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There are many things that can go wrong with your furnace, the most common problems that accrue with home and commercial heating systems are the indoor blower motor, flame igniter and or the fan control board. Listed below is the average cost to repair your furnace with these problems. Every heating repair contractor works differently however we have found prices to be average with midsize air heating repair companies.
Indoor Blower Motor: The indoor blower motor blows the air through your furnace and across your home. Most new furnaces have three to four speeds. The price can very on the model and the features of the motor. The sizes, rpm, speeds, and mounts determine the price. Replacing the indoor blower motor requires that you remove the entire housing of the blower. This sometime requires that you remove the entire control board. It can take from 1 to 3 hours to install a new blower motor inside a newer furnace. The price to replace a indoor blower motor inside a furnace is from $475-$675. This includes the motor, time and small miscellaneous parts.
Flame Igniter: The flame igniter receives power from the control board and ignites the pilot flame with either a hot surface or with an electronic spark. There are many types of igniters for different makes and models of furnaces. The most common ignitors are the ticker or a hot surface ignitor. Flame igitiors are straight forward to install. In most cases it take longer to find that the igniter is defective then to replace it. Replaceing the ignitior requires that you remove the wires from the ignitior to the control board. Then remove all the mounts from the igniter and set and install a new one. One of the hardest part of the install is cycling through the furnace to make sure it works properly. It can take up to 3 hours to make sure it works properly. The average price to replace a flame igniter ranges from $230 to $375 installed.
Fan Control Board: The fan control board controls every aspect of the furnace from turning on the gas to shutting down the fan after your home reaches air temperature. All sensors, relays, motors and gas valves connect to the control board. Newer furnaces are smart enough to tell you exactly what is wrong with the unit. Finding the problem with the control board takes a quality technician to properly diagnose if it's the board or just a bad sensor in the furnace. If not properly diagnosed a defective board will say everything else is wrong except the board itself. Every component in the furnace needs to be checked when assuming the board is defective. Replacing the board needs requires that you remove all wires connecting to it, removal of all the mounts and sometimes removal of the entire blower motor. Installation takes a bit more than connecting wires, a qualified heating repair contractor well remove all static from the board and mount the control board to the manufactured specifications. The average cost to replace a control board can range from $475 to $650.
There are a lot of variables that can cause your heater to stop working, an experienced heating repair company can find the problem of any furnace within an hour. Most of the time your furnace does not need to be replaced, you should only replace your furnaces if you have a cracked heat exchanger, leaking gas, or have problems with carbon monoxide. Always ask questions when dealing with any heating repair company. If your heating repair contractor doesn't come within the average price to repair your furnace that is listed above, ask for a discount or get a seconded opinion.
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new for us friday–stranger safety
This New For Us Friday makes my stomach turn and my eyes tear–seriously.
But it is so important that we had to try it out this week, especially with Maddy starting Kindergarten this fall.
So for about 15 minutes each night this week, ending today, we watched a tiny bit of a video that came recommended to me by one of my best pals.
It's the Stranger Safety DVD created by Julie Clark (Baby Einstein creator) and John Walsh (America's Most Wanted creator and lifetime advocate for missing and exploited children).
Here's how it went:
- The Safe Side–Stranger Safety DVD: We played it like a Movie Night on Tuesday; after Maddy, Owen, and Cora had baths and while they had their snacks, I said, We're going to watch a movie this week–a little bit each night. We're starting tonight!
The kids went nutty and flew down the stairs. They were buzzing about what it would be–Cars? Monsters, Inc? Tink? I told them it was a little different–a new one for them and one that was super important to watch.
They could tell by the tone of my voice that something was up, and I fear that my own anxiety was palpable. I tried to play it cool, but when I watched the DVD for the first time with my husband a few months ago, I ugly cried at the end.
It's a rite of passage for our little ones–the understanding that not everyone out there is to be trusted and the world is not as safe as they think, and it's a rite of passage for parents to hand over that information.
So we watched it in four segments, and although the video stops at points for parents to talk with their children about the topics, I stopped it more frequently to clarify points, answer questions, and add some information. And since Maddy, Owen, and Cora (along for the ride and missed one night because of no nap) are young, I wanted to give them smaller, easier-to-digest doses.
Here's the skinny on the The Safe Side Stranger Safety. . .
I love that:
- the video is upbeat and as positive as possible about a very tough topic;
- the website contains a PDF family guide (35 pages!) that includes some resources for parents to read before viewing the DVD with their kids;
- the four main activities in the family guide totally rock (Pre- and During-Viewing Activities; Post-viewing Discussion Points and Activities; Post-Viewing Celebration Ceremony Activities, Post-Viewing Trivia Game);
- the family guide also includes information sheets and data forms for children and parents;
- the Safe Side Super Chick (SSSC) is funny, straightforward, sassy, and easy for children to understand;
- the SSSC wears red (for danger), yellow (warning), and green (safe) shirts to demonstrate what kind of situation she's in; [Owen really responded to this–he kept his eye on her shirt color the whole time and warned us when it changed.]
- they focus on the difference between Don't Know's and Kinda Know's;
- they teach kids to 'think and beware of tricks';
- they tell children to create a 'safe side circle';
- they insist that right there and then parents list three other Safe Side Adults;
- the SSSC talks directly to viewers (young children) and acknowledges their fears and shows them how to yell, scream, and make sure they keep themselves safe;
- the DVD explains a concept and then shows a child in that situation, making the correct choice;
- they never mention 'Stranger' throughout the entire program because they want to make sure it's clear that rarely do the bad guys actually look the part.
I wish that:
- they would have toned-down the SSSC's crazy hair and lost the not-so-funny ape;
Seriously, this program is that good. That's all I could come up with.
My plan is to show The Safe Side Stranger Safety a few more times in the next few weeks, not to scare my kids but rather to make it a normal topic, an easy, familiar one for them. I know that there's a fine line between knowledge as power and too much information as over-kill, so I am definitely going to keep a balance here.
I want them to know their Safe Side Adults like the back of their hands, and I want them to be aware of their surroundings–knowing the perimeter of their Safe Side Circle and the difference between their Don't Know's and Kinda Knows.
I'm praying that they never, ever, ever have to use this information and that this NFUF is as hard as they get for us.


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A wedding [1] may be all about the bride, but the flower girl plays a pretty important role. She has to lead the bride into the ceremony, toss petals toward the crowd, and do it all while looking supercute (which, probably isn't that hard!). To make sure your girl looks her best on the big day, we've rounded up eight hairdos that are perfect for flower girls. Whether you plan on doing her hair yourself or taking her to a professional, these styles are perfect for your daughter's walk down the aisle.
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Dozens of Aggies will pile on a bus Wed. morning and head from College Station, TX to New Orleans for the first leg of the trip. We will stay with the Jesuits at Loyola.
Then it is on to Birmingham/Irondale. We will have mass at the Cathedral, meet with the Sisters of the Eternal Word and then appear on Life on The Rock.
Don't forget to watch us on Thursday night. Several students, Fr. Curt and our intern, Rachael, will appear on the show!
We will spend the night at a local parish.
On Friday we head out for Nashville. We will stop to visit with the Nashville Dominicans, a great order that several Aggie Catholics have joined.
Later that afternoon, we head to Cincinnati. We will spend the night on the floor, somewhere.
Saturday morning we will tour the National Shrine of St. Anthony with Fr. Curt. Then we will have lunch with the Franciscan community. That afternoon, we head back to College Station.
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[Editor's note: The following is a response to Joe Weiss' "Unfettered" blog post on "The Case of ICS-CERT Misplaced Priorities" (http://tinyurl.com/6s69dsg).]
ICS-CERT is supposed to respond to requests for assistance. If not asked, they can't help. Even more of a problem is that, if they are asked to help, they may not be allowed to publicly disclose the problem/response. There are no legal impediments to sharing sanitized (no names/locations) reports about building HVAC systems. Power plants are a completely different story. If there was an ICS-CERT response to the December power plant incident, it would have been nice if they could have appropriately sanitized a report on what caused the problem. Could this have been one of the 86 control system "attacks" reported to Congress by DHS?
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Lately, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about design and what it means to be a designer. As usual, I seem to have generated more questions than answers, but I have had some interesting discussions with colleagues. For instance, what makes a person a designer? Is it the ability to see in one's mind a finished product before it is created and convey the process to create that product to another person? Is education a factor? Is …
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I use the best Comodo firewall, it is the award winning personal firewall software on Internet..
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FFS Sher~ this thread is almost 6 YEARS old since it was Hi-Jacked, and EIGHT years since initiated, when the personal FW might have worked, but didn't actually EXIST ........ are you by any chance staff for Comodo? just a hunch and as PERSONAL FW, it isn't up to snuff for corporate environments either
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I used to have Norton and then avg, one day when I ran the avast antivirus I got about 200 virus(no kidding).
Now I use Zonealarm (besides the windows firewall) and got almost no problem with virus, the ones I got came from pendrives. Don't know if there is any better firewall, that's the one I use
Which Operating System is installed??
Windows Vista, Win7 & 8 have excellent firewalls and really don't need a 3rd party firewall especially if you are connected to a router that is firewall protected.
XP? Yes! The firewall on XP is only protects you from inbound traffic and if by chance anything did get past that firewall there is nothing to prevent it from escaping.
If you insist on a 3rd party firewall that is included in a full AV suite and is not free, I would recommend Avast Pro 2014.
Otherwise, I would install Avast free and rely on the Windows Firewall.
You might try Avast! alongside ZoneAlarm firewall...............I have found that they work well together.
However; there is no antivirus for human stupidity
If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?
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Abduction suspect's car found in Idaho wilderness
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A car belonging to a man suspected of killing a California woman and her young son and then fleeing with the 16-year-old daughter was found in the Idaho wilderness on Friday after horseback riders reported seeing the man and girl hiking in the area two days earlier, authorities said.
The four riders reported seeing the two in the Cascade area, 70 miles northeast of Boise, around noon Wednesday. They didn't report it until later, after seeing news reports and realizing the pair was being sought, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said.
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because I can imagine self in the college with her, although
I do have to say it wasn't that descriptive at the
orphanage, where she went back for holidays. I really liked
how Daddy Long-Legs was a mystery and the girl was so
creative and energetic. I could easily see them both being
real people. This is one of the reasons it seemed like a
non-fiction story; it felt like it could be a biography or
someone's real diary. I thought Daddy Long-Legs was a nice
person because he was sending her to college, but since he
didn't really respond to her letters I had a hard time at
first telling if he was trustworthy. I also wished he'd sent
letters back to her so that I could get to know his
character more. In the middle of the book the author gave
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had to re-read some paragraphs. I thought overall the book
was a little boring because it was about the simple things
in her life that were new in college. Nothing very exciting
happened; she bought a new dress, feed chickens at the farm,
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Hearts have decided against launching a bid to rescind Ryan Stevenson's red card from the 3-1 defeat by Dundee United on Saturday.
Stevenson was shown a straight red card by referee Willie Collum for a first-half foul on Gary Mackay-Steven, catching the winger with a sliding studs-first tackle as he stretched to reach a loose ball.
After the match, Hearts manager John McGlynn said: "According to Ryan, the lad says that he never touched him but that is the rulebook and he has to go with the rulebook.
"The players feel if you go into a tackle when you are on the ground you can hardly go with your studs on the ground."
However, in a brief statement this afternoon, the club said: "Hearts can today reveal the club will not be appealing Ryan Stevenson's red card against Dundee United."
Stevenson will now serve a three-match ban, missing SPL games against Kilmarnock, Inverness and St Mirren.
The former Ayr midfielder was last month handed a retrospective two-match ban by a Scottish Football Association judicial panel for a challenge on Hibernian captain James McPake, which Collum did not punish during the game.


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WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2010 – What do an historic blizzard in the Nation's Capital, the massive ash from the Icelandic volcano, Hurricane Katrina, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have in common? Each had a dramatic impact on the annual conference of one or more associations. Dramatic, but not necessarily disastrous.
For those associations tied into what Jack Sammis, President and CEO of IMN Solutions, calls the Power of the Network, the strength of a long-standing partnership between his company and the hospitality industry helped to significantly offset for his association clients the potential disastrous results created by these occurrences. The network his company represents includes more than 100 associations and over $100 million in annual buying power. That network is pivotal when it is necessary to renegotiate hotel contracts, rework sleeping room blocks and meeting space, or when it is necessary to cancel a meeting.
Leveraging a powerful network to mitigate the impact of a force majeure event on an association's annual conference was one example presented at "Lessons Learned: Keys to Successful Meetings in 2010 and Beyond," a Focus Forum for association executives held at the W Hotel in Washington, DC.
IMN Solutions Executive Vice President Brian Knapp said that associations can significantly bolster their positions by working through a network. "The network advantage is tied to volume buying, expertise in contract design, negotiation strategy, and relationships with the hotel industry," he said. "When you're working with a network that's doing more than $100 million in business annually and you're sending out thousands of RFPs a year, the hotel industry knows your expectations."
Knapp spoke about designing contracts for the future, highlighting areas where a powerful network makes a significant difference when it comes to customizing for individual association needs. He said that IMN Solutions targets results for:
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Knapp encouraged association executives to take advantage of a complimentary meetings audit provided by IMN Solutions, during which their existing contract would be reviewed, risks would be identified, details for improvements would be outlined, and a plan for working together would be created.
According to a recent survey by the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), 50 percent of survey respondents indicated that paid attendance at their most recent conference was lower than in the previous year.
Just bringing attendees back to an annual meeting will be especially challenging, said Todd Charlebois, President of Attendance Marketing. "The game has changed. Your attendees have learned that they can do without you," he said. "Loyalty is declining and today people want to know 'what's in it for me?'"
Charlebois added that individuals no longer come to an association for education because they can get education anywhere. "People come because they think the association is relevant, credible, and trustworthy," he explained. Charlebois said that today associations need to see their annual meeting as a brand and market that brand year round, not just during a few months of the year.
Presenters told Focus Forum attendees that they also need to think outside the box to better assure the kind of results that are expected by their boards. IMN Solutions Vice President of Marketing Scott Lindley encouraged attendees to "go green. It's the right thing to do. It also adds to your branding and increases the loyalty of your members who are looking for you to make this change."
Lindley said that going green also can achieve significant cost savings. He encouraged attendees to join the Convene Green Alliance, a grassroots organization of more than 900 association members and 50 hospitality industry suppliers who are working together to reduce their collective impact on the environment. For more information about the Convene Green Alliance, visit www.convenegreen.com.
IMN Solutions President and CEO Jack Sammis said thinking outside the box also includes going global. "Five years ago, 7-8 percent of our association clients were scheduling meetings outside the United States," he said. "In the next five years, that number is projected to climb to 50 percent."
Sammis encouraged Focus Forum attendees to join the Alliance for International Meetings and Commerce (AIMC), an organization of more than 300 members that encourages partnerships in the development of meetings and commerce worldwide by bringing together industries and professional societies to expand global growth and business opportunities.
IMN Solutions recently opened new offices in New York City and Mougins, France to further support this organization. For more information about AIMC, visit www.aimcnetwork.com. For more information about IMN Solutions, call (703) 903-0707 or visit www.imnsolutions.com.


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Police in Palo Alto are searching for two suspects who robbed a man at gunpoint in a residential neighborhood on Monday night.
Officers responded to a report of an armed robbery involving a pedestrian in the 100 block of Bryant Street at 10:05 p.m., according to Palo Alto police.
A man in his 20s had been walking on a sidewalk when he heard someone behind him, police said. The victim turned around and saw two suspects, one of them holding a handgun.
One of the suspects told him to lie on the ground, and the victim complied.
The men stole his wallet, a bag containing a laptop, and other items from the victim's pockets, police said.
The suspects fled on foot on Poe Street, and a jogger who witnessed the crime called 911.
The victim was not injured.
One of the suspects was described as a white or Hispanic man in his 20s, standing around 6 feet tall and weighing between 175 and 200 pounds. He was clean-shaven and wore a dark hoodie, police said.
The second suspect was described as a male.
Anyone who might have information about the crime was asked to contact Palo Alto police dispatch at (650) 329-2413.
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The Round Rock Public Library concludes its Summer Reading Program Monday, August 5 with two concerts by Lucas Miller:
Both concerts are in the Library's Room C.
Elementary age children will enjoy Lucas Miller, author and singing zoologist, as he blends music, puppetry, projected images, and "zoological, stand up comedy" to teach about monarch butterflies, wetlands, animal defenses, endangered species, symbiosis, and other nature-related topics.
Both concerts are free. We recommend that you arrive at least 30 minutes before the program for best chance of admittance, as we cannot exceed our fire code.


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Look what I got in the mail on Saturday. One for me and one for a friend, from my friend Dawn. Dawn is a CTMH consultant. In light of my efforts to celebrate the less-known holidays this year, I'll be purchasing this adorable January Stamp of the Month (the calendar, etc that Dawn used on her gift to me.)
I was folding clothes this morning and asked Trey to come match socks with me. I couldn't help but listen as he sang to himself. When I asked him about the song he replied: "Oh, this is the song that makes me be happy while I do stuff for my mom"
In case you need a mood modifier today, here are the lyrics. I don't think Trey would have a problem with you personalizing them to you!
I'm a happy man. This is my happy song. I'm gonna sing the song of a happy man. This is my happy song. I'm gonna sing my very happy song. I'm a happy, happy, very happy, happy man. Nobody can stop me, I'm a super hero and my name is Happy, Happy Man! You'll never see a man like me and happy, happy, happy as can be … that's me!
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Employers should brace for an expansion of the Americans with Disabilities Act. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing a bill that would broaden the reach of the ADA, the landmark 1990 federal law that prohibits discrimination against the disabled. Current law applies only to disabilities that "substantially limit a major life activity." Proposed legislation eliminates this qualifier, with the result that anyone with a physical or mental impairment would be covered. ...
Businesses can't count on a veto by President Bush to stop the measure. The original ADA was part of his father's legacy, and he may be reluctant to block an expansion. But the president, with backing from Senate Republicans, is likely to push for changes to make the legislation less onerous to employers. One possible compromise would include adding a list of diseases and conditions that would be covered by the ADA. It would not be an exhaustive list, but one designed to limit the scope of the bill.
Because of the short legislative calendar this election year, the bill may not make it through Congress in 2008. If it doesn't, it's a good bet for 2009. And if Democrats win the White House and expand their majorities in the House and Senate, the eventual bill will be tougher on employers than if Republicans can force a compromise this year.
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- How much is the 2013/2014 budget?
- What are the county's priorities?
- What are the major issues facing the county?
- Where does the county get money to provide public services?
- Where do property taxes go?
- How much of the property tax paid by a citizen living in an unincorporated area goes to the county?;
- What is the General Fund?
- What does the county spend money on?
- Where does the majority of the county budget go?
- How much of the budget is spent on salaries?
- How many staff are employed by the county employ?
- What are the county's budget objectives?
- What is the financial condition of the county?
- How is the budget developed?
- When and how is the budget adopted?
- What opportunity do people have to influence the county budget?
- How is the county organized?
1. How much is the 2013/2014 budget?
The 2013/2014 budget is $848.3 million. View the Budget in Brief (PDF).
2. What are the countys priorities?
The functions of county government are largely determined by state statute. Community priorities shape how these services are delivered. The framework for delivery of services has been identified by the Board of County Commissioners and other elected officials as:
Mission statement: To better serve the will of the people.
Guiding principles:
- Safety
- Sustainability
- Transparency
The Strategic Planning (PDF) section provides detailed information about the countys goals and challenges.
3. What are the major issues facing the county?
The economy is improving slowly but Clark County still lags behind other communities in our region and well behind the nation as a whole. For example, sales tax revenue remains 18 percent below levels posted in 2008. The prior biennium budget for 2009/2010 budget was adopted and repeatedly revised downward during a period of economic upheaval and uncertainty unlike any other since the 1930s.
In all, the 2011/12 General Fund budget was cut 22 percent, or $62 million, from its peak in 2007/2008. The county cut 270 jobs, or about 15 percent of our workforce, through layoffs, retirements, resignations, and elimination of vacant positions. Expenses were decreased by reducing hours and pay for about 200 employees. Management salaries were frozen throughout the biennium. General wage freezes for non-management employees began in 2010 and are projected to continue at least through 2011. Learn more about the county's critical issues (PDF) in achieving its goals.
4. Where does the county get money to provide public services?
The county gets revenue from a variety of sources.
- Local and state sources include property taxes, sales taxes, real estate excise taxes, fuel taxes, and other taxes such as the gambling tax and the timber tax.
- State and federal revenues are mainly grants from the state and federal governments.
- Private sources include permit fees, court fines, payments for licenses, maps and other goods and services.
Learn more about county revenue in the Revenue Analysis (PDF).
5. Where do property taxes go?
Like other counties, Clark County collects and distributes all the property taxes levied by government bodies within the county's boundaries. But not all the property taxes collected remain within the county; only a portion pays for county programs.
If you live in an unincorporated area of Clark County, county government typically accounts for about one-third of your property tax bill. If you're a city resident, Clark County's portion is about one-eighth of your bill. Other entities that depend heavily on property taxes are school districts and city governments.
Here's how property tax is allocated for county residents:
- State and local school support 58%
- Libraries 3%
- Fire Districts and Ports 14%
- County (including Road Fund) 25%
6. How much of the property tax paid by a citizen living in an unincorporated area goes to the county?
About 25 percent of your property taxes come to the county for county services. The majority - 58 percent - goes to state and local school support.
7. What is the General Fund?
The General Fund contains non-restricted funds that can be spent for a wide range of services. It is the only part of the county budget where the commissioners have discretion about spending. It pays for many of the key services that residents receive from the county such as Sheriffs patrols, judges, prosecutors, jails, courts, elections and parks. Learn more about the General Fund. (PDF)
8. What does the county spend its money on?
Every time you drive down the road, visit a park, vote in an election, or see deputies protecting our community, your tax dollars are hard at work.
Clark County funds services in nine major areas including Public Works, Law and Justice, Community Services, General Government, Public Health, Community Development. Internal Support, Fiscal Entities and Capital and Debt. View the Expenditure Analysis (PDF) for more information.
9. Where does the majority of the county budget go?
The big three service areas include:
- Public Works with a two-year budget of $225,982,039
- Law and Justice at $220,523,379.
- General Government at $98,054,506
10. How much of the budget is spent on salaries?
$301,766,797 of the total budget - or 35.5 percent - is for salary and benefits.
11. How many staff are employed by the county?
The staff authorized by the commissioners for 2013/2014 is 1,602.85. The largest employer is the Sheriff with 392 full-time employees.
12. What are the countys budget objectives?
The countys budget objectives are to:
- Support the priorities of long-range and operational plans.
- Ensure growth in programs is consistent with projected revenues.
- Maintain a stable and healthy financial foundation.
- Respond to critical service demands, and community priorities.
- Support the priorities of the Capital Improvement Plan.
More about the countys goals and objectives can be found in the Strategic Planning (PDF) section.
13. What is the financial condition of the county?
Revenue indicators reflect the uncertainty related to the current economic slowdown that we are experiencing. Many of the revenues continue to be impacted by the economic slowdown, particularly the decline in construction activity. Tax revenues per capita declined in 2009 for the second consecutive year. Property tax limitation measures, flat intergovernmental revenues, excise, and sales tax revenues contributed to the decline.
Positive signs reported in the Financial Trends Report are that the County continues to adequately maintain roads, buildings, and other assets; fund balance in the Road Fund continues to increase; long-term debt is the lowest it has been since prior to 2004 and short term debt was minimal at the end of 2009. Also, most intergovernmental revenues (grants) continue to remain stable and enterprise funds continue to have total revenues and other sources of funds that exceed total expenditures on a consistent basis. More detailed information is available in the Financial Overview. (PDF)
14. How is the budget developed?
State law establishes the general requirements of Clark Countys budget process. By law, many revenues must be spent in specific ways. This limits how we can spend or cut costs to balance our budget.
The Budget Office facilitates development of the budget. All department heads and elected officials develop and submit their budget requests by early September in the first year of the biennium (even numbered years). After their requests are reviewed, the County Administrator recommends a budget to the Board of Clark County Commissioners (BOCC) in early November. From there the BOCC holds hearings to adopt a budget. The Departments' original budget requests as well as the County Administrator's recommended budgets are published. The Auditor's Office maintains legal responsibility and authority for overseeing and controlling the expenditure of money once it has been budgeted by the Commissioners. Learn more about the budget process. (PDF)
15. When and how is the budget adopted?
Each even numbered year, the commissioners adopt a biennial budget for the following two-year period by the end of the first full week in December. Public hearings begin on Monday and adoption occurs no later than Friday of that week. Before the end of the first year of the biennium, the commissioners re-adopt the budget.
16. What opportunity do people have to influence the county budget?
The Budget Office provides information throughout the year on the budget, uses public surveys and focus groups and uses meetings to involve citizens in shaping the budget. Contact us at (360) 397-6097 or e-mail email@example.com to get involved.
17. How is the county organized?
The voters of Clark County elect 25 officials, including 3 County Commissioners, 10 Superior Court Judges, 6 District Court Judges, an Assessor, a Treasurer, an Auditor, a Prosecuting Attorney, a Sheriff and a County Clerk.
The Board of Commissioners appoints a County Administrator, who acts as the chief administrative officer for the county. Reporting to the County Administrator are the heads of 15 non-elected departments: Board of Equalization, Budget, Community Development, Community Planning, Community Services, Environmental Services, Geographic Information System, Information Services, Public Health, General Services, Human Resources, Medical Examiner, Public Information and Outreach, and Public Works. Learn more about the county's organization and responsibilities. (PDF)


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The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.
The report from the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves compounds earlier criticism of the Bush administration's response to the devastating hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005. The administration also is still struggling to better manage the reserves nearly four years into the Iraq war.
The 151-page report found a significant lack of communication between reserve officials and other military leaders, the Homeland Security Department and U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for the military's defense of the U.S. homeland.
Calling those failures unacceptable, panel Chairman Arnold Punaro said in an interview that federal agencies must get past their turf battles to better protect the public.
"This is unacceptable. The American people would find it unacceptable," said Punaro, a retired Marine Corps general. "These are not problems that have just cropped up in the last two years or five years. These are issues that have been pretty much ignored and glossed over for decades."
The panel, which was created by Congress, also criticized the Pentagon for not budgeting or planning specifically for civil support missions, such as domestic disaster response, because they are viewed as extensions of wartime preparation.
"This is not a sustainable course, and their capability to do their mission will deteriorate over time if it's not changed," Punaro said. "The thought that if we are capable of doing the away game, we can do the home game, we believe is a flawed assumption."
He told reporters Thursday that if there is a chemical, biological or radiological incident, "we're going to need mass decontamination, we're going to need mass medical. … That capability is not there in sufficient quantities to deal with those scenarios."
Members of Congress, meanwhile, criticized the commission for not going far enough in its recommendations., Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Kit Bond, R-Mo., said they will continue to push for their legislation, which gives the Guard chief budget authority and the power to buy equipment, and also makes that person a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The senators said the panel endorsed only halfway measures to solve the Guard's problems. "Their recommendations are thin soup," said Leahy.
And Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who is the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said that while the commission recognized the challenges that face the guard, "admiring the problem isn't enough. The Commission's recommendations for the most part won't address the issues they acknowledge."
Guard and Reserve troops have been under increasing strain since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, serving in Afghanistan and Iraq while also patrolling the border with Mexico and responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters. During parts of 2005, the citizen soldiers made up nearly half of the U.S. forces in Iraq, with some facing repeated deployments.
At the same time, Guard units have struggled to get the equipment and training needed to go to war, often swapping armored trucks, radios and other equipment between the states to meet battle and disaster requirements.
In what likely will be one of its more controversial recommendations, the report said governors should be given more command authority over active duty military troops responding to local disasters. In previous situations such as Hurricane Katrina, military leaders have worked side-by-side with governors, but have maintained command of their active duty troops.
"We believe that without giving governors a greater voice, and without giving them a greater ability to bring all the assets of our government to bear, particularly in the immediate aftermath of any kind of incident, that we're putting our citizens and property and our economy at greater risk," Punaro said.
The panel outlined recommendations that would elevate the status of the Guard to become more of a partner with other military and homeland defense agencies. It would make the National Guard chief a four-star general and a direct adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his top commanders.
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A couple of years ago I began telling everyone I know to begin arming themselves. The possibility of armed insurection is becoming more likely every day. But we will not be the ones revolting. The fact is that we will be defending ourselves and our nation from their insurection. Their attempt to overthrow our government and establish a dictatorship.
Most people in this country know next to nothing about guns. Therefore, I tell them to go to the pawn shops and get a 12 or 16 ga. pump, a 9mm automatic hand gun or any revolver greater than .38 cal. Then begin searching for a AK47. That is the simplest, most reliable, the easiest to maintain, use, and understand assault rifle in the world. That's why there are so many of them in all those bloody areas we see on the news. Stock up on ammo. Not a few boxes – cases of it. Without ammo, a rifle is just a club. Don't worry about explosives and the heavy stuff. Leave that to us ex-military guys.
Don't pay any attention to all these NRA gun experts that preach the sophisticated crap. KISS. If and when the shit hits the fan there will be pleanty of guys like myself around that can convert the semi-automatics to full auto. However, most people would be better off without it. The main thing they need to do is learn how to take the weapons apart, clean them, and put them back together quickly. The second main thing is to create a place to hide them. I mean really hide them from a search.
Now, I suppose I will be labeled a nutcase but freedom isn't free. If you want it, you better be prepared to fight for it. Being prepared doesn't make you a lunitic. Let's hope we don't have to. But we have to be ready to or, when the time comes, we will lose it. How will you feel if the time comes and you aren't ready? I am.
The United States Military will not wage war on it's own citizens. They would respond to an order to establish Marshal order In the event of a terrorist attack in some area. But they will not obey an order to establish Marshal Law across the entire country just because the president orders it due to extreme conditions overseas. In the first place, Marshal Law is not a defense to any type of attack from outside the country. It can only be justified by an insurection or attack from inside the country. Don't believe that the US Army and the Joint Chiefs would blindly obey an order to commit an act of aggression against their own people. And if the president were to use private contractors to do that, he would be facing the might of the United States armed forces who are committed to DEFEND the nation from all enemies, foreign or domestic. So, the fear we keep hearing expressed that Bush is going to declare Marshall Law and take over the country is remote at best. There would have to be an extraodinary set of occurances and conditions to make that possible. Besides, it isn't necessary. They are well on their way to creating a dictatorship without the use of force.
The National Guard, which use to be called State Guard (for those who have enough years) should revert back to the States from which they came. The federal Government has no business federalizing them when no war has been declared. And the war on terror is NOT a declared war! We are NOT at war with Iraq anymore than we were at war with Vietnam or Korea. We are being screwed into sending the Guard and Reserve Units to fight and die for the ambitions of a cowardly few, who are pulling every trick in the book to avoid calling for a draft, because it would be "politically unpopular".
Those Guard Units are there for the governors of each state in case they need them, not to be used as front line troops in an undeclared war.
Doubletom – I absolutely agree with that. Bush has declared from the very beginning there would be no draft. The neocons learned from Vietnam that the draft is what ended that war. When they began drafting middle and upper middle class sons for that fiasco is when the moms and dads turned against the "war." Especially after a few of their kids were shot on a university campus. As long as it is only volunteers and "poor" people going to fight, no one gives a damn.
The American people are so self absorbed with their entertainment and creature comforts that the don't pay attention to what these coniving bastards in Washington do to prepare for something like this. The didn't take notice back in Reagans days when they removed the restrictions on media ownership. So, now all the information is controlled by 7 of the neocon corporations. One little unnoticed bill took the National Guard away from the states. The list goes on and it is long. Now, they look up and wonder what the hell happened. Of course, they are getting what they deserve and the real disaster is that none of it will be reversed regardless of which of these two parties is in power. You don't hear any democrats complaining about the two examples above do you? Any time legislation is instituted that takes something away, it is never given back unless it is challenged in court and decided unconstitutional by the supreme court. But that court is now stacked with those who believe in elitist rule. (I can't think of the word) So, we are screwed for the next 20 years.
At some point the military will be so broken and used up that the Boy President will no longer be able to wage further war.
Lets see, the article says " this is unacceptable"……well surprise, surprise and shut my mouth. What the hell is (ACCEPTABLE) these days. If I found something "acceptable" (today or tomorrow or even the next day) in this F##K-UP world I would probably trip over it or die of shock. Why say anymore.
When the corruption is at the top, it filters on down through the lower levels as the example is set to follow.
That is why the leader has to be outstanding and set the model of character to be followed.
Nuff said
We are so SCREWED if we get hit again at home. The Reserves and National Guard have been stripped to the bone as far as equipment also manpower is a serious issue in the Army-Guard/Reserve as well!!!!!!!
Don't worry folks; there'll be tens of thousands of Blackwater USA mercenaries to take their place, at a much higher cost.
Of course cost doesn't mean anything to neocons, unless it's someone OUTSIDE of their circle making the profits.
With Blackwater USA, you might get a whole range of Hessians, including some criminals from South Africa, and if we're "lucky", some illegal aliens.
Since our regular troops and National Guard will all be fighting foreign wars, and the Posse Comitatus Act is now extinct, they should have a "heyday" of abusing and shooting civilians, without repercussions, and since they're own families are probably not affected, no feeling of national unity when dragging civilians off to the detention camps.
What a lovely scene!
R.I.P. – Posse Comitatus Act, 1878-2006
Hey JimZ…"some illegal aliens" you said..is that like from outerspace or something. If so, mabe their the kind of "aliens" that eat (assholes, morons, and idiots) of the human variety, that would save the world and they (the aliens) would have enough nutrition for at least a thousands years just in Wash DC alone.
FLASH! The ONLY reason that the Guard [en masse] is [supposedly] underfunded is because they [collectively] have deliberately been kept that way by this administration for over 6 years. Reason? The Guard will not be needed, nor wanted, by the administration whenever Martial Law comes to be enacted.
The Guard [en masse] represents a too-friendly force that could not be relied upon to enforce all that Martial Law will come to entail – search and seizure of homes, personal property and even civilians.
Secondly, as I have come to understand it, there is already an appreciable (and foreboding) presence of 'foreign forces' that are already staged on our soil and those forces will be activated under the guise of being part of a "UN assistance" front.
The Guard's members are all AMERICAN men and women and the administration/the-real-power-brokers know that those fine young people will not be reliable 'in the patroling of cities and towns across the nation.'
Don't expect Bush or any Congressman or Senator to start talking about finding funding to bring the Guard up to specs. In fact, it will be the very absence of such calls for funding and upgrades that will confirm what I've said herein.
We are about to enter a terrible time. May God Almighty have mercy on us all!
Having our guard units deployed in foriegn combat for years now, is terribly wrong. These men and women have or had lives as civilians and part time military duty. I would say it will probably destroy 20% of the marriages if not more and will for sure affect family unity. Those who signed up for regular duty knew what they were going to be doing, maybe for not as long as they have been at it, but the guards never dreamed of being activated to a war zone for months or years on end. Poor souls. I can't imagine how bad they feel everyday as thier home life fades away and others take thier place in society. Totaly unfair and unneccessary. What a disgusting situation for all. And no end in sight.
I think we are already in that terrible time, Skyguy


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Most people on this planet are religious in some or other form. They all worship something or somebody. Ironically the one thing which keeps them religious is that well known emotion we know as fear.
We seldom stop to think about fear, what is fear, how does it influence us, and how can we overcome fear?
Fear is a feeling, an emotion. We feel scared when our comfort zone is threatened, but when does this happen? When we are faced with an unknown situation, by a wild animal for instance, like a Lion, or a bear, for example. Then fear steps in and we feel trapped or cornered, and we want to get away from this situation, or animal, or human being which we don't understand, or know. It is in the last sentence that the origin of fear is found; "the lack of understanding, and the lack of knowledge".
To overcome this fear we have to do three things; study the subject, understand the subject, and then we can start having respect for the subject, and together these three create "love"! Once we have accomplished "love", nothing is impossible. If you start a new job as a millwright, or a welder, or an auditor or financial manager, or an engineer, or a nurse, a doctor, it doesn't matter which job; we are afraid! We are scared that we can do something wrong and might loose the job. But we get ourselves together, study the environment, learn the ropes, and before we know it we are performing up to standard.
What we have done is conquer our fears. We are not afraid anymore and we discuss the work and its problems daily, multiple times a day, and in doing that we learn more every single time. Eventually we start liking the job because we understand it, and understanding together with knowledge creates a "love" for this new environment. If we cannot cope with it, or we cannot create an acceptable relationship with the company, or the people, we start looking for a new job, a new environment! A reason being, we could not conquer our fear. Perhaps the co workers did not accept us, or were afraid we might get promoted before them. A boss might have been unforgiving and through this kept the fear very much alive.
We might even have become so scared that we became too afraid to leave, and used our fear to create a living hell for ourselves. Effectively fear can either get you to leave, or force you to stay right where you are. On the other hand, having gained knowledge and understanding of the job, it might have taught you that there either is, or is not a future for you in that specific environment, meaning that you have used logic to come to a sensible conclusion, which benefits "you".
All of the above is normal reaction to everyday life, and we all live comfortably within that framework, accept where we have created hell on earth through fear!
Most religions survive through selling fear to their members. The Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist religions all thrive on fear. The first three tells you if you don't obey, "God Almighty", "Yahweh", or Allah; you will certainly burn in hell for ever. The Buddhists are more subtle and teach that if you don't do unto others as you would be done by, you will come back in the next life and live under very harsh conditions; being humiliated, treated like a dog etc, in order for you to learn to do unto others as you would be done by, in the life after that. Meaning the sins of this life will cost you two more life times here, and we all know this is not a walk in the park!
At least Buddhism doesn't send you to hell forever! In religious debates with the above mentioned the members of those institutions can get quite emotional, and in most cases close their arguments with words like; repent or you will be punished, or may God have mercy on your soul. Very seldom would they think about what they heard, or give credit, where credit is due. The reason for their reaction is "FEAR", which simply means they don't understand their own religion, and having very little knowledge regarding its origins. The argument is- fear creates knowledge! If you don't fear their God you will never have knowledge! Then you are also told that their book should be read and understood in a specific way or manner, meaning that the way they have decided a sentence should be understood, is the only understanding to that sentence, word, paragraph etc!
My question here is; would it not be logical to have an open mind on the subject, study it and compare notes openly, and regularly in order to understand your religion? How will the member be able to fully comprehend the history of his or her religion if he or she is not allowed to have an open mind concerning that religion? This fear in religion is effectively keeping the member uninformed!
In my "travels" through life I have met many people and just about every single religious person was afraid to debate his or her religion. If hell was real or comprehensible it would have been easier to understand this fear. You might want to ask me; "how do you know it is not", and my answer is; "do you have an idea just how long forever is? Let us bring heaven into this answer. Apparently your stay in heaven means worshipping, singing and honouring your God forever! Let me quote it; we read in Revelations 7 from verse 9 to 17 that an enormous crowd is busy throwing themselves face downwards in front of a throne, worshipping God Saying "Amen! Praise, glory wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power, and might belong to our God for ever and ever, amen".
The John who apparently wrote Revelations were then told that this crowd were given redemption, "they are in heaven", and doing this worshipping day in and day out! For this they will never be in need of food or drink again! Doing this forever will very soon feel like being in hell, but without the fire! Those in the fire apparently burn forever but don't turn to ashes; how long will it take them to get used to the fire, a couple of days?
The last two paragraphs are the basis of all the major religions, and the fear is closing their eyes and ears to the fallacy! What I have stated above does not mean, or imply, that the whole, Bible, Torah, or Qur'An, or the Tibetan scriptures is all hogwash, it simply means it is books written by people to control and discipline the people involved. Between the pages of those books are very valuable truths, and a very important part of those religions history and people.
There were some very important people who lived during the course of religious history, God Almighty, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Jacob, Jesus, and Paul, to name but a few. Who were these people and what were their true intentions? The Bible preachers have taught the people during the past two thousand years that the mentioned people all had our best interests at heart, but did they? We were taught that God Almighty created man from the red earth, that a Devil tried to trick man into committing sinful lives, but is this true? We were told that Enoch was an honourable man, and so revered by God that he went to heaven in the flesh, but who was Enoch really? We were taught that Jacob lived a life loved by God and for that his descendants became the chosen nation, but what really happened between Jacob and God? We were taught that Jesus was the son of God and his main purpose was to die for our sins in order for man to be granted eternal life in heaven, but is this true, what was the real cause of his demise by the hand of the church itself? We were taught that Paul alias Saul was the main voice that carried the message of Jesus to its full glory, but was he, and did he?
We were taught that Jesus would come back in the New Jerusalem and rule here on earth, but will he, and what is the New Jerusalem? This is a couple of questions many people have pondered about for the past two thousand years and longer. In my book "We Question"( http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/waltermuller) these questions and many more are discussed. Perhaps the answers in that book might help you shed the fear, and pick up the light yoke Jesus spoke about.
Walter Muller.


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One of the latest rising threats to the world, one perhaps more devastating than even the Cabal, did not come from a huge, sprawling, evil empire. Instead, this threat came entirely from one man, a mortal who was born with no Abnormal powers.
Wealthy (owning half the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico), intelligent, fearless, and driven, Edward Forsythe was a man who dedicated his entire life to learning how to control one of the most powerful Abnormals on Earth, an Abnormal that is sometimes referred to as the Hindu goddess Kali, although that the Sanctuary network refers to her as Big Bertha.
Recently, Forsythe's plan came to fruition. He used small mercenary teams to track down a thought-to-be extinct psychic Abnormal called a Macri. Taking the Macri into his own body, and using the Macri's psychic abilities to commune with Big Bertha, Forsythe used his psychic connection to Big Bertha to wreak havoc upon the world, using Bertha's abilities to create tsunamis. The Sanctuary Network, against Helen's wishes, began to attack Bertha with missiles to stop her.
However, as Forsythe took the Macri into himself without any of the necessary preparation or reverence for Kali, the Macri died in Forsythe, and Forsythe began dying himself as a result. In his last moments, Forsythe finally decided to perform an unselfish act, and he used his own ship to draw the main fire of the Sanctuary's missile attacks, thus allowing Bertha to survive the remainder of the attack.
Watch a clip from Episode 412 'Sanctuary for None, Part 1'.
Amanda tries her best to start her Q&A on the right foot but her director is not too pleased with her performance...
Mandy or Amanda? Adam or The Cabal? These questions and more answered when Robin Dunne sits down and interviews his Sanctuary co-star, Amanda Tapping.


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|2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
|2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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Chapter 6 - Overview
This chapter deals with the way that contemporary sociological theorists have described aspects of our everyday life. It examines concepts from early symbolic interactionism, delves into dramaturgy, describes ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and introduces the social exchange and rational choice theories of human behavior.
Following Mead, symbolic interactionists believe that the task of sociology is to study the ways in which interaction, and the symbols involved in it, shape selves and social life. Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) introduced the idea of the looking-glass self. He argued that we use other people as "mirrors" to determine whether we are in fact the kind of selves that we believe ourselves to be. Intimate face-to-face groups that Cooley called primary groups are very important to the development of self. These provide a link between the individual and the social by instilling group values in the self. Cooley also introduced the methodological idea of sympathetic introspection to argue that, in order to understand the operation of mental processes, sociologists needed to place themselves in the minds of those being studied. Robert Park (1864-1944) further developed this technique by promoting the method of fieldwork. In fieldwork, the sociologist goes into the field to observe people in their everyday activities.
Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was a symbolic interactionist whose most recognized research extended the understanding of the self by using a dramaturgical metaphor. Following early symbolic interactionists, Goffman argues that the self is torn between the desire to act spontaneously and the desire to follow social expectations. According to the dramaturgical metaphor, individual attempts to follow social expectations are best understood as dramatic, or theatrical, performances. In these performances individual actors strive to convince others that they are indeed consistent and stable selves who play their social roles well. Extending the dramaturgical metaphor even further, Goffman argues that the social world is composed of front stages, back stages, and regions outside of either the front or back stage. The front stage is the social region where fixed, and socially recognizable performances unfold. The backstage includes spaces where performers are not observed by their audience and, as such, performers can reveal facts and engage in actions that might otherwise undermine the integrity of a front-stage performance. Outside regions are those regions that are neither a front nor a back. They are irrelevant to the performance. Although much symbolic interactionism emphasizes the creative role that individual actors play in interpreting and constructing their social world, Goffman also argues that front stages can become institutionalized and thereby impose roles and expectations upon individuals. This introduces an important structural element to Goffman's symbolic interactionism.
Much of the activity in everyday social life includes efforts to present idealized images of self to others in front-stage performances. The attempt to maintain an ideal performance and to correct for threats to that performance is called impression management. One impression management technique is called mystification. In these cases, performers restrict the contact between themselves and their audiences in order to limit the chances that audiences will recognize errors in their performances. Finally, even in those cases where errors are evident in an actor's performance, audiences regularly overlook or explain away these errors in order to keep the illusion of the performance alive. As such, Goffman underlines the symbolic interactionist point that social life is not merely composed of the actions of individuals, but depends upon the cooperation of teams of individuals.
Goffman also developed the concepts of role distance and stigma. Role distance describes the degree to which individuals separate themselves from the roles that they play. The term stigma describes the situation in which there is a gap between what a person ought to be and what a person actually is in social life. People are stigmatized when they are not able to play the social roles assigned by a society. For example, people who have lost their noses are not able to maintain the ideals of beauty that are generally expected in North America. While much of Goffman's work on stigma describes the way that people with obvious stigma try to manage or hide their stigma, he also suggests that all people are stigmatized at some time and in some setting.
Harold Garfinkel (1917- ) is the founder of a field of study called ethnomethodology. Ethnomethodology is a theory that describes the variety of techniques that people use to understand, and make their way through, everyday life. One of the ways that people make sense of their lives and relationships to others is through accounting practices. These are the various ways in which people justify or make sense of their actions to themselves and others. Ethnomethodologists argue that accounts are reflexive, which means that by offering accounts of ourselves to others, we also change the situation and the possibility for interaction within that situation. Ethnomethodologists have also used breaching experiments to understand the way that people construct social reality. In these studies, ethnomethodologists engage in activities that violate the taken-for-granted assumptions of everyday life, and watch to see how other social actors repair or reconstruct the breach in the social fabric. These studies show how people order their everyday lives and how they cope with challenges to that everyday order. Garfinkel has also shown how the presumably natural category of gender is socially constructed. In his interviews with Agnes, Garfinkel learned that gender is a social accomplishment that requires constant attention to the commonplace practices that allow people to pass as men or women.
George Homans (1910-1989) developed an exchange theory of everyday behavior that grounded itself in the propositions of behaviorist psychology. Homans was a psychological reductionist, which means that he believed that sociological phenomena could be explained through the more basic principles of psychology. In particular he drew on the behaviorist theory of operant conditioning to argue that individual behaviors are learned when particular behaviors are reinforced through interactions with the environment. Psychological behaviorists, such as B. F. Skinner (1904-1990), studied pigeons or rats in interaction with their environment. In contrast to Skinner's study of individual behavior, Homans was interested in what is called reciprocal behavior. He studied the way that human beings interacted with one another and, in particular, the way that the activities of two or more people reinforce or punish the behaviors of others. Despite his interest in interpersonal interaction, Homans believed that sociology did not need to invent new theories to understand social interaction. Rather, by extending basic behaviorist propositions, he argued that he could explain all social behavior. These propositions underlined the importance of concepts such as response generalization, stimulus discrimination, reward, punishment, cost, and profit to the understanding of everyday behavior. In short, Homan's theory views the actor as a rational profit-seeker who is conditioned to seek particular rewards over others.
James Coleman (1926-1995) was very influential in the development of rational choice theory. Not unlike Homans's exchange theory, Coleman's rational choice views the individual as a rational profit seeker. However, where Homans's theory is rooted in behaviorist psychology, Coleman's theory is rooted in neoclassical economics. Rational choice theory assumes that people act purposively in order to maximize individual goals. Actors' efforts to achieve these ends are constrained by two factors. First, some actors have greater access to resources than others. As such, individual behavior is based on the calculations that people make as they try to balance their access to resources against the opportunity costs that are involved in trying to realize certain ends over others. Second, individual action is constrained by the social institutions that restrict the choices that people can make in achieving their ends. These choices are also shaped by the kinds of information to which individual actors have access. Coleman argues that rational choice theory provides a potential bridge between microsocial behaviors and macrosocial structures. Although his focus on the choices made by individual actors makes Coleman a methodological individualist, Coleman argues that the aggregate behavior of individual actors leads to the emergence of systems of action, or social structures. In other words, the individual effort to maximize personal gains creates social structures that condition the kinds of choices individual actors are able to make.


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i have been exercising for 4-5 months. Did SS for first 4 months. now doing something similiar to SS with some additional exercise.
I am extremely skinny. I am 184 cm tall and when i started my weight was 62. Now I am 66, gained 4 kgs but still very skinny. My problem is now that i have been lifting weights, i have just too many veins showing up in my hands and legs but my legs and arms are still very small. so looks quite gross
Is there anything i can do?? or once i gain more weight it should not look that bad once i have more muscles??? i personally wanna be 75 by 2010 dec.
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