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- I looked up at the bright green neon sign flashing on and off, 'Club Divine' it read.
- A sudden burst of bright green light flashed behind the tree.
- The ship whisked into the night's sky, its bright lights flashing.
- The driver was alerted to on-coming cars flashing their lights at him.
- The police car flashed his lights briefly at a car that touched 90 or so, but that was about it.
- The car behind me started flashing its lights, and turned on its siren.
- The automobile in front of them flashed a warning signal of red to tell of slowing, and he eased up on the gas as he headed further into the dark city.
- They want to install a system which will flash a warning signal in the cab of the train if it passes through a red light.
- He lit the lamp he carried, and flashed an agreed signal to the other three men waiting in one of the canoes a short distance away.
- Brown flashed a knowing look into the gallery, and a few people, for want of a better word, tittered.
- He flashed a stern look towards the nurse.
- I flashed a look of gratitude at Noelle, and she nodded coolly.
- 'Jordan isn't going to make me miserable,' Faith argued, her eyes flashing with anger.
- 'Get the hell away from me Corey - right now' Hailey said, her eyes flashing with anger.
- His eyes were flashing with anger, but they softened.
- Eventually, I became aware that the streetlights were not flashing by as quickly as they had been.
- The altimeter was counting down, the final couple of hundred feet flashing by too quickly.
- The time flashed by so quickly for the rest of the trip.
- Images of the shooting - videotaped by TV crews covering the march - were flashed around the world.
- This news had earlier been flashed to the world via the BBC website.
- However, the whole incident was flashed around to other bases, telling everyone to behave themselves.
- As he crossed the finishing line his image was flashed up on the large screens.
- Your computer screen is flashing an unwelcome message.
- The giant white screen flashed images of people in the streets mourning Corrie's death.
- I smiled and sat back watching as several images flashed across the screen, Matt still grunting in annoyance at not having found his desired station to watch.
- He raised a scowl as his image flashed across the big screen.
- A crackling image flashed onto the screen, lines of static and interference scrolled up and down the message.
- Ralphie responded quickly as he flashed them his press card.
- Just then another passenger rose from his seat and flashed a small plastic card at the warring parties.
- Jonathan flashed his ID, and the guards motioned the car through.
- You should take their money if they are flashing it round.
- They hate to see somebody flashing the money around like that.
- He had a habit of flashing the wads of cash his benevolent son sent home to him.
- Believing a man had flashed at his girlfriend, he drove at him, jamming him against a wall.
- A mother has warned other residents to be on their guard after a man flashed her 12-year-old daughter.
- A bit later she was waving at me, and when I glanced over she flashed me again - and she'd taken her bra off!
- At this a loud crash was heard behind them followed by a bright flash of lightning, lighting up the forest briefly.
- As she was strolling down the final row, a sudden flash of bright light caught her attention.
- Large flashes of light occasionally burst forth from the opening of a cave leading into the opposing mountain range.
- Soft pastels, worn underneath jackets or blazers, will be popular, along with cream, and teamed with flashes of bright colour.
- The glints of orange fish scales and the gleam of a metallic beetle are some of the few flashes of colour in a predominantly monochromatic palette.
- The strategic placement of bold panels of colour allows unexpected flashes throughout the hair, dramatizing the movement and lines of each cut and style.
- Later on that year the cloth patch was replaced by a black flash and a solid gold metal Winged Dagger emblem on top of it.
- I ended up buying the kilt itself, a black leather sporran, some black hose, and black flashes.
- He recognised the flashes on the uniform of the young soldier standing beside him. They indicated service in Cyprus.
- In response to your query about the Scalextric 'go-faster' range, I think they were called 'Race Tuned', and carried flashes on their sides to that effect.
- Be watchful for later jackets on the Booker winner with flashes advertising the prize.
- We offer the best print quality tattoo flash from extremely talented and award winning artists.
- The tattoo artist creates flash in themed sets.
- Hand-drawn, local tattoo flash has largely been replaced by professional 'flash artists' who produce prints of copyrighted flash and sell them at conventions or through the Internet.
- His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
- Paul is manic and edgy on stage, with the occasional flash of surreal genius.
- I won't say there was a sudden flash of insight but dimly I was becoming aware that there are lots of things to see if you take the time to look.
- When at last the news agency flash came of the Nazi capitulation on May 7, 1945, the Manchester Eveneing News was ready.
- I was in a of a press association this afternoon when the flash came in.
- Pulling out her camera and attaching the flash, she climbs out of the car and moves past the barricade.
- The phone also is equipped with a camera featuring an attachable flash.
- He finds Gilbert, and they spot Keaton, who is using the flash on her digital camera as a flashlight.
- We still do a lot of personal research and development work with Flash and our websites are really popular.
- You'll need Flash and QuickTime to view all the extras buried in these online presentations.
- The same brains that created the Internet have clearly mastered Flash as well.
- The dark glasses add color and flash to the scene.
- Located in the heart of West Palm Beach, it's a moneyed, up-market environment, big on designer flash and not short on pose and pretension.
- We've all witnessed presentations that were high on flash and flare, and low on content.
- A rotary file in an electric drill motor is the perfect tool for grinding off flash.
- The trailing edge smoothed out well and the excess plastic flash just fell off.
- Also, when trimming the plates from the sprues, make sure you trim the flash from the bottom of the recessed tab to let the courses sit level.
- They often stood there for days until the miller felt able to let down flashes of water to enable them to float over the shallows.
- In dry seasons when there was little flow of fresh water, flashes had to be provided.
adjetivoinformal, chiefly British
- It is simply the case that in this world of convenience, flash holidays and big cars, working the land has lost its appeal.
- But the plan backfired when the driver couldn't get the flash car to start as they left the restaurant - leaving the couple at the mercy of the paparazzi.
- This means that in a high-consumption society such as ours, when I buy a flash car or suit, I throw down the gauntlet to others to do likewise.
- They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
- Nicky Cole is a flash geezer from the South, but Yates is a flash geezer from the North.
- It was a flash crowd, and soon our roofless concrete barn was packed with wet bodies, dancing under sheets of hard rain and the intermittent flashes of lightning.
- This is the story of an extraordinary quest by two women - one the wife of a journalist, and the other a young girl who had been sold to a flash house when she was just 10 years old.
- Many British navy and army officers hated the 'flash language' used by convicts.
- Notwithstanding the editor's condescension toward these 'second-rate' men, he recognizes the opportunity flash language provided for disguised communication.
flash in the pan
- A thing or person whose sudden but brief success is not repeated or repeatable: our start to the season was just a flash in the panWith allusion to priming of a firearm, the flash arising from an explosion of gunpowder within the lockMás ejemplos en oraciones
- And his form so far this season has proved that his success last year was no flash in the pan.
- It is not a flash in the pan but something that's been maintained over a long period.
- Organising a music festival in India and battling the Indian bureaucracy was not exactly an easy affair for this group, but they seem confident about making this more than just a flash in the pan.
in (or like) a flash
- Very quickly; immediately: she was out of the back door in a flashMás ejemplos en oraciones
in an instant, in a moment, in a (split) second, in a minute, in a trice, like a shot, straight away, in a wink, in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in two shakes (of a lamb's tail), before you know it, on the double, at the speed of light, like an arrow from a bowinformal in a jiffy, before you can say Jack Robinson, double quick, in double quick time, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick), like (greased) lightning, at warp speed
- I closed the door quickly and like a flash I was at the table filling my bag with the money once again.
- They will sit on your rear bumper until they get a little bit of a straight road and then they are past you like a flash.
- He was on to it like a flash, racing into the penalty area.
(as) quick as a flash
- (Especially of a person's response or reaction) very quickly: quick as a flash he was at her sideMás ejemplos en oraciones
- 'You saved the best till last,' replies the candidate, quick as a flash.
- As quick as a flash, his eyes darted to Stevie, and he said: 'Does that mean we have to call you Gerry now?'
- She reveals she buys all her own clothes for work, 'although I never pay full price,' she adds, quick as a flash.
Verbos con partícula
flash over
- Make an electric circuit by sparking across a gap.Oraciones de ejemplo
- The theory here is that the primer flashes over the small powder charge and causes it to detonate.
- An arc then flashes over between these electrodes 24 and 13, giving rise to ionization and pressurization.
- If the voltage is high enough, the insulator flashes over causing a short circuit of the system.
- 1.1(Of a fire) spread instantly across a gap because of intense heat.Oraciones de ejemplo
- Once the fire flashed over the side station, it quickly enveloped the deli restaurant, feeding on the combustible interior finishes and furnishings.
- At about 4 p.m., the fire 'flashed over' and the buildings erupted in a mass of flame, trapping some staff on upper floors.
- When the driver lifted the engine cover he provided the oxygen that was lacking and the fire 'flashed over' and spread quickly through the bus.
Middle English (in the sense 'splash water about'): probably imitative; compare with flush1 and splash.
We think of flash in terms of fire and light, but in the Middle Ages it originally meant 'splash water about', and like plash (early 16th century) and splash (mid 18th century) probably came from the sound of the word. The association with fire may have developed from the resemblance of the word to flame ( see flagrant). The idea of 'ostentatious stylishness or display of wealth' goes back to the 17th century. When calling a sudden, brief success a flash in the pan we are referring to early firearms. Sometimes the gunpowder would burn fiercely but ineffectually in the 'pan', the part that held the priming charge, without igniting the main charge. The result was a flash and some smoke, but the gun did not fire—what Shakespeare in Macbeth called 'sound and fury signifying nothing'.
Palabras que riman con flashabash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash
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- There was then a report of a flamingo at Neuman's Flash - a salt flash near Northwich in Cheshire.
- The flash, or lake, is the result of mining subsidence in 1924 and a disused railway still runs through the woodland.
- Pennington Flash Country Park, centred on a large lake or 'flash' formed by mining subsidence, now provides some of the best sailing and bird-watching facilities in the region.
Middle English (in the sense 'a marshy place'): from Old French flache, variant of Picard and Norman dialect flaque, from Middle Dutch vlacke. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
We think of flash in terms of fire and light, but in the Middle Ages it originally meant 'splash water about', and like plash (early 16th century) and splash (mid 18th century) probably came from the sound of the word. The association with fire may have developed from the resemblance of the word to flame ( see flagrant). The idea of 'ostentatious stylishness or display of wealth' goes back to the 17th century. When calling a sudden, brief success a flash in the pan we are referring to early firearms. Sometimes the gunpowder would burn fiercely but ineffectually in the 'pan', the part that held the priming charge, without igniting the main charge. The result was a flash and some smoke, but the gun did not fire—what Shakespeare in Macbeth called 'sound and fury signifying nothing'.
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Girlfriend alleges she was locked up
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10:41 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10:41 a.m.
A suspect arrested Saturday following a fight with his girlfriend was jailed on multiple charges after he allegedly locked the woman in his house to keep her from calling police.
Harold Joseph Verdin, 37, 420 Sterling Drive, Houma, allegedly hit his unidentified girlfriend in the face with his fist, then locked her inside his house because he was afraid of going to jail. The victim was later able to contact authorities.
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Expertise: Entertainment, Historical, and Sports Autographs.
In the late 1970s, young Steve Grad went to two baseball games that
would prove to have a profound impact on him. "I went to my very first
baseball game at Comiskey Park to see the Chicago White Sox play the Minnesota
Twins," Steve recalls. "Although I was a huge baseball fan, I had
yet to make the important choice that every Chicagoan must make – to be a
Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. If you live in Chicago, you know that you have to
live and die with one team or the other – never both. Soon after
going to that game, we went to a Cubs game. After leaving the stadium, my
brother, mother, father and I waited outside the player parking lot hoping to
get some autographs. All of a sudden, we noticed that the player driving out of
the lot was Dave Kingman. We were all excited thinking we would get his
autograph but instead, he just drove past and gave us the finger. From
that moment on, I was a White Sox fan!"
Steve spent the majority of his childhood in Orland Park, Illinois, a
suburb south of Chicago. "I always loved baseball. Summer meant
playing baseball and winter meant counting the days until I could play
again. My family spent our summers in Delavan, Wisconsin, a small town
just over the Illinois border. Those days were filled with playing
baseball, fishing, water skiing and listening to the White Sox on the
In the mid-1980s, while attending Carl Sandburg High School, the
then-15-year old Steve was looking forward to another relaxing summer vacation.
His father, however, had other plans. "My father took me to work with him
and I had no idea what I was in for. It was at that moment that my life of
luxury and having no worries or responsibilities ended. I started working that
summer and, when I look back, I see that was really a life-defining moment for
Throughout the end of his high school career, and while attending
Chicago's Roosevelt University and Columbia College (where he majored in
Broadcast Journalism), Steve worked in radio broadcasting and eventually landed
a gig at one of Chicago's top rated radio station. "I covered news,
sports, political elections, and was a traffic reporter," Steve
says. "I was also a sidekick on a morning show called Mancow's
Morning Madhouse where I did traffic reports before moving on to the sports
desk. My nickname back then was Psycho Steve."
After his two-year run with Mancow, Steve went on to work for the
One-On-One Radio Network, now known as Sporting News Radio, the nation's
largest nationally syndicated sports radio network. "I started as an
anchor/reporter, and then went on to co-host my own talk show that was
broadcast in over 400 markets – The Steve Grad Show – how original
While working in radio, Steve had also become fascinated with autograph
collecting. "Although my first experience in attempting to get an
autograph was less than positive, that changed in 1980 when I obtained my first
autograph – the signature of White Sox pitcher Rich Dotson. I was out
at the old Comiskey Park and saw him down by the left field line signing for
fans. My brother and I grabbed a piece of paper from my mom and ran to get his
signature. That's when it all started for me."
The following year, Steve attended his first autograph show where he
added Bob Feller's signature to his collection. "It was at
that show that I got to know my neighbor a little better. Up until then, I
never knew the guy who lived across the street from us was Dan Knoll, who is
one of the most respected authorities on game-used equipment. He taught me
about autographs, how to collect them, store them, and all about values and
authenticity. I started chasing autographs at the ballpark on a consistent
basis and then moved on to team hotels. I also started to get autographs
from celebrities, politicians and every conceivable sports
In 1988, Steve turned his passion for autographs into a small business. Partnering with his brother, Bob, he would set up at local Chicago sports shows, selling autographs and sportscards.
After living in and around Chicago for 31 years, Steve's position
with PSA took him to Pennsylvania and, two years later, to Lake Forest,
California. Today, as he is about to celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary,
Steve and his beautiful wife Claire have two daughters – Mikayla and
Isabel. "Our family also consists of four cats,' says Steve.
"Pudge, named after Carlton Fisk, Gi Gi, Roxy and Emerson."
Through his regular travels throughout Europe, Canada, and the U.S. over
the last twenty years, Steve has collected over 100,000 in-person autographs.
His personal passion is in collecting Star Wars
autographs. "I'm in complete geek mode around my Star Wars
autographs," laughs Steve. "I have assembled one of the top Star
Wars autograph collections in the world and have been lucky enough to meet
almost every major character. It's my ultimate goal to have a signature
from every person that was involved in all six movies. I have a long road ahead
of me in reaching that goal, but it sure is fun."
When he's not traveling or working, Steve loves to
read. "I'm still working on the last Harry Potter book and
I'm also about to dive into a book called Blink. I watch every
Chicago White Sox and Bears games I can. I recently bought a Slingbox that
enables me to watch games from wherever I am on my laptop. I also enjoy
taking my daughter to school in the mornings and what I really enjoy most is
time on the weekends with my family. I grill at least twice a week and I also
try to work out four times a week, though it's really difficult to find
the time to do that."
Steve considers himself to be one of the biggest Carlton Fisk fans on
the planet. "I collect his autograph, game-used equipment, and unique
items relating to his career. I have known "Pudge" for many years.
I used to live close to him and would visit him regularly in the off-season. We
have developed a friendship over the years which has resulted in my having over
250 things signed by him including photos, baseballs, programs, you name
it. My favorite Fisk item, however, is a letter he wrote when he was
11-years old. I bought it on eBay for just $12!"
Another one of Steve's passions is Metallica. "I love their
music and have a tattoo of their legendary "scary guy" logo on my
left arm," says Steve who has seen the heavy metal band in concert many
times. "I have met the band members too many times to count and I
have been lucky enough to assemble one of the most comprehensive Metallica
autograph collections."
Steve also collects Rock & Roll autographs and has met and obtained
signatures from just about every musician and band from Paul McCartney, Bruce
Springsteen and Eric Clapton, to Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, U2, B.B.
King and Kiss. He also loves to chase down signatures from the stars of
his favorite flicks such as Office Space, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Eight Men
Out and Star Trek.
As for his work with PSA, Steve is proud of what he and the company
bring to the hobby. "We serve as the 'go to guys' for
authentication," he proudly states. "There is no dealer, auction
house or collector in their right mind that doesn't use our services, and
that is because we deliver. Whether it's with sportscards or autographs,
PSA and PSA/DNA give the item instant credibility."
Steve said that he also believes it is important for people to
understand what he does. "It is not an exact science," he says.
"You can't earn a degree in autograph authentication. In this
business, knowledge is acquired one way – experience. I have a
passion for autographs. I took that passion and channeled it by learning
everything possible about autographs and authenticating. In some cases, I will
visit an auction house and physically review thousands upon thousands of
autographs. If people knew the volume of autographs that I view in any
given year, it would give them a better understanding of what I do and how I do
it. I am very fortunate to be surrounded by a great staff that is very
knowledgeable. To be good at this job, repetition is the most important
thing. Constantly viewing autographs, handling them, viewing them is what
helps you stay on top. You have to stay active. I keep an exemplar database
that has over 50,000 signatures of sports stars, celebrities, and notable
people throughout history. I am constantly updating it. My job is a never
ending homework assignment of sorts but I love it because I know that my effort
has a positive effect on the hobby. That is what makes my job


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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Tuesday
Recommended reading from around the Web:
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
Eswar Presad says China is making noticeable progress in weaning itself off exports and investment. Its trade surplus is shrinking. Private and government consumption together accounted for more than half of China's output growth in 2011-12. [WSJ]
The fact that the Supreme Court agreed to take a case on the Voting Rights Act—a case to be heard next week—is almost certainly a sign that conservative justices are interested in tinkering with or partially rolling back the law. [National Journal]
The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, musing on the dual Republican responses to the State of the Union offered by Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul (for the tea party wing), says that the one thing that seems to hold together a splintered GOP now is "implacable opposition to President Barack Obama and all it stands for." [New Yorker]
Straw in the wind for 2016? A Virginia paper reports that Gov. Bob McDonnell met recently with Spencer Zwick, the man who handled finances for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. [Virginian-Pilot]
The best choice for pope would be a nun, E.J. Dionne suggests, provocatively. [Washington Post]
David Warsh says Mr. Obama's preschool initiative owes a lot to Nobel laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago, "who in a series of increasingly influential papers since 2000, has systematically developed the case for intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children." He chides reporting on the Obama proposal that doesn't accurately reflect the academic consensus. [economicprincipals]
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld makes the case for keeping wrestling in the Olympics. [Washington Post]
A riveting and disturbing account of the death of U.S. electronics engineer Shane Todd, found hanging in his apartment, and his parents' persistent quest to find out if he was murdered and, if so, if it had anything to do with reservations he had about work he was doing for a Chinese company. [FT]
Adaptations that have made humans So successful—such as upright walking and big, complex brains—are the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees, but isn't what one would design from scratch. Hence modern foot pain, back ache and Caesarian births. [Science]
What We're Writing
One of Obama's trickiest political tasks early in his second term will be his decision this spring on whether to give the go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline. A combination of forces are lining up in a way that should make it possible for Mr. Obama to get to a "yes" answer, while limiting the political fallout, writes Jerry. [Capital Journal]
Our Videos
In an interview with David, Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, talks about the improving outlook for the U.S. economy, the importance of housing and why he thinks Congress will eventually approve a rise in the minimum wage.
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
Arms sales by the world's 100 largest weapons makers (excluding those in China) fell 5% in 2011, the first decline since the mid-1990s. Why? World-wide austerity and reduced U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. [WSJ]
White House economist Alan Krueger: U.S. economy lost $16 trillion in total wealth between 2007 and 2009. It has regained $13.5 trillion since then, thanks to rising stock prices and the upturn in housing prices. [WSJ]
New car registrations in the euro area slumped to a new all-time low in January, down 9.6% from December. [J.P. Morgan]
All six of the U.S. Senators with Yale degrees are Democrats; it was seven before John Kerry left. [Yale Alumni Magazine]
In 1980, there were 15,099 Americans aged 100 years or more. By 1990, there were 36,486 and by 2012 88,510. [Motley Fool]
2012 was Ferrari's best ever year: 7,318 cars were delivered, €2.4 billion in revenue, and record sales in the U.S., China, Germany and Britain. [Ferrari]
The parent company of Reader's Digest filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in fewer than four years. [AP]
Given an in-or-out referendum on European Union membership, 50% of the British would vote "out," 33% "in" and 17% would not vote either way, according a poll by Harris Interactive. [FT]
Among euro-zone countries, only Italy and Portugal will have per capita GDP in 2013 lower than in 1999, the year the euro was launched. [The Economist]
Optimal tenure for CEOs is 4.8 years, says Xueming Luo of University of Texas at Arlington after studying 356 companies. Shorter than that, and CEOs don't bind with employees; longer and they lose touch with customers. [HBR]
Human babies average 6.1% of their mother's body size, more than chimp babies (3.3%) and gorilla babies (2.7%). [Science]
Natural gas provided 52% of the fuel for generating New England's electricity last year; that share is expected to grow. [New York Times]
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Secondary Sources: The End of Growth, Renting vs. Owning, Fed Fund
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
-The End of Growth: Paul Krugman critiques a recent essay by Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon who suggests that, in theory, America's economy could see no growth after 2050 or 2100. In his paper, which he called "deliberately provocative," Gordon says maybe "economic growth was a one-time thing centered on 1750-2050." Put simply, Gordon wonders whether our latest industrial revolution, based on technologies like computers, the Internet and mobile phones, has mostly petered out, and that while smart phones are really cool, they're not that earth-shaking economically. Krugman calls Gordon's "technological pessimism" wrong. "The IT revolution has only begun to have its impact … [it's true that] not that much progress has been made in producing machines that think the way we do. But it turns out that there are other ways of producing very smart machines. In particular, Big Data—the use of huge databases of things like spoken conversations—apparently makes it possible for machines to perform tasks that even a few years ago were really only possible for people." But here's the rub according to Krugman: "We could be looking at a society that grows ever richer, but in which all the gains in wealth accrue to whoever owns the robots."
-Renting vs. Owning: The Wall Street Journal's Conor Dougherty says rising rents are squeezing many families and leaving them with less to spend. Higher rents also are encouraging people to buy. "In the third quarter, the ratio of rent to after-tax mortgage payments was 107.8% … A rent-to-mortgage ratio above 100 means mortgage payments are cheaper than rent for the median homeowner. The ratio was down from an all-time high of 120.7% in the first quarter, but well above an average of 85% since 1991. The rising cost of renting is putting pressure on tenants at a time when many are still grappling with slow or falling income growth. In the third quarter, renters spent 24.12% of their disposable income on financial obligations—things such as rent, debts and auto leases. That was the highest level since early 2010."
-Fed Fund: Tyler Durden highlights an interesting report by Stone & McCarthy Research Associates that finds that the Federal Reserve will earn nearly $90 billion in 2012. Of this, roughly $87.5 billion, a new record high, will go back to the U.S. Treasury's coffers, which should quietly do a little to help the nation's bloated finances. "The world's most profitable private entity that is in business to generate profits via speculation in financial markets is, drum roll please, the Federal Reserve," Durden says. "Since 1947 the Federal Reserve has paid the Treasury roundly $975 billion, about 1/3 of which has been paid over the past 6 years. In other words, the cumulative Federal deficit since 1947 has been reduced by nearly $1 trillion … due to the repatriation of Fed earnings to the Treasury Department."


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RICHMOND -- More than 200 Richmond High School students received a rare treat Wednesday in the form of a visit from new UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, who reached out to them about applying to college.
Dirks brought Berkeley undergraduate admissions director Amy Jarich and financial aid director Rachelle Feldman with him on the visit to explain how to gain admission to UC and line up financial aid.
The chancellor told the group of mostly seniors assembled in a campus theater that coming to their school, in a low-income neighborhood in the center of Richmond, was his first trip away from campus since taking over the top job at Berkeley this summer.
"It was a long way for me to come to Berkeley, but it was just a 10-minute drive to Richmond," said Dirks, a former history and anthropology scholar at Columbia University, in remarks celebrating a 40-year connection between the schools.
This year, 40 out of the 45 Richmond High students who applied to attend one of UC's nine campuses were admitted, including six 2013 graduates who are freshmen at Berkeley, according to Principal Julio Franco.
Overall, the percentage of the school's students who meet UC's coursework and grade requirements for admission has risen from 20 percent in 2012 to 30 percent this year, Franco said.
Dirks encouraged students to visit the college and career center, to take challenging classes and to get involved in extracurricular activities and community service.
"There's place for you at UC," he said. "I look forward to working with you when you graduate."
Richmond High students are benefiting from an array of programs, including the federal Upward Bound program that sponsors a six-week summer program for high school students on the Berkeley campus and a tutoring program staffed by undergraduate volunteers.
Junior Irma Maldonado said she brushed up on her algebra and composition skills and took a media studies course in the summer program while staying in a Berkeley dorm room "away from friends, family and electronics."
Maldonado said she is interested in majoring in English, perhaps at Berkeley, but eventually would like to work in the health care field as a nurse or a pediatrician.
Berkeley graduate Alma Carrillo works at Richmond High as a college counselor under a pair of programs, Berkeley's Destination College Advising Corps and the UC system's Early Academic Outreach Program.
She said she is helping around 150 students, about 80 percent of whom will be applying to four-year universities, although she said she expects many will attend community college to start out.
The program bolsters the West Contra Costa school district's counseling programs that, along with those in many other districts, have been reduced by budget cuts.
Financial aid director Feldman dispelled the idea that a college education is out of reach financially for students from low-income families or that such students will be burdened with huge loan debts at graduation.
UC Berkeley students from families with incomes of less than $80,000 per year pay no tuition, she said.
"The less income parents have, the more the school takes over," Feldman said.
Feldman also encouraged students to apply for private scholarships, which will reduce the need to work while in school.
Admissions director Jarich advised students to use the personal statements on their applications as a way to display their creativity and distinguish themselves from other applicants.
"Start to do reflection exercises and keep personal journals to prepare your statement," Jarich said. "Treat any space marked 'optional' as prime real estate you can use to stand out."
Although senior Katherine Schilling said she doesn't plan to apply to UC, she thinks the advice will be helpful with her application to the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where she wants to train to become a physical therapist.
"I don't have a personal statement yet, but it was good to hear how important it is," Schilling said.


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Holt cemetery is site of University of Alabama service project
Published: Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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The University of Alabama's Community Service Center is sponsoring a volunteer service project Sunday at Holt Cemetery as part of the yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the university's successful desegregation.
The project, titled "Schoolhouse Service Stand," will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Holt Cemetery on 40th Avenue NE in Holt, according to a release from UA. About 125 students are expected to participate.
Students can register from 2 to 3 p.m. on Sunday in Ferguson Plaza or online at www.volunteer.ua.edu/.
Students are also invited to a dinner and reflection from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Ferguson Center, followed by a candlelight walk to Foster Auditorium for a closing ceremony at 8 p.m.
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OAKLAND -- A second video showing an Oakland High School security guard allegedly attacking a student in a wheelchair last month also appears to show a second security officer involved in the melee.
Security guard Marchell Ernest Mitchell has pleaded not guilty to felony corporal injury charges that he beat up 17-year-old Francisco Martinez during a hallway confrontation around 9 a.m. May 19. Mitchell's alleged actions were captured on surveillance video and released last week.
New video, released by the Oakland Unified School District on Wednesday, shows Mitchell and a second guard exchanging words with Martinez in front of an elevator -- a floor below the hallway seen in the original video. The incident happened just minutes before the scuffle shown on video that was released last week.
The latest video shows a second guard, identified by district officials as Shalandra Cotton, apparently putting her hands on Martinez during an argument, at which point the teen slaps them away.
Mitchell then appears to tip over the wheelchair, dumping Martinez on the ground. After that, Mitchell appears to kick Martinez in the head.
"Once again, it's clear that we have adults acting in an egregious manner," Oakland Unified School District spokesman Troy Flint said of the new video. "The individual, and by extension, the district, failed in their jobs."
Cotton has been placed on leave by the district pending an investigation, Flint said. The district fired Mitchell immediately after the incident came to their attention, he said.
"It's different because it does not appear that she actually struck the student," Flint said. "But there may be aspects of negligence to it, as far as whether she acted properly or took steps to keep it from happening. We'll go wherever the evidence leads us."
Flint said that in light of the two videos, the district is reviewing how it trains security guards at the school, especially in regard to potentially volatile situations. Flint has said that Martinez and Mitchell had clashed in previous instances, and Martinez has admitted to spitting on Mitchell at one point in the second confrontation.
"No one denies that the job of a guard at a high school is extremely challenging," Flint said. "But there's no excuse for the behavior that we've seen. The guards are trained, and Mr. Mitchell just went through training in April."
Martinez, a junior at the school, remains enrolled there and has been criticized for his part in the incident, Flint said.
"But the school district wants to emphasize that we consider Francisco a victim in all this," he said. "What some students don't understand is that this is not a peer-to-peer issue. ... These are guards, and they are held to a higher standard."
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The "Bag Childhood Hunger" food drive started June 1 and runs through the end of June. Every Wednesday and Friday, WXII will be live from 5am-7am and 5pm-6:30pm at various Lowes Foods throughout the Triad encouraging viewers to donate.
According to Second Harvest, more than 50 percent of students enrolled in school qualify for the National Free and Reduced-Price Lunch program. The majority of these children do not have access to the federal summer feeding program and go hungry when school is not in session. In response, Second Harvest Food Bank provides families with additional nutritious food during the summer.
For every $1 donated, Second Harvest can secure and distribute $12 worth of food, enough for 7 nutritious meals.
Second Harvest Food Bank serves 18 counties: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Caldwell, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin Counties.
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You turn on the faucet and are greeted with a stream of clean water - cold, warm, hot - a reliable, seemingly never-ending source of life. It's a fact that we take for granted in our modern society.
"When you ask people, 'where does your water come from?' they point to the sink," said Dave Koop, water foreman for the town of Frisco. "There's more to it than just the faucet."
On April 28, Koop will lead a tour of the surface water treatment plant in Frisco as part of a bigger water discussion started by the Summit Reads program. This year, Summit Reads is focusing on the book "Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis," by Cynthia Barnett, which encourages readers to establish their own water ethic.
Koop's goal is to educate people about the different elements of their water system and point out that cornices of snow and other visual evidence of excess water can be misleading in a headwaters community like Summit County.
"There's an appearance of abundance," Koop said. "So we use it, use it, use it."
Koop said water conservation shouldn't be a trend and that real responsibility goes beyond sporting a T-shirt or putting a bumper sticker on your car.
"What bothers me," Koop said, "is that everyone jumps on the bandwagon and it's more knee-jerk than an informed decision. ... To do the lifestyle takes energy and thought, and that makes the difference in the long term."
Water rights
The water in Frisco originates from five locations: four wells and a surface water treatment plant that draws from Tenmile Creek, Koop said. Koop leads periodic tours through the plant, showing groups ranging from school classes to town officials the process of filtering Frisco's water.
It all starts with water rights, Koop said, and those rights are ranked by seniority based on the date they were acquired.
"Just because it's sitting there doesn't mean it's ours," he said. "You don't own it; you just have the right to use it."
The water department's role
It's the water department's job to interpret those water rights and manage production levels for the community.
"We can produce up to our water right, which is 1 million gallons per day," Koop said. "But just because you can produce it, do you need to?"
Being responsible with Frisco's water is big part of what the water department does, from taking and filtering only what is needed from the ground and Tenmile Creek to doing leak surveys every three years on all 33 miles of water main and 1,900 service lines, Koop said.
Be water wise
Starting the conversation about water use can be tricky, Koop said, because water authorities don't want to tell people how they should be using their slice of the water pie.
"Use water wisely," he said. "We don't want to tell them how to use it. Businesses, homes, parks - they have different expectations. ... If you soapbox, all meaningful discussion goes out the door."
The more people know about the water they use to drink, bathe in and even water their plants, the more they are reminded that it's a finite resource that needs to be respected and conserved.
The upcoming tour of the surface water treatment plant in Frisco will walk people through the steps of the water filtration and delivery process from stream to faucet, Koop said.
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The rich history of Officine Panerai began in the Giovanni Panerai's watchmaker's shop at Ponte delle Grazie, Florence in the 1860's. The shop also served as the city's first watchmaking school before the brand moved to Pallazo Arcivescovile in Piazza San Giovanni, where its workshops still stands today under the more recent name "Orologeria Svizzera". Panerai made its first recognizable dent in the history of horology when it created and patented Radiomir, a substance radium-based luminous powder, which it used to illuminate the watches it created for the Royal Italian Navy. Almost 40 years later, Panerai surpassed itself by replacing the functional Radiomir with an even better Luminor, made of tritium-based compound that was also patented as a Panerai trademark. After that achievement, the watchmaking brand has not stopped producing excellent watches and complications with its own touch of military efficiency.
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Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco recently appeared on Billboard's The Alt In Our Stars podcast to discuss the band's new album Death Of A Bachelor - listen to the interview HERE.
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The Front Bottoms are playing at Lava Music Festival in May!
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|January 26, 2016
twenty one pilots' 'Stressed Out' and Panic! At The Disco's 'Victorious' are both featured in the Topsify US Top 40 playlist on Spotify - stream it above!
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Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco is taking over iHeartRadio's Twitter today! Follow along starting at 3pm ET - @iheartradio!
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In case you missed it last night, watch Panic! At The Disco perform their single 'Victorious' on Jimmy Kimmel Live's outdoor stage in the video above!
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Watch Against The Current cover Justin Bieber's hit single 'Sorry' with the help of Alex Goot and Kurt Hugo in the video above! Check out more videos from Against The Current on our official YouTube playlist HERE!
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Tune in to see Panic! At The Disco perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight at 11:35/10:35c on ABC!
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Tonight we're featuring 'Right On, Right Now' from Powerspace's first full-length release, The Kicks of Passion. This would be the only album released from the band, who broke up in 2010.
My feet are shuffling
The clouds roll in, the wind at my neck
But every day's a thunderstorm
I'm always walking back these days
My knees are quivering
The cliff's edge so inviting, yeah
The lightning hits my chest
But the shock is so routine for me these days
You stand up and I bow
Right on, right now
I'm always hoping for some enjoyment from disappointment
I can feel the misery from some place deep inside of me
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Silver Moon Jubilee to be at historic train depot
Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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VENICE - Venice MainStreet, an association representing downtown businesses, is planning its 25th anniversary celebration.
The Silver Moon Jubilee will be at 7 p.m., April 27, at the historic train depot. The evening will feature a silent auction, cash bar, desert buffet, dancing and entertainment.
Tickets are $35. For more information, call (941) 484-6722 or go to venicemainstreet.com.
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SPARTANBURG, SC-- Marselle J. Green, 78, passed away February 8, 2013. She was a daughter of the late, Worthy and Allie Pruitt Smith.
Surviving are four children, Mitch Howard, Theresa Henderson, Mellisa Howard, and Tammy Green; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Dot Bradley of Spartanburg.
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municipal liability for nuisance, and Elliott v. Waterbury, 245 Conn.
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governmental immunity.
See also General Statutes § 52-557n
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EPA, Corps of Engineers Grant Permits for Cape Wind Project
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The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the Cape Wind Project 24 hours after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued Cape Wind a permit, Cape Wind officials announced on January 7. These steps complete federal permitting for the proposed 130-turbine offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. Various federal, state, and local agencies have participated in the environmental review process. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)—an arm of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the lead federal agency in the environmental review—issued its record of decision in April 2010 favoring the project. And in November, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities approved a 15-year power purchase agreement with National Grid to buy 50% of Cape Wind's energy, capacity, and renewable energy credits. See the Army Corps press release, the Corps record of decision, and Cape Wind press releases on the EPA and National Grid.
On December 28, BOEMRE and Massachusetts announced a request for interest (RFI) to determine the level of interest in further future development offshore. The RFI area off the coast of Massachusetts is approximately 12 nautical miles (nm) south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, and it extends approximately 31 nm seaward. The area is approximately 2,224 square nm and contains 321 whole lease blocks and 163 partial blocks on the Outer Continental Shelf. Granting of the permit is the initial step under DOI's "Smart from the Start" renewable energy initiative announced in November. The goal is to have BOEMRE identify priority "wind energy areas" for potential development. Public comment is due February 28, 2011. See the BOEMRE press release, the RFI in the Federal Register, and coverage of the DOI's "Smart from the Start" in EERE Network News.


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Why a Lawyer Mom Decided to Write Her First Novel
by Alison Heller
In 2010 I ran my own business – a divorce mediation practice — and had two children under three. On most weekends, my husband and I buckled our toddlers into their car seats and drove to visit my father, who was in the final year of his life.
When I signed up for a writing workshop, in the midst of all I was doing, I kept it quiet. I was embarrassed for even having the goal of writing the book that had been buzzing around in my head, let alone selfishly demanding the time to try to write it.
My friends and I had frequently joked that during the years we raised toddlers, our professional goal was merely to "tread water"; stay afloat in the day-to-day while any long and involved personal quests would wait for calmer times. I was uncomfortable devoting energy to personal achievement. Writing fiction? Talk about self-indulgent.
The discomfort, however, was no match for my panicked momentum. In the weeks before I registered for the workshop, I felt desperate, like I had boarded the wrong train, and a suffocating crowd was keeping me from reaching the doors before they closed. (I would later describe that same feeling in my novel as the main character, moved by something beyond logic, risks her steady job in the months before she's due to receive a large bonus).
Participating in the writing workshop—three hours one night a week, over eight weeks—was inconvenient. On Monday nights, my husband scrambled to leave work early so he could do the bedtime routine that I was now missing. When he couldn't, the kids' regular part-time babysitter was our pinch hitter. By the end of the workshop, I'd written several draft chapters—enough to know I would continue on my own.
The 10 months that followed are kind of a blur. I have memories of sitting in the school hallway tapping madly on my laptop in the moments before my older daughter emerged from her classroom. I would close out legal documents to sneak a quick look the manuscript at my desk. I would wake up in the middle of the night to scribble thoughts about a character's next step.
I made it all work because I was running on passion: Writing in the cracks of time between family and my practice was actually pretty painless, something that I hadn't known work could be. I had been interested, even obsessed, with projects at various points in my life, but this was different. Conjuring the novel was fun, and spending time with the characters I had created had the effect of an emotional vacation. I returned to the real world happy and refreshed.
More difficult was owning up to what I let slip: exercise; home-cooking beyond the microwave; staying on top of thank-you notes and dentist appointments and school deadlines. I still managed to waste time on the Internet (and then, of course, more time beating myself up about it). I also incurred the literal cost of buying more time. For example: food—I relied on online groceries, prepared dinners and take-out. My husband's salary enabled the hike in expense; mine on its own couldn't have.
As a lawyer, I'd found it unnatural and unromantic to view an hour as a commodity. But at some point in that year, I forced myself to budget my time like it was money, spending first on the necessities: family time and client needs. After that, I consciously "paid" myself in writing hours. (And after that, there was almost no time left.)
Thinking that way helped me understand on some fundamental level that the year was as much about weighing the dueling forces of my personal ambitions and my responsibilities to work and family as it was juggling hours. I was relieved to acknowledge: I had a goal. Things would slip in the process of trying to reach it, which could be awkward.
So be it.
I tend to describe my first novel as a force that whirled into my life like a Tasmanian Devil, demanding to be written and injecting lightness into what was otherwise a distressing year. But simply throwing thanks at the feet of "the muse" discounts a lot: the tasks left abandoned, the support of my family, the sweat, the expense, the satisfaction. And, of course, the deliberation: the strategy and choices that I made in striving for a long held dream.
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MILPITAS -- It took some deft maneuvering, but a California Highway Patrol rescue helicopter crew was able to pluck a wayward hang glider from his precarious perch high in a eucalyptus tree and return him to terra firma Tuesday afternoon.
The 63-year-old man had crashed into a group of trees in Ed Levin County Park sometime Tuesday morning, and responding ground-based rescue crews were stymied because the terrain did not allow a ladder to reach the pilot, dangling from his big kite 50 feet in the air.
The Napa-based CHP helicopter unit was summoned to the scene around 11:45 p.m., and when it arrived landed nearby so a plan could be formulated to best rescue the man.
"That's a delicate mission," said CHP Sgt. Duncan Jensen of the Napa unit. "If the helicopter blew too hard on the glider, it would have blown it right out of the tree and killed him."
Jensen said that hoist-style rescue missions are usually conducted 50 feet above the target, but in this case they tripled that distance to cut down on prop wash.
CHP officers pilot Mike McAuley, paramedic Mark Mitchell and rescuer James Andrews were involved in the mission, with Andrews lowered to the dangling man.
"The pilot was in a position where the hang glider was broken but he was still attached to it, hanging underneath it," Jensen said. "There was no way he could have climbed out of there, and could have fallen at any time."
Jensen said Andrews first hooked the pilot to the hoist harness, then used his emergency cable cutter to clip the man free of his airframe. Both were then gently lowered and reached solid ground uninjured, according to the CHP.
"In over a decade at CHP Air Operations, each crew member said that this was one of, if not the most, difficult rescues they had ever performed," reads a CHP news release.
"It was real tricky," Jensen said. "We've got a really strong crew."
Jensen added he could not recall any similar rescues.
"We use the helicopter for water rescues, and in the Sierra to get injured people out of remote areas, canyons that are inaccessible where the helicopter can't even land," he said. "But this was just in a tree, and very unusual."
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Sixty-seven students from seventeen studios participated in the Schumann Focus Festival auditions which took place on March 6 and 7 in Bryan Library. The audition judges Ed Kane and Lesley Chapman listened to seventy-two pieces of music written by Robert (and Clara) Schumann. Solo piano music greatly prevailed although there were several pieces performed by ensembles (piano duet; piano and oboe; violin, cello, and piano). Music from Album for the Young alternated with pieces from Scenes from Childhood and more advanced and very well known Schumann's masterpieces. Auditioning students' ages varied from young elementary school kids to high school students.
Two days of auditions resulted in passing fifty-six students to the final Schumann Recital. Along with student performers there will be several guest artists at the final event of the Schumann Focus Festival - pianists Ed Kane and Alex Hlavinka, tenor Chris Hoffman, and AMCHS Wind Quintet. Schumann Recital will be held on Saturday, March 27, in First Presbyterian Church in Bryan, at 3:00 p.m. Round Table of the Schumann Forum will follow the Recital along with Art and Research Projects Show.
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Brazil: One quarter does not a year make
Global Economic Outlook, Q4 2013
Despite a rebound in growth in the second quarter, the outlook remains troubling because of slow growth in the third quarter, excessive inflation, and a deteriorating external balance.
In Q2 2013, the Brazilian economy experienced its fastest growth in eight quarters, but the outlook for the year continues to deteriorate. Amid internal and external challenges, the government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have repeatedly cut growth forecasts for 2013 . However, despite slowing growth, the central bank had to employ monetary tightening to counter inflation and a sharp depreciation in the currency (see figure 1). While the government also plans spending cuts to improve fiscal balance, the country is looking to spur growth by boosting trade. Brazil is looking to enter a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), and although both parties appear favorable, major roadblocks remain.
Amid internal and external challenges, the government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have repeatedly cut growth forecasts for 2013.
Q2 glimmer quickly fades
Brazil's GDP expanded at 3.3 percent year over year in Q2 2013, compared to 1.9 percent in Q1 2013. Double-digit growth in agriculture and capital goods production, along with a rise in exports of manufactured products, drove the performance. Subsidized loans and tax cuts by the government in the first half of the year appear to have aided the economy, but their impact was limited by rising unemployment and inflation. Unemployment averaged 5.9 percent in Q2 2013, up from 5.6 percent in the previous quarter, while inflation went up to 6.6 percent from 6.4 percent in the same period. These were the highest rates of unemployment and inflation in nearly 12–18 months. Consequently, private consumption recorded the second-slowest growth in 17 quarters in Q2, rising a mere 2.0 percent year over year. Another low point for the Brazilian economy in the second quarter was persisting weakness in the mining sector. Extraction fell an average 6.7 percent in Q2 2013 due to tepid demand as well as production challenges.
The overall economic scenario for the rest of the year appears even less promising, with the government and the IMF recently cutting full-year growth forecast by 50 basis points to 2.5 percent. Industrial production data for July backs the lack of optimism, registering just 1.1 percent year over year growth compared to the 3.3 percent average for Q2 2013. A decline in intermediate goods and significant slowdown in consumer goods has weighed on industrial activity. Exports have also been hit by soft demand from European markets, and for the full year, they are expected to grow a modest 1.5 percent, compared to 0.5 percent in 2012. In addition, private consumption growth for 2013 is forecast at the lowest level in a decade, due in part to cooling real wages. These weak internal and external factors are reflected in deteriorating business sentiments, with the purchasing managers' index for July as well as August dipping below 50 after nine consecutive months in expansionary territory.
Tightening purse strings despite slowing growth
From March to June 2013, Brazil's inflation rate hovered at or exceeded the Banco do Brasil's (BCB's) upper limit of 6.5 percent, driven in part by a double-digit increase in food prices. In addition, in the past four months, the Brazilian real has depreciated nearly 19 percent against the dollar. This was triggered by the US Federal Reserve's hinting on May 22 at a winding down of its quantitative easing program (Fed tapering) and could stoke imported inflation.
To counter these challenges, the BCB has hiked its key interest rate four times since April 2013 by a total of 175 basis points, to bring it to 9.0 percent in August. On August 22, the BCB also launched a $60 billion currency intervention program including swaps and repurchase agreements with businesses that need dollars. The host of steps seems to have stemmed both price rise and currency depreciation to some extent. Inflation declined to 6.1 percent in August, while the real strengthened by 6.1 percent against the US dollar since August 22.
After significant stimulus spending earlier in the year, the government is now looking to curb spending to cool inflation and bolster the country's fiscal balance. To this end, in July, the government announced plans to cut its expenses by 10 billion reals. This follows an announcement in May to cut spending by 28 billion reals. With these cuts, the government seeks to achieve its 2013 primary budget surplus target of 2.3 percent of GDP. However, a primary surplus of only 1.5 percent of GDP appears within reach for the year, given spending for economic stimulus and improving public services. Nevertheless, the expenditure incurred on public services has boosted President Dilma Rousseff's public approval ratings, which took a beating during the widespread street protests in June. As a result, President Rousseff is likely to remain ahead of rivals before campaigning for the October 2014 election begins.
Paving trade routes for growth
The EU accounts for a fifth of Brazil's exports, and forging an FTA with the EU has acquired an immediate urgency for Brazil. The urgency arises from Brazil's recent classification by the World Bank as an upper-middle income country, which makes the country lose the EU's preferential trade status in 2014. Brazil paid lower duties on its exports under the EU's preferential status, which covers several less developed and developing economies. Given a deteriorating current account balance, it becomes even more important to boost trade with the EU, with whom net exports have favored Brazil for nearly a decade.
The only remaining hurdle for Brazil is its trade alliance with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the Mercosur trade bloc. The trade bloc has been unsuccessfully trying to negotiate an FTA with the EU since 1999, and Brazil will now need a waiver from other Mercosur members to negotiate its separate deal. While Argentina and Venezuela's positions remain doubtful, Brazil may receive support from Uruguay. Uruguay has also been seeking flexibility from the Mercosur to pursue individual FTAs.
The situation calls for Brazil to tread carefully. While waiting for a Mercosur-EU deal may be in vain given Argentina's protectionist stance, alienating a sizeable market such as the Mercosur, which accounted for 10 percent of Brazil's exports in 2012, would also be unwise.
Given a deteriorating current account balance, it becomes even more important to boost trade with the EU, with whom net exports have favored Brazil for nearly a decade.


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Smoke detector alerts Kennebunk homeowners to fire
Fire at 12 Beach Ave. starts in basement, spreads to first floor
Published 1:54 PM EST Jan 07, 2013
The Maine State Fire Marshal's Office has been called in to help determine the cause of a fire Monday morning at a home in Kennebunk.
The Kennebunk Fire Department responded to a call at 12 Beach Ave. just before 11 a.m. Fire officials said the homeowners smelled smoke, heard the smoke detector and called the fire department.
The fire began in the basement of the home and then spread to the first floor. No injuries were reported.
Fire officials said they were not sure whether an electrical problem or a furnace malfunction caused the fire.
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Weather Journal: Break From the Big Chill
Weather Journal expects few Greater New Yorkers will shed tears upon learning that temperatures will return to normal on Wednesday.
The tri-state area picked up a few additional inches of snow on Tuesday, but it won't last for long. Warmer weather and scattered rain showers are headed to the region on Wednesday, and these will assist in melting the 17 inches of snow on the ground in Central Park.
Clouds, light rain and fog take over the first half of Wednesday, but temperatures should be warm enough to keep precipitation as rain in most areas. Northern zones may see freezing rain, which will change to rain as the day warms up. Skies gradually clear through the afternoon, and daytime temperatures make a welcome return to the lower and middle 40s. Wednesday evening stays balmy, with lows in the 30s in most places.
Temperatures are expected to reach above normal in the days ahead, passing 50 degrees on Friday and Saturday. Periods of rain and sun, and a distinct lack of snowstorms, will give the region an early spring feel through Sunday.
Many in Greater New York are tired of seeing and talking snow, and with good reason: the region is experiencing one of its snowiest winters on record. Since Jan. 1, at least a trace of snow has fallen on 22 of this year's 49 days and, as of Monday, 55.6 inches of snow have fallen in Central Park so far this season. That's more than three feet above normal, making this Manhattan's seventh snowiest winter since record keeping began in 1869. In addition, the 27.3 inches of snow to fall in Central Park this month make it the third snowiest February to occur since Andrew Johnson was president.
Wednesday's Greater New York forecast roundup:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 46; RealFeel High: 33
- Actual Low: 35; RealFeel Low: 28
- Weather: Clouds and rain
- Brooklyn: 45/30
- Queens: 46/36
- Bronx: 45/34
- Staten Island: 45/30
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 38/25
- Trenton, N.J.: 45/36
- Islip, Long Island: 44/29
- New Haven, Conn.: 42/32
Rebecca Fowler is a science writer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.


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Thread: Epic! Yes. Fail? Maybe.
Tuesday, 5th April, 2011, 11:02 PM #21
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It seems to me that the very simple reason there's less demand for Epic tier content is simply that the average game falls apart before it gets that far, because it takes a long time for a game to get that far, and people get busy/lose interest/move away/have kids/get distracted by another game/etc. People aren't getting to Epic parts of their game and abandoning en masse because it turns out to suck, it is almost certainly just a natural attrition. We've all played in those stillborn games that only make it a few sessions or a few months before something derails them.
Now that doesn't help us solve what the epic content they put out should actually be, but games that make it 1 to 30 and actually 'finish' are a rarity. I don't think making better Epic content will increase the demand for Epic content by much, it will just make the people who already need it happier - and that's a fine goal, and the conversation of "what should that content be" is well worth having, but I don't think it is ever going to result in a huge swell in demand for more Epic content no matter how good it gets.
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Wednesday, 6th April, 2011, 03:02 AM #22
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You don't have to start your game at level 1 and play all the way through.
The fact that many gamers are enamoured with this style of play doesn't mean every does it, nor does it mean that you have to. If Epic play were _actually_ compelling, people would skip straight to it: "Ok dudes, everybody make your character at Epic level, 'cause we're doing an Epic game!"
Instead, Epic is a boring slugfest and there's no reason not to start and work through the levels until you reach "Epic" and then quit and start over.
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Wednesday, 6th April, 2011, 06:12 AM #23
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Certainly, if epic and also paragon had mroe to differentiate them, DMs would be more likely to consider starting at that level, if that was what they were after. Having three broad subsets of premise built into a system like this is an excellent way to make the game more versatile and keep people interested- and they even offer a good spread of familiar and more exotic components.
Paragon being castles, lordships, land, mass battles, and such- these are all familiar terms. At epic you have more mythic and esoteric concepts coming in. In a way the three tiers mirror the proportion of variation we see in various campaign settings- some are more generic and familiar, others are wierder, but together, they offer a broad slice of options. Doing the same tier by tier would make D&D a more broadly appealing game, by adding genuine substance to it's breadth.
Wednesday, 6th April, 2011, 07:50 PM #24
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I'm in agreement with most here. While Dungeon Crawling can be fun at any level (and who doesn't want to use those kewl uber-powers) the later tiers have to stand out from the others.
Paragon Tier: The PCs are nobles with their own holdings; their actions decide the fate of a nation. Instead of gaining Levels via XP they grow in power via the acquisition of wealth (and thus influence). The battles at this tier could be civil wars involving thousands.
Epic Tier: The PCs are monarchs and rulers with their own countries; their actions decide the fate of the world. Instead of gaining Levels via XP they grow in power via the advancement of political weight. The battles at this tier could be world wars embroiling millions.
*Immortal Tier: The PCs are deities with their own immortal realms and mortal worshippers; their actions decide the fate of the universe. Instead of gaining levels via XP they grow in power via the accruement of mortal worshippers. The battles at this tier could be planar wars engaging billions.
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Books: Vampire Bestiary (now available)
Epic Article: Article: The Ten Commandments of Epic
Monstrous Content: Orcus Revisited, Asmodeus Unleashed
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The thing is WoTC used to get it. Anyone remember Primal Power? You know, the very first book WoTC ever published? Chock full of ideas on how to create and play at the divine level. They just need to reach back into the mists of time and recover what they lost.
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I keep thinking that epic really needs to be simplified,
Powers should be streamlined and magnified, with each one useable several times. 4 dailies, 4 encounters and 6+ utilities, & 1-2 racial or feat powers is just a lot to monkey around, especially if each character has several interrupts and reactions.
I made an L20 party with 8 powers each for a guild-wars inspired 1 shot game. They were made as full characters, but only 8 powers were printed on the character sheets.
They mostly had 1 at-will, 3 encounters, 1-2 dailies, and 1-2 utility powers and a power granted by a magic item. By allowing the characters to take a power second time using a higher level power slot, favored powers could be reused.
The variety of options worked well for the characters, but the format made some class functions impossible (ie the warden could not defend effectively)
The repetition of a few key abilities made each character distinctive and allowed them to stick to a single theme, I may work out a similar limitation when/if my group reaches epic.
a "Do something cool, within your theme" would make a great addition to the characters. I envision it as an encounter power, which can be reused (for a different effect) if it misses. Damage could be based on a formula : averaging (8+level) +/- 25%
The combat also got a little grindy by the end, but the adventure was using MM1 monsters, so they may have been the problem.
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Consequently, I am in the process of reading Legends of Anglerre, which seems to do this stuff right. It has rules to stat out constructs, military units, and organizations (from a guild to an empire) and its support for Epic and Legendary play scales up by taking advantage of these. Their "Epic Occupations" are stuff like Divine Champion and War Lord. You can jump back and forth from playing individual characters to playing nations at war.
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I doubt it. I cannot remember any group, not even those supernerds back in the days, which played the "I" or "M" box. But nobody cared. I think most players and GMs thought that the boxes are not necessary for their game and they simply ignored them.
And this was ok. Because ignoring those superduper level boxes didnt destroy or even change the game experience of anyone. It was much easier to ignore rules or whole boxes you dont like than it is today.
Most campaigns where from level 1-13 or so, then we began a new one. Game and world has been more grounded to normal levels and not so absurdely over-the-top like today.
Saturday, 9th April, 2011, 08:41 PM #29
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I purchased Sly Flourish's "Running Epic Tier D&D Games" recently and it answers some of the questions Ari raises. It should be required reading for WotC Designers...
... and those of you who are running Epic Level games. I highly recommend it.
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One of the problems I think is the assumption fostered that there will always be NPCs more powerful than the PCs no matter how powerful they become. Why shouldn't the PCs be the most powerful? If they become the biggest and the baddest in the world then let them be the most powerful in the world. No single entity in the world should be a match for them. Any such would have to come from outside, another world or dimension. This would be a sign of the expanding scope of the campaign to other worlds or dimensions.
To challenge them otherwise simply send evil adventuring parties after them. They get to see things from the other side where a group of less powerful individuals attacks a single powerful being. Of course the PCs of this level would probably have their own kingdoms which gives new and different challenges. Campaigns beyond a single world could have them ruling multidimensional empires.
As happened in a 3E campaign gods can come to them begging for help.


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