text:
TEGoVA,The European Group of Valuers' Associations, is a European non profit making association composed of 59 valuers' associations from 32 countries representing more than 70.000 valuers in Europe.
Under the leadership of its Chairman, Adrian Vascu, ANEVAR is hosting in September an interrnational valuation conference and TEGoVA's Board meeting.
Action in the final stage of the legislative process reverses the exclusive emphasis on international standards and confirms TEGoVA as the European standard setter.
Five members of the VBO Makelaar Commercial Real Estate Department received their REV certificates at PROVADA, the annual property fair.


text:
What to watch for when signing a lease
For many students, finding an apartment or house and signing a new lease can be a daunting undertaking. Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Elan Nichols discusses some of the precautions students should take when signing a new lease.
Please note All comments are eligible for publication in The State News.
Audio More audio
Locker room culture at MSU, pro sports
The State News sports desk talks about the locker room culture, stemming from the Richie Incognito/Jonathan Martin scandal within the Miami Dolphins organization. The topic turns to the culture at ...
The magic word: Recapping MSU's win over USF
The State News sports desk picks one word they would use to describe MSU?s 21-6 win over South Florida. Warning: The words aren?t filled with rays of sunshine....
Sports Desk Podcast: The QB question and South Florida predictions
Should people be upset with Rolling Stone?
Today, our Editorial Board wrote about the recent Rolling Stone cover featuring Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. With so much more to cover, State News staff writers and editors gathered ...

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bands still going to Savannah Posted: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Bands still going to SavannahThe four large mas bands which will be part of the Socadrome initiative at the Jean Pierre Complex may still head to the Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, on Carnival Tuesday.WE WANT MORE $$TUCO upset over $1m Calypso Monarch prize: soca and chutney get $2mCHINESE MEDICS FOR TTChinese medical personnel may soon fill current staff shortages in Trinidad and Tobago's health sector, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced.PM: T&T ready to assist in VenezuelaT&T mulls border lockdownNational Security Minister Gary Griffith has held talks with defence heads about T&T's borders as a result of the current unrest in VenezuelaTrinis in Venezuela in 'no immediate danger'Ryan plans to file for divorceRyan Rampersad intends to file for a divorce from his wife.Ryan says God is realAfter a year of pain, Ryan Rampersad is a living testimony that "God is real". Junior singers impress the PresidentPresident Anthony Carmona was so impressed with the standard of calypsoes he heard at yesterday's TUCO First Citizen's Junior Calypso Monarch, that he invited all 16 contestants to President's House for lunchRonaldo wins $25,000Sixteen-year-old Ronaldo London is this year's new Junior Calypso Monarch with his song "Hear My Cry". Calypsonians: Nothing wrong in singing about GovtCredit union robbed of $94,000Palo Seco Credit Union along the SS Erin Road.$40M to clean TT highwaysWORKERS of the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the appearance of all of the nation's highways and major bridges. JetBlue here to stayAirline boss proud after inaugural Piarco flightGuardian Holdings leads with $1.6m in tradesOverall market activity resulted from trading in eight securities of which two advanced, two declined and four traded firm. Homosexuality threatens the arts, fuels crimeClarkeHomosexuality is not only threatening the arts but is used to indoctrinate gang members, says artist LeRoy Clarke. Farmers vow not to leave landsFARMERS whose lands at Guave Road in Chaguaramas were partially destroyed on Sunday by officials of the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA)Mother demands justiceOFFICIALS at the Forensic Science Centre will not release the body of prisoner Steven Abdool to his family until they get the "okay" to do so from officials from the Prisons Service.
Send page by E-Mail
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog | Homepage
Back to top


text:
Desolate Syrian refugees feel let down by world powers
Syrian refugees who were forced to flee their war-torn country told ITV News that the world has let them down by not staging an intervention to a chemical weapons attack.
UN: Seven million displaced by Syrian civil war
One refugee at the Zaatari camp in Jordan told our Correspondent Martin Geissler: "Assad has used chemicals 14 times at least. What is the matter with the world. Are they sleeping? Are they drunk? Are they on drugs?"
Watch: Refugees call for the world to act now on Syrian crisis


text:
St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) - The Boston Red Sox will activate pitcher Clay Buchholz off the 60-day disabled list Tuesday, as the right-hander will start his club's game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Buchholz has been sidelined since early June with shoulder and neck issues.
Prior to being injured, he was having the most successful season of his seven- year career, posting a perfect 9-0 record with 81 strikeouts and a 1.71 ERA over 12 starts.
He was selected to his second All-Star Game, but hasn't taken the mound since a start against the Angels on June 8.
© 2014 Ramar Communications |
Site Map |
Terms Of Use |
Privacy Statement |
Copyright & Trademark Notice |
EEO Report |
FCC Public Files |
Closed Captioning |


text:
News: Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" Leaks Online Early, "I May Be The Most Bootlegged Artist In History"
Monday, Aug 31, 2009 8:00PM
Jay-Z's highly-anticipated The Blueprint 3, which features Young Jeezy, Kanye West and Alicia Keys, has landed online nearly two weeks before its retail release and a day before the rap mogul planned to stream the entire project for free.
The long-awaited project stormed onto blogs and download websites Monday (August 31) which led to various unofficial reviews.
"Jay-Z's new album Blueprint III has leaked online," blogger Gyant wrote today. "And its AMAZING. I can't even believe how great a masterpiece it is. Writing a review on it now. writing feverishly. Review below. And there I was about to get into yet another entertainment blog when I felt a twinge up my spine, and I knew instantly that Jay-z's new Blueprint III album had leaked on to the net. After a few simple google clicks I found the hip-hop pot of gold. And though I won't be posting the link[s] to any illegal downloads, I can give you all review from a music lover's point of view." (Gyant Unplugged)
Jay later shared his reaction to the unauthorized leaks.
"I may be the most bootlegged artist in history," he said in an interview after learning the news. "It's a preview. I'm excited for people to hear the album. I'm very proud of the work I've down, so enjoy it...My pager is actually ringing right now, so people are probably calling me and telling me they pretty much like it. I can tell by the way my pager rings if a song is good or not. It's really going crazy right now." (MTV)
Hov has also teamed with music retailer Rhapsody and MTV to debut a stream-only version of his album beginning tomorrow.
Rhapsody and MTV are the exclusive places to hear the new Jay-Z album, The Blueprint 3, starting September 1, nearly two weeks prior to official release date -- Rhapsody will be the exclusive retailer for The Blueprint 3 from September 8-10, prior to official September 11 release date -- Two exclusive bonus tracks will be available from Rhapsody on September 8 -- Rhapsody collaborates with Jay-Z on TV advertisements promoting the new album -- Rhapsody to premiere a 60-second customized Jay-Z advertisement in 2009 MTV VMAs. (Hip Hop Press)
The rapper's wife, Beyonce Knowles, previously teamed with MySpace Music to allow fans to hear her I Am...Sasha Fierce, which has now sold over two million copies, a week before it landed in stores last November
"I am happy that my fans will get to listen to my new album first at MySpace," Beyonce said in a statement. "I have put my heart and soul into I Am...Sasha Fierce and cannot wait to hear the feedback from fans." (Statement)
Check out Jay-Z's "Run This Town" music video below:


text:
As of Friday, July 12, 2013
© Copyright 2014 Gwinnett Daily Post
The Norcross football program was hit with tragedy for the second time in as many years on Wednesday.
Nicholas Kim, a rising senior on the defending state champion's football team, died after a long battle with a rare form of cancer.
"He's such a great kid," Norcross head coach Keith Maloof said. "He played on the offensive line and after his freshman year he was voted on the leadership council by his peers. He had a lot of respect."
It's the second time the Norcross football team lost a member of its program. Nicholas Jackson II was shot in February 2012 during a home invasion.
"I think the kids are handling it pretty well," Maloof said of the second tragedy. "We are here for the family."
Kim's teammates went to Twitter to pay their respects to their friend.
"RIP Nick Kim. I love you man, please watch over this season. This season is for Nick Kim and Nick Jackson. #NorcrossAngels," Norcross receiver LaMarcus Hardnett tweeted.
Kim, 17, played on the offensive line as a freshman and sophomore for Norcross. He was unable to play last season as Norcross won the state title, but was with the team for the championship game.
"He was a very unselfish kid and a great young man," Norcross offensive line coach Dale Farr said. "He had a heart as big as this room."
"You fought the hardest battle of your life but you're in an amazing place now RIP Nick Kim," Norcross offensive lineman Blake Wood tweeted.
Kim was selected to the Norcross football team's leadership council his freshman and sophomore year. He was a member of the school's spirit club, the Blue Crew, and was elected to student council.
"@NickRagerKim is probably one of the best person that I ever knew ... you were loved by everyone im gonna miss you," Norcross teammate Nick Jones tweeted.
Kim was also active in Relay For Life and the drama club at Norcross.
Kim is the son of Susan Kim and brother of Alex Kim. A funeral mass will take place today at noon at the Korean Martyrs Catholic Church. Online condolences may be made at www.crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements by Crowell Brothers Funeral Home, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Peachtree Corners, GA 30092.
Return to www.gwinnettdailypost.com.
More like this story
- Maloof's perseverance guides Norcross to finals ( December 12, 2012 )
- Devils, Falcons kick off high school football season ( August 17, 2011 )
- Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign ( May 7, 2012 )
- Big game bigger for on-the-bubble Blue Devils ( November 5, 2009 )
- Maloofs kick-start football ( August 19, 2010 )


text:
As the wife and I lie in bed,
We talk about all the wonderful things that pass through our head.
After our chat, we lay back for a little while
And fall asleep with a loving smile.
When I awake, I look at my wife and say —
"While I was asleep I missed you dear."
She looks at me with those big brown eyes and says —
"I have had that thought for many a year."
We know the day is going to come
When only one of us will awake.
It will be a sad day —
When one of us will have to attend the other one's wake.
That's not the end of the story, believe me —
For when we both pass on we'll be together forever —
For eternity.
In memory of those who have lost a spouse.
Capt. James F. Parisi


text:
Back to All Events
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduate seniors who will receive their degrees in graphic design or fine art.
Free Event
Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage.
His talent as a tenor has taken him far and wide, and some of the many highlights of his career to date include performing for many dignitaries such as Irish President Mary McAleese, Emperor Akihito of Japan, Former Irish President and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson and most recently for United States President, Barack Obama.
The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959;recaptures the sound, and the historical and cultural context of this critical period of American history through the lense of jazz music and its most iconic innovator, Miles Davis
Michael Waters' ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001—finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)—these titles from BOA Editions—Bountiful (1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air (1985)—these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems.
Dancer/choreographer Brooke Broussard and video artist Benton-C Bainbridge will present a lecture demonstration with a live dancing element.
Since their arrival on the music scene in 1993 in a legendary residency at Los Angeles' Brown Derby nightclub, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's irresistible live show and aggressive, musically perceptive approach has proven them over time to be the singular standout among the numerous bands that launched the Nineties swing revival.
Civil War Voices tells the compelling and passionate true stories of five individuals who lived through the conflict; using the actual words the characters left behind in diaries, letters, and other writings.
We invite you to be part of the Monmouth University Puzzle Project, a collaborative group art exhibition. Participants purchase a 24" x 24" universal puzzle piece and then turn it into a unique work of art.
Jody Joseph transforms herself physically and vocally in this live nostalgic show as the mystical, ethereal Stevie Nicks and the rebellious hard rocker Janis Joplin.
Moving from the city to a new house in the country can be tough. Just ask Henry, who can't find a playmate in his new neighborhood! Luckily, he's got Mudge, a great big, 182-pound canine buddy, with whom he can share all kinds of adventures!
For more than two decades, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have presented some of their best music in front of cheering crowds – sometimes in the cramped confines of a small club, sometimes in a vast arena packed with thousands.
45 exquisite paintings by famed 19th century marine artists such as James Butterworth, Antonio Jacobsen, James Bard, Francis Silva, E.T. Baker, William Yorke, and others.
Nick Flynn is the author of two memoirs, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (Norton, 2010) and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into 13 languages.
A defining figure in American Dance, Paul Taylor formed Taylor 2, a company of six dancers who bring the choreographer's masterworks to venues around the world.


text:
The labor group Partido ng Manggagawa (Worker's Party) and the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA), the ground crew union at the national flag carrier, both expressed support for the planned strike of the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (FASAP).
Judy Ann Miranda, secretary general of PM, declared that "FASAP's brothers and sisters in the labor movements stand as one body and speak with one voice in solidarity with the struggle of the flight attendants. We will mobilize our members, especially women workers, to support their fight."
Meanwhile Gerry Rivera, PALEA president, stated that "PALEA members will respect any picketline that will be setup by FASAP. We will be with them in the picketlines."
posted by: GenPhilly
begins: Sep 16, 6:30 pm
ends: Sep 16, 8:30 pm
location: Corzo Center, University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad Street
FREE to attend. RSVP below.
Join GenPhilly for a discussion exploring the often-contradictory images that are presented to us through the media, popular culture, and film about women and aging.
5:30pm Refreshments, resource tables, artwork by UArts students and faculty 6:00pm Panel discussion
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) says that all comrades are equal, and cadres fulfill division of tasks within the organization. All are subject to Party policies under the principle of the individual is subordinate to the organization, the lower organ is subordinate to the higher organ, and the whole Party is under the Central Committee.
A young cadre, however, begs to vociferously disagree that every cadre, high or low, is subject to Party discipline.
Many Party members have been meted disciplinary actions for sexual opportunism. But as the article below contends, some top-ranking officials, especially founding CPP chairman Amado Guerrero aka Prof. Jose Maria Sison, are allowed to flout the policy on the relationship of the sexes. A few are more equal than the rest, to paraphrase George Orwell in his "Animal Farm."
- editor
More Photos: http://bulatlatan.multiply.com/photos/album/6/Partee_Party_animal_by_night
___________________________________________________________________________ Dear friends and comrades,
It's party time in Utrecht. And it's not about the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Apologists say comrades should give Prof. Jose Maria Sison aka Amado Guerrero or Armando Liwanag some slack. He has to socialize with friends and allies. One of his friends is Asia Agcaoili, known in Philippine showbiz as the outspoken sex guru.
Granted. But will the CPP allow the comrades in the guerrilla fronts to party with skimpily clad beautiful young women? Or will the leading organs impose disciplinary actions against the male comrades, the Red Fighters who have been away from their families to dare to struggle, dare to win the new democratic revolution?
Kiilu's guest is Elizabeth Betita Martinez, legendary Chicana activist, historian, lecturer, and author of six books.
Our guest is Ida McCray, Founder and Director of Families With A Future (FWAF). A former political prisoner, mother and grandmother, Ida formed this network in recognition of the pain of separation children and incarcerated parents suffer.
In the Philippines poor children die at three times the rate of the children of the rich, according to latest UN data. Under-five mortality rates are 66 child deaths to every 1000 live births amongst the poor, compared to 21 child deaths to every 1000 births amongst the rich.
For a Government of the Masses of Women and for a Socialist-Feminist Society!
By Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM - Party of the Laboring Masses)
West Chester Students for a Democratic Society stands in solidarity with the Women's Center Club for demanding the West Chester University allow the funding of the spoken-word group Pussies, Pens, Politics.
facebook event
We call on all students to:
-Send letters to the Quad (email@example.com) and the Daily Local in support of the Women's Center Club
-Send letters, e-mails, and phone calls to Dr. Matthew Bricketto at the demand that he allows the Women's Center Club to fund the event:238 Sykes Student firstname.lastname@example.com
-Join us on Thursday February 25th at 3 PM as we meet on the steps of Sykes Student Union to show your support and solidarity with the Women's Center Club.
This is far more than an act of censorship. This is a feminist, women's issue.
MANILA, Philippines—Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Liza Maza and Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos can look forward to spending more time together.
Maza on Monday said she and Marcos would be in one group of the Nacionalista Party senatorial candidates touring the country during the campaign period.
The NP divided its 12 senatorial candidates into two groups to maximize the exposure of the party's candidates. Maza would be in one group while Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo would be in another group of senatorial candidates.
Besides being illegal and uncool gender discrimination is something to be eliminated from any civilized society concerned with moving itself forward. Like racism sexism, unfortunately is still alive and kicking. For a long time it was something people tended to overlook, excuse and deny. If women were on TV in powerful roles they must have achieved equality. If we didn't hear about it discrimination didn't exist.
The fact is it does and recently oozed from the bowels of antiquity kicking dust off ugly and nasty sentiments from the past. It seems certain politicians believe when they decide it's convenient using sexist sentiment is okay to whip up support. It also reveals deeper beliefs about women and their "place" in society coming from a certain side of the political spectrum.
That women should be subservient to men despite the law is what it says. It excuses attitudes towards women not tolerated towards men. Recently some very visible examples have played out publicly.


text:
The 2012 NBA Playoffs are well underway with a trio of Game 2s happening on Tuesday night and, while none of the three games were must-watch, there was some fun basketball being played across America. That'll be the case for the foreseeable future, of course, but let's take a quick look back at what happened Tuesday.
The closest game in terms of the actual score was the Los Angeles Lakers' 104-100 victory over the Denver Nuggets. It didn't really seem as close as the final score indicates, however, as Kobe Bryant dominated to the tune of 38 points while big man Andrew Bynum scored 27 points to go with his nine rebounds. The Nuggets were led by 25 points from point guard Ty Lawson while rookie Kenneth Faried put up a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double in defeat.
Paul Pierce and the Boston Celtics picked up what was most likely the least-expected win on Tuesday night when factoring in that they were missing their backcourt as Rajon Rondo served a suspension while Ray Allen dealt with injury issues. The Celtics picked up an 87-80 victory over the Atlanta Hawks thanks to 36 points and 14 rebounds from Pierce. The Hawks got 22 points from Joe Johnson while Josh Smith turned in another double-double before suffering a knee injury.
The third game of the evening saw the Chicago Bulls, in their first game without Derrick Rose, get blown out by the Philadelphia 76ers. The Sixers tied the series on the strength of Jrue Holiday's 26 points, though it certainly doesn't hurt to be able to bring Lou Williams in to score 20 points off the bench. Chicago's leading scorer was Joakim Noah with 21 points. John Lucas III scored 15 points and dished four assists after beginning the game on the bench.
For all of the gifs, videos and reaction from Tuesday night's slate of games, be sure to visit our StoryStream.


text:
Yo, watup? I need some recommendations for my deck to make it better, pls.
Monsters: 21
Armageddon Knight x2
Gale the Whirlwind x1
Dark Armed Dragon x1
D-Hero Dasher x2
D-Hero Diamond Dude x1
D-Hero Malicious x2
E-Hero Stratos x1
Krebons x3
Mystic Tomato x1
Necro Gardna x2
Plaguespreader Zombie x1
Psychic Commander x2
Tragoedia x2
Spells: 13
Allure of Darkness x1
Destiny Draw x2
Emergency Teleport x3
Foolish Burial x1
Heavy Storm x1
Mind Control x1
Monster Reborn x1
Pot of Avarice x1
RoTA x1
Veil of Darkness x1
Traps: 6
Bottomless Trap Hole x1
Dark Bribe x2
Dimensional Prison x1
Solemn Judgement x1
Solemn Warning x1
That's right, I still use TeleDaD. Though DaD is at one and Malicious is at two, as well as RoTA and Stratos, this deck's search engine, E-Tele is now at three. Also, Necro Gardna is unlimited as well as psychic tuners.
If you don't know what TeleDaD does, I'll briefly sum it up for you. You get out a Dark monster (Malicious, a very good example) and use E-Tele to get out a psychic tuner from the deck/hand and Synchro. Once you do this two or three times, you'll probably have three dark monster in your grave, the requirements to summon DaD. Believe it or not, this was only second to SynchroCats a couple years ago. If you don't know what SynchroCats is go here to find out.
I mostly need help with the extra deck and improving consistency with this deck (this is the fourth version of this build already).
Good day.
TeleDaD March 2013
Started By Burgalizer, Mar 14 2013 11:18 AMTeleport Dark Armed Dragon Burger
3 replies to this topic
Posted 14 March 2013 - 11:18 AM
Posted 02 August 2013 - 04:51 PM
I am sorry to say, but I have never used this deck before. So, I will make it according to your list, and try it out, then comment again with suggestions if they are needed.
Posted 02 August 2013 - 05:10 PM
Hieratic Tefniut & Su (and 1 Wattaildragon) make for hilarious combos with the TeleDAD engine and also let you play BLS
Edited by drummerpro, 02 August 2013 - 05:10 PM.
Posted 02 August 2013 - 07:39 PM
First, take out Gungnir and Dewloren, since you don't run any WATER type.
Also tagged with one or more of these keywords: Teleport, Dark Armed Dragon, Burger
Yu-Gi-Oh! Community →
Deck And Card Vault →
Advanced →
TCG/OCG April.1.14 MaskeDAD
Started by frenzyhero, 20 Jun 2014 masked hero, masked, hero and 7 more...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Community →
Deck And Card Vault →
Create a Card →
Dark Armed Support Cards
Started by metalinvader, 20 Mar 2014 Dark Armed Dragon, Support
Yu-Gi-Oh! Community →
Deck And Card Vault →
Advanced →
I need serious help with Zombie Malicious Deck!
Started by Masteryder, 19 Mar 2014 zombie, goblin, plaguespreader and 2 more...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Community →
Deck And Card Vault →
Advanced →
Dark World Deck (Adv. Format) - Help Please
Started by DarthSnuffles, 22 Feb 2014 dark, world, deck, help, grapha and 4 more...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Community →
Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion →
General TCG Talk →
Tele-Dad vs. Dragon Rulers
Started by Barrabas7, 10 Feb 2014 Tele-Dad, Dragon Ruler and 1 more...
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users


text:
Saints DL Kenyon Coleman out for season with torn pectoral
The former Cowboys lineman "was brought in to help stabilize things during the transition to coordinator Rob Ryan's 3-4." Now with Butler already out for the year, the Saints have lost both players the Ryan brought over from the Cowboys. Saints also lost WR3 Joe Morgan for the season to a torn meniscus and partially torn ACL.


text:
TORONTO (AP) - Justin Bieber turned himself in to Toronto police on an assault charge Wednesday, the second arrest in a week for the baby-faced 19-year-old pop star.Bieber arrived in the evening at a police station to a crush of media and screaming fans.A police official said the charge has to do with an alleged assault on a limo driver in December. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.Howard Weitzman, Bieber's attorney in California, said his client is innocent and declined to comment on the allegations against Bieber or any potential defense, saying it was now a matter for the court to handle.He said he expects the case to be treated as a summary offense, which is the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States."The Toronto Police Service requested that Justin Bieber appear in Toronto today to face an allegation of assault relating to an incident on December 29, 2013. We anticipate that this matter will be treated as a summary offense, the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States," Weitzman said in a statement."Our position is the Mr. Bieber is innocent."Brian Greenspan, Bieber's Canadian attorney, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.Toronto police said in late December they were looking into allegations that a member of Bieber's entourage assaulted a limo driver who was ferrying the Canadian pop star and several others. Police said at the time it was unclear whether Bieber was involved.Bieber emerged from a black SUV wearing a winter coat and a backwards ball cap before being led through a throng of police and reporters. Many waited for his arrival for over an hour in freezing temperatures.It was yet another sign of the crazy lifestyle that has taken over Bieber's image.Earlier on Wednesday, Bieber pleaded not guilty in Florida to charges of driving under the influence after driving nearly twice the speed limit on a Miami Beach street. He also pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest and driving with an expired license.The Canadian pop star lately has drawn more attention for his brushes with the law than for his music. His arrival at the Toronto police station was no different - the singer debuted a music video for his song "Confident" on Wednesday afternoon, just as news of his expected arrest was breaking.Bieber remains under investigation for felony vandalism in Los Angeles County over an egg-tossing episode that damaged his neighbor's home. Detectives searched his home on Jan. 14, and prosecutors have sought additional information before determining whether to pursue charges.The cases have overshadowed the recent release of his latest album. Its reception has been far from the chart-topping success Bieber had after he debuted in 2009, with multiple platinum albums.Last year, Bieber made headlines for everything from clashing with a paparazzo to fainting at a show to being photographed smoking marijuana. The paparazzo is suing Bieber for assault and battery.German authorities charged him thousands of dollars after he abandoned a pet monkey that they seized from him for failing to have proper vaccination papers.The singer also had to apologize to Bill Clinton after cursing the former president and spraying his photo with cleaning fluid in a New York City restaurant kitchen.Bieber was discovered through a YouTube video of him performing, and his career has been guided by a pair of music industry heavyweights, singer Usher and manager Scooter Braun. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for his 2010 full-length album debut "My World 2.0," but his popularity has waned.Braun tweeted Wednesday evening, "i ask people to be kind and hope for the best in people. not assume the worst. Thanks."Jon Bollock, a 14-year-old fan waiting for Bieber to arrive outside the Toronto police station, said he wanted to see Bieber but said "it's pretty embarrassing for Canada."Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
441 Murfreesboro Road Nashville, TN 37210
Telephone: 615.369.7222
Fax: 615.369.7329
Email: email@example.com


text:
Keep up to date with Peterson Institute publications, events, and interviews via email, podcast, or RSS. More information on subscription options.
Use filters to narrow your search through our publications and events.
Nicolas Véron discusses the French president's pledges to make France more business friendly, but it remains to be seen whether he will temper the country's legendary economic nationalism.
Game Change for France? August 26, 2014
Record Fine for France's Biggest Bank July 2, 2014
Ukraine-EU Economic Accord Marks a Turning Point June 27, 2014
Book Launch: Inside the Euro Crisis June 11, 2014
The ECB Acts, but More Action Is Needed June 6, 2014
The ECB Acts to Counter Deflation Threat June 5, 2014
Annals of Economic Nationalism: Part I May 1, 2014
French Cabinet Shakeup: Old Wine in New Bottles? April 2, 2014
A Small Step Toward European Banking Union Regulation March 20, 2014
PIIE Debate: How Should the ECB Act to Counter Deflation? February 14, 2014


text:
Choosing the Right ERP Solution to Support a Global Business
Download Now Free registration required
Executive Summary
Consolidating ERP systems has many benefits, but can be difficult to implement due to cost and complexity. Learn about a solution, available in over 30 languages, that is cost-effective to implement and can ensure operational information produced locally from forecast to financials integrates into a single consolidated view of global activities. Download this whitepaper now to learn more.
- Format: PDF
- Size: 0 KB


text:
Effectiveness of a Middle School Vaccination Law --- California, 1999--2001
In 1996, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Association of Family Physicians, and the American Medical Association recommended a routine health-care visit for adolescents aged 11--12 years (1). During this visit, adolescents not fully vaccinated should receive up to four recommended vaccines (hepatitis B, a measles-containing vaccine [MCV], varicella, and tetanus-diphtheria) and other preventive services and counseling. Because many adolescents are not up-to-date for all of these vaccines, 43 states have developed middle school entrance requirements or laws for one or more of these vaccines. Since 1997, CDC, in collaboration with the Pre-Teen Health Project in San Diego, California, has evaluated the impact of the state's middle school vaccination law, which requires students entering seventh grade on or after July 1, 1999, to have documented receipt of three doses of hepatitis B and two doses of MCV or to have obtained a written exemption based on personal beliefs or medical grounds. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicate that when school entrance requirements are enforced, high vaccination coverage can be achieved.
During the 1999--2000 school year, the law affected 464,476 seventh-grade students in California, including 38,875 in San Diego County. For this analysis, three different surveys were used to assess the impact of changes in the vaccination law. First, to estimate baseline coverage, a countywide telephone random-digit--dialed vaccination coverage survey of fifth and sixth graders was conducted during April--June 1998 in San Diego County (2). Second, to evaluate compliance with state school vaccination requirements, California requires each school to report coverage as of October of each year, based on records obtained for every enrolled student. Finally, health-care officials confirm these results by reviewing vaccination records in randomly selected schools statewide during February--April (3). During the 1999--2000 and 2000--2001 school years, 199 and 163 schools, respectively, had their vaccination records validated statewide.
In the 1998 baseline telephone survey of 741 households with adolescents in San Diego County, vaccination history was verified through the parent-held records of 203 fifth and sixth graders (2). Of these, 142 (70.0%) had received two doses of MCV, 32 (15.8%) had received three doses of hepatitis B, and 27 (13.3%) had received both vaccines.
During October 1999, data from all 315 San Diego County schools with seventh-grade students (38,875 seventh graders) indicated that 36,005 (92.6%) students had received two doses of MCV, and 26,614 (68.5%) had received three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. Overall, 26,110 (67.2%) students were in compliance with the law by vaccination and 691 (1.8%) by exemption. Of 12,074 adolescents not in compliance,10,814 (89.6%) were in the process of completing the three-dose hepatitis B series. Coverage continued to increase through the end of the school year as unvaccinated students completed the three-dose hepatitis B series. Similar coverage levels were achieved statewide during October 1999 and increased by the time of the review during February--April 2000 (Table 1). In October 2000, the beginning of the second year the law was in effect, coverage was higher than in October 1999 (Table 1).
Reported by: K Gustafson, W Wang, S Ross, County of San Diego Health and Human Svcs Agency; L Linton, San Diego State Univ Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego; N Smith, N Gandhi, Immunization Br, California Dept of Health Svcs. Health Svcs Research and Evaluation Br, Immunization Svcs Div, National Immunization Program, CDC.
Editorial Note:
As of July 2001, of the 43 states with middle school vaccination laws, 27 required students entering middle school to be fully vaccinated against hepatitis B, and 41 required students to have received two doses of MCV. The findings in this report indicate that school vaccination laws are an important strategy for promoting universal coverage with hepatitis B and MCV among an adolescent population. Although the passage of a vaccination law is an important step in increasing coverage, cooperation by the public health community in enforcing the law is essential for successful implementation (4). San Diego County achieved a high level of coverage through monitoring and close cooperation with schools, frequent reminders to parents, and exclusion of students from school when necessary.
The 1991 recommendation for universal infant vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine and state requirements for proof of vaccination at kindergarten entry produced a cohort of children in the United States who are highly vaccinated against hepatitis B. However, in 1998, when only eight states had hepatitis B vaccination coverage laws for middle school students, national coverage for hepatitis B vaccine among persons aged 13--15 years with a vaccination record was an estimated 27.3% (CDC, unpublished data, 2001). Even among adolescents enrolled in prepaid health-care plans, coverage remains low in the absence of a law (5).
A statewide evaluation of a middle school vaccination law in Florida indicated that, following implementation of changes to the Florida Administrative Code requiring adolescent vaccinations, 61.8% of students were vaccinated fully with three doses of hepatitis B within 3 months of the start of the 1997 school year (6). However, no mechanism was in place in Florida to determine the number of students that had completed the series of three doses before or after that time in the school year.
The success of voluntary hepatitis B vaccination programs does not necessarily predict sustainable large-scale implementation. In a pilot program in San Diego County during 1993--1995, 61% of fourth through ninth graders in 16 schools in San Diego County were vaccinated (7). However, by 1998, countywide coverage was only 15.8% among fifth and sixth graders (2).
Hepatitis B vaccination is especially important for adolescents because approximately 9% of hepatitis B occurs in adolescents and an additional 45% in persons aged 20--29 years (8; CDC, unpublished data, 2001). Adolescents also should be up-to-date with two doses of MCV because interruption of measles transmission in the United States during the 1990s was a result of increased coverage and the administration of a second dose of MCV to children and adolescents (9).
The findings in this report are subject to at least three limitations. First, the findings are subject to the effect of confounding because it was not possible to assess changes in coverage among seventh graders that would have occurred in the absence of a law. Second, because three methods were used to assess coverage (random-digit--dialing, school reporting, and on-site record reviews), results may differ from those found if the same method was used at each point in time. Finally, only confirmed vaccination histories were used in the telephone survey, and most parents surveyed could not find their child's vaccination record.
In California and Florida, the two states in which middle school vaccination requirements have been evaluated, the laws resulted in a substantial increase in hepatitis B vaccination coverage and, in California, high second dose MCV coverage (6). The effectiveness of the California law is consistent with evaluations of vaccinations required for school entry in other age groups, suggesting that vaccination requirements and laws are an effective means of protecting young persons in all age groups from vaccine preventable diseases (4).
- CDC. Immunization of adolescents: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Medical Association. MMWR 1996;45(no. RR-13).
- CDC. Vaccination coverage among adolescents 1 year before the institution of a seventh grade school entry vaccination requirement---San Diego, California, 1998. MMWR 2000;49:101--2,111.
- Scheiber M, Halfon N. Immunizing California's children: effects of current policies on immunization levels. West J Med 1990;153:400--5.
- Orenstein WA, Hinman AR. The immunization system in the United States: the role of school immunization laws. Vaccine 1999;17:S19--S24.
- Deladisma A, Averhoff F, Brink E, Harpaz R, Yusuf H. Adolescent immunization in managed-care settings: what is HEDIS telling us? [Abstract]. Presented at the 34th National Immunization Conference, Washington, DC, July 5--8, 2000.
- CDC. Effectiveness of a seventh grade school entry vaccination requirement---statewide and Orange County, Florida, 1997--1998. MMWR 1998;47:711--5.
- Unti L, Coyle K, Woodruff BA, Demonstration Project Staff. A review of adolescent school-based hepatitis B vaccination projects. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1996.
- CDC. Hepatitis surveillance report. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 2000;(no.57).
- Redd S, Markowitz LE, Katz SL. Measles vaccine. In: Plotkin SA, Orenstein WA, eds. Vaccines. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: W.B. Saunders, 1999.
*All MMWR references are available on the Internet at <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr>. Use the search function to find specific articles.
Table 1
Return to top.
Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
References to non-CDC sites on the Internet are provided as a service to MMWR readers and do not constitute or imply endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CDC is not responsible for the content of pages found at these sites. URL addresses listed in MMWR were current as of the date of publication.
All MMWR HTML versions of articles are electronic conversions from typeset documents.
This conversion might result in character translation or format errors in the HTML version.
Users are referred to the electronic PDF version (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr)
and/or the original MMWR paper copy for printable versions of official text, figures, and tables.
An original paper copy of this issue can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, DC 20402-9371;
telephone: (202) 512-1800. Contact GPO for current prices.
**Questions or messages regarding errors in formatting should be addressed to firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
FIRERIG Wurk PC with intel i7
For the Editor in need of Speed and Power
- This is an amazing Build for the Producer or Editor in need of Power
- Great PC for photo and video editing and rendering and 3D
- Capabilities including 3D Vision and 3D Vision Pro for high quality stereoscopic 3D environments
- Comes with SSD hard drive for Faster transfers of large media files
- NVIDIA Quadro 2000D by PNY features two dual-link DVI-I connectors
- 24GB memory for multitasking
- NVIDIA Surround with Up To Four Monitors
- 192 NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing cores
- Solid Core i7 Quad Core Processor for stable and fast computing
- 1GB of memory for fast processing of complex models and scenes
- use Maya 2012 and Photoshop to create 3D artwork
- works great for most CAD/CAM software out there
- up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz and 1920x1200 @ 120Hz
- Decreased load times of high-resolution PC Programs
- Fast graphics rendering
- Fantastic processor for gaming if you feel like it
- Fantastic video card for gaming if you feel like it
- Will run your editing software's with no problem
- Wifi Ready
LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Processor (CPU)
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Graphics / Video Card
PNY Quadro 2000D 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
Memory (RAM)
24GB (3 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
Hard Drive (Storage)
250GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA III 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
DVD / CD Drive
DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X Drive
You can select an Operating System you Prefer. Just before you click on the "Buy This" button, select the OS you prefer or choose to have no OS.
If you choose to have no OS, your computer will come pre installed with a 30 day trial version of Windows 7.
If you do choose to have an OS installed for you, Your PC will come with a Genuine OEM Windows Disc and also a genuine Microsoft Windows Product Key Number plus other original discs for drivers.
Please click our Warranty/ Shipping/ Payment Info page for more information on the warranty, shipping and return policy plus the payment options available.
International shipping available too
Welcome in and select your own BEAST. This is the Site for the big computer enthusiast and the amateur computer user. Based on getting tired of seeing the not so powerful selection in most retail stores and some online sites, We decided to offer better...
From Our Blog
About Us
Thank you for visiting our site. This website simply exists because of our desire to bring people awesome Custom Built and all-purpose computers. We have ten years of technology and computer building experience and located in Mechanicsville, VA. We specialize in building computers that can...


text:
By Ann Wyatt Little - bio | email
Lubbock, TX (KCBD) – It is all the craze to have the latest and greatest technology as soon as it hits the market. Nearly two million people own the latest version of the iPhone 4 with more expected to be bought Tuesday morning. Here on the South Plains, one in four women would be happy to have your old phone. Your upgrade with any company could save lives.
Your old version or old phone does not have to become a paperweight or sit inside a drawer. Believe it or not, it still has value and could save abused women's lives.
"We could sit here all day long and talk about instances where this has come in handy where women are walking to jobs or are out in a crowd and see their abusers. They can call 911 and get protection before something awful happens," said Roy Rios with Women's Protective Services in Lubbock.
By donating your old phone to WPS, it gives abused women a lifeline to law enforcement. "We realize the FCC requires all cells to still be able to call 911 whether they have service or not. So what should you do with your old one? Give it to us," added Rios who knows the phones work and needs your old ones to give to survivors.
"Time after time I know situations where they have come in handy and saved a life," he said. "She was attacked by her abuser, she had her cell that we had given to her that was given to us and called 911," referencing an instance where the cell saved a life.
The only call your donated phone will make is to 9-1-1. If you are thinking about upgrading, the shelter hopes to get your used phone. The AT&T store at 601 University will take your donated phones and chargers to Women's Protective Services.
For more information on how you can help victims of domestic violence clickhere.
©2010 KCBD NewsChannel 11. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
5600 Avenue A
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Worldnow and KCBD. All Rights Reserved.
For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


text:
Just upgraded to SAP CR 2011 from CR 8.5.
All reports were working fine at the time of the upgrade.
After upgrade most reports are OK.
There are a couple of databases that when I try to run the reports they get a database connector error (bunch of little square boxes and the ascii character then ?) with OK button at the bottom. Clicking on the OK button just takes you back to the report with no data. If you try making a new connection to the database to recreate the report the same Database Connector Error occurs.
Other databases from this program are working fine from reports and from making a new connection.
As of CR 9 we completely rewrote the database drivers. So you should do a set location for each report and use any updated Clients etc.
As for the error we need to know what DB you are using and how, ODBC, OLE DB or Native CR Driver.
Sorry for the delay, I have tried ODBC, Database files, and Xbase. ODBC does not even recognize the data base. the Database files recognizes the file but upon selection gets a no data connector specified, the Xbase recognizes the files but upon selection comes back with data connector error. I have tried setting up a new report with the database but same oh same oh. Other databases selected from Xbase are working just fine. I don't know where or how to setup a data connector. Another question is about speed of the program, under CR8.5 some of my reports only took 4-5 minutes to run. But under CR2011 Those same reports are taking around 15-20 minutes, is this normal?
What type of Db files are they?
If you recreate then do they work?
Try setting them to some other type and then back again. This forces the connection info to be replaced.


text:
I miss the old Big East.
In conference play, the old Big East provided many games against ranked teams; the only ranked games on our conference schedule in the ACC are Duke and (former Big East team) Pitt. At least next year (former Big East team) Louisville will add to the mix.
SU in the Big East since the 04-05 season: played 57 ranked conference games against 46 different ranked opponents. Avg 6.33 games against 5.11 opponents. Lowest 4 games against 3 opponents.
Duke since the 04-05 season: played 41 ranked conference games against 29 different ranked opponents. Avg 4.55 games against 3.22 opponents.
SU right now in the ACC: 4 conference ranked games against 2 different ranked opponents - 2 games against Pitt from last year's Big East. (Equal/less than the lowest in the last 9 years of the Big East!)
Duke right now in the ACC: 3 conference ranked games against 2 different ranked opponents - both were Big East last year!
Duke played 7 ranked conference games (their most) in 1 those 9 years (04-50 to 12-13.) SU played at least 7 ranked conference (up to 9) games in 5 of those 9 years.
(And do we bother talking about SU playing "home" games according to ESPN that are 7 hours from campus when Duke played "away" games 10 miles from campus?)
I miss the old Big East.


text:
Double Glazing in Musselburgh
Musselburgh is the largest town in East Lothian, the former burgh is situated at the mouth of the River Esk and is 5 miles east of Edinburgh. The town is diverse in terms of industry and also boasts the oldest golf course in the country. There are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to double glazing in Musselburgh.
Why choose Double Glazing?
There are numerous reasons why you may decide to invest in double glazing for your home. One of the main benefits is that it will help you to reduce your carbon footprint. This is because double glazing acts as an excellent insulator. You will find your home is naturally warmer which means you can turn down the heating; you will reduce your carbon emissions and save money at the same time.
Double glazing is also easy to maintain compared to traditional windows. You won't need to repaint the frame to keep them looking good; all it takes is a quick wipe down with a damp cloth now and again.
Double glazing also reduces external noise from penetrating your home. This is ideal if you live in a loud neighbourhood or next to a busy road. Double glazing is also increase home security thanks to the durable frames and toughened glass.
In conclusion, double glazing is a great way to add overall value to your property. However, in order to gain maximum benefit from your new windows and doors it is important to select a supplier that has years of experience. If you do, you will get a finish that not only looks great but is functional too.
Selecting a Double Glazing in company in Musselburgh
When you are searching for a double glazing firm you should look both locally in the Musselburgh area as well as further afield to ensure you find the best value and most experience supplier available. You should be looking for firms with experience; going for the cheapest option may cost you more in the long run.
To help with you decision its worth asking the following questions:
1. What are their payment terms?
2. How long have they been in business?
3. Do they offer a guarantee?
4. What styles do they offer?
5. Do they deal with planning permission?
6. What materials do they use?
Northern Scotland Joinery are a family run business that have been operating in the Musselburgh area for over 20 years. We only employ highly experience joiners who use state-of-the-art materials to ensure your double glazing lasts for years to come. We even offer a ten year, insurance backed guarantee with each and every installation.
Check out our website which is packed full of information regarding our products as well as past customer testimonials. Alternatively, give us a call and we can talk through your requirements.


text:
The debate over whether or not guys and girls can be just friends never seems to end. Some people think the friendship will always lead a romantic entanglement, while others believe it can, and has happened without any romantic attachment ever forming. The answer may be more in individual situations than generalities.
What's the Objection?
Too often people think that guys and girls cannot be friends, because it will always lead to dating. However, if we look at children, gender often means little when it comes to friendship. It's about interests more than gender. However, as we grow older and hormones take over, male-female relationships get more complicated. Some people find a male-female friendship easy, while others put up barriers to the relationship.
A Friendship is A Friendship
True friendship should not be gender based. A true friend is there for someone to lean on. They share interests that the other friend has. Friends laugh together, hang out, do things, and support one another. It involves trust, honesty, and unconditional love. Taking romance or attraction out of the equation, a friendship is just as meaningful as a dating relationship (and sometimes it ends up being more meaningful). So, what's to say that a guy and girl couldn't form that bond and set aside any romance or attraction? Again, it's going to be dependent on the individuals.
When Physical Attraction's Involved
Physical attraction is the biggest barrier to men and women being friends. Thinking someone is attractive and being attracted to them are two different things. When you feel tempted by someone, it can distract from the important parts of a true friendship. Suddenly you're not being honest with yourself or the other person. It's important that, if you start to develop an attraction to a friend, that it be talked about honestly. It will change the nature of the friendship, but an attraction will always get in the way of a true, platonic friendship.
Setting Boundaries
Even if there is no attraction or romantic desire in the relationship, there are still boundaries that need to be set in any friendship. Yet in a friendship that is made up of a male and female, there need to be clearer boundaries. If the friendship is very close, often people mistake the friendship for more, so you want to avoid the perception that you're being inappropriate. We have to make an effort to not end up in a bad situation, and we also don't want anything misunderstood. Here are some good boundaries to set:
- Don't be alone. Yes, the two of you are just friends, but why take chances. Being alone can be perceived different ways by outsiders. It opens you up to people thinking things are going on that aren't. Also, sometimes we can get so emotionally involved we mistake friendship for something more, and that can end up putting you in a tempting situation.
- Be honest. Just like in same-gender friendships, you need to make sure you're honest with one another. It's important that, should one of you develop feelings, that you're able to talk about it. Have a friendship built on trust.
- Be supportive. Other people may not understand that the two of you are just friends. It's important that you have one another to lean on in those times. If either of you are in a dating relationship, sometimes those significant others can have a hard time understanding. Be willing to give a little so that the other person learns you're not their to do any harm to that relationship.
- Understand you're different. Guys and girls often think and act a little differently, so be accepting of those differences. There are times he's going to want to do some guy things and you're going to want to do some girl things. Accept and embrace those differences.
- Make sure your faith matters. Just like in any other friendship, make sure your faith is still foremost in your life. Your friend should support you in your Christian walk, no matter what sex the other person is. Let God be the guide in your friendship.


text:
Just Dance 4: Pack Gold Dust - DJ Fresh
Just Dance 4 receives another extra pack this month to makes you dance.
Just Dance 4: Nick Phoenix & Thomas Bergersen
Need to renew the playlist? That's enough to make your choice.
Just Dance 4: Get Fit in 2013
The video explains that the game is able to offer us a workout that will help us get in shape and lose weight.
Just Dance 4: So Glamorous
A new DLC for Just Dance 4. This time it is the song So Glamorous by the group The Girly Team.


text:
Main Index > TI 83 > TI 83 Linear Regression
TI 83 Linear Regression
TI 83 Linear Regression: Overview
Linear regression is tedious and prone to errors when done by hand, but you can perform linear regression in the time it takes you to input a few variables into a list. Linear regression will only give you a reasonable result if your data looks like a line on a scatter plot, so before you find the equation for a linear regression line you may want to view the data on a scatter plot first. See this article for how to make a scatter plot on the TI 83.
TI 83 Linear Regression: Steps
Sample problem: Find a linear regression equation (of the form y = ax + b) for x-values of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and y-values of 3, 9, 27, 64, and 102.
Step 1: Press STAT, then press ENTER to enter the lists screen. If you already have data in L1 or L2, clear the data: move the cursor onto L1, press CLEAR and then ENTER. Repeat for L2.
Step 2: Enter your x-variables, one at a time. Follow each number by pressing the ENTER key. For our list, you would enter:
1 Enter
2 Enter
3 Enter
4 Enter
5 Enter
Step 3: Use the arrow keys to scroll across to the next column, L2.
Step 4: Enter your y-variables, one at a time. Follow each number by pressing the enter key. For our list, you would enter:
3 Enter
9 Enter
2 7 Enter
6 4 Enter
1 0 2 Enter
Step 5: Press the STAT button, then use the scroll key to highlight "CALC." Press ENTER.
Step 6: Press 4 to choose "LinReg(ax+b)". Press ENTER. the TI 83 will return the variables needed for the equation. Just insert the given variables (a, b) into the equation for linear regression (y=ax+b). For the above data, this is y = 25.3x – 34.9.
That's how to perform TI 83 Linear Regression!
Lost your guidebook? Download a new one here at the TI website.


text:
E-mail MeChristopher D. Heagerty
Christopher D. Heagerty graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1988 with an undergraduate degree in history and he received his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1994. Following a clerkship with the firm during law school he was engaged in private practive in Knoxville from 1994 until 2004. In 2005 he returned to Hodges, Doughty & Carson to continue his practice. His practice is devoted primarily to arson and insurance fraud, property insurance, construction law and business litigation. He has completed the Tennessee Advisory Committee on Arson course on arson and fire investigation and he participated in the Convention of International Association of Special Investigation Units in 1998. He serves as a member of the Knox County Election Commission. He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Program, Class of 2006.
BV Distinguished Rating, Martindale Hubbell
Areas of Practice
- Arson & Insurance Fraud
- Property Insurance
- Construction Law
- Business Litigation
- Family Law/Divorce
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1994
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee
- University of Tennessee
Honors and Awards
- Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Program, Class of 2006
- Chair, Knox County Election Commission
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Knoxville Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association


text: One person is dead following a one-car crash along Interstate 380 near Urbana. The Iowa State Patrol says around 3:30 p.m. Friday, the driver of a southbound 1998 Toyota Camry went off the road, into the ditch and hit a bridge pillar. The driver died at the scene. The crash backed up southbound traffic on I-380 from exit 43 near Urbana to exit 55 two miles north of Brandon. The victim has been identified as 22-year-old Ezekiel Musselman of Ames. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.


text:
Discover Adionomy, Your Online Radio Advertising Campaign, Fast, Easy and Custom-Made!
The Party was a pop group consisting of members of the revived Mickey Mouse Club television program in the late '80s. When a writer's strike interrupted a movie they were filming, Chase Hampton and Tiffini Hale were cast as the new generation of Mouseketeers. On the show, Hampton started a music group with fellow cast members, including Albert Fields. Disney, which had started the Hollywood Records label, signed the group, which now consisted of Hampton, Hale, Fields, Damon Pampolina, and Dee Dee Magno, and they took the moniker The Party.
No radio station found
Pop Dance 1
Mit den besten Pop Dance der 2010er , 2000er , 90er , 80er und 70er Jahre in Großbritannien . Avec le meilleur Pop Dance , au Royaume-Uni . Con il miglior Pop Dance , nel Regno Unito . Com o melhor Pop Dance , no Reino Unido. Playing the best of Pop Dance in the U.K. Non-stop music from wall to wall
|Play this radio station
Hits 93 Toronto
Canada's #1 Hit Music Station!
|Play this radio station


text:
Please log in or register to manage your account
Model: 32ME403V Item: MVX32ME403V
LED backlight technology for sharp pictures and reduced energy consumption. Ultra-thin design with stunning narrow bezel features three HDMI inputs and a PC Input for use as a PC monitor (via VGA or HDMI). SRS TruSurround XT® technology for immersive surround sound. JPEG photo viewer to share your photos on-screen. Screen Size: 32"; Display Type(s): LED; HDTV: Yes; Resolution: 720p.
Magnavox® LED HDTV, Slim, 24", 720p, Black
$270.48$17852 / each
Magnavox® LED HDTV, Slim, 29", 720p, Black
$341.33$20821 / each


text: Hello everybody, I don't post here very often but love to read the material and the extremely intelligent insight I gain from the posters as well as writers and mods. Now that I have that out of the way, as a Seahawks fan who is a huge follower of football across the nation one of the first things that crossed my mind when I heard about the Trent Richardson news was that they (Browns) are going to need to address the RB position and the 2014 draft is not the place to do it. What they do with their 2 first rd picks is unknown but I would be interested to see if either team would be interested in a deal regarding Robert Turbin and a 2nd or 3rd round pick. I have to admit I am a huge Turbin fan, I think he can be an every down back especially one in a more passing type offense like Norv Turner would like to run. The Seahawks have Christine Michael who on all accounts is going to be Marshawn Lynch's predecessor at some point. So a deal would make since to me. I turn to you Field Gulls nation to let me know if I'm crazy (probably true regardless) or not.


text:
8711 S Lewis
Tulsa, OK 74137
Andy B's of Tulsa offers 40 traditional lanes of bowling plus 16 VIP lanes. An arcade, game room, indoor go-karts and ... read more...
5002 S Memorial Dr
Tulsa, OK 74145
Magoo's in Tulsa is a combination of many different things and is a one-stop-shop for an evening out with friends. ... read more...
Expo Square
Tulsa, OK 74114
A beloved Tulsa landmark since 1966, the Golden Driller is a one-of-a-kind monument weighing in at a whopping 43,500 ... read more...
420 S Madison Blvd
Bartlesville, OK 74006
Sooner Park is a city park in Bartlesville offering picnic tables and shelters, BBQ grills, playgrounds, a pond, walking ... read more...
209 N Boulder Ave
Tulsa, OK 74103
Club 209, located in the Brady Arts District of downtown Tulsa, is a low-key martini and coffee lounge. Get your ... read more...
Yocham's Custom Leather & Cowboy Decor
877-475-9525, 918-335-2277
401300 US Hwy 60
Bartlesville, OK 74006
Since 1974, Yocham's Custom Leather & Cowboy Decor in Bartlesville has been the place to shop for top notch custom ... read more...
3747 S Harvard Ave
Tulsa, OK 74135
Emily's Day Spa in Tulsa offers manicures, reflexology, hair removal and more. Treat yourself to a well-deserved ... read more...
2420 SE Locust Rd
Bartlesville, OK 74005
The Jo Allyn Lowe Park is a 31-acre park containing an arboretum, restrooms, drinking fountain and several picnic tables ... read more...
Henthorne Performing Arts Center
4825 S Quaker Ave
Tulsa, OK 74105
The Henthorne Performing Arts Center, operated by the city of Tulsa, houses both the Heller Theatre and the Clark ... read more...
3220 S Memorial Dr
Tulsa, OK 74145
Stop into Drysdales in Tulsa to shop an enormous selection of Western wear and more. This location boasts seven ... read more...
Email: email@example.com


text:
La Boutique Brings Together Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Margaret Cho For a Good Cause
We always hit up La Boutique when we're in the mood for a unique fashion confection, but tomorrow gives us an even better reason to stop by. First Lady of San Francisco, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and funny girl Margaret Cho will be there to celebrate Jennifer's documentary, Miss Representation, and it's not just any party.
The night comes complete with a fundraiser and silent auction to benefit ABOUT FACE, an organization that equips women and girls to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect self esteem and body image. To boot, music by The Loose Interpretations along with additional honorary hosts Fiona Ma, Nancy O'Malley, and Carl Quintanilla. La Boutique's Carole Harari will also donate 20% off any purchase from now until November 11 to the organization as well.
The Big Drink 2014: 50 Cocktails to Try Before You Die
The Big Eat 2014: 100 Things to Try Before You Die
The 2012 Big To-Do SF: 100 Things To Do Before You Die
The Big Veg 2011: 50 Vegetarian (Or Vegan) Things to Eat Before You Die
The Big Sweet SF: 50 Treats to Eat Before You Die
50 Things to Do in Wine Country Before You Die


text:
MFA Actor Booklet
View the Brandeis University MFA Actors Showcase 2014 Booklet.
Showcase Website
For complete information and to RSVP, visit the Brandeis Showcase 2014 website.
MFA Actor Showcase
Meet the class of 2014 Brandeis University MFA actors. They are young theater artists who will shape the future of American and world theater.
Monday, Feb. 10
6 p.m.
Central Square Theater
450 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
New York City
Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 17 and 18
1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. both days
Studio Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036


text:
The Society's quarterly journal
"The face of this journal has changed, but its soul has not." James McConnachie, Editor
How to subscribe
If you are not a Member or an Associate and you wish to subscribe, please download the appropriate form: UK Subscriber or Overseas Subscriber and return it to the Membership Department.
Summer 2014
Can't wait for your Summer issue to drop through the letterbox? Here is a taster of what's to come Fool's Gold: Alison Flood investigates the controversies surrounding self-publishing service companies.
From the Editor
As I write this, Anne Sebba and Nicola Solomon, the Society's Chair and Chief Executive, are competing to spend a night in Hammersmith nick. They hope to draw attention to the Ministry of Justice's recent ban on prisoners receiving parcels – including book parcels.
The Society is not fighting for your royalties here. Many SoA members believe passionately in the transformative power of reading. Many of us would find being deprived of books a form of torture. 'Oh, but prisoners can always get a book out of the library', you might say. Not necessarily. The effects of the book package ban are amplified because many prisons fail to honour their legal obligations to provide decent library stock and offer inmates a minimum half-hour library visit every fortnight.
To read more about the books for prisoners campaign or to donate, click here.
At least prisoners have rights to library access. Schoolchildren, by contrast, enjoy no such protection. The SoA continues to lobby for school libraries, just as vociferously. We want schools to be legally required to have a library and trained librarian. We want Ofsted to recognise the importance of author visits. We want schools to inspire a love of reading for pleasure – to teach literature as well as literacy.
Anne and Nicola may have been saved from jail by the time you read this. They faced stiff competition from a constellation of book-industry grandees, and the opportunity to send down a publisher or agent may have been one that few authors could resist.
That ignoble urge may be all the stronger once you have read this issue's rousing article on library loans of ebooks. Sounds specialised? Imagine if your ereader offered 'buy' and 'borrow' options, with the same outcome. Scale that up by a factor of a million, and imagine what would happen to authors' incomes if we are not fairly remunerated for 'remote elending'.
Further alarm is raised in Alison Flood's investigation of the controversies surrounding self-publishing service companies, notably Author Solutions. But I have not forgotten my promise to make The Author a pleasurable read, not an anxious one. So we have Tobias Jones on the ugly side of the bel paese, and poet Salena Godden on the writer as outsider.
Nor have I forgotten that we promised to redesign The Author. This is it. (When you receive your paper copy, drop us a line to let us know what you think). And in celebration of new looks, this summer issue focuses on images. Alan Garner describes how his writing is informed by the landscape and mediated through photography. Art critic James Hall zooms in on book illustrations. Jill Dawson and Jane Casey cast wry glances over the author photo. (We considered running a competition for 'most out of date author photo', but reckoned few would dare enter. Please prove us wrong.) And we present a new cartoon from Posy Simmonds – the first in an occasional series of cartoonists' caricatures of that hapless figure, 'the Author'.
The face of this journal has changed, but its soul has not. It will continue to be not just the mouthpiece of the Society but also a forum for your voices, and those of booksellers, agents and publishers. (We'll let the odd one out for exercise from time to time.) It will remain by turns reflective and provocative, professional and idiosyncratic, full of flair and quiet purpose. In short, it will remain unabashedly, distinctively authorial.
James McConnachie
Visit James McConnachie's website | Send James a tweet
Summer Contents
- Lens and Landscape Alan Garner
- The author photo Jill Dawson
- Ebook lending: where's the money?
- Latvia's new national library Simon Rees
- Words and pictures James Hall
- An agent's London Book Fair diary
- Fool's gold: self-publishing service companies Alison Flood
- To a fellow author Posy Simmonds
- Letter from Canada John Degen
- Spotify for books? Justo Hidalgo
- Out and about Wanda Wyporska
- The new Defamation Act David Hooper
- The writer outside Salena Godden
- The world of the educational writer Jeremy Harmer
- Italy: real and imagined Tobias Jones
- Nice lunch... Deanna Maclaren
- Author archive – early author photos Jane Casey
- Quarterly News
- Grub Street Andrew Taylor
- To the Editor
- Booktrade news
- Broadcasting
- Noticeboard
- Endpaper Terence Blacker
About The Author
The Author is an invaluable source of information, news and opinion for Members and Associates as well as for publishers, literary agents and other professionals working in the book industry. It has a circulation of approximately 9,200. Members and Associates receive The Author free of charge.
If you are not a Member or an Associate and you wish to subscribe, please download the appropriate form: UK Subscriber or Overseas Subscriber and return it to the Membership Department.
>> Contact The Author
Advertising online
View The Author advertisements online or find out how to advertise.


text:
Recent Headlines
in Trending, Viral Videos
TODAY'S MUST SEE: Johnny JamBoogie
If football doesn't workout, "Johnny Football" always has this to fall back on.
Reese Witherspoon goes 'Legally Blonde' for cancer-stricken fan
Reese Witherspoon played dress-up for a four year old who is obsessed by her alter ego Elle Woods from her 2001 hit "Legally Blonde."
in Lifestyle
Power cords, children's furniture among this week's recalls
HP is recalling 6 million power cords for overheating and the deaths of two children have prompted the recall of bean bag chairs.
Today's celebrity birthdays
A member of One Direction is legal and a longtime TV personality celebrates his 73rd birthday.
Joan Rivers stable after health emergency
Comedienne Joan Rivers is in stable condition at a New York hospital after losing her breath during a routine surgery.
Condition: Clear/Sunny
Temperature: 57°
High: 77° - Low: 50°
Temperature: 57°
High: 77° - Low: 50°


text:
Rachel Shteir Defends Her Anti-Chicago Essay in a Rare Q&A
Shteir's recent New York Times story rankled all of Chicago—Rahm included. Now, for the first time since the article's publication, the local professor and author answers the criticism.
Photo: Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune
One would think that DePaul theater prof Rachel Shteir had lined up our city's cutest kitties and assassinated them St. Valentine's Day style—or committed some other heinous crime—so great is the anger directed at her over a front-page New York Times Book Review piece on Chicago (which was, incidentally, about three Chicago-related books she was reviewing).
For the last couple of days, Facebook and Twitter have pulsed with Shteir-related vitriol. Last night, local TV got into it as well, with Carol Marin on NBC 5 and Robin Robinson and Bob Sirott at Fox News 32 expressing their outrage. But all the fiery reactions have happened without any response from Shteir—until now.
In a telephone conversation late Monday afternoon, Shteir, 49, told me that her piece is more properly called "an essay." The books covered are Chicago Tribune reporters Jeff Coen and John Chase's look at the downfall of Rod Blagojevich; Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg's memoir of the city and his place in it; and—the only book she liked—Thomas Dyja's "robust cultural history." It explains, among other things, how Chicago "snuffed out Midwestern geniuses with radical roots."*
Reaction to Shteir's article was quick and emotional, as Chicago readers in particular complained that the Shteir "essay" could be read as a slam at the city wrapped around a warning: If Chicago doesn't solve its deadly serious problems, it risks becoming the next Detroit. The three books, some griped, were simply a structure on which Shteir built her case against Chicago.
Shteir argues that the piece is being misinterpreted. The fierce response—including one by Rahm Emanuel in which he managed to sound like a less articulate Rich Daley: "Meet the people. Meet our neighborhoods. We have a lot to offer, which is why we're a world-class city"—Shteir told me, proves her point about the unseemly boosterism that characterizes Chicagoans.
Shteir is no newcomer to Chicago. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and lived in New York for 10 years while teaching at Columbia and NYU. But she has her BA from the University of Chicago (her DFA and MFA are from Yale), and she returned here 13 years ago to teach at DePaul.
The more simple-minded responses urged/ordered her, so to speak, to get out of Dodge. More thoughtful responses, such as the Reader's Michael Miner, eviscerated her piece as "bizarrely overstated." "You can't be so dismissive [of Chicago]," Miner writes, "if you concede that Chicago, in its way, works as a city, but Shteir does not so concede."
The most exercised Shteir hater is definitely Neil Steinberg, who was obviously stung by Shteir's harsh evaluation of his book. He even wrote a column about it and also whipped his Facebook friends into a frenzy of anti-Shteir invective that included posting a link to her RateMyProfessors.com page. (Yes, some of her former students don't like her.) Steinberg also posts a parade of Shteir bashing comments and tweets, including one from Howard Wolfson (New York's deputy mayor and former top aide to Hillary Clinton): "Mystified by the offensive, mean spirited and inaccurate attack on Chicago … A great city that deserves better."
Shteir seems to have taken the response in stride—she told me that she picked up many new Twitter followers—and her tone during our telephone conversation was confident and feisty.
Full disclosure: I've known Shteir for a couple of years—had lunch with her once, have seen her here and there, and have been in occasional e-mail contact. We both write books, and so have a natural affinity.**
Here's an edited transcript of our conversation yesterday:
CF: Have you received hate/love e-mails since the piece appeared?
RS: I had a minor wave of e-mails and posts on Facebook and new followers on Twitter. The hate e-mails called me a fool and worse, vicious, I mean in the style that people talk on the internet. The love ones said, "You nailed Chicago. Fantastic, been upset about living here for 20 years. No one has ever written anything like it."
CF: Can you be more specific; add details about the hate e-mails?
RS: Neil Steinberg has that covered.
CF: He wrote in his column about feeling "heartsick" about the review, but being cheered up by a taxi driver, Christian, from Nigeria, who told Steinberg he had been in New York and prefers Chicago. "They put garbage in their streets [in New York]," Steinberg quotes Christian as saying. "They [people who disparage Chicago and your book] are unhappy. Unhappy people, they try to hurt other people." Did you read Steinberg's reaction to your piece? Are you familiar with his work?
RS: Yes, I'm familiar with Neil Steinberg…What he does in his column doesn't really interest me. I didn't read that column [about the review] actually and your description of it makes it sound rather maudlin.
CF: Your Times piece is full of statistics—murder rate, parking meter rate, sales tax, foreclosure rate, segregated neighborhood rate, underfunded pensions rate, governors-to-prison rate, Louis Sulllivan buldings torn down, population reaching no where near the predictions of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett in 1909. Have any of those stats been challenged?
RS: I don't know. The piece was fact checked. But remember this is an opinion piece, with facts in it, yes. It seems to me that there's confusion about what this essay is supposed to do … It's larger than the books [reviewed]. When someone writes about the theater, that person doesn't just review the play.
CF: Any regrets over having written it?
RS: No. I think it's good people are paying attention, provoking people is good. What's unfortunate is the personal comments about me. … The personal remarks are in themselves a sad commentary on the state of criticism.
CF: Did the Times editors ask you to tone down the anti-Chicago tone of the piece?
RS: I don't think the piece is anti-Chicago. I feel sad about the way things are going here … Extremely well-known problems in Chicago which I didn't invent … I object to the premise of your question. What I suggest is that there is a fear that is haunting Chicago. For anyone to say that no one has ever thought of this, of the drop in population and the problems with crime; … that Chicago could end up like Detroit; that this has anything to do with hating the city, I find bizarre. … Am I congratulatory and boosterish? No. The reaction here proves my point. Can Chicago not take criticism? Is there only one conversation to be had in the city as in "Go Chicago?" That was the point of my piece.
CF: A favorite means of trying to discredit you is to post links to the Tablet.com piece of late 2010 in which you write with utter certainty that Chicagoans won't elect a Jewish mayor and so "Rambo will never be mayor of Chicago."
RS: That was an opinion piece … It was my opinion based on certain judgments. A lot of people hated that piece. That was a polarizing piece … Yes, I was wrong, Rahm got elected, but it wasn't the point of the piece.
CF: Has Rahm as mayor done anything you admire?
RS: He is trying to do the right thing in attracting businesses here … He's working overtime to do that. Overall, he inherited a difficult job in a difficult city … The biggest problem is the pension mess sucking money out of the city and state … Many, many problems. Who else would want to be Mayor here? [I responded that I could give her a list of 10 off the top of my head.]
CF: How did a East Coast girl like you end up at the University of Chicago?
RS: I think it's an amazing place and has phenomenal teachers.
CF: When you were a student there, starting in 1982, did you leave the campus and explore the city?
RS: No, I rarely left Hyde Park.
RS: So after college and a decade in New York, what brought you back to Chicago.
RS: I was offered a job at DePaul.
CF: Do you want to leave Chicago?
RS: I'm hoping some day to be able to get out and move elsewhere.
CF: What city would you prefer?
RS: I don't know. I fantasize about moving back to New York … I'm too old to do that really … I think I'd like to live in different places, move around … Am I ambivalent about Chicago? Yes. But I'd be ambivalent about New York if I lived there.
NOTE: I later received an e-mail from Shteir in which she offered a final thought that seemed aimed squarely at Steinberg: "I just want to say that everyone gets negative reviews—I have; everyone has. Everyone who writes or is an artist has to deal with the fact of them.
"However, one unfortunate fact about living today is that some people seem to think it's okay to turn disappointment at a bad review into a media stunt—a piece of performance art—in which you personally attack the reviewer's character for your own and others' amusement. That strikes me as really bad form."
*The books included in Shteir's essay are The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja; Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out of the Governor's Office and Into Prison by Jeff Coen and John Chase; and You were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg.
**Titles of Shteir's books are Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show; Gypsy: the Art of the Tease; and The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting.
- Old to new
- New to old
- 1
- 2
- ···
- 3
- »
I addressed the weird defensive reaction to this article at http://subjunctivecollapse.com/2013/04/22/related-to-why-im-a-happy-ex-chicagoan/ -- I'm with you all the way on this one, Ms. Shteir. I'm shaking my head at the reaction.
The thing that bothered me the most wasn't all the Chicago bashing. She didn't review the books. She wrote an op-ed about why she doesn't like Chicago. As a writer I can't imagine finally having a book reviewed in the Times then seeing that my book didn't get reviewed--the reviewer took the opportunity to bash the subject of my book, and not review the book. Plus she is not doing women writers any favors. The Times does not review that many books written by women, and they don't have that many women book reviewers. Publishing an op-ed instead of a review reinforces their sexist belief that women shouldn't be taken seriously in the literary world. She whined that Chicago doesn't have that many women writers, but she didn't do us any favors by writing a fluff piece for the Times Book Review.
Obviously Shteir doesn't like living here, so her bias doesn't really surprise me. It seems funny that she is so annoyed by Chicago's boosterism. What annoys me is that she didn't bother to mention the things that make this a world-class center of culture: Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera, Art Institute, and a thriving theater scene—to name some highlights. I guess she's just not into culture.
CF: When you were a student there, starting in 1982, did you leave the campus and explore the city?
RS: No, I rarely left Hyde Park.
No further questions, your honor.
-- MrJM
"When someone writes about the theater, that person doesn't just review the play."
Actually, yes, when someone reviews a play, I do expect a review of the play.
Also, she said she hopes to "some day get out of Chicago." Is she in prison? Being held hostage? People move to new cities every day. But she's "too old" to go back to New York. She's 49; how is that too old?
While I like the reality check that Shteir brings in her piece, and it's healthy to do an honest to god assesment now and again, it seems that Shteir wrote this hoping to elicit exactly this type of overwrought response. and I think that's evident in the way she gives short shrift to the actual review of the books. I think her motive was pretty transparent here. The notion that Chicago is anywhere even close to turning into Detroit is beyond ridiculous. the city works well, despite the glaring problems. It bothers me to no end that we can't deal with pensions, which sucks the lifeblood out of our city and state daily. Our political intransigence is starting to take its toll
The problem with Shteir's piece isn't that it bashed Chicago, the problem is that it was a preposterous piece of writing. I will take her central thesis as she reframes it here, that Chicago "could end up like Detroit."
Only one wholly unfamiliar with Detroit would venture such an opinion. The two cities are no more comparable than Dubuque and New York. That isn't Chicago rah-rah-ism; its an acknowledgement of reality expected of people who are capable of differentiating between things like a hamburger and a grapefruit, or a basketball and a feather pillow. Advancing such an idea in 2012 is also utterly ahistorical.
Of course this isn't the writer's first foray into absurdity, as evidenced by her 2010 prognostication that Rahm "doesn't stand a chance" in the mayoral election.
If people are responding to her in a "simpleminded" fashion it's likely because her piece, despite appearing in the New York Times, doesn't merit a thoughtful response.
She seems to me to essentially just be a troll.
Shawna, an above commenter, hit the nail on the head: What was so irritating about Ms. Shteir's "book review" was that it wasn't a book review at all. The books she mentioned seemed mere afterthoughts. For someone who used the front page of the Times to whine about a city she so hates, you'd think she'd take it upon herself to leave.
This photo is also not doing her any favors: She looks downright miserable. I feel a bit sad for her and hope she finds something that makes her happy.
This quote says it all:
"Am I ambivalent about Chicago? Yes. But I'd be ambivalent about New York if I lived there."
She's clearly not happy with life and is taking it out on her immediate surroundings. She complains that people are commenting on her character, but it's because the tone and angle of her piece says far more about her personality than it does about Chicago, and what it says is not good.
I don't know why anyone even cares about this person or her opinions. Her claim to fame is being wrong about Emmanuel being elected. Yawn.
Here is my own defensive, knee-jerk reaction: Her essay described a city that seemed at odds with my experience of Chicago. Yes, it is a big city with all the big city problems, like New York City, which I also love.
I live in Seattle now, (unavoidable, unfortunately) and have lived in San Francisco as well, and not a day goes by where I'm not missing some aspect of Chicago, where I could rub shoulders with many different people from all over the world, where I could zip downtown on the el, (I sure miss good mass transportation) walk along leafy side streets, or by the lake, (thanks to some of the smartest urban planning in America) where I could look at gorgeous buildings, go to whatever neighborhood I was in the mood for, walk through the Cultural Center to see the current exhibits, along with those at the Art Institute, eat pierogies for breakfast, eat lunch in Pilsen and dinner at Fulton Market/Randolph where some of the best food in America is being produced. Sit outside with a drink and people-watch, feel the weight of the history and see that history reflected in the architecture and the faces around me. Chicago is beautiful, vibrant, dangerous. OF COURSE there are problems. Of course there is ugliness, but I remember all of these things as well.
She did not really "review" the actual books. Defensive or not, the amazingly consistent negativity towards the city of Chicago by New Yorkers or other outsiders is beyond tedious. I honestly don't know of any other American city that is so consistently criticized at this point on so many levels. Sorry, but Chicago is just not that awful or different from the rest of the country. You'd think we were located in the deepest Amazon the way the city is discussed by outsiders. The irony is that most foreigners and people from the south, midwest, or west tend to love Chicago.
Are there problems here? Absolutely. Are we Detroit? Absolutely not. I'd advise her to spend a day or two in Detroit and see if she can muster some sympathy or understanding from her elitist Princeton background for that broken city.
On another note my respect for the New York Times has dropped a lot from this. Who edits this kind of garbage review of four books anymore? And why would I pay to read it? I also feel sorry for the lousy attention the writers of those books are now getting.
Oh I forgot to bring up her outstanding analysis about how Rahm Emanuel could never be elected mayor of Chicago due to his Jewish background. Absolutely brilliant it was!
I, like Ms. Shteir, came to Chicago from Princeton and New York, but the city I live in is clearly not the one in which she resides. The fact that she cannot accept her fallibility (as evidenced by the hugely wrong Tablet.com piece about which she tries, unconvincingly to change the subject); that her views of Chicago are so personal as to be unhelpful as opinion; and that she cannot grasp that the unrelenting sourness of her piece renders it hard to take for anyone, not merely a Chicago "booster" as she dismissively claims -- all of this combines to make it easy for one to right her off. Smart, sophisticated people bristle at her snide writing, and this "interview," in which she comes of as a nasty snob, does her no favors in that regard.
Apparently, to Ms. Shteir, anything beyond abject despair is "boosterism." Cities have problems, and Chicago is no different, but to imagine that Chicago has anything in common with Detroit is simpleminded in the extreme (and shows a lack of historical context regarding either city). And to be so clueless that she thinks that attacking the character of a city is not going to result in people attacking her character is bizarre...and her thin-skinned response to Neil Steinberg in the coda appending the Q&A above is actually pitiable. If she had offered solutions to the problems she identified, I suspect the reaction would have been quite different. She wants to leave, and that's fine: everyone is entitled to their opinion on any given place. She doesn't need to justify her opinion, any more than her critics. I just wish that she would have admitted her biases and that the New York Times would have considered a different, more objective reviewer. I also hope that she finds happiness, somewhere - no one should be that unhappy.
She looks and acts like a vampire but she can't be because she was looking at her reflection in the mirror while she was writing this hateful article. She needs to go to Wiener Circle at 2 am on the weekend and have a talk with the girls.
Hmmm...I always thought that the point of a book review was to review the book itself and not turn it into an "essay" about one's likes and dislikes. After reading her review and this Q&A, I am embarrassed for her. She just doesn't get it.
If she wants to go somewhere else where she would be happier, there's nothing stopping her but herself. We only have one life to live. You shouldn't live a life tainted by regret and I say that with all sincerity and no sarcasm.
This woman is an elitist, pure and simple. Well, Ms. Shteir, we're all so sorry you have to slum here in Chicago, which has one of the most vibrant and inventive theater communities in the world, wasting your MFA and DFA in Dramaturgy. New York is surely missing yet another pretentious, shrill, overeducated, anorexic spinster who has had to leave its bosom to make a salary in her chosen field of study. Because apparently you couldn't get a job in NYC, could you, Ms. Shteir?
- 1
- 2
- ···
- 3
- »


text:
Welcome to Love of Lace
Hello, my name is Shirlene Renshaw and
I do have a
Love of Lace .
I stitch machine embroidery from home and will be making all the items sold on these pages myself. I specialize in what the embroidery world calls Free Standing Lace (FSL).
Be assured that my Love of Lace will be sent to you with each item you purchase from me. You will be able to see the quality of my work in each piece and the love that I have for making it.
Most of my items can be customized to your preference in color, if you don't see what you want, please ask. Browse around the store and tell me what you think. If you don't see what you need, contact me and I will assist you. All sizes are approximate.
I have lots of items that have not made it into the store yet, but they will be added when they are available. Take your time and enjoy your visit.
I am positive that you will find many lace items that you will love to have in your home, to give as gifts or treasure as heirlooms on any one of my pages.
Feel free to browse around and come back often.
Some of the Images shown have been provided by Embroidery Library Inc.


text:
Customer Testimonial
Thank You! You could not have been a better job of processing our order and delivering it. On a scale of 1 to 10 you are a 15. We wish all companies performed like you do. Keep up the good work.
~Rona - IL
Precious Moments® Gifts: $50+


text:
Christina Fisher Songs, Videos, & Albums
Christina Fisher - Stay Right Here [Stream & Download]
On Christina Fisher's last feature, a romantic prospect's indecisiveness led her to conclude it was "time to move around." Her decision to play the field was clearly a good one, as follow-up Stay Right Here... Read More
Christina Fisher ft. Mike Dreams - Move Around [Stream & Download]
Move Around may be the official DJBooth headlining debut from R&B/pop artist Christina Fisher, but it's certainly not her first time on these pages (see most recently, Everything's Good). For her first move... Read More
Mike Dreams ft. Christina Fisher - Everything's Good [Stream & Download]
Contrary to what many of his previous features might suggest, Mike Dreams doesn't spend his every waking moment hustling his way to rap stardom. On Everything Is Good, a Booth-exclusive world premiere off his... Read More
Mike Dreams ft. Christina Fisher - Feelin' Out This World [Stream]
It's been a long road, but the wait is finally over. In anticipation of tomorrow's physical release, Mike Dreams is offering his debut album, Dreamer's Poetry, for free streaming and download right here in... Read More
Mike Dreams ft. Christina Fisher - We Goin' Worldwide [Stream]
The road to Dreamer's Poetry has been a long one, but Booth favorite Mike Dreams remains as driven as ever to write his name among the stars. As he reminded us on his last feature, "Success is but a breath... Read More