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Roatan is renowned for its amazing tropical settings and marine environment. Now imagine a place where the jungle meets a white powder-sand beach and crystalline clear waters that are home to some of the world's finest pristine coral, lap at the shoreline. This is the kind of place that many only dream of visiting, seeing themselves lounging on the beach, enjoying the aqua waters, lush tropical vegetation and cool Caribbean winds.
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In this latest edition of the Merseyside Derby, one thing is clear on paper. Everton should win this match, they are the better team overall at the moment despite a couple disappointing draws in their last two matches. The problem for the Toffees is that this game isn't played on paper, it's played on the field where they consistently under perform and lose virtually every battle, mental and physical, to their neighbors from across Stanley Park.
Davis Moyes has only defeated Liverpool four times in 23 games and if you think that's not in the heads of everyone in blue, you're kidding yourself. In big rivalry matches, the psychology of the situation is often bigger than what actually happens between the opening and closing whistle. That psychology has been on display during the week as both managers have made public comments about the other team in hopes of planting a seed in referee Andre Marriner's head that might work to their advantage.
Everton should be boosted by the return of Marouane Fellaini and Tony Hibbert, both of whom missed the draw against QPR. The only issue for Fellaini could be his fitness and whether or not he can go 90 minutes. Hibbert played 90 minutes for the reserves this week and should be ready to go at fullback. Moyes will be forced to play Kevin Mirallas on the left with Pienaar out along with the less than exciting (at for fans) duo of Phil Neville and Leon Osman in the midfield.
If Pepe Reins can't go, Brad Jones will be in goal for Liverpool. Up front, Luis Suarez will be the man since that's really the only striker Brendan Rodgers has available at the moment. Jonjo Shelvey might start ahead of Nuri Şahin who didn't take to well to Stoke's physicality and you can imagine that this game will make that one look tame.
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A six-week strike at Bell Helicopter Textron's transmission and rotor-blade component plants in Texas ended after union members ratified a revised four-year contract offer on July 22 and returned to work on July 27.
Some 2,500 members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 218 went on strike on June 14 after rejecting an initial three-year offer from Bell that increased wages, but also increased the share of employee-paid health-care costs. The union had also objected to what it said was Bell's plan to eliminate 44 unionized janitors and reduce the number of union representatives. This was the first strike at Bell in 22 years.
The company maintained that it needed higher employee contributions to its health-care plan to remain competitive, claiming its health-care costs for its UAW employees were 16-percent higher than for employees of competitors and that its UAW employees paid only 3 to 4 percent of their actual medical costs, while the average for the industry is 20 to 29 percent.
The helicopter manufacturer initially offered a package that included a $4,500 signing bonus and a complicated raise formula that Bell claimed would average 18.7 percent over the course of the three-year contract.
However, the union maintained that the higher cost of health care under the plan would increase the average worker's contribution from $80 to $300 per month, more than the value of the bonus and raises.
It also disputed the company's valuation of the wage increases. Bell called the offer its "last, best and final," and the union's national leadership and local bargaining committee had recommended its acceptance prior to the June 14 strike vote.
The four-year contract that the union approved provides for a 3-percent general wage increase in the fourth year, three different health-care options and a $3,500 ratification bonus payable on July 31.
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The striking plants had been scheduled to be closed over the July Fourth week for routine maintenance. After the strike began, Bell kept the factories open and brought in 1,000 replacement workers from other parts of the company, including its U.S. Helicopters subsidiary and furloughed workers from Cessna Aircraft Company, also owned by Textron. Some members of Local 218 also crossed the picket line and returned to work.
The union claimed that the replacement workers were ineffective. Although Local 218 did not return AIN's repeated calls for comment, Tom Wells, chairman of Local 218's bargaining committee, on July 13 wrote on the local's Web site, "The company is claiming that they are doing fine without us which is [expletive deleted]." He said the plants were "chaotic."
As temperatures on the picket line reached 105 degrees last month, tempers flared and there were numerous reports of plant gate "accidents," including a hit-and-run.
Although a Bell spokesman told AIN that the company was meeting its commitments to its customers, evidence from the field suggested that the strike affected spares availability for some of Bell's large, civil-fleet customers.
The majority of Bell's plants– those that make civil helicopters in Canada and military plants in Amarillo, Texas, that make helicopters including the V-22 tiltrotor–are non-union and the com- pany said the strike had no effect on new helicopter deliveries.
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05-30-2012 15:35:59 | More by pixieskid
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On-tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration
A: Amber red with a thin white head which fades quickly.
S: Smell is of cherries with vinegar, tart fruitness.
T: Sharp attack on the palate. Very very sour, some cherries, vinegar as well. Lingering sourness all through.
M: Huge attack on the palate, extremely aggressive. Very refreshing, but hard to drink actually.
O: I had never seen that before. Quite interesting but overall way too much sour for my taste.
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I had this on-tap at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Poured into a tasting tulip glass.
Appearance: Pours a cloudy amber color with a red hue. There is a nice layer of white head that fades to a ring around the edge of the glass.
Smell: This smells like straight up cherry vinegar. Amazingly sour. Mildly sweet with a hint of cherries, but this is the most sour smelling beer I've ever encountered.
Taste: Incredibly sour and acidic. Burns a bit while going down. The finish is sweet and still quite sour. You pick up more of the cherries after a few sips.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with fluffy carbonation and a dry finish. This one literally burns on the way down.
Overall: This is the most sour beer I can remember having. Think white vinegar soaked cherries. The cherries show up more after a few sips. A very interesting and extreme brew.
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One such project is the development of the Quality Assurance Framework for Vocational Education and Training (QAF for VET) recently launched in Bulgaria. This was delivered by the in-country British Council Skills for Employability team in partnership with Bulgaria's Ministry of Education, Youth and Science. The two key objectives were to raise standards and modernise the curriculum in order to better meet the changing needs of the workplace.
The project kicked off with a two day national conference and workshops in Plovdiv, organised and facilitated by the British Council. Employers, including Microsoft Bulgaria, social partners, ministry experts and VET school directors discussed the existing practices, problems, national priorities, criteria and indicators for evaluation and quality assurance mechanisms. From these discussions came a blue print for reform.
The project achieved long term benefits Bulgaria's VET system and employers, and so was able to attract more than 1.5 million Euros of EU Structural funds to further develop quality standards in the education system over the following three years.
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9:40am Tuesday 27th March 2012 in News By Emma Munbodh
Schools will come together on Thursday to celebrate the release of brown trout into the Wandle River.
The event, which marks the beginning of the second decade of the Wandle Trust's inspirational educational programme, will see students from Wandsworth set free trout hatchings which have been previously nurtured in their classrooms.
Burntwood Secondary, Furzedown Primary, Linden Lodge School, Sheringdale Primary and Thomas's Clapham are amongst the seven schools that plan to release the hatchings into the Wandle River at a celebratory event on March 29.
The occasion will be open to the public and will provide trout hats, masks and feature colorful banners on display. It will take place at 10.30am in Morden Hall Park.
The historical Wandle River, which was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book, was once a famous trout fishery which came to an end in the 1940's when the fish sadly died out due to pollution.
Thanks to the efforts of local students brown trout are now once again thriving in the river.
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She used to listen while I would cry…
Now I hold her as she's lifeless
As a gift she Gave me her one last breath… with a wish
Remember the torture you put me through…
My tears flowed down into a stream of red…
Rested upon her head was my massive cock
I told her to rot in hell just like her mother the Whore…
Before I left that appalling place, I left a little present on her face…
Death by feces is what the autopsy said….
How can one live with a shattered romance…
What the hell happened to my pants…
Feelings no more…Hate just a feeling I adore …
God her mom is a smelly whore…
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The line "What the hell happened to my pants " line reminded me of Walpurgis friend , Gildo, who woke up at our house one morning and said that very thing ! They were clear out in the dining room for some reason. (I don't ask too many questions about things like that. I know better.)
This was disgusting . It was gross. But obviously you have a sense of humor about a broken heart........or else you're REALLY a psycho lush.
Parts I liked and parts seemed like a 14 year old trying to shock someone. If you're serious about it, have a revisit and polish that baby up so it's got a little broader appeal.
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The Philadelphia 76ers had a resurgent year during the strike-shortened 2011-12 NBA season, earning a playoff berth and looking like legitimate contenders in the postseason. As they head into the 2012-13 season, the Sixers are looking to become even more of a threat and are trying to strengthen the franchise, starting with the front office.
While the team is focusing on finding a new general manager and appears to closing in on Danny Ferry for the position, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports that Sixers head coach Doug Collins is making a push for more power within the organization.
Collins wants increased power, sources said, and ultimately wants a new GM to answer to him. Ferry, who was the Cleveland Cavaliers' GM from 2005-2010, is reluctant to accept the job without an ability to report direct to ownership, sources said. So far, Ferry has been on a fact-finding mission to understand the dynamics around how the organization will restructure the front office.
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Length: 18.5 miles
Southern Trailhead: Marshall Lake Trailhead - FR 128
Northern Trailhead: Interstate 40 - West of Cosnino Exit
Trail Route Description: From the Marshall Lake Trailhead the trail heads mostly west across flat forest land. It passes through a gate, drops into a small canyon, crosses a road and climbs out the other side. The trail crosses FR 128B and then descends steeply into Lower Walnut Canyon. It passes the Sandy's Canyon Trail junction, turns to the right and goes up the canyon. The trail forks to the right and climbs steeply out of Walnut Canyon at Fisher Point. Once on top it passes the Fisher Point Trail junction and then crosses FR 301. The trail parallels Walnut Canyon and passes another trail junction. After two more junctions the trail descends down into a tributary of Walnut Canyon. It follows the canyon for a short ways and then climbs steeply out of it. From here the trail joins a two-track and then heads north up to FR 303, which is a trailhead. The trail stays north of the Walnut Canyon National Monument until it crosses the entrance road. It then turns to the north and works its way down to Interstate 40.
Difficulty: Moderate
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The City of Ruston designed, procured and implemented a Smart Metering Pilot Project in 2009. During the course of the pilot, the City applied for the U.S. Department of Energy Smart Grid Investment Grant Program. Ruston was selected late October 2009 to receive $4.3 million in funding as one of only one-hundred recipients nationwide. Utility Automation and Engineering T&D Magazine awarded the City of Ruston the Smart Grid Project of the Year in March, 2010 for its innovative design in the grant application.
The City of Ruston's Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Smart Grid project includes smart meters, distribution automation equipment, building energy management pilot programs, and an electric vehicle charging station demonstration pilot. The project is installing smart meters for all 10,125 customers served by the City of Ruston. The smart meter program enhances customer control of electricity costs, reduces customer costs, and improves peak-load conditions on the distribution system. New automation equipment is being installed for all circuits of the City of Ruston's distrubution grid. The equipment automatically adjusts voltage levels and averts power disturbances. The City of Ruston expects to reduce electricity line losses, improve system reliability, reduce operations and maintenance costs, and lower vehicle emissions.
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I am located in Malaysia, and I sync my e72 with my desktop PC here.
My USA colleage created mtg on his Outlook Calendar in his USA time zone, and list me as attendee.
Both Calendar are on the same server and appear properly on desktop PC.
However, my e72 calendar show the mtg appear on the next day. Synchronized with ovi-suite.
Is this a problem with e72 or ovi-suite?
The Nokia local support in Malaysia and Singapore say this BUG is a FEATURE. There is no way to fix this. It is customer's mistake and problem to buy this device.
I believe all software problem can be fix. Can someone help?
Thanks and rgds
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This IS a feature - of Outlook, not Nokia.
The idea, as far as anyone can tell, is that the meeting shows up at the LOCAL time in Malaysia, because that is where you are. The fact that you are planning to go to the USA and meet him there is irrelevant. When you arrive in the USA and your time zone changes, so will the time of the appointment.
The same issue arises on my HP Ipaq PDA. I've learnt the hard way not to change the time zone on the PDA...
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Hi ajwh
Good to see your reply.
Allow me to clarify the problem
Yes, the Outlook feature can show the the appointment, which was created in USA, in my Malaysia local time zone properly; example 8am Wed.
However, this same appointment show up in e72 calendar as 8am Thur.
I have no plan to be in USA and will just pick up this international video/phone conference at my local time.... problem it show up on Thur.
Yes, this e72 is my first Nokia smart phone. I have been loyal Nokia phone user since year 2000, having used 5 phones.
I have been using 2 HP iPaq PDA (no phone) since yr2001. I changed to Nokia because HP stopped selling PDA in my country. Yes, I have been synchronising the HP PDA with Outlook with no major problem like this.
The IT guys in my office says they have to put zero support and zero budget for Nokia recently because of cost. I have to find outside solution.
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Hi! Yeah, I think there's still a meetup tonight--it usually starts at 7 but I was planning to be there early too. I can be there around 6.
Hello Mimi,
How are you? I have recently created a new group and we are getting together with members in January. Turkish coffee and baklava( dessert) will be served in the meeting. There is no any fee and all free. We will have a short Turkey presentation video while sipping our traditional Turkish coffee. We would love to have you in our meeting :) Please, check out our group page
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Happy holidays to you.
Welcome to the group Look forward to meeting you soon
Benvenuta al nostro gruppo, Mimi! I hope that you will be able to practice la bella lingua italiana with us sometime! We are a warm and welcoming group with no judgment about language ability. Feel free to stop by any time! -Patrizia
Hi Mimi, Welcome to the Bay Area Bookworms Book Club! I hope you can join us at our next event - we're looking forward to meeting you!
Greetings Mimi and welcome to the Spark Writing Workshops! I hope you will join us for our upcoming meetups in Bernal on October 23rd and 24th. Don't forget to RSVP and register, if you're interested. See you soon!
Hello Mimi, Thanks for joining our Sunday-Morning-Hike Group. Hope to see you on one of our hikes soon!
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Start of new short story.
In the interests of trying to make myself write, I dusted off a few exercises. A few nanos ago I decided I was gonna do one short story a day for November, and every one was going to begin with … Continue reading
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Short Story: Registry
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Got the phat brew on the reel.
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Thank you so much for your courage in sharing what has to have been a difficult story to tell!
I rejoice with you in what God has done in your life! :)
I, too, was married twice, to emotionally-abusive men
(My Dad had been a "rage-a-holic"...a troubled, emotionally-abusive man who loved us, but couldn't control his anger)
They say you marry a man much like your Dad, as the role you saw your Mom play seems most "natural" somehow--and I think it was that way for me.
Scripturally divorced (infidelity, in the 1st; unwiillingness of an unbelieving partner to stay, in the 2nd) I spent 7 yrs as a single Mom, lonely, but trusting in our Lord....and being healed, emotionally, by Him.
Meanwhile, in other State altogether, God was healing the emotional wounds of a man who was to bless me with the gift of his love.
'Long story, but lloking back, I can see that everything that happened "dove-tailed" ......
God had brought us together, and we knew it!
We'd written before we'd actually met, face-to-face, and married a month later.
It's been a beautiful 18 1/2 years for us! :)
To be married to someone who loves our Lord with all his heart is a gift directly from Him---and one I've never forgotten to thank Him for!
John is kind, gentle and "1 Cor:13 loving"---I am a blessed woman!
Have hope in the Lord--He often surprises us with joy!
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Im "cleaning"my computor and just found these pictures i did with photographer Emma Jönsson Dysell and model Linnea at Mikas over a year ago. We did this story for Gravure where my best friend Hanna illustrated pieces from the aw 09 collections ontop of the images. We shot Linnea all nude and here are some of the images without illustations. There where so many beautiful images of her we had a hard time choosing the ones for the Gravure shoot.
Almost a year after our shoot Love magazine published their Newton inspired issue with Lara, Kate & the girls nude on the cover. All of a sudden all girls should go nude and we felt that is was to much and we where abit tired of this nude thing and just let the images go unpublished.
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Ruthie and her younger sister Tiffani have shared a lot together. Today, they're writing their memories down, in a scrapbook. "They are very close. They share a bedroom where they are now. They also share most of their possessions. They like to do things together," explains David Godwin, caseworker with Child Protective Services.
Both girls like dancing, music, skating and arts and crafts. They're described as nice, well-mannered children. David says, "They're very polite. They always ask permission before doing anything."
They keep a positive attitude despite being placed in foster care five years ago. They never knew their father and their mother wanted nothing to do with them. "She decided she was not going to quit drugs and so she relinquished her parental rights," says David.
They only have each other and they hope to stay together. "It's important because I know that some people don't have a sister and they want to have a sister and I have a sister and I don't want to take it for granted." Ruthie goes on to say, "Tiffani is my best friend. I love my sister."
Tiffani says affectionately, "Ruthie can be annoying sometimes but she's still my sister."
Although there is a definite bond between these sisters, their personalities are different. Ruthie is 13-years-old. She's much more reserved. "Sometimes I'm quiet till I get to know people, then I open up to them," says Ruthie.
Tiffani is 12-years-old and much more outgoing. "I have a lot of friends. I like school and want to play the clarinet."
Tiffani has a learning disability due to a head injury she sustained in a car accident at just five years old. It also left her blind in one eye. She will need some extra one-on-one attention with homework, but that doesn't stop her from achieving in school. She says, "My favorite subject at first was math, then it was language arts, reading and writing because I had the best teacher in the world."
"I think Ruthie and Tiffani could make someone very proud," says David.
There's one thing in particular Ruthie and Tiffani want in a forever family, a strong faith. "Somebody who goes to church and loves the Lord and somebody who if you're having a problem they sit down and talk to you," says Tiffani.
David says, "Both the girls love to go to church. We went out for lunch and as soon as we sat down, both started saying the blessing."
They hope their prayer will soon be answered. Tiffani says, "My prayer is that one day we can have a forever home."
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Underrated: "Everything About Him Says, 'I Am An Artist' "
Thursday, Sep 1, 2011 12:15AM
[Brooklyn Cipher: SOHH features a new entertainment personality each week to speak on who they feel is the most underrated artist. After Ciph Diggy gave the title to Showbiz & A.G. earlier this week, Brooklyn rapper Ciph Boogie crowns Lupe Fiasco as SOHH Underrated.]
For SOHH Underrated, my pick goes to Lupe Fiasco. I don't think he gets the real props -- props that he deserves. So I'm going with Lupe Fiasco.
I really like his concepts but [...] I really love his vibe. Everything about him from the way he dresses says, "I'm an artist." It's not manufactured by the label or anything like that. He lives and breathes this. When I look at Lupe Fiasco, I see "I'm an artist." That's what I'm really trying to say.
That's really how I see myself as well. If you see what I'm wearing right now, I have some cargo shorts on. I'm an artist. I'm artistic with what I do. I love everything about Lupe. He has the shell of an artist and you can really hear how he puts it together through his music.
My people put me on to his mixtapes when he first came out. But I really got put up on him with his debut album, Food & Liquor. That's when he had "Kick, Push" out. And I loved his song "Day Dreaming." I actually wrote a freestyle to that beat and it was about George W. Bush when he was the President. The concept behind mine was that George W. Bush's image as an idiot was an act. He was really behind 9/11 and the mastermind behind all of it. The concept was him trying to trick everybody.
And that brings me back to being artistic. It's all about thinking outside of the box.
Ciph Boogie is a Brooklyn rapper from New York City. Dashaun William Asemota, or better known as Ciph Boogie, the Hip-Hop poet and ghetto orator is very vocal with his feelings towards the craft, the industry, and the listeners. In 2011, he released his long-awaited Sometime In New York City, Vol. 1 EP and heavily credits late Beatles member John Lennon for inspiring his music.
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Can the Communist Party's greying old men keep pace with China's next generation?
Just back from the Great Hall of the People after listening to Premier Wen Jiabao's "state of the nation" speech in which he outlined China's plans and priorities for the next 12 months. The theme, after last year's stimulus splurge, was putting a lid on the nascent bubbles forming in China's economy and trying to share a bit more of the wealth of the nation with the farmers and wage-earners whose sweat actually creates it.
It is, to put it mildly, a pretty dry occasion. The national anthem sounds and in walks the members of China's standing committee (cabinet) and politburo in a carefully choreographed crocodile. Up in the Gods, armed with binoculars because the venue is so vast, assorted press and hangers on watch the spectacle, counting the number of PLA generals with comb-overs and try to stay awake as Wen intones for two hours straight with only a couple of sips of Chinese tea to lubricate.
Despite the drab visuals, this year's speech contained some pretty populist measures aimed at addressing the core concerns of the common man in China – namely unemployment, rural healthcare, rising house prices, low wages and the growing rich-poor divide.
These included curbing the wages of top executives in China's state-owned enterprises, relaxing the divisive household registration (hukou) system that prevents migrant workers sending their kids to school or getting medical care in the cities where they work and controlling the maotai swilling excesses of officialdom and its overseas jollies that Wen described as too often "long on form and short on content".
The accent, however, is firmly on general direction rather than concrete actions.
Every policy or plan is routinely prefaced with cautionary caveats such as "gradually" or "orderly" or "actively but prudently". The steps on the road to the nirvana of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics are slow, deliberate and incremental.
Contrast this with Western politicians – from Barak Obama to David Cameron – dancing about trumpeting 'change' at the fastest pace possible, and you get a sense of what Deng Xiaoping called the 'great advantage' of one-party state socialist nations.
However such incrementalism has its dangers too. In this internet age, Chinese society is changing very fast and it is in the cracks between the Mr Wen's ever-measured reforms and the impatient ambitions of ordinary people for improvement that the seeds of tension grow.
Migrant workers in Chinese towns and cities – as a recent editorial in 13 newspapers made plain – want change to the hukou system now, because they want to send their children to the school near where they work 'now', not in five or ten years time.
The Party has pretty widespread support and understanding for the need to maintain stability, but that doesn't mean that its failure to address endemic corruption, empower small businesses, create graduate jobs, reform the courts and make a rich man's property market in which it has a vested interest more equitable will be tolerated forever.
The post 1980s and 1990s-born generations have much less patience and far higher expectations than their elders who know from sometimes bitter experience just how far China has come in the last 30 years and are more accepting of the gradual pace of change.
Over the next decade the social centre of gravity in China will shift inexorably towards that 80s and 90s generation. The grey men of the Party may well be right to go "slowly but surely", to cross the river by feeling the stones as Deng said, but Grandpa Wen and his friends might have to have quicken the pace a bit if they want to keep up with the expectations of Gen-next.
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Who Should Act as Lender of Last Resort? An Incomplete Contracts Model
AbstractThis paper presents a model of a bank subject to liquidity shocks that require borrowing from a lender of last resort. Two government agencies with different objectives may perform this function: a central bank and a deposit insurance corporation. Both agencies supervise the bank, i.e. collect nonverifiable information about its financial condition, and use this information to decide whether to support it. It is shown that the optimal institutional design involves the two agencies: the central bank being responsible for dealing with small liquidity shocks, and the deposit insurance corporation for large shocks. Furthermore, except for very small shocks, they should lend at penalty rates.
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Piano Quintet No.1 (Reger, Max)
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Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1922. Plate 31000.
London: Merton Music, No.5757, n.d.
This file is part of the Merton Music Project.
The pages have been arranged 2-up in imposition (booklet) order. Print landscape on A3 paper (420 x 297mm) in duplex fashion (even pages on back of odd). Last two pages are for covers. Fold string parts separately. Piano part is in separate fascicles; when folding have regard to sequence of page numbers. On other paper sizes center text with printer control options. If you lack a suitable printer this item can be mail-ordered directly from Ourtext by CLICKING HERE.
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MADISON (WKOW) -- Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority officials delayed disbursement of $1 million to a company selected in a state contract process, until the company can verify it followed federal, conflict-of-interest rules.
WHEDA spokesperson Kevin Fischer tells 27 News contract award winner Capital Midwest Fund II will have to show it adheres to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules to protect against "pay-to-play."
As first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, fund manager Stephen Einhorn won the contract one month after Einhorn and his wife, Nancy, contributed a total of $25,000 to Governor Walker's campaign to stop his recall. Walker appoints WHEDA's executive director and eight of its twelve member board.
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A spokesperson for Governor Walker told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel politics played no role in WHEDA's selection of Einhorn's company.
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Owning a home in Mississippi may be on the rebound but there's still plenty of folks across the state who are dealing either with the threat of loosing their home or the fact they've already lost it.
Attorney General Jim Hood says some of that is actually preventable and he's trying to put financial assistance into the hands of those who deserve it.
"There are millions for people to tap into that may have been taken advantage of and don't even know it," said Hood.
To help, Hood created the Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium back in July. Now, through town hall type meetings, he's taking it on the road during the next few weeks to try and reach folks who are battling foreclosure issues.
"We want people to come if they just have trouble on foreclosure issues, just generally," said Hood.
Set up through a multi-million dollar national mortgage settlement, the program is for homeowners who were subjected to mortgage fraud and abuse. Partnerships between state agencies, non-profit groups and community organizations make up it up. Phaedra Robinson at the Mississippi Center for Justice is part of it.
"We wanted to go into those communities that are being most affected by foreclosure and let them know that help is available," said Robinson.
Even if folks don't qualify for financial assistance, they can still get free legal and homeowner counseling. Those involved say it's a way to keep the doors open for home ownership.
"If you are in fact behind on your mortgage or foresee that you might fall behind then you are the people that we are coming to help," said Robinson.
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Is Multi-Level Marketing a Legitimate Business Model?
The heat has been on multi-level marketing companies lately, most notably Mary Kay Cosmetics, the focus of Virginia Sole-Smith's article on the pink pyramid scheme.
One of the common defenses of multi-level marketing is that it is a legitimate business method that has been around for a long time. I've also been told that if it was illegal, it would have been shut down. Neither the length of existence nor the lack of law enforcement action means something is legitimate or not a fraud. Remember Enron? Remember Bernie Madoff? These and others have been in business for a long time, and turned out to be complete frauds.
Dr. Jon Taylor's extensive research of multi-level marketing has been summarized in his e-book called The Case (For and) Against Multi-Level Marketing. (Free download here.) He has asked whether multi-level marketing is a legitimate business model, and boils his findings down into eleven points:
- MLMs depend on unlimited recruitment of a network of endless chains of participants,
- Participants secure and advance to ranks or positions in a pyramid ("downline") of participants based on timing and recruitment, rather than on merit or appointment.
- As endless entrepreneurial (or "opportunity") chains, MLMs assume infinite markets and virgin markets, neither of which exists in the real world. They would be doomed to eventual market saturation and collapse, except that some avoid this by expanding to other countries and/or re-pyramiding through the same markets with new product offerings.
- As endless entrepreneurial chains, MLMs are inherently flawed, deceptive, and unfair – profitable primarily for those at or near the top (top-level "upline", or "TOPPs", for top-of-the-pyramid promoters) – who are often the first ones to join.
- Worldwide feedback suggests that MLMs can be extremely viral and predatory. As endless chains, MLMs quickly spread from state to state and often to vulnerable foreign markets.
- I have challenged regulators to identify any "business opportunity" that is systemically more unfair, deceptive, viral, and predatory than MLM. None have met the challenge.
- MLMs typically finance their operations from purchases by participants who are incentivized to buy products to qualify for commissions and to advance to higher levels in the pyramid of participants. With the exception of some party plans, the majority of sales are typically to participants.
- Typically, MLM products are unique (making it difficult to compare with alternative products), consumable (to encourage repeat purchases), and priced higher than products sold elsewhere – to pay commissions on many levels of participants.
- In MLMs, most of the commissions are paid to those at or near the top levels in the hierarchy of participants (TOPPs). It is this extreme concentration of commissions paid to TOPPs that motivates them to work tirelessly to expand downlines, thereby assuring the MLM's survival and growth. They also must continually recruit to replace dropouts due to high failure rates.
- Most MLMs become even more top-weighted with five or more layers in their compensation plans – more than are functionally justified.
- Some have asked if it is possible to design an MLM that is honest and fair to all participants. To accomplish this would require major adjustments, such as:
- Commissions would be paid only on sales to non-participants – and no overrides or commissions for personal consumption of participants.
- Most (over 50%) of the commissions and bonuses paid by the company would be paid to the front-line person who sells the products, with amount of commissions decreasing at each higher rank level.
- The number of levels on which commissions can be paid would be limited to four (the maximum needed to manage any standard sales function, including branch, division, regional, and national managers).
- There would be no minimum ongoing purchase requirements to qualify for commissions or rank advancement.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge, none of the MLM founders have taken such steps to achieve honesty and fairness.
The villain in MLM abuse is not so much the leaders as a flawed system built on endless chains of recruitment of participants as primary customers. MLMs enable the transfer of money from a rapidly churning supply of new recruits to TOPPs, founders, and the company itself.
MLM promises what it cannot deliver. To be successful, MLM promoters depend on a litany of deceptions, including much self-deception. Misrepresentations regarding products, income potential, and legitimacy are commonplace in MLM.
I don't think that any reasonable person can read the above and still believe that multi-level marketing is an actual and legitimate business method. Yes, there are people who profit in MLM. That includes the organizers of the schemes (owners of the MLM companies) and a handful of upper level participants. But the profit of those does not make the scheme a business. Far from it.
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How is an MLM different from a traditional employer? I provide value to my employer and he pays me. The guy at the top gets rich off the "pyramid" below. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the traditional employer-employee relationship, I just see little difference in the pyramid.
Tracy Coenen
MLM is not like a real job because (a) it is pay to play and (b) it requires continuous recruiting of people who must play to pay. (And you're recruiting competitors for yourself.) Read the article. It details why MLM is a scam and not a legitimate business.
I agree with you. I have been approached to sell everything under the sun but my answer is ALWAYS no!
There is a reason why people who take part in these type of "businesses" are usually selling the business more than the product. If you manage to join early, are very good at selling AND you manage to build a very large team of motivated and successful sellers, you will make a nice bit of money….for a while. Eventually the market is very saturated with more people selling than buying. The only ones who make the fortune that almost every MLM claims you'll make are the people who created the business and some of the very first people who signed up (if they have a large network of people to sell to.)
I know people who have sold everything under the sun and in the end they're lucky if they break even when it's all said and done. The income is far from "life changing", being an "adequate" income for a part time hobby would be a stretch.
Steve- with a job you're being paid to perform a task. With an MLM you're paying someone else for an "opportunity" that does not come with a guaranteed income (even though they usually claim that it will).
If you haven't seen it, you need to watch the movie "Believe" on Netflix; it's a satirical mocumentary about a MLM organization called "Believe." I laughed the whole way through and thought you would enjoy it. Later!
aka Carmen
Steve, thought it might be difficult for you just think a little:
1) in the real biz (unlike false MLM) the income derives from outside–end customers who need such goods or services, which not true about MLM where 'sellers' are primary 'buyers';
2) in the real biz higher levels don't live at the expense of so-called 'downlines';
3) in the real biz *ALL* employees are paid, whereas in MLM only the Top 1% gets over 2/3rd of the corporate income, leaving the others to hope;
4) in the real biz 'levels' do their own job (cleanres, clerks, departments and so on) while in MLM all are HR-clones;
5) in the real biz there's the real value, yet in MLM overpriced value is continuously inflated (maintained) by ever-revolving door of new 'loosers';
6) in the real biz there's a limited number of posts, but in MLM there're somehow 'unlimited' 'independent nonworkers';
7) in the real biz there're preparation, analysis, projections, and so on, but MLM is ever unpredictable;
8) in the real biz there're real contracts which can me amended and usually is a 'win-win' deal, while in MLM all 'representative' are to sign notorious 'ultimatum' and resign many rights (including infamous 'binding arbitration');
9) in the real biz there're social securities, taxes, promotion, real professional development, stability, recognition, usefulness, pension and so on, but in MLM it's all about recruiting and involvements, unnecessary crazy and expensive regular witches' sabbath, fancy 'tools' and other weird things;
10) the real biz is real, while MLM is but a forgery fake;
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[...] Defenders of multi-level marketing (MLM) are often heard saying that it's a legitimate business method! Even government regulators say MLM is legitimate. And it is true that state and federal governments in the United States generally allow multi-level marketing companies to operate with little oversight. This is despite the fact that structurally and operationally, MLMs are nothing more than pyramid schemes. [...]


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Warm and natural, butcher block countertops are a wonderful way to bring the beauty of nature into your home. Wooden work surfaces combine strength and durability with softness under hand, and lustrous, timeless style. The Pacific Northwest is home to many beautiful wood species, some uncommon elsewhere, that are recognized for the richness and beauty of their grain. Green Depot offers a range of species of wood butcher blocks that are high quality and sustainably sourced.
The woods that make up our butcher blocks are harvested and reclaimed from a variety of sources. The Fir is reclaimed from various Northwest deconstruction projects. The Alder, Maple, and Myrtle are carefully selected from sustainably maintained Northwest forests. Our rare and beautiful Madrone comes from urban salvage and windfall. The Northwest Orchard Walnut comes from decommissioned walnut groves. The African Hardwoods blend is salvaged wood from shipping pallets and has a variety of color tones and grains.
From their source and manufacturing, through their use, all the way to the end of their service, our butcher blocks exemplify a green life-cycle. Once installed, they will last a very, very long time because wood is not only very strong - it is also re-finishable. At 1.5 to 2 inches thick, you can refinish these butcher blocks countless times. Finally, when you (or your great grandchildren) decide to replace the butcher block it is biodegradable, or easily repurposed. It does not have to end up in the landfill.
Our butcher block countertops are put together with a low-VOC adhesive that contains no added formaldehyde, so they will not off-gas harmful vapors into your home. There are many high-performance, low-toxic finish options for these wooden surfaces - including natural oils and waxes - that will not compromise your indoor air quality. And finally, they are available pre-finished so that if someone in your home is particularly sensitive to finishes - even natural ones - you can lessen their exposure to a potential irritant.
For food preparation, wood is turning out to be a much safer choice than many people expect. Studies at the University of Wisconsin and UC Davis have shown that bacteria like Salmonella and E. Coli simply don't persist on wooden surfaces - even just 3 minutes after being contaminated.
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Blessing of the Old God2
December 26, 2011
by Cymre in Archaeology
Blessing of the Old God is a rare archaeology artifact that requires 375 skill to find and 140 Nerubian Archaeology Fragments to solve. Up to three [Nerubian Obelisk] keystones may be used to complete it. Using the item will transform you into a Green Qiraji Tank for 20 seconds. It has a 10 minute CD.
Unsolved: You have discovered a very bad thing. It hurts your mind to even look at fragments of this artifact and you worry that it might drive you insane were you to complete the final object.
Solved: Pwhn'guul i ghawl'fwata ryiu wgah uul'gwan h'iwn guu'lal. Pwhn'guul i ghawl'fwata ryiu wgah uu'gwan h'iwn guu'lal. Pwhn'guul i ghawl'fwata ryiu wgah uul'gwan h'iwn guu'lal.
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Ancient Amber3
December 26, 2011
by Cymre in Archaeology
Ancient Amber is a rare archaeology artifact that requires 100 Fossil Archaeology Fragments to solve. The effect shrinks you down to ~50% and encases you in amber. The effect will last for 5mins but can be cancelled any time.
Unsolved: A particularly large hunk of petrified tree resin containing what appears to be a small humanoid figure.
Solved: The diminutive humanoid figure trapped within this massive hunk of amber is impossible to make out, its outline seeming to waver and blur even under the most steady scrutiny. The object makes those who look into it for too long uneasy, as if some time over the past millennia the fossil had become tainted with bizarre, eldritch power.
Points to note:
- I've read that you will lose your costume, when you use the Amber, however it does seem to work with Leyara's Locket (seen above);
- Can't be used in combat so no fun in battlegrounds;
- Can't be used while moving, so don't expect to save you if you're falling off a cliff or something :P


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Facebook Places, everything you need to know in 1-minute
Facebook Places launched tonight, and this blog post is intended to provide you with a 1-minute read about the new update. Most importantly, I have recommendations for your privacy settings you should look at before you get started using this new feature.
- Facebook Places is a feature within Facebook that is very similar to Foursquare and Gowalla.
- You can check in on Facebook, through the iPhone app, just like Foursquare and Gowalla.
- You can also check in and post to Facebook Places -using- Foursquare and Gowalla.
- There are no "Mayors" of locations.
- There are no "Badges", "Pins", or "Points".
- When you check in you can tag your friends and check them in too.
- Just like Foursquare, you can leave comments at specific locations. When you check in, if any of your friends have been there, you will see their comments (just like Foursquare).
- Applications and websites that utilize Facebook, can and will be able to utilize your location check-in data if you approve it in your settings.
- Businesses and companies CAN claim their locations on Facebook Places.
- For businesses and company locations, there WILL be a "Like" button on the page. So upon check in, you can "Like" their page and get updates.
- FAQs for Facebook Places
- Article: "The Implications of Facebook Places" (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Article: "Facebook Places: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It May Change the World" (Forrester)
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I suggest that you check your privacy settings right now for Facebook Places (click 'Account' in the top right, then 'Privacy Settings'):
1.) Review the privacy setting for "Places I check in". By default, it's set to Friends Only.
2.) *I would recommend changing the setting for "Friends can check me into Places" to be DISABLED*. Personally, I want to be in full control of disclosing my location. I would not feel comfortable allowing others to do this for me on my behalf. Not that I have anything to hide, but I can see how this feature would get abused and others could check you into places.
3.) Review if you would like your name to appear on the "People Here Now" screen when your friends check in at locations.


text: So there I was, enjoying a delicious cookie at Panera Bread earlier this afternoon. Suddenly, there standing before me was Steve Quis, setting up shop at the table next to me. He set his newspaper down, placed his order number in the the number-holder-doohickey, and sat down. What I saw next surprised me... Steve Quis was wearing a Yankees t-shirt. The Yankees? What the hell? I try not to listen when he's talking most of the time, but he's never expressed Yankee loyalty before, right? Yikes.