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(aka 'Yagyû ichizoku no inbô" or "Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan" or "The Shogun's Samurai" or "The Yagyu Conspiracy" or "Yagyu Clan Conspiracy")
directed by Kinji
Japan 1978
This film offers the most extraordinary battle sequences in any chambara (samurai film).
- Japanese Cinema Essentials Handbook
This is nirvana for Samurai film fans combining Sonny Chiba, Toshiro Mifune, Etsuko Shiomi, Henry Sanada and Kinji Fukasaku. It is beautifully shot, an engaging story, magnificent action sequences. Too much!
Theatrical Release: December 7th, 1978
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What a treat! - HD-sourced and looking perfect in the 2.40 widescreen. Colors are muted, great contrast, sharp, this is all very good folks. The only area of lacking is in the extra department - 3 trailers and some liner notes. Solid audio as well with a clear original 2.0 track. Ohhh, I don't like the color of the subtitles (nitpicker). Super action sequences and I can't remember them looking any better... in any DVD. Beautiful film and beautiful DVD transfer. out of |
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Six monthly newsletterOn the occasion of the Working Party Steering Committee meeting held in Rome in December 2006, it was decided to issue a regular newsletter in order to intensify the exchange of information on institutional and technical issues of great concern for the management of mountain watersheds, as well as to make the Working Party and its activities better known. The Working Party newsletter format consists of two different sections of two pages each: The newsletter of the Working Party was published as a quarterly newsletter for the first four issues. Starting from the fifth issue, it will be released on a six-monthly basis. |
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THE Tea Board has burnt 2,500 kgs of substandard tea near the auction hall in Coonoor.
The teas drawn from the various factories were destroyed completely as they had failed to pass the PFA norms. The Board has resorted to such an action for the first time.
The Board's action surprised sellers but they did not resist the move.
For some time now, the trade has been complaining about the quality of teas being offered at auction. These substandard teas, they said, pulled down the price of quality offerings as well.
Meanwhile, trade disruption has resulted in the offers not being subscribed in full. The catalogued quantities at Coonoor last week stood at 16.01 lakh kgs, of which reprint quantity alone was more than half at 6.74 lakh kg.
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P.S. Sundar reports from Coonoor: The burning of the 2,500 kg of the teas alleged to have failed the BIS standards by the Tea Board authorities in Coonoor even as the auctions were going on at the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) failed to leave any impact at the auctions with the prices of some leaf and dust grades continuing to dip to Rs 20 a kg.
The teas that were burnt were out of those whose price valuations were Rs 20-25 and the effort was to rid the market of the sub-standard teas.
"Teas had been sold for these prices in the last couple of months and the sudden burning this week did not impact the market at all", an auctioneer told Business Line.
Although 16.02 lakh kg were offered for sale, only around 5,000 kg could be sold for prices above Rs 60 a kg.
The demand continued to be sluggish. There were heavy withdrawals.
Madhu Jayanthi purchased for the CIS markets. Most exporters were seen to be active on the medium and plainer grades. Exporters to CIS supported teas up to Rs 33 a kg, while those for Iraq up to Rs 30. Pakistani buyers were selective insisting on quality grades. They paid up to Rs 33 a kg - some Rs 5-7 lower than the previous weeks.


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High-end British department store John Lewis did an analysis of their bestselling women's products, deemed "handbag essentials." They calculated that the average British woman – who can afford to shop in their store, of course – is carrying around about $2,000 in assets ... simply with the junk in her purse. Things like expensive sunglasses, tech products, and top of the line makeup and perfume are just a few of the high ticket items in there.
Depending on the value of your purse and phone, the average woman is probably not carrying around $2,000 worth of crap in her purse. The crumpled up candy wrappers and receipts are certainly not increasing the value of the lip gloss from CVS and the sunglasses you picked up in the airport on your last vacation because you lost your expensive pair. So unless you are carrying around a lot of cash in that cute wallet you picked up at Target, the average American is probably carrying around under $500 worth of assets ... and that's including phone! (Cosmo)
Slacker guessed $600 for Steve and $8.50 for Little D. Slacker: Shirt=$50 Chucks=$90 Nike Field Band= $149 Underwear =$6 Headphones= $100 Wedding Ring=$2,000 IPhone 5 S =$1,000 Jeans:=$80 Prada Shades=$300 Grand Total $3,775
Steve guessed $3500 for Slacker because of his shades, Wedding Ring and cell phone. Steve: Sweater =$80 T-shirt=$5 Headphones =$100 Jeans=$ 100 Shoes=$70 Underwear= $6 Cash=$200-$300 Sunglasses=$220 Phone= $ 1,000 Grand Total = $1,781-$1,881
Little D: Shirts = $12 Jeans=$80 Nikes =$49 Headphones=$ 100 Ring=$17 Underwear =$6 Sunglasses =$12 Grand total=$276
Do you have expensive stuff in your purse? If you add up the value of everything you're wearing and have on you, what are you worth?
Jeans= $70 Shirt=$10 Jacket = $50 Shoes=$60 Bra=$75 Underwear=$10 Accessories = $50 Cell phone= $200 IPod Nano = $150 Chap Stick= $1 Advil= $6 Snack = $3 Keys=Hard to Replace Wallet= Priceless
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Two play-off matches of the Indian Premier League, scheduled to be held in Chennai, have been shifted to Delhi.
The IPL Governing Council took the decision on Saturday. They will be played on May 21 and 22.
According to informed sources, the decision was taken to give all teams a fair chance to field their best possible combination.
Some franchises had taken up the issue of not being able to include their Sri Lankan players because of the situation in Tamil Nadu.
The State government had placed a ban on Sri Lankan players and umpires officiating in Chennai. A few matches were held with Sri Lankan players sitting out.
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Trends in Adolescent Males' Abortion Attitudes, 1988-1995: Differences by Race and Ethnicity
Context: Studying how adolescent males view abortion and how their attitudes toward abortion have changed over time can improve our understanding of the sexual, contraceptive and abortion behavior of these males and their partners.
Methods: Data from the 1988 and 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males are used to describe changes in young males' attitudes toward abortion over time, as well as differences in abortion attitudes by race and ethnicity. Multivariate models are used to examine the relationship between religiosity and abortion attitudes.
Results: Between 1988 and 1995, young males' approval of abortion decreased significantly. In 1995, 24% of U.S. males aged 15-19 agreed that it was all right for a women to have an abortion "for any reason," down from 37% in 1988. This decrease was driven almost entirely by non-Hispanic white males; there was little change in the abortion attitudes of non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics. The decrease in white males' approval of abortion coincides with a significant increase in the self-reported importance of religion and in the proportion of whites who identified themselves as born-again Christians. The proportion of non-Hispanic white males indicating that religion was very important increased from 28% in 1988 to 34% in 1995, while the proportion identifying themselves as born-again increased from 18% to 24%. Multivariate analyses indicate that religiosity was more strongly related to the abortion attitudes of non-Hispanic whites than to those of Hispanics or non-Hispanic blacks.
Conclusions: The large decrease in approval of abortion among white teenage males has closed the racial and ethnic gap in attitudes toward abortion that was evident in 1988, when such youth held significantly more liberal attitudes toward abortion than did either Hispanics or blacks. This trend toward more conservative abortion-related attitudes among whites coincides with increasingly conservative attitudes regarding premarital sex and greater religiosity among white male adolescents.
Family Planning Perspectives, 2000, 32(3):118-123
Since the early 1960s, both the Gallup Organization and the National Opinion Research Center have conducted regular national surveys of the abortion attitudes of the adult population. Numerous studies have examined these data in attempts to describe and explain both the levels of and trends in support for abortion in the adult population and in important subpopulations. Yet while we have more than 30 years of data on the abortion attitudes of adults, we know very little about the abortion attitudes of adolescents, particularly adolescent males. This lack of information about the views of teenagers seems problematic, given that teenage females experience roughly 800,000 pregnancies and 400,000 abortions each year.1 (Of course, not all of these pregnancies are caused by adolescent males.2)
Until recently, the vast majority of research on teenage sexual behavior centered almost exclusively on women. Only in the last decade, with increased efforts at child support enforcement and paternity establishment and with the outbreak of HIV and AIDS, have researchers given serious attention to the sexual and contraceptive behavior of young males. Because decisions about whether to engage in sexual behavior, practice contraception or terminate an unwanted pregnancy are often joint decisions, ignoring the role of males limits our understanding of these behaviors. As a result, it hinders our ability to develop and implement effective policies to deal with the problem of unintended and unwanted pregnancies.3
To date, we are aware of only one previous study that analyzed the abortion attitudes of adolescent males using nationally representative data: an assessment of the attitudes of 15-19-year-old males toward abortion in eight different situations, using data from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM). That analysis showed that teenage males' approval of abortion varied widely, from 35% in cases where a pregnant woman wanted an abortion but her male partner did not to 89% in cases where a pregnancy would seriously endanger a woman's health. In addition, males who indicated greater religious attachment or less approval of premarital sex were significantly less likely to approve of abortion.4 In this article, we build upon this earlier work by using data from two independent waves of the NSAM to examine the trends in and correlates of young males' abortion attitudes between 1988 and 1995.
We analyze data from two independent waves of the NSAM, one administered in 1988 and one conducted in 1995. Both were nationally representative surveys of noninstitutionalized 15-19-year-old males residing in the contiguous United States. Each was drawn as a multistage, area-probability sample, with blacks and Hispanics overrepresented. The 1988 survey had a sample size of 1,880, with a response rate of 74% among eligible respondents; the 1995 survey had a sample size of 1,729 and a response rate of 75%. These surveys collected data on a variety of attitudinal measures, detailed information on sexual and contraceptive behavior, and demographic and family background information. All data used in this analysis were collected through face-to-face interviews with the respondents. (Detailed descriptions of both surveys are available elsewhere.5)
Our analyses are limited to never-married males, resulting in a 1988 sample of 1,880 (677 non-Hispanic blacks, 386 Hispanics and 817 non-Hispanic whites), a 1995 sample of 1,710 (490 non-Hispanic blacks, 552 Hispanics and 668 non-Hispanic whites) and a pooled sample of 3,590. Postsampling weights were developed to match the March 1987 Current Population Survey and preliminary census projections of the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 1988 and 1995, respectively. For the purpose of this study, we normalized the weights to average to 1.0; all analyses were weighted.
•Abortion attitudes. Attitudes toward abortion are examined using responses to a question posed to respondents in both the 1988 and 1995 NSAM. In 1995, the question read: "Females have abortions for different reasons. Think of an unmarried female who has just found out she's pregnant. As I read each of the following statements, tell me how much you agree or disagree that it would be all right for her to have an abortion for that reason. Would you say you agree a lot, agree a little, disagree a little, or disagree a lot?" The statements were: "If the female had been raped"; "if the female was under age 15"; "if the pregnancy itself seriously endangered the female's health"; "if there is good reason to believe the child might be born deformed or mentally defective"; "if the female felt that she couldn't afford to take care of the child"; "if the female wanted the abortion for any reason"; or "if the female wanted an abortion but the man did not."*
In addition to using the individual attitude items, we constructed an overall scale of abortion attitudes for use during the multivariate analysis. Responses to the abortion attitudes question were coded as follows: 4=agree a lot; 3=agree a little; 2=disagree a little; and 1=disagree a lot. The individual responses were then summed and averaged over the seven circumstances. The resulting overall scale ranges from 1 to 4, with larger values indicating greater support for abortion. Cronbach's alpha for the pooled 1988 and 1995 abortion scale is .80.
•Religion. Most previous studies have identified religion as a strong correlate of abortion attitudes among both adults and adolescents, with more religious individuals holding less-favorable attitudes toward abortion.6 The NSAM asked four questions on religion. One was: "When you were 14 years old, how often did you usually attend religious services? Was it: once a week or more, one to three times a month, less than once a month, or never?" The second, "What is your religious affiliation?", could be answered by a range of 12 responses, from "Protestant, no specific denomination" to "none." Respondents were also asked: "Do you consider yourself Born Again or an Evangelical or Charismatic Christian?" Finally, the questionnaire asked: "How important would you say religion is to you? Is it: very important, fairly important, fairly unimportant, or not important at all?"
We use three variables to measure different aspects of the respondent's religiosity. The first two are discrete variables designed to measure the importance of religion at the time of the interview (from 1=not important at all to 4=very important) and religious attendance at age 14 (from 1=never to 4=at least once a week). The third is a dummy variable identifying whether the respondent considered himself to be a born-again, Evangelical or Charismatic Christian (with 1=yes).
•Attitudes toward sex. Previous research has shown attitudes toward premarital and extramarital sex to be correlated with abortion attitudes.7 The NSAM measured attitudes about premarital sex using the following question: "Which statement best describes how you feel about sexual intercourse before marriage?" Potential responses were: "Sexual intercourse before marriage is never okay"; "sexual intercourse before marriage is okay, but only if the couple is planning to marry"; "sexual intercourse before marriage is okay, as long as the couple is close, even if they don't plan to marry"; or "sexual intercourse before marriage is okay, if both people agree to it."
To analyze attitudes toward premarital sex, we used two dummy variables, one indicating whether the respondent believes that premarital sex is never okay (with 1=yes) and the other showing if the respondent believes premarital sex to be okay only in those cases where the couple is planning to marry (with 1=yes). (In each instance, the reference category consists of those who believe that premarital sex is okay even if the couple does not plan to marry.)
•Individual and family background. The NSAM also included numerous individual and family background variables. Several of these items served as control variables in the multivariate models, including the respondent's age, his race or ethnicity, his region of residence at the time of the survey, whether he lived in an urban or rural area, his educational performance, whether he was sexually experienced, whether he had ever made a partner pregnant, his desired number of children and his mother's level of education. (Desired number of children was set equal to 10 for respondents who indicated they wanted more than 10 children.)
Descriptive statistics for the control variables by race, ethnicity and year of survey are presented in Table 1. There were no ethnic differences in mean age. In 1988, white males were much less likely than black or Hispanic males to be behind in school, but this differential had narrowed somewhat by 1995. Regional variations by race and ethnicity were as one would expect, with blacks more likely to be living in the South, whites more likely to be living in the Midwest and Hispanics more likely to be living in the West; these patterns did not change much between 1988 and 1995. In both years, white males' mothers were somewhat more highly educated than were the mothers of black and Hispanic respondents. Mean desired number of children increased somewhat among white males but not among the others. The proportion of respondents who reported that they had ever had sex decreased somewhat in each racial and ethnic group, but in both years black males were more likely to report sexual experience than were white or Hispanic males.
Table 1. Percentage of U.S. males aged 15-19 with selected characteristics or mean values, by race or ethnicity and year | ||||||
Characteristic | Black | White/other | Hispanic | |||
Mean age (in years) | 16.9 | 16.9 | 16.9 | 16.9 | 17.0 | 17.0 |
% behind in school | 20.3 | 19.9 | 10.4 | 16.2 | 17.2 | 17.8 |
Region of residence (% distribution) | ||||||
North | 15.4 | 13.5 | 19.7 | 12.5 | 19.1 | 12.6 |
Midwest | 17.7 | 18.9 | 26.8 | 31.5 | 7.8 | 9.9 |
West | 6.2 | 8.6 | 20.6 | 17.3 | 37.2 | 43.9 |
South | 60.7 | 59.0 | 32.9 | 38.7 | 35.9 | 33.6 |
% living in central city | 56.7 | 58.5 | 23.4 | 24.2 | 61.6 | 54.0 |
% living in rural area | 18.7 | 19.5 | 24.0 | 36.2 | 3.7 | 10.4 |
Mother's education (% distribution) | ||||||
< high school grad. | 16.5 | 12.3 | 11.1 | 11.8 | 38.7 | 35.7 |
High school grad. | 56.1 | 50.3 | 49.4 | 43.3 | 40.7 | 43.7 |
Some college | 13.2 | 20.5 | 14.7 | 17.6 | 6.7 | 10.5 |
>=college degree | 14.2 | 16.9 | 24.9 | 27.3 | 13.9 | 10.1 |
% born outside United States | 2.3 | 9.5 | 4.6 | 8.0 | 23.0 | 21.2 |
Mean desired no. of children | 2.3 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
% who ever had sex | 71.3 | 65.4 | 52.6 | 45.4 | 55.3 | 50.0 |
% who ever had sex andmade someone pregnant | 9.3 | 14.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 10.6 |
Note: Ns are unweighted. |
Analytic Methods
•Bivariate analysis. We used chi-square analysis to test for significant changes in adolescent males' responses to the NSAM abortion attitude questions between 1988 and 1995, both for the population as a whole and separately by race or ethnicity. Additional chi-square tests were used to identify significant racial and ethnic differences in the level of approval for abortion under various circumstances in both 1988 and 1995. Next, using the same techniques, we examined changes in the importance of religion, religious attendance, religious affiliation and attitudes toward premarital sex, both over time and by race and ethnicity.
•Multivariate analysis. In the second phase of the analysis, we used ordinary least-squares regression to examine whether changes in religiosity and in attitudes about premarital sex explain recent trends in attitudes toward abortion, and to study whether correlates of abortion attitudes differ by race and ethnicity. The dependent variable for this analysis was the overall index of abortion attitudes. Because multivariate analysis of the full sample revealed significant racial and ethnic differences in the relationship between attitudes about sex, religion and attitudes toward abortion, we ran regression models separately by race and ethnicity.
Results from a full-sample model, which included interaction terms for race and ethnicity and year, for race and ethnicity and attitudes about sex, and for race and ethnicity and religiosity, were used to test for significant racial and ethnic differences in the relationship between religiosity and attitudes toward sex and abortion. The full-sample model also included interaction terms for year and attitudes about sex and for year and religion, to test for temporal differences in the relationship between religion, attitudes about sex and attitudes toward abortion. Due to the complex sampling design of the NSAM, we used SUDAAN to compute all tests of significance.8
Attitudes Toward Abortion
In both 1988 and 1995, young males were most likely to approve of abortion in cases where the pregnancy poses a serious health threat to the woman or where the pregnancy resulted from rape (Table 2); in each circumstance, more than three-fourths of all males agreed (either a little or a lot) that it is all right for a women to have an abortion. On the other hand, the majority of those surveyed did not support abortion for monetary reasons or in cases where the male partner does not want the abortion. In 1995, only 8% of respondents agreed a lot that it is all right for a woman to have an abortion for any reason, down from 17% in 1988, and the proportion agreeing either a lot or a little fell from 37% to 24%.
Table 2. Percentage distribution of U.S. males aged 15-19, by level of approval of abortion, according to circumstances and year | ||||||
Circumstance and year | Agrees a lot | Agrees a little | Disagrees a little | Disagrees a lot | Total | N |
If the female has been raped*** | ||||||
1988 | 69.6 | 16.0 | 7.5 | 6.9 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 55.4 | 23.1 | 10.1 | 11.4 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If the female is under age 15*** | ||||||
1988 | 43.6 | 25.3 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 26.1 | 30.9 | 19.7 | 23.3 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If the pregnancy itself seriously endangered her health*** | ||||||
1988 | 75.3 | 14.0 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 61.8 | 25.2 | 8.2 | 4.8 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If there is reason to believe the child might be born deformed or mentally handicapped*** | ||||||
1988 | 32.3 | 27.6 | 19.7 | 20.5 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 21.5 | 30.6 | 24.3 | 23.7 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If the female felt she could not afford to care for it*** | ||||||
1988 | 19.7 | 22.9 | 25.9 | 31.5 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 10.1 | 20.0 | 31.8 | 38.1 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If the female wanted the abortion for any reason*** | ||||||
1988 | 16.5 | 20.3 | 22.9 | 40.4 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 8.1 | 15.7 | 25.6 | 50.5 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
If the female wanted an abortion, but the man did not*** | ||||||
1988 | 10.9 | 28.0 | 29.6 | 31.5 | 100.0 | 1,880 |
1995 | 7.4 | 24.4 | 31.6 | 36.6 | 100.0 | 1,710 |
***Percentage distributions differ significantly at p<=.001 (chi-square test). Note: The question read "When is it all right for a woman to have an abortion?" and then gave the seven listed circumstances. |
Moreover, young males in 1995 were significantly less likely than their 1988 counterparts to approve of abortion in each of the seven circumstances. Decreases in approval were largest for "any reason" and smallest if the pregnancy "seriously endangered" the woman's health. The results were similar when sexually experienced and sexually inexperienced youth were studied separately (not shown).
The decrease in approval of abortion primarily resulted from lower levels of approval among non-Hispanic white males. Compared with 1988, white males in 1995 were significantly less likely to approve of abortion in each of the seven circumstances (Table 3). In contrast, non-Hispanic black males and Hispanic males were significantly less likely to approve of abortion in only one circumstance each. Black males were significantly less likely to agree in 1995 than in 1988 that it is all right for a female to have an abortion if the pregnancy seriously endangers her health, while Hispanics were significantly less likely to agree in 1995 than in 1988 that it is all right for a woman to have an abortion because she is younger than 15.
Table 3. Among U.S. males aged 15-19, mean level of approval of abortion, by circumstance, according to race and ethnicity and year | ||||||||
Circumstance | All | White/other | Black | Hispanic | ||||
1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | |
Total | 2.77 | 2.52** | 2.80 | 2.50** | 2.68 | 2.61 | 2.64 | 2.50 |
If the female has been raped | 3.48 | 3.22** | 3.52 | 3.21** | 3.35 | 3.29 | 3.38 | 3.23 |
If the female is under age 15 | 2.98 | 2.60** | 3.02 | 2.61** | 2.79 | 2.66 | 2.87 | 2.48** |
If the pregnancy itself seriously endangered her health | 3.60 | 3.44** | 3.62 | 3.44** | 3.55 | 3.44* | 3.49 | 3.43 |
If there is reason to believe the child might be born deformed or mentally handicapped | 2.72 | 2.50** | 2.74 | 2.47** | 2.56 | 2.57 | 2.79 | 2.59 |
If the female felt she could not afford to care for it | 2.31 | 2.02** | 2.31 | 1.97** | 2.41 | 2.25 | 2.12 | 2.04 |
If the female wanted the abortion for any reason | 2.13 | 1.81** | 2.18 | 1.81** | 2.02 | 1.87 | 1.89 | 1.78 |
If the female wanted an abortion, but the man did not | 2.18 | 2.03** | 2.23 | 2.00** | 2.10 | 2.21 | 1.95 | 1.95 |
*Difference between means is significant at p<.05. **Difference between means is significant at p<.01. May be of any race. Notes: The question read "When is it all right for a woman to have an abortion?" and then gave the seven listed circumstances. Larger values correspond to higher levels of approval. |
In 1988, white males exhibited the highest levels of approval of abortion (in terms of the percentage agreeing a lot or agreeing a little) in all cases except when the woman felt that she could not afford to care for a child. Chi-square tests (not shown, but available upon request) indicate that in 1988, whites were significantly more likely than blacks to agree that abortion is all right in five of the seven circumstances (rape, very young age, deformity, any reason and disagreement between the woman and her male partner).
Moreover, white respondents were significantly more likely than Hispanics to agree that abortion is all right in four circumstances (rape, very young age, any reason and disagreement between the woman and her male partner).
By 1995, however, black males appeared to be slightly more accepting of abortion in most circumstances than either whites or Hispanics, with racial and ethnic differences tending to be larger if the abortion was for a social reason as opposed to a health reason. Blacks were significantly more likely than whites to approve of abortion in three circumstances (deformity, cost and any reason), and also were significantly more likely than Hispanics to approve in three circumstances (young age, cost and disagreement). Approval rates among whites and Hispanics did not differ significantly in 1995.
These patterns are also evident when we examine changes in the mean value of the overall index of abortion attitudes. In the case of the full sample, the mean value of the overall index decreased significantly, from 2.77 in 1988 to 2.52 in 1995—indicating decreasing levels of approval (Table 3). Among the different racial and ethnic groups, however, only for white males was the decrease in the attitudes index statistically significant.
Religion and Attitudes Toward Sex
To what extent can changes in religious feeling and in attitudes toward premarital sex help explain the decreased support for abortion among young white males? An examination of attitudes toward premarital sex, importance of religion, religious attendance and the proportion describing themselves as born-again Christians (Table 4) in 1988 and 1995 reveals some significant changes. As was the case with abortion attitudes, attitudes toward premarital sex became significantly more conservative between 1988 and 1995: In 1988, 73% of respondents felt that premarital sex is okay even if a couple is not planning to get married, while only 11% believed that premarital sex is never okay; by 1995, the proportion believing that premarital sex is okay even if a couple has no plans to marry had fallen to 65%, while the proportion believing it to be never okay had risen to 17%.
Table 4. Percentage distribution of U.S. males aged 15-19, and p-values (from chi-squared tests) showing changes in distribution between surveys, by attitudes about premarital sex and religion, according to race and ethnicity and year | ||||||||
Attitude | Total | White/other | Black | Hispanic | ||||
1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | 1988 | 1995 | |
Attitude toward premarital sex | ||||||||
OK if couple does not plan to marry | 73.0 | 65.2 | 72.8 | 63.1 | 72.4 | 72.2 | 75.4 | 69.9 |
OK only if couple plans to marry | 15.9 | 17.6 | 15.1 | 17.8 | 18.9 | 17.4 | 18.2 | 16.5 |
Never OK until marriage | 11.1 | 17.2 | 12.1 | 19.1 | 8.7 | 10.3 | 6.4 | 13.6 |
p | .001 | .001 | .778 | .067 | ||||
Importance of religion | ||||||||
Not important at all | 7.9 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 6.6 | 6.8 |
Fairly unimportant | 13.8 | 12.7 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 5.9 | 8.3 | 13.3 | 5.9 |
Fairly important | 45.3 | 42.3 | 48.1 | 42.1 | 31.1 | 39.0 | 44.7 | 47.1 |
Very important | 33.0 | 36.5 | 27.7 | 33.7 | 59.1 | 47.4 | 35.5 | 40.3 |
p | .098 | .003 | .065 | .088 | ||||
Religious attendance | ||||||||
Never | 17.3 | 21.0 | 18.7 | 22.5 | 10.8 | 16.1 | 16.7 | 18.0 |
<once a month | 16.3 | 14.3 | 16.5 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 19.0 | 15.3 |
1-3 times per month | 17.6 | 19.5 | 16.9 | 18.9 | 24.6 | 21.9 | 12.7 | 20.9 |
>=once per week | 48.8 | 45.2 | 48.0 | 44.2 | 51.1 | 49.5 | 51.6 | 45.9 |
p | .005 | .019 | .337 | .152 | ||||
Born-again Christian | ||||||||
Yes | 20.5 | 23.7 | 18.3 | 24.0 | 33.8 | 29.2 | 17.3 | 15.5 |
No | 79.5 | 76.3 | 81.7 | 76.0 | 66.2 | 70.8 | 82.7 | 84.5 |
p | .020 | .001 | .260 | .641 | ||||
May be of any race. |
White males exhibited the largest—and the only statistically significant—change in attitudes about premarital sex. Hispanic males appear to have become slightly more conservative in their attitudes toward premarital sex, while the attitudes of black males remained relatively stable. As a result, although attitudes toward premarital sex were nearly identical across racial and ethnic groups in 1988, by 1995 black and Hispanic males were more accepting of premarital sex than were whites.
Young males' self-reports on the importance of religion changed only minimally from 1988 to 1995, with small increases in the proportion of males indicating that religion is either very important or not important at all and corresponding decreases in the proportion indicating that religion is either fairly important or fairly unimportant. Once again, however, there were important differences by race and ethnicity: Whites were the only subgroup to exhibit a significant change, with the proportion identifying religion as very important increasing by six percentage points (from 28% to 34%) and the proportion identifying religion as fairly important decreasing by six percentage points (from 48% to 42%).
Although the differences were not statistically significant, the proportion of Hispanics who identified religion as either fairly important or very important increased from 80% in 1988 to 87% in 1995. In contrast to patterns among whites and Hispanics, the importance of religion appears to have declined among young black males: In 1988, 59% of blacks identified religion as being very important in their lives, but by 1995 this proportion had fallen to 47% (a change that was marginally significant).
Despite the slight increase in importance of religion, the 1995 cohort actually reported significantly lower levels of church attendance at age 14 than did the 1988 cohort. The proportion of males who claimed to have attended services at least once a week fell from 49% to 45%, while the proportion who claimed at age 14 to have never attended services increased from 17% to 21%. Upon analyzing the trends separately by race and ethnicity, we found that all three groups experienced similar trends in attendance, although the drop in attendance was statistically significant only among white males.
The proportion of young men identifying themselves as born-again also changed over time. This proportion increased significantly among whites between 1988 and 1995 (from 18% to 24%), while the changes among blacks and Hispanics (five percentage points and two percentage points, respectively) were not statistically significant.
The trends in attitudes toward premarital sex and toward religion are largely consistent with trends in abortion attitudes. In addition to being less approving of abortion, young white males in 1995 had significantly more conservative attitudes toward premarital sex, viewed religion as being more important and were more likely to identify themselves as born-again than their counterparts in 1988. In contrast, among Hispanics and blacks, who showed no significant changes in abortion attitudes, Hispanics exhibited slightly more conservative attitudes toward premarital sex and no clear trend in religiosity, while blacks had relatively stable attitudes toward premarital sex and, if anything, lower levels of religious
attachment in 1995 than in 1988.
Multivariate Analysis
We estimated multivariate regression models separately for each ethnic group to determine what factors significantly affected adolescent males' approval of abortion. Each of the three models included both 1988 and 1995 respondents. Larger, positive coefficients indicate a higher level of approval for abortion. Wald chi-square tests for significant differences in coefficients across models were performed using the results of the full-sample, pooled-year model with interactions for race and ethnicity. (The complete results are available from the authors upon request.)
The coefficient for the "year" variable shows that white males became significantly less approving over time (Table 5), while the attitudes of black and Hispanic males remained relatively unchanged—results consistent with those from the bivariate analyses. Results from the full- sample model (not shown) indicated that white males were significantly more approving of abortion than either blacks or Hispanics in 1988. By 1995, however, whites were significantly less approving of abortion than blacks and marginally less approving (p=.08) than Hispanics.
Table 5. Coefficients from ordinary least-squares regression analysis predicting level of approval of abortion among adolescent males, by demographic characteristics and attitudes, according to race and ethnicity | |||
Characteristic/attitude | Black | White/other | Hispanic |
Intercept | 3.19 | 3.44 | 3.09 |
Controls | |||
Age | -0.01 | 0.00 | -0.01 |
Behind in school | 0.01 | -0.07 | 0.02 |
North | 0.03 | -0.06 | 0.12 |
Midwest | -0.07 | -0.12** | -0.04 |
West | 0.02 | -0.02 | 0.06 |
Central city | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Rural | 0.01 | -0.06 | 0.01 |
Mother's education | 0.06* | 0.06** | 0.02 |
Mother's education (don't know) | 0.05 | -0.11 | 0.01 |
Born outside the U.S. | -0.08 | 0.16* | 0.05 |
Desired no. of children | -0.05** | -0.05* | -0.06** |
Ever had sex | 0.03 | -0.01 | 0.13** |
Had sex, made someone pregnant | 0.15* | 0.05 | 0.10 |
Year 1995 | -0.07 | -0.24** | -0.09 |
Attitude toward premarital sex | |||
OK if couple plans to marry | -0.09 | -0.18** | -0.01 |
Never OK until marriage | -0.21** | -0.58** | -0.45** |
Religion | |||
Religious importance | -0.08** | -0.10** | -0.08* |
Religious attendance | -0.02 | -0.07** | 0.00 |
Born-again Christian | -0.03 | -0.17** | 0.04 |
*Difference is significant at p<.05. **Difference is significant at p<.01. May be of any race. |
Males who felt that premarital sexual intercourse is never okay were significantly less likely to approve of abortion than were those who approve of premarital sex even if the couple has no plans to marry (Table 5). This was true for all three racial and ethnic groups, although the magnitude of the effect was significantly larger for whites than for blacks. Among whites, respondents who viewed premarital sex as being okay only if the couple plans to marry also were significantly less approving of abortion than were those who felt that premarital sex is always okay. Results of the full-sample model revealed no significant temporal differences in the relationship between attitudes toward sex and attitudes about abortion (not shown).
There was a significant negative correlation between self-reported importance of religion and abortion approval (Table 5), a correlation that was consistent across racial and ethnic groups. Religious attendance was negatively correlated with overall abortion attitudes among whites, but not among Hispanics or blacks. Full-sample results (not shown) indicated that the effect for whites was significantly larger than that for the other two racial and ethnic groups.
The results for the "born-again" variable were similar to those for religious attendance: White male adolescents who identified themselves as born-again, Evangelical or Charismatic Christians were significantly less approving of abortion than were whites who did not consider themselves born-again. Among blacks, there was no statistically significant relationship between being born-again and abortion attitudes; in the case of Hispanics, respondents who classified themselves as born-again were actually more approving of abortion than were other Hispanics, although the relationship was not statistically significant. In addition, the full-sample model (not shown) revealed no significant temporal differences in the relationship between religion and abortion attitudes.
Finally, several other characteristics were significantly related to approval of abortion. The desired number of children was negatively related to approval of abortion among all racial and ethnic groups. Moreover, black adolescent males tended to be more approving of abortion if they had a more educated mother or if they reported having made a partner pregnant. Whites were significantly more approving of abortion if they were born outside the United States or if they had a more educated mother. Hispanics who were sexually experienced were more approving of abortion than those who were not.
Our findings indicate that abortion attitudes among adolescent males became significantly more conservative between 1988 and 1995, and that this change was most prominent among white males. Although in 1988 young white males expressed significantly more liberal attitudes toward abortion than did blacks or Hispanics, by 1995 their attitudes were similar to those of Hispanics and more conservative than those of blacks.
That adolescent males have become less approving of abortion is consistent with results from an annual survey of college students, which showed that the proportion of male college freshmen who agreed that abortion should remain legal fell from 64% in 1989 to 56% in 1996.9 Although research suggests that attitudes about the legality of abortion do not necessarily correspond with attitudes regarding approval of abortion,10 the main result confirms our results.
The finding that whites have become less permissive concerning abortion is also consistent with racial trends in abortion attitudes among the adult population data during the 1970s and 1980s. Analysis of data from the 1972-1988 General Social Surveys finds that while white adults were more supportive of abortion than were blacks during the 1980s, the black-white gap in attitudes declined significantly over that period, due to decreased support for abortion among the white population.11
Some of the change in white males' abortion attitudes between 1988 and 1995 can be linked to increasing levels of religiosity. The proportion of young white males who identified themselves as born-again, Evangelical or Charismatic Christians, a group with relatively conservative attitudes toward abortion, increased from 18% in 1988 to 24% in 1995. The proportion of white males who said that religion was "very important" in their lives also increased significantly. The association of religion with abortion attitudes was strongest among non-Hispanic whites.
Besides increased religiosity, white males also exhibited lower levels of approval for premarital sex in 1995 than in 1988. In 1988, 12% of white males indicated that premarital sex was never okay; by 1995, this proportion had risen to 19%. Our multivariate model suggests that this trend is consistent with more conservative abortion attitudes: While attitudes toward premarital sex and attitudes about abortion were significantly correlated in all racial and ethnic groups, this relationship was again strongest among non-Hispanic whites.
Our results indicate that adolescent males' feelings about the resolution of potential pregnancies are related to their individual and family background characteristics. Recent declines in abortion, adolescent pregnancy and sexual activity suggest that the shift toward more conservative attitudes found here may be influential in altering young men's sexual and reproductive behavior.12 Further research needs to examine the direct connection between these concurrent shifts in attitudes and behavior.
*The questions preceding the abortion question were similar (although not identical) in both surveys. One difference between surveys was that the 1988 survey also asked about abortion "if the man would not support the child." This circumstance was presented sixth, immediately preceding "if the female wanted the abortion for any reason." The only other difference in wording was that in 1988 the series of abortion questions used "woman" in place of "female."
Americans tend to overreport church attendance by a factor of 1.1 to 2.0 on interviewer-administered questionnaires, and that overreporting has increased over the last 30 years (Hadaway CK, Marler PL and Chaves M, What the polls don't show: a closer look at U.S. church attendance, American Sociological Review, 1993, 58(6): 741-752; Hout M and Greeley A, What church officials' reports don't show: another look at church attendance data, American Sociological Review, 1998, 63(1):113-119; Presser S and Stinson L, Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance, American Sociological Review, 1998, 63(1):137-145; and Smith TW, A review of church attendance measures, American Sociological Review, 1998, 63(1):131-136.). As a result, the trends in religious attendance depicted in Table 4 may understate the actual drop in attendance.
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Hair Growth Tips
If you are losing hair and want to stop it follow these hair growth tips and you can not only stop it but make your hair grow back.
These tips will work for both men and women who are going through any stage of hair loss and will help you stop it dead in its tracks. Hair loss does not have to be permanent. Regardless of if you are suffering from diffused hair loss or receding hair, you can do do something about it.
What you have to realise is that you have to take action to stop your hair loss and stop losing more hair. Looking in the mirror hoping your hair will come back is not going to help.
What is causing your hair loss? This is the question everyone asks.
# Diet.
# Lifestyle.
# Environment.
# Stress.
These all cause hair loss and small changes can make a huge difference.
These hair growth tips will work for you.
You can not only reduce your hair loss and stop it but you can also reduce your chances of losing hair in the first place by following these tips.
#1 Diet
You can stop hair loss and even grow hair back with small changes in diet. Eating a poor, unbalanced or living on fast food will cause you to miss out on vital vitamins and protein and accelerate hair loss.
Here is a secret that will help you with your hair.
Having these as part of your diet can make an amazing difference to how healthy your hair looks and grows. See the difference: -
Omega 3.
Vegetables and fruit.
Hair growth pills or health supplements.
Taking these is the best thing you can do to prevent hair loss and baldness. Taking supplements can help you to get all the vitamins and proteins your hair needs. Since your hair is mainly protein it makes sense to get as many proteins and vitamins as possible.
Massaging your scalp regularly will help with the blood flow in your scalp and also avoid horrible conditions like dandruff if done correctly.
Smoking is one of the worst things you can do to damage your hair. Smoking will restrict the blood flow and circulation in the scalp and to the follicles.
Numerous studies have shown that alcohol consumption can influence your hair loss. Anything that can influence hair loss should be avoided.
You will see the results right before your eyes.
The best thing to do is to follow all these tips and to reduce stress. Stress is the silent killer for your hair and can cause your hair to fall out in weeks.
If your hair is falling out or you want to prevent hair loss take action now and stop hair loss before it even starts with these hair growth tips.
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- November 27, 2009 at 11:53 am
im not smoker or drink alcohol,,,
now working on my diet,,,
0 exercise,,,<<sad - December 2, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I want to thickin my hair back the way it use to be. Without useing harmful chem.
- December 10, 2009 at 9:02 pm
hopefully thiss works ive triied every shampoo and conditioner there is .. nuthiing seems to work .. will this technique work even for people who've alwaiis had thin hair
- January 25, 2010 at 2:33 pm
The main cause of hair loss is DHT. What natural products can stop this hair loss and work for hair growth and block DHT ? Most prescrition products have side effects and I do not want to take them and end up with other problems. Please let me know.
- March 21, 2010 at 10:47 pm
i am 18yrs old and when i was 17 i started to notice the top of my head started to become thinner (it wasnt incredibly thick to start off with). i have been taking multivitamins as well as other tablets in order for my hair to gain some thickness. I would do absolutely anything to have thicker hair on top. I have also been massaging my head for several months now as well as trying to introduce healthier foods into my diet but nothing seems to be working. What else can I do????
- March 26, 2010 at 8:59 am
Your diet should include food that are rich in vitamin C.Fruits like oranges, pomegranate, straw berries, acerola, and guava are best resources to get the adequate amount of Vitamin C.
- March 27, 2010 at 7:28 pm
right, i have naturally thin hair and would love to have thicker, healthier hair. but I'm not convinced that your diet will fulfill that due to all the chemical/hormones added to veg and fruit to make them grow faster. i am looking for a healthy supplement that will promote hair growth. I've heard about biotin and pro-villus. . .i know that it can't be "cured" over night. i am looking for the best way to promote hair growth on my scalp- i know it is possible, anything is possible!!! any advice??? on what to take? do? etc? A.S.A.P [i would like to start the process soon]
- March 29, 2010 at 3:52 am
hi im only 15 years old and i am loosing hair like no other and i hope this works, and i want to get rid of a small bald spot that i have…how can you help me with that?
- March 30, 2010 at 12:31 am
hi, my parents both have really thin hair and my sister who is only 20 is suffering from lots of hair loss, i feel like i am too, i used to straighten and curl my hair plenty but im not much anymore, but i feel like their is no hope in thick hair for me. has this technique proven to be very successful on people who have thin and damaged hair?
- May 12, 2010 at 9:17 am
I can't believe that biotin, silica, raw virgin coconut oil and MSM weren't reccomended as supplements!
Ladies, gents, if you want thicker hair, you need to be taking biotin and silica pills. You also should by powdered MSM, mix it with water, and chase it with the juice of two organic lemons(The effects of MSM improve greatly if paired with a NATURAL source of Vitamin C. Eat the lemon peels if the lemons are organic, they contain a lot of Vitamin C too.) Rub raw virgin coconut oil, preferably organic, into your scalp. Try not to use shampoo too often, if at all, as the sulfates in shampoo are very harsh and can contribute to hair loss. Instead, use baking soda. Massage the scalp, eat well, this should help.
- May 16, 2010 at 8:44 am
Vegetables and Fruits are listed as one of the secrets that will help you and your hair. My hair and nails grow, however my hair is thin. I take no prescription products. I am looking for nutritional solutions to add to, or increase what I am currently taking for example the Omega 3 listed above; and changes I can make. This website has given me some good ideas. Thank you
- May 21, 2010 at 5:16 pm
drinking lots of water and eating greeny vegetables may also reduce hair fall
- May 22, 2010 at 7:10 pm
I will definitely give this a try! I have to say one thing, this will definitely take alot of determination, commitment, and patience.
I have to ask, i heard that first you have to start with clean slate meaning cutting off all the damaged hair. It seems all of my hair is damaged badly. I was thinking of shaving it, is that a good idea? - September 24, 2010 at 5:37 am
I am loosing hair since 3 yrs and my hair has become very very thin till today……….I am going to become blad……..Please help me before I am BLAD…………..AGE: 24 Yrs. contact no.–
- September 26, 2010 at 1:17 am
Hi I've now seen that my hair is falling out it's very thin at the front and I think abit of the back and I know it isn't age becuse I'm 17 and although my dad has no hair but he didn't start loseing his hair till 50 so I read thought and I'm not sure if it will work can you tell me if it works
- October 25, 2010 at 1:49 am
Hi, I'm 20 years old & I've noticed since mid-march my hair has gotten incredibly thinner compared to my hair 2 years ago. I have bald spots on both front sides of my head & my hair is falling & breaking out almost in clumps through the day. I've tried to introduce more fruits & veggies into my diet along with vitamin supplements & massaging my scalp a little each nite. I've even cut down using heat on my hair significantly. Still very little growth & lots of breakage. Is there anything else that can help me? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
- November 15, 2010 at 4:52 pm
My name is Marc Murray and I'm contacting you on behalf of the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, a comprehensive web resource for patients and family members of those diagnosed with mesothelioma. As with any aggressive cancer, chemotherapy is essential for the effective management of mesothelioma. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you're aware, effective chemotherapy treatment is also directly responsible for hair loss. As part of a holistic approach to cancer treatment, we're encouraging all patients to seek resources that they may find helpful in managing with their hair loss.
For this reason, we have created a national directory for patient's to locate hair loss resources/hair alternatives in their area (http://www.mesothelioma.com/hair-loss-resources.htm). We'd love to include your listing in our directory with comprehensive contact information so that those looking for hair loss solutions/alternatives can locate your service. We ask only that you include a resource link to Mesothelioma.com on your website so that we may continue to enhance our awareness efforts across the country.
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UPDATE Dec. 21, 1:30 am: It's official, Reggie Evans is a Clipper. The team has announced the deal.
This is a good signing by the Clips — it addresses a need with a player who does one thing exceptionally well at the NBA level. He doesn't cost much, will come off the bench and Clipper fans will grow to love the grit.
The Clippers keep making all the right moves. Never thought I'd type that sentence.
Dec. 20, 11:37 pm: The Clippers have looked really good though one preseason game, which has Los Angeles (and the league) buzzing? How good can they really be?
Maybe we should wait for games that count to see how they are answering the questions still around this team. Like how well they will play defense and if Vinny Del Negro is the coach who can get them to do it? Or if Chauncey Billups can really play off the ball consistently (because Chris Paul is your PG)?
Another question is front line depth but Clips are trying to address that one — they are near a deal to sign rebounding machine Reggie Evans, according to the Los Angeles Times.
It would be a one-year deal for $1.3 million. The Celtics, Grizzlies, Nets and Kings were also said to be in the mix for Evans.
Evans grabbed 25.6 percent of the available rebounds when he was on the floor last season in Toronto (11.5 per game in 26 minutes). Think about that — one in four missed shots landed in Evans hands. That's Rodman-like. It was the highest percentage in the league — but he only played in 30 games due to injury. He would be a great guy off the bench for the Clippers, scoring is not their issue but his solid play would be a good fit.
- passerby23 - Dec 21, 2011 at 1:10 AM
This is a great signing and a perfect fit for the Clippers. They will pass the Lakers this year. You heard it here first.
- 00maltliquor - Dec 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM
Very solid signing by the Clips. Wish my team would've picked him up.
- glink123 - Dec 21, 2011 at 7:29 AM
Reggie will miss Chris Kaman and his sack. Search YouTube if you must.
- b7p19 - Dec 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM
He is a real solid defender, great rebounder, and fantastic energy guy. However, after watching him in Philly, I can say that it is absolutely MADDENING to watch him try to the ball in the basket. From anywhere. Good pick up though for the other reasons.


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ST. MARYS — A local state senator says he hopes three provisions he fought to include in the biennial budget aimed at helping Grand Lake St. Marys make it to the governor's desk.
State Sen. Keith Faber proposed shifting $4 million of Waterways Safety funds initially earmarked for a marina at Caesar Creek, in Waynesville, to Grand Lake St. Marys for algae mitigation. Faber told The Evening Leader funding from the marina would then come from a capital improvement fund.
WAPAKONETA — A local partnership between an educational center and a Wapakoneta business has lead to the ultimate accomplishment for a program designed for children with autism.
The Auglaize County Educational Service Center (ESC) provides a program, Project Independence, which is a transitional program designed for children with autism to give them the skills they need to live on their own after high school.
ST. MARYS — The St. Marys Community Youth Center was forced to temporarily close Wednesday because of the loss of its two government-funded positions.
The center previously had two workers from Experience Works, a government-based company, but because of budget cut-backs, when one the workers moved, the position was not filled and the second position was dropped.
"Right now we're in a bind," Director Donna Graham said. "We have no one to work here."
ST. MARYS — The St. Marys Living Center recognized its nursing assistants Thursday in conjunction with the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants' 34th Annual Nursing Assistants Day.
The celebration is in recognition of the nursing assistants who have dedicated their time to the lives and well-being of others. Nursing assistants are "key players" in the lives of residents, providing as much as 80 to 90 percent of the direct care to residents in long-term care facilities, according to the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants website.
ST. MARYS — Numerous residents flocked to Holy Rosary School to check out the annual Holy Rosary Garage Sale, which started on Thursday and runs through Saturday.
"We've had a very good first day — for the first half of this first day," Holy Rosary Garage Sale Co-Chair Peg Larkin said.
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J/105 sailing downwind under spinnaker.
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Crew | 2–3 |
Type | Monohull |
Design | One-Design |
Construction | GRP |
Rig | Fractional rig |
Keel | Fixed |
LOA | 10.52 m (34.5 ft) |
LWL | 8.99 m (29.5 ft) |
Beam | 3.35 m (11.0 ft) |
Draft | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
Hull weight | 3,515 kg (7,749 lb) |
Total sail area | 53.6 m2 (577 sq ft) |
Development | |
Year | 1995– |
Designer | Rod Johnstone |
Infobox last updated: 30/01/2013 |
The International J/105 is a fixed keel one design racing sailboat. It was the first production boat featuring a retractable bowsprit, which allows for an unusually large asymmetric spinnaker.[1] It was introduced in 1991 by J/Boats and designed by Rod Johnstone.[2] J/105s are a common sight in one design racing[3] and to date, Jboats has built over 680 J/105s.[4] The J/105 is regarded as a fast design with a clean deck layout.[5] It was selected as the 1992 "Boat of the Year" in the Racer/Cruiser category by Sailing World Magazine.[3][6][7]
The concept behind the J/105 line is to produce boats that are fast, strong, fun and easy to sail shorthanded while racing in One Design fleets or while cruising with dodger raised, sails furled and swim ladder swung off the transom.
J/105 has the stability, rig and sail controls to handle 15-20 knot winds without the need of reefing. It has the strength and seaworthiness for oceangoing passages.
The J/105 is the most successful one-design keelboat class over 30' in the USA with over 680 boats sailing worldwide. The class association is an owner managed organization with strict one-design rules. In addition to its active use in one design sailing, the J/105s affordability makes it an attractive choice for PHRF and Single/Double handed offshore sailing. J/105s are also well suited for community sailing programs training high school age sailors in keel boat and offshore racing.
In 2008, J/Boats announced that new J/105 production commenced at the US Watercraft facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. US Watercraft is also the official builder for the International J/22 (since 2001) and International J/24 (since 1999).
- ^ Robert H. Perry (November 2006). "J/105". Sailing Magazine. Retrieved 2007-02-23.[dead link]
- ^ "Why Buy a J/105?". J/105 Class Association. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ a b Jack Horner. "BoatUS.com: Boat Reviews by Jack Horner, N.A. - J-105". Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ "J/105". JBoats. JBoats. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ Robert H. Perry (1992). "Perry Design Review: J/105". Sailing Magazine. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ "Boat of the Year Winners (1985-2003)". Sailing World Magazine. 2003-08-23. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ Graham Jones (1998). "Fast and Simple". Canadian Yachting Magazine. Retrieved 2007-02-26.
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Whenever someone calls me it does not show the caller id right away. It goes to a grey page that says "swipe to see caller information". THEN it shows all the information. Why would anyone want that as a feature?! Is there a way i can turn this off so that just shows the caller information right away without having to tap anything first?
Exactly! The fact that it wasn't there before makes me think there must be SOME way to turn it off. I'm not going to install something...
I could find nothing in the user manual related to what you're seeing. Given no one else reading your thread has experienced this, I would first suspect another app doing this, like if you recently installed some Contacts app, or whatever you installed just before the day you first encountered this problem. If it's not another app or launcher, then it's LG code or Android code. I've never seen this on any of my three different LG Android phones, nor seen this problem reported anywhere. Maybe Google the exact message? If you think it might be another app, but don't know which one, I'd start the slow process of isolating, by uninstalling recent apps one-by-one and testing incoming calls.
I erased all my apps and went through file manager and erased everything and that still didn't help. Removing the SD card and erasing browsing history didn't change anything either. Resetting to factory settings solved the problem though. Thanks for your suggestions, everyone.
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Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), a beer-slinging loser, has one bright spot in his life: his precocious daughter, Molly (Madeline Carroll), who takes care of them both. However, on Election Day, Molly sets off an unforeseen chain of events that results in the race for the presidency coming down to just one vote: her father's.
Cast: Kevin Costner , Madeline Carroll , Paula Patton , Kelsey Grammer , Dennis Hopper , Nathan Lane , Stanley Tucci , George Lopez
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Central New York has more than 45 new U.S. citizens.
A naturalization ceremony was held in Onondaga County Courthouse on Thursday.
Here are the new citizens:
Elena Ivanovna Alechina
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Kefaya Adnan Husni Azzam
Miguel Ballestero
Eldar Beiseitov
Kestutis Gedimino Bendinskas
Wesley Alfonso Bent
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Julio Alberto Cedano Gil
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Lul Aftin Hassan
Marian Toudary Honer
Delon Victor Hope
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It doesn't matter what order you install the hardware, just choose the way to do it so that nothing is in the way of other components. You will probably want to install the HDD's first then the graphics card, then the sound card. But if the hard drives are in the way, you may need to try another way. This mostly depends on your case though. |
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OK- you have PC #1 which is the one you just rec'd and you have PC#2 which is basically a bunch of parts (2 HDs, sound card, etc). Do you plan on using either of the 2 drives from PC#2 as your boot drive (drive C: )? If so, you will need to perform a repair install of Windows; a clean format and install is preferable if there's nothing you want to save. Other than that, just put the parts in PC#1 (be sure it's unplugged from the power) and be sure you have drivers ready BEFORE installing the devices. Let Windows load up and detect all the devices and see which ones actually will require a driver install, as Windows may have built-in drivers that it will install automatically.
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3rd Annual Bimmersport Automotive BBQ - July 12
Hey guys, its that time of year again for our annual Bimmersport BBQ! We are planning the date for Sunday July 12th. This year we going to omit the cruise and get straight to the show. We decided to put a twist on how things are done, so we are letting YOU be the judge. There is only 1 main prize, the best of show. Details will be explained at the BBQ. Of course, you can expect the usual...great food and drinks (No alcohol please), great cars, the models (of course), while Jason 'Mystikal' C., will keep us entertained throughout the day giving you an experience to share with fellow enthusiasts in the GTA BMW community. This year we are also offering products from our sponsors such as Active Autowerke, UUC Motorwerks, Essex distribution, Tires23, Eurostyle Design, Highline Motors and also products from Lubro-moly, ATE, Redline and many other BMW accessories in the raffle hosted by the beautiful Got ass girls.
The location of the BBQ will be held at our newly rennovated shop (6780 Pacific Circle Unit 3, Mississauga) and will be from 11am to 6pm. The cost of admission to the BBQ and show is free, it's our way of giving back to the BMW community after all you've given us. |
You had me at "Got ass girls".
You had me at "Jason 'Mystikal' C., will keep us entertained".
See you boys there. |
You had me at "Hey."
you had me at 'BBQ"
Wasnt it 4th!!? lol
*th-up* |
Damn I'm at another show that day.
Can't wait, should be fun!
you had me when Abustaif replied.
im actually gonna show up this year!!!
I missed last year's but definately hope to make it to this year's.
*rockout* |
ah... +_+ I have my university meeting that day....
I will be there *th-up*
Im down =)
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