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• Valdespin was suspended last week in Triple-A after being one of the instigators in a benches-clearing brawl. Tension between his Las Vegas 51s team and the opposing Sacramento River Cats started after Valdespin showboated after hitting a home run.
• He's proven to be one of baseball's most prolific selfie sharers. I'm unsure what's more embarrassing, taking that many faux-modeling pics of yourself, or me just writing "selfie sharers." Sad day for both of us.
• If we go back to spring training, Valedespin was hit in his sensitive man parts by a 94-mph Justin Verlander fastball. Afterward, Collins got upset at Valdespin for not wearing a cup. On this day, here's a good image to revisit.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Okay so it was a dark, dreary, cold and drippy day filled with lots of big batch cooking, catching up on housework and of course noodling around on the pc and before you know it I oughta get the heck to bed...BUT!
I hadn't done any workout! I'd been "thinking about" the treadmill up in my SparkHaven workout room...but dragging my feet all day to take care of business. After all the Binghamton Bridge Run is only a couple weeks away and I have what I regard as my single obligatory 5K run of the year awaiting me!
Of course with all this procrastinating you can tell I REALLY wasn't in the mood for this. However I had a new weapon in my motivational arsenal:
Trippy Tunes!
This may be a little tricky to explain such a visual thing but I'll try. Some of you may already be familiar with this program for playing music on one's computer: Winamp...?
It's a freebie and works pretty well even for humongous music collections such as the hundreds of gigs on my external hard drive. One of the features of Winamp are the "visualizations" that others have created. Visualizations are animations which undulate, pulse, flash and MOVE to the music. Most are pretty abstract and kaleidoscopic and filled with colors, some are more descriptive such as a brilliant butterfly racing ahead of you across a field of grass or a neon roller coaster looping you through space. The cool thing about them is the sensation of MOVEMENT and my idea was to get these visualizations running with my tunes while *I* was running on my treadmill...and it WORKED! I turned all the lights off and had just my old 17" Dell laptop hooked up to my stereo and four speakers in each corner of the room and kicked out the jams! I've always enjoyed visualizations but who has the time to sit around stoner-like "oh wow man..." Guess I've still got lots of leftover 60's flower-power still kicking...lol! A house party of one!
My mind could roam with the animations while walking / jogging on the treadmill and sometimes I could associate the animation to the music, sometimes to the artist who was playing (a beautifully morphing flower for one of my favorite Santana tunes, for instance) and sometimes to the fact that I was picking up the pace to Polyethylene Pam by the Beatles, cranking up the speed as I knew it was a short song...lol!
Anyhow...some might not prescribe this as a tonic for sacking out for the night, but I'm betting I'll sleep just fine tonight...much better than I would if I was beating myself up for NOT hopping on the treadmill!
Have a great week ahead everyone!
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Wow, I haven't changed my winamp skins in years! All I do now is listen to Pandora so I haven't used my own PC music player to see these visualizations. You are absolutely right tho... checking out these movements def amps you up.
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Did you write this AFTER your evening work out? I'm guessing you logged on to track your fitness afterwards and just HAD to write a blog about it while you were still inspired?
Very cool and inspiring and man I can picture myself there. Good description of a cool process.
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"A house party of one!"
I long to have music to propel me on the bike, but alas, it's just not safe to have earbuds in riding in downtown Chicago traffic. I see lots of cyclists doing it, and I shake my head and wish them safety.
So sometimes I find myself singing to myself -- in my head or sometimes softly aloud. LOL The most recent tune stuck in my head lately while riding is Bob Seger's "Against the Wind." That should give you some idea of the weather conditions so far this spring!
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thanks for the reminder and website too..
have a great week too....
blessings and hugs..............lita
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I go to the Winamp website every now and then, it's pretty good! May I recommend another good website to get music? It's called grooveshark (www.grooveshark.com).
We had the dark gloomy weather here last Sunday, this system should be moving out soon.
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Far out, man! Groovy!!
Oh, my goodness: we are the eternal boomers!! But: whatever works, and it sounds as if this does!
I really am cheering DH on in his weight loss . . . and hoping that maybe it's contagious too!!
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Great idea - I think I prefer the movies in my head, though. LOL Anyway, I was at a live concert recently where they had a "video artist" doing visuals on a screen behind the band. Really reminded me of the 60's and early 70's but looked great and underscored rather than distracted from the performance. I guess every trend comes around again if you wait long enough! Of course, the technology is more advanced.
Hope those dark, dreary days don't last long - they are definitely an invitation to procrastination! Thanks for the reminder to get moving - we're having one today but it's supposed to get better as the week progresses!
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Peer-Group Pressure
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Tracy Welch
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Any activities for children?
Over the past couple of months my daughter has been struggling with our beliefs and the Christianity that she sees all around her. The people at her school are trying to convince her that Jesus is the way.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Tracy Welch
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The only two people who have the right to teach religious values to your child are you and the child's father. This may extend to whomever you delagate the responsibility, such as a youth pastor and the other children in his class, for example. The parents of these kids are exploiting their own children -- Why? -- to market an ideology! These religious ideas aren't even their own ideas, either, but are the dogmata of a highly organized sect of religion!
I just don't see people doing this of their own accord: they need to be coerced or enticed before they'll become willing to do such a thing to their own children and to the children of their neighbors!
Your daughter needs some non-Christians to hang with (or at least communicate with). She needs to get in touch with kids who hold a similar disdain toward these Christian organizations. Learning to identify the behavior is the first crucial step, but then they need to develop an appropriate response. It's not right to hold the religious kids in contempt, because they're just obeying their parents; your daughter and her non-Christian associates need to learn, instead, to exercize patience toward these kids, and to recognize that the true villains are the religious leaders who coerce the parents who then exploit their own kids. And the parenets do this for one reason: they are frightened -- they are terrified because the realigious group (and most of the other similar groups) all teach that dire consequences await those who do not obey the dictates of the religious leaders.
You and your child can do wonders toward countering this problem by forming a group of like-minded youngsters who are in a similar bind, kids who have been made the marketing targets of powerful religious interestesl. The sects want only to increase their numbers, and this so the groups might gain political power and their leaders, personal wealth! The religions have been studying their craft for thousands of years, throwing out what doesn't work and perfecting what does.
For this, the best suggestion I can offer is to help your child open up an online forum for like-minded youngsters.
Wow, an online forum for youngsters! What a concept! I've always tried to learn how to solve my own problems, even as a kid. Now, with the advent of the Internet, hosting an online forum is an easy way to bring together a group of youngsters to work on a project. In this case, the kids you both meet on the Internet would learn to address the peer-group pressure and other forms of coerciveness that kids use to persuade other kids to become religious.
Some religious parents teach their own kids various techniques and arguments and encourage them to use these methods to bring other parents' children into the religious sects to which their families belong.
If your daughter is mature and literate enough to call the shots on a forum project and do a little of the work, this could be the start of something good.
What this would do is focus her (and the others who get involved) on solving their own problems and digging up their own answers to the questions they raise. If they take a critical look at each of the challenges raised by the Christian youngsters, your daughter and her friends will quickly learn the tricky arguments that the church leadership has foisted on the Christian youngsters.
Activist work such as this immediately brings the activist "out of the problem and into the solution," as they say. The child who learns early to work toward making our World a better place for all quickly develops strong habits that focus on solving the challenges that the others present to her, ultimately learning to address the problems that life itself presents.
Since this would be a forum, she is not responsible for coming up with the answers, only to field the e-mail and from that, cull out various thought-provoking questions that she can pose to the forum list By starting out with a stock of questions, she would start the forum off already focused toward a question-and-answer format: this would, among other things, work against the boards becoming a "chat" area that has no purpose other than to socialize (which itself would be good in certain contexts).
My personal favorite forum piece in Positive Atheism's collection was put together by a teenager: "Moving Beyond Just A Polite Response?" If you wanted to do this as a project, I'd offer whatever I could to help it come to pass.
The generally accepted "Internet Age of Consent" appears to be 13 years old: this seems to be the age at which teens are allowed to make posts, join chat rooms, and the like. Kids younger than this usually need the supervision of a parent or guardian, according to the web sites I've seen.
I wish you the best with whatever you come up with (or don't come up with, in this respect, as this might not be something she ends up wanting to do). Again, thanks for writing and thanks for the opportunity to do some free-form pondering along these lines. Most of all, thanks for the opportunity to spread this idea to others who also might want to do something like this.
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Last night in St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Scottish-born David Russell gave his tenth recital for San Francisco Performances (SFP) as part of the Guitar Series presented in association with the Dynamite Guitars series of the Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts. Russell is grounded in a solid foundation of performance technique and an inventive capacity for transcription. (Only three of last night's selections were not transcriptions, a fantasia by Fernando Sor and two short pieces by Juan Sorroche, one of which was inspired by one of Russell's performances and dedicated to him.)
Beyond these cerebral matters, however, there is a quiet intimacy through which Russell engages the listener's attention. The acoustics of St. Mark's, frequently used by small ensembles performing early music, were well suited to that intimacy. While the size of the sanctuary may distance the listener from the performer, one can sense an immediate presence of the sounds from just about any available seat.
That intimacy served Russell particularly well in his transcriptions of nineteenth-century piano music. This was readily apparent in his approach to Enrique Granados' "Valses Poéticos." The program notes by Scott Cmiel quoted Julian Bream finding parallels to Granados' approach to waltzes in Richard Strauss (Der Rosenkavalier) and Maurice Ravel ("Valses Nobles et Sentimentales"). Much as I admire Bream's own work, I feel he was looking in the wrong direction. Each waltz has its own brief individuality, but the sequence unfolds with an almost narrative logic that one also encounters in the sixteen short waltzes that Johannes Brahms collected as his Opus 39. Whether or not Granados was inspired by Brahms, one can appreciate their shared mindset, rendered with quiet clarity through Russell's transcription and performance.
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More problematic was his reading of Johann Sebastian Bach's B minor partita for solo violin (BWV 1002). In this case there are the repeated sections in each of the four dance movements; and then there is the repetition of the entire movement as an embellished "Double." As I have previously written, there is a good chance that Bach composed this music for pedagogical purposes, addressing not only the performer's technical skills in execution but also his/her capacity for in-the-moment invention while playing. Russell's approach gave less of a sense of in-the-moment immediacy and more one of the "reproduction" of a "well wrought urn," conceived in perfection and presented as such.
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Is it just the Imperial Cult in Morrowind, or are all Imperial Cults this kooky? For one thing, since when does robbing houses show a respect to The Emperor or Imperial Culture?
And the Morag Tong is an assassin's guild...so it seems weird that they would love bounty hunters who would kill for a couple of gold. (Come to think of it...why is the Morag Tong legal in Morrowind?)
Morrowind does seem somewhat unique in that respect, since the thieves guild is considered a fairy tale in Cyrodiil (and presumably in other provinces as well). For them to operate as openly and high-profile as in Morrowind (or at least Vvardenfell) appears to be highly unusual. Usually they keep their presence so secret that many officials and officers doubt they even exist.
There may be some reasons behind this. Vvardenfell appears to be described as sparsely populated frontier land that has only recently been settled to any extent aside from a few Tribunal strongholds like Vivec city (though there are contradictory accounts to that if you read the various books in the game). Things may be done a bit more pragmatically and less traditionally here than in Cyrodiil.
Further, Morrowind is Dark Elf lands, and unlike the other provinces they were not conquered; they entered into the Empire by treaty (though by necessity and not by desire). This treaty allowed them to keep many of their own political and cultural institutions intact, like the Tribunal Temple religion and the Great Houses. The Morag Tong, worshipers of the "Good Daedric Prince" (according to Tribunal Temple teachings
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As such the balance of power between traditional Dark Elf institutions and the new Imperial institutions like the Cult of the Nine and Imperial Legion is fairly delicate, and the Cult may have to tread carefully and avoid stepping on too many toes if they want to have a chance to establish themselves more permanently on Vvardenfell and gain acceptance from the locals. Dogmatically condemning venerable Dark Elf institutions like Morag Tong (and by extension the Great Houses' use of them) might not be the best way to go about that, even if there surely is a cultural clash of moral values.
(This is probably the same reason why slave trading is tolerated in Morrowind while it's outlawed in the rest of the Empire.)
Similarly, the Thieves Guild, when operating so openly that there is no doubt about their existence, is likely considered the lesser of two evils. They can act as a known counterbalance to the more unknown and evil Camonna Tong crime syndicate, who are involved in more anti-Imperial activities. The Legion, Ordinators and other groups responsible for law enforcement on Vvardenfell will of course still arrest members of both groups if they catch them doing something illegal. But since the Imperial system embraces the rule of law they cannot go around and arrest people just because they call themselves a "thieves guild", since that act alone is not illegal. They need to actually break the law and get caught for that.
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Velma L. Deyoe, 86, passed away on September 18, 2012 in Lakewood, Colo. She was born to William and Inez (Griffin) Paul Aug. 23, 1926 on Sunset Valley Ranch north of Weskan, Kan.
After graduating from Weskan High School in 1944, she attended Fort Hays State University, where she earned her B.A. in English in 1948. Her first job out of college was teaching English in Plainville Kansas, but for most of her life, she was a Health Information Manager, working at Dodge City Medical Center, Southwest Clinic, and later at Estes Park, Colo.
Deyoe married Fred Merlin Deyoe on June 2, 1947. They raised four children together in Dodge City.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Oct. 11, 2012 at Coldwater United Methodist Church.
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OTC Derivative Regulation Proposals – Neat, Plausible and Wrong!
A central omission is the speculative use of derivatives. Industry lobbyists focus on the use of derivatives to hedge and manage risk promoting investment and capital formation. While derivatives can play this role, the primary use of derivatives now is manufacturing risk and creating leverage.
Derivative volumes are inconsistent with "pure" risk transfer. In the credit default swap market (CDS) market, volumes were in excess of four times outstanding underlying bonds and loans. The need for speculators to facilitate markets contrasts with recent experience where they were users rather than providers of scarce liquidity and amplified systemic risks.
Relatively simple derivative products provide ample scope for risk transfer. It is not clear why increasingly complex and opaque products are needed other than to increase risk and leverage as well as circumvent investment restrictions, bank capital rules, securities and tax legislation.
A central reform proposed is the central clearing house (the central counterparty - CCP) where (so far unspecified) "standardised" derivatives transactions must be transferred to an entity that will guarantee performance.
The CCP centralises all performance in a single entity, surely the ultimate case of "too big to fail". Effectiveness of the CCP depends on its ability to manage risk through a system of daily cash margins to secure exposure under contracts. Failure to meet a margin call requires the CCP to close out the position and offset any losses against existing collateral.
The level of initial collateral posted must cover the fall in value from the last margin call. There are inherent moral hazards in setting the initial collateral. Traders want the maximum amount of leverage by reducing the amount cash posted.
Collateral models are based on historical volatility that may underestimate risk. For some products, such as CDS contracts, establishing the required levels of collateral required is difficult. Cross margining where traders can net all open positions expose the CCP to correlation problems in the offset methodologies. Additional problems may arise from the use of multiple CCPs.
There are significant issues in pricing and valuing contract and, for some products, reliance on complex models. The CCP assumes the ability to value contracts that relies, in turn, on liquid markets in the instruments, an unrealistic condition as events have showed.
Mis-selling of "unsuitable"derivative products to investors and corporations remains a problem. Expertise of purchasers is sometime inversely related to the complexity of derivative products. Given significant information and knowledge asymmetry between sellers and buyers, the possibility of disallowing certain types of transactions altogether or with certain parties should have been considered.
Complex risk relationships created by derivatives are not addressed. AIG's problems related to margin calls based on current "market" values on its derivative contracts. The CCP may inadvertently increase liquidity risk as more participants may be subject to margining and unexpected demands on cash resources.
Systemic effects, such as the impact of CDS contracts on risk taking behaviour and also dealing with financial distress, are ignored. Concentrated market structures, where a handful of large dealers dominate dealing, are also not addressed.
For example, the OCC in the U.S. reported that largest five banks hold 96% of total notional volume of derivatives and the largest 25 banks hold nearly 100%.
Familiar dictums - improved disclosure, transparency and operational processes - have been tried before with limited success.
The unpalatable reality that few, self interested industry participants are prepared to admit is that much of what passes for financial innovation is specifically designed to conceal risk, obfuscate investors and reduce transparency. The process is entirely deliberate. Efficiency and transparency is not consistent with the high profit margins on Wall Street and the City. Financial products need to be opaque and priced inefficiently to produce excessive profits.
Until regulators and legislators understand the central issues and are prepared to address them, no meaningful reform in the control of derivative trading will be possible.
© 2009 Satyajit Das
Satyajit Das is a risk consultant and author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT-Prentice Hall).


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Maurice Pate was childless himself. But as author Judith Spiegelman wrote, Pate was godfather to millions of poor and forgotten children around the world. These were children Pate saved as a humanitarian and the first director of UNICEF.
The United Nations Children's Fund was founded in 1946. There was so much suffering in Europe and Asia because of World War II, a new agency had to be created to help children. Maurice Pate was a man who had right experience. He fought the hunger and malnutrition caused by both the First and Second World Wars.
When Herbert Hoover became President Truman's food ambassador after World War II, Pate was his assistant specializing on child hunger issues. Pate and Hoover led a mission that saved hundreds of millions of people of starvation.
Pate was clearly a great choice to become the first director of UNICEF. The agency quickly went to work helping the rehabilitation of children in the war-torn countries. All of a sudden children were getting meals and milk that otherwise would not have been there. Something as simple as a meal, which many of us take for granted, saved many lives during those dark times. This heroic work was expanded worldwide.
UNICEF was awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize. Pate had passed away just months prior. In the acceptance speech it was said, "On the road that leads to peace.... Maurice Pate has lit many a candle."
Another quote from the Nobel speech reads, "
"The English historian Arnold Toynbee says that our century will probably be remembered, not for its two world wars, but as the period in history when, for the first time, the idea of mutual help between people, aimed at raising the standard of living everywhere, was accepted."
Today as we celebrate Father's Day UNICEF is hard at work helping children in crisis zones like Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic and South Sudan. These are war zones where children will die from malnutrition and disease unless someone helps them. UNICEF is leading the way along with its partner agencies in the field, saving lives. That is a cause we can all support on this Father's Day and every day.


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I'm a big fan of Galactic Conquest maps.
I suppose that you know that there are several 'special' Galactic Conquest maps that can only be played in Multiplayer such as:
'Showdown at Bespin'
'Battle for Hoth'
And others. I was wondering if they could be somehow 'converted' so that they can be played in Single Player, too?
Never mind that request. I found a way to convert them myself.
There's one problem, though. When using the Death Star to destroy the last Rebel planet, the game freezes. I don't know what causes this.
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PEORIA, Ill. - High-flying guard Chris Roberts (Ft. Worth, Texas/Dunbar H.S.) will have a chance to add to his Bradley Basketball highlight reel: the 6-foot-4 senior has been selected as one of eight participants in the 22nd annual State Farm College Slam Dunk Championship Thursday night in Indianapolis.
The State Farm College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships will be contested Thursday from 7-9:30 p.m. (EDT) at Bracket Town, refreshed by Coca-Cola Zero, in the Indiana Convention Center as part of the Final Four events schedule. The competitions will be broadcast on ESPN on a tape-delay basis beginning at 9 p.m. (EDT). Tickets for the event may be purchased at the Lucas Oil Stadium box office and the Indiana Convention Center box office and are $25 for ages 12 and over and $15 for ages 3-11. The ticket prices include admission to Bracket Town.
One-time Bradley Basketball player Danny Granger, a 2009 NBA All-Star forward from the Indiana Pacers, is scheduled to serve as one of the celebrity judges for Thursday night's slam dunk contest.
Roberts becomes Bradley's second participant in the State Farm Slam Dunk Championship, following Lawrence Wright in 2006. Ironically, the 2006 Slam Dunk Championship also took place in Indianapolis.
Roberts has made four appearances on ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays during his two-year Bradley career. Although his first appearance was in recognition of his 75-foot game-winner versus Oakland in the quarterfinals of the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament March 23, 2009, his other three appearances highlighted his dunking talent. Most recently, Roberts earned the No. 2 play on the March 5, 2010 SportsCenter for his follow slam versus Creighton in the State Farm MVC Tournament quarterfinals, a play that gave the Braves the lead for good with 16:11 remaining and ignited Bradley's 81-62 victory versus the Bluejays.


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According to an April 8 announcement by NASA, scientists are throwing cold water on the notion that a mysterious light picked up on the Martian surface by the Mars Curiosity rover is somehow artificial. Likely the light is a reflection of the sun off of a rock. That would be of interest to geologists, but not as much to UFO enthusiasts who think it might be evidence of intelligent life on the Red Planet.
"'In the thousands of images we've received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week,' said Justin Maki of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., leader of the team that built and operates the Navigation Camera. 'These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glinting from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanations.'
"If the bright spots in the April 2 and April 3 images are from a glinting rock, the directions of the spots from the rover suggest the rock could be on a ridge about 175 yards (160 meters) from the rover's April 3 location.
"The bright spots appear in images from the right-eye camera of the stereo Navcam, but not in images taken within one second of those by the left-eye camera. Maki said, 'Normally we can quickly identify the likely source of a bright spot in an image based on whether or not it occurs in both images of a stereo pair. In this case, it's not as straightforward because of a blocked view from the second camera on the first day.'"
Mars has often provided entertaining images due to the eye's tendency to play tricks. The so-called "Face on Mars" allegedly picked up by one of the Viking orbiters created great buzz about ancient, dead Martian civilizations. It turned out, alas, to be a trick of light and shadow as subsequent Mars probes have proven.
Mars has provided a certain allure in the past century or so, from the speculation on canals by Percival Lowell to the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs as an exotic world that might have been teaming with life. The reality of a cold, arid planet was something of a disappointment, though probes like Mars Curiosity have uncovered evidence that it was warm and wet billions of years ago, perhaps with life forms.


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Food Truck Rodeo – Wednesday, May 7th from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Buffalo History Museum, One Museum Ct. in Buffalo. On the first Wednesday of the month from Ma through September, enjoy dinner and history with Buffalo's top food trucks; admission to the museum is free from 5 to 8 p.m. Find out more at buffalohistory.org.
Holland Tulip Festival –Thursday through Saturday, May 8th through 10th throughout the Town of Holland. There will be midway rides throughout the event, a classic car show (Thursday), the Queen Pageant and Talent Show (Friday), an arts and crafts show (Saturday), and much more. Find the complete event schedule here.
P.U.N.T. Celebrity Wine Pairing – Friday, May 9th from 6 to 10:30 p.m. at Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave. in Buffalo. The eighth annual event, hosted by Buffalo Bill Brian Moorman and his wife Amber, will benefit Moorman's P.U.N.T. Foundation and features wine and gourmet cuisine; entertainment will be provided by country star Jack Ingram. Find out more about the event at brianmoorman.org.
National Public Gardens Day – Friday, May 9th at public gardens throughout the country, including the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 26655 South Park Ave. in Buffalo. Enjoy $1 admission and mini-tours throughout the day – members and children under 3 are always free. Find out more at www.buffalogardens.com.
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My mom's Floral Chiffon T's - Vintage, Black Skirt - Orange, Black Blazer - Gitchy, Brown Heels - Belle.
My partner in crime : Anastasi Praditha. Or you may follow her twitter @apraditha.
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First-Round Results as a PDF File
TUCSON, Ariz. - The University of Arizona men's golf team is in seventh place after the first round of the 2012 NCAA Southwest Regional in Norman, Okla.
The Wildcats, seeded 11th in the field, tallied a one-over-par 289 total to sit in seventh place in the 14-team event. The opening-round total was the third-best for the team in a first round this spring and the team's lowest in relation to par in UA's last seven rounds played.
Florida State and Texas share the first-round lead at nine-under 279, while Illinois (284), Saint Mary's (286) and Washington (286) round out the top-five places. Individually, Texas' Jordan Spieth topped the 75-man field with a six-under 66.
The top-five teams advance to the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf Championships, May 29-June 3, at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Arizona was led today by Erik Oja and Tucker Wadkins, who each carded two-under par 70s and are tied for 10th place individually. The Wildcat duo accounted for six birdies over UA's final nine holes played, which saw the squad move from a tie for 11th place into seventh.
That continues a nice run of solid play for both Oja and Wadkins. Oja, a sophomore from Sandviken, Sweden, has been at par or better in four of his last five tournaments, while Wadkins, a freshman from Dallas, Texas, who made his NCAA postseason debut Thursday, has been at par or better in five of his last eight rounds played.
Senior Philip Bagdade, making his third career NCAA Regional appearance, carded a two-over 74 and is in a tie for 35th place, one stroke ahead of teammate Juan Pablo Hernandez, who is tied for 48th place. Junior Trent Redfern is tied for 64th place after posting a six-over 78.
Arizona's second-round tee times run from 8-8:40 a.m. CDT from hole No. 10.
The 54-hole 2012 NCAA Southwest Regional continues through Saturday at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, a par-72, 7,387-yard layout. The event is hosted by the University of Oklahoma. Live tournament scoring is available at www.golfstat.com.
Top-Five Teams 1. Florida State, 67-69-70-73=279 (-9) Texas, 66-70-71-72=279 (-9) 3. Illinois, 68-69-73-74=284 (-4) 4. Saint Mary's, 68-71-73-74=286 (-2) Washington, 69-70-73-74=286 (-2)
Top-Five Individuals 1. Jordan Spieth, Texas; 32-34=66 (-6) 2. Brooks Koepka, Florida State; 34-33=67 (-5) 3. Ben Geyer, Saint Mary's; 36-32=68 (-4) Thomas Pieters, Illinois; 34-34=68 (-4) 5. Daniel Berger, Florida State; 35-34=69 (-3) Cheng-Tsung Pan, Washington; 34-35=69 (-3) James White, Georgia Tech; 32-37=69 (-3) Luke Guthrie, Illinois; 36-33=69 (-3) Wesley Bryan, South Carolina; 33-36=69 (-3)
Arizona Finishers T10. Erik Oja, 34-36=70 (-2) T10. Tucker Wadkins, 34-36=70 (-2) T35. Philip Bagdade, 36-38=74 (+4) T48. Juan Pablo Hernandez, 39-36=75 (+3) T64. Trent Redfern, 39-39=78 (+6)


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Short takes from the week in Colorado water:
The fight for water named top story of the decade by The Pueblo Chieftain
Since the 1980s municipalities have been drying up farms all across eastern Colorado. The fight to keep water from being exported from the Arkansas River Basin is the story of the decade according to The Pueblo Chieftain. And it is an fascinating story as well.
As water is removed from agriculture farmland dries up, farm economies wither and government services suffer as the tax base shrinks. The Chieftain has led the way in trying to head off the demise of agriculture in the Valley.
Aaron Million's transmountain pipeline project named story of the year in Green River
Meanwhile Aaron Million's dream to pipe water to the Front Range via a transmountain diversion from the Green River in Wyoming was the story of the year in Green River, by the Green River Star.
The pipeline will bring water from a point on the river just downstream of the town and also from a pump station in Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of developing the draft environmental assessment for the project right now.
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Preadolescent Hypersensitivity
by Drs. Bruce Narramore and Vern Lewis
I f you have an eleven or twelve-year-old son or daughter, you have probably observed their growing need to think for themselves and to cope with the rapid changes in their bodies. You may have also noticed increasing sensitivity and emotionality. Preadolescents are getting ready to enter the most revolutionary and unsettling years of their lives. And with the changes and stresses of adolescence come increased moodiness, shortened fuses, and heightened emotional sensitivity. If you haven't observed these changes yet, get ready especially if you are about to rear a teenage daughter!
When our children were eleven and eight, our family took a six-month sabbatical leave to another state. My wife and I were writing every day but our evenings and weekends were entirely free. Each night we had some family time together, talked with the children about their day, shared games, or planned some interesting activities. Many evenings we gathered in the living room and read The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, and other children's books. Then we prayed about our day and for friends back home and other things. Although we have always been a close family, that period of concentrated family time was like a magnet pulling us together. It gave us a chance to communicate our love, listen to each other, and have a lot of fun together.
I am convinced that this six-month period of relationship building was one reason our children handled adolescence so well. It enabled Kathy and me to solidify our friendships with Richard and Debbie so that they saw us as encouragers and friends instead of parents who only showed up when they needed discipline or correction. It also let us fill up their emotional gas tanks so that they had inner resources for the trip through adolescence that lay ahead.
If you haven't learned to have fun with your children, start now. When our sabbatical was over, we vowed that we were going to maintain a slower lifestyle and preserve our family times together—but it wasn't easy. From the moment we walked in the door at home, the phone started ringing and responsibilities quickly filled our calendar. Every week we had to struggle to make time for family fun together. And we periodically had to sit down and rearrange our priorities and eliminate a few otherwise very good activities that were becoming barriers to our times together.
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I cannot overemphasize the importance of building happy relations with your children in the impressionable years just prior to adolescence. Everything you want to do for your teenagers will depend on how loved and understood they feel by you. Preadolescence is your last chance to relate to your children as children and to strengthen childhood feelings of intimacy that will nourish them for life.
If you haven't already done it, take a few minutes to consider how momentous this time can be. God gave you children to love and prepare for adult life in less than 20 years, and the majority of that time is gone. Their diaper days are gone. Their preschool days are gone. Their elementary years are over, and before long your children will be making life-changing decisions and setting out on their own. Have you done all you can to get them ready? If not, it's not too late. You still have a few impressionable years when they are open to your input. But you had better hurry—this is almost your last chance. If you haven't learned to have fun with your children, start now. Or if your children see you as a "heavy" who shows up only to discipline or tell them no, now is the time for that to change.
Provide Stability and Structure
Older preadolescents are just beginning to break out of their relatively quiet and stable childhood years. Their bodies are changing. Their minds are changing. Their schools and friends are changing. And their emotions are changing. Since nearly everything is in a state of flux, they need a stable anchor in the middle of their shifting world. Relatively organized and calm parents help calm and reassure their children. Parents whose own schedules are irregular or whose lives are filled with excessive pressure or confusion compound their teenagers' emotional imbalance and hypersensitivity.
I realize it may be difficult to structure your schedule, and I realize you may not be naturally cool, calm, and collected. But the fact remains: Children in these formative years need relatively calm and organized parents and a family that provides stability and a model of balanced emotional expression and control.
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I don't have much luck with computers. My PC has developed a habit of suddenly rebooting itself at random intervals - usuallyjust as it gets to the end of the boot up process (ie just after the desktop screen appears).
The error pages brought up afterwards often say that the error message was corrupted, so the faultcouldn't be identified, or that the error was due to a hardware problem.
I don't think it's a virus - could it be a failing power supply or dodgy hard drive?
Is there any softwarethat will help diagnose the fault, or should I justreinstall windows and start again? I REALLY don't want to do that, as I have no idea what I'm doing. My pc (a compaq) has a partition on the hard drive for recovery purposes - I assume thisholds a copy ofXP, as it didn't come with a software disc? I dunno.
Last night it took about 20 attempts to get the feckin thing to work -kept rebooting halfway through the startup process and taking me to the black screen offering the'start in safe mode' or 'start windows normally' options. Whichever optionI chose resulted ina loop taking me back to that screen.
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A 6-foot-4, 238-pound tight end who was reportedly on pace to be a small-school All-American in 2013 on Thursday declared a visit with the Saints "a success," suggesting New Orleans might be interested in grabbing him either late in the upcoming draft or in free agency if he's not chosen.
Central Arkansas' Chase Dixon on Wednesday announced via Twitter he was flying to New Orleans to visit the Saints the following day. He then tweeted, "Visit with the Saints was a success! Ready to head back home."
Before his flight to New Orleans, Dixon played 32 games for Central Arkansas from 2010 to 2013, catching 33 passes for 379 yards and 10 touchdowns for his career at a school that competes in the Southland Conference of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA).
He hauled in 22 of those grabs, 262 of those yards and six of those TDs last season. But he broke his leg in October and played in only six games for the campaign. He had scored once in each outing, causing at least one local paper to speculate that he was en-route to an All-America selection.
Dixon earned second-team, all-conference honors at the end of the year. In a news release touting Dixon's recognition, Central Arkansas coach Clint Coque said, "I'm especially happy for Chase …, that the voters recognized what kind of year he was having, even though it was cut short by injury."
It does not appear that any outlets expect the bulky Dixon will be drafted. But, under coach Sean Payton, the Saints have never been shy about bringing in unheralded college prospects and putting them on the roster if the team thinks they can contribute.
Other prospects the Saints have either had in for visits or are planning to meet with include Southern California receiver Marqise Lee, Wyoming wideout Robert Herron and Oklahoma defensive back Aaron Colvin. They had dinner plans on Wednesday with Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry, both receivers from nearby LSU.
(H/T Canal Street Chronicles, who highlighted Dixon's tweets).
Source: Saints among many interested in Demarcus Lawrence
The Saints have set up a visit with Boise State defensive end Demarcus Lawrence, an NFL source confirmed to The Advocate on Friday. But, NFL Network's Ian Rapaport reported, he's already visited the Falcons; and he will do the same with the Patriots, Jets and Cowboys, among others.
The 6-foot-3, 251-pound Lawrence has drawn second-round draft projections after leading the Mountain West conference with 10.5 sacks and 20.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage in 2013. He is relatively quick for a defensive end, having clocked a 4.8-second 40-yard dash at the scouting combine and another one of 4.69 seconds in another workout, per CBSSports.com.
On the flip-side, the site judged, he seems to have less than ideal speed for a linebacker and does not have the same bulk typically seen in defensive linemen.
The Saints have good pass rushers in defensive end Cameron Jordan (12.5 sacks in 2013 and a Pro Bowl appearance) and outside linebacker Junior Galette (12 sacks last year). Other solid defensive linemen on the roster are Glenn Foster and Akiem Hicks.
Their pass-rushing depth should be helped with the expected return of outside linebacker Victor Butler, who missed the 2013 season with a knee injury.
However, 2014 is the last season in Butler's two-year deal. Another outside linebacker, Parys Haralson, is also only under contract through 2014.
At the annual NFL owners meeting in March, coach Sean Payton said the Saints always place a premium on pass rushers, which makes Lawrence a logical candidate for a job in New Orleans.


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Centre for Fashion Science – Skin Deep
We are pleased to announce an exciting series of Fashion Science talks by eminent scientists, planned from January – June 2011, on diverse subjects related to human skin, including a modern view of the cosmetics industry, the psychology of perception of ageing, the emerging science of biomimetics, the truth around the efficacy of botanical extracts and skin care in the developing world. These talks are organised in collaboration with Dr Paul Matts of Procter & Gamble, who has recently been appointed Visiting Professor at LCF.
Part 1
Lecture 1, 18th January 2011, 5.30 – 6.30pm Rootstein Hopkins East Space; London College of Fashion, followed by drinks on the terrace.
Amazing Science, Applied Daily!
Dr Chris Flower, Director General of CTPA*; and Dr Emma Meredith, Head of Scientific and Technical Services at CTPA
Have you ever stopped to wonder how the cosmetics and toiletries you use each day are put together, who was involved and how it all comes about? Or, like most of us, do you take it for granted that they will be of good quality, effective and safe and only choose products based on whether you like them or not, whether the colour or perfume is nice, or who made them or who advertises them? The truth is that a diverse team of scientists develop, manufacture and market these products and that, from concept to final product, every step involves many different scientific disciplines. So, join us on a whistle-stop tour of this amazing industry that includes a look at the legal framework ensuring safe products for all, an examination of the science behind the latest claims, myth-busting with credible reference sources and an insight into how our daily lives and self-esteem are improved by these technologies.
* The CTPA (the Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association) is the voice of the cosmetic and personal care product industry in the UK and one of its major roles is to promote good working practice to ensure that consumers are provided with the very best products.
Lecture 2, 15th February, 5.30 – 6.30pm Rootstein Hopkins Centre Space; London College of Fashion, followed by drinks on the terrace.
What's the Attraction?
Dr Paul Matts, Research Fellow, Procter & Gamble and Visiting Professor, London College of Fashion, and Dr Bernhard Fink, Department of Sociobiology / Anthropology and Courant Research Centre "Evolution of Social Behaviour", University of Goettingen
Our skin speaks long before we open our mouths and, whether we like it not, helps drive others' perception of our apparent age, health and attractiveness. That somewhat controversial statement will be explored in this lecture through the dual lenses of dermatological research and Evolutionary Psychology (the science of how evolution has shaped the human mind and our behaviour). We will try and deconstruct human facial appearance into its component parts, show how and why these change with age and environmental exposure and then examine our latest research which relates these features to perception and judgement. We will also explore various questions raised by these findings… is there any value to so-called "anti-ageing" products, can we give our faces to aestheticians and plastic surgeons with confidence, how can we best ensure that we "grow old gracefully"…?
Lecture 3, 16th March, 5.30 – 6.30pm Rootstein Hopkins East Space; London College of Fashion, followed by drinks on the terrace.
Nature's Variety of Colour
Prof Andrew Parker, The Natural History Museum, London and Green Templeton College, Oxford University
Charles Darwin's concerns that the eye, as a 'perfect' detector, could not have been the result of evolution were ill-conceived – his problem was that he had underestimated colour. Nature's palette is far more miraculous than he had imagined – so miraculous, in fact, that it fools and misleads eyes all the time, of both animal predators and their prey. The different ways that colour is produced in nature will be presented, including pigments, fluorescence, bioluminescence and structural colour. Some unusual cases of structural colour will be used to show the potential to learn from evolution as a means to produce novel coloured effects. Some of these cases could not have been conceived by mathematical theory or spectrometers – the eye and all its eccentricities cannot be calculated.
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This is a discussion on Bike riding and carrying ideas. within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; When I'm riding the bicycle, I use a fanny pack. The setup allows me to unzip & draw one-handed. My only concern is falling off ...
When I'm riding the bicycle, I use a fanny pack. The setup allows me to unzip & draw one-handed. My only concern is falling off the bike and landing hard on the thing.
I appendix carry. No change to what i do day to day
An Uncle Mike's SIDEKICK fanny pack for me. It's designed for handgun carry. My LCP is perfect, small and lightweight.
May we never forget those in uniform who protect us night and day in lands far away. And those in all wars who paid the supreme sacrifice in defense of our country. May God Bless our Troops and First Responders.
I have a Tommy's gun pack that works very well. I do not care if people call me queer for wearing on, heck, I get called ALL kinds of names for just riding my bike, and they can not see the pack, so who cares..
When I'm road biking, I use a Coronado Stealth pack (Coronado Leather, makers of handcrafted, concealment leatherwear for law enforcement and those interested in high quality leather jackets, handbags and carrycases for firearm concealment). It looks stupid, but I'm already wearing spandex shorts & a jersey that's a fashion offense.
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I ride and run quite a bit during the warmer months of the year also. The single best holster set up I have found, for moderate/vigorous running, hiking without a giant pack, and biking more than a few miles is called Pistol Wear. website is pistolwear.com check it out. It is comfortable, has a moisture barrier; firearm can be deployed with one hand easily. Check it out. It is best suited for compact or subcompact use. Once you see it, you'll most likely understand why a full size firearm wouldn't work. IMO- even a compact size is a bit large, but will work.
Aim Low, don't be Disappointed, and Reach your Goals.
When I'm mountain biking, I use this belly band which encloses the whole firearm:
Pistol Wear - Holsters for Concealed Handguns
It stays in place, breathes, and my G27 hasn't fallen out even when I've tumbled.
The "pocket" guns I've tried (LCP, P3AT, BG 380) will fit great in a jersey pocket. I just drop my BG 380 in my center jersey pocket. Don't really care if it "prints", and it usually doesn't anyway. In my opinion, this is a great place to carry for cyclists (particularly road racers) who do a lot of miles and are accustomed to reaching in their jersey pockets for food, water bottles, etc. I'm probably more apt to reach back there on reflex than I am to reach for my IWB holster!
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems scary and weird. It'll happen to you.Abraham Simpson
I go with my edc and regular IWB holster.
+1 for the Pistolwear. I tuck my PM9 in there and dont even notice it. My bike shorts dont have loops, so a belt isnt an option. I only ride off road, and rarely take the gun. If its a slow stroll with a friend i'll take it, but if i'm riding aggressively at all (90% of the time) it doesnt come with me. It's just too risky to fall on it. (your ribs, kidneys, spine and spleen will give up before the gun does)


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New Droid Ultra confirmed by Motorola's website
Motorola's official US website now has a page that lists a smartphone called Droid Ultra. This, of course, has to be one of the Ultra handsets that we heard about last week. There's no mention of the Razr branding on the page, so that may have been left out.
The complete list of specs currently shown at the Droid Ultra page is exactly the one for the older Razr M – so it's probably there just as a placeholder. However, there is one paragraph that clearly talks about the real Droid Ultra: "Available in a bunch of glossy colors, this high-grade DuPont Kevlar body proves you can be even thinner and still be tough as steel."
Unfortunately, an actual photo of the Droid Ultra isn't provided. Moreover, we don't know when Motorola and Verizon are going to announce the new family of handsets. It could happen this fall – or earlier – since the new Droids are probably related to Motorola's X phones that have been confirmed for later this year.
The last Motorola Droid handset introduced by Verizon is the Droid Razr Maxx HD, which is available since November 2012. This is also the last smartphone introduced by Motorola in the US – so it's about time for new products, isn't it?
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Web Terms
Address—the location of a website. Also known as web address or Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Michigan Tech's home page address is http://www.mtu.edu/
Analytics—data about your website. This includes how many times a web page is visited, how long the user stayed on the web page, and even information about the user's location and web browser.
Breadcrumb Navigation (aka breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail)—a way for a user to keep track of their location within a website. A breadcrumb trail, which usually appears below the header, is a list of links that starts with the main page and ends with the current web page. For example, the breadcrumbs on the Webmaster's Blog are "Michigan Tech Home>Web Master's Blog."
Content Management System (CMS)—a system used to organize, manage, and share content. It allows for standardized processes and decentralized management of content.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)—a style sheet language used to describe the way a document looks, or its presentation, in an HTML, XHTML, or XML document. A Cascading Style Sheet consists of a list of rules that control the fonts, colors, and other typographic properties.
Design—to create or produce information, aesthetics, or art, with a goal or plan in mind. In the web world, design can refer to graphic design, page design, project design, website design, web application design, and product or mobile interface design.
Graphic Design—visual communication using design elements to produce a product.
Home Page—the opening or main page of a website.
Hyperlink—text or a graphic element that, when clicked, takes you to another location on the current web page or to a different web page.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)—a markup language used to make web pages.
Information Architecture—the design and organization of a web framework that's based on information environments optimized for usability.
Landing Page—a page that users are referred to from other websites, ads, or people. Potentially, any page on a website can be considered a landing page because arrival to and viewing on your website isn't linear.
Media Zone—main area on your home page that typically includes images slides, titles, and/or captions. Use to highlight the most important topics on your website in a unique and attention-grabbing way.
Page—the content you can see on your web browser without clicking to a different address. Also called an electronic page or web page.
Page Design—the way a page is organized and presented.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)—the focus and optimization of web pages to increase search engine rankings for search terms.
Site Map—the organization of a website that breaks the web pages down into a hierarchy that is commonly presented graphically, like a family tree.
Slider(s)—a piece of content on your website that opens and closes as it is clicked. Sliders are used to condense the information on a web page and allows the user to only open and view what they are most interested in.
Style Sheet—contains a page's presentation (layout) rules, using a language such as CSS.
User—person accessing a computer.
User Testing—asking a user to test out a website and perform various tasks. This provides information about how the website functions and if it is organized in an intuitive fashion.
Validation—checking a web page or style sheet for errors in coding that will degrade the presentation of the web page. Web validators are based on W3C standards. See http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/
Web Browser—a software application that allows a user to view content on the internet. Common web browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.
Web Design—the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media, and programming elements are shaped by the web designer to produce the page seen on the web browser.
Web Page—a page that is available on a web browser and has a web address assigned to it.
Website—a collection of web pages that contains a home page.
Wireframe—a text-only model based on your site map. It not only identifies the entry and exit points your users will experience on every page in your site, but also provides grounding for each page's purpose.
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)—Unlike HTML, XHTML can be used in the semantic web. It is viewed as the successor to HTML.


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Municipal bond
A municipal bond is a bond issued by a local government agency, usually to finance projects like construction of a school, improvement of a sewer system, etc. Municipal bonds are unique in that their interest is free of federal income taxes. They are often termed tax-free bonds. A mutual fund that invests in these bonds is often called a tax-free bond fund.
Expanded Definition
Regulations vary, but interest may also be free of state income taxes in the state where the bonds are issued. Such bonds are said to be double tax free. Some localities also have local income or earnings taxes. Certain municipal bonds may also be exempt from those taxes. They are termed a triple tax free bond.
Like other bonds, municipal bonds are offered by most brokerage firms through their bond desk. Municipal bonds for entities in your area also are often sold through local or regional banks. Muni bonds, like others, are rated by bond rating agencies including Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch. Investment grade bonds are rated AAA through BBB-. A lower rated bonds is considered a junk bond. Insured bonds are also available, but most such bonds are not insured.
Most municipal bonds are supported by the ability of the issuing agency to tax. They are safer than other bonds because the issuing agency likely will continue to exist and usually can be compelled to pay in time. However, some bonds are revenue bonds and some have been issued at times to support redevelopment projects. Their payments can depend on the success of the project being financed.
For diversification, most investors should buy bonds in $5,000 increments and own at least five issues. Hence, bonds themselves should be considered by those with a minimum of $25,000 to invest. Smaller investors should buy bond funds instead.
Investors should consider their marginal tax rate when deciding whether to invest in municipal bonds. Usually an investor needs to be in the 25% or higher federal income tax bracket to find muni bond yields attractive compared to the interest rates paid by corporate bonds of similar ratings and after those taxes are paid. If the ratings are the same and yields are the same, most investors will choose the muni bond for their greater safety.
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Aussie nursing board acts on Irish care duo
An Australian nursing board has placed conditions upon the future work of two Irish nurses, after it learned that they were the former directors of a Kilkenny home shut down by health authorities.
Miriam Holmes and her daughter Hayley, who ran the Avondale nursing home in Kilkenny before it was shut down amid concerns over the health and safety of patients, had until recently been employed by the Plumpton Villa facility in Melbourne.
Ms Holmes denies accusations of 'reckless abandonment' of residents, as well as the theft of money, medication and public service cards from clients in the Kilkenny home.
Shortly after Ms Holmes and her daughter left Ireland, she was appointed as facility manager at the nursing home in Glenroy, Melbourne. Her daughter Hayley Holmes was appointed as a clinical care co-ordinator.
The pair no longer work there.
According to Ms Holmes' solicitor Patrick Moylan, she is willing to be interviewed by Gardaí and will challenge the allegations made against them.
However the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the Victorian Board of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia have implemented a number of conditions on the pair before they can work as nurses in Australia.
Prior to resuming practice as registered nurses, Miriam and Hayley Holmes are required to provide AHPRA and the Nursing and Midwifery Board with the contact details of their employer or any change in employer, the name and contact details of the director of the nursing manager or equivalent management within seven days of commencing employment.
They are also required to advise AHPRA and the Board as to the outcome of the current investigation by the Irish Nursing Board, An Bord Altranais, and any decision by that Board or the relevant court or authority regarding her registration as a nurse in Ireland, within seven days of a decision being made.
Gardaí are continuing to investigate allegations from several residents that the two women stole money from them.
Residents made these complaints to authority inspectors after the home's closure.
The pair could also face prosecution by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) for multiple breaches of regulations designed to keep vulnerable residents safe.
Under the 2007 Health Act, the authority may bring prosecutions against nursing home owners who breach care regulations. The maximum fine is €70,000 ($86,357) or a two-year prison term.
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Is the way AJ Lee is being used the new way of pushing Divas in WWE? Helping to expand story lines rather than wrestling.
It's funny because the last two Divas to get over, Eve Torres and AJ Lee, have done so assisting in main event angles and not by performing in the ring. I don't know if it's necessarily the "new way" as using female talent in top angles isn't really anything new. AJ's success certainly helps her standing in the company as I heard Vince McMahon was pushing for her to get a run with the Divas Championship down the road. AJ's work has been fantastic and it's great to see talented people get opportunities to shine on television.
What does WWE look for when signing female talent? It seems like all that matters is looks but is anything else important?
There are many factors that go into hiring talent but it would be foolish for me to try and tell you that looks are not a substantial factor in the hiring of Divas. Divas like Kelly Kelly and Alicia Fox were brought in as models and trained to be wrestlers. There are other factors that can influence WWE, as we've seen with Divas like Beth Phoenix and Kharma, but looks certainly matter. However, this just isn't the case for females. WWE doesn't hire male talent based solely on looks or work as there are a myriad of factors that are evaluated before a contract is offered. The most important factor in hiring anyone is – will this person draw?
What are the plans for the WWE Network?
There isn't much new to report about the WWE Network. The reports currently circulating the Internet are things we wrote about months ago, so these other publications are either just finding out or are rehashing old material. Different models are being considered but the delay has to do with lack of clearance on cable and satellite systems. WWE has remained mum on the issue because they feel the more they talk about it, the more it hinders negotiations.
Why did WWE book Heath Slater over Doink on last week's Raw Supershow as he has just been getting battered by everyone a week before this?
If there is a Legend out there that's not going to be hurt by a loss, it's probably Doink the Clown. Diamond Dallas Page told some publications he was returning on Raw Supershow last week so perhaps the company booked Doink vs. Slater to try and swerve. Regardless, it doesn't really matter as the status of Heath Slater has not changed.
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song obsession friday! (for the last week in January)January 27th, 2012
This is the second in the relaunch of the song obsessions posts, two and a half years after my last regular song obsession post.
Song obsessions are those songs that get stuck in your head. This series of posts isn't about what I or the other panel members think is best, but what our brain latches onto, those ear worms that loop around and around in your head.
Adrian (me):
Tyler Lyle – The Wine Maker's Love Song (mp3) (buy)
On Heather's suggestion I checked out this album and I've been hooked. It's almost too earnest and almost too much of a snapshot–the story goes that it was recorded in one day after a break-up and before moving across the country–but as long as my cynical side is at bay even a little bit, I'm on board with these melodic and wonderful songs. And the banjo doesn't hurt either.
Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girl (video)
Sometimes earworms are not the best songs; they're just catchy. I don't hate this song, but I don't love it either. However my girlfriend's shampoo is "Beautiful Curls" which has gotten me singing this song/ a slight parody in my head a lot recently.
Noah Gunderson – Ledges (live) (mp3) (unreleased song, buy other songs by the artist)
I was lucky enough to see this house concert while visiting Seattle a few weeks ago. Noah Gundersen is one of my new favorite artists, and since this house show, I haven't been able to stop listening to his music. This is the song that most often hums in my brain.
Molina and Johnston – Almost Let You In (mp3) (buy)
For me, this song is the standout on the Molina/Johnson record. Every bit of the production is perfect. Every sound contributes to the atmosphere of sparse loneliness. I love the guitar sound, the piano, the understated kick drum, and especially the harmonies. It's a simple, beautiful song.
Industry – State of the Nation (mp3) (buy)
A favorite sub-genre of authentic new wave is the anti-war/nuclear paranoia song. Not just because every band delved into this pot, but because it takes superior skill to polish up a strident political message with a pop radio sheen. This obsesso-worthy example dares you to care about the message in the music, as the bubbly synths and popcorn lite chorus dress up a thanklessly bitter defense for the cannon fodder.
The Black Keys – Gold on the Ceiling (mp3) (buy)
This foot tapping, hand clapping, head bobbing ear-worm has just about everything that usually gets me obsessed with a song. Danger Mouse's production brings a fullness of sound that is a long way from The Black Keys' early albums, but is welcome evolution, taking them in new directions without forsaking their signature rawness. This song is still just good ol' Rock 'n Roll.
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Babbling Beverage - Beautifying Potion/Beautification Potion - Befuddlement Draught - Belch Powder - belladonna - bezoar - bicorn parts - Billywig parts - black beetle parts - Blood-Replenishing Potion - boil cure potion - boomslang parts - bruise-healing paste - bubotuber - Bulbadox powder - Bundimun secretion - burn-healing paste
Causes the target person to talk nonsense.
In an effort to pass along a warning to Snape, Harry once shouted "He's got Padfoot in the place where it's hidden." Snape pretended not to know what Harry was talking about and said that if he wanted to hear nonsense, he'd give Harry a Babbling Beverage (OP32)
Beautifying Potion / Beautification Potion
Potions to make the drinker more lovely in appearance.
Sacharissa Tugwood was an expert at these potions, pioneering their creation and use (fw)
The famous hag Malodora Grymm, using a beautification potion to conceal her true form (fw).
See CONFUSING AND BEFUDDLEMENT DRAUGHTS.
This substance presumably causes the target creature to belch.
Evidently a Zonko's product sold in Hogsmeade, and definitely one of the many, many items Filch does not like having in the castle (PA8)
Essence of this poisonous plant is part of a student's standard potion-making kit (GF10).
A shriveled, kidneylike "stone" (HBP18) that comes from the stomach of a goat, protects from most poisons (PS8)
Actually a bezoar isn't a stone per se, but a hairball that looks something like a stone; in legend bezoars are indeed supposed to have the properties attributed to them by JKR.
bicorn parts
Powdered horn used in Polyjuice Potion.
Billywig parts
Dried stings (FB)
Black beetle eyes are sold at the apothecary's in Diagon Alley. The rate was five Knuts a scoop the summer before Harry's first year (PS5).
Medical magic: this potion makes up for lost blood.
Arthur had to take a Blood-Replenishing Potion every hour until the Healers could find an antidote for the venom of the snake that bit him. Something in that venom was keeping the wound open and he was bleeding whenever they would remove the bandages (OP22)
ingredients: dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills (added after taking the cauldron off the fire)
Simple potion to cure boils.
Taught to first-years in their first Potions class with Snape (PS8)
If the porcupine quills are added before the cauldron is taken off the fire, the mixture produces clouds of acid green smoke and a loud hissing, melts the cauldron, and burns holes in people's shoes. This happened to Neville, who was splashed by it and sprouted angry red boils (PS8)
- This potion is known in The Book of Potions as Cure for Boils and is described thus: "being an effective remedie against postules, hives, boils and many other scrofulous conditions." The ingredients, according to that book, are snake fangs, pungous onions, dried nettles, Flobberworm mucus, powdered ginger root, Shrake spines, a glug of stewed horned slugs, and porcupine quills (BoP).
boomslang parts
Shredded boomslang skin is used in Polyjuice Potion. See also snake parts more generally.
Medical magic: this is a thick yellow paste used to heal bruises.
The twins gave some to Hermione to treat the bruises caused by their prototype punching telescope (HBP6)
A plant, the pus of which is used for healing potions (GF13).
Substance which causes the skin of a person who touches it to break out in boils
Fred Weasley put this in Kenneth Towler's pyjamas during their O.W.L. year (OP12).
Bundimun secretion
Diluted, this is used in some magical cleaning solutions.
Medical magic: this is an orange paste is used to heal burns.
Used by Madam Pomfrey to tend to burns during the Triwizard Tournament (GF20)