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There are artists on mine and Boris's* wishlists who are no longer with us. Many of their CDs are hard to find. Some cultures keep in touch with the deceased so I call on these legends for their guidance finding what they left behind:
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Spirit (Ed Cassidy, Randy California)*
Tony Thompson and Bernie Edwards (Chic)*
T. Rex (Marc Bolan, Steve Peregrin and Mickey Finn)*
Frank Zappa (Mothers of Invention)*
Yes (Peter Banks)
Dearly departed, please help me find the work in which you each have been immortalised. May you all rest in peace. We the living miss you all. In loving memory. Bless you all!
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Apple-Samsung lawsuit a battle over Samsung Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 5, both slated for fall release
We learn from his take on the Apple-Samsung lawsuit that the battle is actually not over a few colored icons and a rectangular shape, but a precursor to a much broader struggle on Cupertino's side. First off, it looks like Samsung is aiming for a 6-8 months timeframe between flagship Android handset releases from now on, which will be aided by an even tighter integration with Android hence Google, making the company Apple's chief threat.
It's plausible, let's not forget that Samsung vouched to overtake Nokia in units sold by 2014 before the Nokia Windows Phone ordeal came out. Moreover, Samsung has a very strong R&D department, with unique technologies in the works, a lot of which trickle down to its smartphones, like the Super AMOLED displays, and the dual-core Exynos chipset. Sammy also supplies a lot of parts for the iPhone production already.
Now, for the wild part of Murtazin's analysis - "By the autumn we can expect a cosmetic upgrade of this phone - Samsung Galaxy S3. The model will (have) screen 4.5 inches with another matrix and most likely resolution, rejection of hardware keys on the front panel, perhaps, metal body, this moment is not fully defined. In fact, Samsung will position the new solution as a competitor to Apple iPhone 5." That's Google Translate from his Galaxy S II impressions.
So the touchless gesture area that is supposed to appear in the 2012 iPhone, is already coming in a Samsung Galaxy S3 this fall, complete with an edge-to-edge display of high resolution. The fact that Samsung will have the technology months before Apple on the market must have annoyed Cupertino to no end, if this is true. Moreover, Murtazin says, Apple wanted to use those high-res screens, but Samsung said no. This elusive Samsung Galaxy S3 is also said to run at 1.8GHz, which is certainly within the realm of the next Exynos chipset, and have metal exterior, but no physical buttons, just screen.
The only type of display that fits this description is the Super AMOLED Plus, which will be moved from Fine-Metal-Mask (FMM) production technology to laser-induced thermal imaging (LITI). LITI is much cheaper than FMM, and allows for Retina Display pixel densities of more than 300ppi, whereas FMM has printing accuracy up to 15 micrometers, which is enough for the WVGA resolution on the Samsung Galaxy S II, but not much further.
We don't know when Sammy will start producing such high-res Super AMOLED Plus screens in mass quantities, but we'd wager to say when the big plant that is supposed to increase production tenfold opens in June. Even then the capacity might not be there to fulfil both Apple's and Samsung's smartphone unit sales, so probably that's why the Koreans shot down Apple's advances on the matter in the first place.
According to Eldar's analysis, the lawsuit Apple filed is a multi-pronged tool to keep Samsung and Google at bay. First, it is trying to exert pressure on Samsung regarding the unique technologies Sammy refuses to share, and second, if Samsung is forced to settle, Android will no longer be considered free by other manufacturers, if it is associated with legal costs, and that might be Cupertino's aim.
Again, all of this is pure extrapolation on Murtazin's side, but hearing that Apple might be using Sharp's p-Si LCD display for next year's iPhone, it could be in response to this rumored Samsung Galaxy S3 edge-to-edge AMOLED display of high resolution. The low temperature poly-silicon LCDs by Sharp have a package that is 1mm thin, with touch circuits and all other elements integrated into it, and thus don't require any frame, possibly leading to the alleged edge-to-edge display in the 2012 iPhone.
Speculation or not, these ideas are certainly interesting, and this year, as well as the next, are shaping to be definitive in the iOS-Android battle. When we put Nokia Windows Phone in the mix, one can only drool at the possibilities for us mortal users.
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1. jthiagesan (Posts: 104; Member since: 20 Apr 2011)
Hey post the pictures if you get it!!!
3. bucky (Posts: 1580; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
this was bound to happen. Samsung has no creativity.
11. bucky (Posts: 1580; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
negative comments all you want. The are making their phones identical to the iphone.
15. iHateCrapple (Posts: 734; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
Samsung has no creativity? It's THEIR technology!
18. bucky (Posts: 1580; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
it might be, but they cant seem to put their own creativity into it.
41. Edge (unregistered)
45. lef (unregistered)
its their tech that apple is using. so apple is creative using samsung tech but samsung is not creative using there own tech.u f**king retarded apple fan boy.
27. remixfa (Posts: 14193; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
funny that you say that bucky, since the article states that sammy was beating apple to the punch and apple was retaliating by suing them. looks like apple is neither creative nor willing to play nice
29. bucky (Posts: 1580; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
the copying began before this article. I have an atrix so im no iphone lover, but honestly you cannot tell me samsung couldnt come up with anything just a little different? Come on...every other maker adds something but samsung looks like the iphone straight down to the icons.
46. lef (unregistered)
bucky you fool. everything apple has done has been a copy of someone else's work.from the days of xerox GUI to the iphone. at best you can say they made it pretty.
38. mhaziq (unregistered)
No creativity?????
dude i think you did not read the post, dont just say the first thing that pops into your mind :D
its just the rectangular shape which is only a bit similar, otherwise samsung is totally different and much much supeior at hardware..............
2. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4438; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Wow edge to edge phone with no buttons. Motion gestures on a button less phone. I can't wait to see what the Samsung Galaxy S III will look like. Apple seems to fear Android & Samsung. Apple is hoping things go their way. Samsung is doing so much to move the tech forward that it makes me so curious to see these final products Samsung has on the way. To be a fly on the wall at Samsung head quarters. lol
Competition is so great for us the consumers. I have to tip my hat at Samsung, they are impressing me.
7. LionStone (Posts: 468; Member since: 10 Dec 2010)
Yep, agree...and they are also fearing hTc big time too. And yea, that's a good thing, better for us...all of us.
40. htc or sam (unregistered)
Now if Samsung could just integrate HTC's sense UI, Apply would s**t. We need Apple products tho, some people just want their phone to do what the manufacturer says they want to do with it...
4. TDroid21 (Posts: 70; Member since: 04 Apr 2011)
Typical apple.. Need i say more?
5. skymitch89 (Posts: 1124; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
Galaxy S3? The Galaxy S2 hasn't really even come out yet.
6. belovedson (Posts: 832; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
if this article has any truths it only proves that samsung is innovative, advanced, and superior in every in terms of technology than apple. apple is a joke if they seriously believe they can prevent the advancement of mobile tech
17. mikeypopps (Posts: 19; Member since: 20 Apr 2011)
I agree apple is only as good as what they take from others. Samsung made a smart decision, cut them off at the knees and beat them to market. It's not like we don't know what apple is gonna do. They'll copy it the next cycle after and claim its magical and revolutionary.
And it will be for one simple reason, every phone they make is the same. The fact that programing for the new input once is all you have to do makes it a programmers dream and the helpdesk's love child.
If the galaxy s 3 is exactly the same two phones for every carrier they can pull off the snatch of the era. One with a keyboard and one just touch. It would solve the eternal Achilles heel of Samsung, internal fragmentation and updates.
8. IOS5 (unregistered)
galaxy s3?!
9. ollie (unregistered)
so who won the battle? Samsung or apple?
10. AndroidTroll (Posts: 359; Member since: 05 Mar 2011)
hahahaha when apple runs out of options it sues! lololol what pussies I love watching them fail.
35. ahmedra2ol (Posts: 27; Member since: 01 Mar 2011)
i am with you aaaaHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA Apple HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA :P :P :P:P:P:P:P
12. Sniggly (Posts: 7183; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Well now, this makes things more interesting. I still want the Targa.
13. Brenden (unregistered)
Im getting the Samsung Galaxy 4!! It comes out 5 days after Samsung Galaxy 3!! Idk tho? Thats to long of a wait!
14. Guest (unregistered)
dam now i am confused, which i will wait for now sgs 2 or sgs 3? hard desicion. -_-
16. balls to america (unregistered)
well what can i say. apple sucks. they lost there way after iphone 3g. they are just following the coat tails of android now. jobby jobs ain't hitting no more. If there is one thing that rings true out of this article, is that fanboys really suck it now!! Long live android, the world's # 1 mobile OS!!!!
19. PatcheZ (unregistered)
Apple might not be innovative or creative, but they sure know how to make existing things pretty and user friendly.
20. andro (unregistered)
apple is worried again,their in 2nd place now and in danger of losing more ground so they resort to sueing
21. khalis7 (Posts: 1; Member since: 27 Apr 2011)
Steve Jobs is a manwhore..always target its competitors so no one can't compete with Apple. That's not fair & just!
22. IOS5 (unregistered)
its true samsung its COPY CAT company im not fandroid but still respect three phones comes with Android os and i own one of them Motorola, HTC and Sony Ericsson.
I own Motorola flip out
23. protozeloz (Posts: 5381; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
flip out...... seriously?
24. IOS5 (unregistered)
I know that you think flip out it's shit! Don't think so Motorola still way better than samsung know that doesn't has fantasy staff that samsung copied from Apple! But when it comes to functional and call quality responsive touch screen no LAG! Still Moto way way better than samsung.
28. protozeloz (Posts: 5381; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I like moto... not much to complain there, haven't tested Samsung much so I cant talk bout it... but phones like flip out cause so much trouble for companies sometimes, thats why I mostly tell people to get hight end android phones when they are getting on a new contract (maybe not the newest on the market but you can find a much higher end phone for few extra bucks) but fuck it sometimes we cant prevent things because my phone died and I ordered a defy to replace it while my contract ends
25. som (Posts: 768; Member since: 10 Nov 2009)
Samsung must stop selling components to Apple until Apple drop all the crazy lawsuits.
26. TDroid21 (Posts: 70; Member since: 04 Apr 2011)
As much as samsung would love to cut supplies for apple, they can't do that unless their contract is done with apple. Sammy's ass will be in real big trouble if they do that.
30. IOS5 (unregistered)
Flip out its not high end phone but still i can do lot of staff on it even lancher pro its working fine on this phone! Motorola defy its a nice phone but still has the same classic look, like HTC and iphone but with tuff metrail that first time came with touch phone flip out looks diffrent thats why people like it even iphone user im not talking about myself but i know lot of iphone fan bought this phone:)
31. protozeloz (Posts: 5381; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
well glad it works good for you :P bought the defy cuz mine suffered an accident and plan on using it to go to road trips when I get my new contract phone, may be the Atrix since it's new feature calls my attention, I imagine myself doing slideshows at college with it or a tablet (eee pad or Xoom maybe, I'm open to most things)
32. nick (unregistered)
That is amazing... Wait for a company to develop a new technology, then patent a product design that the new tech is most likely to be used in, wait for that company to develop their own product to use the new tech, and then sue them for using their own tech in their own product... It's so brilliant! I wish I thought of that.
34. Dave (unregistered)
Look up a company called Rambus. That's all they do and they've made millions from their lawsuits. They don't even make products anymore they just trademark and patent ideas then sue if anyone comes close to releasing a product like it.
33. IOS5 (unregistered)
Atrix man i love this phone its fablous phone, but Motorola made a big mistake when they locked the bootloader but still the best Android phone i think cause 3 or 5 gadget sites rate this phone 9, 9.5 out of 10 one of those sites PA. played with xoom 2 days ago in store to be honest its nice fast fablous hardwaer and good looking tab still a bit laggy taht noticed, the thing when you watch a video review about xoom tablet it looks ugly kind of huge A... tab but in real this thing looks amazing and unique fablous design and look.
36. Resident Evil (unregistered)
Wait for S3!!!!!
Don't buy this S2 overpriced phone!!
37. Nark (unregistered)
I have an S2, cost me 399GBP :) and its worth every penny!!! overpriced?...It retails (499) at the same price as the iphone 4 which is a year old and has inferior hardware ergo Apple rip of their customers
39. Foxbaker (unregistered)
Please stop buying apple s**t , its ludicrous what this apple faggots think they are , producing only s**t for dumb goats .
42. aekiv (unregistered)
Apple is s**t and people using it are s**th
43. FApple (unregistered)
Man, i hate apple, obviously the iphone and galaxy would end up looking the same because most of the hardware in the i pphone is made by samsung. Why cant samsung just stop supplying them? Or fake delays or something? Like their cars, American phones have no chance against the upcoming asian products. Imagine GM suing toyota because they didnt wanna share technology and are also making a vehicle with 4 wheels. Its ridiculious. Samsung all the way. I will never by an apple after this.
44. AndyC (unregistered)
I think we are all getting tired of Apple's belly aching here, its sickening. First they sued HTC, so they might not be able to bring their handsets to the US, now an ongoing battle with Samsung, Apple its time to grow up, you don't own the playing field, if you can't develop your own technology and impliment,please step off the stage, exit stage left.
This idea that if we can't rule we will stop whoever doesn't comply is simplistic playground polititcs ,but that's my own view. I hope people see through Apple's highly educated approach to business. But then again, with so many poisoned with Job's Kool-aid, it stands to reason. If Sammi wants to use their own tech, and not permit Apple to, then cry and get over it.
I was thinking of some new Apple apps:
iBaby, iCry, iSue(I'm sure thatll be popular), iRule, iAche and ofcourse iKool-aid. Oh by the way, I'm not an OS fan of any OS, I've owned and use Apple products as well as other OS products over the last few years, just think Apple's behaviour is less than desired. But as the saying goes "If you can't beat then, sue them" right ? Cheers
47. Galaxy (unregistered)
Apple itself is great, but it lives in its own little world, sorry to say. Look at the battle with Microsoft - although people really hate Microsoft for their products and business practices, Microsoft products have always dominated the PC market. Apple makes blackboxes. Go use them guys, they wouldn't break, but they are boring. If you are a programmer, Apple sucks. Microsoft is so much more interesting. Have you ever heard of Apple Server? Apple SQL Server? Apple Web Essentials? Apple Cloud? Boring. From iPhone 3G to iPhone 4, there are changes but they are just the same with some little things. Added Folders in iOS4 - the biggest deal. Nothing spectaular. And if you go tell them you are doing little tricks on your iPhone Apple didn't tell you to, oh Lord, you must be freaking them out. Hands off.....
Samsung from the very beginning has set out to bring so much innovation and creativity to make itself stand out and become threats to other companies. Look at televisions. It used to be Panasonic, Sharp, Sony. Now, you see Samsung TV everywhere. They sell their things cheap, you might say. Well, people wouldn't buy s**tty things. And Toyota started selling their Lexus vehicles very cheap, flipped the Germans in one night. Then what? Look at where they are now.
iPhone is a great product. But the progress has been slow. They have used up their innovations, ending up with some new iPhone's that are just so similar to the first iPhone. The game is over. From leading the market to playing catch up games, and now falling behind. They need some new blood with really great minds into the future. Apple did, but then stopped. You can't control how people use technology. People look for technologies that they want.
48. Hardcore (unregistered)
The Samsung Galaxy s2 was better than iphone 4 so of course s3 is going to be better.
49. iphones are gay (unregistered)
You all need life biching about aphone and what have iphone done difernt from there ather phone nothing sowe how *** iphone *** ya
50. udar (unregistered)
Apple is a marketing company that creates product "mockups" in a simple word. They contract big companies like Samsung - to bring these "mockups" to life in Samsung's production factories.
Nobody seems to know or even care that Apple steals ideas from Japan and Korea, these two markets have such advanced technologies that are far yet to be implemented in USA or Europe.
USA and Europe are up to 5 years far back in creating tech innovations as opposed to Japan and Korea especially.
I personally respect Samsung, even though it is near the same monster as Apple.
51. andriod fan (unregistered)
Samsung is better but with 4.5 display it will much bigger ,4.3 inches is better o be a smartphone not tablet ,,and what about 3D
will it support 3D ?


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Apple: iPhone Does Not Need to Be Revolutionary
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- I buried the lead in Wednesday's Should BlackBerry Attack Apple? article.
While there's no doubt
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Let's clear the intersection where AAPL bullishness meets bearishness. It's a crossroads almost as misunderstood as Apple itself.
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Appleneeds something that will extend its dominance. Something that will keep Apple lifers Apple lifers. That's the point guys like Ballmer, Balsillie and now Heins miss. iPods, iPhones, iPads and Macbooks pretty much just evolve. And that's OK. Apple lifers continue to buy them at regular intervals. To stay sticky beyond reiterations of these legacy devices, Apple has to come up with something new.
I keep my Diesel jeans when they're ragged and end up springing for a new pair. I will likely always buy Diesel jeans; in fact, if they changed them too much, I might switch. But, to become more of a Diesel lifer, they need to come up with something new that excites me. Pretty straightforward.So let's be clear about this. The initial iterations of iPod, iPhone and iPad were revolutionary. With subsequent updates, each device merely evolved. Just like a pair of comfortable jeans. Granted, evolution at Apple equates to one giant step for mankind at most companies, but that's because Steve Jobs made Apple best of any breed. I'm not sure why anybody would want to see any of their favored and most trusty consumer items transform into something unrecognizable. Consider the MacBook Pro with Retina Display I work with daily. It has evolved, in part, from that white MacBook I had about 10 years ago. The one that got all dirty and grimy within about a week's worth of use. But, big picture, that laptop isn't all that different from the one I use today. Certainly, it's faster, can handle more stress, looks slicker and sleeker -- some of this because of Apple, some of it because of partners such as Intel (INTC) -- but, stepping back, we really haven't seen a revolution with the laptop. Same goes for iDevices -- a series of evolutions, which, at some point in the life cycle, add up to a revolution or two.
Instead, iPad revolutionized the laptop just as iPod revolutionized the Walkman and iPhone revolutionized the BlackBerry. I reckon if Apple made iPod, iPhone or iPad into something completely different, there would be blowback. There's a reason why Levi's have not messed with the button fly for about a century. If it ain't broke, don't fix it (or at least don't break it!).
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Sgt. Samuel Drennan admits he rarely gave homeless people much thought, and when he did, he had only one observation.
"I just thought they didn't want to work," the Georgia native said.
But after spending a few hours talking to people streaming into the Marian House Soup Kitchen on Tuesday, the Fort Carson soldier gained new insight into the complexities of homelessness.
"There's a lot of things that go into it," Drennan said. "And a lot of people are trying to get work and get out of it."
Drennan was one of about 80 volunteers helping Pikes Peak United Way conduct its Homeless Point in Time Survey, an annual attempt to gauge the size and needs of the area's homeless population. The information becomes key in determining how much federal money the area receives to help homeless people.
"We got $600,000 in 2003," said Anne Beer, a Pikes Peak United Way employee who spearheaded the survey. "We're at $1.9 million now because of better accounting."
Counting the homeless population can be challenging. Some people stay well out of sight, preferring solitude to society. Some refuse to answer the survey because they feel it's an invasion of their privacy. Beer and others involved in the survey know the count will under-represent the actual homeless population.
But in the nine or so years they've been doing the survey, they've gotten better at figuring out how to reach more people. Surveyors fan out to the places where the homeless population tends to congregate: the soup kitchen, Ecumenical Social Ministries, Westside Cares, TriLakes Cares, Northern Churches Care and the Salvation Army meal wagon, among others. Armed with clipboards and a survey, they ask people for more than 30 pieces of demographic information, including the all-important "where did you sleep last night?"
Much of the work is done by volunteers, but this year's group was different. Not only was it about 50 percent bigger than last year's, but it included a cast of characters who had never been involved. Fort Carson participated for the first time, sending 14 volunteers, including Drennan. Beer hoped they would be able to coax more homeless veterans into participating.
"The VA estimates there are about 400 homeless vets (in the Colorado Springs area). Last year, we only accounted for 180, so we hope to do a better job this time," Beer said.
Also joining the effort were two workers from the governor's office, and Rick Garcia, director of the regional U.S. Housing and Urban Development office in Denver.
"It's very sobering to engage people who have been homeless for a long period of time," said Garcia, who was participating in his first homeless survey.
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This is the official web site of Anne Fine, the second Children's Laureate and a distinguished prize-winning writer for children of all ages, with over forty books to her credit. She has also written for adults to considerable critical acclaim. This site has news and information about Anne, and showcases her books.
Blue Moon Day
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Most authors like me are invited to all sorts of places to talk about books: libraries, conferences and schools of every description.
I've been in dozens of boarding schools, met young people who go to schools for the blind and often visited the Young Offenders' Unit (a kind of junior prison) near to my house. Over the years I must have met hundreds of children who've ended up being schooled, for one reason or another, away from home.
I wanted to write about why some of these young people are there, and how they feel about it.
Once in a blue moon, Sam skips school, and on this particular day reads a book that's been gathering dust on the bookshelf. AWAY FROM HOME, it's called, and ten very different people of the same age as Sam tell, from the heart, their very different stories.
Curious? Then read Blue Moon Day. And find out what life away from home is really like for someone just like you.
Blue Moon Day was published on 9th October 2014; Read more about it here.
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Anne has just learned that not one but two of her books have been longlisted for the UKLA Book Award 2015. The UKLA Book Awards are the only national awards judged entirely by teachers. The Awards seek to celebrate children's books in order to: encourage teachers to increase their professional and personal knowledge of recently published high quality children's books and to promote the place of books for young people in all educational settings.
On Planet Fruitcake has been longlisted in the 7 - 11 age group, and Blood Family (which is now also available in paperback) for older readers.
Now the teacher judges have until March to read the longlisted books, discuss them with their group leaders, and share them with pupils. All groups will then meet together for the difficult task of choosing their shortlist of five books in each category.
Anne joins the Great March of Progress
Anne has some good news for fans of her novels for adults - and a confession to make! She says:
I'm one of those people who sits tight, waiting for each new technology to become old hat, or at the very least be superseded by something whizzier.
But even I knew E-books were here to stay when, on a flight to Seattle, I noticed I was the only person on the plane reading a dead-tree novel. (I was also the only person who could carry on reading while we were held up for forty minutes on the tarmac before take-off, but let's leave that aside.)
Then I saw my daughter lying comfortably in bed, reading a novel on her kindle with the light from it waking neither her husband nor her baby.
So I've been delighted each time any of my books, whether for children or adults, has become available in electronic format. And now I'm thrilled to say that the very last of my eight adult novels have joined the Great March of Progress. From September 1st, Telling Liddy, In Cold Domain, The Killjoy and Taking the Devil's Advice are also all downloadable. I know I'm mostly known for my work for children. But if you are an adult, please, please do give at least one of them a go. You might love them. (They're mostly black comedies, apart from The Killjoy, which is simply black.)
Which one to choose? Well, The Mail on Sunday calledTelling Liddy "Mercilessly funny", whereas The Times Literary Supplement described it as "a chilling, skilfully constructed novel of family tension and emotional revenge that looks without blinking at the depths to which intelligent, law-abiding people can sink". The Independent called Taking the Devil's Advice "A brilliantly orchestrated slanging match", with the Financial Times adding that it was "Shot through with wit, and full of effervescence and good humour". The Observer said In Cold Domain was "A glorious tirade against the grind of motherhood" and Time Out described it as "A streamlined, ruthlessly stripped-down psychological family romance... wicked and funny." And the New Yorker said of The Killjoy, "Strange and wonderful ...remarkable insight and style". Publishers Weekly called it, "Devastating and ingenious." The Observer said it was "Gripping... a knock-down triumph". And the Glasgow Herald reviewer said, "I defy anyone who gets beyond the first sentence to put down."
Start with whichever catches your fancy. With a bit of luck you'll read them all.
Read more about Anne Fine's books for adults here.
The Killer Cat Runs Away
So what if I broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad's clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten's special kitten-food?
All accidents!
Meet Tuffy, the Killer Cat.
You thought you already had? Is that because you've read the books in which he causes such awful mayhem? Well, now he's back. Not spruced up, exactly. I wouldn't go that far. Steve Cox has handed over the illustrations to Thomas Docherty, so if you think that he looks a tiny bit different, you're right. But inside he's the same old Tuffy - driving Dad crazy, upsetting Ellie, and leaving the usual trail of chaos wherever he goes.
And in this book Tuffy does go a whole lot further than usual. Find out what happens when he decides there must be somewhere in the town where he'll be appreciated more, and treated better ...
The Killer Cat Runs Away now out in paperback!
Of course, in his own way, Tuffy is a very well-travelled cat. He has friends all over the world who want to keep up to date with his adventures. His latest escapade has already been translated into French, and there are Killer Cat books in German, in Italian, in Icelandic - and more!


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Why do we call a Reuben sandwich a Reuben? Are the Romans tied to the history of the Caesar salad? Unlock the mysteries of these and other famous foods with a naming history lesson.
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What inspired Alfredo di Lelio to create his now-famous fettucine? A pregnant wife. Allegedly his young spouse lost her appetite during her pregnancy and needed to gain weight. Di Lelio, who owned a restaurant in Rome, created a simple dish of fresh ribbon pasta, Parmigiano cheese, butter, and heavy cream. His wife devoured it. He decided to add his creation to his restaurant's menu. It soon became popular not only with his regulars, but with Hollywood actors visiting the Eternal City.
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Customer profitability can be increased and managed. By sorting customers into profitability tiers (a Customer Pyramid), service can be tailored to achieve even higher profitability levels. Highly profitable customers can be pampered appropriately, customers of average profitability can be cultivated to yield higher profitability, and unprofitable customers can be either made more profitable or weeded out. Tailoring service to the customer's profitability level can make a company's customer base more profitable, increasing its chances for success in the marketplace.
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(n2.) V. Zeithaml, "Service Quality, Profitability, and the Economic Worth of Customers," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 28/1 (Winter 2000): 67-85.
(n3.) R. Buzzell and B.Gale, The PIMS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1987).
(n4.) Zeithaml, op. cit.
(n5.) R.N. Bolton and J. Drew, "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Service Changes on Customer Attitudes," Journal of Marketing, 55/1 (January 1991): 1-9.
(n6.) R.T. Rust, A.J. Zahorik, and T.L. Keiningham, Return on Quality: Measuring the Financial Impact of Your Company's Quest for Quality (Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994).
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(n8.) R.N. Bolton, "A Dynamic Model of the Duration of the Customer's Relationship with a Continuous Service Provider: The Role of Satisfaction," Marketing Science, 17/1 (Winter 1998): 45-65.
(n9.) A.J. Zahorik and R.T. Rust, "Modeling the Impact of Service Quality on Profitability: A Review," in Terri Swartz et al., eds., Advances in Services Marketing and Management (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992), pp. 247-276.
(n10.) G. Hartfeil, "Bank One Measures Profitability of Customers, Not Just Products," Journal of Retail Banking Services, 18/2 (1996): 24-31.
(n11.) D. Connelly, "First Commerce Segments Customers by Behavior, Enhancing Profitability," Journal of Retail Banking Services, 19/1 (1997): 23-27.
(n12.) R. Rust, V. Zeithaml, and K. Lemon, Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy (New York, NY: The Free Press, 2000).
(n13.) V. Zeithaml, "Consumer Perceptions of Price, Quality and Value: A Means-End Model and Synthesis of Evidence," Journal of Marketing, 52/3 (July 1988): 2-22.
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(n17.) F. Newell, Loyalty.com: Customer Relationship Management in the New Era of Internet Marketing (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000), pp. 232-236.
(n18.) Ibid., p. 236.
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(n20.) K. Schill, "Dial-a-Deal," The News and Observer, January 31, 1999, p. E1-3.
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"This is indeed a great practice, not only in length but also in information... As the first generation of American yoga teachers ages and passes on, it's essential to preserve a record of yoga's legacy worldwide to remind future generations of their roots. This DVD is important not only for its instruction but for its historical value as well."-- Yoga Journal
"These two DVDs are the first instructional videos ever presented by Dharma Mittra, who runs the Dharma Yoga Center in New York City and is famous for his Master Yoga Chart of 908 asanas. In these well-produced videos, each four hours in length, Dharma (born in 1939 in Brazil) shares the knowledge and insight gathered from more than 50 years of yoga practice. Those years include 11 as a bramacharya, a celibate religious student, devoted to his guru, Swami Kailashananda (Yogi Gupta).
"The richness of information on these DVDs makes them a valuable resource for students at all levels and from all schools of yoga. The best part for me, though, is just watching Dharma practice and hearing him talk. The deep devotion with which he does the asana, pranayama and meditation practices is truly inspiring. And the charming humor, wisdom and love with which he speaks reveal a being who has realized his divine nature and shares it with us here."-- Yoga Chicago Magazine
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About Sri Dharma Mittra
Sri Dharma Mittra has spent most of his life in service to humanity, disseminating ancient knowledge for achieving radiant health and spiritual development. He was born in the late 1930's, and excelled from an early age at wrestling and weight lifting. After spending 7 years in the Air Force, Dharma began studying Yoga in 1958. He met his teacher Sri Swami Kailashananda in 1964, and after immersing himself in intense study and practice of the eight limbs of Yoga—especially Karma Yoga—Dharma was initiated as a sannyasi, one who renounces the material world while seeking God.
Beginning in 1967, Dharma taught Yoga for 8 years at his guru's ashram and was celebrated for his skill and mastery. In 1975 he left the ashram and founded the Yoga Asana Center, known today as the Dharma Yoga Center. In 1984 Dharma completed the Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures, as an offering to his Guru, and for all Yoga aspirants. This original masterpiece was meticulously assembled from over 1,350 self-photographed postures and hand-assembled by Dharma himself. The poster hangs in many prestigious yoga schools and ashrams worldwide. He is the author of the book Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses published by New World Library, is featured in American Yoga and is the inspiration for Yoga Journal's book Yoga.
Dharma was one of the first independent Yoga teachers in the United States, initiating tens of thousands on the path of Yoga before styles of Yoga became popular. He has remained truthful to the original classical practice, and is loved by students from all walks of Yoga for his humility, humor, joy and kindness in teaching. Dharma has been offering daily classes in New York since he started in 1967, and to this day makes himself available regularly to anyone in need of help and direction.
Dharma Mittra conducts Maha Sadhana and Yogi Treasures for a Shortcut to Immortality workshops worldwide as well as ongoing, in-depth Life of a Yogi teacher training programs at the Dharma Yoga Center.
You may also enjoy our exclusive interview with Dharma: Sri Dharma Mittra on Ahimsa and Vegetarianism.


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While they may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound or don a cape to fly around the world, dads are still superheroes! And your child can help dad feel how much he appreciates him on Father's Day with these meaty hero sandwiches. Your child can decide whether dad prefers a classic hero sandwich or something more unique like a BLT fried egg-and-cheese sandwich. Then again if dad likes meatballs, stack a few onto a hoagie bun to make slow cooker meatball sub sandwiches. Get a little fancy with either easy French dip sandwiches or cheesy grilled pizza sandwiches. Along with helping make the sandwich, let your little one make a card or picture to give to dad with his hero meal.


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Stand Out In A Slip Dress
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I never would have dreamed I'd be writing in praise of Rep. Walter Jones (R, N.C.), formerly of "freedom fries" fame. But, well, here you go:
"Congress will not hold anyone to blame [for the Iraq War]. Lyndon Johnson's probably rotting in hell right now because of the Vietnam War, and he probably needs to move over for Dick Cheney," Jones said at a Young Americans for Liberty conference in Raleigh, N.C. The group is a spinoff from former Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Texas) 2008 presidential campaign.
During his keynote address to the group, he praised Paul. "I want to give credit to the man who helped me understand if you're ever going to send young men and women to die, it needs to be with the Constitution and debated by the Congress," he said.
Elsewhere in his speech, he called the drone policy "absolutely unconstitutional," eliciting applause from the crowd.
"I knew that those who do not fight like myself, it's easy to be macho man, and declare war, get that son of a bitch... I am so fed up with people who do not understand the pain of war," he said Saturday.
It's always refreshing when anti-war sentiment and declaiming of things like our drone policy are not limited to one part of the political spectrum.
Personally, I'm very much intrigued by the points of crossover between the far left and libertarians. They're often very different, of course, but now and then surprisingly well aligned. Probably because so many on the left are, contrary to the cartoon version of their views that's often invoked, more civil libertarians than advocates for broader government.
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Government Employees
News about Government Employees, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Dec. 3, 2014
Superior Court judge in Rhode Island agrees to send a union-backed lawsuit over state's sweeping 2011 public pension overhaul to a jury trial in April 2015. MORE
Dec. 1, 2014
The debate about pay for Wall Street executives who take government jobs appears to be based more on a populist shakedown than on good public policy. MORE
Nov. 22, 2014
Illinois Judge John W Belz rejects state's effort to bolster its public pension system; rules that pension overhaul enacted in December 2013 violated clause in State Constitution. MORE
Nov. 16, 2014
Records and interviews show federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations, with officers from at least 40 agencies taking on false identities to ferret out wrongdoing and document suspicious activity; broadened scope of undercover work outside traditional domain of law enforcement raises concerns about civil liberties abuses and entrapment, and has also resulted in some compromised investigations. MORE
Nov. 11, 2014
While Detroit's plan to exit bankruptcy has been praised, its pension system relies on some of the same assumptions that got it into trouble in the first place. MORE
Oct. 28, 2014
The suit contends that Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company used faulty methods that "doomed the plan to financial ruin." MORE
Oct. 19, 2014
Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game column observes that public pension funds nationwide have invested heavily in private equity buyout funds, agreeing to dangerous codes of silence about terms; examines case in which the Carlyle Group shifted burden of $115 million settlement to investors of one such fund, including state and city employees in several states; warns that information related to this new obligation was effectively unavailable to employees. MORE
Oct. 3, 2014
Op-Ed article by author Ann Hagedorn questions government vetting of private security contractors that are being employed by increasing number of agencies; says revelation that Pres Obama rode in elevator with a contractor who was carrying a gun and had an arrest record should shake all Americans from complacency; calls for system of checks and balances in government contracting that reflects new age of private security. MORE
Sep. 13, 2014
Retired New York City police officer John Minerva, accused as ringleader in huge scheme to defraud Social Security Administration, pleads guilty in return for a reduced sentence; he agrees to testify against former colleagues. MORE
Aug. 13, 2014
Obama administration rolls back part of its ban on lobbyists serving in government, narrowing one of the president's signature policies in the face of a legal challenge. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds upholds law that significantly limits collective bargaining rights for most public workers, dealing decisive blow to state's labor unions and handing Gov Scott Walker a crucial victory in an election year. MORE
Jul. 23, 2014
Editorial contends that no one wins in Detroit's bankruptcy plan; notes that city's municipal retirees have approved restructuring blueprint that will cut their promised pension payouts significantly, but other creditors rejected blueprint, including hedge funds and bond insurers that hold or back billions of dollars in municipal debt; holds that painful bankruptcy process is moving forward, but outcome is uncertain. MORE
Jul. 22, 2014
Detroit's retirees vote to lower their expected pension benefits, crucial step in city's plan to emerge from bankruptcy before end of 2014; result could provide a complicated model for future of troubled, underfunded public-sector pensions in other cities. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
Creditors, including city workers and retirees, submit their final votes on Detroit's plan to emerge from bankruptcy; some of the city's 32,000 retirees and workers say that while they oppose cuts to their promised benefits, they feel that city's proposal, along with the foundation and state money, might be best offer. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
Thousands of city workers and retirees in Detroit face impending deadline to cast votes on city's plan to emerge from debt, plan that depends in part on cutting their pension benefits; city has taken on feel of an all-out election campaign. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Illinois Supreme Court sides with retired state employees who argued that health insurance coverage is constitutionally protected retirement benefit; 6-to-1 ruling reverses lower court decision that allowed state to require retirees to pay for part of their health care. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and city's largest municipal union, District Council 37, announce tentative contract that raises wages by 10 percent and reduces health care costs; agreement closely resembles city's new contract with United Federation of Teachers; union represents over 100,000 city employees. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Op-Ed article by Prof Cynthia Estlund and Prof William E Forbath criticizes Supreme Court decision that unions cannot collect fees from public employees who do not want to join; contends ruling is bigger loss for labor than people think; asserts unions are reeling as court sided with those who seek to further weaken workers' ability to join with co-workers and bargain collectively. MORE
Jul. 1, 2014
Supreme Court deals limited blow to organized labor by ruling that some government employees do not have to pay any fees to unions representing them, but declines to strike down decades-old precedent that requires many public sector workers to pay union fees; Justice Samuel A Alito Jr concludes that there is a category of government employees who can opt out of joining a union and not be required to contribute union fees. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
Federal government announces regulatory changes to extend wide range of marriage benefits to same-sex couples, making good on a promise by Pres Obama after Supreme Court struck down Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. MORE
Jun. 20, 2014
Supreme Court rules unanimously that First Amendment protects government employees from retaliation for giving truthful testimony that was not part of their job responsibilities; case involves Edward R Lane, former director of youth program at public community college in Alabama, who was fired after testifying in 2009 corruption trial of state legislator Suzanne Schmitz. MORE
Jun. 18, 2014
If it succeeds, the city's cost-cutting hybrid pension plan could be a model for solving government budget crises across the country. MORE
Jun. 17, 2014
Federal Judge Sidney I Schenkier liberates Chicago from oversight intended to prevent politically motivated hirings, firings and harassment of government employees, but warns that the system is not immune from corruption and still needs to be watched to ensure that the staid past does not return; says administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken proper steps to prove that it has complied with decades-old accord, known as the Shakman decrees. MORE
Jun. 10, 2014
Illinois Gov Pat Quinn signs legislation to help Chicago reduce pension shortfall but urges Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council not to raise property taxes for additional revenues; law would nearly eliminate the $9.4 billion shortfall by cutting benefits and increasing contribution for the city and employees. MORE
Jun. 4, 2014
Michigan Senate agrees to Gov Rick Snyder's call for spending millions in state funds to spare the pensions of Detroit retirees from deeper cuts and to avoid the sale of artworks from the city's museum, part of a larger bargain aimed at bringing a swift close to the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy. MORE
May. 23, 2014
Michigan State House, in series of votes that could be critical for Detroit's emergence from bankruptcy, agrees to contribute nearly $200 million in state money for deal to spare city's retirees from larger pension cuts and to avoid selling artworks from city's museum; deal passes amid mixed support. MORE
May. 22, 2014
Detroit's retired city workers react angrily to details of a plan to reduce their benefits, part of the city's effort to find its way out of bankruptcy; 20,000 retirees must decide whether to accept pension cuts city proposes, or vote no and risk losing much more. MORE
May. 22, 2014
Michael Powell Gotham column describes New Jersey Gov Chris Christie's proposal to cut payments to state employee pension funds by $2.4 billion; notes that move would violate provisions of pension law Christie himself pushed through in 2011. MORE
May. 15, 2014
Judge Jon Belz of Sangamon County Circuit Court in Illinois issues stay on state's pension law until the court can rule on its constitutionality. MORE
May. 13, 2014
Detroit drops tens of thousands of ballots in the mail, initiating crucial stage in the city's bankruptcy case that allows retirees, employees and bondholders to cast votes on painful debt-shredding plan; vote amounts to gamble for many of the city's 32,000 pension recipients, where they either support proposed cuts or risk losing more. MORE
May. 6, 2014
Judge Steven W Rhodes signs off on document that clears the way for tens of thousands of Detroit retirees, employees and bondholders to begin receiving ballots on the city's plan for rebuilding and shrinking its debt; Detroit officials, hoping to exit bankruptcy court my mid-October, are racing to reach deals with city workers and others in effort to ease and expedite the entire process. MORE
May. 3, 2014
Leaders of Detroit Retired City Employees Association, representing nearly 8,000 municipal retirees, agree to cuts of 4.5 percent to retirees' pension benefits, latest in settlements secured by city in its efforts to emerge from bankruptcy; cuts are smaller than city had initially proposed. MORE
Apr. 29, 2014
Supreme Court is set to decide whether First Amendment rights of Edward R Lane, former director of youth program at public community college in Alabama, were clearly established when he was fired after testifying in 2009 corruption trial of state legislator Suzanne Schmitz. MORE
Apr. 29, 2014
Detroit officials add tentative agreements with some of its unions to pacts already reached with retiree groups, pension funds and several financial creditors, moving closer to plan that would allow it to emerge from bankruptcy by mid-October 2014. MORE
Apr. 26, 2014
Court-appointed committee of Detroit, Mich, retirees reaches tentative agreement with the bankrupt city on cuts to their pensions and benefits; deal adds to pacts already reached with pension fund leaders and others, and brings Detroit closer to paying back some of its overwhelming debts and emerging from bankruptcy. MORE
Apr. 22, 2014
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan ask Judge George B Daniels to impose sentences of 105 years, 80 years and up to 40 years respectively on Gerard Denault, Mark Mazer and Dmitry Aronshtein; trio, convicted in federal corruption trial, became rich in connection with New York City's scandal-marred payroll modernization project known as CityTime. MORE
Apr. 21, 2014
Bankrupt city of San Bernardino, Calif, is looking to make deal with Calpers, powerful agency that administers state's huge pension system; at issue is $17 million in back payments and penalties city failed to make; Mayor Carey Davis hopes to reach deal to pay only fraction of what is owed, arguing city's creditors must share in bankruptcy plan. MORE
Apr. 17, 2014
Detroit's pensioners rejoice day after city scales back from large pension benefit cuts it had once been proposing; city fends off charges from critics that it simply caved into retirees in ways that could come back to haunt it, but it also shares elation of many current and former employees who for months had feared a more dire outcome. MORE
Apr. 16, 2014
Detroit's pension boards and retirees' group representing 6,500 retired police officers and firefighters say they have reached tentative agreements with the city that could serve as breakthrough in its quest to settle with its major creditors and exit bankruptcy in 2014; if completed, agreement seems certain to provide city with blueprint for paying off portions of its debt with a simpler journey through court. MORE
Apr. 12, 2014
Talks to salvage proposal to end legal fight over Rhode Island's 2011 pension overhaul have failed and original court challenge is moving ahead; public-sector unions and retirees had sued over overhaul, and proposed settlement was an attempt to resolve the suit. MORE
Apr. 9, 2014
Illinois legislature approves plan to start easing Chicago's crippling pension problems by requiring some city workers to pay more for their retirement benefits and by granting smaller increases in those benefits. MORE
Apr. 8, 2014
Proposed settlement that would end legal fight over Rhode Island's 2011 landmark pension overhaul, which has been a model for other states looking to rein in pension costs, is rejected by police union members. MORE
Apr. 2, 2014
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has begun an urgent push to require some city workers to pay more for their retirement benefits and to raise property taxes; moves are intended to address one of the most poorly funded pension systems among the nation's major cities. MORE
Apr. 1, 2014
Detroit proposes new details, including potentially larger cuts to pensions for some retirees, for its plan for paying off portions of its debts and emerging in 2014 from the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy. MORE
Mar. 20, 2014
Labor unions are bracing for a fight in Illinois after the selection of multimillionaire businessman Bruce Rauner as the Republican candidate for governor, anticipating a bruising campaign battle over the fate of public sector labor unions, pensions and pay. MORE
Mar. 1, 2014
New Jersey Gov Chris Christie has been working to edit his image and shift topics of debate following George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal, showcasing deliberate subjects in carefully-chosen venues; much of Christie's conversation has focused on state's unfunded pension costs, topic of interest to many. MORE
Feb. 25, 2014
New Jersey Gov Chris Christie is again raising concerns about whether the state can afford payments it promised to make to its pension system, just three years after law overhauling system went into effect; New Jersey's underfunded system typifies a problem bedeviling cities and states across the country. MORE
Feb. 25, 2014
Obama administration says Pres Obama will propose a 1 percent pay raise for federal workers in 1015. MORE
Feb. 23, 2014
Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker's landmark Act 10 law severely restricting power of public-employee unions to bargain collectively is seen by him and his Republican supporters as tough-minded anti-union strategy that other states can follow; Walker, who is widely viewed as Republican presidential contender in 2016, has already emboldened other GOP-controlled states to enact measures that weaken unions and cut benefits. MORE
Feb. 21, 2014
State and local officials say cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around country have limited or reduced work hours of part-time employees to 30 hours to avoid having to provide them with health insurance under Affordable Care Act; cuts to public sector employment could serve as powerful political weapon for Republican critics of law. MORE
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Jeb Bush's Emails as Governor of Florida Show His Agenda and Goals
Emails sent during Jeb Bush's time in office and obtained through a public records request illustrate, hour by hour, the business of governing one of the country's most populous states.
December 25, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Bush, Jeb , E-Mail , Florida , Presidential Election of 2016 , Republican Party , Bush, George W , Government Employees
Rhode Island: Jury May Decide Pension Lawsuit
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday agreed to send a union-backed lawsuit over the state's sweeping 2011 public pension reform to a jury trial, scheduled for April 20, a court spokesman said.
December 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Rhode Island , Pensions and Retirement Plans , Government Employees , Organized Labor , Suits and Litigation (Civil) , Raimondo, Gina M
Detroit's Pension Benefits
The executive director of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems says pensions should not be seen as a threat to the city.
November 28, 2014, Friday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Pensions and Retirement Plans , Detroit (Mich) , Bankruptcies , Government Employees
Judge Rejects Overhaul of Illinois's Beleaguered State Pension System
The law, passed in 2013, was found to violate a clause of the state's Constitution declaring pensions to be contracts that the state cannot impair.
November 22, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Illinois , Pensions and Retirement Plans , Government Employees , Budgets and Budgeting , Retirement , Decisions and Verdicts , Rauner, Bruce , Quinn, Patrick J
More Judges Question Use of Fake Drugs in Sting Cases
A number of judges have questioned a federal agency's tactic of "stash-house stings," saying it draws small-time criminals into major crimes.
November 21, 2014, Friday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Civil Rights and Liberties , Racial Profiling , Drug Abuse and Traffic , Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms , Los Angeles (Calif) , Government Employees , Wright, Otis D II
Republicans Sure Love to Hate Unions
The 2014 election was a major defeat for labor, but the question of who will represent the interests of economically struggling voters is still open.
November 19, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Organized Labor , Government Employees , Midterm Elections (2014) , American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations , American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees , American Federation of Teachers , National Education Assn , Wisconsin , New Jersey
More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
Once largely the domain of the F.B.I., undercover work has increased across federal agencies as policies have changed, according to officials, former agents and documents.
November 16, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Government Employees , Education Department (US) , Supreme Court (US) , Crime and Criminals , Civil Rights and Liberties , United States , Federal Bureau of Investigation , Drug Enforcement Administration , Agriculture Department , Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms , Justice Department , Internal Revenue Service
Health Dept. Worker Suspended. One Complaint: He Talked Like a Robot.
Ronald Dillon, who takes customer-service calls for the New York City agency, was found guilty of acts of insubordination and suspended.
November 1, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: New York City , Health and Mental Hygiene Department (NYC) , Government Employees , Dillon, Ronald (1948- )
Behind Private Equity's Curtain
Public pensions have invested billions of dollars in buyout funds, but the terms — including some startling fees — are big secrets.
October 19, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: Private Equity , Pensions and Retirement Plans , Carlyle Group LP , Government Employees , California Public Employees Retirement System , Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co , Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL)
Running on Empty
Who's to blame for the recent major lapses from the Secret Service?
October 8, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND: United States Politics and Government , Secret Service , United States , Senate , House of Representatives , Government Employees
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Members: $55 / Guests:$65
Enjoy a candlelit dinner, then snuggle up with your sweetie under the stars as our popular Star Stories meets Supper Club. Lay on our lawn and listen to an expert stargazer explain the mythology behind the constellations, stories of love from the night sky as seen throughout history, and navigate the galaxy looking for planets and other celestial bodies.
This month features Miraglia Catering, a Certified Green Business and proud to use organic and sustainable ingredients.
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- Saturday, January 31 (6pm - 10pm)
Sparks Will Fly: Explosive Experiments
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Test your love chemistry at this explosive Supper Club! Enjoy a romantic candlelit dinner in our in science laboratory, then become a part of fun! Sparks fly as you participate in exploding experiments led by our resident scientist.
This month features Grace Street Catering, providing professional service from personal dinners to storybook weddings and everything in between.


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Day Three of the Winter Meetings on Wednesday saw action really picked up in Orlando. Free agents were signed, trades were made and major decisions going forward on how the game will be played were made as collisions at home plate are gone from the game. Major League Baseball Rules Committee voted to eliminate collisions at home plate starting in 2014. The exact language of the rule and the way it is going to be enforced is still being developed. Wednesday was such a historic day in the game because collisions have been such a huge part of the game and in alot of ways it's been glorified. You think about that great play in the division series between the Florida Marlins and the San Francisco Giants in 2003 when the game ended when J.T. Snow and Ivan Rodriguez collided at the plate. Plays like that will no longer happen, but Major League Baseball had no choice because they had to prioritize player safety and not just the concussions, but the long-term health of players. Quality of life needed to be addressed. They could not wait for a player to be paralyzed before making a rule change. How this new rule will be implemented is the big question and we'll have to wait and see how they do it. What we do know is a catcher cannot block the plate and the runner cannot go after the catcher to knock the ball loose.


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ULM Computing Center
FlightPath is ULM's online advising and degree audit system. The name "Flightpath" represents the ULM Warhawk path to graduation.
It was developed by the ULM Computing Center's Web Programming group, with help from the Banner Programming group and support from the Student Success Center and the Office of Academic Affairs.
Students can log into FlightPath and see their degree plans online. The courses they have already completed, plus their earned grades and credits for those courses, appear within the degree checksheet. Students can see their degree plan broken down by year (Freshman year courses, Sophomore year courses, etc) or by type of course (Major requirements in one column, electives in another, etc). Students can see what they have left to take to graduate, as well as explore what options they have for electives.Students can also use the "What-If" feature to see how their current credits could apply to other degrees, should they decide to change majors. This is probably the most interesting feature that FlightPath has to offer.
Advisors can log into FlightPath, and then choose a student to advise electroncically. The courses a student has successfully completed appear with maroon check marks beside them, and courses they have left to take appear with blank check boxes beside them. To advise a student to take a course is simply to check that checkbox. Groups of courses have clickable icons where you can choose a course within the group. Advisors can also leave text comments discussing their advising sessions.The "What-If" feature is useful for advisors too; if a student's major hasn't yet changed, but a student still wants or needs to be advised in a major other than the one s/he is currently assigned, then the advisor can pull up that student in the "new" major through What-If and advise him or her that way.
To access the Flightpath system you will log into the myULM portal at https://my.ulm.edu


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