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The Creation of the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom
By Keith Bristow QPM, Director General, National Crime Agency, United Kingdom
he concept of "policing by consent" has been a cornerstone of law enforcement in the United Kingdom for almost 200 years. The willing cooperation of the public toward being policed, and the need for the police to earn the public's trust and cooperation, influences the U.K. approach as much today as it did in 1829, when the first organized police force came into being in London and each of its officers was presented with a copy of Robert Peel's "Nine Principles of Policing."
But whilst the philosophy shaping how any country protects its citizens may remain constant over time, law enforcement is ever changing—and rightly so. Crime threats keep evolving, and law enforcement's tactics and strategies must do the same.
In the United Kingdom, the creation of SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) seven years ago brought together different agencies and changed the landscape substantially. SOCA built on the successes and learned from the experiences of its predecessors to increase the U.K. focus on tackling serious organized crime, both at home and through solid international partnerships. Its approach recognized that domestic borders are not the only defensive line against contemporary crime threats.
The United Kingdom now needs to take that work to another level in order to match and, wherever possible, get ahead of the changing crime threats from serious, organized, and complex crime. The planned step change is one of the most ambitious to be delivered for generations.
At the center of the wide-ranging law enforcement reforms is the creation of the National Crime Agency (NCA). The new agency will be fully operational in October 2013, subject to legislation being passed by the Houses of Parliament, and the NCA is very clear on what it will need to achieve.
For example, local, international, and organizational boundaries are losing their relevance in matching the response to contemporary threats. At the same time, those threats have the potential to target people at the most local level of all—in their own homes. Organized crime no longer needs to occupy physical space to be a danger. The Internet has transformed how criminals operate—people can be victimized by personal data hacking and online child abuse without opening their front doors. Criminal groups deliberately cross from one police force area to another, spreading their activities and attempting to stay sufficiently below the radar in any single area to avoid law enforcement attention, yet leaving considerable criminal impact in their wake. Fraudsters develop high-volume low-impact scams, figuring that most people will not bother to report a small loss, that even if it does get reported law enforcement will not feel inclined to investigate, and that multiplying that small loss by enough victims can be more profitable and considerably less risky than robbing a bank.
Globally, international law enforcement partners have recognized the value of intervening before a crime occurs. Not one single gram of the tons of heroin and cocaine consumed by users in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia is produced in those countries. It must cross international borders to reach the streets, and the closer to local streets it gets, the more resources local law enforcement agencies must use to deal with the fallout. Class A drugs provide a graphic illustration, but criminal groups cross boundaries and invade local communities with other commodities and threats. The principle is the same for human trafficking, arms trafficking, fraud, and cyber crime, amongst others.
It is impossible to protect a neighborhood from contemporary crime threats through local policing alone. Indeed, in protecting people from the impacts of crime on their doorsteps—and inside their homes—no single force or agency can confront the threats by itself.
Local policing, strongly grounded in communities, is vital and will stay that way. But so is collaboration across police force boundaries, across the range of national agencies, and across transnational borders. And if operational boundaries are defined too closely—as agencies and as nations—law enforcement agencies play directly into the hands of those criminals who will do all they can to turn those rigid definitions into new criminal activity opportunities.
What Will the NCA Do to Make a Difference?
First, it will provide national leadership, aligning and directing the U.K. collective response to serious, organized, and complex crime. The United Kingdom has never before had an agency with this specific responsibility and authority. When it comes to dealing with national level threats, its more than 40 police forces and numerous national agencies have been equal participants, whose collaboration and cooperation had to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis, through "a coalition of the willing." Not one U.K. agency was in the position to take an overview or ensure that collective resources were being used and targeted in the most effective way.
Under the NCA, that loose arrangement will be replaced by a structured approach, with strong cross-agency leadership and a clear understanding of how individual organizations contribute.
Another big difference is that the NCA will be responsible for producing and sharing a single intelligence picture of organized crime affecting the United Kingdom. This will increase confidence in the information shared, and enable collectively prioritising targets, the activity against them and the resources to tackle them.
The NCA will have a broader remit than any single U.K. agency before it. As well as tackling organized crime, it will accelerate efforts against economic crime, protect children from exploitation, and bring together experts on cyber crime to form the first U.K. National Cyber Crime Unit. It will have a new role in strengthening U.K. border defences, ensuring for the first time that all the law enforcement agencies in and around the border understand their contributions to U.K. security, and the NCA will lead and coordinate action to address threats.
The agency will have the means to reach across international boundaries when needed, andthe new levels of cooperation the NCA will achieve in the United Kingdom can be effective only if the quality of its partnerships overseas is equally high.
SOCA is recognized rightly for its success in connecting the United Kingdom with law enforcement partners overseas and in protecting the public at home through joint interventions and investigations. It works alongside the five eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) in all the key threat areas around the world. The relationships enjoyed at the most senior levels among the five eyes' governments are mirrored by the work their officers do every day to make these nations safer.
It is vital to all that this expertise is not lost, so whilst the NCA replaces SOCA it will build on the work of SOCA, including the U.K. network of liaison officers based overseas and relationships with foreign law enforcement community officers based in London.
NCA's intention is to deliver a single face for U.K. law enforcement working overseas, managed by NCA officers working from U.K. embassies and missions. In support of this, David Armond and Trevor Pearce, who have been appointed respectively Directors of the NCA Border Policing Command and NCA Operations, have commissioned a review of SOCA's overseas network to identify new opportunities for intervention, including where new posts might be opened.
The author spoke at a recent U.S.-U.K. event in London that underscored the countries' joint commitment and the ongoing operational partnerships between their law enforcement agencies.
One of the key outcomes was a recognition that partnerships now need to go beyond cooperation. This is new territory. Needed are ways to develop joint action and joint investigation and to share assets and information.
Some of the emerging ideas included how the countries might work together in other countries of mutual threat—developing international task forces where U.K. and U.S. officers work side by side, and with host nation partners—to intervene as close to the source of a threat as possible; to consider how to support each other in countries where only one country's agencies are represented; to increase global coverage; and to use solidarity to shrink the space occupied by international criminals.
Care is needed to ensure understanding of the differences between the respective jurisdictions. The NCA is committed to an alliance, which it is hoped will become the benchmark for international operations more broadly.
To support closer working with its international partners, the NCA will adopt a front-desk approach for accessing professional services and support. It will have a central tasking function—NCA Coordination and Tasking, or NCAT—providing a gateway for partner requests for NCA support, and overseeing the deployment of NCA operational assets.
The NCA is currently refining NCAT's functions with a limited range of U.K. partners and anticipates expanding that range of partners further over the coming months. Eventually NCAT will be responsible for the 24/7 gateway, which will ensure the NCA can respond urgently as the need demands.
As the United Kingdom moves toward the NCA becoming fully operational later this year, the NCA is taking the opportunity to test out its philosophy, assumptions, and operating models. Part of that thinking is how the NCA will measure its success.
This measurement will be about three main areas. First, how well does the NCA unify the overall law enforcement effort in the United Kingdom to deliver a coherent response against serious, organized, and complex criminality? Second, the recognition that the NCA's crime fighting focus will require it to be open and transparent, which means having a relationship with the public and sharing assets and knowledge more readily. Third, it will be about the NCA's impact, and for me this is in part about building a better understanding of a much broader range of threats and the full range of potential responses to those threats. For example, the NCA will always target high-level criminals through traditional investigative techniques, gather the best evidence against them it can, work with its partners in the criminal justice system to take cases to court, and seek the appropriate sanctions. This is the bedrock of most countries' approaches to tackling serious, organized, and complex crime.
All must recognize that—in some cases—the most effective response will not necessarily be the conventional one. Throughput to the criminal justice system will tell only part of the picture. Being more creative and innovative in the way law enforcement tackles, prevents, and disrupts emergent threats like cyber crime is needed.
Robert Peel's Nine Principles of Policing from 1829, includes one that is strikingly pertinent in the context of 21st century crime threats and makes this point perfectly. It advises "to recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them."1
A colossal challenge still exists. The public wants to see criminals face justice and tends to judge law enforcement efficiency on the number of people entering the criminal justice system and the sanctions applied to them rather than on the damage law enforcement is able to prevent. This does not mean that protecting the public is best served by allowing the commission of a crime in order to deliver satisfaction when it is solved, prosecuted, and punished.
The need exists to shift to a sharper focus on the value of preventative and disruptive law enforcement strategies, and nowhere is that as relevant as in upstream interventions with international partners. It may be harder to demonstrate in terms the public relates to, but it is a vital part of NCA's ambition.
If better protection for the public is the priority, this challenge must be met. A way ought to be found to help the public understand that organized crime is real, and, wherever it originates, it has real effects in every community. People may not see it, or know that they see it, but they feel its impacts even when they do not recognize them as such.
That is why the NCA will likely move to a system akin to that used to measure counterterrorism success, where questions such as what is the threat, what is the impact, what is NCA doing, and what is the difference are asked.
The NCA will be a visible, accessible, and open organization. The people who work in it, the public they serve, and the criminals they target are to be quite clear about what the agency stands for and what it delivers.
A crucial element of protecting the public is building a relationship of trust. That is not just about providing peace of mind, though of course that is an important part. It is also about providing a foundation that helps to give victims and witnesses the enormous courage they need to tell law enforcement what is going on. It is the job of everyone in law enforcement to create an environment where people have confidence in the professionals they are talking to—without fear of reprisal. If this public confidence is achieved, a vital blow against the ability of organized crime to diminish communities will have been struck. ♦
1Metropolitan Police, Office of the Commissioner, General Instructions (1829).
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Keith Bristow, "The Creation of the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom," The Police Chief 80 (August 2013): 60–62.
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXX, no. 8, August 2013. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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to the TS. i think lenards resume is better then durans.
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duran is mostly rated from his win over lonard & how he climbed up in weight....i never thought reberto was the greatest of that bunch though.
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Leonards resume makes Durans resume say No Mas.
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It's a hard one. Duran's overall resume and achievements are pretty damn mind boggling. Starting at 118 (too many people still think he started at 135), and finishing up at 175, beating great champions from 1969 to 1998. Find another fighter in the history of the sport who has been able to beat champions over forty pounds apart across thirty years! It's simply incredible.
Most fighters don't even have a career spanning close to thirty years and yet Duran was beating champions over more weight divisions and across more years than most have any type of career.
A classic example: Pac has been fighting now for 15 years and beating champions for ten of those. Ten years after Duran beat his first great champion, he had moved up from 118 to 147, beat legendary HOF great Ray Leonard (which is certainly a much greater equivalent to beating Mayweather). Another ten years later he was winning the middleweight championship off Iran Barkley (himself a three division champion) and another ten years later was beating Jorge Castro, who had just come off title wins over Reggie Johnson, John David Jackson etc.
Ray Leonard is just as amazing. Those four great wins of his....Prime Tommy Hearns, prime Wilfred Benitez, nearly prime Duran and nearly prime Hagler. Whatever you say about Hagler's prime though is canceled by the fact that Leonard had been out of boxing for four years and only had one fight in six years! Imagine if, instead of Mayweather coming back after one year to beat Marquez, he came back after six to beat Hopkins at middleweight (if Hopkins was still at 160 as champ. We're pretending after all)? Obviously the size difference is much greater but I'm talking in terms of career similarity. Long time undisputed MW champ without a loss in over a decade vs a multi-division champ coming up to 160 and off a very long layoff.
That whole era was different though. Instead of just two really good fighters, Pac and Mayweather, you had a whole slew of them and they all fought each other over a decade. ****, these two guys can't even get one fight going. If only it was still like that today. Ahhh well, we can dream can't we? As to the resume question.... I don't know. It's a hard one. Duran has more wins over consistently better opposition in general, but then Leonard makes up for it with those wins over Hearns, Benitez and Hagler. Duran has the big win when both were in their prime, more or less, over Leonard himself who was quite a bit bigger and fresher. His only prime loss. Then he quit in the rematch?! Dunno.
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It's also more based on his wins, for those in the know, over HOF champions like Ernesto Marcel, Ken Buchanan, Esteban De Jesus, Carlos Palomino etc as just a few, along with Ray Leonard and moving up in weight.
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plus people don't consider duran was a lightweight and about 30 when he moved up to 147.
duran had a crazy career.
at 135 he had the domination and long reign like hagler did at 160.
duran also moved up and won at higher and higher weights like hearns did.
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resume wise, duran by the skin of the teeth..
resume is not the fights you always win, its the fight you made win or lose..
did SRL beat better oppossition? yes, but does duran also fought them? answer is also an astounding yes. he might get clocked by hearns and beat by hagler, but those two were above his comfortable fighting limit and arguably beyond his prime years.
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i don't care about all of the extra [email protected] crap.
hearns was a FREAK at 147....a absolute MANIAC that would woop even todays mayweather & pac @ 147. (& thats not even mentioning all of the other greats that ray has beaten)
i don't see how ANYONE can rate durans resume over sugars.
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leonard was all fluff, an american hype job!!!! won under the cirrcumstances. Fought Tommy when Hearns was struggling to make 47. Beat Benitez outright!! Lost to 35 lbs DURAN, requested and was awarded a rematch within 5 months (unheard of in them days) to save face!!!!! And lost to HAGLER!!! (just cause you last to the final bell doesnot make you a winner) P.S. How about this note: Duran fought 2 fights with MACHO CAMACHO tuff!!! ray leonard got KNOCKOUT by the MACHO MAN!!!!! RESUME: DURAN
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My sister has given up on having any bread. She will pay a ton for a mix from Trader Joes. I figued this way she can have her Bisquick and eat it to! Thank you for posting this! I tried it out and it is wonderful!
This is the best by far! I am new to gluten free cooking. Bought some from the store OMG.
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The Oscars are this weekend – and they're also a great excuse to invite friends over for the evening, so I was really hoping to be able to do a full recap of our Feb 5th "Old Hollywood Glam / Red Carpet Splash" event before they arrived since the ideas were catered towards hosting an Awards Party at home. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on the event photos, and since those will be the most important part of the recap, it looks like it will happen post-Oscars instead.
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A big monitor would be nice for my artwork and to be able to play games with better quality settings would also be nice, since I game a lot more on my laptop (more than consoles now, I think!).
After like a year of waiting, I finally got myself a new PC to replace my 17 inch HP laptop I have for 3.5 years now. I spent all of my savings for it in the end, so for now my funds for games will be pretty limited. It was about damn time for a replacement though and before I get some okay mid-range PC, I decided to pay a little extra to get a good Gaming PC. Nothing amazing or totally future-proof but a pretty decent machine nonetheless.
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I originally had a similar, cheaper model with the only difference being a AMD FX Quad-Core @ 4,2 GHz instead of the i5-3450 in mind but after some research I was really turned off by how bad AMD's "Bulldozer" CPU series is in comparison. I plan on emulating as well and most emulators only use 2 cores, making it with its lower performance per core a much worse choice than the i5-3450, which I gladly paid more for. In total the PC cost €800 with free shipping. Since I was using a laptop, I also had to get a new monitor, a 23 inch FUJITSU 1920x1080 for €120.
I bought it from a small Austrian company called HI-TECH - Real Overclocked Gaming. They specialize in overclocked Gaming PC's, build each one as the order rolls in, test it for 24-hours on maximum performance, install Windows 7 and the newest drivers for you and optimise everything else there is, for no extra fee. Their employees are also passionate gamers, which is one reason why their customer service is so great (see below for more). On top of great prices, they offer free shipping all around Europe, which is something I never expected for a product like a PC.
Little interesting story about the case, I actually ordered it with a different one but they wrongly used a €24 more expensive case. I contacted their customer support immediately and they offered me a free Steam key for Borderlands 2 if I kept the more expensive case, without paying for the additional cost, of course. I haven't played much if it yet but I'm really liking it so far. Runs smoothly on maximum settings (haven't found a show FPS option though) and my PC is still as quiet as ever while running it. Loving the style too. Here's a screenshot I took:
This is my new setup. Much like before, I still want to be able to have both screens in my view at the same time, so this is perfect for me.
Needless to say, I'm very happy with my PC so far. How happy exactly? Well, I'll let you guess based on the comic below. In what phase are you guys right now?
PS: Contrary to how this might look, I'll still be primarily a console gamer because of Nintendo, exclusives and my favourite genre being JRPG's, which is certainly not very widespread on PC's. It's really nice to have all these options with another giant library of games available to me now though.
Makes me want to get a PC.
A big monitor would be nice for my artwork and to be able to play games with better quality settings would also be nice, since I game a lot more on my laptop (more than consoles now, I think!).
Specs sound meaty! Nice Good ol' C3 on there too!
Marz - is your laptop fairly recent? If so, *maybe* consider getting a monitor first and outputting to that (dual screen or monitor only) - might be the middle step before getting a PC?
Then again if you're in need of a decent setup then it maybe the way to go!
I was just going to post in the C3 Issues topic that the feed links to blogs are a bit messed up on the new C3 and don't work but it seems you've already fixed them, jb.
That's a pretty good suggestion, jb. I hooked up my laptop to my monitor via HDMI just to test it and it worked great but because of my resolution, I didn't get it to fill the whole screen. Might be a way around that which I'm not aware of though.
Yep, I only got it just over a year back. A separate monitor is sounding like a decent option for now. Then I can always use that monitor for/if I ever get a PC in the future.
Not a bad machine at all. The only criticism is that you went with a 560 (is it the 'ti' version?) as it only comes with 1GB of vram. That will choke most games at full textures etc and cause stuttering.
I take it you didn't build the machine? Pretty much for the fact that I don't recognize the case which means that it's bespoke to whichever company built the PC (could be wrong though)+ the price of the build itself is a little on the high side...
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I've updated some of the cabling inside so it's all white, pretty and neat (I'm a cablemanagement whore)
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Machine is completely silent and it's still booting in 15-20 seconds with no slowdown at all thanks to the SSD!
Sirlink, do I have you on Steam? Would love to take on the Borderlands with a fellow Minion!
My Battlestation!
I didn't build it myself as I have no actual experience in that field and I wouldn't have had any leeway when it comes to money in case I screwed something up. The case was developed by the shop I bought it from, so I'm not surprised you don't recognise it.
It is indeed just a GTX 560, which is good enough for me. A GTX 660 or something along those lines would have been nice but my budget didn't allow more than that unfortunately. My main concern was simply being able to play the most of the newest PC games at all and I can live with some settings not being as high as possible. Heck, the one I have was one of the cheapest models they are offering. They have some insane machines around and beyond your specs as well.
I do have a Steam account as of late, yeah. It's sirlinkoftime. I certainly wouldn't mind having a fellow minion to play BL2 with either. I'm only Level 15 on my first character though.


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BRIDGETON -- Two years of fundraising and grant writing have yielded nearly $4.55 million for vast improvements to historic Jim Hursey Memorial Stadium, officials said on Wednesday.
Carl Kirstein, chairman of the Bridgeton High School Foundation, said that should nearly cover the cost of the first two planned phases of repairs and additions, if not completely.
He said the third and final phase may require another $3 million to $4 million.
Kirstein said he hopes the first two phases will be finished "by the end of August next year."
"We're hoping they'll be able to use the field for the 2010 football season," he added.
Phase One includes renovations to the stadium bleachers, railings and press box. Phase Two includes a new track and artificial turf.
Kirstein said the turf will be used for multiple sports, including field hockey and soccer, in addition to football games.
Officials also hope to house other events such as concerts there. Kirstein said concerts drawing four to six thousand may be in the stadium's future, with temporary seating to help accommodate fans.
"I view the stadium renovation project as the cornerstone of redevelopment efforts in and around the Bridgeton city park area," said Mayor James Begley.
"When the project is fully realized, the current stadium will be transformed from an athletic facility into a true focal point for a variety of community activities which will benefit not only Bridgeton, but the entire western side of the county."
Phase Three, which Kirstein said is "a concept right now," envisions a new field house, boys' and girls' locker rooms, meeting rooms and a community center.
Private donations accounted for about $1.25 million of total funds raised. Kirstein and other officials involved said Bob Thompson, owner of Thompson Realty on Pearl Street, chipped in $1 million.
"It's not every day that someone says to you, 'I want to donate a million dollars to your (cause),'" Superintendent H. Victor Gilson remarked.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave a $196,000 grant to the Board of Education for the project.
Kirstein credited U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D) and Robert Menendez (D), as well as U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R, 2nd Dist), for helping secure that grant.
The Cumberland County Improvement Authority (CCIA) loaned $700,000 to the Board of Education. The CCIA also gave the High School Foundation a $1 million forgivable loan.
The Green Acres Program, an arm of the state Department of Environmental Protection, gave the city a $1 million grant for the project. And finally, early this month, Green Acres also gave a $400,000 matching grant to the High School Foundation.
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President's Mistress Judith Campbell Exner Emerged from the Shadows to Raise Troubling Questions About JFK
It was one she first told in 1975, when Senate investigators began probing reports, never proved, that Kennedy had enlisted Chicago Mob boss Sam Giancana in a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Exner told investigators that, as a young party girl from Los Angeles, she had been introduced to Kennedy in Las Vegas in 1960 by mutual friend Frank Sinatra. Within a matter of weeks, she said, she was in bed with JFK at New York City's Plaza Hotel, beginning a 2½-year affair. "When you talked to Jack, he talked just to you," Exner told PEOPLE in 1988.
Reports of the liaison, leaked to the press in 1975, stirred enormous controversy. Kennedy loyalists accused Exner of making it all up. Yet evidence showed that Exner had visited the President on several occasions in the White House and had spoken to him some 70 times by phone. "I was crucified because I had had the audacity to have an affair with Jack Kennedy," said Exner.
Born Judith Immoor to a well-off family that settled in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where her father was a successful architect, Exner possessed a seductive beauty. At 18 she married actor Bill Campbell and, through him, became part of a fast Hollywood crowd. Divorced six years later, she dated Sinatra. Her affair with Kennedy then ensued and was followed by a fling with Giancana, whom she met in that same year of 1960. (In 1965 she had a son out of wedlock and put him up for adoption. Now a photographer for the Los Angeles Times named David Bohrer, he sought her out 10 years ago, and they were reunited. "He became the light of her life," says Exner's best friend, Felicia Folino.)
In 1988, Exner—recently separated from golf pro Dan Exner, whom she had married in 1975—told writer Kitty Kelley for a story in PEOPLE that, while JFK's lover, she had served as a courier between the President and Giancana. According to Exner, JFK wanted the mobster's help nailing down votes in the 1960 West Virginia primary, and she had arranged face-to-face meetings between the two. That story drew fresh skepticism from historians, who questioned whether a candidate would be likely to have risked meeting directly with a Mob kingpin.
Her affair with Kennedy, Exner said, ended partly because she got tired of being the other woman. "I was very lonely a lot of the time," she explained. She said that she became involved with Giancana after her split with the President. Three years ago, Exner added to her story, maintaining that she had become pregnant by Kennedy and had an abortion.
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One defendant sentenced to prison
Suspects charged in the slaying of a man in Santa Maria appeared in court Thursday.
Carmen Cardenas pleaded no contest to accessory to murder after the crime was committed and a judge sentenced her to more than three years in state prison.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Ann Bramsen told NewsChannel 3 if there is a trial, Cardenas is not expected to testify.
Thursday's proceedings were held in a different courtroom than previous times. The case was moved across town to the juvenile court right next to the sheriff's substation.
The 10 defendants left in the case appeared in the new location under heavy security. More than 15 sheriff's department personnel were at the court house. The case was moved to this location because it is much larger than the court house on Cook Street.
Bramsen said, "The Sheriff's Department did an outstanding job making sure that security was high, making sure that the facility was very safe for everybody. I don't think that it could have been done any better. So I felt like it was very secure and very safe, all the lawyers had a table to sit at. I think everybody could be heard well in that courtroom."
The defendants in this case are being held at the Santa Barbara County Jail with the exception of Ramon Maldonado Jr. Because he is a juvenile, he is being held at juvenile hall.
The arraignment it was continued to Oct. 18 where defendants are expected to enter a plea.
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Pediatric Nurse: Career Summary, Occupational Outlook, and Educational Requirements
Find out about the types of jobs you could pursue in pediatric nursing. Read on to learn more about career options, along with salary and licensure information. Schools offering Nursing degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
Career Information At a Glance
Pediatric nurses are registered nurses (RNs) or nurse practitioners (NPs) who provide preventive and acute nursing care to children and adolescents in doctor's offices and hospitals. The following chart gives you an overview about entering this field.
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|Degree Required
|Bachelor's degree
|Master's or doctoral degree
|Education Field of Study
|Key Responsibilities
|Take vital signs and maintain patient records; administer medication and treatment; set up and monitor medical equipment; assist doctor with examinations and treatment
|Examine patients and diagnose health issues; order and perform diagnostic tests and analyze results; prescribe medication and treatment
|Licensure and/or Certification
|Licensure as RN is required; board certification in several pediatric nursing specialties is available
|Licensure as RN is required; board certification as a pediatric nurse practitioner is available
|Job Growth (2012-2022)
|19% for all registered nurses*
|34% for all nurse practitioners*
|Median Salary (2013)
|$66,220 for all registered nurses*
|$92,670 for all nurse practitioners*
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What Does a Pediatric Nurse Do?
A pediatric nurse's primary role is working with children and adolescents in a variety of situations and medical facilities. To be a pediatric nurse, you'll be trained as a nurse and in advanced techniques handling small children. In addition, you'll have knowledge to work in a number of settings, including schools, emergency departments, pediatric wards and family practitioner offices.
If you're employed with primary care services, such as doctors' offices, health care clinics or schools, your routines may include conducting routine developmental screenings, administering immunizations and promoting healthy lifestyle choices. If you choose to work in an acute care setting, such as an intensive care unit or emergency room, you may perform in-depth assessments, interpret the results of diagnostic tests and provide treatments. Your duties may also include aiding doctors in the emergency or operating room.
How Does this Career Look?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that employment opportunities for all nurse practitioners would grow by 34% between 2012 and 2022, an increase of 37,100 jobs. Jobs for registered nurses would grow by approximately 526,800 between 2012 and 2022 (www.bls.gov). That was an expected 19% increase. You might look for some of these job opportunities through the Society of Pediatric Nurses, which provides job listings for pediatric nurse openings across the country (www.pednurses.org).
The median annual salary for registered nurses in 2013 was $66,220, according to the BLS, but specific salary data for pediatric nurses was not available. Medical and surgical hospitals employed the largest percentage of registered nurses. The 2013 median annual salary for nurse practitioners was reported by BLS as $92,670. Doctors offices employed the largest percentage of nurse practitioners.
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To become a specialized nurse, such as a pediatric nurse, you'll first need to earn your bachelor's degree in nursing. These programs teach you the essentials of working as a nurse and include instruction in patient care, communications, anatomy, health assessment, healthcare systems and ethics in nursing. After completing a nursing degree and becoming a registered nurse (RN), you'll want to gain experience in the field you wish to work. In this case, a master's or doctoral degree program as a pediatric nurse practitioner should be considered.
Not only is a master's degree required by some credentialing agencies, but this program also provides plenty of clinical time in pediatrics. In this program you'll study child development and pediatric medicine. Your program may include subjects like pharmacology, adolescent health, working with pediatric clients, handling grief and bereavement, victimology, decision-making and health promotion.
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The first step in certification will be to sit for the NCLEX-RN licensing exam. This exam and the NCLEX-PN, for licensed practical nurses, are offered through the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. After you earn your nursing license, you can then prepare to earn one of the national pediatric certifications. The American Nurses Credentialing Center certification exam can be taken if you are a licensed RN, have a master's degree and have additional training in health promotion or diagnostics (www.nursecredentialing.org). The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board offers a certification exam for five pediatric subspecialties, including acute care, emergency care and adolescent mental health (www.pncb.org).
You can also seek the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification offered through the American Heart Association (www.heart.org). This training is good for pediatric nurses who are interested in first-time training or renewing their knowledge of ambulatory care.
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Meeting the World's Needs for 21st Century Science Instruction
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What can administrators, course designers and faculty do to retain online learners?
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[Playbook] 10 Data-Driven Ways to Engineer a Better Campus
As more and more institutions fight to keep their doors open amid increasing competition and budgetary concerns, administrators have turned to analytics as a means of strategic decision-making. This playbook runs through 10 proven ways campuses can get the most out of their data to boost enrollment, improve graduation rates and reduce costs. Download Now.
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How to Manage Communications Effectively within Your K12 School District
With the goal of doing a better job of reaching parents, learn how Lakeland Central School District utilizes Constant Contact for School Districts to deliver reliable and professional communications to parents.
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[Case Study]: The Core of a Successful 1:1 Program
1:1 device programs have opened a world of possibilities for students—allowing them to access educational content online and learn at their own pace. This case study will demonstrate how Derby Public Schools in Connecticut provided its students 100% secure access at school and off-campus. Download the case study
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How the Digital Skills Gap is Failing Higher Education and How to Close It
Is there a digital skills gap residing on your campus? Many colleges and universities are harboring at least one digital skills gap. These are impacting post-secondary educators as well as students. These chasms not only present real obstacles to learning, but can lead to a future skills mismatch as graduates enter the 21st century workplace. But, there are ways to close — or at least narrow — the digital skills gap hiding in plain sight on your campus, and move toward digital fluency. Download Grovo's free white paper, "How the Digital Skills Gap is Failing Higher Education and How to Close It" so you can: Learn what the current common digital skills gaps are Understand how graduates' future employability is being put at risk See what core digital competencies are essential and what steps you can take to implement training Download Now
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Bite Size is the Right Size: How Microlearning Shrinks the Skills Gap in Higher Ed
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Effective Leaders Create Discomfort
Open your eyes to your blind spots and see what you must do to achieve better results.
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Report Card: How the Digital Skills Gap is Failing Teachers & Students - And What We Can Do About It
Grovo explores a twin digital skills gap that exists at many K-12 schools across the country, and explains six important trends that savvy educators must know about...
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How Indian Lakes Streamlined Ed-Tech Professional Development
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It's Not Academic - Dealing with Expense Management in Higher Education
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A Look Inside: Promise Academy
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A Look Inside: College Success Office
"Though small and relatively new, CSO is ambitious in it's overarching goal: to give participants the resources they need in order to become successful college graduated and active members of their communities."Share
Whatever It Takes: A White Paper on the Harlem Children's Zone
"In the United States today, more than 13 million children—nearly one in five—live in poverty. We know that that these children face a future in which they are far less likely than other children to get a good education or adequate health care and more likely to enter prison. The odds are that they will not, by a long shot, live up to their full potential. But we must understand this: their future is the future of America."Share
Data Privacy Myth Busters
The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) seeks to make the case for education data while ensuring state policymakers meet their moral and legal responsibilities to safeguard this information and ensure its appropriate and ethical use. This document dispels the most common myths with concise talking points and related resources, and DQC will continually update this resource as additional myths arise.Share
State legislative approaches to safeguarding data
Education Counsel has put together a document with guidance for state policymakers around safeguarding student data. It is primarily aimed at state legislators but can be used by anyone involved in the development of privacy/security policies.Share
Talking about the Facts of Education Data with School Board Members
The Data Quality Campaign and the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education prepared this document to help school board members respond to questions about education data, explain its importance to improving school and student performance, and understand how boards can help ensure student privacy.Share
Wi-Fi for K-12: Five Challenges for School Districts
This white paper identifies five core challenges that school districts must address to support an educational program that is dependent on web-based materials and online testing.
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Affordable Colleges Online: Higher Education Affordability for Vets
A veteran's guide to paying for college. Information, resources, and expert advice on higher education funding and scholarships for veterans.Share
Tech for Teachers: Apps, Tools, and Online Resources
A guide for teachers bringing tech into the classroom. Get expert info and advice on today's top educational technology, and find more than 150 online resources organized by subject and age.Share
Ted Talks: My Daughter Malala
Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai discusses the necessity of equal opportunity in education for both girls and boys and the importance of young girls developing an independant identity.Share
A Campuswide Map to Better Wireless Networks
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[Infographic] Top 10 Factors When Choosing an Educational Tablet Solution
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Higher Education Resources for Veterans and Their Families
The Online College Database has compiled a comprehensive guide for U.S. military veterans looking to continue their education.
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Ted Talks: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
Anant Agarwal, head of edX, argues that MOOCs still matter. Agarwal's idea is that MOOCs could be used to supplement, not replace, traditional classrooms to give 21st century students the ideal learning experience.Share
Watchful Eyes – A Comparative Look at Online Exam Proctoring Models
"The issue of online cheating concerns many educators, particularly as more students take MOOCs for college credit, and not just for personal enrichment." -The New York Times, 2013
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The New Rules of LMS Content Integration
Explore the ways that publishers and LMS vendors are currently partnering to leverage the latest content standards -- and changing the rules of LMS content integration in order to improve the customer experience for LMS administrators, professors, and their students. Discover how this evolution can benefit you and your institution in terms of saved time and a better user experience.
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[Slides] Always Learning: 2012 Social Media in Higher Education Results
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[Slides] DNA of a 21st Century Educator
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[Slides] 21st Century Education
Shane Mason takes a glimpse at how we communicate will forever change the way we teach.Share
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Keynote speech at the Borough of Manhattan community College's Tech DayShare
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When Higher Education Goes Digital
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So let's take a peek at what Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) generates for a "Blank" Collaboration Site. What jumps out at my inexperience with the inelegant innards of SharePoint is the absence of .ASPX files. There's locale resources, some FrontPage-looking (WebDAV) stuff, some kind of browser capability database (see "Add Blackberry support to Forms Server 2007 or SharePoint 2007"), a *.DLL file for SOAP, a *.DLL file for 'application pages,' two different
web.config files and the
global.asax file that is probably doing most of the heavy lifting.
I assume the rest of the site is in the Content Database. And, oh, by the way, I had some kind of disk catastrophe yesterday and lost a 300meg WSS Content Database! Because the log had some open transactions I could not recover the database. I got almost everything back as disk files (not in SharePoint) from a backup.


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Classes, Programs & Screenings
The hospitals of Community Healthcare System offer many free and low-cost educational programs, screenings and support to help people live healthier, manage a chronic disease or recover from a serious illness.
Search here for class offerings throughout our healthcare system, which includes Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart. If you would like in-person assistance to find a particular class or resource, call 219-836-3477 or toll free 1-866-836-3477. This service, which includes assistance in Spanish, is available Monday-Friday, 8:30 am – 5 pm, and accepts registration for many of our classes.
Enter a search term below to search for a class/program:
Or, select a topic from the left to display a listing of all upcoming classes/programs.
ONGOING - Phase 3 Cardiac Rehab/Medical Exercise (Formerly HeartFit)
HeartFit is a program designed to help individuals acquire the skills and knowledge that they need to stop or slow the progression of heart disease.
This program combines cardiovascular conditioning with education and counseling all within a medically-supervised, supportive environment that encourages making necessary lifestyle changes.
Pre-admission: Doctor referral, stress test and lab work required.
$50 orientation fee; $48 monthly fee.
Call 934-2830 for dates, times, location and to register.
Held at Cardiac Rehab in the Lake Business Center, 9200 Calumet Ave., Suite N100, Munster.
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1973-1975 Carl Yastrzemski Pro Model Bat
Starting Bid - $200.00, Sold For - $1,160.00
Carl Yastrzemski Hillerich & Bradsby model K48 shows heavy game use with ball, stitch, cleat and red bat rack marks along the barrel. The handle has been taped for extra grip and there is a crack in the center brand label. Some markings on the knob end in black marker are unrelated to Yaz. An eighteen-time All-Star, Carl Yastrzemski played his entire career with the Boston Red Sox. During his twenty-three seasons in the big leagues, Yaz won seven Gold Gloves and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1967. With a lifetime average of .285, he retired with 3,419 hits and 452 home runs. In 1967 Yastremski won the triple crown, the last player to accomplish this feat in over thirty years. Length: 35 inches. Weight: 33.5 ounces. SCD Authentic Grade: A5. LOAs from Dave Bushing/SCD Authentic and John Taube & Vince Malta/PSA DNA. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $1,160.00
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Your best year ever
Have you ever set a goal and not achieved it? Are you someone who makes the same New Year's resolutions, year after year, without ever accomplishing a single one?
You are not alone. It takes time, sprinkled with commitment and a vivid imagination, to achieve the results that you want.
Your ticket
I believe in the power of goal setting. Get rid of your old luggage filled with negative thoughts and attitudes.
Now, with a lightened load, you are ready to go.
Step 1: Dream big
Sit quietly in a comfortable position. Close your eyes.
Now just dream -- big!
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." -- George Elliot
Step 2: Write it down
What do you want your next year to look like?
Personal life
What would you like in your relationships?
More romance? More time with the kids? More connections with friends?
How is your career or business going? Would you like to make more money? Change jobs? Go back to school?
Do you need to see a doctor or dentist? Would you like to become more fit? Eat better? Have more energy?
Is your home comfortable? Does your office need new art, family photos, chair?
Where do you want to go? What's on your bucket list?
Personal growth
Are you taking time for motivation and spirituality? Would you consider volunteering?
Write down what you'd like to accomplish. Don't stress. Just let the ideas flow.
Here are a few of my 2013 goals, in no particular order:
Spend more time with my family.
Go to bed earlier.
Write my book.
Travel to Ireland.
"We put giant Post-its on the wall. Heidi writes down her goals for the year, and tells me what mine are, too." -- Phil Kerner (Heidi's husband)
Step 3: Visualize it
It's time to see your dreams on a vision board -- a simple poster filled with inspiring images and words that will help manifest your goals.
They work. I have 20 years of personal and professional experience to prove it. Last year I wanted to dance, flash mob style. I created the Dancing Divas Flash Mob Troupe of Erie, and we had seven dance performances. I also wanted to travel to Greece. I clipped the picture of Santorini, Greece, in January 2012. A last-minute booking became available in August, and my husband, Phil, and I went to Greece.
Become a celebrity writer. My eventual book remains incomplete, but I'm writing for Her Times, and I felt like a celebrity with my photo on the cover of Her Times in December 2012.
Other success stories abound, such as Bridget Adams -- she opened Miss Bridget's Spot of Tea in Fairview in 2012. "For as long as I can remember I wanted a tea room. About three years ago I attended one of Heidi's groups, and we worked on vision boards as a project. I had, of course, included the tea room on my board and this past summer, my dream came true. We opened a tea room in Fairview," Adams said.
Place your vision board someplace where you will see it every day. Each morning stand before the board and think: "These are pictures that make me happy." Then, let it go.
"Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own." -- Robert Collier
Step 4: Positive affirmations
Remember to remain positive about how you talk about your goals (and yourself).
You can do this with meaningful phrases that you repeat to yourself.
Start simply by saying things like: "I deserve ..." and "I am happy ..."
Choose one word that represents the feeling you want to create. Is it healing, gratitude, success, confidence, joy or another word?
Step 5: No more excuses
Find someone you trust and who believes in you. Together, you can help one another to stay committed, challenged, motivated, encouraged and inspired.
Step 6: The power of surrender
Let it go. You are packed for the journey. You've planned your itinerary. You have a partner to travel with you. Now it's time to sit back, and enjoy the adventure. Let us raise our glasses to a powerful new year and your best year ever. May your dreams become your reality. Bon voyage.
Heidi Parr Kerner is a motivational coach and founder of the Coffee Club Divas, www.coffeeclubdivas.com. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com


text: No. 59 Tiberious Who says that the best things come in small packages? For those of you that are looking for a larger-than-life companion, you can't do much better than an awesome Wolfhound mix. My name is Tiberious, and I'm here to tell you that I'm a ton of fun! I'm a clever fella that already knows sit, shake, lay down and will come when I'm called if the right kind of treats are involved. Although I can be a playful guy, I'm also quite sweet and loving when it comes to snuggle time. Between my one in a million looks and over-the-top personality, you're sure to fall in love with me. With all the awesome dog adoption specials at the shelter right now, it's a perfect time for you to see that poi dogs really are no ka 'oi!


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The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren't trying to subvert the notion of economics -- they accept the standard definition, but reject the notion that capitalism or central planning are acceptable ways to organize economic life.
Contributors include Robin Hahnel, Iain McKay, Marie Trigona, Chris Spannos, Ernesto Aguilar, Uri Gordon, and more.
Anarchist discussions revolve around abolishing the state, capitalism, and all forms of oppression, at the same time envisioning a better future for all of us in a just and free society. Interestingly enough, some very basic questions are rarely asked. For example: How do we get our bread? How do we get our cotton...
This title is not currently in our inventory but may be on order. Even if we no longer stock it, we would love to special order this book for you!


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Beta version of Opera 12, code-named "Wahoo" has been released; if you are one of the 250 million users Opera claims to serve then I think you should upgrade to this new version, it's quite stable, fast and comes with several new features like custom themes, iReader like reading tool and a few photo-sharing options.
The new reading functionality would enable you to view web pages like a book with optimized fonts and colors. Opera 12's photo-sharing options would allow you to click pictures of yourself directly from your computer's web-cam which Opera would upload on sites like Photo Booth and Polaroid. Also, Opera has worked on browser stability in this new version, so if a plugin crashes, it won't terminate the whole web browser.
"There are so many new things to try," said Haakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software. "The paged media project has the potential to change the way browsers handle content, and camera support shows just how web applications can compete with native apps."
Lie calls Opera 12 a "a platform to build upon" because of the features that the company is offering to the developers. If you're a developer, I think you should start working on creating a few useful apps for this web browser, it's possible that your work might get featured on Opera's home page; 250 million people praising your work is some motivation, right?.
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04/11/2013 | Press release
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News Release
Two to Three Percent Transition in U.S. Growth Rate Expected After Labor Day
NEW YORK and LONDON, April 11, 2013 - The global economy will continue to expand this year, with a faster pace of growth close to 4% likely next year, according to BNY Mellon's Chief Economist Richard Hoey in his most recent Economic Update. While Hoey thinks economic growth in the middle months of 2013 may be temporarily sluggish due to the final phase of the overall European recession and the impact of U.S. fiscal tightening, Hoey sees faster U.S. economic growth after Labor Day.*
"We expect a 'Labor Day inflection point' from the 2% growth rate of recent years to a new cyclical growth rate of
3% or more," says Hoey. "This would be an important 'Two Percent to Three Percent Transition' in the growth rate of the U.S. economy," he continued. "However, it is unlikely to occur until late 2013."
Other report findings include:
Global Stimulative Monetary Policy Will Continue - Hoey does not expect global stimulative monetary policy to end soon. As monetary policy is easy worldwide, Hoey sees favorable prospects for growth improvement in China, Europe, Japan and the U.S. over the next year, as well as an improvement in confidence within the emerging countries.
Sluggish European Economic Recovery Expected - While Europe remains in a recession, Hoey believes that Europe will expand moderately in 2014 and does not expect a repeat broad financial crisis. However, Hoey states that Europe does not yet have a plausible strategy to improve credit availability in the private sector of peripheral countries.
Positive on "Abenomics" in Japan - While the long-term outlook for Japan remains uncertain, Hoey believes that Japan's new aggressive monetary policies (Abenomics) are likely to contribute to positive economic growth in Japan and positive inflation in the next two years.
See http://www.bnymellon.com/foresight/update-video.html for Hoey's complete April 2013 Economic Update.
*Labor Day in the U.S. is Monday September 2, 2013.
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All information source BNY Mellon as of December 31, 2012. This press release is qualified for issuance in the UK and US and is for information purposes only. It does not constitute an offer or solicitation of securities or investment services or an endorsement thereof in any jurisdiction or in any circumstance in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful or not authorized. This press release is issued by BNY Mellon Investment Management (US) and BNY Mellon Asset Management International Limited (ex-US) to members of the financial press and media and the information contained herein should not be construed as investment advice. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The value of investments and the income from them is not guaranteed and can fall as well as rise due to stock market and currency movements. When you sell your investment you may get back less than you originally invested. Registered office of BNY Mellon Asset Management International
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STEPHANIE KINDT lives in a spacious 113-year-old home in Overbrook Farms and is excited by the history of her neighborhood.
"The inventor of bubblegum lived around the corner from me," she said of Frank Fleer.
Kindt, a lawyer, is a member of the Overbrook Farms Club, which applied in 2004 to have the neighborhood designated a "historic district."
The neighborhood - laid out in 1892 on the western edge of the city between City Avenue and Morris Park - is on the National Register of Historic Places, but the local designation has its foes.
The Philadelphia Historical Commission is scheduled to review the proposal today, but Alan Greenberger, the city's deputy mayor for economic development, has asked the commission to once again postpone a decision.


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The mission of The Next Generation Foundation is to get young men and women involved with cancer awareness. Cancer gives no allowance when it comes to age, race or gender. Therefore, we all need to do what we can to help eradicate this disease.
It is our generation that needs to set the example for young men and women to follow. There is so much that each of us can do, but not everyone knows where to start. Learn more
The truth is that so many of us wait til someone we know and love is diagnosed or lost to the terrible disease called Cancer. Together, you can help us to change this!
We shouldn't be waiting for a loved one to become part of a statistic, but rather coming together with our loved ones to try to change these statistics so that we are hearing more and more survival stories that fuel the inspiration Learn more


text: Your wedding is your special day. Let us capture those unforgettable moments. Whether you want traditional, documentary, or both we can do it. Ask about our special creations for your wedding. Ask about out special reception photobooth or a special gift for dad. Never a mileage charge or hourly limit. We are a husband and wife team. So you always get two photographers to capture everything. From getting ready to the dance. We love what we do and it shows.


text: Can someone get fat on a primal/paleo diet? Yes. Constant excessive calories will eventually get packed on as pounds. Paleo/primal is not like a safe "eat all you want" buffet (although a paleo buffet would have its attractions.) Ask this question: Were there any obese groks? Perhaps there was a rare exception but it is difficult to imagine any pre-agricultural revolution human being obese. They didn't have excess food enough to have obesity. Indeed women had to evolve into fat storers to have enough energy to be pregnant et cetera. All of this is to say the point of primal/paleo is not to eat all you want. It is to eat what is best for the health of the body. Eating all you can eat is not necessarily good even when primal/paleo.


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After much pushing by fans (including yours truly), the Jaguars are rolling out their all-black uniforms this weekend at home against the Chicago Bears. Thanks to @JaguarsInsider, we have a sneak peak below.
The uniforms won't make this team any better, but at least the Jaguars will play in style. If we're lucky, the new look will inspire some great play on the Jaguars part. The game starts at 4:05 PM EST on Sunday.