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Fisher Field
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|Fisher Field, Lafayette Stadium
|218 Hamilton Street
Easton, Pennsylvania 18042
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|Lafayette College
|Lafayette College
|Record attendance
|21,000 vs. Lehigh, 1948
|FieldTurf (2006–Present)
Natural grass (1926–2005)
|Broke ground
|Summer 1925
|September 25, 1926
|Construction cost
($5.95 million in 2016 dollars[1])
|Edwards-Dunn Co.[2]
|Lafayette Leopards (NCAA) (1926–present)
The Fisher Stadium is a 13,132-seat multi-purpose stadium in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. It opened in 1926 and it is home to the Lafayette College Leopards football team. Fisher Field, this past year, was voted the best gameday atmosphere in the Patriot League. A popular figure to Lafayette athletics is public-address announcer Jim Finnen. Finnen's silky smooth voice is famous, and just one of the many popular features of Fisher Field.
During 2006 and 2007 Fisher Field underwent a $23-million renovation. It reopened in time for the 2006 college football season complete with new seating, JumboTron, a new press box, FieldTurf, and field lighting. Construction of a Football Varsity House beyond the western endzone commenced in Fall 2006 and was completed before the 2007 season. The renovations have made the stadium one of the best venues in all NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision.
On September 1, 2007, Lafayette opened its season hosting the first ever night football game at Fisher Field. Lafayette throttled Marist College of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 49-10.[3] The win was capped with a fireworks display.
Hosting the Easton-Phillipsburg game[edit]
Fisher Field at Fisher Stadium acts as neutral site for the traditional high school football rivalry between Easton Area High School and Phillipsburg High School. The 2006 edition was televised nationally on ESPN2 as part of the High School Showcase (it was the last Thanksgiving high school football game ESPN has aired to date). Easton won that game, 100th meeting of the two cross-state teams, 21-7.
Lafayette's Fisher Field at Fisher Stadium, where the College's home football games have been played since 1926, has undergone a major $23 million transformation. New spectator seating has been built throughout the venue, including chair back seating in select areas, and additional visitor seating has been added. A state-of-the-art FieldTurf surface, lights, and a press box have been installed, and improved restroom and vending areas were also included. A 19-by-35 foot video matrix board, located in the northwest corner of the stadium, provides the Lafayette Sports Network telecast of the game and also features premium "in-house" entertainment for Leopard fans.
The facility seats 13,132, with additional seating for 2,075 added for the Nov. 18 meeting with Lehigh, which raised the capacity to 15,207.
Erected in 1926, Fisher Field was named for Thomas Fisher, Lafayette College Class of 1888, who almost single-handedly raised the $445,000 needed for construction through fund-raising efforts and a sizable personal contribution.
The first football game played in the 18,000-seat structure came on September 25, 1926, with a 35-0 Leopard victory over Muhlenberg College.
Now entering its 72nd season, Fisher Field has been host to 343 Lafayette football games with the Leopards enjoying an overall record of 208 wins, 122 losses and 13 ties for a winning percentage of 62.5%. Of the previous 71 seasons, Lafayette has produced 12 undefeated home seasons with the most recent being the 1992 Patriot League champion Leopards that went a perfect 5-0—the first undefeated home season for Lafayette at Fisher Field since 1970. During the 1992 and 1993 seasons, Lafayette won 10 straight home games, tying the Fisher Field school record for consecutive wins first set by the 1926 and 1927 squads in the first 10 games ever played in the stadium.
In 1973, during the construction of Allan P. Kirby Field House, more than 4,500 seats were removed from the north stands to make room for the structure. Presently, Fisher Field has a permanent seating capacity of 13,750 (12,000 in the south stands and 1,750 in the north).
The Leopards posted their inaugural victory at Fisher Field at Fisher Stadium on Nov. 11, 2006, when Lafayette defeated Georgetown, 45-14. Lafayette wide receiver Joe Ort set the single-game school record with 274 yards receiving in that contest.
Many times, when Lafayette College is host for The Rivalry with Lehigh University every other year, more than 3,500 temporary seats are erected to accommodate the sellout crowd of 17,000. These temporary seats are left standing during the week for use at the Phillipsburg-Easton game. Thus the total number of seats for the high school football game vary from year to year.
Fisher Field has not hosted a Lafayette-Lehigh game since 2012. To commemorate the 150th edition of The Rivalry the 2014 contest, a Lafayette home game, was held at Yankee Stadium.
Parking is traditionally a problem during games with high attendance, such as "The Rivalry", versus Lehigh University, due to the stadium being located on campus. There has also been criticism about the lack of restroom facilities on the away side of the stadium; however, with the extensive renovations in '06, that has become less of an issue.
- ^ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ "Stadium Work Progresses". The Lafayette. September 23, 1925.
- ^ Lafayette Leopards 2007 Gameday Central http://goleopards.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/lafa-fb-07-gameday.html

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NEW BEDFORD — A Carriage Drive resident was arrested Wednesday night after police found an unlicensed firearm and three magazines in his apartment.
Upon executing a search warrant on the apartment, members of the Organized Crime Intelligence Bureau found a .40 caliber Smith and Wesson semi-automatic handgun underneath a mattress in the bedroom, police said.
Police arrested Joseph St. Pierre, 38, who they said did not have a license for the gun. He is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of possession of a high-capacity feeding device, unlawful possession of ammunition and improper storage of a firearm.
St. Pierre was to be arraigned Thursday in New Bedford District Court.
Two children, 11-year-old and 1-year-old, were living in the apartment, police said. The state's Department of Children and Families was notified of the incident, but the children were later released to another family member.
In addition to the firearm, police also found three magazines, one loaded with 13 .40-caliber rounds of ammunition, one loaded with 14 rounds of .40-caliber ammunition and one loaded with six rounds of .45 caliber ammunition.
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Court documents have revealed a Louisville woman was killed on the same day she planned to request a protective order.
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PUXICO -- Oscar R. Pate, 82, died Feb. 15, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Oct. 8, 1925, in Kansas City, son of the late Oscar J. and Frances Riley Pate, he had lived for the last 17 years in Puxico where he was a member of the Puxico General Baptist Church. He was Sunday School teacher for many years and a former deacon at the Trinity General Baptist Church in Dupo, Ill., and Cahokia General Baptist Church in Cahokia, Ill. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy serving during World War II.
On Sept. 23, 1947, in Dupo, he married Vivian Wilfong.
Survivors include: three sons, Bill Pate of Jackson, Jimmy Ray Ragsdale of Branson and Ronnie Paul Ragsdale of Willis, Texas; one daughter, Donna Garcia of Wood River, Ill.; and 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Louise Gable.
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Domino's Pizza shares are up about 2.7% this morning after Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital disclosed it bought 5.3% of the restaurant chain's stock.
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SAC also owns stock in Starbucks –for those who like their Big Game with a jolt of caffeine — and grocery chains Whole Foods and Kroger.
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LIVERPOOL v MANCHESTER UNITED - 13:30
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NEWCASTLE UNITED v NORWICH CITY - 15:00
Cheick Tiote could make his return from a calf injury to feature for Newcastle, who are also strengthened by the return of Papiss Cisse after he missed the Europa League game against Maritimo due to injury.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v QPR - 16:00
Brad Friedel will return in goal after Hugo Lloris was preferred in the Europea League. Meanwhile, QPR have been beset by injuries with Andy Johnson out for most of the season and Fabio and Anton Ferdinand both ruled out.
MANCHESTER CITY v ARSENAL - 16:00
Samir Nasri misses the game against his former side but Sergio Aguero is fit to return in attack for City. Arsenal are again without goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny due to injury.
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Comforts of Home Yield to Tyranny Of Digital Gizmos
By KATIE HAFNER
Published: April 28, 2002
Last Christmas Eve, just as Lynne Bowman was preheating her oven to roast a turkey for 15 guests, her daughter accidentally brushed against one of the new oven's many digital controls.
''We heard this 'beep beep beep,' '' recalled Ms. Bowman, a 56-year-old freelance creative director who lives in Pescadero, Calif., ''and no more oven. After that, we couldn't get it to work.''
Ms. Bowman's husband, an engineer, was unable to fix the problem. Nor were any of the assembled guests, half of whom were also engineers.
Desperate, Ms. Bowman resorted to the small, simple 1970's-vintage Tappan electric oven in the guest house, which worked like a charm.
Of all the forces that permeate daily life, perhaps nothing has become more of a tyranny than the bits and pieces of technology that are meant to help one get through the day more easily, but instead are a source of frustration.
Relatively simple devices that were once controlled by twisting a knob or pushing a button are now endowed with digital commands that can take hours to master.
Many televisions, inextricably joined with the VCR, DVD player and 500-channel receiver, are now impossible to turn on or off without first scanning a cryptic array of choices on any of several remote control devices.
If a newer car's ''check engine'' light suddenly goes on, no longer can a mechanically minded car owner simply pop the hood and have a look. A special-purpose computer is needed to make a diagnosis.
To some extent, consumers have only themselves to blame, said Dr. Edward Tenner, the author of ''Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences'' (Vintage Books, 1997), and a visiting scholar at Princeton University.
''Things are so needlessly complex because featuritis sells products,'' Dr. Tenner said. ''People buy them for a feeling of control, then complain that they are so hard to manage. But show them something simple and rugged, and most of them will call it boring.''
Consider the recent ''spring forward'' for daylight saving time. That Sunday morning, households throughout the nation set about changing the time on their digital timepieces, VCR's, car clocks, oven clocks and other devices. Many people have more than a dozen, and few are set in quite the same way.
The tyranny of the digital control is perhaps at its most conspicuous in BMW's new luxury sedan, the 745i.
The car has a premium stereo system with crystalline sound quality. But try turning the radio on and tuning it to a favorite station and the owner is in for a lengthy session with the instruction manual.
Storing that station for future quick access is another multistep ordeal that requires pulling a joystick-like knob on the center console, which is part of a system called the iDrive, to the radio portion of the entertainment function, then twisting it to select either FM or AM, then scrolling through commands to turn the iDrive knob into a tuner, then finding the station, then assigning a permanent spot to the station in the radio's memory.
In the course of a 15-minute crash tutorial on operating the 745i preceding the test drive, Mike Fritz, a sales manager at a BMW dealership in Berkeley, Calif., proudly pointed out that the iDrive had some 700 functions. At the same time, he conceded that most drivers would use only a small fraction of those functions.
Part of the problem could be generational. Consumers in their teens and 20's seem to have a more instinctive feel for how to conquer complex gadgetry than their elders. Yet they, too, can grow impatient.
Marc Laitin, 28, a teacher in Washington, said he had no particular problem figuring out how to operate the various gadgets in his life, but frustration set in when he was forced to deal with the learning curve presented by gadgets owned by friends and relatives.
When Mr. Laitin visits his parents in Menlo Park, Calif., he quickly grows annoyed by the multiple remote controls governing the various entertainment devices. ''You have to hit 15 buttons in sequence on three different remotes to watch TV,'' he said.
And when Mr. Laitin's 92-year-old grandfather visits Menlo Park from Brooklyn, leaving him at home for too long can be a mistake. ''It takes 15 minutes to unravel what he does to the TV,'' Mr. Laitin said. This despite color-coded dots that the family has put on each of the remote controls.
Alan Cooper, whose consulting firm, Cooper, in Palo Alto, Calif., helps companies make their technical products easier to use, said the profusion of digital options often creates what he calls ''mode confusion.'' This syndrome is known to afflict pilots who become dangerously befuddled by on-board automation, where a single control or sign could do or mean two different things.
Mr. Cooper, formerly a programmer, recounted having been a passenger one night recently in the sleek Mercedes that belongs to his wife, Sue. In the process of seeking the map light, he inadvertently switched on the dome light overhead, blinding his wife as she drove.
''You have this assortment of controls which somebody really put an enormous amount of thought and design into making beautifully and sensually curved,'' Mr. Cooper said. ''But the amount of thought that went into how they behave is ridiculously amateurish and silly.''


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Darkness delivered sweetly: That's what drew together the improbable partnership of gentle-voiced Norah Jones and pop-punk arena rocker Billie Joe Armstrong, who leads Green Day. They decided to remake, of all things, an entire album from 1958: the Everly Brothers' "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" (Cadence).
The Everlys' original is a contender for the most morbid album of the early rock 'n' roll era. It arrived soon after their huge 1957 hits, "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Suzie," both of which appeared on their 1958 debut album.


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Ford Motor Co. and DreamWorks Studios announced a partnership for the coming car-chase film "Need for Speed" that includes using a number of Ford vehicles on screen and in a marketing program to promote both the film and the car maker.
Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" fame stars as street racer Tobey Marshall, who seeks revenge after he is framed by a former business partner. The plan involves a cross-country race, which makes room for Paul's co-star, a hopped-up Ford Mustang "hero car."
The car, which Ford built specifically for the film, is featured prominently throughout the story and, according to the car company, will "become part of the mythology of the movie." The one-off car has a number of features that set it apart, including a specially designed wide body, 22-inch wheels and enlarged air intakes to feed the Mustang's supercharged V8 engine.
Ford and the filmmakers hope "Need for Speed" will join the long line of cult car films like "Vanishing Point" and "Two-Lane Blacktop." Ford hopes its new custom Mustang will gain notoriety like older Mustangs like those that starred in 1974's "Gone in 60 Seconds" and the 1968 Steve McQueen chase classic "Bullitt."
"'Need for Speed" marks an exciting return to the great car culture films of the 1960s and '70s, tapping into what makes the American myth of the open road so appealing," said Ford's global marketing, sales and service chief Jim Farley. "Ford Mustang is a symbol of freedom and optimism that allows you to be the person you dream of being, making it the perfect fit for this story," Farley said.
Under the partnership Ford also provided the production with an F-450 truck that is known as "The Beast" in the film, and another Mustang used as a camera car for high-speed sequences.
The movie is based on Electronic Arts' popular video game series of the same name. The announcement coincides with the unveiling of the movie car during the Electronic Arts press conference at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles today.
The film opens March 14, 2014.


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We report a case of adenocarcinoma of the lung with hemoptysis that was mistaken for the Goodpasture syndrome on the basis of a serologic test for antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies. Antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies are characteristic of the Goodpasture syndrome, some forms of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, and isolated instances of pulmonary hemorrhage. Antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies from patients with traditional Goodpasture syndrome react with the α 3(IV) chain, one of the six known chains of type IV collagen that form an integrative lattice called basement membrane [1–2]. Evaluation of the antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies in our patient showed the presence of anti-α 1(IV) rather than anti-α 3(IV) reactivity.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with bovine antigens. The results show that AG's antibody binds to the α 1(IV) noncollagenous domain 1 (NC1) domain with minimal binding to the α 3(IV) NC1 domain. The antibody of the patient with the Goodpasture syndrome (LL) shows specific binding to the α 3(IV) NC1 domain and minimal binding to the α 1(IV) NC1 domain. The control antibodies show no specific binding to type IV collagen. The dimers represent the α 3(IV) NC1 domain in dimeric form. Results of ELISA with recombinant human type IV collagen NC1 domains. AG's antibody binds strongly to the recombinant α 1(IV) NC1 domain and binds much more weakly to the α 3(IV) NC1 and α 6(IV) NC1 domains. The Goodpasture antibodies (LL) bind predominantly to the α 3(IV) NC1 domain. The control antibodies do not specifically bind to any of the recombinants. Immunoblot analysis of the antibodies from AG and LL using the recombinant human type IV collagen NC1 domains. AG's antibody binds predominantly to the α 1(IV) NC1 domain, and LL's antibodies bind predominantly to the α 3(IV) NC1 domain. The dilution of the antibodies used in all assays was 1:200. The 405-nm absorbance values shown in the graphs are each a mean of two separate readings.
Lung biopsy specimen. Binding of the patient (AG) antibodies to the glomerular basement membrane and mesangial matrix of the normal human kidney section. Binding of the Goodpasture (LL) antibodies to the glomerular basement membrane of the normal human kidney section predominantly in a linear fashion. The control serum specimen did not show any binding (data not shown). The dilution of the antibodies used was 1:50. The control serum specimen did not bind to any of the recombinant or bovine noncollagenous domain 1 domains.
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Bipolar disorder usually lasts a lifetime. Episodes of mania and depression typically come back over time. Between episodes, many people with bipolar disorder are free of symptoms, but some people may have lingering symptoms.
Doctors usually diagnose mental disorders using guidelines from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. According to the DSM, there are four basic types of bipolar disorder:
Some people may be diagnosed with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. This is when a person has four or more episodes of major depression, mania, hypomania, or mixed symptoms within a year. Some people experience more than one episode in a week, or even within one day. Rapid cycling seems to be more common in people who have severe bipolar disorder and may be more common in people who have their first episode at a younger age. One study found that people with rapid cycling had their first episode about four years earlier, during mid to late teen years, than people without rapid cycling bipolar disorder. Rapid cycling affects more women than men.
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I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I have struggled, and struggled, and even though I'm on daily meds I still have trouble. This answer is from my own experience and from my heart.
People are genetically predisposed to bpd. That means we're born with it, and will die with it. There is no cure. So the first way it affects us over time is that it is a constant "cross to bear," for our entire lives, and we either cope or literally die. Suicide, risky behavior, or pissing off the wrong person during an episode of rage, are some threats to our existence. I have been dangerously near suicide four times - I remember them especially because I was serious.
Another way it affects us over time - it's like a failing marriage. Things are ok a lot of the time, but the more and more you argue with the same person about the same thing, the frustration compounds and you would do anything just to make this so-and-so go away. Well, you can get out of a bad marriage. I've been aware of my disorder for five years now, and I'm 35, so this is as far as my experience goes. I don't know how I will be at 40, 50, 60. But from the way it looks now, my strategies will have to change and become more potent if I am to survive. It is LITERALLY a constant battle, except that your sworn enemy and foe is INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
And it's SMART. It's similar to our smartphones and apps now, the ones that "learn" your search preferences, and even your voice, over time. It finds a way to use your own thoughts against you. For example, if I am going through a mixed manic-depressive episode, I believe (with ALL my heart!) that no one loves me, that I am a failure, that I will never be ok and that I should just take myself out. It is literally temporary insanity! I am a healthy, vibrant, attractive, career-oriented single mother of a beautiful daughter, with a fully loving and supportive family, a therapist who loves me and stays on standby, and I have goals. I am a normal person. But during those times, I am absolutely certain that I am alone, that I will fail at my goals like so many times before, and that I have no reason to go on living. Its the disease. It talks to me in my head and it's hard to differentiate between the sane voice and the insane one, until the episode is over. Then I'm perfectly ok. Just like that.
Lastly, things that are affected over time are relationships with friends, family and romantic relationships, and jobs. We struggle with dealing with ourselves, so of course others who have to deal with us struggle too. I have had to re-start my career 3 times because I would build up a great rep at a job, and then eventually get fired for emotional instability. So that's where the "failure" thoughts come from - how do I know it won't happen again? Just yesterday I couldn't stop crying for four hours AT WORK, even while interacting with my co-workers. I cannot control or guide when or how intense it will be when it hits.
Hope this helps!
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This year, The Pacific Coast Scholarship Program is in its 31st year of operation and has worked closely with the Vancouver Canucks over these years. This year the awards ceremony saw many young male and female athletes from all over mainland. "Its always exciting to see these young athletes at this time of their lives." said Cliff Ronning, from the Vancouver Canucks Alumni.
This years' winners had the great opportunity to receive their awards from Vancouver Canucks Alumni Cliff Ronning, Bob Murray and John Craighead. This years winner of the Vancouver Canucks Community Service Bursary Award was Ryan Randhawa . The winners of the Vancouver Canucks Scholarship Awards were, Thomas Shaw of Port Coquitlam MHA, Troy Johl of Vancouver MHA and Laura Borden of North Shore Female IHA and the winner of the newly named Stan Smyl Scholarship Award was David Semail of Burnaby MHA.
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The Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected new faculty member Ben Garcia for a Leadership Development Award. The award is designed to support participation in the YCC Leadership Development Workshop in late January. Only 15 funded awards are granted. This YCC program recognizes emerging leaders in the profession and helps them prepare for the leadership opportunities at volunteer organizations, such as ACS, and in their professional career. YCC recognizes past contributions and leadership qualities.
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Finnally, mine's here! Had to sell all my DX kit (gripped D7K, 16-85, 35 1.8), plus some guitar-related bits, but now it's here!
First impressions: body and controls much like the D7000 (which I love), great viewfinder, great back display, nice shutter action, nice crips files even at ISO 6400. The cluttering of AF points does not bother me, since I use back-button focus and recompose. Managed to get all my settings dialed in a couple of minutes, feels like using an old friend with a much improved sensor. The 50mm f1.8G got on it, and it will stay there for several months now. Only other lens I've kept is a 70-300 VR, and my SB-700 is also still aboard.
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N00b question re slipping stitches
I've only been learning how to knit for a short time and today I started introducing slipped stitches into my very small repertoire. I checked out YouTube tutorials and now know how to slip a stitch but I can't figure out what happens next in my pattern.
The project is a pretty basic knit belt with slipped stitch edging. Pattern is as follows:
1. Cast on 9 sts.
2. Knit first 6 sts, bring yarn forward, then slip last 3 sts as if to purl.
3. Repeat row 2 until desired length, then bind off.
For something that seems so easy, I am so confused. After I knit the first 6 stitches and slip the last 3, the working yarn is 3 stitches down the right needle. Then, if I knit the next row as instructed anyway, I'm left with something that just has to be wrong.
I think I'm missing something. Any advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks!
Knit the next row with the yarn where it was left after you slipped the stitches. It will kind of roll the edge.
Sometimes if an instruction is confusing, I just do it and see what happens. Usually I find that I'm over-thinking the situation.
That's right, you're making an I cord edge and knitting the 3 sts you slipped will roll them up into a small tube. It works, just try it.
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A projected increase in base state aid for the Washington County Career Center under Ohio Gov. John Kasich's new school funding proposal will likely be offset by changes to other parts of the system, according to career center administrators.
Projections released by the governor's office last week show the base funding for the Career Center rising by 25 percent - to $2,593,739 - in the first year under Kasich's "Achievement Everywhere" plan, designed to address the state's unconstitutional school funding system by directing more money to less wealthy school districts. But Career Center Treasurer Joe Crone said projections indicate that weighted funding, which is based on full-time equivalency and the type of classes taken, is expected to drop by about 44 percent under the new system.
"It looked initially that we were going to benefit greatly from the governor's proposal," Superintendent Dennis Blatt said during Thursday's Career Center board meeting. "Our base funding is increased, but our weighted funding is less."
Crone said there has not been enough information released on the weighted funding for him to know what the actual numbers will look like, but he's not counting on being half a million dollars up in funding next year. Besides, the governor's plan still has to make its way through the General Assembly, so there's no telling what the final product will look like.
"This process, I don't look to be resolved until mid- to late June," Crone said.
Blatt attended the Jan. 31 meeting of the Buckeye Association of School Administrators in Columbus, where Kasich first outlined the plan. Optimism about the plan for most local superintendents turned to frustration when the projections were released a weak later and 60 percent of districts saw no increase in funding.
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Career Center base state aid under Gov. Kasich's new funding proposal
- Fiscal year 2013* - $2,074,991.
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Joint vocational district funding is determined by a separate formula. While Blatt acknowledged the disappointment of some local superintendents, he said he appreciated the governor's support of career and technical education in general.
"It felt very good being there as a career-technical superintendent, because the governor feels very positive about what he calls vocational education," he said.
In other business, the board voted 5-0, with President Larry Holdren and member Karen Burton absent, to give Crone a nearly 11 percent annual pay raise and extend his contract an additional five years.
Effective March 1, Crone's new annual salary is $72,000. His current contract runs through July 31, 2014, and the extension takes that through 2019.
"He's doing a great, great job," board Vice President Neil Huck said. "He's saving us more money than what he's getting."
Crone told board members earlier in the meeting that spending for the year had been cut so far by 1.5 percent, due to a lot of small steps that were adding up, like savings on upgrades to technology. After the meeting, he said successes from a financial perspective over the last two years have been the result of great teamwork.
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1. PURPOSE. This supplemental instruction gives information and guidance to combatant commanders on joint command, control, and communications support, responsibilities, and procedures.
a. The required communications capability will come from the Defense Communications System (DCS), other National Communications System operating agency systems, or other DOD communications systems (tactical and special purpose). Regardless of the source, communications personnel furnished to a commander will be under his operational control and will be an integral part of his command and control system.
b. It is imperative that communications and ADP systems be compatible with and make maximum use of the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS).
c. The Joint Staff, through the combatant commands, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and the military Services, will ensure that the commander at each echelon has the communications necessary to accomplish the assigned mission.
a. National Communications System (NCS)
(1) NCS encompasses the DCS and selected communications assets of the Department of State, Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, General Services Administration, Departments of Commerce and Interior, Federal Communications Commission, US Information Agency, and Department of Energy.
(2) The objective of the NCS is to ensure that the important federal telecommunications resources are so interlinked that the aggregate will function as a single system.
(3) The Secretary of Defense is the executive agent for the NCS and the Director, DISA, is the manager, NCS.
b. Defense Communications System (DCS)
(1) DCS is a single worldwide complex comprising a composite of certain DOD communications systems/networks under the management, control, and operational direction of the DISA. DCS includes all nontactical, long-haul, point-to-point, and switched network telecommunications facilities, personnel, and materiel within DOD.
(2) Organic facilities of the field armies, fleets, air forces, and fleet Marine forces, posts, camps, bases, stations, and air defense facilities are excluded.
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(1) The DISA is an agency of DOD under the direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense, responsive to CJCS and combatant command C-3 requirements. The agency supports worldwide DCS through subcommands and DISA field organizations located with combatant commands and at major military and governmental population centers.
(2) Combatant command, subordinate command, and JTF nontactical communications support, including command and control, operations intelligence, weather, logistics, and administrative functions, is offered through the DCS facilities and managed by the DISA field organizations. DISA field organizations further serve as the points for integration of the station/tactical communications excluded in paragraph b(2) into the worldwide communications system.
a. Chiefs of DISA field organizations and Service component commanders respond to the operational needs of the combatant commanders.
b. Combatant commanders will develop agreements that clearly delineate their relationships with DISA field organizations within their areas of responsibility.
c. Combatant commanders have command authority over the Service operating elements of the DCS through the Service component commander. DISA field organizations exercise operational direction over the DCS operating elements. Hence, the operating elements are subject to authoritative direction from different sources. To avoid conflict, combatant commanders will exercise combatant command in the direct operation of DCS by expressing their DCS operational requirements to the senior DISA field organization serving their area of responsibility.
d. Combatant commanders are authorized to assume temporary operational control of the DISA field organization and DCS within their assigned geographic areas in case of a major emergency.
e. The authority and responsibilities of the combatant commander include control, review, and coordination of assigned communications resources and/or actions affecting such resources.
f. The combatant commander is responsible for reviewing and coordinating major DCS communication requirements, projects, systems, networks, and related resources that are initiated within his command.
g. The combatant commander will designate the points where interface of various communications services between the DCS and tactical communications system will occur. Such points will normally include the following:
(1) Component command headquarters
(2) Joint task force headquarters
(3) Other subordinate element headquarters directly controlled by the combatant command
h. The component commanders have the following common functions and responsibilities in joint operations:
(1) Furnish communications personnel, equipment, and supplies for the effective performance of assigned tasks
(2) Furnish, organize, and train communications personnel for joint operations
(3) Supply, operate, and maintain command and control facilities organic to their own tactical forces
(4) Supply, operate, and maintain assigned facilities of the DCS and terminal equipment of DCS access circuits
(5) Furnish, operate, and maintain communications for distress, disaster, emergency, and safety as directed and per mutual agreements
(6) Offer the capability of meeting the DCS interface standards
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Poll: Quinn Ahead of Democratic Rivals for Mayor
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn improved her standing in the race for the Democratic mayoral nomination, drawing support from 37% of her party's registered voters, a poll released Thursday showed.
The NY1-Marist Poll is significant because it shows Ms. Quinn is in striking distance of 40%, a key threshold in any primary for citywide office. To win outright, a candidate must accrue 40% of the primary vote; otherwise, a runoff is held between the two top vote getters.
Trailing Ms. Quinn are Bill Thompson, a former city comptroller and the 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee, with 13%; Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, 12%; Comptroller John Liu, 9%; and Sal Albanese, a former council member, 2%. The poll showed 26% of Democratic voters are undecided.
On the Republican side, Joseph Lhota, a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, leads the race for the GOP nomination, with 20%, according to the poll.
Here's how the other GOP contenders stand: George McDonald, head of a nonprofit group, 8%; John Catsimatidis, a billionaire businessman, 5%; Tom Allon, a media executive, 4%; Adolfo Carrion, a former Bronx borough president; 3%; and A.R. Bernard, a pastor, 2%. The poll showed 55% of registered Republicans are undecided.
The poll showed each of the major Democratic contenders beating Mr. Lhota in hypothetical match-ups. For example, Ms. Quinn outpaces Mr. Lhota 64% to 18%.


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Verizon is roughly $18-28 USD/month more expensive than T-Mo for 6-Mo. upgrades; $8 USD/month more for 2-yr. plan
Verizon Wireless is changing gears after Verizon Inc.'s (
$130B USD Sept. 2013 buyout
of minority owner Vodafone Group plc (
). At the end of 2013 Verizon's had the highest average revenue per user (ARPU), something which both pleased and troubled analysts. While having the industry's highest cell phone bills is good for Verizon's earnings in the short-term
analysts were quick to express concern that the lack of discounts could backfire
I. As Expected, Price Cuts Cometh
Craig Moffett, head analyst at MoffettNathanson Research, says that may no easy task, commenting in a research note:
There is a price differential where -- well, where even satisfied customers will declare enough is enough. The only question that remains is whether we have already crossed it. They are vulnerable precisely because they have been so successful.
Jonathan Chaplin, an analyst with New Street Research, echoes in a separate note:
We expect rising competitive intensity to create a headwind for growth in 2014. We don't think Verizon is out of the woods. We believe competitive pressure is still coming.
This week Verizon finally acknowledged that it would need to cut prices in order to retain its dominant position.
It unveiled a new plan dubbed "
More Everything
One major impact of the new policy is that it makes Verizon's early upgrade plans much more competitive, particularly for those who have multiple smartphones on a large (>= 10 GB) family pool.
How does this work? To answer that we have to first look at how the plans stacked up last year.
II. Early Upgrades and 2-Year Contracts -- Last Year Was a T-Mobile USA Blowout
and others
last year examined the price of early upgrade plans versus standard contract plans. They compared AT&T, Inc.'s (
Next early upgrade program
and Deutsche Telekom AG (
) subsidiary
T-Mobile USA's Jump program
(the first of the early upgrade plans).
What they found was that the T-Mobile USA by far was the cheapest plan at 2 GB of data per month, with unlimited calling and texting. The cheapest rival contract plan (with no early upgrade) was Verizon's, which cost $435 USD per month more, thanks to higher monthly bills ($60 USD/month for T-Mobile versus $100 USD/month on Verizon).
In terms of early upgrade plans
T-Mobile USA's "Jump" plan
also the most affordable
. With the $10 USD/month ($240 USD per 24 months) extra fee, you'd still be paying about $200 USD less than you would for a 2 year contract on Verizon. And of course you're getting four new devices every years (trading in the old one, each time) versus only one on Verizon, and if you want to you can drop the service at any time (you're still on the hook for the device payments, but you can defray those by reselling your device and you won't be paying the early termination fees you would on Verizon).
For those wanting to upgrade, the Verizon $0 USD down "Edge" plan ended up costing about $370 USD extra per two years. So Verizon was basically making money off anyone who wanted early upgrades. Verizon also offered 6-month upgrades. That bumped things up even more to a ~$695 USD premium, as you must have paid off 50% of the device's total costs to upgrade.
So for six-month upgrades on Verizon you were paying roughly $900 USD more on Verizon over two years than on T-Mobile. That's about $38 USD per month extra.
Is Verizon's coverage advantage over T-Mobile worth $38+ USD per month? That's debatable, but one thing's for sure -- AT&T's Next deal is worse. AT&T's Next is even more expensive than Verizon and AT&T doesn't have as good coverage.
AT&T's 3 GB tier (AT&T doesn't have a 2 GB tier) costs around $480 USD more than Verizon for a 2 year contract, and roughly $920 USD more than a two year upgrade cycle on T-Mobile.
Adding "Next" will tack on nearly $500 USD more to your contract over two years. So AT&T's 1-year upgrade cycle over the standard 2-year period is about $610 USD more than Verizon's 1 year upgrade cycle, $260 USD more expensive than Verizon's 6-month upgrade cycle, and a miserable $1,175 USD more than T-Mobile's 6-month upgrade schedule.
Granted, AT&T has
the fastest LTE
(when available), plus you do get an extra gigabyte of data a month and somewhat better LTE coverage than T-Mobile. But for that you're stuck in a contract, get half as many devices as T-Mobile, and are paying nearly $49 USD per month more.
In short, Verizon and AT&T's early upgrade plans both offered some unique perks last year, but were much more expensive ($35-50 USD/month) than T-Mobile. A final thing worth noting is that AT&T did
step up its own pricing game
in Dec. 2013, bringing its Next plan's base pricing more in line with Verizon Edge.
III. "More Everything" Helps Verizon Blow Away AT&T's Lofty Prices, Compete With T-Mobile
Now, we get to the current question -- does "More Everything" make "Edge" a better deal than it was last year?
Verizon's new "More Everything" plan makes its "Edge" early upgrade plan a bit more competitive. For those at the lowest data tier (250 MB) you get $15 USD off your monthly fee for smartphones. For the majority of users who are in the 1-8 GB tiers (most customers), you'll get $10 USD off your monthly fee. For those on plans with 10 GB or up (including pooled family data plans), you'll chop $20 USD off your fee.
That's a pretty nice improvement. For users on smaller data pools you'll save $240 USD over two years, cutting the premium over T-Mobile USA down to around $28 USD. For those on large family pools you'll cut it even further to around $18 USD per month.
At $18 USD per month extra, you start entering the territory that Verizon doesn't even need misleading pricing to get customers to choose it over T-Mobile USA -- some customers would consider its coverage and speed advantage worth that months, even if you are bound by a contract.
Verizon leads in the LTE race. [Image Source: Verizon Wireless]
"More Everything" does not, however, eliminate some of the annoyances of "Edge". For example you have to buy a new device, you can't bring your own like you could on T-Mobile or AT&T.
But what about customers who don't want to upgrade every 6 months? For those willing to endure 2-year contracts there's also price breaks. Individuals on 500MB, 1GB, or 2GB (most customers) get $10 USD off their bills. Unlike the early upgrade pricing, there's no discount bump at 250 MB, though -- those customers get only $5 USD off their monthly bill. Likewise those with basic phones (non-smartphones) get $5 USD off a month.
Most customers will seem a modest price cut on their monthly bill with the rollout of "More Everything". [Image Source: PC World]
So over a two-year contract budget buyers will save $120, while regular customers will save $240 USD. That means that T-Mobile USA (contract-free) individual customers who operate on a voluntary two-year upgrade cycle will now only be saving under $200 USD per two years, or about $8 USD a month.
In this case, the math works out even more favorable for Verizon -- $8 USD/month more for significantly better coverage (albeit with a contract)? That seems an increase most customers would be willing to go for.
IV. "More..." Perks Sweeten the Deal
There's also other perks Verizon has added for More Everything subscribers:
Verizon has bumped its data allotments and given other nice perks. [Image Source: Hoovers]
Data Plan Bumps
Automatic for existing customers and new customers alike
$40 USD/month tier
Before: 500MB
After: 1GB
$50 USD/month tier
Before: 1GB
After: 2GB
$60 USD/month tier
Before: 2GB
After: 3GB
Cloud Storage
Free (was 5 GB free or $3 USD/month/line for 25 GB per line before)
25 GB per line (up to 250 GB max on 10 lines)
International messaging (SMS)
Parental mobile device management software
free for 3 months, $5 USD/month after that
Cheaper long distance
$0.01/minute to Canada and Mexico
$0.05/minute to many other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
free for 3 months, $5 USD/month after that
Verizon -- the nation's largest carrier -- is offering plenty of value when it comes to customers who want to upgrade every two years. And for those who want 6-month upgrades, it still trails T-Mobile a bit, but has made it close enough -- particularly on large family data pools -- that it can justify its pricing somewhat.
V. A Thriving, Competitive Market
In this regard it's a big step forward.
Given that Verizon
beat T-Mobile USA in new subscriptions
last quarter (narrowly), this could pressure T-Mobile USA to make further cost cuts. T-Mobile USA is profitable, so it can afford a bit of cutting.
And the pressure is really on AT&T which is looking ridiculous compared to both Verizon and T-Mobile now with regards to pricing. Likewise Sprint Corp. (
) -- who doesn't offer early upgrades anymore, but does offer competitively priced
"Framily" pools with unlimited data
-- may feel some pricing pressure, given it own poor 4G coverage in many regions.
T-Mobile has pushed all the carriers to get more aggressive pricing-wise and move away from contracts and subsidies.
All of this is good news for consumers. And yet again this justifies why mild anti-collusion regulation is necessary to maintain a competitive and free market.
Look at AT&T's pricing (right now, pretty much the worse out there) and ask yourselves:
had AT&T been allowed to merge with T-Mobile USA
, would T-Mobile USA be offering the prices it does today and would Verizon feel compelled to put this much pricing pressure on everyone, as well?
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RE: ATT dropped their prices two weeks ago
Yeah, Verizon has "better" coverage. But ATT has "faster" network. So which is truly better depends on what one values more. And how one actually defines "better" or "faster". So personally, to be fair, on the contract pricing, I'll just call it a wash between the two.
But what if you do have your own phone? This article talks a lot about TMobile where you also have to get your own phone. Then ATT is only $160. So what's the better deal then? Does Verizon offer a similar deal?
What happens with Verizon when your contract is up AND you're still happy with your phone and don't want a new one. Is it still worth it paying full contract price? Or do you let Verizon sucker you back into a new contract in exchange for a new phone? At least ATT is starting to cater to both crowds. If coverage isn't an issue, then which is better? Verizon for only letting you choose between continuing to pay a lot or get a new phone you don't want OR ATT for ALSO additionally letting you choose to save even more and switch to the nocontract pricing plan?
I've had Sprint, Verizon, and currently am ATT. For the record, I hate them all. Coverage wise, for my family, Sprint had some holes in their coverage but it wasn't the end of the world. Verizon and ATT are the same, coverage wise, can't tell a difference. They just work. But Verizon just charges too much and IMO it's finally catching up with them, hence, why we now see them dropping prices. Let's remember, Verizon is only the same contract pricing starting yesterday when they announced this new more plan. I've been with ATT now for a year and coverage is fine, I make and receive calls just fine, so coverage to me at least seems irrelevant. Nobody in my family has complained about coverage. ATT offered a BETTER price earlier, and an even BETTER price a few weeks ago. When switching from Verizon, we were worried, but it's turned out to be a non-issue.
IMO, Verizon's "increased" coverage is greatly overhyped. I can get for some people that because of coverage Verizon is truly the only way for them to go and I can understand these Verizon people arguing coverage, coverage, coverage, but they need to keep in mind, they're the exception, not the rule. Most people are in areas with sufficient coverage from multiple vendors. Verizon knows this or they wouldn't be pressed so hard to drop prices. It will be interesting to see how long Verizon can go without offering cheaper nocontract BYOD plans.
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From the Midwest Horse Fair news release – Madison, WI — This summer's newest equine event, Taking the Reins presented by the Midwest Horse Fair®, will be making its debut on August 17 & 18 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI, and will allow horse owners to participate in fun and informative "experiences" with their equine companion. The wide range of experiences are designed for both casual riders and serious equestrians to improve their skills, receive feedback from experts and try something new.
Thanks to the support of NRHA, its dedicated members and affiliates like Minnesota's Tom Lauth and the North Central Reining Horse Association, "Ride a Reiner" will be one of the experiences featured at this inaugural event. Attendees can sign up onsite to participate in this interactive experience. "Ride a Reiner" first debuted at the World Equestrian Games in 2010 and allows horse enthusiasts the chance to experience the famous spins and slides atop a well-trained reining horse.
"Taking the Reins will appeal to all horsemen who want to learn about new techniques and products firsthand," says Rhonda Reese, General Manager of the Midwest Horse Fair®. "This event will provide a more intimate experience for casual riders and trainers, as well as serious equestrians, to ask questions and interact with some of the industry's finest. Non-horse owners and families will also find lots to do and see."
Tom Lauth, a member of the North Central Reining Horse Association, took on the challenge to spearhead the event after NRHA was approached with the opportunity. "We really wanted to be involved with the horse fair so we could reach out to reining fans in the Midwest, but we had a major date conflict due to the NRHA Cowtown Classic in Fort Worth. We talked to Tom to see if he might be willing to help us handle it from a local level. He took on the project and has done a tremendous job lining up outstanding horses and knowledgeable reiners to make it a fun and worthwhile for selected riders. The group that will be working with these riders are some of the best people and the most helpful you can find anywhere," commented Christa Morris, NRHA Senior Director of Marketing.
The Midwest Horse Fair® and Taking The Reins are owned by the Wisconsin Horse Council, Inc. All proceeds from the events are returned to the WHC and are used to represent and foster a unified equine industry in Wisconsin, promote the equine through leadership, education, service and communication, and to take a proactive role in the future growth and development of the equine industry.
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Hamburger Kunsthalle
Pedro Cabrita Reis
A propos des lieux d'origine #1, 2005
© Collection Musée d'Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg
Photo: Florian Kleinefenn
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Pedro Cabrita Reis
One after another, a few silent steps
31 October 2009 – 28 February 2010
20095 Hamburg
Since the early 1990s, Cabrita Reis's work has revolved around the themes of housing, habitation, construction and territory. Along with artworks based on elements of everyday life, such as tables and chairs or doors and windows, he often creates expansive installations that fill the exhibition spaces with both complex and imposing structures. He counters the classic white cube with his use of massive brick walls, found objects and industrial materials such as neon tubes, steel girders or rough wooden planks.
Pedro Cabrita Reis is a keen collector, both of the flotsam of civilization and of sensory impressions. For him, discarded everyday objects are just as welcome finds as the panorama of an abandoned building site or an old olive tree. Like retinal afterimages, such visual stimuli plant the seed of an idea for one of his melancholic-archaic sculptures or for a new painting. In his work, Cabrita Reis repeatedly addresses fundamental issues of art; he explores the concepts of painting and sculpture and develops sculptural methods of drawing in space. While Cabrita Reis's rugged walls and the cardboard sheds held together with adhesive tape might at first glance seem to refer to social realities outside the realm of art, they are not bound up with these realities, nor do they attempt to duplicate them; instead, they transform them into intriguing and sometimes quite literally opaque artworks. Wherever windows appear in Cabrita Reis's installations, they are invariably blind, boarded up or painted over, the doors to his dwellings are inaccessible. Cidades Cegas (Blind Cities) is the title of a group of works whose stoically melancholic appearance alludes to the Unbehaustheit ('homelessness') of man as a basic constant of the human condition – one of the leitmotifs in Cabrita Reis's oeuvre.
In addition to works on loan from major museums and private collections, the exhibition features new works that have been developed especially for the Hamburger Kunsthalle. After premiering in Hamburg, it will travel to the Carré d'Art in Nîmes and the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. It is the first exhibition of the new curator of the Galerie der Gegenwart, Sabrina van der Ley, in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
A comprehensive catalogue with 200 colour illustrations has been published to accompany the exhibition and features amongst other texts by António Lobo Antunes, Dieter Schwarz and Pedro Cabrita Reis.
Curated by Sabrina van der Ley


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Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker.
Eight-year-old John Perkins's family moves into an old farmhouse. From the first day, John is convinced the house is haunted. His twelve-year old sister Lisa soon senses a spooky presence as well
This book is written by Harold. His full time occupation is dog. He lives with Mr. and Mrs. X (here called Monroe) and their sons Toby and Pete.
Allie Nichols is back for her third ghost adventure! Following in the footsteps of the previous Ghost tales, The Ghost of Cutler Creek offers an exciting mystery for the 11-year-old "ghost magnet" to solve. When Mr.
Intrepid ghosthunter-in-training Tom has battled Incredibly Revolting Ghosts, Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghosts, and a Totally Moldy Baroness. But, as it turns out, nothing — nothing — is more frightening than...final exams.
When Jason Sloves finds a threatening note in front of the old mirror his parents bought at a garage sale, he thinks it was written by his older sister, but then he sees something moving inside the mirror. There's something eerie about the new mirror.
Violet and Sprite are hot on the trail of the escaped pixies, but the pixies are up to their own tricks and one puts a hiccup spell on Violet! But the big scare is Bogey Bill - a creepy goblin who wants every day to be as spooky as Halloween. Bogey Bill is changing bunnies into snakes and flowers into poison ivy.
In this Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning novel, a black family moves into an enormous house once used to hide runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
Once again, Merlin needs Jack and Annie's help. So the two time travelers will have to put off choosing their costumes for Halloween and return to Camelot for another important mission.
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Love Sonnet 17
by Pablo Neruda
Love Sonnet 17 Man and the Natural World Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Line); translated by Terence Clarke
Quote #1
I do not love you as though you were the salt-rose, topaz
Or the carnation-arrow begot in flames (1-2)
The speaker says that he loves his paramour differently than he loves natural objects like flowers and minerals. She is, by implication, more beautiful than roses and carnations. She is almost like a work of art, better than anything nature can produce.
Quote #2
I love you as the plant that does not flourish, and carries
Hidden within itself the light of its flowers (5-6)
These lines contrast with the speaker's remarks in the first stanza. There, he says he doesn't love his paramour as if she were a flower, but here he says he loves her "as the plant that does not flourish." Does this change in attitude suggest that the speaker is changing his ideas about love and nature as the poem progresses?
Quote #3
And, thanks to your love, there lives darkly in me
The quickening aroma that rose from the soil (7-8)
The speaker compares his experience of love to something natural, to an "aroma" that emerges from the soil. This also contrasts with the first stanza of the poem, where the speaker says that it is impossible to understand his love in terms of one's love for natural things like flowers. Can both be true?


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What Does 'Fiancé' Mean, Anyway?
The evolving semantics of love.
In America, marriage looks increasingly like a status symbol — something to aspire to, but not necessarily a universal rite of passage. And Hanna Rosin at Slate has noticed an unexpected by-product of this trend: More and more people are using the word "fiancé" to refer to their long-term partners, regardless of whether or not they have any active plans to get married. She writes:
I first became aware of this when I was reporting a story in a small town in Wisconsin a couple of years ago and "Bug" Smith, a 50-year-old man who worked as a machinist introduced me to his "fiancée." I was about to say "Congratulations!" but something stopped me. Their union did not have the air of expectant change about it. From their domestic surroundings, it looked like they lived basically as a married couple already, his boots next to hers by the front door, pictures of kids above the mantel. I later found out they'd been living together for 15 years and had two children.
Since then I have come across this phenomenon dozens of times, almost always in working-class couples, and usually younger ones. Someone will introduce me to his or her fiancé. But what they mean is more like my "steady lady" or my "steady man."
Fiancé is used less to signify a couple's long-term engagement than as a way to satisfy the expectations of a culture that still views marriage as the norm — even as it becomes economically elusive. The sociologist Pamela Smock observes that long-term partners tend to use the term fiancé when dealing with authorities, in professional situations, or in social situations that demand an aura of seriousness. "Girlfriend or boyfriend belittles the relationship, and partner feels like something people in New York and San Francisco say, so fiancé fills in the gap. It conveys at least the correct level of emotional attachment, which is: something like spouse but not quite," Rosin explains.
Rosin suggests that maybe we all just try to ease up on the marriage ideal. That's one solution, but we'd also propose trying to make "partner" happen.


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IEA's Birol: Hint of Extra Saudi Output 'Very Welcome'
Saudi Arabian Oil and Energy Minister Ali Naimi's hint that it and other producers could raise output if oil demand continues to strengthen is "a very welcome move," Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, said Wednesday.
Mr. Birol said real demand, rather than speculation or loose monetary policy, has been behind the rally in oil prices over the last four months. That rally has cooled in recent days, particularly since Mr. Naimi said OPEC's members may need "to boost their supplies to the global market to meet the rising global demand."
"The statement made by Naimi shows that, if there is a need, Saudi Arabia and other producers may show their flexibility to put more oil into the market, which I think is a very welcome move and shows how responsible Saudi Arabia can be when the situation is a risky one," Mr. Birol told Dow Jones Newswires.
The IEA estimates global oil demand will rise 1.4 million barrels a day this year to around 89.1 million barrels a day. Most of that demand has been from emerging markets, but the result has been to drive retail prices in advanced economies in Europe and the U.S. back to levels last seen before the 2008 financial crisis.
Birol said in both Europe and the U.S., an average price of $100 a barrel over the year would require them to spend 2.2% of gross domestic product just on oil imports — the same as in 2008, when prices peaked at $147 a barrel before crashing as the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers shook the global financial system and severely disrupted world output and trade flows.
Birol and the IEA have been sharply at odds with OPEC in assessing the causes of the recent rally, with OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El Badri arguing "there is more than enough oil in the market."
Naimi's comments were the first from a major producer to hint at concern that high oil prices could derail the economic recovery in industrialized countries.


text: Since Natalie Tennant has rolled out her campaign for U.S. Senate against Shelley Moore Capito it has been one negative attack after another. Tennant's campaign has produced only vague policy statements with no clear stance on how she would vote if elected. Instead of running with a positive message, Tennant has decided to criticize both Capito and the Republican Party for supporting fiscal responsibility and opposing the big government agenda of the Democratic Party.