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The Power of Independent Thinking
The Jason Lewis Show Interviews Emily Skarbek on the Government Cost Calculator
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dr. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Government Cost Calculator was interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio program, The Jason Lewis Show (Premiere Radio Networks). In the program, Dr. Skarbek uses MyGovCost.org to explain the specific effects of rampant government spending on the personal situation for any individual in America.
Experts: Emily C. SkarbekType: RadioIssues: Fiscal Policy/Debt, Taxes
Dr. Emily Skarbek Talks about the Government Cost Calculator on Taking Back America
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dr. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Independent Institutes MyGovCost.org was interviewed on the nationally syndicated, web, radio blog, Taking Back America. During the interview, Dr. Skarbek uses MyGovCost.org to explain the specific effects of rampant government spending for any individual in America. Dr. Skarbek illustrates how an individual can find out what their own personal costs imposed by government are, and what they could have earned instead.
Understanding Today's Economy: A Summer-Seminar Preview for Teens and Their Parents
Recorded: Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Part 1: Introductory Remarks by David Theroux
Part 2: Why Economics Matters more than Ever with Gregory Rehmke
Part 3: Healthcare Reform: a Principled Critique by Michael Winther
Experts: Anthony Gregory, Gregory Rehmke, Emily C. Skarbek, David J. Theroux, Michael Winther, José Maria J. YuloType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Free Market Economics, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Emily Skarbek at Tax Day Tea Party Rally
Recorded: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Originally aired on 4/15/10 on ABC 7 News. Independent Institute Research Fellow Emily Skarbek spoke on free markets and individual liberty at the second annual Tax Day Tea Party rally in San Jose, California.
Experts: Emily C. SkarbekType: TelevisionIssues: Fiscal Policy/Debt, Taxes
Emily Skarbek on MyGovCost.org
Recorded: Sunday, March 21, 2010
Originally aired 3/21/11 on PJTV Front Page with Allen Barton. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute, explains the features in MyGovCost.org and what it can tell you about federal debt, deficits and government spending.
Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?
Recorded: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Many people have wondered how technological progress will affect political, economic, and civil freedoms. With the rise of encryption software, the National Security Agency's Echelon worldwide surveillance system, and the FBI's Carnivore e-mail snooping program, this subject is no longer the exclusive domain of speculative thinkers or futurists, it is the subject of intense public-policy debate. Will privacy-enhancing technology improve faster than privacy-threatening technology? Should the government mandate privacy standards? Should it enforce contracts in cyberspace, or would private law do a better job? Economist, physicist, and legal scholar David Friedman discussed these and related questions about technological change and the case for and against government involvement.
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Carmen IsabelNicaraguaRetailFunding via ADIM (Asociación Alternativa Para el Desarrollo Integral de las Mujeres)
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Estrella Del Mar Group
Update on Estrella Del Mar GroupThe solidarity group Estrella del Mar [Star of the Sea] was originally made up of three members, one of whom has passed away. The two surviving members are Deysi and Alicia, natives of the department of Chinandega, which is located in the western part of the country. Deysi and Alicia are mother and daughter, so they decided to request a joint loan to help each other economically and invest in their different businesses. As the coordinator of this group, Alicia is responsible for making loan payments and complying with the terms of the loan.
Alicia is a microentrepreneur with a business selling candies such as dulce de leche and atole [a sweet corn-based drink] in addition to cigarettes and carbonated soft drinks. She also has three pool tables that she rents to the public who come to play.
Deysi has a small grocery store that she has been expanding and she also now has a store where she sells clothing, footwear and other merchandise. She began selling her merchandise in the streets from a small bag she carried with her. With the loans she has received, her business has grown to the point that she now has a beautiful small shop.
Alicia and Deysi are requesting this loan to continue expanding their businesses. They are grateful to Kiva lenders for the help they give to microentrepreneurs in developing countries like Nicaragua.
Previous Loan DetailsThe "Estrella Del Mar" (Star of the Sea) solidarity group has two entrepreneurs who have been working with Fundación León 2000 loans. During the financing the entrepreneurs have shown themselves to be responsible and having goals for self-improvement in life. Alicia sells beverages and fr... More from Estrella Del Mar Group's previous loan »
Additional Information
Fundación Leon 2000This loan is administered by Fundación Leon 2000. Fundación Leon 2000 began operations in 1993 as the first microfinance institution to serve the western part of Nicaragua, a country which continues to be one of the poorest in the western hemisphere. Fundación Leon 2000 works to further the development of micro, small, and medium enterprises through credit services and management, applying the best credit industry practices and technical expertise. Additionally, Fundación Leon manages several business and financial education programs in the community, specifically for young entrepreneurs and at-risk youth. Fundación Leon 2000's group of experienced and dedicated employees works in 7 offices in Leon, Chinandega, Chichigalpa, Somotillo, Jinotepe, El Sauce, and Nagarote and serves several thousand clients (the majority of whom are women).
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 14 months (Additional Information)
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- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Mar 7, 2013
- Listed
- Mar 17, 2013
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- Possible
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In Los Angeles the week before last, I heard a studio executive mention a musical he was making based on the old Moulin Rouge that will star Nicole Kidman and be called, apparently, The Moulin Rouge. Thus a ticket to the actual Moulin Rouge soon will be scarce, as moviegoers everywhere come to Paris to rub up against the reality of their latest fantasy. Thus I quickly booked three tickets—for me, my wife, and our house guest.
This turned out to be a mistake. Wife quickly declined, saying that if I wasn't ashamed about being seen at a strip show it was fine by her, but she didn't intend to be there to witness my depravity. House guest Joel Achenbach—my favorite Washington Post columnist and author of a delightful new book about extraterrestrial life, Captured by Aliens—was equally enthusiastic. He was not some tourist, he complained, but a writer on assignment in Paris. He'd come to research an article on light. I do not lie: light. Light is of course a big subject—and not just here in Paris. You can see light anywhere. Unlike, say, the Moulin Rouge.
House guests, however, you can boss around. Eventually Joel caved and agreed to go with me. But then an hour before we were due to depart he collapsed onto his futon and began to moan. He said he had heart pains. He wasn't faking it. He really, truly did not want to go to the Moulin Rouge, though at first I didn't understand why. He just lay there crawling back and forth on the futon and talking about the last time he visited a doctor. Finally, between moans, I gave him a nudge with my foot, and the truth spilled out of him.
"If we go to a PORN SHOW," he said, "it'll cost us both huge points on the chalkboard."
The chalkboard. The chalkboard, Joel said, is the board that parents of small children maintain to keep score in the great game played by all parents: Which of Us Is Suffering More. You need only spend an hour with new parents to see the game in progress. For instance, Joel recently attended a Washington dinner party at which a new father tried to say something about a book he had recently read. His wife, the new mother, cut him off and turned on him, enraged. "You had time to read a book?" she demanded. "WHEN?"
Joel believes that if The American Male is to win the game of Which of Us Is Suffering More he must play with extreme caution. He must exaggerate any misery he endures for the sake of his children and disguise whatever small selfish pleasures he pursues. A strip show in Paris sits near the top of the list of activities he should avoid.
"But there will be lights in the Moulin Rouge," I said.
For the first time all day Joel brightened, a bit. "That's right!" he said. "They could be important for the story." Suddenly, the chalkboard economics had changed. In chalkboard terms, he could see a strip show at business trip prices. He could do, in other words, what traveling businessmen have done since they were invented.
Outside the Moulin Rouge the line extended 30 yards and consisted entirely of well-scrubbed Japanese and American tourists. Worse, half of them were female. Every few minutes another bus rolled up and disgorged 40 more sweet-natured elderly couples. "What is this show?" Joel asked, a bit huffily. And then: "This looks like a total waste of chalkboard credits."
Inside the Moulin Rouge, which, while no longer a moulin, is in fact rouge, we were seated at the table closest to the stage. Front row. On it there was a sign that said: Drink Minimum 560 FF Per Person, FOOD AND SHOW NOT INCLUDED. We were required to drink either 13 glasses of whiskey or two bottles of wine. Learning this, Joel loosened up and looked around. What he saw made him want a drink. A glittering band played Muzak versions of songs like "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and "Unforgettable." The male and female lead singers smiled at each other with their usual spontaneity. The place was packed with a disturbing number of obviously healthy-minded people. Everyone else seemed actually to be enjoying the warm-up to the show; more to the point everyone else had come with a date of the opposite sex. Joel writhed in his seat with an even greater than normal self-consciousness. In the whole place we were that unpleasant anomaly: The Two Guys Who Had Come To See the Sex Show. "Just don't do anything too gay tonight, OK?" he said.


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• Tajuan Porter scored only 10 points on 2-for-12 shooting for Oregon following his 33-point performance in the Ducks' regional semifinal win over UNLV on Friday. Porter's was the lowest shooting percentage ever recorded in the quarterfinals by a player who scored at least 30 points in a Sweet 16 victory. The previous low was .200 (3-for-15) by Frank Williams of Illinois in 2001.
• Georgetown's 96-84 win over North Carolina ended the Tar Heels' streak of nine consecutive wins as a No. 1 seed (all six games in 2005, three in 2007). That was two short of the longest such streak in tournament history. Kentucky won 11 in a row as a top-seeded team (1996-1997).
• The Hoyas outscored the Tar Heels 15-3 during the overtime period, producing the largest margin of victory in an NCAA Tournament overtime game since 1986, when North Carolina State defeated Arkansas-Little Rock 80-66. Georgetown's 12-point win equaled the largest victory in the quarterfinals or a later round, a mark set by Louisville in an 80-68 win over Kentucky in 1983.
• All five Georgetown starters scored at least 13 points. Over the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, only one other team has done that: Arizona in a second-round victory over Gonzaga in 2003. The last team to do so in the quarterfinals or a later round was UNLV in a 1990 semifinal victory over Georgia Tech.
• Not only did North Carolina blow a trip to the Final Four with a disastrous overtime, but Tyler Hansbrough missed his chance to tie an NCAA Tournament record when he missed two otherwise meaningless free throws with 32 seconds remaining in OT. Hansbrough had made all 14 of his foul shots to that point in the game. The NCAA Tournament record for free throws in a game without a miss is 16, set by Bill Bradley of Princeton in 1963 and tied by Fennis Dembo of Wyoming in 1987.
• Manu Ginobili led the Spurs with 19 points in their 120-79 win at Seattle. It was only the second game in NBA history in which a visiting team posted a win by more than 40 points without any player scoring as many as 20 points. The Lakers defeated the Warriors 123-82 in 1977, and their leading scorer was Adrian Dantley with 19 points.
• After Sunday's game against the Hawks, Mavs head coach Avery Johnson said, "We aren't anywhere close where I need them to be. If we had to start the playoffs tomorrow, I would really be concerned." Keep in mind that Johnson said that after a 104-97 win -- and that it was Dallas' sixth straight victory. For the record, half of the league's 30 teams haven't had a six-game winning streak in either of the last two seasons.NHL
• The loss at Pittsburgh was the third consecutive road game in which Bruins failed to score, marking the first time in franchise history -- dating back to 1924 -- that Boston was shut out in three consecutive road games.
• The Rangers followed Saturday's shootout victory at Boston with an overtime win over the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum. The Rangers are only the eighth team to win road games in overtime (including shootouts) on consecutive days.
• Landon Donovan scored all three goals in the United States' 3-1 victory over Ecuador on Sunday, the 10th hat trick in U.S. men's history. Donovan is the first player to record more than one hat trick for the team.
Donovan also became the first U.S. player to score a hat trick against an opponent that had played in the World Cup Finals within the previous year. The only other U.S. player to score three goals against a team that participated in the most recent World Cup was Aldo Donelli, who scored four goals in a 1934 World Cup qualifier against Mexico, one of the nations in the first-ever World Cup Finals in 1930. (Honorable mention to Bert Patenaude, who scored a hat trick for the U.S. in the 1930 World Cup Finals against Paraguay.)


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Bear grabber Jan 16, 2013 12:01 PM
in response to lenn5
Were there any warning symptoms? Was the failure the same as the last time it went on you. I'm wondering what to look out for or if there's anyway to protect it. Of course even thinking like this is irritating as I would hope the machine could be used normally without worry. I guess if it's going to fail it would be good if it did while the 90 warranty is in effect. Heck I don't want it to fail at all. I was hoping it was a bad batch manufactured in mid 2010 when I bought my MBP. I don't like to hear it still happening with newer logic boards as well. Any theories you'd care to put forward?
lenn5 Jan 16, 2013 12:52 PM
in response to Bear grabber
The last few weeks the MBP froze a few times. I had to use the power button to shut it down. Then the other night it froze and the graphical distortions started. After rebooting it worked for a few minutes then it froze again with the weird graphic "artifacts." Probably a bad GPU like last time. Since the GPU is part of the logicboard they have to replace the entire logicboard again.
I'm not sure if Apple uses new or refurbished parts when they fix a Mac. Especially one that isn't in production anymore. Since heat plays a huge part in the longevity of a logicboard using a refurbished part may not be such a good idea.
I have an early 2008 15" MBP. Many of these came with the faulty NVidia 8600M GPU that have been causing so many problems. Since yours doesn't contain this defective GPU you are much better off.
Anic264b Jan 16, 2013 1:32 PM
in response to lenn5
I don't think it's reasonable to embed the graphics card into the logic board. When a replacement is needed, not only does it cost the price of "both" cards, it also is a waste of components/material! Splitting both cards would have resulted in cheaper replacements and a better handling of the components to change (think about the Earth's health)…
But any company's first goal is not to preserve the nature, right?
Dr_Jezz Jan 16, 2013 2:22 PM
in response to Anic264b
Actually, you don't have to replace 'both'; there are plenty of places making good business out of replacing the GPU in the logic boards of the faulty INVIDIA Macs at a fraction of what Apple wants to replace the whole lot, despite the Logic boards being fine. Apple denies there are 'undiagnosed' GPU issues while whole companies are basing business strategies on it! It would be funny if it weren't reprehensible, eh?
Dr_Jezz Jan 16, 2013 2:35 PM
in response to jonnyguitar
(In rersponse to a post a few pages back) I reckon 'always make the best' is clearly something any company aims for, but if you use a batch of recognised faulty components, you shouldn't screw your own loyal userbase over to save the manufacturer of the original components (NVIDIA) the price of a replacement. That's what's at the base of all of this, and obviously has led you to go back to PC. Good idea, HP's response to this NVIDIA isue was far better.
Poikkeus Jan 16, 2013 3:35 PM
in response to Dr_Jezz
We're seeing two issues here: first, it's issues with certain 2007-8 MBPs that may need replaced logic boards, based on a legal settlement; second, it's general problems with failing logic/graphics boards.
If you have the former, you'd best visit your Apple Store/Genius Bar to see if you qualify for the extended warranty program.
If you have the latter, visiting your Apple Store/Genius Bar is important - but it's doubly important to be proactive. Recent MBPs can run hot, and that can be a danger sign. Hot systems lead to weakened solder, which can result in eventual logic/graphics board problems. Even if you recently had a logic/graphics board replaced, running your MBP hot will cause the same failure, time after time.
Some Apple Stores are aware of the problem and may be more understanding of the issue.
SeeClarity Jan 16, 2013 5:20 PM
in response to lenn5
I tried calling apple, going into a apple store, calling apple again. My macbook pro is from 2008 and the extended warranty for the logic board just expired in December so every try they told me a base fix of $310 is the best they could do. This is in my opinion unacceptable considering that it is know that the problem is caused by a defective part; I know eventaully computers fail but after only 4 years a expensive computer should still work. I started searching fixes and ended up taking apart the computer, baking the logic board in the oven, and putting new thermal paste on the processors. Put it back together and it works!
lenn5 Jan 16, 2013 6:36 PM
in response to Poikkeus
Strange thing is for 4 years I pushed the CPU quite a lot doing video encoding,games, ect. It lasted almost 4 years. Since Nov '12 and the new logicboard I haven't done 1 video encode or played 1 game on it. Just email, browsing and watching movies. And that 2nd logicboard only last 2 months. Go figure.
lenn5 Jan 16, 2013 6:38 PM
in response to SeeClarity
Congrats on the home fix!
Not sure I would have had the guts to put my logicboard in the oven ;-)
macssam Jan 17, 2013 2:20 AM
in response to Bear grabber
people living in the us could ask david wynn miller to look into these issues
Michael Koen Jan 17, 2013 5:22 AM
in response to SeeClarity
I reported back in November 2011 how my logicboard, hard drive and battery all failed to the point i couldn't boot and since I had a dent on my computer my Macbook Pro was repaired as a Tier-3 Accidental Damage, thank god the tech was understanding and didn't charge me the ridiculous $1300 for the repair.
Last month, December 20 2012 Logic board and Hard Drive failed yet again and it was fixed after a week and I got it back the last day of my AppleCare. Now the computer seems to go to a sleep that it doesn't wake from and the HDD keeps spinning and the only way to get out of it is a hard shut down. On reboot it says you had a problem etc. So I'm guessing I have yet another unpredictable crash of my computer which will be the 3rd time. I assume I have a 90 day extension of these specifice parts, any tips on how I can recreate this for the "geniuses" or contact Apple for a mail in? Its a Mid 2009 Macbook Pro 15 2.66 core 2 duo. I had to wait a week for the repair because the logic board was being shipped and still I got stock with a crap version.
calerouxz Jan 19, 2013 12:44 PM
in response to Keith Walsh
Well... So it seems that the Logic Board issue is far more widespread than just the 2007-2008 Nvidia models. I have had an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro (2.00 GHz, 500GB 5400rpm HDD, AMD Radeon HD 6490 and a recent upgrade to 16GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM), and it's logic board appears to have been fried. I thought the issues with the display (screen going black on and off, screen distorsion, etc...) were the cause of the Razer Mice Drivers, as it is known to have this type of issues, but so it seems it was the warning of the inevitable death of my Logic Board. I took it to an AASP and they told me that so it seams the fans got dirty to the point were it wouldn't let air in at all, it eventually fried the GPU and thus the whole logic board. They told me fixing the machine was not worth it, they told me an estimate would be 800$-1,000$ for a repair, and I'm 18, I can't gather that kind of cash in such a short time, so it seems my MacBook Pro is pretty much errm--Dead. Unfortunately, switching to a PC would be pretty unproductive, as I use Aperture to manage my photos, so I guess I'll have to sell my MacBook Pro for repair parts, impressively the computer is barely 1 year old, it was just a month and a half after my warranty expired, I feel cheated, it's like the computer was programmed to do this <after> the warranty expired, no apple care, possively my greatest regret -EVER. My next buy will probably be an iMac, as I find that it will have far less issues with heat, and knowing that my father's 2009 27" iMac is still running strong without any issues at all, I think apple should implement some other cooling solution to their computers, in my opinion it's their greatest disadvantage, the computer will run hot you try or not. A word of advice for 15" users: Clean your fans once every 5 months to stop this type of issues, I surely didn't see this comming, although I knew I eventually would have to clean those fans, but I didn't think it would happen so soon. Bottom line I'm stuck with a near-perfect, yet not-working MacBook Pro, if the GPU wasn't soldered to the logic board I would have had some luck replacing it, but the costs are too high to actually make me want to repair it. Sadly, I can't get to a genius bar, as where I live there are no Apple Stores (actually, not in the whole country), but there's various AASPs, which are bloody expensive (50$ for MDP to DVI?-really?).
Dino1956 Jan 19, 2013 2:48 PM
in response to gec666
I just wrote a 2 page article of my experience with this issue & I think it got deleted by Apple. :-) I agree. You should be covered no matter what, as long as your MBP is the same model with the same NVidia Graphics processor, Years of Model or Years of Warranty should not matter.


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My friend Lauren G and I have started a fansite together for Kelsey Grammer after seeing how little sites there are out there for him. Come and check it out but keep in mind that it's still quite new but we shall be updating it frequently.
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Since everyone else is posting about his or her 1st road race experience, I thought Id put my $.02 in. Ive raced my mountain bike on many occasions including several 24-hour races, but Id yet to turn a pedal in anger in a real road racing situation until last evening.
I did a crit race that was run on a ½ mile banked oval. This oval has a bit of an elevation change right @ the start/finish line just to make the sprints interesting. I raced in the Cat-5 group, as this was my first road race. My ambition was simply to stay with the field (read: dont get dropped!), and get some experience moving around in the group. Shockingly, I didnt have any trouble staying with the group, and actually went off the front a few times by myself, and several other times with small groups.
Instinct kicked in on the 1st lap as 2 riders jumped off the front. I couldnt seem to stop myself from bridging the gap, and riding along. All the while, I could hear a little voice in my head screaming You Fool!, but I continued regardless as to common sense. The field eventually swallowed us up, and I played around in the group for a while before taking a few more stabs off the front. They also score MARs (most aggressive rider) points @ the start/finish line. So, every lap, there was a sprint @ the line which made it very interesting.
Something I didnt anticipate was the banked turns. Ive no experience on them, and it showed through the first 4, or 5 laps. Finally, I got onto looking well ahead, and around the turn, while using my peripheral vision to keep from punting the wheel directly in front of me. I felt relatively good the entire race, and had a fantastic time! In the end, I made a rookie mistake, and ended up being totally blocked in on the last lap, and really didnt get to contest the sprint. With that mistake, I finished 16th of 25 riders, but was very satisfied with that performance. I cant wait to do it again!
Ill also post a pic. Thats me in the green jersey in one of my few attempts @ getting off the front.


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If I sent out a survey to determine how many local folks have had a close personal encounter with the infamous Surrency ghost or any other ghost for that matter, I'd bet that the results would be quite interesting. I've never gone looking for this vaporous being myself, nor do I intend to, but students for the last twenty-six years have given me much information about it.
"He shows up every night at midnight," one student assured me. "Come to town tonight go with us; we'll show you."
The only place I go at midnight, barring illness of course, is my bed. I declined that offer as well as many more. I don't hunt ghosts. If I ever encounter one, it will find me. However, I love the ghostly tales that accompany Halloween every year. They are part of the fun.
Mama told us stories of ghosts that haunted her neck of Jeff Davis County back in her girlhood days (circa 1920). The Hayes family lived about eleven miles out in the country.
"We'd sit out on the front porch shelling peas or just resting from gathering whatever was in season," Mama told us on many occasions, "and we'd hear voices approaching on the dirt road in front of the house. The voices would get louder and louder until the speakers should have appeared right in front of us, but no one ever did. Then the voices would trail away as if people had walked on by. We never saw any one. It was a little bit unnerving, but we got used to it. It happened often, but we never saw anybody."
Daddy had a ghost story for us, too. His father had let him take Old Jack and the wagon to go courting. On the way back, Daddy had pretty much given Jack free rein. The mule knew the way home. They had just crossed the wooden bridge by the Carter place when Jack began to speed up. Maybe he was ready to get to the barn and his supper. Whatever the reason, he decided to hurry. Just on the home side of the bridge, Daddy felt something tap him on the back. A chill raced down his spine as he turned his head. Nothing there. Then the tapping came again. Three sharp, light taps on his right shoulder. He jerked his head around. Still nothing. Now he encouraged Jack to speed up even more. Again the tapping, more forceful now, came to his shoulder. Tap, tap, tap.
"Who are you and what do you want? I ain't never done nothing to you, so you let me be." Daddy yelled into the darkness around the lump in his throat. His mother had always told him that if he'd just speak to a ghost, the ghost would not bother him. "I don't know what you want, but I'm sure it ain't me or Old Jack."
Finally in desperation, he prayed, bowing his head and closing his eyes. "Lord, please keep us safe. You know we're only a mile or two from home. Help me, your servant Luther, and Old Jack. He's a good old mule. He ain't never hurt a flea. And Lord, I know I've done some sinning in my time. I'm awful sorry. Please forgive me. And I promise not to kiss Nellie no more until I marry her, Lord, if you'll just save me. I do plan to marry her real soon, Lord. I really do."
Raising his head from praying, he noticed his tie. No longer hanging in front, it had blown over his right shoulder. He grabbed it and pulled it back into place. The tapping stopped. He tucked the silky fabric securely into his shirt. No more tapping and no more ghosts disturbed his trip home.
We Americans do love our horror stories. Nobody's outdone Edgar Allan Poe yet, but Stephen King and a few others have joined him. If you are looking for a new scary story for this Halloween, let me recommend Chris Bohjalian's newest novel, The Night Strangers. Carole told me not to read it just before going to bed, but when did I ever listen to Carole? It gave me nightmares most of last week. I wish each of you a scary Halloween, and please share a fun ghost story with the children in your life.
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In this video, members of the First Peoples team talk about the Creation Cinema and Bunjil's Nest, and show you a preview of Bunjil's wings in flight.
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Bunjil's Nest and the Creation Cinema were developed under the guidance of the First Peoples Yulendj Group and are a creative collaboration between Glenn Romanis (Wedge-tailed Eagle feathers), Synthesis Design + Build (Bunjil's Nest), ENESS (concept, design, vision and sound for Bunjil's wings) and Melbourne Museum (overall concept and design).
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Where did your family come from? Why did they choose Victoria? How long ago did they arrive?
These questions, and more, can be answered by the Immigration Museum's recently updated Origins multimedia display, giving visitors the opportunity to see exactly when, and in what context their family immigrated to Victoria.
Based on Government census information gathered since 1854, Origins contains data from 82 countries, and was researched, built and designed by Museum Victoria in conjunction with SBS Radio, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and community members.
Origins is available at two kiosks in the Long Room of the Immigration Museum, complemented by a large touch screen and audio speakers, it gives visitors the opportunity to explore their family heritage by viewing graphs and bios related to population, history and gender. There is also a website version.
The Origins kiosk at the Immigration Museum displays information about migrant communities in Australia.Source: Museum Victoria
Bettina, a 28 year old German tourist, said she found Origins "fascinating" and that it told her a lot about why her dad was considering living in Melbourne in the 1950s.
"My dad actually moved to Australia after the war for four years, it was the trend at the time – to move overseas – but I don't think he liked being away from his family and friends for too long, so he came back.
"It was really interesting seeing how many people thought like my father back then. You can see on the graph that heaps of people from Germany decided to come to Australia during the same time." Bettina said.
Origins has recently undergone a significant upgrade, and senior curator Deb Tout-Smith says that the service has considerably expanded and now offers a lot more."Origins has been updated with the latest 2006 Government Census Information, this includes 12 new communities being added, plotted histories being updated and a handful of audio-visual guides being included.
"It's supposed to provide an insight into the community, show the political and socio-economic reasons of why they immigrated, and while this update has taken longer than we hoped to complete, working with communities is something that you can't rush." Deb said."At the moment we include communities that have a population of at least 1100 people, I'd love to get that down to somewhere around the 100 mark, but it all depends on feasibility, we get a lot of people saying 'Why aren't we in origins?' but sometimes these communities only contain one or two people and it would be basically including someone's personal history."
Work has already begun on preparing the next update for Origins, which will include the 2011 Government Census Information, and is expected to be ready in two to three years' time.
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The Hours: Trellis offers "Crush Hour" daily from 4-6 p.m.
The Deal: All "small" plates are 1/2 price, but these include more substantial plates like steak, flatbread pizzas, and gnocchi. Choose from $6 glasses of wine, half-off beers on draft (a fine selection of Northwest microbrews and quality European imports), and $3 off cocktails, including classics like the Arsenic & Old Lace or a Blood & Sand (cocktails regularly priced $8-$12).
The Digs: Located inside the Heathman Hotel, Trellis Restaurant is plush enough to make the residents of this tony little lakeside town comfortable, but rustic and lively enough to attract a young, after-work crowd. The sidewalk seating is glassed in and heated in the winter, providing a nice taste of the outdoors on otherwise chilly spring evenings. Inside, grab a seat at the alabaster bar or at one of the burnished-wood bistro tables.
The crowd at Trellis is kind of mixed. Inside seems to be popular with the "I'm just going to stop in at the bar for one drink, honey" crowd, while outside is popular with small groups of women celebrating birthdays or other occasions, as evidenced by piles of gift bags and wrapped packages (it's doubtful they are celebrating sobriety because the white wine is usually flowing). Everyone seems to be eating almost as much as they are drinking, though, and for good reason. Both can be done cheaply and deliciously during Crush Hour.
The Verdict: The culinary ethos of Trellis is farm-to-table dining. They put their money where their backhoe is at a 10-acre farm in nearby Woodinville, where they grow much of their produce. The menu varies seasonally, but there are usually a couple dozen options, ranging from artichoke "tots" and house-cured salmon to steamed clams and a grilled flat-iron steak.
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Local, state and national animal- welfare advocates suspect the blood sport of dogfighting is growing in the West, but prosecutions here are still a rarity - and there is no indication that federal authorities have ever taken an interest in the crime in the West as they did in NFL star Michael Vick's case.
"If we keep giving them a slap on the wrist, it won't ever go away," said Teller County Sheriff Kevin Dougherty, who busted a woman in 2005, only to see her avoid jail time.
Jess Sokoloff, 37, operated a kennel and animal rescue shelter in Woodland Park until her arrest. She told investigators she did not participate in the fights but acted as an on-scene medic for injured dogs, according to her arrest affidavit.
"I can take the pay for being a medic and buy an attorney to fight you," she allegedly told an investigator in the case, according to the affidavit.
A veterinarian tipped off the sheriff to suspicious injuries to one of Sokoloff's dogs. Investigators found training equipment for dogfighting and mauled animals buried on Sokoloff's property.
She pleaded guilty and received a deferred three-year sentence. She moved to Yoder, east of Colorado Springs, and changed her name to Giselle O'Rourke.
On Thursday, the day Vick pleaded not guilty to dogfighting charges, O'Rourke denied that she ever actively participated in dogfighting.
"I never fought any dogs," she said.
Successful cases rare
Colorado has had only three other successful prosecutions of significant dogfighting cases since 1990, according to Pet-Abuse.com, a national nonprofit that maintains a database of cases.
In Colorado, animal fighting is a Class 5 felony punishable by up to eight years in jail, but none of the state's dogfighting cases have resulted in significant jail time. Besides Sokoloff:
Ruben Pacheco was arrested in 2005 on 11 counts of animal cruelty when authorities were tipped off to a dogfight at his property south of Pueblo. He pleaded guilty to the cruelty counts and served 13 days in jail and six months of probation.
In 2001, Montrose County authorities arrested Osbaldo Perez-Madrid on animal-fighting charges and seized 104 roosters and six pit bulls, as well as animal-fighting equipment, at his home near Olathe. He received three years of probation and four days of time served in the county jail.
One of the most expensive penalties in a Colorado dogfighting case was dealt to a television reporter, KCNC-Channel 4's Wendy Bergen, after she was accused of setting up a dogfight to tape it for a story in 1989.
Bergen was fined $20,000.
Colorado law extra tough
While dogfighting is illegal in all 50 states, Colorado is one of the few that makes attending a dogfight a felony equal to having a dog in the fight.
The state leaves the investigation and prosecution of dogfighting cases to local authorities but helps house and treat seized animals, said Christi Lightcap, a spokeswoman for the state Bureau of Animal Protection, a division of the state Department of Agriculture.
While the agency maintains a website to report animal-abuse cases, no such database of reports on dogfighting is maintained, Lightcap said.
Colorado law enforcement, prosecution and animal-welfare experts said dogfighting cases are time-consuming and expensive, and tend to slip down the priority list because the cases rarely result in punishment that would deter the activity.
Denver assistant district attorney Diane Balkin speaks at conferences nationwide about animal-cruelty prosecutions. But in her five years on the beat, she hasn't received a single dogfighting case for prosecution.
"That doesn't mean they're not out there," she said. "We know it goes on, but it's difficult to catch and prosecute."
While authorities are willing to take the animal-abuse cases that present themselves, they slip in priority when prosecutors and judges see dockets that include murder, rape, child abuse and other such crimes against humans, she said.
"You have to have interested and eager law enforcement agencies to investigate," Balkin said. "You to have prosecutors willing to prosecute, and you have to have judges who take these charges seriously."
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Alison Gianotto, director of Pet-Abuse.com, a nonprofit that tracks animal-cruelty cases nationwide, said cruelty is just one of the crimes involved in dogfighting.
"There can be $500,000 in gambling money changing hands at one event," she said.
"They don't advertise these events."
Misguided machismo is the only common mind-set Gianotto sees in those who take part in dogfighting.
"Anyone who has to show they're tough by abusing an animal is obviously compensating for something," she said.
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Update: The organizer, Jim Baum, just called back. Turns out he was once interviewed by Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show. So meta. More after the jump.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart says anyone who isn't "just, let's say, jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper, and just pointing your car towards D.C." is the kind of person he wants attending his Rally to Restore Sanity in D.C. next month.
Unfortunately for us Seattleites, the Washington Monument is so far we'd need a case of Huggies to have a shot at making the National Mall on a cross country road trip anyway.
But don't toss your "I Disagree With You, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler" sign yet. A satellite rally that day at Westlake Plaza is in the works.
Using an anonymous Facebook page, someone created the local event yesterday and as of this writing, 65 people had already signed up to attend. They have been suggesting sign slogans like "ALL America is REAL America," "Moderate... to the Extreme," and "BE REASONABLE."
The unnamed organizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
One attendee suggested speakers for the event that don't quite fall under the rubric of Stewart's motto "Take It Down a Notch for America" including Dan Savage and Sherman Alexie. But if the only Hitler mustaches are drawn on images that are "actually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles," as Stewart requests, the event will at least seem less crazy than Glenn Beck's August Teabagger fest.
No word yet on a satellite event for Stephen Colbert's competing "March to Keep Fear Alive."
In Feb. 1999, while still a Daily Show correspondent, Stephen Colbert interviewed Jim Baum at his home after King County refused to let him turn it into a horse ranch due to a number of endangered species living on or near his land including Sasquatch.
Still a fan of the show, Baum was watching when Stewart announced his rally last Thursday.
"Like a lot of people I've been really frustrated watching the Tea Party and the nonsense that goes on," he says. "I thought well not all of us can go to Washington D.C."
He created the Facebook page last Friday just to see what would happen and people quickly started following it. This morning the city confirmed that Westlake is available on Oct. 30 so he reserved it, making the event official, and got in touch with the state Democratic Party looking for help with staging and sound systems.
Despite looking to the state Dems for help, Baum says he's trying to keep the event non-partisan. He says that in addition to encouraging more measured political discourse, he hopes his rally will help remind younger voters to send in their ballots.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City police say a suspect in the killing of four people, including a Nevada prostitute featured in an HBO reality series, has turned himself in to authorities in Mayes County.
Police Sgt. Gary Knight says 28-year-old David Allen Tyner surrendered to the Mayes County Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning.
Authorities had been searching for Tyner in the killing of four people, including 22-year-old Brooke Phillips, who was featured in the HBO series "Cathouse."
Phillips and a second victim, 22-year-old Milagrous Barrera, both were pregnant.
The identities of the other two victims have not been released.
All four bodies were discovered Nov. 9 in a burning home on the city's southwest side.
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Pathfinders, Gold Star Families honor fallen to kick off Memorial Day weekend
May 24, 2012
By Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Carl (101st Airborne)
For many Americans, Memorial Day weekend is a time to gather around barbecue pits, visit the beach for the first time that year, or just plain take advantage of some extra time off. For six Families and a company of Soldiers, Memorial Day will always be more than that.
The Pathfinders of 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, welcomed around 30 Gold Star Family members to Fort Campbell May 24 as they honored their six fallen Soldiers who were killed in southern Afghanistan May 26, 2011, by dedicating the unit's headquarters building on Fort Campbell in their memory.
1st Lt. John M. Runkle Jr., Staff Sgt. Ergin V. Osman, Staff Sgt. Edward D. Mills Jr., Sgt. Thomas A. Bohall, Sgt. Louie RamosVelazquez and Spc. Adam J. Patton were killed during a mission in the Shorbak province of Afghanistan when an intricate series of IEDs detonated near their location. Also killed in the blasts were two Air Force explosive ordnance disposal technicians and two Afghan National Civil Order Police SWAT members.
"They embodied their selfless, storied motto, 'First in, Last out,'" said Lt. Col. Clair Gill, the 4th Bn., 101st Avn. Rgt., commander during the ceremony.
Gill led off the series of speakers whose words and tributes generated a smattering of laughter amongst the audience, breaking up the ever-present silent tears on the faces of wives, children, parents and friends.
"We lost men that we not only considered friends, but were our brothers," said Capt. Mark Herlick, the Pathfinder company commander . "It's often difficult when trying to explain to not only civilians, but to non-infantry personnel why we chose this profession in combat arms … the bottom line comes to we do it for the men to our left and right."
A current Pathfinder paid tribute to each of the fallen Soldiers, sharing personal stories, inside jokes and the lasting impressions each left on the lives of others.
"He set the example of leadership that I will follow throughout my army career and the rest of my life," said Staff Sgt. Joseph Thornton of Osman.
Thornton's words were echoed by many of the other Soldiers, but perhaps most moving of all the presentations was that of Timothy Bohall, Thomas' father, who spoke just before Sgts. Jon McMillen and Brian Evans unveiled the dedication plaque that will adorn the building.
"I will still spend time with family and friends this holiday; I will still recharge the batteries," Bohall said. "But I will also spend some time in quiet solitude, remembering all of the fallen, including my son … I, like you, must travel my own road of grief, find my own path to acceptance of this terrible loss, make my own way back to normalcy. But even though I must do this myself, I have learned that I need not do it alone."


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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word kalon tripa
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Kalon Tripa(noun)
the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile
The Sikyong is the leader of the Central Tibetan Administration, a Tibetan exile organisation also known as the Tibetan government-in-exile. Prior to September, 2012, this office was known as Kalön Tripa, sometimes translated as prime minister. The current Sikyong is Lobsang Sangay. The Sikyong is the head of the Kashag or Cabinet, part of the executive branch of the Central Tibetan Administration. This office should not be confused with the Chairman of the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The first directly elected Kalön Tripa was Lobsang Tenzin, the Samdhong Rinpoche, who was elected August 20, 2001. Before 2011, the Kalön Tripa position was subordinate to the 14th Dalai Lama who presided over the government in exile from its founding. In August of that year, Lobsang Sangay polled 55 per cent votes out of 49,189, defeating his nearest rival Tethong Tenzin Namgyal by 8,646 votes, becoming the second popularly-elected Kalon Tripa. The Dalai Lama announced that his political authority would be transferred to Sangay.
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The numerical value of kalon tripa in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of kalon tripa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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Subversion of the host response to virus infection is a universal theme of virology and viral immunology. Multiple mechanisms are in place to limit virus spread on behalf of the host, yet through evolution, viruses have adapted to either weaken or eliminate the effects of these host factors. Cell death or apoptosis is one such example of a host response to viral infection. As such, experimental techniques that enable analysis of viruses (and viral genes) involved in triggering, blocking, or perhaps augmenting this process represent important tools for virologists, immunologists, and cell biologists. Presented here are a series of techniques developed in our lab for the analysis of apoptosis that occurs as a consequence of herpes simplex virus type 1 infection.
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 559 | Pub. Date: Dec-01-2008 | Page Range: 371-387 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-017-5_26
Subject: Cell Biology
Key Words: Herpes simplex virus - Apoptosis - Mitochondria - Cytochrome c - Caspases
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Cristina GLAD
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BioInvent International AB
Dr Cristina Glad is Executive Vice President at BioInvent International AB, Lund, Sweden. Dr Glad has worked within the BioInvent group since 1987 inter alia as Director of Manufacturing and Business Development from 1990 to 1997 and held thereafter until the merger on November 1, 2002 between BioInvent International AB and its subsidiaries the position as President of BioInvent Production AB.
Before joining BioInvent, Dr Glad acted as a Consultant and a visiting Research Fellow at BioInvent from 1984 to 1986. Dr Glad was previously an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (1983 to 1986). She received a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, and her D.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Lund University, Lund, Sweden in 1981. She also holds an MBA from Scandinavian International Management Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark 1998.
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Union employees at the JBS beef plant in Greeley voted Saturday to authorize a strike.
In a vote that ended around 7 p.m., 99 percent of the union members in attendance voted to authorize the strike, according to a news release from the Local 7, a branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
The Brazilian-owned plant rejected the union's proposal on health care, according to the union's release.
"This significant vote result demonstrates the workers' determination to maintain a decent standard of living," Kim Cordova, president of Local 7, said in a statement. "Health care remains the main issue in negotiations."
Attendance at the meeting was the largest turnout since JBS acquired the plant.


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VIDEO: Jeremy Lamb drops an easy 29 points in D-League game
By Anthony Slater – firstname.lastname@example.com - @anthonyVslater
Miami has LeBron James, Oklahoma City has Kevin Durant and Tulsa now has Jeremy Lamb.
Ok…that may be a bit of an exaggeration. But every time the Thunder's talented young two-guard is assigned to Tulsa, he lights up the D-League with stat-lines reminiscent of those two aforementioned stars.
Here he is, in the below video, dropping an easy 29 points in 27 minutes on Friday night. And that came on a ridiculous 13-of-15 shooting. He also chipped in five rebounds, four assists and two steals.
The game seems to come easy for him and the watered-down competition seems a bit overwhelmed with his skill. Lamb certainly looks like a future NBA player, probably even a current one, if he wasn't stuck on the Thunder's star-studded roster.
But for now, he remains nothing more than either trade bait (think the Bobcats could use him?) or the long-term replacement for Kevin Martin (his deal is up after this season).
So until either of those come to fruition, enjoy the videos of him dominating D-League action. Because that's likely all you're going to get (h/t to Crab Dribbles for the clip).
And how about that long-range bomb at the 1:22 mark? It's hard to name 10 guys in the league right now with a shot that effortless and pure.
Two other videos of Lamb this season:
-Lamb drops a near triple-double
-Lamb tears through the D-League again


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