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Volume 29 - Article 13 | Pages 323-354
Impact of different mortality forecasting methods and explicit assumptions on projected future life expectancy: The case of the Netherlands
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|Europe, extrapolation, Lee-Carter model, Netherlands, non-linear models, smoking
Background: With the rapid aging of the population, mortality forecasting becomes increasingly important, especially for the insurance and pension industries. However, a wide variety of projection methods are in use, both between and within countries, that produce different outcomes.
Objective: We review the different mortality forecasting methods and their assumptions in Europe, and assess their impact on projections of future life expectancy for the Netherlands.
Methods: For the Netherlands, we assess the projections of life expectancy at birth (e0) and at age 65 (e65) up to 2050 resulting from different methods using similar explicit assumptions regarding the historical period and the jump-off rates. We compare direct linear extrapolation, the Lee-Carter model, the Li-Lee model, a cohort model, separate projections of smoking- and non-smoking-related mortality, and the official forecast.
Results: In predicting mortality, statistical offices in Europe mostly use simple linear extrapolation methods. Countries with less linear trends employ other approaches or different assumptions. The approaches used in the Netherlands include explanatory models, the separate projection of smoking- and non-smoking-related mortality, and the projection of the age profile of mortality. There are clear differences in the explicit assumptions used, including assumptions regarding the historical period. The resulting e0 in 2050 varies by approximately six years. Using the same historical period (1970-2009) and the observed jump-off rates, the findings generated by different methods result in a range of 2.1 years for women and of 1.8 years for men. For e65, the range is 1.4 and 1.9 years, respectively.
Conclusions: As the choice of the explicit assumptions proved to be more important than the choice of the forecasting method, the assumptions should be carefully considered when forecasting mortality.
Author's Affiliation
Lenny Stoeldraijer - Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands
Coen van Duin - Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands
Leo J. G. Van Wissen - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Netherlands
Fanny Janssen - University of Groningen, Netherlands
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The Colorful World Of Patch
We take a look here at a colorful world that is attracting more and more people by the day… the world of patchwork.
Every evening without fail the aroma of Turkish coffee and the pungent scent of walnuts waft out of windows and half open doors into Perihan Abla Street at Kuzguncuk. The sound of women's laughter mingles with the hum of sewing machines. But the union of needle and thread and a riot of fabrics are the real focus here. Frenzied preparations are under way. The Textiles Arts Society is getting ready to hold their Patchwork Exhibition, May 5-16. Besides Turkey there will be examples from Austria, Belgium, England, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan and the U.S. We took the exhibition as an excuse to explore the friendly and colorful world of patchwork.
Known by a number of different names in Turkish, patchwork is the sandwich-like joining together of tiny squares of different kinds of cloth. It goes like this: The first patch forms the surface, the second or intermediate layer provides the fiber, and the third layer is another patch of cloth sewn underneath. Together, these three layers, sewn together by the quilting technique known as 'Kapitone' or 'yorganlama' in Turkish, produce a single padded quilt, or 'patchwork' to us. Born of need in earlier times, this occupation is an art, a hobby, indeed a rage today that is becoming more popular by the minute. What's more, it is not the province of women alone but also of men! So it's high time we mentioned a couple patchwork masters, both of whom are men. The first is John Flynn. A civil engineer by training, Flynn started doing patchwork to help his wife and was so successful that he abandoned his profession. Now he designs his own products and has his own trademark. He writes books on the subject and gives patchwork classes at international festivals. Another prize-winning patchwork artist is Ricky Tims, who has his own studio in Colorado. Also a musician, Tims has even talked his father, a retired truck driver, into doing patchwork!
Patchwork arose out of a concern to use up the old scraps of fabric everyone has lying around. According to some sources, it originated in Central Asia, according to others in Egypt. The oldest existing example of patchwork today was found in the tomb of a Scythian tribal chief. Animal motifs adorn this specimen, which is thought to date to the period between 100 B.C. and 100 A.D. We know from the travel writings of Marco Polo that Buddhist priests wore robes made of patchwork and that Silk Road merchants left behind at temples along the way pieces of patchwork from which a variety of covers and other items were made.Even though patchwork came from Asia to Europe with the Crusades, making its way from there to the Americas, it is the West, not the East, the U.S. in particular, that is the center of patchwork today. As a country where an industry immediately springs up around every hobby, the U.S. is now the cradle of patchwork, albeit for commercial purposes. Every marriageable young woman today has in her trousseau a few patchwork quilts, such as the coveted Double Wedding Ring quilts and Baltimore Album Samplers, hand-appliquéd with silk and velvet and 'yo-yo' puffs.Done differently in every country, patchwork is used as a vehicle for expressing political views in Central and South America. In India and Pakistan tiny mirrors are used in the designs, while African patchwork stands out for its plain, geometric shapes. One of the countries where the most beautiful patchwork is done is Japan. Famous for their patience, Japanese women combine their refined taste with their national culture to produce some of the finest examples of this art. And the latest favorite with the Japanese patchwork artists is none other than our familiar Turkish embroidery!
We have to go back very far for the history of patchwork in Turkey. To the Ottoman Empire and even earlier. The most beautiful examples in those days are seen on tents and baldachins. Commissioned to the Palace 'Nakkaşhane' or imperial art studio, and appliquéd with designs in keeping with the art currents of the day, these tents were quite ostentatious since they were used outside the palace and imperial pavilions.
Used in everyday life in prayer mats, garments, bags, tablecloths and bedspreads, patchwork has another close relative in Turkey in the form of the 'yorgan' or quilt, made of a single piece of cloth with a thick, warm intermediate layer of filling. Although the number of Turkish yorgan makers is diminishing by the day, patchwork remains a creative and much-loved pastime that has entered the lives of many people in the last 20-30 years. Putting the handmade vs machine-made debate aside, those who devote themselves to patchwork find themselves in a colorful world of friendship and solidarity. The minute you cross the threshold into the patchwork workshop, you realize that the little squares of cloth are just a part of it. Let us leave the last word to Selma Kenter, one of the founders of the Textiles Arts Society: "Patchwork has taught us the fine points of patience, striving, sharing and being productive."
• The pieces of cloth you use should be of the same type: either all synthetic or all cotton.
• The cloth pieces should be of equal thickness.
• If you want to use very thin, slippery fabrics, you should definitely fasten them in place with adhesive buckram.
• All cloth used should be laundered in advance to guard against shrinkage and running colors.


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I use this helmet for nearly every fabrication or repair that would indicate welding. I use it exclusively whenever my work would be more difficult, were I to task one hand with frequent...Read complete review
I use this helmet for nearly every fabrication or repair that would indicate welding. I use it exclusively whenever my work would be more difficult, were I to task one hand with frequent flipping.This is precisely the type of tool that makes work so much less of a chore that I have more time to do more of it.
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I have used this helmet since 2005. I have used it for stick, MIG, and TIG. It lasted a long time for school (only seeing actual welding for 1-2hrs/wk)However, the internal batteries would eventually give out. I thought the solar cells recharged the batteries, but I guess they don't?The coverage of this helmet is better than the blue flame one because it has a longer bottom part that protects your neck. This is the reason I've stayed with this version and not the new blue flame oneI use this to TIG at work for over a year. I've replaced it 3 times (mostly for getting bumped off my workbench or falling off a rolling cart right onto the face piece). One time the batteries did give out in the middle of being out in the field, so had to deal with getting blinded for a few mins to finish the job (welding brackets)(Although the instructions say it's not for TIG, I've not had a problem with it not darkening [minus dying batteries], and has done just fine)The headpiece is a bit flimsy and have had the tighteners break (before I started working). The last 2 helmets have had lemon tighteners so they loosen up after a few flips up and down. These are the first 2 out of 6-7 that have done thatBecause there are only 2 sensors, if one is blocked, it won't darken. This sometimes is a problem for me doing out of position welding. I usually just reposition to get it to workOverall, it's a decent helmet. For light- medium home/ hobby work, I'd recommend it. For use at work, I'd suggest getting a better name brand helmet. I may do that once this one dies on me
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There is no sign of an increase of risky behaviour in men and transgender women who have sex with men among PrEP users, and those taking it consistently have virtually zero risk of acquiring HIV, a new study has shown.
The iPrEx OLE study, released last week during the AIDS 2014 Conference, is the first demonstration project on the experience of those using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the drug used by HIV negative people to prevent becoming infected with HIV.
"We had been concerned that people taking PrEP might stop using condoms or have more sexual partners, but we did not see any evidence of risk compensation," said Dr Robert Grant, Protocol Chair of the iPrEx studies, and Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.
"Even though everyone in the study knew they were on PrEP, knew it was effective, and knew it was safe, we still see trends towards safe sex behaviour," Dr Grant said.
In fact, the only change in sexual behaviour was found in younger people, who were more inclined to use condoms more often.
"We have terrible sex education in the United States, and we attribute the increased condom use to the increased counselling the participants received during the study", said Kimberly Koester, researcher at Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California.
Further to this, benefits of those who were on PrEP included a decrease in stress, guilt and fear around sexual practices.
"We learnt that PrEP has created a space for men to voice their deeply felt fears about becoming infected with HIV, and for many prep has become an antidote to those fears," Koester said.
This month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) strongly recommended that all men who have sex with men consider taking PrEP as an additional measure to prevent HIV infection.
"Modelling estimates that, globally, 20-25 percent reductions in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men could be achieved through pre-exposure prophylaxis, averting up to 1 million new infections among this group over 10 years," WHO added.
The study also found that no participant who took PrEP four or more times per week became HIV-infected, suggesting skipping the pill for one or two days a week does not decrease the resistance to HIV substantially and increase the risk of infection.
"Daily dosing of PrEP is recommended, because it helps foster the habit of consistent PrEP use and increases drug levels in the body, providing the best safety cushion for individuals who occasionally miss doses," Dr Grant said.
Researchers are hoping the prevention strategy pill will become more readily available, with the pill free for people in the state of Washington, with New York and California on their way to making PrEP more accessible.
Here in Australia, PrEP is in its development study trial stages in Victoria and New South Wales.
The iPrEx OLE study included 1603 men and transgender women who were offered PrEP for 72 weeks, and was conducted in cities in Peru, Brazil, the US, South Africa and Thailand.
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Trev"In fact, the only change in sexual behaviour was found in younger people, who were more inclined to use condoms more often."
Wow, this great news. I hope the results are enough to put an end to the moral panic and we can get it approved in Australia soon.


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Both Homewood Mountain Resort and Mount Rose ski resort are offering $49 lift tickets.
The discounted lift tickets are in celebration of the San Francisco 49ers playing in the NFC Championship game Sunday in Seattle.
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Skiers and snowboarders simply need to say "Go Niners!" at any Homewood ticket window to receive the discounted price, a savings of $30 off the regular Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend adult rates. The deal is good Friday through Sunday.
Homewood, located off Highway 89 in Tahoe's north shore, says its conditions are looking good for the long weekend: Saturday's snow storm dropped 3 inches of fresh snow on the upper mountain, while cold temperatures have allowed snowmakers to refresh Homewood's lower runs with additional coverage, and the terrain park crew has been keeping the eight features in the Happy Park in perfect shape for all ability levels of park riders.
With top-to-bottom terrain open and sunny weather in the forecast, Homewood will be a great place to work up an appetite for some football this weekend. And with eight flat-screen TVs around the resort scheduled to broadcast both games on Sunday, skiers and snowboarders don't need to worry about missing any of the action if they want to make some turns before cheering for their favorite team.
"I just took a couple of runs on the north-facing slopes off the Old Homewood Express and was really excited by how good the skiing is up there," said Kevin Mitchell, Homewood's general manager. "There were still fresh tracks to be found in the trees, and the coverage on what is open is looking good. It should be a great long weekend for those who make it up to Tahoe."
Adults, teens and seniors can all take advantage of the reduced $49 lift ticket pricing from now through Sunday, Jan. 19, while kids ages 5-12 and seniors ages 70+ will get $24 or $29 lift tickets at the resort as scheduled.
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Mt. Rose: How are the conditions right now?
Answer: They are very good in actuality. We have an adequate base and with nightly grooming the surface conditions are quite enjoyable.
Mt. Rose: What are you currently working on?
Answer: We just opened Lower Lakeview and are working on upper/middle Silver Dollar with three guns dedicated to spot repair.
Mt. Rose: How's the mountain holding up?
Answer: Really well, snowmaking snow always does. A snowmaking particle is round, so it bonds tighter together than a natural snowflake does. A natural snowflake has more air in it, so it tends to wear out faster than a snowmaking snowflake.
Mt. Rose: How are you and your crew holding up?
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The UNC-Wilmington women's basketball team picked up its first victory of the season on Thursday night in its home opener at Trask Coliseum thanks in large part to sophomore Kelva Atkins.
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The junior college transfer scored a game-high 15 points, grabbed five rebounds, dished out three assists and had two steals to lead the Seahawks to a 59-45 win over North Carolina Central.
"I'm excited obviously to get our first win of the season," first-year coach Adell Harris said. "There's a lot of good things that happened today and also a lot of things that we want to correct and be better at."
UNCW (1-3) jumped out to a 15-3 lead and took a six-point advantage into halftime. The Eagles (0-7), who entered the game averaging 42 points (341st nationally), cut the deficit to 34-32 five minutes into the second half.
Led by Atkins and junior Jessica Freeman, the Seahawks went on a 17-0 run over the next seven minutes to put the game away. During the run, UNCW scored on nine of 10 possessions. Freeman hit back-to-back corner 3-pointers and Atkins had six points and two assists.
"When Kelva's in the game I think what you'll realize is that she has to play fast or she's very below average," Harris said. "If she is playing fast at top speed she is really as fast as any kid playing basketball in the country. She just can go."
Freeman entered the game in a bit of a shooting slump. She was just 8 of 33 in the first three games, but she found her offense Thursday.
She was 5 of 6, including a perfect 3 of 3 on 3-pointers, for 13 points.
"It was my team or what we call my family," Freeman said. "In practice they keep saying, 'Free shoot it.' After practice I shoot with the coaches or come in my free time, so I think it's just the support that I got from them that helped me be focused.
"I feel like I wasn't forcing a lot, so that helped also with my shooting."
Both teams had depth issues, but the Seahawks' bench, led by Atkins, outscored N.C. Central 26-8. The Eagles only dressed seven players and UNCW dressed 10, but only played eight.
The Seahawks were outrebounded by 15 and gave up 19 offensive rebounds in their loss at Elon, which forced them to have to run 19 suicides in practice. Determined not to have to run again, UNCW had a 41-31 advantage on the glass against N.C. Central. Karneisha Garrett had her second consecutive double-double with 11 points and 18 rebounds, which tied a career high.
"We ran 19 suicides, so coach was really stressing on that long break that we had rebounding from our guards, rebounding from the post and it was just in my mind that I was not about to run these sprints," Garrett said. "Every loose ball or whatever I could get my hands on, I was trying to get it."
The Seahawks travel to Tulane on Dec. 2 before returning home to face Charlotte on Dec. 5 at 5 p.m.
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by Michael MacCaskey
A Harris hawk stars with trainer Sue Tiegielski at the raptor demonstration.
Southern Arizona is a popular winter destination for many good reasons, mild temperatures and golf among them. But the area is also a naturalist's paradise. Perhaps because the desert environment is so demanding, the plants and animals that have adapted to it are all the more intriguing.
The single best place to experience and learn about the desert is the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, near Tucson. It is no ordinary museum filled with specimens. In fact, this combination zoo, natural history museum, and botanical garden contains more than 300 kinds of animals and more than 1,200 kinds of plants at home in their native habitats. After a day here, you'll never again think of the desert as an empty place with nothing but cactus.
Travel and Leisure magazine ranks the 21-acre museum among America's top 10 zoos, along with the Bronx Zoo in New York and the San Diego Zoological Park. The New York Times calls the desert museum "one of a kind ... not to be missed." Peak season for a visit is December through April, when the desert is pleasantly warm, not searingly hot.
The private, nonprofit museum was founded in 1952 by naturalist William Carr and conservationist Arthur Pack, a former editor of Nature magazine. With the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Carr had earlier founded the Bear Mountain Trailside Museum, today a part of Iona Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Stony Point, New York. Carr took the Iona Island experience, which focused on native plants and animals, and headed West.
The popular symbol of the desert, the saguaro cactus, doesn't grow everywhere in the Southwest. But it does thrive in the Tucson area, and the western portion of Saguaro National Park is adjacent to the museum. These magnificient plants, some of them 200 years old and up to 50 feet tall, are reason enough to visit the museum.
A male lazuli bunting in the aviary.
Highlights for bird-watchers
It's personal preference of course, but I always head first to the walk-in aviary, home to some 40 birds that are native to the Sonoran Desert. It was here I first saw a Gambel's quail and a magnificent sparrow-sized hummingbird, and the irridescent lazuli bunting, pictured at right.
In a separate hummingbird aviary live eight kinds of small hummingbirds, from the tiny but formidable rufous to the finch-sized Anna's to the brilliantly colored Costa's. Rufous hummingbirds are the migration champions of the bird world, each year completing the round trip between Alaska and Oaxaca, Mexico.
But bird-watchers can enjoy the entire garden because native species such as cactus wrens and gila woodpeckers make their homes and find their dinners in the gardens, just as they might anywhere in the desert. Compared to birds in the wild, these birds seem a little more comfortable around people, meaning that you are much more likely to get close for a good view.
Througout the winter months of November through April there are daily raptor free flight demonstrations on the desert loop trail (see top photo). The museum emphasizes that the demonstration is an opportunity to see raptor behavior up close: it's not a bird show. Photographers can even make arrangements ahead for special sessions with a raptor specialist.
Lizards, scorpions, snakes, tarantulas, and other desert creatures are also well represented. If a museum docent is available, you might even get to pet a tarantula, a memorable experience for kids, and maybe adults, too.
Altogether, 17 displays focus on different aspects of desert life. You'll see animals common to many regions of the West such as bighorn sheep, as well as desert specialists such as chuckwalla and Gila monster (lizards), coati (a raccoon relative), jaguarundi (wildcat), and javelina (a wild boar relative).
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EUGENE, Ore. – On day three of the four-day NCAA Outdoor Championships, the Husky track team picked up three more All-American honors, with Derrick Daigre reaching the podium in the 800-meters for First Team status. Second Team All-America distinction was won by Diamara Planell Cruz in the pole vault, and Liberty Miller in the steeplechase.
Daigre was the first Husky to make an appearance in the men's 800-meter finals since Austin Abbott in 2008. The native of Kent went out of lane seven and got to the front of the pack with an aggressive first lap, and went into the final lap in a perfect spot, sitting third. But with 300-meters to go, Daigre began to lose ground, and tied up with 200-meters left. He had to settle for eighth-place, in 1:50.83. Still, Daigre earned the first point of the week for the Huskies and will earn a First Team All-America honor, his second of the year, after running on the eighth-place DMR team at the indoor championships.
Pac-12 Champion Diamara Planell Cruz took to the runway in her first NCAA Outdoor Championships appearance in the pole vault. The junior transfer and Puerto Rican product opened with a second-attempt make at 12-9 ½, then had a first effort clear of 13-3 ½. Moving up to 13-7 ¼, Planell Cruz missed her first two tries but came up with a clutch third attempt clean effort to stay in the mix. But going into an increasing headwind, Planell Cruz struggled at the next bar, and could not get over 13-9 ¼. She would wind up in a tie for 10th-place, after finishing ninth at the indoor championships. She'll earn All-America Second Team honors.
The final woman of the week for the Dawgs was junior Liberty Miller in the steeplechase finals, the first of her career. Miller, from Simi Valley, Calif., was with the main pack for the first several laps but fell back a bit with four laps to go. She would wind up 10th in the 12-woman final, but still set a new lifetime-best of 10:03.34, the third straight race that she has lowered her PR. Miller will pick up All-America Second Team honors after earning honorable mention a year ago.
The final event for Washington this week will be the men's javelin tomorrow after noon at 12:35 p.m. Junior Quinn Hale and sophomore Carson Fuller are both set to throw.
2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships
June 13, 2014 – Day 3 of 4
Eugene, Ore. – Hayward Field
Husky Men's Results
800-meters (Final): 8. Derrick Daigre, 1:50.83 (First Team All-American).
Husky Women's Results
3,000-meter Steeplechase (Final): 10. Liberty Miller, 10:03.34 (Second Team All-American); Pole Vault (Final): 10 (tie). Diamara Planell Cruz, 13-7 ¼ (Second Team All-American).


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GETTING REACQUAINTED: Canfield Patrolman Paul Lasky walks through the cafeteria of Canfield High School and converses with students. Lasky returned to his place as the school resource officer for Canfield Local Schools on Monday after a two-month absence.
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If you're buying ready-to-assemble or stock cabinets, you may have no choice about the hinges they come with - which is all the more reason you should consider their hinges carefully before taking the plunge. When you're visiting the showrooms, spend some time opening and closing the cabinet doors to see if the hinges are strong enough to support the door's weight. See if they're installed straight - if the cabinets have pre-drilled holes for the hinges' screws and they're out of line, the doors won't hang correctly. (If you love the cabinets but hate the hinges - either because you don't like the look or don't think they're sturdy enough - this isn't necessarily a fatal problem; it may well be possible to have your contractor replace the offending hardware with something more to your taste. However, before you go down this path, have a candid conversation with your building pro about how much it'll add to your costs - suddenly those bargain cabinets might not be such a bargain.)
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BYLAW 507. SPECIAL MEETINGS.[Effective dates of amendments: August 16, 1993; October 15, 2001; November 16, 2009 and February 20, 2014.]
(a) General.
Special meetings of the Board shall be held at the request of the Chairman, the President, or any 10 Directors. The date and place of the meeting shall be determined by the Chairman and specified in the notice of the meeting.
(b) Notice of Emergencies.
Notice of each special meeting shall be provided in accordance with such procedures as the Board may specify by resolution. The Chairman shall cause notice of the meeting to be given at the earliest practicable time, and, except in unusual circumstances, at least two days before the date on which the meeting is to be held.
Attendance of a Director at the meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting, except where a Director attends a meeting exclusively for the limited purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business thereat on the ground that the meeting shall be limited to the matters specified in the notice of such meeting.
In the event of an emergency (as defined herein), the Chairman or President may call a meeting on one-hour notice to all Directors. Such notice may be given by telephone, telegraph or other means. The business of the meeting shall be limited to the emergency. A quorum shall consist of 8 Directors, provided there is present at least one contract market Director, one FCM, RFED, LTM or IB Director; one SD or MSP Director; one CPO or CTA Director; and one Public Representative Director (See Article VII, Sections 2(a)-(e)). For purposes of this Bylaw, an emergency shall exist when the Chairman or President determines that, because of an unusual, unforeseeable and adverse circumstance, it is necessary to hold a meeting on one hour notice.


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I guess you can count out Tedd Ginn, Jr and John Beck as players who will help the Dolphins this year. They didn't sign in time to make it to the rookie camp reporting time, so according to H Wayne's public statements about the draft picks, I guess they can't play this year.
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Child Passenger Safety Week
September 18 - 24, 2011
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would like to take this opportunity to remind pediatricians and parents of the AAP recommendations for safe transportation of children.
Remember that all children age 12 years and younger are safest in the back seat.
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The U.S. House of Representatives, in a voice vote on the floor, has passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (HR 1084) and sent it to the Senate. The bill would require the FCC to create a loudness standard preventing broadcast commercials from being louder than the program material into which they are inserted. Several other countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, France and Russia, have already established such legal standards.
HR 1084 was introduced in early 2009 by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-CA. A voice vote of the full House of Representatives is generally called in situations where accountability of individual legislators is not considered of great import, and the legislation has substantial majority support.
The undesirable loudness of commercials is routinely one of the leading topics of complaint to the FCC. It was noted in discussion that the U.S. broadcast industry is fully aware of this issue, and that the industry's Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards body has already developed recommended practices for maintaining consistency in loudness for DTV transmission. This move toward self-regulation, while acknowledged as laudable, did not dissuade the committee from recommending the legislation.
The ATSC standard is contained in its document, "ATSC Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television."
The original CALM Act gave the FCC one year to create a standard, which would come in effect one year after adoption and would apply to over-the-air broadcast stations and networks, cable operators and other multichannel program distributors. However, the bill was amended to require the FCC to implement the ATSC. An additional amendment permits the FCC to grant compliance waivers based on demonstrable financial hardship in implementation.
At the committee level, there was opposition to the CALM Act as unnecessary, noting that consumers do have TV remotes with volume controls and mute switches. It was also pointed out that the technical challenges to loudness control across a wide variety of signal chains are considerable, and that the wider dynamic range of entertainment programming encourages consumers to set levels to make the quieter passages easily audible.
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Darling's Memoirs Paint Paulson's Dim View of King
Alistair Darling's new memoirs show the former Treasury chief was very critical of Bank of England governor Mervyn King.
They also reveal that Mr. King came under fire from another former Treasury chief: Hank Paulson in Washington.
According to Mr. Darling's book, out Wednesday, Mr. Paulson and U.S. officials in general did not think Mr. King was taking the financial crisis "seriously enough."
This was near the start of the credit crunch, when Mr. King was being criticised for not flooding the markets with liquidity, in the way that his counterparts had at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Europe Central Bank.
In his memoirs, Mr. Darling roundly attacks Mr. King, presenting him as stubborn and too political and of not understanding the crisis that nearly bankrupted Britain's banking system.
According to the book Mr. Paulson, then Treasury secretary to President George W. Bush, told Mr. Darling: "Your guy Mervyn has a high pain threshold. I hope you have too."
The book, Back from the Brink, lays waste to a number of high profile Brits, including Mr. King and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It seems though rather flattering of many Americans, including Mr. Paulson, "a bluff, amiable man, who was open and direct" and his successor at the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, described as "unpretentious and easy going."


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In the new issue of NFPA Journal®, President Jim Shannon said the Association will focus on the leading causes of home fires, including cooking. "We also need to continue to push hard for home fire sprinklers. That's still a large priority for NFPA, and we plan to work very aggressively in 2014 on our residential sprinkler initiative," he said.
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NFPA 921, Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations plays a fundamental role in fire and explosion investigations. A new edition of NFPA 921 is scheduled to be published in 2014. For years, this document has played a critical role in the training, education and job performance of fire and explosion investigators. It also serves as one of the primary references used by the National Fire Academy to support its fire/arson-related training and education programs. It is imperative that investigators understand the scope, purpose and application of this document, especially since it will be used to judge the quality and thoroughness of their investigations.
SAN DIEGO - A Team 10 and Scripps News investigation found arson fires are not investigated properly in many American cities -- including San Diego -- due to a chaotic patchwork of reporting systems and standards.
Many deliberately set building fires are not reported to the federal government.
Nationally, just 5 percent of all residential building fires are intentionally set, according to the National Fire Incident Reporting System, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Data collected by Scripps News suggests the national arson rate to be significantly higher.
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This week's "From Out of the Abyss" article was found in the March 1957, Vol. III-No.3, issue of the CCAI Newsletter. It is 14 pages long and took up the majority of the newsletter.
The following article was submitted by Randy Martin, CCAI Chaplain.
As I arrived at the parking lot of the HP Pavillion in San Jose, I was greeted by a red sea of fire apparatus. The San Jose Fire Department had provided two ladder trucks that were set up in the parking lot; ladders fully extended facing each other with a very large American flag hanging between them. It was a spectacular site, and what an awesome tribute to Rob. The flag hanging is this manner has always impressed me.
After arriving, I located the Chaplain that would be performing the service. As it turned out, he was a Captain that had I worked with in Riverside, California. It was good to see him again.
The procession that entered the parking lot was laden with fire apparatus and was followed by the limousines that carried the family. The procession route was lined with fire personnel standing at attention and saluting as the fire engine, which carried the casket, made its way through the crowd.
The San Jose Fire Department had positioned two additional ladder trucks with their ladders fully extended, donning the American flag hanging between them inside the Pavillion.
The service opened with music and a warm welcome to everyone in attendance followed by prayer, guest speakers, the eulogy, and a message to the Fire Family, a Law Enforcement prayer and a song. The Benediction was followed by the Fire Fighters prayer, the Last Alarm and the Riffle Volley. Taps rang out from the bag pipes, which always gets to me. In closing, they had the Flag Folding after which the pipes and drums played Amazing Grace and ended with the presentation of gifts for the Family.
Rob was only on this earth for 47 years; he left us way too soon! He will be missed dearly.
Fire Chaplain
Randy Martin
The Central Valley Arson Investigators association continued the tradition of providing outstanding training at their annual Advanced Explosive Recognition class. The training was held once again at the Tulare International Agri-Center grounds. This year's topic was the history of the American criminal bombings. Guest speaker Ed Nordskog, LA Sheriff's Department, lead the class through the history of American bombings, from the earliest bombings in America right up to the most current-day events.
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An Alaska Airlines passenger's phone burst into flames on a flight en route to Hawaii, and the airline and the FAA say they are investigating.
See the news video and full article here.
This recall involves 14 ounce, white ceramic coffee mugs with "Love Today" printed in gold metallic on the outside of mug. "Microwave Safe" and "Illume" are printed on a removable label on the bottom of the mug.
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Toshiba has issued a recall for Li-Ion battery packs sold with certain models of its laptops and notebooks due a risk of the device catching fire.
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Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. (Suzuki) is recalling certain model year 2013 Suzuki SFV650 motorcycles manufactured March 23, 2013, to April 8, 2013, 2014 Suzuki SFV650 motorcycles manufactured October 24, 2013, to November 26, 2013 and 2015 Suzuki SFV650 motorcycles manufactured August 9, 2014, to September 12, 2014. During assembly of the motorcycle, the fuel tank breather hose may have not been positioned properly and may become kinked.
If the fuel tank breather hose is kinked, pressure may build inside the fuel tank and cause the tank to crack, resulting in a fuel leak, increasing the risk of a fire.
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Recently renovated apartment in 2013! Located on rue de la croix Street, in neighborhood full of live, and at walking distance, about 5minutes, to the Palais des Papes, the Pont d'Avignon, the Place de l'Horloge, and ramparts; this 1 piece apartment (40m2) can easily accommodate 6 people.
Quite and sunny on the ground floor, ideal for a family or couples.
Kitchen fully equiped, everything you need to cook a Provençal meal.
Bathroom: Shower, washing machine, towel dryer, towels and bed linen provided.
- 1 double bed in a separate room.
- 2 Convertible sofa bed two places.
- Bed linen provided
PARKING free, 5 min from the apartment.
- Wifi.
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Newly- remodeled fully equipped kitchen:
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10 min walk from the train station
Regular shuttles to the Avignon's TGV station
Possibility of using the velopop services (bike rental).
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The apartment is very central in Avignon (supermarket, bakery about 50m away; the main places in about 3-5 minutes to go) and really nice. It was clean and the kitchen offered the opportunity to cook midsize meals. The bathroom with its (rain-)shower was great.
Last but not least, the contact to Saad was straightforward and courteous.
Très belle appartement avec du charme au calme et au coeur des remparts proche de toutes commodités et accès très facile !!
L' appartement situé intra muros fut en adéquation avec nos attentes et notre hôte, Saad, affable et chaleureux. Ainsi nous avons pu optimiser notre séjour et découvrir un grand nombre de spectacles lors de ce festival d'Avignon 2014. Rendez-vous en juillet 2015..... Noëlle
L'appartement est très agréable, superbement décoré, et très bien situé au cœur de la ville. Pour cette période de festival d'Avignon, c'est un régal d'avoir eu ce pied à terre qui reste au frais et qui permet de repasser plusieurs fois par jour, pour se changer, ou faire une pause par exemple. Merci à Saad pour son accueil très sympathique.
This apartment is very centrally situated in a quiet street in the centre of this lovely old town, so is extremely convenient. It is spacious with very high ceilings and nice and cool. It is a good base for exploring the town. we enjoyed our stay here. My only criticism would be that the kitchen could do with more utensils. For example there was no chopping board or egg cups, but we would certainly recommend it to friends.
I would recommend this apartment for short stay in Avignion. Ideal location in the city center, a few minutes from the main sights. Nice apartment, very tastefully decorated and aesthetic sense, having all porzebne equipment. Saad is a very nice man, friendly and ready to help. Well, a shop with cool, original shirts;-) Well worth staying in this apartment making a stop in Avignion - a city full of monuments and good museums. I recommend to see the nearby climatic Arles and Aix en Provance - of inspiring great artists.
very comfortable and generous appartemend, everything was clean and the welcome of our host was wery kindfull !
thank you Saad, maybe we'll be back again
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Have you actually ever crawled across a patio? If you did, you probably don't remember it. Here's a chance to do it again: On Friday, April 25th at 5:00 PM, Camp Bowie District and Rahr & Sons Brewing Company are hosting a crawl down Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth. The first beer will cost $10, which includes a collectible pint glass. The first 100 guests will receive the commemorative Pub Crawl pint glass, and those after will receive a classic Rahr pint glass. Beer refills will be $3, and food specials will be available at each stop. Money raised will go towards planting flowers along Camp Bowie Boulevard. Knee pads are optional.
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Keeping business links depends on if nation accepts European workers.
Obama and fellow world leaders continue to size up the ramifications of last week's vote in the United Kingdom to exit to European Union.
Public confidence in presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is in the single digits in nearly half of the countries surveyed
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(AP) - CAMARILLO, Calif. — A huge Southern California wildfire carved a path to the sea and burned on the beach Friday, but firefighters got a break as gusty Santa Ana winds turned into breezes. Temperatures remained high, but humidity levels were expected to soar as cool air moved in from the ocean and the Santa Anas retreated. At the same time, the reversal of wind direction carried the risk of sending flames in new, dangerous directions. "It could move just as quickly coming the other way," said Bill Nash, a Ventura County fire spokesman. The wind-whipped fire erupted Thursday in the Camarillo area, threatening as many as 4,000 homes but only damaging 15, Nash said.
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Claim to fame: It's got to be the price. Of the 18 dinner combination plates, the most expensive offerings – beef and cheese enchilada or enchiladas rancheros – are just $5.25. The lunch menu offers 11 combinations for no more than $3.75. Drinks are also inexpensive: soda is 70 cents, beer on tap is $1.35, beer in the bottle is $1.75 for domestic and imported beer is $2.60. Want to go classy and have a glass of wine? That'll be $1.25. The house sangria goes for $1.35 a glass or $3.80 for a half-liter. When asked how the prices could be kept at 1980s rates, Wilkinson joked that the prices would be going up. "I'll rectify that when I get a chance."
Did you know?: Wilkinson said when Mexi-Casa opened in 1965, its original location was two doors down at 1750 W. Lincoln Ave., the current location of El Conejo Feliz.


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2. Go to "Options" - "Services" - "Start Recording".
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Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini CEO, has confirmed the launch of a new limited edition model, designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the luxurious Italian brand. The supercar aspire to be an alternative - at least for the media – to the new Ferrari Enzo. "It will not be a revival or retro" has stated Winkelmann, giving to understand that the new car will be an exclusive model characterised by a strong sports stance.
The CEO refused to release any further details about the upcoming model. Our best guess is that the new sportscar might be a variation of the Aventador and the final version of the Sesto Elemento. Lamborghini will be celebrating its 50th birthday on the 11th May 2013 in grand style and will also hold the Grande Giro Lamborghini, a tour of the most famous Italian cities that will end in Sant'Agata Bolognese, home of the exclusive manufacturer.
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When you die, you have an option to either Retry or Quit. Quitting allows you to access the shop, where you can spend your star bits in the upgrade shop.
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After a disastrous short program yesterday for Japan's Mao Asada no one was quite sure what to expect from her today, Feb. 20. It was reported that she had a rough practice this morning looking defeated and overwhelmed, but that is not how she chose to end her story.
Mao was full of emotion after her short program, falling all the way to 16th place. Asada was considered a frontrunner for the gold medal at these Olympic Games, but after falling on her triple axel and doubling her planned triple loop it soon became clear that her dream had turned into a nightmare. Japanese officials even criticized Mao after her performance last night, so no doubt she felt the pressure of the naysayers and the weight of the nation on her shoulders.
But today was a new day and she came out swinging. Landing the cleanest triple axel we have seen from her this season, and landing a triple flip-triple loop combination she was phenomenal. She nailed each of her jumping passes and skated with everything that was in her.
It was absolutely an awe-inspiring moment, as she broke down as soon as she finished her skate. To see an athlete come back after such a heartbreaking performance, was a true display of the Olympic spirit. She may not medal in these Olympic Games, but she will be going out as a true champion.
As Dick Button said in a tweet to Mao moments before she took to the ice, "Sometimes a bad placement or other roadblock will release all tension, resulting in a best ever performance." And that's exactly what happened for Mao Asada.


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The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art is proud to present CONTINUUM, an exhibition that showcases paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and works in new media by outstanding Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art alumni. The exhibition opened Monday, October 8 and will run through November 7, 2012 in the Contemporary Gallery at the Center for Art & Theatre, Georgia Southern University. The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host a reception on Friday, October 26, at 6 p.m.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Zachary Royer Scholz
Curated by Joyce Grimm (MA Curatorial Practice 2006), the exhibition Thresholds of Faith: Four Entries Into the Beyond at San Francisco's Manresa Gallery features four artists of different faith backgrounds who are all affiliated with CCA.
The artists -- Lynn Marie Kirby (Film faculty), Taraneh Hemami (MFA 1991, now Diversity Studies faculty), Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA 2007), and Cara Levine (MFA 2012, now Sculpture faculty) -- have each produced evocative individual projects that invite reflection on religious practice and experience within contemporary life.
Thresholds of Faith: Four Entries Into the Beyond, is on view at Manresa Gallery through June 1, 2014.
Housed within the active Catholic parish of San Francisco's Saint Ignatius Church, Manresa Gallery is a unique project (and a surprising one, to many) that allows local and international contemporary artists to directly explore intersections between art and religion.
The resulting exhibitions expand the boundaries of both spiritual and artistic endeavor, and aim to generate far-reaching dialogue within a broad and diverse community.
Says Grimm: "I think this type of work is incredibly important in regards to building tolerance and understanding between different cultures and histories. Historically, artists have always explored the unknown.
"In conjunction with the exhibition, we've created many contextual programs that provide a platform for the artists to continue exploring their ideas with the public. For instance one of our special dinners centered on ideas of how we view death: personally, culturally, and in regard to faith. Death Over Dinner involved all four exhibition artists and was led by the artist Mel Day."
Truly Sisters
For Thresholds of Faith, the four participating artists have produced evocative new projects that draw intimately on their personal religious backgrounds. The projects are housed in the gallery's four connected vaulted spaces, which are separated from the rows of pews in the church nave only by large glass doors.
Lynn Marie Kirby's piece, Truly Sisters, at first glance seems easily suited to the context; Kirby is Catholic, and her project focuses on the Catholic Sisterhood of the Holy Cross. But Kirby's relationship to her Catholicism is complicated, as is the pioneering work of the Sisterhood in Brazil, Peru, Uganda, Ghana, and Bangladesh, which has at times gone against Vatican doctrine and put the Sisterhood's official standing in peril.
Kirby's aunt, Sister June Ann Kirby, is a member of the Sisterhood in Brazil, and Kirby's project connects Manresa to the lives and activities of her aunt and fellow sisters. On a large, wall-mounted flat-screen television, faced by two pew-like benches, a looped video depicts footage of the sisters living and working in São Paulo.
On either side of the screen, two shelves hold devotional objects: a breviary (a book of daily observations and prayers created for the installation, whose blue cover carries a gilt icon referencing the cruciform sun-cross window in the vaulted dome above the space) and a prayer card depicting Our Lady of Aparecida, the patroness of Brazil.
Every month during the exhibition, Kirby hosts a live Skype session on the large screen with the sisters in Brazil, focusing on a different topic central to their mission, for instance social justice, art, dance, education, or community.
Reverberations of Stone
Taraneh Hemami's Reverberations of Stone temporarily transforms the gallery alcove inside Saint Ignatius Church into a co-religious entity. Hemami paved the entirety of her allotted alcove in cool, dun limestone to create a recessed cavity within the floor, and she placed a corresponding three-part jade plaque on the wall.
The vertical slab and horizontal void together form a Mehrab, a devotional niche that marks the direction of prayer within a Muslim mosque. Historically, the creation of a Mehrab was all that was needed to convert an existing place of worship into an Islamic one, and countless religious spaces were coopted in this way as Islam spread from Mecca.
Performances are scheduled throughout this month to activate the Mehrab; they will involve CCA alumna Wafaa Yasin (MFA 2010) and the Los Angeles-based Iranian artist Amitis Motevalli.
Blazing Through Your Skull
For her project The Original Light, Blazing Through Your Skull, Ali Naschke-Messing created a subtly shifted space for religious reflection. Informed by her experience as a practicing Buddhist, her meditative installation ingeniously focuses viewers' attention on light using the space's extant architecture.
Each alcove is topped by a small golden dome pierced at its apex by an oculus that allows sunlight into the space from above. From her dome, the artist has suspended a hovering cloud of reflective gold leaf fragments that dance on invisible air currents.
The intervention makes visitors intimately aware of each instantaneous moment, and the breath that marks time's presence and passing. They are invited to spend as much time as they like sitting on the benches or cushions provided, or within the circular black zabuton on the floor beneath the piece.
In conjunction with the installation, Naschke-Messing has been leading monthly meditations in the space and throughout the church.
The Only Thing That Isn't Everything
In her domed alcove, Cara Levine has created the continually shifting installation In Summary, It's the Only Thing That Isn't Everything. The project draws inspiration from a series of paintings by Levine's grandmother, Shirley Levine, whose painting practice paralleled and drew on her active study of Jewish Mysticism.
The paintings depict transitional spaces -- doorways, passages, and openings -- that lack a clear, or even suggested, purpose.
Levine has interspersed framed photographs of several of these paintings with a series of sculptural props inspired by them. The pink, black, and raw plywood structures, which Levine calls "transitory structural boundaries," are on rolling casters and are reconfigured monthly, along with the framed images and other assorted elements.
The cumulative effect is one of continual transition and instability -- of everything being permanently provisional.
Broader Platforms for Interfaith Dialogue
The intent of the exhibition Thresholds of Faith, according to Grimm, is to "create unique vantage points from which broader platforms for interfaith dialogue can occur."
And indeed, all four projects, though radically different in form, eschew any particular perspective or teaching in favor of creating complicated spaces in which visitors are invited to expand and explore their own experiences and beliefs.
The elusiveness of each individual work is hardly a weakness. Rather, it allows it to grow beyond the confines of its materiality and touch on the deeper and more profound aspects of our complicated and idiosyncratic relationships to lived experience.
CCA Tie-Ins
The author of this piece, Zachary Royer Scholz, is a CCA alumnus twice over: MFA 2006, MA Visual and Critical Studies 2009.
CCA alumna Megan Lavelle (MFA 2013) is the assistant curator at Manresa Gallery.


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Photographer Claire Bow (right) with her dog Roux and friends
This past weekend, one of Denver's largest (no pun intended) dog shelters, Big Dogs Huge Paws celebrated the release of its' new book, "Saving Giants – The Rescue Story". The wine tasting and book signing took place at Pirate: Contemporary Art Gallery in Denver. See the slideshow of the event below.
Through a series of beautiful and soulful photos by photographer Clair Bow of Rouxby Photography, the coffee table book represents what all dog owners, especially big dog owners, already know. No, it's not another chew toy we can take home and leave on the table for our furry friends (unlike what they tend to think), but rather a touching and symbolic gesture towards the ever-lasting friendship that can be born out of rescuing a dog.
The book can be previewed and purchased on the shelters website, where you can also find adoptable dogs, events and more. Speaking of events, find Big Dogs Huge Paws at Spawlash in Thornton this Sunday from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. for their Clean Up For Spring April dog wash.
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Portland, Oregon is known as the city of roses and you'll see why by attending this year's Rose Festival. From fireworks and carnivals, to parades and pageants, the city has celebrated everything rosey for over 100 years. Dozens of events are scheduled from Memorial Day weekend through June 8, so be sure to enjoy all that the Rose City has to offer.
Opening night, May 23, 2014, kicks off with one of Oregon's largest fireworks displays at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Thunderous pyrotechnics reflect in the calm waters of the Willamette River, and before and after the show you can enjoy CityFair. Also located at Waterfront Park, fair-goers enjoy exciting carnival rides and games, live music, food, beverages, exotic animal displays, a wide variety of shopping, and many other special attractions.
Since 1889, the Annual Spring Rose Show has offered an opportunity for any green thumb to enter their prize blooms in hopes of winning a trophy. On June 5 and 6, the largest and longest-running rose show in the nation transforms the Lloyd Center Ice Rink into a colorful indoor garden. Exquisite beauty and fragrance emanate from more than 4,000 blooms. Members of the Portland Rose Society are on hand to give free rose growing advice and assistance.
No festival would be complete without a parade— or in this case, three separate parades. The Grand Floral Parade, held this year on June 7 at 10:00 am, is the highlight and attracts thousands of viewers along its four-mile downtown route. Expect all-floral floats, marching bands, equestrian units, vintage vehicles, the Character Clown Corps, and much more. There are SO many flowers used on the parade floats that you could send your mother a dozen roses, every day, for 30 years! The Starlight Parade illuminates downtown streets from 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. on May 31 and offers funky, eclectic fun to spectators who gather along a 2.25-mile downtown route. All floats are flood-lit or glow-in-the-dark. A Junior Parade just for kids is June 4 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm in Portland's Hollywood District. An official Rose Festival event since 1936, the Junior Parade is the nation's oldest and largest children's parade.
Additional Rose Festival events include the crowning of the queen and her court (the first Rose Festival Queen was elected in 1914), Fleet Week (visiting ships and submarines dock at Portland's waterfront and offer free tours), various athletic events, and the colorful Dragon Boat Races. Held on the Willamette River near the Hawthorne Bridge, the races feature exciting four-team heats held every nine minutes. More than 80 different teams – local, national and international – compete in beautiful boats.
You generally can't say that "everything's coming up roses" in most cities, but you certainly can in Portland. See you at the Rose Festival!
For more information, visit the Portland Rose Festival official website for event dates, directions and details.


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Jewish identity changing in America, study says
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Jewish identity in America is changing as the number of non-religious Jews continues to rise, a new study has found, and the increasing number of Jews marrying outside the faith could be a factor.
The survey of nearly 3,500 adults conducted earlier this year found that many Jews said being Jewish is more about ancestry and culture than about religion, according to the Pew Research Center's study "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," released Tuesday.
Even among those who identified as Jewish by religion, more than half (55 percent) said their identity was more a matter of their ancestry and culture, while 17 percent said it was their religion, 26 percent said it was a combination of all three traits. In that same group, 66 percent said atheism is compatible with being Jewish and 30 percent said believing Jesus is the Messiah wouldn't disqualify someone from being Jewish.
"By and large, it's hard to be drummed out of the tribe," said Alan Cooperman, deputy director of Pew's Religion & Public Life Project.
The report marks the first time since the 1957 Census that a group outside the Jewish community has conducted a survey specifically of Jews in America. Based on census findings and those by Pew, those who identified as Jewish by religion has dropped by about half, from 3.2 percent in 1957 to 1.8 in 2013, according to the Pew study.
Cooperman explained that examining Jews in America was unique compared to other religious studies because researchers had to come up with a definition of who is Jewish and who is not.
"We decided to cast a very wide net," he said, that went beyond asking if a person is Jewish by religion. Those who were not Jewish by religion but who had a Jewish parent or were raised Jewish and still considered themselves Jewish were also included in the survey.
Researchers interviewed but did not include in the main survey results those who had Jewish heritage but were affiliated with another religion or didn't consider themselves Jewish and those who were not Jewish but had an affinity for Jews or considered themselves Jewish in some way.
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As the number of Jews who identify by religion has dropped, the number of the Jews who identify as nonreligious appears to have been growing, researchers say. More than one-fifth (22 percent) of Jews included in the main results said they had no religion. The cohort with the most nonreligious Jews is millennials (32 percent), while the proportion of nonreligious Jews decreases with older generations.
While the number of unaffiliated Jews reflects larger trends in the general U.S. population of people distancing themselves from organized religion, one factor in that shift may be unique among Jews — marrying outside of the faith.
Intermarriage is more common among secular Jews than among religious Jews, according to the survey. Nearly eight in 10 Jews of no religion who are married (79 percent) have a spouse who is not Jewish, compared with 36 percent among Jews who identify by religion. The rate of intermarriage has increased substantially over time. Among Jews who married before 1970, 17 percent have a non-Jewish spouse. Among those who married between 2005 and 2013, the figure is 58 percent, the Pew study stated.
The Pew report stresses that its research draws no causal connection between intermarriage and the rise in the number of non-religious Jews. However, the study found strong associations between secular Jews and intermarriage, particularly when it comes to raising children. Just 20 percent of intermarried Jews are raising their children Jewish by religion, compared with 96 percent of Jews who have a Jewish spouse. (Another 25 percent of intermarried Jews say they are raising their children partly Jewish by religion, as do 2 percent of Jews who have a Jewish spouse.)
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