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Most of the time at school I will see a cute guy and want to sleep with him. Is it normal to be horny at my age (14) and do boys want to have sex with me too?
This is the first time I'm writing explicitly about issues around sex and sexuality, and as per usual, I'm writing in a gender-focused way – specifically men and masculinity. I'm having a bit of a look at how understandings of masculinity impact on sexual identity, expression and practice.
Talk, images & representations of men and sex are (without a shadow of exaggeration) EVERYWHERE in culture and society, (at least the English speaking cultures I'm familiar with). These representations are on TV, film, print media, music, billboards, books, spam folders, in fact pretty much the entire internet, video games, etc. We're all pretty aware of those representations, and even quite savvy and critical about some of these representations. Representations of male sexuality are more than just these explicit and often quite twentieth century forms of representation. Other forms may occur in interaction and conversation (or the absence of) with friends, family, casual acquaintances, people we meRead more...
Just a helpful reminder from Feminist Law Professors if you're looking for tips on how to prevent rape.
We agree with them that these ten tips absolutely, positively can prevent many sexual assaults without fail.
1. Don't put drugs in people's drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.
5. If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON'T ASSAULT THEM!
6. Remember, people go to laundry to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
7. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.
8. Always be honest with people! Don't pretend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan to assault thRead more...
Originally written for The Guardian, condensed version can be seen there.
In 2008, over 5,000 UK women under the age of 20 had an abortion that was not their first. As was made clear by the alarmist headlines following the publication of those numbers, this is a big concern for the public.
A woman's reproductive life often spans 30+ years. Around 1/2 of all pregnancies in the US and UK are unplanned. Contraception isn't used or used properly. It fails sometimes even in perfect use. Female fertility peaks between the ages of 19 and 24: the reason we tend to see the most abortions (and pregnancies) in that group is because it is the most fertile group having the most sex. (Piccinino, LJ, Mosher, WD. Trends in contraceptive method use in the United States: 1982-1994. 1998. Family Planning Perspectives. Vol. 30(1): 4-10 & 6, Table 1) The UK teen pregnancy rate is the highest in Western Europe: six times higher than the Netherlands, nearly three times higher than France and more than twiceRead more...
Sex leads to pregnancy leads to childbirth.
This, of course, is a huge oversimplification. It is possible to have lots of satisfying sex that doesn't lead to pregnancy because a penis never goes into a vagina. It is possible to have chemical or mechanical problems of the reproductive system that make it impossible or unlikely for penis-in-vagina sex to produce pregnancy. People can also have penis-in-vagina sex while using any of a number of chemical, mechanical or physiological methods to prevent pregnancy (contraception).
But, penis-in-vagina sex has been until very recently in human history the only way to make more humans, and it is only recently that it has been as simple (and difficult) as taking a medicine to prevent pregnancy.
When pregnancy occurs as a result of sex, it may not necessarily lead to childbirth. Genetically abnormal embryos often spontaneously abort, and one pregnancy out of five will end spontaneously before halfway through the pregnancy (20 weeks). Many womenRead more...
I am 16 years old: when erect only half of the tip of my penis shows. I was just wondering if this is normal? I thought that when your penis is erect that the entire tip is exposed, then when non-erect the foreskin retracts to protect the tip? Am I right or wrong? When will my full tip come out? Or do I have to pull my foreskin back during intercourse? Thanks!
I just stumbled across your wonderful site totally by accident and am really hoping you will be able to help me with a problem which is keeping me awake at night. I've been sexually active since I was 16. Since then, all of my male sexual partners have ejaculated during sex, but my current boyfriend is having a problem. This is affecting our sex life as I feel I must be doing something wrong. He has tried to reassure me he often hasn't been able to orgasm in the past with other partners and that he enjoys sex with me nonetheless - that he doesn't have to come to be satisfied. But I don't fully enjoy myself knowing that he won't reach orgasm; it doesn't seem fair.
I know you recently answered a question in the same vein but I think my query is different as he is diabetic. I have recently heard that diabetes can affect sex and am wondering if this is true. He doesn't seem aware of the connection and I don't want to mention it without getting the facts first. Please help me, I love him dearly and in all other aspects our relationship is fantastic...but it doesn't fell right for me to be getting all the sexual pleasure.
Is it normal for a girl to get extremely wet from just making out?
Hi, I'm sixteen and about four months ago I was treated at the hospital for severe anemia due to over excessive menstruation. While I was there, I had to have a pelvic exam done, and I'm already really shy, and I've never been touched like that or even have had a boyfriend. So the doctor (who was a man) was about to do it, but I was so scared he had to physically spread my legs apart. Then he put the speculum in and did whatever, but he had to push through the hymen, and it hurt pretty badly. It seemed like he didn't care at all how I was doing, or anything. Now I cringe when people mention sex or anything like it because it reminds me of him and the pain and embarrassment. How am I ever going to trust a man enough again to let him get close, and how can I block this event out of my head?
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Valdosta, Georgia - May 7, 2011
The Valdosta Fire Department set-up outside Walmart in Valdosta and four other locations for its annual Give Burns the Boot event.
All money raised goes to the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.
The fundraiser is part of a nationwide effort to help burn victims in Georgia get the medical help they need.
"It shows that you can kinda get help in your community," says Theo Johnson, a Valdosta firefighter at station 6. "Like if someone got burnt in the house fire or something, you can just give back and show that you care."
There are two major burn centers in Georgia: one in Augusta and another in Atlanta.
Last year, the Give Burns the Boot event raised about $14,000 in Valdosta.
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YUBA, Okla. (AP) - Former students and teachers at Yuba
Elementary School have bid the school goodbye.
During a farewell event Saturday afternoon, photos lined the
walls and cafeteria tables were covered with old yearbooks,
scrapbooks, photo albums and school bulletins. Yuba Elementary
School T-shirts were for sale, emblazoned with the "Roadrunner"
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Why Russian Patriots Love U.S. Real Estate
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Imagine a newspaper exposé about several members of the U.S. Congress who didn't declare on their tax forms luxury villas on the Iranian Persian Gulf coast. This would be a scandal of Watergate proportions and most likely produce a couple of best-sellers and a made-for-TV movie. Now imagine an analogous situation in Russia. What happens? Almost nothing. There is no scandal, no movie, only a lot of talk on the Internet.
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Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford says the possibility of Florida State leaving the league was not brought up during this week's meetings.
Swofford spoke to The Associated Press by phone Wednesday from the meeting site in Amelia Island, Fla. He says Florida State's situation "wasn't brought up in any formal way" and says the meetings were "business as usual as we move ahead with becoming a 14-team league."
Earlier this week, FSU President Eric Barron sent an email to those asking about the Seminoles possibly leaving for the Big 12. In it, he lists the pros and cons of moving but makes a strong case for staying put.
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A grievance filed on behalf of Kris Bryant that could affect the National League Rookie of the Year's tenure surfaced on the same day Javier Baez's future with the Cubs seemed uncertain.
General manager Jed Hoyer, however, was more expansive Monday night in assessing the team's priorities at the winter meetings than he was in discussing a complaint over Bryant's service time or the interest Baez was attracting from other teams.
"It's been a super busy day," Hoyer said in the Cubs' suite while a cake commemorating his 42nd birthday remained uncut. "Lots of agent meetings and team meetings. We expected to have a lot of balls in the air, and we do."


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The partners put their energy and dollars into innovative marketing and communications tools to help their agents outperform the competition. Automated systems. Mobile resources. Onsite training to keep agents on the cutting edge of the newest technical advances. But they also insisted on a level of personal commitment that brings customers for life.
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TheTree of Life
When Terrence Malick sees a tree, he really sees it.
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I'm typing this review outdoors, looking up intermittently at the leaves of a tree in the wind. It seemed an appropriate place to work, given that the movie I'm reviewing is The Tree of Life, in which the director, Terrence Malick, returns obsessively to an image he's long favored: a tall tree seen from far below, sun filtering through its dense branches. But, truth be told, I'm doing a crap job of looking at this tree. When Malick sees a tree, he really see s it—and by some alchemy of camerawork, language, and music I'm still trying to figure out, he offers you that experience in such a way that it feels like your own. Here's a testament to this reclusive, stubborn, visionary director's stunning achievement: His films can change the way you look at the world by showing you how another person sees it.
The Tree of Life is Malick's fifth movie in a 38-year-long career as a filmmaker. That averages out to about one movie every eight years—though in practice the gap between films has varied from as short as five years (between his first film, Badlands, and his second, Days of Heaven) to as long as 20 (between Days of Heaven and his next, The Thin Red Line).His films feel like events both for their rarity and for their uniqueness of voice: Malick doesn't seem to come from any particular school or movement or, indeed, era.
This timeless quality is more apparent than ever in The Tree of Life, a movie that is, in large part, about time and the mystery of our passage through it. "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?" God asks Job in the Biblical epigraph that opens the film. In the context of the Book of Job, this reads as a somewhat guiltifying rhetorical question: Who are you to complain, buddy? But Malick's intent is to pose the question seriously. Where were we when the earth's foundations were laid, whether by God or by the inexorable laws of science? (Either way, the mystery is equally great.) And if we could somehow be present to witness the beginning of everything, would that help us to understand our own lives?
The particular life at stake is that of a man named Jack, played by Sean Penn as an adult and by Hunter McCracken as a child. (McCracken is a nonprofessional actor, a Texas boy Malick found at the end of a long casting search, whose round, serious face registers emotion with the sensitivity of a wind chime.) Jack the adult seems anxious and disconnected; an architect, he spends most of his days alone in sterile skyscrapers and cold minimalist apartments. But Jack's memories of his Waco childhood are just the opposite, filled with trees and rivers and the warm, pressing clutter of family life. That doesn't mean Jack's childhood was completely happy—his father (Brad Pitt), an aerospace engineer, could be rigid and tyrannical, though he also had a fierce love for his three sons. And, like every child, Jack struggled with the difficulties of being a human, coming to terms with the reality of suffering and the certainty of loss.
But wait! To fully understand Jack's situation you have to know something about his mother (Jessica Chastain), a nature-loving free spirit who might, in the Romantic era, have been called a "beautiful soul." (She's certainly a beautiful body, a tall freckled redhead with a pre-Raphaelite gleam.) And you should probably witness a moment or two of his mother's childhood. And—oh, screw it, to get the whole picture you really need to go back to the Big Bang. In a perhaps 15-minute flashback (hard to tell as this movie suspends the viewer's sense of time), Malick takes us through a few billion years of cosmic history: the formation of the universe, stars, and planets; the cooling of the Earth; the first microscopic signs of life; and, eventually, the dinosaurs, two of whom we witness as they enact a short reptile drama that will be the subject of many a post-movie discussion.


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The wide spectrum of colors that can be found in hazel eyes means that there are a variety of eyeshadow and makeup shades that will complement them. If you have hazel eyes but aren't sure which colors to use on your cosmetics palette, we've got you covered. Whether you're experimenting with your look or want something you can wear every day, check out the best makeup shades for girls with hazel eyes:
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Sensing a theme? Warm green shadows and eyeliners bring out the green tones in your hazel eyes, really making them pop. There's a variety of hues to choose from, but we recommend army or forest green - lime is just a little too much.
Purple is a flattering shade on any girl, but eggplant looks particularly stunning on those with hazel eyes. Eggplant is on the opposite side of the color wheel from green, which means it will provide a flattering contrast. Use it to create smoky eyes or line your top and bottom lashes.
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text: European solar power capacity keeps increasing despite subsidy cuts Science 25 September 12 by Ian Steadman Shutterstock Despite the decrease of subsidies across the continent, Europe's use of solar power continues to increase. According to a report by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, two thirds of the world's increase in solar power capacity came from within the EU last year.Last year 46.1GW of new energy capacity was installed in Europe, with 56 percent of that using photovoltaic technology. That means the EU currently meets two percent of all of its electricity demand using solar power -- and while that might not sound like a lot, it's enough to power all of Austria.This continued growth in solar power comes at a time when many countries are cutting or even completely removing their subsidies for solar technology. Spain has cut all funding for new green technology, while other large nations like Germany, Italy and the UK have also reduced (or are planning to reduce) their subsidies for renewable energy production. It's in large part due to the rapid drop in the costs of photovoltaic technologies -- which means increased efficiencies and decreased manufacturing costs of silicon panels -- that capacity has nevertheless continued to increase.The report makes the point that an estimated €1,415 billion (£1,127 billion) was spent subsidising fossil fuel use worldwide either through direct funding or tax breaks from 2007 to 2010 -- an amount that could have bought the equivalent of 340GW of photovoltaic capacity. However, that same amount at today's prices would buy 610GW, nearly twice as much. That reflects a 60 percent drop in the cost of solar power between 2008 and 2012 -- which means that even as subsidies are being cut, more capacity is being installed per euro invested.That two percent isn't spread equally, of course. Certain countries are investing more in solar power than others -- Germany in particular, which is the world's largest market for the technology. In May, across two particularly sunny days, the country managed to meet half its required electricity demand with solar power, and in July the government there announced that a quarter of the country's demand was being met by renewables. By comparison, the UK continues to lag behind with only nine percent of energy coming from renewable sources, and a government report from 2011 featured a relatively modest target of 35 percent by 2020.European companies are also still world leaders in developing and manufacturing photovoltaic technology, the report says, but they will suffer increased competition from Chinese firms in particular in the future. As the decreased subsidies drive European countries to look overseas for more business, that competition will become particularly strong. Image: Shutterstock Edited by Liat Clark Latest on wired.co.uk


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In the Sunday NY Times Magazine was an article concerning a noted bioethicist and her predicament when theory turned in to reality when her husband was paralyzed in a cycling accident.
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High Point third and fourth graders sing the theme from "The Beverly Hillbillies" during the High Point R-III School Spring Concert held Tuesday, April 26, titled "An Evening in TV Land."
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Barry's Bully-Boys(and girls) In Action
This is right out of the Alinsky playbook. In a story full of outrages the biggest is that the police, who take an oath to serve and protect, stood by and watched as the SEIU mob terrorized a 14 year old boy. This is what happens when you are a political/class enemy in Barack Obama's America. <object width="640″ height="385″><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k80hI_hlzlE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed | Read More »


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Cardinals rest most regulars in final spring tuneup
Monday, April 2, 2012
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals prospect Trevor Rosenthal pitched four perfect innings and the World Series champions rested most of their regulars Monday night in their final exhibition tuneup, a 3-2 victory over Double-A Springfield.
Ronny Gil, ticketed for Class-A Palm Beach and subbing for Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay, homered off Springfield reliever Keith Butler in the seventh, providing the difference.
The Cardinals open Wednesday night in Miami, the first regular-season game at the Marlins' new ballpark.
Matt Holliday and World Series MVP David Freese played four innings apiece, each getting two at-bats, and reliever Kyle McClellan thwarted a rally by inducing an inning-ending double play in the fifth, the only inning worked by a big league reliever.
Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran, Rafael Furcal and Yadier Molina did not travel with the club, nor did any of St. Louis' starting pitchers. The Cardinals are faced with a demanding travel schedule this week and 27 games in 31 days against NL Central rivals.
The club was scheduled for an up-and-back trip from Jupiter, Fla., then it buses Wednesday to Miami and flies to Milwaukee for a weekend series.
Major League Baseball booked the Cardinals to open Miami's new ballpark in December. That was a month after St. Louis rescheduled Monday's exhibition.
Before the game, rookie manager Mike Matheny called Furcal the team's "starting shortstop."
But when asked if Furcal would be the opening-day shortstop Wednesday night, he said: "We'll see."
Furcal has been somewhat slowed this spring after offseason operations for a sports hernia and an appendectomy.
"We're just trying to make sure we don't push him too far," general manager John Mozeliak said.
Rosenthal was 7-7 with a 4.41 ERA last season for Class-A Quad Cities. The right-hander worked both sides of the plate, throwing a heavy sinker and an effective curveball.
He is one of three highly rated farmhands skipping the high Class-A Florida State League this season, joining 19-year-old Oscar Taveras and 2011 first-round draft pick Kolten Wong, a second baseman prospect.
Carlos Martinez, considered the club's No. 2 prospect behind pitcher Shelby Miller, worked the final four innings for St. Louis, striking out Taveras to end the game.
Taveras tripled off Martinez in the seventh, driving home Wong, and then scored on Xavier Scruggs' groundout.
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Keep Winter
Cool is a partnership between NRDC (Natural Resources Defense
Council) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) to raise
visibility and public understanding of global warming and spotlight
opportunities that exist right now to start fixing the problem.
Ski areas are taking steps to reduce uneccessary vehicle idling.
Reducing idling will clean up the air and save money on fuel and
maintenance costs. Read further on the latest installment of Keep
Winter Cool...
"There is nothing like the thrill of skiing down a chilly
mountainside in winter, and I live for making fresh tracks on
powder days. Help us 'Keep Winter Cool' by doing your part in
fighting global warming."
Picabo Street is one of America's most famous alpine ski racers.
In 1998 she won an Olympic gold medal in Nagano. She's the only
American - man or woman - to win a season-long World Cup downhill
title, winning in 1995 and '96.
Photo by: Doug Penser
"I love snow and winter and I want to protect the powder. We
all need to do what we can to fight global warming. We owe it to
ourselves and, of course, to nature."
Ross "The Boss" Powers fell in love with snowboarding as a
youngster in Vermont. After picking up an Olympic bronze medal in
1998 in snowboard halfpipe's Olympic debut in Nagano, he led a
1-2-3 USA sweep of the men's halfpipe in Salt Lake City with what
many consider to be one of the best runs ever in the sport!
Photo by: USSA/Peter Foley
"I am a big fan of winter and want to see lots of powder
coming my way! Keeping winter cool is important to the environment
and our sport. Do what you can in the fight against global
-2002 Olympic mogul silver medalist Shannon Bahrke.
Photo by: Jonathan Selkowitz
"Nothing compares to the excitement of fresh snow. With
global warming, powder could become a memory of the past. What are
you doing to help keep winter cool? Only together can we stop
global warming."
Three-time National Telemark Free Skiing Champion Leslie Ross is
a pioneer in the rebirth of Free Heel Skiing. Committed to creating
opportunities for people to reconnect with the environment, Leslie
is founder of Babes in the Backcountry, a Women's Outdoor Education
A Breckenridge Free Ride team member and ambassador for Clif
Bar, Patagonia, Black Diamond and Scarpa, Leslie's exploits can be
seen in numerous films and publications.


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The Private Rocker by Herman Miller and Kyle Fleet Creates a Quiet Retreat In the Office
Posted By Holly McWhorter On May 23, 2012 @ 4:33 pm In carousel showcase,Design,Green Furniture,Green Interiors,ICFF,new york design week | 1 Comment
Need an escape from your fellow office workers? Or maybe a serene space to concentrate on what you're doing? The Private Rocker [1], designed by Cranbrook product design student Kyle Fleet in collaboration with Herman Miller [2], just may be the office retreat you've been searching for. Spotted at this year's ICFF [3]in New York City, this stylish chair sure beats a break by the water cooler.
Contemporary office design is all about collaboration and easy communication, with communal desks and low-walled cubicles abounding. But research shows that workers are more productive if they have access to a little privacy, and the option to disconnect and concentrate on just their own work if they need to.
So what's a privacy-craving office worker to do? Herman Miller attacked the problem by teaming up with students from the Cranbrook Academy of Art [4] for a joint research program called Rest and Concentration in the Workplace [5]. 16 students took part, and then the manufacturer chose six proposals to be prototyped and displayed at the fair.
This wood, leather and wool rocker by Kyle Fleet was one of our favorites.
+ Cranbrook for Herman Miller [5]
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< Retention Home
The UMC Retention Team was formed in the summer of 2006 to create a retention plan for the campus. The team was composed of: Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, Sara Kaiser, Peg Sherven, Kevin Thompson, and Sue Brorson. The team spent a week at St. Olaf as part of the collaborations summer workshop. Out of that the following plan was created: [insert plan]


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For me it's as much the pattern as the colour. The tie is bold as is the PS, both are beautiful. But IMHO the stripe of the shirt is rather strong to be combined with such bright accessories, especially as the suit has a texture stripe too. Generally I don't like shirt stripes quite that heavy anyway, but in this case, I think less is more...a solid shirt, or a bengal at most would do it for me.
(Why is it so hard to say anything less than fulsome about Spoo?!)


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Robert Nelson on Environmentalism as Religion
Recorded: Monday, May 21, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Nelson, author of The New Holy Wars talks about the the religious implications between church, state, and environmentalism with Anthony Gill on Research on Religion.
Experts: Robert H. NelsonType: RadioIssues: Culture/ Society, Environment, Religion
What the Second Amendment Means Today
Recorded: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Part 1 |
Part 2
Part 3
The Second Amendments right to keep and bear arms has been among the most controversialand least understoodrights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Did the Founders intend to safeguard an individual right or a collective right?
Experts: Stephen P. Halbrook, Don B. Kates Jr.Type: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Crime, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Gun Control, Law Enforcement


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MABSCOTT - Funding volunteer fire departments is
one issue, but manning them is critical.
"They make sure that they have
adequate manpower," Beckley Fire Department Chief Billie Trump said. "And this
is for safety because fighting fire, especially in this day and age, is
extraordinarily dangerous. And the more people you have on hand, the more
successful you can be, and the safer you can be."
Kevin Price, who heads the Raleigh
County levy, said fighting fires can get you tired quickly.
"You wear out pretty quick, and when
you wear out like that, that's when accidents happen," he told Newswatch. "When
you push yourself harder and harder, and you're liable to hurt yourself or the
person next to you."
The changing times and increased
demands are making it more difficult to staff volunteer departments. People are
no longer working where they live. Cities are growing, and closing the doors of
these departments stretches thin resources even thinner.
"When one department closes their
doors, the burden is then spread to other departments who already have their
hands full and suddenly, you're going as hard as you can to cover your
territory, now you've been given additional territory and responsibility to
cover," Trump said.
Kevin Price said he has a plan to
create four new departments in Raleigh County where paid and volunteer
firefighters would work together.
"It's going to take a while," Price
said. "It's going to take a long while. It took them forty, fifty years to get
in this shape. One turn of the levy is not going to get them all well and
better to where we can vote it out again."
Others are crossing their fingers that
residents will see a change in their home insurance rates.
"I don't think they realize the
effects of the cost of the insurance until they get that actual quote, you know,
they get the premium and that's the sticker shock," said Shelia Bailey, who
works for Songer Insurance Agency, Inc. in Beckley.
Trump hopes safer departments will be
reflected in insurance rates.
"In two or three years, hopefully when the rating
organization comes in, they'll look at the departments and say, 'You guys have
improved significantly, people are safer, we're dropping the insurance rates,'"
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Experience stunning scenery on this tour through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Visit some of the West's spectacular national parks, including Arches National Park with its 2,000 preserved sandstone arches; Canyonlands National Park with its canyons, mesas, and buttes; Capitol Reef National Park with one of the most amazing, yet unknown, scenic drives in the U.S.; Grand Staircase National Monument; Bryce Canyon National Park, where slow erosion over the ages has created fantastically-sculpted rock formations resembling castle towers and cathedral spires; Zion National Park, a spectacle of massive stone formations; breathtaking Grand Canyon National Park, where you can wander along the canyon rim for stunning views; Monument Valley to explore the massive formations on a 4-wheel-drive tour; Mesa Verde National Park to marvel at the ruins of the Ancestral Puebloans who made it their home from 600 to 1300 AD; and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, one of the newest national parks with its spectacular narrow opening, sheer walls, and startling depths.Other tour highlights include a ride on the Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad through San Juan National Forest. Travel by a coal-fired, steam-powered locomotive that hugs steep canyon walls as it winds it ways through the canyon. Also, ride Pike's Peak Cog Railway, the world's highest cog railroad. Amazing views await you at the 14,110-foot summit of Pikes Peak. These are just a few of the many highlights of this amazing vacation. Be sure to pack your camera, so you can capture photos of this picturesque journey.
Sightseeing:Lake Powell cruise, 4-wheel-drive tour in Monument Valley, Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad, and Pike's Peak Cog Railway. Inside visits as shown in UPPERCASE in the tour description, including admission charges where applicable.
Scenic Highlights:Vail, Glenwood Canyon, Colorado National Monument, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Wupatki National Monument, Route 66, Grand Canyon National Park, Monument Valley, Four Corners, Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, and Garden of the Gods.
Services of a professional Tour Director.
NOTES: Colorado, Utah, and Arizona are blessed with exquisite mountain scenery and extraordinary outdoor attractions. Visiting and participating in activities in these locations is subject to favorable weather and/or road conditions.Enjoy the spectacular colors of the West on our special fall foliage departure: September 23 (if Mother Nature permits).
Welcome to Denver! Your Tour Director is on hand late this afternoon to answer any questions.
Travel west into the Rockies and stop in Vail, one of America's most popular mountain resorts. Continue through the massive 1,800-foot-high walls of Glenwood Canyon before reaching the awe-inspiring natural beauty and dramatic red-rock landscape of Grand Junction. (CB)
This morning, visit COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT with its canyons that drop as much as 500 feet deep. On to ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, with over 2,000 preserved natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch. Overnight in Moab, with time to stroll through the downtown shops for a great selection of Southwestern art and jewelry.
The day begins with magnificent CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado and Green Rivers. The remote Maze, the rugged Needles, and our destination today, "The Island in the Sky." Continue on to DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK, where your Tour Director tells you the legend behind the name. Stroll along the Rim Walk, towering 2,000 feet directly above the Colorado River. Dead Horse Point Mesa provides breathtaking views of southeastern Utah's canyon country and the pinnacles and buttes of Canyonlands National Park.
Today's route through CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK and Escalante is one of the most spectacular, yet unknown, scenic drives in the USA. The majesty of Capitol Reef will intrigue you with its twisting canyons, massive domes, monoliths, and spires of sandstone. Next, travel along GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT to BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, where slow erosion over the ages has created fantastically sculpted rock formations resembling castle towers and cathedral spires. The natural amphitheaters and canyons glow with different lights throughout the day.
Today, descend into half-mile-deep ZION NATIONAL PARK. "Zion" means a place of peace and refuge. Enjoy the colorful sandstone walls that rise thousands of feet above the lush greenery of the canyon floor. Afterward, head east into Page and CRUISE the waters of Lake Powell, America's second-largest man-made reservoir.
First stop this morning is the WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, one of several sites preserving pueblos (villages) of ancient peoples. Take time to imagine the past before visiting one of the five largest prehistoric pueblos, the Wupatki Pueblo. An afternoon arrival in Flagstaff allows time to explore an eclectic mixture of big-city culture and charming downtown atmosphere. Our journey continues to Williams, a picturesque mountain town with Route 66 as the Main Street and the gateway to the Grand Canyon. Enjoy one of the best preserved stretches of the Mother Road in America. Walk Main Street and you'll find vintage neon on buildings that are preserved to their original character, and restaurants that have the character of the Route 66 heyday. (CB)
Today, experience one of the Natural Wonders of the World and see the beauty and splendor of GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK. The day is free to enjoy the park at your leisure. Wander along the canyon rim for breathtaking views. For a once-in-a-lifetime thrill, take an optional helicopter flightseeing trip over the Grand Canyon. (CB)
To experience the American West that's been immortalized on the silver screen, journey across the Navajo Nation to MONUMENT VALLEY. Situated on the Arizona/Utah border, the valley's scenic desert vistas and iconic buttes have appeared in countless classic Western films. See the massive formations on a memorable 4-WHEEL-DRIVE TOUR. (CB)
Today, continue through Utah to the "FOUR CORNERS" region, where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico converge, and you can stand in four states at the same time. Next, wondrous MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where you walk in the footsteps of Ancestral Puebloans and see their mysterious, centuries-old cliff dwellings. Afterward, head to Durango in the Animas River Valley, surrounded by the San Juan Mountains. Tonight, maybe explore the historic downtown.
Board the DURANGO & SILVERTON NARROW-GaugE RAILROAD this morning for a scenic ride through San Juan National Forest. Experience the adventure of traveling by a coal-fired, steam-powered locomotive on the same tracks that miners, cowboys, and settlers of the Old West took more than a century ago. This historic train has been in continuous operation for more than 125 years, and the locomotives used to pull today's train are 1923-1925 vintage. The train hugs steep canyon walls as it winds its way through the Rio de las Animas Canyon, with vistas of snowcapped peaks. Free time in Silverton, once a major mining town that owes its name to the bragging statement by an early miner, "We have no gold, but silver by the ton!"
Travel north through the San Juan Mountains, stopping in Ouray, a small community nestled in some of the Rockies' most rugged and towering peaks. This afternoon, visit one of America's newest national parks: BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK. The unique and spectacular landscape was formed slowly by the action of water and rock scouring. No other canyon in North America combines the narrow opening, sheer walls, and startling depths that you will see here.
Our journey continues through beautiful Buena Vista, a picture postcard town that has retained a Wild West charm and is nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Continue to Colorado Springs, where the view from the top of nearby Pikes Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to compose America the Beautiful more than 100 years ago. Visit the GARDEN OF THE GODS, a city park that is a garden of towering red rock formations. (CB)
Conclude your journey with a fabulous train ride on the PIKE'S PEAK COG RAILWAY, the world's highest cog railroad. Travel along Ruxton Creek in Englemann Canyon, then over Four Mile Switch for your first glimpse of Pikes Peak. At about the 5-mile point, the grade gets steep as you climb above the timberline and reach the 14,110-foot summit of Pikes Peak. Return to Denver in the late afternoon for an evening at leisure.
The trip ends today with guests departing on individual schedules. Transfers to Denver International Airport are included. You can extend your vacation with extra nights and explore Denver further with a variety of exciting optional activities. (CB)
Transportation:Private, deluxe air-conditioned motorcoach while touring.
6 continental breakfasts
With Cosmos, there's no better way to get to know your destination than through the eyes of your Tour Director. Averaging over a decade... we'd like you to meet a Tour Director, who is representative of the type of expert that will be with you on your vacation.
I believe the path to becoming a Tour Director started for me as a young teenager when our family loaded up the car and embarked upon a cross-country road trip from Virginia to California and back. We did our own "vacation" long before the Griswolds came along! Born, raised and educated in Virginia, I have slowly but surely made my way west with each career opportunity and job transfer, rediscovering many of America's most beautiful National Parks, forests and recreation areas that I first fell in love with on that family road trip back in the day. The chance for a career change came in 2010, when I became a Tour Director, and now reside in Denver, Colorado. This area provides great proximity to National Parks such as Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Bryce Canyon. Having become very familiar with this beautiful part of our country, I look forward to sharing it with you on a tour of America's spectacular National Parks and Canyons.
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Out West, Private Claims to Public Land Could Slow ; Companies Would Pay $1,000 per Acre or More If Congress Revises an 1872 Mining Law
Brad Knickerbocker writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
Back when Ulysses S. Grant was president and the American West was mostly wide open spaces, Congress passed a law making it easy for miners to stake claims, dig up gold and other precious metals, and "patent" federal land (essentially assuming ownership) for as little as $2.50 an acre.
Over the years, giant earthmovers and foreign investors replaced mules and pick-axes. But the 1872 law remains on the books - a controversial remnant of US history, which has come to have considerable economic, cultural, and environmental significance.
Congress this week is revisiting that history as it debates changes to public lands management that could affect hundreds of millions of acres and billions of dollars in potential revenue from hardrock minerals, not to mention the oil and gas discovered long after President Grant himself became an historical figure.
Advocates of changing the 1872 law say valuable resources - especially domestic energy sources - are much needed in an unstable world. Since 1993, according to the US Geological Survey, US reliance on imported minerals increased seven-fold.
Their proposal, part of the House budget reconciliation bill that could be voted on as soon as Thursday, would end the annual moratorium on land patenting imposed in 1994. The aim of that Clinton-era move was to prevent mining companies (including some that are foreign-owned) from controlling federal land at low cost.
The measure would end the $2.50- per-acre provision of the 1872 law, replacing it with a $1,000-per-acre fee - or "fair market value" if higher, although that can be difficult to determine - for privatizing public lands with mineral potential.
The idea here, supporters of the provision say, is to raise some $158 million over five years and encourage "sustainable economic development" in parts of the country traditionally reliant on natural resources for jobs and revenue but also subject to boom-and- bust cycles.
It might also encourage more oil and gas development, because companies that now lease federal land for energy production would be able to buy it.
Opponents of this 21st-century effort to open up the West call it a land grab, which would worsen an already archaic law.
They warn that mineral exploration and development could imperil environmental and cultural treasures around the region, such as the north rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Instead, they propose, mining companies should have to pay royalties - as coal companies and oil producers do on federal land. …


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Date: 2/20/2013
Cedar Falls Center L103
Class Description: Feel more confident about retirement when you have the information you need to help you live the retirement lifestyle you envision. This series will cover taking control of your retirement income, what rising healthcare costs could mean to you, and the four cornerstones of your financial future. Learn how to set up a retirement income stream aligned with your retirement goals, align tax treatments with your investment objectives, and plan for inflation. Also, understand the healthcare realities, find out what costs Medicare covers, and explore options for covering your personal healthcare bills. Last, gain strategies you can use to help you feel more confident about reaching your financial goals, how aligning cash management, protection, investing, and tax planning strategies can help you reach your goals, and ways you can identify and correct critical gaps in your current financial plan.
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Five Star Finance defacto director Neill Williams is trying again to back out of his guilty plea to misleading the collapsed financier's investors.
And he is arguing it was his ill health which influenced him to plead guilty to the charges of making false statements in investment statements more than two years ago.
The attempt to vacate the plea is the third made by Williams, in his late 70s.
The first was dismissed by Judge Roderick Joyce QC in March 2011 and the second dismissed by Judge David Harvey a year later.
Judge Harvey said in his decision it appeared Williams' attempts to alter his plea were made because his Five Star directors had since been put in jail.
At Auckland High Court this morning, Justice Geoff Venning heard Williams' application for a judicial review of the decisions by the district court judges.
Williams' lawyer Andrew Speed said the judicial review was being sought on a narrow point in terms of what his role was in relation to the financier's prospectus.
The Crown had elevated Williams to be the mastermind of Five Star, which collapsed in 2007 owing investors more than $90 million, Mr Speed said.
Williams had a managerial role in the company but was not involved in preparing the prospectus. Mr Speed said the charges suggested Williams was influencing the directors far more than he really did.
A new affidavit presented to the court today revealed Williams' illness was undiagnosed at the time he was charged. He had pleaded guilty because he was concerned about how he would stand up to an arduous trial.
Justice Venning, who heard the application, said he did not consider those to be grounds to overturn a guilty plea.
Crown lawyer Steve Symond opposed any suggestion that Williams did not know what he was doing when he entered his plea.
And Judge Joyce should not be criticised for evidence about William's health that was not put before him at the time his application to vacate the plea was made, Mr Symond said. Williams had no clear defence, because he was present in meetings where the business of Five Star Finance was made.
Justice Venning has reserved his decision.
What did Williams plead guilty to?
Williams pleaded guilty to criminal charges laid by the former Companies Office – now the Financial Markets Authority – under the Securities Act and the Financial Reporting Act.
The charges relate to false statements contained Five Star's September 2006 registered prospectus, and carry a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
Although he was not a director of the company, and had not signed the prospectus, he was charged as a party to the directors who did put their names on the document.
Williams and three Five Star directors were also charged with fraud by the Serious Fraud Office over related party loans worth $50 million.
The trial, which Williams will face alone, was set down for June last year but was adjourned to June this year.
This will see the Crown endeavour to show that Williams was the most culpable of the Five Star's directors.
His co-accused have pleaded guilty to those charges.
In December 2010, Five Star directors Marcus Macdonald, 69, and Nicholas Kirk, 65, were sentenced to more than two years in jail for theft in relation to the misuse of funds at collapsed financier.
Five Star was placed into receivership in August 2007, owing about $46 million to investors.
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Don't switch off yetGeoffrey Paul
Jun 19, 2009
Of course, it had to happen one day. A reform synagogue in Virginia podcasts all its religious services and, reports the rabbi of Temple B'nai Shalom in Fairfax Station, "It's been fantastic for our members, especially the elderly, people with chronic illness and those serving in the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and foreign service assignments." Why, people even "take services on their vacations and on business trips...our teens listen to the podcasts even when they are not away." I cannot imagine this will ever catch on with the United Synagogue. Can you imagine, no more deficit shuls or crumbling cathedrals (often the same)? Services will be transmitted from Studio 4B at Marble Arch and from the property sales there would be tons of money for the redundant rabbis' pension fund. Of course, it would spell the end of communal kiddushim and we would have to take kiddush at home alone. No, most definitely not for the United Synagogue. Not in my lifetime...
A nose for a good storyJenni Frazer
Jun 18, 2009
How, I wonder, could I have missed this piece of essential information for the world of journalism? The New York Times has a perfume critic.
True, the appointment is now nearly three years old, but hey, some news takes time to filter through and it's always worth saving the best until last.
But a perfume critic? In a newspaper? The perfectly named Chandler Burr, one of those roll-off-the-tongue American names which sound like parcels or marker posts for remote villages, is indeed the incumbent of this post. Every so often, his column sniffs the latest and then distils the top ten smells for a breathless public.
Just think of the sheer, unbridled luxury of a newspaper that has a correspondent for absolutely everything. I'm sure that's what the JC is missing. We need a perfume critic. I love the smell of burning chopped and fried fish in the morning...
They're like usStephen Pollard
Jun 18, 2009
Wednesdays are bad blogging days for me - it's press day - so forgive me being a day late with this, but if you haven't read Daniel Finkelstein's wonderful column on Iran, drop everything and do so now. It's here. I won't print an extract because I want you to read it all.
Israel breaks through the glass ceilingCandice Krieger
Jun 17, 2009
Israel is playing with the big boys. It has been upgraded to a developed-market status by Investment services firm MSCI Inc.
As of next May, Israel will be included in the
MSCI World Index, which includes most developed markets, and in the MSCI EAFE Index, which includes only Europe, Australasia and the Far East.
Sounds grand but Israel's relative weight in the MSCI World Index will be significantly smaller than its position in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which throws up the question: Is the upgrade such a good thing?
Fur-fetchedSimon Rocker
Jun 17, 2009
A proposal in Israel to ban imports of fur could have unfortunate consequences for the Chasidic community: it could put a stop to streimels, the ornamental hats worn on Shabbat and festivals (and once described by the late Peter Cook as "furry frisbees").
Synthetic alternatives are available, apparently.
Let's have more inquiriesStephen Pollard
Jun 16, 2009
John Rentoul's blog is a must-read for analysis. His post today on the latest Iraq war inquiry is typically taut:
What we really need are two inquiries into the Iraq war. The one announced
by the Prime Minister yesterday, "to identify lessons learned", as he
put it. And another one to do what its critics almost unanimously agree
that the Chilcot inquiry will fail to do.* The terms of reference for
this second inquiry were set out in a letter to Editor of The Independent in December (I paraphrase):To
inquire into the reasons why the four previous inquiries into the Iraq
war failed to come up with the conclusions expected by all
right-thinking people.
This inquiry should be held in
public, be fully independent (chaired by Tony Benn, members George
Galloway, Philippe Sands, Jon Snow, etc.) and the cost borne by public
Twittering IranStephen Pollard
Jun 16, 2009
Here's an interesting take from The Times' tech blog on the Iranian protests which shows how sites such as Twitter aren't merely for teenagers (or, for that matter, middle aged editors) who want to tweet inanely:
Twitter is one of the means of communication that appears to be
playing a revolutionary role in the aftermath of the Iranian elections.
Tens of thousands of tweets with the tags #iranelection and #iran are
filling the microblogging service as Twitter users inside Iran get news
out of the demonstrations and beatings and have their tweets passed on.
One of the big trending topics was also protests about the
scheduled maintenance downtime for Twitter which was supposed to be
tonight (Pacific time) #nomaintenance. In response Twitter moved the
downtime to tomorrow 2-3pm Pacific time which is in the middle of the
night Iran time.
The key factsStephen Pollard
Jun 15, 2009
I'm back.
To the important news that Christopher Lee has been knighted. As Michael Gove writes today:
The Queen reads The Times.
Anger management, rabbinical styleSimon Rocker
Jun 15, 2009
Rabbis don't often talk openly about the problems that they have with congregants.
But in an article for the latest edition of Common Ground , the magazine of the Council of Christians and Jews, Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer reveals how he coped with "a small but vociferous" element at his previous community (Northwood).
"It seemed to be that whatever I did, I could not please them and their unfair criticism and machinations put a tremendous strain upon me and my family," he writes.
After Tehran, Cairo - but differentGeoffrey Paul
Jun 14, 2009
Egypt is not exactly a bastion of democracy in the Middle East. Although President Mubarak, now in his fifth term, authorised a multi-party system of presidential elections in 2005, matters were so rigged that almost nobody else had a chance of winning. He would probably win once more if he stood again when his term ends in 2011. But he will then be 83.
Egypt is key to the maintenance of peace in the Middle East. Although her peace treaty with Israel has never blossomed into the warm and friendly neighbourly relations that so many Israelis hoped for, she has rigorously upheld the legal terms of the treaty and frequently placed a cooling hand on those local and regional hotheads who would like to turn the cold peace into a hot war.
Who follows Mubarak is important to the continuation of tranquility on Israel's southern border. Nothing is certain in the Middle East, but current signs are that, as has happened in Morocco, Syria and Jordan, a son will follow a father into the seat of power and Husni Mubarak will be succeeded by his 45-year old son, Gamal (known to the "street" in Cairo as "Jimmy").


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iGo, Inc. (Nasdaq:IGOI), a leading provider of mobile accessories and power management solutions, has teamed with Cisco's Flip Video and the new Designed for Flip™ Accessory Program to create accessories compatible with the popular Flip Video cameras. As part of the program, iGo will offer a number of new products, including a custom Flip iGo Charge Anywhere, the new iGo Overtime Backup Battery and the new iGo Pocket Projector. "iGo is excited to team with Flip Video to help launch the new Designed for Flip Accessory Program. Flip Video is a well established brand with portable and easy-to-use products that perfectly align with iGo," said Michael D. Heil, president and chief executive officer of iGo. "The iGo products included in the Designed for Flip accessory program allow Flip Video camera users to always have enough power, plus the ability to show videos while on the go."Working with the new FlipPort™, a proprietary connector on the new Flip Ultra HD 8 GB/2 hour video camera, iGo's battery charger and backup battery accessories easily plug right into Flip Video cameras. The iGo Pocket Projector uses the HDMI port found on most Flip Video cameras. The iGo product line up compatible with Flip Video cameras includes:
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- Students may make schedule changes without penalty only through the last day of regular registration.
- Schedule changes made on the first day of the semester/term and thereafter will be subject to the official refund schedules located in the class schedule.
- Students are encouraged to use WebAdvisor to make schedule changes. Most access problems can be resolved within 24 hours through the web help line (254-526-1637 or 800-792-3348, ext.1637). Should you reach our voicemail, please leave a message with your name, CTC ID and phone number for us to return your call.
- However, if you are experiencing difficulties and are unable to drop a course and risk a loss of tuition and fees already paid, fax your course drop request to the Central Campus Records and Registration Office at (254) 526-1961.
- Request must list specific action to be taken and be signed. Completed Course Drop forms can also be emailed as an attachment to email@example.com.
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- Last day to drop a classroom course in WebAdvisor is the last day before the semester starts (normally Sunday).
- Last day to drop a distance learning course in WebAdvisor is the Thursday before the term starts.
- After that, you must drop in person at the Records and Registration Office (Bldg 119), fax your drop request to (254) 526-1961, or email your drop request to firstname.lastname@example.com. Requests to drop a distance learning course must be received no later than the Sunday (central time) before the Monday term start date.
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We are currently immersed in the digital era; technology is becoming the navigation bar to every facet of our lives. Businesses, society, and individuals are embracing this new world that we seem to be streaming into with a thirst that can not be quenched quick enough.
The ability to exchange information, connect with the world wide audience effectively fast, along with networking is shaping our modern society. Like wise byte by byte Tanzania is transitioning into the digital age. We see this in our increased online content: mainstream media, social media and e-commerce.
The stock market is no exception it is shaped by the day's information and digital age. The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (winner of The Best Sustainable Stock Exchange of the Year 2011, Africa" by the World Finance ) not one to twiddle their thumbs have joined nine other stock exchanges in the Southern African Development (SADC) to adopt a digital platform. This will hopefully increase productivity and efficiency for smooth functioning and growth of market operations in completing cross border transactions.
Technology is opening doors and is the basis for changes in investor behavior and expectations. Considering the number of companies in Dar es Salaam there aren't anywhere as many listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange.
Through meticulous planning and a well thought out implementation of the process, there are numerous benefits to listing your company on the stock exchange. For example, it creates a market for the company's shares enhancing the status and financial standing of your company.
You increase market exposure, public awareness and interest in the company along with your services and products. It boosts the companies' corporate profile as there will be an added element of trust and credibility.
This in turn increases liquidity and valuation of the business. It also provides the company with an opportunity to implement share option schemes for their employees and another attractive key reason is the company attracts international investors to name but a few.
For every positive outcome there are shortcomings. These snags are not so much for the public and should not really be seen as stumbling blocks but additional obligations for the companies and their governing bodies - directors etc.
Going public would mean additional reporting conditions such as increasing accountability and transparency to public shareholders - preparing comprehensive audited financial statements, annual reports etc. Observing and adhering to the rules and regulations by governing bodies, maintaining dividend and profit growth trends.
One would also incur a loss of privacy as a result of media interest - having to disclose details regarding compensation of officers, directors, gross profits, net income etc. You know how the media loves to hover and feed a good corporate scandal, loss of shares, market plunges etc. to the public. Humm on a side note - perhaps these are some of the reasons more companies are not listed on Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange?
Taking all this in stride and with the adoption of the digital platform by the ten stock exchanges of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) the sky could be the limit for your companies, investors, and prospective shareholders. Going public is not an easy task but the Committee of the SADC stock exchanges (CoSSE) is using technology to support development of regional systems.
This will increase trade effectiveness, organizing training courses, and supporting members in enhancing their websites to ensure trading data and company news are circulated globally.
Though Africa's economy faces momentous challenges such as poverty, high infant mortality, disease, corruption etc, our continent is among the world's rapidly growing economies. Africans are getting more involved and we are aware and interested in each other. Our economies are moving towards integration.
According to the Ernest and Young survey, Africa received its largest share of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) last year. FDI projects grew by 27 percent in 2011. Tanzania was amongst the countries that attracted high FDI inflows.
The stock exchange driven by technology has drifted to computer based platforms. Let us continue to improve operations, raise collaboration amongst our neighbouring countries and make our markets attractive to regional and international investors, to aid in the growth and sustenance of our country.


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As a new client of our practice, you can expect our full attention to your pets' needs. Our service will be provided with courtesy and respect.
When you arrive for your appointment, you will be greeted warmly, and we will usher you into an examination room as soon as we have one available. Our retail area is catered to the species we see and you are welcome to browse it while you wait. Our goal is to see all of our clients and patients on time, and although we have contingencies for emergencies, there will be times where the unexpected will create delays. We will ensure these are minimized as much as possible.
Usually a veterinary technician, and then veterinarian will see you and will take a history, and gather some data and next, examine your pet, answer your questions and plan further diagnostics or treatment as necessary. Should any medication be needed, you may helped by one of our knowledgable RVTs who can show you how best to administer the medications and will provide you with further educational information and answer routine wellness and care questions for you. Our client care specialists will handle billing and schedule any needed follow up.
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