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I had an external pain pump put in 7 days ago. They put Prialt in the pump and I absolutely hate it. It has given weird feeling and has done nothing for the pain. I itch all the time, can't remember things, have dizziness when I try to walk and my whole world seems like a blur. I have been back once to have pump turned up and I go again Tue. to have it turned up again before getting it out on
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In the article, "10 Ways to Pay for Retirement," U.S. News & World Report lists the most common ways to pay for retirement.
Pensions are a big part of how people prepare for retirement, along with working longer, saving more, and — as a last resort — tapping home equity. Read the full article.
PBGC will pay retirement benefits for nearly 750 current and future retirees of Landmark Medical Center, which operates a 214-bed hospital in Woonsocket, R.I.
The agency stepped in because the medical center can't pay benefits, and the pension plan will be abandoned after Landmark sells all of its assets.
PBGC will pay all pension benefits earned by the hospital's retirees up to the legal limit of almost $51,750 a year for a 65-year-old.
Retirees will continue to get benefits without interruption, and future retirees can apply for benefits as soon as they are eligible.
According to PBGC estimates, as of June 7, 2013 (the plan termination date), the pension plan was about 40 percent funded with $23 million in assets to pay $58 million in benefits. The agency expects to cover $25 million of the $35 million shortfall.
Similar to that of a "payday loan," retirees are being offered pension advances with alarmingly high interest rates — rates often higher than those on credit cards.
While financial products like pension advances, which promise quick cash, may appear enticing, keep in mind that the long-term costs are largely hidden from the borrowers.
In an effort to protect your pensions and retirement security, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, sent a letter to the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) requesting documentation and information that could help the Committee identify Americans who may have been targeted by lenders offering lump-sum payments, with potentially illegally high rates of interest repayment, in exchange for a stake in the borrower's pension benefits.
In the letter, Harkin wrote, "Pensions are the bedrock of economic security in retirement for millions and millions of middle-class families. But now, it appears that there are some financial operations trying to siphon a profit off of people's retirement benefits. These unscrupulous companies are offering to buy pensions for a lump-sum. That may sound like a good idea to someone who is facing financial challenges, but long term, it can actually leave them worse off down the road. I hope this bipartisan investigation will shed light on the scope of this issue and uncover the companies that are taking advantage of our nation's pensioners."
Read the full text of the letter.
Here's more useful information: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Bulletin - Pension or Settlement Income Streams: What You Need to Know Before Buying or Selling Them
PBGC will pay retirement benefits for more than 2,400 current and future retirees of KidsPeace Corporation, a private charity dedicated to serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, families, and communities.
KidsPeace Corporation is headquartered in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania with operations in Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
The agency stepped in because the charity organization can't pay its pension obligations and remain in business.
PBGC will pay all pension benefits earned by the hospital's retirees up to the legal limit of almost $56,000 per year for a 65-year-old.
The Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts released a new report titled "Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years?," which provides a glimpse into the uncertain situation facing those who are approaching retirement age.
The report explores the retirement security for different age groups and examines how the Great Recession affected the wealth and retirement security of baby boomers as compared to younger and older age groups.
This research reveals that younger age groups face the greatest prospect of downward mobility in their golden years.
Among the many significant findings in the study is that Americans born after 1955 carry more debt than have previous generations, and that this age group faces a severe decline in living standards upon retirement.
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I've always been fascinated by storytelling: The Harry Potter series, This American Life, Grimm, The Twilight Zone, The New Yorker and just about anything by Walter Mosely. Books, movies, radio, print or online periodicals, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter. Interesting characters and a compelling narrative rivet me.
I also particularly like watching commercials and I'm constantly amazed by the brilliance of ad writers who can develop the scene, introduce relatable characters and tell a complete story in 30 or 60 seconds. Beyond hawking products or pushing ideas, I find commercials offer interesting insights on the zeitgeist of a particular demographic, culture or society.
Today, in almost any hour of evening television, sandwiched between myriad commercials for insurance companies and the latest solution to make housecleaning a breeze, you'll see spots about encouraging the viewer to plan for retirement.
One really resonates with me because it echoes a true story we at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation tell a lot lately: people are living longer but retirement security isn't keeping pace. In the commercial, the narrator asks people to place a blue sticker along a timeline next to the age of the oldest person they've ever known. Not surprisingly, there are many dots ranging between 80 and 110. The spot closes with, "How do you make sure you have enough money to enjoy all of these years?"
Disclaimer: Neither the author nor PBGC endorses the products or services of the sponsor.
Since its inception in 1974, PBGC has been at the forefront of protecting the retirement security of the American people in defined-benefit pension plans offered by private companies. Now, most people probably don't know the agency exists, let alone think about us until the business they work for goes belly-up and they hear talk that the pension they've been looking forward to is about to evaporate.
Fortunately, PBGC does exist, and the safety net it provides allows most workers and retirees to keep the full promised benefit they've earned over many years.
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TOKYO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co said on Friday it and Korea Gas Corp (Kogas) will jointly buy liquefied natural gas from Italy's Eni for five years, as Asian companies look for new ways to cut import costs of the fuel and secure supplies.
The three companies have struck a basic agreement for supply of a total 1.7 million tonnes over a period between May 2013 and December 2017, Chubu, Japan's third-biggest regional power utility, said in a statement.
It would be the first time an Asian company has teamed up with a cross-border regional rival for a long-term LNG contract, a Chubu spokesman said.
Chubu, Kogas and Eni aim to come up with detailed sales agreements by March, the Chubu spokesman said, adding prices were competitive in the Asian market. He declined to comment when asked if prices are linked to oil prices as are most of the existing long-term contracts in Asia.
'(The joint deal with Kogas) would give us flexibility of supply and also add us stability as Eni has a range of sources to supply,' the Chubu spokesman said.
Chubu has had communication channels over LNG procurements with Kogas, the world's biggest corporate buyer of LNG, since 2002 and made LNG swap deals.
The agreement would help Chubu meet its already high reliance on gas-fired plants. Unlike many power utilities here, the Nagoya-based company has decided to rely on non-nuclear power generation in the next couple of years while boosting safety devices at its only nuclear plant in Hamaoka.
Chubu currently relies on Qatar for the bulk of its LNG. In the business year ended last March, Qatar accounted for 64 percent of Chubu's LNG imports, followed by Russia for 9 percent and Australia and Indonesia which accounted for 8 percent each.
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Roughly four months after Broward's start to the school year was disrupted by widespread school bus problems, the man who once led Broward's bus drivers has announced his resignation.
Transportation Director Chester Tindall arrived about a year ago, tasked with turning around a long-troubled department that had been criticized for nepotism and routinely ran tens of millions of dollars over budget.
Tindall indeed shook things up — dismissing some employees and overhauling how the department handled tasks such as assigning routes to drivers. Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie, who had worked with Tindall in Chicago, was one of his biggest supporters.
But Runcie found it increasingly difficult to justify his support after the school year began with weeks of disastrous bus service. The problems included late buses, no-show buses, and even one instance in which a bus driver dropped off a group of middle school students seven miles from their homes.
Tindall's critics blamed his harsh management style for causing the dysfunction in Broward's bus service. Tindall could not be reached Tuesday for comment.
Amid public calls for his ouster, Tindall announced in September he would take a medical leave, and Runcie at that time predicted that Tindall would soon depart the district altogether.
Instead, Tindall — while no longer running the transportation department — continued working there for months, helping to draw up a proposal to add GPS navigation service to Broward's bus fleet. Runcie last week suggested creating a new position for Tindall — an idea met with significant criticism.
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July 22, 2012 by Diane Berry · Leave a Comment
If you are camping or visiting Taos, New Mexico the second weekend in June next spring, make plans to attend the Taos Annual Arts and Crafts Fair at Kit Carson Park, located in the middle of town. Vendors from all over the southwest exhibit and sell their wares for very reasonable prices. Having experienced this event for the first time this year, I was impressed with the wide variety of merchandise available.
One booth carried exquisitely handmade clothing for women, both younger and more mature. Lovely dresses, skirts and blouses, hung near serviceable and attractive aprons. The workmanship was exceptional; the variety of colors and patterns, seemingly endless.
Taos, being the artist's community it is, several booths carried various types of artwork. Photographs of the spectacular terrain and the breathtaking Rocky Mountains were among the items for sale. Paintings of various Taos and mountain scenes were also available for purchase. Still another booth carried only drums, handmade by members of a local tribe. Purchasers were carefully instructed on the care necessary for one of the beautiful drums before a purchase was made.
Jewelry was available in several of the booths as well. One woman explained she and her husband made necklaces, bracelets and earrings by combing various chemicals with different metals to make the some of the most beautiful items I saw. Another man carried bracelets with various themes: joy, peace, angels and the like. I couldn't resist purchasing a guardian angel bracelet as it was near Father's Day and it reminded me of my own Guardian angel, my father. The price: a mere $19. He had come down from Colorado and said he would definitely return next year.
Still other booths contained pricier items. Pieces resembling kachina-type dolls and figures for the home were contained in a booth near the end. I found one of these, a welcoming spirit to sit at the entrance to a home, that I would have loved to purchase for my own home, but the $600 price tag put it a bit out of my league. To be fair, there were some less expensive items in this booth, but once I saw that particular one, nothing else would do. So I walked on.
Even if you only come to look, it is worth the trip to the Annual Taos Arts and Crafts Fair. There are unique and unusual items here that you may only find in Taos—and certainly not at your average Craft Fair. It is worth a stop when your are camping in Taos, or even if you're just passing through.
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November 22, 2012
by Sasha Emmons
All month long, we've been asking our followers on Twitter to share what they are grateful for using the hashtag #thankfulfor. We've been blown away by the response, as hundreds of you share the sweet, funny and touching things you appreciate in your life.
Here, we share a few of our favorites. Are you feeling thankful today? Tag us @parenting and share your thoughts using the hashtag #thankfulfor.
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Michael Schrage: The major problem with transportation technology and
transportation policy is that you have a battle between utopians who believe
that they can get whatever they want, faster, better, cheaper, and the
pragmatist, the hard ball economic types who say, "No, no, no, let's ban
the car from the city, let's create calming zones, zero-emission vehicles,"
etc., etc. You have a real
dialectic, a real tension, and my view is, when you have that kind of
schizophrenia, when you have that kind of chasm, not just of technologies and
expectations, but of values, I think you get into a lot of gridlock--pun
Michael Schrage: Oh, my gosh! There's so many things going on that are so exciting that it's not clear to me what's the best bet. We have smart vehicles, smart devices, smarter people, better sensors, more information, the ability to have the technology act in a more nimble way. We have the ability to play with tax policy and congestion charges. So to me, the question is going to be, there's a tension between disruptive innovation and rapid iderative incremental innovation. But if you have enough incremental innovation in a short period of time, you got a revolution. You know, the simple model for that is like a Mapquest, or putting an accelerometer in an iPhone. The fact of the matter is, between mobile phones, between iPhones, between Rim's, between GPS, every car in the world, every bicycle in the world, can be made smarter. Heck, we can make every street corner, every streetlamp smarter, more nimble, more agile. The issue is, what's the organizing principal underlying that? Haven't a clue.
Question: Do you think we need to build on what we have, or revolutionize mobility?
Michael Schrage: Being an MIT person, I'm very, very sympathetic to that view of, gee, let's just start from scratch, let's reinvent everything. But basically, I think it's a bunch of crap. You know, that's basically like saying, gee, we've sequenced the human genome, let's reengineer human beings so they'll make less, they'll take up less space, they'll do less waste, they'll be more energy efficient. As I said earlier, there's always going to be a tension between the incremental and the revolutionary. Folks at MIT tend to self-select towards the revolutionary side, but ordinary human beings, typical human beings, human beings who have, shall we say, real lives, not MIT lives, are more prepared to have a mix of the disruptive innovation and the incremental innovation. And that's how I think that's going to play out, particularly in transportation policy. I don't believe people are going to give up on the wheels of a car for the foreseeable future.
Question: Is there something we'll have to give up in order to get there?
Michael Schrage: Well, you know, frankly I don't care if there's an internal combustion engine in a car, a fuel cell in a car, a battery in a car—I don't care. My friends who are incredibly green care a lot. Now, do I think they've actually done the math and calculated the carbon footprint of fuel cells versus batteries versus internal combustion engines throughout the entire supply and value chain? Heck, no. And I think that's where we're going to see a lot of the policy battles because there are all manner of ways of allocating costs and responsibilities for the carbon footprint of an automobile, for the carbon footprint of a person. Or should we say the carbon tire track?
Will we ever not have a congestion problem?
Question: Where do you see intelligent transport systems fitting in?
Michael Schrage: Well,
they already are. The issue about
intelligent systems is almost like the question associated with governance,
which is where do you want the power?
Do you want intelligent transport systems defined by centralization or
decentralization? It's like, do
you want to consolidate power in Washington or do you want to distribute it out
to the states, to the cities, to the individual people? Are we going to end up with more
efficient and more effective transport systems by giving people who are
traveling more intelligence? Or by
giving the highway engineers or the tollbooths or the city center people more
intelligence and control? Again,
that's a political question, that's not a technology question. So I'm going to circle back to the way
I began this, which is the real battle that we're going to have, the technology
is incidental to the politics, to the aspiration.
Michael Schrage: Yes, I
think the federal government should buy up, in addition to buying up the
automobile companies, it should buy up the cities—no. I am not a government person. I'm more of a libertarian kind of guy. I believe that the role of the federal
government should be to facilitate opportunity and choice for people who wish
to travel. And the real challenge
that the federal government in that kind of context has is, who do we
subsidize, who do we tax? Do we
really want to penalize motorists in favor of subsidizing people who take light
rail? Or more public forms of
transport? Or can you make the
roads, the cars, more environmentally effective, improve through-put, improve
efficiencies, have the right kind of congestion in a manner in which you have
an economic balance? You strike a
balance that the commuters are comfortable commuting and the people taking
busses and trains are comfortable.
Question: Should we copy London's congestion pricing system?
Michael Schrage: I think
London is an excellent example, as is Stockholm, of how not to do congestion
pricing. It is the laziest, most
punitive form of taxation, regressive taxation, around. It's operating, it's doing arthroscopic
surgery with a machete instead of a laser beam. I think the principal of congestion pricing, the principal
of pricing for managing congestion, or access to space, to minimize or smooth
peak times, completely logical, completely reasonable, completely rational, and
consistent with the fact, you know, of my background in economics and computer
Question: What are some tangible examples of people working on very promising advancements?
Michael Schrage: I'll take the path of least resistance, the easiest examples of incrementalism come right out of Moore's Law and Metcalf's Law, that is to say leveraging our enormously effective investments in digital media, virtually every car coming off the line, be it in Japan or Europe or in America, comes with a GPS system. But you know, if you don't have a GPS in your car, you probably have one on your phone, so you can have GPS for a bike.
I remember flying into Sydney, Australia, and there was a taxi driver, based on my interactions with him, I'd been in the country longer than he had, but he was using the GPS to navigate Sydney. He was a recent immigrant. In theory, there is no reason for anyone to be lost. In fact, not only is there no reason for anyone to be lost, there's no reason for anyone not to have the most efficient route to where they're going, to budget their time better and accordingly. When you put that power of being to do route planning and time management in every single car, every single bike, every single bus, you would think that we're going to end up with not just incremental improvements and congestion, but disruptive, dramatic improvements. People can make more intelligent decisions based on better quality of information.
But wait! It gets better! Once we start putting sensors on the roads and link them to the traffic lights, we can now create a different kind of an ecosystem where we can further improve efficiencies. So these things can all build on one another. Unfortunately, I am not clever enough to figure out what the ultimate impact is of these very complex interactions, but my bet is that that's where real innovation is going to come from. Not just from discrete breakthroughs in technology, but from the interoperability of those breakthroughs.
Question: How viable are high-speed trains?
Michael Schrage: Speaking as somebody who will probably be taking the Acela some time this week, it would be nice if we had higher speed trains, let alone high-speed trains. I think that when you do back of the envelope, capital internal rate of return calculations and the number of people moved and the value of these things, it really doesn't work out very well. I am not an optimist on light rail or high-speed rail. I think I would rather invest in a counterpart of Ryanair, than in fixed track locations. I think it may work for Asia and Europe, but people are closer together, the city densities are different, the lifestyles are different, the cultures are different. And I'm one of these old fashioned people who take culture and lifestyle differences very seriously.
I believe that regions and states and cities should be doing experimentation. But it's been my unfortunate observation that a lot of what people call experiments are really ways of throwing money at a problem. One would think that California would have all manner of dedicated, faster rail. But you look at the economic success that Bart is not in the Bay area, despite the fact that there are good population densities, despite the fact that there's a variety of different ways to create complements between the rail and the car, and they haven't managed to pull it off. And I don't think people in California are stupid, so there must be other reasons.
Question: How viable is shared mobility?
Michael Schrage: Yeah, people are doing the Zip car thing, they're doing the bike thing. I know that they've tried this in Paris and have discovered that sometimes people aren't as well behaved or as altruistic or as nice as they should be.
Let me say something politically incorrect and I'm going to argue that some communities will do the shared thing very, very well. If you held a gun to my head, I think that many of these things will go over well in Denmark and parts of Sweden, rather than in parts of Paris.
I think shared mobility is a perfect example of something that technologically we could do with a snap of our fingers. The problem ain't the technology, it's--altogether now--the value and the politics, it's the differences in lifestyles. Do I think shared mobility will do gangbusters in Tokyo and Kyoto and large parts of Shanghai and Beijing? You betcha!
By the way, the reason why it's going to do really well in Beijing and Shanghai? Is if you don't share nicely, they're going to put you in jail. That's just not going to happen in America. No matter how much certain people want it.
What is the history of concealing research in America?
So there's a real tension here between what constitutes effective sharing and what constitutes the desire that many people have to make their science, their science. To make their research, their research. Not in a proprietary, ownership sense, but in the sense of, you know, it's a little too soon for me to completely open the kimono.
The complicating factor, just to build on that is, when you begin to inject market forces, when you begin to inject political forces, climate change, should I patent this finding? Do I want to license this to somebody who will give me lots of money to do research? You've now created a mix of motivations and incentives. Does it make more sense for me as a scientist to share my methodology, to show people how good my work is and to get credit from my peers? Or does it make more sense for me to make some of it secret so that I can get private funding to continue the research along a route that I consider very good and important?
I mean, it is amazing, I'm a child of an academic, a child of a science academic, and I grew up in a very, very elite research university environment. And I am astonished by what scientists are capable of getting away with, even prestigious scientists are capable of getting away with, in terms of withholding and sharing things. The ideal, the platonic ideal, is that, you know, it's like a--let's create a nice phrase here—it's like a kibbutz and everybody shares. That science is a form of socialism and everybody shares the results and everybody shares their instruments. And to a certain extent, large parts of that are true, but there are very large parts where it's 70-80 percent accurate, and in that missing 20-30 percent, there are a lot of issues. A lot of issues.
Question: What can we do to fix it?
Michael Schrage: You know, as I get older, I have come to the conclusion that there are certain kinds of problems you don't look for solutions, you look for approaches. And if you asked me with a wave of the hands, what would be the one thing I would do to really encourage healthy sharing, because I can understand there's certain things that need to be withheld, or it makes sense to withhold or at least limit, I would make funding contingent upon disclosure rules. It used to be, just to give you a real world example, it used to be that scientists, medical researchers could publish their work in the New England Journal of Medicine, and other medical journals, without disclosing that some of their research had been financed by pharmaceutical companies or device companies. For completely understandable reasons, that concealment, that nondisclosure is no longer acceptable.
I feel that those same kind of pressures can be brought to bear to people who don't share code. If you are running a computer model that predicts the earth is getting warmer, the atmosphere is getting warmer and it will go up 7 degrees Celsius in the next 50 years, that the oceans will rise, the coral will die, etc., show me your code. Show me the code. I don't want to just see the equations, show me the code. Because, and I'm saying this as somebody who's written code, I know how you game the code to kind of put a thumb on the scale. And some of these things are done subconsciously or unconsciously.
They have a saying in the open source development community, many eyes shallow bugs. The more people that see the code, the quicker you spot the bugs and eliminate them. It's good enough for software, good enough for science.
Question: Are there leaders in the open science movement?
Michael Schrage: There are individuals who are leaders. There are certain, because I think the Royal Society in the UK has done a better job than our own AAAS of aggressively and energetically promoting disclosure and sharing of code. That's not to say that the AAAS has done a bad job, I actually believe that there are forces there where they're trying to push for more openness in science. But established institutions, particularly research universities and the tenured faculty therein, I think, should step up.
What would be the incentive for scientists to disclose research?
There are complicating factors, if your school says, if your institution says anything that you invent while you are on the faculty is our property, not yours, or your compulsory license for that, that creates tensions. Should it be a 50/50 split? An 80/20 split? What should the split be?
So what we're talking about here are tensions and tradeoffs. What we really have to address is, what are the reasonable and rational and fair ways to manage those trade offs. We're not asking people to behave abnormally or against their best interest. All policies that ask people to behave against their best interests are doomed to fail.
Question: Who would make the rules?
Michael Schrage: Oh, again, you know, believing as I do in good governance and democracy, I would like government funding agencies to insist that taxpayers, when our taxes pay for something, when Europeans' taxes pay for something, when Asian taxpayers pay for something, that these publicly-funded science funders, foundations, that they make it a condition of their funding that people disclose in the manner that makes sense. Not just the findings, but the code. It should be throughout the value change of knowledge and discovery, not just black box.
Question: Wouldn't we still have the problem of privately funded research?
Michael Schrage: No. No. If people want to, if you have something, you know, now again, this is turning into an economics kind of conversation, which I'm quite comfortable having. Here is Apple, if Apple versus Google, okay? Apple has decided to, and Facebook, these companies have what we would call walled gardens. They limit the amount of interoperability and sharing. There are some walls, there are some windows. Okay? Google, more of an open source kind of thing. It's easier to interoperate with Google. Their business model is different, they want to sell more advertising. What you want, if you're in the private sector, is what's the reason that we have to share and collaborate? And this is the classic question, what many organizations have discovered amidst the digital revolution, is that it's more profitable, it's more reasonable, it's better business to share. Not necessarily everything. By the way, I don't necessarily want everything shared. I just want to change, to use your word, I want to change the incentive structures associated with sharing. I do not want proprietary to be the default position. I want it to be a secondary or tertiary default. I don't want it to be the prime option, I want it to be a lower down in the queue option. I want the default to be, let's err on the side of being open rather than on the side of being closed.
I'll give you a really good example. If I were running the City of New York, if the City of New York came to me—now, there's a slight complication here, because of terrorism sort of issues, okay? So we have to deal with, but if the City of New York came to me and said, "Michael, what's the fastest, best, cheapest thing that we could do to improve transportation in New York?" I would say, "Put everything up online. Let people be able to run analytics and observe how the subways are running, how the busses are running, what times are peak times for congestion, what parts have people figured out clever work-arounds. Enable people to have raw data so they can run simulations and come to you with proposals for reducing congestion times, doing better link-ups between trains, subways, busses, etc., intermodal things. Make it more transparent. Make transportation more transparent. We'll call it the Trans Initiative.
Question: Could crowd sourcing ideas help solve the transportation problem?
Michael Schrage:
Absolutely. I think it would
be a fantastic thing if the Mayor of New York, currently Mayor Bloomberg, who
could bloody well afford it, instead of basically saying, "Nope! Nobody can go into Times Square,"
there should be the, that would be a great idea, the Bloomberg prize in transportation. Minimizing congestion design
constraints for improving quality of transportation and quality of life, because
there is such a thing as perverse outcomes.
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Islandside Property Owners Coalition Chairman Bob White released a statement expressing displeasure with the Planning and Zoning Board's decision to consider a draft ordinance for The Longboat Key Club and Resort's Islandside renovation and expansion project.
At its Tuesday, Nov. 17, Islandside hearing, the planning board directed staff to bring back a draft ordinance with a list of conditions of approval for its review 9 a.m., Friday, Dec. 4, at Temple Beth Israel.
Town Attorney David Persson said he anticipates the board will then review, modify and vote on an ordinance that will come before the Town Commission, most likely in January.
White called the board's discussion of the project "remarkable."
"The deliberations of the Planning and Zoning Board can only be described as remarkable by their lack of sustentative debate or discussion on the major issue facing the town," said White, in a press release.
White said the board ignored the town's longstanding zoning code and ignored the impact of the proposed expansion on Islandside residents.
"The board turned the code on its ear by approving departure after departure, providing the club with everything they asked for and then some," White wrote.
The IPOC chairman said he was disgusted with the planning board's decision to approve a departure that would allow the club to raise the building height of the condominium towers higher than what the club requested.
Wrote White: "While the Club requested a departure of five stories over code for their condominium towers, the board, in the ostensible quest to reduce the bulk of the towers and thus reduce the impact on views for Islandside residents, voted to allow them to increase the height of the towers to the height of the highest building behind the gates despite the fact that in 1984 these heights were reduced to four stories, or 50 feet, Key-wide."
White called the planning board's actions "absurd" and said its decisions are altering the essential character of the Islandside planned unit development from primarily residential to commercial.
"Let there be no doubt, the club's proposal is nothing more than a blatant attempt to usurp the town code and the property rights of our residents and to establish a precedent for further abrogation of our codes for the benefit of commercialization of the Key, under the guise of progress and the saving of the Key from decline, using the current economic downturn as their shadow ally," White wrote.
White said the coalition would continue to resist the Islandside plan as proposed because it "destroys the integrity of (town) governing codes."
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- The government bailed out all responsible for our economic troubles -Good money is constantly being thrown to the wind with business looking very bleak, hotels closing, the Colony in limbo, does this surprise anyone? We are going to have to pay eventually!
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200 Haredim Drafted on Thursday
On Thursday, two hundred Haredim were drafted into the "Nahal Haredi" combat battalion, Netzach Yehuda.
According to the Ultra-Orthodox paper, Kikar Shabbat, this recent draft represents a 30% overall increase in the number of Haredi men drafted into the unit.
This Ultra-Orthodox army unit was first established in 1999 with just 35 soldiers. It now consists of 500 active combat soldier, and has become the largest individual combat battalion in the army.
In the previous draft, the unit drafted 150 Haredi soldiers.
In 2012, the Ultra-Orthodox battalion won the IDF's Excellence Award for Judea and Samaria.
The Netzah Yehuda Battalion, also known as Nahal Haredi, is part of the IDF Kfir Brigade. The unit allows Haredi recruits to serve in an atmosphere conducive to their religious convictions, within a framework that is strictly halachically observant.
The unit is responsible for areas of operation around the Jenin area. The soldiers regularly go out on arrest missions in the area with a high rate of success.
The battalion lost its first casualty on August 19, 2006, when Muhammad Ban-Yuda, a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, shot and killed Staff Sergeant Roi Farjoun of Yehud at the Beka'ot Checkpoint east of Shchem. A Haredi soldier then opened fire and killed the terrorist.
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Kol hakavod, and best of luck to them!


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While most holidays are designed to forcibly part a fool and his money — at least one gives men a valid excuse to stare.
National Cleavage Day, a creation of bra maker Wonderbra, certainly achieved that objective Friday when a volary of underclothed ladies took to the streets of London.
Anita Meiring, public relations consultant for Wonderbra, has said the annual event gives "women a chance to be beautiful and glow in the furtive, yet appreciative, glances their cleavage evokes from men."
It's not just about eye candy, however. The annual celebration got its start in 2002 in South Africa as a way to help those suffering from leukemia and other life-threatening blood diseases.
Wonderbra also released the findings of a highly scientific survey to identify the initial inhabitants of its "Celebrity Cleavage Hall of Fame" and somehow Mad Men's Christina Hendricks did not win, place or even show up.
Here's the bra maker's Top 10 list, as chosen by British folks who don't watch AMC.
1. Holly Willoughby
2. Scarlett Johansson
3. Beyonce
4. Rihanna
5. Marilyn Monroe
6. Dita Von Teese
7. Katy Perry
8. Brigitte Bardot
9. Kim Kardashian
10. Lara Stone
March 30th, 2012
11:18 am
Dita Von Teese, dated Marilyn Manson for a while and she is a Burlesque dancer.
March 30th, 2012
11:58 am
@ Brandy P.
March 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
Finally a holiday I can wrap my lips around!!
March 30th, 2012
12:05 pm
2 dead woman, I assume #8 is. Katy Perry is the only one that should be on this list.
March 30th, 2012
12:08 pm
National Cleavage Day. What a tremendous idea!!. I wish it had been better publicized. I would have liked to have seen more women celebrating the day adding true meaning to what I'm sure will become a very special highly anticipated day. Christmas, Easter, 4th of July, National Cleavage Day. Sounds good to me.
March 30th, 2012
12:13 pm
more pics please
March 30th, 2012
12:18 pm
personally i find this offensive.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, just kidding.
March 30th, 2012
12:23 pm
did they leave Christine Hendricks off this list?
March 30th, 2012
12:24 pm
First of all, Brigitte Bardot is NOT dead, secondly I'm thinking the ACLU will file a lawsuit against this if it ever hits the US. Thirdly, why are some on this list who do not even have any "cleavage"? #4 There's two on this list who are basically "unknowns".
March 30th, 2012
12:33 pm
You're right. Leaving Christina Hendricks off this list is an outrage! Rabble rabble rabble rabble


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The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), has been recognized for call center operation customer satisfaction excellence under the J.D. Power and Associates Call Center Certification ProgramSM. The Call Center Certification Program distinction acknowledges a strong commitment by Guardian's service call center operations to provide "An Outstanding Customer Service Experience."
Consumers appear to have made a remarkable change of attitude when it comes to shopping for auto insurance.
The auto insurance shopping rate has reached the lowest point in the past five years, with only 25 percent of insurance customers indicating they shopped for a new insurer in the past 12 months, down eight percentage points from 2011, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Insurance Shopping StudySM released today
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Customer satisfaction with the auto claims experience declined for the first time in three calendar quarters, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Auto Claims Satisfaction StudySM--Wave 2 released today.
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Despite a record number of catastrophic storms and some of the largest payouts ever in the U.S. property insurance industry in 2011, overall customer satisfaction with the property claims experience has significantly increased from last year, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction StudySM released today.
Among customers for which two years or more have passed since the purchase of life insurance, policy cancellation intent differs according to differences in understanding of policy details at the time of purchase, according to the J.D. Power Asia Pacific 2012 Japan Life Insurance After Contract Customer Satisfaction StudySM released today.
As drivers hit the highways for weekend excursions and road trips, many will lose their basic sense of life's priorities and drive aggressively. Whether it's the false sense of control and power that being behind the wheel gives them, or the feeling of anonymity for their actions, aggressive drivers overlook the immediate safety and well-being of themselves, their passengers, and the human life in the vehicles around them.
Ever tried to eat a burger while driving? What about trying to separate your two fighting kids in the back seat? Ever reached down to pick up a CD that fell on the floor while driving? These are just a few of the most common driver distractions.
Aggressive drivers - unfortunately they have become an accepted part of driving today. While we can't do much about the behavior of others, we can always drive with control and can learn how to best react when faced with an aggressive driver. Have you considered taking a course in defensive driving? Defensive driving courses can teach you collision prevention techniques, general defensive driving skills and tips on avoiding road rage.


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CIT, a major lender to small- and medium-sized businesses today sought federal help to avoid a potential collapse.
The institution's woes could hurt already struggling businesses that rely on CIT for cash flow lines of credit that allow them to keep inventory at proper levels. As a result, some experts are speculating that consumers could see less variety on retailers' shelves come fall and extending through the holiday shopping season.
Meanwhile some critics are pointing out that the Obama Administration has failed so far to step forward with a bailout. Some are piling the CIT situation atop a litany of complaints they say add up to an anti-business administration.
"Letting them fail is another huge blow to companies in our realm,"
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Everyday life is constantly changing and improving thanks to the ingenious ideas of famous inventors past and present. What once seemed impossible is now possible, such as Leonardo da Vinci's forward-thinking concepts for flying machines (airplanes), Benjamin Franklin's useful inventions like bifocals and the lightning rod, and Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "talking machine" (telephone).
The modern era has also produced life-changing advancements whether in science, medicine, the arts, digital media. Music-makers can thank Les Paul for his amazing guitars, while Elon Musk launched the world's first commercial space ship, Steve Jobs' Apple products have made technology beautiful, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page's Google has changed how the world searches for information. These and so many other famous inventors and their creations changed the course of human history. See all inventors.
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Through the funding of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the world's most renowned prize series was born; historically, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to individuals who confer "the greatest benefit on mankind." Examine this group to learn more about some of the world's most famous Nobel Prize winners, including Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein, Al Gore, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King Jr., Gertrude B. Elion, Barack Obama and Marie Curie.
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Throughout history, the greatest scientific minds have not only demystified the world with their discoveries, but helped shape how we live in it with their ingenious inventions. From Sir Isaac Newton to Charles Darwin to Albert Einstein and many more brilliant minds, here is a group of famous scientists who have made major advances in the field of science.


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Host targeting of virulence determinants and phosphoinositides in blood stage malaria parasites
Host targeting of virulence determinants and phosphoinositides in blood stage malaria parasites
Trends in Parasitology, Volume 28, Issue 12,
Pages 555-562,
Publication Date 18 October 2012
Copyright © 2012 All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2012.09.004
Souvik Bhattacharjee
Robert V. Stahelin
Kasturi Haldar
Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, 103 Galvin Life Sciences, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend, 143 Raclin-Carmichael Hall, 1234 Notre Dame Avenue, South Bend, IN 46617, USA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Blood stage malaria parasites target a 'secretome' of hundreds of proteins including virulence determinants containing a host (cell) targeting (HT) signal, to human erythrocytes. Recent studies reveal that the export mechanism is due to the HT signal binding to the lipid phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate [PI(3)P] in the parasite endoplasmic reticulum (ER). An aspartic protease plasmepsin V which cleaves a specialized form of the HT signal was previously thought to be the export mechanism, but is now recognized as a dedicated peptidase that cleaves the signal anchor subsequent to PI(3)P binding. We discuss a model of PI(3)P-dependent targeting and PI(3)P biology of a major human pathogen.


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Our 2014 RacesMother's Day 10K Race and 5K Health Walk The 2014 Norwalk Summer Series 3-Miler Course Map 5-Miler Course Map Saturday July 12 Cranbury Elementary School 7-Miler Course Map Saturday July 26 Brien McMahon High School On-line registration for the 7-Miler only 9-Miler Course Map (Ian Eaccarino Memorial Race) Saturday Aug 9 Calf Pasture Beach On-line registration for the 9-Miler only 11-Miler Course Map Saturday August 23 Silvermine Elementary School On-line registration for the 11-Miler only The Norwalk HalfFox Run Elementary School On-line registration for the Half |
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- Half-marathon ...separate registration: $20 by 9/12, $22 on race-day
- USATF rules: no head phones
- 8:00AM start time all races
- Awards given at each race and at end of series
- Age categories for men and women:
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- Water stops and restrooms at all races
- The 7, 9, 11, & 13.1 races are double-loop courses
- Chronomix electronic timing
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Southwest Florida College Reviews
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Justin from Alva, FL
06/09/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 1 of 17
Categories Comments Great for these types of students Career oriented, mature and looking for a career not just to go to college collect student loans and mess around.
Bang for the buck Expensive but you have to look at the college and the success rate for this college, great placing rate.
Food and Dining Food is ok and if you don't like it then many places around the campus to go eat at.
Dorm Life No dorms.
Academic Rigor They challenge you and you must know your studies, they put you into the field that you study so you get hands on experience.
Tips for prospective students Consider all your avenues when considering a college many colleges want you to take alot of elective credits that you really don't need. If you can find a college or university that handles your degree and they are a career college don't hesitate check them out even though they maybe alittle more expensive.
In three sentences Best college ever, they have small class sizes and are able to adhere to each individual student. Career college you have a externship which many colleges do not offer. Professors and staff very professional and very helpful with any issues you may have. Great college!
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Kristen from Punta Gorda, FL
07/22/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 2 of 17
Categories Comments Clubs and Activities Criminal Justice Club SAHA Club
What to do for fun There are clubs that you can attend, and they always have monthly things for students to attend also. like dinners, games, softball tournaments, special Olympics, and soo much more.
Food and Dining This school only has snack and soda machines, but they are always doing student dinners and appreciation dinners for the students.
Dorm Life This is not a dorm school.
Tips for prospective students If a student chooses this school they will not have regrets. This school is by far, according to me the best school out there.
In three sentences Southwest Florida College is an amazing school. They have amazing teachers and tutors. The classes are never too crowded. They also attend to a students needs, they have clubs for all sorts of things.
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Megan from Plant City, FL
12/26/2011Reviewer is A current student here.
3 of 17
Categories Comments Great for these types of students College students paying for their own eduction.
Tips for prospective students Always choose a school that you've researched; never jump into anything you are not completely aware of.
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Denee from Pt Charlotte, FL
02/29/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 person found this inaccurate. 4 of 17
Categories Comments Campus Safety campus is very safe and secure.
Greek Life none
Clubs and Activities there are plenty of clubs and on/off campus activities to get involved in.
Great for these types of students career orientated students.
Bang for the buck all classes offered are relevant to success and training in your profession, college life and personal growth.
Food and Dining no on campus dining. vending machines and a microwave are provided. sitting area for eating and relaxing is also provided. plenty of local eateries.
Dorm Life no on campus housing
Academic Rigor most of the curriculum consists of core classes geared towards my profession of choice. classes that are not core to my profession are geared towards being successful in college, my profession and my life.
Tips for prospective students form study groups with fellow classmates, be open and communicate with your instructors.
In three sentences southwest florida is an a+ school. all instructors and staff are caring, supportive and invested in our success. after carefully investigating all options in my area, i found this college to be the best.
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Shyna from Cape Coral, FL
03/19/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
5 of 17
Categories Comments What to do for fun Trough be told I don't have time for fun, but on the other hand I have fun just from thought that I am in college and I get As.
Food and Dining We have good Lunch area, but this about it.
Dorm Life I leave at home.
Academic Rigor I take four classes each term, but if I have few more hours in the day I would take more.
Tips for prospective students Don't hesitate! It is never to late to go to college.
In three sentences It is small campus, but very clean and full of the electronic equipment to satisfy every need. Tutoring program are awesome!
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Lori from Tampa, FL
04/02/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 person found this inaccurate. 6 of 17
Categories Comments Campus Safety No real dangers.
Greek Life None
Clubs and Activities All majors have their own clubs and they hold activities at least once a month.
Great for these types of students Career oriented
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus Small classes
Bang for the buck 5 star-great use of money
What to do for fun I like to write poetry and watch movies with the dogs.
Food and Dining 1 Star
Dorm Life No dorm life!!! 5 star
Academic Rigor 4 star rating
Tips for prospective students 1. Come prepared and know what you would like to study. 2. Research the school to ensure a good fit. 3. Take advantage of the help offered and given.
In three sentences My first mini-term was great! I really liked the focus from the professors and the one on one atmosphere. I do believe the smaller classes do well.
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Tiffiny from Cape Coral, FL
05/14/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
7 of 17
Categories Comments Campus Safety security staff on campus
Clubs and Activities there is usually always some sort of outside activity going on but less than a typial university
Great for these types of students students with families, working students
Bang for the buck i see it as reasonable. I love how all the extras,(i.e books,printing,uniforms) are included in the tuition price. The work study program is great!! It gives you a chance to pay off a portion of your tuition while obtaining experience at the same time
What to do for fun we are located in Ft Myers there is lots to do the closest attraction is a water park and a mall close by
Food and Dining It would be nice to have a cafeteria with healthy options
Dorm Life No dorm life here
Academic Rigor i feel challenged but at the same time not overly stressed
Tips for prospective students I recommend dealing with Teresa when you are in the admissions process she is very polite, knowledgeable, and helpful
In three sentences I love the student/professer ratio. I have generally enjoied my time here. The staff is very tactful
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Jessica from North Port, FL
07/26/2012Reviewer is Researching this school. Reviewer has been to campus.
8 of 17
Categories Comments Tips for prospective students sometimes things seem impossible but if you dont give up you can make your dreams and goals come true.
In three sentences Theyve worked with me to try to get everything set for me to start school. Everyone is so nice and caring. I think its a great school and im looking forward to start.
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Ashlee from Port Charlotte, FL
08/30/2012Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
9 of 17
Categories Comments Food and Dining NA on Port Charlotte Campus
Dorm Life NA on Port Charlotte Campus
Academic Rigor NA on Port Charlotte Campus
Tips for prospective students Southwest Florida College carriers a kind and compassionate atmosphere. If you are passionate about your future this is the right place, don't be surprised if some of the staff seem even more excited about it then you!
In three sentences Southwest Florida College is full of friendly and helpfull staff. Southwest Florida College is clean safe campus. Southwest Florida College offers many unique programs during and after your school life.
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James from Fort Myers, FL
01/07/2013Reviewer is A current student here.
10 of 17
Categories Comments Campus Safety It's in the worst part of town.
Clubs and Activities I heard they used to have better clubs, but now not so much going on.
Great for these types of students Low income, non-traditional
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus If you don't like the teachers, you can make up a lie and they'll fire them! It's a good way to make sure you get good grades.
Bang for the buck It's expensive and the money is hidden. You never really know what you are paying for. It's a for profit school, which means it is like a money mill.
What to do for fun The school is a joke enough.
Food and Dining We have a microwave and some vending machines.
Academic Rigor It's easy. The goal is to just pass us without making us work.
Tips for prospective students Be aware of schools that advertise so much. REAL schools don't need to advertise; they can stand on their own good reputation. SWFC cannot.
In three sentences Worst school ever. Good if you like constant change, ever higher prices, and a school in the flat-out ghetto. Plus, there not accredited and you won't get a job after.
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Sarah from Naples, FL
02/27/2013Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
11 of 17
Categories Comments Food and Dining The campus I attend is the Institute of Design and is a rather small campus site. They do have a lounge area with vending machines or you can store your own food in the fridge. Very convenient. There are also local restaurants/drive thru's near by for other options.
Academic Rigor Class schedule moves quickly but everything is already laid out for you and makes it a lot easier to handle.
In three sentences Although my classes have not started yet, I am extremely pleased with Southwest Florida College. The admissions and financial aid staff were very friendly and made the process of applying to school effortless. I highly recommend this school for future students that want to go somewhere, where they feel they can achieve their education goals with no hiccups.
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Shelby from north fort myers, FL
06/24/2013Reviewer is A current student here.
12 of 17
Categories Comments Clubs and Activities THE ONE AND ONLY CLUB ON CAMPUS... ROTARACT IS AWESOME!! GREAT PEOPLE!!!
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus everything is unusual!! which is what makes this a great college!!
What to do for fun JOIN ROTARACT!! help you with volunteer opportunites a great club!!
Dorm Life No Dorms
Tips for prospective students Make sure you are commited!
In three sentences This is a good college to get involed with if you are looking for great opportunities. Friendly staff who look to help you with your degree. Make you look into what you want and make sure they help you achieve your goals.
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Student from North Port, FL
07/22/2013Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
13 of 17
Categories Comments What to do for fun I haven't started classes yet.
Food and Dining The only food and drinks available are in vending machines.
Dorm Life There are no dorms.
Academic Rigor I havent started classes yet.
Tips for prospective students If youre thinking of going here, definitely check it out!
In three sentences I love how friendly the staff is. The application process is so simple. I love how the financial aid is shown to you and broken down by year so there are no surprises.
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Fort Myers, FL
09/12/2013Reviewer is A current student here.
14 of 17
Categories Comments In three sentences Small classes, very diverse in age range and students in general, great staff, advisors, and professors. Good school.
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Oscar from N Fort Myers, FL
09/26/2013Reviewer is A current student here.
15 of 17
Categories Comments What to do for fun There is for fun job fairs that well help many students find a job and hopefully they start working they also do things for the zombie con that they have every year and even a bounce house at a center so people could go and enjoy many things to do just gota get involved
Food and Dining Great place to meet new people and make many friends you see many groups of students there
Dorm Life Its a small school doesn't really have dorms i guess it good in a way you wont have to spend more for a dorm its better because you don't need to walk so far to get to a classroom and maybe be late everything is just there
Academic Rigor No challenges yet since i just started but i do hope to see some in the future since its the beginning of my college career. But im sure to find some challenges in the way of my career
Tips for prospective students keep up the good work and study very hard and you will see at the end of this road your career is waiting for you. Just waiting for you to grab it and do big things in life
In three sentences Its a very lively school, awesome staff crew they help in may ways that you need to could not ask for any better help. Excellent instructors they have tons of information to share to these you citizens.
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Ashley from Lehigh Acres, FL
11/22/2013Reviewer is A current student here.
16 of 17
Categories Comments Campus Safety All Campuses have security guards and no incidents to report.
Clubs and Activities Rummage Sales, Rotary Club, IT Club
Great for these types of students Information Technology, Nursing/Medical Assistant/ Medical Billing, Criminal Justice, Business, Web Design, Graphic Design and Interior Design. Also provide online classes.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus There is a career services department that helps students to find jobs, make a resume. There is also a department that will offer tutoring to students that may need some extra help. These services are free.
Bang for the buck About $1500 a semester for three classes which includes books and supplies needed for the classes.
What to do for fun SWFC does have fun activities throughout the year to get students involved and to make going to college a bit more fun! Dressing up to Egg Drop contests.
Food and Dining At all campus sites, there is vending machines and the occasional party to celebrate students.
Dorm Life Southwest Florida College does not have dorms; they do have campuses in Port Charlotte, Tampa, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers which adds convenience for students. Also offer online classes for distant learning.
Academic Rigor Southwest Florida College does prepare students for certification tests and offers them at the campuses at a discounted price!
Tips for prospective students I would recommend Southwest Florida College to students because they are willing to work with individuals to achieve personal goals. If you need a class that they are not offering, they will make it available for you.
In three sentences Southwest Florida College prepares students for the workplace. I have graduated with my Associates Degree in Information Technology Management in 2006 and have worked as an IT Technician since! I enjoyed learning at SWFC and decided to go back for the Bachelors Program and earn my Information Technology and Security Services degree!
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Jasmine from Cape Coral, FL
01/10/2014Reviewer is A current student here.
17 of 17
Categories Comments What to do for fun See Ms. Fox and she will fill you in.
Tips for prospective students It's easy as long as you attend classes and be responsible.
In three sentences It's a fun and helpful place to be at. The teachers and staff are amazing, very nice and they are always there to help you. The hours are flexible, so no matter what they will find a way to keep you on track.
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CFL Swap, A Big Success!
The University of Mississippi Power Save Campus team geared up the start of a new semester with a compact fluorescent light bulb swap at the Residential College. Residents came to swap their incandescent bulbs for new, energy efficient CFL bulbs and had their names entered into a raffle to win one of three gift cards to Ya Ya's Frozen Yogurt.
"Over a period of three afternoons, we received over 100 incandescent bulbs."
The 119 incandescent bulbs we collected were consuming 10,353 kilowatt-hours per year based on the usage information students gave us, which would cost approximately $831.39 per year. Now that we have replaced those bulbs with more energy efficient CFLs, those lamps are only consuming 2,707 kilowatts per year, which saves approximately $613.99 annually. These new bulbs reduce energy consumption in these same lamps by 74%!
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2002 FIFA World Cup Draw Preview: Europe, Part II
Nov. 29, 2001
The fourth of five 2002 FIFA World Cup Final Draw previews from U.S. Soccer follows. Today's preview features eight of 15 European qualifiers. Tomorrow the five South American qualifiers will be featured. Media and fans can follow the Final Draw as it unfolds by logging on to the Philips DrawTracker on ussoccer.com, which will feature real-time updates of the event.


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Br�no is like anal bleaching: You can't believe anyone would actually do it, the thought of it makes you cringe, and you're happy that it's someone else's ass on the line. That said, the end result is stunning!
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Br�no, an Austrian fashionista, and this time instead of leaving his people behind in the village, he's bringing the Village People along with him. Okay, maybe not literally, but every time his flamboyant Br�no opens his mouth, it's like half the band falls out. The gayer half.
Sacha Baron Cohen ''Bruno''
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Anyone shocked by Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is at least going to be prepared for the outrageous things that Cohen is willing to do in his quest to make a film. But don't worry, knowing it's going to be outrageous doesn't take any of the sting out. Br�no still leaves welts.
The premise is very much the same: Outrageous foreigner and his odd sidekick travel around the states (and briefly abroad) on a quest, terrorizing unsuspecting folks along the way. Br�no's Holy Grail is fame and he's got fewer boundaries than a reality-television star. From pitching a TV show in Los Angeles, to hunting in Alabama, to some soul searching in an effort to ''straighten'' up, Br�no is relentless.
One notable change from Borat is that between each of the horribly uncomfortable moments, when the innocent bystander's reaction is just as critical as Cohen's action, there are more transitional scenes that weave together a storyline. Most of these scenes occur between Br�no and his devotee Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten), as the two devise one get-rich-and-famous-quick scheme after another. The staged bits have the inevitable effect of opening the door to questioning which other scenes are potentially faked. Or perhaps it's just more desirable to believe a stage mother is in on the joke than to think performing liposuction on her toddler would ever be okay.
But then there are the scenes that are so obviously real, so painfully awkward to watch, that you're trying to hide behind both your hands. Sometimes it's faces you know -- a too-easy target in Paula Abdul and a truly unprepared Rep. Ron Paul -- and other times it's a karate teacher unaccustomed to fighting off sex toys.
Ultimately, there is one main difference that separates Borat from Br�no, and that is while Borat's persona was built upon ignorance, Br�no is just a big ol' queen. He's not stupid, simply self-absorbed. And this removes a level of pity that raised the stakes in Borat. By shifting this balance in Br�no, the humor outshines the awkwardness, and Br�no incites more grinning and less groaning.
The entire film rests on Cohen's shoulders, even as he's resting on someone else's lap, and there's no doubting his utter commitment to this role. While it appears he's endangering children, household help, and various other creatures, it's really only Cohen who is in the line of fire. He plays Br�no convincingly, wholeheartedly, and, amazingly, not insultingly.
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Being such a flamboyantly gay character is bound to raise questions and doubts in the gay community, but Cohen has turned the tables on his victims. The religious fanatics, the homophobes, and the stage parents come off far worse than the gay community in the film. Sure, Br�no is a stereotype wrapped in a clich� clutching a purse, but the joke is on the homophobes, not so much us.
How Br�no avoided an NC-17 rating is beyond me. Listing the many reasons why it leaves R-rating land in the dust would be giving away some of the more outlandish moments, but this is not a movie to see with Mom. Or even on a first date.
Inevitably, there will be heated debates about whether Borat or Br�no is the better film. What isn't up for debate is that Br�no is a success. So it's time to pop the cork on the champagne in celebration. And Br�no will show you exactly how to pour it.


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Forums >Look What I Can Do!>Monkey shenanigans
Not A Runner
A1 sammich. Notice DB's USA jacket. You've got to earn that bad boy.
I want to do it because I want to do it. -Amelia Earhart
A Dance with Monkeys
May be the only time A1 has ever smiled.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Can you blame him?
The King of Beasts
good times.
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles." ~ Jimmy Buffett
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.""
Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July 2013
Boston Marathon 21 April 2014
Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 19/20 July 2014
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The process is the goal.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
So, having run this thing now, I can appreciate how impressive the Double Monkey was to complete.
Needs more cowbell!
So, having run this thing now, I can appreciate how impressive insane the Double Monkey was to complete.
Kirsten - aka "Auntie Kirsten"
• 2 olympic distance duathlons -- 6 days apart -- PR at least 1
• 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)
You'll ruin your knees!
...can you bandit dark monkey?
Only if you don't partake of the "fluid stations"...
Congrats on another year of directing the coolest event ever held, Mr. Monkey RD! Perhaps some year I can come bandit the volunteer events.
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Only if you don't partake of the "fluid stations"... Congrats on another year of directing the coolest event ever held, Mr. Monkey RD! Perhaps some year I can come bandit the volunteer events.
You can bandit being a volunteer?
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject.
Sure -- I bandited 6-8AM, then checked in and was "official" thereafter.
"Everything you need is already inside." -- Bill Bowerman
I stuffed packets without proper authorization.
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