Moustafa Group Holding should keep land on the outskirts of Cairo so the real estate developer can finish building housing units on the 33 million-square-meter site, a government-appointed legal committee recommended.
The proposal would reverse an earlier court ruling that annulled the government sale of the land due to irregularities, cabinet spokesman Magdy Rady told a news conference in Cairo today.
The committee recommended that the government revoke its existing sales contract with Talaat Moustafa before reallocating it to the same company, invoking a law that allows the authorities to assign land by a direct order to protect the "public interest," the cabinet said in a statement distributed to reporters.
Talaat Moustafa is Egypt's biggest publicly traded real estate developer and the Madinaty development is its biggest project. The project is designed to accommodate 600,000 people in 120,000 housing units. A court ruling to annul the sale, upheld on Sept. 14, prompted foreign investors to sell off Egyptian real estate stocks because of concern that developers will be forced to pay more for land they already own.
Shares of Talaat Moustafa were little changed at 6.96 Egyptian pounds at the 2:30 p.m. close in Cairo today, valuing the company at 14 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.45 billion), according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The government announcement came after the close of the market.
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The committee said that the state-run New Urban Communities Authority, which sold the land, should discuss the appropriate price of the land with the ministries of finance and housing before reassigning it to the company.


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"Amahl and the Night Visitors" is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti. The young shepherd Amahl, known for telling fibs, is unable to convince his mother that the Three Kings are at their door. When she sees he is telling the truth she invites them into her home. What transpires is how a lesson on faith, charity, love, and good deeds can work miracles. "The Gift of the Magi" is a one-act play based on the original classic written by O. Henry. This heartwarming romantic comedy tells the story of Della and Jim, who are desperately in love but also very poor. In their attempts to buy each other proper Christmas gifts, a strange twist of fate leads the couple to find the perfect gifts for each other – but at an unexpected cost.
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Dividend growth investing is a strategy that focuses on companies which regularly raise dividends. The strategy focuses on growth in dividends over a longer period of time that usually exceeds ten years. The typical dividend growth stock does not yield a lot today, but can generate very high yields on cost, that will definitely trump even some of the highest yielding stocks today.
The important tool that makes dividend growth investing is growth in earnings per share. Growth in earnings per share enables companies to increase dividends over time in a sustainable matter. A company that grows dividends for a period of time without corresponding earnings growth will eventually run out of room to boost distributions. I call these dividend stocks on autopilot, and try to avoid them whenever possible. I typically look for the annual rates of increase in dividends and earnings per share to be similar within a certain range.
As a result, dividend growth investors focus on the catalysts that can generate a higher net income for the corporations whose stock they are purchasing. Companies can earn more by selling more, increasing prices, streamlining operations, expanding in new markets, selling new products or acquiring and merging with other companies. Mergers and acquisitions can only lead to higher earnings per share if they result in synergies. We want growth in earnings per share after all, not just a growth in overall net income.
There is not a one size fits all approach, which is why some time needs to be spent learning about the company and determining where the growth will come from. For many consumer staples such as Coca-Cola (KO) or Procter & Gamble (PG), future growth will be positively correlated with the expansion in the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Strong pricing power of companies like Coca-Cola (KO) and Phillip Morris International (PM) can also allow them to pass on cost increases to consumers, while increasing their profits. For other companies such as 3M (MMM), future growth could arise from a culture that focuses on innovation and bringing new products to market in order to generate growth.
Imagine a company which yields 2.50% today, but can grow earnings and distributions by 10%/year. The stock trades at $100 today, earns $5/share and pays a $2.50 dividend. The stock will probably yield around 2% - 3% over the course of an year, and would be usually ignored by investors who simply look at current yields. In approximately 14-15 years however, this company would likely still yield somewhere between 2% - 3%. However, the stock would be earning close to $20/share and probably paying about $10/share in annual dividends. It would not be unreasonable to assume that the stock could be valued at $400/share. The investor, who had the vision to acquire this stock when it traded at $100/share, is now generating an yield on cost of 10%. If they reinvested dividends along the way, they would likely be earnings much more in dividend income. The rising dividend income also provides protection against inflation over time.
A few important things to note are related to entry price, diversification, and dividend reinvestment.
Having a strategy that provides a maximum entry price to pay for a stock helps in being a disciplined investor, who avoids getting carried away. I try to never pay more than 20 times earnings for a stock. At the end of the day, if you overpay by purchasing a company like Coca-Cola (KO) or Wal-Mart (WMT) at 30 times earnings, you might end up regretting the investment for a long time. You would likely receive a small yield as well. If you had the fortitude of selecting a great company with solid fundamentals and a rising earnings tide, it would eventually "bail you" out, as earnings growth would compress the P/E ratio. This would make the stock compelling again. However, if for some reason the company stops growing, it might be dead money for a long period of time. Hopefully some of your other investments deliver better returns if that were the case.
This leads me to the next point on diversification. Dividend growth investors need to absolutely build a portfolio consisting of at least 30 individual securities, which come from as many industries that make sense. Investors who own less than 30 positions, and are heavily focused on a sector or two are just asking for trouble. A diversified portfolio of over 30 stocks provides a fail-safe mechanism to protect the portfolio income against a few bad apples. It can also protect investors against a wave of dividend cuts in a given sector. Investors in the financial sector experienced dividend cuts and eliminations across the board during the 2007 – 2009 financial crisis. Not every company in the financial sector cut dividends however, and the carnage was mostly focused there.
The good part about the strategy is that investors receive cash in their brokerage accounts from their dividend paying stocks. This allows them to have the necessary resources available for opportunities present during recessions for example. Not all sectors are attractive to invest in at all times. This is why building your exposure at the most attractive stocks across a variety of sectors over time is an effective way to deploy dividends received and new capital put to work.
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Coppermines Valley, near Coniston. The view is from near the path on the SW side of Church Beck. It's as good a place to walk as any if you're a geologist into minerals and mineralisation. The area has been mined for copper and quarried for slate. On the right hand side of the image the spoil from quarrying slate a...
This is a view towards Buttermere, a lake in England's lake district
Panorama taken at Devoke water near Eskdale, Lake District, Cumbria, United Kingdom
The largest natural lake in England at over 11 miles long.
View of the main areas of former mining activity in Coppermines Valley. To the right of the image the large spoil heaps from the Bonser ore dressing floors sit close to Church Beck. Spoil heaps from exploitation of the Bonser Vein are on the fells behind. In the centre the spoil heaps from the Paddy End Vein extend up ...
This is a panorama taken during an ascent of Skiddaw, a fell in England's Lake District. The view is across Derwent Water and you can see the small town of Keswick in the foreground. In the background are the summits of many of the famous fells.
A view of the summit of Haystacks, in England's Lake District.
View of Derwentwater taken from Surprise View near Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom. The picture was taken in December 2010, when the lake was frozen, using a Canon 1DS MkIII fitted with Canon 24-105mm L lens set at 32mm. The image is a composite of 28 images taken using a Gigapan Pro unit and rendered using Autopano G...