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Remarks Before the Peterson Institute of International Economics
Commissioner Kara M. Stein
Washington, D.C.
June 12, 2014
Thank you, Adam, for the kind introduction. I also would like to thank the Peterson Institute for International Economics for hosting me today.
I, like all of you in this room, believe we need to have strong, vibrant capital markets if we want to have a healthy, job-creating economy. Our capital markets must be built on a foundation that is strong enough to withstand the next storm. During the Great Recession, we started a discussion about how to help insulate us when the next crisis comes.
The next financial crisis may come from any direction. My job is to help figure out where the next crisis may come from, and how to minimize the damage it would cause. That means we must identify systemic risks and mitigate them. Today, we have convened to continue this conversation and discuss what the SEC can do to better prevent the buildup and transmission of risks that can take down our entire financial system.
I'm going to begin our discussion today with a quick reminder of how we got here. And then, I'm going to focus on the three key areas where the SEC can play a critical role in addressing systemic risks. First, we need to step outside of our silo and think broadly and cooperatively with our fellow regulators, both domestic and international. Second, we need to focus on improving the stability and resiliency of the short-term funding markets, including securities lending and repurchase agreements (repo). Third, we need to re-examine how we evaluate capital, leverage, and liquidity within the financial institutions and funds we regulate.
With the financial crisis in the rear view mirror, many forget the forces that converged in 2007. Some even deny the impact of the recession, optimistically viewing our financial markets and our economy as inoculated from a virus that spread quickly and wreaked havoc on a global economy. Yet, studies demonstrate that the Great Recession continues to affect both attitudes and behaviors. A recent survey found that the generation entering the workforce now – the Millennials, who are 21 to 36 years old – have the same fiscally conservative views as the generation that exited the Great Depression.[1] Millennials are skeptical of the financial markets and long-term investing, yet we increasingly depend on them to invest and drive our economy.
I, too, am crisis-scarred. And I share a dream with these Millennials. I dream of never facing another financial crisis. I want to do my part to avoid ever having to face another one. The events of 2008 are indelibly etched into my memory. In 2008, while I was working for Senator Jack Reed, our country's economic leaders began closed-door briefings with members of Congress. Concerned about the unfolding financial crisis, the Chair of the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of Treasury pleaded for help and for an unprecedented financial intervention to stave off another Great Depression. They wanted tools to protect our Nation from an invisible force that came to be known as systemic risk. A comprehensive strategy was developed to stabilize our economy and unlock the credit markets in order to save our financial system.
Category: Bailouts, Really, really bad calls, Regulation
Post Credit Crisis Job Creation Source: Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Last week's jobs report has returned the U.S. economy back to its peak pre-recession levels of employment. (there is a debate about the quality of jobs being created, but we shall save that conversation for another time). As the Oregon Office of Economic…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Data Analysis, Economy
Category: Bailouts, Think Tank
click for larger version Source: BV, FT This morning we discussed the danger that arises from merely fining banks instead of prosecuting them for violating laws. Since the news cycle is focusing on the potential multibillion-dollar fines for BNP Paribas SA and Bank of America Corp., let's have a look at the amount of…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Credit, Crony Capitalists, Legal
Since 2008, the U.S. authorities have meted out $87.53 billion in fines to global banks. That number comes from data complied by the Financial Times. Some people believe that bankers are finally getting their due, being hit with billion-dollar penalties for their recklessness. I don't see it that way; rather, it looks like little more…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Legal, Really, really bad calls
Monetary Rules: Theory and Practice Frameworks for Central Banking in the Next Century Policy Conference Hoover Institution Stanford, CA May 30, 2014 Charles I. Plosser President and Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Highlights President Charles Plosser discusses his views on the benefits of a systematic and rule-like approach to monetary policy. President…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Federal Reserve, Markets
Banksters Pretend that Prosecuting Wall Street Crime Will Blow Up the Economy Banksters Pretend that Prosecuting Wall Street Crime Will Blow Up the EconomyThe Department of Justice is "considering" initiating criminal charges against 2 banks. In response, the normal cast of characters is saying – as they have for years – that prosecuting…Read More
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Youngsters from LVS Ascot took part in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day on Friday, where nearly 10,000 schools in more than 100 countries took part in the challenge.
The 17 children from Years Eight and Nine made 'rainbow salad wraps' – a wrap filled with different cheeses and vegetables – by following Jamie Oliver's lesson through a live televised broadcast.
The wraps were a hit too, with the children enjoying eating them afterwards.
Christine Henderson, head of design and technology at the school, said: "Mr Oliver has done so much to revolutionise school dinners, knowledge on healthy eating and has even provided resources for us time-strapped teachers! He's my hero!"
Pupil Sophie Lindsay added: "We learned to use seasonal food which is more environmentally friendly, plus we did everything by hand, using less energy."
The attempt smashed the previous record holder for world's biggest cookery lesson, which was less than 3,000 schools.


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PUBLIC sculpture is all very impressive to look at, but what use is it? It just sits there providing a perch for pigeons and a backdrop for tourists' photos. But a few years ago, Francisco Meseguer of the Institute of Materials Science in Madrid found an unexpected answer. He discovered that a minimalist sculpture on display in Madrid can block out sound. Erect such barriers throughout a noisy city or along the sides of a motorway and the tumultuous modern world might not only become a quieter place, but a more attractive one too.
The structure he stumbled across is called a sonic crystal because it scatters sound waves from a periodic array of "atoms"anything from glass spheres to metal rods. Unlike conventional, solid sound barriers, sonic crystals are mostly empty space. And they're a lot easier on the eye, too.
Now Meseguer and his colleagues have shown that these ...
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Nokia rolls out firmware update for the Lumia 1520
Nokia has started rolling out a firmware update for their newest Lumia 1520 smartphone. The update brings the version number to 1028.3562.1402.00xx in EU and 1028.3534.1347.2001 in the US.
Nokia hasn't really gone in-depth about the exact changes this update brings other than stating general fixes and improvements in the change log. This should take care of any minor niggles that may be there but you'll have to wait longer if want to see any major improvements in performance.
Nokia rolls out firmware update for the Lumia 1520 - reader comments
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Just got an update for my Nokia 1520 in The Netherlands. the revision number is 1028.3562.1402.0002 < Europe as stated in this topic. What new, I have no clue.
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An update to my original comment. Just received the update and so has my wife's phone. Just trying to work out what's improved or changed. So far I notice the time on the lock screen now moves up the screen every minute, also the ie browser seems to ...
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i am lucky that i got my black update in L520. enjoying it
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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Spoiler: Derek's [SPOILER] Joins the Cast!
Who doesn't love a good Grey's Anatomy relative? Now, thank to TVLine we know another family member is going to drop by during Season 9.
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According to TVLine Neve Campbell, of Party of Five fame, will play Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) sister for an upcoming multi-episode arc.
There's no word yet on which sister she will play, but we know he has four. We've already met Amelia and Nancy. He also has a sis named Kathleen, who is a psychiatrist, and a fourth sister we know little about.
Right now, we'd tentatively guess Neve is playing Kathleen, because we'd bet Derek — and everyone else at Seattle Grace-Mercy West! — will be in the need of some good psychiatric care in the wake of the crash, whether he wants to admit it or not.
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By Annette Hinkle
In the world of interior design, Elizabeth Dow is best known for her textiles and wall coverings (a selection of which can not only be found in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, but on the walls of the Oval Office as well).
But Dow is also a passionate and accomplished painter and she finds she's at her creative best — both as a designer and a fine artist — when she's able to quickly transition between artistic disciplines.
Recently, Dow moved her design studio and showroom to the former Golden Eagle building on Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton. The building has been renovated and the ceiling lofted in order to accommodate a workshop, design studio and office and meeting space. It's a dynamic and bustling place where Dow and her staff move fluidly from one aspect of the business to another.
But the building is also large enough to house Dow's painting studio, and it is here that she is able to indulge her fine art impulses by creating the large scale abstract and landscape paintings which define her vision as an artist.
"What I love about this building is that there can be so many things going on at once," explained Dow during a recent tour. "Design… textiles … then there's a whole other plate spinning — making wall paper."
The notion of keeping several plates in the air at once is an apt metaphor for the way Dow works not only as a businesswoman, but as a fine artist as well. In the studio, she always has at least two paintings in progress simultaneously — one purely abstract, the other inspired by nature.
"I think it keeps it fresh," she says. "It helps me not overwork it. I never would be able to start at the beginning and paint all the way through."
"The interesting thing about what I've experienced as an artist in the studio is I'll work very intensely, then take a brief period of time off," she adds. "That moment when I go back in the studio, I feel like I'm lifted into another plateau. I think it's about life experience."
When it comes to life experience, the past year has been a good one for Dow, not only in terms of the new design center, but in her fine art career as well. Last fall, Dow was selected to take part in the Parrish Art Museum's "Artists Choose Artists" exhibit by guest juror Laurie Anderson, a musician, composer and artist in her own right. And this Saturday, Vered Gallery in East Hampton opens "Elizabeth Dow: Heaven and Earth," an exhibition featuring several of the artist's large format paintings
This will be Dow's first solo exhibition on the East End and though she has historically been an abstract color field painter, Dow's most recent paintings represent a shift in perspective — one that has been inspired by living full time on the East End for the last eight years.
"I'm being affected by nature. For the first time, I've started working with landscape and water," says Dow. "Being out here has really influenced my thinking."
The vision serves Dow well. Though her landscapes appear to be nearly photorealistic, they somehow remain ethereal at the same time. But Dow is not a plein air painter. Instead, she takes photographs of scenes in nature and uses those as the basis of inspiration in the studio.
"I'm really an iPhone photographer — a fast record taker. It's about catching the moment," says Dow who, on a recent trip to Istanbul, was deeply moved by the waters of the Bosporus Strait.
"It was amazing because of the terrain of the city," says Dow. "I expected to fall in love with the water, but I didn't expect to see the water almost everywhere I went in Istanbul."
For Dow, motion is key, both in work and life, and her paintings are anything but static. Some of her haunting landscape imagery even looks as if it's an artfully blurred photograph. Movement is evident not only in the appearance of the final product, but the process as well.
"I've always tired to incorporate motion in the work," explains Dow. "When I'm painting, I do a wet on wet paint technique. To me that means, I'm painting and I won't stop for three hours. I don't do a layer and let it dry. I keep the oil moving as fast as possible. I like the physicality of it and the motion of making it too."
Dow's interest in working with paper is evident not only through her wall coverings, but in her paintings as well — which are oil on paper, rather than canvas.
"Ever since I started painting, I loved paper," admits Dow. "I love the texture of it, I love the way the paint is absorbed into the paper. This was well before I even thought about making wallpaper. I like the smooth quality of paper, and it's so easy — I can roll it up and not have massive canvases to tote around."
Dow's artistic career began with her training as a fine art painter. But she developed an interest in wall coverings and textiles after becoming involved in the restoration of decorative painting work on the ceilings and walls of historic buildings.
"I was very privileged to work in historic museum houses all over the country," explains Dow. "The painters who painted these ceiling were extremely talented European technicians. The quality of the work was fantastic. The premise in restoration is your hand is not seen."
Dow notes it was through this work that she developed her keen color sense and came to understand the endless possibilities inherent in its application. It's a skill set which continues to serve her well in her design business and as a painter.
"I think I fell in love with color more so out of art school and while working in restoration," she says. "I was mixing so many colors and working with a Victorian color palette — that was amazing."
"I started understanding the components of color and what complimentary colors do when you mix them," she adds. "You see it on the color wheel, but we put into practice mixing the colors of restoration. If you have blue and it's too true, instead of adding white or black, you kill the color with orange."
"Really, I feel like I got another degree," she says.
Not only did restoration work lead Dow to realize the possibilities inherent in textile and wall covering design, it also inspired the size, scale and subject matter of her fine art work. Clouds, in particular, were among the imagery she found herself restoring in historic buildings and, perhaps not by coincidence, clouds were the first landscape elements that made their way into her nature painting.
"I also love working large scale. I like the physicality of it and I think that's why I was happy, even in a decorative painting environment," notes Dow. "I could be working on huge ceilings in museum houses with grand big rooms or on church ceilings."
"I've always been comfortable in places like that," says Dow who, after a quick glance around her new design studio adds, "…and that's why I ripped out the ceiling.
"Elizabeth Dow: Heaven and Earth" opens Saturday, April 12, 2014 with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. at Vered Gallery, 68 Park Place, East Hampton. The show will be on view through Monday, May 19, 2014. For more information, call 324-3303 or visit veredart.com.


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Top science body calls for geoengineering 'plan B'
The UK's Royal Society has reviewed planet-scale climate engineering schemes to mitigate global warming
Computer artwork of a large mirror (circular) in Earth orbit with a spacecraft (lower left). The mirror is designed to shield the Earth (lower right) from the sun (behind mirror), in an attempt to control changes in the climate of the Earth. This proposed method is one of several that could be used to reduce the effects of human-made global warming. Many such mirrors would be needed. (Image: Victor Habbick Visions/SPL)


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Ducks send Gibson to AHL, shelve injured MaroonOctober 15th, 2014, 11:51 am by BY ERIC STEPHENS
The Ducks made a number of roster moves Wednedsay, sending goalie John Gibson to Norfolk of the American Hockey League and putting on injured reserve winger Pat Maroon and defenseman Bryan Allen.
Gibson is heading down to Norfolk in order to play in two games with the AHL's Admirals this weekend as Frederik Andersen has grabbed an early hold on the starting job with the Ducks. Andersen won all three of his starts on the just completed trip.
Gibson, 21, lost his only start, a 6-4 decision to Pittsburgh in the season opener. He stopped 33 of 39 shots in that defeat. The Ducks are expected to recall him after he plays in the two-game set against Manchester on Friday and Saturday.
Maroon was hurt in Monday's victory over Buffalo and the earliest he'll be able to come off injured reserve is Tuesday. The full extent of his left leg injury will not be determined until he is examined by team doctors late Wednedsay afternoon.Read the rest of this entry »


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There is no lack of data when it comes to sunlight striking a building's surface, which means that the software tools used for daylighting modeling must be suited to the specific task at hand. Architects relish tools that emphasize a graphical interface and provide them with immediate feedback on how a design decision affects daylighting and vice versa—whereas engineers may prefer tools that enable them to manipulate raw daylighting data at the code level. Four designers spoke to architect to shed some light on which daylighting modeling software tools they use, and why.
Gustavo Brunelli, BDSP Partnership
An associate in the environmental group at engineering firm BDSP Partnership with a background in architecture, Gustavo Brunelli says that his firm uses Rhino (Rhinoceros 4.0, $995) as its primary modeling tool. "It's very smooth for building in 3D," Brunelli says.
Brunelli and BDSP Partnership worked with Hopkins Architects to maximize the energy-saving features of the roof lights for the Hopkins-designed velodrome for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. The building features a dramatic, sloping roof design that incorporates natural cooling, water harvesting, and daylighting—features that BDSP modeled using Rhino.
Brunelli says that BDSP uses other tools, including the open-source Unix emulator Radiance, for various daylighting modeling tasks. But the work often winds up back in Rhino, one way or another. "We can do all the simulation for the design using Rhino, including the energy-saving and water-saving features," he says. "We help the architects realize their design. We can give it to them as something they can read."
Surface engineers, lighting architects, and environmental engineers at BDSP use different tools, but Rhino serves as the lingua franca. "Ecotect exports directly into Rhino," Brunelli says, making it useful for quick adjustments on a number of projects.
Brian Court, The Miller Hull Partnership
For Seattle-based Brian Court, AIA, an associate at the Miller Hull Partnership, finding enough daylight can be a challege in itself. The firm's design for the Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction in Seattle incorporates a solar array encompassing an area 40 percent larger than the site area: The array overhangs the building's edge. It will provide 100 percent of the building's energy, but it presents a daylighting challenge.
"We have the photovoltaic array stretching out to grab every drop of sunshine on the site," Court says. Tilting the array improves its efficiency but requires that the panels be spaced farther apart. Court has used the Grasshopper plug-in (version 0.8, requires Rhino 4 SR8) for Rhino in order to determine the most efficient solar-panel arrangement—for energy and for daylighting.
Rhino allows him to experiment with the formal geometry of the array, Court says. But Grasshopper allows him to generate efficiency rates for different permutations of panel orientations. "It was a long learning process to determine where the useful daylight was coming through the sky and how to balance that with really strict power-generation requirements," he says. "It's an iterative, back-and-forth process."
Jason Olsen, EYP Architecture & Engineering
The engineers at EYP use a variety of tools for daylighting modeling, says senior designer Jason Olsen, AIA—but the architects use Ecotect Analysis (Autodesk, $1,495). "It's basically a graphic visualization of how daylight penetrates a space," he says. "It gives you really clear diagrammatic results."
In the early conceptual stages of a project, Ecotect allows designers to see directly how opening up walls or introducing skylights affects daylighting. "You can build natively within Ecotect, or you can import files and use it as the interface," he says. It's especially useful for doing clear comparative studies for orientation. "One of the great advantages beyond the graphical interface," Olsen says, "is that it produces some pretty rich imagery for client presentation. We use it in all phases in our design process."
Giulio Antonutto, Arup
An open-source software tool developed in 1985 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Radiance is still widely used today, says Giulio Antonutto, senior lighting designer for Arup. He says that its resilience is a testament to its versatility.
"You can do anything with it," Antonutto says. "It's very powerful. You can measure volume or calculate sound. We use it for sound modeling, reflections, simulating complex optical systems." In part, its power as a daylighting modeling engine stems from the fact that designers can customize Radiance to any number of tasks. "We have a unified directory of the latest version, but there are lots of unofficial releases that anyone can modify to use for his own computer," Antonutto says. Arup uses hundreds of custom Radiance scripts for tasks such as modeling solar exposure.
Radiance lacks a graphical interface, Antonutto explains, and it requires heavy Unix coding—so it's not for the faint of heart. But programmers working with Radiance can import models from any program, and designers continue to modify it to keep up with other systems. "It adapts over time."


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CHIPLEY — After a two-hour search Washington County Sheriff's Office found 5-year-old Glenn Andrew Charleston Raffield Jr. was found in woods near his home yesterday.
According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office Press Release the sheriff's office received call at 2:41p.m. yesterday, reporting that Raffield Jr. was last seen at his home on Rolling Pines Road an hour before the authorities were called and that he left on foot wearing a Thunderdog costume.
Immediately A Child is Missing was contacted, calls were made alerting 1,120 residences and businesses within an 89 square mile radius, giving them information about the child, according to the Press Release.
The Washington County CART team, North Florida Reception Center k-9 Team and Bay County Sheriff's Office Air 1 was activated for the search and at 4:42 p.m. a deputy with the Washington County Sheriff's Office spotted the child in the woods and was returned home without any injuries, according to the Press Release.


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Study: Young adults unaware of ObamaCare options
8/26/13 (Mon)
The vast majority of young adults don't know about new insurance exchanges through which they will be able to buy healthcare coverage under ObamaCare, according to research from the Commonwealth Fund.
Just 27 percent of people ages 19 to 29 were aware of the exchanges, which are set to open on Oct. 1, while 70 percent were unaware.
The lack of knowledge was greatest among the very young people the administration most wants to enroll in the exchanges — those who had been uninsured in the past year and those with the lowest incomes.
In every income group surveyed that could be eligible for Medicaid or new tax subsidies to help cover the cost of their premiums, at least 69 percent of young adults said they were not aware of their new coverage options.
The White House and its allies are in the midst of an aggressive push to get young adults to enroll in coverage through the exchanges.
Bringing young, healthy people into the system is key to holding down the premium increases that could come from guaranteeing coverage to older, sicker patients who have been unable to buy insurance in the past.
If the administration can successfully educate young people about their new options, Commonwealth said, ObamaCare can do a lot to help them: 82 percent of young adults who were at least temporarily uninsured this year will be eligible for some level of tax subsidies, or for Medicaid if they live in a state that is participating in the law's Medicaid expansion.
Commonwealth said the number of uninsured young adults has already fallen because of the Affordable Care Act. The law allows young people to stay on their parents' healthcare plans through age 26.
As of March, 51 percent of adults younger than 26 had either joined or stayed on their parents' healthcare plans — up from 47 percent in 2011.
Awareness of the provision has also risen steadily. Sixty-two percent of eligible young adults were aware that they could stay on their parents' plans this year, compared with 59 percent in 2011.
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Because hydrangea bushes can grow up to six feet in height, they are typically relegated to outdoor planting. As a city-dweller, you are probably thinking a hydrangea bush is not for you. Think again, because this flowering bush comes in dwarf-sized varieties that require very little room to bloom!
Dwarf varieties of plants mimic their bigger cousins, but are suitable for planting in tight spaces. Dwarf hydrangeas have been particularly successful in generating big blooms, so this week, we're giving you the skinny on the best breeds.
Invincibelle Spirit Hydrangea
This hydrangea is known for offering blushing-pink flowers and generous blooms. You can expect it to grow between three to four feet tall. Plant it outside in the sunlight; it's known to attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
'Little Lime' Hydrangea
Even though this is a dwarf variety, it offers blossoms that are bigger than most people's heads! The "Little Lime" bush grows heartily in a tight space, so you'll never sacrifice blooms for size. This dwarf variety will grow between 35 to 60 inches tall.
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There are several sub-breeds of the "Let's Dance" flower. What do they all have in common? They're each reblooming hydrangeas that can be grown on old or new wood. They grow two to three feet tall and can easily be planted indoors.
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We consider the steady-state transport of normally incident pencil beams of radiation in slabs of material. A method has been developed for determining the exact radial moments of three-dimensional (3-D) beams of radiation as a function of depth into the slab, by solving systems of one-dimensional (1-D) transport equations. We implement these radial-moment equations in the ONEBFP discrete ordinates code and simulate energy-dependent, coupled electron-photon beams using CEPXS-generated cross sections. Modified PN synthetic acceleration is employed to speed up the iterative convergence of the 1-D charged-particle calculations. For high-energy photon beams, a hybrid Monte Carlo/discrete ordinates method is examined. We demonstrate the efficiency of the calculations and make comparisons with 3-D Monte Carlo calculations. Thus, by solving 1-D transport equations, we obtain realistic multidimensional information concerning the broadening of electron-photon beams. This information is relevant to fields such as industrial radiography, medical imaging, radiation oncology, particle accelerators, and lasers.
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The Deep Friendships of DWTS
Everyone on Dancing with the Stars claims to be friends. And sometimes they're more than friends — dating, getting married, breaking up, etc. But we're here to talk about the sweet, longtime platonic friendships on DWTS. The relationships that give us the warm-and-fuzzies and make us forget about their occasional spats...
Derek Hough, Mark Ballas & Julianne Hough
Derek and li'l sis Julianne are two of the five Hough siblings from Sandy, Utah. As youths, Derek and Julianne were sent to London to live and study with their dance coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas. In London, the Houghs studied dance alongside the Ballas' own son, Mark. And there a dynamic trio was born. Derek, Mark and Julianne formed a pop group called "2B1G" ("2 Boys 1 Girl") and later BFFs Mark and Derek would form the Ballas Hough Band, performing together on a DWTS Results Show. Mark and Julianne were a couple on-and-off the dance floor in their youth and they won several dance competitions together. Last season, after Derek won his second Mirror Ball trophy, the trio flashed peace signs in a photo to mark their total of six Mirror Ball wins as a group. Of course now it's seven, with Derek's latest win, which will probably launch a playful new rivalry.
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Most of the celeb/pro partnerships on this show have lasted long after the dancing is done. But there's something special about the friendship and almost paternal mentoring between Kelly and Louis. Kelly says "Louis van Amstel and Dancing with the Stars changed my life." She credits her Season 9 partner with helping her get her sick body, healthy attitude, and overall cheerfulness. (Remember when she was a sullen goth chick?) Louis is incredibly proud of her and they continue to support each other in person, in interviews and over Twitter. They're probably the sweetest non-couple the show's ever had.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Tony Dovolani
Tony, who was born in Yugoslavia, moved to the United States as a teenager. Maks, who was born in Ukraine, also moved to the U.S. with his family as a young man. Their backgrounds as highly disciplined and competitive dancers from Eastern Europe seems to have bonded them — along with both being crazy hot. To quote a Stamford Magazine story about Tony: "Tony's fellow Dancing with the Stars professional Maksim 'Maks' Chmerkovskiy says his best friend's success has everything to do with his experience fleeing an oppressive regime. 'When you come over here the way he did, dodging bullets, you take nothing for granted,' says Maks, who emigrated from Ukraine. 'And Tony is an athlete. To get to the top of your game, in any professional sport, you don't go out there thinking, 'Oh I hope I come in second.' You want to win.'"
Tony, Maks and their fellow dancer Elena Grinenko created a website called the Ballroom Dance Channel and Tony and Maks have interviewed each other for the site. The two make appearances together sometimes — like here at a Washington mall — and set fans' hearts ablaze, even though Tony is happily married with kids.
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While driving home from Jared's drill weekend in Green Bay WI and heading north to Iron Mountain, MI Jared and I were involved in a dangerous car accident that totaled my car and seriously injured Jared. I went into labor and it stopped over night in the emergency room. Jared has a compressed C5 fracture in his neck and will be in a neck brace for at least 6 weeks, probably longer. His right shoulder is sprained and he has to wear a sling for the next two to three weeks. Both of us are very sore and bruised and dealing with trauma. I'm still having panic attacks when in a vehicle and still have to get behind the wheel again. Mikey, my 10-month son, was also in the car but was uninjured and safe. Please keep us in prayer as it will be a long recovery for Jared and both of us are not allowed to return to work for an extended period of time.
I'm really sorry to hear of your accident. I can only imagine how scared you were. I'll be thinking of you all while you start to feel better, heal and recover.
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I'm so very sorry to hear about the accident! Thank the good Lord you are all o.k.! I mean, yes, busted up a bit, but, you're all ALIVE! So grateful little Jared was safe and unharmed! Take care girlfriend, lets keep that unborn baby in the oven for a little longer! :) You'll all be in my prayers!
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Star. Thank God you and the family are ok. Take it slow and I do know what you mean about getting into a car again. Just take deep breaths and you will be fine. Emily
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Hope this finds you and jared better. I can't believe how fortuinate that mikey wasn't hurt. God bless you guys, <3 Diane
I think your guardian angels were working overtime in that accident. Please accept my very good wishes to you and your family. Always remember 'no matter how bad things are the sun always rises'. I will remember you in my prayers, and believe me prayer is the strongest force on this planet. My daughter is a walking example of that, I can tell you. God Bless you and keep you safe. He will help you when it is time for you to get behind the wheeel.


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Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am in Uncategorized.
The front of Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper is a big white space today except for a cartoon picture of man holding a blank newspaper and the caption "Without you, there's no Planet."
It's eye-catching, and a little silly but there's a serious reason behind today's cover.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, like thousands of newspapers around the country, is in financial trouble and struggling to stay afloat, say Becky and Mike O'Malley, who have run the paper for nearly six years.
Advertising revenue is way down, and the O'Malleys are looking for a new way to support the paper, which last May scaled down the print edition from Tuesdays and Fridays to Thursdays. It's also published online daily and the O'Malleys say that going online-only could be one solution.
Now they are asking their readers to cough up some cash so reporters can keep on covering the news.
The O'Malleys have launched the Planet Fund for Local Reporting to raise money to support the newspaper. They're even exploring the idea making the fund a tax-exempt nonprofit. Want to tell them how you feel about this? There's an online poll that asks readers if they would pay for the Berkeley Daily Planet, which like we've pointed out before is neither daily nor covers the planet.
Readers can donate to the fund either by mail or through the www.berkeleydailyplanet.com. We'll be waiting to see what happens with this innovative yet risky business model.
The Planet isn't the first news source to ask readers to pay directly for newsgathering. A Web site called Spot.Us was launched last year. Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change that asks people to donate money to get a certain story published. Freelance journalists are hired to write the stories once a set amount is raised.
In a story today, Becky O'Malley said that when they took over, they had "some hope that we would at least break even, but the reverse has happened."
"Not that advertising revenues have entirely gone away," said Michael O'Malley, the paper's publisher. But advertising doesn't cover the paper's biggest expense, the salaries of the reporters who gather the news and the editors who shape the final product that appears each Thursday morning in news boxes and stores from Richmond to Alameda."
The O'Malleys say they are trying to keep the paper afloat without cutting staff. More than 6,000 print journalists nationwide have lost their jobs over the past two years because of the economic downturn. The Bay Area News Group-East Bay, which runs the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times and nearly two dozen other daily and weekly newspapers in the Bay Area, has cut a substantial number of reporters, copy editors, editors and photographers over the last few years.
If the Berkeley Daily Planet closes, it wouldn't be the first time. Once owned by publisher Arnold Lee, and Stanford MBA grads Dave Danforth and Ed Carse, it folded the first time in November 2002.
In today's story, the O'Malleys say they haven't set a deadline for a final decision on the newspaper's fate. "But the costs have been high, and at some point, they say, they may have to devote the remainder of their resources to their children and grandchildren."
I guess this means the Berkeley Daily Planet still won't be daily or covering the planet.
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Primrose PreviewFebruary 18th, 2009 by raustin
The tech site zMogo has posted a preview of Primrose, the next game from Jason Rohrer, who also created the acclaimed games Passage and Between:
Probably best known for Passage, a game about the inevitability of death, Jason Rohrer has made a name for himself as a primary figure in the growing movement of art-games. Until now his games have essentially been an experiment in artistic expression through game design, exploring themes like regret, death, and creativity with basic game mechanics.
But Primrose takes a break from the debate with some unique puzzle gaming in the same vein as Tetris. Like most good puzzle games, the idea behind Primrose is simple: your goal is to accumulate points by surrounding blocks of one colour with blocks of another colour on a 7×7 grid. When a group of blocks have been surrounded, they disappear, giving you a certain amount of points depending on how many blocks were collected. Then the surrounding blocks are changed to the colour of the blocks that were eliminated.


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Minecraft Multiplayer UpdateNovember 27th, 2010 by Crusader
Notch has released a few updates for Minecraft that improve the Survivor Multiplayer mode.
Notch was also recently interviewed by Rock, Paper, Shotgun, describing the game's genesis and roadmap:
RPS: What's surprised you the most about how people have approached the game?
Persson: The number of videos on YouTube is pretty stunning. There are more movies about Minecraft than about Quake on there, and trying to understand why is very interesting. It's probably related to people wanting to show off what they do. It would be really interesting to add in-game video recording capabilities.


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I don't know what the situation there is, but here you aren't even certain to get a job based on a degree alone... I studied maths and physics and found out that when I was to leave university under ten percent of people from my course would get a job, so I finished my year to get my grant money and dropped it to do engineering in the royal navy, which is a well paid job and I'd not have earned any more if I had a degree or not in this case, if I'd continued I'd have had a £20,000 debt and would only be in the same place. Could be different there, but if it bothers you, tell him... no point suffering in silence over it.
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I have a friend that has been working at Taco Bell since he was 15 or 16. He is almost 20 now and is a shift manager. I and several other friends have urged him to go to school, but he usually comes up with the excuse that he can't afford it. I told him that he can go to a community college and get pell grants. He would probably get to go for next to nothing.
I really don't understand it, because the job he wants requires him to get a degree. I think college is just out of his comfort zone and is afraid to take a chance with it.
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"Ragtime music is happy music. It makes you want to get up and dance," said one of the presenters at last year's Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival.
And this year will be no exception, as Mississippi State University's Mitchell Memorial Library presents the fifth annual festival, set for March 25-26. Organizers said this signature festival will feature "some of the most dazzling keyboard virtuosity around in a setting that has come to be known for its warmth, hospitality and uniqueness with performances from five internationally renowned ragtime artists."
"This year we're excited to bring artists who've been a part of the Festival before back to Starkville and to welcome a new-to-our-Festival entertainer, as well," said Lyle Tate, festival organizer.
This year's festival will feature four returning favorites, plus Jim Hession, a Mississippi Gulf Coast artist who is looking forward to visiting with festival-goers at this year's event.
The artists include:
• Jim Hession has been one of the leading American pianists in the solo styles of early jazz, ragtime, stride, Harlem shout, boogie-woogie and swing for more than four decades. Hession and his wife, Martha, have relocated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and perform frequently in New Orleans.
• Frederick Hodges is sought after by today's foremost orchestras, festival, conductors and collaborative musicians. Hodges holds a doctorate from Oxford University and his repertoire includes the great European classical masters as well as the best ragtime, stride and novelty solo piano pieces.
• Brian Holland has performed ragtime, jazz and stride piano for almost 30 years and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Classically trained, but with a keen ear for improvisation, Holland has a dynamic, driving style that has been described as "clear as Waterford crystal."
• Sue Keller began her ragtime obsession in 1974 after graduating from DePauw University with a degree in music and theatre. Her appearances have ranged from the grand opening of Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston Harbor, the fabled Mikado nightclub in Tokyo, across Australia and even to the Great Wall of China.
• David Jasen is a collector of books, recordings, piano rolls, periodicals, catalogs and sheet music that cover the gamut of American popular music. An advisor to the Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival since its inception, Jasen brings an extraordinary knowledge of ragtime and history, enriching the festival experience and providing a dimension rarely seen elsewhere.
Festival-goers will remember Jasen's exuberant style and vast knowledge of Ragtime and Jazz musical history. He is also well-versed in the instrumentation on display at the Charles A. Templeton Museum at the Mitchell Memorial Library, home of more than 20,000 pieces of sheet music, 200 musical instruments and extensive memorabilia from the 1880s – 1930s.
"Having Dave Jasen on hand to lead the tours and share his incomparable insights on the music, culture, and styles of the Ragtime era is really an unmatched facet of the Templeton Festival," Tate said.
Tate said Fredrick Hodges will be coming back and will do another session where he underscores silent films.
"That was a big hit last year, and we're excited he's bringing more of that work this year," Tate said.
Tate said Holland and Keller are both dynamic, exciting performers and he is excited they are returning to the festival this year. Keller returns to the Templeton Festival after performing in the inaugural event on the MSU campus in 2007.
"I had such a wonderful experience the last time I was in Starkville," said Keller. "There was no question in my mind that I wanted to return. When asked, I said 'absolutely!'"
Stephen Cunetto, MSU Libraries' Administrator of Systems and Templeton Festival coordinator shares Keller's excitement about the Festival.
"This is our fifth year," Cunetto said, "and we're looking forward to our best festival yet. Having such outstanding returning artists – and getting to feature Jim Hession, one of Mississippi's own – has everyone involved excited about the weekend. We welcome people each year from all across the country, and we hope this year will bring even more ragtime enthusiasts to town."
In years past Ragtime Festival attendees have traveled from California, Ohio, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, and other states, and throughout Mississippi to listen and learn more about the "happiest music in the world."
Tate said audiences love the interaction with the performers and the collection throughout the weekend.
"In the 'living room' sessions, especially, the audience is right there with the performer as he/she shares insights and anecdotes about the Ragtime era and about the music and styles they've come to master," Tate said.
Evening concerts will be held in Lee Hall's historic Bettersworth Auditorium, while the daytime "living room" sessions and tours of the Templeton Collection will take place in Mitchell Memorial Library.
The Fifth Annual Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival is sponsored by the Mississippi State University Libraries, Charles Templeton Sr. Music Museum, Starkville Area Arts Council, Rotary Club of Starkville, Greater Starkville Development Partnership and in part by grants from the Mississippi Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Since 1992, the National Alliance of African American Athletes has presented the Watkins Award to the top high school scholar athletes.
J. Everette Pearsall, the executive director of the National Alliance of African American Athletes, came on the show to talk about the Watkins Award ceremony in DC.
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Being the curmudgeon that I am, taking the kids to see Bolt and then discovering that our theater was charging an extra $2.50 apiece for the "rental" of the 3-D glasses completely annoyed me. Also, I wasn't expecting much from the 3-D experience, itself.
Nothing made me feel better about the extra money we had to plunk down, but the 3-D turned out to be surprisingly good. Much better than the stuff I remember from my childhood. (You know, the movies where the 3-D effects were created using red and blue lines, and also dinosaurs.) And my kids actually cheered when the preview for Monsters vs. Aliens came on and and announced that it, too, would be in 3-D.
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And now I see that some of my favorite actors (hello, Rainn Wilson) are part of the project. Really, do I have to wait until March??
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Following a successful career in theatre, Shaw moved into training corporate clients in presentation skills 19 years ago. Since then, he's also worked closely with the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, training future CEOs how to communicate effectively. Then, about 2 years ago, someone from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge approached him about teaching these skills to academics too, and since then he has been helping Ph.D. students and postdocs bring a bit of corporate showmanship into academic presentations. "Half of Ph.D. students will enter the corporate world and another quarter will regularly interact with corporate companies in their research," Shaw says. "Changes are happening in academia and I'm attending to that need."
Here is a summary of his advice:
Look and sound confident
• Do vocal exercises before your presentation. This will help you articulate your words and sound more confident. Some exercises: Move your tongue to the back of your throat and say the months of the year. Then bring your tongue to the front of your mouth pointing downwards, between your lower teeth and your gum, and again go through the months of the year.
• People often get nervous in front of audiences because they feel like they are being looked at. Instead, reverse this feeling and look at your audience: Who got here early? Is anyone in the front row? Are people clumping together into groups?
Why should the audience listen to your talk?
• Don't just impart information during your talk -- you could do that via email. Instead your talk must be a proposal, with a recommendation backed up by justification. That's when a presentation shifts from being boring to dynamic.
• People shouldn't know that the presentation is over just because you've stopped talking. You should have a clear point to make and when you've arrived at that point, that is the end.
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• Try giving a presentation without using slides and turn the talk into a discussion. By doing this, the audience will feel more comfortable to ask questions. (Showing by example, Shaw used no slides or backdrops during his talk. It was just him on stage, engaging with the audience--and it worked!)
• Think about reversing the norm of having a large segment dedicated to the presentation with a few minutes at the end for questions, because a talk only gets interesting when someone questions or challenges what you've said. For a 30-minute presentation, Shaw recommends 10 minutes for the presentation and 20 minutes for Q&A. Also, instead of just asking at the end if there are any questions, try to steer the discussion into the direction that you would like to take it. This removes some of the fear about the final Q&A segment.
• Allow humor into your talk, but don't fall into the trap of telling jokes. There's a danger your jokes could fall flat -- or worse, offend your audience. You're not there to entertain; your main aim should be content and clarity.
• Presenting to a large audience is different than giving the same talk to a small group of people. Large audiences are far more passive and require more encouragement to keep them engaged.


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All Souls Anglican Church
The communities of the Benedictine Congregation of Our Saviour were established to provide clergy for small Continuing Anglican congregations that otherwise would not have a priest, and to provide support in other parishes. Our priests and sisters now serve in the following ministries in the Diocese of the Eastern United States (APA):
Father Peter Brewer OSB, serves as Vicar of All Souls Church, Asheboro, North Carolina.
Mark Menees OSB/Cn, serves as Vicar, St. John's Church, Greensboro, North Carolina
Sister Phoebe Elizabeth OSB/Cn, serves as a Deaconess St. Alban's Cathedral, Oviedo, Florida
Father Michael Stranz OSB/Cn, serves as Superior for the Community of Our Sorrowful Lady in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.
We are currently divided into three geographic Communities:
The Benedictine Community of Our Lady of All Souls, Priory of Our Lady of the Piedmont, Greensboro, North Carolina. Father Peter Brewer OSB, Prior and Superior-General.
The Benedictine Community of Our Sorrowful Lady, the Atlanta, Georgia, area. Father Michael Stranz OSB/Cn, Superior.
The Benedictine Community of Our Lady of Grace, the Orlando, Florida, area. Sister Phoebe Elizabeth OSB/Cn, Superior.
For further information on our Congregation and our Communities visit our website benedictinesos.org or write Father Peter Brewer OSB, Prior, P.O. Box 2163, Asheboro NC 27204


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Last week young A.J. Rolax helped Johanna White, representing the Port St. Joe Kiwanis Club, with ringing the bell for the Salvation Army.
A.J. commented that he really enjoyed ringing the bell and seeing people giving money to help those in need and he wants to ring the bell again next year, White said.


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JERUSALEM - The deputy chief of the Palestinian intelligence services was shot and seriously wounded in Gaza City yesterday as he drove to his office. Two of his bodyguards were killed and two others were wounded as gunmen fired on the convoy near the Shati refugee camp, overturning one of the cars, and then escaped.
The shooting, for which there was no immediate explanation, was the latest sign of the unrest and confusion in Gaza as Palestinian groups struggle for control of the Gaza Strip, which Israel says it will leave next year.


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Most people have probably already heard this on the news, but for those who haven't Winterbourne View is a care home for the treatments of patients with learning difficulties in Bristol, England. Recently a reporter from BBC's Panorama went undercover after hearing allegations of abuse which went unchecked by CQC (Care Quality Commision - responsible for investigating reports of abuse).
What he uncovered actually has to be one of the most shocking things I've ever watched - I mean, almost everything on the news is shocking, but not in a long time have I felt as appalled as I did when watching this footage. The carers responsible for looking after these vulnerable adults were hitting, bullying and taunting their patients - they poured cold water over them and then left them to shiver outside in temperatures barely above freezing. And most amazingly of all, when one carer tried to contact the authorities, no action was taken it was simply ignored.
It makes you wonder just how far-spread this problem is. I know there are so many carers out there who are wonderful at their job and do everything for their patients - I just can't believe that this sort of thing is happening in places where the most vulnerable people in society go for help. And the fact that nothing was done just astounds me.
How does everyone else feel about this news? How did you react when you heard about this? Has anyone experienced anything like this before, either first-hand or through a relative/friend? I know it's not the same at all, but I know that when my friend's grandmother died a lot of her valuable possessions (heirlooms, jewellery, etc.) was stolen by her carers. Unfortunately this couldn't be proved so whoever did it just got away with it. But it shows that there are carers out there that are abusing their positions.
I just can't get over how horrific the whole thing is - but even more worrying is how this could be happening in other places. The only silver lining to this whole disgusting thing is that hopefully investigations will take place which will help stop this sort of thing from happening again.
Further information:
Panorama Footage - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011pwt6/Panorama_Undercover_Care_The_Abuse_Exposed/ *Warning, some VERY distressing scenes*
BBC Article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13617196


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Miami Dolphins star receiver Brandon Marshall was stabbed in the abdomen Friday evening with a kitchen knife, CNN reported.
Michi Nogami-Marshall, 26, was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, the Los Angeles Times reported. Nogami-Marshall, the wife of the star wide-out, alledgedly stabbed Marshall in their Southwest Ranches, Florida, home.
Marshall's injuries are nonlife-threatening and his wife was released Saturday from the county's jail in Fort Lauderdale after posting a $7,500 bond.


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Local Drought Continues
Now that the governor has declared a state of emergency for 42 Wisconsin counties dealing with drought conditions, what is the next step before the fed's would step in to help? We asked Donna Gilson with the state Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer protection that question.
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Art for Awarness
February 27, 2012
The Art Newspaper online reported that Word Above the Street – a New York City organization will "raise awareness on the global water supply" in a creative way. Artists will paint murals on water tanks throughout the city. The initiative, the Water Tank Project, is expected to be complete in 2013. For more info, visit: http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/New-York-water-tanks-to-be-transformed-into-works-of-art/25702


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A Mountain for Joseph
John Calvin comments: "Until our faith rises to lay hold on those things which are removed afar off, we know not what it is to set our seal to the word of God." The Christian life is future-oriented. We by ...Read More
God's Mercy on Jacob
Matthew Henry comments: "The eye of faith may be very clear even when the eye of the body is very much clouded." At the end, Jacob does not dwell on the hardships of his life, he recognizes the great blessing ...Read More
Jacob: Lesson Learned
Jacob learned the ways of the Lord who exalts what men might forget (Matt. 19:30) and gives a better blessing to the younger Ephraim while relying on God's ways honestly, nobly, and carefully. If an outsider were called ...Read More
Joseph's Protest
John Calvin comments, saying the Lord purposely changed "the law of nature, to teach us that what he freely confers upon us, is entirely the result of his own will." We tend to think, at least subconsciously, that God chooses ...Read More
The Patriarchal Blessing
The Bible is clear that the patriarchal blessing finds its fullness in Christ, the truest son of Abraham. Moreover, in His grace, the Father has extended this blessing to all of those who believe in Him (Gal. 3:29). How ...Read More
Two More Sons of Israel
John Calvin says that Joseph's rush to see his father one last time shows he regards it "a greater privilege to be a son of Jacob, than to preside over a hundred kingdoms." Joseph saw his father's great ...Read More


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Posted By Joe On March 11, 2009 @ 12:29 pm In Conversion Optimization | No Comments
There is no set rule as to how long your website has to make a connection with a user. The time span for optimal engagement ranges from about 4 seconds [1] to about 10 seconds [2]. Regardless of how many seconds it takes to evoke a response, let's just put it this way: your website has only a few precious seconds to convince the user that they have arrived at the right place and that they should stay.
Why are web users so fickle? They are inundated with information all day everyday and they can only allot a few seconds to a new website. If a browser doesn't get the sense that they will find what they want from a particular website within a few seconds, they will head to another site that does give them this feeling. You can make your site search engine-engine-friendly until the cows come home but if you aren't grabbing the attention of your audience, you are doing yourself a great disservice.
Web browsers cast their judgment on a website within only a few seconds by scanning [3] and not paying attention to the details (at first). Most web users scan a new website in a few seconds in a diagonal pattern, looking for pertinent information.
Yes, this means that the months of hard work you put into your website's design, concept, content, and navigation are haphazardly appreciated (or even noticed) by the majority of your audience. It's a hard fact of digital life. So, how do you act accordingly in order to make sure that users are engaged from the first second they hit your site?
The answer is obvious, but I'll go ahead and say it: place the most important information about your product/service/company at the top of the page. According to Milissa Tarquini [4], "The most basic rule of thumb is that for every site the user should be able to understand what your site is about by the information presented to them above the fold."
Of course, executing the answer is never as simply stating it. So, here is a quick list of things to keep in mind when reviewing your site:
Keep it simple: When a user hits a website they want to know who you are, what you have to offer, and what the next steps are. Keep your design simple, and easy-to-follow. And you shouldn't overload your site with distracting graphics, content, navigation.
Every element of your site must have a purpose: This follows the first tactic because they are closely tied together. Whenever you add something to your homepage you should ask, "Does this help convey my message clearly and engage the use quickly and easily." Remember: communicate, don't decorate [5].
Make them want more: To get someone excited about your site, they have to view your site as "important." When you achieve this status, the user will explore the rest of your site to get more information and to learn more about you and your product/service. Present the most important information first, but don't be afraid to disperse other crucial information throughout the site.
Every audience is different: What is actually important, the information that should be highlighted at the top of your website, is different for every audience. You will have determine what your audience is looking for and give it to them fast and easy.
In general, you have 4 to 10 seconds to convice a user that they should explore the rest of your website. So, what's your plan? That is what this boils down to. And the answer to this question is different for every website.
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Fife HEADLINES
Pierce County wanted more money to house Tacoma's offenders but the city went to Fife, putting the county jail millions of dollars into the red.
Dee-Dee Dukes-Gethers, a two-year Fife City Council member, was trailing challenger Winston Marsh in early election returns Wednesday.
Three people accused of harboring a 15-year-old runaway at a Fife motel and pimping her out were arrested Wednesday, police said.
A three-car crash in Fife has police officers advising morning commuters to avoid the area.
Elsie Taniguchi was part of the Japanese community that made up a third of Fife's population in 1942, when she and her family were taken from their farm to a detention center at the Puyallup Fairgrounds.
A 31-year-old woman charged with five robberies at Tacoma and Fife stores used Mace, a butcher knife and an air soft handgun, according to court documents.
Megan Jendrick has always been a woman with a plan, even when she was a girl. Before becoming a three-time Olympic swimming medalist, she was 12-year-old Megan Quann from Puyallup with a four-year plan and a big dream.
A reader inquired about the fate of Fife City Bar & Grill after seeing a sign for an auction of that restaurants equipment. I found a website announcement from Chef Diana Prine saying that she has closed her Fife restaurant. Heres the text of Prines farewell, which you can read here. Something to note she said shes excited for what lies ahead. I hope to reach her by phone soon to find out what that is. Another restaurant in the works?
Drunken driving arrests in Pierce County were down from last year over the Labor Day weekend, according to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
The family of a Fife teen says he has been missing for a couple weeks.
Fresh from mid-morning recess in the August sunshine, a group of 17 pre-kindergarten students needed a gentle reminder that it was time to focus.
Tacoma firefighters are training today at a home in Fife, so dont worry if you see smoke or flames near 1623 62nd Avenue East.
A woman was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after she pulled into the path of a Fife police officer responding to a priority call Monday, authorities said.
Its a night of togetherness, meant to draw neighbors together and push criminals out.
A closed-off Union Pacific railroad crossing in Fife that has long divided the city is now one of the city's most divisive topics.
The two houses are about 100 yards apart in a quiet gated neighborhood called the Buttes on a wooded plateau just outside Orting.
Lights & Sirens: New website means new home for breaking crime stories, no more Lights and Sirens
FOB Tacoma: JBLM losing one of its team players as Fires Brigade's Col. Kamper moves on
Word on the Street: Public Disclosure Commission filings: Puyallup campaign updates
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In two separate releases this week from the International Federation of Journalists, the group called for safety and justice for journalists around the world in their critical work covering anti-government protests. It urged journalists to be vigilant covering ongoing unrest and protests in Bangkok, Thailand and issued a link to its tips for journalist safety. The Federation this week also urged Russian to admit journalist David Satter whose visa to re-enter was rejected after he left his station in the country to cover protests in Kiev. Upon attempt to re-enter Russia, Satter's visa was rejected with authorities saying only that he was "undesirable." Satter has posted links to support statements from around the world on his website. Those interested in following his case can follow him on Twitter @DavidSatter.
The NWU sends out a message of solidarity to journalists in Thailand and to David Satter and supports demands that journalists be allowed safety and freedom of movement so that they can conduct their critical work.


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