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The evening's festivities culminated with the Fraggle Rock House Band's tribute to songs about self-loving, and I found myself on the dance floor sandwiched between slices of sexy, sweaty, horny girls. As the band belted out a Joan Jett song ("Do you wanna touch? Yeah! Do you wanna touch? Yeah! Do you wanna touch me there? Where?") girls were bumping and grinding with gusto. Strangers rubbed their drenched bodies up against mine, fingers stroked my flesh from every direction. It was a wild, wild night.
Although I was riding the high that came with the knowledge (and firsthand experience) that sex in the city is thriving, my spirits were slightly dampened when I picked up the recent Newsweek with the "Science of Women's Sexuality" cover. Next to a photo of a woman in the throes of passion are the words "Searching for the Female Viagra: Is It a Mind or Body Problem?" Fueled by the success of Viagra in treating male sexual dysfunction, scientists have turned to the sexual problems of women. But what promised to be an informative article turned out to be a muddled mess that reinforced just how little scientists know about women and sex. I found it especially telling that the report was written by a man.
The bad news is that in the most recent study of the effects of the super blue pill on women, Viagra was no more successful than a placebo in women with a wide variety of sexual dysfunction symptoms. We've given all the men supercharged erections, but haven't had any luck when it comes to women's erotic woes. I am tempted to say: Who needs Viagra when we've got Meow Mix? But the truth is that 40 percent of American women experience some form of sexual dysfunction. It's actually a bigger problem than it is for men (30 percent suffer from some form of dysfunction), and yet all the money and research has focused on the boys. In part, this is typical of a misogynist industry that has always geared research toward males. But there is another reason that the fairer sex has again gotten the short end of the stick: Men's sexual problems (including erectile dysfunction) just seem much easier to solve than the complex, layered issues surrounding women's sexual dysfunction.
Concerned that medication I was taking was diminishing my libido, I queried my doctor about it. He asked if I could still get turned on and come, to which I replied yes, but I was worried that my sex drive had nearly disappeared. "If you can achieve orgasm, then there is no sexual dysfunction." Gee thanks, doc. I tried to explain that if Tom Cruise walked in with his flight jacket from Top Gun, a freshly shaved asshole, and a raging hard-on, I just wouldn't feel anything. Even if Nicole Kidman joined himwith a huge strap-on between her legs, nipples perked up like mini-torpedoes, and a double-ended vibrator with unlimited juicestill nothing. Now, if neither member of this supercouplenor bothcan get my juices flowing, well, something's wrong. Isn't it? According to this doctor (and plenty of others), no.
The doctor's dismissal of my problem is symptomatic of a medical industry that not only is clueless about women's sexual dysfunction, but barely knows what's going on with female sexual function. The truth is, there are many different forms of female sexual dysfunction. Some women have little or no desire to have sex. Others have trouble getting aroused or can't get turned on at all. Others cannot achieve orgasm, and others experience pain during sex. Some women have a combination of these symptoms. For me, while on this medication, after we got into it and I had my tongue on Tom's butthole and Nic's slim fingers in my pussy, I'd get into the groove and shoot my load. I'd just have trouble getting revved up in the first place.
On the subject of the Big O, the Newsweek article gets even more infuriating. Pondering the evolutionary benefits of the female orgasm, a pull quote teases"One possible theory: orgasms in women have no function and are just a developmental vestige, like male nipples." First of all, why are we wasting time, money, and column width on debating the importance or necessity of the female orgasm? It's just more misogynist bullshit, if you ask me. (And on the subject of male nipples, try telling all the men who appreciate having theirs tweaked and squeezed and clamped that they have no function.)
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Richard Hollis
Richard Hollis (born 1934) is one of the most influential figures in British graphic design. Hollis has worked as a printer, a magazine editor, a print-production manager, a book writer, a teacher and a graphic designer.
Hollis was born in London and studied art and typography at Chelsea School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art and Central School of Art and Crafts in London before moving to Paris in the early 1960s.[1][2]
Back in the UK he designed the quarterly journal Modern Poetry In Translation, became the art editor of the weekly magazine New Society and later created John Berger's Ways of Seeing [3] (a highly influential book based on a BBC television series) – in two stages Hollis designed the visual identity and marketing material for the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
He is perhaps best known for his best-selling Graphic Design. A Concise History [4] and more recently Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Hollis was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 2005;[6] he lives and works in London.
- ^ Poynor, Rick (2004). Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85669-422-3.
- ^ Wilson, Christopher (2006). Rational and responsive, the work of Richard Hollis. London: Eye Magazine, Issue 59, Reputations.
- ^ Berger, John; Sven Blomberg; Chris Fox; Richard Hollis (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books. ISBN 0-563-12244-7. (BBC). ISBN 0-14-021631-6. ISBN 0-14-013515-4 (pbk).
- ^ Hollis, Richard (2001). Graphic Design. A Concise History. London: Thames&Husdon. ISBN 978-0-500-20347-7. ISBN 0-500-20347-4.
- ^ Hollis, Richard (2006). Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85669-487-2.
- ^ "Royal Designer for Industry (RDI)". Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
External links[edit]
- Richard Hollis | Design Works
- Swiss Graphic Design | A discussion | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
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DOBSON — Up to 7,000 Surry Telephone Membership Corporation customers were without service for several hours Thursday afternoon and evening after the company experienced a network outage, according to Melanie Senter, marketing manager.
The Surry County 911 service was not down, as was reported by some media sources.
Senter said the outage was the result of a "network failure."
"Surry Telephone experienced a network outage just before 5 p.m., on Nov. 14," she confirmed. "The network outage affected customers throughout its service area."
Those areas included customers in Ararat, Westfield, Elkin, Lowgap and Pilot Mountain, according to county Emergency Services Director John Shelton.
During the outage, customers using the company's land line phone service, Internet television and Internet service were affected.
Shelton said cell phone customers receiving service through Carolina West and Verizon were also affected.
Service was restored by around 1 a.m., Friday.
Senter said the company worked tirelessly to restore service during the outage.
"We had several employees in various positions of the company working during the outage," she said. "We kept the network operations center staffed with local employees to answer repair calls… while several technicians were troubleshooting the cause of the outage."
According to Shelton, customers using Surry Telephone service were unable to contact 911, but there were few problems reported as a result.
"People on Surry Telephone's network didn't have telephone access to call us, so we were giving people an alternate method to get to us by telling them that if they needed us they should go to their local fire department and have them get in touch with us, but the 911 service was never down."
Shelton said emergency services officials were in close contact with the company during the outage.
"We worked with them all through the night," he said.
Senter said everything will be done to ensure there isn't a repeat of the outage.
"We apologize for the inconvenience that our customers experienced," she said. "Surry Telephone will use the information gained during this outage to prevent and protect against future outages," she said.
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Facebook exec tells students it's OK to be a geek
CHICAGO - Chicago-area students taking part in a spring break robotics camp got a visit and pep talk from Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg.
The Facebook chief operating officer and now best-selling author told the high school and middle school students that it's OK to be a geek.
Sandberg said "the things that make you uncool in high school are the things that are good for your life."
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the dozen students were showing off their robots at the Illinois Institute of Technology Thursday when Sandberg dropped by.
When 18-year-old Hannan Ouyoun said she was torn between a career in fashion or engineering, Sandberg suggested both. The executive explained that understanding how things work would give her a competitive edge in fashion.
Ouyoun called that an "an eye-opener."
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) is pleased to announce the publication of a new report from the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program, which is a grid modernization activity funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The project was co-funded by DOE-OE and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the report was jointly written by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and EPRI. It provides general guidelines and protocols for measuring the effects of time-based rates, enabling technologies, and various other treatments on the levels and patterns of electricity usage by customers. It is part of a series of reports from the SGIG program that provide information for understanding how consumers respond to time-based rate programs. All reports are posted on www.smartgrid.gov.
Titled, "Quantifying the Impacts of Time-based Rates, Enabling Technology, and Other Treatments in Consumer Behavior Studies: Protocols and Guidelines", the report was written for program planners and analysts and is intended to be a single-source primer on evaluation designs and methods that are available, and a description of when each is applicable.
A key objective of the report is to advance the industry's efforts to evaluate how consumers use and value electricity under time-based rates and enabling technology. The report focuses on the "gold standard" of evaluation design – randomized control trials. The report presents various analysis protocols and includes suggestions for adjusting evaluation methods to account for intervening factors that often come up and may undermine the original intent of the selected method for evaluation.


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CANNES (AFP) - Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling served up his hugely-anticipated directorial debut "Lost River" in Cannes Tuesday, a psychedelic fantasy with strong David Lynch echoes that had some critics screaming in pain and others singing his praise.
Journalists jostled with movie-buffs to get into the festival hall's plush movie theatre for what was one of the most eagerly awaited events of the Cannes Film Festival, and many ended up being turned away.
"Dumb-foundingly poor", "a first-rate folie de grandeur", "mesmerising", "impressive"... Critics could not make their mind up over the 33-year-old's sombre, visually-stunning picture set in a decaying American ghost town called Lost River.
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In 1990, two years before he suddenly became very hot in Hollywood, Robert Rodriguez sat in front of the two videocassette recorders he had set up in his Austin living room and quickly edited together three of his short videos. His wife, Elizabeth Avellan, had called to tell him that the deadline for a local film competition was that day. In just a few hours he managed to splice the three tales and add a title, Austin Stories, to his entry for the Eighth Annual Third Coast Film and Video Competition, hosted by the Texas Union at the University of Texas.
Despite the pressure of the deadline, Rodriguez, then 21, loved what he was doing—building a film. Over the years, at every family gathering, from graduations to birthdays (and with nine siblings, there were always birthdays), he shot videos of his family—lots of videos, including half a dozen short narratives starring his brothers and sisters. Unlike most home videos, these had stories with beginnings, middles, and ends, as well as music and credits. For the contest, he chose three of those home movies, two of which had won Austin CableVision video contests, and added titles to provide a narrative link. Rodriguez submitted the tape, and Austin Stories won.
As a sometime film judge, I have seen a lot of film-school work. Student films tend to fall into predictable categories: the rape, the arty contemplation, the drug deal, the alien contact, the erotic fantasy. Nowhere in the gamut of subjects or styles does the home movie figure. Student filmmakers are intrigued by subject matter ranging from murder to social issues but not by their cinematically engaging brothers and sisters.
But Rodriguez is. The first vignette in Austin Stories chronicles the classic battles in the ongoing war between big brothers and little sisters and then explores what happens when a little sister, fed up with her bullying older brother, whips out a pistol and goes after him. The second is about getting up in the morning. The last is about how the Rodriguez family uses water. According to sister Rebecca, they use it to drink, to wash their mouths out when they've accidentally brushed their teeth with Ben-Gay, and to spit on siblings. Despite weak lighting, the film has a zippy style of smart edits and aggressive camera movements, coupled with a terrific sound track that borrows as much from horror films as it does from cartoons.
Austin Stories stood out among the standard film school and art institute fare. After the contest, I compared notes with another judge, late scriptwriter Warren Skaaren ( Top Gun, Batman, Beetlejuice). We marveled over the film's energy and its charm; it was fresh. Skaaren wondered how Rodriguez's sensibility would weather—especially how it would be affected by film school, filmmaking, and, maybe eventually, the film industry.
Two years later, in April 1992, both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, the film industry's major trade magazines, reported the signing of 23-year-old Robert Rodriguez with Columbia Pictures. Included in the two-year, two-picture deal was a $5 million remake of El Mariachi, a film Rodriguez had shot in Mexico last year. The cost for the two-week shoot had been a slim $7,000—about one week's catering bill for a Hollywood production. A short time after the announcement, Rodriguez, wearing overalls, waited in his South Austin apartment for the studio-provided car that would take him to the airport. Columbia was flying him first-class to Los Angeles to put the finishing touches on the deal.
Rodriguez associates his earliest memories of both films and filmmaking with family. When he was young, his mother would take the whole brood to the Olmos, a San Antonio revival house, to watch the classics. To keep the venture economical, they would smuggle in food under a stack of the baby's diapers. Then they would sit through the program twice, even though it was usually a double bill.
In the late seventies Rodriguez's father bought a VCR system, complete with a camera and a twelve-foot cable. Robert, the third-eldest child and then eleven years old, went crazy taping the family. A few years later, Robert's father bought a new VCR, and Robert quickly figured out how to edit by feeding videotape from one machine to the other. That's when the Rodriguez family video chronicles really began.
While attending St. Anthony, a small private high school in San Antonio, Rodriguez became close friends with Carlos Gallardo, a student whose family lived in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. In 1982 they began making short action videos together, both in San Antonio and in Acuña, during holiday visits to Gallardo's family. Over the years, Rodriguez made more than a dozen of these—some without Gallardo, none longer than half an hour.
Rodriguez entered the University of Texas in September 1986, but not as a film major. Despite his impressive inventory of action and family films, he was turned down by the Radio-Television-Film Department because his grades weren't good enough. Rodriguez took his required basic courses with hopes of improving his grade point average, and he achieved some notoriety by drawing Los Hooligans, a comic strip starring his younger sister Maricarmen, that ran for three years in the Daily Texan.
Then he won the Third Coast film contest. Austin Stories in hand, Rodriguez confronted film professor Stephen Mims. "Look," he said. "I beat your students. Can I get into the department now?" Convinced that Rodriguez's talent outweighed any academic deficiencies, Mims helped him get into the RTF program in the fall of 1990.
Rodriquez was determined to do his first film project right, and he knew that would require money, even if his siblings were willing to act without pay. So the summer before he entered the program, Rodriguez signed up to participate in a pharmaceutical-testing study at an Austin-based laboratory and earn some cash. Two thousand dollars richer when school began, Rodriguez set out to familiarize himself with the three-lens 16mm camera that film students use to shoot their first-year projects. He designed the movie to take advantage of the camera's light


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when you want to escape it's mostly because you're out of initiative, this baby costs 6 initiative and barely does anything.
i am currently playing with sword+dagger and pistol+pistol, loving the escape tactic with skill #2 combined with skill #3.
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Lawrence Marvin Bowlin of Lebanon, Mo., formerly of Clear Lake, was born Sept. 9, 1935 in Mason City, to Marvin Reeves Bowlin and Myrtle Mae Grell Bowlin. He passed away peacefully in his sleep in Lebanon with his son, Larry, at his side.
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Virginia Mary Ellen (Scholl) Millard, 88, Clear Lake, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013 at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. A funeral mass will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 21, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rockwell.
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The DROID MAXX, Ultra, and Mini are all receiving updates today on Verizon's network, however, it's nothing to write home about. The same changelog is featured on both support pages, being "Device roaming enhancements and bug fixes." Not major at all. (more…)
Motorola DROID Ultra and MAXX Soak Test Invites Rolling Out
Motorola looks to be preparing an update for the DROID Ultra and MAXX, with soak test invitations now hitting user inboxes. More than likely, this OTA will be an update to Android 4.4.2, bringing this line of DROID devices up to par with the rest of the top Android smartphones. (more…)
Motorola XT912A is Back in Benchmarks, This Time With 5.2-inch 1080p Display (New Moto X?)
Any chance you remember last year's mega-leak in March of a Motorola device under the model number XT912A that turned out to be the Moto X? The phone appeared in a full hands-on video that gave us an insanely early and clean look some five months before the phone was officially unveiled. Well, a potentially new Motorola device under that same model number XT912A is back, though this time only in benchmarks over at GFXBench with updated specs. (more…)
Motorola Camera Update Turns Volume Into Shutter Button
Motorola updated their camera app today for the Moto X, DROID ULTRA, MAXX, and Mini, to allow users to take photos using the volume button. Previously, you could only take photos by tapping the screen, so Motorola decided to give you all an option, in case you happen to like physically pressing a button.
And that's pretty much all the update does. The rest is bug fixes.
Touchless Control Updated, Let's You Ask Your Phone "What's Up?"
Motorola updated their Touchless Control app this evening to include a feature that allows you to ask your phone "What's up?" in order to hear what your current notification situation is like. By asking "Ok, Google Now, what's up?" your phone will read the time followed by notifications back to you, letting you decide if any are important enough to act upon. You can see the new feature in action through the video below.
The update also enhanced end-of-speech detection to improve accuracy and fixed bugs.
The update is live right now on Google Play, so if you own a Moto X, DROID ULTRA, MAXX, or Mini, be sure to download it. (more…)
Motorola's Active Display and Assist See Minor Updates
Because Motorola separated out the best features from the Moto X and new DROID line as stand-alone apps, they continue to update them regularly through Google Play. Today, we're seeing updates for both Assist and Active Display. Neither of the updates is huge, but they do fix bugs and introduce subtle features that will only help add polish to the experience.
With Active Display, users can now control whether or not the phone vibrates when tapping on a notification. It should also honor whatever the system vibration settings have been set at. With Assist, troubleshooting of drive mode audio issues when connected to Bluetooth becomes a reality, along with better handling of "available" status and the triggering of meeting mode.
Both updates are live on Google Play now. (more…)
Motorola Migrate Update Adds iCloud Support
Prepare your iOS devices for migration to Android, dear iPhone users. Motorola added iCloud support to its Migrate app this afternoon to help you bring over contacts and calendar events as you join the Android army.
For those new to Migrate, the app is only available to the Moto X, Moto G, DROID MAXX, ULTRA, and Mini. Once installed, it will walk you through the process of transferring your important info from old phone to new phone. With thew new update, you'll have to choose initially whether you transferring from an iPhone or an Android device.
They also fixed bugs in the update.
Motorola Assist Update Adds Voice Reply to Texts While Driving
Motorola pushed out an update to its Assist app this afternoon with one major new feature – the ability to reply to SMS messages using just your voice. Even though Assist could already read your text messages aloud and offer a quick reply while you were behind the wheel, this new addition gives you much more control.
The update also improved driving detection and will now automatically launch your favorite music app while driving (Why did I think it already did this?). (more…)


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Page 2 of 2According to the report filed by Trooper Mark Mahan, 21-year-old Spencer Holden, of Nashville, was driving a 2004 Nissan Maxima west bound on Union Hill Road. The vehicle topped a hill causing the vehicle to go airborne, indicating speed was a contributing factor. Once the vehicle made contact back on the roadway the vehicle crossed the center of the road. The vehicle then exited the roadway where it struck an embankment and tree. The impact was so severe that the engine was knocked out of the car. The vehicle also rolled numerous times where it came to rest on its left side.
Spencer Holden was transported to Cookeville Regional Medical Center by ground ambulance and was later transferred to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. He was discharged on Sunday, February 9.
Passengers included 19-year-old Christopher Blackburn and 18-year-old Cierra Sullivan, both of Lafayette, who were transported to Cookeville Regional; and a juvenile from Red Boiling Springs was also carried to Cookeville for treatment.
Charges are pending against Spencer Holden. Trooper Mark Mahan was the investigating officer.
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|Development of tailored preform processing technology for net-shape manufacturing of large monolithic structures
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tailored preform processing technology; net-shape manufacturing
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|The aim of the present research effort involves exploration of a new processing approach, "Tailored Preform Processing (TPP)" technology for net-shape manufacturing of monolithic structures for the transportation industry. The proposed technology combines friction stir welding (FSW) and forming in order to tailor the properties of the preform to meet design requirements and provide net-shape preforms, which can subsequently be turned into finished structural parts through light machining or other standard processes. TPP can provide several advantages including weight reduction, part count reduction, improved damage tolerance, improved material and energy utilization, and cost saving. The research focuses on understanding of the process behavior and the effects of various process parameters on the properties and integrity of the produced structure during different stages of the TPP approach. Objectives of the proposed work also include providing capability for robust process design, prediction and characterization of process-induced damage and properties of the finished structure. These objectives are accomplished through innovative solution to the Tailored Perform Processing problems using the presented experimental and virtual models. Finite Element Method was used to model 3-D friction stir welding and forming processes. Numerical model of friction stir welding was carried out using Fully Coupled-Temperature Displacement Analysis. Forming of the Tailor Welded Blanks was modeled using ABAQUS/Explicit followed by the Springback simulation using ABAQUS/ Standard. FEA models were used to investigate the process behavior and effects of various parameters on the properties and integrity of produced structure. An optimization scheme based on Genetic Algorithm is integrated with the numerical models to provide the optimal process conditions for quality and cost effective production.
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The country's lowest-paid workers will get raises today as the federal minimum wage increases 12 percent, or 70 cents, from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour.
But that's still not enough to pay the bills, say some members of the working class, including many who already earn more than the minimum wage.
Barbara Stepney, a 57-year-old grandmother in Baltimore, makes $7.15 an hour working in the laundry of a Comfort Inn. She says she can't afford health insurance, a car, or her own apartment.
"I'm slowly getting by," says Stepney, who contributes $350 to her sister's monthly rent. The rest of her paycheck goes to buying groceries, at $25 to $100 a week.
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Although she's close to retirement age, Stepney says she's about to take a second job, just so she can afford clothes, but even then, health insurance remains prohibitively expensive for someone her age.
"It's not enough money to make ends meet," she despairs. "I do the best I can – taking the bus, using coupons, but this ain't living."
Antonio Clemens, 31, who makes about $7.85 an hour at the Memphis Music Café, can't afford health insurance and is unable to save money in between paying $685 a month in rent on the apartment he shares with his wife and their two young children.
"You start to feel like you're really not going to make it," he says. "Look, I'm making over a dollar more than the minimum wage and it's tough to make ends meet. Instead of date nights, we stay home and play Battleship."
As part of a three-stage increase in the wage, passed by Congress last year, the minimum wage will jump to $7.25 per hour in July 2009. But almost half the country, 24 states, already have higher minimum wages, ranging from $6.79 in Florida to $8.07 in Washington State. The average wage in the country is $18.01 an hour, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
About 60 percent of minimum-wage workers labor in leisure and hospitality jobs, such as food preparation, and tend to be younger and unmarried, according to the BLS.
The numbers just don't add up for millions of Americans making close to minimum wage, say fair-wage advocates, especially in light of increases in gas and food prices.
Government surveys show the average price of a gallon of milk jumped from $2.67 in June 2003 to $3.77 in June 2008, and the price of a dozen grade A eggs has more than doubled, from 97 cents in June 2002 to $1.92 in Jun 2008.
The minimum wage increase represents a $28 increase in weekly wages, which is barely higher than the $21.18 increase in money spent on food and gas each week in 2008, according to the Center for American Progress.
"You can't live anywhere in this country on $13,624 dollars a year," says Jason Perkins-Cohen, executive director of the Job Opportunities Task Force in Baltimore, crunching the numbers on what the new minimum wage translates into as an annual salary.
"It's not enough to pay for housing, to put food on the table, to keep your house lit and warm."
Perkins-Cohen welcomes the wage increase, saying that every little bit helps low-income workers afford a few more groceries or higher electricity bills, but he stresses that it's just not enough.


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Big Server .... it looks and sounds like you could use an out-of-the-freezer
(topped with a Jamison 'floater'). Great cure for football angst
Seriously, seeth all you want but you have to admit that...well, there it was: staring the Ducks right in the face: Ducks vs. Bama for all the marbles. I recall USC laying 50+ points on them?....hmmm, wonder what the 'Bama Big Boy Co. of Warmack, Jones et al upfront might've done? .... remember: ND wasn't even ranked in September and they did win a lot of 'big games' to get to where they ended up--it's not their fault they didn't lose prior to January. Just sayin' - regards.
I'm not saying we deserved to be there over ND, not this season. Doesn't take anything away from how embarrassing it is to see ND get blown out in these games every time they get there.
As for the USC game...Yeah, they scored 51 points. A few things...Our defense was so banged up at that point, we had four freshman playing the majority of the game on the D line. USC played the best game of their season, hands down. They played like a team with the talent (offensively) to be worthy of the #1 ranking. USC also deflated the balls to help their passing offense. No idea how that actually affected anything, but they cheated and still lost by 11.
BTW, Oregon allowed 20 points per game on defense in the 2012 season (including the Fiesta Bowl). All the rep for Oregon being "terrible" defensively is ridiculous, especially when you consider the fact that for the first half of the season, the 2nd and 3rd string defenders played the entire second half. There was a stat looking at defense when the score was within 28 points, and Oregon ranked 3rd behind Alabama and ND in yards per play. It's a misnomer.
The Oregon defense did something that no SEC team could do in 2010: Marginalize Cam Newton for 4 quarters. An Auburn team that averaged nearly 43 points against vaunted SEC defenses scored just 22 against Oregon.
After all that...Do I think Oregon beats Alabama the title game this year? No. But do I think the outcome is in question for longer than 5 minutes? Yes. I do think that Oregon would have put up a better fight.
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Michael Douglas is valiantly fighting back against the advanced throat cancer that ravaged his body, and the results are emerging for everyone to see, as these RadarOnline.com exclusive photos reveal.
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On a recent Thanksgiving holiday at Disney World in Florida, the 66-year-old Wall Street star was using a wheelchair-like-scooter while his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, 41, their son Dylan, 10, and daughter Carys, 7, enjoyed the park's rides.
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While Douglas appeared energized for the cameras, posing in a number of set-up shots, behind-the-scenes his recovery was taking its toll.
"He looked frail and sick… he most definitely looked like he needed the wheelchair," said one onlooker, who snapped this photo (left) of Douglas talking to a Disney attendant.
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However, an aggressive eating campaign in the last three weeks has helped the Oscar-winner rebuild his energy sapped body after eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
"Michael has to eat a lot now to gain back the weight and help him find his strength again," the actor's longtime friend Allen Burry told RadarOnline.com.
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"That's one of the hardest things when you have been through the medication and treatment. He needs to gain weight."
Before being diagnosed with a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue, the screen legend weighed a healthy 175 pounds.
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Top 5 Aerosmith Samples of All Time
Wednesday, September 3rd, Aerosmith play the Prudential Center. While much has been written about their extensive catalog and presence in the media, their influence on early hip-hop has been somewhat understated. The drum breaks from tracks like "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" were some of the earliest bricks that built rap, and their embracing of hip-hop in the mid-80s lead to the profile of the genre being raised. It also lead to a career resurgence for Aerosmith themselves. It is with equal admiration for the hip-hop revolution and the band behind Revolution X that we look back at the top five Aerosmith samples of all time.
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5) BLESTeNATION - "Sweet Emo Shun"
New York rap trio BLESTeNATION clearly wanted to make their mixtape standout amidst one of the biggest mixtape years in 2007, so for their first FuckAMixtape installment, they took to remaking tracks like Faith No More's "Epic" and, our favorite, Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion." Redubbed "Sweet Emo Shun," the beat is built off of extending the opening seconds with a well executed blend into the hook and back again.
4) Big Sean - "Dreams"
Aerosmith-sampling fever must have been an epidemic in 2007 because it also gave us Big Sean channeling "Amazing" for his mixtape track "Dreams." While seven years is about three lifetimes in rap years, it's staggering how wildly different Big Sean sounds here. His rhyme style at the time works perfectly in terms of properly working the track's concept over the sample.
3) Juelz Santana - "Daddy"
Steven Tyler himself has expressed regret over recording "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing" for 1998's Armageddon, but he may take some solace in knowing it was used to make a Juelz Santana song that's meant quite a lot to many people. 2005's "Daddy" lifts the way Tyler screams "breathing" for a track all about the love between a father and his infant. Given how many homemade videos of parents and their babies exist set to this song on YouTube, it seems to have struck a chord even without images of Liv Tyler.
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|Jan 18, 2005, 02:48 PM
iPod won't go to the movies
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|Jan 18, 2005, 03:03 PM
'..ruled out a video-capable version of the music player anytime soon.'
I don't believe anything Apple say. They will be researching this but they will not be openly admitting anything to the wide world & their competitors.
In fact, a denial from Apple almost seems like a confirmation these days.
We. Shall. See.
|Jan 18, 2005, 03:15 PM
I don't really think of a video-capable iPod as something to play DVD-ripped (or downloaded) feature films anyway. What would be really cool is if you could download recorded TV programs from your TiVo (or similar device). In that case you might not be so concerned about the lower resolution picture, and with the smaller chunks of video to view this is more adaptable to on-the-go applications (such as watching shows on your bus ride or during your lunch break).
Any argument against a video iPod that relies on legal issues with the film/DVD industry just doesn't sound like a complete argument to me. There are more applications than just watching commercial feature films.
|Jan 18, 2005, 07:59 PM
an iPod Photo costs $600 and has a 3" screen. an iPod Video would have to no doubt have a larger screen, since as everyone who is interested in this idea beyond "wow" factor agrees, a 3" movie isn't much fun. For $400 more, you can get a 12" iBook which even has a DVD drive so you could rent movies in airports, and comes with other worthwhile features such as being able to swap batteries, check your email and download porn.
Apple would have to do some serious engineering to make an iPod Video cheap and good enough. I'd imagine they'd have to come up with some sort of 5" LCD fast-response color screen, which is touch sensitive, so that the clickwheel could be overlaid on the video -- otherwise the device becomes too large. A translucent graphic resembling the clickwheel will probably appear whenever someone touches the screen. Actually, that might be pretty cool - i should patent that idear.
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|Jan 19, 2005, 12:10 AM
I agree. Already iPod photos are relatively niche products, evidenced by the average selling price of all iPods sold by Apple ($264). Apple would be wasting its time by spending time engineering a video iPod that would have to sell for at least $100 more, and then you might as well buy an iBook (or a used iBook for that matter) which would cost you only a little bit more.
Watching video is an active process. Listening to music is a passive process. That's why so many people want music players -- because it can help pass the time while they do something else. But with a video iPod, you can't do anything else while watching the video, so there's no real advantage over a laptop. You can listen to music while you work, while you type (like I'm doing right now), or even while you attempt to go to sleep. You can't do that with a video iPod.
A video iPod would sell to very little people, and therefore Apple would not get much return from the R&D invested into such a device. A better strategy would be to find how to reduce the price of an iBook, so that it would be even more affordable than it is now.
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LOS ANGELES – He was out of the mix for so long you almost began to spell Andrew with a "u."
Andrew Bynum missed the final 13 regular-season games because of a bad Achilles' tendon. The Lakers lost seven of them.
The citizenry beseeched Oxfam for help. Alarmists Without Borders came to town with syringes and antibiotics for the fans of the defending NBA champions.
Bynum played the first playoff game of the season Sunday. And the city began to heel, uh, heal.
As the Lakers and Oklahoma City dog-paddled through offensive quicksand, Bynum found the easiest routes were in the air. He scored two of the Lakers' first three baskets. The Lakers got seven of their first eight hoops in the paint. Bynum wound up with 13 points, 12 boards, four blocks and 6-for-10 shooting and played nearly 301/2 minutes, much longer than Coach Phil Jackson had anticipated.
The Lakers are a double handful when Bynum does things like this, and they won Game 1 of this series, 87-79, as the authorities drove soundtrucks through the streets and gave the all-clear.
This was a decisive but not conclusive victory. The Lakers led by 17 but let the ambitious Thunder get to six back for a second or two. They never got real separation but Oklahoma City never made a glorious run, either. There was always Bynum or Pau Gasol (19 points, 13 boards, three blocks) when the home team needed to go to the bank.
Kobe Bryant was pedestrian, with 21 points and three assists, and Kevin Durant spent the day under Ron Artest's surveillance, with anxious 7-for-24 shooting. The Thunder did play snug defense and got some irresistible play from Ruseell Westbrook, who slithered through the Lakers as if they were Long Beach Grand Prix pylons, but there is not a great deal they can do about Bynum.
"We need to get out and run," said Scott Brooks, the OKC coach and former UC Irvine star. "If this becomes a five-on-five game that's not our style."
"They all run like deers," Bryant said. "I mean, I'm not catching Westbrook. We're going to have to have a little bit of a cushion."
Brooks correctly cited the Thunder's youth, although not as an excuse. "We're going to be young three years from now, too" he said.
Bynum is young, too. Just 22, with 278 regular-season games in his log.
What Bynum hasn't done is seize a playoff season. He was out when Boston caved in the Lakers two years ago, and he averaged only 5.7 points in last year's postseason, coming off more aches. He never has scored more than 14 points in a playoff game.
"I do have some years under my belt, but I don't feel like a veteran quite yet," Bynum said. "I'm trying to earn that title. That comes from more experience, comes from being a leader out there and being more vocal. I think I'm headed in that direction but I'm not there yet."
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Fatima Sbaity-Kassem, Director, Center for Women, ESCWA (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), Beirut, Lebanon. This event is co-sponsored by the Conflict Prevention Project.
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MSR Hubba Gear Shed
The MSR Gear Shed. Adds increased livability to any existing Hubba or Hubba Hubba tent.
FEATURES of the MSR Hubba Gear Shed
- Added Storage: Hopped vestibule adds more than 2.4 square meter (26 square feet) of space
- Integrated Floor: Partial floor creates a clean place to store gear out of the way
- Versatile: Extends the versatility of your backpacking tent into your park-and-play or base camp tent
SPECIFICATIONS of the MSR Hubba Gear Shed
- Capacity: Gear
- Doors: 1
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Looking at the shape of your hull (if the diagram in my link is correct) you need very little jib to heave to and balance the main. If you have a furler you should be able to dial it in to what works.
I say this because I have a more full keeled boat and we can heave to with nearly a full jib usually. Your hull, while not a fin keel is not that far off and should turn pretty sprightly unlike my boat which takes some time to tack. To heave to your boat you need much more main then genoa up and you will find the balance it takes. In the SF Bay winds you get you may even need to reef the main and furl in the jib. You will figure it out but you've got to practice this in various wind strengths to really know what to do.
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Can someone tell me if the names Barletta, Pisano and Musto are common names in Italy, like Jones and Smith are here in the United States??
Also to write for birth certificate for Campanarello aka Venticano and Pietradefusi where do I write??
When there were remarriages back in 1890's and children were involved
did they automatically take new fathers name. Found out my grandfather had a 1/2 brother named Pasquale Barletta. I assumed they had the same father based on the name but was told they had the same mother.
How do I find out????


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I Corinthians 16:13-14 (NLT)
Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.
Who doesn't want to live life fearlessly? Boldly charging through life in complete control in a life dominated by success and prosperity. No one is born with the heartfelt desire to live in fear and discouragement. Children want to be doctors, firemen, police officers, and every other powerful or successful role model that they can imagine. We have five amazing children. While the boys were raised to be men and conquer the world, our daughters have been brought up to be powerful princesses (Lord, please help their future husbands). Hope is the inner desire for the unseen to become a reality. A child playing in the hose on a hot summer day pretends to put out fires but until they become an adult maturing developmentally, acquire the proper education that promotes mental maturity and apply at the local firehouse to gain experience, they are not a fireman or woman. The little people with great imagination unhindered by doubt or bound by fear will step boldly from childhood fancy to adult completion one day. The problem is too many of those children are being led astray. They have no confidence in themselves or their own ability to overcome their circumstances. This is fostered by parents without faith in anything but what they can see, feel and touch shutting the door on the unseen hope that the Lord is offering them. Your life doesn't have to be cautious – you were called to be courageous. God placed faith inside of you so that it would become confident hope that never leads to disappointment. (Romans 5:5) He created you with Eternity in your heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11) so that you would continue to try to get more out of this life until you discover the future and hope that He planned for you, provided for, and promotes to the fulfillment and satisfaction of inner purpose. (Jeremiah 29:11) Courage is the confidence to act in accordance with what we believe. If all that we believe is culminated in this life, then fear certainly is relative because we will die. But for those who take their faith and decide to invest it in the Love of God, hope will begin to grow. Now your life is filled with endless possibilities and nothing will be impossible because you believe. (Matthew 17:20; Luke 1:37)
I John 4:16-18 (NLT)
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.
How does one find courage in a lost and dying world? It is a place filled with corruption and betrayal where love has most certainly grown cold even in the church. Sin is rampant. The message of grace so convoluted that it has become agreeable with sin, erased the image of the Cross, and finds the Blood of Christ offensive albeit unnecessary. Have we forgotten just how much God loves us? Do we know His Love at all anymore? How can we put our trust in a God that we do not know and a Savior whose sacrifice is being ignored? God loves us. We can put all of our trust in His Love. God IS love. God lives in us so that we can live in His Love and express His Love in this world. Who has the courage to do so? Who will tell others about a God who loves us when they do not know and understand its true potential personally and intimately? I cannot tell you exactly what God will do in your life if you trust Him, but I can tell you this – I know that He loves me. I didn't always know the Love of God even as a so-called Christian who called on Jesus to be saved but had no idea what to do next. Rather than allowing love to expel all fear from my life, I allowed it to be transferred from this world to God. That's right. When I believe that God withholds His Goodness from me in disobedience or that He gets mad at me when I sin, I acknowledge that I do not know or fully understand God's Amazing Love or His Great Grace. God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of love, power and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:6-7) We are no longer to live as fearful slaves (Romans 8:14-16) who must sin, but as Children of God free from sin and empowered by His Spirit to be boldly confident in the hope that is found in His Love, Power and Self-Discipline. God is Love. Jesus gave us His Power. The Spirit leads us from our old life into a brand new fearless existence. We just have to be courageous.
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
God is the source of hope. There is nothing outside of this world but the Love of God reserved for His People. There is no greater aspiration or power in the universe. Those who discover God's Love open a portal of joy and peace because the Spirit of God completes them. Suddenly, faith begins to grow and develop into confident hope. Fear is removed and doubt with it. As our soul prospers (3 John 1:2) so does our life, we finally find satisfaction that allows us to grow patient learning to endure as the Lord perfects that which concerns us. (Psalm 138:8) Hope reminds us that His Plan is good containing a future and hope well worth waiting for so that is what we do. Christ gives us confidence that what we hope for will be a reality. (Hebrews 3:6) His Spirit is our guarantee. (2 Corinthians 1:22) Faith is the substance of things hoped for and evidence of the unseen. (Hebrews 11:1) Courageous people do not fear that faith will let them down, hope is not real or that the Word of God will not accomplish what it set out to do. The Power of the Holy Spirit which is God living and breathing within us gives mankind courage to live apart from fear in confident hope.
Psalm 27:11-14 (NLT)
Teach me how to live, O LORD. Lead me along the right path, for my enemies are waiting for me. Do not let me fall into their hands. For they accuse me of things I've never done; with every breath they threaten me with violence. Yet I am confident I will see the LORD's goodness while I am here in the land of the living. Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the LORD.
There is a term in the fitness realm called "skinny fat". It means to look thin but have absolutely no muscle mass (or tone) in your body. While the world thinks thin is in, they ignore the benefits and longevity of developing a healthy lifestyle including diet and exercise. Many would rather be skinny and deprive their body of proper nutrition rather than investing the time, energy and effort necessary to change their lifestyle for better health. As long as they look good in their clothing, they do not care what is going on underneath or even deeper in their body. I believe that there are a lot of so-called believers living the very same way. If their life looks good to the world, they are not as concerned with what is going on inside of them. Hope is the product of faith development and prosperity (which is maturity). We have no confidence because we have no faith. For many years, I was "skinny fat" physically. Dieting would shed the unwanted pounds but I had no strength in my body. I had no confidence either. I was always trying to hide behind clothes and makeup so no one would see my worn-out body (five pregnancies will do that to you) and flabby physique. I would mock those who tried to be physically fit calling it a waste of time. When my body began to show the signs of emotional abuse following two years of fighting cancer with our son and my mind was too busy to sleep, I decided that it was time to make an example of my flesh. So armed with praise and worship music and ready for a change, I hit the gym. Working on my mind, soul and body, I am no longer skinny or fat. I am healthy because my body is finally working together. Our faith has the potential to become confident hope – it also requires a lifestyle change. We must change our diet, incorporate exercise and change our routine. Now you are not only battling your flesh but the enemy of your soul who wants to steal, kill and destroy your faith and hope before it makes a difference in your life. Sin creates distance between us and God which also gives the enemy an unfair advantage. (Psalm 40:12) it is time to take back our mind, take back our body and take back our soul to give it all back to Jesus Christ. It is not as hard as you think, it begins with this thought God loves me. He is with me. I will see His Goodness while I am still alive and will not stop until I do. God's Love must become the One Thing in our life! (Psalm 27:4) We just have to be where He is and everything changes from that moment on…
Job 11:13-17 (NLT)
"If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer! Get rid of your sins and leave all iniquity behind you. Then your face will brighten with innocence. You will be strong and free of fear. You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away. Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning."
Hope gives us courage. It makes us strong and free of fear. The more hope that we have the more courageous we become filled with holy boldness to come before the Father and confidently fulfill His Great Commission. But we must fix what is broken first, or at least allow the Lord to fix us. We must prepare our heart. It needs to be fortified. (Titus 3:4-8) We need to allow our heart to be cleansed and renewed by the Holy Spirit. Prayer connects us to God. We have to communicate with the Lord to develop a relationship with Him. When we do not know what to pray, His Spirit will pray for us. (Romans 8:25-27) Every day should be filled with conversations with the Lord. Repentance is an important part of our new life. It removes any sin that tries to obstruct our view of Jesus. We must become steadfast in removing those things that might offend the Lord not because the Blood of Jesus is not enough, but because we are attempting to love Him back. (Psalm51:7-12) Going to the gym sporadically, once in a while, or when I get a bad report from the doctor will not produce long term effects, but when I make it a habit it becomes my lifestyle so that I do not just change my appearance but my whole lifestyle pursues its purpose. What if our purpose became to get as close to God as possible and experience His Love to its fullest extent? Those who decide to step out of their old life and claim their new life in Jesus Christ choose to be righteous! Jesus Christ is our righteousness. When I give all that I am to become all that He promised, I will be courageous. The more hope that I have the more courageous that I become. With a made up mind, I am able to wait out the process of prosperity and allow the Lord to prosper me. The less of me that there is the more of Him that is manifested in my life.
Acts 27:23-26 (NLT)
For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me, and he said, 'Don't be afraid, Paul, for you will surely stand trial before Caesar! What's more, God in his goodness has granted safety to everyone sailing with you.' So take courage! For I believe God. It will be just as he said. But we will be shipwrecked on an island."
This passage makes me chuckle. It reminds me of all the times that I have told God how I want to do it, and He shows me how it will be done. We want everything in life to be smooth sailing just because we have made Jesus Christ our Savior. Note that I did not say "Lord" as that might offend some people who struggle with the whole obedience thing, don't worry we will come back to that. Paul had a vision or dream. Although the captain had charted his own course when Paul told him not to according to the Holy Spirit working in him, the captain sailed out anyway. Now in the midst of the storm and panic, Paul comes back to the captain and tells him look the God of goodness promises that we will not be destroyed or die BUT we are still going to be shipwrecked. Seriously? Why is it that we expect to do things our own way, make a total mess out of life, completely stray off course, but that God is going to erase it all and start over again? This is contradictory to His Will and Way according to His Word that says, "We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." (Romans 8:28) Trusting the Lord is not telling Him what to do and waiting for Him to do it. Trusting is telling God whatever your Will is help me find it and do it. Faith and confident hope does not exempt us from the trials of life but does empower us to overcome them all! Hope is the anchor for our soul so in the storm we are not destroyed by doubt or discouragement. (Hebrews 6:17-19) Faith is the confidence that hope is the reality in which we live. (Hebrews 11:1)
Joshua 1:6-9 (NLT)
"Be strong and courageous, for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
It is time for us to be courageous Christians again. The Lord tells us over and over again to be strong and courageous. Strength comes from the Lord. The more that we surrender our heart, soul and mind to the Lord the more we become strengthened and empowered by the Holy Spirit who is working in us to do the Will of God so we will prosper in this life. Now! God created you to be strong and courageous to fulfill His Purpose and Plan for your life that will satisfy your soul. His Word will lead you to success in EVERYTHING you do. He will show you not only what to do but how to do it. I have nothing to fear ever because God is with me. He lives inside of me. Obedience gives me the opportunity to capitalize on faith from the confident hope that I have in God. (I Chronicles 22:11-13) We must not be afraid and we must do it to benefit from its blessings. Do the work. Don't be afraid. Do not get discouraged. The Lord will see to it that His Plan is carried out correctly and completely. Trust the Lord – be strong and courageous! True courage is not based on my ability but God's Ability and Willingness based solely on His Great Love!
Ephesians 3:16-18 (NLT)
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
My friend it doesn't matter how big the opposition is or how huge your adversary, God is with you! He loves you so much that He will never let anything separate you from His Love. Jesus is all the evidence we need of such great love. The more that we come to know the Love of God demonstrated in Jesus Christ the more powerful we become to overcome the enemy and even our flesh. It is all about love. You can't earn it so don't even try – you can only experience it more and more each day as we learn to trust Him more. Faith will grow deep roots and hope will build confidence to stick out until He comes. Good news! You don't have to be the strong one. Less is definitely more when it comes to the Lord – less of me and more of Jesus will produce the courage and strength I need to overcome!
I John 2:26-29(NLT)
I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. But you have received the Holy Spirit and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ. And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame. Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God's children.


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The state House has approved the first amendments to Michigan's medical marijuana law since it was approved by voters in 2008.
The changes require three-quarter super-majority votes in both the House and Senate.
State Representative John Walsh says the voter-approved law left open a lot of questions.
"These are very simple things that are not defined in the act, and what we're trying to do is just provide some more definition," he says.
The measures would require an in-person doctor's visit at least every other year to qualify for a marijuana card; let law enforcement check medical marijuana records; and ban medical marijuana from the passenger area of vehicles.
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Industry officials say they are on course to boost production to as many as 4 million autos annually. That's good news for Mexico but has many in the U.S. worried, especially as Audi gets ready to build a new luxury line plant in Mexico and not in the U.S.
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It may be strange to learn that one of the finest moments in Central City Opera's vibrant production of "Oklahoma!" doesn't have anything to do with singing. Instead it comes in the form of a dream ballet, choreographed by Daniel Pelzig.
Of course, if you know Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's ground-breaking musical (first performed on Broadway in 1943) or the 1955 big-screen adaptation, then this news isn't quite so surprising.
Corralling Agnes de Mille to create the show's original choreography only added luster to Rodgers and Hammerstein's shimmering arrival as partners and musical mavericks. The ballet wasn't just pretty, it furthered the story of beloveds Laurey (played here by Maureen McKay) and Curly and the farmhand Jud Fry in a way not seen in musical theater before.
Pelzig's work also moves the story forward even as it provides a gorgeous pause right before intermission.
The ballet, however, is not the only show-stopper in this spare yet brimming production, directed by Ken Cazan.
Set in 1906, "Oklahoma!" is based on Lynn Riggs' play "Green Grow the Lilacs." That broad expanse of prairie hasn't yet become a state, but its pioneers are a spirited, big-dreaming lot.
When Curly (baritone Matthew Worth) enters the theater from the house, his rendition of "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' " exudes a confident appreciation of place but also has more than a little bit of swoon running through it.
There's a lot of sweet pining in this musical. There's also lust.
Curly and Laurey's relationship is a verbal pas de deux of courtship. He moves forward. She pulls away, feigning a disinterest she'll have to reckon with as Jud pursues her.
Paul LaRosa portrays Jud, the farmhand whose desire for Laurey is a bit untoward. LaRosa's quite handsome, which gives Jud's private proclivities an added psychological edge. Were Jud recast for this day and age, he might have an Internet porn addiction.
The "Oklahoma!" ensemble is winning. Curt Olds brings unfettered energy and optimism to cowpoke Will Parker, who vies with trinket peddler Ali Haikim (Gene Scheer) for Ado Annie's affections. Kaitlyn Costello portrays the overheated gal (Annie) "who cain't say no."
Mezzo-soprano and Central City vet Joyce Castle does warm, sturdy work as Laurey's Aunt Eller. She's a bit Ma Kettle, but with less of the dithering. Indeed, when the farmers and the cowboys decide not to be friends, she sets them straight with tongue lashing and a pistol.
The minimal, evocative set, by scenic designer Alan E. Muraoka is near-perfect. Long scrims set various moods, perhaps none more boldly than the suggestive ones hanging in Jud's room.
Curly and Laurey stand on an abbreviated staircase, a cowboy Romeo and his gingham Juliet, without the tragedy. Though there's violence ahead.
The set frames the action yet leaves plenty of space for big voices and vivid dancing.
One of the things that sets Central City's rendition of "Oklahoma!" (which will be in Denver at DU's Newman Center on Aug. 5 and 7) apart from other musicals staged in town recently is how diaphanous yet robust the ensemble sounds.
As for the song of the title, well, it's rather glorious. The melding of guy and gal voices in "Oklahoma!" is goosebumps-making. The women's trill finds support in the male ensemble's muscular notes.
"Gosh, that's beautiful," I whispered, all awe and shucks.
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"OKLAHOMA!" * * * ½ classic musicalA Central City Opera production. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Directed by Ken Cazan. Featuring Maureen McKay, Matthew Worth, Curt Olds, Paul LaRosa and Kaitlyn Costello. Through Aug. 11 at Central City Opera House, 124 Eureka St., Central City. Thursday and July 21, July 27 and Aug. 3., 8 p.m. Also July 13, 31 and Aug. 10 and 11, 2:30 p.m.. Tickets $20-$116, centralcityopera.org or 303-292-6700. Aug. 5 and 7 at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on University of Denver campus, 2344 E. Iliff Ave. $23-$78, via newmantix.com or 303-871-7720.


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As this list indicates, the potential impact to Wright Stat faculty and staff on acquiring and administering grants and contracts extends form the planning stage (Pre-award) through the close-out stage (Post-award) and all points in between (e.g., Purchasing, Inventory, etc.).
The effective date by which these regulations must be in place for administering new awards is December 26, 2014.
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To facilitate the transition, Wright State has several groups working through the Uniform Guidance to determine precisely what changes will need to be made to their policies and procedures to assure compliance. A 'Working Group' of staff having expertise in all areas of Federal award administration was assembled to critically review the Uniform Guidance and a 'Steering Committee' was appointed to assist with, and assure the development and implementation (D&I) of updated P&P's (written & physical, as necessary). To date, the Working Group has completed their review of the Uniform Guidance and a list of recommendations has been submitted to the Steering Committee which is reviewing the recommendations and formulating action plans for implementation.
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Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) – COGR is involved in the development of all major financial and administrative aspects of federally-funded research.
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