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Can you please describe your boyfriend or the guy you like?
I mean his personality or how he acts, not his appearance. Please list the good and bad.
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Okay, well there is this one guy who I've always had a soft spot and there is my boyfriend. I'll start with the boyfriend.
The good:
He's sweet. He offers to buy me things. He loves spending time with me. He has nice muscles. He has those brown puppy dog eyes. He likes to have a good joke. He is independant. He wants to get somewhere with his life. When he has kids he wants to provide a stable and comfortable life for them. He is currently at uni.
The bad:
He is to protective and domesticated over me. If there is another guy around he likes to protect his 'territory'. He tries to appear stronger than all the other guys, to show them up type thing. He needs hugs and kisses etc a lot, aka, he needs me to prove my affection to him constantly.
Now to the guy I have a soft spot for.
The good: He can look at me and make me melt (I've learnt how to hide it now though). He is great in bed. He knows EXACTLY what to do to get me going (without me showing him). He comes up with these random nicknames that are cute bute flirty. He is great at flirting. He knows how to make me smile and forget about the rest of the world. He isn't pushy and won't ever try to make me do anything I don't want to do. He is a laid back guy, that is always up for some fun and up for trying something new! Parents like him. He draws. He writes poetry and lyrics. He plays guitar. He is protective of me but not overbearing.
The bad: He has played me (I've played him back now, karma is a bitch!). He knows how to play hard to get. He is fully capable of lying. If he knew how I felt about him he could get me on my knee's begging in an instant. He gets jealous even though we aren't dating.
If your getting all of these answers to try and make yourself more desireable, just be yourself. If someone doesn't except yourself for you, bad points and good points, then why would you want to be with them anyway? Just a thought.
If you'd leave your boyfriend for another guy in an instant, why are you with him?
I did.
What Girls Said 9
Guy I like is nice, he cares, sensitive but doesn't show it, quiet like I am, serious. He works hard at his job, he does more through action to show he cares about me rather than words, sentimental like I am, educated and ethical. He has a sense of protocol, he has honour/ pride. he never calls people names...ever. He's romantic when we're alone, not so much in public. I like his quiet way of showing that he cares.
The guy I like is standing out from the other guys... When all the guys are doing one thing, he'll do another. He's rather easy-going, and I've never seen him get mad, just annoyed. He NEVER talks about other girls, and he knows how to be sincere. He's shy yet outgoing, it depend on who he's with... He makes you feel special by only making eye contact with you, and gets a bit protective when you have a really good time with another guy...
He smokes ALOT, really. He's obsessed with coffee and beer, and always looks for some fun. He won't accept other guys making a fool of him, and then start fighting. He doesn't go easy on guys... He has actually beaten up another guy so much, that the guy had to go to the hospital... But he wouldn't hit a girl, he get's really annoyed when guys hit girls...
The guy I'm interested in is a really cool dude. That's always been most important to me. We have the same taste in music and he isn't always connected to me at the hip. I like it because it doesn't feel like babysitting when I'm with him. Also, the way he looks at me makes me feel like I might have a heart attack. It's not a physical thing, it's just that he makes me feel like I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen, and it's discreet enough to not be embarrassing.
The good: He's outgoing, has the ability to make anyone and everyone laugh. He makes some sort of eye conctact that could kill you...ina good way. He's friends with evrybody, doesn't get mad unless you give him a reason. The kid could manage to cheer you up no matter what kind of day you're having. He does not tell alll his buddies what he does with a girl he has feelings for. Loves himself.
The bad: He does drugs, plays all the girls...has slept with all the goodlooking chiks in my school. He gets mad oh so easily sometimes. The kinda guy that would hit a girl if he has the reasons. He's a bit ignorant...cant see what's thrown right in his face. A faliure in school. A vain and self centered kid, he could sit in class all day and tlk about his life the whole time. Won't look twice if the girl is not near pretty. A jerk.
Wait, what?
"doesn't get mad unless you give him a reason"
"He gets mad oh so easily sometimes. The kinda guy that would hit a girl if he has the reasons."
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Wow. And who says chivalry is dead? :P
Lol.... =|
well, we met close to 5 years ago now, so ii know him pretty well..
a few of the major things for me is that he listens to ME... if someone tells him something about me, he will defend me, he is not ashamed of me(he can say he loves me in front of...anyone)
i don't feel like I have to compete with any other chick... he accepts me for who I am.
when we are out, he doesn't get all defensive when other guys stare at me , now if they are bold enough to approach me, that is another story.. lol
but I can be myself around him, and I don't have to worry about being judged, that is my hubby(:
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Observations, the QandO Podcast for 03 Jul 15
Hillary Clinton, Greek love, and tyranny can all be found in this week's podcast, available on the Podcast page.
"Because it is all about me!" Obama asks Euro leaders to keep Greece in Eurozone till after the election
No I'm not kidding. Talk about political gall.
There's a meeting taking place in Europe:
Representatives from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission are due to arrive in Athens next month to assess Greece's reform efforts.
They are expected to report in time for an 8 October meeting of eurozone finance ministers which will decide on whether to disburse Greece's next €31bn aid tranche, promised under the terms of the bailout for the country.
American officials are understood to be worried that if they decide Greece has not done enough to meet its deficit targets and withhold the money, it would automatically trigger Greece's exit from the eurozone weeks before the Presidential election on 6 November.
Oh my … election. Hey Europe, this is about me! Suck it up and hold off doing anything until after I win!
American officials are understood to be worried that if they decide Greece has not done enough to meet its deficit targets and withhold the money, it would automatically trigger Greece's exit from the eurozone weeks before the Presidential election on 6 November.
They are urging eurozone Governments to hold off from taking any drastic action before then – fearing that the resulting market destabilisation could damage President Obama's re-election prospects. European leaders are thought to be sympathetic to the lobbying fearing that, under pressure from his party lin Congress, Mitt Romney would be a more isolationist president than Mr Obama.
Amazing. Disturbing. But not surprising.
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 17 Jun 12
This week, Bruce, Michael and Dale talk about Niel Munro interrupting the president, and the Greek elections.
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Around the economic world in a few minutes
A post to update you on what is happening, economically around the world.
In Asia, some not so good signs. In China, housing prices fell in 100 Chinese cities for the 5th straight month. Chinese manufacturing has also cooled significantly:
Manufacturing activity in China and across a wide swath of Asia slowed in May, heightening fears that the turmoil in Western economies is dragging down one of the few remaining engines of global growth.
Two purchasing managers indexes for China fell in May, briefly rattling investors Friday and stoking speculation Beijing may have to respond aggressively to support growth. Indonesia posted its first trade deficit in nearly two years, and South Korea's exports, considered a bellwether for Asia, unexpectedly fell for a third straight month.
"The green shoots of recovery that we were seeing a month or so back are wilting away," said Rob Subbaraman, chief Asia economist at Nomura Securities. "The crisis in Europe is one reason; the other one is the China slowdown. But I think less appreciated is that the height of uncertainty about the outlook has caused Asian firms and multinationals in Asia to pause in their investments, and I think that's the bigger factor right now."
China's official PMI, based on government data, showed manufacturing continuing to grow but by the barest of margins, falling to 50.4 in May from 53.3 in April. A figure above 50 indicates expansion. An index produced by HSBC and Markit showed Chinese manufacturing was worse, falling to 48.4 in May from 49.3 a month earlier.
"We feel that in China a very powerful stimulus"—combining fiscal outlays and cuts to banks' reserve requirement ratio—"is required to arrest the slowdown in growth," said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research for HSBC. "These numbers today suggest this is coming sooner rather than later. If that stimulus is not delivered, then China is indeed looking at a hard landing."
Both the US's non-recovery recovery and the Eurozone crisis are being blamed for this slowdown.
The economies of Asia, both the emerging markets and the more developed countries, are being hit by a double whammy of slowing domestic growth and the impact of the European debt crisis on Asian exports and finance.
Signs of distress are proliferating.
In India, the government reported Thursday growth in the first three months of the year at the slowest pace in the past nine years—up 5.3% from the year-earlier quarter, well below the 8% pace of recent years. "A gasping elephant," said Leif Lybecker Eskesen, HSBC's chief India economist, in a note to investors.
In China Friday, an official gauge of manufacturing activity fell to a lower than expected level, which is likely to add to market concerns about China's slowdown. China's official Purchasing Managers Index fell to 50.4 in May, compared with 53.3 in April and lower than the median forecast of 51.5. A reading below 50 indicates contraction. The Ministry of Commerce, meanwhile, is blaming "worse-than-expected" economic performance in Europe for disappointing export data.
Early Friday, South Korea said its exports unexpectedly contracted for a third consecutive month in May compared with a year earlier. South Korea is the first country in Asia to release trade data for the month and is often a harbinger of regional trends.
Meanwhile in Europe, the UK's manufacturing is reported as slumping with activity dropping to its lowest level in three years. The Eurozone jobless rate stands at 11%. Additionally the Eurozone crisis is now beginning to effect countries with close proximity and ties which are not a part of the Euro:
The euro zone's deepening fiscal crisis continued to take its toll on some of the neighboring economies of central and eastern Europe in May, as surveys released Friday indicated manufacturing activity contracted again in May.
The countries in Europe's center and east have close trade and financial ties with the euro zone, and some have seen demand for their exports weaken as the currency area's economy has stalled, while western Europe banks have cut their lending to the region.
A double whammy. And, finally, within the Eurozone itself, companies are trying to prepare for the Greek withdrawal from the zone (and possibly Spain's as well):
As European officials race to quell fears that Greece may exit the euro, many companies doing business in the troubled country are preparing for the worst.
Most executives, analysts and others agree on one thing: the impact of a Greek withdrawal from the euro zone is impossible to predict. That's why multinational companies are rehearsing for any number of contingencies. They range from a paralysis in cross-border payments to a civil breakdown in Greece to a broader breakup of Europe's common currency.
Retrieving their cash is among the companies' gravest concerns. If Greece were to revert to its former currency, many companies fear that any euros left there would be converted into less-valuable drachmas. Should that happen, Greece is widely expected to impose capital controls to keep the remaining cash in the country.
Can you say "completely mess?"
Meanwhile, here, the business climate remains unsettled, hiring still isn't showing any real turnaround and the economy continues to bang along the bottom (one assumes, it could drop again if the Euro crisis explodes) with no real trend upward.
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Denial is not just a river in Egypt
Dale's post, "Fantasy v. Reality" is spot on. And there are plenty of examples of his point to be found. One of the characteristics of those who live in the fantasy side of things is their continued denial of the real cause of Greece's problems specifically and Europe's problem generally.
They, like certain politicians on this side of the pond, want to lay it off on others – the implication being that if that situation is changed, the problems that Greece and other countries are encountering will resolve themselves.
And then what? And then the strategy would appear to be to cauterise the amputation; to circle the wagons; to issue the most ringing and convincing proclamation to the markets that no more depredations will be tolerated; and to get the Germans to stump up, big time, to protect Spain and Portugal. We are told that the only solution now is a Fiscal Union (or FU). We must have "more Europe", say our leaders, not less Europe – even though more Europe means more suffering, and a refusal to recognise what has gone wrong in Greece.
The euro has turned out to be a doomsday machine, a destroyer of jobs, a killer of growth, because it entrenches and exacerbates the fundamental and historic inability of some countries to compete with Germany in making high-quality goods with low-unit labour costs. Unable to devalue their way back into the game, these countries are forced to watch industry wilt under German imports, as the euro serves as a giant trebuchet to fire swish German saloon cars and machine tools across the rest of Europe.
Germany is almost alone in recording economic growth in the first part of 2012; Germany is doing well from the euro; and so the theory is that Germany should pay to keep the whole racket going by bailing out the improvident and the uncompetitive, just as London and the South East subsidise the rest of the UK.
Alas, it is not a strategy that is likely to work. As Angela Merkel has made clear, there is little political support – let alone popular support – in Germany. EU leaders may want a fiscal union, but it is deeply anti-democratic. We accept large fiscal transfers in this country because Britain has a single language and a single political consciousness in a way that Europe never will. Rather than creating an "economic government of Europe", the project will lead to endless bitterness between the resentful donors and the humiliated recipients, as these diminished satrapies will be instructed to accept cuts and "reforms" – designed in Berlin and announced in Brussels – as the price of their dosh.
Or, "it's all Germany's fault".
Germany implemented Greece's labor laws, work week, retirement age, public pensions and government subsidies. You didn't know that? It's Germany's fault that it has all caught up with Greece in a down global market. If Germany wasn't so damn good, Greece would be in such damn bad shape.
Really. That's what this guy is pushing. I mean, my goodness, imagine – "high-quality goods with low-unit labor costs". How dare they? How can one pump up a welfare state and keep it going with competition like that? It is Germany's job to enable Greece's work 38 hour week. Germany's job to ensure their generous pension plans, early retirement, subsidies and welfare payments.
How dare they do otherwise. They owe Europe. They owe the rest of Europe the lifestyle they desire but can't afford.
What is wrong with that country?
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Fantasy vs. Reality
Greece's long vacation from reality is very nearly over. Not that you'd believe it from listening to the country's politicians. In the aftermath of Greece's last elections, voters rejected further austerity, and instead sought refuge in fantasy. That fantasy is perhaps best exemplified by Alexis Tsipras, who emerged from the election with the power to block approval of any further austerity by blocking the formation of a government.
Indeed, I now have some doubt as to whether Mr. Tsipras is actually sane:
Leftist Alexis Tsipras, 37, emerged with the power to block them. Greece, he said, could ditch its spending cuts and renounce its debts to EU partners, yet enlist their help in keeping the euro currency some 80 percent of Greeks cherish.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
And everybody with a lick of sense knows it's not gonna happen. Not in Greece. Nor, apparently, anywhere else on the Euro Zone's periphery, as money is fleeing it with alacrity.
Foreign bank deposits have fallen 64% in Greece, 55% in Ireland and 37% in Portugal; in Italy, the fall is 34% and Spain 13%. Foreign government bond holdings have dropped 56% in Greece, 18% in Ireland and 25% in Portugal; in Italy the fall is 12% and Spain 18%. So if Italy and Spain were to move to the average for the other three, a further 200 billion euros would flow out.
The Greeks are not being punished by rich Germans. They aren't the victims of speculators or criminals. They are merely being forced to pay the price that reality is about to impose for decades of enthusiastic socialism, and the attendant corruption, debt, and malfeasance it has encouraged. Their problem isn't "austerity"; it's the unsustainable political and economic fantasies that have sustained the county's political culture.
Greece is a failed state. Spain is about to become a failed state. No doubt a list of "enemies" will be promulgated to try and paper over whose fault all this actually is. The sacrifice of scapegoats in times of crisis is, after all, a venerated European tradition.
But, that won't help, or stop what is coming. Reality is relentless. And the really scary thing about that is that there are lessons in all this for us, which I am not entirely sure our own political class will heed—or is even capable of recognizing.
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 20 May 12
This week, Bruce, Michael and Dale talk about Greece, and the folly of governments.
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Things that should be obvious
Reality is a great test of belief. Sometimes, the things you believe are confirmed by experience. Sometimes they aren't. And sometimes, reality is so at odds with what people believe, they have to be complete dolts to keep believing it. But, I constantly see people who believe things that simply can't be true, and it bothers me.
Ultimately, reality tells you whether what you believe is true or not. And if reality conflicts with what you believe, it isn't reality that's got it wrong.
The Stimulus Cheerleaders
Basically, it's the unreconstructed Keynesian crowd. Popularly led by Paul Krugman—who is a Nobel Laureate economist—they continue to argue that the problem with the economy is that the government simply didn't spend enough to properly stimulate the economy.
There's so much wrong with that, it's hard to know where to start.
First, let's accept that in a range of circumstances, it actually is true that the government can stimulate the economy via deficit spending. As long as there's not too much debt in the economy as a whole, you can prime the economic pump through deficit spending, especially if you have a fiat currency. We've done it lots of times since WWII.
So, up to a point, even if you have a credit bubble that collapses, you can re-inflate it by essentially transferring that debt to the Government via deficit spending.
Up to a point.
As I've mentioned previously, the newest ECB research indicates that, in developed economies, once you reach a government debt load of about 100% GDP, it begins to drag on the economy, reducing economic growth by about 1% annually. So, what should be 3% annual GDP growth becomes 2%. And as the debt gets bigger, the drag gets bigger, faster.
Now, ever since Reagan and Congress began serious, constant deficit spending in the 80s, there have been worries that the government debt would begin to crown out private markets, and slow the economy. But it never happened.
Well, until now, as we crossed that 1:1 GDP to debt ratio.
Moreover, the idea that we haven't spent enough to stimulate the economy is simply farcical. In 2008, the total national debt was less than $10 trillion. Now it's over $16 trillion. So no matter whether or not we spent X amount of money marked "stimulus", we've spent so much money that we've added more than $6 Trillion in debt in just 4 years. That's a lot of stimulus.
Arguing that we needed to spend more is…counterintuitive. If $6+ trillion won't do it, then it probably can't be done.
Besides, we already learned there was a fundamental problem with Keynesian economics when we had stagflation in the '70s, which was supposedly impossible.
The Greeks
Here's the thing about looting the system. Once you've looted it…it's been looted. The Greeks seem utterly incapable of understanding that the system can't continue to dole out benefits once you've looted it. It's not the Germans that are making life difficult for the Greeks, by refusing to give them more money. It's the Greeks that have made life difficult for themselves by spending themselves into a 1.28:1 Debt to GDP ratio.
Austerity, of course, isn't pleasant—at least not the way they've implemented it. What they needed was public sector austerity, i.e., spending cuts, not private sector austerity, i.e., tax increases. Instead, they got both. What they needed were massive spending cuts, and debt repayment.
But, of course, in a country where practically every cop, teacher, and fireman is a unionized employee of the state, and half of the private citizens get some sort of cushy government benefit payment, much public sector austerity was a political non-starter. So they gave themselves a little public austerity and a lot of private austerity…and the economy collapsed. I mean, no matter what they did, they were in for a tough time, but they chose the most destructive path possible, then blamed it on the Germans.
The thing is, the Germans are historically…impatient with foreigners that they find troublesome. But the Greeks have decided that, having looted their economy completely, it's the Germans' fault somehow. The Greek position is, "We want to stay in the euro without worrying about our deficits, borrow money from Germany, never pay it back, and tell anyone who questions this to go screw."
The Germans, as are their wont, are unamused.
The list of odd things Californians believe that are directly contradicted by observable reality is, of course, far to long to be described here. A representative sample, however, includes:
- Maintaining a permanent class of illegal immigrants in modern-day helotage will not reduce employment among the minority citizenry. Giving them full access to state benefits and education will not strain the schools, medical system, or state budget.
- California must have the strictest environmental, tax, and employment regulation possible. This will not result slower economic growth, or a business exodus to another state. Similarly, stringent environmental regulation for the benefit of small fish or birds, and significantly reducing the water available for irrigation, will have no effect on farming in the central valley, and, hence, agricultural prices paid by consumers.
- It is completely possible to allow state employees to retire as young as 50, with an annual pension payment 85% of their highest salary, and fully meet our pension obligations, because the Dow will be at 24,000 by 2009, and 24,000,000 by 2099, thus making the latest round of pension increases perfectly sustainable through investment.
- If we're taxing California workers 10% of their income, and we have a $16 billion budget deficit, the problem is that we obviously aren't taxing enough. We should, therefore, tax higher income earners much more, because they can never leave California and move to Arizona. Or Texas.
California is just Greece with movie stars.
I could go on and on, but, you probably get the point.
The problem with reality is that it doesn't care what you believe. It just is. The longer you ignore it, the more forceful it is when it re-asserts itself. But if I could point to one thing as the worst modern problem we have today, it would be an absolute refusal to acknowledge reality, accompanied by a steadfast refusal to recognize any of the warning signals it obligingly gives before its assertion becomes horrific, rather than merely unpleasant.
If you make the decision to ride this thing down in flames, reality will be perfectly happy to let you do it.
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 19 Feb 12
This week, Michael, and Dale talk about the controversy over the HHS contraception mandate.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
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Greece goes cold turkey
And no, that's not a joke about Turkey. What you're seeing in Greece is what you see in any drug rehab program … the results of withdrawal. In this case, the addiction isn't to heroin or cocaine, but other people's money. And Greece passed the tipping point of dependency years ago, decades ago.
But the money has finally run out and the addict doesn't have the necessary money for the next fix.
Result? Violence, denial and the refusal to accept the treatment.
More than 40 buildings were set ablaze in an orgy of looting that left scores injured as protesters vented their anger at the caretaker government and parliament's ordering of a further €3.3bn of savings by slashing wages and pensions and laying off public sector workers.
But the scenes of mayhem on the streets of Athens and all across the country leave big questions unresolved regarding Greece's capacity to stick with the savage austerity. The country is in its fifth year of recession and has little prospect of halting a steep decline in living standards.
Meanwhile street battles between police firing rounds of teargas and demonstrators hurling firebombs and marble slabs left Syntagma square, the plaza in front of the parliament building, resembling a war zone.
Rubbish bins burned and plumes of smoke and asphyxiating clouds of toxic chemicals filled the air.
The explosions were so loud, they could be heard inside parliament and the teargas drifting across square reached the debating chamber. The buildings that were set on fire included cinemas, banks and a number of shops, and Greek television reported that dozens of citizens and at least 40 police officers had been injured.
Why? Because the caretaker parliament has, of necessity, tried to do what is necessary to return the country of Greece to fiscal sanity. And that entails drastically reducing or eliminating decades of entitlements that the government granted but which was obvious the country couldn't afford. Among them:
Parliament backed drastic cuts in wages, pensions and jobs on Sunday as the price of a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund …
That included a roll back of Greece's minimum wage. This doesn't settle anything though. Although the vote was important, EU leaders are still not convinced that implementation will ever happen:
The EU welcomed the vote, but told Greece it had more to do to secure the funds and avoid a disorderly default next month that would have "devastating consequences."
Euro zone finance ministers meet on Wednesday, and the fragile ruling coalition of Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has until then to say how 325 million euros of the 3.3 billion euros in budget savings will be achieved.
A government spokesman said political leaders also had until Wednesday to give a written commitment that they will implement the terms of the deal, reflecting fatigue in Brussels over what EU leaders say have been a string of broken promises.
So this has turned into a series of attempts and votes and "guarantees" and failures leading to this latest attempt to keep Greece afloat – something the rest of Europe, according to reports, deems as critical.
There's also a vote in April, a month after the demand that the deal agreed upon is scheduled to be implemented. Many observers believe the vote will be driven to the extreme left or right by these events. That, of course, would set up political polarization which will be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. A preview of that problem was seen after this vote:
The leaders of two of the three major political parties in Prime Minister Lucas Papademos's interim coalition government — the Socialists and the center-right New Democracy party — agreed on the new round of austerity after days of tense debate, maneuvering and threats. The leader of the third, the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally, refused to endorse the measures and later withdrew from the coalition.
In the debate on Sunday night before the vote, Mr. Papademos appealed to lawmakers to do their "patriotic duty" and pass the measures, saying they would be saving Greece from bankruptcy in March, when a bond issue comes due that Greece cannot repay without foreign help.
In a sign of how the crisis has frayed the political order in Greece, the three leading political parties all moved swiftly to expel lawmakers who had broken ranks with leaders in the voting.
Although we're likely to deny any applicability of the crisis there to our circumstances, our country is headed in the same direction, albeit later and more slowly. But the end-state will be the same. The difference is just a matter of degree, not design. Greece is simply the first of many countries who've tried to redistribute income to support a socialist inspired lifestyle from a diminishing pool of workers.
It is our future, if we don't change our ways … drastically.
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(%) 25 Resident Wages in 2013 ($) 639,356,591 New Hires 4,556 Unemployment Insurance Claimants 1,939 Local Labor Market Info URL http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/alari/index.cfm?r=5&b=11&p=143&goplace=go Economy - Fisheries Participation and Earnings CDQ Participant No CQE Eligible No Count of Seafood Processors 0 All Fisheries, Permit Holders 400 All Fisheries, Permits Issued 641 All Fisheries, Permit Holders that Fished 280 All Fisheries, Est. Earnings ($) 21,232,418 All Fisheries, Total (Lbs.) 17,880,680 All Fisheries, Note Total pounds landed and estimated earnings for some fisheries in this borough are supressed because three or fewer permit holders participated. Therefore the total numbers shown may be lower than the actual amounts. Crab, Permit Holders 52 Crab, Permits Issued 58 Crab, Permit holders that fished 34 Crab, Est. Earnings ($) 2,204,547 Crab, Total (Lbs.) 702,067 Crab, Note Total pounds landed and estimated earnings for some crab fisheries in this borough are supressed because three or fewer permit holders participated. Therefore the total numbers shown may be lower than the actual amounts. Halibut, Permit Holders 104 Halibut, Permits Issued 104 Halibut, Permit holders that fished 97 Halibut, Est. Earnings ($) 3,978,768 Halibut, Total (Lbs.) 849,645 Herring, Permit Holders 19 Herring, Permits Issued 24 Herring, Permit holders that fished 8 Herring, Est. Earnings ($) 201,527 Herring, Total (Lbs.) 199,387 Herring, Note Total pounds landed and estimated earnings for some herring fisheries in this borough are supressed because three or fewer permit holders participated. Therefore the total numbers shown may be lower than the actual amounts. Other Groundfish, Permit Holders 26 Other Groundfish, Permits Issued 32 Other Groundfish, Permit holders that fished 6 Other Groundfish, Est. Earnings ($) 79,146 Other Groundfish, Total (Lbs.) 119,537 Other Groundfish, Note Total pounds landed and estimated earnings for some other groundfish fisheries in this borough are supressed because three or fewer permit holders participated. Therefore the total numbers shown may be lower than the actual amounts. Other Shellfish, Permit Holders 28 Other Shellfish, Permits Issued 31 Other Shellfish, Permit holders that fished 15 Other Shellfish, Est. Earnings ($) 443,406 Other Shellfish, Total (Lbs.) 96,550 Black Cod, Permit Holders 37 Black Cod, Permits Issued 42 Black Cod, Permit holders that fished 37 Black Cod, Est. Earnings ($) 2,129,212 Black Cod, Total (Lbs.) 613,926 Salmon, Permit Holders 320 Salmon, Permits Issued 350 Salmon, Permit holders that fished 207 Salmon, Est. Earnings ($) 12,195,812 Salmon, Total (Lbs.) 15,299,568 Salmon, Note Total pounds landed and estimated earnings for some salmon fisheries in this borough are supressed because three or fewer permit holders participated. Therefore the total numbers shown may be lower than the actual amounts. Economy - Fuel Prices Election, Recording, and Judicial Districts Senate District Q Senator Dennis Egan (D) House District 33, 34 Representative Sam Kito (D), Cathy Munoz (R) Judicial District 1 Recording District Juneau Facilities and Amenities Municipal Facilities & Utilities Volunteer Fire/EMS/Ambulance, Animal Control, Bartlett Regional Hospital, Airport, Docks and Harbors, Schools, Teen Health Center at the High School, Libraries, Museum, Swimming Pool, Eaglecrest Ski Resort, Hazardous Waste Disposal, Recycling Center,Parks & Recreation, Treadwell Ice Arena, Zach Gordon Youth Center, Ballfields, Parking, Roads, Transit, Human Services, Planning Community Development, Building Safety & Permits, Centenial Hall Convention Center. Broadband Internet Available Yes Broadband Cell Phone Services Yes Cell Phone Service Available Yes Max Upload Speed Available 3 Mbps to 6 Mbps Max Download Speed Available 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps Geography and Climate Location Located on the mainland of Southeast Alaska, opposite Douglas Island, Juneau was built at the heart of the Inside Passage along the Gastineau Channel. It lies 900 air miles northwest of Seattle and 577 air miles southeast of Anchorage. Latitude 58.3019 Longitude -134.4197 Sq Mi Land 2716.70 Sq Mi Water 538.30 Climate Juneau falls within the southeast maritime climate zone, characterized by cool summers, mild winters and heavy rain throughout the year. Southeast Alaska lacks prolonged periods of freezing weather at low altitudes and is characterized by cloudiness and frequent fog. The combination of heavy precipitation and low temperatures at high altitudes in the coastal mountains of southern Alaska accounts for the numerous mountain glaciers. Weather Station Name Juneau Forecast Office Max. Daily Precipitation (Inches) 2.8 Climate Data Year July 1, 2013 through July 1, 2014 Total Precipitation (Inches) 89.8 Max. Measured Snow Depth (Inches) 22 Total Snowfall (Inches) 102 Max. Daily Temperature (°F) 79 Min. Daily Temperature (°F) -5 History and Culture History The area was a fish camp for the indigenous Tlingit Indians. In 1880, nearly 20 years before the gold rushes to the Klondike and Nome, Joe Juneau and Richard Harris were led to Gold Creek by Chief Kowee of the Auk Tribe. They found mother lode deposits upstream, staked their mining claims, and developed a 160 acre incorporated city they called Harrisburg, which brought many prospectors to the area. The City of Juneau was formed in 1900. The state capital was transferred from Sitka to Juneau in 1906 while Alaska was a U.S. territory. The Treadwell and Ready Bullion mines across the channel on Douglas Island became world-scale mines, operating from 1882 to 1917. In 1916, the Alaska-Juneau gold mine was built on the mainland and became the largest operation of its kind in the world. In 1917, a cave-in and flood closed the Treadwell mine on Douglas. It produced $66 million in gold in its 35 years of operation. Fishing, canneries, transportation and trading services, and a sawmill contributed to Juneau's growth through the early 1900s. The A-J Mine closed in 1944, after producing over $80 million in gold. In 1970, the City of Juneau, the City of Douglas, and the Greater Juneau Borough were unified into the City & Borough of Juneau. Culture As the state capital, Juneau is supported largely by state and federal employment and by tourists cruising the Inside Passage. It is the third largest community in Alaska. About one-third of residents live downtown or on Douglas Island; the remaining two-thirds live elsewhere along the roaded area. Juneau has a Tlingit history with a strong historical influence from the early prospectors and boomtown that grew around full-scale gold mining operations. Federally Recognized Tribe Yes Name of Federally Recognized Tribe Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes Municipal Powers Public Education Must provide the service areawide in accordance with AS 14. Planning, Platting and Land Use Regulation Must exercise the powers areawide, but not necessarily in accordance with AS 29.40. Property Tax Powers Limited to 30 mills except where a higher levy is necessary to avoid debt; voter approval to levy property taxes is required by some charters. Sales Tax Powers The rate of levy may be limited by charter, and voter approval to levy sales taxes may be required by charter. Other Powers Not Prohibited Determined by charter or ordinance. City Council or Assembly Composition and Apportionment Flexible; determined according to AS 29.20.060 Election and Term of Mayor Established by charter or ordinance AS 29.20.120 Veto Power of the Mayor Established by charter or ordinance. Ability to Attain Home-Rule Status Already has home rule status. Provide Transportation Systems Determined by charter or ordinance. Provide Water and Air Pollution Control, Animal Regulation Determined by charter or ordinance. License day care facilities Determined by charter or ordinance. Regulate fireworks, motor vehicles and development projects Determined by charter or ordinance. Provide Solid and Septic Waste Disposal, Housing Rehabilition Determined by charter or ordinance. Provide Economic Development, Roads and Trails Determined by charter or ordinance. Provide EMS Communications Determined by charter or ordinance. Hazardous substance control Determined by charter or ordinance. Regions Borough/Census Area City and Borough of Juneau - CBJ Native Regional Health Care Provider Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium ANCSA Regional Non-Profit Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska School District Juneau Borough School District DCRA Alaska Region Southeast Region Climate Region Southeast Maritime Taxes Sales Tax (%) 5.00 Sales Tax Note Borough Tax Property Tax (Mills) 10.76 Property Tax Note Borough Tax Other Taxes 7% Bed Tax; 3% Alcohol Tax; $1 per pack Tobacco Tax & 45% of Wholesale Tobacco Tax Transportation Transportation Juneau is accessible only by air and sea. Automobiles are either shipped to Juneau or brought on the Alaska Marine Highway from connections to the highway system in Bellingham, Prince Rupert, Skagway, Haines, and Whittier. Scheduled jet flights and air taxis are available at the municipally-owned Juneau International Airport. The airport has a paved runway and a seaplane landing area. Marine facilities include a seaplane landing area at Juneau Harbor, four cruise ship docks, five small boat harbors, and a state ferry terminal. The Alaska Marine Highway System and cargo barges provide year-round services. Capital Transit provides public transportation throughout the urban area. In 2013, local ridership totaled 1.25 million trips. Juneau is a busy port for cruise ships and can have more than 10,000 visitors in a single day. The city is currently expanding its docking facilities to accommodate larger ships. Approximately 1 million cruise ship passengers visit Juneau each year. There is an extensive network of hiking trails in the Juneau area. Private boats and kayaks are commonly used to reach areas off of the road system. Juneau was certified as a Bicycle Friendly Community in 2011. Harbor/Dock Yes State Ferry Yes Cargo Barge Yes Road Connection No Coastal Yes Housing - 2010 Census Total Housing Units 13,055 Total Households 12,187 Family Households 7,742 Average Household Size 2.49 Total Occupied Housing Units 12,187 Total Vacant Housing Units 868 Occupied Housing Units (%) 93.4 Owner Occupied Units (%) 62.3 Renter Occupied Units (%) 37.7 Vacant Housing Units (%) 6.6 Vacant Due to Seasonal Use (%) 35.8 Census Population History Population in 1890 1,253 Population in 1900 1,864 Population in 1910 1,644 Population in 1920 3,058 Population in 1930 4,043 Population in 1940 5,729 Population in 1950 5,956 Population in 1960 9,745 Population in 1970 13,556 Population in 1980 19,528 Population in 1990 26,751 Population in 2000 30,711 Population in 2010 31,275 Population by Age - 2010 Census 19 or Younger 16,354 20 to 64 40,926 65 and Older 5,270 Median Age 39 Other Population Characteristics - 2010 Census Population by Gender: Female 15,325 Population by Gender: Male 15,950 Percent Native, Alone or in Combination with Another Race 17.30 Income - 2009-2013 ACS 5-Year Estimates Per Capita Income 37,558 Per Capita Income - Margin of Error +/-1,697 Median Household Income 81,490 Median Household Income - Margin of Error +/-3,743 Median Family Income 95,112 Median Family Income - Margin of Error +/-4,246 Poverty - 2009-2013 ACS 5-Year Estimates Population for whom poverty status is determined 31,375 Total Population - Margin of Error +/-112 Persons below poverty level (%) 6.20 Persons below poverty level (%) - Margin of Error +/-1.2 All Individuals below 125 percent of poverty level 2,896 Persons below 125% of poverty level - Margin of Error +/-435


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Derry-Londonderry to host Social Innovation Camp this June!
We are excited to announce that Social Innovation Camp Northern Ireland will take place on the weekend of the 14th-16th of June 2013 at The Playhouse in Derry-Londonderry. Put it in your diaries now!
We have planned it to coincide with the G8 in Enniskillen as Barack Obama has said he might pop in…
Equally excitingly, Derry-Londonderry is the UK Capital of Culture for 2013 so the city will be, as the posters everywhere proclaim, "LegenDerry"!
Our Call for Ideas will open on the 25th March 2013: watch this space…
Once again, we're looking for the best ideas that use technology to change stuff that matters. And in June we will turn six back-of-the-envelope ideas that could change the world into social start-ups in under 48 hours – complete with working software.
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BOISE, Idaho - The No. 42 Boise State men's tennis team (16-5) was crowned champion of the 2012 Spring Break Classic presented by Springhill Suites with a 6-1 win against No. 73 UAB, Saturday at the Appleton Tennis Complex.
The win marks an eight-match winning streak as well as a 19-match home winning streak.
Boise State got off to a fast start in doubles play, sweeping all three matches. Nathan Sereke returned to the courts after recovering from an illness which sidelined him during the first day of the tournament and partnered with James Meredith at the No. 1 singles. The two set the tone with an 8-3 win and the teams of Hume/Sears and Bettles/Pogostkin followed with 8-6 and 8-5 wins, respectively.
The Broncos would slam the door shut in singles action, winning the first four matches and five of six overall. James Meredith and Damian Hume each closed things out quickly with victories at the top two spots. Meredith won his fourth-consecutive match at the No. 1 position, 6-3, 6-3. Hume defeated the Blazers' David Zimmerman 6-2, 6-2 and has still not lost this spring (11-0).
Filipp Pogostkin sealed the team's overall win on court five, defeating Lucas Dirube handily by a score of 6-2, 6-2.
Scott Sears and Andy Bettles tacked on a pair of wins for good measure.
Boise State will have little time to celebrate the victory as they head to Los Angeles to face the No. 1 team in the land, USC, Monday at 4 p.m.
Championship Match -Boise State 6, UAB 1
1. Meredith/Sereke (BSU) def. Puetz/Zimmerman (UAB), 8-3
2. Hume/Sears (BSU) def. Manlow/Moser (UAB), 8-6
3. Bettles/Pogostkin (BSU) def. Dirube/Helliar (UAB), 8-5
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2
1. James Meredith (BSU) def. Danny Manlow (UAB), 6-3, 6-3
2. Damian Hume (BSU) def. David Zimmerman (UAB), 6-2, 6-2
3. Andy Bettles (BSU) def. Chris Helliar (UAB), 6-4, 6-3
4. Daniel Moser (UAB) def. Nathan Sereke (BSU), 6-3, 4-6, 10-6
5. Filipp Pogostkin (BSU) def. Lucas Dirube (UAB), 6-2, 6-2
6. Scott Sears (BSU) def. Tom Puetz (UAB), 6-1, 5-7, 10-4
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Created in 1997, Caudan Security has built its reputation on its service of excellence. The company ensures security control all through the commercial centre with its team of more than 70 security guards, all fully experienced in observation and intervention techniques and focusing on customer care.
The security guards always keep watch over everything going within Le Caudan to ensure the safest environment for clients and shops and in public areas. The security team is fully trained in communication and public relations, thus knowing how to greet and inform visitors so as to allow families, youngsters and children to comfortably find their way through the galleries, shops and offices. During popular events, Caudan Security deploys a team according to the importance of the crowd.
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Just how much can people factors influence your project cost and effort? 24.6 percent! In other words, the least experienced team (the bottom 15 percent) can require up to 24.6 times as much effort to complete a project as the most experienced team (top 10 percent.) In Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers, Steve McConnell writes about the Cocomo II model and how personnel factors influence project cost and effort.
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How can you leverage XP practices in a fixed-price contract? One approach is to fix the price and the schedule, but somewhat vary the scope. You reduce risk by fixing the cost and schedule. Flexing the scope means that you can respond to the customer's changing needs as you deliver value. You can think of this as the customer subscribing to your development team's service for a period of time. In Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) (The XP Series), Kent Beck writes about how to deal with fixed …
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How do you know when you're signing up for Mission Impossible? If your project has a short time frame to design, build, and deliver, and there's high risk around the requirements and technology, there's a good chance your project scenario is Mission Impossible. In Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle, Ian F. Alexander and Neil Maiden write about Mission Impossible scenarios.
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Evolutionary, Incremental, and High-Risk are software process models for systems engineering 'in the large'. In the Evolutionary model, the complete cycle of activities is repeated for each version. In the Incremental model, increments are individually designed, tested, and delivered at successive points in time. In the high-risk model, the project is divided into phases and each phase helps constrain risk. In Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle, Ian F. Alexander and Neil Maiden write about the Evolutionary, Incremental, and High-Risk software process models for systems engineering 'in …


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"Now, with regard to cars, our premier performance car is Corvette. I made a commitment to Corvette once the Camaro ended, and that will continue to be our premier performance vehicle because it is General Motors' premier performance vehicle. It will continue to be performance as it currently is with our ZL-465 for the '07 C6 and the 435 package. those packages, as well as the individual components that make them up, are our current focus. And, as you're probably aware, we also have a special relationship with Mid America Motorworks. We're doing that package we designed and now manufacture that was featured in Car and Driver; we're doing a limited edition of that. The performance components of the package are the same; what's different is it contains content from Mid America that identifies it as a limited edition-only 100 of those will be sold. There's a doorjamb badge signed by both Mike Yager and myself, and each will be numbered from 1 to 100. there's a console cover that says ZL-465 on it, and each package comes with a letter of authenticity. This is a really unique approach we've taken in our performance packages with Mid America, and it represents our continuing commitment in the Corvette arena.
"Of course, we'll continue to produce and offer all the other performance components for GM vehicles, including Camaro/Firebird parts, components, parts and packages for the GTO. we've even moved into the Mustang arena, and gotten a very positive response from that market segment as well, thanks to the high quality of our components. We also expect to get into performance for the Dodge Charger 300C and the Dodge Magnum very shortly. with the industry as it is today, you need to be as diverse as you can be."
Ed has an extremely active schedule that keeps him commuting between his home in Michigan and the SLP facility in New Jersey on a weekly basis so he can maintain his hands-on management approach. Based on his past successes and growing business, Ed, obviously, has the whole bolt-on performance market nailed, but that's what you'd expect from a true speed merchant now isn't it?


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My friend who is an ebay fanatic alerted me to it. Basically the terms are that you have to go to live.com and search for something, then click on the link that takes you to ebay. You have a 60 minute session to select your item, it has to be an item with a "buy it now" option, then you have to pay for it with paypal. Create a microsoft cashback account, and within 60 days you get the 30% back into your account.
They've had this program going for a while off and on, it's been at 20%, but now it's at 30.
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Surviving Call of Duty: Ghosts Extinction
Infinity Ward gives GameSpot an exclusive look at the new cooperative mode in Call of Duty: Ghosts.
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Looks great on X1 can't wait to play on ps4
I love how the haters keep trying to tear CoD down by saying its stale and repetitive. Yet, half these tools probably have every iteration of Madden and Tigerwoods since the 90's in their library. (and its not like you can add much if anything new to a sports game)
Even sadder are these snooty bubble gum babies who play their umpteenth version of Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Monster Hunter and Magic the Gathering and come in here to bash CoD with a straight face.
I'm sorry, but I've been playing Crysis 3 and this just looks terrible ha ha. I'm not trying to flame or anything, but the aliens look like a cheap knock off and it looks like the current gen Call of Duty.
Screw the aliens, I'm in it for the dinosaurs! More dinosaur based games!!!
I cant watch the game play for some reason.
when it said extinction I thought cod was dying like in my dreams guess not :l
New Halo game looks great!
Extinction mode looks incredible!
I don't want to buy a Call of Duty game with a woman in it. That goes against everything CoD is supposed to be (although she probably gets captured and then your squad goes to save her in macho fassion.)
The shops are going to close DAMN BEST GET A MOVE ON!!! Save the Mountain Dew!! That is how I saw the picture. However, like the Olympics, the white guys are the slowest and are bested by the black guy.
A mix of COD BO 2 Zombies and MW3 Survival mode. Looks pretty cool to me.
My key problem from watching this is that there never seems to be any real danger or peril, the aliens just seem to turn up and fall over or jump away.
hey thats the thing from Riddick movies
what a ripp off
Oh look another zombie mode kinda thingy ! how original.
It finally happened: COD is turning into a Halo knock-off.
probably wont be picking this up day one, but maybe early next year for ps4...just cause this game mode intrigues me.
Surviving 720p on Xbox One. = )
Damn the 60fps really makes a difference.
The jumping reminds me of the small things from Halo or from Half Life. But most of all this game reminds me of the playstation's Resistance 3....actually its exactly like Resistance 3. The alien models and the weapon upgrade system
Despite all the continued hate from the trolls at large, this is going to be a great game. I thoroughly enjoyed Survival mode from MW3 and this looks like it will be just as, if not even more fun =) I think Infinity Ward has done a bang up job, stoked to see the review and to pick up a copy =)
The 'White Gas can' from Left for dead2 meets the Monsters from the original Half life mix this US Army online, and you get a game that eats the contents of your wallet. 'God man you can by a Tablet [UK market] for less than this game cost on Steam. Must be using the Alien AI from 'Aliens Colonial Marines' however does this mean that HL2/3 or HL3 'whatever' is in development and other publishers are pre-jumping on the bandwagon.
The review look really great, so when the price drops to around £50, that's about $1,000. I'm picking up a copy.
Left for dead2 meets Half life meets US Army eats my wallet.
How do i watch it???
It looks like the same animations since COD4
is this a dlc cuz i was playing this game today i only had the campain mulltyplayer and squad mode?
A lot of people don't understand that the new consols graphics are not going to be that much better. The main upgrade is the amount of polygons they are able to render giving the terrain better texture.
Cod best
It's funny how everyone is talking shit about this game mode, but you same hating ass bitches will be standing outside of best buy at 12:00am freezing your asses off for a copy of this game.
If anyone who thinks gamers are a bunch of childish cry babies who do nothing but complain needed proof of said theory, all they would need to do is come to gamespot and read a comment section. Whine, Whine, Troll, Troll, 'nurrrrrr my machine is reeet betterz than yours', 'consoles are shit PC all the way', 'CoD is terrible, they haven't changed in years', 'OMFGZ they sooooo copied that other studio that makes the same generic gamezzz.' High time this community grew up in my opinion.
I also like how people talk about something that isn't even out yet as though they know exactly how it's going to be. Once you know what's coming it's time to move on. I'm still willing to give things a try though.
This looks like it will be more fun than survival, and I had a ton of fun with survival. If you don't like it good for you, go to an article about something you do like and free up the space for those of us that do like it. Good lord, I have to wade through comment after comment of pure spite filled trash to find another person who can't wait to play this mode. Give up the Ghosts....(hate). That was punny.
is it just me.. or once I hit level 35 after 2-3 hours.. horde/zombie modes are no longer fun.. running in circles buying ammo and guns.. this game does need an overhaul.. big time
I'm pretty tired of all of this Call of Duty hate. Don't you guys get bored of it? Its everywhere all the time. Its not interesting at all
Even though you guys talk so much shit about this game, its still going to be one of the bet selling games of this year, and probably next year.
@Gravity_Slave Man just stfu, nobody wants to hear your bullshit all over this page. damn.
@Accuracy158 WTF are you talking about?
@Dredcrumb9 because its mainly children who plays these kinds of games.
lol what exactly do you expect? This isn't a horror movie. If you want that kind of "danger" ask mommy if you could stay up to watch The Walking Dead.
@joce667 It was Infinity Wards idea in the first place.
Typical CoD hater. You have no idea of what you're talking about. This is just one of many game modes within the main game.
@StillAtMyMoms Its a single game mode like Zombies, stfu.
@no_pants_4_u It's way too absurd to call gamers, who dislike COD, trolls. You're the one trolling by saying that actually.
@rajanbangar you turn off adblock
You have to beat the campain
@randomgiy Polygon count has nothing to do with the size of the textures.
@murdabizassassin420 men i always told my self the they should had make zombie just like this just drop us in a map and bring up the zombies and we could use all ingame weapon something similar to the special ops on mwf3 hope they add on teh next black ops zombie mode just like this
@StrangeQuark42 COD is everywhere, and you're not bored of it!
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Working together in a long-term partnership from 2003-2012, PPGNW provided technical and financial support to the Youth Development Foundation (YDF) in Cameroon. As its mission states, YDF strongly believes that "youth can take charge of their future and become an influential voice of change." By creating a space for youth to receive education and services, YDF enables adolescent Cameroonians, young women in particular, to find their voice and make a difference in their communities and individual lives.
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The office of the vice president, Frost campus invites applications for its newly established SLU Faculty Leadership Fellows Program.
As part of its portfolio of professional development programming for faculty, the office of the vice president, Frost campus offers the SLU Faculty Leadership Fellows Program, designed to provide qualified and motivated faculty the opportunity to learn from, work with, and work as senior-level University academic leaders on a limited appointment.
Each academic year, the Frost campus vice president will solicit and select several highly-qualified applicants to serve as Faculty Leadership Fellows.
Eligible faculty also may propose projects that are meaningful to the University and their own development.
The office of the vice president invites applications for the following three areas starting spring, summer or fall 2011:
Fellows may be compensated via release time and/or stipend depending upon the contract period, percentage of release, and length of fellowship.
Fellow's academic units will be compensated accordingly by the vice president's office to cover costs associated with the fellowship.
Applicants are encouraged to apply by Friday, Feb. 25, or contact Paaige K. Turner, Ph.D., for an extension.
To be eligible for consideration, prospective Faculty Leadership Fellows must:
For more information, please view the application at vice president, Frost campus website under "Policies and Procedures" or contact Paaige K. Turner, Ph.D., associate vice president.


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Valeri Korneev works as a Geological Staff scientist in the Earth Sciences Division of E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been with Berkeley Lab since 1992. He received a Masters degree in Geophysics from the Leningrad State University in 1978 and a Ph.D. degree in Geophysics from the same University in 1987. He worked from 1978 to 1990 with Physics Research Institute in St. Petersburg performing research in seismic wave propagation and data inversion. During 1990-91 he worked in University of California in Berkeley as a visiting professor. Valeri's research work is focused on finding and applying new wave propagation effects to solve a variety of problems associated with geophysical prospecting for oil and gas, detection of heterogeneities, and earthquake studies. His work includes field data acquisition and analysis, numerical modeling and interpretation, obtaining of analytical solutions and data inversion. The approaches have included propagation of seismic waves in fluid-bearing reservoirs, resonant seismic emission of subsurface heterogeneities, microseismic earthquake precursors, seismic nonlinearity.
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Inquiry in Education, Volume I
The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative
Series: Educational Psychology Series
Why should inquiry—the engine for independent, curiosity- and interest-driven, life-long learning—be a curricular imperative, and its presence a criterion for excellent education? Is it possible to teach inquiry skills systematically and to engage learners in being inquirers across...
Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge
Inquiry in Education, Volume II
Overcoming Barriers to Successful Implementation
Series: Educational Psychology Series
A companion to Inquiry in Education, Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative. Volume I presents the arguments for the necessary inclusion of inquiry-driven learning and instructional experiences in any modern school curriculum. Volume II illustrates how...
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UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital now open in new location. Our first day of appointments brought a variety of patients through our new doors, such as this yellow lab Minnie, owned by John Gittleman, dean of the Odum School of Ecology.
UGA held a ribbon-cutting ceremony February 13th to dedicate our new Veterinary Medical Center, which includes an education
building and a new teaching hospital. Visit the VMC website to read more about the ceremony, and view videos and photos.
The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital is now open at its new location – 2200 College Station Road. This state-of-the-art facility will allow the Hospital to better meet its current patient care demands and the educational needs of the College while ensuring a bright future for both the CVM and the veterinary profession.
The entire site will be referred to as the Veterinary Medical Center and will include a new teaching hospital for small and large animals, a covered equine performance arena, a building dedicated to Field Services, Production Medicine and Theriogenology, and an education building for teaching and continuing education courses.
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On Valentine's Day 2013 a small, scared, underweight dog found his way to me. After holding him for the first time, I knew I could never let him go. I took him to the veterinarian for an examination and vaccinations and was told that he had a heart murmur, but that it may not be a problem. Two weeks later he developed a cough. After trying several medications with no improvement, the veterinarian took X-rays that showed an enlarged heart.
The Hospital is now one of only a handful of places across the nation to offer an alternative treatment option for equine patients suffering from atrial fibrillation, a relatively common type of heart arrhythmia in horses.
The procedure, called transvenous electrical cardioversion, is more effective than the drugs that have been traditionally used to treat this condition, has fewer side effects and produces immediate results.
Spearheading this initiative for the Hospital is Amanda Coleman, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology) and Steeve Giguère, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Large Animal), who helped bring the technology to the U.S. in 2005.
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Extension > Family > Disaster Recovery > Coping with Stress > After a Natural Disaster: Your Elementary Aged Child
Coping with Stress
After a Natural Disaster: Your Elementary Aged Child
Life can be disrupted for everyone involved in a natural disaster, including children who are in kindergarten through grades 5 or 6.
Some school age children may be directly affected by the loss of their home or possessions. For the children who have not directly experienced the effects of the disaster the impact is the loss of their sense of predictability and security. Watching the weather updates and having your community inundated with heavy equipment, volunteers and major mess is enough to jolt any of us out of our sense of wellbeing.
If you have an elementary age child, or work with children this age, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Find ways they can help — kids this age love to "do" and being a part of the solution is a great way to help children gain a sense of control over their life.
- Keep them in the loop — children this age need to know in general what the plans for the family, school and community are. They especially need to know about details that affect them. Do they need to help out so parents can deal with recovery?
- Make sure they know you are thinking about their well being — of course you are, but tell them what plans you have made to insure their comfort and safety.
- Watch your own responses. Your kids will respond calmly if you are in control of your fears and panic. As hard at this is in a time of disaster, it will help your entire family move through this difficult time to recovery and the return of "normal" life.
As difficult as it may be right now for you, your family and your community, think about the stories you will have later. Help your elementary age child be a part of that story. In the near future your child will look back and take pride in their ability to get through tough times.
Related Resources
Partnering for School Success — Builds strong parent-child relationships through education and collaboration.
Extreme Weather — Extension resources for floods, wind damage, winter impacts, and more.
After a Natural Disaster: A Guide for Parents — Signs of stress in kids of varying ages.
It's Important to Talk with Children about Natural Disasters — Make time to ask questions and listen; be available.


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