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As grand marshal of the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade, British primatologist Jane Goodall got the grandest possible tour of Colorado Boulevard on New Year's Day.
Best known for her decades-long studies of chimpanzee behavior in the wilds of Tanzania, Goodall, 78, doesn't follow American football but said she was honored to also toss the coin at the start of this year's Rose Bowl Game.
Between parade and game, Goodall, Tournament President Sally Bixby and Rose Queen Vanessa Manjarrez and her Royal Court took a few moments to relax and eat inside a V.I.P. tailgate tent just outside the stadium.
A vegetarian, the soft-spoken Goodall enjoyed a modest meal of pasta, bread, cheese and tomato with a small glass of red wine.
During the parade, Goodall rode with representatives from Roots and Shoots, an international youth activism group she founded to advance environmental, animal and human rights causes. At lunch she was accompanied by her son and two grandchildren, who flew in from Tanzania, and her sister, niece and her niece's two sons.
Pasadena Sun: How did you like being in the parade?
Jane Goodall: Well I had enormous fun, but my big problem was all the time there were people on both sides, and you can't look at them and wave at both sides at the same time. What you do, you look one way and look up the line as far as you can, waving, and then you quickly turn [to the other side] and you start looking back.
Q: Do you see any similarities between primate behavior and human football rituals?
A: Not really between chimps and football, but I think how football relates to what I talk about is the importance of coming together, coordination, building a team—everybody knowing the plays and that together you can do what no individual can do. I'm also fascinated by the sheer physical movement. I like to watch [football] without the sound. I just like to watch the movements.
If I knew anything about football, it would be English soccer. I've watched one football game in my life, English, and that was in Barcelona.
Q: Who was riding in the parade with you?
A: In the carriage with me I had three representatives from three different groups of our youth program, Roots and Shoots. We had high school, middle school and junior school. And that's a program that's now in 132 countries, and we have members from preschool all the way through university.
But then I also had the dog for part of the time, and he was walking for the homeless dogs of America. Dogs have always been very, very important in my life. When I was a child, I grew up with a dog. And when I went to Cambridge University to get my Ph.D, the professors told me I couldn't talk about chimpanzees having personalities, minds or emotions, because that was unique to us. I immediately knew they were wrong because of my dog.
My guinea pigs had different personalities. All animals do.
Q: What do you think about flipping the coin for the Rose Bowl Game. Are you nervous?
A: Well, I was nervous. I thought I had to flip it and catch it. But I don't, so I'm not nervous at all. You see, I've only got half a thumb because it got bitten off [by a chimpanzee during research]. That makes it very difficult to do an accurate flip.
Q: What's your take on the parade's theme, 'Oh, the Places You'll Go'?
A: Well, I've slightly twisted that. I've been lucky, I've been amazing places. Young people today, the world's open for them and there are beautiful places where they can go. But if we don't get together and try to heal some of the scars we've inflicted [on the earth], what about in 100 years? How many of the places where the young people can go today will still be there?
The main message of Roots and Shoots is every individual makes a difference every day. If we all make small choices, but environmentally and socially responsible choices — like what we eat and what we wear, how we get from A to B, how we interact with people — millions and millions of small choices will make the kind of change we need for our great grandchildren.


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We all love keeping up with the TV shows that everyone's talking about, but there's no denying that having cable TV can be a complete pain.
That's why Sling TV is attempting to kill cable by offering the same great shows without the costly bill at the end of the month, not to mention the expensive equipment cluttering up that prize real estate space underneath your TV.
It even brings in a few more premium features like being able to pause and rewind live TV.
It's live TV streaming whenever and wherever. No contracts, no equipment and no costly statement.
Sling TV? Is it the same thing as a Slingbox?
While there are some concepts borrowed from Slingbox, Sling TV is in a different league when it comes to cutting the cord.
Sling TV is a US-only service offered from DISH that allows you to watch the channels you'd typically find on basic cable for $20 a month without a contract, subscription to DISH or any pesky cable equipment on your roof or in your living room.
What devices can I use to watch it?
Create an account on DISH's website and use that info to login to the app on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google's Nexus Player, Xbox One, the new Chromecast via the Sling TV app and Roku TV. The service will also work on select LG and Samsung smart TVs, and on Macs and PCs via a website portal.
The system is more eloquent than apps like TWC TV or Xfinity, and while the latter is almost universally available, trying to remember whose name and email you use to login can ruin a session before it even starts.
It's also worth noting that Sling TV has partnered up with T-Mobile to offer subscribers unlimited streaming video on their T-Mobile smartphones and tablets without eating into their LTE data.
What channels are included?
So far, channels on the basic, $20-per-month plan (now called Sling Orange) include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, TNT, TBS, HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Travel Channel, CNN, Cartoon Network, ABC Family, Disney Channel, AMC, IFC and, most recently, A&E, History, H2, Lifetime, Bloomberg, Polaris+ and most recently, Newsy and Flama.
Sling Blue shares many of the same channels, but allows more than one person to be watching at a time.
If you're looking to tack on some of the premium channels, Sling TV offers both HBO and Cinemax for $15 and $10 a month, respectively, however they require a subscription to the "Best of Live TV" package. Not to be left out, STARZ has also joined the premium pay-TV group by offering its channels, STARZ and STARZ Encore, for an extra $9 per month.
In addition to the base subscription, seven add-on packages are available for $5 apiece each month:
- Kids Extra, with Disney Jr, Disney XD, Boomerang, Duck TV, and Baby TV.
- Sports Extra, which includes the SEC Network, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, Universal Sports, Univision Deportes, beIN Sports, ESPN Buzzer Beater, ESPN Bases Loaded, ESPN Goal Line, Campus Insiders and Outside Television.
- Lifestyle extra, with Cooking Channel, DIY, truTV, WE tv, FYI, and LMN.
- Hollywood Extra, which includes live and video-on-demand content from EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3, EPIX Drive-In, Sundance TV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM)
- World News Extra, with HLN, News 18 India, Euronews, NDTV 24x7, France24 and RT.
- Deportes Extra includes Azteca, beIN Español, beIN HD (English), Univison, Univision Deportes and UniMás.
- Películas & Novelas Extra includes Azteca Corazon, Cinelatino, De Película, De Película Clasico, Pasiones, Univision tlnovelas, Univision and UniMás.
- Broadcast Extra (only available in select cities) includes ABC, Univision and UniMas.
And the list keeps getting longer. In August, Sling TV announced that it would partner with the NFL Network to offer live games on NFL Network and NFL RedZone through the Sling TV app. NFL Network will be offered starting on August 10 for $5 extra per month and will offer games through the regular season.
Now, remember when you asked about Slingbox? Well, it's true, Sling TV and Slingbox share a few similarities beyond the first syllable.
Sling TV allows you to pause, rewind and fast-forward live TV on some channels (note the word "some" there), and grants you the ability to watch shows a few days after they've aired.
Also similar to Slingbox, Sling TV lets you watch its service on most mobile devices anywhere in the world. That is, as long as you can establish and maintain a bitrate of about 1.5 Mbps for high-quality streams, 0.8Mbps for medium resolution, and 0.5 Mbps for low-quality.
Sling TV Orange? Is that some sort of fruit drink?
Nope! (Well ... not yet anyway.)
One of Sling TV's biggest challenges has been that two viewers in the same family couldn't watch a stream at the same time – at least that's the way it was when the service started last year.
But Sling TV now comes in two forms: Sling Orange, which follows the old model's service by only allowing one person to watch a stream at a time, and Sling Blue, which allows many people in the same family stream at the same time. Sling Orange will cost the same as the original service ($20 per month) while Sling Blue will be slightly more at $25 per month.
Sling TV on Roku
TechRadar was given two platforms to test Sling TV. One was Roku (specifically on a Roku 3) and the other was iOS, which we'll get to in a minute.
By and large, the experience on Roku was everything I've come to love about a cable box: simple functionality, clean layout and crisp picture. Installing the app was as easy as going to Roku channel store, finding the Sling TV app and pushing it to my Roku 3.
Coming from the home screen, Sling TV's interface loads up In a matter of seconds. The time it takes to get from home screen to live TV is astonishing - it's leagues faster than the time it takes my DirecTV cable box to boot up.
Once loaded, the stream was crisp and clear. (This obviously is a YMMV situation, as my home setup isn't identical - or even necessarily in the same ballpark - as everyone else.) A quick test of my network showed I was pulling around 26Mbps over Wi-Fi, which worked fairly well at high-quality 1080p 99% of the time.
The only stark contrast to traditional cable, at this point at least, is the amount of content available on Sling TV.
Comparatively, the 40-or-so channels offered on Sling TV are just a drop in the bucket compared to the over-800 I have available on DirecTV. And because you aren't able to record a show like you can on TiVo, you're limited to watching whatever's on or whatever's been on in the past few days.
Sling TV on iOS
Sling TV on iOS is a vastly different experience. Not only are you trading down to a smaller screen size, but you're also losing connection stability and clean interface of the set-top app.
Using an iPhone 5S for testing, I took Sling TV with me for a gauntlet of daily errands. As you might expect, over LTE the stream was nearly flawless. Dropping down to 3G, however, presented real problems as seconds slipped away to buffering screens.
Problematically, when you return home, continuing what you were watching on your phone isn't as simple as starting up your Roku. You'll need to go into the menu, find the show you were watching and rewind it manually.
Trying to use both a phone and a Roku at the same time won't work either. DISH is clearly (and rightfully) afraid of the account-sharing trap that has befallen HBO Go and Netflix, and doesn't allow two devices using the same account to run the service simultaneously.
Overall, I found the iOS experience less enjoyable than the set-top app, but still impressive. Being able to take TV figuratively anywhere is an appealing, practical proposition for morning commuters or long-distance travelers.
Sling TV on Amazon Fire TV
Sling TV made a splash this week by offering a a free Fire TV Stick to new subscribers. To activate your subscription on your new device, check out Sling TV on the "featured app" section of the storefront, start the download, enter in your account info and soon you'll have live TV on your favorite Amazon device.
The interface on Amazon Fire TV looks almost identical to the service on Roku, which is to say clean and convenient. Pressing the "list" button on Fire TV remotes brings up a channel listing while the three media control buttons do their things on playback-enabled channels.
The service looks a little clearer than it did on Roku - Sling probably set the highest visual quality as a default on Amazon devices - but it does seem to hit a few more snags. The system was stuck in buffering for such a long time at one point that it completely shutoff. Whether this was a one-time fluke or a persistent problem remains to be seen...
Sling TV on Xbox One
When I heard Sling was shooting for five platforms in five months, I had my doubts it could keep up with the development pace. Yet here we are just two months later talking about the fourth version of the system, Xbox One.
If you've used the service on any of the set-top boxes so far, you'll probably know what to expect here.
The channel interface is brought up with a flick of the stick in any direction, while the menu button (formerly known as start) opens up a menu for video-on-demand movies. Last but not least is the share button (again, formerly known as back) that brings up a menu that filters channels by category.
One major change worth noting is that Sling - unlike some apps on Xbox One - actually utilizes the Kinect to take in voice commands and allows you to pin both video-on-demand and specific channels to your home screen.
During testing I noticed a fair bit of latency (38ms compared to 30 on my tablet), which caused the service to stop and stutter multiple times. This occurred with a 4.24Mbps download speed and could be a worrying sign for potential Xbox One users.
Overall the service looks great and is functionally stable on Xbox One, but its performance - as users have noted in the comments - will definitely vary depending on your connection speed.
[Editor's Note: We haven't tried the service on a web browser and Android TV, however we will update the review with that section when it becomes available.]

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2.Find Ey(Q1). Answer in N/C.Answer in units of N/C003
3. Consider the force on Q1 due to Q2 and Q3. We will call this force F(Q1). Find the x component, Fx(Q1). Answer in N.
4.Find Fy(Q1). Answer in N.
5. Now consider point A in the diagram. Let's
6. Now find Ey(A). Answer in N/C.
7. An alpha particle (He2+, containing two pro-tons and two neutrons: m alpha = 6.64×10−27kg.) is released from rest at location A. Use your answer from the previous part to deter-mine the inital acceleration of the alpha par-ticle. First find the x component, ax. Answer in m/s2.
8. Now find ay. Answer in m/s2.
I know there are a lot of parts to this but your help on any part is appreciated. Thanks.


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#120 - froller (01/14/2013) [-]
**froller rolled a random image posted in comment #16 at Waking up from a nap on New Years Eve. **
#118 - clownsplosion (01/14/2013) [-]The problem is that there will always be people who want to cause suffering. If it is a time of peace, they spread war and fear. If the people have money, they will take it just so the people do not. If the people are healthy, then they want to spread sickness. It's just the way it is.
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#119 to #118 - neutralgray (01/14/2013) [-]
And so we try to change it, no matter how futile it may seem. Or, if we give up the good fight, then what hope do we breed of becoming any better?
#123 to #119 - clownsplosion (01/14/2013) [-]Balance... That is want we have, and what we need to keep thriving. Tipping that balance in either groups favor will have disastrous results. If 'they win' the world falls into chaos and humans destroy themselves. If 'we win' society will stagnate and life would be pointless.
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#126 to #123 - neutralgray (01/14/2013) [-]
To have a surplus of good doesn't mean pointless, my friend. It can seem that way, though. We have a dream as a people to be better than our base nature whether we realize it or not. It is what we, in our higher cognition, strive for. That has been the unreachable dream for so long, though, that it is unfathomable to have another...
But we push on in pursuit of a better tomorrow.
But we push on in pursuit of a better tomorrow.
#129 to #126 - clownsplosion (01/14/2013) [-]Agreed.
#117 - doodogger (01/14/2013) [-]
We are too different. In some places, it is normal and okay to stone women to death. By our standards in America (I hope) it is wrong and illegal. Do you think it's okay and an alternate way of life to beat women? Is it reasonable? In my opinion, it is just wrong.
#116 - watanigga **User deleted account** (01/14/2013) [-]
With understanding, I'd be out of a job.
Let's keep those engines running in the middle east.
Let's keep those engines running in the middle east.
#114 - anon (01/14/2013) [-]
can' ach he f m k b a d. (The joke was that I couldn't reach the top of the keyboard. But there are too many letters on the top row, so it didn't work...)
#108 - canofsprite (01/14/2013) [-]
Or how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.
#105 - hopate (01/14/2013) [-]
**hopate rolled a random image posted in comment #2884382 at MLP Friendly Board ** try to reach this..
#104 - anon (01/14/2013) [-]
This post is so wrong. You're implying that every human being has done things like "traveling over deserts" or "voyaging across vast oceans" and therefore should cultivated enough to "have an understanding". Stop saying this in the we-perspective. "We" are not part of the people don't have an understanding.
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#95 - greatboobya (01/14/2013) [-]
I wanted a vagina joke
#78 - anon (01/14/2013) [-]
"Credit doesn't go to me"
Sure it does! This red thumb has your name written all over it!
Sure it does! This red thumb has your name written all over it!
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right near REFRESH COMMENTS button, click and pick Newest instead of highest rated.
just had to do that myself, and i dont remember ever changing that setting.
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Walmart Raises Employee Healthcare Premiums by up to 36%
Walmart Raises Employee Healthcare Premiums by up to 36%; Places further Restrictions on Eligibility
Workers Distressed over Increases to Family and Individual Coverage that Far Outpace National Averages and Add to Unprecedented Increases Put into Effect Last Year
WASHINGTON—As Walmart executives publicized an employee healthcare change that showcased no-cost spine and heart surgeries at select hospitals, managers delivered a different message to retail associates at their stores: your healthcare costs are going up, again. Premiums are set to increase by up to 36% next year, employees were told, adding to steep hikes they faced last year. In comparison, projections for large employer-sponsored health plans are expected to increase by only 5.5 percent, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
This time last year, Walmart substantially rolled back coverage for part-time workers and significantly raised premiums as reported in the New York Times. Already working for poverty paychecks as a result of low-wages and insufficient hours, many of the company's 1.4 million employees and their families are already uninsured and rely on costly public healthcare programs. The costly new changes are pushing many more hard-working Walmart Associates to drop coverage – a concern that members of OUR Walmart, the nationwide organization of Associates calling for change at the company, have been speaking out about.
Dan Hindman, a four year Associate from Paramount, Calif. store, doesn't know how he is going to manage the rising costs. "Last year, my monthly premium went up 33%, and this year it's going up another 25%. I can barely afford the Walmart healthcare right now," said Hindman. "But I don't want to lose coverage for my son and me."
Walmart workers with families are some of the hardest hit by the changes in the plan. The increases over the last two years have doubled family coverage. This year alone, workers with children are facing an increase of up to 36% and those with full family coverage are confronted with a hike of 32%.
"Walmart's double-digit premium increases, increased deductibles and cutbacks for part-time employees seem really excessive given the company's profits," said Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President at the Economic Policy Institute. "These harsh benefit cuts are out of line with what's actually required by the insurance market, which nationwide has had only single-digit cost increases. With wages and household incomes stagnant—as well as families still recovering from the recession—it's a particularly bad time for a rich company like Walmart to be shifting more costs onto its employees."
Barbara Andridge, an eight-year Associate from Placerville, Calif. was hit hard last year when premiums and deductibles increased. Of the news, she said, "I couldn't believe the increases last year and how much I had to pay out-of-pocket before my insurance started kicking in. I just couldn't afford another hike this year. Walmart just doesn't understand what's really going on for the workers that keep the company's doors open. That's why OUR Walmart is working to make sure our voices are heard."
OUR Walmart members have been calling for changes at the company, including access to affordable healthcare, that will help workers, families and communities. In just one year, OUR Walmart has grown from an organization of 100 workers to a national organization of thousands of employees from 43 states. Earlier this month, workers from more than a dozen cities walked off the job in protest of the retaliation that workers have been facing for speaking out about issues such as healthcare, scheduling, customer service and safety issues. Elected officials, community leaders and workers held protests at more than 200 Walmart stores across the country and committed to joining workers to stop the retaliation and to reclaim Black Friday for Walmart workers and their communities by engaging in a wide range of non-violent activities on and leading up to Black Friday, including rallies, flash mobs, direct action and other efforts to inform customers about the illegal actions that Walmart has been taking against its workers.
Karin Aubrey-Sullivan, a 54-year old Walmart Associate from Cape Canaveral, Fla. store, says the increases mean healthcare premiums could now eat up one-third of each of her paychecks. "I am scared to death now with the insurance changes for 2013," she says. "The rates have gone up again, and the deductibles have both been increased. I have developed some health issues over the past couple of years so I really need to carry insurance, but I just don't know how I'll cover the costs."
In addition to the premium increases, Walmart has added a number of restrictions on eligibility to the plan that will significantly limit access to coverage, even at the unaffordable rates. Under the new plan, Associates hired after February 1, 2012 will need to average 30 hours a week to be eligible for healthcare, an increase from the 24-hour eligibility requirement that was put into place last year. Up until last year, all part time employees were able to purchase insurance after 365 days of employment.
Workers also face steep increases in out-of-pocket costs. Beyond the dramatic increases in premium costs, Walmart has drastically increased costs for out-of-network coverage. For the first time, Walmart has created different deductibles for in-network versus out-of-network care. Previously all monies spent counted toward the deductible.
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AnonymousNovember 13, 2012
And the Waltons continue to make billions!
Obama NationNovember 13, 2012
Thanks to obamacare, healthcare is just starting to get expensive!
Obama NationNovember 13, 2012
The greatest part about this is everyone wanted obamacare, I guess people need to start reading the fine print of documents… Don't be complaining this will happen everywhere thanks to the democrats of America.
AnonymousNovember 14, 2012
The saddest part of the whole ObamaCare deal is the new standard of full time is 30 hours. Low skilled workers are going to be held under that by most companies if they feel like they are not valuable enough to the company to pay either the $7,500 or so for the gold plated ObamaCare or the $2,000 fine. This is going to hurt so many folks. They will have to go onto Medicaid.
Just my opinionNovember 27, 2012
You have it figure right. With the new 30 hour work week more companies will be going to less hours and more part time help to fill the hour being cut.
AnonymousNovember 16, 2012
With Obamacare low wage workers will get a subsidy to pay for insurance. So Walmart will still not have to dip into its huge profits to pay for medical care for its employees.
While now taxpayer funded Medicaid pays for care for employees, in 2014 it will be better because employee will have a plan that gives them some preventative care the taxpayer will still be paying. All the more reason to raise Corporate Income taxes on Walmart.
Jon_quilNovember 28, 2012
Do *not* blame Obamacare for this. Without it, most working poor would have NO insurance at all. In addition, Wal*Fart will get a subsidy to cover the additional costs. So, don't go there. What you're saying, while an understandable knee-jerk reaction, is simply untrue.
guestNovember 13, 2012
your ceo is the problem. they put profits over people.
Barry G.November 16, 2012
Just wondering, but how much is the monthly insurance? For example, for Dan Hindman and his son, how much is the coverage per month? How much is it for an individual? Again, I'm just wondering.
William J. HamiltonNovember 16, 2012
Protest Action planned at Tanger Walmart, N. Charleston, SC
JohnNovember 17, 2012
I don't understand how Walmart employees can legally strike? They have the backing of the UFCW but they don't have a collective bargaining agreement. Can't they just be fired by Walmart and Walmart will just hire some others right off the street? Can someone please clear this up for em? I am a PT employee at Walmart in Southwestern Pennsylvania and am content with my hourly wage as it is "only" a second job for some additional income. I certainly don't begrudge anyone doing what they are doing I just don't understand the risk they are taking as once again I thought they could just be outright fired by WM.
AnonymousNovember 17, 2012
They can and will be fired. In America, there is a legal way to unionize. The unions have spent millions and millions of dollars of their members money trying to unionize with zero success. The union bosses are promoting this wildcat strike knowing the poor workers are going to be fired yet continue. The union bosses will then go back to their high paying jobs and the workers will be left unemployed. The workers are being used as pawns by the union bosses.
jollyinjaxNovember 17, 2012
To make it simpler for the uninformed. Walmart's profit margin for the quarter ending July 31st, 2012 was 3.19%. For those who don't get it, for every dollar they took in they got to keep roughly 3.2 cents of every dollar. When you put this simply, that's not very much money. The reason their overall profit seems like so much is because they have so many stores. Not to mention so many loyal customers. Without Walmart I would not be able to survive. I refuse to demonize someone for being smarter than me and starting a business and becoming successful.
StanNovember 18, 2012
@jollyinjax … where did you learn your math and economics? 3.19% margin means that for every $100 they made $3.19 BOTTOM LINE. That's after paying the light bills, slave wages, huge executive bonuses etc etc etc. And being that the books of any corporation run on accrual rather than cash, means they also took out depreciation of existing structures, expenses for new installations/expansion, advertising, yada yada, so the actual profit is probably much higher. I.E. as an individual I buy something for $10 and sell it for $20, therefore I made $10. I take off my expenses of lets say $2, therefore I made $8, an 80% profit. However, as a corporation, I also pay expenses on my condo, my slaves, invest in a new venture, pay myself a fat bonus, put some in an offshore, and after all that I'm actually at a net loss of $20 and ask the govt to bail me out …..
AnonymousNovember 19, 2012
Wal-Mart must use the same accounting practices as required by all other companies. The average of the Fortune 500 companies is over 8%. Companies like Apple and Microsoft are over 25%. 3.19% is very, very low. Stop being confused by the union bosses wanting your dues money. Wal-Mart is a low profit margin company. That is one of the big reasons they have been so successful. Their pay and benefits are comparable to their other competition and better than the small, inefficient Mom and Pop stores they have replaced, They provide a cheaper alternative to hundreds of millions of folks who are watching their money and trying to extend it. their competition is also working these same hours. The whole reason for this, is that they have taken over a huge market share of the grocery business and drastically cut back on the union dues for the groceries that had to close and stop paying huge dues to the union bosses. You are being used.
JohnNovember 20, 2012
If the union gets in Walmart that will change business in America for the good as they are the leader that all giants use as a model.
I have seen the power of Walmart and their legal team and they do not even compare to small business.
Walmart gets big tax breaks from cities that other businesses do not get and could not ever get. They get breaks on zoning and all kinds of legal things so you must figure that in as profit also. Please remember that those breaks come out of the local tax payers pocket . Please see the management that has come out on these issues so it is a good idea to paint the whole picture. Most will say they bring in tax dollars that small business can't? As they take it from other surrounding areas and destroy local business and jobs. It lowers commercial property value also. Please do your homework on what Walmart does to your local area.
AnonymousNovember 20, 2012
Wal-Mart sometimes gets initial tax breaks when cities are in competition for getting a store. These tax breaks are common for any new business and when they soon expire, Wal-Mart is frequently the largest tax payer in town. All small businesses do have a chance to compete with them and some thrive. Ever notice the area around their stores are built up pretty soon with small businesses. The inefficient small businesses that charge consumers much higher prices fail as a result of the consumers being given a choice. When I go to my local Wal-Mart, I see people carrying out a large number of packages. When I talk to local business people, I hear complaints about the horrible economy and lack of direction for the last 4 years. We have had the highest stretch of high unemployment since the 1930's. Businesses are laying off and cutting back employees hours due to ObamaCare. The country appears to be going down the wrong road. Getting a bunch of Wal-Mart employees fired is going to be horrible for them and their families.
amyNovember 20, 2012
Actually, no…that sounds nice, but the presence of Wal-Mart has resulted in the closure of two long-standing and beloved local hardware stores (both having been established over 140 years ago) in my town. The tax breaks are do not "soon expire." It's almost impossible to find things made in America in Wal-Mart. The road the city built to lead people to this eyesore may be named Wal-Mart Way, but it is the wrong way.
floridanativeeNovember 20, 2012
Over the last 35 years, the old fashioned hardware stores have been put out of business by Ace and True Value which are individually owned and operated by locals. This has happened all over the US, just as the small neighborhood pharmacy is now a rarity. It is also hard to find a buggy whip maker anymore. I know local tax breaks do in fact last a set number of years (5 is common). Your city may have offered too much. The fact that so many people do shop and build other businesses close to Wal-Mart seems to indicate that you are in the minority. People are willing to invest their hard owned capital and time out near Wal-Mart because this has a history of success. If everybody chose not to shop out there, then it would not be successful. Did the old hardware stores offer health insurance and a "living wage" to their employees?
amyNovember 20, 2012
Yes, they both did.
I don't get your "in the minority" statement. Yes, other chains built near the Wal-Mart. It's still an eyesore.
But I get how the economies of scale work. Ace and True Value both coexisted in this town for years with the hardware stores I mentioned.
Certainly the economic landscape has changed and there's no point in living in the past – but when the bright future of cheap goods is purchased at the expense of people who simply can't make it on their paupers' salaries it is fundamentally an immoral situation. 80% of Wal-Mart staff on food stamps doesn't make it. Offering health coverage they can't afford to use don't make it. Anybody who thinks that is OK ought to try it for awhile – with some health challenges in the family.
If other conglomerates are keeping their working staff in these constraints, they ought to be stopped as well. I don't have anything in particular against Wal-Mart, but its practices are egregious. You can ask the staff. I do. The buggy whip of poverty is very easy to find in the Wal-Mart equation, and it hurts.
floridanativeeNovember 21, 2012
You can not extrapolate your town to the US. The facts are that individually owned and operated Ace and True Value have destroyed the old hardware store (which I loved by the way). Please provide a link to your 80% food stamp statement. In the last 4 years food stamps have drastically increased. About 50% of Wal-Mart workers use the healthcare plans as I have read. You think it too expensive now, wait until 2014 when the ObamaCare mandates kick in. If we had the free market in the health care prices would be much cheaper. Look what has happened to Lasix eye surgery. It has no government payments and they prices have gone down 400 %. Most of the businesses around Wal-Mart are locally owned and operated franchises and employee local people who are happy to have a job.
Jon_quilNovember 28, 2012
Bull crap. They're using Obamacare to scare off employees from demanding better coverage. Why the hell don't people watch something other than Fux Gnus (fox "news") for their information? Wal*Fart, for example, makes more profits than any other retailer WORLDWIDE. They pay 61 cents/hour to workers in places like Bangladesh (where more than 100 workers just died in a horrific fire) and then cry bloody murdeer when they have to pay for health insurance. The guy who started Wal*Mart must be rolling over in his grave. He was a fair and decent man who would never oversee the kind of usery apparent at today's Wal*Mart.
floridanativeeNovember 28, 2012
Do you not believe the congressional budget office or do you just suck up everything from your union newsletter? Wal-Mart did not own the factory or employ folks in that country. They along with many other companies bought their products because millions of American wanted them. Get used to your 29 hours a week.
DaleNovember 19, 2012
Everyone raised healthcare premiums , even the federal government except those in congress. Even tricare the military family plan for retirees went up.
So 1/3 is taken for taxes and 1/3 is taken for healthcare. Shortly only the welfare checks will be paying you wages because the rest of us cant afford to go to Wal Mart anymore.
My sympathies are with Wal mart employees but we are all in big trouble here, it's not going to get any better eaither with this tax and spend mentality and free healthcare etc
CaptainNovember 19, 2012
couple of things to think about here. 1. WM is not unionized, so how do you think your striking? 2. when you do strike (walk out) does the union pres take a pay cut along with you?
ConcernedNovember 24, 2012
The Walton family has so much money, and they get greedier by the hour. Slavery was abolished eons ago. Pay your employees a decent wage and give them respect for their hard work.
txmouseNovember 24, 2012
6 people control 41.5 of the overall wealth, control 31% of the economy
with their business practices, and affecting an estimated 33.8 million
households, I am less than willing to set on my hands any longer. Just
these six people managed to suck 10 billion dollars in overall wealth
from 2007-2010 American households, for an increase of 22%, while the
rest of us, saw a 38% decrease in income earnings potential and wealth
from an average of 126,000 in 2007, to 77,800 in 2010. So forgive the
militant stand, but I wish I had JUST SAW a 38% decrease instead of
about 65% and still looking for work as a professional with a deep
technical knowledge and skills who gave 25 years to this machine that
ate my pension savings and dang near my home, faster that you can say
MADE IN CHINA and it still wants more.Those 6 people are the Walton Family
BarkNovember 24, 2012
The only way to end the greed is to stop buying the Chinese products that Walmart sells. Better than 90% of the products are from COMMUNIST China! When you buy this crap YOU are eliminating American Manufacturing Jobs! http://forum.barkforum.com/f36-boycott-this
Just my opinionNovember 27, 2012
Walmart is not the only ones to raise health care premiums. Many insurance companies a doing so with the explanation that they are gearing up for Obama care! Don't blame Walmart, look to the government and the new regulations.


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Simple and flavorful fresh salsa. Adjust the individual amounts as desired. Serve as a topper for tacos, burritos, etc or just eat with chips.
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- 3 -4 plum tomatoes, seeded and minced
- 1 sweet onion, minced
- 1⁄4 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- Mix all ingredients and let sit for 15 minutes or so, to let flavors meld.
- Try to use kosher salt rather than table salt. It's milder and sweeter.
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this was very easy and very good i too added garlic and lime juice and balsalmic vinegar thanks for sharing
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I want to buy ad space in 100 CTA train cars so that I can put ridiculous stuff up in 100 CTA cars—and make our commutes more fun.
This project's funding goal was not reached on August 22, 2014.
Riding the train in Chicago is a special kind of magic. It's dirty, it's loud, it's filled with fascinating/kind/talkative/insane/drunk people, and perhaps most importantly, it gets you where you need to go in a moderately predictable amount of time. I truly love the L, and I'm sure many of you do, too.
But we could make it even better.
So today, in the spirit of Daniel Burnham, I am proud to announce a new great plan for the city of Chicago: I want to buy ad space in 100 CTA train cars, so that I can legally put ridiculous stuff up in 100 CTA train cars, and make our commutes more fun.
With our ads, we will be able to inject a little silliness, fun and absurdity into the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans. And backers will get to vote on the potential ad copy, so you will have a voice in choosing what goes up in the L cars.
Some potential campaigns include:
Whatever campaign we decide upon, the resulting ads will be silly, fun, and ridiculous. Let me know which one you like best!
The average weekly ridership on CTA trains is almost 4 million. Four million! Imagine how much more interesting we could make those rides—how many commuters' days we could brighten, how many tourists we could confuse, how many awkward dates we could lend a source of conversation.
Our lives are perpetually overrun with advertisements. Marketing has permeated nearly every aspect of our culture—seriously, try to come up with a part of your daily routine that doesn't involve branding—and so it's no surprise the CTA relies heavily on ad revenues to provide Chicagoans with affordable transit. We can't stop this advertising onslaught, but we can take back just a tiny little bit of what we see—and make it super ridiculous and dumb.
I've contacted the company that manages advertising contracts for the CTA, and I've confirmed that it is feasible for us to pull this off.
If we raise a little over $4,000, I should be able to purchase ad space in 100 CTA train cars. That's enough to reach one in four Red Line cars (the busiest line on the CTA.) If we are lucky enough to exceed our goal, I'll get more ads in as many more cars as we can afford. The more ads we can buy, the more people we can reach.
So let's do this! Let's make the world a little sillier, and our train rides a little more fun. Thank you!!!
(Modified project image by (vincent desjardins), via Flickr)
There are some risks and challenges that go along with this project. The CTA has ultimate veto power over all ads that appear in its trains, so it could keep us from pursuing some of the ad copy we would ideally like to include. But I have discussed the matter with the CTA's advertising agency and read through the official CTA advertising policies, and I believe we should have no trouble with this project.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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"30 Rock" is out of the regular blog rotation, but I have to say that last night's episode was both the second-funniest of NBC's Thursday comedies (after "Parks and Recreation"), as well as the funniest episode of this show in what feels like a very long time. A quick review coming up just as soon as I submit that animated film I wrote about the Holocaust...
I still don't love either of the ongoing Jack or Liz story arcs, but this one gave us another amusing Ghosts of Boyfriends Past story for Liz (Yay, Dennis! Yay, dumb Jon Hamm! Yay, insufferable Wesley!), as well as a great running gag about Jack's attempts to create a non-sexual vibe for Nancy. (And the Hulk-like explanation for Avery's absence was also great.)
And, frankly, I could have watched at least 20 more minutes of outtakes of Tracy listing all the horrible, surreal things he witnessed as a child.
"Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land" didn't seem to be doing anything conceptually different from the rest of this season; I just think the execution was better.
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The sound of the tires hitting the pavement smoothed out as John eased the car off the Oban ferry and onto the mainland. Nick's stomach, touchy throughout the journey across the sea despite the size of the ferry, finally settled, and he sighed and leaned back in his seat.
The journey to Glasgow airport, where Nick's brother, Josh, would be waiting, wasn't a short one, but Nick didn't care how long it was if they were driving away from the ferry, not toward it.
"All right?" John asked, reaching over to give Nick's knee a comforting pat.
"Yeah. You'd think after all these years back and forth I'd be used to it." Remembering, Nick opened the glove compartment and rifled around in it until he found a couple of the wrapped ginger candies he'd bought on Mull the last time they'd taken the ferry. "Want one?"
John snorted like he'd been mortally insulted, which Nick didn't think was fair. John might have been born within sight of the sea, like most of the people living on Traighshee, but Nick, a relative newcomer in the eyes of the islanders, even after ten years, wasn't the only one who got seasick on the ferries. There was just something about the smell of the fuel and the way they rolled. "The sea was as calm as I've ever seen it; why would I be needing one of those?"
"Because it's candy and you have a sweet tooth?"
"I'd sooner have a mint." John held out his hand before Nickcould toss the spare candy back. "Oh, go on then. At least we'll both taste the same."
"It's ginger, not garlic," Nick said, but he gave it to John anyway.
John unwrapped his candy as the car in front of them accelerated and then braked sharply to let a truck join the line of vehicles making its way out onto the main road. He popped the candy deftly into his mouth. "True enough. God, will you look at the traffic? Bloody tourists."
"Tourists that are willing to pay a pretty penny to be shown the wonders of the Scottish Isles," Nick said, tucking his own candy into his cheek so he could talk unencumbered.
John had bought a van a couple of years back and now used it to drive said tourists around the islands--the islands being Mull and Traighshee. He gave as many as three tours a day at the height of the season. Traighshee itself was small enough that more than a bit of walking was required, of course, especially when the group in question was interested in seeing the rockier shores on the western side of the island. The larger isle of Mull included many more tourist attractions, not the least of which was Duart Castle. Nick had now seen the castle so many times himself that it bored him nearly to tears, but John didn't seem to mind repeating the same information again and again. As long as the tourists were genuinely interested, John's eyes would sparkle and he'd willingly answer whatever questions they might have.
"I didn't mean young Josh, you know," John said after a short silence. He sounded abashed, which made Nick smother a smile. "He's family; it's different. I just meant--oh, for the love of God, will you make your mind up what lane you're in?"
The car in front was straddling both lanes when it wasn't weaving between them, because, from what Nick could see, the driver was attempting to read a map at the same time as steer. With his stomach still queasy, he was glad that John didn't need directions to their destination. Focusing on a map would have made his nausea return full force. Glasgow Airport was a couple of hours away, but the route was one they'd taken often enough, and as long as the M8 wasn't at a standstill due to construction--something Nick was philosophical about after a decade of living in Scotland--they should be in good time to meet Josh's flight from Atlanta, via London.
It had been seven years since Josh's previous visit, which he'd made with his mother and stepfather. Now Josh, just turned eighteen and graduated from high school, was making the trip alone. He and Nick had been in regular contact, exchanging e-mail on a weekly basis for so long that Nick was convinced he knew as much about Josh's life as any of the boy's friends. They'd talked on the phone, too, although less frequently. Josh seemed to view Nick as a cross between an older, looked-up-to friend and the half brother that he actually was, and he'd been looking forward to returning to Scotland with an enthusiasm Nick associated with the young.
"You're worried about how this is going to go," Nick said. "The whole visit, I mean." John hadn't said so, not at all, but Nick could tell. He couldn't read minds like Josh could, but he didn't need to, not when it came to John, not after all the years they'd been together.
John finally managed to pass the car in front of them when it pulled into a lay-by. Nick was relieved that John contented himself with a pitying glance at the driver, partially hidden behind a map he'd unfolded to its fullest extent. They joined the traffic heading south toward the A85, John driving with a casual expertise. Traffic, even rush-hour traffic, was more predictable than the sheep that wandered nonchalantly over the island roads; Nick's own reflexes had been honed by more than a few close encounters.
"Worried? No," John answered finally. "Just--what's the lad going to do with himself? It's not like last time when he was happy to go out fishing with me or hike around with you." John rubbed the side of his nose, his other hand tapping restlessly against the wheel. "Especially at night. We can take him to the pub now and then, maybe, but I'm thinking his mother won't be pleased if we send him home with a taste for whisky."
"I wouldn't be pleased either." Nick flipped the candy across his tongue to the other cheek. "Yeah, I don't know. He seems to think there'll be a million things to do, but maybe you're right. Sitting on the couch watching the fireplace is going to seem pretty boring to a kid who's used to malls and movie theaters." He smiled to himself. "On the other hand, I seem to remember you saying the same things to me when I first came here."
John gave him a quick, mischievous glance, before his expression cleared. "Aye, but you made your own entertainment, didn't you? I seem to remember the couch being involved, too, now you mention it."
"It still is." Letting his head fall back against the headrest, Nick rolled the window down half an inch or so, just enough to let some fresh air in. "Josh is a good sport, but somehow I don't think watching us make out would be a fun evening's entertainment."
John chuckled. "I wasn't planning on scarring him for life that way, don't worry. From the way Michael tells it, he's only got to start kissing Sheila and one of his kids will be pretending to throw up a minute later. I was the same at their age, mind; I thought anyone over forty was dead below the waist."
"It's not necessarily a bad idea to disabuse them of that notion," Nick said in the fake British accent he adopted on occasion. John gave him a sour look, and he laughed. "What?"
"You know what." John managed to combine navigating a roundabout with delivering a swift, if gentle, punch to Nick's arm. "Behave, or I'll feed Josh haggis for breakfast and tell him it was your idea."
"You will not." Nick rubbed his arm and affected a wounded air. "Poor Josh. Coming all this way to see us, not even in the car yet, and you're already threatening him."
The road ahead of them cleared, and the sun obligingly appeared from behind a high wisp of cloud. Scotland in June--if one overlooked the midges, which Nick tried to do as much as possible--if it wasn't raining, was a pretty good place to be, and even if the outskirts of Oban couldn't match Traighshee as far as scenery went, the air streaming through the window was salt-scented and pleasantly cool.
"From what I remember of him, he's not the sort to get scared easily," John said. "When we were out after mackerel and that storm blew up and near as dammit overturned us, he just clung to the side of the boat, his eyes shining, and told me it was better than any ride at Disney World."
"That sounds more like 'has a death wish' than 'doesn't scare easily.' We'd better hope it's not the former or it's going to be an interesting visit." Nick frowned thoughtfully. "Maybe he'd like to climb Ben Mor. If he gets bored, we can always offer it as a suggestion. I mean, it might seem a little more exciting than Ben Dearg."
John made a noncommittal sound, concentrating on the road.
"Do you think Caitrin would be willing to show him around? She'd know what the young people do these days, at least. Although from what I've seen, it's mostly hanging around at the pub."
"If she's forgotten him dropping fish guts down the back of her T-shirt, I'm sure she will." John's mouth quirked in a small grin. "It's only been seven years, though, so I wouldn't put money on it."
Caitrin was John's sister Janet's oldest child, who was about the same age as Josh. They'd spent a fair amount of time together on his last visit, along with Caitrin's younger brother, Murray--it had been nice for Josh to have other children close to his own age to play with, even if Caitrin had been alternately charmed and annoyed by him.
"I've sort of gotten the impression that girls can have long memories," Nick admitted. John was one of the few people he'd ever have dared to say that to; he knew John would understand that his impressions of women in general, at least until he'd come to Traighshee, had been fairly limited.
"They can hold a grudge, too," John said unhelpfully. "I wouldn't like to be in Josh's shoes if they're down at the dock when the fishing boats come in and the smell brings it all back to her." He pursed his lips. "Of course, she's been brought up to be polite to visitors, but Josh would probably count as family, and you know what she's like with me, the cheeky brat."
The fondness in John's voice robbed the words of their bite. He was closer to Caitrin than any of his other nieces and nephews, sympathizing with her ambitions in a way her mother never could. For Janet, Traighshee was all the home she'd ever wanted, and Caitrin's restlessness and talk of leaving once she turned eighteen in July had led to some increasingly heated arguments.
Janet would have understood and approved of Caitrin leaving the island to go to university. Nick knew she and her husband Alistair would have willingly helped out with the student loans required, but Caitrin was adamant that she didn't want more school. She wanted to travel and see the world, and with all a teenager's optimism, she waved aside trivialities like a savings account that held only a few hundred pounds with an airy hand, saying that she'd find a job doing something, anything, as long as it wasn't here.
The last argument between Janet and Caitrin had resulted in Nick walking downstairs one morning, yawning and dressed only in an entirely inadequate T-shirt, to find Caitrin asleep on the couch. She'd stormed out the night before and headed for her Uncle John the way she had since childhood for any disaster from a skinned knee to the death of her pet rabbit.
Nick had abandoned all ideas of breakfast in bed, with a suitably grateful John expressing his appreciation of Nick's thoughtfulness, and tiptoed back upstairs quickly. Judging from the shocked gasp and giggle that floated up to him, not quite quickly enough.
He still hadn't completely recovered from the incident; he hadn't walked around the house in the same state of undress since, even though it was coming up to the one time of year one could really get away with it. Any time but summer was too cold, especially first thing in the morning.
Getting to the airport took longer than Nick would have liked. They'd left early to be on the safe side, though, and ended up with an hour to kill before Josh's flight got in. Nick was able to get a smoothie, not caring that John teased him about his "fancy American ways" as he drank it.
"I'll point out that this is the Glasgow International Airport. If I can get it here, the argument that it's American falls kind of flat." Nick took another sip through the straw and grinned at John.
"Fruit's meant to be bitten and chewed," John said. "That glop looks like something you'd give a baby or a toothless old man, and I know you've got all your teeth because you bite me with them often enough." He took a sip of his cup of coffee and glanced around him at the people passing by, most looking harried. "God, this reminds me of that ants' nest we found in the garden last year; I put my spade through it and they boiled up, running everywhere."
Nick knew how he felt--too many people in too small a space, which was ridiculous considering the size of the airport and the fact that they were both used to living on an island that wasn't much bigger than some villages. The more he thought about it, the more it made his skin crawl, just as if those ants from the previous summer were walking all over him. It was uncomfortably similar to the way it felt when he became aware of a ghost seeking his attention, although there weren't likely to be any ghosts here at the airport. At least, he hoped not. Dealing with Josh's arrival was enough excitement for one day.
"Maybe it'd be better if we moved over nearer to the windows." He gestured at the large panes of glass off to their left, where there were rows of seats and plenty of other people sitting, most of them with baggage of some kind or other.
"Fine by me." John picked up his drink, took one last gulp, and then deposited it in a recycle bin on their way to the window seats. A plane took off, the muted noise of its engines making its liftoff seem effortless, majestic. Somewhere up there in the empty blue of the sky, Josh's plane was defying gravity, too.
Nick wondered if Josh had thought about their father while he was flying. After the time he'd spent at the crash site where his father and so many others had died, staring at the twisted metal coffin that the plane had become, he supposed he should have had a phobia about flying, but he didn't. It had been a freak accident, no more than that, but it didn't mean that on the rare occasions he flew he didn't think about it.
"Do you ever miss it? The traveling, I mean?" John asked, gesturing out at the runways. "I know it wasn't as exciting as it sounds, but you got to see places I never will."
"Miss it?" Nick shook his head. "No, not really." Of course, there were reasons beyond the obvious--being able to settle somewhere so remote had meant a dramatic drop in the number of ghosts he encountered, to the point where it wasn't uncommon now for him to go months between sightings. That alone would have been worth the loss of the nomadic existence he'd lived for so long. "I guess there was a certain freedom to not having to worry about things like household repairs or how to work a vacuum cleaner, but there were a lot of negatives that came along with it."
"I wouldn't like to feel I had nowhere to call home," John said. He screwed up his face in thought, the laugh lines at the corner of his blue eyes deepening. "For all that there've been times I've wanted to leave the island so badly I could taste it." He gave Nick a rueful smile. "That trip we took to Florida; we never did go back the way we said we would. Maybe not that exact place, but this winter, when it's dark at three in the afternoon and the winds are howling fit to deafen you, well, maybe we can pack our bags and go somewhere warm? I'd like that."
Nick pressed his thigh to John's. Then, feeling like that wasn't enough contact, he put a hand on John's knee. He'd be the first to admit that the long, cold winters were the worst thing about living on Traighshee, and the idea of abandoning Rossneath, the house he'd inherited from his uncle, in the middle of January in favor of some place tropical was appealing even now. "We should. And we should look into it soon, book a flight, or before we know it, spring will be right around the corner and we'll decide to wait another year. Where should we go? The Caribbean?"
John put his hand on Nick's, and their fingers interlocked with a comforting familiarity. John's hands were always warm and slightly roughened from seawater and work. Nick thought of them moving on his body that morning, unhurried and gentle, when they'd woken early and decided to take advantage of the last time they'd be alone for a while, and smiled. John caught the change in Nick's mood and returned his smile with one of his own, slow and sexy.
"Anywhere hot enough for you to spend most of the time half naked would suit me. Come winter, you bundle yourself up in so many layers, by spring I've forgotten what you look like under the clothes."


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DUSON - Funeral services will be held at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic Church, Monday, June 14, 2010 at 11 a.m. for Marie Louise Gautreaux, 73 who died Thursday, June 10, 2010 in Regional Medical Center.
Interment will be in the St. Theresa Cemetery in Duson.
Surviving are two son, Jonathan Gautreaux and wife Connie of Scott, and Phillip Gautreaux and wife Trudy of Duson; three grandchildren, Jade Miller, Josh Gautreaux and Mitzi Thibodeaux; one brother, Bernard Leger; one great-grandchild, Brock Miller.
She was preceded in death by her husband, William J. Gautreaux; parents Philibert and Utella Touchet Leger; two brothers Alvin Leger and Ben Leger; and two sisters Leta Miles and Gladyes Trouard.
She was born Saturday, March 6, 1937 in Duson, daughter of the late Philibert Leger and the late Utella Touchet Leger.
Friends will be received 2 p.m. until 9 p.m., Sunday, June 13 and 8 a.m. until services, Monday, June 14, 2010 at St. Theresa of the Child of Jesus Catholic Church Hall.
Friends may view the obituary and guestbook online at www.gossenfuneralhome.net.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne (337) 334-3141.


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* THE BRIDGE. 10 p.m. tomorrow, FX.
* FINDING CARTER. 10 tonight, MTV.
HALLE BERRY'S on television this summer.
This might be the equivalent of saying - last summer - that Stephen King had placed a dome over a small Maine town and CBS had filmed the results.
Some of you are already camped out on the couch, waiting.
In "Extant," CBS' new summer series from Steven Spielberg, Berry plays an astronaut just back from a supposedly solitary 13 months in space who's trying to reconnect with her scientist husband (Goran Visnjic, "ER") and their unusual and slightly creepy son (Pierce Gagnon).


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Today, 2 p.m.: Not Just Words: Art and Poetry with visual artist panel featuring Michael Morgulis, Tim Raymond, Pat Pendleton and poetry by Jane Peat, Elizabeth Glenny and Ronald Pritchett. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5
Today, 7:30 p.m.: The Screening Room Series reading featuring poet and spoken word artist Josh Smith. Additional reading slots available. Northtown Plaza Business Center, 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst.
Monday, 7 p.m.: BABEL Extras: BABEL at Betty's book discussion of acclaimed Somali author Nuruddin Farah's 2004 novel "Links" facilitated by Sam Magavern, co-director of the Partnership for the Public Good, and lecturer at the University at Buffalo Law School and the Cornell University ILR School. (Rescheduled from 1 0/2 9.) Magavern is author of the much-praised "Primo Levi's Universe: a Writer's Journey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Refreshments served. Betty's Restaurant, 370 Virginia St. $10, $5 Just Buffalo members and BABEL subscribers.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: Poetry reading with the Women of the Crooked Circle writers' group featuring Marjorie Norris, Barb Faust, Linda Drajem, Sally Johnson, Kathleen Betsko Yale, Esther Roblin, Caroline Parrinello, Margaret Cusack and Kathy Shoemaker. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.: Just Buffalo Literary Caf� reading featuring poets Don Mitchell, Ryki Zuckerman and Lynn Ciesielski. Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst.
Wednesday, 8 p.m.: Just Buffalo BABEL Series Lecture by the acclaimed Somali author Nuruddin Farah, author of 18 books including "A Naked Needle" (1976), "Maps" (1986), the first book of his "Blood in the Sun" trilogy, and his most recent trilogy which began with "Links" (2004, the BABEL reading selection), and continued with "Knots" (2007) and "Crossbones" (2011). In 1998, Farah was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Kleinhans Music Hall, 71 Symphony Circle. $35; subscription package available.
Thursday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: Poetry reading featuring Ansie Baird, Sally Fiedler and Ann Goldsmith. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5.
Thursday, 7 p.m.: UB Exhibit X Fiction Series reading by award-winning English novelist, artist, and critic Tom McCarthy, author of "Remainder" (2005), a debut novel which deals with questions of trauma and repetition, "Men in Space" (2007), set in Central Europe during the collapse of communism, and "C" (2010), a novel set in the early 20th century that explores the relationship between melancholia, violence and the emergent radio technology of the era, as well as the essay collection "Tintin and the Secret of Literature (2006). "Remainder" won the 2008 Believer Book Award and is currently being adapted for cinema by FilmFour Films. Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Ave. (near Tupper Street).
Friday, 8 p.m.: UB Poetics Program reading by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist Donato Mancini, whose work focuses mainly on poetry, bookworks, text-based visual art and cultural criticism. His first two books of procedural and visual writing, "Ligatures" (2005) and "�thel" (2007) were each nominated for the ReLit Award. Two more books, "Buffet World" and "Fact �n' Value" were published in 2011. Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St.
Friday, 8 p.m.: Poetry, Music and Burlesque with Individual World Poetry Slam champion Chris August, Buffalo's own spoken word artists MC Vendetta and 10,000, the Buffalo Burlesque Collective, and local musicians Peter Sorkin, Bourbon & Coffee and BloodThirsty Vegans. The Vault, 702 Main St. (second floor). $5.
Saturday, 7 p.m: "An Evening in November Downtown," open poetry and prose reading hosted by Mark C. Lloyd, with featured guests "GOODNE$$" and Rochelle M. Garrison. Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St.


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January 18, 1933 - February 11, 2010
Richard E. Fritz, Jr. was born on January 18, 1933 in Kensington, PA, he was the son of Richard E. and Margaret (McGowen) Fritz, Sr.
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The Mecosta County Democratic Party consists of committed citizens who agree and disagree about policies, politics and candidates but share a common commitment to human dignity, fair trade, and an open political process.
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This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for partner countries (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation and South Africa). Compared with the previous edition, this new edition includes a new set of dashboards of health indicators to summarise in a clear and user-friendly way the relative strengths and weaknesses of OECD countries on different key indicators of health and health system performance, and also a special focus on the pharmaceutical sector. This edition also contains new indicators on health workforce migration and on the quality of health care.
Too many lives are still lost in OECD countries because healthcare quality is improving too slowly to cope with ageing populations and the growing number of people with one or more chronic diseases, according to a new OECD report.
The book presents a background study of DRG-based payment systems, drawing on the experience of implementing such hospital funding arrangements internationally, including an overview of developments in the Asia and Pacific region. It underscores the need for countries to be clear about their purpose and objective for introducing Diagnosis Related Groups, as well as their place in health-care financing reform, and for policy-makers to reflect on the importance of country-specific starting points, objectives and context in which the hospital payment reforms are being implemented. Chapter 4 – written by Yuki Murakami and Luca Lorenzoni – investigates the evidence regarding the impact on cost, quality and efficiency of the introduction of a DRG-based payment system.
Antimicrobial therapies have played an essential role in the treatment of infections in humans and animals and have significantly improved population health. All these applications are now endangered by the increasing spread of microbes that are resistant to antimicrobial medications. The OECD will present during the G7 Health Ministers Meeting in Berlin on October 8 some key findings and policy recommendations on how to deal with AMR.
All countries are investing in health data. There are however significant cross-country differences in data availability and use. Some countries stand out for their innovative practices enabling privacy-protective data use while others are falling behind with insufficient data and restrictions that limit access to and use of data, even by government itself. Countries that develop a data governance framework that enables privacy-protective data use will not only have the information needed to promote quality, efficiency and performance in their health systems, they will become a more attractive centre for medical research. After examining the current situation in OECD countries, a multi-disciplinary advisory panel of experts identified eight key data governance mechanisms to maximise benefits to patients and to societies from the collection, linkage and analysis of health data and to, at the same time, minimise risks to the privacy of patients and to the security of health data. These mechanisms include coordinated development of high-value, privacy-protective health information systems, legislation that permits privacy-protective data use, open and transparent public communication, accreditation or certification of health data processors, transparent and fair project approval processes, data de-identification and data security practices that meet legal requirements and public expectations without compromising data utility and a process to continually assess and renew the data governance framework as new data and new risks emerge.
The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to important progress in population health: for example, life expectancy at birth has increased, rising on average by ten years since 1970. The challenge now is to sustain and enhance these achievements in a context of tight fiscal constraints in many countries combined with upward pressure on health spending from factors such as new technological advances and demographic changes. Finding policies that can make health spending more sustainable without compromising important achievements in access and quality requires effective co-operation between health and finance ministries. Sound governance and co-ordination mechanisms are therefore essential to ensure effective policy choices. Prepared by both public finance and health experts, this report provides a unique detailed overview of institutional frameworks for financing health care in OECD countries. One of the main features of this book is a comprehensive mapping of budgeting practices and governance structure in health across OECD countries.
This report reviews the quality of health care in Japan, and seeks to highlight best practices, and provides a series of targeted assessments and recommendations for further improvements to quality of care. One of Japan's foremost policy challenges is to create an economically-active ageing society. Excellent health care will be central to achieving this. A striking feature of the Japanese health system is its openness and flexibility. In general, clinics and hospitals can provide whatever services they consider appropriate, clinicians can credential themselves in any speciality and patients can access any clinician without referral. These arrangements have the advantage of accessibility and responsiveness. Such light-touch governance and abundant flexibility, however, may not best meet the health care needs of a super-ageing society. Japan needs to shift to a more structured health system, separating out more clearly different health care functions (primary care, acute care and long-term care, for example) to ensure that peoples' needs can be met by the most appropriate service, in a coordinated manner if needed. As this differentiation occurs, the infrastructure to monitor and improve the quality of care must simultaneously deepen and become embedded at every level of governance –institutionally, regionally and nationally.
Specific country notes have been prepared using data from the database OECD Health Statistics 2015, July 2015 version. The notes are available in PDF format.
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This new brochure presents the OECD Work on Health for 2015-2016, including all recent and forthcoming major publications and databases.
This report examines how countries perform in their ability to prevent, manage and treat cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. The last 50 years have witnessed remarkable improvements in CVD outcomes. Since 1960, overall CVD mortality rates have fallen by over 60%, but these improvements are not evenly spread across OECD countries, and the rising prevalence of diabetes and obesity are threatening to offset gains.
This report examines how OECD countries deliver the programmes and services related to CVD and diabetes. It considers how countries have used available health care resources to reduce the overall burden of CVD and diabetes, and it focuses on the variation in OECD health systems' ability to convert health care inputs (such as expenditure) into health gains.


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Quotes and Sayings about feelings
I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
– Meg Cabot
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
– Leo Tolstoy
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
– Edmund Burke
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
– David Borenstein
Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.
I wish my feelings had a delete button.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
– Edmund Burke
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
– Sydney J. Harris
Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.
– Yogi Berra
People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.
– Paul Berman
You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
– Elizabeth Jane Howard
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
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When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.
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I have been artistic all my life, but no medium has obsessed me more than knitting. I live with my needles in hand! After leaving a career in social work, I decided to make fiber art central in my ...
I have been artistic all my life, but no medium has obsessed me more than knitting. I live with my needles in hand! After leaving a career in social work, I decided to make fiber art central in my life. I got started in the fiber craft industry managing Mary Maxim Boutique in Toronto and as a Designer Assistant for Americo Original. In May 2012, I moved to Guelph, Ontario to further pursue an artistic life. As a newer indie designer, I am building my brand, Ash Kearns Handknitting and publishing regularly. I currently display my designs and teach regularly in Guelph, Ontario at All Strung Out Fine Yarns.
While browsing through my vintage pattern collection, I came across a Knit-O-Graf catalogue picture of a 1950's child's mitten with a gun motif (no pattern, sadly). Growing up, toy weapons had been discouraged in our house, so the idea of these mittens especially made me chuckle. Since I wasn't allowed to play with toy guns growing up, this design is a little bit of childhood defiance. Straight Shooter is my interpretation of vintage children's gun mittens for grown-ups.
Straight Shooter mittens feature western-style revolvers that will make you a dual-wielding winter outlaw. Shoot-up the ski hill, make an impression at the hipster coffee house, or challenge another urban cowboy to a gun fight! Straight Shooter mittens are the ideal gift for the western or gun enthusiast in your life.
Pattern is given in two sizes, suitable for the average woman or man's hand. The construction method combines traditional flat mitten construction with an in-the-round thumb, creating only one seam along the outside edge of the hand. The top is grafted closed. The revolver motif is worked using the intarsia color work method, using separate strands of color instead of stranding. Instructions give guidelines to the intarsia method, though previous experience is helpful. Use two high-contrast colors to make the revolvers really pop!
Straight Shooter mittens will have you shooting from the hip... Just don't shoot your eye out!
22 sts/ 28 rows = 4 inches in Stockinette stitch knitted flat using 4mm needle or size to obtain gauge.
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Xcel Energy is forecasting demand for power this afternoon and early evening could cause the company to institute controlled outages so it has declared an energy alert.
"We are making a public appeal to our customers to turn off lights and appliances unless it would harm their health," said Riley Hill, president and CEO of Southwestern Public Service Company, an Xcel Energy company. "For example, elderly people or people who have health concerns should not turn off their air conditioners."
The company is asking for the power reduction until 8 p.m. Repairs at some power plants could be completed sooner so the company will update its status this afternoon at which time the cutbacks could be cancelled , according to a news release.
Xcel is also taking other steps to reduce usage such as bringing on line as many generating units as possible, buying electricity from other utilities, interrupting power to industrial and agricultural customers who signed up for lower interruptible rates and cutting its own power use, said spokesman Wes Reeves.
"We take our responsibility to supply energy to our customers very seriously, and we declared this Energy Alert only after exhausting all other options," Hill said.
Suggestions from Xcel on how to reduce electric use include:
• Either turn off air conditioning or increase your thermostat setting to 85 degrees, slowly lowering the setting after 8 p.m. to a more comfortable setting. This does not apply to customers who depend on air conditioning for health reasons.
• Put off household chores that involve electrical appliances until after 8 p.m. (dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers, vacuum cleaners)
• Put off tasks at work, if possible, that would demand electricity (power tools, maintenance equipment, etc.).
• Turn off televisions and electronic equipment unless they are necessary to conduct business or to ensure your health and safety.
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Designed by FBJ Inventar-snedkeren, the official name of this internationally acclaimed design is Library. Made of ash wood and powdercoated steel, it can house books on its shelves and magazines on its sloped roof. We love the simplicity and elegance of this design, which (dare we suggest, since it's a one-off and not available for purchase) could be beautifully re-imagined by those handyfolk among you.


text: ALAMEDA -- While Rolando McClain has been practicing and preparing for the start of his third NFL season with essentially a clean slate from the Raiders' new regime, he has also been doing so under the veil of a potential suspension by the NFL.Not that McClain has been sweating it. Not even with the league saying McClain's situation -- he was convicted of four counts of third-degree assault, menacing, discharging a handgun in city limits and reckless endangerment in May and it is under appeal awaiting a jury trial -- is still under review."No, I dont think Ive ever had a talk of anything about a suspension," McClain said Monday, when asked if it has been difficult to stay focused. "I havent heard it. I guess thats all speculation."So, it has not been hard to stay focused on the field, then?"Its football," he said. "I get paid to play football."McClain, who does not particularly enjoy speaking to the media and shooed away a camera on Monday, was talking to reporters for the second time since reporting to training camp in July.He also broached several other topicsOn if he senses the new defense suits his game better: "I feel good about the defense. Its not just my game or anybodys game in particular. I think it suits everybody on the defense from linebacker to D-line to secondary. Were all able to make plays on the defense. We just have to make them when your number is called."On if the new defense will give the Raiders an edge by being more active: "I dont know. I think the Raiders have been so accustomed to playing straight 'man' with everybody knowing what were going to be in. Now its just being a little diverse, changing things up will benefit us some. At the same time offenses, they still game plan. Eventually theyll see our pressures and theyll pick up on them. Its just about executing the defense, whatever is called. Is it pressure or straight zone. You just have to execute it and play the rules and what happens, happens."On new defensive coordinator Jason Tarver: "Crazy little guy. Hes a fiery coach. We need somebody on this side of the ball thats active. I like him. He brings energy to the defense."On if having a defensive-minded head coach will help: "I dont know. Its good to have a defensive head coach. At the end of the day the players have to go play. You can have the best coach in the world but the players have to go out and make plays. Thats how I feel about it."On if he's learning or growing as a vocal leader: "I wouldnt say learning. I was a pretty good leader at Alabama in college. Its different here. Its just different. Youre not dealing with guys your own age. Youre dealing with grown men. Being a leader is just not about yelling but understanding guys that youre working with. Different people respond to different things in different ways. Its figuring out your teammates and how they respond to things to get them to work. Its still a process."On his two new starting linebackers, Philip Wheeler and rookie Miles Burris: "So far, so good. The real bullets will start flying this Monday. Thats what matters. We dont get paid for preseason or practice. We get paid for what happens in a game. So, well see."On how the defensive underachieving last year affected him: "I dont know. Im not talking about the past. This is a new year. The past is the past for a reason. Its a new year, and we got a chance to go out and be as good as we want to be."On if camp was run this year like they were at Alabama under Nick Saban, in terms of attention to detail: "We have a great head coach, we have a great general manager, and theyre doing things the right way. I dont know if this is coach Sabans way, so to speak. But theyre doing a great job."On how the stem-cell treatments he received in the spring helped him: "I feel fine. The stem cell stuff was just so I wouldnt have these nagging injuries and they dont prolong into the season. Right now, I feel good going into the season. So, well see."


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Stunning views and a wealth of nature activities at the edge of the only inhabited active volcano in the world.
Capitalizing on its beautiful surroundings, El Crater Hotel incorporates elements from its environment. With natural wood accents throughout, buildings are covered in hand-sculpted stone, including local lava-hardened stone. The twelve suites offer king-size or double beds, central heating, mini bars, DVD players, TVs and Internet access. Other features include an art gallery, displaying works by local artists, and El Crater Restaurant, with a menu of Ecuadorian and international cuisine, as well as a 360-degree view. The hotel has two conference rooms for business and social events.
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