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The classic Greeks understood the importance of having a sound mind in a sound body. They built their schools with an equal emphasis on the library and gymnasium-ideally with a nature trail surrounding the buildings so that 'peripatetic' professors could walk and teach students simultaneously. They didn't need modern brain imaging technology to understand that human evolution is directly linked to being a highly efficient aerobic machine with a very large prefrontal cortex--so, they worked to strengthen both simultaneously. In my opinion, modern public policy makers should do the same.
Over the years of sports and competition, I have isolated 8 remedies for longevity based on ancient principles that I have updated for successful modern living. Keeping all 8 of these core-tenets balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel will allow you to be a trailblazer. Here are the 8 remedies for longevity:
1. Daily Physical Activity: Exercise for at least 20 minutes most days of the week.
2. Levity & Laughter: Keeping a sense of humor keeps you healthy and youthful.
3. Intellectual Curiosity: Spend some time in focused thought, exploring new ideas every day.
4. Foster Creativity: Challenge your mind to connect unrelated ideas in new and useful ways.
5. Human Unity: Create and maintain close-knit human bonds and a social support network.
6. Spiritual Connectedness: Identify a Source of inspiration that is bigger than you.
7. Energy Balance: Balance Calories in/Calories out, and reduce your carbon footprint.
8. Voluntary Simplicity: Embrace the liberty that comes with wanting and needing less.
I keep these remedies written down on a notecard that I pull out and review in the morning before I start my day. I recommend that you review this checklist daily, too. If you look at this list and feel that you have neglected one of the 8-core tenets, talk to yourself in the third person as a good coach would.
For example: I might say to myself--"Chris, today you should focus on "Human Unity." You've been too isolated. You have to go out and interact with people today." Learn to become your own coach by using a third person inner-voice in your self-talk. In future blogs, I will continue to discuss each of these life-affirming core tenets and give you helpful advice on tackling each one. In the meantime, evaluate how you are doing with these 8 remedies and think of ways that you can make some lifestyle changes.
To find clues for our future, we have to look at our past. Homo sapiens have evolved over millennia based on our ability to stick together, cooperate, and work hard physically. These abilities allowed us to become more creative and intellectually superior to other species. From the time of being hunters and gatherers to being farmers in an agriculturist society these 8 core tenets remained a part of daily life and were the key to prosperity and longevity for individuals, families, and communities. That all changed with the industrial revolution and continues to erode as we evolve into an information age society.
The past 200 years of lightning fast technological change have been a shock to our system. We often forget how recently modern inventions have re-shaped the way we live our lives. After hundreds of millions of years of basically static technological advancement, everything changed with mind-boggling rapidness in the past two centuries. This has completely shocked our biological make up.
A simple and tactile visual that I find useful for putting human evolution in perspective is that the entire length of your arm would represent human evolution, while the past 200 years would be the white tip of a freshly clipped finger nail. Homo sapiens spent millions of years being hunters and gatherers, then thousands of years as agriculturists and then - "BANG!" - with the invention of the steam engine in 1804 everything changed and the industrial revolution began. The industrial revolution upended ancient connections between a "sound mind and sound body." Our evolutionary traits were turned inside out and upside down and forced to adapt to a completely new way of life.
Here is a quick timeline of major inventions I have compiled to put the rapidity of change into perspective: The Cotton Gin in 1794, the Steam Engine and Locomotive in 1804, the Bicycle in 1865, the Telephone in 1876, Electrical Power plant in 1882, the production-line Automobile in 1902, the Television in 1927, the Jet Airplane 1943, the ATM 1967, the cell phone in 1973, and the internet in 1983. It is amazing to realize how recently these changes have occurred considering the first primate fossils date back some 20 million years. How could we not be future shocked?
"Future Shock" is a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Alvin Toffler in his book of the same name. Toffler's most basic definition of future shock is: "a personal perception of too much change in too short a period of time." The Future Shock that Alvin Toffler would describe as "too much change in too short a period of time" is causing our minds and bodies to short-circuit. Toffler argued beginning in the 1970s that society was undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from becoming what he called an industrial society to a "super-industrial society." The digital revolution of the past two decades has taken the level of amount change in society to levels that would seem like science fiction in the 1970s. It has thrown our lives out of balance and is shortening our lifespan.
The accelerated rate of technological and social change ultimately leaves us feeling disconnected and suffering from Future Shock, which is a state of "shattering stress and disorientation." Toffler also coined the phrase "information overload." Spending time in any public space, social situation, or in someone's living room would confirm that we could all benefit from unplugging from our iPhones and laptops.
As hunter-gatherers, the human body evolved to run as the only viable form of transportation over great distances to chase prey and avoid threats. The ability to spring through the air is what sets us apart from primate cousins. This pogo-stick ability of each leg allowed us to travel long distances and to hunt and gather a high protein diet, using relatively little fuel. We are very fuel-efficient machines. As our brains grew, so did our prefrontal cortex, the seat of human intelligence, and we became better hunters. Endurance running is, in fact, unique to homos sapiens among most mammals except for: dogs, horses and hyenas.
Drs. Lieberman and Bramble, paleontologists at Harvard, established that our slender legs, shorter arms, narrower rib cage and pelvis, skulls with overheating prevention features, and the nuchal joint, which keeps our heads steady when we run, set us apart from chimpanzees. Our uniquely huge gluteus maximus (our butts), the biggest muscles in our body, make us able to run. Dr. Lieberman explains, "Your gluteus maximus stabilizes your trunk as you lean forward to run. A run is like a controlled fall and the buttocks help control it." Monkeys don't have butt muscles. The scientists compiled a list during the thirteen-year long study of twenty-six traits that made early homo sapiens better able to prevail that are all specifically connected to running.
Scientists have concluded that running improved our chances of survival and reproduction. Although we were not as swift as our four-legged competitors, we could (and still can) out run and hunt over greater distances than other predators. Lieberman says, "Endurance running may have made possible a diet rich in fats and proteins thought to account for the unique human combination of large bodies, small guts, big brains, and small teeth." It also imbedded the need to stay active into our biology, which is why inactivity causes the minds and bodies of so many to short-circuit in a sedentary digital age.
A person who would go on to be known as the founding father of IBM planted the first seeds of the information age in 1888. That year, Herman Hollerith--who was an American inventor--developed a successful computer, using punched cards and electricity. In 1911, he sold his company--the Tabulating Machine Company, which then became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924, the company became IBM. Analog computers were developed in 1930 and the first electronic computer was in use by 1946.
The Digital Revolution was officially born late in 1947 when two Bell Labs scientists invented a transistor that could take electric current, amplify it, and switch it on and off. By the late 1960s, large companies began using computers. Personal computers were introduced in 1975. Today, microchip transistors and silicon chips are ubiquitous, enabling the storage and transfer of information in digital form. Apple computer is the largest company in America and has more cash on hand than the federal government. The internet, smart phones, and social media have changed the world and how we interact with one another irrevocably in ways that each of us around the globe live and breathe. Unfortunately, because of this, the most physical activity some get is the use of their thumbs and index fingers on a digital screen.
In his 1950 speech accepting the Nobel Prize -- a speech coined What Desires are Politically Important? -- Bertrand Russell, who was an avid long distance walker, stated:
Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor. I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover twenty-five miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed. But modern life cannot be conducted on these physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises on a few specialized muscles. Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide the harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied by hunting... More seriously, pains should be taken to provide constructive outlets for the love of excitement. Nothing is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.
The recent use of information technology and social media to organize the masses and start revolutions when people feel dissatisfied to the point of taking to the streets has potential to mobilize people and be a 'constructive outlet.' But for many of us, daily life in a cyber world has the power to sap our minds and bodies of their vitality and isolate us from face-to-face interaction and elbow-to-elbow camaraderie.
The cyber world, and the information it provides, is very seductive and tantalizing because it takes zero energy to create and is entertaining to digest. Being creative and challenging your mind and body takes effort. It's easy to be lazy and complacent when all of your creature comforts are taken care of.
Facebook can become a disconnected, vacuous, and lonely social network if you are isolated from other people in day-to-day life--there is no 'there, there' ultimately. What are the consequences to our biology of living in a virtual reality where we don't have to work physically or interact directly with other human beings to stay alive? Are we raising a generation that is being spoon fed too much over-processed everything? Have those of us from the 'analog' generation turned into 'sleep walkers' in a virtual reality? Each of us must work hard to stay connected to each other and to our biology.
Our evolutionary biology is not going to begin speeding up to adapt in tandem with each new generation of the iPhone; so, it is up to each of us to slow down and make an effort to stay grounded in our pre-digital era roots. Using the 8 remedies for longevity provided here will help you stay rooted in your humanity and help you live a complete and fulfilling life regardless of how lightning fast the technology around us changes the way we live.
Review this checklist daily and focus on keeping all 8 of the tenets balanced. If there is a particular area where you are lagging-for example, "Spiritual Connectedness"... make a conscious effort to seek out fellowship or communion with other people and a Source of inspiration that is larger than you. If your "Energy Balance" is out of whack, ride your bike instead of taking the car and eat a little bit less that day. Keeping these 8 remedies for longevity in check takes conscious effort...but, over time these small daily changes become a lifestyle that will keep you happy and healthy for a long, long time!

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Consider an 'internal face lift' to revive skin
When fighting off sagging facial features, it's not always about what's on the outside.
"Sometimes overlooked is what I call the internal face lift," says Dr. Jim Gilmore, a triple board-certified facial and plastic cosmetic surgeon in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center whose specialty encompasses facial and reconstructive surgery. "The internal face lift employs 3-D remodeling to re-create the youthful triangle of the face."
The technique combines midface and jaw/chin implants to counterbalance shrinking in the chin and cheeks common with aging, and liposuction or tightening of the muscles under the chin to eliminate double chins and turkey neck. The more traditional skin-tightening techniques of face lifts, and facial fillers and Botox then may be used to smooth out underlying areas.
Looseness of facial skin often is caused by shrinkage of the underlying bone, muscle and soft tissue, says Dr. Gilmore. No surgery can permanently prevent aging, but it can make the individual appear more youthful and refreshed.
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By HEATHER NELLIS
Recorder News Staff
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM -- An audit of town Supervisor Thomas DiMezza's accounting records and reports for the town's finances indicated untimely and inaccurate record keeping, the state comptroller's office announced on Thursday.
DiMezza on Thursday said the town is working to take corrective action, and deemed issues in the audit as "minor."
The comptroller's office says the town's year-end cash records match, but there are discrepancies in bank reconciliations, account balances, and the annual update documents, which "make it difficult to properly assess the town's true financial condition."
The audit report also says the town board members aren't given monthly information needed to monitor financial operations.
A release said DiMezza's accounting records do not support the AUDs he filed for 2010 and 2011. An AUD is a summary of the town's annual financial information, which should agree to the accounting records, the comptroller's office says.
The books for 2010 and 2011 weren't closed out when officials from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli initiated the audit in July, and auditors said they found discrepancies between documented bank reconciliations and account balances.
"The lack of timely and accurate financial information led to errors and irregularities that went undetected and uncorrected, while also hampering the board's ability to make sound financial decisions," a release said. "Additionally, the board is unable to know the true financial condition of the town, given that the supervisor's accounting records cannot be relied on."
DiNapoli's office says a supervisor is the chief fiscal officer of a town, and is responsible for performing basic accounting functions, including maintenance of accounting records, providing monthly financial reports to the board, and filing the AUD.
The comptroller's audit examined DiMezza's records and reports for the period of Jan. 1, 2010 and July 31, 2012, which are maintained through the use of computerized accounting software.
A review of the town's accounting records indicated they were not closed for 2010 until after auditors had a discussion with DiMezza in August 2012, the audit says.
In order to close the accounting records, DiMezza prepared entries to balance the funds, "but not based on any sound accounting practices or evidence of errors that warranted adjustments."
For example, the audit says DiMezza made an entry on Aug. 12, 2012 that he dated Dec. 31, 2010, and included one-sided entries to various funds, though they reportedly should be offset by a credit or debit.
"The supervisor does not maintain supporting documentation for the adjusting journal entries made, nor did he obtain approval from the board," the audit reads.
As of November 2012, accounting records were also still open for 2011, the audit says. Similar to 2010 records, "it includes individual funds which are out of balance, although total debits and credits for all funds equal."
For example, the financial overview report has an $102,235 difference between debit and credit balances, yet grand total debits and credits both equal $18,748,818.
"The supervisor indicated the same thing happened with the reports when he closed the records for Dec. 31, 2010, as well as previous years due to problems he had with the accounting software's year-end closing process. He stated the funds have been out-of-balance for this as long as he can remember, and has been serving as supervisor since 2000," the report says.
Reconciliations from the town's 12 bank accounts were also reviewed. The audit says the majority of those funds are "co-mingled" into a single checking account. A bookkeeper reportedly prepares reconciliations to balance all cash, versus cash for each account.
The comptroller's office additionally found that accounting records did not support the AUDs filed by the supervisor for 2010 and 2011, including balance sheet accounts and revenues and expenditures reported in operating statements.
Specifically, 13 cash accounts in 2010, and eight cash accounts were reported inconsistently, the audit says. For example, the 2010 general fund cash account was reported as $119,971 in the AUD, but had a $54,067 balance in accounting records.
Among various funds there were three revenue and seven expenditure accounts that did not agree with amounts reported in the 2010 AUD -- the total dollar amount of all variations equaled $943,017.
Four funds in 2010 and five funds in 2011 had deficit fund balances reported in the accounting records, though deficits were not reported on the AUDs. For example, the audit says the highway fund's reserve was reported as $4,073 in the AUD, but had a $124,909 deficit fund balance in 2011.
"I handle millions and millions of dollars every year for the town's budget, and to me, cash equals cash," DiMezza said. "There are no public funds missing, and these adjustments are just minor as far as I'm concerned."
State comptroller's office Spokesman Brian Butry said "it's a bigger issue of record keeping."
"There will be times in audits where -- hypothetically -- we ask where $10,000 is, and a town may say, 'Hmm, we're not sure.' And then afterward, they come back and say 'Oh we found it, but we lost track of it because we weren't keeping accurate records. Money is unaccounted for because of poor record keeping."
That "hampers the board's inability to make sound decisions," the audit says, additionally noting the town board "does not receive all the financial information it needs to monitor the town's financial operations."
"The only financial reports they receive are monthly operating statements," the audit continues. "We found during testing that the report does not list all monthly transactions."
The town was given 90 days to submit a corrective action plan to the comptroller's office. In a letter from DiMezza to the comptroller's office dated March 27, it says the town's software vending company, and possibly an outside auditing firm, will ensure the necessary changes.


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A Message From Academic Affairs
On Positive Deviance
I've been wondering whether our approach to the assessment of student learning is likely to yield the results we would all as faculty like to see. My hope is that we are becoming the type of organization in which we're collectively learning more about how students learn and grow in their college years.
But I worry about our progress toward that goal: too often assessment simply feels like one more burden for faculty working very hard already. The results seem to suggest that this is the case, as relatively few departments are completing annual assessment activities on schedule.
How could we do better to benefit Augustana students?
Over the summer a group of colleagues read a book by the New Yorker writer Atul Gawande's called Better. It's a remarkable collection of essays on the ways in which contemporary medical practice is being steadily improved through what Gawande would call positive deviance.
In one essay that we included in the newsletter last year, on cystic fibrosis care, he demonstrates the ways in which simple measurement of success led to a transformation in practice across the globe:
If you haven't had a chance to read it, I think you'll be fascinated by the improvements in care that Gawande links directly to measurement.
Since first reading this essay some time ago, I've been thinking about how our students' experience might differ if more of our course design began with the question, 'What do I know about how well my students learn this material?'
I would be glad for your thoughts on how the college might support course design that starts with such a question, or on ways we might improve assessment efforts more generally.
Gawande ends his book with a chapter called "Suggestions for Becoming a Positive Deviant." His suggestions are fairly straightforward, and they may offer us a useful model, less complicated than many of the assessment models discussed in higher education these days. Among them:
- Ask an unscripted question
- Count something
- Write something
Through such practices, he suggests, any organization changes for the better.
It may be that the answer to the question of how to make assessment more meaningful in higher education is contained in Thoreau's dictum: 'simplify, simplify'. -- Jeff Abernathy
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In the hours after Pope Benedict XVI's announced his resignation as Pope lightning touched the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic churches and the amazing event was all captured on camera by AFP photographer Filippo Monteforte.
Monteforte described how he took the incredible image which has been making it's rounds all over the world saying, "I took the picture from St. Peter's Square while sheltered by the columns. It was icy cold and raining sheets. When the storm started, I thought that lightning might strike the rod, so I decided it was worth seeing whether – if it DID strike – I could get the shot at exactly the right moment."
Filippo, armed with a 50mm lens, waited for more than two hours and was rewarded for his patience with not one but two bolts.
He added: "The first bolt was huge and lit up the sky, but unfortunately I missed it. I had better luck the second time, and was able to snap a couple of images of the dome illuminated by the bolt."


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Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente (LGEEPA)
Mexico: Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente (LGEEPA)
First comprehensive environmental legislation. (In 1996, it was amended to include sustainable development as a priority for the Mexican government.) The original legislation included measures for the protection of natural areas; exploitation of natural elements, including land and water; and protection of the environment, including atmospheric contamination, water and soil contamination, hazardous activities and waste, nuclear energy and other forms of pollution. LGEEPA also sets forth control and safety measures, penalties for non-compliance, guidelines for environmental impact statements and risk assessment. Additionally, LGEEPA addresses matters of jurisdiction, ecological zoning, and enforcement. It requires Federal, State and local authorities to develop, within their respective jurisdiction, sound policies that include economic, financial, tax and market schemes that must identify as high-priority those activities related to "the research and implementation of energy-saving mechanisms and use of reduced contamination energy sources".
Date Implemented: 1988
Status: In Force; Mandatory
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PERRYTON — J.J. "Jake" Keim Jr., 85, died Monday, June 11, 2012.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in First Christian Church with the Rev. Dan Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Perryton.
Mr. Keim was born Nov. 25, 1926, in Waka. He attended grade school in Waka and junior high and high school in Perryton. He graduated in 1943 and attended Texas Tech University. He married Martha Lollis on March 19, 1948, in Dalhart.
He served in the Army in the Philippines during World War II, was active in the
Jaycees and received the Jaycee of the Year Award two years in a row.
He moved to Canadian in 1958 as the manager of a lumber company, served on the church board, chamber and rotary boards. He was active in Boy Scouts, little league and taught Sunday school.
He moved to Perryton in 1964, served on the church board, YMCA, United Fund, chamber board and was a member of the Industrial Foundation for more than 20 years. He ejoyed playing golf and fishing.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Gary Keim and wife Kathy of Runaway Bay and Lex Keim and wife Patty of Mustang, Okla.; a daughter, Nanette Fullinwider and husband Lance of Coppell; a sister, Shirley Lowe of Gruver; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to a charity of choice.
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We honestly believe that most people have all they need to be a successful stock photographer within a 50 miles radius of where they live. We will never tell you that you must travel around the world, live in an "important" city, or spend exorbitant sums of money to start making images that sell.
In Wikipedia, infrastructure is defined as, "the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise." Practically, these are "technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth." Conceptually, it is the "organizing structure and support for the system or organization, whether it is a city, a nation, a corporation, or a collection of people with common interests," or you, the photographer. We are interested in both the practical and conceptual applications of this word.
Practically, the infrastructure of the area where you live is the most accessible resource available to you. This is your jackpot!
So, go shoot them. Then shoot them again at a different time of day (with different light), a different season, or in different weather. When you've finished that, you could go rent a small prop plane at your nearest airport and do it again. You'll find it worth the investment since with a mere hour of shooting, you'll have hundreds of very sellable images. All of this could take you a year shooting full-time! Then we'll talk about whether you need to travel to other places.
Conceptually, your infrastructure is how you organize to get access to subjects. If you are an established professional photographer, you will probably be prepared to pay for professional models/location fees, that could prove prohibitive if your images end up selling at $0.14 a piece and you pay a commission. As a non-professional photographer, you may not be able/willing to pay these professional fees, but you don't have to write off lifestyle imagery. How can you get into places to shoot (if not open to the public)? How can you get models (without a high investment)? Where do you have a table-top and good light (natural or artificial) to create still-life and concept imagery? Before you start shelling out the big bucks, take advantage of these two resources: your family/friends network and the practice of exchanging images for access/rights.
Your group of family and friends can provide you with both models and with access to places/subjects (the infrastructure list above). It´s a great way for you to start practicing and expanding your lifestyle imagery.
When working with family and friends, it's very important that you think of them and treat them as models, in order to obtain something more than photo album material.
Clothing should be appropriate for what you want to convey, backgrounds should generally be clean and well-organized, and your kid's face should be clean too!
The images should have iconic, and therefore, economic significance. Look for clean gestures and actions which convey believable emotions and authentic moments.
Think of detail shots of their hands, eyes, feet, etc. which can be used for age appropriate concepts. Your grandmother's aged hands opening a jar, a flower in your young daughter's hand, or a close-up of your teenager son's muddy shoe and leg.
You should also take advantage of any additional skills which your family and friends can offer by shooting them participate in their sports/pastimes/hobbies or even at work. Most will be happy to sign a model release in exchange for some good photos of themselves.
It is very important that you obtain model releases for family members and friends just as carefully as you do with paid models. Also, it's a good idea that your family/friend model understands very clearly what they are signing in a model release to avoid future conflicts (more info on model releases).
Your family and friends might facilitate your access to their workplaces, homes, and other places where you can make numerous images. Their access to certain people and places might help you to expand your Infrastructure/Resource list.
If you have found places, hospitals, factories, groups, or organizations such as nonprofits, that you would like to photograph, you might approach the place and offer to do an image exchange. You could give free (or reduced price) images in exchange for access . This could be especially effective in places that need images for their own advertising or internal purposes, such as hospitals, industry centers, hotels, restaurants, health clubs, offices, etc.
Being known as a photographer who is willing to work in this style will undoubtedly open closed doors to your camera, and expand the contacts for your infrastructure list, as well as helping your work to be known in new areas of the community. You should be prepared to show examples of your work, to show them that you are a photographer who will produce good images of what they need. Don't forget to get any model/property releases signed to avoid any future legal problems.


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The Mothers are on Strike
You may wonder how a group of old ladies, most of whom have never worked outside of the house, can go on strike. The Association of Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs is a group of mothers who lost their children in the Sandinista Revolution and Contra War. While some did join the forces during the decade of conflict, and still many more collaborated or risked their lives to bring their children food in the mountains, many have since settled into their houses. Mainly housewives or widows, they tend to support their families through cooking, cleaning, and selling the occasional Nacatamal (traditional tamale of cornmeal, tomatoes, raisins, rice, and meat) or Rosquillo (hard corn cookies) from their doorway. Thus as a group, you might wonder from what job they are going to strike. It was something I wondered myself when Doña Mina, the coordinator of the organization, threatened to do so yesterday.
At 1:00 today, Enoe, the secretary, sent a message to a couple of radio stations. "La Directiva invites the Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs to an urgent meeting in the Gallery," the memo read. At 1:40, The hallway of the gallery, normally empty, is full with over 40 mothers seated in old wicker and plastic chairs. More filter in as Doña Mina gives her speech. "We are going on strike," she explains, "until they listen to us. We have not been getting our aid packets and we want them to hear our struggle." The mothers nod and clap. The monthly aid packets (a bag of beans, rice, corn, oil, and soymilk) have been corruptly distributed: some mothers haven't been getting their monthly pensions. The local Sandinista party is in charge of handing them out in a nearby gymnasium, but some of the mothers haven't received them for months or longer. So the mothers want control of the distribution; they want the paquetes and the pensions to come through the Galería of Heroes and Martyrs so that they can monitor them and hand them out themselves. They organized the mothers in the first place and petitioned the packets and they want to make sure the right people are getting them. Ohh, and the roofs that the president promised would come in April, and them May, and then June, and then July- they still haven't shown up. So the mothers have gathered in the gallery, a block away from the central park. And they're not going to leave anytime soon.
By 2:00, there are more than 60 mothers murmuring under the tin roof of the gallery, with a steady stream continuing to trickle in. Doña Mina continues informing them of the situation; "and we're going to show up here every day until they listen to us," she explains. The mothers nod. Though the music of the afternoon rain drowns out conversations and the thunderstorm has cut off the energy supply, the mothers sit in the dark, shouting and laughing. Some begin to sing and dance. Doña Mina has arranged a meeting at 3:00 with a representative from the mayor's office, and the mothers are ready to show them that they mean business. If Don Victor, the representative, says "no" the mothers are ready to show up tomorrow and the next day. With posters and slogans, they will stand outside of the Gallery and shout to be heard. The mothers are on strike.


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Green Bay Packers party at Discovery World lets fans create gear
A Green Bay Packer Tailgate Party at Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin can help fans bring a bit of the Packers home this weekend.
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Singers blend magically in MSO's Baroque music concert
A pared-down MSO, two remarkable voices and an extremely communicative conductor joined forces in an absolutely captivating evening of Baroque music on Friday.
Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan led about 40 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra strings, plus harpsichord/continuo organ, through an engaging program of Handel, Pergolesi and Scarlatti. They were joined by soprano Yulia Van Doren and countertenor Daniel Taylor. »Read Full Article


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) — Governor Pat Quinn has told Illinois lawmakers the state is at a critical juncture, and he's outlined an ambitious legislative wish list.
In his annual State of the State address, Quinn lived up to his longtime populist image, calling for a significant hike in the state's minimum wage, implementation of online voter registration, and a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports the governor's speech was as much about substance as it was about his upcoming re-election campaign.
The speech was part policy, part politics, laying out the challenges for the state, as well as a candidate up for re-election next year.
In the House chamber, both probable and potential challengers to Quinn's bid for another term were listening to his speech, as he discussed the state's massive pension debt.
"We cannot allow our economic recovery to be held hostage by the pension crisis. We simply must act," Quinn said.
The governor said addressing the state's skyrocketing pension costs was the primary task for lawmakers to address.
However, he made only a few references to the pension crisis in his 40-minute speech in Springfield.
READ: The Full Text Of Quinn's Speech
With nearly $100 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, Quinn said pension costs would continue to put the squeeze on other state spending unless lawmakers come up with significant pension reforms.
"Do we want in the years to come a prosperous Illinois where working people continue to have good jobs, where businesses thrive, and where all our children have a world-class education? Or do we want to stop the progress and watch our economic recovery stall? Quinn said.
The state's failure to address pension reforms has prompted credit rating agencies to downgrade the state's credit rating several times since 2008. The state's credit rating is now worst in the nation.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who has said she is considering a run for governor in 2014, said, "I thought he talked about the most important issue facing the state, and that's the pension issue. The other issues that he addressed are obviously important issues, but the top three issues are pensions, pensions, pensions. And, so, until that's resolved, it's very difficult to move forward on any other issue that requires revenue."
Madigan insisted she has not yet made a decision whether to run for governor.
Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford – who ran in the Republican primary for governor three years ago – said, under Quinn's watch, the state's unpaid bills have ballooned from $8.5 billion to $9 billion in the past two years, despite a major income tax hike in 2011.
State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), who lost the governor's race to Quinn by a razor-thin margin in 2010, has been weighing another challenge in 2014.
"There's not a formal announcement here today, but if the people choose to elect me to be their next governor, we'll solve these problems," Brady said after Quinn's address.
It's clear that top Republicans are already lining up to challenge the governor, while Democrats are playing it more coy.
In the end, a Democrat – be it Madigan or Bill Daley – could give Quinn his toughest battle.
In his State of the State address, the governor focused more on populist measures, including his push to raise the state's minimum wage from $8.25 per hour to at least $10 per hour over the next four years.
"Nobody in Illinois should work 40 hours a week, and live in poverty. That's a principle as old as the bible," he said. "As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, it's always the right time to do the right thing."
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2007.
Illinois Chamber of Commerce president Doug Whitley said he wonders what Quinn is thinking in proposing such a significant increase in the minimum wage.
"The Illinois Chamber takes great exception to the Governor's desire to increase the state's minimum wage law to $10.00 an hour," Whitley said. "This is an untimely, ill-advised and outrageous proposal that puts a dagger to the heart of the very employers politicians normally say they want to grow and be successful: small, medium and entrepreneurial businesses.
Whitley said it's "bewildering" the governor wants to dictate the highest minimum wage in the nation, at a time when the state is struggling to reverse high unemployment. He also said he believes a $10 minimum wage would lead to fewer seasonal and entry-level jobs for youths.
The current Illinois rate took effect in July 2010, when it increased by a quarter. The U.S. Department of Labor says only three other states — Washington, Vermont, and Oregon — have a minimum wage higher than Illinois.
Illinois Retail Merchants Association president and CEO David Vite also criticized the governor's call for a higher minimum wage.
"If minimum wage goes up … hours will be cut, or bodies will be laid off, that's pure and simple," he said.
Vite said the governor's speech clearly was a kickoff of his re-election campaign.
"It's a terrific Democratic primary issue for the governor," he said.
The governor also called on lawmakers to approve legislation allowing eligible voters to register online, as well as another of his longtime pet projects: open primary elections.
"We must move our election process into the 21st Century; and while we're at it, let's pass a long-overdue law: to allow voters to participate in primary elections without having to publicly declare their party affiliation," he said.
In addition to his repeated call for an assault weapons ban, Quinn said concealed carry legislation mandated by the federal courts should include a ban on concealed weapons in many public places; such as schools, libraries, bars and government buildings.
"We must ensure that guns are kept out of everyday public places, because guns don't belong in our schools, shopping malls, or sports stadiums," he said.
The governor also called for approval of same-sex marriage legislation – which cleared the first of several hurdles on Tuesday when a state Senate committee sent the measure to the full Senate for consideration.


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LIBERTY, NY — The members of the newly re-formed Catskill Artists Gallery (CAG) will exhibit recent work at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center, 46 South Main St., from June 15 through July 8. The exhibit will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There will be an artists' reception with refreshments on Saturday, June 16, from 4 to 8 p.m.
In addition to the "Patterns" show, guests can view the museum's permanent display of Sullivan County history, and hear about the museum's plans for the future.
CAG recently closed its "bricks-and-mortar" store after nine years on Main Street in Liberty to become a "gallery without walls." The eight members have built a new website (www.catskillartists [1] gallery.com), are attending art/craft fairs in various areas and are teaming up with other entities for local events.


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Review/Recital; A Prize-Winning Pianist
By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: October 18, 1989
Adrienne Krausz, a 22-year-old pianist from Hungary, was the winner of the World Piano Competition of Cincinnati this year, and as part of her prize she was presented in her New York debut recital on Sunday evening at Alice Tully Hall.
Miss Krausz plays with the power, assurance and firm resolve of a musician who knows exactly where she wants to take each work, and she lets her listeners in on the plan from the moment she strikes her first notes.
She began with Liszt's arrangement of the Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, setting forth the Prelude with an imposing solidity, then building the Fugue from a gently traced single line into a thundering web of sound. Even at its densest, loudest and most driven, though, her performance retained its transparency.
The Liszt showpieces that closed the concert, ''Gnomenreigen,'' ''La Campanella'' and the ''Mephisto Waltz,'' evolved similarly but offered Miss Krausz greater opportunities for unabashed coloristic and technical display.
Miss Krausz also gave a thoughtfully dramatized, interestingly inflected account of the Beethoven ''Waldstein'' Sonata, marred occasionally by a tendency to concentrate on volume and timbre at the expense of phrasing. Her performance of the Bartok Suite (Op. 14), on the other hand, was passionate and purposeful, and in the ruminative finale, beautifully crystallized.


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Has anyone else noticed a lack of hustle, especially when it comes to running out grounders to first? I've seen more than one very close play that may have been called in our favor while watching Vidro or Sexson fart their way up the line. On a team like the Phillies you would have been benched for such a lack of hustle. Sexson is lanky and awkward, but he could make it down the line pretty quick with those redwood sized legs of his. Even Ichiro sometimes seems like he's just dawdling around the basepads (an example was that extremely lazy inside the park home run he hit I believe in NY{??} earlier this year). But I guess at least he's usually safe even when he's lazy.
I think some of our players could use a little talk about hustle from Riggleman. And somebody please teach Betancourt how to run. He looks like he's running really hard but he's actually not even moving. He's worse than Tino was, lol.


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Christina Romer
Had Christy Romer gotten her way, the stimulus could have been much worse
When Larry Summers and team were preparing a memo for Barack Obama on the planned stimulus, Christina Romer was a part of the effort. The New Republic brings to light a conflict within that team about how much stimulus they should recommend. As you recall, the final recommendation included two options. Option one was a "modest" stimulus in the rage of $550 to $670 of legislated money (about the same amount that Paul Krugman first recommended). The second option was for $850 billion and was the option Obama chose.
Summers mentions in the memo that in order to make a bigger impact on the "output gap", a stimulus of over a trillion dollars was needed but most likely "not accomplish the goal" of reducing the "output gap" because of the "impact it would have on markets".
Romer, on the other hand, felt that closing the "output gap" was much more important than the impact such a move might have on markets and recommended a much higher stimulus. How much higher? Approximately twice the level of the highest option presented to Obama of $850 billion. That's right, about $1.7 trillion dollars. Romer claimed that doing so would bring the unemployment rate to "5.1%". But then, as we remember, the country was promised that if the stimulus that was eventually passed was made law, unemployment would remain under 8%.
Of course it didn't rising to 10.5%. However the prediction came directly from the memo Summers presented to the president – $880 billion stimulus would create 3.4 million jobs and keep the unemployment rate at 7.3%.. Neither of those came true and the administration was reduced to claiming "saved" jobs in its defense.
Romer's predictions were even rosier. She believed that a $900 billion stimulus would create 3.75 million jobs and put the unemployment rate at 6.6%. Again, not even close.
Yet, when you read the comments of others out there, you find some of them still implying that a larger stimulus would have been better for what ailed us. That our problem was the size of the stimulus, not its design.
Of course that's patent nonsense. The stimulus failed because it was horribly designed and terribly executed. And it was aimed at the wrong things. It became a combination of slush fund for politicians and budget short-fall device for states. Where what little was aimed at it supposed purpose (creating jobs) it failed. We discovered that "shovel ready" was anything but. Additionally it was used to bail out industries government had no business bailing out.
Whether it was $900 billion or $1.7 trillion, those facts wouldn't have changed one bit. About all that might have happened had Romer gotten her way is a few states might have been able to delay their financial reckoning for another year or so.
Noam Scheiber, the author of the TNR article (and an upcoming book on how the Obama White House "fumbled" the recovery) doesn't go as far as to claim the larger stimulus would have been a better choice although he certainly implies it. He argues that Obama wouldn't have proposed it because Congress – even a totally Democratic Congress – wouldn't have passed a $1.8 trillion dollar stimulus.
However, he argues, the inclusion of the higher stimulus number would have gotten Obama to "have felt a greater sense of urgency had he better understood how far he was from the ideal."
First, I don't agree that a Nancy Peolosi/Harry Reid controlled Congress wouldn't have done exactly that, i.e. passed an almost $2 trillion dollar stimulus package. One only has to remember how they steamrolled the health care bill through to doubt such a thing couldn't have happened with a larger stimulus. Secondly, it is highly debatable that Romer's number was any sort of an "ideal".
It was, at most, a "best guess" and given her predictions of the effect of a $900 billion stimulus (the size eventually passed) on job creation and unemployment, it is a suspect "best guess".
And finally, regardless of the numbers proposed, it was a terribly designed and executed program that redefined "waste, fraud and abuse". Doubling that wouldn't have made it better.
Unlike some out there lamenting Summers refusal to have included Romer's recommendation, I applaud it. That doesn't mean I agree with the number he came up with, but to use Washington DC budgetspeak, he "saved" us about a trillion dollars.
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Beware of the new Obama job creation claims
he NY Post reminds us that the Joe Biden/Christina Romer dog-and-pony show now currently touring and touting some amazing "magical" job creation numbers are the same crew that gave us other estimates of job creation in the past:
Last year, when they touted their jobs figures, they wound up backtracking — after it turned out that hundreds of jobs were included from congressional districts that didn't even exist.
Biden later admitted the data were flawed, noting that "further updates and corrections are going to be needed."
Then he and Obama bragged about new job numbers for May — some 430,000 of them. Except that 411,000 were temporary, part-time positions created by the Census Bureau.
Now the claim is that somehow, despite the unemployment numbers, they've managed to "create" or "save" anywhere from 2.5 million to 3.6 million jobs with their excellent management of the financial and economic crisis.
Of course no one can put a finger on what jobs were "created" or, really, what jobs were "saved." Says Romer, apparently trying desperately to keep some shred of professional integrity in tact:
"There's obviously a lot of uncertainty about any jobs estimate," Romer acknowledged.
Really? That's certainly true of the estimates this administration has put forth. However, as the Post points out, the timing of this estimate is perfect. This estimate shows an increase of 20% over the last estimate that was found to be based in fraudulent numbers. As the Post notes, this estimate arrives just as Obama's poll numbers are down.
All that anyone really needs to know is that this all started within the administration when it promised that the massive pork bill of nearly a trillion dollars it passed early in its tenure would keep the unemployment rate under 8%. It didn't. In fact it didn't even come close. And the figure is now around 9.5% and shows no indication of falling anytime soon. Where these magic jobs are and why they haven't had any impact remains a mystery.
Of course the entire point is to understand that they can (and are) claim whatever they wish and it's pretty hard to check. But skeptics, like myself, aren't going to be convinced by mere claims. Hard numbers that can be checked and verified will have to follow. And it is my contention that when they do, we'll see a repeat of the previous two attempts at pulling the wool over the eyes of the America people for political reasons – something this administration shamelessly attempts pretty consistently on a number of fronts.


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Classic Ford Mustang Show Car Stolen
Reports have confirmed that the Ford Mustang is one of the most stolen cars in the United States for one reason or another. Those statistics indicate the mid-year models mostly, not usually a classic. Although classic Mustangs are generally more expensive due to restoration or an original in mint shape. When you own a '68 fully restored shiny black classic, it was likely a target car by those responsible. That's what Nick Garrels thinks, owner of said classic. We couldn't agree more.
Nick's car had gone missing Friday night around 11:30 pm according to surveillance cameras in the underground parking lot in the Yaletown complex on Glenmore Road. The security footage shows three men ranging in ages 20 – 40 dressed in jeans and black hoodies.
"On the Wednesday before it got stolen the car cover on it was moved and sort of hung up on the bumper and I just figured somebody wanted to see what was under the cover," says Garrels. "It sort of seems odd that someone would have a look at it Wednesday and it went missing on the Friday. It was a little coincidental."
Garrels has owned this beautiful car for six years and has hardly ever seen rain, despite the rare occasion of getting caught up in it driving back from a car show. That's what the car is for, car shows usually in Okanagan. Now that it is winter, the Stang sat parked with it's bald summer tires.
Hopefully the vintage Mustang is returned soon and all in one piece. If anybody knows anything, call Kelowna RCMP or Crime Stoppers.
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Jessica Biel's Yellow & Green Giraffe Print Dress - Hot Or Not?
Jessica Biel chose a yellow, brown & green Diane Von Furstenburg gown for the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York.
She just won the "Holy Grail Of Hot" accolade at the Spike TV "Guys Choice Awards," but that was obviously before the judges saw her in this dress. She's hiding her beautiful body behind animal print!
Jessica plays Capt. Charisa Sosa in the new film "The A-Team." The movie centers on a group of Iraq War veterans who look to clear their name with the U.S. military, which suspects them of committing a crime for which they were framed.
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Right in the middle of our podcast tonight, Ben suddenly blurted out "Holy cow! Lufthansa just announced that SFO is getting the A380." This was followed by furious typing then a quick quip, "Guys, they haven't loaded in the new aircraft yet and there is first class availability. Book fast!"
With that, the podcast promptly concluded as all of us were far too absorbed over the thought of flying in the exclusive first class cabin of LH's new A380s to discuss anything else.
I am pleased to report that my Thanksgiving trip home to California is now booked (though not ticketed--I ran into the 12-hour hold problem) and hopefully the 744s will soon turn into a 388s on the schedule.
If you've got the miles, book NOW. Lufthansa won't drag their feet long on this--the aircarft type may be loaded as soon as tomorrow--and that means all first class seats will be zeroed out (in fact, I was surprised to even find seats on the 744 today).
As Fozz recently shared, first class is a quite a treat on LH's A380s.
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"Oh, I understood [YMMV]. Does that mean that I can't comment on the other parts?"
I quoted your entire post, save for the closing, wherein you only quoted one line of mine. What more did you wish to comment on?
Which part of my original post did you think was not covered by the YMMV comment I tagged on to the end? Which of it would you consider blatant opinion that I had not acknowledged with the YMMV? If you intended to comment on another part of my post, perhaps you should have, though I assure you it was all covered under the YMMV tag.
The point of posting here is to share these reasonable held opinions and to read other reasonably held opinions... to share knowledge and discover knowledge. To that end, I post, hoping to cause someone of a different perspective to raise questions in why they do what they do. Why, for instance, must a bow before the shomen wall be any different than respect? Be any different to bowing before working with a partner? Be any different than bowing before working with a weapon? Or, at the very least, be any different than a stretch (if the participant wished it to be so empty)?
If they still have a different opinion after I raise these questions with them, that's their prerogative.
However, not all stances are equal in all things. There is an objective truth to the question of if a person does worship by kneeling and bending over. The trick is that this is determined in the person's mind before the question is even formed. If they believe that they do, then they do. If they can get past that and believe that they do not, then they do not.
Or should we say to someone that they are indeed worshipping when they do not believe they are? Should we say to someone that they are worshipping when they type on a keyboard? When they sing? When they dance? When they close their eyes and rest? Absurd. The person answers for themselves if they are worshipping.
After all, that's their opinion.
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On April 16, 2014, the United Nations Security Council convened to discuss the work of the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in Ukraine. The report looks at the root causes of the protests that have taken place since November 2013, assesses the human rights situation in Crimea, and makes recommendations for the way forward.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said, "The independent and impartial reporting we have heard today is essential to prevent the kind of distortions that may lead to further instability in an already combustible situation -- a situation that continues to grow more dangerous every day."
Ambassador Power continued, "...Let us consider some of the truths set forth in the High Commissioner's report. From December of last year until February of 2014, the Berkut special police and other elements of the federal security apparatus used excessive force against anti-government protesters. This deadly violence did not end until former President Yanukovych abandoned his office and fled the country. Since late February, when the new government assumed office, evidence of human rights abuses has decreased dramatically – except in the Crimea, where Russian policies threaten the rights of Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, and other minority groups.
"Let me emphasize that, according to this new independent report, the only region of Ukraine that has suffered a rapid deterioration in human rights is the part over which the government in Kyiv has least control. In Crimea, where the role of Russian authorities is as profound as it is illegal; journalists and human rights defenders have faced harassment and torture; censorship is common; and the presence of paramilitary and soldiers 'widely believed to be from the Russian Federation' has sharply inhibited freedom of expression. The report raises valid concerns about the introduction of Russian citizenship in a region that does not belong to Russia; discrimination against Ukrainian citizens inside their own country; and a plethora of practical issues related to property ownership, pensions, wages, health care, labor rights, education, and access to justice."
Ambassador Power concluded, "...The release of this human rights monitoring report should remind us all of our responsibilities. The government of Ukraine has a responsibility to continue its reform initiatives and to ensure inclusivity and respect for the human rights of all groups. The people of Ukraine have a duty to cooperate with their government and fellow citizens in seeking to resolve disputes through peaceful means. The Russian Federation has an obligation to fulfill its commitments under international law, to respect the rights and the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine, and to back its professed desire for stability with actions designed to achieve that goal, instead of its opposite.
"The Russian Federation must move its troops back from the border region, withdraw its forces from Crimea, and cease all efforts to destabilize Ukraine. The international community has a responsibility to support the people of Ukraine in their desire to build a strong and united country with a robust democracy and effective national and regional institutions. We have a collective responsibility, as well, to do all we can to prevent further bloodshed and to find a peaceful and just conclusion to what has been a tragic and unnecessary crisis."
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Eighteen starts into his Major League career and Matt Harvey has already landed an SI cover.
Dubbed "The Dark Knight of Gotham" by the magazine, Harvey is 4-0 this season with a league-leading 1.44 ERA. He was brutally close to a perfect game last Tuesday, and allowed five hits and two runs in seven innings Sunday. Mets' fans undoubtedly are pinning their hopes on Harvey, the seventh overall pick in the 2010 draft.
Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci leads his online column with this ridiculous statistic: "Matt Harvey has won seven games in his young Mets career. This should tell you how bad New York has been at drafting and developing pitchers: Harvey already ranks 12th in wins for the Mets among the 766 pitchers they drafted in the past 30 years."
SI subscribers can read this week's cover story on Harvey here. You can also read my story on Harvey from Sunday's Connecticut Post.
A native of Groton, Harvey joins a relatively short list of Connecticut athletes on the SI cover (see slideshow, above).
*Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield) — 2005
*Marcus Camby (Hartford) — 1999
*Kristine Lilly (Wilton) — 1999
*Steve Young (Greenwich) — Seven covers between 1993-97
*Mo Vaughn (Norwalk) — 1995
*Jen Rizzotti (New Fairfield) — 1995
*Bill Rodgers (Newington) — 1978 and 1979
*Dorothy Hamill (Greenwich) — 1977
*Bruce Jenner (Newtown) — 1976
*Steve Blass (Canaan) — 1972
*Walter Luckett (Bridgeport) — 1972
*Calvin Murphy (Norwalk) — 1970
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The government should release a certain portion of the foreign exchange reserve to cool the overheated dollar market, said FBCCI President Mir Nasir Hossain in an interview with the news agency yesterday.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday, however, told government that the multilateral donor agency does not want any government intervention in curbing the price of US dollar against taka.
IMF's Asia and Pacific Department Advisor Thomas R Rumbaugh in a meeting with Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman conveyed the reservation.
The FBCCI president pointed out that foreign exchange reserve for import payments of two months is enough in the present volatile market situation.
"Reserve of US$ 3 billion is not necessary just now, curbing the dollar price is more important. The government should scale-down the reserve to US$ 2 billion to tackle the situation," he said.
He said the FBCCI has conveyed its opinion to the finance and planning minister, but is yet to receive any feedback.
Describing the worst consequences of the abnormal price-hike of dollar, Mir Nasir Hossain said the export industry, except those enjoying back-to-back L/C facilities, has been suffering seriously due to the dollar price increase. "It is affecting cost of production."
In case of import L/Cs, dollar was being sold at around Tk 71.85 while its rate was around Tk 67.95 in inter-bank foreign exchange market.
Talking about the frequent power outage in the country, the ceramic sector industrialist said the industrial growth has been suffering due to the power crisis.
In this regard, he suggested bringing the surplus electricity of the captive power plants in different industrial units to the national grid to ease the crisis.
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Hey chuackl.
What do you mean by related exactly? Do you mean that they are approximately the same?
By using approximation is it enough proof to show equation left and right is related to each other?
Also, what are the method usually be used to convert equation on right to left?
I have done the question but i would like to see other method as well.
You need to get something in the form of a summation of f(x)dx or f(x)d(g(x)). If g(x) is continuous, then you get a Riemann Integral but if it is more general (discontinuous for example or not differentiable), then you need to look at the Lebesgue Integral or other similar integrals.
Integrals are just summations involving limits, so once you can get your function into the above form (summing rectangles as the width goes to zero), then you can start to look at the integral form.
To do this you should look at taking your function and expanding it as some kind of Taylor series or equivalent where you get the right summation structure to turn it into an integral.
Thank you for showing the other way of integration.
Please refer attachment in "integration 2" i found that te original equation(linear equation) can be convert from this way to another form of equation.
Just need to substitute P3=P1+dp and V=dv solve for the rest of the equation.
This give me an idea also a discreate equation in 2nd attachment can convert into continuous equation by using the same way as in 1st attachment.
Please verify is this way of doing still obey mathematical rule?


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Bishop Rene Gracida
Bishop Gracida: Sensus Fidelium
Over on his blog, Abyssus Abyssum Invocat, Bishop Rene Gracida, retired bishop of Corpus Christi, explains why he thinks it is the duty of the laity to speak out against the Kennedy Funeral:
some of what I had written about the scandal of the Ted Kennedy funeral was reproduced and posted on that Blog.
One person, Drew Black, sent in a comment to that Blog:
"Drew Black
Thank-you, Excellency for the courage to speak out, to put the truth into print. May I ask why it is the laity's duty to formally criticize the Cardinal of Boston? It would seem that the most efficacious means of correction would come from the top. Authority in the church lies with its leaders. You must stand up publicly to one another. Please. We pray for you in this year of the priest.?Mary help you.
Thinking that others might be asking themselves the similar question "why did Bishop Gracida consider it the laity's duty to formally criticize the Cardinal of Boston?" I decided to send an answer to Drew Black on that same Blog. Here was my answer:
September 9, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Drew Black,
You ask "why is it the laity's duty to formally criticize the Cardinal of Boston?"?In response I would refer you to the Historical Tracts written by the Servant of God, John Henry Cardinal Newman, in which he describes the situation in the Fourth Century when, he says, practically all of the Church's bishops were tainted either with Arianism or Semi-Arianism, all except for the Pope and Saint Athanasius. The "sensus fidelium" of the laity saved the Church because they would not follow the lead of their bishops. The Pope and Saint Athanasius, relying on that "sensus fidelium" were able to carry the day at the Council of Nicea. Sometimes, history does repeat itself.
My point in referring to what Cardinal Newman wrote was that there are times in the life of the Church when the laity needs to make known to the Church's hierarchy exactly what the sensus fidelium is with regard to whatever burning issue is affecting the unity of the Church at that moment."
Bravo Bishop! It is all too easy for we laity to sit back and leave protecting the teaching of the Church to the clergy. Rubbish! The teachings of Christ apply to the laity and the clergy both, and the laity cannot shirk the duty to point out when events are taking place within the Church that are in flat contradiction to that teaching. The Church, the Bride of Christ, is no less precious to the laity, and when the clergy neglect their duty, that is no excuse for faithful members of the laity to forget theirs.
Bishop Gracida on the Kennedy Funeral
Hattip to the ever vigilant Jay Anderson at Pro Ecclesia, who I really should put on retainer for the number of blogging ideas I steal, that is borrow, from him each month.
Bishop Rene Gracida is the retired bishop of Corpus Christi. He has a blog called Abyssus Abyssum Invocat. During World War II he was a tail gunner with the 303rd Hell's Angels B-17 bomb group. Why does that come as absolutely no surprise to me? When it comes to speaking out in regard to the Kennedy funeral, I suppose it requires little courage for a Bishop who faced the skies of WW2 Europe. The Bishop minces no words:
There was so much wrong with the funeral liturgy celebrated in Boston last Saturday for Senator Edward Moore Kennedy that I hardly know where to begin. Aside from the impropriety of such a grandiose celebration for one of the country's most notorious dissident Catholics, the 'celebration' was filled with liturgical errors and transgressions against the General Instruction of the Roman Missal which governs every celebration of the Church's liturgy. I am afraid that if I, a bishop, were to go into the details of the scandal it would only add to the scandal and so I will let the laity speak to it."
The Bishop then places on his blog critical articles about the funeral from many sources. Go here to read the articles at his blog and then place the Bishop's blog under your "Favorites" list. It is definitely a blog to check in at on a regular basis.
Analyzing Bishop Morlinos Chastizement of Catholics Critical of the Funeral Mass for Ted Kennedy
[Updates at the bottom of this post as of 1:08pm CDT on AD 9-10-2009]
Michael Voris, S.T.B., breaks down Bishop Morlino's chastizement of those Catholics that were scandalized by Ted Kennedy's funeral Mass.
LifeSiteNews.com has the following commentary by Patrick B. Craine and John-Henry Westen concerning the very same issue of Bishop Morlino chastizing Catholics critical of the pomp and ceremony bestowed upon the abortion advocate Ted Kennedy during the funeral Mass.
Bishop of Madison, Robert C. Morlino, expressed his support for the Kennedy funeral in a column last Thursday, basing his approval on the claim that the funeral was celebrated "in a subdued fashion," and that this "low key" approach was appropriate due to the Senator's support for abortion and other issues.
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"All of this is leading me up to the expression of my contentment with how our Church, in a subdued fashion, celebrated the Rites of Christian Burial for Senator Kennedy," he said. "The proclamation of God's Mercy was powerful, the prayer for forgiveness of his past sins was clearly offered, and all of this in a subdued way because of his long-standing and public holding of pro-abortion and other stances which have been a scandal in the literal sense."


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temporary hiring
Temporary worker hiring outlook dismal
One of the things economists watch to try to gauge the job market is how the temporary worker market is doing. Many times a rise in temp workers signals businesses are gearing up for more permanent hiring as the economy gains steam. The opposite is many times also true. And, unfortunately, it appears that this particular indicator isn't giving us the warm fuzzy feeling we hoped it would:
Last month's fall in the number of temporary workers could herald continued weakness in the job market.
The total number of temporary employees placed by staffing agencies dipped by 12,000 last month and is down 19,000 the past three months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
Now perhaps 3 months can't be considered a "trend", but it is pretty darn close. And it parallels the news we've been getting about unemployment and the economy in general.
Temporary workers, however, could be the most telling signal. The number of contingent workers started growing in fall 2009, about six months before the broader job market began to emerge from the recession. From September 2009 to March, employers added nearly 500,000 temporary workers.
Roy Krause, CEO of SFN Group, a top staffing agency, says temporary placements for white-collar jobs in accounting, computers and legal remain strong. But those for lower-skilled light industrial, clerical and certain call-center jobs — which accounted for most of last year's growth — have slowed. "They tend to be more sensitive to economic conditions," he says.
An example:
Chemical maker Arkema of Philadelphia employed about 150 temporary workers earlier this year. But it trimmed that total by about 50 in April and May as the weak economy prompted it to cut its 2011 forecast, Vice President Chris Giangrasso says. Arkema, he says, will likely not add this year to its permanent staff of about 2,500 in North America.
Key point – "weak economy". He had enough growth last year to warrant hiring temp workers but not full time staff. Now he doesn't even have enough business to warrant 2/3rds of the temps he hired and had to let them go.
That weakness in the economy continues to linger because, as we've noted any number of times, of the unsettled business climate. And that's something government could do to help the situation – back off regulation, taxes and interference (*cough* NLRB/Boeing*cough*) and stay out of the way. It seems, though, that doing so is just not in this administration's genes.
And so the negative indicators continue to pile up while the President of the United States and a complicit media attempt to make bad guys out of the GOP as they hold the line against economy crippling tax increases.
Go figure.
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