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Albany -- It was just a normal walk home from school when 10-year-old Demarcus Mathis noticed something out of place.
"I was walking home, and I came home, and my window was open," he says.
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"He was back there standing in my mom's room, so I hit him in the back and then he tried to pull a gun but it got stuck. So I hit him again in the back of the head, and his head started bleeding and he ran out the back door."
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But when she got home, she found where the would-be thief had unplugged and wrapped up a DVD player and a Playstation for the taking - scared, no doubt, but happy her young son jumped into action.
She said, "I'm glad he surprised the burglar when he did because we would have been out a lot of stuff that we paid a lot of money and worked hard for."
Albany Police responded the home and searched the area for the suspect who was last seen jumping a fence in the Mathis' backyard.
And while mom is still shaken knowing that the burglar had a gun, she has a lot of good things to say about her favorite bat boy.
"I think he was a hero," she says.
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"They'll just get another taste of my bat," says a smiling Demarcus Mathis.
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The police were able to gather evidence from the home and have stepped up patrols around the neighborhood. Police reports show where the several items including a televsion had been unplugged and moved.
Police are on the lookout for the suspect who's described as black male, last seen wearing a red Michael Vick jersey, blue jeans, and purple Air Jordans.
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An Approach for Estimating the Basic Types of Unemployment in Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
AbstractThis article is an attempt to put into practice a consistent approach for decomposing the aggregate unemployment in Bulgaria using the available statistical information. Investigating the interrelationship between unemploy-ment and vacancies with the help of the so-called "U-V approach" the levels of frictional, structural and cyclical unemployment in the aggregate number of unemployed in the country is estimated. The structural unemployment is additionally decomposed into geographical, occupational and mixed geographical/occupational components. The obtained results provide a sound basis for analysing some of the major trends in unemployment dynamics in Bulgaria for the period 2006-2010. Together with the estimation of unemploy-ment at national level, its basic components are studied from a regional perspective with respect to the administrative division of the country into planning regions.
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Having lots of problems now have just switched from PC to Mac OX 10.8.3
Pod 1.12 get no sound.
Pod 2.5 sometimes get sound.
Sometimes get that CD symbol with rotating rainbow & have to force quit.
Sometimes when plug in UX2 get alternate flashing red LED's on front.
As 2.5 is the only podfarm where there's ever any sound I'm prepared to upgrade but not until I can get it to work reliably.
Update; I decided to upgrade to Pod farm 2.5.
Worked for a while until I uploaded a one of my saved tone files with an amp from the model pack
That made the lights go out on the UX2.
Rebooted computer. Went to set UX2 as sound card in preferences. Then get CD symbol with rotating rainbow!
I rebooted Mac. Then as soon as I open pod farm the lights go out on the front of the UX2 & then Podfarm hangs with CD symbol & rotating rainbow!
So have to force quit. Then when click on pod farm icon to re start it says another instance of Podfarm is currently running!
If unplug UX2 then plug in again just get the alternate flashing red LEDs on all the time.
Not looking good. Is Pod farm rubbish with all Macs or is it just me?
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Ran Line 6 monkey again & it's now OK after a two day faff installing then uninstalling 1.12 & 2.5 about 4 times each. Just as well it now works. Got no assitance. Thank you Line 6 support!
I must add one thing. Why is the Pod farm consol so small on the screen. Why can't it be maximised ?
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With Joomla 1.7.3 the back-end is not fully functional and above 20 entries we have to use the MySQL tables to manage entries above 20. For people running Joomla 1.7.x that have this issue the work around is very simple to go the the _jumi table and manage it from there. When a fix for this is released I would really give it a two thumbs up, right now this issue makes it less functional for this release of Joomla 1.7.
After installing Phoca SEF we got this problem of URL redirecting solved. May be we try it again at a later stage if we can figure out how it works and if a feature is added to have all strings redirecting that are set with a filter or portion of the requesting url. Right now every single url of a page that has been moved must be done seperately. Source like /pictures?.... into /pictures*.
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One small issue we cannot solve yet but I want to share it so maybe somebody has a solution to this.
The latest release 2.5.3 of Boncko Image Wall creates in IE8 script errors in line one on our website: bvhgeldrop.nl.
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Given the striking similarity between the First Prize of the Busan Tower Complex Competition and the Santiago de Compostela project, the Jury unanimously recommends that the Busan Municipality, before arriving at a decision concerning implementation, should take into consideration the fact that the First Prize would not uniquely symbolise the city of Busan."
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Posted by JeffK on March 31, 2011 at 19:58:27:
In Reply to: 1652 New England silver coin. posted by Eugene Ahlfors on March 31, 2011 at 17:56:10:
It sounds like you have what's called a Pine Tree Shilling, or one of its cousins depicting another variety of New England tree. The original coins were struck for many years but all were dated 1652 for reasons relating to disputes between the colonists and the Crown.
Pine Tree shillings have been heavily counterfeited; you can also buy a legitimate replica (marked with COPY somewhere in the design) for a few dollars from many sources.
If you can't find the word COPY on it, have it checked out but my guess is that it's not an original piece.
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The Blazers currently hold the league best 6 win streak, the last four in five days on the road. This is an accomplishment no matter which way you spin it. The concern is that every one of these teams were either just plain bad, old, tired, broken, or a combination of the four. Not only that, but most of these games were much closer then they should have been, especially in the first quarter. So the win streak must be a fluke right?
I've had much of the same worries until I read prof.mike's comment in Rope-a-dope: "They have only been doing enough to win. Monday let's see how much better they play with better competition." I remembered then that this team has an unfortunate tendency to play to the level of their competion.
I can hear the gears turning from here... "But a veteran team would have put these teams in their place!" The thing is... they did. Maybe not emphatically, they may have stumbled but they finished. Last year they had difficulties finishing against teams that that they should have been able to beat, the Bobcats for example. The fact that they beat them this year on the wrong end of a very long road trip while struggling to find their roles and their stroke is impressive.
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Democratic State Representative Naomi Gonzalez was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated early Friday morning.
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Funeral services for Alice Melcher, 87 of Lexington, Texas, are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at St. James Lutheran Church in Lexington with Rev. Leif Hasskarl officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Lexington. The family will be present Tuesday evening from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Alice Alma (Hengst) Melcher was born January 7, 1924 in Cameron, Texas to Oscar and Alma (Niemtschke) Hengst. She was baptized on January 17, 1924 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Thorndale by Pastor F. H. Stetzer. She was confirmed on April 10, 1938 by Pastor F. H. Stelzer in St. Paul Lutheran Church, Thorndale. She was married to Erhard Melcher on April 5, 1942 also in St. Paul Lutheran Church by the same pastor.
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Her first grandson Byron Ebelt (wife Hilaree Casada) named her "MeMa". She was then lovingly referred to as MeMa by all of her grandchildren, Krista Ebelt Moczygemba (husband Nathan Moczygemba), Eddie Mitchell, Debbie Mitchell Scroggins (husband Wayne Scroggins), Bridget Dube West (husband Nicholas "Bear" West) and Amanda Dube Anderson (husband Ross Anderson), as well as by all of their close friends.
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In the polls out there, you have some that have Obama +3 or +4, some tied, and one McCain -3. Since one expects a variety of numbers at any one time, roughly grouped around the actual %s in the population, it looks like Obama is up around 2 points right now in the national numbers.
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Yep - That's what the diary said.
That could be true. On the other hand, it could be a single outlier throwing off the tracker.
None of that matters. Most people don't pay attention to polls anyway. Frankly, I don't think they ever have. In 1936, the most well known "poll" (in parentheses because it didn't use random sampling), the Literary Digest poll predicted a huge Roosevelt loss and he had a huge win. There is no bandwagon effect.
I don't have time to look this up now, but both http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ and pollster.com have done rigorous analyses to determine which polling operations have done the best job in the past. I can't recall precisely, but I believe Gallup was not in the top tier. Furthermore, Moore over at Pollster recently did a careful analysis of the Gallup tracking poll and found that is figures were consistently below the nontrackers.
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Bonus historical reference:
You know who famously used that "rhymes with witch" line? It was Barbara Bush in 1984, referring to Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale's running mate.
So we have Republican, woman-hating rhetoric from a self-described feminist. Very sad to see.
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The vast majority of Clinton supporters know that what matters is getting a Democratic president who will pursue Democratic policies.
Then you have a small number of people who, well, that's not their priority.
Take this comment regarding Michelle:
There's a Word for Folks Like Her (4.00 / 4)
And it rhymes with witch (hi cheetos!).
Superdelegates - CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
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And that's from a person who decried sexism against Hillary and staged a strike because she didn't like incivility.
As far as I'm concerned, it's very sad to see that kind of thing.
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You mean they didn't get the M&Ms?
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Now, I think this is very strange - anna shane's diary at Alegre's place saying that she thinks newspeople should be drug tested and they might be on meth: http://alegrescorner.soapblox.net/showDi ary.do;jsessionid=2217271DC26C397626DCE1 0B1ECF1F6B?diaryId=775
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Way to go, Hillary Clinton!
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Politico went to a PUMA march and there were three dozen people in it.
A crowd of about three dozen women and one man are marching down 16th Street in support of Hillary Clinton, chanting "No we won't," "18 million votes" and "No secret ballot."
A group of local Denver residents stop to cheer them on. "Yeah, don't cave!" shouts a self-described Republican named George. "Go Hillary!" The marchers, who say they are affiliated with PUMA Pac, cheer in response.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0 808/PUMAs_on_the_march.html?showall
The vast majority of Democrats support our nominee and even more will by the end of the week.
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Wow - I hope to find that video.
I've always thought that they discredit themselves. Not long ago, I saw Will Bower say that he was going to vote for McCain because he didn't like the delegate allocation formula the Democrats use. It's hard to imagine that anyone thinks that's a rational basis for a presidential vote.
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Evidently she said today in a press conference that McCain is against overturning Roe - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive s/individual/2008_08/014405.php
However, McCain said at Saddleback that he wants Roe overturned - and he has a 0% rating from Planned Parenthood and NARAL.
It sure makes me wonder.
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When you go back to Alegre's, could you tell her that Hillary has released her delegates? That's what her saying that the delegate vote is a "personal decision" means.


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Some urban bears in Incline Village, Nevada, are taking their city living lifestyle to the full advantage.
Urban bears have lost their innate fear of humans and have become so relaxed about 'life in town' that they spend most of their time within a residential/commercial area, not out in the woods. Bears have moved in because the urban environment is attractive – it offers easy access to improperly stored trash and unoccupied properties to explore. It is up to us (the humans) to make attractants unavailable, and make the bears less comfortable in our neighborhoods, in order to keep these wild animals truly wild.
On March 28, 2011, IVGID Public Works' meter reader was checking on a neighborhood property with a water leak. He spotted several sets of bear tracks leading up to the house, and when he looked in the front door, he could see a trash can spilled over inside. Further investigation uncovered that a large black bear had chosen this home as a winter denning site. The bear's occupancy caused extensive damage. It even went to the point that several squirrels and raccoons also moved in, causing their own damage.
The bear had entered the home through the under house crawl space, and went into the main house through a floor heater vent. The kitchen and living room were heavily damaged. The bear opened the refrigerator and ate the contents; emptied the cupboards and ate the contents; emptied the trash and ate the contents. The couch crashing bear was gone when authorities arrived to secure the property. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
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The Saints have one final preseason game before the long-awaited and much-anticipated season-opener against Minnesota on Sept. 9.
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Now, as far as being the best team in the NFC on paper right now, that's debatable. In my mind, the most-talented three teams in the NFC are Green Bay, Dallas and New Orleans, not necessarily in that order. Green Bay has a quarterback but not a breakout receiver, though tight end Jermichael Finley might be the best in the NFL right now. Dallas has great receivers but not a quarterback who has proven he can get the job done for an entire season. And New Orleans has everything on offense.
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As for how long the starters will play, Drew Brees, Will Smith and most other starters will sit out. The offensive line started New Orleans' final preseason game last year, but the skill position players did not. All but the front four on defense started the final preseason game a year ago.
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An Augusta County deputy needs two surgeries and months of rehab after slamming his cruiser into a tree. The sheriff says it appears that Deputy Joseph Sholes was following all protocols at the time of the crash.
Sholes suffered two broken legs and a shattered ankle when he totaled his sheriff's department cruiser just before midnight Friday. He was wearing a seat belt, but did have to be flown to the UVA Medical Center for his injuries.
Sholes was running lights and siren as he responded to an emergency call for a fight, involving 6 people in Fishersville. At the time of the crash, he was headed south on Route 340 near Crimora, when he ran off the road and hit several trees. The car has a blown right-rear tire, but investigators don't know whether that played a role in the accident.
"One witness said that they saw the police car fish-tailing, just before the crash. So we don't know if something broke, tire went flat, blew out... I mean, we just don't know," said Sheriff Randy Fisher of Augusta County.
Sholes has worked with the Augusta Sheriff's Office for about five years and comes from a law-enforcement family. He has two uncles in the same department, his wife is a county dispatcher, and his grandfather is a retired state police sergeant.
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The Penguin Parade is one of the most happening events in the world and also the most sought after. Sydney is the capital of Australia and also its one the most picturesque of locations. It has a lot to offer in terms of its cuisine. Sydney contains a platter that houses some of the world's greatest chefs. This is a great gastronomic destination for people to experience if they love eating and drinking. Australia is making huge headway in the wine industry and it's giving European wine a huge competition. Sydney sightseeing helps people to ensure that they can experience this state at its best and also enjoy themselves while they are here. This is one of the world's best destinations for cricket lovers and also athletics and its home to the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground).
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OBJECTIVE: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and depression both have a high prevalence in reproductive-aged women. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of abnormal depression scores in women who meet currently recognized definitions of PCOS compared with women in a well-defined control group.
DATA SOURCES: The search was performed in MEDLINE, EMBASE Classic plus EMBASE, PsycINFO, Current Contents-Clinical Medicine and Current Contents-Life Sciences and Web of Science. Cochrane software Review Manager 5.0.24 was used to construct forest plots comparing risk of abnormal depression scores in those in the PCOS and control groups.
METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION: Studies with well-defined criteria of women with PCOS and control groups of women without PCOS, with demographic information including age and body mass index (BMI), were included. Of 752 screened articles, 17 met the selection criteria for systematic review and 10 studies were included in the meta-analysis.
TABULATION, INTEGRATION, AND RESULTS: Data were abstracted independently by three reviewers. All studies were cross-sectional and most used the Rotterdam criteria for the diagnosis of PCOS (n=10). The odds ratio (OR) for abnormal depression scores was 4.03 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.96–5.5, P<.01) in women with PCOS (n=522) compared with those in the control groups (n=475). A subanalysis showed that the odds for abnormal depression scores was independent of BMI (OR 4.09, 95% CI 2.62–6.41). Several validated tools were used to screen for depression; the common tool used was the Beck Depression Inventory.
CONCLUSION: The results of our study suggest the need to screen all women with PCOS for depression using validated screening tools. Women with PCOS are at an increased risk for abnormal depression scores independent of BMI.
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Three years ago, there were just three tools available to help with the tagging, so the self-supporting approach to tagging was a riskier prospect than it is today. Stantial's team chose Rivet Software's Dragon Tag, since its name kept popping up in searches. "At a cost of $300, if we couldn't figure it out, we could just throw it away," he says.
Today, there are plenty of software tools to help do the tagging, notes the SEC's Blaszkowsky, and it makes sense for the financial management and technology management teams to work together to discuss software options.
Although UTC has a large, first-class IT department that could have done the work, Stantial's team decided it should figure out XBRL for itself, especially since they didn't understand how to work in XML, which forms the foundation of XBRL. After all, the tagging needed financial expertise, and the accuracy of the results ultimately belonged to Stantial's group.
IT'srole will increase as XBRL usage, complexity grow
The initial tagging can be done with minimal IT involvement, but at some point, IT needs to get deeply involved in XBRL efforts. For example, as the SEC XBRL requirements grow more complex over time, it will be critical to understand how the XBRL-compliant reporting software might operate with the company's existing processes and platforms. By then, the decision is no longer a simple one of buying the easiest package to use and being able to "throw it away" if it's not suitable.
In fact, Stantial points out UTC later switched to Fujitsu's XWand, which he says has stellar editing tools for making changes after the document has been converted to XBRL. Of course, the price is much higher: An XWand software license starts at $10,000.
The IT role will grow further as ERP and other financial applications begin to integrate XBRL into their platforms. While it is a financial decision as to how to tag the data and reports, it will be up to IT to understand the implications of the how the software works with data and other applications -- especially when a company has multiple ERP and financial systems due to mergers and acquisitions, notes Blaszkowsky. "XBRL is a powerful tool to apply, and it is in part a financial team and a technology team decision," he says.
IT has a role to help automate processes using XBRL
Beyond reporting, enterprises can use XBRL to enforce consistent financial processes through its ERP and financial systems. UTC has been exploring this in its quest to achieve a "zero-day" financial close, in which it can issue accurate, up-to-the-minute financial reporting at any time.
Such an effort begins when companies start looking at all of the manual processes used during the "last mile" of financial reporting so that they can understand what might be automated, says PricewaterhouseCoopers' Willis.
The automated assembly of reports and collaborative review of documents, along with the aggregation of all notes and MD&A (management discussion and analysis) disclosures are just a few of the areas where XBRL implementations, with the help of IT, can make a huge difference in accessing financial data, increasing collaboration during the report-making process, and reducing the final time to complete a report, Willis says.
It also gives all those involved the ability to drill down to lower-level systems to access information needed to explain changes in the business. For example, rather than doing the traditional linear review in which case documents are e-mailed to a review committee and "some poor sucker has to aggregate all the responses," Willis says, XBRL will allow IT to create a Wikipedia-like structure.
Read more about applications in InfoWorld's Applications Channel.


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Jimmy Savile stripped of honorary degree
The University of Bedfordshire has stripped Sir Jimmy Savile of an honorary degree it awarded him for his charity work.
Governors met on Thursday night after more allegations of sexual assault emerged against the Jim'll Fix It star.
They took the decision to rescind the honour which was awarded back in 2009 for his services to the National Spinal Injuries Centre at the Stoke Mandeville hospital. It comes as police confirmed they were investigating around 340 lines of enquiry relating to historic abuse claims.
– University of Bedfordshire
The honorary award for Jimmy Savile was in recognition of his charitable fund raising. It was given in good faith in 2009 without the knowledge of the current very serious allegations. In this light, the University has confirmed that the honorary award should be rescinded."


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University Inventions on the Rise
Universities are hubs for education and big, new ideas in research and inventions. Many people don't realize how profitable these inventions can be and how much funding they can bring to the university.
According to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, universities and inventors earned more than $1.8 billion in 2011 by commercializing their academic research, collecting royalties, and forming longstanding arrangements for new products.
"The 157 universities that responded to the annual survey of the Association of University Technology Managers, released on Monday, completed 5,398 licenses and filed for 12,090 new patents," The Chronicle reported. "They also created 617 start-up companies."
The number of start up companies has not increased over the past year, but the total revenues from these start ups has increased exponentially. In 2010, 153 colleges and universities were surveyed. Twenty-three reported a licensing income of over $15 million and 22 institutions reported around that much.
By earning more than $191 million in licensing income, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, earned the most of all the universities that took part in the annual study.
One of the most profitable inventions of 2011 was a new strain of wheat invented at the University of Nebraska, which grossed over $16.7 million this year. The collaboration between NUTech Ventures and Bayer Crop Science has helped the university create new varieties of wheat that can be sold in markets, like those found in Europe, where genetically modified crops are illegal.
Researchers at Nebraska are also trying to encourage more students and faculty to contribute to the project. The university is experiencing an invention-disclosure rate of 160 a year, which is up from 60 four years ago.
"With big corporations doing less and less hiring, there is more of an awareness from students and faculty that entrepreneurship is a growing career path, a growing alternative," said Tony Stanco, executive director of the National Council on Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer.
Licensing inventions and start up ideas are good for higher education institutions because they can collect revenue long after the initial invention takes off. For example, the University of Florida still owns the trademark on the Gatorade brand and receives royalties on Gatorade products even though the invention was made in 1965.
Even in Tough Economy, Earning College Degree Important as Ever
In the midst of a bad economy, you may be wondering, "Is a college degree worth it? It is that important?" Rest assured, experts still assert that a college degree is your best asset when trying to join the workforce. While students with college degrees are often having trouble finding jobs, let alone jobs pertaining to their university major, people who do not have college degrees are having an even harder time.
According to a new research study published by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, the majority of jobs lost in the recession were held by workers who did not have a college degree (.pdf).
"The recession hit those with less schooling disproportionately hard—nearly four out of five jobs lost were held by those with no formal education beyond high school," the introduction to the report said. "At the other end of the spectrum, workers who had completed a four-year college degree or higher were largely protected against job losses during the recession and some high-education fields even had job gains. The job recovery has only increased the divide between the less-educated and more-educated."
With rising tuition costs and high unemployment rates across the country, many people began to question whether or not a college degree is really important. The study found that graduating from college remains an individual's best ally in the job market.
Since the economy began a recovery phase, 3.4 million jobs have been added to the workforce. The study reports that all of the gains made were found in individuals who had received at least some level of college education. Students who had received a Bachelor's degree found 2 million new jobs, and 91 percent of individuals who have an Associate's degree have recovered the jobs they had before the recession.
Other factors of employment were also discussed, such as gender disparity and post-recession job gains.
"Although women still outnumber men among students enrolled in four-year colleges and graduate programs, the rate of men enrolling in college increased significantly during and after the recession. Though the differences between enrollment growth rates for men and women are marginal, the changes were taking place in the right direction. As a result, instead of a widening gap of college enrollment between men and women, enrollment levels of men and women are expected to parallel each other in the future," the study said.
Although times may be tough, the benefits of education are indisputable, and experts urge high school seniors to attend college after graduation and attain the highest degree possible. This will ensure that students are well-equipped to find a job and become contributing members of society.
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Bamako / Geneva / New York, 26 July 2002 -UNICEF today announced concentrated efforts to reach women in poor, hard-to-reach communities with vaccine against maternal and neonatal tetanus, an effort it said could potentially save the lives of thousands of women and their new-born children.
UNICEF said the campaign, which starts today in Mali, is being enhanced by the introduction of a pre-filled injection device that will make it easier to immunize women in remote areas. The new device, BD Uniject™ with tetanus toxoid is a single dose, pre-filled syringe and needle that can be administered by lay people.
Maternal and neonatal tetanus can be eliminated globally through immunization and hygienic birth practices. But it has often been difficult to reach women and children in remote communities since the traditional vaccination can only be administed by trained health workers. As a result, last year alone, tetanus claimed the lives of 200,000 newborns and 30,000 women in 57 developing countries.
"The introduction of a pre-filled injection device has the potential to greatly simplify the way this vaccination is given, making it possible to train non-medical personnel such as social workers and teachers to vaccinate women against tetanus," said Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF. "Our goal is the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus by 2005, and reaching women in remote areas is essential to succeeding." She noted that women at risk must receive at least three doses of the vaccine over a one-year period to be fully protected.
Since lay people can use the new device, traditional birth attendants, teachers and community workers are being trained to support health workers in immunizing women in communities without access to clinics or health centers.
The pre-filled device has additional advantages:
"This is an excellent example of a partnership between the public and private sectors," Bellamy said. "We are grateful for the donation these companies have made and hope their commitment to this campaign will be a lasting one. There is no reason why women and children should die from a disease we can effectively prevent."
The first major use of Uniject™ for tetanus immunizations will be in two remote districts in Mali - Bla and Bougoni - from July 25 to July 31. The Ministry of Health is carrying out the campaign with support from UNICEF, BASICS and Save the Children (U.S.). A total of 118,000 women of childbearing age (14-45) will be vaccinated during this period. The use of Uniject™ will be extended later in the year to other districts in Mali and to other developing countries where maternal and neonatal tetanus is still claiming the lives of thousands of children and their mothers.
The global campaign to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus is being spearheaded by Ministries of Health, UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, PATH, BASICS, Save the Children (US) and other partners. The Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative has received major donations from the Government of Japan, the US Fund for UNICEF, the UK National Committee for UNICEF, Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Becton Dickinson.
About Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
Neonatal tetanus is a deadly disease, common in poor countries, mostly affecting populations with little or no access to basic health care services and education. The disease, which was eliminated in the industrialized world as far back as the 1950s, is still a major killer of infants in the developing world, responsible for no less than 200,000 infant deaths every year and accounting for 14 per cent of all neonatal deaths.
Up to 70 per cent of all babies that develop the disease die in their first month of life. It occurs as a result of unhygienic birth practices, leading to contamination of the umbilical cord with tetanus spores when it is being cut or dressed after delivery. The disease usually presents itself on the third day after birth, causing the baby to stop feeding due to stiffness of the jaw muscles. The baby then goes into painful convulsions, coma and eventually dies.
Maternal tetanus is also caused by contamination from tetanus spores through puncture wounds, and is linked to unsafe and unclean deliveries. Maternal tetanus is responsible for at least five per cent of all maternal deaths, and accounts for up to 30,000 deaths each year.
Unlike smallpox and polio, complete eradication of tetanus is not possible as the tetanus spores can survive outside the human body, in dirt and in the stool of infected people and animals. The disease can be transmitted without any human contact.
In the past it has cost $1.20 per woman to provide three doses of tetanus toxoid and promote clean delivery practices. Over the 2-year period since the Initiative began (in 1999/2000) the partnership has been able to prevent 15,000 additional newborn deaths.
For more information, please call:
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(Bumped from FanPosts.)
Last year I posted something similar, asking what good baseball books could warm us in the barren winter months. I've gotten around to reading many people's suggestions (and some I'd read before), and I thought I'd post a bunch of comment-sized reviews. More to the point, I'll ask you bookworms out there to do something similar in the comments section if you're moved to recommend a book to the community. If you'd rather just list some good ones -- or want to concur or disagree with my list -- do that.
It's always rewarding, I think, to step away periodically from the nearsightedness of the "news." To that end, here are some baseball books.
In no order at all.
Pure Baseball by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan
This claims to be -- and IS -- a pitch-by-pitch account of a couple of ballgames from the mid-nineties. If you've ever done a "close reading" of a Shakespeare sonnet, that's just what this feels like. Keith spends loads of time talking about what a hitter expects in this and that situation, this or that count, where he'll look, what he'll consider, how he'll swing. He also breaks down defensive alignments, the mechanics of relay throws, hit-and-run situations, managerial decisions, etc. etc. It might as well be called "a billion little things about baseball." It's great -- put me in a close-reading high for weeks afterward, where I continually tried to consider more and more as I watched games.
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
I thought going in that this would be my favorite book of all time, but to be honest it didn't grab me. It's fantastic having a little flesh and blood attached to the myth of Robinson, but I wasn't taken in by the coming-of-age Roger Kahn stuff. I may have just been in the wrong place/mood.
The Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
It's my favorite book on baseball and an important book in my life. Like Tom Paine's "Common Sense" or some shit, you can feel that fresh thinking is happening here, and that what Bill James needs to say is clear as hell to him, and that he says it in a clear as hell manner. It's interesting to me that the godfather of sabermetrics possesses so obstinately disorganized a mind. On the other hand, it makes sense. Who but a scientist (of sorts) could be so totally unwilling to generalize, so totally reverent toward the wonderful anomalies that mock our hopes to "grasp" baseball's history? James can't bring himself to say things he's unsure of, ever. Thus, the fertile, beguiling Abstract, and it's disjointed, highly personal stabs at the truth.
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitching by Rob Neyer and Bill James
It begins with enlightening essays on the main pitches -- not really from a mechanics standpoint, but from an anecdotal/historical one. They want to know who developed each pitch, and characteristically get caught up in the historical quirks and then try (and generally fail) to track down the originator. Then, they tell the stories of a few pitchers who had interesting careers, and finally there's the meat of the book: a huge alphabetical compendium of thousands of pitchers and which pitches they threw. Unless you're a nut, you don't really need to own this, but you should get it from the library.
The Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman
Super-fun account of Mets, booze, and broads. Set in 1986.
The Soul of Baseball: A Trip through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski
I didn't read the whole thing, because you get the idea quite quickly. Basically, ex-Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil was an uncommonly awesome dude who lived a very rich and frustrating life and came out of it loving everything and everyone, like Gandhi. It's a bit sappy, and I found Posnanski's writing to be a tad cute, but then again most of those sappy lessons are truer than any of us young bucks know, and O'Neil insisted on the naked truth of those lessons. Still, I felt like Posnanski could have somehow introduced some variation in the tone to keep me hooked.
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
Creamer doesn't do a great job poking holes in the Ruth myth, then again maybe the myth was true. Ruth was loud, fat, drunken, hilarious, bawdy, amoral, and joyful, and Creamer is quite happy he existed. The writing is lively enough -- a bit old fashioned -- and the broad outlines are all there, and it isn't long. You also learn a lot about the era.
What Ever Happened to the Hall of Fame? by Bill James
I discovered reading this that I don't really care at all about the politics of the Hall of Fame. The museum itself, in Cooperstown, is beautiful, and it will forever be the case that the truly great ballplayers are given pride of place and the mediocre ballplayers, well, whatever. The take away from the book is that it's ALWAYS been the case that questionable ballplayers have gotten in, and that anyone who thinks that only consensus first-balloters are worthy misunderstands the institution's history.
The Book by Tango, Lichtman, and Dolphin
If you are interested in sabermetrics, you have to read it, own it, and study it. Basically, it tackles all the big baseball questions from a managerial, in-game point of view. When is it smart to bunt? Should I play the hot hand? How do I order my line up? etc. etc. It attempts to answer these questions via exceedingly well-constructed studies drawing on loads of data and tempered with common sense. There's a lot of math in the background, but if you're a skipper it's very clear what's skippable, and they state conclusions simply and succinctly. Best of all, they aren't afraid of nuance.
Can't Anyone Here Play this Game? by Jimmy Breslin
If you're a Met fan, and you are, you'll tear through this 80 page book in about an hour and tell all your friends about all the rad shit Casey Stengal kept saying. It's about the woeful 1962 Mets and is written with comic, hard-boiled prose. It's AWESOME.
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
This is probably my second favorite baseball book, behind the Abstract. It's the diary-like account of a season where Bouton tries to reinvent himself as a knuckleballer with the Seattle Pilots. It's got booze and broads and all that, but the surprising thing is that it's really well written. Bouton's observations are fresh, hilarious, and smart -- there's stuff about the 60s culture wars, amphetamine abuse, coaches not knowing shit, soreness, contract disputes, etc. But mostly it's fun because it paints a good picture of a clubhouse over a 162-game stretch, a bunch of grown men having to act like they're sad all the time because their club sucks.
You Know Me, Al by Ring Lardner
Written in 1916 by a bona fide legend of comedy writing, the book is a bit tiresome. It's a bunch of fictional letters from a cocky White Sox rook to his friend back home, and it's all pretty one note. Thought I was gonna love it. Others do.
Big League Baseball Puzzlers by Forker and Hoffman
Awesome. It runs through lots of highly unusual situations in baseball and asks what the official call should be, giving examples from real wacky games. More fun, it poses hypotheticals: Could a pitcher get a win and a save in the same game? (Normally no, but yes.*) Is it possible for a batter to get three bases on a foul ball? (Yes.) According to the scorer, what are the 8 ways to reach 1st base? Great for a car trip.
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
I came to this book late, and consequently couldn't get through it. Maybe I should really give it a fair shot, but I felt like 1) I already knew the stats stuff, and 2) Lewis's telling of the Billy Beane story is a bit pat. I didn't really give it a chance though, so maybe I'm wrong.
The Rules of Baseball by David Nemec
Actually, this is an anecdotal romp through baseball history using, very cleverly, the rule-book as the narrative framework. Basically, it starts off with a rule -- whether it be about equipment, the strike zone, baserunning, ground rules, whatever -- and discusses the origin of the rule, showing how invariably it was created to correct for some mischief that players were making, to plug up some loophole that was being exploited, or consciously to shift the competitive balance from era to era. Nemec shakes off baseball's aura of inevitability, and all the stories he tells are great. You learn the rules too. I'm giving this a "must have" rating.
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong by Baseball Prospectus
I dunno, I found this to be a sort of "Bill James/Tom Tango for Dummies." The substance is ok, but the writing is very cute. Also, that subtitle makes me want to vomit.
The Summer Game by Roger Angell
Beautiful, and for the Met fan you'll find that some of his best writing is about the 1960s Mets. Angell is E.B. White's step son and has been writing for The New Yorker for more than 60 years (honest.) He writes with precisely the easy, self-deprecatory erudition that the magazine was all about in its heyday, and his baseball writing is particularly supple and observant. He isn't stooping down to the game, either: he's a real fan and has a great eye. Best, he isn't afraid to turn the ballplayers into characters, using slight exaggerations, like Dickens would, to make their style, their stance, their baserunning, their fielding intensely memorable. It might be a bit literary for some, but I can't imagine anyone here not eating up the 60s Mets stuff.
The Ticket Out: Darrell Strawberry and the Boys from Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove
My dad borrowed this from me, took it back to Chicago, and lost it. He LOVED it, though, so I'll give it a mention.
The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling
Not about baseball, but I have to give this a mention, too. This is by far the best sports book I've ever read by fucking far. Liebling is God.
So.... agree, disagree, what have I missed, what are your favorites?
*How to get a win and a save in the same game: On July 22, 1986, the Mets played an extra-inning game where they had Roger McDowell and Jesse Orosco alternate innings, occupying a spot in the outfield when one or the other wasn't pitching. The Mets took the lead in the top of the 14th, and McDowell, who pitched the 13th, stood to be the winning pitcher. As it happened, Orosco pitched a scoreless bottom half to get the save. But suppose he looked shaky, put a couple men on, and Davey Johnson elected to bring McDowell back in to close it out. In that case, McDowell would have been the first pitcher in history to get a win and a save in the same game. GRISSION.


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The BEST WESTERN PLUS McCall Lodge & Suites, Idaho hotel has the perfect accommodations for families, small groups, business travelers, and many more. The BEST WESTERN PLUS McCall Lodge & Suites, a spacious and pet-friendly hotel, offers cable satellite television with HBO®, free wireless Internet access, microwave, refrigerators, and more in their guest ro...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 247 reviews
Okay 6.0
Staff was amazing, very clean.
Air conditioner did not work. Made our stay extremely displeasing
Okay 6.0
Price was fair.
Front desk service was non-apologetic and frustrating.Well maintained and nice room and grounds. Location doesn't have very nice views. Could be much better if the staff adopted a 'customer is always right' point of view.
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When you stay at Brundage Inn in McCall, you'll be convenient to Little Ski Hill Ski Area. This inn is within the region of Brundage Mountain Ski Area. Make yourself at home in one of the 22 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Conveniences include coffee/tea makers and ceiling fans, as well...
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When you stay at Americas Best Value Inn & Suites in McCall, you'll be on the Strip and within the vicinity of Little Ski Hill Ski Area. This hotel is within the region of Brundage Mountain Ski Area. Make yourself at home in one of the 79 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected...
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Good 7.0
The ample parking
When we checked in the room there was a few very wet spots on the carpet. The shower never got hot. BRRR!!! I guess they were having water heater problems, but I reported at check out and they stated it was fixed.The rooms are larger, the fridge and microwave are nice.
Good 8.0
The desk staff were outstanding. The breakfast was good. The location was perfect ... close to everything in town. The staff gave us great recommendations for dinner.
The photo presented a place that didn't quite measure-up in actual appearance. The price charged, therefore, was a bit higher than one would expect for a facility of its age.
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Super 8 in Mc Call, Idaho. Property features 61 rooms, Super Start Plus Breakfast, Free Wireless Hi Speed Internet, Whirlpool Suites, Executive King Suites, Large Family Suites, Hair Dryers, Coffee Maker, Microwave, Refrigerator, Iron & Ironing board, Guest laundry, Meeting rooms, Hot tub and large vehicle parking
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Excellent 9.0
The staff at the front desk were so helpful and accomidating. They really worked hard to make sure our stay was the best it could be.The hotel's lodge style entrance was cute and much nicer than I expected for the price and star level. The free breakfast was more than adequate and the staff was amazing.
Good 8.0
It was reasonably priced for a resort town. We also enjoyed the hot tub.
Parts of the the hotel did allow smoking. Our room smelled fine, but some areas of the hotel smelled smokey.Decent price, breakfast included, and a hot tub! Not 'exciting,' but it worked well for our family.
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McCall, Idaho Hotel's Guests Love This Mountain Lodge Picture perfect mountains, a pristine glacial lake and meadows of wildflowers frame the charming town of McCall, Idaho. The hotel's guests enjoy this west central Idaho paradise for a family vacation or a corporate retreat when they stay at the Holiday Inn Express® McCall - The Hunt Lodge hotel. Ponderosa...
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Good 7.0
Very nice room, clean and smelled clean
Free breakfast was coffee and a roll. Jacuzzi jets kept going off randomly thru the nite and front desk had no solution. Also..no safety bars or handles to assist in getting out of jacuzzi. Could not useI would stay again, but not get a jacuzzi room
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Clean, nice place
Pool is a bit cold and breakfast is awful
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Situated on the sandy shores of scenic Payette Lake in the Central Idaho town of McCall approximately 100 miles north of Boise, Shore Lodge is an idyllic mountain retreat that offers guests comfortable accommodation, a host of amenities and activities designed for fun and relaxation, and warm hospitality all in a setting of spectacular natural beauty. Estab...
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If you're looking for the ultimate McCall vacation home in luxury and fun, look no further. This large, well-stocked getaway offers so many activities that you will never hear the words "I'm bored..." uttered in this house! Perfect for multiple families or large groups, the home offers three separate living rooms, an indoor rec room and gym, and plenty of sp...
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Situated at the very north end of Payette Lake, this four bedroom McCall vacation cabin sits so close to the water you will feel like the lake is actually splashing onto the large deck out back. The open living space has lots of room to relax, so that everyone in your group can feel right at home while getting away from it all in the beautiful Idaho mountain...


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Toxic Derby Lagoon, full reportby Matt O'Donoghue
There is a warning for families tonight after hundreds of people have been putting themselves at risk by swimming in toxic water in Derbyshire.
The blue lagoon near Buxton is actually a flooded quarry.
The water there looks similar to the clear blue seas you might expect to find in an exotic foreign location but that is because it contains limestone.
Environmental experts say the water causes skin and eye irritations as well as stomach problems, but families and young swimmers keep on coming. Our correspondent, Matt O'Donoghue, reports


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