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The two-day workshop focused on monitoring governance aspects of REDD+, such as creating coherent and enabling policy environments, stakeholder accountability, and enforcing the rule of law. It aimed to establish a common understanding to develop a basis for a framework and guidance on monitoring governance for REDD+. The framework is meant to help negotiators at the upcoming UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and to coordinate ongoing activities.
Monitoring and verification of governance is already being considered in REDD+ implementation activities carried out by several organizations, including UN-REDD, the World Resources Institute (WRI), Global Witness and Chatham House. The soon-to-be established interim REDD+ partnership, agreed upon in Oslo, Norway, on 27 May 2010, calls for consistent standards and systems to monitor governance. [UN-REDD Press Release] [Climate Change Policy & Practice Story on the Oslo Meeting]


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Tougher consequences may be in the works for young Washingtonians illegally packing firearms.
Members of the Washington state House Judiciary Committee on Thursday heard testimony on House Bill 1096, which would send youths to rehabilitation for at least 15 weeks after two weapons-related felonies.
Rep. Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, said his bill would address a "deficit" in the way the state deals with juveniles. It would provide the state with an opportunity to correct behavior early on, he said.
"We can … prevent them from having that foolish behavior turn into deadly, life-changing behavior – not just for their victims, but also for them," he said.
Dan Satterberg, King County Prosecuting Attorney, said under current law it takes five felony convictions to get a juvenile in jail for illegal possession of firearms.
"The current policy of tolerating juvenile possession of firearms really doesn't do anybody any favors," Satterberg said.
Hurst's bill would decrease the number of convictions necessary to incarcerate a juvenile for having a gun illegally.
"Let's have a punishment and opportunity to educate that is commensurate with the damage and the danger that juveniles carrying firearms poses to all of us," Satterberg said.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said he's dealt with cases of young children – sometimes as young as 13 – packing guns, and this bill would help end this.
"I see this bill as a chance to send the message to kids that guns have consequences, and to send that message before it's too late," he said. "Before someone's dead, and someone else is in prison for the rest of their life."
According to the bill's fiscal impact statement, the legislation would cost between $1 million to $3 million per year in operating costs to implement.
However, Satterberg said it's cheaper to incarcerate juveniles for short periods of time if it means keeping them out of prison later.
Shankar Narayan, lobbyist for the ACLU of Washington, said the legislators need to look at the bigger picture. Putting youths in jail at a young age starts a cycle of incarceration, he said.
Narayan said the money would be better spent on education instead of "myopic" legislation.
Juvenile crime is at an all-time low, locally and nationally, said Travis Stearns of the Washington Defender Association, speaking out against the bill.
Stearns referenced Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's inaugural speech last week: "$10,000 for education, or $30,000 in the state of Oregon for incarceration," Stearns said. "It is a model that we know works, because we see success with it."
"We're going to hold juveniles accountable earlier ... before they become violent adults," she said.
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Length of Board Tenure and Outside Director Independence
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University of Cyprus
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 30, pp. 1043-1064, September 2003
I posit and test two competing views on the significance of outside director tenure lengths; the hypothesis suggesting that extended board service time is a sign of director commitment, experience, and competence and the hypothesis suggesting that extended board service time marks directors who befriend management at the expense of shareholders. I find evidence that Senior directors, defined as directors with twenty or more years of board service, are almost twice as likely to occupy a 'management-affiliated' profession compared to the rest, and that they are also more likely to staff the firm's nominating and compensation committees. Senior director participation in the compensation committee is associated with higher pay for the CEO, especially when the CEO is more powerful in the firm. These results are consistent with the management-friendliness hypothesis, and highlight a need for setting term limits for directors.
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Living Sanctuary's iconic flame emblem is easily recognized among the Hougang community, who refer to LSBC members in endearing terms as 'cong jiao tang lai de' ('people from the church').
First established in 1978 as Exodus Brethren Chapel, its founding members were a group of fervent young adults who came from New Bridge Road Chapel, a brethren assembly started in 1960.
Today, LSBC is one of the 15 brethren churches in Singapore, and belongs to the family of Evangelical Protestant churches in the city.
Living Sanctuary embraces its calling to be a church without walls in the town of Hougang. Through giving, acts of kindness, prayer, and by meeting felt needs in the neighbourhood, LSBC members make inroads into the lives of the under-reached and largely mandarin-speaking in the community.
Dialect services, and enter a time of exuberant and ministering worship. Living Sanctuary also supports both young and mature families through its family-friendly environment and vibrant children's ministry.
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The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act is a federal law that states that any patient who "comes to the emergency department" requesting "examination or treatment for a medical condition" must be provided with "an appropriate medical screening examination that uses emergency department resources, including specialized tests such as a CAT scan or consultations" to determine if they are suffering from an "emergency medical condition."
If the examination reveals an emergency medical condition, the hospital must also provide either "necessary stabilizing treatment or an "appropriate transfer to another medical facility, regardless of the patient's ability to pay."
In essence, the federal law obligates the emergency departments of hospitals to provide screening and treatment for all patients. This is often called "charity" and all hospitals that obtain Medicare benefits from the federal government are required to provide specific free services to any patient asking for emergency services.
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EMTALA protection is also referred to as the "anti-dumping law." The initial intent of EMTALA was to address the alleged practices of some hospitals transferring, discharging or refusing to treat patients who did not have insurance. EMTALA regulations apply to all hospitals that participate in the federal Medicare program. Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children and many military hospitals are EMTALA exempt.
Essentially an anti-discrimination law, EMTALA is given teeth by monetary penalties up to $50,000 per violation, liable claims against attending physicians and possible revocation of the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services provider agreement.
The CMS, a division of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the CMS is responsible for the Medicare program and enforcement of the rules on EMTALA.
When a person comes to the hospital's emergency department after a fall at home, with complaints of neck pain, is this an emergency or urgent care situation? If the person is examined and found to have a sprain, without any serious medical conditions, it most likely is considered urgent care. The patient is offered further care after they prepay for services with the understanding that no further care will be given unless the patient provides insurance information or money. If they cannot pay or are without insurance, the patient is told that they can seek care at the community clinic.
If the injury to the neck caused significant internal damage, resulting in the need for immediate treatment or surgery, it most likely is an emergency. In an emergency, the inability to pay does not delay required treatment.
The hospital is responsible for costs of EMTALA-mandated emergency care. EMTALA does not require health insurance companies, governments or individuals to pay for mandated emergency medical services. The hospital with the capacity to treat the patient is obligated to accept the transfer from another facility. If the "patient is transferred in an unstable condition," this must be reported to the CMS as a violation of EMTALA.
In 1998, a lawsuit was filed by the family of a Hawaii resident, Harold Arrington, who had a heart attack on his way to work. The ambulance drove Arrington to the nearest hospital, The Queen's Medical Center, and radioed the emergency room that they were on their way. Dr. Norbert Wong at Queen's told the paramedic to take Arrington to Tripler Army Medical Center, a more distant hospital where Arrington had been a patient. Arrington died 40 minutes after his arrival at Tripler.
U.S. District Judge David Ezra dismissed the Arrington family's lawsuit in 1998.
In 2001, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the telemetry contact between the paramedic and physician on behalf of a patient is covered by EMTALA. An excerpt from the opinion states, "A hospital may not prevent a nonhospital-owned ambulance from coming to the hospital unless it has a valid treatment-related reason for doing so. Moreover, even if the hospital is in diversionary status, where the ambulance comes to the hospital in spite of an instruction to take the patient elsewhere, that ambulance 'comes to' the hospital and emergency treatment of that patient must be provided."
The court's decision was based on the belief that EMTALA's scope exists to also protect patients from telemetry schemes that may result in patient dumping. The court decision makes these regulations binding in Hawaii and eight other Western states. The case may be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court or stayed until further action is taken by Congress, but to date the decision has held.
* Eve Clute is a 30-year resident of Maui and earned a doctorate in public health. She lives in Lahaina.


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Star Tracks: Monday, May 16, 2016 42 years, 2,191 covers and 55,436 stories from PEOPLE magazine's history for you to enjoy
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It Takes More Than Dancing... to Look This Good!
Yes, All the Waltzing Helps. but to Stay in Shape Year-Round, These Stars Have Had to Learn a Slew of Slimdown Tricks, from Cutting Out Ketchup to Filling Up on Watermelon
"It's hard to keep my body in optimal shape when I'm not dancing"
"I need to break a sweat every day or I don't feel good"
"When you're in the public eye, you can't slack off"
"I have dessert, but I share it. It's all about portion control"
She lost 15 lbs.!
After the two-time Dancing champion showed up last fall looking noticeably heavier, she was slammed by bloggers—and some of her fellow pros, with Louis van Amstel saying that if viewers "watch someone who's dancing her butt off and she's still heavy, they can be discouraged." The criticism "made me insecure," Burke admits. But instead of going on a crash diet ("Even when you fast, you eventually end up eating"), she took a hard look at her habits—and made an overhaul. Before, Burke routinely skipped breakfast, but then would gorge on "big dinners," she says. Now Burke goes for balance, starting the day with egg whites and whole wheat toast and not eating after 8 p.m. She also opts for light dressing on her beloved Caesar salad and lean meat and low-fat cheese in her tacos, snacks on a banana with peanut butter or hummus and veggies, and although she says, "I'm addicted to carbs," tries to limit pasta dinners to once a month. "They're just little tweaks," Burke says, but they've made a big difference. "I'm always going to have a curvy body. But I know I'm healthy."
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• Her body challenge: "I gained 5 lbs. this summer!" she says.
• How she deals: Sliwinska does 25 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of strength exercises three times a week. She also sticks to oatmeal and berries for breakfast, a salad with grilled chicken for lunch and grilled chicken and veggies for dinner—with nuts, fruits and hummus for snacks.
• Her best diet trick: Leave the car at home! "I walk to the grocery store, to get coffee, to go to a restaurant," she says. "It all adds up."
• Her body challenge: "I have the biggest sweet tooth!" she says. "I could eat chocolate ice cream 24/7."
• How she deals: Smirnoff fights cravings with a few squares of dark chocolate every day. Otherwise she sticks to egg whites with spinach for breakfast, grilled fish and salad for dinner and, instead of a full lunch, fills up on fruit during the afternoon.
• Her best diet trick: "I eat a lot of watermelon because it hydrates you and gives you energy," says Smirnoff, who also avoids red meat.
• Her body challenge: After a 2007 knee surgery, Schwimmer says she "was sitting in bed for a month" and gained 30 lbs.
• How she deals: To lose the weight, she cut out extras (like ketchup and barbecue sauce) and sodas. Today she stays slim with fruit or a protein bar for breakfast, soups and salads for lunch and veggies with lean meats for dinner.
• Her best diet trick: "Have fun with your workout," says Schwimmer, who skips the gym in favor of playing soccer or baseball with friends.
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3D Text effects are highly popular, and we've published a few tutorials on them before. There are almost endless possibilities, with glossy or reflective 3D text, or grungy, dark text, or intricate and ornate 3D text. However, some of the power in 3D text effects can be created by utilizing the paths of the text, and then decomposing the letters into smaller shapes. This results in a unique and stylish text effect that you can apply to a large number of situations.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Photoshop and 3D Studio Max (though any 3D program will work) to create a unique 3D PS text effect using fundamental shapes.
If you need more text effect tutorials, check out these other tutorials, some of which are 3D Studio max 3d tutorials as well:
- Colorful Candy 3D Text Effect Tutorial
- Awesome 3D Text Effect in Photoshop Only Tutorial
- Dynamic Shattering Text Effect Tutorial
- Beautiful Nature 3D Text Composition Tutorial
Enjoy the tutorial and please share it with your friends and share your results with us in the comments.
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- Adobe Photoshop
- 3DS Max
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Step 1: Text creation and additional ball creation
So to start off we will begin by opening up 3DS max and starting a new scene.
Once you have done that we can head over to the create toolbar on the right hand side of your screen. You will want to select the spline tab and then choose text as I have done in the below screen shot.
Now just drop it into your view port!
Once you have done this we can head back over to the modify tab and adjust our settings for our text. I will be leaving the font, size and kerning all the same but you can modify these if you like. If you do not want to adjust any of the above discussed settings then just proceed by changing the text. I went with CMYK but any text would work. I would go with lower letter words or abbreviations thought. In the end, the longer the word the more balls that you must use which means more lag and more chance of your scene crashing.
Your scene should look something like the below screenshot.
Now we can move on to our material editor to create the materials for our balls. If you are familiar with our past tutorials you will remember this screen. If you are not familiar all that needs to be done here is to select one of the balls and then choose a new diffuse color and your done! I made my colors CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) to correlate with the typo but any colors will do.
If you want to add a reflection and are using mental ray/Vray you can place a falloff map in your reflection map section just like we did in the Hello Color tutorial.
Now its time to start making spheres, so head over to your create tab and select sphere, set yours up as mine and drop one into your viewport.
As you can see in the last image, I'm working in the top viewport (you can access this by pressing T on your keyboard), this makes the entire design much easier by allowing you to keep all of your balls on one plane. I would suggest doing this the entire time up until you start building up your letters.
Once you have placed your first sphere you can press M on your keyboard to bring the material editor back up. This time you will want to click the material sphere (I went with blue) and drag it onto your sphere in your view port. Once you have done that your first sphere should be colored!
Now we can click our viewport sphere, while it is selected switch over to your move tool and move it over while holding shift. A dialog like the below one should appear. This in turn will create a duplicate of the first sphere.
Once you click ok you will see your duplicated sphere appear.
Once you see it you can place it and color as we did previously.
Now continue duplicating your spheres and coloring them. Be sure to stay inside the lines for the most part!
You will notice that this is a somewhat tedious procedure however we can speed it up once you reach a point similar to mine in the below screenshot.
Now select all of your balls and duplicate these as we have done the others.
Next we can switch over to our rotate tool and turn these until they are lined up with the typo outline.
You may need to move some balls around and recolor them so they don't appear too clustered (a lot of blues in one spot for example) but once that's done you have saved a ton of time!
Now just continue on until you have filled up all of your letters! Be sure to stay in the lines and avoid clustering colors as much as possible!
My type looks like the below screenshot.
Once your type is done just delete the typo outline and we are done! Well, not quite, we still need to render it. To render your typo press F10 on your keyboard and input your desired size, you can use any size you like but obviously the bigger the better!
Now that your render is finished you can create a new scene (or hide your type). Once you have done this just drop in some large balls and color them accordingly to your previously used colors.
Render these and we are done with all of our 3DS work!
Step 2: Back ground creation and typo implementation
The first thing we need to do is open up our text in photoshop. Mine looks like the below screenshot.
I did not like the fact that it was horizontal so I used the marquee tool (M on your keyboard) to move the C and the M above the Y and K. You do not have to do this but if you want it can help create a bit more flare to your type.
Now its time to create a document for our newly created text .So depending upon your type size, set up a new canvas (CTRL N on your keyboard). I went with a 3000*2000 sized document but you can use whatever you like, remember to keep the size of your type in mind!
Once you new document has been created grab the fill tool (G on the keyboard) and fill the canvas with pure black.
Now we can create a new layer (Ctrl shift n on your keyboard) and doodle a random shape in white with the paint brush (B on your keyboard).
Once you have done this merge the two layers (CTRL SHIFT E on your keyboard) and apply a Gaussian blur with a radius of 250px. Apply this blur about twice and your document should look similar to mine in the below screenshot.
Next just drop your text in and place it so it appears as if the light is shining from behind the text.
Now we can drop in a ton of the orbs we created in the end of the 3DS section. If you don't have enough that's ok! Just hold ALT on your keyboard when moving the orbs to duplicate them, then all you need to do is free transform them and before you know it your canvas will be filled with orbs!
However, if you duplicate them or you just drop it in be sure the sizes of your orbs vary a little bit.
Step 3: Ray creation and additional background elements added
Our next step is to create the rays of light coming off the orbs. These are quite easily created using the radial blur filter in your filter>blur dialog.
So start off by duplicating your small orb layer. Once that is done drag it beneath the original small orb layer and apply a filter blur>radial blur. Once the dialog comes up crank it up to 100% and set it to radial blur zoom. Apply the filter to get an effect similar to the below screenshot.
Right now its very faint but we can fix that! Press CTRL SHIFT F on your keyboard to fade the last applied filter (the radial blur), set the blending mode for this to screen and press ok. Once you have done this apply the filter again and fade it again. Do this about 4 times and the effect should now look like the below screenshot.
The above screen shot is very grainy and is not what we want at all. To fix this we will apply a Gaussian blur which is found in the filter drop down under blur. Set yours up as mine is in the below screen shot and hit ok.
The effect now looks like the below screenshot.
But we don't want the trails in front of the orbs only behind them. To fix this we can grab a standard eraser (Press E on your keyboard to select the eraser tool) and erase out the streaks in front of the orbs.
Now we need to spruce up the back ground a tad before we move on. To do this create a new layer under everything except your gradient layer, fill this layer with the fill tool like we did previously but this time use something like blue. Se this layers blending mode to overlay and set the opacity to about 50% opacity. This should create a slight blue hue for our background making it much more vibrant.
Now we can grab some more orbs (larger this time) and place them all over the edges/middle of the screen. These will be blurred to create a sense of depth. To do this simply apply the same Gaussian blur that we applied earlier however this time set the radius to about 10px and hit ok.
Now to spruce up the background some more!
To do this we will create a duplicate of our text layer and drag it down so it is only above the blue overlay layer and the gradient layer. Once you have done this apply a few Gaussian blurs with a radius of 250px.
Now we can grab a free cloud stock image (or a purchased one) from a stock site such as Sxc.hu or deviantart.com I will be using the below image.
Now all we will do is drag this layer in place it beneath the orb layers and set it to overlay at 100% and we are done!
You could continue to add to the piece if you wanted to by adding in stars/nebula pieces etc… but you don't have to. My final image looks like the below screenshot.
I hope you enjoyed reading my tutorial and wound up with an image you like! Or came out with knowing a few new tricks! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Also, if you have any ideas for future tutorials please say so!


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Amy Winehouse's husband says he wants out of their marriage – for her sake.
"I have to let her go to save her life," Blake Fielder-Civil – who is currently in rehab after being released from jail in November – told a British newspaper Sunday. "I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love."
During the interview with the News of the World, Fielder-Civil also admits that he "introduced" the 25-year-old Winehouse to crack and heroin. (Audio files from portions of the chat are available on the paper's Web site.)
The former video production assistant – who wed Winehouse in 2007 – denies being after the singer's money and says he will not "fight her for anything."
Winehouse's U.K. spokesman, Chris Goodman, says he is unaware of anything formal underway to end the marriage.
Winehouse has not visited her husband at the rehab center where he was sent as a condition of his early release. He spent almost a year behind bars after pleading guilty to charges of assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Meanwhile, Goodman tells PEOPLE that the singer remains hospitalized at a London clinic and is "doing fine." The rep says she is being seen as part of her ongoing medical care.
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This is one game that always makes you want for just one more turn. It's a mouse based game with the aim of using the wires to get as far as you can without falling down. Keep moving for*ward else you will fall down. The only control in the game is your left mouse button just aim and shoot! But don't be fooled by the simplicity of the game, it really is a test of your mouse handling skills.
The obstacles get repetitive after a while, but it is still fun to play with. Slow and steady is the mantra of this game, avoid taking huge leaps as it will put you into trouble a very large fling outside the screen will also kill you.


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Skip to comments.French anti-Semitism has Jews heading for Israel, hiding religion
Posted on 01/09/2003 4:56:51 PM PST by Nachum
PARIS - Jewish parents tell their sons not to wear yarmulkes. A rabbi is stabbed while preparing for a Sabbath service. Elderly women are frisked before entering synagogues - just in case.
As the stresses of being Jewish in France multiply, some feel it safer to hide their religion. Others have decided the only solution is to pack up and leave.
Statistics released this week by the Jewish Agency, the body that arranges immigration to Israel, show that 2,326 French Jews emigrated to Israel in 2002, more than double the number of a year earlier.
French arrivals were a mere 6.7 percent of the total, but it represented the largest percentage of French immigrants to Israel since 1972. At that time, Israel had quadrupled its territory from the 1967 Six Day War and Jews flocked there full of hope.
Today, their reasons for going are different. In synagogues and at Jewish gatherings, people say they are afraid and fed up. Though the new conservative government has loudly condemned recent attacks, many wonder if France's leaders are committed to fighting anti-Semitism.
"In Israel, at least we know the government is on our side," said Stephanie Ohana, a 34-year-old Parisian Jew, at a prayer service this week for her rabbi, who was injured in a stabbing. "It's paradoxical, isn't it? But we have the feeling we'd be safer in Israel."
Last Friday's knifing of Rabbi Gabriel Farhi stunned France. It came after a relative lull in anti-Semitic attacks that coincided with violence in the Middle East.
It started with a menacing letter the morning of the attack that said: "We want the skin of Rabbi Gabriel Farhi and will avenge the blood of our Palestinian brothers," according to the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, a group founded by Farhi's father.
Later that day, Farhi was preparing for Friday night services when the synagogue doorbell rang. As he opened the door, he says, an attacker in a motorcycle helmet lunged forward with a knife, shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and fled. The man has not been caught.
Farhi, 34, a leading figure in France's liberal Jewish community, was slightly injured and released from the hospital the same day. Then, on Monday, his car was torched in his apartment parking lot.
"I want to believe that this was an isolated act," Farhi said, "and not the prelude to other attacks and a new wave of anti-Semitism."
At an ecumenical prayer service held in support of Farhi at his Paris synagogue this week, the turnout was impressive. Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders attended, along with many political leaders. Four former prime ministers: Lionel Jospin, Alain Juppe, Edouard Balladur and Laurent Fabius, sat beside each other wearing yarmulkes, the traditional Jewish skull cap.
France's tough new law-and-order interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, also attended. Sarkozy, who has launched a sweeping anti-crime campaign, guaranteed new measures to prevent future attacks, Farhi said.
"It's clear that the government is listening better now," Farhi said, adding that he wanted to see results. "I'm waiting for concrete measures."
Authorities increased security at Jewish religious sites last year, following a wave of attacks at synagogues, Jewish schools and cemeteries. In the most serious case, a synagogue in southern Marseille was burned to the ground.
But Farhi and others say police presence and metal detectors alone are not the answer. Asked what needs to be done, he replied: "Perhaps stricter laws. Perhaps some more concern, I would say, from the police and from the government."
Last spring, French President Jacques Chirac insisted there was no anti-Semitism in France even as Jewish groups placed the number of anti-Jewish attacks at the highest level since World War II.
Of late, he has taken a tougher tone.
"There is no room in our country for anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia or for manifestations of religious intolerance," Chirac wrote in a letter to the rabbi cited by Le Monde newspaper.
France is home to an estimated 600,000 Jews - the largest Jewish community in western Europe - and one of the continent's largest Muslim populations. Islam is France's second-largest religion after Roman Catholicism.
Jews find themselves taking pains to hide their identity in public.
"My son goes to a Jewish school," said Francis Lentschner, vice president of the liberal Jewish movement. "He can wear his kippah (yarmulke) in school. But I prefer him not to wear one outside."
Ohana wears a Hebrew letter on a gold chain around her neck. Lately, she said, she keeps it tucked inside her collar.
"It hurts. It really does," she said. "We're starting to hide that we're Jewish."
Europe has an affinity for national socialism. And when it unites into a big conglomerate, socialist EU some day, it will become "EU socialist", that is, national socialist.
Their day of socialist failure will come, and the Jews will be the target.
I'd leave Europe for Israel or the U.S.
No place else.
Well when labour is not in power anyway.
August Bebel (not Jewish) calls anti-Semitism the socialism of fools.
I guess are plenty of fools in Europe.
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Okay. But does your beloved French Government DO ANYTHING to PUNISH these malefactors in any meaningful way. (Hint: I am rolling on the floor laughing.)
It was the French foreign ministry, not a muslim fringe, that stood by Mr Bernard and refused to either recall him or make him apologize and that characterized the objections to his words as "malevolent insinuations".
Nothing effective is done in France, beyond mere verbiage, to crack down on the criminal attackers of jews, jewish cemetaries and synagogs.
But the French are not alone among Europeans. In the house of Lords, a Jewish Memeber was referred to as "you people" and another Member of the House of Lords, a liberal, was hear to say ".. .the Jews have been asking for it and now, thank God, we can say what we think a last.
True, the actual violence is commited by muslim activists, but the underlying tenor in Europe is reverting to the casually accepted anti-semitism of the 1930s and it is again becoming respectable to make Jew jokes at society parties.
France didn't acknowledge any anti-Semitic incidents until now. We don't know if it's all done by Muslims either.
Hizbollah said that in 20 years (I guess now 13) France will be an Islamic Republic.
From Pol Potism to Khomeneism, France has always been the repository of the most loathsome ideologies.
"Never Again", right?
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The Netherlands will be the next country to be lost.
a) We don't know who all the attackers are, and
b) as Debbie Schussel reports, France has buried it's head in the ground and let these attacks continue. "Ordinary Europeans" are banning kosher slaughtering and putting yellow stars on food from the Jewish state in the best Nazi fashion.
Hizbollah said that in 20 years (I guess now 13) France will be an Islamic Republic.
The great fashion houses of Chanel, St. Laurent--will soon be featuring burquas, abayas, chadors and assorted hijab for the women of Paris, at the point of a scimitar.
How many years before the Louvre is sacked, and who will weep for the effete?
Disgusting. Jews should be wearing flourescent yarmulkes, travel in groups of three, and carry concealed weapons everywhere they go. Any Arab who so much as hits a Jew should be killed. They must show that Jewish blood is not cheap. That is the only way the assault will stop. There must be one Jewish multi-millionare who would be willing to finance to arming of Jews worldwide.
The JPost apparently uses the word "liberal" in the American sense, as in "rabidly left-wing," and not in the European sense, which is classical liberalism.
It's usually funny when left-wingers are stabbed by the monsters they spend so much time defending.
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I recently had a problem with live. I got on a week ago, and invited a friend to a party. It would be just as two. But she got Can't connect to Party. So she made a party, and invited me. I happen to get the same thing. After several attempts, and no luck, we give up, and join a party with someone else as the party leader. This has been going on for two weeks, and it is driving us insane. So i thought, "Can me friends join me?" I send a couple of friends party invites but they get the same Can't connect to party. So we get on another party with someone else that volunteered to be leader, and we played Halo 4. But our leader had to get off, we were all connected still. But then as the game started, i was kicked off the game, and was not able to join back either because my friend was in that game. We tried this with AC3 but both of us can not be in the same game without being kicked. I know you will say to check my NAT settings, call my internet provider, reset connection, or even put our connections into a wired one. But nothing works. We both have an OPEN NAT. I really need a solution to this problem as soon as possible because my live is running out soon so i want to spend the rest of my live without wasting it again because of school. Please help!
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I am JeffRay, I am sorry but that didn't help at all because I have tried all those as well... :(
MEA Kilabeez, I will try that but I doubt it would work. :/
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HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's beverage container recycling program continues to lack effective inspection and enforcement and its financial viability could be undermined as a result, according to a state audit.
The audit made public earlier this month said state payments to redemption centers continue to be based on what centers claim to have received from consumers and not what they send to recyclers.
"Management has known about its flawed payment system for years but has done little to address the defect," the report said.
Department of Health Gary Gill, who oversees the HI-5 program, said the audit did a good job of presenting the details. He questioned how the overall findings were laid out.
"I dispute the sensationalism they use," Gill told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The program has had phenomenal success keeping soda cans and other containers from landfills despite staff and funding challenges, Gill said. Consumers recycled nearly 75 percent of the 911.8 million containers sold in the state in fiscal 2013.
Acting Auditor Jan K. Yamane, however, concluded that problems identified in past audits are still around.
For two years ending in fiscal year 2012, the program paid $6.2 million in deposit refunds for nearly 7.5 million pounds of materials that could not be tracked, the audit said.
The state pays 5 cents per container to redemption centers. Claimed amounts are not validated. That can mean overpayments, according to the audit.
The department lacks adequate management to provide effective oversight, the audit said. One redemption center may have been overpaid by $2.2 million in deposit fees and could not account for a discrepancy involving more than 2 million pounds of claimed material, according to the audit.
Auditors said a priority should be a "back-end" payment system based on shipped totals of recyclable containers instead of claimed amounts.
That's a goal, Gill said, but the change could undermine the stability of the industry. Redemption centers, he said, would have to carry the debt for nickels paid to consumers for weeks longer than they do now.


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A change in behavior is what's needed to counter the potential death sentence caused by the inexperience and inattention of young motorists who text while driving, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said during a Tuesday visit to Buffalo.
"We changed behavior when it came to alcohol and driving. We did it with the seat-belt law," Cuomo said, appearing in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center to talk about enforcement of driver safety measures.
Last week, Cuomo signed a law that carries a 60-day suspension for a first offense of texting or using a hand-held cellphone while driving by drivers who have permits, probationary licenses or junior licenses.
He followed up by announcing a summerlong crackdown on distracted drivers, carried out primarily by state police in unmarked sport utility vehicles.
"The state police will have a visibly increased presence on the road," Field Commander Patricia M. Groeber said at Tuesday's event. In addition to their highly recognizable patrol cars, troopers are utilizing unmarked sport utility vehicles built on a higher-than-normal platform, or chassis, giving them a better view of what's going on inside other vehicles.
"This allows our officers to see into vehicles without being detected," Groeber said.
Cuomo was introduced by Kelly Cline, of West Seneca, who has advocated for a law against texting and driving since her 20-year-old son, A.J. Larson, died in a 2007 accident that was attributed to his texting while driving.
Cline recalled standing with the governor in 2011, when he signed a law making texting while driving a primary offense – a reason all its own for police to pull over a driver.
"It was a major step forward in this ongoing fight to stop distracted driving," she said.
Earlier this year, the governor signed a bill increasing the penalty for distracted driving from three points to five points on a driver's license.
Holding a cellphone aloft, Cuomo noted its many uses.
"This device can be very, very dangerous if used at the wrong time," he said. "We don't think of it that way."
Education is the way to change behavior, the governor said.
"Parents have a role here," he said. "Parents shouldn't be doing it."
The governor spoke of his three daughters, two of whom are young drivers.
"I want to make sure I'm doing everything I can to teach them, to help them, to put them in an environment that is safe," he said.
"Let them learn this lesson the easy way. The hard way is too painful and takes too much of a toll," Cuomo said.
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Oh, and professor Jim? Economic Freedom accorded to corporations and businesses by the abolition of the minimum wage would egregiously deteriorate the quality of life for millions already working minimum wage jobs. Since it's the title of your thread I thought that I'd...yeah, I thought I'd point that out for ya.
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Dont believe in it when you get big corporations freedom they will overtake other businesses with ease, then decrease jobs by overworking employees, paying less. and giving less benefits.... Some examples are happening now..... Some kind of Control they need and for them to pay they're fare share of taxes if they dont like it Im sure others will...
I think its a sham when they disagree for them to say if we ask for the taxes they are going to go... They get they're fair amount of profit why not be fair if they dont like it somebody else will step up for there kind of profit.
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I see you're posting again, Jim.
Will you accept my challenge? Will you devise a budget for someone making minimum wage that offers a reasonable standard of living?
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if our single adult lives in a major metropolitan area, account for increased taxes but no vehicle or auto ins. overhead. If not, adjust for a vehicle (used...anticipate moderately frequent repair costs and maintenance) and the insane fuel prices.
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And yeah, raising it, especially to the proposed 9.50 would be devastating right now. I don't have the patience to teach Nurz basic economics right now, especially after he wrote off 3 ATG economists (Friedman, Sowell and Williams) as kooks.
What Nurz can't or won't understand, is that people that are excluded from entering the workplace by min wage, sometimes have no other choice but to commit crimes, or milk the system (which is worse than struggling to make ends meet on min wage.) And he thinks you can continue to raise min wage indefinitely without negatively affecting inflation and unemployment, which is naive.
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I congratulate you on that, at least. What I am arguing is that abolishing it is far worse than having it; and in my view, allowing it to lag behind until it is irrelevant is the same as abolishing it.
Those economists you referenced did not make sophisticated arguments. What they DID was highlight the issues that promoted their argument without even glossing over the ones that would detract from it. An effective argument presents both sides and then attempts to parse each to reveal their merits and flaws while explaining the favorable opinion of one side over the other. That is why I dismissed them. Either they presented an oversimplified argument, or I found their presentation wanting.
Now, I understand what you're saying. Eliminating minimum wage would end unemployment (or greatly curtail it) but it would not provide for improved quality of life supposed by the video in the beginning. Being underemployed is just as bad as being unemployed.
I am genuinely not trying to antagonize you, but if you 'don't have the patience to teach' me the basics of economy then I suspect you either don't understand it or cannot defend your point of view. If your points are so common sense, then it should be simple to explain and easy for me to understand.
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Hanley Ramirez Reflects on the Red Sox Experience
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ST. LOUIS ' Looking back to his days as a pup on the diamond for the Red Sox ' back in the Gulf Coast League, in Sarasota, in Portland ' Hanley Ramirez is not surprised by anything that has happened to him in his major-league career, save for one thing.
'Getting traded. I never thought I was going to get traded when I was coming up with the Red Sox,' said Ramirez, now representing the Florida Marlins at an All-Star Game for the second straight year. 'That happened, but I'm happy to be here with Florida.
That is not to say that Ramirez doesn't enjoy Boston, or wouldn't have liked to be a member of the Red Sox. He remains 'really close' with David Ortiz, and described great encounters with the Fenway fans during his visit with the Marlins to Boston for an interleague series last month.
He also caught wind of the offseason rumors that suggested the Red Sox were interested in reacquiring his services. Because talks between the Sox and Marlins never advanced much beyond the exploratory phase, Ramirez never had to think too hard about returning to the franchise with whom he signed out of the Dominican in 2000, though he did consider it flattering to hear that Boston made a run at him.
'They see the way you play and they want you back, but I can't control that. I've got to just keep playing hard and showing everyone I deserve to be in the big leagues,' said Ramirez. 'That's nothing I can control, so I go like, 'Yeah, good.' It's good when teams are after you and you know you've got to get better and better and better everyday. I was kind of like, 'Hmmm'¦'' he said, moving his neck from side to side as if in deep contemplation.
'But it never happened. I love Florida. I'm happy to be here. I wish I can end my career here. They've got a great front office, coaching staff, and my teammates are the best teammates I've had in my life.'
While Ramirez was stunned by the trade that sent him to the Marlins in 2005, he joins the consensus of opinion that the deal benefited both sides. Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell helped propel the Sox to a title in 2007 — making Boston the only team this decade with two championships — while Ramirez is the centerpiece of the Marlins' future.
'It really did (help both teams). Boston has two World Series, and I think we'll have a couple. We've just got to keep working,' said Ramirez, who has an N.L.-leading .349 batting average to go with 14 homers, 13 steals and a .979 OPS. 'I've got to keep working and keep getting better.'
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An open house to spotlight new programs, new management and some sprucing up of the facility is planned for 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Bishop DeFalco Retreat Center.
Mass will be celebrated at 1 p.m. in the main chapel. At 3 p.m., Retreat Center Director Sister Theresa Rozga will give a lecture, "Where is Heaven: Is There a Hell?" Tours of the facility, refreshments and a book sale will be offered.
The center, which opened 17 years ago, is owned and operated by the Catholic Diocese of Amarillo but is dedicated to the personal and spiritual development of people of all faiths, Rozga said.
Rozga said she wants the community to know that people can go to the retreat center for quiet time.
"They do not have to be part of a group," she said. "They can come for as little as two hours."
People who just want to drop by the retreat center for a short period of time will not be charged, Rozga said. And people who want to stay longer but cannot afford it can apply for a scholarship, she said.
"The retreat center is not a hotel," Rozga said. "We encourage a quiet atmosphere of prayer and reflection, supportive of people's desire to take time away from life's busyness and focus on God and true living."
New programs include Women at the Well, an interdenominational spirituality group for women that meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Monday of each month, and an adult Catholic / Christian education series that meets at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. Both are free.
Rachel's Vineyard, a weekend retreat for women and men struggling with the aftereffects of abortion, is planned for Oct. 8-10. Cursillo, a three-day course in Christian development, is available in English and Spanish for adults and youth.
The Golden Spread Emmaus Community also sponsors Walks to Emmaus and Chrysalis retreats for youth at the center. But fewer of those events will be held in Amarillo after the new lodge is completed at Ceta Canyon Methodist Camp, said Don Warren, lay director of the Emmaus community.
"We have just felt that is where God is moving us to right now," Warren said.
The retreat center is large enough for actual walk participants, Warren said, but the retreat center chapel can't comfortably accommodate the many visitors who attend the Sunday worship service with people on the walk.
The retreat center will continue to be open to large groups for retreats and seminars, Rozga said.
"It is not true that it's only to be used by Catholics," Rozga said. "It is open to all faiths."
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In France, Wine Without the Work
An Irishman is converting former wine estates into luxury properties in Languedoc-Roussillon. The pitch: Homeowners get vineyard views and a share of the bottles—but don't have the headaches of making wine
It's a second-home buyer's dream: a home in the South of France overlooking fields of lush vineyards, with a cellar full of coveted bottles. Less appealing: actually owning and maintaining a winery.
An Irish developer named Karl O'Hanlon thinks he has the solution. He is one of several developers refurbishing rundown châteaux in southern France as luxury villas with private vineyards. Homeowners get a share of the wine, but aren't required to help make it. Mr. O'Hanlon is finding that many second-home buyers are willing to bypass storied markets like Bordeaux and Provence to buy in a region previously sniffed at by wine aficionados: Languedoc-Roussillon.
"I thought there was a gap in the market" for luxury homes in the region, says Mr. O'Hanlon, 41 years old.
His first foray into château conversion was a 19th-century wine estate called Château Les Carrasses. In 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Mr. O'Hanlon convinced Irish shareholders and French banks to back his purchase of the estate and convert its castle and grounds into 28 luxury homes. Amenities include tennis courts, a swimming pool and an on-site restaurant. The total investment in Les Carrasses was €12 million.
The homes, priced from €205,000 to €735,000 (about $274,000 to $981,000), came with a sweetener: Each owner would receive up to 50 cases of wine in a year (one rosé, two reds and two whites), depending on the quality of the wine they chose. Les Carrasses, which spans 158 acres, produced its last commercial wine in 1988. The new development sold out in 2009 before opening its doors in 2011.
Following the success of Les Carrasses, Mr. O'Hanlon's company, Domaine & Demeure, is restoring another Languedoc property: St. Pierre de Serjac, a 19th-century wine estate spread across 230 acres of land and once owned by a local noble. Mr. O'Hanlon plans to build 36 residences, including eight newly constructed properties, opening in 2015. Like Les Carrasses, it will have swimming pools and tennis courts, as well as a restaurant. Prices range from about $467,000 to $1.3 million.
Though construction won't begin until January, 30 units at St. Pierre de Serjac have already sold. Buyers are from places such as the U.S., the U.K., Russia, Nigeria and Hong Kong, according to Mr. O'Hanlon.
New York lawyer Gerard Thompson purchased one of the homes there, after finding it through online searches for luxury real estate in the South of France. He is paying about $800,000. "The feature of an active wine operation was a considerable advantage because we love wine, particularly French wine," says Mr. Thompson, 61 years old.
The idea of turning vineyard estates into residences isn't new in France. In places such as Bordeaux and Provence, developers have been turning old châteaux into homes since at least the 1990s, albeit on a smaller scale, says Daniel Martin of Propriétés & Co., a property development group. "Languedoc is the only region that remains undeveloped or emerging around the Mediterranean," says Mr. Martin, who moved to the region from the U.K. in 1992.
Languedoc-Roussillon, which sits along the Mediterranean coast between Provence and the border with Spain, is now starting to catch up. In July, Propriétés & Co. opened two new high-end developments. One, Le Domaine de la Mandoune, is a 19th-century wine domaine converted into 30 apartments, with about 74 acres of vineyards remaining. The other, Le Château de La Redorte, is an 18th-century wine-producing château converted into 11 apartments, plus 20 villas on its grounds; about 7 acres of vineyards remain. Both developments include concierge services and facilities such as swimming pools and tennis courts. Owners have access to private vineyards.
While these developments have proven popular, some of the homes remain on the market. Domaine de La Mandoune has seven properties on the market, starting at about $300,000; Château de La Redorte has six properties on the market, starting at about $257,000.
Property prices in the region are still lagging. According to FNAIM, France's national association of real-estate agencies, the Languedoc-Roussillon area saw a 5.7% decrease of property prices in the second quarter of 2013, compared with the same period a year earlier. Across France, the market has been soft as well: Property prices fell 3.6% nationally in the second quarter of this year compared with the previous year's second quarter, according to FNAIM.
Though Languedoc was long associated with mass-produced budget wines, improvement in wine quality is helping sales in Languedoc, brokers and locals say. "The wine has improved so much in the last 40 years. When I first visited the wine was pretty awful. It was high yield and it had rather thin, dilute flavors," says Rosemary George, a wine expert and author of "French Country Wines," a book about the lesser-known wine regions of France. "Now, there is some seriously good wine. They are very drinkable."
Annette Mink, an Ireland-based investor and a property investor in the Languedoc region, was one of a handful early investors in Les Carrasses, taking a nearly 25% stake in the project in 2008 at the height of the financial meltdown. "We saw Les Carrasses and we saw a magical place. I also had full trust in Karl [as a developer]," says Ms. Mink, who had worked with Mr. O'Hanlon before on other development projects in Languedoc.
Mr. O'Hanlon, a native of Ireland, spent holidays as a child in the South of France. After a career in banking, he started working in Languedoc for other developers in 2002. His early projects included turning an old convent into a hotel. In 2006, he moved to the region with his wife, Anita, and their children and started his own firm.
With views of surrounding vineyards and the Pyrenees in the background, Les Carrasses was built in 1886 on a former rest stop on the pilgrim route of the Way of St. James. The estate is located a few minutes away from the town of Capestang, which has a market and a number of restaurants, and about an hour away from Montpellier.
Historic buildings dot the grounds—a castle, a winery, the winemaker's house and a grape picker's lodgings; there is also the blacksmith's house, as well as stables, a forge and a granary, the estate manager's house and the gardener's cottage. The original outline of the gardens remains untouched.
Matthew Fletcher, a 65-year old retired British urologist, and his wife, Sue, a retired teacher, bought their €625,000 house at Les Carrasses in 2009, after seeing the floor plan. "We were interested in living in a wine estate but without any worry about the day-to-day of running it," says Mr. Fletcher. His 1,600 square-foot, three-bedroom, 3½-bath house is attached to the main château.
"Languedoc wine is not always of the best quality, but it's definitely improving significantly," he says. "We had 180 bottles last year. We drank them or gave them as presents."
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Smoking is out.
It's out in workplaces. It's out at more and more restaurants and bars. It's out of most people's homes. And it's out in another way, too – in the sense of what's cool and what isn't, what's accepted and what's shunned.
Smoking is most decidedly out in our nation.
The latest statistics are heart-warming – and lung-clearing. In 2012, only 18 percent of the nation's adults were smokers. Just three years earlier, the smoking rate stood at 20.6 percent. And back in 1997, nearly a quarter of adults — 24.7 percent — were routinely lighting up.
Researchers have been singling out what works and what doesn't. Increasing cigarette taxes is positive. So too are smoking bans. And fewer images of smoking in movies. Interestingly, anti-smoking programs in schools aren't seen as effective.
If these findings are repeatedly shown to be true, and there's no reason to believe they won't be, anti-smoking efforts can be better targeted, with time and money being spent where they will do the most good.For a time, as the number of regular smokers decreased and then appeared to bottom out, it became something of the conventional wisdom that there was a group of hardcore nicotine addicts who would never give up the noxious and obnoxious habit.
No matter what.But the latest evidence shows that thinking to have been off the mark.What's important is that we don't give up, that we, as a society, allow ourselves to dream. We wish for a day when the thought of someone firing up a cigarette is considered outrageous behavior, an act only a bit less anti-social than suggesting a game of Russian roulette at a bridal shower. We've been moving solidly in the right direction. We've come a long way, baby, but we've got further still to go.
Editorial: We've come a long way in fight against smoking
on July 01, 2013 at 6:00 AM, updated July 01, 2013 at 6:20 AM
Smoking is out.


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Life is all about choices, so one could make the argument that a TV show about helping your neighbors is better for the soul than one about their untimely and/or gruesome demise. But Rob Long, a television producer and contributing editor of National Review, questions if watching people do good can inspire viewers to do likewise.
Indeed, Long writes, shows including "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" "reinforce another bedrock truth, which we're all supposed to deny but we all secretly acknowledge: Money and objects really can make you happier."
Now, he says, Oprah Winfrey is developing two primetime reality series for ABC, "Oprah Winfrey's The Big Give," (which he describes as "Survivor" meets "Touched by an Angel") and the tentatively titled "Your Money or Your Life," in which a troubled family is provided all sorts of aid.
He concludes:
Only a fool would bet against the success of these shows. Oprah did not get immensely rich by accident. She knows what people like to watch. More important, she knows what people like to feel when they watch. We want to feel good, about ourselves and our neighbors. We want to feel good about the power of a remodeled kitchen.
Mostly, though, we want to watch. Actual, real charity work -- as opposed to actual, reality-television charity work -- involves a certain amount of bleakness, the risk of an unhappy ending, an occasional lack of gratitude from the recipient, uncomfortable encounters with poor hygiene and a lot of guilt. In other words, a lot of things that would make for a really terrible television show.
Watching TV is so splendidly idle and so marvelously anesthetizing -- ask any advertiser -- that it's the wrong place to issue a call to action but a great place to issue a call to Domino's. Oprah has publicly declared that what she wants to do is inspire people to give more of their money and time, but that's a tough thing to accomplish. In order to pick up a hammer, you first have to put down the universal remote.


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6 Ways You're About to Get Screwed by the Job Market
#4. Your Success Depends on How Much Work You'll Do for Free
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Occasionally you'll see a news story about "wage theft," the extremely common practice among retailers and restaurants of finding sneaky ways to shave money off your paycheck -- adjusting hours down after the fact, fudging reporting to avoid paying overtime, that sort of thing. Those practices are illegal, and you might get the impression that fixing it is just a matter of complaining to the right person. Oh, you poor, naive child. The system is 12 steps ahead of you, and you've already fallen into its devious trap.
The first thing you're going to find out is that much of the wage theft that goes on isn't considered theft. This entire economic system is, in fact, based on how much free labor can be squeezed out of talented people before they rise high enough to demand payment. And if they never rise, they just keep getting squeezed. So write this down and stick it to your wall:
Success in this system is all about how much work you're willing to do for free.
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Actually, you probably won't be making enough to afford walls.
They won't say this outright -- the way it will be phrased to you is that the really good employees "give 110 percent" or "go above and beyond." That is, a good employee is literally one who does work beyond what he or she is paid to do. Hell, how many of you have already seen this scenario:
Your fast food restaurant, which we'll refer to as TurdBurger*, closes at 9 p.m. You then have one hour to do all of the post-closing stuff (mop the floors, clean the grill, throw away all of the salads that are only on the menu for show). When the clock strikes 10, you clock out -- no matter what. You stop getting paid. Your boss, however, will give you more than one hour's worth of work to do in that span.
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*New York Times best-selling author, ladies and gentlemen.
So when 10 arrives and you clock out, there are still tasks to be done. You now have two choices:
A) Be a good employee and keep working, unpaid, until everything is done.
B) Leave the tasks undone so that the morning crew will have to do them.
Now here's the trick: When your fellow TurdBurger workers come in the next morning and see that you didn't finish turning the partially eaten burgers into the next day's chili, they won't be angry at the company for failing to pay you overtime. They'll be angry at you for not getting your work done. You'll get a reputation as a bad employee. And if you don't eventually get fired, you will certainly never get that promotion.
Because you're so young when you get those jobs, you tend to take all that stuff for granted, like the fact that if the shift starts at 8 a.m., you're expected to be there, in uniform, ready to work when the clock strikes 8 ... which means you're required to arrive in advance so you can do all of the prep work off the clock. You'll also have situations where you have to supply your own work clothes, or use your personal vehicle, or outright pay for your own supplies. (Fun fact: The average public school teacher spends $500 a year out of pocket to do their job.)
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"Then we had to sell our pockets to keep the history department alive."
Each time you'll feel like a good employee, like you're "giving 110 percent" or "going above and beyond," giving free labor to a company that would see heaven and Earth laid to waste before it ever gave you a free paycheck. If you do that enough, at some point you'll be tasked with doing work that's above your pay grade -- say, a supervisor is out, and as the most senior employee, you're asked to watch the floor. And you'll happily do supervisor work for cashier money, because you'll hope that will give you a leg up the next time a supervisor spot opens up. You won't be thinking in terms of the steep discount they're getting on your labor -- you'll be too thrilled that you've gotten the opportunity.
Of course, then you have the unpaid interns, people literally working for nothing, legally. There are about 2 million of those out there, people working purely for the experience, as if it's an act of charity for a corporation to allow you to do menial labor in their midst. And then there's this whole other tier of "sort of" paid interns that exist under the threat of unpaid ones. My first job was as a news producer for an ABC affiliate ... which sounds like a fancy job until you hear that it paid $5 an hour. They could get away with that, because they knew there were 50 more behind me willing to do it for nothing, knowing we were all using it as a stepping stone to a job in a larger market. Or to a career in writing about poop monsters, whatever.
"Well, that almost makes it sound like there's a huge advantage for people who can afford to work for nothing, due to rich parents or whatever." Bingo! Now you're getting it.
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"Hey, I'm starting from the bottom having to fetch people coffee. Sure, I just pay another guy to do it for me,
but our struggles are pretty much the same."
I bet those same people also have way more diverse job choices when they know they don't have six figures of education debt hanging over their heads and can afford to take a position with no pay but super valuable experience/networking opportunities. How about that.
Hey, speaking of which ...
#3. Someone Less Deserving WILL Get Hired/Promoted Ahead of You
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Look, we're all counting down the days until technology allows us to live inside a video game. And by far the biggest improvement games make over real life (aside from the fact that you can get rich by smashing clay pots) is that in a game, advancement is based purely on merit. You get a certain number of experience points, and you level up. Real life is not like that.
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"Hey, it's date number three, so I've unlocked 'sex,' right?"
Let's say you've shown up for a job interview, and you're sitting in a waiting room along with a half-dozen other people who've also made it to that stage. You're asking yourself, will your interview be the most eloquent? Is your resume the most impressive? Will they notice that your dress shoes are just sneakers you've spray painted black? But what you should be asking yourself is, "Do any of the other candidates know the interviewer personally?"
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"There's got to be plenty of Carter Joseph IIIs and Carter Joseph IVs who haven't met."
Because that, friends, is the single biggest factor. More than 40 percent of workers got their job because they knew the right person (that is, by "networking"). For example, how did you do your job search? Did you look through public listings? Search a job portal website? Well, guess what -- 70 to 80 percent of jobs aren't even listed. The people who got them were either already in the company (see the aforementioned interns, who got in the door by being willing to work for nothing) or happened to hear about them on the golf course. What's that? You don't like golf? Oh well.
And once you've got the job, you'll find the same process repeating itself -- supervisors and managers are very big on promoting people they like. So in this world, attractive and tall people get promoted ahead of their shorter, uglier colleagues, regardless of qualifications. Managers and supervisors are going to promote people they're more comfortable around -- and if they're uncomfortable around weird people, or minorities, or gays, or anyone who's never gone out drinking with them, well, there are infinite ways to justify passing them over.
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"She has fingernails exactly like my mother-in-law's."
"But some of that is discrimination! I'm sure of it!"
Maybe; it depends on where you are. But even then, good luck proving it. And once you get a reputation as a loud, complaining type, good luck keeping your job.
"Well then how in the hell am I supposed to get promoted when, say, the other candidates are a beautiful woman and the supervisor's golf buddy?"
It can be done. You just have to give 110 percent. Heh.
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A North Carolina man who was accused of sneaking fake poker chips into a poker tournament at the Borgata is being charged with copyright infringement after federal authorities found thousands of bootleg DVDs at his home.
Customs agents found more than 37,500 pirated DVDs and equipment used for pirating DVDs after they raided Christian Lusardi's home in Fayetteville, N.C., according to a report on wral.com.
Investigators determined that Lusardi made close to $1 million selling the pirated DVDs online, the report said. He has been under investigation since mid-2012.
Lusardi was arrested after he was linked to the discovery of counterfeit poker chips with a tournament value of 2.7 million. The chips were found flushed down the toilet of an Atlantic City casino hotel room. The state Division of Gaming Enforcement canceled the event at the Borgota, and temporarily froze the prize money.
Court documents show that Lusardi received a shipment from China marked "plastic chips," the report said.


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Speaker to address tourism at Oil Region event
FRANKLIN -- A tourism specialist will be featured speaker at the annual membership meeting of the Oil Region Alliance on Feb. 28.
Debra Bowman, executive director of tourism and film and economic development marketing for the state Department of Community and Economic Development, will address the gathering at the Quality Inn & Conference Center, 1411 Liberty St., at 8:30 a.m.
Tickets, including breakfast at 8 a.m., are $8.
For reservations or more information, call the Oil Region Alliance at (814) 677-3152, Ext. 110.


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About Natural Gas
What is Natural Gas?
Natural Gas consists mostly of methane, which is the simplest hydrocarbon. Methane molecules contain one carbon and four hydrogen atoms.
Natural gas has a good safety record. Methane is lighter than air and easily disperses in the event of a gas leak. Another reason Natural Gas has such a good safety record is that its use in Australia is governed by rigorous industry technical standards.
Did you Know?
- Natural gas accounts for 18.1% of primary energy use and is expected to be Australia's fastest growing energy source.
- Australia's Natural Gas reserves are linked to major markets by over 17,000 km of high pressure transmission pipelines.
- Proven and probable reserves of Natural Gas are equal to about 91 years supply at current production levels.
- Australian Natural Gas prices are among the lowest of the OECD countries.
- Australia exports Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to the Asia-Pacific region earning over $1.6 billion in export income.
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Athenahealth (Nasdaq: ATHN ) is expected to report Q4 earnings on Feb. 7. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Athenahealth's revenues will expand 26.7% and EPS will grow 16.7%.
The average estimate for revenue is $117.2 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.28.
Revenue details
Last quarter, Athenahealth chalked up revenue of $105.9 million. GAAP reported sales were 26% higher than the prior-year quarter's $83.7 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
Last quarter, non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.30. GAAP EPS of $0.17 for Q3 were 13% higher than the prior-year quarter's $0.15 per share.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Recent performance
For the preceding quarter, gross margin was 60.5%, 170 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 7.0%, 330 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 5.9%, 40 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
The full year's average estimate for revenue is $423.0 million. The average EPS estimate is $0.99.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a two-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 190 members out of 240 rating the stock outperform, and 50 members rating it underperform. Among 69 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 55 give Athenahealth a green thumbs-up, and 14 give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on Athenahealth is hold, with an average price target of $87.79.
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I think I know how Edison felt when he discovered electricity.
(p.s. remember my Edison inspired creation).
For I too have discovered something life changing …
the world's easiest way to make a chevron pattern – with a chevron pumpkin (ok, a jack o'lantern to be precise) as my guinea pig.
Remember when I made my chevron tray out of an old window I found in my neighbor's dumpster?
I taped and I taped and I taped some more …
that is before I discovered the easiest way in the universe to make a chevron pattern.
He went from plain Jack …
to Jack Cool …
with a little help from the most amazing invention since the hula hoop.
I'm not going to bother with instructions since like I said, it's the world's easiest way to make a chevron pattern.
Just wrap the tape around, spray on some spray paint, remove tape and voila.
I don't know who I love more …
Jack or that Frog!
Now Jack can join my lace pumpkin …
for a smashing pumpkin party.
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Renee Gill Pratt, the former state representative and New Orleans City Council member convicted in 2011 of participating in a racketeering scheme that brought down the family of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, remains convicted and still faces jail time, but how long is now up in the air.
A panel of U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges upheld her conspiracy conviction Wednesday, but it ruled that a lower court needs to recalculate her sentence of more than seven years behind bars.
The decision by Judges Patrick Higginbotham, Priscilla Owen and James Graves came almost two years after U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle handed down Gill Pratt's sentence. At the time, he took the unusual step of letting her remain free as she appealed her case, which she did in May.
The appellate judges dismissed Gill Pratt's arguments that her conviction should be overturned because Lemelle allegedly mishandled jury selection, because potential jurors allegedly were disqualified based on race or because prosecutors allegedly failed to be specific enough in describing her role in the scheme.
However, they agreed that Lemelle erred when he sentenced her to 87 months in prison.
Writing the appellate court's opinion, Owen said that Lemelle should have used the shorter sentencing guidelines for mail fraud rather than money laundering when determining how long Gill Pratt will have to stay in prison. The difference between the two sets of guidelines could shorten Gill Pratt's sentence by eight or nine months, Owen wrote.
A jury convicted Gill Pratt in July 2011 for helping Jefferson's family steal more than $1 million in taxpayer money headed for phony Central City charities they controlled.
While Betty Jefferson and Mose Jefferson, the congressman's siblings, apparently ran the scheme, Gill Pratt is the only one to face jail time in the case. Betty Jefferson struck a plea deal and was sentenced to 15 months of home confinement to care for her ailing daughter. Mose Jefferson, Gill Pratt's longtime boyfriend, died in prison while serving a 10-year sentence on an unrelated corruption conviction. He was still awaiting trial in this case.


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