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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--As Lisa Seftel was planning for her first child, she thought she had struck a good deal with her boss.
After the baby came, she'd work three days managing a family-owned consultancy's Manhattan headquarters and two days at home in a New York suburb. This would give her full benefits and let her share child care with her husband. Seftel would continue to work on the most important projects at the company.
But in 2003 she discovered the "dark side" of the U.S. workplace, she said. After the baby was born, her boss reneged, saying she could either work five days a week in the office or three days at home.
"Like so many women, I was pushed out and became a full-time mother," said Seftel. "I'm now working as a Mary Kay representative, a position that enables me to meet my financial and caregiving responsibilities, which was impossible in the corporate world."
The choices her boss offered would have decimated either her earnings or her work-life balance, Seftel said. "If I worked five days, I would have had to pay thousands of dollars for child care, and been relegated to an insignificant role in my daughter's early life. If I worked three days, our family would have had no health insurance; my husband's employer didn't provide it and we couldn't afford a family policy. My career would have never recovered because I would have been deprived of the experiences necessary to acquire new skills."
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 60 percent of married mothers are now in the work force, 4 percentage points lower than in 1997. The rate of married mothers of infants who work fell 6 percentage points to 53 percent.
With mothers representing about two-thirds of adult women those figures help explain why the United States is one of only two industrialized countries--the other is Japan--out of 23 where women's work force participation rate fell between 1994 and 2006, according to data from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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From the 1950s through the 1990s the percentage of U.S. women in the paid work force steadily increased. But that trend has begun to reverse and today 3.3 million fewer women are working than would be if the trend had continued.
While a spate of news reports has explained the trend as women preferring to stay home or "opting out," an array of women's policy groups disagree. The real explanation, they contend, is a workplace that fails women on some basic interlocking fronts: inflexible scheduling requirements, job discrimination, lack of child care, lack of parental leave, lack of sick leave.
Researchers for the San Francisco-based Center for WorkLife Law found 13,000 cases of discrimination that showed that mothers were 79 percent less likely to be hired and 100 percent less likely to be promoted because they are held to a higher standard than non-mothers in their companies.
"Many women couldn't crack the motherhood ceiling," said Joan C. Williams, founding director of the center. "They were given fewer opportunities to work on challenging assignments and even told, you can have your baby or your career."
The United States, Swaziland, Liberia, Lesotho and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 173 surveyed in 2007 by the Institute for Health and Social Policy at Montreal's McGill University that don't guarantee paid maternity leave to new mothers.
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The Family Medical Leave Act, which provides 12 weeks of job-protected leave to new parents or adoptive parents or caregivers of elderly relatives, only applies to firms with 50 workers or more, said Williams. "This disproportionately affects women who earn low wages . . . or work for small companies."
Then there's the cost of child care, which ran between $4,000 and $20,000 a year per child in 2001, according to a study from the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. Parents of children with special needs and families who lived in areas where the cost of living was higher paid even more. These costs were prohibitive for one-fourth of U.S. families with children and earnings less than $25,000 a year.
Rosemary Harris, a spokesperson of Milwaukee-based 9to5 National Association of Working Women, says all these hurdles are higher for women in lower-wage work. "Many restaurant, clerical and other workers find that they have been fired when they take off a day to look after a sick child or parent," she said. "They also work when they are ill and develop serious health problems that force them to give up their jobs."
In March the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a think tank in Washington, D.C., found that only 48.5 percent of women had earnings each year from 1983 to 1998, compared to 84 percent of men. Three out of 10 women reported four or more years without earnings compared to 1 in 20 men. In any single year, women were more likely to work fewer hours, an average of 500 hours or 22 percent less than men.
"Lower earnings have serious implications for women's financial security," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research and a co-author of the report. "Over the 15-year-period, the average woman earned $273,592; 62 percent less than the average man who earned $722,693."
Hard-Pressed in Old Age
Later in life, the gender wage gap means that women--who live an average of five years longer than men--must depend on Social Security checks of about $800 a month versus $1,177 for the average man. At the same time fewer women than men are qualifying for pensions or employer-sponsored retirement plans.
That leads to 1 in 10 female retirees living on less than $10,000 a year; 1 in 5 unmarried elderly women qualifying as poor.
Those economic risks, however, are rarely depicted in media reports, according to a 2006 study by the Center for WorkLife Law, a research and advocacy group at the University of California's Hastings College of Law.
The analysis of 119 newspaper articles published from 1980 to 2006 often found a story about women voluntarily "opting out"--cutting back on work or leaving the work force--because they realized they "couldn't have it all" and were foregoing careers in favor of traditional motherhood.
In addition to downplaying the impact on overall family finances, the articles painted an overly rosy picture of women's chances of picking up their careers.
"Women aren't opting out," said the center's Williams, lead author of the report. "They are pushed out by job discrimination, lack of child care and workplace inflexibility."
Plenty of women's groups are calling for change.
"We have proposed a mothers' economic empowerment agenda that includes paid family leave for both parents, a refundable caregiver tax credit and benefits for part-time wage earners and other policies," said Valerie Young, advocacy coordinator for the National Association of Mothers' Centers, based in Jericho, N.Y. "If the U.S. wants to remain competitive in the global economy, it must do a better job of keeping our high value capital--women--in the paid labor force and available to those who depend upon them for care."
Sharon Johnson is a New York City freelance writer.
For more information:
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Center for WorkLife Law
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Search, Download, Subscribe, Share. Xtorrent makes torrents super easy.
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I have been using Xtorrent for a long time now and I think its added value is mainly search. If you are looking for a barebone client, this is not it. If you looking for something to find stuff quickly and reliably, Xtorrent take is unique to the point that you wish you had the option of using Xtorrent just to find the torrents and another client of choice to download them.
For what is worth, I personally don't agree with the haters. The developer may be rude and arrogant but the features Xtorrent is worth buying are unique and specifically developed for it. The ability to actually download the torrents is not what makes this app useful. Sure, it may be using libtorrent also to probe the torrents during the search but, i really want to stress the fact that there's actual contribution from the developer.
Bottom line, can't live with it can't live without it.
I feel compelled to defend this application. While Watanabe may not be the easiest person to get support from, the 2.0 version of Xtorrent is superb. It runs like a speed demon, has a brilliant built in search feature, and looks better than any torrent app I've ever seen. Watanabe's dedication to updating this version of Xtorrent has been fast to say the least. Further, understand that this version DOES NOT use libtransmission.
uTorrent...Transmission...bunch of others that are just as good...save your money.
Damn. I wish I had stopped here before I bought this app. Ever since I paid $25 for this application it's been freezing and crashing on me. Seemed great just before that. I've tweeted and emailed the developer for tech support for over a week now with ZERO response. The fact that there's no email address or user forum on the website should have been a stronger clue to stay away from this guy.
Worst app purchase ever.
stay away from the sleaziest mac developer ever allowed to exist. watanabe (or watanasshole as many prefer to call him) is argumentative, remote and unresponsive to even his paying customers with many cases of him refusing to honor lifetime upgrade licenses because he sucks at keeping track of them and then accuses his customers of copyright infringement.
oh the irony of a pirate accusing others of piracy. damn if i will ever buy anything from the sleazebag again.
welp, came to IUT to find a new torrent client. Xtorrent is constantly freezing up on me...i am an idiot to pay for the full version. after reading these opinions i know i'm making a good decision. this client has brought me nothing but aggravation. i can't remember ONE time i've not had to use "force quit" on this app.
Xtorrent is excellent for those who live on eye candy and can spare a penny or two.
No offense, but why in the heck would you PAY someone for a piracy app? Non-free piracy apps should die, it's insane that app authors are trying to make money off others stealing stuff.
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Battle Mountain High School hosted the presentation of Rachel's Challenge, a school-based character development program inspired by the life and writing of Rachel Joy Scott, who was the first victim of the Columbine school shooting tragedy in 1999. Rachel's Challenge was created to equip and inspire people to replace acts of violence, bullying and negativity with acts of respect, kindness and compassion. Debbie Robbins was instrumental in organizing the program. "When I learned that Vail Symposium was bringing Rachel's Challenge to our Valley, I knew that I had to get involved," Robbins said. "I reached out to Principal Qualman at Battle Mountain High School and he didn't hesitate to dive right in."
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Kevin Rose founded Digg in late 2004. It was the beginning of something phenomenal... to be precise, the Digg phenomenon. Digg was all about the tight-knit community of techies who wanted to get in there, share relevant tech news, vote for it, and talk about it. And what a fabulous idea it was.
So fabulous, in fact, that according to an article about Digg, Kevin and co literally had potential investors beating down the doors, offering fantastic quantities of money to them because of their potential. They accepted a couple of million in late 2005 and the rest, as they say, is history.
In mid 2006, Digg started expanding into new areas beyond the realm of tech. This was an incredibly popular move. Digg gained a massive 13,000 new users that day, and everybody thought it was dynamite. But what does this mean for the tight-knit community of techies? Well, it doesn't just expand the community, it also loosens it. The knit becomes less tight.
Things changed. All of a sudden, there are non-tech people all over the site. But they didn't keep their comments confined to non-tech posts. They began making comments (some of them uninformed and inflamatory) about various aspects of technology. Are they allowed to do this? Sure. Does it encourage a sense of community? Not at all.
Initially, these people were discouraged/silenced (their comments were voted down by the greater number of techies). But as Digg's audience grew, the "wisdom" of the masses was voiced with greater and greater strength and Digg became the domain of whoever can get the backing of the lowest common denominator. It can be like going to watch a football game because you really like football, but getting trampled by thugs with bottles who are there because they like to yell obscenities and drink beer and punch people. Oh, and football, if there's none of the other stuff...
Well, I'm wondering if Digg would have expanded their categories from tech only to the other categories if they weren't trying to make the most money for their investors. And it's not like the expansion hasn't been a huge success at pulling in the punters, which, I would imagine, certainly increased the income and return for investors. But as I indicated above, how good is it for the community?
But there's been more trouble in Diggland than just with the community...
There was quite a lot of tension back in May 2007, when the copy protection crack story soared to popularity with the diggers. It was pulled by Digg staff due to possible legal ramifications. Well, outraged diggers became very vocal and demanded the return of the story based on claims Digg was censoring the news. Digg made the decision to repost the story. Good for the community? Yes. Risky for Digg? Absolutely. According to the Financial Times, Digg were lucky not to get their funding pulled by their investors, who should have been consulted before such a controversial move was made. It was a difficult call, and it looked like in that case, everything worked out okay... but I don't think Digg will be making the same mistake again. We all know the golden rule of business. The investor(s) comes first. Due diligence must be exercised at all times.
Where am I going with all this? Well, Digg have just signed an exclusive ad deal with Microsoft. A pretty solid business move for them, I would imagine. But it brings another player to the table. A player who doesn't exactly have a squeaky clean trackrecord when it comes to playing clean with contracts. And I'm not saying that Digg wouldn't have excellent legal staff to make sure they aren't going to get burned when it comes to the crunch. But think about it: a three year exclusive deal with Microsoft. We're never going to see the details of the contract and we are never going to know what else Microsoft would have wanted as part of the deal. Digg would have had to sign if it meant getting a greater profit for their investors or they could potentially be sued for not acting with due diligence.
What concerns me is that Digg hasn't exactly been as Linux/UNIX friendly lately. Oh, sure, they have the section and news gets put in it. But it feels like less of it is being promoted to even just the technology page lately, let alone the front page. And then, when they do, I've noticed quite a few legitimate Linux/UNIX stories getting buried or pulled shortly after being promoted.
Furthermore, Digg has had an increased number of very vocal pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS users commenting lately and it has been hard to find a FOSS related story that doesn't get flooded with anti-FOSS related sentiment. It has been suggested on many many occasions in the comments on Digg that Microsoft employs (some of) these people to create accounts and post pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS comments. Whether it's true or not, again, we'll probably never know (especially not with the NDA's that MS make their employees sign). In any case, we do know it's possible; it's not like Microsoft couldn't afford it, and they do spend an awful lot on advertising. This would be just another form of advertising right?
So I ask you, is there any way in the world that this new contract could improve the situation? Not at all. Who knows what's in the contract, but theoretically there could be something in there about pulling anti-Microsoft content in between the parts that cover flooding the site with pro Microsoft ads and of course, anti Linux/UNIX ads. Am I being paranoid? Well a story was posted to Digg just after the agreement was signed. It was the press release from Microsoft announcing the Digg/MS advertising deal—fairly innocuous stuff. But, after 1300+ diggs, it was pulled from the front page. But why? Well no reason was given as far as I know and the only reason I could come up with was the high amounts of anti-Microsoft commenting going on.
So what does this all mean? Last time there was discontent with the users, Kevin Rose took their side over the investors. I imagine his advisors would have had very stern words with him about due diligence at that time. This time, has he done the right thing by his investors, but to the detriment of, at the very least, the FOSS and Apple sections of the community? But this symbolises a deeper problem for all Digg readers. It shows that the time when the community came first is over.
While Digg may not ostensibly lose users, they are failing a part of their community. And with the advent of Pligg (a Digg-style content management system), some people have started creating Digg clones in order to give voices to niche communities that would otherwise be lost inside Digg. And, being niche sites, they are unlikely to end up with investors to answer to.
Here are some examples:
- C2NN (a site devoted to environmental concerns)
- dotnetkicks (a site for Windows related links)
- dzone (a site for developers)
- bringr (a site for women-related issues)
Now, out of the whole Digg community, the FOSS community is the most badly affected. They have already had a tough time standing up to the opinions and misconceptions of the wider community. They don't have all that many forums like Digg on which to voice their opinions and they certainly don't have Microsoft or Apple's advertising budget. But they still need somewhere to go to voice their opinions, share their news, and be amongst like minded people whose comments are based in a deep understanding of FOSS.
Thankfully, the FOSS community has the brand new FSDaily website. The FSDaily staff will never sell out to Microsoft and, in fact, have made a commitment to removing any Google ads that appear which are for Microsoft products. Of course they need the community's help in identifying the Microsoft ads as different ads are displayed depending on a number of factors including the country the visitor is viewing from. A special email address has been added so that readers can let the FSDaily staff know.
I'm sure Digg will continue to grow in popularity and good for them (the share holders). With so many categories, more and more people from different niche communities are attracted to the site to get involved. But I think we will see growth in smaller independent Digg-style sites, like FSDaily, for those people who feel that maybe, Digg has outgrown them.
Community's definitely the biggest problem. Basically, anyone who doesn't say the popular thing gets KILLED.
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I disagree. I have been a
I disagree. I have been a member of Digg for almost two years and have seen many topics that were one sided in the comments section, and had one person make a really good point half way through the comments and sway the majority of comments after that.
Digg is going down
I've noticed the quality of the stories on Digg's front page have gone down lately; so much so I've removed the main Digg feed from my subscriptions. I think your point about stories having to pander to the lowest common denominator probably hits the nail on the head.
Would have liked to see a few more numbers in the story though: you mention that there are fewer free software stories making their way to the front page, but just how many fewer? If you take account of all the Ubuntu stories I might find that surprising!
I have to admit, my comments
I have to admit, my comments about less fs news making the front page were based purely on feelings, not figures! It just felt like recently, there hasn't been that much for those of us interested in free software to read, and anything that does make it is being decimated by boisterous non fs people talking about how much fs sucks. My suppositions about numbers could be wrong though. But hey, I got buried after an hour or so on the front page, so that's one and counting! :-)
Wow, what timing...
I couldn't be sure what it was... after so many diggs and so many wonderfuly wasted hours, something had died. It happened last night. I could feel some sort of a tipping-point being reached. Maybe it was the 'spidercat', maybe it was the multiple takedowns of articles I had just read and was about to digg. There had been dumb stories before, and there had been takedowns before. But this was the first time I had ever looked at the digg frontpage and not seen a single article that interested me. In fact, every single article looked like the crap that scrolls across the bottom of MSNLive. Where had digg gone?
So I've spent the last day in a massive internet quest to find where to go next. After finaly getting frustrated and giving up, I went back to digg and found this article on the frontpage. Thanks so much for expressing my sentiments exactly. And thanks even more for the links. I don't think I'll be digging much anymore.
Digg story pulled
I came to this page from the digg frontpage
After reading it, i went back hoping to read the discussion but the story was gone.
Frontpage Foolery
This article made it to the frontpage breifly. It's not there anymore. It's not even in it's category anymore. Way to go, Digg. Well, most users will probably not notice/not care. That's why they'll keep doing it.
Re-post has been pulled
Your re-posted story and link has been pulled, too.
Dumped off the frontpage
Yeah I noticed that too. I clicked to here from Digg's front page with 56 diggs, and after clicking back, the story was gone!
Censorship at Digg... I no longer have respect to them.
Dumped off the frontpage
Yeah I noticed that too. I clicked to here from Digg's front page with 56 diggs, and after clicking back, the story was gone!
Censorship at Digg... I no longer have respect to them.


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- Van Brown said...
Hey Judy, I agree that humor is hard work, and especially if you're writing it without the benefit of having your intended audience there to tell you when certain bits work, and don't work. Best to you as always,
- Oscar Wildedog said...
Judy, regarding writing jokes, speeches and presentations - something I've done pretty regularly in my "second life" as a comedian - I feel just the opposite. That is, ideas come in torrents to me and, strangely enough, in fairly good draft form the first time I write them down. Perhaps it's because my second career started over 30 years after my first one started, I don't know for sure. But I do have some tips on getting thoughts organized and in presentation form.
I've always been an inveterate note taker because things would come to me and I would forget to write them down later because I was too busy at the moment. Now, it's because I'm freakin' old and the ol' synapses don't sizzle like they used to. So, here goes.
1. Get an iPad and carry it around with you everywhere you go. The notepad app is great, because you can type or dictate by voice. If you have a smart phone, that's good too, but I like the iPad because I'm never interrupted with a phone call. (And besides, phones are a little small to squint at your notes on.)
2. Take 15 minutes minimum each day to transcribe notes, premises and jokes. For me, I take an hour and I combine my reading with it.
3. Be an avid file keeper. I had the extreme honor of visiting George Carlin several times in his NYC home and seeing his file system, and how organized he was. As an ex-military guy, that came with the territory.
My issues recently have been trying to get "clean" gigs, esp. corporate. There seems to be a lot of work out there for blue comedians. At any rate, I'm organized when they DO call!
Thanks for all you do and keep up the good work, young lady.
So true! MY first draft is almost always really bad, but with some merrit. It is reading it, saying it, and writing it over and over again that makes it what I think is good! When writing a speech or a set for comedy it is the process of practicing it over and over again where I find the changes that need to be made. Sometimes I cannot get through reciting whole thing for 20 or more times because every time I start it, I find an improvenemt to make. I make the improvment, then start at the beginning again. And I do this until it feels right. Until it flows right. And in this process, it becomes a part of me, my story.(no matter what the story is, to me, it is the time spent with it, loving it and caring for it that makes it MY story) I helped some teen boys once who were housed in a reform type facility, write and deliver speeches for Toastmasters. The ones who got what I am saying here, about how working hard on your project and living it for a few hours at least, is what makes it a part of you, Those kids did extremely well on their speeches. I felt like I had birthed these kids when I saw that my words, my system, helped them so much. Granted, I have never been paid for this, and I do it when I want to, not for a living. I am sure this sometime tedious process would change if I HAD to do this to make a living. All I am saying though, is committing to making it the best you can, for me, means working hard on the content, spending time with it, and in doing so, not only do I come out with a much better product, but then, I can deliver it in my most authentic voice, because in the process it has become a part of me You cannot work that hard on something and not come to care a great deal about it. JMB
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Judy, This was a perfect topic. Wed. I had a big speech to give to a corporation. It had hung over my head ever since I booked it. I prayed about it every day, jotted notes here and there, and left one full day open to work on just that. I always feel like God hangs me out there until the 11th hour so what when He does give me the direction and the words, I feel great about giving Him the credit. Sure enough on the last day, I sat down and it seemed to just flow together effortlessly. The fact is, over 40 years, I've given so many speeches of so many different types, all the stories are in the hopper, they just need to be the right ones for the right people, on the right occasion. I still depend on God for my inspiration and the doors He opens for me to present speeches and standup.
- Christiana Nicole said...
Ah! I LOVE this! Absolutely love it. They are words I most certainly needed to read at such a point in my life, especially when it comes to my writing. Thanks for such a great read to start my day! :-)
-Christiana Nicole
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AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WRDW) -- It could be your neighbor's child, your son's classmate or your co-worker's daughter, and you may not even know. The number of homeless children in the CSRA is increasing.
Amidst our everyday life they live, often in secret and many times unnoticed.
"I just look at them and don't say nothing," said 8-year-old Kanya Brown.
Brown is a child of the streets.
"What do you pray to God for?" News 12's Elizabeth Owens asked.
"For my mom and dad trying to look for us a house," the child answered. "People always see that I live in a shelter and they say they have a big house."
Brown, along with his brothers, mother and father are sleeping at the Salvation Army. It's one step up from living out of their car.
"How does it make you feel?" Owens asked Shaquita Brown.
"Less of a parent. It really does," the mother said.
Brown lost her job more than a year ago, and for a long time, she kept her family afloat, but eventually the waves of life came crashing around her. She and her disabled husband, along with their four children, found themselves homeless.
From 2011 to 2012, the Salivation Army in Aiken reported a 21 percent increase in families served and a 72 percent increase the number of nights they had to stay.
"It is very difficult to turn people away, but the funding has been limited and the need has increased, so we are just doing the best we can," said Capt. Angie Repass with the Salvation Army.
The need to house homeless children and their parents has increased throughout the CSRA.
Aiken County has more identified homeless children in schools than Columbia and Richmond counties. Last year, they identified approximately 511 students in Aiken County Schools. This year, they predicts that number will exceed 600.
"It's not pleasant a thing to see a student come to school knowing that they stayed at a motel and didn't have breakfast that morning," said Sherida Stroman, the homeless liaison for Aiken County Schools.
"It's bad. It's really bad. Resources are depleted, people that used to donate to these agencies can't donate because they are strapped as well," she said.
She says part of the problem is the lack of affordable housing in Aiken County.
"It's sad, we want to be able to house everybody, we want to provide the assistance they need, but currently overwhelmed with the families needing assistance," said Chanosha Lawton with the Aiken Housing Authority.
The waiting list for Section 8 is closed in Aiken County and there there are a thousand families on the list. Public housing isn't much better. There are no openings and the waiting list will close the end of this month.
"We are saddened we aren't able to serve those individuals," Lawton said.
She says more transitional housing would help solve the problem.
Cynthia Clark and her five children recently moved into a transitional home after a year of staying in churches, couch surfing and going to day shelters.
"It changes your whole view on what homeless looks like, you'd be amazed because no one knew what my situation was," Clark said.
Brown worries the most about her children.
"The taunting and teasing, they had a child on the bus tell them Friday that's why you are living in a shelter and I'm living in a home," she said.
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Some things just won't stay dead.
Just ask General Mills Inc., which is bringing back two beloved cereals from the 80's and 90's as part of its Monster line of breakfast munchies.
In a bit of marketing savvy, the Minneapolis company is reviving super-sweet Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy in time for Halloween after killing them off for good in the early 1990s. Fans could just die of happiness.
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Ari Zainuddin, General Mills marketing manager, said he could no longer ignore the flood of requests for the two cereals to reappear. "We wanted to give the fans what they asked for," said Mr. Zainuddin.
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Fruit Brute's werewolf character name has been subtly changed to Frute Brute, a nod to the concoction's lack of actual fruit product, said a spokeswoman.
And whereas both cereals were once "fruit flavor," now Frute Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy are "cherry flavor" and "orange cream flavor."
Mr. Zainuddin declined to say if the cereals would be exhumed for future Halloweens.


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I'm relatively new to running, and the problem I'm having is a desperate and brain-foggying thing called thirst on my long runs! Does anyone have any recommendations for water belts? What works and what doesn't?
The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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I use this but it also comes in a 4 bottle belt model
I am a really new runner and I have the same problem. I am really thristy during a normal day, but when I run I get dry! Since it's winter I've been on a treadmill and I down a liter of water during a 3 mile run. I just today signed up to do my first 1/2 and that's the thing I'm most worried about, my thirst!
Is it realistic to run a half in one of these belts? Doesn't it make you feel weighted down, or rub the wrong way?
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I chew gum and it helps me with having a dry mouth. I can only chew certain ones though.
For long runs over 13 miles I run with a hydration pack. I don't really like to carry the extra weight though.
If you can plan your route around places to hydrate that can work too. I usually plan a route that has a bathroom on it as well.
I try to drink a lot of water before I run the next day and I also chew gum the day of my runs.
I try to make sure I am well hydrated before a longer run. And I am also a gum chewer, it really helps with dry mouth.
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So if I may, which is the better choice, the littel bottles on your hips or the water pack on your back?
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I run with a NATHAN belt on my long runs, which has 3 bottles... I position it with 2 'reserve' bottles in back and one up front for handy access that are easy to switch while running. if you get the correctly sized belt, the snugness and elastic keeps it in place well while also not feeling restrictive. I chew gum to help too.
as for a belt vs back pack, I'd say it's personal preference. I run in Florida and it is hot enough without something on my back, let alone the added funky tan marks depending on what time I get out there!
You have a choice- you can throw in the towel, or use it to wipe the sweat off your face
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I much prefer the camel on my back. I tried a few waist belts but they give me rush if I tie them in the waist. If I tie them on the hips they keep jumping and as the bottles get empty it keeps coming up. I've heard guys usually don't have this problem because their hips are different, more square. I have the Salomon S-Lab Advanced Skin and it really fits like a second skin.
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I'm glad to hear several people suggest chewing gum to help with the dry mouth. I rarely feel like I need more water, but my mouth will get so dry when I'm running that it drives me crazy. I've thought about carrying a squirt water bottle with me just to be able to squirt a little bit in my mouth whenever it gets dry, but chewing gum would be much easier so I'm definitely going to have to give that a try!
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Rivals still fighting Blake's trauma center
Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 3:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 3:40 p.m.
Although Blake Medical Center in Bradenton received approval last week to keep its new trauma center open permanently, rival hospitals are not giving up their quest to shut it down.
Sept. 2010: Blake Medical Center in Bradenton applies to the Florida Department of Health to add a Level II trauma center to treat severely injured patients in Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties.
November 2010: For-profit HCA, owner of Blake, announces a partnership with the University of South Florida to create a statewide network to treat trauma cases.
May 2011: Competitor Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg and other Tampa Bay area hospitals file suit against the Department of Health, saying it used outdated rules in allowing more urgent care centers to open.
August 2011: Some Blake nurses and their union state they fear an urgent care center will burden the hospital and leave nurses unprepared. Neighbors of the proposed trauma center voice concerns over noise and traffic.
September 2011: A state administrative law judge rules that the Department of Health's trauma center approval process is outdated.
October 2011: State authorizes Blake's request to add the trauma center, on a provisional basis.
November 2011: Blake trauma center begins treating patients.
December 2012: 1st District Court of Appeals confirms the original court ruling that the state Department of Health was out of bounds in allowing new trauma centers.
Friday: The Department of Health announces it has ended the provisional status of Blake's trauma center and it can now operate permanently.
Tuesday: Bayfront says it will continue the legal fight to oppose Blake's trauma center.
Blake already had been operating its $2.5 million trauma center during a one-year provisional period. During a workshop last Friday in Tampa, the Florida Department of Health granted the center permanent status.
But attorneys for Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, in partnership with Tampa General Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa and Shands Jacksonville, say the legal challenge will continue.
The lawyers say that the matter should be resolved in the courts and not by the Department of Health, rejecting the state's approval as final.
"That decision does not in any way affect our pending litigation, nor change our position regarding what's best for the area Bayfront serves," Kanika Tomalin, Bayfront's vice president of strategic planning and public affairs, said in a prepared statement.
Before the opening of Blake's trauma center in November of 2011, most severely injured patients in Southwest Florida were airlifted to Bayfront, with severe burns and spinal injuries going to Tampa General.
Lynne Grief, Blake's vice president of trauma services, says the hospital's trauma center eliminates long transport times and keeps families closer to patients.
Attorneys for Bayfront have argued that the state exceeded its legislative authority to approve new centers, and a court ruled in 2011 that the state had overstepped.
In December, the 1st District Court of Appeal confirmed the previous ruling, saying the Department of Health should have followed the changes made to its trauma citing statues in 2004. In 2005, an assessment by the Department of Health recommended that the then-19 trauma centers statewide be collapsed into seven. There are now 24 centers in Florida.
While trauma centers are not usually profitable, they can make money in communities with well-insured patients.
The for-profit HCA Health Services, which owns Blake, recently has opened five trauma centers in the state. Gov. Rick Scott previously was the chief executive of HCA.
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|When Two Yarns Meet:
The Art of Stranding
If you're a fan of quick-knitting projects or enjoy unusual textures and color combinations, why not consider stranding your next project? I don't mean dumping it out the car window or leaving it on a deserted park bench.
Rather, I'm talking about the kind of stranding where you knit with multiple strands rather than just one. It's a marvelous but often misunderstood technique that offers almost limitless possibilities.
Rules of the Game
There are a few things to know before you begin experimenting. First and foremost, the effect you want to achieve impacts your choice of yarns. The three main variables in stranding are:
If you simply want to bulk up your project, either for added thickness or to make it knit up faster, the world is your oyster.
Your easiest option is simply to double up on the same yarn in the same color. You may also want to try a subtle variation in colors to add depth to your work. Even a slightly different shade of the color can produce lovely results.
|Adding Texture
|Stranding is also an easy way to add texture to an otherwise flat garment. Two of the most common texture-producing additions are boucle and slubby yarns. The above images show a combination of slubby and furry yarn (left image) and a pairing of mohair and boucle (right image).
It's important to keep in mind, however, that not all yarns will strand harmoniously. Those with a tight spin and high surface definition tend to hog the spotlight if you try and blend them with a quieter yarn. The result is an awkward "did you mean to do that?" effect.
A way to get around this is to match your colors as closely as possible. The similar colors help subdue the yarn differences and give the fabric a three-dimensional effect at the same time. Keep in mind that up close it may still look slightly odd.
|Creating Color
|Obviously it's easiest to strand two of the exact same yarn. This gives you a faster-knitting, bulky project without adding any complexity. (The above-left image shows one such combination.)
If you want to have more fun, here are some other color options and the effects they generally produce. Keep in mind that some colors simply won't mix. (The above-right image is an example.)
|What are the Best Yarns for Stranding?
|How well will two yarns combine? Here's a simple test to find out. Take one strand of each, twist them together, and then wrap the combined strand several times around your finger. How well do the two blend? Does one strand jump out at you more than the other?
The "Blur" Factor
Since you're trying to achieve a harmonious blend with your strands, often the best blends for stranding are those yarns with a softer, more blurry look to them. An example of this is Classic Elite's Pandemonium, which combines a strand of brushed mohair (La Gran) and a strand of mohair boucle (Commotion).
Chenille yarns also blend well, especially with brushed mohair. Classic Elite's three-strand Wildflowers yarn is made up of a strand of mohair, rayon chenille, and textured cotton.
The only problem with chenille when stranded with other yarns is that it may have a tendency to "pop" out of the fabric. Be prepared to tug it back into place periodically, either by hand or with the help of a crochet hook. Berroco Chinchilla is a lovely chenille for stranding with Glace (also from Berroco) because it has a furry texture with a good amount of heft and slink.
Other successful combinations I've seen include brushed mohair and rayon (Fiesta Yarns' La Boheme, shown in the above image, is an exquisite example of this).
|Down in Front!
|When you're stranding two types of yarns, rarely will they blend perfectly. Instead, one strand normally dominates the pattern while the other moves to the background and anchors the work.
This is especially true when you're working with brushed mohair. It will naturally subdue whatever else you're using with it. This can be good if you're working with bright-colored yarns (especially silk or rayon), because the mohair will subdue the intensity of color.
It's not a good idea to pair mohair with a yarn whose texture and color you want to see clearly, however. I tried blending mohair with an exquisite yarn that combined angora, cashmere, and silk, and all subtlety was lost. I ended up using a strand of Henry's Attic alpaca instead.
|Getting Good at Gauge
|Be sure to give your stranded work ample breathing room. You may have to go up several needle sizes before you reach a comfortable texture.
Speaking as someone who didn't give the strands enough room and ended up with a bulletproof sweater, I can assure you that the extra time to get your gauge right will pay off in the end. If you're stranding two bulky yarns, prepare to use surprisingly big needles.
|A Few Words on Fulling
|Stranding is a popular technique for fulling. Here you are more free to experiment with tighter-spun yarns because the fulling process will cause them to relax and combine with their companions. (The images above show a combination of Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted and Hand Paint Originals before and after fulling.)
Because spun fibers require free movement before they can full, be sure to leave even more open space in your work than you would with a normal-sized project. Most fulling patterns will specify the exact gauge you need.
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"I'm currently working on a vest using one strand of a variegated acrylic and one strand of thin black yarn from a cone. I started with just the variegated yarn, but the fabric just didn't pop. I added the black, and BOOM - the colors just spring from the fabric now. I can't wait to finish it!" Lissa, 9/3/2001
"I liked your article on stranding. I have been doing it for years! It is really a matter of making sure you end up with the correct "ply" to match your chosen pattern. As I live in the UK our yarns are slightly different in weight but the procedure is the same. I have made some very nice 'mixtures' using coned machine yarns as well. They are usually fine yarns, often cheaper in a sale, and can give a very wide range of colourations without 'breaking the bank'! I know I live a long way away from most of your readers but I still enjoy your articles, after all Knitting is International and speaks the same language to its followers." Anwen, 9/2/2001
"I knitted and fulled a stuffed chicken using the double strand technique. By combining orange and black, I ended up with a chicken that looks like a barred rock. Very realistic." safarikari, 9/1/2001
"In reference to the question about the gauge of doubled yarn: I've found that doubling a yarn moves it up one "category", i.e. double fingering(7/inch) gives sport gauge (5-6/inch), double sport gives worsted gauge(5/inch), doubling worsted gives bulky (3-4/inch), doubling bulky means get out the broomsticks!" doughty, 9/1/2001
"Thanks for the great article! I've got some LaGran mohair in purple and yellow, plus some eyelash; think I'll strand with black to make a great shawl! Never thought about doing this before; nice article!" jcfdoldmedic, 9/1/2001
"I enjoyed your article on stranding. If one wishes to use a tool from a slightly different (yet related) craft to combine colors and textures, taking two commercial yarns, and plying them together with a spinning wheel is a quick and effective way to produce a new yarn. I don't like getting tangled up in strands, so a multi-ply yarn works better for me. It is also easy to determine yarn wpi that way. Thanks for a great newsletter." Adina, 9/1/2001
"I have completed 3 stranded projects, all using 2 or more of the same yarn. The last sweater I knitted combined 3 strands of Lamb's Pride in three different shades of purple. It's a beautiful sweater and I found it to be an economical alternative to a more expensive, bulky yarn." allicobb, 8/31/2001
"Thanks for the great article on stranding. I am always trying to combine my stash colours and this article gave me a fresh perspective and some new ideas on how to do this." Maryanne, 8/31/2001
"Great article on stranding! But I'm left with a question that may be hard to answer: how do you determine the gauge. For example, if the pattern suggests superbulky yarn, and I want to combine two yarns, how do I know what weights to combine to achieve the approximate gauge?" mritan, 8/31/2001
"This is my second comment to you, and it's on the same topic- bulky yarns. What's the deal? Not all of us enjoy thick, dare I say it, unweildly sweaters,etc. Many (I hope) prefer to knit DK or smaller, but I'd be satisfied with a review of even a worsted yarn. I know bulky is the flavor of the month, but show some interest in those of us who have been knitting for more tan a month and may want to put a bit more effort into it." pbouvier, 8/31/2001
This article was part of our August "back-to-school bulkies" series, in which we focused exclusively on bulky, quick-knitting yarns. Many experienced knitters also enjoy taking breaks to do fast-knitting bulky projects, but I understand that we all like variety in our yarn types. We'll continue to cover a full variety of yarns, thick and thin. Thanks for writing! -Clara
"Stranding two, or more, yarns is a lot of fun! It's not that hard, just give it a try. Use simple stitches, fancy stitches are usually lost. Also, look at both the knit and purl side. Yarns will act differently depending on the stitch, some will 'hide' on the purl side, which you might want to use as the 'right' side. Just play around with swatches and see what you get. You may never go back to plain yarns again!" klao, 8/31/2001
"I have a fear of stranding -- I always worry about laundering and having something die. Any suggestions?" Bach, 8/31/2001
"Stranding is great but another problem I found is stretch. I'm allergic to wool and most of the large needle patterns call for it. I combined two acrylic strands, got the right gauge, but the sweater is too stretchy to wear. Keep that in mind too!" San5345, 8/31/2001


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August 29, 2012
Interested or involved in the development of renewable ocean energy, but need more information on how it could affect the environment? A new website has been designed by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with you in mind.
Tethys is an online repository of environmental information related to marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) and offshore wind energy. This smart searchable database is designed to make MHK and offshore wind environmental information from around the globe easily accessible so that users can classify and evaluate the environmental effects of renewable ocean energy development. The database will allow users to easily search for environmental data associated with specific sites, technologies, and potential environmental impacts to improve understanding of renewable ocean energy environmental data between all groups and ease roadblocks that prevent devices from being deployed.
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Matthew Carter - My life in typefaces
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Check out the great TED talk from Matthew Carter about his life and process creating some of the most well know typefaces around.
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BETSY LAYNE, Ky. (WYMT) - It wasn't all that long ago that Nathan Martin was helping lead the Betsy Layne Bobcats to the All 'A' state championship.
"I mean of every team in the All 'A' in Kentucky, we're, Betsy Layne, in the final four. And when Derek (Tackett) grabbed the rebound, and everyone just knew it was over. I mean, it just, it gives me chill bumps right now thinking about it, no lie, and that was two years ago," says Martin, who was named MVP of the 2011 All 'A' state tournament.
But now he is winning a different kind of trophy.
"I mean, all growing up, you see the Victory Lane, you see the donut, you see the burnout, you see everything. I mean, that's all you dream of is, you know, you see Carl Edwards doing flips. If I could a flip, I would have done fifty that night."
Martin developed a strong connection with racing at a young age, spending time at the track with his late father.
"I know I was probably four or five, and my dad would sneak me away from my mom. He would sneak me away on Saturdays, and we would go to Thunder Ridge. That was in Prestonsburg back then. So, he would take me there. From the first time I ever can remember him taking me, I was hooked."
And as influential and encouraging as his dad was with his interest in the sport, his mother feels differently.
"My mom, she hates racing. I mean, she dreads Saturday, but, you know, she sticks by me, and she's happy to see me when I'm happy."
Martin first drove a racecar in 2007, but it wasn't until 2010 that he began racing competitively.
"It's side-by-side. It's hectic. From the time they drop the green flag, you have a car right beside of you, less than six inches from your door. And when you're on the gas going into a curve, and you see another guy sliding, you don't, you have no idea if he's going to come into you, you don't have no idea if you're car is going to stay there. So, it's just adrenaline. It's just, it's as much as any other sport."
However, in March of the following year, in 2011, Martin's dad passed away, and Nathan's future in dirt track was suddenly in question.
"I really thought about quitting, and quitting racing, because that was always something that we done."
But less than three months later, with "In Memory of Dad" on the side of his car, Martin would earn his first career victory.
"I don't even know how to explain it. It was emotional big time, you know, because Dad wasn't there, and it was just happy because, you know, I finally done it; I accomplished another goal in life that I never thought I was going to be able to do. It was just unbelievable how it happened, you know. All of my family was there that night. No one missed it, and it was just, it was just a big tribute."
He would win two more races that season, but would really break onto the dirt track scene during the summer of 2012, winning four of the first five feature races.
"When we pull into the pits, I love watching everyone look at us because, you know, they're saying, 'Uh oh! He's back,' because now we do have a name for ourselves down at the track."
Martin would total nine wins during the race season and win the 2012 points championship by nearly 250 points, but he was just a small part of his team's success.
"I can't say that it's all me because it's not. I just, I help anytime they need it, and I drive."
Martin and his team have certainly made a name for themselves at the track, and they're hoping the other drivers have taken notice.
"I want them to say, 'Oh, there's the Martin guy. Dag gone it! There goes our chance!'."
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The Lafourche Central Market in Raceland is closed this weekend for the New Year's holiday.
The market will reopen from 8 a.m. to noon Jan. 5.
The market is a gathering up to 32 local vendors selling produce and other goods.
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