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The Wood County Commission has renewed its agreement with the City of Parkersburg to provide housing improvements for low-income residents.
This year's agreement, however, isn't just about home improvement.
The city, which oversees the program, will also provide as much as $200,000 in financial help through the Parkersburg Housing Office.
"The new construction units will be for qualified, first-time homebuyers," says city development director Steve Brodsky. "Rather than having to look for an existing house, they will actually be able to move into a new one, and we anticipate doing three new units this year."
The federal funding is actually passed on to a non-profit agency, which helps find qualified homeowners. This is the eighth year for the housing improvement program in Wood County.
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The various factors that are impacting the industry are the revision in excise duty, which has been increased by 3 percent on certain category of UV products. Fluctuating fuel prices, no relief in interest rate also affecting sales.
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), India's leading SUV manufacturer, today announced a fall of 10.45% in its auto sales volume to 43,289 units for September 2013 against 48,342 units in September 2012.
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Pravin Shah, CEO of automotive division at M&M, says: "The comforting factor is as compared to August and September, we have a growth of around 14 percent volume and for the right reasons like the festive season. The situation continues to be a challenging one for the industry as a whole and especially for the UV segment, which saw unprecedented growth last year. The overall growth last year was 52 percent. Compared to that if one looks at the first five months of the current year, the overall industry has de-grown by 4 percent inspite of the various new launches in this space."
The various factors that are impacting the industry and just to name a few are the revision in excise duty where the excise duty has been increased by 3 percent on certain category of UV products, he says. Fluctuating fuel prices, no relief in interest rate - on the contrary an increase of 25 basis points in the last revision on September 20 is dampening demand, he adds.
According to Shah, the overall economic scene which is not so conducive is a real cause of concern and till the time some sort of an incentive or some sort of a stimulus package is announced for the industry, for which there has been representation by the industry body, the industry will continue to struggle.
The good thing is from this month on the festive season starts, which is traditionally better than other normal months, and we hope to see certain upsurge in demand as compared to the normal months, he says. However, demand during this festive season is not expected to be as what one has seen in the recent past, he adds.
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On December 01, 2015, Mahindra and Mahindra closed at Rs 1369.70, up Rs 2.45, or 0.18 percent. The 52-week high of the share was Rs 1441.45 and the 52-week low was Rs 1095.00.
The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 52.62 per share as per the quarter ended September 2015. The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 26.03. The latest book value of the company is Rs 310.09 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company is 4.42.
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SEOUL (AP) Two South Korean Olympic medalists in short-track speedskating have been banned from competing for three years for their alleged involvement in a race-rigging scandal, officials said Thursday.
The Korea Skating Union suspended Lee Jung-su and Kwak Yoon-gy from all competitions until April 2013 as punishment for allegedly helping to fix competitions and national team tryouts in March, KSU official Kim Tae-wan said.
The two athletes received notice on Tuesday and have seven days to file an appeal, Kim said. In the event of an appeal, the KSU will open a second investigation that could take months to complete.
The three-year ban is stiffer than the penalty proposed by a special joint commission of inquiry that convened last month.
The panel, comprised of representatives from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korean Olympic Committee and the KSU, had suggested a one-year ban.
The scandal came to light when 20-year-old Lee, a double gold medalist at the Vancouver Olympics in February, failed to qualify for the national team tryouts in March for the world short track championships in Bulgaria, citing a knee injury.
The commission's preliminary investigation last month found that Jeon Jae-mok, a national team coach, had coerced Lee to give up his spot in the championships in favor of Kwak.
Jeon was permanently expelled last month from the sport for masterminding results of national team tryouts to benefit skaters, as recommended by the commission.
Lee, who won gold medals in Vancouver in the men's 1,000 and 1,500 meter races, denied all accusations of having been Jeon's accomplice and claimed he was the victim "of deep-rooted and wrongful practices on the local sport scene," according to the Korea Times.
Kwak, 21, silver medalist in the men's 5,000-meter relay in Vancouver, has admitted to being part of the alleged fixing.
Kim said the KSU has no plans to take away the skaters' pensions.
South Korean Olympic gold medalists receive at least $900 (1 million won) per month in government pensions, as well as additional bonuses.
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On this isolated workday (maybe) for state employees - on Wednesday they stayed home for Lincoln's birthday, Thursday because of the snow, and Monday they celebrate President's Day - we turn our attention to a whimsical piece of legislation offered by Connecticut's Fourth District Congressman James Himes. It calls for creating a Charles Darwin Day.
We use the word "whimsy" because Rep. Himes acknowledges the bill has "zero chance" of becoming law or, we might add, probably ever being heard from again.
Charles Darwin, the English scientist whose theory of evolution offers scientifically recognized evidence of how the universe evolved over time, was born in England on Feb. 12, 1809, the same day Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Mr. Lincoln's birthday, once a national holiday, has been merged to an all-encompassing observance that is known as President's Day and is devoted to the marketing of automobiles. This leaves, theoretically, an opening for Mr. Darwin. (Except in Connecticut, where state workers already manage to get both presidential observances off.)
In any event, Rep. Himes and fellow congressmen from New Jersey and California want to honor Darwin because his "theory of evolution by the mechanism of natural selection, together with the monumental amount of scientific evidence he compiled to support it, provides humanity with a logical and intellectually compelling explanation for the diversity of life on Earth."
They also want to take a poke at those who advocate teaching creationism in public schools, a curriculum pushed by a group of extremely conservative Christians who accept as fact the Biblical account of the creation of the universe in seven days about 6,000 years ago. This group is practically nonexistent in this part of the country, but it thrives in the South and Midwest where there have been debates about teaching creationism alongside evolution. The Darwin resolution criticizes attempts to teach this religion-based theory of "intelligent design" because it "compromises the scientific and academic integrity of the United States education systems."
Rep. Himes, an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich, characterizes himself as a religious person and says he "completely respects people's right to believe what they wish" but not necessarily teach it in school as scientific fact.
The bill likely will never come to a vote because it has been referred to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which seems devoted to compromising the scientific and academic integrity of the United States. Its former chairman and now "chairman emeritus," Rep. Ralph Hall, an 80-year-old Texan, doubts humans influence global warming because, "I don't think we can control what God controls." Many of its majority, Republican members share similarly unusual scientific perspectives. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California believes global warming is "at best ... unproven and at worst a liberal claptrap, trendy." If it is a problem it can be addressed, he suggests, by clear-cutting rain forests; and replanting, of course.
And then there's Rep. Paul Broun Jr. of Georgia, who told those at a town hall meeting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "want to give all the power to the federal government to force you to eat more fruits and vegetables. This is what the federal, CDC, they gonna be calling you to make sure you eat fruits and vegetables, every day. This is socialism of the highest order!"
It seems a lot of our moms were also socialists. Who knew?
For the past year, the committee has had to do without the scientific contributions of former Rep. Todd Akin, who lost a race for the Senate in Missouri after he announced women can't get pregnant from a "legitimate rape" because "the body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down" to avoid pregnancy after a rape.
Try getting this crowd to give a nod to the birthday of Charles Darwin.
Rep. Himes and his co-sponsors deserve some creative points for using their "Darwin Day" bill to expose the anti-science strain in the House GOP. In the meantime, if they are looking for an interest group to please, rather than offend, we note that there is no national holiday honoring a woman.
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|Identification of high-risk prognostic markers for stage II colorectal cancer (CRC) is currently a big challenge. CD133 is one of the most commonly used CRC stem cell markers. However, its specificity is controversial. Recent studies have demonstrated that the AC133 epitope of CD133, not the CD133 protein, is responsible for cancer stem cell identification. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical significance of AC133 expression in stage II CRC. Two antibodies against CD133, including AC133 and Ab19898, were compared for their expression characteristics. AC133 was chosen for further immunohistochemical assessment on 176 stage II CRC primary tumors with at least 12 examined lymph nodes. The cutoff value for positive rate of AC133 expression was determined by ROC curve analysis. AC133 was analyzed for correlations with clinicopathological and prognostic parameters. The results indicated that AC133 was negative in adjacent noncancerous colorectal mucosa while positive in 116 cases (65.9 %) of primary tumors. AC133 expression was significantly correlated with preoperative serum carcinoembryonic antigen level (p = 0.006) and tumor differentiation grade (p = 0.019). Furthermore, high AC133 expression was identified as a significant predictor for poor disease-free survival and overall survival at both univariate (p = 0.009, 0.013, respectively) and multivariate levels (p = 0.022, 0.026, respectively). Our data suggest that AC133 is an independent adverse prognostic factor and a potential marker for survival classification in stage II CRC patients.
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The study of positive polynomials brings together algebra, geometry and analysis. The subject is of fundamental importance in real algebraic geometry when studying the properties of objects defined by polynomial inequalities. Hilbert's 17th problem and its solution in the first half of the 20th century were landmarks in the early days of the subject. More recently, new connections to the moment problem and to polynomial optimization have been discovered. The moment problem relates linear maps on the multidimensional polynomial ring to positive Borel measures.
This book provides an elementary introduction to positive polynomials and sums of squares, the relationship to the moment problem, and the application to polynomial optimization. The focus is on the exciting new developments that have taken place in the last 15 years, arising out of Schmüdgen's solution to the moment problem in the compact case in 1991. The book is accessible to a well-motivated student at the beginning graduate level. The objects being dealt with are concrete and down-to-earth, namely polynomials in \(n\) variables with real coefficients, and many examples are included. Proofs are presented as clearly and as simply as possible. Various new, simpler proofs appear in the book for the first time. Abstraction is employed only when it serves a useful purpose, but, at the same time, enough abstraction is included to allow the reader easy access to the literature. The book should be essential reading for any beginning student in the area.
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Charleston, W.Va. (AP) -- Fall enrollment at West Virginia's public universities and colleges has topped 90,000 students for the first time.
The Higher Education Policy Commission says a record 93,712 students were enrolled at the start of the fall semester, a 6.7 percent increase from the same period in 2008.
The total includes both four-year and two-year institutions.
Higher Education chancellor Brian Noland says the challenge now is to retain and graduate students.
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woodycakes 8 years
she and jake would be adorable.
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pleeeeeease get back with adam! :cry:
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Just get back together with Adam now - we all know you'll end up together in the end. I'm sick of this banter. Adam and Rachel have been dating nearly 3 years. 3 YEARS! God. They are so getting back, and they work together - which makes things easier. & if my theory is wrong, then Rachel, go date whoever you want, but please, PLEASE DO NOT DATE THAT FUGGLY ZAVH BARFF. >:( I hate him. And btw, I think Rachel is a veeery cold person - not in personality I mean temperature-wise. She is always wrapped up. So cute.
paddycake 8 years
my personal opinion is that she should find a Indian Stallion from Bollywood....
lillie 8 years
Rachel and Adam, they are like the most cutest and strongest couples in the media spotlight. Now that they are split up, I think that Rachel should rethink this whole split and maybe think about getting back to Adam. Instead of going so quickly and getting another man. And btw, Rachel wtf are you wearing? A cape over that sweater, eeew.
kyrah2857 8 years
Josh Heartnett !!!
Daisy6264 8 years
I still can't get over Adam. I hope they get back together.
Beth1122 8 years
I think she should be single for a while! and Jude Law is a BIG NO NO FOR HER!! I would really lose respect for her if she went that route.
pink_magnetism 8 years
Jude Law? I can't picture him & Rachel together at all.
skinnypig 8 years
where's the WHO CARES option?
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Catboreal 8 years
Why does she need to start dating anyone? What's wrong with her being on her own for a while?
laffytaf 8 years
ME!!!!! She should date me next! easiest question ever.
Elevenhounds 8 years
I think that she should stay single for a while and spend time with her cute pup. Dogs make better companions than men during the 'transitional' time anyway!
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Can anyone tell me where she got this coat? I HAVE to have it... or something like it. Anyone???
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From the looks of that outfit. Mickey Mouse might be a good match. ______________________________________________________ I believe in the power of BAMZS
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adam :(
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I love her outfit! Those jeans are super cute.
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talk about a reunion tour.....Sexyback.....lol
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Canadian Willy, you are just trouble! haha
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yes blonde sugar...Jude Law....Sienna Miller and Rachel going at it....would be FAB-U-Lous..... and I want Justin T. to start dating Lance!
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no carito..he s dumping Cameron for Brit!!
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Jude Law??!????? She is so much better than Jude Law!
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COTTLEVILLE, Mo. – Missouri craft brewer Jeff Britton thought he would have a little fun when he named one of his Exit 6 beers the "Frappicino."
The stout beer received about three check-ins on the smartphone beer app "Untappd." Then Britton received a "cease and desist letter" from coffee company Starbucks for a potential copyright infringement.
A letter sent out by Anessa Owen Kramer, an attorney who protects Starkbucks' trademarks, told Exit 6 Brewery that "Frappicino" too closely represents "Frappucino" in name. The Frappucino is one of Starbuck's signature coffee drinks.
Rather than be offended, Britton decided to have a little tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek-fun with the coffee giant.
""As you probably don't know, Exit 6 is the proud owner of no trademarks including our own name much less than the name 'F Word' and nothing about Exit 6 is incontestable," Britton wrote in his response to the cease-and-desist letter.
He addressed "Ms. Owen Kramer" and "Mr. Buck" and referred to "The F Word" in lieu of writing either Frappicino or Frappucino throughout.
Britton even wrote the company a $6 check, estimating the profit made off the three pints of "Frappicino" he confirmed were sold.
"We want to be sure that Ms. Owen Kramer and Mr. Bucks know that Exit 6 and the 3 customers that checked into the beer known as the F Word feel just awful about calling the beer the F Word. We are bad people. We feel shame," Britton stated. "We also promise to stop production of our 'Starbuck-McDonalds-Coca Cola-Marlboro-Honey Lager' for fear of further repercussions."
In a moment of serious though, the brew pub owner told television station KSDK that he understood Starbuck's request.
"When I got that letter, I had to laugh," he said. "I don't blame Starbucks for doing what they did, I understand why they did it and they had every right to do it. But I'm a small brewery, small bar, in a small town, that makes small batches of beer."
Exit 6's run in with Starbuck's legal department gained notoriety when it was picked up by Gawker , a legal blog called Above the Law, and NPR's "The Two-Way after the brewer posted the incident on its Facebook page.
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Nah, I personally dont like RPGs. Just the thought of getting addicted or playing a never ending game makes me shudder in fear.
Anyone here play any MMO's? If so, which one(s)? I'm sure alot of people here play WoW atleast, or possibly even Final Fantasy XI. I myself used to play Final Fantasy XI, might start again with the new expansion pack.
Nah, I personally dont like RPGs. Just the thought of getting addicted or playing a never ending game makes me shudder in fear.
I've been playing Guild Wars for the past year now, and I've spent at least 1000 hours on it by now.
I don't like WoW much, and I really detest the login system FFXI uses. I do play other MMOs though - Dark Age of Camelot and Star Wars Galaxies being the two I play most at the moment.
comming soon
WoW is great. I played Runescape for about a month, but then I grew tired of it.
I used to play Ao on dial up about a year ago but i gave up.
and I hade a 2 week trial of Wow but i didnt want to pay for it.
I played Lineage 2 , MUOnline , Rohan , EVE Online and many more and i am looking forward to AION
I played Runescape for like a year, got really addicted to it, stopped playing now though xD i wouldnt even want to imagine how addicted id get to WoW.
You should try EVE Online and you will get very addicted to it it costs too much for me about 15 euros / month so i gave up
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Palestinian civilian death toll mounts as Israel ferociously pursues Gaza Strip militants who are menacing nearly half of Israel's population with rocket fire.
Early on Monday, an airstrike leveled two houses belonging to a single family, killing two children and two adults and injuring 42 people, said Gaza heath official Ashraf al-Kidra. Rescue workers were frantically searching for 12 to 15 people under the rubble.
Shortly after, Israeli aircraft bombarded the ruins of the former national security compound in Gaza City. Al-Kidra says flying shrapnel killed one child and wounded others living nearby.
The rising toll was likely to intensify pressure on Israel to end the fighting. Hundreds of civilian casualties in an Israeli offensive in Gaza four years ago led to fierce international condemnation of Israel.
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The 29-year-old Hall batted .225 and had 15 home runs and 55
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Council approves 2014 annexation vote of Klahanie area
July 30, 2013
By Peter Clark
With a vote of 6-1, the Issaquah City Council decided July 15 to place the future of Klahanie's residents in the hands of the area's voters.
As opposed to the vocal public hearings and numerous hours examining the Nesbitt Planning Inc. financial study, City Finance Director Diane Marcotte delivered a short presentation and City Administrator Bob Harrison summarized the Land & Shore Committee's recommendation that the council send the decision to voters in February.
"When we go through and look at the cost that they're currently paying, versus what they would pay if they came into the city of Issaquah, they would be paying about $380 less a year," Marcotte said of Klahanie residents' property tax. She added that the study found annexation would be beneficial to Issaquah as well. "Each year, we should be having some additional revenue, and that is around $650,000 a year. There still is sufficient revenue, but it may take a little longer to accomplish some of the council's goals."
Marcotte said the previously anticipated $6 million startup costs would include road improvements, public work operations and adding personnel, possibly hiring five additional officers and one more records specialist for the police department.
Most council members gave detailed reasons for their support of the resolution.
"The people in the Klahanie area are already a part of our city," Councilwoman Stacy Goodman said. "They live here, they work here, they play here and they volunteer here. Those people are a tremendous resource to our area."
Council President Fred Butler echoed her statements, calling on his past of being involved with similar decisions.
"I always try to go back and ask, are we better off with those annexations?" he said. "History has told me that we are. I also have asked if our services have suffered, and I don't think they have."
Councilman Joshua Schaer was the sole dissenting vote. He presented a statement that outlined numerous oversights he felt the study made that he believed would cost the city millions of dollars.
"I'm not fully confident in the 10-year viability of an annexation tax credit," he said of state benefits the city could receive adding up to $1.6 million per year, for a possible 10 years. "I have little faith that Olympia would let this credit abide for 10 years. That's not a risk I'm willing to take."
He said the levels of police and park service would fall, and he pointed to a map displaying his belief that an annexation makes no geographical sense.
"My vision is not the grow, grow, grow, build, build, build mindset," Schaer said. "Before we reach out and expand, we should try to fix our own problems. We will let history be the judge."
According to a schedule from the city, the next steps will be for the city's Boundary Review Board to define and approve zoning over the next several months. Public hearings will be held this fall to establish pre-annexation zoning.
The city will work with King County to hold an election in February for Klahanie Potential Annexation Area voters to decide whether they will join Issaquah. The total area has a population of about 10,800 people in about 3,900 households.
The financial study is available to the public at issaquahwa.gov/Klahanie.
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There is a draft EIS working through the Issaquah city council next month to study the possibility of annexing Bellevue. My money is on a "YES" vote from our council. Seattle is next…
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Glasgow - Today this city and the rest of Scotland will wake up, a wee bit hungover on the spirit of the Commonwealth Games, a little tired of being happy hosts and get back to fighting over whether to say "yes" or "no". Independence is on the card for Scotland. There are Saltires with "yes" and "no thanks" written on them in the windows of flats and shops.
They banned Saltire badges with "yes" written on them at the Glasgow Green on Sunday. They were deemed a "protest" and likely to cause unpleasantness. There was to be no unpleasantness during the Games. These were two weeks of fun and joy, where the newspapers filled themselves to bursting on stories of Scottish medals. It was parochial and ignored the performances of any one else, save for Usain Bolt. Apparently Chad le Clos won seven medals, and the South African bowls team took five.
These have been a wonderful Commonwealth Games in the city that can be a "bit sh*t". My memories of it will be of working 16-hour days, wondering at how the sun only set after 10.30pm and rose not long after 5am. It was like jetlag by weather. You never really get to see a city while you are working at an multi-sport Games. There is little time to stop and look around, to be able to take a long breath and consider instead of rushing to meet deadlines that fly towards you in a rush because you are an hour behind South African time. The Olympics is madder. It's a good way to go gently insane.
Glasgow began by learning that I had been booked into a hotel room with several other people from "The Star". I assumed the hotel manager meant anyone working for a paper with the word Star in it would be camping down on my floor. She'd made a mistake, but it was a weird start.
My daily commute to the Main Press Centre at the SECC was a 50-minute walk down West Nile Street, right past the Central Station and along the Clyde. I was told the media bus stopped at Hope Street and went to the SECC, but no matter how much I waited and hoped, it never came. And so I walked. Taxis aren't cheap in Glasgow.
I walked the streets, on Sauchiehall Street, to Kelvingrove Park, back to the Glasgow Green, along the Clyde at night, and Buchanan Street and Renfield. You get to know a city by walking it.
And I walked home, or back to the Holiday Inn Express in the Theatreland, which became home.
They drink a lot in Glasgow. Saturday night was a big night. So was Friday night. Thursday night was a warm-up night for Friday and Saturday. Monday was a post-first-day-of-work-this-week drinks, while it seemed they drank on Tuesday and Wednesdays because it would be rude to stop. When we, the small party of South Africans on tour, would get off early – around 10.30pm – we'd head to the Counting House for a drink. It used to be a bank. I know this because three barmaids told me it used to be a bank. The person behind the counter at my hotel told me it used to be a bank. So, it used to be a bank, just in case anyone asks.
I found a few other pubs I fancied, but never got the time to sit in one and make it my own. On a long trip, you need places you can call your safe place. Where you can walk in, have a coffee or a beer and recharge. In France in 2007, I found the Lux Bar in Montmarte, where a barman with a magnificent Elvis tattoo would play 50s rock 'n roll. In Wellington in 2011, it was St John's, a bar in the former home of the ambulance-first aid people. There have been none in Glasgow, but I would recommend The Raven on Renfield Street.
Tomorrow, my last day here, I hope to visit one or two more before a 3am taxi trip to catch a 6am flight home via Amsterdam. I do not know whether I will return to Glasgow. I suspect not. These Games will have been their time in the sun. By the time I next think of this city, it may be in an independent country. They may have said "yes".
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From reading the statistics I am surprised there was not a greater divide between the60's and the present stewardship in the local church. Certainly our economy has been an issue as non-profits have reported a downward spiral in recent years. I believe that both economic misfortunes and the redefinition of a more individualized spirituality contribute to a drop in giving. What is needed is deciding what is enough for us to live by and what we should actually give. As long as we are a society who believes enough is always out there to be attained, I am afraid our stats will continue to plummet until we are mere tippers of God at best.
I was recently asked, "what is the difference between an offering and a tithe?". I said the Biblical standard is 10% of your earnings, but what I wanted to say is it is the difference between maintenance and being missional. If everyone tithed churches would be beaming with resources that could potentially change many endangered in our society; including our churches. Not only would mortgages be payed and staff would be payed, but we could pave the way for many good works that we have been commissioned to do. Tithing is more about paving the way than simply paying the way.
During a Stewardship Campaign I used an illustration on tithing using a bright red apple and told the congregation how it represented our money. As I listed all the ways we spend money, like mortgage and car notes I would take a bite of the apple. After listing movies, dinner dates and buying a third flat screen TV, all the apple was eaten down to it's core accept for one small slice. I placed it on the alter and said, "this is all God asks of us." The apple was a good visual of how small an amount, only 10%, really is considering God's giving us life.
The Disciples of Christ tradition believes that tithing is the Biblical standard of giving that Christians should strive to. I have noticed that those who have the least can often be the most sacrificial givers. Perhaps because they are more dependent on God in all areas. I have noticed that our seniors typically understand the spiritual nature of giving more so than younger generations. I've found as a pastor that those who were raised in the church or raised their families during the 50's and 60s' hold their giving more as a sacred and privileged practice. I have had many congregants who would not consider paying their bills without paying God first. If they were on vacation they would make their donation before they left or catch up as soon as they got back as if their life was not complete with out their donation. I have been awed by their faithfulness. We need to share the stories of our matriarchs and patriarchs to those who are up and coming in the church. People will tell you that they never once missed the money they pledged, and how they have been blessed many times over by their spiritual alms of giving and how they would be profoundly saddened if they were not able to contribute to Gods mission.


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I watched the show "Ruby" the other night and sat here broasting (do they make Broasted Chicken anymore) the entire time, full of resentment.
I am fed up to here with watching people get a free ride when I have been begging, pleading, threatening my insurance company to agree to pay (at least some of) for me to get help like they offered to her and her friends at the Shades of Hope treatment center. Checking online, the cost for the 6-day program they attended starts at over $2,000.
Since fuming over what's not fair in the world does me no good whatsoever, I ventured online to first find out where they were on the show, and then tried to find info on their meal plan.
I had no luck, but during my travels I found the meal plan used by Food Addicts Anonymous. (Should you be interested, here's the link:
Being no stranger to counting, weighing, measuring, and 'exchanges', I found it easy to understand.
Here's what sticks out:
1. No wheat, no sugar, no flour
2. Portion Police are on duty :)
3. Balanced protein (no zany no-carb-all-protein craziness) with veg, grains, starch.
4. Low-fat while requiring SOME fat daily.
It appears healthy and sensible. That means it probably works. :-D
Now, I know me well enough to know that 1 cup of raw veg and 1 cup cooked veg at lunch is not enough food for me at my current size. While I know (and agree) that portion control is a key to recovery from the food addiction, I'm going to start off by allowing "free" vegs. These will be the innocent lettuces, celery, broccoli, asparagus, cucumbers, radishes, cabbages that wouldn't hurt a fly. No one's ever going to eat themselves numb on any of those, so my plan is that in order to stay satisfied, I'm going to allow extra quantities of those for the time being. Anything that was "free" for WW will be free with me for the time being. Not included in the free vegs will be carrots, beets, onions, squash, peas, corn, sweet peppers etc. as those items contain more natural sugars and/or starch than the ones on the free list. Those items will be measured and will not exceed the allowed amount.
The other change I'm making is that the amount of seafood/shellfish allowed will be doubled per exchange. Under WW, you can eat 8 oz shrimp/fish for 4 points, while 4 oz of chicken is 4 points. So, for my purposes while the plan says one serving of protein is 4 oz fish or shellfish, I know that I can double that and have the same amount of cals/fat as 4 oz chicken.
And there we have it. I'm thinking it might be a rough couple of days since my body/brain is probably going to crave the wheat/sugar, but hopefully I will feel much healthier very soon, and the cravings to self-medicate with food will subside as time goes by.
I would love someone to join me in this process. Let me know if you're interested.
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I have worked this plan and did REALLY well on it. I have to admit that I have caved on the wheat and flours thing, but I still eat that rarely, like when I go out. I still avoid sugar unless on occasion at a family outing. I will see how I do longterm, I know I do have some pounds to take back off, so I'm working harder at it right now. If I remind myself I'm an addict in recovery, it helps me avoid certain things and use portion control.
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Hi Newmoom! I just started reading your blog and am also an avid 'Ruby' fan. I definitely agree with what you have to say about watching people get things for free. I would love to be able to afford to do that intensive 6 day program. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I am heading over to the OEA website right now to check out that meal plan. I may be on board with you, let me check it out first and I'll get back to you.
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Wow sounds interesting.I dont know if i can follow it as i find it very restrictive.It is a reasonable diet but i am not at the poinnt right now.I am here to support you though.Lisa
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I too will consider doing this with you. I don't have enough time to check it out right now but I will chek it out soon. Good luck! ...and yes they do still make/sell broasted chicken.
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Sounds like you have a plan! Good luck! I may consider joining you, but I need to check out the plan a little more, first.
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BNP Gets as Little Love as SocGen as Elections Spur Bashing
BNP Paribas SA, Societe Generale SA and Credit Agricole SA, France's biggest banks, are getting no love from the nation's politicians as elections loom.
Coming off a year when their shares had the steepest declines since 2008, banks are being blamed for at least a part of Europe's economic crisis by leading contenders in the French presidential race to be held on April 22 and May 6. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande and President Nicolas Sarkozy have pledged to rein in banks with taxes and controls, playing to the electorate's anti-finance sentiment.
"The temptation is to see finance as a foreign, hard-to-control black box, making banks the ideal bogeyman," said Nicolas Veron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economics research group. "Financial topics carry a strong emotional dimension for French voters."
Regardless of who wins, French banks can expect to face transaction taxes -- even on their high-frequency trades -- greater controls on stock options and manager compensation and caps on dividends. Mirroring the backlash against financial firms in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, the French candidates are racing to show who's tougher on banks.
"My enemy is finance," frontrunner Hollande said last month, calling it a "rival without a name, without a face." He said if elected he would force banks to split retail and "speculative" investment operations, pledged a tax on all transactions, a 15 percent increase in levies on profits and a ban on awarding stock options to executives.
Crisis Talk
"If finance is 'without a face,' condemning its excesses is becoming more visible by the day!" Didier Le Menestrel, chairman of Paris-based Financiere de l'Echiquier, wrote in a Feb. 3 newsletter to clients. At the end of 2011, the fund managed 4.2 billion euros ($5.6 billion) for 4,500 clients.
BNP Paribas declined 1.14 euros, or 3.1 percent, to 35.41 euros by 1:14 p.m. in Paris trading. Societe Generale tumbled 4.1 percent, while Credit Agricole fell 3.6 percent. Over the past 12 months, concern about banks' sovereign holdings, new regulations and potential taxes have weighed on the shares. BNP Paribas has tumbled 37 percent, Societe Generale 49 percent and Credit Agricole 54 percent.
For his part, Sarkozy, who has yet to declare his candidacy, plans to unilaterally impose a 0.1 percent tax on financial transactions starting in August. The tax will apply to share purchases, including high-frequency trading, and credit-default swaps.
"There's no reason why deregulated finance, which brought us to the current situation, can't participate in the restoration of our accounts," Sarkozy said on Jan. 29.
French banks have been embroiled in Europe's crisis because of their $620 billion-euro holdings of private and public debt in the region's troubled countries of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain, according to end-September figures from the Bank for International Settlements.
BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole are retreating, shrinking assets by about 300 billion euros and cutting at least 5,600 jobs to comply with international capital rules as they book Greek losses.
The three banks, together with Groupe BPCE, France's fourth-largest lender, had taken 5.4 billion euros in writedowns on Greek sovereign holdings as of end-September. Societe Generale and Credit Agricole both operate unprofitable Athens-based consumer-banking networks.
The French government, which came to the aid of the country's banks after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s 2008 collapse, hasn't helped them in the current crisis.
It's hamstrung by its own debt, which at 1.69 trillion euros is 85 percent of gross domestic product. Standard & Poor's last month stripped France of its AAA credit rating for the first time.
Sarkozy has instead advocated that banks, which won a respite on their funding woes when the European Central Bank provided them with 1 percent three-year loans, help governments by using some of the money to buy euro-area sovereign debt.
"Why do big European banks keep lending unremittingly at ridiculously low rates to states that don't stop blaming them?" l'Echiquier's Le Menestrel asked in his newsletter.
U.S. money-market funds more than doubled their short-term loans to French banks in January, ending six months during which they reduced funding. The funds owned $8.6 billion of French bank certificates of deposit, time deposits, commercial paper and repurchase agreements on Jan. 31, up from $3.2 billion in December, according to reports from the eight largest prime U.S. funds compiled and published in today's Bloomberg Risk newsletter. At the end of 2010, the figure was $78 billion.
Lower Profit
Still, France's four largest banks may see their 2013 earnings dented by about 10 percent as a potential impact from Socialist Party candidate Hollande's economic program, according to estimates by Jean-Pierre Lambert, a London-based analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods Ltd.
BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole and Natixis, a unit of BPCE, may get a combined 1.7 billion-euro net-income hit from his proposals, including about 700 million euros from the transaction tax, the KBW estimates show.
Credit Agricole spokeswoman Anne-Sophie Gentil declined to comment as did Societe Generale spokeswoman Nathalie Boschat and BNP Paribas spokeswoman Julia Boyce.
High-Frequency Trades
BNP Paribas and Societe Generale this year may generate combined trading revenue of 13.1 billion euros, according to Jan. 6 estimates from JPMorgan Cazenove.
High-frequency trading, using fast computers and programs designed by mathematicians, makes up 38 percent of European trading and more than half of all U.S. stock transactions, according to estimates from Westborough, Massachusetts-based researcher TABB Group.
French banks don't break down high-frequency trading details. Such trades drew regulator attention after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index declined 6.2 percent in less than 20 minutes on May 6, 2010.
Unlike ordinary stock trades, for which Sarkozy's levy would be a fraction of brokers' fees, taxing high-frequency trades by 0.1 percent might make such transactions unattractive, said Christophe Nijdam, an analyst at AlphaValue in Paris.
Sarkozy's planned tax spares banks' bond trading and more complex structured product trades, which make up the bulk of French banks' trading revenue.
Blame Game
For the most part, the transaction tax will have "an immaterial impact" on banks' earnings and will probably cost less than 150 million euros each for France's four largest listed banks, estimated Matthew Czepliewicz, a London-based analyst at Collins Stewart Hawkpoint Plc.
"The negative impact on investor sentiment could however be much greater," he said.
Banks have opposed the unilateral application of the tax in France, saying it will hurt Paris's competitiveness. Also, they point out that the current crisis stems from the excesses of governments, not of banks.
"Blaming banks for the current crisis has limits," Societe Generale Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea, who's also chairman of the French Banking Federation, said this month. "This crisis is about public debt."
Bank Bashing
BNP Paribas's fourth-quarter net income probably fell 67 percent, while Societe Generale's profit in the period may have declined 53 percent, according to analysts estimates compiled by Bloomberg News.
Credit Agricole warned Dec. 15 it will report an annual loss for 2011, its first since it went public in 2001, and scrap its dividend as it books about 2.5 billion euros in fourth-quarter writedowns on investments and struggles to contain losses at its Athens-based unit, Emporiki Bank of Greece SA.
With trouble at banks, customers will bear the brunt, said Rebecca Healey, a senior analyst at TABB Group in London.
"Bashing banks has become politicians' favorite sport, but it's the man on the street who'll pay the cost of any new financial tax," she said. "Banks will pass on the costs."


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Social media can offer the antidote to waning consumer engagement with email.
Email marketing managers are looking for ways to increase their reach and enhance their engagement. If done correctly, social media offers an antidote to fix waning engagement. Here are five specific things you should be doing with social media to improve your email marketing.
1. Use it to find the right people. List growth is important, but finding compatible consumers will bring more value to your list. Use your social media sites to feature discussions that will draw consumers back to a preference page. Your articles and discussions on social media should feature information about your brand. In doing so, you tend to attract those who are interested in your brand versus those who have just signed up to receive a free gift.
2. Assurance goes a long way. Your consumer would love to get a testimonial from someone that they know concerning the transaction that they are about to complete. This is the one thing that holds a consumer back from taking the final step. Wouldn't it be more powerful if the consumer comes to a sign-up page and sees that some of their friends or followers are also subscribed to your email marketing program? The same holds true for landing pages - again, show your consumers that their friends have endorsed your products or services.
3. Strip out the rhetoric. Many brands are using social feedback as part of their marketing campaigns. Make feedback more effective by removing brand tag lines and focus on specific feedback from consumers. Many brands tend to build up their feedback by asking consumers to rank their product or service, and then provide a text box for additional comments. You can do a much better job by asking people very specific questions about your product or service, and then guide them to the text box. This is the kind of information that helps consumers make a decision before completing a transaction.
4. Track opens, views, and the dialogue. If you are encouraging your consumers to share or discuss your brand along social media channels, you will also need to track their discussions on social media channels. Think about opening up your social media tracking to your customer service team so they can listen and respond to what is being discussed. I have been able to watch discussions on social media even when the consumer hasn't opened the email that I sent. So when I look at my results, I am measuring "opens" across multiple channels - both email and my social media channels.
5. Leverage your brand ambassadors. The forward-to-a-friend link in emails offers one of the worst returns on investments (ROI) on campaigns. Think about removing this link and trying a different approach instead. Start by segmenting your list into those who have Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn versus those who do not. Now segment this list further by prioritizing those that have shared your content along social media channels. I recommend targeting these brand ambassadors with the content you need to go viral. If they like what I am sending them and they feel that I have treated them with exclusivity, they will share my offer with their network of friends.
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McLouth plays host to annual tourney as No. 4 seed
Bulldogs to face Valley Falls in 1st round
January 14, 2011
The seeds have been set and the 24th McLouth Invitational Boys Basketball Tournament is ready to go.
Games start on Tuesday at McLouth High and the host Bulldogs will be playing as the No. 4 seed.
MHS opens against No. 5 seed Valley Falls at 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday in the Gold Gym.
Consolation matchups and semifinals will be played Friday, Jan. 21, at McLouth and on Saturday, Jan. 22, all four medal round games will be contested.
24th McLouth Invitational
Game 1: No. 3 Bishop Seabury vs. No. 6 Oskaloosa, 6 p.m., Purple Gym
Game 2: No. 1 Atchison County vs. No. 8 Maranatha Academy, 6:15 p.m., Gold Gym
Game 3: No. 2 Jefferson County North vs. No. 7 Jeff West, 7:30 p.m., Purple Gym
Game 4: No. 4 McLouth vs. No. 5 Valley Falls, 7:45 p.m., Gold Gym
Game 5: Game 1 loser vs. Game 3 loser, 6 p.m., Purple Gym
Game 6: Game 1 winner vs. Game 3 winner, 6:15 p.m., Gold Gym
Game 7: Game 2 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 7:30 p.m., Purple Gym
Game 8: Game 2 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 7:45 p.m., Gold Gym
Seventh place: Game 5 loser vs. Game 7 loser, 4 p.m., Purple Gym
Fifth place: Game 5 winner vs. Game 7 winner, 4 p.m., Gold Gym
Third place: Game 6 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 5:30 p.m., Gold Gym
Championship: Game 6 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 7 p.m., Gold Gym
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A Quantum Leap in Battery Design
Digital quantum batteries could exceed lithium-ion performance by orders of magnitude.
A "digital quantum battery" concept proposed by a physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could provide a dramatic boost in energy storage capacity–if it meets its theoretical potential once built.
The concept calls for billions of nanoscale capacitors and would rely on quantum effects–the weird phenomena that occur at atomic size scales–to boost energy storage. Conventional capacitors consist of one pair of macroscale conducting plates, or electrodes, separated by an insulating material. Applying a voltage creates an electric field in the insulating material, storing energy. But all such devices can only hold so much charge, beyond which arcing occurs between the electrodes, wasting the stored power.
If capacitors were instead built as nanoscale arrays–crucially, with electrodes spaced at about 10 nanometers (or 100 atoms) apart–quantum effects ought to suppress such arcing. For years researchers have recognized that nanoscale capacitors exhibit unusually large electric fields, suggesting that the tiny scale of the devices was responsible for preventing energy loss. But "people didn't realize that a large electric field means a large energy density, and could be used for energy storage that would far surpass anything we have today," says Alfred Hubler, the Illinois physicist and lead author of a paper outlining the concept, to be published in the journal Complexity.
Hubler claims the resulting power density (the speed at which energy can be stored or released) could be orders of magnitude greater, and the energy density (the amount of energy that can be stored) two to 10 times greater than possible with today's best lithium-ion and other battery technologies.
What's more, digital quantum batteries could be fabricated using existing lithographic chip-manufacturing technologies using cheap, nontoxic materials, such as iron and tungsten, atop a silicon substrate, he says. The resulting devices would, in principal, waste little or no energy as they absorbed and released electrons. Hubler says it may be possible to build a benchtop prototype in one year.
Today, however, digital quantum batteries are merely a patent-pending research concept. Hubler has applied for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funding to develop such a prototype, but the concept presents significant challenges. It's not clear that the nanofabricated materials wouldn't break down once loaded with energy, says Joel Schindall, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT.