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|Pop punk
|Stylistic origins
|Punk rock, pop music, power pop, surf rock, garage rock, sunshine pop, bubblegum pop
|Cultural origins
|Mid-1970s United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries
|Typical instruments
|Vocals, electric guitar, bass, drums and occasional use of other instruments such as keyboards
|Other topics
|List of pop punk bands – Skate punk – Ska punk – Alternative rock – Melodic hardcore
|Pop punk
|Stylistic origins
|Punk rock, pop music, power pop, surf rock, garage rock, sunshine pop, bubblegum pop
|Cultural origins
|Mid-1970s United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries
|Typical instruments
|Vocals, electric guitar, bass, drums and occasional use of other instruments such as keyboards
|Other topics
|List of pop punk bands – Skate punk – Ska punk – Alternative rock – Melodic hardcore
Pop punk (also known as pop-punk or punk-pop) is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music to varying degrees. The music typically combines fast punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars with pop-influenced melodies and lyrical themes.[1]
Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid 1970s in multiple countries, and was stylistically similar to power pop. By the early 1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it yourself (DIY) approach to releasing music. In the mid 1990s, a few pop punk bands sold millions of records and received extensive radio and television airplay. A second wave of pop punk in the late 1990s represented the genre's mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s.
Allmusic describes pop punk as a strand of alternative rock that typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk rock tempos, chord changes and loud guitars.[1] About.com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having "a radio friendly sheen to their music, but still maintaining much of the speed and attitude of classic punk rock".[2]
According to webzine columnist Erik van Rheenen, lyrically, the "true spirit" of pop punk comprises songs "about expressions through friendship, love, hate, attitude, individuality and mind".[3] The New York Times writes that the music of the pop punk band Green Day revolves around "classic pop problems like relationships and girl trouble and modern pop problems like alienation and confusion."[4] Steve Klein of the band New Found Glory said of the lyrics on his band's second album: "A lot of those songs pertained to my early relationships, my first love, that entire time period. I was seventeen years old. Every record that we had is a timetable to my life. My wife can now look back and listen to my diaries as a teenager."[5] Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 did not consider the songs on the band's fourth album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket to be explicitly teenage-related songs. "The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life," said Hoppus. "You can fall in love at sixty; you can get rejected at eighty."[6][7]
It is not clear when the term pop punk was first used, but pop-influenced punk rock had been around since the mid to late 1970s.[8] Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, which emerged at the onset of punk rock around 1974 with the Ramones.[9] With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones paved the way to what became known as pop punk.[10] The Ramones' loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York City's budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the term pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, "Cabaret: Tom Petty's Pop Punk Rock Evokes Sounds of 60s".[11]
In the late 1970s, UK bands such as Buzzcocks and The Undertones combined pop-style tunes and lyrical themes with punk rock's speed and chaotic edge.[12][13][14][15] The Buzzcocks' 1979 compilation album Singles Going Steady has been called "the blueprint for punk rock bands preferring tuneful tales of lost love and longing to rage against the machine."[16] The music of other UK bands, such as Generation X, 999 and The Jam,[17] featured poppy melodies as well as lyrics that sometimes dealt with relatively light themes such as teenage romance. Many UK mod revival bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s also displayed pop punk characteristics.
The US band Bad Religion, formed in 1979, also helped to lay the groundwork for contemporary pop punk.[19][20][21] Bad Religion and some of the other leading bands in Southern California's hardcore punk scene emphasized a more melodic approach than was typical of their peers. According to music journalist Ben Myers, Bad Religion "layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies". Meyers wrote that Descendents "wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys–inspired songs about girls and food and being young(ish)".[22] Their positive yet sarcastic approach began to separate them from the more serious hardcore scene. The band's 1982 debut LP Milo Goes to College provided the template for the United States' take on the more melodic strains of first wave punk.[16] In the 1980s, the term pop punk was used in publications such as Maximum RocknRoll to describe bands similar to Social Distortion, Agent Orange, and T.S.O.L..[23] Bands such as The Vandals and Guttermouth developed a style blending pop melodies with humorous and offensive lyrics.
Pop punk in the United States underwent a resurgence in the early to mid 1990s, although the genre was not commercially viable at that time. Many pop punk bands retained a do it yourself (DIY) approach to their music, and a number of independent record labels emerged during that period, often run by band members who wanted to release their own music and that of their friends. The independent labels Lookout! Records, Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph Records, which released many pop punk recordings, went on to achieve commercial success. Bands that fused punk rock with light-hearted pop melodies, such as The Queers and Screeching Weasel, began performing around the country, in turn influencing bands like Green Day and The Offspring, who brought widespread popularity and major record sales to the pop punk genre.
In 1993, California's Green Day and Bad Religion were both signed to major labels, and by 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity. Many pop punk bands originated from the California punk scene of the 1980s, and several of those bands, especially Green Day and The Offspring, helped revive interest in punk rock in the 1990s.[24]
Green Day arose from the San Francisco Bay Area and 924 Gilman Street punk scenes.[25] After building an underground following, the band signed to Reprise Records and released their major-label debut album, Dookie, in 1994. That June, Green Day's "Longview" reached number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and became a top 40 airplay hit, possibly the first American punk song to do so. One month later, The Offspring's "Come Out and Play" followed suit, helping The Offspring's album Smash achieve 6x Platinum and become the highest selling independent record of all time.
MTV and radio stations such as Los Angeles' KROQ-FM played a major role in the genre's mainstream success.[26] KROQ's steady airplay of a remix of Face to Face's song "Disconnected" led the band to re-record the track for their 1994 album Big Choice, which sold over 100,000 copies.[27][28] Meanwhile, Bad Religion's album Stranger Than Fiction was certified gold.[29] Other California punk bands on the independent label Epitaph Records, run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, also began achieving mainstream popularity. In 1994, Epitaph released Let's Go by Rancid, Punk in Drublic by NOFX and Smash by The Offspring, each eventually certifying gold or better.
Dookie sold four million copies by the year's end and spawned several radio singles that received extensive MTV rotation, three of which peaked at number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.[30] Green Day headlined Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1994 and were nominated for four Grammy Awards. Green Day's enormous commercial success paved the way for other North American pop punk bands in the following decade.[31]
In the aftermath of the 1994 punk breakthrough, bands such as Rancid and Face to Face were the subject of major-label bidding wars and lucrative deals.[30] The Australian bands Frenzal Rhomb and Bodyjar established followings in Japan.[32]
Many ska punk bands in the third wave of ska fused ska with pop punk. Rancid's 1995 album ...And Out Come the Wolves, became the first record in this ska revival to be certified gold. Sublime's self-titled 1996 album was certified platinum early in 1997.[33]
The Warped Tour and the mall chain store Hot Topic brought punk even further into the US mainstream.[34] With punk rock's renewed visibility came concerns among some in the punk subculture that the music was being co-opted by the mainstream.[26] Some punk rock fans criticized Green Day for "selling out" and rejected their music as too soft, pop-oriented and not legitimate punk rock.[30][35][36] They argued that by signing to major labels and appearing on MTV, bands like Green Day were buying into a system that punk was created to challenge.[37]
By early 1998, the punk revival had commercially stalled,[38] but not for long. That November, The Offspring's Americana on the major label Columbia Records debuted at number two on the album chart and achieved 5x Platinum in the US. A bootleg MP3 of its first single, "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)", was uploaded to the Internet and was illegally downloaded 22 million times.[39]
Pop punk's commercial success generally peaked with the 1999 release of Blink-182's Enema of the State,[2] which sold 15 million copies worldwide. Blink-182's status was cemented by constant rotation on MTV. The band Lit enjoyed chart success with the single "My Own Worst Enemy", which spent 11 weeks on the top of the modern rock charts. New Found Glory gained commercial success with the 2000 release of their self-titled second album. Jimmy Eat World gained commercial success with their breakthrough album Bleed American. Blink-182 had continued success in 2001 with Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which sold 14 million copies worldwide. Sum 41's major label debut, All Killer No Filler, went multi-platinum. New Found Glory's album Sticks and Stones debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Simple Plan experienced commercial success in 2002 with No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls, and Good Charlotte found similar success with The Young and the Hopeless. Sum 41's "Still Waiting" peaked at No. 1 on the rock charts. Pop punk bands such as MxPx, American Hi-Fi and Bowling for Soup achieved relatively high-charting hits on industry charts in the early 2000s. Solo artist Avril Lavigne, who has been referred to as the "pop punk princess",[41][42] found commercial success in 2002, with her punk-influenced pop sound.[43][44][45]
Radio hits in 2003 included The Ataris' cover of "The Boys of Summer" and Yellowcard's "Ocean Avenue", both commonplace on top 40 playlists. Blink-182's fifth studio album, blink-182, sold millions.
In 2004, Good Charlotte released The Chronicles of Life and Death, lead by the lead single Predictable". Sum 41 had similar success with Chuck, which landed at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. Simple Plan's "Welcome to My Life" was a top ten hit on the pop charts, while New Found Glory's "All Downhill from Here" peaked similarly on the rock charts. By then, Green Day's fame was fading, mainly due to the popularity of acts such as Blink-182 and Sum 41, so the band retreated to the studio, which resulted in worldwide success in 2004 with American Idiot, a politically charged rock opera that sold 14 million records.
Emo pop, a fusion genre combining emo and pop punk, became popular in the mid-2000s, with the record label Fueled by Ramen releasing platinum albums from bands including Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Paramore.[46] Devon Maloney of MTV News wrote: "While many pop punk fans adamantly deny any association between their favorite acts and those labeled "emo," crossover bands who melded the two have gradually put both genres in the same scene-boat."[47] Fall Out Boy released their breakthrough record From Under the Cork Tree in 2005, selling 3 million worldwide and spawning top two ten singles which received heavy MTV rotation. With it they advanced to playing in arenas. Although the band had been a staple of the Chicago hardcore scene, where they mixed pop sensibilities with hardcore punk, they are widely considered a pop punk and emo pop act.[48][49]
The All-American Rejects found success with Move Along (2005), which inspired three top 15 singles.[50] Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy signed Panic! at the Disco to his record label, Decaydance, and the band scored a hit single, "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", which won them a 2006 MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. Avril Lavigne had success with the single "Girlfriend", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the top-selling song of 2007, making it the most successful pop punk single of the decade. Her platinum album, The Best Damn Thing, sold around 7 million copies worldwide, making it the top-selling pop punk album of 2007 and the second most successful pop punk album of the decade after Green Day's American Idiot.[51][52] The All-American Rejects returned with "Gives You Hell" in 2008, which went four-times multi-platinum and charted highly. Sum 41's "With Me" gained radio success that year, while Good Charlotte had similar success with "The River".
Several pop punk bands took different directions in the late 2000s, with Panic! at the Disco crafting the Beatles-inspired, baroque pop-styled record Pretty. Odd. (2008) and Fall Out Boy experimenting with glam rock, blues rock and R&B on Folie a Deux (2008), both of which created fan confusion and backlash.[53][54]
All Time Low's third studio album, Nothing Personal, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in 2009 and received some mainstream success, with singles gaining minor radio and television airplay.
Pop punk generally waned in mainstream popularity by the end of the first decade of the 2000s. While Blink-182 and Green Day continue to headline arenas and sell out their concerts,[55][56] others, such as New Found Glory and Yellowcard, have seen attendance decrease steadily.[57] Devon Maloney of MTV News writes that "Pop punk and emo bands don't headline Coachella or Bonnaroo; they rarely, if ever, are even billed on mainstream festival stages," and notes that it has similarly disappeared from the press. The only magazines that feature pop punk bands are niche publications like Alternative Press (AP) and the occasional teen magazine, while influential pop punk magazine AMP ceased publication in 2013.[47]
Several pop punk bands have embarked on anniversary tours, playing some of their most popular albums in full. While some members of these bands have had mixed feelings about these performances, quite often these tours sell as well as or better than the first time around.[47] Many pop punk bands have folded; "once essentially child stars, their members are now adult musicians hoping to move beyond the teen trappings that gave them careers."[47] However, the genre has experienced somewhat of a "minor renaissance."[58]
Bands such as A Day to Remember, Four Year Strong, The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals and Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! have combined the pop punk sound with melodic hardcore.
In 2013, Fall Out Boy and Paramore, "two bands who rocketed into the mainstream at the height (or perhaps at the tail end) of emo and pop punk's second wave," had two number one albums — Save Rock and Roll and Paramore — side by side on the Billboard 200.[59] Their popularity provoked conversations about the state of the genre; Maloney writes that these records "could hardly be considered pop punk at this point."[47]
Club promoters in the United Kingdom have created nights based around lasting appreciation of the genre, including Pop Punk Ain't Dead in Brighton, Hello Bastards in Leeds, Say It Ain't So in London and What's My Age Again?, a night celebrating "pop-punk, youthful abandon and teenage riot".[60]
Pop punk bands that achieve minimal mainstream success have seen a return to grassroots form, "the micro-operation style that yielded the results that caught the mainstream's attention in the first place."[47] Kelen Capener of the band The Story So Far said
"I think pop-punk is a zombie ... It hushed down for a bit but then it got brought back to life in an almost undead fashion. ... Back then it was mainstream, you would see it on MTV and things like that. Now, it's different, it's got a fighting chance and it's crawling its way back up. It started out with a pretty selective crowd but now it's opening up to more and more people."[61]
The Warped Tour still attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees each year; the 2012 tour attracted 556,000 festival-goers, its third-best attendance.[47] Bobby Olivier of The Star-Ledger wrote: "The genre, like an awkward high school kid, continues to reinvent itself and Warped is pop-punk's prom."[62]
New Found Glory has continued to tour on the Warped Tour, and had their own Pop Punks Not Dead Tour, a reworking of an "old, defiant punk rock battle cry."[63] Chad Gilbert, the band's guitarist, wrote in an op-ed for Alternative Press entitled "Why Pop-Punk's Not Dead—And Why It Still Matters Today": "This isn't a dead genre, and just because there isn't a song on the radio to clarify that shouldn't matter ... Pop-punk means something to a lot of people and to me, having success as a band in our genre is about longevity, touring a lot and staying true to your fans. It's about us putting our lives on a plate for our fans to take what they want and not jeopardizing our integrity for any reason."[57]


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Being sued by Midland Funding and have default judgement against me. I am being sued by midland funding I did not attend the court and now have a defaul judgement against me. I received a letter for a prove up hearing. My husband employer only allows direct deposit and our accounts are joint. I want to settle this by making a payment arrangement with them.
I have a judgement against me for $4.500 from Midland Funding.. I would like to settle this before they levy our account. I do not work my husband is the sole provider but our accounts are joint. Can I still settle with them if the judgement hearing is next week? Will they levy our account even if they agree on a payment arrangement? Thank you
Generally speaking, if you are not going to settle the debt with Midland in 1 or 2 payments, I would suggest you get the payment arrangement as part of the court record at the hearing. I am suggesting this because of many instances where someone thought they had a payment arrangement with a debt collector or debt buyer who already had a judgment, and where they had paid on time, only to wake up one morning and see the checking account has been levied and now other bills were getting paid late.
You can settle debt with Midland Funding.
How much is the judgment for? Can you come up with half of that amount from any source? Loan from family member? That would be ideal if the judgment is against you only, and where you are not working and can take your name off of the joint bank account. Do you live in a community property state? Was your husband named in the lawsuit?
If you cannot come up with the money to settle with Midland, what kind of payment are you able to afford each month? Is it enough to pay off the judgment rapidly? Judgment interest is making the balance you owe – grow. Too small a payment can make it seem like you are not getting anywhere on the debt. This is another reason settling is ideal, but I understand that may not be an option.
Making a payment agreement with Midland Funding.
If all you can do is make payments with Midland, you may want to consider getting that set up through the court by showing up at the hearing. If you are trying to avoid the hearing, perhaps consider settling up the monthly payment agreement with Midland, and also removing yourself from the joint account with your husband (if he is not part of the lawsuit). This way you can remove the concern that they would take the monthly payments and still try to levy a bank account they find that you are on.
Thank you for answering..I live in Illinois and my husband is not named in the suit. I did contact Midland and the amount they wanted up front was impossible for me to come up with. I offered them $100 a month and they said they would send me an agreement but I'm still in danger of having a judgement against me. I am still planning to show up at the hearing next week..should i show the court the agreement papers? The total debt is for $5149.57. I will be taking my name off our accounts ASAP. My concern is our car that is under both our names and fully paid..can they go after that?
Also, our house is under contract to be sold in a short sale and they advised me not to file for bankruptcy until it is sold…we are supposed to be closing this month..as soon as that happens I plan on looking into filing for bankruptcy since I do have other debts under my name only.
Hi, I have been here before but I guess Im too dumb or honest to have taken the advice previous.
I went to the judgement hearing and it was granted. Initially $500 but I could not pay then they offered to settle for 2500 now the judgement is for just over $5K my problem is they told me today that they want to know how much is in my bank account. They also told me that they put a lien on the house for the maount but that midland would prefer not to wait. I have insurance contractors money in the bank for work not yet done as the weather turned and insurance claim work halted. Can they Grab all this? Please help ASAP Im in wig out mode!

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Doctors stated that mobile virtual assistants could impact healthcare most by helping them access information in EHRs, and navigate through the process using conversational commands. One out of three doctors spends 30 percent or more of their day on administrative duties — activities that could be redirected or removed using voice-enabled virtual assistants.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (CBS 2/FOX 28) -- During the holidays, residents say its less about Santa or the trees or the presents and more about the ties that bind - family.
It's one of the main reasons to have a holiday to get together and celebrate and spend time together, said resident Metta Beninga.
But the holiday season can quickly turn into a season of discontent, with issues between family members flaring up.
There's not enough money to buy the presents you need to buy, family members coming over that you don't get along with, said Sgt. Cristy Hamblin with the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
CRPD says the numbers tell the story.
During Christmas and Thanksgiving, calls for reports of domestic violence jump. Last year, CRPD received 52 calls during Christmas week, in some cases doubling their normal intake. That only includes the incidents that are actually recorded.
If they're not living together in the same household, then a report may not be made, Hamblin said. They may say no.
Sometimes the fights are serious enough to lead to injuries even death.
Arguing, fighting can already make explosive situations worse, said Lori Hagg with Horizons in Cedar Rapids.
Where does the arguing stem from? Hagg says just being around family can set things off.
They spend a lot of time together, which they're not used to doing, Hagg said.
Introducing alcohol to that mix can make things worse, and intensity lingering family disagreements. However, Hagg says the number one reason for Holiday arguments is money - as increased pressure meets unrealistic expectations.
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The handiwork of a poorly schooled and badly lettered 'Chief' Eze who clearly does not even know why he was conscripted by his benefactors to do the dirty PR job for a band of rebellious elements.
Methinks that the Eze fellow does not even liaise with the other members of that nauseous renegade group before jumping on his computers to churn off press releases with questionable email addresses.
I have advocated time and time again that this Eze fellow needs to be jailed for impersonation and being being a cheap imposter. He has no right to sign off press releases as National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
They will not learn IF they are not taught a lesson!
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Attack on Jonathan: New PDP members disagree
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Cracks are beginning to appear in the New Peoples Democratic Party as some of its members are unhappy over the faction's recent criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's handling of the economy,SUNDAY PUNCH reports.
It was gathered in Abuja on Friday that signs that all was not well within the New PDP manifested when some of the governors grumbled about how its leadership is fighting the Jonathan administration.
Governors in the New PDP are Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwanso(Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido(Jigawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed(Kwara), Babangida Aliyu(Niger) and Aliyu Wamakko(Sokoto).
The Abubakar Baraje-led New PDP had in a statement raised the alarm that the Jonathan-led administration was presiding over a collapsing economy.
A statement issued by the faction in Abuja and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Eze, said with the massive scale of officially-induced oil theft, the dwindling returns from oil and massive looting going on at the federal level, Nigeria was surely on the brink of economic collapse.
But one of the governors, who spoke with one of our correspondents in confidence, said Baraje's statement was "too strong."
He said though they were fighting the President based on principles, it had not reached the stage of painting his entire administration black, adding that all of them were still members of the same ruling party.
The governor said, "I read what was published about the way the President is running the economy and I felt bad.
"Though we are not happy with him (Jonathan) based on some issues, which we have told him, I think we should not have gone to the extent of painting the entire PDP government black.
"With that statement, we are giving enough campaign material to the opposition to use against us in 2015. Even if we later settle our differences, can we withdraw that damaging statement?"
However, Eze insisted that there was nothing wrong with the statement.
He said "All of us are Nigerians. As an individual, are you happy that your children who are supposed to be in school are at home because the Academic Staff Union of Universities is on strike?
"If anybody is not happy and they want us to continue the way the government is going and expect us to clap our hands while the people are suffering, then some of us cannot be part of it."
The main Peoples Democratic Party has however called on the aggrieved members of the party not to destroy the house they built because of anger.
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Occupation: Ceramics artist
Laurence Kaplan
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Occupation: Executive Vice President of Gerber Finance Inc.
Home Base: Westport, Connecticut
How did you meet?
LAUREN: Laurence used to read the news on one of the really popular radio stations in South Africa. In the middle of the summer, the town had a big fair, and everybody used to sit and look into the station tower where he was workinghe had a rich voice, full of character. When I finished with my boyfriend at the time, Laurence's mother, whom I knew from town, said, "I'm gonna get Lacky to call you."
LAURENCE: My mother kept going on about how Lauren was this and that, and I thought, This is ridiculous! She's 17 years old! [Laurence was 23] Then I heard that one of my brother's friends was going to ask her out, and I called her immediately.
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LAUREN: He was charismatic, warm, and hysterical. A menschjust a good guy.
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LAUREN: You think to yourself, How would a 20-year-old know what's right for herself in the future? You've just got to go with your gut. I always knew that Laurence was going to be successful. He was totally driven; I knew he'd provide.
What's your secret to a successful marriage?
LAURENCE: You can't stifle each other.
LAUREN: I have my passions, like ceramics, and he's got his golf.
LAURENCE: You've got to keep it interesting in every way, because anything can become stale. You have to be unselfish. I think people today take marriage too lightly. If I ever cheated on Lauren, I could never face her.
LAUREN: I'd pull a Lauren Bobbitt! The rabbi who married us said, "When you get married, it's like lighting a candle. Sometimes the flame goes down, and when that flame goes down, you need to give it more oxygen."
Most unusual gift for your husband?
LAUREN: In South Africa, you call beef jerky biltong. For Father's Day one year, I actually constructed a biltong dehydration unit in a big closet. At some stages I had 80 pounds of meat hanging in the closet drying.
What is your partner's most irritating quality?
LAURENCE: She is the worst backseat driver.
LAUREN: If I can't get hold of Laurence over the phone, I go mad. Like if I BlackBerry Messenger him, and I can see that he read it, that drives me crazy.
What celebrity could you cheat on your spouse with guilt free?
LAURENCE: Well, Lauren's got a list!
LAUREN: I haven't got a list, but I think that someone like Sting would be unbelievable.
Favorite small kindness that your spouse shows you?
LAURENCE: Bringing me tea in the morning.
LAUREN: He always helps me clean up after dinner.
Would it bother you if your spouse flirted with your friends?
LAUREN: Laurence is an extremely jealous person, so it would bother him very much. I'm not as jealous. But yes, I suppose it would worry me.
What has been the biggest challenge?
LAUREN: I pushed Laurence to take a new job to join an international trading firm in Switzerland. So we packed up everything in South Africa, and he literally dropped me in Switzerland with three babies, while he was working and traveling. Our children's teachers thought that I was a single parent because they never met Laurence.
LAURENCE: I worked really hard for 12 years, and because of that, I missed everythingthe kids' birthdays, games, etc. I was never around. The reward for working so hard was that for eight years in the middle of my life, when most people were working night and day, I was chilled out and was a completely present father.
Do you have a TV in the bedroom?
LAURENCE: How else would we watch Dancing With the Stars?
Expectations for your marriage 25 years ago?
LAURENCE: That this marriage would be a raging success. It was just going to be a fabulous ride, and it's absolutely been that and more.
LAUREN: For the last 26 years of my life, I wake up smiling and laughing, and I go to bed smiling and laughing.


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- 16May 26, '13 by bluegeegoo2, LVN1. You are NOT the only resident in this facility.
2. Your mother is NOT the only resident in this facility.
3. No, there is no way you can still receive Dad's Social Security check. Get a job.
4. If you're unhappy with her care here, by all means, take her home. Here, I'll help you
5. Your Dad, the aphasic, bedridden, 5 yrs+ incontinent resident with advanced dementia
said he needed to go to the bathroom? Really? Well stop the press! We are witness to a miracle! And right as we're serving lunch, too....
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7. Sure, go ahead and give you're NPO Mom on a feed tube her beloved coffee. She'll
aspirate and maybe even die, as explained ad nauseum. As if sneaking her foods/drinks by mouth when we're not looking somehow lessens the risks...
8. No, Mom is not going to suddenly "snap out of" the catastrophic stroke she had so
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9. You can cover Dad up as well as I can.
10. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (As I bang my head on the desk).
Thank you for letting me get that out. As you can see, I'm a "little" fed up with LTC. I've been a LTC nurse for almost 6 yrs now, and I HAVE HAD IT!!!!!!!!!!! Demanding/whiny/entitled residents, demanding/whiny/entitled family members, mountains of paperwork, it's crushing my spirit and making me resentful at nursing. I have many more things I would LOVE to say to residents, MD's, families, corporate CEO's, etc., but I think the above will suffice for now. Again, thank you for the rant. Please feel free to add your own.
- 2May 26, '13 by HippyDippyLPNI know it gets frustrating...but you have to remember, for some family members this is the first time they have had a family member in LTC so accepting that mom or dad has no inclination to go pee in the toilet anymore is hard. We naturally get jaded in LTC and family members, IMO, are the hardest part. Especially the ones who show up once a year on Mother's Day and want to change mom's care plan all around to ease their guilt over not ever seeing mom. I got to your frustration level and moved on to another field...maybe it's time you should consider this? LTC well it sucks the life out of you and then some. We all need a break from it at some point.
- 1lmao! We all get frustrated but we have to hold our tongues and then come to AN to let it out, lol. I am happy you were able to get it out. I can imagine you still care for the residents but then again, enough is enough.
But at some point we all have to know when to move on. So maybe it is time for you to move on out of LTC, don't want to be that grumpy, burnt out nurse no one likes. lol.
- 3May 26, '13 by bluegeegoo2, LVNOh yes, I loves my people! But, alas, I am turning (have turned?) into Nurse Ratched. lol. I'm actually looking into going back to school so that I may have more options for employment.
- 1lol! Oh man, that's funny! Oh that is a great idea. You have your ADN or BSN?
- 9May 26, '13 by TheCommuter, ASN, RN Senior ModeratorQuote from avaloncarAccording to the member's profile, it reveals he/she is an LPN. LPNs are the ultimate backbone of the nursing home industry.You have your ADN or BSN?
- 1Quote from TheCommuterWow...okay. Thanks for that update...According to the member's profile, it reveals he/she is an LPN. LPNs are the ultimate backbone of the nursing home industry.
But I was just trying to start a conversation with the poster, if I just wanted to know his/her information I would have looked at her profile. But thanks...
- 14May 26, '13 by Glycerine82, CNAI think the Commuter was just trying to be helpful while paying the OP a compliment. :-)
- 3May 26, '13 by Glycerine82, CNAOh my. I remember we had this wicked demented lady who was NWB BLE and incontinent x5 years or more. Whenever her daughter came she INSISTED we put her mother on the toilet. Ugh. Management allowed this, too. Suuuuch a hassle. I work rehab now and am so thankful I can say no because its a safety risk, and I do.
- 3May 26, '13 by prnqdayYes, I've been there. I loved LTC but at some point I to make the decision to leave LTC. It is not fair to you or the residents if you hate your job. A happy nurse does make happy patients, in my opinion.


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It's not just a kids show - it's a Spotisode! Get a COMPLETE FIVE-MINUTE EPISODE of LIFEBOAT LUKE with each new App! Perfect for long journeys or keeping young hands and minds busy. Don't just sit there like a drifting dinghy; get those ogling gogglers jiggling joggingly!
George and Stanley are up to their bumbling buffoonery again, and this time they've brought the gullibliferous Goofreys with them. A Donaghadolphin swim adventure sounds like a fine idea for starters, but as it happens, the Rusty Tub is not a fit vessel for sea man or sea mammal. Somebody call Lifeboat Luke!
Every Spotisode comes with a COMPLETE FIVE MINUTE EPISODE of Lifeboat Luke. Watch the episode, but keep your eyes open for the items in your Spotlist - a sock, a spoon, a schlump of seaweed, stuff like that. If you see one, tap the screen! There are 20 items to find in each Spotisode, so keep playing until you find them all!
There are already seven other spotisodes out there, and more to come! Keep your gogglers agog for Nabaneggnicker!
Lifeboat Luke is a brave young lifeboat from the mad, magical, Irish seaside town of Donaghadoo. Luke, Ardal the Coxswain and the rest of the stalwart & steadfast crew are responsible for the rescue of the reckless, the improbable and the irresponsible.
Lifeboat Luke is an exciting search & rescue children's animation series. It's the first 52-part animation series to be produced entirely in Ireland, and is currently being broadcast in over 20 countries worldwide.
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|Butter or Margarine
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|Cooked Brown Rice
|Tomatoes, coarsely chopped
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|Small Bunch Parsley, finely chopped
|2 cloves
|Garlic, finely chopped
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Binatone G500 UK for £59.99 @ Zavvi
Plan your route ahead with the Binatone G500 Sat Nav. Pre-loaded with maps of both the UK and ROI, you can easily navigate your way through the route with clear instructions.
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Find local attractions such as restaurants, petrol stations and car parks with the press of a simple on-screen button. 2D and 3D Maps will easily show you the easiest route with accurate road layouts and speed camera locations. The built-in SD expansion slot allows you to add or update maps, or even use the sat nav as an image viewer. (Matt Major)
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I am soooooo very excited to show you the kitchen!!! I cannot tell you how much difference some paint and new lighting makes in a space! It feel like we added a window too…light just pours in! Ok…I'll shut up and get on with the eye candy we all want to see….. Let me jog your memory….. Amazing right?!?! I know!! We painted the walls a … [Read more...]
How to take out a small wall (pantry) plus a little kitchen update!
Let's just say we know our limits. Taking out a wall...no matter how small...is not something we were comfortable doing. We have a fabulous handy man. He has finished 2 basements for us...and built us a deck on our last house. He is trustworthy and timely and just an all around great guy. If you are local to Louisville I can give you his number. He … [Read more...]
A solution for a small pantry….
You know that I have lamented to you about the kitchen.....I really do love it....I just need a little change. One of the first projects of the year will be to take out this pantry.... It really is a bad excuse for a pantry. The door is too small...the access to the top shelf is bad...it fits stuff but yet it's hard to get to. I … [Read more...]
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Is it just our house...or do most of your friends and family come in the garage door entry? No one uses our front door...and we like it that way. Our garage door is just easier..the kids playing ball in the driveway or riding bikes...it is easy access. The "entry" was very very lacking...of ANY kind of style. So one Sunday I was out to change … [Read more...]


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As the Rochester community awaits the arrival of Vice President Joe Biden, many are wondering what he will discuss during his speech at Monroe Community College's Applied Technologies Center.
News10NBC has learned the Vice President will touch on the issues of education and workplace development, as well as speak about job training. Vice President Biden will be joined by his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, a community college English professor at a community college in Virginia and strong supporter of continuing education.
News10NBC has also learned Mayor Lovely Warren invited the Vice President to tour the Henrietta campus to see how schools like MCC are preparing people to join the workforce. The visit comes just hours after President Obama's State of the Union address called for major changes in job training programs and education reform.
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The Peregrines have been very visible around the clock tower all winter. In fact apart from a short period in the autumn when they were probably moulting they have been around continuously since their nesting attempt failed last summer.
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White Sox GM Rick Hahn taking cool approach to winter meetings
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Rick Hahn won't play the eager-beaver general manager trying to make a good first impression when he runs the White Sox' winter meetings show for the first time. While admitting his job is the last thing he thinks about when his head hits the pillow and the first thing when he wakes up, Hahn sounded calm, collected and well-rested talking about his upcoming three days in Nashville, Tenn. He cautioned that fans hoping for a splashy acquisition might be disappointed.
''There is no expectation that anything specific is going to happen,'' Hahn said. ''We'll continue to have the same conversations we've been having with clubs and agents. There is nothing magical there in Nashville that something has to happen.''
Not so fast. Hahn added something could happen before or shortly after. And keep in mind, he's the same guy who said re-signing Jake Peavy ''would be a tough one'' a few days before he got the job done and signed Peavy to two more years with an option for a third.
When Ken Williams was GM and Hahn his assistant, they were the aggressive wheeler-dealer team who always got their guy. Williams, now an executive with a bigger title, will be in Nashville for advice, but Hahn's at the controls now and figures to be no less aggressive.
''We're going to continue to pursue any opportunities that will make us better now or in future aggressively,'' he said. ''The priority and intent remains the same.''
Thinking about third
Hahn identified his top two offseason priorities as solidifying the starting rotation and third base. He took care of the former by keeping Peavy on board and said there are numerous internal options to take on the latter.
Among them:
1. Re-signing Kevin Youkilis for less than his $13 million option that wasn't picked up. The level of competition for his services could be made clear in Nashville.
2. Brent Morel. The 2012 Opening Day starter who disappeared because of back problems is saying he's healthy now, but he'd have to prove it at camp.
3. Carlos Sanchez. The 20-year-old touted infield prospect will show what he can do in spring training, but he fits the mold of a middle infielder. Sanchez has three home runs over four minor-league seasons, not much pop for a corner guy.
4. Gordon Beckham. A long shot that he'll move back to third, but that possibility has been discussed.
''We have options lined up. We've got a list prioritized,'' Hahn said. ''We've had good conversations along different avenues. There may well come a point where we decide the options we have internally are superior to what's out there via free agency or a trade.''
Dealing from strength
Somewhat overlooked is the depth in the Sox' starting rotation, which may be why Hahn appears calm. The Sox have a Cy Young candidate in Chris Sale, a former Cy winner and a veteran leader in Peavy and a $65 million Opening Day starter in John Danks at the top, with Gavin Floyd and capable lefty Jose Quintana (3.76 ERA) on the back end. Not to mention, lefty Hector Santiago waits in the wings.
Rotation depth keeps the Sox in contender company and affords flexibility for trades. They are looking at signing a fifth-starter free agent, making Floyd (who becomes a free agent after season) expendable, possibly for a third baseman.
''The greatest amount of interest [from other teams] is in our pitching staff, the bottom of the rotation and the bullpen,'' Hahn said. ''Other clubs view us having depth and young guys who've had some success and perhaps in a position of having an excess. We're not inclined to go out there and trim away at that depth. [But] that's likely the area we would deal from.''
The bottom line
Ten Sox account for $89.95 million on a payroll that figures to settle above the $100M mark.
Adam Dunn (above) $15M
Jake Peavy $14.5M
John Danks $14.25M
Alex Rios $12.5M
Gavin Floyd $9.5M
Alexei Ramirez $7M
Paul Konerko $6.5M*
Matt Thornton $5.5M
Jesse Crain $4.5M
Dewayne Wise $700K
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ganizations. While once primarily the purview of firms in the retail sector, part-time work is increasingly found in sectors other than services. Corporations are downsizing and subcontracting activities formerly performed inside the corporation. Downsizing and subcontracting are occurring at all levels, including blue-collar, administrative, and executive-level jobs. Thus, a person's first job may not be permanent or even full-time. Moreover, it is less likely to require skills specific to the firm. By implication, firms are looking for people with strong general backgrounds, a range of skills, and the ability to work efficiently in many different settings.
Another important trend with the potential to affect geographers is the growing tendency for private sector firms to use pools of labor found around the world to undertake such service activities as software design and computer programming (Martin 1992). For example, a corporation may hire skilled workers in low-cost countries such as India and Ireland to perform tasks that have heretofore been conducted on shore. Companies currently hiring graduates with GIS training may be able to find cheaper, equally skilled workers in other English-speaking countries. Lest we think this trend cannot have an impact on our field, keep in mind that major software companies use English-speaking labor forces around the world to answer user problems and to provide technical assistance. Companies like Texas Instruments and International Business Machines and construction companies such as Bechtel have established white-collar technical support staff in developing countries to take advantage of skilled labor at low cost.
The labor market for geographers may be affected by the continued decline in the defense sector, which is thrusting thousands of engineers and technicians into a very weak aerospace labor market. Consequently, these highly skilled, computer-literate individuals with significant problem solving capabilities may compete for jobs formerly held by geographers with computer skills. Much like the 1970s, when the end of the Vietnam War put thousands of technical workers out of jobs, displaced defense workers have filtered into the public sector, running data processing and other technical operations. The extent to which these workers compete for geographers' jobs depends on their ability to gain necessary skills. Given significant federal government funding for the retraining of aerospace workers (on the order of $100 million), there is a strong likelihood of a growing supply of technical job seekers, some of whom will get jobs that geographers might have filled.
Also relevant to geography are privatization trends in government employment. Government at all levels is contracting for services, particularly services that require high-cost, in-house staff. The flip side of contracting is the growth in private sector firms providing technical services. Data are too aggregate to discern whether consulting firms use contingent workers on government contracts; however, given that government contracts are in all likelihood small in size and short-term in nature, part-time work may be one means by which contract firms manage the flow of jobs.
What do these trends mean for the future employment of geographers? Geographers, like other highly skilled workers, increasingly are competing in highly volatile and uncertain labor markets. Moreover, the cohort of new geographers who will enter the labor market in the next decade will be forced, by their sheer size and by privatization trends in the public sector, to seek out positions in the private sector not previously associated with or held by geographers. Success in the current labor market seems to be tied to computer skills, a solid generalist background, and the ability to adapt to a wide range of job tasks and employment situations.
We conducted a small survey of employers of geographers through structured interviews with AAG sponsors. These sponsors include book publishers, map and atlas publishers, geographic applications software developers, and geographic research applications specialists. In a written letter we invited representatives of the AAG's 12 corporate sponsors to communicate their views about the future demand for geographers and, more specifically, about the types of expertise that will be required for geographers to keep up with the ever-changing demands of their businesses. We were successful in conducting telephone interviews with


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Cheap, well built. Have 2 and they are 0.4 degrees different. Expect precision about +/- 1 degree celcius. Plastic - not fit for inside of oven. The absolute precision is above 1 degree and there is no way to calibrate this in. It auto shuts off after 10 minuttes. Theres a note that this is optional,... Read more
it is a very well built thermometer, it works very well and it is very cheap. i ll buy another if i need it has 4 buttons instead of 3 like the photo. it carriying case is very good for the price. it is a very well built thermometer, it works very well and it is very cheap. i ll buy another if i need ... Read more
Easy to use. Has the possibility to se in Celsius and Fahrenheit. The button "hold" makes easy to see the right temperature. The button "on/off" also its god, so it does not waste battery. Slow response to temperature variations. The plastic on top of the display came unglued, I have ... Read more
very cheap compering to other products in this category. accurate to the degree.. the stick is long enough for the meat i used. seems breakble the steel stick strated tilting in about two or three uses. the buttons are to small to my opinion hard to press especially while you cook and your hand get filthy.... Read more
The probe is rather long for me. You doesn't need to suffer much from heat from oven. It looks very good. The handle part is glossy and i think easy to clean if it need. Also it is easy to manage with it. 4 buttons and that's all. Oh! I almost forgot: IT IS VERY CHEAP! It comes to me with dead battery.... Read more


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