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MANY, La. - Alton D. Kendrick, 84, died Friday, April 7, 2006.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in Kilpatricks Rose-Neath Funeral Home with Andy Addison of Leesville officiating. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Dumas Cemetery in Dumas, Texas.
Mr. Kendrick, a former resident of Dumas, died on April 7 at his home on Toledo Bend Lake in Louisiana. Mr. Kendrick was born May 13, 1921, in Rochelle to Henry Wesley Kendrick and Martha Amanda Kendrick. He moved to the Texas Panhandle in the late 1930s and was employed for Continental Carbon at its plant located between Dumas and Sunray.
He was a World War II veteran, having served in the Army from 1942 to 1945. During that time, he was involved in the construction of the Alcan Highway between the continental U.S. and Alaska. He later served in the Third Army in Europe as a mechanic/truck driver under Gen. George Patton. After the war, he returned to Dumas. In August 1946, he married the former Edith Wood. They celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in 2005.
Mr. Kendrick retired in 1985 after several years as an independent truck operator, when he and his wife moved to Toledo Bend Reservoir so he could enjoy fishing and other outdoors activities.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Nathan Mark Kendrick and wife, Peggy, of Amarillo, Texas; three daughters, Sharel Roath of Cedar Hill, Texas, Charlotte Merritt of Humble, Texas, and Charisa Wiseman and husband, Scott, of Pampa, Texas; three brothers, Floyd Kendrick and wife, Shirley, of Alexandria, Richard Kendrick and wife, Thelma, of Frisco City, Ala., and Malcom Kendrick and wife, Louise, of Georgetown; a sister, Barbara Pace and husband, Laine, of Hodge; eight grandchildren, Scott Roath and wife, Sandra, of Midlothian, Texas, Dru Niedecken of Fort Worth, Texas, Carly Niedecken of Arlington, Va., Andrea Hall and husband, Tim, of Springfield, Mo., and Becky Gray and husband, Rocky, Jackie Kendrick, Aaron Wiseman and Amanda Wiseman, all of Amarillo; and three great-grandchildren, B.J. Roath, Isaac Gray and Jacob Kendrick.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 10, 2006
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The lesbian classic Daughters of a Coral Dawn told the story of a group of pioneering women who disappeared from Earth and colonized the planet Maternas. But what became of the sisters they left behind? In this highly anticipated sequel, best-selling author Katherine V. Forrest describes an Earth beyond nightmare ruled by dictator Theo Zedera-known simply as Zed-whose weaponry is invincible. With ruthless determination he seeks the vanished women remaining on Unit Earth. Among these women is the leader of the Unity, the extraordinary Africa Contrera, Zed's childhood friend as well as his colleague and intellectual equal. As Africa struggles to build a world safe for women, she is haunted by her past - a time when she trusted Zed and shared with him the deadly knowledge he now uses to hunt her. What future can there be for the women who call themselves the Unity? How can they possibly conceal themselves from a world of savagery and a man who intends to find them at any cost? Just as she did 18 years ago, Katherine Forrest has created a brilliant, breathtaking, and romantic saga of a divided society and the rebels courageous enough to withstand a brutal new world.
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Women's earnings and employment by industry, 2009
February 16, 2011
Women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median weekly earnings of $657 in 2009. This represented 80 percent of men's median weekly earnings ($819).
Of the 45 million women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs, 17 million were employed in education and health services, and 5 million were employed in wholesale and retail trade. Financial activities and professional and business services each employed about 4 million women.
Median weekly earnings of women employed in education and health services were $717, which was 77 percent of men's median weekly earnings in that industry. In wholesale and retail trade, women's median weekly earnings were $523 (76 percent of men's earnings).
Median weekly earnings of women employed in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction ($873) and public administration ($783) were substantially higher than the earnings of their counterparts employed in leisure and hospitality ($421) and agriculture and related industries ($413).
Women's-to-men's earnings ratios were higher among women employed in construction (92 percent) and agriculture and related industries (85 percent) than among women employed in other services (72 percent) and financial activities (71 percent).
These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2010 Edition), BLS Report 1026, December 2010.
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Reader Comments (37)
Yeah, not sure which of the following is the worst: work-stress dreams, school-stress dreams even though you graduated long ago, family-stress dreams or those really weird abstract dreams that are also stressful but then you wake up and can't even understand what your sleeping self was trying to work through or how.
I've always wondered. Is it pronounced uhn-gah or nuh-gah?
It was all a dream. In real life, the Jenkins are triplets.
Note from Scott: For the pronunciation, imagine yelling "GAAA." The N is on the front is expressed as a slight strangling noise from the back of the throat as the exclamation forces it's way out of your thorax. "NGAAAAAH!"
I love that Jenkins is totally pulling a Prestige. I was almost sad to find it was a dream.
Actually, I made a previous comment about the Jenkins triplets, but what if you had Omnipresent Jenkins?
I hate dreaming that I'm at work, only to wake up in order to have to go to work.
"I'm 5 foot 9, 290, and there's two of me."
I always love seeing Missy's "ewwww" face.
The only possible response to this comic is: NGAA!
It really kind of gives you this defeated feeling when you realize you will never be the filling in a Jenkins and Jenkins sandwich.
Priceless!!! I think my least favorite dream dype is when you keep dreaming that you are waking up from a bad dream.
No, the worst are skunk dreams. Flying skunk dreams. Identical twin flying skunk dreams. Which I've had.
Last panel was brilliant!
My worst dreams are normal working dreams. Nothing unusual is happening, I'm just at work. Then I wake up and realize that I still have to go to work.
ya, huh..
I don't get why Jenkins' glasses gradually disappear (panel 1: two pair, panel 2: one pair, panel 3: none).
One of the best in a long time, IMHO. Panels 2 and 4 are greatness.
The creepiest thing for me is Jenkins' facial expressions. Jenkins_right always takes on the expression of Jenkins_left from the previous panel. They propagate from left to right like some kind of wave. Ewwwww!
Sintaur-- there are no disappearing glasses at all... Look at their hands; they just take them off.
Panel 4: "Your skin would make a fine poncho" eyes minus the smile
Ah, it was all a dream. Okay. I didn't think the Universe could be that cruel.
I was betting it was an anti-matter Jenkins, or a mirror-universe Jenkins that was efficient and well liked.
sintaur: I guess the glasses / not glasses is either because it's a dream, or Scott is recycling previous drawings where Jenkins was either wearing them or not.
The "Jenkins = plural of Jenkin" was a nice touch. Thank God it was all a dream.
The Insomniac Scott face is... serenely disturbing. He looks like the poster child for "What has been seen cannot be unseen."
Omnipresent Man vs OmniJenkins.
I want to say that the Jenkinses are shown eating their spectacles, but a humiliating attachment to truthfulness makes me say that each is holding their glasses in one or other hand when not wearing them. And putting them in their mouth some of the time.
Not much violation of speech bubbles, today. But I don't want us or particularly Scott to get obsessed with that.
I always wanted a twin, but my parents wouldn't get me one.
This would have explained so many things about Jenkins...
Sintaur, it's a subliminal countdown to awakening.
The glasses aren't disappearing; they're being removed from the face and held in hands. You can see both pairs of glasses in all three frames.
that would be the "real life".
Hey, new art!
Also, Doppelgänger ep! :D
There are two pairs of glasses visible in each panel 1 - 3. Whenever a Jenkin isn't wearing them, he's holding them.
I never realised
how comforting it was that
there was only one.
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an "Enter Sandman" moment.
Much too disturbing.
"I'd rather be insane." Another gem.
Now...I want to produce THAT movie!!
My worst dreams always involve my genitals being damaged in some way.


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FAYETTEVILLE CITY LEADERS COULD CHANGE WHO AND WHEN SALESPEOPLE CAN KNOCK YOUR DOOR TONIGHT. THIS COMES AFTER POLICE ARRESTED A WOMAN THEY SAY WAS STEALING CHECKS DOOR-TO- DOOR. 40/29'S BEN WAGNER IS LIVE IN THE STUDIO WITH A LOOK AT THE PROPOSAL. BEN -- ARE THESE CHANGES BECOMING A TREND IN OUR AREA? IT CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE IT. JUST LAST WEEK -- BENTONVILLE DISCUSSED THIS SAME ISSUE. THEY SAY THEY'RE MODELING THEIR PLAN AFTER SPRINGDALE'S DOOR-TO-DOOR ORDINANCE PASSED LAST YEAR. THE PROPOSAL WOULD REQUIRE SOLICITORS TO GET A 40 DOLLAR PERMIT FROM THE CITY. THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE TO WEAR A PHOTO I-D GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR. THE CHANGES IN CITY ORDINANCE WOULD ALSO KEEP SALESPEOPLE FROM KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR BETWEEN 8 AND 10 P-M. AND IF YOU'RE NOT HAVING ANY OF IT -- THE PROPOSAL WOULD LET ANYONE GET A "NO SOLICITIING" SIGN FROM THE CITY. SOME FOLKS WE TALKED TO SAID THEY DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Patrick Sellers says, "We have a big enough house that I can hide in the back and they'll go away. But if they catch me, I visit with them shortly then I try to get rid of them." PERMITS WOULDN'T BE REQUIRED FOR ANY GROUP THAT FALLS UNDER THE "FREE SPEECH" CATEGORY. THOSE GIRL SCOUTS SELLING COOKIES ARE ALSO EXEMPT. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, BEN WAGNER, 40/29 NEWS. TOPPING THE AGENDA OF SOME OTHER CITIES--
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Doesn't David Espinosa still play in Detroit's system somewhere?
Doesn't David Espinosa still play in Detroit's system somewhere?
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
Shows a lot of guys vote from their hearts, or stat sheets. I'd love to hear more input from people in Billings, Sarasota, Chattanooga, who have the opportunity to watch these guys in action a lot. Notice I left out Dayton and Louisville, as there are a number of them on this web-site. Although I do really appreciate their input and observations.
I don't believe Espy is out of baseball.
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This discussion makes me think of the first round bust and ex-Red, Cecil Espy. Isn't he also an ex-Tiger?
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quote: A free market requires competition to work correctly.
quote: then want to keep Samsung in check because they're successful in the Android ecosystem
quote: It could be that Google wants to find ways to raise up the other guys, not "keep Samsung in check". We just don't know.
quote: The free market made Samsung successful. This is ironic because Google is in a similar situation in web search, and they defend their hugely dominant position and then want to keep Samsung in check because they're successful in the Android ecosystem.
quote: HTC and LG have some fantastic Android phones
quote: Seriously the best phones lately are the Xperia Z the LG Optimus pro, The HTC one, oppo and huawei have some great ones too.
quote: At that rate they would have owned everything on Earth by 2025
quote: by retrospooty on February 26, 2013 at 4:40 PM You mean like his Apple stock at $1000 prediction? ;)


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The Basque Culture and its Contributions to the Philippines
by Benjamin Espiritu III, 4-AB Philo (Pre-Div)
We eat chorizo de bilbao, know the family names Ayala, Elizalde, Larrazabal and Aboitiz, go food-tripping in Binondo, visit the towns of Urdaneta and Claveria, revere Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Ignatius de Loyola, but what we do not know is that what we presume to be Spanish or Kastila are specifically from the Basque Country. These and a lot of other things were discussed as part of the Culture Talks organized by the Modern Languages Department of the Ateneo de Manila University. The talk, entitled The Basque Culture and its Contributions to the Philippines was given by Ms. Victoria Marie Valdez, a part-time lecturer of the department, last Friday, September 17, 2010.
Señorita Valdez opened the discussion with the history of the Basque Country, known as Pais Vasco in Spanish and as Euskal Herria by the Basques. The Basques call themselves in euskadi, their native language, as euskals. Geographically, it is located in the north of Spain, bordering with France. Notable cities are Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of Alava; Pamplona (strictly a city in Navarra, which is historically part of Euskal Herria), famous for the feast of San Fermin or sanfermines; Bilbao, a major trade seaport, also famous for the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum with its striking architecture; San Sebastian, known for the Film Festival, Jazz Festival and the Tamborrada Festival; and Guernica, in whose honor the famous Picasso painting was done, and also home to the Tree of Guernica, considered to be the soul of the Basque people.
The Basques believe to trace their roots from the Cro-Magnons and consider themselves the first Europeans. Euskara, the Basque language, is, in linguistic terms, a "language isolate," a natural language that has no traceable relationship or roots from other languages. Señorita Valdez stressed that their language defines and protects their identity as a people. It is because of this high esteem for the language and for their culture that they have a great endeavor of becoming a region distinct from Spain.
The Basque Country is the wealthiest region of Spain, attributing its wealth to the major trading port of Bilbao. Due to its being a coastal region, the Basque Country gave birth to many sailors, traders and ship builders. The abundant produce from the land and the sea is the This also is a cause for the rich culinary heritage that they have: a rich cuisine both from the land and the sea. Part of their food culture is the Txoko, a gastronomical society or food club exclusive to men that meets regularly to prepare food. Such clubs are so exclusive that they open to the public only during the Tamborrada festival.
The Basques played an important role in the conquests of Spain because of their sailors and ship builders. In fact, the first expedition to have arrived in the Philippines, the Magellan expedition, had a crew that was composed mostly of Basque sailors.
Among the famous Basques relevant to the country that Señorita Valdez mentioned were Juan Sebastian El Cano, Magellan's second-in-command; Simon Anda y Salazar, who exposed the injustices of the friars and the defended the country against the British; Jose Basco y Vargas, known as the father of agriculture in the Philippines; Guido de Lavezares, who fought against the Chinese Limahong; Narciso Claveria, from whom we owe our Spanish apellidos; and Fray Andres de Urdaneta, the bearer of Catholicism to the Philippines.
For us in the Ateneo, we also trace our lines from Basques. Ignacio de Loyola and Francisco Xavier, fathers of the Society of Jesus, were Basques themselves. So were Fernando Norzagaray and Juan de Lara, responsible for the establishment of the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, from where the Ateneo de Manila University traces its ancestry.
According to Dr. Alejandro Roces, "the Philippines may have been a Spanish territory but we are a Basque nation." We have the Basques to thank for our deep-seated religiosity and our rich Catholic tradition. Ms. Valdez also believes that the rise of nationalist sentiments among the Filipinos in the late 19th century and the arrival of the Basque Jesuits were not coincidental. She is also of the opinion that the Basques were instrumental in the conservation of our vernacular languages despite more than 300 years of Spanish occupation.
To wrap-up, the talk acquainted the audience to the rich Basque culture and opened their eyes to a deeper understanding of Filipino culture itself.


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N05733 WILLIAM McBREARTY, SAWYER 1943–4
Inscr. 'William McBrearty Sawyer.' b.r.
Pencil (sight), 19 1/4×15 1/2 (49×39·5).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: Temple Newsam, Leeds, July–September 1947 (86).
This is another of the studies of shipyard employees made in 1943–4 during the artist's stay at Port Glasgow (see N05732).
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The First Test between Bangladesh and Australia is going right down to the wire, and the final day's play tomorrow will see a very tight finish. There is a good chance that Bangladesh might pull off one of the biggest upsets in Test cricket history. Australia need 95 runs to win, with only two established batsmen left, and six wickets in hand.
In truth, Australia are fortunate to even be in the game at all, because they were comprehensively outplayed in the first two days of this Test match. Needless to say, this state of affairs has caused plenty of amusement for English cricket fans and other wicked folk.
But regardless of the result, this match has been, to use a cliche, good for the game. It comes as the editor of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack has released his latest offering in which he takes a small minded view of the game and denounces the 'globalisation' of cricket. The way in which Bangladesh were rushed into playing Test cricket was misguided and done for the wrong reasons, but the game is slowly but surely taking a foothold in the country, in terms of playing success.
That is good for cricket. It is even more good for Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. Bangladesh is famous for being poor, having lots of disasters, and not much else. When the Champions Trophy one-day International cricket tournament was held in Dacca in 1998, one observer said to a shocked editor of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack that the event was the most positive event in the country's history since Independence.
With the football World Cup two months away, there may well be quite a bit of tut-tutting in the media about how sport and nationalism are a dreadful combination. And there is something to that. However, I think that sport and national pride, which is something else entirely, is a positive thing. No matter what actually happens tomorrow, the future of Bangladesh cricket looks bright, and I think that is a wonderful thing.


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An excellent public forum was held Monday night on the County Health Rankings program.
Ideas were shared as the discussion centered on Sangamon County improving its 80th ranking the the program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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We invite letters to the editor to share ideas on moving forward. Those letters can be send to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Lis an unemployed 32-year-old single mother, eight months pregnant with her third child and seems to owe money to everyone -- friends, the government and grocers at the local outdoor produce market, where she has bought hundreds of shekels worth of food on credit.
"It's a really hard existence," said L, who is divorced and asked to be identified only by her first initial. "The kids want things that I simply cannot provide. This winter, I could not afford new shoes for the children."
But she added, offering a thin smile: "Luckily my daughter and I now wear the same size, so at least we can share."
Her family recently cut off contact with L after she accused her father of sexually abusing her 10-year-old daughter. He is serving time in jail for the crime.
On a recent afternoon, her neighbor, Yaffa Ezra, 38, joined her for a visit. She was married at 16, divorced at 18. Until recently, she lived across the street with her two grown sons. The older one has a long police record; the younger one has picked a straighter path but has yet to find a steady job.
Ezra and L are part of the fabric of hard times and cohesiveness that make up Shechunat Hatikvah in south Tel Aviv, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, where about half of the families live in poverty.
The neighborhood represents one of the toughest tests for poverty fighters -- a place where generation after generation is entangled in a cycle of poverty. As recent immigrants move in, they also struggle to find their way out of unemployment or low-paying jobs.
Shechunat Hatikvah faces similar problems as the deeply impoverished communities in more outlying parts of the country, the heavily immigrant development towns. In the southern development town of Kiryat Malachi, for example, multiple soup kitchens have opened but no new industry and jobs.
Anti-poverty activists and residents say the situation of many of these towns is the result of decades of government neglect and poor planning -- places seen as dumping grounds where immigrants were settled in demographically strategic locations but far from job opportunities.
Shechunat Hatikvah is located in an area that once was lush with orange groves. In their place now stand dilapidated low-rise apartment buildings and narrow alleyways. Laundry is hung from outdoor balconies, paint often peels off living room walls and families save money by not putting on the heat, even during cold winter nights.
The neighborhood is mostly a mix of descendants of the original Iraqi, Iranian and Yemenite families that first settled here in the early 1950s, as well as recent immigrants from the Caucasus Mountains and Uzbekistan. The new immigrants comprise about 40 percent of Shechunat Hatikvah.
It's also home to others drawn by the cheap rents, including foreign workers from the Philippines and Africa. Rounding out the eclectic mix are about 40 Palestinian families who were settled here by the government after they became informers in the West Bank and Gaza.
Teenagers who dropped out or were kicked out of the army congregate on the corners of the neighborhood's main shopping street, Rehov Etzel, where they eat lamb kebabs or plan where they will meet for a party later the same night.
A store that sells lottery tickets bustles with men filling in numbers on stacks of tickets, hoping the right combination will change their luck. A foreign worker from Africa, fresh from the outdoor market, pushes home bags of fruit and vegetables in a baby stroller. Nearby, retired men play backgammon while grilling meat for dinner on a portable barbecue.
Amid the bustle, an elderly man and woman collect empty bottles and push them in carts up the street, hoping to collect a few cents for each one.
Taking in the evening scene is Ezra's younger son, Ben, 20. Since his mother rented out their home to help make ends meet, he sleeps at the apartments of friends but wonders if he will find a place of his own. He has been arrested several times, mostly for fights, but he says all of that is in the past.
Ben Ezra, who has cropped dark hair, three tattoos and wears two hoop earrings, calls himself "The King of the Neighborhood." Indeed, he seems to know almost everyone, waving a personal greeting to almost everyone he passes.
He now volunteers at a local program for at-risk youth called, Better Together, where he tries to act as a role model, steering others in the neighborhood away from despair and in some cases a life of crime. He is still shaken from the experience of recently helping talk three teens out of killing themselves in the space of a few weeks.
Sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Better Together operates in several of the most socioeconomically challenged neighborhoods in Israel. It tries to help youth-oriented organizations -- schools, welfare offices and community centers -- better coordinate their work and pool their resources more effectively.
Better Together, which advocates an expansive and holistic approach to rehabilitating the Israeli underclass, focuses on children from the very beginning of their lives as members of both a family and a community.
More than half of the children here between ages 3 and 6 need help with motor skills, language and emotional problems. If they aren't treated early, they will start first grade two years behind developmentally, said Noya Baram, national director of Better Together, which is part of JDC's Ashalim project that designs services for at-risk children and their families. Funding is provided in part by UJA-Federation of Greater New York.
"These are like kids racing for a bus they will never catch," Baram said.
Better Together also emphasizes strong parental involvement in family matters. Organizers have found that when parents are marginalized, young people begin to treat them as irrelevant, which leads to even more serious social problems.
The program has helped counteract that trend by sparking a revolution in parental involvement and family bonding, according to Varda Horesh, director of the local welfare office.
Ben Ezra, who hasn't had the benefit of an intact family, walked through the open-air produce market where more and more people in recent years have been buying on credit. He stopped to talk to Avner Chavaton, 56, who sells candy from a stall and has been hit especially hard by tough times. Chavaton's apartment was repossessed by the bank, and he recently had the water in his rented apartment cut off because he could not pay his utility bills.
"In the past two or three years, I have barely had enough to eat," he said, rubbing his hand over his white beard.
Ezra listened. When he walked away, he spoke again of his plans to improve his own life, specifically by getting into a course that will train him to work in the community, hopefully with children and other at-risk youth.
However, social worker Yisrael Sela, his mentor, was concerned. Ezra had not yet been accepted into the course and, in the meantime, has expressed no interest in finding a job. Sela feared for his young friend's future.
"If he does not find a path soon," he said grimly, "he will turn into a threat."
Before N, an ultra-Orthodox woman, landed her job, she and her family of five lived on the $475 a month her husband made studying Torah full time at a yeshiva, plus about another $100 from government child allowances.
Her relatives helped when they could, but the family's monthly income still left it well beneath the poverty level in Israel.
Now N, who like other women interviewed for this story asked that her real name not be used, is earning about $1,200 a month doing paralegal work at a company that exclusively employs religious women like her. She shudders when she recalls the lean, dark days of unemployment and impoverishment.
"It is a scary feeling that you don't have with what to buy in the store," said N, 29. "You need to shop for food and clothes, and you don't have the money."
That feeling has become familiar to more and more Israelis who constitute a growing underclass. In a robust economy that has produced an abundance of millionaires, they are the ones who've been left behind.
Among those hardest hit by poverty in the Jewish state are ultra-Orthodox Jews, also known as Charedim, and Arabs -- two groups that despite their obvious differences have much in common socioeconomically.
Every weekday, N and hundreds of other women in similar circumstances seek a route out of poverty by trooping to a four-story, stone-faced building along the main road in Modi'in Ilit, a Charedi settlement located about halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
It is the only office building in the community of 35,000, and it houses Citybook Services Ltd., an outsourcing company that has provided many Charedi women like N and their families a new lease on life. In the process, some say, the first faint rumblings of a revolution are being felt in the Charedi community: Now there are workplaces in Israel that are catering to fit their needs.
Charedi women have traditionally supported their families economically when they could, but such new work settings are groundbreaking in that they are specifically designed for them. The work is in their community, so they are not more than a few minutes from home if they need to tend to their children, and they work almost exclusively with other Charedi women.
Because most are mothers with large families, the hours are structured to suit them. The workday at Citybook, for example, ends at 2:30 p.m.
It also offers options. Most Charedi women had worked in education, but through these new offices, they can be part of the professional, secular international world without compromising their religious precepts. Here they have pension plans and work in an organized, professional environment with bonuses and other financial incentives to achieve and build careers that will increase their earning power. Most of the companies include intensive training, bringing the women to a level on a par with colleagues in the secular world.
Among others involved in Charedi employment initiatives are the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade, which have partnered in a job-training project in six Israeli cities. Yossi Tamir, who is spearheading JDC's new partnership with the government for increased independence through employment, said programs include placing Charedim in high-tech companies that train and hire them as computer programmers.
Another program in Jerusalem trains bus drivers to work routes in Charedi neighborhoods. Also, there are private initiatives from employment agencies and colleges to employ Charedim.
Becoming the Breadwinner
On a sunny winter morning, men cloaked in black scurry by the office building that houses Citybook and two other companies staffed almost exclusively by Charedi women. The men are bound for classes at local kollels or yeshivas for married men. Most will spend their days studying Torah and most receive a modest stipend from the government and their seminaries.
However, it is the women who belong to the settlement's only real workforce. According to the laws of Jewish modesty, their hair is tucked under wigs or neatly tied scarves when in the presence of men or in public, and they wear long-sleeve shirts and skirts that almost skim the floor.
On the fourth floor, they work as paralegals in Citybook's office. On the second and third floors, they work as computer programmers. On the first floor, they scan in data for a digital archiving company.
The computer firm, Matrix/Talpiot, hires women who have studied computers in high school programs and also provides additional software training. The graphic company does a brief training of its employees on how to scan and store images.
For about 80 percent of these women, mostly mothers in their 20s and 30s with large families, it is the first time they have held jobs following years of raising families while living in deep poverty. In most cases, they are the only significant breadwinners in their families, meaning they can enjoy a newfound sense of empowerment, a feeling of confidence in themselves and a fresh sense of control over their lives.
"When I started working, I asked myself how I was living until now," said T, 32, who has six children, a husband who studies full time at a kollel and sizable debts to pay off. "All of a sudden, I could breathe easier."
Until she found a job doing paralegal work through Citybook, the family's main source of income -- like it is for most Charedi families -- was the stipend for her husband's Torah study and child allowances from the state.
She and her family live two flights down from the street entrance of a large apartment block. Baby strollers cramming the lobby testify to the average family size among the Charedim -- seven children per couple. Some strollers even hang on the walls to save space.
T welcomes a guest into her Spartan apartment with freshly scrubbed tiled floors and walls lined with bookcases of religious texts. Framed photos of rabbis mixed with some family portraits are the main decoration.
Two years ago, her family moved from their tiny two-bedroom apartment, where five of her six children had shared one room, to this more spacious three-bedroom place.
"It was crowded for living, and we were able to move up a step," she said, largely due to the salary she earned in Citybook's title insurance department, verifying ownership of New York properties.
On a neighboring street, large families live in smaller apartments. Space is tight. In one apartment, piles of laundry await folding on one edge of a worn couch, just a few steps from a dining room table that takes up half of a living room that measures less than 100 square feet.
In the bedroom designated for four children, beds are pushed together. A crib is tucked in a corner, leaving a narrow passage to enter and exit.
"At night, the beds come out from anywhere or everywhere, and people make do because that's what they have to do," said T, her honey-colored wig skimming the shoulders of her black sweater. "But they are happy. This is the life they chose."
Due to their lifestyle, the Charedim account for much of the poverty in Israel. About 20 percent of those living in poverty in Israel are Charedim, even though they comprise only about 8 percent of the population. Between 40 percent to 50 percent of Charedim live below the poverty line, compared to 17 percent of Jewish families living in Israel as a whole.
Meanwhile, 54 percent of Israeli Arabs live below the poverty line.
Among the Bedouin in the Negev, poverty rates are the highest of all -- 66 percent of the community live below the poverty line, according to research conducted by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in conjunction with the Van Leer Institute.
The Plight of Israeli Arabs
The Charedim and Arabs are patriarchal communities that feature large families and deeply conservative cultures. Recent social spending cuts by the government have been especially debilitating for the two groups, because welfare benefits and monthly child allowances were reduced.
Concentrated efforts to bring work to Israeli Arabs, nearly 20 percent of the total population, are under way, but there is no equivalent of companies cultivating work specifically for them as there is for Charedi women, said Michal Belikoff, coordinator of research at Sikkuy, a nongovernmental organization that focuses on civic equality for Israel's Arab citizens.
Most programs in which Israeli Arabs participate are initiated by the Ministry of Trade and Labor as part of wider programs to get those who are considered weaker socioeconomic groups into the workforce. This includes work-preparedness courses and job placement. Private nongovernment organizations are also involved. For example, they train Arab women as entrepreneurs.
In contrast to Charedi men, though, Arab men commonly work -- often in low-paying jobs such as construction, where benefits are scarce and stability is rare. The women are expected to stay at home and care for the children, and therefore they enter the workforce in lower numbers than Jewish women. Arab women are also likelier to drop out of high school than their Jewish peers, limiting their career potential.
Worse yet, finding work can be more difficult for Arabs who tend to live far from the country's economic heart, the center of the country. Even those who live near employment centers sometimes face discrimination by non-Arab potential employers.
Some maintain that Israeli Arabs have been shortchanged through the inequitable distribution of public assistance funding. As a result, private groups have stepped in to try to meet the enormous material needs of Israeli Arabs.
Salwa Kanan, for example, established a volunteer group of women to distribute food in her hometown, the Arab village of Tamra in northern Israel. Kanan talked about a recent visit to Tamra, where a widow with five children opened her refrigerator to reveal its meager contents -- a few pieces of dried-out pita bread.
"People are suffering more and more," Kanan said. "The payments they once received have been reduced, and there is less money to pay for things like food and electricity."
The Islamic Movement, the conservative Muslim political and social arm of Israel's Arabs, also has acted to fill the void, according to Yaser Awad, a statistician who was formerly the head of research for Israel's National Insurance Institute. He said the movement is paying for education for toddlers, providing tutoring for other students, opening afternoon clubs for youths and distributing food parcels.
Making Strides
In the Charedi world, signs of a gradual revolt against a life of self-imposed poverty can be seen, according to Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University who studies that community.
"It is beginning to happen, but it's not an overnight process, especially because overall, Israel as a welfare state for the ultra-Orthodox still works," he said, referring to Charedi political clout in the Knesset that translates into government allowances for married men engaged in full-time Torah study. "But you see in the margins there are people who seek to live differently."
Those margins may continue to grow, albeit slowly and incrementally, according to Eli Kazhadan, an outsourcing consultant and former chief of staff of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
"The more you see the person next door to you earning more money, you will start asking why," he said. "It's an evolution, not a revolution, because it's a very closed society."
Those who are especially talented and ambitious men are finding their way out of the yeshiva world through secular education and jobs. "But they cannot leave it all at once," Friedman said, "so they leave it slowly."
However, in Charedi families it is fairly common for the woman to work, even part-time, in order for her husband to continue his studies. In Charedi society, Torah study is seen as the ultimate occupation for a man.
Citybook was the first outsourcing company to locate in Modi'in Ilit and the first of its kind nationwide. Joe Rosenbaum, an American Charedi businessman, founded the company here three years ago as a satellite office to an insurance and property services company based in Lakewood, N.J. Six other companies employing Charedi women have since followed to Modi'in Ilit.
Rosenbaum started Citybook here because he thought it made good business sense, not from a sense of charity. In Modi'in Ilit, he and other businesses decided they would be able to tap into a pool of educated and motivated potential employees willing to earn relatively low wages in exchange for working close to home and in a religiously sensitive environment.
Also, the government has provided an added incentive in the form of a subsidy of up to $240 a month per worker, which can account for as much as one-quarter of a full salary.
"I never understood it, and it always bothered me seeing so many people within the Orthodox community having such difficulty making ends meet," Rosenbaum said. "I wondered why they could not have the same opportunities to earn a living with respect like Jews in Israel and Orthodox Jews in America."
Rosenbaum said he hopes his company will serve as a model for many others.
Little Opposition
Charedi leaders have offered relatively little opposition to women working. Rosenbaum said it is in their best interests to encourage the women to support their husbands in Torah study, and as long as the work is done in a religiously sensitive framework, most Charedi leaders have been accepting.
The recent rabbinic ruling prohibiting Charedi women from getting bachelor's degrees in education because their instructors might be secular and teach them "heresy" was not taken as a threat to the trend of increasing numbers of working Charedi women outside of the education system, community members said.
Libby Affen, chief operating officer for Matrix-Talpiot and a Charedi woman who helps lead Temach, a volunteer organization that encourages Charedi women to join the workforce, said she had not seen any effect of the ruling in her business or other any others that employ Charedi women.
At Citybook, the women make about $1,400 a month, about one-and-a-half times above the minimum wage in Israel and just a fraction of what they would be paid for the same work in the United States.
The women are known for their good work ethic -- no personal calls on company time, no Internet surfing. Before they arrive home in midafternoon, their children have been tended to by older siblings, baby sitters or their husbands on lunch break from kollel.
Perhaps they could have taken better-paying jobs in major cities, but the long commute would make it difficult to juggle child care. Also, the absence of a unisex, deeply traditional religious setting would be culturally unacceptable.
"You come in, feel it is a respectable place and that you are respected," T said. "I never worked in an office with men, and I cannot imagine doing so."
Whatever the attraction, the Modi'in Ilit model seems to work, said Yakov Guterman, the mayor of the settlement. He points out that seven companies, mostly in the high-tech sector, are employing a total of 700 people, mostly women. More arrivals are anticipated.
Just downstairs from Citybook, at Matrix-Talpiot, the software development company, about 250 Charedi women are employed. Most had studied basic computing at their religious high schools. The introduction of such courses is a recognition that women in this community will increasingly have to work outside the home for their families to survive economically.
On the first floor, Chaim Arbel, manager of the digital archiving company that employs about 100 women, is thumbing through a stack of files submitted by applicants for another 60 jobs. His supply of job seekers far exceeds the number of openings.
"Here there is no problem of applicants," Arbel said with a satisfied grin.
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Over the past decade, I have noticed a decline in our respect for Old Glory, our nations flag.
At a ball game and other events, mature men fail to remove their hats or ball caps during the playing of the National Anthem or the Pledge.
On Election Day, I was deeply disturbed at a horrible sight in my polling precinct. A flag standard displaying the United States flag was casually placed directly behind one of the electronic polling booths. The top cord holding the flag was not connected, allowing the flag to fall crumpled and sagging so that part of the flag was touching the floor.
This scene created in me a feeling of anger, sadness and fear. Was the situation of the flag symbolic of our country or the attitude of so many of our citizens? Has our nation, one of the greatest and most blessed in world history, lost her power, prestige, (yes) dominion, or have her citizens lost hope?
I called for a poll manager and asked that the flag issue be corrected by either removing the flag from the pole and respectively storing it or displaying it in the proper manner.
The reaction appeared to be thats no big deal. I personally think the election process should have come to a halt and our flag restored to its honorable position. Many men and women have paid too high a price for our colors to stand tall and proud for us to allow her to droop.
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HAMBURG - The East Juniata girls soccer team knows how important just one goal can be.
It took one overtime goal from McKayla Goodling in the semifinal round of the District 4 Class A tournament to clinch the Tigers' spot in the state tournament.
But Tuesday, when the Tigers played Tulpehocken in the PIAA Class A tournament, it was the Trojans' one goal which eliminated East Juniata, 1-0, from the tournament and ended the Tigers' season.
"We couldn't seem to get anything going to get dangerous. It ended up being played in the middle of the field a lot of the times," East Juniata coach Lori Goodling said.
Goodling summed up the match well. A large portion of the match's 80 minutes were played between the 18s, as neither team found many opportunities to get in dangerous scoring position. But unfortunately for the Tigers, there was that one moment early in the game where Tulpehocken scored the only goal it would need to win.
Just over three minutes into the game, Tulpehocken's Victoria Stump buried one head on after Kailee Ziegler, who was near the baseline on the right side of the net, gave her the pass. And it was that one goal which was all the Trojans would need to shut out the Tigers. In fact, Tulpehocken, which was the District 3 Class A championship team, has shut out every team it has faced in the playoffs thus far.
The Tigers' last match was a 1-0 loss to Loyalsock for the District 4 Class A title a match which was determined in penalty shots after the game was still scoreless after regulation and two overtime periods. And Tuesday, with the exception of Tulpehocken's one goal, the state matchup was very reminiscent of the Tigers' last performance.
"If we could have those first 10 minutes back and not play sluggish, it probably would have went into overtime," Goodling said.
But Tulpehocken came out stronger than East Juniata did, and it was in those first few minutes of the Tigers' weakness that the outcome of the match was decided.
Although neither teams took very many shots throughout the entire match, it was East Juniata's lack of shots which was really crippling. East Juniata had just a handful of shots in the first half, none of which were very dangerous, and no shots in the second half.
Tulpehocken's defense was just too tough, meaning that East Juniata's usual scorers, Kayla Hoke and McKayla Goodling, had trouble finding any openings.
"We tried to move some around a little in different positions, but we just couldn't really get (Hoke and Goodling) the ball," Lori Goodling said.
Last year, East Juniata ended its season in the District 4 Class A quarterfinals, so despite the disappointment of Tuesday's loss, making it to the state tournament was an accomplishment in and of itself. The Tigers ended their season with a 16-5-1 record, and Goodling said she was proud of the way her girls played Tuesday night.
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This lesson will introduce students to several prominent painters in art history. Students will research selected artists in groups and create PowerPoint presentations. After the groups present the information on the artists to the class, each student will then individually select one artist's style and technique to emulate in their own painting.
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Every so often, Google Webmaster Tools adds a new wrinkle that makes life measurably easier for SEO leadership at large organizations. Index Status is one of those wrinkles.
This nifty little feature – which was released this past summer but has gotten relatively little fanfare considering the profound insights and leverage it can provide – does two things that I find crucial:
- It helps quickly diagnose very serious issues with duplicate and/or non-canonical URLs that could be wasting your daily allotment of crawl budget while simultaneously confusing the hell out of search engine crawlers.
- It provides a very intuitive data visualization that can be used to tell a very compelling story to cross-functional stakeholders, which in turn, can lead to the site and server-level implementation to overcome duplicate and canonical issues.
Now there are a few things to keep in mind that will help ensure that you get the most value possible out of this feature. For starters, in order to get to the really interesting data you need to click on the "Advanced" tab. That's how you can gain access to "Not Selected" data, which essentially refers to URLs that have been crawled by Google but not indexed because of duplicate content issues or because of server-side redirects that are in place (and other issues as well). This is an important piece of data because it can give you a fairly accurate sense for whether or not you have major issues with rogue – often auto-generated – URLs.
In my experience, it's normal to see a fairly high ratio of "Not Selected" to "Indexed" pages. In other words, more often than not, you'll have a significant portion of your site's URLs not selected for Google's index particularly if you've had to implement a lot of server-side redirects (which is often the case for enterprise-caliber websites). However, if you have a ridiculous ratio of "Not Selected" to "Indexed" URLs or if you have a ridiculous overall number of "Not Selected" URLs (I've seen instances of sites with tens of millions of "Not Selected" URLs) or if the graph shows a major spike in either the ratio or absolute number of "Not Selected" URLs than it's likely time to invest some significant resources into really opening up the hood to understand why, how, and how often Google is finding all of these URLs and why they are choosing to exclude them from the index.
Fact of the matter is that this Google Webmaster Tools feature won't dive into granular details (e.g. provide the actual URLs being labeled as "Not Selected", etc.) so you will need to employ advanced server log file analysis techniques like the one in the article I linked to above as well as other data-driven operations in order to figure out what URLs are being excluded, why they're being excluded, how they're being generated in the first place, and what you can do to remedy the situation in a scalable and technically feasible manner.
But even though this feature isn't capable of any sort of deep dive, I still find that the simple ability to monitor this key metric and share visualizations with key organizational stakeholders in order to persuade them to make important technical and architectural changes make this feature really valuable.
Managing your site's crawl budget is key, and that makes Index Status a nifty little tool indeed.


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Recognize the guy in that picture? That's Barry Bonds, the all-time home run king. That picture is from 1992, which was the last time the Pittsburgh Pirates had a winning season. Bonds left after that season to sign with the San Francisco Giants, and it was all downhill in Pittsburgh from there.
If the Pittsburgh Pirates streak of consecutive losing seasons were a person, it would be old enough to vote.
It would have a driver's license, and if it were male, would have to have register for the draft.
If it were a person, it would be getting ready for college.
That's how long it has been since the Pirates have been losing baseball games.
The last time the Pirates had a winning season work was just beginning on a new ballpark in Cleveland (Jacob's Field); Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty by reason of insanity for killing and eating people in Wisconsin; the Washington Redskins were the champions of the NFL; and the Penguins won the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive time.
Sure, the citizens of Pittsburgh have seen their share of futility. The Steelers were no good for their first 40 years and the Penguins took more than 20 years to win their first Stanley Cup. In recent times, however, Pittsburghers have grown accustomed to a certain level of competency.
Sadly, the Pirates are not living up to the high expectations of the City of Champions.
On this, the day that the Pirates awaken to find they are above .500 in May, let's have a look at each year and see where the low point was as this new season filled with high hopes begins.


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Right to Work Attorneys Intervene to Stop NLRB General Counsel from Blocking Union's Ejection from Narricot Industries
Case highlights legal bias that pushes employees into union ranks and entrenches union despite employee opposition
Norfolk, Virginia (June 6, 2008) – With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, employees at fabric manufacturer Narricot Industries have filed a motion to defend their decision to throw the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Union Local 2316 out of their workplace. After workers overwhelmingly supported decertification, union officials moved to block the employees' wishes.
Prior to filing a decertification petition, only one quarter of employees in the collective bargaining unit were dues-paying members of the unpopular union, the majority having exercised their rights under Virginia's Right to Work law to opt out of union dues. And 64 percent of employees signed a petition to remove the union as their collective bargaining agent.
In an effort to undo the employees' decision, Carpenters union lawyers filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Under federal labor law, Carpenters union officials would have to prove that any unfair labor practices committed by the employer incited employees to support decertification. Because employee discontent with union representation predates union officials' accusations against Narricot, the Carpenters union's attempt to nullify the decertification petition is unlikely to succeed.
Unfortunately, the NLRB General Counsel moved for a court order that forces employees back into the union for as long as the union's charge is under consideration. If such an injunction is granted, the Carpenters union will regain its monopoly control of workplace representation until the Board rules upon the validity of the unfair labor practice charges, regardless of the employees' desires to be free of union representation.
To stop workers from being forced back into union ranks, employees represented by Foundation attorneys filed a motion to participate in the injunction hearing. Foundation attorneys contend that employees freely chose to leave the union, and that it would be unfair to force them back into the union against their will.
"It is abundantly clear that the company's actions had nothing to do with widespread employee dissatisfaction with the union," said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. "The NLRB should respect workers' clear desire to remove the union."


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By giuseppe on Jan 22, 2010
Since I rarely need to create a self-signed certificates, I typically forget the necessary steps. So, perhaps this entry is more for my own use but it may be deemed useful to somebody else out there.
General Overview
In order to set up IIS to have a self-signed cert to be used your .NET application, the following steps are needed:
- Download Pre-requisite Software
- Create the Self-Signed Certificate
- Assemble the Personal Information Exchange File
- Import into the Key Store
- Set the Permissions
- Test it out
Pre-requisite Software
Before I get into the details, you should download these required software:
- makecert
- Utility that will enable you to generate your self-signed certificate. This will be found within the Windows SDK.
- pvk2pfx
- Another utility that will copy your public key and private key information and place into a .pfx file (Personal Information Exchange) for use with signing. This will also be found within the Windows SDK.
- winhttpcertcfg
- Utility required for Windows 2003 users to set the appropriate permissions correctly.
Create Self-Signed Certificate
From the command line help for makecert:
|Create a self signed certificate
|-a <algorithm>
|The signature algorithm. <md5|sha1> (Default to 'md5')
|Mark generated private key as exportable
|-n <X509name>
|Certificate subject X500 name (eg: CN=Fred Dews)
|-sky <keytype>
|Subject key type <signature|exchange|<integer>>.
|-sv <pvkFile>
|Subject's PVK file; To be created if not present
Given the above, here's an example of how I created a certficate:
makecert -r -a sha1 -pe -n "CN=Fedlet" -sky exchange -sv fedlet.pvk fedlet.cer
Hmmm... can you see where I'm going with this in the near future. :)
Assemble Personal Information Exchange File
From the command line help for pvk2pfx:
|-pvk <pvk-file>
|input PVK file name.
|-spc <spc-file>
|input SPC file name.
|-pfx <pfx-file>
|output PFX file name.
Using the above, let's continue with our example:
pvk2pfx -pvk fedlet.pvk -spc fedlet.cer -pfx fedlet.pfx
At this point, we have the necessary file to import into our key store.
Import into the Key Store
The Microsoft Management Console (mmc.exe) has an Add-In called "Certificates" which we'll use to import the public/private keys into the appropriate key store.
- Start MMC
- Add the Certificates Add-In. Be sure to specify Computer account for managing certificates.
- Navigate to the Path > Personal folder.
- Within the menu, choose Action > Import...
- Specify your .pfx file (for example, fedlet.pfx) and click Finish.
- Provide a friendly name for this certificate by viewing its properties and entering a value.
Setting the Permissions
Once you have your public/private key in the local machine's personal key store, you have to ensure Internet Information Server (IIS) can access it correctly.
For Windows Vista and 2008:
- Within MMC's menu, choose Action > All Tasks > Manage Private Keys...
- Add the NETWORK SERVICE user account and specify Allow Read permissions
For Windows 2003:
- Run the command line utility winhttpcertcfg.exe mentioned earlier.
For our example, we would run it as follows:
winhttpcertcfg -g -c LOCAL_MACHINE\\MY -s Fedlet -a "Network Service"
Test it out
Now that you've done all that, how do you know it's done? Well, in the latest nightly builds of the .NET Fedlet, you can try out the export metadata feature that will not only output your metadata, but if the extended metadata has the friendly name specified for the signing certificate alias, it will include the public key as well as sign the XML.
To try it out:
At this point, you should be able to see your metadata similar to what is defined in sp.xml but now with the additional signing key information as well as the XML being signed, all to confirm that your self-signed certificate is good to go for testing.


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By JulyBergenJanuary 19, 2012
Excellent experience at Advanced Dentures
I am writing this review because I have had excellent results having my dentures made at Advanced Dentures. Brian was very good at developing a new smile for me and I've never had a better fitting set of dentures and I've had a few.
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Yarkona, Israel and Las Vegas, USA – 9th January 2013: Comigo today announced it will use its presence at CES 2013 to demonstrate its unique social and interactive applications (WatchApps) which allow viewers to engage with the content they watch and interact with their friends.
The WatchApps are offered as part of Comigo's multi-screen Smart TV platform. The viewers can participate in polls, betting or trivia questions, get extended internet-based information related to the content they watch, buy merchandize or other items - all while watching the show with no need to surf the web or search in the application store.
For example, while watching a Sports match, the viewer can enter the Facebook page of the league, get the history of the players, receive real-time results of other games being played at the same time, re-play interesting events that took place during the game, minute-by-minute, make a bet, purchase tickets for the next game and more.
Viewers can purchase specific products related to the viewed content and invite their friends to join this purchase – in return they can get a discount.
Viewers can also use the WatchApps to send virtual multimedia messages to friends while watching a show, such as Birthday Cakes and wishes and throwing a tomato when their friend's team scores.
Comigo offers SDK, enabling developers to build such interactive-applications and back-end tools for the TV Service Providers to manage and correlate the interactive-applications with their EPG.
Comigo presents its platform at the LVH (Las Vegas Hotel), 3000 Paradise Road, East Tower, Suite 2060
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Fred Kavli at SMN
Sep 9, 2011 11:39 AM
The 84-year old Fred Kavli was impressed by Helmer Fjellvåg and Bengt Svensson's presentation of the research at SMN.
The Norwegian Micro- and Nanofabrication Facility officially opened
Aug 10, 2011 10:34 AM
The official opening of The Norwegian Micro- and Nanofabrication Facility took place at UiO on the 16th of June. The Minister of Research and Higher Education Tora Aasland participated in the opening ceremony.
New invention reduces the electricity consumption with ten percent
Mar 15, 2011 11:40 AM
A new material - silicon carbide (SiC) - has a key to energy saving. With this material in electronical components we can reduce the power consumption of the western world with ten percent.
Extended cleanroom capacity
Mar 14, 2011 01:27 PM
During the course of the spring of 2011, SMN will step into the new network Norwegian Micro- and NanoFabrication Facility (NorFab), together with NTNU, HiVE and SINTEF. This means that there will be more cleanroom facilities at disposal for the research within micro- and nanotechnology.
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The fashionista formerly known as Posh Spice posted the find to Twitter, proclaiming, "My mum just found this vintage pizza in the freezer!!!"
Vintage, for sure. The autographed box looks as if it's been stuck in the icy depths for decades. The pictured product shows five individual pies cut to spell out "SPICE," and claims that each member of the group created her own slice "loaded with the girls' favorite toppings."
Beckham's choice? Red onion and cheese, because she "knows what she really really wants when it comes to vegetables."
Not wanting to leave her followers wondering what was in the box, Beckham Tweeted a follow-up shot of the pizza on a pan, ready for the oven. Yum?
It looks even better out of the packaging!! X vb pic.twitter.com/5CM0Wap32d— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) March 12, 2014
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October 07, 2013
Intermodal rail traffic in the U.S. during September hit the second-highest weekly average of any month on record, according to new figures from the Association of American Railroads.
The weekly average of 256,881 intermodal units also occurred as September saw the three highest-volume intermodal weeks in history for U.S. railroads last month. Only the Labor Day holiday prevented it from being the highest-volume intermodal month in history.
Intermodal traffic in September totaled 1,027,522 containers and trailers, up 4.4% compared with September 2012.
For the first 39 weeks of 2013, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 10,940,538 carloads, down 0.9% from the same point last year, and 9,547,764 intermodal units, up 3.7% from last year.
Total U.S. traffic for the first 39 weeks of 2013 was 20,488,302 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.2% from last year.
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- How was I chosen? - Jurors are picked at random from lists of registered voters, people with driver's licenses, or those with state issued ID cards.
- What are the exemptions? Depending on local laws and specific court policies, exemptions MAY include persons over age 70, and those having recently served on a jury (usually within 1-3 years depending on county policy). In the state of Illinois, there are no automatic professional or government employee exemptions. If any of these apply to you, contact the court to verify they observe the exemption.
- Go to our Jury Duty FAQ page for more on exceptions, requirements, pay, dress code, and other questions you might have.
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The statewide unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent in December, its highest level in 10 months and a sign of slowing in the regional economy.
Figures released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission showed that the number of job hunters swamped a modest increase in hiring in Texas, pushing unemployment up from 4.2 percent in November.
Still, the December jobless rate remained low by historical standards. Unemployment in Texas dipped to 4.1 percent, a 31-year low, at times last year.
The national unemployment rate in December was 5 percent, a two-year high and a major reason that President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and members of Congress are talking about tax cuts or other measures to boost the economy in an election year.
- The Associated Press
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A Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Bendamustine Compared With Bendamustine+RO5072759 (GA101) in Patients With Rituximab-Refractory, Indolent Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (GADOLIN)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
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Double-peaked Balmer line profiles in the optical, along with Fe K\alpha lines in the X-rays, provide the most direct evidence for the existence of accretion disks in the vicinities of supermassive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Using simulated disk-emission line profiles, we find that we can correctly infer the disk parameters by modeling the data with axisymmetric, externally illuminated disks, provided that precaution is taken to assure that the underlying disk emission is not coming from a non-axisymmetric disk, that the underlying stellar continuum is correctly subtracted, and the surface emissivity of the disk is restricted to theoretically motivated values. We model a carefully selected subsample of the new SDSS double-peaked sample (Strateva et al. 2003) with axisymmetric, externally illuminated disks. Using the inclinations and relative disk emission sizes inferred from 31 model fits from the SDSS H\alpha line sample, combined with the sample of Eracleous and Halpern 2003, we discuss evidence for the existence of coplanar obscuring material (a torus or dusty wind) and the need for external illumination of the disk, as well as the possible effects of self-gravity in shaping the observed disk line-emission.
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From glamming up for the Met Gala with supermodel Karlie Kloss and baking in the Hamptons with the Barefoot Contessa to making Independence Day the ultimate girls' night, Swift clearly has an impressive contact list.
So what does the singer look for in a pal?
"I think that it doesn't matter what career my friends have. It's just based on the fact that I can really relate to people who are driven and intelligent," she told Amy Robach on Good Morning America on Tuesday, adding that she likes the people in her circle to challenge her.
"You want to be around, like, smart, exciting people," she said. "I think that's what brings you up."
On Monday, Swift announced her new album 1989 (out Oct. 27) and released her new single, "Shake It Off."
So what can we expect on the country-turned-pop star's fifth LP? Judging by the '80s artists Swift told Robach she's been rocking out to lately, most likely some vintage-inspired jams. "I've been listening to a lot of Peter Gabriel and, like, Fine Young Cannibals. And anything that was in a John Hughes movie. And – oh, Boy George," she said.
As for the lead single's message, it's a kiss-off of another kind. "You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do," Swift said.
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noun - refers to one's good fortune in arriving at a bus stop moments before the bus comes, reducing wait time to almost nothing
I had great busluck on the way to work--it pulled up just as I walked to the stop.
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success and lack thereof when using the bus system. when your bus or busses are right on time, or they happen to be a little late when you're late too, that's good bus luck. when you just miss them or they show up late, that's bad bus luck.
Wow, you're here early for a change!
Yeah I had good bus luck today.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. - Talkin' Water, a documentary film shot by four African American teenage girls in post-Katrina New Orleans, will be screened as a special sneak preview at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Wednesday, October 8 at 6 p.m.
Disillusioned by the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina, four girls-two from New Orleans and two from New York City-set out to tell the "real" story. Armed with video cameras and a sense of responsibility, the project quickly becomes personal as the girls explore issues of race, class and government, and are surprised to discover as much about themselves as New Orleans.
Incorporating footage shot by the girls, the film follows the summer Rodneka, Suprena, Sade, and Briceshanay spent in New Orleans, exploring their feelings about Katrina, the United States and what it's like to grow up in chaotic times.
Present at the screening will be the two New Orleans-based teens, Briceshanay and Rodneka, as well as director and producer Shannon Sonenstein.
"I'm thrilled that Talkin' Water will be screening in New Orleans," said Sonenstein. "So many members of the community participated in making this film-it's going to be wonderful to see it come home. It's also very special that it's playing at NOMA, as one of the key scenes in the film was actually shot in the museum."
The screening is part of the Museum's popular Mid-Week in Mid-City series, held during the weekly extended hours on Wednesday evenings, from 5 - 8 p.m. For details on other upcoming Mid-Week in Mid-City, from film screenings to live music to lectures, please consult www.noma.org.


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Been trading emails with the owner of RX Jumpropes… The new rope that many people in the box are buying. I have one myself and love the rope. You can go to their website and see about sizing information or you can estimate based on the length of the ropes we have in our box. The nice thing about RX Jumps Ropes is that you can order the exact length of the rope you're looking for. If it's not the right size, simply ship it back and get a different size. I did this and it took 4 days. This company is all about personal service…
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"She looks very happy now," Voight, 69, told PEOPLE Thursday night. And "very heavy!" he added when asked what he thought of Jolie's pregnant pictures from the Cannes Film Festival. "She looks like she's having a couple of babies."
Jolie appeared with partner Brad Pitt, promoting her movies Kung Fu Panda and Changeling and looking radiant.
Jolie, 32, revealed in a recent interview with The Sydney Morning Herald that she and Voight have started to mend their longstanding rift.
"We are going to try to get to know each other and maybe try not to be this daddy and daughter, but to be there for each other as friends in the coming years," she said.
When asked if he and Jolie will speak this summer, Voight said, "I'm sure we will, yeah."
Voight spoke at a DVD release event for Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry film franchise, in West Hollywood. Eastwood directs Jolie in his next movie, Changeling.
"She's a great performer," Eastwood told PEOPLE of Jolie. "Unfortunately because of the media flurry that's around her, sometimes people take her for granted. But she's a fabulous talent."
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Today saw the first games of the Western side of the World Baseball Classic with Mexico taking a surprising loss against team Italia and the Dominican Republic showing their dominance against team Venezuela. The latter match featured the first two Indians to play in this year's classic. The wildness inherent in these early round games featuring low level pitchers was evident in the two Tribesmen's results. Carlos Santana and Asdrubal Cabrera combined for six walks and two runs scored. Santana had the lion's share of the walks and now leads all WBC players (including those from the Eastern series that have already played three games) with four.
Santana played the entire game as the Dominican Republic's starting catcher while Cabrera played DH with Elvis Andrus taking the start at short. Andrus and Cabrera will likely split time in the field for the rest of the series while Santana will probably get a day off against either Puerto Rico or Spain. This game marks the first time this Spring either player has stayed in a game past the 5th inning so some care is warranted by their country teams.
Tomorrow, Mike Aviles and Giovanny Soto will play their first game for team Puerto Rico against Spain while Canada and the USA will open up against Italy and Mexico respectively. Puerto Rico is essentially in a must win situation to start the series as both the Dominican Republic and Venezuela are expected to get at least 2 wins, meaning Puerto Rico must win against Spain and one of the other two juggernauts just to hope for tie.