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MUSKEGON, MI -- Oakridge High School has announced its top 10 graduates of the class of 2014.
The valedictorian is Jessica Epplett and the school's salutatorian is Daniel Shoop. Follows is a list of the top 10 students according to class rank:
Jessica Epplett, daughter of Ken and Brenda Epplett. She participated in student council, drama club, tutoring and Early College at Muskegon Community College and was president of the National Honor Society. She plans to finish Early College and then attend Michigan State University to study actuarial science.
Daniel Shoop, son of Ron and Antoinette Shoop. He participated in football, basketball, track and National Honor Society. He plans to attend Albion College where he will play football.
Austin Wright, son of Bill and Ginger Wright. He participated in football, basketball and track and was the 2013 Homecoming king. He plans to attend Grand Valley State University to study athletic training.
Nicole DePender, daughter of Larry and Karen DePender. She participated in Link Crew, student council,, National Honor Society, bowling and softball. She will attend Muskegon Community College to study nursing.
Morgun McLouth, son of Devrun McLouth and Trisha Fleener. He participated in baseball and soccer. He plans to attend Muskegon Community College.
Dominique Jessen, daughter of James and Toni Jessen. She participated in drama club, basketball and softball and was the president of student council and vice president of National Honor Society. She plans to study business at Western Michigan University.
Morgan Giddings, daughter of Don and Kathy Giddings. She participated in basketball, softball and volleyball. She plans to attend Muskegon Community College.
Devon Huston, daughter of Dean and Denise Huston. She participated in National Honor Society, student council, soccer, Link Crew, tutoring and Interact.
Victoria Juhl, daughter of Wallis and Barbara Juhl. She participated in National Honor Society, cross country, choir, track and the book club. She plans to attend Lansing Community College.
Taylor Hall, daughter of Troy and Marcie Klinge and John and Heidi Hall. She participated in National Honor Society, volleyball, basketball and softball. She plans to attend Muskegon Community College to study nursing.
Lynn Moore covers education for MLive Muskegon Chronicle. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow her on Twitter and Facebook.


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Since spring started, Fayetteville Street Department sweepers have been running extra hours to clean sand and salt that crews put out during the winter.
One of the department's biggest concerns is homeowners who throw their yard clippings in nearby creeks or waterways.
"It all washes downstream and if there is a tree fallen or somebody else has thrown brush there, that can kind of cause it to stop up and jump out the banks of the creeks," said Terry Gully of the Fayetteville Street Department.
A few hours after crews swept the streets through Wilson Park, hail and heavy rainfall hit. The park's culverts and gutters never flooded, even though water did build up.
"Where we know there is debris or likely to be debris, we go in those areas and check that in the early spring and that way it kind of gives us a head start and that way never gets totally bad," Gully said.
The department said it identifies areas that sometimes flood and park its equipment near those areas. It said crews take advantage of warmer weather by repairing pot holes that developed from winter storms.

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Registration is now open for the Penticton KISU Masters Swim Meet on Saturday, March 9th!
The meet will be held at the Penticton Community Center Pool, 325 Power Street, Penticton B.C.
Warmup starts at 2pm. Meet Starts at 3pm. Social and Pot Luck to follow the last event.
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Canada's Inflation Was Slower Than Forecast in June
Canadian consumer prices rose less than forecast in June as fuel costs extended their decline, reinforcing forecasts the nation's central bank won't raise its policy rate until at least next year.
The consumer price index climbed 1.5 percent in June from a year earlier, compared with a 1.2 percent gain the prior month, Statistics Canada said today from Ottawa. The core rate, which excludes eight volatile products, increased 2.0 percent after a gain of 1.8 percent in May. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a 1.7 percent gain for CPI and 2.3 percent increase for the core figure.
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney kept his policy interest rate at 1 percent this week and said inflation will "remain noticeably below" his 2 percent target over the next year, even as he said higher policy interest rates may be needed as the world's 10th biggest economy approaches its capacity.
While today's report probably doesn't fundamentally change the central bank's outlook, it "does allow them to stay on hold for longer given that inflation has been surprising on the low side," said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at Bank of Montreal, by telephone.
The Canadian dollar weakened after the report, falling 0.5 percent to 1.0128 per U.S. dollar at 9:57 a.m. in Toronto. One Canadian dollar buys 98.74 U.S. cents. Bonds rose, with the yield on the benchmark 2-year falling 3 basis points to 0.95 percent.
Benign Inflation
The benign pace of inflation gives the Bank of Canada room to keep interest rates on hold while it gauges the strength of the global economy, said David Watt, chief economist with HSBC Canada Bank in Toronto.
"The factors that it can usually control, which are the domestic things, are suggesting the bank is probably too easy, but it's the global factors over which the bank has little impact that could potentially have a larger impact on the Canadian economy," Watt said in a phone interview. He doesn't expect Carney to raise the central bank's key lending rate until 2014.
Natural gas prices declined 13.7 percent in June from a year earlier, following a 16.6 percent drop in May, Statistics Canada said. Gasoline costs fell 1.8 percent, the second straight decline.
Encana Corp., the country's biggest natural-gas producer, has seen its stock fall almost 30 percent over the last year as natural gas prices fell. The company's shares traded at C$20.75, a decline of 18 cents.
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Inflation in June was also restrained by a 14.9 percent drop in video equipment prices, while mortgage interest costs fell 1.0 percent.
Prices of passenger vehicles rose 3.9 percent in June compared with a year earlier, while electricity costs increased 5.9 percent.
On a monthly basis, both the total and core price indexes fell 0.4 percent in June. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted consumer prices would fall of 0.2 percent in the month and the core index would decline 0.1 percent.
Seasonally adjusted consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in June from May, while the core index rose 0.1 percent. Statistics Canada also revised its estimate of May's decline in seasonally adjusted prices to 0.3 percent from 0.2 percent, and revised its core index estimate to a decline of 0.1 percent from no change.


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Denison women hold off Allegheny
Denison 61, Allegheny 56: At Meadville, Gretchen Staubach scored 18 points and Denison held on despite a late second-half push from Allegheny.
Denison (9-8 overall, 4-4 NCAC) led for all but a few of the game's opening minutes and padded its lead to 11 with less 8 minutes remaining.
Allegheny (9-8, 4-4) responded by putting together a 7-0 run and eventually took the lead with 3:32 left when Kendall Hoffman drained a 3-pointer and made a layup on back-to-back possessions. But the Gators didn't score another point, as Denison scored seven straight to end the game.
Denison grabbed 14 offensive rebounds and forced Allegheny into 21 turnovers.
The Gators snapped a three-game winning streak, despite Daryl Ford's 15 points and eight rebounds.


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The premier league of musicvid directors contains a handful of names, and Chris Cunningham has unquestionably been one of them since his surreal and spooky work with acts such as Bjork, Madonna and the Aphex Twins in the late 1990s.
Rumors of his move into features have been circulating among fans for years (at one stage he was supposed to be adapting William Gibson's cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer"), but there have been no firm sightings.
Until now. The U.K. Film Council has awarded him £95,300 ($164,200) to develop "Ranx," a sci-fi relationship drama inspired by the cult French comicbook series of the same name (originally published as "RanXerox" but forced to change its title after a lawsuit from the photocopier firm).
The elusive Cunningham is keeping the creative concept very close to his chest, admitting only that it's "the story of a boy, a girl and her big robot." He's sharing the writing with American scribe Gordy Hoffman, who wrote "Love Liza," starring his brother Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and has just made his own directorial debut, "A Coat of Snow."
The script is at an early stage, and given Cunningham's visionary and experimental style, with innovative use of special effects, it isn't likely to be finished anytime soon. Before making his name in pop promos, Cunningham worked as an f/x man and creature designer for pics such as the "Aliens" franchise.
Producer of "Ranx" is the Paris-based Argentinean Fernando Sulichin, whose credits include Oliver Stone's controversial Castro doc "Commandante." Also attached is Brit producer and former FilmFour exec Jim Wilson.
At the same time, Cunningham is working on a pioneering DVD project, already three years in the making, that's evolved from his work as a musicvid helmer. It's described by producer Mark Herbert of Warp Films as "a DVD concept album," made up of eight short films with a strong musical element, some of it composed by Cunningham.
The first two of the shorts — Herbert is adamant that they are not pop promos — will be finished early next year. One of them, "Rubber Johnny," about a kid with a mean dog, shot in the style of an underground comic, will be released as a "DVD single" and has been sold to the Sundance Channel in the U.S. Cunningham is planning to expand that seg into a 10-part TV series, separate from the album.
Warp, a record label as well as a film producer, has already had some success in this new area of making shorts for DVD release. It produced the Bafta-winning "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117" by subversive comedian Chris Morris, which sold 18,400 copies in the U.K. as a DVD single at $12 apiece, more than recouping its substantial $200,000 budget.
Cunningham is one of three musicvid auteurs (along with Spike Jonze and Michael Gondry) whose promo work was released this year by Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures as the first in its Directors Series of DVDs.
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Francesca Joseph is attached to direct "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About" for Working Title. The project, still in early development, is based on Mil Millington's comic novel adapted from his own autobiographical newspaper column. Millington is writing the screenplay.
Joseph, a former documentary director, made her feature debut with the semi-improvised BBC telepic "Tomorrow La Scala!," which screened to critical acclaim at Cannes 2002 but failed to get a theatrical release because the producers could not get Stephen Sondheim's music cleared.
Having taken time off to have a baby, she will next direct "Four Last Songs" for BBC Films, a love story set on an enchanted Mediterranean island. She's also developing a feature version of her groundbreaking BBC reality doc series "Driving School," with Jessica Stevenson (her star in "Tomorrow La Scala!") writing the script.
Stevenson, who appeared in hit sitcom "The Royle Family" and co-wrote the cult Channel 4 comedy "Spaced," wrote the original screenplay "Double Au Pair" for Fine Line, about a nanny/spy in New York, but this project has been put on ice.


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Computer and Peripherals Price Indexes (CPPI)
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The Computer and Peripherals Price Indexes (CPPI) are monthly series measuring changes over time in the price of computers and computer peripherals sold to governments, businesses and consumers.
Data release - August 26, 2016
The Computer and Peripherals Price Indexes (CPPI) are monthly series measuring changes over time in the price of computers and computer peripherals sold to governments, businesses and consumers. The methodology for producing these series employs the hedonic method, the result being an index series that tracks pure price change.
These index series are used by economists, industry analysts and the general public to track and comprehend events and trends in this important contributor to the Information, Communication Technology (ICT) sector.
Within Statistics Canada, the series pertaining to consumers are used in the calculation of the Consumer Price Index. Several series are used by the Canadian System of National Accounts in deflating the value of gross investment by the business and government sectors.
Reference period: The time period for which the CPPI equals 100; currently this is the year 2011.
Collection period: The week of the 15th of every month
- Information and communications technology
- Prices and price indexes
Data sources and methodology
Target population
The universe for the CPPI consists of all vendors or distributors of computers and computer peripherals in Canada.
The universe for the CPPI consists of all vendors or distributors of computers, computer peripherals and smartphones in Canada.
A representative cut off sample of products is chosen, monitored and replenished from the administrative data provided.
Data sources
Data are collected from other Statistics Canada surveys and/or other sources.
The data are obtained from International Data Corporation (IDC) of Canada Ltd. and are collected the week of the 15th of every month. IDC is a private firm that collects, analyses and distributes information on computers and the Information Technology (IT) sector in general.
Error detection
In the day-to-day collection and processing of these index series, emphasis is placed on the examination and evaluation of prices. Subject matter specialists monitor developments in the industry, which they compare to the price information received. Outliers or suspicious prices are identified during the initial data processing and then verified with the data supplier.
The weights used in the various price indexes are based on the shipment information provided by IDC. The shipment information covers the number of units shipped by vendors, as identified by the sub-groups for a particular product. Weights for both the computer series and peripherals series are updated annually.
The price and model specification information are supplied by IDC. The prices used are street prices and do not include taxes or shipping and handling charges. One important aspect of these series is the continual and notable improvement in the quality of this category of goods. As a result, the treatment of quality change becomes an important issue. When the pricing for a model in the sample is no longer available, a replacement model is linked in using a hedonic quality adjustment technique to provide an imputed link-in price. This treatment accounts for any substantial differences in quality between the replacement model and the discontinued model.
For more information about the methodology used to produce the CPPI, see Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 62-014-XIE.
Quality evaluation
The quality of this index is maintained through the expertise of the analysts assigned to it. They develop a thorough knowledge of the domain, which is supplemented by outside personal contacts with the data providers. Much time and effort is devoted to detecting and following up unusual fluctuations over time in the pricing patterns of goods and services. Prior to dissemination, the price indexes are analyzed and historic trends reviewed.
Disclosure control
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any data which would divulge information obtained under the Statistics Act that relates to any identifiable person, business or organization without the prior knowledge or the consent in writing of that person, business or organization. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.
Individual price and weight data collected under the Statistics Act are confidential. Price data are converted to price indexes and data are released so that it is not possible to identify the suppliers of the raw price information.
Revisions and seasonal adjustment
The index is subject to a six-month revision period and data is not seasonally adjusted.
Data accuracy
The statistical accuracy of this index depends on price and weight data, which are obtained from an outside data source (IDC). Through continuous monitoring of the data received and discussion with the supplier, an acceptable level of data quality and integrity is maintained for the purposes of producing the price index series.
Due to the fact that administrative data is used, confidence intervals are not currently estimated and statements about the statistical reliability cannot be made.
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From our good friends at NACAC (hat tip to Alicia Ortega):
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a new streamlined Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) just in time for students and families to complete the 2010-11 application. Improvements include a much more user-friendly online format and a large reduction in the number of questions asked. A total of 22 questions are eliminated, representing a 28% reduction in questions, and 17 screens are eliminated, a reduction of 65% of web screens.
These updates are in addition to those announced in August 2009. The full list of the most recent improvements can be found in the Simplification Update form from the Department of Education. Here are a few highlights:
• Student and parent sections are clearly identified with side tabs.
• Status indicators guide applicants through web modules, such as demographics, basic eligibility, and dependency status.
• The display of the help text and instructions, which takes up much of the web screen on the 2009-10 form, is enhanced by the use of help text that disappears when you are no longer in a particular section.
• Students with low incomes will no longer be asked for asset information, which is not used to determine their aid eligibility.
• Questions regarding additional financial information and untaxed income are presented in a simplified keyword "check box" format on one page.
Later this month, students applying for aid for the spring semester using the 2009-2010 FAFSA will be able to retrieve and import their tax data from the IRS. In the summer of 2010, students applying for aid in the 2010-11 year will also be able to apply for aid using their tax data. In this process, a link to the IRS will display in the income section of the FAFSA with a message that students may access the IRS site to retrieve income information to complete the application.
Dr. Jill Biden blogged about the new FAFSA on the White House Blog. Be sure to check out the NACAC Admitted Blog post on the FAFSA updates, which also provides links to helpful financial aid information.
2010-11 FAFSA Available
The final version of the 2010-2011 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now available in English and Spanish. The PDF documents, among the FAFSA filing options available online, can be downloaded by schools and students to complete for submission. Corresponding FAFSA on the Web Worksheets are also available to assist students and families in completing the FAFSA.
2010-11 FAFSA on the Web Worksheet
PLEASE NOTE: the correct and free FAFSA website is a .GOV site NOT a .com website.


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DOHA: The Qatar Exchange ended in the red area when trading closed Monday at 11,245.86 points or 0.47 percent down 53.10 points from the previous closing of 11,298.96 points on Sunday.
The volume of shares was up to 8,717,748 from Sunday 7,966,702 and the value of shares increased to QR525,331,411.06 from QR453,302,809.84 on Sunday.
Among the top losers were Commercial Bank of Qatar whose share down 0.69 percent to QR72.40, International Islamic Bank lost 1.43 percent to QR69.00, Barwa Real Estate fell 1.57 percent to QR31.40 and Islamic Insurance decreased by 2.52 percent to QR62.00.
The Banking and Financial sector index was lost 0.58 percent points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index dropped 0.44 points.
The industrial sector was fell 0.28 points while insurance sector added 0.02 percent points. (QNA)


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PRETORIA Portland Cement (PPC) says it will issue 6,5% additional shares in the company, worth R1,1bn, completing the second phase of its broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) transaction.
This means 26% of South Africa's largest cement producer will now be in the hands of black business partners, South African staff and rural women's groups.
The company's existing black business partners would receive 27% of the shares in issue.
"The main reason is to meet the requirements of the Mining Charter," Paul Stuiver, CEO of PPC, said yesterday.
"We see this as taking us to a stage where our mining licences are converted," he said, adding PPC already mined 20-million tons of material a year.
"Employees will be the main beneficiaries," Mr Stuiver said, once they had received shares to the value of R733m.
Existing strategic black partners and new black women's groups will be allocated shares worth R345m.
PPC has 10 mining licences that need conversion from old-order to new-order rights.
"One of our frustrations is that until we sort out our credentials in terms of the mining charter, we can't even get prospecting licences," Mr Stuiver said.
Despite needing to comply with empowerment legislation by 2014, PPC had been "very impressed" with the professional attitude of the Department of Mineral Resources.
He said the engagement with the department had been "tough and fair", and that there had been a "very thorough" process in analysing the move from phase one of empowerment to phase two at the company, despite difficulties over gender transformation in a construction environment.
Mr Stuiver said the share transfer would take place over the next seven years, at a total transaction cost of about 2% of the group's market capitalisation, which was "normal" for empowerment deals.
He said the dilution of the company's dividends in the next seven years would "be in the order of 1,3%" over the period.
"PPC elected to conclude the transaction at group level, rather than create a structure whereby the BBBEE owners would only have rights to their South African operations," Ross Heyns, an analyst at Kagiso Asset Management, said yesterday.
PPC derives about 80% of revenue from SA and the remainder from foreign operations.
Mr Heyns said BBBEE shareholders would own 20,8% of PPC at group level, but the Department of Mineral Resources had agreed to scale up the group's empowerment shareholding by this ratio, translating into an effective 26% holding in its South African operations.
"This may prove favourable for the BBBEE partners as there are far more opportunities for growth in PPC's African operations than there are in their domestic operations," he said.
PPC, along with other South African building and construction firms, has seen its domestic market halve in recent years, following the collapse of global markets and a further fall-off in cement demand after the end of the Soccer World Cup in 2010.


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Pulmonary Hypertension
Welcome to the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at The Emory Clinic, a subspecialty clinic within the Emory Advanced Lung Disease Center.
The program director is Dr. Micah Fisher, MD. Dr. Fisher has over 10 years of experience treating patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and other pulmonary vascular diseases. Our program has expanded, we currently have nearly 500 patients on therapy for pulmonary hypertension.
Mission statement: To provide a comprehensive program for patients with known or suspected PH, utilizing accurate diagnostics, education, research, and the complete spectrum of available therapies to treat patients with confirmed pulmonary hypertension. This therapeutic spectrum includes oral therapies, parenteral and inhaled prostanoid therapy and lung transplantation when appropriate.
Accurate diagnosis is the most important factor in determining the appropriate therapy for any pulmonary vascular disease. Drs. Fisher and Quintero are skilled in performing Right Heart Catheterization, a procedure essential to confirming diagnosis and guiding decisions for therapy.
Our team is staffed with two fellowship-trained Physicians, a specialty trained Physician Assistant, Nurses, Research Coordinators and Secretaries, all with vast experience in caring for patients with pulmonary hypertension. Our passion, experience and devotion makes the difference in our patient care.
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Opponents of State Question 759 are laying out why voters should consider getting rid of it.
The bill, which is on the November ballot, will abolish affirmative action in Oklahoma. Authors of the bill said it will end discrimination in the state, but civil rights groups said it will do just the opposite.
Activist Marilyn Luper Hildreth said the bill is a big step back.
"I don't have to do anything I don't want to, and I don't have to go back and beg and plead to be treated fairly in a county and state that we gave our lives for. We are not going back," Hildreth said.
An initiative for a similar law failed in 2008, while similar measures have passed in California, Arizona and Nebraska.


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At Waco, Colt McCoy passed for two touchdowns, and the rout tied him with Georgia's David Greene for the most victories by a major college quarterback.
McCoy is 42-7 in his career with two regular-season contests, a likely Big 12 championship game and a bowl still to come.
The senior didn't even have to put in a full day's work in this one, leaving midway through the third quarter with a 40-0 lead.
Texas (10-0, 6-0 Big 12) reached 10 wins for the ninth straight season, second only to Florida State's run of 14 consecutive 10-win seasons from 1987-2000.
A week after throwing for 470 yards against Central Florida, McCoy passed for 181 while the Texas running game and defense did the heavy lifting against the Bears.
Cody Johnson ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries in his first career start. Tre' Newton dashed 45 yards for a touchdown, Texas' longest scoring run of the season.
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There's More to "Keeping It Real" About Our Bodies Than Unflattering PhotosLizzie Heiselt
Let me start off by saying that I'm a big fan of pro-runner Lauren Fleshman. I have the utmost respect and admiration for her. I hang onto pretty much every word she writes for Runner's World. And I applaud her for her "Keeping It Real" post in which she shares some unflattering pictures of herself that were taken the same week that she walked the runway at New York's Fashion Week for her sponsor, Oiselle. It takes a supreme amount of guts to acknowledge that you have a belly pooch and thigh cheese in front of people who assume that you are all lean muscle under that hot running kit. I am one of those women who appreciate the reminder that our bodies have a range of shapes and that we can't always be — nor are we expected to be — at our best. That's because I am one of those women who reflexively deletes, from mind or camera roll, all images of myself that I have any gripes with.
We know now that Lauren's runway shot is an ideal, the perfect her, when she is at her strongest and fittest (or at least appears to be because of the flexing she was required to do — she was just 3 months postpartum at the time). The shots of her at practice that same week are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They are her when she is, likely, tired, when she is intentionally showing her "darker" (more thigh-chessey) side. Bodies do that. They look different at different times of the day, in different clothes, in different positions, in different lights. Our bodies have a range, and that is fine. We can't expect them be be perfectly tanned and toned all day long, any more than we can expect ourselves to always be happy and cheerful and full of sunshine and positivity all the time. I get it, and I appreciate the reminder.
Then, a few days ago, Lauren wrote a follow-up to her original "Keeping It Real" post in which she recounts how difficult it was for her to write and publish that post, and how freeing it was to own her body like that (belly-pooch and all). And she invites and encourages all of us to join her in the quest to keep it real about our bodies by posting unflattering pictures of ourselves to Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #keepingitreal.
Sounds like a nice show of solidarity. Sounds like a strong grassroots effort to acknowledge the range our bodies have. Sounds like a finger in the face of Photoshop and Glamour and whoever else says that you have to be perfect to be accepted, all of which are part of her stated goals. But it does not sound like the way to go about "redefining beauty" — another of her goals. Beauty, I believe, is the best we have to offer. Beauty is a cut above normal or average. Beauty takes extra effort, either to create it or to find it. Beauty cannot be everywhere all the time. And while everyone's body is beautiful some of the time — whether it is after they've just given birth, or finished a marathon, or spent the day helping people in need — nobody's body can be beautiful all of the time. To paraphrase one of my favorite lines from Disney's The Incredibles: "When everyone's beautiful, no one will be."
This is not to say that "unflattering" photos cannot show beautiful bodies because they certainly can. Beauty is in the story of the body as much as it is in the body itself:
"This is what I look like when I've just run 5 miles at a 6:00/mile pace and I no longer have the strength or wherewithal to suck in my gut."
"This is what happens to breasts when they've nourished three children into toddlerhood."
"This is a body that has taken on chemo and surgery and radiation and conquered cancer."
There is certainly a range of beautiful that can be acknowledged and embraced. But I don't think that encompasses any unflattering picture taken in an unflattering light or at an unflattering angle.
So that's the first problem I have with Lauren's call to action. The second is that I still believe in putting my best foot forward. I no more want to show unflattering pictures of myself to the public than I want to show them my petty self, or my angry self, or my selfish self. Yes, those are all a part of me, but they are the part of me that I'm trying to overcome. Parading them in public feels a little bit like giving up. I know that I have a belly pooch, that my calves (though muscular) are too big to fit comfortably in skinny jeans, that I'm almost completely flat-chested, and while I (obviously) have no problem acknowledging those unflattering things about my body, I don't need or want to show everyone.
I also think it slightly unfair that Lauren gets to have an "ideal" photo to come back to at the end of the day. Yes, she has belly roll days and thigh cheese days, days where her clothes fit all wrong and her hair just won't go right. But she also has the runway shot. She can say, after scrolling through the random candid shots in poor lighting and bad angles, "Yeah, but that's me too. My ideal body." Most of us don't have that to balance out the scales on the other side of all those unflattering shots we normally delete. The closest we'll get to seeing our "ideal" may just be a Photoshopped approximation. Not quite the same as shots of us on the runway at fashion week.
And finally — and most importantly — I don't believe that all the unflattering outtakes of me are any more the "real" me than a runway shot would be. They are both outliers that, technically, my body is capable of. But the "real" me lies between those two extremes. It's the everyday me that walks and sits with decent posture, that showers and dresses, that at least attempts to do something with my hair, however vague or half-hearted it may be. Photos of the "real" me may not be perfect, but I probably wouldn't go so far as to call them unflattering, either. They are a better representation of who I am and what my body looks like on any given day — not the bad days, not the awesome days — just the average, I'm-living-my-life kind of days. That's the real me, the me that I don't mind showing the world — the me that I want to keep real.
So, thanks for the invite, Lauren, but no thanks. I'll keep it real about my body in my own way: by walking down the middle of the road, balanced on either side by the knowledge, privately held, that my body is capable of looking about as fat as it is thin, as squishy as it is strong. But as far as everyone else knows, what you see is the real me.
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Emily the Strange is an advertising mascot character created by Rob Reger for his company Cosmic Debris Etc. Inc.
She first appeared on Santa Cruz Skateboards professional skater Ross Goodman's skateboard graphics. Nathan Carrico designed Emily in 1991 for Santa Cruz Skateboards in Santa Cruz, California.
Retail Stores[edit]
Cosmic Debris has opened four Emily the Strange flagship stores to date (Taiwan, Taipei, Hong Kong and Greece), with plans to open Emily the Strange retail stores in the Americas in the next years.
Brand Expansion[edit]
The Emily the Strange franchise has a considerable merchandising catalog, including clothing, stationery, stickers and fashion accessories. All of the products feature Emily's distinctive appearance and frequently feature one of her cynical sayings such as "Get Lost," "Be All You Can't Be," or "Wish You Weren't Here".
Co-branding alliances and partnerships have included Jones Soda, Gibson Guitars and Manic Panic (hair coloring, nail polishes and colorful extensions).
Publishing Programs[edit]
Emily the Strange is published in several formats by world-renowned publishers including Chronicle Books, Dark Horse Comics and, most recently, HarperCollins.
The Chronicle Books hardback graphic novellas include:
- Emily the Strange (2001)
- Emily's Secret Book of Strange (2003)
- Emily's Good Nightmares (2004)
- Emily's Seeing is Deceiving (2006)
In 2005, the first two issues of the comic book series were released by Dark Horse Comics -- "The Boring Issue" (#1) and "The Lost Issue" (#2). "The Dark Issue" (#3) was published in 2006. The collected edition of the first three comic books (Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, and Bored) was published in November 2006. The fourth offering, "The Rock Issue" (#4), was published in 2007. An ongoing, monthly, standard-length series has been published since March 2008.
Dark Horse comics announced the publication of The Art of Emily Volume One,[1] the first collection of images showing the wide and inspired range of artistic styles and mediums that have been used to create the world of Emily the Strange: silk-screened vinyl skateboard stickers to custom rock-and-roll album art, large-scale psychedelic paintings, and intricate Mongolian paper cutting, the fantastic and artful imaginings of Rob Reger, Buzz Parker, and a large number of collaborators.
Since 2008 Emily the Strange has been published in France by Soleil Productions.
In October 2007, it was first announced that four young adult novels based on the Emily the Strange character will be published by HarperCollins. They will be co-written by Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner.[2]
The first HarperCollins novel, Emily the Strange: The Lost Days, was released in June 2009. Written in a diary format, it opens with Emily attempting to recover her memory and regain her sense of style. Co-Author, Rob Reger says the book maps new territory inside the mind of his popular character. "In the past, it's been us describing her," he says. "This is the first time anybody gets to hear how she talks to herself and her cats.".[3]
The next book in HarperCollins' four book series, Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger, was released in March 2010. In this book Emily is back in Blandindulle and preparing to move to a new town. While experimenting with her supply of Black rock and duplicating device she accidentally clones herself. Enjoying the benefit of a second Emily at first, the real Emily comes across problems such as identity crisis and loss of some of her unique talents. Not to mention the fact that her clone thinks she's the real Emily and evidently plans to end Emily Strange for good.
The third HarperCollins book, Emily the Strange: Dark Times was released on December 28, 2010. Emily is in Duntztown when she needs a student ID to obtain a discount at the local hardware store. After going to school and borrowing an ID, she decides to homeschool herself literally, as opposed to lying about it in the past two books. During a seminar "History of the Strange Family 101", Emily finds out that Great-Aunt Lily died by white fever at age 13, though she had healing powers and could probably heal herself. A rumor that a Dark Aunt caused her death is spreading too. Emily goes to Blackrock to find black rock for her Time Out Machine, only to find that Blackrock's not there and that the caravan is with her. She learns about Boris, Attikol's ancestor, and decides to time travel into 1790 to save Lily and take Boris off her tail using a moving, severed cat's tail.
The fourth and final HarperCollins book, Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind was released on December 27, 2011. It includes:
1. The Thought Thief
2. Ancestral enemies (and a few ancestral friends)
3. Modern-day Seasidetown
4. FelinoMobileTranscriptoSpy devices
5. Abandoned souvenir kiosk
6. Jakey's memories
7. Super secret book vault
8. Stolen blueprints
9. Regret Maneuvers A through Z
10. Final exams in Particle Physics and How-to With Glue
11. Hero-worshipping engineers
12. The 13th Dark Girl
13. Black rock
On January 30, 2013, Dark Horse Comics and Rob Reger brought Emily and The Strangers #1. And then on March came Emily and The Strangers #2. On July is coming out the Emily and The Strangers #3.
Emily the Strange has been a popular apparel and accessories label for nearly 15 years, with sales in department stores, specialty boutiques and other trendy retailers throughout the world. Products are also sold on the brand's official website [1]
In July/August 2003 V magazine ran a double page spread of clothing inspired by the character, created by Chanel, Gautier, Helmut Lang, Marc Jacobs, and others.[4] Emily has been shown in Vanilla Sky and on MADtv. Celebrities including Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, and Björk have all worn the brand. Epiphone has created an Emily the Strange-themed SG guitar, based on an Epiphone G-310, with a bolt-on neck, customized Emily the Strange graphics, and a special strap.[5]
Since 2010 Emily the Strange apparel is manufactured and distributed by Italian company Pier Spa.
In other media[edit]
Rob Reger designed and included the Emily the Strange cartoon in a 12-page foldout booklet for the album BatBox by Miss Kittin in 2008.[6]
Since 2000, Rob Reger has been trying to make a feature film adaptation of Emily. In 2005, it was reported that Fox Animation would make a live action/animated feature film,[7] with Chris Meledandri and John Cohen producing it.[8] In 2008, it was reported that Mike Richardson, of Dark Horse Entertainment, had come on board as a producer.[9] The same year it was unofficially reported that the film has moved to Universal Studios' owned Illumination Entertainment, along with the studio's founders, Meledandri and Cohen.[10] In September 2010, it was reported that Universal Studios has acquired the rights to the comic, and that the actress Chloë Grace Moretz has been cast as the role of Emily.[11] In August 2011, it was announced that Melisa Wallack, who wrote the script for Mirror Mirror, had been hired to write the adaptation.[12] Two months later it was confirmed that the film is indeed in the works at Illumination Entertainment.[13] Kealan O'Rourke will rewrite the film's script.[14]
Emily is usually shown accompanied by four black cats. "Sabbath," the newest cat to join the Strange family, is usually identified by a tear on one of his ears and one bent whisker. "Miles," the most artistic cat of the group and also the fastest, is identified by his pointy ears, X-mark over his right eye and two pointy whiskers. "Nee Chee," the thinker of the group (also known as the schemer), is identified by the black and white stripes on his tail caused by a chemical spill, as well as three whiskers. "Mystery," the leader of the group and the only female of the four cats, seems to be the closest to Emily, and therefore thought to be the cat that has been with Emily the longest. Mystery is identified by the star on her collar, one curly whisker and occasionally a star on her left eye.
Character origin controversy[edit]
The very first Emily the Strange illustration dates from 1991, but the 1978 children's book Nate the Great and the Lost List features a very similar illustration of a young girl named Rosamond. She also has long black hair and is frequently accompanied by her black cats. When Rosamond is introduced she wears a short dress and white Mary Jane shoes, similar to Emily, and in a similar pose.[15]
This illustration is accompanied by the text, "Rosamond did not look hungry or sleepy. She looked like she always looks. Strange." The first Emily the Strange design by Cosmic Debris says: "Emily did not look tired or happy. She looked like she always looks. Strange."
When Rosamond's creators, Marjorie Sharmat and Marc Simont, allegedly began contacting companies who had contracts related to Emily the Strange and urged them to drop their relationships with Cosmic Debris, Cosmic Debris sued Sharmat and Simont. Sharmat and Simont counter-sued.[16] "Emily the Strange, like Rosamond, is a young girl in a short dress, black tights, and Mary Jane shoes. Emily, like Rosamond, has long dark hair with square-cut bangs. Emily, like Rosamond, is typically attended by four black cats. Emily, like Rosamond, is described as being strange and has a fascination with dark themes," alleged the complaint.
Cosmic Debris contended that Emily and Rosamond both drew from a tradition of similar characters including Vampira and Wednesday Addams, and argued that while the text of the initial Emily illustration was nearly identical with Sharmat's text, that illustration had been withdrawn in 1998 and the statute of limitations had therefore run out.[17]
On August 12, 2009, creator of Emily the Strange and the creators of Nate the Great jointly announced an agreement resolving all disputes between them. Each side agreed to give up all claims against the other as part of their settlement. "We recognize that Emily and Rosamond are both unique and original characters, and we are pleased that we were able to resolve this dispute," said Marjorie Sharmat and Marc Simont. "We wish Rob, Cosmic Debris, Emily and her fans all the very best."[18]
Video Game[edit]
The Official Emily the Strange video game "Strangerous" has been developed by exozet games and was released by UK publisher PQube on June 10, 2011.
"Strangerous" for Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi is a puzzle and adventure story based around Emily the Strange and her missing kittens spanning 6 chapters and over 60 puzzles.
The official website for the game is emily-game.co.uk [19]
Exozet games has also developed the game "Emily the Strange - Skate Strange" for iPhone (published by dtp young) and Android smartphones.[20]
Emily and the Strangers[edit]
On April 11, 2013, Rob Reger brought up the idea to make Emily and her Friends a band. So Reger made a Kickstarter[21] and on May 11 they got the money to make a Single for Emily and her band.
- ^ "The Art of Emily the Strange by Buzz Parker | 9781595823717 | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble". Search.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ Rights Report, Publishers Weekly
- ^ "'Strange' Days". The Wall Street Journal. May 29, 2009.
- ^ "V Magazine". Emilystrange.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ "link". Epiphone.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ "Miss Kittin set to release 2nd album 'BatBox' in February 2008 - Miss Kittin Facebook news at SIDE-LINE.COM". Side-Line. 2007-01-12. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
- ^ "Emily The Strange Heads For The Big Screen". June 29, 2005. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ Laporte, Nicole (September 29, 2005). "Fox brewing 'Strange' pic". Variety. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (May 30, 2008). "Emily the Strange – The First Movie Adapted From a Sticker?". Slash Film. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ "Issue 639" (PDF). Production Weekly. December 11, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ Fleming, Mike (September 23, 2010). "Chloe Moretz Will Be 'Emily The Strange'". Deadline. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ Kit, Borys (August 2, 2011). "'Snow White' Writer to Pen Universal's 'Emily the Strange' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
- ^ Kit, Borys (October 6, 2011). "Johnny Depp to Become Dr. Seuss for Illumination and Universal (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ "Kealan O'Rourke to Rewrite Chloe Moretz Movie 'Emily the Strange' (Exclusive)". Thewrap.com. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ Mark Frauenfelder at 11:13 am Wed, Dec 3, 2008 (2008-12-03). "Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character". Boingboing.net. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ Melrose, Kevin (2009-06-10). "The Comics Internet in 2 Minutes". Robot6.comicbookresources.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/05/20/CosmicDebris.pdf
- ^ "> Blog: Emily The Strange And Nate The Great Creators Resolve Dispute". EmilyStrange.com. 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ http://www.emily-game.co.uk
- ^ "Neues von Emily the Strange: Skate Strange für Android". Exozet.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- ^ Template:Creator.name. "First Ever Emily The Strange Animated Rock-N-Roll Single By Robert Reger — Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
- 'Emily the Strange (2005) at the Comic Book DB
- 'Emily the Strange (2007) at the Comic Book DB
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Rob Reger interview on Current.TV
- Buzz Parker's website
- Official Emily the strange EU Webstore
- Official Emily the Strange YouTube channel
- Emily the Strange Tooncasts (animations)
- Emily the Strange has reason to smile: She's got her own media empire June 2008 interview with the New York Daily News.
- Emily the Strange is seein' red - and green, and blue September 2008 Emily and Manic Panic's new hair and cosmetics products.
- Emily the Strange at Dark Horse Comics


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Jakob Kuisl is charged with extracting a confession from her and torturing her until he gets one. Convinced she is innocent, he, Magdalena, and her would-be suitor to race against the clock to find the true killer. Approaching Walpurgisnacht, when witches are believed to dance in the forest and mate with the devil, another tattooed orphan is found dead and the town becomes frenzied. More than one person has spotted what looks like the devil—a man with a hand made only of bones. The hangman, his daughter, and the doctors son face a terrifying and very real enemy.
Taking us back in history to a place where autopsies were blasphemous, coffee was an exotic drink, dried toads were the recommended remedy for the plague, and the devil was as real as anything, The Hangmans Daughter brings to cinematic life the sights, sounds, and smells of seventeenth-century Bavaria, telling the engrossing story of a compassionate hangman who will live on in readers imaginations long after theyve put down the novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
In Bad Intentions, the newest installment in the Inspector Sejer series since The Water's Edge in 2009, Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes.
The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. His psychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by a mysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide.
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In this chilling addition to the internationally best-selling Inspector Konrad Sejer series, the detective must face down his memories and fears as he investigates the deaths of two troubled young men. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better after a mysterious guilt had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. His psychiatrist said so, as did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. So when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide.
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2. What point was Larsson trying to make with the themes running through this novel? How do issues such as violence against women, journalistic integrity, and more general notions of trust tie in with each other throughout the book?
3. What function do the sex-crime statistics on each section's title page serve?
4. Reread the passage from Mikael's book on page 103. What is its significance in terms of the plot?
5. On page 156, Henrik tells Mikael, "If there's one thing I've learned, it's never engage in a fight you're sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you're in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back." Over the course of the novel, who puts this advice to the best use? How, and why?
6. How does the involvement of several Vanger brothers with Swedish fascist groups cloud Mikael's investigation into Harriet's disappearance? What role does Harald play?
7. Why does Henrik become an investor in Millennium? Does his plan succeed?
8. Discuss the character of Lisbeth. Some think she is a "perfect victim" (p. 409), others find her intimidating, and Mikael wonders if she has Asperger's, but the reader is allowed to see exactly how her mind works. How do you see her? How do you think she sees herself?
9. What do you think about the way Lisbeth turns the tables on Bjurman? Is it admirable, or a sign that she's unstable?
10. On page 254, Lisbeth says her new tattoo is "a reminder." Of what?
11. Several times in the novel, Mikael's journalistic ethics are challenged. Do you consider him to be ethical? In your opinion, is anyone in the novel truly honorable? If so, why?
12. After reserving judgment for most of his investigation, Mikael determines that Harriet was, in fact, murdered and that he's hunting for a killer. What prompts this decision? How does this affect the rest of his investigation?
13. Discuss the role of parents in the novel. Who is a good parent, and why? How might Harriet's story have changed if her mother had behaved differently? What about Lisbeth's? Is Mikael a good father?
14. Blackmail is used several times in the novel, for different ends. Who uses it most effectively, and why?
15. On page 507, Mikael tells Lisbeth that to him, friendship requires mutual respect and trust. By those standards, who in this novel is a good friend? Is Mikael? What about Anita?
16. Discuss Henrik's request that Mikael never publish the Vanger story. Is it a reasonable request? Does Mikael's acquiescence change your opinion of him? Do Lisbeth's demands mitigate his ethical breach?
17. What ultimately drives Lisbeth to take action against Wennerström on her own? Does she go too far?
18. Reread Mikael's statement about the media's responsibility at the top of page 575. Can you think of a situation in the American media that is analogous to the Wennerström affair?
19. Discuss the ending. Was it satisfying to you? Why or why not?
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text: Beijing Gallery: The Pre-Tournament Buzz From bright-eyed airport arrivals to meeting the press and a special match-up between Li Na and Novak Djokovic, check out all the best pre-tournament pics from the China Open right here! Published September 30, 2013 12:00 The China Open is one of the most anticipated tournaments of the year, even when the players land... Serena Williams has fond memories of the China Open, winning it in its inaugural year back in 2004. This year Williams comes in as a huge favorite - four of the last six Grand Slams, the No.1 ranking... Her biggest challenge could come from Victoria Azarenka, who is currently ranked No.2 in the world. Not only is Azarenka the only player to beat Williams twice this year, she also won here a year ago. Jelena Jankovic is also a former champion at the China Open, winning the Premier-level title in 2008. Agnieszka Radwanska dominated the Asian swing in 2011, winning both the Tokyo and Beijing titles. Li Na has been trailblazing for Asia in recent years - can she become Asia's first China Open champ? The stars of the WTA have been autographing children's drawings during their press conferences... China's very brightest stars have been happy to oblige, including Zheng Jie - a former Top 15 player. Li stole the headlines before the tournament started for a very special exhibition on center court. Li played a Battle Of The Sexes exhibition match with a very playful ATP World Tour World No.1... Novak Djokovic isn't just the No.1 tennis player in the world, he also knows how to put on a show. Li and Djokovic played some games against each other, but also tried their hands at other jobs... Djokovic ballboyed, and Li tested her skills as a chair umpire. The job rotation went pretty well. And it kept going... At the end of the day the 10th anniversary of the China Open had an absolutely electric opening act. The players were rewarded during the exhibition, too - a 10th anniversary cake was brought out. Compliments to the chef - the ATP World Tour's World No.1 gave thumbs up to the tasty pastry. This isn't all by any means - check back on wtatennis.com all week for fantastic photos from Beijing. Topics: 2013, tournaments, news, photos or videos, jie zheng, na li, agnieszka radwanska, jelena jankovic, serena williams, victoria azarenka, kristina mladenovic, andrea petkovic, beijing [+] More Share this page! Print Email Related photos Beijing Gallery: Smiles For Sharapova October 05, 2014 Maria Sharapova was the one left celebrating after a tight clash with Petra Kvitova in the final of the China Open. Beijing Gallery: Field Narrows October 03, 2014 Superstars like Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic competed in the China Open the last couple of days, as the draw was reduced to four. Beijing Gallery: The WTA Fan Booth October 02, 2014 WTA Rising Stars Kurumi Nara, Zarina Diyas and Zheng Saisai have all stopped off at the WTA Fan Booth at the China Open this week. See all the best pics here. To The Top 3


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Philippines Disaster Reduction Champion Announces Awareness Raising Workshops
29 December 2011: The UN International Strategy or Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation in the Asia Pacific, Loren Legarda, has urged governments to be proactive in this "era of climate change," and to not rely on post-disaster relief and rehabilitation alone.
Legarda made the call after the Philippines' Government received increasing complaints from the public about lack of guidance on disaster risk management. Legarda, also the Chair of the Philippine Senate Committee on Climate Change, committed to holding regional workshops to explain the country's DRR and management law, known as Republic Act 10121, with the assistance of UN/ISDR. She underscored the need for establishing a "clear and effective warning system," citing the red flag system used in Bangladesh. [UN/ISDR Press Release]


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Siding with lawyers from Shearman & Sterling representing a Spanish biofuels company, the Second Circuit on Tuesday rejected a sugar cane magnate's last-ditch bid to vacate $120 million in arbitration awards.
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Re: Danica & Ricky during Red Flag rain delay
"Fight for four"..Me
Everything is Possible...If you Believe
All things Danica
Annalee wrote:Maybe she is trying to get info on Ricky's set up ...... His car seems to do really well! And the old saying is "Money Talks" and I think she has a 2, maybe 3 year contract.
racer1 wrote:Give it a rest as once again your showing your ignorance trying to wonder about something that isn't relevant simply because you losers have nothing else to do--go get a life. Its a red flag--wake up and watch some nascar as most drivers are wandering around talking with other drivers etc, so give it a rest and find something else to rant about--good grief. Nascar loves the attention of them together and so does Rickys boss as she is helping Ricky get more attention etc which his sponsors like as well Iam sure, as she told him she'd get him 10,000 more twitter followers if he bought her the belt buckle etc--which he did.
As for the boss Tony S, he has enough issues with his crappy teams that cant figure out these new cars. Maybe he should go ask Front Row motorsports or other smaller low funded teams like even TBR as they've figured these cars out better then the mighty SHR.
No Iam not sticking around to banter with you about this just a little bored today and some of you aren't smart enough to understand anything anyway so its a waste of my time as I actually have a life to get back to. I'll be around to set you straight now & then just like immature whiny children need to be dealt with--same thing here apparently with some of you. Its really shamefull you losers aparently ran off the poster with all the great pics as I think even some of you naysayers enjoyed them--shame shame-- how does this garbage forum stay open?
funblvble wrote:Wow... You guys really reach for a reason to dislike Danica. There were lots of drivers hanging out with other drivers (not necessarily their teammates) during the red flag. They showed them well after the red flag had been going on (after several interviews of other drivers, etc.) so I'm sure both Danica & Ricky debriefed with their teams before they hung out.
If you want to complain about her performance fine, but give me a break on trying to start something because she was seen talking to Ricky during a red flag. Are we going to start monitoring Tony and Ryan's whereabouts during every moment of every break in the action?
michaeljohn wrote:why even waste your tie rochelle, danica is untouchable
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Cooper Taylor is a defensive back from the University of Richmond who is going to be a great late addition to a team's draft. Taylor may not be well known because he played at Richmond but the former Spider has serious NFL talent. Most draft websites have Taylor being drafted in one of the late rounds.
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Fall is here, and school is back in session, which means the good times are almost here – the start of college basketball season! To get you ready for this upcoming season, The Hoops Manifesto presents to you its preseason top 25 team rankings, based on the input from our esteemed voting panel. Next up #16: Wisconsin Badgers.
Big thanks to our voting panel: Jeff Fox (@HoopsManifesto) from The Hoops Manifesto, Perry Missner (@PerryMissner) from RotoWire, Ray Bala (@CanBallReport) who writes The Can Ball Report on Raptors HQ, Adam Francis (@RaptorsHQ) from Raptors HQ, Ian (@SoxAndDawgs) from SOX & Dawgs, and Alex Gallant (@SeaTownSports) from SeaTown Sports.
#16 – Wisconsin Badgers
2011/12: 26-10, lost NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
Key Returning Players:
Josh Gasser – Point Guard/Shooting Guard – Junior
7.6 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.9 apg, 93-275 3Pts
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Jared Berggren – Power Forward/Center – Senior
10.5 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 1.7 bpg
Mike Bruesewitz – Small Forward/Power Forward – Senior
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Yes, All-American Jordan Taylor is gone, but the cupboard is far from bare in Madison. Five key players from last season's Sweet Sixteen team – four of them upperclassman – return to Bo Ryan's squad, including Honorable Mention All-Big Ten honorees Ryan Evans and Jared Berggren. Added to the mix is 6'8″ freshman small forward Sam Dekker, one of the top recruits in the nation. And don't underestimate Bo Ryan – any time Wisconsin looks primed to have a down year, the coach works his magic.
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Lucila and Lolo Alonzo of Amarillo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday, July 15, with a Mass of celebration, a dinner and a dance at the Amarillo Civic Center. The event was hosted by their daughters and son-in-laws, Gloria and Leonard Carlile, Carolyn and Sam Meza, and Sylvia Alonzo, all of Amarillo.
Alonzo married the former Lucila Cruz on July 11, 1956, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Amarillo.
The couple has lived in Amarillo all of their lives.
Alonzo retired from the Santa Fe Railroad after 38 years as a car inspector. Mrs. Alonzo is a homemaker.
The couple belong to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Alonzo is a member of the Ushers, Knights of Columbus, Cursillistas and is a musician. Mrs. Alonzo is a member of the Guadalupanas and is a eucharistic minister.
The couple have three grandchildren, Joseph Meza, Tiffany Carlilie and Mark Meza.
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New #NYR Numbers: @mooredom #28, @JuicerFalk #44, Aaron Johnson #47, Benoit Pouliot #67.
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) August 6, 2013
The Rangers added that with Johnson taking #47, J.T. Miller has switched to #10
Also of note, with there being two Moores (Dom and John) on the team this season, John will have "J. Moore" on the back of his jersey.
…can't believe the Rangers allowed someone to wear Eminger's jersey number so soon after cutting ties with him. lol
…and let's hope Miller doesn't play as soft as the last guy who wore #10. Although, replicating his goal scoring would be nice.
I wore #28 my first @NHL games in @NYRangers blue, and more importantly, it's my wife's birthdate. #28
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Market Risk Premium Used in 56 Countries in 2011: A Survey with 6,014 Answers
Pablo Fernandez
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April 25, 2011
This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers.
Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this survey asks about the Required MRP. The paper also contains the references used to justify the MRP, comments from persons that do not use MRP, and comments from persons that do use MRP.
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Keywords: equity premium, required equity premium, expected equity premium, historical equity premium
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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The Connecticut town in mourning over the loss of 20 children and six school workers in the December school massacre has been overwhelmed by gifts from across the world.
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How to Cut Back on Salt for a Healthier Family
Welcome to my Healthier Family series! Over the next few weeks, I challenge you to make small nutritional changes to improve the health everyone under your roof. This week we'll be discussing why it's essential to cut down on your family's intake of salt, and how you can do this. I've also added one of my favourite low-sodium, high-flavour recipes: Wild Rice Cooked in Kombu (pictured here).
For generations, salt has been used for curing and preserving food, as a currency, an antiseptic, setting dyes in textiles, in production of paper and soap. It's a versatile mineral. It's also a hot-button news item, especially when new studies come out linking various health issues (blood pressure, asthma) to our sodium intake.
The human body needs a daily intake of less than 500 mg of sodium to stay healthy and maintain normal fluid levels, healthy muscle function and just the right acidity or pH of the blood. All fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and grains contain sodium, but not in considerably high amounts.
But whether we eat packaged or fast foods, or simply sprinkle liberally over a home cooked meal, we consume far more sodium than our bodies need, often to the deficit of our health.
A fast food burger with condiments contains, for example, about 630 mg of sodium. Do you send a 'Lunchable' to school with your kids? It contains around 1400 mg of sodium per serving. Ouch.
According to Health Canada, healthy salt intake for a child would be (with the final number representing the upper limit)
2-3 years 1000 - 1500 mg
4-8 years 1200 - 1900 mg
9 - 13 years 1500 - 2200 mg
Adults until the age of 50 should not exceed 2300/day, but as you get older, you should always look at ways to reduce your sodium intake for a healthier body.
Why limit your salt intake?
Excessive sodium intake causes fluid retention in the tissues that can lead to high blood pressure and can aggravate many medical disorders, such as congestive heart failure, certain forms of kidney disease and PMS.
One teaspoon of salt contains about 1600mg sodium, so think about how much you add to cooking and sprinkle over a meal. A recent study published in Pediatrics looked at salt intake and high blood pressure in adolescents. There is concern with children having high blood pressure from consuming fast and package foods. It's time to cut it out.
Is there a healthier salt?
The salt shelf has expanded over the years to include many varieties, but while these brands differ in texture, flavour and cost, they are all equal in sodium and should be consumed in moderation
- Traditional table salt has had most of its minerals removed, but contains minute amounts of various iodine-containing salts added is known as iodized salt and helps correct iodine deficiency symptoms of thyroid dysfunction
- Kosher salt is ideal for curing meat and crystals are usually larger.
- Sea salt is made from evaporating sea water and what's left has some trace minerals not found in the two above. Some say that sea salt is healthier than most as it contains some trace minerals, but it has the same sodium content as the rest.
- You can find trendy flavoured rock salts in gourmet food stores, boasting smokey tones, herbal infusions or citrus tones
- Fleur de sel a premium, hand-harvested sea salt collected by workers who scrape only the top layer of salt before it sinks to the bottom of large salt pans
Steps to reducing your household's intake of salt:
1) Read the labels of what goes into your shopping cart. Every one of them. How much sodium per serving and what's the serving size? If it's too high, then put it right back. Is there a low sodium competitor, go for it.
2) Stop adding it to food. See what the family thinks as you decrease the amount sprinkled into recipes. If there are complaints, allow a small amount to be sprinkled at the table.
3)Reduce eating out and packaged foods. It's better for the pocket book and waist line anyway. Look for simple recipes to make at home and ease up on the added seasoning.
4)Use soy sauce instead of salt. It contains slightly less sodium than table salt and a few drops goes a long way.
5)Cook grains like rice and quinoa with kombu, a sea vegetable that's high in nutrients and only 180mg sodium per piece. Add kombu to stocks and soups to impart trace minerals and give a salty taste, too.
Wild Rice Cooked in Kombu
1 cup wild mixed rice
2 cups water
1 piece dried kombu seaweed
Measure and place rice in a sieve. Rinse thoroughly. Bring water to a boil in a medium sauce pan, add in rice and kombu and cover. Turn down to simmer. Leave kombu in with rice for 15 minutes. Remove and discard.
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We were on the middle deck and the rooms were large and very comfortable. We really liked the huge window that opens half way down the wall. The bath was very large. It is covered with marble that is over the top. The room and bath were larger than Viking ships. Common areas are pleasant but no better than Viking. The staff were for the most part very good to excellent. The food at breakfast and lunch were similar to Viking, but the dinners were slightly better. Wine with meals is included and poured liberally.
The tour manager was a bit disorganized, even precipitating arguments with guests during port talks. The tour manager was difficult to listen to, and many guests missed important deadlines. They do not give overhead announcements, which adds to the impression of disorganization. Bikes were available at each port, which was a very nice feature. Shore excursions were very good.
Embarkation and disembarkation were simple and efficient. Several pieces of equipment in the fitness room were out of order. The indoor pool went unused and was over the top. If you want the top of the line, this is it. However, the extra costs aren't worth it, unless you crave an indoor pool and floor to ceiling marble in the bath.