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Christina. 22. Aquarius.
Dreamer, lover, optimist, quirky, eccentric free spirit.
Mild-mannered liberal. Wild-mannered wallflower.
Part-time vegan. Full-time feminist. Future lawyer, author, & filmmaker.
Writing, film, and art.
British sci-fi, anime, harry potter, noir films, thai food, french culture, vinyl, cowboys and surfers.
Peace, Love, Namaste ♥
Do what you love. Love what you do. ♥
Smile the world is yours for the taking. ♥
Seduce my mind & you can have my body, Find my soul & I'm yours forever ♥
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."—Oscar Wilde ♥
"I whirl with my LoverAnd talk to my Heart:
O Lord, May the key to the dawnBe lost tonight."— Rumi ♥
"I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and foam, The high tide will erase my foot prints, And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and shore will remain forever" —Khalil Gibran ♥
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ♥
Fresh gardenias💐💕☀ smells heavenly💗 #springishere! #gardenias #gardenia #flower #spring
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Noted for being a special commune and city, Rome is also the capital of Italy. It's the only city across the globe that contains in its interior an entire state, i.e., the enclave of the extremely popular Vatican City. The city of Rome records an approximate population of 2.8 million people and covers an area of 1,285.3 kms. In fact, the city holds the first position for being the most populous commune and fourth rank for being the most populated city in the European Union. The city is renowned for its remarkable art, religious icons, and ancient history.
Situated at the west of the Apennine Mountains, the city of Rome enjoys a Mediterranean climate. Often known as the city of seven hills, Rome is also located close to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
How to reach (transport) :
By Air : Rome is served by two airports, namely, Ciampino and Fiumicino. Fiumicino is the major airport here and is connected well with the center through an express train. However, the express train runs only during the morning hours. It takes about half an hour to reach Stazione Termini (main train station of Rome) from the airport.
Ciampino is comparatively a small airport, which runs only budget airlines and charter flights. You can take a COTRAL bus to reach the city's main hub from this airport.
Within the city, you can avail several public transportation options including:
By Bus : The bus network in Rome is extensive and well connected to the prominent areas of the city. Buses leave to and fro from the Termini Central Station and tourists can make the most out of this public transportation option. Besides, the city is also served by electric and night buses.
By Metro : The Roman Metro has only two lines, i. e., line A (red) and line B (blue) that divert at the Termini Central Station. Metro facility is quite frequent in the city, as trains run at intervals of every seven to ten minutes.
When to visit :
Rome remains a marvelous place to visit throughout the day. However, the peak season when you can expect many tourists is from June to August. The weather remains hot to warm during these months and the chance of getting rains is pretty low. Summer in Rome makes an ideal time for sightseeing and this is a prime reason why people prefer planning their tour during this time.
Culture (fairs and festivals) and traditions :
Romans are fun-loving people who celebrate the fairs and festivals with joy and mirth. Some of the major fairs and festivals witnessed in Rome are :
- Natale di Roma : Celebrated on 21st of April, Natale di Roma marks the birth of Rome. A number of festivities are arranged at the Campidoglio and the city hall is decorated with lights.
- Roma Incontra il Mondo : Celebrated in mid June or early August, musicians across the globe come here and play their tune on a lakeside stage of the Villa Ada Park.
- Festa de Noantri : Celebrated chiefly in Trastevere, residents of this region honor their humble origins with great fervor on this day. Usually celebrated in July, the day starts with a huge procession arranged to honor Madonna del Carmine. Besides, street performances and art events follow for about two weeks post the festival.
- Maratona della Citta di Roma : This annual marathon is organized in the month of March and lures big-name runners.
The city of Rome is packed with tourist attractions. Some of the must-see attractions include :
- The Colosseum : Formerly noted for being the biggest amphitheater of the Roman Empire, today it has become the most desired attraction of Rome.
- Villa dei Quintili : This ancient villa was formerly home to the renowned emperor, Commodus. On your visit here, you can see the personal gladiatorial area of Commodus.
- Roman Forum : One of the popular destinations in Roman, the Forum is believed to be the main hub of Roman life. It's true that today it is devoid of the former grandeur, but then you can very well imagine its lost glory from its ambience.
- Vatican Museums : With the Sarcophagus of the Junius Bassus and other frescoes by Raphael, the Vatican museums call for a visit. Besides, you need to also visit the Sistine Chapel that is famous for its historical pieces and artwork.
The royal city of Rome calls for a regal stay as well. Some of the exclusive stay options that you can count on are St. Regis Grand Rome, Grand Hotel de la Minerve, Hotel Majestic Roma, and Regina Hotel Baglioni. Now, this doesn't imply that budget travelers can't find any stay options when in Rome. Rather, the city promises to provide some great affordable options like My Guest Roma, Hotel Golden, and Casa Romana.
|Facts About Rome
|Latitude and Longitude
|2,777,979 (2011)
|1,285.31 sq km (496.26 sq miles)
|Time Zone
|Postal Code
|00100, 00121 to 00199
|Area Code
|+39(Italy) - 06(Rome)
|International Airport
|Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino International Airport, G.B. Pastine Ciampino International Airport
|Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Albanian
|Points of Interest
|Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, Fontana di Trevi, Pantheon, Sistine Chapel, Roman Forum, Vatican Museums, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona, Capitoline Hill, Castel Sant'Angelo, Villa Borghese gardens, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Piazza del Popolo, Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Circus Maximus, Quirinal Palace, Piazza Venezia, Churches of Rome, Galleria Borghese, Stadio Olimpico, Catacombs of Rome, Baths of Caracalla, Palazzo Montecitorio, Capitoline Museums, Opus Dei, Bocca della Verità, Aventine Hill, Hadrian's Villa, Villa Medici, Palazzo Chigi
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Girl Scout Troop #1577 went above and beyond the call of duty to let our military troops in Iraq know that they are loved and appreciated when they collected funds to donate 545 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies through the San Jacinto Council's Cookie Share Program.
The Cookie Share program allows Girl Scout supporters who prefer to not eat the cookies to donate them to a non-profit organization that the troop has selected. Girls learn what affect the donations have on the recipients. "I think that this is a very special thing to do because the soldiers are out in Iraq fighting for us, and sending cookies is the least thing we can do to say thank you," said 9 year-old Megan M.
The cookies will be shipped for free by a non-profit organization called Operation We Care. One of the troop's leaders, Caryn Bizarro, is very proud of the girls. "The girls worked so hard and were very dedicated to this project," said Bizarro. "I'm so glad that our troops in Iraq will know just how much we care about them."
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world's preeminent organization for girls, with a membership of more than 3.5 million girls and adults. Today, as when founded in 1912, GSUSA helps cultivate values, social conscience, and self-esteem in young girls, while also teaching them critical life skills that will enable them to succeed as adults. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Chartered by GSUSA to provide Girl Scouting locally, Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council is one of the largest Girl Scout councils in the country serving over 63,000 girl members and 18,000 adults in 25 southeast Texas counties. For more information call 1-800-392-4340 or visit www.gssjc.org.
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Graves Motorsports was born in 1990 out of the dreams, desire, and dedication of brothers Chuck, Mike, and Tom Graves. Both a manufacturer of performance accessories and a professional road racing team, the Van Nuys, California company's ceaseless mission is: craftsmanship leads to championships. Serving that goal, Graves Motorsports provides privateer racers with Factory-quality, race-proven performance parts.
Central to the success of Graves Motorsports is the passion of proprietor Chuck Graves, whose hands steer the company and its racing team. Graves started his motorcycling career by taking courses in motorcycle repair in high school. By the early '80s, he found himself assisting a professional racer at the local Willow Springs races. At the track, Graves' love of metalworking and fabrication gave way to a craving to compete and soon Graves was building himself a bike to race.
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After 31 years Great American Cookies is being forced out of the Jacksonville Mall. Even though there are over 3 and a half years remaining on the current lease, the landlord of the mall (Preit) is forcing them to leave because they can charge more rent to a new tenant. In spite of the fact that the current owner of this store still owes over $80,000 on the small business loan he used to purchase this store, he has been told to 'vacate the premises on or before December 23, 2012!'
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Flooding: Warning issued for the River Cherwell through Oxford (From Herald Series)
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Flooding: Warning issued for the River Cherwell through Oxford
10:50pm Monday 26th November 2012 in News
THE River Cherwell has tonight been put on flood warning through Oxford to its confluence with the River Thames.
Flooding can be expected on the stretch of the river from Cherwell Bridge, near Kidlington, through the city, including parts of Summertown, New Marston and the area around Magdalen Bridge.
Residents are advised to take immediate precautions agsinst flooding of their homes.
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Final numbers are in for Dougherty County voter turnout. More than 38,000 voters cast ballots, that's a 70 percent voter turnout
More than a thousand voters came out to Mount Zion Church in East Albany and some voters even waited 45 minutes in line to cast their ballot.
Poll workers at Mount Zion say their busiest time was in the morning and then picked up again in the evening after people got off of work.
One poll worker described the morning rush as extremely busy.
"This morning, we had at least about three lines. It was pretty hectic. They lined almost out to the door, but everybody was patient and we got everybody out in a timely fashion," said Alysia Allen, Poll Worker.
Poll workers say the lines went by steadily thanks to no malfunctions by any of the voting machines and to cooperative voters.
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In light of this week's reports that banks were hacked, a cybersecurity expert rates the best and worst industries at protecting your online data.» Read More
Apple is working with NXP to add secure short-range wireless technology into the next iPhone, enabling new pay-by-touch capabilities.
Sam Sung, a former specialist at Apple stores in Canada, auctioned off his viral business card on eBay to help benefit The Children's Wish Foundation.
"Fast Money" trader Steve Grasso says now is the time to buy Twitter. The stock is down 27 percent this year, but he thinks it's headed higher.
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Julie Sygiel, the founder and CEO of underwear start-up Dear Kate, didn't expect the backlash over her latest ad campaign.
Investors who missed out on Apple's turnaround should eye Japan and Korea's low-valued, "cash-hoarding" companies, say analysts at Citi.
Finland's Rovio has hired Pekka Rantala from beverage maker Hartwall to take over as its new chief executive by the beginning of next year.
An influential U.S. financial services industry group is downplaying concerns about possible breaches at JPMorgan Chase and other banks.
BEIJING— China's biggest property developer, Wanda Group, and Internet giants Baidu and Tencent unveiled a new e-commerce venture Friday in a challenge to industry leader Alibaba Group ahead of its U.S. stock offering. The company is preparing for a U.S. initial public offering that analysts say might value it between $150 billion and $200 billion.
Google exec Megan Smith is a top candidate for the role of the U.S.'s chief technology officer, Bloomberg reported.
Google is developing airborne drones capable of flying on their own and delivering anything from candy to medicine.
Joseph Phua didn't waste time crying when he got dumped, instead he monetized his heartache by launching online dating app Paktor.
Online deal site Groupon has enlisted an unlikely ally in its new marketing efforts: Snapchat.
Three years ago, Amazon started lending thousands of dollars at a time to some of its best marketplace sellers.
In a series of coordinated attacks, at least 5 financial institutions including JPMorgan have been hacked. CNBC's Eamon Javers has the details.
There's a certain irony to the upcoming IPO of LendingClub, the lender that's used software to take on the big banks. The top winner is Wells Fargo.
Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile US unit could be sold for $35 a share, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing sources.
Comedian Jim Jefferies, discusses his new show "Jim Jefferies Bare." which will be the first of five new stand-up comedy specials Netflix is releasing.
Samsung has launched its Gear S smartwatch just days ahead of Apple's expected iWatch launch, as the wearable market continues to heat up.
The US appeals court in San Francisco said jurors used "an undue amount of speculation" in awarding Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in 2010.
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An End to Breast Cancer By 2020?
October 21, 2013 at 4:42 pm , by Amelia Harnish
In May of 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress with his ambitious plan to land a man on the moon before the end of that decade. Critics across the country balked. How could NASA possibly pull off something so incredible in such a short time? But the following year John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. And on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted a flag on the moon.
Today, Fran Visco, president of National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), says we need a similarly bold goal to end breast cancer—not in some distant future for our daughter's daughters, but by the year 2020. "The Apollo Project looked at where technology was at the time, and simply asked, 'How can we apply this to getting on the moon?' NBCC is doing the same thing," she explains.
Two Octobers ago, LHJ ran an interview with Visco (right) to mark the launch of NBCC's deadline. (Click here to read that interview to get a primer on Visco and NBCC.) Recently, we caught up with her to chat about the progress so far.
LHJ: The last time you talked with us, NBCC had just announced its ambitious goal to end breast cancer by 2020. What's the latest?
FV: The scientists we're working with have made progress in identifying targets for a preventive vaccine against breast cancer, and we're on track to be in Phase 1 clinical trials with it in three years. We're also making progress in our work on stopping metastasis.
We've been able to change the conversation among the research community, which is huge. To give you an example, recently I was invited to speak to an auditorium full of clinicians and researchers at a major cancer center. When I asked the organizers why they wanted me to speak, they said the researchers talk about the deadline campaign a lot among themselves when they talk about their work. That's exciting because no one even thought this was a possibility when we started, and now there's enthusiasm and momentum. Instead of asking us, "How on earth are you going to end breast cancer?," researchers and doctors are now asking us, "How can I help you end breast cancer?" That's a big deal because the National Breast Cancer Coalition isn't going to do this alone.
LHJ: What drove your decision to focus on those two areas—metastasis and developing a vaccine?
FV: What we want to do is move away from toxic drugs. If you were diagnosed with breast cancer today, you would be treated with drugs and possibly radiation, both of which can have life-threatening side effects. One of my dear friends, Carolina Hinestrosa, who was the executive vice president of NBCC, died in 2009 of a cancer caused by the radiation treatment she got for her breast cancer. That's why we're focusing on developing a safe preventive vaccine—so women don't have to go through that in the first place.
For the most part, women do not die from a breast tumor. Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of all breast cancer deaths. If we could stop that process, so that if you do get breast cancer you won't die from it, that would be enormous. Most recently we put together a think tank of 17 scientists and advocates to look at the issue of tumor dormancy. Why does cancer stay dormant for months or years in some women? Can we learn how to keep it that way? I recall reading several years ago about a group of engineers who were talking about filters for blood flow to "catch" cancer cells. I have no idea if that is even possible but that is the kind of innovative thinking we want to encourage. We still lose too many women to this disease, and unfortunately, early detection is not the answer.
LHJ: Do you think the major focus on early detection has actually slowed progress?
FV: The problem is early detection can only do so much. We've spent way too much energy, attention and resources on early detection and it hasn't gotten us very far. This year, an estimated 108 women will die of breast cancer every day. In 1991, just a few years after I was diagnosed, that number was 119.
The world has raised billions of dollars for breast cancer research, but the mortality rates haven't changed very much. So it's not that we're not catching breast cancer early enough or that we haven't raised enough money, it's that we're not focusing our efforts on the right things. That's why we want NBCC to have an oversight role, which means we want to set priorities and oversee how the money is being spent.
LHJ: You are also lobbying Congress to pass the Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act. What would the bill accomplish? And we have to ask, has the current political climate in Washington gotten in the way?
FV: It is definitely slowing things down because Congress is dealing with other pressing issues, but I hope it won't be a barrier to getting it done.
What we are trying to do with the bill is create a systematic way to leverage the investments we've already made in research. We're not asking for more money, we're asking to create an entity that can bring people together to collaborate. We have a lot of tools, technology and knowledge already, but none of this stuff is being translated into things that actually help people. That's exactly how this is like the Apollo project. Let's look at where the science is and figure out how to accomplish the goal, rather than just making another drug or another tool. I truly believe that now is the time to do that. Let's take all this awareness, all this funding and work together to end breast cancer for good.
To learn more about NBCC's work and how you can help, head to breastcancerdeadline2020.org.
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Kwanzaa Coloring Pages
Kwanzaa is a holiday which is celebrated amongst African individuals, and those who are African-American. However, not all of the people who are in those groups celebrate this holiday. It is around the same time as Christmas and Hanukkah, and some of the principles of this holiday are the same as those of the other holidays. If your kids would like to learn more about it, or your family celebrates, then you should give them some of the Kwanzaa coloring pages for them to work on today. Be sure to save and print numerous Kwanzaa coloring pages, so that your children do not fight over them and you can give them out every once in awhile. Happy Kwanzaa!
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Rico Williams pulled out of Hits Sports Bar and Grill and turned onto Bloomfield Drive.
With his brother Deon riding in the passenger seat, they headed home to east Macon after a night of dancing and drinking.
Theyd been out celebrating Ricos 24th birthday.
Rico made a right onto Eisenhower Parkway. It+ was about 5 a.m.
As they cruised by Macon Mall and slowed for a red light, Deon heard a bang. Gunshots.
Rico took a bullet to the head. Another bullet hit Deons hand.
The car crashed in a ditch across from the State Farmers Market.
Rico didnt survive to see the sunrise.
Four years later, Deon still relives Dec. 28, 2008, the day his brother was killed.
The memories pop into his mind at unexpected times and in his dreams.
He says its like its happening all over again.
Although police know a street gang was responsible for the shooting, detectives dont know who pulled the trigger -- or why.
Macon police Sgt. Cedric Penson knows there are people who know what happened that night.
One person Penson has talked to is Ricos best friend, who had ridden to the club with the Williams brothers earlier that night.
The friend, who dated Ricos sister, got a phone call just before the Williams brothers left the club and said he had to go see a woman.
He didnt get into the car. Minutes later, the brothers were shot.
Ricos friend is a member of the gang suspected in the shooting.
Its unsettling for Deon to know the people who shot him and killed his brother are still out there -- and that people wont talk with the police.
I never know if theyre going to come back and finish the job, he said. I felt like they meant for me and my brother to die.
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Marico Deontae Rico Williams was a middle child in a string of seven siblings.
After working a stint as a cook at Kentucky Fried Chicken on Shurling Drive, he took a job at Cherokee Brick.
Rico had dreams of becoming an electrician and planned to enroll at Central Georgia Technical College in January 2009.
He was father to two boys and a girl.
Rico and some of his brothers and sisters went to the former Club Moneys on Pio Nono Avenue that Saturday to celebrate Ricos birthday.
They stayed out into early Sunday morning.
He was having a good time, laughing and dancing and joking around, said Keiotta Williams, one of the sisters with him that night.
After leaving Club Moneys, Rico and Deon went to Hits Sports Bar and Grill while the others went home.
Although there was a scuffle in the parking lot at Hits that night, the Williams werent involved, Penson said.
When it came time to go home, Rico called one of his sisters to say they were on the way.
Minutes later, bullets were flying into the car.
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At first, Deon thought Ricos gold Toyota Camry had blown a tire.
Then, he saw Rico lean to the center of the car and he realized the sound was gunfire.
Deon was holding a cell phone when a bullet hit his right hand.
It knocked the battery and everything out, he said.
The car ran off the road and wrecked in a ditch in front of a row of car dealerships. The passenger-side door was pinned against a fence.
The loud motor noise Deon had heard at the red light, when the shots started flying, quietened and then roared again as a car drove off on Oglesby Place.
Deon tried to talk to his brother.
Ricos eyes were shut. He wasnt talking back.
He was breathing, making a snoring sound, Deon said.
After seeing the bullet wound in Ricos head, Deon climbed out of the car and flagged down a truck on Eisenhower Parkway.
At first, the driver was afraid of Deon and told him to stay back.
The truck pulled off, but the driver did call the police, Deon said.
Deon went back to the car and hid, wrapping Rico in his arms, pulling him to his chest.
I didnt know if they were coming back, he said. I just stayed that way until the police pulled up.
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Penson had been working off-duty at Club Moneys that night.
He saw the Williams family come in. He knew one of the sisters.
The detective had just gotten home when he heard a call on his police radio about the shooting.
Then his phone started ringing. Hes one of the police departments gang unit investigators.
In the days after the killing, police and Williams family passed out thousands of fliers seeking information about the case. One still is posted at the police detective bureau.
Ricos family posted a $1,000 reward to supplement the $1,000 reward offered by Macon Regional CrimeStoppers.
It was hoping that increasing the value of the reward would get someone to talk, anyone to give any sort of leads, said LaToya Bronson, one of Ricos sisters.
Penson said theres something strange and different about Rico Williams case, something that gives him hope hell be able to one day make an arrest.
The majority of the cases Ive worked since that point have involved somehow a witness or a suspect to this murder, he said.
While investigating the July 2011 shooting death of 35-year-old Alfred Smith outside Wings Café, formerly known as Hits Sports Bar and Grill, the detective interviewed people and found that the same group of people responsible for that death are suspected of killing Rico Williams.
Theyre the Westside Mafia, a street gang with about 50 core influential members, Penson said.
The problem with it is that people dont want to talk about it. Theyre scared of them, he said. The fear capability that they have is tremendous.
Theres no evidence Williams was a gang member. He had friends in the gang from his childhood and school, Penson said.
Although the murder case is 4 years old, Penson wont hand it over to a cold case detective.
As police arrest gang members for other crimes, Penson is hoping the suspects will give him information about the Williams case, even if it means brokering a deal.
The only way I think were going to be able to solve this case now is to apply pressure to other members on other cases, Penson said. Thats my goal.
After someone came forward with information in the Smith case, police filed for two arrest warrants. Martin Kintray Kendall, 30, already was in the county jail on an unrelated armed robbery charge.
Officers still are looking for 19-year-old Akobeyan D. Howard. When they find him, hell be charged with murder in Smiths case.
Penson also wants to talk with him about Rico Williams.
He has the key, Penson said.
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Family members will gather Thursday at Ricos grave at Stone Creek Baptist Church in Twiggs County.
Each year, they sing a hymn or say a prayer before releasing silver and white helium-filled balloons into the sky.
This year, there will be 28 balloons, representing what would have been his 28th birthday.
Sometimes its hard for Bronson to believe her brother is dead.
You know what happened, but you cant believe it, she said.
Shes afraid shell never have answers to why Rico was killed that night.
Its kind of hard to move on without having the answers that you need in order to deal with it, she said.
Wanda Williams, Ricos mother, said shes stopped going to areas of west and south Macon since the killing.
I can be in one of the stores on Houston Avenue or Montpelier ... or even in a restaurant. Im sitting in here in a store with some of the guys that took my sons life, she said. That really bothers me.
As each December comes and goes, Penson looks at his calendar.
The detective sees Christmas and Ricos birthday two days later.
The idea of not giving an answer to that family is ... hard for me, he said. Im a big guy, but it just kills me.
Information from Telegraph archives was used in this report. To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398.


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OK. Now that weve determined how many angels can fit onto the head of a pin 12, as long as none of them stops off at the Golden Corral buffet on the way to the fitting its time to argue about something equally important: Was it murder when you killed somebody who was planning to kill you 150 years ago on a battlefield?
Unlike the theoretical theological question about angels that has presumably kept philosophers stroking their chins for centuries, the one about Stephen Rought killing Grief Mason on a Civil War battlefield in Virginia is not theoretical. They had a real-life philosophical difference of opinion: Rought, a Union soldier, thought Mason should surrender the flag he was holding, under which the Confederates were fighting. Mason thought he should keep it aloft to inspire his fellow combatants.
The Union victory at Spotsylvania is viewed by some as the denouement for the Confederates, the loss that showed them their cause really was lost, and it was the first Union victory with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as its leader. Anyone other than a pacifist would conclude that a battlefield is the one place where killing someone identified as an enemy combatant can be justified.
Historian Rex Hovey feels differently. In an N&O story last week before a Civil War re-enactment of the Battle of the Wilderness, Hovey called the killing of the Confederate soldier murder.
Say what? Was Cpl. Masons death ghastly?
Yes, even in the retelling. Hovey, in that earlier N&O story, said Grief Mason was bludgeoned to death with the butt of a rifle, with such force that it broke the stock of the rifle. I consider it murder. I tried to reach him to ask him to explain how a battlefield death becomes murder, but my calls were unreturned.
Even if youre grieved that Grief came to grief, youd have to do some real mental gymnastics to conclude that a death resulting from hand-to-hand combat on a battlefield equals murder. Would Hovey recommend giving a speeding ticket to Kyle Busch the next time he wins a NASCAR race?
My Marine Corps vet buddy, Mike (Gomer) Hoke, to whom I often turn for matters dealing with the military or Fatburgers, directed me to something called the Law of Land Warfare.
Was he a P.O.W. or was he still resisting? Hoke inquired of Grief Mason, asking a question Id planned to ask Hovey. As long as someone has the means to resist and hes still resisting, you can kill em.
Makes sense to me. There is no evidence that Mason was armed with daisies or waving a white flag. He was waving the battle flag. Of course, some people probably figure that any Confederate death at the hands of a Yankee in the War of Northern Aggression yep, some people still call it that was murder.
I hadnt intended to spend much of my weekend reading the Law of Land Warfare manual, but once you get started reading what you can and cannot do while at war, its hard to put it down. Turns out all is not fair. Maybe in love, but not war. In the section titled Conduct of Hostilities, it says The object of war is to bring about the complete submission of the enemy as soon as possible by means of regulated violence.
Hmm. Should Rought have tickled Mason until he loosed the flag?
Military necessity, the manual said, allows (a)ll direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war.
Taint pretty, but neither is war. The manual I read was published in 1956, so it doesnt pertain directly to what happened on the Spotsylvania, Va., battlefield in 1864 between Rought and Mason. Its not likely, though, that the rules of engagement 150 years ago were more enlightened than they are today.
So murder? No way.
William T. Sherman, my second-favorite Civil War general, said I think we understand what military fame is: to be killed on the field of battle and have your name spelled wrong in the newspaper.
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NEW ORLEANS - His name was Henry Roeland Byrd, but the world knows him as Professor Longhair. The world also knows the iconic New Orleans music club which shares its name with one of Longhair's classic songs – "Tipitina." So it comes as no surprise that the Tipitina's Foundation has undertaken the job of renovating the only home Professor Longhair ever owned.
Earlier this year, the foundation began work, along with the non-profit Project Homecoming and the United Way of Southeast Louisiana, to restore the home in the 1700 block of Terpsichore St. in Central City.
"You can't separate the two – there would be no Tipitina's without Professor Longhair, so it was absolutely something we had to do, almost a mandate," said Mary Von Kurnatowski of the Tipitina's Foundation.
There have been other famous New Orleans musicians who homes were not preserved, so bringing Professor Longhair's home back to life helps keep his legacy alive.
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"He was thrilled to finally have a house that he owned. He had rented his whole life and he moved into this house a year before he died and he loved it and he was proud of it," Armbruster said.
Project Homecoming is doing most of the work on this house in a partnership with the City of New Orleans - something Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration says is not just saving New Orleans music history but is also good business.
"It's an opportunity not only to help a musician's family but also to place an investment in a neighborhood that we think is on the verge of coming back," said Brian Lawlor, with the City of New Orleans office of Housing Policy & Community Development.
And there has been change in this neighborhood since work began on the Professor Longhair house earlier this year. Other properties have been restored in the neighborhood or are in the process of being renovated. This property will take a bit longer than most since it's a massive undertaking. In fact, it's one of the bigger jobs Project Homecoming has done. It's also one that's especially time consuming since it involves preserving history.
"The volunteers who have been working on this house have found pieces, memorabilia, a piece of a piano stool or the kind of things we typically find when we're gutting a house," said Kevin Krejci with Project Homecoming. "But it's a lot more meaningful when we find something like that in a house like this."
No one knows that more than Longhair's daughter, who will live in the home with her son.
"It's everybody's house, because Professor Longhair and his music belongs to everybody," said Pat Byrd.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott wants to boost education spending by over a billion dollars next year.
Wednesday, Scott outlined the main parts of his proposal before its official release on Thursday.
By now, it's no secret that the Governor wants to increase teacher's salaries by 25 hundred dollars next year; but now the news of overall funding increases has the districts excited, but cautious.
"We haven't been able to do pay increases; we've had to ask teachers to do furlough days. I think for the last four years, we've been in survival mode," said Bay District School's Director of Instruction, Gena Burgans.
It hasn't been easy said Burgans.
A hurting economy forced major education spending cuts at the hand of the then-newly-elected governor.
Now, there's potential for good news.
"We are now in a position to strategically invest in statewide priorities," said Governor Scott, speaking to a room of media professionals on Wednesday.
Scott outlined his plan that will be unveiled the following day.
The budget will include a 1.2 billion dollar funding increase for k-12 public schools; that's roughly 400 dollars more per student. Added to that is a $2,500 salary increase for classroom teachers, for a total of 10.7 billion dollars in funding. According to Scott, it's the largest in history.
"It could be exciting for everyone involved," said Burgans.
She's seen teachers have to deal with an increased load, with no reward.
"You can't keep asking them with the increased testing requirements and all those accountability measures that are on them, and then not offer them incentives in the form of pay raises. We've got to do something for our teachers," she said.
While a pay increase seems so be a solution, it is not yet clear if this increase would continue past 2014.
"There's not money in our budget to sustain that. So, it's a wonderful thing to do for teachers, but we've got to have the money allocated to we can continue to pay that after the first year," said Burgans.
As for the students, funding increases could potentially bring back programs that were forced into hibernation and it's an exciting prospect for the district.
"Hopefully this is a sign that everybody sees how important this is that we steer this ship in a different direction because we absolutely have to do something," said Burgans
After Scott's plan is proposed Thursday, it will be up to the Florida Legislature to approve the funding increases.
The next Legislative session begins March 5th in Tallahassee.
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1:13pm Tuesday 29th January 2013 in Blackburn
Soprano Camilla Kerslake will top the bill at a candlelight concert to raise funds for Rosemere Cancer Foundation at Blackburn Cathedral.
Camilla sang the National Anthem at Wembley before the 2010 League Cup final. She also starred as Cosette in the 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre, London, and her debut album received a Classical Brit nomination.
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liddle 'un wrote:Bootiful she may be. She is a crossover singer, with appeal to the masses who do not know, and care not to know, what a classical singer is called to do. Popular, yes; from the top-drawer of classical singers, no. This is not to say, of course, that she will not enjoy success. But the highest of praise is beyond her, for now. She has an odd breathing manner and and all-but-taps her foot. These and a few other faults can be fixed, but will she care enough to try?
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- Calories 426
- Fat 13g
- Sat Fat 5g
- Cholesterol 50mg
- Sodium 1,091mg
- Protein 29g
- Carbohydrate 51g
- Sugar 3g
- Fiber 15g
- Iron 6mg
- Calcium 158mg
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Should GDP per/ be better measured per working capita to reflect varying working force participation structures and dependency ratios (which can the be addressed separately)
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Should GDP per/ be better measured per working capita to reflect varying working force participation structures and dependency ratios (which can the be addressed separately)
Congratulations to the Daily Chart desk.
To show GDP per capita rather than the usual GDP alone is key to measure real societal economic advance.To do it by decades and groups of economies is a naturally sound idea.This is one of your most significant Daily Charts to date.
One possible pattern is that in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s poor countries have grown at half the speed of rich ones, and middle income ones at 3/4 the speed of the rich.The 1970s-1980s anomaly disappears if we average out these two decades.Oil shocks and raw material price steep rises in the 1970s and subsequent abysmal drop in the 80s could be one explaining factor here.
From the year 2000 things have changed dramatically and it is not just the China effect.Developing countries are catching up fast, and the rich world has been growing at half the speed of the 1960s for the last thirty years-well, for the last three it hasn´t been growing at all.
There are no physical limits to productivity and innovation-led growth:the same raw material inputs can produce a Fort-T or a 2013 Ferrari, a 1960s adding machine of a modern tablet.
And 1960s growth was not "post-war growth".Reconstruction after WWII in Europe was pretty much complete by the mid 1950s, and there was no need for reconstruction in America, yet her growth rates were high too.
It is also counter-intuitive to argue that today´s world, with a far larger share of the population highly educated and devoted to the advancement of science and technology than in the 1960s, has somehow run out of ideas on how to, like Jonathan Swift used to say, "make two plants of wheat grow where only one did before".
If it is not the aggregate innovative grey matter mass that is failing us, then it must be the system by which such possible innovations and improvements make the step from conceptualization to realization.The practical day to day organization and running of the productive system.It is Economics and Politics that are failing us, not Science.
As a working hypothesis, if the production units in a society are concentrated in few directing hands, and they fall into the easy decision of rent-seeking, eliminating competition and status-quo protection, naturally radical innovations will be suspect and growth, that is always a bit of a jump into the unknown, will be curtailed.With this frame of mind railroad companies would still be in the Dow Jones average.
A society controlled in order to "manage" changes of the status quo will always under-perform one that valiantly changes itself and lets old towers fall so that new ones can be erected.
A possible explanation to the different results across the decades is the variance of the population's income (of the three different groupings) as a percentage share of their total wealth (GDP).
Within developed nations the populations share (in income)of total GDP peaked in the 70's, since then debt has replaced income as part source of internal demand, while wealth has been concentrated on the assets held by the top 1%. This has lead to stagnation/depression. The only way out for this grouping is to reverse course in the income and wealth distribution stakes, a political decision.
The middle group countries suffered particularly badly in the 80's and 90's when they were forced by the IMF and the prevailing Washington consensus to implement government cuts and regressive distributive policies. Once these destructive shackles were off, thy boomed. Their recent slowdown again lies in the inability to redistribute further without incurring a heavy political cost in a globalised market.
The lower grouping is bringing in new consumers rapidly into the equation, they'll boom until wealth fails to be spread around further, once "consolidation" starts taking place they'll likely slow down dramatically.
progress is proportional. what happens a $1000/person country grows %100? it becomes a $2000/person country. It might look like a great success proportionally but quantity wise it is a very small progress. It is like a very poor person who only has $10 now has $20, and that makes him twice as rich right? what happens to $1million person increases his wealth by %10. +$100,000. which is a lot of money but small proportionally. Like Japan. Japan was a poor country once. And it developed rapidly and become a rich country. But it couldn't surprass countries lika USA, Germany, UK, France...etc. And Japan is a innovative, technology focused, manufacturing focused country with hardworking, educated and disciplined people. So, my opinion is, todays middle income countries like, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, S.Africa, China will never be able to catch income levels of those rich countries. Richest will always stay as the richest. Maybe the gap will be narrower. At least for the near future...
Well — according to the historical dataset provided by IMF's Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu, Ariel Binder and Asad Zaman (WP 13/5) — UK GDP growth averaged at 1.8% a year in 1831-1931 and 2.3% in 1931-2001, so that GDP per person must have grown by somewhat less even of that. For advanced countries, a long-run tendency of the latter around 2% is thus not perhaps below normal, from the point of view of historical experience; and that seems more or less what your chart suggests (taking into account that the nil growth of 2008-11 is actually a cyclical problem).
To me the really remarkable information from your chart is rather the fast catching up by poorer countries during the latest thirty years or so. Compare that with the gloomy predictions common in such works as Myrdal's "Asian drama" and many others, revered by most still in the nineteen-eighties. A useful caveat perhaps against fashionable but short-sighted projections into the future of whatever appear to be the current problems.
The statement and graphs seem in line with long held observations of economic development. It is interesting how the meddling of the middle income group with technology coincides nicely with electronic technology growth periods and GDP advance. With declining; well educated, population it would be nice to see the upper income people get involved with technological development. But why should they? They've got theirs. And, they can prevent any leapfrogging by middle and lower income entrepreneurs. Thus; We po folk are being ruled by a bunch of Neros hooked on schadenfreude and class perpetuation!
Unless we po folk can do more than merely emulate the dead end capitalism, as practiced by the wealthy, we shall be exterminated as an inconvenience; once we build the machinery to perpetuate their air conditioning, of course.
Like the joke about the toe jam in between the elephant's toes: it's made of slow running natives. Unless we (slow natives) can outrun the elephants our fate is foretold.
And you can bet that the elephants don't know enough to educate us for their benefit. Who would they look down on if we should become equally wealthy?
That's as far as they go from the point of view of having wealth. They are entitled to be poor of sophistication just as much as anyone else.
Thomas Friedman, like a hound on the hunt, is onto a better goal for capitalism in that he perceives the technology liberated labor having the opportunity to think out a better life. He does not seem to realize that 20 yrs of stupefying jobs congeals the social sophistication needed for quantum leaps in the technological growth he anticipates. We are frozen in a NASCAR event and call it "development" when we succeed in winning, thus never perceiving that we are running in circles only ever faster and with no meaningful purpose than, like a spoiled child, wanting to go faster. If this makes any sense.
The failure to anticipate or be able to better respond to the Fukeshima disaster illustrates my point succinctly.
Global labour markets are beginning to converge a little.
That might even be the cause of lower growth in developed countries. Massive (unprecedented) offshoring activity has directly caused over a decade of very subdued real wage growth in the tradeable sectors in all developed countries. Those developed countries which did grow after 2000 (in per capita terms) almost without exception did so with debt fueled consumer booms, or by riding the natural resource boom.
That has boosted the profit share of GDP in developed countries, but also depressed real incomes, tax revenues, wages and consumption. Or rather, entry of Eastern Europe and East Asia into the global labour force (and entry of their abundant low-yielding capital into world markets too) has caused dislocation of economic output.
The output of developed world workers & firms is simply less scarce than it once was; that trend is accelerating; terms of trade and relative purchasing power are likely to deteriorate further.
But hey, at least this is good for humanity. And the low pace of institutional reform and many remaining barriers to catchup will ensure that massive GDP/capita differentials persist.
It's rather remarkable, when you think about it, that the developed world could be in the crisis it is in, yet corporate profits remained healthy (ex-financials a while back) and balance sheets about as good as they've ever been - both much better than historical experience would predict. Which kind of has to mean, this is not an historically-typical downturn ...
As you say, a global trend toward a flattening of wages is evident. Business doesn't have to be negatively effected by this, but wage-earners above the world-median level do have to be. Regression to the mean isn't pleasant for the former top performers. From a first-world citizen's point of view, globalization isn't quite the same, or quite as positive, as a first-world business would view it. And attempting to remedy our new-era distress by extreme applications of traditional medicine is likely to be doing more harm than good.
A lot like the early 1900s.
Except insofar as wage earners above the median continue to benefit from network effects, access to better institutions & infrastructure, lower communication overheads, susceptibility to rule of law and broadly better education, then yes: we do have to fear that competitive pressures may reduce the purchasing power we can earn though labour.
Shape of the fear: this could arise as a result of non-labour supply constraints like scarcity of energy or natural resources; or as a result of strengthened relative power of rent seekers (such as civil servants, lawyers, accountants, bankers and other protected professions).
Both are happening (or seem to be) - and so median real wages will perform modestly (at best) in most developed countries for the foreseeable future.
Which brings us to the ethical question - are first-world workers morally obligated to consent to be the net-donors in a global re-balancing of incomes? Can they ethically demand that steps be taken to throttle-back the leveling of incomes with workers in LDCs, like by protective tariffs maybe?
I don't consider that ethical, no.
1) Trade is progressive - the greatest immediate beneficiaries of trade are the world's poorest.
2) Trade still allows exploitation of comparative advantages, arbitrage and higher average productivity (where it impacts terms of trade, liberal trade doesn't necessarily benefit all participants - but it does always benefit the world economy on average).
3) Over the very long term, we have to remember that free trade gives businesses access to larger world consumer markets, allowing businesses to defray fixed costs of R&D over much larger markets, supporting higher volumes of research activity and faster progress of the world science & technology frontier. In the very long run, global free trade will indeed make us all richer as technology & productivity eventually dominate short term distributional concerns.
Trade restrictions remain immensely damaging. We should continue to pursue further trade liberalization. The first-world-worker minority might enjoy privilege, but protection of that privilege is not justified at cost of entrenching deeper poverty, weakening world output or retarding scientific & technical progress.
So, first-world workers have an ethical duty to lower their quality of life so the rest of the world's poor can have a higher quality one.
I wonder, if the question were put just that way to the general population anywhere in the first-world - is there any doubt about what the outcome would be? And since only one answer is morally defensible in your view, guess it's our moral duty to see to it they never have any say in what is being done to them - 'they' can't be trusted to have our view of the ethics of it.
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Maybe it's an argument for preserving the status quo, in which large multinational business donors carry outsized influence over political outcomes.
Even with very short term self interested electorates worried about technology transmission and endogenously shifting terms of trade, there remain many cases where deepening of free trade would be a desirable thing:
1) between existing developed countries (where labour supply concerns aren't really relevant, but where massive arbitrage opportunities and tech exchange/ productivity growth opportunities also remain)
2) where driven by long term security motivations:
- Europe might see particular interest in spreading free trade eastwards and around the Mediterranean.
- western world electorates might want to promote free trade with South America and perhaps even India, despite the labour market flooding, in order to better safeguard an economic and cultural counterbalance to China.
3) if the can of worms is considered to be already open, such that rapid technology transfer and shifting terms of trade is inevitable, with technologies driving expanding labour market access to a greater extent than tariff levels, and if a sufficient portion of the world economy is inevitably going to stay open to developing markets, then it ceases to be possible to protect terms of trade through tariffs or trade restrictions. In which case free trade would be the unambiguous better case for productivity & growth, even if this still involves a wider context in which developed world wages stagnate for decades.
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